• 5 months ago
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00:00Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the police academy.
00:06Two in Los Angeles.
00:13The other in San Francisco.
00:16And they were each assigned very hazardous duties.
00:22But I took them away from all that.
00:25And now they work for me.
00:27My name is Charlie.
00:57TRIP INTO THE MORNING
01:02TRIP INTO THE MORNING
01:23Trip into the morning
01:27I need a friend tonight
01:31Can you spare a dollar for the bed?
01:39If I'm tasting sunshine
01:43In the morning light
01:49What you're hearing, ladies and gentlemen,
01:51is a recording made earlier this evening by the WLTR mobile news unit
01:55of the Amy Waters performance at the Concert Hall.
01:58The internationally acclaimed singing star
02:00appeared to suffer an emotional breakdown halfway through her performance.
02:04She ran from the stage, and as yet there has been no report...
02:15Listen.
02:17I keep forgetting your name.
02:20Lenny.
02:22Right.
02:25I gotta make a phone call.
02:33Then we'll go to the police station.
02:36Okay?
02:55TRIP INTO THE MORNING
03:06I forgot.
03:09You took all my money.
03:15You know, I'm good for the fare, Lenny.
03:18I know that, Miss Waters.
03:21I...
03:24I needed time.
03:36You're good people, Lenny.
03:54You're good people, Lenny.
04:12Yes?
04:14Daddy?
04:16Honey.
04:18Where'd you go? Where you been?
04:21I don't know.
04:23I've just been riding around.
04:28Daddy?
04:31Can I come home?
04:34Do you have to ask?
04:37I really wanna come home, Daddy.
04:42I wanna...
04:45I wanna make things right this time.
04:49You know?
04:50I know, dear, I know.
04:52I've been worried sick about you.
04:54Everybody has.
04:56Police are here asking about you.
04:59Would you keep them there, Daddy?
05:01Because...
05:05I have something I wanna tell them.
05:10I love you, Daddy.
05:23I love you, too.
05:34We don't have to go to the police station now, Lenny.
05:38They're at my dad's.
05:40We'll go there.
05:42Whatever you say, Miss Waters.
05:52I love you, too.
06:22This is the place.
06:34Good night.
06:36Good night, Lenny.
06:52Good night.
07:10Hey, Amy!
07:15Help me here.
07:19What are you doing here?
07:23God, no! No!
07:38Quiet! Quiet, Amy!
07:53Quiet!
07:59Help me!
08:22Amy!
08:53Good morning.
09:01They've been briefed, Charlie.
09:03Amy Waters was one of my favorite artists, Angels.
09:06I wanna know why she died.
09:08Well, Charlie, the newspaper said it was a heroin overdose.
09:11I know, Sabrina. Amy did have a history of drug abuse.
09:15But her father insists that she was straightening herself out.
09:18Interesting thing, Charlie.
09:20All her arrests were for cocaine.
09:22I mean, as far as anybody knows, she never touched heroin.
09:26Another thing, Charlie,
09:28the police report said there were bruises on her face.
09:31Right, Kelly. So we've gotta ask,
09:33was the heroin administered under protest?
09:36Well, her father said that she was rational when she called him, Charlie.
09:40From the amount of heroin that was found in her system,
09:43that would have been impossible.
09:45So the overdose came after the phone call?
09:49So it would seem, Charlie.
09:51Let's find out why it happened, Angels.
09:57What a waste.
10:07She was getting a hold of herself.
10:09And she wanted to live. To live right.
10:12You mean she was trying to quit using drugs?
10:14She was quitting.
10:16She knew it was wrong to mess around with that stuff.
10:19And you're sure she was all right when she called you?
10:22She was tired. It had been a hell of a night.
10:25Falling apart on stage like that.
10:28Why did she fall apart, Mr. Waters?
10:30Problems. Pressures.
10:33People coming at her from all sides, begging demands.
10:37Just caught up with her.
10:39She said she'd been riding around in a cab?
10:42She never liked to drive.
10:44Limousines made her uncomfortable.
10:46Any time she came to town, she used a cab.
10:49I guess she used them wherever she went.
10:51But I know one thing.
10:55When she called me and said she wanted to come home,
10:59it meant just that.
11:03Something or somebody she saw that night stopped her.
11:07And you've got to find out what happened.
11:11Because if you don't,
11:14I'll go crazy for sure.
11:17We'll find out, Mr. Waters.
11:21Thank you.
11:32Thank you.
11:34Thank you.
