Out of the Past

JEFF: Make it three. 423 00:31:26,677 --> 00:31:28,511 Certainly, sir. 424 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,681 - So you blew it. - Anybody can have bad luck. 425 00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:35,518 - And squeaky shoes. - Think of a number, Joe. 426 00:31:35,727 --> 00:31:39,897 - Where were you off to? - The telegraph office to wire you. 427 00:31:40,107 --> 00:31:43,276 I told you, I don't like to spend your money. 428 00:31:44,194 --> 00:31:48,114 - I can stand it. - Well, it's your business. 429 00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:52,577 Whit, my friend, there's a million dames in this world, and they all look like her. 430 00:31:52,786 --> 00:31:55,204 No, they don't. 431 00:31:56,707 --> 00:31:58,332 So she was here. 432 00:31:58,542 --> 00:32:01,794 Well, according to all available evidence, she was. 433 00:32:02,004 --> 00:32:04,422 Maybe I should've sent Stephanos. 434 00:32:04,631 --> 00:32:07,675 - Could you find one dame in a million, Joe? - A one with 40 grand. 435 00:32:07,885 --> 00:32:08,926 [WHIT CHUCKLES] 436 00:32:14,558 --> 00:32:15,933 Sorry. 437 00:32:16,143 --> 00:32:17,310 You picked up some nerves. 438 00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:20,396 I don't need a crack like that any more than I need your dough. 439 00:32:20,606 --> 00:32:25,610 That's what I've been telling you. I missed her. The dame caught a boat south. 440 00:32:25,819 --> 00:32:28,905 - Where? - Look, I got along before this job. 441 00:32:29,114 --> 00:32:33,075 I ate good, and I grew as big as you did. If there's something you don't like, say so. 442 00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:37,413 - I just asked where. - Chile. Guatemala. 443 00:32:37,623 --> 00:32:41,417 You wanna go see the guy in the steamship company? You wanna talk to him right now? 444 00:32:41,627 --> 00:32:43,628 Why not? 445 00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:55,932 - Taxi, sir? - Yeah. 446 00:32:56,433 --> 00:32:59,769 I'm sorry. You missed her and you feel bad. 447 00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:01,479 I shouldn't have joked about it. 448 00:33:01,897 --> 00:33:03,314 All right, then I won't either. 449 00:33:03,523 --> 00:33:06,817 You get your 5 grand back and Stephanos can take over from here. 450 00:33:07,027 --> 00:33:08,569 WHIT: You're wrong. 451 00:33:08,779 --> 00:33:11,489 I fire people, but nobody quits me. 452 00:33:11,698 --> 00:33:14,075 You started this and you'll end it. 453 00:33:14,701 --> 00:33:17,787 Besides, Joe couldn't find a prayer in the Bible. 454 00:33:17,996 --> 00:33:20,206 You'll find her. Take it easy. 455 00:33:20,415 --> 00:33:23,584 Take your time. Well, better get back to the airport. 456 00:33:23,794 --> 00:33:25,127 Good luck, Jeff. 457 00:33:25,337 --> 00:33:26,963 See you someday. 458 00:33:33,929 --> 00:33:36,639 JEFF: It wasn't all a lie because she did take a steamer. 459 00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,392 It was just that it went north instead of south. 460 00:33:39,601 --> 00:33:41,644 And I was on it too. 461 00:33:42,396 --> 00:33:45,147 I opened an office in San Francisco. 462 00:33:46,108 --> 00:33:48,943 A cheap little rat hole that suited the work I did. 463 00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:51,988 Shabby jobs for who'd ever hire me. 464 00:33:52,197 --> 00:33:56,742 It was the bottom of the barrel, and I scraped it, but I didn't care. 465 00:33:57,369 --> 00:33:59,203 I had her. 466 00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:02,123 JEFF: We kept pretty much to ourselves. 467 00:34:02,332 --> 00:34:04,750 We found a little movie house in North Beach. 468 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,421 We were on the run. We went to places we never would've seen in our lives. 469 00:34:08,630 --> 00:34:11,298 And after a while, we grew a little more sure of ourselves. 470 00:34:11,508 --> 00:34:15,886 We drifted back to more familiar places, ballparks and the racetracks. 471 00:34:16,096 --> 00:34:21,100 Why not? After all, there wasn't one chance in a million we'd bump into our past. 472 00:34:23,854 --> 00:34:25,521 One chance in a million. 473 00:34:26,565 --> 00:34:30,484 One chance in a million was all that chump ever had in his life, and he made it good. 474 00:34:30,694 --> 00:34:34,155 He stood there with our lives in his pocket, because I knew if he saw her... 475 00:34:34,364 --> 00:34:37,116 ...he'd sell us both for $1.95. 476 00:34:37,492 --> 00:34:39,660 So we had to separate. 477 00:34:41,371 --> 00:34:44,874 I went alone to L.A., and I made it easy for him to follow me. 478 00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:48,794 He was a good gumshoe. It was the one thing he could really do. 479 00:34:49,296 --> 00:34:51,672 So I went everywhere like a guy enjoying the country. 480 00:34:51,882 --> 00:34:54,508 I didn't write to her or phone or telegraph. 481 00:34:54,718 --> 00:34:56,677 I just waited and moved. 482 00:34:56,928 --> 00:35:00,139 When it seemed right, I blew out of town to go and meet her. 483 00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:04,518 I wasn't bad at the game myself. I was sure I had shaken him loose, and I felt good. 484 00:35:11,318 --> 00:35:14,695 Fisher was back there somewhere, a