:57:03
I tell ya, I kinda hate to get into it,
a man of your stature...
:57:07
- By all means, get into it, Lieutenant.
- Yes, sir.
:57:17
Take motive.
:57:19
Your construction company got a lot
of contracts through Colonel Dutton.
:57:24
So did hundreds of other companies.
:57:26
But it seems as though he was being
investigated by the Inspector General.
:57:30
If he were killed,
there would be no way of proving
:57:33
a conspiracy to defraud the government.
:57:37
If there's no one around,
perhaps that means it doesn't exist.
:57:41
Right. Right. That's a good point.
:57:45
Er, there's one other thing.
:57:48
The morning after he disappeared,
:57:51
you went out on your yacht.
:57:53
Sheer coincidence.
:57:55
Yeah, it probably is but we do know
that the body was disposed of at sea.
:58:00
Now, I've been studying the tides, General.
:58:03
The Coast and Geodetic Survey's
got a book on 'em
:58:06
and it shows that a body dumped
off the marina in the ocean
:58:10
might carry down to Marago Cove.
:58:12
Might, Lieutenant. Might.
:58:17
Sheer speculation!
:58:19
Lieutenant, you should tell your colleagues
:58:24
that they have yet to show any link
between Colonel Dutton and myself,
:58:28
something that would prove
that we actually met on that day.
:58:33
Yes, sir, you're right there.
:58:36
But now that you mention it, it occurs to me
the night the colonel disappeared,
:58:41
I did see a car like his
across the street from your house.
:58:45
I don't know what kind
of a car the colonel drove
:58:48
but there must be thousands
of them in Southern California.
:58:52
You didn't, by any chance,
:58:56
check the registration at the time?
:58:58
Er... no, sir. No, sir, I didn't.