Deadline at Dawn

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0:01:21 > 0:01:23KNOCKING

0:01:44 > 0:01:47Why, it's Sleepy Parsons!

0:01:47 > 0:01:50Aren't you dead yet?

0:02:02 > 0:02:05Here's to nothin'!

0:02:07 > 0:02:10Still on your 20 cigars a day?

0:02:10 > 0:02:12Can your heart take it, Sleepy?

0:02:13 > 0:02:15You're drunk again.

0:02:16 > 0:02:18Yes!

0:02:18 > 0:02:21It took you a long time to answer the door.

0:02:27 > 0:02:32- It's a relief being divorced from you.- Give me the money and I'll go.

0:02:32 > 0:02:35You think it'll rain and cool off?

0:02:35 > 0:02:38Give me my money, Edna. Don't kid around.

0:02:38 > 0:02:42What are you gonna do? Take out a chorus girl?

0:02:42 > 0:02:44It's gone!

0:02:44 > 0:02:48Don't fool around. I'm not in the mood!

0:02:48 > 0:02:54- Must be that kid! - You owe me 1,400. You said you'd have it here tonight!

0:02:54 > 0:02:58The sailor took it! The money's gone and that's it!

0:02:58 > 0:03:03He took MY cash but you're worried he kissed me!

0:03:03 > 0:03:06Don't flatter yourself. I just want my money!

0:03:08 > 0:03:12I remember you, Edna, as you used to be before...

0:03:12 > 0:03:14long ago.

0:03:15 > 0:03:22- Give me it to me and I'll go! - You'll get it when the police pick up the sailor! Good night!

0:03:22 > 0:03:26You'll never change, Edna, you're bad!

0:03:27 > 0:03:30I loved you very much...

0:03:30 > 0:03:32but you're bad.

0:03:32 > 0:03:35No, don't sit down, get out!

0:03:35 > 0:03:38You're pulling some sort of trick.

0:03:38 > 0:03:40I'm just too tired to think.

0:03:40 > 0:03:45- You'll be sorry if you don't get out. You hear?- I heard you.

0:03:45 > 0:03:50- Don't put your snout in my door again! You hear?- I hear it.

0:03:50 > 0:03:57- I'll send my brother round. I don't think your heart can take another beating.- Yes, I hear you.

0:03:57 > 0:04:00I hear you...

0:04:04 > 0:04:08- Phew! This heat is bad! - I'm sweating like a river!

0:04:08 > 0:04:15It's bad in August. Nature provides everyone with air conditioning in their nose.

0:04:15 > 0:04:17I didn't realise that.

0:04:17 > 0:04:21There's a sound in my ears like a seashell.

0:04:21 > 0:04:24- Try some more of this coffee. - No, thanks.

0:04:24 > 0:04:28It's very kind of you to let me sit here.

0:04:28 > 0:04:33I wouldn't drink that stuff in this heat. Booze makes a million widows.

0:04:33 > 0:04:38You know what I'll do? Walk down the street and cool off.

0:04:38 > 0:04:41It's seven hours until my bus leaves.

0:04:47 > 0:04:50- What's this? - Money, and you dropped it.

0:04:50 > 0:04:53- Money?- Take it, it won't bite!

0:04:53 > 0:04:56- I dropped this? - It came out with the handkerchief.

0:04:56 > 0:04:58Hi! >

0:04:58 > 0:05:00Hello, Tom.

0:05:00 > 0:05:04Well, so long, Ray. It was nice to have met you.

0:05:04 > 0:05:05So long!

0:05:07 > 0:05:09Hey!

0:05:09 > 0:05:14- Don't forget this!- Gee! It shows you how unconcentrated you can get.

0:05:14 > 0:05:18- Non compos mentis, that's me!- No jokes!

0:05:19 > 0:05:22ITALIAN ACCENT: Hello, mister!

0:05:22 > 0:05:27- I'll sell you a hand of bananas for 30 cents.- No, thanks.

0:05:27 > 0:05:31If I sell you my last bananas, I can go home.

0:05:31 > 0:05:33- Why you no buy?- You wanna go home?

0:05:33 > 0:05:36I like-a go home, yes!

0:05:36 > 0:05:39- How much for the whole bunch? - Two dollars.

0:05:48 > 0:05:53Don't struggle, sailor. Let them carry you along like a mother!

0:05:53 > 0:05:56- Where's everyone going? - To the dogs!

0:05:59 > 0:06:02< Upstairs! That's where the girls are!

0:06:02 > 0:06:07< Upstairs! Dance to the haunting strains of the rumba-bumba!

0:06:07 > 0:06:10Twisting, twirling girls! Upstairs!

0:06:10 > 0:06:17Servicemen in uniform are half-price, brother. Upstairs! Don't wait! What's half a dollar to you?

0:06:17 > 0:06:22Upstairs, folks! Dance with 40 young dancing partners, 40 lovely...!

0:06:22 > 0:06:26BAND PLAYS A DANCE NUMBER

0:06:45 > 0:06:48You'll have to get another partner. I'm tired.

0:06:48 > 0:06:52- No disrespect. - It's late and I'm tired.

0:06:52 > 0:06:55Refreshments? Meaning no disrespect.

0:06:55 > 0:06:56No.

0:06:56 > 0:07:00After all, you see, I... Don't misunderstand...

0:07:00 > 0:07:02What's wrong here? >

0:07:02 > 0:07:05She asked me to get another partner.

0:07:05 > 0:07:07I have so many tickets, you see.

0:07:07 > 0:07:09She won't dance!

0:07:09 > 0:07:14- What's the idea? - He's been hanging on like a leech for nights!

0:07:14 > 0:07:18- Meaning no disrespect! - That's what you're here for!

0:07:18 > 0:07:21He don't buy tickets to look at himself!

0:07:21 > 0:07:24What about the gloves? He's got the itch!

0:07:24 > 0:07:27- You misunderstand.- He's got a rash!

0:07:27 > 0:07:30- Is that a fact?- It's nerves!

0:07:30 > 0:07:35Don't never come back in The Jungle again with things like that!

0:07:35 > 0:07:37No disrespect...!

0:07:41 > 0:07:44Gee, that's terrible! He could pass that on!

0:07:52 > 0:07:56Excuse me. It was not my intention to get fresh.

0:07:56 > 0:07:59Go away. I'm tired.

0:07:59 > 0:08:01You wouldn't care to dance?

0:08:10 > 0:08:14- Do you think it might rain and cool off?- Things DO happen.

0:08:21 > 0:08:24There's a lot of nice people here.

0:08:24 > 0:08:28It's a post office full of second class matter.

0:08:30 > 0:08:34What did you want to do when you were 12 years old?

0:08:34 > 0:08:36Marry John Barrymore!

0:08:36 > 0:08:40Do we have to talk? Are you an author or something?

0:08:40 > 0:08:45Conversation is very necessary, as my father says.

0:08:45 > 0:08:49- Why?- What would life be without conversation?

0:08:53 > 0:08:58They give men in the services salt pills when it's hot like this.

0:08:58 > 0:09:01- What for? - They say it balances up the system.

0:09:01 > 0:09:03What system?

0:09:03 > 0:09:08I guess I need some food to settle my stomach.

0:09:15 > 0:09:19I want one pound of steak, down there.

0:09:19 > 0:09:21One glass of ice tea with lemon.

0:09:21 > 0:09:28Let's not wait. Let's make the sandwiches up at my place. Don't misunderstand me...

0:09:28 > 0:09:33We'll buy the food and make the sandwiches at your house.

0:09:33 > 0:09:38- Half a pound of corned beef, no fat. - Corned beef! Make it snappy!

0:09:38 > 0:09:42Well, is your system balanced yet?

0:09:42 > 0:09:48I'm losing respect for myself, that's the truth. I've no confidence.

0:09:48 > 0:09:52I even lost out to a girl I really cared about.

0:09:52 > 0:09:54- Because you lacked confidence?- Yes.

0:09:54 > 0:09:58- People say I'm too slow... - She gave you that bracelet?

0:09:58 > 0:10:02No, my father did. That's where the trouble started.

0:10:02 > 0:10:06I came home and he'd taken a body to Pennsylvania.

0:10:06 > 0:10:08- A what?- My father's a mortician.

0:10:08 > 0:10:11I thought it only happened in jokes.

0:10:11 > 0:10:15Someone's father has to be a mortician!

0:10:15 > 0:10:22He's got the largest stocks of caskets in Putnam County that's where I'm from.

0:10:22 > 0:10:26My father's a very honest man, my stepmother don't like it.

0:10:26 > 0:10:29Three or four haircuts ago...

0:10:29 > 0:10:32That's the last time I saw him.

0:10:33 > 0:10:38- Gee! Here we are getting blue this hour of the night.- I'm not blue.

0:10:39 > 0:10:41I'm tired.

