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We have a guy in our office
named Keyes.
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For him a set-up like that would be
just like a slice of rare roast beef.
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In 3 minutes
he'd know it wasn't an accident.
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In 10 minutes
you'd be sitting under the hot lights.
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In half an hour
you'd be signing your name to a confession.
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But Walter,
I didn't and I'm not going to do it.
:28:15
Not if there's an insurance company
in the picture, baby.
:28:17
They know more tricks
than a carload of monkeys.
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And if there's a death mixed up
in it, you haven't got a prayer.
:28:22
They'll hang you as sure as
ten dimes will buy a dollar.
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And I don't want you to hang, baby.
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Stop thinking about it, will you.
:28:36
So we just sat there, and she started
crying softly, like the rain on the window
:28:40
and we didn't say anything. Maybe she had
stopped thinking about it, but I hadn't.
:28:46
I couldn't. Because it all tied up with
something I had been thinking about for years
:28:50
since long before I ever ran into
Phyllis Dietrichson.
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Because, in this business you can't sleep
for trying to figure out the tricks...
:28:59
they could pull on you.
:29:00
You're like the guy
behind the roulette wheel...
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watching the customers to make sure
they don't crook the house.
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And then one night, you get to thinking
how you could crook the house yourself.
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And do it smart. Because you've
got that wheel right under your hands.
:29:13
And you know every notch in it by heart.
:29:15
And you figure all you need
is a plant out in front
:29:18
a shill to put down the bet.
:29:21
And suddenly the doorbell rings...
:29:22
and the whole set-up is right there
in the room with you.
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Look, Keyes,
I'm not trying to whitewash myself.
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I fought it, only...
I guess I didn't fight it hard enough.
:29:37
The stakes were $50,000,
but they were the life of a man, too
:29:42
a man who'd never done me any dirt,
except...
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he was married to a woman
he didn't care anything about
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and I did...