Flamingo Road Page #10

Titus can rock and rock and rock

and look down on me and spit.

Oh, he's got all of us.

He framed you and now he's framed Dan.

He's got us all.

- What do you mean, he's framed Dan?

- I want a drink.

How did Titus frame Dan?

What difference does it make?

He's got us all licked.

I'm sick, Lane.

I'm sick all the way through.

- I need a drink. Please give me a drink.

- All right, all right.

Then will you tell me?

You're really in love with Dan?

Field!

Hold it, Sheriff!

I'm Johnson of The Olympic City Times,

Sheriff. Will you make a statement?

No boys, there ain't much to say

at a time like this.

Senator Carlisle was a brilliant man

with a great future.

But when a man gets into bad company

and starts calling on another man's wife

late at night

when the husband ain't home...

- There's no doubt about it being suicide?

- Depends on how you look at it.

It's his gun, but then maybe

a man could get so tormented

by that kind of woman,

he wouldn't know what he was doing.

Back to the office.

The Grand Jury must be crazy

if they think they can make

this indictment against me stick!

I said the same thing to Semple last night

when I first got wind of it.

But he appears to think they can.

He'd just come from the showdown

at your house

and he was cocky as a bantam rooster.

He's a trifle overweight for a bantam.

This is no laughing matter, Dan.

When the Attorney General steps

into a case, it's serious.

They've got you on a peonage charge,

working with convict labor,

not paying for it.

And they've got the sworn statements

of eight convicts

and your own construction boss,

Burr Lassen.

Well, if Lassen did it,

Titus must really have him by the throat.

It's too bad about Burr,

but as your lawyer,

I'm bound to worry about your neck.

Come in.

- Mr. Reynolds?

- Here.

Good evening, Sarah.

If you want to see Mrs. Reynolds,

you can't see her.

She don't want to see nobody,

nobody at all.

Besides, Doc Waterson,

she's asleep, sound asleep.

- I'll tell her you were here.

- Never mind, Sarah, I'll tell her myself!

And at a late hour yesterday,

the Grand Jury indicted Dan Reynolds,

state political boss,

on a charge of peonage.

The Attorney General is assuming

personal direction of the case

and he promises to press the inquiry

to the fullest. He is quoted...

Now, you don't believe that, do you?

Dan's too smart for any cheap graft.

No, I know it's a frame-up.

Field told me.

Did he tell you how Titus framed him?

That's all I could get out of him.

I'm not much of a man for giving advice,

Mrs. Reynolds,

never having been able to take it myself,

but I'm suggesting

that you get out of town today.

If you don't, Titus will drive you out.

How? What are you talking about?

Well, this morning a committee

made a call on our mayor,

a committee of women.

Yes?

They went there protesting

to the mayor about you.

But I don't understand.

Well, it's this way.

They call themselves

the Mother's Committee.

Tomorrow, Titus will name it

a spontaneous demonstration

by indignant citizens.

I know you're trying to help me.

- But I'm not running.

- Maybe you'll wish you had.

Titus is digging up some more

of his particular brand of dirt.

You'd be surprised how fast it can spread.

- Get out of town!

- You're a cheat!

What is this?

I was hoping you'd get out

before this happened.

It's gonna get louder, Mrs. Reynolds.

Louder and uglier!

I'll stop them!

No, don't! That's just what the mob wants.

Well, I'll stop them in another way.

I'll have them arrested!

It won't do any good. No one will come.

The same man who arranged

that demonstration controls the police.

If you don't get out town,

we'll run you out!

Titus Semple!

Yeah, he's still here, honey.

Lute Mae kept him waiting for you.

You want me with you

or do you want to be alone?

Alone.

Miss Bellamy, you keep surprising me.

Mrs. Reynolds, I mean. I keep forgetting.

I sure figured you'd be gone by now.

You'd have saved a heap of trouble

if you had.

Saved who, Sheriff? You or me?

- I ain't never felt in need of salvation.

- Oh, but you are, Sheriff.

You've gotten away with the things you've

done because everyone's afraid of you.

Well, I'm not. Not anymore.

What you've done to me

and what you did to Field is past.

That can't be helped. But I'm not going

to let you destroy my husband.

Miss Bellamy, I'm going to crucify you.

You and Dan both.

You're going to pick up that phone

and call the Attorney General.

You're going to tell him it was a frame-up

and that Dan is innocent.

Because if you don't, Sheriff, I'll kill you.

Looks like I just about got to do

as you suggest.

Long distance.

Shame after I had everything

planned so nice.

Hello? This is Sheriff Semple.

I want to talk to Attorney General Brandon

in Olympic City.

I guess now we're gonna break out into

a rash of good government,

when poor old Titus has retired.

Dan's heart was never in smart politics.

He always had a kind of

nasty streak of honesty!

I should have spit you out

the first time you lit between my teeth.

It ain't too late now. It's your gun.

It'd be self-defense.

The position

of the gun indicates

that it could have fallen

from Semple's hand.

These are his fingerprints.

I think that's all the evidence we need.

Dan, you can see your wife now.

I'm very grateful. Thanks.

Take these down for photostats.

- Right, Will.

- Give me the Women's Division, block C.

I'm kind of disappointed in you.

Why didn't you tip me off

this was gonna happen?

I'd have had an extra on the street.

I haven't been very cooperative, have I?

Some people think you have.

Half the county will be out

to shake your hand.

I didn't mean it to turn out like this.

I've hurt Dan, too.

The one man who could have cleared him

before the Grand Jury is dead.

Dan.

Dan, I thought I'd never see you again.

When you walked out,

I knew then how much you meant to me.

The District Attorney wants to see you,

Mrs. Reynolds.

It won't be too long. And then

we're going to start from the beginning.

Dan Reynolds, I told you one of these days

you'd make me cry.

English - SDH

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