Sam Cade (1972) - full transcript
Sam Cade was the first feature-length "movie" put together from episodes of Cade's County. Sam Cade is targeted for assassination when he is scheduled to testify against a man kingpin.
(Jack Hammer)
(Dramatic Music)
(Gunshot) (Scream)
ease off stupid, they're not shooting at me. you mean they meant to kill Maxwell?
check that parking area and
round up the street crew
(Dramatic Music)
get the coroner
there are three of us and i can tell the
grand jury just as much as maxwell could
and so could sam cade and don't forget it (Laughs)
can we get off the street? take him in
(Dramatic Music)
(Folksy Music)
(Dramatic Music)
all right now we know the score. i want
this department alive and intact by the
end of those grand jury hearings. oh arlo
if you've heard back in capital city yet?
yeah attorney general phoned in
about half hour ago he said the
grand jury meets thursday morning 10 a.m
he thought maybe you and larry ought to
take a couple days and go fishing or something.
that's one thing we're not going to do is run.
how about yourself you're going to
stay low and keep off the streets?
well anyhow i ask the fbi to send us everything
they have on morel's manpower names aliases
photographs i suppose all this is gonna be posted
on the warrant. it's gonna be posted in your head
son memorize it look one thing we are not going
to do is wait for morel's man to come to us
so check on all hotel and motel registrations,
car rentals, incoming planes and buses in which
chances fellow know us and our habits so
keep an open ear for anyone asking questions
sam how about you you never answered
you're going to keep yourself low?
look jj i'm going to be as careful
as i can but still get the job done
so aren't you about eligible for a pension by now?
you know as well as i do i was eligible
for a pension in 69. do you want me to take
it? is that what you want me to do? you feel
ready to try and run this office without me?
okay uh uh johnny go ahead you have a call
on three the man says he's an informant
that you'd better speak to him i would
let you try it that's what i ought to do
you'd be grabbing that phone and begging
me to come back informing oh that should
be interesting why don't you stick around
huh i don't know whether it will or not
okay johnny go ahead...
(Dramatic Music)
courtney vernon yeah
i have a warrant for your arrest and
what charges desertion of your hometown
(Laughs)
wait a minute my god where'd that line
come from well i you know it's not women
i should've known it was you yeah well i
couldn't figure out any better way to get
through to you know i really want somebody to
pick up the phone in the office there and say
this is sheriff Samuel cade's office. yeah they
don't say that yeah they don't say it? no
i like them again you look great tell me how
do you survive i mean how do you do it do what
how do you survive in this uh electric vibrant
town oh no billy's weight one a lot of exciting
things happen around the world beauty is still as
exciting on friday nights as always friday night
yeah well that's the night we usually
sit around and watch the cement harden
that's funny ah you know it's great to see you you
look so great sam you really do you know with that
bad john you look just like your father yeah
i guess i do listen i gotta have a bar in here
in the mace room whatever they call it come on
i'll buy you i don't know come on now 10 o'clock
in the morning i have a cup of coffee with you
coffee yeah why not lordy lordy i must be home
it's been a long time since the war court
yeah it has i never i never expect to see
you come back here couldn't keep me away when
was the last time now sam what was on a carrier
the uh princeton what yeah yeah and what what
we flying on f1s or or panthers hey rich kid
uh hi hi sweetheart
yeah yeah jenny it's just uh nice to see him
back great to see you great you do something
here in the hotel yeah temporarily sure i work
the board the board the switchboard silly switch
i'm speaking up uh are you going to be around a
while oh yeah yeah for about the next eight hours
long time good to see you jay
oh that's weird saying you know that's
really weird what well i can remember a
time when jenny lomax was what was on my mind
man three years as i can remember yeah about
that yeah yeah and just now inside there
i couldn't remember her name for the soul
how long have you been working there oh oh not
not too long well no what a month a week one well
actually six years six years yeah no yeah
six years so listen you didn't tell me what
brought you back here oh i'm just selling off
some of the old man's properties you know he
left over seventeen thousand acres yeah
yeah of course i went through most of it
yeah i got about half section left 328 get down
by those focus when i dump that i'll be square
with the old hometown then what then oh i don't
know i don't think i've sat still one day since
i last saw you in korea you know i signed on and
flew another tour duty in life you left and uh
until i got though and then and then i buried jets
down to south america until i got pretty boring
and then i had a charter servers between malaga
and tangible doing a little smuggling on the side
whatever it takes i always need money oh sure
and kicks well sam what else in life is there
yeah how are you going to stay around here
midfield that all depends on you so come on
no no it depends on how much time you're going
to have for old friends now you're going to be
able to stand on me for a couple days why not well
i'm not well then tomorrow maybe we'll have lunch
dinner or whatever i'll hang in till tomorrow
okay will i give you time to wrap up your business
here in town sam i guarantee you that by this
time tomorrow i will have everything wrapped up
rudy arnold larry jj jj
johnny told me you were just talking with
the police chief over capitol city yeah
just as we thought the contracts out morrow's
man is on his way you know capital city police
department has got enough inside information
that's inside the organization to know that he's
using the same man there's any chance it's uh one
of the guys we got the mug shots on no no no this
man's a specialist no name no description
no clue no no nothing makes it interesting
look larry i can't let you stay around madrid
i mean i just don't have the manpower to give
you the protection you need where do you want me
to go sam capital city well i thought um el rio
it's close to capital city sam i'm uh i'm just a
local boy you know i really feel a lot safer right
here if you don't mind anyhow i kind of figured
that if you'll stay you know i can stay and help
you out look you haven't put in the years i have
and you're not paid to do what i do so forget it
i don't really want to cause anybody any trouble
and you know that sam but i do want to stay
okay but strictly around the office and i want
you to throw away the schedule i don't want to see
any pattern what you do because if i see it you'll
see it how about putting larry's house on a patrol
pattern might cut out any sort of surveillance
this could have set up yes the lungs didn't on
a regular basis so says yay who can't set a clock
by it yeah that's about it sam i'll be glad to go
by and pick up larry when it's time for a shift
rudy i can't let you do that it breaks up your off
time listen it's a couple of days right how much
breaking up gonna be i know pete and rodriguez
will chip in some time see that larry gets home
when he checks off okay all right man up and adam
gee i'm surprised you didn't hear about it this
uh syndicate man charlie morrell was trying to
move into madrid county with his operation
and sam found out about it and he and one of
his deputies been one of the da's men infiltrated
the organization and they caught morel red-handed
really that's fantastic yeah that must be a huge
crew for sam he's got to be a big feather in his
cab well if he lived to wear it well would
you care what well i'm that's not funny no
i meant is sam something special to you is there
anyone special i don't know not really not sam k
you he's a sure looking guy he's star athlete high
school in college fighter pilot so were you caught
all those things oh no not really and we always
had the house on the hill of course and we have
that social thing but well sam kaden is old man
well we seem to be at the center of things some
well i just want what happened that's all
i mean sam came back here you never left no
i am still here i mean i was homecoming
queen and all and it's a joke to think i
might end my day behind the switchboard at
the madrid hotel that is a terrible waste
i mean it's really ridiculous when you think about
it but still i've been there for for a couple of
months now taking room service orders and uh good
morning sir this is your wake-up call it's 7 a.m
you know i've got some things
to do this afternoon but uh
are you free for dinner tonight well yeah sure
i mean i can change things around you know
dress up pretty i mean look great huh we make a
little celebration part one of the celebration
well how long do you think it'll take
oh well what can i say klinda yeah okay
morale's lawyer is asking for
a more detailed deposition
they think all we've got to do is trace back and
forth between here and capital city what time do
you think you'll be home oh about 6 30. got the
duty roster set yeah murray signs off the desk
about four o'clock rodriguez works the counter
tonight he'll likely drop larry off first okay
yo come in
that's a great bunch of deputies to get out
there rudy and arlo and rodriguez rodriguez
what's he doing here this early he said
something about being worried about larry
did you know that he's ernie
rodriguez's brother yeah why
do you remember when i was in high school
my old man had that role faded yeah
ernie and i took that thing flat out down sand
canyon look do you mind if we uh take this up
for dinner maybe because i got a lot right you
know i understand it was not dead for dinner but
uh first thing tomorrow right um jenny told me
about that um that's uh that's a bad scene yeah
yeah it is and i'm trying to keep it from
getting any worse um tell me just between us too
what's it like i mean you got
a joker out there with a gun
in his hand looking for you it's
just you and him what's it like
are you scared well that's a
deputy's life court and it's mine
is trying to beat a murder
rap by killing three men
yeah yeah i'm scared okay yeah hold it
now i can remember a couple of times
in korea you were pretty scared yeah well
that's different now that no no no no no no
that's the kind of scared you get when you're
excited you know for kicks that's a kick sure
like like you're smuggling stuff in the tangier
that was for kids come on i'm putting it on don't
you remember it's me curt vernon rich kid wait for
kids look i remember but you're not a kid anymore
sam what do you want from me i mean
you were always a solid man you were
always the tough fella you know the uh your
faith honor what do you call it whatever
practice tomorrow uh breakfast breakfast uh
let me call you will you i'll let you know huh
well i'll have coffee while the deputy not larry
i don't want larry to leave the office
sam would i lost up your routine would i
where are you going penny rodriguez called in
sick he's got the stomach flu or something can't
make his shift so i said i'd cover the
desk until pete come back from las venus
any sand caves in capital city
besides how we can use the ot
right i picked myself some hatching eggs
you left in the fridge wasn't bad either
larry uh cleo called and uh she asked what
well i said that we'd come by on saturday
is that all right no i mean we don't have
to if you'd rather stay home and watch tv
we can do that no that's fine you know i like
cleo and harry too okay i gotta go see you now
larry is someone gonna drive home with you later
i mean sam kate said he didn't want you to be by
yourself honey is on a 10-minute drive into
madrid now everything's going to be all right
really okay see you in an hour promise
be careful
unit 4 madrid central
request a rowing 1029 on california 599 ida henry
adam red 71 sedan 10 4 4 5 9 9 ida henry adams
what's your 10 20 unit 4
walker lake road and state 16.
