1:24:00
And they're
very sore at you at the bay city jail.
1:24:02
They told me
you were there.
1:24:03
Then they brought
out an entirely different man.
1:24:06
Somebody's
impersonating you.
1:24:07
They're looking
everywhere for you.
1:24:08
Marlowe: Did they happen
to follow you here?
1:24:10
Yes. That is,
2 detectives
1:24:12
have been
tailing me all day.
1:24:13
I go in and out
of places, and they always wait outside
1:24:15
in another car.
1:24:16
That's fine.
Why didn't you invite them up?
1:24:18
I don't know what
your troubles are, but i have my own.
1:24:20
All right,
let's hear yours.
1:24:21
Well, the reason
i've been trying to find you is,
1:24:23
it may seem
ridiculous, but crystal, my wife,
1:24:26
she's in bay city.
1:24:27
How do you know?
1:24:29
She telephoned me.
She's in awful trouble.
1:24:30
The police
are after her, and she needs money.
1:24:33
She sounded
desperate.
1:24:34
Naturally, i
want to help her
1:24:36
until we can
get lawyers-
1:24:37
if she wants money,
why don't you take it to her?
1:24:39
With 2 detectives
following me?
1:24:41
Oh, no. They're not
going to find her through me.
1:24:43
You're going to
take her the money, marlowe.
1:24:45
Oh, i am, am i?
1:24:47
Now, i have
$500 here,
1:24:48
all the cash
i could raise on a holiday.
1:24:50
It's worth
anything to me to get it to her.
1:24:51
You've used
that word "anything" a couple of times.
1:24:54
How much is anything?
1:24:55
You'll get $5,000
either way.
1:24:57
That's a deal,
santa claus.
1:24:58
What's a deal?
1:24:59
I don't want you
going down there to see her.
1:25:02
I don't want you
even near her.
1:25:03
She's trouble.
2 people have been killed already.
1:25:06
Maybe she's got
some answers.
1:25:08
I don't want you
near her. Something might happen to you.
1:25:10
What am i
going to do-
1:25:12
stay here and let
the cops come up after me?
1:25:14
We'll figure a way
out for both of us.
1:25:15
And end up where-
in a gutter somewhere with my teeth bashed in,
1:25:18
smelling of whiskey
i never drank, running down alleys?
1:25:20
The only way out of this
is to see crystal to solve things.
1:25:23
Let somebody else
solve it.
1:25:25
And there's the money-
5 grand-
1:25:26
just in case
my typewriter breaks down and i can't write stories,
1:25:29
just in case new york
gets cold this winter.
1:25:31
5 grand-it's enough money
to start on.
1:25:32
And more than enough
to bury you with if you're killed.
1:25:35
I said once
"everything or nothing." this is it.
1:25:38
No, it isn't it.
I won't let you go.
1:25:40
We'll leave town,
go anywhere.
1:25:41
Still trying to
pull me off it, eh?
1:25:43
Trying to make me
duck the windup. Why? Any personal reasons?
1:25:46
Oh, don't
be ridiculous!
1:25:48
I'm not.
If i ran away
1:25:49
and never found out the answer
to the rest of this,
1:25:52
i'd never know for sure
about you, would i?
1:25:55
All-all right,
then.
1:25:59
All right.