1 00:03:17,738 --> 00:03:19,948 It was summer 1948. 2 00:03:20,199 --> 00:03:21,658 And I needed money. 3 00:03:22,326 --> 00:03:26,413 After going door-to-door all day, I was back again at Joppy's bar... 4 00:03:26,622 --> 00:03:30,083 ...trying to figure out where to look for work the next day. 5 00:03:30,584 --> 00:03:33,962 The newspapers was going on and on about the city elections... 6 00:03:34,171 --> 00:03:36,923 ...like they was really gonna change somebody's life. 7 00:03:37,133 --> 00:03:41,512 My life had already changed when I lost my job 3 weeks before. 8 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:46,221 For example, one of the white guys pulls a double shift. 9 00:03:46,726 --> 00:03:50,479 If he says he's too tired to work overtime, you don't fire them. 10 00:03:50,855 --> 00:03:52,690 That's all you have to say? 11 00:04:02,241 --> 00:04:04,534 No, that's not all. I need... 12 00:04:07,371 --> 00:04:10,624 I need to pay my mortgage and eat. 13 00:04:11,625 --> 00:04:15,795 I need a house to live in and clothes on my back. I need the job. 14 00:04:16,547 --> 00:04:19,216 I'm sorry, fella, I gotta get back to work. 15 00:04:23,137 --> 00:04:24,847 My name's not "fella." 16 00:04:26,974 --> 00:04:31,103 My name's not "fella." My name is Ezekiel Rawlins. 17 00:04:31,979 --> 00:04:33,772 Catch you later, Joppy. 18 00:04:34,023 --> 00:04:37,109 Watch the marble, damn it! What'd I tell you? 19 00:04:42,698 --> 00:04:45,701 How much you think they're paying at Douglas Aircraft? 20 00:04:45,951 --> 00:04:47,243 I don't know. 21 00:05:15,689 --> 00:05:16,898 Come on over here. 22 00:05:17,399 --> 00:05:19,442 There's somebody I want you to meet. 23 00:05:23,906 --> 00:05:25,908 Come on, this is a friend of mine. 24 00:05:27,743 --> 00:05:29,911 Easy, this is Mr. Albright. 25 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,622 -Call me DeWitt, Easy. -How you doing? 26 00:05:32,832 --> 00:05:33,958 Take a seat. 27 00:05:38,087 --> 00:05:39,922 Mr. Albright and me... 28 00:05:40,172 --> 00:05:42,674 ...go way back to before the war. 29 00:05:43,092 --> 00:05:45,719 Back when I was still in the fight game. 30 00:05:46,011 --> 00:05:48,013 Ever seen this guy fight? 31 00:05:50,850 --> 00:05:54,353 Every time Joppy stepped in the ring, you knew you would see... 32 00:05:54,562 --> 00:05:57,231 ...some knockdown-dragout fisticuffs. 33 00:05:57,898 --> 00:06:00,233 -Where you from? -Houston. 34 00:06:02,236 --> 00:06:03,946 Joppy's hometown. 35 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:09,242 Need a job? 36 00:06:09,785 --> 00:06:11,995 Yeah. Easy always trying to do better. 37 00:06:12,204 --> 00:06:16,704 Easy's one of a few coloured men around here who owns his own house. 38 00:06:17,459 --> 00:06:20,837 He paying the mortgage every month, just like y'all folks. 39 00:06:21,380 --> 00:06:22,923 Property owner, huh? 40 00:06:23,549 --> 00:06:25,842 These big companies don't give a damn. 41 00:06:26,051 --> 00:06:27,927 I got out of that racket long ago. 42 00:06:28,137 --> 00:06:32,516 If you need a job, drop by this address, 7:00. 43 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:34,142 Tonight. 44 00:06:34,393 --> 00:06:36,186 What kind of work you do? 45 00:06:38,856 --> 00:06:40,315 I do favours. 46 00:06:40,733 --> 00:06:42,651 I do favours for friends. 47 00:06:43,652 --> 00:06:44,861 Drop by. 48 00:06:49,617 --> 00:06:51,160 Who was that? 49 00:06:51,410 --> 00:06:53,578 Just somebody I know. Businessman. 50 00:06:53,871 --> 00:06:56,123 -Businessman, huh? -Yeah, he is. 51 00:06:58,042 --> 00:06:59,793 Ain't nothing to worry about. 52 00:07:00,586 --> 00:07:03,422 When I'm told there's nothing to worry about... 53 00:07:03,672 --> 00:07:06,174 ...1 look to see if my fly is open. 54 00:07:07,301 --> 00:07:11,430 All the way home, all I thought about was a chance to make some money. 55 00:07:12,765 --> 00:07:17,265 I first came out to Los Angeles when I got home from the war in Europe... 56 00:07:17,686 --> 00:07:20,605 ...with $300 in my pocket and the G.I. Bill. 57 00:07:20,981 --> 00:07:24,985 A lot of coloured folk from Texas and Louisiana moved to California... 58 00:07:25,235 --> 00:07:28,988 ...To get them good jobs in the shipyards and aircraft companies. 59 00:07:31,116 --> 00:07:34,160 Now, me, myself, I was a machinist. 60 00:07:34,411 --> 00:07:38,748 And the first thing I did when I saved enough money was to buy me a house. 61 00:07:40,709 --> 00:07:43,420 Man, I loved coming home to my house. 62 00:07:43,629 --> 00:07:44,671 I don't know. 63 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,507 I guess maybe I just loved owning something. 64 00:07:58,185 --> 00:08:01,521 -I'll knock down the trees in the back. -Leave my trees alone. 65 00:08:01,730 --> 00:08:03,982 Leave my trees! Get on! 66 00:08:26,797 --> 00:08:29,424 I was feeling pretty desperate that evening. 67 00:08:30,592 --> 00:08:33,386 In a week, I'd be 2 months behind on my mortgage. 68 00:08:33,595 --> 00:08:35,763 And I wasn't about to lose my house. 69 00:08:35,973 --> 00:08:39,309 But a chill running up the back of my neck was telling me... 70 00:08:39,518 --> 00:08:41,645 ...was about to make a bad decision. 71 00:08:42,021 --> 00:08:44,606 Yeah, Albright made me nervous. 72 00:08:44,815 --> 00:08:47,567 He reminded me of a fella in Texas named Mouse. 73 00:08:48,027 --> 00:08:51,071 -Let's dump this thing. -Isn't this your friend's car? 74 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,156 -What'd you do? -Just drive. 75 00:08:53,365 --> 00:08:54,657 What did you do? 76 00:09:23,896 --> 00:09:25,522 So, want the job? 77 00:09:26,190 --> 00:09:27,608 It depends. 78 00:09:28,108 --> 00:09:30,568 I don't wanna get mixed up in nothing. 79 00:09:32,029 --> 00:09:34,406 Walk out the door in the morning... 80 00:09:35,407 --> 00:09:37,200 ...you're mixed up in something. 81 00:09:38,494 --> 00:09:41,246 Only thing is, if you're mixed up to the top or not. 82 00:09:41,455 --> 00:09:44,499 I'm just looking for somebody. For a friend. 83 00:09:45,417 --> 00:09:46,876 Daphne Monet. 84 00:09:48,003 --> 00:09:51,798 Fiancée of Todd Carter. She's been gone two weeks. 85 00:09:52,007 --> 00:09:55,093 It upset the man so much, he stopped running for mayor. 86 00:09:56,553 --> 00:09:58,721 -I've never seen her. -That's a shame. 87 00:10:00,974 --> 00:10:04,352 Daphne has a predilection for the company of Negroes. 88 00:10:04,603 --> 00:10:07,647 She likes jazz, pig's feet and dark meat. 89 00:10:10,150 --> 00:10:11,651 "Predilection." 90 00:10:15,656 --> 00:10:18,075 I'd go looking for her myself... 91 00:10:18,367 --> 00:10:20,786 ...but I'm not of the right persuasion. 92 00:10:21,703 --> 00:10:23,496 What do you want from me? 93 00:10:24,373 --> 00:10:25,791 What do you mean? 94 00:10:26,416 --> 00:10:28,584 -What do I do? -Get her location. 95 00:10:30,879 --> 00:10:33,089 Mr. Carter wants to make up with her. 96 00:10:34,007 --> 00:10:35,341 $100. 97 00:10:36,218 --> 00:10:37,761 I pay in advance. 98 00:10:43,934 --> 00:10:45,393 $100. 99 00:10:47,146 --> 00:10:48,897 To tell you where she's at? 100 00:10:49,106 --> 00:10:51,149 -That's right. -And that's all? 101 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:52,442 That's all. 102 00:10:53,402 --> 00:10:56,822 Joppy tells me you used to frequent an illegal club. 103 00:10:57,030 --> 00:10:58,072 John's. 104 00:10:58,282 --> 00:11:00,826 Somebody saw Daphne there a few nights ago. 105 00:11:02,035 --> 00:11:03,161 Start tonight. 106 00:11:18,927 --> 00:11:21,262 Whoa, that's enough. Thank you. 107 00:11:21,513 --> 00:11:24,182 -I'm gonna see you later. -All right, yeah. 108 00:12:10,270 --> 00:12:12,355 I told you it's a grocery store. 109 00:12:12,981 --> 00:12:15,316 How you doing, baby? 110 00:12:16,777 --> 00:12:20,322 Mister, I told you, you can't be in here harassing folks. 111 00:12:20,530 --> 00:12:21,656 What's going on? 112 00:12:21,907 --> 00:12:25,493 I paid these damn cops off, and they're rousting my customers. 113 00:12:26,078 --> 00:12:29,206 That's what he get for messing with that white woman. 114 00:12:29,873 --> 00:12:31,583 Don't pay him no attention. 115 00:12:31,792 --> 00:12:34,669 I done rung for Junior to take care of that. 116 00:12:35,379 --> 00:12:37,881 They got nobody but Deucy and them tonight. 117 00:12:38,090 --> 00:12:41,551 I had Holiday on Thursday. Yeah, you missed it. 118 00:12:43,428 --> 00:12:46,347 Wait for the cops to leave. Take Easy upstairs. 119 00:12:46,556 --> 00:12:50,768 And if he's still down here, come on back and throw his ass out. 120 00:12:51,019 --> 00:12:53,396 Get out of here. You better be gone. 121 00:12:53,605 --> 00:12:55,106 I'll be here waiting. 122 00:12:55,315 --> 00:12:58,276 You just wait, mister. Just keep waiting. 123 00:12:58,485 --> 00:13:01,237 Mr. McGee, there is no upstairs. 124 00:13:01,655 --> 00:13:03,490 -Got another cigarette? -Sure. 125 00:13:03,740 --> 00:13:05,950 Zapattas. How you smoke these damn things? 126 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:08,619 You the only Negro smoke Mexican cigarettes. 127 00:13:08,829 --> 00:13:11,790 Last time I heard these fellas was back in Houston. 128 00:13:12,082 --> 00:13:14,292 The night Mouse pulled me off you. 129 00:13:14,501 --> 00:13:17,378 -That's how you remember it? -That's the way it was. 130 00:13:17,587 --> 00:13:18,754 Look here... 131 00:13:18,964 --> 00:13:21,841 ...admit that you helped Mouse Kill Navrochet. 132 00:13:22,050 --> 00:13:25,762 Get off that. You know I didn't have nothing to do with that. 133 00:13:30,142 --> 00:13:31,226 Where the white women? 