WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:33.679 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:36.640 This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a 3 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:42.000 comment Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us 4 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:45.079 on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and become one of our 5 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:50.159 friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com slash Radio Detectives. Before 6 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:51.719 we do get started, I do want to let you 7 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:53.600 know this program is brought to you in part by 8 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.840 the financial support of our listeners, and I particularly want 9 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:02.320 to thank John who has become a Patreon supporter on 10 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:06.840 a recurring monthly basis at our seamous level four dollars 11 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:09.920 or more a month. You can support the show at 12 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:15.000 Patreon dot Great detectives dot net. We also received four 13 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.879 donations through the mail, two were anonymous, and I also 14 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:21.680 want to thanks Sherry and lend Us so much for 15 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:25.439 their support, and you can mail end donations to Adam 16 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.159 Graham peelbox one five nine one three, Boise, Idaho eight 17 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:33.359 three seven one five. Well, now it's time for today's 18 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:36.280 episode of The Great Detractors Old Time Radio and the 19 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.040 Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air date the May 20 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.280 twenty third of nineteen fifty and the title is the 21 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:44.319 Fox's tail. 22 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:51.319 Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road. 23 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:53.719 Those who travel it wind up in the gut of 24 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.760 the prisoner in early grave, there's no other end. They 25 00:01:57.840 --> 00:01:58.359 never learn. 26 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:03.280 From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime 27 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:07.519 fiction comes his most famous character in the Adventures of 28 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:21.000 Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. 29 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.560 We bring you tonight's transcribe story the Fox's Tales. 30 00:02:48.039 --> 00:02:52.639 Oh no, there is sometimes when the phone just never 31 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:57.319 should have been invented. Hello marlow speaking. 32 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.639 This is Arn Metcalf. You remember me? 33 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:01.840 Oh sure, bear'still What are going to do for. 34 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.159 You to meet me here at the blue Chip Bar? 35 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:04.680 At once? 36 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.080 Man, Look, I can hardly hear you speak up? 37 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.960 What you are at the blue Chip Bar? Yeah, it's 38 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:12.159 a miserable cafe on Melrose. 39 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:13.240 Nel bl Breer. 40 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.199 Yes, I'm in a booth, the last one on your 41 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:17.080 right as you went to. But be careful for we 42 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.919 can't afford the seine. And please hurry, I'll pay you, 43 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:23.360 handsome to do what or do you impersonate I did? 44 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.120 The blue Chip was an indelicate assortment of stale smells. 45 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.000 Surrounding pictures of Lady good diver, some without horses and 46 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:42.319 featuring low lights, lower client tele and the lowest grade 47 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:46.039 of bar whiskey. Against that backdrop, my new client stood 48 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:50.120 out like a Dresen doll in a police lineup, or 49 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:52.560 a metcalf in spite of the electricity in his voice. 50 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.520 There's only five and a half feet tall, couldn't have 51 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:58.199 weighed more than one hundred and thirty pounds, including the 52 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:02.759 glitter of honorary fraternity pin dangled from his watchchair. It 53 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.919 was maybe fifty ball, wore glasses halfway down a long nose, 54 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.520 and at the moment it was as nonchalant as a 55 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.719 five inch firecracker with a sputtering fume. 56 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:14.360 Sit down, Sit down, Listen to Cathleen. 57 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:15.919 It's going to be hot in here, but go ahead. 58 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.120 I am representing a man named Kuban in a lawsuit. 59 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:24.160 Rudolph Kuban. He's a manufacturing chemist, Hungarian bourn at present 60 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.040 phil in a sanitarium. The nervous system. 61 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:28.839 Will take just so much name I know, and look 62 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:32.480 this Rudolph Kuban is suing or being sued, which is suing. 63 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:36.560 And nobody less than his former employer the eminent Justin Shepard. 64 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:40.680 Justin Shepard. He turns out cosmetics. Doesn't he make up lipstick? 65 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:41.319 That kind of stuff? 