Sick, venal.Someday a real rain'll come and wash all this scum off the streets.I go all over.I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem.I don't care.Don't make no difference to me.It does to some.Some won't even take spooks.Don't make no difference to me.One of his late-night passengers/fares he ferries to 48th and 6th Street is an executive-type businessman [who looks remarkably identical to presidential candidate Palantine (Leonard Harris) in he first of two rides in Travis' cab] accompanied by a black hooker (Copper Cunningham) in a long blond wig.Although in the ending, the evil, callous and monstrous female protagonist, doomed to a tragic end, received due compensation for her profligate ways, some felt it was not commensurate with the totality of her ghoulish wickedness.He also meets pretty tee-totaling, Encyclopedia-reading secretary Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), who works in his building.Spade receives a substantial fee from the appealingly-feminine Miss Wonderly - $200 for the job.Archer promises he will be at her service: "You don't have to look for me.I'll see you all right."After Miss Wonderly has left the office, Miles asserts his salivating interest in the striking, rich, and helpless woman who hires them to rescue her sister:Archer: Oh, she's sweet.