1:26:01
She calls Brian Hemphill
and gets him to clean up her mess.
1:26:05
Escobar and Brian move the body
back to Whiting's house...
1:26:07
and fake the stamp caper
to throw the cops off the track.
1:26:11
That's water over the dam.
Let's cut to the chase.
1:26:16
Escobar's got the gun Laura used
on Mrs. Whiting and blackmails her.
1:26:20
Somewhere along the way...
1:26:22
Birdwell realizes
if he can get a hold of that gun...
1:26:25
Laura will have to stick to him like glue
for the rest of her life.
1:26:28
Why are you putting my wife
under this pressure?
1:26:32
He and this joker go looking for Escobar.
1:26:35
They catch up with him at that palace
he had in Santa Monica...
1:26:38
put the arm on him...
1:26:40
but Lamar gets carried away and kills him.
1:26:42
I can see...
1:26:45
this is going to cost me.
1:26:48
By now Whiting's starting to get nervous.
He's in this mess way over his head.
1:26:54
He decides to go to the cops.
1:26:56
Laura couldn't afford that,
so she had to kill him.
1:26:58
That's a lie.
1:26:59
That's when you came to me,
hoping I'd play the sap for you.
1:27:03
- He's lying.
- No, that's exactly what happened.
1:27:06
You figure I'll want to talk to Whiting.
1:27:08
You take me there, I'll sniff around,
and think your husband killed him.
1:27:13
- You don't believe him, do you?
- I'm not saying you're right...
1:27:17
but what's the price?
1:27:19
I've been in this business 31 years,
give or take a couple of months.
1:27:23
I've always played it on the up and up.
1:27:26
- Call the cops.
- Hold it!
1:27:31
Put that thing down.
You haven't got the ass to swing it.
1:27:35
All my life I've been a loser,
from the day I was born.
1:27:38
What makes you any different now?
1:27:40
What makes you think
Birdwell's gonna sit still...
1:27:43
for some chiseler like you
to take that kind of dough off?
1:27:46
I'll make him, that's why.
Because I've got him by the short hairs.
1:27:49
Yeah, you'll make him,
just like Harry Regan made him.
1:27:52
Harry goes to Birdwell,
tries to deal himself in...
1:27:55
but Birdwell can't gamble on...
1:27:57
some two-bit chiseler
gumming up the works...
1:27:59
so they meet someplace for a payoff.