1 00:00:06,010 --> 00:00:09,138 There's five lost songs worth about a million dollars apiece. 2 00:00:09,214 --> 00:00:11,614 And Thomas and his assistants are going to split 10%. 3 00:00:11,683 --> 00:00:14,049 Believe me, if any of my nurses had been the object 4 00:00:14,119 --> 00:00:16,280 of five beautiful love songs, I'd have known about it. 5 00:00:16,354 --> 00:00:18,151 Whatever I have to do, 6 00:00:18,223 --> 00:00:20,783 Billy Cockrell is not getting those songs. 7 00:00:21,526 --> 00:00:23,960 She's got them and we must've led him right to her. 8 00:00:24,662 --> 00:00:25,890 You tell me... 9 00:00:25,964 --> 00:00:27,022 T. C? 10 00:00:27,098 --> 00:00:28,656 You better throw wide and duck. 11 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,531 Come on, you guys. 12 00:01:46,044 --> 00:01:50,572 Last word woman, don't say please 13 00:01:50,648 --> 00:01:54,675 Last word woman I'm down on my knees 14 00:01:54,752 --> 00:01:59,815 And I'm not the first man that told you goodbye 15 00:01:59,891 --> 00:02:03,952 Let me be the first to ask for one last try 16 00:02:04,028 --> 00:02:08,021 I'll give you the last word about my money 17 00:02:08,499 --> 00:02:12,697 I'll give you the last word about my time 18 00:02:13,271 --> 00:02:17,867 I'll give you the last word until the day I die 19 00:02:17,942 --> 00:02:22,140 If your last word in my life is goodbye 20 00:02:23,047 --> 00:02:26,881 Yes, your last word in my life 21 00:02:26,951 --> 00:02:29,511 Is goodbye 22 00:02:31,189 --> 00:02:33,623 Thank you all. Thank you, folks. 23 00:02:34,826 --> 00:02:36,054 Thank you. 24 00:02:37,962 --> 00:02:39,657 Thank you all. Thank you. 25 00:02:44,002 --> 00:02:45,196 Thank you. 26 00:02:46,771 --> 00:02:49,763 Georgie, hey, come on. Get up. Are you okay? I'm okay. 27 00:02:53,344 --> 00:02:55,608 You get him back out there. Contract says encore. 28 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:56,942 That was an encore. 29 00:02:59,050 --> 00:03:01,041 Hey, get her on the phone for me, Lacy, will you? 30 00:03:01,119 --> 00:03:02,518 I wanna give her the good news. 31 00:03:02,587 --> 00:03:04,179 George Lee Jessup! 32 00:03:04,255 --> 00:03:07,315 Yes, now, folks, are we gonna let him get away without one more song? 33 00:03:07,392 --> 00:03:09,019 No! No! 34 00:03:09,093 --> 00:03:12,187 Operator? Get me Honolulu, Hawaii. 35 00:03:12,263 --> 00:03:14,390 5-3-5-7-2. 36 00:03:14,465 --> 00:03:16,490 Georgie, hey, you know, listen. 37 00:03:16,567 --> 00:03:18,159 We'll call her from Richmond. 38 00:03:18,236 --> 00:03:19,726 I can have us there in an hour. 39 00:03:19,804 --> 00:03:21,772 Billy, leave him alone! 40 00:03:21,839 --> 00:03:24,808 One more song! One more song! 41 00:03:24,909 --> 00:03:26,706 George Lee Jessup! 42 00:03:27,045 --> 00:03:28,137 He's drunker than hell. 43 00:03:28,513 --> 00:03:31,038 His fans have seen him tanked up before. It don't bother them. 44 00:03:31,115 --> 00:03:33,777 Why, because you say it don't? 45 00:03:33,851 --> 00:03:35,182 Drop it, Billy. 46 00:03:35,253 --> 00:03:37,551 Get the rest of the boys and head for the car. 47 00:03:39,724 --> 00:03:43,023 One more song! One more song! 48 00:03:43,094 --> 00:03:44,823 George Lee Jessup! 49 00:03:44,896 --> 00:03:49,697 One more song! One more song! George Lee Jessup! 50 00:03:49,767 --> 00:03:51,667 Here you go, Georgie. She's on. 51 00:03:53,204 --> 00:03:54,432 Thanks, Lacy. 52 00:03:59,110 --> 00:04:00,270 Laurie? 53 00:04:02,113 --> 00:04:04,980 Hey, baby. Are you sitting down? 54 00:04:05,550 --> 00:04:08,644 Yeah, we're finally gonna do it, honey. Pack up your uniforms. 55 00:04:12,290 --> 00:04:15,259 Well, I mean, I found me a general who loves my music, 56 00:04:15,460 --> 00:04:18,122 and he's gonna get you a transfer to one of them bases in Texas 57 00:04:18,196 --> 00:04:20,289 till your discharge papers come through. 58 00:04:20,832 --> 00:04:23,699 And I play Dallas next week. Now what do you think of that? 59 00:04:25,169 --> 00:04:28,468 I'm asking you politely now. Please step on back. 60 00:04:28,906 --> 00:04:30,771 Hey, we're gonna get married there. 61 00:04:38,216 --> 00:04:40,616 Hey, Laurie, come on now, baby. Now quit kidding around, now. 62 00:04:40,685 --> 00:04:42,380 You! You! Stop shoving, now. 63 00:04:43,654 --> 00:04:46,145 Now, Laurie, I said, now quit kidding around, baby. 64 00:04:48,092 --> 00:04:49,116 Laurie? 65 00:05:16,087 --> 00:05:18,385 Hey, let's get this thing in the air fast. 66 00:05:18,456 --> 00:05:19,855 Talk to Georgie. 67 00:05:21,492 --> 00:05:22,857 I ain't the pilot. 68 00:05:22,927 --> 00:05:25,794 Hey! What do you mean? 69 00:05:25,863 --> 00:05:27,125 Of course you're the pilot. 70 00:05:27,198 --> 00:05:30,292 No, Lacy, that's what I wound up being. 71 00:05:30,968 --> 00:05:34,062 I'm a good picker and I'm a good writer 72 00:05:34,138 --> 00:05:37,437 and I'm sick of flying and playing bass 73 00:05:38,009 --> 00:05:40,637 and getting pushed around by the big star's flunky. 74 00:05:40,711 --> 00:05:42,178 Will you get serious, Billy? 75 00:05:42,246 --> 00:05:45,306 You mean to tell me you'd let Georgie take us up tonight? 76 00:05:45,383 --> 00:05:47,112 You know he's had too much. 77 00:05:47,185 --> 00:05:48,846 And he and Laurie just had a big spat. 78 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,356 Lacy, those are his problems and yours. 79 00:05:53,057 --> 00:05:55,321 I'm on the next bus back to Nashville. 80 00:05:55,393 --> 00:05:56,724 Damn right! 81 00:05:59,130 --> 00:06:01,655 Hey, Georgie, I'll get us a hotel here tonight. 82 00:06:01,732 --> 00:06:03,859 George... Billy, please. 83 00:06:09,807 --> 00:06:10,967 Georgie! 84 00:06:50,114 --> 00:06:53,242 No, no, no, no. Pianissimo, ladies and gentlemen, please. 85 00:06:53,317 --> 00:06:56,047 All I'm hearing is one harsh, constant... 86 00:07:06,164 --> 00:07:08,598 Thomas, can't you turn that thing down? 87 00:07:08,666 --> 00:07:12,568 Magnum, stop playing that record immediately! 88 00:07:12,637 --> 00:07:15,868 Higgins, now, listen, I'm sorry I disturbed your rehearsal, 89 00:07:15,940 --> 00:07:19,239 but I had to listen to it that loud in order to hear the lyrics for clues! 90 00:07:19,310 --> 00:07:22,108 No, it's all in the line of work. Higgins, don't break it! 91 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:24,011 Now, it belongs to the library and it's... 92 00:07:24,081 --> 00:07:26,049 One of George Lee Jessup's rarest recordings 93 00:07:26,117 --> 00:07:29,109 and you may very well have damaged the grooves with this modern stylus! 94 00:07:29,187 --> 00:07:30,950 You're into this hillbilly yuck? 95 00:07:31,022 --> 00:07:33,217 This hillbilly yuck happens to trace its roots 96 00:07:33,291 --> 00:07:34,690 back to the Saxon folk ballads. 97 00:07:34,759 --> 00:07:37,523 Yeah, well, fortunately, Higgins, we don't have to go back that far. 98 00:07:37,595 --> 00:07:40,564 No, your research, I'm sure, begins and ends with 1954. 