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The Savage Payoff - Decoy S01E06
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00:16With ten seconds to play, the crowd packing the gym on the campus of State University
00:20went mad as their team scored the tying basket.
00:25In a hotel room half a mile away, the joy was slightly more restrained.
00:32Take it easy.
00:35Bobby will blow the foul.
00:37Weston will take the rebound and score the winning points.
00:42Seconds later, Frank Henderson's prediction came true.
00:51Was it a good guess, was he clairvoyant, or had the game been fixed?
00:59It was my job to find out.
01:01It was my job to find out.
01:30Can it, Bobby?
01:32Hey, you played great for all the both of you.
01:35If I'd only sunk that foul.
01:37Forget it.
01:38The next game we'll win.
01:39So long as we keep plugging, we'll win our share.
01:42Wipe this one out of your mind.
01:43I guess I just hate to lose, coach.
01:46Don't worry.
01:47We'll win the next one.
01:50Come on, quit moving around and get dressed.
01:52Hazel's waiting outside in the car.
01:54Pick up a date and we'll have ourselves a ball.
01:57Not tonight.
02:00It's your funeral, buddy boy.
02:20For Detective Sam Franklin, it started as a routine check of the belongings of the dead boy.
02:27Coach, how well did you know Bobby?
02:30I know he was a darn good ball player, one of the best I've ever coached.
02:33Aside from that.
02:36What's wrong?
02:36What have you found?
02:38Would it interest you to know that the girl in the car with Bobby the night he died worked for
02:43a gambler named Frank Henderson?
02:47Yes, it would interest me very much.
02:50But I don't see what you get-
02:51That the car Bobby drove was registered in his own name?
02:55That he bought and paid for it in cash?
02:58That $500 and $20 bills was found in his wallet at the time of that accident?
03:06You played a game on the evening of November 2nd?
03:11That's right.
03:12Boston U.
03:13Lost that one?
03:16Yes, by two points.
03:18Uh-huh.
03:19November 15th?
03:24Manhattan.
03:25We lost again.
03:28And November 25th, December 3rd, the 18th, the 28th, January 6th, the 17th, and the 25th.
03:39And every time you lost, Bobby Phillips deposited from $500 to $1,000.
03:43Each and every time you lost.
03:45Well, Lieutenant, he's always been an erratic-
03:47I'm certain if we'd check back into each one of these losses,
03:51we'd find Bobby made the misplay that set up the winning points.
03:54He's always been an erratic player.
03:56He'd blow hot or cold.
03:57He couldn't miss or he couldn't buy a basket.
03:59That's just the way he was.
04:01And Dave Carter?
04:07Dave?
04:07Oh.
04:08This is Detective Lieutenant Sam Franklin.
04:11Hi, Dave.
04:13Sorry to bust in on you this way, but-
04:15It's okay.
04:15I understand.
04:16I guess you have to ship his things home.
04:19I'll be out of your way in a minute.
04:23If there's anything else you'd like to keep, I could check with the family.
04:29Well, that picture of Bobby's sister.
04:32It's been there for two years.
04:34I'd kind of miss it.
04:35I don't think she'd object.
04:44See you at practice, huh, Dave?
04:45Right.
04:46So long, Dave.
04:47See you.
04:53You're dead wrong, Lieutenant.
04:55Dave isn't that type of boy.
04:56I'd stick my life on it.
04:58He's as steady as Bobby was erratic.
05:00I'm the courting off.
05:01He held us together all season long.
05:03He held you together all season long, huh?
05:07Where was Dave Carter in the seven games you lost?
05:19You really think that I can pass myself off as Joyce Phillips?
05:24Well, now there's a...
05:26There's a fair enough resemblance.
05:28Plus the fact this picture was taken three years ago.
05:32As of now, you've got nothing against him except a hunch, huh?
05:36Well, Casey, if I had anything concrete, there'd be no need of you.
05:41But I do know one thing, though.
05:42Well, basketball is a five-man game.
05:48Now, in the case of a one-star squad, you fix the star, maybe you fix the game.
05:56But State had two stars.
05:59Bobby Phillips, Dave Carter.
06:03In a fix, you'd have to be sure of both of them.
06:31Hello.
06:33Hello.
06:34Hello.
06:34Hello.
06:36The, uh...
