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Yeah, I worked
in a barber shop,

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But I never considered
myself a barber.

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I stumbled into it well,
married into it, more precisely.

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It wasn't my establishment.
Like the fella says, I only work here.

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The dump was 200 feet square...

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With three chairs,
or stations, as we call 'em,

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Even though there are only
two of us working.

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But this is my point.

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My point is that these traders and trappers
would come to this country,

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Get their pelts
and their gold "ignots"

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Frank Raffo, my brother-in-law,
was the principal barber.

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Man, could he talk.

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Maybe if you're 11 or 12 years old,
Frank's got an interesting point of view,

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But sometimes
it got on my nerves.

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Not that I complained,
mind you.

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Like I said, he was
the principal Barber.

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Frank's father August
they called him Guzzi

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Had worked the heads up
in Santa Rosa for 35 years...

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Until his ticker stopped
in the middle of a junior flattop.

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He left the shop to Frankie free and clear,

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And that seemed to satisfy
all of Frank's ambitions

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Cutting the hair
and chewing the fat.

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Me, I don't talk much.

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I just cut the hair.

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It says here that the russians
exploded an a-bomb...

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And there's not a damn thing
we can do about it.

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How do you like them apples?

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Being a barber is a lot like
being a bar man or a soda jerk.

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There's not much to it once
you've learned the basic moves.

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For the kids, there's the butch,
or the heinie,

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The flattop, the ivy,

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The crew, the vanguard,

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The junior contour...

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And occasionally
the executive contour.

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Lived in a little bungalow
on napa street.

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The place was okay, I guess.

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Had an electric icebox,
a gas hearth...

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And a garbage grinde
built into the sink.

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You might say I had it made.

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Oh, year,
there was one other thing.

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Doris kept the books
at Nirdlingers,

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A small department store
on main street.

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Doris liked the work,
accounting.

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She liked knowing
where everything stood

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And she got a ten percent employee
discount on whatever she wanted

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Nylon stockings,

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Makeup and perfume.

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Doris and I went to church
once a week.

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Usually Tuesday night.

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Doris wasn't big
on divine worship,

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And I doubt if she believed
in life everlasting.

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She'd most likely tell you
that our reward is on this earth,

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And bingo is probably
the extent of it.

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B-7

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Watch you card, honey.

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I wasn't crazy about the game,

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But, I don't know,
it made her happy,

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And I found the setting
peaceful.

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Jesus. Bingo.

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Bingo!

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Doris's boss,
Big Dave Brewster,

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Was married to Ann Nirdlinger,
the department store heiress.

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Tonight they were coming over for dinner.

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As Doris said,

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We were entertaining.

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Me, I don't like entertaining.

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- How you doin', Ed?
- Okay.

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Take your coat, Ann?

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The japs had us pinned down
on Buna for somethin' like six weeks.

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I gotta tell ya, I thought we had
it tough, but we had supply.

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The japs were eatin' bugs
and grubs and thistles.

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Anyway, one day
we bust off the beach...

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And we find Arney Bragg,
this kid missin' on recon.

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The japs had eaten the son of a bitch.

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If you'll pardon the...

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Anyway, he was a scrawny, pimply kid,
nothin' to write home about.

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I mean, I never woulda,
you know.

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So, what do I say, honey?

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What do I say
when I don't like dinner?

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Come on. What do I say?

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I say, "Arney Bragg, again?"

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Arney Bragg, again?

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- Were you in the service, Ed?
- No, Dave, I wasn't.

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Ed was 4-f on account
of his fallen arches.

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That's tough.

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That's... That's tough.

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Yeah, I guess Doris liked
all that he-man stuff.

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Sometimes I had the feeling that

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She and Big Dave were a lot closer
than they let on.

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The signs were all there,
plain enough.

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Not that I was gonna
prance about it, mind you.

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It's a free country.

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Holdin' down the porch area, Ed?

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- That's some wife you got there.
- Yeah.

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She's a rare one.

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So, how's business, Dave?

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Couldn't be better.

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These are boom times
in retailin', Ed.

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We're openin' another store
over there on carson,

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Big Dave's annex.
Now, this is strictly haberdashery.

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It's casual wear, pajamas,
ladies' undergarments and foundations,

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That type of thing.

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As a matter of fact, I'm thinkin'
of makin' Doris the comptroller.

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Listen, when the annex opens up,
you gotta stop by.

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Maybe we can update your suit
a little bit?

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Course, you're in
the smock all day.

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Where do you get those things,
anyway?

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Specialty store
down in Sacramento.

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You tie your own flies.

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I mean, if you're really serious,
you tie your own flies.

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You do...

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I know. It's meticulous.
I know.

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People say, hey, you can
buy flies at the store.

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The point is, there's a certain art
to the process.

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The point is not merely to provide.

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Let me point out, these fish are not
as dumb as you might think.

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Sure. Go to the store.

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Describe to the man
where you will be fishing and for what,

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And then you might as well have the man
sell you the goddamned fish, Ed.

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My point is,

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This is a man who knows nothing,
no matter how much you tell him.

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- So sell him the goddamned fish, Ed.
- Yeah.

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Okay.

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Who gets the privilege?

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We're just closing, friend.

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Oh, happy days.

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I wish I was doing well enough
to turn away business.

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What's the problem, friend? This is a
business establishment with posted hours.

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More power to ya, brother.

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The public be damned.

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Hey...

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I'll take care of him.
You go ahead, Frank.

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Have a seat, mister.

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- You sure, Eddie?
- Yeah, yeah, go ahead.

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In your ear, mister.

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Oh, those fiery Mediterraneans.

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Say, not so fast there, brother.

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Pretty good, eh?

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Fools even the experts.

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One hundred percent human hair.
Handcrafted by Jacques

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Of San Francisco.

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I'd hate to have to tell you
what I paid for it.

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Yeah, it's a nice rug.

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I'm payin' it down
on the installment plan.

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A lot of folks live
with the pate exposed.

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They say the dames
think it's sexy,

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But for my money
it's just not good groomin'.

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And groomin' my friend, is probably
the most important thing in business.

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After personality, of course.

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Creighton Tolliver.
Pleased to know ya.

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Ed Crane.

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So, what brings you
to Santa Rosa?

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A goose, my friend.
I was chasin' a wild goose.

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Ed, have you ever heard
of venture capital?

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Risk money. Very speculative.

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Except that in certain situations
it's not, see.

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I thought I had a prospect here

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Well, I make the haul up...
And this lousy so-and-so tells me...

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That the situation has changed.

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All of his capital's tied up
in expansion plans of his own.

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Thank you mother.
Pop goes another bubble.

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It's only the biggest business opportunity
since Henry Ford,

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And I can't seem
to interest a soul.

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Is that right?

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It's called dry cleaning.

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You heard me right, brother.
Dry cleaning.

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Wash without water.

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No suds. No tumple.
No stress on the clothes.

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It's all done
with chemicals, friend.

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And here's the capper...

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No shrinkage.

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That's right.

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Dry cleaning.

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All I need is $10,000
to open up the first store.

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Then I use its cash flow
to finance another, and so on,

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Leapfrog, bootstrap myself
to a whole chain.

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Well, me and a partner.

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Cleanliness, friend.

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There's money in it.
There's a future.

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There's room to grow.

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Say, that looks pretty good.

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Let's see it
with the hairpiece on.

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Dry cleaning.

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Was I crazy
to be thinking about it?

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Was he a huckster or an opportunity,
the real Mccoy?

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My first instinct was
no, no, the whole idea was nuts.

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But maybe that was the instinct
that kept me locked in the barber shop,

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Nose against the exit
afraid to try turning the knob.

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Honey?

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Shave my legs, will ya?

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What if I could get the money?

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It was clean.

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No water.

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Chemicals.

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Gimme a drag.

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Love ya, honey.

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What you... come in.

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Okay, yeah.
I'll see you tomorrow.

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Oh. I thought
you were the porter.

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Can I help ya?

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I'm Ed.

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Ed Crane.

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I cut your hair today.

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I'm the barber.

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Jesus, yeah. The barber.

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I didn't recognize you
without the smock.

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Did I leave somethin'
at the shop?

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No. No, it's nothing like that.

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I might be interested
in that business proposition.

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You got the dough?

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Well, I can get it.

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Come in. Come in!

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Sit down over there.

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- Coffee?
- No.

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Well, sit down,
make yourself comfortable.

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So tell me...

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Other than putting up the money exactly
what would you want the partner to...

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Do?

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Hell, nothin'.

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You're gonna want to keep tabs on your
investment, The running of the business,

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but I'm looking for a silent partner.

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I've done the research,
I've contacted the vendors.

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The deal is set.

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Disappear, if you'd like.
Check in whenever you want.

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I want the dough.
I don't take attendance.

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And how do we share the...

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Fifty-fifty,
straight down the line.

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You and me.
Finance and expertise.

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So you got the dough then,
do ya?

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I can have it in a week.

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The barber...

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Well, I thought this trip
was gonna be a bust.

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Just shows to go ya,
when one door slams shut,

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Another one opens.

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Here's to you...

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Was that a pass?

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Maybe.

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Well, you're out of line, mister

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Not a problem.

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Way out of line.

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Right.

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Strictly business.

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Okay.

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I sent it to Dave
the next morning.

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Then I waited.

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Frank?

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This hair.

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Yeah?

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You ever wonder about it?

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What do you mean?

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I don't know.

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How it keeps on coming.

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It just keeps growing.

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Yeah. Lucky for us, pal?

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No, I mean,

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It keeps growing,

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And it's part of us.

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And then we cut it off
and throw it away.

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Come on, Eddie.
You're gonna scare the kid.

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Okay, bud, you're through.

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I'm gonna take this hair
and throw it out in the dirt.

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What?

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I'm gonna mingle it
with common house dirt.

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What the hell
are you talking about?

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I don't know. Skip it.

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Ed, gimme a zip.

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Where you going?

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Us. The party at Nirdlingers.
I told you last week.

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The Christmas push.

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Come on, get ready.

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It's important.

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Nah, you go ahead.
I'm not big on parties.

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Oh, don't be a grump.
Gimme a zip.

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Hey, ain't you in ladies' wear?

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Haven't I seen you
up in ladies' wear?

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I don't work here. My wife does

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That's some beat?

00:20:07.572 --> 00:20:09.114
Yeah. Lucky for us, pal?

00:20:09.197 --> 00:20:12.155
Check out the rack
on that broad in the angora.

00:20:13.156 --> 00:20:15.280
Ed, can I talk to you?

00:20:15.364 --> 00:20:16.446
Sure.

00:20:19.197 --> 00:20:20.280
Come in.

00:20:24.030 --> 00:20:26.197
Oh, sit down.

00:20:28.989 --> 00:20:31.322
Souvenired it off a jap
in New Guinea.

00:20:34.697 --> 00:20:38.655
Guess you're wonderin'
what Doris was so hot about.

00:20:44.196 --> 00:20:45.446
Havanas.

00:20:46.322 --> 00:20:48.280
My private stock.

00:20:49.696 --> 00:20:51.571
Romeo and Juliet.

00:21:10.403 --> 00:21:12.071
Ed, I...

00:21:16.695 --> 00:21:19.154
What is it, Dave?

00:21:23.488 --> 00:21:24.946
Ed, I've been weak.

00:21:25.030 --> 00:21:27.612
I've been weak. The...

00:21:29.696 --> 00:21:31.946
You're gonna burn yourself.

00:21:35.029 --> 00:21:36.279
Thanks.

00:21:36.361 --> 00:21:37.612
I...

00:21:40.654 --> 00:21:42.195
Oh, Jesus.

00:21:45.946 --> 00:21:47.944
I've been carryin' on
with a married woman.

00:21:50.154 --> 00:21:52.278
No one you know.

00:21:52.404 --> 00:21:54.903
And now the...

00:21:55.028 --> 00:21:57.361
The chickens are
comin' home to roost.

00:21:58.154 --> 00:22:00.070
I got a note.

00:22:00.153 --> 00:22:02.154
A blackmail note, you know.

00:22:02.236 --> 00:22:04.403
Come across,
or everybody knows.

00:22:06.695 --> 00:22:09.445
I guess you know
what that would do to me.

00:22:13.320 --> 00:22:14.986
I guess that would be
pretty awkward.

00:22:15.112 --> 00:22:16.653
Awkward?

00:22:16.944 --> 00:22:19.570
Yeah. Yeah.

00:22:19.652 --> 00:22:22.986
Ann would throw me
right out on my keister.

00:22:23.111 --> 00:22:26.277
I mean, it's her st... It's her
family's store, Ed. It's her store.

00:22:26.362 --> 00:22:29.945
I serve at the indulgence
of the goddamn ownership.

00:22:31.653 --> 00:22:33.569
The lady's husband would know.

00:22:38.070 --> 00:22:41.528
- How much do they want, Dave?
- Ten thousand dollars.

