August 2, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Stay exective, vacancy.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's my f as a Carlos Salsata the Mexican console
called nose. Well, we will tell them that's not what
we thought. It was the whole everything. I'll get to
them as soon as I can.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yes, then you sounds so tired?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
All?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Along?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I am, and I am not. There were too many
windmills to chase, too much language I didn't understand, and
much too much Vencanza which is Spanish for venetta, which
is English for vengeance in any language is dynamite with
a short fused.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
And you knew what was going about all along, Sam.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It was revenge, it was, and it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
What about the girl?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Is she alllng?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
She is and she isn't. I am confused, exactly par
for the course, but don't worry if it'll straighten out
like star spaghetti when I come down to say it
with Flowers dictating as I will, my report of fury
and ferment on the Red Amapolar Caper. I'm a poll
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my pretty little talk Kiars.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'll be today at mister t called I tell him
what you told me to.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Tell from more. I couldn't ask that.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Do you understood what.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You meant perfectly?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I don't understand the thing you will?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You know, I may have to trade this stuff in
for the kiel it. No messing around as straight to
the point of virtue. Some people might do well to
clivate just only one.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Thing, Sam, What did it?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Sark?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Let's left, Terry f to the point? Remember pad ready,
pencil poised, knees crossed, Yes, Sam, skirt a little bit higher,
but already all right the date. Fill it into the technive,
Lieutenant Kelsey. Homicide details, San Francisco Police from Samuel Spate
ninety six, Sajik the red I'm a polar caper. The
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following is as you requested, that the tailed account of
the thirty one hours sixteen minutes I spent in the
case of Amando Rios and daughter. I trust that the
answer all your questions solve your commissioner problems and enable
you to speedily despatch. Your duty is one of the
city's finest. They have an help on a city. So
I'll come back with me to three pm yesterday, the
approximate time I stepped into my office and start standing
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nervously by the window. A Mexican girl in her early twenties.
Her clothes, though neat and clean, were rummage sales specials
which the same better days. Her bare legs were too thin,
her face is too drawn, but the midnight color of
her hair and the lisness of her eyes told me
she could have been beautiful if things had gone another way.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I'm glad you have come. I couldn't have waited much longer.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I'm sorry I didn't know you were here.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
My name is Undrea Rus. I would like to hire you,
but I do not have much money.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Much money may not be needed this raels, What is
it you want your time?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Mister state? You see, if you have said this job,
I must have all of your time from now until
tomorrow morning. You kind of accept. You must tell me
not how I can get someone else.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I see, I can only take thirty dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I know it is much to ask for thirty.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Dollars, ask for more for less.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
The job may be difficult for you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You will not be able to sleep, and I can
make that up on somebody else's time. Then you will help, Yes,
I think so. I would like to hear more about it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
We will go to my father. You will learn more there.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
She led me to the Nara street car headed for
south of the slot and paid the fare. Twenty minutes later,
we were walking through the San Francisco That's left over,
where the liquor is cheap and one cigarette's property. The
sounds of a jazzed up Spanish song caught my ear,
and the beer signs turned to serve as. The building
Andrea Rios picked to go into was old enough to
give the term I was indigestion. The faded sign said
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la casa asou. He knocked on the door of Room twelve.
Andrea Papa, the weather beaten face that stood in the doorway,
figured to be sixty at the age should have come
from concern. He wore a black sweatshirt, pants to match,
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and a dirty white sailor's cap. Inside on the tables
had a bottle of high Arctae Enjoys used that witch
hazel with a misnomer Tequila. The lemon and salt stood alongside,
and a bad layer double dig with a black letter Santa.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Susanna senor State Detectivo.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
My father speaks no English.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I see ens confiss rado.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
She asks, if you are an honest man.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's a question no man can answer with complete honesty.
Kayleas detO, Andre ky Savina Antraguito.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
My father's says, too, stee down and have a drink.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Tell father, I will, but I'd enjoy it more if
I knew why I was hired.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Yes, of course, to spend the night here, mister states,
with my father, to keep an eye on him.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Protection. No, well, there must be more to it.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
We want you to be able to tastify my father's
aware about this night. If he truly commisition what's.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Going to happen this night? Something he wants your father
and the clear. Yes, well that sounds fair enough. That's
all there is. I'll have that drink now, there'll being
up the last The window pane came flying into the
ugly muzzle of a forty five silence of attached stuck through.
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I yelled short an Andrea, but the gun yelled louder
and with more effects. The bullets boundary on the sight.
She looks crazy at me, then folded in her father's arms.