66 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.800 Hey? Yes, stuff Mollow, which includes a new and revolutionary 67 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:47.079 neo polish that's worth a fortune. 68 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:49.399 Which was invented by your client and stolen phone by 69 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:50.079 Justin Sheppard. 70 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:52.639 Exactly. We're suing for two upre and fifty thousand dollars 71 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:55.040 in damages Mallow, but we'll settle out of court for 72 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:56.680 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cash. 73 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:02.519 Hell not as simplest. Now the trial field has Oh wait, what's. 74 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:09.000 Some brandy? Please? Comeya the kid? 75 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:14.000 Like I said, all right, Junior, two beers skip the shadow. 76 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.800 We gotta catch a train. Okay be So yeah what 77 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:21.120 not awful? You were talking about the trial arm? 78 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:23.879 Oh yes? Now the whole point field is that every 79 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.480 witness we had at the outset have so far either 80 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:29.279 been bought off or frightened away by Shepherd and his 81 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.079 crew with one exception. 82 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:32.199 You're raising the hole. Huh. 83 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:35.480 Yes. A man named Max Redmond. He worked with Rudolph 84 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:38.439 Kuvian years ago in Chicago when Kuvian first perfected the 85 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:42.839 lacquer base which makes the neopolis farming most valuable. Redmond's 86 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:46.879 testimony could have swung everything all away, and justin Shepard 87 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:47.560 found this out. 88 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:49.120 Wait a minute, a minute, what do you mean could 89 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:54.199 have arm Hey, yeah, we're even. 90 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:01.680 Now. Mallow the dead man I spoke and Max Redmon 91 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.920 are one and the same. Shepherd murderer. It worse, he 92 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:08.480 drove Max Redmond to suicide. Mallow the man shot himself. 93 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.600 An hour ago. I don't follow that well. 94 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:13.959 Redman was staying here in La with his wife. I'll 95 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.720 tell you the address in a moment. It's nearby. And 96 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:19.879 although neither Shepherd nor his cronies ever got to see Redmond, 97 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:22.600 they knew where he was and where he came from. 98 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.519 With that, they went to work black Mauron. Oh, yes, 99 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.399 years ago, Redmond got in a jam. I had no 100 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:30.879 idea what it was, something he was conscious stricken about, 101 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:34.040 and Shepherd uncovered it then got through to Redmond on 102 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:35.879 the phone. He struck home. 103 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.360 His blackmail price was Redmond's silence and. 104 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.279 Right you up. Shepherd told him to get out of town. 105 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.560 But when I talked to Redmond an hour ago, he 106 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:46.240 was positive that Shepherd would demand more in the future. 107 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.319 Redmond was already Hystericnes said he wished he'd never heard 108 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:53.199 of me or Rudolph Kuvia, and then he hung up. Well, 109 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:55.800 when I got to his apartment, I found him dead, 110 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.759 shot by his own hand. His pistol is aside. It 111 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:03.720 was offer. Yeah, tell me Arin, what about Redmond's wife Bill? 112 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:06.120 Her name is Louise, as she's out of town right now. 113 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.240 He was afraid for her and made her go away. 114 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.720 Yet any read Phil, You see what I'm getting out, 115 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:13.879 Jo Jordan. The reason I want you to work for me? 116 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:18.000 Yeah, I think so. Shepperd and his buddies don't know 117 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:20.360 Redmond's killed himself. And if I give the impression by 118 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:23.000 posing his Redmond that he's still alive and not leaving town, 119 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:25.720 Shepperd will figure that his black Man angle didn't work. U. 120 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:28.879 He'll get together with you and settled before tomorrow morning, 121 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:30.680 when Redmand would have taken the witness stand. 122 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.680 Precisely filled one hundred and a half settlement as against 123 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:35.680 the court. Award of a quarter of a million means 124 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:38.439 a saving of one hundred thousand dollars to Shepherd, he'll 125 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.120 pay it as long as he thinks Redmond's still alive 126 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:42.439 and willing to testify him. 127 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:47.839 Where now will you do it, Marlowe poses Redmond. Eh, 128 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.480 there's one thousand dollars in it by him. I don't 129 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:52.680 know a thousand dollars. 