"Hello." "Got a delivery." "Plant's closed." "Come back in the morning." "Oh, I can't do that." "The manifest says, "Urgent." "Immediate delivery."" " Let me see it." " Here." "Open up." " Take care of him." " Move." "Hello." "We've got the baby, and we're on our way, Mr. Hibbing." "Well, that's very nice, Phalen." "Thank you." "Drive carefully." "We got the hopes and prayers of every hophead in the country back there." " What do you figure it's worth?" " A buck a pill?" "Figure maybe 5 to 10 million." "Man, we've cornered the speed market." "Good morning, Mr. Phelps." "Last night, the Stonehurst Chemical plant was robbed of 3 tons of D-amphetamine sulphate, commonly known as speed." "Conventional law-enforcement agencies believe that Sam Hibbing, the West's largest dealer in illegal drugs, engineered the robbery and now has the drug hidden at a secret location where he plans to package it in pill form and sell it to the underworld at a huge profit." "Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find and recover the speed before Hibbing can distribute it, and to put Hibbing out of business for good." "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds." "Good luck, Jim." "Margaret Hibbing, Sam Hibbing's only daughter." "She certainly can handle a bike." "How long since you've done any serious riding, Casey?" "Well, I went over the stunts this morning, Willy." " I'll be all right." " How about the voice?" "Margaret recently did a talk show on motorcycling." "I got what I needed from the tapes." "All right." "Ten o'clock tomorrow morning," "Margaret leaves the house for a bike rally in Sausalito." "The appointment should take about 30 minutes." "It'll be tight." "Margaret will be ready." "Mike Dayton." "The New Orleans group sent up a thug named Northridge to meet with him." "This morning, Northridge was quietly taken into custody." "Jim, how come Hibbing decided on an auction instead of his usual M. O?" "Speed's short on the street, Willy, and he wants a kill." "Ten million, Barney." "Four million for the down payment." "Four million's a lot of money, Jim." "And he won't be able to spend it anywhere." "Looks just like the real thing and marked for evidence." "What about putting a tail on Fred Snelling?" "Snelling never goes near the drugs." "Once Hibbing makes his deals, Snelling improvises a foolproof way of delivering to the customer without ever endangering himself." "For that, Hibbing pays him 10 percent and considers it a bargain." "This is for Margaret, Jim." "This one, for Snelling." "His pulse and heartbeat will be indiscernible for three minutes." "What's Snelling got going with Hibbing's daughter?" "He's been after her for a long time." "She keeps dodging him." "He probably figures marrying Margaret would move him higher in the rackets." "You know, what's really fascinating is Margaret's relationship with her father." "Up until very recently, he beat her, hard and often." "She knows what he does and both hates and fears him for it." "Going on drugs served two purposes for Margaret:" "She could defy her father in a way that really got to him and escape from reality at the same time." "Well, she's going downhill fast." "She's already had two overdoses." "Well, there's no question about it, the only thing that can save Margaret Hibbing is to put Daddy away for good." "Well, if it isn't Mr. Snelling." "Mr. Smelling-Snelling." " Good morning, Mr. Snelling." " You're high." "Your powers of observation are vacuous, absolutely vacuous." "Daddy's got a meeting today at the hotel." "Daddy sells speed." "And engages in other legitimate businesses." "Daddy's very smart." "You talk too much, Margaret." "You're wrong, Mr. Smelling-Snelling." "I don't talk enough." "Margaret, why don't you give me a break?" " I could make you happy." " Sure, you could." "When's the funeral?" "Isn't that more fun than that speed you're on?" "Let me go, or I'll scream." "I hope you kill yourself." "Speed kills." "She's on the way, Jim." "Right." "Margaret's on her way." "Okay, Jim?" "Perfect, Casey." "Drink, Northridge?" "Yeah, I'll have a little bourbon on the rocks." " How's Ziggy?" " His back's still bothering him." "Yeah, he wrote me." "Too many broads." " What about Howard?" " Not enough broads." "You know, sometimes I worry about old Howard." "What about our business, Mr. Dayton?" "Yeah, our