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02:22.840 --> 02:26.840 Got a couple of bags of peanuts, please. 02:26.840 --> 02:27.840 Oh, sure thing. 02:27.840 --> 02:30.840 Ten a bag, that'll be 20 cents. 02:30.840 --> 02:31.840 All right, thank you. 02:31.840 --> 02:32.840 Thank you. 02:32.840 --> 02:33.840 Hi, Friday. 02:33.840 --> 02:34.840 Jack. 02:34.840 --> 02:41.960 I'd have come over sooner. 02:41.960 --> 02:44.280 I saw you walking around the park wanting to make sure you weren't tailed. 02:44.280 --> 02:45.880 Yeah, I made sure of that before I came in. 02:45.880 --> 02:47.880 Let's go over and sit down. 02:47.880 --> 02:48.880 Okay. 02:48.880 --> 02:50.360 I'd say there's a lot of stuff just came in town. 02:50.360 --> 02:51.560 Some new pushers came with it. 02:51.560 --> 02:52.560 You know that? 02:52.560 --> 02:53.560 Yeah, I heard some talk. 02:53.560 --> 02:54.560 I'd like to knock them over. 02:54.560 --> 02:55.560 I got the contact. 02:55.560 --> 02:57.560 What's in it for you, Jack? 02:57.560 --> 02:59.120 A couple of reasons. 02:59.120 --> 03:00.120 Yeah? 03:00.120 --> 03:01.120 One thing, I'd like to pay you back. 03:01.120 --> 03:02.840 I got out of jail last week. 03:02.840 --> 03:03.840 I talked to the wife. 03:03.840 --> 03:06.040 She told me what you've been doing for her and the kids while I've been out. 03:06.040 --> 03:07.240 A nice family, Jack. 03:07.240 --> 03:08.240 You let them down. 03:08.240 --> 03:09.240 And you didn't. 03:09.240 --> 03:11.360 I'm not gonna forget it. 03:11.360 --> 03:12.880 Wife still has that job you got her. 03:12.880 --> 03:14.680 Kid's asthma's a lot better, too. 03:14.680 --> 03:16.800 Appreciate you finding that place into hunger for him. 03:16.800 --> 03:17.800 It sure helped. 03:17.800 --> 03:18.800 I was glad to do it. 03:18.800 --> 03:19.800 Want some peanuts? 03:19.800 --> 03:20.800 Yeah, thanks. 03:20.800 --> 03:24.800 Now, what about this narco ring you mentioned? 03:24.800 --> 03:25.800 Remember Snuffy Brain? 03:25.800 --> 03:26.800 Yeah. 03:26.800 --> 03:27.800 Busted him the same time he did me. 03:27.800 --> 03:28.800 He got a year. 03:28.800 --> 03:29.800 Yeah. 03:29.800 --> 03:32.400 Just before I got out of county last week, he'd tell me to go see a guy. 03:32.400 --> 03:33.960 Get me a job. 03:33.960 --> 03:34.960 What kind of a job? 03:34.960 --> 03:37.240 The same kind you busted me on before. 03:37.240 --> 03:38.240 Pushing his stuff. 03:38.240 --> 03:40.160 What's the guy's name? 03:40.160 --> 03:41.160 Cadillac Red. 03:41.160 --> 03:42.160 Hmm? 03:42.160 --> 03:43.160 Yeah. 03:43.160 --> 03:44.160 New Yorker, I think. 03:44.160 --> 03:45.720 Likes to drive big cars. 03:45.720 --> 03:47.200 I guess that's how he got the name. 03:47.200 --> 03:48.200 Hmm. 03:48.200 --> 03:49.200 What's the story on him? 03:49.200 --> 03:50.800 Red's been in town a month. 03:50.800 --> 03:53.040 Four or five guys with him off in the east. 03:53.040 --> 03:54.400 Red says they got a big one to unload. 03:54.400 --> 03:55.400 Six kilos. 03:55.400 --> 03:56.400 Heroin? 03:56.400 --> 03:57.400 Mm-hmm. 03:57.400 --> 03:58.400 Mexican stuff. 03:58.400 --> 03:59.400 They seem to be having trouble. 03:59.400 --> 04:00.400 What do you mean? 04:00.400 --> 04:01.400 Finding pushers, setting up a deal. 04:01.400 --> 04:03.840 The only contact they had out here was Snuffy. 04:03.840 --> 04:05.320 He's in a can shopping around. 04:05.320 --> 04:09.400 I like the one in Peanuts, Jack. 04:09.400 --> 04:11.920 Yeah. 04:11.920 --> 04:14.080 You talked to this Red, did you? 04:14.080 --> 04:15.080 Mm-hmm. 04:15.080 --> 04:16.360 What's he asking from you? 04:16.360 --> 04:18.360 Like I said, he wants me to start pushing stuff for him. 04:18.360 --> 04:19.360 He needs contacts bad. 04:19.360 --> 04:20.360 I let him hang. 04:20.360 --> 04:21.840 I didn't say one way or the other. 04:21.840 --> 04:22.840 He's gonna phone me tonight. 04:22.840 --> 04:23.840 That so? 04:23.840 --> 04:26.320 What do you figure you'll tell him? 04:26.320 --> 04:27.320 Depends on you, Friday. 04:27.320 --> 04:28.320 I know one thing. 04:28.320 --> 04:30.720 I'm not gonna start pushing the junk again. 04:30.720 --> 04:33.760 You get around it, you handle it, you start the chippy with it, before you know it, you 04:33.760 --> 04:34.760 hook yourself. 04:34.760 --> 04:36.840 You figure what you wanna do, I'll help all I can. 04:36.840 --> 04:37.840 I owe you that much. 04:37.840 --> 04:39.920 You pretty sure the gang needs contacts? 