Speaker 1: Come in, Welcome, I meet you, marshall.
Speaker 2: It was the eighteenth century playwright William Conny who said it,
see how love and murder will out, And although a
quarter of.
Speaker 1: A century intervened before they did, that's what this story
is all about.
Speaker 2: Appropriately enough, it starts with the more violence on your fight.
Speaker 1: That's the way you want it.
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 5: Okay, well you started it?
Speaker 1: Just now what sudden? More until I need it? It's
all right. Don't let the play cause lawyer a police
to text a total party forty one? What is a
party of haul up? No, No, anything like that.
Speaker 6: It's just a screwing neighborhood kid trying to tell a
fast wook. But kicks did not show what you want
to do that for you kill them.
Speaker 2: Our mystery drama Murder Will Out was written especially for
the mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars Mason Adams.
In the city of New York, the police pride themselves
on not being a police force, but a police service.
Speaker 1: Talk to any Bedrock.
Speaker 2: Cop, reach down through the layers of why he wanted
to become a police officer, and you'll find that the
great majority puts service first before pay, benefits or power
that goes for almost any police force through the country.
Easy to malign these days, not so easy to praise
because the weight of the crime grass is hard to sustain.
But above all, a cop is human and that works
on both sides of the line.
Speaker 1: Stars Albert to come out of of okay, captain, Hey,
you bring the coffee in. It's right here. Thought you
might wanna wanna chew me out first, Sir, I shouldn't
drink coffee. It ginsches my elcer. You get it, I'll
chew you up better with an aking gout. Yes, sir,
And your news on the crocker kit looks like he's
gonna make it, no thanks to you. The bullet went
right through his chest. That managed to miss anything vital?
How I don't know. You should be as accurate on
the range, Yes, captain. And they had a little lot
less trigger happy. You know that boy is only sixteen
six feet one? Why he's one eighty five and he
squeezed off two shots at me. How he wasn't armed?
It was nighttime, streets, badly lighted. Maybe throw it away,
but he had something in his hand and I heard
the shots. Maybe you heard a backfire. Oh damn bream
Danish again. They can't area that cheese Danish. You wanna
know what he had in his hand. Maybe it was
a zip card. He had a bottle of beer, alright,
so he hoisted it. But his old man was hung
over and he sent him over to Barney's Pop and
the kid left it a bottle of sides. So it's
against the law with what we have to handle in
this precinct. This worse making a federal case over. It's
kind of looking that way for me and uh a
couple of citizens. Committee's brewing some pressure from the newsboys,
and unfortunately it's it's a good story for them if
they start digging up old bodies. Oh I I, I
didn't mean that the way it came out. I know
kind of story. He sure sound was my best friend.
We rode a squad car together for six years. And
when he and I swear they they fry this stuff.
They boil the beans first and then they fry him
and dish water.
Speaker 3: Call this coffee.
Speaker 1: You're gonna break me. Ah, I gotta do something, Joe, I,
I just can't sit still. You fired at him and
he wasn't on and there were two shots. I heard him.
I truck backfired. Oh I know how it looked. Sure,
you were tired just coming up out of the subway.
You see a guy on the lamb you you tell
him to freeze, and he stops, turns, and it looks
like he laid too on the line for you. The
top has a right to protect him, so reflex action.
I pulled my gun. She didn't have to pull the trigger.
If you weren't hit, j I should wait to be
You were in plain clothes. The bartender says, you'll never
even identified yourself as police before you fired. Okay, captain,
you want my badge. I don't I understand. I I
don't approve, but I understand. What do you want me
to do? Old back track my pop and get my
brain's blown out. Oh that's the whole trouble. And that's
what I mean when I say I understand if sal
had moved as fast as you wait, my pop got
it right in front of that same wivesy chin mill dow.
Wait a minute, you were only five years old when
it happened. It wasn't that simple. You study the file
enough to I got it off from my my mom
all those years growing up, and I know the.
Speaker 3: Fire like I know my own name.