business." " How much you boys want?" " All you can supply." "To what figure?" " Oh, a million." " I can't help you." " I beg your pardon?" " I said, I can't help you." "You better lay that out for me, Mr. Dayton." "There's no speed around." "None." "Sam Hibbing's got it all, and he's gonna auction it off tomorrow." "And unless I'm high bidder, no speed, and I haven't got the bread for it." "Oh, well, that's no problem." "We've got plenty of bread." " We'll bid." " No chance." "Only the guys Hibbing's dealt with before." "If you've got so much bread, maybe I could make a kind of business loan." "I'm listening." "Your organisation comes up with as much as it can." "If I get the speed, you get a million bucks' worth, and the rest of the money in 90 days at 10-percent interest." "Fair?" "Well, I don't know about that." "I'll have to contact New Orleans." "Thanks for the drink." "Anytime." " Can I help you?" " I just had this thing tuned." "See you later, Jim." "White and Shiner called." " They'll be in tomorrow." " Well, that's everybody but Dayton." "Yeah, I think he's got a money problem." " Is Snelling ready?" " Snelling's always ready." " Hi, Daddy." "How's big business today?" " Are you crazy?" "No, Daddy, just high." "High as the sky." "Margaret!" "Catch up to her." " She's coming." " Right." "Well, that's all we need, some punk traffic cop finding speed on her." "Casey, you okay?" "She may be badly hurt." "I'll call an ambulance." "Thanks, officer." "You freaked-out little jerk." "Hello?" "Okay." " Hibbing's on his way up with Phalen." " Took his time getting here." "Yeah, Hibbing's a very busy man, Casey." "Room 412." "The doc said she's just badly shaken up." "I told him I want her home as soon as possible." "Maybe it's better she stay here." "I mean, till the auction's over." "There's no telling what they might pump in her." "She's just liable to start shooting off her mouth." "Dr. Gerson, go to Maternity." " Dad." " Dr. Gerson," " go to the Maternity ward, please." " Mr. Hibbing." "Dr. Gerson, go to the Maternity ward, please." " Who are you?" " John Brady's the name..." " Like I said, who are you?" " Dad, he's a friend of mine." "He doesn't stink bad enough." "Get out." "Come on, don't lean on me, Mr. Hibbing." "I'll leave when I'm ready." "Now, Margaret and I have just had a good talk." "I think I can help her." "To do what?" "To get off speed before it kills her or she kills herself." " Speed?" "My daughter?" "Are you crazy?" " I know her, Mr. Hibbing." "We bike together, those rallies in the desert." "I called him Mr. Straight." "Always yakking about drugs." "But I'll tell you something." "I thought I was gonna die out there on the street." "Did something to me." "I think maybe I'm ready to give it a try, staying clean." "That is, if you don't grind on her too much." "I know something about you, Mr. Hibbing." " I know what you've done to Margaret." " What I've done?" "You think I want my daughter to be a speed freak?" "Just take care of her." "She's well worth it." "You get better, Margaret." "I'll see you soon." "Sure, Johnny." "Dr. Foley, go to Admitting, please." "Dr. Foley..." "You're not gonna be here long, Margaret." "You're coming home." "But I'm warning you, you make me any more trouble, I'm gonna put you away." "Not some fancy sanitarium, but a place I know about where you'll be lucky to get out of a dark room once a month." "Sorry." "Wrong room." "Now, that's more like it." "Who's he?" "I don't know." "I never saw him before." "Well, what are we drinking to?" "Yes or no?" "We're drinking to "maybe."" "You see, the way Ziggy figures it, all you have is an in." "So why should we let you corner the action with our bread?" "And don't give me any more of that 10-percent jazz." "That's pathetic." "What do you want?" "Well, I'll tell you." "See, this afternoon, just before the National City Bank closed," "I deposited 10 million." "Now, that's your..." "Correction, our stake in the auction." "Now, you get all the speed you need for your customers at a fair price, and we get the rest." "No deal, Northridge." "It's not worth my trouble." "Oh, come on, Dayton, you're just whistling." "Now, if you don't supply your regular customers, you're gonna lose those customers." "And you can't supply them unless we've got the speed." "Come on, man, drink up." "You might not become the pill king