Eyes of Laura Mars Page #5

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and pictures and crap.

-What's under the mattress?

-I looked there.

Bunch of pictures.

No letters, no weapons.

You haven't seen anything

that looks like an ice pick?

Who is this?

It's for you.

I wanna talk to you, man.

It doesn't matter where the f uck I am.

I just wanna talk to you.

You're in a lot of trouble.

You gonna come in?

I know that.

I just want to talk first.

Right where you are,

but I don't want any cops there.

They're on their way out.

You come and see me.

Okay, get everybody off the street.

Find something to do for a while.

Take a hike.

The man's going to come in.

Okay, boss.

Let's go.

What, you gonna arrest me now?

Let's talk for a while.

All right.

Look, man, I mean, I was just

killing time in the basement.

And it came time for me

to get Miss Mars...

Wait. Start at the beginning.

Tell me what happened last night.

I was down in the basement

killing time, right?

And when it came time for me

to go get Miss Mars upstairs...

...I went to the elevator.

And then I saw...

And then I remembered

that I was sneaking out...

...the back door of the bar.

So I said to myself...

..."What the f uck are you doing?

Sneaking out the back door,

running away, f rom what?

I mean, you didn't do nothing.

Nobody can prove that you did nothing

because you did not do nothing."

We have a problem.

We found something that

we think belongs to you.

It's a playing card.

It's f rom your deck, I believe.

And it was in the elevator

with Donald's body.

It was underneath him.

Do you know how it got there?

Do you think whoever killed Donald

caught him in the elevator...

...after you had already

gotten off in the basement?

It must have been that way, man.

I don't know.

All right, you're in the basement,

the elevator door opens...

...there was the body.

So you took off.

The next thing you know you're

sneaking out the back of a bar.

What bar?

Do you know what you had to drink?

Do you drink a lot?

Are you drunk now?

-Do you know the bartender's name?

-Wait a minute!

If there's any kind

of lapse in your memory...

...or if there's any period

of time in your life...

...that you just can't remember...

If there's anything

you can't remember...

...it's very important

that we discover together...

...what it is.

You're trying to put me

in f ucking Bellevue.

What's going on here?

Did you arrest him yet?

No, I didn't arrest him.

Take him down for observation, please.

Come on, let's go.

I'd rather go to the f ucking tombs

than a f ucking psych ward.

Get out of here!

Stop!

He pulled a knife on me.

Tommy, don't run!

Come on, let's go.

Stop!

There he is!

Down 49th!

Pull up ahead of him.

Stop!

Hey, nice work!

-He didn't know what he was doing.

-I saved the state 200, 000.

Call a supervisor.

He was sick, Sally.

Sick!

We got him. It's all over.

Pack your bags.

It's over. Pack your bags.

I'm taking you away.

All right, all right.

I love you.

I love you.

We're being sent home now.

Anything you need before we go?

No.

-Thank you.

-My pleasure.

Ex cuse me.

Go away! Go away!

He's in here? Who's here?

He's in the elevator.

I saw him kill someone.

-I saw him in the elevator.

-There's nobody in the elevator.

No, I saw it.

-I just got out of the elevator.

-I saw it.

It's over. Tommy's dead.

He's dead. Tommy's dead.

Tommy's dead?

I don't understand.

-Why'd he kill those people?

-He hated you.

He hated you.

-He had the idea...

-He didn't...

He had an idea that your work

was glorifying violence.

He had the idea that

death shouldn't be used...

...to sell things.

Death...

...is a sacred thing.

What are you talking about?

His mother.

I don't understand.

Tommy's mother.

Hysterical woman.

She was a hooker, you know.

Leave him sitting three, four days

at a time in a little one-room...

...in the same pair of diapers...

...while she sold her ass on the

streets of the nation's capital.

It wasn't very pretty.

No. That's not Tommy's story.

One day, the father comes home.

I think it was the father.

It might have been a john,

you know, a trick.

Outraged about the condition of

the child, he slashes her throat...

...right there on the spot.

I watched the blood dry

on her face...

...until it was just about

the colour of your hair.

You said " I."

I don't know what you see

in that son of a b*tch.

Can't even pay his bills.

They turned off his electricity.

He cannot finish his dissertation.

He's been working on it for three years.

I'm the one that keeps him in shape.

See this body?

That's my work. If it was up to him,

I'd weigh 98 pounds.

I'm the one that feeds him.

I pay the bills.

I answer the Christmas cards.

I'm the one you want.

I love you! I love you.

If you love me...

...kill him.

Now.

Please.

If you love me, you'll kill him.

I love you.

Please, kill him.

Police operator 834.

Where is the emergency, please?

I want to report a death.

Ma'am, please give me

your name and address.

Give me your address, please.

He came here to kill me.

Be calm. I'll have someone

there to help you in a moment.

He couldn't do it.

Ma'am?

Because he...

In order to help you, I have to

have your name and your address.

He really did love me.

Just give me your name.

What?

Your name.

I'm Laura Mars.

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