11:42Yeah.
11:44Lenny?
11:45That's me.
11:46Hi. My name is Chris Monroe.
11:48I'm a reporter with Country Music Quarterly.
11:50This is my editor, Mr. Bosley.
11:52Hi, Lenny. Hi.
11:54The dispatcher told us that you were the one
11:56that was with Amy Waters a couple of nights ago,
11:59the night she died.
12:00Yeah.
12:02That night.
12:04Well, when I heard she was dead, I didn't know her,
12:07but still, it went down pretty heavy.
12:09The dispatcher's log said that you picked her up
12:11at the concert hall at 9.30.
12:13Yeah, that's about right.
12:15And you dropped her off at her father's place at 12.10.
12:20Right.
12:21Can you tell me, what kind of shape was she in?
12:25Well, she was pretty strung out.
12:27Did she have any bruises when she left you, Lenny?
12:31Yeah, she did.
12:32Do you know how she got them?
12:34Yeah.
12:35She picked them up at the first place we stopped.
12:38Lenny, we've been wanting to do this special feature
12:42on Amy Waters for a long time,
12:44and we just haven't been able to find the right angle.
12:47I think we've got it now, the last few hours of Amy Waters,
12:50and we sure could use your help.
12:52Me? What could I do?
12:54I'd like you to take me every place you took her that night.
12:58I don't understand.
13:00I want to know where she went, who she saw.
13:03I want to know who gave her those bruises.
13:05I want you to understand, Lenny,
13:07that my magazine will pay you and the company for your time.
13:11Well, it's okay with me.
13:13Maybe you can find out what happened to her.
13:15She was a good lady.
13:17So I'll just sign in and we'll roll, huh?
13:19Great.
13:25Got your purse?
13:26Thanks.
13:27How are we doing?
13:28Okay, we got our work cut out for us.
13:29You made a lot of stops.
13:30Yeah?
13:31Okay, Sabrina, I'll follow in separate cars
13:33and check each place out after Lenny takes you there.
13:35Okay, good. I got my microphone here.
13:37Now, did you guys check your receivers?
13:39Yeah, it's working fine.
13:40Okay, I figure Lenny's gonna be a little more relaxed,
13:42maybe remember more if he doesn't know he's being monitored.
13:44And I'll get copies of the dispatcher's logs,
13:47take those, go back to the office,
13:49and just oversee the operation from there.
13:51Sort of like a field marshal.
13:53Yeah, you could say that.
13:55Oh, please don't.
13:57See you later.
13:58Bye.
13:59Bye-bye.
14:08Ready?
14:09Yeah, if you are.
14:28This was her first stop, right?
14:30Right.
14:31How long was she in there?
14:33About a half an hour.
14:34Do you have any idea who she saw in there, Lenny?
14:37She didn't say.
14:39But when she came out, she been slapped around
14:41and she was minus her cash.
14:42You mean somebody robbed her?
14:44I don't know what you call it.
14:46I don't know what you call it.
14:47I mean, what do you call it?
14:48I don't know.
14:49I don't know.
14:50I don't know what you call it.
14:51I don't know what you call it.
14:53I don't know what you call it.
14:54I don't know what you call it.
14:55Somebody robbed her?
14:56I don't know what you call it,
14:57but somebody took her money
14:58because she couldn't pay the fare.
15:00The company's collecting it today.
15:02From her father, I think.
15:03You're doing good, Lenny.
15:16I'll take this one and check out the apartment.
15:19Check you later.
15:55You
16:25I
16:39Yes
16:41Wow
16:42Amy's taste in music was a little offbeat
16:45So I guess her taste in men ran the same
16:49Lady what you running some kind of riddle contest
16:55Cutting out, huh
16:59Lady what you join about
17:02Amy Waters
17:03You remember Amy Waters
17:05The manager said she spent some time in this apartment and she dropped by the night. She died
17:10So I knew the girl. So what big deal? Well, she left here with a face full of bruises in an empty wallet
17:15Just
17:19Who the devil are you the point is who are you and how does Amy Waters figure in your action?
17:26You're not a cop. I
17:28Could fix it. So it is a cop asking you these questions
17:35Okay, okay
17:38Look
17:40Amy hired me as backup guitarist a couple of months ago in Phoenix
17:45We hit it off. So
17:48Naturally, I stayed with her
17:50Hit it off as in punching her out. No, wait a minute
17:54That wasn't my fault. She stormed in here started screaming at me about what?
