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Good evening, gentlemen. Can I check your hats, please?
Gentlemen...
Girl like a bear trap.
You wanna play or do you wanna pay? I've got a great...
Jack Flynn
Hey, you buddy go buy yourself a good time.
Mr Flynn, I'm Max Hoover. I'm with Los Angeles Police Department.
That means I get change back.
Are you still here?
What is that might cost me?
I came here to leave a message. Your presency is required back in Chicago.
It's cold in Chicago, which is why I came out here.
Is Mr. Flynn being charged with crime?
What are you? His lawyer?
No, but I'm represented by a good one.
What's my friends being charged with?
He did things in Chicago.
I bid on that, pal. I bid those in diamonds.
Let's go. Get him out of here.
You guys made a big mistake.
Where are we going?
Airport.
You are going to the airport, Jack.
You better go back to Chicago as soon as possible.
This ain't the way to the airport.
-This is it. -Yeah, this is it.
This is what?
This is Mulholland Falls, Jack.
Mulholland Falls?
It's kinda like Niagara Falls.
Come on, there ain't no falls in L. A..
You guys can't do this.
This is America.
This isn't America, Jack.
This is L. A..
-Thought I wouldn't do this anymore. -Do what? -This
Come on. Let's go.
Jack?
Maybe he is dead.
No, he is not. He is looking right at us.
Jack, are you dead?
He's alive.
Jack, we don't have organized crime in L. A..
And frankly, we don't want organized crime.
So here's what I want you to do. I want you to look around,
and remember this, because this will always be your way back to Chicago--
Mulholland Falls.
Tee?
No, that's a sort.
-Hi, Max. -Kate. -Lily. -Hi!
We were just discussing husbands.
I'm trying to find a new one for Lily. Do you know any?
Oh, only guys in or cops backguys. Thanks, Peter.
And I don't know if I can recommend you either one.
How about Eddie Hall?
Eddie Hall?
Yeah.
No. He's been married 5 times.
-You see what I mean? -Yeah.
I'm sorry I was late, Kay. But we had a little accident up in the office.
Oh, no, no, no.
You know I've got too flat feet.
Excuse us, Lily.
Max.
I love you.
I love you, too.
-You the foreman? -Yeah.
Where are we out here? What is this?
We are in a new house supervision.
-Ever think about who those people are that would live away out here? -No. -Me either.
Guys, I'll take it from here.
-No pictures till I tell you. -Whatever you say.
Max, I should have stayed in bed.
Are you in charge of this operation?
Yes, this part. I am.
Youˇ®ve got any heavy equipment around here... like press a woman into the ground like that?
Big roller, may be.
Seemed like that one chewed her up
-Is this the way you found her? -Yeah.
We didn't touch her. She's just like this.
I want you to step over there, an officer will take your full statement.
Jesus. Melt. There's nothing to hold on to.
OK, why don't you roll over and see what she looks like.
Oh...
Are you ok, Max?
Yeah.
Jeez, what a mess.
-Her fingernails. -OK.
-How did she die?
She jumped off a cliff.
There's no cliff out there.
Somebody moved her?
She wasn't moved. She died just where you found her.
Doc, did you see this?
What is it?
Looks like glass.
"Farewell, Arms"
Ernest Hemingway
You know the way this guy write?
He never talked to a woman in his life.
When did you ever read Hemingway?
He thinks that all women recall "round arms".
And what they really want is...
What they really want is...
a man. He'll listen to her stomachs.
Max, don't drool on me.
I'm sorry.
Sorry.
Max, what's wrong?
Hey, tell me.
We found a dead girl in the valley.
She was broken in to 30 pieces.
Cunning pickering.
Who is she?
Nobody.
Just known, just known.
I'm sorry, Kay.
Can you believe that?
The D. A. wanted him die in Kroyle.
What's wrong with this country?
A guy chops up his parents with an ax dosen't get the gas chamber?