00:22:41.652 --> 00:22:44.611
I don't know what to do, Ed.
I don't know what I can do.

00:22:46.111 --> 00:22:48.277
You know,

00:22:48.402 --> 00:22:50.652
I know who
the son of a bitch is.

00:22:53.694 --> 00:22:56.443
You know... who who is?

00:22:56.528 --> 00:22:58.111
The son of a bitch.
The blackmailer.

00:22:58.237 --> 00:23:00.153
I know who he is.

00:23:00.235 --> 00:23:03.194
It's no one you know.
It's a businessman from Sacramento.

00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:05.277
A goddamn pansy, Ed.

00:23:07.652 --> 00:23:10.651
Tryin' to rope me
into some crackpot scheme.

00:23:10.944 --> 00:23:13.610
I heard him out,
then I told him to go to hell.

00:23:13.694 --> 00:23:17.153
The very next day the very next day
I get a note, the blackmail note,

00:23:17.194 --> 00:23:19.610
Asking me for the same amout of money
he asked me for.

00:23:19.694 --> 00:23:21.943
The very next day.
Ten thousand dollars.

00:23:25.443 --> 00:23:27.360
How did he know that
you were seein' the woman?

00:23:27.485 --> 00:23:30.485
He stayed at the hotel
that I went to with the...

00:23:30.610 --> 00:23:33.943
lady in question.
He must've seen us.

00:23:35.235 --> 00:23:36.652
Oh, Jesus.

00:23:37.694 --> 00:23:41.152
I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do.

00:23:49.318 --> 00:23:51.276
I don't know what to do.

00:24:03.944 --> 00:24:05.609
Why don't you just pay him. Dave?

00:24:05.693 --> 00:24:08.275
Cause that's my capitalization
on the annex.

00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:10.609
That's my operation.

00:24:12.609 --> 00:24:14.318
Christ almighty, Ed.

00:24:15.484 --> 00:24:18.442
That's what I just talkin'
to Doris about down there

00:24:18.526 --> 00:24:21.108
A way to get the money from the store
that we could hide from Ann.

00:24:22.984 --> 00:24:26.359
Doris, she was, she was pretty hot
about that, god bless her.

00:24:26.484 --> 00:24:29.150
Embezzlin', Ed.

00:24:29.276 --> 00:24:32.234
Embezzlin' from
my own goddamn wife.

00:24:37.317 --> 00:24:38.900
I'm sorry.

00:24:41.442 --> 00:24:43.108
I'm sorry.

00:24:44.443 --> 00:24:46.275
It's okay.

00:24:57.651 --> 00:25:00.567
In a way,
I felt bad for Big Dave.

00:25:00.650 --> 00:25:04.900
I knew that ten grand was going to
pinch him where it hurt,

00:25:04.984 --> 00:25:06.859
But Doris was two-timing me

00:25:06.984 --> 00:25:09.942
And I guess somewhere
that pinched a little too.

00:26:04.358 --> 00:26:06.066
That was pretty.

00:26:08.523 --> 00:26:10.191
Did you make that up?

00:26:10.316 --> 00:26:12.274
Oh, no.

00:26:12.399 --> 00:26:15.065
No, that was written
by Ludwig Van Beethoven.

00:26:20.399 --> 00:26:22.649
Well, it was quite something.

00:26:22.898 --> 00:26:25.399
Yeah, he wrote some
beautiful piano sonatas.

00:26:25.482 --> 00:26:28.482
That was really something.

00:26:33.482 --> 00:26:34.940
I'm Ed Crane.

00:26:35.024 --> 00:26:36.941
I know who you are, Mr. Crane.

00:26:37.024 --> 00:26:40.357
My father used to take me with him
when he went to get his hair cut.

00:26:40.482 --> 00:26:41.648
Walter Abundas?

00:26:41.898 --> 00:26:44.316
Oh, yeah, sure. Walter.

00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:47.440
Yeah, I'm Rachel Abundas.

00:26:47.564 --> 00:26:49.522
But everyone call me Birdy.

00:26:50.689 --> 00:26:52.939
I'm sorry.
I just didn't remember.

00:26:53.023 --> 00:26:54.148
Oh, no, it's okay.

00:26:54.273 --> 00:26:59.189
You can't expect to remember every
skinny girl who comes in with her dad.

00:27:06.940 --> 00:27:09.273
So you don't like
that music out there?

00:27:09.398 --> 00:27:11.939
Not really.

00:27:12.064 --> 00:27:14.190
I'm not big on music, ordinarily.

00:27:15.231 --> 00:27:16.440
Ed.

00:27:29.147 --> 00:27:31.148
What a knucklehead.

00:27:31.982 --> 00:27:34.148
- Who?
- Dave.

00:27:35.564 --> 00:27:37.273
Why's that?

00:27:38.064 --> 00:27:39.523
Money problems.

00:27:39.647 --> 00:27:42.438
He's thinking about
canceling the annex.

00:27:43.313 --> 00:27:44.606
So?

00:27:45.647 --> 00:27:48.439
That means I don't run Nirdlingers.

00:27:54.105 --> 00:27:55.564
What a knucklehead.

00:28:01.396 --> 00:28:03.522
Big Dave did it, though.

00:28:09.064 --> 00:28:12.106
I sent a note telling him
where to drop the money.

00:28:14.105 --> 00:28:15.272
And he did.

00:28:15.355 --> 00:28:17.064
He came across.

00:28:56.062 --> 00:28:58.063
Yeah. Good! How are ya?

00:28:58.146 --> 00:29:00.437
Come in.
I got everything organized.

00:29:00.520 --> 00:29:03.228
How you doin'? You got a check?

00:29:03.312 --> 00:29:06.313
- Cash.
- Cash?

00:29:06.395 --> 00:29:09.271
Usually these kinds of things
are done with a bank draft,

00:29:09.396 --> 00:29:11.521
But cash, that's fine.

00:29:11.646 --> 00:29:13.646
It's all the same in the end.

00:29:15.312 --> 00:29:16.646
Dough is dough?

00:29:18.478 --> 00:29:19.478
Nellie.

00:29:22.396 --> 00:29:24.228
I got the paperwork here.

00:29:24.313 --> 00:29:26.187
Partnership papers.

00:29:26.271 --> 00:29:28.020
They reflect our agreement.

00:29:28.145 --> 00:29:30.061
Fifty-fifty on the net.

00:29:30.146 --> 00:29:34.978
I provide professional services,
you provide the capital.

00:29:35.062 --> 00:29:38.478
I'm gonna give you a receipt
on the dough here.

00:29:38.603 --> 00:29:40.979
Pretty straightforward.

00:29:41.062 --> 00:29:43.978
- I don't know whether you wanna show it to a lawyer
- No, that's okay.

00:29:44.062 --> 00:29:46.853
Yeah. Screw 'em, right?

00:29:46.978 --> 00:29:50.394
Pay them to tangle it up,
then you have to pay them to untangle them.

00:29:50.478 --> 00:29:52.478
What's the point?

00:29:52.562 --> 00:29:54.479
You just give me a second,

00:29:54.562 --> 00:29:57.270
I'll give you a receipt on the...

00:29:57.979 --> 00:29:59.103
Nellie.

00:30:00.478 --> 00:30:03.853
Okay, one thing
we didn't talk about was,

00:30:03.936 --> 00:30:06.853
I am thinking about,
calling the place Tolliver's.

00:30:06.978 --> 00:30:08.602
After me, you know.

00:30:08.895 --> 00:30:12.894
I didn't think you were
much interested in...

00:30:13.020 --> 00:30:16.436
- That's fine.
- Yeah, that's good. Good, good.

00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:20.019
Now, ready?
One second and I will...

00:30:20.145 --> 00:30:22.644
Okay, that's it.

00:30:24.394 --> 00:30:26.394
As per our discussion.

00:30:27.436 --> 00:30:29.144
All right, there it is,

00:30:29.269 --> 00:30:32.353
Writ large in legal escritoire.

00:30:32.478 --> 00:30:34.269
- And the...
- Say, Creighton.

00:30:38.144 --> 00:30:40.019
You're not gonna screw me
on this.

00:30:42.019 --> 00:30:43.435
Screw you?

00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:44.894
Jesus.

00:30:46.644 --> 00:30:47.643
Take it to a lawyer.

00:30:47.936 --> 00:30:50.269
No, I insist!

00:30:50.352 --> 00:30:52.186
I insist!

00:30:52.268 --> 00:30:56.436
This is dry cleaning.
This is not some fly-by-night thing here.

00:30:57.685 --> 00:30:59.186
Oh, I'll tell you,

00:30:59.310 --> 00:31:03.101
I have been 13 years as an entrepreneur,
and I have never...

00:31:03.227 --> 00:31:04.518
- It's okay.
- Nobody's ever questioned me...

00:31:04.643 --> 00:31:06.976
Hey, you want the dough back?

00:31:07.060 --> 00:31:09.144
Do you know
who you're talkin' to here?

00:31:09.227 --> 00:31:11.519
Do you know who I am?
Do you have any idea who...

00:31:11.602 --> 00:31:12.935
It's okay.

00:31:14.309 --> 00:31:16.977
So, Tolliver's is okay, then?

00:31:20.643 --> 00:31:22.518
The next day was Saturday.

00:31:22.644 --> 00:31:25.436
We were going to a reception
for Doris's cousin Gina...

00:31:25.518 --> 00:31:28.561
Who just married a wop vendor
out near Modesto.

00:31:28.684 --> 00:31:31.185
Doris didn't much feel like going,
and I didn't either.

00:31:31.269 --> 00:31:35.435
But like she said,
we had a commitment.

00:31:37.476 --> 00:31:39.268
I hate wops.

00:31:42.643 --> 00:31:45.143
What's so goddamn strange
about that?

00:31:45.226 --> 00:31:46.602
I didn't say a word.

00:31:46.685 --> 00:31:48.893
You didn't have to
grow up with them.

00:31:50.935 --> 00:31:52.226
Family.

00:31:59.558 --> 00:32:02.184
Ed! Uncle Ed!

00:32:06.892 --> 00:32:10.517
He's riding Garibaldi!
Uncle Frankie's riding Garibaldi!

00:32:33.183 --> 00:32:35.267
That was when
she started drinking.

00:32:35.392 --> 00:32:36.184
Doris.

00:32:37.100 --> 00:32:37.933
Doris!

00:32:38.017 --> 00:32:40.059
You been okay?

00:32:40.141 --> 00:32:43.308
Mmm. Yeah.
How you doing, Costanza?

00:32:43.434 --> 00:32:46.642
Oh, you know.
Still got my health.

00:32:46.934 --> 00:32:49.100
And how you been...

00:32:50.267 --> 00:32:51.642
- Ed.
- Ed.

00:32:51.933 --> 00:32:54.350
He's a barber, right?

00:32:54.475 --> 00:32:58.099
It's a good trade.
So, how come you got no kids?

00:32:58.184 --> 00:33:00.517
No, come on, kids!

00:33:00.601 --> 00:33:04.850
I just ate lunch!
I couldn't eat another thing.

00:33:04.932 --> 00:33:06.975
Oh, n... Anthony!

00:33:07.100 --> 00:33:09.475
Anthony, it's you!

00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:11.600
Okay, kids. Ready? And...

00:33:21.308 --> 00:33:25.516
Congratulations. Gina.
It's so goddamn wonderful.

00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:29.142
Life is just so goddamn wonderful,
You almost won't believe it.

00:33:29.265 --> 00:33:31.224
- It's just a bowl of goddamn cherries.
- Let' go.

00:33:31.308 --> 00:33:33.266
Sure.

00:33:36.182 --> 00:33:38.850
Congratulations on your goddamn cherries!

00:33:41.141 --> 00:33:42.932
Let go of my goddamn elbow!

00:33:54.891 --> 00:33:58.058
I never wanna see
another blueberry pie.

00:34:01.348 --> 00:34:04.599
I never even wanna hear those words.

00:34:08.140 --> 00:34:10.099
Don't say those words, Ed.

00:34:12.433 --> 00:34:14.432
Don't say those words.

00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:05.972
I'd met Doris blind
on a double date...

00:35:06.098 --> 00:35:09.639
With a loudmouthed buddy of mine
who was seeing a friend of hers from work.

00:35:09.931 --> 00:35:13.848
We went to a movie.
Doris had a flask.

00:35:13.973 --> 00:35:16.139
Boy, she could put it away.

00:35:19.556 --> 00:35:23.973
At the end of the night,
she said she liked that I didn't talk much.

00:35:24.097 --> 00:35:27.138
It was only a couple weeks later
she suggested we get married.

00:35:36.264 --> 00:35:37.556
Yeah.

00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:41.555
Ed, it's Big Dave.
I gotta talk to you.

00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:43.180
What?

00:35:44.014 --> 00:35:45.388
Now?

00:35:46.305 --> 00:35:48.513
Yeah. It's important.

00:35:49.305 --> 00:35:51.098
But it-it's...

