"__" "__" "Hands high, jerk-off." "Cut?" "You see, me and Jeanie come over, after you guys split up, and, you know, but Jeanie get tired." "She's not much of a drinker." "But me and Opal, and..." "and after a while, you know, I'm coming over alone." "Jeanie know?" "You crazy?" "No." "Thought maybe you guys are swingers now or something." "Jeez, what is wrong with you?" "Look, I'm sorry it happened." "Okay?" "I'm really, really sorry." "How long?" "Five... months." "Look, you want me to end it..." "Cut, I don't give a crap." "She was a lousy wife and a mother, but she can drink and she can ball, and since those are the only two hobbies you ever showed any interest in," "I figure you guys are made for each other." "I just want to know where my son is." " I haven't seen him." " But he was here." "After you said he was back and you were all worried, I asked her." "She said he was here for about a day." "She scraped together all the money she could and gave it to him." " Where'd he go?" " I don't know." " She know?" " Probably." "Good luck getting it out of her." "So..." "We good?" "Yeah, we're good." "And we're done." "I don't work with liars." "It's not a moral thing, it's a safety issue." "You understand." "Eddie ever tell you about the time he hit me?" "Fist." "Four stitches." "Drunk off his ass." "Crying the next day, begging me to forgive him." "Wife-beater." "That's your partner who's too good for you." "This..." "I made a mistake." "You said yes, is what you did." "You came back to yes, and you came back to me." "And now you're afraid." "Want to know how you can stop being afraid?" "I want my daughter." "She's here." "You're both here." "I only came to bring the money." "Don't... don't touch me, okay?" "Just tell me where Emma is." "I told you..." "She's here." "But she's not gonna go with you." "And I'm not gonna tell her to." "When you came here with that pocketful of paper, you knew that." "Man, it hurts to even look at you right now." "So unhappy being who you are." "See, I was like that once." "But I got on top of it." "And now, I'm never afraid." "Because I always say yes." "And if you want to be somebody else so bad, why not be me?" "But give me that other 1,000 bucks you owe me first." "You got a choice about everything in this life, except that." "Whoo!" "Well, Detective Bibb saw you shove the other girl to the sidewalk and kick her several times." "Detective Bibb need to clean those nasty glasses." "Okay, I need to pat you down." "Just outside your clothes, so please stand still for me." "You like that?" " Stop!" " Rubbing up on me?" "Got ya." "Officer Tully, would you make some more coffee?" "The pot's empty." " I was going to." " Oh, thank you very much." "Your Highness." " Yeah?" " Call for you." "Bruce Tamminy." "Says he's a parole officer." "Uh, yeah." "Thanks, Charmain." " Hey, Hodiak." " Bruce." "You get the case of Harper I sent you?" "Oh, yeah." "Know what else I got?" "Somebody put in a call, the next day, he's fired." "That Karn guy?" "Probably, but I'll worry about that after you find Manson for me." "Sure, uh, okay." "Any idea how?" " I was thinking the biker." " Kovic?" "Mmm-hmm." "Uh, well, he said Manson was at the beach." " Right." " Uh, but even if we had any idea where "at the beach" actually was on a map..." "Well, Kovic said that anybody looking for Charlie has to go through him, so let's go through him." "Well, he said that before I jacked his knee, which he might know was on purpose." "Either way, I'm not his favorite person right now." "I'm not a lot of people's favorite person." " You're just shy is all." " I'm what?" "Central, come in." " Hold on a second." " What is the ETA on" "M.E. Wagon to scene 7999 Sunset?" "Stand by." "M.E. Wagon en route to Sunset and Highland." "Hey, 7999 Sunset, that's..." "That's the Coffee Hut." "That's Art Gladner." "Sal, you were here when that call came in." "Who took it?" "Uh, Whalen and Cutler were leaving when I came in." "Some guy owned a diner or something, stabbed to death?" "I said, "bring me a Danish back,"" "but you know they won't." