"Well, here's the storm," "Right on schedule." "Could be a break, at that." "Gives you time." "Yeah." "Time to think." "And how do you like your thoughts?" "How do you like finding out" "That maybe you've got a price tag, too," "After all these years?" "How much do you cost, Rigby?" "How much for you?" "Or would you rather use another word" "For what you're selling out," "One with a fancy necktie on it" "Say, honor?" "And what does that mean- Honor?" "Same thing to everybody?" "Or different things to different people?" "Honor... just a word." "Say it over often enough" "And it's not even a word anymore," "Just a sound" "A sound without any meaning at all." "Who is it?" "Your beer, senor Rigby." "Oh, yeah, put it over there." "Si, senor." "Good weather for sleeping tonight." "Yeah, for some." "Cooler, too, maybe, huh?" "Yeah." "Will there be anything else, senor?" "No, thanks." "Here you are." "Muchas gracias." "Ah, wait a minute." "Come back in half an hour," "I may want to send a wire." "Muy bien, senor." "You don't have to send that wire." "Wait it out." "Stall until it's too late." "Nobody will know." "Everybody misses sometime." "No hard feelings." "Sure, you could make it look good," "But can a sellout ever look good?" "You never thought so before, did you?" "What changed you?" "She did." "But is she guilty or innocent?" "You're not so sure of her now, are you?" "Think back." "When did you first hear of her?" "Gibbs was briefing you that day in Washington." "Rigby, this is a very important case." "Graft of public assets," "War surplus racket." "It means a lot to the taxpayers" "And, incidentally, to your own record." "You've been chosen because you're a good cop," "If you'll excuse the expression." "I'll excuse it, chief." "It's not a dirty word by me." "We've discovered that a very smooth racket" "Is being worked in some of the war surplus auctions." "Private operators are purchasing huge lots" "Of war surplus material as scrap." "Most of it is fit only for scrap," "But delivery is being manipulated" "So that when the scrap is sent to the junkyard," "Surplus airplane motors" "Are included in each lot." "The scrap is being routed out" "To South America, as ballast on freighters." "That's O.K. As far as the scrap's concerned," "But the motors are also carried," "Illegally shipped out of the country." "They are segregated and unloaded en route," "We believe in Central America," "Where they're conditioned and tested" "And then picked up by purchasers" "Who are paying exorbitant prices." "The men who are engineering this graft" "Are really cashing in." "No regular fees, no shipping charges," "And no income tax." "Just several million dollars of illegal profits." "Right out of uncle Sam's hide, huh?" "Bringing in as many motors as possible" "With engine numbers intact and identifiable" "Is your job." "Now, look," "You'll take the town of Carlota," "Here on the island of Los Trincos," "As your headquarters." "If you locate the motors," "You'll make the raid and the arrest" "In cooperation with the local law enforcement agencies," "In this case, the police at the town of Mateo" "On the mainland." "You'll contact them through a man named Rodriquez." "We think that the people" "Handling the Central American part of the fraud" "Are united states citizens." "We've screened all possibilities" "Only two suspects left." "A man by the name of Tugwell Hintten" "And a woman- Elizabeth Hintten." "You'll be given everything we have on them." "Carlota?" "Sounds like one of those" "Whiskey and quinine resorts." "How's your fishing?" "Just fair." "What's that got to do with airplane engines?" "In this case, plenty." "Nobody goes to Carlota except to fish." "Then I'll fish." "It's a way to scout the islands." "Too bad you're not stopping at Carlota." "It's great fishing." "Might try it sometime." "Right now I've got to get down south." "Peru you said?" "Mmm, mining." "You're one of those boys that works" "With a pick and a light on his cap?" "None works harder." "I run the whole works." "It's tough to find good men nowadays." "Take a young fellow like yourself." "You don't want to start at the bottom anymore." "Not even in the middle, Carwood." "For every year in the army," "I'm for loafing two." "You young men" "The world falling apart, and you go fishing." "The world just finished falling apart." "This is that brave new world," "The one you guys promised us." "You hit Carlota late that afternoon." "Looked like the local boys" "Were getting ready to whoop it up about something." "You wondered what they were celebrating." "It couldn't be the weather." "You kept looking for pitchforks and brimstone." "Room 204, senor Rigby." "How'd you do today, you liar?" "200-Pound marlin, that's all." "200 pounds?" "And that's when you saw the pie-Shaped man" "For the first time." "Pie shape wasn't on your list of subjects," "But he should have been." "Right up there at the top." "This way, senor." "Thank you." "Two suspects on your list... two only." "So you went looking for them." "Some coffee, please." "Si, senor." "Hintten-Elizabeth Hintten it said on the list." "Entertainer at Pedro's." "Unknown quantity." "Quantity unknown maybe, but one look" "And you thought you knew the quality." "¶ I placed an ad in the paper ¶" "¶ you'll find it there today ¶" "¶ the words reveal ¶" "¶ the way I feel ¶" "¶ this is what they say ¶" "¶ situation wanted ¶" "¶ young and fancy-Free ¶" "¶ want to meet a someone ¶" "¶ I want him just for me ¶" "¶ I'm not a saint nor sinner ¶" "¶ I walk the middle ground ¶" "¶ I'll stay right on the level ¶" "¶ too smart to play around ¶" "¶ love is all that matters ¶" "¶ that's the thing I've learned ¶" "¶ and the sky's the limit where ¶" "¶ my gentleman's concerned ¶" "¶ gettin' tired of waitin' ¶" "¶ gettin' kind of blue ¶" "¶ situation wanted with someone ¶" "¶ but who?" "¶" "¶ situation wanted ¶" "¶ young and fancy-Free ¶" "¶ want to meet a someone ¶" "¶ I want him just for me ¶" "¶ I'm not a saint nor sinner ¶" "¶ I walk the middle ground ¶" "¶ I'll stay right on the level ¶" "¶ too smart to play around ¶" "¶ love is all that matters ¶" "¶ that's the thing I've learned ¶" "¶ a woman's always needed where ¶" "¶ a gentleman's concerned ¶" "¶ now you know my story ¶" "¶ what am I to do?" "¶" "¶ situation wanted with