0:01:19 > 0:01:22Just drive down State Street. I'll tell you where later.
0:01:22 > 0:01:26- Alice, can't you at least tell me where you're going?- It's business, darling. Don't worry.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30I'll either call you, or be back for half past ten.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Give me Miss Markham, please, Alice Markham.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53No, Markham, Markham, M like in... Like in Minneapolis!
0:01:56 > 0:01:58That's absurd! She couldn't have checked out, I was...
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Hello? Hello?
0:02:06 > 0:02:09BUZZER RINGS
0:02:10 > 0:02:12- Telegram, Mr Windsor. - Oh, thank you.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28That was in Chicago, over a year ago.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31It's driving me crazy, Dal.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35I can't find a trace of her anywhere, and I've got to find her. I won't believe she's dead.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38She's probably married, has settled down, and has eight kids by now.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Oh, I beg your pardon, that was only a year ago.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Oh, be serious, Dal. I'm asking for help.
0:02:42 > 0:02:46There's nothing doing. I've got enough trouble with my own women.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48- No cocktails, Swayne! - No, sir?- No.
0:02:48 > 0:02:49Very good, sir.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Don't you understand that I'm still in love with her?
0:02:52 > 0:02:54But, Tim, I'm not a detective, and I don't want to be.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57I'm a lawyer, a very good one. Just because I happen to have more fun solving
0:02:57 > 0:02:59cases than trying them, my friends seem to think
0:02:59 > 0:03:03I'm a combination of Charlie Chan, Philo Vance, and the Sphinx, all rolled into one.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07But you help so many people out of scrapes, that's the least you could do for a friend.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12If, in my communings with the spirits, astral or liquid,
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I receive any message or omen, I'll let you know, how's that?
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Thanks, Dal.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19- What makes you think she's in New York?- I don't know.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23It seems to me that if I want to lose myself, New York would be the easiest place to do it in.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26You've been reading too much of O Henry.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29I said no cocktails, Swayne, you know we're dining at the Quarries.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Yes, quite, but if I might suggest...
0:03:33 > 0:03:38- We're having cocktails, Tim. - Yes, I think it best.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40The gin at the Quarries is not... Authentic.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Thank you, Swayne.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Why the third glass?
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Miss Mantin phoned, sir, and said that she'd stop for you on her way to the Quarries.
0:03:50 > 0:03:51I was afraid of that.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54You'll like this kid, Tim, she's quite a character.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56I've known her since she was ten.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58She ran away from home when she was 11.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00They found her in my apartment.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02She announced that she had decided to marry me.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06- Be careful of her.- You could go a lot further and do a lot worse.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Mr Tennant is returning your call.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10Hello, Tennant.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14I thought we had agreed that my name was not
0:04:14 > 0:04:16to appear in your column any more.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19- Your name is news, Dalzell. - I never bit a dog in my life.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22And I don't want my name in your column again,
0:04:22 > 0:04:24- is that understood?- Wait a minute.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28- Mary, get the Mantin story. Hold the line, will you?- All right.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33- Hello, Swayne. Hi, Dal. - Hiya, madam.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36- Donna Mantin, Tim Winthrop. - How do you do.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41Delighted to meet any friend of Dal's. You must come and see us often when we are married.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45Tim, the woman is a shameless hussy and a fact distorter.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50- Have a drink.- Thanks.- Yes, I'm still here.- Here's my lead for tomorrow.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51"Bad news for New York debutantes.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53"Clay Dalzell will quit playing the field
0:04:53 > 0:04:55"and be led to the altar by Donna Mantin."
0:04:57 > 0:05:01- Where'd you get that?- Some dame called up and gave it to me. Is it true?- Wait a minute.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07- Did you tell Tommy Tennant that we were going to be married? - Certainly.- Hmm.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Well, you can't get ruled off for trying.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- There's not a word of truth in it. - OK, then I can use this.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19"Donna Mantin, wealthy young socialite, was seen having tea
0:05:19 > 0:05:22"with Jim Kinland, alleged public enemy number three, yesterday afternoon.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24"What does this TNT for two mean?"
0:05:25 > 0:05:27You can't print that.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30- Why not? - Because I'll trade you a better one.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Well, listen to this anyway.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38Your hunch about my connection with the van Heusen divorce case is right.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41You're a white man, Dalzell. The story's dead.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44- Anything else on your mind? - Yes.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Cut your throat.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Honourable ending to a risky career.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53- Swayne, more cocktails. - And make them strong!
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Dal, may I have a few words with you, privately?
0:05:57 > 0:06:00If you'll excuse us, Tim. The lady has no manners.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Well?
0:06:12 > 0:06:17- Dal, I need help. I'm in a jam.- I know. Kinland.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21- How did you know about that? - Tennant. I just managed to kill the story.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Keep on, you'll get yourself splashed all over the front pages.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26I know, I should have thought about that.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29How about starting to do a little thinking now?
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Well, that's just what I am doing. You see... There are some letters.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Oh. I get it.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Good old Dal, he can get the letters back from a nasty gunman,
0:06:37 > 0:06:39and get killed doing it, probably.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41- No you won't, Dal, you're too smart.- Yes?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44If I were, I'd boot you out of here right now,
0:06:44 > 0:06:46let you do your own worrying about your letters.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Dal... Please.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Hmm.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54Mind you, if I do go into this, I'm only doing it
0:06:54 > 0:06:56because of your mother.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58She's a nice woman.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Must be terrible for a woman to have a daughter like you.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02My mother just adores me.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04It would be more to the point if she spanked you.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- I've a mind to do it myself. - Well, this will be new.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- You asked for it.- Hey! That hurt.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19- He really does love me. He just kicked me.- A sure sign.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Oh, and Swayne... Get Mr Kinland on the phone for me, will you?
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- Mr Jim Kinland, sir? - That's right.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Don't you think Dal ought to marry me, Mr Winthrop? I have lots of money.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32And I'd have lots of headaches.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Always belittling.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Why don't you tell the man the truth?
0:07:36 > 0:07:39When I was ten and he had a moustache, he said I was a sweetheart
0:07:39 > 0:07:40and he'd wait for me to grow up.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42- Now...- I shaved off the moustache.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Mr Kinland is not at home, sir.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Would you leave word for him to call me as soon as he comes in?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Either at the Quarries or the Prince Theatre, later.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56- I'll leave my seat number at the box office.- Are we going to the theatre?
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- Yes, ma'am. Tim, have you seen this Mary Smith?- No, but I want to.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02- Does she wear that mask all the time?- Well, I don't know...
0:08:02 > 0:08:04They say she's never seen around the theatre without it.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07After the show she just disappears into the night.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Now there's something to conjure with.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13A woman like that captures the imagination. Mysterious...
0:08:13 > 0:08:14Mysterious, my eye.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Your masked marvel probably has a wart on the end of her nose.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Meow.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21To the mysterious Mary Smith.
0:08:53 > 0:08:54Kinland?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58- My apologies to the hostess. - Oh, Dal, don't go.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01I didn't realise what I was asking. Stay here.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02My love to Mary Smith.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Tell her I went to my death with a smile on my face.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13I tell you, Ohlman, I can do you a lot of good...
0:09:13 > 0:09:17- You're in bad company, Abe. - Hiya, Dalzell.- How's business?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Capacity, night after night.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23That Smith girl is something every producer dreams about.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26If it wasn't for these newspaper fellows coming in asking foolish
0:09:26 > 0:09:30questions all the time, well, we know something that they don't know.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31Clay!
0:09:34 > 0:09:39- Well, bless me! Jerry!- You haven't forgotten me?- What do you mean?
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- You've heard me speak of Clay Dalzell, dear?- Yes, how do you do.
0:09:42 > 0:09:47- How do you do, Mr Burton? Oh, no, - my dear. I divorced Mr Burton four years ago.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51- Since then, I have been Mrs Crandall. - Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr Crandall.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53No. I'm now Mrs Classon. This is Mr Classon.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- Oh!- Don't be embarrassed, Mr Dalzell,
0:09:57 > 0:10:00I run into that sort of thing all the time.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Well!
0:10:03 > 0:10:06- And Dalzell never turned a hair. - Why should he?
0:10:06 > 0:10:10- That's Roger Classon, the Chicago lawyer, and his wife.- Well?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12- She and Dalzell were once...- Oh...
0:10:12 > 0:10:16- We're at the King Charles. Do look us up.- I'll do that.- Good night.
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Good night, Jerry.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20- Good night.- Good night, Mr Classon. Er, Klanndel.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33- All right?- Very good, sir. I'll tell Mr Kinland you're here.- Thank you.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47- Are you Mr Dalzell?- Yes. - I'm Jimmy Kinland, how do you do?
0:10:47 > 0:10:49What's on your mind?
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Miss Mantin asked me to get some letters from you.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Beat it.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00- When I get the letters.- Beat it, I said while you're still healthy.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Very well.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Oh, and by the way, there was
0:11:04 > 0:11:07something funny that I wanted to ask you about.
0:11:07 > 0:11:12In 1929, you made a total gross income tax return of 65,000.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18- What's that to you? - But you were given one cheque and loan for 120,000.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22Actual total gross income, 970,000.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25How many pennies am I off the exact figure?
0:11:39 > 0:11:42TURNS ON RADIO
0:11:44 > 0:11:48- The radio is awfully loud. - I want it that way.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50Where did you get that tax bill?
0:11:50 > 0:11:54From the man who paid you the 120,000.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56The cancelled cheque is in my safety deposit box,
0:11:56 > 0:12:00where the police will find it if anything happens to me.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04That cheque is six years old. Why'd you hold out till now?
0:12:04 > 0:12:12- I'm not a federal man. - How much do you want?- The letters.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18TURNS DOWN RADIO
0:12:21 > 0:12:24There's lots of things we don't like that we have to take.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26The reason I'm alive today is
0:12:26 > 0:12:29because I'm smart enough to know when to take it.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- Here you are.- Thank you. Good night. - Oh, wait a minute.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36- What about the cheque? - I'll keep that, if you don't mind. You can trust me.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40- It ain't exactly business, is it? - Strictly business.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43That cheque is the lock that keeps the Mantin matter a closed book.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45And we closed it just in time.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48I had to stop Tennant from printing a story about you and the lady.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50He's too nosy, that guy. Maybe he ought to be rubbed out.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Isn't that sort of thing against the law?
0:12:54 > 0:12:56'Flash from the News Radio Bureau!
0:12:56 > 0:12:58'The Prince Theatre tonight was thrown into confusion
0:12:58 > 0:13:00'after the first act when Mary Smith,
0:13:00 > 0:13:02'the star of Midnight, suddenly disappeared.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04'We will now return to Nick Price and his orchestra.'
0:13:04 > 0:13:06Well, there's a story for Tennant.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09The mysterious Mary Smith disappeared, or kidnapped, maybe.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12- What do you know about that? - I don't know anything about it!
0:13:12 > 0:13:14I was here all night, and I can prove it.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17My friend, the question was purely academic. Good night.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Sleep tight.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Swayne!
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Swayne? I want a drink.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29BUZZER RINGS
0:13:29 > 0:13:32Swayne! Someone at the door.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Hmm. Very sorry, Mr Dalzell. I'll attend to it immediately. Dal!
0:13:39 > 0:13:42- I found her, I found her!- Good.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45But it's a worse mess than ever, she's disappeared again.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48My boy, you're not in love with a girl, you've fallen for a card trick.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- But you don't understand! Alice is Mary Smith. - And you're Mahatma Gandhi.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54- And there's the brandy, how's that? - But she is, Dal, she is!
