:12:07
-You say your name is Ralph Henderson.
-So what?
:12:11
lt's a funny thing, Ralph.
:12:12
There's a guy in town
who's been wearing your fingerprints.
:12:15
Only, his name is Pete Hammond.
:12:17
Okay, so l'm dead.
:12:21
What's one more confession in my life?
:12:24
Now you're talking, Hammond. Okay, Andy.
:12:28
-Hello, Harry. What have we got here?
-Some robbery suspects.
:12:32
Candidates for San Quentin.
:12:34
Handsome here is the big shot.
He runs the outfit.
:12:39
Have a gander at his record.
:12:41
''Car theft,
escape from reform school, robbery...
:12:45
''assault with a deadly weapon.'' Not bad.
:12:48
Look at the heater we found on him.
German Luger, fully loaded.
:12:52
Redhead here tried to carve up one
of the arresting officers with this pretty toy.
:12:57
Nice boys.
:12:58
By dawn, many minor wrongdoings
had been uncovered...
:13:01
and a few incipient felonies.
:13:03
The checking of the suspects had been
thorough, painstaking, and tedious.
:13:07
But all the work was for nothing.
:13:08
The man who had shot Officer Rowlins
was not among them.
:13:11
He remained no more than a description,
a shadow of a man.
:13:15
Mysterious. Elusive. Deadly.
:13:19
Hidden away somewhere in the vast city.
:13:24
As for Rowlins himself, he couldn't help.
:13:28
He was in a coma at Receiving Hospital.
:13:30
Mrs. Rowlins waited out
the long, tense hours...
:13:33
while her husband fought to live.
:13:35
Many another officer's wife had so waited.
Many another will.
:13:40
The word came shortly after sunup.