1 00:01:52,291 --> 00:01:57,583 Yeah, I worked in a barber shop, But I never considered myself a barber. 2 00:01:57,708 --> 00:02:02,125 I stumbled into it well, married into it, more precisely. 3 00:02:02,250 --> 00:02:06,208 It wasn't my establishment. Like the fella says, I only work here. 4 00:02:09,541 --> 00:02:11,208 The dump was 200 feet square... 5 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:14,208 With three chairs, or stations, as we call 'em, 6 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:16,625 Even though there are only two of us working. 7 00:02:16,750 --> 00:02:19,541 But this is my point. 8 00:02:19,625 --> 00:02:22,958 My point is that these traders and trappers would come to this country, 9 00:02:23,083 --> 00:02:25,250 Get their pelts and their gold "ignots" 10 00:02:25,541 --> 00:02:28,458 Frank Raffo, my brother-in-law, was the principal barber. 11 00:02:28,541 --> 00:02:29,958 Man, could he talk. 12 00:02:31,875 --> 00:02:35,625 Maybe if you're 11 or 12 years old, Frank's got an interesting point of view, 13 00:02:35,708 --> 00:02:38,166 But sometimes it got on my nerves. 14 00:02:38,250 --> 00:02:40,041 Not that I complained, mind you. 15 00:02:40,125 --> 00:02:42,583 Like I said, he was the principal Barber. 16 00:02:43,583 --> 00:02:46,125 Frank's father August they called him Guzzi 17 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:48,875 Had worked the heads up in Santa Rosa for 35 years... 18 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,791 Until his ticker stopped in the middle of a junior flattop. 19 00:02:51,875 --> 00:02:55,166 He left the shop to Frankie free and clear, 20 00:02:55,250 --> 00:02:57,875 And that seemed to satisfy all of Frank's ambitions 21 00:02:57,958 --> 00:03:00,750 Cutting the hair and chewing the fat. 22 00:03:00,875 --> 00:03:03,625 Me, I don't talk much. 23 00:03:08,583 --> 00:03:10,458 I just cut the hair. 24 00:03:18,750 --> 00:03:21,708 It says here that the russians exploded an a-bomb... 25 00:03:21,791 --> 00:03:24,708 And there's not a damn thing we can do about it. 26 00:03:27,250 --> 00:03:29,250 How do you like them apples? 27 00:03:35,083 --> 00:03:38,250 Being a barber is a lot like being a bar man or a soda jerk. 28 00:03:38,541 --> 00:03:42,708 There's not much to it once you've learned the basic moves. 29 00:03:42,833 --> 00:03:44,791 For the kids, there's the butch, or the heinie, 30 00:03:44,875 --> 00:03:46,833 The flattop, the ivy, 31 00:03:46,916 --> 00:03:48,708 The crew, the vanguard, 32 00:03:48,791 --> 00:03:50,208 The junior contour... 33 00:03:50,291 --> 00:03:53,750 And occasionally the executive contour. 34 00:03:55,208 --> 00:03:58,958 Lived in a little bungalow on napa street. 35 00:03:59,041 --> 00:04:00,833 The place was okay, I guess. 36 00:04:00,916 --> 00:04:04,041 Had an electric icebox, a gas hearth... 37 00:04:04,166 --> 00:04:07,125 And a garbage grinde built into the sink. 38 00:04:07,250 --> 00:04:09,583 You might say I had it made. 39 00:04:10,416 --> 00:04:13,166 And she got a ten percent employee discount on whatever she wanted 40 00:04:13,333 --> 00:04:16,125 Makeup and perfume. 41 00:04:18,041 --> 00:04:20,708 Doris and I went to church once a week. 42 00:04:25,375 --> 00:04:28,250 Doris wasn't big on divine worship, 43 00:04:28,333 --> 00:04:31,583 And I doubt if she believed in life everlasting. 44 00:04:31,666 --> 00:04:34,625 She'd most likely tell you that our reward is on this earth, 45 00:04:34,708 --> 00:04:37,416 And bingo is probably the extent of it. 46 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:39,125 B-7 47 00:04:39,208 --> 00:04:40,416 Watch you card, honey. 48 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:43,416 I wasn't crazy about the game, 49 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:45,583 But, I don't know, it made her happy, 50 00:04:45,666 --> 00:04:48,791 And I found the setting peaceful. 51 00:04:48,875 --> 00:04:50,291 Jesus. Bingo. 52 00:04:50,375 --> 00:04:51,583 Bingo! 53 00:04:54,333 --> 00:04:56,500 Me, I don't like entertaining. 54 00:04:59,625 --> 00:05:01,583 - How you doin', Ed? - Okay. 55 00:05:01,708 --> 00:05:03,500 Take your coat, Ann? 56 00:05:03,583 --> 00:05:07,041 The japs had us pinned down on Buna for somethin' like six weeks. 57 00:05:07,291 --> 00:05:10,416 I gotta tell ya, I thought we had it tough, but we had supply. 58 00:05:10,541 --> 00:05:14,875 The japs were eatin' bugs and grubs and thistles. 59 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,833 Anyway, one day we bust off the beach... 60 00:05:17,916 --> 00:05:21,958 And we find Arney Bragg, this kid missin' on recon. 61 00:05:22,041 --> 00:05:24,791 The japs had eaten the son of a b****. 62 00:05:24,875 --> 00:05:26,916 If you'll pardon the... 63 00:05:27,041 --> 00:05:30,791 Anyway, he was a scrawny, pimply kid, nothin' to write home about. 64 00:05:30,875 --> 00:05:32,875 I mean, I never woulda, you know. 65 00:05:34,625 --> 00:05:37,000 So, what do I say, honey? 66 00:05:37,083 --> 00:05:39,875 What do I say when I don't like dinner? 67 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,500 Come on. What do I say? 68 00:05:41,583 --> 00:05:44,083 I say, "Arney Bragg, again?" 69 00:05:49,041 --> 00:05:50,958 Arney Bragg, again? 70 00:05:57,291 --> 00:06:00,125 - Were you in the service, Ed? - No, Dave, I wasn't. 71 00:06:00,250 --> 00:06:03,666 Ed was 4-f on account of his fallen arches. 72 00:06:08,583 --> 00:06:09,833 That's tough. 73 00:06:09,916 --> 00:06:11,833 That's... That's tough. 74 00:06:17,041 --> 00:06:21,625 Yeah, I guess Doris liked all that he-man stuff. 75 00:06:21,750 --> 00:06:24,000 Sometimes I had the feeling that 76 00:06:24,083 --> 00:06:27,000 She and Big Dave were a lot closer than they let on. 77 00:06:27,083 --> 00:06:29,708 The signs were all there, plain enough. 78 00:06:39,791 --> 00:06:42,791 Not that I was gonna prance about it, mind you. 79 00:06:42,916 --> 00:06:44,750 It's a free country. 80 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:47,916 Holdin' down the porch area, Ed? 81 00:06:49,291 --> 00:06:52,083 - That's some wife you got there. - Yeah. 82 00:06:53,083 --> 00:06:55,000 She's a rare one. 83 00:06:57,250 --> 00:06:58,875 So, how's business, Dave? 84 00:06:59,208 --> 00:07:02,000 Couldn't be better. 85 00:07:02,083 --> 00:07:05,041 These are boom times in retailin', Ed. 86 00:07:05,083 --> 00:07:07,541 We're openin' another store over there on carson, 87 00:07:07,625 --> 00:07:10,833 Big Dave's annex. Now, this is strictly haberdashery. 88 00:07:10,916 --> 00:07:14,041 It's casual wear, pajamas, ladies' undergarments and foundations, 89 00:07:14,166 --> 00:07:15,916 That type of thing. 90 00:07:17,916 --> 00:07:21,958 As a matter of fact, I'm thinkin' of makin' Doris the comptroller. 91 00:07:26,083 --> 00:07:28,500 Listen, when the annex opens up, you gotta stop by. 92 00:07:28,583 --> 00:07:30,625 Maybe we can update your suit a little bit? 93 00:07:35,250 --> 00:07:37,708 Course, you're in the smock all day. 94 00:07:39,833 --> 00:07:42,000 Where do you get those things, anyway? 95 00:07:42,083 --> 00:07:45,541 Specialty store down in Sacramento. 96 00:07:56,791 --> 00:07:58,250 You tie your own flies. 97 00:07:58,541 --> 00:08:02,000 I mean, if you're really serious, you tie your own flies. 98 00:08:02,083 --> 00:08:03,541 You do... 99 00:08:03,625 --> 00:08:05,916 I know. It's meticulous. I know. 100 00:08:06,041 --> 00:08:08,666 People say, hey, you can buy flies at the store. 101 00:08:08,750 --> 00:08:11,875 The point is, there's a certain art to the process. 102 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,458 The point is not merely to provide. 103 00:08:14,583 --> 00:08:18,958 Let me point out, these fish are not as dumb as you might think. 104 00:08:19,083 --> 00:08:21,083 Sure. Go to the store. 105 00:08:21,208 --> 00:08:24,583 Describe to the man where you will be fishing and for what, 106 00:08:24,708 --> 00:08:29,625 And then you might as well have the man sell you the goddamned fish, Ed. 107 00:08:29,750 --> 00:08:30,875 My point is, 108 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,041 This is a man who knows nothing, no matter how much you tell him. 109 00:08:34,125 --> 00:08:36,916 - So sell him the goddamned fish, Ed. - Yeah. 110 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:39,541 Okay. 111 00:08:40,583 --> 00:08:42,541 Who gets the privilege? 112 00:08:42,625 --> 00:08:44,458 We're just closing, friend. 113 00:08:44,708 --> 00:08:46,458 Oh, happy days. 114 00:08:47,083 --> 00:08:50,458 I wish I was doing well enough to turn away business. 115 00:08:50,583 --> 00:08:54,583 What's the problem, friend? This is a business establishment with posted hours. 116 00:08:54,750 --> 00:08:56,375 More power to ya, brother. 117 00:08:56,500 --> 00:08:57,541 The public be damned. 118 00:08:57,708 --> 00:08:58,541 Hey... 119 00:08:58,625 --> 00:09:00,500 I'll take care of him. You go ahead, Frank. 120 00:09:00,583 --> 00:09:02,583 Have a seat, mister. 121 00:09:02,708 --> 00:09:05,583 - You sure, Eddie? - Yeah, yeah, go ahead. 122 00:09:08,708 --> 00:09:10,833 In your ear, mister. 123 00:09:12,958 --> 00:09:15,958 Oh, those fiery Mediterraneans. 124 00:09:16,916 --> 00:09:20,166 Say, not so fast there, brother. 125 00:09:22,750 --> 00:09:23,875 Pretty good, eh? 126 00:09:23,958 --> 00:09:25,875 Fools even the experts. 127 00:09:25,958 --> 00:09:29,458 One hundred percent human hair. Handcrafted by Jacques 128 00:09:29,583 --> 00:09:31,166 Of San Francisco. 129 00:09:31,250 --> 00:09:34,458 I'd hate to have to tell you what I paid for it. 130 00:09:34,583 --> 00:09:37,000 Yeah, it's a nice rug. 131 00:09:37,083 --> 00:09:39,000 I'm payin' it down on the installment plan. 132 00:09:39,083 --> 00:09:43,041 A lot of folks live with the pate exposed. 133 00:09:43,166 --> 00:09:45,583 They say the dames think it's sexy, 134 00:09:45,708 --> 00:09:48,833 But for my money it's just not good groomin'. 135 00:09:48,916 --> 00:09:52,708 And groomin' my friend, is probably the most important thing in business. 136 00:09:52,791 --> 00:09:55,250 After personality, of course. 137 00:09:56,250 --> 00:09:58,708 Creighton Tolliver. Pleased to know ya. 138 00:09:59,791 --> 00:10:01,208 Ed Crane. 139 00:10:02,208 --> 00:10:04,583 So, what brings you to Santa Rosa? 140 00:10:04,708 --> 00:10:07,875 A goose, my friend. I was chasin' a wild goose. 141 00:10:09,625 --> 00:10:11,583 Ed, have you ever heard of venture capital? 142 00:10:11,708 --> 00:10:14,166 Risk money. Very speculative. 143 00:10:14,250 --> 00:10:18,666 Except that in certain situations it's not, see. 144 00:10:18,750 --> 00:10:20,875 I thought I had a prospect here 145 00:10:20,958 --> 00:10:25,583 Well, I make the haul up... And this lousy so-and-so tells me... 146 00:10:25,708 --> 00:10:27,541 That the situation has changed. 147 00:10:27,666 --> 00:10:31,166 All of his capital's tied up in expansion plans of his own. 148 00:10:31,250 --> 00:10:34,000 Thank you mother. Pop goes another bubble. 149 00:10:34,083 --> 00:10:36,958 It's only the biggest business opportunity since Henry Ford, 150 00:10:37,083 --> 00:10:39,833 And I can't seem to interest a soul. 151 00:10:39,916 --> 00:10:40,958 Is that right? 152 00:10:41,083 --> 00:10:43,041 It's called dry cleaning. 153 00:10:44,583 --> 00:10:47,208 You heard me right, brother. Dry cleaning. 154 00:10:47,291 --> 00:10:50,083 Wash without water. 155 00:10:50,208 --> 00:10:53,833 No suds. No tumple. No stress on the clothes. 156 00:10:53,916 --> 00:10:56,708 It's all done with chemicals, friend. 157 00:10:56,750 --> 00:10:58,541 And here's the capper... 158 00:10:58,625 --> 00:10:59,958 No shrinkage. 159 00:11:00,916 --> 00:11:02,708 That's right. 160 00:11:02,750 --> 00:11:04,041 Dry cleaning. 161 00:11:04,083 --> 00:11:07,250 All I need is $10,000 to open up the first store. 162 00:11:07,541 --> 00:11:12,125 Then I use its cash flow to finance another, and so on, 163 00:11:12,250 --> 00:11:15,583 Leapfrog, bootstrap myself to a whole chain. 164 00:11:16,583 --> 00:11:18,083 Well, me and a partner. 165 00:11:19,750 --> 00:11:22,041 Cleanliness, friend. 166 00:11:22,166 --> 00:11:24,208 There's money in it. There's a future. 