1 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:48,774 (Tyres screech) 2 00:02:13,466 --> 00:02:14,967 (Knocks on glass door) 3 00:02:29,899 --> 00:02:31,900 Why, hello there, Mr Neff. 4 00:02:44,164 --> 00:02:48,333 - Working pretty late, aren't you, Mr Neff? - Late enough. Let's ride. 5 00:02:51,504 --> 00:02:54,715 - You look kind of all in, at that. - I'm fine. 6 00:02:54,841 --> 00:02:58,135 - How is the insurance business, Mr Neff? - OK. 7 00:02:59,012 --> 00:03:00,762 They wouldn't ever sell me any. 8 00:03:00,889 --> 00:03:02,764 They said I have something loose in my heart. 9 00:03:02,891 --> 00:03:06,185 - Ha-ha. I say it's rheumatism. - Yeah? 10 00:03:07,103 --> 00:03:08,312 Twelve. 11 00:05:04,012 --> 00:05:05,679 Office memorandum. 12 00:05:06,806 --> 00:05:09,725 Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager. 13 00:05:10,810 --> 00:05:13,228 Los Angeles, July 16, 1938. 14 00:05:15,189 --> 00:05:16,648 Dear Keyes... 15 00:05:18,151 --> 00:05:21,236 I suppose you'll call this a confession when you hear it. 16 00:05:21,362 --> 00:05:23,905 Well, I don't like the word confession. 17 00:05:24,032 --> 00:05:28,869 I want to set you right about something that was smack up against your nose. 18 00:05:28,995 --> 00:05:30,912 You think you're such a hot potato as a claims manager, 19 00:05:31,039 --> 00:05:33,206 such a wolf on a phoney claim. 20 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:38,211 Maybe you are, but let's take a look at that Dietrichson claim. 21 00:05:39,422 --> 00:05:41,631 Accident and double indemnity. 22 00:05:42,508 --> 00:05:45,719 You were pretty good in there for a while, Keyes. 23 00:05:45,845 --> 00:05:48,847 You said it wasn't an accident. Check. 24 00:05:48,973 --> 00:05:52,142 You said it wasn't suicide. Check. 25 00:05:52,268 --> 00:05:54,019 You said it was murder. 26 00:05:55,063 --> 00:05:56,480 Check. 27 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,858 You thought you had it cold, didn't you? 28 00:05:59,984 --> 00:06:03,278 All wrapped up in tissue paper, with pink ribbons around it. 29 00:06:03,404 --> 00:06:05,364 It was perfect. 30 00:06:05,490 --> 00:06:08,367 Except it wasn't, because you made one mistake, 31 00:06:08,493 --> 00:06:10,577 just one little mistake. 32 00:06:11,662 --> 00:06:15,165 When it came to picking the killer, you picked the wrong guy. 33 00:06:16,542 --> 00:06:19,795 You want to know who killed Dietrichson? 34 00:06:19,921 --> 00:06:22,964 Hold tight to that cheap cigar of yours, Keyes. 35 00:06:24,384 --> 00:06:25,801 I killed Dietrichson. 36 00:06:25,927 --> 00:06:28,887 Me, Walter Neff, insurance salesman. 37 00:06:29,013 --> 00:06:32,140 35 years old, unmarried, no visible scars. 38 00:06:34,310 --> 00:06:36,395 Until a while ago, that is. 39 00:06:37,814 --> 00:06:39,564 Yes, I killed him. 40 00:06:41,192 --> 00:06:43,235 I killed him for money 41 00:06:43,361 --> 00:06:45,404 and for a woman. 42 00:06:46,697 --> 00:06:48,532 But I didn't get the money and... 43 00:06:50,034 --> 00:06:51,660 I didn't get the woman. 44 00:06:53,162 --> 00:06:54,788 Pretty, isn't it? 45 00:07:08,469 --> 00:07:12,639 It all began last May. Around the end of May, it was. 46 00:07:15,059 --> 00:07:19,062 (Neff) I'd been out to Glendale to deliver a policy on some dairy trucks. 47 00:07:19,188 --> 00:07:22,607 I remembered this auto renewal near Los Feliz Boulevard. 48 00:07:22,733 --> 00:07:24,943 So I drove over there. 49 00:07:25,069 --> 00:07:26,611 It was one of those Spanish houses 50 00:07:26,737 --> 00:07:30,115 everyone was nuts about 10 or 15 years ago. 51 00:07:30,241 --> 00:07:33,452 This one must have cost somebody about 30,000 bucks. 52 00:07:33,578 --> 00:07:35,954 That is, if he ever finished paying for it. 53 00:07:38,583 --> 00:07:40,083 Is Mr Dietrichson in? 54 00:07:40,209 --> 00:07:42,752 - Who wants to see him? - My name is Neff. 55 00:07:42,879 --> 00:07:45,714 - If you're selling... - It's Mr Dietrichson I want to talk to. 56 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,884 - And it's not magazine subscriptions. - Mr Dietrichson is not in. 57 00:07:49,010 --> 00:07:51,803 - How soon do you expect him? - He'll be home when he gets here. 58 00:07:51,929 --> 00:07:53,597 (Phyllis) What is it, Nettie? 59 00:07:53,723 --> 00:07:55,682 It's for Mr Dietrichson. 60 00:07:55,808 --> 00:07:57,767 I'm Mrs Dietrichson. What is it? 61 00:07:58,603 --> 00:08:01,521 How do you do? I'm Walter Neff, Pacific All Risk. 62 00:08:01,647 --> 00:08:04,983 - Pacific all what? - The Pacific All Risk insurance company. 63 00:08:05,109 --> 00:08:07,319 It's about some renewals on the automobiles. 64 00:08:07,445 --> 00:08:11,031 I've been trying to contact your husband for the past two weeks. 65 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:14,493 - Is there anything I can do? - The insurance ran out on the 15th. 66 00:08:14,619 --> 00:08:18,538 I'd hate you to have a smashed fender or something while you're not... 67 00:08:18,664 --> 00:08:19,706 fully covered. 68 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,086 Perhaps I know what you mean, Mr Neff. I've just been taking a sunbath. 69 00:08:25,213 --> 00:08:27,631 No pigeons around, I hope. 70 00:08:27,757 --> 00:08:31,176 Now, about those policies. I hate to take up your time, but... 71 00:08:31,302 --> 00:08:35,263 If you'll wait till I put something on, I'll be right down. 72 00:08:35,389 --> 00:08:38,350 Nettie, show Mr Neff into the living room. 73 00:08:41,187 --> 00:08:44,898 - Where would the living room be? - In there, but they keep the liquor locked up. 74 00:08:45,024 --> 00:08:47,442 It's all right. I always carry my own keys. 75 00:08:55,284 --> 00:08:58,828 (Neff) The living room was still stuffy from last night's cigars. 76 00:08:59,705 --> 00:09:02,707 The sunshine coming in through the Venetian blinds 77 00:09:02,833 --> 00:09:04,584 showed up the dust in the air. 78 00:09:06,629 --> 00:09:10,048 On the piano in a couple of fancy frames were Mr Dietrichson and Lola, 79 00:09:10,174 --> 00:09:12,008 his daughter by his first wife. 80 00:09:13,803 --> 00:09:18,598 They had a bowl of those little red goldfish on the table behind the big davenport. 81 00:09:18,724 --> 00:09:22,978 But to tell you the truth, Keyes, I wasn't a whole lot interested in goldfish. 82 00:09:23,104 --> 00:09:26,898 Or in auto renewals or in Mr Dietrichson and his daughter Lola. 83 00:09:27,024 --> 00:09:30,819 I was thinking about that dame upstairs, and the way she had looked at me. 84 00:09:30,945 --> 00:09:32,571 I wanted to see her again, close, 85 00:09:33,781 --> 00:09:36,658 without that silly staircase between us. 86 00:09:41,789 --> 00:09:44,249 - I wasn't long, was I? - Not at all, Mrs Dietrichson. 87 00:09:44,375 --> 00:09:47,711 - Hope I've got my face on straight. - It's perfect, for my money. 88 00:09:47,837 --> 00:09:49,713 - Neff, isn't it? - Yeah, with two Fs. 89 00:09:49,839 --> 00:09:52,674 - Like Philadelphia, if you know the story. - What story? 90 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,551 The Philadelphia Story. 91 00:09:54,677 --> 00:09:58,972 Suppose you tell me about the insurance. My husband never tells me anything. 92 00:09:59,098 --> 00:10:02,183 Well, it's on your two cars, the LaSalle and the Plymouth. 93 00:10:04,145 --> 00:10:08,356 We've handled this insurance for three years and we'd hate to see the policies lapse. 94 00:10:10,318 --> 00:10:14,029 That's a honey of an anklet you're wearing, Mrs Dietrichson. 95 00:10:14,155 --> 00:10:17,073 As I was saying, we'd hate to see the policies lapse. 96 00:10:17,199 --> 00:10:19,326 Of course, we give them 30 days. 97 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:21,870 I guess he's been too busy down in the oil fields. 98 00:10:21,996 --> 00:10:23,830 Couldn't I catch him at home some evening? 99 00:10:23,956 --> 00:10:25,999 I suppose so, but he's never home before eight. 100 00:10:26,125 --> 00:10:27,542 That's fine with me. 101 00:10:27,668 --> 00:10:29,544 You're not connected with the Automobile Club? 102 00:10:29,670 --> 00:10:32,255 No, the All Risk, Mrs Dietrichson. Why? 103 00:10:32,381 --> 00:10:35,216 Somebody from the Automobile Club has been trying to get him. 104 00:10:35,343 --> 00:10:38,053 - Do they have a better rate? - If your husband's a member. 105 00:10:38,179 --> 00:10:39,304 No, he isn't. 106 00:10:39,430 --> 00:10:42,515 Then he'd have to join the club and pay the membership fee. 107 00:10:42,642 --> 00:10:45,602 I never knock the other fellow's merchandise. 108 00:10:45,728 --> 00:10:49,314 The Automobile Club's fine. I can do just as well for you, though. 109 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,733 I have a very attractive policy here. 110 00:10:51,859 --> 00:10:54,277 It wouldn't take me two minutes to put it to your husband. 111 00:10:54,403 --> 00:10:59,449 For instance, we're writing a new 50% retention feature in the collision coverage. 112 00:10:59,575 --> 00:11:01,743 You're a smart insurance man, Mr Neff. 113 00:11:01,869 --> 00:11:03,703 Well, I've been at it 11 years. 114 00:11:03,829 --> 00:11:05,747 - Doing pretty well? - It's a living. 115 00:11:07,124 --> 00:11:10,627 You handle just automobile insurance, or all kinds? 116 00:11:10,753 --> 00:11:13,463 All kinds. Fire, earthquake, theft, public liability, 117 00:11:13,589 --> 00:11:16,257 group insurance, industrial stuff and so on. 118 00:11:16,384 --> 00:11:17,634 Accident insurance? 119 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,261 Accident insurance? Sure, Mrs Dietrichson. 120 00:11:22,098 --> 00:11:24,265 Wish you'd tell me what's engraved on that anklet. 121 00:11:25,851 --> 00:11:28,395 - Just my name. - As, for instance? 122 00:11:29,730 --> 00:11:32,190 - Phyllis. - Phyllis, huh? 123 00:11:32,316 --> 00:11:34,693 - I think I like that. - But you're not sure? 124 00:11:34,819 --> 00:11:36,820 I'd have to drive it around the block. 125 00:11:38,322 --> 00:11:41,157 Mr Neff, why don't you drop by tomorrow evening around 8:30? 126 00:11:41,283 --> 00:11:42,951 - He'll be in then. - Who? 127 00:11:43,077 --> 00:11:46,246 My husband. You were anxious to talk to him, weren't you? 128 00:11:46,372 --> 00:11:50,250 Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean. 129 00:11:50,376 --> 00:11:54,212 There's a speed limit in this state. 45 miles an hour. 130 00:11:54,338 --> 00:11:57,298 - How fast was I going, officer? - I'd say around 90. 131 00:11:57,425 --> 00:12:00,051 Suppose you get off your motorcycle and give me a ticket? 132 00:12:00,177 --> 00:12:02,512 Suppose I let you off with a warning this time? 133 00:12:02,638 --> 00:12:04,264 Suppose it doesn't take? 134 00:12:04,390 --> 00:12:06,641 Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles? 135 00:12:06,767 --> 00:12:09,519 Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder? 136 00:12:09,645 --> 00:12:11,855 Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder? 137 00:12:13,107 --> 00:12:14,691 That tears it. 138 00:12:18,779 --> 00:12:22,198 - 8:30 tomorrow evening, then. - That's what I suggested. 139 00:12:22,324 --> 00:12:24,909 - Will you be here, too? - I guess so, I usually am. 140 00:12:25,035 --> 00:12:27,412 Same chair, same perfume, same anklet? 141 00:12:27,538 --> 00:12:30,290 I wonder if I know what you mean. 142 00:12:30,416 --> 00:12:32,500 I wonder if you wonder. 143 00:12:36,297 --> 00:12:41,426 (Neff) I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along that street. 144 00:12:41,552 --> 00:12:45,513 How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle? 145 00:12:45,639 --> 00:12:47,015 Maybe you would have known, Keyes, 146 00:12:47,141 --> 00:12:49,309 the minute she mentioned accident insurance. 147 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:51,978 But I didn't. I felt like a million. 148 00:12:53,397 --> 00:12:56,608 I went back to the office to see if I had any mail. 149 00:12:56,734 --> 00:12:59,986 It was the day you had that truck driver from Inglewood on the carpet. 150 00:13:00,112 --> 00:13:01,446 Remember, Keyes? 151 00:13:01,572 --> 00:13:05,825 Mr Neff, Mr Keyes wants to see you. He's been yelling for you all afternoon. 152 00:13:05,951 --> 00:13:10,079 Is he sore or just frothing at the mouth? Park this for me, will you, sweetheart? 153 00:13:14,585 --> 00:13:16,211 - Hello, Walter. - Hi, George. 154 00:13:18,714 --> 00:13:21,424 You're not kidding anybody with that line of bull. 155 00:13:21,550 --> 00:13:23,635 - You're in a jam and you know it. - Says you. 156 00:13:23,761 --> 00:13:25,970 - All I want is my money. - Says you. 157 00:13:26,096 --> 00:13:28,723 All you're gonna get is the cops. Oh, hello, Walter. 158 00:13:28,849 --> 00:13:31,893 - This is Sam Garlopis from Inglewood. - Sure, I know Mr Garlopis. 159 00:13:32,019 --> 00:13:34,854 Wrote a policy on his truck. How are you, Mr Garlopis? 160 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:37,232 I ain't so good. My truck burned down. 161 00:13:37,358 --> 00:13:39,818 Yeah. Now look, Garlopis. 162 00:13:39,944 --> 00:13:42,445 Every month hundreds of claims come to this desk. 163 00:13:42,571 --> 00:13:44,823 Some of them are phoneys, and I know which ones. 164 00:13:44,949 --> 00:13:47,826 How do I know? Because my little man tells me. 165 00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:52,413 - What little man? - The little man in here. 166 00:13:52,540 --> 00:13:55,416 Every time a phoney comes along, he ties knots in my stomach. 167 00:13:55,543 --> 00:13:56,835 I can't eat. 168 00:13:56,961 --> 00:14:00,088 That's how I knew your claim was crooked. 169 00:14:00,214 --> 00:14:01,714 So what did I do? 170 00:14:01,841 --> 00:14:04,509 I sent a tow car over to your garage this afternoon. 171 00:14:04,635 --> 00:14:07,887 They jacked up that burned-out truck of yours and what did they find? 172 00:14:08,013 --> 00:14:10,098 What was left of a neat pile of shavings. 173 00:14:11,725 --> 00:14:13,059 What shavings? 174 00:14:13,185 --> 00:14:16,771 The ones you soaked with kerosene and dropped a match on. 175 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:22,360 Look, Mister, I'm just a poor guy. Maybe I made a mistake. 176 00:14:22,486 --> 00:14:24,696 That's one way of putting it. 177 00:14:24,822 --> 00:14:27,031 I ain't feeling so good, Mr Keyes. 178 00:14:27,157 --> 00:14:29,492 Here. Just a minute. Sign this and you'll feel fine. 179 00:14:29,618 --> 00:14:32,453 - Sign what? - It's a waiver on your claim. Right here. 180 00:14:33,706 --> 00:14:35,164 - Here? - Here. 181 00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:41,713 Now you're an honest man again. Goodbye, Garlopis. 182 00:14:41,839 --> 00:14:43,715 But I ain't got no more truck. 183 00:14:43,841 --> 00:14:46,467 2600 bucks is lot of dough where I live. 184 00:14:46,594 --> 00:14:48,553 Don't you know how to open the door? 185 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:52,765 Just put your hand on the knob, turn it to the left. 186 00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:55,059 Now pull it toward you. 187 00:14:56,604 --> 00:14:59,772 - That's the boy. - Thank you, Mr Keyes. 188 00:15:03,527 --> 00:15:05,445 What kind of an outfit is this, anyway? 189 00:15:05,571 --> 00:15:09,407 Are we a bunch of dim-witted amateurs to write a policy on a mug like that? 190 00:15:09,533 --> 00:15:11,159 I don't rate this beef. 191 00:15:11,285 --> 00:15:14,871 I clipped a note to that Garlopis application to have him investigated. 192 00:15:14,997 --> 00:15:16,414 I know. I'm not beefing at you. 193 00:15:16,540 --> 00:15:19,375 It's the company. It's the way they don't do things. 194 00:15:19,501 --> 00:15:21,961 They'll write anything to get it on the sales sheet. 195 00:15:22,087 --> 00:15:24,923 And I have to sit here up to my neck in phoney claims 196 00:15:25,049 --> 00:15:27,675 so they won't throw more out the window than they take in at the door. 197 00:15:27,801 --> 00:15:29,218 OK, turn the record over. 198 00:15:29,345 --> 00:15:32,388 I get sick of picking up after a gang of fast-talking salesmen 199 00:15:32,514 --> 00:15:36,976 dumb enough to sell life insurance to a guy who sleeps with four rattlesnakes. 200 00:15:37,102 --> 00:15:39,187 I've had 26 years of this and I'm getting... 201 00:15:39,313 --> 00:15:41,564 Yeah, and you've loved every minute of it. 202 00:15:41,690 --> 00:15:44,108 You love it, only you worry about it too darn much, 203 00:15:44,234 --> 00:15:45,526 you and your little man. 204 00:15:45,653 --> 00:15:48,404 You're so conscientious, you're driving yourself crazy. 205 00:15:48,530 --> 00:15:50,865 You wouldn't say today is Tuesday unless you looked at the calendar. 206 00:15:50,991 --> 00:15:53,368 Then you'd check if it was this year's or last year's. 207 00:15:53,494 --> 00:15:57,205 Then you'd find out who printed it and if it checked with the World Almanac. 208 00:15:57,331 --> 00:15:59,040 That's enough from you, Walter. 209 00:15:59,166 --> 00:16:01,501 Get out of here before I throw my desk at you. 210 00:16:05,839 --> 00:16:07,507 I love you, too. 211 00:16:13,847 --> 00:16:16,224 (Neff) I really did, too, you old crab, 212 00:16:16,350 --> 00:16:19,811 always yelling your head off, always sore at everybody. 213 00:16:19,937 --> 00:16:23,439 But you never fooled me with your song and dance, not for a second. 