0:10:41 > 0:10:47Please excuse me, the time didn't occur to me! Non compos mentis!

0:10:47 > 0:10:50It's all right, I'm beat out.

0:10:50 > 0:10:52It's this balmy weather.

0:10:52 > 0:10:54- SIREN - What's that?

0:10:54 > 0:10:58That, Colonel, is a ton of law a police car.

0:11:03 > 0:11:09It's all right to live in a cocoon if you expect to be a butterfly some day.

0:11:09 > 0:11:14- Are you unhappy, too? - Yes, I was too ambitious.

0:11:14 > 0:11:18I should have taken the commercial course.

0:11:18 > 0:11:21Now say good night. Drop into The Jungle.

0:11:21 > 0:11:27It's nice of you, Miss Gough, but I'm leaving on the 6 o'clock bus.

0:11:27 > 0:11:29- I'm proud of this uniform.- Why not?

0:11:29 > 0:11:34That's what worries me. They'll nab me before I get to Norfolk.

0:11:34 > 0:11:38- Norfolk?- Norfolk, Virginia, where the naval station is.

0:11:38 > 0:11:45Is that where you're taking the 6 o'clock bus to? The terminal on the corner of Monticello?

0:11:45 > 0:11:49- I was born in Norfolk! - You were?- Yes, I was!

0:11:49 > 0:11:52I was, I was...

0:11:53 > 0:11:55What's your problem, son?

0:11:55 > 0:12:00Do something for me and I'll help you. Visit my mother in Norfolk.

0:12:00 > 0:12:03All she's got is an old hound dog.

0:12:03 > 0:12:08You saw me in a show, in a good leading part, dancing and singing.

0:12:08 > 0:12:12- Say I looked happy and I'll visit soon.- That's not true.

0:12:12 > 0:12:16Oh, sure! Of course! Why not?!

0:12:16 > 0:12:19A stickler for the truth.

0:12:19 > 0:12:23You'd like to say I'm a dance hall girl,

0:12:23 > 0:12:25sick with pride and depression.

0:12:25 > 0:12:33- Tell an old lady THAT, with a son a belly-gunner over Japan?- Wait! - Get out before I throw you out!

0:12:33 > 0:12:35I'm sorry, I...

0:12:35 > 0:12:38Can you do me a favour, Miss Gough?

0:12:38 > 0:12:43I don't want to burden you with my problems but I have a lot of money.

0:12:43 > 0:12:47You could use it. Go back to Norfolk, surprise your mother.

0:12:47 > 0:12:52- This is real money, son. - I took it.

0:12:52 > 0:12:56Let us pause for station identification...

0:12:56 > 0:13:01- You stole it?- I did and I didn't. - You either do or you don't.

0:13:01 > 0:13:03I didn't know what I was doing.

0:13:03 > 0:13:10She and her brother run this Italian place. The brother asked me to play casino.

0:13:10 > 0:13:18- After two hours of him cheating like a skunk, I was broke.- Why not stop him?- I was too embarrassed.

0:13:18 > 0:13:23They closed up and the sister asked me to come back and fix her radio.

0:13:23 > 0:13:28Up her house she kept...drinking and being disgusting in general.

0:13:28 > 0:13:35But I fixed the radio. By this time I'd had a few drinks and then blacked out.

0:13:35 > 0:13:39- When I came round she was asleep. - Passed out?- Yes.

0:13:39 > 0:13:42I said if she paid me for the radio I'd go.

0:13:42 > 0:13:46I decided to take the money for fixing the radio.

0:13:46 > 0:13:49- That's all I remember.- Until?

0:13:49 > 0:13:53Until I was sitting at a newsstand, drinking black coffee.

0:13:53 > 0:13:58Then a roll of bills fell out of my pocket. I did THAT in this uniform!

0:13:58 > 0:14:011,400 and some cheques.

0:14:01 > 0:14:04She's probably still out put it back.

0:14:04 > 0:14:08Suppose I'm caught? Her brother knows where I'm from.

0:14:08 > 0:14:14- Your only chance is to put it back. - Might I leave my radio here?

0:14:14 > 0:14:16You might not, I'm going to bed.

0:14:16 > 0:14:20I wonder if you would help me, Miss Gough?

0:14:20 > 0:14:24- Just wait downstairs... - No! I should say not.

0:14:24 > 0:14:28It's the uniform, otherwise I'd do it no problem.

0:14:28 > 0:14:35You see, Miss Gough, suppose I was your brother, the belly-gunner, Miss Gough.

0:14:37 > 0:14:40What an operator!

0:14:40 > 0:14:43Are there any more at home like you?

0:15:01 > 0:15:04- Which house? - Opposite the place with two lights.

0:15:08 > 0:15:12That's a police station, that "place with two lights"?

0:15:33 > 0:15:35This is it, Miss Gough.

0:15:35 > 0:15:38Call me June, it rhymes with moon.

0:15:43 > 0:15:48I'll turn on the radio if anyone starts up after you.

0:15:49 > 0:15:51Yes. Thanks.

0:15:57 > 0:16:00Come along now! >

0:16:03 > 0:16:06POLICEMAN: No, you don't!

0:16:06 > 0:16:10You can't come in here. Don't make the sergeant mad! >

0:16:10 > 0:16:14All I want is to lay my head down. A cell...

0:16:14 > 0:16:17You gotta commit a crime to get in a cell.

0:16:17 > 0:16:22MUTTERING: No-one wants anyone on a night like this...

0:16:23 > 0:16:29- Did you put it back?- I won't need your help any more.- What happened?

0:16:29 > 0:16:31The woman is dead.

0:16:33 > 0:16:34Hold this.

0:16:57 > 0:16:59"I hear the whistle blowing."

0:17:00 > 0:17:03Who did it? You?

0:17:03 > 0:17:05- You think- I- did it?

0:17:05 > 0:17:07Didn't you?

0:17:07 > 0:17:10Don't look at me like that.

0:17:10 > 0:17:13I think you'd better leave.

0:17:13 > 0:17:14Yes.

0:17:15 > 0:17:18Well, this is New York...

0:17:18 > 0:17:20where hello means goodbye.

0:17:26 > 0:17:29What are you gonna do?

0:17:29 > 0:17:31I don't know.

0:17:37 > 0:17:40Walk or we'll go home!

0:17:40 > 0:17:43- DOG YAPS Hot, isn't it?- Yes.

0:17:43 > 0:17:47He won't hurt you! He's just a puppy! A baby!

0:17:47 > 0:17:50He wouldn't hurt a flea!

0:17:54 > 0:17:56A baby...

0:18:11 > 0:18:13Did you do it?

0:18:13 > 0:18:16Please believe me someone has to!

0:18:16 > 0:18:19Oh, sure(!) Why not?

0:18:19 > 0:18:24The cops' windows look into these windows. Didn't you think of that?

0:18:24 > 0:18:28Who did YOU want to be when you were 12? Boo McNut?!

0:18:34 > 0:18:37It can't be suicide, there's no weapon.

0:18:37 > 0:18:39Strangled, is she?

0:18:39 > 0:18:44Yes, that's how it looks. Strangled.

0:18:44 > 0:18:46- You're perspiring.- Well, I...

0:18:46 > 0:18:50BUZZER

0:18:51 > 0:18:55You better drop down on your bendified knees and pray!

0:18:55 > 0:18:59SLURRED: Edna! It's Babe, Babe Dooley! >

0:18:59 > 0:19:01Answer the door! >

0:19:01 > 0:19:05Edna! Why don't you answer me?!

0:19:05 > 0:19:07I need a bottle! >

0:19:07 > 0:19:10Rain, rain, go away, come back another day.

0:19:10 > 0:19:13You only love the fat man...

0:19:13 > 0:19:16Or the second! Or the third!

0:19:17 > 0:19:20Oh, never mind!

0:19:20 > 0:19:21He's gone.

0:19:21 > 0:19:23Yes.

0:19:23 > 0:19:26We'd better wait in the dark a minute.

0:19:27 > 0:19:30Do you hear anything?

0:19:30 > 0:19:34- Only your breathing. - (Is that what that is?)

0:19:34 > 0:19:36Yes...and mine.

0:19:38 > 0:19:42- Should I call the police? - It's your problem, not mine.

0:19:42 > 0:19:46You're smarter than me what should I do?

0:19:46 > 0:19:50- Cut and run now. Get on your bus... - They'll catch me.

0:19:50 > 0:19:55Her brother knew I came up here. I'm the first one they'd look for.

0:19:55 > 0:19:58- What's the good...? - They couldn't say I ran away.

0:19:58 > 0:20:03- If we look around... - Don't say "we"! It's not my problem.

0:20:03 > 0:20:07- People don't drop clues! - Why are you so mad?

0:20:07 > 0:20:12This weather brings me to the boil and you're such a helpless baby!

