:39:00
- But may I ask one tiny question?
- Mm-hmm.
:39:02
Who was Larry Cravat?
:39:04
Well, to begin with,
he was a private eye.
:39:07
- He came out-
- Pardon me. It sounded like you said "eye."
:39:09
A private eye
is a private detective.
:39:11
- Oh.
- Yeah. He came out here maybe five years ago from the East.
:39:16
He got a license, painted his name
on the window and put his feet on the desk.
:39:20
Then for about two years, he investigated
husbands that played golf when it rained...
:39:24
and wives that didn't come back from
the public library till midnight.
:39:27
But he paid his rent
on time.
:39:29
And then somebody dropped
two million clams right in his lap.
:39:32
Coffee?
:39:34
- Please.
- Tom?
:39:36
I never touch it.
It keeps me awake.
:39:38
You better have some.
You're going to be pretty sleepy this afternoon.
:39:42
That was some drop- two million bucks.
How's a thing like that happen?
:39:45
Well, it's a long story.
Don't ask for details, but here's most of it.
:39:49
It started over in Germany when one of the Nazi
hotshots saw the handwriting on the wall.
:39:54
He sent the two million
over here.
:39:56
And then before he could
come over after it...
:39:58
he got knocked off by one of
the fellow members of the lodge.
:40:01
And here was this big chunk of dough
floatin' around loose in this country...
:40:04
like a pair of dice
at a firemen's ball.
:40:07
It moved east to west.
:40:09
Each time it moved, it left a stiff
behind it with his fingers stretched out.
:40:13
The boys play rough for
that kind of lettuce, you understand.
:40:16
Somehow it got to Los Angeles.
Somehow Cravat got mixed up with it.
:40:19
I don't know much more
than that.
:40:21
Except that when Cravat blew,
so did the jackpot.
:40:25
- Sounds like one of those " to be continued next issue" stories.
- Yeah.
:40:28
Well, I gotta get back. I shouldn't have come,
but I did it instead of my lunch hour.
:40:32
You shouldn't go without eating like that.
It's not good for you.
:40:35
- Lieutenant.
- Yeah? Something else?
:40:37
- How does this other fella tie in?
This, uh-What's his name? - Taylor.
:40:40
George Taylor.
I don't know yet.
:40:42
Maybe not at all.
Maybe he has as little to do with it as any of us.
:40:46
I should think you'd have picked him up.
You must have a description.
:40:49
Oh, those eyewitness descriptions.
Right now he could be anything...
:40:52
from a jockey
to a Siamese twin.
:40:55
Later on you narrow 'em down. No. He'll, uh-
He'll probably come in by himself sometime.