Kansas City Confidential Page #2

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- What about me?

- I'll tell you when.

It's odd that you'd stop at that florists

next to the bank

twice in the same morning.

Once was all I was there.

Then the woman who identified

you is a liar?

No, she's telling the truth.

I did bump into her.

And the other witnesses who swear

your truck was the getaway car,

they're telling the truth, too?

They're wrong if they say I had anything

to do with the robbery.

You want me to believe

there was a duplicate truck.

I wouldn't know. I wasn't there.

- You were framed, then. Is that it?

- Yeah.

And that year you spent in the pen?

Did anyone frame you on that rap?

Ask the Captain here,

he was the arresting officer.

A real model citizen.

Look, just because I got in a

jam over a gambling bet

doesn't make me a bank robber.

- The boy wants pity.

- What about the truck?

If I knew the answer to that,

I wouldn't be here now.

How's this for an answer?

There was no other truck.

Listen, I...

Mr. Andrews, here,

with the insurance company,

he's willing to give you a break,

aren't you, Scott?

- He knows we are.

- Same questions, same answers.

- You can save your breath.

- It's my job, Joe.

After all, we've got to make good the loss.

In fact, we're willing to pay out as

much as 25 % of the money as a reward.

That's $300,000 for a lead, Joe.

You're an industrial engineer, aren't you?

- I never graduated.

- That's right.

Left school to enlist with the engineers.

Pretty good soldier, too.

Bronze Star, Purple Heart.

Try and buy a cup of coffee with them.

Came back to resume his studies at night.

Why?

Why? I ask myself,

would a man with such training

want to take a job outside his line?

To set up a touch for

over a million dollars, that's why.

I got the job through the probation officer.

You can ask him.

Mr. Collins, did I ever give you any trouble

when I worked for you?

No, Joe, not at all.

But I'm afraid I've got to let you go now.

Nothing personal, you understand.

It's just that... Well,

we sell to a lot of

very conservative people.

- You know how it is.

- Yeah, I know how it is.

Sergeant, see that Mr. Collins gets back.

I'll go along with him.

Some questions I want to ask.

All right, Rolfe, you want it the hard way,

I can fix that too.

You've got 20 years staring you

right in the face.

What do you want me to say? That I did it?

Why don't you go ahead, Mr. Martin?

You got a big day tomorrow.

The boys will help me keep

Rolfe company.

What do you think, McBride?

I think if you left him to me and the boys,

I'd have his confession on your desk,

the first thing in the morning.

We'll be back after him,

first thing in the morning.

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