Murder at 1600 Page #4

What is it?

Heavy date?

Yeah. That's pretty funny.

What's going on?

I just need your car, all right?

- Get off of me! | - Easy, easy!

You are a son of a b*tch!

I'm going to have your badge.

Why didn't you shoot her | if you had this?

You know who I am?

I don't give a sh*t! | You're going down. Turn around.

- Get off of me. | - Get over here.

Just like a big fish, | fell right for the bait.

Only guilty men do that.

Or one who's being framed.

You had sex with her, then offed her.

Oh, Jesus!

You think it was an accident | she was murdered after I slept with her?

Someone knew I'd be with her.

Someone with a motive as good as yours.

What motive?

Did your father have sex with Carla?

I don't know my father's sexual rsum.

- You knew she was leaving town. | - Yeah, I read newspapers.

2 nights in New York, then to | the Virgin Islands, and a rental car.

Carla Town | didn't have a driver's license.

You think I killed Carla?

Think you can prosecute me?

Your arms don't reach that high.

So why did you show up?

I go to sleep every night thinking of | a woman with 8 stab wounds.

A woman I slept with an hour before.

Try that as a sleeping pill.

You forgot something.

Rivaling the Korean hostage-taking | as an issue for the White House...

...the murder of Carla Town | remains unsolved.

As the attention of homicide detectives | turn to Kyle Neil...

...and the President's | approval ratings drop...

...we must ask, will this | be Jack Neil's Chappaquiddick?

No one knows where the trail will end.

But for an administration | deep in the troubled waters...

...of a potential confrontation | in North Korea...

...a serious domestic concern...

...is especially dangerous | to the President's public image.

If Jack Neil cannot protect | the workers under his own roof-

Coffee?

Come on, Regis.

Sorry I'm late.

What's wrong?

What is it?

They were there.

Who was where?

The President and the First Lady.

They were in the White House | when Carla was murdered!

How do you know?

That morning I almost shot their dog.

They never go anywhere without it.

I saw footage of them coming back | from Camp David with the dog.

Their alibi is complete bullshit!

They took them to Camp David | after the body was found.

Spikings.

He could've smuggled them out.

How?

The tunnels under the White House.

I built this city, remember?

I just can't believe this.

They covered it up, got them out. Why?

Because then they would be | considered suspects.

Why shouldn't they be? | That's the question.

Because he's the President.

What does that mean? | He doesn't have a motive?

He has a mistress about to | drop a tell-all. That's motive enough.

Wounds are from the left. | President Neil is right-handed.

Yeah, I noticed that.

He writes with his right hand...

...but he swings a baseball bat | and golf club with his left.

Jesus!

She's still there. | Do you want me to finish this?

No, they're right where we want them.

We're right on schedule.

Thanks, Regis. I appreciate it. | I can take care of myself.

I want you to lay low until | I get to Jordan or Spikings.

Secret Service.

Back door!

Move!

Get them!

Go!

Go for the gas tank.

He's clear.

What about Nina Chance?

You want the spotlight? | Become a rock star!

I'd reassign you, | but it'd make more news!

Come in!

Call for you, Regis.

I'm not taking any calls.

It's the White House.

How lovely for you!

That was some stunt you pulled.

Last night had nothing to do with me. | I was off-duty.

- That's difficult to believe. | - I don't care what you believe.

If the President was in residence that | night, why didn't you tell me?

The President's not to be involved.

The President is about to be | an official suspect.

Suspect?

I must question-

You won't question the President!

The Presidency is an institution, | not a person.

And that institution will be | protected at all costs.

- Why do you think we got him out? | - To cover up a crime.

To keep the smell of blood from North | Korea. We'd never get our boys back.

This is global, detective.

It's a bit off your turf.

It's a homicide! It is my turf!

Let me tell you...

...I've known Jack Neil for 3 decades.

I'm godfather to his son. | Your suspicions are ludicrous.

Luchessi's a stooge.

- Then prove it. | - How?

Nobody can pinpoint the time of death. | He can't prove where he was.

27 cameras cover the hallways | of the White House.

Are you telling me none of them saw her | within 3 minutes of her death?

Are you trying to tell me?

The tapes are classified.

Out of my reach.

You Republican or Democrat?

I think Washington is drowning | in a sea of its own bullshit.

Those 13 men aren't risking their lives | over bullshit.

It's not about 13 men. It's about | a dead woman in the White House.

A Harvard study...

...measured a man's longevity | by what he reads first in the paper.

I'm an obituary man.

Start with comics, you'll live longer.

Whoever leaked this, | I'm going to bottle their last breath!

If she was alive at 10:49, | she was murdered well after-

This changes nothing about Luchessi.

No one saw him until 11:02.

That still gave him 13 minutes | to do the job.

So, Regis...

...what are you going to do? | Put the President in a lineup?

You're Carla Town, | you're about to sell this story...

...move to paradise, | so you buy a one-way ticket, right?

This is Sears for Carla Town, | confirming Monday between 8 and 12...

...to install the trash compactor | you bought yesterday.

Why have a trash compactor installed | after you're gone?

Maybe she forgot?

But she just bought it the day before.

Sh*t!

Monday, 4:
30. You're right.

What?

Wait a minute.

And the handwriting on the 23rd?

The slope of the writing is different.

Here, look at this.

The loop on the L | is smooth and continuous.

In the day planner...

...there's an obvious pause...

...which indicates a deliberate stroke.

It's on the B...

...as well.

It's a forgery.

There never was an appointment.

She wasn't going anywhere.

Spikings...

...entered at 12:09...

...left at 12:
14.

Yes, sir.

Surveillance tapes.

He had clearance.

Thank you.

Bob!

Yes, sir?

I want to talk to Detective Regis, | D.C. Homicide.

He'll want to question Spikings. | Get me his address in Alexandria.

Someone's playing us like puppets.

What are you saying?

Carla Town wasn't killed | to protect the administration.

She was murdered to destroy it.

What do you mean?

Someone dumped a dead body | in the White House...

...so the trail would lead to the Neils.

They even manufactured the motive.

So?

Only the guard knew I took the tapes.

So you have someone on the inside.

Let's stop playing games.

Sit down.

Do you know what it takes...

...to stand all day in one place...

...watching a dumpster in the rain...

...because it's next to a hotel...

...where the President is staying | the next day?

When his life is in your hands...

Loneliest job in the world.

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