214 00:16:23,565 --> 00:16:26,025 I always knew behind the cigar ashes on your vest 215 00:16:26,151 --> 00:16:28,319 you had a heart as big as a house. 216 00:16:29,238 --> 00:16:33,992 In my office was a phone message from Mrs Dietrichson about the renewals. 217 00:16:34,118 --> 00:16:36,953 She didn't want me to come tomorrow evening. 218 00:16:37,079 --> 00:16:40,999 She wanted me to come Thursday afternoon at 3:30 instead. 219 00:16:41,125 --> 00:16:44,419 I had a lot of stuff lined up for that Thursday afternoon, 220 00:16:44,545 --> 00:16:46,087 including a trip down to Santa Monica 221 00:16:46,213 --> 00:16:50,341 to see a couple of live prospects about some group insurance. 222 00:16:50,467 --> 00:16:53,594 But I kept thinking about Phyllis Dietrichson 223 00:16:53,721 --> 00:16:56,305 and the way that anklet of hers cut into her leg. 224 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,066 Hello, Mr Neff. Aren't you coming in? 225 00:17:07,192 --> 00:17:09,027 I'm considering it. 226 00:17:10,821 --> 00:17:12,989 I hope you didn't mind my changing the appointment. 227 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:16,034 - Last night wasn't so convenient. - That's all right. 228 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,202 I was working on my stamp collection anyway. 229 00:17:18,328 --> 00:17:20,496 I was just fixing some iced tea. Would you like a glass? 230 00:17:20,622 --> 00:17:22,790 Unless you've got a bottle of beer that's not working. 231 00:17:22,916 --> 00:17:25,501 There may be some. I never know what's in the icebox. 232 00:17:25,627 --> 00:17:27,253 Nettie. 233 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:34,302 Oh, about those renewals, Mr Neff. I talked to my husband about it. 234 00:17:34,428 --> 00:17:37,221 - Oh, you did? - Yes. He'll renew with you, he told me so. 235 00:17:37,347 --> 00:17:39,724 I thought he'd be here this afternoon. 236 00:17:39,850 --> 00:17:42,310 - But he's not? - No. 237 00:17:42,436 --> 00:17:44,395 That's terrible. 238 00:17:44,521 --> 00:17:47,315 Nettie! Nettie! 239 00:17:47,441 --> 00:17:50,818 Oh, I forgot. Today's the maid's day off. 240 00:17:50,944 --> 00:17:53,863 Never mind the beer. Iced tea will be fine. 241 00:17:53,989 --> 00:17:56,407 - Lemon? Sugar? - Fix it your way. 242 00:17:57,993 --> 00:18:01,537 As long as it's the maid's day off, maybe there's something I can do for you. 243 00:18:01,663 --> 00:18:05,208 - Like running the vacuum cleaner. - Fresh. 244 00:18:05,334 --> 00:18:07,585 I used to peddle vacuum cleaners. 245 00:18:07,711 --> 00:18:09,545 Not much money, but you learn a lot about life. 246 00:18:09,671 --> 00:18:13,424 I didn't think you'd learned it from a correspondence course. 247 00:18:15,010 --> 00:18:17,053 Where did you pick up this tea drinking? 248 00:18:17,179 --> 00:18:19,347 - You're not English? - No, Californian. 249 00:18:19,473 --> 00:18:21,557 Born right here in Los Angeles. 250 00:18:21,683 --> 00:18:25,019 They say all native Californians come from Iowa. 251 00:18:25,145 --> 00:18:28,356 - Mr Neff, I... - Make it Walter, huh? 252 00:18:28,482 --> 00:18:30,650 - Walter. - That's right. 253 00:18:30,776 --> 00:18:35,071 Tell me, Walter, on this insurance, how much commission do you make? 254 00:18:35,197 --> 00:18:36,781 20 percent. Why? 255 00:18:36,907 --> 00:18:39,367 Perhaps I could throw a little more business your way. 256 00:18:39,493 --> 00:18:42,036 - I can always use it. - I was thinking about my husband. 257 00:18:42,162 --> 00:18:44,497 I worry a lot about him down in those oil fields. 258 00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:46,791 - It's very dangerous. - Not for an executive, is it? 259 00:18:46,917 --> 00:18:48,292 He doesn't just sit behind a desk. 260 00:18:48,418 --> 00:18:50,586 He's right down there with those drilling crews. 261 00:18:50,712 --> 00:18:52,130 It's got me worried sick. 262 00:18:52,256 --> 00:18:54,257 You mean, some dark night a crown block might fall on him? 263 00:18:54,383 --> 00:18:56,801 - Please don't talk like that. - But that's the idea. 264 00:18:56,927 --> 00:18:59,846 The other day a casing line snapped and caught the foreman. 265 00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:02,849 - He's in the hospital with a broken back. - That's bad. 266 00:19:02,975 --> 00:19:05,434 It's got me jittery just thinking about it. 267 00:19:05,561 --> 00:19:07,687 Suppose something like that happened to my husband. 268 00:19:07,813 --> 00:19:09,814 - It could. - Well... 269 00:19:10,899 --> 00:19:13,151 Don't you think he ought to have accident insurance? 270 00:19:13,277 --> 00:19:15,194 Mm-hm. 271 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,280 What kind of insurance could he have? 272 00:19:17,406 --> 00:19:19,782 Enough to cover doctors and hospital bills. 273 00:19:19,908 --> 00:19:21,951 Say $125 a week cash benefit. 274 00:19:22,077 --> 00:19:24,495 And he'd rate around $50,000 capital sum. 275 00:19:24,621 --> 00:19:27,290 - Capital sum? What's that? - In case he gets killed. 276 00:19:28,667 --> 00:19:30,918 Maybe I shouldn't have said that. 277 00:19:31,044 --> 00:19:33,462 I suppose you have to think of everything in your business. 278 00:19:33,589 --> 00:19:35,006 Your husband would understand. 279 00:19:35,132 --> 00:19:37,675 I'm sure I could sell him on the idea of accident protection. 280 00:19:37,801 --> 00:19:41,053 - Why don't I talk to him about it? - You could try, but he's tough-going. 281 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,431 They're all tough at first. 282 00:19:44,516 --> 00:19:45,975 He has a lot on his mind. 283 00:19:46,101 --> 00:19:47,810 He doesn't seem to want to listen to anything 284 00:19:47,936 --> 00:19:50,730 except maybe a baseball game on the radio. 285 00:19:50,856 --> 00:19:54,859 Sometimes we sit here all evening and never say a word to each other. 286 00:19:54,985 --> 00:19:58,946 - Sounds pretty dull. - So, I just sit and knit. 287 00:19:59,072 --> 00:20:01,115 Is that what you married him for? 288 00:20:01,241 --> 00:20:03,534 Maybe I like the way his thumbs hold up the wool. 289 00:20:04,912 --> 00:20:07,455 Any time his thumbs get tired... 290 00:20:07,581 --> 00:20:09,165 Only, with me you wouldn't have to knit. 291 00:20:09,291 --> 00:20:11,876 - Wouldn't I? - You bet your life, you wouldn't. 292 00:20:14,838 --> 00:20:16,881 Wonder if a little rum would get this up on its feet. 293 00:20:20,469 --> 00:20:23,095 I want to ask you something, Walter. 294 00:20:25,265 --> 00:20:29,018 Could I get an accident policy for him without bothering him at all? 295 00:20:29,144 --> 00:20:32,396 - How's that, again? - You wouldn't even have to talk to him. 296 00:20:32,522 --> 00:20:34,649 I have a little allowance of my own. 297 00:20:34,775 --> 00:20:37,401 I could pay for it and he needn't know anything about it. 298 00:20:40,405 --> 00:20:43,866 - Why shouldn't he know? - He doesn't want accident insurance. 299 00:20:43,992 --> 00:20:48,037 - He's superstitious about it. - A lot of people are. That's funny, isn't it? 300 00:20:48,163 --> 00:20:52,917 If there was a way to get it like that, all the worry would be over. 301 00:20:53,043 --> 00:20:56,212 - See what I mean, Walter? - Sure. I got good eyesight. 302 00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:59,006 You want him to have the policy without him knowing it. 303 00:20:59,132 --> 00:21:02,051 Without the insurance company knowing that he doesn't know it. 304 00:21:02,177 --> 00:21:04,887 - That's the set-up, isn't it? - Is there anything wrong with it? 305 00:21:05,013 --> 00:21:06,430 No, I think it's lovely. 306 00:21:06,556 --> 00:21:08,808 If some dark, wet night that crown block did fall on him... 307 00:21:08,934 --> 00:21:13,020 - What crown block? - Only sometimes it has to have a little help. 308 00:21:13,146 --> 00:21:15,898 - I don't know what you mean. - It doesn't have to be a crown block. 309 00:21:16,024 --> 00:21:19,151 It can be a car backing over him, or he could fall out of the upstairs window. 310 00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:21,153 Any little thing, just so it's a morgue job. 311 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,864 - Are you crazy? - Not that crazy. 312 00:21:25,659 --> 00:21:27,952 - Goodbye, Mrs Dietrichson. - What's the matter? 313 00:21:29,705 --> 00:21:32,498 Look, baby, you can't get away with it. 314 00:21:34,376 --> 00:21:37,378 - You want to knock him off. - That's a horrible thing to say. 315 00:21:37,504 --> 00:21:40,798 Did you think I was a guy that walks into a dame's front parlour and says, 316 00:21:40,924 --> 00:21:43,301 "Good afternoon. I sell accident insurance on husbands. 317 00:21:43,427 --> 00:21:46,387 "You got one that's been around too long, one you'd like to turn into hard cash? 318 00:21:46,513 --> 00:21:48,306 "Give me a smile and I'll help you collect." 319 00:21:48,432 --> 00:21:51,892 - What a dope you must think I am. - I think you're rotten. 320 00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:54,312 I think you're swell, so long as I'm not your husband. 321 00:21:54,438 --> 00:21:57,273 - Get out of here. - You bet I'll get out of here, baby. 322 00:21:57,399 --> 00:21:59,817 I'll get out of here, but quick. 323 00:22:09,619 --> 00:22:12,038 (Neff) So I let her have it straight between the eyes. 324 00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:14,707 She didn't fool me for a minute, not this time. 325 00:22:14,833 --> 00:22:16,459 I knew I had hold of a red-hot poker 326 00:22:16,585 --> 00:22:19,795 and the time to drop it was before it burned my hand off. 327 00:22:19,921 --> 00:22:23,758 I stopped at a drive-in for a bottle of beer, the one I had wanted all along, 328 00:22:23,884 --> 00:22:27,720 only I wanted it worse now, to get rid of the sour taste of her iced tea 329 00:22:27,846 --> 00:22:29,472 and everything that went with it. 330 00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:33,017 I didn't want to go back to the office so I dropped by a bowling alley 331 00:22:33,143 --> 00:22:35,644 at Third and Western and rolled a few lines 332 00:22:35,771 --> 00:22:38,397 to get my mind thinking about something else for a while. 333 00:22:39,816 --> 00:22:43,778 I didn't feel like eating dinner when I left and I didn't feel like a show. 334 00:22:43,904 --> 00:22:47,531 So I drove home, put the car away and went up to my apartment. 335 00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:51,660 It had begun to rain outside and I watched it get dark 336 00:22:51,787 --> 00:22:54,080 and didn't even turn on the light. 337 00:22:54,206 --> 00:22:55,998 That didn't help me, either. 338 00:22:56,124 --> 00:23:00,669 I was all twisted up inside and I was still holding on to that red-hot poker. 339 00:23:00,796 --> 00:23:04,673 And right then it came over me that I hadn't walked out on anything at all. 340 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,051 That the hook was too strong. 341 00:23:07,177 --> 00:23:11,013 That this wasn't the end between her and me. It was only the beginning. 342 00:23:11,139 --> 00:23:12,640 (Door bell rings) 343 00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:17,269 So at 8:00 the bell would ring and I'd know who it was without even having to think. 344 00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:20,147 As if it was the most natural thing in the world. 345 00:23:23,735 --> 00:23:25,361 Hello. 346 00:23:25,487 --> 00:23:27,571 You forgot your hat this afternoon. 347 00:23:27,697 --> 00:23:28,739 Did I? 348 00:23:28,865 --> 00:23:32,410 - Don't you want me to bring it in? - Sure. 349 00:23:33,787 --> 00:23:35,663 Put it on the chair. 350 00:23:44,047 --> 00:23:47,383 - How do you know where I live? - It's in the phone book. 351 00:23:47,509 --> 00:23:50,177 - It's raining. - Yeah. 352 00:23:50,303 --> 00:23:52,388 Peel off your coat and sit down. 353 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:56,934 - Your husband out? - Yes. Long Beach. 354 00:23:57,060 --> 00:24:01,272 They're spudding in a new well. He phoned he'd be late, about 9:30. 355 00:24:01,398 --> 00:24:03,399 It's about time you said you were glad to see me. 356 00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:05,401 I knew you wouldn't leave it like that. 357 00:24:05,527 --> 00:24:08,154 - Like what? - Like it was this afternoon. 358 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,740 I must have said something that gave you a terribly wrong impression. 359 00:24:11,867 --> 00:24:14,285 You must never think anything like that about me, Walter. 360 00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:16,036 - OK. - No, it's not OK. 361 00:24:16,163 --> 00:24:18,789 - Not if you don't believe me. - What do you want me to do? 362 00:24:20,125 --> 00:24:22,585 I want you to be nice to me. 363 00:24:22,711 --> 00:24:25,087 Like the first time you came to the house. 364 00:24:25,213 --> 00:24:27,339 It can't be like the first time. 365 00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:30,926 - Something's happened. - I know it has. 366 00:24:31,052 --> 00:24:32,470 It's happened to us. 367 00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:40,394 I feel as if he was watching me. Not that he cares, not any more. 368 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,439 He keeps me on a leash so tight I can't breathe. 369 00:24:43,565 --> 00:24:45,316 He's in Long Beach, isn't he? 370 00:24:45,442 --> 00:24:46,609 Relax. 371 00:24:46,735 --> 00:24:48,694 Maybe I oughtn't to have come. 372 00:24:48,820 --> 00:24:51,447 - Maybe you oughtn't. - You want me to go? 373 00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:53,824 - If you want to. - Right now? 374 00:24:53,950 --> 00:24:55,576 Sure, right now. 375 00:25:11,551 --> 00:25:14,887 - I'm crazy about you, baby. - I'm crazy about you, Walter. 376 00:25:15,013 --> 00:25:17,890 That perfume on your hair. What's the name of it? 377 00:25:18,016 --> 00:25:20,726 I don't know. I bought it in Ensenada. 378 00:25:21,811 --> 00:25:23,646 You ought to have some pink wine to go with it. 379 00:25:23,772 --> 00:25:26,982 The kind that bubbles. All I got is bourbon. 380 00:25:28,151 --> 00:25:30,236 Bourbon is fine, Walter. 381 00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:38,911 Get a couple of glasses, will you? 382 00:25:46,419 --> 00:25:48,504 - Club soda? - Plain water, please. 383 00:25:50,173 --> 00:25:52,841 About six months ago a guy slipped on a cake of soap in his bathtub 384 00:25:52,968 --> 00:25:55,594 and knocked himself cold and was drowned. 385 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,388 Only he had accident insurance. 386 00:25:57,514 --> 00:26:00,516 So they had an autopsy and she didn't get away with it. 387 00:26:00,642 --> 00:26:03,435 - Who didn't? - His wife. 388 00:26:04,813 --> 00:26:07,231 Then there was a case of a guy who was found shot. 389 00:26:07,357 --> 00:26:11,235 His wife said he was cleaning a gun and his stomach got in the way. 390 00:26:11,361 --> 00:26:15,072 All she collected was a three-to-ten stretch in Tehachapi. 391 00:26:15,198 --> 00:26:17,491 Perhaps it was worth it to her. 392 00:26:19,619 --> 00:26:22,246 See if you can carry that as far as the living room. 393 00:26:25,792 --> 00:26:28,919 It's nice here, Walter. Who takes care of it for you? 394 00:26:29,045 --> 00:26:31,672 A coloured woman comes in a couple of times a week. 395 00:26:31,798 --> 00:26:34,633 - Cook your own breakfast? - Squeeze a grapefruit once in a while. 396 00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:37,761 - Get the rest down at the corner drugstore. - Sounds wonderful. 397 00:26:37,887 --> 00:26:40,097 Just strangers beside you. 398 00:26:40,223 --> 00:26:42,641 You don't know them and you don't hate them. 399 00:26:42,767 --> 00:26:44,268 You don't have to sit across the table 400 00:26:44,394 --> 00:26:47,313 and smile at him and that daughter of his every morning of your life. 401 00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:50,482 What daughter? Oh, you mean the little girl on the piano? 402 00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:52,860 Mm, Lola. She lives with us. 403 00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:55,654 He thinks a lot more of her than he does of me. 404 00:26:55,780 --> 00:26:58,324 - You ever think of a divorce? - He wouldn't give me a divorce. 405 00:26:58,450 --> 00:26:59,825 It'd cost him too much money. 406 00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:02,411 He hasn't got any money since he went into the oil business. 407 00:27:02,537 --> 00:27:04,663 But he had when you married him? 408 00:27:04,789 --> 00:27:07,458 Yes, he had, and I wanted a home. 409 00:27:08,376 --> 00:27:10,002 Why not? 410 00:27:10,128 --> 00:27:13,297 But that's not the only reason. I was his wife's nurse. 411 00:27:13,423 --> 00:27:17,176 She was sick a long time. When she died, he was terribly broken up. 412 00:27:18,261 --> 00:27:20,638 - I pitied him so. - And now you hate him. 413 00:27:20,764 --> 00:27:23,807 Yes, Walter. He's so mean to me. 414 00:27:23,933 --> 00:27:26,477 Every time I buy a dress or a pair of shoes he yells his head off. 415 00:27:26,603 --> 00:27:30,356 He never lets me go anywhere. He keeps me shut up. 416 00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:34,860 Even his life insurance all goes to that daughter of his. 417 00:27:34,986 --> 00:27:37,363 - That Lola. - Nothing for you at all? 418 00:27:37,489 --> 00:27:40,491 No. And nothing is just what I'm worth to him. 419 00:27:40,617 --> 00:27:44,244 So you lie awake in the dark and listen to him snore and get ideas. 