Laura

0:01:02 > 0:01:06'I shall never forget the weekend Laura died.

0:01:06 > 0:01:09'A silver sun burned through the sky

0:01:09 > 0:01:11'like a huge magnifying glass.

0:01:11 > 0:01:16'It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection.

0:01:16 > 0:01:21'I felt as if I were the only human being left in New York.

0:01:21 > 0:01:26'For Laura's horrible death, I was alone.

0:01:26 > 0:01:30'I, Waldo Lydecker,

0:01:30 > 0:01:33'was the only one who really knew her,

0:01:33 > 0:01:37'and I had just begun to write Laura's story

0:01:37 > 0:01:42'when another of those detectives came to see me.

0:01:42 > 0:01:44'I had him wait.

0:01:47 > 0:01:50'I could watch him through the half-open door.'

0:01:52 > 0:01:54CLOCK CHIMES

0:02:03 > 0:02:06'I noted that his attention was fixed upon my clock.

0:02:06 > 0:02:09'There was only one other in existence,

0:02:09 > 0:02:12'and that was in Laura's apartment,

0:02:12 > 0:02:15'in the very room where she was murdered.'

0:02:18 > 0:02:20< Careful there!

0:02:20 > 0:02:22< That stuff is priceless.

0:02:22 > 0:02:24< Come in here, please.

0:02:31 > 0:02:33Mr Lydecker?

0:02:33 > 0:02:35Ah, you recognise me. How splendid.

0:02:35 > 0:02:37< Sit down, please.

0:02:39 > 0:02:42Nice little place you have here, Mr Lydecker.

0:02:42 > 0:02:45It's lavish, but I call it home.

0:02:45 > 0:02:49I suppose you're here about the Laura Hunt murder.

0:02:49 > 0:02:51Yesterday morning, after Laura's body was found,

0:02:51 > 0:02:54I was questioned by Sergeants McAvity and Schultz,

0:02:54 > 0:02:55and I stated,

0:02:55 > 0:02:59"on Friday night, Laura had a dinner engagement with me,

0:02:59 > 0:03:02"after which she was ostensibly going out of town.

0:03:02 > 0:03:06"She phoned and cancelled our engagement at exactly 7.00.

0:03:06 > 0:03:07After that I..."

0:03:07 > 0:03:12You "ate a lonely dinner, then got into the tub to read."

0:03:12 > 0:03:14Why did you write it down?

0:03:14 > 0:03:15Afraid you'd forget it?

0:03:15 > 0:03:19I am the most widely misquoted man in America.

0:03:19 > 0:03:22When my friends do it, I resent it.

0:03:22 > 0:03:25From Sergeants McAvity and Schultz, I should find it intolerable.

0:03:25 > 0:03:28Hand me that washcloth, please, Mister...

0:03:28 > 0:03:30Mister...?

0:03:30 > 0:03:31McPherson.

0:03:31 > 0:03:33McPherson.

0:03:33 > 0:03:35McPherson.

0:03:35 > 0:03:37Mark McPherson - the siege of Babylon, Long Island,

0:03:37 > 0:03:40the gangster with a machinegun, killed three policemen.

0:03:40 > 0:03:42I told the story over the air and wrote a column about it.

0:03:42 > 0:03:44Are you the one with the leg full of lead,

0:03:44 > 0:03:46the man who walked right in and got him?

0:03:46 > 0:03:47Yeah.

0:03:47 > 0:03:49Well, well. Hand me my robe, please.

0:03:50 > 0:03:52WATER SPLASHES

0:03:52 > 0:03:55You have a pretty good memory, Mr Lydecker.

0:03:55 > 0:03:59I always liked that detective with the silver shinbone.

0:03:59 > 0:04:03Thanks. I hope you won't have any reason to change your mind about me.

0:04:03 > 0:04:05Have you any more questions?

0:04:05 > 0:04:07Yeah, just one.

0:04:07 > 0:04:09Two years ago in your October 17th column,

0:04:09 > 0:04:11you started out to write a book review,

0:04:11 > 0:04:13but at the bottom of the column,

0:04:13 > 0:04:15you switched over to the Harrington murder case.

0:04:15 > 0:04:17< Are the processes of the creative mind

0:04:17 > 0:04:19< now under the jurisdiction of the police?

0:04:19 > 0:04:21You said Harrington was rubbed out

0:04:21 > 0:04:24with a shotgun loaded with buckshot,

0:04:24 > 0:04:26the way Laura Hunt was murdered night before last.

0:04:26 > 0:04:28< Did I?

0:04:28 > 0:04:29Yeah,

0:04:29 > 0:04:32but he was really killed with a sash weight.

0:04:32 > 0:04:35How ordinary. My version was obviously superior.

0:04:35 > 0:04:37I never bother with details, you know.

0:04:37 > 0:04:39I do.

0:04:39 > 0:04:40Well, so long.

0:04:40 > 0:04:43Mind if I go with you?

0:04:43 > 0:04:44What for?

0:04:44 > 0:04:46Murder is my favourite crime.

0:04:46 > 0:04:48I write about it regularly,

0:04:48 > 0:04:53and I know you'll have to visit everyone on your list of suspects.

0:04:53 > 0:04:55I'd like to study their reactions.

0:04:55 > 0:04:58You're on the list yourself, you know.

0:04:58 > 0:05:01Good. To have overlooked me would have been a pointed insult.

0:05:01 > 0:05:05You're not the sort of man one would insult, Mr Lydecker.

0:05:05 > 0:05:07Do you really suspect me?

0:05:07 > 0:05:08Yes.

0:05:08 > 0:05:13McPherson, if you know anything about faces, look at mine.

0:05:13 > 0:05:17How singularly innocent I look this morning!

0:05:17 > 0:05:21Have you ever seen such candid eyes?

0:05:24 > 0:05:27Something you confiscated in a raid on a kindergarten?

0:05:27 > 0:05:29Takes a lot of control.

0:05:29 > 0:05:32Would you like to try it?

0:05:32 > 0:05:33No, thanks.

0:05:33 > 0:05:36Were you in love with Laura Hunt, Mr Lydecker?

0:05:39 > 0:05:41Was she in love with you?

0:05:41 > 0:05:46Laura considered me the wisest, the wittiest, the most interesting man

0:05:46 > 0:05:47she'd ever met.

0:05:47 > 0:05:51I was in complete accord with her on that point.

0:05:51 > 0:05:54She thought me also the kindest, the gentlest,

0:05:54 > 0:05:57the most sympathetic man in the world.

0:05:57 > 0:05:59Did you agree with her there, too?

0:05:59 > 0:06:02McPherson, you won't understand this,

0:06:02 > 0:06:07but I tried to become the kindest, the gentlest,

0:06:07 > 0:06:10the most sympathetic man in the world.

0:06:10 > 0:06:12Have any luck?

0:06:12 > 0:06:14Let me put it this way.

0:06:14 > 0:06:16I should be sincerely sorry

0:06:16 > 0:06:19to see my neighbours' children devoured by wolves.

0:06:19 > 0:06:21Shall we go?

0:06:44 > 0:06:45Good morning, Lieutenant.

0:06:45 > 0:06:46Good morning, Mrs Treadwell.

0:06:46 > 0:06:47Waldo.

0:06:47 > 0:06:48Good morning, Ann.

0:06:48 > 0:06:50I've just taken over the Laura Hunt case.

0:06:50 > 0:06:52Won't you sit down?

0:06:52 > 0:06:53Thanks.

0:06:53 > 0:06:55I have all the reports,

0:06:55 > 0:06:56but there are a few more questions I'd like to ask.

0:06:56 > 0:06:58Why, certainly. I'll do anything I can to help.

0:06:58 > 0:07:00You were fond of your niece, Mrs Treadwell?

0:07:00 > 0:07:01Why, I adored her. Cigarette?

0:07:01 > 0:07:02No, thanks.

0:07:02 > 0:07:05You collapsed when you identified the body.

0:07:05 > 0:07:06I can quite understand that.

0:07:06 > 0:07:09A shotgun loaded with buckshot, close range.

0:07:09 > 0:07:11It's not very nice to look at.

0:07:11 > 0:07:12It was horrible.

0:07:12 > 0:07:13Her maid Bessie,

0:07:13 > 0:07:15I suppose she was devoted to Miss Hunt?

0:07:15 > 0:07:18She worshipped her. Laura had had her for years.

0:07:18 > 0:07:21I'll never forget her scream when she saw Laura lying there.

0:07:21 > 0:07:24Did you approve of Miss Hunt's coming marriage

0:07:24 > 0:07:25to Mr Carpenter?

0:07:25 > 0:07:28Why? Shouldn't I approve?

0:07:28 > 0:07:29I don't know.

0:07:29 > 0:07:32What is your relationship with Mr Carpenter?

0:07:32 > 0:07:34What do you mean?

0:07:34 > 0:07:37What I mean is, he's been a frequent guest in your home.

0:07:37 > 0:07:38Is he an acquaintance? Friend?

0:07:38 > 0:07:40Are you in love with him?

0:07:40 > 0:07:42This is beginning to assume fabulous aspects.

0:07:42 > 0:07:44Oh, shut up, Waldo!

0:07:44 > 0:07:45What are you driving at?

0:07:45 > 0:07:47The truth, Mrs Treadwell.

0:07:47 > 0:07:50Are you in love with him?

0:07:50 > 0:07:54Why, no. I'm, I'm very fond of Mr Carpenter, of course.

0:07:54 > 0:07:55Everybody is.

0:07:55 > 0:07:56I'm not. I'll be hanged if I am.

0:07:56 > 0:07:58Oh, don't be so annoying, Waldo!

0:07:58 > 0:08:00Did you give Mr Carpenter money?

0:08:00 > 0:08:02What do you mean?

0:08:02 > 0:08:05A couple of cheques went through your account endorsed by him.

0:08:05 > 0:08:07One on May 15th for 250.

0:08:07 > 0:08:09One on may 22nd for 400.

0:08:09 > 0:08:11Oh, that. I...

0:08:11 > 0:08:15I asked him to do some shopping for me, that's all.

0:08:15 > 0:08:17Shelby's a very obliging fellow.

0:08:17 > 0:08:19For some time also

0:08:19 > 0:08:21you've been withdrawing various amounts in cash.

0:08:21 > 0:08:23Sometimes 1,500.

0:08:23 > 0:08:25Sometimes 1,700 at a clip.

0:08:25 > 0:08:28Yes. I needed that money.

0:08:28 > 0:08:30The day you took out 1,500,

0:08:30 > 0:08:33Mr Carpenter deposited 1,350.

0:08:33 > 0:08:35When you withdrew 1,700,

0:08:35 > 0:08:37he deposited 1,550.

0:08:37 > 0:08:39Maybe they were shooting crap.

0:08:39 > 0:08:40HE CHUCKLES

0:08:40 > 0:08:43Oh, must I be insulted like this?

0:08:43 > 0:08:44I'm sorry, Mrs Treadwell,

0:08:44 > 0:08:48but I have to find out about these things.

0:08:48 > 0:08:50Shelby needed some money, and I lent it to him, that's all.

0:08:50 > 0:08:52After all, it is my money.

0:08:52 > 0:08:54I suppose I can do as I please with it.

0:08:54 > 0:08:55Sure. Of course.

0:08:55 > 0:08:56Now, on Friday night, Mrs Treadwell,

0:08:56 > 0:08:58you stayed home alone all evening?

0:08:58 > 0:08:59< Yes.

0:08:59 > 0:09:01Why didn't you go to the concert with Shelby?

0:09:01 > 0:09:03Because he didn't ask me.

0:09:03 > 0:09:05We were just talking about you, Carpenter.

0:09:05 > 0:09:08What a coincidence to find you here.

0:09:08 > 0:09:09This is Lieutenant McPherson.

0:09:09 > 0:09:11Oh, how do you do, Lieutenant?

0:09:11 > 0:09:13I didn't know you were here, Mr Carpenter.

0:09:13 > 0:09:15As a matter of fact, I was just lying down here.

0:09:15 > 0:09:17My hotel room was so hot,

0:09:17 > 0:09:19and then all the people and reporters and telephone.

0:09:19 > 0:09:21You know how it is, Lieutenant.

0:09:21 > 0:09:23I've hardly slept a wink since it happened.

0:09:23 > 0:09:26Is that a sign of guilt or innocence, McPherson?

0:09:26 > 0:09:28I'm at your disposal, Lieutenant.

0:09:28 > 0:09:29I'm as eager to find the murderer as you are.

0:09:29 > 0:09:32But what possible motive could I have for killing Laura?

0:09:32 > 0:09:35Miss Hunt and I were going to be married this week, you know.

0:09:35 > 0:09:37No, he doesn't know, and neither do I

0:09:37 > 0:09:39or you or anyone else alive.

0:09:39 > 0:09:40What do you mean by that?

0:09:40 > 0:09:43Laura had not definitely made up her mind to marry him.

0:09:43 > 0:09:45She told me so herself last Friday

0:09:45 > 0:09:47when she called up to cancel our dinner engagement.

0:09:47 > 0:09:49As a matter of fact,

0:09:49 > 0:09:50she was going to the country to think it over.

0:09:50 > 0:09:52She was extremely kind,

0:09:52 > 0:09:55but I was always sure she would never have thrown her life away

0:09:55 > 0:09:57on a male beauty in distress.

0:09:57 > 0:10:00I suppose you've heard losers whine before,

0:10:00 > 0:10:02especially in your profession, eh?

0:10:02 > 0:10:04Would you like a bite of lunch, Lieutenant?

0:10:04 > 0:10:05Now, that's very thoughtful - the perfect host.