0:13:54 > 0:13:56I realised it the moment she stood on stage.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58The minute I saw her I shouted, "Alice!"
0:13:58 > 0:14:00That must've helped the show along. Did she see you?
0:14:00 > 0:14:04She must have, she got all upset, she had to start her number over again. No, thanks.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06After the act was over, I rushed backstage to see her.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08- She'd already gone?- Yes.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11People were chasing each other round, detectives, newspapermen, and
0:14:11 > 0:14:16someone spotted me as the fella that had shouted "Alice!", so I beat it.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Timothy...
0:14:18 > 0:14:22I can't work out a jigsaw puzzle if you're going to keep some of the pieces in your pocket.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24What do you mean?
0:14:24 > 0:14:28I mean that you haven't told me all you know, or at least suspect,
0:14:28 > 0:14:30about her disappearance from Chicago.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Now, how about it, do I get the other pieces?
0:14:35 > 0:14:36Well, I...
0:14:36 > 0:14:38BUZZER RINGS
0:14:38 > 0:14:41- Could anyone have followed you? - I don't know.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Perhaps you better go into my den and wait.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50Right.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02- Ah, brother Tennant. - Where's Winthrop?
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Well, if it's off the record,
0:15:04 > 0:15:06he was at the Prince Theatre seeing Midnight.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10There isn't anyone seeing Midnight. The Smith girl has disappeared.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13- No...- Disappeared and given me the greatest story a newspaperman ever had.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16- Have a drink.- Thanks.
0:15:16 > 0:15:17How's this for a set-up?
0:15:17 > 0:15:19The show was going on, lights blazing, music blaring,
0:15:19 > 0:15:22the girls dancing their heads off. Smith makes her entrance.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24A guy in a side row jumps up and yells, "Alice!"
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Smith almost drops in her tracks. She has to start all over again.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30A guy races up the aisle and through the lobby and I'm right behind him,
0:15:30 > 0:15:32and what's more, I stay right behind him.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35I tell you, Dalzell, this is sheer drama.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38- That girl had to wear a mask. - And it wasn't just publicity?- No.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40In your wildest dreams, you could never imagine the real reason.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43This is the story of the year, and I'm cracking it.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47That's swell, but where do I come in?
0:15:47 > 0:15:50I'm going to play ball with you, and I want you to play ball with me.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53I'll tell you everything I know, but you've got to do the same.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Yes, but I don't know anything.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59OK, I'll take a chance. Look, I trailed this guy and picked up plenty.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Mary Smith is not really Mary Smith.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05Her name is Alice Morecambe, she comes from a little jerkwater town in Ohio.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09She disappeared from Chicago about a year ago, just as completely as she did tonight.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Tennant, I apologise. You're good.
0:16:11 > 0:16:12Where'd you pick up all this?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14That's nothing.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17I found out the greatest double-cross that's ever been pulled.
0:16:17 > 0:16:18This guy was pretending to...
0:16:18 > 0:16:21GUNSHOTS
0:16:46 > 0:16:47Tim.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Tim?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16DOOR RATTLES QUIETLY
0:17:21 > 0:17:26Stick 'em up! Higher! Turn around!
0:17:29 > 0:17:32- What's the matter, sir?- Where have you been?- To the theatre, sir.
0:17:32 > 0:17:37- Explain here.- What happened, sir? - Tommy Tennant's been shot.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Some brandy, Swayne.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Never mind, Swayne.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07- Get me police headquarters, please. - Are you hurt, sir?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09- Only grazed, I think.- Who did it?
0:18:11 > 0:18:13I don't know.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17Let me have Inspector Doremus, please.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19PHONE RINGS
0:18:19 > 0:18:22"Acme Arch Supporters will give tired feet new life,
0:18:22 > 0:18:27"and take away the pain almost immediately, or your money back."
0:18:27 > 0:18:29PHONE RINGS
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Inspector Doremus.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37Huh? Murder? What's that address?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Yeah. Yeah.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Now listen, don't touch a thing. I'll be right over.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52- Can you picture that? Tommy Tennant's been plugged. - Tommy Tennant?- Yeah.- Whew.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54I want you to go to Tommy Tennant's office at The Star,
0:18:54 > 0:18:56start pumping his secretary,
0:18:56 > 0:18:59and find out everything about him since he cut his first tooth!
0:18:59 > 0:19:00He's been bumped off.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Franklin, you go with them.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04Your job is to find out where he was, what he did,
0:19:04 > 0:19:06every minute of the day until the murder.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09Brady and Jones, snoop around Tennant's apartment and see what you can see.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Now, beat it, all of you! Wait a minute, Lewis.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Cleary, come with me to Clay Dalzell's, that's where the body is.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Get Barry to come along for fingerprints and also notify the coroner's office.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- OK, Inspector.- And Lewis? You are to go to 125 West 34th Street
0:19:21 > 0:19:23- and get me a pair of Acme Arch Supporters.- Right.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29- OK, I don't think the hip will trouble you a bit.- Good.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32- I'm very much obliged to you, Doctor.- You're welcome.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36- Just a few more questions, Mr Dalzell.- So long, Doc.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37See you at the inquest.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41- Good night, Doctor.- Good night. Good night, gentlemen.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43You're something of a criminologist, ain't ya?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Well, I've read all of Edgar Wallace.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48Doesn't it strike you as kind of funny that the murderer
0:19:48 > 0:19:50left his gun behind?
0:19:50 > 0:19:54- Do murderers usually do that? - This one did.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56- Are you sure that ain't your gun? - Quite.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58My gun is in the cabinet beside my bed, where it always is.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00It had your fingerprints on it.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Naturally. I told you I picked it up.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06- You didn't like Tennant, did you? - Not particularly, no.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Ever have an argument with him?
0:20:08 > 0:20:12- Frequently.- What about? - Things he wrote in his column.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15- What was Tennant going to print in his column about you tomorrow?- Nothing.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17How do you know?
0:20:17 > 0:20:20- Because he told me so. - No, he didn't, he didn't do nothing of the kind.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Tell you why. You killed him before I had the chance to do it.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Ain't that it, Dalzell?
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Tennant came here to get a story confirmed. You denied him.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31He didn't believe you, said he was going to publish it anyhow.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32You had an argument. He wouldn't give in,
0:20:32 > 0:20:34and the only way you could stop him printing it
0:20:34 > 0:20:37was to murder him, ain't that what happened?
0:20:37 > 0:20:39You've got too much water in that one.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41- The tall one.- Say, what is this?
0:20:41 > 0:20:43A cross-examination or a band rehearsal?
0:20:43 > 0:20:45I beg your pardon, Sergeant.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Let's see, where were we? Oh, yes, I had just shot Tommy Tennant.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Well, Sergeant, to continue your interesting,
0:20:54 > 0:20:59if somewhat amusing theory, I suppose I shot myself in the hip.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Well, that ain't impossible, either.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Sergeant, you're right. That ain't impossible either.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07I'll take this, Swayne. Hello?
0:21:10 > 0:21:13- Where are you?- I'm in the Bronx, at a pay station. Are you all right?
0:21:13 > 0:21:16- Sure. How did you get there? - I don't know.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18I was in your den when suddenly, two men appeared.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Before I could cry out, they knocked me cold.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23When I woke up, I was in Van Cortlandt Park.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25You've been reading Scenarios.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33Listen, I'm... Awfully busy right now.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Really, I'd like to talk more, but I can't.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Oh, no, no, no, I...
0:21:39 > 0:21:43I wouldn't come up if I were you, it might be embarrassing for you. Just a minute.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47- Sergeant, don't you think you could hear better if you plugged that in?- Huh?
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Give me a ring sometime tomorrow. Or better still, I'll ring you.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01- Good night. - Who was that you was talking to?
0:22:01 > 0:22:04- No-one you know.- I'm afraid we'll have to know, Mr Dalzell.
0:22:04 > 0:22:09- This is a murder case.- I beg your pardon. You know Miss Donna Mantin?
0:22:09 > 0:22:12- Sure. I seen her picture in the Rotary Viewer.- You have nice taste.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Thanks.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15BUZZER RINGS
0:22:15 > 0:22:17You mean you was talking to Miss Mantin?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Sergeant, I bow to your powers of deduction.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Well, I guess that's all for tonight. Come on, Cleary.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26I'm sorry, Dal, I didn't know you had callers.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34Gentlemen, this is... Miss Mantin.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Inspector Doremus, Sergeant Cleary.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39- How do you do. Come on, Cleary. - How do you do.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Wait a minute. Did he say Mantin?
0:22:47 > 0:22:49Nice-looking girl, ain't she?
0:22:49 > 0:22:53- I ain't worrying about her looks. Dalzell lied.- Sure he lied.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56- Let's go back and grill them. - Look, Cleary, you're a good cop.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59- But you've got to be a lot smarter before you make a good detective. - What do you mean?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02You can't break him with words, words are his business, he's a lawyer.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06Now, just let him alone, and let him do the work for us. Come on.
0:23:07 > 0:23:12- All of which makes me a first-class murder suspect.- That's terrible.
0:23:12 > 0:23:17- Poor fella. And my walking in didn't help you any, either, did it?- No.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20However, I'll overlook that if you whip me up a little drink.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24- By the way, there are your letters. - Oh, thank you, Dal.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27- I'm really terribly grateful. - All right.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Don't let me catch you getting mixed up with such people again.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Who was really on the phone when I was supposed to be?
0:23:35 > 0:23:40- Well, I suppose I've got to mix my own drink. - Answer my question. Hello.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44Hello, Anita? You can quit worrying, I've got your letters.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45Oh, that's all right.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47How? Oh, it was very simple.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51But you get mixed up with any of that kind of foolishness again and I'm going to tell your husband.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53All right. Goodbye, dear.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56Ha-ha!
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Well, I went for that one, all right.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59No, no, Boy Scout, you did a good deed.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Somebody had to do something for the poor girl.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05Come on, who was really on the phone before?
0:24:05 > 0:24:07You know I take more whiskey than that.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Dal, I'm not asking to be curious, but don't you see, the police
0:24:13 > 0:24:16- have caught you in a lie and it may put you in a spot? - I'm already in a spot.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20- Sergeant Cleary insists that I killed Tennant.- Did you?
0:24:20 > 0:24:22No, Inspector, I did not.
0:24:22 > 0:24:28- Well, who did?- I don't know. I've got a hunch. But I'm not sure.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Say, this is swell! Home murder mysteries!
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Why go out for thrills when you can have them in your own parlour?
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Come on, who did it?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Where were you the night of the murder?
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Were you wearing a long black moustache?
0:24:39 > 0:24:42- Have you a strawberry mark on your left knee?- I refuse to testify.
0:24:42 > 0:24:47- Your hot water bottle, sir.- What's that for? Rheumatism?- Oh, no, Miss.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- He was shot in the...- Hip.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52- Well, why didn't you tell me? - Madam, this is my wound.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55- Swayne, lay out Mr Dalzell's pyjamas and fix the bed.- Yes, Miss.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59- Oh! And he better have a hot bath, too.- Yes, Miss.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01This is probably none of my business,
0:25:01 > 0:25:03but, just what do you think you're doing?
0:25:03 > 0:25:06- Staying here, to nurse you back to health.- Donna...
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Donna, this touches me.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15This is really as nice gesture as you could possibly make, I...
0:25:15 > 0:25:17I scarcely know how to thank you.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20- I'm almost nonplussed. - Where are we going?
0:25:20 > 0:25:24We're not going anywhere, you're going home! Ha-ha, good night, Madame!