420 00:27:44,371 --> 00:27:47,873 Walter, I don't want to kill him. I never did. 421 00:27:47,999 --> 00:27:50,542 Not even when he gets drunk and slaps my face. 422 00:27:53,630 --> 00:27:56,674 - Only sometimes you wish he was dead. - Perhaps I do. 423 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,761 And you wish it was an accident and you had that policy for $50,000. 424 00:28:00,887 --> 00:28:02,805 - Is that it? - Perhaps that, too. 425 00:28:05,183 --> 00:28:08,519 The other night we drove home from a party. He was drunk again. 426 00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:10,562 When we drove into the garage he just sat there 427 00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:14,233 with his head on the steering wheel and the motor still running. 428 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,612 And I thought what it would be like if I didn't switch it off, 429 00:28:18,738 --> 00:28:21,156 just closed the garage doors and left him there. 430 00:28:21,282 --> 00:28:22,700 I'll tell you what it would be like 431 00:28:22,826 --> 00:28:25,285 if you had that accident policy and pulled a monoxide job. 432 00:28:25,412 --> 00:28:27,579 We've got a guy in our office named Keyes. 433 00:28:27,706 --> 00:28:30,290 For him a set-up like that would be like a slice of rare roast beef. 434 00:28:30,417 --> 00:28:32,167 In three minutes he'd know it wasn't an accident. 435 00:28:32,293 --> 00:28:34,628 In ten minutes you'd be sitting under the hot lights. 436 00:28:34,754 --> 00:28:36,880 In a half-hour you'd be signing a confession. 437 00:28:37,006 --> 00:28:39,049 But, Walter, I didn't do it and I'm not going to do it. 438 00:28:39,175 --> 00:28:41,176 Not if there's an insurance company in the picture. 439 00:28:41,302 --> 00:28:43,262 They know more tricks than a carload of monkeys. 440 00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:45,764 And if there's a death mixed up in it, you haven't got a prayer. 441 00:28:45,890 --> 00:28:49,351 They'll hang you just as sure as ten dimes will buy a dollar. 442 00:28:49,477 --> 00:28:51,854 And I don't want you to hang, baby. 443 00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:56,358 Stop thinking about it, will you? 444 00:28:59,904 --> 00:29:01,739 (Neff) So we just sat there. 445 00:29:01,865 --> 00:29:04,324 She started crying softly, like the rain on the window, 446 00:29:04,451 --> 00:29:06,201 and we didn't say anything. 447 00:29:06,327 --> 00:29:09,747 Maybe she had stopped thinking about it, but I hadn't. 448 00:29:09,873 --> 00:29:14,084 I couldn't. It all tied up with something I'd been thinking about for years. 449 00:29:14,210 --> 00:29:17,671 Since long before I ever ran into Phyllis Dietrichson. 450 00:29:17,797 --> 00:29:20,132 You know how it is, Keyes. 451 00:29:20,258 --> 00:29:24,136 In this business you can't sleep for trying to figure out all the tricks they could pull. 452 00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:25,763 You're like the guy behind the roulette wheel, 453 00:29:25,889 --> 00:29:29,391 watching the customers to make sure they don't crook the house. 454 00:29:29,517 --> 00:29:32,936 And then one night, you get to thinking how you could crook the house yourself. 455 00:29:33,062 --> 00:29:34,521 And do it smart. 456 00:29:34,647 --> 00:29:36,648 You've got that wheel right under your hands. 457 00:29:36,775 --> 00:29:39,067 You know every notch in it by heart. 458 00:29:39,194 --> 00:29:42,029 And you figure all you need is a plant out front. 459 00:29:42,155 --> 00:29:44,448 A shill to put down the bet. 460 00:29:44,574 --> 00:29:45,991 Suddenly the doorbell rings 461 00:29:46,117 --> 00:29:48,911 and the whole set-up is right there in the room with you. 462 00:29:52,373 --> 00:29:55,459 Look, Keyes, I'm not trying to whitewash myself. 463 00:29:56,419 --> 00:30:00,297 I fought it, only I guess I didn't fight it hard enough. 464 00:30:01,508 --> 00:30:05,219 The stakes were $50,000, but they were the life of a man, too. 465 00:30:06,137 --> 00:30:08,305 A man who'd never done me any dirt, except... 466 00:30:09,307 --> 00:30:12,434 He was married to a woman he didn't care anything about. 467 00:30:13,478 --> 00:30:15,395 And I did. 468 00:30:26,908 --> 00:30:28,325 Will you phone me? 469 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,702 Walter? 470 00:30:32,747 --> 00:30:35,582 I hate him. I loathe going back to him. 471 00:30:35,708 --> 00:30:38,377 - You believe me, don't you, Walter? - Sure I believe you. 472 00:30:41,381 --> 00:30:44,132 I can't stand it any more. What if they did hang me? 473 00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:46,635 They're not going to hang you, baby. 474 00:30:46,761 --> 00:30:48,387 It's better than going on this way. 475 00:30:48,513 --> 00:30:50,764 You're gonna do it and I'm gonna help you. 476 00:30:51,641 --> 00:30:54,226 - Do you know what you're saying? - Sure, I know what I'm saying. 477 00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:55,853 We're gonna do it right. 478 00:30:55,979 --> 00:30:58,856 - And I'm the guy that knows how. - Walter, you're hurting me. 479 00:30:58,982 --> 00:31:01,942 There's not going to be any slip-up. Nothing sloppy, nothing weak. 480 00:31:02,068 --> 00:31:04,027 It's got to be perfect. 481 00:31:16,499 --> 00:31:18,959 Call me tomorrow. But not from your house, from a booth. 482 00:31:19,085 --> 00:31:20,919 And watch your step every single minute. 483 00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:24,756 This has got to be perfect, straight down the line. 484 00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:27,384 Straight down the line. 485 00:31:58,875 --> 00:32:01,209 (Car door closes and engine starts) 486 00:32:10,011 --> 00:32:11,803 (Neff) That was it, Keyes. 487 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:14,431 The machinery had started to move and nothing could stop it. 488 00:32:15,433 --> 00:32:19,269 The first thing we had to do was fix him up with that accident policy. 489 00:32:19,395 --> 00:32:23,607 I knew he wouldn't buy, but all I wanted was his signature on an application. 490 00:32:23,733 --> 00:32:27,819 So I had to get him to sign without his knowing what he was signing. 491 00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:32,574 I wanted another witness besides Phyllis to hear me give him a sales talk. 492 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:36,870 I was trying to think with your brains. I wanted all the answers ready for all... 493 00:32:36,996 --> 00:32:41,249 all the questions you were gonna spring as soon as Dietrichson was dead. 494 00:32:41,376 --> 00:32:43,460 A couple of nights later I went to the house. 495 00:32:44,504 --> 00:32:48,799 Everything looked fine, except I didn't like the witness Phyllis had brought in. 496 00:32:48,925 --> 00:32:51,051 It was Dietrichson's daughter, Lola. 497 00:32:52,053 --> 00:32:54,638 And it made me feel a little queer in the belly to... 498 00:32:54,764 --> 00:32:57,349 have her sitting right there in the room, playing Chinese checkers... 499 00:32:58,893 --> 00:33:01,103 ...as if nothing were going to happen. 500 00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:05,357 (Neff) You realise, Mr Dietrichson, that, not being an employee, 501 00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:08,276 you are not covered by the State Compensation Insurance Act. 502 00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:11,113 The only way to protect yourself is by having a policy of your own. 503 00:33:11,239 --> 00:33:13,532 I know all about that. The next thing you'll tell me I need 504 00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:17,202 earthquake insurance and lightning insurance and hail insurance. 505 00:33:17,328 --> 00:33:19,121 If we bought all the insurance they think up 506 00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:20,914 we'd stay broke paying for it. 507 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,918 What keeps us broke is you going out and buying five hats at a crack. 508 00:33:25,044 --> 00:33:26,920 Who needs a hat in California? 509 00:33:27,046 --> 00:33:28,505 Dollar for dollar, Mr Dietrichson 510 00:33:28,631 --> 00:33:30,924 accident insurance is the cheapest coverage you can buy. 511 00:33:31,050 --> 00:33:33,969 Well, maybe some other time, Mr Neff. I had a tough day. 512 00:33:34,095 --> 00:33:35,137 Just as you say. 513 00:33:35,263 --> 00:33:37,806 Suppose we just settle that automobile insurance tonight. 514 00:33:37,932 --> 00:33:39,349 Sure. 515 00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:42,602 All we'll need is for you to sign the application for renewal. 516 00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:44,813 Phyllis, do you mind if we don't finish this game? 517 00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:47,274 - It bores me stiff. - Got something better to do? 518 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,151 Yes, I have. 519 00:33:49,986 --> 00:33:51,778 Father, is it all right if I run along now? 520 00:33:51,904 --> 00:33:54,990 - Run along where? Who with? - Just Anne. We're going roller-skating. 521 00:33:55,116 --> 00:33:56,742 - Anne who? - Anne Matthews. 522 00:33:56,868 --> 00:33:58,577 It's not that Nino Zachetti again, is it? 523 00:33:58,703 --> 00:34:01,496 It better not be that Zachetti guy. If I ever catch you with that... 524 00:34:01,622 --> 00:34:03,248 It's Anne Matthews, I told you. 525 00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:05,375 And I also told you we're going roller-skating. 526 00:34:05,501 --> 00:34:08,420 I'm meeting her at the northwest corner of Vermont and Franklin, 527 00:34:08,546 --> 00:34:10,672 and I'm late already. 528 00:34:10,798 --> 00:34:12,424 I hope that's all quite clear. 529 00:34:12,550 --> 00:34:13,675 Good night, Father. 530 00:34:13,801 --> 00:34:15,969 - Good night, Phyllis. - Good night, Miss Dietrichson. 531 00:34:16,095 --> 00:34:18,180 - I'm sorry. Good night, Mr... - Neff. 532 00:34:18,306 --> 00:34:19,890 Good night, Mr Neff. 533 00:34:22,977 --> 00:34:25,228 A great little fighter for her weight. 534 00:34:26,272 --> 00:34:29,066 - Now, if you'll just sign these. - Sign what? 535 00:34:29,192 --> 00:34:32,694 The auto renewals so you'll be covered until the new policies are issued. 536 00:34:32,820 --> 00:34:34,529 - When will that be? - About a week. 537 00:34:34,655 --> 00:34:36,531 Just so I'm covered when I drive up north. 538 00:34:36,657 --> 00:34:38,325 - San Francisco? - Palo Alto. 539 00:34:38,451 --> 00:34:40,285 He was a Stanford man, Mr Neff. 540 00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:42,829 And he still goes to his class reunion every year. 541 00:34:42,955 --> 00:34:46,416 What's wrong with that? Can't I have a little fun once a year? 542 00:34:46,542 --> 00:34:49,252 Great football school, Stanford. Did you play football? 543 00:34:49,378 --> 00:34:51,338 Left guard. Almost made the varsity, too. 544 00:34:51,464 --> 00:34:53,799 - Where do I sign? - The bottom line. 545 00:34:57,887 --> 00:35:00,055 - Both copies, please. - Sign twice, huh? 546 00:35:00,181 --> 00:35:02,432 Yes. One is the agent's copy. I need it for my files. 547 00:35:02,558 --> 00:35:05,560 Files, duplicates, triplicates. 548 00:35:11,275 --> 00:35:12,651 Thank you, Mr Dietrichson. 549 00:35:12,777 --> 00:35:15,237 Don't worry about the cheque. I can pick it up at your office. 550 00:35:15,363 --> 00:35:17,864 - How much are you taking me for? - $147.50. 551 00:35:17,990 --> 00:35:20,575 I think that's enough insurance for one evening, Mr Neff. 552 00:35:20,701 --> 00:35:22,244 Plenty. 553 00:35:25,873 --> 00:35:27,958 Bring me some soda when you come up, Phyllis. 554 00:35:28,084 --> 00:35:29,584 - Good night, Mr Neff. - Good night. 555 00:35:29,710 --> 00:35:32,337 I think you left your hat in the hall, Mr Neff. 556 00:35:47,562 --> 00:35:49,563 Good night, Mr Neff. 557 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:53,441 - All right, Walter? - Fine. 558 00:35:53,568 --> 00:35:55,485 - He signed it, didn't he? - You saw him. 559 00:35:55,611 --> 00:35:57,988 - That trip to Palo Alto, when does he leave? - End of the month. 560 00:35:58,114 --> 00:35:59,739 - He drives, huh? - He always drives. 561 00:35:59,866 --> 00:36:02,659 You're gonna make him take the train. It's all worked out for a train. 562 00:36:02,785 --> 00:36:05,203 Listen, there's a clause in every accident policy, 563 00:36:05,329 --> 00:36:07,164 a little thing called double indemnity. 564 00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:10,083 The insurance companies put it in as a come-on for the customers. 565 00:36:10,209 --> 00:36:12,377 That means they pay double on certain accidents. 566 00:36:12,503 --> 00:36:14,212 The kind that almost never happen. 567 00:36:14,338 --> 00:36:16,631 Like, for instance, if a guy is killed on the train 568 00:36:16,757 --> 00:36:18,675 they pay $100,000 instead of $50,000. 569 00:36:18,801 --> 00:36:21,553 - I see. - We're hitting it for the limit, baby. 570 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:24,139 That's why it's got to be the train. 571 00:36:25,683 --> 00:36:28,351 It will be the train, Walter, just the way you want it. 572 00:36:28,477 --> 00:36:30,478 Straight down the line. 573 00:36:49,916 --> 00:36:51,499 (Lola) Hello, Mr Neff. 574 00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:54,669 It's me. 575 00:36:54,795 --> 00:36:57,088 - Is anything wrong? - I've been waiting for you. 576 00:36:57,215 --> 00:36:58,340 For me? Why? 577 00:36:58,466 --> 00:37:01,843 I thought you could let me ride with you if you're going my way. 578 00:37:01,969 --> 00:37:03,595 Oh. 579 00:37:06,849 --> 00:37:10,310 - Which way would that be? - Down the hill, down Vermont. 580 00:37:10,436 --> 00:37:13,063 Sure. Vermont and Franklin. Northwest corner, wasn't it? 581 00:37:13,189 --> 00:37:14,481 Be glad to. 582 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,238 Going roller-skating, huh? 583 00:37:21,364 --> 00:37:24,824 - Do you like roller-skating? - I can take it or leave it. 584 00:37:25,993 --> 00:37:29,162 - Only tonight you're leaving it? - Yes, I am. 585 00:37:30,289 --> 00:37:32,832 I'm having a very tough time at home. 586 00:37:32,959 --> 00:37:36,586 My father doesn't understand me and Phyllis hates me. 587 00:37:36,712 --> 00:37:40,215 - Sounds tough, all right. - That's why I have to lie sometimes. 588 00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:43,635 - You mean it's not Vermont and Franklin? - It's Vermont and Franklin all right. 589 00:37:43,761 --> 00:37:46,012 Only it's not Anne Matthews. 590 00:37:46,138 --> 00:37:48,014 It's Nino Zachetti. 591 00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:50,976 - You won't tell on me, will you? - I'd have to think it over. 592 00:37:51,102 --> 00:37:52,894 Nino's not what my father says at all. 593 00:37:53,020 --> 00:37:55,981 He's just had bad luck. He was doing pre-med at USC 594 00:37:56,107 --> 00:37:58,984 and working nights as an usher in a theatre downtown. 595 00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:01,945 Got behind in his credits, flunked out. 596 00:38:02,071 --> 00:38:05,031 Then he lost his job for talking back. 597 00:38:05,157 --> 00:38:08,368 - He's so hot-headed. - Becomes expensive, doesn't it? 598 00:38:08,494 --> 00:38:10,912 I guess my father thinks nobody's good enough for his daughter, 599 00:38:11,038 --> 00:38:13,206 except maybe the guy that owns Standard Oil. 600 00:38:13,332 --> 00:38:15,917 I wish he'd see it my way. 601 00:38:16,043 --> 00:38:18,503 I can't give Nino up. 602 00:38:18,629 --> 00:38:20,547 It'll all straighten out, Miss Dietrichson. 603 00:38:20,673 --> 00:38:22,674 I suppose it will sometime. 604 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,343 This is the corner right here, Mr Neff. 605 00:38:27,388 --> 00:38:30,432 (Lola) Nino? Over here, Nino. 606 00:38:38,858 --> 00:38:41,443 - This is Mr Neff, Nino. - Hello, Nino. 607 00:38:41,569 --> 00:38:44,154 - The name is Zachetti. - Nino, please. 608 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,948 Mr Neff gave me a ride from the house. I told him all about us. 609 00:38:47,074 --> 00:38:50,452 - Why does he have to get told about us? - We don't have to worry about Mr Neff. 610 00:38:50,578 --> 00:38:53,455 I'm not doing any worrying. Just don't you broadcast so much. 611 00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:55,081 What's the matter with you, Nino? 612 00:38:55,207 --> 00:38:57,709 - Why, he's a friend. - I don't have any friends. 613 00:38:57,835 --> 00:39:00,128 If I did, I like to pick them myself. Come on. 614 00:39:00,254 --> 00:39:02,589 Look, sonny, she needed a ride so I brought her along. 615 00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:04,924 Is that anything to get tough about? 