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I shall never forget
the weekend Laura died.
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A silver sun burned through the sky
like a huge magnifying glass.
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It was the hottest Sunday
in my recollection.
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I felt as if I were the only human being
left in New York.
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For with Laura's
horrible death, I was alone.
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I, Waldo Lydecker
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was the only one
who really knew her
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and I had just begun
to write Laura's story when
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another of those detectives
came to see me.
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I had him wait.
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I could watch him
through the half-open door.
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I noted that his attention
was fixed upon my clock.
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There was only one other
in existence
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and that was
in Laura's apartment,
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in the very room
where she was murdered.
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Careful there.
That stuff is priceless.
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Come in here, please.
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Mr. Lydecker?
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Ah, you recognize me.
How splendid.
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Sit down, please.
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Nice little place
you have here, Mr. Lydecker.
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It's lavish,
but I call it home.
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I suppose you're here
about the Laura Hunt murder.
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Yesterday morning,
after Laura's body was found,
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I was questioned
by Sergeants McAvity and Schultz,
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and I stated,
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"On Friday night, Laura had a dinner
engagement with me
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"after which she was ostensibly
going out of town.
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"She phoned and canceled
our engagement at exactly 7:00."
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- After that I...
- You "ate a lonely dinner,
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"then got into the tub to read."
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Why did you write it down?
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Afraid you'd forget it?
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I am the most widely
misquoted man in America.
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When my friends do it,
I resent it.
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From Sergeants McAvity and Schultz,
I should find it intolerable.
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Hand me that washcloth,
please, Mr.
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Mr.
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McPherson.
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McPherson. McPherson.
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Mark McPherson,
the siege of Babylon, Long Island.
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The gangster with the machine gun.
Killed three policemen.
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I told the story over the air
and wrote a column about it.
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Are you the one
with the leg full of lead,
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- the man who walked right in and got him?
- Yeah.
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Well, well.
Hand me my robe, please.
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You have a pretty good memory,
Mr. Lydecker.
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I always liked that detective
with the silver shinbone.
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Thanks. I hope you won't have any reason
to change your mind about me.
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- Have you any more questions?
- Yeah, just one.
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Two years ago,
in your October 17 column,
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you started out
to write a book review,
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but at the bottom of the column,
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you switched over
to the Harrington murder case.
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Are the processes of the creative mind
now under the jurisdiction of the police?
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You said Harrington was rubbed out with
a shotgun loaded with buckshot,
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the way Laura Hunt was murdered
night before last.
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- Did I?
- Yeah.
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But he was really killed
with a sash weight.
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How ordinary.
My version was obviously superior.
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I never bother
with details, you know.
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I do. Well, so long.
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Mind if I go with you?
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- What for?
- Murder is my favorite crime.
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I write about it regularly,
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and I know you'll have to visit everyone
on your list of suspects.
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I'd like to study
their reactions.
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- You're on the list yourself, you know.
- Good.
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To have overlooked me
would have been a pointed insult.
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You're not the sort of man
one would insult, Mr. Lydecker.
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- Do you really suspect me?
- Yes.
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McPherson, if you know anything
about faces, look at mine.
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How singularly innocent
I look this morning.
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Have you ever seen
such candid eyes?
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Something you confiscated
in a raid on a kindergarten?
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Takes a lot of control.
Would you like to try it?
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No, thanks.
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Were you in love
with Laura Hunt, Mr. Lydecker?
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Was she in love with you?
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Laura considered me
the wisest, the wittiest,
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the most interesting man
she'd ever met.
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I was in complete accord
with her on that point.
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She thought me also
the kindest,
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the gentlest,
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the most sympathetic man
in the world.
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Did you agree
with her there too?
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McPherson,
you won't understand this,
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but I tried to become
the kindest, the gentlest,
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the most sympathetic man
in the world.
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Have any luck?
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Let me put it this way.
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I should be sincerely sorry to see my
neighbors' children devoured by wolves.
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Shall we go?
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- Good morning, Lieutenant.
- Good morning, Mrs. Treadwell.
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- Waldo.
- Good morning, Ann.
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- I've just taken over the Laura Hunt case.
- Won't you sit down?
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Thanks. I have all the reports,
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but there are a few more questions
I'd like to ask.
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Certainly. I'll do anything
I can to help.
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You were fond of your niece,
Mrs. Treadwell?
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Why, I adored her.
Cigarette?
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No, thanks. You collapsed when
you identified the body.
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I can quite understand that. A shotgun
loaded with buckshot, close range.
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- It's not very nice to look at.
- It was horrible.
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Her maid Bessie, I suppose
she was devoted to Miss Hunt?
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Oh, she worshipped her.
Laura had had her for years.
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I'll never forget her scream
when she saw Laura lying there.
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Did you approve of Miss Hunt's
coming marriage to Mr. Carpenter?
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Why? Shouldn't I approve?
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I don't know. What is your relationship
with Mr. Carpenter?
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What do you mean?
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What I mean is, he's been
a frequent guest in your home.
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Is he an acquaintance? Friend?
Are you in love with him?
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This is beginning to assume
fabulous aspects.
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Oh, shut up, Waldo!
What are you driving at?
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The truth, Mrs. Treadwell.
Are you in love with him?
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Why, no. I'm very fond
of Mr. Carpenter, of course.
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- Everybody is.
- I'm not. I'll be hanged if I am.
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Oh, don't be
so annoying, Waldo!
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Did you give
Mr. Carpenter money?
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What do you mean?
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A couple of checks went through
your account endorsed by him.
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One on May 15 for $250.
One on May 22 for $400.
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Oh, that. I...
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I asked him to do
some shopping for me. That's all.
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Shelby's a very obliging fellow.
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For some time, also, you've been
withdrawing various amounts in cash.
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Sometimes 1,500.
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Sometimes 1,700 at a clip.
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Yes. I needed that money.
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The day you took out $1,500,
Mr. Carpenter deposited 1,350.
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When you withdrew 1,700,
he deposited 1,550.
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Maybe they were shooting crap.
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Oh, must I be insulted like this?
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I'm sorry, Mrs. Treadwell, but I have
to find out about these things.
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Shelby needed some money,
and I lent it to him.
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That's all. After all, it is my money.
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- I suppose I can do as I please with it.
- Sure. Of course.
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Now, on Friday night, Mrs. Treadwell,
you stayed home alone all evening?
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Yes.
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Why didn't you go to the concert
with Shelby?
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Because he didn't ask me.
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We were just talking
about you, Carpenter.
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- What a coincidence to find you here.
- This is Lieutenant McPherson.
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Oh, how do you do, Lieutenant?
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I didn't know you were here, Mr. Carpenter.
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As a matter of fact,
I was just lying down here.
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My hotel room was so hot, and then all
the people and reporters and telephone.
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You know how it is,
Lieutenant.
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I've hardly slept a wink
since it happened.
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Is that a sign of guilt or innocence,
McPherson?
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I'm at your disposal, Lieutenant. I'm as
eager to find the murderer as you are.
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But what possible motive
could I have for killing Laura?
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Miss Hunt and I were going to be married
this week, you know.
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No, he doesn't know,
and neither do I,
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- or you or anyone else alive.
- What do you mean by that?
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Laura had not definitely made up
her mind to marry him.
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She told me so herself last Friday when she
called up to cancel our dinner engagement.
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As a matter of fact, she was going
to the country to think it over.
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She was extremely kind,
but I was always sure
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she would never have thrown her life
away on a male beauty in distress.
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I suppose you've heard
losers whine before,
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especially in your
profession, eh?
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Would you like
a bite of lunch, Lieutenant?
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That's very thoughtful,
the perfect host.
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- Waldo.
- You'd almost think
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he was in his own home.
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Shelby knows how distracted I am.
Would you, Lieutenant?
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Thank you, Mrs. Treadwell,
but I've got to be going.
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But, Lieutenant. Well, I rather thought
you'd want to ask me some questions.
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Oh, yes. What did they play
at the concert Friday night?
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Oh, Brahms's First
and Beethoven's Ninth.
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Uh-huh. Have you got a key
to Miss Hunt's house up in the country?
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No, but I think there's one
up in her apartment.
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- Okay, I'll have a look.
- Perhaps I could help you?
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All right. Come along.
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I'll be seeing you,
Mrs. Treadwell.
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Extra! Extra!
Girl victim in brutal slaying!
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Extra! Girl victim
in brutal slaying!
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Read all about it!
Girl victim in brutal slaying!
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Girl victim
in brutal slaying! Read all about it!
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All right.
Break it up. Break it up.
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Ice-cold drinks!
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- The doorbell rang.
- What?
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As she opened the door,
the shot was fired.
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And how do you deduce that?
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She fell backward.
The body was there.
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I thought you hadn't
been up here before.
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I saw the police photos.
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I guess I better
try and find that key.
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McPherson, tell me, why did they have to
photograph her in that horrible condition?
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When a dame gets killed,
she doesn't worry about how she looks.
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Will you stop calling her a dame?
Look around.
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Is this the home of a dame?
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Look at her.
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Not bad.
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Jacoby was in love with her
when he painted it,
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but he never captured
her vibrance, her warmth.
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Have you ever been in love?
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A doll in Washington Heights
once got a fox fur out of me.
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Ever know a woman who wasn't
a "doll" or a "dame"?
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Yeah, one, but she kept walking me
past furniture windows
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to look at the parlor suites.
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- Would you mind turning that off?
- Why? Don't you like it?
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It was one of Laura's favorites.
Not exactly classical, but sweet.
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- You know a lot about music?
- I don't know a lot about anything,
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but I know a little
about practically everything.
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Yeah?
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Then why did you say
they played Brahms's First
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and Beethoven's Ninth
at the concert Friday night?
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They changed the program at the last
minute and played nothing but Sibelius.
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I suppose I should have
told you in the first place.
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I'd been working on that
advertising campaign with Laura.
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Well, we'd been working so hard,
I just couldn't keep my eyes open.
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I didn't hear a note at the concert.
I fell asleep.
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Next he'll produce
photographic evidence of his dreams.
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I know it sounds suspicious,
but I'm resigned to that by now.
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I'm a natural-born suspect just because
I'm not the conventional type.
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I wouldn't worry about it,
Mr. Carpenter.
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It sounds reasonable.
I fall asleep at concerts myself.
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Thank you.
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You found that key yet?
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No. I looked for it in the den,
but it wasn't there. It may be in here.
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Yes, here it is.
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I knew there must be
one around somewhere.
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The police are very fussy
about their inventories.
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That key isn't on the list of things
that were in that drawer yesterday.
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Then it's made
a recent reappearance.
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You put it there,
didn't you?
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- Yes.
- Why?
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It's just that I didn't want to give it
to you while Waldo was present.
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I have private reasons
that don't concern him.
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Everything about Laura
concerns me.
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You have private reasons,
no doubt, to lie about the key.
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Waldo, for your own good,
I'm warning you to stop implying
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that I had anything to do
with Laura's death.
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Very well.
I'll stop implying.
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I'll make a direct statement.
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All right,
you asked for it.
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I wouldn't.
241
00:15:06,406 --> 00:15:08,865
Will you please stop dawdling
with that infernal puzzle?
242
00:15:08,992 --> 00:15:12,661
- It's getting on my nerves.
- I know, but it keeps me calm.
243
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Okay, let's go.
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This was our table,
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Laura's and mine.
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We spent many quiet evenings
here together.
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I remember we dined here the night
before her 22nd birthday.
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Just we two,
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happy, making plans
for her future.
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Good luck.
251
00:15:53,745 --> 00:15:55,621
But this was a far cry
252
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from the girl who walked into my life
at the Algonquin Hotel five years before.
253
00:16:01,878 --> 00:16:04,212
Pardon me.
Excuse me.
254
00:16:06,466 --> 00:16:08,467
Excuse me.
255
00:16:17,518 --> 00:16:20,562
Mr. Lydecker,
how do you do?
256
00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:24,191
My name is Laura Hunt,
and I'm with Bullitt and Company.
257
00:16:24,275 --> 00:16:26,610
You know,
the big advertising firm.
258
00:16:26,694 --> 00:16:29,613
And I'd like to talk
something over with you, if I may.
259
00:16:29,697 --> 00:16:33,909
You can hardly fail to realize that
I am engaged in eating my lunch.
260
00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:37,788
Yes, I know. I'm awfully sorry
to interrupt this way
261
00:16:37,872 --> 00:16:40,957
but it's so hard to get to see you
the regular way, and
262
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this will only
take a minute, really.
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00:16:46,089 --> 00:16:48,006
- Now, this is...
- Young woman,
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either you have been raised
in some incredibly rustic community
265
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where good manners are unknown
266
00:16:54,681 --> 00:16:57,099
or you suffer from the common
feminine delusion
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that the mere fact
of being a woman
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exempts you from the rules
of civilized conduct.
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00:17:03,272 --> 00:17:04,856
Or possibly both.
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00:17:04,982 --> 00:17:07,818
Possibly, but here's
what I wanted to show you.
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It's for
the Wallace Flow-Rite pen.
272
00:17:10,113 --> 00:17:14,199
I know my company would be glad to pay
you $5,000 if you'll endorse the ad.
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I don't use a pen.
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I write with a goose quill
dipped in venom.
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00:17:18,454 --> 00:17:21,748
Yes, but this is a very fine pen,
Mr. Lydecker,
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the best on the market.
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00:17:23,626 --> 00:17:26,503
Wouldn't you at least
consider endorsing it?
