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00:05:40Hey, sweet head, come on, get up.
00:05:43You're gonna miss the best part of the morning.
00:05:48I have to get up soon. The street is...
00:05:51Another auction?
00:05:52Starts at 11.
00:05:54You're up early.
00:05:55Well, it's that kind of a day.
00:05:58Your hands are all dirty. What have you been up to?
00:06:00I have been doing a little bit of work around the house.
00:06:04You know, Cora, I wouldn't have to get up so early, darling.
00:06:08I mean, a house this size.
00:06:10It's crazy not to have a staff live in.
00:06:12We did have staff.
00:06:14Don't you remember? Annie, the little blonde, and the other one.
00:06:17Chloe, you're paranoid, darling.
00:06:20No, my definition of paranoia is imagined insult.
00:06:24I didn't imagine anything. I saw you.
00:06:27Darling, it was Christmas, and we were just having fun.
00:06:30It was November.
00:06:32Certainly you were having fun, both of you.
00:06:35But I wasn't.
00:06:37So until we can find staff aged enough to repel you,
00:06:40and yet still active enough to negotiate that long drive,
00:06:43we'll shut up one half of the house and do without them.
00:06:47Thank you for the orange juice.
00:06:53Hugh?
00:06:55Yes, darling?
00:06:57Why don't you come to the auction with me?
00:07:00And won't you spend your money?
00:07:02I'll see you later at the usual place.
00:07:04With Paul.
00:07:06What's the matter with Paul?
00:07:08He encourages you.
00:07:10I like a drink, Chloe.
00:07:11No, not the drink. He encourages you.
00:07:14He's just shrugged off wife number three and looking for number four.
00:07:17Well, I wish he'd find her and leave us alone.
00:07:20The usual place, darling.
00:07:35Putty.
00:07:52We can always think up some excuse to give Clarissa.
00:07:55Say that I need moral support or something.
00:07:58Paul, she just wouldn't buy it.
00:08:00Chloe is...
00:08:02Chloe is here.
00:08:06Hello, darling.
00:08:08Hello, Chloe.
00:08:09Hello, Paul.
00:08:10Like a drink?
00:08:11Thanks, Martin.
00:08:18Did you have a nice morning?
00:08:19Yes, but it would have been better if you'd been there with me.
00:08:23Darling, I don't like auctions, and you know it.
00:08:26But that's how we met.
00:08:28I've forgotten.
00:08:29Yes, I think you have.
00:08:31I often did wonder just what you went there to pick up.
00:08:34You never did tell me.
00:08:35Now, Chloe.
00:08:36But it isn't the only thing you've forgotten, is it?
00:08:39Do you remember the things you said?
00:08:42Promises.
00:08:43Excuse me, darling. Is it sweet or dry martini?
00:08:46Dry, please.
00:08:47Right.
00:08:51Well, come on. What did you buy?
00:08:53A sign lithograph and a matisse.
00:08:59Well, Corrie, it...
00:09:00As you never cease to remind me, it is my money.
00:09:14Thanks very much.
00:09:18Another matisse.
00:09:19Eh?
00:09:20Well, that's what she bought this morning.
00:09:22Another matisse, and we already have two.
00:09:26Plus the best jade collection in the country.
00:09:29Paul, do you know there's a piece in that collection that is so...
00:09:32Well, it would fit in your pocket, all right?
00:09:34It is worth 50,000.
00:09:37That and the silver that's worth twice as much,
00:09:39and yet our burglary precautions are practically...
00:09:42You don't broadcast it.
00:09:44What do you mean?
00:09:45Well, not here.
00:09:46Why?
00:09:47Well, that you've got a large fortune stashed away at home.
00:09:49You never know who may be listening. Burglars.
00:09:51Come on, Paul.
00:09:52A place like this, there's not a potential burglar in sight.
00:09:55You never know, Hugh.
00:10:14You're going out?
00:10:16Yes.
00:10:17Yes, darling.
00:10:19And why not?
00:10:21You're obviously crashing out.
00:10:23You know the trouble I have sleeping.
00:10:27Sleeping, Claude?
00:10:30Or looking the world, the real world in the face?
00:10:34They're prescribed.
00:10:37Well, so are crutches, darling.
00:10:39So are crutches.
00:10:49Why do we keep scratching at each other?
00:11:00Do you want a divorce?
00:11:02No.
00:11:07Absolutely not.
00:11:09Because of my money?
00:11:12No.
