'G' Men Page #3

Second, to know how to take care

of yourself in a fight.

I've noticed that you lawyers

talk most of your fights in court.

Now, the first is the balance.

Keep your feet wide apart...

...so that you won't be bowled over

if somebody says "boo."

Like this.

So?

Very good. Now, the left lead.

Keep your right well up

and guard my lead.

Well, keep it cocked. Keep it up there.

Keep the right hand high.

That's very, very good.

Now we'll trade rights.

You mean, like this.

Nice going, Brick.

Hey, he's a darn good lawyer.

- Yeah. How was that, better?

- That's fine, Davis. Fine.

Your leverages are practically the same

as in wrestling.

- Hello, Jeff.

- Hi.

Jujitsu isn't hard to learn once you get

used to the uses of the shifting balance.

Now, try those last two attacks

I showed you.

Watch out for yourself.

I'm gonna give you the works on defense.

- All right. Here we go.

- All right.

- I wasn't expecting that one.

- You'll get on to it.

- Now, try the second one.

- Second one?

Well...

...Id like to try that one again.

- Sure. Come ahead.

Gee, I'm sorry, Davis.

I didn't mean to throw you off the mat.

Oh, that's all right.

Are you okay?

Listen, maybe you'd

better call it a day...

...and go and wash up.

- Yeah.

That's kind of a good idea. Well...

...thanks for the workout.

- Not at all.

Hey, that kid can take it, Jeff.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Very good.

Mr. Davis...

...you're next.

The noise may frighten you,

but we want you to get used to it.

In case they change the laws so that

government agents can carry guns.

Keep a stiff wrist.

The idea is to look along the barrel...

...and try and put the bullet somewhere

near the dummies over there.

I see.

Like this?

That's it.

Would you mind reloading that?

I get a bit frightened.

Where did you learn to shoot?

I used to be marble champion

of the Bronx.

What's the...?

- I'm awfully sorry.

- You should be.

No, l... I really am. So sorry.

- Are you waiting for someone?

- Obviously.

- Perhaps I can help you.

- No, thank you.

You're very welcome.

Are you waiting to see somebody?

Oh, pardon me for staring.

I'm studying character in faces...

...and I find yours interesting.

- So it appears.

Chin type number two.

"Does not make friends easily...

...and resents strangers."

Yeah, that's right.

"Eyes far apart indicates

cruelty to animals.

The tendency of the skin to get purple

with anger indicates high blood pressure...

...common among people

with hot tempers."

What does it say about

rifles and ammunition?

- "Most effective when used on offensive."

- Does it say how offensive?

Well, we...

We all look at things differently.

Jeff!

Hello, Kay.

- How are you?

- Just fine.

- Have a good trip down?

- Wonderful.

- I'm so glad to see you.

- Same here. Where's Hugh?

- He went to look for you.

- He met you at the station?

- I wanted to come myself.

- I know. Hugh told me.

Where have you been keeping yourself?

I'm sorry to keep you waiting...

...but this brother of yours

jumps around like a grasshopper.

- Have you seen the apartment?

- I left my bags there. It's grand.

- Pretty good-looking for a graduate nurse.

- Oh, not bad.

And they advanced you

to night supervisor?

I'm getting this vacation

on full salary.

- Swell. You can buy our lunch. Come on.

- Well, I should say.

Extra! Federal bank truck robbed!

Half a million dollars!

Read all about the big robbery!

Two murdered by bank bandits!

Hop on these. They're the bullets

that killed the bank truck guards.

Check them against all

the gun-marking records.

Okay, Jeff.

Where did you get this?

From the right-hand front door

of the car they did the shooting from.

Pull me the file on Twin Loops, B-6.

Fat chance those guards had.

Guy next to the driver

had a shotgun and a rifle...

...and two guys in the back

blazing at them with machine guns.

Twin Loops, B-6.

- Were there any marks on that car?

- Not one.

We traced the license, but it was stolen.

Oh, yes, there was one clue:

A mashed flower on the floor

of the front seat, a gardenia.

A gardenia?

- Yes, a gardenia.

- On the side where the man...

...with the shotgun was sitting?

- That's right, hawkshaw.

See if you have prints on Danny Leggett,

a New York gangster. Please, a hunch.

They might check up with this one.

Find out if we got any prints

on Danny Leggett, a New York gangster.

- Yes, let me have them.

- You're marvelous.

All you have to do is hear about a gardenia,

and out of 4 million prints...

...you pick the right one,

just like that. What a detective.

So nice to have you realize it.

Prints on Leggett. New York record.

Thanks, Joe.

Well, we'll see how good you are.

It's a long shot.

Four million to one.

Ought to be a cinch. I'm dying.

Almost too good to be true.

He's right, Jeff. Leggett's your man.

Don't you think you better run along

and tell Gregory, Mr. McCord?

Wait a minute, Davis.

How do you know so much

about this Leggett?

We were raised together on the

East Side in the same neighborhood.

- An East Side mug with a gardenia?

- Yeah.

- What?

- He always wears one. It's a superstition.

- Did you find anything?

- I'll say I did.

This rifle bullet is the same as

the one that killed Buchanan.

- Yeah?

- Positive check, same rifle.

That means Leggett.

He used it in the bank robbery.

Yeah, but that's no proof he's

the one who used it on Buchanan.

No, but I know how to get him

and find out.

- Let me go to New York.

- Forget it. You haven't finished your course.

- But you can recommend me.

- Well, I'm not going to. You're not ready.

Then you won't do it because

you don't like me. You never have.

But you're not man enough to say so.

If Leggett killed Buchanan, I want him.

I'm going over your head, McCord.

I'm going to ask Gregory myself.

McCord is right, Davis, and personal

differences have nothing to do with it.

We have definite rules governing

procedure here, and we stick to them.

- Yes, sir.

- I wouldn't send you or any other new man.

Farrell has this assignment. You'll have

your chance when you're ready for it.

That's all, Davis.

Thank you, sir.

I'm not going to assign you

to New York.

That would tie you up in case Leggett

gets across any state lines.

You'll be assigned to the district

where you find him.

I want only one thing:

- Get him.

- Yes, sir.

- Good luck.

- Thank you, sir.

- See you at the airport, Jeff.

- Right.

- Well, I hope you get him, Farrell.

- Thanks.

You wanted this assignment bad,

didn't you?

Yeah. Buchanan and I

were close friends.

I'll remember that.

You might keep an eye on the flower shops.

Leggett buys a gardenia every day.

- Thanks, Davis.

- Oh, and...

...watch that derby of his.

He doesn't wear a hard hat for nothing.

- I'll remember that too.

- Good luck.

- Well, how do you do, Miss McCord?

- Oh, it's you.

Yeah. My name's Davis.

So you're Mr. Davis.

- You've heard of me?

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