Police Woman (1974–1978): Season 1, Episode 18 - Nothing Left to Lose - full transcript
If the bust goes down,
you got your money.
Police officers! Freeze!
Get 'em over there! Get em!
- You lousy snitch.
- Please.
- Larue Collins.
- Right. Waste her.
- What are you
so steamed up about?
- It's my fault she came here.
- Where are you?
- You don't care.
I care. You understand? I care
about you and your right to live.
Police officers. Let me through.
♪♪
This here buyer, he's a little
nervous anyhow, you know.
You're sure there
won't be no slipup?
We don't make no slipups, Max. Just
be sure he pays off when we deliver.
You're responsible. We're layin'
out a lot of bread for this operation.
The guys are comin' in
from Detroit and Cleveland.
A little around the
left kidney, huh, baby?
Hey, that hurts.
That ain't your kidney.
That's your liver, Angie.
You bettor lay off
that vino "russo."
Rosso. Rosso's red.
Russo's my cousin.
Hey, that's pretty good, Larue.
Either you're gettin' better,
or I'm gettin' used to your feet.
No later than Saturday night.
Remember, after that, my buyer's long gone.
You worry too much, Max. You
know that? What about a pizza?
Fehhh. Here's for you, baby.
I'll settle up with that
old bag out front. Thanks.
♪ And feelin' good was
good enough for me ♪
♪ Good enough for
me and Bobby McGee ♪
You and me, let's,
uh, get together. Okay?
What do you have in mind?
♪ From the coal
mines in Kentucky ♪
♪ To the California sun ♪
Uh-huh.
♪ Bobby shared the
secrets of my soul ♪
Uh... Well, how about it?
Joe? Sorry, pal,
I'm a police officer.
You're under arrest. How
about it? Why, you lousy...
Hi. Larue, what do you want?
I gotta see you. I got some hot
information. Not here. I'm working.
Can't you tell? But it's the biggest
thing I've ever come up with.
It's the wrong time, the
wrong place. Call me tomorrow.
Pepper, I said it's big. Please.
All right.
Well? Whatcha
you think? Big, huh?
Yeah.
Like, uh, worth maybe
a couple of hundred?
'Cause I sure do need it.
I'll phone in the information, and if the
bust goes down, you've got your money.
I need it now.
Larue, that's not how we
operate, and you know it.
I'll phone it in, and if
everything goes okay, you got it.
Look, if you're
trying to say that, uh,
my batting average
hadn't always been perfect,
well, uh, okay...
I'm no Joe Namath.
You always right?
♪ Feeling good was easy, Lord ♪
- You okay?
- Yeah, fine.
- Your boy, he okay?
- How'd you know about him?
You showed me his picture
once, around last Christmas.
He's a beauty. Yeah.
He's okay. He's just about
the only good thing I got left.
♪ Feelin' good was easy,
Lord when he sang the blues ♪
♪ Feelin' good was
good enough for me ♪
♪ Good enough for me
and my Bobby McGee ♪
♪♪
Those are good up
there. Take those.
Come on. Move faster.
Okay, those. Get
these over here.
Back there. Hurry up.
Police officers!
Freeze! All right, let's go.
- Put your hands
on top of your head.
- Nobody move a muscle.
Billy? Dick? Hustle
the other guys over.
Mark, get 'em in the center
over there. Move! Move!
Hey, move it! Get
over there. I got 'em.
On the table.
Get 'em over there. Get 'em.
Shake 'em down, Pete. On the table.
Larue Collins.
Right. Waste her.
♪ Freedom's just another word
for nothin' left to lose Nothin' ♪
Uh, do you have a
phone I could use? No.
Well, suppose somebody
was trying to call me?
- Who?
- Somebody.
The people who come here, their
wives are dead, their friends are dead.
Who's gonna call
'em? Their rotten kids?
Let's get out of here, huh?
By the way, if a lady
comes here lookin' for me,
would you tell her that I'll see
her at her place later on, okay?
And also tell her that I said
please to have the money ready.
Now, don't forget
I said "please."
You wanna leave your name?
She knows my name.
♪ Freedom's just another
word for nothin' left to lose ♪
Taxi!
Larue? Hey, what happened?
Nothin'. Well, are you okay?
Yeah. I just tripped
and fell is all.
Looked to me like somebody
took a shot at you, lady.
Why don't you mind
your business, huh?
Well, then how come that
wood's smashed over there?
Look, you wanna make some bucks or do
you wanna stand there beatin' your gums?
Go on. Get in the cab.
It's your funeral, lady.
Hey, you!
Hey, you! Police!
Uh, listen, Alma, I don't think
I'll be coming up right now, okay?
Why not? I gotta see
somebody. I'll call you later.
Is it about those men
who took a shot at you?
What men?
Hey, you been dreamin' again?
You haven't had a bite
of lunch. I was gonna
fix you a real nice
tuna salad sandwich.
I'm really not hungry right
now. You're never hungry.
Where do you get your
energy? I'm a living doll.
Didn't you know that? You just wind
me up once and take away the key.
Larue. Larue,
listen. Are you okay?
I'm fine. Top of the world.
Like it says in that song: ♪ I'd trade all
my tomorrows for one single yesterday ♪
It's today, and I'm
top of the world.
See you later, okay?
Alma, here.
Uh, we'll have a
late lunch, okay?
You call and have them
send up some delicatessen.
Okay.
Friends?
You know we are.
Girl, you all right?
About all I can tell you for a
fact is that she was not Chinese.
She was just some kind
of a... Well, just a blonde.
She just complained. Complained?
Complained about what?
The tea, the service, everything.
You wanna know anything else?
No, not right now.
Thank you very much.
That's 9.75, lady. Just keep the
meter running. I'll be right back.
Now, I don't want any
more of those silly jokes...
about hoosegow and calaboose
and all such foolishness.
These men are your friends,
just as much as the firemen...
or the street cleaner or the
man who fed the lions at the zoo.
Excuse me. Children, come
over here when I walk over here.
Excuse me. I'd like to see
Sergeant Anderson, please.
What's your name?
Uh, just tell her that Larue wants
to see her on a personal matter.
She's not here
right now. Oh, Bill.
Sgt. Crowley will talk to you.
What time do you expect her back?
Well, now, if you've got a problem,
Sergeant Crowley will handle it.
Sergeant Anderson
is out on a case.