99 00:07:40,631 --> 00:07:41,859 Higgins... You got it! 100 00:07:41,933 --> 00:07:44,367 Five million bucks of this guy's old records laying around. 101 00:07:44,435 --> 00:07:48,201 And Thomas and his assistants are gonna split 10%% just for finding the stuff. 102 00:07:48,272 --> 00:07:51,207 Yes, the lost Jessup songs could easily be that valuable 103 00:07:51,275 --> 00:07:52,833 if they existed. They do not. 104 00:07:52,910 --> 00:07:54,434 Higgins, this doesn't concern you. 105 00:07:54,512 --> 00:07:58,346 What concerns me is that you could so easily be duped by such a ridiculous myth. 106 00:07:58,416 --> 00:08:01,408 Every moment of Jessup's hospitalization here has been researched. 107 00:08:01,485 --> 00:08:04,352 There was no nurse, no love affair and therefore, no songs. 108 00:08:04,422 --> 00:08:06,788 Well, yes, the client does admit 109 00:08:06,857 --> 00:08:09,792 that no one else has any faith in the songs but him. 110 00:08:09,860 --> 00:08:13,261 But you saw no reason to bring this up 111 00:08:13,331 --> 00:08:14,992 before you conned us into this? 112 00:08:15,066 --> 00:08:17,296 I didn't con you! This guy has proof! 113 00:08:17,368 --> 00:08:20,531 There's five lost songs worth about a million dollars apiece. 114 00:08:20,605 --> 00:08:23,699 That's absurd. How could he possibly know the exact number? 115 00:08:24,609 --> 00:08:25,974 Because he's an expert! 116 00:08:26,043 --> 00:08:27,772 Well, no true expert would dare to attempt 117 00:08:27,845 --> 00:08:30,405 to determine the value of works by a legend like Jessup. 118 00:08:30,481 --> 00:08:33,075 Hold it! Just hold it! 119 00:08:33,150 --> 00:08:35,482 You two guys are arguing about songs that don't even exist? 120 00:08:35,553 --> 00:08:36,850 Yes! No! 121 00:08:37,622 --> 00:08:39,715 You can count me out. 122 00:08:39,924 --> 00:08:42,392 No! Wait, T.C., Higgins is wrong! 123 00:08:59,577 --> 00:09:01,545 Well, that's a pretty good fiddle. 124 00:09:01,979 --> 00:09:03,970 The A string's just a hair sharp. 125 00:09:04,582 --> 00:09:06,277 What's the meaning of this? 126 00:09:06,350 --> 00:09:09,786 Oh, it just means that his A's not a perfect fifth from his D. 127 00:09:09,854 --> 00:09:11,754 Who are you? How did you get on the estate? 128 00:09:11,822 --> 00:09:14,916 And what manner of man simply picks up a $20,000 violin 129 00:09:14,992 --> 00:09:16,687 and plays it without asking permission? 130 00:09:16,761 --> 00:09:19,594 Well, Lacy Fletcher's the name. I come by taxi. 131 00:09:19,664 --> 00:09:23,259 And what manner of man asks a fiddle if it wants to be played? 132 00:09:23,334 --> 00:09:24,801 Something wrong, Higgins? 133 00:09:24,902 --> 00:09:28,099 Thomas Magnum, Lacy. I'm sorry I didn't pick you up at the airport. 134 00:09:28,172 --> 00:09:31,608 That's all right. You didn't have to hire a band to welcome me. 135 00:09:32,743 --> 00:09:36,270 The band is the Oahu String Quartet, Mr. Fletcher. 136 00:09:36,347 --> 00:09:39,077 We're rehearsing for our maiden recital. 137 00:09:39,684 --> 00:09:44,018 I'm Jonathan Higgins, the conductor, and it's a great honor to meet you. 138 00:09:44,088 --> 00:09:45,453 Likewise. 139 00:09:45,656 --> 00:09:47,681 That's Theodore Calvin. Rick Wright. 140 00:09:48,225 --> 00:09:50,056 They're helping me out on the case. 141 00:09:50,127 --> 00:09:52,561 Wrong, wrong. No offense, Lacy, 142 00:09:52,630 --> 00:09:55,463 but from what I understand, no one else believes these songs exist. 143 00:09:55,533 --> 00:09:58,434 Including George Lee Jessup's closest friend. 144 00:09:58,502 --> 00:10:00,993 At least that's what he's always told the press. 145 00:10:01,072 --> 00:10:02,596 Correct, Mr. Fletcher? 146 00:10:03,374 --> 00:10:07,401 I thought you told me on the phone that you were a private investigator? 147 00:10:07,978 --> 00:10:09,343 Now, wait a minute, Lacy. 148 00:10:09,413 --> 00:10:12,405 Wait, nothing! I've been waiting for 30 years. 149 00:10:12,483 --> 00:10:17,352 Lying to the press, everybody, 'cause if those songs had been found before now, 150 00:10:17,421 --> 00:10:19,446 Georgie's estate would've got them. 151 00:10:19,890 --> 00:10:24,987 Well, the time finally comes when whoever finds them, gets them. 152 00:10:25,296 --> 00:10:27,423 And the one person that I tell my secret to 153 00:10:27,498 --> 00:10:29,363 has got to blab it all over the island. 154 00:10:29,433 --> 00:10:32,334 Hey, hey, nobody's trying to steal your songs. 155 00:10:32,636 --> 00:10:34,467 In fact, as far as I'm concerned, 156 00:10:34,538 --> 00:10:35,937 you're the only one that believes in them. 157 00:10:36,006 --> 00:10:38,065 Mr. Fletcher, do you have proof that the songs exist? 158 00:10:38,142 --> 00:10:40,406 Yeah. My word. 159 00:10:41,846 --> 00:10:43,040 And this. 160 00:10:45,750 --> 00:10:48,014 Probably all you'll need to find Laurie. 161 00:10:55,159 --> 00:10:57,957 But how could he have called her at the same pay phone 162 00:10:58,028 --> 00:10:59,893 every Saturday night, for over a year? 163 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:03,389 Lacy? 164 00:11:05,236 --> 00:11:06,396 Lacy! 165 00:11:07,004 --> 00:11:10,269 Well, maybe, she lived in the WAC barracks. 166 00:11:10,341 --> 00:11:13,936 Well, fine. Then all four of the Lauries there in '54 could've used it. 167 00:11:14,011 --> 00:11:16,104 Well, then you just got to look up the pay phones 168 00:11:16,180 --> 00:11:17,772 in the different barrack hallways. 169 00:11:17,848 --> 00:11:21,284 Lacy, it's not that simple. The phones aren't listed numerically. 170 00:11:21,352 --> 00:11:22,785 We could be here all night. 171 00:11:22,853 --> 00:11:25,083 Well, I could've hired anybody to complain. 172 00:11:25,156 --> 00:11:28,284 You gotta expect to put out a little effort for your $500,000. 173 00:11:28,359 --> 00:11:29,656 Put out a little... 174 00:11:29,994 --> 00:11:33,293 A half day at the Army archives, another half day here. 175 00:11:33,364 --> 00:11:36,231 A whole day with Ms. Jones at the hall of records. 176 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:37,528 Put out a little... 177 00:11:37,601 --> 00:11:39,228 Mr. And Mrs. Jones, if you please 178 00:11:39,303 --> 00:11:41,066 And the desk clerk smirks on hands and knees 179 00:11:41,138 --> 00:11:42,264 Lacy. 180 00:11:43,707 --> 00:11:46,733 Lacy. Lacy. Please. 181 00:11:47,411 --> 00:11:48,708 I'm sorry, 182 00:11:48,779 --> 00:11:52,977 but two straight days of non-stop country gold is a lot. 183 00:11:54,318 --> 00:11:55,910 Could we just take a break? 184 00:11:55,986 --> 00:11:59,387 Hey, break ball don't have to fall on me. Fine. Thank you. 185 00:12:00,090 --> 00:12:02,285 You know what? I've been meaning to ask you. 186 00:12:02,359 --> 00:12:05,453 Why didn't you call her at that pay phone after the plane crash? 