0:10:05 > 0:10:06Waldo.

0:10:06 > 0:10:08You'd almost think he was in his own home.

0:10:08 > 0:10:11Shelby knows how distracted I am. Would you, Lieutenant?

0:10:11 > 0:10:12Thank you, Mrs Treadwell,

0:10:12 > 0:10:13but I've got to be going.

0:10:13 > 0:10:15But, Lieutenant, I...

0:10:15 > 0:10:17Well, I rather thought you'd want to ask me some questions.

0:10:17 > 0:10:20Oh, yes. What did they play at the concert Friday night?

0:10:20 > 0:10:23Oh, Brahms' First and Beethoven's Ninth.

0:10:23 > 0:10:24Uh-huh. Have you got a key

0:10:24 > 0:10:26to Miss Hunt's house up in the country?

0:10:26 > 0:10:29No, but I think there's one up in her apartment.

0:10:29 > 0:10:31OK, I'll have a look.

0:10:31 > 0:10:32Perhaps I could help you?

0:10:32 > 0:10:34All right, come along.

0:10:34 > 0:10:36I'll be seeing you, Mrs Treadwell.

0:10:39 > 0:10:41Extra! Extra!

0:10:41 > 0:10:43Girl victim in brutal slaying!

0:10:43 > 0:10:45Extra! Girl victim in brutal slaying!

0:10:45 > 0:10:47Read all about it!

0:10:47 > 0:10:49Girl victim in brutal slaying!

0:10:49 > 0:10:51Girl victim in brutal slaying!

0:10:51 > 0:10:52Read all about it!

0:10:55 > 0:10:57All right! Break it up!

0:10:57 > 0:10:58Break it up!

0:11:26 > 0:11:28The doorbell rang.

0:11:28 > 0:11:29What?

0:11:29 > 0:11:33As she opened the door, the shot was fired.

0:11:33 > 0:11:35And how do you deduce that?

0:11:35 > 0:11:36She fell backward.

0:11:36 > 0:11:38The body was there.

0:11:38 > 0:11:41I thought you hadn't been up here before.

0:11:41 > 0:11:43I saw the police photos.

0:11:51 > 0:11:55I guess I'd better try and find that key.

0:11:55 > 0:11:56McPherson, tell me,

0:11:56 > 0:11:59why did they have to photograph her in that horrible condition?

0:11:59 > 0:12:00When a dame gets killed,

0:12:00 > 0:12:02she doesn't worry about how she looks.

0:12:02 > 0:12:04Will you stop calling her a dame?

0:12:04 > 0:12:06Look around.

0:12:06 > 0:12:09Is this the home of a dame?

0:12:10 > 0:12:12Look at her.

0:12:15 > 0:12:17Not bad.

0:12:17 > 0:12:21Jacoby was in love with her when he painted it,

0:12:21 > 0:12:23but he never captured her vibrance, her warmth.

0:12:23 > 0:12:26Have you ever been in love?

0:12:26 > 0:12:28A doll in Washington Heights

0:12:28 > 0:12:31once got a fox fur out of me.

0:12:31 > 0:12:35Ever know a woman who wasn't a "doll" or a "dame"?

0:12:35 > 0:12:39Yeah, one, but she kept walking me past furniture windows

0:12:39 > 0:12:40to look at the parlour suites.

0:12:40 > 0:12:42SOFT MUSIC PLAYS

0:12:42 > 0:12:44Would you mind turning that off?

0:12:44 > 0:12:45Why? Don't you like it?

0:12:45 > 0:12:46It was one of Laura's favourites.

0:12:46 > 0:12:48Not exactly classical, but sweet.

0:12:48 > 0:12:50You know a lot about music?

0:12:50 > 0:12:52I don't know a lot about anything,

0:12:52 > 0:12:54but I know a little about practically everything.

0:12:54 > 0:12:56Yeah? Then why did you say

0:12:56 > 0:13:00they played Brahms' First and Beethoven's Ninth at the concert Friday night?

0:13:00 > 0:13:01They changed the programme at the last minute

0:13:01 > 0:13:03and played nothing but Sibelius.

0:13:03 > 0:13:05Well, I suppose I should have told you in the first place.

0:13:05 > 0:13:08You see, I'd been working on that advertising campaign with Laura.

0:13:08 > 0:13:11Well, we'd been working so hard I...I just couldn't keep my eyes open.

0:13:11 > 0:13:14I didn't hear a note at the concert. I fell asleep.

0:13:14 > 0:13:16Next he'll produce photographic evidence of his dreams.

0:13:16 > 0:13:18I know it sounds suspicious,

0:13:18 > 0:13:19but I'm resigned to that by now.

0:13:19 > 0:13:21I'm a natural-born suspect

0:13:21 > 0:13:23just because I'm not the conventional type.

0:13:23 > 0:13:25I wouldn't worry about it, Mr Carpenter.

0:13:25 > 0:13:27It sounds reasonable.

0:13:27 > 0:13:29I fall asleep at concerts myself.

0:13:29 > 0:13:31Thank you.

0:13:32 > 0:13:33You found that key yet?

0:13:33 > 0:13:34No. I looked for it in the den,

0:13:34 > 0:13:36but it wasn't there.

0:13:36 > 0:13:38It may be in here.

0:13:44 > 0:13:45Here it is.

0:13:45 > 0:13:48I knew there must be one around somewhere.

0:13:48 > 0:13:51The police are very fussy about their inventories.

0:13:51 > 0:13:53That key isn't on the list of things

0:13:53 > 0:13:55that were in that drawer yesterday.

0:13:55 > 0:13:57Then it's made a recent reappearance.

0:13:57 > 0:13:59You put it there, didn't you?

0:13:59 > 0:14:01Yes.

0:14:01 > 0:14:02Why?

0:14:02 > 0:14:04It's just that I didn't want to give it to you

0:14:04 > 0:14:05while Waldo was present.

0:14:05 > 0:14:06Oh.

0:14:06 > 0:14:07I have private reasons that don't concern him.

0:14:07 > 0:14:10Everything about Laura concerns me.

0:14:10 > 0:14:13You have private reasons, no doubt, to lie about the key.

0:14:13 > 0:14:15Waldo, for your own good,

0:14:15 > 0:14:17I'm warning you to stop implying

0:14:17 > 0:14:19that I had anything to do with Laura's death.

0:14:19 > 0:14:21Very well. I'll stop implying.

0:14:21 > 0:14:23I'll make a direct statement.

0:14:23 > 0:14:25All right, you asked for it.

0:14:25 > 0:14:26I wouldn't.

0:14:26 > 0:14:30Will you please stop dawdling with that infernal puzzle?

0:14:30 > 0:14:32It's getting on my nerves!

0:14:32 > 0:14:35I know, but it keeps me calm.

0:14:35 > 0:14:36OK, let's go.

0:14:51 > 0:14:53This was our table -

0:14:53 > 0:14:55Laura's and mine.

0:14:57 > 0:15:00We spent many quiet evenings here together.

0:15:00 > 0:15:02I remember we dined here

0:15:02 > 0:15:05the night before her 22nd birthday.

0:15:05 > 0:15:07Just we two -

0:15:07 > 0:15:11happy, making plans for her future.

0:15:13 > 0:15:16'But this was a far cry from the girl

0:15:16 > 0:15:19'who walked into my life at the Algonquin Hotel

0:15:19 > 0:15:21'five years before.'

0:15:21 > 0:15:22Pardon me.

0:15:22 > 0:15:24Excuse me.

0:15:25 > 0:15:27Excuse me.

0:15:35 > 0:15:37Mr Lydecker? How do you do?

0:15:37 > 0:15:39My name is Laura Hunt,

0:15:39 > 0:15:41and I'm with Bullitt and Company,

0:15:41 > 0:15:43you know, the big advertising firm,

0:15:43 > 0:15:48and I'd like to talk something over with you if I may.

0:15:48 > 0:15:50You can hardly fail to realise

0:15:50 > 0:15:52that I'm engaged in eating my lunch.

0:15:52 > 0:15:56Yes, I know. I'm awfully sorry to interrupt this way,

0:15:56 > 0:16:00but it's so hard to get to see you the regular way,

0:16:00 > 0:16:02and this will only take a minute, really.

0:16:02 > 0:16:04Now, this is...

0:16:04 > 0:16:05Young woman,

0:16:05 > 0:16:07either you have been raised

0:16:07 > 0:16:09in some incredibly rustic community

0:16:09 > 0:16:11where good manners are unknown,

0:16:11 > 0:16:14or you suffer from the common feminine delusion

0:16:14 > 0:16:16that the mere fact of being a woman

0:16:16 > 0:16:19exempts you from the rules of civilised conduct

0:16:19 > 0:16:20or possibly both.

0:16:20 > 0:16:24Possibly, but here's what I wanted to show you.

0:16:24 > 0:16:26It's for the Wallace flow-rite pen.

0:16:26 > 0:16:29I know my company would be glad to pay you 5,000

0:16:29 > 0:16:31if you'll endorse the ad.

0:16:31 > 0:16:32I don't use a pen.

0:16:32 > 0:16:35I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

0:16:35 > 0:16:38Yes, but this is a very fine pen, Mr Lydecker,

0:16:38 > 0:16:39the best on the market.

0:16:39 > 0:16:42Wouldn't you at least consider endorsing it?

0:16:42 > 0:16:46I'll neither consider, endorse, or use the Wallace pen.

0:16:46 > 0:16:47I hate pens.

0:16:47 > 0:16:49If your employers wish me

0:16:49 > 0:16:52to publish that statement in my column,

0:16:52 > 0:16:55you may tell them that I shall be delighted to oblige.

0:16:55 > 0:16:57Oh, no. You mustn't do that.

0:16:57 > 0:17:00Don't blame Bullitt and Company, Mr Lydecker.

0:17:00 > 0:17:03They don't know anything about this.

0:17:03 > 0:17:06It was my idea to see you.

0:17:06 > 0:17:07Indeed?

0:17:07 > 0:17:10Yes. I know they'd give anything down at the office

0:17:10 > 0:17:11to get your endorsement,

0:17:11 > 0:17:13only they think there's no use asking,

0:17:13 > 0:17:17so I had this ad made up all on my own

0:17:17 > 0:17:20because I thought, "Well, what's the harm in trying?"

0:17:20 > 0:17:23There was always a chance that you might, Mr Lydecker.

0:17:23 > 0:17:24Just think what it would mean...

0:17:24 > 0:17:26You seem to be completely disregarding

0:17:26 > 0:17:28something more important than your career.

0:17:28 > 0:17:29What?

0:17:29 > 0:17:31My lunch.

0:17:33 > 0:17:35Do you really believe that?

0:17:35 > 0:17:36Implicitly. >

0:17:36 > 0:17:40I never heard of anything so selfish.

0:17:40 > 0:17:42In my case,

0:17:42 > 0:17:43self-absorption is completely justified.

0:17:43 > 0:17:46I have never discovered any other subject

0:17:46 > 0:17:48quite so worthy of my attention.

0:17:48 > 0:17:54But you write about people with such real understanding and sentiment.

0:17:54 > 0:17:57That's what makes your column so good.

0:17:57 > 0:18:01The sentiment comes easily at 50 cents a word.

0:18:01 > 0:18:05Well, if that's the way you really feel,

0:18:05 > 0:18:07you must be very lonely.

0:18:07 > 0:18:09Will you kindly continue

0:18:09 > 0:18:12this character analysis elsewhere?

0:18:12 > 0:18:13You begin to bore me.

0:18:13 > 0:18:17You're a poor man. I'm very sorry for you.

0:18:20 > 0:18:23'Naturally, I was annoyed by the incident,

0:18:23 > 0:18:26'but she had something about her, that girl.

0:18:26 > 0:18:29'I had to speak to her again.

0:18:29 > 0:18:31'I had to see her.'

0:18:31 > 0:18:32Miss, would you mind if I...

0:18:32 > 0:18:34Just a moment, please.

0:18:34 > 0:18:36I'll tell Mr Bullitt right away. He's on the telephone.

0:18:36 > 0:18:37Thank you.

0:18:38 > 0:18:40DOOR OPENS

0:18:50 > 0:18:51TYPING

0:18:58 > 0:19:00Boy, Waldo Lydecker

0:19:00 > 0:19:02to see Miss Laura Hunt.

0:19:02 > 0:19:03TYPING

0:19:03 > 0:19:05Announce me.

0:19:05 > 0:19:09Johnny, please tell the gentleman I'm busy.

0:19:12 > 0:19:15Miss Hunt, I have something to say to you.

0:19:15 > 0:19:18You've already said it, Mr Lydecker.

0:19:18 > 0:19:23I wish to point out that you caught me at my most difficult moment.

0:19:23 > 0:19:26Ordinarily I am not without a heart.

0:19:26 > 0:19:27Really?

0:19:27 > 0:19:30Shall I produce X-ray pictures to prove it?

0:19:33 > 0:19:35I wish to apologise.

0:19:35 > 0:19:37Your apology is accepted.

0:19:39 > 0:19:40Goodbye, Mr Lydecker.

0:19:40 > 0:19:43If you come a little bit closer, my boy,

0:19:43 > 0:19:46I can just crack your skull with my stick.

0:19:46 > 0:19:47TYPISTS GIGGLE

0:19:50 > 0:19:54And now for reasons which are too embarrassing to mention,

0:19:54 > 0:19:56I'd like to endorse that pen.

0:19:56 > 0:19:59Mr Lydecker!

0:19:59 > 0:20:00Thank you.

0:20:02 > 0:20:04You're a very strange man.

0:20:04 > 0:20:06What?