167 00:11:24,291 --> 00:11:26,000 There's room to grow. 168 00:11:26,083 --> 00:11:29,250 Say, that looks pretty good. 169 00:11:29,541 --> 00:11:31,708 Let's see it with the hairpiece on. 170 00:11:43,916 --> 00:11:45,708 Dry cleaning. 171 00:11:47,250 --> 00:11:50,666 Was I crazy to be thinking about it? 172 00:11:50,750 --> 00:11:55,208 Was he a huckster or an opportunity, the real Mccoy? 173 00:11:58,625 --> 00:12:02,916 My first instinct was no, no, the whole idea was nuts. 174 00:12:03,041 --> 00:12:06,791 But maybe that was the instinct that kept me locked in the barber shop, 175 00:12:06,916 --> 00:12:10,750 Nose against the exit afraid to try turning the knob. 176 00:12:12,833 --> 00:12:14,458 What you... come in. 177 00:12:15,666 --> 00:12:18,750 Okay, yeah. I'll see you tomorrow. 178 00:12:20,833 --> 00:12:22,625 Oh. I thought you were the porter. 179 00:12:22,708 --> 00:12:24,708 Can I help ya? 180 00:12:24,833 --> 00:12:26,583 I'm Ed. 181 00:12:26,666 --> 00:12:28,666 Ed Crane. 182 00:12:30,958 --> 00:12:33,041 I cut your hair today. 183 00:12:34,666 --> 00:12:35,916 I'm the barber. 184 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,625 Jesus, yeah. The barber. 185 00:12:38,708 --> 00:12:41,458 I didn't recognize you without the smock. 186 00:12:41,583 --> 00:12:43,625 Did I leave somethin' at the shop? 187 00:12:43,708 --> 00:12:46,125 No. No, it's nothing like that. 188 00:12:46,208 --> 00:12:49,583 I might be interested in that business proposition. 189 00:12:52,750 --> 00:12:53,958 You got the dough? 190 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,541 Well, I can get it. 191 00:12:56,666 --> 00:12:59,041 Come in. Come in! 192 00:12:59,166 --> 00:13:00,583 Sit down over there. 193 00:13:00,666 --> 00:13:03,041 - Coffee? - No. 194 00:13:03,166 --> 00:13:06,416 Well, sit down, make yourself comfortable. 195 00:13:08,166 --> 00:13:10,375 So tell me... 196 00:13:10,625 --> 00:13:15,166 Other than putting up the money exactly what would you want the partner to... 197 00:13:15,458 --> 00:13:16,958 Do? 198 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:18,625 Hell, nothin'. 199 00:13:18,708 --> 00:13:22,958 You're gonna want to keep tabs on your investment, The running of the business, 200 00:13:23,041 --> 00:13:25,708 but I'm looking for a silent partner. 201 00:13:25,833 --> 00:13:28,875 I've done the research, I've contacted the vendors. 202 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,583 The deal is set. 203 00:13:30,666 --> 00:13:34,916 Disappear, if you'd like. Check in whenever you want. 204 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,500 I want the dough. I don't take attendance. 205 00:13:38,625 --> 00:13:40,125 And how do we share the... 206 00:13:40,208 --> 00:13:42,458 Fifty-fifty, straight down the line. 207 00:13:42,583 --> 00:13:44,791 You and me. Finance and expertise. 208 00:13:45,833 --> 00:13:47,791 So you got the dough then, do ya? 209 00:13:47,875 --> 00:13:49,958 I can have it in a week. 210 00:13:50,083 --> 00:13:52,166 The barber... 211 00:13:53,666 --> 00:13:57,125 Well, I thought this trip was gonna be a bust. 212 00:13:57,416 --> 00:14:00,458 Just shows to go ya, when one door slams shut, 213 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,458 Another one opens. 214 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:04,833 Here's to you... 215 00:14:15,750 --> 00:14:18,500 I sent it to Dave the next morning. 216 00:14:18,625 --> 00:14:20,333 Then I waited. 217 00:14:40,875 --> 00:14:43,250 Frank? 218 00:14:46,083 --> 00:14:47,958 This hair. 219 00:14:48,958 --> 00:14:50,791 Yeah? 220 00:14:50,875 --> 00:14:52,666 You ever wonder about it? 221 00:14:54,041 --> 00:14:55,541 What do you mean? 222 00:14:56,708 --> 00:14:58,833 I don't know. 223 00:14:58,916 --> 00:15:01,375 How it keeps on coming. 224 00:15:02,791 --> 00:15:05,833 It just keeps growing. 225 00:15:05,916 --> 00:15:08,291 Yeah. Lucky for us, pal? 226 00:15:08,375 --> 00:15:09,500 No, I mean, 227 00:15:10,916 --> 00:15:13,000 It keeps growing, 228 00:15:13,875 --> 00:15:15,791 And it's part of us. 229 00:15:17,541 --> 00:15:20,333 And then we cut it off and throw it away. 230 00:15:21,458 --> 00:15:24,375 Come on, Eddie. You're gonna scare the kid. 231 00:15:32,583 --> 00:15:34,583 Okay, bud, you're through. 232 00:15:48,958 --> 00:15:51,875 I'm gonna take this hair and throw it out in the dirt. 233 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,875 What? 234 00:15:55,791 --> 00:15:58,750 I'm gonna mingle it with common house dirt. 235 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:04,250 What the hell are you talking about? 236 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:09,291 I don't know. Skip it. 237 00:16:19,041 --> 00:16:21,000 Ed, gimme a zip. 238 00:16:21,083 --> 00:16:23,583 Where you going? 239 00:16:23,708 --> 00:16:27,833 Us. The party at Nirdlingers. I told you last week. 240 00:16:27,958 --> 00:16:31,500 The Christmas push. 241 00:16:32,541 --> 00:16:34,333 Come on, get ready. 242 00:16:34,416 --> 00:16:35,708 It's important. 243 00:16:35,833 --> 00:16:38,958 Nah, you go ahead. I'm not big on parties. 244 00:16:39,375 --> 00:16:41,458 Hey, ain't you in ladies' wear? 245 00:16:43,250 --> 00:16:46,000 Haven't I seen you up in ladies' wear? 246 00:16:46,125 --> 00:16:48,291 I don't work here. My wife does 247 00:16:49,708 --> 00:16:51,458 That's some beat? 248 00:16:51,583 --> 00:16:53,125 Yeah. Lucky for us, pal? 249 00:16:53,208 --> 00:16:56,166 Check out the rack on that broad in the angora. 250 00:16:57,166 --> 00:16:59,291 Ed, can I talk to you? 251 00:16:59,375 --> 00:17:00,458 Sure. 252 00:17:03,208 --> 00:17:04,291 Come in. 253 00:17:08,041 --> 00:17:10,208 Oh, sit down. 254 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,333 Souvenired it off a jap in New Guinea. 255 00:17:18,708 --> 00:17:22,666 Guess you're wonderin' what Doris was so hot about. 256 00:17:28,208 --> 00:17:29,458 Havanas. 257 00:17:30,333 --> 00:17:32,291 My private stock. 258 00:17:33,708 --> 00:17:35,583 Romeo and Juliet. 259 00:17:54,416 --> 00:17:56,083 Ed, I... 260 00:18:00,708 --> 00:18:03,166 What is it, Dave? 261 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:08,958 Ed, I've been weak. 262 00:18:09,041 --> 00:18:11,625 I've been weak. The... 263 00:18:13,708 --> 00:18:15,958 You're gonna burn yourself. 264 00:18:19,041 --> 00:18:20,291 Thanks. 265 00:18:20,375 --> 00:18:21,625 I... 266 00:18:24,666 --> 00:18:26,208 Oh, Jesus. 267 00:18:29,958 --> 00:18:31,958 I've been carryin' on with a married woman. 268 00:18:34,166 --> 00:18:36,291 No one you know. 269 00:18:36,416 --> 00:18:38,916 And now the... 270 00:18:39,041 --> 00:18:41,375 The chickens are comin' home to roost. 271 00:18:42,166 --> 00:18:44,083 I got a note. 272 00:18:44,166 --> 00:18:46,166 A blackmail note, you know. 273 00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:48,416 Come across, or everybody knows. 274 00:18:50,708 --> 00:18:53,458 I guess you know what that would do to me. 275 00:18:57,333 --> 00:18:59,000 I guess that would be pretty awkward. 276 00:18:59,125 --> 00:19:00,666 Awkward? 277 00:19:00,958 --> 00:19:03,583 Yeah. Yeah. 278 00:19:03,666 --> 00:19:07,000 Ann would throw me right out on my keister. 279 00:19:07,125 --> 00:19:10,291 I mean, it's her st... It's her family's store, Ed. It's her store. 280 00:19:10,375 --> 00:19:13,958 I serve at the indulgence of the goddamn ownership. 281 00:19:15,666 --> 00:19:17,583 The lady's husband would know. 282 00:19:22,083 --> 00:19:25,541 - How much do they want, Dave? - Ten thousand dollars. 283 00:19:25,666 --> 00:19:28,625 I don't know what to do, Ed. I don't know what I can do. 284 00:19:30,125 --> 00:19:32,291 You know, 285 00:19:32,416 --> 00:19:34,666 I know who the son of a b**** is. 286 00:19:37,708 --> 00:19:40,458 You know... who who is? 287 00:19:40,541 --> 00:19:42,125 The son of a b****. The blackmailer. 288 00:19:42,250 --> 00:19:44,166 I know who he is. 289 00:19:44,250 --> 00:19:47,208 It's no one you know. It's a businessman from Sacramento. 290 00:19:47,333 --> 00:19:49,291 A goddamn pansy, Ed. 291 00:19:51,666 --> 00:19:54,666 Tryin' to rope me into some crackpot scheme. 292 00:19:54,958 --> 00:19:57,625 I heard him out, then I told him to go to hell. 293 00:19:57,708 --> 00:20:01,166 The very next day the very next day I get a note, the blackmail note, 294 00:20:01,208 --> 00:20:03,625 Asking me for the same amout of money he asked me for. 295 00:20:03,708 --> 00:20:05,958 The very next day. Ten thousand dollars. 296 00:20:09,458 --> 00:20:11,375 How did he know that you were seein' the woman? 297 00:20:11,500 --> 00:20:14,500 He stayed at the hotel that I went to with the... 298 00:20:14,625 --> 00:20:17,958 lady in question. He must've seen us. 299 00:20:19,250 --> 00:20:20,666 Oh, Jesus. 300 00:20:21,708 --> 00:20:25,166 I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. 301 00:20:33,333 --> 00:20:35,291 I don't know what to do. 302 00:20:47,958 --> 00:20:49,625 Why don't you just pay him. Dave? 303 00:20:49,708 --> 00:20:52,291 Cause that's my capitalization on the annex. 304 00:20:52,375 --> 00:20:54,625 That's my operation. 305 00:20:56,625 --> 00:20:58,333 Christ almighty, Ed. 306 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:02,458 That's what I just talkin' to Doris about down there 307 00:21:02,541 --> 00:21:05,083 A way to get the money from the store that we could hide from Ann. 308 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,375 Doris, she was, she was pretty hot about that, god bless her. 309 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:13,166 Embezzlin', Ed. 310 00:21:13,291 --> 00:21:16,250 Embezzlin' from my own goddamn wife. 311 00:21:21,333 --> 00:21:22,916 I'm sorry. 312 00:21:25,458 --> 00:21:27,083 I'm sorry. 313 00:21:28,458 --> 00:21:30,291 It's okay. 314 00:21:41,666 --> 00:21:44,583 In a way, I felt bad for Big Dave. 315 00:21:44,666 --> 00:21:48,916 I knew that ten grand was going to pinch him where it hurt, 316 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,875 But Doris was two-timing me 317 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,958 And I guess somewhere that pinched a little too. 318 00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:50,041 That was pretty. 319 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:54,166 Did you make that up? 320 00:22:54,291 --> 00:22:56,250 Oh, no. 321 00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:59,041 No, that was written by Ludwig Van Beethoven. 322 00:23:04,375 --> 00:23:06,625 Well, it was quite something. 323 00:23:06,875 --> 00:23:09,375 Yeah, he wrote some beautiful piano sonatas. 324 00:23:09,458 --> 00:23:12,458 That was really something. 325 00:23:17,458 --> 00:23:18,916 I'm Ed Crane. 326 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,916 I know who you are, Mr. Crane. 327 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,333 My father used to take me with him when he went to get his hair cut. 328 00:23:24,458 --> 00:23:25,625 Walter Abundas? 329 00:23:25,875 --> 00:23:28,291 Oh, yeah, sure. Walter. 330 00:23:29,416 --> 00:23:31,416 Yeah, I'm Rachel Abundas. 331 00:23:31,541 --> 00:23:33,500 But everyone call me Birdy. 332 00:23:34,666 --> 00:23:36,916 I'm sorry. I just didn't remember. 333 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,125 Oh, no, it's okay. 334 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:43,166 You can't expect to remember every skinny girl who comes in with her dad. 335 00:23:50,916 --> 00:23:53,250 So you don't like that music out there? 336 00:23:53,375 --> 00:23:55,916 Not really. 337 00:23:56,041 --> 00:23:58,166 I'm not big on music, ordinarily. 338 00:23:59,208 --> 00:24:00,416 Ed. 339 00:24:10,625 --> 00:24:12,625 What a knucklehead. 340 00:24:13,458 --> 00:24:15,625 - Who? - Dave. 341 00:24:17,041 --> 00:24:18,750 Why's that? 342 00:24:19,541 --> 00:24:21,000 Money problems. 343 00:24:21,125 --> 00:24:23,916 He's thinking about canceling the annex. 344 00:24:24,791 --> 00:24:26,083 So? 345 00:24:27,125 --> 00:24:29,916 That means I don't run Nirdlingers. 346 00:24:35,583 --> 00:24:37,041 What a knucklehead. 347 00:24:42,875 --> 00:24:45,000 Big Dave did it, though. 348 00:24:50,541 --> 00:24:53,583 I sent a note telling him where to drop the money. 349 00:24:55,583 --> 00:24:56,750 And he did. 350 00:24:56,833 --> 00:24:58,541 He came across. 