someone ¶" "¶ but whooo?" "¶" "Muchas gracias, senors." "About what you expected." "Easy would do it..." "very easy." "Entre." "Knock on the wrong door by any chance?" "No." "The right door, exactly." "I said "come in" to the wrong person." "I'm expecting someone else." "You're North American, aren't you?" "Milwaukee." "Is that far enough north for you?" "My favorite latitude." "Very friendly city, too, as I remember." "Far, far away." "I could call the bouncer." "I usually do when strangers get the idea you have," "But it means lots of noise." "It's too hot for noise." "I'll be back in a minute." "If you're a nice guy, you'll be gone." "It will be simpler that way." "For a man with bad feet," "Pie shape seemed to get around a lot." "So you didn't go." "So I'm not a nice guy." "I think you're trying hard not to be." "Which is real?" "The hot tonsils out there" "Or the string music in here?" "Would it do me any good to tell you?" "People believe what they want to believe." "Hello." "Don't tell me I've interrupted" "Another tourist making a pass at you, Liz." "Well, I must admit, it crossed my mind." "Huh?" "Stop it, Tug." "Why shouldn't he want to make a pass?" "But I'll let you in on something." "For anybody but me, my wife is pass proof." "Mr..." "Rigby's the name." "It seems I'm out of line." "I didn't know she was" "Forget it." "My name's Hintten." "This is Mrs. Hintten." "So, how about us having a drink on that basis?" "Suits me fine." "Getting a pass knocked down is thirsty work." "Hey, Jose." "Well, she'd served her purpose." "There was the second suspect, Hintten-Tugwell Hintten." "What'll you have?" "Beer, please." "Beer for the tourist, Jose," "The usual for me and my wife." "Beer, rum, and lemon soda." "That's right." "Si, senor." "Beer, rum, lemon soda." "No two of them mix." "Do you suppose that means anything?" "Does anything mean anything?" "Oh." "My wife doesn't like this place," "But I like it." "It's the source from which" "All blessings flow." "I work here, too," "Right behind the bar in a white apron," "Monday to Saturday, inclusive." "Today is Sunday," "For which I give thanks." "Oh, the drinks." "Come in." "Sit down." "Thank you." "Put it on the table." "Si." "Tell Pedro to take it out of my salary." "Pedro says you already owe him." "Well, make it worth his while to sue." "Tip yourself a buck." "Muy bien." "Undehydrate yourself, tourist." "From the united states air force to this." "From bomber to bar." "From riches to rags." "Sad, isn't it, hmm?" "Yes, sir." "I flew way up high in the sky" "Like a guy." "Me and the wild blue yonder." "Tug, please." "Speaking of pleasing, you please me." "Have I ever told you that you please me?" "I'm jealous of my wife," "And what do you think about that?" "Tug, I wish you'd stop." "I can't, Liz." "Can't stop." "All wound up." "Got to run down..." "slowly." "Very slowly" "Tug." "Tug." "I'm sorry." "It happens this way with Tug." "He thinks he's all right." "Then suddenly he's just gone." "Tug." "Here, let me help you." "Thanks." "I got to get him home." "O.K., here we are." "Home again." "Put her right down there." "Atta boy." "I'm sorry." "That's all right." "Liz, come here." "I love you, Liz." "I know." "I love you." "Darling, go to sleep, please." "Be quiet." "I'll make him some coffee." "You could have that beer." "There's some in the kitchen." "I'd like it." "Come and get your beer" "Before it starts to boil." "There was something about her," "A softness." "You had to tell yourself it was a good routine" "A very good routine." "Thank you." "Carlota's a funny place for people like you to land." "Oh, it's a living down here... or rather, it was at first." "Been here long?" "Almost seven months." "Tug came down with the airline" "Passenger stuff, airmail." "He was very good." "You got to be on that run." "He didn't drink when he first came down," "But then the airline people let him go," "Very suddenly, just like that." "It hit him very hard." "You see where he wound up." "You know all that business" "About flying way up high in the sky?" "It sounded like whining, but it isn't." "It's..." "it's just nerves." "A lot of those kids had nerves," "With reason." "He came home from the wars, and you got married." "Didn't everybody?" "Why am I telling you all this stuff?" "Blame it on the climate." "Why haven't you gotten out?" "We're stuck" "Broke and in debt and stuck." "You can't get out of this country" "While you're in hock, you know." "Is there anything more I can do?" "No, thank you." "I'm used to it." "Well, Mr. Rigby, I work tomorrow, all day." "Housekeeping, daytimes." "Pedro's, nighttimes." "Well, thanks for the beer." "And the story of my life?" "I'd have liked that better if I didn't think" "You skipped some of it." "For instance?" "The parts that count." "Liz." "Your master's voice?" "Why do you ask that?" "Maybe that's one of the parts that count." "My master's voice...definitely." "I could wish it wasn't." "Good night, Mrs. Hintten." "The next morning," "You picked your boat carefully... and your boatman, Emilio Gomez." "This is everything." "You'll like the boat." "I'll like your money." "I hope I like you, too." "They say you're an honest boy," "A boy who doesn't talk." "I'll lock the lip and give you the key." "You know something, I'll take that key." "Pie shape was up early." "You'd already checked on him some." "Very little on him." "Name-Bealer, J.J. Bealer," "All the earmarks of a small-Time grifter." "Here we go, senor." "O.K. Take her away." "You spent the next few days" "Getting the feel of the islands around Carlota," "Dozens of them." "Villages on some," "Others desolate and barren." "It looked like you needed time" "If you were going to find anything." "Time and the breaks." "That night, when you docked, you were nowhere." "We will have better luck tomorrow, senor." "Tomorrow we'll try those islands to the south." "Good night, kid." "Buenas noches, senor." "Hello, Rigby." "Hello, Hintten." "Sleep it off?" "Sure." "I'm fine." "Look, no hands." "I've been waiting for you to come in." "How about dinner?" "It's Liz's night off." "Well, I" "We'd like to have you." "Give me a minute to wash the fish off." "Pedro's won't care if the fish don't." "Meet you there." "Fine." "You asked yourself, were you keeping an eye on him," "Or was he keeping