03x22 - Dirty Money, Black Light

[bunniefuu]

Somebody has been
sending him money
in the mail.

$44,000 in two days.

Well,
why don't I just
keep the whole thing?

That wouldn't be healthy.

The man who gets caught
with the marked bills

is the man
who goes to the slammer.

Think Mastroianni,
you know, that Mexican
movie star, you know.

Only leave it
a little full.

You miss one day
of paying me my money,

it's like baseball, baby.
You out.

m*rder? Wait a minute.

I don't want him to leave
until he gives us the money.

[GRUNTING]

[PHONE RINGING]

ROCKFORD
ON ANSWERING MACHINE..
This is Jim Rockford.

At the tone, leave your name
and message.

I'll get back to you.

[BEEPS]

TOBY.. This is Toby.

I forgot
what I was calling for.

Your recording
is so boring.

Spike it with some humor,
some personality, something!

Last one.

''Rockford, Joseph.''

Let's go.

It's got to be here.

He left yesterday.

There's no way
he could have taken it.

Maybe he didn't go.
Maybe something came up.

He went.

They all went.

There were no

cancellations.

It'll be here.

It'll come tomorrow.
It's the mail. That's all.

Well, you know,
the taxes they
make you pay,

you'd think
the post office would work.

What if it doesn't
show tomorrow? What then?

It's gonna be
hard to explain.

You know the people
we'll have to explain it to

aren't gonna want
to listen to an explanation.

What'll we do?
Frank, I don't know.

We're just gonna
check and see

if maybe this guy didn't
have his mail forwarded.

I don't know.
Look, Frank,

if you don't calm down,

I'm gonna give you
something else to
worry about.

Angel,
what are you doing here?

I got your message.
It sounded important.

Well, let me get Ramone, here,
squared away.
Steven.

My name is Steven Watson.

Okay, Steven.

Why don't you give it
the old college try?

College try?
Barber College.

I knock myself out.

You left a message
on the answerphone.

You said
it was life or death.

I just didn't figure that
that meant getting a haircut.

Well, that's true, Jimmy.

Now, you remember
a couple of days ago,

I tried to borrow


I still don't have it.

Yeah. Well,
I forgot about Rocky,

and I thought,
well, now that maybe

he's going to Hawaii
and all...

He already left.

Took him to the airport
last night.

Got his mail in the car.

Mail...

Hey, Steve, man,
what's happening?

I'm sorry.

Don't cut so much off there.
Leave it full.

Right.

Jimmy, what do you think
about maybe getting me
the key to Rocky's place?

Angel,
I'm not gonna give you
the key to Rocky's place,

let you go in there,
rip all his stuff off
and then go hawk it.

I'm gonna get it back to him
before he comes back
from Hawaii.

I'm just squeezed
a little tight...

Steve,
what are you doing, man?

That's like cutting
into my scalp.

STEVEN:
This razor's a little tricky.

Yeah, well,
just think Mastroianni,

you know, that Mexican
movie star, you know.

Only leave it
a little full.

Leave it full.

Angel, if that's
all you wanted me for,
I'll see you, okay?

Wait a second, Jimmy.

Jimmy, Jimmy, listen.

The problem is,
I'm in to Electric Larry

for a mess of $50s,
you know.

And the vig, the interest,
is destroying me.

Word on the street
is Electric Larry,

he may commence
to break my bones
to get even.

All I've got is the $100
that Rocky left
for me to pay his bills.

That's it.

You're a hard man to find,
Angel.

Well,
I've been looking for you.
Isn't that right, Jimmy?

Jimmy, you got that $100?

SMICK: You owe us $150.

I think I'm gonna have to
move you around a little bit.

Break your arm
just to let you know
we're serious.

Hey, take it easy, pal.

I think
we can handle this calmly.

You part of this?

If you are,
come up with the dough.

If not,
keep out and shut up, okay?

Okay, okay.
Hey, here.

Here, Angel, here's $100.

You owe us $150, Angel.

$50 more today.

$25 a day vigorish
till you come up
with the nut.

Thanks for the hit, Jimmy.
I'll get it back to you.

Look,
now that you've seen

the kind of guys
I'm dealing with,

how about giving me
the key to Rocky's?

Nothing doing.

See you, Angel.

You call that a haircut?

Jimmy, you're opening
other people's mail.
It's against the law.