134 00:13:31,476 --> 00:13:33,394 -I pay them no mind. - I bet. 135 00:13:33,645 --> 00:13:36,439 Like you didn't help Mouse kill his stepfather. 136 00:13:36,690 --> 00:13:39,567 Did you help him kill his stepbrother too? 137 00:14:06,178 --> 00:14:08,263 Give me a setup and a Coke back. 138 00:14:09,014 --> 00:14:13,309 Have you seen a girl named Dahlia, Delila, something like that? 139 00:14:13,518 --> 00:14:16,020 White girl, supposed to be something to see. 140 00:14:16,855 --> 00:14:19,607 If I do see her, I'll keep her to myself. 141 00:14:41,213 --> 00:14:42,255 Keep the change. 142 00:14:44,591 --> 00:14:45,633 Deacon Odell. 143 00:14:48,303 --> 00:14:49,846 How you doing tonight? 144 00:14:50,055 --> 00:14:52,599 It's going all right. It sure is going. 145 00:14:52,808 --> 00:14:54,851 Easy Rawlins, is that you? 146 00:14:56,019 --> 00:14:59,272 -Ain't jumped out of no windows yet? -Not yet, Dupree. 147 00:14:59,481 --> 00:15:02,400 -You know Coretta, don't you? -Sure, how you doing? 148 00:15:02,609 --> 00:15:03,651 I'm all right. 149 00:15:03,860 --> 00:15:05,486 This is Odell. 150 00:15:08,365 --> 00:15:10,116 Can we sit with y'all? 151 00:15:11,243 --> 00:15:12,494 Sure. 152 00:15:13,203 --> 00:15:15,747 We miss you down at the plant. 153 00:15:15,956 --> 00:15:18,833 Benny would've gave you your job back, right? 154 00:15:19,084 --> 00:15:21,961 All you had to do was go and say you was sorry. 155 00:15:22,170 --> 00:15:24,422 I'm sorry, all right. Give me that bourbon. 156 00:15:24,673 --> 00:15:27,801 Any man without his paycheque is sure enough sorry. 157 00:15:30,303 --> 00:15:32,805 I got it. Your money ain't no good. 158 00:15:33,348 --> 00:15:34,724 -This one's mine. -You sure? 159 00:15:34,933 --> 00:15:38,603 -You the one ain't got no job. -You the one ain't got no money. 160 00:15:40,522 --> 00:15:42,482 Y'all seen a white girl named Dahlia... 161 00:15:42,691 --> 00:15:45,694 ...or Delila? First name start with a "D." 162 00:15:50,574 --> 00:15:53,827 Coretta got herself a job at the phone company. 163 00:15:55,328 --> 00:15:58,456 Congratulations. They ain't hiring no mans down there? 164 00:16:27,694 --> 00:16:29,487 You all right, Odell? 165 00:16:40,290 --> 00:16:42,834 He used to play till the cock crowed. 166 00:16:44,586 --> 00:16:48,673 That old cock don't crow nearly so much now. 167 00:16:57,474 --> 00:16:59,309 I better get on home. 168 00:17:02,229 --> 00:17:04,022 You'd be sorry if you go. 169 00:17:04,314 --> 00:17:05,898 I'd be sorry if I stay too. 170 00:17:07,108 --> 00:17:08,359 Good night. 171 00:17:11,613 --> 00:17:13,906 Daphne asleep by now... 172 00:17:17,035 --> 00:17:19,370 ...So you can't get none of that tonight. 173 00:17:21,081 --> 00:17:24,209 Go around here telling everybody "Dahlia.” 174 00:17:32,551 --> 00:17:34,761 Her name is Daphne. 175 00:17:38,348 --> 00:17:39,432 Do you know her? 176 00:17:56,116 --> 00:17:59,202 -Where you want me to put him? -This ain't my house! 177 00:18:00,161 --> 00:18:01,579 This ain't my house. 178 00:18:01,830 --> 00:18:03,706 Just throw him on the bed. 179 00:18:03,915 --> 00:18:05,499 Shut up. 180 00:18:08,837 --> 00:18:10,421 Be careful. The door. 181 00:18:10,922 --> 00:18:14,008 Threw him out of his place because he couldn't pay rent. 182 00:18:14,467 --> 00:18:16,093 I shouldn't let him sleep here. 183 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,764 -Damn, that Negro's heavy. - I know, I know. 184 00:18:23,226 --> 00:18:25,019 I need a cigarette. 185 00:18:25,937 --> 00:18:27,647 That all you need? 186 00:18:30,984 --> 00:18:34,779 Sun catch me tiptoeing outside your door, what your neighbours say? 187 00:18:35,530 --> 00:18:37,323 All right, Easy. 188 00:18:39,284 --> 00:18:40,952 Dupree fell asleep on me... 189 00:18:41,161 --> 00:18:45,039 ...and you just gonna walk out on me like I was dog food, huh? 190 00:18:47,083 --> 00:18:49,210 Girl, what you talking about? 191 00:18:49,919 --> 00:18:51,503 Now, come on. 192 00:18:52,213 --> 00:18:54,590 Coretta, your man is in the next room. 193 00:18:59,095 --> 00:19:01,347 Tell me about your friend Daphne. 194 00:19:01,806 --> 00:19:04,225 Why you keep asking about her? 195 00:19:08,021 --> 00:19:10,648 Coloured women ain't good enough for you no more? 196 00:19:10,982 --> 00:19:12,274 That ain't it. 197 00:19:17,197 --> 00:19:18,698 Shoot. 198 00:19:22,869 --> 00:19:24,245 What if he heard something? 199 00:19:25,747 --> 00:19:27,248 He asleep. 200 00:19:32,837 --> 00:19:34,463 Daddy, that's it! 201 00:19:39,135 --> 00:19:40,845 That's it. 202 00:19:42,430 --> 00:19:45,266 You're hitting my spot. You're hitting my spot. 203 00:19:51,189 --> 00:19:52,815 Easy, Easy, Easy. 204 00:19:53,024 --> 00:19:55,609 I can't give up that much loving, daddy. 205 00:19:55,819 --> 00:19:57,654 -Not the way things is. -What things? 206 00:19:57,904 --> 00:19:59,739 He's right in the next room. 207 00:19:59,948 --> 00:20:02,408 Forget about Dupree. You got me going. 208 00:20:02,659 --> 00:20:06,329 It ain't right, doing this right in the next room. 209 00:20:06,579 --> 00:20:09,957 All you're doing is nosing after my friend Daphne. 210 00:20:12,043 --> 00:20:13,294 No, baby. 211 00:20:13,503 --> 00:20:14,962 -That's just a job. -What job? 212 00:20:15,171 --> 00:20:17,214 -Some man want me to find her. -What man? 213 00:20:17,424 --> 00:20:18,883 I don't know what man. 214 00:20:19,092 --> 00:20:21,803 I don't want nobody but you. 215 00:20:31,980 --> 00:20:34,774 Daphne's my friend. I can't do it. 216 00:20:47,871 --> 00:20:49,747 Just a little bit, okay? 217 00:20:49,956 --> 00:20:51,916 Just a little bit. 218 00:20:52,542 --> 00:20:54,377 Just a little bit, baby. 219 00:21:02,927 --> 00:21:05,346 Oh, you're hitting my spot. 220 00:21:06,473 --> 00:21:08,057 You're hitting my spot. 221 00:21:13,188 --> 00:21:16,482 And I went on hitting her spot until just before sunup. 222 00:21:18,610 --> 00:21:22,322 I realised Coreftta had found out as much about what I was up to... 223 00:21:22,572 --> 00:21:24,991 ...as I had found out about Daphne Monet. 224 00:21:25,241 --> 00:21:29,453 As it turned out, Todd Carter wasn't the only man in Daphne's life. 225 00:21:29,662 --> 00:21:34,083 She was shacking up with a smalltime coloured gangster named Frank Green. 226 00:21:34,334 --> 00:21:37,378 Coretta had the nerve to charge me $10 for that information. 227 00:21:37,587 --> 00:21:39,922 Everybody was in business in L.A. 228 00:21:42,383 --> 00:21:44,676 That morning, I waited for Albright to call. 229 00:21:44,886 --> 00:21:47,638 I tried to feel good about paying a few bills... 230 00:21:47,931 --> 00:21:49,432 ...and I mean just a few. 231 00:21:49,682 --> 00:21:53,102 Shoot, a loaf of bread was damn near 15 cents. 232 00:21:53,436 --> 00:21:55,020 It was easy money. 233 00:21:55,522 --> 00:21:57,023 Too easy. 234 00:21:57,690 --> 00:21:59,191 Bye, Easy! 235 00:21:59,901 --> 00:22:02,486 -Where you going, Sophie? -Back to Texas. 236 00:22:02,946 --> 00:22:04,781 Too fast for me out here. 237 00:22:10,954 --> 00:22:12,622 Get on away from the house! 238 00:22:12,831 --> 00:22:14,624 Get away from that tree! 239 00:22:18,044 --> 00:22:19,795 Get on away from that tree! 240 00:22:21,172 --> 00:22:22,965 Get away from that tree! 241 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,031 Easy, how you doing? 242 00:23:30,074 --> 00:23:32,201 I hope you have good news for me. 243 00:23:32,493 --> 00:23:36,079 -Mr. Albright, is that you? -Sure is. What's shaking? 244 00:23:36,331 --> 00:23:38,958 - I got what you want. -Hold on to that. 245 00:23:39,167 --> 00:23:42,044 I only do business in person. Tell you what. 246 00:23:42,295 --> 00:23:46,795 You come out here to Malibu. Meet me at Fishermans Pier in an hour. 247 00:23:47,675 --> 00:23:50,094 Malibu? Mr. Albright, I don't-- 248 00:24:56,077 --> 00:24:57,620 It's pretty out here. 249 00:24:59,038 --> 00:25:00,622 It's all right. 250 00:25:05,294 --> 00:25:08,005 I'm from Des Moines, Iowa. 251 00:25:08,715 --> 00:25:10,216 Where are you from? 252 00:25:12,093 --> 00:25:13,427 Texas. 253 00:25:16,264 --> 00:25:18,683 Do they have an ocean in Texas? 254 00:25:20,518 --> 00:25:23,479 -A gulf in Texas. -Barbara! Where are you? 255 00:25:24,230 --> 00:25:26,065 Your friends are looking for you. 256 00:25:26,274 --> 00:25:27,942 Who cares? 257 00:25:28,234 --> 00:25:31,528 My sister brought me here because my parents made her. 258 00:25:31,738 --> 00:25:36,238 All she wants to do is make out with Herman and smoke cigarettes. 259 00:25:39,203 --> 00:25:40,370 What you doing here? 260 00:25:40,747 --> 00:25:43,040 -What's going on? -Leave us alone. 261 00:25:43,249 --> 00:25:44,375 We're just talking. 262 00:25:44,584 --> 00:25:47,378 -We don't need you talking to her. -Leave us alone. 263 00:25:47,587 --> 00:25:48,838 We're just talking. 264 00:25:49,088 --> 00:25:52,216 This nigger's trying to pick up on Barbara. 265 00:25:52,425 --> 00:25:54,927 I don't need trouble. Just being polite. 266 00:25:55,261 --> 00:25:57,763 No, you're not. You're talking about the ocean. 267 00:25:59,974 --> 00:26:01,809 -What do you want? -What's going on? 268 00:26:02,018 --> 00:26:03,436 What do you want? 269 00:26:03,895 --> 00:26:05,146 What do I want? 270 00:26:06,814 --> 00:26:08,732 I wanna see your brains. 271 00:26:08,941 --> 00:26:11,234 -Run! -Sorry. 272 00:26:11,444 --> 00:26:13,821 -I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. -You're sorry? 273 00:26:14,030 --> 00:26:15,573 -Sorry enough? -Yes, Sir. 274 00:26:15,782 --> 00:26:18,117 Yeah? Then prove it. 275 00:26:18,367 --> 00:26:21,161 Come on, prove it. Show him. 276 00:26:21,370 --> 00:26:22,746 Get down on your knees. 