1. She came along the alley and up the
back stairs the way she always used to.Copy !req
2. Doc hadn't seen
her in over a year.Copy !req
3. Nobody had.Copy !req
4. Back then it was
always sandals...Copy !req
5. bottom half of a
flower-print bikini...Copy !req
6. and a faded Country
Joe and the Fish T-shirt.Copy !req
7. Tonight, she was all
in flatland gear...Copy !req
8. hair a lot shorter
than he remembered...Copy !req
9. looking just like she swore
she would never look.Copy !req
10. Psst.Copy !req
11. That you, Shasta?Copy !req
12. Thinks he's hallucinating.Copy !req
13. No, just a new package,
I guess.Copy !req
14. I need your help, Doc.Copy !req
15. You know I have an office now?
It's like a day job and everything.Copy !req
16. I looked in the phone book
and almost went over there.Copy !req
17. Then I thought better for everyone if
this looks like a secret rendezvous.Copy !req
18. Is somebody keeping
a close eye?Copy !req
19. Just spent an hour on surface
streets trying to make it look good.Copy !req
20. Uh...Copy !req
21. You want a beer?Copy !req
22. How about a beer?
You want a beer?Copy !req
23. Yeah.Copy !req
24. Uh...Copy !req
25. There's this guy.Copy !req
26. Gentleman of the
straight-world persuasion?Copy !req
27. Okay, Doc.Copy !req
28. He's married.Copy !req
29. Some, uh, money situation?Copy !req
30. And the wife, uh,
she knows about you?Copy !req
31. She's seeing somebody too.Copy !req
32. But it's not just the usual.Copy !req
33. I think they're working
on some creepy, little scheme.Copy !req
34. To make off with
the hubby's fortune?Copy !req
35. Yeah, I think I've heard of
that happening once or twice.Copy !req
36. And you want me to do,
uh, what exactly?Copy !req
37. Is they want me in on it.Copy !req
38. They think I'm the one who can
reach him when he's vulnerable.Copy !req
39. Or as much as he ever gets.Copy !req
40. Bare-ass and asleep.Copy !req
41. I knew you'd understand.Copy !req
42. Are you still trying to figure
out if it's right or wrong?Copy !req
43. Worse than that.Copy !req
44. How much loyalty I owe him.Copy !req
45. Groovy.Copy !req
46. All right...Copy !req
47. emotions aside,
let's look at the rent.Copy !req
48. How much of, uh, your rent's
he been picking up?Copy !req
49. - All of it.
- Pretty, uh, hefty?Copy !req
50. For Hancock Park?Copy !req
51. You're giving him IOUs
for everything, of course.Copy !req
52. You fucker. If I had known
you were still this bitter...Copy !req
53. Me? I'm trying to be
professional, is all.Copy !req
54. All right.Copy !req
55. How much have the, uh, wifey and
boyfriend offered to cut you in for?Copy !req
56. It isn't what you're thinking.Copy !req
57. Don't worry.
Thinking comes later.Copy !req
58. What else?Copy !req
59. I'm not sure.Copy !req
60. It sounds like they wanna
commit him to a loony bin.Copy !req
61. Back when they
were together...Copy !req
62. she could go weeks without
anything more complicated than a pout.Copy !req
63. Now she was laying some heavy
combination of face ingredients...Copy !req
64. on Doc that he
couldn't read at all.Copy !req
65. Argh. Fuck.Copy !req
66. Come to think of it, there'd never
been this much sorrow in her voice.Copy !req
67. Heard you're seeing
someone downtown?Copy !req
68. Penny?Copy !req
69. Some kind of junior DA?Copy !req
70. Yeah, you think, uh, somebody down
there could stop this before it happens?Copy !req
71. Not too many places
I could go with this, Doc.Copy !req
72. I'll talk to Penny.Copy !req
73. See what we can see.Copy !req
74. Your happy couple,
they have names?Copy !req
75. It's Mickey Wolfmann.Copy !req
76. Who's always in the paper?
The real-estate big shot?Copy !req
77. Yeah.Copy !req
78. Can't tell anyone about this,
Doc.Copy !req
79. Oh.Copy !req
80. Huh.Copy !req
81. Deaf and dumb, part of my job.Copy !req
82. How do I reach you?Copy !req
83. You don't.Copy !req
84. I moved out of my old place.
Staying where I can anymore.Copy !req
85. Don't ask.Copy !req
86. There's room here.Copy !req
87. Walk me down to my car?Copy !req
88. Someone might be watching.Copy !req
89. - You never did let me down, Doc.
- Don't worry. I'll...Copy !req
90. No, I mean, really. Ever.Copy !req
91. Sure I did.Copy !req
92. No. You were always true.Copy !req
93. You know,
you don't have to go.Copy !req
94. Watch your toes.Copy !req
95. Vroom.Copy !req
96. Doc ran through all the things
he hadn't asked Shasta.Copy !req
97. Like how much she'd
come to depend on...Copy !req
98. Wolfmann's guaranteed level
of ease and power.Copy !req
99. And least askable of all:Copy !req
100. How passionately did she
really feel about old Mickey?Copy !req
101. - Hey, what's up, Doc?
- Hey, Denis.Copy !req
102. What's up, man? What's
going on'? Doing all right?Copy !req
103. Doc knew the likely reply."Copy !req
104. "I love him. What else?"Copy !req
105. With the unspoken footnote...Copy !req
106. that the word these days
was being way too overused.Copy !req
107. What you looking at?Copy !req
108. You hungry?Copy !req
109. Like Godzilla says to Mothra,Copy !req
110. "Let's go eat someplace."Copy !req
111. So when Doc and Denis
came in that night...Copy !req
112. it Wasn't just the
usual hungry doper thing.Copy !req
113. It was something else.Copy !req
114. And with Neptune moving at last
out of the Scorpio death-trip...Copy !req
115. and rising into the Sagittarian
light of the higher mind...Copy !req
116. it was bound to be
something love-related.Copy !req
117. And I thought I
knew what it was.Copy !req
118. So...?Copy !req
119. She stuck her head
in for a minute.Copy !req
120. You feeling broken up?Copy !req
121. Kind of weird seeing
her again, you know?Copy !req
122. Yeah, I figured next time I
saw her, it'd be on the tube.Copy !req
123. Not in person.Copy !req
124. - Well, you'd better do something about this.
- Heh.Copy !req
125. Yeah, again?Copy !req
126. Can't tell you enough: Change
your hair, change your life.Copy !req
127. Mm.Copy !req
128. Mm. Well,
what do you recommend?Copy !req
129. It's up to you.Copy !req
130. Follow your intuition.Copy !req
131. Hello?Copy !req
132. Hey, Aunt Reef?Copy !req
133. - Hello?
- Yes, honey. Make it quick.Copy !req
134. I got a live one tonight, and
I totally fucked up my face.Copy !req
135. Aw. Oh, okay. Mickey Wolfmann,
what can you tell me?Copy !req
136. Powerhouse in
L.A. real estate.Copy !req
137. From the desert to the sea.Copy !req
138. Technically Jewish,
but wants to be a Nazi.Copy !req
139. What's he to you?Copy !req
140. Possible case.Copy !req
141. Let's say I wanted to hang out
and rap with this Wolfmann.Copy !req
142. Say it's a really bad idea.Copy !req
143. He goes around with a dozen bikers,
mostly Aryan Brotherhood alumni.Copy !req
144. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait.Copy !req
145. I flunked Social Studies...Copy !req
146. but, uh,
Jews and Aryan Brotherhood...Copy !req
147. isn't there
something about hatred?Copy !req
148. No. Mickey's eccentric.
More and more lately.Copy !req
149. I'd say, stoned out of his fucking
mind since he discovered drugs.Copy !req
150. No offense to you, Doc.Copy !req
151. So where would I, uh,
find him? Like accidentally?Copy !req
152. Try the Channel View Estates, his
latest insult to the environment.Copy !req
153. The one that Bigfoot Bjornsen
does the commercials for?Copy !req
154. - That's the one.
- Uh-huh.Copy !req
155. Maybe your old cop buddy's the one who
should be taking care of your case.Copy !req
156. Yeah, well, I did think about
going to Bigfoot with this...Copy !req
157. but just as I reached for the
phone, history and all, I thought:Copy !req
158. Mm...Copy !req
159. Well, maybe you're better
off with the Nazis. Heh.Copy !req
160. All right, all right.Copy !req
161. I got major liquid-liner issues.
I gotta get off now, Larry.Copy !req
162. All right.Copy !req
163. Morning, Sam.Copy !req
164. Hey, man.Copy !req
165. I don't want you paying rent.Copy !req
166. Renfs a hassle. I wanna
see you in your own pad...Copy !req
167. Howdy, Bigfoot.Copy !req
168. at Channel View Estates...Copy !req
169. Artesia's newest and grooviest
residential housing development.Copy !req
170. No buzzkill credit checks.Copy !req
171. No rip-off minimum down
payments. That's not your bag.Copy !req
172. But check this out:Copy !req
173. Fully-equipped kitchen with automatic
self-cleaning oven and breakfast nook.Copy !req
174. Out of sight.Copy !req
175. Attached one-car
and available two-car garage.Copy !req
176. And best of all...Copy !req
177. a view of the Dominguez
Flood Control Channel...Copy !req
178. that can only be
described in two words:Copy !req
179. Right on.Copy !req
180. So, what's all this now?Copy !req
181. What's up, Doc?Copy !req
182. What“?Copy !req
183. "Michael Wolfmann, one of Los Angeles's
most prominent real estate developers...Copy !req
184. announced at a
press conference...Copy !req
185. he's proceeding with construction
of several housing developments...Copy !req
186. the most immediate
to be Channel View Estates.Copy !req
187. Hey, Doc.
- Howdy.Copy !req
188. Cop came around last night
looking for you again.Copy !req
189. - Bigfoot?
- Yeah. That's the one.Copy !req
190. Huh.Copy !req
191. I wonder why he didn't
kick in my door like usual.Copy !req
192. He might've been thinking about it, but said
something like, "Tomorrow's another day."Copy !req
193. Which would be today, right?Copy !req
194. Not if I can help it.Copy !req
195. All right, "Wolfmann, known for
his outlandish advertising...Copy !req
196. and aggressive style,
has been...Copy !req
197. involved in the Southern
California real estate market..."Copy !req
198. for the past 23
fucking years, you know.Copy !req
199. - Morning, Doc.
- Hey. Morning, Petunia.Copy !req
200. - I love your Afro. Uh-huh.
- Oh, yeah? Thank you.Copy !req
201. Oh, Doc. You have someone
waiting in your office.Copy !req
202. - Doctor.
- Doctor.Copy !req
203. Hey, man. Sorry to,
uh, keep you waiting.Copy !req
204. - Dr. Sportello?
- That's right. What it is, my brother.Copy !req
205. Peace. I'm Tariq Khalil.Copy !req
206. Cool.Copy !req
207. Sit down.Copy !req
208. What's up, man?
How can I help you today?Copy !req
209. There's this white boy I was in
the joint with. Aryan Brotherhood.Copy !req
210. We did some business, and, uh, now
we're both out and he still owes me.Copy !req
211. I can't tell you the details,
but it's a whole lot of money.Copy !req
212. Mm. How about his name?Copy !req
213. Glen Charlock.Copy !req
214. Mm-hm. And, um, you know
where he's staying now?Copy !req
215. I know where he works.Copy !req
216. He's a bodyguard for this
builder named Wolfmann.Copy !req
217. If you don't mind my asking, Mr.
Khalil, how'd you hear about me?Copy !req
218. Sledge. Sledge Poteet.Copy !req
219. Wow.Copy !req
220. Blast from the past. Far out.Copy !req
221. Yeah.Copy !req
222. He said you helped him out
of a situation back in '67.Copy !req
223. First time I got shot at.Copy !req
224. If you don't mind an
obvious question...Copy !req
225. you, uh, know where
this Glen Charlock works.Copy !req
226. Why not, uh, just go over
there and look him up directly?Copy !req
227. Well, because Wolfmann likes to surround
himself with the Aryan Brotherhood.Copy !req
228. Day and night.Copy !req
229. And, see, outside of Glen, I ain't
never liked the company of Nazis.Copy !req
230. Mm-hm. So, uh, send some white
guy to get his head hammered?Copy !req
231. - More or less.
- Mm.Copy !req
232. Now when you were inside,
were you in a gang?Copy !req
233. The Black Guerrilla Family.Copy !req
234. And you say you did business with
who now? The Aryan Brotherhood?Copy !req
235. Listen...Copy !req
236. we found we share some of the similar
opinions about the U.S. government.Copy !req
237. That's all.Copy !req
238. I can dig.Copy !req
239. There's something else?Copy !req
240. Matter of fact, there is.Copy !req
241. My old street gang.
The Artesia Crips.Copy !req
242. See,
when I came home from Chino...Copy !req
243. I looked for them and found
it ain't just them gone...Copy !req
244. but the Whole
damn turf itself.Copy !req
245. What do you mean "gone"?Copy !req
246. Man, I'm talking not there.Copy !req
247. Ground up into little pieces.
Seagulls picking all over it.Copy !req
248. Man, I thought I was tripping.Copy !req
249. Got in my car, I drove around,
came back, still gone.Copy !req
250. Nothing. Nobody.
Just a ghost town.Copy !req
251. With a big sign that said,
Coming to this site soon.Copy !req
252. - With a big-ass ugly picture of some houses.
- Mm-hm.Copy !req
253. - And guess who the builder is?
- Let me guess...Copy !req
254. Wolfmann again.Copy !req
255. Okay. Can you show me
up here on the map?Copy !req
256. Long,
sad history of L.A. land use.Copy !req
257. Mexican families bounced out
of Chavez Ravine...Copy !req
258. to build Dodger Stadium.Copy !req
259. American Indians swept out of
Bunker Hill for the Music Center.Copy !req
260. And now Tariq's
neighborhood...Copy !req
261. bulldozed aside for
Channel View Estates.Copy !req
262. Hello?Copy !req
263. Hi. I'm Jade.Copy !req
264. Welcome to Chick
Planet Massage.Copy !req
265. Take note of today's Pussy Eater's Special,
which is good all day till closing time.Copy !req
266. - How much is it?
