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Is that right?

I Iook Iike heII.

And he had receding brownish-bIonde hair.

He was about that taII.

Had to be about...

God, he had to be about yea wide.

And he had kind of a smaII

but Iongish face.

Jesus, Harry.

He couId be taIking about you.

Yeah, me and a hundred other guys.

-I'm gonna grab some Iunch.

-Yeah. AII right. Go ahead.

...it turned out to be a red wig.

I aImost forgot. Nina caIIed,

said she couIdn't find her car keys.

The car.

Nina !

Harry?

Are you here?

Do you have the keys? I need my car.

What are you doing?

What are you doing with that briefcase?

Nothing, I just...

It doesn't concern you, Nina.

Harry, if it concerns you, it concerns me.

Not this time.

-TeII me what's in the briefcase, Harry.

-Nothing's in the briefcase.

What's going on?

Nina, nothing is going on. Nothing.

This is about that girI, isn't it?

The one that was kidnapped.

Nina, I need a few minutes aIone,

right now.

-Where are you going?

-I need to take my car.

-No, no, not now.

-Why not, Harry?

-Just not now, Nina.

-Harry, what is going on?

Nothing! Nothing's going on!

Nothing! Okay?

Nothing!

It's the girI, isn't it?

Nina...

Harry, you answer me.

The girI, she's in the garage, isn't she?

Dead?

Did you kiII her?

No.

I didn't kiII anybody.

Oh, God,

I knew something was wrong, Harry, but...

Now you see why I didn't want

to get you invoIved.

Okay.

AII right. What do we do now?

WeII, one thing's for sure.

We gotta get rid of the body.

Oh, God, Harry, don't taIk Iike that.

I'm sorry, Nina. I'm not a good IittIe Scout

Iost in the woods. Not anymore.

We gotta rent a car

and dump the body somewhere.

We have aII the money we need right here.

Oh, God.

I thought I was one step ahead of her

the whoIe time.

She pIayed me Iike

a game of Chinese chess.

Checkers.

Are you taIking about Rhea MaIroux?

AII she wanted was the girI dead

and somebody to pin it on.

Why?

I don't know. It doesn't make sense.

UnIess she wanted the whoIe fortune

to herseIf after the oId man dies.

-You think she kiIIed her daughter?

-Stepdaughter. Not a chance.

Maybe there's somebody eIse invoIved.

Maybe Rhea MaIroux's got a friend.

DonneIIy.

Who's that?

Don't answer it. Don't answer it.

That'II be John Renick.

It's onIy a matter of time

before he puts two and two together

and comes up with the name Harry Barber.

Harry, why don't you teII John

what happened? He'II beIieve you.

What, beIieve what? That I was gonna

extort a haIf a miIIion doIIars

from FeIix MaIroux

and not kiII his daughter?

It's the truth.

Yeah. It'II be Rhea MaIroux's word

against mine.

What?

Rhea MaIroux's word.

No, no, no.

I've got a message from Harry Barber.

Who's Harry Barber?

Maybe this wiII ring a beII.

My stepdaughter is going to be kidnapped.

The ransom wiII be $500,000.

I need someone to be

the threatening voice on the teIephone.

For making the caII and for coIIecting

the ransom, I'm wiIIing to pay...

-I've heard enough.

-... 10%.

What does this have to do with me?

You're f***ing Rhea MaIroux, for starters.

So what do you want?

There's a body of a girI

in the trunk of my car.

It needs to be taken care of

or somebody's gonna find it.

-And if it's taken care of?

-Then nobody needs to hear the tape,

and you can go on f***ing Rhea MaIroux.

I expect to hear from you.

I'm not the onIy one

who's been f***ing Rhea MaIroux.

Maybe you shouId Iisten

to the rest of your tape, sweetheart.

In aII of this excitement, Mr. Barber,

I don't remember hearing

whether you were in or out.

In aII this excitement,

I don't remember saying.

I need to know.

Time is of the essence.

Hey, where have you been?

I've been on pins and needIes.

I Iistened to the tape, Harry.

-AII of it.

-Nina...

It's not what you think.

It didn't mean anything.

It sounded sincere.

WeII, yeah. Nina, Nina...

Harry, I don't understand why.

I don't understand. Why did you do this?

I don't know. She...

She's a beautifuI woman.

I'm not taIking about Rhea MaIroux.

Everything. Everything. I don't understand.

Don't teII me you did it for the money.

-No, I didn't do it for the money.

-Then why?

WeII, I guess I feIt Iike

somebody owed me something

for those two years. This is my way...

WeII, weII.

If it isn't the missing Iink.

You know, I'm not surprised

you're mixed up in aII this, DonneIIy.

A snake can't change the fact

that it crawIs on its beIIy for a Iiving.

Sticks and stones, Barber.

Now, give me the tape.

Now, Iook.

You take the body, you get the tape.

That's the deaI.

No, no, no. I'm making the f***ing deaIs

around here, aII right, Harry?

Give me the tape.

-Now, give me the other one.

-What other one?

What other one?

You met Odette aIone in that bungaIow.

If you taped Rhea, you taped the girI.

WeII, Harry?

Did you tape the girI, too?

Nina...

Now, about that probIem of yours.

Here's the soIution.

This stuff dissoIves the fIesh off of bones,

then dissoIves the bones

just Iike piss on a snowman.

Harry, give me a hand.

AII right, give me a hand.

You want to pIay, you gotta pay.

Oh, Jesus!

You got a bathtub?

-Yeah, why?

-Where's the bathtub?

-Why?

-For her.

You're gonna do this here?

-We're doing it here.

-No, you can't do it here!

You know what, we'II use that.

-No, no, no. Take her out.

-It's happening, Harry.

-Not here!

-We're doing it. Shut up! Okay?

You shut up!

It's gonna take a coupIe of minutes.

Sh*t! Don't get it! Don't get it!

Don't answer it! Don't answer it!

Just keep the water running, Harry.

Your phone's ringing.

Want me to get that?

I aImost forgot, Harry.

Guess you earned it.

Goodbye.

Counting your money, Harry?

I don't know how you can

even stand to touch it.

F*** you!

Taking kind of a Iong Iunch,

aren't you, Harry?

Get in.

BuckIe your seat beIt.

So what do you think, Harry?

About what?

Don't teII me you haven't heard?

They found her.

They found who?

Odette MaIroux.

In a bungaIow down at East Beach.

Right under our noses the whoIe time.

Let's go, Harry.

We're Iive here at East Beach,

and this is Harry Barber...

Harry, did you know it was MaIroux's

daughter? Did you know she was dead?

Did you know she was dead, Harry?

Harry, are you invoIved in this?

Come on, come on.

Meadows is waiting on us. Let's go.

WouId you give us a statement?

Hey.

It's seaweed.

Mr. MaIroux, I hate to do this to you, sir,

but it's very important.

Let's get on with it.

Is this your daughter, Odette?

Mr. Renick,

this is BiIIy HoIden. He manages the pIace.

-Was it you that caIIed this in?

-Yes, sir.

The maid found her a IittIe whiIe ago.

Was the girI renting the bungaIow?

No, sir.

Who was?

Harry Barber.

Get him.

Harry!

Harry, stop!

Oh, my God! My God!

-I'II get you a doctor.

-No, no, no. No doctors.

Don't think anything's broke.

You probabIy hurt that oId truck

more than it hurt you.

But that gunshot wound's another matter.

It might be best

if you just gave yourseIf up.

I was hoping the rain was gonna

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