0:20:15 > 0:20:19Here's a clue! Mentholated cigarettes, used by the million.

0:20:19 > 0:20:24Or this a lipstick! Some matches and a book!

0:20:24 > 0:20:27A dead carnation.

0:20:27 > 0:20:30It's not her lipstick, it belongs to a blonde...

0:20:30 > 0:20:33- Light...- A man did it, not a woman!

0:20:33 > 0:20:38A man came here to get the money or she'd never have brought it home.

0:20:38 > 0:20:43She let him in so she knew him. She made him mad and he did it.

0:20:43 > 0:20:46A woman wouldn't strangle someone.

0:20:46 > 0:20:51- It wasn't premeditated he'd have had a weapon. Sounds right?- Go on.

0:20:53 > 0:20:55I can't.

0:20:55 > 0:21:01But he must have been very nervous when he left. We have that clue!

0:21:01 > 0:21:04We have that clue(!) What a clue(!)

0:21:04 > 0:21:09Nervous like every butcher, baker, candlestick-maker in town.

0:21:12 > 0:21:15Now suppose we stick to the text.

0:21:15 > 0:21:17- What?- The text.

0:21:19 > 0:21:22It wasn't theft her jewellery's on her.

0:21:22 > 0:21:29- She lived alone, liked men, drank a lot. - Looks like she put up a good fight.

0:21:32 > 0:21:34It's the biggest city in the world.

0:21:34 > 0:21:37Somewhere in it, one man or woman...

0:21:38 > 0:21:40I'm sorry,

0:21:40 > 0:21:43it's no use.

0:21:43 > 0:21:45So, I guess you're IT.

0:21:48 > 0:21:52- Is this her key? - Yes, I saw her put it there.

0:21:52 > 0:21:55What are you looking at?

0:21:55 > 0:22:00You left and came back. Why? To leave me more alone?

0:22:00 > 0:22:05This is hopeless! Why not admit it? Anyway, it's not my problem.

0:22:06 > 0:22:11OK, it IS my problem. My brother's a belly-gunner, I'll help you.

0:22:11 > 0:22:13How? Go where?

0:22:13 > 0:22:19We need to find a murderer before you get the bus or the maid comes.

0:22:19 > 0:22:21Well? Tell me what to do.

0:22:21 > 0:22:24Let's go downstairs. Outside.

0:22:24 > 0:22:28I'll take the key. I think I'll call you June.

0:22:42 > 0:22:44Now, concentrate!

0:22:44 > 0:22:49- On what?- You're the man who did it. You're as a nervous as a cat.

0:22:49 > 0:22:52What do you do? Where do you go?

0:22:52 > 0:22:54Where would I go?

0:22:54 > 0:22:58Anywhere... Away from the police station.

0:22:59 > 0:23:01This way.

0:23:12 > 0:23:14Here you are.

0:23:14 > 0:23:17- Here I am.- What do you do now?

0:23:17 > 0:23:19Well...

0:23:19 > 0:23:24What I do is go over there and take an orangeade cos my throat's dry.

0:23:38 > 0:23:40I'm not thirsty.

0:23:40 > 0:23:44- Neither am I.- Let's leave.

0:23:47 > 0:23:52Wait a minute, that's just what that "certain party" might do!

0:23:53 > 0:24:00- Would you settle a bet? - I'll lay you one you and your husband are looking for a hotel.

0:24:00 > 0:24:05We bet we're the first to walk away without drinking our drink.

0:24:05 > 0:24:11It happens eight times a day! An hour ago a beautiful blonde did it.

0:24:11 > 0:24:16- I near fell when she stepped into a cab. Beautiful and lame.- How lame?

0:24:16 > 0:24:22- Enough to make you want to treat her like a sister.- Oh. Thanks.

0:24:22 > 0:24:25Come drink our grapeade next time!

0:24:25 > 0:24:30She got in a cab, a blonde, lame. Shall we try to trace it?

0:24:30 > 0:24:34- What do you think? - It might be worth it. Wait.

0:24:35 > 0:24:37Say!

0:24:37 > 0:24:42My sister walked out on me blonde, maybe limped a little...

0:24:42 > 0:24:47That one! Why was she crying? Life's too short for tears.

0:24:47 > 0:24:49Where'd you take her, philosopher?

0:24:49 > 0:24:54Downtown on 11th. In the village, over a bakery. Drive you down?

0:24:54 > 0:24:59- He took her. It might be worth a try.- We'll go!

0:24:59 > 0:25:02Not "we", me. I can handle a woman alone.

0:25:02 > 0:25:06You find a nervous man, Alex. That is your name?

0:25:06 > 0:25:08Alex Winkler, yes.

0:25:12 > 0:25:15Are you coming back, June?

0:25:15 > 0:25:18That's a chance you'll have to take.

0:25:18 > 0:25:20Be careful.

0:25:48 > 0:25:49Cab!

0:25:53 > 0:25:55Straight ahead!

0:25:57 > 0:25:59Follow that cab!

0:26:06 > 0:26:11- That's not soda water in his gas tank!- Don't lose him!

0:26:11 > 0:26:13I'm a stubborn man, you'd be amazed!

0:26:30 > 0:26:32KNOCKING

0:26:33 > 0:26:37- Is something wrong? - Yes, something's wrong!

0:26:38 > 0:26:40- He's not in.- Who?

0:26:40 > 0:26:43She's dying...and he's not in!

0:26:43 > 0:26:47- Who?- My Snappy... She's swallowed a chicken bone.

0:26:51 > 0:26:54It's too late. I see now.

0:26:54 > 0:26:56It's too late.

0:26:58 > 0:27:00My dearest friend in the whole world.

0:27:00 > 0:27:03From a chicken bone!

0:27:03 > 0:27:05You can't feed a cat chicken bones!

0:27:06 > 0:27:09He was my dearest friend.

0:27:09 > 0:27:12I'm a janitor in a house,

0:27:12 > 0:27:14this is my companion.

0:27:14 > 0:27:17She did everything but speak.

0:27:29 > 0:27:32I'm no hawk but this looks like the corner.

0:27:35 > 0:27:39- Will you wait here? - The night is young and so am I.

0:27:45 > 0:27:49Don't stop if you want a room. We don't want girls here.

0:27:49 > 0:27:54That's right! They wash their things in the sink.

0:27:57 > 0:28:01- A friend?- Yes. - You should know where she lives!

0:28:01 > 0:28:03- I forgot.- 350.

0:28:03 > 0:28:09- I'm the super there and in four buildings in this block.- What of it?

0:28:09 > 0:28:11I don't get paid enough! That's what.

0:28:33 > 0:28:35DOOR BUZZES

0:28:41 > 0:28:42Yes?

0:28:42 > 0:28:45Sorry, my hand slipped.

0:28:48 > 0:28:51- <- Is the baby asleep?

0:28:53 > 0:28:58- I asked you a civil question. - WOMAN: Yes, he's asleep.

0:29:00 > 0:29:03Go to bed, you have to get up early.

0:29:03 > 0:29:07You're considerate but you haven't answered my question.

0:29:07 > 0:29:09What about it?

0:29:09 > 0:29:15- Can't I ask my wife where she was until 2.00am?- I took in a picture.

0:29:15 > 0:29:19You took in a picture(!) You suddenly love pictures?

0:29:19 > 0:29:22It's too hot to argue, Gerry.

0:29:22 > 0:29:25Sure(!) When I open my mouth it's an argument!

0:29:25 > 0:29:28Please don't wake the baby up!

0:29:28 > 0:29:31How about when you left her alone for two hours?

0:29:31 > 0:29:36What do you want, Gerry? Mrs Daniels kept an eye on her.

0:29:36 > 0:29:43- I try to be a good wife. - Your best ain't good enough. - Please. What are we fighting about?

0:29:44 > 0:29:46Some people call it love.

0:29:46 > 0:29:50- I can't listen to this. - Jump out the window, then.

0:29:55 > 0:30:00- <- Where are you going? - Downstairs to cool off.

0:30:29 > 0:30:32Mrs Robinson? Don't turn around.

0:30:32 > 0:30:35I know where you were tonight.

0:30:35 > 0:30:38- Where was I? - You left a lipstick there.

0:30:38 > 0:30:41Come in here a minute.

0:30:43 > 0:30:47You wouldn't want him to know, would you?

0:30:47 > 0:30:49Wouldn't want him to know what?

0:30:49 > 0:30:54- You left a fine mess in that room. - I don't know you. What do you want?

0:30:54 > 0:30:58You took a cab from 51st and Lexington...

0:30:58 > 0:31:00- Did I?- Yes.

0:31:00 > 0:31:04- Get out! Leave me alone! - Helen, are you down there?

0:31:04 > 0:31:09- Do you want him to know?- No. - Then go sit on the step.

0:31:09 > 0:31:11Fix your hair.

0:31:11 > 0:31:13Helen?!