278
00:17:26,587 --> 00:17:30,549
I'll neither consider, endorse
or use the Wallace pen.
279
00:17:30,675 --> 00:17:32,884
I hate pens.
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If your employers wish me to publish
that statement in my column,
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you may tell them that I shall be
delighted to oblige.
282
00:17:40,017 --> 00:17:43,145
Oh, no.
You mustn't do that.
283
00:17:43,396 --> 00:17:45,856
Don't blame Bullitt and Company,
Mr. Lydecker.
284
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They don't know anything about this.
It was my idea to see you.
285
00:17:51,487 --> 00:17:52,487
Indeed?
286
00:17:52,572 --> 00:17:56,908
Yes. I know they'd give anything down
at the office to get your endorsement,
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00:17:56,993 --> 00:17:58,869
only they think
there's no use asking.
288
00:17:58,995 --> 00:18:02,080
So I had this ad made up
all on my own
289
00:18:02,206 --> 00:18:05,625
because I thought, well,
what's the harm in trying?
290
00:18:05,710 --> 00:18:08,128
There was always a chance
that you might, Mr. Lydecker.
291
00:18:08,463 --> 00:18:10,005
Just think what
it would mean...
292
00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,923
You seem to be completely disregarding
293
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something more important
than your career.
294
00:18:14,427 --> 00:18:17,053
- What?
- My lunch.
295
00:18:19,515 --> 00:18:21,725
Do you really believe that?
296
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Implicitly.
297
00:18:24,479 --> 00:18:26,980
I never heard
of anything so selfish.
298
00:18:28,024 --> 00:18:31,943
In my case, self-absorption
is completely justified.
299
00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:35,322
I have never discovered any other
subject quite so worthy of my attention.
300
00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:37,866
But you write about people
301
00:18:37,950 --> 00:18:41,328
with such real understanding
and sentiment.
302
00:18:42,830 --> 00:18:44,915
That's what makes
your column so good.
303
00:18:45,708 --> 00:18:48,627
Sentiment comes easily
at 50 cents a word.
304
00:18:49,962 --> 00:18:52,214
Well, if that's the way
you really feel,
305
00:18:53,174 --> 00:18:54,966
you must be very lonely.
306
00:18:56,302 --> 00:18:59,554
Will you kindly continue
this character analysis elsewhere?
307
00:19:00,431 --> 00:19:03,350
- You begin to bore me.
- You're a poor man.
308
00:19:03,893 --> 00:19:06,019
I'm very sorry for you.
309
00:19:08,940 --> 00:19:11,691
Naturally,
I was annoyed by the incident,
310
00:19:12,443 --> 00:19:14,820
but she had something
about her, that girl.
311
00:19:16,197 --> 00:19:20,283
I had to speak to her again.
I had to see her.
312
00:19:20,576 --> 00:19:22,536
- Miss, would you mind if I...
- Just a moment, please.
313
00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:24,996
I'll tell Mr. Bullitt right away.
He's on the telephone.
314
00:19:25,122 --> 00:19:27,207
Thank you.
315
00:19:47,979 --> 00:19:51,565
Boy, Waldo Lydecker
to see Miss Laura Hunt.
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00:19:53,609 --> 00:19:54,985
Announce me.
317
00:19:56,445 --> 00:19:58,822
Johnny, please tell
the gentleman I'm busy.
318
00:20:03,828 --> 00:20:07,414
Miss Hunt, I have something
to say to you.
319
00:20:07,623 --> 00:20:09,332
You've already said it,
Mr. Lydecker.
320
00:20:10,084 --> 00:20:13,336
I wish to point out that you caught me
at my most difficult moment.
321
00:20:14,171 --> 00:20:16,798
Ordinarily I am not
without a heart.
322
00:20:16,882 --> 00:20:18,508
Really?
323
00:20:18,634 --> 00:20:21,136
Shall I produce
X-ray pictures to prove it?
324
00:20:24,682 --> 00:20:26,558
I wish to apologize.
325
00:20:26,934 --> 00:20:28,685
Your apology is accepted.
326
00:20:31,439 --> 00:20:33,148
Good-bye, Mr. Lydecker.
327
00:20:33,316 --> 00:20:35,609
If you come
a little bit closer, my boy,
328
00:20:35,693 --> 00:20:37,902
I can just crack your skull
with my stick.
329
00:20:42,199 --> 00:20:46,494
And now, for reasons
which are too embarrassing to mention,
330
00:20:46,579 --> 00:20:48,079
I'd like to endorse that pen.
331
00:20:49,498 --> 00:20:51,541
Mr. Lydecker!
332
00:20:51,751 --> 00:20:53,209
Thank you.
333
00:20:56,130 --> 00:20:58,506
- You're a very strange man.
- What?
334
00:20:59,467 --> 00:21:02,552
You're really sorry
for the way you acted, aren't you?
335
00:21:03,638 --> 00:21:06,139
Let's not be psychiatric,
Miss Hunt,
336
00:21:06,223 --> 00:21:08,850
but in a word, yes.
337
00:21:10,394 --> 00:21:12,187
It's very kind of you,
you know.
338
00:21:12,396 --> 00:21:15,190
I'm not kind. I'm vicious.
It's the secret of my charm.
339
00:21:18,611 --> 00:21:20,779
But if you choose
to think me kind,
340
00:21:21,864 --> 00:21:23,698
I'll call for you at 6:00.
341
00:21:25,618 --> 00:21:27,619
All right?
342
00:21:28,329 --> 00:21:30,080
All right.
343
00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:36,961
Her career began
with my endorsement of the pen.
344
00:21:37,046 --> 00:21:39,881
I secured other endorsements for her,
345
00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:42,342
introduced her
to important clients.
346
00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:45,887
I gave her her start
347
00:21:46,097 --> 00:21:48,139
but it was her own talent
and imagination
348
00:21:48,224 --> 00:21:51,142
that enabled her to rise
to the top of her profession
349
00:21:51,227 --> 00:21:52,602
and stay there.
350
00:21:54,271 --> 00:21:56,731
She had an eager mind always.
351
00:21:57,692 --> 00:22:01,236
She was always quick to seize upon
anything that would improve her mind...
352
00:22:01,445 --> 00:22:02,987
or her appearance.
353
00:22:04,657 --> 00:22:06,908
Laura had innate breeding.
354
00:22:11,789 --> 00:22:14,457
But she deferred
to my judgment and taste.
355
00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:18,420
I selected a more attractive
hairdress for her.
356
00:22:21,590 --> 00:22:24,884
I taught her what clothes
were more becoming to her.
357
00:22:26,887 --> 00:22:29,139
Through me, she met everyone.
358
00:22:29,724 --> 00:22:31,766
The famous and the infamous.
359
00:22:32,476 --> 00:22:36,896
Her youth and beauty, her poise
and charm of manner...
360
00:22:36,981 --> 00:22:38,356
captivated them all.
361
00:22:39,233 --> 00:22:42,026
She had warmth, vitality.
362
00:22:42,820 --> 00:22:45,029
She had authentic magnetism.
363
00:22:46,615 --> 00:22:49,284
Wherever we went,
she stood out.
364
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,163
Men admired her.
Women envied her.
365
00:22:54,081 --> 00:22:57,959
She became as well known
as Waldo Lydecker's walking stick...
366
00:22:58,252 --> 00:22:59,878
and his white carnation.
367
00:23:00,629 --> 00:23:02,172
But Tuesday and Friday nights,
368
00:23:02,256 --> 00:23:05,759
we stayed home, dining quietly
369
00:23:05,843 --> 00:23:08,052
listening to my records.
370
00:23:08,429 --> 00:23:10,597
I read my articles to her.
371
00:23:11,474 --> 00:23:14,476
The way she listened
was more eloquent than speech.
372
00:23:16,937 --> 00:23:18,646
These were the best nights.
373
00:23:20,524 --> 00:23:23,651
Then one Tuesday, she phoned
and said she couldn't come.
374
00:23:25,154 --> 00:23:26,905
It didn't matter, really.
375
00:23:27,782 --> 00:23:30,867
But when it happened again
the following Friday, I was disturbed.
376
00:23:33,662 --> 00:23:37,957
I couldn't
understand it. I felt betrayed
377
00:23:38,167 --> 00:23:41,127
and yet I knew Laura
would never betray anyone.
378
00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:49,844
I walked for a long time.
379
00:23:52,181 --> 00:23:55,350
Then I found myself
before her apartment building.
380
00:23:55,851 --> 00:24:00,104
The lights were on.
It pleased me to know she was home,
381
00:24:00,523 --> 00:24:02,565
till I saw she was not alone.
382
00:24:05,027 --> 00:24:09,239
But I waited.
I wanted to see who he was.
383
00:24:13,869 --> 00:24:17,330
It was Jacoby, who had recently
painted her portrait.
384
00:24:17,832 --> 00:24:19,749
I never liked the man.
385
00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:24,546
He was so obviously conscious of looking
more like an athlete than an artist.
386
00:24:25,130 --> 00:24:27,799
I sat up the rest of the night
writing a column about him.
387
00:24:28,384 --> 00:24:30,093
I demolished his affectations,
388
00:24:30,219 --> 00:24:33,555
exposed his camouflaged
imitations of better painters,
389
00:24:33,806 --> 00:24:36,015
ridiculed his theories.
390
00:24:36,392 --> 00:24:39,727
I did it for her,
knowing Jacoby was unworthy of her.
391
00:24:39,854 --> 00:24:43,231
It was a masterpiece
because it was a labor of love.
392
00:24:43,732 --> 00:24:46,901
Naturally, she could never
regard him seriously again.
393
00:24:48,404 --> 00:24:51,406
There were others,
of course,
394
00:24:51,574 --> 00:24:53,533
but her own discrimination
ruled them out
395
00:24:53,617 --> 00:24:56,077
before it became necessary
for me to intercede
396
00:24:58,038 --> 00:25:00,999
until one night at a party
at Ann Treadwell's.
397
00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:05,253
It was one of her usual roundups
of bizarre and nondescript characters
398
00:25:05,379 --> 00:25:08,089
- corralled from every stratum of society.
- How are you this evening?
399
00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:10,925
This is Mr. and Mrs. Preston.
They've been waiting to meet you.
400
00:25:11,010 --> 00:25:12,552
How do you do?
401
00:25:15,598 --> 00:25:17,390
- Hello, Shelby.
- Excuse me, honey.
402
00:25:21,979 --> 00:25:23,771
You're Laura Hunt.
403
00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:27,901
- Yes?
- Hello. I'm Shelby Carpenter.
404
00:25:27,985 --> 00:25:31,070
- Want to dance?
- I'm not alone.
405
00:25:32,948 --> 00:25:35,742
Oh, him? I'll bet
he's still doing the polka.
406
00:25:35,826 --> 00:25:38,119
Excuse me, please. Yes.
407
00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:40,455
Betsy Ross taught it to me.
408
00:25:40,581 --> 00:25:43,082
- Hello, Waldo. Darling, how are you?
- Hello, darling.
409
00:25:43,167 --> 00:25:44,542
- I see you've met Shelby.
- Hello, Ann.
410
00:25:44,627 --> 00:25:46,878
- Unavoidably.
- He was awfully nice to me in Louisville
411
00:25:46,962 --> 00:25:49,297
at the Derby. His family's from Kentucky.
412
00:25:50,132 --> 00:25:52,050
Sharecroppers, no doubt.
413
00:25:57,139 --> 00:26:00,266
Louise. Louise, for the last time,
will you marry me?
414
00:26:00,351 --> 00:26:02,518
I won't, but I've saved
some chicken livers for you.
415
00:26:02,603 --> 00:26:04,646
Oh, you're an angel.
In the meantime, darling,
416
00:26:04,730 --> 00:26:06,814
you think you could
get this spot out for me?
417
00:26:06,899 --> 00:26:09,609
I can afford a blemish on my character
but not on my clothes.
418
00:26:10,152 --> 00:26:12,612
- Mmm. Couldn't eat another mouthful.
- I'm afraid it's rouge.
419
00:26:12,696 --> 00:26:14,697
- I'm afraid it's liquor.
- Louise. Oh.
420
00:26:14,823 --> 00:26:16,699
May I have a glass of milk
for Mr. Lydecker?
421
00:26:16,784 --> 00:26:17,784
Of course, Miss Hunt.
422
00:26:17,868 --> 00:26:19,744
I forgot to tell you.
I also read palms.
423
00:26:19,828 --> 00:26:24,040
I cook, I swallow swords, I mend my own
socks, I never eat garlic or onions.
424
00:26:24,124 --> 00:26:25,917
What more can you want
of a man?
425
00:26:26,001 --> 00:26:29,087
- Don't listen to that scalawag.
- I didn't expect to find him here, Louise.
426
00:26:29,171 --> 00:26:30,880
What do you mean?
We're old friends.
427
00:26:30,965 --> 00:26:32,757
She feeds me,
humors me, repairs me
428
00:26:32,841 --> 00:26:34,926
and refuses to marry me,
don't you, honey?
429
00:26:35,010 --> 00:26:36,928
- I do.
- She has good sense.
430
00:26:37,012 --> 00:26:39,597
- Now, wait just a minute. Thanks, Louise.
- You're wasting your time.
431
00:26:39,682 --> 00:26:41,975
- She's got good sense too.
- You're jealous.
432
00:26:44,353 --> 00:26:46,646
And what does it feel like,
Mr. Carpenter?
433
00:26:47,314 --> 00:26:49,565
What does what feel like,
Miss Hunt?
