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If you don't stop staring at her,
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I'm going to stop dancing
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and you'll fall on your face
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in front of all these people.
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A mere bauble, pet.
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A charity case.
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Somebody that Wolfe and I got to know
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after we discovered some tapestries
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that belonged to her boss, Kurt Bottweill.
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The interior designer?
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The gold-leaf man?
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Yes, same one.
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May I cut in?
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Of course.
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For charity's sake.
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Archie's such a good partner.
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Are you his Monday night partner?
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I'm only allowed Wednesdays.
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Ah, yes, Monday night.
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Regular as pot roast in a diner.
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Of course, you know what the rules are:
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If you take him over now, you have to see him home.
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My pleasure.
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Strike two, you're out.
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I thought you're allowed three strikes.
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Not in my game.
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I guess I'm yours.
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Hopefully forever, my darling.
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Have you considered my proposal?
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Ah, yes.
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Friday, I need you to drive Andy and me
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out to Long Island to Mr. Hewitt's house.
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He's having Mr. Thompson over for the afternoon.
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I told you yesterday
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that I have a date for Friday afternoon.
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Mr. Thompson is the best hybridizer in England.
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We'll be leaving at 12:30, Archie.
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His taking it for granted like that was too much.
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I didn't try to sound sorry.
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I really am very sorry,
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but I cannot break my date for Friday.
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See, Margot Dickie asked me to a party, a Christmas party.
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We never have a Christmas party around here, hmm.
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Christmas, as celebrated,
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is merely an excuse for wretched excess,
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aptly symbolized by a... an elephantine elf
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who delivers gifts to the whole world in one night.
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Here's a thought: Andy can drive.
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Your idea that a car is a deathtrap
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unless I'm the one driving it is unsound.
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If my feeling that you alone are to be trusted
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at the wheel of a car is an aberration, I have it.
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We'll be leaving at 12:30 for Hewitt's.
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So there we were.
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He needed a lesson and I had in my possession
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a document that would make it good.
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I didn't intend to spring this on you until tomorrow,
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but... today will have to do.
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Marriage license between...
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for Archie Goodwin and Margot Dickie.
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Phooey.
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What kind of flummery is that?
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Oh, it's not flummery at all.
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Nope.
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All I can say is I'm finally hooked
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and it took an expert to hook me.
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Yes, sir, Miss Dickie intends to spread the tidings at the party.
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And when you're going to announce you've caught a fish,
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well, it helps to have the fish present.
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The effect was all I could have asked.
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You're deranged.
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Yes, yes, quite possibly.
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It might be a form of madness.
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As Margot was reading to me the other night,
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it was some poet, some Greek.
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It was, uh... it was...
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"Oh, love!"
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Do shut up and sit down! Sit down!
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Yes, sir!
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You know, I was inspired by your offer to Andy...
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and his late lamented fiancée.
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But now that it's permanent,
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well, you may decide that you don't want me here anymore.
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I like the pay, especially if I get a raise
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by the first of the year.
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I like working
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for the greatest living private detective
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in the free world.
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Sit down!
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I appreciate Fritz's cooking.
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I like the billiard table in the basement.
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I like the color yellow; that's a lot to ask.
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I told Margot all about it, see?
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Yeah, I told her you were allergic to women,
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and we decided... well, we didn't decide yet...
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but we thought that we might want to give it a try, you see,
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after the... well, after the honeymoon, you know.
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Go on the honeymoon and then we'll decide.
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I don't believe you.
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Why not?
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What of Miss Rowan?
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Oh, well, she met Miss Dickie last night
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and she'll probably never speak to me again.
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What of the thousands of others you dally with?
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Oh, not thousands... not even a thousand.
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Dally. I want to look up "dally. "
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Now, just sit down!
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Yes, okay, yes, sir.
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No, sir, I won't sit down.
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Look, I know we're going to have to discuss this and everything,
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but right now you're a little unsettled,
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so it might take a day or two.
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I think that'll be better for you to come around.
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You know, get used to the idea.
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I hope you do come around, too.
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Bottweill's studio; good morning.
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Yes, hello, Cherry.
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This is Archie Goodwin speaking.
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Could I please speak to Margot?
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Archie?
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Yes, I've got it, it's mine.
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I knew you could.
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Where are you?
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I'm at Wolfe's office.
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I just broke the news.
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What are you doing?
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Sorry about that.
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Say, what about meeting me
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at the Tulip Bar at the Churchill Hotel?
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I'd like to buy you a drink.
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I'll buy you a drink.
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Oh, love.
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I'm going to miss this place.
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For the rest of that night and all the next morning,
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the atmosphere around Wolfe's was... not very seasonal.
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Neither of us mentioned
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the state of bliss I was headed for
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or the adjustments that would have to be made.
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Where did you get that hat?
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Thank you, Fritz.
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Take it off!
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Not in my house!
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And so it was on that Friday,
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Wolfe went out for the second time in one week.
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Fritz and I heard the front doorbell ring,
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and as we turned the hallway corner,
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what to our wondering eyes should appear
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but Nero Wolfe... in full winter gear.
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It was a day for breaking all precedents.
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He even answered the door himself.
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It's 12:30 precisely.
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How did he arrange it?
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I don't know.
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I admit I was relieved.
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He had needed a lesson,
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but if he had passed up a chance for an orchid pow-wow
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with the best hybridizer in England,
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I would never have heard the last of it.
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As it was, I would never hear the last of it from Lily.
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I headed for my room to change.
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At 4:00, I was in Bottweill's elevator,
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rising to the occasion.
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Bottweill's studio would have made a fine den
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for a blind billionaire.
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The only difference I could see
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between chrome modern and Bottweill's gold-leaf modern
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was the color.
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Archie!
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Come help us sample.
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Three brands.
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No monotony for Kurt.
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And he got Santa Claus to tend the bar.
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Very modern.
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Aren't you supposed to be making lists?
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Thank you, Miss Dickie.
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Well, to drink champagne with a blonde at one elbow
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and a brunette at the other
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gives a man a great sense of well-being.
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Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
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Cherry?
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It might be a client, handy girl.
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Don't call me that.
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Kurt does.
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Yes...
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Kurt does.
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"Handy girl. "
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Yes, I remember.
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Bottweill has given all of you a funny name.
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What does he call you?
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"Contact woman"!
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Oh, yes.
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Very appropriate.
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I thought this was a family gathering.
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Nobody told me others were invited.
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I invited him.
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Well, if you hadn't, I would have.
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I didn't like you much when you was hunting tapestries,
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but you seem all right tonight, thou.
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You're Irish.
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This is a Christmas party.
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You like everybody.
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That's right!
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Kiernan's name was as "paper boy. "
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He made sure the client signed on the dotted line.
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Oh, do you mind if I...
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Bottweill called Emil Hatch the "pet wizard"...
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and he looked the part;
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he had a sour face, a sour voice and a sour taste.
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Ah, Archie Goodwin,
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may I present Leo Jerome.
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Oh, yes, I'm acquainted with your mother,
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Mrs. Perry Porter Jerome.
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A pleasure.
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Leo's manners were just like Mom's.
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Ah, look at all the pretty colors.
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None as pretty as you, of course.
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Yes, if only that license were real.
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You know, I can get one for two dollars.
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What do you say?
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You...
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You wouldn't marry Miss Universe
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if she came on her knees
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with a billion dollars.
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Did it work?
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Perfect. Simply perfect.
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Mmm, so you're ditching me for Bottweill?
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Yes, Archie darling.
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But I'll always be a sister to you.
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I don't need a sister; I need that license back
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before they hook me for forgery.
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Uh-uh, he tore it up.
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Where'd he put the pieces?
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I don't know... in the wastebasket?
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Will you come to the wedding?
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I will not; my heart is bleeding.
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There he is!
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Kurt!
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Merry, merry, merry!
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Let the darkest corner be touched with light.
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Goodwin! You here? Good!
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Edith, your pet sleuth.