187 00:12:05,529 --> 00:12:08,430 Well, I did. Soon as I got out of the hospital. 188 00:12:08,499 --> 00:12:09,966 It was disconnected. 189 00:12:10,167 --> 00:12:11,225 What? 190 00:12:14,004 --> 00:12:15,995 The five-digit number wasn't converted? 191 00:12:16,073 --> 00:12:17,973 Why didn't you tell me? 192 00:12:18,042 --> 00:12:20,272 Well, what difference does it make? 193 00:12:20,344 --> 00:12:23,370 The difference is, I would've been looking in the right place. 194 00:12:23,447 --> 00:12:24,812 Now, when did you call her? 195 00:12:24,882 --> 00:12:29,512 Well, it was early November, 1954. 196 00:12:29,587 --> 00:12:30,576 Why? 197 00:12:30,921 --> 00:12:35,585 Lacy, those old phone numbers are listed by their cut-off date. 198 00:12:42,066 --> 00:12:45,467 Right. Here it is. 5-3-5-7-2. 199 00:12:46,170 --> 00:12:50,470 "Removed 11-2-54 from Pearl Harbor Hospital nurses' lounge." 200 00:12:51,575 --> 00:12:54,772 Nurses... Hey, you're cooking. I can tell. Right, huh? 201 00:12:56,614 --> 00:13:00,607 Prince, Prince. "Sergeant Laura Johnson Prince, 202 00:13:00,818 --> 00:13:03,878 "discharged May 1955, married to Desmond." 203 00:13:05,022 --> 00:13:08,116 Lacy, she's still living here on the island. Hey, that's great. 204 00:13:08,192 --> 00:13:09,989 Maybe the other three are, too, then, huh? 205 00:13:10,060 --> 00:13:14,258 Yeah, but the other three weren't working next to that pay phone all of 1954. 206 00:13:14,498 --> 00:13:18,025 Hey, I think you got it. 207 00:13:19,436 --> 00:13:23,236 But I'm afraid I've never even heard of your Mr. Jessup. 208 00:13:23,307 --> 00:13:25,036 Well, at least I've heard the name. 209 00:13:25,109 --> 00:13:28,101 He was a cowboy singer in the '50s, wasn't he? 210 00:13:28,178 --> 00:13:31,409 Country music artist. There's a difference. 211 00:13:31,482 --> 00:13:32,972 I see. I'm sorry. 212 00:13:33,050 --> 00:13:37,043 Mrs. Crane, are you sure that none of the other Lauries on that list 213 00:13:37,121 --> 00:13:39,089 could have worked near that telephone? 214 00:13:39,423 --> 00:13:41,755 Well, not in '54. 215 00:13:41,825 --> 00:13:44,555 I was the ward nurses' supervisor. 216 00:13:45,029 --> 00:13:47,520 You positive this woman was enlisted? 217 00:13:47,765 --> 00:13:51,030 Yes, ma'am. She was a WAC. There's no doubt about it. 218 00:13:51,101 --> 00:13:53,626 Georgie couldn't talk about anything else 219 00:13:53,704 --> 00:13:56,002 except when she was gonna get her discharge papers. 220 00:13:56,073 --> 00:13:58,667 Wait a minute. This was a long time ago. 221 00:13:59,310 --> 00:14:01,471 Honey, you don't recall a girl saying 222 00:14:01,545 --> 00:14:04,309 that she had a boyfriend who wrote country tunes? 223 00:14:04,448 --> 00:14:06,211 I'm afraid not. 224 00:14:07,318 --> 00:14:09,786 Believe me, if any of my nurses had been the object 225 00:14:09,853 --> 00:14:12,686 of five beautiful love songs, I'd have known about it. 226 00:14:12,756 --> 00:14:16,715 Young ladies have a tendency to brag about that sort of thing. 227 00:14:22,132 --> 00:14:24,965 - That woman is lying. - Now, wait a minute. 228 00:14:25,035 --> 00:14:26,730 She didn't deserve Georgie. 229 00:14:55,199 --> 00:14:56,188 Lacy. 230 00:14:56,767 --> 00:14:58,632 Hey, Magnum. 231 00:14:59,603 --> 00:15:01,127 Well, I found it. 232 00:15:01,872 --> 00:15:05,069 Right here's the place. This is where he wrote the song. 233 00:15:05,442 --> 00:15:09,776 See, he had this real bad shrapnel wound that he got over there in Korea... 234 00:15:09,847 --> 00:15:11,075 I know, Lacy. 235 00:15:12,249 --> 00:15:14,740 Yeah, they sent him over here... I know, you told me. 236 00:15:14,818 --> 00:15:16,445 Yeah. To the hospital. 237 00:15:17,755 --> 00:15:19,484 That's the retainer you gave me. 238 00:15:23,227 --> 00:15:25,195 You don't think that there is a case. 239 00:15:26,864 --> 00:15:27,990 Oh... 240 00:15:29,433 --> 00:15:32,061 It doesn't really matter what I believe, Lacy. 241 00:15:34,038 --> 00:15:36,199 I know it's not in you to doubt Jessup. 242 00:15:36,273 --> 00:15:39,709 That's right. One thing about Georgie, he never lied. 243 00:15:39,777 --> 00:15:42,268 Well, fine. Fine. 244 00:15:42,346 --> 00:15:45,782 But George Lee Jessup's word is not a lead. 245 00:15:45,849 --> 00:15:47,874 And the only tangible one you gave me is gone. 246 00:15:47,951 --> 00:15:49,885 You're wrong. You're dead wrong. 247 00:15:49,953 --> 00:15:52,979 That phone number did its job. It led us to Laurie. 248 00:15:53,824 --> 00:15:57,021 So you keep telling me, but you've got absolutely no proof. 249 00:15:57,094 --> 00:15:58,527 Don't I? 250 00:16:01,432 --> 00:16:03,423 Let me ask you something, Magnum. 251 00:16:05,035 --> 00:16:07,526 How did she know that there were just five songs? 252 00:16:08,205 --> 00:16:09,536 Five? Yeah. 253 00:16:09,606 --> 00:16:12,939 That's what she said yesterday, "Five beautiful songs." 254 00:16:13,410 --> 00:16:15,605 Now, nobody knew the exact number, 255 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:18,842 except me and her and Georgie. 256 00:16:19,149 --> 00:16:21,617 And you're the first person that I've ever told. 257 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,111 Maybe she made a wild guess. 258 00:16:25,489 --> 00:16:27,423 I'm sorry, Lacy, it's not enough. 259 00:16:29,727 --> 00:16:32,696 Well, okay, all right. You get me a copy of her handwriting, 260 00:16:32,763 --> 00:16:35,163 and I'll give you all the proof that you want. 261 00:16:37,634 --> 00:16:41,661 Well, I guess I got no choice but to trust you all the way. Here, hold this. 262 00:16:43,841 --> 00:16:48,801 There was this private box where I used to pick up Georgie's letters from her. 263 00:16:49,580 --> 00:16:51,309 It was a kind of a secret thing. 264 00:16:51,381 --> 00:16:53,008 Now, this letter here... 265 00:16:53,083 --> 00:16:57,179 Well, she evidently hadn't heard about the accident when she wrote it. 266 00:16:57,254 --> 00:17:00,553 It was in the box when I got out of the hospital. 267 00:17:01,225 --> 00:17:02,590 It's never been opened. 268 00:17:03,393 --> 00:17:05,486 I know. That's Georgie's private mail. 269 00:17:06,430 --> 00:17:07,624 Private? 270 00:17:07,931 --> 00:17:10,798 Lacy, he's been dead for 30 years. You never opened this, knowing... 271 00:17:10,868 --> 00:17:15,032 Hey, listen, I looked after Georgie's privacy when he was alive. 272 00:17:15,405 --> 00:17:18,431 Well, I'm sure not gonna start peeking in his keyholes now. 273 00:17:18,509 --> 00:17:22,468 Well, you're asking me to peek into Laurie Crane's, without good reason. 274 00:17:26,049 --> 00:17:30,247 I've played a darn good poker hand, waiting out that copyright. 