Instead of being sympathetic, Vera decides now is as good a time as any to blackmail Al. Knowing his goose is cooked, so Al confides to Vera on how Haskell really died. She only got out of the car with him in Arizona after he forced himself on her. She says she knows the real Haskell, and he picked her up earlier in his trip outside of Shreveport, Louisiana. While Vera is quiet at first, she begins to push Al about his true identity, and who the car’s owner really is. Al picks her up, posing as Haskell, and drives away. The next morning, Al gasses up the car near the Airport at Desert Center where Vera (no last name) tries to hitch a ride. When the officer asks him if he’s bringing any fruit or vegetables into the state, and Al nervously answers the officer, and then heads to a motel to spend the night as he was dead tired. He crosses into California where must stop at a border inspection station. Then hightail it to Los Angeles where he can ditch the car, and go about his merry way. Not sure what to do, Al makes the fateful decision to take Haskell’s money, car, and id.
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Afraid that the police won’t believe this series of unfortunate events, and instead suspect he actually killed Haskell, Al drags his body off the road and out of sight. It’s only then that Al realizes Haskell died in his sleep. However, he’s unable to wake Haskell to help him.Īl opens the passenger-side door where Haskell falls to the ground, slamming his face against a rock. A rainstorm hits which forces Al to pull over to put the convertible’s top up. That night, the two switch places, and Al drives while Haskell sleeps.
He lets Al tag along for the remainder of the ride.Īs they chug along the highway, Haskell pops many, many pills, many, many times a little pick-me-up as he drives. Al’s in luck as Haskell is midway through his own trip from Florida to Los Angeles to see a guy about a horse. He makes the journey just fine until he hits Arizona where a bookie named Charles Haskell, Jr pulls over, and gives him a ride in his sweet convertible. He instead hitchhikes his was across the USA. Unfortunately, he job pays him little, and he has no money for a road trip. However, once his girlfriend (also the nightclub’s main singer) Sue Harvey moved to Hollywood to seek untold fame and fortune, Al slipped into a deep funk.Įventually, Al decides to pack up and follow Sue to Hollywood where he will offer to marry her. A customer there plays a song on the jukebox that reminds him of his piano playing life he gave up in The Big Apple.īack then, he was bitter because he felt he was overqualified to be playing piano in a cheap nightclub named the Break of Dawn Club which was a good job as far as jobs go in those days. At a roadside diner in Reno, an agitated Al Roberts drinks coffee during a layover as he hitchhikes his way back home to New York City from Los Angeles.
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