04:39.920 --> 04:40.920 Hungry for them. 04:40.920 --> 04:43.400 They're sitting on 20 ounces of junk. 04:43.400 --> 04:45.360 Can't find anyone to trust to push it to. 04:45.360 --> 04:46.360 They got problems. 04:46.360 --> 04:47.360 Yeah. 04:47.360 --> 04:51.200 Think you could give me an office to them, pass me off as a buyer, a friend of yours 04:51.200 --> 04:52.200 maybe? 04:52.200 --> 04:53.200 There's a chance. 04:53.200 --> 04:54.800 How do you wanna do it? 04:54.800 --> 04:57.440 Well, let them know you have a friend who's ready for a buy. 04:57.440 --> 05:02.120 Tell them I'm from up north, make it Fresno, Red Mountain neighborhood, is that alright? 05:02.120 --> 05:04.120 Okay, sounds good. 05:04.120 --> 05:05.920 Nice man, Cadillac Red. 05:05.920 --> 05:08.640 He's gonna phone you tonight, is that right? 05:08.640 --> 05:09.640 Mm-hmm. 05:09.640 --> 05:10.640 I'll call you as soon as I hear from him. 05:10.640 --> 05:11.640 Alright, fine. 05:11.640 --> 05:13.640 Don't call me at the office. 05:13.640 --> 05:15.640 Right here. 05:15.640 --> 05:17.880 Here's my home phone. 05:17.880 --> 05:19.560 Don't worry about it, it's a silent number. 05:19.560 --> 05:21.120 I can't trace it. 05:21.120 --> 05:25.080 When you call there, if I'm not in, leave the message with my mother, okay? 05:25.080 --> 05:27.080 Your mother, okay. 05:27.080 --> 05:29.160 Pleasant four nine three two one. 05:29.160 --> 05:31.600 Okay, I'll ring it. 05:31.600 --> 05:33.440 How much do you know about this Red? 05:33.440 --> 05:35.120 You impress he is a big operator? 05:35.120 --> 05:36.120 Metal size, I guess. 05:36.120 --> 05:39.360 He's out in New York, that's about all I know for sure. 05:39.360 --> 05:40.360 Same for the rest of the gang. 05:40.360 --> 05:43.000 He's supposed to be handling quality stuff real good. 05:43.000 --> 05:44.000 How good? 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 Red claims he tests out 40%. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.880 I don't know what his asking price is. 05:48.880 --> 05:49.880 Where's this Red staying? 05:49.880 --> 05:50.880 Did you find that out? 05:50.880 --> 05:51.880 No, he wouldn't tell me. 05:51.880 --> 05:54.880 He was at a hotel on West Seventh, but he moved yesterday. 05:54.880 --> 05:57.280 Nervous guy, doesn't settle on in one place. 05:57.280 --> 05:59.560 Guess he's got a right to be shaky, all of them have. 05:59.560 --> 06:00.560 How do you mean? 06:00.560 --> 06:04.920 He got all their dough in the white stuff, close to 50 G's worth. 06:04.920 --> 06:06.960 Kill him if you knock him over, grab the junk. 06:06.960 --> 06:11.600 We'll kill a lot more if we don't. 06:11.600 --> 06:15.640 Before I left our informant Jack Wallace, we set up a plan for future contacts. 06:15.640 --> 06:20.040 In case of any emergency, I would not attempt to get in touch with him at his rooming house 06:20.040 --> 06:21.720 at Third and Olive Streets. 06:21.720 --> 06:26.520 Instead I'd contact him at his work, the Joe Adonis Meat Market on West Temple, where he 06:26.520 --> 06:28.400 was employed as a butcher. 06:28.400 --> 06:32.680 Wallace also promised to try to get me a sample of the heroin from the narcotics ring. 06:32.680 --> 06:37.920 10.50 PM, I checked back in at the office and briefed Captain Kearney. 06:37.920 --> 06:40.560 Sounds a little fantastic Joe, six kilos. 06:40.560 --> 06:43.520 If it's true, it's a break a cop gets once in a lifetime. 06:43.520 --> 06:46.440 That's the way Wallace tells it, I can't figure any reason why he'd lie to me. 06:46.440 --> 06:48.760 How about this front man Red, you checked him out yet? 06:48.760 --> 06:50.840 Well Ed's checking him through the moniker file now. 06:50.840 --> 06:53.480 He's a New York operator, that's all Wallace could tell me. 06:53.480 --> 06:54.960 You got any idea where the plant is? 06:54.960 --> 06:55.960 No I don't. 06:55.960 --> 06:57.480 Wallace didn't even know where Red was living. 06:57.480 --> 07:00.120 Red's supposed to have a meet with him tonight, I gave him my home phone, told him not to 07:00.120 --> 07:01.120 contact the office. 07:01.120 --> 07:03.000 You got any court cases pending? 07:03.000 --> 07:05.320 No, but I got two I was going to file on tomorrow. 07:05.320 --> 07:09.040 You better give me the packages, I'll have Lou Walters assign them to somebody else. 07:09.040 --> 07:12.000 You and Jacob stay with this gang, put them to bed and get them up. 