He began to mumble her name and cry. I jumped
to the window. Pulling away was a black Buick's, The
man with driver unidentifiable so with the license places. They
were covered tightly with a cloth. It was a pro
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job from beginning to end, and a clean getaway. Well,
I was still alive, but not by much. I turned
up a phone in the lobby. One Nickel got me
the emergency hospital. The other brought me homicide. When I
got back to the room, Andrea was still lying there,
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but she was alone Amando Rios, her father had gone,
and I thought I knew why revenge exactly, Lieutenant. I
think Rios knows who shot his daughter because I think
the bullets were meant for him and she got him
by mistake. I think therefore that Rios has got revenge
on his mind. Now, let you have Rios picked up
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before he does something he can't get out of. Yeah,
I'll make a note of that. Also make a note
as follows, I, Lieutenant Kelsey, will check the Mexican consul
for background on Rios, because I, Lieutenant Kelsey, believe Rios
is a Mexican national. Not so fast. Furthermore, I, Lieutenant Kelsey,
will make a close check of all incoming police calls
for the rest of the night because something is going
to happen for which Rios wanted an Alibi. When I
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find out what saying is, I will graciously inform Sam spade, Sam,
how do you get spelled? Graciously? I went to the
offices of several Mexican language newspapers, told them the story
and asked them to give a place of prominence the
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fact that Andrea was alive, asking Amando Raos to go
directly to the Narest police station and wait until contacted.
I then went to the Maritime Service and quarried about
the Santa Susana. I was told it was a sport
fishing vessel owned by its captain J Mortigan, with office
in the ocean building I named Barcadero, the name flat
on the Tisian had secretary's desk except Janice O'Dell.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yes, could I help you please?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I think so? This is the office of the Santa Susana.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Oh you're planning fishing sit well, then you've come to
the right place. Sata Suzanna has excellent accommodations. Is saily
outfitted for an extended cruise in the Bay of California,
where as you know, exists some of the greatest fishing
waters in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's the same of you, miss, I'll do my fishing here.
My name is State. I'm a private effective. I am
trying to locate on the Mondo Rios. I said something.
You know he's uh got a berth on the Santa Susanna.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Well he has, at least he had. What's he doing
in State?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well let's say what he will? That that bothers me.
You say he had a birth. Would you explain please?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I just a moment of state.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Captain Mortigan surprised detective out here asking about Amanda Rios.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Real him in.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Here, mistake?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Thank him?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
N Morgan.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Captain Mortigan, I asked, hipping the Santa Susanna, the finest
sport fishing vessel ever to touch salt water.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Everybody's got a commercial Miss O'Dell says, you're asking about
real I am. I'm trying to okay, and so am.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I I've got steam up and a dozen people waiting.
Rios knows those Mexican fishing waters like no one I've met.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And where is he jumped ship to ask?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
He scampering around San Francisco or dead drunk in some
infamous bin from that cactus.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Poison he drinks SARMs of a captain. I'm like to
ask you a few questions. Where does Rayo's room when
he's in San Francisco stays right on the ship. Did
you know he had a daughter? No, you don't have
any idea. I suppose why rails jump ship. It's a woman,
that's my get. It's always a woman that is just
a guest. All right, Captain, I'll make a small sized
deal with you. If I find Rayos, I'll notify you.
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If you find them, first, notify me. I lady in
my car, martigan a great and I left, pausing only
long enough in the front office to give Janis O'Dell
my phone number in case she saw Rios. She gave
me her phone number, and it was a fair exchange.
Twenty minutes later I looked on and I was meeting
with Carlos Salcido of the Mexican Consul's office. A while
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he had sent to Mexico City had brought results.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
So, mister Stade, you have not yet found Amandurrios, but
are still desirous of preventing him from consummating his revenge.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I fear perhaps you are too late. What information have
you gone, missus socio?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
First, Amando Rios was arrested in the Mexican state of
Sinaloa for the growing of the red amapola.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You are aware of what that is. Am Apollo names
poppy from the song of the same name.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Exactly the red puppy grown for the production of narcotics.
The arrest occurred on August nineteenth, nineteen forty six.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Rio served three years in the penitentiary as a.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Result, convicted mainly on the testimony of an Ernesto Sabado,
who Rios claimed, as you say, framed him.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Ah. Now look at this. An inquiry from the authors
of the District.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Attorney of Marine County, California, requesting information about a Mexican
national whose dead body was discovered two hours ago washed
ashore at point Bonito, a Mexican national whose.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Name is Nestor Sabato. Yeah, An, you think perhaps REOs
killed Sabao. Distinct possibility, mister state, since he had motive all,
That's exactly why I don't think he did it. Rio's
Newsapada was going to be killed sometime tonight. That's the
reason Andrea hired me, so or father's whereabouts could be
accounted for, and so he could not be accused. Now,
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mister Celcia, no I don't think Riyos killed Sabada.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Well, I hope you are right, for his sake and
for his daughters, who we both hope we'll get with.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The one who kills Sabato is probably the same one
who drives a black Buick San who took those pot
shots at Riyos and called Andre instead, the same one
who Rios has now got a vendette again. However you
say it, it's a sucker's play, But how do you
stop him if you can't find him? Thank you, mister Celcia.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Though I must admit, mister Spade, I do not fully
understand your concern over Rios.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
As a matter of fact, I'm not sure of it myself.