616 00:39:05,051 --> 00:39:07,260 Lola, make up your mind. Are you coming or aren't you? 617 00:39:07,386 --> 00:39:09,304 Of course I'm coming. 618 00:39:11,849 --> 00:39:13,350 Don't mind him, Mr Neff. 619 00:39:13,476 --> 00:39:16,144 Thanks a lot for the ride. You're awfully sweet. 620 00:39:16,270 --> 00:39:17,270 Nino? 621 00:39:22,902 --> 00:39:24,778 (Neff) She was a nice kid. 622 00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:27,822 Maybe he was a little better than he sounded. 623 00:39:27,948 --> 00:39:31,284 But right then it gave me a nasty feeling to be thinking about them at all 624 00:39:31,410 --> 00:39:34,996 with that briefcase right behind my head that had her father's signature in it 625 00:39:35,122 --> 00:39:37,290 and what that signature meant. 626 00:39:37,416 --> 00:39:39,751 It meant he was a dead pigeon. 627 00:39:39,877 --> 00:39:43,546 It was only a question of time, and not very much time at that. 628 00:39:43,672 --> 00:39:46,633 You know that big market up on Los Feliz, Keyes? 629 00:39:47,259 --> 00:39:50,637 That's the place Phyllis and I had picked for a meeting place. 630 00:39:50,763 --> 00:39:52,931 I already had most of the plan in my head 631 00:39:53,057 --> 00:39:55,350 but a lot of details had to be worked out. 632 00:39:55,476 --> 00:39:58,395 And she had to know them all by heart when the time came. 633 00:39:59,397 --> 00:40:01,940 We had to be very careful from now on. 634 00:40:02,066 --> 00:40:04,734 We couldn't let anybody see us together. 635 00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:07,695 We couldn't even talk to each other on the telephone. 636 00:40:07,822 --> 00:40:11,199 Not from her house or at my office, anyway. 637 00:40:11,325 --> 00:40:15,829 So she was to be in the market every morning about 11:00, buying stuff. 638 00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:19,332 And I could sort of run into her there any day I wanted to. 639 00:40:19,458 --> 00:40:21,292 Sort of accidentally on purpose. 640 00:40:22,586 --> 00:40:25,171 - Walter, I wanted to... - Not so loud. 641 00:40:26,632 --> 00:40:28,258 I wanted to talk to you since yesterday. 642 00:40:28,384 --> 00:40:30,468 Let me talk first. It's all set. 643 00:40:30,594 --> 00:40:32,887 The accident policy came through. I've got it in my pocket. 644 00:40:33,013 --> 00:40:35,932 I got his cheque, too. I saw him down in the oil fields. 645 00:40:36,058 --> 00:40:38,101 He thought he was paying for the auto insurance. 646 00:40:38,227 --> 00:40:41,104 The cheque's made out to the company so it could be for anything. 647 00:40:41,230 --> 00:40:43,940 But you have to send a cheque for the auto insurance, see? 648 00:40:44,066 --> 00:40:47,026 It will be all right that way because one of the cars is in your name. 649 00:40:47,153 --> 00:40:48,778 Open your bag, quick. 650 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,703 - Can you get in the safe-deposit box? - Yes. We both have keys. 651 00:40:56,829 --> 00:41:00,039 Fine, but don't put the policy in there yet. I'll tell you when. 652 00:41:00,166 --> 00:41:02,333 Remember, you never saw it. Do you understand? 653 00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:05,336 - I'm not a fool. - OK. When is he leaving on the train? 654 00:41:05,463 --> 00:41:06,880 That's just it. He isn't going. 655 00:41:07,006 --> 00:41:08,965 That's what I've been trying to tell you. 656 00:41:09,091 --> 00:41:10,717 What happened? 657 00:41:12,344 --> 00:41:15,138 Mister, could you reach me that package of baby food, 658 00:41:15,264 --> 00:41:17,015 that one up there? 659 00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:21,311 I don't know why they always put what I want on the top shelf. 660 00:41:24,607 --> 00:41:26,608 - I'm listening. - He had a fall-down at the well. 661 00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:29,110 - Broke his leg. It's in a cast. - Broke his leg? 662 00:41:29,236 --> 00:41:30,945 What do we do now, Walter? 663 00:41:31,071 --> 00:41:33,573 - Nothing. We just wait. - Wait for what? 664 00:41:33,699 --> 00:41:36,326 Until he can take the train. I told you it's got to be the train. 665 00:41:36,452 --> 00:41:38,203 But we can't wait. I can't go on like this. 666 00:41:38,329 --> 00:41:40,497 We're not gonna grab a hammer just to get it over with. 667 00:41:40,623 --> 00:41:43,708 - There are other ways. - We're not gonna do it other ways. 668 00:41:43,834 --> 00:41:47,378 What do you suppose would happen if he found out about the accident policy? 669 00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:50,089 Plenty. But not as bad as sitting in that death house. 670 00:41:50,216 --> 00:41:53,009 - Don't ever talk like that. - Don't let's start losing our heads. 671 00:41:53,135 --> 00:41:55,345 It's not our heads. It's our nerve we're losing. 672 00:41:59,266 --> 00:42:00,683 Excuse me. 673 00:42:03,437 --> 00:42:05,063 We're gonna do it right. That's all I said. 674 00:42:05,189 --> 00:42:08,358 - It's the waiting that's getting me. - It's getting me just as bad, baby. 675 00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:11,444 - But we've got to wait. - Maybe we have, Walter, only... 676 00:42:11,570 --> 00:42:15,031 it's so tough without you. It's like a wall between us. 677 00:42:16,867 --> 00:42:20,161 I better go, baby. I'm thinking of you every minute. 678 00:42:26,210 --> 00:42:29,754 (Neff) After that, a full week went by and I didn't see her once. 679 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:33,341 I tried to keep my mind off her and off the whole idea. 680 00:42:33,467 --> 00:42:36,052 I kept telling myself maybe those Fates they say watch over you 681 00:42:36,178 --> 00:42:40,098 had gotten together and broken his leg to give me a way out. 682 00:42:40,224 --> 00:42:44,686 Then it was 15 June. You may remember that date, Keyes. 683 00:42:45,604 --> 00:42:48,439 You came into my office around three in the afternoon. 684 00:42:49,608 --> 00:42:52,151 - Hello, Keyes. - I just came from Norton's office. 685 00:42:52,278 --> 00:42:54,821 The semi-annual sales records are out. You're high man, Walter. 686 00:42:54,947 --> 00:42:56,656 That's twice in a row. Congratulations. 687 00:42:56,782 --> 00:42:59,367 Thanks. How would you like a cheap drink? 688 00:42:59,493 --> 00:43:03,538 - How would you like a $50 cut in salary? - Do I laugh now or wait till it gets funny? 689 00:43:03,664 --> 00:43:05,957 I'm serious. I've just been talking to Norton. 690 00:43:06,083 --> 00:43:09,168 Too much stuff piling up on my desk, too much pressure on my nerves. 691 00:43:09,295 --> 00:43:11,296 I spend half the night walking up and down in my bed. 692 00:43:11,422 --> 00:43:14,549 - I need an assistant and I thought of you. - Me? Why pick on me? 693 00:43:14,675 --> 00:43:17,051 Because I've got a crazy idea you might be good at the job. 694 00:43:17,177 --> 00:43:20,221 - That's crazy, all right. I'm a salesman. - Yeah, a peddler. 695 00:43:20,347 --> 00:43:23,808 A glad-hander, a backslapper. You're too good to be a salesman. 696 00:43:23,934 --> 00:43:25,768 - Nobody's too good to be a salesman. - Oh, phooey! 697 00:43:25,894 --> 00:43:29,522 All you guys do is just ring doorbells and dish out a smooth line of monkey talk. 698 00:43:29,648 --> 00:43:32,942 - What's troubling you is that $50 cut. - Well, that would trouble anybody. 699 00:43:33,068 --> 00:43:36,321 The job I'm talking about takes brains and integrity. 700 00:43:36,447 --> 00:43:39,449 It takes more guts than in 50 salesmen. It's the hottest job in the business. 701 00:43:39,575 --> 00:43:41,784 It's still a desk job. I don't want to be nailed to a desk. 702 00:43:41,910 --> 00:43:44,662 Desk job? Is that all you can see in it? 703 00:43:44,788 --> 00:43:47,665 Just a hard chair to park your pants on from nine to five, huh? 704 00:43:47,791 --> 00:43:50,752 Just a pile of papers to shuffle around and five sharp pencils 705 00:43:50,878 --> 00:43:54,922 and a scratch pad to make figures on, maybe a little doodling on the side. 706 00:43:55,049 --> 00:43:57,050 Well, that's not the way I look at it, Walter. 707 00:43:57,176 --> 00:44:01,387 To me, a claims man is a surgeon, that desk is an operating table 708 00:44:01,513 --> 00:44:04,098 and those pencils are scalpels and bone chisels. 709 00:44:04,224 --> 00:44:07,977 And those papers are not just forms and statistics and claims for compensation. 710 00:44:08,103 --> 00:44:09,646 They're alive. 711 00:44:09,772 --> 00:44:13,691 They're packed with drama, with twisted hopes and crooked dreams. 712 00:44:13,817 --> 00:44:16,277 A claims man, Walter, is a... He's a doctor. 713 00:44:16,403 --> 00:44:19,364 - He's a bloodhound and a... - (Telephone rings) 714 00:44:19,490 --> 00:44:21,741 Who? OK, hold on a minute. 715 00:44:21,867 --> 00:44:24,994 A claims man is a doctor and a bloodhound and a cop and a judge and a jury 716 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,038 and a father confessor, all in one. 717 00:44:27,164 --> 00:44:29,290 You don't want to work with your brains 718 00:44:29,416 --> 00:44:32,627 but with your finger on the doorbell for a few bucks more a week. 719 00:44:32,753 --> 00:44:35,421 There's a dame on your phone. 720 00:44:35,547 --> 00:44:37,924 - Walter Neff speaking. - I had to call you, Walter. 721 00:44:38,050 --> 00:44:39,717 It's very urgent. Are you with somebody? 722 00:44:41,011 --> 00:44:44,639 Yes, I am. Can't I call you back, Margie? 723 00:44:44,765 --> 00:44:47,809 No, you can't. I've only got a minute. It can't wait. 724 00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:52,021 Listen. He's going tonight, on the train. Are you listening, Walter? 725 00:44:52,147 --> 00:44:54,649 Yeah. I'm listening, Margie. 726 00:44:54,775 --> 00:44:56,401 Only, make it snappy, will you? 727 00:44:56,527 --> 00:45:00,405 He's on crutches. The doctor says the change will do him good. 728 00:45:00,531 --> 00:45:03,282 It's wonderful, Walter. Just the way you wanted it, on a train. 729 00:45:03,409 --> 00:45:05,702 Only, with the crutches, that makes it much better. 730 00:45:05,828 --> 00:45:07,453 Yeah. 731 00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:09,122 Yeah, that's 100% better. 732 00:45:10,124 --> 00:45:13,209 Hold the line a moment, will you? Keyes, suppose I join you in your office? 733 00:45:13,335 --> 00:45:16,337 That's all right. I'll wait. Only tell her not to take all day. 734 00:45:18,966 --> 00:45:19,966 Go ahead. 735 00:45:20,092 --> 00:45:22,969 It's the 10:15 from Glendale. I'm driving him. 736 00:45:23,095 --> 00:45:24,929 It's still the same dark street, isn't it? 737 00:45:25,055 --> 00:45:27,432 And the signal is three honks on the horn? 738 00:45:27,558 --> 00:45:30,393 - OK. Anything else? - No. 739 00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:33,771 Oh... what colour did you pick? 740 00:45:33,897 --> 00:45:36,858 Blue, navy blue. And the cast is on his left leg. 741 00:45:36,984 --> 00:45:38,651 Mmm-hmm. 742 00:45:38,777 --> 00:45:40,236 Yeah, that suits me fine. 743 00:45:40,362 --> 00:45:42,822 This is it, Walter. I'm shaking like a leaf. 744 00:45:42,948 --> 00:45:45,908 But it's straight down the line for both of us. 745 00:45:46,034 --> 00:45:48,244 I love you, Walter. Goodbye. 746 00:45:50,330 --> 00:45:52,123 - Sorry, Keyes. - What's the matter? 747 00:45:52,249 --> 00:45:54,917 Dames chasing you again, or still? Or is it none of my business? 748 00:45:55,043 --> 00:45:56,919 - If I told you it was a customer... - Margie. 749 00:45:57,045 --> 00:45:59,172 I bet she drinks from the bottle. 750 00:45:59,298 --> 00:46:01,007 Why don't you settle down and get married? 751 00:46:01,133 --> 00:46:05,136 - Why don't you, for instance? - I almost did, once, long time ago. 752 00:46:05,262 --> 00:46:07,013 Now look, I've got to call on a prospect. 753 00:46:07,139 --> 00:46:09,557 Even had the church picked out, the dame and I. 754 00:46:09,683 --> 00:46:11,809 She had a white satin dress with flounces on it. 755 00:46:11,935 --> 00:46:14,729 I was on my way to the jewellery store to buy the ring. 756 00:46:14,855 --> 00:46:17,398 Then suddenly that little man in here started working on me. 757 00:46:17,524 --> 00:46:19,192 So you went back and had her investigated? 758 00:46:19,318 --> 00:46:21,736 Yeah. And the stuff that came out... 759 00:46:22,696 --> 00:46:24,906 She'd been dyeing her hair ever since she was 16. 760 00:46:25,032 --> 00:46:27,533 There was a manic depressive in her family on her mother's side. 761 00:46:27,659 --> 00:46:29,243 She already had one husband. 762 00:46:29,369 --> 00:46:31,454 He was a professional pool player in Baltimore. 763 00:46:31,580 --> 00:46:33,581 - And as for her brother... - I get the general idea. 764 00:46:33,707 --> 00:46:35,541 She was a tramp from a long line of tramps. 765 00:46:35,667 --> 00:46:37,084 Yeah. All right, all right. 766 00:46:37,211 --> 00:46:40,046 Now what do I say to Norton? What about this job I want you for? 767 00:46:40,172 --> 00:46:41,756 I don't think I want it, Keyes. 768 00:46:41,882 --> 00:46:45,218 - Thanks just the same. - Well, fair enough. 769 00:46:45,344 --> 00:46:46,844 Only get this. 770 00:46:46,970 --> 00:46:49,764 I picked you for the job not because I think you're so darn smart 771 00:46:49,890 --> 00:46:53,226 but because you're a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. 772 00:47:00,317 --> 00:47:01,776 I guess I was wrong. 773 00:47:01,902 --> 00:47:05,196 You're not smarter, Walter. You're just a little taller. 774 00:47:16,542 --> 00:47:18,084 (Neff) Yes, Keyes. 775 00:47:18,210 --> 00:47:21,587 Those Fates I was talking about had only been stalling me off. 776 00:47:21,713 --> 00:47:25,174 Now they had thrown the switch. The gears had meshed. 777 00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:28,511 The time for thinking had all run out. 778 00:47:28,637 --> 00:47:32,348 I wanted my movements accounted for up to the last possible moment. 779 00:47:32,474 --> 00:47:34,475 So when I left the office I put my rate book on the desk 780 00:47:34,601 --> 00:47:36,394 as if I had forgotten it. 781 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,813 That was part of my alibi. 782 00:47:40,148 --> 00:47:43,985 From here on, it was a question of following the timetable move by move. 783 00:47:45,696 --> 00:47:48,739 I got home about seven and drove right into the garage. 784 00:47:48,866 --> 00:47:51,951 This was another item to establish my alibi. 785 00:47:53,161 --> 00:47:54,245 Hiya, Mr Neff. 786 00:47:54,371 --> 00:47:57,582 Hello, Charlie. How about giving the heap a wash job? 787 00:47:57,708 --> 00:48:00,001 How soon are you gonna want it? I got a couple cars ahead of you. 788 00:48:00,127 --> 00:48:01,794 Any time you get to it, Charlie. 789 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,005 - I'm staying in tonight. - OK. 790 00:48:04,131 --> 00:48:06,007 (Neff) Up in my apartment I called Lou Schwartz, 791 00:48:06,133 --> 00:48:08,342 one of the salesmen that shared my office. 792 00:48:08,468 --> 00:48:12,096 He lived in Westwood so it was a toll call and there'd be a record of it. 793 00:48:12,222 --> 00:48:14,265 I told him I'd forgotten my rate book and needed dope 794 00:48:14,391 --> 00:48:16,475 on the public liability bond I was figuring. 795 00:48:17,477 --> 00:48:21,147 I changed into a navy blue suit like Dietrichson was going to wear. 796 00:48:21,273 --> 00:48:24,317 Lou Schwartz called me back and gave me a lot of figures. 797 00:48:24,443 --> 00:48:26,819 I stuffed a hand towel and a roll of adhesive into my pockets 798 00:48:26,945 --> 00:48:29,947 so I could fake something that looked like a cast on a broken leg. 799 00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:33,117 Next, I stuck a card inside the telephone box 800 00:48:33,243 --> 00:48:35,828 so that it would fall down if the bell rang. 801 00:48:35,954 --> 00:48:39,457 That way I'd know if anybody had called me while I was away. 802 00:48:39,583 --> 00:48:44,211 Then I did the same thing to the doorbell in case anybody came to see me. 803 00:48:44,338 --> 00:48:46,672 I left the apartment by the service stairs. 804 00:48:46,798 --> 00:48:48,883 Nobody saw me. 805 00:48:49,009 --> 00:48:52,219 I walked all the way from my apartment to the Dietrichson house. 806 00:48:52,346 --> 00:48:54,722 I didn't want to take the bus because there was the chance 807 00:48:54,848 --> 00:48:57,475 that someone might remember seeing me on it. 808 00:48:57,601 --> 00:48:59,644 I was being that careful. 809 00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:02,271 I could smell that honeysuckle again. 810 00:49:02,397 --> 00:49:05,650 Only it was even stronger now that it was night. 811 00:49:09,905 --> 00:49:13,491 I slid the garage door open as quietly as I could. 812 00:49:13,617 --> 00:49:16,619 She'd backed the sedan in, just the way I told her to. 813 00:49:16,745 --> 00:49:18,162 I'd figured it was safer that way 814 00:49:18,288 --> 00:49:21,332 in case he got into the car before she drove it out. 815 00:49:21,458 --> 00:49:23,709 I got into the back of the car. 816 00:49:23,835 --> 00:49:26,253 I lay there on the floor and waited. 