I'm looking for bills.

Now that I don't have
Rocky's $100,

I'm gonna have to
cover all his bills
out of my own pocket.

Holy, look at that.

Jimmy, there's
thousands of dollars here.

Slip says
there's $1 1,000 in here.

Where would Rocky get
$1 1,000?

Maybe it's phony.

All right,
where would he get
$1 1,000 counterfeit?

I don't know.
Where would he get it real?

Listen, now that
he's got so much money,

maybe he'd lend me
some of it.

Angel, I can't
loan you Rocky's money
without talking to him first.

I understand that.

Listen, I got
a couple of ideas
how to scrounge it up myself.

So I'll check with you later,
Jimmy.

Yeah, okay.

WOMAN.. Palm Shores Hotel.
Good afternoon.

Yes, I'd like to speak
to Joseph Rockford, please.

He should have
checked in this morning.

Just a moment, please.

Mr. Rockford's room
does not answer.

Oh, I'd...
I'd like to leave a message.

Just tell him to call his son.

Collect.

Thank you.

Angel!

[PHONE RINGING]

TELLER: Next, please.

Yes, sir.
$10s and $20s.

$200?
Yeah.

Six $10s, seven $20s?
Yeah.

You'll have to
excuse me for a moment.
I seem to be low on $10s.

While you're waiting,
you might want to
fill that out.

The bank is having a lottery.

Lota... what?

A lottery.

We're giving away
a color television,


What do I have to buy?

Nothing.
You just write down
your name, current address.

Drawing is next month.

Name and address?
Mmm-hmm.

I'll be right back.

Here you are, sir.
$200.

You might want to count that.

Mr. Martin.

Is this a scam?

Scam?

A con.
I get a feeling
that in a week

I'm going to get something
from the bank says

I gotta put a couple yards
in that squirrel cage.
Not at all, sir.

It's merely
part of the bank's
promotional campaign.

All right.

You're a very cautious man.

Thank you.

Well?

We're okay.

He had his mail
forwarded to his son.

How do we get it from him?

Any way we can.

Damn.

BECKER: Well?

STEINER: Yes, it's him.

Put him away.

Can you tell me
about him now?

No.

Wait a minute,
wait a minute.
What do you mean, ''No''?

That guy is on a slab
because he came out
a high window.

We don't know how.
We don't know why.

We'd like to know
and you can help us with that.

Sergeant,
we'd like to help you
but we've got our orders.

We'll send you a name
and a disposition
for the body.

Is it gonna be his name
or some name that
you make up at the office?

Either way,
it's the one you'll use.

I'd like the stuff
you found on the body.

Give me the stuff
on the John Doe.

Wallet, three sets of ID.

Money. $26 in the wallet.

Keys. A stamp pad
but no stamp in it.

Did the team that caught
the squeal find the stamp?

If the team that caught
the squeal found the stamp,

then the stamp
would be there.

We'll get back to you,
Sergeant.

Yeah, great.

Anytime I can
do you guys a favor, don't...

Oh, boy,
these Feds
are something else.

Hi, Beth.

Hi.

You said Rocky's in trouble.
I thought he was in Hawaii.

Well, he is in Hawaii.

But let me tell you something.

Ever since he's been gone,

somebody has been
sending him money
in the mail.

$44,000 dollars
in two days.

No notes,
no return address

and all the money
in $100 bills.

Doesn't sound like it's part
of his pension plan, does it?

I gotta tell you, Beth,
I am scared.

I mean,
I've called his hotel
six times in two days.

He's never there.
He never answers the call.

I just don't know whether
he doesn't get the calls

or whether he can't get them.

What's he mixed up in?

Well, he's not mixed up
in anything.

It's a mistake.

Then what am I doing here?

Beth, you know Rocky.
He likes people.

He believes in them.

Somebody could just
walk up to him on the street

and say, ''Do me a favor.''

The next time I see him
is on Visitor's Day.

You better show me
everything you got.

ROCKFORD: This is it.

Well, either it's as good
as they make in Washington,
or it's real.

Maybe they're marked, Jim.

Well, I had
that very idea myself.

Is that ultraviolet?

You got it.

Uh-oh.

What?

Upper left-hand corner
and upper right.

You know, they mark bills
so they can identify them
specifically.