0:25:24 > 0:25:28Dal! Dal, you big bully, I'll get even with you for this!
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Hey!
0:26:00 > 0:26:02Swayne!
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Orange juice. Coffee.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Don't spare the horses.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14DOOR OPENS
0:26:15 > 0:26:18Good morning. Or rather, good afternoon.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20What are you doing here?
0:26:20 > 0:26:23- I thought I kicked you out last night.- Oh, that's all right.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27We nurses are used to our patients' eccentricities. They often get violent.
0:26:27 > 0:26:31- Haven't you been home? Were you here all night?- Certainly.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34You know me, the Florence Nightingale of Park Avenue.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40How's your, um, shoulder?
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Splendid.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43How's yours?
0:26:43 > 0:26:46I guess I brought that on myself.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52- Which would you rather have first? Coffee or bandages?- Coffee.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57- What?- Two lumps of sugar and a dash of bitters... Oh, cream!
0:26:58 > 0:27:01What a sap you were, to sit up all night!
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Who sat up?
0:27:02 > 0:27:04I slept in Swayne's bed.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06What?
0:27:06 > 0:27:10Swayne tried the divan. He reports it's none too comfortable.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14Your parents will be utterly charmed by all this.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Oh, I told them I was here.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Good girl. Your father's probably on his way over here now.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22- Don't be vulgar. Drink your coffee - you'll need your strength.- Why?
0:27:22 > 0:27:25The police department awaits without.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27If you think I'm going to ask, "Without what...?"
0:27:27 > 0:27:32- All right, all right. Anyway, "without an idea" is the answer. - They been there long?
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Oh, yes. We've been discussing the murder.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38- I've convinced them that you're the guilty man.- That's nice of you.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Suppose you ask them to come in.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43You may come in, gentlemen. He's ready to confess.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Good morning, Inspector. Sergeant.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52- I must apologise for...- It's OK. We're in no hurry.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55We want to talk to Mr Dalzell in private.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56Oh, by all means.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01Swayne! We are not to be disturbed.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Now...
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Gentlemen, my head is never quite clear in the morning,
0:28:10 > 0:28:14or in the afternoon either for that matter, until I've had my shower. Do you mind?
0:28:14 > 0:28:17- You can ask questions there just as well?- OK.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20We can get everything cleaned up at once.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30All right, gentlemen, make yourselves at home.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33It's a swell bathroom you've got here.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36In my place, the tub and shower are all in one.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40- Those are very dangerous. You're likely to slip in the tub. - So I found out.
0:28:40 > 0:28:43We've been doing a little checking up.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46You'll have to speak a little louder, Inspector.
0:28:46 > 0:28:50- Saw quite a bit of Tennant last night, didn't you? - I thought we covered all that?- Yeah?
0:28:50 > 0:28:54How about admitting you were at the theatre with him?
0:28:54 > 0:28:56All right, I was at the theatre with him.
0:28:56 > 0:29:00Sergeant, do you mind passing me a cake of soap?
0:29:00 > 0:29:01Why didn't you tell us?
0:29:01 > 0:29:04I didn't think it mattered. ..Thank you.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08Say, what was in that note you got at the show last night
0:29:08 > 0:29:11just as the show started?
0:29:11 > 0:29:12I beg your pardon.
0:29:12 > 0:29:17- I've been belittling you. In my mind, I mean!- That's OK.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19- What did you say was in the note? - I didn't say.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22Come on, Dalzell. Who was it from?
0:29:22 > 0:29:24A friend of mine.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26- Sure it wasn't from Tennant?- What?
0:29:26 > 0:29:28- SHOUTS:- Sure it wasn't from Tennant?!
0:29:28 > 0:29:31You don't have to shout now. The water's off.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33- SHOUTS:- I know!
0:29:33 > 0:29:35- NORMAL VOICE:- I mean, I know...
0:29:36 > 0:29:39- Do you mind passing me a towel, please?- Sure.
0:29:39 > 0:29:43- No, the note was not from Tennant. - SHOUTS:- Sure it didn't...
0:29:43 > 0:29:47- NORMAL VOICE:- Sure it didn't tell you to leave the theatre and meet Tennant someplace?
0:29:47 > 0:29:51What would be the sense of that? You just told me I was talking with him AT the theatre.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55- I understand the show Midnight is a pretty swell show.- So I hear.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57- You ain't seen it, then?- No.
0:29:57 > 0:30:01- Why didn't you stay last night? - I thought I'd rather take a walk.
0:30:01 > 0:30:03That why you took a cab?
0:30:05 > 0:30:09You're quite right, Inspector. I have been lying to you.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Yes, I know. Most people do.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14Don't misunderstand me, Mr Dalzell. We ain't trying to trip you up.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17Frankly, I don't think you killed Tennant.
0:30:17 > 0:30:19But your fingerprints were on that gun.
0:30:19 > 0:30:23Unless you come clean, you're going to be hooked up with this murder.
0:30:23 > 0:30:28Inspector, what I'm refusing to tell you has no bearing on the murder of Tommy Tennant.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32Whether or not you choose to take my word for that is up to you.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34I guess I'll have to.
0:30:34 > 0:30:37However... Mind you, this may be of no help.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40- ..I have a theory.- What's that?
0:30:40 > 0:30:45That the murder of Tommy Tennant and the disappearance of Mary Smith are related.
0:30:45 > 0:30:49Oh, for Pete's sake! The disappearance of Mary Smith is a publicity stunt.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51We're working on a murder case!
0:30:51 > 0:30:54- Well, that's the only hunch I've got.- Thanks, anyway.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56- Come on, Cleary.- Goodbye, Inspector.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00- I'll be seeing you.- Oh, we'll be seeing each other. Often.
0:31:05 > 0:31:08- You know, I wonder...- What?
0:31:09 > 0:31:14I wonder what the Tennant killing and the Smith girl's disappearance did have to do with each other?
0:31:14 > 0:31:15Pardon.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20- See that guy?- Yes.
0:31:20 > 0:31:25He's going to have arch trouble in a couple of years, walking on his heels like that.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30Don't be so stubborn. What were they asking you?
0:31:30 > 0:31:32They wanted to know what you were doing here.
0:31:32 > 0:31:34And so do I.
0:31:34 > 0:31:36I could have told them that myself.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40- I have to see you! I couldn't stand it.- Oh, hello, Tim.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43- I had to find out what happened here last night. Was it true?- Hello.
0:31:43 > 0:31:49- Hello. ..Tell me what happened. Was it really...?- Nurse, how about a little tonic for your patient?
0:31:49 > 0:31:50When...?
0:31:52 > 0:31:53When.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00- Sure you're not trying to get rid of me?- Oh, Donna...
0:32:02 > 0:32:05Now, when Swayne leaves us, we'll be alone.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12Now, tell me what happened.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22CHIMING MUSIC PLAYS
0:32:24 > 0:32:28Why all the mystery? Why can't you tell me what happened?
0:32:28 > 0:32:32It's not usual for my guests to take pot shots at me
0:32:32 > 0:32:35and, frankly, I don't care for the custom.
0:32:35 > 0:32:40- Why don't you explain things? Don't you think you owe me the truth? - I have told you the truth.
0:32:50 > 0:32:51Now, listen, Tim.
0:32:51 > 0:32:55You're free, white and 21 - you can do as you choose.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58There's a fella investigating this case by the name of Doremus.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01Although he doesn't look it, he's as smart as a whip.
0:33:01 > 0:33:05Sooner or later, he's going to find out who was here when Tennant was killed.
0:33:05 > 0:33:09He's going to put two and two together and when he does, you're going to be the answer.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13Don't you think it'd be much better if you told me the truth?
0:33:13 > 0:33:15- Dal, I'd tell you...- What did you tell Tennant last night?
0:33:15 > 0:33:21- What are you talking about? I never spoke to Tennant in my life.- Why did you kill him?- I didn't kill him!
0:33:21 > 0:33:26I don't know anything about it. Dal, you don't think I'd take a shot at you?
0:33:28 > 0:33:30All right, me lad,
0:33:30 > 0:33:34you know, they say the weather is fine in Miami at this time of year.
0:33:34 > 0:33:38- Why don't you run down there for a while?- Why?
0:33:38 > 0:33:41- You should know the answer to that one.- I'm not going anywhere.
0:33:41 > 0:33:45I'm going to stay right here and find Alice Markham.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47All right, then.
0:33:47 > 0:33:48Good luck.
0:34:01 > 0:34:06- Alice, where art thou? - Did you ask something, sir?
0:34:06 > 0:34:09Oh, yes.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11Where is Mary Smith?
0:34:11 > 0:34:13I don't know, sir.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16Oh, of course you don't.
0:34:18 > 0:34:23It's obvious that there's some connection between the disappearance of Mary Smith
0:34:23 > 0:34:25and the murder of Tommy Tennant.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28But what does Tim Winthrop have to do with it all?
0:34:28 > 0:34:30If neither he nor Mary Smith is involved,
0:34:30 > 0:34:33- then why is he lying to me?- I...
0:34:33 > 0:34:35He said that he never spoke to Tommy Tennant in his life.
0:34:35 > 0:34:39Yet Tennant told me that just after Tim got up and shot at Alice,
0:34:39 > 0:34:44he left the theatre. Tennant followed and stumbled on a great story. Now, what's the answer?
0:34:44 > 0:34:49- Did Mr Tennant specifically say, sir, that he...- That's it!
0:34:49 > 0:34:51Swayne, that's it!
0:34:51 > 0:34:56Tennant didn't tell me that it was the same man. Tennant followed somebody else!
0:34:56 > 0:35:01- But that isn't what I was going to say, sir.- Don't quibble, Swayne. Donna! Donna.
0:35:01 > 0:35:02Coming, sire.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05We're going to solve the disappearance of Mary Smith
0:35:05 > 0:35:09- AND the murder of Tommy Tennant. How do you like that? - OK, Sherlock. Where do we begin?
0:35:09 > 0:35:14At the cab stand at the Prince Theatre. I want you to check up on all the cabs that left there
0:35:14 > 0:35:17between 9 and 10 o'clock. Find out who hired them and where they went.
0:35:17 > 0:35:21- Swayne. ..You got that clear, Watson?- On my way, Sherlock.- Swayne?
0:35:21 > 0:35:24- You want to be a detective?- No, sir. - That's fine.
0:35:24 > 0:35:29I want you to get Abe Ohlman on the phone and ask him to meet me at the King Charles Bar at 4 o'clock.
0:35:29 > 0:35:33Then go to the theatre and check how many men left there last night during the first act.
0:35:33 > 0:35:38- Who they were, where they went. Any other information you can get. Understand?- How do I do that?
0:35:38 > 0:35:40I haven't the faintest idea.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44Abe, where did you first meet her?
0:35:44 > 0:35:47- Did she come to you for a job? - She did not.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49I picked her up at the Club Rio.
0:35:49 > 0:35:51- Oh, she was singing there?- No...
0:35:51 > 0:35:54No, she wasn't. She was a guest.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56Alone, mind you. Out of a clear sky, she jumps up
0:35:56 > 0:35:59and begins singing while the orchestra's playing.
0:35:59 > 0:36:01And was she terrific!
0:36:01 > 0:36:04What, without being asked? Just got up and started to sing? Why?
0:36:04 > 0:36:06I found that out later.
0:36:06 > 0:36:07She was broke.
0:36:07 > 0:36:11She blew her last ten bucks on a bottle of Mumm's for one good fling.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13Well, that's not so bad.
0:36:13 > 0:36:17This mask business - did she wear it all the time?
