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00:16:30Why are you here?
00:16:32Because we received a phone call, anonymous.
00:16:34Someone who said you killed your wife.
00:16:36Oh, yes, I see.
00:16:38Thank you, madam.
00:16:40No, no need to be alarmed.
00:16:42Goodbye.
00:16:55Mrs. Peel, your wife, sir,
00:16:58left her mother's home yesterday about 4.30.
00:17:01She was returning straight here.
00:17:03Yesterday? But I expected her home this evening.
00:17:06She had a reason for returning earlier, sir, a good reason.
00:17:09She was told she would find you here with another woman.
00:17:11What?
00:17:13Well, she wouldn't believe...
00:17:15Now, what malicious lies...
00:17:17You take a look around.
00:17:19I'll do the looking.
00:17:29You're wasting your time.
00:17:31If Jenny left yesterday and she isn't here now,
00:17:33then something's happened to her.
00:17:35She's either had an accident or...
00:17:37She certainly looks that way, sir.
00:17:39Well, then, why are you standing here?
00:17:41Why don't you...
00:17:43I found whiskey by your bed.
00:17:45Do you always have a drink before you go to sleep
00:17:47or only when you want to steady your nerves?
00:17:49I don't drink.
00:17:51I don't drink.
00:17:53I don't drink.
00:17:55I don't drink.
00:17:58Jennifer and I thought it was criminal to drink and drive,
00:18:01so if one of us went out, the other one would...
00:18:05Why aren't you out looking for her?
00:18:08I am.
00:18:10You...
00:18:12You don't believe that call from whoever it was?
00:18:14I convinced me.
00:18:16Obviously convinced your wife, too.
00:18:18What?
00:18:20Anonymous call brought her back here.
00:18:22Give me a complete rundown on everything you did yesterday
00:18:24from, say, 4.30 onwards.
00:18:27Well, about 4.30, I was here,
00:18:29and I, uh...
00:18:31I left about 6.30 for town.
00:18:33About 6.30?
00:18:34Yes.
00:18:35So you could have been here when your wife got back.
00:18:37She didn't get back.
00:18:38Then you went to town.
00:18:40Yes, and I had a meal.
00:18:41Alone?
00:18:42Yes, and then I...
00:18:44I went to the party.
00:18:45I told you about the office party.
00:18:47I got there about, uh...
00:18:48Well, a little after 9.
00:18:50Only stayed about a quarter of an hour.
00:18:52And then you came back here.
00:18:53Yes.
00:18:54And no one saw you?
00:18:59No.
00:19:05Wait a minute.
00:19:06Wait a minute, yes.
00:19:08The man I switched cars with.
00:19:10That car outside?
00:19:12It's not mine.
00:19:15Tell me about it.
00:19:17Well, there's, uh...
00:19:18nothing to tell.
00:19:23It was a filthy night out last night.
00:19:27I, uh...
00:19:28turned down a lane.
00:19:30There was a tree across it.
00:19:33I didn't realize it was a 20-mile detour
00:19:35when I noticed a car that was blocked
00:19:37on the other side of the tree,
00:19:39and a driver was coming over to talk to me.
00:19:41It was he who made the obvious suggestion
00:19:43that we switch cars.
00:19:45Well, he was on the side I wanted to go,
00:19:47and I was on the other side.
00:19:49I didn't know what to do.
00:19:51I didn't know what to do.
00:19:53I didn't know what to do.
00:19:55I didn't know what to do.
00:19:57I didn't know what to do.
00:19:59I didn't know what to do.
00:20:01He was on the side I wanted to go,
00:20:03and I was on the side he wanted to go,
00:20:05and neither one of us relished the long detour.
00:20:07And by a crazy coincidence,
00:20:09it really didn't make any difference
00:20:11because we were driving the same type of car,
00:20:13same model, even the same color.
00:20:15So we switched cars.
00:20:17I drove back here and had a drink and went to bed.
00:20:20A tree across the road?
00:20:22Well, yes.
00:20:24They must have moved it or you would have seen it.
00:20:26It was right across the road,
00:20:28right beside that signpost.
00:20:30I gave him my name, I gave him my card,
00:20:32and he promised he'd call me back
00:20:34and we'd arrange to switch the cars back again.
00:20:36You gave your car to a complete stranger?
00:20:38I lent it to him.