0:20:06 > 0:20:10You're really sorry for the way you acted, aren't you?

0:20:10 > 0:20:12Let's not be psychiatric, Miss Hunt,

0:20:12 > 0:20:15but in a word, yes.

0:20:15 > 0:20:18It's very kind of you, you know.

0:20:18 > 0:20:20I'm not kind. I'm vicious.

0:20:20 > 0:20:22It's the secret of my charm.

0:20:24 > 0:20:30But if you choose to think me kind, I'll call for you at 6.00.

0:20:31 > 0:20:33All right?

0:20:33 > 0:20:35All right.

0:20:39 > 0:20:42'Her career began with my endorsement of the pen.

0:20:42 > 0:20:45'I secured other endorsements for her,

0:20:45 > 0:20:48'introduced her to important clients.

0:20:48 > 0:20:50'I gave her her start,

0:20:50 > 0:20:53'but it was her own talent and imagination

0:20:53 > 0:20:57'that enabled her to rise to the top of her profession

0:20:57 > 0:20:58'and stay there.

0:20:58 > 0:21:02'She had an eager mind always.

0:21:02 > 0:21:04'She was always quick to seize upon

0:21:04 > 0:21:08'anything that would improve her mind...or her appearance.

0:21:08 > 0:21:10'Laura had innate breeding.

0:21:16 > 0:21:18'But she deferred to my judgment and taste.

0:21:20 > 0:21:22'I selected a more attractive hairdress for her.

0:21:25 > 0:21:28'I taught her what clothes were more becoming to her.

0:21:30 > 0:21:33'Through me, she met everyone.

0:21:33 > 0:21:36'The famous and the infamous.

0:21:36 > 0:21:40'Her youth and beauty, her poise and charm of manner...

0:21:40 > 0:21:42'captivated them all.

0:21:42 > 0:21:45'She had warmth, vitality.

0:21:45 > 0:21:49'She had authentic magnetism.

0:21:49 > 0:21:52'Wherever we went, she stood out.

0:21:53 > 0:21:55'Men admired her. Women envied her.

0:21:56 > 0:21:58'She became as well known

0:21:58 > 0:22:02'as Waldo Lydecker's walking stick...and his white carnation.

0:22:02 > 0:22:04'But Tuesday and Friday nights,

0:22:04 > 0:22:08'we stayed home, dining quietly,

0:22:08 > 0:22:10'listening to my records.

0:22:10 > 0:22:12'I read my articles to her.

0:22:12 > 0:22:16'The way she listened was more eloquent than speech.'

0:22:18 > 0:22:21'These were the best nights.'

0:22:21 > 0:22:23Then one Tuesday, she phoned

0:22:23 > 0:22:25and said she couldn't come.

0:22:25 > 0:22:27It didn't matter, really,

0:22:27 > 0:22:30but when it happened again the following Friday,

0:22:30 > 0:22:32I was disturbed.

0:22:34 > 0:22:36'I couldn't understand it.

0:22:36 > 0:22:38'I felt betrayed,

0:22:38 > 0:22:42'and yet I knew Laura would never betray anyone.'

0:22:48 > 0:22:51'I walked for a long time.'

0:22:52 > 0:22:55'Then I found myself before her apartment building.

0:22:55 > 0:22:57'The lights were on.

0:22:57 > 0:23:00'It pleased me to know she was home

0:23:00 > 0:23:03'till I saw she was not alone.'

0:23:04 > 0:23:06'But I waited.

0:23:06 > 0:23:09'I wanted to see who he was.'

0:23:13 > 0:23:14'It was Jacoby,

0:23:14 > 0:23:16'who had recently painted her portrait.

0:23:16 > 0:23:18'I never liked the man.

0:23:18 > 0:23:20'He was so obviously conscious

0:23:20 > 0:23:24'of looking more like an athlete than an artist.

0:23:24 > 0:23:28'I sat up the rest of the night writing a column about him.

0:23:28 > 0:23:30'I demolished his affectations,

0:23:30 > 0:23:33'exposed his camouflaged imitations of better painters,

0:23:33 > 0:23:34'ridiculed his theories.

0:23:34 > 0:23:36'I did it for her,

0:23:36 > 0:23:38'knowing Jacoby was unworthy of her.

0:23:38 > 0:23:42'It was a masterpiece because it was a labour of love.'

0:23:42 > 0:23:45Naturally she could never regard him seriously again.

0:23:45 > 0:23:48There were others, of course,

0:23:48 > 0:23:51but her own discrimination ruled them out

0:23:51 > 0:23:54before it became necessary for me to intercede...

0:23:54 > 0:23:58until one night at a party at Ann Treadwell's.

0:23:58 > 0:24:01'It was one of her usual round-ups

0:24:01 > 0:24:03'of bizarre and nondescript characters

0:24:03 > 0:24:05'corralled from every stratum of society.'

0:24:05 > 0:24:07How are you this evening?

0:24:07 > 0:24:08This is Mr and Mrs Preston.

0:24:08 > 0:24:10They've been waiting all evening to meet you.

0:24:10 > 0:24:12How do you do?

0:24:12 > 0:24:13Hello, Shelby.

0:24:13 > 0:24:15Excuse me, honey.

0:24:19 > 0:24:20You're Laura Hunt.

0:24:20 > 0:24:22Yes?

0:24:22 > 0:24:24Hello. I'm Shelby Carpenter.

0:24:24 > 0:24:26Want to dance?

0:24:26 > 0:24:29I'm not alone.

0:24:29 > 0:24:32Oh, him? I'll bet he's still doing the polka.

0:24:32 > 0:24:34Excuse me, please.

0:24:34 > 0:24:36Yes. Betsy Ross taught it to me.

0:24:36 > 0:24:38Hello, Waldo! Darling, how are you?

0:24:38 > 0:24:39Hello, darling.

0:24:39 > 0:24:41I see you've met Shelby.

0:24:41 > 0:24:42Unavoidably.

0:24:42 > 0:24:43He was awfully nice to me

0:24:43 > 0:24:45in Louisville at the Derby.

0:24:45 > 0:24:46His family's from Kentucky.

0:24:46 > 0:24:48Sharecroppers, no doubt.

0:24:48 > 0:24:49LAUGHTER

0:24:49 > 0:24:50Ah, Franz. Bonsoir.

0:24:50 > 0:24:52Comment-allez vous?

0:24:52 > 0:24:54Louise, Louise, for the last time,

0:24:54 > 0:24:56will you marry me?

0:24:56 > 0:24:58I won't, but I've saved some chicken livers for you.

0:24:58 > 0:24:59Oh, you're an angel.

0:24:59 > 0:25:00In the meantime, darling,

0:25:00 > 0:25:02you think you could get this spot out for me?

0:25:02 > 0:25:05I can afford a blemish on my character, but not on my clothes.

0:25:05 > 0:25:06Hmm...couldn't eat another mouthful.

0:25:06 > 0:25:07I'm afraid it's rouge.

0:25:07 > 0:25:09I'm afraid it's liquor.

0:25:09 > 0:25:11Louise, may I have a glass of milk for Mr Lydecker?

0:25:11 > 0:25:13Of course, Miss Hunt.

0:25:13 > 0:25:14I was about to tell you. I also read palms.

0:25:14 > 0:25:17I cook. I swallow swords. I mend my own socks.

0:25:17 > 0:25:19I never eat garlic or onions.

0:25:19 > 0:25:20What more can you want of a man?

0:25:20 > 0:25:22Don't listen to that scallywag.

0:25:22 > 0:25:23I didn't expect to find him here, Louise.

0:25:23 > 0:25:25Well, what do you mean? We're old friends.

0:25:25 > 0:25:27She feeds me, humours me, repairs me,

0:25:27 > 0:25:29and refuses to marry me, don't you, honey?

0:25:29 > 0:25:30I do.

0:25:30 > 0:25:31She has good sense.

0:25:31 > 0:25:33Now, wait just a minute. Thanks, Louise.

0:25:33 > 0:25:35You're wasting your time. She's got good sense, too.

0:25:35 > 0:25:36You're jealous.

0:25:36 > 0:25:39And what does it feel like, Mr Carpenter?

0:25:39 > 0:25:42What does what feel like, Miss Hunt?

0:25:42 > 0:25:45Living on the income from an estate.

0:25:45 > 0:25:46Well, I, er...

0:25:46 > 0:25:48Or don't you know?

0:25:48 > 0:25:52Well, I did, until the Sheriff took it over 10 years ago.

0:25:52 > 0:25:54Why maintain the fiction? Why not work?

0:25:54 > 0:25:57Believe it or not, I asked one of my many friends for a job once,

0:25:57 > 0:26:00executive of a big company, 2,500 employees.

0:26:00 > 0:26:02He could have pressed a button and done it, but he just laughed.

0:26:02 > 0:26:04He thought I was joking.

0:26:04 > 0:26:05Weren't you?

0:26:05 > 0:26:08No. When I convinced him, he got embarrassed, said he'd phone me.

0:26:08 > 0:26:10That was months ago.

0:26:10 > 0:26:13Now whenever he sees me, he looks the other way.

0:26:19 > 0:26:21Do you really want a job?

0:26:21 > 0:26:22Yes.

0:26:24 > 0:26:26Oh, here you are.

0:26:26 > 0:26:29Laura, dear, I cannot stand these morons any longer.

0:26:29 > 0:26:34If you don't come with me this instant, I shall run amok.

0:26:34 > 0:26:36All right, Waldo.

0:26:36 > 0:26:3910.30 tomorrow, Bullitt and Company.

0:26:39 > 0:26:41You've got a job.

0:26:41 > 0:26:46'I concealed my annoyance with masterly self-control,

0:26:46 > 0:26:50'but I sensed a situation which would bear watching.'

0:26:50 > 0:26:53Laura, take a look at this.

0:26:53 > 0:26:55Do you like it?

0:26:55 > 0:26:58Do you think it'll make people want to bathe more often?

0:26:58 > 0:27:00It should. It's excellent.

0:27:00 > 0:27:01There you are.

0:27:01 > 0:27:03Goodnight, Miss Hunt.

0:27:03 > 0:27:04Goodnight.

0:27:04 > 0:27:05Goodnight, honey.

0:27:05 > 0:27:07It's really very good. Who's the model?

0:27:07 > 0:27:08Oh, a girl named Diane Redfern.

0:27:08 > 0:27:10You hired her yourself last week.

0:27:10 > 0:27:11Don't you remember?

0:27:11 > 0:27:12Oh, yeah.

0:27:12 > 0:27:15Well, let's go, moon of my delight. I am starved.

0:27:15 > 0:27:16You usually are.

0:27:16 > 0:27:17HE CHUCKLES

0:27:17 > 0:27:18I approve of that hat.

0:27:18 > 0:27:19You do?

0:27:19 > 0:27:22Mm-hmm, and the girl in it, too.

0:27:22 > 0:27:23Thank you.

0:27:26 > 0:27:28I knew there was something on my mind.

0:27:28 > 0:27:29What is it? Oh, yes.

0:27:29 > 0:27:31Will you dine with me tomorrow night?

0:27:31 > 0:27:33Maybe.

0:27:33 > 0:27:35No, that isn't what's worrying me. It's the next night.

0:27:35 > 0:27:36But, Shelby, I can't be...

0:27:36 > 0:27:38Good. What about three weeks from tonight

0:27:38 > 0:27:39and all the nights in between?

0:27:39 > 0:27:41Don't you think I have any other engagements?

0:27:41 > 0:27:44What about two months from now and the month after that?

0:27:44 > 0:27:45What about next year?

0:27:45 > 0:27:48That's all settled. What about breakfast?

0:27:48 > 0:27:49What about dancing?

0:27:49 > 0:27:51What about lunch, beautiful lunches,

0:27:51 > 0:27:53day after day after day after day?

0:27:53 > 0:27:55What about work, beautiful work,

0:27:55 > 0:27:58day after day after day?

0:27:58 > 0:27:59Why, Miss Hunt, the way you talk,

0:27:59 > 0:28:02you'd think I was in love with you.

0:28:07 > 0:28:10Yes, Laura, I heard everything he said.

0:28:12 > 0:28:15I went to call for you.

0:28:16 > 0:28:17I'm sorry, Waldo.

0:28:17 > 0:28:20And that reminds me.

0:28:22 > 0:28:25Old Mother Hubbard has something in the cupboard.

0:28:26 > 0:28:29The results of my private investigation

0:28:29 > 0:28:33of that sterling character, Mr Shelby Carpenter.

0:28:33 > 0:28:35By stooping so low,

0:28:35 > 0:28:37you only degrade yourself, Waldo.

0:28:37 > 0:28:39Did you know that he almost went to jail

0:28:39 > 0:28:40for passing rubber cheques,

0:28:40 > 0:28:43that he was suspected of stealing his hostess' jewels

0:28:43 > 0:28:46when he was a house guest in Virginia?

0:28:46 > 0:28:47Naturally they'd suspect him

0:28:47 > 0:28:49because he isn't rich.

0:28:49 > 0:28:51Those are only insinuations,

0:28:51 > 0:28:52the cheapest kind.

0:28:52 > 0:28:55These aren't only insinuations, my dear.

0:28:55 > 0:28:57There you are.

0:28:57 > 0:28:58Read them.

0:29:00 > 0:29:01What of it?

0:29:01 > 0:29:03I know his faults.

0:29:03 > 0:29:05A man can change, can't he?

0:29:05 > 0:29:07People are always ready

0:29:07 > 0:29:09to hold out a hand to slap you down,

0:29:09 > 0:29:10but never to pick you up.

0:29:10 > 0:29:13All right, I'm helping Shelby.

0:29:13 > 0:29:15His past is his own affair.