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I still hadn't labeled Bottweill.
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He could talk baseball stats with me
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and archaeology with Wolfe.
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He wasn't much to look at, but he had something.
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There are times
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when love takes over.
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Here it comes, once my own.
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No, not yet.
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You don't like this stuff.
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Oh, I can stand a sip, Al.
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Ah, but you won't enjoy it.
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Wait. Wait.
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Sandy, get another glass.
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Goodwin, you must tell Wolfe
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I'd like to dine with him again soon.
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We haven't finished on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Here we go!
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Now it's unanimous.
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My secret public vice.
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I repeat, there are times when love takes over.
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There are times when all the little demons
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disappear down their rat holes,
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and the trumpet call of good cheer and goodwill
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drowns out the babble of mean little noises.
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This is such a time.
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas!
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Merry, merry, merry.
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That was lovely.
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I must have it written down and printed.
273
00:11:30,957 --> 00:11:33,248
That bit about the trumpet call.
274
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Kurt?
275
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What is it?!
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Kurt!
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...erry...
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Get back, get back.
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Everyone get back!
280
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Calla doctor! Call a doctor.
281
00:11:50,876 --> 00:11:52,527
There was nothing to do, and I knew it.
282
00:11:52,562 --> 00:11:54,976
I got a whiff of his breath, and I know that smell.
283
00:11:55,011 --> 00:11:58,368
It takes a big dose of cyanide to hit that quick and hard.
284
00:11:58,403 --> 00:11:58,914
I'll try another one!
285
00:11:58,949 --> 00:12:00,711
Even if a doctor came within three minutes
286
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and washed out his stomach with chemicals
287
00:12:02,509 --> 00:12:02,978
he probably didn't have,
288
00:12:03,013 --> 00:12:04,480
I don't think it would do much good...
289
00:12:04,515 --> 00:12:05,502
one in a thousand.
290
00:12:05,537 --> 00:12:06,454
But as it is...
291
00:12:06,489 --> 00:12:08,204
Would you do something?!
292
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Not for him.
293
00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:11,228
His heart has stopped.
294
00:12:11,263 --> 00:12:12,970
Now, until the police come...
295
00:12:13,005 --> 00:12:14,642
no one is to touch anything,
296
00:12:14,677 --> 00:12:16,758
especially that bottle of Pernod.
297
00:12:16,793 --> 00:12:18,840
Everyone must stay right here...
298
00:12:18,875 --> 00:12:20,372
Where did Santa go?
299
00:12:21,334 --> 00:12:22,695
Anyone see where Santa went?
300
00:12:22,730 --> 00:12:24,510
He couldn't have taken the elevator.
301
00:12:24,545 --> 00:12:25,514
We would have heard it.
302
00:12:25,549 --> 00:12:27,571
All right, everyone stay right here.
303
00:12:27,606 --> 00:12:29,268
Kiernan, you call the police...
304
00:12:29,303 --> 00:12:30,755
Lloyd 5-3100.
305
00:12:30,790 --> 00:12:31,830
Right.
306
00:12:46,831 --> 00:12:48,222
Santa had molted.
307
00:12:48,257 --> 00:12:49,766
I didn't check to see if it was all there,
308
00:12:49,801 --> 00:12:53,246
because I had another errand and not much time for it.
309
00:13:21,643 --> 00:13:23,133
It was now 20 minutes to 7:00.
310
00:13:23,168 --> 00:13:24,589
Some two dozen city employees
311
00:13:24,624 --> 00:13:26,366
had furnished the on-the-scene routine.
312
00:13:26,401 --> 00:13:27,877
Inspector Cramer had departed
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00:13:27,912 --> 00:13:29,855
to organize the hunt for Santa Claus.
314
00:13:29,890 --> 00:13:31,656
Sergeant Purley Stebbins stayed behind
315
00:13:31,691 --> 00:13:33,422
to make sure everything was understood.
316
00:13:33,457 --> 00:13:34,527
Did you mean
317
00:13:34,562 --> 00:13:35,703
that no one knows anything at all
318
00:13:35,738 --> 00:13:37,843
about the man who acted as Santa Claus?
319
00:13:37,878 --> 00:13:39,656
Bottweill himself arranged for him.
320
00:13:39,691 --> 00:13:41,399
He ordered the costume from Burleson's.
321
00:13:41,434 --> 00:13:43,865
Miss Quon here admits to receiving the package
322
00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:46,296
and taking it in to Bottweill in his office.
323
00:13:46,331 --> 00:13:47,891
We're also covering any agencies
324
00:13:47,926 --> 00:13:49,937
that might have supplied a man to act Santa Claus.
325
00:13:49,972 --> 00:13:51,727
If he was just hired to do a job,
326
00:13:51,762 --> 00:13:53,628
he'd be a damn fool to sneak out.
327
00:13:53,663 --> 00:13:55,494
Maybe he was too scared to think.
328
00:13:55,529 --> 00:13:56,781
Maybe he had a record.
329
00:13:56,816 --> 00:13:57,998
But if that was it...
330
00:13:58,033 --> 00:13:59,911
if he was just a guy that Bottweill hired...
331
00:13:59,946 --> 00:14:01,789
he wouldn't have had any reason to kill him.
332
00:14:01,824 --> 00:14:03,947
The killer knew about the Pernod.
333
00:14:03,982 --> 00:14:06,314
You're wasting your time with agencies.
334
00:14:06,349 --> 00:14:08,647
We waste most of our time, Mr. Hatch.
335
00:14:08,682 --> 00:14:10,430
I just want yous to understand
336
00:14:10,465 --> 00:14:12,247
that if that's where Bottweill got him,
337
00:14:12,282 --> 00:14:13,619
it's going to be hard to believe
338
00:14:13,654 --> 00:14:16,032
that Santy Claus put the poison in that bottle.
339
00:14:16,067 --> 00:14:18,197
Does that mean that we are...
340
00:14:18,232 --> 00:14:21,172
that I and my son are under suspicion?
341
00:14:21,207 --> 00:14:23,995
I'm saying first we find Santy Claus, then we'll see.
342
00:14:24,429 --> 00:14:26,990
Of course, there is the fact that the medical examiner said
343
00:14:27,025 --> 00:14:29,165
that the poison was cyanide.
344
00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,803
Hey, there's a large jar of that in the workshop.
345
00:14:31,838 --> 00:14:35,707
I use it all the time... to gild things.
346
00:14:35,742 --> 00:14:36,731
Anyone who knew that
347
00:14:36,766 --> 00:14:38,120
and who knew that Bottweill kept
348
00:14:38,155 --> 00:14:40,405
an open bottle of Pernod in his desk,
349
00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,621
couldn't have asked for a better setup.
350
00:14:42,656 --> 00:14:45,471
Four of yous admit to knowing both of those things.
351
00:14:45,506 --> 00:14:48,286
Mrs. Jerome, Mr. Jerome, Mr. Archie Goodwin here,
352
00:14:48,321 --> 00:14:49,875
admit to knowing about the Pernod
353
00:14:49,910 --> 00:14:51,193
but not the cyanide.
354
00:14:51,228 --> 00:14:51,804
That will be enough for the...
355
00:14:51,839 --> 00:14:52,585
That's not true!
356
00:14:52,620 --> 00:14:53,296
She knew about it!
357
00:14:53,331 --> 00:14:55,229
How dare you, you slut!
358
00:14:59,879 --> 00:15:01,299
Sit down.
359
00:15:01,334 --> 00:15:01,464
Sit down!
360
00:15:01,499 --> 00:15:04,769
Now, come on, take it easy!
361
00:15:05,362 --> 00:15:06,496
Geez...
362
00:15:06,556 --> 00:15:07,723
Miss Quon?
363
00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:12,846
In the workshop one day,
364
00:15:12,881 --> 00:15:15,114
I heard Mr. Hatch telling her
365
00:15:15,149 --> 00:15:17,348
how careful he had to be with it.