06:37The super, the house master, or whatever it is, said I could come in here.
06:43You're Bobby's sister.
06:45That's right.
06:48Oh, you may not find all of his belongings there.
06:52But there was a man here.
06:53I know, a detective going through his things.
06:56It's all right.
06:57I know all about Bobby's, uh, extracurricular activities.
07:03I'm sorry.
07:06Dave, why did he do it?
07:09I don't know.
07:11You're his roommate.
07:12His best friend.
07:13You must have some idea.
07:19Well, it's all over now.
07:20I know, but I'd still like to know why.
07:23Look, back home, Bobby was a wild kid.
07:25He liked to have fun.
07:27I knew that about him, but...
07:28But to take money from gamblers, to play to lose, it just doesn't make sense.
07:33Things sometimes change, Miss Phillips.
07:37People change.
07:39No, but a boy just doesn't become a thief overnight.
07:43It's not an easy thing to explain.
07:46Well, can you try?
07:50Well, in Bobby's case, you say he liked to have fun.
07:55Well, back home in a small town, fun may be, uh, a date with a girl.
08:01A movie.
08:03A soda at the drugstore.
08:05But this is the big city.
08:09You're a basketball star.
08:11People fall all over you.
08:13You're a hero.
08:15And fun takes on a different meaning than it did back home.
08:19Fun becomes...
08:22Fun becomes money.
08:24You're from a small town.
08:26You're a basketball star.
08:27You're a...
08:28You're a bigger basketball star than Bobby was.
08:31You were asking about Bobby.
08:32I told you what I thought might have happened to him.
08:37How long did you know about him?
08:40I didn't know.
08:42I suspected.
08:44If I'd known, I...
08:45I would have turned him in.
08:59Miss Phillips?
09:00Miss Phillips.
09:04Are you, uh, planning to spend any time here?
09:08A little.
09:09I...
09:09I have some things to clean up.
09:11Well, it's, uh, a big city.
09:14May I help you find your way around?
09:19I'd like that.
09:32I'd like that.
09:34As Joyce Phillips, I saw a lot of Dave the next few weeks.
09:42I talked to people who knew it.
09:44The department checked every bank in town and found no evidence of a bank account in Dave Carter's name.
09:50I watched and cheered him as he led State to five straight wins.
09:55The sum total was overwhelmingly in Dave's favor.
09:58Dave!
10:15Take care of yourself.
10:17See ya.
10:18See ya.
10:32Who was that?
10:34Nobody important.
10:35Not me.
10:38It was almost over.
10:40Joyce Phillips could go home.
10:42Back to Oregon.
10:43I was sorry to see the job come to an end.
10:46They've been all kind of nice to be a college girl again.
10:50Even for a little while.
10:52All the way back to Oregon.
10:54Couldn't you find a job here?
10:56I bet you could if you tried.
10:58I'd help you.
10:58Dave, please.
10:59I've got to leave tomorrow.
11:01I just have to.
11:04Let's leave it at that.
11:06Okay.
11:08We'll leave it at that.
11:11But tomorrow is a long way off.
11:15Hi, Dave.
11:16Joyce.
11:17Great night, isn't it?
11:18All right.
11:19Hey!
11:20I almost forgot.
11:21This special delivery letter came for you tonight.
11:23All right.
11:23I signed for it.
11:24Thanks, Ray.
11:25See you later.
11:25Excuse me.
11:43Dave, is there something wrong?
11:45No.
11:47No, there isn't there.
11:49I'd like to be alone.
11:52Dave?
11:55Dave?
11:56Dave?
11:58Dave!
12:08Dave?
12:17My job was not yet done.
12:20No matter how hard I tried to tell myself
12:22that whatever he had read in that letter was none of my business.
12:26It was no sale.
12:36My dear son,
12:38this is a very difficult letter for me to write.
12:41The doctor told me today that Dad must
12:44go back to the hospital and they will have to operate again.
12:48I know it's asking a great deal of you,
12:52but if you could just send us a little more money.
13:08The letter proved nothing.
13:10Lots of boys send money home.
13:12The amount he had sent wasn't specified.
13:15Dave might have saved it,
13:16earned it, working in his part-time job
13:18as a waiter in his frat house.
13:19He might have.
13:22But I knew it wasn't so.
13:30Suddenly as I watched him,
13:32I knew why he needed this midnight practice.