0:36:17 > 0:36:19No. No, only on the stage.
0:36:19 > 0:36:21That was her idea.
0:36:21 > 0:36:23When I offered her a job, she insisted on that condition.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27- So you signed her up for buttons? - I thought I did.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30I gave her the usual minimum guarantee and a percentage.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33We haven't had an empty seat, so she's been drawing 1,500 bucks a week.
0:36:33 > 0:36:35Which isn't a bad figure.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37But...
0:36:37 > 0:36:39Pardon me.
0:36:39 > 0:36:41- Where did she bank?- Search me.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44She was paid in cash. She wouldn't take a cheque.
0:36:44 > 0:36:48- That doesn't get us anywhere. Did she have any friends?- I don't know.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51- Did she get any mail at the theatre? - Uh-uh.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57- Did she have any visitors there? - No, not what you'd call visitors.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00The only one who ever came to see her was Tennant.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02Tennant?
0:37:02 > 0:37:05I guess that was professional.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07That's interesting.
0:37:07 > 0:37:08Where did she live?
0:37:08 > 0:37:13- That's one thing I do know. At the Warman.- OK, you're improving. That's something, anyway.
0:37:13 > 0:37:16I'm sure glad you're interesting yourself in this business.
0:37:16 > 0:37:20- If there's one man in the world can find this girl, it's you.- Now... - On the level. Say,
0:37:20 > 0:37:25- didn't you find that Merrett girl when the rest of the world gave up? - That was luck.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Call it what you like, but please call me when you find her.
0:37:28 > 0:37:33- Another drink, Mr Dalzell?- Yes. Make it two. One for Miss Mantin.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35I'm in a disguise!
0:37:35 > 0:37:37So I see.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40You just wait till tomorrow.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43- I'm having some beautiful false whiskers made.- Yeah?
0:37:43 > 0:37:48- You're going to be a lot of help in this case. I thought you were checking taxis.- I did.
0:37:48 > 0:37:50The taxi business is picking up.
0:37:50 > 0:37:56It's... Wait a minute. ..20% better this month than it was this month last year.
0:37:56 > 0:37:57Isn't that splendid?
0:37:57 > 0:38:00I've been getting my information from Frankie Allen.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02He's number Y7229
0:38:02 > 0:38:05and is an interesting addition to any social group. Writes poetry.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08Listen to this.
0:38:08 > 0:38:10Life is what you make it
0:38:10 > 0:38:12You can't duck life You've got to take it
0:38:12 > 0:38:15It don't pay to frown You've got to grin
0:38:15 > 0:38:17And no matter what happens
0:38:17 > 0:38:19Just keep your chin...up
0:38:19 > 0:38:22And then you will find In this world full of strife
0:38:22 > 0:38:24You come out on the top
0:38:24 > 0:38:28In this...battle of life.
0:38:28 > 0:38:30Now, isn't that a lovely...
0:38:46 > 0:38:48eight sidecars, ten...
0:38:54 > 0:38:59There ain't nobody can come in Miss Smith's room now, the police are here.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02It's all right, Belinda. Mr Dalzell is a friend of the management.
0:39:02 > 0:39:06- He wants to look around a bit.- Yes, sir.- Thanks. I'll see you later.
0:39:10 > 0:39:14- The man from headquarters, where is he?- Ain't no he. It's a she.
0:39:14 > 0:39:17In there, looking at Miss Smith's clothes.
0:39:19 > 0:39:21All right, Watson. Come out.
0:39:23 > 0:39:25Well, what detained you?
0:39:25 > 0:39:27HE CHUCKLES
0:39:27 > 0:39:30- Any clues?- No, just clothes.
0:39:34 > 0:39:38- Are these all the clothes Miss Smith had?- Yes, sir. That's all.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42KNOCKING ON DOOR
0:39:42 > 0:39:43Police.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48Greetings, gentlemen.
0:39:49 > 0:39:52- Hello, Miss Mantin.- Hello, Inspector.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54Say, what are you doing here?
0:39:54 > 0:39:57- Abe Ohlman asked me to have a look around.- Oh.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59I am surprised to find you here.
0:39:59 > 0:40:03Oh, you're likely to run into me anywhere, Mr Dalzell.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06Evidently my theory about this case did interest you.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09No, the commissioner's got me running in circles.
0:40:09 > 0:40:13I was going great on the Tennant case when he asked me to find an angle on this case.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17- We've got a couple of questions for the maid.- Go right ahead.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20- We're just leaving. Come, Donna. - Goodbye, Inspector.- Goodbye.
0:40:20 > 0:40:24What do you make of all of this, Mr Holmes?
0:40:24 > 0:40:28Hey, I told you there was something phoney about this.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30Why did she call him Mr Holmes?
0:40:39 > 0:40:42King Charles Hotel.
0:40:48 > 0:40:52- Well...- Say, Inspector, you ain't taking this case serious enough.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55- That guy Dalzell... - He's doing all right, Cleary.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57He's doing all right!
0:40:57 > 0:41:01You question that maid and find out what he asked her.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Hey, where are you going?
0:41:04 > 0:41:09First, I'm going to drop Carford here at the King Charles Bar, to shadow Dalzell 24 hours a day
0:41:09 > 0:41:14and then I'm going to 125 West 34th Street to sock the guy on the nose who sold me these arch supporters -
0:41:14 > 0:41:16they're killing me! ..Go ahead.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27Make it to the King Charles Bar, 15 minutes.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30- Good afternoon.- Good afternoon.
0:41:30 > 0:41:35I'm interested in Mary Smith. Do you know anything about her?
0:41:35 > 0:41:37- Yes, sir.- That's fine. What?
0:41:47 > 0:41:53- She disappeared from the show last night after the first act.- No?
0:41:53 > 0:41:54Yes.
0:41:56 > 0:41:58Life is what you make it
0:41:58 > 0:42:01You can't duck life You've got to take it...
0:42:01 > 0:42:02That isn't all I know, sir.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04What else?
0:42:04 > 0:42:07Oh, I beg your pardon.
0:42:08 > 0:42:12She used to leave the hotel every morning. 7:45 exactly.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15And then walk over towards 5th Avenue.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17- Yes?- Yes.
0:42:17 > 0:42:19What else?
0:42:19 > 0:42:20That's all.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26You practically solved the disappearance(!)
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Practically.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36I beg your pardon.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38Keep your trap shut and keep moving.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42Get in the car.
0:42:55 > 0:42:57I got your invitation.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Sit down.
0:43:03 > 0:43:06Look, friend, I'm your pal.
0:43:06 > 0:43:09If you want me to see that you get a big funeral, OK,
0:43:09 > 0:43:11but give me the cheque first.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13What are you talking about?
0:43:13 > 0:43:16You're fooling around with some mighty tough people.
0:43:16 > 0:43:20- You?- Me? No! I'm one of the nicest fellas you ever met in your life.
0:43:20 > 0:43:25These boys are just taking care of you. But there's a couple of other guys on your trail
0:43:25 > 0:43:27that are different kinds of people.
0:43:27 > 0:43:28How do you know that?
0:43:28 > 0:43:31Look, Dalzell, let's you and me quit kidding each other.
0:43:31 > 0:43:35Didn't you say if anything happened to you, the law would get that cheque?
0:43:35 > 0:43:38Don't that mean that I gotta keep you healthy?
0:43:38 > 0:43:41Well, that's what me and my boys have been trying to do.
0:43:41 > 0:43:43But it ain't no cinch.
0:43:43 > 0:43:48You're running all over town sticking your nose into things that ain't none of your business.
0:43:48 > 0:43:50Such as...?
0:43:50 > 0:43:54Murders and, um, kidnappings.
0:43:56 > 0:43:57I see.
0:43:57 > 0:44:01- Who did you say these gentlemen following me were?- I didn't say.
0:44:01 > 0:44:04Hmm. They mixed up in the Tennant murder?
0:44:04 > 0:44:08Who do you figure will cut the pennant this year?
0:44:08 > 0:44:13- With the kind of team we've got, I don't think the other fellas stand a chance.- Don't be too sure.
0:44:13 > 0:44:16Just keep your nose clean, Dalzell.
0:44:16 > 0:44:20Leave the Tennant murder and the Smith girl's disappearance for the cops to worry about.
0:44:20 > 0:44:23They don't concern you none.
0:44:23 > 0:44:26There are two different schools of thought on that subject.
0:44:26 > 0:44:28However I get your point.
0:44:28 > 0:44:30Toodle-oo.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35Coming, boys?
0:44:41 > 0:44:45What kept you this time? Did you get mixed up with some other woman?
0:44:45 > 0:44:47Martini, please.
0:44:47 > 0:44:49Keep it dry, will you?
0:44:49 > 0:44:51And real ice.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55- Oh, hello, Mantin.- Am I an orphan?
0:44:55 > 0:44:57Two martinis.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59I'll take the same. Two martinis.
0:44:59 > 0:45:02What did you think of that Mary Smith's room?
0:45:02 > 0:45:03Hors d'oeuvres, sir?
0:45:03 > 0:45:05Swell. I'm starved.
0:45:05 > 0:45:07She must have been a very peculiar girl.
0:45:07 > 0:45:08Do you feel like a stuffed egg?
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Thanks.
0:45:10 > 0:45:13You know, if I or any of the girls I know
0:45:13 > 0:45:16lived in a hotel room for a week, we would have accumulated so much
0:45:16 > 0:45:19junk that it would have taken a maid four hours to get things packed.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22- Fishy? - No, Martini.- Thanks-y.
0:45:22 > 0:45:26But not Mary Smith. She was the neat New England type.
0:45:26 > 0:45:29You could have stripped that room bare in about three minutes.
0:45:30 > 0:45:32Say that again.
0:45:32 > 0:45:36I said you could have stripped that room bare in about three minutes.
0:45:46 > 0:45:47What was that for?
0:45:47 > 0:45:49Mantin, you're a bright girl.
0:45:49 > 0:45:52But dumb. You don't know a good idea when you see it.
0:45:52 > 0:45:56Listen, Mary Smith had a room at the Warman
0:45:56 > 0:45:57but she didn't live there.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03I'm going home and going to bed.
0:46:03 > 0:46:04Well , that makes sense(!)
0:46:04 > 0:46:07Mary Smith didn't live at the Warman so you're going home to bed.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09It isn't even eight o'clock yet.
0:46:09 > 0:46:11Al my life I've said good night to the milkman.
0:46:11 > 0:46:14Tomorrow I'm going to say good morning. Cheque, please.
0:46:14 > 0:46:15Come on, I'll take you home.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17At this hour? I should say not.
0:46:17 > 0:46:20Clay Dalzell, are you giving me the run-around?
0:46:20 > 0:46:22Donna, don't you trust me?
0:46:22 > 0:46:24Yes, but I'm probably wrong.
0:46:24 > 0:46:26Which proves that you're not so dumb.
0:46:26 > 0:46:29- Have you seen that new trick with a ten?- No.
0:46:32 > 0:46:34Now watch.
0:46:40 > 0:46:42- Well, what's the answer? - Eight sidecars.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46HE LAUGHS
0:46:46 > 0:46:47Good night.
0:46:50 > 0:46:54Now, you better run home and get a good night's rest, officer,
0:46:54 > 0:46:57cos we're going to get a very early start in the morning.
0:47:01 > 0:47:05- I'm sorry, madam, but Mr Dalzell has retired.- Is he sick?
0:47:05 > 0:47:08No, madam, he just retired early, that's all.
0:47:08 > 0:47:11Well, times have changed. Tell him Mrs Classon is calling, will you?
