Body Heat Page #7

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and wanted to know about lawyers.

- So I gave her your name.

- When was this?

Oh, boy, a long time.

Maybe last year sometime.

- I gotta get going.

- Did you tell her about the Gourson case?

Hey, pal, I was trying to get you work.

Jesus! Are you nuts?

Did you tell her about Gourson?

Maybe I told her how we met.

Yeah, maybe.

Is there something wrong

with your phone?

It's just off the hook. Why?

Teddy Lewis is in county.

He's very anxious to talk to you.

I don't know. It's a thing in Lauderdale.

Something must have gone wrong,

but they're not telling me.

- I'm a little worried.

- I'll find out.

No, that's not why I called you.

In fact, I got me another lawyer.

I think it would be better.

You know...

- You know Schlisgal?

- Yeah, he's good.

This broad came to me last week,

a real looker.

She said that you told her

how she could reach me...

...and I figured that you must have

because she knew all about it.

She said that you wanted another one.

She had me show her how to

rig it to a door with a little delay.

Does any of this mean anything to you?

Then I'm glad I told you.

You better watch your step.

Thanks, Teddy.

Racine, don't thank me yet,

because...

...these guys have been

asking me about The Breakers.

I ain't told them sh*t, but I don't like

the look on their faces.

Mr. Racine's office.

Ned, Mrs. Walker.

Do you want her?

Yeah.

- Hello.

- Hello, Ned. Can we talk?

Okay.

- Where are you?

- I'm in Miami.

I've been running around like crazy,

and I couldn't reach you before I left.

Ned, everything is going to be all right.

- Tell me.

- I've got the money.

I've taken it and sent it

somewhere safe. It's all ours now.

- But that's not the best part.

- What's the best part?

The glasses. I got them back.

That is, they should be ours by now.

Betty had them.

She wanted money.

That's why I had to come down here.

She made it all very difficult,

but I think it worked out.

- Do you have them?

- No. She wouldn't do that.

She's putting them in the boathouse.

In the top drawer of the dresser.

They should be there now

if she's kept up her end.

Yeah.

I think you'd better get them right away.

I don't trust her.

- In the boathouse?

- That's right.

The top drawer of the dresser.

Ned, we're going to be all right.

I'll leave here as soon as I can.

I should be there by 7:30.

I can't wait to see you, darling.

We've made it.

Are you all right?

Yeah.

Goodbye, sweetheart.

I better go get him.

Hello, darling.

Hello, Matty.

- Where's your car?

- It's out back with yours.

- Why didn't you turn the lights on?

- I could see.

It's all ours now.

We could leave tonight if we wanted to.

- It's all over.

- Yes, it is.

What is that?

It's Edmund's gun.

You remember it, don't you?

What is it, Ned. What's happened?

- I think you know.

- No, I swear I don't.

It's the glasses, Matty.

Weren't they there?

Didn't she bring them?

I didn't see them.

She promised me she would bring them.

Maybe I missed them,

the way you missed them that night.

I don't know what you're thinking,

but you're wrong.

I'd never do anything to hurt you.

- I love you. You've got to believe that.

- Keep talking, Matty.

Experience shows

I can be convinced of anything.

I did arrange to meet you, Ned.

But that all changed.

You changed it. I fell in love

with you. I didn't plan that.

You never quit, do you?

You just keep on coming.

How can I prove it to you?

What can I say?

The glasses, Matty.

Why don't you go down there...

...and get them?

You said they weren't there.

I said I didn't see them.

I'll go, Ned.

I'll go and look for them.

Ned...

...no matter what you think...

...I do love you.

No.

Matty!

She's alive.

They found the body in the boathouse.

What if that was

somebody else's body in the boat house?

What if it was already there

when I got there, dead and waiting for me?

Maybe her friend, Mary Ann.

Her teeth were left, man.

They were sent back to Illinois.

The identification was positive.

That was her.

That was Matty Tyler Walker.

That was her, and she is dead.

You are not listening to me.

Maybe she was using this

other girl's name...

...since she first met Walker

three years ago...

...since she first spotted him decided

to take him, one way or the other.

Maybe...

...Walker, or any of us,

never knew her real name.

Why would she want to hide her identity?

I don't know.

Maybe because there was something

in her past, something so bad...

...she thought it would queer it

with Walker if he knew...

...that he'd never marry her.

Let's say...

...that she's living as this other girl,

this person from her past.

So there's only one person

in the whole world...

...who knows who she really is.

And then just when she's got me

on the line...

...she's finally going to collect,

that person shows up.

That girl finds her

and threatens to expose her...

...so Matty starts paying her off.

Maybe she even promised to cut her

in on Edmund's money.

Now she's got to share it

with two people.

But then Matty sees a way...

...to get rid of both of us at once.

At the boathouse.

A way to solve all her problems...

...and get clear

with no one looking for her.

She was right too, because I would have

never stopped looking for her.

Matty killed this other girl...

...and put her body in the boathouse.

It was so...

...perfect. So...

...clean.

You find two bodies,

me and this girl...

...two killers, dead.

Case closed.

You can't find the money, can you?

Doesn't that tell you something?

It tells me she moved it, and we can't

find it, and that don't mean sh*t.

It could be sitting...

...in a bank anywhere in the world waiting

for some dead lady to come for it.

Do you hear what you're saying?

It's crazy.

This Matty would have to be one quick,

smart broad.

Oscar, don't you understand?

That was her special gift.

She was relentless.

Matty was the kind of person

who could do what was necessary.

Whatever was necessary.

Is that what you've been waiting for?

What?

It is hot.

Yes.

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