"I could shoot." ""What if we get" blown off the court?" ""We're not going to get" blown off the court, Buchannon, as long as you remember what you're supposed to do." "Tell me you don't think his death was drug-related?" "He knew he had messed up his life, Mitch." "He was working on getting it together." "How much is riding on the game?" "Everything I got." "I hope you came to play." "I can't believe I'm actually sitting here having lunch with a goddess." "Where have you been all my life?" "How could you do this?" "It's our honeymoon." "Game time, baby!" "I always dreamed of a honeymoon at the beach." "Yeah." "This is so romantic, isn't it, Dennis?" "Absolutely." "Uh, little mustard." "Get it?" "Yeah." "We're going to be together for the next 40, maybe 50 years." "We're going to remember our honeymoon for the rest of our lives." "That's why I wanted this to be perfect." "Hi, guys." "Hi." "I know it's windy, but can you keep your stuff together, please?" "Oh, I'm, I'm sorry." "It must have flown away." "I'll put everything in the trash, I promise." "Thank you." "Sorry." "Hey, what are you doing?" "I'm still eating." "All right." "Um, excuse me, lifeguard." "Excuse me." "Uh, lifeguard, pardon me." "Uh, excuse me." "I just wanted you to know that I'm not that kind of guy." "What kind of guy?" "A litterbug." "I have great respect for the environment." "I recycle everything." "Newspapers, bottles, cans, plastic." "This whole outfit's recycled." "That's great." "Good for you." "It's just that my... my secretary's kind of a slob." "Your secretary?" "Well, my assistant." "My executive assistant." "I planned on dictating some notes after lunch, but, uh, you know, I like to get out of the office once in a while, come out, smell the fresh air, the clams, the crabs, the sand." "Really gets me going." "Me, too." "See you later." "Yeah, see you later." "Keep up the good work." "Man, why is it every time that we run together, it always ends up in a race?" "Why is it you're always such a sore loser?" "I'm just keeping you in shape." "Oh, please." "Whew!" "Mitch!" "Mitch!" "You knew him?" "Once upon a time." "Name's Tito Washburn." "Wait a minute." "Are we talking about the same Tito Washburn that played for Pepperdine University?" "All-Conference as a freshman." "Tore up his knee the second year." "That's when he started using." "He couldn't handle sitting on the sidelines." "According to this report, there was a significant amount of cocaine in his blood." "I know." "I know." "I can't believe it." "I stood by Tito from the night I booked him till the day he got out of the rehab." "Mitch, he knew he had messed up his life." "He was working on getting it back together." "Tell me you don't think his death was drug-related?" "I don't think this case is as cut-and-dried as it seems, and I don't want to see it get swept under the rug." "The man had a wife, a child, a future." "It just doesn't make any sense." "Nothing about drugs makes sense." "Yo, what in the ham sandwich is going on?" "I thought my eyes was playing tricks on me." "Is it the real Garner Ellerbee?" "What's happening, Ozzie?" "Hey, bud, what's happening?" "How you doing?" "All right." "Good, good, yeah." "What you doing here..." "making a comeback?" "No, no, no, no, no." "I'm too old." "Are you still taking bets on these games?" "Are you still a cop?" "Yeah, I'm still a cop." "I guess we'd better talk about something else then, blood." "Okay." "How about Tito Washburn?" "Oh, he was a good kid." "Deserved better than he got, though." "Know anything about his personal life?" "Ah, you hear rumors." "Still got the touch, huh?" "What kind of rumors?" "I bet you could teach that young upstart down there something, huh?" "Ozzie, that young upstart would eat me alive." "Oh, give me a break." "He wouldn't have a prayer, blood." "Who you trying to jive, dude?" "Tell you what I'll do." "You beat him, and I'll tell you what you want to know." "Look here, Oz, If I beat him you best not be hustling me, you hear?" "Oh, you got to be kidding me, Oz." "I'll dance on his head, man." "Well, that's what I tried to tell him, dude, too." "I told him you would stomp a mud hole in this... you know what I'm talking about?" "What kind of odds are you giving, a million to one?" "Oh, the bet's even money." "First one to seven, winner's out." "My ball." "Good as gold, Garner." "Good as gold, blood." "All right, Oz," "I kept up