:43:03
and I'd sure as hell
stretch the truth in court.
:43:05
And if anybody
would mess with us...
:43:06
we just muscled them,
right, Jack?
:43:08
Or blackmail them.
:43:10
What the hell?
Everybody's got a secret.
:43:12
It's a tough job,
but I was a good soldier.
:43:15
Yeah.
Just taking orders...
:43:18
from my commanding officer
Jack Van Meter.
:43:20
Whenever Jack said,
"Eldon, do what you do"...
:43:22
I carved "Case cleared"
on a casket with my knife...
:43:25
because I figured,
"What the hell? Jack's God."
:43:29
Sometimes, Jack,
you work like God.
:43:32
You work in
some mysterious ways, man.
:43:35
Thanks a lot, Eldon.
Thank you.
:43:37
It was Van Meter
that ordered me...
:43:41
to pin the Jack O'Hearts
homicides...
:43:44
on a couple of ex-cons...
:43:47
that didn't have anything
to do with it.
:43:48
He ordered me to set them up
for the kill, too.
:43:53
So, acting on
some information from me...
:43:56
SWAT took one down
during a raid.
:43:57
But I made my partner kill
the other one in cold blood.
:44:02
You got to be heartless
in my line of work.
:44:07
And my partner Bobby Keough...
:44:15
He had a good one...
:44:17
and it cost him.
:44:21
The real
Jack O'Hearts killers...
:44:24
turned out to be a couple
of snitches of Van Meter's.
:44:28
Bobby tried to arrest them,
but he didn't make it.
:44:32
They cut him in half.
:44:34
He's lying dead
on a concrete slab...
:44:35
somewhere in
South Central right now...
:44:37
because he walked into an ambush
Van Meter set up for me.
:44:39
Isn't that right, Jack?
:44:41
Eldon...
it's going to be OK.
:44:44
Those of us here
who love you...
:44:47
want you to get down
from there...
:44:48
before you embarrass yourself
any further.
:44:50
To those members of the press
who are gathered here...
:44:52
I would ask you to consider
only that this fine man...
:44:56
a great LAPD cop...
:44:58
has demons that sometimes
get the better of him.