- Fourteen ninety-five.Copy !req
267. Well, not that 14.95 ain't
a totally groovy price...Copy !req
268. but I'm trying to locate this
guy who works for Mr. Wolfmann.Copy !req
269. Oh, does he eat pussy?Copy !req
270. Fella named Glen Charlock?Copy !req
271. Oh, sure, Glen. He comes
in here. He eats pussy.Copy !req
272. Well, Glen and I were in Chino around
the same time. You seen him today?Copy !req
273. Are you a cop?Copy !req
274. Nope.Copy !req
275. The reason I ask is
if you were a cop...Copy !req
276. you'd be entitled to a
free preview of our special.Copy !req
277. Well, how about a licensed Pl?Copy !req
278. Hey, Bambi!Copy !req
279. Oh,Copy !req
280. Oh, do...? Um...Copy !req
281. Where do we, um...?Copy !req
282. Not you, Bong Brain.Copy !req
283. See, I thought here, where it
says Pussy Eater's Special...Copy !req
284. is what that means is...Copy !req
285. That's groovy.Copy !req
286. Congratulations, hippie scum.Copy !req
287. And welcome to a World
of inconvenience.Copy !req
288. SORTILEGE; Well,
morning, Sam.Copy !req
289. Like a bad luck planet
in today's horoscope...Copy !req
290. here's the old hippie-hating
mad dog himself in the flesh:Copy !req
291. Lieutenant Detective
Christian F. Bigfoot Bjornsen.Copy !req
292. SAG member, John Wayne walk,
flattop of Flintstone proportions...Copy !req
293. and that tittie evil-shit twinkle in his
eye that says "civil rights violations."Copy !req
294. What's up, Doc?Copy !req
295. How about your ex-girlfriend?Copy !req
296. Shasta...Copy !req
297. Fay...Copy !req
298. Hepworth.Copy !req
299. Shasta Fay Hepworth.Copy !req
300. She is a known intimate of
Glen's employer, Mickey Wolfmann.Copy !req
301. But do you think
that Glen and Shasta were...Copy !req
302. F-U-C-K-I-N-G-ing?Copy !req
303. Fucking?Copy !req
304. Is that why you killed him?Copy !req
305. - Bigfoot...
- How does it make you feel?Copy !req
306. Here you are still
carrying the torch...Copy !req
307. and there she is in the company
of all those Nazi lowlifes?Copy !req
308. Keep doing that, Bigfoot.
You're giving me a hard-on.Copy !req
309. Tough little wop monkey, as my
friend Fatso Judson always says.Copy !req
310. So while suspect,
that's you...Copy !req
311. is having alleged midday nap so
necessary to the hippie lifestyle...Copy !req
312. sorne sort of incident occurs in
the vicinity of Channel View Estates.Copy !req
313. Firearms are discharged. When the dust
settles, we find one Glen Charlock deceased.Copy !req
314. But more compellingly for L.A.P.D. is the
man Charlock was supposed to be guarding.Copy !req
315. Michael Z. Wolfmann
has vanished...Copy !req
316. giving local law enforcement
less than 24 hours...Copy !req
317. before the Feds call it a kidnapping
and come in to fuck everything up.Copy !req
318. So perhaps, Sportello,
you can help forestall this...Copy !req
319. by providing the names of
the other members of your cult.Copy !req
320. Cult?Copy !req
321. No one would be stupid enough
to attempt this alone...Copy !req
322. which suggests some kind of
Mansonoid conspiracy. Agree?Copy !req
323. No.Copy !req
324. Look, I've been referred to...Copy !req
325. more than one time
by the L.A. Times...Copy !req
326. as a Renaissance detective.
Okay?Copy !req
327. Which means I am many things.Copy !req
328. One thing I am
not is stupid...Copy !req
329. so purely out of noblesse oblige, I
extend this assumption to cover you as well.Copy !req
330. What the fuck?Copy !req
331. Hey, Saunch.Copy !req
332. What's up, Doc?Copy !req
333. You know you have
no case here.Copy !req
334. So if you're gonna charge him,
you better.Copy !req
335. Otherwise,
you have to let him go.Copy !req
336. Remember who this is you're talking to.
That's Bigfoot Bjornsen. Renaissance cop.Copy !req
337. I know who he is.Copy !req
338. So, what's the beef here,
exactly?Copy !req
339. It doesn't have much to do with your
specialty, which I understand is marine law?Copy !req
340. We got plenty of crime
on the high seas.Copy !req
341. Okay, well, so far, we have
murder. And kidnapping.Copy !req
342. We can work in pirates if it
would make you more comfortable.Copy !req
343. Either Way, it's high-profile.Copy !req
344. Yeah, but, um...Copy !req
345. given your history of harassment with
my client, this'll never make it to trial.Copy !req
346. No, I think we could
take this to trial...Copy !req
347. but with our luck, you know,
the jury pool will be 99 percent...Copy !req
348. hippie.Copy !req
349. Unless you change the venue
to, like, Orange County.Copy !req
350. Not as many hippies there,
you know?Copy !req
351. Saunch, who you working for?Copy !req
352. Clients pay me for work, Doc.
Clients pay me for work, Doc.Copy !req
353. So?Copy !req
354. I've decided I'm gonna
kick Mr. Sportello.Copy !req
355. You're gonna kick him?
Well, that's assault.Copy !req
356. I think it's police slang,
Saunch. It means "cut me loose."Copy !req
357. I'll release the suspect
at the impound garage.Copy !req
358. Promise?Copy !req
359. I promise.Copy !req
360. Apparently, a party of civilians
on some training exercise...Copy !req
361. in anti-guerrilla Warfare.Copy !req
362. They assumed that this
construction site...Copy !req
363. not yet open
for occupancy...Copy !req
364. was deserted enough to
provide a realistic setting...Copy !req
365. for what we must assume was
only a harmless patriotic scenario.Copy !req
366. Tragically, however, live ammunition somehow
found its way into these war games...Copy !req
367. and tonight, one ex-prison inmate lies
slain while prominent construction mogul...Copy !req
368. "Michael Wolfmann
has vanished.Copy !req
369. - Hello?
- Hey, it's me.Copy !req
370. Hey.Copy !req
371. Listen, we, uh...Copy !req
372. We sent a police academy hotshot
over to the last known address...Copy !req
373. of Shasta Fay Hepworth.Copy !req
374. Oh, fuck. No, not this.Copy !req
375. Yeah, they got there,
and it was, uh...Copy !req
376. - They looked in the window and...
- What?Copy !req
377. What?Copy !req
378. They tried to open the door,
and she's just, uh...Copy !req
379. They went in and, you know.Copy !req
380. Phew.Copy !req
381. You know, she's gone.Copy !req
382. Sportello, she's gone.Copy !req
383. She's out there, man.Copy !req
384. Out there?
- Yeah.Copy !req
385. What does that mean?Copy !req
386. She's disappeared, just like Mickey.
Maybe you'd think there was a connection.Copy !req
387. She's disappeared?
- Yeah, she's gone, man. Baby.Copy !req
388. She's gone.
She disappeared. What...?Copy !req
389. She went all groovy on us.Copy !req
390. You know, Bigfoot, man.Copy !req
391. Can we just try to be
fucking professional?Copy !req
392. I mean, just pretend
to be professional.Copy !req
393. Shasta Fay Hepworth.
She's gone.Copy !req
394. Fuck you.Copy !req
395. Doc could never figure out what
Shasta might've seen in him...Copy !req
396. besides being just about the only
doper she knew who didn't use heroin...Copy !req
397. freeing up a lot of
time for both of them.Copy !req
398. And it wasn't any clearer about
what had driven them apart either.Copy !req
399. They each gradually located
a different karmic thermal...Copy !req
400. watching the other glide
away into different fates.Copy !req
401. Does it ever end?Copy !req
402. Of course it does.Copy !req
403. It did.Copy !req
404. Hello?Copy !req
405. Hello?Copy !req
406. Mr. Sportello?
- Mm-hm.Copy !req
407. I got your number
from the head shop.Copy !req
408. Down in Gordita Beach.Copy !req
409. I'm calling about my husband.
He was a...Copy !req
410. close friend of
a friend of yours.Copy !req
411. Shasta Fay Hepworth.Copy !req
412. Uh-huh.
And, um, your name is...?Copy !req
413. Hope Harlingen.
- Mm-hm.Copy !req
414. And your husband is...?Copy !req
415. Dead.Copy !req
416. I'm sorry to hear that.Copy !req
417. Do you want a cookie?
I'm all right.Copy !req
418. So you never heard
of him or his music?Copy !req
419. Mm...Copy !req
420. inside the surf-sax category
he was this towering figure...Copy !req
421. because he improvised
once in a while.Copy !req
422. Instead of repeating the second
and third chorus note for note.Copy !req
423. Mm-hm. Mm-hm.Copy !req
424. Coy and I should've met cute,
but we actually met squalid.Copy !req
425. Down at Oscar's in San Ysidro.Copy !req
426. Oh, boy.Copy !req
427. I had just run into this bathroom
stall without checking first...Copy !req
428. and I already had my finger
down my throat to vomit up...Copy !req
429. this big balloon of dope
I had just scored...Copy !req
430. and there Coy sat, gringo digestion,
about to take this giant shit.Copy !req
431. And we both let go
at the same time...Copy !req
432. and there's just vomit
and shit all over the place...Copy !req
433. and with my
head in his lap.Copy !req
434. And to complicate things,
he had this hard-on.Copy !req
435. Sure.Copy !req
436. One thing leads
to another and...Copy !req
437. We pretty much started shooting
up together on a regular basis.Copy !req
438. Then along comes
little Amethyst.Copy !req
439. I don't know if you have
the stomach for it, but...Copy !req
440. This is...Copy !req
441. what we had
her looking like.Copy !req
442. Everybody helpfully
pointed out how...Copy !req
443. the heroin was actually
coming through my breast milk...Copy !req
444. Mm-hm.Copy !req
445. but who could afford
formula, you know?Copy !req
446. It's a long way from
where we are now.Copy !req
447. Yeah, no, seems like
you're doing real good.Copy !req
448. I'm a drug counselor.Copy !req
449. - Sorry?
- A drug counselor.Copy !req
450. Uh-huh.Copy !req
451. Trying to talk kids
into sensible drug use.Copy !req
452. - What do you think of my chompers?
- Hmm.Copy !req
453. You like them?Copy !req
454. No... I... Yes. Yeah.
No, I hadn't noticed.Copy !req
455. Heroin sucks the calcium out
of your body like a vampire.Copy !req
456. If you use it for any length of
time, your teeth just go all to hell.Copy !req
457. And that's the good part.Copy !req
458. So listen, this thing that happened
to your husband, how can I help you?Copy !req
459. Mr. Sportello, I don't
think Coy is really dead.Copy !req
460. Well, did you ID his body?Copy !req
461. No.Copy !req
462. Whoever it was that called...Copy !req
463. just said that one
of his band members did that.Copy !req
464. What do you mean
"whoever called"? The police?Copy !req
465. I mean, it's, uh,
supposed to be next of kin.Copy !req
466. And then this deposit shows
up. Close to his disappearance.Copy !req
467. Interesting sum.Copy !req
468. Why would this big deposit just
suddenly appear in my account?Copy !req
469. I went to the bank.
I talked to the bank manager.Copy !req
470. He kept saying: "You just
lost your deposit slip."Copy !req
471. "You just lost
your deposit slip."Copy !req
472. And I don't lose
deposit slips this big.Copy !req
473. Do you have a picture of Coy
I could borrow?Copy !req
474. That, I do have.Copy !req
475. These were perilous times,
astrologically speaking, for dopers...Copy !req
476. especially those
of high school age.Copy !req
477. Who'd been born, most of them,
under a 90-degree aspect...Copy !req
478. the unluckiest
angle possible...Copy !req
479. between Neptune,
the doper's planet...Copy !req
480. and Uranus,
the planet of rude surprises.Copy !req
481. Doc had known it to happen...Copy !req
482. that those left behind would refuse
to believe that people they loved...Copy !req
483. or even took the same
classes with, were really dead.Copy !req
484. They came up with all kinds of alternate
stories so it wouldn't have to be true.Copy !req
485. - Yeah.
- How did Coy and Shasta know each other?Copy !req
486. She picked us up
hitchhiking once.Copy !req
487. I think Coy and her stayed in touch
somehow. I don't really know for sure.Copy !req
488. All right, well, uh, I'll call
you when I know something.Copy !req
489. Thank you.Copy !req
490. See you.Copy !req
491. Shasta had mentioned a possible
laughing academy angle...Copy !req
492. to Mickey Wolfmann's
matrimonial drama.Copy !req
493. And Doc thought it might
be interesting to see...Copy !req
494. how society-page superstar Mrs.
Sloane Wolfmann would react...Copy !req
495. when somebody
brought up the topic.Copy !req
496. If Mickey was currently being held against
his will in some private nuthouse...Copy !req
497. then Doc's immediate chore would
be to tn] and find out which one.Copy !req
498. Do you like the lighting?Copy !req
499. Uh-huh.Copy !req
500. Jimmy Wong Howe did it for us.
Years ago.Copy !req
501. Luz!Copy !req
502. The midday refrescos now,
if you wouldn't mind.Copy !req
503. Shall we sit?Copy !req
504. Now, your husband was planning to
endow a new wing for our facility.Copy !req
505. He actually tendered
us a sum in advance.Copy !req
506. Somehow, it didn't seem right
to keep the money...Copy !req
507. while little was known
of his whereabouts.Copy !req
508. So we'd like to
refund you the sum.Copy !req
509. And if, and as we all pray...Copy !req
510. when Mr. Wolfmann is heard
from again, why then, perhaps...Copy !req
511. the process
can resume again.Copy !req
512. We did recently endow
another facility.Copy !req
513. In Ojai.Copy !req
514. - In Ojai?