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 All right. 07:13.000 --> 07:14.840 Wallace is going to try to get you a sample of the junk, huh? 07:14.840 --> 07:15.840 Yeah, he said he'd try. 07:15.840 --> 07:16.840 Captain, Joe. 07:16.840 --> 07:17.840 Hi. 07:17.840 --> 07:19.840 Hi Ed, you dig up anything? 07:19.840 --> 07:20.840 I don't know. 07:20.840 --> 07:23.720 I found one Cadillac Red, could be our boy. 07:23.720 --> 07:24.720 You get a mug on him? 07:24.720 --> 07:27.320 No, all we have is correspondence from New York. 07:27.320 --> 07:31.360 There was a want on him back in 1945, same thing, narcotics. 07:31.360 --> 07:34.320 Later that year the want was cancelled, he was picked up, no disposition. 07:34.320 --> 07:37.080 You want us to radiogram New York for a rundown on him? 07:37.080 --> 07:38.880 No, let's not stir it up. 07:38.880 --> 07:43.200 Starting tomorrow you two stay away from here, get yourselves fixed up in a hotel room downtown. 07:43.200 --> 07:44.560 Let me know where you're staying. 07:44.560 --> 07:45.560 Okay. 07:45.560 --> 07:48.640 Call me at two o'clock sharp in the afternoon, I'll make it a point to be here. 07:48.640 --> 07:50.520 Better call me on the inside line. 07:50.520 --> 07:51.520 Right Skipper. 07:51.520 --> 07:53.400 Where do you think we ought to set up, Joe? 07:53.400 --> 07:55.240 Oh, I don't know. 07:55.240 --> 07:57.880 How about Pop Sherman's place down there on Hill Street? 07:57.880 --> 07:58.880 He'll cooperate. 07:58.880 --> 08:01.080 You know what that stuff did to his boy. 08:01.080 --> 08:02.080 Yeah, okay. 08:02.080 --> 08:03.080 You want to check in tonight? 08:03.080 --> 08:05.440 No, my wife's going to scream her head off as it is. 08:05.440 --> 08:08.440 You better make it in the morning, huh? 08:08.440 --> 08:10.240 All right, we will. 08:10.240 --> 08:11.240 Narcotics, Kearney. 08:11.240 --> 08:13.240 Oh yes, man, just a minute. 08:13.240 --> 08:15.240 For you, Joe. 08:15.240 --> 08:18.240 Okay, thank you. 08:18.240 --> 08:19.240 Oh yeah, Ma. 08:19.240 --> 08:20.240 Mm-hmm. 08:20.240 --> 08:22.240 Did he say what time? 08:22.240 --> 08:23.240 Hmm. 08:23.240 --> 08:24.240 Yeah, okay. 08:24.240 --> 08:27.240 No, don't worry, I'll get a bite downtown and I'll be home. 08:27.240 --> 08:30.240 Yeah, yeah, okay, bye. 08:30.240 --> 08:34.240 My mother, Wallace just called my home, left a message for me. 08:34.240 --> 08:41.240 He had the meat with red, he's got the sample. 08:41.240 --> 08:45.240 At seven thirty the next morning, Ed Jacobs and I checked in at Pop Sherman's hotel on 08:45.240 --> 08:47.240 South Hill Street and took adjoining rooms. 08:47.240 --> 08:51.240 We'd left all possible identification in our lockers at the office. 08:51.240 --> 08:56.240 At nine thirty a.m., technicians from our crime lab arrived and installed a bug in my 08:56.240 --> 08:59.240 room and set up the receiver next door in Ed's room. 08:59.240 --> 09:02.240 In the event any of the gang happened to come to my room, they'd be able to record 09:02.240 --> 09:04.240 the conversation. 09:04.240 --> 09:07.240 I registered as Paul Lindsay, San Diego, California. 09:07.240 --> 09:10.240 Ed registered as Ray Morrissey, Sacramento. 09:10.240 --> 09:16.240 At eleven a.m., I went alone to Adonis Meat Market where our informant Jack Wallace 09:16.240 --> 09:19.240 handed me a dummy package which I took back to the hotel. 09:19.240 --> 09:24.240 Inside the package I found a sample of the narcotics along with a note from Wallace. 09:24.240 --> 09:27.240 He wrote that he'd arranged a meat with red for that night. 09:27.240 --> 09:32.240 I was to pick up Wallace in front of the subway terminal building, the Hill Street side, 09:32.240 --> 09:34.240 at nine thirty p.m. 09:34.240 --> 09:38.240 I gave the sample of heroin to Ed who took it to the crime lab where Sergeant J. Allen 09:38.240 --> 09:40.240 ran a test on it. 09:40.240 --> 09:43.240 The sample tested out within forty percent. 09:43.240 --> 09:47.240 For the drug market, it's considered good quality. 09:47.240 --> 09:51.240 At nine twenty that night, I left the hotel and walked five blocks north to the Hill Street 09:51.240 --> 09:53.240 entrance of the subway terminal building. 09:53.240 --> 09:55.240 Wallace was there waiting for me. 09:55.240 --> 10:00.240 He said we were to meet Red at a hotel on West 54th Street. 