0:47:11 > 0:47:13But, madam, I said that Mr Dalzell...
0:47:13 > 0:47:15Lovely apartment. Perfectly lovely.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20Let me see, this must be Mr Dalzell's bedroom.
0:47:20 > 0:47:22No, madam, THAT is his bedroom.
0:47:23 > 0:47:24Thank you.
0:47:36 > 0:47:37- Who is it?- It's Jerry.
0:47:37 > 0:47:40Jerry Classon. Will you come out or shall I come in?
0:47:40 > 0:47:42I...I'll come out.
0:48:00 > 0:48:01Well!
0:48:02 > 0:48:06- This is a surprise.- I expected you to call me at the hotel today.
0:48:06 > 0:48:07Jerry, as a matter of fact,
0:48:07 > 0:48:10I intended to but I've been so rushed...
0:48:10 > 0:48:12Will you have a little drink?
0:48:12 > 0:48:14No?
0:48:14 > 0:48:18Strange bumping into you at the theatre last night, Clay.
0:48:18 > 0:48:19Wasn't it?
0:48:19 > 0:48:22Brought up a lot of old memories.
0:48:22 > 0:48:26You know, I've always felt rather badly that we drifted apart.
0:48:26 > 0:48:30Well, Jerry, those things happen. Water under the bridge, you know.
0:48:30 > 0:48:32How are you, anyway?
0:48:32 > 0:48:36Just the same, Clay. The embers are still...
0:48:36 > 0:48:41Oh, oh, oh, oh. You're Mrs Classon now.
0:48:41 > 0:48:42Oh, that.
0:48:42 > 0:48:44Oh, sorry.
0:48:44 > 0:48:47What sort of time are you having in New York?
0:48:48 > 0:48:51- Very disappointing.- Yeah?
0:48:51 > 0:48:53I find you treating me like an old friend.
0:48:53 > 0:48:57The night I go to see the hit show, the star disappears on me.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59I'm frightfully intrigued by it.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03Tell me, Clay, what happened?
0:49:05 > 0:49:08Have you any idea why she disappeared? Where she is?
0:49:08 > 0:49:10Search me.
0:49:10 > 0:49:14Come now, Clay, it's common gossip that you're looking for her.
0:49:14 > 0:49:16Are you going to find her?
0:49:16 > 0:49:18Or have you already found her?
0:49:18 > 0:49:21Now, Jerry, you're the wife of a lawyer.
0:49:21 > 0:49:24You should know better than to ask a witness leading questions.
0:49:24 > 0:49:25DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
0:49:28 > 0:49:30And what is the meaning of this?
0:49:30 > 0:49:32I'm sure I don't know.
0:49:32 > 0:49:33And who is this?
0:49:33 > 0:49:35I am Mrs Dalzell. Who are you?
0:49:35 > 0:49:37This is why you bundled me off into the spare room!
0:49:37 > 0:49:39Your cold was worse(!) How dare you do such a thing!
0:49:39 > 0:49:41After we've been married for only two weeks,
0:49:41 > 0:49:44having a rendezvous with another woman, me right in the same house!
0:49:44 > 0:49:46- My dear, I assure you... - Oh, I'm not blaming you.
0:49:46 > 0:49:50I know how he is with the women. How could you be so sordid?
0:49:50 > 0:49:52I knew your past wasn't all that it might have been
0:49:52 > 0:49:54and I was willing to forget and forgive but...
0:49:54 > 0:49:57Oh, Donna, for heaven's sake!
0:49:57 > 0:49:58You're a very silly child, my dear.
0:49:58 > 0:50:01You'll never hold a husband with this kind of scene.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03Good night, Clay.
0:50:14 > 0:50:17I'm sure your marriage is going to be very happy.
0:50:17 > 0:50:19Oh, it'll be all right, Jerry. Good night.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Where did you get that creation?
0:50:26 > 0:50:28Swayne.
0:50:28 > 0:50:31And where did you get that woman?
0:50:31 > 0:50:33Thanks, Swayne, I'll do as much for you some day.
0:50:36 > 0:50:41All right, boy scout, you've done your good deed for the day.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44Now, how about tripping homeward?
0:50:44 > 0:50:46- No.- Yes.
0:50:46 > 0:50:49I'm on my way to bed. It's no gag.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52Not on your life. I'm taking no more chances.
0:50:52 > 0:50:54- No?- No.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58Mr Mantin, would you please come over here
0:50:58 > 0:51:00and get your daughter and take her out of my apartment?
0:51:00 > 0:51:03And you better bring your shotgun, Daddy, we may need it.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07Dal?
0:51:07 > 0:51:12- What?- You really didn't know that woman was coming here?- No.
0:51:12 > 0:51:14I knew it. Now I'll let you get some sleep.
0:51:16 > 0:51:19How did you know that I wanted to get rid of her?
0:51:19 > 0:51:20I didn't.
0:51:23 > 0:51:27Well, anyway, good night and thanks.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29Good night and don't mention it.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46- 7:45.- Exactly.
0:52:49 > 0:52:53I'm all-in, Inspector. This guy is doing the first sensible thing he has done all day.
0:52:53 > 0:52:56He is down here in the King Charles bar having a drink.
0:52:56 > 0:52:58Which is what I'm going to do right now.
0:52:58 > 0:53:02It's funny. I get just so far and then - smack -
0:53:02 > 0:53:04right into a stone wall.
0:53:04 > 0:53:07I finally found a bus driver who remembered picking up
0:53:07 > 0:53:09a girl of her description every morning and taking her to
0:53:09 > 0:53:13Washington Square but what happened after she got off the bus?
0:53:13 > 0:53:15What do you say we give up this detecting business
0:53:15 > 0:53:18and go in for some plain or fancy matrimony?
0:53:18 > 0:53:21I can't get the thing out of my mind. It's got so many queer angles.
0:53:21 > 0:53:24What'll it be - a church wedding or a quiet one at home?
0:53:24 > 0:53:29For instance, how did Jerry, uh, whatshername
0:53:29 > 0:53:31know that I was looking for Mary Smith?
0:53:31 > 0:53:34- Do you talk in your sleep? - She said it was common gossip.
0:53:34 > 0:53:39- That's ridiculous. - If you do, I could wear earmuffs.
0:53:39 > 0:53:43- Did you say something?- No. - What's the matter? Are you tired?
0:53:44 > 0:53:48Dal, there is a man at the end of the bar who is staring at you.
0:53:55 > 0:53:58I thought I recognised you. How are you, Mr Dalzell?
0:53:58 > 0:54:02- Oh, yes, yes. Of course.- I hope I'm not intruding.- Oh, not at all.
0:54:02 > 0:54:03This is Miss Mantin, Mr...uh...
0:54:03 > 0:54:06- Classon.- Classon.
0:54:06 > 0:54:10- How do you do?- How do you do? - Sit down, would you?- Thank you.
0:54:10 > 0:54:13- I was hoping I would find you here. - Sorry if I kept you waiting.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15I usually get here earlier.
0:54:15 > 0:54:17Yes, you see, Mr Dalzell,
0:54:17 > 0:54:20you and I are both interested in the same woman.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22We are both trying to find Mary Smith.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25- Or rather, Alice Markham.- Oh.
0:54:25 > 0:54:28Yes, that's why I sent Mrs Classon to call on you last night.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30I was using her as a sort of private detective.
0:54:30 > 0:54:32Well, it didn't do me much good.
0:54:32 > 0:54:35Do you mind telling me why you're so interested in Alice Markham?
0:54:37 > 0:54:40My best friend is facing the electric chair, Mr Dalzell,
0:54:40 > 0:54:44and only chance I have to save him is to find Alice Markham.
0:54:44 > 0:54:45Well, that's interesting.
0:54:45 > 0:54:47John Maroney is awaiting trial in Chicago
0:54:47 > 0:54:49for the murder of Fred Dexter.
0:54:49 > 0:54:52He didn't commit that murder, Mr Dalzell, because when it
0:54:52 > 0:54:57happened he was in his own apartment and Alice Markham was with him.
0:54:57 > 0:55:01- And he can't prove that without her. - She is his only alibi.
0:55:01 > 0:55:05If she hadn't disappeared at night, John would be a free man now.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07Why did she disappear?
0:55:07 > 0:55:09I don't why she disappeared in Chicago any more than why
0:55:09 > 0:55:11she disappeared in New York.
0:55:11 > 0:55:15But if it is humanly possible, I'm going to find her and find out.
0:55:15 > 0:55:17Message for you, Mr Dalzell.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22- Thank you.- Thank you, sir. - Pardon me.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30Do you mind me asking you how you discovered
0:55:30 > 0:55:33that Mary Smith was Alice Markham?
0:55:33 > 0:55:35I wish I had something mysterious to tell you
0:55:35 > 0:55:38but it was really quite simple.
0:55:38 > 0:55:40I attended the performance of Midnight.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42You remember, I met you there.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45Someone stood up and shouted, "Alice!"
0:55:45 > 0:55:47And suddenly everything became clear to me.
0:55:47 > 0:55:48What did you do then?
0:55:48 > 0:55:51I immediately went to the lobby and phoned my partner in Chicago
0:55:51 > 0:55:52to tell Maroney the good news.
0:55:52 > 0:55:56When I got back to my seat, there was no performance and no Mary Smith.
0:55:56 > 0:55:58I'm afraid you're a bit of a disappointment to me.
0:55:58 > 0:56:03- Yes, sir, we regarded you as a pretty suspicious character.- Yeah.
0:56:03 > 0:56:07Well, it seems pretty hopeless but I promise you this - if we,
0:56:07 > 0:56:10my partner and I, do find any trace of Alice Markham,
0:56:10 > 0:56:11we'll let you know.
0:56:11 > 0:56:12That's very kind of you.
0:56:12 > 0:56:16- Dal, we'd better be going. - Why?- Swayne.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23All right.
0:56:25 > 0:56:27Well?
0:56:27 > 0:56:30Well, sir, there seems to have been several people who left
0:56:30 > 0:56:31the theatre during the first act
0:56:31 > 0:56:34but I only was able to get an accurate check on one of them.
0:56:34 > 0:56:40He behaved in a suspicious manner and aroused the curiosity of
0:56:40 > 0:56:44one of the ushers who happens to be studying to be a private detective.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46One of those correspondence school courses.
0:56:46 > 0:56:48This man who left the theatre, what about him?
0:56:48 > 0:56:50Well, sir, he got up just after the act started
0:56:50 > 0:56:52and slipped out of the theatre.
0:56:52 > 0:56:54He stopped in the lobby for a moment
0:56:54 > 0:56:56and mumbled something about Mary Smith to another man
0:56:56 > 0:56:58and then he rushed on out and got into a taxi.
0:56:58 > 0:57:00That's the man. Did the usher get his name?
0:57:00 > 0:57:03- Does he know where he went? - He didn't get his name, sir,
0:57:03 > 0:57:06but he knows the taxi driver and he found out where the man went.
0:57:06 > 0:57:07Well?
0:57:07 > 0:57:10The usher wouldn't tell, sir, without getting a reward
0:57:10 > 0:57:13so I ventured to bring him around. He is in the den.
0:57:13 > 0:57:17Now, now, Swayne, pull yourself together. Bring him in.
0:57:17 > 0:57:19Looks like we are getting warm.
0:57:19 > 0:57:22Hot, I should say.
0:57:22 > 0:57:23Come in, young man.
0:57:27 > 0:57:31- How do you do? Sit down, won't you? - No, no, no. Let me out of here.
0:57:31 > 0:57:34I'm no squealer. I wouldn't have come here if I'd have known.