00:20:40And since they were absolutely identical...
00:20:45Well, I can't identify him.
00:20:48He was about 6 feet tall,
00:20:51about 30 years,
00:20:53wearing a dark overcoat.
00:20:55I'd, uh, I'd like to look at the car.
00:21:26Help!
00:21:43Jennifer.
00:21:46But it's not my car.
00:21:48I can prove it.
00:21:50The number of my car.
00:21:53N-M-K...
00:21:5611...
00:22:1511...
00:22:1711...
00:22:43No, we're releasing nothing to the press at the moment.
00:22:46Mr. Peel is helping us with our inquiries, that's all.
00:22:49And, of course, Mrs. Peel is definitely dead.
00:22:52Because?
00:22:54We don't know yet.
00:22:56Strangled. A scar from a stocking.
00:22:58No bruises to the throat.
00:23:00That's an off-the-cuff assessment, of course,
00:23:02but the autopsy will confirm it, I'm sure.
00:23:06You're allowed one phone call.
00:23:08If I were you, I'd make it a lawyer.
00:23:10Lawyer?
00:23:12And with your wife's contacts, you should know plenty.
00:23:15Of course, they might be a bit reluctant to take you on,
00:23:17considering the circumstances.
00:23:20A lawyer.
00:23:22Whoever you say.
00:23:26I don't want a lawyer.
00:23:29I want a Mr. Matthew Earp.
00:23:31It is, indeed, a very crazy story.
00:23:34Yes, but that car was his.
00:23:36You checked, of course, that it wasn't just a switch of registration plates.
00:23:39No, no, even the engine and chassis numbers tied up.
00:23:41That car is his.
00:23:43He gave it to him 18 months ago.
00:23:46I'll tell you what I think happened.
00:23:48Hmm?
00:23:49He killed her.
00:23:54Then guilt cracked his mind.
00:23:57He had to find someone else to hang it on,
00:23:59so he invented this car story.
00:24:03Invented the stranger.
00:24:05And now, even he believes it.
00:24:08And that's what you think happened?
00:24:10Yes.
00:24:11And the tree across the road.
00:24:12Not a sign of it.
00:24:15Not a sign of it ever having been there.
00:24:17I've told him he should have a lawyer.
00:24:20You don't approve of me.
00:24:22I don't approve of any private detective.
00:24:25Private. It's you against the full resources of the police.
00:24:28Now, where's the mileage in that?
00:24:29Well, I may start out with one advantage.
00:24:31I could believe his story, Octavius.
00:24:35That is all for the moment.
00:24:37I don't even want to see him.
00:24:39He's just lost his wife.
00:24:40I doubt it will make him much sense for a while.
00:24:44You charge him a high fee.
00:24:46Well, as a matter of fact,
00:24:48Maycroft's amuting my bill for the company he works for.
00:24:51That'll push it up even higher.
00:24:53Probably more than I earn in a year.
00:24:55I beg your pardon?
00:24:57I said probably more than I earn in a year.
00:25:00Oh, yes.
00:25:01Two years.
00:26:11It was just a tiny detail.
00:26:13I'd have forgotten all about it.
00:26:15Except when I read the paper this morning.
00:26:17Read what Peel had done.
00:26:20Ah, just in time.
00:26:22This is Mr. Vorster.
00:26:25Pierce.
00:26:26Good evening, Ed.
00:26:27He's got some interesting information about Peel and that office party.
00:26:31It seems the one thing he doesn't know about
00:26:33is that he's got a wife.
00:26:35Good evening, Ed.
00:26:36He's got some interesting information about Peel and that office party.
00:26:40It seems there was a girl.
00:26:42He was there.
00:26:43A blonde.
00:26:44He saw it, too.
00:26:45Peel was seen kissing this girl.
00:26:47I rather thought she was kissing him.
00:26:49Well, then, you did see it.
00:26:50You didn't mention it before.
00:26:51Slipped your mind, Mr. Earp?
00:26:52Nothing ever slips my mind, Mr. Gifford.
00:26:54Then I'd like to know why you didn't...
00:26:56We'll talk about that later.
00:26:57I've, um, found the tree.
00:27:00The tree across the road.
00:27:03I'll drive you there.
00:27:10Fifty yards up the lane.
00:27:13They couldn't have moved it up without a lifting track.
00:27:16I checked that area for drag marks within...
