Clear and Present Danger Page #3

- Doesn't he look like Jack?

- Does he? I can't quite see.

- Only Latin.

- A Latin Jack? This I have to see.

I have to go. Bye.

Well, we know it's not piracy.

Pirates steal boats.

They had plane tickets to Bogota

the morning afterthe killings.

- Hey, Dan.

- How's it going?

We're sneaking up on a motive.

Dan Murray, Bureau.

- Ralph Williams, DEA.

- Said anything yet?

- Yeah. "We're innocent."

- Till the DA offers them a deal.

He already has.

Regular or extra crispy?

Either referring to fried chicken

or the electric chair.

Are you picturing a hit?

On a respectable American

businessman and his family?

You're assuming he's respectable.

We have memos, letters,

credit card statements,

phone bills, everything

you could need to break his code.

- What's this?

- Old high school yearbook.

- Sweethearts, football team...

- You think?

- I don't know.

- OK, let's see what we've got.

- No cream?

- There wasn't any.

Let's startwith birthdays.

Bet your ATM code is your birthday.

- Close.

- In reverse?

Alright, his birthday is...

That would be too easy, wouldn't it?

Let's try it in reverse.

No. His wife's?

No. His son's?

- This could take...

- Months.

Son's in reverse. This is for you.

No. Wife's in reverse.

No. Daughter's in reverse.

You've got to change your ATM code.

No. Wife, daughter. Nothing.

Got it.

I got it!

Wife's birth month,

daughter's day, son's year.

But not in reverse. Sorry.

Print me out that one.

Good boy.

Three years ago, Hardin received

an infusion of foreign capital

which he invested in 20 major

shopping centres in the US.

In the middle of the recession,

he posted record profits,

at least to the IRS, who he feared

more than his own partners.

To them, according to the stockholder

statements he was giving them,

the shopping centres

weren't doing nearly as well.

But he wasjust skimming

most of the profits, $650 million,

and putting it in accounts

in Luxembourg, Panama

and the Cayman Islands.

They killed him for it.

Who?

- His partners.

- Who were his partners?

It seems clear that he was laundering

money for the Colombian drug cartels.

Jesus! I knew the man for 40 years.

We went to school together.

We almostwent

into business together.

That would have been good.

The press is going to

have a field day with this.

- No one outside this room knows.

- They will. They always do.

It will come up, you're right

about that. When it does,

we'll downplay your relationship

with Hardin somehow.

- What?

- What?

- We'll defuse it.

- Do you disagree?

No.

Well, actually, yes. I would go

in the other direction.

If a reporter asked if you and Hardin

were friends, I'd say "good friends".

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