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "Whoa." " What?" " Where you going?" "I've been working that place for months." "Art Gladner was my end game, I'm going." "Well, who's going?" "Shafe the drug tout, or Shafe the cop who's gonna blow his cover?" "Maybe you should try a costume of some kind." " Mmm-hmm." " Like ghost or sexy nurse." "Well, 'cause I'm sure you love it when your work goes belly-up." "Of course I do." "You're the only one that doesn't." "Look, I will go make sure Cut doesn't step all over your case." "You find Manson." " Don't be an ultra-maroon." " Mmm." "Okay, brother." "See you." "You too." " Good morning." " Good morning, detective." "I guess he didn't exactly sneak up on our dead guy." "Sir, that was Officer Faulkner." "When we responded, we found the door locked." "We saw the guy face down, and Faulkner thought he saw him move and he just..." " I never criticize anyone for being enthusiastic." " Sir." "I show you my new second?" "Smith 10 Snub." " What?" " It's like a doll gun." "What do you want it to be, a howitzer?" " It's a backup." " It's very cute." "Hey, Sam, look at this." "What are you gonna do with that thing?" "Pistol whip a midget?" "Wait." "Jimmy, come back." "I gotta check your vagina for sand." "Did you get a look at that door?" "It was locked before one of the nosepicks broke it down." " Okay?" " So did you get a look at the hardware?" "It has to be locked from the inside or the outside." "Are you sure the suspect's not still on the premises?" "I confess." "Gladner still got his keys on him?" " They're on his belt chain." " All right." "So we're looking for someone with keys to the place." "Why are you here?" "There's a drug case in place around Gladner." "A lot of time invested, contacts made." "Just trying to keep it all intact." "Oh, your undercover boyfriend?" "Ah, boyfriend... we're trying to take it slow, you know?" "I don't know from any of that." "What I do know is, I found the guy." "Oh, yeah, witness had him running from the scene." "He's out back in the cruiser if you want to point and laugh." "Hey, hey!" "Hey, man, there's my man!" "You remember me, right?" "No?" "All right, you... you probably remember that you don't like me, but" "I didn't do this, man." "Why would I do that?" " Come on, man!" " Knock it off." "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry." "Help me out." "Please, man, please." "You got to help me out." "Please." "I didn't do that." "Man, please." "Damn Narc out there trying to use our colors." "Venice PD, they, uh, busted Brother Jerry a couple months back." "They take all of his property, and they put it into a little plastic bag for "storage."" "His ID card and his patch goes into his property bag." "And when he makes bail, the man gives him back everything but those two things, and they lip-service it." "Tell him it got lost." " Except that this guy here..." " Bri." "Bri, right." "Bri here sees a guy pushing dope down in Santa Monica a couple days ago repping as our Brother Jerry." "Definitely said he was a Satan, but I know you guys don't travel alone." "And I know you wouldn't go five kilos." "Hmm." "You see him, you keep him around and you call us, and we'll do to him what you did to my knee." "Again, I'm sorry about that." "No, it's okay." "You get a reset with all the positives..." "Even though I can't ball, like, at all." "I can't put any weight on my knee, not even somebody else's." "So, you know what?" "Next time you and I are going downhill, you first." "Well, if I'm getting a reset, uh, I got a favor to ask." "When you jacked up your knee, you remember we were heading out to try and find your friend Charlie?" "Well, she was wondering if maybe we could try again." "Sugar clam." "Right on the corner of Oak and Lyon." "The heart of Ashbury." "God, that was such a good house." "Tell her who lived right down the street." "Janis." " Joplin?" " Yeah." "We could hear her practicing." "Look, Cherry." "Almost as beautiful as you." "You should leave." "Make an excuse, your monthlies, I don't know." "Some rough terrain here, I think I need a baby-doll crutch." "Hey, sugar pie..." "All right, Charlie's waiting." "Hey." "Mmm." "Charlie, um..." "I thought I saw my dad leave." "This morning, in his car?" "Did he talk to you?" "Did he say he wanted to talk to me?" "What did he say?" "Well, I wouldn't tell you this if I didn't know you could hear it for what it is, but he asked me how much I wanted." "For you." "Like you were a used car or a horse or a cow." "If no one owns something, it can't ever be for sale." "Look who's walking again." "Sugar clam here says she knows you, Charlie." "Been pulling everyone's coat looking for you." "Huh." "You want to find me so bad, girl, you found me." "And I can't say I don't want to, and maybe I will, but" "I don't know you at all." "I don't blame you for not remembering