817 00:49:26,380 --> 00:49:28,464 All the time I was thinking about that dark street 818 00:49:28,590 --> 00:49:31,300 on the way to the station where I was to do it 819 00:49:31,426 --> 00:49:34,053 and the three honks on the horn that were to be the signal. 820 00:49:34,179 --> 00:49:35,596 Ten minutes later they came down. 821 00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,432 - You all right, honey? - Yeah, I'm all right. 822 00:49:38,558 --> 00:49:40,977 I'll have the car out in a second. 823 00:50:17,806 --> 00:50:19,682 Take it easy, honey. We've got lots of time. 824 00:50:19,808 --> 00:50:20,975 Yeah. 825 00:50:40,454 --> 00:50:44,123 The doctor said if you get careless you might end up with a shorter leg. 826 00:50:44,249 --> 00:50:48,127 So what? I could break the other one and match them up again. 827 00:50:48,253 --> 00:50:50,755 It makes you feel pretty good to get away from me, doesn't it? 828 00:50:50,881 --> 00:50:53,799 It's only for four days. I'll be back Monday at the latest. 829 00:51:10,859 --> 00:51:14,236 This is not the right street. Why did you turn here? 830 00:51:16,198 --> 00:51:17,490 (Honks car horn) 831 00:51:17,616 --> 00:51:19,366 - (Honks horn) - What are you doing that for? 832 00:51:20,827 --> 00:51:23,537 - (Honks horn) - What are you honking the horn for? 833 00:51:23,663 --> 00:51:25,664 (Dietrichson grunts) 834 00:52:23,974 --> 00:52:25,808 You take care of the redcap and the conductor. 835 00:52:25,934 --> 00:52:28,269 - Don't worry. - Keep away from me as much as you can. 836 00:52:28,395 --> 00:52:30,771 - Tell them I don't want to be helped. - I said, don't worry. 837 00:52:30,897 --> 00:52:33,232 You start as soon as the train leaves. 838 00:52:33,358 --> 00:52:35,860 When you get to the refinery, turn off onto the dirt road. 839 00:52:35,986 --> 00:52:38,654 From there it's eight-tenths of a mile to the dump beside the tracks. 840 00:52:38,780 --> 00:52:40,781 - Remember. - I remember everything. 841 00:52:40,907 --> 00:52:42,783 No speeding. 842 00:52:42,909 --> 00:52:45,619 You don't want any cops stopping you with him in the back. 843 00:52:45,745 --> 00:52:48,080 Walter, we've been through all that so many times. 844 00:52:48,206 --> 00:52:50,374 When you leave the highway, turn off all your lights. 845 00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:54,336 I'll be back on the observation platform. I'll drop off as close to the spot as I can. 846 00:52:55,463 --> 00:52:58,632 Let the train pass, then dim your lights twice. 847 00:53:00,969 --> 00:53:03,888 - San Francisco train, lady? - Car 9, section 11. Just my husband. 848 00:53:04,014 --> 00:53:06,682 Car 9, section 11? This way please. 849 00:53:14,649 --> 00:53:16,442 Thank you. My husband doesn't like to be helped. 850 00:53:16,568 --> 00:53:18,652 Car number 8. Up there. 851 00:53:23,867 --> 00:53:26,619 Car 9, section 11. 852 00:53:26,745 --> 00:53:27,870 Thank you. 853 00:53:29,998 --> 00:53:32,333 Here's the ticket. Take good care of yourself with that leg. 854 00:53:32,459 --> 00:53:35,211 - You take it easy driving home. - I'll miss you, honey. 855 00:53:36,087 --> 00:53:37,588 (Porter) Section 11, sir. 856 00:53:39,049 --> 00:53:40,841 - (Guard) All aboard! - Thank you. 857 00:53:40,967 --> 00:53:43,260 - Goodbye, honey. - (Guard) All aboard! 858 00:53:44,596 --> 00:53:46,305 (Train whistle blows) 859 00:53:49,184 --> 00:53:50,809 Good luck, honey. 860 00:53:52,687 --> 00:53:54,939 (Bells ping) 861 00:53:59,277 --> 00:54:01,946 - Porter, will you make up my berth? - Yes, sir. 862 00:54:02,072 --> 00:54:04,698 - I'm going for a smoke. - Right this way, sir. 863 00:54:31,810 --> 00:54:33,477 (Train whistle blows) 864 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,066 (Man) Like a chair? 865 00:54:41,278 --> 00:54:44,196 No, thanks. I'd rather stand. 866 00:54:45,490 --> 00:54:48,867 - You going far? - Palo Alto. 867 00:54:49,869 --> 00:54:52,162 My name's Jackson. I'm going all the way to Medford. 868 00:54:52,289 --> 00:54:54,498 - Medford, Oregon. - Uh-huh. 869 00:54:54,624 --> 00:54:56,917 I had a broken arm once. 870 00:54:57,043 --> 00:55:00,379 That darn cast itches something fierce, doesn't it? 871 00:55:00,505 --> 00:55:02,047 I thought I'd go crazy with mine. 872 00:55:03,008 --> 00:55:05,551 Palo Alto's a nice little town. 873 00:55:05,677 --> 00:55:09,346 - You a Stanford man? - I used to be. 874 00:55:09,472 --> 00:55:13,892 Uh-oh. I'll bet you left something behind. I always do. 875 00:55:14,019 --> 00:55:17,021 My cigar case. I guess I left it in my overcoat back in the section. 876 00:55:17,147 --> 00:55:20,816 Would you care to roll yourself a cigarette, Mister... 877 00:55:20,942 --> 00:55:22,318 Dietrichson. 878 00:55:22,444 --> 00:55:25,529 No thanks, I really prefer a cigar. 879 00:55:25,655 --> 00:55:28,907 - Maybe the porter could... - Well, I could get your cigars for you. 880 00:55:29,034 --> 00:55:32,328 - Be glad to, Mr Dietrichson. - If it's not too much trouble. 881 00:55:32,454 --> 00:55:36,290 - Car 9, section 11. - Car 9, section 11. With pleasure. 882 00:55:42,422 --> 00:55:44,423 (Train whistle blows) 883 00:56:20,460 --> 00:56:22,002 OK. This has got to be fast. 884 00:56:22,128 --> 00:56:24,880 Here, take his hat. Pick up the crutches back on the tracks. 885 00:56:55,036 --> 00:56:56,912 OK, baby. That's it. 886 00:57:12,470 --> 00:57:14,680 (Engine won't start) 887 00:57:45,879 --> 00:57:47,713 (Engine starts) 888 00:57:55,305 --> 00:57:57,055 All right. Let's go. 889 00:58:06,941 --> 00:58:08,734 (Neff) On the way back, we went over once more 890 00:58:08,860 --> 00:58:11,361 what she was to do at the inquest if they had one 891 00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:13,822 and about the insurance when that came up. 892 00:58:13,948 --> 00:58:17,117 I was afraid she might go to pieces, now that we had done it. 893 00:58:17,243 --> 00:58:18,702 But she was perfect. 894 00:58:18,828 --> 00:58:21,830 No nerves, not a tear, not even a blink of the eyes. 895 00:58:22,707 --> 00:58:25,209 She dropped me a block from my apartment house. 896 00:58:26,711 --> 00:58:28,504 Walter... 897 00:58:28,630 --> 00:58:30,839 What's the matter? Aren't you going to kiss me? 898 00:58:35,094 --> 00:58:37,221 It's straight down the line, isn't it? 899 00:58:42,393 --> 00:58:44,144 I love you, Walter. 900 00:58:45,021 --> 00:58:46,438 I love you, baby. 901 00:58:59,494 --> 00:59:02,829 (Neff) It was two minutes past eleven as I went up the service stairs again. 902 00:59:02,956 --> 00:59:06,917 Nobody saw me this time, either. In the apartment I checked the bells. 903 00:59:07,043 --> 00:59:10,045 The cards hadn't moved. No calls. No visitors. 904 00:59:11,548 --> 00:59:15,509 Then I changed my clothes again. That left one last thing to do. 905 00:59:16,511 --> 00:59:20,472 I had to go down to the garage. I wanted Charlie to see me again. 906 00:59:27,188 --> 00:59:30,023 You gonna use your car, after all? I'm not quite through. 907 00:59:30,149 --> 00:59:31,984 Oh. Well, that's all right, Charlie. 908 00:59:32,110 --> 00:59:35,070 Just going up to the drugstore. Been working upstairs all night. 909 00:59:35,196 --> 00:59:38,323 - My stomach's getting sore at me. - Yes, sir, Mr Neff. 910 00:59:40,827 --> 00:59:42,744 (Neff) That was all there was to it. 911 00:59:42,870 --> 00:59:45,455 Nothing had slipped, nothing had been overlooked. 912 00:59:45,582 --> 00:59:47,916 There was nothing to give us away. 913 00:59:48,042 --> 00:59:51,628 And yet, Keyes, as I was walking down the street to the drugstore 914 00:59:51,754 --> 00:59:55,132 suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong. 915 00:59:55,258 --> 00:59:58,510 It sounds crazy, Keyes, but it's true, so help me. 916 00:59:58,636 --> 01:00:01,013 I couldn't hear my own footsteps. 917 01:00:04,225 --> 01:00:06,435 It was the walk of a dead man. 918 01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,862 That was the longest night I ever lived through, Keyes, 919 01:00:16,988 --> 01:00:20,699 and the next day was worse, when the story had broken in the papers 920 01:00:20,825 --> 01:00:22,743 and they started talking about it at the office 921 01:00:22,869 --> 01:00:26,079 and the day after that when you started digging into it. 922 01:00:26,205 --> 01:00:30,083 I kept my hands in my pockets because I thought they were shaking. 923 01:00:30,209 --> 01:00:32,377 I put on dark glasses so people couldn't see my eyes. 924 01:00:32,503 --> 01:00:36,465 Then I took them off so they wouldn't get to wondering why I wore them. 925 01:00:36,591 --> 01:00:38,258 I tried to hold myself together, but... 926 01:00:39,594 --> 01:00:42,596 I could feel my nerves pulling me to pieces. 927 01:00:45,350 --> 01:00:48,352 - Oh, Walter? - Hello, Keyes. 928 01:00:48,478 --> 01:00:50,562 Come along. The big boss wants to see us. 929 01:00:50,688 --> 01:00:53,065 - The Dietrichson case? - Must be. 930 01:00:53,191 --> 01:00:55,067 - Anything wrong? - Well, the guy is dead. 931 01:00:55,193 --> 01:00:57,819 It's gonna cost us dough. That's always wrong. 932 01:00:59,197 --> 01:01:01,406 - What have they got so far? - Autopsy report. 933 01:01:01,532 --> 01:01:05,118 No heart failure, no apoplexy, no predisposing medical cause. 934 01:01:05,244 --> 01:01:07,120 Died of a broken neck. 935 01:01:07,246 --> 01:01:09,206 - When's the inquest? - Had it this morning. 936 01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:11,333 His wife and daughter made the identification. 937 01:01:11,459 --> 01:01:13,418 The train people and some of the passengers told 938 01:01:13,544 --> 01:01:15,504 how he went through to the observation car. 939 01:01:15,630 --> 01:01:19,257 It was all over in 45 minutes. Verdict? Accidental death. 940 01:01:20,843 --> 01:01:22,260 What do the police figure? 941 01:01:22,387 --> 01:01:25,013 That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. 942 01:01:25,139 --> 01:01:26,723 They're satisfied. 943 01:01:26,849 --> 01:01:28,475 It's not their dough. 944 01:01:28,601 --> 01:01:30,185 Come on, Walter. 945 01:01:30,937 --> 01:01:32,813 All right. Thank you very much, gentlemen. 946 01:01:32,939 --> 01:01:35,023 I believe the legal position is now clear. 947 01:01:35,149 --> 01:01:37,401 Please stand by. I may need you later. 948 01:01:37,527 --> 01:01:39,444 Come in, Mr Keyes. 949 01:01:39,570 --> 01:01:41,196 You, too, Mr Neff. 950 01:01:44,742 --> 01:01:46,952 Do you find this an uncomfortably warm day, Mr Keyes? 951 01:01:47,078 --> 01:01:50,038 I'm sorry, Mr Norton, but I didn't know this was formal. 952 01:01:50,164 --> 01:01:52,499 Sit down, gentlemen. Any new developments? 953 01:01:52,625 --> 01:01:55,502 I talked to this Jackson long distance up in Medford, Oregon. 954 01:01:55,628 --> 01:01:58,004 - Who's Jackson? - The last man who saw Dietrichson alive. 955 01:01:58,131 --> 01:02:00,632 They were on the observation platform together, talking. 956 01:02:00,758 --> 01:02:02,884 Dietrichson wanted a cigar and so Jackson went back 957 01:02:03,010 --> 01:02:04,511 to get his cigar case for him. 958 01:02:04,637 --> 01:02:06,888 When he returned, no Dietrichson. 959 01:02:07,014 --> 01:02:08,432 Jackson didn't think anything of it 960 01:02:08,558 --> 01:02:10,726 until a wire caught up with the train at Santa Barbara. 961 01:02:10,852 --> 01:02:13,603 They found Dietrichson's body on the tracks near Burbank. 962 01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:16,106 Very interesting about the cigar case. 963 01:02:16,232 --> 01:02:18,233 - Anything else? - No, not much. 964 01:02:18,359 --> 01:02:21,319 Dietrichson's secretary says she didn't know about the policy. 965 01:02:21,446 --> 01:02:24,740 There's a daughter but all she remembers is Neff talking to her father 966 01:02:24,866 --> 01:02:26,950 about accident insurance at their house one night. 967 01:02:27,076 --> 01:02:28,493 I couldn't sell him at first. 968 01:02:28,619 --> 01:02:31,580 Mr Dietrichson opposed it. He said he'd think it over. 969 01:02:31,706 --> 01:02:34,791 Later I saw him in the oil fields and closed him. 970 01:02:34,917 --> 01:02:36,460 He signed and gave me his cheque. 971 01:02:36,586 --> 01:02:39,337 A fine piece of salesmanship that was, Mr Neff. 972 01:02:39,464 --> 01:02:41,089 There's no sense in pushing Neff around. 973 01:02:41,215 --> 01:02:43,091 He's got the best sales record in the office. 974 01:02:43,217 --> 01:02:46,428 Are your salesmen supposed to know a customer is going to fall off the train? 975 01:02:46,554 --> 01:02:50,599 Fall off the train? Are we sure Dietrichson fell off the train? 976 01:02:50,725 --> 01:02:53,059 - I don't get it. - You don't, Mr Keyes? 977 01:02:53,186 --> 01:02:56,271 Then what do you think? This policy might cost a great deal of money. 978 01:02:56,397 --> 01:02:58,607 As you know, it contains a double indemnity clause. 979 01:02:58,733 --> 01:03:00,442 Just what is your opinion? 980 01:03:00,568 --> 01:03:02,110 - No opinion at all. - Not even a hunch? 981 01:03:02,236 --> 01:03:04,529 One of those interesting little hunches of yours? 982 01:03:04,655 --> 01:03:06,072 No, not even a hunch. 983 01:03:06,199 --> 01:03:09,826 I'm surprised, Mr Keyes. I've formed a very definite opinion. 984 01:03:09,952 --> 01:03:13,288 I think I know. In fact, I know I know what happened to Dietrichson. 985 01:03:13,414 --> 01:03:14,998 You know you know what? 986 01:03:15,124 --> 01:03:17,209 I know it was not an accident. 987 01:03:20,421 --> 01:03:22,589 What do you say to that? 988 01:03:22,715 --> 01:03:26,051 Me? Well, you've got the ball. Let's see you run with it. 989 01:03:26,928 --> 01:03:29,971 There's a widespread feeling that just because a man has a large office... 990 01:03:30,097 --> 01:03:31,515 (Buzzer) 991 01:03:33,476 --> 01:03:37,229 Yes? Have her come in, please. 992 01:03:37,355 --> 01:03:41,608 There's a widespread feeling that a man who has a large office must be an idiot. 993 01:03:41,734 --> 01:03:43,610 I'm having a visitor, if you don't mind. 994 01:03:43,736 --> 01:03:45,904 No, no, I want you to stay and watch me handle this. 995 01:03:46,030 --> 01:03:48,031 Mrs Dietrichson. 996 01:03:52,578 --> 01:03:54,955 Thank you very much for coming, Mrs Dietrichson. 997 01:03:55,081 --> 01:03:57,749 I assure you I appreciate it. This is Mr Keyes. 998 01:03:57,875 --> 01:03:59,334 - How do you do? - How do you do? 999 01:03:59,460 --> 01:04:01,419 - And Mr Neff. - I've met Mr Neff. How do you do? 1000 01:04:01,546 --> 01:04:04,130 - Mrs Dietrichson. - Won't you sit down? 1001 01:04:06,759 --> 01:04:09,135 (Norton) May I extend our sympathy in your bereavement? 1002 01:04:09,262 --> 01:04:11,555 I hesitated before asking you in so soon after your loss. 1003 01:04:11,681 --> 01:04:14,432 I hope you won't mind if I plunge straight into business. 1004 01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:16,309 You know why we asked you to come, don't you? 1005 01:04:16,435 --> 01:04:19,104 No. All I know is that your secretary made it sound very urgent. 1006 01:04:19,230 --> 01:04:23,066 Your husband had an accident policy. Evidently you don't know that. 1007 01:04:23,192 --> 01:04:26,194 No. I remember some talk at the house, but he didn't seem to want it. 1008 01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:28,780 Your husband took the policy out a few days later. 1009 01:04:28,906 --> 01:04:31,867 You'll probably find the policy among his personal effects. 1010 01:04:31,993 --> 01:04:33,702 His safe-deposit box hasn't been opened. 1011 01:04:33,828 --> 01:04:35,745 It seems a tax examiner has to be present. 1012 01:04:35,872 --> 01:04:38,999 I don't want you to think you're being subjected to questioning. 1013 01:04:39,125 --> 01:04:42,168 - There are things we should like to know. - What sort of things? 1014 01:04:42,295 --> 01:04:44,421 We have the report of the coroner's inquest. 1015 01:04:44,547 --> 01:04:47,549 Accidental death. We are not entirely satisfied. 1016 01:04:47,675 --> 01:04:50,260 In fact, we are not satisfied at all. 1017 01:04:52,346 --> 01:04:56,850 Frankly, Mrs Dietrichson, we suspect... a suicide. 1018 01:05:00,855 --> 01:05:03,648 - I'm sorry. Would you like a glass of water? - Please. 1019 01:05:09,238 --> 01:05:10,322 Thank you. 1020 01:05:16,287 --> 01:05:19,831 Had your husband been depressed or moody lately, Mrs Dietrichson? 1021 01:05:19,957 --> 01:05:22,667 Did he have financial worries, for instance? 1022 01:05:22,793 --> 01:05:26,004 He was perfectly all right and I don't know of any financial worries. 1023 01:05:26,130 --> 01:05:28,173 Let us examine this so-called accident. 1024 01:05:28,299 --> 01:05:32,427 First, your husband takes out this policy in absolute secrecy. Why? 1025 01:05:32,553 --> 01:05:35,096 He doesn't want his family to suspect what he intends to do. 1026 01:05:35,222 --> 01:05:36,222 Do what? 1027 01:05:36,349 --> 01:05:39,392 Next, he goes on this trip entirely alone. He has to be alone. 1028 01:05:39,518 --> 01:05:41,895 He hobbles all the way out to the observation platform. 1029 01:05:42,021 --> 01:05:45,774 Very unlikely with his leg in a cast, unless he has a very strong reason. 1030 01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:48,944 Once there, he finds he is not alone. There is a man there. 1031 01:05:49,070 --> 01:05:50,528 What was his name, Keyes? 1032 01:05:50,655 --> 01:05:52,739 His name was Jackson. Probably still is. 1033 01:05:52,865 --> 01:05:56,952 So he gets rid of this Jackson with some flimsy excuse about cigars. 