0:31:15 > 0:31:20- I've got my eye on you.- I don't know you and I don't want to talk.

0:31:20 > 0:31:24- Come back there with me. - I don't understand!

0:31:24 > 0:31:28Is that why you tried to beat my brains out?

0:31:28 > 0:31:31Don't you know Edna Bartelli is dead?

0:31:31 > 0:31:33I don't know Edna Bartelli.

0:31:33 > 0:31:39I went to a party with a man. Please, my husband mustn't know.

0:31:39 > 0:31:42- What party?- Near the 50s. - Near where?

0:31:42 > 0:31:44Near where you said... Please!

0:31:45 > 0:31:47Turn around.

0:31:47 > 0:31:50Face the light.

0:31:51 > 0:31:53No lipstick.

0:31:53 > 0:31:58- I don't use it.- Except when you go to parties.- No! Please!

0:32:00 > 0:32:02Go upstairs to bed.

0:32:05 > 0:32:09Don't leave unless you want the police knocking.

0:32:09 > 0:32:12I won't leave. Good night.

0:32:26 > 0:32:31- Did you cool that bird-brain off? - Edna Bartelli had been killed.

0:32:34 > 0:32:37You saw a movie uptown!

0:32:37 > 0:32:39And you?

0:32:39 > 0:32:41Where were you until one o'clock?

0:32:45 > 0:32:49- Back to where I picked you up?- Right.

0:32:49 > 0:32:52HE SIGHS Beg your pardon?

0:32:52 > 0:32:56- What? - You sigh like the end of summer.

0:32:56 > 0:32:58- Troubles?- Personal.

0:32:58 > 0:33:00Oh.

0:33:00 > 0:33:01Personal...

0:33:01 > 0:33:06- That's killed a lot of people in its day.- Yes.

0:33:16 > 0:33:20If it's not too personal, what was that all about?

0:33:20 > 0:33:22Er...personal.

0:33:22 > 0:33:27- I buy it back forget I asked. Good night.- Good night.

0:33:38 > 0:33:40- What is it?- Nothing.

0:33:40 > 0:33:46Statistics tell us everyone has troubles. Was it your last dollar?

0:33:46 > 0:33:47No?

0:33:47 > 0:33:50Forget it.

0:33:50 > 0:33:52- Good night.- Good night.

0:34:44 > 0:34:46- THUD! - Who's that?- Alex!- June?

0:34:49 > 0:34:54That noise is my skin creeping. Did anything happen?

0:34:56 > 0:35:00That makes no hits, no runs and two errors.

0:35:01 > 0:35:03You look happy, character!

0:35:03 > 0:35:08Glad you came back cos you didn't have to...but you did.

0:35:11 > 0:35:13I could sure use that orangeade now.

0:35:13 > 0:35:16Is there an icebox? Let's see.

0:35:25 > 0:35:28Are you hungry?

0:35:28 > 0:35:30- No.- Thirsty?

0:35:32 > 0:35:34Let's melt some ice together!

0:35:40 > 0:35:42Frozen joy!

0:35:42 > 0:35:45KNOCK AT DOOR

0:35:49 > 0:35:51Who is it?

0:35:51 > 0:35:53It's Mr Hoffman!

0:35:53 > 0:35:56He's the one who drove me up.

0:35:56 > 0:36:00- What did you say? - Nothing! Personal, I said.

0:36:02 > 0:36:05We're having a cold drink. Come in!

0:36:05 > 0:36:10- I heard your voice.- Must have been listening close!- As close as I can.

0:36:10 > 0:36:14- This is...- Miss Bartelli. Why were you listening?

0:36:14 > 0:36:19This man seemed in trouble, I wanted to help. Don't hate me for trying.

0:36:19 > 0:36:23- Did you mention the "text" to Mr Hoffman?- No.

0:36:23 > 0:36:26Take 100% for trying. Good night.

0:36:28 > 0:36:29Good night.

0:36:32 > 0:36:37- Between us and the lamppost, you're not Miss Bartelli.- What do you want?

0:36:37 > 0:36:40Young lady, you're in a sweat why?

0:36:40 > 0:36:45- Look at that boy.- Miss Bartelli's dead.- In the next room.

0:36:45 > 0:36:48Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that.

0:36:48 > 0:36:52Excuse me for this intrusion in your hour of grief.

0:36:52 > 0:36:55Mr Hoffman, she was murdered.

0:36:55 > 0:37:00- Have you informed the police? - It's more complicated than that.

0:37:00 > 0:37:02I'm willing to listen.

0:37:04 > 0:37:08My name is Alex Winkler, my father is an undertaker.

0:37:08 > 0:37:13About seven o'clock last night I went to a restaurant...

0:37:22 > 0:37:24Dark Mystery...very expensive!

0:37:24 > 0:37:29What did you do after you cleared the blonde woman?

0:37:29 > 0:37:31Came right back here.

0:37:32 > 0:37:40The divine being made many loathsome creatures but none so low as a woman with a cold heart.

0:37:40 > 0:37:44She had these to blackmail... even her own brother!

0:37:45 > 0:37:49A blind man can see how many boyfriends she had!

0:37:49 > 0:37:53The water tasted good so she jumped down the well!

0:37:55 > 0:38:00But in the professor's opinion we are wasting our time.

0:38:00 > 0:38:01Why?

0:38:01 > 0:38:04- We have no clues...- There's a cheque.

0:38:04 > 0:38:09- What cheque?- For 1,000, signed by Lester Brady.

0:38:09 > 0:38:13That might give Mr Brady a motive, but we're only guessing.

0:38:13 > 0:38:19The divine being would not permit an innocent boy to suffer.

0:38:23 > 0:38:26What do you suggest we do?

0:38:27 > 0:38:30Get out of here! Get your bus.

0:38:30 > 0:38:33I can't leave, but you and June should go!

0:38:33 > 0:38:36First it's stay, then it's go!

0:38:36 > 0:38:39- It's hopeless!- He has a point.

0:38:39 > 0:38:42- Why do you want to get him out? - It's hopeless.

0:38:42 > 0:38:47I think we should try Lester Brady and his cheque.

0:38:47 > 0:38:51I am putty in your hands. Whatever, Miss Gough.

0:38:51 > 0:38:53Call me June.

0:38:53 > 0:38:54June.

0:39:05 > 0:39:08Blitzkrieg with hair on her head!

0:39:08 > 0:39:12- Two numbers for Brady home and business.- Monkey business!

0:39:12 > 0:39:18Someone called her at 10.38pm...or she called them! Let's try this one.

0:39:18 > 0:39:20May I see?

0:39:20 > 0:39:23This is my handwriting

0:39:23 > 0:39:25but I don't remember writing it.

0:39:28 > 0:39:30June...

0:39:30 > 0:39:34- June, I think- I- murdered Miss Bartelli!

0:39:34 > 0:39:36- What does that mean?- It's proven!

0:39:36 > 0:39:42From 10.00 to 11.00pm, my mind is blank. I must have done it then!

0:39:42 > 0:39:46- That's nonsense! - It's possible, isn't it?

0:39:46 > 0:39:51I'm wrong four times out of five, but you're the wrongest guy I met!

0:39:51 > 0:39:55- He did it? - No, but he's such a character!

0:39:55 > 0:39:58Shhh! Don't raise your voices! We are not mice!

0:39:58 > 0:40:01- You think it was you?- I don't know!

0:40:01 > 0:40:07Let's stop zagging when we should be zigging! Call the 10.38pm number.

0:40:16 > 0:40:19'When you hear the signal it will be 3.10am.'

0:40:19 > 0:40:23Meridian 71212.

0:40:23 > 0:40:25KNOCK AT DOOR

0:40:25 > 0:40:27That's upstairs!

0:40:28 > 0:40:30MORE KNOCKING

0:40:32 > 0:40:35DOOR THUDS Edna!

0:40:35 > 0:40:37Edna?

0:40:37 > 0:40:39Are you here?

0:40:48 > 0:40:49Aaagh!

0:40:49 > 0:40:51Keep still!

0:40:51 > 0:40:54- Who are you?- I'm Mrs Raymond.

0:40:54 > 0:40:57Welcome! What are you doing here?

0:40:57 > 0:40:59Miss Bartelli...

0:40:59 > 0:41:03Was a friend so you stole her letters!

0:41:03 > 0:41:07You don't understand... I read them, I understand.

0:41:07 > 0:41:10I'll take them back and the money, too.

0:41:10 > 0:41:14- The money was an accident. - Were you here earlier?

0:41:14 > 0:41:19No, I wasn't. Now, what happened? Are you a detective?

0:41:19 > 0:41:22Maybe. > I know a cab driver's badge!

0:41:22 > 0:41:25- Put the gun down.- Keep away!

0:41:25 > 0:41:27Alex!

0:41:28 > 0:41:31I tripped over my own feet!