How can you plea-bargain something like that?
Fingerprints all over the murder weapon.
Al. plays the same sin of the crime
Eddie, they won't have him done. That doesn't make any difference.
Yeah, I know that D. A.. We use a bad man for Jack Dracula.
No kidding. How did he become a D. A., for Chist's sake?
D. A.s are elected officers that do any scumbag and get anything end up molts.
Ellery, how come you get a hot dog in you mouth
while you threaten a project to "what to eat while you are at work"?
While you are working, why do you eat all the time?
It's all psychological, Max. I eat so I don't think about food.
So you don't think about food?
Yeah.
You know, Ellery. I don't wanna butt into your business.
But this psychiatrist the guy you are going to, I think he is in worse shape than you are.
She, Max. It's a woman.
Damn it, I can't get my finger in there. It won't fit.
Try your dick.
Esther, please. Come, try this.
-So you are going to her about food? -Yeah.
I thought you were going to her about the other thing.
-My tempr? -Yes.
It's all related, Max.
The eating and the anger,
they come from the same place. The food calms me down.
Esther, don't you have something better to do?
No, not better than this.
-All right. -Ready? -Yeah, turn it on.
What is this, Somebody's summer vacation?
That's the girl we found in the valley, Max.
Max!
Max! I got to talk to you about this D. A.. He's a prick.
Max?
Do me a favor. Go get you something to eat. Go back.
Max, if something is wrong...
I mean, maybe it's best to talk it out.
You know, get it out in the open. If it's anything like that.
No, not like that.
But any problem can be solved.
All your have to do is to break it down into parts. You see?
It's just simple. It's right into the parts. My psychiatrist told me.
And you deal with each part individually.
One part, then you go to the next part. You just got to break it down.
-But the first one... -All right.
Do me a favor, just do it.
HO 5964
Hoover?
You are alone?
Yeah.
I need protection.
From what?
You go get the film I sent you?
You know who the guy in it is?
I don't even know who you are.
I'm Jimmy Fields.
Look, the guy in the movie, he killed her.
Killed who?
Let's spare me the crap of it. I don't have the time for it.
Our mutual friend is dead. They killed her.
And I'm going out the same way unless I can get some help.
How do you know she is dead?
Because she would have called me otherwise. She always called me.
Always.
Because I was her best friend.
That means I didn't fuck her.
What did you do with her, share makeup tips?
Do I make you nervous, lieutenant?
When was last time you saw her?
In Vegas.
She dropped my camera off Saturday morning, said she'd meet me back in L. A..
To meet her and a general, we are gonna go for a little ride.
What general?
Cops.
Does Thomas Timms rihg a bell?
How many more films are there?
Couple.
Did she know?
Maybe.
I ask you a question. Did she know you are taking movies?
No.
Now put that gun away.
Help me, Hoover! You are supposed to be a cop.
I thought you couldn't turn anybody down.
Is that what she said?
That's what she said.
She was wrong.
Here he comes.
Where are we going, Max?
I've got something to take care of. I'll be back later.
We got to ask you a question.
With that girl...
She is the same one that's in the movie, isn't she?
Did Coolidge tell you that?
I've been worried, Max.
Worried? You are worried? What the hell are worried about?
We are partners here. Now tell us.
Something going on between you and that dead girl?
Look, guys. I want you to come here a little sly on this one.
Just let me do what I got to do.
I thought you had Grand Jury testimony today.
-To hell with the Grand Jury, Max. -So where are we going?
I've been thinking...
Why is that we always sit at the same places?
And why is that you are always the one that drives, Max?
I guess that's 'cause I've got the keys.
Yeah. But that's what I'm saying. Why is that you always have the keys?
I mean there's reason for everything, right?
Elleroy
I've never attempted to criticize anything in the working of the human mind.
Are you still seeing that psychiatrist?
There's nothing wrong with my psychiatrist, Eddie.