- The Chryskylodon Institute.Copy !req
515. Kriskleddone?Copy !req
516. It's an ancient Indian word
that means "serenity."Copy !req
517. Ah, of course.Copy !req
518. Are you somehow a subsidiary?Copy !req
519. Perhaps one of our
Sister Sanatoria?Copy !req
520. Mr. Riggs Warbling.Copy !req
521. My spiritual coach.Copy !req
522. How do you do?
Pleasurable.Copy !req
523. If you tell us where to send the refund
and what form you'd like it in...Copy !req
524. Small bills! With
nonconsecutive serial numbers.Copy !req
525. Riggs! Enough.Copy !req
526. He's always making these
terrible jokes. I'm so sorry.Copy !req
527. Perhaps if a
company officer...Copy !req
528. simply endorsed Michael's
check back to one of his accounts.Copy !req
529. Of course. Let us know the account
number and it's as good as in the mail.Copy !req
530. - Let me find you a deposit form.
- Wonderful.Copy !req
531. So this is Riggs.Copy !req
532. The spiritual ad visor.Copy !req
533. And there's Sloane.Copy !req
534. Maybe not so much English rose
as English daffodil.Copy !req
535. And this is L.A.P.D.,
busy as ever.Copy !req
536. Protecting and serving.Copy !req
537. Getting in some last-minute free
catering before the Feds show up.Copy !req
538. And there's Luz,
the sexy Chicane housekeeper.Copy !req
539. Or pretending to be?Copy !req
540. Some kidnapping.Copy !req
541. Doc would bet an ounce of seedless
Hawaiian and throw in a pack of Zig-Zags...Copy !req
542. that Shane and old Riggs
here were fucking regularly.Copy !req
543. And that this was
the BF Shasta had mentioned.Copy !req
544. Did Shasta have a
room of her own here?Copy !req
545. Or did they all just
cozy up together?Copy !req
546. Holy shit!Copy !req
547. I'm ticklish, babe.Copy !req
548. Oh, I like that.Copy !req
549. Keep looking.
I'm in there somewhere.Copy !req
550. Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.Copy !req
551. Oh, Vicky.Copy !req
552. Oh, Roxy.Copy !req
553. Carol, Sloane...Copy !req
554. Cute, huh?Copy !req
555. My tits aren't really that big,
but it's the thought that counts.Copy !req
556. Now, did, uh, all of you
ladies pose for these?Copy !req
557. A guy over in North Hollywood
does custom work.Copy !req
558. And what about that, uh,
girl that's gone missing?Copy !req
559. Shasta?Copy !req
560. - Yeah, she's in there someplace.
- Yeah?Copy !req
561. You know Mickey used to take
me in the shower to fuck?Copy !req
562. Oh, yeah?Copy !req
563. Uh-huh. And I never got to do
anything on that groovy bed in there.Copy !req
564. Luz!Copy !req
565. - Ah. Another time, perhaps?
- Mm-hm.Copy !req
566. Ooh. Black girl.Copy !req
567. Bigfoot.Copy !req
568. Something had been
puzzling Doc now for a while.Copy !req
569. Namely, what, exactly, the
fuck, was with Bigfoot here?Copy !req
570. As much as he'd like
to stay and chat...Copy !req
571. he had a lunch date to keep
with part-time squeeze...Copy !req
572. "Deputy DA Penny Kimball.Copy !req
573. It was only because someone else had
canceled that she was able to pencil him in.Copy !req
574. And Doc didn't wanna fuck up her act,
considering they were meeting in public.Copy !req
575. Hi.Copy !req
576. This Wolfmann-Charlock case...Copy !req
577. Apparently, one of your
girlfriends is a principal.Copy !req
578. I just heard that she skipped.Copy !req
579. Let me put it to
you like this:Copy !req
580. How close were you
with Shasta Fay Hepworth?Copy !req
581. I've been asking myself
that very question.Copy !req
582. It was all over years ago.Copy !req
583. - Months? I don't know.
- Years?Copy !req
584. If you hadn't come along, who
knows how bad it might've got?Copy !req
585. - True. You were a mess when I met you.
- And how about now?Copy !req
586. Old times aside, have you had any contact
with her in the last, say, week or so?Copy !req
587. Well, funny you should ask.Copy !req
588. She called me up a couple days ago
before Mickey Wolfmann disappeared.Copy !req
589. Told me how his wife
and her boyfriend...Copy !req
590. were plotting to hustle
Mickey and grab all his money.Copy !req
591. So I sure hope that you guys or the
cops or whoever are looking into that.Copy !req
592. With your years of experience as a Pl,
would you call that a reliable lead?Copy !req
593. I've known Worse.Copy !req
594. Oh, I can dig.
You're just gonna ignore that?Copy !req
595. Some hippie chick with boyfriend trouble,
brains mushed up with dope and sex?Copy !req
596. I've never seen
you so emotional.Copy !req
597. The lights are out.
Never seen you during the day.Copy !req
598. You didn't tell Bjornsen any of this
when he pulled you in at the crime scene.Copy !req
599. That's because I promised Shasta
I'd come talk to you first, right?Copy !req
600. See if anybody at the DA could help
out with this. I tried to call you.Copy !req
601. - Day and night. No reply.
- You tried to call me. Really?Copy !req
602. Yeah. Look, I forgot.
I don't know.Copy !req
603. Look,
all know is the next thing...Copy !req
604. Shasta's missing, Wolfmann's
gone and, uh, Glen Charlock's dead.Copy !req
605. Bjornsen seems to think you're
as good a suspect as any.Copy !req
606. "Seems to"? Wait a minute. You
been talking to Bigfoot about me?Copy !req
607. Doc, please.Copy !req
608. Besides, maybe you did it.
Has that crossed your mind?Copy !req
609. - Maybe you just forgot?
- What? Did do what?Copy !req
610. Killed Glen Charlock.Copy !req
611. - Kill him?
- Yeah.Copy !req
612. What?Copy !req
613. How would I forget
something like that?Copy !req
614. - Grass, and who knows what else.
- I'm only a light smoker.Copy !req
615. - How many joints have you had today?
- Check the logbook.Copy !req
616. Can't remember?Copy !req
617. I don't see how my smoking has any link
to the Wolfmann-Charlock-Shasta case.Copy !req
618. No?Copy !req
619. Then how come Miss Hepworth
dismantled your relationship?Copy !req
620. She had other fish to fry.Copy !req
621. - Would you say you're still in love with her?
- Mm.Copy !req
622. No.Copy !req
623. Take off your glasses.Copy !req
624. No.Copy !req
625. I'm not... Wait. What is this?Copy !req
626. Hectic week ahead for me, so unless things
heat up dramatically, I hope you understand.Copy !req
627. Walk me back to work?Copy !req
628. I'm Agent Flatweed.
This is Agent Borderline. FBI.Copy !req
629. I'm with...
- I have to use the bathroom.Copy !req
630. It's been brought
to our attention...Copy !req
631. you had a visit from a black prison
militant calling himself Tariq Khalil.Copy !req
632. We naturally became curious.Copy !req
633. Let's talk upstairs, Larry.Copy !req
634. Did I miss an episode?Copy !req
635. I love you guys every
Sunday night, 8 p.m.Copy !req
636. We like investigating and spending
energy on Black Nationalist Hate Groups.Copy !req
637. It's the chronology, really. Khalil
visits your place of business.Copy !req
638. The next day, a known prison acquaintance
of his, Glen Charlock, is slain...Copy !req
639. Michael Wolfmann disappears and
you get arrested on suspicion...Copy !req
640. and, somewhat mysteriously,
let go again.Copy !req
641. Yeah. Well, have you talked to
Bigfoot Bjornsen about this?Copy !req
642. He's real intelligent
about this kind of shit.Copy !req
643. Mr. Bjornsen's antipathy at the
federal level is well known.Copy !req
644. Heh. Ah,
some guys are like that.Copy !req
645. Mm.
- So, what is it you want with me'?Copy !req
646. Ordinarily, we're the ones
asking the questions here.Copy !req
647. Sure thing, fellas.Copy !req
648. But aren't we all in
the same business?Copy !req
649. There's no need
to be insulting.Copy !req
650. Why don't you just tell us
what Mr. Khalil had to say...Copy !req
651. when he visited
you the other day.Copy !req
652. Because he's privileged
and I'm a client is why.Copy !req
653. If it has a bearing on the Wolfmann
case, then we may have to disagree.Copy !req
654. Look, I really wish I could
help you guys out, but...Copy !req
655. if you're so focused
on the Black Panthers...Copy !req
656. then what's with your
interest in Mickey Wolfmann?Copy !req
657. Is somebody playing Monopoly,
uh, with federal housing money?Copy !req
658. Are you figuring Mickey's kidnapping
is a Black Panther operation?Copy !req
659. They put the snatch on Mickey,
trying to prove a political point...Copy !req
660. or maybe a nice shot
at some ransom money?Copy !req
661. Maybe you've thought of putting that forward
as a cover story for whatever did happen.Copy !req
662. Do you realize how thoroughly
we can fuck your life up?Copy !req
663. Huh. Uh-huh.Copy !req
664. Right.Copy !req
665. Can I be frank a minute?Copy !req
666. Why stop now?
Please.Copy !req
667. All right. You be Dino.
You be the other guy.Copy !req
668. And tell Penny Davis, Jr. What
a lovely day we had. Thank you.Copy !req
669. As a COINTELPRO informant, you could
be making up to $300 a month, Larry.Copy !req
670. Just consider that.Copy !req
671. U.S. dollars?Copy !req
672. And we'll throw in
a Book of Mormon.Copy !req
673. Free.Copy !req
674. Doc, a mysterious,
young oriental cutie...Copy !req
675. just dropped off a package
for you at the front desk.Copy !req
676. Well...Copy !req
677. it's dark and lonely work, but
somebody's gotta do it, right?Copy !req
678. JADE". Heard they cut you loose.
Need to see you about something.Copy !req
679. I'm working weeknights at
Club Asiatique in San Pedro.Copy !req
680. Love and peace, Jade.Copy !req
681. P. S. Beware the Golden Fang!Copy !req
682. I can't stay out here long.
This is Golden Fang territory.Copy !req
683. A girl don't necessarily wanna get
into difficulties with those folks.Copy !req
684. What is it? A band?Copy !req
685. You wish.Copy !req
686. I just wanted to say how sorry I
was. I felt shitty about what I did.Copy !req
687. - Which was what again?
- I'm not a snitch.Copy !req
688. The cops said they'd drop charges
if we put you in the scene...Copy !req
689. which they already
knew you were.Copy !req
690. - I'm, like, so sorry, Larry.
- Call me Doc. It's cool, Jade.Copy !req
691. - That copper?
- Mm, Bigfoot?Copy !req
692. He's a warped
sheet of plastic.Copy !req
693. Mm. So was it Bigfoot who put me
on the Buenos Noches Express...Copy !req
694. or did he subcontract it?Copy !req
695. I missed all that, man. Last thing I
remember was eating Bambi's pussy...Copy !req
696. and Puck Beaverton's
tattoo, like, it was pulsating.Copy !req
697. Puck...?
What's a Puck Beaverton?Copy !req
698. He's a baldheaded asshole with a
swastika tattoo you don't wanna meet.Copy !req
699. We were so freaked with the BadAss Brigade
stomping in there, we didn't stick around.Copy !req
700. There's somebody who wants to talk to you.
He thinks you can help each other out.Copy !req
701. He's a new face. I'm not sure of his
name, but I know he's in some trouble.Copy !req
702. I would've come by
your office, man...Copy !req
703. but I thought there might
be unfriendly eyeballs.Copy !req
704. Hi.Copy !req
705. Well, is this safe
enough for you out here?Copy !req
706. Let's light this and pretend
we came out to smoke.Copy !req
707. - All right.
- I'm supposed to be dead.Copy !req
708. There's also a rumor
that you're not.Copy !req
709. That don't come as such great news.
Being dead is part of my job image.Copy !req
710. Like what I do.Copy !req
711. You working for these
people at the club?Copy !req
712. I don't know. Maybe. It's
where I pick up my paycheck.Copy !req
713. Where are you staying?Copy !req
714. House in Topanga Canyon.Copy !req
715. Band I used to play for,
The Boards.Copy !req
716. But none of them know it's me.Copy !req
717. How can they not
know it's you?Copy !req
718. Even when I was alive,
they didn't know it was me.Copy !req
719. - The sax player. The session guy.
- Mm.Copy !req
720. Plus, over the years, there's
been a big turnover in personnel.Copy !req
721. Like,
The Boards I played with...Copy !req
722. most of them have gone off
and formed other bands.Copy !req
723. Only one or two of
the old crew left...Copy !req
724. and, luckily, they're suffering
from heavy Doper's Memory.Copy !req
725. Mm.Copy !req
726. Story is you came to grief
behind some bad smack.Copy !req
727. You still into that?Copy !req
728. No.Copy !req
729. No.Copy !req
730. I'm clean these days.Copy !req
731. I spent my time
rehabilitating up in...Copy !req
732. - You know, I...
- it's okay.Copy !req
733. How can I talk about
what I don't hear?Copy !req
734. Yeah.Copy !req
735. The thing I wanted
to see you about...Copy !req
736. I was wondering
if you could check on people.Copy !req
737. A lady and a little girl.Copy !req
738. See if they're okay,
Without bringing me into it.Copy !req
739. It's down in Torrance. Just see
if they're still living there.Copy !req
740. See what's in the driveway.Copy !req
741. Law enforcement in the picture,
any details you find interesting.Copy !req
742. All right, I'm on it.Copy !req
743. I can't pay you right now.Copy !req
744. When you can.Copy !req
745. Unless you believe
information is money...Copy !req
746. in which case,
I could ask you something.Copy !req
747. Bearing in mind that
either I don't know...Copy !req
748. or it's my ass
if I tell you...Copy !req
749. what is it?Copy !req
750. Ever heard of the Golden Fang?Copy !req
751. Sure. It's a boat.Copy !req
752. - A boat?