00:27:18No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:27:19They didn't move the tree.
00:27:20Just the signpost.
00:27:22Well, that was Peel's term of reference, wasn't it?
00:27:25The tree was by the signpost.
00:27:27Well, it was, except that the signpost
00:27:29had been moved away from where it should have been,
00:27:31and later put back.
00:27:32Peel drives up that lane every day.
00:27:34A lane is not a lane at night, you know.
00:27:36They all look alike.
00:27:38You see, nobody would ever notice a tiny detail like that.
00:27:41Except, uh, possibly you.
00:27:44This is very true.
00:28:03Just there.
00:28:05That's where they put the signpost in,
00:28:07and the tree is just beyond.
00:29:03Yes?
00:29:05I checked on you. You get paid by results.
00:29:08A bonus if you prove Peel innocent.
00:29:10I can't believe it, Bernard.
00:29:12I just can't.
00:29:14I mean, I've known him and Jennifer for about...
00:29:17You can know someone all your life,
00:29:19and yet never know them.
00:29:20But why? Why should he want to murder his wife?
00:29:23Because he was being unfaithful.
00:29:25Because he was cheating on her.
00:29:27Cheating?
00:29:30Listen, I loved Jennifer. I loved her, and I...
00:29:32And the blonde?
00:29:34What blonde?
00:29:35At the office party.
00:29:36The one who kissed you.
00:29:38I don't know.
00:29:39She's a stranger. I've never seen her before.
00:29:41Your story is full of strangers, Mr. Peel.
00:29:43But it's the truth.
00:29:45Now, the police said you were nursing a hangover.
00:29:47When you arrived the next morning,
00:29:49you hadn't even taken off your clothes.
00:29:51No, I don't understand.
00:29:53Neither do I.
00:29:54I saw you at the office party.
00:29:55You had one glass of champagne.
00:29:57And when I got home, I had a glass of scotch
00:29:59Jenny had set out for me.
00:30:01Now, what about this man that you swapped cars with?
00:30:03I've given his description.
00:30:05Yes, I read it. Very average.
00:30:11Doesn't look good, does it?
00:30:13Well, let's put it this way, Mr. Peel.
00:30:15I'd hate to be making a book on you at the moment,
00:30:17but don't worry.
00:30:19I can assure you, if you didn't kill your wife,
00:30:21I'll find out.
00:30:23But if you did, I'll find that out, too.
00:30:28I loved Jennifer.
00:30:30You profit from her death.
00:30:32I didn't realize she was such a rich woman.
00:30:35It all comes to you, huh?
00:30:37I loved her.
00:30:39And I found a tree
00:30:41that disappeared.
00:30:46It's here.
00:30:53He's walking towards a car.
00:30:57Wrapped on a side window.
00:31:00And out his hand, he wore a ring.
00:31:04A big, gaudy ring.
00:31:08With a red stone in it.
00:31:11Well, does that help?
00:31:14Everything helps.
00:31:16But it doesn't.
00:31:28What do you think?
00:31:30I think he was framed.
00:31:32In guilt and gold, and hung neatly on the wall.
00:31:34Why?
00:31:36Why? Well, perhaps the answer to that one lies here.
00:31:40Well, it must have been very important.
00:31:42Someone wants Peel discredited and out of the way for good,
00:31:44and they want it so badly,
00:31:46they were prepared to kill his wife to achieve it.
00:31:48Now, that is very important, gentlemen.
00:31:50It usually means money.
00:31:52Bernard doesn't earn all that much.
00:31:54A comfortable salary, yes.
00:31:56Pretty big money, like this recent German swindle.
00:31:58I thought that was all sewn up.
00:32:00But Bernard blew the whistle on it.
00:32:02That's true.
00:32:04Must have made him a few enemies.
00:32:06That's true, too, but all the men involved are inside.
00:32:08All of them? We don't know that for sure, do we?
00:32:10There might be still one undiscovered.
00:32:12Sweating it out.
00:32:14Exactly, Mr. Tulliver, sweating it out.
00:32:16And sweat means fear,
00:32:18and fear makes men do desperate things.
00:32:20Yes, but who? Which man?
00:32:22Well, Forster doesn't like Peel.
00:32:24That's crazy.
00:32:26So is murder. Craziest thing in the world.
00:32:28Especially tricky ones like this.