275 00:17:31,822 --> 00:17:35,223 You know, when I told everybody that there wasn't any more songs, 276 00:17:35,592 --> 00:17:36,854 and they believed me. 277 00:17:38,495 --> 00:17:41,692 Now it comes time to pick up the pot and... 278 00:17:45,669 --> 00:17:47,364 Well, I need some help. 279 00:18:01,285 --> 00:18:04,254 I hocked everything that I got to make this trip. 280 00:18:05,589 --> 00:18:07,853 If I go back empty-handed... 281 00:18:09,426 --> 00:18:12,122 Well, I guess you'd say that I'm finished. 282 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,433 That seems like reason enough to me 283 00:18:20,404 --> 00:18:22,895 to get one little old handwriting sample. 284 00:18:23,507 --> 00:18:25,236 I'll talk to her again. 285 00:18:26,577 --> 00:18:27,635 Alone. 286 00:18:27,744 --> 00:18:29,006 Yeah. 287 00:18:31,481 --> 00:18:33,312 Talk to me about what, Mr. Magnum? 288 00:18:33,517 --> 00:18:36,111 Well, I was wondering if you could just give me a short written statement 289 00:18:36,186 --> 00:18:39,485 verifying what you told me yesterday. Just for my records. 290 00:18:39,556 --> 00:18:42,457 I fail to see why I should have to verify anything. 291 00:18:42,693 --> 00:18:45,685 Well, no, no, but this'll just take a few minutes. 292 00:18:46,964 --> 00:18:49,398 A few minutes, a day. 293 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,864 I don't have the time or the inclination. 294 00:18:51,935 --> 00:18:53,926 All right? Well, that's fine. Fine. 295 00:18:54,004 --> 00:18:57,201 Why don't I just jot down what you told me and I'll bring it by for you to sign? 296 00:18:57,274 --> 00:18:59,242 It would just say that you never knew Jessup. 297 00:18:59,309 --> 00:19:01,573 No! I'm sorry. 298 00:19:02,045 --> 00:19:04,377 I don't know where everybody got the idea 299 00:19:04,448 --> 00:19:06,348 that I was George's lover in the first place. 300 00:19:06,416 --> 00:19:08,577 Yes, where indeed? 301 00:19:09,419 --> 00:19:10,613 Mr. Magnum, 302 00:19:11,288 --> 00:19:14,052 you've worn out your welcome. Now, would you please leave? 303 00:19:14,858 --> 00:19:16,086 I'm just trying to... 304 00:19:16,159 --> 00:19:19,492 You're trying to talk my wife out of something she's handwritten. Why? 305 00:19:19,563 --> 00:19:22,396 And don't tell me it has anything to do with your records. 306 00:19:22,466 --> 00:19:26,596 Look, Lacy has a letter written by this Laurie to Jessup. 307 00:19:26,670 --> 00:19:30,470 Now, this whole thing could be cleared up by a simple handwriting comparison. 308 00:19:30,540 --> 00:19:31,529 Look, 309 00:19:32,175 --> 00:19:33,904 we've tried being very nice about this, 310 00:19:33,977 --> 00:19:37,208 but if you and those country music people don't stop bothering us, 311 00:19:37,281 --> 00:19:38,646 I'm gonna call the police. 312 00:19:38,715 --> 00:19:41,240 Excuse me a second. "Those country music people"? 313 00:19:41,318 --> 00:19:45,379 A Nashville publisher, yesterday after you left and early today. 314 00:19:46,023 --> 00:19:50,255 Believe me, we would gladly take their million if we had the songs, but we don't. 315 00:19:50,327 --> 00:19:54,627 Now you listen to me very carefully. My wife is not your Laurie. 316 00:19:59,469 --> 00:20:01,903 Sweet, sad and wild 317 00:20:02,272 --> 00:20:04,832 We're like a flaming rocket 318 00:20:04,908 --> 00:20:07,968 That bursts and then it dies 319 00:20:08,045 --> 00:20:11,242 'Cause after cheating kisses, honey 320 00:20:11,315 --> 00:20:13,749 Comes the hurting time 321 00:20:13,817 --> 00:20:15,444 Yeah, you got it. 322 00:20:15,953 --> 00:20:18,979 After cheating kisses, honey 323 00:20:19,056 --> 00:20:21,854 Comes the hurting time 324 00:20:25,762 --> 00:20:28,663 First recorded on March 4, 1953. 325 00:20:28,732 --> 00:20:31,701 Well, I couldn't say for sure. We cut a lot of songs. 326 00:20:33,637 --> 00:20:35,867 Well, I'd best get back to work. 327 00:20:36,039 --> 00:20:38,234 Higgins, you know, I'd feel a lot better 328 00:20:38,308 --> 00:20:42,938 about taking your offer of a room if I could help out around here. 329 00:20:44,147 --> 00:20:48,550 Well, now you could tune Mr. Lahani's third. It's a hair out again. 330 00:21:20,751 --> 00:21:21,979 Extraordinary. 331 00:21:22,986 --> 00:21:25,011 I'm not familiar with that music. 332 00:21:25,355 --> 00:21:26,447 Late French? 333 00:21:27,224 --> 00:21:29,454 No, it's early Lacy Fletcher. 334 00:21:29,626 --> 00:21:31,856 I really used to be into classical stuff. 335 00:21:34,765 --> 00:21:37,165 Has it ever been performed publicly? 336 00:21:37,701 --> 00:21:39,532 No, I'm afraid not. 337 00:21:39,603 --> 00:21:42,470 Never could come up with a decent set of lyrics for it. 338 00:21:43,407 --> 00:21:45,272 I'm quite serious, Lacy. 339 00:21:45,342 --> 00:21:48,743 The Oahu String Quartet would be most honored to premier it. 340 00:21:49,446 --> 00:21:52,210 Well, that's very flattering, Higgins, but... 341 00:21:52,516 --> 00:21:55,144 Hey, there's no way I could score that in two days. 342 00:21:55,218 --> 00:21:56,583 Lacy? 343 00:21:56,653 --> 00:21:58,553 Hey, any luck? Did you get it? 344 00:21:59,489 --> 00:22:01,480 Lacy, who's Billy Cockrell? 345 00:22:03,794 --> 00:22:05,284 How much did he offer them? 346 00:22:05,529 --> 00:22:07,190 A million, and still bidding. 347 00:22:07,898 --> 00:22:10,332 That sneaking... Damn! 348 00:22:10,767 --> 00:22:11,927 I knew it! 349 00:22:12,002 --> 00:22:14,527 The only other person that knows that she's got them 350 00:22:14,604 --> 00:22:16,504 and we must've led him right to her! 351 00:22:16,573 --> 00:22:19,474 Oh, well, never mind. I gotta stop him from getting Georgie's stuff. 352 00:22:19,543 --> 00:22:22,376 Calm down, Lacy. The Cranes didn't accept it. They're not admitting... 353 00:22:22,446 --> 00:22:24,539 Oh, sure! Why not wait till he goes to two million? 354 00:22:24,614 --> 00:22:25,911 Robin Masters' estate. 355 00:22:25,982 --> 00:22:28,382 Lacy, wait a minute. No! Whatever I have to do, 356 00:22:28,452 --> 00:22:31,387 Billy Cockrell is not getting those songs. 357 00:22:31,455 --> 00:22:34,390 Yes, one moment. A woman. Why does she have this number? 358 00:22:35,392 --> 00:22:37,485 Because I wanted to be sure she could reach me. 359 00:22:37,561 --> 00:22:39,552 Hello? - Mr. Magnum? 360 00:22:40,497 --> 00:22:42,328 I'm here, Mrs. Crane. 361 00:22:45,569 --> 00:22:46,558 Well? 362 00:22:48,305 --> 00:22:50,933 I don't understand. You asked for the meeting. 363 00:22:51,675 --> 00:22:54,508 Yes. And you asked for a sample of my handwriting. 364 00:22:54,778 --> 00:22:56,746 But what you were really interested in 365 00:22:56,813 --> 00:22:59,304 is seeing if I'd react to the mention of a letter. 366 00:22:59,883 --> 00:23:01,282 May I see it, please? 367 00:23:01,685 --> 00:23:04,586 I don't have it. Lacy never lets it out of his sight. 368 00:23:04,988 --> 00:23:07,957 I'm sure he would, for the right arrangement. 369 00:23:08,391 --> 00:23:10,586 Mrs. Crane, that letter's never been opened. 370 00:23:14,131 --> 00:23:19,398 I think that it would mean a lot to Lacy just to give it back to the real Laurie. 