0:29:15 > 0:29:17I only care about the present.

0:29:17 > 0:29:21Speaking of the changed Mr Carpenter in the present tense,

0:29:21 > 0:29:24he's now running around with a model

0:29:24 > 0:29:25from your own office.

0:29:25 > 0:29:27Her name is Diane Redfern.

0:29:29 > 0:29:31I'm closer to despising you

0:29:31 > 0:29:34than I thought I ever would be.

0:29:38 > 0:29:40I'm sorry.

0:29:40 > 0:29:42I should have told you before.

0:29:42 > 0:29:46Shelby and I are going to be married next week.

0:29:48 > 0:29:51I believe you presented him with a cigarette case

0:29:51 > 0:29:53on his last birthday.

0:29:56 > 0:29:58Rather valuable, isn't it?

0:29:58 > 0:30:00Where did you get it?

0:30:00 > 0:30:01From the pawn shop where Diane Redfern took it

0:30:01 > 0:30:03after he gave it to her.

0:30:03 > 0:30:04I don't believe it.

0:30:04 > 0:30:07He probably needed money and was too proud to borrow.

0:30:07 > 0:30:08Carpenter proud?

0:30:08 > 0:30:11Perhaps that's why the pawn ticket

0:30:11 > 0:30:12was in her name.

0:30:12 > 0:30:14Before this goes any further, why, I'll just...

0:30:16 > 0:30:18He isn't home.

0:30:25 > 0:30:27He's dining at Ann Treadwell's.

0:30:27 > 0:30:29He can't be. He asked me to dinner.

0:30:29 > 0:30:31He would have cancelled his appointment with her

0:30:31 > 0:30:33if you had accepted.

0:30:33 > 0:30:35He treats her rather badly these days.

0:30:37 > 0:30:40I'm afraid she'll say he isn't there.

0:30:48 > 0:30:50Waldo.

0:30:51 > 0:30:54Why are you doing this?

0:30:58 > 0:31:00For you, Laura.

0:31:02 > 0:31:04Shall we pay them a visit?

0:31:04 > 0:31:07He won't be there, Waldo.

0:31:07 > 0:31:08I know he won't.

0:31:08 > 0:31:10All right,

0:31:10 > 0:31:12we'll see.

0:31:12 > 0:31:15Don't you want to take this little bauble along

0:31:15 > 0:31:17in case he is there?

0:31:24 > 0:31:25Good evening.

0:31:25 > 0:31:26Good evening.

0:31:26 > 0:31:28I'm sorry. Mrs Treadwell is not home.

0:31:28 > 0:31:30We know, dear.

0:31:41 > 0:31:42Good evening.

0:31:47 > 0:31:48Hello, darling.

0:31:48 > 0:31:51I didn't expect to see you tonight.

0:31:51 > 0:31:53There you are, my dear.

0:31:53 > 0:31:54In a moment of supreme disaster,

0:31:54 > 0:31:55he's trite.

0:31:55 > 0:31:58You've been reading too many melodramas, Waldo.

0:31:58 > 0:32:01I was just telling Ann about our getting married.

0:32:01 > 0:32:03Well, have you two had dinner?

0:32:03 > 0:32:06Would you like a glass of wine?

0:32:06 > 0:32:08Why don't you sit down?

0:32:16 > 0:32:20I couldn't find out if she saw Carpenter in the meantime.

0:32:20 > 0:32:22All I know is that on Friday

0:32:22 > 0:32:25she had lunch with Diane Redfern.

0:32:25 > 0:32:28'What came of it I hoped to hear that night.

0:32:28 > 0:32:30'I alternated between moods of over-optimism

0:32:30 > 0:32:31'and over-pessimism.

0:32:31 > 0:32:35'When the phone rang, I had a foreboding of disaster.'

0:32:38 > 0:32:41I called to tell you, Waldo, I'm frightfully sorry.

0:32:41 > 0:32:43I can't have dinner with you tonight.

0:32:43 > 0:32:47Oh, no, no. I'm not sick. I'm just dreadfully nervous.

0:32:47 > 0:32:49I'm going to the country for a few days.

0:32:49 > 0:32:52Yes. I'm afraid it's about Shelby.

0:32:52 > 0:32:54Oh, no. Please. There's nothing you can do.

0:32:54 > 0:32:57I've got to think this thing out for myself.

0:32:57 > 0:32:58I'm sorry.

0:32:58 > 0:33:01I'll call you when I get back. Goodbye.

0:33:02 > 0:33:06It was the last time I ever heard her voice.

0:33:06 > 0:33:08I was sure she had too much pride

0:33:08 > 0:33:10to forgive him,

0:33:10 > 0:33:12but...

0:33:12 > 0:33:16Where does this Diane Redfern live?

0:33:16 > 0:33:17Brooklyn somewhere.

0:33:17 > 0:33:18She's in the phone book.

0:33:20 > 0:33:23Come on. It's late. Let's get going.

0:33:23 > 0:33:24Waiter.

0:33:24 > 0:33:25Yes, sir. >

0:33:28 > 0:33:28All right.

0:33:28 > 0:33:30Thank you, Mr Lydecker.

0:33:33 > 0:33:35Goodnight.

0:33:39 > 0:33:41I shall never forgive myself

0:33:41 > 0:33:44for letting her become involved with Shelby.

0:33:44 > 0:33:46It was my fault.

0:33:46 > 0:33:49I should have stopped it somehow.

0:33:49 > 0:33:51Well, it's too late now.

0:33:54 > 0:33:56Thanks for the wine.

0:34:14 > 0:34:15Hello. Mosconi's?

0:34:15 > 0:34:18This is Lieutenant McPherson, homicide bureau.

0:34:18 > 0:34:22Laura Hunt had been buying her liquor from you

0:34:22 > 0:34:23for several years, hadn't she?

0:34:23 > 0:34:27Yeah. Did she ever buy a brand of scotch

0:34:27 > 0:34:29called Black Pony?

0:34:30 > 0:34:31Yeah.

0:34:33 > 0:34:35DOOR CLOSES

0:34:35 > 0:34:37I see. Well, that's all I wanted to know. Thanks.

0:34:37 > 0:34:39She's here, McPherson, the maid.

0:34:39 > 0:34:40OK.

0:34:42 > 0:34:43Come in, Miss Clary.

0:34:43 > 0:34:45Never mind the "Miss Clary" stuff.

0:34:45 > 0:34:47My name's Bessie, and I'm a domestic,

0:34:47 > 0:34:49and I got nothing to be ashamed of.

0:34:49 > 0:34:50Sit down, Bessie.

0:34:50 > 0:34:53Her letters.

0:34:54 > 0:34:56And her private diary!

0:34:56 > 0:34:58You've been reading them,

0:34:58 > 0:34:59pawing over them.

0:34:59 > 0:35:00It's a shame in the face of the dead.

0:35:00 > 0:35:02That's what it is. It's a shame!

0:35:02 > 0:35:03Sit down, Bessie.

0:35:03 > 0:35:05I'll stand on my own two feet!

0:35:05 > 0:35:07Don't you go ordering me around.

0:35:07 > 0:35:09I ain't afraid of cops.

0:35:09 > 0:35:12I was brought up to spit whenever I saw one.

0:35:12 > 0:35:13OK. Go ahead and spit

0:35:13 > 0:35:16if that'll make you feel better.

0:35:21 > 0:35:22What do you want to know?

0:35:22 > 0:35:24What we all want to know -

0:35:24 > 0:35:25who killed Laura Hunt.

0:35:25 > 0:35:27How would I know?

0:35:28 > 0:35:31You don't think I done it?

0:35:31 > 0:35:34I know you cops get crazy notions,

0:35:34 > 0:35:36but if you got any notion concerning me...

0:35:36 > 0:35:37ask anyone,

0:35:37 > 0:35:39anyone who ever come to this house.

0:35:39 > 0:35:41I would have worked for her.

0:35:41 > 0:35:43I would have washed, ironed, scrubbed,

0:35:43 > 0:35:45done everything she wanted of me

0:35:45 > 0:35:47whether she paid me for it or not,

0:35:47 > 0:35:48and it wasn't only on account of

0:35:48 > 0:35:51the thousand sweet things she done for me.

0:35:51 > 0:35:53It was because she was so sweet herself,

0:35:53 > 0:35:56because she was a real fine lady.

0:35:56 > 0:36:00But you cops wouldn't know about that.

0:36:01 > 0:36:03But you do.

0:36:03 > 0:36:04That's all the more reason

0:36:04 > 0:36:06why you should help me, Bessie.

0:36:06 > 0:36:08Do you happen to know

0:36:08 > 0:36:10how this got into her liquor cabinet?

0:36:10 > 0:36:12I put it there.

0:36:12 > 0:36:14But she never bought cheap stuff like that,

0:36:14 > 0:36:16not a lady like Miss Hunt.

0:36:16 > 0:36:17No.

0:36:17 > 0:36:19When did you put it in the cabinet?

0:36:19 > 0:36:20Saturday.

0:36:20 > 0:36:22Before the police came.

0:36:22 > 0:36:23Was it there Friday night before you left?

0:36:23 > 0:36:24No.

0:36:24 > 0:36:26Are you sure of that?

0:36:26 > 0:36:29I cleaned out the cabinet on Friday

0:36:29 > 0:36:32and put the empties in the basement.

0:36:32 > 0:36:34Then somebody was with her

0:36:34 > 0:36:35in the apartment Friday night,

0:36:35 > 0:36:37someone who brought that bottle.

0:36:37 > 0:36:38Yes.

0:36:38 > 0:36:39Who?

0:36:39 > 0:36:41I don't know, but I didn't want anyone

0:36:41 > 0:36:43getting any wrong ideas about her,

0:36:43 > 0:36:45God rest her soul.

0:36:45 > 0:36:46That's why I took it out of the bedroom

0:36:46 > 0:36:49and put it in the cabinet before the police got here,

0:36:49 > 0:36:51and that ain't all I done.

0:36:51 > 0:36:53I washed out the glasses

0:36:53 > 0:36:55and cleaned off the bottle, too.

0:36:55 > 0:36:57Do you know what happens to people who destroy evidence?

0:36:57 > 0:36:59I don't care.

0:36:59 > 0:37:01You ain't going to tell the newspaper reporters,

0:37:01 > 0:37:02are you,

0:37:02 > 0:37:04and let them make up their nasty stories

0:37:04 > 0:37:07and drag her name through the mud?

0:37:07 > 0:37:09Go ahead, but it won't do you any good.

0:37:09 > 0:37:11I'll say you lied. I'll say...

0:37:11 > 0:37:12Take it easy, Bessie.

0:37:12 > 0:37:15Get me some ice and a set-up, will you?

0:37:15 > 0:37:16All right.

0:37:18 > 0:37:20A couple of highball glasses.

0:37:22 > 0:37:24DOORBELL BUZZES

0:37:24 > 0:37:25Good morning.

0:37:25 > 0:37:26Lieutenant McPherson sent for us.

0:37:26 > 0:37:28Good morning, Lieutenant.

0:37:28 > 0:37:29Hello, McPherson.

0:37:29 > 0:37:30This is quite a delegation.

0:37:30 > 0:37:32I only sent for you, Carpenter.

0:37:32 > 0:37:33Shelby's dropping me off at the hairdresser's later,

0:37:33 > 0:37:35so I thought I might as well come along.

0:37:35 > 0:37:37My excuse is equally feeble.

0:37:37 > 0:37:39I just popped in to pay my dubious respects

0:37:39 > 0:37:40and enquire as to the state of your health.

0:37:40 > 0:37:42Insipid, I trust.

0:37:42 > 0:37:43I was just going to pour myself a drink.

0:37:43 > 0:37:44Would you care to join me?

0:37:44 > 0:37:46That's a very nice idea. Shelby, wouldn't you like one?

0:37:46 > 0:37:47I'll get it.

0:37:47 > 0:37:49Never mind.

0:37:49 > 0:37:51Bessie, would you bring a couple more glasses, please?

0:37:51 > 0:37:53Hi, Bessie. What are you doing here?

0:37:53 > 0:37:54I'm paid up for the week,

0:37:54 > 0:37:55and I'm working regardless.

0:37:55 > 0:37:57Would you like one, Lydecker?

0:37:57 > 0:37:58I see no reason to exclude myself

0:37:58 > 0:38:00if the host provides scotch.

0:38:00 > 0:38:01This do?

0:38:01 > 0:38:02I presume it'll have to.

0:38:02 > 0:38:04How about you, Carpenter?

0:38:04 > 0:38:05It's cheap, but it's potent.

0:38:05 > 0:38:07As a matter of fact, I don't think I care for any.

0:38:07 > 0:38:09I'm not much of a daytime drinker.

0:38:09 > 0:38:11That'll be all for you, Bessie. You can go home now.

0:38:11 > 0:38:12But I... Yes, sir.

0:38:13 > 0:38:16I remember when Laura bought these glasses.

0:38:16 > 0:38:18She loved them. She loved all her things so.

0:38:18 > 0:38:20What are you going to do? Sell them?

0:38:20 > 0:38:22I don't know.

0:38:22 > 0:38:23I suppose so. Thank you.

0:38:23 > 0:38:25If I'm appointed administrator of the estate,

0:38:25 > 0:38:27I shall probably just call in Corey.

0:38:27 > 0:38:29You mean Lancaster Corey, the art dealer?

0:38:29 > 0:38:31Yes. He was a friend of Laura's.

0:38:31 > 0:38:33Let him dispose of everything.

0:38:33 > 0:38:35It'll be less gruesome that way.

0:38:35 > 0:38:37Not quite everything, Ann.