Can I help you? Uh, no.
It's a personal matter between
me and Sergeant Anderson.
Well, why don't you
come with me? It's okay.
What I want my children
to get out of this...
is that the policeman is
not a symbol of punishment.
Not a bogeyman who will come
and lock them up if they're naughty.
Yes, ma'am.
What's your name?
Larue Collins.
I don't remember Sergeant Anderson
ever talking to me about any Larue Collins.
Look, Larue.
Have you got something for us, or did
you just come in here to warm your hands?
Uh,
well, what I'm trying
to bring out is, uh...
Sergeant Anderson and me, we,
uh, usually had sort of an agreement.
Like, how much is it worth?
Well, I tell ya, that depends
on what you got to sell.
Actually, I need about $250.
You see, it's sort of a matter of life and
death when you come right down to it.
Well, Sergeant Anderson
never paid you any $250,
unless she paid you
out of her own pocket.
'Cause you see, I
okay all the bills here,
and I never okayed any
$250 for Larue Collins ever.
Look, I know you guys
got a lot of pull downtown.
But even so, you still need
to come up with results, right?
Arrests, convictions? Well, who do you
think has been feeding her all this time?
Those apple
stealers on the beat?
Go ahead. I'm listening.
Well, you, uh... How
would you like to know, uh...
Do you remember that job at
the Cloverdale Bank last winter?
How'd you like to know who
masterminded the whole thing?
The entire operation.
- That's worth about 250,
isn't it?
- It could be.
Well, you pull in a guy
by the name of Joe Caryk.
You get him in here and you
twist him a little bit, you see?
And you'll hear
an earful all right.
He can't stand pain. I
know. I worked on him.
Joe Caryk?
Joe Caryk has been in the
Nevada pen for the last three months.
You just made that up.
If that's all you got
for us, Larue, I'll tell ya.
We're wasting each other's time.
Hey, Pete, you wanna
show this lady downstairs?
Let me tell you something.
You're just lucky you didn't try
to pull this on Sergeant Anderson.
Mr. Cop. Sir.
You just killed a girl.
Right this way.
♪ Busted flat in Baton Rouge ♪
♪ Waitin' for a train ♪
♪ And I was feeling nearly
as faded as my jeans ♪
♪ Bobby thumbed a diesel
down just before it rained ♪♪
Hey, lady. Hey, lady,
you a crook or a cop?
A little bit of both, I guess.
Stop crying.
You stop that right now. Come on.
You don't know when you're well off.
Thank you. Come on, children.
Come on. Let's all
keep up together.
Mrs. Gucciares?
This is Larue Collins. Yeah?
Listen, have you seen
anybody around the house?
You know, somebody looking for
me that might look a little suspicious?
Looking for you? No,
Larue, not that I've seen.
Well, look, I've gotta go
away on business for a while,
and I wanna come and pack
a couple of things, but, uh...
You sure you haven't
seen anybody?
You know, maybe a
cop or a tough guy?
Nobody I've seen.
- Okay. Thank you.
- Yeah, good-bye.
Keys to her apartment.
Bill! What?
- Why did you let her leave?
- Let who leave?
What are you talking about?
You should have realized if
she came here, it was urgent.
What are you talking
about? Larue Collins.
I'll tell you how
urgent that was.
Some crazy broad comes in
here I've never seen in my life,
asks me for 250
bucks and tells me a
cockamamy story a
five-year-old wouldn't buy.
- That was some urgent.
- Why didn't you contact me?
Hey, wait a minute. What
are you so steamed up about?
What's the matter with you?
Well, I was supposed to meet her.
I've got the money right in my
purse. It's my fault she came here.
Wait a minute, Pep. Was she
your snitch on the fur bust last night?
- Yeah.
- The one you call
"Apple Annie"?
Yes. How the hell am
I supposed to know?
- I should have told you.
- You're damn right
you should have told me!
How did I know she
was gonna come here?
I had a dentist appointment, and he
said it would take less than an hour.
Yeah, and it took two,
right? Oh, God, I don't know.
All I know is, she must
really be in trouble.
'Cause you know as well
as I do that no informer...
is ever gonna let
herself be seen...
walking into a police station
unless she's desperate.
So, I'm sorry, Bill, but I'd better go
find her before somebody else does.
Pepper, I don't... Don't start lecturing
me about getting personally involved.
Because sometimes
I do, just like you.
Pete, listen, get your coat. We
gotta get to the Ah Choy Restaurant.
All right. But what's
up? I'll tell you.
Joe? Yeah?
What time was this
shooting? About 1:15. Why?
Mm-hmm. The
woman that was shot at,
she didn't report it, did she?
Not to my knowledge, she didn't.
Mm-hmm. Larue Collins came
in here about 1:30 all steamed up.
Somebody's already started
shooting at her. Says who?
This happened just 15 minutes
before Larue came in here.
Do you know anybody else who
would duck two bullets and not report it?
- Did you get a description of
the woman who got in the cab?
- Come on. At a shooting?
You know, everybody wants
to help, nobody wants to help,
so therefore you
end up with nothing.
Okay, Pep.
Let's go find her.
So, will you leave
me alone? I'm all right.
A lousy bloody nose, and you're
gonna take me to the hospital.
Let's give her
another shot. Okay.
I don't want to.
Well, let us put it this way.
You have no idea why these
two men were looking for her?
I told you. Now,
believe me, Officer.
I was in no mood to ask
them no stupid questions.
Can you give us a
description of these two guys?
Doesn't this cat
know that around here,
if you wanna ask questions like
that, you don't do it out in the open?
I'll tell you what they looked
like. They looked like two guys.
One of them was a little taller.
One of them was a little fatter.
At first I thought
they were cops.
Only the one of them, well,
he was too well dressed.
If I hear anything, I'll
send you a postcard.
Why, Larue, come in.
Mrs. Fontaine? How you doing?
What is it?
Why, I heard so much about your place,
I thought I'd like to come up and see it.
Like? Oh, yes. It's real grand.
I asked... What do you want?
My money.
Your money? For all those
johns I've been sending over here.
Well, $10 a head, and there were
12 of them. You see right there?
So that's $120 you owe me.
Remember, that was our deal.
What are you perspiring about?
Look at you.
Bet you haven't even
taken a shower this morning.
You're probably
crawling with bacteria.
You don't know nothin'.
You're just fishin'.
