:02:02
But before you hear it all distorted
and blown out of proportion...
:02:06
before those Hollywood columnists
get their hands on it...
:02:09
maybe you'd like to hear the facts--
the whole truth.
:02:14
If so, you've come
to the right party.
:02:18
You see, the body of a young man
was found...
:02:20
floating in the pool
of her mansion...
:02:22
with two shots in his back
and one in his stomach.
:02:26
Nobody important, really.
:02:28
Just a movie writer with a couple
of pictures to his credit.
:02:33
The poor dope.
He always wanted a pool.
:02:37
Well, in the end
he got himself a pool...
:02:40
only the price turned out to be
a little high.
:02:46
Let's go back about six months and
find the day when it all started.
:02:51
I was living in an apartment house
above Franklin and Ivar.
:02:55
Things were tough at the moment.
:02:58
I hadn't worked in a studio
for a long time.
:03:02
So I sat there, grinding out
original stories, two a week.
:03:07
Only I seemed to have lost my touch.
:03:10
Maybe they weren't original enough.
:03:13
Maybe they were too original.
:03:16
All I know is,
they didn't sell.
:03:21
Yeah?
:03:32
- Joseph C. Gillis?
- That's right.
:03:35
We've come for the car.
:03:38
What car?
:03:39
1946 Plymouth convertible,
California license 40-R-116.
:03:44
Where are the keys?
:03:46
Why should I give you the keys?
:03:48
Because the company's
played ball long enough...
:03:50
because you're three payments behind,
and because we got a court order.
:03:54
Now, come on. The keys.
:03:55
Or do you want us to jack it up
and haul it away?
:03:58
Relax, fans.
The car isn't here.