00:11:15No, because I happen to love you very much.
00:11:19Now, come on, what's all this about?
00:11:21Yes, I'm going out.
00:11:22I'm going down to the pub for about an hour to have a drink.
00:11:24All right?
00:11:25An hour?
00:11:26Yeah.
00:11:27What does that look mean?
00:11:29There's a game tonight, isn't there?
00:11:31Maybe.
00:11:32There's always a poker game somewhere.
00:11:33Pauls, plays or something.
00:11:34That doesn't mean I'm playing, Clory.
00:11:42All right.
00:11:44I'm sorry, darling.
00:11:46You're right.
00:11:48You're right, we've got to stop scratching at each other.
00:11:53I love you, Hugh.
00:11:55I'm glad to hear it.
00:11:57I love you despite everything.
00:12:01That word, hooked, it fits me perfectly.
00:12:06You're in a funny mood tonight.
00:12:09Do you love me?
00:12:10So help me.
00:12:11And you trust me?
00:12:13Of course.
00:12:14Why, Hugh, why do you trust me?
00:12:17Clory, what's gotten into you tonight?
00:12:19Nothing.
00:12:23Enjoy yourself.
00:12:40Come on.
00:13:10Come on.
00:13:40Come on.
00:14:04What?
00:14:05You don't say.
00:14:07George, right?
00:14:09You know what that is?
00:14:10Oh, yeah.
00:14:11All right.
00:14:12I don't.
00:14:13I don't know anything about it.
00:14:14It stands about this high, all right?
00:14:16The last valuation on that little piece was over 50,000.
00:14:20You must keep it chained to a guard dog.
00:14:22No, no, no.
00:14:23Our protection is all right.
00:14:25We've got a good solid house and doors that lock.
00:14:28Yes, but all the same, I mean, these days...
00:14:30You're right.
00:14:32You're absolutely right.
00:14:34One of these days, I'm going to have to put in the alarms and the bars
00:14:38and all the other stuff.
00:14:40But who wants to live in a fortress, right?
00:14:42You know what I mean?
00:14:43Yeah, but if you lost that piece of silver, financially, you'd...
00:14:45Peace.
00:14:48Peace?
00:14:49You think that's the only one?
00:14:51That place is loaded with the stuff.
00:14:54It's loaded.
00:15:08All right.
00:15:38All right.
00:16:08Well...
00:16:33All right, hold it.
00:16:36Right there.
00:16:37Put your hands on top of your head and turn around.
00:16:48Now walk towards me very slowly.
00:16:58I feel like an actor in a bad western.
00:17:11You have broken into my house, my friend.
00:17:14My home.
00:17:15Well you can't shoot me for that, at least not in England you can't.
00:17:19But I am an American.
00:17:22The embassy gave me a pamphlet on how to conduct myself in a foreign country, true they didn't
00:17:26mention shooting intruders, but they didn't mention not shooting them either.
00:17:32Well Paul was right, I blabbed about the riches in this place and I finally caught myself
00:17:37a burglar.
00:17:38You're not armed, no where would you hide a gun?
00:17:43Well I'm glad I got home early, before you had a chance to take anything.
00:17:49Still breaking and entering that's five to seven years isn't it?
00:17:52But that's police business from here on.
00:17:55Back up.
00:17:56Put it down.
00:17:57Now look.
00:17:58Down!
00:17:59That was a mistake.
00:18:00A bad mistake, fatal, now look, I didn't mean to kill you, I didn't mean to hurt you,
00:18:29now look, look this is my house, I don't think you'll shoot.
00:18:39Burglary is one thing and murder is another my friend.
00:18:41All right I'll tell you what, just put the gun down and take off, go on take off and
00:18:48I won't say anything to anybody.
00:18:50What you won't remember this face, you won't grab the phone the minute I've left.
00:18:53That's right I promise.
00:18:54I am sorry.
00:18:55Now just put the gun down.
00:18:56Put it down!
00:18:57Let's talk this out over a drink.
00:19:26All right?
00:19:27Come on.
00:19:28Sit down.
00:19:29And that's all right.
00:19:30It's okay my wife is asleep upstairs but she takes pills, she doesn't hear anything and
00:19:31there's nobody else around here for miles.
00:19:32I shot you.
00:19:33Yes I know you did.
00:19:34And I'm delighted.
00:19:35But with blanks.
00:19:36I'm sorry.
00:19:37I'm sorry.
00:19:38I'm sorry.
