:59:17
Good God.
:59:21
I don't know which looks worse,
you or this.
:59:24
Don't worry about the blood,
it probably belonged to a chicken.
:59:27
- A what?
- Or a duck.
:59:28
Or maybe it's just another case
of suicide.
:59:29
In any case, it's just a warning.
:59:31
Maybe the third or the fourth,
I can't remember exactly.
:59:33
- Warning to do what?
- Lay off.
:59:36
It all started with Ryan.
After Ryan came Gary Salt,
:59:38
and after Salt, the cops,
and after the cops, Crystal Ling.
:59:41
Almost one, two, three.
:59:42
Now Ryan's gone and Crystal's
about to be buried by the cops.
:59:44
- That leaves only Gary Salt, doesn't it?
- Who's Gary Salt?
:59:47
Gary Salt's a guy who last Thursday
put 50 cents down on 777.
:59:51
- Numbers.
- Right, okay.
:59:53
You figured out he plays the numbers.
What do those names mean to you?
:59:55
Herson, Chamblers, Norsette,
Creal, Michaelson, Dorn...
:59:57
Money. Pots of money. Six
of the richest men in San Francisco.
1:00:00
Right again.
Would you be dippy enough, angel,
1:00:03
- to spend a little shoe leather?
- Doing what?
1:00:06
Looking for Gary Salt.
1:00:08
Who the hell are you now,
Hammett the writer
1:00:10
- or Hammett the detective?
- I think you left out Hammett the fool.
1:00:14
What a waste.
1:00:19
Kit, this is Eli,
the last of the IWW organizers.
1:00:23
- Are you really a Wobbly?
- Oh, no, that's just Hammett talking.
1:00:27
What I am now is sort of an anarchist
with syndicalist tendencies.
1:00:36
Eli, who uses pink number slips?
1:00:41
Probably Frank Nester
over in the old Mission District.
1:00:44
He runs a newsstand.
1:00:46
Let's go have a word with him.
1:00:54
I thought you told me
that you were a strikebreaker
1:00:56
- when you worked for the Pinkertons.
- I was. That's why I quit.