The Lineup Page #3

It'll give us one more guy

to talk to about Jenkins...

and his playmates -

His laundryman.

Any relationship Between Jenkins...

and a laundryman Is purely coincidental.

Al, there's a funny thing

About this calendar.

Two days are circled,

and one is yesterday.

Yesterday?

That's the day Jenkins Got himself killed.

Maybe he was psychic.

What's the other?

Tomorrow.

Hey, you suppose he was

Scheduled for a repeat?

You know, to pick up another

Dope shipment for tomorrow?

A 901 just came over the air for

You as we were driving up, ben.

Call your office.

All right, thanks,

Maury.

Go over the whole place Thoroughly,

and let me know if you come up

with anything.

Okay, we'll cover it.

Coast guard just found

A john doe in the bay.

They're bringing The body in now...

Dressed in a porter's uniform.

He's one of the porters we saw

in the lineup, all right.

Sure bet he's been murdered.

They're eliminating each other,

All right.

But for every one You get rid of,

There's two more ready and waiting.

Woman:
fasten your seatbelts,

Please.

We're coming in now, sir.

Would you mind extinguishing

Your cigarette?

We're coming in now, sir.

Would you fasten your seatbelts,

Please?

Please fasten your seatbelts.

In case...

Julian, you take this whole

Business about the subjunctive.

I don't know.

All right, dancer.

All right.

What's so difficult About the subjunctive?

Well, you take this,

for instance.

If I was you, you know?

That's all wrong.

it says here,

'if I were you.'

How far can you go with this special stuff?

It sets you up, dancer.

It sets you up.

Remember that.

How many characters you know

Hang around street corners

Can say, 'if I were you'?

How many, huh?

If I were you.

Yeah, yeah, I see.

It's gonna be a good day - Real good one.

I can feel it.

It's gonna be a tight one,

Julian.

That's what it's gonna be.

In and out.

No, dancer.

It's going to be a good one.

Uh, uh, look,

Are you dancer?

Who are you?

I'm Mclain, you know - Sandy Mclain?

I don't know any Mclain.

Look, you see,

Jenkins got himself killed.

So?

So he's out.

I'm in.

It's just as simple as that.

Look,

I brought the car along.

Would you like To take a look at it?

What car?

The car we're gonna use.

How do you like it?

How does he like what?

The car.

Who are you?

He says Mclain.

What do you want?

I'm your wheelman.

Wheelman?

Yeah, I'm gonna drive you,

You know, on the job?

Job?

Why we're here to see the sites.

What sites?

What's the matter?

You think I'm a cop Or something?

Why don't you call Our people?

Yeah, yeah.

I'll call chicago.

Chicago?!

Now, wait a minute.

I was told you guys Were from Miami.

Yeah, you know, I could believe

It with them tans.

You got a lucky sense

of geography, my friend.

Maybe.

Why don't you give us a name?

Lasky?

Lasky sent you.

Okay.

I don't like the car.

I like my wheels stored in a prepared drop.

I like them kept undercover Till I'm ready.

I want my plates snatched

Not more than one hour

Before I move.

Return it. It's too new.

Look, you don't get it.

You see, I rented this car with

A fake set of credit cards,

A phony driver's license.

And I fixed it up all by myself.

So nobody's gonna catch us.

because she's so souped

Up, nobody can catch us.

Maybe the clerk will remember you.

Nah, chance in a thousand.

That's one chance too many.

It's your mug in the lineup,

Not ours, if you get caught.

We got a cool car for a change.

I'd like to meet Our employer -

This spread, all rented.

No check-in, no luggage,

No bellhops remembering

How much you tipped them.

That's sharp.

I got your money.

You gonna count it?

Dancer never counts.

Nobody every gave us A short count yet.

Well, it could be the porter

Who stole my bag.

Are you sure?

Well, I hate to say yes and then find

That the man who was responsible

Was still at large.

Yeah, sure.

Would it help your memory at all

to know if the fingerprints

We found on your grip

Matched the fingerprints...

of that man in there?

Do they?

They do.

Well, then,

I guess that's it.

Yes, he does Look like the man at that.

Who was he, ben?

Name's blinky simms -

Has a long record with the FBI.

How was he killed?

Someone gave him a shot That was hot.

Hot?

Blinky was on heroin.

He was probably promised

A fix for stealing your bag.

Instead, he got a hotshot -

A deadly poison injected

Directly into the bloodstream.

Well, thanks very much

for coming down, Mr. Dressler.

This has all been

Quite upsetting, gentlemen.

But if you need me for anything else,

Please call me.

Mm-hmm.

I don't like Mr. Philip Dressler.

He's too smooth.

Well, like him or not,

He's clean as a plaster saint

As far as we're concerned Right now.

How does it feel to make

Five g's in one day?

Dancer derives No particular feeling from it.

Oh, no, not much.

I've been watching you, Mclain.

You've been coming on too big.

I don't like that.

Look, I just -

Please, we prefer as little

Conversation as possible

From outsiders.

Dancer works better that way.

You didn't know before.

Now you do.

Where do we meet this guy?

Pacific dock straight ahead.

How do we know that's him?

He's wearing horn-rimmed

Glasses, ain't he?

He's wearing a trench coat,

Ain't he -...

with the collar turned down?

Now, it's got to be him,

Because who wears a trench coat

with the collar turned down?

That's staples, huh?

I knew a guy like him once.

No, you didn't.

There's never been A guy like dancer.

He's a wonderful, pure,

Pathological study -

A psychopath with no inhibitions.

Lasky sent me.

Well, right on time.

I'm always on time.

They're due to get off The boat pretty soon.

I'll point out The marks to you.

You see,

Dancer is an addict -

An addict with a real big habit.

'h' like in heroin,

Huh?

'h' like in hate.

Oh?

Hmm.

Well, I tell you,

He don't chill me none.

Hmm.

It's bad enough dancer's Got a rough job.

We have to be saddled with a cripple, too?

Listen, dipso,

If I ever see you with a bottle,

If I even smell it -

Okay, okay, okay!

Look, I drive better with it,

You know?

I - I think better, too.

It's just like a medicine for my mind.

Your prescription's Just been canceled.

Two of the three parties

We want are passengers.

The other one's in the crew.

So?

The man told me to deliver it to you.

What you pick up,

You put in it.

How do I make The pass?

At 4:
00 today,

You're at sutro's museum.

You're at the maritime exhibit.

You got that pouch.

You see a ship's binnacle

at the end of the room.

It's got a sliding panel Behind it.

You slide it open,

Put that pouch inside.

You close it.

You do this so nobody Sees you.

That's all.

You got a time spread,

But you got to be out of sutro's

No later than five After four.

Want me to repeat?

Pouch will be picked up at five after four?

All I know is you got to be out

of that place by then.

You're repeating yourself.

Pretty neat operation,

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