0:38:37 > 0:38:40Two or three things in here belong to me.

0:38:40 > 0:38:42This vase, for instance,

0:38:42 > 0:38:45and that, er, clock, of course,

0:38:45 > 0:38:47and the antique fire screen.

0:38:47 > 0:38:49I only lent them to Laura, you know.

0:38:49 > 0:38:51Oh, really, Waldo!

0:38:51 > 0:38:53Yes, really. This vase is the gem of my collection.

0:38:53 > 0:38:55I intend to have it back,

0:38:55 > 0:38:56and the clock and the screen, too.

0:38:56 > 0:38:58But they aren't yours. You gave them to Laura.

0:38:58 > 0:38:59I won't permit it.

0:38:59 > 0:39:00Does an alleged fiance

0:39:00 > 0:39:02have any voice in this matter?

0:39:02 > 0:39:04I'll take the vase with me now

0:39:04 > 0:39:07and send someone to collect the other things this very day.

0:39:07 > 0:39:10Nothing is leaving here except you, Lydecker.

0:39:10 > 0:39:13Is that your quaint way of indicating dismissal?

0:39:13 > 0:39:15We're all going anyway.

0:39:15 > 0:39:17I have to be back at headquarters by noon.

0:39:17 > 0:39:18Lieutenant, I don't understand.

0:39:18 > 0:39:20You sent for me, didn't you?

0:39:20 > 0:39:21Yeah.

0:39:21 > 0:39:22Well, don't you want to see me?

0:39:22 > 0:39:24Don't you want to ask me some questions?

0:39:24 > 0:39:26I'll be seeing you.

0:39:26 > 0:39:27I bid you good day.

0:39:27 > 0:39:29Come along, Shelby.

0:39:29 > 0:39:30Are you making any progress

0:39:30 > 0:39:32on the case, Lieutenant?

0:39:32 > 0:39:33We're doing all right.

0:39:49 > 0:39:50Hello, Mark.

0:39:50 > 0:39:52Go get something to eat. I'll take over.

0:39:52 > 0:39:53Thanks.

0:39:53 > 0:39:55Take your time.

0:42:46 > 0:42:48Fred?

0:42:49 > 0:42:51CLICKING

0:42:51 > 0:42:52Yes?

0:42:52 > 0:42:55'What's the matter? Did you go to sleep?'

0:42:55 > 0:42:58This is McPherson. Any calls come through?

0:42:59 > 0:43:01Well, keep listening.

0:43:01 > 0:43:03No. Nothing new.

0:43:03 > 0:43:05DOORBELL BUZZES

0:43:09 > 0:43:12I happened to see the lights on.

0:43:12 > 0:43:14Have you sublet this apartment?

0:43:14 > 0:43:16You're here often enough to pay rent.

0:43:16 > 0:43:18Any objections?

0:43:18 > 0:43:19Yes.

0:43:19 > 0:43:22I object to you prying into Laura's letters,

0:43:22 > 0:43:24especially those from me.

0:43:24 > 0:43:26Why? Yours are the best in the bunch.

0:43:26 > 0:43:29< Thanks. But I didn't write them to you.

0:43:29 > 0:43:31Haven't you any sense of privacy?

0:43:31 > 0:43:35Murder victims have no claim to privacy.

0:43:35 > 0:43:38< Have detectives who buy portraits of murder victims

0:43:38 > 0:43:39< a claim to privacy?

0:43:39 > 0:43:41Lancaster Corey told me

0:43:41 > 0:43:44that you've already put in a bid for it.

0:43:44 > 0:43:46That's none of your business.

0:43:46 > 0:43:48McPherson, did it ever strike you

0:43:48 > 0:43:50that you're acting very strangely?

0:43:50 > 0:43:52It's a wonder you don't come here like a suitor,

0:43:52 > 0:43:54with roses and a box of candy,

0:43:54 > 0:43:56drugstore candy, of course.

0:43:56 > 0:43:59Have you ever dreamed of Laura as your wife,

0:43:59 > 0:44:01by your side at the policemen's ball

0:44:01 > 0:44:02or in the bleachers

0:44:02 > 0:44:04or listening to the heroic story

0:44:04 > 0:44:06of how you got a silver shinbone

0:44:06 > 0:44:08from a gun battle with a gangster?

0:44:08 > 0:44:10I see you have.

0:44:10 > 0:44:13Why don't you go home? I'm busy.

0:44:13 > 0:44:16Perhaps we can come to terms now.

0:44:16 > 0:44:18You want the portrait.

0:44:18 > 0:44:19Perfectly understandable.

0:44:19 > 0:44:21I want my possessions,

0:44:21 > 0:44:24my vase, my clock, and my screen.

0:44:24 > 0:44:25Also perfectly understandable.

0:44:25 > 0:44:26Now, if you...

0:44:26 > 0:44:27Get going.

0:44:27 > 0:44:29You'd better watch out, McPherson,

0:44:29 > 0:44:32or you'll end up in a psychiatric ward.

0:44:32 > 0:44:34I don't think they've ever had a patient

0:44:34 > 0:44:37who fell in love with a corpse.

0:45:40 > 0:45:43DOOR OPENS

0:46:02 > 0:46:04What are you doing here?

0:46:07 > 0:46:09You're alive.

0:46:09 > 0:46:12If you don't get out at once, I'm going to call the police.

0:46:12 > 0:46:15You are Laura Hunt, aren't you?

0:46:16 > 0:46:18Aren't you?

0:46:18 > 0:46:20I'm going to call the police.

0:46:20 > 0:46:22Well, I am the police.

0:46:22 > 0:46:23Mark McPherson.

0:46:24 > 0:46:27What's this all about?

0:46:27 > 0:46:29Don't you know?

0:46:29 > 0:46:31Don't you know what's happened?

0:46:31 > 0:46:32No.

0:46:32 > 0:46:34Haven't you seen the papers?

0:46:34 > 0:46:36Where have you been?

0:46:36 > 0:46:37Up in the country.

0:46:37 > 0:46:40I...I don't get a newspaper.

0:46:40 > 0:46:43Haven't you got a radio?

0:46:43 > 0:46:44It was broken.

0:46:44 > 0:46:45What...

0:47:03 > 0:47:05Somebody was murdered in this room.

0:47:05 > 0:47:08Do you have any idea who it was?

0:47:08 > 0:47:09No.

0:47:09 > 0:47:12Who had a key to your apartment?

0:47:12 > 0:47:13Nobody.

0:47:13 > 0:47:15You're sure?

0:47:17 > 0:47:19When did it happen?

0:47:19 > 0:47:20Friday night.

0:47:23 > 0:47:26What are you going to do now?

0:47:26 > 0:47:28Find out who was murdered,

0:47:28 > 0:47:30and then find the murderer.

0:47:33 > 0:47:35You'd better take off those wet clothes.

0:47:35 > 0:47:37You might catch cold.

0:47:41 > 0:47:42Yeah.

0:47:47 > 0:47:49DOOR CLOSES

0:47:51 > 0:47:54I found this in my closet.

0:47:54 > 0:47:55It's Diane Redfern's.

0:47:55 > 0:47:57It wasn't here when I left.

0:47:57 > 0:47:59She's one of our models.

0:47:59 > 0:48:01Just about my size.

0:48:02 > 0:48:04Beautiful, wasn't she?

0:48:04 > 0:48:06Do you suppose...?

0:48:10 > 0:48:12Sit down, please.

0:48:16 > 0:48:19This is Monday night. You left on Friday.

0:48:19 > 0:48:21Rather a long weekend, isn't it?

0:48:21 > 0:48:22Yes.

0:48:22 > 0:48:24What train did you take?

0:48:24 > 0:48:26The 7.26.

0:48:26 > 0:48:28See anybody you knew on the train?

0:48:28 > 0:48:29No.

0:48:29 > 0:48:31Then what?

0:48:31 > 0:48:33Then I got off the train at Norwalk.

0:48:33 > 0:48:36Saw nobody you knew at the station either?

0:48:36 > 0:48:37No.

0:48:37 > 0:48:38Go on.

0:48:38 > 0:48:41Then I went to the garage where I keep my car.

0:48:41 > 0:48:43It's a private garage.

0:48:43 > 0:48:45Nobody saw me there either.

0:48:45 > 0:48:47Then I drove to my house.

0:48:47 > 0:48:50You were there three days. What did you do?

0:48:50 > 0:48:52Worked in my garden.

0:48:52 > 0:48:54You didn't go out in all that time?

0:48:54 > 0:48:58No. I had everything I needed in the house.

0:48:58 > 0:49:00< Nobody came to see you?

0:49:00 > 0:49:02Nobody. I went there to be alone.

0:49:02 > 0:49:04Police were there on Saturday

0:49:04 > 0:49:06and there was no-one in the house.

0:49:06 > 0:49:09Oh, yes. Saturday, I took a long walk.

0:49:09 > 0:49:12I walked for hours in the woods.

0:49:12 > 0:49:15Mm-hmm. You were going to marry

0:49:15 > 0:49:17Shelby Carpenter this week.

0:49:17 > 0:49:19Thursday, if I'm not mistaken.

0:49:20 > 0:49:22Yes.

0:49:22 > 0:49:25Yet you went away just before your wedding

0:49:25 > 0:49:27for a long weekend, to be alone.

0:49:27 > 0:49:29I was tired.

0:49:29 > 0:49:30I'd been working hard.

0:49:30 > 0:49:32You know Shelby Carpenter has a key to this apartment.

0:49:32 > 0:49:34Why didn't you tell me?

0:49:34 > 0:49:36I know nothing of the sort. He hasn't!

0:49:36 > 0:49:38How else did the girl get into the apartment?

0:49:38 > 0:49:40You knew she was in love with Carpenter,

0:49:40 > 0:49:42that he'd given her your cigarette case.

0:49:42 > 0:49:44You know all that, don't you?

0:49:44 > 0:49:45I knew that she was in love with him.

0:49:45 > 0:49:46She told me so herself.

0:49:46 > 0:49:48When did she tell you?

0:49:48 > 0:49:49At lunch last Friday.

0:49:49 > 0:49:52I also know that she meant nothing to Shelby.

0:49:52 > 0:49:54I understand him better than you do.

0:49:54 > 0:49:55She was found in your dressing gown and slippers.

0:49:55 > 0:49:58That's hardly the regulation costume for an impersonal chat

0:49:58 > 0:50:00between a man and woman who mean nothing to each other.

0:50:00 > 0:50:02Did you know or did you suspect

0:50:02 > 0:50:04that he was going to bring her here Friday night, Miss Hunt?

0:50:04 > 0:50:05How could I? I don't know that he brought her here.

0:50:05 > 0:50:07Neither do you. You merely assume it.

0:50:07 > 0:50:08What other assumption is possible?

0:50:08 > 0:50:10Do you love this fellow Carpenter so much

0:50:10 > 0:50:12you'd risk your own safety to protect him?

0:50:12 > 0:50:15My own safety? Do you suspect me?

0:50:15 > 0:50:16I suspect nobody and everybody.

0:50:16 > 0:50:18I'm merely trying to get at the truth.

0:50:18 > 0:50:20I see you have been trying to get at the truth.

0:50:20 > 0:50:23You've read things I never meant anyone else to look at.

0:50:23 > 0:50:24Strictly routine.

0:50:24 > 0:50:26I'm sorry.

0:50:26 > 0:50:27Really.

0:50:29 > 0:50:31Well, I'd better be going.

0:50:31 > 0:50:32I'll see you in the morning, Miss Hunt.

0:50:32 > 0:50:35Oh, I must ask you not to leave the house

0:50:35 > 0:50:36or use the phone.

0:50:36 > 0:50:39But... But I've got to let my friends know I'm alive.

0:50:39 > 0:50:42Sorry, Miss Hunt, but I must insist you do as I say.

0:50:42 > 0:50:43Am I under arrest?

0:50:43 > 0:50:47No. But if anything should happen to you this time,

0:50:47 > 0:50:49I wouldn't like it.

0:50:49 > 0:50:51All right. I promise.

0:50:51 > 0:50:53There's one more thing.

0:50:53 > 0:50:54You may as well know what I know,

0:50:54 > 0:50:56some of it, at any rate.

0:50:56 > 0:51:00It'll save time and a lot of unnecessary fencing.

0:51:00 > 0:51:04I know that you went away to make up your mind

0:51:04 > 0:51:08whether you would marry Shelby Carpenter or not.

0:51:08 > 0:51:10What did you decide?

0:51:10 > 0:51:12I want the truth.

0:51:14 > 0:51:17I decided not to marry him.

0:51:17 > 0:51:18I'll see you in the morning.

0:51:18 > 0:51:20Goodnight.

0:51:20 > 0:51:21Goodnight.

0:51:24 > 0:51:25DOOR CLOSES

0:51:35 > 0:51:36Really?

0:51:36 > 0:51:38Does McPherson know that?

0:51:38 > 0:51:39Uh-huh.

0:51:39 > 0:51:40Well, OK.

0:51:40 > 0:51:41Goodbye.

0:51:41 > 0:51:44Say, Mark, that was the medical examiner's report.

0:51:44 > 0:51:46It wasn't Laura Hunt.

0:51:46 > 0:51:48It was Diane Redfern that was bumped off upstairs.

0:51:48 > 0:51:51Kind of balls things up, doesn't it?

0:51:51 > 0:51:53Yeah. Say, you're not taking it too hard.

0:51:53 > 0:51:55CLICKING

0:51:55 > 0:51:57SHELBY: 'Hello?'

0:51:57 > 0:51:58'This is Laura.'

0:51:58 > 0:52:00SHELBY: 'Say nothing on the phone. Meet me now.

