- Lucy Chapman used to be Duncan's girlfriend.
- And the army's and navy's.
- Yeah, maybe so.
5 seconds sound clip from the The Big Heat (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:19:31.997 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- You want me to go upstairs and explain?
- Not you. You're a corn-stepper by instinct.
- No, all I'm asking you to do, and I'm not even ordering it, Dave... stop bothering Mrs. Duncan.
- I don't want to jam you up, Ted, but I may have to see her once more.
- Why? You have any doubt Duncan killed himself?
- I just got back from the county morgue.
- Hmm, the barfly? I read the Teletype about your identification.
- Lucy Chapman used to be Duncan's girlfriend.
- She talks to me just once and, like that, she's dead.
- That's County Homicide's headache.
- Let's worry about this office. We're spilling over with unfinished business.
- Lucy Chapman was probably trying to shake down some sucker who wouldn't shake.
- When barflies get killed, it's for any one of a dozen crummy reasons. You know that.
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