10:00.240 --> 10:02.240 Nine forty seven p.m. 10:02.240 --> 10:05.240 We got to the hotel, went to a room on the second floor. 10:08.240 --> 10:09.240 This one here. 10:09.240 --> 10:13.240 Okay. 10:13.240 --> 10:14.240 Yeah? 10:14.240 --> 10:15.240 Yeah, who's that? 10:15.240 --> 10:18.240 It's Jack. 10:18.240 --> 10:21.240 Morning. 10:21.240 --> 10:24.240 Red, this is my friend I was telling you about. 10:24.240 --> 10:25.240 Paul Lindsay. 10:25.240 --> 10:26.240 Paul, this is Red. 10:26.240 --> 10:27.240 Hi. 10:27.240 --> 10:30.240 Yeah, I hear you got some H to unload, huh? 10:30.240 --> 10:31.240 Hmm? 10:31.240 --> 10:33.240 I don't know what you're talking about. 10:33.240 --> 10:34.240 What is this, Jack? 10:34.240 --> 10:35.240 You giving me a bum steer here? 10:35.240 --> 10:36.240 Relax, it's all right. 10:36.240 --> 10:38.240 He's solid, Red, you can talk. 10:38.240 --> 10:40.240 No, he talks too fast and too much. 10:40.240 --> 10:42.240 I'm here to do business, if you're ready, I am. 10:42.240 --> 10:43.240 If you're not, say so. 10:43.240 --> 10:45.240 I haven't got the time to play cozy with you. 10:45.240 --> 10:46.240 I'll take it easy with you. 10:46.240 --> 10:47.240 We'll get along a lot better. 10:47.240 --> 10:48.240 What do you want? 10:48.240 --> 10:49.240 Jack vouched for me, isn't that enough for you? 10:49.240 --> 10:53.240 The guy who vouched for Jack's in the county jail, we haven't been able to talk to him. 10:53.240 --> 10:55.240 Where have you done business before? 10:55.240 --> 10:57.240 Well, I could ask you the same thing. 10:57.240 --> 10:59.240 Now look, mister, we got one thing in common here. 10:59.240 --> 11:01.240 You got something to sell, maybe I want to buy it. 11:01.240 --> 11:03.240 If we can't get together, let's forget the whole thing right now. 11:03.240 --> 11:05.240 You're not the only pusher in town. 11:05.240 --> 11:07.240 There's a chair over there, why don't you sit down? 11:07.240 --> 11:08.240 I'll fix a couple of drinks. 11:08.240 --> 11:10.240 Jack can fix them. 11:10.240 --> 11:12.240 Let's find out if you and I can get together. 11:12.240 --> 11:13.240 All right. 11:13.240 --> 11:15.240 Same, Paul, bourbon and water? 11:15.240 --> 11:16.240 Yeah. 11:19.240 --> 11:20.240 Well, how about it? 11:20.240 --> 11:21.240 How much you got to sell? 11:21.240 --> 11:22.240 Take it easy, huh? 11:22.240 --> 11:23.240 There's no rush. 11:23.240 --> 11:25.240 We could talk better over a couple of drinks. 11:25.240 --> 11:27.240 Well, maybe you got the time, mister, I haven't. 11:27.240 --> 11:29.240 How much can you furnish me with? 11:29.240 --> 11:31.240 More than you can buy from the looks of it. 11:31.240 --> 11:32.240 Hey, Red, you got any lemons? 11:32.240 --> 11:33.240 Oh, no. 11:33.240 --> 11:35.240 No lemon twist in it, Paul, that all right? 11:35.240 --> 11:37.240 Yeah, that's all right, make it light, will you? 11:37.240 --> 11:39.240 Now, this junk you got, what's the test? 11:39.240 --> 11:41.240 It's the best this town's seen in a long time. 11:41.240 --> 11:42.240 It's 50% or better. 11:42.240 --> 11:44.240 Who you trying to con? 11:44.240 --> 11:46.240 My tester used your sample this afternoon. 11:46.240 --> 11:48.240 He says it won't go 40%. 11:48.240 --> 11:49.240 Okay. 11:49.240 --> 11:51.240 You know where you can get better? 11:51.240 --> 11:52.240 Paul, here you are. 11:52.240 --> 11:53.240 Red. 11:53.240 --> 11:54.240 Thank you. 11:54.240 --> 11:55.240 Thanks. 11:56.240 --> 11:58.240 How about it, Lindsay, do we do business? 11:58.240 --> 11:59.240 Maybe. 11:59.240 --> 12:01.240 Oh, who's playing cozy now? 12:01.240 --> 12:04.240 Well, if I do go, it won't be for a standard price. 12:04.240 --> 12:05.240 Your junk isn't worth it. 12:05.240 --> 12:07.240 It's 40%, I don't care what your tester says. 12:07.240 --> 12:09.240 An ounce will cost you 400. 12:09.240 --> 12:10.240 No, not to me it won't. 12:10.240 --> 12:12.240 I'm not paying out good money for milk sugar. 12:12.240 --> 12:15.240 I want a big buy and I want quality, but not at 400 an ounce. 12:15.240 --> 12:17.240 Maybe we can work something out. Why get excited? 12:17.240 --> 12:19.240 Because I don't like chicken operators. 12:19.240 --> 12:20.240 I don't like stalling around. 12:20.240 --> 12:21.240 Now, if you've got an offer, let's make it. 12:21.240 --> 12:23.240 Price is going to depend on a lot of things. 