hi larry
madrid central to unit 4.
larry are you on patrol hi mr vernon kind of
uh taking up a lot of road there weren't you
so
i'm gonna get a good cast my tire looks like
okay show you something let's get a notching
on that thing could have been a piece of glass
i suppose i know it's too sharp too clean
you mean like it was deliberately cut yeah
hey what's with this guy killing on a
public highway in the middle of the day
using a stolen red car and now this
might as well left a trail of breadcrumbs
you suppose he's setting us up for something
hey rudy did you check the road service between
here and highway 16 yeah fresh skid marks
on both sides of the road both shoulders
looks like a crossword from one side or the
other at high speed let me see that again
oh that's how he hooked larry he stages so it
looked like a drunken driver larry took after
him like he should and you want me to get on the
horn and lay down at 10.72 no you won't pick up
anything at a roadblock you can bet he's already
ditched the car makes sense if he had everything
else planned out he sure would have figured out
what to do with that car hey you guys come here
finish up there
you know something i wonder if he meant
us to know that he was someone larry knew
you saying larry knew the problem yeah rudy
how would you approach a possible stolen car
saying my beads follow you show me well sir
in this case here we're just one subject
that's it larry's gun was still strapped down
larry was a first-rate officer he didn't make
these mistakes unless he recognized the driver
you know whoever planned this thing
had larry all figured out just
you know just what he'd do and then what we
do i wonder how much he does know about us
have a table
oh i'll have a waitress right over here yeah
right away enjoy you listen cord if you want
to dance oh no no later we came to talk and get
re-acquainted martini fine do martinez please
now tell me about flynn donahue according
it's not a very interesting story
i wasn't sure you knew about him know
about him listen a guy goes with a girl
for three years she helps marry somebody
else without even writing him a letter
people uh let him know even in korea listen
court i felt as hemmed in by this town as you did
i didn't marry flynn until i heard you signed
on for another tour with the naval air corps
oh yeah and then you couldn't wait to marry your
cowboy oh come on cowhan donna he was no cowhand
he was 17th money winner in the rodeo circuit in
1956 and we traveled we went to california and
madison square garden and calgary and canada and
bucketville and boise what is stuff put on you
don't care about flynn donna you and you putting
me through all this how are you jimmy uh excuse me
listen i got the plane again coming
sunday a week so uh give me a call please
what plan i talk about uh uh just a company
fleeing i i i fly a company plane for oil
company court it's not important and you're flying
the plane where well just flying out there later
pick up a new drill bit he's had a couple
of drinks let it go and you uh intend to
take this lady with you oh sure don't you hey
look at that guy come on never never embarrass
a lady like that this is a lady of quality
dignity and repute never never presumed buddy
chin up
smile smile
and this is the bullet that capital city
pd sent it was taken from bob maxwell
and the second one is the
expended bullet that killed larry
i've never seen two bullets quite like
these this first one is three grains heavier
and yet they're both full jacketed 22 longs olive
oil you ever see a carpet jacket in hollow point
before no not hollow point we used full jacketed
22s during the war they were issued for survival
rifles that's right to conform to the geneva
convention but they weren't hollow point you
couldn't get hollow point over the counter i'd say
that these cartridges came from a military depot
you want a flying gas on these year bullets i'd
say they'd been monkeyed with our fella took this
gi ammunition and drilled the head so they flatten
out on impact judging the weight of the bullets
he board one of them out more than the other for
higher ballistics coefficiency i think ballistics
coefficiency you mean for better flight don't you
more accuracy yeah you could say that change then
why didn't you say it a couple years in college
these kids can't even speak english no hold on
wait now what you're trying to say is the gunman
used two bullets one was heavier than the other
right right the first one that's correct with a
41 grain bullet you see it was a longer shot that
killed maxwell so it had to be more accurate
when he shot larry he drilled a hole in the
nose of the bullet he made it lighter and 38
grains could increase the flattening upon impact
here's more effective in close-up see the
lands and the grooves and the bearing surface
tells us that the barrel was a seven right
twist specialized cartridge specialized gun
we've been through the books too the only weapon
with the seven ride is a russian 22 automatic made
for international rapid fire competition you
know on top of that he used the silencer right
well that's it beginning to see things now i want
to see but now that we're up against somebody that
knows what he's doing a pro am i going to
be able to talk to you in the state inside
okay joni i'll tell him the attorney general's
on the phone for you okay thanks pete
so
yeah clean why what's the matter you're trying
to keep me out of madrid look the
grand jury doesn't convene until
yeah okay
oh jj they want me back in capital city
brian good thing yeah well there's one thing
you can do for me though when i'm gone why
check county record and see if court vernon still
holds title to any land in madrid county right
you're sure this is the phrase wow talk about
the sticks oh well we can't all have a house on
the hill oh no no that's not what i meant i i find
this very interesting tell me darling what is that
highway that on the foot of the hill my camera's
throwing the camera's flowed where does it go
well you've made it perfectly clear that
your big day tomorrow knocks out any chance
for a cup of coffee no i've just changed my
mind i think uh i think this is just fine
as you live and breathe
yeah you don't look too well
now you just you just don't don't look too good
must be rough on the outside especially when you
got a long memory then you got to pay taxes and
you look tired yeah you look tired in
that courtroom today getting enough sleep
you know killing larry greer is
gonna cost you morel is that right
yes that's right what are they gonna do strap
me in the chair tighter use more electricity
and i'm up for something like eleven
eleven counts k three of my middle one
they're smart enough to know that you're boy
in front of the courthouse the deputy you
you're all freebies you don't cost me anything
i gotta go for the whole rule or cash in right
now we both know you take that stand i've had it
you don't show i'm back on the street
that's why i'm here that's why i give you
my personal guarantee that i'll be back
maybe
you still gotta find my boy before he finds you
what's possible i already have
possible it's one thing to know
something else again to stop him
well we'll see won't we
lucy
sweat it
i didn't have the bacon or the eggs
uh there's coffee toast and juice okay
fantastic i'm sorry don't worry about it
oh it's a little scorched jen never apologize
huh i didn't know what to put in your
coffee a black wax beautiful i take uh
non-fat milk and two sugars yeah listen
jen where's the telephone i want to call
hotel see there's any messages
oh well i'll do it for you okay
do you want uh jam on your
toast or marmalade i know
arlita hi ginny uh i appreciate you subbing
for me yeah well thanks anyway uh i want to
know are there any calls for 204 mr courtney
vernon yes hold on hold on yeah what do you got
okay thank you
uh i want to make a phone call honey yeah sure
so morning boy all right good afternoon
maureen guess what there were six
presidents waiting for me in my box since
8 o'clock last night all messages from you
what's the push morning i know where boy
scott is he's in cc he's due back here at noon
goodbye maury i got a plane to catch i don't
know akapuku maybe tahiti khan don't push
nobody pushes me consignment is two-thirds
wrap you'll get the whole package by tonight
you know it must have been
somebody who knew our duty schedule
somebody who knew larry
it has to be court vernon jenny lomax on three
yeah jenny what can i do for you ah hello sam
i'm in trouble can you come over all right what's
the matter i can't tell you well you got you got a
hold of more of those sleeping pills again look
i'll get doc iris and i'll be right over no no
come alone sam
i couldn't face iverson i'm really scared all
right i'll be there in 20 minutes all right hurry
we're on our way country girl
bright lights and headways
you going over to lomax place by yourself yeah
uh have arlo and rudy meet me there go ahead
joanie have arlo and rudy go over to the lomax
place on mccandless road mr jj both units are
answering a disturbance call in centralia we'll
flag them off and get them over there hey jj
you know something courtney vernon didn't have to
lie about that land deal he wanted me to check up
on him you know he's been giving me every reason
to suspect him without giving me any hard facts
you mean he wanted you to know same as larry
greer and maxwell you wanted them to know too no
family was strictly business no with
me he's uh trying to prove something
approaching state four unit threes
right on my back bumper listen johnny
that 415 g was a phony there wasn't a disturbance
so
unit 60 unit 1 and sighted red sedan
corresponding with rear murder vehicle
come in one do you want us to investigate
unit one six to madrid central six and
three proceeding with vehicle investigation
unit section 3 disregard water
vehicle proceed to assign destination
6 3
unit 1 unit 1 sam
so
so
uh
he was going
we were going
laughs
one unit one madrid central to unit one
yes jj
madrid's got him for keeps this time
are you coming
the seat belt's stuck you're just
taking yourself a little break
i was just thinking about burning this well
that'll be the town hobby for a long time
i really liked him everybody liked
him he just got twisted that's all
don't worry about it rudy come on let's go hey
why don't you and i report in and go get ourselves
a long cool beer when did you like beer long
time make it a margarita and a steak and on you