00:35:51.221 --> 00:35:53.096
Please, Ed.

00:35:54.514 --> 00:35:56.347
Your place?

00:35:56.430 --> 00:35:58.388
I'm at the store.

00:35:58.513 --> 00:36:00.846
Let yourself in.

00:36:57.429 --> 00:36:58.596
Dave?

00:37:02.930 --> 00:37:04.513
I'm ruined.

00:37:08.304 --> 00:37:10.428
They've ruined me.

00:37:10.512 --> 00:37:12.386
This money.

00:37:13.553 --> 00:37:15.178
No annex.

00:37:16.138 --> 00:37:18.136
I'm all shot to hell.

00:37:20.094 --> 00:37:22.095
So, you paid the guy?

00:37:32.470 --> 00:37:34.428
What kind of man are you?

00:37:37.178 --> 00:37:39.304
What kind of man...

00:37:39.428 --> 00:37:40.887
Are you?

00:37:44.261 --> 00:37:47.345
I mean, I'd understand
if you came in here and...

00:37:47.471 --> 00:37:49.970
Socked me in the nose, whatever.

00:37:51.094 --> 00:37:52.928
I deserve it.

00:37:53.053 --> 00:37:55.594
I'm not proud of what I did.

00:37:57.136 --> 00:37:58.969
But you.

00:38:03.095 --> 00:38:04.428
Yeah, I paid up.

00:38:06.011 --> 00:38:07.886
As you well know.

00:38:09.677 --> 00:38:12.094
But then I went and
found the pansy.

00:38:18.345 --> 00:38:20.511
Oh, you got nothin' to say?

00:38:20.636 --> 00:38:23.594
Well, you know the story.

00:38:24.469 --> 00:38:27.385
I didn't.

00:38:27.469 --> 00:38:30.094
I had to beat it
out of the pansy.

00:39:01.052 --> 00:39:02.926
I'm all shot to hell.

00:39:09.926 --> 00:39:11.635
Well, Dave...

00:42:21.631 --> 00:42:25.424
It was only a couple weeks later
she suggested we get married.

00:42:29.339 --> 00:42:32.131
I said, "Don't you want
to get to know me more?"

00:42:32.257 --> 00:42:35.006
She said, "Why?
Does it get better?"

00:42:37.256 --> 00:42:39.173
She looked at me
like I was a dope,

00:42:39.298 --> 00:42:41.923
Which I never
really minded from her.

00:42:42.006 --> 00:42:44.923
And she had a point, I guess.

00:42:45.006 --> 00:42:48.255
We knew each other
as well then as now.

00:42:48.297 --> 00:42:50.840
Anyway, well enough.

00:43:04.048 --> 00:43:07.131
Holy, moley,
do I got a headache.

00:43:07.255 --> 00:43:09.922
- How are you today, Ed?
- Okay.

00:43:11.255 --> 00:43:13.880
- You don't got a headache?
- No.

00:43:15.047 --> 00:43:18.214
Damn, I got a headache
to beat the band.

00:43:22.505 --> 00:43:26.048
Did you pump it? You can't pump it.
That'll just flood it.

00:43:26.131 --> 00:43:31.005
No, no, no, you gotta pump it. You can't
just hold it down. I mean that'll flood it.

00:43:31.131 --> 00:43:33.505
You crazy? You pump it.

00:43:33.630 --> 00:43:35.963
You can't hold it down.

00:43:37.297 --> 00:43:40.255
- Just turn the key.
- Not when it's cold.

00:43:40.380 --> 00:43:42.380
Well, if it's cold, choke it.

00:43:42.505 --> 00:43:44.046
And pump it.

00:43:44.172 --> 00:43:45.546
How many time?

00:43:49.504 --> 00:43:51.338
Ed Crane?

00:43:54.964 --> 00:43:56.880
I'm Crane.

00:43:56.963 --> 00:43:59.505
- Come on outside.
- Sure.

00:44:15.379 --> 00:44:18.213
I'm officer Persky.
This is Krebs.

00:44:20.129 --> 00:44:21.920
Well, we goin'?

00:44:27.171 --> 00:44:28.212
Cigarette?

00:44:31.962 --> 00:44:33.087
Right.

00:44:35.088 --> 00:44:37.421
Pete's got some news for ya.

00:44:43.254 --> 00:44:44.628
Look, pal...

00:44:46.546 --> 00:44:48.421
It's a tough break, but...

00:44:50.212 --> 00:44:52.003
Well, damn it,
your wife's been pinched.

00:44:52.129 --> 00:44:55.087
They sent us around
to tell you.

00:44:56.962 --> 00:44:59.587
They sent us around to tell you.
We pulled the detail.

00:45:01.503 --> 00:45:03.837
My wife?

00:45:03.961 --> 00:45:07.253
Yeah, they brung her down
to county jail.

00:45:08.336 --> 00:45:09.545
Homicide.

00:45:09.629 --> 00:45:11.462
Well, embezzlement...

00:45:11.587 --> 00:45:13.171
And homicide.

00:45:13.295 --> 00:45:16.837
Guy named David Brewster.
He's the guy she...

00:45:16.962 --> 00:45:18.462
H-He's the decedent.

00:45:19.211 --> 00:45:20.879
I don't understand.

00:45:20.962 --> 00:45:22.462
He's the dead guy.

00:45:22.587 --> 00:45:26.337
Yeah, it's a tough break.

00:45:27.961 --> 00:45:30.129
Visiting ends at 5:00.

00:45:30.252 --> 00:45:32.420
Missed it today, but...

00:45:33.419 --> 00:45:35.212
You can go see her tomorrow.

00:45:36.962 --> 00:45:38.586
Sorry, pal.

00:45:38.628 --> 00:45:40.961
They sent us to tell ya.

00:45:42.795 --> 00:45:44.586
Crab detail.

00:46:08.210 --> 00:46:11.002
- Hello, Walter.
- Hello, Ed.

00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:16.961
Thanks.
Thanks for seein' me at home.

00:46:17.086 --> 00:46:19.878
Oh, hell. Want a drink?

00:46:21.877 --> 00:46:22.877
No, thanks.

00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.210
You sure you don't need one?

00:46:25.293 --> 00:46:27.168
I'm fine.

00:46:28.335 --> 00:46:30.419
- Boy.
- Yeah.

00:46:31.918 --> 00:46:33.377
Jesus.

00:46:36.294 --> 00:46:38.252
So What do I...

00:46:38.335 --> 00:46:40.835
Of course, I...

00:46:41.585 --> 00:46:44.086
It's out of my league.

00:46:44.210 --> 00:46:48.543
No, I... no, I do probate
and real estate...

00:46:48.627 --> 00:46:49.918
And title search.

00:46:51.377 --> 00:46:55.084
I'd be absolutely worthless,
somethin' like this. Absolutely worthless.

00:46:57.460 --> 00:46:58.835
Excuse me.

00:47:00.376 --> 00:47:02.376
I just finished dinner.

00:47:06.125 --> 00:47:09.625
Frankly, Doris'd be better off
with the county defender.

00:47:09.918 --> 00:47:12.835
- He a good man?
- Bert's okay.

00:47:12.959 --> 00:47:15.584
Yeah, he... he's a good man.

00:47:17.210 --> 00:47:20.210
Listen. I won't kid you, Ed.

00:47:20.293 --> 00:47:24.084
There's nobody around here
has any experience with this kind of thing.

00:47:25.293 --> 00:47:27.584
I hear they're bringing a prosecutor up.

00:47:27.626 --> 00:47:29.627
From Sacramento.

00:47:31.459 --> 00:47:35.125
It's a capital offense.
They're taking it seriously.

00:47:35.251 --> 00:47:37.209
- So...
- They're taking it seriously.

00:47:37.292 --> 00:47:39.626
So, what-what...

00:47:39.917 --> 00:47:42.376
Do you want any more coffee, dad?
Oh, hi, Mr. Crane.

00:47:43.459 --> 00:47:45.000
Hello, Rachel.

00:47:47.334 --> 00:47:49.250
I was so sorry to hear.

00:47:50.959 --> 00:47:52.251
Yeah, thanks.

00:47:52.375 --> 00:47:54.584
- Coffee, Ed?
- No, thanks.

00:47:54.625 --> 00:47:57.376
- No, thanks, honey. We're...
- Okay, dad.

00:47:57.459 --> 00:47:59.542
It was good to see you again,
Mr. Crane.

00:48:03.668 --> 00:48:05.084
Damn.

00:48:06.334 --> 00:48:07.584
A good kid.

00:48:07.624 --> 00:48:09.126
Jesus...

00:48:14.334 --> 00:48:18.083
Who do you think?

00:48:18.125 --> 00:48:20.583
Lloyd Garroway in San Francisco.

00:48:21.291 --> 00:48:22.875
Probity.

00:48:22.959 --> 00:48:27.625
You know, nobody ever said anything iffy
about Lloyd Garroway.

00:48:28.625 --> 00:48:30.583
He's conservative.

00:48:30.875 --> 00:48:33.834
Jury might like that.
Might like that here.

00:48:36.125 --> 00:48:37.208
Probity.

00:48:37.292 --> 00:48:41.124
So, he's the best man for...

00:48:41.249 --> 00:48:42.499
No.

00:48:42.625 --> 00:48:46.374
The best, the money-is-no-object best,

00:48:46.458 --> 00:48:50.041
any lawyer'll tell you,
is Freddy Riedenschneider from...

00:48:52.583 --> 00:48:54.208
Sacramento.

00:48:55.541 --> 00:48:58.249
I don't know
how you're fixed for money.

00:48:58.374 --> 00:49:00.249
- But he's...
- The best.

00:49:00.374 --> 00:49:01.833
The best, yeah.

00:49:04.458 --> 00:49:06.416
Riedenschneider.

00:49:15.457 --> 00:49:17.291
No question about it.

00:49:46.956 --> 00:49:48.083
Honey.

00:50:05.124 --> 00:50:06.999
I brought your makeup.

00:50:08.915 --> 00:50:10.082
Glasses.

00:50:17.248 --> 00:50:19.123
What happened to you?

00:50:19.248 --> 00:50:21.539
I don't know
what's goin' on... I...

00:50:25.123 --> 00:50:26.998
I don't know
what happened to Big Dave.

00:50:27.123 --> 00:50:28.915
I know some of it.

00:50:28.998 --> 00:50:32.248
Irregullarities in the books, they said.
Can I explain it?

00:50:33.414 --> 00:50:35.539
You don't have to
explain anything.

00:50:35.623 --> 00:50:38.539
I did help him cook the books, Ed.
I did do that.

00:50:45.372 --> 00:50:46.539
Should I...

00:50:48.331 --> 00:50:51.997
Should I tell you
why I changed the books?

00:50:55.289 --> 00:50:57.955
You don't have to
tell me anything.

00:50:59.372 --> 00:51:01.205
No, no, no!

00:51:02.538 --> 00:51:03.913
Jesus Christ!

00:51:18.872 --> 00:51:20.579
My books used to be perfect.

00:51:20.664 --> 00:51:24.205
Anyone could open 'em up
and make sense of the whole goddamn store.

00:51:28.872 --> 00:51:30.830
I knew we'd pay for it.

00:51:30.913 --> 00:51:32.497
I don't care what it costs!

00:51:32.621 --> 00:51:35.955
This is when you come together.

00:51:36.080 --> 00:51:37.579
Well, that's awfully
generous of you, Frank.

00:51:37.872 --> 00:51:40.871
The hell with it.
The hell with it, Eddie.

00:51:40.997 --> 00:51:42.914
This is when you come together.

00:51:42.996 --> 00:51:44.912
This is family.

00:51:48.371 --> 00:51:51.579
They're just people
like you and me, Ed.

00:51:51.871 --> 00:51:53.371
Remember that.

00:51:54.955 --> 00:51:56.913
Just people.

00:51:56.996 --> 00:52:01.371
They gotta put up the big front so that
people will trust 'em with their money.

00:52:01.455 --> 00:52:03.913
This is why the big lobby, Ed.

00:52:03.996 --> 00:52:08.830
But they put their pants on
one leg at a time just like you and me.

00:52:10.580 --> 00:52:14.163
They, too, use the toilet, Ed,
in spite of appearances.

00:52:14.287 --> 00:52:17.329
And their money will be secured
by the barber shop.

00:52:17.454 --> 00:52:20.413
A rock.
A rock, the barber shop.

00:52:20.537 --> 00:52:22.330
Mr. Raffo.

00:52:22.453 --> 00:52:24.121
Yes, sir?

00:52:24.246 --> 00:52:26.205
Could you come with me, please?

00:52:26.329 --> 00:52:28.454
Sure. Can Ed come too?

00:52:28.578 --> 00:52:30.038
Mister...

00:52:30.620 --> 00:52:33.538
Crane. Ed Crane.

00:52:33.620 --> 00:52:36.496
You also have an interest
in the securing porperty?