277 00:26:22,955 --> 00:26:25,499 Suck his peter, you son of a bitch! 278 00:26:25,875 --> 00:26:27,710 I think he's got the point. 279 00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:29,670 -Go on. -He's got the point! 280 00:26:30,046 --> 00:26:33,716 Do it! I'll kill you. I'll blow your brains out. 281 00:26:34,801 --> 00:26:37,220 -Don't shoot me, please. -Go on. 282 00:26:38,137 --> 00:26:39,346 Go on. 283 00:26:45,269 --> 00:26:47,521 Son of a gun, you're gonna do it, aren't you? 284 00:26:48,147 --> 00:26:49,690 Sick bastard. 285 00:26:50,858 --> 00:26:52,401 Oh, no, my eye! 286 00:26:55,029 --> 00:26:56,071 Get out! 287 00:26:57,490 --> 00:27:01,911 -You call the cops, I'll kill you! -Hurry up, man. Come on! 288 00:27:04,247 --> 00:27:08,167 I don't think they'd call the cops, but we better get out of here. 289 00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:09,877 What do you got? 290 00:27:10,086 --> 00:27:13,130 No harm will come to that girl because of me? 291 00:27:13,339 --> 00:27:16,467 Carter says he wants to live happily ever after with her. 292 00:27:16,676 --> 00:27:18,094 What you got? 293 00:27:18,302 --> 00:27:20,262 She was with a man named Frank Green. 294 00:27:20,471 --> 00:27:22,306 Hang on. Where? 295 00:27:23,516 --> 00:27:25,976 Skylar Apartments. Skylar and 83rd. 296 00:27:26,269 --> 00:27:29,188 Frank Green. What do you know about this guy? 297 00:27:29,564 --> 00:27:33,526 He's a gangster. Hijacks liquor and cigarettes. Good with a knife. 298 00:27:33,734 --> 00:27:36,486 -Seen him in action? -No, I just heard about him. 299 00:27:43,870 --> 00:27:45,204 Here's another 100. 300 00:27:45,413 --> 00:27:47,081 I'll be calling you again. 301 00:28:03,848 --> 00:28:05,850 Mr. Rawlins, I'm Detective Miller. 302 00:28:06,058 --> 00:28:07,559 Mason. Hands on the car. 303 00:28:07,768 --> 00:28:09,227 -Come with us. -Where? 304 00:28:09,437 --> 00:28:11,105 -You'll see. -Why am I arrested? 305 00:28:11,314 --> 00:28:13,816 -You'll see. - I got a right to know why. 306 00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:17,903 You got a right to fall down, break your face and come with me. 307 00:28:25,161 --> 00:28:27,580 -You got him? -Got him coming home. 308 00:28:40,343 --> 00:28:44,221 Ezekiel Rawlins. You can take those cuffs off if you cooperate. 309 00:28:44,931 --> 00:28:47,391 -Yes, sir, I'm cooperating. -Turn around. 310 00:28:51,771 --> 00:28:53,773 Sit over there. Sit down. 311 00:28:58,736 --> 00:29:01,155 Where were you this morning about 5 a.m.? 312 00:29:01,447 --> 00:29:02,573 What? 313 00:29:02,990 --> 00:29:04,574 He means this morning! 314 00:29:08,537 --> 00:29:11,581 I was out drinking. I carried a friend into his house. 315 00:29:11,832 --> 00:29:14,167 I don't know. I didn't look at a clock. 316 00:29:17,004 --> 00:29:20,966 You were drinking at 89th and Central, illegal club called John's. 317 00:29:21,175 --> 00:29:24,344 Answer. You got a lot bigger troubles than an illegal bar. 318 00:29:24,595 --> 00:29:27,180 -What you talking about? -We're talking about... 319 00:29:27,390 --> 00:29:31,811 ...taking your black ass out and putting a bullet in your head. 320 00:29:32,019 --> 00:29:33,061 Sit down. 321 00:29:40,027 --> 00:29:42,195 When did you leave Coretta James' house? 322 00:29:42,405 --> 00:29:44,073 Around 5:30, I guess. 323 00:29:44,323 --> 00:29:46,658 -Did you go back later? -No, sir, I did not. 324 00:29:46,867 --> 00:29:49,494 Did you and Dupree have words over Miss James? 325 00:29:49,704 --> 00:29:50,913 -Words? -You heard him! 326 00:29:51,163 --> 00:29:52,789 Did you two argue over Coretta? 327 00:29:52,999 --> 00:29:55,626 -Did you? -No, we didn't argue about nothing! 328 00:29:55,835 --> 00:29:58,128 -He was asleep! -She went to sleep too. 329 00:29:58,713 --> 00:30:00,673 But she won't wake up. 330 00:30:02,258 --> 00:30:04,468 -Where did you go when you left? -Wait. 331 00:30:04,719 --> 00:30:06,220 She won't wake up? 332 00:30:06,470 --> 00:30:09,264 -Where'd you go? - I don't know! I had a hangover! 333 00:30:09,515 --> 00:30:11,934 -You had a hangover. - I went home! 334 00:30:12,143 --> 00:30:14,728 That explains everything. He had a hangover. 335 00:30:16,772 --> 00:30:17,939 Back off! 336 00:30:18,357 --> 00:30:20,609 Back off! Back off! 337 00:30:21,193 --> 00:30:22,235 Get out of here! 338 00:30:22,445 --> 00:30:24,822 Let's go! Get out of here! 339 00:30:25,364 --> 00:30:27,657 Come on, you son of a bitch! 340 00:30:28,284 --> 00:30:29,618 Calm down! 341 00:30:30,619 --> 00:30:32,162 You son of a bitch. 342 00:30:45,843 --> 00:30:48,595 They left me alone in that musty room for 3 hours... 343 00:30:48,846 --> 00:30:53,100 ...till some guy in a suit about two sizes too big said I could go. 344 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,772 The game of cops and niggers kept up outside, but I hardly noticed. 345 00:31:00,232 --> 00:31:02,442 I had seen dead bodies before. 346 00:31:03,027 --> 00:31:04,445 Cold, hard... 347 00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:06,530 ...Still as concrete... 348 00:31:06,739 --> 00:31:09,199 ...eyes wide open, staring up at nothing. 349 00:31:10,409 --> 00:31:11,868 But not Coretta. 350 00:31:12,828 --> 00:31:14,788 I could still feel her heartbeat. 351 00:31:30,054 --> 00:31:32,056 Hey, Ezekiel Rawlins. 352 00:31:33,182 --> 00:31:36,268 Somebody in the back would like to talk to you. 353 00:31:37,019 --> 00:31:38,520 I ain't got time. 354 00:31:39,063 --> 00:31:40,731 Get in. We'll take you. 355 00:31:48,531 --> 00:31:51,575 My boss wants to talk to you about Coretta James. 356 00:31:56,414 --> 00:31:59,625 If he wanted to hurt you, it would've happened already. 357 00:31:59,875 --> 00:32:00,917 Come on. 358 00:32:03,295 --> 00:32:04,671 Get in. 359 00:32:31,782 --> 00:32:34,034 Go up front and sit with Norman. 360 00:32:34,243 --> 00:32:35,744 Give me a kiss. 361 00:32:43,252 --> 00:32:45,379 That's my adopted son, Jesus. 362 00:32:47,673 --> 00:32:49,841 I can see the police roughed you up a bit. 363 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,180 That's a practise of theirs that has to change. 364 00:32:55,431 --> 00:32:57,224 That has to change. 365 00:32:58,350 --> 00:32:59,934 She was beaten... 366 00:33:00,769 --> 00:33:04,522 ...and died of a heavy blow to the back of the head. 367 00:33:07,276 --> 00:33:08,610 I suppose you know that. 368 00:33:09,278 --> 00:33:10,821 No, I didn't, Mr. Terell. 369 00:33:11,030 --> 00:33:14,116 -You know who I am? -I read the newspapers. 370 00:33:14,325 --> 00:33:16,410 You're running for mayor against Carter. 371 00:33:16,619 --> 00:33:19,121 I am the next mayor, Mr. Rawlins. 372 00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:22,249 And, luckily for you, a friend of the Negro. 373 00:33:23,375 --> 00:33:25,168 Coretta worked a while for me. 374 00:33:26,086 --> 00:33:29,839 She answered phones at my campaign office on 103rd and Western. 375 00:33:30,466 --> 00:33:33,844 So when I heard that the police had a suspect... 376 00:33:34,220 --> 00:33:37,932 ...I got out of bed immediately because of my concern. 377 00:33:40,267 --> 00:33:42,560 Was there anyone with you, Mr. Rawlins? 378 00:33:43,479 --> 00:33:46,231 Anyone besides Mr. Dupree Brouchard? 379 00:33:46,524 --> 00:33:47,566 No, sir. 380 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,444 A young lady named Daphne Monet, perhaps? 381 00:33:55,491 --> 00:33:56,742 Nobody. 382 00:33:57,660 --> 00:33:59,870 Of course not. Why would... 383 00:34:00,287 --> 00:34:04,749 Why would you tell someone whom you've only just met? 384 00:34:07,670 --> 00:34:09,505 You can trust me. 385 00:34:10,506 --> 00:34:11,924 There was nobody else there. 386 00:34:15,886 --> 00:34:17,178 I believe you. 387 00:34:17,805 --> 00:34:19,890 -Can we drop you off? -No. 388 00:34:21,684 --> 00:34:22,726 I'll get out here. 389 00:34:22,935 --> 00:34:26,813 -This must be quite out of your way. -No, it's okay. 390 00:34:33,195 --> 00:34:35,322 May I offer you cab fare? 391 00:34:37,366 --> 00:34:39,326 -No, thank you. -Are you sure? 392 00:34:39,535 --> 00:34:40,577 It's okay. 393 00:35:11,567 --> 00:35:13,777 You're hitting my spot, baby. 394 00:35:15,571 --> 00:35:18,407 Daphne asleep by now, so... 395 00:35:19,908 --> 00:35:22,702 Go around here telling everybody "Dahlia."” 396 00:35:23,037 --> 00:35:26,206 Coloured women ain't good enough for you no more? 397 00:35:28,167 --> 00:35:30,878 All you doing is nosing after my friend. 398 00:35:31,086 --> 00:35:34,214 Coloured women ain't good enough for you no more? 399 00:35:48,812 --> 00:35:50,438 Is this Mr. Rawlins? 400 00:35:50,689 --> 00:35:52,065 Who's this? 401 00:35:52,608 --> 00:35:54,401 This is Daphne Monet. 402 00:35:56,612 --> 00:35:59,906 -You're looking for me. -Who told you that? 403 00:36:00,407 --> 00:36:02,242 You know who told me. 404 00:36:02,993 --> 00:36:04,244 Coretta. 405 00:36:05,704 --> 00:36:07,956 She was found murdered this morning. 406 00:36:10,292 --> 00:36:12,419 I don't know what I should do. 407 00:36:12,961 --> 00:36:16,464 Do you care to talk to me alone, or should I call the police? 408 00:36:16,715 --> 00:36:18,967 Ain't no reason to call the police. 409 00:36:19,218 --> 00:36:21,929 Then come over and explain yourself to me. 410 00:36:22,930 --> 00:36:25,098 I'm at the Ambassador Hotel. 411 00:36:25,891 --> 00:36:28,143 This part of the hotel is white-only. 412 00:36:28,352 --> 00:36:32,522 So go to the side entrance, and the bellboy will sneak you up. 413 00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:05,305 Hello, Mr. Rawlins. 