18:00she was crazy said I was
18:03Using her told me to get out of your own apartment
18:07Well, look baby
18:09She paid the rent and your plane fare back to Phoenix. Look Amy's been picking up tabs
18:15For guys like me for a long long
18:19time I
18:21Can't imagine what you did for her
18:26What they all did for give her a nose full of coke
18:31Tell her what she wanted to hear
18:33You must play terrific guitar
18:35Because the rest of your act it stinks
18:45I
19:16I
19:20Yeah, what time's the plane get into Phoenix
19:28Thanks a lot
19:32Hey Freddy
19:34What you doing here first I'm asking questions
19:38Questions
19:40Hey, man, why the gun who's the girl what girl the foxy one that just walked out of here
19:48And she wouldn't say what she want
19:51She just asked some questions about who Amy Waters. What'd you tell her? Nothing? I swear put the gun away
19:59Now listen, I want to know exactly what she asked exactly what you told her. I
20:05told her nothing
20:07Now I'm telling you put that gun away before I take it away from you not till you tell me what I want to know
20:16Okay, Freddy, okay, man, she just
20:37I
20:56Say you and Amy got here about 1020. Yeah, but then do you know who she went to see in that restaurant?
21:07I'm very long mobile. I'm just crying when she came out. No, I didn't figure it was my place to ask
21:13I got the feeling she was a very private lady
21:28Bosley yeah, it's me. I need a computer rundown Cooperman. Yeah owns a restaurant 12th and Jefferson
21:35And that's okay I'll wait
22:05I
22:20Didn't hear anybody say come in. Well, I didn't hear anybody say not to
22:26Well, how about please leave I'm busy ah
22:29I
22:30Understand you're very good at asking people to leave. Mr. Cooperman
22:36You don't know me so I'm gonna tell you I don't like word games
22:40I don't like ladies who plan you got something to say say it and get out of here. Very forceful. You're very forceful. Mr
22:46Cooperman, is that how you got control Amy Waters music publishing company?
22:52Lady
22:54You better tell me who you are and what you want. You better do it quick
22:59Okay
23:00Well, uh, you know, I could be with the IRS
23:04Huh, or um, I could be with these Securities and Exchange Commission
23:09But I'm not I'm a friend Amy Walters. Mr. Cooperman, and that's lucky for you because you know those people
23:15They take a very dim view of using
23:19legitimate business to
23:21to wash syndicate money
23:31Let me tell you something young lady, I don't care if you're from any of those esteemed groups
23:37I own restaurants car agencies furniture stores and now a music publishing company
23:43So far, nobody's tied me into anything illegal. I know a check you got a very good roster of lawyers the best
23:50So get to the point
23:54The point is mr. Cooperman that on the night Amy died
23:58She visited several people and one of the places she came to was here
24:04Well now I'm just wondering why?
24:12She walked in we talked she walked out, you know, I just talked to her father mr
24:17Cooperman and he said Amy didn't want to sell that music publishing company to anybody
24:24Least of all you mr. Cooperman
24:28She changed her mind
24:29Maybe you made her change it. That's coercion and for coercion you can do a little time in the old slammer since the lady's dead
24:38You'll sweat proving I made her do anything. Mr. Cooperman if you had anything to do with her death
24:43You're gonna have a few anxious moments yourself
24:47Good day, sir. Oh
24:51You will excuse me for barging in
24:59I
25:04Tell her she starts connecting me with the wrong people we got trouble
25:29Oh, you excuse me a minute
25:36Would you like more coffee
25:59You
26:07Okay
26:08Is everybody here with you boss? Yeah here boss
26:12Okay, go ahead Chris. Okay. I'm at the blue plate diner 11th and Mason now when they left Cooperman's restaurant
26:18They got here about 1145 and it's a funny thing the lady that owns this place
26:23Said that Amy was feeling real good when she arrived here
26:26Her boyfriend had just beaten her up and taken all her cash. How could she be feeling good and that I can't figure out
26:32No, when she left Cooperman, she was crying. I just met Cooperman. He's something to cry about. I
26:38Don't know something doesn't make sense. Well, maybe we'll get the answer at our next stop
26:43which
26:44according to the dispatcher's log will be at
26:49South Tower South Tower. I'm five minutes from there
26:53Okay, you take it breathe
26:55I've got another little problem
26:57What is it Kelly? I've just picked up a tail fell in a red car. I think you better find out what he's all about
27:03I'll get back to you. Okay, you be careful every day in every way
27:08How long was she here about a half an hour, I don't know what she saw
27:14Well, it looks like the last stop is where she made the phone call to her father. You want to see it?