But he got a rotten shuffle. I got a knight's pay,
so I might as well work for it. Besides, well,
I'll let you know what develops. The next four hours
the lieutenant was spending questioning the following a two members
of the crew of the Santa Susannah, the assorted residents
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of La Cassa see Inspector Grober and Marine County Dias
Off as a sign of as a botto case, some
total of information gone it concerning me? Whereabout the Vermando Rios,
and or the identity of the gunman he was after zero.
I was tired, I was depressed. I had a headache.
Five minutes to eleven, A coin of mind dropped into
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a payphone and a boot by a gas station closed
for the night. My intention was to find out if
you had turned up anything, and to ask how Andrea was.
But you never got to hear my honeyed voice. Hang
it up, spade. It was a voice that wasn't familiar.
The forty five was silent. W or a fixed however
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was It didn't take me long to start perspiring. Read
the nickel spech. You won't need it. Good evening. I've
been wondering about you. I'll bet you have. You're sort
of a NOVELI you know, the only myopic gunman I've
ever met. What's that mean? You're near sighted? You got
the wrong person back it like Casa a su Of course,
I have to send you out again for Rios. I
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don't like your state.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
I don't know you, but I don't like you anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I guess I'll kill you so I'll never have to
take a chance of knowing you. Now, come on, step out,
gun shoot he urged me out of the phone booth
up the straight a few places to the head of
an alley with a blind end. There he parked himself
in a fireplug. I wished him all sorts of bad luck,
and he told me to start walking into the alley.
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Mine was a small choice, but as I moved away
from the guns will tow the alley's in my eyes
searched for means of escape.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I like, state, that's fair enough.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Now I'm gonna pick your eyes out. Tell. I stood
posing for a moment, then spawning. Look the Gunzil had
pitched on to the sidewalk, but the forty five was
still in his hand. I moved up to him, slowly,
with a maximum couchman. Took a closer look. He was
as dead as he could get. A knife in his
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back had done the job. That's when I looked up
the straight and saw a figure and fast for free.
It wore a black sweatshirt pants the match in a
dirty white sailor cap. It looked very much like the
ven ganza of Amando Rios was accomplished. You arrived at
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the scene of the crying lieutenant, where you took over
in your own masterly way, by the adroit maneuver of
looking into the dead man's wallet, you uncovered the fact
that he was a Los Angeles import named Max Rappert.
He then examined a knife in his bag and discovered,
as I had previously, the initials a R for Amando
Rios cut into the handle. That, plus the fact that
I and other witness had seen Amando Rios flee the scene,
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made it open and shut. Rios was now wanted for murder.
When we got to your office, a message had been
received by Sergeant Paul Unce from doctor Pennington of General Hospital.
It said one Andrea Rios was going to live two.
She wanted to see Sam Spade. Was it all right?
You had no objection, But I had a problem what
to say to her? Could I say it was nice?
She was gonna get well? And oh, by the way,
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your father you killed Max rapper and the staple do
likewise to him?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Or what?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
My mind still hadn't let on anything it liked. When
Pennington walked me down the hospital corridor, tought her room.
She's a lucky girl, mister Spade. She could have gone
the other way. Yeah, it would have been unlucky. I
wait outside don't stay too long. The jet black of
her hair gave contrast to the whiteness of the room.
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Her face had lost much of its color, but none
of the anxiety had gone out of her eyes. We
taught chet chat for a while. It was easy to
see she had a question she wanted to ask, but
I had trouble getting it out.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Finally it came, mister Steed, have you heard, I mean,
is there any news of the death of a man
called ernest Sava.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yes, the police found his body washed ashore some hours ago.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
My father is not killing him.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Oh, he's clear on that. I can testify.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Oh, that is what I was worrying about.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Now, mister Steed, I can tell you what you do
not know about my father and Ernesto Sabado.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I already know. Carlo Salcedo, the Mexican console told.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Me the red Amopollo.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Oh, it was an unfortunate affair for a great many people.
Mister State buyers from the United States came to Sinaloa with.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
The money the peasants were lord and to grow in
the puppy. Many knew no better.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Many did not know what it was for. They knew
simply to grow the red flower brought more money than
to grow food. When the police came, they suffered the
bias from nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It's all right now. My father did not kill the
mist of Sabado.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
All the tenant. She did not learn about NX rapper
was killing from me that her father was now a
fugitive wanted for murder. I also didn't ask her some
questions I could have asked, like how did you know
as Obata was going to be killed? Did rap her
do it? And why? Somehow it didn't matter, and it
turned sour all the way down the line. And besides,
Savata was inspected Gruber's problem, not mine. Twenty minutes later,
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I walked into my apartment, uncoughcked the live one and
started at the top four fingers down. The phone began
to ring, but I didn't say any attention. The sky
was just beginning to light up with the morning, and
I remember saying to myself, I was still technically on
the rio's case, but actually there was no case to
be on. When I couldn't stand the phone rings any longer,
I looked at the receiver off the hook.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Sam Sam, Hello, Sam's is Jennifer Dae.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I just saw reals.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Wow, I was going to kill Captain Mortigan.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Mortigan, Why I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We went to the set of Susanna after him per
thirty two rials is wild stopping Sam?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Why call me? Call a cop? Hello? Hello. Twelve minutes later,
I was moving through the early fog of the waterfront
looking for the Santuses in it. Black letters and a
bobbing white bar led me to it, but no signs
of life came from aboard ship. A quick tour had
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me believing it was deserted and that either Rios had
caught up with Mortigan someplace else for what reason I
didn't know, we could guess, or the Janis had given
me wrong information. Moments later, however, in the boiler room,
it was clear she hadn't. The furnace was open, coals
were spread on the floor, and so was a dead
Captain Mortigan, slouched in a chair with his eyes closed
in a daze. Was a worn out of Mondo Rios.