my end of the bargain." "Now, what else can you tell me about Tito?" "Um, his marriage was on the rocks." "Yeah, okay." "Well, that's it." "That's it?" "Mm-hmm." "That's all you got to tell me?" "Ozzie, why is it I feel like "I've" just been hustled, hmm?" "Of course, you know, tomorrow's another day." "See, you never know what I might find out between now and then." "What's that supposed to mean?" "That means you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." "Oh!" "Oh, oh, that feels..." "Oh, honey, that's it, that's the spot." "Oh... oh..." "Oh, honey..." "Oh, it hurts." "Oh..." "Honey, it feels like my skin is on fire." "What, didn't I warn you, Arlene?" "Didn't I tell you you were getting too much sun?" "Look at you, you're red as a lobster." "Yeah." "I'm sorry, honey." "Dennis, I know it's all my fault." "I ruined our honeymoon." "No, you didn't ruin our honeymoon." "You just got to stay inside for a while." "Aah." "What will you do?" "Oh, don't worry, honey." "I'll find some way to entertain myself." "Hey, buddy, find out any more about Tito Washburn?" "Well, not a heck of a lot." "Man, you must have been some kind of ballplayer when you were in school." "Well, actually, basketball wasn't my best sport." "You know what they say, huh, "Lifeguards can't jump. "" "I need a partner for a little two-on-two basketball." "I don't know, pal." "My shot's a bit rusty." "It's all right." "All you got to do is rebound and pass." "I'll take care of the rest." "Oh, "you'll" take care of the rest?" "That's right." "All you got to do is... feed me." "Feed you?" "Feed me." "You got to to the boards with authority." "Plant your feet, box out, get your arms in the air, anticipate how the ball's gonna come off the rim." "I'd like to hear a little bit less about my style of play and a little bit more about this small-time bookie friend of yours." "What are you getting me into?" "Look, it's a long story." "Feed me." "I worked my way through college, hustling at the local playgrounds." "Feed me." "Big guys would get a look at me." "Their eyes would light up." "Feed me." "I was small, slow, couldn't get off the ground but I could shoot from anywhere on the court." "I could shoot." "Feed me." "Ozzie was the neighborhood bookie." "Made a fortune off me." "I was surprised he's still around." "Feed me." "Last of a dying breed and he told me he'd give me the scoop on Tito... if I, uh..." "feed me... came out of retirement." "What if we get blown off the court?" "We're not going to get blown off the court, Buchannon, as long as you remember what you're supposed to do... rebound, play defense, and..." "I know. "Feed me. "" "Whoo!" "This is not how you play defense." "Bend your knees, shuffle your feet." "Stay low!" "Yeah, who wants to double up on the money?" "No takers out there?" "You know the odds was 10-1." "I'll tell you what." "Let's make them even, you know?" "Okay, here we go." "Let's turn it around, huh?" "I can't even turn my neck around." "That's all right." "All you got to do is..." "I know, I know." " Feed me." " Feed me." "Feed me." "How do you know he's a cop?" "He was friends with Tito." "So?" "So?" "What's he doing here?" "You think it's just a coincidence that he showed up?" "People saw you fighting with Tito before he died." "Let's get out of here... leave town before they put it all together." "There's no reason for us to stick around." "There's no reason for us to leave." "Just be cool." "Nobody's gonna touch us." "You're gonna get the money, and we'll live happily ever after." "Hmm..." "Yeah!" "That's it!" "Mitch, let's play some D!" "Come on, come on." "Mitch!" "Mitch!" "Mitch!" "Thank you, my man." "All right." "Now, that was basketball, Mitch." "A hell of a game." "What can you say about the cagy old veteran?" "He did it again." "No more hustling, Oz." "Look, the deal was, we win and you talk." "So, now, what you got?" "My body's one giant charley horse so let's hear it." "What is this?" "What are you giving me?" "That's it." "What does this have to do with Tito Washburn?" "What's it say?" "Just read it." "What's it say?" ""Melvin Freestone." ""For all your insurance needs." ""Fire, theft, auto life. "" "You got it." "See you later, blood." "Life." