:20:01
Supposing a jewel outfit got the idea
of using a detective as a utility man...
:20:05
for contacts and payoffs.
:20:07
Suppose they ran out of uses for him.
:20:09
They might try
to hang a murder around his neck.
:20:12
Great.
:20:13
Now I'm a finger for a heist mob.
Also I'm Jack the Ripper.
:20:16
Look, I try to be helpful.
:20:18
I get up off the nice cold ground
and walk five miles to a phone...
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right after having my head treated.
:20:23
I lead you to the body instead of
letting you find it next Christmas.
:20:27
I tell you all I know, four times!
:20:29
It sounds screwy. All right, it is screwy.
:20:31
Sometimes I'm not smart,
but it's all I know.
:20:34
I'm tired of listening to your bum guesses.
:20:36
Either book me or let me go home.
:20:38
Getting personal,
I don't like looking at you, either.
:20:41
I don't like sitting here.
I'd much rather be home in bed, too.
:20:44
I'd rather dig eggshells out of garbage
cans than pry information out of you.
:20:48
- I get it. You don't like me.
- No. I never have, and I never will.
:20:51
You're a not a detective,
you're a slot machine.
:20:54
You'd slit your own throat for six bits.
:20:56
- Now, look...
- All I want from you is silence.
:20:58
One false move, and you'll be locked up
as a material witness.
:21:01
It's that kind of a case, with the witnesses
gagged and the papers crying for news?
:21:05
I'll get them their murderer.
:21:07
You'll get him about the time
you get your third set of teeth.
:21:11
Okay. Go on home to bed.
:21:13
Stick to your story if you want.
Play it dumb, play it any way...
:21:17
but stay out of my way.
:21:19
And stay out of the way of Marriott's pals.
:21:21
I've been after these boys for a long time,
and I'm close. I'll get them.
:21:24
So watch your step...
:21:26
or I may have to pick you up
in the same basket with Jules Amthor.
:21:31
Yeah?
:21:34
- Is Amthor mixed up in this?
- So you know him, then?
:21:37
I know lots of people in this town...
:21:40
but I never heard of Jules Amthor.
It's a bad guess.
:21:49
Business is getting better. And prettier.
:21:57
Mr. Marlowe, I'm Miss Allison, The Post.