one on you?" "I didn't thank you for looking after me last night." "It's a pleasure." "For Liz, too." "She doesn't have much from me." "I'm either drunk or working." "Stop it, Tug." "Why?" "It's true." "Tonight I'm sober, and tonight I work." "Will you see her home for me?" "Again, a pleasure." "Not too much pleasure, if you don't mind." "Wait up for me, will you, Liz?" "Yes, Tug." "Night." "Good night." "Well." "Good night." "You know, I really should get sore." "Why does your husband want me" "Hanging around you?" "Does he?" "Doesn't he?" "All right, why are you hanging around?" "Oh, a couple of reasons." "You're one" "The one I wish I didn't have." "Good night." "You were playing it wrong, and you knew it." "You should have been doing the big brother stuff," "But it wasn't coming out that way." "You were thinking about her too much... much too much." "You thought about her all the next day" "When your mind should have been on her husband." "You found out things about him that didn't jibe." "He was supposed to be broke, yet he owned a boat... an expensive boat." "Emilio, how does a guy named Tugwell Hintten" "Stack up with you?" "He is a mixture, I think." "He's good, and he's bad." "He drinks much and gambles much," "But there's something about him one likes." "What?" "Perhaps it is his wife, so pretty." "He's crazy." "One day here and one day gone." "To leave a wife like that-He's crazy." "You know where he goes?" "To get drunk on his boat." "His boat's out today." "Could you find it" "If it was cruising around these islands?" "Sure." "You bet." "Maybe." "Why did you want to see her that night?" "Because you hadn't been able to trace Hintten" "And you thought she'd spill where he'd gone?" "That's what you told yourself." "But you didn't believe it even then, did you?" "Entre." "Oh, hello." "Hello." "This job's just great for you, isn't it?" "Perfect." "Pays off in money." "If it were one degree cooler," "You couldn't stand it, huh?" "It's never cooler, only hotter." "I didn't see Hintten outside." "No?" "Thought Sunday was his day off." "Yes." "This isn't Sunday." "No." "He be around later?" "I don't know." "Guess I won't be able to buy him" "That drink I had in mind." "A drink?" "That'd be fine." "That'll be great." "Wherever he is, that's just what he needs," "Another drink." "Why don't you stop acting" "Like you're alone in the jungle." "I'm not?" "O.K., you are, but you'd be surprised" "How nice the birds and beasts can be" "If you'll give them a chance." "Tell me, Rigby," "Do you fly, walk on all fours, or crawl?" "I've got a car." "It's a nice breeze when you're driving." "Driving 60 miles an hour," "You can make your own breeze." "That's too fast for me." "You don't want to go home to that Turkish bath" "And wait for Hintten." "Thank you." "Who was right?" "You were." "I'm having fun." "Good." "There's a lot to be said" "For simply being comfortable." "Women just like to be waited on." "I'll bet Hintten spoils you rotten." "Do you spoil your girl, Rigby?" "Girls." "Of course, girls." "You'd be awfully careful about getting wound up" "With just one." "That's me, careful." "I'm spoiled, and you're careful." "We sound like a couple of Dick Tracy characters." "You're not spoiled." "You're tired, worried," "Gone down fine." "Too fine." "And your girls..." "all plump and rosy?" "That was just a lot of big talk." "Not girls-Girl." "Cute little kid, too." "I was going to marry her after the war, I thought." "And?" "She thought differently, apparently." "Anyway, she didn't wait." "You might say she didn't wait several times." "I'm sorry." "Why?" "Because you're a nice guy." "You really are." "Ah, maybe I was lucky." "Maybe she was, too." "But that's why," "In case you were wondering," "That's why I have no scruples about going out" "And doing likewise to other guys." "Rigby... uh-Huh." "Why haven't you tried to kiss me?" "No." "Please." "Just once." "Speak for yourself." "Maybe even that was too much." "I think I'd better go home." "No, Rigby." "Why not?" "Nobody's ever thought of a better way" "Of saying good night." "It would just be an anticlimax." "You've already been kissed good-Bye." "When I kiss somebody good-Bye," "I like to know in advance." "I do better." "It wouldn't have made any difference." "It wouldn't make me see you again." "Which way was it with her?" "Was it the way you wanted it to be" "With her on the level" "Not knowing about him," "Or was she just trying to play it smart?" "If that was it, she was making it." "She got to you good." "You knew you should keep away from her," "So you tried." "You stayed out every day until you were so tired" "You could roll into bed and sleep." "Maybe." "Be careful of that equipment." "That's very expensive stuff." "Hello, Carwood." "Hello, Rigby." "I'm here." "You sold me." "I'm only here for a few days" "On my way back to the states." "I picked myself up a great little outfit." "Why don't we go out in the morning?" "I won't take no for an answer." "I'm afraid you'll have to." "How about dinner?" "I'm just going to have one quick one and turn in." "O.K. I'll see you later." "Fine." "Senor Carwood?" "Room 205." "Thank you very much." "And that was the night Bealer picked to get chummy." "Senor?" "Nothing alcoholic." "Oh, a beer maybe." "Si, senor." "Hard liquor goes to my feet." "Makes my feet swell up like tamales." "That so?" "Just a minute, Mr. Rigby." "We know who you are, Mr. Rigby." "My connections know." "Who am I?" "I've often wondered." "You could be a guy who collects $10,000" "Just to leave this stinking town." "Sorry." "Don't recognize myself." "You know who I could be?" "I could be the guy" "Who hands you them $10,000." "$10,000" "Me to you, just like that." "That's quite a dream." "Yeah, quite a dream on one smell of beer." "That was when you knew they meant business" "And that pie shape was one of them." "He fitted in." "And Carwood" "Did he fit in?" "You wondered." "He shows up, and Bealer makes his pitch," "Just like that- One, two." "It could tie together." "Say, Carwood?" "One drink, and I feel better." "How about tomorrow?" "Great." "We'll go out in the morning." "Those fish won't have a prayer." "That's the idea, isn't it" "No quarter to the enemy?" "Yeah." "You got a boat?" "Yeah, a good one." "I'll meet you in the lobby at