mario's on me i've got to drive over there anyway
hey i thought they closed that place down after
the trouble we had in that stakeout last spring
no way just long enough to raise the prices places
jammed every night well nothing like this gun
player to bring them in huh that's one i'd like to
forget about so it's sam what's up quick enough we
decked out in plain clothes that night i remember
you were on the phone i was having a little
coffee at the bar oh very cozy wasn't it
he won't show up this late will he
maybe he's just being careful maybe
he knows somebody's waiting for him
he's going to texas if you ask me we'll give
another 10 minutes starting to thin out anyway
all right only don't say i didn't tell
you i'll call you back jj just came in
good evening how you doing all along
tonight yeah dinner nah just have a drink
yes
baby
sheriff's office hold on
nice work eddie we got you in your body all
right i don't how's that for heroin not bad
hey give me a rag over there will you see i'm
bleeding hey listen and maybe i got something
to trade i don't have anything that good hey
now listen i'm not booked yet just lie still
maybe we can work something out up front
huh it's a hit it's big time the biggest
get me cade
gone some syndicate style hot shot you
know the time oh yeah i know the time
what about his information problem
he's clammed up is it turning i guess
okay let's give it a try keep your
eyes open well eddie how do you feel
i feel rotten how should i feel i understand
you wanted to talk to me well i changed my mind
i see all right that's up to you oh did your
attorney give you the uh bottom line on this
charge possession so what no not just possession
possession for purposes of sale pushing yeah
that's right pushing and you're not a first-timer
this will be 10 years to life no possibility for
parole for seven years hey he didn't tell me
that we're telling you that now eddie what
it could be reduced to a misdemeanor possession
couldn't it oh yes i'm sure the district attorney
could reduce the charge if you wanted to
well if you asked him for a reduction he'd
give it why should i do that because i can't
because i can't go back to prison that's why
i walk into gifford's villain i'm a dead man
misdemeanor possession is a is a county jail
stretch that should have occurred to you
before you went back to dealing look you
want to work out some kind of a trader don't you
no trade if you want to tell me something fine
but no guarantee well this is worth plenty
to you you can at least nick granger
what about him
well
he's a big man right top drawer syndicate yeah
nick granger doesn't operate in madrid he was
put out to pasture years ago well he lives here
doesn't he what's the point the point is
i'm offering you the scoop on his obituary
you could at least talk to ross look
one word from you to the d.a and uh
can't you at least give me a maybe
okay so i'll take my chances
it's a hit nick granger in the whole family
i hit a wipeout when i don't know who's doing
it a couple of mechanics from chicago names
uh i don't know how do you know about it it's
way out of your league look this is as far as
you get on one ticket and listen if this gets
out i'm in trouble you gotta protect me yeah
oh arlo remind me i've got to protect him
chicago that means we have to cover all
flights from the east trains and buses
i set up the duty roster i don't know who
would ever want to hit nick ranger anyway
he never even comes out of that big old
fortress is that's a gang war vendetta i
don't know i don't have to explain it i just have
to stop it sam you know what i'd like to do well
stay clear of it maybe they'll cancel
each other out rudy yes sir i know the
drill you check the training bus schedules
i'll cover the airport okay let's get to it
it's worth getting yourself
caught in a big syndicate squeeze
stephanie's back stephanie granger since when
a couple of weeks ago been a long time since
she ran off i can't say i blame her must be
some sort of a shock to find out your daddy's
behind all the big rackets on the east coast
well at least i can get her out of that house
jj keep an eye on eddie pine i want to
know who the source is i sure will do
do
do
hi sir
expecting you mr granger just flown down
who's at the house today well there's uh
miss stephanie ben crawford's there wally both
the two mage and the cook they're off today
harry do you have a backup man hey
you've got to be kidding sheriff
you know to set up here yes siree got a
backup man you know i don't think i need him
sam kade i remember
sam stephanie how are you fine hello did
your father tell you i called i don't dress
like this for the mailman sam let's take a
look hey man you should nick's just getting
out of the pool is morning swim wally would
you tell me he's here please you know i um
i heard you were back but i didn't see
in town so well i haven't been in town
i got here a few weeks ago knocking
around europe that kind of thing
i didn't know he'd been ill how is he oh the
doctors say just fine it just takes a little
time how are you i'm the same i wanted to write
you a card wish you were here lucky you weren't
i was uh married and divorced all in the same
week now that takes style yeah how are you now
are you all right older wiser good i've made
a sword of peace with myself i like to think
yes for you neither rain
nor snow nor gloom of night
kade we missed the first flight in this
morning but the stewardess remembers two
guys who boarded in chicago one of them
had a large carry-on they wouldn't fit
under the seat and they gave her a pretty bad
time when she offered to put in the locker
any light on them or working on it checking
cabin car in the office okay stay with him right
it's okay wally
any other cop with you i think i was
being hustled for the policeman's ball
you know ben crawford sure so what have we
done to embarrass your citizens this time sure
nick i just got word you've been set up contract
when anytime out of where chicago
you and everyone in this house
wally it's okay it's okay
look you don't have to buy it just
let me get stephanie out of it huh
stephanie stephanie says nick there are only
certain things i can do about this i can't
assign men to the area but you can't make a move
until there's overt evidence of a crime right
is that the word ben overt that's the word so see
you don't have to quote the law to us i gotta hand
it to you you've been trying to boot me out of
madrid county ever since i bought this place
about this friend of yours steffy you know
when we got those five guard dogs sam here
hit us with some cockamamie ordinance against
more than three animals on residential property
and when we electrified the walls he'd produce
some municipal code against electric fences
we could give you a list stephie's on our backs
every minute are you saying this warning is just
harris what else nick i believe our source
and i won't have a bloodbath here in madrid
even yours and what is your source sheriff i
suggest you move into town until we check this out
move into town that's right beautiful if i was
running a hit that's exactly what i try for
get the mark of his own turf go to a hotel i'll
provide protective custody sure some hotel with
paper thin walls and belt boys you gotta frisk
look around you sam you say someone's gonna hit us
how they gonna do it i got guards electric gate
alarm system that works i got a fort here you
don't survive this long nick granger's league
without some kind of savvy fine but i still think
this is our problem yours and mine not stephanie's
wrong it's my problem and it's my daughter
sam you better get out of here stephanie i
can't do that you left your ones went on now
it's kind of involved
excuse me man speak to chef kate he's right
here sam can i speak to you for a second
talked to his lawyer he's ready to name
his source okay i'll be right out sam
please don't judge me it's meant so much
for me to see you again you've always been
someone very special i've thought about
you many times over the years you know
i'll do what i can for all of you
don't judge me please
really another thing do you want me to get
your pills no it's all right is he gone yes
nick i think we should take his advice
then what do you say
my vote we don't fall apart
nick granger doesn't run
good old benny you'd stop the bullet
for me wouldn't you i love you so sue me
i'll get it i've got it ben
hello hello
there's somebody on the line but
they won't say anything wrong number
some people got no the manners
okay where's number six merle the card
on the switching station oh right here
it has the keyblade number for the uh locksmith oh
good keep that and give me the bio
on the local law enforcement the bio
okay sheriff's department oh sure no kidding
yeah don't laugh until you read the rest of me
on oh you're good huh very well we'll just
have to deal with that when we come to it
howard what's the alarm system at the granger
house battery align power the alarm system is
uh straight off the pole so are you
hungry it's 3 30. let's take five shall we
i need another small roll of 20 gauge 15 ml
bill wired for the blasting captain series
yeah here there's a really
good health food restaurant
down at eighth and center
oh yeah sounds good to me
look a name like that a source
ought to be worth something
your lawyer tell you that well he said
i should make the best deal possible
you told me pretty much what you did so
what have you got him i'm talking to him
a girl carla ardmore ardmore yeah
she's got this guy among other guys
shrewd girl she put the whole thing together
from a couple of words a guy said some phone
call he made what's the guy's name she didn't
drop it but uh he made this long-distance phone
call to another fellow whose name is um vinnie
and uh he told him that it was definitely set
and uh nick granger was the mark vinnie
vinnie kramer east coast mob i don't know
granger hasn't been mixed up in the raccoons
for a long time yeah yeah but the word is he's
coming back he's reorganizing ask
her all right where can i find her
hi where are you
come on you have to be here
my key isn't in the mailbox
look i've got a date with a dentist in 15 minutes
and i've already canceled twice so up here
wait a minute
gentlemen it's robert afternoon
sir sorry i'm late i have five ten
five ten five times
now what's the earliest we can do this mr tanner
well it's convenient for you tonight i'd
like the switching station blown at 8 30
and the house hit between 10 45 and 10 50.
