Tell me: What do you usually do when you're not working?

Oh, play the horses, fool around.

No women?

I'm generally working on something most of the time.

Could that be stretched to include me?

Well I like you. I've told you that before.

I like hearing you say it. But you didn't do much about it.

Well, neither did you.

Well, speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them work out a little first, see if they're front-runners or come from behind, find out what their hole-card is. What makes them run.

Find out mine?

I think so.

Go ahead.

I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free.

You don't like to be rated yourself.

I haven't met anyone yet that can do it. Any suggestions?

Well, I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but, uh...I don't know how - how far you can go.

A lot depends on who's in the saddle. Go ahead Marlowe, I like the way you work. In case you don't know it, you're doing all right.

There's one thing I can't figure out.

What makes me run?

Uh-huh.

I'll give you a little hint. Sugar won't work. It's been tried.

What did you try it on me for? Who told you to sugar me off this case? Was it Eddie Mars? All right, don't answer me, but somebody put you up to it and it wasn't your father. He didn't tell you to pay me off, did he?
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What's Eddie Mars got to do with this case?

Nothing. He runs a gambling house. I play horses. I play the wheel.

Playing something else too...Never mind talking. Let me do it. Do you know it was Eddie Mars' blonde wife Sean Regan was supposed to run off with?

Who doesn't?

Did you know he owned the house Geiger operated in and he was mixed up in that racket too?

No, I don't believe it.

Then why does it bother you so much? What's Eddie Mars got on you? Oh come now, angel, stop shaking. I don't want to hurt you. I'm trying to help ya. Well, you'd better run along, 'cause you made a deal and you're gonna stick to it, right or wrong. We'll take up the question of you and I when the race is over.