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He should have been he'd had a busy night. Rios, Uh,
wake up, Raos, It got it and any language is dead.
If that's what you mean, you couldn't be any clearer.
It's a lombris. It's so good a game to the
if weed I oh it is some he knew it.
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Don't then either love the gun and Ganza too much?
When Gonza you fixed the mine, Andrea is gonna feel
swell upout. It's come on Rays. Oh oh Kelsey, Oh
oh shoot man, what are you doing here? Got a
call from a girl named Belle something Odell? Oh? Yeah
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is this Ray? What have you got to say for yourself?
You ready to sign a statement? He doesn't understand you, Kelsey, Oh,
com me hang up. He doesn't speak English all. They
won't get off at e. They will sweat it out
of him. No, no, I'll cut the time. Yeah, that's
what they all say. Wow, look at this, he's carrying
a gun. Gun. Why would he use my knife if
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you had a gun? God asked May. I don't speak Spanish. There.
What's all this cold going on the floor? This messy?
It's bad on photographs. Yeah, well wait a minute, lord Fennis,
you've done it again. I picked up a lump of
the coal. There was a small hole bored into the center.
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Examination of others reveal the same thing. Jillious, you'd say,
not so when you start thinking about one, the Red
arm a Polar two, the fact that the battle's killing
still remain unexplained, and Pree and Dingo narcotic smuggling. A
phone book gave me an address on Jason, and a
rap on a door got me a quick reply, huh,
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good morning, Jannis. I didn't wait yet, did I will?
It's so you must sleep in your clothes and that
suitcase and the bed must make it kind of cramped.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
What are you doing here, Sam?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Heavy?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, that's going on a little vacations for a few days.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Where too, we got a plane taken on a dressing
last Vegas hot there this time of the year. Of
course it's hot here too for some of us.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I want you to open your suit case? Do it,
and I will, Sam, go do it? What's this Jannis?
Now I've already guessed how much worth? Zibara was killed
by a rapper on Captain Mortigan's orders because he knew
this was coming in on the Santa Susannah and probably
wanted to cut to keep his mouth shut. Rapper and
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Mortigan got theirs, not by Rios, but by you, so
you could fall out of this. For old Rios, old
and wanted. He might have muffed his revenge, so you
took no chances, did them in yourself? With Riosh are nice, fat,
convenient pigeon. But the police are gonna find it harder
and harder to get a case against Rios, and easy
and easier to get one against you. These are iconics
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in your possession, will go a long ways. As long
as I've got a gun in my hand, I'll listen
to you. Baby.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
There's over one hundred thousand dollars worth here, and I know.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Where to unload it. And what wasn't it for me?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Ha from something else?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah? Me? Uh huh? That would seemed to be worth considering,
wasn't it say?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I'm a chance to make something out of yourself and
not grub around a few lousy bucks all your life.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Turn me over the cops, not just any old cop, Chennis.
I want something befitting your case. I am trying to
turn you over to Lieutenant Kelsey. And that was that
brings you up to date the period and of report.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
That's awful good.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
We'll talk about it later later later, go side it up,
studio off.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Can we talk about it now?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
We can?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
How could that girl talk for one single moment she
could turn a man like you into her accomplice.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Very poor judgment to sell dope.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yet, yes, do I look the time I should say
that you're upstanding in clean cop o.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Thank you. Maybe she was nearsighted too.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Anyway, I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
It's to bring happy under well.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I'm glad if you are glad, Now rush that over
to Kelsea so they can look good in the eyes
of the commissioner, and then formed us to Southseato and
tell him the Lieutenant's got all the facts. And one
thing more, I have a four horse send a bouquet
flowers to Andre at the hospital.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Oh Sam, that's very nice of you think.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
So one thing's still more. Close your eyes and have
the floor send the bouquet flowers to you. Two Sam, easy, Yeah,
how do you know it's not coming out of your salary?
That's true too. Good night then, good night'sweetheart.
