:20:02
so you're a story
writer, too, hmm?
:20:04
The detective business
must be on the skids.
:20:05
What are you
trying to do, elevate yourself?
:20:08
If i should die
before i live. That's not bad.
:20:12
Marlowe:
It might happen to you.
:20:14
All right.
Come on, wise guy.
:20:17
Captain kane
wants to talk to you.
:20:31
Lieutenant: Captain,
this is marlowe. He slept well.
:20:33
He likes our jail.
Everything is fine.
:20:36
Marlowe: What's
the charge, captain?
:20:38
Drunk in
your car, ran up over the curb.
:20:39
When the boys
found you, you were passed out cold.
:20:43
Marlowe: Fine.
:20:43
We here in bay city
don't happen to think so.
:20:46
That's right, peeper,
:20:46
and the second time you get
picked up on a drunk-driving rap down here,
:20:51
you get a long,
long time to cool off.
:20:53
You don't exactly
walk out free the first time.
:20:55
Only reason
i'm talking to you instead of the judge
:20:57
is that you're
a private dick. You got a story?
:20:59
Marlowe: I went to sleep at
a friend's house. I woke up in a cell down the hall.
:21:04
You're a great help.
:21:05
Monkeying around
down here on some case, aren't you?
:21:07
Sure,
and my client slugged me,
:21:09
carried me out
and put me in my car, ran it over a curb,
:21:11
poured whiskey on me,
and then went somewhere to call the police
:21:14
and report a drunk driver.
:21:16
Maybe it wasn't
a client.
:21:17
You're right. It was a boy
in gray named chris lavery, a southern gentleman.
:21:21
Who also happens
to be a resident of bay city.
:21:24
You know, we ain't
especially partial to private cops down here.
:21:29
We don't like them
molesting our citizens.
:21:30
So i molested him? Fine!
Lovely city. Remind me to move here.
:21:34
I see him on business,
get almost killed,
:21:37
and now i'm charged
with molesting him.
:21:39
You say you're
down here on business.
:21:41
That's what
i thought.
:21:43
Who's your client,
marlowe?
:21:44
I don't reveal
my clients' names.
:21:46
Well, that's very
noble of you, i'm sure,
:21:48
but you happen to be
talking to the police.
:21:50
Whether i'm talking
to the cops or anybody else,
:21:51
the names of my clients
are their business. It's confidential.
:21:53
If it wasn't,
i wouldn't have any clients.
:21:57
Or they wouldn't give it
to you, but it doesn't give you the right