371 00:23:19,903 --> 00:23:21,427 Songs or no songs. 372 00:23:21,505 --> 00:23:25,134 The only arrangement he wants 373 00:23:25,842 --> 00:23:28,675 is for her to say that she loved George Lee Jessup. 374 00:23:30,113 --> 00:23:31,637 That's not possible. 375 00:23:33,250 --> 00:23:37,812 Maybe even sometime when Desmond isn't around? 376 00:23:39,756 --> 00:23:41,951 You were married to him then, weren't you? 377 00:23:43,026 --> 00:23:44,926 I checked your marriage license. 378 00:23:47,030 --> 00:23:48,964 Is that what was in the letter? 379 00:23:49,065 --> 00:23:51,363 I wrote it the night George was killed. 380 00:23:51,668 --> 00:23:55,798 When he called that night and told me that he'd gotten me a transfer, 381 00:23:56,039 --> 00:24:00,976 I'm afraid... I'm sure I was very abrupt. 382 00:24:04,247 --> 00:24:06,647 I just said, "No." 383 00:24:07,350 --> 00:24:10,513 After saying, "How soon?" For three years. 384 00:24:12,455 --> 00:24:14,423 But you kept on saying, 385 00:24:14,991 --> 00:24:17,960 "How soon?" even after you were married to someone else? 386 00:24:19,896 --> 00:24:23,730 Well, after George was famous, 387 00:24:24,034 --> 00:24:26,559 I started reading about somebody I didn't know. 388 00:24:27,003 --> 00:24:29,733 Cancelled performances, bar fights, 389 00:24:29,806 --> 00:24:31,433 and the phone calls. 390 00:24:31,508 --> 00:24:33,772 He sounded so different. 391 00:24:35,078 --> 00:24:36,739 So important, I guess. 392 00:24:37,214 --> 00:24:41,651 I really thought that he'd just meet somebody else and forget me. 393 00:24:42,152 --> 00:24:43,380 But he didn't. 394 00:24:45,255 --> 00:24:46,244 Okay. 395 00:24:51,828 --> 00:24:56,162 But after you were married to Desmond. Why the charade? 396 00:24:56,733 --> 00:25:00,760 Apparently you convinced Jessup that he could only reach you 397 00:25:00,837 --> 00:25:03,305 at this one phone and only on Saturday nights? 398 00:25:04,307 --> 00:25:06,673 He trusted me. I... 399 00:25:07,510 --> 00:25:09,444 He believed if whatever I told him. 400 00:25:09,512 --> 00:25:11,776 I didn't know how to destroy that trust. 401 00:25:12,415 --> 00:25:14,144 Or maybe you didn't want to. 402 00:25:16,219 --> 00:25:17,846 I did love him. 403 00:25:34,571 --> 00:25:36,198 They're really beautiful. 404 00:25:41,611 --> 00:25:42,908 I'll miss them. 405 00:25:49,019 --> 00:25:50,611 What about the letter? 406 00:25:54,190 --> 00:25:56,715 I just didn't want Des to ever see it. 407 00:26:02,732 --> 00:26:04,563 He probably wouldn't have... 408 00:26:04,901 --> 00:26:06,368 Wouldn't have minded. 409 00:26:56,086 --> 00:26:57,348 Here they are, Billy. 410 00:27:03,159 --> 00:27:05,923 You know the chances of ever retrieving them are minimal. 411 00:27:06,830 --> 00:27:08,855 I have a very short list of suspects. 412 00:27:08,932 --> 00:27:10,229 Billy Cockrell. 413 00:27:10,433 --> 00:27:12,128 Rick's checking out the license. 414 00:27:12,202 --> 00:27:15,035 If I'm lucky, it'll be a rental in Billy's name. 415 00:27:15,472 --> 00:27:18,737 Look, are you sure that Lacy said he was going back to Pearl? 416 00:27:18,808 --> 00:27:21,675 Because I'm gonna call the security gate and see if they'll go find him. 417 00:27:21,745 --> 00:27:23,838 Lacy will know what's happened soon enough. 418 00:27:23,913 --> 00:27:26,677 Isn't there someone else who should be notified first? 419 00:27:27,650 --> 00:27:30,312 She now runs a great danger of being exposed. 420 00:27:30,854 --> 00:27:34,119 She should have the opportunity to explain to her husband. 421 00:27:46,903 --> 00:27:48,700 Crane residence. Tanaka. 422 00:27:49,672 --> 00:27:50,798 Lieutenant? 423 00:27:50,974 --> 00:27:52,100 Magnum? 424 00:27:53,443 --> 00:27:56,310 I was calling for Mrs. Crane. Why are you answering the phone? 425 00:27:56,379 --> 00:27:57,607 Because she can't. 426 00:27:58,381 --> 00:27:59,905 Get over here, Magnum. 427 00:28:00,550 --> 00:28:05,146 I want to know the details of your business with the late Laurie Crane. 428 00:28:12,862 --> 00:28:15,126 A neighbor heard a shot and called us. 429 00:28:15,198 --> 00:28:17,132 We notified him at the office. 430 00:28:17,567 --> 00:28:19,592 Why were you calling her, Magnum? 431 00:28:21,371 --> 00:28:23,134 I'm sorry, Mr. Crane. 432 00:28:23,473 --> 00:28:24,497 Yes. 433 00:28:24,574 --> 00:28:26,201 I imagine you would be. 434 00:28:27,143 --> 00:28:31,910 Tell me, were those songs really worth Laurie's life? 435 00:28:32,449 --> 00:28:35,009 There is no reason to think there's any connection 436 00:28:35,084 --> 00:28:37,712 between what happened and the search for these songs. 437 00:28:38,021 --> 00:28:40,489 Well, why don't we let the police decide that. 438 00:28:41,191 --> 00:28:43,751 Now where's Lacy Fletcher and that publisher? 439 00:28:43,993 --> 00:28:46,860 Are we by any chance discussing clients of yours? 440 00:28:48,598 --> 00:28:50,031 A client, Lieutenant. 441 00:28:50,099 --> 00:28:53,262 Yes, and Lacy did hire me to find Laurie Crane, but... 442 00:28:53,336 --> 00:28:55,861 He hired you to harass her 443 00:28:55,939 --> 00:28:59,170 into admitting that she was having an affair with a singer. 444 00:29:00,009 --> 00:29:02,239 He had her so upset. - No! 445 00:29:02,645 --> 00:29:04,340 I did not harass her. 446 00:29:07,750 --> 00:29:10,344 Look, Mr. Crane, 447 00:29:10,753 --> 00:29:12,812 you don't know the whole story about Lacy. 448 00:29:12,889 --> 00:29:16,381 If you did, you'd know the last thing he'd want is something to happen to Laurie. 449 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,259 It's not that I question your judgment of character, Magnum, 450 00:29:20,730 --> 00:29:22,163 but where do I find him? 451 00:29:23,299 --> 00:29:26,826 He'll be at the estate after you've finished your questioning here. 452 00:29:28,371 --> 00:29:29,565 What? 453 00:29:30,006 --> 00:29:33,442 I mean, do you always work until after 8 p.m. At your office, Mr. Crane? 454 00:29:35,078 --> 00:29:37,376 Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. 455 00:29:38,014 --> 00:29:39,504 When it's necessary. 456 00:29:39,582 --> 00:29:41,379 And was it necessary tonight? 457 00:29:41,751 --> 00:29:44,618 I mean, if she was as upset as you say she was, 458 00:29:44,687 --> 00:29:46,154 shouldn't you have been here with her? 459 00:29:46,222 --> 00:29:49,214 That's enough! I can do my job without help. 460 00:29:50,126 --> 00:29:52,686 And you and Fletcher be around when I call. 461 00:30:01,337 --> 00:30:03,271 It's done, Higgins. 462 00:30:05,074 --> 00:30:07,702 Actually, it was a lot easier than I expected. 463 00:30:08,645 --> 00:30:11,580 You did this entire score this evening? 464 00:30:11,981 --> 00:30:13,278 Yeah, well, I... 465 00:30:15,184 --> 00:30:19,143 I needed something to get my mind off of things. She was such a... 466 00:30:21,457 --> 00:30:23,220 Such a sweet person. 