0:41:35 > 0:41:37She's gone!

0:41:37 > 0:41:40You weren't afraid of her.

0:41:40 > 0:41:43I'm not afraid of anything that's real.

0:41:43 > 0:41:45I'm polite but not afraid.

0:41:45 > 0:41:51Can the Mutual Admiration Society decide what to do about that woman?

0:41:51 > 0:41:55She won't report it, she's a criminal herself!

0:41:55 > 0:41:57- She left the letters.- She'll be back.

0:41:57 > 0:42:04Possibly. Honey draws flies! The town is full of flies there's one across the street now!

0:42:09 > 0:42:15- "I hear the whistle blowing."- He's not police.- Let's find out who he is.

0:42:15 > 0:42:17But not next to the station house!

0:42:17 > 0:42:24We ride off in your cab, the human fly follows and Alex goes to see Brady.

0:42:24 > 0:42:28- If the fly follows us?- Swat him! - Just like that?- Yes!

0:42:28 > 0:42:34- June, our daddies had a better life, but Steve Brodie took a chance!- Alex...

0:42:34 > 0:42:37get Mr Brady on the phone.

0:42:40 > 0:42:44- Is this a gag? - 'Don't get excited. It's not a gag.'

0:42:44 > 0:42:48You say you're in a uniform... sailor...

0:42:48 > 0:42:51- You said your name was? - 'I didn't say.'

0:42:51 > 0:42:54- Are you alone?- 'Yes.'

0:42:54 > 0:42:59Come right over to room 1019... Bring the cheque with ya!

0:43:02 > 0:43:05KNOCK AT DOOR

0:43:05 > 0:43:07Who is it? < Me.

0:43:07 > 0:43:11What do you want? I don't want you in here!

0:43:11 > 0:43:13< Let me in before you read about it.

0:43:13 > 0:43:18Don't flatter yourself. I'm not here for the love of it!

0:43:18 > 0:43:20Edna's been killed!

0:43:20 > 0:43:24I've just been there. She's lying dead on the floor.

0:43:24 > 0:43:28I have an idea who did it. You have?

0:43:28 > 0:43:30You.

0:43:33 > 0:43:38That's all the love I'm giving away this morning. Now you sit there!

0:43:48 > 0:43:51Put Val Bartelli on the phone.

0:43:51 > 0:43:56Only give him the cheque as a last resort. Pick his brains first.

0:43:56 > 0:43:59Speech was given to man to hide his thoughts.

0:43:59 > 0:44:01Best wishes.

0:44:03 > 0:44:06June, I'm almost glad this happened.

0:44:06 > 0:44:09- Are you nuts or what?- I mean it.

0:44:11 > 0:44:15Oh, sure(!) Of course. Why not?

0:44:26 > 0:44:33I'm mailing her letters to myself. If someone calls for them, we have a weapon.

0:44:33 > 0:44:35- THUNDERCLAP - What's that?

0:44:35 > 0:44:38A cooler for the city thunder.

0:44:40 > 0:44:44Be indifferent, don't look around. My cab's beyond the door.

0:44:44 > 0:44:51- Every minute brings Alex closer to his last hour of freedom. - We'll do our best.- He's such a baby!

0:44:51 > 0:44:54A sweet baby?

0:44:55 > 0:44:56Yes!

0:45:03 > 0:45:06It's hot tonight! Not since the old days...

0:45:06 > 0:45:09- Is he there?- Yes.

0:45:11 > 0:45:13ENGINE STARTS

0:45:32 > 0:45:35- Don't lose him! - He's right behind us.

0:45:35 > 0:45:39We'll go up west and meet him uptown.

0:45:41 > 0:45:47We'll make a sharp right. There's a police booth to intimidate him.

0:45:59 > 0:46:03What is this? My fare asked me to follow ya.

0:46:03 > 0:46:05Who is he? Ask him.

0:46:05 > 0:46:10- What are you following the lady for? - It's a mistake.- What do you mean?

0:46:10 > 0:46:17June! What kind of lizard are you following a lady in the night? You know this man?

0:46:17 > 0:46:21- I can't see him.- Get out, kind sir. - No!

0:46:21 > 0:46:24The police are there. No trouble!

0:46:24 > 0:46:27I work. What are you following her for?

0:46:32 > 0:46:35- Oh!- You know him?

0:46:35 > 0:46:40- Meaning no disrespect, my admiration.- Let him go, Gus.

0:46:40 > 0:46:43No disrespect, you understand.

0:46:43 > 0:46:48I am Edward Hornig, 526 Fifth Avenue Hornig Accordion Company.

0:46:48 > 0:46:54I am foreign-born but since last month am a citizen of your great country.

0:46:57 > 0:46:59My citizenship papers.

0:47:00 > 0:47:02American!

0:47:03 > 0:47:06- No, don't go, please! - Come on, Gus.

0:47:06 > 0:47:09No! Meaning no disrespect!

0:47:09 > 0:47:11Quiet, Mr Hornig, quiet.

0:47:13 > 0:47:16Take the American citizen home.

0:47:27 > 0:47:33That poor wreck of a man proposed to me tonight on the dance floor.

0:47:33 > 0:47:35Why are you crying, June?

0:47:40 > 0:47:41I don't know.

0:47:41 > 0:47:45I thought this chase would lead to something.

0:47:45 > 0:47:48What'll happen to that boy?

0:47:48 > 0:47:50He can't take care of himself.

0:47:50 > 0:47:53It's hot and I feel unnerved.

0:47:53 > 0:47:56Big storms always unnerve me.

0:47:56 > 0:48:02This crazy city unnerves me but I pretend otherwise. Where's the logic to it?

0:48:02 > 0:48:05- Where? - THUNDERCLAP

0:48:06 > 0:48:09The storm clouds have passed us.

0:48:09 > 0:48:11They're over Jersey now.

0:48:11 > 0:48:15Statistics tell us we'll see the stars again.

0:48:20 > 0:48:24Golly, the misery that walks around this pretty, quiet night.

0:48:24 > 0:48:26June...

0:48:28 > 0:48:30The logic you're looking for...

0:48:30 > 0:48:34The logic is that there IS no logic.

0:48:34 > 0:48:38The horror and terror you feel comes from being alive.

0:48:38 > 0:48:42Die and there is no trouble. Live and you struggle.

0:48:42 > 0:48:45It's beautiful to struggle for possibilities.

0:48:45 > 0:48:50Not "I hate the sun cos it don't light my cigarette."

0:48:50 > 0:48:55You're so young, you're a baby! Love's waiting at any door you open.

0:48:55 > 0:48:58Some say love's a superstition.

0:48:58 > 0:49:01Dismiss those Miss Bartellis from your mind.

0:49:01 > 0:49:05Their poison is on the sweetest facts of life.

0:49:05 > 0:49:10At 23 believe in love and its possibilities as I do at 53.

0:49:10 > 0:49:12< What's wrong?

0:49:12 > 0:49:17- Is he bothering you? - He's the only man in four years who hasn't.

0:49:17 > 0:49:19It's no place to park.

0:49:24 > 0:49:29Let's face it, Val, you and I are partners in a 42,000 investment.

0:49:29 > 0:49:35You own 20% of my show. If it's not opening, you own a piece of dirt.

0:49:35 > 0:49:41Why won't the show open Tuesday? And who's this broad here?

0:49:41 > 0:49:45Mrs Raymond! Her husband has pledged 10 Gs for the show!

0:49:45 > 0:49:49If he learns we're friends, we're ruined.

0:49:49 > 0:49:51Cut off her head, she'd be pretty.

0:49:51 > 0:49:55Yeah. What would you do in my place?

0:49:55 > 0:49:58- How will he know? - Your sister has some letters.

0:49:58 > 0:50:01Little notes she wrote last spring.

0:50:01 > 0:50:05She'll show 'em to Raymond unless she gets a piece of the show.

0:50:05 > 0:50:09Wax heads should keep out of the sun.

0:50:09 > 0:50:12- I don't know anything about it. - Wait!

0:50:12 > 0:50:16You tried to buy those letters back from Edna.

0:50:16 > 0:50:21- You gave her a bad cheque. You're surprised she's sore?- Wait!

0:50:21 > 0:50:24Frankly, I don't know how to tell you this...

0:50:24 > 0:50:27We gotta get those letters because...

0:50:27 > 0:50:32er...right now, your sister... is lying dead in a room.

0:50:32 > 0:50:34Easy!

0:50:34 > 0:50:37Yeah... Mrs Raymond just came from there.

0:50:37 > 0:50:40You shut your mouth! Hear me?

0:50:44 > 0:50:46Play it again and play it sweet!

0:50:46 > 0:50:50- It's true. I swear, I didn't do it!- Who? Her?

0:50:50 > 0:50:56Some people there tried to hold her up. A sailor, a cabbie and a dame.