There ain't nothin'
bothering my conscience.
Then why all this excitement?
Well, to tell you
the plain truth,
I have to go out of
town for a little while.
My mother called
me long distance,
and, well, she's gettin' kind of old
now, and she wants me to come home.
You see, it's my kid.
- He misses me and...
- Really?
I'd like to see him too.
Well, now, tell me, how
do you plan to support him?
I mean, I don't imagine there are
very many massage parlors in Arkansas.
Oh, I got a trade...
in my hands.
In a manner of speaking.
Oh, no, I have a diploma from
the Hollywood Hair Styling School.
I graduated.
What about your other work?
I don't know what
you're talking about.
I don't have no other job.
I ain't no hooker if
that's what you mean.
You're trying to welsh out
of paying me, aren't you?
You figure if you stall
long enough, I'll be dead,
and then you won't have
to pay me my money. Dead?
Now, really, Larue, don't
tell me you have enemies.
You know any other jokes?
Now, Larue, you know if I had the cash
in my hand, I'd give it to you, wouldn't I?
Now, please. Get out of here.
Call me later. What time?
Larue, will you please stop nagging me?
Can't you see I'm trying to concentrate?
All right, I'll call you later.
Mrs. Fontaine?
You wouldn't blow the
whistle on me, would you?
I mean, I really am kinda up against
the wall. You know what I mean?
I know that she's in trouble.
Someone tried to kill her outside
that restaurant, th-that Chinese place.
- How do you know that?
- I was with her.
- Did you see who it was?
- No.
Did Larue have any idea
who it might have been?
She pretended...
- Pretended what?
- That it didn't even happen.
When was the last
time you saw her?
- A little while after that.
- Then?
She split. And she said to me,
"I will be back in a little while."
Well, it's been several hours.
Oh.
Here. You want some
water? Yes. Thank you.
So, I thought that you
must know something.
Um, Larue was here.
- Oh, she's okay?
- She split again.
Well, didn't you
try to help her?
Uh, well, I wasn't...
I didn't see her.
Well, for goodness sakes,
what were you doing?
I was here. She didn't
tell me why she came.
Well, someone's trying to kill her.
That's why she would come here.
Alma, uh...
How long have you
known her? Two years.
We were, uh, in detention
together a couple of months.
And you've been
friends ever since?
Oh, yes. In our way.
What does that mean,
"in our way," Alma?
I mean, she's a friend of mine.
She's probably my best friend.
But I don't know
too much about her.
I mean, she talks to me,
and she holds back
at the same time.
I don't know how else
to explain it to you.
I know she's into gambling,
kind of heavy gambling.
That's her sickness, I guess.
And she's got a
mother somewhere.
And a kid. A kid.
Is she married?
Oh, no.
What about boyfriends?
Has she got a boyfriend?
She talks about a few guys
from time to time, you know.
Uh, one was from back home,
wherever that was, when
she was very young, of course.
And once in a while,
there was a guy that
she had known here,
and she would start
to talk about him.
And then she'd stop, you know,
as if she just didn't
want to remember things.
What was his name?
Ta... Oh, I can't remember.
Listen, I'm gonna
pull that file, okay?
Yeah, okay. Great.
Uh, okay, Alma, let's
try to piece this together.
Okay.
Who is it? It's me... Larue.
Donny, please.
Hi.
Crap game don't start till 6:00.
I'm not here for that.
I'm not into that stuff anymore.
I'll bet.
Is your mother home?
My mother's working.
She's working to support me
in the style to which I'm stuck.
You makin' this
for your brother?
It's something to do.
What do you want?
Uh, I hear you got
a new girlfriend.
I just wanted to tell you I
hope she appreciates you.
You know, I've always been
afraid to go on one of these things,
ever since I was a little kid.
I've been missing you, Donny.
I want you to know that.
You lousy lying tramp.
Donny, please.
You lousy snitch.
Oh, come on. You're not
gonna start that again, are you?
I stopped comin' to
see you in the hospital...
'cause you was always
startin' up with that fantasy.
You fingered me to those cops.
I did not. You fingered me.
How could I? I didn't even
know you was into pushing junk.
How could I? Why?
- You mean,
that's just my fantasy?
- Yes.
That they made a move
on me and crippled me?
Crippled me good.
That's my fantasy.
Because you had a gun,
and you shot at them.
And then you ran.
Why did you run?
Because I wanted to come back.
I wanted to come back
to you... and grab you.
Take you in my arms.
Like the nice times.
The nice times.
And ask you, how
much did they pay you?
- Stop it.
- Will you get out of here?
What do you want?
I feel safe here.
Get out of here. Leave
me alone, will ya? Donny?
I'm in a little bit of trouble,
and I need some bread.
You've gotta be kidding.
I'm not.
I need maybe just $200.
A loan, Donny. I'll get it
back to you. I swear. Please.
Please?
Please? I gotta go home.
Even if I had the money,
even if I had $200 in my
pocket, do you know what I'd do?
I'd take it out, and
I'd hold it up high.
I'd hold it up right
under your snitch nose.
And then...
I would take this lighter,
and I would burn it.
I would burn... burn the money,
right under your
damn snitch nose.
I should have killed you.
I should have killed you. And
you're asking me for bread?
Donny, they're gonna push
me off the top of the Ferris wheel.
Tell them to push extra
hard, will ya, for me?
Now, will you get out of here?
Anything else, Alma?
Well, I don't know if this will be
of much help, Sergeant Anderson.
Anything is liable to
be of help at this point.
Well, once she asked me
to go with her to a pan parlor,
where they play cards, you know.
Spanish rummy or
something like that.
Did you go? No.
I don't like cards.
They don't like me either.
But Larue went quite a bit.
Yeah. When she
needed money, you know.
She made out
pretty good, I think.
Thank you. I'll be right back.
Pete, I want you to get out
and check all the pan parlors...
in Larue Collins's
neighborhood, okay?
There must be at least two dozen of
them, Pep. Well, then, check two dozen.
Three, if you have to. Please?
Okay. Here's her mug shot.
Larue's file.
Alma, I'm gonna read
some names to you,
and I want you to tell me if
they mean anything, okay?
- What sort of names?
- Just, uh, guys, women.
People, you know, we've
arrested over the years.
Well, what does this
have to do with Larue?
You wanna help her? Just tell
us if any of the names register.
Okay. Okay.