me." "I wouldn't remember me either." "But you have to remember that place." "In the canyon at the edge of the creek, where the road sloped up." "It wasn't winter, but it was cold." "There was a little fire in the fireplace, and we all huddled around in a circle and closed our eyes, and then..." "Well, all right." "That's great." "You kids want some candy?" "Don't know." "Depends, I guess." "Depends on what?" "Chunky chocolate, Taffy bits, marshmallows?" "You... you don't know if you like that stuff?" " I know I do." " Course you do." "'Cause you never got enough." "Mommy and daddy used it like a weapon." "Took it away when you were bad." "But we're all good children here." "We get all the candy we want." "I want some now." "What... what about you?" "Yeah, we want some, too." "Good." "Moving on." "Hey." "She'll be right there." "Thought you said you couldn't put any weight on that knee." "I can't." "I'll take a little head, though." "Or maybe a lot." "I know Charlie, so I know how Charlie goes." "He goes through Roy, remember?" "Go have some candy." "Please." "All right, look, not only was I here once already today, Sam," "I don't know where you get off summoning me" " like somebody's housemaid." " You're Gladner." " You're pushing it." " I'm the killer." "I come up on you when your back is turned, and I... whap, whap!" "Both the first and the second neck wound were fatal." "So after those, he probably went to his knees at some point." " Oh." "Okay." " Took the next five there." "One, two, three, four, five." "And then he's down." "And for the last two, he was flat on the ground." "Oh, it's funny to you, too?" "Watching a man lose his mind?" "Time of death?" "Last night." "Mr. Gladner had been dead about eight, 10 hours before he was found." "That's eight to 10 hours before Vickery was seen" " running out of there." " And he came back." "High as a kite, dumb as a carp." "Ah, but the downward angles of the wound show that the killer was taller than Gladner." "Vickery is not." "The killer's also a righty." "I've been to Vickery's apartment," "I saw his crappy guitar." "Pick guard and the bass "E" string on the wrong side." "He's a lefty." "He is not the guy." "Okay, stop, stop, stop." "When you want to talk about this like cops and not these amateur theatricals, you let me know." "And you touch me again, I'm going to pour you out like a drink." "So, you and Cut not partners anymore, huh?" "Good catch." "Thought maybe you got lost." "This pad is crazy." " It yours?" " Nah." "Older lady I met in Frisco." "Devil worship's her trip at the moment." "She gave me a standing invite to this place." "And so when we came down south, we just parked the bus here and joined the preachers, and the socialites, and the blood-drinkers." "I saw it, man." "Saw a guy chug some blood." "House is full of people just like that." "Come here to do what they don't want to be seen doing." "That the kind of gig you're into?" "I don't know." "This place is full of a lot of fear and shame." "I don't want that." "I want to stay feeling good, and I don't think good feelings stick around here." "But I guess we'll see, huh?" "Why, hello." "Oh." "Don't you both look good and worn out." "How'd she do?" "She could learn a thing or two from Sadie, for sure." "But she'll get there." "Vickery's a known associate." "His alibi for established time of death is he was home alone." "Wow." "He's got a previous knife assault on his jacket." "He's got a face I want to hit with a phone book." "And you're making this about some pissant rear door key" " and a guitar string, what?" " You arrest Vickery, you'll just end up voiding it later." " It's not him." " Says you." "Then the real guy's lawyer will use that voided arrest" " to get the case thrown out." " Well, if that happens, you get to say, "I told you so." Oh, you'll hate that." "Or you can delegate me to go find the real guy for you and then you can take the credit." "You'll hate that." "Fine." "Take a day." "No, take two." "You used to be more fun, too." "Yeah, a lot of things used to be more fun." "How'd you know to tell him about that house?" "I didn't." "It just sounds like a million other places they've been to and forgotten." " Was it real?" " It was." "I went there with my mother, years ago." "She had a thing for the guy who owned it." "One night, she called him over and over, and no answer, so..." "She woke me up and we drove all the way out there in the dark." "And what happened?" "He told her