Savannah Smiles Page #4

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Good, that's good.

- Listen, are you warm, are you eating well?

- Oh, sure.

Yes.

Darling, I love you very much. Can you say hello to daddy?

- Hi, baby, how are you?

- I'm fine.

Get on with it. A hundred grand, remember?

Hello, yours truly gettin' on.

Listen, we gotta figure out a plan

here on how to get the kid back,

but we don't want no problems,

understand, and no cops.

- She will be...

- Three minutes. If you want to...

Alvie, do you have a dime?

- Why did you got no change?

- Where did I suppose to get change?

I can't rely on you for nothing!

Uh, hello...

Listen, we've got a problem here, we ran out of dime, see.

- So we'll call you back tomorrow.

- If you harm my daughter in any way...

Looks like we've got us a couple of real jokers here.

You believe them about finding Savannah in their car?

It's quite possible.

She was playing hide and seek, remember?

She could've hidden in the car.

Well, that makes no difference.

They got her and they want the money.

But there's something I can't put my finger on here.

- What's that?

- That voice.

I've heard that voice somewhere before.

Yeah, just park it right down there.

- You didn't say nothing. You've got clumsy.

- I think, we're doing just fine.

If you're gonna blow this, I'll sure shoot you.

Where you're going?

I'm gonna get some stuff for Savannah in the drugstore.

- Look, we're sitting duckside here.

- You're wanna keep her happy, don't you?

I'll be right back.

So, are you a new father?

Uh, me, no. This stuff is for my sister's kid.

Ah. Boy or girl?

Boy.

How old is the little fella?

Uh, six, seven...

I don't know really, see...

- I'm a merchant marine.

- Ah.

Yeah, just got in from San Francisco.

We just pulled in here on a tanker.

We were out to sea for six years.

Do you like me, Alvie?

Why not?

You've never done nothing to me.

Well, do you like me?

Sure I like you, kid.

You're gonna make me rich.

They gonna pay me a whole lot of money,

just to get rid of you.

- Is that the only reason you like me?

- Yep, that's about it.

Sis had the kid while I was in Singapore.

She's had it really rough, husband's a bum, heavy drinker,

you know, he beats the kid...

We were abandoned by our mother when we were 4 years old.

- No!

- Yeah.

Going to bed, Joan?

Aw, I can't sleep.

Why don't you take something?

I did. Dr. Morton gave me something.

You're gonna get sick if you don't get some rest.

That child is all I have.

I've got no one in the whole world.

She sounded fine.

I'm sure that now Dobbs is on the case,

we'll get her back in no time.

Richard, there're no garanties.

I just can't stop wondering

what could be happening to her,

what terrible thing could be happening to her

at this very moment.

There's one little duck swimming in the sea

He was very lonely but didn't want to be

So he ran far away over the sea

And brought back a friend to live with him

- There was one little duck swimming in the sea

- You want some hot water?

No, thanks.

- You better get clean.

- I'm so clean... I'm puckered.

There was one little duck swimming in the sea

- She's having fun.

- Sounds like it.

Tomorrow I'm gonna rip off some towels

and some sheets and stuff.

Tomorrow we gonna send the kid's folks a letter.

- I got it all read out here.

- What for?

Because they trace fone calls, stupid, they got

helicopters, they can zapp right down on you.

I haven't thought of that.

Bootsie, can I have a rubber duckie for my bath?

She wants her duckie. I got her one.

Yeah, I will be right there with it! Just a minute!

A duckie? You actually got this kid a duckie?

You said we got to keep her happy, didn't you?

Besides, didn't you never want something like that

when you was a kid?

Hell, no!

That's the problem with you, Alvie, you never was a kid.

- I notified the FBI.

- Great.

Now, I wanna run down on all robberies and burgleries

in this state, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico.

And I need a list of all stolen vehicles.

We have all that.

Get in touch with the booking offices

of all prisons in those states.

I want a list of all these, and the names

of any recently released prisoners,

- where they are, and mug shots.

- We're putting all this together at this very moment.

I want officer Jamison to go over the mug shots

until we get an identification.

He's doing that right now.

Now, any stranger in anybody's neighbourhood,

anyone that looks at least suspicious,

I want a report on him, look at him and asking.

We're doing all that.

All the phones in the Driscoll's house have to be

connected, so we can back up any incoming call.

It's been done.

- I've a feeling you boys don't need me.

- You said it.

- Mrs. Driscoll, how do you...

- No more questions, please. The Driscolls

have been in a state of a shock since this

dreadful thing has happened, and...

Well, I feel like a member of the family,

and I would like to say to those

who took this precious little child,

to remember the words of Jesus:

"Suffering little children are coming to me,

for such is the kingdom of heaven."

- You don't spit on a priest!

- I didn't spit on a priest. I spit on a TV.

- Well, clean it off the TV.

- Clean it off yourself.

"Suffering little children", for crying out loud.

What is this little snot-nosed brat suffer?

- I'm not a snot-nosed brat!

- You're not, huh?

No, and the stuff you do is yucky. Beeh!

That's right, Savannah, Alvie's a slop.

Now, place that right there.

- You got that finished yet?

- Yes, we got it finished.

No thanks to you.

Then go out and mail it! Special delivery.

You go out and mail it! We pasted it!

All right, all right. And what if somebody shows up here?

You're able to hide her? Well, are you?

Okay, but you listen to me.

You'll be nice to this kid while I'm gone. You hear me?

Yeah, I hear ya! Now go, and mail that letter.

All right, all right.

That's one of them right there.

Yeah.

Good. Go ahead.

There's the other one.

- You sure?

- Yeah.

- Then these are the same two that you saw?

- Yes.

- Same one where you saw the little girl?

- That's right.

This just came in over the telephone.

One of the guards recognized McGaffee as the driver

of the car at the prison break.

He was just released on parole a few weeks ago.

That makes the situation take on

an even more serious aspect.

The Driscoll child is in the hands of two desperate

criminals, and the report said they're not very brave.

In a few weeks since the jail break, instead of hiding

out somewhere, they've committed grand theft,

armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon,

and kidnapping.

Gentlemen, we've to do everything possible to apprehend

them before they can commit a more serious crime.

What kind of water she's been drinking?

Right out of the tap, just like us. We ain't sick.

Doreen, I'm making out the description on your name.

Just 24 of this oral.

Give her the medicine as instructed and

call me at once if the fever goes up again.

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