:30:01
This is Lois Lane.
She lives here in the newsroom.
:30:05
Wow!
:30:06
Wanna pet her, sweetheart?
Go ahead. She won't bite.
:30:09
- You got a raging scoop disease, my friend.
- Which is what you love about me.
:30:16
Stay here and play with the kitty, honey,
while me and your daddy go have a talk.
:30:20
That's a girl.
:30:22
- Let's go.
- Now, would you rather that I wasn't first?
:30:25
- I'd rather you were right.
- I am right.
:30:27
OK. Who told you that the mayor's re-election
campaign took contributions from the Mob?
:30:33
- Manny Feldstein.
- Manny Feldstein told you, on the record...
:30:37
..."Newark trucking company
Grace and Marra, a Mob front...
:30:40
...made an illegal contribution
to the mayor's campaign. "
:30:43
- That's right. On the record.
- In exchange for the city sanitation contract.
:30:47
- On the record.
- Awarded without bidding.
:30:49
To Grace and Marra.
That's right. On the record.
:30:51
Manny Feldstein's gonna say
he never talked to you!
:30:56
- What? Hey. What?
- At the mayor's press conference today...
:30:59
- Hi, Jack.
... Feldstein's gonna say you made it all up.
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- You didn't, did you?
- Of course not.
:31:04
Manny told me he saw
the campaign accounts.
:31:07
$250,000 was deposited
in unnumbered accounts.
:31:10
Freddy, hold page three.
We may have to print a retraction.
:31:14
- Of what?
- You're gonna give me an ulcer.
:31:16
- I can feel it. Couldn't you get two sources?
- Remember the Cardinal O'Brien story?
:31:21
- We almost got fired!
- I almost got the Pulitzer prize.
:31:27
It's real simple, Jack. Management doesn't
wanna clean up after you any more. Not now!
:31:32
- I'm a good reporter, Lew.
- No. You are a great reporter.
:31:36
But sometimes you get too excited
and get me too excited.
:31:39
And now I've given you
enough rope to hang us both.
:31:42
And, Jack, nobody almost
gets a Pulitzer prize.
:31:45
- They won't fire me. My picture's on buses.
- I said that.
:31:48
Then they asked me
to lunch with Frank Burroughs.
:31:50
- Dad?
- Frank Burroughs?
:31:52
- "Frankly Speaking" is a popular column.
- He's a pompous, arrogant, humorless ass!
:31:57
Who's won the Pulitzer prize.
:31:59
I'm not gonna lose my job. I got alimony
and shrink bills, old college loans to repay.