:10:00
Yes?
:10:02
You want to ride with me
up to Lake Tahoe?
:10:04
- Now?
- Yes, now.
:10:06
I want to tell you something.
:10:08
All right, Jeff.
:10:10
You told me once
I'd have to tell you sometime.
:10:13
Well, this is it.
:10:30
Now, the first thing I wanna get off my
chest: My name isn't Bailey, it's Markham.
:10:35
- Markham. Jeff Markham?
- I should have told you before.
:10:39
I meant to, but I kept putting it off...
:10:42
...because I didn't like any part of it.
:10:45
- Please tell me, Jeff.
- Some of it's gonna hurt you.
:10:49
It doesn't matter.
:10:51
Well, our friend Markham
lived in New York.
:10:54
He worked with a sort of stupid,
oily gent by the name of Jack Fisher.
:10:59
We called ourselves detectives.
:11:02
That was about three years ago,
maybe more.
:11:06
Wintertime. One of the coldest days
I remember in the town.
:11:10
And we got a call to come and see a big op.
:11:12
- A what?
- An operator, gambler.
:11:16
He didn't come to see us because he was
too high-powered a character.
:11:20
Also, because some dame had taken
four shots at him with his own.38.
:11:24
Made one of them good.
:11:30
He was taking it in stride,
but he had a friend who was a ball of fire.
:11:34
Newspaper guys, wise guys,
who do they think they're kidding?
:11:38
So he shot himself
cleaning a cap pistol.
:11:40
So I shot the ace of spades
out of a sleeve during a gin game.
:11:43
A guy can't even get shot by a dame...
:11:45
...without the whole town
starting to buzz like a...
:11:48
Like you? Smoke a cigarette, Joe.
:11:53
You just sit and stay inside yourself.
You wait for me to talk. I like that.
:11:59
I never found out much
listening to myself.