351 00:25:37,541 --> 00:25:39,541 Yeah. Good! How are ya? 352 00:25:39,625 --> 00:25:41,916 Come in. I got everything organized. 353 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,708 How you doin'? You got a check? 354 00:25:44,791 --> 00:25:47,791 - Cash. - Cash? 355 00:25:47,875 --> 00:25:50,750 Usually these kinds of things are done with a bank draft, 356 00:25:50,875 --> 00:25:53,000 But cash, that's fine. 357 00:25:53,125 --> 00:25:55,125 It's all the same in the end. 358 00:25:56,791 --> 00:25:58,125 Dough is dough? 359 00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:00,958 Nellie. 360 00:26:03,875 --> 00:26:05,708 I got the paperwork here. 361 00:26:05,791 --> 00:26:07,666 Partnership papers. 362 00:26:07,750 --> 00:26:09,500 They reflect our agreement. 363 00:26:09,625 --> 00:26:11,541 Fifty-fifty on the net. 364 00:26:11,625 --> 00:26:16,458 I provide professional services, you provide the capital. 365 00:26:16,541 --> 00:26:19,958 I'm gonna give you a receipt on the dough here. 366 00:26:20,083 --> 00:26:22,458 Pretty straightforward. 367 00:26:22,541 --> 00:26:25,458 - I don't know whether you wanna show it to a lawyer - No, that's okay. 368 00:26:25,541 --> 00:26:28,333 Yeah. Screw 'em, right? 369 00:26:28,458 --> 00:26:31,875 Pay them to tangle it up, then you have to pay them to untangle them. 370 00:26:31,958 --> 00:26:33,958 What's the point? 371 00:26:34,041 --> 00:26:35,958 You just give me a second, 372 00:26:36,041 --> 00:26:38,750 I'll give you a receipt on the... 373 00:26:39,458 --> 00:26:40,583 Nellie. 374 00:26:41,958 --> 00:26:45,333 Okay, one thing we didn't talk about was, 375 00:26:45,416 --> 00:26:48,333 I am thinking about, calling the place Tolliver's. 376 00:26:48,458 --> 00:26:50,083 After me, you know. 377 00:26:50,375 --> 00:26:54,375 I didn't think you were much interested in... 378 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:57,916 - That's fine. - Yeah, that's good. Good, good. 379 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,500 Now, ready? One second and I will... 380 00:27:01,625 --> 00:27:04,125 Okay, that's it. 381 00:27:05,875 --> 00:27:07,875 As per our discussion. 382 00:27:08,916 --> 00:27:10,625 All right, there it is, 383 00:27:10,750 --> 00:27:13,833 Writ large in legal escritoire. 384 00:27:13,958 --> 00:27:15,750 - And the... - Say, Creighton. 385 00:27:19,625 --> 00:27:21,500 You're not gonna screw me on this. 386 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:24,916 Screw you? 387 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,375 Jesus. 388 00:27:28,125 --> 00:27:29,125 Take it to a lawyer. 389 00:27:29,416 --> 00:27:31,750 No, I insist! 390 00:27:31,833 --> 00:27:33,666 I insist! 391 00:27:33,750 --> 00:27:37,916 This is dry cleaning. This is not some fly-by-night thing here. 392 00:27:39,166 --> 00:27:40,666 Oh, I'll tell you, 393 00:27:40,791 --> 00:27:44,583 I have been 13 years as an entrepreneur, and I have never... 394 00:27:44,708 --> 00:27:46,000 - It's okay. - Nobody's ever questioned me... 395 00:27:46,125 --> 00:27:48,458 Hey, you want the dough back? 396 00:27:48,541 --> 00:27:50,625 Do you know who you're talkin' to here? 397 00:27:50,708 --> 00:27:53,000 Do you know who I am? Do you have any idea who... 398 00:27:53,083 --> 00:27:54,416 It's okay. 399 00:27:55,791 --> 00:27:58,458 So, Tolliver's is okay, then? 400 00:28:02,125 --> 00:28:04,000 The next day was Saturday. 401 00:28:04,125 --> 00:28:06,916 We were going to a reception for Doris's cousin Gina... 402 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,041 Who just married a wop vendor out near Modesto. 403 00:28:10,166 --> 00:28:12,666 Doris didn't much feel like going, and I didn't either. 404 00:28:12,750 --> 00:28:16,916 But like she said, we had a commitment. 405 00:28:18,958 --> 00:28:20,750 I hate wops. 406 00:28:24,125 --> 00:28:26,625 What's so goddamn strange about that? 407 00:28:26,708 --> 00:28:28,083 I didn't say a word. 408 00:28:28,166 --> 00:28:30,375 You didn't have to grow up with them. 409 00:28:32,416 --> 00:28:33,708 Family. 410 00:28:40,333 --> 00:28:41,166 Doris! 411 00:28:41,250 --> 00:28:43,291 You been okay? 412 00:28:43,375 --> 00:28:46,541 Mmm. Yeah. How you doing, Costanza? 413 00:28:46,666 --> 00:28:49,875 Oh, you know. Still got my health. 414 00:28:50,166 --> 00:28:52,333 And how you been... 415 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:54,875 - Ed. - Ed. 416 00:28:55,166 --> 00:28:57,583 He's a barber, right? 417 00:28:57,708 --> 00:29:01,333 It's a good trade. So, how come you got no kids? 418 00:29:01,416 --> 00:29:03,750 No, come on, kids! 419 00:29:03,833 --> 00:29:08,083 I just ate lunch! I couldn't eat another thing. 420 00:29:08,166 --> 00:29:10,208 Oh, n... Anthony! 421 00:29:10,333 --> 00:29:12,708 Anthony, it's you! 422 00:29:12,833 --> 00:29:14,833 Okay, kids. Ready? And... 423 00:29:20,875 --> 00:29:25,083 Congratulations. Gina. It's so goddamn wonderful. 424 00:29:25,166 --> 00:29:28,708 Life is just so goddamn wonderful, You almost won't believe it. 425 00:29:28,833 --> 00:29:30,791 - It's just a bowl of goddamn cherries. - Let' go. 426 00:29:30,875 --> 00:29:32,833 Sure. 427 00:29:35,750 --> 00:29:38,416 Congratulations on your goddamn cherries! 428 00:29:40,708 --> 00:29:42,500 Let go of my goddamn elbow! 429 00:29:54,458 --> 00:29:57,625 I never wanna see another blueberry pie. 430 00:30:00,916 --> 00:30:04,166 I never even wanna hear those words. 431 00:30:07,708 --> 00:30:09,666 Don't say those words, Ed. 432 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000 Don't say those words. 433 00:30:39,666 --> 00:30:42,000 I'd met Doris blind on a double date... 434 00:30:42,125 --> 00:30:45,666 With a loudmouthed buddy of mine who was seeing a friend of hers from work. 435 00:30:45,958 --> 00:30:49,875 We went to a movie. Doris had a flask. 436 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,166 Boy, she could put it away. 437 00:30:55,583 --> 00:31:00,000 At the end of the night, she said she liked that I didn't talk much. 438 00:31:00,125 --> 00:31:03,166 It was only a couple weeks later she suggested we get married. 439 00:31:12,291 --> 00:31:13,583 Yeah. 440 00:31:13,666 --> 00:31:17,583 Ed, it's Big Dave. I gotta talk to you. 441 00:31:17,666 --> 00:31:19,208 What? 442 00:31:20,041 --> 00:31:21,416 Now? 443 00:31:22,333 --> 00:31:24,541 Yeah. It's important. 444 00:31:25,333 --> 00:31:27,125 But it-it's... 445 00:31:27,250 --> 00:31:29,125 Please, Ed. 446 00:31:30,541 --> 00:31:32,375 Your place? 447 00:31:32,458 --> 00:31:34,416 I'm at the store. 448 00:31:34,541 --> 00:31:36,875 Let yourself in. 449 00:32:33,458 --> 00:32:34,625 Dave? 450 00:32:38,958 --> 00:32:40,541 I'm ruined. 451 00:32:44,333 --> 00:32:46,458 They've ruined me. 452 00:32:46,541 --> 00:32:48,416 This money. 453 00:32:49,583 --> 00:32:51,208 No annex. 454 00:32:52,166 --> 00:32:54,166 I'm all shot to hell. 455 00:32:56,125 --> 00:32:58,125 So, you paid the guy? 456 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:10,458 What kind of man are you? 457 00:33:13,208 --> 00:33:15,333 What kind of man... 458 00:33:15,458 --> 00:33:16,916 Are you? 459 00:33:20,291 --> 00:33:23,375 I mean, I'd understand if you came in here and... 460 00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:26,000 Socked me in the nose, whatever. 461 00:33:27,125 --> 00:33:28,958 I deserve it. 462 00:33:29,083 --> 00:33:31,625 I'm not proud of what I did. 463 00:33:33,166 --> 00:33:35,000 But you. 464 00:33:39,125 --> 00:33:40,458 Yeah, I paid up. 465 00:33:42,041 --> 00:33:43,916 As you well know. 466 00:33:45,708 --> 00:33:48,125 But then I went and found the pansy. 467 00:33:54,375 --> 00:33:56,541 Oh, you got nothin' to say? 468 00:33:56,666 --> 00:33:59,625 Well, you know the story. 469 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:03,416 I didn't. 470 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:06,125 I had to beat it out of the pansy. 471 00:34:37,083 --> 00:34:38,958 I'm all shot to hell. 472 00:34:45,958 --> 00:34:47,666 Well, Dave... 473 00:37:57,666 --> 00:38:01,458 It was only a couple weeks later she suggested we get married. 474 00:38:05,375 --> 00:38:08,166 I said, "Don't you want to get to know me more?" 475 00:38:08,291 --> 00:38:11,041 She said, "Why? Does it get better?" 476 00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:15,208 She looked at me like I was a dope, 477 00:38:15,333 --> 00:38:17,958 Which I never really minded from her. 478 00:38:18,041 --> 00:38:20,958 And she had a point, I guess. 479 00:38:21,041 --> 00:38:24,291 We knew each other as well then as now. 480 00:38:24,333 --> 00:38:26,875 Anyway, well enough. 481 00:38:40,083 --> 00:38:43,166 Holy, moley, do I got a headache. 482 00:38:43,291 --> 00:38:45,958 - How are you today, Ed? - Okay. 483 00:38:47,291 --> 00:38:49,916 - You don't got a headache? - No. 484 00:38:51,083 --> 00:38:54,250 Damn, I got a headache to beat the band. 485 00:38:58,541 --> 00:39:02,083 Did you pump it? You can't pump it. That'll just flood it. 486 00:39:02,166 --> 00:39:07,041 No, no, no, you gotta pump it. You can't just hold it down. I mean that'll flood it. 487 00:39:07,166 --> 00:39:09,541 You crazy? You pump it. 488 00:39:09,666 --> 00:39:12,000 You can't hold it down. 489 00:39:13,333 --> 00:39:16,291 - Just turn the key. - Not when it's cold. 490 00:39:16,416 --> 00:39:18,416 Well, if it's cold, choke it. 491 00:39:18,541 --> 00:39:20,083 And pump it. 492 00:39:20,208 --> 00:39:21,583 How many time? 493 00:39:25,541 --> 00:39:27,375 Ed Crane? 494 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,916 I'm Crane. 495 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,541 - Come on outside. - Sure. 496 00:39:51,416 --> 00:39:54,250 I'm officer Persky. This is Krebs. 497 00:39:56,166 --> 00:39:57,958 Well, we goin'? 498 00:40:03,208 --> 00:40:04,250 Cigarette? 499 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,125 Right. 500 00:40:11,125 --> 00:40:13,458 Pete's got some news for ya. 501 00:40:19,291 --> 00:40:20,666 Look, pal... 502 00:40:22,583 --> 00:40:24,458 It's a tough break, but... 503 00:40:26,250 --> 00:40:28,041 Well, damn it, your wife's been pinched. 504 00:40:28,166 --> 00:40:31,125 They sent us around to tell you. 505 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,625 They sent us around to tell you. We pulled the detail. 506 00:40:37,541 --> 00:40:39,875 My wife? 507 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,291 Yeah, they brung her down to county jail. 508 00:40:44,375 --> 00:40:45,583 Homicide. 509 00:40:45,666 --> 00:40:47,500 Well, embezzlement... 510 00:40:47,625 --> 00:40:49,208 And homicide. 511 00:40:49,333 --> 00:40:52,875 Guy named David Brewster. He's the guy she... 512 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,500 H-He's the decedent. 513 00:40:55,250 --> 00:40:56,916 I don't understand. 514 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,500 He's the dead guy. 515 00:40:58,625 --> 00:41:02,375 Yeah, it's a tough break. 516 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,166 Visiting ends at 5:00. 517 00:41:06,291 --> 00:41:08,458 Missed it today, but... 518 00:41:09,458 --> 00:41:11,250 You can go see her tomorrow. 519 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,625 Sorry, pal. 520 00:41:14,666 --> 00:41:17,000 They sent us to tell ya. 521 00:41:18,833 --> 00:41:20,625 Crab detail. 522 00:41:44,250 --> 00:41:46,916 - Hello, Walter. - Hello, Ed. 523 00:41:48,166 --> 00:41:51,166 Thanks. Thanks for seein' me at home. 524 00:41:51,291 --> 00:41:54,083 Oh, hell. Want a drink? 525 00:41:56,083 --> 00:41:57,083 No, thanks. 526 00:41:57,166 --> 00:41:59,416 You sure you don't need one? 527 00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:01,375 I'm fine. 528 00:42:02,541 --> 00:42:04,625 - Boy. - Yeah. 529 00:42:06,125 --> 00:42:07,583 Jesus. 530 00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:12,458 So What do I... 531 00:42:12,541 --> 00:42:15,041 Of course, I... 532 00:42:15,791 --> 00:42:18,291 It's out of my league. 533 00:42:18,416 --> 00:42:22,750 No, I... no, I do probate and real estate... 534 00:42:22,833 --> 00:42:24,125 And title search. 535 00:42:25,583 --> 00:42:29,291 I'd be absolutely worthless, somethin' like this. Absolutely worthless. 