13:34He was too good a player to suddenly start missing.
13:37He had to practice to miss.
13:40Practice to lose.
13:54On November 3rd,
13:56same day Bobby made his first deposit,
13:59Dave paid $500 to a Dr. Paul Harrison.
14:02Through the following three months,
14:04Dave paid for his father's private room,
14:07nurse.
14:08It was over $2,000.
14:10Last night he finds out his father
14:12needs still another operation.
14:14Yeah.
14:14The state's playing tech tomorrow night.
14:18Give me the sports desk at the Gazette, huh?
14:21It'll be interesting to see how that betting's going, huh?
14:25If the state was in a favor,
14:26that means there's no fix.
14:27Yeah, unless Dave still hasn't contacted Henderson, huh?
14:31Hello.
14:32Yeah, look, this is Detective Sam Franklin.
14:35I'd like you to find out the odds
14:37on the state tech game tomorrow night.
14:41Uh-huh.
14:42As of this morning, the odds have shifted.
14:46All right, what are they?
14:49Tech is now favored to win by three.
14:55All right, thank you.
14:58Somebody put a large hut to cash on tech this morning.
15:02Large enough to swing the odds around.
15:05Anyone betting that kind of money on tech
15:07would have to be pretty darn certain
15:09they've got a safe bet.
15:11And if Dave Carter's going to have a bad night,
15:15tech is a safe bet.
15:18Well, I guess that's it.
15:20Yep.
15:21I'll keep in touch.
15:23Okay, yes.
15:32Yeah, come in.
15:35Hello, Dave.
15:36Joyce!
15:37Hi, I thought you were leaving town.
15:39Well, I...
15:39I want to stay until after the tech game.
15:42Well, that's swell, but the game's a sellout.
15:45I don't think you'll be able to get in.
15:48What about your tickets?
15:49Have you promised them to somebody?
15:51Oh, yes, I have.
15:53I didn't know you were going to be here.
15:55Are your mother and dad coming down to see the game?
15:57I'd like to meet them if they are.
15:59They must be awfully proud of you.
16:01Yeah, I guess so.
16:03Dave!
16:04You're missing the dancing.
16:05Oh, hi, Joyce.
16:07Hey, come on down downstairs.
16:08That's where the party is.
16:10Be right there.
16:11Okay.
16:14Dave, I'd like to talk to you.
16:15Just for a minute.
16:16Yeah?
16:17Here's $200.
16:18I want you to bet it on tech for me.
16:25You're crazy.
16:27I don't think so.
16:29You think we're going to lose tomorrow night?
16:31Yeah, so do the odds.
16:34I can't help but the gamblers think we're going to lose.
16:37Well, they wouldn't think that unless they thought you were going to have an off night.
16:40You seem to know an awful lot about this.
16:42Oh, wow.
16:42My brother was a basketball player, remember?
16:45He was in on the fix.
16:46He never exactly said you were in on it, too.
16:48But I can read between the lines.
16:50When I first met you, I thought I was mistaken.
16:52But I've changed my mind.
16:55You're guessing.
16:56Well, I decided to play my guess.
16:58After all, Bobby made a lot of money.
17:00If I had been betting, I would have made some, too.
17:02It killed Bobby.
17:03You said so yourself.
17:04No, no, you said that, Dave.
17:06And I believed you.
17:07But you've been on the fix.
17:08It hasn't hurt you a bit.
17:10So why shouldn't I take a flyer?
17:12It hasn't hurt me, huh?
17:15You've known me for three weeks.
17:17Have you seen the Jaguar I drive?
17:19My penthouse apartment overlooking the East River?
17:22The flashy blonde I keep there?
17:23If I'm taking fixed money, there's a reason for it.
17:26A good reason.
17:27Good reason for cheating?
17:30Yes.
17:36Joyce, if you love someone, someone you owed everything to,
17:42who gave up everything, who worked himself sick so that his son could have an education...
17:46Well, if I had somebody like that, I'd do anything.
17:49Anything in the world to keep him from finding out about me.
17:54My father may die.
17:57Well, the question is, will he die a happy man,
18:00or will his whole life be wasted because his son is a thief?
18:15I just can't bring myself to believe Dave would do this.
18:19There's no questioning it now that he's accepted the money.