daybreak." "I'll break it myself." "Emilio was happy when I told him" "That at last we were going to fish." "He wanted a chance to show his stuff." "Do you think there are any fish left in this ocean?" "Do not be impatient, senor." "We'll find something soon." "I hope so." "Cigarette, Carwood?" "No, thanks." "I think I'll relax for a while." "Senores, look over there!" "Look!" "Look!" "Hey, look!" "It's a big one!" "Better fasten your harness, Carwood." "Oh, yeah." "It's after your bait, senor Rigby." "Yeah." "Oh!" "This is great!" "Let him run!" "Senor Carwood, reel in your line." "Look at him go!" "Shall I set the hook?" "No, no!" "Not yet!" "Now!" "Oh!" "Look at it churn water!" "You got it!" "Look at it jump!" "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!" "Oh!" "Oh, it's wonderful!" "Oh!" "There it goes!" "That's a fine one, senor!" "Look at him dance!" "Ha ha ha!" "Excuse me, senor." "Loosen the drag a little." "Look at it go!" "Ha ha ha!" "Oh, it's a wonderful catch!" "Isn't that fun?" "Look at it jump!" "Bring him in, senor!" "Bring him in!" "Senor Carwood, will you take the wheel please?" "I'm not much of a boatman," "But I'll do my best." "Be careful, senor." "He will pull you overboard." "Senor Rigby!" "What are you going to do?" "He's harnessed." "I'll cut him loose." "No!" "Thanks, Emilio!" "Hey, Carwood!" "Bring that boat over here!" "Put it in reverse." "Come on back." "Hurry it up, will you?" "It's out of control." "Why doesn't he try to help us?" "Hey, Emilio, look." "Sharks are coming!" "Swim for your life!" "Aah!" "Carwood!" "Boys, it looks like somebody's in trouble over there." "Bring the boat around quickly." "Grab the hook, senor." "We'll pull you in." "Hang on." "We stayed out for hours searching for Emilio." "We finally had to give up" "Come in without him." "I want to tell you again" "I'll never be able to forgive myself." "I was scared, Rigby." "I lost my head." "I didn't know what to do." "Yeah, you didn't know." "Now we haven't even got a piece of the kid" "To take home to his folks." "Senor Rigby?" "Who shall tell Emilio's father?" "That will take some telling." "I will do it, senor." "I'm his friend." "Thanks, Diego." "I'll be over to see him when I get some dry clothes on." "Si, senor." "Si?" "My name is Rigby." "Oh." "My son's friend." "He was mine." "You are welcome in this house." "No." "I just wanted a word with you." "I don't know just what to say to you." "There isn't much one can say" "To a man who's just lost his son." "I am grateful that you try." "Sit down." "Please." "Thank you." "You are interested in this senor Tug Hintten" "His boat and mysterious trips." "You wonder how I know." "Well, senor, my son talked of you" "But only to me." "Tomorrow morning" "Senor Hintten goes out again on his boat." "I heard him say so to that fat man Bealer." "If you wish to follow senor Hintten," "I will take my son's place in the boat." "Why?" "I have been told by my friend Diego" "That the man Carwood did not act well." "Diego does not believe it was an accident." "He believes Carwood wanted someone to die." "Maybe..." "but not Emilio." "If anyone, me." "This man who hates you... killed my son." "If you believe that my son was your friend," "Then you must believe that I am also." "Yeah." "I believe you." "In the morning then, senor?" "In the morning." "Rigby!" "Oh, Rigby!" "I had to find you!" "I heard there was an accident on your boat." "They said a man was killed." "I thought if it had been you... oh, Rigby." "I'm sorry." "There's something I have to tell you." "All right, Elizabeth." "This isn't a very good place to talk." "Well, we'll find a place." "What is it, Elizabeth?" "Don't, Rigby." "I'll do much better if you don't touch me." "That's a lot to ask, but O.K." "You see, I was raised on an idea" "That if you got married, you stayed married." "Well..." "I married Tug of my own free will." "Nobody twisted my arm... and I've been a failure as a wife." "I don't love Tug, and he knows." "I don't fool him." "I'm going to leave Tug" "Because I can't live with him now, not anymore." "Somehow, to me, that would be as rotten" "As running out on him." "I've no right to expect anything from you, Rigby," "And I don't." "You can walk away from this" "And never give it another thought." "You've never told me that you care for me" "The way I care for you" "Not in words." "Do you need the words?" "You knew it then." "You admitted it." "You loved her." "Well, well, Mr. Rigby." "Mrs. Hintten, I was waiting for you." "I want to keep you from walking into something." "You're the one that's walking into something." "No, Rigby." "See what he wants." "Hintten passed out tonight at Pedro's," "Only he wasn't drunk." "He was sick." "He still is." "Don't worry." "I brought him home." "Got a good doctor, too" "Doc warren from the airline office." "Nothing too good for my friend Hintten." "That's the way, ain't it?" "Nothing too good for our friend Hintten." "It's his heart." "His heart?" "The airline sent him in to me" "A few months ago for a checkup." "They couldn't let him fly after my diagnosis." "I'm sorry you had to find out this way." "What can I do to help?" "The usual things" "Absolute rest, no worry," "And the best of care." "Even with every break," "There's no guarantee," "But without them..." "I see." "Well, I'll be back later." "Good night, doctor." "Good night." "Elizabeth?" "Rigby, I'm not tough enough" "To leave him now." "I wish I were, but I'm not." "I thought nothing could stop me," "But this does." "You understand it." "You've got to." "I guess if you could walk out now," "You'd be someone else." "But this isn't all for us." "This isn't good-Bye." "You'll call if you want me?" "Yes, Rigby." "Oh, yes." "You'd accepted her then for what she seemed to be." "She was innocent, you told yourself." "She had to be innocent." "And for the first time in your life," "You didn't like feeling like a cop." "Those people at the tag end of a deal" "Were softening you up." "Hintten leaking his life out every time his heart pumped," "Even Bealer the anxious weasel." "Mind if I sit down?" "Thanks." "Cafe Negra, senor." "Senor." "Hot weather, hot drink." "Good for the stomach." "Well, Mr. Rigby... it ain't going to be any walkover for her," "Taking care of a sick man." "She's going to need help" "Cash help." "A man with cash sure could set himself up" "In business with her." "And the man who gets there firstest... 