:24:02
-There's nothing wrong.
-Nothing wrong?
:24:06
You should've heard
the 7:00 news:
:24:08
" Checkroom Beauty Murdered...
:24:10
...Distinguished Screenwriter Takes
Hatcheck Girl Home to Tell Him Story."
:24:15
-Dix!
-Could have happened to anybody.
:24:17
But somehow
it always happens to you.
:24:20
What did you tell the police?
:24:22
-You know a girl named Laurel Gray?
-Dix, what did you tell the police?
:24:27
Let's make a deal. Look her up
in the casting directory...
:24:31
...l'll tell you
what I told the police.
:24:33
Laurel Gray? Oh, that's the girl that's
been going around with Baker.
:24:38
-She lives across the patio.
-The real estate Baker.
:24:43
She also likes my f ace.
:24:45
She wants a part.
:24:48
I know a part she'd be good f or.
:24:50
Call Brody and tell him
I didn't read his book.
:24:54
What f or? When he finds out what's
happened he'll call it off anyway.
:24:59
Asking a checkroom girl
to tell you the story.
:25:02
You couldn't have insulted him more.
:25:05
Tell him it was an ex cuse
f or the police.
:25:08
That's not bad.
:25:11
Oh, here she is. She's been
in a couple low-budget pictures.
:25:15
Let me see.
:25:18
That checkroom girl left without you,
didn't she? Tell me.
:25:23
Wonderf ul f ace.
:25:24
Tell me. What happened?
:25:26
Well, what do you think happened?
:25:30
Mildred Atkinson's glass.
:25:32
Don't do things like that!
I don't think...
:25:35
...I just wanna know
that you're in the clear.
:25:40
Mel, f or now, I think I am.
That's what Capt. Lochner said.
:25:44
Smart fellow.
Couple times he almost had me.
:25:47
It was his story against mine.
But of course I told my story better.
:25:53
Notes on Dix on Steele, continued:
:25:59
" February, 1946: