:24:07
Aha. Here it is.
:24:12
- Take a look at that.
- Put it on the desk.
:24:14
Just drop it. Cos of the fingerprints.
:24:17
Jim's fingerprints are all over that.
So are mine.
:24:23
- What is it?
- What's it look like?
:24:25
It's a list of names. Look at that.
Mustel, Delgado, Hathaway, Westlake.
:24:31
Sound familiar?
:24:33
- Yeah, kind of.
- Well, they should.
:24:35
That's some of the top men
in organised crime on the West Coast.
:24:39
- LA, Vegas, Frisco...
- I don't understand.
:24:42
Well, it's painfully obvious.
One of these men had Jim killed.
:24:46
Really? Why?
:24:48
Tell me something.
How long have you been a lieutenant?
:24:52
Mrs Melville would have
put that together like that.
:24:55
Look, I'm willing to take
all the help I can get.
:24:58
Let me see if I can explain it to you.
:25:01
My partner and I decided to split,
go our separate ways.
:25:04
- Joanna must have mentioned that.
- She said something about that.
:25:08
Did she also mention the fact that
Jim wanted to do some serious writing?
:25:13
- Hey. Wait a minute.
- Dawning on you now?
:25:16
- Yeah.
- But that's only the tip of the iceberg.
:25:20
Jim was researching a complete and factual
exposé of all West Coast organised crime.
:25:25
He was going around
asking embarrassing questions.
:25:28
Probing. Compiling dossiers.
That's why they searched this office.
:25:33
Apparently, they got everything but that list.
:25:35
And you think one of them
put out a contract on him?
:25:38
Word got around
that Jim was compiling this information.
:25:42
They couldn't buy him off,
so what do they do?
:25:44
They chose the usual alternative.
:25:47
Professional killing, huh? But if that's true,
why did they get rid of the body?
:25:53
Who knows? But remember,
without a corpus delicti,
:25:56
you can't prove a murder was committed.
:25:59
Why would a professional killer care?