:02:00
before those Hollywood
columnists get their hands on it,
:02:03
maybe you'd like to hear the facts,
the whole truth.
:02:08
If so, you've come to the right party.
:02:12
The body of a young man was found
in the pool of her mansion,
:02:16
with two shots in his back and one
in his stomach. Nobody important.
:02:21
Just a writer with a couple
of B-pictures to his credit.
:02:26
The poor dope!
He always wanted a pool.
:02:30
In the end, he got himself a pool,
only the price turned out a little high.
:02:38
Let's go back about six months
and find the day when it all started.
:02:43
I was living in an apartment house
above Franklin and Ivar.
:02:47
Things were tough at the moment.
:02:50
I hadn't worked
in a studio for a long time.
:02:54
So I sat there grinding out
original stories, two a week.
:02:59
Only I seemed to have lost my touch.
:03:02
Maybe they weren't original enough,
maybe they were too original.
:03:07
All I know is,
they didn't sell.
:03:12
Yep?
:03:23
- Joseph C Gillis?
- That's right.
:03:25
- We've come for the car.
- What car?
:03:30
1946 Plymouth convertible,
California licence 40 R 116.
:03:34
- Where are the keys?
- Why should I give you them?
:03:38
The company's played ball long
enough, you're three payments behind.
:03:42
And we've got a court order.
The keys.
:03:45
- Or do you want us to haul it away?
- The car isn't here.
:03:50
- Is that so?
- I loaned it to a friend.
:03:53
- He took it to Palm Springs.
- Gone away for his health?
:03:57
- If you don't believe me, look.
- We believe you, now believe us.