467 00:30:24,861 --> 00:30:26,954 He got away with murdering Georgie. 468 00:30:27,997 --> 00:30:30,295 I'm not gonna let him get away with this. 469 00:30:30,366 --> 00:30:32,231 Do you really believe that? 470 00:30:34,103 --> 00:30:37,334 All that reading that you've done on Georgie and you don't know about Billy? 471 00:30:37,874 --> 00:30:41,332 Well, I've read most everything written about the accident, yes. 472 00:30:41,711 --> 00:30:43,338 Accident, hell! 473 00:30:43,780 --> 00:30:45,941 Lacy, I'm sorry, but by your own accounts, 474 00:30:46,015 --> 00:30:49,314 Billy Cockrell was guilty of nothing more than an irresponsible act. 475 00:30:49,385 --> 00:30:52,411 Hey, listen, he knew that there was no way that we could get to Richmond 476 00:30:52,488 --> 00:30:55,514 with Georgie flying us. He knew that. He wanted it to happen. 477 00:30:57,627 --> 00:31:01,028 To my way of thinking, that's just as much a murder as what he done tonight. 478 00:31:01,097 --> 00:31:02,928 Why would he kill her, Lacy? 479 00:31:04,267 --> 00:31:05,859 He already had the songs. 480 00:31:06,502 --> 00:31:07,526 Yeah. 481 00:31:08,371 --> 00:31:09,838 So Higgins told me. 482 00:31:10,673 --> 00:31:13,608 Thanks to you, he's probably halfway to Nashville by now. 483 00:31:14,043 --> 00:31:17,945 And thanks a lot for sneaking off and seeing Laurie without letting me know. 484 00:31:18,615 --> 00:31:20,310 What time did you see her? 485 00:31:20,550 --> 00:31:24,452 Magnum, Lacy was here scoring his composition since soon after you left. 486 00:31:24,621 --> 00:31:26,714 Except he didn't go to Pearl today. 487 00:31:26,789 --> 00:31:29,223 They have no record of him coming through the security gate. 488 00:31:29,292 --> 00:31:30,691 Now, where were you, Lacy? 489 00:31:32,562 --> 00:31:34,223 Oh, come on, Lacy. 490 00:31:34,297 --> 00:31:36,663 Tanaka's talking to Crane right now, then you're next. 491 00:31:36,733 --> 00:31:39,224 Now, I need some answers before he gets here! 492 00:31:39,302 --> 00:31:41,293 Now what time did you see Laurie Crane? 493 00:31:41,371 --> 00:31:43,635 It's a fact that I was there, is it? 494 00:31:43,706 --> 00:31:44,764 Yes! 495 00:31:45,108 --> 00:31:47,668 Unless you can produce that letter. Unopened. 496 00:31:48,344 --> 00:31:51,507 Well, come on, Lacy. You never let it out of your sight! 497 00:31:55,351 --> 00:31:58,047 You really believe that I could hurt her? 498 00:31:58,154 --> 00:31:59,883 She meant everything to Georgie. 499 00:32:00,890 --> 00:32:04,519 I'll know more about what I believe when you tell me what happened. 500 00:32:06,062 --> 00:32:08,053 Well, you're gonna have a long wait. 501 00:32:09,432 --> 00:32:11,866 Because the only proof I got is still my word. 502 00:32:11,934 --> 00:32:13,731 You can take it or leave it. 503 00:32:16,305 --> 00:32:17,738 Sorry, Thomas. 504 00:32:18,341 --> 00:32:21,640 That limo's registered to a Lem Tomkins up the north shore. 505 00:32:21,711 --> 00:32:23,702 Exit your Billy Cockrell theory. 506 00:32:24,447 --> 00:32:25,641 What's the address? 507 00:32:25,715 --> 00:32:27,706 You don't wanna go there. Come on, Rick. 508 00:32:27,784 --> 00:32:29,775 Okay. Fine. But count me out. 509 00:32:29,852 --> 00:32:33,015 That's no place for a nice kid from Chicago to be seen after dark. 510 00:32:33,089 --> 00:32:37,753 When I die, I may not go to heaven 511 00:32:39,128 --> 00:32:43,121 I don't know if they let cowboys in 512 00:32:43,833 --> 00:32:45,425 If they don't 513 00:32:45,501 --> 00:32:49,198 Just let me go to Texas, boys 514 00:32:49,572 --> 00:32:53,668 'Cause Texas is as close as I've been 515 00:32:55,111 --> 00:32:59,013 New York couldn't hold my attention 516 00:33:00,450 --> 00:33:03,977 And Detroit city couldn't sing the song 517 00:33:05,088 --> 00:33:07,113 Where is he? Do you see him? 518 00:33:07,190 --> 00:33:08,555 Wait a minute, T.C. 519 00:33:08,624 --> 00:33:10,717 It's only just a hunch that he's here. 520 00:33:10,793 --> 00:33:11,885 ...I won't care 521 00:33:11,961 --> 00:33:15,021 'Cause at least I'll know I'm home 522 00:33:15,998 --> 00:33:19,957 When I die, I may not go to heaven 523 00:33:20,169 --> 00:33:22,797 Well, maybe it's more than a hunch. 524 00:33:22,872 --> 00:33:26,399 Look, Lacy described him as big and mean-Iooking with red hair. 525 00:33:26,476 --> 00:33:29,343 Well, there are about six guys and three women that fit that description. 526 00:33:29,412 --> 00:33:31,972 Over 50, and he's almost always in a suit. 527 00:33:32,648 --> 00:33:35,776 Listen, oh, there's one more thing I should explain... 528 00:33:38,187 --> 00:33:40,348 Where's Rick? Rick? Rick who? 529 00:33:40,423 --> 00:33:42,823 T.C., come on! Come on, T. C! Come on, Cockrell, where is he? 530 00:33:42,892 --> 00:33:44,120 What have you done with him? 531 00:33:44,193 --> 00:33:46,161 No, no, no, no. Wait a minute now! Come on! 532 00:33:47,597 --> 00:33:50,532 They don't have Rick. I lied. I made it up. I'm sorry. 533 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,000 Now give me the songs, Billy! The songs? 534 00:33:53,069 --> 00:33:54,502 You told me they kidnapped Rick 535 00:33:54,570 --> 00:33:57,403 just so you could send me on a wild goose chase over those stupid... 536 00:33:57,473 --> 00:33:59,668 No, T.C., they're real! Real? 537 00:34:00,610 --> 00:34:02,373 Then you conned me here as backup. 538 00:34:02,445 --> 00:34:04,310 No, I don't need a backup. 539 00:34:04,380 --> 00:34:06,405 Because Billy's gonna give me those songs. 540 00:34:06,482 --> 00:34:07,710 Right, Billy? 541 00:34:07,784 --> 00:34:10,082 Hey, come on, I didn't mean for those guys to rough you up. 542 00:34:10,153 --> 00:34:12,553 In fact, I told them not to! Just give me the songs! 543 00:34:12,622 --> 00:34:14,487 Yes, and they had better be real! 544 00:34:14,557 --> 00:34:17,993 'Cause if you pulled this backup con for nothing... I don't need a backup, T.C. 545 00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:19,550 And there's not gonna be any trouble. 546 00:34:19,629 --> 00:34:21,460 Now, just give me the songs, Billy. 547 00:34:21,531 --> 00:34:23,658 Been mistreated 548 00:34:23,733 --> 00:34:28,193 When will I be loved? 549 00:34:28,271 --> 00:34:29,499 Right. 550 00:34:30,072 --> 00:34:31,130 No trouble. 551 00:34:31,207 --> 00:34:32,299 No backup. 552 00:34:32,375 --> 00:34:34,673 I've been lied to 553 00:34:34,744 --> 00:34:36,109 I'll handle this. 554 00:34:38,447 --> 00:34:43,908 When will I be loved? 555 00:34:45,388 --> 00:34:48,050 Hey, come on, you guys. They weren't doing anything! Cool it! Cool it! 556 00:34:48,124 --> 00:34:50,820 No, no, no, no! Let them go on. He's doing fine. 557 00:34:52,762 --> 00:34:55,890 Always breaks my heart in two 558 00:34:56,365 --> 00:34:58,424 You better throw wide and duck. 559 00:34:58,501 --> 00:35:00,662 It happens every time 560 00:35:02,371 --> 00:35:05,204 I've been cheated 561 00:35:06,776 --> 00:35:08,835 If all this is over these, take them. 562 00:35:08,911 --> 00:35:10,538 They're not worth a dime. 563 00:35:10,613 --> 00:35:12,137 What are you talking about? 