12:23.240 --> 12:24.240 How much merchandise you're going to want? 12:24.240 --> 12:26.240 20 ounces, I got customers up north. 12:26.240 --> 12:28.240 Have to have it for them the 15th of the month. 12:28.240 --> 12:29.240 Up north where? 12:29.240 --> 12:31.240 San Francisco, Sacramento. 12:31.240 --> 12:32.240 That's funny, we checked on that. 12:32.240 --> 12:33.240 Yep. 12:33.240 --> 12:34.240 Yeah, the hotel you're at. 12:34.240 --> 12:36.240 You're registered for San Diego. 12:36.240 --> 12:37.240 Yeah, good address. 12:37.240 --> 12:38.240 I've never been there. 12:38.240 --> 12:40.240 I heard some talk about you. 12:40.240 --> 12:41.240 You ever work Fresno? 12:41.240 --> 12:42.240 Maybe. 12:42.240 --> 12:44.240 I take customers where I find them. 12:45.240 --> 12:47.240 20 ounces, huh? At the minimum? 12:47.240 --> 12:48.240 For your stuff, yeah. 12:48.240 --> 12:49.240 Now, what's the price? 12:49.240 --> 12:50.240 I think we might get together. 12:50.240 --> 12:51.240 It's a pretty good buy. 12:51.240 --> 12:52.240 Might work out a discount on it. 12:52.240 --> 12:53.240 How much? 12:54.240 --> 12:56.240 Three and a quarter an ounce. 12:56.240 --> 12:57.240 I figure that's reasonable. 12:57.240 --> 12:58.240 Maybe you do, I don't. 12:58.240 --> 12:59.240 275, I can't go better. 12:59.240 --> 13:01.240 If I didn't need this stuff right now, I wouldn't offer that. 13:01.240 --> 13:04.240 Split the difference, 20 ounces, 300 an ounce. 13:04.240 --> 13:06.240 You can't do better than you know it. 13:06.240 --> 13:08.240 Now, how about it, 300 an ounce? 13:08.240 --> 13:10.240 I'm not lining up for a soft touch. 13:10.240 --> 13:11.240 I want another sample when I move on. 13:11.240 --> 13:12.240 You'll get it. 13:12.240 --> 13:13.240 Now, what do you say? 13:14.240 --> 13:15.240 All right, you got a deal. 13:15.240 --> 13:17.240 20 ounces, when do I get this stuff? 13:17.240 --> 13:19.240 We're getting touch with you tomorrow. 13:19.240 --> 13:20.240 Through Jackie. 13:20.240 --> 13:22.240 Six thousand, you sure you got the money? 13:22.240 --> 13:23.240 I got it. 13:23.240 --> 13:24.240 Now, what's the setup? 13:24.240 --> 13:25.240 Tomorrow, you'll get the wood. 13:27.240 --> 13:28.240 All right. 13:28.240 --> 13:30.240 If I don't hear by 4 p.m., I'll know you're gone hinky. 13:30.240 --> 13:31.240 I'll look up somebody else. 13:31.240 --> 13:32.240 You'll hear. 13:32.240 --> 13:33.240 How about it, Jack, you ready to go? 13:33.240 --> 13:34.240 Yeah, okay. 13:34.240 --> 13:35.240 See you later, Red. 13:36.240 --> 13:37.240 Jack? 13:37.240 --> 13:38.240 Yeah? 13:38.240 --> 13:40.240 You got a wife and a couple of kids. 13:40.240 --> 13:42.240 Mm-hmm, that's right. 13:43.240 --> 13:44.240 How are they, Jack? 13:44.240 --> 13:46.240 Okay, fine. 13:46.240 --> 13:47.240 Why? 13:47.240 --> 13:48.240 Nothing. 13:49.240 --> 13:50.240 I'll talk to you later, Jack. 13:54.240 --> 13:55.240 10.40 p.m. 13:55.240 --> 14:00.240 The informant, Jack Wallace and I, took a cab back downtown and I dropped him off. 14:00.240 --> 14:05.240 I got to a pay telephone, called Captain Kearney and my partner, Ed Jacobs, and we set up a meeting. 14:05.240 --> 14:07.240 11.20 p.m. 14:07.240 --> 14:12.240 The three of us met on a side street out in the North Wilshire district and I briefed them on what had happened. 14:12.240 --> 14:19.240 In order to prevent any possible harm to either Wallace or his family, the captain told me he'd have them placed under 24-hour surveillance. 14:19.240 --> 14:23.240 His children would be kept under observation going and coming from school. 14:23.240 --> 14:29.240 The next morning I stayed close to my hotel room waiting for a contact from either Red or another member of the gang. 14:29.240 --> 14:31.240 1.05 p.m. 14:34.240 --> 14:35.240 Hello? 14:35.240 --> 14:36.240 Lindsay, this is Red. 14:36.240 --> 14:37.240 Yeah. 14:37.240 --> 14:39.240 That talk we had last night, you still interested? 14:39.240 --> 14:40.240 Well, yeah, aren't you? 14:40.240 --> 14:43.240 Be out on Mission Road, 11.30 tonight. 14:43.240 --> 14:45.240 We're standing in the park out there. You'll get your sample. 14:45.240 --> 14:47.240 Mission Road, all right. You gonna be there? 14:47.240 --> 14:48.240 No. 14:48.240 --> 14:49.240 How will I know your man? He might make a mistake. 14:49.240 --> 14:54.240 He won't make a mistake. He knows you. 14:54.240 --> 15:00.240 I hung up the phone and checked with Ed Jacobs next door to see if he'd picked up the conversation on his receiver. 