1:16:03
And you're sugar,
maybe half the world's sugar.
1:16:06
Let's see. Daddy's little girl, I'd say,
but I could be wrong.
1:16:12
And you're oil.
1:16:13
Used to be Mr. Rockefeller's oil,
but now it's yours.
1:16:16
Queen of the sixth grade, or fifth.
Fourth, maybe.
1:16:22
What the hell,
you're just the idle rich, right?
1:16:25
Good works, charities, always
a big power in the reform movement.
1:16:29
And you like... Well, let's see.
1:16:31
Looks sort of like
the poor little match girl.
1:16:35
- Mr. Hammett, I must...
- Shut up, Hagedorn,
1:16:37
let me see if I can figure out the rest.
It must have started...
1:16:40
- Mr. Hammett, I must advise you...
- Let him speak.
1:16:42
You know,
you two make a swell pair.
1:16:44
It must have all started at a party,
a stag party.
1:16:47
New Year's Eve, maybe.
1:16:48
Anyway, a blue film
was the night's main event, right?
1:16:51
Starring Crystal Ling
and the Wolf Man.
1:16:54
And then what? A week later,
two weeks later, somebody,
1:16:56
maybe somebody like Gary Salt,
comes and whispers in your ear
1:16:59
that you too, for a small fee,
can take a turn in the hay with Crystal.
1:17:02
So one by one,
you sneak up into that backroom
1:17:05
with the friendly pornographers
and bingo, it's Arabian Nights.
1:17:08
No fantasy too wild,
no taste too bizarre,
1:17:11
except that all the time
the camera is clicking away.
1:17:13
Then somebody grabs the negatives
away from Salt, right?
1:17:15
Crystal, maybe.
And you turn San Francisco
1:17:18
inside out looking for her.
Then all of a sudden Crystal's dead,
1:17:21
and there's a body
in the morgue to prove it.
1:17:23
But now the blackmailer lands on you,
and you either pay up
1:17:26
or prints of you and Crystal
will be sent to every ritzy club
1:17:29
between here and New York,
not to mention your wives.
1:17:31
- Am I right so far, Hagedorn?
- You are substantially correct, sir.
1:17:34
You know, I've lived in this town
for what, seven or eight years now,
1:17:37
and it's not a bad town,
certainly more fun than most.
1:17:40
Streets get swept, the garbage
gets picked up, and the graft gets paid.
1:17:44
But the politicians don't really
run this town, they never have.
1:17:47
They ran it, because they had
the money, and now you run it
1:17:49
because you've got the money,
and run it to suit yourselves.
1:17:51
Am I losing anyone,
going too fast for you?
1:17:53
You buy the power, you trade it,
you sell it. And you know what?
1:17:56
When you die, your pictures will go up
on that wall with all the others,
1:17:58
and not one of you,
not a single one of you,