27:20Yep, why don't you take a look at it?
27:23Okay, let's go
27:37I
28:07I
28:37I
29:07I
29:38Don't know what you're talking. Yes, you do. Mr. Doniger. You work for Cooperman and the syndicate that was a long time ago
29:44Yeah, but you and I both know that once you work for those people you can never walk away from them
29:48Now that's the reason why when I saw your name on the registry downstairs
29:51I knew Cooperman's man had to be right behind me to see if I'd made the connection between you two
29:55Listen, I didn't tell anybody to shoot you. I got no reason. I don't know that
29:59as a lawyer and
30:02As Amy Waters personal manager you could influence her to sell her music publishing company to Cooperman
30:07Maybe you even sold it to him yourself and you didn't tell her and she found out and that's why she came here that night
30:12You can't prove any of this. I bet I can I
30:15Bet there's evidence that could put you and Cooperman in prison
30:19And that's why he had his guy follow me and he told him to shoot me if I came near you
30:23You're just trying to bluff. No, I'm not
30:25I'm not bluffing but you are and you're doing it very badly
30:27and if you were smart you'd pick up that phone you'd call the police and you try to make a deal because now that we've
30:31talked
30:33We're both targets
30:49Listen I uh, I didn't want to sell to Cooperman I eat
30:56He threatened to get rough and I remembered how rough he can get I
31:05Have her power of attorney I
31:08Signed all the papers without telling her and she found out the night. She died. Is that right? Yeah
31:13She threatened to expose me and Cooperman. So you killed her. I
31:17Had nothing to do with her death
31:19I've never seen her after she walked out of here and I can prove that I
31:24Hope you can I hope you can prove that because you just might have to I
31:31Wasn't kidding about that police protection, like you said, mr. Cooperman can get mighty rough
31:48But tangled webs we weave
31:53You
32:01Nor Robert I know two one seven
32:07Okay, Kelly, I'll run it through DMV and get back to you but until we know who he is
32:13Maybe you would be better off if you were behind watching him
32:18Good idea boss
32:23I
32:53I
33:23I
33:25I
33:28I
33:50Hello Brie Kelly, how you doing?
33:57Terrific who shot at you? Well some guy picked up at Cooperman's listen
34:02I found out that Cooperman and Amy's manager had a little lot conspiracy going
34:07Are you all right? Oh, yeah
34:10Where are you
34:13Well, I'm now behind the fell in the red car, but he might spot me can you take him?
34:17We're going east on Pico just past Vista. Sure. Look I'll pick you up at La Brea and then you lay back behind me
34:24Huh? You got it
34:27I
34:57I
35:03Bosley we followed him to a laundromat at 16th and Alvarado
35:07All right, Chris. Are you with me?
35:09Yeah, I'm with you. Okay, Kelly
35:13When did you say that the fellow in the red car started to follow you?
35:17Right after I left the guitar players apartment. Oh, maybe the pieces are starting to fit
35:23well
35:26The police found Amy's guitar playing boyfriend shot to death in his apartment
35:32Wait a minute. Hold on everybody. What is it?
35:40No, they're coming out of the laundromat with a soap machine
35:44Yeah, and they're putting it in the back of a pickup truck. I tell you what Kelly
35:49Why don't you come up here and ride with me? We'll follow him on boss. Chris. We'll check in with you later, right?
35:55Okay
35:58a
36:23Soap machine a laundrette. I don't get the connection Bosley
36:27well, maybe I'm beginning to
36:31All right. Well, listen, I'm gonna be in there in a few minutes. You can explain it to me. All right
36:44Get in the cab you drive
36:57You
37:17Who you talking to on the phone
37:20My editor, mr. Bosley
37:22What does he know about the laundrette?
37:25What do you mean I heard you mentioned a soap machine in the laundrette now, what did he tell you
37:32Nothing
37:33Yeah, he said he had something to tell me and that
37:37That already hurt something and we'd get to it later
37:40You're lying not lying Lenny. I'm traveling too. I don't know anything
37:46Listen I stop I make a phone call. I hear something. I do not understand and and all of a sudden you pull a gun
37:52on me I
37:53Mean let's talk about this before we make any dumb moves. Okay, what's going on?
37:59What's always gone on?
38:02Survival
38:04Yeah, well we all know how to play that game
38:08How did you play it with Amy Waters, huh
38:14She had certain needs I
38:16Helped her out needs you mean cocaine?