414 00:37:05,973 --> 00:37:07,766 Hello, Miss Monet. 415 00:37:11,228 --> 00:37:15,357 Should I think of you as a friend of Coretta's or a private dick? 416 00:37:17,484 --> 00:37:19,194 Well, I ain't no detective. 417 00:37:20,279 --> 00:37:23,782 I was just hired by a fella that works for Todd Carter. 418 00:37:26,952 --> 00:37:29,579 I had to pay Coretta not to tell you where I was. 419 00:37:29,872 --> 00:37:31,665 She got you too. 420 00:37:36,545 --> 00:37:39,381 She definitely gave me the wrong address. 421 00:37:40,090 --> 00:37:42,967 -Where'd she say I was? -Said you was in Watts. 422 00:37:43,177 --> 00:37:46,388 At the Skylar Apartments with a fella named Frank Green. 423 00:37:48,432 --> 00:37:50,308 What else did she tell you? 424 00:37:51,143 --> 00:37:53,061 I don't know. What else is there? 425 00:37:53,395 --> 00:37:54,521 Nothing. 426 00:37:55,314 --> 00:37:59,443 I make no apology for my feelings for Frank. He's very dear to me. 427 00:37:59,651 --> 00:38:00,693 Bourbon? 428 00:38:00,903 --> 00:38:02,404 Please, straight up. 429 00:38:04,573 --> 00:38:06,700 How well did you know Coretta? 430 00:38:07,534 --> 00:38:09,827 She was a very close friend. 431 00:38:10,078 --> 00:38:12,330 Maybe you know why she got killed? 432 00:38:15,834 --> 00:38:17,460 Why would I know that? 433 00:38:18,378 --> 00:38:21,130 She was your friend. She knew about you and Frank. 434 00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:23,800 Maybe somebody wanted to keep that secret. 435 00:38:25,135 --> 00:38:28,596 -Mr. Rawlins, if you think-- -Easy. You can call me Easy. 436 00:38:29,014 --> 00:38:32,100 Easy, if you think Frank killed Coretta... 437 00:38:32,309 --> 00:38:34,311 ...you don't know very much about him. 438 00:38:35,562 --> 00:38:39,607 Frank doesn't beat people up. He prefers to use a knife as his weapon. 439 00:38:40,859 --> 00:38:43,194 What do you prefer as your weapon? 440 00:38:47,741 --> 00:38:50,118 Why not search me and find out? 441 00:39:14,643 --> 00:39:16,227 Mind if I have another drink? 442 00:39:17,771 --> 00:39:19,105 Help yourself. 443 00:39:24,444 --> 00:39:26,529 -Listen, Mr. Rawlins-- -Easy. 444 00:39:26,780 --> 00:39:27,906 Easy... 445 00:39:28,115 --> 00:39:31,243 ...I called to ask you to drive me to Todd's house. 446 00:39:33,495 --> 00:39:34,537 Pardon? 447 00:39:35,497 --> 00:39:39,125 You found me. Now I want you to take me to Todd Carter's. 448 00:39:40,168 --> 00:39:42,211 Call Todd Carter. Have him send for you. 449 00:39:43,505 --> 00:39:46,883 I have to go some place else on the way. 450 00:39:47,175 --> 00:39:50,219 Some place I don't want Todd to know about. 451 00:39:55,350 --> 00:39:57,518 There's a man named Richard McGee. 452 00:39:57,728 --> 00:39:59,688 He lives up in Laurel Canyon. 453 00:39:59,897 --> 00:40:02,733 He delivered a letter of mine to the wrong place... 454 00:40:02,941 --> 00:40:04,317 ...and I must get it back. 455 00:40:04,693 --> 00:40:06,528 At 4:00 in the morning? 456 00:40:07,613 --> 00:40:08,822 Important letter. 457 00:40:09,197 --> 00:40:10,907 Yes, it is. 458 00:40:11,617 --> 00:40:14,494 But I need to go there before I go to Todd's. 459 00:40:15,579 --> 00:40:16,788 I'll pay you. 460 00:40:19,625 --> 00:40:21,126 When did you talk to Coretta? 461 00:40:24,087 --> 00:40:26,464 I don't know, 7:30, 8:00, I guess. 462 00:40:26,673 --> 00:40:28,466 Listen, Easy, I don't want... 463 00:40:30,552 --> 00:40:32,136 ...to talk about Coretta now. 464 00:40:32,346 --> 00:40:33,805 Did you go to her house? 465 00:40:43,065 --> 00:40:44,149 No. 466 00:40:45,984 --> 00:40:47,527 She called me. 467 00:40:50,781 --> 00:40:52,157 She was in a good mood. 468 00:40:54,034 --> 00:40:55,660 She always... 469 00:40:56,495 --> 00:40:58,914 I didn't mean to upset you, Daphne. 470 00:40:59,748 --> 00:41:01,499 But you understand that... 471 00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:05,086 ...you was the last one to talk to her before she got killed. 472 00:41:05,879 --> 00:41:07,922 I don't mean to upset you... 473 00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:11,217 ...but as far as I know, you were the last one to see her. 474 00:41:13,303 --> 00:41:15,221 Now, where does that leave us? 475 00:41:23,522 --> 00:41:26,775 All right, change out of that housecoat. I'll carry you. 476 00:41:41,873 --> 00:41:42,999 Are you nervous? 477 00:41:43,250 --> 00:41:45,210 Nervous? Here I was... 478 00:41:45,419 --> 00:41:48,588 ...at night, in a white neighbourhood with a white woman. 479 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:50,172 I wasn't nervous. 480 00:41:50,424 --> 00:41:51,883 I was stupid. 481 00:41:52,634 --> 00:41:54,385 Make a left up here. 482 00:41:54,594 --> 00:41:58,598 Getting Daphne back to Todd Carter suddenly didn't seem so easy. 483 00:41:59,182 --> 00:42:01,267 Who was this guy Richard McGee? 484 00:42:01,476 --> 00:42:03,603 Just park behind that car. 485 00:43:29,314 --> 00:43:30,815 Oh, my God! 486 00:45:11,541 --> 00:45:14,293 -Who's that at the door? -It's him. 487 00:45:15,253 --> 00:45:16,921 You fought in Europe? 488 00:45:19,507 --> 00:45:21,425 What you doing in my house? 489 00:45:22,928 --> 00:45:24,512 What happened to your head? 490 00:45:25,513 --> 00:45:29,433 What you doing in my house? You got no right to break into my house! 491 00:45:31,186 --> 00:45:32,812 Where have you been? 492 00:45:33,271 --> 00:45:36,315 I went to see a girl. Why? You don't get none? 493 00:45:36,524 --> 00:45:38,609 I didn't come here to play, nigger. 494 00:45:42,572 --> 00:45:44,448 That's my money in your pocket. 495 00:45:45,075 --> 00:45:47,619 We've been by the address you gave me on Frank. 496 00:45:47,827 --> 00:45:49,662 But he moved from there. 497 00:45:49,996 --> 00:45:51,038 A year ago. 498 00:45:51,623 --> 00:45:54,500 What do you want me to do? I'll give you the money-- 499 00:45:56,294 --> 00:45:58,004 Do you believe in God? 500 00:45:58,505 --> 00:46:01,966 I'm curious if pain's any different for a religious man. 501 00:46:02,175 --> 00:46:04,969 -I'll show you what I do to liars. - I seen her. 502 00:46:05,387 --> 00:46:06,429 Where? 503 00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:10,141 Come on. 504 00:46:11,393 --> 00:46:14,437 She called me. I carried her up to the Hollywood Hills. 505 00:46:15,313 --> 00:46:17,189 -Where's she now? -She took off. 506 00:46:17,399 --> 00:46:18,858 Bullshit. Where is she? 507 00:46:19,859 --> 00:46:21,443 She took off. 508 00:46:22,028 --> 00:46:24,864 While I was looking at the dead man, she took off. 509 00:46:33,248 --> 00:46:34,332 Come on in. 510 00:46:40,588 --> 00:46:42,047 Sit down. 511 00:46:49,597 --> 00:46:51,473 What'd she do? Take his car? 512 00:46:53,268 --> 00:46:54,602 McGee. 513 00:46:54,811 --> 00:46:56,813 Write down where you picked her up. 514 00:47:00,108 --> 00:47:01,526 Write it down! 515 00:47:16,583 --> 00:47:19,335 This bologna is stuck in my molar. 516 00:47:21,046 --> 00:47:22,881 I get that with popcorn. 517 00:47:26,092 --> 00:47:27,426 Get me some whisky. 518 00:47:29,137 --> 00:47:32,056 It's in the cabinet. You get it your damn self. 519 00:47:36,728 --> 00:47:39,731 He's got balls, you gotta give him that. 520 00:47:40,065 --> 00:47:41,107 Shoot him. 521 00:47:41,649 --> 00:47:43,192 I'm just kidding. 522 00:47:53,411 --> 00:47:55,454 Easy, you're a brave man. 523 00:47:55,663 --> 00:47:57,706 I need brave men working for me. 524 00:47:57,916 --> 00:47:59,751 You do a nice job too. 525 00:48:00,668 --> 00:48:01,710 Get me a whisky. 526 00:48:03,171 --> 00:48:05,548 Find Frank Green. He'll lead us to her. 527 00:48:05,924 --> 00:48:07,634 No, thank you. 528 00:48:08,843 --> 00:48:11,554 Too many people getting killed around me already. 529 00:48:17,811 --> 00:48:20,104 You're connectible to two murders. 530 00:48:23,358 --> 00:48:25,860 You're gonna do whatever I tell you to do. 531 00:48:27,946 --> 00:48:30,323 You find him. I'll be checking in. 532 00:48:37,539 --> 00:48:39,832 That's some cheap shit. Let's go. 533 00:48:57,559 --> 00:49:00,019 Since Albright liked surprise parties... 534 00:49:00,478 --> 00:49:03,230 ...I had a friend of my own I wanted to invite. 535 00:49:03,481 --> 00:49:06,442 I placed a call to Etta Mae Alexander in Houston. 536 00:49:06,693 --> 00:49:08,611 I gave her a message for her husband... 537 00:49:08,820 --> 00:49:09,862 ...Mouse. 538 00:49:31,801 --> 00:49:36,301 Cast your vote on June 11 for Matthew Terell. 539 00:49:58,411 --> 00:50:00,538 That girl called me last night. 540 00:50:00,788 --> 00:50:01,830 What girl? 541 00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,667 The one your friend Albright is looking for. 542 00:50:06,628 --> 00:50:09,422 -That's lucky. -It wasn't no luck. It was you. 543 00:50:10,882 --> 00:50:15,382 Only you and Coretta had my number and knew I was looking for the girl. 544 00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:18,013 Coretta was too busy scamming Daphne. 545 00:50:18,264 --> 00:50:21,058 -It was you. -Maybe she looked in the phone book. 546 00:50:21,267 --> 00:50:23,894 I ain't in the book. I thought you was my friend. 547 00:50:24,145 --> 00:50:26,272 Why didn't you tell him where she was? 548 00:50:26,481 --> 00:50:30,151 What the hell you mean, looking all ugly like you'll do something? 549 00:50:30,610 --> 00:50:32,653 I think I'll do something. 