130 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:58.439 Villa and Rudolph Coubion helped us in the sanitary and 131 00:07:59.279 --> 00:07:59.959 Max Redmond. 132 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:02.600 It's an awful lot to turn down, isn't it? I 133 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:05.560 thank you, thank you. 134 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:07.360 Now, then here's the deal. 135 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:08.319 What a man? How about it? 136 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:09.439 The new questions? 137 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:12.319 Every minute counts. Now. I have got Redmond's top code 138 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:14.240 right here. Now you put it on when you leave. 139 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:17.040 And here are the keys to his apartment. It's the 140 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.519 Garden Court Apartments on South Ogden, South Arkman. Yes, right now, 141 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.120 you sneak inside. Then a minute later, very obviously, go 142 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:27.759 out again. Get into his car. It's a new green ash. 143 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:30.920 Drive up into the Hollywood Hills along Lookout Road. Why 144 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.759 there were Redmond drove up there a lot. Now later, 145 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.320 return to the apartment. You'll probably be followed, as Redmond 146 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:40.159 always was, and the man would be big and muscular 147 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:44.200 and in the black coupet. Now once they know that Redmond. Ah, 148 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:47.039 but that's you, of course, yes, sure doesn't intend to 149 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.399 leave town. There may be an attempt in your life, 150 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:53.159 so watch your step getting killed as Redmond destroys the 151 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:54.840 illusion we're out to create. 152 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:06.519 That's not all it destroys. Eh may destroy me, it 153 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.840 played his outline. A minute after, I drove Redman's car 154 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:12.440 out of his garage and conspicuously signaled a left turn 155 00:09:12.519 --> 00:09:16.080 with a plaid sleeve. I picked up my escort. His 156 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:18.080 headlights stayed in my rear view mirror all the way 157 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.039 along Sunset Boulevard and then up into the hills a 158 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.399 long lookout road. I drove slowly until I cleared a 159 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:25.480 half in turn and spotted a flat open lot about 160 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.519 one hundred yards ahead into my right. It overlooked the 161 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:31.159 city below and was dotted with cement bags, piles of lumber, 162 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.799 and bulldozer that had gone to bed hours ago. I 163 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.840 swerved off the road, sharply, cut my lights and part 164 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.320 close to the edge of the cliff. Then I piled 165 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:41.039 out of the car and quickly set up the oldest 166 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.679 trick in the book. I took off the plaid coat, 167 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:45.559 tossed it over a shoulder high board jetting out of 168 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:47.799 a lumber pile, topped it with my hat, and ran 169 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:50.519 for cover behind the bulldozer. I got there just as 170 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.519 the black coup pulled in, cut its lights and round 171 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.039 it was stopped. Then I saw something big and beefy 172 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.240 get out and saw at the coat and ugly snub 173 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.080 nosed gun in hand. I reached my thirty eight and 174 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:04.120 slowly moved through the ankle beaque weeds until I was 175 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:06.720 only a few feet behind him. When he fired at 176 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:11.440 the coat, I was only inches away. What does that 177 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.480 make it my turn? Don't try it. You're not Redmond 178 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:19.600 and not a lot of people. Drop your gun. Go on, 179 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.600 what are you gonna do? I'll ask the questions. What's 180 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:31.320 your name? Gaffy? Working for Justin Sheppard? No, no, no, 181 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:35.440 I was just you're just a liar. That's nothing compared 182 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:40.679 to what's in stuff for you. No, I worked for Shepherd, 183 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:42.320 all right, And you were tagging me thinking I was 184 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:43.879 Redmond to see if I was going out of town. 185 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:47.679 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had orders to knock your I mean, 186 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:52.120 knock Redmond off if he didn't go straight for the airport. 187 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:54.919 That's all, honest. I don't know anymore. 188 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:00.639 Get up, walk over to that tube in there, open 189 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:04.720 it and get in. Go on, go on, keep moving 190 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:09.679 and keep your hands open. All right. I want to 191 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:11.919 have a little chat with Justin Shephard's home address. What 192 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:13.399 is it? He ain't got one. 193 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:15.679 He stays at the hotels. 