all right it'll have to be precise it
can't be off 30 seconds on either side
have you seen the station oh yes and the house
you saw the house on the way in from the airport
then i'll take the gun it's imagine mr crawford
have you ever used one before i can handle it
is there anything else you need oh we have
everything we need mr crawford until later then
no no i'm not mad because of that i'm
mad because you bought a story that's all
you don't think it was the truth come on stuffy
that cop doesn't care what happens to me you you
he cares what happens to cade's got his own ideas
of right wrong i got mine he can't stand me and i
want no part of him i know him nick he wouldn't
lie ah he wouldn't wouldn't he huh listen you
don't remember this baby you were off in college
somewheres but when your mom and i moved into this
bird sam kade was on my doorstep while we were
still unpacking he beat the welcome wagon here
he wanted to know my intentions intentions i
told him i didn't want to marry the place i just
wanted to live here he told me what happened
that day he tried to bribe him that's a lie
boy the way some people twist everything you
say here's what i said to him i said i like the
community i've got no ties with the organization
anymore i just want to live a quiet life with
my family that's what you said that's what i
said and i said something else i said i want
to do something civic you know for the place
like uh donate to the local hospital the law
officers retirement fund i could have mentioned
that and then i asked him for his suggestion
i spent a couple of fortunes making a lady
out of you so i can't repeat his suggestion
you've always been a very amusing
man nick when it suited you
when you wanted something or were trying
to get off of a subject that bothered you
i want to finish talking about this
assassination or whatever sam may not
like you but he wouldn't say something like that
unless he believed it so maybe he believes it
and maybe he's trying to get rid of me maybe
just maybe he's trying to make points with you
for a smart man nick you don't understand your
daughter at all you haven't got the first idea
of how it was between sam and me do you
um i know you saw him sometimes sure so
i saw him a lot
sam cade is possibly the best thing that ever
happened to me so yeah thing for him he got over
no i didn't
he cared for me too but he let me go
sam never told me the uh the
entire truth about you nick
i uh really wasn't ready to believe it then he
let me find that out for myself a few years later
sam walked away from our
relationship you wanna know why
you're gonna tell me anyway so go ahead
because he knew you better than i did he knew
that if he became involved with me you would
use it come on steffy you would have you used
to joke about what a natural madrid county was
for a nice little operation the only thing that
stopped that nice little operation was sam kade
if you could have somehow gotten to him my own
daughter come off it stuffy what i use you today
i know you nick i know what you were
what i'm not sure of is what you are now
terrible really terrible
last night the pusher tonight
whole business is gonna go right down to
two how long did she work here mr hassan
oh a couple of months maybe who were friends
who knows they all look i like those types
nice kit too i i better have the
room upstairs let her open up on
slow nights how well did you
know him well you know how well
what do you what are you trying
to say huh i'm a married man
i don't do that sort of thing yeah sure
the coroner puts time of death between four
and five o'clock and he reports there were
skin traces under her fingernails she had to
have marked up the attacker what's this this
is the coroner's report not me you
might take it off your coat please
you don't think i did it well your door
wasn't forced so whoever did the killing
either had been let in or had
a key let me see a risk please
how many people had keys um my bartender
carla me would you mind losing your caller
do you know uh nick granger no look how long are
you gonna be here it's it's almost eight o'clock
my trade starts coming in at eight o'clock
well your trade is just gonna have to wait
so i'm taking it out tomorrow afternoon vinny
no no chance of that everything's on the boys
are here it's all set we can make our move i
call roy and joseph tell him the operation from
here on in is ours yeah luck to you too vinnie
hello wally ben
everything all right fine everything's
fine i tell nick i'm on my way back sure
ben's on his way back boss
black five on a red six i know it
i was just saving it you big galoot
and they're dressed up aren't you
expecting somebody expecting sam kade
why would somebody want to kill you nick oh
boy here we go again there's nothing to it
stephie it's imagination rumor it's not as if you
were still part of the organization right right
you're not still in that
business are you nick no baby no
listen you want to give me one of those pills
do you need the doctor are you all right
a twins it's all it is no big deal thanks
yeah hey let's play some two-handed come on no not
tonight nick i don't know how mother stood it it
was much worse before wasn't it the old days
when you got word of the hit you believed it
you'll get used to it baby
i don't nick
and make it we have to be out in two minutes 30.
fine merle
for almost two hours
i need 30 seconds to set those timers
merle no less you do howdy i know you do
so
me
so
foreign
we're under 30 seconds
i am at the club
no no i thought for a moment i'd forgotten
something in town but it's here it's in
the back seat ah gonna play a little
tennis huh something like that harry
my watch has been off all day can you tell
me what time it is oh sure it's your thing
8 33 exactly are you sure sure i'm sure well
within maybe three four five minutes maybe but
close enough huh i'll see you in the
morning huh okay come on mr copper
so
what's up what was that i don't know some
sort of power failure you think power failure
on things like that
oh what's the word hi i came right back as soon as
the city went dark they think it's a
switching station at clearwater soon
county's blacked out how soon can power
be restored they have no idea sam yeah
little lady caught in the elevator over the
current building alone well not exactly she's
pregnant going into labor they think anyone
able to reach her we'll be yelling down the
elevator shaft maintenance man's working on
it but starts going to beat him out sure you
better get over there and see what you can do
huh i got a feeling that ain't going to be much
have an ambulance standby sam the power people are
on the phone they say there's been an explosion
over at the clearwater station and it may take
six to uh eight hours or even more to get fixed
yes yes sam you're expecting a plasma
delivery therefore they need an escort
okay get moving sam is mr burton from the bank
don't tell me i can guess whole surveillance
system is off he's scared stiff he wonders if
you have any information this might be a setup
shut up he thinks maybe somebody's
trying to knock over the bank
hang on mr burton we'll send someone right over
hold it arlo got a clear line yet right away all
right get me the granger house the private line
yes sir what's up i'm going out to the granger
house arlo you better take over for me here
you know i'm putting a couple of loose ends
together possible hit on granger and the first
blackout we've had here in five years i see
what you mean is this something you ought to
handle yourself well it turns out to be more
than just a hunch i'll call you okay thanks
stephanie sam we're blacked out the
main gates opened i'm frightened
all right now look i want you to lock everything
pull the drapes don't let any light show i'll
get there as soon as i can yes thank you i don't
care what you say get some of the boys out here
put them on a plane whatever my gate's wide
open the alarm system's off get somebody
(Dramatic Music)
okay expecting you all our power's
out the gate control's dead everything
who is it it's sam i'm so glad you're here
who else is in the house just
nick he's in the living room
hey i didn't call you i got people
coming in i don't need police
look you may need all the help you can
get i'll come on level with me nick
i want to know what to expect i don't know any
more about this than you do you know plenty about
it now are you moving back into the rackets of
course now why because the man who took over your
organization goes to prison tomorrow on a tax
evasion charge that's why that's not my problem
vinnie cramer's supposed to move up in the family
take over now what has cramer got to do with
nick granger nothing unless nick is planning a
comeback and the hit would make sense wouldn't it
that's ridiculous if it is vinnie what men would
he send i have to know it's not true is it nick
oh come on look if you do know you
better tell me this is your last chance
if you do tell me i can stop it look nick has
nothing to do with the organization tell him nick
like i said i'm out of it
well i'll just have to handle it as best i can
sundown let me speak to arlo
arlo no no not yet arlo that doesn't
your line was just cut
okay over there
so
i get upstairs i'll cover the ground floor
two fragmentations i'll work my way
downstairs we'll join up in the foyer
(Dramatic Music)
you stay here with stephanie
nick you promised me you were out of it
i told you what you wanted to hear
i've got to do what i do best steffy
this door lock on the inside yes yes it does
stay here until i tell you to come
out and keep it locked certainly
stevie i didn't mean for this to
happen i wouldn't let you come back
so
so
(Dramatic Music)
earl i guess that takes care of the local law
(Dramatic Music)
nick yeah it's cade coming in okay
all right i got one of them
how many more can i expect
what does that one look like
young college type kid yeah
would be two of them tanner and
green the best in the business
somebody get hurt no not
really it's from men's hand
what about his hand he just scratched
it i put some antiseptic on it
you say there's two of them
so long nick
(Dramatic Music)
well you're just not good at loose ends
ben your gunman is still alive benny
benny was in on it yes carla ardmore
was our source ben killed her
he meant to be the survivor the only survivor nick
then you nick
the noon flight nick will probably close up
the house we'll go back east you'll be rid
of the grangers well i don't want
to get rid of all the grangers no
you going with him
you know i asked you once not to judge
me i think i better explain now why
my father's doctor called me in london about a
month ago and he told me to decide for myself
whether or not i wanted to come back but
that nick only had a few weeks to live
so i came he didn't know about it nobody did
so the terribly ironic part is
they were killing a dead man
what does he know now yes i told him
last night he didn't say a word he just
sat there all night this morning here
he gave me those ledges to give to you
nick said he didn't want to go
out or wing anyone you any kramer
he said you'd know what to do with those
how about you stephanie are you still a girl on
the run sort of oh i had thought about coming back
to madrid with four or five cats and dogs to see
if the sheriff was still enforcing the municipal
code oh he is and you'd be on my doorstep before
the milkman is that a warning no it's a promise
goodbye sam
(Dramatic Music)
(Folksy Music)
(Dramatic Music)
(Gunshot) (Scream)
ease off stupid, they're not shooting at me. you mean they meant to kill Maxwell?