366
00:15:17,383 --> 00:15:19,049
Mr. Hatch...
367
00:15:19,084 --> 00:15:20,901
do you verify what she just said?
368
00:15:20,936 --> 00:15:22,519
Nonsense!
369
00:15:22,554 --> 00:15:23,759
What if he did?!
370
00:15:23,794 --> 00:15:25,989
I won't tolerate this abuse!
371
00:15:26,024 --> 00:15:28,193
Now, you listen to me, Mrs. Jerome.
372
00:15:28,228 --> 00:15:29,400
As far as I know right now,
373
00:15:29,435 --> 00:15:32,203
only one of yous has lied to me... you.
374
00:15:32,238 --> 00:15:34,902
Now I'm telling you, I'm telling all of yous,
375
00:15:34,937 --> 00:15:37,566
lies is only going to make it harder for you.
376
00:15:37,601 --> 00:15:39,605
But sometimes...
377
00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,625
sometimes they make it easier for us.
378
00:15:42,660 --> 00:15:44,785
Now, that put me in a class with Mrs. Jerome,
379
00:15:44,820 --> 00:15:47,276
since I had left out my little talk with Margot.
380
00:15:47,311 --> 00:15:49,732
And I want to know about their family's families,
381
00:15:49,767 --> 00:15:50,924
anything you can dig up.
382
00:15:50,959 --> 00:15:53,351
Put the whole squad on it if you want to.
383
00:15:53,386 --> 00:15:55,051
But get that information to me as...
384
00:15:55,681 --> 00:15:57,495
The party was now officially over.
385
00:15:57,530 --> 00:15:59,274
I want to talk to you, Goodwin.
386
00:15:59,309 --> 00:16:01,190
If I'm invited downtown, I'm willing,
387
00:16:01,225 --> 00:16:03,124
but I'm going to go get something to eat first, okay?
388
00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:05,023
Because last time I was there, I nearly starved to...
389
00:16:05,058 --> 00:16:06,754
What were you doing here today?
390
00:16:06,789 --> 00:16:08,450
Oh, I was having a very nice time,
391
00:16:08,485 --> 00:16:09,796
as you can see.
392
00:16:09,831 --> 00:16:10,915
Miss Dickie invited me.
393
00:16:10,950 --> 00:16:11,964
Why? You're nothing to her.
394
00:16:11,999 --> 00:16:12,897
She was going to marry Bottweill.
395
00:16:12,932 --> 00:16:13,754
Well, then it must be
396
00:16:13,789 --> 00:16:14,993
the three different kinds of champagne.
397
00:16:15,028 --> 00:16:16,015
I ask again, why...
398
00:16:16,050 --> 00:16:17,604
And I tell you again, she asked me!
399
00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:18,227
Why don't you ask her?
400
00:16:18,262 --> 00:16:19,698
I did. She says no particular reason.
401
00:16:19,733 --> 00:16:21,134
But she stuttered around about it.
402
00:16:21,169 --> 00:16:22,082
Any comment?
403
00:16:22,117 --> 00:16:22,961
Good girl.
404
00:16:22,996 --> 00:16:25,858
I'd rather have to eat all the snow that had fallen since noon
405
00:16:25,893 --> 00:16:28,720
than explain the wedding license to Stebbins and Cramer.
406
00:16:28,755 --> 00:16:31,235
That was why I had gone through the wastebasket.
407
00:16:33,258 --> 00:16:34,835
I know you, Goodwin, I know you.
408
00:16:34,870 --> 00:16:35,391
Yeah, I know.
409
00:16:35,426 --> 00:16:36,357
You even called me "Archie,"
410
00:16:36,392 --> 00:16:38,029
and it's a memory I will treasure forever.
411
00:16:38,064 --> 00:16:38,802
You're telling me
412
00:16:38,837 --> 00:16:40,660
you let Santy walk out of here and didn't see him?
413
00:16:40,695 --> 00:16:42,838
Nuts, I was kneeling on the ground, watching a man die.
414
00:16:42,873 --> 00:16:44,067
Then you're slipping.
415
00:16:44,102 --> 00:16:45,610
Know what everybody mentions?
416
00:16:45,645 --> 00:16:46,744
Santy wore gloves.
417
00:16:46,779 --> 00:16:48,439
What for if not to leave no prints?
418
00:16:48,474 --> 00:16:49,741
You know who he is, don't you?
419
00:16:49,776 --> 00:16:50,551
No.
420
00:16:50,586 --> 00:16:52,303
I ain't saying he's the murderer.
421
00:16:52,338 --> 00:16:53,157
But if you know who he is
422
00:16:53,192 --> 00:16:54,223
and you don't want him involved
423
00:16:54,258 --> 00:16:55,730
and we break our ankles looking him,
424
00:16:55,765 --> 00:16:57,080
what about that?
425
00:16:57,115 --> 00:16:57,853
Oh, that would be bad,
426
00:16:57,888 --> 00:16:58,557
that would be real bad.
427
00:16:58,592 --> 00:17:00,929
If I asked my advice, I'd be against it.
428
00:17:00,964 --> 00:17:02,043
Goddamn it...
429
00:17:02,078 --> 00:17:04,032
You're gonna want to see me downtown tomorrow morning.
430
00:17:04,067 --> 00:17:05,939
Just... don't make it too early.
431
00:17:05,974 --> 00:17:07,606
I'll be kind of tuckered out.
432
00:17:07,641 --> 00:17:09,204
Have a little breakfast first.
433
00:17:09,239 --> 00:17:11,997
And I'll come there, uh, I'll let you know.
434
00:17:12,032 --> 00:17:13,680
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
435
00:17:15,368 --> 00:17:16,818
You bum.
436
00:17:17,038 --> 00:17:18,390
By the time I got home,
437
00:17:18,425 --> 00:17:20,540
Wolfe was already in his oversized chair
438
00:17:20,575 --> 00:17:21,809
at the end of the table.
439
00:17:21,844 --> 00:17:24,878
He told me good evening, not snapping or barking.
440
00:17:24,913 --> 00:17:27,912
I returned it and apologized for being late.
441
00:17:33,274 --> 00:17:34,754
Fritz...
442
00:17:36,709 --> 00:17:37,665
what do we have?
443
00:17:37,700 --> 00:17:42,378
Ah, something you like, duck à I'orange.
444
00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:49,953
You know, I approve of your rule
445
00:17:49,988 --> 00:17:53,720
never to discuss business during dinner, but...
446
00:17:53,755 --> 00:18:00,879
The death of Mr. Bottweill was reported on the radio at 7:00.
447
00:18:00,914 --> 00:18:02,517
You were there.
448
00:18:02,552 --> 00:18:04,085
Yes, I was.
449
00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:11,224
I'm sure as soon as they find Santa Claus, that may settle it.
450
00:18:11,324 --> 00:18:16,928
What I want to report is what happened before Bottweill died.
451
00:18:17,362 --> 00:18:18,895
That marriage license I showed you?
452
00:18:18,930 --> 00:18:20,363
Oh... yes.
453
00:18:20,398 --> 00:18:21,710
It's for the birds.
454
00:18:21,745 --> 00:18:24,487
Miss Dickie called it off, and I'm out two bucks.
455
00:18:24,522 --> 00:18:26,377
Indeed.
456
00:18:26,905 --> 00:18:28,506
She said she wanted to marry Bottweill.
457
00:18:28,541 --> 00:18:31,325
Then ten minutes later, he died.
458
00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:32,619
Where does that leave me?
459
00:18:33,189 --> 00:18:38,182
Well, for me, of course, this is satisfactory.
460
00:18:40,785 --> 00:18:45,123
There's a, uh, a book that I want to look at.
461
00:18:45,672 --> 00:18:47,257
It's up in your room...
462
00:18:48,093 --> 00:18:50,727
Here and Now, by Herbert Block.
463
00:18:50,762 --> 00:18:53,364
Will you bring it down for me, please?
