Sam Cade (1972) - full transcript

(Jack Hammer)

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(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

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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

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(Folksy Music)

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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...

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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

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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

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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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