check that parking area and
round up the street crew
(Dramatic Music)
get the coroner
there are three of us and i can tell the
grand jury just as much as maxwell could
and so could sam cade and don't forget it (Laughs)
can we get off the street? take him in
(Dramatic Music)
(Folksy Music)
(Dramatic Music)
all right now we know the score. i want
this department alive and intact by the
end of those grand jury hearings. oh arlo
if you've heard back in capital city yet?
yeah attorney general phoned in
about half hour ago he said the
grand jury meets thursday morning 10 a.m
he thought maybe you and larry ought to
take a couple days and go fishing or something.
that's one thing we're not going to do is run.
how about yourself you're going to
stay low and keep off the streets?
well anyhow i ask the fbi to send us everything
they have on morel's manpower names aliases
photographs i suppose all this is gonna be posted
on the warrant. it's gonna be posted in your head
son memorize it look one thing we are not going
to do is wait for morel's man to come to us
so check on all hotel and motel registrations,
car rentals, incoming planes and buses in which
chances fellow know us and our habits so
keep an open ear for anyone asking questions
sam how about you you never answered
you're going to keep yourself low?
look jj i'm going to be as careful
as i can but still get the job done
so aren't you about eligible for a pension by now?
you know as well as i do i was eligible
for a pension in 69. do you want me to take
it? is that what you want me to do? you feel
ready to try and run this office without me?
okay uh uh johnny go ahead you have a call
on three the man says he's an informant
that you'd better speak to him i would
let you try it that's what i ought to do
you'd be grabbing that phone and begging
me to come back informing oh that should
be interesting why don't you stick around
huh i don't know whether it will or not
okay johnny go ahead...
(Dramatic Music)
courtney vernon yeah
i have a warrant for your arrest and
what charges desertion of your hometown
(Laughs)
wait a minute my god where'd that line
come from well i you know it's not women
i should've known it was you yeah well i
couldn't figure out any better way to get
through to you know i really want somebody to
pick up the phone in the office there and say
this is sheriff Samuel cade's office. yeah they
don't say that yeah they don't say it? no
i like them again you look great tell me how
do you survive i mean how do you do it do what
how do you survive in this uh electric vibrant
town oh no billy's weight one a lot of exciting
things happen around the world beauty is still as
exciting on friday nights as always friday night
yeah well that's the night we usually
sit around and watch the cement harden
that's funny ah you know it's great to see you you
look so great sam you really do you know with that
bad john you look just like your father yeah
i guess i do listen i gotta have a bar in here
in the mace room whatever they call it come on
i'll buy you i don't know come on now 10 o'clock
in the morning i have a cup of coffee with you
coffee yeah why not lordy lordy i must be home
it's been a long time since the war court
yeah it has i never i never expect to see
you come back here couldn't keep me away when
was the last time now sam what was on a carrier
the uh princeton what yeah yeah and what what
we flying on f1s or or panthers hey rich kid
uh hi hi sweetheart
yeah yeah jenny it's just uh nice to see him
back great to see you great you do something
here in the hotel yeah temporarily sure i work
the board the board the switchboard silly switch
i'm speaking up uh are you going to be around a
while oh yeah yeah for about the next eight hours
long time good to see you jay
oh that's weird saying you know that's
really weird what well i can remember a
time when jenny lomax was what was on my mind
man three years as i can remember yeah about
that yeah yeah and just now inside there
i couldn't remember her name for the soul
how long have you been working there oh oh not
not too long well no what a month a week one well
actually six years six years yeah no yeah
six years so listen you didn't tell me what
brought you back here oh i'm just selling off
some of the old man's properties you know he
left over seventeen thousand acres yeah
yeah of course i went through most of it
yeah i got about half section left 328 get down
by those focus when i dump that i'll be square
with the old hometown then what then oh i don't
know i don't think i've sat still one day since
i last saw you in korea you know i signed on and
flew another tour duty in life you left and uh
until i got though and then and then i buried jets
down to south america until i got pretty boring
and then i had a charter servers between malaga
and tangible doing a little smuggling on the side
whatever it takes i always need money oh sure
and kicks well sam what else in life is there
yeah how are you going to stay around here
midfield that all depends on you so come on
no no it depends on how much time you're going
to have for old friends now you're going to be
able to stand on me for a couple days why not well
i'm not well then tomorrow maybe we'll have lunch
dinner or whatever i'll hang in till tomorrow
okay will i give you time to wrap up your business
here in town sam i guarantee you that by this
time tomorrow i will have everything wrapped up
rudy arnold larry jj jj
johnny told me you were just talking with
the police chief over capitol city yeah
just as we thought the contracts out morrow's
man is on his way you know capital city police
department has got enough inside information
that's inside the organization to know that he's
using the same man there's any chance it's uh one
of the guys we got the mug shots on no no no this
man's a specialist no name no description
no clue no no nothing makes it interesting
look larry i can't let you stay around madrid
i mean i just don't have the manpower to give
you the protection you need where do you want me
to go sam capital city well i thought um el rio
it's close to capital city sam i'm uh i'm just a
local boy you know i really feel a lot safer right
here if you don't mind anyhow i kind of figured
that if you'll stay you know i can stay and help
you out look you haven't put in the years i have
and you're not paid to do what i do so forget it
i don't really want to cause anybody any trouble
and you know that sam but i do want to stay
okay but strictly around the office and i want
you to throw away the schedule i don't want to see
any pattern what you do because if i see it you'll
see it how about putting larry's house on a patrol
pattern might cut out any sort of surveillance
this could have set up yes the lungs didn't on
a regular basis so says yay who can't set a clock
by it yeah that's about it sam i'll be glad to go
by and pick up larry when it's time for a shift
rudy i can't let you do that it breaks up your off
time listen it's a couple of days right how much
breaking up gonna be i know pete and rodriguez
will chip in some time see that larry gets home
when he checks off okay all right man up and adam
gee i'm surprised you didn't hear about it this
uh syndicate man charlie morrell was trying to
move into madrid county with his operation
and sam found out about it and he and one of
his deputies been one of the da's men infiltrated
the organization and they caught morel red-handed
really that's fantastic yeah that must be a huge
crew for sam he's got to be a big feather in his
cab well if he lived to wear it well would
you care what well i'm that's not funny no
i meant is sam something special to you is there
anyone special i don't know not really not sam k
you he's a sure looking guy he's star athlete high
school in college fighter pilot so were you caught
all those things oh no not really and we always
had the house on the hill of course and we have
that social thing but well sam kaden is old man
well we seem to be at the center of things some
well i just want what happened that's all
i mean sam came back here you never left no
i am still here i mean i was homecoming
queen and all and it's a joke to think i
might end my day behind the switchboard at
the madrid hotel that is a terrible waste
i mean it's really ridiculous when you think about
it but still i've been there for for a couple of
months now taking room service orders and uh good
morning sir this is your wake-up call it's 7 a.m
you know i've got some things
to do this afternoon but uh
are you free for dinner tonight well yeah sure
i mean i can change things around you know
dress up pretty i mean look great huh we make a
little celebration part one of the celebration
well how long do you think it'll take
oh well what can i say klinda yeah okay
morale's lawyer is asking for
a more detailed deposition
they think all we've got to do is trace back and
forth between here and capital city what time do
you think you'll be home oh about 6 30. got the
duty roster set yeah murray signs off the desk
about four o'clock rodriguez works the counter
tonight he'll likely drop larry off first okay
yo come in
that's a great bunch of deputies to get out
there rudy and arlo and rodriguez rodriguez
what's he doing here this early he said
something about being worried about larry
did you know that he's ernie
rodriguez's brother yeah why
do you remember when i was in high school
my old man had that role faded yeah
ernie and i took that thing flat out down sand
canyon look do you mind if we uh take this up
for dinner maybe because i got a lot right you
know i understand it was not dead for dinner but
uh first thing tomorrow right um jenny told me
about that um that's uh that's a bad scene yeah
yeah it is and i'm trying to keep it from
getting any worse um tell me just between us too
what's it like i mean you got
a joker out there with a gun
in his hand looking for you it's
just you and him what's it like
are you scared well that's a
deputy's life court and it's mine
is trying to beat a murder
rap by killing three men
yeah yeah i'm scared okay yeah hold it
now i can remember a couple of times
in korea you were pretty scared yeah well
that's different now that no no no no no no
that's the kind of scared you get when you're
excited you know for kicks that's a kick sure
like like you're smuggling stuff in the tangier
that was for kids come on i'm putting it on don't
you remember it's me curt vernon rich kid wait for
kids look i remember but you're not a kid anymore
sam what do you want from me i mean
you were always a solid man you were
always the tough fella you know the uh your
faith honor what do you call it whatever
practice tomorrow uh breakfast breakfast uh
let me call you will you i'll let you know huh
well i'll have coffee while the deputy not larry
i don't want larry to leave the office
sam would i lost up your routine would i
where are you going penny rodriguez called in
sick he's got the stomach flu or something can't
make his shift so i said i'd cover the
desk until pete come back from las venus
any sand caves in capital city
besides how we can use the ot
right i picked myself some hatching eggs
you left in the fridge wasn't bad either
larry uh cleo called and uh she asked what
well i said that we'd come by on saturday
is that all right no i mean we don't have
to if you'd rather stay home and watch tv
we can do that no that's fine you know i like
cleo and harry too okay i gotta go see you now
larry is someone gonna drive home with you later
i mean sam kate said he didn't want you to be by
yourself honey is on a 10-minute drive into
madrid now everything's going to be all right
really okay see you in an hour promise
be careful
unit 4 madrid central
request a rowing 1029 on california 599 ida henry
adam red 71 sedan 10 4 4 5 9 9 ida henry adams
what's your 10 20 unit 4
walker lake road and state 16.