Stay exective, vacancy.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's my f as a Carlos Salsata the Mexican console
called nose. Well, we will tell them that's not what
we thought. It was the whole everything. I'll get to
them as soon as I can.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yes, then you sounds so tired?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
All?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Along?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I am, and I am not. There were too many
windmills to chase, too much language I didn't understand, and
much too much Vencanza which is Spanish for venetta, which
is English for vengeance in any language is dynamite with
a short fused.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
And you knew what was going about all along, Sam.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It was revenge, it was, and it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
What about the girl?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Is she alllng?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
She is and she isn't. I am confused, exactly par
for the course, but don't worry if it'll straighten out
like star spaghetti when I come down to say it
with Flowers dictating as I will, my report of fury
and ferment on the Red Amapolar Caper. I'm a poll
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my pretty little talk Kiars.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'll be today at mister t called I tell him
what you told me to.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Tell from more. I couldn't ask that.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Do you understood what.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You meant perfectly?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I don't understand the thing you will?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You know, I may have to trade this stuff in
for the kiel it. No messing around as straight to
the point of virtue. Some people might do well to
clivate just only one.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Thing, Sam, What did it?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Sark?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Let's left, Terry f to the point? Remember pad ready,
pencil poised, knees crossed, Yes, Sam, skirt a little bit higher,
but already all right the date. Fill it into the technive,
Lieutenant Kelsey. Homicide details, San Francisco Police from Samuel Spate
ninety six, Sajik the red I'm a polar caper. The
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following is as you requested, that the tailed account of
the thirty one hours sixteen minutes I spent in the
case of Amando Rios and daughter. I trust that the
answer all your questions solve your commissioner problems and enable
you to speedily despatch. Your duty is one of the
city's finest. They have an help on a city. So
I'll come back with me to three pm yesterday, the
approximate time I stepped into my office and start standing
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nervously by the window. A Mexican girl in her early twenties.
Her clothes, though neat and clean, were rummage sales specials
which the same better days. Her bare legs were too thin,
her face is too drawn, but the midnight color of
her hair and the lisness of her eyes told me
she could have been beautiful if things had gone another way.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I'm glad you have come. I couldn't have waited much longer.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I'm sorry I didn't know you were here.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
My name is Undrea Rus. I would like to hire you,
but I do not have much money.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Much money may not be needed this raels, What is
it you want your time?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Mister state? You see, if you have said this job,
I must have all of your time from now until
tomorrow morning. You kind of accept. You must tell me
not how I can get someone else.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I see, I can only take thirty dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I know it is much to ask for thirty.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Dollars, ask for more for less.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
The job may be difficult for you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You will not be able to sleep, and I can
make that up on somebody else's time. Then you will help, Yes,
I think so. I would like to hear more about it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
We will go to my father. You will learn more there.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
She led me to the Nara street car headed for
south of the slot and paid the fare. Twenty minutes later,
we were walking through the San Francisco That's left over,
where the liquor is cheap and one cigarette's property. The
sounds of a jazzed up Spanish song caught my ear,
and the beer signs turned to serve as. The building
Andrea Rios picked to go into was old enough to
give the term I was indigestion. The faded sign said
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la casa asou. He knocked on the door of Room twelve.
Andrea Papa, the weather beaten face that stood in the doorway,
figured to be sixty at the age should have come
from concern. He wore a black sweatshirt, pants to match,
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and a dirty white sailor's cap. Inside on the tables
had a bottle of high Arctae Enjoys used that witch
hazel with a misnomer Tequila. The lemon and salt stood alongside,
and a bad layer double dig with a black letter Santa.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Susanna senor State Detectivo.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
My father speaks no English.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I see ens confiss rado.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
She asks, if you are an honest man.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's a question no man can answer with complete honesty.
Kayleas detO, Andre ky Savina Antraguito.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
My father's says, too, stee down and have a drink.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Tell father, I will, but I'd enjoy it more if
I knew why I was hired.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Yes, of course, to spend the night here, mister states,
with my father, to keep an eye on him.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Protection. No, well, there must be more to it.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
We want you to be able to tastify my father's
aware about this night. If he truly commisition what's.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Going to happen this night? Something he wants your father
and the clear. Yes, well that sounds fair enough. That's
all there is. I'll have that drink now, there'll being
up the last The window pane came flying into the
ugly muzzle of a forty five silence of attached stuck through.
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I yelled short an Andrea, but the gun yelled louder
and with more effects. The bullets boundary on the sight.
She looks crazy at me, then folded in her father's arms.