00:19:39I'm sorry.
00:19:40I'm sorry.
00:19:41I'm sorry.
00:19:42I'm sorry.
00:19:43I'm sorry.
00:19:44I'm sorry.
00:19:45I'm sorry.
00:19:46I'm sorry.
00:19:47I'm sorry.
00:19:48I'm sorry.
00:19:49I'm sorry.
00:19:50I'm sorry.
00:19:51I'm sorry.
00:19:52I'm sorry.
00:19:53I'm sorry.
00:19:54I'm sorry.
00:19:55I'm sorry.
00:19:56I'm sorry.
00:19:57I'm sorry.
00:19:58See?
00:19:59You need that drink.
00:20:07You are just a man I have been waiting for.
00:20:20You know, I was beginning to feel that all the crooks over here were milk-and-water boys,
00:20:29you know what I mean?
00:20:32But not you.
00:20:34You have a nice, desperate edge.
00:20:39Give you a gun and you're prepared to use it.
00:20:42Cheers.
00:20:45How much did you think you were going to make on tonight's haul?
00:20:49Huh?
00:20:51Come on, how much?
00:20:54Come on, now.
00:20:57You've heard me in the bars,
00:20:59shooting my mouth off about paintings worth 50,000, silver worth 100 grand.
00:21:03Now, how much did you think you were going to make?
00:21:08I'll tell you.
00:21:11The entire contents of this place are insured for over three quarters of a million.
00:21:16But you're one man.
00:21:18Didn't even bring a bag to carry the stuff out with,
00:21:20so you figured whatever you took you would stuff in your pockets.
00:21:24Right?
00:21:25What?
00:21:27Some silver off the shelf over there, a couple of these pieces,
00:21:31at most a couple paintings cut out and rolled up.
00:21:35Now I figure a haul like that would be worth what?
00:21:38200,000?
00:21:40On the open market.
00:21:42And 30,000, 35,000 tops
00:21:47sold underground through a fence.
00:21:49Yes, I know about those things.
00:21:5235,000 tops.
00:21:56And you were prepared to kill for that.
00:22:00So I want to make a deal with you.
00:22:03I want to make you an offer you can hardly refuse.
00:22:07That 35,000 plus 10,
00:22:11plus your freedom,
00:22:13plus my blessing.
00:22:1645,000 and a very clear conscience.
00:22:19What do you say?
00:22:27Come on, I ask you a question.
00:22:30You must need the insurance money awfully badly.
00:22:37Insurance?
00:22:39Who was talking about insurance?
00:22:41You're missing the point, my friend.
00:22:44You are missing the point.
00:22:48You see, you broke in here to steal,
00:22:51and I surprised you,
00:22:53and you suddenly found yourself with a gun.
00:22:59Now, suppose it hadn't been me.
00:23:02Suppose my wife had come down here and surprised you.
00:23:06That wouldn't have made any difference, would it?
00:23:08You would have killed her just like you killed me.
00:23:15That's what I want you to do.
00:23:17I want you to kill my wife.
00:23:23Now, come on.
00:23:25It's the cleanest thing you'll ever come across.
00:23:27You are a stranger.
00:23:29All you have to do is point the gun, pull the trigger,
00:23:33and then just get lost in the night.
00:23:40What if I say no?
00:23:42Then I say you're still an intruder,
00:23:44and this time there aren't any blanks,
00:23:46and I don't think you're going to say no.
00:23:50Well, it would appear that I have no choice then.
00:23:52That's right.
00:23:57Well...
00:24:00Nothing tricky, all right?
00:24:02Keep it simple.
00:24:04Yes, I do know about these things.
00:24:06And you've been thinking about them for a long time.
00:24:08That's right.
00:24:10Now, we take it from the police point of view.
00:24:14You break in here,
00:24:16and you ransack the place.
00:24:21Now, my wife hears you, she comes down the stairs.
00:24:24You have found my gun.
00:24:26I leave it right here in that drawer.
00:24:28She hears you at all times.
00:24:30She walks in, you panic, and...
00:24:33she's dead.
00:24:36How does that sound?
00:24:38Point.
00:24:39Yes.
00:24:40Your wife takes sleeping pills. How would she hear me?
00:24:42Oh, now, that's not only a point, that is the point.
00:24:45You see, she starts to come out of those pills early in the morning.
00:24:48By four, the effect's only shallow.
00:24:50Four?
00:24:51That's right.
00:24:52Four o'clock.
