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And if he fails, you're off the hook, cos it was Miz Colbert's idea in the first place.

You just think a minute. Didn't you catch Sam in a lie last night?

What do you say, Chief? You got that old killer all lined up in your front sights, hm?

He gonna get hisself killed.

That's her place, here. You want me to wait?

- I don't know. - Well, I appreciate anything you can do.

- No. I already told him to go. - All right.

Not unless I say so.

You killed Colbert?!

Not that it'll make any difference.

Miz Colbert, I told you he was nobody's man.

On police department letterhead?

I can pull that fat cat down. I can bring him right off this hill!

The day Colbert was killed, he cashed a cheque for $900, $600 of which is gone,

? It's got a way of turnin' me around

Oh, it's all there. We paid for the phone call ourselves.

I'll remember that.

Now, you are the number one homicide expert.

I won't take it away.

- Good. I'll take 'em, son. - No, I wanna give 'em to the chief.

If Delores Purdy hadn't come in, I never would have seen the truth.

- Everybody in town knows that. - We figured that out.

- Now we're grindin' corn! - You shoulda been there!

? When I could sell my soul

- Did he confess? - Huh?

What are you gonna do about it?

I said "Now, Ralph, all you gotta do when we get out...

THEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS!

Ten cents, ten million dollars - just doesn't matter when a man's time comes.

All right. Give me another day. Two days. I'm close.

And so she starts to show me.

Because whenever I got enough change, I'd trade it in on $20 bills.

They put it on self-service after ten.

some kind of a homicide expert. But I don't need him.

Yes siree, I believe he will.

All right now, give him the waiver for false arrest.

What I fix, runs. Who pays?

give me understanding.

? In the heat of the night

Well, they brought me in one time.

- Courtney! - Yes, sir?

? Like old bow-legged Polly and a knock-kneed Paul

Now listen, you. Anything he wants, man, you better see that he gets it.

"Cos they got all of them big, cool tombstones."

Now, Miz Colbert is not gonna be back till Thursday.

- I gotta have somethin' for the file. - I realise that, but I'm in a hurry.

Mr Colbert drove by, so I hitched a ride with him. That's all.

But she kept bumpin' her price, and I don't know if she's still in business.

- Not very much, but I do like them. - Well, let me show you.

That's very good.

"Feel all that nice, cool marble along your body?"

You watch and see he don't.

Oh, now, don't get smart, black boy.

Now, somebody sure oughta make her stop doin' that.

Hello. This is Gillespie. Yes, sir. Yep, well...

- What do you call this material? - That's osmunda. Fern root.

I mean Officer Wood. Just like you always order.

? I repeat, in the night

If I told you once, I told you a hundred times