A ransom, maybe.
The FBI will do it
on a payoff.

Kidnapping?

Well, I don't know. Maybe.

But the man who gets caught
with the marked bills

is the man
who goes to the slammer.

Rocky?

Angel.

[GRUNTING]

Oh, well, hello!

Hey, all right, all right.

Hey, they could enter us
in a tag team match.

Jim, I... He...
Yeah. I know,
sweetheart. Okay.

Well, well.

Okay, you two dudes
better start talking.

I'm gonna have the cops
come pick you up
for B and E and as*ault.

Yeah,
anything you say, mister.
Just put that thing away, huh?

Well, I'm listening.
Where's Angel?

He ain't here.

Okay,
Angel's in the cooler.

The cops busted him
about 15 minutes ago.

You expect me to buy that?

Look, mister,
we were across the street.

We saw
the whole thing go down.

We came up to see
if we could raise
some of the vig.

Yeah, he's been
holding out on us.

Okay, come on, out. Come on.

Come on.

Out, go on, out, out.

Oh, those are a couple
of real swifties, huh?
Let's get out of here.

I hope Angel
won't say anything

that's gonna get
Rocky into trouble.

Hey, Angel has been in stir.

He knows better than to talk
without his lawyer present.

And you're his lawyer.

Angel knows better.
He'll keep his mouth shut.

See, you wanna be
talking to Jim Rockford
and his father, Joseph.

Let me spell that for you.
That's Rockford.

R-O-C-K-F-O-R-D.

The guy's got a record, too,
you know, but the State,

they pardoned him.
But you know the State,

they just practically
give them pardons away.

This guy and his dad,
they're dirty.

You talk about marked bills
and mob money.

You want to find
these guys right away.

I wouldn't waste any time.

Now, Rocky,
that's the father,

he's at the Palm Shores Hotel.

That's in Hawaii.

A lot of mob guys
hang out there.

I'd grab him
and I wouldn't let him go.

I'd grab him right away
if I was you.

You better be
straight with us, Martin.

Straight? Straight?
I'm so straight,
my back's hurting.

You better be.

We've got a shopping list
of charges to hang
on somebody.

You're pretty handy right now.

Who me? Charges?

Five to ten for fraud.

Five to ten for conspiracy
to avoid taxes.

Five to ten,
obstructing justice.

Twenty to life,
accessory to m*rder.

m*rder? Wait a minute.

Wait a second.
I wouldn't m*rder no one,

not for a couple of Cs.

Look, you want to talk
to the Rockford g*ng.

That's R-O-C-K-F-O-R-D.

Carmody,
third floor lockup.

I've seen guys
spill their guts, but...

[SIGHS]

MAN ON INTERCOM..
Call Banneman in Honolulu.

Tell him Joseph Rockford,
Palm Shores Hotel.

I want him here today
and I don't care
how he does it.

James Rockford?

That's right.

My partner and I represent
a local business concern.

Due to an unfortunate
mix-up at the office,

some very important papers

were inadvertently
sent to your father,
Joseph Rockford.

I believe
they were then
forwarded to you.

Papers?
What kind of papers?

Oh, I think you know,
Mr. Rockford.

We're willing
to pay a finder's fee

for the return
of those papers.

A finder's fee?
What's your name?

Jones.
Oh, and is this Mr. Smith?

No, he's Jones, too.
My brother.

Oh, Jones brothers.
Hey, that's very creative.

Look, I think I can speed
this whole thing up a little.

I don't think I understand.

Well, let's not go at it
sideways, Mr. Jones.

I opened the envelopes.

We'll pay a recovery fee,


Well,
why don't I just
keep the whole thing?

That wouldn't be healthy.

Hey, don't come on
like that.

You don't have the style
and you don't have the weight.

May we come in?

Mr. Rockford,

don't be difficult
to deal with.

We are prepared
to pay you, you know?

Even when we don't have to.


is $4,400.

First, I talk to my father.

You bring him here,
then we can deal.

Your father?
He's in Hawaii,
isn't he?

[RINGING]

I'm asking you.

Well, that's where
he's supposed to be,
isn't he?

Yeah, well, supposed to
doesn't count around here.

Hello.

BETH.. Jim, bad news.

They got Angel
in a Federal cell
and I can't get to him.