00:32:30A good old blunt instrument
00:32:32in some dark street.
00:32:34Now, that could be tough to solve.
00:32:36But once they start getting tricky, getting clever,
00:32:38then it's just a question of time
00:32:40before someone more clever comes along.
00:32:42Someone
00:32:44with a touch
00:32:46of brilliance.
00:32:48And then it all...
00:32:50What's wrong?
00:32:52Do you know, even the most brilliant could overlook things.
00:32:54And I very nearly did.
00:32:56Nearly.
00:32:58Excuse me, gentlemen.
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00:34:48I'd really like to see your job completed neatly.
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00:35:16Someone work you over.
00:35:18I was not worked over.
00:35:20I was bopped.
00:35:22Very hard and very precisely.
00:35:24But that is not the point.
00:35:26The point is that I had that whiskey decanter
00:35:28which you had neglected to check.
00:35:30And it smelt and tasted very odd.
00:35:32But don't you see?
00:35:34It was drugged.
00:35:36Peel did have only one drink and then passed out
00:35:38as he was meant to do.
00:35:40And whoever it was moved in and arranged the parade.
00:35:42You don't give up, do you?
00:35:44I'm sorry?
00:35:46Trying to earn that fee.
00:35:48What a very ordinary man you are.
00:35:50Are you suggesting that I...
00:35:52I'm suggesting you're ambitious, Mr. Earp.
00:35:54I'm suggesting you're greedy and desperate
00:35:56to prove Peel innocent.
00:35:58Desperate to the point of trying to persuade me
00:36:00by any means.
00:36:02The decanter was there.
00:36:04It smelt and tasted very, very odd.
00:36:06And now it's broken.
00:36:08And you got hit by some unknown assailant.
00:36:10Now, do you think I'm fool enough
00:36:12to attempt some illegal means of...
00:36:14We have the key.
00:36:16The door was open.
00:36:18Remarkably careless of someone.
00:36:20I know how you got in.
00:36:22And if I could prove it,
00:36:24I'd sling you in the next cell to Peel
00:36:26for illegal entry.
00:36:28Yeah.
00:36:30Yes, all right.
00:36:32Your client.
00:36:34He wants to see you.
00:36:36Yes, all right.
00:36:38Your client.
00:36:40He wants to see you.
00:36:48I'd rather him than me.
00:36:52You know I was framed?
00:36:54I know every fact.
00:36:56It was artificially contrived, yes.
00:36:58Every fact.
00:37:00Then I was right in calling you.
00:37:02You know, I've been thinking
00:37:04about that evening.
00:37:06And I remember one thing.
00:37:08That girl had to be part of it.
00:37:10The girl, the blonde,
00:37:12who threw arms around me at the party?
00:37:14She had to be part of the setup.
00:37:16I'm sure of it.
00:37:18Yes, indeed it is.
00:37:20Very possible.
00:37:22Well, I've been trying to remember
00:37:24every detail.
00:37:26I remember one thing.
00:37:28She had to be part of it.
00:37:30I remember one thing.
00:37:32She had a bag slung over her shoulder.
00:37:36One of those canvas things
00:37:38you get in a boutique with one name on it.
00:37:44Well, you must have seen it.
00:37:46It just had one word stenciled onto it.
00:37:48Uncles.
00:37:50Well, that's right, but what does it mean?
00:37:52It's the name of a boutique in town
00:37:54that's very hidden at the moment.
00:37:56Well, that's something.
00:37:58I know it's not much,
00:38:00but would you follow it up?
00:38:02Would you go there and check it out?
00:38:22I'm looking for a bag,
00:38:24a canvas,
00:38:26stenciled with the name
00:38:28of this rather interesting shop on it.
00:38:30Sold out.
00:38:32Congratulations.
00:38:34Much must be due to her own personal charm,
00:38:36business acumen and driving sales attack.
00:38:38Some kind of freak.
00:38:40Yes, possibly.
00:38:42According to Lange, you know, we're all mad
00:38:44in varying degrees.
00:38:46I don't suppose you keep a list of customers,
00:38:48do you, that sort of thing?
00:38:50Of course, not too busy.
00:38:52Nevertheless, perhaps someone ordered a bag by mail.
00:38:54No? Well, if they had,
00:38:56they would have an address or...
00:38:58No. Can I help you?
00:39:00The girl from Uncle.