Speaker 1: Fie. I go all right, all right, knock it off.
You You think if we'd had another case, I wouldn't
have nailed that Leslie pv. Her Stoff. We couldn't find
him in the second off. There wasn't enough case against
him as it stood, the warrant anything beyond an APB.
You got a sure he'll let this crumbum kill my pop,
one of your along twenty five years ago and the
guy has stolen and loose. I'm not going to get
caught up in this old argument, Joe, except this spar
It's your obsession that poises you, not only as a
police officer, but as a man. It's held you back
your whole career, and now it's pretty near ended. You
asked if I wanted your badge. No, no, I don't.
But I think you need some time to think over
just what you wanna be the the Afinger or or
a real life coup who knows his Jobies and guns
and shootouts, but good solid service to the public, you know.
And I can suspend Judy. Okay, go ahead, I'll take
that from you because of my old friend. Now instead
of suspending your and suggesting that you got a lot
of vacation time coming, like at least a month. You
can start it today. It's the same thing as suspension.
Its not like I on one thing in return, but
I want you to forget. You to cop for the
next four weeks and try to get to know yourself. Joe,
wake up, wake up, wipe this late, lock your gun
in the drawer, learn to be a real human being. Okay,
that's it. You're off duty, is right now. I left
the office.
Speaker 3: Choked with bile right up to the back of my tongue.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have been mad at the old man, but
I was. He said he understood, and he but he didn't.
It's my private war. I got as many citations as
I have called out centures, so maybe I'll never make
it beyond detective third grade.
Speaker 3: Who cares If I can't get the guy who rubbed
out my fire.
Speaker 1: I'll get enough to make up for it. And thinking
all this back at the stop order book, running through
its well some pages back to that screwball name listed
as having a warrant out on him even after twenty
five years, Leslie peb and suddenly I know what I'm
gonna do with that vacation. I don't want Morning Green
a Hi, Joe may have XB three one four oh seven.
I again, you know, Officer Green, you ought to take
a tip from your predecessor, old bunkie. You just learned
not even to ask when I came in, but went
straight to the files and got it. Okay you, but
don't get so uptight, Detective third grade Lombardi. I'll get
your file for you. What you needed for beats me.
Speaker 4: You've seen it all for enough.
Speaker 1: You want another?
Speaker 4: By heart?
Speaker 1: Here you are x P three dash one four seven.
Thanks for the file, not the smart talk.
Speaker 4: What do you break it out on spots for?
Speaker 1: Or did the kids you wing by it? Nope, he's
gonna make it hell, Thank the Lord. Maybe maybe he
wasn't up to anything this time, but he will be.
I know the type. I can smile and I can
feel him, and someday maybe some other cop will just
give him enough of a break to get his ticket canceled,
Because that time won't be a beer bottle in his hand.
It'll be real eat Saturday's special hideout gun, anything that
shoots bullets and kills. What's the matter, Joe, did.
Speaker 4: They set you down for what happened?
Speaker 1: All? Well, well, how come you're so bitter? I mean, well,
it's none of my business. But you're a good looking
young guy, and I know you got a sense of humor.
Catch you off guard? You can be real nice. How
come you get so little out of it? Why don't
you have a girl, Joe? Why don't you married? You
know what's in this file green? When I was twenty
five years old, I haven't caught up on all my
breeding yet. Well I'll fit in you see my pop,
My pop trusted people.
Speaker 3: He gave him a break.
Speaker 1: Anyways. The one night he's coming home, same as I
was last night, out of the same lousy subway by
that same lousy timbe me and he stops in for
beer and and and there's nobody else there except Barney Saundiers,
the same bartender that came out last night. And and
this this leslie peeb see Pete has a gun see
and he's holding up to him. So my pop, see
he was a uniformed cop, but he was off duty,
and sibbies he puts his own gun and he tells
the peevie crumbunt to drop his The guy turns around him.
Speaker 3: Before my pop gets a chance to do anything more, Peebe.