It's fraud, tax evasion

and they're
even talking about
a piece of a m*rder charge.

m*rder? Angel?

Where did they get that?

I don't know,
but it gets worse.

They've got a warrant
out for Rocky
with the same charges.

They got him yet?

I don't know,
but don't lose
track of that money.

We're gonna need
something to deal with.

And, Jim, they're gonna
want to talk to you, too.

Yeah, all right,
I'll get back to you.

Well, all bets are off.

I don't know
where you gentlemen
got hold of this money,

but the dirt's starting
to rub off on people.

I got a friend in a cell
and there's a warrant out
on my father,

so I can't afford
to deal with you.

Mr. Rockford,
you're making a mistake.

Our penalties will
be far more severe
than the law's.

That stuff again, huh?

Tony, step in here
a minute, would you?

I don't want him to leave
until he gives us the money.

Hey, you're not gonna
need Baby Huey.

Look,
I'm not dumb enough to keep
that money in the house here.

So could we arrange a meeting?

No, we will not
arrange a meeting.

Tony will go with you
to collect it,

and then
he'll bring you to us.

Brother Jones?

[SIGHS]

Okay, let's go.

Well, I've got
to get the key.

It's a safe deposit box.

Key is under the sink?

Behind the box of detergent.

Would you have
thought of it?

Well, neither would
anyone else.

Hey, what else
have you got in there?

[SCREAMING]

Rocky, Rocky.

Why?

That's perfect.
Just the way I like them.

Hi, Dennis.

Hey, I was trying to call you.
How'd you know I was here?

Oh, the guys
down at the station told me
you dove off your water diet.

Didn't you make some
promises to Peggy, huh?

Forget the promises.

The Feds brought Rocky in
about an hour ago.

I don't know
what he's involved in,
but it's something heavy.

Heavy? Rocky?

He's not involved in anything,
Dennis.

He just got caught
in the middle.
How did you find out?

I was down there,
a case I'm working.

A guy fell out the window
downtown.

He was connected
with the Feds,
but I don't know how.

What'd they tell you?

Nothing, except
it's too important for
a dumb city cop to mess in.

What's it all about, Jim?

I wish I knew, Dennis.

Hey, you...
You know a guy
named Electric Larry?

Yeah, I know him.
The Shylock.

I'd like to know him better,
like down in a holding cell.
Why?

I just need his money
to stall for some time.

Where would I find him?

Hey, if you're strapped,
I could come up with...

Oh, no, no, no, Dennis.
It's not like that.

I'm glad to hear that,

because I've been trying
to bust Larry for years.

Where would I find him?

You know a bar
called The Loop
on Imperial Highway?

Well, he's got
an office upstairs.

Thanks, Dennis.

Hey, do you mind?

[MUSIC PLAYING]

You guys
are carrying a grudge, right?

Come on. Come on, I can tell.

You got business here. Okay.

But when it's finished,

I got a piece of you.

Smick,

the club soda dispenser
in the bar is busted.

It was fixed last week.

Ah, fixed last week, huh?

You go down there
and tell that

to the customer
standing there

drinking scotch and air.

Yeah.

Rockford, right?
Yeah, right.

Sit down.

I'm a private investigator...
Hey, hey, hey.

You've been checked
and double checked.
Just sit down.



In hundreds.

Yeah, well, the hundreds
are important because...

Hey, hey, hey, hey,

hundreds, dimes,
nickels, who cares?

Now I'm gonna tell you
what's important

so you know
what's gonna happen.

Now, you need 20 grand,
right?

I get three for two.

This time next week,
you owe me 30 grand.

The nut and the vig.

Little rough for you?

Okay, say you don't
want to do it that way.

This time, next week,
you owe me 10 grand.

Long as I get the vig,
you keep the nut
in your pocket, right?

Right.
I know I'm right.

I just said I was right.

We ain't never
done business before.

So you don't get no terms.

Everyday you owe me $1 400.

The last day, $1600.

You understand?

Yeah, I understand.

No, you don't understand.

Because if you miss one day
of paying me my money,

somebody's going to come by
and ask you nice and polite.

Second day,
they gonna start to yell.

And the third day,

it's like baseball, baby.
You out.

Now you understand?

Yeah.

What are you doing?

I'm counting it.

You trying to call me
dishonest?

Get out. Get out.

Hey, it's okay.
Get out.

