:56:00
But the answer to that is persistence...
:56:03
and the hope that sooner or later
something will turn up...
:56:06
some tiny lead that can grow
into a warm trail...
:56:09
and point to the cracking of a tough case.
:56:25
That does it, boys.
:56:26
l can't say l'm sorry
you didn't find him in here.
:56:29
l'd hate to think it was a cop.
:56:31
Doesn't seem to be anybody.
:56:33
Just a lot of pieces of a face
that never existed.
:56:36
You mind if l see that again?
:56:38
Sure, frame it. Put it on your dresser.
:56:42
Wait a minute. He wasn't a cop.
:56:44
He was a radio technician
right here in our dispatch office.
:56:48
-What did you say?
-l'm saying he worked here in '42.
:56:51
Come on, give!
:56:53
l remember the kid well. Sort of strange.
:56:56
Never bothered with anyone
in the department, just kept to himself.
:56:59
He was in line for promotion
when he was drafted.
:57:02
-Where was he living at the time?
-l don't remember.
:57:07
Try the dead files.
:57:12
He never asked for his job back
after the war.
:57:15
l remember writing to him about it, though.
An excellent worker.
:57:18
Here we are. Yeah, this is it.
:57:21
Took a while before he answered...
:57:23
but, like he says in the letter,
he wasn't interested.
:57:33
Postmarked Hollywood. No return address.
:57:37
What do you want us to do? All the work?
:57:40
Thanks a lot, Freddie.
:57:42
Remember, he was a civilian employee.
:57:54
How about it, anybody recognize him?
:57:57
-Not on my route.
-l never saw him before.