Speaker 1: Kicks a stool into his gut and he kicks out
and there on a lamb, and Pop follows its. I'm
heading for the corner and.
Speaker 3: He yells that he's police in the stop.
Speaker 1: He fus one morning shot in the air and this
this heist ones turns and squeezes one up.
Speaker 4: That takes my put right.
Speaker 1: It's okay, Joe, I understand. Look, why don't you let
he go? Joe? You're gonna carry a monkey right now
on your back all your life anyway.
Speaker 5: How are you gonna find him after he's buried himself
successfully all these years?
Speaker 1: I just, I just, I just need a few things
out of the fire here first, and then I'm betting
that I can find him and I can get him identified.
Speaker 4: How.
Speaker 1: I have a hunch by now he's safe and up
to a surface somewhere, and with a name like Leslie Peevee,
he shouldn't be that hard to get a fix on.
I had copies made of the old faded snapshot of
Pev in the file hand of his persitificate, also the
name and address of the one other witness besides the Barton.
Then I drove to the airport terminal at Kennedy to
follow up my idea on how to get a lead
on him. Or four pvs in the New York the Queens,
the Bronx, and the Brooklyn Books Noun and Staten Island.
I eliminated those fast. Could I talk to mister PV. Please,
he's no longer at this number? Well, do you know
where I might reach him? I see?
Speaker 3: Well, just to make sure, do you happen to recall
his first name?
Speaker 1: I see? Do you recall if he was very tall
or short? Very short? Thanks? I wouldn't be the man
that I'm looking for. I see here, he's no mister PV.
You're a Spencer. Lady. Your name is PEV. Thank you
so much? A bet beg pardon, Oh don't know? Sorry, sorry, ma'am,
you're not UNRADYO. Sorry to then recently? Are you just
leaving to enter the body? Now? I see? And I
did get the name right? That was Leslie p John
Bramble Pev. No, No, I'm I'm happy to say he's
not the man that I'm looking for. Well, I hadn't
thought it would be that easy. I took out my
notebook and pencil and started through the directors one hundred
and thirty eight. I took my list, I went home
to start running up a phone bill on the eleven Miami, Florida,
I hit pay dirt.
Speaker 3: Is this George? What can I do for you this
fine break day?
Speaker 1: Is this Peev's auto repair? It's your rest brother. I
wonder if I could talk to your boys.
Speaker 3: Oh, Leslie ain't here right now, off visiting at the hospital.
Speaker 1: Back tomorrow, try them, Leslie, Leslie PV excuse me, but
we're busy. So I made a blind cast and came
up rocky with my fish. All I had to do
was landing a quarter of a century.
Speaker 2: And suddenly, with the effort and small expense of a
few phone calls, a man buried in anonymity is turned up.
Speaker 1: It seems almost too easy.
Speaker 2: Or to bring up another metaphor, First catch your hair,
then skin him. This is only the beginning of Joe's
compulsive quest for vengeance.
Speaker 3: Returned shortly with that two.
Speaker 1: There's more than vindication.
Speaker 2: Involved in Joe Lombardi's search for the man who killed
his father. That happened twenty five years ago, and time
is a used to heal all wounds, but not the
one that flaws Detective Joe Lombardy unless he can rid
himself with the specter who rides his shoulders, legs locked
about his chest like the legendary old Man.
Speaker 1: Of the seed.
Speaker 5: MM.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they handled the investigation. At the time,
I was five years old and collecting baseball cards. All
I knew this time I was gonna prepare a fool
proof case before I made my move. I was the
fool thinking it was that easy. First place I wanted, naturally,
was to the pub to talk to Barney. You know
who I am, Barney, Sure, Barnie, you knew this leslie
peebe that shock. My old man knew him, not all
that much.
Speaker 6: Maybe I seen him a time or two in a
bar before the night he tried to rob me. But
don't get me wrong, he was no uh I bit
your way.
Speaker 1: But you could recognize him like uh in this picture.
