Waching daily Oct 30 2017

What you looking so glum for? You datin' tonight?

PERNELL WALKER: Prostitution is a high-risk business.

You don't know who you're encountering from time to time.

But I think she's aware that it's a very dangerous scene.

(FILM REEL CLICKING)

♪ (FUNK MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

How a dude like you get to be a cop?

GEORGE PELECANOS: The real Ruby that we based her on

had a traffic light in her window.

A green light meant "I'm open for business,"

a yellow light meant "I'm here, but I'm occupied,"

and a red light meant "I'm not home."

Hey, Ruby!

Candy's going to the Deep Throat premiere,

and she yells out the window at her and...

EILEEN MERRELL: Hey! Ruby!

PELECANOS: Ruby's busy getting a John into the car,

-and she doesn't hear her. -Ruby, baby!

And she sits back in the taxi,

and she realizes that's a life that she's left behind.

These women don't necessarily know

who's coming into their place of work.

Ruby didn't see what was gonna happen.

PELECANOS: She brings the wrong guy home.

She gets thrown out of a window,

which happened to the real Ruby.

And she went through the awning of the Hi Hat,

and-- and died right on the street.

The show ends with, um, a montage.

We see Candy in the last scene wearing that coat,

which was Ruby's signature.

It's a piece of Ruby that, you know,

Candy's gonna have now, and keep with her.

The last piece of the montage is Bernice,

the young lady who Darlene brought up from North Carolina.

MICHELLE MACLAREN: The whole time, the camera's just pulling back,

pulling back, and then she goes back into her room.

We hear her talking to the John, and...

life-- life goes on.

(FILM REEL CLICKING)