Hey, great.
It's very nice...
Just go.

Nice doing
business with you.

Follow this cat.


I want to know who gets it.

All right.

Oh, Jim.

Jim, listen,
will you please
tell these guys,

I don't even know
what they're talking about.

Tell them where it came from,
so I can just go on home.

I wish I could, Rocky,
but I don't even know myself.

Hey, why didn't you
return my calls?

Well, I...

I...

Well, you see,
on the airplane going over,

I met this real nice gal,
Lena McCarthy,

from right over in Tarzana.

Well, her and me
got to talking and all,

and then when we landed,
we was having so much fun

I just never did go back
to the hotel room much.

Let's get to the point
of this meeting.

I thought Miss Davenport
made it clear to you
to bring the money.

Well, I did.
It's downstairs.

But prior to anyone
getting their money,

I want to know
what this is all about.

Miss Davenport,
you're an attorney.

An officer of the court.

Now, where downstairs
is the money?

I don't know.
Mr. Rockford didn't tell me.

Then where did
he park his car?

I don't know.
We came separately.

Hold it.

Look. All I want to know
is what's going on here.

Now, why did Rocky
get the money?

We don't know
the answer to that.

Well, why don't you
just tell me
what you do know, huh?

MAN ON INTERCOM..
Hey, Steiner, Wolf,
let's get on with it.

The money was skimmed.

It was carried by a courier,
a man that we planted.

It came from Vegas.

From a casino.

Now keep your part
of the agreement.

Come on, now.
That doesn't even
start to explain it.

The courier was supposed...

Hey, Steiner, Wolf, huh?

Look, Jennifer's in
a school recital tonight.

I want to get out of here
at a decent hour for once.

You don't have kids.
You don't know...

The courier was supposed
to mark the money

when he got it to the man
who was to receive it.

Who was that?

Courier went out the window
before he could tell us.

He was also supposed
to leave the marking stamp
in the office of the receiver.

Physical evidence.
Six months of work
down the drain.

Okay, I'm going to assume
that this is mob front money

that was used for financing
legitimate businesses.

You can assume.

How long are you
gonna keep my father?

Well, we have
to try to ascertain
his part in the case.

He doesn't have one.

Probably not.

WOLF:
There's only $20,000 here.

There's supposed
to be better than 200.

Can't help it.
That's all I got.

No workings.
Nothing shows.
You tamper with this?

Hey, you hear I'm getting
money in the mail.

You call my lawyer,

you tell her to bring me
and the money in.

If it's not the right money,
that's your problem.

Don't pull my chain.

Beth, is there any statute
against receiving money
in the mail?

Not yet.

Good, good.
I'm gonna take my money,
I'm gonna take my father,

and we're gonna
get out of here.
No, you're not, Rockford.

The money stays here
until we've had a chance
to put it through the lab

and see if maybe
you processed
the dye out of it.

If it's clean,
you can have it
back in about a week.

For Dad there,
we've got 48 hours to
hold him without booking him.

That's just
what we're going to do.

Gonna do what?

Because if somebody
contacts you,

you'll call us
before you even breathe.

Sonny...
No, no.

You are an arrogant,
buttoned-down creep.

BETH: Jim.
No.

Look, I am gonna bust
your little case for you

and then I'm gonna shove it
down your throat.

And that goes for you, too.
Don't worry, Rocky.

He was in there
for about half an hour.

LARRY.. Who did he see?

I couldn't follow him
in there.

And he left the dough?

He doesn't have no case
with him right now.

Man, with all my tax grief,

this turkey
has to go and leave


with the Feds.

Okay, take him, Smick.

He just left.

Boy, you ain't got
no sense, do you?

Go and get him
and bring him home to me.

Yeah.

[PHONE RINGING]

WOMAN.. Carson and Carroll.
Good morning.

I'd like to speak
to Mr. Carson, please.

I'm sorry, but Mr. Carson
won't be in until noon.

May I take a message?

Is Mr. Carroll in?

Mr. Carroll is out of town
this week.

Well, I'd like to know
the name of the company

that sponsored last week's
prize trip to Hawaii.

Oh, I'm sorry, sir.

But this company's policy
is not to give out
that kind of information.

Okay, thank you.

[PHONE RINGING]

Carson and Carroll's, right?

Okay,
I could start with Carson's.