0:50:56 > 0:50:59- Who are they? - The boy's coming here!- Boy?

0:50:59 > 0:51:02- RINGING - Stay put!- That's him!

0:51:02 > 0:51:06Don't I know how to talk to a boy?

0:51:06 > 0:51:08RINGING

0:51:09 > 0:51:10Yeah?

0:51:10 > 0:51:12Who's this?

0:51:12 > 0:51:15Come right up, sailor boy.

0:51:17 > 0:51:19Put on your clothes, Lester.

0:51:33 > 0:51:35Come in. >

0:51:45 > 0:51:47Put the cheque on the table.

0:51:47 > 0:51:51- Going somewhere? - You wanna be paid first?

0:51:51 > 0:51:57- I wanna be sure it's yours. - Out of seven million you found me, it must be mine.

0:51:58 > 0:52:00Some grapes.

0:52:00 > 0:52:03Frankly, you kids are the limit!

0:52:03 > 0:52:09- You could be behind bars for that trick.- Or for passing bad cheques.

0:52:12 > 0:52:16- <- You shouldn't have hit me! - Where was it?- In a cab.

0:52:16 > 0:52:19- Where?- In a cab! - Where?- Who's that?

0:52:19 > 0:52:24Call me sweetheart. Shut that transom so it don't rain in.

0:52:24 > 0:52:30- Did you go home with my sister, Romeo?- Yes.- You killed her!- No!

0:52:30 > 0:52:36Val! Not here! We can take him to Edna's place. This is a hotel! A public place!

0:52:36 > 0:52:39- Go home!- Do as he tells you!

0:52:39 > 0:52:42- Keep your mouth shut!- Keep it shut!

0:52:42 > 0:52:44Yes, I will!

0:52:51 > 0:52:55How can you love a boy you've just met?

0:52:55 > 0:52:59How can a passing stranger change your entire life?

0:52:59 > 0:53:02You'd be amazed.

0:53:02 > 0:53:05My wife, I met and loved in a minute.

0:53:05 > 0:53:09The dentist's office with all the vitamins, too!

0:53:09 > 0:53:11I love her to this day.

0:53:11 > 0:53:15Although it's sixteen years she's been gone.

0:53:15 > 0:53:17No children?

0:53:17 > 0:53:20A girl. She's married now.

0:53:20 > 0:53:25Last year I put her husband in a dry-cleaning establishment.

0:53:25 > 0:53:27I had some savings.

0:53:29 > 0:53:31I'd die for that girl!

0:53:31 > 0:53:36- She remembers her mother?- Very well. She even remembers the man.

0:53:36 > 0:53:40- What man? - The man my wife ran off with.

0:53:42 > 0:53:43HORN BLARES

0:53:43 > 0:53:48The first six years I shaved every night before I went to bed.

0:53:48 > 0:53:51I thought she might come back.

0:53:56 > 0:53:59There's no papers in there, anyway.

0:54:03 > 0:54:05She was no lullaby

0:54:05 > 0:54:09but she had the brains like a man.

0:54:10 > 0:54:13I'll take her inside.

0:54:45 > 0:54:47Val! Stop it!

0:54:47 > 0:54:51- The cops are across the street! - Stop?- Val! Stop!

0:54:51 > 0:54:53GUNSHOT

0:54:55 > 0:54:58I hope nobody heard that.

0:54:59 > 0:55:02I was in the deep water for a minute.

0:55:03 > 0:55:06Drop the gun and don't turn around!

0:55:06 > 0:55:10- Is he hurt? - He's punched black and blue!

0:55:10 > 0:55:12Get some water.

0:55:12 > 0:55:16Now you can turn around. Who are you?

0:55:16 > 0:55:19- Who likes to know? - A man with a gun. Don't move!

0:55:19 > 0:55:24The body bleeds very easy. Don't move! Where's the body?

0:55:24 > 0:55:28- My sister is in her bed. - I'm his friend Lester Brady.

0:55:28 > 0:55:32- Are you hurt? - Pretty weak, can't deny that.

0:55:32 > 0:55:35What did you beat that boy up for?

0:55:35 > 0:55:41- He killed my sister. - Where is your eyes, gangster? He couldn't hurt a fly.

0:55:41 > 0:55:44There HAS been a murder here tonight.

0:55:44 > 0:55:48You had a motive, Mr Brady. And you, too.

0:55:48 > 0:55:51< Call the cops if you're so legitimate.

0:55:51 > 0:55:56- I don't need this gun to hold you here!- He knows something, Lester.

0:55:56 > 0:55:59First some gas station courtesy.

0:55:59 > 0:56:02What's Mr Raymond's wife's first name?

0:56:02 > 0:56:04Nan.

0:56:04 > 0:56:09- And the waiter who your sister found you were in cahoots with?- Why?

0:56:09 > 0:56:14- Put nothing in writing the first law of life.- Don't waste time, Gus!

0:56:14 > 0:56:19I read the incriminating papers you wanted and hid them like a squirrel.

0:56:19 > 0:56:22Why? Intuition.

0:56:22 > 0:56:25But you can get those papers back.

0:56:25 > 0:56:26How?

0:56:26 > 0:56:31- Help this young man.- A murderer is in this city. Help us find him!

0:56:31 > 0:56:35Weren't you talking to my sister a while ago?

0:56:35 > 0:56:37Never. What about my offer?

0:56:37 > 0:56:40Edna! It's Babe! >

0:56:40 > 0:56:43Are you home, Edna? >

0:56:43 > 0:56:45He was here before.

0:56:53 > 0:56:59Edna! It's late! I can't get a drinkie anywhere!

0:56:59 > 0:57:01Throw down a bottle, will ya?

0:57:01 > 0:57:04It's that drunk ball-player Dooley.

0:57:04 > 0:57:08Throw it down, Edna! I'll come up there if you don't!

0:57:10 > 0:57:14Do you think you're on a picnic? Move on!

0:57:14 > 0:57:16It's the Babe! Babe Dooley!

0:57:16 > 0:57:19Are you for me or against me?

0:57:19 > 0:57:21Are ya?

0:57:21 > 0:57:25Nothing's too good for the Babe. Then go up there.

0:57:25 > 0:57:28I can't navigate the stairs.

0:57:28 > 0:57:30Are we gonna cut it this year, Babe?

0:57:30 > 0:57:34Give me the bottle and we'll cut the house!

0:57:36 > 0:57:39He's coming up here the cop.

0:57:42 > 0:57:45What are you going to do?

0:57:52 > 0:57:57- Be careful!- Shut your face, Lester. - FOOTSTEPS

0:57:57 > 0:57:58KNOCKING

0:58:02 > 0:58:07- What's cooking?- Babe Dooley says a friend lives here.

0:58:07 > 0:58:11- I'm her brother, she don't fuss. - He only wants a drink.

0:58:14 > 0:58:17Here. Give him this but far away.

0:58:17 > 0:58:20- Sorry for the trouble.- Excused.

0:58:27 > 0:58:29Edna! Edna! >

0:58:29 > 0:58:33There's a fat ball-player who'll die in the street.

0:58:36 > 0:58:39OK. You've got until 6.00am.

0:58:39 > 0:58:43We start with clues. Who smokes mentholated cigarettes?

0:58:43 > 0:58:50- Who rides in subways? - A man in evening clothes was here. Would your sister know him?

0:58:50 > 0:58:52Sure! About 50,000!

0:58:52 > 0:58:59Statistics tell us white carnations go with tuxedo coats. Who wears white carnations?

0:58:59 > 0:59:01- Why?- He was here.

0:59:01 > 0:59:04- Who said?- This says!

0:59:05 > 0:59:07Did you find this here?

0:59:07 > 0:59:11- On the table.- What time is it now?

0:59:11 > 0:59:13Ten past four.

0:59:13 > 0:59:16I know where the sick pigeon is tonight.

0:59:16 > 0:59:19Come with me, Lester.

0:59:19 > 0:59:23- I need my sleep. - Sleep rots the brain!

0:59:23 > 0:59:25- We'll all go.- You'll stay here.

0:59:25 > 0:59:27No, we'll all go.

0:59:27 > 0:59:29All right.

0:59:40 > 0:59:44Gee, time takes so long and goes so fast.

0:59:44 > 0:59:47The sun comes up soon, don't it?

0:59:47 > 0:59:48Too soon.

1:00:09 > 1:00:11HE WHIMPERS

1:00:11 > 1:00:13Edna...

1:00:14 > 1:00:16Edna!

1:00:17 > 1:00:18Edna!

1:00:25 > 1:00:27Edna...

1:00:28 > 1:00:29Edna...

1:00:29 > 1:00:31Edna...

1:00:39 > 1:00:41Police! Police! Police!

1:00:43 > 1:00:45What are you thinking, June?

1:00:47 > 1:00:49Tired, son?

1:00:49 > 1:00:53I'm in trouble and sick at heart, I know that.