0:52:00 > 0:52:03'I'll wait for you in my car in front of Bullitt's.'

0:52:03 > 0:52:04Was that...

0:52:04 > 0:52:04Yeah.

0:52:04 > 0:52:07Dames are always pulling a switch on you.

0:52:07 > 0:52:09Stand by.

0:52:26 > 0:52:28You follow her. I'm going to tail him.

0:52:34 > 0:52:37THUNDER CRASHES

0:52:41 > 0:52:44THUNDER CRASHES

0:53:17 > 0:53:20< Are you taking it down or putting it away, Carpenter?

0:53:33 > 0:53:34It's been fired lately.

0:53:34 > 0:53:36Yes. I killed some rabbits with it.

0:53:36 > 0:53:37When?

0:53:37 > 0:53:39Oh, a while back. I don't know exactly.

0:53:39 > 0:53:41You know about guns, don't you?

0:53:41 > 0:53:42Yes.

0:53:42 > 0:53:44How come you didn't clean it afterward?

0:53:44 > 0:53:46I don't know. I forgot, I suppose.

0:53:46 > 0:53:48Your initials?

0:53:48 > 0:53:50Yes. I gave it to Laura for protection.

0:53:50 > 0:53:52She didn't want it, but I insisted.

0:53:52 > 0:53:54This house is rather isolated, as you see.

0:53:54 > 0:53:56Did you teach her how to use it?

0:53:56 > 0:53:57No.

0:53:57 > 0:53:59Does she know how?

0:53:59 > 0:54:01I don't know. It didn't occur to me to ask.

0:54:01 > 0:54:03You're a vague sort of a fellow, aren't you, Carpenter?

0:54:03 > 0:54:05I've spent very little time

0:54:05 > 0:54:07in observing my own character, Mr McPherson.

0:54:07 > 0:54:08You haven't borrowed it lately?

0:54:08 > 0:54:10You didn't just bring it back tonight?

0:54:10 > 0:54:12You followed me here. You saw me come in.

0:54:12 > 0:54:13You ought to know.

0:54:13 > 0:54:16You, er, realise the spot you're in, Carpenter?

0:54:16 > 0:54:19You took that poor girl to Miss Hunt's apartment.

0:54:19 > 0:54:22You knew all along it was she who was murdered.

0:54:22 > 0:54:25Didn't you know Laura Hunt would come back any day

0:54:25 > 0:54:27and spill the whole thing?

0:54:27 > 0:54:29Or did you plan to kill her, too,

0:54:29 > 0:54:31hide the body someplace,

0:54:31 > 0:54:33and cover up your first crime?

0:54:33 > 0:54:35You're being fantastic, McPherson.

0:54:35 > 0:54:37You took a bottle of Black Pony

0:54:37 > 0:54:39to her house Friday night.

0:54:39 > 0:54:40I took it there over a week ago.

0:54:40 > 0:54:42Bessie said it wasn't there Friday night.

0:54:42 > 0:54:44It was Saturday morning.

0:54:44 > 0:54:46I can't help what Bessie said.

0:54:48 > 0:54:50Where is the key to her apartment?

0:54:50 > 0:54:52I haven't got it.

0:54:52 > 0:54:55What did you do with it? Give it back to her tonight?

0:54:55 > 0:54:56I never had one.

0:54:56 > 0:54:58OK. You didn't take the bottle of scotch

0:54:58 > 0:54:59to her house Friday night,

0:54:59 > 0:55:00and you haven't got a key to her apartment.

0:55:00 > 0:55:02How did you get in? You had a key, and I know it.

0:55:02 > 0:55:04Now, come on, Carpenter, spill it.

0:55:04 > 0:55:05I...

0:55:05 > 0:55:08Laura kept a duplicate key at her office.

0:55:08 > 0:55:10I went over and got it.

0:55:10 > 0:55:11I'd asked Diane to dine with me.

0:55:11 > 0:55:14I wanted to have it out with her once and for all.

0:55:14 > 0:55:16You know, she thought...

0:55:16 > 0:55:18Well, she thought she was in love with me.

0:55:18 > 0:55:20Well, we couldn't go on talking in public places.

0:55:20 > 0:55:21She was too upset.

0:55:21 > 0:55:23I couldn't go to her room,

0:55:23 > 0:55:25and I didn't want to take her to my hotel,

0:55:25 > 0:55:27so we went to Laura's.

0:55:27 > 0:55:29We talked there for about three hours.

0:55:29 > 0:55:31Then the doorbell rang, and...

0:55:31 > 0:55:32Go on.

0:55:32 > 0:55:33Diane was frightened,

0:55:33 > 0:55:35but knowing Laura as I've known her,

0:55:35 > 0:55:37I've learned to be surprised at nothing.

0:55:37 > 0:55:38What do you mean by that?

0:55:38 > 0:55:40Well, her friends would come to her with their troubles

0:55:40 > 0:55:42at all hours of the day or night.

0:55:42 > 0:55:44I asked Diane to answer the door.

0:55:44 > 0:55:46Why didn't you go yourself?

0:55:46 > 0:55:48Well, supposing one of Laura's friends had found me there?

0:55:48 > 0:55:49Why open the door at all?

0:55:49 > 0:55:51Well, they must have seen the light.

0:55:51 > 0:55:53What about the girl...Diane? What about her reputation?

0:55:53 > 0:55:55Well, I had asked her to tell them

0:55:55 > 0:55:58that Laura had lent her the apartment while she was away.

0:55:58 > 0:55:59Anybody that knew Laura would have believed that.

0:55:59 > 0:56:01Yeah. Go on.

0:56:01 > 0:56:03Well, then the doorbell rang again.

0:56:03 > 0:56:05I could hear Diane's mules...

0:56:05 > 0:56:06Laura's they were...

0:56:06 > 0:56:09clattering across the bare boards between the rugs.

0:56:09 > 0:56:11Then there was a moment's silence and then a shot.

0:56:11 > 0:56:14It was an awful explosion.

0:56:14 > 0:56:16By the time I reached her,

0:56:16 > 0:56:17the door was closed.

0:56:17 > 0:56:19She lay there on the floor.

0:56:19 > 0:56:21You got to see who it was?

0:56:21 > 0:56:22No. I was too confused, too horrified,

0:56:22 > 0:56:24incapable of doing anything.

0:56:24 > 0:56:25The room was dark.

0:56:25 > 0:56:28I saw only a vague heap lying on the floor.

0:56:28 > 0:56:31I don't think I fully grasped the situation.

0:56:31 > 0:56:34I think I called her name, but I'm not sure.

0:56:34 > 0:56:36I remember kneeling on the floor,

0:56:36 > 0:56:38feeling her heart.

0:56:38 > 0:56:40My first instinct was to call the police.

0:56:40 > 0:56:42Why didn't you?

0:56:42 > 0:56:44I don't know, or rather I was afraid,

0:56:44 > 0:56:45not only for myself but for Laura.

0:56:45 > 0:56:47In a panicky sort of way,

0:56:47 > 0:56:49I felt that I must keep out of this

0:56:49 > 0:56:51to keep Laura out of it.

0:56:51 > 0:56:53Oh, I know now how foolish and hopeless it was,

0:56:53 > 0:56:55but there was only one thing on my mind -

0:56:55 > 0:56:57the safety of a person whose life was dearer to me than my own.

0:56:57 > 0:56:59Don't you understand that?

0:56:59 > 0:57:01Did you think Laura had done it?

0:57:01 > 0:57:03Did you?

0:57:03 > 0:57:04I don't remember what I thought.

0:57:04 > 0:57:07Do you think so now?

0:57:07 > 0:57:08No.

0:57:08 > 0:57:09But you didn't?

0:57:09 > 0:57:09No.

0:57:09 > 0:57:12On Saturday, when our men went to the hotel

0:57:12 > 0:57:13to tell you that Laura was dead,

0:57:13 > 0:57:15you seemed sincerely shocked.

0:57:15 > 0:57:17I was. I hadn't expected that mistake.

0:57:17 > 0:57:19But you had your alibi ready no matter who was dead,

0:57:19 > 0:57:22yet you knew the minute Laura got back it wouldn't stick.

0:57:22 > 0:57:24Don't you see, I was incapable of thinking

0:57:24 > 0:57:25that far ahead.

0:57:25 > 0:57:27I was incapable of thinking at all.

0:57:27 > 0:57:29I was groping for some way

0:57:29 > 0:57:31to keep Laura's name out of it.

0:57:31 > 0:57:32I was heartbroken about Diane

0:57:32 > 0:57:34and panic-stricken about Laura.

0:57:34 > 0:57:36I haven't slept a full two hours

0:57:36 > 0:57:37since this thing happened.

0:57:37 > 0:57:39Let's get back to the present.

0:57:39 > 0:57:40What did you and Laura talk about tonight?

0:57:40 > 0:57:44I told her the whole story just as I've told you.

0:57:44 > 0:57:45She phoned you after she promised me

0:57:45 > 0:57:47she wouldn't call anybody.

0:57:47 > 0:57:48What did she want?

0:57:48 > 0:57:50It's perfectly natural she should want to see me,

0:57:50 > 0:57:51especially after what's happened.

0:57:51 > 0:57:53Why don't you tell the truth, Carpenter?

0:57:53 > 0:57:55She sent you here to get rid of this gun.

0:57:55 > 0:57:56She did not. It was my own idea.

0:57:56 > 0:57:58She doesn't even know I'm here.

0:58:00 > 0:58:02MUSIC ON RADIO

0:58:04 > 0:58:06It works fine, doesn't it?

0:58:06 > 0:58:08Yes. Did you think it wouldn't?

0:58:08 > 0:58:11I hoped it wouldn't. All right, let's go.

0:58:11 > 0:58:14Oh, am I under arrest?

0:58:14 > 0:58:16No. But you're not to leave town.

0:58:16 > 0:58:19It would be foolish of you to try it.

0:58:32 > 0:58:34DOORBELL BUZZES

0:58:36 > 0:58:38Good morning.

0:58:38 > 0:58:39Good morning.

0:58:41 > 0:58:43What's that?

0:58:43 > 0:58:47Breakfast. You didn't buy any food when you went out last night.

0:58:51 > 0:58:53I'll fix some bacon and eggs.

0:58:53 > 0:58:55Can you make coffee?

0:58:55 > 0:58:58Suppose you set the table while I get breakfast.

0:58:58 > 0:59:01Do you always sound like this in the morning?

0:59:01 > 0:59:03Don't tell me you can cook.

0:59:03 > 0:59:05My mother always listened sympathetically

0:59:05 > 0:59:07to my dreams of a career,

0:59:07 > 0:59:09and then taught me another recipe.

0:59:09 > 0:59:11KEY TURNS IN LOCK

0:59:11 > 0:59:12Shh! Don't move.

0:59:14 > 0:59:16Aah!

0:59:16 > 0:59:18It's all right, Bessie.

0:59:18 > 0:59:20That's all right, Bessie.

0:59:20 > 0:59:21She's alive.

0:59:21 > 0:59:24It's all been a mistake, Bessie.

0:59:24 > 0:59:27I'm not a ghost, really.

0:59:27 > 0:59:30I found you, and you were dead.

0:59:30 > 0:59:32It was Miss Redfern's body you found.

0:59:34 > 0:59:36How about taking over here, >

0:59:36 > 0:59:39fixing us some coffee and eggs? >

0:59:39 > 0:59:43But I saw it with my own eyes.

0:59:43 > 0:59:45I don't understand it.

0:59:45 > 0:59:48Have you ever heard a ghost ask for eggs?

0:59:48 > 0:59:50No, Miss.

0:59:50 > 0:59:52You'll be all right, Bessie.

1:00:02 > 1:00:04Somebody should have warned her. Poor Bessie.

1:00:04 > 1:00:08By the way, I've asked Waldo Lydecker to come here this morning.

1:00:08 > 1:00:10Did you tell him?

1:00:10 > 1:00:11No.

1:00:11 > 1:00:13Why not? It's brutal.

1:00:13 > 1:00:14I'm not doing it for fun.

1:00:14 > 1:00:17Why did you break your promise

1:00:17 > 1:00:20and go out and see Shelby last night?

1:00:20 > 1:00:22You forced me to give you my word.

1:00:22 > 1:00:24I never have been and I never will be

1:00:24 > 1:00:26bound by anything I don't do of my own free will.

1:00:26 > 1:00:28Redfern was in love with Carpenter.

1:00:28 > 1:00:30You admitted that last night.

1:00:30 > 1:00:32May I have a match, please?

1:00:32 > 1:00:34Oh, I'm sorry.

1:00:34 > 1:00:37I also told you that he wasn't in love with her.

1:00:37 > 1:00:38DOORBELL BUZZES

1:00:38 > 1:00:39Just sit still.

1:00:46 > 1:00:48Hello, Lieutenant.

1:00:49 > 1:00:50Good morning, my darling.

1:00:50 > 1:00:52Hello, dear.

1:00:52 > 1:00:54Ah. Thank you.

1:00:54 > 1:00:56Oh, it's on again.

1:00:56 > 1:00:59Do I have to get a permit from the police department

1:00:59 > 1:01:01to kiss my fiancee good morning?

1:01:01 > 1:01:02So he made you change your mind.

1:01:02 > 1:01:05Speaking of changing one's mind, Mr McPherson,

1:01:05 > 1:01:07I've just come from my lawyer.

1:01:07 > 1:01:10Yeah? Did he tell you how much you'd get off for good behaviour?

1:01:10 > 1:01:13No, but he told me that anything I may have said last night

1:01:13 > 1:01:15was said under duress and can't be used against me.