- A big schooner, somebody said.Copy !req
753. Brings stuff in and out of the country,
but no one wants to talk about it.Copy !req
754. Because?Copy !req
755. That was it.Copy !req
756. How do you know?Copy !req
757. Saw it sail in when
I got here tonight.Copy !req
758. I don't know what I just saw.Copy !req
759. Me neither.Copy !req
760. Fact, I don't even wanna know.Copy !req
761. Okay.
- Coy.Copy !req
762. Doc figured it might have
been easier to let Coy know...Copy !req
763. that Hope and little
Amethyst were doing just fine.Copy !req
764. But he had a rule against getting
involved in matrimonials...Copy !req
765. "which had just
gone up in smoke...Copy !req
766. like the Asian indica in the
joint they'd been smoking...Copy !req
767. creating an extra layer of fog on top of
the one Doc was already standing inside of.Copy !req
768. Meet the schooner Golden Fang,
out of Charlotte Amalie.Copy !req
769. Where is that?
- U.S. Virgin Islands.Copy !req
770. - Bermuda Triangle?
- Close enough.Copy !req
771. Sizable vessel.Copy !req
772. She has a tendency to show up
here in the middle of the night...Copy !req
773. no running lights...Copy !req
774. no radio traffic.Copy !req
775. See, the problem with this vessel
is trying to find out anything.Copy !req
776. People back off, change the
subject and get real creepy.Copy !req
777. The owners are listed as a
consortium in the Bahamas.Copy !req
778. Her real name isn't
really the Golden Fang.Copy !req
779. She was originally a fishing
boat named Preserved.Copy !req
780. Then after World War II, she
was bought by Burke Stodger.Copy !req
781. Burke Stodger. Burke Stodger the actor?
.45-Caliber Kissoff Burke Stodger?Copy !req
782. The movie star.Copy !req
783. What?Copy !req
784. He gets blacklisted because of his
politics and branded a communist.Copy !req
785. So he takes the boat,
splits the country...Copy !req
786. which is where your
Bermuda Triangle comes in.Copy !req
787. Hi. I'm Chlorinda.
How can I help you?Copy !req
788. Uh, well, I'm gonna have the
house anchovy loaf to start...Copy !req
789. and, um,
the devil ray filet.Copy !req
790. Can I get that deep-fried
in beer batter?Copy !req
791. It's your stomach. What can
I get for you, little buddy?Copy !req
792. Mm, I'll take the jellyfish teriyaki
croquettes and the eel Trovatore, please.Copy !req
793. Okay. And to drink, gentlemen?Copy !req
794. You'll wanna get fucked
up before this meal.Copy !req
795. That's for sure.Copy !req
796. I have some recommendations.
Maybe the, uh, Tequila Zombie.Copy !req
797. - Make it two.
- All right.Copy !req
798. Thank you.Copy !req
799. So Burke's blacklisted, takes
the boat, splits the country.Copy !req
800. Somewhere between San Pedro and
Papeete, the boat disappears...Copy !req
801. till one day a
couple years later...Copy !req
802. the boat and the
owner suddenly reappear.Copy !req
803. - You dig?
- Mm-hm.Copy !req
804. The Preserved is in the
opposite ocean, off of Cuba...Copy !req
805. and Burke Stodger on the front
page of the Daily Variety...Copy !req
806. in an article reporting
his return to pictures...Copy !req
807. in a major motion picture
called Commie Confidential.Copy !req
808. Whoa.
So Burke's working again.Copy !req
809. And his politics have
miraculously changed.Copy !req
810. And the ship?Copy !req
811. Man, they removed any traces
of soul that she once had.Copy !req
812. It's a horror story.Copy !req
813. Are you emotionally involved?
With the boat?Copy !req
814. She's not just a boat, Doc.Copy !req
815. She's much more than that.Copy !req
816. All right.Copy !req
817. Well,
I know why I'm so interested.Copy !req
818. But why are you?Copy !req
819. A story I heard the other night,
something about a smuggling angle.Copy !req
820. And the story you heard...Copy !req
821. did it happen to include
Mickey Wolfmann?Copy !req
822. Not so far. Why?Copy !req
823. According to scuttlebutt,
shortly before he disappeared...Copy !req
824. Mickey Wolfmann was seen taking the
Golden Fang out for a three-hour tour.Copy !req
825. Or should I say:Copy !req
826. A three-hour tourCopy !req
827. And, uh, was he accompanied
by his lovely companion?Copy !req
828. Okay.Copy !req
829. - My fucking ex, old Shasta Fay?
- I know.Copy !req
830. I know who she is. But, Doc, I thought
you were done with all that sad bullshit.Copy !req
831. Listen, did everybody
make it back okay?Copy !req
832. Nobody was pushed overboard,
nothing like that?Copy !req
833. Actually, the word I'm hearing is that Mickey
Wolfmann might not be as missing as we think.Copy !req
834. Like gone but not gone?Copy !req
835. Man, you're gonna love this.Copy !req
836. The rumor is that the Department
of Justice is trying to broker...Copy !req
837. Uh-uh-uh.
Here you go.Copy !req
838. Thank you.Copy !req
839. I'm hearing that the
Department of Justice...Copy !req
840. is trying to broker
a Vegas deal for him.Copy !req
841. Doesn't compute. Say again.
Vegas. Wolfmann.Copy !req
842. FBI stuff.Copy !req
843. They need somebody else on
the Strip who's not Italian.Copy !req
844. You dig?Copy !req
845. Like Howard Hughes
when he bought the Desert Inn.Copy !req
846. Howard Hughes was Italian?Copy !req
847. No. They want white people.Copy !req
848. They want white,
Anglo owners on the Strip.Copy !req
849. Who better than
Mickey Wolfmann?Copy !req
850. Hello?Copy !req
851. Hello?Copy !req
852. All right, 00¢.Copy !req
853. So she just departed San Pedro
on board the Golden Fang.Copy !req
854. Who?
Your ex, Shasta Fay.Copy !req
855. Shasta's on the Golden Fang?Copy !req
856. My friend in the DOJ
just called me, yeah.Copy !req
857. All right, where's it going?
Out at sea some place.Copy !req
858. Huh?
Out at sea some place and...Copy !req
859. Yeah, where?Copy !req
860. Not known. Not known.Copy !req
861. Hang tight.
I'm gonna get back to you.Copy !req
862. All right, cool. Call me...Copy !req
863. Penny Kimball, Deputy DA.Copy !req
864. Hey.Copy !req
865. Who is this?Copy !req
866. It's me.Copy !req
867. Where did you get this number?Copy !req
868. It's Doc.Copy !req
869. Oh.Copy !req
870. I thought you'd never want
to speak to me again.Copy !req
871. Mm. Didn't, uh...Copy !req
872. I didn't mind
talking to the FBI.Copy !req
873. Am I in trouble?Copy !req
874. I don't know. Are you?Copy !req
875. It's an awful nice night
out here at the beach.Copy !req
876. Hmm.Copy !req
877. But you're a dirty,
filthy hippie.Copy !req
878. What would a nice clean girl
like me do with you?Copy !req
879. Well, you could, uh...Copy !req
880. bring your soap
and clean my feet.Copy !req
881. No, thank you.Copy !req
882. But then again,
I could bring you a pizza.Copy !req
883. I can hear your pants growing.Copy !req
884. So...?Copy !req
885. I'll be there in an hour.Copy !req
886. And wash your feet first.Copy !req
887. problems for which
government has...Copy !req
888. Freedom.Copy !req
889. Heavy on the "dumb."Copy !req
890. The moral and spiritual crisis in
the universities would still exist.Copy !req
891. The destructive activists
of our universities...Copy !req
892. That's the best thing
I've heard all day.Copy !req
893. You want one?Copy !req
894. Nixon downplayed the
antiwar message...Copy !req
895. inherent in the New
Year's bombers' attack.Copy !req
896. When he catted on the Vigilant California
to take back cities and universities...Copy !req
897. he was interrupted
by a heckler.Copy !req
898. Hey! Tricky Dick! Fuck you!Copy !req
899. You listen to me when
I say that to you!Copy !req
900. Fuck you!
Fuck everybody in the family!Copy !req
901. Now, what the fuck?Copy !req
902. He's identified as unemployed
UCLA student Rick Doppel.Copy !req
903. Who?
Oh, Doppler? That's no hippie.Copy !req
904. That's Chucky.Copy !req
905. Yeah? Is it a friend of yours?Copy !req
906. MAN 2-. Secret Service took
the man for questioning...Copy !req
907. Everybody knows Chucky.Copy !req
908. If he's not at the Hall of Justice,
he's down at the Glass House.Copy !req
909. A snitch?Copy !req
910. An informant, please.Copy !req
911. And he only works
with the Red Squad.Copy !req
912. Whoa. So, what's he...? Why is he screaming
and yelling like that at Nixon again?Copy !req
913. Now that he's been on TV, he has
instant and wide credibility.Copy !req
914. Police can infiltrate him
into any group they want to.Copy !req
915. Bastards.Copy !req
916. - Do you love me?
- Any group.Copy !req
917. Hmm...Copy !req
918. A snitch. A spy. A weasel.Copy !req
919. And dang...Copy !req
920. if it ain't a resurrected tenor
sax player, working undercover.Copy !req
921. But for who?Copy !req
922. These patriotic pals of President
Nixon called Vigilant California?Copy !req
923. Some other unseen hand?Copy !req
924. Now, who am I again?Copy !req
925. You're the photographer.Copy !req
926. And the name of the magazine
is...? Stone Turntable.Copy !req
927. Mm-hm.Copy !req
928. (Joy's band, The Boards, were currently
renting a place in Topanga Canyon...Copy !req
929. from a bass player turned
record company executive...Copy !req
930. which trend watchers took as further
evidence of the end of Hollywood...Copy !req
931. if not the world,
as they had known it.Copy !req
932. Doc and Denis hadn't dropped
acid for years in this town...Copy !req
933. without picking up some
kind of extrasensory chops.Copy !req
934. And truth was, since crossing
the doorsill of this place...Copy !req
935. they couldn't help noticing
what you would call an atmosphere.Copy !req
936. Thank you.Copy !req
937. Ooh.Copy !req
938. What are you doing here?Copy !req
939. I drove up with Bambi. She
heard Spotted Dick were here...Copy !req
940. so I had to come along
and keep her out of trouble.Copy !req
941. She's possessed. She's got Spotted
Dick posters on the walls...Copy !req
942. sheets and pillow cases,
T-shirts, souvenir roach clips.Copy !req
943. All right,
she's keen on the Dick.Copy !req
944. It's 24 hours a day. She's got
Spotted Dick albums on stereo.Copy !req
945. Okay, yeah, now listen.Copy !req
946. I'm looking for that guy that I met
at Club Asiatique the other night.Copy !req
947. - He's here.
- Yeah? Where?Copy !req
948. - He's in the kitchen.
- The kitchen?Copy !req
949. Hey, before you leave.
Can I get a ride with you?Copy !req
950. - This place is freaking me out.
- Mm...Copy !req
951. Okay.Copy !req
952. Good evening, Larry Sportello,
Stone Turntable magazine.Copy !req
953. - Smedley, Spotted Dick, keyboards.
- Mm-hm.Copy !req
954. Was it possible that
at every gathering...Copy !req
955. Concert, peace rally,
love-in, be-in and freak-in...Copy !req
956. where, up North,
back East, wherever.Copy !req
957. some dark crews had
been busy all along...Copy !req
958. reclaiming the music,
the resistance to power...Copy !req
959. the sexual desire
from epic to everyday...Copy !req
960. all they could sweep up, for the
ancient forces of greed and fear.Copy !req
961. "Gee," he thought,
"I don't know."Copy !req
962. Hey.Copy !req
963. Hi.Copy !req
964. Hi there.
Remember me, Larry Sportello?Copy !req
965. Stone Turntable magazine?Copy !req
966. You, um, asked me to, uh,
look into that, um...Copy !req
967. vehicle.Copy !req
968. - What?
- The vehicle?Copy !req
969. Yeah, what was the make and
model that you looked at again?Copy !req
970. You were asking about
that older type VW...Copy !req
971. with the hearts
and blue birds and...Copy !req
972. Any replacement parts?Copy !req
973. None I could see.Copy !req
974. What about street legal?Copy !req
975. Was it any hassles
with registration?Copy !req
976. Didn't seem to be any...Copy !req
977. - You saw Hope?
- Yeah, for a minute.Copy !req
978. She's okay.Copy !req
979. Looks like she's been
staying clean too.Copy !req
980. How'd she do it?Copy !req
981. I don't know. She's, uh,
back teaching is all she said.Copy !req
982. You know, public health, drug
awareness, something like that.Copy !req
983. - Where?
- Where? I don't know.Copy !req
984. She didn't say.Copy !req
985. It doesn't matter.Copy !req
986. No way I could ever
go back to them.Copy !req
987. All right, man. Look,
you can't go back to them?Copy !req
988. Who? Because what? Why?Copy !req
989. Because it would be my ass
and my family's too.Copy !req
990. It's like a gang. It's like once
you're in, you're in for life.Copy !req
991. Did you know that
when you signed up?Copy !req
992. All I knew was we couldn't do each
other any good staying together.Copy !req
993. The baby looked like shit,
getting worse every day.Copy !req
994. We were just getting fucked up
and sitting there and saying:Copy !req
995. "Well, we gotta do something.Copy !req
996. You're dragging us down,
and..."Copy !req
997. Listen, I'm not asking you
to give away any secrets here.Copy !req
998. But I think I saw you on the
tube at a rally for Nixon.Copy !req
999. And your question is,
Which side am I on?Copy !req
1000. Yes.Copy !req
1001. Well, you know,
these people here have money.Copy !req
1002. It's not like those Bible freaks that go up
and down the beach, like, screaming at you.Copy !req
1003. They really wanna help.Copy !req
1004. I thought it was something
good to do for my country.Copy !req
1005. Stupid as that sounds.Copy !req
1006. But what I really
found out was...Copy !req
1007. they just wanna, like, use us
and keep the membership in line.Copy !req
1008. "My country, right or wrong"
with Vietnam going on...Copy !req
1009. it's just fucking crazy.Copy !req
1010. Suppose your mom was on smack.Copy !req
1011. MY mom?Copy !req
1012. Yeah, what would you do?Copy !req
1013. - You know, wouldn't you try to help her?
- Yeah. I think...Copy !req
1014. Are you saying that the U.S.
is somebody's mom?Copy !req
1015. And she's, um, strung out?Copy !req
1016. - I'm trying to...