Ray DeCamp.
Anything? No.
I wanna make a collect
call to Smackover, Arkansas.
Hello.
Uh, yeah, Operator,
I'll accept the call.
- Mama?
- Larue?
Yeah. How's everything?
What do you want?
Uh, Larry, he's
all right, isn't he?
He's fine. Now,
what do you want?
I wanna come home.
I wanna be there for his
birthday on Sunday, you know.
Oh, that's just fine. You
only missed four of 'em.
Well, I wanna come back.
I wanna be with him. I wanna
stay with him, take care of him.
Like last time?
I'm talkin' about
this time, Mama.
Look, I need you
to do me a favor.
I need you to send
me $200 for the bus.
You wire it to me, okay?
I wanna buy him some things.
Oh, I see. It's gonna be that kind
of homecoming, just like Christmas.
Only we never did
see you get off the bus.
And you never did
bring him anything.
- Look, Mama...
- Listen. I'm sorry, but I've
got some ladies here visiting.
And besides, the boy will be home
soon from school and want his snack.
All right, Mama.
Look, you tell Larry...
that I said that I'm
comin' straight home.
Mr. Lincoln? Yes?
You got anybody
looking for a game?
Question is, uh, can
you buy any chips?
How about a little loan,
huh? Just $10 is all I need.
I'm feelin' really lucky today.
I'm just bustin' with luck.
- Forget it.
- How about this? Huh?
Is it gold? Well,
sure it's gold.
I'm sure it's worth
at least 20 bucks.
- I'll give you 10.
- Okay.
You're crazy.
She didn't try to come here
and borrow some money?
No.
We're crazy. She wasn't here.
Okay. She stopped by.
I gave her $200
because she wanted it.
She wanted to go
home... Arkansas.
You know, home.
She's probably on
the plane right now.
Here, what about this one?
Erica Tarn. T-A-R-N.
Anything? Does that sound
like anything to you? No.
- Donald Haas?
- No.
Wait. Oh, wait. Steven...
Wait a minute. Her
boyfriend, her old boyfriend.
She used to call him Donny.
Yeah. And Haas,
that sounds a
little familiar to me.
It does, huh?
Pep, what's the
address you got on that?
Uh, 780 Martinson.
I think I'll just pick up Joe
and we'll check that out.
And that is it. Another game?
Yeah, I'd like one. Hey.
Are you all right, dear? It
isn't the end of the world.
Ten dollars.
She wanted money.
I told her to get out.
And these two guys who came...
Do you know who they were?
I-I don't know. Two creeps.
You never saw them before? No.
Do you know where Larue
is now? I don't know. No.
- Here. Why don't you...
- No, no. Just leave me alone.
Well, then let's
get you to a doctor.
Get outta here.
Crowley's office.
Where are you?
Everywhere. Nowhere.
Baton Rouge. Kentucky.
♪ California sun ♪
Larue, just tell me where you are
right now, and I'll come and get you.
No. I just wanna
rest for a little while.
- Talk some.
- We'll talk.
We'll talk. Was I so wrong?
Everything I've done.
Was I so rotten and wrong?
Helping us? Is that what
you mean? Helping me?
Yeah.
Honey, it's the way we operate.
We get half of our jobs done that way.
No, you didn't do
wrong. You did great.
Donny.
Did I ever talk to
you about him?
- No, no, you didn't.
- I didn't mean for it
to happen.
I swear it. I didn't mean for
him to wind up like he did.
Alive but dead really.
- And now I'm gonna die.
- Honey, you're not gonna die.
Not if you tell me where you
are and let me come and get you.
You don't care.
You sit in a big fat office,
collecting fat cop pay.
And I'm on the
telephone botherin' you.
You wanna know
something? I care.
I care. You understand? I care
about you and your right to live.
Now, where are you?
I'm gonna need some bread.
- I'll get it.
- Two hundred dollars.
I'll bring it. I've got it.
I'm in a phone booth.
Sixth and Soto.
I'll be there... five minutes.
That's all I can
wait is five minutes.
Somebody's after me,
and they're gonna kill me.
Oh, my God, I'm so scared.
Five minutes.
Oh, no. Hey, can you move it?
I need it. I need it bad and
I need it now. My money.
I know.
I got a call a little while ago.
Oh, I mean, I get lots of calls,
but this one was about you.
How a couple of
cats are after you.
Mrs. Fontaine, if you don't give
me my money, I'm gonna kill you.
I mean that. I got off the bus.
There's that park there.
I looked for and I found...
this.
And I'll use it on you.
I'll bash it through your skull.
I know you've got that
money, and it's mine.
And what are you
gonna do with it?
I'm gonna get as far
away from here as I can.
I loathe you.
You know that, don't you?
Everybody loathes you.
You, your kind. You're filthier
than the dirt that rock sat in.
Do you know that? Now, you
just tell me that you know that.
I wanna hear that!
You?
With what you do
here, in this place?
You want me to say that?
Yes!
All right.
I'm filth.
Now gimme my money.
Attention, please.
Nothing left to lose ♪
♪ And nothin' ain't
worth nothin' but it's free ♪
♪♪
Excuse me. I want
a ticket to Little Rock.
♪ And feelin' good was
good enough for me ♪
- ♪ Good enough for me
and Bobby McGee ♪
- Thank you.
Excuse me. I wanna buy a toy.
For a boy or girl? A
boy. He's gonna be six.
A very big handsome
six. I like this one.
Would you like it
gift wrapped, sort of?
No, just put it in a bag.
That'll be fine. Okay.
That'll be 4.12.
Have a nice trip
now, hear? I will.
Attention, please.
The southwestern bus is now
leaving from Gate 2 for Phoenix,
Albuquerque, Amarillo,
Oklahoma City,
Little Rock and Atlanta.
Miss. Miss.
Somebody get a doctor.
Excuse me. Police
officer. Let me through.
Fellas. Hey, Larue.
Hey, it's me, Pepper.
You're gonna be all
right. You know that.
Tell Larry...
I was comin' home.
My little boy?
Okay?
Yeah, okay.
I'll tell him you're
gonna be there soon.
Home... and healthy... and free.
Freedom.
Just another word.
Better make it fast.
Pep, two guys. I got a
description from the news lady.
With this M.0., they'll be in our file. She
said she'll make positive identification.
I wanna be there when you
move in on 'em. You will be.
Officers. What's the matter?