00:24:53That's when I want you to do it.
00:24:56I've got a plan now.
00:24:58I'll be in a poker game...
00:25:00from 11 o'clock on with some friends,
00:25:02and I probably won't get home until around 9.30 in the morning.
00:25:05That's when the help arrives.
00:25:07And you're gonna leave me here?
00:25:08That's right, until four. That's when I want you to do it.
00:25:11All right, second point.
00:25:13Yes.
00:25:15You go off. What's to stop me just...
00:25:17walking away?
00:25:21I want to see that good right hand of yours.
00:25:23The glove.
00:25:24Get off.
00:25:26Off.
00:25:28I think you need another drink.
00:25:30Hand me one of those sherry glasses from the bar.
00:25:42Now sit down.
00:25:44Sit down.
00:25:52This is why you're not just gonna run away.
00:25:55See, if I come back tomorrow morning and the job isn't done...
00:25:59then that silver is going to be missing.
00:26:02And I'll tell the police that I saw a man running away from here.
00:26:05And I'll be the best witness they've ever had.
00:26:08I'll be dead accurate.
00:26:10Then they'll find this glass...
00:26:12put four prints on it, match them up with the record.
00:26:15And come on, you can't win.
00:26:17You can't win, my friend.
00:26:20You'll do it.
00:26:22You'll do it for that, and you'll do it for 45,000.
00:26:26Now come on.
00:26:28Come on.
00:26:30You're gonna do it.
00:26:33Yes, I'll do it, Mr. Bryan.
00:26:35But for the 45,000.
00:26:38Not because you forced me into anything.
00:26:41I could have taken you any time in the last few minutes, Mr. Bryant.
00:26:45You haven't forced me into anything.
00:26:51Well, I got lucky, didn't I?
00:26:53I really got lucky this time. All right.
00:26:56All right, so I haven't forced you into anything.
00:26:58But we have made a deal, have we not?
00:27:01Like the gentlemen we are.
00:27:08Now, I've got to get going.
00:27:10How far did you get up the stairs?
00:27:12Not far.
00:27:13Did you wear those gloves all the time?
00:27:15Ever since I picked them up off the hall stand.
00:27:18They're yours.
00:27:21Now, look.
00:27:23You can pick up this little bit of insurance any time you want after it's over.
00:27:28But don't forget, four o'clock.
00:27:30No sooner, no later.
00:27:35And...
00:27:37use the gun.
00:27:39A knife is messy, it's uncertain, and it says calculation.
00:27:42And this has got to be a panic killing you broke in here to steal.
00:27:46And you were forced to murder, all right?
00:27:49It's a pleasure meeting you.
00:27:51Aren't you forgetting something?
00:27:54No, I'm not forgetting anything.
00:27:57You can collect it after I've gone.
00:27:59You'll find it where you found my gloves, on the hall table.
00:28:09All right.
00:28:39Hugh, don't you think it'd be wise now to pull out?
00:28:42Oh, come on, let's play.
00:28:44What time is it, Brandon?
00:28:46Nearly four.
00:28:49That's the third time you've asked that, Hugh.
00:28:51Is something bothering you?
00:28:53No, I'm just writing a book on poker.
00:28:55I need statistics.
00:28:56Statistics?
00:28:57Yeah, I want to know how much you can lose per minute.
00:29:00Now, I left my watch at home.
00:29:02I'll be back in a minute.
00:29:04I'll be back in a minute.
00:29:06I'll be back in a minute.
00:29:08I left my watch at home.
00:29:09Nearly four?
00:29:10Yeah.
00:29:38Hugh, Clarissa is going to eat you alive.
00:29:52Do you know that it's nearly nine o'clock?
00:29:54Another few minutes, I'm going to hurt.
00:29:56I'll be home by 9.30.
00:29:58Yes, well, I hope there isn't going to be a great row about all this.
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00:37:52Mr. Bryant, I think that you've got a right to know...
00:37:54Michael!
00:37:57We need your help upstairs.
00:38:02All right, if you're going to do it, let's...
00:38:05Let's do it and get it over with, all right?
00:38:09Sir?
00:38:11Well, you're going to arrest me for murdering my wife, aren't you?
00:38:16Not unless you give us a signed confession, Mr. Bryant.
00:38:23Well, do you still think I'm being immoral, Michael?
00:38:25Yes, but...
00:38:29But?
00:38:30He's suffering.
00:38:33The whole world suffers, Michael.