- On what?Copy !req
1017. On sending people off to die
in jungles for no reason.Copy !req
1018. Something wrong and suicidal
about that that she can't stop.Copy !req
1019. Mm...Copy !req
1020. And Vigilant California, or whoever it
is you're working for, wouldn't buy that?Copy !req
1021. I don't belong here, man.Copy !req
1022. I do get the feeling you'd
rather be someplace else.Copy !req
1023. Yeah. Back where I
was would be nice.Copy !req
1024. See, if I did just
run a fast check...Copy !req
1025. and happened to find some angle
that you haven't thought of...Copy !req
1026. Listen, nothing personal, but there's
too much you haven't thought of.Copy !req
1027. Man, I can dig. You're trying
to chase me off of this.Copy !req
1028. Whatever it is that you're caught inside,
I'm out here on the outside of it.Copy !req
1029. And I can, you know, move in
ways that you may not be able to.Copy !req
1030. Shh. How'd the baby look?
Amethyst.Copy !req
1031. Oh, man. A sweetie pie.Copy !req
1032. - She looked good?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1033. - No sign of them little kid blues?
- "Little kid blues"?Copy !req
1034. No, that happens.
They get that.Copy !req
1035. Yeah. No, none I could see...Copy !req
1036. You saw it a little bit.
I blew this solo, man.Copy !req
1037. Listen, who set you
up with these people?Copy !req
1038. Where did it come from?Copy !req
1039. I mean, come on. Gimme a glimpse here,
man. Who set you up with these people?Copy !req
1040. When I first
started snitching...Copy !req
1041. I realized how often people asked
questions they already know the answers to.Copy !req
1042. They just wanna hear
it from another voice.Copy !req
1043. Like one outside their head.Copy !req
1044. You better find Shasta Fay.Copy !req
1045. Shasta Fay.Copy !req
1046. Thanks for the lift, boys.Copy !req
1047. See you around. Jade. Jade.Copy !req
1048. You said in your note,
"Beware of the Golden Fang."Copy !req
1049. Why am I supposed
to beware of a boat?Copy !req
1050. They're an Indochinese
heroin cartel.Copy !req
1051. A vertical package.Copy !req
1052. They grow it, bring it in, step on it, run
stateside networks of local street dealers...Copy !req
1053. and take a separate
percentage off of each operation.Copy !req
1054. So you're dealing smack?Copy !req
1055. No, but they use Chick Planet
as a front to launder money.Copy !req
1056. See you around.Copy !req
1057. Reluctant, maybe even
a tittie desperate...Copy !req
1058. Doc figured he had
to go visit Bigfoot now.Copy !req
1059. On principle, he tried to spend as little
time around the Glass House as possible.Copy !req
1060. AH this strange alternate cop
history and cop politics...Copy !req
1061. Cop dynasties,
cop heroes and evildoers...Copy !req
1062. saintly cops
and psycho cops...Copy !req
1063. cops too stupid to live and
cops too smart for their own good.Copy !req
1064. Insulated by secret loyalties
and codes of silence...Copy !req
1065. from the world they'd
all been given to control.Copy !req
1066. Bigfoot's native element.
The air he breathed.Copy !req
1067. The big time he'd been so crazy to get
away from the beach and be promoted into.Copy !req
1068. Then why so grumpy, Bigfoot?Copy !req
1069. Doc remembered dimly
a story from long past.Copy !req
1070. A rumor about a
partner of Bigfoot's...Copy !req
1071. who'd been shot and killed a
while back in the line of duty.Copy !req
1072. And ever since then,
the story went...Copy !req
1073. Bigfoot had worked alone.Copy !req
1074. I hope this won't be another one of those
unabridged paranoid hippie monologues...Copy !req
1075. I seem obliged
to sit through.Copy !req
1076. So, what if someone dies,
but is resurrected?Copy !req
1077. Not, at first glance,
a matter for Homicide.Copy !req
1078. So who around here
handles resurrections?Copy !req
1079. Bunco Squad, usually.Copy !req
1080. Does that mean the L.A.P.D. believes every,
uh, return from the dead is some kind of con'?Copy !req
1081. You're dead, you're dead.
Are we talking philosophy?Copy !req
1082. That there is Coy Harlingen,
the stiff in question.Copy !req
1083. That was taken last night.Copy !req
1084. Remind me Why I
give a shit again?Copy !req
1085. He worked for the department
as a snitch...Copy !req
1086. not to mention some patriotic
badasses known as Vigilant California.Copy !req
1087. They may have been in on the
raid at Channel View Estates.Copy !req
1088. Remember that place, Bigfoot?Copy !req
1089. All right.Copy !req
1090. All right,
I'll look into it personally.Copy !req
1091. Sometimes, it's just about
doing the right thing.Copy !req
1092. Who are you?Copy !req
1093. Clancy Charlock.Copy !req
1094. Glen Charlock's sister,
mother, sis...Copy !req
1095. Sister.Copy !req
1096. "Saster." Ha, ha.Copy !req
1097. I'm so sorry about your,
urn, brother.Copy !req
1098. Glen was a shit.Copy !req
1099. Bound to have his series
canceled sometime.Copy !req
1100. That don't keep me from wanting
to know who his killer is.Copy !req
1101. Goodness.
Did you talk to the police?Copy !req
1102. They talked to me.
Some smart-ass named Bigfoot.Copy !req
1103. He seemed less concerned with Glen's murder
than Mickey Wolfmann's disappearance.Copy !req
1104. But he's a fan of
yours all right.Copy !req
1105. Said you might
be able to help.Copy !req
1106. Did he now?Copy !req
1107. Did you hear the Wolfmann's working
on a way to give away all his money?Copy !req
1108. Why would he wanna do that?Copy !req
1109. He was on a guilt trip, man.Copy !req
1110. Doing tons of acid
and peyote and...Copy !req
1111. Just got to a point.
He felt bad...Copy !req
1112. about making people pay
for cheap houses.Copy !req
1113. Are you gonna keep holding on to
that tank or you gonna marry it?Copy !req
1114. He wanted to build this place
in the desert...Copy !req
1115. where people could come and live
for free, called the Arrepentimiento.Copy !req
1116. Uh-huh. Arrepentimiento.Copy !req
1117. And now,
what's that mean again?Copy !req
1118. Spanish for "sorry
about that."Copy !req
1119. Uh-huh.Copy !req
1120. Um...Copy !req
1121. Do you think that, urn...Copy !req
1122. you know, maybe your
brother was just, um...Copy !req
1123. you know, doing his job
to try to prevent, um...Copy !req
1124. whoever it was from
putting the snatch on Mickey?Copy !req
1125. That's way too
fucking sentimental.Copy !req
1126. Sounds like somebody objected
to Mickey's big giveaway.Copy !req
1127. Mm.Copy !req
1128. The, uh, Wife?Copy !req
1129. Business partners? Um...Copy !req
1130. Puck Beaverton.Copy !req
1131. He had the duty that
day to guard Mickey.Copy !req
1132. But changed shifts with Glen
at the last minute.Copy !req
1133. Puck Beaverton.
Interesting fellow, I hear.Copy !req
1134. He's a major-league asshole.Copy !req
1135. Mm. Sounds like you dated.Copy !req
1136. Him and his roommate.Copy !req
1137. Two at a time?Copy !req
1138. That's my preference.Copy !req
1139. Well, you know where I might be
able to find this, uh, Puck fella?Copy !req
1140. Dropped out of sight
after Glen's murder.Copy !req
1141. Set sail.Copy !req
1142. Heh. "Set sail"?
Like on a boat?Copy !req
1143. - I don't know. Maybe.
- Mm-hm.Copy !req
1144. If you find him,
you'll let me know?Copy !req
1145. Well, urn, perhaps we should continue
this conversacion someplace else.Copy !req
1146. I've got a date.Copy !req
1147. Thank you.Copy !req
1148. Oh, and Miss Charlock.Copy !req
1149. I just need your contact
information from you.Copy !req
1150. - Sure.
- Okay. Here's a pen.Copy !req
1151. Hey, Glance...Copy !req
1152. did Glen ever mention
one of Mickey's ladies...Copy !req
1153. who goes by the
name of Shasta?Copy !req
1154. The girl who's gone missing?Copy !req
1155. - That's her.
- Yeah.Copy !req
1156. She was in love with him.
Deeply in love.Copy !req
1157. Oh, Shasta and Doc lived
together for a short while.Copy !req
1158. Oh.Copy !req
1159. Bummer.Copy !req
1160. Well, as someone who's been
down this particular exit ramp:Copy !req
1161. You can only cruise the
boulevards of regret so far.Copy !req
1162. Then you gotta get back up
onto the freeway again.Copy !req
1163. Yeah.Copy !req
1164. Good luck.Copy !req
1165. See you.
- Bye now.Copy !req
1166. SHASTA". I wish you
could see these waves.Copy !req
1167. It's one more of these places a voice from
somewhere else tells you you have to be.Copy !req
1168. Remember that day
with the Ouija board?Copy !req
1169. I miss those days...Copy !req
1170. and I miss you.Copy !req
1171. Nothing was supposed
to happen this way, Doc.Copy !req
1172. I'm so sorry.Copy !req
1173. You don't remember
the Ouija board, do you, Doc?Copy !req
1174. It had been one of those
prolonged times of no dope.Copy !req
1175. You think it knows
where we can score?Copy !req
1176. Ask.Copy !req
1177. Just do it by
yourself like that.Copy !req
1178. Nobody had any. Everybody was desperate
and suffering lapses of judgment.Copy !req
1179. Eight-4-2-9-3.Copy !req
1180. - It's a phone number!
- One-2-5-O-1.Copy !req
1181. It's ringing.Copy !req
1182. Howdy, dopers.
We've got whatever you need.Copy !req
1183. And remember: the sooner you get over
here, the more there'll be left for you.Copy !req
1184. So come on down to 4723 Sunset
Boulevard. You better hurry.Copy !req
1185. Okay, I'm sorry,
who is it that I'm talking to?Copy !req
1186. She hung up.
Let's go!Copy !req
1187. She's screaming at you: "Stay
away! I'm a police trap!"Copy !req
1188. Aw, there's a problem
with Ouija boards.Copy !req
1189. Shasta!Copy !req
1190. That board sure did its work.Copy !req
1191. They didn't score any dope that day,
but somehow, suddenly, it didn't matter.Copy !req
1192. It was weird that in the
limited space of a postcard...Copy !req
1193. Shasta should have chosen to
remember that one day in the rain.Copy !req
1194. It had stuck with Doc too-..Copy !req
1195. even though it was late
in their time together...Copy !req
1196. when she was already
halfway out the door.Copy !req
1197. Hey, Denis?Copy !req
1198. Denis, I'm-a go look around.Copy !req
1199. Wanna wait in the car
or come cover my back?Copy !req
1200. I was gonna try to go find
a pizza. Is that okay?Copy !req
1201. Now you recall this is stick
shift, not automatic and so forth?Copy !req
1202. It's easy as pie, Doc.Copy !req
1203. Mm.Copy !req
1204. Good afternoon. Mm...Copy !req
1205. This is the address they gave me
at Club Asiatique in San Pedro.Copy !req
1206. Just here to pick up a package
for the management.Copy !req
1207. Hello, this is Xandra
from front desk.Copy !req
1208. We have a pickup
for management.Copy !req
1209. Follow me.Copy !req
1210. Dr. Blatnoyd will
see you in a moment.Copy !req
1211. So you have some ID,
I imagine?Copy !req
1212. Mm-hm.Copy !req
1213. I don't know what this is.
What is it?Copy !req
1214. It's oriental or something.
Is it Chinese?Copy !req
1215. Well, I figured, uh,
you being Chinese...Copy !req
1216. What?
What are you talking about?Copy !req
1217. The Golden Fang?Copy !req
1218. It's a syndicate.Copy !req
1219. Most of us happen
to be dentists.Copy !req
1220. A syndicate of dentists set
up long ago for tax purposes.Copy !req
1221. All legit.Copy !req
1222. Where did you tell Xandra
you were from again?Copy !req
1223. Uh...Copy !req
1224. Oh...Copy !req
1225. Why, you're another one of those
hippie dope fiends, aren't you?Copy !req
1226. My goodness. My goodness me.Copy !req
1227. Here for a little perking up,
are we?Copy !req
1228. Dig it.Copy !req
1229. It's from Darmstadt.Copy !req
1230. Lab quality.Copy !req
1231. I try not to do any dope I
can't pay for, is what it is.Copy !req
1232. No, no, on the house! In fact, maybe I'm
gonna even join you for one little moment.Copy !req
1233. Well, just to be sociable.Copy !req
1234. There you go.Copy !req
1235. Doctor, I think there's a problem
with the couch in your office.Copy !req
1236. And bring that bottle.Copy !req
1237. What do you think
of my chompers?Copy !req
1238. Heroin sucks the calcium out
of your body like a vampire.Copy !req
1239. If you use it for any length of
time, your teeth go all to hell.Copy !req
1240. And that's just the good part.Copy !req
1241. Doc!Copy !req
1242. DOC?Copy !req
1243. Dr. Rudy, I'm back.Copy !req
1244. You're not Dr. Rudy.Copy !req
1245. You're not Dr. Rudy.Copy !req
1246. That's at Japonica, ain't it?Copy !req
1247. Japonica Fenway?Copy !req
1248. Imagine meeting you here.Copy !req
1249. Doc rooted through the city
dump that was his memory...Copy !req
1250. recalling that Japonica here had been a
pretty open-and-shut runaway daughter case.Copy !req
1251. Hardly worth daily scale...Copy !req
1252. let alone the extravagant bonus
her father, Crocker Fenway-..Copy !req
1253. had insisted on paying when Doc
finally brought Japonica back home.Copy !req
1254. So, what have you been up to?Copy !req
1255. Escaping, mostly.Copy !req
1256. And I escape real good.Copy !req
1257. Escaping what?Copy !req
1258. Chryskylodon. This, like, booby
hatch my parents keep sending me to.Copy !req
1259. "Booby hatch"?Copy !req
1260. - Up in Ojai?