434
00:26:50,109 --> 00:26:52,151
Living on the income
from an estate.
435
00:26:52,486 --> 00:26:54,404
- Well, I, uh...
- Or don't you know?
436
00:26:54,530 --> 00:26:58,074
Well, I did, until the sheriff
took it over 10 years ago.
437
00:26:59,034 --> 00:27:01,035
Why maintain the fiction?
Why not work?
438
00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:04,288
Believe it or not, I asked
one of my many friends for a job once,
439
00:27:04,373 --> 00:27:07,458
executive of a big company,
2,500 employees.
440
00:27:07,543 --> 00:27:09,794
He could have pressed a button
and done it, but he just laughed.
441
00:27:09,878 --> 00:27:11,963
- He thought I was joking.
- Weren't you?
442
00:27:12,047 --> 00:27:15,091
No. When I convinced him, he got
embarrassed, said he'd phone me.
443
00:27:15,175 --> 00:27:19,303
That was months ago. Now whenever
he sees me, he looks the other way.
444
00:27:27,521 --> 00:27:30,148
- Do you really want a job?
- Yes.
445
00:27:33,235 --> 00:27:35,236
Oh, here you are.
446
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,614
Laura, dear, I cannot stand
these morons any longer.
447
00:27:39,074 --> 00:27:41,868
If you don't come with me
this instant, I shall run amok.
448
00:27:43,078 --> 00:27:44,412
All right, Waldo.
449
00:27:45,914 --> 00:27:48,124
10:30 tomorrow,
Bullitt and Company.
450
00:27:49,251 --> 00:27:50,793
You've got a job.
451
00:27:51,712 --> 00:27:55,339
I concealed my
annoyance with masterly self-control,
452
00:27:56,508 --> 00:27:59,761
but I sensed a situation
which would bear watching.
453
00:28:00,387 --> 00:28:03,014
Laura, take a look at this.
454
00:28:04,266 --> 00:28:07,769
Do you like it? Do you think it'll make
people want to bathe more often?
455
00:28:08,145 --> 00:28:10,521
It should. It's excellent.
456
00:28:10,898 --> 00:28:13,024
- There you are.
- Good night, Miss Hunt.
457
00:28:13,108 --> 00:28:14,192
- Good night.
- Good night, Mr. Carpenter.
458
00:28:14,276 --> 00:28:17,361
- Good night, honey.
- It's really very good. Who's the model?
459
00:28:17,446 --> 00:28:20,323
A girl named Diane Redfern.
You hired her yourself last week.
460
00:28:20,407 --> 00:28:21,783
- Don't you remember?
- Oh, yeah.
461
00:28:21,867 --> 00:28:24,869
Well, let's go, moon of my delight.
I am starved.
462
00:28:25,329 --> 00:28:26,788
You usually are.
463
00:28:27,664 --> 00:28:29,624
- I approve of that hat.
- You do?
464
00:28:30,459 --> 00:28:31,834
Mm-hmm.
And the girl in it too.
465
00:28:32,503 --> 00:28:34,087
Thank you.
466
00:28:37,633 --> 00:28:39,467
I knew there was
something on my mind.
467
00:28:39,593 --> 00:28:42,887
What is it? Oh, yes.
Will you dine with me tomorrow night?
468
00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:45,556
- Maybe.
- No, that isn't what's worrying me.
469
00:28:45,641 --> 00:28:47,558
- It's the next night.
- But, Shelby, I can't be...
470
00:28:47,643 --> 00:28:51,229
Good. What about three weeks from
tonight and all the nights in between?
471
00:28:51,313 --> 00:28:52,897
Don't you think
I have any other engagements?
472
00:28:52,981 --> 00:28:56,234
What about two months
from now and the month after that?
473
00:28:56,318 --> 00:28:59,529
- What about next year?
- That's all settled. What about breakfast?
474
00:29:00,489 --> 00:29:02,323
What about dancing?
475
00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:04,325
What about lunch?
Beautiful lunches
476
00:29:04,451 --> 00:29:07,245
- day after day after day after day?
- What about work?
477
00:29:07,329 --> 00:29:10,456
Beautiful work,
day after day after day?
478
00:29:10,541 --> 00:29:12,250
Why, Miss Hunt,
the way you talk.
479
00:29:12,459 --> 00:29:14,377
You'd think I was in love with you.
480
00:29:20,259 --> 00:29:22,510
Yes, Laura,
I heard everything he said.
481
00:29:26,014 --> 00:29:27,557
I went to call for you.
482
00:29:29,393 --> 00:29:30,852
I'm sorry, Waldo.
483
00:29:31,645 --> 00:29:33,521
And that reminds me.
484
00:29:35,983 --> 00:29:38,693
Old Mother Hubbard has
something in the cupboard.
485
00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:43,114
The results of
my private investigation
486
00:29:43,198 --> 00:29:45,700
of that sterling character,
Mr. Shelby Carpenter.
487
00:29:47,744 --> 00:29:50,246
By stooping so low, you only
degrade yourself, Waldo.
488
00:29:51,999 --> 00:29:55,585
Did you know that he almost went to jail
for passing rubber checks,
489
00:29:55,669 --> 00:29:58,129
that he was suspected of stealing
his hostess's jewels
490
00:29:58,213 --> 00:30:00,131
when he was a houseguest
in Virginia?
491
00:30:00,257 --> 00:30:02,925
Naturally they'd suspect him,
because he isn't rich.
492
00:30:03,927 --> 00:30:06,137
Those are only insinuations,
493
00:30:06,221 --> 00:30:08,389
the cheapest kind.
494
00:30:08,473 --> 00:30:11,100
These aren't only
insinuations, my dear.
495
00:30:11,226 --> 00:30:13,227
There you are.
Read them.
496
00:30:15,105 --> 00:30:17,148
What of it?
497
00:30:17,232 --> 00:30:21,277
I know his faults.
A man can change, can't he?
498
00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:24,405
People are always ready
to hold out a hand to slap you down,
499
00:30:24,489 --> 00:30:26,407
but never to pick you up.
500
00:30:26,867 --> 00:30:28,576
All right,
I'm helping Shelby.
501
00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:30,745
His past is his own affair.
502
00:30:30,871 --> 00:30:33,664
I only care about the present.
503
00:30:33,999 --> 00:30:37,126
Speaking of the changed Mr. Carpenter
in the present tense,
504
00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:41,380
he's now running around
with a model from your own office.
505
00:30:41,465 --> 00:30:43,716
Her name is Diane Redfern.
506
00:30:45,886 --> 00:30:49,222
I'm closer to despising you
than I thought I ever would be.
507
00:30:55,938 --> 00:30:59,148
I'm sorry. I should have
told you before.
508
00:30:59,733 --> 00:31:02,318
Shelby and I are going to be
married next week.
509
00:31:06,573 --> 00:31:09,784
I believe you presented him with
a cigarette case on his last birthday.
510
00:31:14,206 --> 00:31:15,665
Rather valuable, isn't it?
511
00:31:15,749 --> 00:31:17,291
Where did you get it?
512
00:31:17,501 --> 00:31:20,419
From the pawnshop where Diane Redfern
took it after he gave it to her.
513
00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:24,465
I don't believe it. He probably needed
money and was too proud to borrow.
514
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,092
Carpenter proud?
515
00:31:27,719 --> 00:31:30,304
Perhaps that's why
the pawn ticket was in her name.
516
00:31:30,472 --> 00:31:32,306
Before this goes any further,
why, I'll just...
517
00:31:34,601 --> 00:31:36,060
He isn't home.
518
00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:46,153
He's dining at Ann Treadwell's.
519
00:31:46,321 --> 00:31:48,447
He can't be.
He asked me to dinner.
520
00:31:48,657 --> 00:31:52,243
He would have canceled his appointment
with her if you had accepted.
521
00:31:52,327 --> 00:31:54,120
He treats her
rather badly these days.
522
00:31:56,999 --> 00:31:59,125
I'm afraid she'll say
he isn't there.
523
00:32:08,635 --> 00:32:10,636
Waldo,
524
00:32:11,847 --> 00:32:13,472
why are you doing this?
525
00:32:19,062 --> 00:32:20,896
For you, Laura.
526
00:32:22,941 --> 00:32:24,525
Shall we pay them a visit?
527
00:32:25,861 --> 00:32:29,405
He won't be there, Waldo.
I know he won't.
528
00:32:29,489 --> 00:32:31,949
All right. We'll see.
529
00:32:34,202 --> 00:32:37,204
Don't you want to take this little
bauble along in case he is there?
530
00:32:46,548 --> 00:32:47,715
- Good evening.
- Good evening.
531
00:32:47,841 --> 00:32:50,676
- I'm sorry. Mrs. Treadwell is not home.
- We know, dear.
532
00:33:03,398 --> 00:33:05,066
Good evening.
533
00:33:10,447 --> 00:33:13,449
Hello, darling. I didn't expect
to see you tonight.
534
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:15,076
There you are, my dear.
535
00:33:15,494 --> 00:33:18,162
In a moment of supreme disaster,
he's trite.
536
00:33:18,246 --> 00:33:21,082
You've been reading
too many melodramas, Waldo.
537
00:33:21,792 --> 00:33:24,168
I was just telling Ann
about our getting married.
538
00:33:25,045 --> 00:33:26,796
Well, have you two had dinner?
539
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:29,298
Would you like a glass of wine?
540
00:33:29,424 --> 00:33:31,008
Why don't you sit down?
541
00:33:40,185 --> 00:33:44,021
I couldn't find out
if she saw Carpenter in the meantime.
542
00:33:44,231 --> 00:33:47,775
All I know is that on Friday
she had lunch with Diane Redfern.
543
00:33:49,277 --> 00:33:51,987
What came
of it, I hoped to hear that night.
544
00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:53,572
I alternated between moods of
545
00:33:53,657 --> 00:33:55,533
over-optimism and over-pessimism.
546
00:33:55,617 --> 00:33:58,119
When the phone rang,
I had a foreboding of disaster.
547
00:34:02,958 --> 00:34:05,584
I called to tell you, Waldo,
I'm frightfully sorry.
548
00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:08,045
I can't have dinner
with you tonight.
549
00:34:08,255 --> 00:34:11,674
Oh, no, no. I'm not sick.
I'm just dreadfully nervous.
550
00:34:11,758 --> 00:34:14,343
I'm going to the country
for a few days.
551
00:34:14,594 --> 00:34:16,512
Yes. I'm afraid
it's about Shelby.
552
00:34:17,556 --> 00:34:19,765
Oh, no. Please.
There's nothing you can do.
553
00:34:19,850 --> 00:34:22,351
I've got to think
this thing out for myself.
554
00:34:22,561 --> 00:34:26,647
I'm sorry. I'll call you
when I get back. Good-bye.
555
00:34:28,233 --> 00:34:30,609
It was the last time
I ever heard her voice.
556
00:34:32,154 --> 00:34:34,905
I was sure she had
too much pride to forgive him.
557
00:34:36,658 --> 00:34:38,159
But...
558
00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:41,495
Where does
this Diane Redfern live?
559
00:34:42,164 --> 00:34:44,540
Brooklyn somewhere.
She's in the phone book.
560
00:34:46,835 --> 00:34:48,836
Come on. It's late.
Let's get going.
561
00:34:49,838 --> 00:34:51,839
- Waiter.
- Yes, sir.
562
00:34:55,010 --> 00:34:57,011
- All right.
- Thank you, Mr. Lydecker.
563
00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:03,017
Good night.
564
00:35:07,147 --> 00:35:10,357
I shall never forgive myself for
letting her become involved with Shelby.
565
00:35:11,610 --> 00:35:13,027
It was my fault.
566
00:35:13,987 --> 00:35:16,030
I should have
stopped it somehow.
567
00:35:16,823 --> 00:35:18,365
Well, it's too late now.
568
00:35:22,579 --> 00:35:24,246
Thanks for the wine.
569
00:35:43,099 --> 00:35:45,184
Hello. Mosconi's?
570
00:35:45,268 --> 00:35:48,521
This is Lieutenant McPherson,
Homicide Bureau.
571
00:35:48,605 --> 00:35:52,691
Laura Hunt had been buying her liquor
from you for several years, hadn't she?
572
00:35:52,776 --> 00:35:54,985
Yeah.
573
00:35:55,070 --> 00:35:58,364
Did she ever buy a brand of scotch
called Black Pony?
574
00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:01,909
Yeah.
575
00:36:03,078 --> 00:36:05,704
I see.
576
00:36:05,789 --> 00:36:07,915
Well, that's all
I wanted to know. Thanks.
577
00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:09,917
She's here, McPherson,
the maid.
578
00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:12,461
Okay.
579
00:36:12,546 --> 00:36:15,297
- Come in, Miss Clary.
- Never mind the "Miss Clary" stuff.
580
00:36:15,382 --> 00:36:19,218
My name's Bessie, and I'm a domestic,
and I got nothin' to be ashamed of.
581
00:36:19,302 --> 00:36:21,387
Sit down, Bessie.
582
00:36:22,305 --> 00:36:24,390
Her letters.
583
00:36:24,683 --> 00:36:26,600
And her private diary.
584
00:36:27,769 --> 00:36:30,104
You've been reading them,
pawing over them.
585
00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:33,107
It's a shame in the face of the dead.
That's what it is. It's a shame.
586
00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:36,026
- Sit down, Bessie.
- I'll stand on my own two feet.
587
00:36:36,111 --> 00:36:38,195
Don't you go
ordering me around.