He began to mumble her name and cry. I jumped
to the window. Pulling away was a black Buick's, The
man with driver unidentifiable so with the license places. They
were covered tightly with a cloth. It was a pro
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job from beginning to end, and a clean getaway. Well,
I was still alive, but not by much. I turned
up a phone in the lobby. One Nickel got me
the emergency hospital. The other brought me homicide. When I
got back to the room, Andrea was still lying there,
(06:10):
but she was alone Amando Rios, her father had gone,
and I thought I knew why revenge exactly, Lieutenant. I
think Rios knows who shot his daughter because I think
the bullets were meant for him and she got him
by mistake. I think therefore that Rios has got revenge
on his mind. Now, let you have Rios picked up
(06:33):
before he does something he can't get out of. Yeah,
I'll make a note of that. Also make a note
as follows, I, Lieutenant Kelsey, will check the Mexican consul
for background on Rios, because I, Lieutenant Kelsey, believe Rios
is a Mexican national. Not so fast. Furthermore, I, Lieutenant Kelsey,
will make a close check of all incoming police calls
for the rest of the night because something is going
to happen for which Rios wanted an Alibi. When I
(06:54):
find out what saying is, I will graciously inform Sam spade, Sam,
how do you get spelled? Graciously? I went to the
offices of several Mexican language newspapers, told them the story
and asked them to give a place of prominence the
(07:14):
fact that Andrea was alive, asking Amando Raos to go
directly to the Narest police station and wait until contacted.
I then went to the Maritime Service and quarried about
the Santa Susana. I was told it was a sport
fishing vessel owned by its captain J Mortigan, with office
in the ocean building I named Barcadero, the name flat
on the Tisian had secretary's desk except Janice O'Dell.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yes, could I help you please?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I think so? This is the office of the Santa Susana.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Oh you're planning fishing sit well, then you've come to
the right place. Sata Suzanna has excellent accommodations. Is saily
outfitted for an extended cruise in the Bay of California,
where as you know, exists some of the greatest fishing
waters in the world.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's the same of you, miss, I'll do my fishing here.
My name is State. I'm a private effective. I am
trying to locate on the Mondo Rios. I said something.
You know he's uh got a berth on the Santa Susanna.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Well he has, at least he had. What's he doing
in State?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well let's say what he will? That that bothers me.
You say he had a birth. Would you explain please?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I just a moment of state.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Captain Mortigan surprised detective out here asking about Amanda Rios.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Real him in.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Here, mistake?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Thank him?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
N Morgan.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Captain Mortigan, I asked, hipping the Santa Susanna, the finest
sport fishing vessel ever to touch salt water.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Everybody's got a commercial Miss O'Dell says, you're asking about
real I am. I'm trying to okay, and so am.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I I've got steam up and a dozen people waiting.
Rios knows those Mexican fishing waters like no one I've met.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And where is he jumped ship to ask?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
He scampering around San Francisco or dead drunk in some
infamous bin from that cactus.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Poison he drinks SARMs of a captain. I'm like to
ask you a few questions. Where does Rayo's room when
he's in San Francisco stays right on the ship. Did
you know he had a daughter? No, you don't have
any idea. I suppose why rails jump ship. It's a woman,
that's my get. It's always a woman that is just
a guest. All right, Captain, I'll make a small sized
deal with you. If I find Rayos, I'll notify you.
(09:20):
If you find them, first, notify me. I lady in
my car, martigan a great and I left, pausing only
long enough in the front office to give Janis O'Dell
my phone number in case she saw Rios. She gave
me her phone number, and it was a fair exchange.
Twenty minutes later I looked on and I was meeting
with Carlos Salcido of the Mexican Consul's office. A while
(09:43):
he had sent to Mexico City had brought results.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
So, mister Stade, you have not yet found Amandurrios, but
are still desirous of preventing him from consummating his revenge.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I fear perhaps you are too late. What information have
you gone, missus socio?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
First, Amando Rios was arrested in the Mexican state of
Sinaloa for the growing of the red amapola.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You are aware of what that is. Am Apollo names
poppy from the song of the same name.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Exactly the red puppy grown for the production of narcotics.
The arrest occurred on August nineteenth, nineteen forty six.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Rio served three years in the penitentiary as a.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Result, convicted mainly on the testimony of an Ernesto Sabado,
who Rios claimed, as you say, framed him.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Ah. Now look at this. An inquiry from the authors
of the District.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Attorney of Marine County, California, requesting information about a Mexican
national whose dead body was discovered two hours ago washed
ashore at point Bonito, a Mexican national whose.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Name is Nestor Sabato. Yeah, An, you think perhaps REOs
killed Sabao. Distinct possibility, mister state, since he had motive all,
That's exactly why I don't think he did it. Rio's
Newsapada was going to be killed sometime tonight. That's the
reason Andrea hired me, so or father's whereabouts could be
accounted for, and so he could not be accused. Now,
(11:04):
mister Celcia, no I don't think Riyos killed Sabada.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Well, I hope you are right, for his sake and
for his daughters, who we both hope we'll get with.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The one who kills Sabato is probably the same one
who drives a black Buick San who took those pot
shots at Riyos and called Andre instead, the same one
who Rios has now got a vendette again. However you
say it, it's a sucker's play, But how do you
stop him if you can't find him? Thank you, mister Celcia.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Though I must admit, mister Spade, I do not fully
understand your concern over Rios.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
As a matter of fact, I'm not sure of it myself.