464
00:18:55,099 --> 00:18:57,702
That meant climbing two flights on a full stomach,
465
00:18:57,737 --> 00:18:58,968
but I was glad to oblige.
466
00:18:59,003 --> 00:19:00,735
I wanted to show how I appreciated
467
00:19:00,770 --> 00:19:02,528
how calmly he accepted the announcement
468
00:19:02,563 --> 00:19:04,642
of my shattered hopes.
469
00:19:27,198 --> 00:19:30,234
Well, I... I don't know what the hell...
470
00:19:34,138 --> 00:19:35,873
Huh?
471
00:19:49,239 --> 00:19:52,492
There was a traffic jam inside my skull with horns blowing,
472
00:19:52,527 --> 00:19:54,446
brakes squealing, a head-on collision.
473
00:19:54,481 --> 00:19:57,996
Why had he taken this method of telling me he was Santa Claus?
474
00:19:58,031 --> 00:19:59,384
Why didn't he just tell me?
475
00:19:59,419 --> 00:20:02,284
Why? Because he'd been desperate.
476
00:20:03,546 --> 00:20:06,323
Now, the idea of a woman living in his house...
477
00:20:06,358 --> 00:20:09,101
or the alternative, my leaving that house...
478
00:20:09,136 --> 00:20:10,778
had made him absolutely desperate.
479
00:20:10,813 --> 00:20:12,999
So he came to see me and Margot together.
480
00:20:13,034 --> 00:20:15,780
He came to see for himself.
481
00:20:16,826 --> 00:20:18,554
The point was this:
482
00:20:18,589 --> 00:20:20,646
He had shown that rather than lose me,
483
00:20:20,681 --> 00:20:22,630
he would do something that he wouldn't have done
484
00:20:22,665 --> 00:20:24,486
for any fee anybody could name.
485
00:20:24,521 --> 00:20:26,272
And he'd sent me to my room
486
00:20:26,307 --> 00:20:30,528
so I would realize I woul not to mention that aspect of things.
487
00:20:48,746 --> 00:20:50,866
You were right to wear the gloves.
488
00:20:50,901 --> 00:20:52,987
I would have recognized your hands.
489
00:20:55,191 --> 00:20:56,554
Where'd you get them?
490
00:20:56,589 --> 00:20:57,651
Confound it,
491
00:20:57,686 --> 00:21:00,167
I didn't know a was going to be murdered.
492
00:21:00,202 --> 00:21:01,325
I know you didn't.
493
00:21:04,019 --> 00:21:06,964
May I, uh, ask you some questions?
494
00:21:08,103 --> 00:21:11,302
I'll take that as "yes. "
495
00:21:11,844 --> 00:21:14,175
When did you arrange it?
496
00:21:14,210 --> 00:21:16,507
2:30 yesterday afternoon.
497
00:21:20,845 --> 00:21:23,983
Do you have any reason to believe that Bottweill
498
00:21:24,018 --> 00:21:25,505
would tell anyone about it?
499
00:21:25,540 --> 00:21:27,351
He said he wouldn't.
500
00:21:28,499 --> 00:21:31,654
When you left at 12:30,
501
00:21:31,689 --> 00:21:34,147
did you go straight to Bottweill's?
502
00:21:34,182 --> 00:21:35,159
No.
503
00:21:46,003 --> 00:21:47,870
No, I left at that hour
504
00:21:47,905 --> 00:21:52,134
because you and Fritz expected me to.
505
00:21:52,169 --> 00:21:55,980
I stopped to buy the gloves...
506
00:21:57,511 --> 00:22:01,619
and then I had lunch at Rusterman's with Bottweill.
507
00:22:02,689 --> 00:22:08,091
And we arrived at his studio at 2:00,
508
00:22:08,126 --> 00:22:12,933
took his private elevator up to his office.
509
00:22:14,707 --> 00:22:15,807
There's the package
510
00:22:15,842 --> 00:22:18,102
and there's the dressing room.
511
00:22:23,709 --> 00:22:26,550
I always have a Pernod after lunch.
512
00:22:26,585 --> 00:22:29,266
It's my secret public vice.
513
00:22:29,301 --> 00:22:31,948
Do you care to join me?
514
00:22:31,983 --> 00:22:35,418
He then poured a liberal portion
515
00:22:36,646 --> 00:22:40,170
into a glass and drank it in two gulps.
516
00:22:40,205 --> 00:22:43,694
Returned the bottle to his desk drawer.
517
00:22:44,128 --> 00:22:46,297
Cops would love to know about that.
518
00:22:46,332 --> 00:22:49,333
Oh, yes, no doubt.
519
00:22:51,068 --> 00:22:55,371
I then took the uniform
520
00:22:55,406 --> 00:22:59,117
went to the private dressing room at the rear of his office
521
00:22:59,152 --> 00:23:02,780
while he went to see a client in his studio.
522
00:23:05,635 --> 00:23:13,191
He had ordered the largest size, but it was... a squeeze.
523
00:23:13,226 --> 00:23:15,824
So it took a while...
524
00:23:15,859 --> 00:23:18,422
a half hour... more.
525
00:23:18,457 --> 00:23:20,167
You're mistaken.
526
00:23:20,202 --> 00:23:22,913
Bottweill helped me with the beard and the wig.
527
00:23:22,948 --> 00:23:25,336
So no one saw you unmasked?
528
00:23:25,532 --> 00:23:27,484
No.
529
00:23:27,519 --> 00:23:30,107
Why didn't you leave the gloves in the elevator
530
00:23:30,142 --> 00:23:31,374
with the costume?
531
00:23:31,409 --> 00:23:34,642
The gloves did not come with it.
532
00:23:36,695 --> 00:23:38,301
No.
533
00:23:38,336 --> 00:23:40,952
No, the gloves were separate.
534
00:23:40,987 --> 00:23:43,554
I don't know why.
535
00:23:44,813 --> 00:23:48,326
Anyway, Fritz didn't expect me home
536
00:23:48,361 --> 00:23:52,180
till 6:00 or later. So I, uh...
537
00:23:54,103 --> 00:23:57,651
walked to the Public Library
538
00:23:57,686 --> 00:24:02,206
and spent some two hours there.
539
00:24:03,883 --> 00:24:07,845
And, uh, took a cab home.
540
00:24:08,967 --> 00:24:12,617
Over a mile... his longest and hardest tramp since Montenegro.
541
00:24:12,652 --> 00:24:15,046
Fighting his way through a blizzard,
542
00:24:15,081 --> 00:24:17,441
in terror of the law on his tail.
543
00:24:17,615 --> 00:24:18,762
Gee...
544
00:24:18,824 --> 00:24:20,858
Oh, marry and be damned!
545
00:24:20,893 --> 00:24:22,058
That was dangerous.
546
00:24:22,093 --> 00:24:23,549
That could get us onto the aspect
547
00:24:23,584 --> 00:24:26,497
that he sent me to my room to think over alone.
548
00:24:30,401 --> 00:24:31,638
Uh, pardon me.
549
00:24:31,876 --> 00:24:36,271
Something caught in... in my throat.
550
00:24:36,306 --> 00:24:41,558
Um, now would you like to describe the situation
551
00:24:41,593 --> 00:24:42,945
or should I?
552
00:24:42,980 --> 00:24:45,532
I would like to hear you try.
553
00:24:45,697 --> 00:24:48,619
Okay, you're sunk.
554
00:24:48,999 --> 00:24:50,307
Now...
555
00:24:50,788 --> 00:24:55,125
if you were to call Cramer now... and I mean now...
556
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,428
and invite him over for some beer and tell him,
557
00:24:59,463 --> 00:25:03,133
uh, it would be a nuisance, but, uh, it would be bearable.
558
00:25:03,168 --> 00:25:04,414
No.
559
00:25:04,449 --> 00:25:05,619
Tell him you bet me a hundred bucks
560
00:25:05,654 --> 00:25:06,837
that you could be in a room for ten minutes
561
00:25:06,872 --> 00:25:07,939
and I wouldn't recognize you.