588
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,825
I ain't afraid of cops. I was
brought up to spit whenever I saw one.
589
00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:46,745
Okay, go ahead and spit
if that'll make you feel better.
590
00:36:52,627 --> 00:36:54,753
What do you want to know?
591
00:36:54,838 --> 00:36:57,172
What we all want to know,
who killed Laura Hunt.
592
00:36:57,257 --> 00:36:58,924
How would I know?
593
00:37:00,552 --> 00:37:02,386
You don't think I done it?
594
00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:05,931
I know you cops
get crazy notions,
595
00:37:06,016 --> 00:37:08,392
but if you got any notion
concerning me...
596
00:37:08,476 --> 00:37:11,895
Ask anyone,
anyone who ever come to this house.
597
00:37:11,980 --> 00:37:13,897
I would have worked for her.
598
00:37:13,982 --> 00:37:15,899
I would have washed,
ironed, scrubbed,
599
00:37:15,984 --> 00:37:19,695
done everything she wanted of me,
whether she paid me for it or not.
600
00:37:19,779 --> 00:37:23,741
And it wasn't only on account of the
thousand sweet things she done for me.
601
00:37:23,825 --> 00:37:26,368
It was because she was
so sweet herself,
602
00:37:26,453 --> 00:37:29,330
because she was
a real fine lady.
603
00:37:30,832 --> 00:37:34,668
But you cops
wouldn't know about that.
604
00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:40,257
But you do. That's all the more reason
why you should help me, Bessie.
605
00:37:40,383 --> 00:37:43,427
Do you happen to know how this got into
her liquor cabinet?
606
00:37:44,846 --> 00:37:46,847
I put it there.
607
00:37:47,015 --> 00:37:50,351
But she never bought cheap stuff like
that, not a lady like Miss Hunt.
608
00:37:50,435 --> 00:37:53,437
- No.
- When did you put it in the cabinet?
609
00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:55,439
- Saturday.
- Before the police came.
610
00:37:55,523 --> 00:37:59,026
- Was it there Friday night before you left?
- No.
611
00:37:59,152 --> 00:38:01,236
Are you sure of that?
612
00:38:01,446 --> 00:38:04,114
I cleaned out
the cabinet on Friday
613
00:38:04,199 --> 00:38:06,200
and put the empties
in the basement.
614
00:38:07,452 --> 00:38:09,953
Then somebody was with her
in the apartment Friday night,
615
00:38:10,038 --> 00:38:11,955
someone
who brought that bottle.
616
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,749
- Yes.
- Who?
617
00:38:13,833 --> 00:38:16,377
I don't know,
but I didn't want anyone
618
00:38:16,461 --> 00:38:19,755
getting any wrong ideas about her,
God rest her soul.
619
00:38:20,507 --> 00:38:22,841
That's why I took it out of the bedroom
and put it in the cabinet
620
00:38:22,926 --> 00:38:24,885
before the police got here.
621
00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:27,471
And that ain't all I done.
622
00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:30,641
I washed out the glasses
and cleaned off the bottle too.
623
00:38:30,725 --> 00:38:32,768
Do you know what happens to people
who destroy evidence?
624
00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:34,228
I don't care.
625
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:38,357
You ain't gonna tell
the newspaper reporters, are ya,
626
00:38:38,441 --> 00:38:40,401
and let them make up
their nasty stories
627
00:38:40,527 --> 00:38:42,111
and drag her name
through the mud?
628
00:38:43,571 --> 00:38:46,031
Go ahead,
but it won't do you any good.
629
00:38:46,116 --> 00:38:48,992
- I'll say you lied. I'll say...
- Take it easy, Bessie.
630
00:38:50,161 --> 00:38:52,413
Get me some ice
and a setup, will you?
631
00:38:52,539 --> 00:38:54,581
All right.
632
00:38:54,666 --> 00:38:56,750
A couple of highball glasses.
633
00:39:01,881 --> 00:39:03,590
Good morning.
Lieutenant McPherson sent for us.
634
00:39:03,675 --> 00:39:05,592
- Good morning, Lieutenant.
- Hello, McPherson.
635
00:39:05,677 --> 00:39:07,845
This is quite a delegation.
I only sent for you, Carpenter.
636
00:39:07,929 --> 00:39:09,096
- I know.
- Shelby's dropping me off
637
00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:10,347
at the hairdresser's later,
638
00:39:10,432 --> 00:39:13,726
- so I thought I might as well come along.
- My excuse is equally feeble.
639
00:39:14,060 --> 00:39:16,228
I just popped in
to pay my dubious respects
640
00:39:16,312 --> 00:39:18,313
and inquire as to
the state of your health.
641
00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:21,024
- Insipid, I trust.
- I was just going to pour myself a drink.
642
00:39:21,109 --> 00:39:23,360
- Care to join me?
- A very nice idea.
643
00:39:23,445 --> 00:39:24,570
Shelby, wouldn't you like one?
644
00:39:24,654 --> 00:39:26,155
- I'll get it.
- Never mind.
645
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:27,781
Bessie, would you bring
a couple more glasses?
646
00:39:27,907 --> 00:39:29,575
- Yes, sir.
- Hi, Bessie.
647
00:39:29,659 --> 00:39:30,951
What are you doing here?
648
00:39:31,035 --> 00:39:33,537
I'm paid up for the week,
and I'm working, regardless.
649
00:39:33,705 --> 00:39:36,874
- Would you like one, Lydecker?
- I see no reason to exclude myself
650
00:39:36,958 --> 00:39:38,417
if the host provides scotch.
651
00:39:38,501 --> 00:39:40,878
- This do?
- I presume it'll have to.
652
00:39:40,962 --> 00:39:43,130
How about you, Carpenter?
It's cheap, but it's potent.
653
00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:46,800
As a matter of fact, I don't think I care
for any. I'm not much of a daytime drinker.
654
00:39:46,885 --> 00:39:49,428
Uh-huh. That'll be all for you,
Bessie. You can go home now.
655
00:39:49,512 --> 00:39:51,180
But I... Yes, sir.
656
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:54,850
I remember when Laura
bought these glasses.
657
00:39:54,934 --> 00:39:57,227
She loved them.
She loved all her things so.
658
00:39:57,645 --> 00:40:00,063
What are you going to do?
Sell them?
659
00:40:00,148 --> 00:40:03,066
I don't know.
I suppose so. Thank you.
660
00:40:03,151 --> 00:40:04,526
If I'm appointed
administrator of the estate,
661
00:40:04,611 --> 00:40:06,945
I shall probably just call in Corey.
662
00:40:07,030 --> 00:40:09,114
You mean Lancaster Corey,
the art dealer?
663
00:40:09,199 --> 00:40:11,283
Yes. He was
a friend of Laura's.
664
00:40:11,367 --> 00:40:14,536
Let him dispose of everything.
It'll be less gruesome that way.
665
00:40:14,662 --> 00:40:17,706
Not quite everything, Ann.
666
00:40:17,832 --> 00:40:20,042
Two or three things in here
belong to me.
667
00:40:20,210 --> 00:40:22,669
This vase, for instance,
668
00:40:23,338 --> 00:40:25,506
and that, uh, clock, of course,
669
00:40:26,466 --> 00:40:28,217
and the antique fire screen.
670
00:40:28,510 --> 00:40:30,844
- I only lent them to Laura, you know.
- Oh, really, Waldo.
671
00:40:30,970 --> 00:40:35,307
Yes, really. This vase is the gem of my
collection. I intend to have it back.
672
00:40:35,391 --> 00:40:36,600
And the clock and the screen too.
673
00:40:36,684 --> 00:40:39,686
But they aren't yours. You gave them
to Laura. I won't permit it.
674
00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:42,356
Does an alleged fianc�
have any voice in this matter?
675
00:40:43,191 --> 00:40:44,608
I'll take the vase with me now
676
00:40:44,692 --> 00:40:48,195
and send someone to collect
the other things this very day.
677
00:40:48,947 --> 00:40:51,490
Nothing is leaving here
except you, Lydecker.
678
00:40:52,075 --> 00:40:54,910
Is that your quaint way
of indicating dismissal?
679
00:40:55,703 --> 00:40:58,705
We're all going anyway. I have to be
back at headquarters by noon.
680
00:40:58,790 --> 00:41:02,543
Lieutenant, I don't understand.
You sent for me, didn't you?
681
00:41:02,752 --> 00:41:04,419
- Yeah.
- Well, don't you want to see me?
682
00:41:04,546 --> 00:41:07,214
- Don't you want to ask me some questions?
- I'll be seeing you.
683
00:41:07,382 --> 00:41:09,132
- Well...
- I bid you good day.
684
00:41:09,259 --> 00:41:10,425
Come along, Shelby.
685
00:41:10,510 --> 00:41:13,053
Are you making any progress
on the case, Lieutenant?
686
00:41:14,973 --> 00:41:16,431
We're doing all right.
687
00:41:32,824 --> 00:41:35,617
- Hello, Mark.
- Go get something to eat. I'll take over.
688
00:41:35,702 --> 00:41:37,327
- Thanks.
- Take your time.
689
00:44:37,216 --> 00:44:38,842
Fred?
690
00:44:43,931 --> 00:44:46,266
- Yes?
- What's the matter? Did you go to sleep?
691
00:44:46,768 --> 00:44:49,227
This is McPherson.
Any calls come through?
692
00:44:50,855 --> 00:44:52,481
Well, keep listening.
693
00:44:52,857 --> 00:44:54,566
No. Nothing new.
694
00:45:01,282 --> 00:45:03,116
I happened to see
the lights on.
695
00:45:04,786 --> 00:45:06,495
Have you sublet this apartment?
696
00:45:06,579 --> 00:45:08,538
You're here often enough
to pay rent.
697
00:45:08,748 --> 00:45:11,124
- Any objections?
- Yes.
698
00:45:12,043 --> 00:45:14,044
I object to you prying
into Laura's letters,
699
00:45:14,212 --> 00:45:15,796
especially those from me.
700
00:45:16,047 --> 00:45:19,049
- Why? Yours are the best in the bunch.
- Thanks.
701
00:45:19,258 --> 00:45:20,967
But I didn't write them to you.
702
00:45:21,844 --> 00:45:24,262
Haven't you any sense
of privacy?
703
00:45:25,223 --> 00:45:28,058
Murder victims have
no claim to privacy.
704
00:45:28,476 --> 00:45:32,020
Have detectives who buy portraits
of murder victims a claim to privacy?
705
00:45:33,940 --> 00:45:37,234
Lancaster Corey told me
that you've already put in a bid for it.
706
00:45:37,401 --> 00:45:39,528
That's none of your business.
707
00:45:39,904 --> 00:45:43,365
McPherson, did it ever strike you
that you're acting very strangely?
708
00:45:43,825 --> 00:45:47,369
It's a wonder you don't come here like a
suitor, with roses and a box of candy,
709
00:45:47,578 --> 00:45:49,579
drugstore candy, of course.
710
00:45:50,623 --> 00:45:53,083
Have you ever dreamed
of Laura as your wife,
711
00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:56,586
by your side at the policeman's ball,
or in the bleachers,
712
00:45:56,671 --> 00:45:59,673
or listening to the heroic story of how
you got a silver shinbone
713
00:45:59,757 --> 00:46:01,299
from a gun battle
with a gangster?
714
00:46:03,594 --> 00:46:06,304
- I see you have.
- Why don't you go home? I'm busy.
715
00:46:08,349 --> 00:46:10,100
Perhaps we can
come to terms now.
716
00:46:11,686 --> 00:46:14,980
You want the portrait.
Perfectly understandable.
717
00:46:15,064 --> 00:46:18,483
I want my possessions,
my vase, my clock and my screen.
718
00:46:18,568 --> 00:46:20,902
Also perfectly understandable.
Now, if you...
719
00:46:21,028 --> 00:46:22,571
Get going.
720
00:46:22,864 --> 00:46:26,366
You better watch out, McPherson,
or you'll end up in a psychiatric ward.
721
00:46:27,410 --> 00:46:31,371
I don't think they've ever had a patient
who fell in love with a corpse.
722
00:48:02,129 --> 00:48:03,630
What are you doing here?
723
00:48:06,968 --> 00:48:08,301
You're alive.
724
00:48:09,262 --> 00:48:11,638
If you don't get out at once,
I'm going to call the police.
725
00:48:11,889 --> 00:48:13,765
You are Laura Hunt,
aren't you?
726
00:48:16,852 --> 00:48:18,270
Aren't you?
727
00:48:18,396 --> 00:48:21,022
- I'm going to call the police.
- Well, I am the police.
728
00:48:22,149 --> 00:48:23,692
Mark McPherson.
729
00:48:25,653 --> 00:48:27,195
What's this all about?
730
00:48:28,823 --> 00:48:30,240
Don't you know?
731
00:48:30,324 --> 00:48:32,325
- Don't you know what's happened?
- No.
732
00:48:33,995 --> 00:48:36,371
Haven't you seen the papers?
Where have you been?
733
00:48:37,665 --> 00:48:40,583
Up in the country.
I don't get a newspaper.
734
00:48:41,502 --> 00:48:45,005
- Haven't you got a radio?
- It was broken.
735
00:48:45,214 --> 00:48:46,673
What...
736
00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:07,736
Somebody was murdered
in this room.
737
00:49:07,945 --> 00:49:09,863
Do you have any idea
who it was?
738
00:49:10,156 --> 00:49:11,865
No.
739
00:49:11,949 --> 00:49:14,117
Who had a key
to your apartment?
