:31:01
I've been working on a story
about the slave rackets down here...
:31:04
...and I've got a problem
you might be able to help me with.
:31:07
We've been having some trouble
locating a primary source.
:31:13
Who is "we," Mr. Collinson?
:31:16
It wouldn't be Fong Wei Tau,
now, would it?
:31:19
Now, wait a minute.
I know who he is, but that's about it.
:31:21
Your source came to us
in the middle of the night with nothing
:31:25
but the clothes on her back,
crazed with fear.
:31:28
She would only tell me
she had escaped from Fong.
:31:31
Fong paid $5,000 for her
when she was brought here
:31:35
from China at the age of 12.
:31:37
Five thousand dollars!
:31:40
So he could sell her body
in his parlor house.
:31:43
If she's caught, it wouldn't be
a life worth living, now, would it?
:31:49
Do you have any idea
where she is now?
:31:52
A young man tricked one of my staff
into letting her leave with him.
:31:56
I'll never forgive myself
for being out that day.
:32:01
Thanks, that's swell.
:32:03
If I find anything out,
I'll let you know.
:32:06
You're quite welcome, Mr. Hammett.
:32:10
I've lived in San Francisco
since 1895, young man.
:32:14
And there's very little
I don't know about our city.
:32:17
Yes, ma'am,
I should have known better.
:32:20
Eli.
:32:22
- Where to, Hammett?
- The morgue.
:32:24
- You back on the game?
- Sort of.
:32:28
I was worried there for a while.
:32:29
I thought you was getting
halfway respectable, like me.
:32:36
- Come in.
- Hello, doc. I heard you retired.
:32:41
I got 13 kids, Hammett.
:32:43
You don't ever retire
if you've got 13 kids.
:32:46
Ever heard of a doctor with 13 kids?
:32:50
- I was sure I heard you retired.
- I heard you quit drinking.
:32:53
Well, I guess we were both wrong.
:32:57
You know what my problem is?
:32:59
I'm a halfway honest man
in a nine-tenths dishonest world.