562
00:25:07,974 --> 00:25:09,720
No!
563
00:25:11,175 --> 00:25:13,777
Well, you know, they're going to trace
564
00:25:13,778 --> 00:25:15,571
the sale of the gloves to the buyer,
565
00:25:15,606 --> 00:25:18,111
and then they'll get a description.
566
00:25:18,146 --> 00:25:20,582
Now, if you sit tight and you wait,
567
00:25:20,617 --> 00:25:23,309
you won't dare tell him that you saw Bottweill
568
00:25:23,344 --> 00:25:26,002
take a drink from that bottle shortly after 2:00
569
00:25:26,037 --> 00:25:28,690
and he was fine... it didn't hurt him...
570
00:25:28,725 --> 00:25:31,891
because if you wait until he comes and he finds you
571
00:25:31,926 --> 00:25:32,632
to tell him all that,
572
00:25:32,667 --> 00:25:34,392
well, then he'll get you for withholding evidence.
573
00:25:34,427 --> 00:25:35,856
And he'll make it stick.
574
00:25:35,891 --> 00:25:36,926
I can get Cramer right now.
575
00:25:36,961 --> 00:25:37,962
I'm sure he's in his office.
576
00:25:37,997 --> 00:25:38,409
No!
577
00:25:38,444 --> 00:25:42,185
I will not confess that performance to Mr. Cramer.
578
00:25:42,220 --> 00:25:44,974
No, I will not.
579
00:25:45,009 --> 00:25:47,985
I will not unfold the morning paper
580
00:25:48,020 --> 00:25:52,782
to a disclosure of this outlandish masquerade, no.
581
00:25:52,817 --> 00:25:56,783
So, you're going to sit and read that book, Here and Now,
582
00:25:56,818 --> 00:25:58,530
until they come with a warrant?
583
00:25:58,565 --> 00:26:00,624
That would be fatuous.
584
00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:04,493
No, I will...
585
00:26:04,528 --> 00:26:07,565
find the murderer and present him to Mr. Cramer.
586
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,608
There's nothing else!
587
00:26:08,643 --> 00:26:11,065
Oh... oh, you're going to find the murderer.
588
00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:11,955
Yes.
589
00:26:11,990 --> 00:26:13,352
Oh... I see.
590
00:26:13,387 --> 00:26:15,982
You're going to find the murderer.
591
00:26:16,017 --> 00:26:18,542
Well, why didn't you tell me?!
592
00:26:18,577 --> 00:26:21,647
Instead of letting me spout on and on and on.
593
00:26:21,682 --> 00:26:23,382
Well, I just wanted to see, uh,
594
00:26:23,417 --> 00:26:27,084
what your appraisal of the, uh... of the situation was
595
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,386
and if it agreed with mine.
596
00:26:28,421 --> 00:26:29,492
It does.
597
00:26:29,527 --> 00:26:30,564
Good!
598
00:26:31,422 --> 00:26:32,540
Great.
599
00:26:33,765 --> 00:26:35,906
Well, then you also may know
600
00:26:35,941 --> 00:26:40,538
that we have perhaps two weeks or two minutes.
601
00:26:40,573 --> 00:26:41,832
Yes, I do.
602
00:26:44,001 --> 00:26:47,209
Well, in your intimate association with Miss Dickie,
603
00:26:47,244 --> 00:26:50,418
you must have found out things about all these people.
604
00:26:50,453 --> 00:26:54,037
What? What did you find out?
605
00:26:54,038 --> 00:26:55,876
Let me explain someting to you...
606
00:26:55,911 --> 00:27:01,730
My association with Miss Dickie... is not intimate.
607
00:27:02,887 --> 00:27:05,673
Archie, uh, choose your adjective.
608
00:27:05,708 --> 00:27:06,907
I meant no innuendo.
609
00:27:06,942 --> 00:27:07,589
No, no, no, no.
610
00:27:07,624 --> 00:27:11,293
It's not a matter of adjectives.
611
00:27:11,328 --> 00:27:15,273
You see, Miss Dickie is a good dancer...
612
00:27:15,308 --> 00:27:17,852
an exceptionally good dancer...
613
00:27:17,887 --> 00:27:19,813
and I would go dancing with her
614
00:27:19,848 --> 00:27:21,138
Wednesday nights at the Flamingo.
615
00:27:21,173 --> 00:27:25,467
Yes, the same establishment that you dance with Miss Rowan.
616
00:27:25,502 --> 00:27:26,912
Does she... does she not object?
617
00:27:26,947 --> 00:27:28,288
She didn'w anything about it.
618
00:27:28,323 --> 00:27:30,191
That is, until Miss Dickie came up
619
00:27:30,226 --> 00:27:33,884
and introduced herself to Miss Rowan on Monday night and...
620
00:27:36,281 --> 00:27:37,826
it created srather unfortunate consequences.
621
00:27:37,861 --> 00:27:38,269
But anyway...
622
00:27:38,304 --> 00:27:39,136
Yes.
623
00:27:39,171 --> 00:27:40,858
Margaret Dickie asked me for a favor.
624
00:27:40,893 --> 00:27:43,510
See, she was planning to marry Bottweill for about a year,
625
00:27:43,545 --> 00:27:46,980
and then she thought Cherry Quon was making a play for Bottweill.
626
00:27:47,015 --> 00:27:48,440
She didn't want Cherry to take the rail,
627
00:27:48,475 --> 00:27:49,814
so she asked me a favor.
628
00:27:49,815 --> 00:27:52,145
She asked me if I could get her a marriage license
629
00:27:52,180 --> 00:27:53,980
and put my name on it, her name on it
630
00:27:54,015 --> 00:27:57,308
and then present it to Bottweill and say it's now or never.
631
00:27:57,343 --> 00:28:00,578
Well, I thought I was doing a good deed.
632
00:28:00,613 --> 00:28:03,814
And, uh, as I said, she's a good dancer...
633
00:28:03,849 --> 00:28:06,364
she's avery good dancer.
634
00:28:06,399 --> 00:28:07,957
Well...
635
00:28:09,441 --> 00:28:12,490
So you are not on intimate terms with Miss Dickie?
636
00:28:13,157 --> 00:28:14,623
No, sir.
637
00:28:14,658 --> 00:28:17,226
Even so, uh...
638
00:28:17,261 --> 00:28:22,032
she must have... spoken of the establishment
639
00:28:22,067 --> 00:28:24,166
and of those people.
640
00:28:24,201 --> 00:28:27,266
One of them killed Bottweill.
641
00:28:27,301 --> 00:28:30,297
Well, okay... Mrs. Jerome.
642
00:28:30,332 --> 00:28:32,651
Now, Mrs. Jerome put about a half a million bucks
643
00:28:32,686 --> 00:28:33,536
into the enterprise.
644
00:28:33,571 --> 00:28:34,910
She thinks she owns Bottweill.
645
00:28:34,945 --> 00:28:36,104
She was his angel.
646
00:28:36,139 --> 00:28:39,276
Right. Was she jealous of, uh... of Margot?
647
00:28:39,311 --> 00:28:40,910
Margot and Cherry.
648
00:28:40,945 --> 00:28:42,475
As for Leo, the kid,
649
00:28:42,510 --> 00:28:45,090
if he thought that his mother was dishing out his inheritance,
650
00:28:45,125 --> 00:28:46,213
well, then he might have reason.
651
00:28:46,248 --> 00:28:47,489
As for Mr. Kiernan,
652
00:28:47,524 --> 00:28:49,671
well, the way he was looking at Cherry Quon this afternoon,
653
00:28:49,706 --> 00:28:51,619
if he thought Bottweill was first in line...
654
00:28:51,654 --> 00:28:53,016
He'd probably be tempted, too.
655
00:28:53,051 --> 00:28:54,147
That's right.
656
00:28:54,182 --> 00:28:55,971
What about Mr. Hatch?
