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every parent who calls says the same thing.
Please, please.
Look, there's
nothing I can do.
I'll take your name
and your information,
but that's all until the morning,
at the earliest.
I'm sure he'll show up by then.
They always do.
Are you Mrs. Collins?
Our thoughts go out
again today to Mrs. Christine Collins
of Lincoln Heights,
whose young son,
Walter Collins,
disappeared
nearly two weeks ago.
Though she is not
a member of our congregation,
we pray for her today
as we have every day,
since we learned
of her plight.
On the radio and
in the newspapers
we are told that
the Los Angeles Police Department
is doing its very best to
reunite mother and child,
and I'm sure
that that is true.
But given its status
as the most violent, corrupt
and incompetent
police department
this side
of the Rocky Mountains
I am not sure
Every day, new bodies
appear along Mulholland
and in the ditches
of our cities,
the work of Police Chief James Davis
and his aptly named Gun Squad.
Every day, the needs
of honest citizens
are put second to greed
and personal gain.
Every day,
this city sinks deeper into a cesspool
of fear, intimidation
and corruption.
Once the City of Angels,
Los Angeles has become
have become
our brutalizers.
Where to be the law is
to be above the law.
I understand.
Thank you.
I will call back
in a few weeks.
Thank you very much.
Las Vegas Missing
Persons Department?
Hello, this is
Christine Collins.
I'm calling to see if you've
found any missing or lost children
who meet the description
Oh, all right. Well,
please do. Please do call.
And I'll call back
in a matter...
In a week, if that's all right.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
$2.
Hell, I think I left
my wallet at home.
Can I owe it to you?
No credit.
Pay up or I
call the cops.
I'm sick of bums like you
coming around here.
I'm not trying to
stiff you, chief.
I just left my wallet
at home, that's all.
I'll go back and get it.
Five, 10 minutes, tops.
Got collateral?
You can't ask for
better collateral
than a man's own flesh
and blood, right?
Now, you stay here, son.
I'll be right back.
But...
- Now, don't give me any trouble.
He's a good man to
trust us like this.
Now, you just stay here and
I'll go back and get my wallet.
Ten minutes,
then I call the cops.
Ah, hell.
Number, please.
- Hello, Myrtle?
Hello?
- Yeah, this is Harve, down at the diner.
Oh, hi, Harve.
Would you get me
Sheriff Larsen?
Sure thing.
You have
a nice day, too.
Christine, I'm having trouble
with the connection here.
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