Speaker 6: Yeh detect if one body come on, Yeah, maybe twenty
five years ago you looked something like that.
Speaker 1: I couldn't make it positive or you made him then?
All right?
Speaker 6: For sure, it was fresh in my mind. I did
what I had to do was a citizen. Then I
ain't gonna be on tap anymore. You know some Tomorrow's
my sixty fifth birthday and my last day here.
Speaker 1: I'm retiring.
Speaker 6: I'm when I take my Social Security and go sit
on my rump in Saint Pete, Florida. And one think
I'm gonna be able to identify for sure? O't the
Mets every spring? And even then I'm gonna need a scorecard.
I don't recognize nothing so good anymore.
Speaker 1: Look, all I'm asking is for you to hang around
a few days, maybe till I bring him back, and
to get an ident on him from here.
Speaker 6: Oh sure, And if you do, then you book him,
he goes to trial. You hang around months, so you
drag me back from Florida, and now I forget it.
Tomorrow night I do my last trick by twelve midnight,
and it stopped the world.
Speaker 1: I'm getting off. Why can't you let the pass be?
Don't you think I want to? But first I've got
to nail a guy that cut my pop gun.
Speaker 6: Why ain't you let sleeping dogs lie because I'm not asleep?
Speaker 1: Will and count me out. I don't get your barney.
My mom always told me you were a real friend
of my father's fool. I knew him.
Speaker 6: He was a good cop, but I didn't owe him nothing.
I mean, he was a customer and I was the
bart And like that.
Speaker 1: How come you suddenly have a stake to retire Barney?
I got the bookies, had you nail to the war.
Speaker 6: You know how it is.
Speaker 1: You lose a little, you win a little. Not the
word I get you wouldn't You wouldn't be running a
little numbers bank, addy, No, nothing like that. Look, I'm
sixty five. I got my Social Security just like any
other citizen. Okay, I won't press your Barney. Well, thanks
for the favorite. Now you can do me want in return.
I was at Saint Petersburg. It's not so far from
where I think I found my man. I'll pay your
fare by limousy. If you wanted for you to come
over and tell me whether I'm right or n.
Speaker 6: I already told you I wouldn't know him from the
next guy, and I ain't getting involved.
Speaker 1: I got a lot less future than you left him.
That's all I care about. Come on, get out of
my life. I walked away from Barney so frustrated I
wanted to put my fist through a wall. Why would
he want to back down on such a simple request.
Something about his attitude, the way he wouldn't look me
in the eye, the defensive anger, all of them signs
that any good detective him that he was covering up something.
Speaker 3: But what and why?
Speaker 1: There's no way I could sweat it at him. He
hadn't broken any law I know of, He had his rights.
But I had to forget about Barnie for the moment.
There was one more wouldness to go Sunnyside, Long Island,
the streets, a row of two family houses. One of
them was where the cab driver lived, or saw my
father get shot, if he was still alive. Yeah, I've
Detective Lombardi forty fiftive. But out here here are my credential.
It's nothing to be scared of. Busty, Oh, I see
how they could be when we ain't done nothing wrong.
It's not just wanna ask you a few questions. I
called earlier, but there was no one home. You know,
I just got back from work. If it's about the
Skylight girl getting mugged in the right, we don't know
nothingough to about that. First, is this the home of
mister Lowis Brotman you know his son. He's a cab
driver full he was. He's retired, and I'd like to
ask him a few questions. Well, he ain't home, he's
not taking a walk. I wish he wouldn't stay out
so long. The way things are, I don't feel safe
if he isn't home before don and then he done
know enough that what kind of questions or something? It
happened a long time ago. He saw a man get shot. Ah,
oh you mean the cop oh sh joor. Pops told
me about that. If I was just a kid when
that happened, that thought got me too. And the coup
was my father. Oh h it ain't that ashamed? Yeah,
but they never found that guy who'd done it, did they? No?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I think we may we may have
turned him up. I say, I wanted your father to
help me identify him. I mean, if he can after
all of these years, well, I'm afraid he couldn't help
you out. If he may not have changed so much,
Well it maybe not, but uh my father has Yeah,
that's him coming. Now. What you mean you mean the
man would with a king Yeah, glout comba they call it.