11,000, Mr. Rigby" "Top dollar for the job." "Say... who are you protecting" "A bunch of dumb taxpayers" "Who will get it in the neck anyhow?" "Get smart, Mr. Rigby." "Everybody grafts nowadays." "That's the way people operate." "Gracias." "12,000, Mr. Rigby." "I don't get a lot out of this." "Every cent, every red cent, I need it." "Say... you ain't giving me that business anymore, are you?" "You aren't even talking to me." "Why?" "Why ain't you brushing me off" "With your fast chatter?" "Why ain't you getting up" "And walking away?" "Something holding you?" "What, Mr. Rigby?" "Think about tomorrow, the job to be done." "Emilio's boat... without Emilio." "Pablo?" "Si, senor?" "There goes Hintten's boat." "Yes, but Hintten is not on board." "It is another North American." "The man walker, I think." "Hintten's laid up." "The boat's the important thing." "We'll give them a minute, then tag along." "Anything around that point?" "Just a little bay." "That's where they're going." "Step on it." "Hold it, Pablo." "Si, senor." "O.K. Go ahead." "Let's try a little further up there." "I think there." "O.K. Let's see what happens." "They've got to be in there." "There's no place else for them to go." "Look." "There she is, senor." "We follow, senor?" "We do not, Pablo." "But, senor Rigby" "Wait a minute." "Listen." "What is that?" "Airplane engines- Testing them." "They probably do it every time there's an offshore breeze" "To carry the sound out to sea." "I'll bet they're missing Hintten today." "We wait here?" "No." "We go back home." "Back home?" "But, senor" "I found what I was looking for." "Turn her around, Pablo." "How soon do you figure this storm's going to hit?" "Very soon, senor." "We will be lucky if we beat her in." "No chance for a raid tonight, huh?" "No small boat could live in the sea by then, senor." "The storm will stop them, too," "In case they planned on moving the motors." "Pablo was right." "By the time you got in, the sea was running high." "You couldn't move until it was over." "You were trying not to think of Elizabeth" "What Hintten's arrest might do to her." "This rotten country." "If you ain't frying, you're boiling in your own juice," "Even with a storm coming up." "Now, wait!" "Listen!" "I'm not offering you money anymore." "Ow!" "There's another way she's going to need help from you." "It's Mrs. Hintten I'm talking about." "She's in trouble- Deep trouble." "Don't know why a man like me gets legwork." "I'm glad I came, though." "I got a good nose for a deal," "And I can smell one on the stove right now." "Any deal you'd offer would smell, Bealer." "Too high for me." "I'm a fellow that plays all the angles" "All of them." "How you like this angle?" "If anything happens to my connections," "Mrs. Hintten goes to jail right along with them." "You must be on that beer again." "Take a look." "Hintten's boat is registered in her name." "That put her in it or not?" "It would be awfully hard to clear her." "Wouldn't look good either, would it?" "A federal cop trying to fix it up for his sweetie." "You can fix it up a lot easier." "You feel awfully brave today, don't you?" "Sure." "I got an awful good hand." "10 years maybe?" "Those are 10 awful good years" "She's going to give up- 10 awful good years that could be spent with you" "Because Hintten ain't going to last." "What's the matter?" "Aren't I bug biting you?" "Don't like to think you took a dame away from a dying guy?" "Is that it?" "Keep her out of it!" "I got to put this through any way I can." "I don't like the methods I got to use," "But I got to use them." "Look... these are x-Ray pictures of my feet." "Look." "See?" "See that little white spots?" "Look." "See?" "There's a bone." "See that little white" "Nothing but an operation will do it." "And my feet, Mr. Rigby," "You can't imagine." "Every time I put them down." "If I get them fixed," "I'm a new man" "My own man." "No more eating dirt." "No more feeding it to other people." "I'm sorry the girl's in it," "But if you feel that way about her," "Why don't you talk business?" "Oh, Mr. Rigby." "Mr. Rigby." "My x-Ray pictures of my feet." "They cost me a lot of money." "I'm sorry." "I don't know where I get off" "Slapping you around." "I know why." "I was getting to you," "And no guy likes to be got to" "No guy like you," "One of the honor boys." "You think I don't know." "Would you believe it?" "I used to be that way myself." "Go on." "Get out of here, will you?" "Go take a walk." "Maybe you'll get around to seeing it different." "People do." "All you got to do" "Is to relax for a few days," "Stay off of boats." "If you want to go our way," "You can phone me at the Buena Vista Hotel." "If I ain't there, leave a message." "Buena vista hotel." "And that's the way it is as of now." "Bealer says she's in it." "She could be in it, all right" "Both ways from the middle." "And you're not so sure of her now, are you?" "Can you just let it ride" "See her take what's coming?" "Yeah?" "Your telegram ready, senor?" "No." "I'll take it down myself, send it later." "Si, senor." "10 awful good years she's going to give up- 10 awful good years that could be spent with you." "You're a cop." "Just two words to consider" "Guilty, innocent" "Nothing in between." "Let him sleep as long as he can," "And don't use the medicine" "Except in case of emergency." "Yes, doctor." "Keep him very quiet until we can move him." "I'll do my best." "Your best, huh?" "Just how good is that?" "I knocked, nobody heard," "So I just come in." "I helped myself." "Mind?" "Of course not." "Things breaking bad, huh?" "Tug's worse- Much worse." "I've got to get him out of Carlota." "The doctor says he hasn't a chance here." "I've got to get him out quickly." "You're sure in trouble... and a lot of it you don't even know about yet." "Your husband's not only sick" "Maybe dying" "He's headed straight for jail." "Sure." "Rigby's going to put him there." "What are you talking about?" "I'm giving you facts" "Cold facts." "Rigby is a cop" "A fed," "A government investigator." "Didn't know that, did you" "No more than you know" "That your husband's in on a little deal" "Of swindling the government?" "Don't like hearing that, do