:46:03
You know the case.
:46:04
I'm imploring you.
Will you take the assignment?
:46:07
I get soft in the head
once every christmas.
:46:11
Yeah, i'll take it.
:46:13
By the way,
if we're going to keep your wife out of it,
:46:16
who are we going to pin
this murder on?
:46:19
What do either of us
know of adrienne?
:46:21
Don't you know
anything about her?
:46:23
No. She came here,
she was very efficient,
:46:25
she worked herself up
to a big position,
:46:28
but as to her past life,
her background,
:46:30
it's blank,
like lavery's was.
:46:33
As a matter of fact,
she, uh... knew lavery.
:46:37
Just how well
i couldn't say, but-
:46:40
now, wait a minute,
mr. Marlowe.
:46:41
Just when i was
beginning to like you.
:46:43
Well, you want
the facts, don't you?
:46:44
When it concerns a woman,
does anybody ever really want the facts?
:46:48
Are you working for me
or against me?
:46:51
All right.
:46:52
I'm working for you.
:46:54
I'm fired, i'm hired.
:46:55
Happy phil marlowe,
the boy detective.
:46:59
An enchanted christmas
to you, mr. Kingsby.
:47:02
Where are you going?
:47:04
To a party
with the bay city cops.
:47:11
Don't you
know enough not to handle
:47:13
a weapon found
at the scene of a crime?
:47:15
Marlowe: No.
:47:15
Smart guy,
aren't you, marlowe?
:47:17
Well, this time
you're in a jam, a bad jam.
:47:19
What's your alibi,
or haven't you thought of any yet?
:47:21
I've already told you
this mrs. Fallbrook was here before me.
:47:24
It could have been her.
:47:25
It could have been pixies, too.
It could have been you.
:47:27
You said you'd come
back and get lavery, didn't you?
:47:30
Not in those words.
:47:32
But in that tone.
:47:33
Last time i saw you,
i told you
:47:34
not to start trouble
in my district
:47:36
without
letting me in on what you were after.
:47:38
Coroner's
on his way down.
:47:40
Good.
:47:40
Marlowe: Is finding
a corpse a crime?
:47:42
In this town,
yes.
:47:43
Look, i knew
a little about this dead guy lavery.
:47:46
He was quite a chaser.
:47:47
What of it?
:47:48
Well, the whole setup
indicates a dame.
:47:50
You know what
divorce stuff.
:47:53
All right, who
are you working for?
:47:54
And don't give me
that baloney about protecting a client.
:47:57
Marlowe: My client's name
is derrace kingsby.
:47:59
He runs a string
of magazines.