0:57:34 > 0:57:36I'm sorry, Mister, honest. I don't know a thing about it.
0:57:36 > 0:57:39I wouldn't have got mixed up with this. Let me out of here, please.
0:57:39 > 0:57:42Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. There's nothing to worry about.
0:57:42 > 0:57:44Come here. Just sit down.
0:57:44 > 0:57:46- Let's see, there was something said about a reward.- Oh, no,
0:57:46 > 0:57:49- never mind. I don't want that.- Yes, yes. There you are. How is that?
0:57:49 > 0:57:54Now, this man who left the theatre, who was he?
0:57:54 > 0:57:56- Where did he go?- All right.
0:57:59 > 0:58:01He went out of the theatre and he got into a cab
0:58:01 > 0:58:05and he went to a gangster's place.
0:58:05 > 0:58:06We got him.
0:58:06 > 0:58:09Who was the gangster?
0:58:09 > 0:58:10Jim Kinland.
0:58:13 > 0:58:17But that's me you're talking about.
0:58:17 > 0:58:18Yes, sir.
0:58:18 > 0:58:20Nice going, Sherlock.
0:58:20 > 0:58:22HE GROANS
0:58:22 > 0:58:26Swayne, his hat and coat. He's got them on. Let him out.
0:58:26 > 0:58:28SHE LAUGHS
0:58:34 > 0:58:35Shut up.
0:58:37 > 0:58:41Swayne, bring me six bottles of Scotch, four bottles of Vichy,
0:58:41 > 0:58:44two glasses, some cracked ice and a lot of aspirin.
0:58:44 > 0:58:45What are you going to do?
0:58:45 > 0:58:47Get drunk. Watson, you can put away your needle
0:58:47 > 0:58:50and throw your fingerprint outfit out the window.
0:58:50 > 0:58:53What's the matter, Sherlock? Aren't we going to play detective any more?
0:58:53 > 0:58:55No.
0:58:55 > 0:58:58When I have got to pay a reward to a correspondence school detective
0:58:58 > 0:59:00to find out that the most promising suspect
0:59:00 > 0:59:03in the murder case I'm investigating is myself, I had better quit.
0:59:03 > 0:59:06I don't want to hear any more about Mary Smith, Tommy Tennant,
0:59:06 > 0:59:07murders or anything else.
0:59:07 > 0:59:10I guess I wasn't cut out to be a detective in the first place.
0:59:10 > 0:59:12You weren't cut out to be a very good liar either, Dal.
0:59:13 > 0:59:15What do you mean?
0:59:15 > 0:59:19That isn't the reason why you're quitting.
0:59:19 > 0:59:20No, you are right, Donna.
0:59:20 > 0:59:23The reason I am quitting is because the further I go,
0:59:23 > 0:59:26the more obvious it becomes to me that
0:59:26 > 0:59:30the only man who could have killed Tommy Tennant is Tim Winthrop.
0:59:30 > 0:59:33I can't find a sign that points to anybody else.
0:59:33 > 0:59:37Motive, suspicious behaviour, opportunity. Tim is the only man.
0:59:38 > 0:59:40Tim's my friend.
0:59:40 > 0:59:42If I'm not careful, I'm going to trip myself
0:59:42 > 0:59:45and spill the beans right into Mr Doremus's lap.
0:59:45 > 0:59:47I don't know but it doesn't seem to me
0:59:47 > 0:59:49that Tim is the type of chap that would...
0:59:49 > 0:59:53Well, I'll get him out of town for a while.
0:59:53 > 0:59:56Meanwhile, we can catch up on our nightlife. Here's how.
0:59:58 > 0:59:59SHE CLEARS THROAT
0:59:59 > 1:00:01Well, if this is the start,
1:00:01 > 1:00:03it's going to be a short life, if a merry one.
1:00:05 > 1:00:08Say, am I drunk already? Or is that picture really cockeyed?
1:00:10 > 1:00:12No, you're still sober.
1:00:27 > 1:00:29- Well, what do you know about that? - What is it?
1:00:29 > 1:00:31That, my fair, young friend is a dictograph.
1:00:31 > 1:00:34Congratulations, Doremus, but I'm signing off.
1:01:08 > 1:01:10Well, that should win some sort of medal for dumbness.
1:01:10 > 1:01:12I quit to protect Tim and turn around
1:01:12 > 1:01:15and shout in Doremus's ear that I'm convinced he is guilty.
1:01:15 > 1:01:17Whom are you calling?
1:01:17 > 1:01:18Jim Kinland.
1:01:20 > 1:01:22I'll bet you'd do better with the phone connected.
1:01:24 > 1:01:25Oh.
1:01:25 > 1:01:27HE LAUGHS
1:01:31 > 1:01:33He doesn't know it but Mr Kinland
1:01:33 > 1:01:36is about to become the victim of a blackmail plot.
1:01:37 > 1:01:41Hello, Kinland? It's Clay Dalzell. I want you to do me a favour.
1:01:42 > 1:01:44No, nothing serious.
1:01:44 > 1:01:47There's a boy named Winthrop, Tim Winthrop, living at the Amalfi.
1:01:47 > 1:01:50Yes, I want you to pick him up and hide him somewhere, will you?
1:01:50 > 1:01:51And it's going to be a race.
1:01:51 > 1:01:54You've got to find him before the police do.
1:01:54 > 1:01:55Well, it's too bad, Jim.
1:01:55 > 1:01:58- I was hoping you would be able to find him.- Well, I couldn't.
1:01:58 > 1:02:01My boys have been scouring the town for six hours.
1:02:01 > 1:02:04Why, of course, you couldn't. It's as plain as the nose on your face.
1:02:04 > 1:02:08I said it was going to be a race and Doremus has won. Tim's in jail.
1:02:09 > 1:02:10That's fine.
1:02:10 > 1:02:13I suppose all you want me to do now is go down and get him out of there.
1:02:13 > 1:02:14Well, let me tell you right now,
1:02:14 > 1:02:16cheque or no cheque, the deal is cold.
1:02:16 > 1:02:18- Police headquarters. - Hey, wait a minute.
1:02:18 > 1:02:21- Inspector Doremus. - You keep me out of this, Dalzell.
1:02:21 > 1:02:23Hello, Doremus? Dalzell.
1:02:23 > 1:02:26Congratulations. I understand you solved the Tennant killing.
1:02:26 > 1:02:30- Well, I haven't arrested anybody yet.- Oh, that's funny.
1:02:30 > 1:02:33I understood... Hey, Inspector, can I ask you a straight question?
1:02:33 > 1:02:36Go ahead. I've got nothing to hide.
1:02:36 > 1:02:39- Did you put a dictograph in my apartment?- No.
1:02:39 > 1:02:42- But it ain't a bad idea.- Thanks.
1:02:42 > 1:02:44DOOR BUZZER
1:02:44 > 1:02:49- I wonder if Doremus is lying. - Doremus don't do much fooling around.
1:02:49 > 1:02:52- Is this the guy? - What happened to him?
1:02:52 > 1:02:54- I thought I told you no rough stuff. - We didn't do it.
1:02:54 > 1:02:57- That's the way we found him.- Take him in the bedroom, boys, will you?
1:02:57 > 1:03:00Swayne, Get the bed ready and call a doctor.
1:03:00 > 1:03:04- Somebody sure gave him a nice going over.- He is in considerable pain.
1:03:04 > 1:03:06I have given him an opiate that will make him feel pretty groggy.
1:03:06 > 1:03:09- Is it all right to talk with him?- Perfectly.
1:03:09 > 1:03:12You'll find him quite rational for periods but don't tire him too much.
1:03:12 > 1:03:14- Good night.- Good night, Doctor. Thank you very much.
1:03:22 > 1:03:23Tim.
1:03:25 > 1:03:26Tim.
1:03:28 > 1:03:29Tim.
1:03:30 > 1:03:33Tim, it's Dal. You understand? Dal?
1:03:34 > 1:03:39- What happened?- Dal, find her. Find her. They'll kill her.
1:03:39 > 1:03:45- You've got to find her. Find Alice. They beat me to find out.- Who?
1:03:45 > 1:03:47Tim? Who?
1:03:47 > 1:03:50I don't know.
1:03:50 > 1:03:52Tim, listen to me. Tim.
1:03:55 > 1:03:57What did Alice Markham have to do with Maroney?
1:03:59 > 1:04:05Maroney. Alice hated him, Dal. He ruined her father. He...
1:04:06 > 1:04:08It killed him.
1:04:08 > 1:04:11Tim. Tim, what was it Maroney did?
1:04:14 > 1:04:16Find her, Dal.
1:04:16 > 1:04:18Find her. Find her.
1:04:39 > 1:04:40Hmm.
1:04:40 > 1:04:44- You know, that's a very funny gag. - I don't see anything funny about it.
1:04:44 > 1:04:47- They might have killed the boy. - No, I wasn't talking about him.
1:04:47 > 1:04:49I was talking about what he said.
1:04:49 > 1:04:54Now, look, Maroney meets her old man, tells him he is a big-shot banker.
1:04:54 > 1:04:56Gets the old man's dough to invest and goes south with it.
1:04:56 > 1:04:58Well, the shock kills the old man
1:04:58 > 1:05:01and the girl comes to Chicago to see Maroney.
1:05:02 > 1:05:05He has her come to his apartment.
1:05:05 > 1:05:06Well, knowing the kind of guy Maroney is,
1:05:06 > 1:05:10it don't take no blueprint to tell me what happened there.
1:05:10 > 1:05:12At the same time, over on the Southside,
1:05:12 > 1:05:14Fred Dexter is busy getting himself bumped off.
1:05:14 > 1:05:17Now, the cops know Dexter and Maroney are on the out
1:05:17 > 1:05:18so they pinch Maroney.
1:05:18 > 1:05:22Now, this Markham dame, she don't like Maroney.
1:05:22 > 1:05:26First, for what he did or tried to do to her up in his apartment.
1:05:26 > 1:05:29Second, because she blames her old man's death on him.
1:05:29 > 1:05:32Now, she is his only alibi.
1:05:32 > 1:05:35So she disappears to get even and Maroney,
1:05:35 > 1:05:37who has committed murder all his life
1:05:37 > 1:05:41and gotten away with it, is going to burn for a murder he never committed.
1:05:41 > 1:05:43Now, don't tell me that's not very funny.
1:05:48 > 1:05:50How do you know all this?
1:05:50 > 1:05:52Well, you heard what the kid said, same as I did.
1:05:52 > 1:05:55All adds up, that's all.
1:05:55 > 1:05:57Well thanks, Kinland.
1:05:57 > 1:06:01You know, this is the first time this case has made any sense to me at all.
1:06:01 > 1:06:02Oh, that's nothing.
1:06:06 > 1:06:10I don't suppose you want to let me have that cheque right now.
1:06:10 > 1:06:12I don't suppose.
1:06:12 > 1:06:14No, I didn't think so.
1:06:14 > 1:06:15LAUGHS
1:06:15 > 1:06:16Good night.
1:06:16 > 1:06:19Dal, did you find him? Oh, hello, Mr Kinland.
1:06:19 > 1:06:24- I haven't had a chance to thank you for those letters.- That's all right.
1:06:24 > 1:06:26- Night.- Good night, Kinland.
1:06:26 > 1:06:29- What happened, Dal? Did you find him?- Yes, we found him, all right.
1:06:29 > 1:06:31Oh, am I glad. I got so excited I just couldn't stay home.
1:06:31 > 1:06:32Madam, you don't know nothing.