- She's dead.
- Oh, no.
Let's go.
you got your money.
Police officers! Freeze!
Get 'em over there! Get em!
- You lousy snitch.
- Please.
- Larue Collins.
- Right. Waste her.
- What are you
so steamed up about?
- It's my fault she came here.
- Where are you?
- You don't care.
I care. You understand? I care
about you and your right to live.
Police officers. Let me through.
♪♪
This here buyer, he's a little
nervous anyhow, you know.
You're sure there
won't be no slipup?
We don't make no slipups, Max. Just
be sure he pays off when we deliver.
You're responsible. We're layin'
out a lot of bread for this operation.
The guys are comin' in
from Detroit and Cleveland.
A little around the
left kidney, huh, baby?
Hey, that hurts.
That ain't your kidney.
That's your liver, Angie.
You bettor lay off
that vino "russo."
Rosso. Rosso's red.
Russo's my cousin.
Hey, that's pretty good, Larue.
Either you're gettin' better,
or I'm gettin' used to your feet.
No later than Saturday night.
Remember, after that, my buyer's long gone.
You worry too much, Max. You
know that? What about a pizza?
Fehhh. Here's for you, baby.
I'll settle up with that
old bag out front. Thanks.
♪ And feelin' good was
good enough for me ♪
♪ Good enough for
me and Bobby McGee ♪
You and me, let's,
uh, get together. Okay?
What do you have in mind?
♪ From the coal
mines in Kentucky ♪
♪ To the California sun ♪
Uh-huh.
♪ Bobby shared the
secrets of my soul ♪
Uh... Well, how about it?
Joe? Sorry, pal,
I'm a police officer.
You're under arrest. How
about it? Why, you lousy...
Hi. Larue, what do you want?
I gotta see you. I got some hot
information. Not here. I'm working.
Can't you tell? But it's the biggest
thing I've ever come up with.
It's the wrong time, the
wrong place. Call me tomorrow.
Pepper, I said it's big. Please.
All right.
Well? Whatcha
you think? Big, huh?
Yeah.
Like, uh, worth maybe
a couple of hundred?
'Cause I sure do need it.
I'll phone in the information, and if the
bust goes down, you've got your money.
I need it now.
Larue, that's not how we
operate, and you know it.
I'll phone it in, and if
everything goes okay, you got it.
Look, if you're
trying to say that, uh,
my batting average
hadn't always been perfect,
well, uh, okay...
I'm no Joe Namath.
You always right?
♪ Feeling good was easy, Lord ♪
- You okay?
- Yeah, fine.
- Your boy, he okay?
- How'd you know about him?
You showed me his picture
once, around last Christmas.
He's a beauty. Yeah.
He's okay. He's just about
the only good thing I got left.
♪ Feelin' good was easy,
Lord when he sang the blues ♪
♪ Feelin' good was
good enough for me ♪
♪ Good enough for me
and my Bobby McGee ♪
♪♪
Those are good up
there. Take those.
Come on. Move faster.
Okay, those. Get
these over here.
Back there. Hurry up.
Police officers!
Freeze! All right, let's go.
- Put your hands
on top of your head.
- Nobody move a muscle.
Billy? Dick? Hustle
the other guys over.
Mark, get 'em in the center
over there. Move! Move!
Hey, move it! Get
over there. I got 'em.
On the table.
Get 'em over there. Get 'em.
Shake 'em down, Pete. On the table.
Larue Collins.
Right. Waste her.
♪ Freedom's just another word
for nothin' left to lose Nothin' ♪
Uh, do you have a
phone I could use? No.
Well, suppose somebody
was trying to call me?
- Who?
- Somebody.
The people who come here, their
wives are dead, their friends are dead.
Who's gonna call
'em? Their rotten kids?
Let's get out of here, huh?
By the way, if a lady
comes here lookin' for me,
would you tell her that I'll see
her at her place later on, okay?
And also tell her that I said
please to have the money ready.
Now, don't forget
I said "please."
You wanna leave your name?
She knows my name.
♪ Freedom's just another
word for nothin' left to lose ♪
Taxi!
Larue? Hey, what happened?
Nothin'. Well, are you okay?
Yeah. I just tripped
and fell is all.
Looked to me like somebody
took a shot at you, lady.
Why don't you mind
your business, huh?
Well, then how come that
wood's smashed over there?
Look, you wanna make some bucks or do
you wanna stand there beatin' your gums?
Go on. Get in the cab.
It's your funeral, lady.
Hey, you!
Hey, you! Police!
Uh, listen, Alma, I don't think
I'll be coming up right now, okay?
Why not? I gotta see
somebody. I'll call you later.
Is it about those men
who took a shot at you?
What men?
Hey, you been dreamin' again?
You haven't had a bite
of lunch. I was gonna
fix you a real nice
tuna salad sandwich.
I'm really not hungry right
now. You're never hungry.
Where do you get your
energy? I'm a living doll.
Didn't you know that? You just wind
me up once and take away the key.
Larue. Larue,
listen. Are you okay?
I'm fine. Top of the world.
Like it says in that song: ♪ I'd trade all
my tomorrows for one single yesterday ♪
It's today, and I'm
top of the world.
See you later, okay?
Alma, here.
Uh, we'll have a
late lunch, okay?
You call and have them
send up some delicatessen.
Okay.
Friends?
You know we are.
Girl, you all right?
About all I can tell you for a
fact is that she was not Chinese.
She was just some kind
of a... Well, just a blonde.
She just complained. Complained?
Complained about what?
The tea, the service, everything.
You wanna know anything else?
No, not right now.
Thank you very much.
That's 9.75, lady. Just keep the
meter running. I'll be right back.
Now, I don't want any
more of those silly jokes...
about hoosegow and calaboose
and all such foolishness.
These men are your friends,
just as much as the firemen...
or the street cleaner or the
man who fed the lions at the zoo.
Excuse me. Children, come
over here when I walk over here.
Excuse me. I'd like to see
Sergeant Anderson, please.
What's your name?
Uh, just tell her that Larue wants
to see her on a personal matter.
She's not here
right now. Oh, Bill.
Sgt. Crowley will talk to you.
What time do you expect her back?
Well, now, if you've got a problem,
Sergeant Crowley will handle it.
Sergeant Anderson
is out on a case.
Can I help you? Uh, no.
It's a personal matter between
me and Sergeant Anderson.