- You know it?Copy !req
1261. Shakes a tambourine.Copy !req
1262. Ooh.
Aah!Copy !req
1263. Dr. Rudy!Copy !req
1264. Okay. All right.Copy !req
1265. Japonica, you promised me.
Did you not promise me?Copy !req
1266. - What are you doing here?
- I escaped again for you.Copy !req
1267. Oof! Woo-hoe!Copy !req
1268. Look at the greedy little
hippie. Snorting away, are you?Copy !req
1269. - Your parents know you're here?
- No.Copy !req
1270. The Fenways? They were
heavy-duty South Bay money...Copy !req
1271. and led lives of unusually high
density and often incoherence.Copy !req
1272. Her father, Crocker, also known as
the Dark Prince of Palos Verdes...Copy !req
1273. Was a lead lawyer at the
office of Voorhees-Krueger...Copy !req
1274. who had given Doc
his first paying gig as a Pl.Copy !req
1275. Man, like, I'm sorry.Copy !req
1276. Denis, what is it this time?
That's my steering wheel?Copy !req
1277. - I don't know how to drive.
- Aw, man, I thought you said you...Copy !req
1278. Hey.Copy !req
1279. Smile Maintenance Chick.Copy !req
1280. How lovely.Copy !req
1281. Miss Fenway may appear
a little psychotic today.Copy !req
1282. Groovy.Copy !req
1283. What?
It's groovy being insane, man.Copy !req
1284. Where you at?Copy !req
1285. It's not groovy to be insane.Copy !req
1286. Japonica here has been
institutionalized for it.Copy !req
1287. Okay, come on now, Denis. We've gotta
figure out a way back to the beach.Copy !req
1288. If you need a ride,
I'm heading that way.Copy !req
1289. Huh? Uh...Copy !req
1290. Cop friendly, everything
cool with your ride?Copy !req
1291. Brake lights,
license plate, so forth?Copy !req
1292. A-okay.Copy !req
1293. Mind if I tag along with you guys?
Contingencies of the road and so forth?Copy !req
1294. That's a good idea. Maybe we should do
more of that, tsk, tsk, for the road?Copy !req
1295. Yes. Yeah. You want some?Copy !req
1296. Excuse me.Copy !req
1297. Come on.Copy !req
1298. What's in that bag you're
stuffing under Doc's seat?Copy !req
1299. Pay no attention to that bag.
It'll only make everybody paranoid.Copy !req
1300. Though he may have
rescued Japonica...Copy !req
1301. from a life of dark and
unspecified hippie horror...Copy !req
1302. apparently restoration
to the bosom of her family...Copy !req
1303. had been enough to really
drive her around the bend.Copy !req
1304. Oh, fuck!Copy !req
1305. - Fucking assholes!
- Easy, easy.Copy !req
1306. Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! I can't...Copy !req
1307. - Okay, we are so fucked! I got...
- Nice and easy.Copy !req
1308. Christ, Christ. Some...Copy !req
1309. Are you the Great Beast?Copy !req
1310. No, no, that's a policeman.Copy !req
1311. You were driving
without your headlights.Copy !req
1312. But I can see in the dark.Copy !req
1313. Perhaps you shouldn't
be driving, then.Copy !req
1314. - I'm gonna need to see all your IDs.
- What is this all about, sir?Copy !req
1315. Any gathering of three or more
civilians is considered a possible cult.Copy !req
1316. What?
It's Charlie Manson again?Copy !req
1317. Criteria includes reference
to the Book of Revelation...Copy !req
1318. males with
shoulder-length hair...Copy !req
1319. and endangerment
through inattentive driving...Copy !req
1320. all of which
has been exhibited.Copy !req
1321. - Oh, I don't think so.
- Man, listen.Copy !req
1322. This is a Mercedes.
It's only painted one color.Copy !req
1323. Y'all hang tight. That
should count for something.Copy !req
1324. Good point.
Okay. All right.Copy !req
1325. Okay, okay. Oh, God, I'm actually
gonna have a heart attack.Copy !req
1326. Actually my heart is
racing like a little...Copy !req
1327. What?
- Yes, sir?Copy !req
1328. I'm gonna hand these in...Copy !req
1329. and as long as there aren't
any wants or warrants...Copy !req
1330. you won't hear any more about this.
- Thank you, officer.Copy !req
1331. Thank you, sir.
Drive safely.Copy !req
1332. - Here you go, Blat. Dr. Rudy.
- No, that's yours.Copy !req
1333. - And Japonica here.
- That's beautiful.Copy !req
1334. Denis, take this.Copy !req
1335. This one is Denis's.Copy !req
1336. Idiots Unlimited.Copy !req
1337. Oh, yeah, I'm in an evil
mood myself tonight.Copy !req
1338. What can I do?Copy !req
1339. Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, DDS...Copy !req
1340. has perpetrated his last
root canal, I'm afraid.Copy !req
1341. Hablo inglés, man.
What's that-J? He's dead?Copy !req
1342. They found him next to a
trampoline in Bel Air...Copy !req
1343. with a fatal neck injury.Copy !req
1344. So far no witnesses,
no motives, no suspects...Copy !req
1345. apart from you.Copy !req
1346. Mm, not me. Why me?Copy !req
1347. You were observed in
Blatnoyd's company.Copy !req
1348. Both of you riding in a vehicle
full of drug-crazed hippies.Copy !req
1349. Yeah, well, you know...Copy !req
1350. the owner of
that vehicle...Copy !req
1351. is a very well-respected, um, you
know, lawyer down in Palos Verdes.Copy !req
1352. And his daughter was driving.
She offered me a ride.Copy !req
1353. And cops didn't even
give her a ticket.Copy !req
1354. You know, Blatnoyd was
her friend, not mine.Copy !req
1355. Go to bed.Copy !req
1356. I'm working.
Why am I gonna go to bed?Copy !req
1357. I think it's time we
had one of our chats.Copy !req
1358. Uh...Copy !req
1359. All right. Yup.Copy !req
1360. So with this Coy
Harlingen matter...Copy !req
1361. on the face of it...Copy !req
1362. it's one more OD,
one less junkie, case cleared.Copy !req
1363. And on the not face of it?Copy !req
1364. Why, what do we have here?Copy !req
1365. Why don't you pick a card?Copy !req
1366. Any card.Copy !req
1367. These are field
interrogation reports.Copy !req
1368. See if you find anything
that looks familiar.Copy !req
1369. Card tricks.Copy !req
1370. No.Copy !req
1371. Mm.Copy !req
1372. Puck Beaverton.Copy !req
1373. Excellent choice. One of
Mickey Wolfmann's bodyguards.Copy !req
1374. Interesting fellow, I hear.Copy !req
1375. Sheriff's people ran into him
at the Venice home...Copy !req
1376. of the dealer that sold
Harlingen the smack that killed him.Copy !req
1377. Or didn't kill him.Copy !req
1378. Wait, so, what was Puck doing
at Coy's dealer's place?Copy !req
1379. The interesting thing
about this overdose...Copy !req
1380. is that Leonard James
Loosemeat a.k.a. El Drano...Copy !req
1381. was known for this
3 percent product...Copy !req
1382. yet the report says what killed
him was pure China White Number Four.Copy !req
1383. Like, from the whole-seller?
Whoever's bringing it in?Copy !req
1384. I seem to recall that some years ago,
just before he went into Folsom...Copy !req
1385. Beaverton used to work
for this loan shark...Copy !req
1386. Adrian Prussia.Copy !req
1387. Fucking zoinks!
I know Adrian Prussia.Copy !req
1388. I know him from my
skip-tracing days.Copy !req
1389. He's a bad man. Used a baseball
bat. You know, he's sick.Copy !req
1390. And Coy's dealer, El Drano...Copy !req
1391. also happened to be
Prussia's steady customer.Copy !req
1392. So maybe Puck was there
on Adrian's behalf.Copy !req
1393. What do you think?Copy !req
1394. I think you and Adrian have a
history you're not sharing with me.Copy !req
1395. Got it, lieutenant!Copy !req
1396. You got it, lieutenant.Copy !req
1397. Pancakes aren't quite as good as my mother's,
but what I really go for here is the respect.Copy !req
1398. Respect.Copy !req
1399. You didn't get enough of that
from your mom.Copy !req
1400. You probably imagine that I have a
lot of status up in Robbery-Homicide.Copy !req
1401. I mean, who could blame you
for thinking that.Copy !req
1402. The reality, however...Copy !req
1403. no Cielo Drive for Bigfoot.Copy !req
1404. No TV movie rights
or book deals for Bigfoot.Copy !req
1405. I mean, even the extra
work is drying up.Copy !req
1406. God help us all.Copy !req
1407. Dentists on trampolines.Copy !req
1408. You know, Dr. Blatnoyd had
puncture wounds on his throat...Copy !req
1409. consistent with bites from
canines of a midsize wild animal.Copy !req
1410. That's what the
coroner told me!Copy !req
1411. Swallow that!Copy !req
1412. Listen, that's mighty Weird,
Bigfoot.Copy !req
1413. Okay? Because Blatnoyd was
a partner in a tax dodge...Copy !req
1414. that calls itself
The Golden Fang Enterprises.Copy !req
1415. You didn't happen to get the, uh, SID to test
those neck punctures for gold or nothing?Copy !req
1416. I shouldn't think
there'd be much trace.Copy !req
1417. Gold is all but chemically inactive, as you
might have learned in chemistry class...Copy !req
1418. if you hadn't been ditching all
the time to score dope, Sportello.Copy !req
1419. Every contact leaves traces.Copy !req
1420. It would sure be ironic,
is all I'm saying...Copy !req
1421. if Blatnoyd was bit to
death by a golden fang...Copy !req
1422. or, like, even better,
like, two golden fangs?Copy !req
1423. I don't see why any of this
would be material.Copy !req
1424. Because it's the Golden Fang.Copy !req
1425. - It's the decedent's tax shelter. So, what?
- No, man, it's not a tax shelter.Copy !req
1426. It's something, Bigfoot,
man, much more, more vast.Copy !req
1427. This wouldn't be just more of your
paranoid hippie bullshit, would it?Copy !req
1428. Look, have the lab check
for traces of copper.Copy !req
1429. Not the kind that goes stumbling all over
the crime scene contaminating evidence.Copy !req
1430. More like copper the metal.Copy !req
1431. You see, gold teeth are
never made with pure gold.Copy !req
1432. Dentists like to
alloy it with copper.Copy !req
1433. If you hadn't ditched forensics class to go
steal hubcaps to plant on some innocent hippie...Copy !req
1434. you might have known that.Copy !req
1435. Oh, you feel like a
cop almost, don't you?Copy !req
1436. Good day.Copy !req
1437. Okay, it's coming!Copy !req
1438. So where to?Copy !req
1439. A place up in Ojai
called Chryskylodon.Copy !req
1440. Chryskylodon?Copy !req
1441. "Animal tooth."Copy !req
1442. Ancient Indian word,
Sortilège? It means "serenity."Copy !req
1443. I minored in the Classics. It's
not Indian, it's Ancient Greek.Copy !req
1444. It means "animal tooth
made out of gold."Copy !req
1445. You're doing good, Doc.Copy !req
1446. - Thanks, Lège.
- Okay.Copy !req
1447. Owing to Governor Reagan's shutdown of
most of the state mental facilities...Copy !req
1448. the private sector had been given
carte blanche to pick up the slack.Copy !req
1449. Soon, in fact, becoming a standard
California child-rearing resource...Copy !req
1450. for kids like that
old Japonica Fenway.Copy !req
1451. Mr. Sportello.
Mm.Copy !req
1452. - Dr. Aubrey Threeply.
- Oh, how do you do?Copy !req
1453. - So good to see you.
- Nice to see you.Copy !req
1454. - Welcome. Welcome.
- Thank you.Copy !req
1455. Would you...? Sorry. Would you
like to use the facilities?Copy !req
1456. You already used the bathroom? Before
we take a tour of the facility?Copy !req
1457. This is my colleague
Dr. Lily Hammer.Copy !req
1458. - Mr. Sportello.
- How do you do?Copy !req
1459. Thank you.Copy !req
1460. Please join us.Copy !req
1461. This is our
administrative lounge.Copy !req
1462. Our Chenin blanc comes from
the institute's own vineyard.Copy !req
1463. Hands steady as a rock
today I see, Kimberly.Copy !req
1464. So happy you noticed,
Dr. Threeply.Copy !req
1465. - More soup?
- Yes, if you know what's good for you.Copy !req
1466. Have you been with us before, Mr.
Sportello? I know I've seen your face.Copy !req
1467. Mm. First time I've been down here. Normally,
I don't get much south of South City.Copy !req
1468. And abnormally?Copy !req
1469. What?Copy !req
1470. Well, I only meant that with any number
of qualified facilities in the Bay Area...Copy !req
1471. why even bother coming
all the way down here to us?Copy !req
1472. Mm...Copy !req
1473. My clients believe that
Ojai is a planetary chakra.Copy !req
1474. Chryskylodon's motion
picture palace.Copy !req
1475. Now showing the Burke
Stodger marathon.Copy !req
1476. All Burke, all day,
24 hours of Stodger.Copy !req
1477. people's museum.
And I warn you once more...Copy !req
1478. This place is a lie.Copy !req
1479. This is particularly
popular with the patients.Copy !req
1480. These marvels?Copy !req
1481. This! This was not
invented by a Russian.Copy !req
1482. The man's name was Bell!
Alexander Graham Bell!Copy !req
1483. And he was an American!Copy !req
1484. Get that, comrade.Copy !req
1485. Everything on this table
is as phony as the town.Copy !req
1486. The rotten system
you call communism.Copy !req
1487. It was occurring to Doc now...Copy !req
1488. something Jade said once
about vertical integration...Copy !req
1489. that if the Golden Fang can
get its customers strung out...Copy !req
1490. why not turn around and sell
them a program to help kick?Copy !req
1491. Get them coming and going.Copy !req
1492. Twice as much revenue.Copy !req
1493. As long as American life was
something to be escaped from...Copy !req
1494. the cartel could always be sure of
a bottomless pool of new customers.Copy !req
1495. Any questions?Copy !req
1496. Is that a swastika
on that man's face?Copy !req
1497. Um, no, it isn't.Copy !req
1498. That's an ancient Hindu symbol
meaning "All is well."Copy !req
1499. - It brings good fortune, luck and well-being.