550 00:50:34,197 --> 00:50:35,448 Stop that shit! 551 00:50:36,449 --> 00:50:39,910 That's my marble! My uncle left me that after he died! 552 00:50:40,161 --> 00:50:42,454 Goddamn I, he's about to get it back. 553 00:50:42,664 --> 00:50:44,540 -Let's talk. -Talk! 554 00:50:44,791 --> 00:50:46,209 What you got me into? 555 00:50:46,459 --> 00:50:48,461 I told her Albright was looking for her. 556 00:50:48,711 --> 00:50:52,047 I figured I'd help you make a few dollars and throw Albright off! 557 00:50:52,298 --> 00:50:55,301 She wanted to know about you. I gave her your number. 558 00:50:55,510 --> 00:50:56,969 -Where's she at? - I don't know! 559 00:50:57,220 --> 00:50:58,638 Don't lie to me! 560 00:50:58,846 --> 00:51:00,097 I'm not lying to you! 561 00:51:00,306 --> 00:51:03,267 -What's she running from, then? -She didn't tell me. 562 00:51:04,727 --> 00:51:08,480 Easy, look at me. I am your friend! 563 00:51:10,024 --> 00:51:12,651 I didn't mean to get you in no trouble. 564 00:51:13,903 --> 00:51:15,779 Look, you seen her. 565 00:51:16,030 --> 00:51:18,490 I mean, she is something else, man. 566 00:51:20,827 --> 00:51:22,662 You know what I'm saying? 567 00:51:25,415 --> 00:51:27,458 Oh, Joppy... 568 00:51:32,839 --> 00:51:34,090 What? 569 00:51:40,847 --> 00:51:44,350 Like Albright said, "When you're mixed up in something... 570 00:51:44,726 --> 00:51:47,061 ...you better be mixed up to the top.” 571 00:51:47,312 --> 00:51:49,230 So that's where I was going. 572 00:51:49,439 --> 00:51:51,441 All the way to the top. 573 00:51:52,567 --> 00:51:56,445 Everybody was peeing on my head and telling me it was rain. 574 00:51:56,654 --> 00:52:00,366 Guess they figured I was some new kind of fool, and maybe I was. 575 00:52:00,575 --> 00:52:02,994 I was ready to start fighting back. 576 00:52:03,202 --> 00:52:06,788 I believed somehow that I could live through this bad dream... 577 00:52:07,165 --> 00:52:09,500 ...about pretty girls and gangsters... 578 00:52:10,043 --> 00:52:13,546 ...and standing face-to-face with the richest man in town. 579 00:52:29,270 --> 00:52:30,729 May I help you? 580 00:52:30,938 --> 00:52:34,691 -I'm looking for Mr. Carter. -I'm sorry, he's a very busy man. 581 00:52:34,901 --> 00:52:38,571 Too busy to hear about that chippy of his that dumped him? 582 00:52:39,072 --> 00:52:40,239 Excuse me. 583 00:52:40,865 --> 00:52:43,367 -Mr.--? -Rawlins. 584 00:52:44,577 --> 00:52:46,704 Why don't you come with me, sir? 585 00:52:50,875 --> 00:52:53,878 It's not smart talking about Carter's business to a secretary. 586 00:52:54,087 --> 00:52:55,755 There's too much going on... 587 00:52:55,963 --> 00:52:59,216 ...for me to give a damn about what you think is smart. 588 00:53:12,814 --> 00:53:15,066 Wait here, Mr. Rawlins. 589 00:53:27,203 --> 00:53:29,038 Mr. Carter will see you. 590 00:53:31,165 --> 00:53:33,000 Mr. Rawlins. 591 00:53:33,209 --> 00:53:34,668 Mr. Carter. 592 00:53:35,586 --> 00:53:37,379 You've heard from Daphne? 593 00:53:37,630 --> 00:53:39,256 Yeah, last night. 594 00:53:39,632 --> 00:53:41,216 She's still in town? 595 00:53:41,718 --> 00:53:43,010 She was last night. 596 00:53:44,220 --> 00:53:46,722 And what did she say? 597 00:53:46,931 --> 00:53:48,641 What was she wearing? 598 00:53:50,393 --> 00:53:52,311 Blue dress, high heels. 599 00:53:52,603 --> 00:53:53,645 That's her. 600 00:53:54,147 --> 00:53:55,648 Would you like to come in? 601 00:53:56,190 --> 00:53:57,232 Please. 602 00:54:00,194 --> 00:54:02,654 -Have a seat. -Thank you. 603 00:54:02,864 --> 00:54:05,324 - I want some answers. -Would you like a brandy? 604 00:54:06,451 --> 00:54:09,078 I wanna know what I got myself into. 605 00:54:09,537 --> 00:54:10,579 Pardon? 606 00:54:11,664 --> 00:54:14,917 I wanna know the real reason Mr. Albright hired me. 607 00:54:16,461 --> 00:54:17,962 Mr. Albright? 608 00:54:18,713 --> 00:54:21,590 Yeah, the man you hired to find Daphne. 609 00:54:22,633 --> 00:54:24,926 I think there's been a mistake here. 610 00:54:27,722 --> 00:54:29,515 Who are you talking about? 611 00:54:29,891 --> 00:54:31,183 Wait a minute. 612 00:54:31,809 --> 00:54:34,269 You didn't hire somebody to find your girl? 613 00:54:34,479 --> 00:54:35,771 Of course not. 614 00:54:36,439 --> 00:54:40,568 Until just now, I thought she was hundreds of miles away from here. 615 00:54:42,278 --> 00:54:44,321 You say someone's looking for her? 616 00:54:46,616 --> 00:54:48,159 Someone's looking for her. 617 00:54:49,619 --> 00:54:53,164 Nothing personal, but what's going on between y'all? 618 00:54:53,748 --> 00:54:54,999 Nothing. 619 00:54:56,292 --> 00:54:58,377 We were going to get married. 620 00:54:58,586 --> 00:55:03,086 We had a fight, and it is really none of your concern. 621 00:55:03,341 --> 00:55:05,217 So someone's after her. 622 00:55:05,468 --> 00:55:07,470 Mr. Albright. 623 00:55:08,137 --> 00:55:12,099 -And he says I'm his employer. -Ever heard of Richard McGee? 624 00:55:13,100 --> 00:55:14,142 Who? 625 00:55:16,813 --> 00:55:18,314 Look, I... 626 00:55:19,398 --> 00:55:22,818 -Why would somebody be after her? -Can you find her again? 627 00:55:23,486 --> 00:55:25,029 It's important... 628 00:55:25,238 --> 00:55:26,656 ...for her sake. 629 00:55:27,782 --> 00:55:29,575 I'm willing to pay you. 630 00:55:29,867 --> 00:55:31,493 Why did she leave? 631 00:55:32,662 --> 00:55:37,083 It's really none of your concern, but I'll pay you to find her. 632 00:55:43,923 --> 00:55:45,007 $1000. 633 00:55:46,467 --> 00:55:47,509 $10007? 634 00:55:49,053 --> 00:55:50,471 I'll take $200 right now. 635 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,640 You're trying to take advantage of me. 636 00:55:52,849 --> 00:55:54,809 Let me inform you of something. 637 00:55:55,017 --> 00:55:58,645 The incumbent mayor, the chief of police, close friends of mine. 638 00:55:59,063 --> 00:56:01,273 They eat at my house regularly. 639 00:56:01,482 --> 00:56:03,942 That's good. Then they can help us find her. 640 00:56:07,655 --> 00:56:09,198 No, they can't. 641 00:56:11,367 --> 00:56:13,827 I'll have Baxter write you out a cheque. 642 00:56:14,036 --> 00:56:15,620 Why you stop running for mayor? 643 00:56:15,830 --> 00:56:19,458 -Baxter will write you a cheque. -Why's Terell looking for Daphne? 644 00:56:19,876 --> 00:56:21,460 Baxter will write you a cheque. 645 00:56:22,128 --> 00:56:24,004 I'll take cash. 646 00:56:30,553 --> 00:56:33,389 Here, take it all. Just take it all. 647 00:56:37,977 --> 00:56:39,853 I'll be in touch, Mr. Carter. 648 00:56:56,203 --> 00:56:58,079 So Albright had lied to me. 649 00:56:58,289 --> 00:57:01,125 Instead of working for Carter, he worked for Terell... 650 00:57:01,334 --> 00:57:03,669 ...the man running for mayor against Carter. 651 00:57:03,878 --> 00:57:06,505 And they was all throwing money my way... 652 00:57:06,714 --> 00:57:08,924 ...to find the girl in the blue dress. 653 00:57:09,133 --> 00:57:13,178 I knew her boyfriend Frank Green hijacked trucks hauling liquor... 654 00:57:13,387 --> 00:57:16,932 ...and sold it at half-price to places down on Central Avenue. 655 00:57:17,266 --> 00:57:20,936 So I decided to kick up some dust right in Frank's back yard. 656 00:57:33,032 --> 00:57:35,034 Mr. Rawlins, what were you saying? 657 00:57:35,284 --> 00:57:36,368 Frank Green. 658 00:57:36,619 --> 00:57:37,911 -Who? -I'm looking for him. 659 00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,539 - I don't know. -Why you treat me like this? 660 00:57:40,748 --> 00:57:43,625 - I don't know any Frank Green. -You don't know Frank? 661 00:57:43,834 --> 00:57:45,752 You know me though, don't you? 662 00:57:53,970 --> 00:57:56,639 My man Frank Green told me to talk to you. 663 00:57:56,889 --> 00:57:59,099 -He said to talk to you. -Who is that? 664 00:57:59,308 --> 00:58:03,103 What do you mean, "Who is that?" He told me to talk to you. 665 00:58:03,354 --> 00:58:05,898 Come on. Give me something. 666 00:58:06,607 --> 00:58:08,650 All right, give me a beer. 667 00:58:08,859 --> 00:58:11,444 Can I get a beer? Can I get a beer? 668 00:58:11,696 --> 00:58:12,822 Thank you. 669 00:58:13,656 --> 00:58:16,575 Wait. Frank Green told me you'd have pints for me. 670 00:58:16,784 --> 00:58:17,910 Who's Frank Green? 671 00:58:18,119 --> 00:58:22,289 -You know who Frank Green is. -Al, talk to this man. 672 00:58:22,498 --> 00:58:25,542 -You know Frank. -What are you talking about? 673 00:58:25,751 --> 00:58:27,043 You don't know Frank? 674 00:58:27,253 --> 00:58:29,546 - I don't. -Let's get him on the phone. 675 00:58:41,225 --> 00:58:43,727 Don't need my trees trimmed. 676 00:58:52,570 --> 00:58:53,612 There's a man! 677 00:59:06,542 --> 00:59:08,085 Damn! Frank, wait a minute! 678 00:59:08,294 --> 00:59:10,296 Hold it! Let's talk! 679 00:59:13,007 --> 00:59:14,133 Let's talk. 680 00:59:18,220 --> 00:59:21,223 Wait a minute! I got $500 for you, Frank. 681 00:59:21,432 --> 00:59:22,933 Rich white man wants-- 682 00:59:37,198 --> 00:59:38,574 Goddamn it! 683 00:59:49,502 --> 00:59:51,045 Want me to shoot him? 684 00:59:51,253 --> 00:59:53,630 -Mouse! -Want me to shoot him? 685 00:59:58,886 --> 01:00:00,470 It's all right. 686 01:00:00,930 --> 01:00:02,973 What the hell is happening, man? 687 01:00:03,974 --> 01:00:05,350 I'll blow your nose off. 688 01:00:05,559 --> 01:00:06,726 Don't shoot him! 689 01:00:09,313 --> 01:00:11,523 Where's Daphne Monet, Frank? 690 01:00:12,233 --> 01:00:14,693 Maybe you don't know where she is... 691 01:00:14,944 --> 01:00:17,529 ...but we can help each other find her. 692 01:00:17,863 --> 01:00:20,282 -You heard him. -Mouse, no! 693 01:00:26,622 --> 01:00:28,332 -Rawlins residence. -Sit down. 694 01:00:28,833 --> 01:00:31,961 He busy right now. You gonna have to call back. 695 01:00:37,258 --> 01:00:41,053 A rich man is willing to pay $1000 just to talk to this girl. 696 01:00:43,055 --> 01:00:46,141 $1000! That's a hell of a lot of money, man! 697 01:00:48,936 --> 01:00:50,938 Wait, wait. Wait a minute. 