Well, why don't you
come with me? It's okay.
What I want my children
to get out of this...
is that the policeman is
not a symbol of punishment.
Not a bogeyman who will come
and lock them up if they're naughty.
Yes, ma'am.
What's your name?
Larue Collins.
I don't remember Sergeant Anderson
ever talking to me about any Larue Collins.
Look, Larue.
Have you got something for us, or did
you just come in here to warm your hands?
Uh,
well, what I'm trying
to bring out is, uh...
Sergeant Anderson and me, we,
uh, usually had sort of an agreement.
Like, how much is it worth?
Well, I tell ya, that depends
on what you got to sell.
Actually, I need about $250.
You see, it's sort of a matter of life and
death when you come right down to it.
Well, Sergeant Anderson
never paid you any $250,
unless she paid you
out of her own pocket.
'Cause you see, I
okay all the bills here,
and I never okayed any
$250 for Larue Collins ever.
Look, I know you guys
got a lot of pull downtown.
But even so, you still need
to come up with results, right?
Arrests, convictions? Well, who do you
think has been feeding her all this time?
Those apple
stealers on the beat?
Go ahead. I'm listening.
Well, you, uh... How
would you like to know, uh...
Do you remember that job at
the Cloverdale Bank last winter?
How'd you like to know who
masterminded the whole thing?
The entire operation.
- That's worth about 250,
isn't it?
- It could be.
Well, you pull in a guy
by the name of Joe Caryk.
You get him in here and you
twist him a little bit, you see?
And you'll hear
an earful all right.
He can't stand pain. I
know. I worked on him.
Joe Caryk?
Joe Caryk has been in the
Nevada pen for the last three months.
You just made that up.
If that's all you got
for us, Larue, I'll tell ya.
We're wasting each other's time.
Hey, Pete, you wanna
show this lady downstairs?
Let me tell you something.
You're just lucky you didn't try
to pull this on Sergeant Anderson.
Mr. Cop. Sir.
You just killed a girl.
Right this way.
♪ Busted flat in Baton Rouge ♪
♪ Waitin' for a train ♪
♪ And I was feeling nearly
as faded as my jeans ♪
♪ Bobby thumbed a diesel
down just before it rained ♪♪
Hey, lady. Hey, lady,
you a crook or a cop?
A little bit of both, I guess.
Stop crying.
You stop that right now. Come on.
You don't know when you're well off.
Thank you. Come on, children.
Come on. Let's all
keep up together.
Mrs. Gucciares?
This is Larue Collins. Yeah?
Listen, have you seen
anybody around the house?
You know, somebody looking for
me that might look a little suspicious?
Looking for you? No,
Larue, not that I've seen.
Well, look, I've gotta go
away on business for a while,
and I wanna come and pack
a couple of things, but, uh...
You sure you haven't
seen anybody?
You know, maybe a
cop or a tough guy?
Nobody I've seen.
- Okay. Thank you.
- Yeah, good-bye.
Keys to her apartment.
Bill! What?
- Why did you let her leave?
- Let who leave?
What are you talking about?
You should have realized if
she came here, it was urgent.
What are you talking
about? Larue Collins.
I'll tell you how
urgent that was.
Some crazy broad comes in
here I've never seen in my life,
asks me for 250
bucks and tells me a
cockamamy story a
five-year-old wouldn't buy.
- That was some urgent.
- Why didn't you contact me?
Hey, wait a minute. What
are you so steamed up about?
What's the matter with you?
Well, I was supposed to meet her.
I've got the money right in my
purse. It's my fault she came here.
Wait a minute, Pep. Was she
your snitch on the fur bust last night?
- Yeah.
- The one you call
"Apple Annie"?
Yes. How the hell am
I supposed to know?
- I should have told you.
- You're damn right
you should have told me!
How did I know she
was gonna come here?
I had a dentist appointment, and he
said it would take less than an hour.
Yeah, and it took two,
right? Oh, God, I don't know.
All I know is, she must
really be in trouble.
'Cause you know as well
as I do that no informer...
is ever gonna let
herself be seen...
walking into a police station
unless she's desperate.
So, I'm sorry, Bill, but I'd better go
find her before somebody else does.
Pepper, I don't... Don't start lecturing
me about getting personally involved.
Because sometimes
I do, just like you.
Pete, listen, get your coat. We
gotta get to the Ah Choy Restaurant.
All right. But what's
up? I'll tell you.
Joe? Yeah?
What time was this
shooting? About 1:15. Why?
Mm-hmm. The
woman that was shot at,
she didn't report it, did she?
Not to my knowledge, she didn't.
Mm-hmm. Larue Collins came
in here about 1:30 all steamed up.
Somebody's already started
shooting at her. Says who?
This happened just 15 minutes
before Larue came in here.
Do you know anybody else who
would duck two bullets and not report it?
- Did you get a description of
the woman who got in the cab?
- Come on. At a shooting?
You know, everybody wants
to help, nobody wants to help,
so therefore you
end up with nothing.
Okay, Pep.
Let's go find her.
So, will you leave
me alone? I'm all right.
A lousy bloody nose, and you're
gonna take me to the hospital.
Let's give her
another shot. Okay.
I don't want to.
Well, let us put it this way.
You have no idea why these
two men were looking for her?
I told you. Now,
believe me, Officer.
I was in no mood to ask
them no stupid questions.
Can you give us a
description of these two guys?
Doesn't this cat
know that around here,
if you wanna ask questions like
that, you don't do it out in the open?
I'll tell you what they looked
like. They looked like two guys.
One of them was a little taller.
One of them was a little fatter.
At first I thought
they were cops.
Only the one of them, well,
he was too well dressed.
If I hear anything, I'll
send you a postcard.
Why, Larue, come in.
Mrs. Fontaine? How you doing?
What is it?
Why, I heard so much about your place,
I thought I'd like to come up and see it.
Like? Oh, yes. It's real grand.
I asked... What do you want?
My money.
Your money? For all those
johns I've been sending over here.
Well, $10 a head, and there were
12 of them. You see right there?
So that's $120 you owe me.
Remember, that was our deal.
What are you perspiring about?
Look at you.
Bet you haven't even
taken a shower this morning.
You're probably
crawling with bacteria.
You don't know nothin'.
You're just fishin'.
There ain't nothin'
bothering my conscience.
Then why all this excitement?