hi larry
madrid central to unit 4.
larry are you on patrol hi mr vernon kind of
uh taking up a lot of road there weren't you
so
i'm gonna get a good cast my tire looks like
okay show you something let's get a notching
on that thing could have been a piece of glass
i suppose i know it's too sharp too clean
you mean like it was deliberately cut yeah
hey what's with this guy killing on a
public highway in the middle of the day
using a stolen red car and now this
might as well left a trail of breadcrumbs
you suppose he's setting us up for something
hey rudy did you check the road service between
here and highway 16 yeah fresh skid marks
on both sides of the road both shoulders
looks like a crossword from one side or the
other at high speed let me see that again
oh that's how he hooked larry he stages so it
looked like a drunken driver larry took after
him like he should and you want me to get on the
horn and lay down at 10.72 no you won't pick up
anything at a roadblock you can bet he's already
ditched the car makes sense if he had everything
else planned out he sure would have figured out
what to do with that car hey you guys come here
finish up there
you know something i wonder if he meant
us to know that he was someone larry knew
you saying larry knew the problem yeah rudy
how would you approach a possible stolen car
saying my beads follow you show me well sir
in this case here we're just one subject
that's it larry's gun was still strapped down
larry was a first-rate officer he didn't make
these mistakes unless he recognized the driver
you know whoever planned this thing
had larry all figured out just
you know just what he'd do and then what we
do i wonder how much he does know about us
have a table
oh i'll have a waitress right over here yeah
right away enjoy you listen cord if you want
to dance oh no no later we came to talk and get
re-acquainted martini fine do martinez please
now tell me about flynn donahue according
it's not a very interesting story
i wasn't sure you knew about him know
about him listen a guy goes with a girl
for three years she helps marry somebody
else without even writing him a letter
people uh let him know even in korea listen
court i felt as hemmed in by this town as you did
i didn't marry flynn until i heard you signed
on for another tour with the naval air corps
oh yeah and then you couldn't wait to marry your
cowboy oh come on cowhan donna he was no cowhand
he was 17th money winner in the rodeo circuit in
1956 and we traveled we went to california and
madison square garden and calgary and canada and
bucketville and boise what is stuff put on you
don't care about flynn donna you and you putting
me through all this how are you jimmy uh excuse me
listen i got the plane again coming
sunday a week so uh give me a call please
what plan i talk about uh uh just a company
fleeing i i i fly a company plane for oil
company court it's not important and you're flying
the plane where well just flying out there later
pick up a new drill bit he's had a couple
of drinks let it go and you uh intend to
take this lady with you oh sure don't you hey
look at that guy come on never never embarrass
a lady like that this is a lady of quality
dignity and repute never never presumed buddy
chin up
smile smile
and this is the bullet that capital city
pd sent it was taken from bob maxwell
and the second one is the
expended bullet that killed larry
i've never seen two bullets quite like
these this first one is three grains heavier
and yet they're both full jacketed 22 longs olive
oil you ever see a carpet jacket in hollow point
before no not hollow point we used full jacketed
22s during the war they were issued for survival
rifles that's right to conform to the geneva
convention but they weren't hollow point you
couldn't get hollow point over the counter i'd say
that these cartridges came from a military depot
you want a flying gas on these year bullets i'd
say they'd been monkeyed with our fella took this
gi ammunition and drilled the head so they flatten
out on impact judging the weight of the bullets
he board one of them out more than the other for
higher ballistics coefficiency i think ballistics
coefficiency you mean for better flight don't you
more accuracy yeah you could say that change then
why didn't you say it a couple years in college
these kids can't even speak english no hold on
wait now what you're trying to say is the gunman
used two bullets one was heavier than the other
right right the first one that's correct with a
41 grain bullet you see it was a longer shot that
killed maxwell so it had to be more accurate
when he shot larry he drilled a hole in the
nose of the bullet he made it lighter and 38
grains could increase the flattening upon impact
here's more effective in close-up see the
lands and the grooves and the bearing surface
tells us that the barrel was a seven right
twist specialized cartridge specialized gun
we've been through the books too the only weapon
with the seven ride is a russian 22 automatic made
for international rapid fire competition you
know on top of that he used the silencer right
well that's it beginning to see things now i want
to see but now that we're up against somebody that
knows what he's doing a pro am i going to
be able to talk to you in the state inside
okay joni i'll tell him the attorney general's
on the phone for you okay thanks pete
so
yeah clean why what's the matter you're trying
to keep me out of madrid look the
grand jury doesn't convene until
yeah okay
oh jj they want me back in capital city
brian good thing yeah well there's one thing
you can do for me though when i'm gone why
check county record and see if court vernon still
holds title to any land in madrid county right
you're sure this is the phrase wow talk about
the sticks oh well we can't all have a house on
the hill oh no no that's not what i meant i i find
this very interesting tell me darling what is that
highway that on the foot of the hill my camera's
throwing the camera's flowed where does it go
well you've made it perfectly clear that
your big day tomorrow knocks out any chance
for a cup of coffee no i've just changed my
mind i think uh i think this is just fine
as you live and breathe
yeah you don't look too well
now you just you just don't don't look too good
must be rough on the outside especially when you
got a long memory then you got to pay taxes and
you look tired yeah you look tired in
that courtroom today getting enough sleep
you know killing larry greer is
gonna cost you morel is that right
yes that's right what are they gonna do strap
me in the chair tighter use more electricity
and i'm up for something like eleven
eleven counts k three of my middle one
they're smart enough to know that you're boy
in front of the courthouse the deputy you
you're all freebies you don't cost me anything
i gotta go for the whole rule or cash in right
now we both know you take that stand i've had it
you don't show i'm back on the street
that's why i'm here that's why i give you
my personal guarantee that i'll be back
maybe
you still gotta find my boy before he finds you
what's possible i already have
possible it's one thing to know
something else again to stop him
well we'll see won't we
lucy
sweat it
i didn't have the bacon or the eggs
uh there's coffee toast and juice okay
fantastic i'm sorry don't worry about it
oh it's a little scorched jen never apologize
huh i didn't know what to put in your
coffee a black wax beautiful i take uh
non-fat milk and two sugars yeah listen
jen where's the telephone i want to call
hotel see there's any messages
oh well i'll do it for you okay
do you want uh jam on your
toast or marmalade i know
arlita hi ginny uh i appreciate you subbing
for me yeah well thanks anyway uh i want to
know are there any calls for 204 mr courtney
vernon yes hold on hold on yeah what do you got
okay thank you
uh i want to make a phone call honey yeah sure
so morning boy all right good afternoon
maureen guess what there were six
presidents waiting for me in my box since
8 o'clock last night all messages from you
what's the push morning i know where boy
scott is he's in cc he's due back here at noon
goodbye maury i got a plane to catch i don't
know akapuku maybe tahiti khan don't push
nobody pushes me consignment is two-thirds
wrap you'll get the whole package by tonight
you know it must have been
somebody who knew our duty schedule
somebody who knew larry
it has to be court vernon jenny lomax on three
yeah jenny what can i do for you ah hello sam
i'm in trouble can you come over all right what's
the matter i can't tell you well you got you got a
hold of more of those sleeping pills again look
i'll get doc iris and i'll be right over no no
come alone sam
i couldn't face iverson i'm really scared all
right i'll be there in 20 minutes all right hurry
we're on our way country girl
bright lights and headways
you going over to lomax place by yourself yeah
uh have arlo and rudy meet me there go ahead
joanie have arlo and rudy go over to the lomax
place on mccandless road mr jj both units are
answering a disturbance call in centralia we'll
flag them off and get them over there hey jj
you know something courtney vernon didn't have to
lie about that land deal he wanted me to check up
on him you know he's been giving me every reason
to suspect him without giving me any hard facts
you mean he wanted you to know same as larry
greer and maxwell you wanted them to know too no
family was strictly business no with
me he's uh trying to prove something
approaching state four unit threes
right on my back bumper listen johnny
that 415 g was a phony there wasn't a disturbance
so
unit 60 unit 1 and sighted red sedan
corresponding with rear murder vehicle
come in one do you want us to investigate
unit one six to madrid central six and
three proceeding with vehicle investigation
unit section 3 disregard water
vehicle proceed to assign destination
6 3
unit 1 unit 1 sam
so
so
uh
he was going
we were going
laughs
one unit one madrid central to unit one
yes jj
madrid's got him for keeps this time
are you coming
the seat belt's stuck you're just
taking yourself a little break
i was just thinking about burning this well
that'll be the town hobby for a long time
i really liked him everybody liked
him he just got twisted that's all
don't worry about it rudy come on let's go hey
why don't you and i report in and go get ourselves
a long cool beer when did you like beer long
time make it a margarita and a steak and on you