657
00:28:56,006 --> 00:28:57,725
Mr. Hatch, well...
658
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:58,958
I wouldn't be surprised
659
00:28:58,993 --> 00:29:01,510
if Mr. Hatch wiped out the whole bunch of them
660
00:29:01,545 --> 00:29:02,776
on general principles.
661
00:29:02,811 --> 00:29:05,187
He practically told me this afternoon
662
00:29:05,222 --> 00:29:07,564
that he created the entire enterprise
663
00:29:07,599 --> 00:29:08,939
and never got any credit for it.
664
00:29:08,974 --> 00:29:10,152
As for Cherry Quon,
665
00:29:10,187 --> 00:29:12,032
now, if I was going to be poisoned by anyone,
666
00:29:12,067 --> 00:29:13,659
I'd want it to be Cherry.
667
00:29:13,694 --> 00:29:16,652
That's only five.
668
00:29:18,005 --> 00:29:20,939
I got Margot a license to marry, not a license to kill.
669
00:29:20,974 --> 00:29:22,852
If she was lying when she told me it worked,
670
00:29:22,887 --> 00:29:26,216
then she's almost as good a liar as she is a dancer.
671
00:29:27,141 --> 00:29:29,155
If they had hit on Santa Claus's trail
672
00:29:29,190 --> 00:29:30,175
and it led to Nero Wolfe,
673
00:29:30,210 --> 00:29:33,621
Cramer was much more apt to come than to call.
674
00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:39,264
Hello, Mr. Goodwin.
675
00:29:39,299 --> 00:29:41,312
I'm here to see Nero Wolfe.
676
00:29:41,347 --> 00:29:42,922
Is that so?
677
00:29:42,957 --> 00:29:44,498
Well, please.
678
00:29:45,836 --> 00:29:47,747
As I have said, Cherry was highly decorative,
679
00:29:47,782 --> 00:29:48,387
and I want to point out
680
00:29:48,422 --> 00:29:50,805
she went fine with the red leather chair.
681
00:29:50,990 --> 00:29:52,924
I saw you this afternoon,
682
00:29:52,959 --> 00:29:54,510
but it wasn't the same thing.
683
00:29:54,545 --> 00:29:56,027
You could have been anybody
684
00:29:56,062 --> 00:30:00,497
dressed in that... silly Santa Claus costume.
685
00:30:02,265 --> 00:30:06,888
I... am at a loss, Miss Quon.
686
00:30:06,923 --> 00:30:10,474
You say you saw me in a Santa Claus costume?
687
00:30:10,509 --> 00:30:11,751
Oh, I'm sorry.
688
00:30:11,786 --> 00:30:13,475
You haven't told them?
689
00:30:13,510 --> 00:30:15,742
Then it's a good thing I haven't told them either.
690
00:30:15,777 --> 00:30:18,623
My dear madam, if you must talk in riddles,
691
00:30:18,658 --> 00:30:20,884
talk to Mr. Goodwin... he enjoys them.
692
00:30:20,919 --> 00:30:23,380
I thought you were clever.
693
00:30:23,415 --> 00:30:26,930
If I tell the police, even if they don't like to believe me,
694
00:30:26,965 --> 00:30:29,126
they will have to investigate.
695
00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:29,921
Of course...
696
00:30:29,956 --> 00:30:31,399
She weighed about 102.
697
00:30:31,434 --> 00:30:32,926
I could carry her under one arm
698
00:30:32,961 --> 00:30:34,730
with my other hand clamped on her mouth
699
00:30:34,765 --> 00:30:37,115
and lock her into the cubbyhole in the basement.
700
00:30:37,150 --> 00:30:38,280
Or, as an alternative,
701
00:30:38,315 --> 00:30:40,671
I could get a gun from my desk drawer and shoot her.
702
00:30:40,706 --> 00:30:42,911
I think we understand each other.
703
00:30:42,946 --> 00:30:46,477
I only understand that, uh, you want something, madam.
704
00:30:46,512 --> 00:30:47,283
What?
705
00:30:47,318 --> 00:30:49,044
I know who killed him.
706
00:30:49,079 --> 00:30:51,584
You see, Margot and Kurt were having an affair.
707
00:30:51,619 --> 00:30:53,347
A few months ago, Kurt began on me,
708
00:30:53,382 --> 00:30:56,236
and it was hard because I had stron feeling for him.
709
00:30:56,271 --> 00:30:58,622
I told him the first man I slept with
710
00:30:58,657 --> 00:30:59,577
would be my husband.
711
00:30:59,612 --> 00:31:00,175
Madam...
712
00:31:00,210 --> 00:31:02,344
But then last night he phoned me.
713
00:31:02,379 --> 00:31:04,571
He said he had broken with Margot for good
714
00:31:04,606 --> 00:31:06,829
and wanted to marry me.
715
00:31:06,864 --> 00:31:09,490
That's when he told me about you...
716
00:31:09,525 --> 00:31:12,966
your arranging to be Santa Claus.
717
00:31:13,001 --> 00:31:16,407
I have not yet conceded that, but...
718
00:31:16,442 --> 00:31:18,810
have we arrived at the point?
719
00:31:19,213 --> 00:31:21,427
Did Miss Dikie killed Mr. Bottweill?
720
00:31:21,462 --> 00:31:23,169
Of course she did.
721
00:31:23,204 --> 00:31:25,071
And you told the police that?
722
00:31:25,106 --> 00:31:26,720
Yes, but they won't listen.
723
00:31:26,755 --> 00:31:28,334
You have no evidence, then.
724
00:31:28,369 --> 00:31:29,843
She was so clever,
725
00:31:29,878 --> 00:31:31,805
being so nice at the party.
726
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,722
They could never prove it.
727
00:31:33,757 --> 00:31:37,429
You are vulnerable to an action for slander.
728
00:31:37,464 --> 00:31:39,361
You understand that.
729
00:31:39,396 --> 00:31:41,802
But what I was thinking, Mr. Wolfe,
730
00:31:41,837 --> 00:31:44,173
is that you are vulnerable, too.
731
00:31:44,208 --> 00:31:46,701
And you want me to provide the evidence?
732
00:31:46,736 --> 00:31:48,904
That's what I want.
733
00:31:48,939 --> 00:31:51,057
Did I say it so you understand it?
734
00:31:51,092 --> 00:31:55,063
Oh, yes... indeed, you put it admirably.
735
00:31:55,098 --> 00:31:59,000
His tone was dry but not hostile.
736
00:31:59,035 --> 00:32:01,704
But I could see a muscle twitching beneath his right ear,
737
00:32:01,739 --> 00:32:04,086
and she couldn't.
738
00:32:04,121 --> 00:32:05,187
I suppose, Miss Quon,
739
00:32:05,222 --> 00:32:07,733
that it would be futile to advance the possibility
740
00:32:07,768 --> 00:32:10,036
that one of the others killed him.
741
00:32:10,071 --> 00:32:11,763
I know who killed him.
742
00:32:11,798 --> 00:32:12,930
I don't!
743
00:32:12,965 --> 00:32:14,304
You will hear from me tomorrow.
744
00:32:14,339 --> 00:32:15,734
I can't wait longer than tomorrow morning
745
00:32:15,769 --> 00:32:16,500
to go to the police.
746
00:32:16,535 --> 00:32:16,912
Phooey!
747
00:32:16,947 --> 00:32:17,980
You can and will!
748
00:32:18,015 --> 00:32:19,302
The moment you disclose that,
749
00:32:19,337 --> 00:32:22,339
you no longer have a whip to dangle at me!
750
00:32:22,374 --> 00:32:24,074
You'll hear from me tomorrow!
751
00:32:26,677 --> 00:32:30,097
I hope it will be early tomorrow.
752
00:32:32,103 --> 00:32:33,798
At 4:30 the following afternoon,
753
00:32:33,833 --> 00:32:35,459
Wolfe was in the plant room.
