Absence of Malice Page #4

Says he's a Diaz suspect.

Oh, that's not true.

What is he suspected of?

What's the difference?

Stop screwing around.

Look, I run the strike force.

And I run the DA's office.

I tell you anything, it's courtesy.

And I'm telling you

I wanna know what you're doing.

[INTERCOM BUZZES]

No calls.

WOMAN:

It's Jerry Peters,

Committee for a Better Miami.

Okay.

Hi, Jer. How's the golf?

Listen, I tried, but I just

can't do both. It's too far.

Please tell them remarks,

no speech.

See if I can do cocktails one,

dinner at the other, okay?

Thanks, buddy.

Joey Diaz was an honest guy.

He would've run a decent local.

Some creeps made

him disappear.

We got no footprints.

Six months and we're nowhere.

We beat our brains out

talking to people, and we got zip.

We're looking like dopes.

We got $50,000 on the street,

and we don't get a postcard.

I gotta have help.

So you're squeezing Gallagher?

Hey, you got somebody better?

He's Tommy Gallagher's kid.

He's Santos Malderone's nephew.

His old man dealt booze

from Atlanta to Miami.

Those guys kept the union out

of here for 15 years.

He knows those people.

He can get to them if he wants to.

Is he clean?

Oh, that's not the point.

I'm not trying to convict him,

I'm trying to get information.

Diaz got dead. Gallagher's

just getting squeezed.

I suppose you got him

under surveillance too?

No.

You think he knows anything?

He can sure find out if he wants to.

I'm trying to make him want to.

Still don't like it.

You worried about

the ACLU endorsement?

Wanna be a cowboy, go to New York.

Think of the credit you'll get.

Elliott, I want you to talk to him first.

Give him a chance to cooperate.

Then, okay, investigate him

if you have to, but no harassment.

If we nail the Diaz people,

you might get elected to something.

[SHIP HORN BLOWS]

Hey, Mike.

Twelve Bacardi Silver

and 16 Bittersweet

out to the Lullaby.

Right.

WOMAN [OVER PA]:
Mike,

to the office. You've got visitors.

Mike, to the office.

The fuzz.

Mike.

Where's your camera?

This is Eddie Frost.

We'd like to talk to you.

Am I under investigation?

Well, that's not

why we're here, Mike.

Do you know anything

about Diaz?

Nope.

If you do, we'd like you to know

we'd make special arrangements.

Ha.

I don't need

any special arrangements.

It might be in your best interest

to cooperate, Mike.

It would go...

Know where that story came from?

No.

Call me when you do.

Where were you May 25th, 1980?

You got a warrant?!

No.

Get the hell out of here.

Come on,

let's get out of here.

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What are you doing here?

TERESA:
I read the paper, Michael.

What's going on?

Aw, nothing, nothing.

Don't worry about it.

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