740
00:49:14,702 --> 00:49:16,745
Nobody.
741
00:49:16,871 --> 00:49:18,830
Are you sure?
742
00:49:19,582 --> 00:49:22,334
- When did it happen?
- Friday night.
743
00:49:26,255 --> 00:49:28,048
What are you going to do now?
744
00:49:28,382 --> 00:49:30,550
Find out who was murdered
745
00:49:30,676 --> 00:49:32,719
and then find the murderer.
746
00:49:36,474 --> 00:49:39,476
You'd better take off those wet clothes.
You might catch cold.
747
00:49:44,231 --> 00:49:46,191
Yeah.
748
00:49:55,659 --> 00:49:57,660
I found this in my closet.
749
00:49:57,745 --> 00:49:59,662
It's Diane Redfern's.
750
00:49:59,747 --> 00:50:02,624
It wasn't here when I left.
She's one of our models.
751
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,417
Just about my size.
752
00:50:07,129 --> 00:50:08,755
Beautiful, wasn't she?
753
00:50:09,090 --> 00:50:10,632
Do you suppose...
754
00:50:14,804 --> 00:50:16,596
Sit down, please.
755
00:50:20,935 --> 00:50:23,603
This is Monday night.
You left on Friday.
756
00:50:24,021 --> 00:50:27,399
- Rather a long weekend, isn't it?
- Yes.
757
00:50:27,775 --> 00:50:29,442
What train did you take?
758
00:50:30,069 --> 00:50:31,611
The 7:26.
759
00:50:31,946 --> 00:50:34,447
- See anybody you knew on the train?
- No.
760
00:50:35,116 --> 00:50:38,701
- Then what?
- Then I got off the train at Norwalk.
761
00:50:39,453 --> 00:50:41,204
Saw nobody you knew
at the station either?
762
00:50:41,288 --> 00:50:42,580
No.
763
00:50:43,082 --> 00:50:44,416
Go on.
764
00:50:44,500 --> 00:50:47,293
Then I went to the garage
where I keep my car.
765
00:50:47,461 --> 00:50:51,172
It's a private garage.
Nobody saw me there either.
766
00:50:51,841 --> 00:50:53,133
Then I drove to my house.
767
00:50:54,009 --> 00:50:55,885
You were there three days.
What did you do?
768
00:50:56,387 --> 00:50:58,012
Work in my garden.
769
00:50:59,265 --> 00:51:00,890
You didn't go out
in all that time?
770
00:51:01,308 --> 00:51:04,060
No. I had everything
I needed in the house.
771
00:51:04,812 --> 00:51:07,272
- Nobody came to see you?
- Nobody.
772
00:51:07,565 --> 00:51:09,065
I went there to be alone.
773
00:51:10,109 --> 00:51:12,318
Police were there on Saturday.
There was no one in the house.
774
00:51:13,821 --> 00:51:16,781
Oh, yes. Saturday,
I took a long walk.
775
00:51:17,324 --> 00:51:19,159
I walked for hours
in the woods.
776
00:51:21,328 --> 00:51:24,330
You were going to
marry Shelby Carpenter this week.
777
00:51:24,707 --> 00:51:26,166
Thursday, if I'm not mistaken.
778
00:51:29,170 --> 00:51:30,462
Yes.
779
00:51:30,963 --> 00:51:33,214
Yet you went away
just before your wedding,
780
00:51:33,340 --> 00:51:35,633
for a long weekend to be alone.
781
00:51:36,469 --> 00:51:38,928
I was tired.
I'd been working hard.
782
00:51:39,013 --> 00:51:42,265
You know Shelby Carpenter has a key to
this apartment. Why didn't you tell me?
783
00:51:42,349 --> 00:51:44,601
I know nothing of the sort.
He hasn't.
784
00:51:44,685 --> 00:51:46,686
How else did the girl
get into the apartment?
785
00:51:46,937 --> 00:51:50,482
You knew she was in love with Carpenter,
that he'd given her your cigarette case.
786
00:51:50,566 --> 00:51:51,983
You know all that,
don't you?
787
00:51:52,151 --> 00:51:54,944
I knew that she was in love with him.
She told me so herself.
788
00:51:55,070 --> 00:51:58,281
- When did she tell you?
- At lunch last Friday.
789
00:51:58,365 --> 00:52:01,951
I also know she meant nothing to Shelby.
I understand him better than you do.
790
00:52:02,036 --> 00:52:04,370
She was found in your
dressing gown and slippers.
791
00:52:04,455 --> 00:52:06,915
That's hardly the regulation costume
for an impersonal chat
792
00:52:06,999 --> 00:52:09,542
between a man and woman
who mean nothing to each other.
793
00:52:09,835 --> 00:52:12,795
Did you know or did you suspect he was
going to bring her here Friday night?
794
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,548
How could I? I don't know that he
brought her here. Neither do you.
795
00:52:15,674 --> 00:52:18,134
- You merely assume it.
- What other assumption is possible?
796
00:52:18,219 --> 00:52:21,554
Do you love Carpenter so much you'd risk
your own safety to protect him?
797
00:52:21,639 --> 00:52:24,474
My own safety?
Do you suspect me?
798
00:52:24,642 --> 00:52:27,894
I suspect nobody and everybody.
I'm merely trying to get at the truth.
799
00:52:28,103 --> 00:52:30,313
I see you have been trying
to get at the truth.
800
00:52:30,397 --> 00:52:33,191
You've read things I never meant
anyone else to look at.
801
00:52:33,651 --> 00:52:35,109
Strictly routine.
802
00:52:35,236 --> 00:52:36,986
I'm sorry. Really.
803
00:52:40,616 --> 00:52:43,243
I'd better be going. I'll see you
in the morning, Miss Hunt.
804
00:52:43,536 --> 00:52:46,829
Oh, I must ask you not to leave
the house or use the phone.
805
00:52:47,164 --> 00:52:50,250
But... But I've got
to let my friends know I'm alive.
806
00:52:50,668 --> 00:52:53,127
Sorry, Miss Hunt,
but I must insist you do as I say.
807
00:52:53,254 --> 00:52:55,547
- Am I under arrest?
- No.
808
00:52:56,257 --> 00:52:59,842
But if anything should happen
to you this time, I wouldn't like it.
809
00:53:01,262 --> 00:53:02,929
All right.
I promise.
810
00:53:03,055 --> 00:53:06,015
There's one more thing.
You may as well know what I know,
811
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:07,725
some of it, at any rate.
812
00:53:07,810 --> 00:53:10,353
It'll save time and a lot
of unnecessary fencing.
813
00:53:11,564 --> 00:53:14,274
I know that you went away
to make up your mind
814
00:53:17,194 --> 00:53:20,697
whether you'd marry
Shelby Carpenter or not.
815
00:53:22,032 --> 00:53:24,742
What did you decide?
I want the truth.
816
00:53:26,912 --> 00:53:28,580
I decided not to marry him.
817
00:53:30,332 --> 00:53:32,500
I'll see you in the morning.
Good night.
818
00:53:32,751 --> 00:53:34,210
Good night.
819
00:53:48,851 --> 00:53:51,978
Really?
Does McPherson know that?
820
00:53:52,313 --> 00:53:55,023
Uh-huh. Well, okay.
Good-bye.
821
00:53:56,442 --> 00:53:58,943
Say, Mark, that was
the medical examiner's report.
822
00:53:59,069 --> 00:54:02,405
It wasn't Laura Hunt. It was Diane
Redfern that was bumped off upstairs.
823
00:54:02,573 --> 00:54:05,241
- Kinda balls things up, doesn't it?
- Yeah.
824
00:54:05,326 --> 00:54:07,368
Say, you're not taking it too hard.
825
00:54:07,453 --> 00:54:09,829
Wait a minute.
826
00:54:10,164 --> 00:54:12,582
- Hello?
- This is Laura. I've...
827
00:54:12,666 --> 00:54:14,500
Don't say anything on the phone.
Meet me right away.
828
00:54:14,627 --> 00:54:16,628
I'll wait for you in my car
in front of Bullitt's.
829
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:19,505
- Was that...
- Yeah.
830
00:54:19,965 --> 00:54:21,758
Dames are always
pulling a switch on you.
831
00:54:22,301 --> 00:54:23,635
Stand by.
832
00:54:41,695 --> 00:54:43,571
You follow her.
I'm gonna tail him.
833
00:55:36,083 --> 00:55:38,292
Are you taking it down
or putting it away, Carpenter?
834
00:55:51,849 --> 00:55:54,600
- It's been fired lately.
- Yes. I killed some rabbits with it.
835
00:55:54,768 --> 00:55:57,520
- When?
- Oh, a while back. I don't know exactly.
836
00:55:57,604 --> 00:55:59,355
You know about guns,
don't you?
837
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:02,275
- Yes.
- How come you didn't clean it afterward?
838
00:56:02,359 --> 00:56:05,111
I don't know.
I forgot, I suppose.
839
00:56:05,362 --> 00:56:08,698
- Your initials?
- Yes. I gave it to Laura for protection.
840
00:56:08,991 --> 00:56:11,033
She didn't want it,
but I insisted.
841
00:56:11,452 --> 00:56:13,911
This house is rather isolated,
as you see.
842
00:56:14,079 --> 00:56:16,539
- Did you teach her how to use it?
- No.
843
00:56:16,790 --> 00:56:20,293
- Does she know how?
- I don't know. It didn't occur to me to ask.
844
00:56:20,502 --> 00:56:22,670
You're a vague sort of a fellow,
aren't you, Carpenter?
845
00:56:22,796 --> 00:56:26,257
I've spent very little time in observing
my own character, Mr. McPherson.
846
00:56:26,341 --> 00:56:29,010
You haven't borrowed it lately?
You didn't just bring it back tonight?
847
00:56:29,136 --> 00:56:32,180
You followed me here.
You saw me come in. You ought to know.
848
00:56:33,056 --> 00:56:35,975
You, uh, realize
the spot you're in, Carpenter?
849
00:56:36,977 --> 00:56:38,978
You took that poor girl
to Miss Hunt's apartment.
850
00:56:39,062 --> 00:56:41,439
You knew all along
it was she who was murdered.
851
00:56:43,317 --> 00:56:46,694
Didn't you know Laura Hunt would come
back any day and spill the whole thing?
852
00:56:48,655 --> 00:56:50,364
Or did you plan
to kill her too,
853
00:56:50,449 --> 00:56:53,493
hide the body someplace
and cover up your first crime?
854
00:56:53,577 --> 00:56:55,369
You're being fantastic,
McPherson.
855
00:56:57,164 --> 00:56:59,665
You took a bottle of Black Pony
to her house Friday night.
856
00:57:00,042 --> 00:57:01,959
I took it there
over a week ago.
857
00:57:02,169 --> 00:57:05,254
Bessie said it wasn't there Friday
night. It was Saturday morning.
858
00:57:05,339 --> 00:57:06,923
I can't help what Bessie said.
859
00:57:10,177 --> 00:57:13,137
- Where's the key to her apartment?
- I haven't got it.
860
00:57:13,222 --> 00:57:15,681
What did you do with it,
give it back to her tonight?
861
00:57:16,934 --> 00:57:17,934
I never had one.
862
00:57:18,227 --> 00:57:20,895
You didn't take the bottle
of scotch to her house Friday night.
863
00:57:20,979 --> 00:57:23,105
You haven't got a key to her apartment.
How did you get in?
864
00:57:23,190 --> 00:57:24,857
- Well, I...
- You had a key, and I know it.
865
00:57:24,942 --> 00:57:27,360
- Now, come on, Carpenter. Spill it.
- I...
866
00:57:28,987 --> 00:57:32,073
Laura kept a duplicate key
at her office. I went over and got it.
867
00:57:32,533 --> 00:57:36,327
I'd asked Diane to dine with me. I wanted
to have it out with her once and for all.
868
00:57:36,578 --> 00:57:40,540
You know, she thought... Well,
she thought she was in love with me.
869
00:57:41,041 --> 00:57:44,293
Well, we couldn't go on talking
in public places. She was too upset.
870
00:57:44,461 --> 00:57:47,171
I couldn't go to her room, and I didn't
want to take her to my hotel.
871
00:57:47,256 --> 00:57:49,298
- So we went to Laura's.
- Yeah?
872
00:57:49,591 --> 00:57:51,592
We talked there
for about three hours,
873
00:57:52,094 --> 00:57:54,929
- and then the doorbell rang and...
- Go on.
874
00:57:55,389 --> 00:57:58,099
Diane was frightened.
But knowing Laura as I've known her,
875
00:57:58,183 --> 00:58:00,142
I've learned to be
surprised at nothing.
876
00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:01,644
What do you mean by that?
877
00:58:01,728 --> 00:58:03,396
Her friends would come to her
with their troubles
878
00:58:03,522 --> 00:58:05,731
at all hours
of the day or night.
879
00:58:05,816 --> 00:58:08,234
I asked Diane
to answer the door.
880
00:58:08,402 --> 00:58:09,569
Why didn't you go yourself?
881
00:58:09,653 --> 00:58:12,280
Supposing one of Laura's friends
had found me there.
882
00:58:12,364 --> 00:58:15,199
- Why open the door at all?
- They must have seen the light.
883
00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:18,035
What about the girl? Diane,
what about her reputation?
884
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:21,664
I asked her to tell them Laura had let
her the apartment while she was away.
885
00:58:21,832 --> 00:58:24,083
Anybody that knew Laura
would have believed that.
886
00:58:24,293 --> 00:58:27,128
- Yeah. Go on.