564 00:35:13,783 --> 00:35:14,875 T. C? 565 00:35:15,518 --> 00:35:17,486 Wait a minute. Aren't these the lost songs? 566 00:35:17,553 --> 00:35:20,750 Yeah, yeah. There's Jessup's name on the top of all of them. 567 00:35:24,427 --> 00:35:27,919 Georgie couldn't write that high-class eighth and quarter note stuff. 568 00:35:27,997 --> 00:35:30,158 He used the Nashville Number System. 569 00:35:30,433 --> 00:35:32,264 Any expert would laugh you out of the room 570 00:35:32,335 --> 00:35:34,200 if you tried to pass that off as his work. 571 00:35:42,178 --> 00:35:46,877 It happens every time 572 00:35:46,949 --> 00:35:49,076 See, no backup. 573 00:35:49,151 --> 00:35:51,813 I've been cheated 574 00:35:51,888 --> 00:35:54,857 Been mistreated 575 00:35:54,924 --> 00:35:55,982 Junk. 576 00:35:56,058 --> 00:36:02,054 When will I be loved? 577 00:36:08,337 --> 00:36:10,328 Higgins, where's Lacy? 578 00:36:13,075 --> 00:36:14,133 I... 579 00:36:15,311 --> 00:36:17,211 I suppose he went on to bed. 580 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,408 I just checked his room. He's not there, and all his stuff's gone. 581 00:36:21,984 --> 00:36:23,417 Well, I don't understand. 582 00:36:23,486 --> 00:36:26,148 We were listening to yesterday's quartet rehearsal. 583 00:36:27,857 --> 00:36:29,154 Jessup's songs? 584 00:36:30,793 --> 00:36:31,885 I don't know. 585 00:36:32,295 --> 00:36:34,855 Did you ever hear of the Nashville Number System? 586 00:36:36,432 --> 00:36:37,990 Well, yes, of course. 587 00:36:38,067 --> 00:36:42,231 It's a very simple method of musical notation 588 00:36:42,305 --> 00:36:43,636 created by... 589 00:36:45,074 --> 00:36:47,770 By country writers who couldn't read music? 590 00:36:48,210 --> 00:36:49,837 Like George Lee Jessup. 591 00:36:56,886 --> 00:36:59,719 But the chord patterns are vintage Jessup. 592 00:36:59,789 --> 00:37:01,313 They're unmistakable. 593 00:37:01,624 --> 00:37:03,114 Or vintage Fletcher? 594 00:37:06,829 --> 00:37:09,855 You looked for him on the hospital grounds, of course? 595 00:37:10,032 --> 00:37:13,468 He hasn't been there. I've checked hotels, all-night bars. 596 00:37:13,936 --> 00:37:17,064 I don't know. Maybe he took a red-eye back to Nashville. 597 00:37:17,273 --> 00:37:21,369 Lieutenant Tanaka was quite upset to find both you and Lacy gone. 598 00:37:21,577 --> 00:37:25,308 He cryptically assured me that you should not feel alone in your search. 599 00:37:25,381 --> 00:37:28,009 Come on, he put out an APB on Lacy? 600 00:37:28,084 --> 00:37:30,143 Magnum, Lacy's fingerprints were all over the room 601 00:37:30,219 --> 00:37:31,618 where Laurie Crane was murdered. 602 00:37:31,687 --> 00:37:34,019 Okay, fine, Higgins, he was there! 603 00:37:34,090 --> 00:37:35,751 He wanted to give her the letter. 604 00:37:35,825 --> 00:37:39,818 But he certainly wouldn't hurt the one person that Jessup really cared for. 605 00:37:46,902 --> 00:37:47,960 No. 606 00:37:49,071 --> 00:37:51,631 A very complete and complex devotion. 607 00:37:52,875 --> 00:37:57,005 Odd that the fifth song should be missing from so cherished a collection. 608 00:37:57,079 --> 00:37:59,673 I'm more interested in why that letter is missing. 609 00:38:01,650 --> 00:38:05,051 Well, its disposition hardly seems important under the circumstances. 610 00:38:05,121 --> 00:38:06,213 Higgins, 611 00:38:06,589 --> 00:38:10,889 whoever killed her thought it was very important or it wouldn't have disappeared. 612 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,928 She told you the letter was nothing more 613 00:38:12,995 --> 00:38:15,964 than a rambling confession to Jessup about her marriage. 614 00:38:16,032 --> 00:38:17,021 Right. 615 00:38:18,734 --> 00:38:22,534 But did she ever confess the whole thing to the guy she was married to? 616 00:38:23,372 --> 00:38:25,101 It doesn't matter what she confessed, Magnum. 617 00:38:25,174 --> 00:38:28,234 Crane did all the confessing I can handle this morning. 618 00:38:30,312 --> 00:38:31,779 So you got him downtown? 619 00:38:32,081 --> 00:38:34,106 No. His story didn't add up. 620 00:38:34,183 --> 00:38:35,878 Details he couldn't cover. 621 00:38:35,951 --> 00:38:37,543 And the lamps and the tables, 622 00:38:37,620 --> 00:38:39,144 they were overturned too neatly. 623 00:38:39,755 --> 00:38:41,655 I know a staged job when I see one. 624 00:38:43,526 --> 00:38:46,154 And he finally broke and told me the truth. 625 00:38:50,099 --> 00:38:53,227 Her letter to Jessup must've been more brutal than she remembered. 626 00:38:53,302 --> 00:38:54,997 She had a prior history. 627 00:38:55,738 --> 00:38:58,901 It was thoughtful of your client to drop it on her. 628 00:38:58,974 --> 00:39:00,407 But what can you expect? 629 00:39:00,476 --> 00:39:02,103 The guy's a real basket case. 630 00:39:02,178 --> 00:39:03,873 Nashville police report? 631 00:39:04,013 --> 00:39:05,605 Twelve counts of assault. 632 00:39:06,649 --> 00:39:08,549 And he even sings on street corners. 633 00:39:08,951 --> 00:39:10,475 Lieutenant, he sings everywhere. 634 00:39:10,553 --> 00:39:12,020 I mean, come on, he's harmless. 635 00:39:12,088 --> 00:39:13,885 Look, all these counts are related. 636 00:39:13,956 --> 00:39:17,153 He only goes after people who are insulting to George Lee. 637 00:39:21,197 --> 00:39:22,391 Where's Crane? 638 00:39:27,636 --> 00:39:28,830 Lacy? 639 00:39:28,904 --> 00:39:31,031 I'm over here, Crane! 640 00:39:38,714 --> 00:39:39,976 Believe me, 641 00:39:40,649 --> 00:39:44,881 you needed no cheap, second letter blackmail lie to meet with me. 642 00:39:44,954 --> 00:39:47,252 Well, I needed something to get you out here. 643 00:39:47,323 --> 00:39:50,190 Where a good man really loved the woman that you murdered. 644 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,450 You're accusing me? 645 00:39:52,528 --> 00:39:55,224 You and that letter, that's why Laurie's dead. 646 00:39:55,498 --> 00:39:58,831 She finally stopped blaming herself until you came along. 647 00:39:59,368 --> 00:40:00,995 And then she had to... 648 00:40:01,070 --> 00:40:05,063 Then she had to remember what she had written to that drunken, trashy... 649 00:40:08,911 --> 00:40:09,900 Here. 650 00:40:11,547 --> 00:40:13,606 She couldn't part with that one. 651 00:40:14,250 --> 00:40:18,311 Why the hell did you have to come looking for those childish, maudlin songs? 652 00:40:19,922 --> 00:40:24,450 You read Georgie's letter... Private letter? 653 00:40:32,535 --> 00:40:34,093 I didn't have to read it. 654 00:40:34,170 --> 00:40:37,469 I knew about the affair from the night she wrote that letter to Jessup. 