38:20Things got a little rough around the edges
38:23Everybody needs something. Yeah. Well, what do you need Lenny?
38:27Look, I'm no cop. I got no axe to grind
38:31Maybe we can work something out
38:33No
38:35You're too close
38:36If you and your editor friend put it all together, you could hurt me bad
38:40Just drive and keep your mouth shut
38:43if I can think
38:46I said to keep your mouth shut and drive
38:51Six nine you still with the pretty blonde lady
38:55Six nine. This is this bad. Hey Lenny. You being a good boy
39:00Six nine you read do you read six nine?
39:15You
39:19Kill me
39:21Winnie boss. Listen, I think we've got trouble here
39:24Now I've been going over my copy of the dispatcher's log and something keeps bothering me. What do you mean boss?
39:30Well Lenny's cab logged
39:3383 miles from the time he picked Amy up at the concert until he dropped her off at her father's place
39:39So
39:46It comes out to 63 miles then that means there's an error of 20 miles
39:52Exactly, unless you include a stop at the launderette
39:58Buzz are you sure?
40:03And that means Lenny's been lying a distinct possibility
40:06Possibility and I've got another piece of disturbing news for you. Chris was supposed to be back here
40:1315 minutes ago and she hasn't shown
40:16We haven't heard from her either. Maybe the transmitter batteries are fading
40:21Bosley if you're right about the 20-mile discrepancy and the launderette and that means
40:25Lenny could be tied in with these two that were following in the truck
40:29Exactly. And when that thought occurred to me
40:31I called the cab company and they told me they lost contact with Lenny and they couldn't reach him on the radio
40:55Turn right here
41:01I
41:32Get out
41:45This is home, huh Lenny you like it
41:49Why not? Yeah, why not cheap dirty run-down good enough for the likes of me
41:55I
41:57Know
41:58You tell me I'll tell you one thing. We ain't gonna be here much longer
42:01We made enough scores now to get to some of the good places
42:05we
42:07You
42:23Yeah, like the song says with a little help with my friends, huh, right gotta have friends
42:37I
42:40I
43:05Would you bring her here for
43:10She
43:13Got to know too much she ain't the only one
43:16What do you mean? I mean whatever has seen is she ain't working it alone
43:20You know her foxy girlfriend when you told me about
43:23She got to Evans before I could get to him. I followed it when she left
43:39Oh
44:10Oh
44:21Let's go look flat down get your hands over your head
44:26Hey, you're on your friends
44:30You okay? Yeah next time I think I'll take a bus
44:35I'll call a cop in an ambulance, right?
44:40Nobody move you don't have to look at me
45:00Okay, what's the trick maybe some special coin or something, huh, let's have it
45:10Come on come on
45:28Yeah, what do we have here gentlemen
45:39Okay, it's cocaine high-grade stuff
45:48Well, you sold a lot of dreams didn't you Lenny
45:54Everybody needs something
45:59Whatever you say
46:09I
46:11I
46:13I
46:36Amy was trying to clean herself up Charlie, but she was hurting pretty bad that night
46:42So she made one more stop at the laundrette
46:45That's why she was feeling so good when she got to the diner
46:47I understand Freddy Hank and Lenny are all facing murder one indictments angels
46:52Well, it was a team effort Charlie
46:54See Hank and Freddy would approach visiting artists at the concert hall now the ones who were interested in drugs
47:00Well, they'd sell him one of those little coins and they tell him to take a cab to the laundrette
47:04And Lenny's cab just happened to be handy the customer never knew that Lenny had said the whole thing up himself
47:10Just before the customer arrived at the laundrette Hank or Freddy would put the cocaine in the soap machine
47:16No way to trace their moves and no way for the police to get suspicious
47:20Unless a customer decided to tell the police
47:23Right, which is what Lenny was afraid Amy was gonna do that night
47:26And that's why he had Hank and Freddy killer when they saw me going to her boyfriend's apartment who was also a customer
47:32They were afraid he might have told me something so they killed him and took the evidence out of the laundrette
47:38They would have probably killed me too if I hadn't given them the slip
47:41Yeah, well Lenny and his friends didn't kill Amy all by themselves
47:47Do you know something we don't know Cooperman Doniger her boyfriend
47:53They were all using her
47:56They all got their pound of flesh
47:59Like Bree said it was a team effort. I guess you're right Chris, but they didn't get all of her
48:04She left us all with something very special
48:34You