00:52:37.954 --> 00:52:39.579
He's a barber.

00:52:39.663 --> 00:52:43.204
- Second chair.
- Not an owner.

00:52:43.329 --> 00:52:47.287
No, he's family.
He's my brother-in-law.

00:52:47.371 --> 00:52:50.579
It would be best
if he waited here.

00:53:28.494 --> 00:53:30.328
The barber shop.

00:53:34.328 --> 00:53:38.327
Doris and Frank's father had worked
30 years to own it free and clear.

00:53:38.453 --> 00:53:42.452
Now it got signed over to the bank,
and the bank signed some over to Frank.

00:53:42.578 --> 00:53:45.994
And Frank signed the money
to Freddy Riedenschneider.

00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:48.244
Who got into town
two days later...

00:53:48.327 --> 00:53:51.203
And told me to meet him
at Da Vinci's for lunch.

00:53:53.911 --> 00:53:56.411
Not fried, poached.
Three of 'em for two minutes.

00:53:56.535 --> 00:53:59.535
Strip steak, medium rare,
flapjacks, potatoes, tomato juice...

00:53:59.619 --> 00:54:00.952
And plenty of hot coffee.

00:54:01.994 --> 00:54:04.577
- You have any Prairie Oysters?
- No, sir.

00:54:04.661 --> 00:54:07.828
Then bring me a fruit cocktail
while I wait.

00:54:10.243 --> 00:54:12.244
- You're Crane?
- Yeah.

00:54:12.369 --> 00:54:13.910
Barber, right?

00:54:14.036 --> 00:54:15.911
I'm Freddy Riedenschneider.
Hungry?

00:54:15.994 --> 00:54:17.243
Not really.

00:54:17.327 --> 00:54:20.160
They tell me the chow's okay here.
I made some inquiries.

00:54:21.618 --> 00:54:24.743
Look, I don't want to waste your time,
so I'll eat while we talk.

00:54:24.869 --> 00:54:25.993
Do you mind? You don't mind.

00:54:26.077 --> 00:54:28.951
While I'm in town
I'm staying at the Hotel Metropole.

00:54:29.036 --> 00:54:33.036
Turandot Suite. Yeah, it's goofy.
They named their suites after operas.

00:54:33.118 --> 00:54:35.076
Room's okay, though.
I poked around.

00:54:35.160 --> 00:54:37.535
I'm having 'em hold it for me.
I'll be back and forth.

00:54:37.619 --> 00:54:41.076
So, in addition to my retainer,
you're paying hotel,

00:54:41.160 --> 00:54:42.910
Living expenses, secretarial,

00:54:42.993 --> 00:54:46.243
Private eye, if we need to make inquiries,
head shrinker, should we go that way.

00:54:46.326 --> 00:54:48.452
We'll talk about appeals
if, as and when.

00:54:48.576 --> 00:54:52.243
- For now, has she confessed?
- No, of course not. She didn't do it.

00:54:52.327 --> 00:54:55.868
Good. That helps. Not that she didn't do it
That she didn't confess.

00:54:55.951 --> 00:54:59.868
Course, There's ways to deal with a confession,
but that's one less thing to think about.

00:54:59.951 --> 00:55:03.035
Now, interview. I'm seeing her tomorrow.
You sholud be there 3:00.

00:55:03.118 --> 00:55:05.368
One more thing.
You keep your mouth shut.

00:55:05.452 --> 00:55:08.242
I get the lay of the land,
I tell you what to say.

00:55:08.326 --> 00:55:11.576
No talking out of school. What's out of school?
Everything's out of school.

00:55:11.660 --> 00:55:14.200
I do the talking.
You keep your trap shut.

00:55:14.326 --> 00:55:16.367
I'm an attorney. You're a barber.
You don't know anything.

00:55:19.493 --> 00:55:20.409
Okay.

00:55:20.492 --> 00:55:22.950
Good. Any questions,
give me a ring.

00:55:23.076 --> 00:55:25.409
Turandot suite.
If I'm out, leave a message.

00:55:26.617 --> 00:55:29.534
Sure you don't want anything?
No? Okay.

00:55:29.617 --> 00:55:31.576
You're okay, pal.

00:55:31.867 --> 00:55:34.201
You're okay, she's okay,
everything's gonna be hunky...

00:55:34.284 --> 00:55:36.326
And the...
and the flapjacks, honey.

00:55:43.534 --> 00:55:44.951
There they were,

00:55:47.951 --> 00:55:50.159
All going about their business.

00:55:52.325 --> 00:55:54.283
It seem like I knew a secret,

00:55:54.367 --> 00:55:57.867
A bigger one, even,
than what had really happened to Big Dave,

00:55:57.950 --> 00:56:00.824
Something none of them knew.

00:56:00.908 --> 00:56:03.408
Like I had made it to the outside somehow,

00:56:03.533 --> 00:56:06.159
And they were all still struggling
way down below.

00:56:29.617 --> 00:56:30.825
Ann.

00:56:32.075 --> 00:56:33.450
Hello, Ed.

00:56:34.325 --> 00:56:36.574
Would you like to come in, Ann?

00:56:38.116 --> 00:56:40.574
No. No, it's very late.

00:56:44.658 --> 00:56:47.240
I'm so sorry about your loss.

00:56:52.615 --> 00:56:56.824
Course you know that Doris
had nothing to do with it.

00:56:56.949 --> 00:56:59.033
Nothing at all.

00:56:59.532 --> 00:57:01.407
I know.

00:57:02.241 --> 00:57:04.450
Don't worry, Ed.

00:57:05.366 --> 00:57:07.324
I came to tell you...

00:57:07.407 --> 00:57:10.824
And you should tell Doris...

00:57:10.949 --> 00:57:11.908
Yeah?

00:57:22.949 --> 00:57:26.823
You know how Big Dave loved camping
and the out of doors?

00:57:29.199 --> 00:57:30.282
Yeah.

00:57:30.407 --> 00:57:34.490
We went camping last summer
in Eugene, Oregon.

00:57:34.573 --> 00:57:38.199
Outside Eugene, Ed.

00:57:40.198 --> 00:57:41.198
Yeah?

00:57:41.324 --> 00:57:45.073
At night there were lights.
We both saw them.

00:57:45.198 --> 00:57:49.198
We never told anyone
outside of our official report,

00:57:49.281 --> 00:57:51.240
Our report to the government.

00:57:53.365 --> 00:57:55.115
There was a spacecraft.

00:57:56.198 --> 00:57:58.282
I saw the creatures.

00:57:58.406 --> 00:58:01.323
They led Big Dave onto the craft.

00:58:01.407 --> 00:58:04.865
He never told anyone
what they did.

00:58:04.948 --> 00:58:06.531
Ann, would you like to...

00:58:06.656 --> 00:58:11.197
I cannot repeat it to you,
but this thing goes deep, Ed.

00:58:11.323 --> 00:58:14.156
It goes deep
and involves the government.

00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:18.407
This was not your wife.
There's a great deal of fear.

00:58:18.530 --> 00:58:22.448
You know how certain circles
would-would find it,

00:58:22.572 --> 00:58:23.572
The knowledge, a threat.

00:58:23.698 --> 00:58:26.072
They-they try to limit it, and...

00:58:26.197 --> 00:58:30.072
Ann, would you like to come in,

00:58:30.198 --> 00:58:32.905
Sit down?

00:58:32.989 --> 00:58:34.989
Maybe have a drink.

00:58:39.905 --> 00:58:42.614
Sometimes knowledge
is a curse, Ed.

00:58:44.531 --> 00:58:47.239
After this happened,

00:58:47.323 --> 00:58:48.655
Things changed.

00:58:51.155 --> 00:58:52.281
Big Dave...

00:58:56.489 --> 00:58:58.947
He never touched me again.

00:59:01.905 --> 00:59:03.489
Tell Doris not to worry.

00:59:03.572 --> 00:59:06.197
I know it wasn't her.

00:59:07.238 --> 00:59:08.988
Perhaps this will bring it out

00:59:09.113 --> 00:59:10.655
Finally.

00:59:10.905 --> 00:59:14.571
Perhaps now
it will all come out.

00:59:44.113 --> 00:59:45.654
It stinks.

00:59:45.904 --> 00:59:47.571
But it's true.

00:59:47.655 --> 00:59:49.988
I don't care it's true, it's not true.
It stinks.

00:59:50.071 --> 00:59:52.654
You say he was being blackmailed?
By who? You don't know.

00:59:52.946 --> 00:59:55.237
For having an affair.
With who? You don't know.

00:59:55.321 --> 00:59:58.905
Did anyone else know about it?
Probably not. You don't know.

00:59:59.029 --> 01:00:01.070
I knew about it.

01:00:01.196 --> 01:00:03.237
Big Dave told me about it...

01:00:03.362 --> 01:00:06.154
And the spot he was putting himself in
by getting the money.

01:00:06.238 --> 01:00:09.528
Terrific! Your husband backs you up.
That's terrific.

01:00:09.529 --> 01:00:11.280
And you gotta give me
something to work with.

01:00:11.403 --> 01:00:14.237
Freddy Riedenschneider is good,
but he's not a magician.

01:00:14.362 --> 01:00:17.779
He can't just wave his little wand in the air
to make a plausible defense materialize.

01:00:17.904 --> 01:00:20.779
Look at what the other side
is gonna run at us.

01:00:20.905 --> 01:00:23.487
They got the company books
prepared by you,

01:00:23.737 --> 01:00:25.904
Cooked by you. That's motive.

01:00:25.988 --> 01:00:29.029
They got a murder scene you had access to.
That's opportunity.

01:00:29.154 --> 01:00:31.903
They got that little trimmer thing he was
stabbed in the throat with.

01:00:31.987 --> 01:00:34.112
- A dame's weapon.
- It was Big Dave's.

01:00:34.237 --> 01:00:35.988
Don't interrupt me.
That's means.

01:00:36.071 --> 01:00:39.070
They got a fine, upstanding pillar
of the business community as a victim,

01:00:39.195 --> 01:00:40.778
And then they got you,

01:00:40.904 --> 01:00:44.154
A disgruntled, number-juggling underling,

01:00:44.237 --> 01:00:46.737
Who on the day in question
was drunk as a skunk...

01:00:46.862 --> 01:00:51.736
And whose alibi for the time in question
is being passed out at home, alone.

01:00:51.862 --> 01:00:53.986
I was with her.

01:00:54.112 --> 01:00:56.028
Like I say,

01:00:56.111 --> 01:00:57.695
It stinks.

01:01:06.069 --> 01:01:07.737
I killed him.

01:01:22.235 --> 01:01:25.945
Okay. You killed him.

01:01:27.403 --> 01:01:32.027
Okay, we forget the blackmail thing.
You killed him.

01:01:32.111 --> 01:01:33.402
How come?

01:01:36.736 --> 01:01:39.235
He and Doris
were having an affair.

01:01:43.068 --> 01:01:44.444
Okay.

01:01:44.736 --> 01:01:46.694
How did you know?

01:01:49.070 --> 01:01:51.235
I just knew.

01:01:52.027 --> 01:01:54.153
A husband knows.

01:01:55.110 --> 01:01:56.985
Will anyone else say they knew?

01:01:57.068 --> 01:01:58.319
And don't say your wife.

01:01:58.403 --> 01:02:00.235
I don't know.

01:02:02.402 --> 01:02:04.694
I don't think so.

01:02:06.069 --> 01:02:08.194
How did you get into the store?

01:02:08.277 --> 01:02:10.068
I took Doris's keys.

01:02:10.152 --> 01:02:14.235
Will anyone say they saw you there, on your
way there, in there, on your way back?

01:02:16.235 --> 01:02:18.319
I don't think so.

01:02:18.402 --> 01:02:21.860
Will anyone corroborate any goddamn part
of your story at all?

01:02:21.902 --> 01:02:25.276
Oh, come on! People,
you can't help each other like that.

01:02:26.777 --> 01:02:29.151
Let's be realistic, now.

01:02:29.235 --> 01:02:33.860
Let's look at our options.
Well, frankly, I don't see any options.

01:02:33.985 --> 01:02:37.985
Look, I cannot present story "A."
I cannot present

01:02:38.068 --> 01:02:40.192
story "B."

01:02:40.318 --> 01:02:43.735
I could plead you for a nutcase,
but you look too composed.

01:02:43.818 --> 01:02:45.860
I could offer a guilty plea, and in
return they don't give you the juice,

01:02:45.943 --> 01:02:47.860
But I don't think you want to spend
the rest of your life in chino.

01:02:47.943 --> 01:02:49.984
I know you didn't hire
Freddy Riedenschneider

01:02:50.068 --> 01:02:52.193
To hold your hand at a sentencing hearing.

01:02:52.276 --> 01:02:54.192
You could have gotten
Lloyd Garroway for that.

01:02:54.234 --> 01:02:57.026
No, no, no, no.
We're not giving up yet.