But he got a rotten shuffle. I got a knight's pay,
so I might as well work for it. Besides, well,
I'll let you know what develops. The next four hours
the lieutenant was spending questioning the following a two members
of the crew of the Santa Susannah, the assorted residents
(11:59):
of La Cassa see Inspector Grober and Marine County Dias
Off as a sign of as a botto case, some
total of information gone it concerning me? Whereabout the Vermando Rios,
and or the identity of the gunman he was after zero.
I was tired, I was depressed. I had a headache.
Five minutes to eleven, A coin of mind dropped into
(12:19):
a payphone and a boot by a gas station closed
for the night. My intention was to find out if
you had turned up anything, and to ask how Andrea was.
But you never got to hear my honeyed voice. Hang
it up, spade. It was a voice that wasn't familiar.
The forty five was silent. W or a fixed however
(12:40):
was It didn't take me long to start perspiring. Read
the nickel spech. You won't need it. Good evening. I've
been wondering about you. I'll bet you have. You're sort
of a NOVELI you know, the only myopic gunman I've
ever met. What's that mean? You're near sighted? You got
the wrong person back it like Casa a su Of course,
I have to send you out again for Rios. I
(13:01):
don't like your state.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
I don't know you, but I don't like you anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I guess I'll kill you so I'll never have to
take a chance of knowing you. Now, come on, step out,
gun shoot he urged me out of the phone booth
up the straight a few places to the head of
an alley with a blind end. There he parked himself
in a fireplug. I wished him all sorts of bad luck,
and he told me to start walking into the alley.
(13:26):
Mine was a small choice, but as I moved away
from the guns will tow the alley's in my eyes
searched for means of escape.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I like, state, that's fair enough.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Now I'm gonna pick your eyes out. Tell. I stood
posing for a moment, then spawning. Look the Gunzil had
pitched on to the sidewalk, but the forty five was
still in his hand. I moved up to him, slowly,
with a maximum couchman. Took a closer look. He was
as dead as he could get. A knife in his
(13:56):
back had done the job. That's when I looked up
the straight and saw a figure and fast for free.
It wore a black sweatshirt pants the match in a
dirty white sailor cap. It looked very much like the
ven ganza of Amando Rios was accomplished. You arrived at
(14:17):
the scene of the crying lieutenant, where you took over
in your own masterly way, by the adroit maneuver of
looking into the dead man's wallet, you uncovered the fact
that he was a Los Angeles import named Max Rappert.
He then examined a knife in his bag and discovered,
as I had previously, the initials a R for Amando
Rios cut into the handle. That, plus the fact that
I and other witness had seen Amando Rios flee the scene,
(14:38):
made it open and shut. Rios was now wanted for murder.
When we got to your office, a message had been
received by Sergeant Paul Unce from doctor Pennington of General Hospital.
It said one Andrea Rios was going to live two.
She wanted to see Sam Spade. Was it all right?
You had no objection, But I had a problem what
to say to her? Could I say it was nice?
She was gonna get well? And oh, by the way,
(14:59):
your father you killed Max rapper and the staple do
likewise to him?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Or what?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
My mind still hadn't let on anything it liked. When
Pennington walked me down the hospital corridor, tought her room.
She's a lucky girl, mister Spade. She could have gone
the other way. Yeah, it would have been unlucky. I
wait outside don't stay too long. The jet black of
her hair gave contrast to the whiteness of the room.
(15:25):
Her face had lost much of its color, but none
of the anxiety had gone out of her eyes. We
taught chet chat for a while. It was easy to
see she had a question she wanted to ask, but
I had trouble getting it out.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Finally it came, mister Steed, have you heard, I mean,
is there any news of the death of a man
called ernest Sava.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yes, the police found his body washed ashore some hours ago.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
My father is not killing him.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Oh, he's clear on that. I can testify.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Oh, that is what I was worrying about.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Now, mister Steed, I can tell you what you do
not know about my father and Ernesto Sabado.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I already know. Carlo Salcedo, the Mexican console told.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Me the red Amopollo.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Oh, it was an unfortunate affair for a great many people.
Mister State buyers from the United States came to Sinaloa with.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
The money the peasants were lord and to grow in
the puppy. Many knew no better.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Many did not know what it was for. They knew
simply to grow the red flower brought more money than
to grow food. When the police came, they suffered the
bias from nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It's all right now. My father did not kill the
mist of Sabado.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
All the tenant. She did not learn about NX rapper
was killing from me that her father was now a
fugitive wanted for murder. I also didn't ask her some
questions I could have asked, like how did you know
as Obata was going to be killed? Did rap her
do it? And why? Somehow it didn't matter, and it
turned sour all the way down the line. And besides,
Savata was inspected Gruber's problem, not mine. Twenty minutes later,
(17:21):
I walked into my apartment, uncoughcked the live one and
started at the top four fingers down. The phone began
to ring, but I didn't say any attention. The sky
was just beginning to light up with the morning, and
I remember saying to myself, I was still technically on
the rio's case, but actually there was no case to
be on. When I couldn't stand the phone rings any longer,
I looked at the receiver off the hook.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Sam Sam, Hello, Sam's is Jennifer Dae.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I just saw reals.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Wow, I was going to kill Captain Mortigan.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Mortigan, Why I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We went to the set of Susanna after him per
thirty two rials is wild stopping Sam?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Why call me? Call a cop? Hello? Hello. Twelve minutes later,
I was moving through the early fog of the waterfront
looking for the Santuses in it. Black letters and a
bobbing white bar led me to it, but no signs
of life came from aboard ship. A quick tour had
(18:15):
me believing it was deserted and that either Rios had
caught up with Mortigan someplace else for what reason I
didn't know, we could guess, or the Janis had given
me wrong information. Moments later, however, in the boiler room,
it was clear she hadn't. The furnace was open, coals
were spread on the floor, and so was a dead
Captain Mortigan, slouched in a chair with his eyes closed
in a daze. Was a worn out of Mondo Rios.
