If Beale Street Could Talk

In any case, in order to find her, 462 00:39:21,937 --> 00:39:24,837 I'll need special investigators and... 463 00:39:24,839 --> 00:39:27,306 - That means more money. - Unfortunately. 464 00:39:27,308 --> 00:39:29,509 But doesn't it make it look bad for her case, 465 00:39:29,511 --> 00:39:32,043 for her to just disappear like that? She's the key witness. 466 00:39:32,045 --> 00:39:34,146 She's only one of the key witnesses in this case. 467 00:39:34,148 --> 00:39:36,349 You have to remember this Officer Bell. 468 00:39:36,351 --> 00:39:39,719 <i>His was the authoritative identification of the rapis.</i> 469 00:39:39,721 --> 00:39:41,353 It's Bell who swears he saw 470 00:39:41,355 --> 00:39:43,290 Alonzo running away from the scene of the crime. 471 00:39:43,292 --> 00:39:46,125 If he saw Fonny run from the scene of the crime, 472 00:39:46,127 --> 00:39:48,761 then why did he have to wait and come and get him out of the house? 473 00:39:48,763 --> 00:39:51,531 Wait. Tish, Tish, wait... Let me get you straight now. 474 00:39:51,533 --> 00:39:54,233 You're sayin' that that Officer Bell 475 00:39:54,235 --> 00:39:55,701 tells her what to say. 476 00:39:55,703 --> 00:39:57,869 - Exactly. - So you're sayin'... 477 00:39:57,871 --> 00:40:00,473 There's no gettin' at the truth in this case? 478 00:40:00,475 --> 00:40:03,045 Look. 479 00:40:05,045 --> 00:40:07,413 If I didn't believe in Alonzo's innocence, 480 00:40:07,415 --> 00:40:10,952 - I would never have taken this case. - Call him Fonny. 481 00:40:11,754 --> 00:40:13,922 Excuse me? 482 00:40:14,723 --> 00:40:16,755 Call him Fonny. 483 00:40:16,757 --> 00:40:19,525 When you call him Alonzo, I see the judge 484 00:40:19,527 --> 00:40:22,397 and the bars and the chains and the... 485 00:40:24,232 --> 00:40:26,833 I know you're doin' my sister a favor, 486 00:40:26,835 --> 00:40:28,835 and this is a very fancy law office, 487 00:40:28,837 --> 00:40:32,306 but if you're gonna do this, you gotta be family. 488 00:40:34,342 --> 00:40:38,147 So call him Fonny... please. 489 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,449 I understand. 490 00:40:44,418 --> 00:40:47,719 Now, you and... Fonny insist that you were together 491 00:40:47,721 --> 00:40:51,257 in the room on Bank Street with an old friend, Daniel Carty. 492 00:40:51,259 --> 00:40:53,060 That's the alibi. 493 00:40:53,694 --> 00:40:55,828 But your testimony, as you can imagine, 494 00:40:55,830 --> 00:40:57,996 counts for nothing. 495 00:40:57,998 --> 00:41:01,166 And Daniel Carty has just been arrested by the DA's office, 496 00:41:01,168 --> 00:41:03,004 and I've not been allowed to see him. 497 00:41:04,406 --> 00:41:06,306 What they're doing is really against the law, 498 00:41:06,308 --> 00:41:08,107 but Daniel has a record. 499 00:41:08,109 --> 00:41:10,976 They obviously intend to make him change his testimony, 500 00:41:10,978 --> 00:41:13,779 and..., I don't know this, 501 00:41:13,781 --> 00:41:15,748 but I'm willing to bet that that's why 502 00:41:15,750 --> 00:41:18,150 Mrs. Rogers has disappeared. 503 00:41:18,152 --> 00:41:21,054 So you see, I will do everything I can. 504 00:41:22,623 --> 00:41:24,690 How soon do you need the money? 505 00:41:26,261 --> 00:41:27,860 We're already tracing Mrs. Rogers. 506 00:41:27,862 --> 00:41:29,962 I'll just need the money... 507 00:41:29,964 --> 00:41:32,634 uh, as soon as you can get it. 508 00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:36,302 I'll also force the DA's office to allow me to see Daniel Carty, 509 00:41:36,304 --> 00:41:39,438 but they'll throw every conceivable obstacle in my way. 510 00:41:40,708 --> 00:41:43,409 Don't you cry. Don't you cry, baby. 511 00:41:43,411 --> 00:41:45,210 - Don't you cry. - Here. 512 00:41:45,212 --> 00:41:47,645 Here you go. Wipe your face. 513 00:41:47,647 --> 00:41:49,782 Wipe your face. 514 00:42:19,447 --> 00:42:21,083 Hey. 515 00:42:21,482 --> 00:42:23,185 Hey. 516 00:42:25,821 --> 00:42:28,056 You see Hayward? 517 00:42:30,391 --> 00:42:32,360 Yeah. 518 00:42:38,366 --> 00:42:40,165 What the fuck happened to Mrs. Rogers? 519 00:42:40,167 --> 00:42:41,935 Where the fuck did she go? 520 00:42:41,937 --> 00:42:44,003 I don't know, but we'll find her. 521 00:42:44,005 --> 00:42:45,304 How we gonna find her? 522 00:42:45,306 --> 00:42:47,072 We're sending people to Puerto Rico. 523 00:42:47,074 --> 00:42:49,775 - We think that's where she went. - Yeah? 524 00:42:49,777 --> 00:42:53,848 Suppose she went to... to Argentina, hmm? 525 00:42:54,449 --> 00:42:57,150 - Or-or Chile or China? - How's she gonna get that far? 526 00:42:57,152 --> 00:42:58,451 They can give her the money to go anywhere. 527 00:42:58,453 --> 00:43:00,619 - Who? - The DA's office, that's who. 528 00:43:00,621 --> 00:43:02,688 - Fonny, I