01:02:57.110 --> 01:03:00.235
You hired Freddy Riedenschneider,
It means you're not throwing in the towel.

01:03:00.359 --> 01:03:01.693
I litigate.

01:03:01.776 --> 01:03:04.026
I don't capitulate.

01:03:04.110 --> 01:03:07.443
All right. No options?
We gotta think.

01:03:07.733 --> 01:03:12.026
All right. We go back to the blackmail thing.
Yeah, it titillates.

01:03:12.109 --> 01:03:14.234
It's open-ended,
and it makes him the bad guy.

01:03:14.359 --> 01:03:17.067
You dig around, you never know.
Something unsavory from his past.

01:03:17.151 --> 01:03:21.151
He approaches you to help him with the money,
his past comes back to haunt him. Who's to say?

01:03:21.234 --> 01:03:24.859
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Forget the jealous
husband thing. That's just silly.

01:03:24.984 --> 01:03:27.276
We're going with the blackmail.
I'll be in touch.

01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:29.067
I'm comin' out!

01:03:38.068 --> 01:03:41.858
Of course there was one person
who could confirm Doris's story,

01:03:41.942 --> 01:03:43.483
Or plenty of it.

01:03:43.733 --> 01:03:46.358
The dry-cleaning pansy.

01:03:46.441 --> 01:03:49.150
But he'd left the hotel,
skipped out on his bill.

01:03:50.734 --> 01:03:53.692
He'd also disappeared
from the residence he gave me,

01:03:53.816 --> 01:03:55.358
Owing two months'rent.

01:03:55.484 --> 01:03:57.900
How could I have been so stupid?

01:03:58.024 --> 01:04:00.692
Handing over $10,000
for a piece of paper.

01:04:02.733 --> 01:04:05.817
And the man gone, like a ghost.

01:04:05.942 --> 01:04:10.274
Disappeared into thin air
vaporized like the nips at Nagasaki.

01:04:10.399 --> 01:04:12.024
Gone now.

01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:17.900
All gone.

01:04:18.025 --> 01:04:21.107
The money gone, Big Dave gone,

01:04:21.233 --> 01:04:24.150
Doris going.

01:04:24.232 --> 01:04:26.691
How could I have been so stupid?

01:05:08.065 --> 01:05:11.357
Sooner or later,
everyone needs a haircut.

01:05:13.857 --> 01:05:15.982
We were working for the bank now.

01:05:16.107 --> 01:05:19.898
We kept cutting the hair,
trying to stay afloat,

01:05:19.981 --> 01:05:24.024
Make the payments,
tread the water day by day,

01:05:25.232 --> 01:05:26.982
Day by day.

01:05:30.856 --> 01:05:33.065
Most people think someone's
accused of a crime,

01:05:33.189 --> 01:05:36.357
They haul 'em in and bring 'em to trial,
But it's not like that.

01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:38.064
It's not that fast.

01:05:38.190 --> 01:05:41.189
The wheels of justice turn slow.

01:05:41.273 --> 01:05:44.107
They have the arraignment,
then the indictment,

01:05:44.230 --> 01:05:48.356
And they entertain motions to dismiss
and postpone and change the venue...

01:05:48.398 --> 01:05:50.981
And alter this and that
and the other.

01:05:51.064 --> 01:05:53.898
They impanel a jury,
which bring more motions.

01:05:54.022 --> 01:05:56.898
Then they set a trial date,
and then they change the date.

01:05:57.022 --> 01:05:59.064
And then, often as not,
they'll change it again.

01:05:59.190 --> 01:06:00.898
Not guilty, your honor.

01:06:04.730 --> 01:06:07.356
And through all of it,
we cut the hair.

01:06:13.230 --> 01:06:17.023
Meantime, Freddy Riedenschneider
slept at the Metropole...

01:06:20.731 --> 01:06:23.148
And shoveled it in
at Da Vinci's.

01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:27.023
He'd brought in a private investigator
from Sacramento...

01:06:27.106 --> 01:06:30.022
To nose around
into Big Dave's past.

01:06:48.438 --> 01:06:52.272
I found myself, more and more,
going over to the Abundas's.

01:06:52.396 --> 01:06:56.106
It was a routine we fell into
most every evening.

01:06:56.230 --> 01:07:00.063
I even went when Walter was away
on his research trips.

01:07:03.230 --> 01:07:05.188
He was a genealogist,

01:07:05.272 --> 01:07:08.354
Had traced back his side of the family
seven generations,

01:07:08.480 --> 01:07:10.397
His late wife's eight.

01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:12.854
It seemed like a screwy hobby,

01:07:12.896 --> 01:07:15.397
But then maybe all hobbies are.

01:07:18.855 --> 01:07:23.063
Maybe Walter found something there
in the old county courthouses,

01:07:23.187 --> 01:07:25.188
Hospital file rooms,

01:07:25.313 --> 01:07:28.063
City archives, property rolls,

01:07:28.189 --> 01:07:29.438
Registries.

01:07:30.855 --> 01:07:34.062
Something maybe like what I found
listening to Birdy play.

01:07:35.105 --> 01:07:37.063
Some kind of escape.

01:07:37.895 --> 01:07:40.021
Some kind of peace.

01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:26.020
They got this guy in Germany.

01:08:27.145 --> 01:08:29.854
Fritz something or other.

01:08:30.812 --> 01:08:32.436
Or is it... Maybe it's Werner.

01:08:32.729 --> 01:08:36.187
Anyway... He's got this theory.

01:08:37.519 --> 01:08:40.353
You want to test something,
you know, scientifically...

01:08:40.395 --> 01:08:43.478
How the planet
go 'round the sun,

01:08:43.728 --> 01:08:46.310
What sunspots are made of,

01:08:46.395 --> 01:08:49.019
Why the water
comes out of the tap...

01:08:49.145 --> 01:08:52.228
Well, you gotta look at it.

01:08:52.353 --> 01:08:55.895
But sometimes you look at it...

01:08:56.019 --> 01:08:59.395
Your looking changes it.

01:09:02.227 --> 01:09:06.061
You can't know the reality
of what happened,

01:09:06.186 --> 01:09:07.395
Or what would have happened,

01:09:07.478 --> 01:09:11.311
If you hadn't stuck in
your own goddamn schnozz.

01:09:11.395 --> 01:09:14.728
So there is no "What happened."

01:09:14.811 --> 01:09:16.477
Looking at something...

01:09:16.728 --> 01:09:18.353
Changes it.

01:09:23.353 --> 01:09:26.227
They call it
the uncertainty principle.

01:09:26.353 --> 01:09:30.977
Sure, it sound screwy, but even
Einstein says the guy's onto something.

01:09:34.727 --> 01:09:36.185
Science.

01:09:37.227 --> 01:09:38.394
Perception.

01:09:39.436 --> 01:09:40.394
Reality.

01:09:43.060 --> 01:09:44.186
Doubt.

01:09:45.811 --> 01:09:49.060
Reasonable... doubt.

01:09:50.727 --> 01:09:54.269
I'm saying that sometimes
the more you look,

01:09:54.393 --> 01:09:56.435
the less you really know.

01:09:58.227 --> 01:10:01.727
It's a fact, a proved fact.

01:10:01.851 --> 01:10:04.018
In... In a way,

01:10:04.101 --> 01:10:06.435
It's the only fact there is.

01:10:09.726 --> 01:10:13.851
This Heinie even
wrote it out in numbers.

01:10:17.018 --> 01:10:18.893
Burns?

01:10:26.018 --> 01:10:28.893
Subject: David Allen Brewster,

01:10:28.976 --> 01:10:30.476
Born Brooklyn, 1911.

01:10:30.726 --> 01:10:34.144
Subject educated public schools.
One year case western university.

01:10:34.226 --> 01:10:36.060
Flunks out.

01:10:36.101 --> 01:10:40.268
1931, Retail appliance salesman
in Barnhoff's department store, Cincinnati.

01:10:40.392 --> 01:10:44.268
1933, Meets Ann Nirdlinger.
They marry that year.

01:10:44.392 --> 01:10:46.851
1935, Arrested
on assault complaint.

01:10:46.976 --> 01:10:49.227
Complainant has a broken nose,
couple of broken ribs.

01:10:49.267 --> 01:10:53.060
'36, Another assault beef
at a bar room altercation.

01:10:53.183 --> 01:10:55.851
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Couple of fistfights, right?
Go to his service record.

01:10:58.477 --> 01:11:01.017
Inducted march 15, 1942.

01:11:01.059 --> 01:11:05.309
Served in a clerical capacity
in the U.S. Naval shipyards at San Diego.

01:11:05.392 --> 01:11:07.892
One fistfight,
broken up by the M.P.S.

01:11:07.976 --> 01:11:11.934
No court-martial.
Honorable discharge, may 8, 1945.

01:11:12.058 --> 01:11:16.184
- Since then, he's been clean.
- Thank you, Barns. Get lost.

01:11:26.392 --> 01:11:28.725
So?

01:11:30.225 --> 01:11:32.851
This could be your Dolly's
ticket out of the death house.

01:11:32.933 --> 01:11:34.350
So!

01:11:35.892 --> 01:11:37.100
I don't get it.

01:11:37.225 --> 01:11:40.058
Look, chump.

01:11:40.184 --> 01:11:44.683
This is a guy, from what I understand,
told everybody he was a war hero, right?

01:11:44.767 --> 01:11:45.933
Island-hopping,

01:11:46.059 --> 01:11:48.100
Practically liberated,
the pacific all by himself,

01:11:48.224 --> 01:11:51.016
With a knife in one hand,
a gun in the other,

01:11:51.100 --> 01:11:53.891
And 20 yards of jap guts
between his teeth.

01:11:53.933 --> 01:11:57.225
And now it turns out this dope
spent the war sitting on his ass...

01:11:57.267 --> 01:12:00.432
In some boat yard in San Diego.

01:12:00.725 --> 01:12:02.724
You asked for blackmail.

01:12:02.850 --> 01:12:06.350
Mr. Hail-fellow-well-met,
about to open his own business here,

01:12:06.433 --> 01:12:09.891
Has been lying to everybody in this town
for the last four years,

01:12:09.933 --> 01:12:12.350
Probably including half the people
sitting on that jury.

01:12:12.433 --> 01:12:14.849
Well, it finally caught up with him.

01:12:14.933 --> 01:12:19.474
Somebody knew his dirty little secret,
just like your wife says.

01:12:19.724 --> 01:12:22.974
They called,
they demanded money.

01:12:24.725 --> 01:12:28.016
Did Big Dave say he'd recently
heard from an old friend?

01:12:28.099 --> 01:12:32.058
Did Big Dave mention it was something
about his war service?

01:12:32.140 --> 01:12:35.224
I don't know. I wasn't there.

01:12:35.349 --> 01:12:38.266
You have to tell us.

01:12:38.391 --> 01:12:41.350
Maybe he specified,
maybe he didn't.

01:12:41.432 --> 01:12:44.432
I'm not putting words
in your mouth, no.

01:12:44.724 --> 01:12:49.140
But the point is that this liar,
this cynical manipulator,

01:12:49.224 --> 01:12:52.182
Turns to you to help him
out of his jam.

01:12:52.265 --> 01:12:54.223
Fat-assed son of a bitch.

01:12:55.932 --> 01:12:59.474
- So who... who actually...
- Who?

01:12:59.723 --> 01:13:01.349
Who?

01:13:01.473 --> 01:13:03.014
I don't know who.

01:13:03.098 --> 01:13:06.181
But the point is that
if Mr. Prosecutor over there...

01:13:06.265 --> 01:13:09.848
Had devoted half the time
he's spent persecuting this woman...

01:13:09.973 --> 01:13:14.264
To even the most cursory investigation
of this schmo's past,

01:13:14.390 --> 01:13:16.265
Then we might know who.

01:13:16.390 --> 01:13:21.223
But we can't know who.
We can't know what really happened.

01:13:21.348 --> 01:13:24.306
Because the more you look,
the less you know.

01:13:26.723 --> 01:13:29.182
But the beauty of it is...

01:13:29.306 --> 01:13:32.349
We don't gotta know.

01:13:32.472 --> 01:13:36.890
We just gotta show that,
god damn it, they don't know.

01:13:37.015 --> 01:13:42.015
Because of Fritz, or Werner,
whatever the hell his name is.

01:13:45.848 --> 01:13:48.722
Freddy Riedenschneider sees daylight.

01:13:48.764 --> 01:13:51.347
We got a real shot at this, folks.
Let's not get cocky.

01:13:51.473 --> 01:13:53.015
Comin' out!

01:14:07.431 --> 01:14:09.264
Big Dave.

01:14:15.347 --> 01:14:17.305
What a dope.

01:14:24.514 --> 01:14:27.389
So maybe Riedenschneider
could fix it for Doris.

01:14:27.513 --> 01:14:30.013
Maybe it would all work out.