00:38:35Now, you just tell me about the but.
00:38:38I don't know.
00:38:40That's a copper's charm.
00:38:42He has to know the truth, however and whatever.
00:38:53It'd help to eliminate a few if I had his too.
00:38:56I've got hers and the cleaning ladies.
00:38:58Well, Michael will arrange it and he'll treat him gently.
00:39:01Well, he is suffering.
00:39:23FINGERPRINTS
00:39:49Fingerprints?
00:39:50It's just routine, Mr. Bryant.
00:39:53It's to help you help us, in fact.
00:39:56See, it could be that someone did break in here.
00:39:58A good burglar doesn't always leave evidence.
00:40:01Especially if he's been forced to use violence.
00:40:06Lots of prints around this house.
00:40:08If we can eliminate yours...
00:40:10Yeah, the rest we'd check out against criminal records.
00:40:14You never know.
00:40:16Okay.
00:40:21FINGERPRINTS
00:40:24Thank you, sir.
00:40:27The old dust for prints everywhere?
00:40:31All the usual places, yes.
00:40:33In here?
00:40:34Of course.
00:40:35Just make sure you do.
00:40:44Why in here particularly, sir?
00:40:48Well, it may be my imagination, Sergeant, but...
00:40:52Things just seem different.
00:40:54I mean, those pieces on the mantel.
00:41:06I'd swear this...
00:41:08The canter was full when I left last night.
00:41:12Mrs. Harper?
00:41:14No, no, we've...
00:41:17She's been with us for nearly a year now, and I've...
00:41:19Never noticed anything missing, least of all booze.
00:41:22Or you're mistaken, sir.
00:41:24Yeah, maybe.
00:41:26Maybe, but just the same...
00:41:27Your man will check everything on the tray, won't he?
00:41:30Oh, yes.
00:41:31I'll make sure he does, sir.
00:41:47FINGERPRINTS
00:42:05Superintendent.
00:42:16Come on, Sergeant, relax.
00:42:18I should be the worried one, you've got all the symptoms.
00:42:20Look, Mr. Bryant.
00:42:23Do you and your wife spend much time apart, Mr. Bryant?
00:42:30She went to auctions, things like that.
00:42:32Oh, has she been away on her own recently?
00:42:34A holiday alone, perhaps?
00:42:36No, a couple of months ago she went off to see about a house she was going to buy.
00:42:39In Devon?
00:42:42Yes, how did you know about that?
00:42:45Darling, it really must end.
00:42:48Oh, must is underlined.
00:42:50Although I am still...
00:42:51Now, there's something there that I just can't read, but the lab will bring it out.
00:42:55Those few idyllic days in Devon are something I will never forget.
00:42:59But you...
00:43:01Now, there's something else there that I just can't read.
00:43:03I'll never forget you, and always in my funny way will love you, Clarissa.
00:43:08Now, when did you find out that your wife had a lover, sir?
00:43:11I... I didn't.
00:43:13Oh.
00:43:14Those few idyllic days in Devon are something I will never forget, but you...
00:43:18But you what, sir? But you...
00:43:20I was very suspicious, but you was jealous, but you was found out?
00:43:23Ridiculous.
00:43:25I'll never forget you, and always in my funny way will love you, Clarissa.
00:43:29Well, whether you knew it or not, your wife did have a lover, didn't she, sir?
00:43:33Now, are these gloves yours, sir?
00:43:36We found them on the hall table. Are they yours?
00:43:37Yes, they're mine.
00:43:40Expensive.
00:43:42Soft kid. Oh, silk lined.
00:43:47Oh. Oh, it's a pity about this, though.
00:43:51It spoils them. There. Do you see, sir?
00:43:54Look, there's a little dark spot.
00:43:57I'd say it was blood, wouldn't you, sir?
00:44:01You are right-handed, aren't you, sir?
00:44:07Okay, sir.
00:44:08Yes, carry on.
00:44:10All right, what happens now?
00:44:12Well, I suggest that we have a little talk, as you Americans say, in depth.
00:44:16Oh, and down at the station. It'll be quieter there.
00:44:21Are you arresting me?
00:44:23No. I just want you to cooperate and to assist in our inquiries.
00:44:28But that's just another way of saying you're accusing me of murdering my wife, isn't it?
00:44:33I'm accusing you of nothing, sir. Certainly not of murdering your wife.
00:44:36I just want to talk to you a little more.
00:44:40Is that all right with you?