1034 01:05:57,078 --> 01:05:58,495 And then he is alone. 1035 01:05:58,621 --> 01:06:00,497 - And then he does it. - Does what? 1036 01:06:00,623 --> 01:06:04,376 He jumps. Suicide, in which case, the company is not liable. 1037 01:06:04,502 --> 01:06:07,337 You know that, of course. Now, we could go to court... 1038 01:06:07,463 --> 01:06:11,132 I don't know anything. In fact, I don't know why I came here. 1039 01:06:11,258 --> 01:06:14,552 Just a moment. I said we could go to court. I didn't say we want to. 1040 01:06:14,679 --> 01:06:17,681 What I want to suggest is a compromise on both sides. 1041 01:06:17,807 --> 01:06:21,476 - A settlement for part of the policy value. - Don't bother, Mr Norton. 1042 01:06:21,602 --> 01:06:23,979 When I came in here, I had no idea you owed me any money. 1043 01:06:24,105 --> 01:06:26,106 You told me you did. Then you told me you didn't. 1044 01:06:26,232 --> 01:06:28,608 Now you tell me you want to pay me a part of it, whatever it is. 1045 01:06:28,734 --> 01:06:31,236 You want to bargain with me at a time like this. 1046 01:06:31,362 --> 01:06:34,447 I don't like your insinuations and I don't like your methods. 1047 01:06:34,573 --> 01:06:37,367 In fact, I don't like you, Mr Norton. 1048 01:06:37,493 --> 01:06:38,952 Goodbye, gentlemen. 1049 01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:42,956 (Door slams) 1050 01:06:43,082 --> 01:06:45,458 Nice going, Mr Norton. You sure carried that ball. 1051 01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:48,169 Only you fumbled on the goal line. 1052 01:06:48,295 --> 01:06:51,506 Then you heaved an illegal forward pass and got thrown for a 40-yard loss. 1053 01:06:51,632 --> 01:06:54,009 Now you haven't got a leg to stand on. 1054 01:06:54,135 --> 01:06:57,095 I haven't, eh? She can go to court and we can prove it was suicide. 1055 01:06:57,221 --> 01:06:58,680 Oh, can we? 1056 01:06:58,806 --> 01:07:02,600 Mr Norton, the first thing that struck me was that suicide angle. 1057 01:07:02,727 --> 01:07:06,396 Only I dumped it in the wastepaper basket just three seconds later. 1058 01:07:06,522 --> 01:07:10,608 You know, you ought to take a look at the statistics on suicide sometime. 1059 01:07:10,735 --> 01:07:12,569 You might learn about the insurance business. 1060 01:07:12,695 --> 01:07:14,654 Mr Keyes, I was raised in the insurance business. 1061 01:07:14,780 --> 01:07:16,573 Yeah, in the front office. 1062 01:07:16,699 --> 01:07:19,826 Come now, you've never read an actuarial table in your life. 1063 01:07:19,952 --> 01:07:22,162 Why, they've got ten volumes on suicide alone. 1064 01:07:22,288 --> 01:07:24,581 Suicide by race, by colour, by occupation, by sex, 1065 01:07:24,707 --> 01:07:26,583 by season of the year, by time of day. 1066 01:07:26,709 --> 01:07:29,544 How committed? By poisons, by firearms, by drowning, by leaps. 1067 01:07:29,670 --> 01:07:32,297 Suicide by poison, subdivided by types of poison 1068 01:07:32,423 --> 01:07:34,966 such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous, narcotic, 1069 01:07:35,092 --> 01:07:36,509 alkaloid, protein, and so forth. 1070 01:07:36,635 --> 01:07:39,262 Suicide by leaps, subdivided by leaps from high places, 1071 01:07:39,388 --> 01:07:41,514 under the wheels of trains, under the wheels of trucks 1072 01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:43,975 under the feet of horses, from steamboats. 1073 01:07:44,101 --> 01:07:46,352 But, Mr Norton, of all the cases on record 1074 01:07:46,479 --> 01:07:50,565 there's not one single case of suicide by leap from the rear end of a moving train. 1075 01:07:50,691 --> 01:07:53,568 Do you know how fast that train was going where the body was found? 1076 01:07:53,694 --> 01:07:54,903 15 miles an hour. 1077 01:07:55,029 --> 01:07:57,155 How can anybody jump off a slow-moving train like that 1078 01:07:57,281 --> 01:08:00,116 with any kind of expectation that he would kill himself? 1079 01:08:00,242 --> 01:08:01,868 No, no soap, Mr Norton. 1080 01:08:01,994 --> 01:08:04,162 We're sunk and we'll have to pay through the nose. 1081 01:08:04,288 --> 01:08:06,414 And you know it. May I have this? 1082 01:08:10,336 --> 01:08:11,753 Come on, Walter. 1083 01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:16,549 Next time I'll rent a tuxedo. 1084 01:08:33,359 --> 01:08:35,568 (Neff) I could have hugged you right then and there, Keyes, 1085 01:08:35,694 --> 01:08:37,320 you and your statistics. 1086 01:08:37,446 --> 01:08:40,281 You were the only one we were really scared of 1087 01:08:40,407 --> 01:08:42,617 and instead you were almost playing on our team. 1088 01:08:43,786 --> 01:08:46,371 That evening when I got home, my nerves had eased off. 1089 01:08:46,497 --> 01:08:48,540 I could feel the ground under my feet again. 1090 01:08:48,666 --> 01:08:51,459 And it looked like easy going from there on in. 1091 01:08:51,585 --> 01:08:53,545 That $100,000 looked as safe for Phyllis and me 1092 01:08:53,671 --> 01:08:55,964 as if we had the cheque already deposited in the bank. 1093 01:08:56,090 --> 01:08:57,924 (Telephone rings) 1094 01:09:02,930 --> 01:09:04,305 Hello? 1095 01:09:04,431 --> 01:09:06,141 Oh, hello, baby. 1096 01:09:06,267 --> 01:09:09,394 Sure. Everything's fine. You were wonderful in Norton's office. 1097 01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,188 I felt so funny. I wanted to look at you all the time. 1098 01:09:13,149 --> 01:09:15,358 How do you think I felt, baby? Where are you? 1099 01:09:15,484 --> 01:09:18,444 At the drugstore. Just a block away. 1100 01:09:18,571 --> 01:09:20,572 - Can I come up? - OK, but be careful. 1101 01:09:20,698 --> 01:09:22,657 Don't let anybody see you. 1102 01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:34,586 (Door bell rings) 1103 01:09:48,767 --> 01:09:50,435 Hello, Keyes. 1104 01:09:55,900 --> 01:09:58,902 - What's on your mind? - That broken leg. 1105 01:09:59,028 --> 01:10:02,030 - The guy had a broken leg. - What are you talking about? 1106 01:10:02,156 --> 01:10:05,867 I'm talking about Dietrichson. He had accident insurance, didn't he? 1107 01:10:05,993 --> 01:10:08,036 - Yeah. - Then he broke his leg, didn't he? 1108 01:10:08,162 --> 01:10:10,038 - So what? - And he didn't put in a claim. 1109 01:10:10,164 --> 01:10:13,958 - Why didn't he put in a claim? Why? - What are you driving at? 1110 01:10:14,084 --> 01:10:18,963 Walter, I had dinner two hours ago and it stuck halfway. 1111 01:10:19,089 --> 01:10:20,673 That little man of yours is acting up. 1112 01:10:20,799 --> 01:10:23,051 There's something wrong with the Dietrichson case. 1113 01:10:23,177 --> 01:10:25,470 Why? Because he didn't file a claim? 1114 01:10:25,596 --> 01:10:27,013 Maybe he just didn't have time. 1115 01:10:27,139 --> 01:10:29,349 Maybe he just didn't know that he was insured. 1116 01:10:32,186 --> 01:10:36,064 No. No, that couldn't be it. You delivered the policy to him personally. 1117 01:10:36,190 --> 01:10:38,942 - You got his cheque. - Sure I did. 1118 01:10:39,068 --> 01:10:42,612 - Got any bicarbonate of soda? - No, I haven't. 1119 01:10:42,738 --> 01:10:46,824 Walter, I've been living with this little man for 26 years. 1120 01:10:46,951 --> 01:10:49,619 And he's never failed me yet. There's got to be something wrong. 1121 01:10:49,745 --> 01:10:51,996 Well, maybe Norton was right. Maybe it was suicide. 1122 01:10:52,122 --> 01:10:54,332 No, not suicide. 1123 01:10:54,458 --> 01:10:57,585 - But not an accident, either. - What else? 1124 01:10:57,711 --> 01:10:59,545 Now look, Walter. 1125 01:10:59,672 --> 01:11:03,591 A guy takes out an accident policy worth $100,000 if he's killed on a train. 1126 01:11:03,717 --> 01:11:05,551 Then two weeks later, he is killed on a train. 1127 01:11:05,678 --> 01:11:09,138 And not in a train accident, mind you, but falling off some silly observation car. 1128 01:11:09,265 --> 01:11:12,100 Do you know what the mathematical probability of that is? 1129 01:11:12,226 --> 01:11:15,812 One out of... oh, I don't know how many billions. 1130 01:11:15,938 --> 01:11:18,106 And add to that the broken leg. 1131 01:11:18,232 --> 01:11:20,984 No, it just can't be the way it looks. 1132 01:11:21,110 --> 01:11:25,363 - Something has been worked on us. - Such as what? 1133 01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:34,372 Murder? 1134 01:11:34,498 --> 01:11:36,666 Don't you have any peppermint or something? 1135 01:11:36,792 --> 01:11:39,502 - Sorry. Want a little soda water? - No, no, no. 1136 01:11:41,005 --> 01:11:43,965 - 'Who do you suspect? ' - 'Maybe I like to make things easy. 1137 01:11:44,091 --> 01:11:46,134 'But I always tend to suspect the beneficiary.' 1138 01:11:46,260 --> 01:11:48,678 - 'You mean the wife? ' - 'Yeah, that wide-eyed dame' 1139 01:11:48,804 --> 01:11:50,513 that didn't know anything about anything. 1140 01:11:50,639 --> 01:11:53,433 - She wasn't even on the train. - I know she wasn't, Walter. 1141 01:11:53,559 --> 01:11:56,894 I don't claim to know how it was worked. All I know is that it was worked. 1142 01:11:58,230 --> 01:12:02,942 I've got to get to a drugstore. This feels like a hunk of concrete inside me. 1143 01:12:03,068 --> 01:12:04,861 - Good night, Walter. - Good night, Keyes. 1144 01:12:05,946 --> 01:12:08,448 - 'See you at the office in the morning.' - 'Yeah.' 1145 01:12:10,034 --> 01:12:12,869 I'd like to move in on her right now, tonight. 1146 01:12:12,995 --> 01:12:16,581 If it wasn't for Norton's striped-pants ideas about company policy 1147 01:12:16,707 --> 01:12:19,542 I'd have the police after her so fast it would make her head spin. 1148 01:12:19,668 --> 01:12:21,294 They'd put her through the wringer 1149 01:12:21,420 --> 01:12:24,422 and, brother, the things they would squeeze out. 1150 01:12:24,548 --> 01:12:26,090 You haven't got a single thing to go on. 1151 01:12:26,216 --> 01:12:28,551 Oh, not too much, just 26 years experience, 1152 01:12:28,677 --> 01:12:32,096 all the percentage there is, and this hunk of concrete in my stomach. 1153 01:12:35,309 --> 01:12:37,143 Can I have one of those things? 1154 01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:50,990 - Good night, Keyes. - So long, Walter. 1155 01:13:04,213 --> 01:13:07,924 - How much does he know? - He doesn't know anything. 1156 01:13:08,050 --> 01:13:11,594 - It's those stinking hunches of his. - And he can't prove anything, can he? 1157 01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:14,889 Not if we're careful, not if we don't see each other for a while. 1158 01:13:17,643 --> 01:13:20,269 - How long a while? - Until this dies down. 1159 01:13:20,396 --> 01:13:23,564 Once Keyes gets his teeth into something, he never lets go. 1160 01:13:23,690 --> 01:13:26,484 He'll have you shadowed. He'll watch you every minute. 1161 01:13:28,070 --> 01:13:30,738 - Afraid, baby? - Yes, I'm afraid. 1162 01:13:31,657 --> 01:13:34,492 But not of Keyes. I'm afraid of us. 1163 01:13:34,618 --> 01:13:36,285 We're not the same any more. 1164 01:13:36,412 --> 01:13:39,539 We did it so we could be together, but instead of that, it's pulling us apart. 1165 01:13:39,665 --> 01:13:42,625 - What are you talking about? - And you don't really care. 1166 01:13:45,838 --> 01:13:47,255 Shut up, baby. 1167 01:13:52,010 --> 01:13:54,303 (Woman) Pacific All Risk. Good afternoon. 1168 01:13:56,432 --> 01:13:58,057 Hello, Mr Neff. 1169 01:13:58,976 --> 01:14:01,269 - Hello. - Lola Dietrichson. 1170 01:14:01,395 --> 01:14:04,313 - Don't you remember me? - Yes. Yes, of course. 1171 01:14:04,440 --> 01:14:06,607 Could I talk with you just a few minutes? 1172 01:14:06,733 --> 01:14:09,235 Somewhere where we could be alone? 1173 01:14:09,361 --> 01:14:11,821 Oh, yes. Come into my office. 1174 01:14:17,786 --> 01:14:20,037 Is it something about what happened? 1175 01:14:20,164 --> 01:14:24,542 Yes, Mr Neff. It's about my father's death. 1176 01:14:24,668 --> 01:14:26,752 I'm terribly sorry, Miss Dietrichson. 1177 01:14:30,132 --> 01:14:32,633 Lou, do you mind if I use the office alone for a few minutes? 1178 01:14:32,759 --> 01:14:34,385 No, it's all yours, Walter. 1179 01:14:41,685 --> 01:14:43,227 Look at me, Mr Neff. 1180 01:14:43,353 --> 01:14:46,814 I'm not crazy. I'm not hysterical. I'm not even crying. 1181 01:14:47,858 --> 01:14:50,026 But I have the awful feeling that something's wrong. 1182 01:14:51,653 --> 01:14:54,030 And I had that same feeling once before. 1183 01:14:54,156 --> 01:14:56,616 - When my mother died. - When your mother died? 1184 01:14:56,742 --> 01:14:59,076 We were at Lake Arrowhead. That was six years ago. 1185 01:14:59,203 --> 01:15:02,121 We had a cabin there. It was winter and very cold. 1186 01:15:02,247 --> 01:15:05,958 My mother was very sick with pneumonia. She had a nurse with her. 1187 01:15:06,668 --> 01:15:09,629 There were just the three of us in the cabin. 1188 01:15:09,755 --> 01:15:12,089 One night I got up and went into my mother's room. 1189 01:15:12,216 --> 01:15:14,342 She was delirious with fever. 1190 01:15:14,468 --> 01:15:18,179 All the bed covers were on the floor and the windows were wide open. 1191 01:15:18,305 --> 01:15:21,682 The nurse wasn't in the room. I ran and covered my mother up. 1192 01:15:21,808 --> 01:15:23,851 Just then I heard the door open behind me. 1193 01:15:25,062 --> 01:15:26,479 The nurse stood there. 1194 01:15:27,606 --> 01:15:31,234 She didn't say a word, but there was a look in her eyes 1195 01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,319 I'll never forget. 1196 01:15:35,155 --> 01:15:38,449 Two days later, my mother was dead. 1197 01:15:40,994 --> 01:15:42,995 Do you know who that nurse was? 1198 01:15:44,081 --> 01:15:46,123 - No. Who? - Phyllis. 1199 01:15:46,250 --> 01:15:48,543 I tried to tell my father, but I was just a kid then. 1200 01:15:48,669 --> 01:15:51,879 He wouldn't listen to me. Six months later she married him. 1201 01:15:52,005 --> 01:15:55,258 I talked myself out of the idea she could have done anything like that. 1202 01:15:56,385 --> 01:15:57,802 But now it's all back again, 1203 01:15:57,928 --> 01:16:00,805 now that something's happened to my father, too... 1204 01:16:00,931 --> 01:16:04,725 You're not making sense. Your father fell off a train. 1205 01:16:04,851 --> 01:16:07,812 Two days before he fell off that train, what was Phyllis doing? 1206 01:16:07,938 --> 01:16:10,273 She was in her room in front of a mirror with a black hat on, 1207 01:16:10,399 --> 01:16:11,816 pinning a black veil to it. 1208 01:16:11,942 --> 01:16:15,319 As if she couldn't wait to see how she would look in mourning. 1209 01:16:15,445 --> 01:16:17,405 You've had a pretty bad shock. 1210 01:16:17,531 --> 01:16:20,658 - Aren't you just imagining these things? - I caught her eyes in the mirror. 1211 01:16:20,784 --> 01:16:23,744 They had that look in them they had before my mother died. 1212 01:16:23,870 --> 01:16:25,955 That same look. 1213 01:16:26,081 --> 01:16:27,790 You don't like your stepmother, do you? 1214 01:16:27,916 --> 01:16:29,709 Isn't it just because she is your stepmother? 1215 01:16:29,835 --> 01:16:32,420 I loathe her because she did it. She did it for the money. 1216 01:16:32,546 --> 01:16:34,589 Only you're not going to pay her. 1217 01:16:34,715 --> 01:16:37,508 She is not going to get away with it this time because I'm going to speak up. 1218 01:16:37,634 --> 01:16:39,385 I'm going to tell everything I know. 1219 01:16:39,511 --> 01:16:42,096 - You'd better be careful, saying things... - I'm not afraid. 1220 01:16:42,222 --> 01:16:43,848 You'll see. 1221 01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:53,566 I'm sorry. 1222 01:16:56,862 --> 01:16:59,196 I didn't mean to act like this. 1223 01:17:00,365 --> 01:17:03,326 All this that you've been telling me, who else have you told? 1224 01:17:03,452 --> 01:17:04,660 No one. 1225 01:17:04,786 --> 01:17:07,872 - How about your stepmother? - Of course not. 1226 01:17:07,998 --> 01:17:09,915 I've... I've moved out. 1227 01:17:11,043 --> 01:17:13,002 I'm not living at home any more. 1228 01:17:13,128 --> 01:17:15,755 And you haven't told that boyfriend of yours, Zachetti? 1229 01:17:15,881 --> 01:17:18,799 I'm not seeing him any more. We had a fight. 1230 01:17:20,385 --> 01:17:22,178 Where are you living now? 1231 01:17:22,304 --> 01:17:24,305 I got myself a little apartment in Hollywood. 1232 01:17:25,307 --> 01:17:27,058 Four walls and you sit and look at them? 1233 01:17:29,269 --> 01:17:30,895 Yes, Mr Neff. 1234 01:17:33,732 --> 01:17:36,150 (Neff) I took her to dinner at a Mexican restaurant 1235 01:17:36,276 --> 01:17:38,861 down on Olvera Street where nobody would see us. 1236 01:17:38,987 --> 01:17:41,238 I wanted to cheer her up. 1237 01:17:41,365 --> 01:17:44,742 The next day was Sunday and we went for a ride down to the beach. 1238 01:17:44,868 --> 01:17:47,578 She had loosened up a bit. She was even laughing. 1239 01:17:47,704 --> 01:17:51,207 I had to make sure she wouldn't tell that stuff about Phyllis to anybody else. 1240 01:17:51,333 --> 01:17:54,335 It was dynamite, whether it was true or not. 1241 01:17:54,461 --> 01:17:56,253 And I had no chance to talk to Phyllis. 1242 01:17:56,380 --> 01:17:58,506 You were watching her like a hawk, Keyes. 