Picture Snatcher Page #6

- There's no hurry.

- I gotta find another hideout.

Mac called,

said they were hot on my trail.

That's why you can't go now.

I'm gonna go nuts around this joint.

Now just sit tight

until I get these duds off.

I'm dead tired.

Does Mac make enough dough

to put up for all this?

Don't get personal.

Well, you've really been lonely.

Are you glad I came?

Yeah, sure. Does Mac know you're back?

Will you stop harping on Mac

all the time?

I thought you were going together

steady?

I'm too much of a woman

for any one man.

Except maybe someone like you, Danny.

Aw, stop bragging.

What am I supposed to do now?

Start chewing up furniture?

No, but I'm gonna start chewing you up,

Danny.

Come on. Cut it out.

You getting me all marked up.

Stop it, will you?

All right, enough scars now.

Cut it, will you...? Stop it. Move back.

Stop your clowning.

- I'm gonna make you love me and like it.

- I got a girl. You know that. You got Mac.

- What does she got I can't give?

- You couldn't get it through your head.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

There's one thing I'm sure of.

She probably won't see you

if you lived to be 100.

- You got her old man demoted.

- I got what?

Get a load of this.

Well, that finishes me.

I never gave Pat a thought.

If I had,

I wouldn't have taken that picture.

Don't worry, honey. You still have me.

Come on now, look out, will you? You

wanna get the grabbies again? Listen...

Well, listen, Mac.

Mac, don't get me wrong...

- Mac, wait a minute.

- Wait for what? I can see, can't I?

Mac, Mac, don't be dumb.

Dumb, sure I'm dumb.

Trying to make a parrot out of a jailbird.

Lay off that jailbird stuff.

You're cockeyed...

Sure I'm cockeyed. But that doesn't

stop me from calling a turn on a heel.

All right.

If that's the way you feel about it.

I'm sorry, Mac.

Okay, once a rat, always a rat.

Funny how a guy will remember his key

at the wrong time.

Well, we won't have to worry

about him anymore.

Ow!

Danny. Danny, come back.

I was going straight in legitimate business.

Doing as I was told, asking no questions.

Straight? A legitimate business?

What do you think you are, a reporter?

You're the lowest thing on the newspaper.

A picture snatcher.

What do you think

Mr. Grover hired you for?

You can steal pictures from innocent people

so down in the mouth they can't fight back.

Just a thug.

Doing the same things you always did.

Please go now before my father comes.

I don't want any more trouble.

All right, Pat.

I just want you to know

I didn't mean any harm.

No, Mr. McLean. He was here yesterday.

Yeah, he bought a couple of quarts,

I haven't seen him since.

Okay.

No, Mr. McLean.

I ain't seen him for three days.

Uh-huh. If I see him,

I'll tell him to call you up.

No, Mr. McLean. He ain't been around here

in over a week.

Yeah, I'll tell him.

No, Mr. McLean.

I no see him a full couple of weeks.

All right, Mr. McLean.

I'll tell him, Mr. McLean.

Lay off, moocher.

This is a private party.

Oh, you...

Hey, Danny. That guy is here again.

Tell him the same thing.

- You ain't seen me.

- Oh, look, he's been here twice.

He told me if I don't find you, he's gonna

tip off the feds, have me padlocked.

Come on, give me a break.

All right.

You wanna put it on a friendship basis,

buddy.

Okay, let him in.

Hey, Vitello. All right, let him come in.

Here he is.

Hello, Danny.

- Hello.

- I've been looking all over for you.

You're looking all over for me, huh?

You just didn't know where to look.

I've been around.

Set him up. Make mine milk.

Want to tell you it's all right

about Allison. Good for me.

I found out what she really is.

Oh.

- Just forget about that dame.

- And I quit the Graphic News.

- What?

- Two years in hell.

I'm through with that now. Been making

the rounds trying to find another job.

No one'll believe I'm off the booze.

I'll make it.

Sure, you will, Mac.

You're a good editor.

- You're a high-powered guy.

- We'll both make it.

No.

You better forget about me.

I'm just a picture snatcher.

Stealing pictures of poor

broken-down people who can't hit back.

Not on a real sheet.

I'm talking about newspapers.

No.

- I'm no good at that.

- You could get by.

Be a star legman.

Rewrite men can handle your stuff.

Hi, big boy. Couple of Scotches.

- Two Scotch. Hey, two Scotch, quick.

- Yes.

Oh, boy, is this town burning up.

Well, your old friend, Jerry the Mug,

just knocked off two coppers.

What?

- Who was with him?

- He was alone, quick getaway.

- Got the cops looking for him.

- What do you know about that?

Jerry the Mug just knocked off

two cops all by himself.

That's a panic. Hey.

- Was Casey Nolan one of them coppers?

No.

It's too bad.

Calling all stations, emergency order.

I have a complete description

of Jerry the Mug on the teletype.

All officers are to work double shifts

until Jerry the Mug is captured.

Commissioner's orders

are take no chances, shoot to kill.

Now get this, you fellows.

There's a promotion for the man

who puts a finger on Jerry the Mug.

We want every police officer in the state

to be on the lookout for him.

Mac...

...if I found Jerry the Mug,

what would happen?

We could write our ticket.

Be the greatest scoop of the year.

- Not thinking of me. I wanna get you a job.

- Anything we do, we do together.

Finding Jerry when every cop is looking

for him will put us back in the running.

We do it. I owe that Mug a trip to the big

house for what he did to me four years ago.

- This is my chance to make him pay.

- Come on.

You've had enough of that. What you need

is a bath and a shave. Come on.

The commissioner of police

announces that every available man...

...will be put on the streets

until Jerry the Mug is captured.

Dead or alive.

Why should I tell you anything?

You gave me the shoulder

like I was poison to you.

You know how a guy is

when he gets out of stir.

No, I don't.

You don't see a woman for so long,

you get afraid of them.

- Afraid of me, Danny?

- Mm-hm.

A little bit.

- Tell me something, will you, baby?

- Mm-hm.

- Where's Jerry?

- What do you want Jerry for?

I got a tip for him.

Come on, you know where Olive is.

I'll find out for you in the morning.

No, no. I gotta find him tonight.

You'll be too busy seeing me tonight.

I hope you won't be lonesome, baby.

I'll be back tomorrow.

Ouch!

Danny.

It's like doing it for your country,

we gotta make sacrifices.

But this is too much.

I don't like the dame, I'm finicky.

Nothing's too much in a case like this.

It means a new deal. A chance

to crash in on a legitimate newspaper.

All you gotta do

is kid her along a little bit.

All right, I'll give.

But I'm doing it against my will.

Cupid.

Oh, it's you. Back again.

- Mm-hm. Big as life.

- Well, spring it, what do you want?

I can't tell you all about it

out in the hall.

Come on inside. I got words for you.

Listen, baby. I got downstairs and

realized what a big sap I was...

...worrying about Jerry

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