you?" "What don't you like about it most" "Knowing that Hintten's a crook" "Or that Rigby's a cop?" "I don't like any of it," "And I don't believe you." "There's two things you got to do." "First, you got to find enough money" "To get Hintten out of here... and fast." "Second, you got to keep him out of jail," "Or he's a gone duck." "Rigby's the answer... both times." "Your husband's due for a nice piece of change," "Only not unless he finishes what he started," "And he can't do that now." "But if you come through for us," "He gets his money." "Also, he stays out of jail." "Now, look... here's how it works." "As soon as this storm's over," "We're going to make a move," "And we don't want Rigby" "Snooping around." "We figure... you can keep him from it," "One way or another." "I'll-Ah" " Send you a bottle of something" "Later tonight." "It's harmless," "But a few drops of it in a drink" "Will keep Rigby's mind off everything," "For long enough anyhow." "Now, maybe you won't have to use it." "It's just in case" "Your big brown eyes don't work." "Well...you ain't said yes," "But you ain't said no." "I got a hunch it'll be yes by the time I check back." "You just remember a couple of things." "It's your husband's life" "Against a cop's job." "You got a right to use Rigby." "He's used you." "Think he's been on the level with you?" "Making a play for you was part of his job." "Sure is hot." "Must be rotten" "Laying there sick in this heat... waiting to go to jail...too." "Hintten's a crook." "Crook." "Rigby's a cop." "Cop." "I don't believe it." "I won't believe it." "Rigby." "Elizabeth." "Oh, Rigby." "Now, now, take it easy." "Take it easy." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry to be so silly." "Falling apart." "Seems like I'm always doing that." "Listen to me, Elizabeth." "I came here tonight to get something straight." "I want to help you, but you have to be frank." "Can't hold anything back." "Can't leave anything unsaid." "Tell me everything about yourself, about Hintten." "What goes on with him?" "What's he doing those days" "He doesn't show up at Pedro's?" "You've got to trust me completely from now on." "Trust you?" "We haven't got a chance unless you do." "And if I do trust you," "We have a chance?" "I'm not so sure, Rigby." "I'm sure enough for both of us." "It-It's everything or nothing." "Everything or nothing?" "All right, Rigby." "I'll give you your chance." "Have you anything to teme?" "Anything unsaid?" "Well?" "Have you?" "Everything or nothing... begins to look like nothing, doesn't it?" "What's happened?" "What's changed you?" "I'm the same, and so are you." "I'm trying to help you." "Nobody can help me." "Not you, not me." "Just...stay away from me." "Elizabeth." "Please... leave me alone." "Maybe it's good advice, at that." "There's just one answer to the way she acted." "She knows you're a cop, and she's guilty," "Or that wouldn't bother her." "That ought to make it easy." "She's got it coming, hasn't she?" "She's guilty." "Guilty." "I'll send you a bottle of something" "Later tonight." "It's harmless," "But a few drops of it in a drink... it's your husband's life" "Against a cop's job." "Must be rotten lying there sick in this heat," "Waiting to go to jail, too." "You got a right to use Rigby," "A right." "Soon as the storm's over." "It's time, Rigby." "The storm's over." "The boats can go out." "Got to make your move." "Too late to send the wire." "You'll have to telephone the cops on the mainland." "All you've got to do is relax, stay off the boat." "If you want to go our way," "You can phone me at the Buena Vista Hotel." "Get me J.J. Bealer at the Buena Vista Hotel." "Sorry, senor, my outside lines all busy." "Call me when you get him, will you?" "Did anybody see you come up?" "Of course not." "My feet may hurt, but they ain't noisy." "Don't close the door." "You want to keep an eye on what goes with Rigby." "Sure." "Now don't you fuss, Mr. Carwood." "We're in real good shape." "Double play at work." "One of them will crack." "Either Rigby or the girl is sure to." "Nature's got to take its course with one of them." "It's lucky for us the fiesta's beginning." "Everybody will stay on shore." "Walker plans to finish by midnight." "If Rigby got out on a boat before then," "He couldn't miss," "So Rigby doesn't get out on a boat." "If your friend nature fails us," "We'll probably have to kill him, catch?" "I don't want no part of that." "They get the chair twice as hot" "For bumping off a fed." "Sit down." "I'm a payoff man." "No more, no less." "Considerably less, I'm afraid." "Room 204, senora." "Thank you." "Like I said, nature taking its course." "Come in." "Well." "I thought you didn't want to see me again." "That was last night." "I wasn't thinking too well last night." "Oh?" "You see, I just found out something, Rigby... who you are, what you do," "And why you're in Carlota." "That's quite a bit to know about anybody." "Is it more than you know about me, Rigby?" "Is it, Rigby?" "Maybe not." "Who you are and who I am" "Doesn't make any difference... not to me," "Not in the way I feel about you." "I thought it did." "For a little while, I thought I hated you." "I tried to, but it wasn't any use." "When you love someone," "I guess it doesn't make any difference" "Who, what, or why." "You go right on loving them." "Yeah." "You go right on... yeah?" "He's out, huh?" "Didn't leave any message?" "Well, ah, leave word for him to call me" "When he comes back." "Yeah, he knows where to get in touch with me." "Thanks." "I thought lemon soda was your speed." "This isn't a lemon soda occasion." "Just one for the road." "For the road?" "Our road." "To you." "I never knew a crooked road could look so straight." "What do you suppose makes it look that way, huh?" "You being around?" "That could be it." "No, Rigby." "No." "What do you mean, no?" "What do you mean being sad?" "This is no time for sadness." "We-We ought to be out dancing in the streets." "Yeah, kicking the" "Kicking the hats off the citizens." "That drink" " There was something in that drink." "Something for the road, Rigby," "So it won't seem so lonely." "Playing me, huh?" "Setting me up for it." "You really found yourself a pigeon, didn't you?" "You didn't have to do it this way." "It was working fine for your side." "Guilty