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Tell the truth, Joe.
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Come in, Stanley.
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The thought of covering that council
meeting was too much for you, wasn't it?
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Close the door.
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Somebody's systematically knocking off
witnesses and you don't care.
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Sure I care. I care about my kids' future,
this newspaper, my golf handicap.
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I've even been known to care about you,
you ungrateful bastard.
:34:32
Drink your coffee.
Here. Take it! Shit.
:34:38
Joe, what evidence have we got?
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A girl who died of pills and booze,
a sheriff you say tried to kill you
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- And the poor bastard drowns.
- I got a bank book with $107,000 in it.
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- The police are after me.
- Why is there no APB on you?
:34:57
I checked. They say it was an accident.
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- They don't wanna answer questions.
- You're damn right.
:35:08
Sheriff LD Wicker and two deputies
were indicted three months ago
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on a utilities scandal.
It was in every paper in the North-West.
:35:17
He knew you were a reporter,
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but it wasn't any national conspiracy
he was covering up.
:35:26
Remember catching the state senator's
bagman and it was his nephew's bookie?
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You're gonna make
a real horse's ass of yourself.
:35:35
He didn't know I was a reporter. I didn't
tell him, I didn't give him my name.
:35:40
- Did you register at a hotel?
- Yeah, under a phoney name.
:35:44
Boy, you amaze me. You go expecting
these things to happen and they do.
:35:51
Just advance me two weeks' salary.
:35:57
- For what?
- I gotta find Austin Tucker.
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If anybody knows about this, he does.