It happened five years ago. First, they thought they could
save one eye, but it didn't work out. He stone blind,
so that left it squarely up to me. I knew
the captain wouldn't back me up, not without witnesses to
make a case. So it looked like I was gonna
get that vacation after him. Had to go to Florida
to Miami.
Speaker 3: But first there was something else I had to dig
out of the file.
Speaker 1: I thought you were supposed to be on vacacious about
the start. Something I had to check out here for
you taking that monkey along for a companion, the one
on your back, the one that oughto had been buried
in that musty old file. You can't keep your nose
out of Green. I know you mean well, but but
there's only one way I'll ever bury that monkey. And
I said, I get your message, Joe. I'll mind my
own business now, if you'll excuse me, I'll get my
own messages. Word file offs of Green speaking. Yes. Sure,
Green's preoccupation with the phone call is just what I needed.
I took the file out of his side, throw it quickly,
and got out the old edge for it that Judge
Arnold had issued. Judge was long dead and the warrant
no longer ballid, but I had this notion that I
might have to use it. By the time Green was
through this whole call, I had the file back in
the country, took it, want it away without checking? Right, sir,
h that was great you went through share. Okay, Now
just let me put this away.
Speaker 4: Sergeant Cross got a rush order. See you, Joe.
Speaker 1: Aren't you gonna wish me luck on vacation?
Speaker 4: What else could you have?
Speaker 1: I'd be all right, Green, I sure hope it turns
out that way. Joe, what are you doing here? Didn't
I tell you I didn't wanna see you for a month,
that you're on a vacation? My manning for Florida in
a couple hours. I'd just stopped by to pick up
a couple of things. What about you going? Oh? I
figured like maybe Miami Beach. Huh, Miami Beach and you're
finally me once I had a trip down there to
pick up a prisoner. And before we were both married.
That was and yeah, it's it's better forgotten now. Point was,
we made a good friend and I kept up with him.
Sam Williams, he's Sheriff of Date County. Now you don't
need any help or get in trouble. You but you're
not gonna get in any trouble, No, don't. I can
help a capstar, but I just maybe he might could
use little help. What kind of help? Well, you know
where to go, what to see? Oh? Oh sure, bad.
You call on Sam, Tell him you're kind of like
a son to me, and he'll done there and make
you a president of the old State. Incidentally, that uh
Santana kid is off the critical list. He's gonna be
one hundred percent. Now I'm talking with a deputy inspector
and inspector too, and you won't be busted. You get
off with just a censure if you keep your nose
clean from now on. You get me, I get you, sir. Well,
you going down there, boy, and let the sun not
only get some tan on you, but also shine inside
and and sort of open you up. Uh, give yourself
a chance to start living and stop holding the grutch
against the world.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 1: He was such a right guy. I hate to hold
on on him. This gut hunch warned me that he'd
never go for what I had in mind. Still had
sheriff with him, was might come in handy to keep
me from going all the way. I didn't want to
settle it outside the law to make up for my father.
I was ready to on the plane speeding south. I
closed my eyes and I tried to imagine what Leslie
Peevy would look like now and just how I'd react
when I came face to face the guy who put
a bullet through my father's hat. Thinking about it, I
was conscious, very conscious of the empty shoulder holster and
my gun checked out with a party. By the time
we landed, it wouldn't be empty anymore. I'd have my
gun back with no license to use it in the
state of Florida, which didn't mean that I wouldn't know.
I took a bus to turn that College Avenue away
from the beach, and I ran a good piece before
the driver nodded to me to get off. Peev's auto
repair shop had a gas station with her, and they
could have used some paint. A couple of cars on
the left and the ball headed guy with a permanently
peeling red freckles scalp was pumping gas. I walked over
to him as the car he was servicing and pulled away. Yes, sir, hello,
and welcome to Miami. If I'm to be gas oil white,
you win shield the way you're looking for the end's
room a comic.