655 00:40:37,540 --> 00:40:39,599 You didn't know till last night, 656 00:40:39,675 --> 00:40:43,133 and you couldn't stand to find out that she loved Georgie more than you. 657 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,342 We were married a whole year before that plane crash. 658 00:40:47,416 --> 00:40:49,941 That's a lie! She was coming to marry Georgie. 659 00:40:50,019 --> 00:40:52,351 Me! She was married to me! 660 00:40:52,888 --> 00:40:54,219 But she blamed herself. 661 00:40:54,290 --> 00:40:55,780 Because she thought 662 00:40:55,858 --> 00:40:58,986 that he was drunk that night because she said no to him. 663 00:40:59,061 --> 00:41:00,289 That's a lie! 664 00:41:00,362 --> 00:41:02,262 You read the letter and couldn't take it! 665 00:41:02,331 --> 00:41:04,356 She didn't even remember his name. 666 00:41:04,433 --> 00:41:06,128 I actually convinced her 667 00:41:06,402 --> 00:41:07,994 that she never met him. 668 00:41:08,070 --> 00:41:09,367 She loved Georgie. 669 00:41:09,438 --> 00:41:10,666 She was Georgie's. 670 00:41:10,739 --> 00:41:11,933 She was mine! 671 00:41:18,881 --> 00:41:20,348 Lacy, stop! 672 00:41:20,983 --> 00:41:23,144 Leave us alone! He killed her. 673 00:41:23,219 --> 00:41:24,311 No! 674 00:41:24,853 --> 00:41:26,252 It was suicide. 675 00:41:30,526 --> 00:41:32,426 This time I wasn't there to stop her. 676 00:41:34,663 --> 00:41:37,359 So you destroyed the letter 677 00:41:37,433 --> 00:41:39,663 and made it look like she was murdered, Desmond. Why? 678 00:41:43,038 --> 00:41:45,700 Laurie didn't deserve the scandal of suicide. 679 00:41:46,942 --> 00:41:48,432 It wasn't her fault. 680 00:41:50,079 --> 00:41:51,569 It wasn't her fault? 681 00:41:54,717 --> 00:41:56,617 Will the two of you just stop? 682 00:41:58,087 --> 00:41:59,816 Look what you're doing to yourselves. 683 00:41:59,888 --> 00:42:01,549 You'd stand here and kill each other 684 00:42:01,624 --> 00:42:03,683 before you'd admit that those two weren't saints! 685 00:42:05,961 --> 00:42:07,223 Desmond, 686 00:42:09,398 --> 00:42:11,366 Laurie had real emotional problems. 687 00:42:11,433 --> 00:42:13,298 You're just gonna have to accept that. 688 00:42:14,203 --> 00:42:15,568 And live with it. 689 00:42:17,206 --> 00:42:18,434 And, Lacy... 690 00:42:20,009 --> 00:42:21,670 I mean, can you even remember 691 00:42:21,910 --> 00:42:24,378 that you're the real talent behind Jessup? 692 00:42:24,647 --> 00:42:26,205 You wrote all those hits. 693 00:42:26,849 --> 00:42:29,079 No, no, they was Georgie's. 694 00:42:29,151 --> 00:42:32,348 Fine, fine. So you don't want the truth known. 695 00:42:32,421 --> 00:42:34,685 But at least admit it to yourself. 696 00:42:35,524 --> 00:42:38,220 I got the other four from Billy. They're all the same. 697 00:42:56,545 --> 00:42:58,513 Five million shot to hell. 698 00:43:02,051 --> 00:43:05,680 Well, there goes the museum, Georgie. 699 00:43:06,221 --> 00:43:07,449 A museum? 700 00:43:09,224 --> 00:43:11,818 Don't you think you've done enough for Georgie? 701 00:43:14,563 --> 00:43:16,292 No, you can't do enough. 702 00:43:18,734 --> 00:43:20,429 He was special. 703 00:43:21,537 --> 00:43:22,526 Special. 704 00:43:25,174 --> 00:43:28,905 That's why that he needed special songs. 705 00:43:30,045 --> 00:43:32,240 Songs that he wrote himself, so... 706 00:43:38,187 --> 00:43:41,054 So people would know that he was singing from the heart. 707 00:43:43,325 --> 00:43:44,587 Oh, well. 708 00:43:47,329 --> 00:43:48,626 If he'd just 709 00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:55,093 copied the first ones like I thought he did, like we'd done all the rest, 710 00:43:57,373 --> 00:43:59,238 they'd all be monsters. 711 00:44:01,844 --> 00:44:04,472 Instead of my useless tunes. 712 00:44:05,814 --> 00:44:07,441 Doesn't that kind of 713 00:44:08,250 --> 00:44:10,616 say something about how special he was? 714 00:44:11,553 --> 00:44:12,713 Hmm? 715 00:44:18,727 --> 00:44:20,354 They were both special. 716 00:44:54,797 --> 00:44:58,062 Lacy, they could all be chartbusters if you'd just listen to reason. 717 00:44:58,133 --> 00:45:00,693 You mind holding it down? I'm trying to listen to my piece. Do you mind? 718 00:45:00,769 --> 00:45:04,000 Lacy, come on now. Billy's trying to end the war. What do you want? 719 00:45:04,072 --> 00:45:05,630 Nothing, not from him. 720 00:45:05,707 --> 00:45:07,038 Yeah, well, you're gonna get it. 721 00:45:07,109 --> 00:45:09,771 I wanna record those songs and give you all the royalties. 722 00:45:09,845 --> 00:45:11,278 But you gotta do them as Lacy Fletcher tunes. 723 00:45:11,346 --> 00:45:14,474 Over my dead body. You're trying to make a fool out of Georgie. 724 00:45:14,550 --> 00:45:18,179 No, damn it, I'm just trying to make things up to him and you! 725 00:45:18,253 --> 00:45:20,346 Guys, come on. Everyone can hear you. Please. 726 00:45:22,925 --> 00:45:25,917 The money from those songs could build that museum you want. 727 00:45:28,197 --> 00:45:30,461 And if it don't, I'll put in the rest of the money. 728 00:45:30,532 --> 00:45:32,591 But I want to do them as your songs, Lacy. 729 00:45:32,668 --> 00:45:34,898 I won't see you lie for Georgie anymore. 730 00:45:45,147 --> 00:45:46,808 Ladies and gentlemen, 731 00:45:46,882 --> 00:45:48,509 it is a great honor 732 00:45:48,617 --> 00:45:52,451 to present the composer of the beautiful piece we have just premiered. 733 00:45:52,888 --> 00:45:54,788 Mr. Lacy Fletcher. 734 00:46:06,401 --> 00:46:08,631 Thank you. I appreciate it. 735 00:46:08,937 --> 00:46:12,634 I know this isn't exactly the place for country, but... 736 00:46:14,943 --> 00:46:19,277 I got another little premiere here for you, if you don't mind. 737 00:46:19,648 --> 00:46:22,617 This is one of five songs that... 738 00:46:23,752 --> 00:46:26,312 Well, they're all gonna be classics because 739 00:46:27,623 --> 00:46:32,083 they were all written by the great George Lee Jessup. 740 00:46:33,595 --> 00:46:37,554 And I had the wonderful privilege of writing down the notes for him. 741 00:46:46,942 --> 00:46:49,877 I'm a thousand miles from nowhere 742 00:46:49,945 --> 00:46:52,971 Near the flashing neon lights 743 00:46:53,348 --> 00:46:55,748 And I'll try to get through 744 00:46:56,118 --> 00:46:58,313 One more Ionely night 745 00:46:59,588 --> 00:47:01,613 People keep on moving 746 00:47:01,690 --> 00:47:04,284 Just filling up the space 747 00:47:04,893 --> 00:47:07,691 All I keep on seeing 748 00:47:07,763 --> 00:47:10,197 Is the memory of your face 749 00:47:10,732 --> 00:47:13,292 I just want to hold you 750 00:47:13,368 --> 00:47:15,734 And listen deep within 751 00:47:16,538 --> 00:47:18,938 Listen to the music 752 00:47:19,007 --> 00:47:21,771 That let me live again 753 00:47:22,377 --> 00:47:24,743 Let me hear the music 754 00:47:24,813 --> 00:47:27,805 That keeps my world in time 755 00:47:28,150 --> 00:47:30,516 Let me hear the music 756 00:47:30,586 --> 00:47:33,316 And let me hear the rhyme