The Long Goodbye Page #7

I used to have a study over there.

Roger, you owe me $4,400.

You will pay me what you owe me.

No, actually, I don't wish

to pay you what I owe you.

Roger, I'm not leaving without the money.

Don't leave. I don't give a sh*t. Get

your ass outta here and let's have a party.

- Write the cheque.

- What cheque?

- Write the cheque.

- What cheque?

Write the cheque!

- Why, you...

- Oh...

Sh*t. You know, I'm... I'm... I'm...

I'm all... I'm all... I'm all...

I'm all turned around. You... you... you...

Write the cheque for what?

To get outta here?

Yeah, OK.

Yeah, OK.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Would you all like some fresh drinks?

I'll go and get some more ice.

- Don't let this break the party up.

- OK, OK, OK, get out.

Get out, all of you, goddammit!

Get outta here!

It seems the party's come

to an abrupt end. Pumpkin time again.

I'm sorry.

- Thank you for the lovely music.

- My pleasure.

Now sign the cheque, Roger.

That was beautiful.

Bye-bye. See you soon.

That's a good boy.

I apologise for this intrusion, Mrs Wade.

But your husband dislikes paying his bills.

I'm sorry. In future,

I must refuse to accept him as a patient.

We don't accept you as a doctor, quack.

Good day, Mrs Wade.

- Gun cabinet's locked?

- Certainly.

Would you mind closing that door?

It's bad enough having guns in the house.

Roger. Roger.

It's me. Are you asleep?

Contessa...

Looney Tunes, Mr Wade.

I'm exhausted.

Would you like something to eat?

If you got cold baloney, mayonnaise

and bread, I'll hang around for a while.

I can do better than that.

We'll go to the kitchen.

He'll sleep for another five or six hours.

Does your mouth ever get so dry,

you could put a cigarette out in it?

- I don't smoke.

- My mouth is really dry.

I don't understand

how you get the butter in the chicken.

When you cut the chicken,

the butter comes out. I don't understand.

That's the secret about it. Chicken Kiev.

Would you like some cognac,

Grand Marnier, liqueur of some sort?

- What are you gonna have?

- I'm going to stay with the wine.

I'll just have my beer

out of your wine glass, if you don't mind.

- Have you had enough to eat?

- Yeah. It was the fanciest meal I ever had.

In a couple of movies I saw people eat

like this but they had four or five servants.

- You did this all by yourself?

- Sure.

- Who does the dishes?

- I do.

- I am impressed.

- That's nice to know.

- I'll tell you, though...

- Would you like coffee?

Seriously, I think you oughta

consider staying in a hotel.

Or do you have some friends

you could spend the night with?

I did that once. My husband smashed up

everything I owned, practically.

When I came back,

I found him unconscious.

- I'm not gonna try that again.

- I know what you mean, Mrs Wade.

- Why don't you call me Eileen?

- Eileen.

Eileen. OK, Eileen, what was Marty

Augustine doing here the other night?

- How did you...

- I followed him here.

He dropped by to have a word with me.

I was curious to see who else he talked to.

Roger owes him some money.

Maybe $10,000 or something like that.

He owes Marty?

He told me Marty owed him.

You heard what Dr Verringer said.

He hates to part with money.

I heard a lot of people said that Terry

Lennox was working for Marty Augustine.

- I don't believe it.

- That's what I heard.

Your husband ever talk about

the Lennoxes? About Sylvia Lennox?

No.

Was he having an affair

with Sylvia Lennox?

I don't wish to continue

this conversation about my husband.

Was he having an affair with somebody

who might have been Sylvia Lennox?

Definitely not.

Where was your husband

the night Sylvia Lennox was killed?

Stay back. Here. Hold my tie.

Roger!

What brought your attention over here?

We were standing on the porch

and having a party over at our place...

We didn't see the guy go in.

What we have is an apparent suicide,

although we haven't found the body yet.

We could see it from the porch.

Then what happened, after the screaming

and the persons running in?

I think he had been

under some kind of psychiatric care.

Question:
Don't you know?

Is this list of witnesses to your husband's

behaviour at the party correct?

Yeah. Everybody is here having

a party now. Everybody's drunk!

Your husband was upset

over Dr Verringer's visit.

He threw everybody out, passed out

and left you alone with Marlowe.

I asked Mr Marlowe to stay.

And there was no motive

that he might have had for killing himself?

Why don't you get a couple of sand crabs,

stick 'em up your nose and disappear?

You go and join him. Will you go upstairs

and tweeze your eyebrows? Just go back.

Eileen, are you lying about Roger?

Are you lying about Roger?

Your crazy, Looney Tune husband

could have killed Sylvia Lennox.

Look...

He's not gonna be walking outta there.

I'm sorry. I thought the guy was OK.

But the police say

that Terry Lennox killed his wife.

- You tell me what really happened.

- Really happened?

Look, Terry Lennox is dead. I wanna know

who killed him, because that guy is dead.

Are you gonna tell me

what really happened?

- He killed Sylvia. I think so. I don't know.

- You think he killed Sylvia Lennox?

Did you just say that you think

that your husband killed Sylvia Lennox?

Are you telling me the truth?

I couldn't tell anybody. I couldn't tell

anybody Roger had an affair with Sylvia.

And Terry found out.

And Sylvia wanted to break it off.

And Roger was jealous and Roger

went to see her and... then she was dead.

And then I read in the paper

that Terry confessed.

- And I don't know what to think.

- You don't know what to think?

I know what to think. I know

what to do and I know what to think.

Farmer! I want you to open up the

Terry Lennox case. I got new information.

I have fresh evidence

for you to reopen the Terry Lennox case.

The lady down there, Mrs Roger Wade,

is prepared to give evidence

that her husband was sleeping with Sylvia

Lennox the night that she was killed.

I had my ass busted for three days

because you said my friend killed her.

We know that Roger Wade

saw Sylvia Lennox that afternoon.

We know what time he left her. We know

he went directly to Verringer's clinic.

- You knew all the time?

- He was there all the time and in sedation.

So do me a favour. Go back to your

gumshoes and peeping and let us alone.

- You want me to let you alone?

- That's right. Let us alone.

You son of a b*tch. You're gonna

get everything all straightened out.

I saw that man who walked into

the Pacific Ocean

gave Dr Whatever-his-name-is $5,000

for an alibi so you could keep your job.

I'm gonna call Ronald Reagan

to kick your ass off.

You're gonna be selling bus tickets,

you son of a b*tch.

Terry Lennox was my friend,

you motherf***er!

You don't deserve to be alive,

you f***ing pig!

# There's a long goodbye

# And it happens every day...

Marlowe.

How nice to see you.

It's so cooperative of you to come over.

I never mind cooperating,

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