536 00:42:31,666 --> 00:42:33,041 Excuse me. 537 00:42:34,583 --> 00:42:36,583 I just finished dinner. 538 00:42:40,333 --> 00:42:43,833 Frankly, Doris'd be better off with the county defender. 539 00:42:44,125 --> 00:42:47,041 - He a good man? - Bert's okay. 540 00:42:47,166 --> 00:42:49,791 Yeah, he... he's a good man. 541 00:42:51,416 --> 00:42:54,416 Listen. I won't kid you, Ed. 542 00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:58,291 There's nobody around here has any experience with this kind of thing. 543 00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:01,791 I hear they're bringing a prosecutor up. 544 00:43:01,833 --> 00:43:03,833 From Sacramento. 545 00:43:05,666 --> 00:43:09,333 It's a capital offense. They're taking it seriously. 546 00:43:09,458 --> 00:43:11,416 - So... - They're taking it seriously. 547 00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:13,833 So, what-what... 548 00:43:14,125 --> 00:43:16,583 Do you want any more coffee, dad? Oh, hi, Mr. Crane. 549 00:43:17,666 --> 00:43:19,208 Hello, Rachel. 550 00:43:21,541 --> 00:43:23,458 I was so sorry to hear. 551 00:43:25,166 --> 00:43:26,458 Yeah, thanks. 552 00:43:26,583 --> 00:43:28,791 - Coffee, Ed? - No, thanks. 553 00:43:28,833 --> 00:43:31,583 - No, thanks, honey. We're... - Okay, dad. 554 00:43:31,666 --> 00:43:33,750 It was good to see you again, Mr. Crane. 555 00:43:37,875 --> 00:43:39,291 Damn. 556 00:43:40,541 --> 00:43:41,791 A good kid. 557 00:43:41,833 --> 00:43:43,333 Jesus... 558 00:43:48,541 --> 00:43:52,291 Who do you think? 559 00:43:52,333 --> 00:43:54,791 Lloyd Garroway in San Francisco. 560 00:43:55,500 --> 00:43:57,083 Probity. 561 00:43:57,166 --> 00:44:01,833 You know, nobody ever said anything iffy about Lloyd Garroway. 562 00:44:02,833 --> 00:44:04,791 He's conservative. 563 00:44:05,083 --> 00:44:08,041 Jury might like that. Might like that here. 564 00:44:10,333 --> 00:44:11,416 Probity. 565 00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:15,333 So, he's the best man for... 566 00:44:15,458 --> 00:44:16,708 No. 567 00:44:16,833 --> 00:44:20,583 The best, the money-is-no-object best, 568 00:44:20,666 --> 00:44:24,250 any lawyer'll tell you, is Freddy Riedenschneider from... 569 00:44:26,791 --> 00:44:28,416 Sacramento. 570 00:44:29,750 --> 00:44:32,458 I don't know how you're fixed for money. 571 00:44:32,583 --> 00:44:34,458 - But he's... - The best. 572 00:44:34,583 --> 00:44:36,041 The best, yeah. 573 00:44:38,666 --> 00:44:40,625 Riedenschneider. 574 00:44:49,666 --> 00:44:51,500 No question about it. 575 00:45:26,708 --> 00:45:28,583 I brought your makeup. 576 00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:31,666 Glasses. 577 00:45:38,833 --> 00:45:40,708 What happened to you? 578 00:45:40,833 --> 00:45:43,125 I don't know what's goin' on... I... 579 00:45:46,708 --> 00:45:48,583 I don't know what happened to Big Dave. 580 00:45:48,708 --> 00:45:50,500 I know some of it. 581 00:45:50,583 --> 00:45:53,833 Irregullarities in the books, they said. Can I explain it? 582 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,125 You don't have to explain anything. 583 00:45:57,208 --> 00:46:00,125 I did help him cook the books, Ed. I did do that. 584 00:46:06,958 --> 00:46:08,125 Should I... 585 00:46:09,916 --> 00:46:13,583 Should I tell you why I changed the books? 586 00:46:16,875 --> 00:46:19,541 You don't have to tell me anything. 587 00:46:20,958 --> 00:46:22,791 No, no, no! 588 00:46:24,125 --> 00:46:25,500 Jesus Christ! 589 00:46:40,458 --> 00:46:42,166 My books used to be perfect. 590 00:46:42,250 --> 00:46:45,791 Anyone could open 'em up and make sense of the whole goddamn store. 591 00:46:50,458 --> 00:46:52,416 I knew we'd pay for it. 592 00:46:52,500 --> 00:46:54,083 I don't care what it costs! 593 00:46:54,208 --> 00:46:57,541 This is when you come together. 594 00:46:57,666 --> 00:46:59,166 Well, that's awfully generous of you, Frank. 595 00:46:59,458 --> 00:47:02,458 The hell with it. The hell with it, Eddie. 596 00:47:02,583 --> 00:47:04,500 This is when you come together. 597 00:47:04,583 --> 00:47:06,500 This is family. 598 00:47:09,958 --> 00:47:13,166 They're just people like you and me, Ed. 599 00:47:13,458 --> 00:47:14,958 Remember that. 600 00:47:16,541 --> 00:47:18,500 Just people. 601 00:47:18,583 --> 00:47:22,958 They gotta put up the big front so that people will trust 'em with their money. 602 00:47:23,041 --> 00:47:25,500 This is why the big lobby, Ed. 603 00:47:25,583 --> 00:47:30,416 But they put their pants on one leg at a time just like you and me. 604 00:47:32,166 --> 00:47:35,750 They, too, use the toilet, Ed, in spite of appearances. 605 00:47:35,875 --> 00:47:38,916 And their money will be secured by the barber shop. 606 00:47:39,041 --> 00:47:42,000 A rock. A rock, the barber shop. 607 00:47:42,125 --> 00:47:43,916 Mr. Raffo. 608 00:47:44,041 --> 00:47:45,708 Yes, sir? 609 00:47:45,833 --> 00:47:47,791 Could you come with me, please? 610 00:47:47,916 --> 00:47:50,041 Sure. Can Ed come too? 611 00:47:50,166 --> 00:47:51,625 Mister... 612 00:47:52,208 --> 00:47:55,125 Crane. Ed Crane. 613 00:47:55,208 --> 00:47:58,083 You also have an interest in the securing porperty? 614 00:47:59,541 --> 00:48:01,166 He's a barber. 615 00:48:01,250 --> 00:48:04,791 - Second chair. - Not an owner. 616 00:48:04,916 --> 00:48:08,875 No, he's family. He's my brother-in-law. 617 00:48:08,958 --> 00:48:12,166 It would be best if he waited here. 618 00:48:50,083 --> 00:48:51,916 The barber shop. 619 00:48:55,916 --> 00:48:59,916 Doris and Frank's father had worked 30 years to own it free and clear. 620 00:49:00,041 --> 00:49:04,041 Now it got signed over to the bank, and the bank signed some over to Frank. 621 00:49:04,166 --> 00:49:07,583 And Frank signed the money to Freddy Riedenschneider. 622 00:49:07,708 --> 00:49:09,833 Who got into town two days later... 623 00:49:09,916 --> 00:49:12,791 And told me to meet him at Da Vinci's for lunch. 624 00:49:16,750 --> 00:49:18,750 - You're Crane? - Yeah. 625 00:49:18,875 --> 00:49:20,416 Barber, right? 626 00:49:20,541 --> 00:49:22,416 I'm Freddy Riedenschneider. Hungry? 627 00:49:22,500 --> 00:49:23,750 Not really. 628 00:49:23,833 --> 00:49:26,666 They tell me the chow's okay here. I made some inquiries. 629 00:49:28,125 --> 00:49:31,250 Look, I don't want to waste your time, so I'll eat while we talk. 630 00:49:31,375 --> 00:49:32,500 Do you mind? You don't mind. 631 00:49:32,583 --> 00:49:35,458 While I'm in town I'm staying at the Hotel Metropole. 632 00:49:35,541 --> 00:49:39,541 Turandot Suite. Yeah, it's goofy. They named their suites after operas. 633 00:49:39,625 --> 00:49:41,583 Room's okay, though. I poked around. 634 00:49:41,666 --> 00:49:44,041 I'm having 'em hold it for me. I'll be back and forth. 635 00:49:44,125 --> 00:49:47,583 So, in addition to my retainer, you're paying hotel, 636 00:49:47,666 --> 00:49:49,416 Living expenses, secretarial, 637 00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:52,750 Private eye, if we need to make inquiries, head shrinker, should we go that way. 638 00:49:52,833 --> 00:49:54,958 We'll talk about appeals if, as and when. 639 00:49:55,083 --> 00:49:58,750 - For now, has she confessed? - No, of course not. She didn't do it. 640 00:49:58,833 --> 00:50:02,375 Good. That helps. Not that she didn't do it That she didn't confess. 641 00:50:02,458 --> 00:50:06,375 Course, There's ways to deal with a confession, but that's one less thing to think about. 642 00:50:06,458 --> 00:50:09,541 Now, interview. I'm seeing her tomorrow. You sholud be there 3:00. 643 00:50:09,625 --> 00:50:11,875 One more thing. You keep your mouth shut. 644 00:50:11,958 --> 00:50:14,750 I get the lay of the land, I tell you what to say. 645 00:50:14,833 --> 00:50:18,083 No talking out of school. What's out of school? Everything's out of school. 646 00:50:18,166 --> 00:50:20,708 I do the talking. You keep your trap shut. 647 00:50:20,833 --> 00:50:22,875 I'm an attorney. You're a barber. You don't know anything. 648 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:26,916 Okay. 649 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,458 Good. Any questions, give me a ring. 650 00:50:29,583 --> 00:50:31,916 Turandot suite. If I'm out, leave a message. 651 00:50:33,125 --> 00:50:36,041 Sure you don't want anything? No? Okay. 652 00:50:36,125 --> 00:50:38,083 You're okay, pal. 653 00:50:38,375 --> 00:50:40,708 You're okay, she's okay, everything's gonna be hunky... 654 00:50:40,791 --> 00:50:42,833 And the... and the flapjacks, honey. 655 00:50:50,041 --> 00:50:51,458 There they were, 656 00:50:54,458 --> 00:50:56,666 All going about their business. 657 00:50:58,833 --> 00:51:00,791 It seem like I knew a secret, 658 00:51:00,875 --> 00:51:04,375 A bigger one, even, than what had really happened to Big Dave, 659 00:51:04,458 --> 00:51:07,333 Something none of them knew. 660 00:51:07,416 --> 00:51:09,916 Like I had made it to the outside somehow, 661 00:51:10,041 --> 00:51:12,666 And they were all still struggling way down below. 662 00:51:36,125 --> 00:51:37,333 Ann. 663 00:51:38,583 --> 00:51:39,958 Hello, Ed. 664 00:51:40,833 --> 00:51:43,083 Would you like to come in, Ann? 665 00:51:44,625 --> 00:51:47,083 No. No, it's very late. 666 00:51:51,166 --> 00:51:53,750 I'm so sorry about your loss. 667 00:51:59,125 --> 00:52:03,333 Course you know that Doris had nothing to do with it. 668 00:52:03,458 --> 00:52:05,541 Nothing at all. 669 00:52:06,041 --> 00:52:07,916 I know. 670 00:52:08,750 --> 00:52:10,958 Don't worry, Ed. 671 00:52:11,875 --> 00:52:13,833 I came to tell you... 672 00:52:13,916 --> 00:52:17,333 And you should tell Doris... 673 00:52:17,458 --> 00:52:18,416 Yeah? 674 00:52:29,458 --> 00:52:33,333 You know how Big Dave loved camping and the out of doors? 675 00:52:35,708 --> 00:52:36,791 Yeah. 676 00:52:36,916 --> 00:52:41,000 We went camping last summer in Eugene, Oregon. 677 00:52:41,083 --> 00:52:44,708 Outside Eugene, Ed. 678 00:52:46,708 --> 00:52:47,708 Yeah? 679 00:52:47,833 --> 00:52:51,583 At night there were lights. We both saw them. 680 00:52:51,708 --> 00:52:55,708 We never told anyone outside of our official report, 681 00:52:55,791 --> 00:52:57,750 Our report to the government. 682 00:52:59,875 --> 00:53:01,625 There was a spacecraft. 683 00:53:02,708 --> 00:53:04,791 I saw the creatures. 684 00:53:04,916 --> 00:53:07,833 They led Big Dave onto the craft. 685 00:53:07,916 --> 00:53:11,375 He never told anyone what they did. 686 00:53:11,458 --> 00:53:13,041 Ann, would you like to... 687 00:53:13,166 --> 00:53:17,708 I cannot repeat it to you, but this thing goes deep, Ed. 688 00:53:17,833 --> 00:53:20,666 It goes deep and involves the government. 689 00:53:20,750 --> 00:53:24,916 This was not your wife. There's a great deal of fear. 690 00:53:25,041 --> 00:53:28,958 You know how certain circles would-would find it, 691 00:53:29,083 --> 00:53:30,083 The knowledge, a threat. 692 00:53:30,208 --> 00:53:32,583 They-they try to limit it, and... 693 00:53:32,708 --> 00:53:36,583 Ann, would you like to come in, 694 00:53:36,708 --> 00:53:39,416 Sit down? 695 00:53:39,500 --> 00:53:41,500 Maybe have a drink. 696 00:53:46,416 --> 00:53:49,125 Sometimes knowledge is a curse, Ed. 697 00:53:51,041 --> 00:53:53,750 After this happened, 698 00:53:53,833 --> 00:53:55,166 Things changed. 699 00:53:57,666 --> 00:53:58,791 Big Dave... 700 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,458 He never touched me again. 701 00:54:08,416 --> 00:54:10,000 Tell Doris not to worry. 702 00:54:10,083 --> 00:54:12,708 I know it wasn't her. 703 00:54:13,750 --> 00:54:15,500 Perhaps this will bring it out 704 00:54:15,625 --> 00:54:17,166 Finally. 705 00:54:17,416 --> 00:54:21,083 Perhaps now it will all come out. 706 00:54:50,625 --> 00:54:52,166 It stinks. 707 00:54:52,416 --> 00:54:54,083 But it's true. 708 00:54:54,166 --> 00:54:56,500 I don't care it's true, it's not true. It stinks. 709 00:54:56,583 --> 00:54:59,166 You say he was being blackmailed? By who? You don't know. 710 00:54:59,458 --> 00:55:01,750 For having an affair. With who? You don't know. 711 00:55:01,833 --> 00:55:05,416 Did anyone else know about it? Probably not. You don't know. 712 00:55:05,541 --> 00:55:07,583 I knew about it. 713 00:55:07,708 --> 00:55:09,750 Big Dave told me about it... 714 00:55:09,875 --> 00:55:12,666 And the spot he was putting himself in by getting the money. 