00:39:02What?
00:39:04We've met before.
00:39:06Oh, come on now.
00:39:08Oh, yes, we have.
00:39:10The other day at Maycroft's.
00:39:12The Maycroft office party.
00:39:14Oh, you were there.
00:39:16Oh, yes, you were.
00:39:18I never, ever forget a face.
00:39:20I suppose I was there.
00:39:22A character of bokety from very amorous.
00:39:24In fact, who kissed Bernard Peel.
00:39:26Peel?
00:39:28Oh, you mean the timid man.
00:39:30Or perhaps you intimidated him.
00:39:32Well, it was just a joke.
00:39:34Didn't it work?
00:39:36Oh, yes.
00:39:38Perfectly, I think.
00:39:40Oh, may I?
00:39:44Mr. Peel is now under arrest for murder.
00:39:48Are you having me on?
00:39:52Look, I mean...
00:39:54I don't know anything about it.
00:39:56Look, look, I'm busy.
00:39:58I want to know about this joke.
00:40:00I've told you, I don't know anything about it.
00:40:02You've already told me you did.
00:40:04Are you the police?
00:40:06A glance at my feet will tell you no.
00:40:08The joke.
00:40:12Can I trust you?
00:40:14Alone in my flat at 2.30 a.m.?
00:40:16No.
00:40:18But right now, yes, you can.
00:40:20Trust me.
00:40:22Look, I don't know anything about it.
00:40:24You're beginning to bore me with that remark.
00:40:26The joke.
00:40:28Just a chap
00:40:30came in here and said I looked like his friend's girl
00:40:32and he wanted to play a joke on him.
00:40:34Why?
00:40:36He didn't say why.
00:40:38Just that I was to go to this party,
00:40:40hide myself away,
00:40:42and then at the last moment,
00:40:44I was to go up and kiss him.
00:40:46Well, he paid me 50 pounds.
00:40:48Expensive joke.
00:40:50Look, I don't want to get involved.
00:40:52What did he look like, this man who paid you the 50?
00:40:54He was about 30, tall, dark.
00:40:56Well, nothing special.
00:40:58Nothing special at all?
00:41:00Not a quirk of dress, style?
00:41:02Personal jewellery?
00:41:04Yes, that's right.
00:41:06He wore a ring.
00:41:08A big gaudy ring with a red stone?
00:41:10Oh, yes.
00:41:16If you find the girl, Bernard's in the clear.
00:41:18She was bought
00:41:20for 50 pounds, Mr Maycroft.
00:41:22Well...
00:41:24Well, please, that is to say, Gifford
00:41:26will say that I bought her for 100.
00:41:28They don't trust me.
00:41:30Well, I saw the girl. I could testify.
00:41:32Now, go on. Describe her.
00:41:34Well, she was...
00:41:36blonde, pretty.
00:41:38Yes.
00:41:40Tell her you saw the girl.
00:41:42Yes.
00:41:44Tell her you saw the girl who kissed Bernard Peel.
00:41:46What?
00:41:48At the party.
00:41:50Oh, yes.
00:41:52You'd know her again, wouldn't you?
00:41:54I don't know about that.
00:41:56You remembered her.
00:41:58Ah, but my business is remembering things.
00:42:00Salient things, odd things, unconnected things.
00:42:02Seems iniquitous.
00:42:04Poor Bernard, in jail.
00:42:06Framed for a crime he...
00:42:08He wasn't framed.
00:42:10Well, he was, and he wasn't.
00:42:12All I mean is that the frame was incidental.
00:42:14A smoke screen to draw us away
00:42:16from what he was really all about.
00:42:18Now, gentlemen, I have checked and rechecked
00:42:20Bernard Peel's background,
00:42:22and I can find no possible motive for putting him in this fix.
00:42:24And, indeed, if there were a motive,
00:42:26why murder her?
00:42:28Why not just go straight to the root of the problem
00:42:30and murder him?
00:42:32Jennifer was the real target.
00:42:34Why?
00:42:36If I knew that, Mr Tulliver,
00:42:38I should know who did it.
00:42:40Excuse me, Mr Tulliver.
00:42:44Is it all right if I drive Mr Foster home?
00:42:46My own driver is ill.
00:42:48Yeah, sure, go ahead. And go on home yourself after.
00:42:50I won't be needing you again today, Garfield.