698 01:00:51,147 --> 01:00:52,815 Let me try. 699 01:00:56,318 --> 01:00:58,069 Look here-- It's Frank, right? 700 01:01:06,245 --> 01:01:08,664 Let go of me, man! Let go of me! 701 01:01:09,081 --> 01:01:10,207 Damn it! 702 01:01:11,750 --> 01:01:14,753 Don't you ever grab me when I got a gun in my hand! 703 01:01:16,463 --> 01:01:18,047 Shit! 704 01:01:20,217 --> 01:01:21,843 You got blood on my coat. 705 01:01:22,052 --> 01:01:24,304 It's a damn expensive coat. 706 01:01:27,391 --> 01:01:29,351 Where's your bathroom at, man? 707 01:01:38,569 --> 01:01:40,612 We gotta find that girl and get that money. 708 01:01:40,821 --> 01:01:42,948 No, we don't have to go find nobody! 709 01:01:43,157 --> 01:01:46,827 I done changed my mind. I don't need your kind of help. 710 01:01:47,328 --> 01:01:51,790 Man cut a damn smile in your neck, you tell me you don't need my help. 711 01:01:51,999 --> 01:01:55,127 You pulled this shit 5 years ago when you killed Navrochet. 712 01:01:55,336 --> 01:01:58,380 You ain't been here 5 minutes, you shot somebody already. 713 01:01:58,756 --> 01:01:59,840 Come on, Easy. 714 01:02:00,049 --> 01:02:02,468 -Cut me in on this thing, man. -No. 715 01:02:03,260 --> 01:02:05,011 Easy, I'm trying to do right. 716 01:02:05,221 --> 01:02:07,514 I mean, you know, now. 717 01:02:09,850 --> 01:02:13,728 I could help you. You'll need somebody at your back. 718 01:02:15,189 --> 01:02:18,150 -I'll let you run the show. -You'll let me run the show? 719 01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,860 I won't do nothing you don't tell me to do. 720 01:02:21,070 --> 01:02:23,530 You're gonna let me run the show? 721 01:02:26,283 --> 01:02:27,575 You'll do what I say? 722 01:02:28,077 --> 01:02:30,204 I'm gonna do everything you say. 723 01:02:30,788 --> 01:02:32,664 That's the wrong hand, Mouse. 724 01:02:36,418 --> 01:02:38,336 Boy, how you been? 725 01:02:39,630 --> 01:02:42,507 -Who was that on the phone? - I don't know, man. 726 01:02:42,716 --> 01:02:44,592 Sounded like some white girl. 727 01:03:06,949 --> 01:03:09,576 Ezekiel. Came to ask you a few more questions. 728 01:03:10,661 --> 01:03:13,789 -Why don't you invite us in? -I'll come out. 729 01:03:15,958 --> 01:03:17,000 What happened? 730 01:03:17,418 --> 01:03:19,711 I don't remember doing that to your neck. 731 01:03:20,629 --> 01:03:23,006 What do you know about Richard McGee? 732 01:03:23,257 --> 01:03:25,592 A dead white man in Laurel Canyon. 733 01:03:26,385 --> 01:03:30,222 He has a note in his pocket with "Coretta James" written on it. 734 01:03:30,431 --> 01:03:31,807 You feel more talkative? 735 01:03:32,141 --> 01:03:35,519 I'll bet six bits to a bottle of piss we're looking at a double. 736 01:03:36,186 --> 01:03:38,354 If we place you in the dead man's house. 737 01:03:38,564 --> 01:03:40,315 I wasn't in no dead man's house. 738 01:03:40,566 --> 01:03:43,318 We could go to the station, send a team over here. 739 01:03:43,902 --> 01:03:46,988 They'll find something that will place you at that house. 740 01:03:47,239 --> 01:03:49,616 Evidence has a funny way of showing up. 741 01:03:49,825 --> 01:03:53,119 You ain't got nothing on me, because I ain't done nothing. 742 01:03:53,329 --> 01:03:54,830 We know you know a lot more. 743 01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:56,664 Tell us everything you know... 744 01:03:56,915 --> 01:03:59,250 ...or you're going down for both murders. 745 01:03:59,501 --> 01:04:01,336 - I don't know nothing. -Sure you do. 746 01:04:01,545 --> 01:04:03,588 -Let's go. -All right, look. 747 01:04:03,797 --> 01:04:05,715 -Give me more time. -Forget it. 748 01:04:05,966 --> 01:04:09,678 Give me till tomorrow morning. Maybe I can dig something up. 749 01:04:11,972 --> 01:04:14,265 What do you think? We could do that. 750 01:04:14,641 --> 01:04:16,351 Take the cuffs off. 751 01:04:17,144 --> 01:04:19,062 You got till tomorrow morning. 752 01:04:22,816 --> 01:04:25,193 Have a nice evening, Ezekiel. 753 01:04:25,527 --> 01:04:28,446 I played along, just like the cops wanted me to. 754 01:04:29,031 --> 01:04:30,949 It was a game to them. 755 01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:34,870 But they'd play for keeps tomorrow because a white man was dead now. 756 01:04:35,079 --> 01:04:38,457 Guilty or not, somebody was gonna have to pay for this one. 757 01:04:43,128 --> 01:04:47,048 Is Dupree's sister's house off Compton Boulevard or Avenue? 758 01:04:47,716 --> 01:04:51,469 -We're going somewhere else first. -Did that girl call? 759 01:04:52,388 --> 01:04:53,806 We going to see her? 760 01:04:55,224 --> 01:04:56,266 No. 761 01:04:57,643 --> 01:05:01,438 -I see them people giving you trouble. -I ain't got time. 762 01:05:01,647 --> 01:05:03,774 -Leave my trees alone! -You got too many. 763 01:05:03,982 --> 01:05:08,111 -I'll knock down a couple for you. -Leave my trees alone! 764 01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:11,197 Tell me what you think when you get back, all right? 765 01:05:44,940 --> 01:05:47,275 -Who's there? -Easy. 766 01:05:51,613 --> 01:05:53,573 -What you want? -Let me in. 767 01:05:53,824 --> 01:05:56,827 I got no time to be fooling with you. I'm sleeping. 768 01:05:57,035 --> 01:06:00,079 Open this door. Act like you got some sense. 769 01:06:00,289 --> 01:06:01,498 Mouse. 770 01:06:01,707 --> 01:06:04,376 Get out the way, fool. We ain't got all day. 771 01:06:05,544 --> 01:06:06,836 Have a seat. 772 01:06:07,171 --> 01:06:09,798 -Y'all want a beer? -Sure. Thank you. 773 01:06:10,257 --> 01:06:12,676 What you smoking, Junior? Zapattas? 774 01:06:19,433 --> 01:06:21,768 -This one's yours too. - I don't know. 775 01:06:22,019 --> 01:06:23,061 You killed McGee. 776 01:06:23,854 --> 01:06:25,313 What you talking about? 777 01:06:25,522 --> 01:06:27,524 No time to play. I know you killed him. 778 01:06:27,858 --> 01:06:30,068 -You crazy, man! -Sit down. 779 01:06:36,742 --> 01:06:38,618 -Tell me. -What you talking about? 780 01:06:38,827 --> 01:06:42,497 The police will, when they find your prints in his house. 781 01:06:42,706 --> 01:06:43,748 Fingerprints? 782 01:06:44,166 --> 01:06:47,169 Hattie had you pull that man out of John's that night. 783 01:06:47,419 --> 01:06:50,713 He was laying dead in the same suit and a bullet in his head. 784 01:06:50,964 --> 01:06:52,298 I ain't killed nobody! 785 01:06:52,508 --> 01:06:55,677 Quit lying, you thick-headed, cornbread-eating-- 786 01:06:56,470 --> 01:06:58,180 Sit down, Junior. 787 01:07:00,349 --> 01:07:01,933 Sit down, now. 788 01:07:11,235 --> 01:07:13,570 Tell me, and maybe I'll forget what I know. 789 01:07:13,779 --> 01:07:16,031 Or I'll tell Mouse to shoot you. 790 01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:18,533 You killed that man and took his money. 791 01:07:18,742 --> 01:07:21,828 - I don't know who you talking about! -You had to rob him! 792 01:07:22,037 --> 01:07:24,414 I didn't touch nothing IN that man's house! 793 01:07:24,873 --> 01:07:26,249 Goddamn. 794 01:07:29,795 --> 01:07:30,837 Sit down. 795 01:07:34,925 --> 01:07:37,135 Hattie had me take him out to his car. 796 01:07:37,386 --> 01:07:40,639 He was so drunk he gave me $10 just to drive him home. 797 01:07:40,847 --> 01:07:43,182 - I know you took that. -Hell, yeah. 798 01:07:43,475 --> 01:07:46,769 Then he asked about that white girl you asked about. 799 01:07:46,979 --> 01:07:50,148 I told him I seen her with Coretta. What the hell I care? 800 01:07:50,399 --> 01:07:52,025 You tell him, but not me? 801 01:07:52,234 --> 01:07:55,153 I don't like your ass. And he give me $50. 802 01:07:55,362 --> 01:07:57,572 Just to tell him you saw her with Coretta? 803 01:07:57,781 --> 01:07:59,199 To deliver a letter. 804 01:08:00,242 --> 01:08:03,036 I give it to Coretta to give to her the next morning. 805 01:08:05,664 --> 01:08:07,666 You better be telling the truth. 806 01:08:07,874 --> 01:08:09,458 Come on, let's go. 807 01:08:09,835 --> 01:08:12,087 I'm telling the truth. I ain't killed nobody. 808 01:08:12,337 --> 01:08:15,673 That man was alive when I left. I ain't killed nobody! 809 01:08:17,426 --> 01:08:21,680 Daphne's letter had worked its way over to the other side of town... 810 01:08:21,930 --> 01:08:23,932 ...lo Dupree's sister's house. 811 01:08:24,182 --> 01:08:25,391 I hoped. 812 01:08:25,642 --> 01:08:28,478 And Junior was innocent, like I knew all along. 813 01:08:28,895 --> 01:08:33,065 But I couldn't see no harm in letting the sucker sweat a little bit. 814 01:08:46,079 --> 01:08:49,123 -Tried to call you. -Cops just let me out today. 815 01:08:49,374 --> 01:08:52,418 My sister's at work. I ain't feel much like talking. 816 01:08:52,628 --> 01:08:54,796 -Raymond! -Yeah, big man. 817 01:08:55,005 --> 01:08:57,841 Is them pig tails I smell up in there? 818 01:08:58,050 --> 01:09:00,469 Lula Mae made some before work. 819 01:09:00,677 --> 01:09:02,595 You'll have to excuse me. 820 01:09:05,182 --> 01:09:06,433 Dupree. 821 01:09:12,773 --> 01:09:14,149 I'm sorry. 822 01:09:16,234 --> 01:09:17,693 Thank you, Easy. 823 01:09:18,570 --> 01:09:22,490 Why somebody wanna kill her like that? It don't make sense to me. 824 01:09:29,831 --> 01:09:34,331 Did Coretta say anything to you about a letter she was keeping? 825 01:09:35,462 --> 01:09:36,671 A letter? 826 01:09:37,381 --> 01:09:38,882 What kind of letter? 827 01:09:39,341 --> 01:09:40,800 From that white girl. 828 01:09:41,385 --> 01:09:42,511 No. 829 01:09:43,178 --> 01:09:45,805 It's because of her that Coretta got killed. 