- Well, then the doorbell rang again.
887
00:58:27,713 --> 00:58:30,506
I could hear Diane's mules,
Laura's they were
888
00:58:30,591 --> 00:58:33,593
clattering across the bare boards
between the rugs.
889
00:58:33,677 --> 00:58:36,178
Then there was a moment's silence
and then a shot.
890
00:58:37,264 --> 00:58:39,056
It was an awful explosion.
891
00:58:40,183 --> 00:58:42,768
By the time I reached her,
the door was closed.
892
00:58:43,270 --> 00:58:45,897
- She lay there on the floor.
- Did you go out to see who it was?
893
00:58:45,981 --> 00:58:49,734
No. I was too confused, too horrified,
incapable of doing anything.
894
00:58:49,943 --> 00:58:53,154
The room was dark. I saw only
a vague heap lying on the floor.
895
00:58:54,031 --> 00:58:57,074
I don't think
I fully grasped the situation.
896
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,328
I think I called her name,
but I'm not sure. I...
897
00:59:00,454 --> 00:59:03,623
I remember kneeling on the floor,
feeling her heart.
898
00:59:05,250 --> 00:59:07,043
My first instinct
was to call the police.
899
00:59:07,127 --> 00:59:09,128
- Why didn't you?
- I don't know.
900
00:59:09,212 --> 00:59:12,423
Or rather, I was afraid,
not only for myself, but for Laura.
901
00:59:12,633 --> 00:59:17,094
In a panicky sort of way, I felt I must
keep out of this to keep Laura out of it.
902
00:59:17,179 --> 00:59:19,347
I know now how foolish
and hopeless it was,
903
00:59:19,431 --> 00:59:22,016
but there was only
one thing on my mind,
904
00:59:22,100 --> 00:59:24,685
the safety of a person whose life
was dearer to me than my own.
905
00:59:24,770 --> 00:59:26,479
Don't you understand that?
906
00:59:26,688 --> 00:59:28,189
Did you think
Laura had done it?
907
00:59:29,066 --> 00:59:32,026
- Did you?
- I don't remember what I thought.
908
00:59:32,444 --> 00:59:34,779
- Do you think so now?
- No.
909
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,156
- But you didn't?
- No.
910
00:59:37,491 --> 00:59:40,785
On Saturday, when our men went to the
hotel to tell you that Laura was dead,
911
00:59:40,869 --> 00:59:44,789
- you seemed sincerely shocked.
- I was. I hadn't expected that mistake.
912
00:59:44,873 --> 00:59:46,958
But you had your alibi ready
no matter who was dead.
913
00:59:47,125 --> 00:59:49,669
Yet you knew the minute
Laura got back it wouldn't stick.
914
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,588
Don't you see? I was incapable
of thinking that far ahead.
915
00:59:52,673 --> 00:59:55,216
I was incapable
of thinking at all.
916
00:59:55,300 --> 00:59:58,761
I was groping for some way
to keep Laura's name out of it.
917
00:59:58,845 --> 01:00:03,015
I was heartbroken about Diane
and panic-stricken about Laura.
918
01:00:03,558 --> 01:00:06,018
I haven't slept a full two hours
since this thing happened.
919
01:00:06,144 --> 01:00:09,271
Let's get back to the present. What did
you and Laura talk about tonight?
920
01:00:09,606 --> 01:00:11,941
I told her the whole story,
just as I've told you.
921
01:00:13,610 --> 01:00:15,987
She phoned you after she promised me
she wouldn't call anybody.
922
01:00:16,071 --> 01:00:17,154
What did she want?
923
01:00:17,239 --> 01:00:19,281
It's perfectly natural
she should want to see me
924
01:00:19,366 --> 01:00:21,200
especially
after what's happened.
925
01:00:21,284 --> 01:00:23,828
Why don't you tell the truth? She sent
you here to get rid of this gun.
926
01:00:23,912 --> 01:00:27,248
She did not. It was my own idea.
She doesn't even know I'm here.
927
01:00:34,047 --> 01:00:36,882
- It works fine, doesn't it?
- Yes. Did you think it wouldn't?
928
01:00:38,385 --> 01:00:40,928
I hoped it wouldn't.
All right. Let's go.
929
01:00:42,389 --> 01:00:46,434
- Well, am I under arrest?
- No, but you're not to leave town
930
01:00:46,518 --> 01:00:47,935
and it would be
foolish of you to try it.
931
01:01:08,248 --> 01:01:10,082
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
932
01:01:13,253 --> 01:01:14,962
- What's that?
- Breakfast.
933
01:01:15,130 --> 01:01:17,423
You didn't buy any food
when you went out last night.
934
01:01:23,805 --> 01:01:27,308
I'll fix some bacon and eggs.
Can you make coffee?
935
01:01:27,601 --> 01:01:30,102
Suppose you set the table
while I get breakfast.
936
01:01:31,605 --> 01:01:33,606
Do you always sound like this
in the morning?
937
01:01:33,690 --> 01:01:35,441
Don't tell me you can cook.
938
01:01:35,650 --> 01:01:39,779
My mother always listened
sympathetically to my dreams of a career
939
01:01:39,863 --> 01:01:41,572
and then taught me
another recipe.
940
01:01:42,282 --> 01:01:44,992
Shh! Don't move.
941
01:01:49,873 --> 01:01:53,209
It's all right, Bessie.
It's all right, Bessie.
942
01:01:54,127 --> 01:01:55,544
She's alive.
943
01:01:56,296 --> 01:01:57,797
It's all been
a mistake, Bessie.
944
01:01:57,923 --> 01:01:59,131
I'm not a ghost. Really.
945
01:02:00,926 --> 01:02:03,469
I found you,
and you were dead.
946
01:02:04,054 --> 01:02:06,138
It was Miss Redfern's
body you found.
947
01:02:08,308 --> 01:02:10,559
How about taking over here,
948
01:02:10,644 --> 01:02:12,561
fixing us some coffee and eggs.
949
01:02:12,979 --> 01:02:17,024
But I saw it with my own eyes.
950
01:02:18,485 --> 01:02:19,860
I don't understand it.
951
01:02:19,945 --> 01:02:22,154
Have you ever
heard a ghost ask for eggs?
952
01:02:23,156 --> 01:02:24,782
No, miss.
953
01:02:24,950 --> 01:02:26,325
You'll be all right,
Bessie.
954
01:02:37,129 --> 01:02:40,005
Somebody should have warned her.
Poor Bessie.
955
01:02:40,340 --> 01:02:43,342
By the way, I've asked Waldo Lydecker
to come here this morning.
956
01:02:43,426 --> 01:02:45,386
- Did you tell him?
- No.
957
01:02:45,971 --> 01:02:47,680
Why not?
It's brutal.
958
01:02:47,973 --> 01:02:49,473
I'm not doing it for fun.
959
01:02:51,351 --> 01:02:54,520
Why did you break your promise
and go out and see Shelby last night?
960
01:02:54,855 --> 01:02:56,730
You forced me
to give you my word.
961
01:02:57,190 --> 01:02:59,692
I never have been and I
never will be bound by anything
962
01:02:59,776 --> 01:03:01,694
I don't do of my own free will.
963
01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:03,946
Redfern was in love
with Carpenter.
964
01:03:04,990 --> 01:03:06,699
You admitted that last night.
965
01:03:07,033 --> 01:03:09,451
- May I have a match, please?
- Oh, I'm sorry.
966
01:03:09,870 --> 01:03:12,371
I also told you that
he wasn't in love with her.
967
01:03:13,582 --> 01:03:15,791
Just sit still.
968
01:03:23,550 --> 01:03:24,842
Hello, Lieutenant.
969
01:03:26,344 --> 01:03:28,637
- Morning, my darling.
- Hello, dear.
970
01:03:30,891 --> 01:03:32,558
Thank you.
971
01:03:32,726 --> 01:03:34,018
It's on again.
972
01:03:34,102 --> 01:03:36,061
Do I have to get a permit
from the police department
973
01:03:36,229 --> 01:03:37,897
to kiss my fianc�e good morning?
974
01:03:38,148 --> 01:03:39,690
So he made you
change your mind.
975
01:03:39,900 --> 01:03:42,484
Speaking of changing one's mind,
Mr. McPherson,
976
01:03:42,569 --> 01:03:44,361
I have just come
from my lawyer.
977
01:03:44,529 --> 01:03:47,281
Yeah? Did he tell you how much
you'll get off for good behavior?
978
01:03:47,365 --> 01:03:49,783
No, but he told me that anything
I may have said last night
979
01:03:49,868 --> 01:03:52,828
was said under duress
and can't be used against me.
980
01:03:52,913 --> 01:03:54,538
Besides, none of it was true.
981
01:03:54,748 --> 01:03:56,832
Smart lawyer you've got.
982
01:03:56,917 --> 01:03:58,876
Maybe he told you how that scotch
got up here Friday night
983
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:00,628
after you'd bought it
at Mosconi's.
984
01:04:00,712 --> 01:04:02,796
Maybe it was the lawyer
who brought Diane Redfern up here.
985
01:04:02,881 --> 01:04:04,673
Maybe...
986
01:04:10,722 --> 01:04:12,139
Well, McPherson,
987
01:04:12,265 --> 01:04:14,266
have you thought over
the deal I suggested?
988
01:04:18,396 --> 01:04:21,023
Waldo.
989
01:04:21,233 --> 01:04:22,775
Waldo.
990
01:04:26,821 --> 01:04:28,989
Right-hand pocket.
991
01:04:29,074 --> 01:04:30,783
You want a doctor?
992
01:04:31,076 --> 01:04:32,952
Right-hand pocket.
993
01:04:33,703 --> 01:04:35,287
We'd better take him
into the bedroom.
994
01:04:48,260 --> 01:04:49,969
- What...
- Don't try and say anything, dear.
995
01:04:50,053 --> 01:04:51,470
Just be quiet.
996
01:04:54,683 --> 01:04:56,934
I think this is
carrying things too far.
997
01:04:57,018 --> 01:04:59,270
Your methods are vicious.
There ought to be a law against it.
998
01:04:59,354 --> 01:05:01,647
- Yeah?
- How does he feel now?
999
01:05:02,399 --> 01:05:04,108
It was a terrible shock.
Poor darling.
1000
01:05:04,192 --> 01:05:05,734
Don't tell me you're in love
with him too.
1001
01:05:05,819 --> 01:05:08,320
Look here, fella. You're not to talk
that way to Miss Hunt.
1002
01:05:08,488 --> 01:05:10,489
Shut up. Why do you cover up
for a guy like him?
1003
01:05:10,657 --> 01:05:13,033
- Don't answer him, Laura.
- What story did he tell you last night?
1004
01:05:13,118 --> 01:05:14,827
Don't answer him. Let him
talk to our lawyer.
1005
01:05:14,911 --> 01:05:15,911
Our lawyer?
1006
01:05:15,996 --> 01:05:17,997
- So now you're covering up for each other.
- Look at him, Laura.
1007
01:05:18,081 --> 01:05:20,916
He's beginning to crack up.
He'd use anything to make an arrest
1008
01:05:21,001 --> 01:05:22,793
just so he can be a big shot
in the headlines.
1009
01:05:22,877 --> 01:05:24,962
I've got enough on you
to arrest you right now.
1010
01:05:25,046 --> 01:05:27,047
Quick, McPherson,
the handcuffs.
1011
01:05:27,173 --> 01:05:29,591
- Trundle him off to the hoosegow.
- You keep out of this.
1012
01:05:29,676 --> 01:05:30,926
You'll look nice in bracelets.
1013
01:05:31,011 --> 01:05:33,053
Why don't you get down
on all fours again, Waldo?
1014
01:05:33,138 --> 01:05:35,556
It's the only time you've ever
kept your mouth shut.
1015
01:05:35,765 --> 01:05:38,517
I hope you'll forgive
my wee touch of epilepsy, my dear.
1016
01:05:38,852 --> 01:05:40,394
It's an old family custom.
1017
01:05:41,104 --> 01:05:44,356
Well, McPherson, what does
Laura's resurrection do to you?
1018
01:05:44,482 --> 01:05:46,942
Too bad Diane Redfern
can't be resurrected.
1019
01:05:47,485 --> 01:05:49,862
I'm afraid I've interrupted
what you call "a pinch."
1020
01:05:50,488 --> 01:05:52,031
Do your duty, McPherson.
1021
01:05:53,116 --> 01:05:55,909
You know, Lydecker,
you've made me change my mind.
1022
01:05:56,411 --> 01:05:58,454
- For the moment.
- Well, in that case,
1023
01:05:58,538 --> 01:06:00,581
we'll have time
for a little get-together.
1024
01:06:00,707 --> 01:06:03,042
You'd better order some liquor
and some food, Laura.
1025
01:06:03,168 --> 01:06:04,877
What for?
1026
01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:06,628
People are coming
to celebrate your return.
1027
01:06:06,796 --> 01:06:08,881
Ann and Bullitt and Corey.
Everybody.
1028
01:06:09,132 --> 01:06:12,009
- Who asked them to come?
- I did, when I was in there.
1029
01:06:12,552 --> 01:06:14,345
I phoned my man,
and he's calling everyone.
1030
01:06:14,471 --> 01:06:18,390
- Why did you do that, Waldo?
- A sense of the fitness of things, my dear.
1031
01:06:18,558 --> 01:06:22,144
Perhaps our friend can weave all the
loose ends into a noose. Eh, McPherson?