1:00:53 > 1:00:56Nothing can happen to me.

1:00:56 > 1:00:59- I was dead once, did I tell you? - No!

1:00:59 > 1:01:01Drowned in a river when I was 12.

1:01:01 > 1:01:05I was "dead" but was revived after two hours.

1:01:05 > 1:01:11Next day I played handball and fainted. I stayed in bed for six weeks.

1:01:11 > 1:01:14Nothing more can happen to me.

1:01:14 > 1:01:16The air goes to your head like dope.

1:01:16 > 1:01:23Mr Bartelli, I'm mighty sorry about your sister but I'll have to hit you before 6.00am!

1:01:23 > 1:01:24Now!

1:01:54 > 1:01:58What's Val Bartelli doing here? This is a private party!

1:01:58 > 1:02:00I couldn't stop him!

1:02:00 > 1:02:03Whisky and soda.

1:02:03 > 1:02:06WAITER: It's too late. Sandwiches? No.

1:02:06 > 1:02:09­ Anyone want some sandwiches?

1:02:09 > 1:02:12­ A mineral water and some lemonades.

1:02:12 > 1:02:14What a surprise!

1:02:14 > 1:02:19- Who are the people?- A party for a retiring police captain.

1:02:19 > 1:02:23This boy's leaving, I'm showing him around.

1:02:23 > 1:02:27- Fine.- Don't tell Sleepy we're here. - Sure, Val.

1:02:36 > 1:02:39Old cops...delicious!

1:02:39 > 1:02:44- We'll have to wait.- Until school opens?- Turn him over to the cops.

1:02:44 > 1:02:47- If he's innocent?- He done it!

1:02:47 > 1:02:49Wait! He'll see you!

1:02:49 > 1:02:52He's as blind as a bat! Blind?

1:02:58 > 1:03:00APPLAUSE

1:03:11 > 1:03:13- Gee!- Don't waste your pity!

1:03:13 > 1:03:16This girl has got a head!

1:03:21 > 1:03:24If I can get him outside a moment...

1:03:24 > 1:03:28The party'll be over soon. > Blind...

1:03:28 > 1:03:33- Breaks your heart, don't it? - The city's full of men like that.

1:03:33 > 1:03:35Nerves and worry.

1:03:35 > 1:03:38Living on cigars and bicarbonate of soda.

1:03:38 > 1:03:43- Wrung out by sleepless nights. - He'll sleep good in a box.

1:03:43 > 1:03:48The bed bugs will never forgive you. Your skin is iron.

1:03:49 > 1:03:51No fuss!

1:03:57 > 1:04:01Am I supposed to baby him along all night?

1:04:01 > 1:04:03- Be patient!- OK?

1:04:03 > 1:04:08Yeah. What would you like to do? Because I suggest you do it.

1:04:09 > 1:04:10Well?

1:04:12 > 1:04:14That's right we'll wait.

1:04:14 > 1:04:18It's not your nature to wait, nor your sister's.

1:04:18 > 1:04:23Take, break, smash and kill! You and your sister alike!

1:04:23 > 1:04:28- What do you know about my sister? - I read her intimate correspondence.

1:04:28 > 1:04:31Highly perfumed!

1:04:31 > 1:04:34The perfume. I'm wearing her perfume.

1:04:34 > 1:04:39Suppose I stand at the piano and let him get a good whiff.

1:04:39 > 1:04:44- Proving what?- If he's guilty we'll see it with our eyes.

1:04:44 > 1:04:48- This girl has got a head! - BANGING ON TABLE

1:04:48 > 1:04:54Friends, who have been so kind to make this gathering possible,

1:04:54 > 1:04:58the hour grows late and we must part.

1:04:58 > 1:05:02"Parting is such sweet sorrow," as the poet says. >

1:05:02 > 1:05:08I must say a few words before... we won't get home until morning!

1:05:11 > 1:05:14I've heard myself referred to tonight, >

1:05:14 > 1:05:17as a credit to the force... >

1:05:19 > 1:05:22l HE PLAYS A MOODY JAZZ BALLAD

1:05:36 > 1:05:39MUSIC STOPS

1:05:40 > 1:05:42MUSIC RESUMES

1:05:48 > 1:05:51MUSIC STOPS

1:05:51 > 1:05:54Who's that?

1:05:54 > 1:05:56Is that...?

1:05:57 > 1:05:59Who is it?

1:05:59 > 1:06:02Is someone standing here?

1:06:02 > 1:06:03Yes.

1:06:03 > 1:06:07- Who is it? - Edna's dead and you killed her!

1:06:07 > 1:06:09What?

1:06:09 > 1:06:11What's that?

1:06:23 > 1:06:26Shhh! The captain's talking. Don't run!

1:06:40 > 1:06:44- Who's that? - You know who it is.

1:06:44 > 1:06:48Val... Val, I just heard. A woman whispered...

1:06:48 > 1:06:51- You heard? What you just heard? - Edna, she's...

1:06:51 > 1:06:54No! Don't hit me! Don't hit me!

1:06:54 > 1:07:01I can't take it, Val. Please don't hit me! I loved her, I always loved her!

1:07:01 > 1:07:03He didn't do it! Leave him!

1:07:14 > 1:07:18Which one of you spoiled the captain's party?

1:07:19 > 1:07:21- You sure?- Yes.

1:07:21 > 1:07:27- You're not lying?- No, sir. - She kept asking you to hug her?

1:07:27 > 1:07:29- Yes.- But you wouldn't.- No, sir.

1:07:29 > 1:07:34- Why? - She didn't appeal to me. - You don't say?

1:07:34 > 1:07:38You say no to her. You expect us to believe that?

1:07:38 > 1:07:44Why would I lie? This is like the time my aunt won a car and the whole family fought!

1:07:44 > 1:07:47RINGING

1:07:47 > 1:07:48Yes?

1:07:49 > 1:07:51Right.

1:07:51 > 1:07:55Bartelli's not wanted. Narcotics had him years back.

1:07:55 > 1:08:00- You can't keep me here. - Lieutenant Kane's outside for you.

1:08:09 > 1:08:14You're gonna see the building's foundations now!

1:08:14 > 1:08:16Very sweet of you, June.

1:08:21 > 1:08:28Look at the time! What will the captain say when I don't report for duty? Or my father when he hears?

1:08:28 > 1:08:31Listen to how the murderer talks!

1:08:31 > 1:08:33A punch on the nose, remember that?

1:08:33 > 1:08:37June, there's something I've got to tell you.

1:08:37 > 1:08:42Whatever happens, I don't know how I existed before I met you.

1:08:42 > 1:08:46- That's the truth. - POLICEMAN: Sit down, sister.

1:08:52 > 1:08:57Babe Dooley's in the case. I don't think he done it.

1:08:57 > 1:08:59It gets more complicated.

1:08:59 > 1:09:01The girl?

1:09:01 > 1:09:03Airtight she left the dance at one.

1:09:03 > 1:09:07Why take a boy back? Her brother's a belly-gunner.

1:09:07 > 1:09:09Sympathy.

1:09:09 > 1:09:13We can't hold Bartelli for Sleepy's death it was heart failure.

1:09:13 > 1:09:16Did HE tap his sister?

1:09:16 > 1:09:18I doubt it but I don't like him.

1:09:18 > 1:09:24How about the cabbie? Clean record. We're wasting our time.

1:09:24 > 1:09:27Why? The boy did it but he won't crack.

1:09:27 > 1:09:30Maybe he's innocent. Maybe he ain't.

1:09:30 > 1:09:34Ready for work, Smiley? Say when, Lieutenant.

1:09:34 > 1:09:35When.

1:09:38 > 1:09:42- SMILEY: Turn the radio off. - "I hear the whistle blowing."

1:09:44 > 1:09:49- Bartelli, still making book? - I never had no interest in THAT.

1:09:49 > 1:09:51You're the boy who killed her? >

1:09:51 > 1:09:56- I did NOT.- Stand up! What's that? - I did NOT!- Get up!

1:09:56 > 1:09:58Get up! >

1:09:58 > 1:10:01I'm too tired, I won't get up.

1:10:01 > 1:10:08- You're ready for a grave in Potter's field.- My friends will tell you I'm all right.- Your friends?

1:10:08 > 1:10:12Put 'em out the hall with the mops and brooms!

1:10:19 > 1:10:21Now you're alone.

1:10:21 > 1:10:25No friends. A murderer has no friends.

1:10:25 > 1:10:29- Are you ready to sign a confession? - I'm ready to sleep!

1:10:29 > 1:10:34Do you know what it's like to fry in the electric chair?

1:10:34 > 1:10:38- Stop this! - Detective, you're getting too rough.

1:10:38 > 1:10:41Kids like this make my blood boil!

1:10:41 > 1:10:44Calm down! We're in the United States!