00:44:43That's fine.
00:44:46That's perfect. Good.
00:44:59You see my problem, Mr. Bryan?
00:45:02You were in the house when it happened.
00:45:04And then there's the question of the glove.
00:45:06Your glove.
00:45:07All right.
00:45:09All right, but come on.
00:45:12Come on, Superintendent, if I am the killer,
00:45:15then I'm a pretty poor one, aren't I?
00:45:17I fix an alibi that just doesn't get me off the hook.
00:45:21That's a point in my favor.
00:45:24You stab your wife, panic,
00:45:26and then dash off to get into a card game hoping that we won't be able to pinpoint
00:45:32the exact time of the attack.
00:45:34I'm theorizing, of course.
00:45:36Yes, of course.
00:45:37Now, how can you pinpoint it so accurately?
00:45:42I'm a gambling man, too, Mr. Bryan.
00:45:45How is my ace in the hole?
00:45:50You think...
00:45:51You think I killed her out of jealousy?
00:45:54Undeniably, she had a lover.
00:45:56All right, then what is wrong with the idea that he did it?
00:46:00What's wrong with that?
00:46:01That letter was a goodbye note.
00:46:03It's rejection.
00:46:04Now, there's your motive.
00:46:07She was brushing him off, and he refused to be brushed.
00:46:10It works equally well for you, too.
00:46:13Rejection.
00:46:14The other man.
00:46:15I...
00:46:17I did not know there was another man.
00:46:21And that leaves you with an even stronger motive.
00:46:24Your wife held the purse strings, Mr. Bryan.
00:46:26In the event of her death, I imagine her estate
00:46:29would be considerable.
00:46:30Look, you just find the other man.
00:46:32You find the other man, you find the...
00:46:34Yes?
00:46:35Fingerprint report, sir.
00:46:38All right, let's have it.
00:46:43Well, there's more than a dozen that we can't pin down.
00:46:46That's guests you've entertained, probably, sir.
00:46:49Just the same, we ran a comparison check against criminal records.
00:46:52And?
00:46:54Well, none of the prints belong to anyone with a record.
00:46:59All right.
00:47:29We'll be in touch, Mr. Bryant.
00:47:34That's it?
00:47:37For the moment.
00:47:50It's criminal.
00:47:51You're playing with people's emotions, you're making every...
00:47:53I'm in the mood of...
00:47:55Find that knife.
00:47:59Find it.
00:48:29Come on.
00:48:59Come on.
00:49:29Come on.
00:49:59Come on.
00:50:30PHONE RINGS
00:50:39Superintendent Lucas's office.
00:50:41Oh, yes, Doctor.
00:50:44Yes, I see.
00:50:46Thank you, sir.
00:50:49It's the hospital.
00:50:50Well?
00:50:51The doctor reckons 11, 11.30, the earliest.
00:50:56Well, you'll have to tell him.
00:51:00Of course I will.
00:51:02Later.
00:51:15He crossed me.
00:51:23He crossed me!
00:51:26PHONE RINGS
00:51:29PHONE RINGS
00:51:32PHONE RINGS
00:51:35PHONE RINGS
00:51:39PHONE RINGS
00:51:42PHONE RINGS
00:51:45PHONE RINGS
00:51:49Hello.
00:51:51I see you got your name in the papers, Mr. Bryant.
00:51:57It's you.
00:52:00You filthy runt.
00:52:01Well, you've got to be alone, Mr. Bryant.
00:52:03You wouldn't risk saying things like that if you weren't.
00:52:06Where are you?
00:52:07Where are you and who are you?
00:52:10Where I am doesn't matter as to who I am.
00:52:15I'm the boy who's got you by the throat, Mr. Bryant.
00:52:20I also have the knife that killed Clarissa.
00:52:24The knife with your prints on it and only your prints.
00:52:27I'm taking very good care of them too.
00:52:29Very good care to see they don't get smudged or lost or mislaid.
00:52:34All right, what do you want?
00:52:36What do I want?
00:52:38Well, I'll tell you.
00:52:40I was pretty mixed up about that.
00:52:44You see, last night I wanted Clarissa.
00:52:48Because I really did love her.
00:52:51And then when you put your sickly deal to me,
00:52:54I wanted to see you sweat.
00:52:57I wanted to see you behind bars.
00:53:00Because I really did love her.
00:53:03Love her?
00:53:06You scum.
00:53:08You killed her. She was already dead when I came and found you last night.