mario's on me i've got to drive over there anyway
hey i thought they closed that place down after
the trouble we had in that stakeout last spring
no way just long enough to raise the prices places
jammed every night well nothing like this gun
player to bring them in huh that's one i'd like to
forget about so it's sam what's up quick enough we
decked out in plain clothes that night i remember
you were on the phone i was having a little
coffee at the bar oh very cozy wasn't it
he won't show up this late will he
maybe he's just being careful maybe
he knows somebody's waiting for him
he's going to texas if you ask me we'll give
another 10 minutes starting to thin out anyway
all right only don't say i didn't tell
you i'll call you back jj just came in
good evening how you doing all along
tonight yeah dinner nah just have a drink
yes
baby
sheriff's office hold on
nice work eddie we got you in your body all
right i don't how's that for heroin not bad
hey give me a rag over there will you see i'm
bleeding hey listen and maybe i got something
to trade i don't have anything that good hey
now listen i'm not booked yet just lie still
maybe we can work something out up front
huh it's a hit it's big time the biggest
get me cade
gone some syndicate style hot shot you
know the time oh yeah i know the time
what about his information problem
he's clammed up is it turning i guess
okay let's give it a try keep your
eyes open well eddie how do you feel
i feel rotten how should i feel i understand
you wanted to talk to me well i changed my mind
i see all right that's up to you oh did your
attorney give you the uh bottom line on this
charge possession so what no not just possession
possession for purposes of sale pushing yeah
that's right pushing and you're not a first-timer
this will be 10 years to life no possibility for
parole for seven years hey he didn't tell me
that we're telling you that now eddie what
it could be reduced to a misdemeanor possession
couldn't it oh yes i'm sure the district attorney
could reduce the charge if you wanted to
well if you asked him for a reduction he'd
give it why should i do that because i can't
because i can't go back to prison that's why
i walk into gifford's villain i'm a dead man
misdemeanor possession is a is a county jail
stretch that should have occurred to you
before you went back to dealing look you
want to work out some kind of a trader don't you
no trade if you want to tell me something fine
but no guarantee well this is worth plenty
to you you can at least nick granger
what about him
well
he's a big man right top drawer syndicate yeah
nick granger doesn't operate in madrid he was
put out to pasture years ago well he lives here
doesn't he what's the point the point is
i'm offering you the scoop on his obituary
you could at least talk to ross look
one word from you to the d.a and uh
can't you at least give me a maybe
okay so i'll take my chances
it's a hit nick granger in the whole family
i hit a wipeout when i don't know who's doing
it a couple of mechanics from chicago names
uh i don't know how do you know about it it's
way out of your league look this is as far as
you get on one ticket and listen if this gets
out i'm in trouble you gotta protect me yeah
oh arlo remind me i've got to protect him
chicago that means we have to cover all
flights from the east trains and buses
i set up the duty roster i don't know who
would ever want to hit nick ranger anyway
he never even comes out of that big old
fortress is that's a gang war vendetta i
don't know i don't have to explain it i just have
to stop it sam you know what i'd like to do well
stay clear of it maybe they'll cancel
each other out rudy yes sir i know the
drill you check the training bus schedules
i'll cover the airport okay let's get to it
it's worth getting yourself
caught in a big syndicate squeeze
stephanie's back stephanie granger since when
a couple of weeks ago been a long time since
she ran off i can't say i blame her must be
some sort of a shock to find out your daddy's
behind all the big rackets on the east coast
well at least i can get her out of that house
jj keep an eye on eddie pine i want to
know who the source is i sure will do
do
do
hi sir
expecting you mr granger just flown down
who's at the house today well there's uh
miss stephanie ben crawford's there wally both
the two mage and the cook they're off today
harry do you have a backup man hey
you've got to be kidding sheriff
you know to set up here yes siree got a
backup man you know i don't think i need him
sam kade i remember
sam stephanie how are you fine hello did
your father tell you i called i don't dress
like this for the mailman sam let's take a
look hey man you should nick's just getting
out of the pool is morning swim wally would
you tell me he's here please you know i um
i heard you were back but i didn't see
in town so well i haven't been in town
i got here a few weeks ago knocking
around europe that kind of thing
i didn't know he'd been ill how is he oh the
doctors say just fine it just takes a little
time how are you i'm the same i wanted to write
you a card wish you were here lucky you weren't
i was uh married and divorced all in the same
week now that takes style yeah how are you now
are you all right older wiser good i've made
a sword of peace with myself i like to think
yes for you neither rain
nor snow nor gloom of night
kade we missed the first flight in this
morning but the stewardess remembers two
guys who boarded in chicago one of them
had a large carry-on they wouldn't fit
under the seat and they gave her a pretty bad
time when she offered to put in the locker
any light on them or working on it checking
cabin car in the office okay stay with him right
it's okay wally
any other cop with you i think i was
being hustled for the policeman's ball
you know ben crawford sure so what have we
done to embarrass your citizens this time sure
nick i just got word you've been set up contract
when anytime out of where chicago
you and everyone in this house
wally it's okay it's okay
look you don't have to buy it just
let me get stephanie out of it huh
stephanie stephanie says nick there are only
certain things i can do about this i can't
assign men to the area but you can't make a move
until there's overt evidence of a crime right
is that the word ben overt that's the word so see
you don't have to quote the law to us i gotta hand
it to you you've been trying to boot me out of
madrid county ever since i bought this place
about this friend of yours steffy you know
when we got those five guard dogs sam here
hit us with some cockamamie ordinance against
more than three animals on residential property
and when we electrified the walls he'd produce
some municipal code against electric fences
we could give you a list stephie's on our backs
every minute are you saying this warning is just
harris what else nick i believe our source
and i won't have a bloodbath here in madrid
even yours and what is your source sheriff i
suggest you move into town until we check this out
move into town that's right beautiful if i was
running a hit that's exactly what i try for
get the mark of his own turf go to a hotel i'll
provide protective custody sure some hotel with
paper thin walls and belt boys you gotta frisk
look around you sam you say someone's gonna hit us
how they gonna do it i got guards electric gate
alarm system that works i got a fort here you
don't survive this long nick granger's league
without some kind of savvy fine but i still think
this is our problem yours and mine not stephanie's
wrong it's my problem and it's my daughter
sam you better get out of here stephanie i
can't do that you left your ones went on now
it's kind of involved
excuse me man speak to chef kate he's right
here sam can i speak to you for a second
talked to his lawyer he's ready to name
his source okay i'll be right out sam
please don't judge me it's meant so much
for me to see you again you've always been
someone very special i've thought about
you many times over the years you know
i'll do what i can for all of you
don't judge me please
really another thing do you want me to get
your pills no it's all right is he gone yes
nick i think we should take his advice
then what do you say
my vote we don't fall apart
nick granger doesn't run
good old benny you'd stop the bullet
for me wouldn't you i love you so sue me
i'll get it i've got it ben
hello hello
there's somebody on the line but
they won't say anything wrong number
some people got no the manners
okay where's number six merle the card
on the switching station oh right here
it has the keyblade number for the uh locksmith oh
good keep that and give me the bio
on the local law enforcement the bio
okay sheriff's department oh sure no kidding
yeah don't laugh until you read the rest of me
on oh you're good huh very well we'll just
have to deal with that when we come to it
howard what's the alarm system at the granger
house battery align power the alarm system is
uh straight off the pole so are you
hungry it's 3 30. let's take five shall we
i need another small roll of 20 gauge 15 ml
bill wired for the blasting captain series
yeah here there's a really
good health food restaurant
down at eighth and center
oh yeah sounds good to me
look a name like that a source
ought to be worth something
your lawyer tell you that well he said
i should make the best deal possible
you told me pretty much what you did so
what have you got him i'm talking to him
a girl carla ardmore ardmore yeah
she's got this guy among other guys
shrewd girl she put the whole thing together
from a couple of words a guy said some phone
call he made what's the guy's name she didn't
drop it but uh he made this long-distance phone
call to another fellow whose name is um vinnie
and uh he told him that it was definitely set
and uh nick granger was the mark vinnie
vinnie kramer east coast mob i don't know
granger hasn't been mixed up in the raccoons
for a long time yeah yeah but the word is he's
coming back he's reorganizing ask
her all right where can i find her
hi where are you
come on you have to be here
my key isn't in the mailbox
look i've got a date with a dentist in 15 minutes
and i've already canceled twice so up here
wait a minute
gentlemen it's robert afternoon
sir sorry i'm late i have five ten
five ten five times
now what's the earliest we can do this mr tanner
well it's convenient for you tonight i'd
like the switching station blown at 8 30
and the house hit between 10 45 and 10 50.