194 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:17.159 Right now. 195 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:21.039 It's the BigMan Plasant, Beverly Hills. Now quick, but yeah, 196 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:21.639 that's all I know. 197 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:25.480 Sure, sure you see here. I believe you. You've got 198 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:33.759 such anonymous face for a killer sweet dreams bust in. 199 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:47.440 Two dozen gladiolas and one dozen golden eye wrists. Yes, 200 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:49.720 and deliver them here to the desk of the Featman 201 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:54.080 Plaza Hotel. No, it's not in Santa Monica. It's in 202 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:55.080 Beverly Hills. 203 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:56.440 It has been for years. 204 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.759 Goodbye, stupid good people. 205 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:02.519 They're just everywhere, aren't there. 206 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:06.720 Indeed, may I help you, sir? 207 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.399 Yes, I was looking for mister Justin Shepherd. Is he in? 208 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:15.039 Oh yes, sir, you could almost reach out and touch him. No, 209 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:19.120 that's he over there reading the paper in the Louis 210 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:19.840 fourteenth chair. 211 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:22.679 You see the short. 212 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:24.919 Round man to one side of that woman wearing that 213 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.879 stunning taffata. Stunning taffaa. 214 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:31.519 You see it's applicated with those bright red roses. 215 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:33.399 Oh yeah, I couldn't miss him. Turn right at the 216 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:34.080 stunning taffa. 217 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:44.120 Goodbye, You're quite welcome welcome and dee goodbye, mister Shepherd. 218 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:47.159 That's right. 219 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.279 My name is Philip Marlow. I'm a private detective. I've 220 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:51.720 heard of you. 221 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.120 Huh, what's on your mind? Mister Marlow? 222 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:59.559 A chemist? What about him? What does he have to 223 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:01.240 do with me? Earl Geffney who? 224 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:04.080 Who? 225 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.679 Who is Earl Geffney. 226 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.720 Alaos who missed? Like the rest of them will? Max 227 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:13.799 Redmond is still alive and I intend to keep him 228 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:17.200 that way. Good night, mister Shepherd, see you in court. 229 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.559 The effect was great. The fat Man's mouth fell open 230 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.799 and his chins jellied all over his chest. I let 231 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.440 it go at that. The illusion was established. As far 232 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:31.960 as Justin Sheppard and company were concerned. Max Redmond was 233 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.000 very much alive and kicking up the kind of trouble 234 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.799 that they didn't want. But twenty minutes later, when I 235 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:40.000 let myself into the dead Man's apartment and walked into 236 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:43.519 his bedroom, I knew the illusion was only an illusion. 237 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:47.039 Max Redmond's body was sprawled at a crazy angle across 238 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:50.720 the bed. I wondered what he could have possibly done 239 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.519 to take this easy way out. I stopped wondering when 240 00:13:54.559 --> 00:14:00.360 the front door closed was a woman the deepest brown 241 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:01.360 eyes I've ever seen? 242 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:03.519 What are you doing here? 243 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:04.360 Who are you? 244 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:06.000 My name is Max Redman. 245 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:08.480 You're lying? Where is Max? 246 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.679 Tell me where is he? He's in the bedroom. You're 247 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:14.159 a friend of his. 248 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.159 I'm his wife, and I'm going to speak to him. 249 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:18.080 Don't try to stop me. 250 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:21.720 I won't missus, Redmond, go ahead. 251 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:38.759 In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe, 252 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:42.759 but first Bing Crosby climaxes his season on seebe has 253 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:45.519 this Wednesday night with a terrific lineup of top talent 254 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.799 Arthur Godfrey, Bob Hope, Perry Como, and the four Crosby 255 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:53.919 sons who've attracted nationwide attention as his guests earlier this year. 256 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.039 Bing Arthur Godfrey, Bob Hope, Perry Como and the youngsters 257 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:00.279 will be heard in a great musical round up with 258 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:04.000 the season's top tunes. So be listening this Wednesday when 259 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:07.039 on most of these same CBS stations, The Bing Crosby 260 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.240 Show comes along with these top guests. 261 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.360 Now with our star Gerald Moore. 262 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:15.720 The second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The 263 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:17.120 Fox's Tale. 264 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.919 Louise Redman's Dog Troubled Eyes stared at the bedroom door 265 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.960 for an instant, and she dotted past me and inside. 