15:00.240 --> 15:08.240 He told me he'd notify Captain Kearney of the plan for that night and that the captain would be in the office if I wanted to contact him on the inside line. 15:08.240 --> 15:16.240 As soon as I picked up the sample of heroin, I was to return to my hotel room and Ed would immediately take it back to the crime lab for analysis. 15:16.240 --> 15:17.240 1.30 p.m. 15:17.240 --> 15:22.240 I left the hotel, went downtown to a payphone, called home and talked to my mother. 15:22.240 --> 15:24.240 She said there hadn't been any phone calls. 15:24.240 --> 15:31.240 I walked around for a couple of hours, went to a late afternoon show, and then I went over to Frank Tang's place for dinner. 15:31.240 --> 15:33.240 11.15 p.m. 15:33.240 --> 15:38.240 I caught a yellow streetcar going north on Main Street and rode to the end of the line on Mission Road. 15:38.240 --> 15:43.240 It was about 300 yards from there to the designated meeting place, the west end of the park. 15:43.240 --> 15:45.240 The place was dark, completely deserted. 15:45.240 --> 15:47.240 11.25 p.m. 15:47.240 --> 15:49.240 11.30. 16:00.240 --> 16:01.240 Lindsay? 16:01.240 --> 16:02.240 Yeah? 16:02.240 --> 16:03.240 Package you want? 16:03.240 --> 16:05.240 Eucalyptus tree back there in the middle of the park. 16:05.240 --> 16:06.240 Where? 16:06.240 --> 16:07.240 Straight back there. You can't miss it. 16:07.240 --> 16:10.240 You'll find the package under a rock at the bottom of the tree. 16:10.240 --> 16:15.240 See you later. 16:15.240 --> 16:18.240 I started to cross the park. 16:18.240 --> 16:22.240 The eucalyptus tree pointed out was about 200 feet from the edge of the road. 16:22.240 --> 16:26.240 There was a narrow path hemmed with shrubbery leading up to the base of the tree. 16:26.240 --> 16:28.240 There was a large rock beside it. 16:28.240 --> 16:30.240 I bent down and looked under the rock. 16:30.240 --> 16:31.240 There was nothing there. 16:31.240 --> 16:33.240 I started to turn, but it was too late. 16:33.240 --> 16:35.240 All right, wise guy. 16:35.240 --> 16:37.240 Give him a hold, Stan. 16:37.240 --> 16:40.240 Give it to him. 16:44.240 --> 16:46.240 Shake his pockets, Stan. 16:49.240 --> 16:51.240 No identification on him. He's clean. 16:51.240 --> 16:53.240 Let's go. 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Sit down. 19:04.240 --> 19:05.240 Yeah, thanks, Skipper. 19:05.240 --> 19:07.240 How do you feel, Joe? 19:07.240 --> 19:10.240 Well, my side hurts a little. Fair, I guess. 19:10.240 --> 19:12.240 Yeah, they really gave you a working over. 19:12.240 --> 19:14.240 Do you recognize any of them? 19:14.240 --> 19:16.240 Yeah, one guy. I don't know his name, though. 19:16.240 --> 19:18.240 What do you think, Skipper? Round up a whole bunch of them? 19:18.240 --> 19:20.240 No, that's not going to help any. 19:20.240 --> 19:22.240 Suppose we pick them up now. What do we got on them? 19:22.240 --> 19:25.240 A misdemeanor, battery, 30 days in jail and they're out again. 19:25.240 --> 19:26.240 We're right back where we started. 19:26.240 --> 19:29.240 What do you figure's wrong, Joe? Think they got hinky? 19:29.240 --> 19:31.240 I don't know. I can't figure it. 19:31.240 --> 19:33.240 I think you better take a couple of days off, go home and rest up. 19:33.240 --> 19:35.240 Let some of those bruises heal. 19:35.240 --> 19:38.240 The whole thing could be blown by that time. The deal will be cold. 19:38.240 --> 19:40.240 If we're going to make it pay, I got to stay on it. 19:40.240 --> 19:41.240 How do you know they haven't made you for a cop? 19:41.240 --> 19:43.240 The deal might be cold right now. 19:43.240 --> 19:44.240 Yeah, that's possible. 19:44.240 --> 19:46.240 What other reason was there here for tamping you? 19:46.240 --> 19:47.240 How about your friend Jack Wallace? 19:47.240 --> 19:49.240 He might have a straight story. Ask him about it. 19:49.240 --> 19:51.240 No, I'll do better. I'll ask Red. 19:51.240 --> 19:58.240 Captain Kearney finally agreed to go on with the plan with the understanding that Ed Jacobs and another man from our office would have me under surveillance at all times. 19:58.240 --> 20:03.240 It was understood that I'd go back to Red's hotel room to see if I could pick up the loose ends. 20:03.240 --> 20:08.240 Jacobs and another officer would follow me to the hotel and remain within calling distance. 