1243 01:17:58,632 --> 01:18:01,300 I couldn't even phone her. I was afraid you had the wires tapped. 1244 01:18:03,053 --> 01:18:07,139 Monday morning there was a note on my desk that you wanted to see me. 1245 01:18:07,265 --> 01:18:10,184 For a minute I wondered if it could be about Lola. 1246 01:18:10,310 --> 01:18:12,144 It was worse. 1247 01:18:12,270 --> 01:18:15,731 Outside your door was the last guy in the world I wanted to see. 1248 01:18:25,450 --> 01:18:27,159 Come in. Come in, Walter. 1249 01:18:28,954 --> 01:18:32,581 - Hello, Keyes. - I want to ask you something. 1250 01:18:32,708 --> 01:18:36,043 After all these years do you mind if I make a blunt statement? 1251 01:18:36,169 --> 01:18:38,254 - About what? - About me. 1252 01:18:38,380 --> 01:18:40,965 - Walter, I'm a very great man. - Yeah? 1253 01:18:41,091 --> 01:18:43,467 This Dietrichson business, it's murder. 1254 01:18:43,593 --> 01:18:45,845 And murders don't come any neater. 1255 01:18:45,971 --> 01:18:48,597 As fancy a piece of homicide as anybody ever ran into. 1256 01:18:48,724 --> 01:18:52,017 Smart, tricky, almost perfect, but... 1257 01:18:52,144 --> 01:18:54,520 I think Papa has it all figured out. 1258 01:18:54,646 --> 01:18:58,399 Figured out and wrapped in tissue paper with pink ribbons on it. 1259 01:18:58,525 --> 01:19:01,527 - Go ahead. I'm listening. - You know what? 1260 01:19:01,653 --> 01:19:04,196 That guy Dietrichson was never on the train. 1261 01:19:05,741 --> 01:19:07,992 - He wasn't? - No, he wasn't. 1262 01:19:09,369 --> 01:19:11,620 Now look, Walter. You can't be sure of killing a man 1263 01:19:11,747 --> 01:19:14,832 by throwing him off a train that's going 15 miles an hour. 1264 01:19:14,958 --> 01:19:17,334 The only way you can be sure is to kill him first 1265 01:19:17,461 --> 01:19:19,336 and then throw his body on the tracks. 1266 01:19:19,463 --> 01:19:21,630 Now that would mean either killing him on the train 1267 01:19:21,757 --> 01:19:24,508 or, and this is where it really gets fancy, 1268 01:19:24,634 --> 01:19:26,719 you kill him somewhere else and put him on the tracks. 1269 01:19:26,845 --> 01:19:30,097 Two possibilities, and I personally buy the second. 1270 01:19:31,141 --> 01:19:32,516 You're way ahead of me. 1271 01:19:32,642 --> 01:19:34,852 Well, look, Walter, it was like this. 1272 01:19:34,978 --> 01:19:39,315 They killed the guy, the wife and a somebody else. 1273 01:19:39,441 --> 01:19:41,901 The somebody else went on the train as Dietrichson. 1274 01:19:42,027 --> 01:19:44,111 Then the somebody else jumped off. 1275 01:19:44,237 --> 01:19:46,739 Then they put the body on the tracks where the train had passed. 1276 01:19:46,865 --> 01:19:48,324 An impersonation, see? 1277 01:19:48,450 --> 01:19:50,159 A cinch to work. 1278 01:19:50,285 --> 01:19:52,453 Because it was night very few people were about. 1279 01:19:52,579 --> 01:19:56,582 They have the crutches to stare at. They never really looked at the man. 1280 01:19:56,708 --> 01:19:58,751 Fancy all right, but maybe it's a little too fancy. 1281 01:19:58,877 --> 01:19:59,877 Is it? 1282 01:20:00,003 --> 01:20:03,255 I tell you, it all fits together like a watch. 1283 01:20:03,381 --> 01:20:05,466 Now let's see what we have in the way of proof. 1284 01:20:05,592 --> 01:20:10,054 The only guy who really got a good look is sitting right outside my office. 1285 01:20:10,180 --> 01:20:12,640 I took the trouble to bring him down here from Oregon. 1286 01:20:15,310 --> 01:20:18,145 - Come here, Mr Jackson. - Yes, sir, Mr Keyes. 1287 01:20:18,271 --> 01:20:19,772 These are fine cigars you smoke. 1288 01:20:19,898 --> 01:20:21,565 - Two for a quarter. - That's what I said. 1289 01:20:21,691 --> 01:20:26,237 - Did you study those photographs? - Yes, indeed. I studied them thoroughly. 1290 01:20:26,363 --> 01:20:29,281 - Have you made up your mind? - Mr Keyes, I'm a Medford man. 1291 01:20:29,407 --> 01:20:31,492 Up in Medford we take our time making up our mind. 1292 01:20:31,618 --> 01:20:34,954 Well, we're not in Medford now. We're in a hurry. Let's have it. 1293 01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:38,457 - Are these of the late Mr Dietrichson? - Yes. 1294 01:20:38,583 --> 01:20:40,709 - Then my answer is no. - What do you mean, no? 1295 01:20:40,836 --> 01:20:43,003 I mean, this is not the man that was on the train. 1296 01:20:43,129 --> 01:20:44,255 Will you swear to that? 1297 01:20:44,381 --> 01:20:46,340 Mr Keyes, I'm a Medford man. Medford, Oregon. 1298 01:20:46,466 --> 01:20:48,759 If I say it, I mean it. If I mean it, of course I'll swear it. 1299 01:20:48,885 --> 01:20:51,011 There you are, Walter. There's your proof. 1300 01:20:51,137 --> 01:20:54,348 - This is Mr Neff, one of our salesmen. - Pleased to meet you, Mr Neff. 1301 01:20:54,474 --> 01:20:56,350 - How are you? - Very fine. Never was better. 1302 01:20:56,476 --> 01:20:58,143 Sit down, Mr Jackson. 1303 01:20:58,270 --> 01:21:01,605 Just how would you describe the man you saw on the observation platform? 1304 01:21:01,731 --> 01:21:04,441 Well, I'm pretty sure he was a younger man, 1305 01:21:04,568 --> 01:21:06,944 about 10 or 15 years younger than the man in these photographs. 1306 01:21:07,070 --> 01:21:09,071 Dietrichson was about 50, wasn't he, Walter? 1307 01:21:09,197 --> 01:21:11,156 51, according to the policy. 1308 01:21:12,075 --> 01:21:15,160 Well, the man I saw was nothing like 51 years old. 1309 01:21:15,287 --> 01:21:17,746 Of course, it was pretty dark out on that platform. 1310 01:21:17,873 --> 01:21:20,082 Come to think of it, he tried to keep his back towards me. 1311 01:21:20,208 --> 01:21:22,793 - But I'm positive just the same. - Thank you, Jackson. 1312 01:21:22,919 --> 01:21:25,337 You understand this matter is strictly confidential? 1313 01:21:25,463 --> 01:21:28,132 We may need you again in Los Angeles if the case comes to court. 1314 01:21:28,258 --> 01:21:31,302 Any time you need me, I'm at your disposal, gentlemen. 1315 01:21:31,428 --> 01:21:33,596 - Expenses paid, of course. - Oh, yes, yes. Of course. 1316 01:21:36,057 --> 01:21:38,559 Get me Lubin in the cashier's office. 1317 01:21:39,603 --> 01:21:41,604 Hello, Lubin. This is Keyes. 1318 01:21:41,730 --> 01:21:45,774 I'm sending a man named Jackson down to you with an expense account. 1319 01:21:45,901 --> 01:21:47,776 We brought him down here from Medford, Oregon 1320 01:21:47,903 --> 01:21:50,487 in connection with the Dietrichson claim. 1321 01:21:50,614 --> 01:21:51,614 Uh-huh. 1322 01:21:51,740 --> 01:21:53,949 Well, take care of his hotel bill, will you? 1323 01:21:54,075 --> 01:21:56,911 - Ever been in Oregon, Mr Neff? - No. Never been up there. 1324 01:21:57,037 --> 01:21:59,163 Hm. Oh, wait a minute. 1325 01:21:59,289 --> 01:22:01,916 You go trout fishing? Maybe I saw you up Klamath Falls way. 1326 01:22:02,042 --> 01:22:04,043 No, I don't fish. 1327 01:22:04,169 --> 01:22:05,836 You don't go fishing, Mr Neff. 1328 01:22:05,962 --> 01:22:08,213 Neff? Neff. It's the name. 1329 01:22:08,340 --> 01:22:11,300 - There's a family of Neffs in Corvallis. - No relation. 1330 01:22:11,426 --> 01:22:13,344 This man's an automobile dealer in Corvallis. 1331 01:22:13,470 --> 01:22:15,763 - A very reputable man, I'm told. - All right, Mr Jackson. 1332 01:22:15,889 --> 01:22:18,891 Suppose you go down to the cashier. Room 27 on the 11th floor. 1333 01:22:19,017 --> 01:22:21,852 He'll take care of your ticket for the train tonight. 1334 01:22:21,978 --> 01:22:24,688 Tonight? Tomorrow morning would suit me better. 1335 01:22:24,814 --> 01:22:28,734 There's a very good osteopath in town I'd like to see before I leave. 1336 01:22:28,860 --> 01:22:30,027 Osteopath? 1337 01:22:30,153 --> 01:22:32,529 Well, just don't put her on the expense account. 1338 01:22:34,032 --> 01:22:35,574 Well, goodbye, gentlemen. 1339 01:22:35,700 --> 01:22:37,743 - It's been a pleasure. - Goodbye. 1340 01:22:39,704 --> 01:22:41,038 There it is, Walter. 1341 01:22:41,164 --> 01:22:44,124 It's beginning to come apart at the seams already. 1342 01:22:44,250 --> 01:22:46,919 Murder's never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later. 1343 01:22:47,045 --> 01:22:49,463 And when two people are involved, it's usually sooner. 1344 01:22:49,589 --> 01:22:52,549 We know the Dietrichson dame is in it and a somebody else. 1345 01:22:52,676 --> 01:22:54,510 Pretty soon we'll know who that is. 1346 01:22:54,636 --> 01:22:57,137 He'll show. Sometime, somewhere they've got to meet. 1347 01:22:57,263 --> 01:22:58,681 Their emotions are all kicked up. 1348 01:22:58,807 --> 01:23:02,309 Whether it's love or hate doesn't matter. They can't keep away from each other. 1349 01:23:02,435 --> 01:23:04,937 They may think it's twice as safe because there's two of them. 1350 01:23:05,063 --> 01:23:08,732 But it isn't twice as safe. It's ten times twice as dangerous. 1351 01:23:08,858 --> 01:23:10,401 They've committed a murder. 1352 01:23:10,527 --> 01:23:13,654 It's not like taking a trolley ride where they can get off at different stops. 1353 01:23:13,780 --> 01:23:16,281 They're stuck with each other all the way to the end of the line. 1354 01:23:16,408 --> 01:23:19,076 It's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery. 1355 01:23:19,995 --> 01:23:22,329 She put in her claim. 1356 01:23:22,455 --> 01:23:25,040 I'm gonna throw it right back at her. 1357 01:23:30,547 --> 01:23:32,339 Let her sue us if she dares. 1358 01:23:32,465 --> 01:23:35,175 I'll be ready for her and that somebody else. 1359 01:23:35,301 --> 01:23:37,511 They'll be digging their own graves. 1360 01:23:46,187 --> 01:23:48,897 Mrs Dietrichson? This is Jerry's Market. 1361 01:23:49,024 --> 01:23:51,984 We got a shipment of that English soap you were asking about. 1362 01:23:52,110 --> 01:23:54,319 Will you be coming by today? 1363 01:23:54,446 --> 01:23:56,113 Thank you, Mrs Dietrichson. 1364 01:24:22,766 --> 01:24:24,725 Hello, Walter. 1365 01:24:24,851 --> 01:24:26,268 Come over here. 1366 01:24:28,855 --> 01:24:31,273 - What's the matter? - Everything's the matter. 1367 01:24:34,069 --> 01:24:35,986 Keyes is rejecting your claim, 1368 01:24:36,112 --> 01:24:38,489 sitting back with his mouth watering, waiting for you to sue. 1369 01:24:38,615 --> 01:24:40,991 - But you're not going to. - What's he got to stop me? 1370 01:24:41,117 --> 01:24:42,534 He's got plenty. 1371 01:24:46,122 --> 01:24:49,291 He's figured it out. He knows it was somebody else on the train. 1372 01:24:49,417 --> 01:24:51,293 - He's dug up a witness to prove it. - Prove it how? 1373 01:24:51,419 --> 01:24:53,337 If he rejects that claim, I have to sue. 1374 01:24:53,463 --> 01:24:57,007 Then you'll end up in court and other things are going to come up. 1375 01:24:57,133 --> 01:25:00,677 Like, for instance, about the first Mrs Dietrichson. 1376 01:25:00,804 --> 01:25:03,555 - What about the first Mrs Dietrichson? - The way she died. 1377 01:25:03,681 --> 01:25:06,934 And that black hat you were trying on before you needed a black hat. 1378 01:25:07,060 --> 01:25:09,186 Lola's been telling you her cock-eyed stories. 1379 01:25:09,312 --> 01:25:11,396 - She's been seeing you. - I've been seeing her. 1380 01:25:11,523 --> 01:25:14,983 - So she won't yell her head off. - She's putting on an act for you. 1381 01:25:15,110 --> 01:25:16,693 - The lying... - Keep her out of this. 1382 01:25:16,820 --> 01:25:18,320 We're not going to sue. 1383 01:25:18,446 --> 01:25:20,197 Because you don't want the money any more 1384 01:25:20,323 --> 01:25:22,157 because she's made you feel like a heel? 1385 01:25:22,283 --> 01:25:23,742 It isn't the money, it's our necks. 1386 01:25:23,868 --> 01:25:26,787 - We're pulling out, do you understand? - Because of what Keyes can do? 1387 01:25:26,913 --> 01:25:28,330 You're not fooling me, Walter. 1388 01:25:28,456 --> 01:25:30,666 It's because of Lola, what you did to her father. 1389 01:25:30,792 --> 01:25:33,377 You're afraid she might find out and you can't take it. 1390 01:25:33,503 --> 01:25:35,671 I said, leave her out of this. 1391 01:25:40,426 --> 01:25:41,844 It's me I'm talking about. 1392 01:25:41,970 --> 01:25:43,971 - I don't want to be left out of it. - Stop saying that. 1393 01:25:44,097 --> 01:25:46,515 It hasn't worked as we wanted. We can't go through with it. 1394 01:25:46,641 --> 01:25:49,476 We have gone through with it. The tough part is all behind us. 1395 01:25:49,602 --> 01:25:52,312 We just have to hold on now and not go soft inside, 1396 01:25:52,438 --> 01:25:54,815 stick close together the way we started out. 1397 01:25:54,941 --> 01:25:56,191 Watch it. 1398 01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:16,503 I loved you, Walter, and I hated him. 1399 01:26:16,629 --> 01:26:20,090 But I wasn't going to do anything, not until I met you. 1400 01:26:20,216 --> 01:26:23,927 You planned the whole thing. I only wanted him dead. 1401 01:26:24,053 --> 01:26:27,055 And I'm the one that fixed it so he was dead. 1402 01:26:27,182 --> 01:26:30,809 - Is that what you're telling me? - And nobody's pulling out. 1403 01:26:30,935 --> 01:26:33,520 We went into this together. We're coming out at the end together. 1404 01:26:33,646 --> 01:26:36,565 It's straight down the line for both of us. 1405 01:26:36,691 --> 01:26:38,233 Remember? 1406 01:26:44,115 --> 01:26:45,782 (Neff) Yes, I remembered. 1407 01:26:47,118 --> 01:26:50,370 Just like I remembered what you had told me, Keyes, 1408 01:26:50,496 --> 01:26:53,373 about that trolley car ride 1409 01:26:53,499 --> 01:26:56,960 and how there was no getting off till the end of the line, 1410 01:26:57,086 --> 01:26:58,962 where the cemetery was. 1411 01:27:00,423 --> 01:27:04,218 And then I got to thinking what cemeteries are for. 1412 01:27:04,344 --> 01:27:06,595 They're to put dead people in. 1413 01:27:08,348 --> 01:27:11,934 I guess that was the first time I ever thought about Phyllis that way. 1414 01:27:12,060 --> 01:27:13,602 Dead, I mean. 1415 01:27:14,771 --> 01:27:17,356 And how it would be if she were dead. 1416 01:27:18,691 --> 01:27:22,027 (Neff) I saw Lola three or four times that week. 1417 01:27:22,153 --> 01:27:26,073 One night we went up into the hills behind the Hollywood Bowl. 1418 01:27:26,199 --> 01:27:28,200 I guess it sounds crazy, Keyes, but... 1419 01:27:28,326 --> 01:27:31,662 it was only with her that I could relax and let go a little. 1420 01:28:01,734 --> 01:28:03,485 Why are you crying? 1421 01:28:05,363 --> 01:28:07,656 Not gonna tell me, huh? 1422 01:28:07,782 --> 01:28:11,702 Of course I will, Walter. I wouldn't tell anybody else but you. 1423 01:28:12,912 --> 01:28:15,872 - It's about Nino. - Zachetti? What about him? 1424 01:28:15,999 --> 01:28:18,625 They killed my father together. He and Phyllis. 1425 01:28:18,751 --> 01:28:23,171 - He helped her do it. I know he did. - What makes you say that? 1426 01:28:24,465 --> 01:28:27,718 I've been following him. He's been to her house, night after night. 1427 01:28:27,844 --> 01:28:30,387 It was Phyllis and him all along. 1428 01:28:30,513 --> 01:28:33,307 Maybe he was just going with me as a blind. 1429 01:28:33,433 --> 01:28:36,435 - And the night of the murder... - You weren't gonna talk like this any more. 1430 01:28:36,561 --> 01:28:40,272 He was supposed to pick me up after a lecture at UCLA. 1431 01:28:40,398 --> 01:28:43,984 But he never showed up. He said he was sick. 1432 01:28:44,110 --> 01:28:45,235 Sick! 1433 01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,781 He didn't show up 1434 01:28:49,907 --> 01:28:52,326 because the train was leaving with my father on it. 1435 01:28:57,290 --> 01:29:00,625 Maybe I'm just crazy. Maybe it's all in my mind. 1436 01:29:01,669 --> 01:29:03,628 Sure, it's all in your mind. 1437 01:29:03,755 --> 01:29:05,505 I only wish it were, Walter. 1438 01:29:06,883 --> 01:29:08,717 Because I still love him. 1439 01:29:14,265 --> 01:29:16,475 (Neff) Zachetti. 1440 01:29:16,601 --> 01:29:18,352 Phyllis and Zachetti. 1441 01:29:19,354 --> 01:29:22,230 What was he doing up at her house? 1442 01:29:22,357 --> 01:29:24,191 I couldn't figure that one out. 1443 01:29:25,068 --> 01:29:28,570 I tried to make sense out of it and got nowhere. 1444 01:29:28,696 --> 01:29:32,032 But the real brain-twister came the next day. 1445 01:29:32,158 --> 01:29:34,826 You sprang it on me, Keyes, 1446 01:29:34,952 --> 01:29:38,163 after office hours when you caught me down in the lobby of the building. 1447 01:29:38,289 --> 01:29:40,540 Walter. Walter, just a minute. 1448 01:29:45,171 --> 01:29:48,173 - Hello, Keyes. - Just hang on to your hat, Walter. 1449 01:29:48,299 --> 01:29:50,384 - What for? - Oh, nothing much. 1450 01:29:50,510 --> 01:29:53,553 That Dietrichson case just busted wide open. 1451 01:29:53,679 --> 01:29:56,681 - How do you mean? - Well, the guy showed. That's how. 1452 01:29:57,892 --> 01:30:00,102 - What guy? - The guy who helped her do it. 1453 01:30:00,228 --> 01:30:01,895 - The somebody else? - Mm-hm. 1454 01:30:02,814 --> 01:30:05,440 - No kidding? - Yeah. She just filed suit against us. 1455 01:30:05,566 --> 01:30:06,983 It's OK by me. 1456 01:30:07,110 --> 01:30:10,320 When we get them in that courtroom, I'll tear them to pieces, both of them. 1457 01:30:10,446 --> 01:30:12,155 - I'll buy you a martini. - No thanks. 1458 01:30:12,281 --> 01:30:14,658 - With two olives. - I've got to get a shave and a shoe shine. 