Speaker 3: Just try to keep the days bright.
Speaker 4: Call me, George, what can I do for? You?
Speaker 1: Want to talk to the boss?
Speaker 6: But Leslie Peevie right right, And I wouldn't blame you
for wanting to to find.
Speaker 1: A boss right there in the office. Just much on him.
I got me a grease job. I gotta finish. The
moment was here at last. I could feel a knot
in my stomach, a gun under my arm, and hot
as if i'd left it out in the sun. Bak.
I headed on and to meet a name I'd known
all my life as I could remember.
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 2: Detective Joel Lombardi expects to do when he meets the
man who'd killed his father. Try to take him back
to New York at gunpoint to stand trial with no
witnesses left to appear against him, or just simply put
a bullet through his head with that same gun he
has no license to carry in Florida.
Speaker 1: I'll return shortly with Act three for a moment.
Speaker 2: Joe Lombardi stops at the glass door, looking into the office.
There's a small trim blonde girl sitting working over some
books at a desk. The rest of the office is
beyond his sight line round the corner. He hesitates because
of the girl. There's something about her that somehow dissipates
his sense of mission. A sudden aching long that if
this were only a vacation, this is the girl he
would want to meet on It a completely irrational thought,
but strong enough to force him to make an effort
to thrust it aside and enter.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
Speaker 3: Can I help you?
Speaker 1: Yes, I uh, I'm looking for a Leslie peebe.
Speaker 7: Not anymore you are.
Speaker 1: But what does that mean? It's like a joke.
Speaker 7: You're not looking for you're looking.
Speaker 1: At Uh, well, you mean you mean you're the boss?
Speaker 7: If you mean, do I run this little tourist trap,
that's me.
Speaker 3: But you you can't be. Haven't you ever heard of
women's liss?
Speaker 1: Not what I mean? I mean, I'm looking for a
man named Leslie. For some reason, I seem to have
caught you. Clear up, bass, mister Joe Lombardy.
Speaker 7: Mister Lombardy, but I hate to tell you this. For
a pretty good looking guy, you look kind of funny
with your mouth wide open.
Speaker 1: That's besides the boy, you've got any proof that you're sure?
Speaker 7: Have you got any proof? You've a right to question it?
These my gourdats, oh bat seven O three, Detective Joseph
Lombardy Precinc. Forty five of New York City. It's not
a very good picture of you.
Speaker 1: Maybe I wouldn't say that this is a very good
picture of you either. Oh, I quite agree.
Speaker 7: First of all, it's old enough to be a degerettype,
and second it's a man.
Speaker 1: But oh, oh, what are you stopping for?
Speaker 7: Well, this is an old picture of Oh did you
say your name was Lombardy? I said, oh no, oh no,
not now, not after all these years. Why was your
father a policeman too?
Speaker 1: That's right?
Speaker 7: I think that maybe you and I had better go
and talk somewhere.
Speaker 1: Why not right here? Oh?
Speaker 7: I can think of plenty of reasons. You see, I
never knew about you and your father till a couple
of years ago, Detective. My mother died when I was born,
and I'd just always grown up thinking that my last
name was Chalmers. Chalmers, well that was my mother's maiden name.
As I found out, how did you find out? Well,
things were kind of rough, for Dad and me.
Speaker 3: While I was growing up.
Speaker 7: I never understood why he couldn't get better jobs. He
had the ability, but he seemed so afraid of people.
And we always lived in such small towns that a
man just had to take what he could get.
Speaker 1: When did you learn your real name?
Speaker 7: About six years ago? My dad had a cousin who
owned a gas station or order a repair, whatever you
wanna call it, and he died and he left it
to my father, and that's when he had well that's
when I first learned that my real name was Peev.
I mean, in order to make it legal and everything,
my dad couldn't inherit without telling who he really was.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had to produce his brace certificate, things
like that.