20:08.240 --> 20:21.240 2 10 a.m. I got to the hotel on West 5th Street and went up to the 2nd floor to Red's room. 20:21.240 --> 20:22.240 Yeah, who's there? 20:22.240 --> 20:23.240 Lindsay. 20:25.240 --> 20:26.240 How you doing, Lindsay? 20:26.240 --> 20:28.240 You lousy punk. 20:33.240 --> 20:34.240 Lay off, huh? 20:34.240 --> 20:38.240 I ought to break your back. 20:38.240 --> 20:41.240 Wait a minute, Lindsay. Wait a minute. What's this all about? 20:41.240 --> 20:43.240 You ought to know. You set your hoods on me. Look at my face. 20:43.240 --> 20:44.240 I don't know what you're talking about. 20:44.240 --> 20:47.240 I went back to pick up the sample. This is what happens. How big do you punks think he are? 20:47.240 --> 20:49.240 All right, Stan, what happened out there? 20:49.240 --> 20:52.240 Not much. You said he was acting smart. We thought we'd cool him off a little. 20:52.240 --> 20:55.240 I told you to keep an eye on him. That's all. Not to rough him up. 20:55.240 --> 20:57.240 Oh, he's a crybaby. We hardly touched him. 20:57.240 --> 21:00.240 Oh, shut up. Every time you get on that eight, you get muscle happy. 21:00.240 --> 21:03.240 I've warned you before, Stan. Now, this is the last time. 21:03.240 --> 21:06.240 You better quit chipping with that junk. You cause any more trouble like this and you're out. 21:06.240 --> 21:08.240 He's a crybaby, Red. We didn't hurt him. 21:08.240 --> 21:10.240 I've heard enough from you. Now, go on. Take a walk. 21:10.240 --> 21:11.240 Okay. 21:11.240 --> 21:13.240 You see Max? Tell him I want him. 21:13.240 --> 21:14.240 Yeah, all right. 21:16.240 --> 21:18.240 Sorry, Lindsay. These things happen sometimes. Can't be helped. 21:18.240 --> 21:20.240 Why do you keep punks like that around? 21:20.240 --> 21:23.240 I thought you were too smart to connect with users. They could get both of us in trouble. 21:23.240 --> 21:25.240 Oh, they'll be all right. Relax. Every once in a while, they get geared up. 21:25.240 --> 21:26.240 They have to straighten them out. 21:26.240 --> 21:27.240 I wouldn't trust them with my laundry. 21:27.240 --> 21:30.240 They're all right for what I use them for. They're good airing boys. 21:30.240 --> 21:31.240 Can I get you a drink? 21:31.240 --> 21:32.240 No. 21:32.240 --> 21:34.240 All right. What about the stuff? You ready to move on the deal? 21:34.240 --> 21:37.240 I've been ready. I told you I needed the stuff for the 15th. 21:37.240 --> 21:38.240 How about tomorrow night? 21:38.240 --> 21:39.240 What's the matter with right now? 21:39.240 --> 21:41.240 Oh, now you know better than that. I don't keep the plan around here. 21:41.240 --> 21:43.240 I'll call you at eight o'clock tomorrow night. 21:43.240 --> 21:44.240 I still haven't got the sample. 21:44.240 --> 21:46.240 You don't need one. It's as good as the first one you got. 21:46.240 --> 21:49.240 Come on. What are you stalling for? I'm getting tired of this sample yak. 21:49.240 --> 21:51.240 If you don't want to buy, say so. 21:51.240 --> 21:52.240 You'll bring it to my hotel tomorrow night? 21:52.240 --> 21:55.240 No, I'll call you. I'll tell you where you can pick it up. 21:55.240 --> 21:57.240 20 ounces, 300 an ounce, all right? 21:57.240 --> 22:00.240 Yeah, no phony stuff. You keep your hands on the table, so will I. 22:00.240 --> 22:02.240 You deliver the merchandise, I'll pay the money. 22:02.240 --> 22:04.240 What are you worrying about? I trust you. Why can't you trust me? 22:04.240 --> 22:06.240 Yeah, sure, I did. Look at my face. 22:08.240 --> 22:12.240 3.05 a.m. I left Red and went back downtown to my hotel room. 22:12.240 --> 22:16.240 A few minutes after I got in, I heard Ed Jacobs and Lieutenant Lou Wallers 22:16.240 --> 22:18.240 enter the adjoining room. 22:18.240 --> 22:20.240 I checked the hallway first, and then I went next door 22:20.240 --> 22:22.240 and briefed him on what had happened with Red. 22:22.240 --> 22:25.240 I told him I'd let Ed know about the time and the place of the meet 22:25.240 --> 22:26.240 as soon as I heard. 22:26.240 --> 22:29.240 Waller said he'd keep enough men ready at the office 22:29.240 --> 22:31.240 to cover the area on short notice. 22:31.240 --> 22:34.240 I went back to my room, took a shower, and got some sleep. 22:34.240 --> 22:38.240 At 8 o'clock that night, I was in my room standing by the phone. 22:38.240 --> 22:40.240 I waited. No call. 22:40.240 --> 22:44.240 8.30, 9 o'clock, 9.15, still no word. 22:44.240 --> 22:46.240 9.25 p.m. 22:49.240 --> 22:52.240 Hello? Lindsay, this is Red. Sorry, I'm late. I couldn't get to the plant. 