00:42:52Thank you, sir.
00:42:54Earp, if your theory's correct...
00:42:56Who is there?
00:42:58Garfield. He's just a general aide.
00:43:00I brought him over with me.
00:43:02He's not very bright, but he's willing.
00:43:04Deals with all the chores that you can't be bothered with.
00:43:06Is that it?
00:43:08Where does he live? In the butler's quarters?
00:43:10No, as a matter of fact,
00:43:12he's got his own apartment across the street from mine.
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00:51:54No, no, no.
00:51:56If there's anything to be found, I want you to find it.
00:52:06Well, this looks like it.
00:52:29It was her hunchfire, in a watching grief on businessmen against whom nothing could
00:52:33be proved but who might merit closer attention.
00:52:36Tulliver.
00:52:37Well, the timing was right.
00:52:38Just merging with Maycroft's.
00:52:39A whisper of scandal.
00:52:41Could squash the whole deal.
00:52:43It's just a question of brain cells, you see.
00:52:46Though a few of us are more endowed than others.
00:52:49Tulliver.
00:52:50Yes.
00:52:51Garfield was his man.
00:52:52Garfield?
00:52:53Yes.
00:52:54Garfield was murdered a short time ago.
00:52:55Do you know, it quite slipped my mind to tell you.
00:52:58Still, in the light of the discovery I just led you to, I'm sure you'll overlook a tiny
00:53:05slip of memory.
00:53:08Let's get Tulliver.
00:53:11But this is ridiculous.
00:53:12Unbelievable.
00:53:13Are you sure of your facts?
00:53:15Sure enough to get a warrant against Mr. Tulliver.
00:53:17But why would I kill a woman I've never even met?
00:53:19Well, that is the one thing that we haven't worked out yet.
00:53:23We're hoping you'll be able to help us with that, sir.
00:53:25Why not the station?
00:53:30Sir?
00:53:39He earned his fee.
00:53:46What happened?
00:53:47Tulliver's been arrested.
00:53:48Arrested?
00:53:49Suspected of murdering Jennifer Peel.
00:53:51Arrested?
00:53:52Carl, we have to prepare some kind of press handout.
00:53:55Prepare our shareholders for the fact that the merger will not now take place.
00:53:58One can hardly merge with a suspected murderer, Mr. Forster.
00:54:02Yes, yes, of course.
00:54:03So Bernard will now go free.
00:54:04I'm happy to say so, yes.
00:54:05Then it was all for nothing.
00:54:07Two days I've studied the file on Tulliver and his company.
00:54:09Wasted effort.
00:54:11I doubt if Peel would think so.
00:54:13Wasted effort.
00:54:16I suppose I ought to thank you, Mr. Earp.
00:54:18You've done your best by Bernard, of course, and I'm delighted, but...
00:54:22Taking away your new partner is hardly a fair exchange, is that it?
00:54:25He's crooked.
00:54:26He must be to be on Jennifer's list.
00:54:33Excuse me.
00:54:36What's the matter?
00:54:38Nothing.
00:54:39I'll send my bill in due course, Mr. Maycroft.
00:54:48You understand, I'm sure.
00:54:49Yes, you were just doing your job.
00:54:55And fortunately,
00:54:58Mr. Earp was doing his.
00:55:03You know,
00:55:05you're better than Wyatt Earp.
00:55:07Well, I have a distinct advantage over Wyatt.
00:55:10He has been dead an awfully long time.
00:55:14I want to thank you again.
00:55:16Now, are you a drink or something?
00:55:19A lot, lot more.
00:55:33Earp, when we first met,
00:55:35I said a lot of hard things against you.
00:55:38I hope you understand that I was...
00:55:40I'd like to see Tulliver.
00:55:43Can you arrange that?
00:55:55You?
00:55:57You've come to gloat or offer your condolences?
00:56:00My services.
00:56:01I came to offer my services.
00:56:04You are in a bad fix, Mr. Tulliver, very bad.
00:56:06In fact, only someone superbly brilliant can help you.
00:56:11Of course, the cost of hiring me will not be much,
00:56:13but I'll do my best to help you.
00:56:15And once I'm working for you, Mr. Tulliver,
00:56:17I think I can guarantee to have you out of here
00:56:20in the next 24 hours.
00:56:28Oh, excuse me.
00:56:32Ah.