- Oh.Copy !req
1500. What do you mean?Copy !req
1501. Only that it looked
like a swastika to me.Copy !req
1502. Well, he isn't a regular
employee of the Institute.Copy !req
1503. Perhaps you should pay
no attention to that man.Copy !req
1504. What the fuck?Copy !req
1505. encapsulated in
the charming phrase:Copy !req
1506. Which means, of course,
"You must be very tired."Copy !req
1507. Which brings us to the institute's
own Zen garden imported from Kyoto.Copy !req
1508. But each textured pebble,
each grain of white sand...Copy !req
1509. was transported and reassembled
here exactly in place...Copy !req
1510. by a team of some of our
more obsessive patients.Copy !req
1511. Mickey.Copy !req
1512. Mickey.Copy !req
1513. Mickey.Copy !req
1514. Hello, little hippie.Copy !req
1515. How are you?Copy !req
1516. Uh...Copy !req
1517. What are you doing here?Copy !req
1518. They're helping me.Copy !req
1519. They're helping me wake up
from my bad hippie dream.Copy !req
1520. Well, what'd you dream about?Copy !req
1521. I dreamed I gave
away all my money.Copy !req
1522. Yeah.Copy !req
1523. Who brought you here?Copy !req
1524. My friends.Copy !req
1525. Who are your friends? The FBI?Copy !req
1526. I spent my Whole life...Copy !req
1527. I spent my whole life
making people pay for shelter.Copy !req
1528. And all along,
I didn't realize...Copy !req
1529. I didn't realize it was
supposed to be for free.Copy !req
1530. For free.Copy !req
1531. Where's Shasta?Copy !req
1532. What? Tell me,
did she come with you?Copy !req
1533. Is she here?Copy !req
1534. Mickey,
where the fuck is Shasta?Copy !req
1535. Go away, little hippie.Copy !req
1536. Go away.Copy !req
1537. "A new casino, a hotel,
25,000 square feet...Copy !req
1538. nine dining places,
race and sport booking...Copy !req
1539. shopping, a spa,
local swimming pools...Copy !req
1540. and a wedding chapel.Copy !req
1541. Wolfmann hopes to attract
many Hollywood celebrities."Copy !req
1542. 1-Adam-12, handle code 3.Copy !req
1543. We don't have much to go on. Just
the broadcast Barrett put out.Copy !req
1544. He was ambushed by two male
Negroes, possibly on foot.Copy !req
1545. He thinks he wounded both of
them, but we can't be sure.Copy !req
1546. Far as I know,
we have two units, code 100.Copy !req
1547. Aw, Bigfoot, you're adorable.Copy !req
1548. I'm sure I got them.
Both of them.Copy !req
1549. The rest of us can
shake the area on foot.Copy !req
1550. Johnson, you and your partner stay here and
preserve the scene for the investigators.Copy !req
1551. Let's go.Copy !req
1552. Hi, Shasta.Copy !req
1553. Hi, Doc.Copy !req
1554. Well, either I'm on
the time machine...Copy !req
1555. or you're back.Copy !req
1556. I've been away.Copy !req
1557. - Where you been?
- Up north.Copy !req
1558. Family stuff.Copy !req
1559. Anything been
happening down here?Copy !req
1560. Your friend in the, uh,
construction business?Copy !req
1561. Oh, that's all over.Copy !req
1562. He's back with Sloane and
the kids. And so what'?Copy !req
1563. Mm-hm.Copy !req
1564. You know you got a load of people
out looking for you, Shasta.Copy !req
1565. Well, here I am.Copy !req
1566. CI-'est la vie-.Copy !req
1567. "C-'est la vie."Copy !req
1568. Que se fucking sera sera.Copy !req
1569. Something like that.Copy !req
1570. Well, I like your necklace.Copy !req
1571. Can't be good.Copy !req
1572. Mm-hm.Copy !req
1573. Yeah, word is your
girl's back in town.Copy !req
1574. DOC". Oh, yeah?
Well, that's news to me.Copy !req
1575. Where you been?Copy !req
1576. No place I'd recommend.Copy !req
1577. Any developments
on the Coy Harlingen matter?Copy !req
1578. Like you give a shit?Copy !req
1579. Any of them include Prussia or Beaverton
or any of the fuckers that I've given you?Copy !req
1580. All right, forget that.
Listen, listen.Copy !req
1581. Any results on
those fang marks?Copy !req
1582. Coroner's people got very upset with
me for suggesting more lab work.Copy !req
1583. Well, I just thought it'd be a
helpful tip to a fellow professional.Copy !req
1584. - You know?
- Oh, really? How's that, Sportello?Copy !req
1585. Yeah, when your own, um,
hearing comes up.Copy !req
1586. What are you suggesting?Copy !req
1587. One county supervisor with a bug up his ass
is all it takes to bring you down, Bigfoot.Copy !req
1588. This is Mrs.
Chastity Bjornsen...Copy !req
1589. and if that is one more sociopathic
"special employee" of my husband...Copy !req
1590. I will thank you to stop
harassing him on his day off.Copy !req
1591. It's Sportello.Copy !req
1592. Oh, Sportello. Doc Sportello?
The Doc Sportello?Copy !req
1593. So we meet at last.Copy !req
1594. Mr. Moral Fucking
Turpitude himself!Copy !req
1595. Have you any idea of the
therapist bills around here...Copy !req
1596. for which you are
directly responsible?Copy !req
1597. - The department picks up a little.
- Oh, the department?Copy !req
1598. Yeah, after a deductible that
would choke a fucking horse.Copy !req
1599. All right, you know,
he called me.Copy !req
1600. I fail to understand your spineless response
to that dirty, hippie piece of shit.Copy !req
1601. Would you get the fuck up?Copy !req
1602. Get the fuck up, Christian.Copy !req
1603. Christian, get the fuck up!Copy !req
1604. - Now, Christian, please!
- Okay.Copy !req
1605. And would you stop acting like a beaten
dog. I ask you for one fucking day a week.Copy !req
1606. No...Copy !req
1607. What kind of girl do you need,
Doc?Copy !req
1608. Maybe a thing for one
of those Manson chicks?Copy !req
1609. Well, thing is that...Copy !req
1610. depends on what...Copy !req
1611. Are you sure you
wanna be doing that?Copy !req
1612. Submissive, brainwashed, horny, little
teeners who do exactly what you want...Copy !req
1613. before you even
know what that is.Copy !req
1614. You don't have to say a word out
loud. They get it all by ESP.Copy !req
1615. Your kind of chick, Doc?Copy !req
1616. You the one that's been
stealing my magazines?Copy !req
1617. What would Charlie do?Copy !req
1618. Well, probably not this.Copy !req
1619. Listen,
I'm sorry about Mickey.Copy !req
1620. Mickey.Copy !req
1621. Mickey could have taught all you
swinging beach bums a thing or two.Copy !req
1622. He was just so powerful.Copy !req
1623. Sometimes he could almost
make you feel invisible.Copy !req
1624. Fast.Copy !req
1625. Brutal.Copy !req
1626. Not what you'd call
a considerate lover.Copy !req
1627. But we adored it about him.Copy !req
1628. Me...Copy !req
1629. and Sloane and Luz.Copy !req
1630. It's so nice to be made to feel
invisible that way sometimes.Copy !req
1631. Mm.Copy !req
1632. And guys just love to
hear shit like this.Copy !req
1633. He'd bring me to lunch
in Beverly Hills.Copy !req
1634. One big hand wrapped
around my bare arm...Copy !req
1635. steering me blind
down those bright streets...Copy !req
1636. into some space
where it was dark and cool.Copy !req
1637. You couldn't smell any food,
only alcohol.Copy !req
1638. He had tables full of them.Copy !req
1639. They'd all be drinking...Copy !req
1640. in a room that could
have been any size.Copy !req
1641. And they all knew Mickey.Copy !req
1642. They wanted, some of them...Copy !req
1643. to be Mickey.Copy !req
1644. He might as well have been
bringing me in on a leash.Copy !req
1645. He kept me in those
micro-minidresses...Copy !req
1646. never allowing me
to wear anything underneath.Copy !req
1647. Just offering me up
to whoever wanted...Copy !req
1648. to stare...Copy !req
1649. or grab.Copy !req
1650. Sometimes, he'd fix me up
with some of his friends...Copy !req
1651. and I'd have to do
whatever they wanted.Copy !req
1652. Why are you telling me this?Copy !req
1653. I'm sorry, Doc.Copy !req
1654. Do you want me to stop?Copy !req
1655. If my girlfriend had run off to
be the bought-and-sold whore...Copy !req
1656. of some scumbag
developer...Copy !req
1657. I'd just be so angry,
I don't know what I'd do.Copy !req
1658. No.Copy !req
1659. I'm even lying about that.
I know what I'd do.Copy !req
1660. If I had the faithless little
bitch over my lap like this...Copy !req
1661. This doesn't mean
we're back together.Copy !req
1662. Mm.Copy !req
1663. Of course not.Copy !req
1664. You didn't get this
necklace up North, hmm?Copy !req
1665. I went on a boat ride.Copy !req
1666. Like a three-hour tour?Copy !req
1667. They told me...Copy !req
1668. I was precious cargo that couldn't
be insured because of inherent vice.Copy !req
1669. What's that?Copy !req
1670. I don't know.Copy !req
1671. - Hmm?
- Kiss me.Copy !req
1672. "inherent vice," in a
marine insurance policy...Copy !req
1673. is anything that
you can't avoid.Copy !req
1674. Eggs break...Copy !req
1675. chocolate melts...Copy !req
1676. glass shatters...Copy !req
1677. and Doc wondered what that meant
when it applied to ex-old ladies.Copy !req
1678. What's on your mind, Doc?Copy !req
1679. Besides the usual?Copy !req
1680. I don't know.Copy !req
1681. I'm like, you know...Copy !req
1682. working myself into a
brain freeze here, Lège.Copy !req
1683. Well, put it another way:Copy !req
1684. What's gonna nag at you
in the middle of the night?Copy !req
1685. What's gonna nag at me
in the middle of the night?Copy !req
1686. Little kid blues?Copy !req
1687. Saxophone players?Copy !req
1688. You know, whatever...Copy !req
1689. he meant to do... Coy, you
know, mistakes aside, and...Copy !req
1690. Nobody deserves to go through life
without seeing their daughter.Copy !req
1691. That don't sit well with me.Copy !req
1692. Then go get them.Copy !req
1693. Put it on your desk.
Thank you.Copy !req
1694. - Whoa. What are you doing here? Yeah.
- "Whoa"?Copy !req
1695. Wanted to see if you were free for
dinner. I didn't mean to freak you out.Copy !req
1696. Are you all right?Copy !req
1697. Am I?
“awe you?Copy !req
1698. Should I call security?Copy !req
1699. No, Rhus.
- I don't think we need...Copy !req
1700. This is the one I was
telling you about.Copy !req
1701. Yeah?Copy !req
1702. You know your pals
have Mickey Wolfmann?Copy !req
1703. What? The FBI? I mean, we
suspected, but we couldn't prove it.Copy !req
1704. Well,
I saw him in their custody.Copy !req
1705. - You saw him?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1706. Would you be willing
to let me depone you?Copy !req
1707. - Sure would.
- You would?Copy !req
1708. What is it?Copy !req
1709. You, me, a tape machine, maybe
another DDA to witness it.Copy !req
1710. - All right, I need something from you though.
- What?Copy !req
1711. I need to look up
somebody's jacket.Copy !req
1712. That's it? That's no big deal.
We do that all the time.Copy !req
1713. What, you break into officially
sealed records all the time?Copy !req
1714. Grow up.
What's the name on the file?Copy !req
1715. Adrian Prussia.Copy !req
1716. As if looking for something
he didn't want to find...Copy !req
1717. it became clear as vodka
you keep in the Icebox...Copy !req
1718. that, whatever the connection between
the L.A.P.D. and Adrian Prussia...Copy !req
1719. he might as well have been working
for them as a contract killer...Copy !req
1720. doing deeds for them they
couldn't do for themselves.Copy !req
1721. Time after time, he was pulled in,
questioned, arraigned, indicted, no matter.Copy !req
1722. Somehow the cases
never quite got to trial...Copy !req
1723. each being bargained down
in the interest of justice...Copy !req
1724. not to mention Adrian,
who invariably walked.Copy !req
1725. And one of those deeds
appeared to be labeled...Copy !req
1726. " the justifiable homicide" of
one of the L.A.P.D.'s very own:Copy !req
1727. Vincent Indelicato.Copy !req
1728. Otherwise known as...Copy !req
1729. Bigfoot's partner.Copy !req
1730. Bigfoot.Copy !req
1731. Bigfoot's partner?Copy !req
1732. Fucking Bigfoot's partner?Copy !req
1733. Oh, fuck.Copy !req
1734. Bigfoot's air of possessed
melancholy now began to make sense.Copy !req
1735. This was mourning, all right.Copy !req
1736. And it was deep.Copy !req
1737. This your new partner,
Bigfoot?Copy !req
1738. Want a banana, Adrian? Bend over
and I'll stick it in for you.Copy !req
1739. Fuck you and fuck your banana.Copy !req
1740. Oh, man, oh, man.Copy !req
1741. Never be surprised at the levels
of disrespect within the L.A.P.D.Copy !req
1742. But this was downright nasty,
not to mention unprofessional.Copy !req
1743. This bond between partners was nearly
the only thing Doc had ever found...Copy !req
1744. to admire
about the L.A.P.D.Copy !req
1745. You know, there's places
you don't wanna go, Doc.Copy !req
1746. Go back to the beach.Copy !req
1747. You smell like a
patchouli fart.Copy !req
1748. So here's Doc.Copy !req
1749. Midnight, pitch-dark...Copy !req
1750. can't remember whether they
drained the pool or not...Copy !req
1751. but, hey,
what the fuck's it matter?Copy !req
1752. He bounced once, twice...Copy !req
1753. and then off the end of the
board in a blind cannonball...Copy !req
1754. down into old karma
with Adrian Prussia...Copy !req
1755. who had not only
shot at him once...Copy !req
1756. but threatened him with a Carl
Yastrzemski Special baseball bat.Copy !req
1757. All this leaving
Doc to wonder:Copy !req
1758. "Where's the partner
to watch my back?"Copy !req
1759. Far out, man.Copy !req
1760. Right.Copy !req
1761. Psychedelic.Copy !req
1762. Done.Copy !req
1763. So you're here about...?Copy !req
1764. Good question.Copy !req
1765. Uh...Copy !req
1766. Wait a minute.
This is bullshit.Copy !req
1767. I remember you.Copy !req
1768. You're that kid from Fritz's
shop out in Santa Monica, right?Copy !req
1769. Yeah.Copy !req
1770. So, what you up to these days?
Skip tracing?Copy !req
1771. Or did you go into
the priesthood?Copy !req
1772. PI.Copy !req
1773. Heh. They gave you a license?Copy !req
1774. So who sent you here?Copy !req
1775. - Mm. Uh...
