:37:02
- You've seen Christy around the Cellar.
- Yeah. Sure. How are ya?
:37:04
And this is the friend I called you about.
Tom Carter.
:37:07
- Tom, meet Lieutenant Kendall.
- Hello, Lieutenant.
:37:10
Hiya, Carter.
:37:12
Hey. That stuff'll kill ya.
:37:14
Say, I know what's
strange about you.
:37:17
You've got your hat off.
It's hard for me to believe you're a detective.
:37:20
You're kidding,
but I get that on the level all the time.
:37:23
It's almost impossible to make a pinch
without your hat on.
:37:26
They just won't believe ya.
Well, that's the movies, I guess.
:37:29
If they'd only make pictures where detectives
would take their hats off indoors...
:37:32
just like anybody else.
:37:34
I was wondering, Don, whether you could
give Tom here some information.
:37:38
Tom Carter, wasn't it?
What about?
:37:41
Would you know anything
about a fella named Larry Cravat?
:37:44
- Quite a bit. Would you?
- Not a thing.
:37:46
Pal of mine in the service asked me
to look him up about a personal matter.
:37:50
This, uh, pal of yours
in the service-
:37:52
I suppose he was killed
before he could tell you very much about Cravat.
:37:55
- That's right.
- Oh, that's too bad.
:37:57
- You know where he can be reached?
- If we did, lady...
:37:59
maybe we'd reach for him.
:38:01
No, he dropped out of sight
quite a while ago.
:38:03
We did a lot of lookin',
but since it was impossible to believe...
:38:06
that he was any smarter than us,
we decided he'd been bumped off.
:38:10
Now, if you'd have asked me that
two days ago, I'd have guaranteed that.
:38:13
What happened since two days ago
to change it?
:38:15
Yesterday an ex-soldier, named George Taylor...
:38:18
showed up at a bank
with a letter from Cravat.
:38:21
That's why I asked you
whether your pal was dead.
:38:24
He acted like-
:38:26
He acted like he didn't
want any part of the place.
:38:29
Hasn't been back to his hotel room since.
It's interesting, you know?
:38:33
You said if you knew where Cravat was
you might reach for him.
:38:36
- Is it all right to tell us why?
- Oh, sure. It's no secret.
:38:40
When Cravat faded out,
two million dollars faded with him.
:38:44
It was all over town at the time.
Didn't you know about it?
:38:46
I never knew anybody that could count that high.
:38:48
That pal of yours,
the one that got killed...
:38:50
he didn't have
a couple million dollars stashed away?
:38:52
Sure. Lots of us did.
We save it out of our 60 a month.
:38:56
I'm not impressed. I make that much
in tips on Monday night.