266 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.080 When she saw him, she froze her eyes on the 267 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.279 gun at the bed man's side. One hand trembles to 268 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:49.879 the mud. Hang out of yourself, baby, Max, Max? 269 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:51.519 Why did you do it? 270 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:52.840 Right? 271 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.879 Has Bean had proof that a fed buzzard named justin 272 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.600 Shepherd's swindle of forces from Rudolph Couvian, an old friend 273 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:01.440 of his, was going to offer that proof tomorrow morning 274 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:01.840 in court. 275 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:03.879 He wouldn't kill himself because of that. 276 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:06.519 Well, there must have been something in his past that 277 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:08.279 he couldn't live with any longer. Do you know what 278 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:09.039 it was? Louise? 279 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.559 I don't believe any of this. You were in here 280 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.399 posing as Max. You're responsible for his death. 281 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:22.759 You want to get away? Give me that gun. That's better. 282 00:16:24.759 --> 00:16:27.759 It's smart enough to give in fast. Anyway. I sit 283 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:33.399 down over there and listened. Are you? 284 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:34.679 Who are you? 285 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:38.559 And Philip Marlow hired by Iron Metcalf. You know him? Yes, 286 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:42.279 he found Max like that. They couldn't let Shepherd know 287 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.000 that the case against him was dead, so he hired 288 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:45.600 me to keep up the illusion that Max was still 289 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:49.000 alive and wrong. Medcalf is sure that sheper will crack 290 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:54.039 before morning. We'll need your cooperation, Louise. How about it? 291 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:58.759 When you took that gun away from me, you smashed 292 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:04.119 my only picked Max. You couldn't even leave me that intact. 293 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:08.480 I'm sorry. I know it's going to be tough on 294 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:13.119 your baby, but hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Louise. 295 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:15.079 Did did Max write that on the picture there? 296 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:20.440 Yes, to my Louise, who love Louise? 297 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:25.519 Listen to me now this backhand script was Max left handed? Yes? 298 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:27.000 But what is it? 299 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:28.480 He was shot in the right temple. 300 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:32.880 You mean that someone killed him? 301 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:34.000 That's the general idea. 302 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:39.440 Yeah, justin Shepard, the man Max intended to testify against. 303 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.599 Unless he's a lot slicker than I think. But he 304 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:44.920 has an assistance. A tough one named Kaffney was watching 305 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:47.279 this place when I took over. If he did it 306 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:49.240 then followed me, wouldn't have had a chance to report 307 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:49.799 to his boss. 308 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.079 I don't understand. Followed you where. 309 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:54.039 Under that a lot on Lookout Road where Max liked 310 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.440 to go. I caught Gaffney there and filed him away 311 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.119 in a tool ben. I better go and have another 312 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:01.960 check with that boy right now. You wait here? Now, look, baby, 313 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.640 we can't quit. You've got to finish the job Max 314 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:06.559 started for his old friend Kobe. And better than that, 315 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:10.240 maybe we can get Max's killer too. Are you a game? 316 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:13.759 I'll do what you say. 317 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:19.400 Because I went out to Redmond's car, several things bothered me, 318 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:22.799 and not the least of them were Louise Redmond's dog 319 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:25.960 deep eyes. When I got in the car, I felt 320 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:27.640 the pistol that he killed Max. It was in my 321 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:29.440 pocket where I dropped it after I'd taken it away 322 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:32.000 from the girl. I pulled it out and looked at it. 323 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:36.599 It was a Belgian Browning seven sixty five automatic. I 324 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.119 broke it apart, and then on a hunch, I slipped 325 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:40.559 it back together, got out of the car again and 326 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:41.680 took the gun up to Louise. 327 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:48.160 I don't know much about guns. 328 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:50.920 Mother, Well, you may have to do his point at Louise. 