- He dropped out when Grazzi had to leave the country.
- What, dead?
- No, scared.
3 seconds sound clip from the The Big Combo (1955) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:38:42.736 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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[...]
- Another name cropped up: Bettini.
- Bettini?
- Out of 97 warrants, he was the only one we couldn't pick up.
- He turned up again on Brown's lie detector...
- I remember him. He was Grazzi's right-hand man, before Brown, before McClure from my generation.
- He dropped out when Grazzi had to leave the country.
- He didn't fit in with Brown's new setup. None of the old crowd did.
- Bettini didn't wait around to get himself killed.
- Turned honest citizen. Changed his name and went into hiding.
- I did him a favor once. I could've put him away for something he didn't do. I let it pass.
- He did deserve it, considering all the times he was guilty and I didn't have the evidence.
[...]