715 00:55:12,750 --> 00:55:16,041 Terrific! Your husband backs you up. That's terrific. 716 00:55:16,041 --> 00:55:17,791 And you gotta give me something to work with. 717 00:55:17,916 --> 00:55:20,750 Freddy Riedenschneider is good, but he's not a magician. 718 00:55:20,875 --> 00:55:24,291 He can't just wave his little wand in the air to make a plausible defense materialize. 719 00:55:24,416 --> 00:55:27,291 Look at what the other side is gonna run at us. 720 00:55:27,416 --> 00:55:30,000 They got the company books prepared by you, 721 00:55:30,250 --> 00:55:32,416 Cooked by you. That's motive. 722 00:55:32,500 --> 00:55:35,541 They got a murder scene you had access to. That's opportunity. 723 00:55:35,666 --> 00:55:38,416 They got that little trimmer thing he was stabbed in the throat with. 724 00:55:38,500 --> 00:55:40,625 - A dame's weapon. - It was Big Dave's. 725 00:55:40,750 --> 00:55:42,500 Don't interrupt me. That's means. 726 00:55:42,583 --> 00:55:45,583 They got a fine, upstanding pillar of the business community as a victim, 727 00:55:45,708 --> 00:55:47,291 And then they got you, 728 00:55:47,416 --> 00:55:50,666 A disgruntled, number-juggling underling, 729 00:55:50,750 --> 00:55:53,250 Who on the day in question was drunk as a skunk... 730 00:55:53,375 --> 00:55:58,250 And whose alibi for the time in question is being passed out at home, alone. 731 00:55:58,375 --> 00:56:00,500 I was with her. 732 00:56:00,625 --> 00:56:02,541 Like I say, 733 00:56:02,625 --> 00:56:04,208 It stinks. 734 00:56:12,583 --> 00:56:14,250 I killed him. 735 00:56:28,750 --> 00:56:32,458 Okay. You killed him. 736 00:56:33,916 --> 00:56:38,541 Okay, we forget the blackmail thing. You killed him. 737 00:56:38,625 --> 00:56:39,916 How come? 738 00:56:43,250 --> 00:56:45,750 He and Doris were having an affair. 739 00:56:49,583 --> 00:56:50,958 Okay. 740 00:56:51,250 --> 00:56:53,208 How did you know? 741 00:56:55,583 --> 00:56:57,750 I just knew. 742 00:56:58,541 --> 00:57:00,666 A husband knows. 743 00:57:01,625 --> 00:57:03,500 Will anyone else say they knew? 744 00:57:03,583 --> 00:57:04,833 And don't say your wife. 745 00:57:04,916 --> 00:57:06,750 I don't know. 746 00:57:08,916 --> 00:57:11,208 I don't think so. 747 00:57:12,583 --> 00:57:14,708 How did you get into the store? 748 00:57:14,791 --> 00:57:16,583 I took Doris's keys. 749 00:57:16,666 --> 00:57:20,750 Will anyone say they saw you there, on your way there, in there, on your way back? 750 00:57:22,750 --> 00:57:24,833 I don't think so. 751 00:57:24,916 --> 00:57:28,375 Will anyone corroborate any goddamn part of your story at all? 752 00:57:28,416 --> 00:57:31,791 Oh, come on! People, you can't help each other like that. 753 00:57:33,291 --> 00:57:35,666 Let's be realistic, now. 754 00:57:35,750 --> 00:57:40,375 Let's look at our options. Well, frankly, I don't see any options. 755 00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:44,500 Look, I cannot present story "A." I cannot present 756 00:57:44,583 --> 00:57:46,708 story "B." 757 00:57:46,833 --> 00:57:50,250 I could plead you for a nutcase, but you look too composed. 758 00:57:50,333 --> 00:57:52,375 I could offer a guilty plea, and in return they don't give you the juice, 759 00:57:52,458 --> 00:57:54,375 But I don't think you want to spend the rest of your life in chino. 760 00:57:54,458 --> 00:57:56,500 I know you didn't hire Freddy Riedenschneider 761 00:57:56,583 --> 00:57:58,708 To hold your hand at a sentencing hearing. 762 00:57:58,791 --> 00:58:00,708 You could have gotten Lloyd Garroway for that. 763 00:58:00,750 --> 00:58:03,541 No, no, no, no. We're not giving up yet. 764 00:58:03,625 --> 00:58:06,750 You hired Freddy Riedenschneider, It means you're not throwing in the towel. 765 00:58:06,875 --> 00:58:08,208 I litigate. 766 00:58:08,291 --> 00:58:10,541 I don't capitulate. 767 00:58:10,625 --> 00:58:13,958 All right. No options? We gotta think. 768 00:58:14,208 --> 00:58:18,541 All right. We go back to the blackmail thing. Yeah, it titillates. 769 00:58:18,625 --> 00:58:20,750 It's open-ended, and it makes him the bad guy. 770 00:58:20,875 --> 00:58:23,583 You dig around, you never know. Something unsavory from his past. 771 00:58:23,666 --> 00:58:27,666 He approaches you to help him with the money, his past comes back to haunt him. Who's to say? 772 00:58:27,750 --> 00:58:31,375 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Forget the jealous husband thing. That's just silly. 773 00:58:31,500 --> 00:58:33,791 We're going with the blackmail. I'll be in touch. 774 00:58:33,916 --> 00:58:35,583 I'm comin' out! 775 00:58:44,583 --> 00:58:48,333 Of course there was one person who could confirm Doris's story, 776 00:58:48,458 --> 00:58:49,958 Or plenty of it. 777 00:58:50,208 --> 00:58:52,833 The dry-cleaning pansy. 778 00:58:52,916 --> 00:58:55,666 But he'd left the hotel, skipped out on his bill. 779 00:58:57,250 --> 00:59:00,208 He'd also disappeared from the residence he gave me, 780 00:59:00,291 --> 00:59:01,833 Owing two months'rent. 781 00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,416 How could I have been so stupid? 782 00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:07,208 Handing over $10,000 for a piece of paper. 783 00:59:09,208 --> 00:59:12,333 And the man gone, like a ghost. 784 00:59:12,458 --> 00:59:16,750 Disappeared into thin air vaporized like the nips at Nagasaki. 785 00:59:16,875 --> 00:59:18,500 Gone now. 786 00:59:21,916 --> 00:59:24,416 All gone. 787 00:59:24,541 --> 00:59:27,583 The money gone, Big Dave gone, 788 00:59:27,708 --> 00:59:30,666 Doris going. 789 00:59:30,708 --> 00:59:33,166 How could I have been so stupid? 790 01:00:14,541 --> 01:00:17,833 Sooner or later, everyone needs a haircut. 791 01:00:20,333 --> 01:00:22,458 We were working for the bank now. 792 01:00:22,583 --> 01:00:26,375 We kept cutting the hair, trying to stay afloat, 793 01:00:26,458 --> 01:00:30,500 Make the payments, tread the water day by day, 794 01:00:31,708 --> 01:00:33,458 Day by day. 795 01:00:37,333 --> 01:00:39,541 Most people think someone's accused of a crime, 796 01:00:39,666 --> 01:00:42,833 They haul 'em in and bring 'em to trial, But it's not like that. 797 01:00:42,916 --> 01:00:44,541 It's not that fast. 798 01:00:44,666 --> 01:00:47,666 The wheels of justice turn slow. 799 01:00:47,750 --> 01:00:50,583 They have the arraignment, then the indictment, 800 01:00:50,708 --> 01:00:54,833 And they entertain motions to dismiss and postpone and change the venue... 801 01:00:54,875 --> 01:00:57,458 And alter this and that and the other. 802 01:00:57,541 --> 01:01:00,375 They impanel a jury, which bring more motions. 803 01:01:00,500 --> 01:01:03,375 Then they set a trial date, and then they change the date. 804 01:01:03,500 --> 01:01:05,541 And then, often as not, they'll change it again. 805 01:01:05,666 --> 01:01:07,375 Not guilty, your honor. 806 01:01:11,208 --> 01:01:13,833 And through all of it, we cut the hair. 807 01:01:19,708 --> 01:01:23,500 Meantime, Freddy Riedenschneider slept at the Metropole... 808 01:01:27,208 --> 01:01:29,625 And shoveled it in at Da Vinci's. 809 01:01:30,958 --> 01:01:33,500 He'd brought in a private investigator from Sacramento... 810 01:01:33,583 --> 01:01:36,500 To nose around into Big Dave's past. 811 01:01:54,916 --> 01:01:58,750 I found myself, more and more, going over to the Abundas's. 812 01:01:58,875 --> 01:02:02,583 It was a routine we fell into most every evening. 813 01:02:02,708 --> 01:02:06,541 I even went when Walter was away on his research trips. 814 01:02:09,708 --> 01:02:11,666 He was a genealogist, 815 01:02:11,750 --> 01:02:14,833 Had traced back his side of the family seven generations, 816 01:02:14,958 --> 01:02:16,875 His late wife's eight. 817 01:02:16,958 --> 01:02:19,333 It seemed like a screwy hobby, 818 01:02:19,375 --> 01:02:21,875 But then maybe all hobbies are. 819 01:02:25,333 --> 01:02:29,541 Maybe Walter found something there in the old county courthouses, 820 01:02:29,666 --> 01:02:31,666 Hospital file rooms, 821 01:02:31,791 --> 01:02:34,541 City archives, property rolls, 822 01:02:34,666 --> 01:02:35,916 Registries. 823 01:02:37,333 --> 01:02:40,541 Something maybe like what I found listening to Birdy play. 824 01:02:41,583 --> 01:02:43,541 Some kind of escape. 825 01:02:44,375 --> 01:02:46,500 Some kind of peace. 826 01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,500 They got this guy in Germany. 827 01:03:33,625 --> 01:03:36,333 Fritz something or other. 828 01:03:37,291 --> 01:03:38,916 Or is it... Maybe it's Werner. 829 01:03:39,208 --> 01:03:42,666 Anyway... He's got this theory. 830 01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,833 You want to test something, you know, scientifically... 831 01:03:46,875 --> 01:03:49,958 How the planet go 'round the sun, 832 01:03:50,208 --> 01:03:52,791 What sunspots are made of, 833 01:03:52,875 --> 01:03:55,500 Why the water comes out of the tap... 834 01:03:55,625 --> 01:03:58,708 Well, you gotta look at it. 835 01:03:58,833 --> 01:04:02,375 But sometimes you look at it... 836 01:04:02,500 --> 01:04:05,875 Your looking changes it. 837 01:04:08,708 --> 01:04:12,541 You can't know the reality of what happened, 838 01:04:12,666 --> 01:04:13,875 Or what would have happened, 839 01:04:13,958 --> 01:04:17,791 If you hadn't stuck in your own goddamn schnozz. 840 01:04:17,875 --> 01:04:21,208 So there is no "What happened." 841 01:04:21,291 --> 01:04:22,958 Looking at something... 842 01:04:23,208 --> 01:04:24,833 Changes it. 843 01:04:29,833 --> 01:04:32,708 They call it the uncertainty principle. 844 01:04:32,833 --> 01:04:37,458 Sure, it sound screwy, but even Einstein says the guy's onto something. 845 01:04:41,208 --> 01:04:42,666 Science. 846 01:04:43,708 --> 01:04:44,875 Perception. 847 01:04:45,916 --> 01:04:46,875 Reality. 848 01:04:49,541 --> 01:04:50,666 Doubt. 849 01:04:52,291 --> 01:04:55,541 Reasonable... doubt. 850 01:04:57,208 --> 01:05:00,750 I'm saying that sometimes the more you look, 851 01:05:00,875 --> 01:05:02,916 the less you really know. 852 01:05:04,708 --> 01:05:08,208 It's a fact, a proved fact. 853 01:05:08,333 --> 01:05:10,500 In... In a way, 854 01:05:10,583 --> 01:05:12,916 It's the only fact there is. 855 01:05:16,208 --> 01:05:20,333 This Heinie even wrote it out in numbers. 856 01:05:23,500 --> 01:05:25,375 Burns? 857 01:05:32,500 --> 01:05:35,375 Subject: David Allen Brewster, 858 01:05:35,458 --> 01:05:36,958 Born Brooklyn, 1911. 859 01:05:37,208 --> 01:05:40,625 Subject educated public schools. One year case western university. 860 01:05:40,708 --> 01:05:42,541 Flunks out. 861 01:05:42,583 --> 01:05:46,750 1931, Retail appliance salesman in Barnhoff's department store, Cincinnati. 862 01:05:46,875 --> 01:05:50,750 1933, Meets Ann Nirdlinger. They marry that year. 863 01:05:50,875 --> 01:05:53,333 1935, Arrested on assault complaint. 864 01:05:53,458 --> 01:05:55,708 Complainant has a broken nose, couple of broken ribs. 865 01:05:55,750 --> 01:05:59,541 '36, Another assault beef at a bar room altercation. 866 01:05:59,666 --> 01:06:02,333 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Couple of fistfights, right? Go to his service record. 867 01:06:04,958 --> 01:06:07,500 Inducted march 15, 1942. 868 01:06:07,541 --> 01:06:11,791 Served in a clerical capacity in the U.S. Naval shipyards at San Diego. 869 01:06:11,875 --> 01:06:14,375 One fistfight, broken up by the M.P.S. 870 01:06:14,458 --> 01:06:18,416 No court-martial. Honorable discharge, may 8, 1945. 871 01:06:18,541 --> 01:06:22,666 - Since then, he's been clean. - Thank you, Barns. Get lost. 872 01:06:32,875 --> 01:06:35,208 So? 873 01:06:36,708 --> 01:06:39,333 This could be your Dolly's ticket out of the death house. 874 01:06:39,416 --> 01:06:40,833 So! 875 01:06:42,375 --> 01:06:43,583 I don't get it. 876 01:06:43,708 --> 01:06:46,541 Look, chump. 877 01:06:46,666 --> 01:06:51,166 This is a guy, from what I understand, told everybody he was a war hero, right? 878 01:06:51,250 --> 01:06:52,416 Island-hopping, 879 01:06:52,541 --> 01:06:54,583 Practically liberated, the pacific all by himself, 880 01:06:54,708 --> 01:06:57,500 With a knife in one hand, a gun in the other, 881 01:06:57,583 --> 01:07:00,375 And 20 yards of jap guts between his teeth. 