Which one is it,
right or left?

I beg your pardon?

The rugs, the offices.

Which one is Carson's?

Oh, here. Here's the order.

Just point it out.

I've got four more places
to go today.

The way the office
schedules things,

they'll probably be
all over town.

I don't understand.
What is this about?

The rugs. A shampoo.

They told me
to just do the offices,

but this thing
out here looks like
it could use it, too.

They said
start with Carson's office

'cause Carroll
will be out of town.
We can get him anytime.

Wait. I can't
let you go in there.
I have no record of this.

You don't?

No.

Carson and Carroll?


Well, you better
just call the office
and check it out.

No skin off my nose.

They pay me whether
I'm drinking coffee
or shampooing rugs.

JENNY.. Good morning,
Miss Johnson speaking.

Yes,
this is Miss Grayson
at Carson and Carroll.

I think there's been
some mix-up.

One of your men is here.
He says he has an order
to clean the rugs.

Oh, just a minute.

Let me look it up
in the books.

Oh, yes, here it is.

We got a call
from a Mr. Carroll.

He specifically
instructed that our man
start with Mr. Carson's office

and finish before noon.

Well,
I don't understand
why no one told me.

Well, I'm sorry.

If you don't
want it done today,

we'll still have
to charge you for the time.

No, no.
If Mr. Carroll ordered it,

it must be all right.

Could I speak to
the workman, please?

Yeah?

How'd I do?

ROCKFORD.. Fine.

Jim, you did mention
something about dinner
Saturday night, didn't you?

Absolutely.

All right.

They never tell me
anything, either.

There we are.

This is a great
little machine, you know.

It's got double vacuum on it,
circular motion.

The whole thing.

Really good.

[MACHINE HUMMING]

Makes too much noise.

Bother everybody
in the office.

I'll only be a half hour.
You better close the door.

Well, I just don't know
when I'm gonna get back
to this thing.

They got
a big rush job over at
the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

I mean,
we'll have to do
this other office, but...

Hey, you know
how short we are?
Last week they sent...

You don't want
to hear about it.

Look, I'll call you
at 3:00, 3:30,

set up another appointment,
okay?

Yeah, but...

Hey! Hey, what...

It's time for a little
business conference.

Hey, look, tell your boss
he doesn't have anything
to worry about.

I got a lot of things
to take care of.

Can't it wait till later?

Sure, but by that time,
Jud's foot might have
slipped on the accelerator.

You'll be talking to Larry

and your legs
will still be back here
wondering where you went.

LARRY: Petey, Petey, Petey.

Stick, stick, stick.
Float, baby, float.

Looking good.
Come on, stick him now.

Move to the left.

All right, looking good.

Stick, stick, stick.
Looking real mean
like a mean machine.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Look, it's doing its job,
Solly, baby.

Thanks, Mr. Coglin.

Come on. Keep it moving,
keep it moving.

Now, you took
to the Federal Building

and left it there?

I have certain expenses
that don't concern you,
Larry.

You got
a Federal man on the pad,
is that what you're saying?

Man, you've got to have
a gnat's brain to borrow
grease money from me.

Now,
you go to your uncle,

you go to the bank,

you go to the Small
Business Administration.

You go anywhere
but to a shark,

rates being what they are.

Now, you keep
shucking with me,

you're going to
end up on a scholarship
to the Braille Institute.

There's no percentage
in lying to you.

You're getting
a little paranoid.

Hey, you watch your mouth.

It's just an expression.

The IRS is all over me.
Don't think I don't know it.

You know what I think?

I think
you're setting me up
for some kind of thing

where the floor's
gonna fall out.

Lighten up.
It's not that way.

Yeah.

You're gonna
go a few rounds
with Petey Estevez,

the man that
Teofilo Stevenson
loses sleep over.

Oh, hey, I'm not
much of a boxer, Larry.

I wouldn't want to
bore you with a dull bout.

Bore me?
Man, we ain't gonna be bored.

By the time Petey Estevez
gets through with you,

you're gonna
tell us all kind
of interesting things.

Hey, what happened?
Did he slip?

Probably low blood sugar.

I keep telling him
to keep up his left.
He won't listen to me.

I'll tell you what's wrong.

You ain't
feeding my boy right.

He...

He ain't got
enough sugar
in his blood.