22:52.240 --> 22:56.240 What's the pitch? It's all set. Norwich Grill, West 7th Street. 22:56.240 --> 22:59.240 When? 10.30 sharp. 23:01.240 --> 23:03.240 Before he hung up, Red told me to meet one of his pushers 23:03.240 --> 23:06.240 in the last booth at the back end of the grill. 23:06.240 --> 23:07.240 He said I'd recognize him. 23:07.240 --> 23:10.240 The man would have the package of heroin wrapped in newspapers. 23:10.240 --> 23:14.240 I was to hand him $6,000, and he would give me the package. 23:14.240 --> 23:17.240 I immediately contacted Ed in the room next door, 23:17.240 --> 23:19.240 and he notified the office. 23:19.240 --> 23:23.240 At 10.15 p.m., I left the hotel with a dummy package of money 23:23.240 --> 23:25.240 containing six marked bills. 23:25.240 --> 23:29.240 10.28 p.m. I got to the Norwich Grill on West 7th Street. 23:29.240 --> 23:30.240 It was almost empty. 23:30.240 --> 23:35.240 I went to the rear booth where I found one of Red's pushers, Stan, drinking coffee. 23:39.240 --> 23:42.240 Right on the dot. Sit down, Lindsay. Yeah. 23:42.240 --> 23:45.240 Let's not camp on this thing. You got the money? 23:45.240 --> 23:47.240 I done business with you before. Where's the stuff? 23:47.240 --> 23:50.240 Didn't Red tell you where to be? Yeah. Wrapped up in that newspaper. 23:50.240 --> 23:53.240 He told me there'd be some stuff under a rock one time. It wasn't there. 23:53.240 --> 23:56.240 I want to look. What's the matter? Don't you trust me? 23:56.240 --> 23:59.240 You think I got a reason to? All right. Have a look. 24:02.240 --> 24:06.240 Yeah, are you satisfied? No. Open it. All right. 24:06.240 --> 24:09.240 It's all there. I saw it made up. 24:11.240 --> 24:15.240 That enough for you? Yeah. Okay. You just made a deal. 24:17.240 --> 24:20.240 Yeah, what do you have? Coffee, black, a piece of apple pie. 24:20.240 --> 24:23.240 All right. You? Coffee. All right. 24:24.240 --> 24:27.240 Okay, stuff's there. Now how about the loot? I got it. 24:27.240 --> 24:30.240 Let's have it. Six G's. Red wants me back in a hurry. 24:30.240 --> 24:32.240 Well, relax. We'll have some coffee. This is a big deal. 24:32.240 --> 24:35.240 Money. Now how about it? All right. 24:36.240 --> 24:38.240 There you go. 24:40.240 --> 24:42.240 What's the matter with you? What are you shaking about? 24:42.240 --> 24:44.240 Nothing. I'm a little nervous. 24:44.240 --> 24:47.240 Red wouldn't let me have a fix before I left. I'd get a little sick. 24:47.240 --> 24:50.240 I'm gonna have a look here. What are you doing? 24:50.240 --> 24:53.240 Red told me to tell you not to open it till you got it back to him. 24:53.240 --> 24:56.240 Who are you kidding, mister? All right. You go ahead and open it up. 24:56.240 --> 24:59.240 You'll have to answer for it, not me. Sure. 25:00.240 --> 25:03.240 Hey, what's the deal? Only a few bills in here. 25:03.240 --> 25:06.240 The rest of it's paper. You trying to beat us? It's already done. 25:06.240 --> 25:09.240 You won't get away with this. We'll fix you maxes outside. 25:09.240 --> 25:12.240 Friday we saw him take the envelope. You get the stuff? 25:12.240 --> 25:15.240 Yeah, right here. Yeah, we're waiting outside, Joe. We got him. 25:15.240 --> 25:18.240 I'm in now. Cops. Lousy cops. Wait till Red hears about this. 25:18.240 --> 25:21.240 He will, Ed. Yeah, I'll get him. 25:23.240 --> 25:25.240 Okay, let's go. Come on, fella. Move. 25:25.240 --> 25:27.240 What are you grabbing me for? I deliver the stuff. 25:27.240 --> 25:30.240 That's all these big deals are mine. I'm small time. 25:30.240 --> 25:33.240 Fix once in a while. That's all I want. Just little fixes. 25:33.240 --> 25:35.240 The biggest deal I ever made. Yeah, sure. 25:35.240 --> 25:38.240 It's the truth. Now what about Red? He's got a lot of this stuff left. 25:38.240 --> 25:40.240 This guy's above him. Big dealers. Why don't you get them? 25:40.240 --> 25:43.240 We'll get them. You'll never guess who the other two are. 25:43.240 --> 25:45.240 They're real high powers. Big deals. Nothing but big deals. 25:45.240 --> 25:48.240 You won't bust him 100 years. Yeah, let's go. 25:48.240 --> 25:51.240 Get my coat, will you, Ed, please? Yeah, okay. 25:53.240 --> 25:55.240 Hey, forgot your check. Who's gonna pay for the coffee? 25:55.240 --> 25:58.240 He will. Who? This one. 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