754
00:32:35,494 --> 00:32:38,849
There was no note on my desk, so I had no instructions.
755
00:32:38,884 --> 00:32:40,554
But my desk ashtray contained
756
00:32:40,589 --> 00:32:42,820
three stubs from Pharaoh cigarettes.
757
00:32:42,855 --> 00:32:45,129
Saul Panzer smokes Pharaohs.
758
00:32:45,164 --> 00:32:47,064
I buzzed the plant room.
759
00:32:47,144 --> 00:32:50,201
Yes, is it all right to empty my ashtray?
760
00:32:50,236 --> 00:32:51,564
Yes, please do so.
761
00:32:51,599 --> 00:32:53,114
Then what do I do?
762
00:32:53,149 --> 00:32:54,630
I'll tell you at 6:00.
763
00:32:54,665 --> 00:32:57,040
Possibly earlier.
764
00:33:02,075 --> 00:33:04,171
I checked the lock box in the safe.
765
00:33:04,206 --> 00:33:07,017
Saul had not been supplied with funds.
766
00:33:13,562 --> 00:33:14,750
Nero Wolfe's...
767
00:33:15,259 --> 00:33:16,083
Saul!
768
00:33:16,304 --> 00:33:19,128
Glad to know you're back home safe.
769
00:33:19,163 --> 00:33:22,199
Tell Mr. Wolfe that everything's all set, no snags.
770
00:33:23,934 --> 00:33:25,669
Anything else?
771
00:33:27,484 --> 00:33:28,632
Yes!
772
00:33:28,667 --> 00:33:29,745
Yes.
773
00:33:29,780 --> 00:33:33,772
Saul phoned to say everything is all right... no snags.
774
00:33:33,807 --> 00:33:35,953
Congratulations.
775
00:33:35,988 --> 00:33:37,142
Now, listen, if I'm in the way,
776
00:33:37,177 --> 00:33:39,550
I can call Miss Rowan and go dancing.
777
00:33:39,585 --> 00:33:40,693
Well, oddly enough, you're not.
778
00:33:40,728 --> 00:33:45,587
Have chairs in place for the visitors; ten should be enough.
779
00:33:45,622 --> 00:33:48,365
Four or five will be there shortly after 6:00;
780
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:49,725
I hope not more.
781
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,912
Others will come later.
782
00:33:51,947 --> 00:33:53,556
Anything else for me?
783
00:33:53,591 --> 00:33:55,165
Yes! Stop calling!
784
00:33:57,952 --> 00:34:01,238
The first set arrived between 6:15 and 6:20.
785
00:34:02,174 --> 00:34:03,841
Please be seated.
786
00:34:11,215 --> 00:34:12,950
Ah, no, not there.
787
00:34:12,985 --> 00:34:14,216
Right there.
788
00:34:14,251 --> 00:34:15,665
Mrs. Jerome copped the red leather chair,
789
00:34:15,700 --> 00:34:18,857
but I moved her, mink and all, to one of the yellow ones.
790
00:34:18,892 --> 00:34:19,982
Miss Quon?
791
00:34:20,017 --> 00:34:22,787
Cherry might be headed for a very different kind of chair...
792
00:34:22,822 --> 00:34:24,098
wired for power...
793
00:34:24,133 --> 00:34:26,473
but even so, I thought she rated that background
794
00:34:26,508 --> 00:34:28,999
and Mrs. Jerome didn't.
795
00:34:40,711 --> 00:34:45,482
This morning I sent each of you an identical invitation
796
00:34:45,517 --> 00:34:48,581
saying that Mr. Goodwin has certain information
797
00:34:48,616 --> 00:34:51,679
which he feels he must give the police
798
00:34:51,714 --> 00:34:54,122
not later than tonight.
799
00:34:54,157 --> 00:34:57,024
Now, I have persuaded Mr. Goodwin
800
00:34:57,059 --> 00:34:59,861
to let me discuss it with you first.
801
00:34:59,896 --> 00:35:03,299
The difficulty is that any of you,
802
00:35:03,334 --> 00:35:06,702
including Miss Dickie and Mr. Kiernan,
803
00:35:06,737 --> 00:35:10,207
had the opportunity to poison that bottle, did you not?
804
00:35:10,242 --> 00:35:11,473
Nuts!
805
00:35:11,508 --> 00:35:13,113
It... it was that guy playing Santa Claus.
806
00:35:13,148 --> 00:35:16,496
I was with Bottweill and my mother the entire time.
807
00:35:16,531 --> 00:35:19,316
Bottweill is dead and your mother is your mother.
808
00:35:19,616 --> 00:35:23,073
And she was being milked by Bottweill
809
00:35:23,108 --> 00:35:24,955
of your future fortune, sir.
810
00:35:27,991 --> 00:35:30,340
Now, when did you learn, Mrs. Jerome,
811
00:35:30,375 --> 00:35:32,689
that Kurt intended to marry Cherry Quon?
812
00:35:32,724 --> 00:35:34,134
Kurt? Marry her?
813
00:35:34,169 --> 00:35:35,509
That strumpet?
814
00:35:35,544 --> 00:35:37,287
I thought he was going to marry Margot.
815
00:35:37,322 --> 00:35:38,325
Margot?!
816
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,969
Everybody knew that but you.
817
00:35:41,004 --> 00:35:42,962
But if Kurt had changed his mind,
818
00:35:42,997 --> 00:35:46,158
Mrs. Jerome would have gone for Cherry, not Kurt.
819
00:35:46,193 --> 00:35:47,755
Now, Kiernan, on the other hand,
820
00:35:47,790 --> 00:35:51,415
he would have murdered a hundred Kurts to get to Cherry.
821
00:35:51,450 --> 00:35:53,394
Well, perhaps, yes.
822
00:35:54,451 --> 00:35:55,717
Now, Archie.
823
00:35:56,537 --> 00:35:57,921
It looked as if the time had come
824
00:35:57,956 --> 00:35:59,187
to pass on the information
825
00:35:59,222 --> 00:36:01,521
which I felt I must give the police without delay...
826
00:36:01,556 --> 00:36:03,820
which was difficult, because I didn't have any.
827
00:36:03,855 --> 00:36:06,596
Luckily, the doorbell rang.
828
00:36:08,332 --> 00:36:11,466
There's a couple of your friends here, Goodwin.
829
00:36:12,270 --> 00:36:13,529
What's all this?!
830
00:36:13,564 --> 00:36:14,803
Miss Quon?
831
00:36:14,838 --> 00:36:16,759
If... if you don't mind moving,
832
00:36:16,794 --> 00:36:18,680
Mr. Cramer likes that chair.
833
00:36:20,911 --> 00:36:22,245
You're under arrest, Panzer,
834
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:23,586
and you'll stay with Stebbins!
835
00:36:23,621 --> 00:36:24,893
And you keep your mouth shut!
836
00:36:24,928 --> 00:36:25,567
I'm running this!
837
00:36:25,602 --> 00:36:27,377
You are not running this, Mr. Cramer,
838
00:36:27,412 --> 00:36:29,117
not in my house, no.
839
00:36:29,152 --> 00:36:30,887
You should know better than that.
840
00:36:31,321 --> 00:36:34,358
If Mr. Panzer is under arrest, take him!
841
00:36:34,393 --> 00:36:35,658
Otherwise, sit down
842
00:36:35,659 --> 00:36:39,129
while I tell you who killed Kurt Bottweill.
843
00:36:39,392 --> 00:36:40,983
Come on, it's your chair.
844
00:36:41,018 --> 00:36:42,165
It's your chair.
845
00:36:45,780 --> 00:36:47,804
Now, I assume that you know
846
00:36:47,839 --> 00:36:49,938
for the past two months
847
00:36:49,973 --> 00:36:54,745
that Mr. Goodwin has been seeing something of Miss Dickie.
848
00:36:54,780 --> 00:36:56,445
He says she dances well.
849
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,525
Oh, save that for later.