830 01:09:47,265 --> 01:09:48,307 Yeah. 831 01:09:49,059 --> 01:09:53,104 Everything between Daphne and Coretta was always such a damn secret. 832 01:09:53,855 --> 01:09:55,273 That old girl... 833 01:09:55,732 --> 01:09:58,568 ...didn't think nothing about two-timing old Frank. 834 01:09:59,277 --> 01:10:02,488 -You want more tails? -Thanks, Dupree. 835 01:10:03,407 --> 01:10:06,076 She messing around with that guy running for mayor. 836 01:10:06,326 --> 01:10:09,203 -Todd Carter? -Yeah, that's his name. 837 01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:13,249 She probably introduced Coretta to one of them guys. 838 01:10:13,709 --> 01:10:15,627 He probably came to the house... 839 01:10:15,836 --> 01:10:18,380 ...saw that Coretta wasn't that type of woman. 840 01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:21,925 Cop says she fought him. 841 01:10:23,552 --> 01:10:24,594 Imagine that. 842 01:10:25,929 --> 01:10:27,555 My baby fought them. 843 01:10:30,100 --> 01:10:32,268 Because she wouldn't have nobody but me. 844 01:10:37,357 --> 01:10:38,858 I can't sleep. 845 01:10:41,611 --> 01:10:44,989 I keep seeing her face that morning before I went to work. 846 01:10:47,576 --> 01:10:49,661 Junior had just came by the house... 847 01:10:49,870 --> 01:10:52,998 ...and she come running out carrying her Bible. 848 01:10:54,332 --> 01:10:55,791 She say... 849 01:10:56,793 --> 01:10:58,169 ..."Keep this for me, baby." 850 01:11:01,047 --> 01:11:02,298 The Bible? 851 01:11:05,594 --> 01:11:08,430 The police won't even let me go near the house. 852 01:11:10,140 --> 01:11:12,892 That's the only thing I got left that belonged to her. 853 01:11:13,101 --> 01:11:14,143 The Bible. 854 01:11:16,646 --> 01:11:20,316 I knew it was a sign because she's so religious. 855 01:11:21,234 --> 01:11:23,027 Oh, God! 856 01:11:24,780 --> 01:11:26,490 It's all right, big man. 857 01:11:26,990 --> 01:11:29,450 -I'm sorry. -That's all right. 858 01:11:29,701 --> 01:11:32,036 Get you a drink. Drink this. 859 01:11:32,496 --> 01:11:35,415 -All right. Go on now. -That's enough. 860 01:11:35,624 --> 01:11:37,042 Drink that. 861 01:12:31,471 --> 01:12:33,222 I was scared now... 862 01:12:33,473 --> 01:12:35,516 ...and sick from what I saw. 863 01:12:35,976 --> 01:12:39,479 Pictures of a much younger Matthew Terell and children. 864 01:12:39,980 --> 01:12:41,064 Innocent... 865 01:12:41,273 --> 01:12:42,565 ...helpless... 866 01:12:42,858 --> 01:12:43,984 ...naked children. 867 01:12:47,362 --> 01:12:49,364 I got it. Let's go. 868 01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:52,492 Is you crazy or is you drunk? 869 01:12:53,827 --> 01:12:54,953 Come on. 870 01:12:55,161 --> 01:12:56,245 Am I drunk? 871 01:12:56,496 --> 01:12:59,582 You saw me draw that gun. No man can out-draw me. 872 01:12:59,833 --> 01:13:02,418 -Put the gun down. -No, I'm drunk. 873 01:13:02,627 --> 01:13:04,712 I'm drunk. You right. 874 01:13:06,339 --> 01:13:08,549 I'm gonna put that gun right there. 875 01:13:08,758 --> 01:13:11,260 I'm gonna see who's drunk. 876 01:13:13,096 --> 01:13:15,848 Now, watch it now. Watch it, goddamn it. 877 01:13:16,725 --> 01:13:18,601 Right there, now. 878 01:13:19,895 --> 01:13:22,772 This fool calling me out, he ain't even got no gun. 879 01:13:23,023 --> 01:13:24,941 I'll kill that motherfucker. 880 01:13:26,526 --> 01:13:27,568 Let him go. 881 01:13:29,279 --> 01:13:30,738 Let him live. 882 01:13:30,947 --> 01:13:33,199 And he'll be scared of you from now on. 883 01:13:33,450 --> 01:13:35,368 He better be scared or I'll kill him. 884 01:13:35,577 --> 01:13:36,869 He will. 885 01:13:37,329 --> 01:13:38,371 You better tell him. 886 01:13:38,622 --> 01:13:39,873 I will. 887 01:13:40,165 --> 01:13:41,207 Trust me. 888 01:13:41,583 --> 01:13:42,959 I'll tell him. 889 01:13:44,169 --> 01:13:45,795 Shit. 890 01:13:48,590 --> 01:13:50,550 Keep an eye on him. 891 01:13:50,759 --> 01:13:52,343 Where you going? 892 01:14:12,822 --> 01:14:16,158 The pictures was eating at my pocket like a cigarette burn. 893 01:14:16,368 --> 01:14:20,163 Albright killed for those pictures to get them back for Terell. 894 01:14:20,372 --> 01:14:24,042 He killed Richard McGee, who had sold the pictures to Daphne. 895 01:14:24,250 --> 01:14:25,960 Time was running out. 896 01:14:26,419 --> 01:14:29,296 But I had some unfinished business with the girl. 897 01:14:29,631 --> 01:14:33,843 She had called earlier, and all I needed was for her to call again. 898 01:15:11,131 --> 01:15:13,675 I'm sorry. I broke into your house. 899 01:15:15,593 --> 01:15:17,511 Please don't be angry with me. 900 01:15:18,138 --> 01:15:20,557 Now, why should I be angry at you? 901 01:15:26,271 --> 01:15:28,398 May I have a cigarette? 902 01:15:33,570 --> 01:15:36,823 Coretta's boyfriend, Dupree, got out of jail today. 903 01:15:37,532 --> 01:15:39,951 And you need me to help you find him. 904 01:15:41,786 --> 01:15:44,121 I already got the pictures. 905 01:16:18,740 --> 01:16:21,826 I paid $7000 for those pictures. They belong to me. 906 01:16:22,285 --> 01:16:24,620 Terell might have something to say about that. 907 01:16:26,247 --> 01:16:28,582 I'll pay you $1000 for them. 908 01:16:28,792 --> 01:16:31,503 -You gave McGee seven. -Then I'll give you seven. 909 01:16:32,045 --> 01:16:33,838 What does Terell have on you? 910 01:16:34,339 --> 01:16:35,590 Nothing. 911 01:16:36,049 --> 01:16:37,967 -You want the money or not? -No. 912 01:16:38,718 --> 01:16:40,428 I got two murders hanging over me. 913 01:16:40,678 --> 01:16:43,681 Unless I find a killer by morning, I'll go to jail. 914 01:16:44,307 --> 01:16:46,058 -Who killed Coretta? - I don't know. 915 01:16:46,267 --> 01:16:48,727 -She was killed for the pictures? - I don't know. 916 01:16:48,937 --> 01:16:51,689 Frank Green killed her to bring you them pictures. 917 01:16:51,898 --> 01:16:53,858 -No. -Tell it to the police... 918 01:16:54,067 --> 01:16:56,027 ...because I ain't taking the rap. 919 01:16:58,071 --> 01:17:00,573 Put the phone down! Put it down! 920 01:17:00,865 --> 01:17:02,366 Put the phone down! 921 01:17:03,118 --> 01:17:04,160 It was Frank. 922 01:17:04,369 --> 01:17:05,995 -He didn't do it! -Sure he did! 923 01:17:06,246 --> 01:17:08,331 You got more than a backdoor romance. 924 01:17:08,581 --> 01:17:11,542 He pimped you out to Carter. We're going to the police. 925 01:17:12,377 --> 01:17:16,798 Why don't you scream, so I can tell the police about your boyfriend! 926 01:17:17,006 --> 01:17:18,757 Frank is my brother! 927 01:17:22,345 --> 01:17:25,056 Our mother is Creole. We have different fathers. 928 01:17:26,474 --> 01:17:27,933 Mine is white. 929 01:17:29,602 --> 01:17:31,270 That's what Terell has on me. 930 01:17:32,939 --> 01:17:35,650 So far I've been able to keep Frank out of this. 931 01:17:35,900 --> 01:17:37,318 Who killed Coretta? 932 01:17:38,653 --> 01:17:42,156 It was an accident. She wanted to sell the pictures to Terell. 933 01:17:42,365 --> 01:17:44,825 Who killed her, goddamn it? 934 01:17:45,910 --> 01:17:47,995 I asked Joppy to scare her. 935 01:17:48,663 --> 01:17:49,747 Joppy? 936 01:17:50,665 --> 01:17:52,750 I didn't mean to hurt anybody. 937 01:17:53,585 --> 01:17:55,336 I didn't mean to hurt anybody. 938 01:17:55,712 --> 01:17:58,881 But Todd had to pull out of the election because of me. 939 01:17:59,132 --> 01:18:02,426 His family really wanted us to get married, but-- 940 01:18:06,222 --> 01:18:08,766 I'll be a son of a bitch. Get her. 941 01:18:15,064 --> 01:18:16,523 Come on. 942 01:18:18,276 --> 01:18:20,444 -Where are the pictures? - I don't know. 943 01:18:21,404 --> 01:18:22,988 Get her in the car. 944 01:18:24,991 --> 01:18:26,033 Come on! 945 01:18:26,242 --> 01:18:28,619 Who we gonna give up to cover this shit? 946 01:18:56,272 --> 01:19:00,359 I woke up Mouse and told him to drive Dupree's car to 34th and Central. 947 01:19:00,568 --> 01:19:03,571 It had come to me in less time than it takes to think: 948 01:19:03,947 --> 01:19:08,201 They were taking her some place more deserted than Albright's office... 949 01:19:08,409 --> 01:19:10,619 ...where there would be no witnesses. 950 01:19:10,870 --> 01:19:13,372 And I was being left alive to take the fall. 951 01:19:30,014 --> 01:19:32,224 Give me one of them guns you got. 952 01:19:32,725 --> 01:19:36,645 Start up my car, keep it hot. I'm coming out fast. 953 01:20:05,216 --> 01:20:06,383 Let's go. 954 01:20:06,801 --> 01:20:08,719 Let's go. Let's go! 955 01:20:09,304 --> 01:20:11,264 I'll blow your face off. Let's go! 956 01:20:11,472 --> 01:20:12,806 Shut up! 957 01:20:16,728 --> 01:20:18,730 -What the hell you doing? -Shut up! 958 01:20:20,231 --> 01:20:21,523 What is this? 959 01:20:23,484 --> 01:20:25,027 You drive, Mouse. 960 01:20:36,539 --> 01:20:38,999 Albright's gonna kill the girl. 961 01:20:39,208 --> 01:20:41,627 Now tell me where it is and get it right. 962 01:20:41,836 --> 01:20:44,547 Get it right, Joppy. Get it right. 963 01:20:44,756 --> 01:20:46,549 There's a cabin. 964 01:20:46,924 --> 01:20:48,759 That's all I know. There's a cabin. 965 01:20:49,010 --> 01:20:51,637 -Where? -It's in Malibu on Route 9. 966 01:20:51,846 --> 01:20:53,973 Make a right turn at the alley. 967 01:20:58,561 --> 01:21:00,271 This is where he'll be, right? 968 01:21:00,480 --> 01:21:02,273 -I guess so. -Don't be guessing! 969 01:21:02,482 --> 01:21:06,903 He done this kind of thing out there before, so I guess so. 970 01:21:07,487 --> 01:21:09,363 I thought y'all were friends. 971 01:21:09,697 --> 01:21:11,240 He killed Coretta. 972 01:21:11,991 --> 01:21:13,367 You lying. 