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey..." "Help!" "Help!" "Here, take the can." "I got you." "I thought for sure the lights... the lights were going off, you know." "Everything felt warm and fuzzy." "At one point I saw alligators playing saxophones and stuff." "Then I looked up and I saw this beautiful face." "You look like an angel." "Well, you've definitely had enough oxygen." "Yeah." "How's your leg?" "Well, it's weak." "I don't know if I can put any pressure on it." "Well, I didn't find any bite marks, so try and stand up." "All right." "I'm sure it was just a muscle cramp." "Have I met you somewhere before?" "Yeah." "Yesterday, remember?" "You picked up my trash." "That's why you look familiar." "Dennis Kosowski." "C.J. Parker." "How you doing?" "Good, thanks." "You sure are." "You're going out with a guy you rescued?" "Oh, C.J., the last time you did that you spent the entire evening watching some dork pick fleas off his cat." "Well, Dennis isn't a dork." "He's a charming, sensitive, down-to-earth, normal guy." "Right." "That's what you said about the flea-picker." "No, that'll be fine, Mr. Freestone." "A copy of the policy is all I need." "You... you've been a big help, sir." "Thank you very much." "Bye." "Right." "Bye." "What's the scoop?" "Three years ago, Melvin Freestone wrote a half-million-dollar life insurance policy on Tito Washburn." "A sports agent took it out on him when it looked like he'd play pro ball." "That's illegal." "That's why nobody knew about it... until now." "Well, who is the beneficiary, his wife?" "You think she killed him?" "What's the matter, guys?" "A little sore?" "Did you at least win the game?" "Of course we won." "Congratulations." "Garner, there was a message for you." "From the lab." "They said they found a trace of blood under one of Tito's fingernails." "It evidently wasn't his." "If Tito was murdered..." "This could be the blood of his killer." "We need to play another game, Mitch." "Look, honey." "The cream is working." "I'm going out to lunch with you." "No, Arlene, you can't do that." "Dennis, do you realize we've spent a grand total of 15 minutes together our entire honeymoon?" "Yeah, but you go downstairs," "All they is an open-air cafe, and you can't sit in the sun." "All right, so we'll order room service." "I'm not spending a whole day cooped up in this room all by myself again." "Look, room service could take hours." "It will be forever before they get food up here." "I'll tell you what, I'll run down to the restaurant." "I'll get us both food." "I'll bring up here." "It'll be like having a picnic at the beach." "Isn't that a great idea?" "It'll be cheaper and more romantic." "Oh, all right, but don't take long." "I'll miss You." "I'll miss you, too." "Give me a kissy." "Mmm." "What do you want?" "I'll have a ham and cheese sandwich on a sourdough roll, lettuce, tomato, onion heavy on the mustard." "That's a ham and cheese with everything, hold the mustard." "I'll be back before you know it." "And a Diet Pepsi." "That was "heavy" on the mustard." "I know, you beat me." "What are the odds?" "You are five-to-one underdogs." "How much is riding on the game?" "Everything I got." "I hope you came to play." "Excuse me." "Not so fast." "How we play depends a lot on how much you tell us about Tito Washburn." "Well, I got no problem with that, see." "See, the word on the street is, Cookie was seeing somebody on the side." "You wouldn't know who that somebody else is, would you?" "Yeah, that dude right over there... the one you're playing against." "Name's Trey Harris." "I'll take the white guy." "Hi." "Oh, thanks." "Oh, yeah." "You look sensational." "Thanks." "I can't believe that I'm actually sitting here having lunch with a goddess." "Where have you been all my life?" "Well, actually right out there." "Oh." "Excuse me, sir, your order's up." "What order?" "We haven't even looked at our menus." "No, actually, this is for my assistant." "We were on kind of a deadline, so I got her a room here at the hotel." "I'm just going to run some food up to her." "Hey, I'll tell you what." "Why don't you order for me." "I like everything, okay?" "And I'll be right back." "Don't go anywhere." "Whoa!" "Oh!" "Hi, honey." "Here's the lunch." "Come on, sit down." "Ow." "Here it is." "Where's yours?" "It wasn't ready." "They screwed up the order." "Terrible service here." "You believe this?" "I have to go downstairs now." "How about our luck, huh?" "What did you order?" "Uh... chicken salad." "I thought you hate chicken salad." "Actually, I hate egg salad." "Look, I'll tell you what, you're