00:53:10I didn't plan to kill her.
00:53:13Scare her maybe, but I didn't plan to kill her.
00:53:17At least not cold-bloodedly barter away a life like you.
00:53:22No, to stick you.
00:53:25That's what I wanted.
00:53:27But that was all very hot-blooded and passionate.
00:53:30But not anymore, Mr. Bryant.
00:53:31I'm thinking very cool and collected now.
00:53:35All right, now listen.
00:53:36Oh, you listen.
00:53:38You don't know my name or anything about me.
00:53:41My prints don't mean anything
00:53:42because I've never been in trouble with the law.
00:53:44I'm just a face amongst ten million faces
00:53:47and you'll never find me.
00:53:48But I can find you anytime I want.
00:53:51Anytime I want.
00:53:53And I also have the knife.
00:53:56I have the evidence that could send you away forever.
00:54:05You still there?
00:54:08Hmm?
00:54:09Yes, yes, I'm still here.
00:54:10Right, now listen.
00:54:12They'll sweat you a bit,
00:54:13but without the knife they can't prove a thing.
00:54:16And it'll all blow over
00:54:17and you'll inherit all that lovely money.
00:54:19And then you'll be hearing from me again,
00:54:21but this time we won't be talking about 45,000, Bryant.
00:54:25Unfortunately, I want it all.
00:54:28Piece by piece.
00:54:30I mean to have it all.
00:54:49I mean to have it all.
00:55:10They searched every inch of the grounds,
00:55:12there's no sign of the knife.
00:55:13That's the report.
00:55:19Superintendent Lucas, I've placed a report on your behaviour in this case before the chief superintendent.
00:55:26I had to, sir. I'm sorry.
00:55:33That's all right, Michael. I knew you would. You're a good cop.
00:55:40Not a bad fellow, either. You didn't have to tell me.
00:55:44It's nearly eleven. We have a trip to make. Get a car, would you?
00:55:50Hello, Hugh. I nearly telephoned you, but I thought it best to come straight over as soon as I heard the news,
00:55:55which I must confess was only a short time ago.
00:55:58I have got the most appalling hangover.
00:56:01Terrible news about Clarissa. Dreadful, dreadful.
00:56:04I hear you've been down at the old cop shop for some time.
00:56:07Touch of the old third degree, I shouldn't wonder.
00:56:11You don't mind if I help myself to a drink, do you?
00:56:14No, go ahead.
00:56:15You know the jolly old dog, don't you? Oh, I'm sorry, Hugh.
00:56:18Sorry, I didn't mean to be jocular. Clarissa and all that.
00:56:21One for yourself, if you look as though you need one.
00:56:24No, I've had too many already.
00:56:25Right. Yes, just as you wish.
00:56:31Hugh, have they any idea who or why?
00:56:37They think it was me.
00:56:39Yes.
00:56:41Well, they would, naturally, because of the money.
00:56:43Not that I subscribe to that, mind you, but...
00:56:50Hugh, what do you think?
00:56:55Her lover.
00:56:56Ah, you know about that.
00:56:59Are you saying you knew?
00:57:01Yes, Hugh, I must admit I did.
00:57:05Mind you, I disapproved, and I would have told you, Hugh,
00:57:08but Clarissa made me swear, made me promise,
00:57:11and when a gentleman gives his word to a lady...
00:57:13You mean you discussed it with her?
00:57:15It was inevitable.
00:57:17I caught them at it. Well, not actually at it, but I caught them together.
00:57:20It was unavoidable.
00:57:22We bumped into each other. We physically collided.
00:57:25He was coming out of their place, and I was walking down the street.
00:57:29My mind was on other matters.
00:57:31As a matter of fact, I was thinking about a rather pretty little redhead,
00:57:34I admit, in a pub the other night.
00:57:36Coming out of his place?
00:57:39His place?
00:57:40Well, I assumed it was his place. It wasn't a hotel,
00:57:43and I really can't imagine Clarissa renting an apartment in that block.
00:57:46What block?
00:57:47Which block, Hugh? Really, you Americans and English...
00:57:50All right, all right, all right. Which...
00:57:52Which block?
00:57:53Well, that old block of apartments down by the old church in Fulham.
00:57:57Old and seedy.
00:57:59Wentworth Apartments, that's it.
00:58:03I've got to have that drink with you.
00:58:05Ah, that's lovely, Hugh. Nice to see you perking up.
00:58:08Never say die, eh? Oh, sorry.