or innocent," "Didn't make any difference." "I was selling out for you." "You outsmarted yourself, baby." "Now I can do my job." "I couldn't let him die." "I couldn't." "So I've killed everything for us instead." "You must have done a good job." "You couldn't feel so bad if you hadn't." "You, ah, give him the stuff?" "You said that it was just enough, that it wouldn't" "He'll be all right in a few hours." "You wait here." "And that's just what we mean." "Listen to me, Bealer." "If Rigby's not all right," "Then you won't be all right." "I won't care then." "I won't care what happens to anyone." "But, Mrs. Hintten... it's O.K." "I know." "Go stall her." "Keep her from her house for a while." "I've got to see Hintten alone." "Here's what you've earned so far, 2,500." "Here's what you would have earned" "If you'd finished the job," "An even 5,000." "Something for nothing, huh?" "Coming from you, that's worth a look." "Well, I believe that about winds things up," "Ends our business." "Not quite." "Listen, Carwood." "We had an understanding" "About my wife." "Remember?" "How could I forget?" "You were so hard to convince that we needed her." "Yeah." "I sold her down the river" "But only partway." "I let her be used" "To keep Rigby where we could watch him," "But that was all." "She wasn't to know about the deal or about me." "Suppose sis in." "What'll you do?" "I talk, tell everything I know." "I'll break it open" "Sis in." "Why not?" "We lost you, we got her." "Where is she?" "Exactly where you're afraid she is... with Rigby." "Rigby and your wife." "You don't deserve to live." "But you're the one who's going to die, Hintten." "It's going to look very natural." "You tried to get to your medicine." "You couldn't make it." "Did you really think I'd leave you around to talk?" "You've already talked enough." "You've talked yourself to death, do you hear me?" "You've talked yourself to death." "Mrs. Hintten." "Please wait." "Mrs. Hintten." "Please, Mrs. Hintten." "Mrs. Hintten." "Yes?" "Are you" "Are you sure you're all right?" "Yes, I'm quite all right." "Tug!" "Tug." "Tug." "Answer me." "What's wrong?" "Liz." "Yes, Tug?" "Call the doctor, quickly." "Liz." "Yes, Tug?" "The number is 421." "What, darling?" "Bueno." "Cuatro dos uno." "Pronto." "Oh, Tug." "Doc warren?" "Bealer." "Get over to the Hinttens' right away." "Thank you, doc." "He'll be here." "Whiskey might help." "You got any whiskey?" "In the kitchen." "Bealer!" "Bealer!" "Liz!" "Tug." "Tug!" "Just a minute, dear." "Ain't no use." "Desk, this is Rigby in 204." "Please don't ring me." "That's right." "No calls of any kind." "Thank you." "I want to sleep." "Mrs. Hintten," "You've got to stop blaming yourself." "Even if you'd been with him," "It wouldn't have made any difference." "Have you, ah... have you any friends here?" "Anyone you can count on?" "No one." "I've got-Please forgive me, doctor." "There's something I must do." "But, Mrs. Hintten" "I'll handle her, doc." "Mrs. Hintten." "Where do you think you're going?" "To Rigby." "That guy's in no condition to comfort you, sister." "I'll get help for him." "Tug's gone." "He can't hurt Tug now." "No." "But he can get hurt." "Now, listen, you and me made a deal." "He's safe as long as you keep it." "My connection's got an eye on his door." "If Rigby walks out, he walks out into a bullet." "Yeah." "If you think anything of Rigby," "You better leave him be, as is." "Now, listen, you'll be all right." "You'll get the payoff just the same." "You came through." "Do you think I'd take that money now?" "Why not?" "You need dough." "I heard you talking about shipping your husband home." "That takes money." "Yes, everything takes money" "Living, dying," "But I'll earn the money I need from now on," "Honestly and decently." "Those feet of yours must have held you up." "When I got her home," "I had to stick around." "Do you think she'll talk to Hintten?" "If she does, he won't hear her." "He's dead." "We found him." "Medicine all spilled." "Sudden attack?" "Looked like it." "You, ah..." "you see him?" "Yes, of course." "He was fine when I left." "Why?" "Did he call you?" "He was worried about his payoff." "I told him I'd take care of him." "It's too bad." "But his wife will get his share." "But I've waited all day, and now it is dark." "Senor Rigby said no calls." "That means no calls." "If he wants to sleep all day and all night," "It's none of my business," "And none of yours either." "How about me getting my cut now?" "I want out." "You'll get out when I get out," "No sooner and no later." "I'd hate to start worrying about you." "You don't have to worry none about me." "Not me." "No?" "Who then?" "Hintten's wife." "What about Hintten's wife?" "Hintten wasn't dead when me and her got there." "He was trying to say something." "She was alone with him two, three minutes." "I don't know what he said." "I don't know what he could say." "Maybe you do?" "Pain." "Pain-That'll do it." "Wake me up." "Senor Rigby." "Senor Rigby!" "Pablo." "Senor Rigby." "Pablo." "But I am stuck here with you, ain't I?" "I am taking all the risks you take." "Yeah, you've stuck," "Because you haven't got your money yet." "You'd have walked out if you could." "But nobody's going to walk anyplace, Bealer," "Not until somebody pays a little visit to Mrs. Hintten." "Yeah." "You've got the location then, huh, Rodriquez?" "O.K. Get going." "No." "No, there's no time to pick me up." "O.K." "Pablo." "¿Si, senor?" "I got a little something to do now... si, senor." "For a kid named Emilio." "I do have that to do." "I'm sorry, Pablo." "Your job's to stay here." "Wait for Rodriquez's call." "I'll be in touch with you." "What you say, I will do." "I know." "¶ but whooo?" "¶" "Rigby." "Oh, Rigby." "Expecting someone else?" "Your pal Bealer or even Carwood?" "I'm looking for either one or both of them." "There was nobody in Carwood's room," "Nobody at Bealer's hotel." "That leaves you." "Where are they?" "I don't know." "You've got to" "I ought to... but that wouldn't be practical, would it?" "Well...how was the take tonight?" "Good old legal tender." "Remarkable what people will do for it." "Which reminds me, how is your husband?" "He's dead." "Died this morning." "I'm sorry," "Or maybe I'm not." "Something people say- I'm sorry." "I should be, though, shouldn't