hungry." "Why don't you go ahead and start." "Don't wait for me, okay?" "Wait a minute." "Where's my Diet Pepsi?" "Diet Pepsi." "Okay." "Diet Pepsi." "Here you go, honey." "What?" "!" "Your chicken salad isn't ready yet?" "My chicken salad." "They're out of chicken salad." "Now I got to back down and take a look at the menu down there." "You believe this?" "And I really felt like chicken salad, too." "All right." "Enough already." "We'll share my sandwich." "No, no, no, I couldn't do that." "This is your sandwich." "I got the sandwich for you." "I want you to take the sandwich and enjoy it." "It's probably a nothing anyway." "It's a hotel sandwich." "It's a small portion." "You just take that sandwich." "I'll be back in a little bit." "Don't worry about a thing, okay?" "Uh, hey, oh!" "Bye." "Oh, he's so crazy." " Hello." " Hey..." "Excuse me." "Well... finally, I'm yours." "Good." "No mustard." "I knew it." "Time out, time out." "You out of gas already?" "Just thought of something." "If we get a sample of this guy's blood and match it to the blood on Tito's fingernails, we could nail him right here." "Yeah, but how we are going to get it to the lab?" "Stephanie can get it there." "Come on, guys, let's go." "Hey, man, we got better things to do than to wait for "you" all day." "All you got to do is draw blood." "Oh, wait a second." "This was your idea." "He's your man..." "you're guarding him." "My game is finesse." "You're supposed to be the enforcer." "I knew it." "I knew it." "Okay, you want me to take him out?" "I'll take him out." "I'll do it." "Forget it." "I'll take him out." "I said I'll do it." "Too late." "I'll handle it." "Good luck." "Let's go." "Yes." "Way to go." "All right." "They've been banging me all day." "I'm sick of this." "Towel, please." "God, Trey, you okay?" "Come on!" "Go, Trey!" "Come on, Trey!" "You have the most incredible eyes" "I've ever seen." "Really?" "Oh, yeah." "I know about these things." "I'm an eye man." "I almost became an optician." "That's incredible." "Yeah." "Oh." "Are you okay?" "Let me just..." "I'm a little wet," "Let me just clean off here." "Arlene, what are you doing here?" "Oh, they forgot to put mustard on my sandwich." "Oh, give me your sandwich." "I'll get some mustard for it." "Oh, honey, this is so gorgeous." "Yeah." "Look." "Hey, wait a minute." "I recognize her." "Isn't that the..." "That's the lifeguard from the beach." "Let me get some mustard, okay?" "Wait a minute." "Why is your jacket there?" "I just put it down there." "No reason." "Are you having lunch with her?" "No." "What would make you think I'm having lunch with her?" "Dennis, our food just arrived, and it's getting cold." "Oh, my God!" "How could you do this?" "It's our honeymoon." "Your honeymoon?" "!" "You're not his assistant?" "His assistant?" "!" "I'm his wife!" "His wife?" "!" "Arlene, Look, I can explain everything." "I was just trying to arrange some swimming lessons for you." "Tell her, C.J." "Tell me." "Oh, my God!" "Oh, yuck, it's egg salad." "I hate egg salad." "Oh!" "Ugh." "Oh!" "How did you do that?" "It's all in the wrists." "Game point." "Let's go." "Get on him, get on him." "I'm sorry, man." "That's all right." "I told you before..." "lifeguards can't jump." "No, no, you played the boards great." "You were just fine." "Guess what." "You got your man." "The cops are right behind me." "Game's really over now, Trey." "Okay, it's over." "It's over." "Game's over, pal." "Now, that's how you play defense." "What were the odds on us anyway?" "You can't dunk, Mitch." "Come on, what are you trying to do?" "Forget it, man, forget it." "Hey, hey, hey, come on, come on." "Why are you torturing yourself, man?" "It ain't gonna happen." "Lifeguards can't jump." "Or shoot." "I just got finished talking to Tito's wife." "Turned out she and Trey gave him an overdose, pushed him off the jetty." "Thought it would make them rich." "Lot of that going around lately." "Yeah, gets frustrating." "Hey, hey, hey, hey." "I know one way of working that frustration off." "What's that?" "What do you say, you and me, one on one man to man right here, right now?" "You think you can beat me?" "There's one way to find out." "What's your spot?" "How many points do you want?" "No spots." "No points." "No odds." "Just you and me." "One on one." "Right here." "Even money." "Let's do it." "Wait a minute." "What was that?" "How did he do that?"