00:58:10Didn't mean it in that context.
00:58:12Always putting my foot in it.
00:58:14Oh, your feet are immaculate, Paul.
00:58:19Immaculate.
00:58:22So you kept your promise to Clory? You didn't tell me.
00:58:25Well, I never told anyone.
00:58:31You owe me the same promise.
00:58:34Eh?
00:58:35The same deal.
00:58:38Paul, I want to keep Clory's memory untarnished.
00:58:43You've just got to promise me not to tell anyone what you've told me today.
00:58:48All right, I promise.
00:58:49Not even to the police?
00:58:51Oh, least of all the dear old fuzz.
00:58:53They tend to look at a chap a bit sideways when he may have imbibed a soupçon too many.
00:58:59To friendship, Paul.
00:59:01And to promises well kept.
00:59:07Your car's ready, sir.
00:59:16Well, wouldn't you have done the same?
00:59:19Oh, perhaps.
00:59:21I don't know. I'm different to you, Michael.
00:59:23Well, how different? Look, I had to make that report.
00:59:26What you have been doing to Brian is...
00:59:28Hugh Brian is a killer.
00:59:30I'd bet on it.
00:59:33That's the difference between us, Michael.
00:59:35I'm a gambling man.
00:59:38But I think a little does.
00:59:39Because, you see, it's one of those times...
00:59:49You'll still be here tomorrow, Paul.
00:59:52It's not much of an alibi.
00:59:55But every little bit helps.
00:59:57Oh, boy.
01:00:05Who's that?
01:00:17I said, who is it?
01:00:28Max Burns.
01:00:30That's what it says on the door.
01:00:32Well, at least you've got a name and a place where I can find you.
01:00:36Now, I have no time to waste, Max.
01:00:39I want the knife.
01:00:42Where is it?
01:00:43It's over there on the door.
01:00:44Then you get it.
01:00:51Now, easy.
01:00:52Now, easy.
01:00:56Take it out of its nice wrapper and put it on the table.
01:00:59Blade first.
01:01:04Now, sit down.
01:01:14Now, is there anything else here that would connect you with me?
01:01:20My name, my phone number, my address.
01:01:22Did you write that down or did you memorize it?
01:01:24No, I wrote it down somewhere.
01:01:25Where is it?
01:01:26In the address book over there.
01:01:27All right.
01:01:29All right, I'll check this whole place out afterwards.
01:01:31What do you mean, afterwards?
01:01:34There is no connection between Max Burns and the Bryants.
01:01:42You saw to that, Max.
01:01:45And that was very, very clever.
01:01:49But too clever because once a blackmailer, always a blackmailer.
01:01:54Isn't that right, Max?
01:01:56Well, my friend, you are dispensable.
01:02:01You are dispensable.
01:02:03No.
01:02:04So, please.
01:02:20Ha.
01:02:22It's blanks, Max.
01:02:24Blanks.
01:02:25All I want to do is to see you sweat.
01:02:28You jerk.
01:02:30I just wanted to see you.
01:02:36See, you were going to die anyway, Max.
01:02:39Anyway.
01:02:40But not with my gun.
01:02:43Nothing to lead them back to me, see?
01:02:50Ha.
01:03:00Nothing to lead them back to me.
01:03:04I just want to ask you one question.
01:03:11Just one.
01:03:15It was soon after nine, Serge.
01:03:19I took my sleeping pills at nine, Serge.
01:03:24Mrs. Bryant, you've already told us that.
01:03:28You haven't told us yet who attacked you.
01:03:49You haven't told us yet.
01:04:19Mr. Bryant.
01:04:38Mr. Bryant.
01:04:45I thought you said that you didn't know that your wife...
01:04:49had a lover.
01:04:52Max Burns.
01:04:54Your wife told us.
01:04:58Choris.
01:05:00Well, how could she possibly tell you?
01:05:03That was my ace in the hole, Mr. Bryant.
01:05:06Your wife's not dead.
01:05:08She lost a lot of blood, but...
01:05:11she's alive.
01:05:13And she's going to recover.
01:05:16I owe you an apology, Mr. Bryant.
01:05:18You're in the clear, sir.
01:05:20Your wife has just told us that it was Max Burns who attacked her.
01:05:24So you've got nothing to worry about.
01:05:30You're off the hook, sir.
01:05:34We're pulling him in now.
01:05:48Max.
01:05:50Max.
01:06:18Max.
01:06:20Max.