1:06:32 > 1:06:35Things have been happening around here so fast,
1:06:35 > 1:06:36I can't keep track of them.
1:06:36 > 1:06:39Young man, have you had your dinner yet?
1:06:39 > 1:06:41Well, no, now that you mention it.
1:06:41 > 1:06:43You can talk just as well while you're eating and vice versa.
1:06:43 > 1:06:45Come on.
1:06:47 > 1:06:49You know, the funniest part of it all is...
1:06:49 > 1:06:50TELEPHONE RINGS
1:06:50 > 1:06:52..Jim Kinland knows all about what happened to
1:06:52 > 1:06:54Alice Markham in Chicago.
1:06:54 > 1:06:55Hello?
1:06:55 > 1:06:58Yes.
1:06:58 > 1:07:01No, Mr Dalzell is not at home.
1:07:01 > 1:07:02Who was it?
1:07:05 > 1:07:08Mrs Classon, sir.
1:07:08 > 1:07:11Swayne, do you mind my asking just why you take it upon yourself
1:07:11 > 1:07:14to tell Mrs Classon that I'm not here?
1:07:14 > 1:07:15I'm very sorry, sir.
1:07:15 > 1:07:17Miss Mantin's orders.
1:07:21 > 1:07:24Oh, so you're busy running my life again.
1:07:24 > 1:07:25I'm sorry, Dal.
1:07:25 > 1:07:27I forgot to mention it.
1:07:27 > 1:07:31But I decided that Mrs Classon is nobody for you to play around with.
1:07:31 > 1:07:33Oh, Mantin, you're a swell gal.
1:07:33 > 1:07:35But the next time you stick your nose into my business...
1:07:35 > 1:07:36Now don't take that attitude.
1:07:36 > 1:07:39A girl has to be careful about the reputation of the man
1:07:39 > 1:07:41she's going to marry.
1:07:41 > 1:07:44And yours certainly can't stand being mixed up with that woman.
1:07:44 > 1:07:47Let me amaze you with a list of the lady's boyfriends
1:07:47 > 1:07:48since her marriage to Mr Classon.
1:07:50 > 1:07:53First there was a gentleman named Howard Smith,
1:07:53 > 1:07:57who was rapidly succeeded by a Mr Steve Stanislaw.
1:07:57 > 1:07:59A truck driver by profession.
1:07:59 > 1:08:02And next came a gentleman, since deceased as you already know,
1:08:02 > 1:08:05one Fred Dexter.
1:08:05 > 1:08:06And then there was a brief
1:08:06 > 1:08:09and a merry whirl with a Mr John Maroney, and then a lovely little...
1:08:09 > 1:08:12Wait a minute, wait a minute.
1:08:12 > 1:08:14Did you say Dexter AND Maroney?
1:08:14 > 1:08:16Numbers three and four.
1:08:16 > 1:08:19How did you get this?
1:08:19 > 1:08:23For the neat little sum of 14.60 for a long-distance call to Chicago.
1:08:23 > 1:08:26On your telephone, by the way.
1:08:26 > 1:08:28First Dexter, and then Maroney.
1:08:28 > 1:08:31No, third Dexter and fourth Maroney.
1:08:31 > 1:08:32And it was common gossip.
1:08:32 > 1:08:36Known to the man on the street.
1:08:36 > 1:08:38Mantin, that's as silly a thing as you have ever said.
1:08:38 > 1:08:40That is covering a lot of ground.
1:08:40 > 1:08:42If Mrs Classon was carrying on with Maroney,
1:08:42 > 1:08:46and it was common gossip, then Classon must've heard it,
1:08:46 > 1:08:47and if he knew that,
1:08:47 > 1:08:49then he certainly wouldn't be defending Maroney, would he?
1:08:49 > 1:08:53And if you don't know the answer to that one, I will tell you. It's no.
1:08:53 > 1:08:55GUNSHOT
1:09:04 > 1:09:06Wait here.
1:09:20 > 1:09:22What is it?
1:09:22 > 1:09:24Is he dead?
1:09:24 > 1:09:26Give me a hand.
1:09:33 > 1:09:36Tim? Tim?
1:09:36 > 1:09:39What was it? What happened?
1:09:39 > 1:09:42At the window. Someone with a gun.
1:09:42 > 1:09:44I found yours and fired.
1:09:44 > 1:09:46Did you recognise him? Who was it?
1:09:46 > 1:09:48It was a woman.
1:10:17 > 1:10:20"Although a week has elapsed since the murder,
1:10:20 > 1:10:23"Inspector Doremus, in charge of the investigation,
1:10:23 > 1:10:26"refused to make any statement other than the customary one that
1:10:26 > 1:10:28"police are investigating the case.
1:10:28 > 1:10:30"Clay 'Sherlock Holmes' Dalzell
1:10:30 > 1:10:32"is just about as gabby as the inspector.
1:10:32 > 1:10:35"His assistant, Dr Donna 'Watson' Mantin,
1:10:35 > 1:10:38"is completely in the dark as to his plans."
1:10:39 > 1:10:42Swayne!
1:10:42 > 1:10:45- Yes, sir?- Are you sure no packages have come for me?
1:10:45 > 1:10:46No, sir, nothing, sir.
1:10:48 > 1:10:50- Hmm, all right. - You want a drink, Dal?
1:10:50 > 1:10:54No. I wonder why that stuff doesn't come.
1:10:54 > 1:10:57What is it, Dal, what are you waiting for?
1:10:57 > 1:11:00- Mary Smith.- In a package?
1:11:00 > 1:11:02Just about!
1:11:02 > 1:11:03DOORBELL RINGS
1:11:03 > 1:11:06I'll get it.
1:11:06 > 1:11:09Ah, boy, I thought you were never going to get here.
1:11:09 > 1:11:11It took longer than expected, but I hope it will be satisfactory.
1:11:11 > 1:11:14Thanks. Your hopes are as nothing compared to mine. Good night.
1:11:14 > 1:11:16- Mantin? Come on.- Come on where?
1:11:16 > 1:11:19- You and I are going to rent an apartment.- Swell.
1:11:19 > 1:11:21Now we're really getting somewhere.
1:11:25 > 1:11:28Well, it isn't exactly what I would have picked,
1:11:28 > 1:11:31but it's probably better than Niagara Falls.
1:11:31 > 1:11:33GRAMOPHONE PLAYS
1:11:33 > 1:11:37# Midnight in Manhattan
1:11:37 > 1:11:43# Turns night into day
1:11:43 > 1:11:48# Light stars in all Manhattan
1:11:48 > 1:11:54# When the rest of the world's tucked away
1:11:54 > 1:11:58# Manhattan... #
1:11:58 > 1:12:01Maybe I have the wrong idea about this whole thing.
1:12:04 > 1:12:10# ..When dawn's peeking through. #
1:12:15 > 1:12:19I have now come to a conclusion. One of us is crazy.
1:12:19 > 1:12:21That's great.
1:12:21 > 1:12:24If you're referring to that record, it's terrible.
1:12:24 > 1:12:26MUSIC STOPS
1:12:29 > 1:12:32Isn't that Mary Smith's voice?
1:12:32 > 1:12:36- That's right.- I didn't know she made a record without an orchestra.
1:12:36 > 1:12:37Police headquarters.
1:12:37 > 1:12:39There are a lot of things you don't know.
1:12:39 > 1:12:42- For instance?- Inspector Doremus.
1:12:42 > 1:12:45You're going to get your fingers burned.
1:12:45 > 1:12:48Oh, Inspector, Dalzell. Get this.
1:12:48 > 1:12:53I am at 188 MacDougal Street, apartment F. That's right.
1:12:53 > 1:12:56Will you hurry over here, please, alone?
1:12:56 > 1:12:58The murderer of Tommy Tennant is going to be here in a very
1:12:58 > 1:13:00few minutes.
1:13:00 > 1:13:02- No.- Yes.
1:13:02 > 1:13:05- Who?- I don't know.
1:13:05 > 1:13:09Then how do you know he's going to be here?
1:13:09 > 1:13:11There's a list of the suspects.
1:13:11 > 1:13:12Mr Winthrop, please.
1:13:12 > 1:13:17Tim Winthrop, Horatio Swayne, Mrs Classon, Abe Ohlman, Roger Classon,
1:13:17 > 1:13:21Jim Kinland, Donna Man...
1:13:21 > 1:13:23Clay Dalzell!
1:13:23 > 1:13:24(Shhh.)
1:13:24 > 1:13:26Hello, Tim. Dal.
1:13:26 > 1:13:30Now, keep your shirt on, but if you want to see your Alice,
1:13:30 > 1:13:32hurry right over to my apartment.
1:13:32 > 1:13:34I'll have her there in 30 minutes.
1:13:34 > 1:13:41No, no, she is now at 188 MacDougal Street, apartment F.
1:13:41 > 1:13:44But she's going to my place. Meet her there.
1:13:44 > 1:13:47188 MacDougal Street? Thanks.
1:13:47 > 1:13:49In 30 minutes? Yes, sir.
1:13:49 > 1:13:52Found her? Really?!
1:13:52 > 1:13:53I knew you would find her.
1:13:53 > 1:13:55I'll be there.
1:13:55 > 1:13:59Well, that is good news. Thank you.
1:13:59 > 1:14:01No kidding!
1:14:03 > 1:14:05That should start something.
1:14:07 > 1:14:11Dal, I have been in love with you all of my life.
1:14:11 > 1:14:14This is the first time you have ever disappointed me.
1:14:14 > 1:14:17Now, it's all right to fool the rest of those people,
1:14:17 > 1:14:20but Tim's heart is going to be broken when he walks into your apartment
1:14:20 > 1:14:22and finds you haven't got Mary Smith there.
1:14:22 > 1:14:23That is not funny.
1:14:26 > 1:14:28Good girl. And you're right.
1:14:28 > 1:14:30Unless Tim is the murderer.
1:14:34 > 1:14:37Oh.
1:14:37 > 1:14:38I hadn't thought of that.
1:14:43 > 1:14:47Well, now what are we going to do?
1:14:48 > 1:14:51Sit down.
1:14:51 > 1:14:52Shuffle those.
1:14:57 > 1:14:59And what are the cards for?
1:14:59 > 1:15:01Casino. Five dollars a game.
1:15:01 > 1:15:03Now, Dal, that just doesn't make sense at all.
1:15:03 > 1:15:06First you tell Doremus that Tennant's murderer will be here,
1:15:06 > 1:15:09and then you tell those other people that Mary Smith is here
1:15:09 > 1:15:12- and now you want to play Casino. - That's right.
1:15:12 > 1:15:15Well, you are just plain loony, unless you are the murderer
1:15:15 > 1:15:18- and I'm the girl.- Or, vice versa.
1:15:18 > 1:15:21Look, Tommy Tennant was killed just as he was
1:15:21 > 1:15:24- going to tell me something about Mary Smith, right?- Right.
1:15:24 > 1:15:27The murderer didn't want that something told.
1:15:27 > 1:15:30Now, who else would know that something?
1:15:30 > 1:15:32- Mary Smith.- Exactly.
1:15:32 > 1:15:35So, the murderer will never let her get to my apartment.
1:15:35 > 1:15:37The innocent ones will go there.
1:15:37 > 1:15:41- The guilty one will come here to stop her.- Oh!
1:15:41 > 1:15:46And that Victrola record is Mary Smith! Very neat.
1:15:46 > 1:15:47And if I'm right,
1:15:47 > 1:15:50any minute now the murderer will walk through that door.
