:53:02
What facts? When a man's sharp,
and intelligent, and works alone?
:53:07
He has no record, leaves no fingerprint,
knows every move we make.
:53:10
Plenty of facts, only they add up to nothing.
:53:12
Sure, forget it.
:53:13
You got yourself a 10-day vacation.
Go down to the beach, get a suntan.
:53:17
By the time you get back,
the case will be broken.
:53:19
lsn't that what you want?
:53:20
-You know better.
-All l know is what l hear.
:53:23
You sit there batting your gums
about how the old man let you down.
:53:26
-Maybe he's trying to wake you up.
-He had a funny way of showing it.
:53:29
You're flying off the handle.
Always taking things for granted.
:53:32
l wish l could get up
and boot some sense into you.
:53:34
-He knew what this case meant to me.
-He still does.
:53:37
That's why he's trying to get you
mad enough to do something about it.
:53:43
-You don't really figure that's his idea?
-l know it is.
:53:47
lt's a tough case, Chuck.
Not an angle, nothing to go on.
:53:51
You'd know what l meant
if you were working with me.
:53:53
l have been working with you.
lt's all l've had to do lately...
:53:56
just sit around
studying what little facts we have...
:53:59
trying to figure out who he might be.
:54:01
You know the kind of a guy
we're up against, then.
:54:04
l tell you, Chuck,
this guy's a genius, the way he operates...
:54:07
as if he's there with us
every time we go out after our lead.
:54:10
Sure, Breen's been tipping him off
just to make you look bad.
:54:13
Almost like that,
the way he beats us to the punch every time.
:54:17
There's your angle.
You hit it on the head, but you don't see it.
:54:20
Look, start adding.
One: He is unknown to the underworld.
:54:24
Two: He beats you to the punch, right?
:54:26
And three: lt's almost as if he were with you.
lsn't that what you said?
:54:30
Tie that up with the other little things...
:54:32
like the fact that he uses a police gun,
and the accuracy of the shooting.
:54:36
Anybody could buy a police gun.
The Army could have taught him to shoot.
:54:39
Yeah, but who taught him
how the police operate?
:54:44
l know what you're driving at, Chuck.
But a cop?
:54:48
Those things happen.
:54:51
lf l were still on the case,
l'd start with our department.
:54:54
Then Santa Monica, Culver City,
Burbank, Pasadena.
:54:57
See you later, junior.
:54:59
Don't let him out of sight, beautiful. lt's
the first time in years he's used his head.