01:14:30.097 --> 01:14:32.055
And I thought,

01:14:34.013 --> 01:14:35.763
I hoped,

01:14:35.888 --> 01:14:38.388
That maybe there was a way out
for me as well.

01:14:39.388 --> 01:14:42.180
He was deaf when he wrote this.

01:14:43.097 --> 01:14:44.346
Who?

01:14:45.888 --> 01:14:47.055
Beethoven.

01:14:49.097 --> 01:14:52.846
He created it, but he never
actually heard it.

01:14:52.929 --> 01:14:55.888
I guess he just heard it all
in his head somehow.

01:15:03.429 --> 01:15:06.929
The girl had talent.
Anyone could see that.

01:15:07.055 --> 01:15:09.013
And she wasn't
some fly-by-nighter.

01:15:09.138 --> 01:15:11.930
She was just a good, clean kid.

01:15:12.055 --> 01:15:16.305
If she was going to have a career, she'd need
a responsible adult... Looking out for her,

01:15:16.388 --> 01:15:18.930
Some kind of manager.

01:15:20.262 --> 01:15:23.721
She'd have contracts to look at,
be going out on tours,

01:15:23.762 --> 01:15:25.846
Playing on the radio, maybe.

01:15:25.930 --> 01:15:30.012
I could help her sort through all that
without charging her an arm and a leg.

01:15:30.095 --> 01:15:32.054
Just enough to get by.

01:15:36.263 --> 01:15:38.179
Then I could be with her,

01:15:38.262 --> 01:15:41.220
Enough to keep myself
feeling okay.

01:15:42.929 --> 01:15:45.388
Why couldn't that work?

01:15:45.512 --> 01:15:47.012
Why not?

01:15:53.387 --> 01:15:55.762
- Hi, Mr. Crane.
- Hello, Birdy.

01:15:59.262 --> 01:16:01.179
I thought that was real good.

01:16:01.261 --> 01:16:04.720
Yeah, I messed up a little bit
on the... on the agitato,

01:16:04.845 --> 01:16:08.179
But if nobody noticed,
then it's okay.

01:16:11.928 --> 01:16:14.137
This is a friend of mine.

01:16:14.220 --> 01:16:17.219
Tony, Mr. Crane.

01:16:18.887 --> 01:16:20.219
Hello, Tony.

01:16:20.345 --> 01:16:22.261
Hello, sir.

01:16:38.386 --> 01:16:40.302
Congratulations.

01:16:43.386 --> 01:16:46.012
Think I'll be getting home now.

01:16:49.053 --> 01:16:51.011
It was...
nice to meet you, sir.

01:16:51.095 --> 01:16:52.969
You too, Tony.

01:16:56.844 --> 01:16:58.219
Why couldn't it work?

01:16:59.260 --> 01:17:03.345
Anyway, that's what I was thinking
in the days leading up to the trial.

01:17:03.428 --> 01:17:07.303
It seemed like once that was over,
I'd be ready for a new start.

01:17:07.386 --> 01:17:09.719
Freddy Riedenschneider
was busy preparing.

01:17:09.844 --> 01:17:12.052
He was very optimistic.

01:17:12.177 --> 01:17:16.260
And finally it came...
the first day of the trial,

01:17:16.385 --> 01:17:20.344
"What Riedenschneider called
'The big show."

01:17:31.927 --> 01:17:36.051
Where's the judge?
How come there's no judge?

01:17:36.177 --> 01:17:38.052
Where's the judge, Ed?

01:17:39.719 --> 01:17:40.718
Riedenschneider.

01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:43.343
How come the judge
doesn't come out?

01:17:43.426 --> 01:17:48.219
The judge comes in last.
He'll come in when Doris gets here.

01:17:48.343 --> 01:17:52.217
So where's Doris?
I thought we started at 10:00.

01:17:52.343 --> 01:17:55.009
Hey, Riedenschneider.
Where's Doris?

01:17:55.093 --> 01:17:56.884
She's late.

01:17:56.926 --> 01:18:00.885
Late? How can she be late?

01:18:00.968 --> 01:18:04.052
She's in prison, Ed.
None of us are in prison.

01:18:04.177 --> 01:18:08.051
And yet we're not late.
We're on time, Ed.

01:18:08.093 --> 01:18:10.051
How can Doris be late?

01:18:10.135 --> 01:18:12.884
What, they don't have
wake-up calls?

01:18:17.510 --> 01:18:19.676
- All rise.
- No, no.

01:18:20.385 --> 01:18:22.009
Counselors.

01:18:36.051 --> 01:18:37.343
What's going on, Ed?

01:18:37.426 --> 01:18:40.426
I thought there
would be arguments,

01:18:40.717 --> 01:18:42.385
The bailiff and so forth.

01:18:47.217 --> 01:18:49.675
Ed, what is this?

01:18:49.760 --> 01:18:51.884
Is this procedure?

01:19:08.758 --> 01:19:13.800
In the matter of the people v. Doris Crane,

01:19:13.883 --> 01:19:16.133
Case number SR-87249,

01:19:16.217 --> 01:19:18.175
Cause now pending
is hereby dismissed...

01:19:18.258 --> 01:19:20.300
I don't understand it.

01:19:21.967 --> 01:19:25.383
Had a real shot at this.
I could've won this thing.

01:19:25.508 --> 01:19:27.758
Ladies and gentlemen
of the jury,

01:19:27.883 --> 01:19:32.217
Your service is no longer needed...
And you are now discharge.

01:19:34.050 --> 01:19:36.050
She's hanged herself.

01:19:38.174 --> 01:19:42.717
I'd brought her a dress to wear to court,
and she'd used the belt.

01:19:42.841 --> 01:19:46.050
At first I thought she'd figured
out somehow how I fit into it...

01:19:46.175 --> 01:19:49.424
And couldn't stand it,
couldn't stand knowing.

01:19:49.717 --> 01:19:52.049
But that wasn't it, I'd find out later.

01:19:54.925 --> 01:19:58.883
For now, everything
just seemed ruined.

01:20:00.841 --> 01:20:03.298
Freddy Riedenschneider
went back to Sacramento,

01:20:03.383 --> 01:20:06.382
Still shaking his head,
saying it was the biggest disappointment

01:20:06.508 --> 01:20:08.466
Of his professional career.

01:20:08.715 --> 01:20:11.049
Frankie fell to pieces.

01:20:11.132 --> 01:20:13.382
I suspect he was drinking.

01:20:13.465 --> 01:20:16.965
Anyway, he stopped
coming in to work.

01:20:17.049 --> 01:20:21.383
That left me to keep the place going,
or the bank would've taken it.

01:20:23.257 --> 01:20:26.215
I was the principal barber now.

01:20:26.299 --> 01:20:29.382
I hired a new man
for the second chair.

01:20:29.508 --> 01:20:33.008
I'd hired the guy who did the least gabbing
whie he came in for an interview,

01:20:33.090 --> 01:20:36.841
But I guess the new man had only kept quiet
because he was nervous.

01:20:36.923 --> 01:20:39.882
Once he had the job, he talked from the
minute I opened the shop in the morning...

01:20:40.007 --> 01:20:42.714
Until I locked up at night.

01:20:44.965 --> 01:20:47.756
For all I know, he talked to himself
on the way home.

01:20:51.508 --> 01:20:55.464
When I walked home, it seemed like everyone
avoided looking at me,

01:20:55.716 --> 01:20:57.840
As if I'd caught some disease.

01:20:58.882 --> 01:21:02.715
This thing with Doris,
nobody wanted to talk about it.

01:21:05.131 --> 01:21:08.465
It was like I was a ghost
walking down the street.

01:21:10.256 --> 01:21:12.382
And when I got home now,

01:21:16.131 --> 01:21:18.048
The place felt empty.

01:21:25.381 --> 01:21:27.714
I sat in the house,

01:21:30.339 --> 01:21:32.464
But there was nobody there.

01:21:39.007 --> 01:21:41.214
I was a ghost.

01:21:42.297 --> 01:21:44.339
I didn't see anyone.

01:21:44.422 --> 01:21:46.381
No one saw me.

01:21:51.506 --> 01:21:53.714
I was the barber.

01:22:01.131 --> 01:22:05.046
Some bacon and potatoes,
which are supposed to come with it.

01:22:05.131 --> 01:22:08.839
So I pay for it, and I put the change
in my pocket without really looking...

01:22:08.921 --> 01:22:11.380
'Cause, gosh, who looks at the
change when you eat there every day?

01:22:11.506 --> 01:22:14.921
Two blocks later I look at the change she gave me.
Golly, I'm two bits short.

01:22:15.047 --> 01:22:18.713
So I walk back over to Linton's,
find this gal, big argument.

01:22:18.839 --> 01:22:22.380
She doesn't even recall
the transaction.

01:22:22.463 --> 01:22:24.256
Doesn't recall the transaction.
No recollections.

01:22:24.880 --> 01:22:27.005
So I said, "Look, dear.
Go ahead. Look at the menu."

01:22:27.047 --> 01:22:29.172
If you're in before 6:00,
it's the whatchamacallit...

01:22:32.713 --> 01:22:34.713
- The early bird special.
- Yeah, the early riser.

01:22:40.005 --> 01:22:41.130
Crane?

01:22:41.879 --> 01:22:44.338
I'm Crane.

01:22:44.422 --> 01:22:47.337
My name's Diedrickson,
county medical examiner.

01:22:48.879 --> 01:22:50.088
Yeah?

01:22:52.797 --> 01:22:55.712
I just came by
for an informal chat.

01:23:01.712 --> 01:23:03.879
Why don't I buy you a drink?

01:23:07.129 --> 01:23:08.671
Rye.

01:23:09.879 --> 01:23:11.796
Just coffee.

01:23:11.879 --> 01:23:14.796
You sure you don't want
something stiffer?

01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:16.754
Coffee it is.

01:23:22.378 --> 01:23:26.753
County M.E. does an autopsy
on anyone who dies in custody.

01:23:27.462 --> 01:23:29.711
I don't know if you knew that.

01:23:29.837 --> 01:23:31.129
It's routine.

01:23:32.503 --> 01:23:36.920
Doesn't become a matter of public record
unless there's been foul play.

01:23:37.046 --> 01:23:38.921
However,

01:23:39.003 --> 01:23:42.128
I don't think I'm prohibited
from telling you this.

01:23:42.212 --> 01:23:45.212
Of course, I'm not
obliged to either.

01:23:45.336 --> 01:23:47.296
I just don't know.

01:23:48.295 --> 01:23:50.879
But if I were the man,

01:23:51.003 --> 01:23:53.837
I'd want to be told.

01:23:54.961 --> 01:23:56.754
Told what?

01:24:03.044 --> 01:24:06.046
I'm not here to add to your...

01:24:06.711 --> 01:24:07.878
Thanks.

01:24:20.044 --> 01:24:22.003
Your wife was pregnant.

01:24:23.711 --> 01:24:25.419
First trimester.

01:24:29.420 --> 01:24:32.044
There it is.

01:24:32.878 --> 01:24:34.752
I'm sorry.

01:24:37.211 --> 01:24:40.336
Hell, I hope I've done
the right thing.

01:24:44.877 --> 01:24:49.419
My wife and I had not performed
the sex act in many years.

01:25:05.044 --> 01:25:06.252
Well,

01:25:09.752 --> 01:25:12.294
That's really none of my business.

01:25:16.752 --> 01:25:18.294
I'm sorry.

01:25:20.793 --> 01:25:22.418
There it is.

01:25:25.253 --> 01:25:27.085
Good luck, Crane.

01:25:44.168 --> 01:25:47.668
Doris and I had never
really talked much.

01:25:47.751 --> 01:25:50.293
I don't think that's
a bad thing necessarily.

01:25:50.377 --> 01:25:54.751
But it is funny.
Now I wanted to talk.

01:25:54.877 --> 01:25:57.459
Now, with everyone gone,

01:25:57.710 --> 01:26:01.043
I was alone with secrets
I didn't want...

01:26:01.168 --> 01:26:04.084
And no one
to tell 'em to anyway.

01:26:05.334 --> 01:26:08.376
I went to see a woman who was supposed
to have powers in communicating...

01:26:08.501 --> 01:26:11.376
With those who had "Passed across",
as she called it.

01:26:11.459 --> 01:26:14.042
She said that people who had passed across
were picky about

01:26:14.168 --> 01:26:15.918
Who they'd communicate with.

01:26:16.042 --> 01:26:18.792
Not like most people
you run into on this side.

01:26:18.876 --> 01:26:23.417
So you needed a guide,
someone with a gift for talking to souls.

01:26:24.793 --> 01:26:26.126
Give me your hand.

01:26:30.501 --> 01:26:33.917
Well, first she told me that
my wife was in a peachful place,

01:26:34.043 --> 01:26:36.125
That our souls
were still connected,

01:26:36.208 --> 01:26:38.292
That she'd never
stopped loving me...

01:26:38.376 --> 01:26:42.042
Even though she'd done some things
she wasn't proud of.