We just want to know how much longer.
I don't know.
Oh, Jesus God.
Why is that you have the keys, Max?
Max, let Elleroy drive.
Now you are happy, Coolidge?
Yeah.
Take it a little low.
Jeez
Sorry, Max.
That's why he usually has the keys.
-Go tell the manager. Tell him we are going through rooms. -All right.
Manager says some guy in 23, Jimmy Fields is her best friend.
Hasn't seen either one of them in over a week.
It's not very neat, isn't it?
Son of a bitch!
-You're alright, Max? -Yeah.
I just can't breathe,
can't stay there.
-Cigarette? -Yeah.
How long have you seen her?
6 months.
Off chance, I got.
Here?
Yeah.
Ah, Jesus Christ. That guy got film on you and everything, didn't he?
You remember Kenny Kamins?
May I help you, gentlement?
Yeah, we are looking for Kenny Kamins. Have you seen him?
-Never heard of him. -He never heard of him.
You believed that, fellas?
What are you guys doing here? You've got a fucking warrant?
-You are from New York? -So what? -I'm from New Jersy.
What's going on here? What do you think you are doing here?
Relax, Allison. Jenny and I will just have a little party.
Go do something useful. Powder your nose.
You are sick, Kenny. This is sick.
I'm not gonna let you do this to her. She's a child.
So you won't stop. It took what a woman you became.
You konw, Kenny.
You nuts.
It's a good shot.
You pull that shit again, and I'm gonna break your little neck. All right?
Hello, Kenny.
It's a private party, Hoover. You've got a warrant?
I've got this.
Remember this, Ken?
Kenny, Kenny, what are you doing?
Get her outta here.
You broke my fingers!
We'll see, Kenny. We have a little party.
No, I don't do that stuff, Hoover.
-You don't wanna see this. -Yes, I do.
Jesus Christ. Allison, call the cops.
I am the cops, Kenny.
An inventive way of dispensing justice?
It's part of the job.
Well, you're more effective than I was.
So you are?
Well, you won't find out by killing me?
What do you fall for, Max?
What did captain say? You told him, didn't you?
-He got it with a camera, the fruit? -Right.
-Tracking you down, is he? -Could be. He's running and scared.
Maybe we should pay more visit.
We are not gonna do that anymore. We agreed.
You guys ever hear of a general named Thomas Timms?
He's one of the inventors of the A-bomb.
They made him chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
I got 7 minutes of film with him with Allison.
You have trouble.
Let's talk to the fruit.
Let's go over it again.
What did she say?
She said she was going for a ride with Timms.
How do I test these things?
She wasn't scared, huh?
No, she wasn't scared. She was never scared...
or to be alone.
Come on, Jimmy. Sit down.
What you make the films for, Jimmy?
What you make the films for?
Why are you into that? What was it? Blackmail?
I thought about that... You know, for irony.
Why did you make it?
What's wrong with Max?
Why did you make the films?
Because it made me feel a part of it.
Watch the boys getting passioned.
You made films of me, didn't you?
Yes, I did.
Where are those films?
That's the question, isn't it?
When she didn't show up, I went back to my apartment. But the place was turned apart.
They took them all, except the one I sent you. It was still at the lab.
None of that proves Timms killed her.
What do you need, a road map?
Timms knew about the film. He's the last to see her alive. She's dead.
They killed her up there.
She didn't die in the desert. She died here,
right outside L.A..
You told me and yourself that Allison didn't know about the films.
So Timms couldn't know about it either.
Why would a guy kill this girl over a film he didn't even know existed.
You are the last to see her alive.
How do I know you didn't kill her?
Because I loved her, and she was my best friend.
She nearly died when you left her, did you know that?
She loved her, and you just used her.
How does that feel?
When you sit there, like you are protecting the innocent.
All you really do is beat on the weak,
and disregard and destroy anybody or anything that's standing in the way.
