1:28:12
Hello. Sergeant Polhaus there?
1:28:14
Yeah. Put him on. This is Sam Spade.
1:28:18
Hello. Tom? Now, listen.
I've got something for you. Here it is:
1:28:21
Jacoby and Thursby were killed
by a kid named Wilmer Cook.
1:28:24
Yeah. He's about 20 years old, 5-foot-6,
wearing a gray overcoat.
1:28:28
He's working for a man named
Kasper Gutman.
1:28:30
You can't miss Gutman.
He must weigh 300 pounds.
1:28:33
That fellow Cairo's in with him, too.
1:28:34
They just left for the Alexandria Hotel.
1:28:36
You'll have to move fast.
They're blowing town.
1:28:38
Watch yourself when you go up
against the kid.
1:28:41
Yes, that's right. Very.
1:28:42
Well, good luck, Tom.
1:28:44
They'll talk when they're nailed about us.
1:28:46
We only have minutes to get set
for the police. Give me all of it fast!
1:28:49
When you first came to me,
why did you want Thursby shadowed?
1:28:52
I thought he betrayed me.
I wanted to find out.
1:28:54
A lie! You knew you had Thursby hooked!
You wanted to kill him...
1:28:57
...before Jacoby came with the loot so you
wouldn't have to split it with him. Right?
1:29:02
If he knew someone was following him,
he'd be frightened away.
1:29:05
Miles wasn't clumsy enough
to be spotted the first night.
1:29:07
You told Thursby he was being followed.
1:29:12
I told him.
1:29:14
I told him.
1:29:17
Yes, but please believe me.
1:29:18
I wouldn't have if I thought
Floyd would kill him.
1:29:20
If you thought he wouldn't kill Miles,
you were right.
1:29:23
Miles hadn't many brains,
but too much experience...
1:29:25
...as a detective to be caught
by a man he was shadowing...
1:29:28
...up a blind alley with his gun
and his overcoat buttoned.
1:29:30
But he'd have gone up there
with you, angel.
1:29:33
He was just dumb enough for that.
1:29:35
He'd have looked you up and down,
licked his lips and gone...
1:29:38
...grinning from ear to ear.
1:29:40
You could have stood
as close to him as you liked...
1:29:42
...and shot him with a gun you got
from Thursby that night.
1:29:45
-Don't say that!
-The police'll be here any minute! Talk!
1:29:48
Why do you accuse me--
1:29:49
It's not the time for that schoolgirl act!
We're both sitting under the gallows!
1:29:52
Now, why did you shoot Miles?
1:29:55
I didn't mean to at first, really, I didn't.
1:29:59
But when I found out
that Floyd couldn't be frightened....