she should go home." "And what about the, uh..." "I don't know where that came from." "I chose." "Charmain..." "I'm serious about being a cop." "About being a great cop." "As serious as you are." "Okay?" "Okay." "Sam?" "So, I didn't know if I should read it or burn it." "Anyway..." "I didn't open it." "You're gonna do what you're gonna do, but he is not going back to that place." "Ever." "That, we agree on." "He's going to prison because of you." "All right, look." "I talked to my guy at Pendleton who said MPs don't bother looking nowadays." "There's a couple of phone calls, goes to file." "Thanks." "* The echo of a Piper's song *" "* The shadow of a smile *" "* The shadow of your smile *" "* When you are gone *" "* Will color all my dreams *" "* And light the dawn *" "My mom loved that song." "Maybe even more than the movie." "Well, that's what Charlie was singing, and he was playing the guitar." "And when he was done, he looked at me and said if I really wanted to, I could just pick it up and play it." "Even if I didn't know how." "After my mom died, I tried everything." "I went to church, to Evergreen Baptist." "I danced with my top off in a witches' Sabbath show, and I was so alone." "But that night, I left with Charlie." "And he introduced me to Katie." "And everything was perfect..." "Until we met you." "You're just..." "So..." "Real." "All my friends talk about back home is things." "Things they want, things they have, things that other people have." "Sometimes" "I felt like if I didn't get away from their voices," "I was actually gonna die." "Let's go make ourselves a demo." "What?" "Really?" "Today we get to start putting it out there all over the world." "Oh, my..." "Charlie!" "Where did you find the money?" "The money found me." "So what about Manson?" "He's in this rundown shack on Topanga." "Drug den, way station type of place." " Mmm-hmm." " And Emma's there." " You saw her?" " I did." "If it's the girl from those photos." "On Gladner, there's a suspect." "It's your boy, Vickery." " Vic?" " Yeah." "Just being held, not arrested." "Cut thinks he's the guy, but he's giving me a grace period." " Well, is he?" " May not end up mattering, but no." "You seen this girl?" "Anybody seen this girl?" "Anybody?" "Have you seen her?" "This girl?" "Hey." "Hey." "You seen this girl?" " Lots of girls here." " That a no?" "I don't know what it is." "Better look again." "If you think she could have been here, odds are she probably was here." "And I might have seen her." "But she's not here now." "Okay." "Yeah, sorry, officer." "Wish I could've been more help." "Oh, you seem like a very helpful guy." "How old are you?" "I'll be 16 in December." "Does anyone know where you are?" "Yeah, um, this is a letter from my mom." "She says it's okay for me to be here." "She knows." "Emma's not here." "She was here..." "I have to go." "We have to go." "Come on." "This is such a beautiful day." "Yeah." "This is Charlie." "Rue Fisher." "I'm the engineer." "You come to make some music with us, Rue?" "You're gonna make it, man." "I'm just gonna lay it down for you." "But, uh, you really sure this is where you want to record?" "Yeah." "Yeah, you know why?" "Because this is where it is, man." "It's just, we're gonna pick up a lot of ambient sound." "You mean, we're gonna pick up everything around us?" "Well, hey, man, that's exactly how we like it." "It's just not the best for, uh..." "Rue, man." "Rue-fus, Rue-the-day..." "We are ready when you are, man." "It was just bad timing." "I..." "I'll be there next time," " or I'll have someone there..." " Who were all those people?" "That house..." "Are there places like that everywhere?" "Now, yeah." "What is happening?" "You know, I couldn't stop thinking about her somewhere lost, being hurt, crying for me." "I thought all we had to do was find her, and now..." "I don't know anything." "What?" "What is it?" "My son is missing." "Oh, Sam." "You know, it... it doesn't necessarily mean anything." "Our neighbors, the Rensselaers, their son was reported dead, and then two months later, Ann got a letter from him." "He'd been in the hospital, but no one had bothered to tell him it was..." "Oh, God, this story is not helping at all, is it?" "No." "Thanks." "* You must live to find love * * and you will try many times *" "* but your heart is still young * * and the true love you'll find *" "* you think that true love * is your first love of life *" "Don't waste my time." " Tell me now." " Tell