1:15:54 > 1:15:56KNOCKING
1:15:58 > 1:16:02- You go in there and start that record.- Yes.
1:16:09 > 1:16:14MUSIC STARTS
1:16:21 > 1:16:23Cabbage?
1:16:25 > 1:16:26No, no, thanks.
1:16:33 > 1:16:34All right, Donna.
1:16:34 > 1:16:36MUSIC STOPS
1:16:36 > 1:16:38Got him?
1:16:38 > 1:16:40- Not him - them.- Who?
1:16:40 > 1:16:42The jitters.
1:16:43 > 1:16:46SIREN WAILS
1:16:46 > 1:16:49That will be Doremus sneaking up on the murderer.
1:16:49 > 1:16:52I don't mean to hurt your feelings but I'll Feel a lot more comfortable
1:16:52 > 1:16:54with that Rock of Gibraltar here.
1:16:54 > 1:16:55I'll let you in on a little secret.
1:16:55 > 1:16:58I'm going to be a lot happier myself.
1:16:58 > 1:17:02Dal? Suppose the murderer is Mary Smith?
1:17:03 > 1:17:04Now that's a comforting thought.
1:17:04 > 1:17:07Well, your record gag isn't going to be much good, then, is it?
1:17:07 > 1:17:09KNOCKING
1:17:09 > 1:17:11You'd better start it, anyway.
1:17:14 > 1:17:18# Midnight in Manhattan... #
1:17:18 > 1:17:20Ah, come in.
1:17:20 > 1:17:22All right, Donna. It's the Inspector.
1:17:22 > 1:17:25Well, Mr Dalzell. Oh, hello, Miss Mantin.
1:17:25 > 1:17:27Got that murderer for me?
1:17:27 > 1:17:28Not yet, but he's on his way.
1:17:28 > 1:17:31I'm afraid you folks put yourselves to a lot of trouble for nothing.
1:17:31 > 1:17:32We've got the murderer!
1:17:32 > 1:17:34You what?!
1:17:34 > 1:17:35Who is it?
1:17:35 > 1:17:38Search me. Cleary phoned, he nailed him in Yonkers,
1:17:38 > 1:17:40he's on his way to headquarters with him right now.
1:17:40 > 1:17:43Ha-ha, I'm afraid Cleary must be mistaken, Inspector.
1:17:43 > 1:17:44He can't have the right man.
1:17:44 > 1:17:47I talked to the murderer on that phone not ten minutes ago,
1:17:47 > 1:17:48I know that.
1:17:48 > 1:17:49I understand, Mr Dalzell.
1:17:49 > 1:17:52It's kind of disappointing to have a hunch go sour on you.
1:17:52 > 1:17:55But policing and amateur sleuthing is two different things.
1:17:55 > 1:17:57Better luck next time.
1:17:57 > 1:17:58You're not going?!
1:17:58 > 1:18:00Got to be at the office when Cleary gets there.
1:18:00 > 1:18:01Wait a minute, Inspector.
1:18:01 > 1:18:04I don't know who Cleary has picked up but I do know he's wrong.
1:18:04 > 1:18:08- The real murderer is on his way here now. He'll be here any minute.- Huh.
1:18:08 > 1:18:09I'm telling you, you'd better stay.
1:18:09 > 1:18:12Mr Dalzell, you ain't going to tell me my business, are you?
1:18:12 > 1:18:13Good night, folks.
1:18:28 > 1:18:30Oh, no, you don't. I'm not leaving.
1:18:30 > 1:18:34Oh, yes you are. Donna, I shouldn't have brought you here in the first place.
1:18:34 > 1:18:38I never thought you would be in any danger. I was counting on Doremus to stay - now out you go.
1:18:38 > 1:18:40- Nothing doing.- Please, don't argue, there isn't time.
1:18:40 > 1:18:43Whoever's coming here already committed one murder and won't stop at...
1:18:43 > 1:18:45DOOR OPENS
1:18:45 > 1:18:46What is it?
1:18:48 > 1:18:52Raise your hands, Mr Dalzell, and don't move.
1:18:56 > 1:18:58DOOR SLAMS
1:19:00 > 1:19:01Who are you?
1:19:01 > 1:19:05I have come for Mary Smith.
1:19:06 > 1:19:11- She's in there.- So I hear.
1:19:11 > 1:19:13Tell her to come out.
1:19:15 > 1:19:16What do you want with her?
1:19:16 > 1:19:19Tell her to come out.
1:19:19 > 1:19:23Don't move. Call her from where you are.
1:19:23 > 1:19:27RECORD JUMPS
1:19:29 > 1:19:31MUSIC STOPS
1:19:31 > 1:19:36That's a very interesting trick, Mr Dalzell. Very interesting.
1:19:36 > 1:19:38Now, where is Alice Markham?
1:19:39 > 1:19:43- What do you want with her? - Silence.
1:19:43 > 1:19:47- The same kind of silence that you got from Tommy Tennant?- Exactly.
1:19:47 > 1:19:53And the same kind I'm going to get from you. And for the same reason.
1:19:53 > 1:19:56- You know too much. - I don't know anything, except...
1:19:57 > 1:20:00..that you had better go back where you came from
1:20:00 > 1:20:03- and keep out of trouble. - I didn't come here for advice.
1:20:03 > 1:20:05I came here for information.
1:20:05 > 1:20:10Now I will give you just 15 seconds to start talking.
1:20:14 > 1:20:16All right. I'LL TALK!
1:20:16 > 1:20:19GUNSHOTS
1:20:21 > 1:20:23BANGING
1:20:30 > 1:20:31Well?
1:20:31 > 1:20:33We got him, Mr Dalzell.
1:20:33 > 1:20:37Oh, it's you! Where is Donna?
1:20:38 > 1:20:41Donna?
1:20:41 > 1:20:42Is she dead?
1:20:43 > 1:20:45- Are you all right?- Yes, I'm all right.
1:20:45 > 1:20:48- Is she dead?- No, I just slugged her.
1:20:48 > 1:20:50You didn't treat me too gently, either.
1:20:50 > 1:20:52Doremus, I owe you an apology.
1:20:52 > 1:20:55I went for that act of yours, entrance, exit and story.
1:20:55 > 1:20:57I thought somebody might be listening or watching,
1:20:57 > 1:21:00they'd have a better chance if they thought I wasn't around. Who is she?
1:21:00 > 1:21:05- Say, could she be Mary Smith? - She could be, but she isn't.
1:21:05 > 1:21:06I don't know who it is.
1:21:06 > 1:21:10- Why don't you take her mask off and see?- Mask? What mask?
1:21:21 > 1:21:25- Mr Classon.- Well, what do you know?!
1:21:27 > 1:21:30Where do you suppose he got that idea?
1:21:30 > 1:21:31Probably from Mary Smith.
1:21:31 > 1:21:34Wherever he got it, I heard him say he killed Tennant,
1:21:34 > 1:21:35and that's good enough for me.
1:21:35 > 1:21:37Come on, boys.
1:21:38 > 1:21:40Take him down to headquarters.
1:21:46 > 1:21:49- That's a hot one.- What?
1:21:49 > 1:21:53I had the answer the whole time, I didn't know it.
1:21:53 > 1:21:55Inspector!
1:21:55 > 1:21:58Classon not only killed Tommy Tennant,
1:21:58 > 1:22:01he also bumped off Fred Dexter in Chicago.
1:22:01 > 1:22:04Donna, you were right about Mrs Classon's affairs with Dexter
1:22:04 > 1:22:05and Maroney.
1:22:05 > 1:22:09That's why Classon killed Dexter and then fixed the blame on Maroney.
1:22:09 > 1:22:12And that's what Tommy Tennant meant by the greatest double cross
1:22:12 > 1:22:13ever pulled.
1:22:13 > 1:22:15For although Classon was Maroney's lawyer,
1:22:15 > 1:22:19he was trying to do away with Maroney's alibi, Alice Markham.
1:22:19 > 1:22:21And that's why she disappeared from the Prince Theatre.
1:22:21 > 1:22:23It wasn't Tim's shout that frightened her,
1:22:23 > 1:22:26it was seeing Classon sitting in the second row.
1:22:26 > 1:22:28She blamed Maroney for her father's death.
1:22:28 > 1:22:31Her mask, her disappearances, all because she hated Maroney
1:22:31 > 1:22:33and wouldn't testify.
1:22:33 > 1:22:36And if Mr Classon had only known that, he could have saved
1:22:36 > 1:22:38himself a considerable headache.
1:22:38 > 1:22:41Dal, you took the words right out of my mouth!
1:22:45 > 1:22:47Dal, where's Alice?
1:22:47 > 1:22:49Oh, Tim, I'm so sorry.
1:22:49 > 1:22:52Where is she, Dal? Where is she? I've been waiting and waiting.
1:22:52 > 1:22:55I know. Tim, I didn't mean to worry you.
1:22:55 > 1:22:57I think you better run along with the inspector.
1:22:57 > 1:22:59Oh, this is the fellow.
1:22:59 > 1:23:03- Come on, son. - But what for? Where is she, Dal?
1:23:03 > 1:23:05She's at the inspector's house.
1:23:05 > 1:23:08- Dal, you didn't find her?- Sure.
1:23:20 > 1:23:22Well, it may not have been a big wedding
1:23:22 > 1:23:24but it certainly was a noisy one.
1:23:24 > 1:23:27And I think they ought to be very happy.
1:23:27 > 1:23:30- I liked Tim, and I think Alice is a very nice girl.- Very.
1:23:30 > 1:23:34I'm glad we found her. By the way, how did we find her?
1:23:34 > 1:23:37Well, don't you remember? The villain is tied to the subway track.
1:23:37 > 1:23:40Just then, the Bronx express came thundering through...
1:23:40 > 1:23:43Dal, stop clowning, I asked you a serious question.
1:23:43 > 1:23:46And you will get a serious answer. Now, look.
1:23:46 > 1:23:50- If you earned 1,500 a week, what would you do with it?- Spend it.
1:23:50 > 1:23:53That's right, you would. But she didn't.
1:23:53 > 1:23:55She put it in the bank.
1:23:55 > 1:23:57Well?
1:23:59 > 1:24:01Shhh.
1:24:01 > 1:24:05To open a bank account you have to give a name.
1:24:05 > 1:24:06Well?
1:24:06 > 1:24:09When you give a name, even though it isn't your own,
1:24:09 > 1:24:12you have to give an address.
1:24:12 > 1:24:15Well?!
1:24:15 > 1:24:17Well?!
1:24:17 > 1:24:19Was it as simple as that?
1:24:19 > 1:24:22It was as simple as that.
1:24:22 > 1:24:24Dal, you are wonderful.
1:24:24 > 1:24:26Donna, that's common gossip.
1:24:26 > 1:24:28To the newlyweds.
1:24:28 > 1:24:30- To the newlyweds.- Bottoms up.
1:24:39 > 1:24:42Well, I don't know what you're going to do, but I'm going to bed.
1:24:57 > 1:25:01- Oh, Dal, I've forgotten something. - Yes, what?
1:25:01 > 1:25:04SHE DIALS
1:25:08 > 1:25:09Hello?
1:25:09 > 1:25:12Daddy, I won't be home tonight.
1:25:12 > 1:25:14No, I'm staying at Dal's.
1:25:17 > 1:25:20TELEPHONE RINGS
1:25:22 > 1:25:24Yes?
1:25:24 > 1:25:26Yes, Daddy.
1:25:26 > 1:25:28Yes!
1:25:28 > 1:25:29Yes, of course it's all right.
1:25:29 > 1:25:31We were married this afternoon.
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