(18:37):
He should have been he'd had a busy night. Rios, Uh,
wake up, Raos, It got it and any language is dead.
If that's what you mean, you couldn't be any clearer.
It's a lombris. It's so good a game to the
if weed I oh it is some he knew it.
(19:00):
Don't then either love the gun and Ganza too much?
When Gonza you fixed the mine, Andrea is gonna feel
swell upout. It's come on Rays. Oh oh Kelsey, Oh
oh shoot man, what are you doing here? Got a
call from a girl named Belle something Odell? Oh? Yeah
(19:21):
is this Ray? What have you got to say for yourself?
You ready to sign a statement? He doesn't understand you, Kelsey, Oh,
com me hang up. He doesn't speak English all. They
won't get off at e. They will sweat it out
of him. No, no, I'll cut the time. Yeah, that's
what they all say. Wow, look at this, he's carrying
a gun. Gun. Why would he use my knife if
(19:42):
you had a gun? God asked May. I don't speak Spanish. There.
What's all this cold going on the floor? This messy?
It's bad on photographs. Yeah, well wait a minute, lord Fennis,
you've done it again. I picked up a lump of
the coal. There was a small hole bored into the center.
(20:05):
Examination of others reveal the same thing. Jillious, you'd say,
not so when you start thinking about one, the Red
arm a Polar two, the fact that the battle's killing
still remain unexplained, and Pree and Dingo narcotic smuggling. A
phone book gave me an address on Jason, and a
rap on a door got me a quick reply, huh,
(20:28):
good morning, Jannis. I didn't wait yet, did I will?
It's so you must sleep in your clothes and that
suitcase and the bed must make it kind of cramped.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
What are you doing here, Sam?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Heavy?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, that's going on a little vacations for a few days.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Where too, we got a plane taken on a dressing
last Vegas hot there this time of the year. Of
course it's hot here too for some of us.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I want you to open your suit case? Do it,
and I will, Sam, go do it? What's this Jannis?
Now I've already guessed how much worth? Zibara was killed
by a rapper on Captain Mortigan's orders because he knew
this was coming in on the Santa Susannah and probably
wanted to cut to keep his mouth shut. Rapper and
(21:10):
Mortigan got theirs, not by Rios, but by you, so
you could fall out of this. For old Rios, old
and wanted. He might have muffed his revenge, so you
took no chances, did them in yourself? With Riosh are nice, fat,
convenient pigeon. But the police are gonna find it harder
and harder to get a case against Rios, and easy
and easier to get one against you. These are iconics
(21:31):
in your possession, will go a long ways. As long
as I've got a gun in my hand, I'll listen
to you. Baby.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
There's over one hundred thousand dollars worth here, and I know.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Where to unload it. And what wasn't it for me?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Ha from something else?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah? Me? Uh huh? That would seemed to be worth considering,
wasn't it say?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I'm a chance to make something out of yourself and
not grub around a few lousy bucks all your life.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Turn me over the cops, not just any old cop, Chennis.
I want something befitting your case. I am trying to
turn you over to Lieutenant Kelsey. And that was that
brings you up to date the period and of report.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
That's awful good.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
We'll talk about it later later later, go side it up,
studio off.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Can we talk about it now?
Speaker 6 (22:29):
We can?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
How could that girl talk for one single moment she
could turn a man like you into her accomplice.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Very poor judgment to sell dope.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yet, yes, do I look the time I should say
that you're upstanding in clean cop o.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Thank you. Maybe she was nearsighted too.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Anyway, I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
It's to bring happy under well.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I'm glad if you are glad, Now rush that over
to Kelsea so they can look good in the eyes
of the commissioner, and then formed us to Southseato and
tell him the Lieutenant's got all the facts. And one
thing more, I have a four horse send a bouquet
flowers to Andre at the hospital.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Oh Sam, that's very nice of you think.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
So one thing's still more. Close your eyes and have
the floor send the bouquet flowers to you. Two Sam, easy, Yeah,
how do you know it's not coming out of your salary?
That's true too. Good night then, good night'sweetheart.
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