01:26:43.459 --> 01:26:45.750
Man, she was reading me
like a book.

01:26:47.875 --> 01:26:51.334
She was a phony,
just another gabber.

01:26:51.459 --> 01:26:54.417
I was turning into
Ann Nirdlinger,

01:26:54.708 --> 01:26:57.209
Big Dave's wife

01:26:57.333 --> 01:27:00.167
I had to turn my back
on the old lady,

01:27:00.251 --> 01:27:03.875
On the veils, on the ghosts,

01:27:04.000 --> 01:27:05.916
On the dead,

01:27:06.000 --> 01:27:08.750
Before they all sucked me in.

01:27:20.459 --> 01:27:22.000
Ed?

01:27:22.082 --> 01:27:24.208
How are you holding up?

01:27:24.333 --> 01:27:26.209
Okay, Walter. Thanks.

01:27:28.125 --> 01:27:30.125
I... I was so damn sorry
to hear about your loss.

01:27:30.208 --> 01:27:33.083
A terrible thing.
It's just damn terrible.

01:27:34.832 --> 01:27:37.333
Birdy's upstairs.
I'm on long-distance, so...

01:27:37.458 --> 01:27:38.874
Sure, Walter.

01:27:50.416 --> 01:27:52.248
Hello, Birdy.

01:27:53.208 --> 01:27:55.040
Hi, Mr. Crane.

01:27:56.499 --> 01:27:58.874
We haven't seen you since...

01:28:01.416 --> 01:28:03.708
We've certainly missed you.

01:28:06.249 --> 01:28:08.749
Birdy, I've been doing
a lot of thinking.

01:28:11.332 --> 01:28:15.749
There are a lot of things
that haven't worked out for me.

01:28:15.832 --> 01:28:18.914
Life has dealt me some bum cards.

01:28:18.999 --> 01:28:20.915
Or maybe I just haven't played them right.

01:28:20.998 --> 01:28:23.956
Pop doesn't like people
smoking in here.

01:28:29.748 --> 01:28:31.208
I'm sorry.

01:28:31.331 --> 01:28:35.290
Well, sometimes I have a cigarette
when he's away, but never when he's home.

01:28:35.373 --> 01:28:37.915
He can smell it a mile off.

01:28:38.040 --> 01:28:40.874
Well, sure. It's his house.

01:28:40.956 --> 01:28:43.457
That's what he
keeps telling me.

01:28:44.831 --> 01:28:47.415
Anyway, my point is
you're young,

01:28:47.499 --> 01:28:50.915
A kid, really,
your whole life ahead of you.

01:28:52.206 --> 01:28:56.748
But it's not too soon to start
making opportunities for yourself...

01:28:56.873 --> 01:28:59.748
Before it all washes away.

01:29:02.123 --> 01:29:06.248
Yeah, I guess. Pop says so too.

01:29:06.373 --> 01:29:08.374
You know, I work
pretty hard at school.

01:29:08.497 --> 01:29:10.998
That's swell.

01:29:11.122 --> 01:29:14.915
However, the music,
if you want to pursue it...

01:29:14.997 --> 01:29:19.915
The lessons from Mrs. Swan,
they'll only take you so far.

01:29:19.997 --> 01:29:22.664
There's this guy
in San Francisco.

01:29:23.457 --> 01:29:25.664
I've made inquiries.

01:29:26.790 --> 01:29:29.915
Everybody says he's the best.

01:29:30.038 --> 01:29:34.206
Trained people who've gone on to big concert
careers in symphony orchestras, the works.

01:29:34.331 --> 01:29:36.915
His name is Jacques...

01:29:36.997 --> 01:29:38.955
Carcanogues.

01:29:39.039 --> 01:29:41.873
I'm not sure I'm pronouncing it right.
Anyway, he's a frenchman.

01:29:41.998 --> 01:29:44.372
- Oh, boy. A frenchman?
- You've got talent.

01:29:45.830 --> 01:29:49.206
Anybody can see that.
And he's the best.

01:29:49.289 --> 01:29:51.914
If he sees a student
that he thinks has talent,

01:29:51.998 --> 01:29:55.288
He takes them on for next to nothing.
So you're a cinch to be accepted.

01:29:55.372 --> 01:29:59.163
I could cover the costs of the lessons.
Like I said, it's pretty modest.

01:29:59.247 --> 01:30:02.414
- Oh, Jeez, Mr. Crane.
- No, I have to do it.

01:30:02.498 --> 01:30:05.955
I can't stand by and watch
any more things go down the drain.

01:30:06.038 --> 01:30:08.038
You're young.
You don't understand.

01:30:08.164 --> 01:30:12.914
Well, Jeez, Mr. Crane. I hadn't really
thought about a career or stuff.

01:30:14.372 --> 01:30:16.747
Well, I know you haven't.

01:30:17.996 --> 01:30:22.205
Look, just go see him
as a favor to me.

01:30:22.997 --> 01:30:24.288
I talked to this guy.

01:30:24.371 --> 01:30:27.830
He loosened up a little bit
when I told him how talented you were.

01:30:27.955 --> 01:30:30.121
He's agreed to see you
this Saturday.

01:30:31.288 --> 01:30:34.830
He said maybe you're
a diamond in the rough.

01:30:35.871 --> 01:30:37.288
His words.

01:30:37.371 --> 01:30:39.913
Jeez, I don't know, Mr. Crane.

01:30:42.205 --> 01:30:45.079
Just go see him
as a favor to me.

01:31:07.163 --> 01:31:08.329
You are the father?

01:31:08.454 --> 01:31:11.829
No, I'm her...
I'm a family friend.

01:31:11.913 --> 01:31:15.912
I am Carcanogues.
You will wait, my dear.

01:31:25.495 --> 01:31:27.329
I speak with you
on the phone, no?

01:31:27.412 --> 01:31:31.038
You have a special interest
in music?

01:31:38.703 --> 01:31:40.996
A music lover, alors.

01:31:42.454 --> 01:31:45.161
I don't pretend
to be an expert.

01:31:57.036 --> 01:31:58.661
How did she do?

01:31:58.787 --> 01:32:01.037
She seemed like
a very nice girl.

01:32:03.245 --> 01:32:06.911
She play, monsieur,

01:32:07.036 --> 01:32:09.120
Like a very nice girl.

01:32:10.744 --> 01:32:11.870
Stinks.

01:32:11.995 --> 01:32:13.828
Nice girl,

01:32:13.911 --> 01:32:15.870
However, stinks.

01:32:16.953 --> 01:32:18.744
Well, I don't understand.

01:32:18.870 --> 01:32:20.953
Is not so hard to understand.

01:32:21.036 --> 01:32:24.161
Her playing, very polite.

01:32:24.244 --> 01:32:26.452
Did she make mistakes?

01:32:26.703 --> 01:32:29.077
Mistake? No.

01:32:29.203 --> 01:32:31.744
It say "E-flat,"
she play E-flat.

01:32:31.869 --> 01:32:35.162
Ping, ping. She play
the right note always.

01:32:35.244 --> 01:32:37.702
Well, I don't understand.
No mistakes?

01:32:37.828 --> 01:32:41.286
Look, she's just a kid.
I thought you taught these kids to...

01:32:41.369 --> 01:32:45.285
No, no, no, monsieur. That is what I cannot teach her?
I cannot teach her to have the soul.

01:32:46.827 --> 01:32:48.494
Voyez, monsieur. Look.

01:32:49.911 --> 01:32:54.119
To play the piano
is not about the fingers.

01:32:54.201 --> 01:32:56.160
We make with the fingers.

01:33:02.202 --> 01:33:07.911
But the music, monsieur,
she come from L'interieur, from inside?

01:33:09.035 --> 01:33:10.993
The music,

01:33:11.035 --> 01:33:13.159
She starts here.

01:33:13.243 --> 01:33:16.161
She come out through here.

01:33:16.243 --> 01:33:19.701
Then perhaps,

01:33:19.827 --> 01:33:21.326
Perhaps,

01:33:21.410 --> 01:33:24.077
She can go here.

01:33:28.368 --> 01:33:31.160
Like I said, I'm not an expert.

01:33:31.244 --> 01:33:34.910
So you can listen to me,
for I am expert.

01:33:37.369 --> 01:33:40.077
Voyez, monsieur.
This girl, nice girl.

01:33:40.201 --> 01:33:43.826
Very clever hands. Nice girl.

01:33:43.951 --> 01:33:47.077
I think, perhaps some day...

01:33:48.076 --> 01:33:51.744
She can make very good typist?

01:33:57.201 --> 01:33:58.534
Voila.

01:34:06.950 --> 01:34:09.451
- I stank, didn't I?
- He didn't say that.

01:34:09.701 --> 01:34:12.076
No, but more or less.

01:34:13.993 --> 01:34:15.284
I'm no expert,

01:34:15.366 --> 01:34:18.242
But there must be a dozen teachers
better than this clown.

01:34:18.368 --> 01:34:20.201
- No, look, really...
- More qualified.

01:34:20.284 --> 01:34:22.200
Goddamn phony.

01:34:23.034 --> 01:34:24.409
Really, it's okay.

01:34:24.700 --> 01:34:29.033
I'm not interested in
playing music pofessionally.

01:34:29.117 --> 01:34:31.825
You know, I'm not sure
I want a career at all,

01:34:31.909 --> 01:34:34.408
And if I did, I'd probably
be a veterinarian.

01:34:38.200 --> 01:34:40.284
- Veterinarian.
- Yeah.

01:34:42.033 --> 01:34:44.783
But I do appreciate
your interest.

01:34:45.701 --> 01:34:47.284
It was nothing.

01:34:47.367 --> 01:34:52.325
I wish I'd played better for you 'cause
I know it would've made you real happy.

01:34:56.200 --> 01:34:57.826
You know what you are?

01:34:59.283 --> 01:35:00.825
What?

01:35:00.908 --> 01:35:03.075
You're an enthusiast.

01:35:06.283 --> 01:35:07.949
Yeah, maybe.

01:35:14.867 --> 01:35:19.199
You know, I really do appreciate
the interest you've taken.

01:35:26.825 --> 01:35:28.700
I just wanted to make you happy.

01:35:29.867 --> 01:35:31.948
No, it's really okay.
I wanna do it.

01:35:32.033 --> 01:35:33.366
- Birdy!
- No, it's okay, really.

01:35:33.949 --> 01:35:36.657
Mr. Crane, I wanna do it.
Mr. Crane!

01:35:36.783 --> 01:35:38.283
- Birdy, please don't do that!
- Mr. Crane, please!

01:35:38.366 --> 01:35:41.032
- Heavens to betsy, Birdy!
- Please, Mr. Crane.

01:35:51.158 --> 01:35:54.407
Time slow down
right before in accident,

01:35:54.699 --> 01:35:57.657
And I have time
to think about things.

01:35:59.866 --> 01:36:03.449
I thought about what an undertaker
had told me once.

01:36:03.699 --> 01:36:07.408
That your hair keeps growing
for a while, anyway,

01:36:07.698 --> 01:36:09.741
After you die.

01:36:11.906 --> 01:36:13.990
And then it stops.

01:36:18.323 --> 01:36:21.906
I thought,
"What keeps it growing?"

01:36:23.448 --> 01:36:26.157
Is it like a plant in soil?

01:36:27.365 --> 01:36:29.824
What goes out of the soil?

01:36:29.865 --> 01:36:31.448
The soul?

01:36:33.406 --> 01:36:36.448
And when does the hair
realize that it's gone?

01:37:26.948 --> 01:37:28.155
Hello!

01:37:29.114 --> 01:37:32.031
I noticed you still have
pea stone in your driveway.

01:37:33.197 --> 01:37:37.989
Of course you have to rejuvenate that every couple
of years, don't you? When the pea stone thins out?

01:37:38.072 --> 01:37:41.113
Where does it go?

01:37:41.197 --> 01:37:43.030
Like the odd sock.

01:37:43.155 --> 01:37:48.446
'Course, you know where it goes. You probably
pick pieces of it off your lawn all the time,

01:37:48.697 --> 01:37:52.113
Churn it up with your lawn mover,
sweep it off your porch there.

01:37:52.198 --> 01:37:55.864
- Pain in the neck.
- Never bothered me.

01:37:55.988 --> 01:37:58.155
Well, have you ever
considered tar macadam?

01:37:58.197 --> 01:38:01.030
People think it's just for public works
or commercial purposes,

01:38:01.114 --> 01:38:04.321
But we have the technology now
to bring it to the homeowner,

01:38:04.405 --> 01:38:07.072
Individual consumer,
at very competitive prices.

01:38:07.196 --> 01:38:11.363
Mind if I show you the specifications?
Afternoon, Ma'am.

01:38:11.489 --> 01:38:13.447
What are you selling?

01:38:16.155 --> 01:38:19.030
Ma'am, I was just telling your husband here
about tar macadam.

01:38:19.155 --> 01:38:21.071
For your home driveway here.

