:18:00
Paul...? That could be Paul Clarke
and Major Sculley.
:18:05
I think perhaps I'd better see them.
:18:08
Can't they wait
until you've finished dinner?
:18:10
This may be very important.
I hate to tear myself away.
:18:18
- Well, hello, Paul. Hiya, major.
- Hello, Nick.
:18:22
You don't know how happy
I am to see you.
:18:24
- You are?
- You got here just in time.
:18:26
My son just put me on the milk wagon.
:18:29
- Will you have a snort?
- Not a thing.
:18:31
No? Well, sit down. I'll have just
a short antidote. What's up?
:18:35
Well, I suppose we might
as well get down to cases.
:18:38
I hope you don't mean murder cases.
:18:41
Nick, when they appointed me
special deputy for the State Legislature...
:18:45
...they handed me a headache.
:18:47
This gambling racket
getting you down, major?
:18:49
That jockey was our first real witness.
:18:51
Goldez might have talked, Nick,
so they shut him up with a bullet.
:18:54
- And we're right back where we started.
- That's a luckier break than Goldez got.
:18:58
The syndicate responsible for this
has gotta be smashed.
:19:01
But we're helpless unless we get
actual evidence to convict them.
:19:04
I can think of pleasanter pastimes
than tangling...
:19:06
...with the Stephens-Macy crowd.
- It's not who they are, Nick.
:19:09
- It's how to nail them.
- You're the one man who can do that.
:19:12
He can do anything,
if he'll get to work.
:19:14
Why, grandma,
what long ears you've got.
:19:17
- Good evening, major.
- Mrs. Charles.
:19:19
Hello, Paul. How's my favorite reporter?
:19:21
Not doing so well at the moment, Nora.
That's why I'm here.
:19:25
Shall I get your hat?
:19:27
What, me go to work?
:19:28
Why, I'd feel like a cad, leaving you
to spend dull evenings alone.
:19:33
Dull? I'd just love to see
you catch those crooks.
:19:35
- Good.
- Well, Nick, we're a united front.
:19:39
Well, thanks, major,
but I really haven't the time.
:19:42
Mrs. Charles has to be taken places.
:19:44
Dances, prizefights, nightclubs,
wrestling bouts.
:19:49
You never take me to wrestling bouts.
:19:51
- Well, you're always asking me to.
- There's some tonight. Will you take me?
:19:56
Well...
:19:58
- Too late to get tickets now, dear.
- Nick, you can have my press pass.