I?" "He wasn't such a bad guy." "You don't seem so sorry, though," "Down here tonight entertaining the customers." "You can believe what you want about me," "But trust me this much, you're in danger." "If you know what's good for you" "I know one thing." "What's good for me isn't you." "Your hand." "Got caught in a broken promise... my own." "Let me help you." "I need a drink of water." "Let me get it for you." "No, thank you very kindly." "I'm not over the last drink you got for me." "Well, I call this service." "I ask for Bealer," "I get Bealer." "You've got to believe me." "I didn't know he was there." "Sure, I believe you." "Everything you say." "Come on out, buster." "What are you doing in there?" "You didn't need a bath, now did you?" "Been looking for you, sweetheart." "Pour out your heart to me." "Where's the guy behind you, fat boy?" "That's who I want." "Somebody's got to pay for Emilio." "Where is he?" "Where's Carwood?" "I don't know." "I don't know anything." "You don't want to take the rap all by yourself, do you?" "Come on." "If I have to slap it out of you, I will." "That's just a sample." "Now" "Keep away from me." "Why, you don't look natural, fat boy." "You're no gun-Bearing animal." "Hand it over." "Don't you come no closer." "Don't." "He's dangerous." "Any scared guy with a gun is dangerous." "That's why I want to take it away from him." "I'll kill the both of you if I have to." "That's the point, Bealer-You don't have to." "I'll make a deal with you." "Ever hear of state's evidence?" "I don't know anything." "Carwood's got you figured for a fall guy." "You're a sap." "Pull that trigger, and he'll be right." "You'll never be rid of him." "Never be your own man again." "He'll have it on you." "Think it over, Bealer." "You're scared silly." "Hear your heart pounding?" "You've got no talent for murder." "Thanks." "What do you know, my own gun." "I didn't want to come here." "Why did you?" "He made me come here." "He held out my dough." "If it wasn't for him always pushing me around," "Making me do his dirty work" "How dirty?" "He wanted me to find out what she knows." "That should be plenty." "She wasn't in it, not until the last." "He wanted to find out what she knows about Hintten," "About how Hintten died." "He did it." "He killed him." "Hintten, too, huh?" "I don't know why, but he did." "He wouldn't care what she knows if he didn't." "Where is he?" "He's down at the pier, waiting for walker." "I'm a goner." "I'm finished." "Not quite, Bealer." "You've got work to do," "Something on the right side of the fence." "Hide that boat." "Yes, sir, and me, too." "Well?" "Mr. Carwood, uh, she wouldn't listen to me," "But I got a hunch she knows how Hintten died." "I waited outside her place," "Her apartment." "Ah, she tried to get in touch with the cops at Mateo." "She couldn't get them." "Do you know why?" "They were busy." "The island's just been raided." "Well, wasn't that walker?" "Yeah, he got away, he thinks," "But he won't get far." "So now nobody gets anything." "Not you, not me." "Then there's nothing holding me." "You leaving?" "Without me?" "I wouldn't go anywhere without you, Bealer." "Not anywhere." "Come on." "Fine." "All right, Pablo." "Thanks very much." "Rodriquez made the raid." "We'll wait for Carwood." "Any sign of him?" "Not yet." "Are you sure you can trust Bealer?" "I can trust his pattern." "But suppose Carwood doesn't come?" "Guys like Carwood have a pattern, too." "If he comes here, he'll come for one thing," "To kill you." "Can you force him to confess" "Like Bealer?" "I'll give him his chance, but he won't take it." "He's no Bealer." "He won't break." "I'm afraid, but I'm glad we're waiting for him." "If this Carwood killed Tug" "He killed him, all right." "I'll stake my life on it." "More, I'm even staking yours." "I want to stake my life." "It's all right." "All right." "Yeah, funny, it is all right," "As of here and now," "With me," "Where you're concerned." "It's not all right with us." "I sold you out," "And I can't even ask you to forgive me." "I'm not ashamed or sorry, not even now." "It would be a lie if I asked you to forgive me." "Forgive... what's forgive, an old beat-Up word?" "Who's got a right to use it?" "Not me." "Look." "They're coming." "We've only got a minute." "Listen to me." "You did what you had to do." "Everybody's got a place he really lives," "Where they can get to him." "I ought to know." "Who is it?" "Me, Bealer." "Just a minute." "Come in, Carwood." "Take your hand out of your pocket." "Well... looks like everybody is wearing somebody else's voice." "That's right." "Thanks, Bealer." "Yeah." "I'll thank you later, Bealer." "You got plans for that?" "I wish I could have." "I'd like to shoot you as you stand there." "I don't know what you're talking about." "I doubt I'll like it." "We'll take it in easy stages." "First, government fraud." "There's enough against you to get you" "Two to five years." "You arresting me?" "Ha ha." "I don't think so." "Law enforcement agencies of the united states" "Have no authority on foreign soil." "You read the book right." "I can't arrest you," "But Rodriquez can," "And he'll be here before morning." "Sorry." "I can't wait." "I'm boarding a plane at midnight." "I don't think I'll be seeing you, Rigby." "Carwood." "I'm taking that plane." "I'm walking out of this room." "You won't shoot." "You don't operate that way." "You can't." "Sorry." "I knew it was loaded." "Get your hands up." "You can do better than that, Rigby." "Not as a cop," "But that's the last shot I'll fire as a cop." "I resign." "I was going to anyway." "This just hurries it." "That's funny." "You don't look any different to me, Rigby." "Wait till I get rolling." "As one private citizen to another," "I'd like that gun you have in your pocket." "I'm going to hold you for Rodriquez" "Or shoot you if you get restless." "Your choice." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "Ow, ooh." "Ow...my feet." "My feet." "Stay back." "The fireworks are going to start." "You can't go through there, lady." "Now it's time." "Light the fuse, ay?" "All right, senor." "Senor, stay back." "It's dangerous." "Stay back." "It's dangerous." "Wha-Wha-Wha-Wha" "Wha-Wha-What happened to Carwood?" "When you get around to it, Mr. Rigby," "You might call a cop."