You and your pathetic sense of right or wrong, and justice and power.
If anybody is responsible for Allison's death,
it's you.
Get your shit off me.
Come on.
Max!
Eddie, Coolidge, Relyea, just get him outta here.
Come on, Fields. Move it.
Max, everybody has weak moments
You gotta get it out, you gotta talk...
Shut up. Shut the hell up.
Jesus Christ. How much your psychiatrist told you?
Let me tell you how it goes, Elleroy.
You meet somebody.
Maybe they are a little off-center. But they tell you the truth.
And you like them, you like them for that.
One thing leads to another, and they end up in bed.
Now that's weak, Elleroy.
But now listen to me!
Nobody gets hurt.
Now you go home, and you see your wife,
and you are feeling bad.
You want her to know that you want to get it off your chest.
So you tell her. And now she is hurt.
Now that's weak, too.
But it's also cruel.
It's just goddamned cruel.
Here's something for you.
Something doesn't cost you 25$ an hour.
You carry your own water. Don't doubt it.
You understand?
Carry your own water.
Max, I was just trying to help. I'm sorry.
No, all right. Forget it, alright?
We are still partners, right?
Yeah, partners. Thanks. Go ahead.
-You are OK, Max? -Yeah.
Come here.
I don't understand how anybody can live off the beach.
Those waves, crash and flop all the time.
Drive me crazy.
I'm with you, Eddie.
I would rather traffic when I'm sleeping.
I found it very peaceful.
Most people do.
These cops are just different.
The only reason we are here is because of Max.
Had it my way, I would rather dump you out of a speeding car,
see if you bounce around a little.
Hey, Earl, how's that chili coming?
It's done.
It's my ex-neighbour who used to say: "Presentation is everything."
Look is connected to the way it tastes.
Stopped.
Where's Fields?
-I'll get him. -Alright.
Fields.
Shit!
You see him take Fields?
We couldn't see shit, Max.
They shot hell out of this place.
Looks like they had heavy machine gun.
Fruit cake disappears.
Lieutenant.
They want you down at the beach.
-Jesus Christ. -How did they kill him, doc?
How what can I tell you, Max. They stuck a gun in his mouth and blew the back of his head off.
An execution?
Not until they asked him some questions first.
Contusions, abrasions, sag most around the neck.
Come on, I wanna show you guys something.
We took this X-rays of Allison Pond.
Look what happend.
This foot gets a heel.
This one dosen't. Why is it all blurring?
Cameras fog the film.
But unless in her foot. It's radioactive.
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Yes, sir?
L. A. P. D., I'm here to see General Timms.
Hey, hey, give me that.
5 to 1, we don't get in.
This is the army. I say we try the back way.
5 to 1? Yes, I'll take this odds.
My five.
You hold a moment.
You make sure he knows that.
Sir, no civilian meeting, with no exceptions.
-Did you talk to General Timms? -General isn't available, sir.
Did you tell him it's police business?
Yes, he said no civilian meeting, with no exceptions.
You lose, Coolidge.
You know, you could have talked to him a little more, Max.
You owe me a buck.
Wait.
Seen too many movies, Relyea?
-Mind it, Eddie. It's hot -I'll get it.
-Let me try. -All right.
You know, when I was a kid, I thought everybody in Hollywood had a horse.
Because every movie I saw was a cowboy movie.
You remember those movies, right?
They will come and gallop into the town, and those cowboys will get fall of the horse, right?
Dust would be all over the place
And they'll get rings wrapped around the railing , once, twice, three times... Keep on wrapping.
Let me tell you something.
Gene Autry would come into the town, jump off the horse,
carefully wrap the ring around once, just once.
Then he would go inside and see the sheriff.
Boy, I worried about that horse getting away.
What the hell is that?
This place is wierd.
Jesus. What a big hole.
They just dropped the damn thing right here, huh?
Yeah, that's what happens when they send one of them to ground level.