Speaker 7: Yes, of course, Well I brought you here. It's the
only quiet place that I know in the area and
still be able to look out and see.
Speaker 1: I wish I could appreciate it with you. I really
mean that, But I can't stop for things like that.
Speaker 7: Now, Well, what are you here for a detective to
try to drag my father back? To try and carry
my father?
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't I after all.
Speaker 7: These years, don't you think he's suffered enough?
Speaker 1: After all these years, don't you think my mom and
I have suffered enough.
Speaker 7: This is one of my most favorite spots.
Speaker 3: In the world.
Speaker 7: The waves rolling in goes and right down below in
that cove, I found my first starfish.
Speaker 1: I don't get what you say.
Speaker 7: I know, I just wish I could have brought you
here under different circumstances. So mister Smuth knows to the
ground Nostril's wide mouth panting, you have.
Speaker 1: Now tracked down the prey.
Speaker 3: I wish you joy of it.
Speaker 4: Now I'm going to do what you want.
Speaker 7: I'm going to take you to the arch criminal and
see just how you're going to arrange for his arrest.
Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
Speaker 7: This is what is known as a hospital for chronic cases.
We are going to visit my father in the terminal
ward or the matter with him. He has cancer in cure.
Don't be surprised that he doesn't speak in the most
dulcet tones. His alarynx is affected too.
Speaker 4: I thought maybe i'd made it.
Speaker 5: I chanted you long enough so i'd be gone and
my daughter wouldn't get hurt.
Speaker 1: Isn't that easy? You killed my father, didn't you? Yes,
mister Pete, I'm nobody wants to kick a man when
he's done or my father a lot of my life.
I wanted to make up for him that someone took
him out for no reason and wrecked my life and
my mother's. Your father was a fine policeman, right, detective,
all one finer, So leave it that way. Just leave
it that way, leslie. How about you, detective?
Speaker 4: You gotta let it lay?
Speaker 1: Why should I?
Speaker 4: Because nothing you could.
Speaker 5: Do could make me pay more than I already have
for that stupid act.
Speaker 4: I might as well have been in jail for thirty
five years. What good thing was my daughter here?
Speaker 1: Blessing?
Speaker 4: The only person you can hurt is her. Give her
a break, please.
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm a cop.
Speaker 7: I do not gonna take this, Not for myself, I
don't care, but for you, Devid.
Speaker 3: Tell him the truth.
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't leave me anyway, But.
Speaker 7: Then I will listen to me, Mister tough detective. My
father shot your father in self defense. He tried to
kill him first.
Speaker 1: Sorry, miss Phoebe, it will wash My father fire a
warning shot in the air. Oh the hell he did.
There were two witnesses.
Speaker 4: They saw the hall, and they lied.
Speaker 1: Why would they lie? Because everybody knew about your father.
Then he was triggering a fright.
Speaker 3: That is easy.
Speaker 1: I don't blame you for trying to protect your own,
but I don't take that from anyone. How could you
know anyway?
Speaker 4: Because I told her?
Speaker 5: Of course, when I had to tell her my real name,
which brings us round in full circle again.
Speaker 7: Okay, Dad, you're in pain. Let me get the nurse.
Speaker 1: Not for a moment.
Speaker 4: Let's try get this straight first.
Speaker 1: Gee, what really happened that night?
Speaker 5: I was a pretty wild kid, nothing real bad, but
I wasn't always like they say on the side of
the law. The night had happened, I was at the
time running a little book, No Connections, just Private Penny,
and one of my studies was.
Speaker 1: Barney son Ho Sperry of the agony his daughter and
I went through listening to that tortured story from a
dying man.
Speaker 3: I can tell it in fewer words with less effort.
Speaker 1: What peev claimed was that Barney Saunders was into him
for about seventy five bucks. Pevee had had a couple
of drinks that night he went in to collect. Barney
claimed that he didn't have the door. He opened the
cash register to prove it. There was a gun unregistered
in there, and to throw a scare into Barney, Peebe
lifted it and threatened if he didn't pay up, he'd
have n't rubbed it. And that's when my pop came in.