882 01:07:00,416 --> 01:07:03,708 And now it turns out this dope spent the war sitting on his a**... 883 01:07:03,750 --> 01:07:06,916 In some boat yard in San Diego. 884 01:07:07,208 --> 01:07:09,208 You asked for blackmail. 885 01:07:09,333 --> 01:07:12,833 Mr. Hail-fellow-well-met, about to open his own business here, 886 01:07:12,916 --> 01:07:16,375 Has been lying to everybody in this town for the last four years, 887 01:07:16,416 --> 01:07:18,833 Probably including half the people sitting on that jury. 888 01:07:18,916 --> 01:07:21,333 Well, it finally caught up with him. 889 01:07:21,416 --> 01:07:25,958 Somebody knew his dirty little secret, just like your wife says. 890 01:07:26,208 --> 01:07:29,458 They called, they demanded money. 891 01:07:31,208 --> 01:07:34,500 Did Big Dave say he'd recently heard from an old friend? 892 01:07:34,583 --> 01:07:38,541 Did Big Dave mention it was something about his war service? 893 01:07:38,625 --> 01:07:41,708 I don't know. I wasn't there. 894 01:07:41,833 --> 01:07:44,750 You have to tell us. 895 01:07:44,875 --> 01:07:47,833 Maybe he specified, maybe he didn't. 896 01:07:47,916 --> 01:07:50,916 I'm not putting words in your mouth, no. 897 01:07:51,208 --> 01:07:55,625 But the point is that this liar, this cynical manipulator, 898 01:07:55,708 --> 01:07:58,666 Turns to you to help him out of his jam. 899 01:07:58,750 --> 01:08:00,708 Fat-assed son of a b****. 900 01:08:02,416 --> 01:08:05,958 - So who... who actually... - Who? 901 01:08:06,208 --> 01:08:07,833 Who? 902 01:08:07,958 --> 01:08:09,500 I don't know who. 903 01:08:09,583 --> 01:08:12,666 But the point is that if Mr. Prosecutor over there... 904 01:08:12,750 --> 01:08:16,333 Had devoted half the time he's spent persecuting this woman... 905 01:08:16,458 --> 01:08:20,750 To even the most cursory investigation of this schmo's past, 906 01:08:20,875 --> 01:08:22,750 Then we might know who. 907 01:08:22,875 --> 01:08:27,708 But we can't know who. We can't know what really happened. 908 01:08:27,833 --> 01:08:30,791 Because the more you look, the less you know. 909 01:08:33,208 --> 01:08:35,666 But the beauty of it is... 910 01:08:35,791 --> 01:08:38,833 We don't gotta know. 911 01:08:38,958 --> 01:08:43,375 We just gotta show that, god damn it, they don't know. 912 01:08:43,500 --> 01:08:48,500 Because of Fritz, or Werner, whatever the hell his name is. 913 01:08:52,333 --> 01:08:55,208 Freddy Riedenschneider sees daylight. 914 01:08:55,250 --> 01:08:57,833 We got a real shot at this, folks. Let's not get c***y. 915 01:08:57,958 --> 01:08:59,500 Comin' out! 916 01:09:13,916 --> 01:09:15,750 Big Dave. 917 01:09:21,833 --> 01:09:23,791 What a dope. 918 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,875 So maybe Riedenschneider could fix it for Doris. 919 01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,500 Maybe it would all work out. 920 01:09:36,583 --> 01:09:38,541 And I thought, 921 01:09:40,500 --> 01:09:42,250 I hoped, 922 01:09:42,375 --> 01:09:44,875 That maybe there was a way out for me as well. 923 01:09:45,875 --> 01:09:48,666 He was deaf when he wrote this. 924 01:09:49,583 --> 01:09:50,833 Who? 925 01:09:52,375 --> 01:09:53,541 Beethoven. 926 01:09:55,583 --> 01:09:59,333 He created it, but he never actually heard it. 927 01:09:59,416 --> 01:10:02,375 I guess he just heard it all in his head somehow. 928 01:10:09,916 --> 01:10:13,416 The girl had talent. Anyone could see that. 929 01:10:13,541 --> 01:10:15,500 And she wasn't some fly-by-nighter. 930 01:10:15,625 --> 01:10:18,416 She was just a good, clean kid. 931 01:10:18,541 --> 01:10:22,791 If she was going to have a career, she'd need a responsible adult... Looking out for her, 932 01:10:22,875 --> 01:10:25,416 Some kind of manager. 933 01:10:26,750 --> 01:10:30,208 She'd have contracts to look at, be going out on tours, 934 01:10:30,250 --> 01:10:32,333 Playing on the radio, maybe. 935 01:10:32,416 --> 01:10:36,500 I could help her sort through all that without charging her an arm and a leg. 936 01:10:36,583 --> 01:10:38,541 Just enough to get by. 937 01:10:42,750 --> 01:10:44,666 Then I could be with her, 938 01:10:44,750 --> 01:10:47,708 Enough to keep myself feeling okay. 939 01:10:49,416 --> 01:10:51,875 Why couldn't that work? 940 01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:53,500 Why not? 941 01:10:59,875 --> 01:11:02,250 - Hi, Mr. Crane. - Hello, Birdy. 942 01:11:05,750 --> 01:11:07,666 I thought that was real good. 943 01:11:07,750 --> 01:11:11,208 Yeah, I messed up a little bit on the... on the agitato, 944 01:11:11,333 --> 01:11:14,666 But if nobody noticed, then it's okay. 945 01:11:18,416 --> 01:11:20,625 This is a friend of mine. 946 01:11:20,708 --> 01:11:23,708 Tony, Mr. Crane. 947 01:11:25,375 --> 01:11:26,708 Hello, Tony. 948 01:11:26,833 --> 01:11:28,750 Hello, sir. 949 01:11:44,875 --> 01:11:46,791 Congratulations. 950 01:11:49,875 --> 01:11:52,500 Think I'll be getting home now. 951 01:11:55,541 --> 01:11:57,500 It was... nice to meet you, sir. 952 01:11:57,583 --> 01:11:59,458 You too, Tony. 953 01:12:03,333 --> 01:12:04,708 Why couldn't it work? 954 01:12:05,750 --> 01:12:09,833 Anyway, that's what I was thinking in the days leading up to the trial. 955 01:12:09,916 --> 01:12:13,791 It seemed like once that was over, I'd be ready for a new start. 956 01:12:13,875 --> 01:12:16,208 Freddy Riedenschneider was busy preparing. 957 01:12:16,333 --> 01:12:18,541 He was very optimistic. 958 01:12:18,666 --> 01:12:22,750 And finally it came... the first day of the trial, 959 01:12:22,875 --> 01:12:26,833 "What Riedenschneider called 'The big show." 960 01:12:38,416 --> 01:12:42,541 Where's the judge? How come there's no judge? 961 01:12:42,666 --> 01:12:44,541 Where's the judge, Ed? 962 01:12:46,208 --> 01:12:47,208 Riedenschneider. 963 01:12:47,250 --> 01:12:49,833 How come the judge doesn't come out? 964 01:12:49,916 --> 01:12:54,708 The judge comes in last. He'll come in when Doris gets here. 965 01:12:54,833 --> 01:12:58,708 So where's Doris? I thought we started at 10:00. 966 01:12:58,833 --> 01:13:01,500 Hey, Riedenschneider. Where's Doris? 967 01:13:01,583 --> 01:13:03,375 She's late. 968 01:13:03,416 --> 01:13:07,375 Late? How can she be late? 969 01:13:07,458 --> 01:13:10,541 She's in prison, Ed. None of us are in prison. 970 01:13:10,666 --> 01:13:14,541 And yet we're not late. We're on time, Ed. 971 01:13:14,583 --> 01:13:16,541 How can Doris be late? 972 01:13:16,625 --> 01:13:19,375 What, they don't have wake-up calls? 973 01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,166 - All rise. - No, no. 974 01:13:26,875 --> 01:13:28,500 Counselors. 975 01:13:42,541 --> 01:13:43,833 What's going on, Ed? 976 01:13:43,916 --> 01:13:46,916 I thought there would be arguments, 977 01:13:47,208 --> 01:13:48,875 The bailiff and so forth. 978 01:13:53,708 --> 01:13:56,166 Ed, what is this? 979 01:13:56,250 --> 01:13:58,375 Is this procedure? 980 01:14:15,250 --> 01:14:20,291 In the matter of the people v. Doris Crane, 981 01:14:20,375 --> 01:14:22,625 Case number SR-87249, 982 01:14:22,708 --> 01:14:24,666 Cause now pending is hereby dismissed... 983 01:14:24,750 --> 01:14:26,791 I don't understand it. 984 01:14:28,458 --> 01:14:31,875 Had a real shot at this. I could've won this thing. 985 01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:34,250 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, 986 01:14:34,375 --> 01:14:38,708 Your service is no longer needed... And you are now discharge. 987 01:14:40,541 --> 01:14:42,541 She's hanged herself. 988 01:14:44,666 --> 01:14:49,208 I'd brought her a dress to wear to court, and she'd used the belt. 989 01:14:49,333 --> 01:14:52,541 At first I thought she'd figured out somehow how I fit into it... 990 01:14:52,666 --> 01:14:55,916 And couldn't stand it, couldn't stand knowing. 991 01:14:56,208 --> 01:14:58,541 But that wasn't it, I'd find out later. 992 01:15:01,416 --> 01:15:05,375 For now, everything just seemed ruined. 993 01:15:07,333 --> 01:15:09,791 Freddy Riedenschneider went back to Sacramento, 994 01:15:09,875 --> 01:15:12,875 Still shaking his head, saying it was the biggest disappointment 995 01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:14,958 Of his professional career. 996 01:15:15,208 --> 01:15:17,541 Frankie fell to pieces. 997 01:15:17,625 --> 01:15:19,875 I suspect he was drinking. 998 01:15:19,958 --> 01:15:23,458 Anyway, he stopped coming in to work. 999 01:15:23,541 --> 01:15:27,875 That left me to keep the place going, or the bank would've taken it. 1000 01:15:29,750 --> 01:15:32,708 I was the principal barber now. 1001 01:15:32,791 --> 01:15:35,875 I hired a new man for the second chair. 1002 01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:39,500 I'd hired the guy who did the least gabbing whie he came in for an interview, 1003 01:15:39,583 --> 01:15:43,333 But I guess the new man had only kept quiet because he was nervous. 1004 01:15:43,416 --> 01:15:46,375 Once he had the job, he talked from the minute I opened the shop in the morning... 1005 01:15:46,500 --> 01:15:49,208 Until I locked up at night. 1006 01:15:51,458 --> 01:15:54,250 For all I know, he talked to himself on the way home. 1007 01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:01,958 When I walked home, it seemed like everyone avoided looking at me, 1008 01:16:02,208 --> 01:16:04,333 As if I'd caught some disease. 1009 01:16:05,375 --> 01:16:09,208 This thing with Doris, nobody wanted to talk about it. 1010 01:16:11,625 --> 01:16:14,958 It was like I was a ghost walking down the street. 1011 01:16:16,750 --> 01:16:18,875 And when I got home now, 1012 01:16:22,625 --> 01:16:24,541 The place felt empty. 1013 01:16:31,875 --> 01:16:34,208 I sat in the house, 1014 01:16:36,833 --> 01:16:38,958 But there was nobody there. 1015 01:16:45,500 --> 01:16:47,708 I was a ghost. 1016 01:16:48,791 --> 01:16:50,833 I didn't see anyone. 1017 01:16:50,916 --> 01:16:52,875 No one saw me. 1018 01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:00,208 I was the barber. 1019 01:17:07,625 --> 01:17:11,541 Some bacon and potatoes, which are supposed to come with it. 1020 01:17:11,625 --> 01:17:15,333 So I pay for it, and I put the change in my pocket without really looking... 1021 01:17:15,416 --> 01:17:17,875 'Cause, gosh, who looks at the change when you eat there every day? 1022 01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,416 Two blocks later I look at the change she gave me. Golly, I'm two bits short. 1023 01:17:21,541 --> 01:17:25,208 So I walk back over to Linton's, find this gal, big argument. 1024 01:17:25,333 --> 01:17:28,875 She doesn't even recall the transaction. 1025 01:17:28,958 --> 01:17:30,750 Doesn't recall the transaction. No recollections. 1026 01:17:31,354 --> 01:17:33,479 So I said, "Look, dear. Go ahead. Look at the menu." 1027 01:17:33,541 --> 01:17:35,666 If you're in before 6:00, it's the whatchamacallit... 1028 01:17:39,208 --> 01:17:41,208 - The early bird special. - Yeah, the early riser. 1029 01:17:46,500 --> 01:17:47,625 Crane? 1030 01:17:48,375 --> 01:17:50,833 I'm Crane. 1031 01:17:50,916 --> 01:17:53,833 My name's Diedrickson, county medical examiner. 1032 01:17:55,375 --> 01:17:56,583 Yeah? 1033 01:17:59,291 --> 01:18:02,208 I just came by for an informal chat. 1034 01:18:08,208 --> 01:18:10,375 Why don't I buy you a drink? 1035 01:18:13,625 --> 01:18:15,166 Rye. 1036 01:18:16,375 --> 01:18:18,291 Just coffee. 1037 01:18:18,375 --> 01:18:21,291 You sure you don't want something stiffer? 1038 01:18:21,375 --> 01:18:23,250 Coffee it is. 1039 01:18:28,875 --> 01:18:33,250 County M.E. does an autopsy on anyone who dies in custody. 1040 01:18:33,958 --> 01:18:36,208 I don't know if you knew that. 1041 01:18:36,333 --> 01:18:37,625 It's routine. 1042 01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:43,416 Doesn't become a matter of public record unless there's been foul play. 1043 01:18:43,541 --> 01:18:45,416 However, 1044 01:18:45,500 --> 01:18:48,625 I don't think I'm prohibited from telling you this. 1045 01:18:48,708 --> 01:18:51,708 Of course, I'm not obliged to either. 