overnight, but you'll stay alive." "I'll contact you after the auction." "Mr. Dayton, that's our money talking at that auction." "And I'm gonna be there to hear what it says." "Phalen." "Casey called." "Some guy poked his head in the room after you left." "She thinks he's a friend of Margaret's." "Could be trouble, Jim." "I better get over there." "Hello, baby." "About before, I wasn't in the mood to meet the family." " You made that pretty clear." " Hey, you're looking pretty good." "When I read the newspaper, I figured that you'd be a real basket case." "I was lucky." "No, you're looking real good." "In fact, you're looking good enough to..." "Hey, honey, what's going on?" "This isn't the place." "What?" "Everywhere's the place for you and me, baby." "Come on, now, make old Zinc feel at home." "Zinc." "Look, I'll be out of here tomorrow." "Don't you dig?" "I was almost killed this morning." "I don't feel like fun and games." "Here." "I figured you'd wanna try these." "Thanks." "Well, go ahead, pop them." "Turns me on just to watch you." "I wanna get out of here tomorrow." "I don't wanna get committed someplace." "You know, something's funny." "Something's real funny." "What do you mean, funny?" "You should've heard the old man." "He's got some kind of Devil's Island picked out for me." "Where's the money?" " The money." " I don't know." "Now, you were supposed to bring me 2 bills in Sausalito, right?" "See if my wallet's in there." " Nothing." " I guess they took it." "Tomorrow, when they check me out." "Margaret, baby, I can't wait until tomorrow." "Well, what do you want me to do about it?" "You're gonna get on that telephone, call downstairs and get that money." "Hi, Margaret." " Who's this?" " Johnny Brady." "He's a friend." "Johnny, meet Zinc." "Glad to meet you, Zinc." "Hi." "Who is he?" "Do you know anything about him?" "I don't know." "I've gotta get to Margaret and find out." "He could be a whole lot of trouble." "No." "No, I won't tell you who Zinc is." "Why should I?" "Why should I tell you anything?" "Margaret, we're trying to help you, and you can be helped." " But we need your help too." " You..." "You slipped me some kind of mickey." "You're the fuzz, aren't you?" " Aren't you?" " Think about Zinc for a minute." "All he does is use you." "He wants your money." "Why do you protect him?" "He doesn't care what happens to you." " You know that's true." " No, it isn't." "He keeps you high so he can use you." "Stop it." "I won't tell you." "Wait." "Maybe I will." "Speed." "I need some speed." "Just two pills." "Just one." "Margaret, they're doing the best they can to make you comfortable." "You won't help me, will you?" "Well, then you get out of here." "Do you hear me?" "Get out of here!" "Help me, please." "Please." "Hi, Phalen." "They told us you weren't getting out till this afternoon." "Well, they told you wrong." " Thanks for bringing her home, Brady." " My pleasure." " See you later, huh?" " Come on, Johnny." "What time's the auction?" "If there are no hang-ups, it should be over in about an hour." "Just keep yourself available." " Hello, everybody." " They let her go early." "Hi, Dad." "Are you okay?" "Better than I've ever been, thanks to the accident." "And Johnny." "Just make sure she stays well, Mr. Hibbing." "Oh, don't worry." "I'll take care of her." "Johnny, I'd like you to meet Fred Snelling." "Johnny Brady." " Hi." " Hi." " Well, you take it easy, huh?" " Can I call you later?" "I won't be in the office the rest of the day." "I'll get in touch." "Smile, Fred." "I know we've had our problems, but I've changed." " You'll see." " Sure, Mar." "Well, if you'll excuse me, I have to freshen up." "I couldn't keep him out." " Who is that Brady dude?" " He runs some kind of charter airline." "Something's happening between those two." "I gotta know more about him than that." "He said he wouldn't be in the office this afternoon." "I understand." "Hi, Dad." "Why the once-over?" "You really seem like a different girl to me, Margaret." "That's good, isn't it?" "Well, kind of hurts a father's pride." "I never could get to you, and Brady seems able to." "Would you believe that before the accident I couldn't stand him?" "Always lecturing me." "If there ever was a guy who was death on drugs..." "He ought to find out what you really do for a living." "He'd take this place apart." "If