Harper film
Channel: the aleatoric learning channel
Date: 2021-08-16

Harper interviews Ralph Sampson's seductive daughter Miranda, who hates and is hated by her stepmother, and Allan Taggert, who was the missing man's private pilot. Betty warns the man she thinks is Troy that Fay was seen with a stranger and that they need to be careful "When the truck goes through." Harper asks about Ralph Sampson, which alerts Betty that she is not speaking to Troy, so she hangs up. Harper, noticing fresh needle marks on her arm, threatens to turn her over to the narcotics squad, and Betty admits she knows Sampson, but says it is only casually, as a drunk who frequents the bar. Harper tries to run the truck down on foot, but the truck, which has distinctive tire tracks, attempts to run Harper over and then speeds away. After Graves cashes the bonds for her and puts the money in the estate's safe, Harper advises him to call in the police to guard it, and he goes up to a remote mountaintop property that Sampson previously had given to Claude, a bogus holy man, for his cult's Temple in the Clouds. Puddler takes Harper to another location and beats him up, but Harper is able to escape and kill the pursuing Puddler. On the way, Harper tells Graves he knows he is the fourth man because the locker key is still in Harper's pocket and a kidnapper would have searched him for it while he was unconscious. Harper tells Graves that he has no choice but to turn him in, Graves replies that he will not allow Harper to do that. Goldman later wrote "So we needed a different name and Harper seemed OK, the guy harps on things, it's essentially what he does for a living." Goldman says Newman wanted a title with the letter H as he had good luck with one word titles starting with "H" such as The Hustler and Hud.