1:10:44 > 1:10:48Officer, bring this lad some cold water.

1:10:52 > 1:10:57- What's happening in there? - The other one steps in, sympathetic,

1:10:57 > 1:11:00and Alex tells him everything.

1:11:00 > 1:11:04- What can he tell him? - About that blank hour in his life.

1:11:04 > 1:11:07He didn't do it, Gus!

1:11:07 > 1:11:10I know he didn't.

1:11:10 > 1:11:12Do you want these others to leave?

1:11:12 > 1:11:16No, they don't annoy me. I'm annoyed anyway.

1:11:16 > 1:11:20I don't get it! He don't deserve no coddling.

1:11:20 > 1:11:23There's no reason to lose your head!

1:11:24 > 1:11:28Did you enlist or were you drafted, lad?

1:11:28 > 1:11:35- I enlisted after Pearl Harbor. The president was on the radio. - You didn't kill that woman?

1:11:35 > 1:11:38- No, sir.- Who do you think did?

1:11:38 > 1:11:42I don't know. I thought it was her husband but I don't know.

1:11:42 > 1:11:45- You didn't.- No, but...- But what?

1:11:45 > 1:11:50Sometimes you wish you had a sore toe so you can sit and not worry.

1:11:50 > 1:11:53That was my mood last night.

1:11:53 > 1:11:56No place to go, disgusted.

1:11:56 > 1:11:58She kept offering me these drinks.

1:11:58 > 1:12:02I don't have any sales resistance, as my father says.

1:12:02 > 1:12:06After a few drinks... Non compos mentis.

1:12:06 > 1:12:09- Non compos mentis.- Yes, sir.

1:12:09 > 1:12:14I was lost. Like swimming under water in the dark.

1:12:14 > 1:12:18- Next thing the money was in my pocket.- You were unaware...

1:12:18 > 1:12:22- I was.- ..the money was in your pocket?- Right.

1:12:22 > 1:12:25- You wanna help us find the killer? - Yes.

1:12:25 > 1:12:27Did you do it?

1:12:27 > 1:12:33When you were non compos mentis and didn't know that you took the money?

1:12:33 > 1:12:36Is it possible? Be sincere.

1:12:36 > 1:12:41It's possible. I might have done it and not known I did.

1:12:41 > 1:12:48- Did she drink a lot? - More than I could count and I'm not dumb.- You're not dumb.

1:12:48 > 1:12:53He's not dumb! What's he doing in there? Shhh!

1:12:53 > 1:12:58You think it's possible you did it when you were fuzzy in the head.

1:12:58 > 1:13:00Be sincere.

1:13:00 > 1:13:05- Yes. It's possible. - You've pinned the tail on the donkey.

1:13:05 > 1:13:09- RINGING That's all!- But it's only possible!

1:13:09 > 1:13:12A technicality. Book him on a murder charge.

1:13:12 > 1:13:13Lieutenant!

1:13:15 > 1:13:19Tell my lawyer to go back to sleep when he gets here.

1:13:19 > 1:13:21Gus!

1:13:21 > 1:13:23- Yes?- You know what that means?

1:13:23 > 1:13:26Yes, I know what it means.

1:13:26 > 1:13:28The boy is innocent.

1:13:28 > 1:13:31In a minute he'll be free.

1:13:31 > 1:13:33Look at me, June.

1:13:35 > 1:13:39Your face is very beautiful when it's sad.

1:13:40 > 1:13:42A certain party is guilty.

1:13:42 > 1:13:47- All night he's been sawing off the branches.- Who is it?

1:13:47 > 1:13:50Do you want to come in with me?

1:13:52 > 1:13:54Lieutenant!

1:13:54 > 1:14:01The murderer of Edna Bartelli has just confessed to Captain Dill down at Homicide.

1:14:01 > 1:14:04GUS: Who? A man I never heard of.

1:14:09 > 1:14:12- Why are you keeping my wife? - You rushed?

1:14:12 > 1:14:14Our baby's at home.

1:14:14 > 1:14:18I love babies! Does my smoking bother you?

1:14:18 > 1:14:19No.

1:14:22 > 1:14:23Come in!

1:14:23 > 1:14:25Hello, Ken.

1:14:25 > 1:14:27Ever see 'em before?

1:14:29 > 1:14:30No.

1:14:30 > 1:14:33Just confessed like a baby doll!

1:14:33 > 1:14:36- Make fun! - Why did you kill her?

1:14:36 > 1:14:40- That's my business! - Not now, it isn't.

1:14:40 > 1:14:43I killed her, that's enough! Let her go!

1:14:43 > 1:14:47- She's exhausted. - Do you love your wife?

1:14:48 > 1:14:51- Yes. - Where did you get the gun?

1:14:51 > 1:14:57- I won't answer. Let her go home! - Did you ever rob a house before?

1:14:57 > 1:15:01LIEUTENANT: What did you do with her rings?

1:15:01 > 1:15:04- Let my wife go home!- I- did it!- >

1:15:04 > 1:15:08- This gun you bought it? - What's the diff?

1:15:09 > 1:15:15The diff is she wasn't robbed. And she was strangled not shot.

1:15:15 > 1:15:17- She wasn't shot!- Shut your mouth!

1:15:17 > 1:15:20How do you know, Mrs Robinson?

1:15:20 > 1:15:23She knows cos she did it! > No!

1:15:23 > 1:15:27Mrs Robinson? How do you know she wasn't shot?

1:15:27 > 1:15:30Because she was there.

1:15:30 > 1:15:33My daughter is innocent. She's protecting me.

1:15:33 > 1:15:38He's protecting her. She followed me to the apartment, too late.

1:15:38 > 1:15:40< Sit down.

1:15:50 > 1:15:56Gerry met Miss Bartelli in his dry-cleaning business. Met and was conquered.

1:15:56 > 1:15:58My grandchild was about to be born.

1:15:58 > 1:16:02I visited the lady and begged her to cut it out.

1:16:02 > 1:16:06It continued after the child was born. >

1:16:06 > 1:16:09Naturally my daughter was unhappy.

1:16:09 > 1:16:13I visited Miss Bartelli a second time useless!

1:16:13 > 1:16:16Last night, I visited the lady again.

1:16:16 > 1:16:19The lady was very abusive.

1:16:19 > 1:16:21At best, I am not a happy man

1:16:21 > 1:16:24but the years bring you discipline.

1:16:24 > 1:16:27She made me break that discipline. I took her...

1:16:27 > 1:16:30Sit down, Bartelli!

1:16:31 > 1:16:35Anything can happen in this heat and it happened.

1:16:35 > 1:16:40And yet I felt calm and satisfied, as if I did the right thing.

1:16:40 > 1:16:45That woman's heart was made of ice. She made people suffer. >

1:16:45 > 1:16:47People I love. >

1:16:47 > 1:16:52Maybe you won't believe it, but I murdered her for love!

1:16:53 > 1:16:55Statistics tell us...

1:16:58 > 1:17:01Oh, I forgot what they tell us.

1:17:01 > 1:17:05Then I picked up the boy innocence personified!

1:17:05 > 1:17:09I chased him away, he wouldn't go. So I tagged along.

1:17:09 > 1:17:16Every hour he got more involved. Myself, I could have saved a dozen times. But not at that boy's expense.

1:17:16 > 1:17:20Between you and me and the lamppost, Captain,

1:17:20 > 1:17:22happiness is no laughing matter.

1:17:22 > 1:17:25SHE SOBS No!

1:17:25 > 1:17:26No!

1:17:26 > 1:17:28Don't cry!

1:17:28 > 1:17:31Gerry, take her home.

1:17:32 > 1:17:39- You earned the right tonight. Cherish anyone who loves unselfishly as she does.- Yeah.

1:17:39 > 1:17:40Here.

1:17:40 > 1:17:43We'll be back this afternoon.

1:17:48 > 1:17:50Better lock him up.

1:17:50 > 1:17:53Release the boy, he has a bus to catch.

1:17:57 > 1:18:04He's a fine character. He'll give you an incentive. Pack and move closer to him!

1:18:04 > 1:18:09- Go back to Norfolk together, on a later bus.- Yes.

1:18:09 > 1:18:13Push through the daily cha-chaque of life together.

1:18:13 > 1:18:15Go ahead.

1:18:20 > 1:18:24Imagine, at my age, to have to learn to play a harp.

1:18:40 > 1:18:42- Mr Bartelli!- >

1:18:42 > 1:18:46It's terrible what happened, all of it. No hard feelings.

1:19:00 > 1:19:05- What's the matter? Afraid you hurt him?- I should have hit him more!

1:19:05 > 1:19:09It'll have to wait, character. We've a bus to catch.

1:19:09 > 1:19:12- To Norfolk?- Mm-hm.

1:19:12 > 1:19:14Home.

1:19:21 > 1:19:24Subtitles by Mark Thomas BBC 1995