00:56:39Mr. Tulliver,
00:56:40Ah.
00:56:49Come in.
00:56:57See anything significant there?
00:57:00Only that you and Bernhard saw it first, me third.
00:57:04That just about sums up the hierarchy around here, doesn't it?
00:57:06Why?
00:57:07Earp looked at it and then hurried off.
00:57:10Didn't say where or why,
00:57:12but I got the impression...
00:57:13You got the impression?
00:57:15That he isn't finished yet.
00:57:40It's all right.
00:57:50It's all right.
00:57:58I wonder if you would oblige me.
00:58:04It's been a long, long time.
00:58:06You'll have to go easy with me.
00:58:20Olga?
00:58:39I'm sorry.
00:58:41I should have warned you.
00:58:43I never attempt anything
00:58:45unless I can be superlative at it.
00:58:48Oh, but don't worry.
00:58:50You're very good, too.
00:58:52Although I imagine
00:58:54karate
00:58:56is really your sport.
00:58:58Oh, yes.
00:59:00You'd have to be an expert to kill Garfield the way you did.
00:59:03Just one quick blow in the right place,
00:59:06just as he was stepping aside
00:59:08to let a gentle old lady go by
00:59:11and bop.
00:59:12Oh, yes.
00:59:13And you bopped me, too.
00:59:14I don't know what you're talking about.
00:59:16No?
00:59:17And you don't want to be involved either, but you are.
00:59:20I suppose you had a hand in killing Jennifer Peel, too.
00:59:23Or did you just train him to do it?
00:59:25Yes, of course.
00:59:26I suppose that's where you first met.
00:59:28Here.
00:59:29You wrestled on the mat,
00:59:30found true love
00:59:31and a mutual spirit of avarice and ruthlessness,
00:59:34and you cooked up this tricky little scheme.
00:59:37It's far, far too tricky, you know.
00:59:40I always said so.
00:59:41I always said so.
00:59:50Lock the door.
01:00:11Sorry, eh?
01:00:13But one bop is enough.
01:00:18A nasty business, hitting a lady.
01:00:22It's all better than killing one, eh?
01:00:25Better than killing your wife.
01:00:28Of course, she had all the money, didn't she?
01:00:31And if she divorced you, you would have none.
01:00:34So afraid of losing your wife?
01:00:37I'm not afraid of losing my wife.
01:00:39So frame yourself.
01:00:41Just enough to get yourself arrested,
01:00:42but not quite enough to make it stick.
01:00:44Then throw Tulliver into the arena.
01:00:48Let all doubts and suspicions move onto him.
01:00:52And nobody would point the finger at you again.
01:00:55After all,
01:00:56you were the poor fellow who was framed.
01:01:05You always bothered me, you know.
01:01:07The way you kept leading me from clue to clue.
01:01:10But the real clincher
01:01:13was your own careless mouth.
01:01:18And my flawless memory.
01:01:22Remember the party?
01:01:25You said
01:01:27you'd rather not comment on Tulliver.
01:01:30I haven't even seen the files yet,
01:01:31but those files were booked out to you weeks ago.
01:01:33You held them for days.
01:01:35You knew all about Tulliver and Garfield.
01:01:38In fact, you picked on Garfield as the man
01:01:41you would pretend to swap cars with.
01:01:44Oh yes,
01:01:45and you keep rapiers in the hall.
01:01:48Those
01:01:50and a little poster
01:01:52at Uncle's led me here.
01:01:55I warned you
01:01:57that if you didn't kill your wife, I'd find out.
01:02:01Or
01:02:02if you did.
01:02:05I liked
01:02:07Jennifer.
01:02:32Come on.
01:02:42I prefer fishing.
01:03:02It's
01:03:03unfortunate business, Mr. Tulliver.
01:03:05Very.
01:03:07Still, it
01:03:09all ended happily in the end, eh?
01:03:12Except for you.
01:03:14I'd better buy you dinner down your sorrows.
01:03:18Well, Maycross aren't going to pay your fee now, are they?
01:03:20You'll be out of pocket.
01:03:21I'm not out of pocket, but I'm going to...
01:03:23I'd be delighted to let you buy me dinner.
01:03:25But I insist
01:03:26that you let me choose the wine.
01:03:28Well, as you know, gentlemen,
01:03:30I'm not given to boasting,
01:03:32but that's one thing that I do know about.
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