he ever finds out," "I'll know just where he got it." "I'm surprised at you, Mike." "You know this is an exclusive sale." "Without him, I've got no financing." "In other words, unless he stays, I go." "And you may lose your highest bidder." "Oh, don't worry, Mr. Hibbing, our bread's as good as theirs." "Don't be hard-nosed, Sam." "Clint's out of Ziggy's organisation in New Orleans." "I'll vouch for him." "Well, as long as you're here." "As you've been told, the bidding will be written, not verbal." "I guarantee delivery of the merchandise to whatever destination the high bidder names." "Payment will be in cash." "Forty percent at the close of the bidding." "Sixty percent on delivery." "The merchandise has been packaged 100 capsules to a container, 500 containers to a carton." "I have 200 cartons all packed and ready to go." "Ten million capsules." "Sam, do you mind if we sample the merchandise?" "Sure." " Okay." " Thank you, Mr. Northridge." "Shall we bid?" "High bidder, Mr. Shiner, $2,500,000." "That's a nice start, gentlemen." "But it's only a start." "Shall we proceed immediately to round two?" "Sorry to see you go, Pete." "Pete Castle found the bidding a little too stiff, gentlemen, but it's gonna get a lot stiffer." "Round five, Mr. White was high with a bid of 6 and a half million dollars." "Shall we go again?" "Okay, mister, freeze." "Now, just who are you?" "The name's Wilson." "I was looking for Mr. Brady." "Seems to me, you were looking to go through Mr. Brady's safe." "Not that you'd find much in there." "The crumb owes me three weeks' pay." "That's useful to know." "I'm with Great Barrington Insurance." "Mr. Brady's applied for our broad-coverage policy." "Insurance?" "That's right." "I wasn't trying to break in the safe." "I was just checking the make." "Okay." "I'll buy that." "There isn't anything to steal around here anyway." "The only thing he's got that's worth anything is his airplane, and he won't have that for long if he doesn't make a few payments on it." " How long you been with him?" " Oh, on and off, two, three years." " You want some coffee?" " Oh, no, thanks." "Hey, it looks like Brady was quite a war hero." "That was a long time ago." "Korea." "Before he spent ten years in Leavenworth." "Ten years in Leavenworth?" "Look, mister, if you're an insurance cop..." "I'm an investigator." "There's nothing you can tell me I can't find out someplace else." "Yeah, I guess so." "I mean, what's the big secret anyway?" "He paid for it." "He killed another officer with his bare hands." "Nine million, two-hundred thousand, Mr. Shiner." "Gentlemen, do we need to go on?" " Well, I guess that does it, Sam." " Sam." "We'll go another round." "Please." "All the way." "High bid now stands at 10 million." "Mr. Dayton." "Well, you bought it." "Well, we'll get some other stuff, Shiner." " Yeah." " You'll do better next time." "Four million." " We guessed right." " You certainly did." "The balance immediately on delivery." "And that'll have to be 8 a.m. tomorrow morning," "Neptune Stables, Route 16, just outside New Orleans." "Well, that's a long way for it to travel so fast." "Tell you what, Mr. Hibbing." "Now, Ziggy's authorised me to make you another proposition." "We figure he'd pay about 10 percent for delivery." "Let us take delivery now, give us a 5-percent reduction." "You save a half a mil." "I don't like to break routines, especially when they work so well." "Okay." "But it better be there by 8 a.m., or the deal is off." "It'll be there." "Sam." " Hello?" " Fred, how are you?" "Margaret, nice to hear from you." "I told you I've changed." "I'd like to make up for the rotten way I've treated you for so long." "Well, when can I see you?" "Some of the gentlemen Dad's dealing with are trying to cut into your territory." "Think it might be a good idea if you got over here right away." "After you finish your business, you could come up and see the convalescing daughter." "All right, I'll do that." "Bye." "And he served ten years for second-degree murder." "So the bottom line is Brady's got a temper, he's violent, and it's got him into real trouble." "Then he isn't as straight as Margaret thinks he is." "Sam, how come you didn't call me?" "We have been." "You must've been on the way over here." "Is everything all right?" "Can you deliver to New Orleans by early tomorrow morning?" "What's