Well, to tell you
the plain truth,
I have to go out of
town for a little while.
My mother called
me long distance,
and, well, she's gettin' kind of old
now, and she wants me to come home.
You see, it's my kid.
- He misses me and...
- Really?
I'd like to see him too.
Well, now, tell me, how
do you plan to support him?
I mean, I don't imagine there are
very many massage parlors in Arkansas.
Oh, I got a trade...
in my hands.
In a manner of speaking.
Oh, no, I have a diploma from
the Hollywood Hair Styling School.
I graduated.
What about your other work?
I don't know what
you're talking about.
I don't have no other job.
I ain't no hooker if
that's what you mean.
You're trying to welsh out
of paying me, aren't you?
You figure if you stall
long enough, I'll be dead,
and then you won't have
to pay me my money. Dead?
Now, really, Larue, don't
tell me you have enemies.
You know any other jokes?
Now, Larue, you know if I had the cash
in my hand, I'd give it to you, wouldn't I?
Now, please. Get out of here.
Call me later. What time?
Larue, will you please stop nagging me?
Can't you see I'm trying to concentrate?
All right, I'll call you later.
Mrs. Fontaine?
You wouldn't blow the
whistle on me, would you?
I mean, I really am kinda up against
the wall. You know what I mean?
I know that she's in trouble.
Someone tried to kill her outside
that restaurant, th-that Chinese place.
- How do you know that?
- I was with her.
- Did you see who it was?
- No.
Did Larue have any idea
who it might have been?
She pretended...
- Pretended what?
- That it didn't even happen.
When was the last
time you saw her?
- A little while after that.
- Then?
She split. And she said to me,
"I will be back in a little while."
Well, it's been several hours.
Oh.
Here. You want some
water? Yes. Thank you.
So, I thought that you
must know something.
Um, Larue was here.
- Oh, she's okay?
- She split again.
Well, didn't you
try to help her?
Uh, well, I wasn't...
I didn't see her.
Well, for goodness sakes,
what were you doing?
I was here. She didn't
tell me why she came.
Well, someone's trying to kill her.
That's why she would come here.
Alma, uh...
How long have you
known her? Two years.
We were, uh, in detention
together a couple of months.
And you've been
friends ever since?
Oh, yes. In our way.
What does that mean,
"in our way," Alma?
I mean, she's a friend of mine.
She's probably my best friend.
But I don't know
too much about her.
I mean, she talks to me,
and she holds back
at the same time.
I don't know how else
to explain it to you.
I know she's into gambling,
kind of heavy gambling.
That's her sickness, I guess.
And she's got a
mother somewhere.
And a kid. A kid.
Is she married?
Oh, no.
What about boyfriends?
Has she got a boyfriend?
She talks about a few guys
from time to time, you know.
Uh, one was from back home,
wherever that was, when
she was very young, of course.
And once in a while,
there was a guy that
she had known here,
and she would start
to talk about him.
And then she'd stop, you know,
as if she just didn't
want to remember things.
What was his name?
Ta... Oh, I can't remember.
Listen, I'm gonna
pull that file, okay?
Yeah, okay. Great.
Uh, okay, Alma, let's
try to piece this together.
Okay.
Who is it? It's me... Larue.
Donny, please.
Hi.
Crap game don't start till 6:00.
I'm not here for that.
I'm not into that stuff anymore.
I'll bet.
Is your mother home?
My mother's working.
She's working to support me
in the style to which I'm stuck.
You makin' this
for your brother?
It's something to do.
What do you want?
Uh, I hear you got
a new girlfriend.
I just wanted to tell you I
hope she appreciates you.
You know, I've always been
afraid to go on one of these things,
ever since I was a little kid.
I've been missing you, Donny.
I want you to know that.
You lousy lying tramp.
Donny, please.
You lousy snitch.
Oh, come on. You're not
gonna start that again, are you?
I stopped comin' to
see you in the hospital...
'cause you was always
startin' up with that fantasy.
You fingered me to those cops.
I did not. You fingered me.
How could I? I didn't even
know you was into pushing junk.
How could I? Why?
- You mean,
that's just my fantasy?
- Yes.
That they made a move
on me and crippled me?
Crippled me good.
That's my fantasy.
Because you had a gun,
and you shot at them.
And then you ran.
Why did you run?
Because I wanted to come back.
I wanted to come back
to you... and grab you.
Take you in my arms.
Like the nice times.
The nice times.
And ask you, how
much did they pay you?
- Stop it.
- Will you get out of here?
What do you want?
I feel safe here.
Get out of here. Leave
me alone, will ya? Donny?
I'm in a little bit of trouble,
and I need some bread.
You've gotta be kidding.
I'm not.
I need maybe just $200.
A loan, Donny. I'll get it
back to you. I swear. Please.
Please?
Please? I gotta go home.
Even if I had the money,
even if I had $200 in my
pocket, do you know what I'd do?
I'd take it out, and
I'd hold it up high.
I'd hold it up right
under your snitch nose.
And then...
I would take this lighter,
and I would burn it.
I would burn... burn the money,
right under your
damn snitch nose.
I should have killed you.
I should have killed you. And
you're asking me for bread?
Donny, they're gonna push
me off the top of the Ferris wheel.
Tell them to push extra
hard, will ya, for me?
Now, will you get out of here?
Anything else, Alma?
Well, I don't know if this will be
of much help, Sergeant Anderson.
Anything is liable to
be of help at this point.
Well, once she asked me
to go with her to a pan parlor,
where they play cards, you know.
Spanish rummy or
something like that.
Did you go? No.
I don't like cards.
They don't like me either.
But Larue went quite a bit.
Yeah. When she
needed money, you know.
She made out
pretty good, I think.
Thank you. I'll be right back.
Pete, I want you to get out
and check all the pan parlors...
in Larue Collins's
neighborhood, okay?
There must be at least two dozen of
them, Pep. Well, then, check two dozen.
Three, if you have to. Please?
Okay. Here's her mug shot.
Larue's file.
Alma, I'm gonna read
some names to you,
and I want you to tell me if
they mean anything, okay?
- What sort of names?
- Just, uh, guys, women.
People, you know, we've
arrested over the years.
Well, what does this
have to do with Larue?
You wanna help her? Just tell
us if any of the names register.
Okay. Okay.
Ray DeCamp.
Anything? No.