1:01:15 > 1:01:17Besides, none of it was true.

1:01:17 > 1:01:19Smart lawyer you've got, Carpenter.

1:01:19 > 1:01:21Maybe he told you how that scotch got up here Friday night

1:01:21 > 1:01:23after you'd bought it at Mosconi's.

1:01:23 > 1:01:25Maybe it was the lawyer who brought Diane Redfern up here.

1:01:25 > 1:01:26DOORBELL BUZZES

1:01:31 > 1:01:36Well, McPherson, have you thought over the deal I suggested?

1:01:38 > 1:01:40Waldo.

1:01:40 > 1:01:41THUMP!

1:01:41 > 1:01:43Waldo.

1:01:47 > 1:01:49Right-hand pocket.

1:01:49 > 1:01:50You want a doctor?

1:01:50 > 1:01:53Right-hand pocket.

1:01:53 > 1:01:56We'd better take him into the bedroom.

1:02:07 > 1:02:09What...?

1:02:09 > 1:02:11Don't try and say anything, dear.

1:02:11 > 1:02:12Just be quiet.

1:02:14 > 1:02:16You know, I think this is carrying things too far.

1:02:16 > 1:02:19Your methods are vicious. There ought to be a law against it.

1:02:19 > 1:02:20Yeah?

1:02:20 > 1:02:22How does he feel now?

1:02:22 > 1:02:24It was a terrible shock, poor darling.

1:02:24 > 1:02:25Don't tell me you're in love with him, too.

1:02:25 > 1:02:27Look here, fella. You're not to talk that way to Miss Hunt.

1:02:27 > 1:02:29Shut up. Why do you cover up for a guy like him?

1:02:29 > 1:02:31Don't answer him, Laura.

1:02:31 > 1:02:33What story did he tell you last night?

1:02:33 > 1:02:34Don't answer him. Let him talk to our lawyer.

1:02:34 > 1:02:36OUR lawyer? So now you're covering up for each other.

1:02:36 > 1:02:38Look at him, Laura. He's beginning to crack up.

1:02:38 > 1:02:40He'd use anything to make an arrest

1:02:40 > 1:02:42just so he can be a big shot in the headlines.

1:02:42 > 1:02:44I've got enough on you to arrest you right now.

1:02:44 > 1:02:45Quick, McPherson, the handcuffs.

1:02:45 > 1:02:47Trundle him off to the hoosegow.

1:02:47 > 1:02:48You keep out of this.

1:02:48 > 1:02:49You'll look nice in bracelets, Carpenter.

1:02:49 > 1:02:51Why don't you get down on all fours again, Waldo.

1:02:51 > 1:02:53It's the only time you've ever kept your mouth shut.

1:02:53 > 1:02:56I hope you'll forgive my wee touch of epilepsy, my dear.

1:02:56 > 1:02:58It's an old family custom.

1:02:58 > 1:02:59Well, McPherson,

1:02:59 > 1:03:02what does Laura's resurrection do to you?

1:03:02 > 1:03:04Too bad Diane Redfern can't be resurrected.

1:03:04 > 1:03:07I'm afraid I've interrupted what you call a pinch.

1:03:07 > 1:03:10Do your duty, McPherson.

1:03:10 > 1:03:13You know, Lydecker, you've made me change my mind...

1:03:13 > 1:03:14for the moment.

1:03:14 > 1:03:16Well, in that case,

1:03:16 > 1:03:18we'll have time for a little get-together.

1:03:18 > 1:03:20You'd better order some liquor and some food, Laura.

1:03:20 > 1:03:21What for?

1:03:21 > 1:03:23People are coming to celebrate your return -

1:03:23 > 1:03:25Ann, Bullitt, and Corey, everybody.

1:03:25 > 1:03:26Who asked them to come?

1:03:26 > 1:03:28I did, when I was in there.

1:03:28 > 1:03:30I phoned my man, and he's calling everyone.

1:03:30 > 1:03:32Why did you do that, Waldo?

1:03:32 > 1:03:34A sense of the fitness of things, my dear.

1:03:34 > 1:03:36Perhaps our friend can weave all the loose ends

1:03:36 > 1:03:38into a noose, eh, McPherson?

1:03:38 > 1:03:40Sorry you went to all that trouble.

1:03:40 > 1:03:42I've already called them.

1:03:45 > 1:03:46You're working yourself to death, darling.

1:03:46 > 1:03:48I haven't had a moment with you all day.

1:03:48 > 1:03:50It's a very thirsty crowd, you know.

1:03:50 > 1:03:52After all, it isn't your homecoming.

1:03:52 > 1:03:55Aren't you being a little bit nasty, Ann?

1:03:55 > 1:03:57I feel nasty when I don't see you.

1:03:57 > 1:03:59Well, you look very sweet.

1:03:59 > 1:04:01That's a completely wonderful hat, darling.

1:04:01 > 1:04:03Now, if you'll forgive me, Laura wants a cocktail.

1:04:03 > 1:04:05So do I.

1:04:05 > 1:04:07Well, here you go.

1:04:07 > 1:04:09Shelby, why don't you come to your senses?

1:04:09 > 1:04:11You know it's all over between you and Laura,

1:04:11 > 1:04:13or it soon will be.

1:04:13 > 1:04:15You haven't lost me. Why don't we get married? Now.

1:04:15 > 1:04:18But, Ann, dear, you don't seem to realise the situation.

1:04:18 > 1:04:20Yes, but I do. That's why you need me.

1:04:20 > 1:04:22We'll get the best lawyer that money can buy.

1:04:22 > 1:04:24When it's all over, we'll go away... anywhere you want...

1:04:24 > 1:04:26and forget about all this.

1:04:26 > 1:04:28Well, thanks, Ann, but you see, Laura needs me.

1:04:28 > 1:04:30Sorry.

1:04:31 > 1:04:33Uh-uh.

1:04:34 > 1:04:36Laura.

1:04:36 > 1:04:37Thanks.

1:04:37 > 1:04:40If you don't mind, I'd like a word with Miss Hunt.

1:04:40 > 1:04:44I don't mind. Talk to her as much as you like.

1:04:44 > 1:04:46I see he's taking a new tack.

1:04:46 > 1:04:48What do you mean?

1:04:48 > 1:04:51Trying to make you like him to make you talk.

1:04:51 > 1:04:54Shelby, tell me, why did you go to...

1:04:54 > 1:04:57Oh, excuse me.

1:04:59 > 1:05:02Why did you go to the cottage last night?

1:05:02 > 1:05:03Don't you know?

1:05:03 > 1:05:07I was afraid you wouldn't think of hiding that shotgun.

1:05:07 > 1:05:08What shotgun?

1:05:08 > 1:05:12The one I gave you. You don't have to lie to me, darling.

1:05:12 > 1:05:14I'll stand by you.

1:05:20 > 1:05:23What's the matter, Laura?

1:05:23 > 1:05:26Oh, I guess I'm just nervous, that's all.

1:05:26 > 1:05:28So am I.

1:05:28 > 1:05:31McPherson suspects Shelby.

1:05:31 > 1:05:35He seems to suspect me, too.

1:05:35 > 1:05:38So do some of my friends.

1:05:38 > 1:05:39You? Don't be absurd.

1:05:39 > 1:05:41You could never do a thing like that.

1:05:41 > 1:05:43And Shelby?

1:05:43 > 1:05:44Oh, I don't think he did it,

1:05:44 > 1:05:46but he's capable of it.

1:05:47 > 1:05:50Are you as interested in McPherson as he is in you?

1:05:50 > 1:05:53But, Ann, I only met him last night.

1:05:53 > 1:05:54That's more than long enough sometimes.

1:05:54 > 1:05:57Anyway, he's better for you than Shelby,

1:05:57 > 1:05:58anybody is.

1:05:58 > 1:06:00Shelby's better for me.

1:06:00 > 1:06:02Why?

1:06:02 > 1:06:06Because I can afford him and understand him.

1:06:06 > 1:06:09He's no good, but he's what I want.

1:06:09 > 1:06:12I'm not a nice person, Laura. Neither is he.

1:06:12 > 1:06:16He knows I know he's just what he is.

1:06:16 > 1:06:18He also knows that I don't care.

1:06:18 > 1:06:19We belong together

1:06:19 > 1:06:22because we're both weak and can't seem to help it.

1:06:22 > 1:06:26That's why I know he's capable of murder.

1:06:26 > 1:06:27He's like me.

1:06:29 > 1:06:32No, dear, I didn't,

1:06:32 > 1:06:34but I thought of it.

1:06:47 > 1:06:51TELEPHONE RINGS

1:06:51 > 1:06:52Hello?

1:06:52 > 1:06:55Yes. Yes.

1:06:55 > 1:06:57It's for you, Lieutenant.

1:06:57 > 1:07:00Thank you, Bessie.

1:07:00 > 1:07:01McPherson.

1:07:03 > 1:07:05Yeah, I know. Don't worry.

1:07:05 > 1:07:08I told you I'd bring in the killer today.

1:07:08 > 1:07:09MUSIC STOPS

1:07:09 > 1:07:13Yeah, I was just going to make the arrest when you called. >

1:07:13 > 1:07:15No, I can't tell you now. I'm not alone. >

1:07:16 > 1:07:19You'll see when I come in.

1:07:19 > 1:07:20Right.

1:07:20 > 1:07:22See you later.

1:07:40 > 1:07:42All right. Let's go.

1:07:42 > 1:07:43You mean...

1:07:43 > 1:07:44Yeah.

1:07:44 > 1:07:46Oh, no! >

1:07:47 > 1:07:52Oh, no. No, no. Not Miss Hunt.

1:07:52 > 1:07:53Please!

1:07:55 > 1:07:56Thank you, Bessie.

1:07:58 > 1:07:59Thank you.

1:07:59 > 1:08:04Now will you please be good enough to go and get me my things?

1:08:04 > 1:08:05Yes, Miss.

1:08:05 > 1:08:09Laura, don't worry, darling.

1:08:09 > 1:08:12Let them accuse you. We'll fight them.

1:08:12 > 1:08:17I have every weapon - money, connections, prestige, and my column.

1:08:17 > 1:08:20< Every day millions will read about you

1:08:20 > 1:08:22< and rally to your defence.

1:08:22 > 1:08:24You talk as if you wanted to see her tried for murder.

1:08:24 > 1:08:27Yes, rather than let you blacken her name

1:08:27 > 1:08:29with suspicions and rumours.

1:08:29 > 1:08:31Try to prove her guilty.

1:08:31 > 1:08:34Get on the witness stand with your poor shreds of evidence.

1:08:34 > 1:08:38I'll expose your cheap methods you used on her.

1:08:38 > 1:08:39Thank you, Bessie.

1:08:39 > 1:08:42Laura, I told you to watch out for this fella.

1:08:42 > 1:08:43Can we go now?

1:08:43 > 1:08:45I warned you.

1:08:45 > 1:08:49It's too bad you didn't open that door Friday night, Carpenter.

1:08:49 > 1:08:50Wait a minute.

1:08:50 > 1:08:52Uh!

1:08:52 > 1:08:53Shelby!

1:08:53 > 1:08:56Oh, did he hurt you, darling?

1:08:56 > 1:08:57Darling.

1:09:00 > 1:09:01Ann.

1:09:05 > 1:09:07Come in.

1:09:07 > 1:09:09Sit down.

1:09:11 > 1:09:12That'll be all, Gallagher.

1:09:12 > 1:09:14Yes, sir.

1:09:16 > 1:09:18All right, let's have it.

1:09:18 > 1:09:20Look at me.

1:09:22 > 1:09:25What are you trying to do, force a confession out of me?

1:09:25 > 1:09:27You've been holding out, and I want to know why.

1:09:27 > 1:09:29It'll be easier for you if you tell the truth.

1:09:29 > 1:09:33What difference does it make what I say?

1:09:33 > 1:09:36You've made up your mind I'm guilty.

1:09:36 > 1:09:37Are you?

1:09:37 > 1:09:40Don't tell me you have any doubts, since you...

1:09:40 > 1:09:42Oh, I can't. Please.

1:09:42 > 1:09:45Do I have to have those lights in my face?

1:09:50 > 1:09:52Thanks.

1:09:52 > 1:09:54No, I didn't kill Diane Redfern

1:09:54 > 1:09:56or anyone else.

1:09:56 > 1:09:57Then why...

1:09:57 > 1:09:59Why did you tell me

1:09:59 > 1:10:01the radio at your country place was broken?

1:10:01 > 1:10:03Because it was broken.

1:10:03 > 1:10:05Not when I tried it.

1:10:05 > 1:10:07Just as I was leaving the village,

1:10:07 > 1:10:09I asked the local handyman to fix it.

1:10:09 > 1:10:10< How did he get in?

1:10:10 > 1:10:12I always leave a key under the flowerpot on the porch.

1:10:12 > 1:10:16You're too intelligent to make up something I could check so easily,

1:10:16 > 1:10:19but you're intelligent enough to have broken it yourself

1:10:19 > 1:10:21to strengthen your story.

1:10:21 > 1:10:23The main thing I want to know

1:10:23 > 1:10:25is why you pulled that switch on me about Carpenter.

1:10:25 > 1:10:28You told me last night you had decided not to marry him.

1:10:28 > 1:10:30Yes, I guess I did.

1:10:30 > 1:10:33But today it was on again. Why?

1:10:33 > 1:10:36Well, I... I changed my mind.

1:10:36 > 1:10:39What are you trying to hide?

1:10:39 > 1:10:42Don't you realise you're involved in a murder?

1:10:42 > 1:10:45You've got yourself in a jam it's not going to be easy to get out of

1:10:45 > 1:10:47unless you're on the level with me.