18:23Lieutenant, I'll have to cancel the game.
18:25No.
18:26Game's got to be played.
18:28We've built up a case against Dave, but for proof,
18:32we've got to wait till Dave pays Casey her winnings.
18:34What if he doesn't go through with it?
18:36What if he plays to win?
18:38I wouldn't count on it.
18:41How can I take a chance and play him?
18:44That's up to you.
18:45But you've got to let him play.
18:47Even if he's playing to lose.
18:50Even if he plays to lose.
18:55Hello, Lieutenant.
18:56I'll get back to school.
19:11Dave missed shot after shot.
19:13Fumble passes.
19:14He was playing against his reflexes.
19:16His instincts.
19:18His first half play was enough to convince any jury in the world
19:21that he had played to lose.
19:23Phil.
19:25You're not switching.
19:27Lou.
19:29You're moving to keyhole this half.
19:30We'll play it off the post.
19:32Vic.
19:33You'll start and place a Dave this half.
19:34Don't try any outside shots.
19:36Keep moving the ball till we get in close.
19:38Ray.
19:40When you get set up on the side this half, take your shot.
19:43I usually pass to Dave.
19:44I know what you usually do.
19:45I'm telling you to take the shot this half.
19:48What about me, Coach?
19:56All right, let's get out there.
19:58We've still got the second half to play.
20:23All right, let's get out there.
20:26I've seen enough of the second half.
20:29I couldn't take anymore.
20:32I've seen enough.
20:34It'll be over any minute now.
20:37It's around the rim and drops in.
20:40What a comeback.
20:41Four straight baskets by Dave Carter.
20:43And the Tech lead is cut to four with minutes left in the ball game.
20:47Tech four out.
20:49There's a cross-court pass.
20:51Connor to Simpson.
20:52He drives in.
20:53There's a pass at the corner of the bucket.
20:56Dave spins.
20:57Jutes.
20:58It's in.
20:5983 off with 10 seconds left to play.
21:09He's just trying to make it look good.
21:11Hey, wait and see.
21:13Tech will move in to score the clincher.
21:15Tech's ball.
21:17Tech drives in.
21:18Connor steals it.
21:19He took it away.
21:20He's driving in.
21:22There's the shot.
21:23It's good at the buzzer.
21:25State wins.
21:26And the team's carrying Dave around on her shoulders.
21:30I hope he's enjoying himself.
21:33Next time he's carried, there'll be a box around him.
21:39Hey, come on.
21:40Get dressed, will you?
21:42You go ahead, Ray.
21:44You okay, Dave?
21:46Fine, just fine.
21:48Just a little beating.
21:50See you at the bonfire.
21:51Right.
22:15Dave?
22:17Dave?
22:19Dave?
22:20This is your pal, Sam Henderson.
22:26We know you're here, kiddo.
22:44What is wrong, Vince?
22:47You must have checked it.
22:50Did he hurt your kid?
22:52No.
22:54You know, you cost us 30 grand, Dave.
22:57And the 200 I put down for you, all down the drain.
23:00Just because you wanted to play the big hero.
23:03It's got to cost you to play the hero.
23:06You must know that.
23:13All right, let's go.
23:15You got nothing on me.
23:16That's what you think.
23:18Go on out.
23:20See you outside, please.
23:39All right.
23:41You're right, Dave.
23:43I'm a policewoman.
23:47Then, all along, you must have known about me.
23:52What made you change your mind about the game?
23:56Remember you said, if I was a thief, my father's life was a waste.
24:05Was that just talk?
24:07Was that a cop doing a job, conning a guy along?
24:10Or do you really believe that?
24:14What I believe doesn't really matter.
24:18I kept telling myself I was doing it for him.
24:23All he ever wanted was to see me make good.
24:27By keeping him alive, I...
24:31I was killing him.
24:35I don't suppose we could keep this from him for a little while, could we?
24:41I can't promise that, Dave.
25:04Dave's testimony helped to convict Henderson.
25:07This, plus the fact that he had played to win the Tech game, influenced the court's decision
25:11to deal with Dave leniently.
25:14I don't know why it had so much meaning that I attend the first game with him.
25:19Maybe he had to prove to himself and to me that he could live a full and happy life apart
25:26from basketball.
25:27I don't know why it had so much basketball and Casa Amorio.