I wanna make a collect
call to Smackover, Arkansas.
Hello.
Uh, yeah, Operator,
I'll accept the call.
- Mama?
- Larue?
Yeah. How's everything?
What do you want?
Uh, Larry, he's
all right, isn't he?
He's fine. Now,
what do you want?
I wanna come home.
I wanna be there for his
birthday on Sunday, you know.
Oh, that's just fine. You
only missed four of 'em.
Well, I wanna come back.
I wanna be with him. I wanna
stay with him, take care of him.
Like last time?
I'm talkin' about
this time, Mama.
Look, I need you
to do me a favor.
I need you to send
me $200 for the bus.
You wire it to me, okay?
I wanna buy him some things.
Oh, I see. It's gonna be that kind
of homecoming, just like Christmas.
Only we never did
see you get off the bus.
And you never did
bring him anything.
- Look, Mama...
- Listen. I'm sorry, but I've
got some ladies here visiting.
And besides, the boy will be home
soon from school and want his snack.
All right, Mama.
Look, you tell Larry...
that I said that I'm
comin' straight home.
Mr. Lincoln? Yes?
You got anybody
looking for a game?
Question is, uh, can
you buy any chips?
How about a little loan,
huh? Just $10 is all I need.
I'm feelin' really lucky today.
I'm just bustin' with luck.
- Forget it.
- How about this? Huh?
Is it gold? Well,
sure it's gold.
I'm sure it's worth
at least 20 bucks.
- I'll give you 10.
- Okay.
You're crazy.
She didn't try to come here
and borrow some money?
No.
We're crazy. She wasn't here.
Okay. She stopped by.
I gave her $200
because she wanted it.
She wanted to go
home... Arkansas.
You know, home.
She's probably on
the plane right now.
Here, what about this one?
Erica Tarn. T-A-R-N.
Anything? Does that sound
like anything to you? No.
- Donald Haas?
- No.
Wait. Oh, wait. Steven...
Wait a minute. Her
boyfriend, her old boyfriend.
She used to call him Donny.
Yeah. And Haas,
that sounds a
little familiar to me.
It does, huh?
Pep, what's the
address you got on that?
Uh, 780 Martinson.
I think I'll just pick up Joe
and we'll check that out.
And that is it. Another game?
Yeah, I'd like one. Hey.
Are you all right, dear? It
isn't the end of the world.
Ten dollars.
She wanted money.
I told her to get out.
And these two guys who came...
Do you know who they were?
I-I don't know. Two creeps.
You never saw them before? No.
Do you know where Larue
is now? I don't know. No.
- Here. Why don't you...
- No, no. Just leave me alone.
Well, then let's
get you to a doctor.
Get outta here.
Crowley's office.
Where are you?
Everywhere. Nowhere.
Baton Rouge. Kentucky.
♪ California sun ♪
Larue, just tell me where you are
right now, and I'll come and get you.
No. I just wanna
rest for a little while.
- Talk some.
- We'll talk.
We'll talk. Was I so wrong?
Everything I've done.
Was I so rotten and wrong?
Helping us? Is that what
you mean? Helping me?
Yeah.
Honey, it's the way we operate.
We get half of our jobs done that way.
No, you didn't do
wrong. You did great.
Donny.
Did I ever talk to
you about him?
- No, no, you didn't.
- I didn't mean for it
to happen.
I swear it. I didn't mean for
him to wind up like he did.
Alive but dead really.
- And now I'm gonna die.
- Honey, you're not gonna die.
Not if you tell me where you
are and let me come and get you.
You don't care.
You sit in a big fat office,
collecting fat cop pay.
And I'm on the
telephone botherin' you.
You wanna know
something? I care.
I care. You understand? I care
about you and your right to live.
Now, where are you?
I'm gonna need some bread.
- I'll get it.
- Two hundred dollars.
I'll bring it. I've got it.
I'm in a phone booth.
Sixth and Soto.
I'll be there... five minutes.
That's all I can
wait is five minutes.
Somebody's after me,
and they're gonna kill me.
Oh, my God, I'm so scared.
Five minutes.
Oh, no. Hey, can you move it?
I need it. I need it bad and
I need it now. My money.
I know.
I got a call a little while ago.
Oh, I mean, I get lots of calls,
but this one was about you.
How a couple of
cats are after you.
Mrs. Fontaine, if you don't give
me my money, I'm gonna kill you.
I mean that. I got off the bus.
There's that park there.
I looked for and I found...
this.
And I'll use it on you.
I'll bash it through your skull.
I know you've got that
money, and it's mine.
And what are you
gonna do with it?
I'm gonna get as far
away from here as I can.
I loathe you.
You know that, don't you?
Everybody loathes you.
You, your kind. You're filthier
than the dirt that rock sat in.
Do you know that? Now, you
just tell me that you know that.
I wanna hear that!
You?
With what you do
here, in this place?
You want me to say that?
Yes!
All right.
I'm filth.
Now gimme my money.
Attention, please.
Nothing left to lose ♪
♪ And nothin' ain't
worth nothin' but it's free ♪
♪♪
Excuse me. I want
a ticket to Little Rock.
♪ And feelin' good was
good enough for me ♪
- ♪ Good enough for me
and Bobby McGee ♪
- Thank you.
Excuse me. I wanna buy a toy.
For a boy or girl? A
boy. He's gonna be six.
A very big handsome
six. I like this one.
Would you like it
gift wrapped, sort of?
No, just put it in a bag.
That'll be fine. Okay.
That'll be 4.12.
Have a nice trip
now, hear? I will.
Attention, please.
The southwestern bus is now
leaving from Gate 2 for Phoenix,
Albuquerque, Amarillo,
Oklahoma City,
Little Rock and Atlanta.
Miss. Miss.
Somebody get a doctor.
Excuse me. Police
officer. Let me through.
Fellas. Hey, Larue.
Hey, it's me, Pepper.
You're gonna be all
right. You know that.
Tell Larry...
I was comin' home.
My little boy?
Okay?
Yeah, okay.
I'll tell him you're
gonna be there soon.
Home... and healthy... and free.
Freedom.
Just another word.
Better make it fast.
Pep, two guys. I got a
description from the news lady.
With this M.0., they'll be in our file. She
said she'll make positive identification.
I wanna be there when you
move in on 'em. You will be.
Officers. What's the matter?
- She's dead.
- Oh, no.
Let's go.