1046 01:18:51,833 --> 01:18:53,791 I just don't know. 1047 01:18:54,791 --> 01:18:57,375 But if I were the man, 1048 01:18:57,500 --> 01:19:00,333 I'd want to be told. 1049 01:19:01,458 --> 01:19:03,250 Told what? 1050 01:19:09,541 --> 01:19:12,541 I'm not here to add to your... 1051 01:19:13,208 --> 01:19:14,375 Thanks. 1052 01:19:16,250 --> 01:19:18,208 Your wife was pregnant. 1053 01:19:19,916 --> 01:19:21,625 First trimester. 1054 01:19:25,625 --> 01:19:28,250 There it is. 1055 01:19:29,083 --> 01:19:30,958 I'm sorry. 1056 01:19:33,416 --> 01:19:36,541 Hell, I hope I've done the right thing. 1057 01:19:41,083 --> 01:19:45,625 My wife and I had not performed the s** act in many years. 1058 01:20:01,250 --> 01:20:02,458 Well, 1059 01:20:05,958 --> 01:20:08,500 That's really none of my business. 1060 01:20:12,958 --> 01:20:14,500 I'm sorry. 1061 01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:18,625 There it is. 1062 01:20:21,458 --> 01:20:23,291 Good luck, Crane. 1063 01:20:40,375 --> 01:20:43,875 Doris and I had never really talked much. 1064 01:20:43,958 --> 01:20:46,500 I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily. 1065 01:20:46,583 --> 01:20:50,958 But it is funny. Now I wanted to talk. 1066 01:20:51,083 --> 01:20:53,666 Now, with everyone gone, 1067 01:20:53,916 --> 01:20:57,250 I was alone with secrets I didn't want... 1068 01:20:57,375 --> 01:21:00,291 And no one to tell 'em to anyway. 1069 01:21:01,541 --> 01:21:04,583 I went to see a woman who was supposed to have powers in communicating... 1070 01:21:04,708 --> 01:21:07,583 With those who had "Passed across", as she called it. 1071 01:21:07,666 --> 01:21:10,250 She said that people who had passed across were picky about 1072 01:21:10,375 --> 01:21:12,125 Who they'd communicate with. 1073 01:21:12,250 --> 01:21:15,000 Not like most people you run into on this side. 1074 01:21:15,083 --> 01:21:19,625 So you needed a guide, someone with a gift for talking to souls. 1075 01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:22,333 Give me your hand. 1076 01:21:26,708 --> 01:21:30,125 Well, first she told me that my wife was in a peachful place, 1077 01:21:30,250 --> 01:21:32,333 That our souls were still connected, 1078 01:21:32,416 --> 01:21:34,500 That she'd never stopped loving me... 1079 01:21:34,583 --> 01:21:38,250 Even though she'd done some things she wasn't proud of. 1080 01:21:39,666 --> 01:21:41,958 Man, she was reading me like a book. 1081 01:21:44,083 --> 01:21:47,541 She was a phony, just another gabber. 1082 01:21:47,666 --> 01:21:50,625 I was turning into Ann Nirdlinger, 1083 01:21:50,916 --> 01:21:53,416 Big Dave's wife 1084 01:21:53,541 --> 01:21:56,375 I had to turn my back on the old lady, 1085 01:21:56,458 --> 01:22:00,083 On the veils, on the ghosts, 1086 01:22:00,208 --> 01:22:02,125 On the dead, 1087 01:22:02,208 --> 01:22:04,958 Before they all s***ed me in. 1088 01:22:16,666 --> 01:22:18,208 Ed? 1089 01:22:18,291 --> 01:22:20,416 How are you holding up? 1090 01:22:20,541 --> 01:22:22,416 Okay, Walter. Thanks. 1091 01:22:24,333 --> 01:22:26,333 I... I was so damn sorry to hear about your loss. 1092 01:22:26,416 --> 01:22:29,291 A terrible thing. It's just damn terrible. 1093 01:22:31,041 --> 01:22:33,541 Birdy's upstairs. I'm on long-distance, so... 1094 01:22:33,666 --> 01:22:35,083 Sure, Walter. 1095 01:22:46,625 --> 01:22:48,458 Hello, Birdy. 1096 01:22:49,416 --> 01:22:51,250 Hi, Mr. Crane. 1097 01:22:52,708 --> 01:22:55,083 We haven't seen you since... 1098 01:22:57,625 --> 01:22:59,916 We've certainly missed you. 1099 01:23:02,458 --> 01:23:04,958 Birdy, I've been doing a lot of thinking. 1100 01:23:07,541 --> 01:23:11,958 There are a lot of things that haven't worked out for me. 1101 01:23:12,041 --> 01:23:15,125 Life has dealt me some bum cards. 1102 01:23:15,208 --> 01:23:17,125 Or maybe I just haven't played them right. 1103 01:23:17,208 --> 01:23:20,166 Pop doesn't like people smoking in here. 1104 01:23:25,958 --> 01:23:27,416 I'm sorry. 1105 01:23:27,541 --> 01:23:31,500 Well, sometimes I have a cigarette when he's away, but never when he's home. 1106 01:23:31,583 --> 01:23:34,125 He can smell it a mile off. 1107 01:23:34,250 --> 01:23:37,083 Well, sure. It's his house. 1108 01:23:37,166 --> 01:23:39,666 That's what he keeps telling me. 1109 01:23:41,041 --> 01:23:43,625 Anyway, my point is you're young, 1110 01:23:43,708 --> 01:23:47,125 A kid, really, your whole life ahead of you. 1111 01:23:48,416 --> 01:23:52,958 But it's not too soon to start making opportunities for yourself... 1112 01:23:53,083 --> 01:23:55,958 Before it all washes away. 1113 01:23:58,333 --> 01:24:02,458 Yeah, I guess. Pop says so too. 1114 01:24:02,583 --> 01:24:04,583 You know, I work pretty hard at school. 1115 01:24:04,708 --> 01:24:07,208 That's swell. 1116 01:24:07,333 --> 01:24:11,125 However, the music, if you want to pursue it... 1117 01:24:11,208 --> 01:24:16,125 The lessons from Mrs. Swan, they'll only take you so far. 1118 01:24:16,208 --> 01:24:18,875 There's this guy in San Francisco. 1119 01:24:19,666 --> 01:24:21,875 I've made inquiries. 1120 01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:26,125 Everybody says he's the best. 1121 01:24:26,250 --> 01:24:30,416 Trained people who've gone on to big concert careers in symphony orchestras, the works. 1122 01:24:30,541 --> 01:24:33,125 His name is Jacques... 1123 01:24:33,208 --> 01:24:35,166 Carcanogues. 1124 01:24:35,250 --> 01:24:38,083 I'm not sure I'm pronouncing it right. Anyway, he's a frenchman. 1125 01:24:38,208 --> 01:24:40,583 - Oh, boy. A frenchman? - You've got talent. 1126 01:24:42,041 --> 01:24:45,416 Anybody can see that. And he's the best. 1127 01:24:45,500 --> 01:24:48,125 If he sees a student that he thinks has talent, 1128 01:24:48,208 --> 01:24:51,500 He takes them on for next to nothing. So you're a cinch to be accepted. 1129 01:24:51,583 --> 01:24:55,375 I could cover the costs of the lessons. Like I said, it's pretty modest. 1130 01:24:55,458 --> 01:24:58,625 - Oh, Jeez, Mr. Crane. - No, I have to do it. 1131 01:24:58,708 --> 01:25:02,166 I can't stand by and watch any more things go down the drain. 1132 01:25:02,250 --> 01:25:04,250 You're young. You don't understand. 1133 01:25:04,375 --> 01:25:09,125 Well, Jeez, Mr. Crane. I hadn't really thought about a career or stuff. 1134 01:25:10,583 --> 01:25:12,958 Well, I know you haven't. 1135 01:25:14,208 --> 01:25:18,416 Look, just go see him as a favor to me. 1136 01:25:19,208 --> 01:25:20,500 I talked to this guy. 1137 01:25:20,583 --> 01:25:24,041 He loosened up a little bit when I told him how talented you were. 1138 01:25:24,166 --> 01:25:26,333 He's agreed to see you this Saturday. 1139 01:25:27,500 --> 01:25:31,041 He said maybe you're a diamond in the rough. 1140 01:25:32,083 --> 01:25:33,500 His words. 1141 01:25:33,583 --> 01:25:36,125 Jeez, I don't know, Mr. Crane. 1142 01:25:38,416 --> 01:25:41,291 Just go see him as a favor to me. 1143 01:26:03,375 --> 01:26:04,541 You are the father? 1144 01:26:04,666 --> 01:26:08,041 No, I'm her... I'm a family friend. 1145 01:26:08,125 --> 01:26:12,125 I am Carcanogues. You will wait, my dear. 1146 01:26:21,708 --> 01:26:23,541 I speak with you on the phone, no? 1147 01:26:23,625 --> 01:26:27,250 You have a special interest in music? 1148 01:26:34,916 --> 01:26:37,208 A music lover, alors. 1149 01:26:38,666 --> 01:26:41,375 I don't pretend to be an expert. 1150 01:26:53,250 --> 01:26:54,875 How did she do? 1151 01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:57,250 She seemed like a very nice girl. 1152 01:26:59,458 --> 01:27:03,125 She play, monsieur, 1153 01:27:03,250 --> 01:27:05,333 Like a very nice girl. 1154 01:27:06,958 --> 01:27:08,083 Stinks. 1155 01:27:08,208 --> 01:27:10,041 Nice girl, 1156 01:27:10,125 --> 01:27:12,083 However, stinks. 1157 01:27:13,166 --> 01:27:14,958 Well, I don't understand. 1158 01:27:15,083 --> 01:27:17,166 Is not so hard to understand. 1159 01:27:17,250 --> 01:27:20,375 Her playing, very polite. 1160 01:27:20,458 --> 01:27:22,666 Did she make mistakes? 1161 01:27:22,916 --> 01:27:25,291 Mistake? No. 1162 01:27:25,416 --> 01:27:27,958 It say "E-flat," she play E-flat. 1163 01:27:28,083 --> 01:27:31,375 Ping, ping. She play the right note always. 1164 01:27:31,458 --> 01:27:33,916 Well, I don't understand. No mistakes? 1165 01:27:34,041 --> 01:27:37,500 Look, she's just a kid. I thought you taught these kids to... 1166 01:27:37,583 --> 01:27:41,500 No, no, no, monsieur. That is what I cannot teach her? I cannot teach her to have the soul. 1167 01:27:43,041 --> 01:27:43,458 Voyez, monsieur. Look. 1168 01:27:43,458 --> 01:27:47,291 To play the piano is not about the fingers. 1169 01:27:47,375 --> 01:27:49,333 We make with the fingers. 1170 01:27:55,375 --> 01:28:01,083 But the music, monsieur, she come from L'interieur, from inside? 1171 01:28:02,208 --> 01:28:04,166 The music, 1172 01:28:04,208 --> 01:28:06,333 She starts here. 1173 01:28:06,416 --> 01:28:09,333 She come out through here. 1174 01:28:09,416 --> 01:28:12,875 Then perhaps, 1175 01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:14,500 Perhaps, 1176 01:28:14,583 --> 01:28:17,250 She can go here. 1177 01:28:21,541 --> 01:28:24,333 Like I said, I'm not an expert. 1178 01:28:24,416 --> 01:28:28,083 So you can listen to me, for I am expert. 1179 01:28:30,541 --> 01:28:33,250 Voyez, monsieur. This girl, nice girl. 1180 01:28:33,375 --> 01:28:37,000 Very clever hands. Nice girl. 1181 01:28:37,125 --> 01:28:40,250 I think, perhaps some day... 1182 01:28:41,250 --> 01:28:44,916 She can make very good typist? 1183 01:28:50,375 --> 01:28:51,708 Voila. 1184 01:29:00,125 --> 01:29:02,625 - I stank, didn't I? - He didn't say that. 1185 01:29:02,875 --> 01:29:05,250 No, but more or less. 1186 01:29:07,166 --> 01:29:08,458 I'm no expert, 1187 01:29:08,541 --> 01:29:11,416 But there must be a dozen teachers better than this clown. 1188 01:29:11,541 --> 01:29:13,375 - No, look, really... - More qualified. 1189 01:29:13,458 --> 01:29:15,375 Goddamn phony. 1190 01:29:16,208 --> 01:29:17,583 Really, it's okay. 1191 01:29:17,875 --> 01:29:22,208 I'm not interested in playing music pofessionally. 1192 01:29:22,291 --> 01:29:25,000 You know, I'm not sure I want a career at all, 1193 01:29:25,083 --> 01:29:27,583 And if I did, I'd probably be a veterinarian. 1194 01:29:31,375 --> 01:29:33,458 - Veterinarian. - Yeah. 1195 01:29:35,208 --> 01:29:37,958 But I do appreciate your interest. 1196 01:29:38,875 --> 01:29:40,458 It was nothing. 1197 01:29:40,541 --> 01:29:45,500 I wish I'd played better for you 'cause I know it would've made you real happy. 1198 01:29:49,375 --> 01:29:51,000 You know what you are? 1199 01:29:52,458 --> 01:29:54,000 What? 1200 01:29:54,083 --> 01:29:56,250 You're an enthusiast. 1201 01:29:59,458 --> 01:30:01,125 Yeah, maybe. 1202 01:30:08,041 --> 01:30:10,458 You know, I really do appreciate the interest you've taken. 1203 01:30:15,791 --> 01:30:19,041 Time slow down right before in accident, 1204 01:30:19,333 --> 01:30:22,291 And I have time to think about things. 1205 01:30:24,500 --> 01:30:28,083 I thought about what an undertaker had told me once. 1206 01:30:28,333 --> 01:30:32,041 That your hair keeps growing for a while, anyway, 1207 01:30:32,333 --> 01:30:34,375 After you die. 1208 01:30:36,541 --> 01:30:38,625 And then it stops. 1209 01:30:42,958 --> 01:30:46,541 I thought, "What keeps it growing?" 1210 01:30:48,083 --> 01:30:50,791 Is it like a plant in soil? 1211 01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:54,458 What goes out of the soil? 1212 01:30:54,500 --> 01:30:56,083 The soul? 1213 01:30:58,041 --> 01:31:01,083 And when does the hair realize that it's gone? 1214 01:31:51,583 --> 01:31:52,791 Hello! 1215 01:31:53,750 --> 01:31:56,666 I noticed you still have pea stone in your driveway. 1216 01:31:57,833 --> 01:32:02,625 Of course you have to rejuvenate that every couple of years, don't you? When the pea stone thins out? 1217 01:32:02,708 --> 01:32:05,750 Where does it go? 1218 01:32:05,833 --> 01:32:07,666 Like the odd sock. 1219 01:32:07,791 --> 01:32:13,083 'Course, you know where it goes. You probably pick pieces of it off your lawn all the time, 1220 01:32:13,333 --> 01:32:16,750 Churn it up with your lawn mover, sweep it off your porch there. 