you what?" "Tell me if there's something in it." "Okay, maybe I should turn this over to someone who won't be so patient like I have." " There's nothing." " Thank you." "I appreciate that." "I'll bag this and label it." "It's not a cheap one." "I'm sure you'd like it back." "Talk about wasting your time, you are wasting it in here." "You're a real nice piece." "You ought to try peddling it out there." "Bet you'd make five times the scratch you get in this dump." "Oh, you're right about that, missus." "Oh, you hear the lady?" "Scratch for the having out there." "You see something you like, officer?" "No, sir." "But I was wondering, those pants?" "Do they make them for men, too?" "Because I'll tell you, you should go back to whatever store you bought them at and tell them that you are a police officer in a position of authority that is very hard to maintain in a felonious pair of ball-huggers." "Spell your name for me, dear." " How'd it go?" " It was glory." "It was rock fate." "Mwah!" "Oh!" "Mwah!" "Oh, is must have been a good day." "Oh, one of the best days of my life." "Glad to hear it, darling." "Whoo!" "Cop came by." "Detective." "Looking for Emma." "Brought her mama with him." "Well, did you talk to the man?" "Give him another thought to be thinking?" " Of course I did." " Good." "But I don't think it worked." "Something the matter?" "Well, how could there be after the day we just had?" "No." "Nothing." "We just gotta head back out, so, um, come on." "Now?" "What's going on?" "It's getting crowded here." "I got a lot of patience, but I..." "I don't like it to be tested for no good reason." "Where are we going?" "I'm taking you and Sadie on a little meander." "Okay." "Is Katie coming?" "How long are we gonna be gone?" "See, the only..." "The only way this is going to work is if we can be individuals so strong with each other that together we are one." "Cherry." "I'm not gonna remind you of that too many more times." "Is that Ken?" "No, um, Maria and Yolanda, the housekeepers." " We should..." " No, not yet." " Sam..." " Just a little longer." "Don't make me go yet." "Sam." "There's some MPs here to see you." "About Walt." "I'm sorry, I thought..." "My buddy told me that, that it wasn't gonna..." "Look, she's his mother, okay?" "Don't try to get even with her or you know what's gonna happen." "She did it because she loves him and you know it." "Don't pull her in any deeper." "I told them I didn't know why or how he was home." "Then they asked me if I knew anything about your health." "I told them we don't talk, so divorce has its upsides." "Piss off." "You're in rare form this evening." "Did you get an actual doctor to back up this bull about you being sick?" "I am sick, Sam." "Is it serious?" "Diabetes." "So they prescribed scotch and cigarettes?" "Anything else, officer?" " I want to see Walt." " No idea where he is." "And there it is, your first lie of the conversation." "I need to get to him before the MPs." "So you can convince him to do the right thing?" "The way you told him going to Vietnam is what you'd do" " if you were his age?" " It is what I'd do if I..." "Why?" "Why?" "What do you think it is over there?" "The sequel to World War II, your glory days?" "It is, with a twist." "We're the bad guys." "Charlie." "Did you just break..." "What are you doing here?" "What is this?" "Why are you here?" "I brought you a present." "Two presents." "I don't understand." "Oh, I'll, uh..." "I'll stay long enough to make sure there's no static, but, uh..." "But they're yours, man..." "For as long as you want 'em." "You shared your good with me, man." "Now I'm sharing mine." "Just tell me." "Tell me anything." "Just stop." "Will you stop?" "Where you were, where you go, what you think, who you are." "I knew you'd want to hear this, Kenny." "I knew you'd be waiting to." "Something so beautiful from something so ugly." "And all because of you." "* always is always forever * * as one is one is one * * inside yourself for your father * * all is none, all is none, all is one * * it's time to drop all from behind you *" "listen to your Emma." "Like an angel's dream of an angel." "Through her, I finally see how to do it." "How to make the worm turn." "Hello?" "Who is this?" "* the valley of death may not find you *" "Hello?" "* now as then on a sunshine beam * * so bring only your perfection * * for then life will surely be *" "Emma, baby." "* no cold and fear or hunger * * you can see, you can see, you can see *"