1:10:47 > 1:10:49This is no time for secrets.

1:10:49 > 1:10:51Now, did you really decide to call it off,

1:10:51 > 1:10:53or did you just tell me that

1:10:53 > 1:10:57because you knew I wanted to hear it?

1:10:57 > 1:11:02What went on between you and Carpenter when you saw him last night?

1:11:02 > 1:11:05Did he persuade you to make up,

1:11:05 > 1:11:08or did you agree to pretend you had?

1:11:08 > 1:11:09Was that it?

1:11:09 > 1:11:11Well, we...that is, both of us thought...

1:11:11 > 1:11:14He convinced you that if you broke the engagement now,

1:11:14 > 1:11:15people would think you believed he was guilty.

1:11:15 > 1:11:19Yes, but now I know it was only because he thought I was.

1:11:19 > 1:11:21Did you believe he was guilty?

1:11:21 > 1:11:24No, I'm sure he isn't, but he'd gotten himself

1:11:24 > 1:11:25into an awfully suspicious position,

1:11:25 > 1:11:26and he's the sort of man

1:11:26 > 1:11:29that people are always ready to believe the worst about.

1:11:29 > 1:11:31Are you in love with him?

1:11:36 > 1:11:38I don't see how I ever could have been.

1:11:42 > 1:11:45Come on. You're going home.

1:11:46 > 1:11:48But I thought I was...

1:11:48 > 1:11:50That's what I wanted you to think,

1:11:50 > 1:11:52you and a few others.

1:11:52 > 1:11:54I didn't even book you.

1:11:54 > 1:11:56You mean this was some sort of a game?

1:11:56 > 1:11:58I was 99% certain about you,

1:11:58 > 1:12:00but I had to get rid of that 1% doubt.

1:12:00 > 1:12:03Wasn't there an easier way to make sure?

1:12:03 > 1:12:05I'd reached the point

1:12:05 > 1:12:08where I needed official surroundings.

1:12:09 > 1:12:12Then it was worth it, Mark.

1:12:14 > 1:12:16I'll call a cab for you.

1:12:29 > 1:12:32Goodnight. I'll see you tomorrow.

1:12:32 > 1:12:33Goodnight, Mark.

1:12:33 > 1:12:36I'm going over to Lydecker's apartment.

1:12:40 > 1:12:42BUZZ!

1:13:08 > 1:13:11CLOCK CHIMES

1:13:56 > 1:13:58It still doesn't make sense to me, Laura.

1:13:58 > 1:14:00He's playing some sort of a game with you.

1:14:00 > 1:14:02I don't think so.

1:14:02 > 1:14:04I don't deny that he's infatuated with you

1:14:04 > 1:14:06in some warped way of his own,

1:14:06 > 1:14:10but he isn't capable of any normal, warm, human relationship.

1:14:10 > 1:14:14He's been dealing with criminals too long.

1:14:14 > 1:14:16When you were unattainable,

1:14:16 > 1:14:18when he thought you were dead,

1:14:18 > 1:14:20that's when he wanted you most.

1:14:20 > 1:14:22But he was glad when I came back,

1:14:22 > 1:14:24as if he were waiting for me.

1:14:24 > 1:14:26Do you know what he calls women? Dames.

1:14:26 > 1:14:30A "dame" in Washington Heights got a fox fur out of him.

1:14:30 > 1:14:31His very words.

1:14:31 > 1:14:33That doesn't mean anything.

1:14:33 > 1:14:35He isn't like that.

1:14:35 > 1:14:38Laura, you have one tragic weakness.

1:14:38 > 1:14:43With you, a lean, strong body is the measure of a man,

1:14:43 > 1:14:45and you always get hurt.

1:14:45 > 1:14:48No man is ever going to hurt me again.

1:14:48 > 1:14:50No-one, not even you.

1:14:50 > 1:14:57I...hurt you? Laura, look at me.

1:14:58 > 1:15:02When a man has everything in the world that he wants

1:15:02 > 1:15:04except what he wants most,

1:15:04 > 1:15:07he loses his self-respect.

1:15:07 > 1:15:09It makes him bitter, Laura.

1:15:09 > 1:15:13He wants to hurt someone as he's been hurt.

1:15:14 > 1:15:19You were a long time in finding out about Shelby,

1:15:19 > 1:15:21but that's over now.

1:15:21 > 1:15:23We'll be back together again.

1:15:23 > 1:15:25DOOR OPENS

1:15:25 > 1:15:28Haven't you heard of science's newest triumph...

1:15:28 > 1:15:29the doorbell? >

1:15:29 > 1:15:32I don't like to remind her.

1:15:34 > 1:15:36That was the murderer's signal.

1:15:36 > 1:15:39Did you eavesdrop, too? I hope.

1:15:39 > 1:15:41I thought you'd like to know we tested your shotgun.

1:15:41 > 1:15:43It isn't the one.

1:15:43 > 1:15:45Now, that's what I call a typical move,

1:15:45 > 1:15:48a real key to the man's character.

1:15:48 > 1:15:50First he tells you that he thinks you're innocent,

1:15:50 > 1:15:52then proceeds to check up on you.

1:15:52 > 1:15:54When I report that I think she's innocent,

1:15:54 > 1:15:56that's my own personal opinion.

1:15:56 > 1:15:59When I submit proof, it becomes the opinion of the department.

1:15:59 > 1:16:02This entire manoeuvre could be a trick to get you off your guard.

1:16:02 > 1:16:04It could be, but it isn't.

1:16:04 > 1:16:05I believe you, Mark.

1:16:05 > 1:16:07It's the same obvious pattern, Laura.

1:16:07 > 1:16:11If McPherson weren't muscular and handsome in a cheap sort of way,

1:16:11 > 1:16:13you'd see through him in a second.

1:16:13 > 1:16:16Waldo, I mean to be as kind about this as I know how,

1:16:16 > 1:16:17but I must tell you.

1:16:17 > 1:16:21You're the one who follows the same obvious pattern.

1:16:21 > 1:16:23First, it was Jacoby, then Shelby, and now I suppose...

1:16:23 > 1:16:24< Laura, I...

1:16:24 > 1:16:26I don't think we should see each other again.

1:16:26 > 1:16:27You're not yourself, darling.

1:16:27 > 1:16:29Yes, I am.

1:16:29 > 1:16:33For the first time in ages, I know what I'm doing.

1:16:34 > 1:16:38Very well. I hope you'll never regret

1:16:38 > 1:16:42what promises to be a disgustingly earthy relationship.

1:16:42 > 1:16:46My congratulations, McPherson.

1:16:46 > 1:16:50Listen to my broadcast in 15 minutes.

1:16:50 > 1:16:53I'm discussing great lovers of history.

1:17:12 > 1:17:14That was the most difficult thing I ever had to do

1:17:14 > 1:17:16in my whole life.

1:17:16 > 1:17:19All I need is the gun.

1:17:23 > 1:17:25What are you doing?

1:17:25 > 1:17:27Do you know the combination to this thing?

1:17:27 > 1:17:29I never knew it had one.

1:17:29 > 1:17:31It must be somewhere. Look.

1:17:42 > 1:17:44Have you ever seen this before?

1:17:44 > 1:17:46No.

1:17:46 > 1:17:48Waldo gave you that clock, didn't he?

1:17:48 > 1:17:50Yes.

1:17:52 > 1:17:53The doorbell rang,

1:17:53 > 1:17:58and Diane Redfern went to the door in your negligee.

1:17:58 > 1:18:01She opened the door. The room was dark.

1:18:01 > 1:18:04Waldo saw a girl standing there,

1:18:04 > 1:18:07and he assumed it was you.

1:18:07 > 1:18:10He figured that if he couldn't have you himself,

1:18:10 > 1:18:12he was going to make sure that nobody else did,

1:18:12 > 1:18:13so he let her have it...

1:18:16 > 1:18:19..with both barrels right in the face.

1:18:20 > 1:18:23She fell here.

1:18:23 > 1:18:26Waldo heard Shelby running from the next room,

1:18:26 > 1:18:29so he hid in the stairway outside.

1:18:29 > 1:18:31Shelby was scared,

1:18:31 > 1:18:34so he ran out as fast as he could.

1:18:34 > 1:18:35Then Waldo came back

1:18:35 > 1:18:37and placed the gun in that clock.

1:18:37 > 1:18:40I knew it.

1:18:40 > 1:18:42I've felt it ever since I came back,

1:18:42 > 1:18:46but I didn't want to believe it.

1:18:46 > 1:18:48I couldn't make myself believe

1:18:48 > 1:18:50that Waldo was a murderer.

1:18:50 > 1:18:52Well, he is.

1:18:52 > 1:18:55He didn't really kill Diane Redfern.

1:18:55 > 1:18:56I killed her.

1:18:56 > 1:18:58What are you talking about?

1:18:58 > 1:18:59But I did, Mark.

1:18:59 > 1:19:02I did, as surely as if I'd pulled the trigger myself.

1:19:02 > 1:19:04That's nonsense. Forget it.

1:19:04 > 1:19:07No, Mark, I can't. I'm as guilty as he is.

1:19:07 > 1:19:12Not for anything I did, but for what I didn't do,

1:19:12 > 1:19:15but I couldn't help myself.

1:19:15 > 1:19:17I owed him too much.

1:19:21 > 1:19:24I can understand that, Laura,

1:19:24 > 1:19:26but I can't understand why you've tried so hard

1:19:26 > 1:19:28to protect Shelby these last few days.

1:19:28 > 1:19:30I was nearly frantic for fear you'd arrest Shelby.

1:19:30 > 1:19:33I knew he wasn't guilty. He hasn't enough courage to kill a fly,

1:19:33 > 1:19:36and Waldo was doing everything he could to incriminate him.

1:19:36 > 1:19:38It was his way of getting rid of Shelby,

1:19:38 > 1:19:40just as he did Jacoby.

1:19:43 > 1:19:44I must say

1:19:44 > 1:19:46for a charming and intelligent girl,

1:19:46 > 1:19:48you certainly surrounded yourself

1:19:48 > 1:19:49with a remarkable collection of dopes.

1:19:49 > 1:19:53Don't touch anything. Fingerprints will be important.

1:19:54 > 1:19:57I'll have the clock picked up tomorrow.

1:19:57 > 1:19:59What are you going to do?

1:19:59 > 1:20:00Arrest Waldo.

1:20:00 > 1:20:01Mark.

1:20:01 > 1:20:03It can't be helped.

1:20:07 > 1:20:10That's to make sure you're not disturbed.

1:20:10 > 1:20:13If the doorbell rings, don't answer it.

1:20:13 > 1:20:14I'll phone you in the morning.

1:20:14 > 1:20:16Goodnight, Mark.

1:20:16 > 1:20:21Get some sleep. Forget the whole thing like a bad dream.

1:21:29 > 1:21:31CREAK

1:21:46 > 1:21:47CLICK!

1:21:51 > 1:21:53CLOCK CHIMES

1:22:07 > 1:22:09WALDO'S VOICE: 'And thus,

1:22:09 > 1:22:11'as history has proved, love is eternal.

1:22:11 > 1:22:14'It has been the strongest motivation

1:22:14 > 1:22:17'for human actions throughout centuries.

1:22:17 > 1:22:19'Love is stronger than life.

1:22:19 > 1:22:23'It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death.

1:22:23 > 1:22:26'I close this evening's broadcast

1:22:26 > 1:22:29'with some favourite lines from Dowson.

1:22:29 > 1:22:32'Brief life.

1:22:32 > 1:22:36'"They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,

1:22:36 > 1:22:39'"love and desire and hate.

1:22:39 > 1:22:43'"I think they have no portion in us

1:22:43 > 1:22:46'"after we pass the gate."'

1:22:46 > 1:22:48Who's tailing Lydecker?

1:22:48 > 1:22:50I was going to when he came out.

1:22:50 > 1:22:52He left five minutes ago.

1:22:52 > 1:22:53He didn't come out this way.

1:22:53 > 1:22:55Must have gone out the back way. Come on, let's check.

1:22:55 > 1:23:00'"They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

1:23:00 > 1:23:05'"Out of a misty dream our path emerges for a while,

1:23:05 > 1:23:08'"then closes within a dream."'

1:23:08 > 1:23:11That's the way it is, isn't it, Laura?

1:23:11 > 1:23:14'You have heard the voice of Waldo Lydecker.

1:23:14 > 1:23:15'By electrical transcription.'

1:23:15 > 1:23:18Waldo, you've taken one life.

1:23:18 > 1:23:20Isn't that enough?

1:23:20 > 1:23:24The best part of myself, that's what you are.

1:23:24 > 1:23:27Do you think I'm going to leave it

1:23:27 > 1:23:29to the vulgar pawing of a second-rate detective

1:23:29 > 1:23:30who thinks you're a dame?

1:23:30 > 1:23:32Do you think I could bear the thought of him holding you in his arms,

1:23:32 > 1:23:34kissing you, loving you?

1:23:34 > 1:23:35DOORBELL BUZZES

1:23:35 > 1:23:39Laura, it's Mark. Open the door.

1:23:39 > 1:23:40There he is now.

1:23:40 > 1:23:41< Laura!

1:23:41 > 1:23:45He'll find us together, Laura, as we always have been,

1:23:45 > 1:23:47as we always should be, as we always will be.

1:23:47 > 1:23:49GUNSHOT

1:23:57 > 1:23:59GLASS BREAKS

1:23:59 > 1:24:01LAURA SOBS

1:24:07 > 1:24:09Goodbye, Laura.

1:24:17 > 1:24:20WALDO: Goodbye, my love.