1459 01:30:14,784 --> 01:30:16,743 - I've got a date. - Margie. 1460 01:30:16,869 --> 01:30:18,703 I still bet she drinks from the bottle. 1461 01:30:19,997 --> 01:30:22,541 They give you matches when you buy cigars, you know. 1462 01:30:22,667 --> 01:30:24,501 They always explode in my pocket. 1463 01:30:24,627 --> 01:30:26,044 So long, Walter. 1464 01:30:31,092 --> 01:30:33,301 (Neff) I was scared stiff, Keyes. 1465 01:30:33,428 --> 01:30:36,179 Maybe you were playing cat-and-mouse with me. 1466 01:30:36,305 --> 01:30:39,766 Maybe you knew all along I was the somebody else. 1467 01:30:39,892 --> 01:30:41,935 I had to find out. 1468 01:30:42,061 --> 01:30:44,020 And I knew where to look. In your office. 1469 01:31:16,637 --> 01:31:20,390 (Keyes) 'Memo to Mr Norton. Confidential. Dietrichson file. 1470 01:31:20,516 --> 01:31:23,393 'With regard to your proposal to put Walter Neff under surveillance 1471 01:31:23,519 --> 01:31:25,145 'I disagree absolutely. 1472 01:31:25,271 --> 01:31:27,689 'I have investigated his movements on the night of the crime 1473 01:31:27,815 --> 01:31:32,027 'and he's definitely placed in his apartment from 7:15 pm on. 1474 01:31:32,153 --> 01:31:35,530 'In addition to this, I have known Neff intimately for 11 years 1475 01:31:35,656 --> 01:31:38,950 'and I personally vouch for him without reservation. 1476 01:31:44,707 --> 01:31:47,542 'Furthermore, no connection whatsoever has been established 1477 01:31:47,668 --> 01:31:50,003 'between Walter Neff and Mrs Phyllis Dietrichson 1478 01:31:50,129 --> 01:31:53,882 'whereas I am now able to report that such a connection has been established 1479 01:31:54,008 --> 01:31:56,176 'between her and another man. 1480 01:31:56,302 --> 01:31:59,095 'This man has been observed to visit Mrs Dietrichson 1481 01:31:59,222 --> 01:32:03,225 'on the nights of July 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th. 1482 01:32:03,351 --> 01:32:07,062 'We have succeeded in identifying him as one Nino Zachetti, 1483 01:32:07,188 --> 01:32:09,648 'former medical student, age of 28, 1484 01:32:09,774 --> 01:32:11,983 'residing at Lilac Court apartments 1485 01:32:12,109 --> 01:32:15,403 '12281/2 North La Brea Avenue. 1486 01:32:15,530 --> 01:32:18,949 'We have checked Zachetti's movements on the night of the crime 1487 01:32:19,075 --> 01:32:22,202 'and have found that they cannot be accounted for. 1488 01:32:22,328 --> 01:32:25,497 'I am preparing a more detailed report for your consideration. 1489 01:32:25,623 --> 01:32:29,292 'It is my belief that we already have sufficient evidence against Zachetti 1490 01:32:29,418 --> 01:32:32,629 'and Mrs Dietrichson to justify police action. 1491 01:32:32,755 --> 01:32:35,215 'I strongly urge that this whole matter be turned over 1492 01:32:35,341 --> 01:32:37,676 'to the office of the district attorney. 1493 01:32:37,802 --> 01:32:39,928 'Respectfully, Barton Keyes.' 1494 01:33:16,132 --> 01:33:19,843 Phyllis? It's Walter. I've got to see you. Tonight. 1495 01:33:21,304 --> 01:33:23,805 Yes, it has to be tonight. 1496 01:33:23,931 --> 01:33:26,391 How's 11 o'clock? 1497 01:33:26,517 --> 01:33:28,268 Don't worry about Keyes. 1498 01:33:28,394 --> 01:33:31,313 Just leave the front door unlocked and put the lights out. 1499 01:33:31,439 --> 01:33:34,816 No, nobody's watching the house, not any more. 1500 01:33:34,942 --> 01:33:37,277 It's just for the neighbours. 1501 01:33:37,403 --> 01:33:39,988 I told you not to worry about Keyes. 1502 01:33:40,114 --> 01:33:42,365 I'll see you at 11 o'clock. 1503 01:33:42,491 --> 01:33:43,908 Yeah. 1504 01:33:44,702 --> 01:33:46,202 Goodbye, baby. 1505 01:33:50,166 --> 01:33:54,586 (Neff) I guess I don't have to tell you what I intended to do at 11 o'clock. 1506 01:33:54,712 --> 01:33:58,131 For the first time, I saw a way to get clear of the whole mess I was in 1507 01:33:58,257 --> 01:34:01,343 and of Phyllis, too, all at the same time. 1508 01:34:01,469 --> 01:34:03,136 Yeah, that's what I thought. 1509 01:34:04,180 --> 01:34:07,641 What I didn't know was that she had plans of her own. 1510 01:34:52,228 --> 01:34:53,645 (Car door slams) 1511 01:35:07,201 --> 01:35:08,827 In here, Walter. 1512 01:35:12,123 --> 01:35:14,833 (Music playing) 1513 01:35:23,592 --> 01:35:25,093 Hello, baby. 1514 01:35:27,221 --> 01:35:30,014 - Anybody else in the house? - Nobody. Why? 1515 01:35:31,559 --> 01:35:34,477 - What's that music? - A radio up the street. 1516 01:35:42,987 --> 01:35:45,864 Just like the first time I came here, isn't it? 1517 01:35:45,990 --> 01:35:48,950 We were talking about automobile insurance, 1518 01:35:49,076 --> 01:35:51,745 only you were thinking about murder. 1519 01:35:52,788 --> 01:35:54,664 I was thinking about that anklet. 1520 01:35:54,790 --> 01:35:56,458 And what are you thinking about now? 1521 01:35:56,584 --> 01:36:00,086 I'm all through thinking, baby. I just came to say goodbye. 1522 01:36:00,212 --> 01:36:03,131 Goodbye? Where are you going? 1523 01:36:03,257 --> 01:36:05,675 You're the one that's going, baby, not me. 1524 01:36:05,801 --> 01:36:08,261 I'm getting off the trolley car right at this corner. 1525 01:36:08,387 --> 01:36:10,805 Suppose you stop being fancy. Let's have it, whatever it is. 1526 01:36:10,931 --> 01:36:13,016 All right, I'll tell you. 1527 01:36:13,142 --> 01:36:15,477 A friend of mine's got a funny theory. 1528 01:36:15,603 --> 01:36:19,272 When two people commit a murder, it's like they're riding on a trolley car. 1529 01:36:19,398 --> 01:36:21,441 They're stuck with each other. 1530 01:36:21,567 --> 01:36:25,195 They have to go on riding together, clear to the end of the line, 1531 01:36:25,321 --> 01:36:27,655 and the last stop is the cemetery. 1532 01:36:27,782 --> 01:36:29,866 - Maybe he's got something there. - You bet he has. 1533 01:36:30,951 --> 01:36:33,661 Two people are gonna ride to the end of the line, all right. 1534 01:36:33,788 --> 01:36:37,415 Only I'm not gonna be one of them. I've got another guy to finish my ride. 1535 01:36:37,541 --> 01:36:39,667 Just who are you talking about? 1536 01:36:39,794 --> 01:36:41,669 An acquaintance of yours. 1537 01:36:41,796 --> 01:36:43,880 A Mr Zachetti. 1538 01:36:44,006 --> 01:36:47,717 I just got into this thing because I happen to know about insurance. 1539 01:36:47,843 --> 01:36:51,513 I was a sucker. I'd have been brushed off as soon as you got your hands on the money. 1540 01:36:51,639 --> 01:36:54,599 - Nobody wanted to brush you off. - Save it. I'm telling this. 1541 01:36:54,725 --> 01:36:56,726 It's been you and that Zachetti guy all along. 1542 01:36:56,852 --> 01:36:58,478 That's not true. 1543 01:36:58,604 --> 01:37:00,855 Doesn't make any difference if it's true or not. 1544 01:37:03,025 --> 01:37:06,486 The point is, Keyes believes Zachetti is the one he's been looking for. 1545 01:37:06,612 --> 01:37:09,614 He'll have him in that gas chamber before he knows what's happened to him. 1546 01:37:09,740 --> 01:37:12,033 And what's happening to me all this time? 1547 01:37:12,159 --> 01:37:13,576 Don't be silly, baby. 1548 01:37:18,374 --> 01:37:20,416 What do you think is gonna happen to you? 1549 01:37:20,543 --> 01:37:22,418 You helped him do the murder, didn't you? 1550 01:37:22,545 --> 01:37:23,962 That's what Keyes thinks. 1551 01:37:24,088 --> 01:37:26,130 What's good enough for Keyes is good enough for me. 1552 01:37:26,257 --> 01:37:30,343 Maybe it's not good enough for me, Walter. Maybe I don't go for the idea. 1553 01:37:30,469 --> 01:37:31,886 Maybe I'd rather talk. 1554 01:37:32,763 --> 01:37:35,056 Sometimes people are where they can't talk. 1555 01:37:35,182 --> 01:37:37,475 Under six feet of dirt, maybe. 1556 01:37:37,601 --> 01:37:40,228 And if it was you, they'd charge that up to Zachetti, too. 1557 01:37:41,689 --> 01:37:43,940 Sure they would. 1558 01:37:44,066 --> 01:37:45,692 And that's just what's gonna happen. 1559 01:37:45,818 --> 01:37:48,278 Because he's coming here tonight in about 15 minutes, 1560 01:37:48,404 --> 01:37:50,572 with the cops right behind him. 1561 01:37:50,698 --> 01:37:52,323 It's all taken care of. 1562 01:37:53,534 --> 01:37:55,243 That would make everything lovely for you. 1563 01:37:55,369 --> 01:37:56,828 Right. 1564 01:37:56,954 --> 01:37:59,163 It's got to be done before your suit comes to trial 1565 01:37:59,290 --> 01:38:01,624 and Lola gets a chance to sound off, 1566 01:38:01,750 --> 01:38:04,127 before they trip you up and you drag me down with you. 1567 01:38:04,253 --> 01:38:06,379 Maybe I had Zachetti here so they won't get a chance, 1568 01:38:06,505 --> 01:38:08,006 so we can get the money and be together. 1569 01:38:08,132 --> 01:38:09,841 That's cute. Say it again. 1570 01:38:09,967 --> 01:38:11,384 He came here to ask where Lola was. 1571 01:38:11,510 --> 01:38:13,511 I made him come back. I was working on him. 1572 01:38:13,637 --> 01:38:15,597 He's a crazy sort of guy, quick-tempered. 1573 01:38:15,723 --> 01:38:17,849 I kept hammering into him that she was with another man 1574 01:38:17,975 --> 01:38:22,353 so he'd go into one of his jealous rages, and then I'd tell him where she was. 1575 01:38:22,479 --> 01:38:24,981 And you know what he would have done to her, don't you? 1576 01:38:25,107 --> 01:38:28,693 Yeah, and for once I believe you, because it's just rotten enough. 1577 01:38:30,154 --> 01:38:31,779 We're both rotten. 1578 01:38:31,906 --> 01:38:35,700 Only you're a little more rotten. You got me to take care of your husband. 1579 01:38:35,826 --> 01:38:39,287 Then you get Zachetti to take care of Lola, maybe take care of me, too. 1580 01:38:39,413 --> 01:38:42,415 Then somebody else would have come along to take care of Zachetti. 1581 01:38:42,541 --> 01:38:44,125 That's the way you operate. 1582 01:38:44,251 --> 01:38:47,337 Is what you've got cooked up for tonight any better? 1583 01:38:49,506 --> 01:38:52,258 I don't like that music any more. 1584 01:38:52,384 --> 01:38:54,594 Mind if I close the window? 1585 01:38:58,015 --> 01:38:59,432 (Music stops) 1586 01:39:08,359 --> 01:39:10,234 (Gunshots) 1587 01:39:13,530 --> 01:39:16,574 You can do better than that, can't you, baby? 1588 01:39:16,700 --> 01:39:18,451 Better try it again. 1589 01:39:21,246 --> 01:39:23,581 Maybe if I came a little closer? 1590 01:39:34,093 --> 01:39:35,843 How's this? 1591 01:39:35,970 --> 01:39:37,595 Think you can do it now? 1592 01:39:45,646 --> 01:39:48,022 Why didn't you shoot again, baby? 1593 01:39:53,904 --> 01:39:56,197 Because you've been in love with me all this time? 1594 01:39:58,033 --> 01:40:01,369 No, I never loved you, Walter, not you or anybody else. 1595 01:40:01,495 --> 01:40:04,664 I'm rotten to the heart. I used you, just as you said. 1596 01:40:04,790 --> 01:40:07,250 That's all you ever meant to me. 1597 01:40:08,419 --> 01:40:10,128 Until a minute ago. 1598 01:40:11,505 --> 01:40:13,923 When I couldn't fire that second shot. 1599 01:40:15,509 --> 01:40:17,927 I never thought that could happen to me. 1600 01:40:19,263 --> 01:40:20,722 Sorry, baby. I'm not buying. 1601 01:40:20,848 --> 01:40:23,683 I'm not asking you to buy. Just hold me close. 1602 01:40:30,065 --> 01:40:32,900 - Goodbye, baby. - (Gunshots) 1603 01:41:26,246 --> 01:41:28,039 Zachetti. 1604 01:41:29,708 --> 01:41:31,042 Come here. 1605 01:41:36,924 --> 01:41:38,591 I said, come here. 1606 01:41:41,220 --> 01:41:44,305 - My name is Neff. - Yeah, and I still don't like it. 1607 01:41:44,431 --> 01:41:45,932 What do you want? 1608 01:41:46,058 --> 01:41:48,392 Look, kid... 1609 01:41:48,519 --> 01:41:50,520 I want to give you a present. 1610 01:41:50,646 --> 01:41:53,022 - This nice new nickel. - What's the gag? 1611 01:41:53,148 --> 01:41:55,399 Suppose you go down to the drugstore and make a phone call. 1612 01:41:55,526 --> 01:41:57,652 Keep your nickel and buy yourself an ice-cream cone. 1613 01:41:57,778 --> 01:41:59,487 The number is Granite 0386. 1614 01:41:59,613 --> 01:42:02,115 Ask for Miss Dietrichson. First name is Lola. 1615 01:42:02,241 --> 01:42:03,908 She isn't worth a nickel. 1616 01:42:04,034 --> 01:42:06,285 I'm not going to talk to her over any telephone. 1617 01:42:06,411 --> 01:42:09,038 Tough, aren't you? Here, call her. She wants you to. 1618 01:42:09,164 --> 01:42:11,124 She doesn't want any part of me. 1619 01:42:11,250 --> 01:42:13,751 I know who told you that. It's not true. 1620 01:42:13,877 --> 01:42:16,337 Lola's in love with you. She always has been. 1621 01:42:16,463 --> 01:42:18,673 Don't ask me why. I couldn't even guess. 1622 01:42:18,799 --> 01:42:21,968 Here. Granite 0386. Now go on and call her. 1623 01:42:22,719 --> 01:42:24,303 Go on. That way. 1624 01:42:34,565 --> 01:42:36,732 It's almost 4:30 now, Keyes. 1625 01:42:38,110 --> 01:42:39,527 It's cold. 1626 01:42:41,280 --> 01:42:44,824 I wonder if she's still lying alone up there in that house 1627 01:42:44,950 --> 01:42:47,076 or if they've found her by now. 1628 01:42:48,745 --> 01:42:53,040 I wonder a lot of things. They don't matter any more. 1629 01:42:53,167 --> 01:42:54,834 (Coughs) 1630 01:42:56,336 --> 01:42:59,338 Except I want you to do a favour for me, Keyes. 1631 01:43:00,215 --> 01:43:02,425 I want you to be the one to tell Lola, 1632 01:43:02,551 --> 01:43:05,094 kind of gently, before it breaks wide open. 1633 01:43:06,930 --> 01:43:09,640 And I want you to take care of her and that guy Zachetti. 1634 01:43:15,147 --> 01:43:17,940 So he doesn't get pushed around too much. 1635 01:43:19,693 --> 01:43:20,902 Hello, Keyes. 1636 01:43:31,496 --> 01:43:33,581 Up pretty early, aren't you? 1637 01:43:34,917 --> 01:43:37,543 I always wondered what time you got down to the office. 1638 01:43:39,129 --> 01:43:42,089 Or did that little man of yours pull you out of bed? 1639 01:43:42,216 --> 01:43:43,799 The janitor did. 1640 01:43:44,676 --> 01:43:47,220 Seems you leaked a little blood on the way in here. 1641 01:43:47,346 --> 01:43:49,096 Yeah. 1642 01:43:49,223 --> 01:43:51,057 Wouldn't be surprised. 1643 01:43:52,226 --> 01:43:56,062 I wanted to straighten you out on that Dietrichson case. 1644 01:43:56,188 --> 01:43:57,897 So I gather. 1645 01:43:59,274 --> 01:44:02,568 - How long have you been standing there? - Long enough. 1646 01:44:02,694 --> 01:44:06,322 Kind of a crazy story with a crazy twist to it. 1647 01:44:06,448 --> 01:44:07,907 One you didn't quite figure out. 1648 01:44:08,033 --> 01:44:10,368 You can't figure them all, Walter. 1649 01:44:11,662 --> 01:44:13,621 That's right. I guess you can't at that. 1650 01:44:15,916 --> 01:44:18,042 Now I suppose I get the big speech, 1651 01:44:19,294 --> 01:44:21,420 the one with all the two-dollar words in it. 1652 01:44:23,465 --> 01:44:24,924 Let's have it, Keyes. 1653 01:44:26,635 --> 01:44:28,803 Walter, 1654 01:44:28,929 --> 01:44:30,388 you're all washed up. 1655 01:44:32,432 --> 01:44:34,976 Thanks, Keyes. That was short anyway. 1656 01:44:36,311 --> 01:44:38,437 I'm gonna call for a doctor. 1657 01:44:40,649 --> 01:44:43,276 What for? So they can patch me up? 1658 01:44:44,361 --> 01:44:46,988 So they can nurse me along till I get back on my feet? 1659 01:44:47,114 --> 01:44:50,449 So I can walk into that gas chamber up at San Quentin on my own power? 1660 01:44:50,575 --> 01:44:52,118 Is that it, Keyes? 1661 01:44:52,244 --> 01:44:53,911 Something like that. 1662 01:44:54,871 --> 01:44:57,123 - I've got a different idea. - Yeah? 1663 01:44:57,249 --> 01:45:00,543 Look, Keyes, suppose you went back to bed 1664 01:45:00,669 --> 01:45:03,754 and didn't find these cylinders till tomorrow when the office opens 1665 01:45:03,880 --> 01:45:06,424 After that you can play it any way you like. 1666 01:45:06,550 --> 01:45:09,302 Would you do that much for me, Keyes? 1667 01:45:09,428 --> 01:45:13,306 - Give me one good reason. - I need four hours to get where I'm going. 1668 01:45:13,432 --> 01:45:16,642 - You're not going anywhere, Walter. - You bet I am. 1669 01:45:17,561 --> 01:45:20,396 - I'm going across the border. - You haven't got a chance, Walter. 1670 01:45:20,522 --> 01:45:22,023 Good enough to try for. 1671 01:45:22,149 --> 01:45:26,193 - You'll never make the border. - That's what you think. 1672 01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:28,112 Just watch me. 1673 01:45:28,238 --> 01:45:30,531 You'll never even make the elevator. 1674 01:45:30,657 --> 01:45:32,199 So long, Keyes. 1675 01:45:55,057 --> 01:45:57,266 (Dialling) 1676 01:46:01,313 --> 01:46:03,105 (Keyes) 'Hello. 1677 01:46:03,231 --> 01:46:06,067 'Send an ambulance to the Pacific Building on Olive Street. 1678 01:46:07,527 --> 01:46:09,487 'Yeah. It's a police job.' 1679 01:46:10,614 --> 01:46:12,031 (Keyes hangs up) 1680 01:46:29,341 --> 01:46:31,884 - How are you doing, Walter? - Fine. 1681 01:46:33,804 --> 01:46:37,181 Only somebody moved the elevator a couple of miles away. 1682 01:46:38,266 --> 01:46:40,559 They're on the way. 1683 01:46:44,314 --> 01:46:46,899 You know why you couldn't figure this one, Keyes? 1684 01:46:47,025 --> 01:46:48,943 I'll tell you. 1685 01:46:49,069 --> 01:46:52,279 Because the guy you were looking for was too close. 1686 01:46:52,406 --> 01:46:54,990 He was right across the desk from you. 1687 01:46:55,117 --> 01:46:57,243 Closer than that, Walter. 1688 01:47:01,248 --> 01:47:02,915 I love you, too.