1221 01:32:16,833 --> 01:32:20,500 - Pain in the neck. - Never bothered me. 1222 01:32:20,625 --> 01:32:22,791 Well, have you ever considered tar macadam? 1223 01:32:22,833 --> 01:32:25,666 People think it's just for public works or commercial purposes, 1224 01:32:25,750 --> 01:32:28,958 But we have the technology now to bring it to the homeowner, 1225 01:32:29,041 --> 01:32:31,708 Individual consumer, at very competitive prices. 1226 01:32:31,833 --> 01:32:36,000 Mind if I show you the specifications? Afternoon, Ma'am. 1227 01:32:36,125 --> 01:32:38,083 What are you selling? 1228 01:32:40,791 --> 01:32:43,666 Ma'am, I was just telling your husband here about tar macadam. 1229 01:32:43,791 --> 01:32:45,708 For your home driveway here. 1230 01:32:45,833 --> 01:32:49,625 Here's the brochure. It's the modern way to... 1231 01:32:49,666 --> 01:32:50,750 Get lost. 1232 01:33:06,750 --> 01:33:08,083 Jesus. 1233 01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:48,625 Doris. 1234 01:33:50,208 --> 01:33:53,375 Don't say anything. I'm fine. 1235 01:34:14,166 --> 01:34:15,583 Crane. 1236 01:34:16,333 --> 01:34:17,750 Mr. Crane? 1237 01:34:20,375 --> 01:34:22,500 Are you there? 1238 01:34:22,625 --> 01:34:24,375 Are you awake? 1239 01:34:26,500 --> 01:34:28,375 He's comin' around. 1240 01:34:29,625 --> 01:34:32,458 Can you talk, sir? These men have to talk to you. 1241 01:34:32,500 --> 01:34:35,291 Are you awake? Sir? 1242 01:34:35,333 --> 01:34:37,583 He's... he's awake. Go ahead. 1243 01:34:37,666 --> 01:34:39,375 Are you awake? 1244 01:34:39,500 --> 01:34:40,958 Is he awake? 1245 01:34:41,083 --> 01:34:44,375 Crane, as soon as you're conscious, we have to tell you that... 1246 01:34:44,500 --> 01:34:47,458 - Is he conscious? - His eyes are open. 1247 01:34:48,291 --> 01:34:49,666 You're under arrest. 1248 01:34:49,708 --> 01:34:52,125 Soon as the doctor lets us, we gotta move you. 1249 01:34:52,166 --> 01:34:55,291 Does he understand that? We're supposed to tell him. Are you conscious? 1250 01:34:55,416 --> 01:34:59,083 - They'll take you to the prison hospital. - Under arrest for murder. 1251 01:35:03,541 --> 01:35:06,458 What? What'd he say? 1252 01:35:06,500 --> 01:35:09,666 Birdy.The girl. No, the girl's okay. 1253 01:35:09,791 --> 01:35:11,375 Broken clavicle. 1254 01:35:11,500 --> 01:35:13,708 That's a collarbone, Crane. It's broken. 1255 01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:15,125 She's okay, though. 1256 01:35:15,208 --> 01:35:19,000 So he understands, then, he's under arrest for murder? 1257 01:35:19,125 --> 01:35:20,500 Big Dave. 1258 01:35:22,250 --> 01:35:23,958 What? What'd he say? 1259 01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:25,708 He said okay. 1260 01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:27,458 Is that what he said? 1261 01:35:29,541 --> 01:35:33,166 You're under arrest for the murder of Creighton Tolliver. 1262 01:35:33,291 --> 01:35:35,208 You understad that? 1263 01:35:35,333 --> 01:35:37,166 Does he understand? 1264 01:35:39,166 --> 01:35:40,500 The pansy. 1265 01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:47,041 A kid diving in a water holeoutside of town had found his car. 1266 01:35:47,166 --> 01:35:49,250 They winched it out... 1267 01:35:49,333 --> 01:35:52,958 And found he'd been beaten, just like Big Dave said. 1268 01:35:54,416 --> 01:35:56,333 Beaten to death. 1269 01:35:58,541 --> 01:36:03,208 Inside his briefcase were the partnership papers I'd signed, 1270 01:36:03,333 --> 01:36:06,041 Showing that I'd given him ten grand. 1271 01:36:07,208 --> 01:36:11,000 For the district attorney, that made it fall into place. 1272 01:36:11,083 --> 01:36:13,500 I'd gotten Doris to steal the money. 1273 01:36:13,583 --> 01:36:17,625 The pansy had gotten wise somehow, so I had to kill him to cover my tracks. 1274 01:36:17,708 --> 01:36:20,250 On the arraignment calendar, 1275 01:36:20,333 --> 01:36:22,125 People v. Edward Crane. 1276 01:36:22,250 --> 01:36:23,375 I was in a spot. 1277 01:36:23,500 --> 01:36:26,250 You are charged in a one-count complaint... 1278 01:36:26,333 --> 01:36:31,000 I called in Freddy Riedenschneider and signed the house over to him. 1279 01:36:31,125 --> 01:36:33,500 He said he didn't ordinarily work that cheap, 1280 01:36:33,625 --> 01:36:37,125 But he figured he owed me something since the last one hadn't played out. 1281 01:36:37,208 --> 01:36:39,750 - How do you now plead? - We plead not guilty, your honor. 1282 01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:43,208 I tried to tell him the whole story, but Riedenschneider stopped me. 1283 01:36:43,333 --> 01:36:45,250 He said the story made his head hurt. 1284 01:36:45,291 --> 01:36:48,625 He didn't see any way of using it without putting me on the hot seat... 1285 01:36:48,791 --> 01:36:52,083 - For the murder of Big Dave. - Trial date is set for Monday a week. 1286 01:36:54,208 --> 01:36:57,500 He told me not to worry, though. Said he'd think of something. 1287 01:36:59,625 --> 01:37:02,583 They put me on 24-hour death watch, 1288 01:37:02,625 --> 01:37:07,500 So that I couldn't cheat justice like they said my wife had done. 1289 01:37:07,666 --> 01:37:10,625 But in front of the jury, they had it that Doris was a saint. 1290 01:37:10,708 --> 01:37:14,000 The whole plan had been mine. 1291 01:37:14,125 --> 01:37:17,333 I was a svengali who had forced Doris to join 1292 01:37:17,458 --> 01:37:19,666 My criminal enterprise. 1293 01:37:19,958 --> 01:37:21,500 On and on it went, 1294 01:37:21,583 --> 01:37:26,000 How I'd used Doris, then let her take the fall. 1295 01:37:26,125 --> 01:37:30,000 That stuff smarted because some of it was close to being true. 1296 01:37:32,458 --> 01:37:35,125 And then it was Riedenschneider's turn. 1297 01:37:43,208 --> 01:37:47,250 Ladies and gentlemen, members of the jury, citizens of Santa Rosa, 1298 01:37:47,375 --> 01:37:50,708 We've just heard from the district attorney a rather lurid description... 1299 01:37:50,958 --> 01:37:52,625 Of a truly despicable man. 1300 01:37:52,750 --> 01:37:56,916 I gotta hand it to him. He tossed a lot of sand in their eyes, 1301 01:37:57,041 --> 01:38:00,125 He talked about how I'd lost my place in the universe, 1302 01:38:00,250 --> 01:38:04,375 How I was too ordinary to be the criminal mastermind... 1303 01:38:04,458 --> 01:38:06,333 The D.A. made me out to be, 1304 01:38:06,458 --> 01:38:11,333 How there was some greater scheme at work that the state had yet to unravel. 1305 01:38:11,458 --> 01:38:16,500 And he threw in some of the old truth stuff he hadn't had the chance to trot out for Doris. 1306 01:38:16,625 --> 01:38:20,083 May at first look at these lines and see only the chaos of a work of modern art. 1307 01:38:20,125 --> 01:38:24,250 He told them to look at me, look at me close. 1308 01:38:24,333 --> 01:38:27,625 That the closer they looked, the less sense it would all make. 1309 01:38:27,708 --> 01:38:31,250 This human, this barber. 1310 01:38:31,333 --> 01:38:34,500 That I wasn't the kind of guy to kill a guy, 1311 01:38:34,625 --> 01:38:37,583 That I was the barber, for Christ's sake. 1312 01:38:37,666 --> 01:38:41,125 I was just like them, an ordinary man. 1313 01:38:41,250 --> 01:38:44,541 Guilty of living in a world that had no place for me, yeah. 1314 01:38:44,625 --> 01:38:47,166 Guilty of wanting to be a dry cleaner, sure. 1315 01:38:47,291 --> 01:38:48,500 But not of murder. 1316 01:38:48,625 --> 01:38:52,708 But most specifically, this is a barber's dilemma. 1317 01:38:52,958 --> 01:38:55,166 For he is modern man. 1318 01:38:55,291 --> 01:38:57,333 He said I was modern man. 1319 01:38:57,458 --> 01:38:59,291 He is your reflection. 1320 01:38:59,333 --> 01:39:00,916 And if they voted to convict me, 1321 01:39:01,000 --> 01:39:04,916 They'd be practically cinching the noose around their own necks. 1322 01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:08,333 He told them to look not at the facts, but at the meaning of the facts. 1323 01:39:08,458 --> 01:39:11,583 And then he said the facts had no meaning. 1324 01:39:11,708 --> 01:39:15,125 It was a pretty good speech and even had me going, 1325 01:39:15,250 --> 01:39:16,625 Until Frankie interrupted it. 1326 01:39:19,958 --> 01:39:24,583 What kind of man are you? 1327 01:39:24,708 --> 01:39:26,416 Move for a mistrial! Your honor! 1328 01:39:26,500 --> 01:39:28,458 What kind of man are you? 1329 01:39:28,541 --> 01:39:30,041 Move for a mistrial. 1330 01:39:30,125 --> 01:39:33,416 Well, he got his mistrial, but the well had run dry. 1331 01:39:33,500 --> 01:39:35,458 There was nothing left to mortgage. 1332 01:39:35,541 --> 01:39:40,000 Riedenschneider went home, and the court appointed Lloyd Garroway, 1333 01:39:40,125 --> 01:39:42,250 Who threw me on the mercy of the court. 1334 01:39:42,333 --> 01:39:45,125 Your honor, we plead guilty... 1335 01:39:45,208 --> 01:39:48,416 With extenuating circumstances. 1336 01:39:48,500 --> 01:39:51,083 It was my only chance, he said. 1337 01:39:51,166 --> 01:39:54,625 I guess that meant I never had a chance. 1338 01:39:57,041 --> 01:40:02,250 He wasn't buying any of that modern man stuff, or the uncertainty stuff, 1339 01:40:02,333 --> 01:40:04,083 Or any of the mercy stuff either. 1340 01:40:04,166 --> 01:40:06,458 This man is a menace to society. 1341 01:40:06,500 --> 01:40:10,041 Nope, he was going by the book, 1342 01:40:10,125 --> 01:40:12,708 And the book said I got the chair. 1343 01:40:12,958 --> 01:40:15,458 He has forfeited the right to his own life. 1344 01:40:15,541 --> 01:40:17,916 So here I am, 1345 01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:20,500 At first I didn't know how I got here. 1346 01:40:20,625 --> 01:40:22,583 I knew step by step, of course, 1347 01:40:22,708 --> 01:40:26,291 Which is what I've told you, step by step. 1348 01:40:26,416 --> 01:40:30,291 But I couldn't see any pattern. 1349 01:40:30,375 --> 01:40:32,000 Now that I'm near the end, 1350 01:40:32,083 --> 01:40:35,083 I'm glad that this men's magazine paid me to tell my story. 1351 01:40:35,291 --> 01:40:38,708 Writing it has helped me sort it all out. 1352 01:40:38,958 --> 01:40:40,666 They're paying me flve cents a word, 1353 01:40:40,958 --> 01:40:43,333 So you'll pardon me if sometimes I've told you more than you wanted to know. 1354 01:40:45,166 --> 01:40:48,625 But now all the disconnected things seem to hook up. 1355 01:40:49,666 --> 01:40:52,416 That's the funny thing about going away, 1356 01:40:52,500 --> 01:40:54,916 Knowing the date you're going to die. 1357 01:40:56,125 --> 01:41:00,000 And the men's magazine wanted me to tell how that felt. 1358 01:41:25,375 --> 01:41:29,416 Well, it's like pulling away from the maze. 1359 01:41:31,083 --> 01:41:33,708 While you're in the maze, you go throught willy-nilly, 1360 01:41:33,958 --> 01:41:36,458 Turning where you think you have to turn, 1361 01:41:36,541 --> 01:41:38,583 Banging into the dead ends, 1362 01:41:38,666 --> 01:41:40,541 One thing after another. 1363 01:41:46,166 --> 01:41:48,083 But you get some distance on it, 1364 01:41:48,166 --> 01:41:50,125 And all those twists and turns... 1365 01:41:50,208 --> 01:41:54,583 Why, they're the shape of your life. 1366 01:41:56,458 --> 01:41:58,583 It's hard to explain. 1367 01:42:01,291 --> 01:42:04,625 But seeing it whole gives you some peace. 1368 01:42:38,625 --> 01:42:41,583 The men's magazine also asked about remorse. 1369 01:42:41,708 --> 01:42:46,583 Yeah, I guess I'm sorry about the pain I caused other people. 1370 01:42:47,708 --> 01:42:50,416 But I don't regret anything. 1371 01:42:50,500 --> 01:42:52,458 Not a thing. 1372 01:42:52,500 --> 01:42:54,166 I used to. 1373 01:42:54,291 --> 01:42:57,125 I used to regret being the barber. 1374 01:44:01,750 --> 01:44:04,583 I don't know where I'm being taken. 1375 01:44:06,291 --> 01:44:09,125 I don't know what I'll find beyond the earth and sky, 1376 01:44:10,333 --> 01:44:12,166 But I'm not afraid to go. 1377 01:44:13,666 --> 01:44:17,125 Maybe the things I don't understand will be clearer there, 1378 01:44:17,166 --> 01:44:19,458 Like when a fog blows away. 1379 01:44:22,250 --> 01:44:24,291 Maybe Doris will be there. 1380 01:44:25,291 --> 01:44:28,916 And maybe there I can tell her... 1381 01:44:29,041 --> 01:44:31,083 All those things... 1382 01:44:32,125 --> 01:44:35,000 They don't have words for here.