Pebe recognized and Barney pulled the fake hold up line,
and Peebe locked his head and took it on the lamp.
In his story, when Pop squeezed off, the shadow went
right by his ear and he could hear it hit
metal somewhere in ricochet. Was sheer reflex action a turn
back fire in return? No, he has, he claimed my
father's reputation. I wouldn't even have listened to the story
except for two things.
Speaker 4: I I never meant it. I never fired a gun
in my life. Didn't even know how to image.
Speaker 1: If you were all at innocent, how come you didn't
hang around and defend yourself?
Speaker 4: You kidding?
Speaker 1: You know what happens to a cop killer?
Speaker 4: What can I prove?
Speaker 1: And what I read in the.
Speaker 4: Papers that Barney had and the cab driver lied, I
knew I was cooked. I took it all the way.
Speaker 7: But just the same, do you want to do killing yourself?
Or your questions? Can't you face the truth when you
hear it.
Speaker 1: It isn't easy.
Speaker 7: So what are you planning to do?
Speaker 1: First of all, I've got to make a phone call.
Got a start here, Captain, is your own body from Florida? Uh?
I found PV.
Speaker 3: He got him, but he's dying of cancer. MM can't
even count on a week to live.
Speaker 1: So that's sleeping dogs lies, you know, maybe, sir?
Speaker 3: After two questions, was my father as trigger happy as
you'd think?
Speaker 1: I am mighty?
Speaker 3: Wor ask? That's the second question. I always had a
notion you dragged your feet some on the case? Was
it because that first shot pop.
Speaker 1: Fired wasn't straight in the air? Now, Joe, we all
make decisions, and you know we make mistakes. Sala was
my friend and I wanted to protect his memory. And
remember I had no short proof. Just about where Pev
was standing when he fired, there was a lamp post
with a fresh scar on the paint right down to
the steel. Could have been made by a bullet, but
it ricocheted, of course, So uh, who's to tell we
never found that bullet? Thanks Captain? At you wait a minute,
what are you gonna do? I don't know, Happa, I
just plain leslie?
Speaker 3: Oh, why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 1: I guess something to tell you. Well, I have something
to tell you. He's dead.
Speaker 7: Now, are you satisfied?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: No, I'm gonna I'm gonna drive you home if you'll
let me. I don't know, all right, what's the difference.
I don't think I could see it? Drive anyway?
Speaker 7: What what made you drive back here?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Good good place for confession? Maybe confession.
I'm just like my father was. I can see that now. Oh,
I had a big excuse to get back at the world.
But that wasn't really me.
Speaker 3: Oh, who was it?
Speaker 1: I was a kid trying to live up to a
kind of idol that my mother built and who haven't
helped her. Wanted revenge and made me the way to
get it. Maybe I don't blame her too much. He
didn't mean it. But to suddenly find out after all
these years it my pop worn't alright?
Speaker 3: Alright, sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 4: What it's all right, let it go.
Speaker 7: We both have to get it.
Speaker 3: Out of our systems.
Speaker 7: I had to when I first found out about my father.
I mean, who he really was and what he'd done.
If it hadn't been for the cancer. A well, that
part of it's.
Speaker 1: All over now. I don't know how to apologize clone
man acting like that.
Speaker 7: We're just trying to get rid of the little boy,
like I had to get rid of a little girl.
Speaker 1: We both we both have bad luck with fathers, so
I'd make us two of a kind.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: What are you gonna do now, y' well?
Speaker 1: I still have over three weeks of vacation time coming.
Maybe if I stay down here, could uh could we
see each other?
Speaker 7: I guess we could.
Speaker 3: I have no one else me neither.
Speaker 1: Leslie Peevee and Joe Lombardy h the last two people
I ever figured could make it to you. Let's not
rush things. Who's rushing anything? We've got three whole weeks.
Speaker 2: It took a while longer than three weeks for Leslie
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