Smick, Jud, get some
gloves on this turkey.

You're gonna go
a few rounds with...

With my new discovery here,
Honey Boy.

Honey Boy?

Get up.

Get up.

[GRUNTING]

Hey, hey, you ready to talk
to Electric Larry, baby?

I've already talked to you.

Why don't you have
a little faith in me?

Show him the faith.

Get up, you bum.

Get up and tell me
what you're gonna
do with my money.

[COUGHING]

Hey!

Hey!

[HORN HONKING]

WOMAN..
Jackson Building.

Just a moment, please.

[PHONE BUZZING]

Yeah, Bev.

Mr. Blake,
there's a man here

who insists on speaking
to the Jones brothers.

I've explained several times
that there's no one here
by that name,

but he's adamant.

BLAKE.. Send him in.

How did you find us?

Well, you kept
sending money to
my father's house,

'cause you knew he was gone.

You don't know my father,

so you had to be
tied to the contest.

You're a better detective
than I suspected.

I'll think about that
for the company.

Now,
what do you want from us
in return for the money?

We can't go higher than 10o/o.

Fine, fine. $4,400.

I'll write you a check.

No checks. Cash.

I don't know how long
your checks are gonna be good.

No offense, but you guys
haven't been too smart
up to now.

And I do not want the money
from those envelopes.

Do you have
the money with you?

No.

So we give you $4,400
and you go out

and we never see you again.

There's a mail chute
out in the hall.
Just mail it to me.

If I don't show up
with the money,

you just
send someone out
to pick up my mail.

Appropriate.

Okay.

Bev, would you come in here
a moment, please?

That's the right address.

Put it in the mail chute.

We'll be expecting you,
Mr. Rockford.

There's one other thing,
gentlemen.

I'm afraid that
I can't return the money

until I find out
how this whole thing came out.

That's not your problem.
We made a deal, Rockford.
We've paid you.

I can't help it
if you paid me

before all the terms
of the deal were laid out.

Why don't you go
take a business course?

Now, I'm not
gonna move on this thing
till I'm absolutely sure

that nothing bad is gonna
boomerang on me or mine.

Sorry.

How much do you
already know?

Well, I know that the money
was skimmed from Vegas
and it was marked.

We found the courier tampering
with the bills in this office.

We assumed
he was marking them.

You threw him out
a window for that?

No, there was an argument.

He fought
and then he slipped.

We didn't want it
to happen, but it did.

Now, you got a dead man
outside your window,

you got 200 grand
of marked money

lying on your table here.

Panic time.

Why didn't you
just mail it to yourself?

Mr. Rockford,
it wasn't a situation
we'd dealt with before.

It seemed expedient.

I had the names
and the addresses

of the contest winners
on my desk.

The police would never
think of looking there.

It should have worked.

What about our money?

At 6:00,
when the building
is all cleared out,

you leave the door
to your lobby unlocked.

I'll call you about 7:00.

Rockford,
if you don't show,
if you try to be clever,

the sanctions
won't be economic.

We'll k*ll you.

Frank, call Tony.

I want him here at 6:00
and I want him armed.

ROCKFORD.. Dennis,
you just have to trust me.

I've heard it before,
Jimbo.

''Trust me, Dennis.''
And then I wind up
holding the short end

of something I don't like.

You want Larry,
don't you?

All right, I can give him
to you, but I need help.

Yeah, I want Larry,
but I don' want to
die for it

and I don't want to get
busted out of grade, either.

It's not gonna happen
that way.

Now, 6:55.
You got the address,

and don't worry about
Steiner and Wolf.
They'll come.

Just tell them
they're gonna get
their dirty money men.

[RINGING]

Hello.

Hello, Larry.
This is Rockford.

See, I told you
all you had to do
was have a little faith.

I want to give you
your money back.

Where?
Over the telephone?

I'm certainly not
gonna do it at the gym.

You be at the Jackson Building
on Wilshire at 6:50.

If you're late, I'm gone.

What office?

I'll leave a note
for you in the lobby.

All right, man, 6:50.
We'll be there.

[PHONE RINGING]

ROCKFORD.. Dearborn, Rockford.

Where are you?

In the lobby.

Come on up.

No, thanks.
I don't like the accidents
that happen in your office.

You go out and watch
the right-hand elevator.

The money will be in it.