329 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:54.880 The threat will probably be enough in case it isn't. 330 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:57.720 That's the safety catch there on the side. I'll be 331 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:05.440 back as soon as I can. When I pulled out 332 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:07.640 onto the vacant hilltop lot, I sented the tool bin 333 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:09.720 in the headlights. I was out of the car and 334 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:12.319 wading through the foot high foxtail grass before I noticed 335 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:14.920 the feet. The stick I'd shoved through the hasp was 336 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:17.119 now on the ground. I ran the rest of the 337 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:22.200 way and jerked a little open. Gaffney was gone. I 338 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:24.119 started to close the lid, but stopped at something in 339 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:27.759 the bottom of the bin. It like the coiled rattlesnake bitter. 340 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:31.000 It was a glistening, sticky puddle, and it was blood 341 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:34.599 screaming down from a hollow beside the lot. I ran 342 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:37.160 to him. Saw two kids in the park car, scared 343 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:39.119 stiff and staring into a tangle of brush in front 344 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:39.359 of them. 345 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:42.119 There's a man down there. 346 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:43.640 He's hurt, badware. 347 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:44.960 Show me in that brush. 348 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:47.440 We both saw he stood up just a second ago, 349 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:51.119 and he started tortoise. It was flood all over and 350 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:52.119 then he fell down again. 351 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:53.599 Okay, get your girl out of here, get back to 352 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:53.960 your car. 353 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:58.720 Okay, mister, hey, holy cats, you're Philip Marlows, the detective. 354 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:00.000 Yeah, yeah, your picture. 355 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:01.839 All right, Be a good fan and stay out of 356 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:02.880 the way. The guy's dangerous. 357 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:12.680 Go on, yo, Okay, come on, m. 358 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:22.079 Jeffy, who did it? Jeffey, It's just. 359 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:26.759 What I just spill him? 360 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:34.279 Who? Who know who? Yeah? 361 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:36.839 Hey, mister Moller. 362 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:41.200 Hey, mister Moller, did you Did you find him? 363 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:41.640 Mister Moller? 364 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:44.559 Yeah, I found him, so he's dead. 365 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:46.559 Holy care, I. 366 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:48.319 Love doing me a favor. Will you get to a 367 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:50.680 phone report this to the police. They'll not get in 368 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:51.839 touch with him as soon as I can. 369 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:54.759 Okay, who show, mister Moller, you're right away. 370 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:01.279 Next step had to be justin Shepherd's hotel, and now 371 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:02.599 I had more to go on and a couple of 372 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:05.359 hints from left field. As I pulled up in front, 373 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:08.200 I saw a Shepherd behind sixteen cylinders of imported limousine, 374 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:11.799 swinging away from the curve. It seemed in no particular hurry, 375 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:13.359 so I tailed him far enough to realize that he 376 00:21:13.400 --> 00:21:16.440 could be heading Max Redmond's apart, and I set off 377 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:18.920 through the side streets wide open, get back to the 378 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:21.119 apartment in time to brace Louise for Shepherd's visit. 379 00:21:21.799 --> 00:21:24.720 But Marlow, what can I do? Maybe I. 380 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:27.400 Maybe I better let him in? 381 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:35.079 Go ahead, Yes, stand aside, young woman, I'm coming in. 382 00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:36.960 Please do Shepherd. 383 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:38.720 You again? 384 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:40.920 Nice of you to drop in. What have you got 385 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:41.680 in the bag lunch? 386 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:43.920 Don't be facetious and don't worry. 387 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.680 It's all here. I know when I'm beaten. 388 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:50.119 I suppose it would be quite pointless to ask where 389 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:51.359 Redmond himself. 390 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:55.359 Is completely pointless of this, late Dad, very well, and. 391 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:57.680 I assume I am to leave this with you. That's right, 392 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:02.960 It had better be right, my book, believe me, good night. 393 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:05.960 In just a minute. How come you're running your own errands? 394 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:10.039 You took care of that yourself earlier tonight. You're a 395 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:10.920 competent man. 396 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:14.279 You should be working for me. Working for you has 397 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:17.759 its drawback, Shepherd, But you must at Gaffney didn't die 398 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:18.240 right away. 399 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:20.160 Gasney's dead. 400 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:22.720 Be careful, hey, live long enough to tell me it 401 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:27.319