52 Pick-Up Page #2

What were you looking for? A little action?

No. He was.

It was a Friday night after a convention.

I took him into Hollywood.

- O'BOYLE:
What kind of shape were you in?

- Fine. You know me. A couple of beers.

So, you sat down and started talking.

Yeah, more or less.

She had this friend who danced there.

A black girl. A beautiful black girl.

Anyway, I bought her a drink.

She tells me she's going to

secretarial school at night

and working in this modeling place

in the daytime with the black girl.

- Mr. Mitchell!

- Oh, excuse me.

How far apart would you like

these blasting trays?

This is good. About 20 feet.

One, two, three, four, let her go.

I must have thought I was falling in love.

What an a**hole.

And Barbara?

Oh, don't think she didn't know

that something was going on.

And the irony of the whole thing is,

that morning I went to see the girl,

I was going to call it quits.

Quits, for Christ's sake.

And the video. The guy talking,

you ever heard this guy's voice before?

Never.

Eventually, we're gonna have to take it

to the police.

No.

Barbara told me this morning

that she's running as a candidate

on Arveson's ticket.

Can you imagine

what the papers would do with that?

Look, Jim, she stuck with me

all these years while I built this.

What am I going to do?

Am I going to destroy the one thing

that she's built for herself?

I can't do that. I won't do it.

- Do I pay them and just forget it?

- That wouldn't end it.

- You mean these guys don't forget.

- Yeah.

(SIREN BLARING)

BOB:
How do you do?

HARRY:
My lawyer, Jim O'Boyle.

My assistant, Bob Parker.

I'm really anxious to see this.

What about all this wind? Is it...

No problem. No problem.

Just step right up here.

- About ready, Johnny?

- Whenever you're ready, Mr. Mitchell.

Okay. Count them out.

Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole!

Fire in the hole!

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

Good evening.

Good evening and thank you for coming.

Let's get right with it.

It is my pleasure to introduce

Barbara Mitchell,

senior member of the Clean-Air

Commission and, as of today,

candidate for councilwoman

of the Thirteenth District. Barbara.

Thank you. Thank you very, very much.

I know that most of us who are living here

in Los Angeles are not used to

breathing air that we can't actually see.

But, tonight, I would like to

clear the air about one thing.

This city needs a decent, talented,

strong District Attorney.

A man who is on a first name basis

with the truth.

Now, Mark Arveson has demonstrated

his personal integrity many, many times.

He knows that one small deceit, one head

turned the other way, is one too many.

Ladies and gentlemen, Los Angeles

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