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This is Sgt. Hardy.

We need paramedics at Sway's trailer.

This boy needs to be hospitalized.

I have no health insurance.

St. Peter's will take indigent cases.

Just pack up some things

in a bag for the hospital.

You telling the truth?

About what you saw?

Don't you believe me?

I didn't say I didn't believe you.

It just seems strange.

You called 911,

but you wouldn't leave your name.

I was scared.

It was the first dead guy I ever saw.

Then why'd you sneak back

and hide in the woods?

I don't know.

I just wanted to see, I guess.

Did you talk to the man...

...before he killed himself?

No, I never talked to him.

Does "Jerome Clifford "

mean anything to you?

I found some fresh cigarette butts...

...near the body.

Same brand as your mom smokes.

Somehow I can't see you

finding the body and then...

...deciding to have a cigarette.

Look, Officer, we was walking through

the woods when we found Romey dead.

- That's all.

- Who's Romey?

- That's the guy's name, isn't it?

- I said, "Jerome Clifford. "

Whoever heard of the name Romey?

I'm Dr. Greenway, is this your son?

- Yes.

- What's his name?

- How long has he been this way?

- I didn't find him, my boy Mark did.

You found him, Mark? Ricky?

Jerome R. Clifford, attorney,

was found dead...

...in an apparent suicide

outside Memphis just hours ago.

The famed Mafia lawyer

was to defend the alleged hitman...

...Barry "The Blade" Muldano...

...in the notorious case

of still-missing Louisiana senator...

...Boyd Boyette, now presumed dead.

It'd be tough to build a case

against Muldano without a body...

...but surely Clifford's death

will mean more delays.

As one informed source tells me...

...the plot thickens

for U. S. Attorney Roy Foltrigg.

No body, no case, no conviction.

That means no front-page pictures

that Foltrigg likes so much.

No CNN interviews,

no speedy ascent to Capitol Hill.

Sorry, Reverend Roy.

I never liked that old cow.

We' re here, Roy.

He tried it first with a hose attached

to the tailpipe, but it didn't work.

- He was probably too stoned.

- He was full of downers and whiskey.

I guess he figured he'd swallow a bullet

for dessert. Cheap snub-nosed. 38.

Definitely a suicide.

Damn him. Two days ago I told him:

" I have enough evidence

to put your fat ass on the stand. "

I was bullshitting of course. But...

...I didn't know he'd get so nervous

he'd kill himself.

He knew where the body was.

He'll never tell us now.

Without that body we have no case.

- How's the weather in Memphis?

- It's hot, Roy.

Sprite?

What happened?

I got in a fight at school.

It's summer. There's no school.

I meant, a kid from my school.

Who?

- Why?

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