1032
01:06:22,228 --> 01:06:24,605
Sorry you went to all that trouble.
I've already called them.
1033
01:06:29,402 --> 01:06:31,403
You're working yourself
to death, darling.
1034
01:06:31,529 --> 01:06:34,907
- I haven't had a moment with you all day.
- It's a very thirsty crowd.
1035
01:06:35,033 --> 01:06:37,242
Oh, after all,
it isn't your homecoming.
1036
01:06:37,327 --> 01:06:39,828
Aren't you being
a little bit nasty, Ann?
1037
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:41,997
I feel nasty
when I don't see you.
1038
01:06:42,123 --> 01:06:45,667
Well, you look very sweet. That's
a completely wonderful hat, darling.
1039
01:06:45,877 --> 01:06:48,462
Now, if you'll forgive me,
Laura wants a cocktail.
1040
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,256
- So do I.
- Well, here you go.
1041
01:06:52,550 --> 01:06:54,760
Shelby, why don't you
come to your senses?
1042
01:06:54,928 --> 01:06:58,305
You know it's all over between you
and Laura, or it soon will be.
1043
01:06:58,598 --> 01:07:02,059
But you haven't lost me.
Why don't we get married now?
1044
01:07:02,143 --> 01:07:03,519
Ann, dear, you don't seem
to realize the situation.
1045
01:07:03,603 --> 01:07:04,853
Yes, but I do.
1046
01:07:04,938 --> 01:07:08,315
That's why you need me. We'll get
the best lawyer that money can buy.
1047
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,776
When it's all over, we'll go away,
anywhere you want,
1048
01:07:10,944 --> 01:07:11,944
and forget about all this.
1049
01:07:12,112 --> 01:07:15,155
Thanks, Ann, but you see,
Laura needs me. Sorry.
1050
01:07:18,785 --> 01:07:19,785
Uh-uh.
1051
01:07:22,288 --> 01:07:24,123
- Laura.
- Thanks.
1052
01:07:24,707 --> 01:07:27,459
If you don't mind,
I'd like a word with Miss Hunt.
1053
01:07:27,627 --> 01:07:30,254
I don't mind.
Talk to her as much as you like.
1054
01:07:31,548 --> 01:07:34,800
- I see he's taking a new tack.
- What do you mean?
1055
01:07:34,968 --> 01:07:37,803
Trying to make you like him
to make you talk.
1056
01:07:38,888 --> 01:07:41,473
Shelby, tell me,
why did you go to...
1057
01:07:43,309 --> 01:07:44,560
Excuse me.
1058
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:49,148
Why did you go
to the cottage last night?
1059
01:07:49,357 --> 01:07:51,567
But don't you know?
I was afraid
1060
01:07:51,651 --> 01:07:53,318
you wouldn't think
of hiding that shotgun.
1061
01:07:54,446 --> 01:07:56,572
- What shotgun?
- The one I gave you.
1062
01:07:58,074 --> 01:07:59,992
You don't have to lie
to me, darling.
1063
01:08:00,493 --> 01:08:01,702
I'll stand by you.
1064
01:08:09,544 --> 01:08:11,003
What's the matter,
Laura?
1065
01:08:11,838 --> 01:08:14,339
Oh, I guess I'm just nervous.
That's all.
1066
01:08:15,425 --> 01:08:16,842
So am I.
1067
01:08:18,261 --> 01:08:20,345
McPherson suspects Shelby.
1068
01:08:21,681 --> 01:08:23,390
He seems to suspect me too.
1069
01:08:25,143 --> 01:08:26,435
And so do some of my friends.
1070
01:08:26,519 --> 01:08:29,021
You?
Don't be absurd.
1071
01:08:29,189 --> 01:08:31,857
- You could never do a thing like that.
- And Shelby?
1072
01:08:31,983 --> 01:08:33,650
Oh, I don't think he did it.
1073
01:08:33,776 --> 01:08:35,110
But he's capable of it.
1074
01:08:37,697 --> 01:08:39,865
Are you as interested in McPherson
as he is in you?
1075
01:08:40,283 --> 01:08:42,075
But, Ann, I only
met him last night.
1076
01:08:42,785 --> 01:08:44,495
That's more than
long enough sometimes.
1077
01:08:44,954 --> 01:08:47,789
Anyway, he's better for you
than Shelby. Anybody is.
1078
01:08:49,751 --> 01:08:52,336
- Shelby's better for me.
- Why?
1079
01:08:53,296 --> 01:08:56,215
Because I can afford him,
and I understand him.
1080
01:08:57,217 --> 01:08:59,218
He's no good,
but he's what I want.
1081
01:09:00,386 --> 01:09:02,638
I'm not a nice person,
Laura. Neither is he.
1082
01:09:03,264 --> 01:09:06,391
He knows I know he's
just what he is.
1083
01:09:07,018 --> 01:09:08,769
He also knows
that I don't care.
1084
01:09:10,104 --> 01:09:13,232
We belong together because we're
both weak and can't seem to help it.
1085
01:09:14,692 --> 01:09:16,735
That's why I know
he's capable of murder.
1086
01:09:17,779 --> 01:09:19,404
He's like me.
1087
01:09:21,658 --> 01:09:23,575
No, dear, I didn't
1088
01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:25,827
but I thought of it.
1089
01:09:43,930 --> 01:09:47,182
Hello? Yes. Yes.
1090
01:09:47,725 --> 01:09:49,309
Oh, it's for you, Lieutenant.
1091
01:09:50,728 --> 01:09:52,312
Thank you, Bessie.
1092
01:09:52,939 --> 01:09:54,523
McPherson.
1093
01:09:56,150 --> 01:09:58,819
Yeah, I know.
Don't worry.
1094
01:09:58,945 --> 01:10:01,071
I told you I'd bring in
the killer today.
1095
01:10:02,782 --> 01:10:04,992
Yeah. I was just gonna
make the arrest when you called.
1096
01:10:06,327 --> 01:10:08,704
No, I can't tell you now.
I'm not alone.
1097
01:10:10,665 --> 01:10:12,291
You'll see when I come in.
1098
01:10:13,167 --> 01:10:14,751
Right. See you later.
1099
01:10:35,189 --> 01:10:36,440
All right. Let's go.
1100
01:10:37,066 --> 01:10:38,567
- You mean...
- Yeah.
1101
01:10:38,735 --> 01:10:40,402
Oh, no!
1102
01:10:42,363 --> 01:10:44,740
No. No, no.
1103
01:10:44,991 --> 01:10:46,658
Not Miss Hunt.
1104
01:10:47,035 --> 01:10:48,660
Please!
1105
01:10:50,163 --> 01:10:51,747
Thank you, Bessie.
1106
01:10:54,042 --> 01:10:55,417
Thank you.
1107
01:10:56,669 --> 01:10:59,254
Now will you please be good enough
to go and get me my things?
1108
01:11:00,173 --> 01:11:02,174
- Yes, miss.
- Laura.
1109
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,511
Don't worry, darling.
Let them accuse you.
1110
01:11:07,013 --> 01:11:08,555
We'll fight them.
1111
01:11:08,931 --> 01:11:12,809
I have every weapon,
money, connections, prestige.
1112
01:11:13,019 --> 01:11:14,353
And my column.
1113
01:11:14,437 --> 01:11:17,773
Every day, millions will read about you
and rally to your defense.
1114
01:11:17,857 --> 01:11:20,567
You talk as if you wanted
to see her tried for murder.
1115
01:11:20,693 --> 01:11:25,822
Yes. Rather than let you blacken
her name with suspicions and rumors.
1116
01:11:26,491 --> 01:11:28,283
Try to prove her guilty.
1117
01:11:28,368 --> 01:11:31,119
Get on the witness stand
with your poor shreds of evidence.
1118
01:11:31,537 --> 01:11:34,373
I'll expose your cheap methods
you used on her.
1119
01:11:35,958 --> 01:11:38,919
- Thank you, Bessie.
- Laura, I told you to watch out for this fella.
1120
01:11:39,003 --> 01:11:41,213
- Can we go now?
- I warned you.
1121
01:11:43,508 --> 01:11:46,551
It's too bad you didn't
open that door Friday night, Carpenter.
1122
01:11:46,761 --> 01:11:49,346
- Wait a minute.
- Shelby!
1123
01:11:52,308 --> 01:11:53,975
Oh, did he hurt you, darling?
1124
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:56,561
Darling.
1125
01:11:58,106 --> 01:11:59,606
Ann.
1126
01:12:03,861 --> 01:12:05,362
Come in.
1127
01:12:06,614 --> 01:12:08,198
Sit down.
1128
01:12:09,701 --> 01:12:11,576
- That'll be all, Gallagher.
- Yes, sir.
1129
01:12:15,248 --> 01:12:19,418
All right. Let's have it.
Look at me.
1130
01:12:21,754 --> 01:12:24,172
What are you trying to do,
force a confession out of me?
1131
01:12:24,257 --> 01:12:26,800
You've been holding out,
and I want to know why.
1132
01:12:26,884 --> 01:12:28,719
It'll be easier for you
if you tell the truth.
1133
01:12:30,388 --> 01:12:32,806
What difference
does it make what I say?
1134
01:12:32,890 --> 01:12:35,058
You've made up your mind
I'm guilty.
1135
01:12:35,143 --> 01:12:38,937
- Are you?
- Don't tell me you have any doubts.
1136
01:12:39,021 --> 01:12:41,690
Since you...
Oh, I can't.
1137
01:12:41,774 --> 01:12:43,942
Please. Do I have to have
those lights in my face?
1138
01:12:50,283 --> 01:12:54,369
Thanks. No, I didn't
kill Diane Redfern
1139
01:12:55,037 --> 01:12:56,288
or anyone else.
1140
01:12:57,874 --> 01:13:00,375
Then why...
1141
01:13:00,460 --> 01:13:03,712
Why did you tell me the radio
at your country place was broken?
1142
01:13:03,796 --> 01:13:06,047
- Because it was broken.
- Not when I tried it.
1143
01:13:06,132 --> 01:13:08,967
Just as I was leaving the village,
I asked the local handyman to fix it.
1144
01:13:09,051 --> 01:13:10,510
How did he get in?
1145
01:13:10,595 --> 01:13:13,013
I always leave a key under the flowerpot
on the porch.
1146
01:13:13,639 --> 01:13:18,226
You're too intelligent to make up
something I could check so easily
1147
01:13:18,311 --> 01:13:23,148
but you're intelligent enough to have
broken it yourself to strengthen your story.
1148
01:13:23,274 --> 01:13:24,232
The main thing I want to know is
1149
01:13:24,317 --> 01:13:27,027
why you pulled that switch on me
about Carpenter.
1150
01:13:27,153 --> 01:13:30,697
You told me last night
you decided not to marry him.
1151
01:13:30,782 --> 01:13:35,118
- Yes, I guess I did.
- But today it was on again. Why?
1152
01:13:35,203 --> 01:13:39,456
Well,
I changed my mind.
1153
01:13:39,540 --> 01:13:44,002
What are you trying to hide? Don't you
realize you're involved in a murder?
1154
01:13:44,086 --> 01:13:46,963
You've got yourself in a jam it's not
going to be easy to get out of,
1155
01:13:47,048 --> 01:13:49,090
unless you're on the level
with me.
1156
01:13:49,175 --> 01:13:51,676
This is no time for secrets.
1157
01:13:51,761 --> 01:13:53,887
Now, did you really decide
to call it off
1158
01:13:53,971 --> 01:13:57,557
or did you just tell me that because
you knew I wanted to hear it?
1159
01:14:02,021 --> 01:14:05,148
What went on between you and Carpenter
when you saw him last night?
1160
01:14:05,274 --> 01:14:07,359
Did he persuade you to make up?
1161
01:14:08,986 --> 01:14:11,196
Or did you agree
to pretend you had?
1162
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:14,491
- Was that it?
- Well, we... That is, both of us thought...
1163
01:14:14,575 --> 01:14:17,369
He convinced you that if you
broke the engagement now,
1164
01:14:17,453 --> 01:14:19,996
people would think
you believed he was guilty.
1165
01:14:20,081 --> 01:14:23,583
Yes, but now I know it was only
because he thought I was.
1166
01:14:23,793 --> 01:14:26,795
- Did you believe he was guilty?
- No. I'm sure he isn't.
1167
01:14:26,879 --> 01:14:29,798
But he'd gotten himself
into an awfully suspicious position
1168
01:14:29,882 --> 01:14:33,134
and he's the sort of man that people are
always ready to believe the worst about.
1169
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:36,721
Are you in love with him?
1170
01:14:41,227 --> 01:14:43,061
I don't see how
I ever could have been.
1171
01:14:47,775 --> 01:14:49,526
Come on.
You're going home.
1172
01:14:51,988 --> 01:14:54,906
- But I thought I was...
- That's what I wanted you to think.
1173
01:14:55,825 --> 01:14:59,035
You and a few others.
I didn't even book you.
1174
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:01,329
You mean this was
some sort of a game?
1175
01:15:01,414 --> 01:15:04,332
I was 99% certain about you
1176
01:15:04,417 --> 01:15:06,751
but I had to get rid of
that one percent doubt.
1177
01:15:06,836 --> 01:15:09,921
Wasn't there
an easier way to make sure?
1178
01:15:10,006 --> 01:15:13,425
I'd reached a point
where I needed official surroundings.
1179
01:15:16,095 --> 01:15:17,596
Then it was worth it, Mark.
1180
01:15:21,100 --> 01:15:22,517
I'll call a cab for you.