973 01:21:13,576 --> 01:21:15,536 I ain't done nothing like that. 974 01:21:19,791 --> 01:21:21,959 Hold on! We need him, Mouse! 975 01:21:22,168 --> 01:21:24,420 The girl got $7000. 976 01:21:27,840 --> 01:21:28,882 What? 977 01:21:29,092 --> 01:21:32,345 The girl offered to pay me $7000 for them pictures. 978 01:21:32,553 --> 01:21:33,929 Oh, my God! 979 01:21:34,722 --> 01:21:35,806 Oh, my goodness! 980 01:21:36,015 --> 01:21:37,057 Oh, my God! 981 01:21:55,660 --> 01:21:57,370 How much further is it? 982 01:21:57,787 --> 01:21:59,455 We coming up on it. 983 01:22:19,809 --> 01:22:22,186 There's rope in the trunk. Tie him up. 984 01:22:22,437 --> 01:22:23,855 Yeah, all right. 985 01:22:31,779 --> 01:22:33,322 Man, come on. 986 01:22:33,865 --> 01:22:37,827 The girl is lying if she told you I killed that woman. 987 01:22:38,578 --> 01:22:40,413 Who says she told me? 988 01:22:46,210 --> 01:22:48,170 I'm gonna shoot him now, okay? 989 01:22:48,463 --> 01:22:49,505 No, don't. 990 01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:52,007 Don't shoot. 991 01:23:44,227 --> 01:23:47,104 Help me! Help me! 992 01:23:57,281 --> 01:23:58,532 Shut up! 993 01:24:05,164 --> 01:24:07,291 Now, you tell me where the pictures are. 994 01:24:07,542 --> 01:24:10,002 I don't want to hurt you. Tell me. 995 01:24:10,253 --> 01:24:11,712 Where are the pictures? 996 01:24:11,921 --> 01:24:15,674 -Easy has them. -You said he had nothing to do with it. 997 01:24:16,467 --> 01:24:18,260 I was lying. 998 01:24:20,763 --> 01:24:21,847 Lying? 999 01:24:23,432 --> 01:24:25,225 Yeah, you a liar? 1000 01:24:29,188 --> 01:24:32,524 I know you lie. You lie about being a nigger? 1001 01:24:34,902 --> 01:24:36,278 Tell me the truth. 1002 01:24:37,780 --> 01:24:39,865 What part of you is nigger? Your leg? 1003 01:24:40,116 --> 01:24:42,493 Your arm a nigger? Maybe your face? 1004 01:24:46,330 --> 01:24:48,165 What part of you is nigger? 1005 01:24:49,875 --> 01:24:51,501 You know what I'm gonna do? 1006 01:24:52,503 --> 01:24:53,587 Please, no! 1007 01:24:53,963 --> 01:24:56,298 I'm gonna burn it out of you. 1008 01:25:57,693 --> 01:25:59,486 Easy, is that you? 1009 01:27:12,977 --> 01:27:14,561 He gone, man. 1010 01:27:19,942 --> 01:27:21,193 Gone. 1011 01:27:31,245 --> 01:27:32,704 You all right? 1012 01:27:34,957 --> 01:27:36,249 Can you walk? 1013 01:27:36,459 --> 01:27:38,127 Come on, let's go. 1014 01:27:57,104 --> 01:27:58,647 Where's Joppy? 1015 01:28:01,901 --> 01:28:02,985 Where Joppy? 1016 01:28:03,778 --> 01:28:05,613 He right there. 1017 01:28:17,124 --> 01:28:18,291 What happened? 1018 01:28:19,084 --> 01:28:21,586 I ain't had no time to be tying him up. 1019 01:28:22,129 --> 01:28:23,171 What? 1020 01:28:24,048 --> 01:28:25,507 You said don't shoot him. 1021 01:28:25,716 --> 01:28:27,759 -That's right. -Well, I didn't. 1022 01:28:27,968 --> 01:28:29,386 I choked him. 1023 01:28:30,262 --> 01:28:31,304 What? 1024 01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:35,475 How am I gonna help you out if I'm here fooling around with him? 1025 01:28:39,313 --> 01:28:42,983 If you ain't want him killed, why'd you leave him with me? 1026 01:28:49,114 --> 01:28:51,116 Come on. We got to go, Easy. 1027 01:28:54,245 --> 01:28:56,538 Easy, come on. Let's go now. 1028 01:29:16,225 --> 01:29:17,517 Listen... 1029 01:29:18,102 --> 01:29:19,853 ...what about that dude Frank? 1030 01:29:20,062 --> 01:29:23,190 - I can run by and kill him before I go. -No, Mouse. 1031 01:29:23,399 --> 01:29:24,483 You sure? 1032 01:29:29,238 --> 01:29:30,405 Look. 1033 01:29:31,115 --> 01:29:32,241 Here's your half. 1034 01:29:32,449 --> 01:29:36,161 I know you's too big a fool to take it from her yourself. 1035 01:29:36,662 --> 01:29:40,165 If you need somebody to run them streets with, give me a call. 1036 01:29:40,416 --> 01:29:43,043 You know how to put money in a nigger's pocket. 1037 01:30:03,355 --> 01:30:06,316 What upset them the most was that I didn't tell them. 1038 01:30:07,276 --> 01:30:10,404 Then Terell threatened to go public about my mother. 1039 01:30:10,613 --> 01:30:13,073 That just added insult to injury. 1040 01:30:13,782 --> 01:30:15,283 When Todd sees the pictures... 1041 01:30:15,492 --> 01:30:17,911 ...there'll be nothing in the way of our marriage. 1042 01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:22,040 -Are you sure? -Terell doesn't want to go to jail. 1043 01:30:22,541 --> 01:30:24,543 I'm not talking about Terell. 1044 01:30:26,045 --> 01:30:28,922 Todd and I are very much in love, and in the end... 1045 01:30:30,382 --> 01:30:32,675 ...his family just wants him to be happy. 1046 01:30:37,431 --> 01:30:41,393 Daphne had gotten the money out of a locker at the YWCA. 1047 01:30:41,602 --> 01:30:44,313 It was money she had gotten from Carter's family. 1048 01:30:44,730 --> 01:30:46,648 $30,000... 1049 01:30:47,232 --> 01:30:48,900 ...10 leave town. 1050 01:30:49,652 --> 01:30:52,655 She was convinced her Negro blood didn't matter... 1051 01:30:52,905 --> 01:30:55,157 ...now that Terell couldn't use it... 1052 01:30:55,366 --> 01:30:57,701 ...lo keep Carter out of the mayor's race. 1053 01:30:58,702 --> 01:31:01,329 She was in love and couldn't see for dreaming... 1054 01:31:01,997 --> 01:31:04,249 ...any better than the rest of us, I guess. 1055 01:31:04,750 --> 01:31:08,170 Even though we had fought a war to keep the world free... 1056 01:31:08,420 --> 01:31:10,839 ...the colour line in America work both ways. 1057 01:31:11,048 --> 01:31:13,550 Even a rich white man like Todd Carter... 1058 01:31:14,259 --> 01:31:16,094 ...was afraid to cross it. 1059 01:31:16,345 --> 01:31:18,138 -Don't walk away. -Damn you! 1060 01:31:19,014 --> 01:31:20,140 Wait. 1061 01:31:22,393 --> 01:31:23,435 Wait. 1062 01:31:29,984 --> 01:31:31,276 Please! 1063 01:31:53,590 --> 01:31:56,050 Here's the $800 that I owe you. 1064 01:31:57,094 --> 01:31:59,012 And thank you for protecting her. 1065 01:32:01,557 --> 01:32:03,183 You have some pictures. 1066 01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:18,407 That puts you back in the race. 1067 01:32:20,701 --> 01:32:23,203 I'll need you to do something for me too. 1068 01:32:25,539 --> 01:32:26,748 I know. 1069 01:32:27,249 --> 01:32:30,293 You'll have no trouble with the police. 1070 01:32:30,502 --> 01:32:31,544 It's a promise. 1071 01:32:38,010 --> 01:32:39,344 Thank you. 1072 01:32:45,934 --> 01:32:47,393 Just so you know... 1073 01:32:49,688 --> 01:32:51,356 ...do love her. 1074 01:33:36,902 --> 01:33:38,904 You want me to walk you inside? 1075 01:34:01,385 --> 01:34:03,553 I dropped her off at her brother's... 1076 01:34:03,929 --> 01:34:06,097 ...a four-plex on Dinker Street. 1077 01:34:06,723 --> 01:34:08,891 She told me her story on the way home... 1078 01:34:09,101 --> 01:34:11,269 ...like a sinner who wanted to confess. 1079 01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:14,940 Her name was Ruby Hanks from Lake Charles, Louisiana. 1080 01:34:15,399 --> 01:34:18,944 I suppose all she really wanted was a place to fit in. 1081 01:34:19,903 --> 01:34:22,655 A few days later, my conscience got the best of me... 1082 01:34:22,906 --> 01:34:25,992 ...and I went by her place to bring back her money. 1083 01:34:26,535 --> 01:34:29,162 I was kind of excited about seeing her again. 1084 01:34:29,788 --> 01:34:31,331 But when I got there... 1085 01:34:31,790 --> 01:34:34,375 ...She and her brother had picked up and gone. 1086 01:35:15,959 --> 01:35:17,752 Find a job yet? 1087 01:35:18,128 --> 01:35:19,963 I ain't studying no job, Odell. 1088 01:35:20,505 --> 01:35:22,381 No job? How you gonna live? 1089 01:35:22,591 --> 01:35:25,885 I got a little money saved up. I'll invest in real estate. 1090 01:35:26,261 --> 01:35:29,681 -Maybe go into business for myself. -What kind of business? 1091 01:35:29,932 --> 01:35:31,892 Private investigating. 1092 01:35:32,601 --> 01:35:34,060 You get in trouble doing that. 1093 01:35:34,269 --> 01:35:36,729 Well, like a man told me once: 1094 01:35:37,439 --> 01:35:40,275 "Step out your door, you're already in trouble. 1095 01:35:40,525 --> 01:35:43,319 Only thing is, if you're mixed up at the top or not." 1096 01:35:45,405 --> 01:35:46,948 I guess you're right. 1097 01:35:51,828 --> 01:35:56,249 If you got a friend that you know does bad things, real bad things... 1098 01:35:56,917 --> 01:36:00,503 ...and you still keep him as a friend, knowing what he's like... 1099 01:36:02,214 --> 01:36:03,256 ...Is that wrong? 1100 01:36:05,926 --> 01:36:07,802 All you got is your friends. 1101 01:36:11,139 --> 01:36:14,308 What are you doing? You get out of my yard! 1102 01:36:14,768 --> 01:36:15,810 Get away! 1103 01:36:16,019 --> 01:36:18,855 That fool knocked down two of my trees. Get away! 1104 01:36:20,691 --> 01:36:21,942 Get on! 1105 01:36:25,612 --> 01:36:26,988 You all right? 1106 01:37:15,704 --> 01:37:17,914 I thought about what he said about friends... 1107 01:37:18,123 --> 01:37:19,999 ...and it made sense to me. 1108 01:37:20,250 --> 01:37:23,503 Odell goes to church every Sunday, so he would know. 1109 01:37:24,129 --> 01:37:28,508 Later, he challenged me to dominoes. Now, what he do that for? 1110 01:37:29,092 --> 01:37:32,220 We got to talking about Texas and fooled around... 1111 01:37:32,471 --> 01:37:34,723 ...and drunk a quart of whisky. 1112 01:37:34,931 --> 01:37:39,310 And I forgot all about Daphne Monet, DeWitt Albright, Carter and them. 1113 01:37:39,978 --> 01:37:41,896 And I sat with my friend... 1114 01:37:42,105 --> 01:37:43,815 ...on my porch... 1115 01:37:44,358 --> 01:37:45,984 ...at my house... 1116 01:37:46,735 --> 01:37:49,154 ...and we laughed a long time.