- Who are you working for today?Copy !req
1776. All on spec.
All on my own time.Copy !req
1777. Wrong answer.Copy !req
1778. How much of your own time do
you think you got left, kid?Copy !req
1779. I was just about to ask.Copy !req
1780. Howdy, Puck.Copy !req
1781. Do I know you?Copy !req
1782. I don't think I do.Copy !req
1783. I don't know, you must remind me
of someone I ran into someplace.Copy !req
1784. My mistake.Copy !req
1785. I have a busy day ahead...Copy !req
1786. and I know nothing...Copy !req
1787. of any of this.Copy !req
1788. What are you doing here?Copy !req
1789. I was just, uh,
talking to Adrian.Copy !req
1790. Mm.Copy !req
1791. It's these, uh...Copy !req
1792. various cases
I'm working on.Copy !req
1793. And, uh...Copy !req
1794. mm, Glen Charlock...Copy !req
1795. and, uh,
Vincent Indelicato...Copy !req
1796. and, uh...Copy !req
1797. where'd...Copy !req
1798. you...Copy !req
1799. get that“?Copy !req
1800. That necklace...Copy !req
1801. it looks funny on you.Copy !req
1802. Big man, small necklace.Copy !req
1803. Acid invites you
through a door.Copy !req
1804. PCP opens that door...Copy !req
1805. shoves you through it...Copy !req
1806. slams the door
behind you...Copy !req
1807. and locks it.Copy !req
1808. Special treat for you today,
doper.Copy !req
1809. Just got it in a shipment...Copy !req
1810. of pure Number 4.Copy !req
1811. Ain't a white guy's
finger laid on it...Copy !req
1812. between the
Golden Triangle...Copy !req
1813. and your own
throbbing vein.Copy !req
1814. Just let me step out here...Copy !req
1815. and I'll go get you some.Copy !req
1816. Don't go away now.Copy !req
1817. Puck!Copy !req
1818. Pucky!Copy !req
1819. Did I hit you?Copy !req
1820. Bigfoot?Copy !req
1821. What the fuck?Copy !req
1822. Did you take care
of them okay, Doc?Copy !req
1823. You fucking lunatic!
What is this?Copy !req
1824. I'm in enough shit personally
with the captain...Copy !req
1825. and I've seen you on
the range. Nice work.Copy !req
1826. What are you...?Copy !req
1827. And that there, is that
what I think it is? Huh?Copy !req
1828. There's one of or two of them. There's
more. Enough left for evidence.Copy !req
1829. Man, Bigfoot, I saw the movie.Copy !req
1830. As I recall, that character
comes to a bad end.Copy !req
1831. Put the gun away, Doc.Copy !req
1832. - What?
- The gun. Put it away.Copy !req
1833. This is the Golden Fang
you're about to rip off, man.Copy !req
1834. The fully fucking weird outfit
that kills people.Copy !req
1835. That's according to your own
delusional system. Get in the car.Copy !req
1836. Get in the car!Copy !req
1837. Where are we going?Copy !req
1838. We had to impound
your car again.Copy !req
1839. It was parked illegally...Copy !req
1840. in front of Adrian's.Copy !req
1841. Psst.Copy !req
1842. Doper's ESP, Doc.Copy !req
1843. Doper's ESP.Copy !req
1844. Oh, no.Copy !req
1845. Bigfoot, you motherfucker.Copy !req
1846. Okay, Doc, you have what looks to be
a 20-kilo inconvenience in your trunk.Copy !req
1847. And Bigfoot, no doubt, putting
out word to that effect.Copy !req
1848. And once again,
you're the bait.Copy !req
1849. Hello?Copy !req
1850. It's sure been a long time.Copy !req
1851. And your name was?Copy !req
1852. This is Crocker Fenway.Copy !req
1853. Japonica's dad?Copy !req
1854. Oh...Copy !req
1855. What happened this time?Copy !req
1856. You have something that belongs to some
people I represent, and they'd like it back.Copy !req
1857. Oh. So you're a
principal in all this?Copy !req
1858. It's only because of me and our
small transaction over Japonica...Copy !req
1859. that you're still alive.Copy !req
1860. Ever so grateful, sir.Copy !req
1861. So, what do we do?Copy !req
1862. I suppose someone wants their,
uh...Copy !req
1863. Back'?Copy !req
1864. Why don't we meet this evening at 6:00
at my club, The Portola, in Elysian Park.Copy !req
1865. Mm-hm. Is there a dress code?Copy !req
1866. A jacket and tie, if possible.Copy !req
1867. I'll see you then.Copy !req
1868. Mr. Sportello.Copy !req
1869. Mr. Fenway.Copy !req
1870. To a peaceful...Copy !req
1871. resolution.Copy !req
1872. How's the family?Copy !req
1873. Japonica's...Copy !req
1874. doing fine,
if that's what you mean.Copy !req
1875. You know...Copy !req
1876. I think I saw old Japonica the
other day at my doctor's office.Copy !req
1877. You ever run across a dentist
named Rudy Blatnoyd?Copy !req
1878. The son of a bitch who until
recently was corrupting my daughter?Copy !req
1879. Yes,
I do seem to recall the name.Copy !req
1880. He perished in a trampoline
accident, didn't he?Copy !req
1881. L.A.P.D. aren't so sure
it was an accident.Copy !req
1882. And you'd like to
know if I did it?Copy !req
1883. What possible
motive would I have?Copy !req
1884. Just because the
man preyed on...Copy !req
1885. an emotionally
vulnerable child?Copy !req
1886. Forced her to engage
in sexual practices...Copy !req
1887. that might appall even a
sophisticate like yourself?Copy !req
1888. Does that mean I'd have any
reason to see his miserable...Copy !req
1889. pedophile career
come to an end?Copy !req
1890. What a vindictive person
you must imagine me.Copy !req
1891. Mm...Copy !req
1892. Mm, I did suspect he was fucking his
receptionist, but what dentist doesn't?Copy !req
1893. It's some oath they all
take in dentist school.Copy !req
1894. Anyhow, it's a long way from
strange and weird sex, isn't it?Copy !req
1895. What about when he forced
my girl to listen...Copy !req
1896. to original cast albums of Broadway
musicals while he had his way with her?Copy !req
1897. Or the tastelessness
of the decor...Copy !req
1898. of resort hotel
rooms he took her to...Copy !req
1899. during endodontist
conventions.Copy !req
1900. The wallpaper.Copy !req
1901. The lamps.Copy !req
1902. Japonica's of legal age now,
isn't she?Copy !req
1903. In a father's eye,
they're always too young.Copy !req
1904. To the matter at hand.Copy !req
1905. Those I represent are prepared to offer
you a generous compensation package...Copy !req
1906. for the safe return
of their property.Copy !req
1907. Suppose it didn't have to be
in the form of money.Copy !req
1908. Well,
money would be a lot easier.Copy !req
1909. There's a saxophone player
named Coy Harlingen.Copy !req
1910. He's been working undercover for different
anti-subversive outfits, including the L.A.P.D.Copy !req
1911. And he's come to feel lately that
he made the wrong career choice.Copy !req
1912. It lost him his family,
his freedom.Copy !req
1913. And like you,
he only has one daughter.Copy !req
1914. Please.Copy !req
1915. Okay. Well, he wants out.Copy !req
1916. And I think I can
square it with the heat.Copy !req
1917. But there's this other bunch,
Vigilant California.Copy !req
1918. And, well, whoever's
running them, of course...Copy !req
1919. My guess is they'd prefer he not
disclose any confidential information.Copy !req
1920. Last thing he'd ever do.Copy !req
1921. Your personal guarantee?Copy !req
1922. I'll go after him myself
if he tries anything.Copy !req
1923. Then we have a deal.Copy !req
1924. That's all you wanted?Copy !req
1925. No money now? Are you sure?Copy !req
1926. Well, now, how much money would I have to
take from you so I wouldn't lose your respect?Copy !req
1927. It's a bit late for that,
Mr. Sportello.Copy !req
1928. People like you lose all claim to respect
the first time they pay anybody rent.Copy !req
1929. Well, I may not be
as well-connected...Copy !req
1930. and for sure, not as much
into revenge as you folks are...Copy !req
1931. but if you're jiving
with me, my man...Copy !req
1932. I say to you:Copy !req
1933. Hmm?Copy !req
1934. So where we gonna
do this handoff?Copy !req
1935. Don't know much about historyCopy !req
1936. Don't know much biologyCopy !req
1937. Don't know much
about science booksCopy !req
1938. Golden Fang operatives,
12 o'clock. Fast approaching.Copy !req
1939. Look sharp.Copy !req
1940. And I know that
if you love me tooCopy !req
1941. What a wonderful
world it would beCopy !req
1942. Don't know much
about geographyCopy !req
1943. Don't know much trigonometryCopy !req
1944. All right,
you got the keys in here?Copy !req
1945. Don't know what a
slide rule is forCopy !req
1946. But I do know,
one and one is twoCopy !req
1947. And if this world
could be with youCopy !req
1948. What a wonderful
world this would beCopy !req
1949. Now, what's all this?Copy !req
1950. It's a credit card.
Don't hippies have them?Copy !req
1951. Yeah, I must've meant that why
is your mother handing me this?Copy !req
1952. - It's not for you.
- Ah. Uh...Copy !req
1953. You're supposed to tell him: "Well
done. Welcome back to the main herd.Copy !req
1954. Safe journeys."Copy !req
1955. That's journeys, plural.Copy !req
1956. "Well done. Welcome back to
the herd. Safe journeys."Copy !req
1957. Okay,
I guess I can remember that.Copy !req
1958. What are you looking at?
- Huh?Copy !req
1959. What?Copy !req
1960. So you guys been working
for the Golden Fang long?Copy !req
1961. Okay.Copy !req
1962. Sassy, little girl.
Nasty. Mean.Copy !req
1963. There's nothing? All right.Copy !req
1964. Everything's cool.Copy !req
1965. I'm officially off everybody's
payroll. Burke Stodger just called me.Copy !req
1966. You're a dangerous hombre.Copy !req
1967. Drive.Copy !req
1968. You all right?Copy !req
1969. I'm nervous.Copy !req
1970. Yeah.Copy !req
1971. You know what the Indians say.Copy !req
1972. - You saved my life...
- Ugh...Copy !req
1973. now you're
responsible for it.Copy !req
1974. No, man. No, that's not true.Copy !req
1975. Some hippie made that up, man.Copy !req
1976. You saved your own life, man.
Now you get to live it.Copy !req
1977. Baby!Copy !req
1978. Yet there is no avoiding time.Copy !req
1979. The sea of time.Copy !req
1980. The sea of memory
and forgetfulness.Copy !req
1981. The years of promise gone
and unrecoverable.Copy !req
1982. Of theCopy !req
1983. only to have that claim jumped
by evildoers known all too well...Copy !req
1984. and taken instead...Copy !req
1985. and held hostage to the future
we must live in now, forever.Copy !req
1986. So who got her?Copy !req
1987. Department of Justice.Copy !req
1988. So, like, uh,
justice was served?Copy !req
1989. That's exactly right, Doc.
That's exactly right.Copy !req
1990. May we trust this blessed ship
is bound for some better shore.Copy !req
1991. Risen and redeemed.Copy !req
1992. Where the American fate
mercifully failed to transpire.Copy !req
1993. Don't get up.Copy !req
1994. Bigfoot. Man...Copy !req
1995. You smashed down my door?Copy !req
1996. Come on.Copy !req
1997. After a long and busy day
of civil rights violations...Copy !req
1998. I found myself in the neighborhood
and compelled to drop in.Copy !req
1999. Just to check and see the current state
of affairs of my old stomping grounds.Copy !req
2000. Seeing as your effort to keep
lines of communication had been...Copy !req
2001. “limited.Copy !req
2002. To say the least.Copy !req
2003. Well, I've been busy.Copy !req
2004. Trying to figure out which side of
the Zig-Zag paper's the sticky side?Copy !req
2005. Give it to me.Copy !req
2006. Listen.Copy !req
2007. - I'm sorry about last night.
- I'm sorry about last nightCopy !req
2008. You?
'You?Copy !req
2009. Why should you be sorry?Copy !req
2010. Weird.Copy !req
2011. Uh...Copy !req
2012. Are you okay, brother?Copy !req
2013. I'm not your brother.Copy !req
2014. No,
but you could use a keeper.Copy !req
2015. Remember that day?Copy !req
2016. The Ouija board set us off
into that big storm?Copy !req
2017. This feels the
same way tonight.Copy !req
2018. Just us.Copy !req
2019. Together.Copy !req
2020. Almost like being underwater.Copy !req
2021. The world...Copy !req
2022. everything...Copy !req
2023. gone someplace else.Copy !req
2024. Just figured it was
Sortilège setting us up.Copy !req
2025. No.Copy !req
2026. Her Ouija board and...Copy !req
2027. - She knows things, Doc.
- Mm.Copy !req
2028. Maybe about us
that we don't know.Copy !req
2029. This don't mean
we're back together.Copy !req
2030. Of course not.Copy !req