1181
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:38,325
Good night.
I'll see you tomorrow.
1182
01:15:38,409 --> 01:15:39,618
Good night, Mark.
1183
01:15:41,621 --> 01:15:43,622
I'm going over
to Lydecker's apartment.
1184
01:17:06,747 --> 01:17:08,790
It still doesn't
make sense to me, Laura.
1185
01:17:08,916 --> 01:17:11,084
He's playing some sort
of a game with you.
1186
01:17:11,752 --> 01:17:14,587
- I don't think so.
- I don't deny that he's infatuated with you
1187
01:17:14,672 --> 01:17:17,340
in some warped way of his own.
1188
01:17:17,967 --> 01:17:21,553
But he isn't capable of any normal,
warm human relationship.
1189
01:17:22,054 --> 01:17:25,015
He's been dealing
with criminals too long.
1190
01:17:27,143 --> 01:17:29,477
When you were unattainable,
when he thought you were dead,
1191
01:17:29,770 --> 01:17:31,354
that's when he wanted you most.
1192
01:17:31,439 --> 01:17:33,440
But he was glad
when I came back
1193
01:17:33,524 --> 01:17:35,525
as if he were waiting for me.
1194
01:17:35,693 --> 01:17:38,903
Do you know what
he calls women? "Dames."
1195
01:17:39,071 --> 01:17:42,407
A "dame" in Washington Heights
got a fox fur out of him.
1196
01:17:42,616 --> 01:17:45,785
- His very words.
- That doesn't mean anything.
1197
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:47,746
He isn't like that.
1198
01:17:48,539 --> 01:17:50,415
Laura, you have
one tragic weakness.
1199
01:17:51,417 --> 01:17:54,502
With you, a lean, strong body
is the measure of a man
1200
01:17:54,587 --> 01:17:56,171
and you always get hurt.
1201
01:17:58,215 --> 01:18:00,133
No man is ever
going to hurt me again.
1202
01:18:00,885 --> 01:18:03,011
No one, not even you.
1203
01:18:03,971 --> 01:18:06,848
I? Hurt you?
1204
01:18:07,266 --> 01:18:09,392
Laura, look at me.
1205
01:18:11,937 --> 01:18:15,023
When a man has everything
in the world that he wants,
1206
01:18:15,107 --> 01:18:18,276
except what he wants most,
1207
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,403
he loses his self-respect.
1208
01:18:20,780 --> 01:18:22,614
It makes him bitter, Laura.
1209
01:18:23,783 --> 01:18:26,534
He wants to hurt someone
as he's been hurt.
1210
01:18:28,662 --> 01:18:32,040
You were a long time
in finding out about Shelby,
1211
01:18:32,291 --> 01:18:35,085
but that's over now.
1212
01:18:36,378 --> 01:18:38,213
We'll be back together again.
1213
01:18:40,174 --> 01:18:43,551
Haven't you heard of science's
newest triumph, the doorbell?
1214
01:18:45,262 --> 01:18:46,721
I don't like to remind her.
1215
01:18:48,974 --> 01:18:53,770
- That was the murderer's signal.
- Did you eavesdrop too? I hope.
1216
01:18:53,854 --> 01:18:57,315
I thought you'd like to know. We
tested your shotgun. It isn't the one.
1217
01:18:57,983 --> 01:19:00,360
Now, that's what I call
a typical move,
1218
01:19:00,444 --> 01:19:02,946
a real key
to the man's character.
1219
01:19:03,572 --> 01:19:05,865
First he tells you that
he thinks you're innocent,
1220
01:19:05,991 --> 01:19:08,034
then proceeds
to check up on you.
1221
01:19:08,119 --> 01:19:10,161
When I report that I think
she's innocent,
1222
01:19:10,287 --> 01:19:12,455
that's my own personal opinion.
1223
01:19:12,540 --> 01:19:15,125
When I submit proof, it becomes
the opinion of the department.
1224
01:19:15,334 --> 01:19:18,002
This entire maneuver could be a trick
to get you off your guard.
1225
01:19:18,087 --> 01:19:19,754
It could be, but it isn't.
1226
01:19:19,839 --> 01:19:23,591
- I believe you, Mark.
- It's the same obvious pattern, Laura.
1227
01:19:24,135 --> 01:19:27,679
If McPherson weren't muscular and
handsome in a cheap sort of way,
1228
01:19:27,805 --> 01:19:29,597
you'd see through him
in a second.
1229
01:19:29,849 --> 01:19:33,101
Waldo, I mean to be
as kind about this as I know how
1230
01:19:33,185 --> 01:19:37,939
but I must tell you, you're the one who
follows the same obvious pattern.
1231
01:19:38,023 --> 01:19:39,941
First it was Jacoby, then Shelby.
And now I suppose...
1232
01:19:40,025 --> 01:19:41,192
- Laura, I...
- I don't think
1233
01:19:41,277 --> 01:19:42,652
we should see each other again.
1234
01:19:42,736 --> 01:19:46,781
- You're not yourself, darling.
- Yes, I am.
1235
01:19:46,866 --> 01:19:49,868
For the first time in ages,
I know what I'm doing.
1236
01:19:52,663 --> 01:19:54,914
Very well.
1237
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:57,584
I hope you'll never regret
what promises to be
1238
01:19:57,668 --> 01:20:00,044
a disgustingly
earthy relationship.
1239
01:20:02,214 --> 01:20:03,840
My congratulations, McPherson.
1240
01:20:05,050 --> 01:20:07,385
Listen to my broadcast
in 15 minutes.
1241
01:20:08,387 --> 01:20:10,722
I'm discussing
great lovers of history.
1242
01:20:31,952 --> 01:20:34,996
It was the most difficult thing
I ever had to do in my whole life.
1243
01:20:36,290 --> 01:20:38,166
All I need is the gun.
1244
01:20:43,005 --> 01:20:44,297
What are you doing?
1245
01:20:44,381 --> 01:20:46,341
Do you know the combination
to this thing?
1246
01:20:47,259 --> 01:20:50,970
- I never knew it had one.
- It must be somewhere. Oh.
1247
01:21:02,775 --> 01:21:05,610
- Have you ever seen this before?
- No.
1248
01:21:06,946 --> 01:21:08,446
Waldo gave you that clock,
didn't he?
1249
01:21:10,032 --> 01:21:11,532
Yes.
1250
01:21:13,035 --> 01:21:15,161
The doorbell rang
1251
01:21:15,371 --> 01:21:18,206
and Diane Redfern
went to the door in your negligee.
1252
01:21:19,792 --> 01:21:23,127
She opened the door.
The room was dark.
1253
01:21:24,797 --> 01:21:27,757
Waldo saw a girl standing there,
and he assumed it was you.
1254
01:21:28,968 --> 01:21:31,052
He figured that if
he couldn't have you himself,
1255
01:21:31,136 --> 01:21:32,971
he was gonna make sure
that nobody else did.
1256
01:21:33,097 --> 01:21:35,139
So he let her have it
1257
01:21:38,727 --> 01:21:40,812
with both barrels,
right in the face.
1258
01:21:43,065 --> 01:21:44,816
She fell here.
1259
01:21:45,985 --> 01:21:48,278
Waldo heard Shelby running
from the next room
1260
01:21:48,821 --> 01:21:51,197
so he hid
in the stairway outside.
1261
01:21:53,284 --> 01:21:56,077
Shelby was scared,
so he ran out as fast as he could.
1262
01:21:56,203 --> 01:21:58,997
Then Waldo came back
and placed the gun in that clock.
1263
01:22:01,542 --> 01:22:03,626
I knew it.
1264
01:22:03,961 --> 01:22:06,170
I've felt it
ever since I came back
1265
01:22:06,255 --> 01:22:08,673
but I didn't want
to believe it.
1266
01:22:08,966 --> 01:22:11,676
I couldn't make myself
believe that
1267
01:22:11,844 --> 01:22:14,012
Waldo was a murderer.
1268
01:22:14,638 --> 01:22:18,349
- Well, he is.
- He didn't really kill Diane Redfern.
1269
01:22:18,851 --> 01:22:20,768
- I killed her.
- What are you talking about?
1270
01:22:21,020 --> 01:22:25,690
But I did, Mark. I did as surely
as if I'd pulled the trigger myself.
1271
01:22:25,774 --> 01:22:27,525
That's nonsense.
Forget it.
1272
01:22:27,693 --> 01:22:31,612
No, Mark, I can't.
I'm as guilty as he is,
1273
01:22:31,739 --> 01:22:35,700
not for anything I did,
but for what I didn't do.
1274
01:22:37,411 --> 01:22:41,456
But I couldn't help myself.
I owed him too much.
1275
01:22:46,587 --> 01:22:48,963
I can understand that,
Laura,
1276
01:22:49,048 --> 01:22:50,965
but I can't understand why
you've tried so hard
1277
01:22:51,050 --> 01:22:52,717
to protect Shelby these last few days.
1278
01:22:52,801 --> 01:22:55,053
I was nearly frantic for fear
you'd arrest Shelby.
1279
01:22:55,220 --> 01:22:58,264
I knew he wasn't guilty.
He hasn't enough courage to kill a fly.
1280
01:22:58,390 --> 01:23:01,392
And Waldo was doing everything
he could to incriminate him.
1281
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:03,603
It was his way
of getting rid of Shelby,
1282
01:23:03,729 --> 01:23:05,271
just as he did Jacoby.
1283
01:23:08,734 --> 01:23:10,902
I must say, for a charming,
intelligent girl,
1284
01:23:10,986 --> 01:23:14,280
you've certainly surrounded yourself
with a remarkable collection of dopes.
1285
01:23:16,033 --> 01:23:18,826
Don't touch anything.
Fingerprints will be important.
1286
01:23:21,121 --> 01:23:22,789
I'll have the clock
picked up tomorrow.
1287
01:23:23,248 --> 01:23:25,291
- What are you going to do?
- Arrest Waldo.
1288
01:23:25,417 --> 01:23:28,086
- Mark.
- Can't be helped.
1289
01:23:34,468 --> 01:23:36,761
That's to make sure
you're not disturbed.
1290
01:23:37,262 --> 01:23:39,013
If the doorbell rings,
don't answer it.
1291
01:23:39,723 --> 01:23:42,308
- I'll phone you in the morning.
- Good night, Mark.
1292
01:23:43,644 --> 01:23:46,813
Get some sleep. Forget
the whole thing like a bad dream.
1293
01:25:39,218 --> 01:25:42,887
And thus,
as history has proved, love is eternal.
1294
01:25:44,014 --> 01:25:47,308
It has been the strongest motivation
for human actions
1295
01:25:47,392 --> 01:25:49,185
throughout centuries.
1296
01:25:49,561 --> 01:25:51,395
Love is stronger than life.
1297
01:25:52,231 --> 01:25:54,857
It reaches beyond
the dark shadow of death.
1298
01:25:56,568 --> 01:25:58,402
I close this evening's
broadcast
1299
01:25:58,529 --> 01:26:01,489
with some favorite lines
from Dowson.
1300
01:26:01,615 --> 01:26:03,699
Brief Life.
1301
01:26:05,327 --> 01:26:09,372
"They are not long,
the weeping and the laughter,
1302
01:26:09,540 --> 01:26:12,583
"love and desire
and hate.
1303
01:26:13,835 --> 01:26:16,045
"I think they have
no portion in us
1304
01:26:16,380 --> 01:26:18,256
"after we pass the gate."
1305
01:26:19,424 --> 01:26:22,718
- Who's tailing Lydecker?
- I was going to, when he came out.
1306
01:26:22,886 --> 01:26:25,763
- He left five minutes ago.
- He didn't come out this way.
1307
01:26:25,931 --> 01:26:28,266
Must've gone out the back way.
Come on. Let's check.
1308
01:26:29,685 --> 01:26:33,854
"They are
not long, the days of wine and roses.
1309
01:26:34,815 --> 01:26:38,985
"Out of a misty dream,
our path emerges for a while,
1310
01:26:39,111 --> 01:26:41,028
"then closes within a dream."
1311
01:26:43,323 --> 01:26:45,825
- That's the way it is, isn't it, Laura?
- Waldo!
1312
01:26:45,909 --> 01:26:48,369
You have
heard the voice of Waldo Lydecker
1313
01:26:48,453 --> 01:26:49,996
by electrical transcription.
1314
01:26:50,581 --> 01:26:54,458
Waldo, you've taken one life.
Isn't that enough?
1315
01:26:55,002 --> 01:26:58,296
The best part of myself,
that's what you are.
1316
01:26:59,339 --> 01:27:02,174
Do you think I'm going to leave it
to the vulgar pawing
1317
01:27:02,259 --> 01:27:05,428
of a second-rate detective
who thinks you're a dame?
1318
01:27:05,512 --> 01:27:08,264
Do you think I could bear the thought
of him holding you in his arms,
1319
01:27:08,348 --> 01:27:10,891
kissing you, loving you?
1320
01:27:11,977 --> 01:27:14,312
Laura! It's Mark.
Open the door!
1321
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:16,147
- There he is now.
- Laura!
1322
01:27:16,440 --> 01:27:19,442
He'll find us together, Laura,
1323
01:27:19,901 --> 01:27:23,154
as we always have been, as we always
should be, as we always will be.
1324
01:27:31,246 --> 01:27:33,164
Mark!
1325
01:27:44,343 --> 01:27:45,676
Good-bye, Laura.
1326
01:27:55,395 --> 01:27:58,189
Good-bye, my love.