Mannix

You see that?

Mnh-mnh.

A liquor store... still open.

Oh... beautiful!

Sir, around the block, please.

Drink up.

There she blows.

Paleface, halt and desist!

Don't wait, buddy.

I think we found a home.

Evening. Evening. You okay?

Jimmy.

Come on, now.

Hold it! Hold it!

I said hold it, there!

Come on, knock it off there now.

Operator, get me the police, please.

Hey, sorry, man.

Let's settle up the damage.

I mean it. How much?

Fifty dollars.

Fifty.

Ah, yes.

Hey.

It kicks, Teddy.

Freeze!

Show's over.

Now down on your knees.

Hands behind your head.

Not you. Register.

Hands behind your head.

Okay, Ted.

Thank you.

Come on! Tawn!

Come on! Come on!

No!

You okay?

I think, yeah.

Let's go!

Let's go.

Who is it?

Who is it?

Brad Hopkins.

Brad.

Open up, Peg, please.

Brad!

Bad trouble, Peg.

My friend's hurt.

Well, come in, come in.

Here, sit down, sit down.

He's been... he's been shot.

Help him!

Details come later.

I'll get my coat. We'll go for a doctor.

No, no, no doctors.

You want us to leave, we'll go, but no doctors.

I'll check and see what supplies I've got.

Mannix.

Joe, can you come over right away?

I've got trouble.

I'll be right over.

I'll be through in a minute.

He gonna be able to travel?

He'll lose more blood if he does.

Lose a lot more if he don't.

How you making it, Indian?

Feels like somebody stuck a red-hot rebar in my guts.

Are you a full-blooded Indian?

Full-blooded half-breed.

Ah, there.

It's been a long time, Brad.

Where've you been?

Other side of the world.

A couple of Arab countries busting with oil.

Doing what?

Building projects.

Big, beautiful housing blocks.

Brad.

You fink on us, Peg? No.

Go find yourself a hole.

There's liable to be shooting.

Brad, it's not the police.

I swear it's not.

Oh, Mannix, come in. Peggy.

He's not a doctor,

but you need help.

You clean?

Come on, Hiawatha, let's split now.

Now, hold up.

Maybe I can help. Let's talk.

Till the cops come?

If I'd called the cops, they'd be here now.

Who is he?

He's my boss and he doesn't lie.

Why should you help us?

You're a friend of Peggy's?

Since I was a kid.

That's reason enough.

Oh, oh, man.

Now, you go back in there,

and you work out the rest of your shift.

¿Comprende?

Yes.

Kitch asks any questions,

you were just out for a breath of air, huh?

And you never saw me.

Sure, Elgie.

Now you, uh, work tomorrow night,

and the night after,

and you don't panic.

And don't run away, okay?

You said it would be fun.

You believe it?

The way it all happened?

Yeah.

Yeah, I think I do.

Now, uh, that boy,

the one that was doing all the shooting,

what did you say he called the girl?

It sounded like... like "Dawn."

Dawn. Yeah.

And, uh, she was wearing a costume under her coat?

Well, it's hard to tell these days,

but it was fringe.

Where do we go from here?

To the police.

Oh...

You went through all of this to tell us that?

There's no other way.

You run now,

and you're only gonna get yourself in deeper.

You mean turn ourselves in,

just like that?

Write our autograph on the station wall.

But you already have.

You left your luggage in the store with your names on it.

Now we just go to the police, tell them exactly what happened

and let them go to work on it.

Now, this way, what you're doing...

you're gonna let the killer get away clean.

And right away they're gonna believe some black man

and a drunken Indian and go off tracking a couple of whiteys

nobody's seen but us?

Believe me, it's the only hope you have.

Now you'd better give me that gun.

Sure.

Okay, both of you, over here!

Now, Brad, come on now, use your head.

You run now and you'll never get out of this.

I never was out of it.

Funny thing.

Coming in on that plane, I forgot...

we forgot...

what it was like back here for people like us.

We were just two Americans happy to be coming back home.

Real funny, huh?

Come on.

In the closet.

Is that for us?

They're all for us now.

Let's move!

Double homicide.

Both D.O.A.

You, uh, handling the case, Adam?

Everybody's handling it.

Haven't you heard who was killed?

Gar Reed's son. Mm-hmm.

And heir.

Why would a tycoon's son

be in on a two-bit liquor store robbery?

Sort of puts a crimp in the story

your boys told, doesn't it, Joe?

Well, he was evidently a customer

who got caught in the middle.

His car was parked outside.

He had the keys in his pocket.

So, uh, you're going to do nothing about it?

Well, we will check it out, you know.

That just isn't the end of it.

Look, Adam, those boys are running scared.

You going to wait until one of them

is hurt or killed in a chase?

That's up to them!

Right now they're prime beef

by evidence and witness.

Witness?! Yeah, the liquor store owner's wife.

Adam, she didn't see them shoot anybody.

And she didn't see anybody else in the store!

She didn't see anybody come out of it,

and she didn't see anybody around it!

I'm sorry, Joe,

but they're the boys I want.

Did you hear who was killed in that robbery last night?

Yeah, Teddy Reed.

I was running a check on him.

Just a quiet, inconspicuous kid, but lately he's been

running around with a wild one called Elgin Boyd.

Want some coffee?

Yeah, about half a cup.

Boyd, huh?