Hi. Hey, hey,
look, you're early.

What was that that just
took a trip upstairs?

Man, you are some
kind of weird dude.

First, you take
my money to Federal Hall,

then you're
sending briefcases
on elevator rides.

Hey, you lay your game plan
out for me right now

else I'm gonna drop you down
an air conditioning duct.

I'm buying counterfeit bills.

$200,000 for $20,000.

My 20 grand?
Yeah.

Who you think
you're dealing with,
a sharecropper?

You took my 20 grand
to the Feds.

How do you think
a one-man operation like me

lays his hands
on that much counterfeit?

The $200,000
is part of a package

the Treasury Department
seized last year.

My contact man
was on the team.

He's in an empty office
upstairs right now.

He's gonna send the money down
in the case in the elevator.

Sure.

And you were gonna
pay old Larry with
funny money, huh?

No...
Come on, hit the button.
Let's go upstairs.

I want a look-see.

If there's $200,000 in there,
I want the whole thing.

Then you going
off the roof.

STEINER: Where is he?

BECKER: He said
he'd be here, he'll be here.

WOLF:
Oh, yeah? He said 6:55
and it's 7:00. He's late.

BECKER: Well, let's go on up.

[WHISPERING]
Check things out.

Look out!

LARRY: Just take it easy,
baby. Just rest real easy.

Come on, move it.

Smick, keep your eye on him.

Rockford? Rockford.

[LAUGHING]

Come on, chum.

Come to Electric Larry, baby.
I'm gonna put you to sleep.
Come on.

Don't even breathe,
punk.

That's it.

Hey, Sarge,
what do I book
this one on?

CCW, possession
of illegal handgun,

attempted 287

and maybe for being
so ugly, even.

Don't forget as*ault.

STEINER: It's the money,
all right,

but you blew the case,
Rockford.

We can confiscate it,
but what have we got them on?

m*rder, maybe.

m*rder, maybe.

You're missing
the marking stamp, right?

All the money was marked
right in this office.

Now, if I was a hotshot
Federal agent,

I think I'd use
some of my clout

to get myself
a search warrant.
That's what I'd do.

Call Fredrickson.
Tell him to get
his tamed judge.

Yeah, first
tell Fredrickson
to send my dad home.

That's first.

I'm gonna interject
something here.

I appreciate the fact
you're cutting my hair
for free

because I'm so broke,

but we're not
getting that layered look

that we were talking about.

You know,
maybe we should wash it

with some of
that organic shampoo.
You know what I mean?

Then cut it while it's wet
and then give it a blow-dry.

What?

Well, that's...
That's how they do
it in Beverly Hills.

Well, this is how
we did it in the Seabees.

And we all looked like men.

Hot dogs again?

Just try to think of them
as tube steaks, huh?

Hey, Dad, I'm sorry.
I mean, I'm tapped out.

I know, sonny.
It's just that...

Well, by all rights,
I ought to be
in Hawaii right now

drinking them mai tais
and eating that mahi-mahi.

You know,
it's the only contest
I ever won in my whole life.

You know,
I still can't figure out

how them Federal fellows
found out I was in Honolulu.

Yeah, that is hard
to figure, isn't it?

But it's good to know
that your government's
doing a heck of a job.

Yeah, and we can
all be thankful
for informants, too.

Yeah, well,
I don't go along with that.

I mean,
when they had me down
at that Federal Building,

I stonewalled it
all the way.

Oh, yeah?

Hey, I'd have really
liked to have seen that.

No. No, you wouldn't.
It was a terrible time.

But I hung tough, Jimmy,
I hung tough.

Can we do something?
A little sculpting
around the ear here.

Transcript of your statement,
Mr. Rockford.

If you want to read it over,
make any changes,
you can do so.

You'll have to come
to our office and initial.

Yeah, right. Right.

I...

I'd ask you to
stay for dinner,
but then,

nobody wants you around.

Real sorry
you have that attitude.

Let's go, Mike.
We don't owe them anything.

Except you, Mr. Martin.

I would like
to thank you personally for
the information you gave us.

It's true that
Joseph Rockford,
here, wasn't our man,

but the step was helpful.

I mostly stonewalled it.

They probably got me

on one of their
trick questions,
you know.

But I didn't have
no lawyer to advise me.

I was one man, alone.

Yes, you was alone.