all right it'll have to be precise it
can't be off 30 seconds on either side
have you seen the station oh yes and the house
you saw the house on the way in from the airport
then i'll take the gun it's imagine mr crawford
have you ever used one before i can handle it
is there anything else you need oh we have
everything we need mr crawford until later then
no no i'm not mad because of that i'm
mad because you bought a story that's all
you don't think it was the truth come on stuffy
that cop doesn't care what happens to me you you
he cares what happens to cade's got his own ideas
of right wrong i got mine he can't stand me and i
want no part of him i know him nick he wouldn't
lie ah he wouldn't wouldn't he huh listen you
don't remember this baby you were off in college
somewheres but when your mom and i moved into this
bird sam kade was on my doorstep while we were
still unpacking he beat the welcome wagon here
he wanted to know my intentions intentions i
told him i didn't want to marry the place i just
wanted to live here he told me what happened
that day he tried to bribe him that's a lie
boy the way some people twist everything you
say here's what i said to him i said i like the
community i've got no ties with the organization
anymore i just want to live a quiet life with
my family that's what you said that's what i
said and i said something else i said i want
to do something civic you know for the place
like uh donate to the local hospital the law
officers retirement fund i could have mentioned
that and then i asked him for his suggestion
i spent a couple of fortunes making a lady
out of you so i can't repeat his suggestion
you've always been a very amusing
man nick when it suited you
when you wanted something or were trying
to get off of a subject that bothered you
i want to finish talking about this
assassination or whatever sam may not
like you but he wouldn't say something like that
unless he believed it so maybe he believes it
and maybe he's trying to get rid of me maybe
just maybe he's trying to make points with you
for a smart man nick you don't understand your
daughter at all you haven't got the first idea
of how it was between sam and me do you
um i know you saw him sometimes sure so
i saw him a lot
sam cade is possibly the best thing that ever
happened to me so yeah thing for him he got over
no i didn't
he cared for me too but he let me go
sam never told me the uh the
entire truth about you nick
i uh really wasn't ready to believe it then he
let me find that out for myself a few years later
sam walked away from our
relationship you wanna know why
you're gonna tell me anyway so go ahead
because he knew you better than i did he knew
that if he became involved with me you would
use it come on steffy you would have you used
to joke about what a natural madrid county was
for a nice little operation the only thing that
stopped that nice little operation was sam kade
if you could have somehow gotten to him my own
daughter come off it stuffy what i use you today
i know you nick i know what you were
what i'm not sure of is what you are now
terrible really terrible
last night the pusher tonight
whole business is gonna go right down to
two how long did she work here mr hassan
oh a couple of months maybe who were friends
who knows they all look i like those types
nice kit too i i better have the
room upstairs let her open up on
slow nights how well did you
know him well you know how well
what do you what are you trying
to say huh i'm a married man
i don't do that sort of thing yeah sure
the coroner puts time of death between four
and five o'clock and he reports there were
skin traces under her fingernails she had to
have marked up the attacker what's this this
is the coroner's report not me you
might take it off your coat please
you don't think i did it well your door
wasn't forced so whoever did the killing
either had been let in or had
a key let me see a risk please
how many people had keys um my bartender
carla me would you mind losing your caller
do you know uh nick granger no look how long are
you gonna be here it's it's almost eight o'clock
my trade starts coming in at eight o'clock
well your trade is just gonna have to wait
so i'm taking it out tomorrow afternoon vinny
no no chance of that everything's on the boys
are here it's all set we can make our move i
call roy and joseph tell him the operation from
here on in is ours yeah luck to you too vinnie
hello wally ben
everything all right fine everything's
fine i tell nick i'm on my way back sure
ben's on his way back boss
black five on a red six i know it
i was just saving it you big galoot
and they're dressed up aren't you
expecting somebody expecting sam kade
why would somebody want to kill you nick oh
boy here we go again there's nothing to it
stephie it's imagination rumor it's not as if you
were still part of the organization right right
you're not still in that
business are you nick no baby no
listen you want to give me one of those pills
do you need the doctor are you all right
a twins it's all it is no big deal thanks
yeah hey let's play some two-handed come on no not
tonight nick i don't know how mother stood it it
was much worse before wasn't it the old days
when you got word of the hit you believed it
you'll get used to it baby
i don't nick
and make it we have to be out in two minutes 30.
fine merle
for almost two hours
i need 30 seconds to set those timers
merle no less you do howdy i know you do
so
me
so
foreign
we're under 30 seconds
i am at the club
no no i thought for a moment i'd forgotten
something in town but it's here it's in
the back seat ah gonna play a little
tennis huh something like that harry
my watch has been off all day can you tell
me what time it is oh sure it's your thing
8 33 exactly are you sure sure i'm sure well
within maybe three four five minutes maybe but
close enough huh i'll see you in the
morning huh okay come on mr copper
so
what's up what was that i don't know some
sort of power failure you think power failure
on things like that
oh what's the word hi i came right back as soon as
the city went dark they think it's a
switching station at clearwater soon
county's blacked out how soon can power
be restored they have no idea sam yeah
little lady caught in the elevator over the
current building alone well not exactly she's
pregnant going into labor they think anyone
able to reach her we'll be yelling down the
elevator shaft maintenance man's working on
it but starts going to beat him out sure you
better get over there and see what you can do
huh i got a feeling that ain't going to be much
have an ambulance standby sam the power people are
on the phone they say there's been an explosion
over at the clearwater station and it may take
six to uh eight hours or even more to get fixed
yes yes sam you're expecting a plasma
delivery therefore they need an escort
okay get moving sam is mr burton from the bank
don't tell me i can guess whole surveillance
system is off he's scared stiff he wonders if
you have any information this might be a setup
shut up he thinks maybe somebody's
trying to knock over the bank
hang on mr burton we'll send someone right over
hold it arlo got a clear line yet right away all
right get me the granger house the private line
yes sir what's up i'm going out to the granger
house arlo you better take over for me here
you know i'm putting a couple of loose ends
together possible hit on granger and the first
blackout we've had here in five years i see
what you mean is this something you ought to
handle yourself well it turns out to be more
than just a hunch i'll call you okay thanks
stephanie sam we're blacked out the
main gates opened i'm frightened
all right now look i want you to lock everything
pull the drapes don't let any light show i'll
get there as soon as i can yes thank you i don't
care what you say get some of the boys out here
put them on a plane whatever my gate's wide
open the alarm system's off get somebody
(Dramatic Music)
okay expecting you all our power's
out the gate control's dead everything
who is it it's sam i'm so glad you're here
who else is in the house just
nick he's in the living room
hey i didn't call you i got people
coming in i don't need police
look you may need all the help you can
get i'll come on level with me nick
i want to know what to expect i don't know any
more about this than you do you know plenty about
it now are you moving back into the rackets of
course now why because the man who took over your
organization goes to prison tomorrow on a tax
evasion charge that's why that's not my problem
vinnie cramer's supposed to move up in the family
take over now what has cramer got to do with
nick granger nothing unless nick is planning a
comeback and the hit would make sense wouldn't it
that's ridiculous if it is vinnie what men would
he send i have to know it's not true is it nick
oh come on look if you do know you
better tell me this is your last chance
if you do tell me i can stop it look nick has
nothing to do with the organization tell him nick
like i said i'm out of it
well i'll just have to handle it as best i can
sundown let me speak to arlo
arlo no no not yet arlo that doesn't
your line was just cut
okay over there
so
i get upstairs i'll cover the ground floor
two fragmentations i'll work my way
downstairs we'll join up in the foyer
(Dramatic Music)
you stay here with stephanie
nick you promised me you were out of it
i told you what you wanted to hear
i've got to do what i do best steffy
this door lock on the inside yes yes it does
stay here until i tell you to come
out and keep it locked certainly
stevie i didn't mean for this to
happen i wouldn't let you come back
so
so
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earl i guess that takes care of the local law
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nick yeah it's cade coming in okay
all right i got one of them
how many more can i expect
what does that one look like
young college type kid yeah
would be two of them tanner and
green the best in the business
somebody get hurt no not
really it's from men's hand
what about his hand he just scratched
it i put some antiseptic on it
you say there's two of them
so long nick
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well you're just not good at loose ends
ben your gunman is still alive benny
benny was in on it yes carla ardmore
was our source ben killed her
he meant to be the survivor the only survivor nick
then you nick
the noon flight nick will probably close up
the house we'll go back east you'll be rid
of the grangers well i don't want
to get rid of all the grangers no
you going with him
you know i asked you once not to judge
me i think i better explain now why
my father's doctor called me in london about a
month ago and he told me to decide for myself
whether or not i wanted to come back but
that nick only had a few weeks to live
so i came he didn't know about it nobody did
so the terribly ironic part is
they were killing a dead man
what does he know now yes i told him
last night he didn't say a word he just
sat there all night this morning here
he gave me those ledges to give to you
nick said he didn't want to go
out or wing anyone you any kramer
he said you'd know what to do with those
how about you stephanie are you still a girl on
the run sort of oh i had thought about coming back
to madrid with four or five cats and dogs to see
if the sheriff was still enforcing the municipal
code oh he is and you'd be on my doorstep before
the milkman is that a warning no it's a promise
goodbye sam
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