The Chase Page #5

Come on, stop talking foolish.

Stop talking anything.

Next year, this time...

...maybe even tomorrow...

...you'll be far away.

Why do you say that?

I don't ask you for it.

No, you don't ask me for anything.

Why don't you?

Because I wouldn't get it.

Don't be sure. Don't be sure

that if you'd ever said, "Leave...

...leave, leave now."

I said it once, years ago.

I was very young.

I thought it wouldn't hurt us to wait.

Jake, you talk too much.

Tell me that you love me.

I love you.

I always have.

You've always known it.

- Tell me that you love nobody else.

- I love nobody else as I love you.

He escaped this afternoon.

Where is he?

Calder said he's headed home.

Oh, poor Bubber.

- Where you going?

- I'm gonna find him.

- Tomorrow.

- No.

Anna, you won't find him at night.

Tomorrow!

If he's come this way,

it's because he needs help.

And he needs it now.

He's gonna need money.

I like Bubber, Jake.

I love Bubber, Jake.

So do I.

I love you as I've never

loved anybody else.

I waited all those years

and all these years.

Bubber had a bad time, Jake,

and so did I.

And there isn't any time to say

all the things that don't need saying.

Give me the keys, Jake.

Go away, Jake.

It's Bubber's trouble.

- Leave me alone.

- I'm coming with you.

Lester?

Lester!

Lester.

- It's me, Bubber.

- What you doing here?

- Lester, I'm in trouble.

- When you ain't been?

- You got a car?

- Ain't nothing here that runs.

You got any money?

Lester, I'm in trouble.

Yeah, yeah. So you got

to get away from here fast.

Now look, Lester, this time it's big.

If I'm running in the luck

I'm used to...

...I'm gonna get blamed

for a murder I didn't do.

But I can't.

I ain't got nothing.

Bubber...

...go away, please.

- No.

Now, Lester, you owe me a favor.

I took a rap for you once. You swore

you'd pay me back someday.

Yeah.

I remember.

But this 4 bits I got here

in my pocket won't take you far.

Does my wife still live

above the place?

- Last I heard.

- All right.

Now, you go find her.

Bring her back here. Have her bring

some money and clothes.

You can trust her?

Well, you know any reason

why I can't?

No.

I guess not.

Now, you stay here...

...and if somebody come by,

they'll think it's me.

Okay. I'll be at the wharf.

Just go. Go fast.

- All right.

- Go on.

- when my office was informed

by the warden...

... of the escape of Simmons

and Reeves.

We went into immediate action.

We set up roadblocks

surrounding the entire area.

We got dogs tracking

that bottomland down there.

That's how we discovered

McCormack's body an hour ago.

There's no doubt

that they killed him.

Their fingerprints

have been identified.

That is the kind of officer

we need in this county.

That McCormack was a fine man.

You said you never saw him.

Didn't even know him.

Prince of a fella.

Lem, you just said

you never saw him before.

I remember him now.

I seen him on TV.

Oh, hell, I don't believe you.

I don't. You're a clown.

All of you are clowns!

Clowns!

God, I'm sick of sitting around looking

at dead men on a Saturday night.

Fine way to spend a Saturday night.

Let's go down to the club and dance.

Dancing? Is that what they call it now?

Archie.

That McCormack...

...he had a wife...

...and three little babies.

Help! Help! Help!

- What's the matter?

- I didn't do anything to her.

I saw Bubber. He's over there.

There's Bubber. He's over there.

Hey, whoever you are,

stop where you stand.

- What's the matter?

- Nothing. Just go on home.

You were going after me

with a gun, mister.

Somebody thought you

were somebody else.

So you run after me with a gun?

Listen, boy, now get.

You were snooping around

white kids' parties.

That's not true.

I was taking a walk.

Walk where you belong.

You got a private street

with a white sidewalk?

Well, what the hell's going on, Arch?

I was taking a walk, Mr. Calder.

Oh, Lem, put the damn gun away.

Come on.

Go on home, now.

Roy, go on home.

Come on.

Good to see you patrolling.

I'm not patrolling. I was just looking

for an ice-cream cone.

Taxes of this town pay your salary,

Calder, to protect the place.

Well, if anything happens to you,

Lem, we'll give you a refund.

Come on, Damon. Come on, my

dancing darling. Let's get out of here.

You go ahead.

We'll be there in 10 minutes.

Patty!

We're going down to Sol's.

We'll be there in about 20 minutes.

Damon, take me with you.

Can I go with y'all?

- No, Mary, no drunken driving.

- Don't leave me here alone.

- Please take me.

- Come on, get in. Come on, let's go.

I felt sure he'd be here.

I thought I'd walk in here and find him

like I used to when we were kids.

Where will we look now?

He's not going to come to my place.

If he tries to get to me, he'll see

all the people and be frightened away.

Have you ever written to him

about us?

To make it worse for him in prison?

I'm afraid I'm going to lose you.

I don't want to lose you.

I want to marry you.

I waited all these bad years

to hear you say that.

It's just like you to say

it at the wrong time.

Just like you.

Now look, you.

I want to find Bubber tonight,

and that is all I want.

It's Bubber who is in trouble,

Jake, not you.

You and I can wait,

as you made us wait so many years.

Things come so late...

...I guess, for most people.

They found a traveling

salesman dead.

They say that Bubber and the man

he escaped with murdered...

My boy never murdered nobody.

- Don't come around here saying that.

- But I didn't come to upset you.

- I come to pray for you and Bubber.

- We don't need your prayers.

- Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine

- My boy hasn't killed anybody!

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine

$285.43.

Briggs says he wants

to buy the house.

I'll find him.

I'll tell Calder we'll have

5000 by Monday morning.

We're not gonna sell the house.

I'm not gonna...

This is all I have.

I've saved for it all these years.

I'm not gonna sell the house.

He's our son.

No matter what happens,

he's our son.

Now, what's our hardworking

sheriff doing in here?

Well, I think he's

still looking for my daughter.

But he ain't going to find her until

Monday morning, just like always.

You don't wanna wait that long.

She'll be in before Monday.

Tell her I'm looking for her.

Anna!

Anna!

Anna!

Anna!

Anna, the sheriff wants to see you.

Guess why.

- Well, what the...? Who's up there?

- What's going on?

Well, come on down here, boy.

- All right, Mr. Sol.

- What in the hell is going on?

What are you doing up there?

I was walking by and I just

thought maybe Anna was...

Anna!

He says, "Anna."

Maybe he's got the right to leave out

the "Miss" before a white girl's name.

Mr. Sol, don't you remember me?

I'm Lester Johnson.

- I just come along to...

- Visit in a white girl's room?

And go in that room

and make yourself at home?

- You mix yourself a drink?

- No, no. I didn't come to visit nobody.

You expect white men to stand by

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