When barflies get killed, it's for any one of a dozen crummy reasons. You know that.
4 seconds sound clip from the The Big Heat (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:19:51.867 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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.
- Let the Sheriff's Office sort out this jigsaw.
- Meanwhile, we'll stop pestering the widow. Okay?
- First I know Lucy's quitting is about 2:00 in the morning. She comes to me and asks to be paid off.
- Did she say why? I don't ask.
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