the rush?" "Those are the conditions of the sale." "Yeah." "Yeah, I'll get it there." "How?" "Now, Sam, that's a question you shouldn't ask me." "I said I'd get it there, and I will." " You know where the stuff is." " Yeah." "Do you mind if I look in on Margaret?" " You're wasting your time." " It's my time." "Margaret?" " Margaret?" " Just a minute, Fred." " I'd like to see Margaret." " She's resting." " Well, I think she'll see me." " I don't think so, Mr. Brady." "In fact..." " What's that?" " I don't know." "Well, it's Margaret." "Something's happened to Margaret." "Party!" "Party, party!" "Hey, Dad, we're gonna have a party up here!" "Hey, a party!" "I love parties!" " Hi, Johnny." "Dad." " Margaret." " Margaret." " Let go of me." " Oh, Fred, honey, I love you." " She's flipped." "Baby, there's nothing the matter with me." " I'm flying through..." " Margaret." "With the greatest of ease." " Margaret, Margaret." " Come on." "Stop it." "Listen to me." "Listen." " Hey, now, come on, join the fun." " Stop it." "Stop it." "Now, sit down." " No." "No." " Margaret, listen to me." "Hibbing, speed." "Look at this." "Party!" " Margaret, where'd you get the pills?" " Leave me alone." " I don't know." "I don't know." " Come on, Margaret." "Oh, that's much better." "So peaceful here." "Margaret, the pills, who gave them to you?" "The pills, who gave them to you?" "Oh, the pills." "Fred Snelling." "Good old Fred." "Margaret." "Fred always comes through when I need him." "Now, wait a minute, Sam." "She's out of her skull." "You dirty rotten..." "Let me finish him!" "Let me finish him!" "Like maybe you already have." "I didn't mean that." " That wasn't supposed to happen." " Check him." "He's dead." " You sure?" " Yep." " Well, he deserved to die." " He did..." "What are you, some kind of a moralist?" "You know what you've done to the biggest deal I ever set up?" "You've killed it." "The one man that can make it work for me is dead." "Look, Hibbing, let me get rid of the body." "You can see what he was doing to Margaret with those pills." "Just don't turn me in." "I'll give you anything." "I've got some money in the bank." "I've got some equity in my airplane." "Anything." "All right." "I can call the cops on you right now, and that would be a little bit of trouble." " Like murder one, right, Phalen?" " Right." "Maybe I won't do it." "Maybe you can do me a little favour, and we just forget the whole thing." " Well, yeah." "What kind of favour?" " Cargo flown to New Orleans tonight." " What kind of cargo?" " Now, no questions." " I'm in enough trouble..." "Listen..." " No questions." "Now, you listen, punk." "You got quite a temper, Brady." "I understand he's not the first man you've killed." "Well, with your record, you go up for Snelling, and there's no parole." " All right." "What do I do?" " Rent yourself a small closed truck." "Meet us in two hours, east end of the Bay Bridge." " All right." " What about the stiff?" "Help me get him in the car." "I'll get rid of him." " Zinc, how did you get in?" " Same way I always get in." "Don't tell me you forgot." "I figured you had your wallet back, so I came for my 2 bills." "Sure." "Hey, what's been going on around here?" "Not much." "I've just been trying to get my strength back, that's all." "Don't play the innocent little girl with me, Margaret." "Brady's been here twice." "I saw him and one of your old man's goons carrying out a stiff." "That's impossible." "John came to see me." "I told you, he's a friend." "Oh, yeah, he's a friend I never even heard of." "Zinc, please, just take the money and go." "I'm very tired." "Money's not all I came for." "Zinc." "Zinc, please." "There's something wrong here, and I'm gonna find out what it is." " I thought you didn't know him." " He was just leaving." "My name is Zinc, Mr. Hibbing." "I don't care what your name is." "You wanna live, you'll get out." "Mr. Hibbing, this is not your daughter." "Oh, really?" "Get her." "There's 1,000 bucks in it for you." "It's over there." " Well, let's load up." " Brady, get them up." " Hey, what's the matter with you?" " Just reach." " Were you followed?" " I don't think so." "That's good." "Because he's the man." " Let's go, Brady." "I got no choice." " Drop it." "Thank you." "I don't feel afraid anymore." "I think I'm gonna be all right." "We know you're gonna be all right."