:10:01
I don't screw around with
the cops anymore. Not in this town.
:10:04
- Let's go get some booze.
- In a minute.
:10:08
Let me tell you a story first.
:10:11
You like stories, don't you?
Sure you do.
:10:14
Well, it seems like this old bird
is up in some place that sounds
:10:17
just a whole hell of a lot
like Butte, Montana.
:10:19
You got a sidekick this time.
A kid the agency sent. Green as grass.
:10:25
Somehow they get
themselves in a soup
:10:27
and the old guy takes
a slug in the shoulder
:10:30
that by rights should have
taken the kid in the left eye.
:10:33
Well, the green kid falls
all over himself telling the old guy
:10:36
no matter what he wants,
no matter when, no matter where,
:10:40
just holler.
:10:42
You remember that story.
:10:44
Anywhere, any time
is now, Hammett.
:10:48
I'm calling it in.
:10:58
Let's go get that whiskey.
:11:15
Hi, neighbor.
Can you spare a cup of booze?
:11:18
Hello, Kit. I'm all out.
:11:22
Oh, sorry.
I didn't know you had company.
:11:25
- Miss Conger, Mr. Ryan.
- How are you?
:11:27
Kit's a librarian downtown.
We were just going out to mail this.
:11:30
- I'll bring you back some booze.
- Okay, let me give you the money.
:11:39
So where are you from, Mr. Ryan?
:11:40
Baltimore, Birmingham, Butte,
you name it.
:11:43
- Any place that begins with a B.
- I left out Biloxi.
:11:46
Your new story
set in any of those places, Sam?
:11:48
- Yeah, maybe, maybe not.
- Sounded like Baltimore to me.
:11:52
- Did you make a carbon?
- No.
:11:54
One of these days...
:11:58
Is that what you wear to the library?
:11:59
That's what I wear underneath
what I wear to the library.