01:38:21.197 --> 01:38:24.988
Here's the brochure.
It's the modern way to...

01:38:25.030 --> 01:38:26.113
Get lost.

01:38:42.114 --> 01:38:43.446
Jesus.

01:39:37.695 --> 01:39:39.320
Doris.

01:39:40.903 --> 01:39:44.069
Don't say anything. I'm fine.

01:40:04.861 --> 01:40:06.278
Crane.

01:40:07.028 --> 01:40:08.444
Mr. Crane?

01:40:11.069 --> 01:40:13.194
Are you there?

01:40:13.320 --> 01:40:15.069
Are you awake?

01:40:17.195 --> 01:40:19.070
He's comin' around.

01:40:20.319 --> 01:40:23.152
Can you talk, sir?
These men have to talk to you.

01:40:23.194 --> 01:40:25.986
Are you awake? Sir?

01:40:26.027 --> 01:40:28.277
He's... he's awake. Go ahead.

01:40:28.361 --> 01:40:30.069
Are you awake?

01:40:30.194 --> 01:40:31.653
Is he awake?

01:40:31.777 --> 01:40:35.068
Crane, as soon as you're conscious,
we have to tell you that...

01:40:35.194 --> 01:40:38.152
- Is he conscious?
- His eyes are open.

01:40:38.985 --> 01:40:40.361
You're under arrest.

01:40:40.402 --> 01:40:42.818
Soon as the doctor lets us,
we gotta move you.

01:40:42.861 --> 01:40:45.985
Does he understand that? We're supposed
to tell him. Are you conscious?

01:40:46.111 --> 01:40:49.777
- They'll take you to the prison hospital.
- Under arrest for murder.

01:40:54.235 --> 01:40:57.152
What? What'd he say?

01:40:57.193 --> 01:41:00.360
Birdy.The girl.
No, the girl's okay.

01:41:00.485 --> 01:41:02.069
Broken clavicle.

01:41:02.193 --> 01:41:04.401
That's a collarbone, Crane.
It's broken.

01:41:04.694 --> 01:41:05.819
She's okay, though.

01:41:05.902 --> 01:41:09.694
So he understands, then,
he's under arrest for murder?

01:41:09.817 --> 01:41:11.193
Big Dave.

01:41:12.943 --> 01:41:14.652
What? What'd he say?

01:41:14.693 --> 01:41:16.401
He said okay.

01:41:16.694 --> 01:41:18.152
Is that what he said?

01:41:20.235 --> 01:41:23.859
You're under arrest for the murder
of Creighton Tolliver.

01:41:23.985 --> 01:41:25.901
You understad that?

01:41:26.027 --> 01:41:27.860
Does he understand?

01:41:29.860 --> 01:41:31.192
The pansy.

01:41:33.694 --> 01:41:37.735
A kid diving in a water holeoutside of town
had found his car.

01:41:37.859 --> 01:41:39.943
They winched it out...

01:41:40.026 --> 01:41:43.651
And found he'd been beaten,
just like Big Dave said.

01:41:45.109 --> 01:41:47.026
Beaten to death.

01:41:49.234 --> 01:41:53.900
Inside his briefcase
were the partnership papers I'd signed,

01:41:54.026 --> 01:41:56.734
Showing that I'd
given him ten grand.

01:41:57.901 --> 01:42:01.692
For the district attorney,
that made it fall into place.

01:42:01.776 --> 01:42:04.193
I'd gotten Doris
to steal the money.

01:42:04.316 --> 01:42:08.317
The pansy had gotten wise somehow,
so I had to kill him to cover my tracks.

01:42:08.401 --> 01:42:10.942
On the arraignment calendar,

01:42:11.026 --> 01:42:12.858
People v. Edward Crane.

01:42:12.942 --> 01:42:14.067
I was in a spot.

01:42:14.192 --> 01:42:16.942
You are charged
in a one-count complaint...

01:42:17.026 --> 01:42:21.733
I called in Freddy Riedenschneider
and signed the house over to him.

01:42:21.858 --> 01:42:24.192
He said he didn't ordinarily
work that cheap,

01:42:24.317 --> 01:42:27.817
But he figured he owed me something
since the last one hadn't played out.

01:42:27.900 --> 01:42:30.442
- How do you now plead?
- We plead not guilty, your honor.

01:42:30.692 --> 01:42:33.900
I tried to tell him the whole story,
but Riedenschneider stopped me.

01:42:34.026 --> 01:42:35.942
He said the story
made his head hurt.

01:42:36.024 --> 01:42:39.358
He didn't see any way of using it
without putting me on the hot seat...

01:42:39.484 --> 01:42:42.775
- For the murder of Big Dave.
- Trial date is set for Monday a week.

01:42:44.941 --> 01:42:48.192
He told me not to worry, though.
Said he'd think of something.

01:42:50.358 --> 01:42:53.275
They put me
on 24-hour death watch,

01:42:53.358 --> 01:42:58.233
So that I couldn't cheat justice
like they said my wife had done.

01:42:58.359 --> 01:43:01.317
But in front of the jury,
they had it that Doris was a saint.

01:43:01.400 --> 01:43:04.733
The whole plan had been mine.

01:43:04.858 --> 01:43:08.025
I was a svengali
who had forced Doris to join

01:43:08.150 --> 01:43:10.399
My criminal enterprise.

01:43:10.691 --> 01:43:12.192
On and on it went,

01:43:12.316 --> 01:43:16.733
How I'd used Doris,
then let her take the fall.

01:43:16.858 --> 01:43:20.732
That stuff smarted because some of it
was close to being true.

01:43:23.190 --> 01:43:25.858
And then it was
Riedenschneider's turn.

01:43:33.941 --> 01:43:37.982
Ladies and gentlemen, members of the jury,
citizens of Santa Rosa,

01:43:38.107 --> 01:43:41.441
We've just heard from the district attorney
a rather lurid description...

01:43:41.691 --> 01:43:43.356
Of a truly despicable man.

01:43:43.482 --> 01:43:47.649
I gotta hand it to him.
He tossed a lot of sand in their eyes,

01:43:47.774 --> 01:43:50.857
He talked about how
I'd lost my place in the universe,

01:43:50.982 --> 01:43:55.107
How I was too ordinary to be
the criminal mastermind...

01:43:55.191 --> 01:43:57.066
The D.A. made me out to be,

01:43:57.190 --> 01:44:02.065
How there was some greater scheme at work
that the state had yet to unravel.

01:44:02.191 --> 01:44:07.233
And he threw in some of the old truth stuff he
hadn't had the chance to trot out for Doris.

01:44:07.356 --> 01:44:10.815
May at first look at these lines and see
only the chaos of a work of modern art.

01:44:10.856 --> 01:44:14.982
He told them to look at me,
look at me close.

01:44:15.064 --> 01:44:18.357
That the closer they looked,
the less sense it would all make.

01:44:18.441 --> 01:44:21.981
This human, this barber.

01:44:22.064 --> 01:44:25.231
That I wasn't the kind of guy
to kill a guy,

01:44:25.357 --> 01:44:28.315
That I was the barber,
for Christ's sake.

01:44:28.398 --> 01:44:31.856
I was just like them,
an ordinary man.

01:44:31.982 --> 01:44:35.273
Guilty of living in a world
that had no place for me, yeah.

01:44:35.356 --> 01:44:37.898
Guilty of wanting to be
a dry cleaner, sure.

01:44:38.023 --> 01:44:39.231
But not of murder.

01:44:39.356 --> 01:44:43.439
But most specifically,
this is a barber's dilemma.

01:44:43.689 --> 01:44:45.898
For he is modern man.

01:44:46.022 --> 01:44:48.065
He said I was modern man.

01:44:48.189 --> 01:44:50.023
He is your reflection.

01:44:50.064 --> 01:44:51.648
And if they voted to convict me,

01:44:51.731 --> 01:44:55.647
They'd be practically cinching the noose
around their own necks.

01:44:55.730 --> 01:44:59.063
He told them to look not at the facts,
but at the meaning of the facts.

01:44:59.189 --> 01:45:02.314
And then he said
the facts had no meaning.

01:45:02.440 --> 01:45:05.856
It was a pretty good speech
and even had me going,

01:45:05.981 --> 01:45:07.356
Until Frankie interrupted it.

01:45:10.689 --> 01:45:15.313
What kind of man are you?

01:45:15.439 --> 01:45:17.148
Move for a mistrial!
Your honor!

01:45:17.231 --> 01:45:19.188
What kind of man are you?

01:45:19.272 --> 01:45:20.771
Move for a mistrial.

01:45:20.855 --> 01:45:24.148
Well, he got his mistrial,
but the well had run dry.

01:45:24.230 --> 01:45:26.188
There was nothing left to mortgage.

01:45:26.272 --> 01:45:30.731
Riedenschneider went home,
and the court appointed Lloyd Garroway,

01:45:30.855 --> 01:45:32.980
Who threw me
on the mercy of the court.

01:45:33.064 --> 01:45:35.854
Your honor, we plead guilty...

01:45:35.939 --> 01:45:39.147
With extenuating circumstances.

01:45:39.231 --> 01:45:41.813
It was my only chance, he said.

01:45:41.897 --> 01:45:45.356
I guess that meant
I never had a chance.

01:45:47.772 --> 01:45:52.980
He wasn't buying any of that
modern man stuff, or the uncertainty stuff,

01:45:53.064 --> 01:45:54.813
Or any of the mercy stuff either.

01:45:54.896 --> 01:45:57.188
This man is a menace
to society.

01:45:57.229 --> 01:46:00.772
Nope, he was going by the book,

01:46:00.855 --> 01:46:03.438
And the book said
I got the chair.

01:46:03.687 --> 01:46:06.188
He has forfeited the right
to his own life.

01:46:06.272 --> 01:46:08.646
So here I am,

01:46:08.729 --> 01:46:11.229
At first I didn't know
how I got here.

01:46:11.355 --> 01:46:13.312
I knew step by step, of course,

01:46:13.438 --> 01:46:17.021
Which is what I've told you,
step by step.

01:46:17.147 --> 01:46:21.021
But I couldn't see any pattern.

01:46:21.104 --> 01:46:22.729
Now that I'm near the end,

01:46:22.812 --> 01:46:25.812
I'm glad that this men's magazine
paid me to tell my story.

01:46:26.022 --> 01:46:29.438
Writing it has helped me
sort it all out.

01:46:29.688 --> 01:46:31.396
They're paying me
flve cents a word,

01:46:31.688 --> 01:46:34.063
So you'll pardon me if sometimes I've
told you more than you wanted to know.

01:46:35.896 --> 01:46:39.354
But now all the disconnected
things seem to hook up.

01:46:40.396 --> 01:46:43.145
That's the funny thing
about going away,

01:46:43.229 --> 01:46:45.646
Knowing the date
you're going to die.

01:46:46.855 --> 01:46:50.730
And the men's magazine
wanted me to tell how that felt.

01:47:16.103 --> 01:47:20.145
Well, it's like pulling away
from the maze.

01:47:21.811 --> 01:47:24.436
While you're in the maze,
you go throught willy-nilly,

01:47:24.686 --> 01:47:27.186
Turning where you think
you have to turn,

01:47:27.270 --> 01:47:29.312
Banging into the dead ends,

01:47:29.395 --> 01:47:31.270
One thing after another.

01:47:36.894 --> 01:47:38.811
But you get
some distance on it,

01:47:38.894 --> 01:47:40.853
And all those twists
and turns...

01:47:40.936 --> 01:47:45.311
Why, they're the shape
of your life.

01:47:47.187 --> 01:47:49.311
It's hard to explain.

01:47:52.019 --> 01:47:55.353
But seeing it whole
gives you some peace.

01:48:29.352 --> 01:48:32.310
The men's magazine
also asked about remorse.

01:48:32.436 --> 01:48:37.310
Yeah, I guess I'm sorry
about the pain I caused other people.

01:48:38.435 --> 01:48:41.144
But I don't regret anything.

01:48:41.227 --> 01:48:43.185
Not a thing.

01:48:43.228 --> 01:48:44.893
I used to.

01:48:45.019 --> 01:48:47.852
I used to regret
being the barber.

01:49:52.476 --> 01:49:55.309
I don't know
where I'm being taken.

01:49:57.018 --> 01:49:59.850
I don't know what I'll find
beyond the earth and sky,

01:50:01.059 --> 01:50:02.892
But I'm not afraid to go.

01:50:04.393 --> 01:50:07.850
Maybe the things I don't understand
will be clearer there,

01:50:07.893 --> 01:50:10.184
Like when a fog blows away.

01:50:12.976 --> 01:50:15.016
Maybe Doris will be there.

01:50:16.017 --> 01:50:19.642
And maybe there
I can tell her...

01:50:19.766 --> 01:50:21.809
All those things...

01:50:22.850 --> 01:50:25.725
They don't have words for here.

01:50:25.749 --> 01:50:45.749
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