850
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,369
I want to know if you sent Panzer into that...
851
00:37:00,404 --> 00:37:02,083
I'm headed for that.
852
00:37:02,118 --> 00:37:03,727
Archie, if you please.
853
00:37:03,762 --> 00:37:06,010
Tell us what Miss Dickie asked you to do
854
00:37:06,045 --> 00:37:08,156
late last Tuesday evening.
855
00:37:08,191 --> 00:37:12,516
Well, Bottweill promised to marry her next week.
856
00:37:12,551 --> 00:37:16,842
He'd made this promise, uh, well over a year ago
857
00:37:16,877 --> 00:37:19,868
and she wanted a showdown.
858
00:37:19,903 --> 00:37:22,504
So I was supposed to get a marriage license,
859
00:37:22,539 --> 00:37:23,927
put her name on it, my name on it
860
00:37:23,962 --> 00:37:25,463
and she would show it to Bottweill
861
00:37:25,498 --> 00:37:26,964
and say, "It's now or never, pal. "
862
00:37:26,999 --> 00:37:27,461
Yes.
863
00:37:27,496 --> 00:37:29,725
And... and yesterday afternoon?
864
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,916
She told me the license trick worked perfectly.
865
00:37:33,938 --> 00:37:36,820
Did she tell you what had happened to the license?
866
00:37:37,254 --> 00:37:37,635
Well, yes.
867
00:37:37,670 --> 00:37:39,821
He saw the license... Bottweill, that is...
868
00:37:39,856 --> 00:37:41,715
and he tore it up and threw it in the wastepaper basket.
869
00:37:41,750 --> 00:37:43,759
That was the night before Thursday.
870
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,663
And what did you do when you went to the office
871
00:37:46,698 --> 00:37:49,364
after Bottweill had died?
872
00:37:49,399 --> 00:37:52,577
Well, I, uh... I dumped the wastebasket,
873
00:37:52,612 --> 00:37:56,506
and then I picked the pieces up and put them in one by one,
874
00:37:56,541 --> 00:37:59,376
and there was no sign of a marriage license.
875
00:37:59,411 --> 00:38:01,111
You made sure of that?
876
00:38:01,146 --> 00:38:02,377
Oh, yes.
877
00:38:02,412 --> 00:38:03,280
Then Cherry took them.
878
00:38:03,315 --> 00:38:04,036
What?
879
00:38:04,071 --> 00:38:05,560
You took them, you little slut.
880
00:38:05,595 --> 00:38:07,149
Miss Dickie, please.
881
00:38:07,707 --> 00:38:09,566
I will not wait any longer, Mr. Wolfe.
882
00:38:09,601 --> 00:38:10,543
You said
883
00:38:10,578 --> 00:38:11,486
Miss Quon!
884
00:38:11,521 --> 00:38:13,473
I am doing this!
885
00:38:13,508 --> 00:38:15,390
Now another fact.
886
00:38:15,425 --> 00:38:18,701
Yesterday I had lunch with Kurt Bottweill.
887
00:38:18,736 --> 00:38:23,835
He called before to say he needed some white cotton gloves,
888
00:38:23,870 --> 00:38:26,651
and would I stop and get them.
889
00:38:26,686 --> 00:38:29,271
It struck me as peculiar.
890
00:38:29,306 --> 00:38:32,125
But then again, he was a rather peculiar man.
891
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,037
Cramer wasn't buying any part of it,
892
00:38:34,072 --> 00:38:36,950
which was unjustified, since some of it was true.
893
00:38:36,985 --> 00:38:40,635
...vaguely that he'd t on a vagabond
894
00:38:40,670 --> 00:38:45,574
and had hired him to serve drinks costumed as Santa Claus.
895
00:38:45,609 --> 00:38:50,794
However, the only way to make his hands presentable
896
00:38:50,829 --> 00:38:53,128
and acceptable to the public
897
00:38:53,163 --> 00:38:55,765
would be to have him wear gloves.
898
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,572
You would have reported that.
899
00:38:57,607 --> 00:39:00,477
I decided that rather than suffer your rebuke
900
00:39:00,512 --> 00:39:04,710
for not reporting it earlier, I would solve the case.
901
00:39:04,745 --> 00:39:08,908
I needed first to talk with one of Bottweill's employees
902
00:39:08,909 --> 00:39:12,474
and I did. With Miss Quon, last evening.
903
00:39:12,509 --> 00:39:15,552
He looked at Cherry, of course, for any signs of danger.
904
00:39:15,587 --> 00:39:18,596
She had started to blurt it out once and might again.
905
00:39:18,631 --> 00:39:19,972
But she didn't move a muscle.
906
00:39:20,007 --> 00:39:20,466
This morning,
907
00:39:20,501 --> 00:39:24,458
I had Mr. Saul Panzer do two errands.
908
00:39:24,493 --> 00:39:27,213
The first was the delivery of some messages,
909
00:39:27,248 --> 00:39:29,998
the text of which ran as follows:
910
00:39:30,033 --> 00:39:33,703
"When I was there Thursday putting on my costume,
911
00:39:33,738 --> 00:39:36,505
"I saw what you did.
912
00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:39,694
"Be at the newspaper stand at the corner of 10th Avenue
913
00:39:39,729 --> 00:39:42,706
"and 45th Street at 6:30 p. m. today.
914
00:39:42,741 --> 00:39:45,875
I'll come up to you and say, Saint Nick. "
915
00:39:45,910 --> 00:39:49,009
And the messages were signed "Santa Claus. "
916
00:39:49,044 --> 00:39:49,983
Oh, God!
917
00:39:50,018 --> 00:39:50,767
You admit it!
918
00:39:50,802 --> 00:39:51,482
I proclaim it.
919
00:39:51,517 --> 00:39:54,131
If the murderer believed he had been observed,
920
00:39:54,166 --> 00:39:56,493
he would be irresistibly impelled
921
00:39:56,927 --> 00:39:59,529
to meet the writer of the message, don't you think?
922
00:40:00,290 --> 00:40:02,782
Now, have you...
923
00:40:02,817 --> 00:40:04,301
any questions?
924
00:40:07,571 --> 00:40:08,343
Anyone?
925
00:40:08,378 --> 00:40:10,373
About anything?
926
00:40:18,442 --> 00:40:21,244
Saul, you may report now.
927
00:40:21,279 --> 00:40:25,989
You were in the vicinity of the newspaper stand shortly before 6:30?
928
00:40:26,290 --> 00:40:28,077
Yes, sir, at 6:20.
929
00:40:29,025 --> 00:40:29,939
Within three minutes,
930
00:40:29,974 --> 00:40:32,894
I had recognized three homicide men
931
00:40:32,929 --> 00:40:35,252
that were scattered around different spots.
932
00:40:35,287 --> 00:40:37,540
I don't know if any of them recognized me.
933
00:40:37,575 --> 00:40:43,489
Then at 6:28, I saw Alfred Kiernan standing around.
934
00:40:43,524 --> 00:40:46,762
Then I saw Margot Dickie come out of the alley
935
00:40:46,797 --> 00:40:48,979
and I followed your instructions.
936
00:40:52,449 --> 00:40:54,149
Saint Nick?
937
00:40:54,184 --> 00:40:56,353
Who are you and what do you want?
938
00:40:56,388 --> 00:40:58,105
Excuse me a moment, madam.
939
00:40:58,140 --> 00:40:59,823
I'll be right with you.
940
00:41:01,992 --> 00:41:03,293
Saint Nick!
941
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:08,498
Hey, Panzer!
942
00:41:08,533 --> 00:41:09,366
Panzer!
943
00:41:10,667 --> 00:41:12,185
Get back here, ma'am!
944
00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:13,668
Panzer! Get him!
945
00:41:13,703 --> 00:41:15,005
Keep ahold of her!
946
00:41:16,740 --> 00:41:18,475
Come on, you're coming with us.
947
00:41:18,908 --> 00:41:19,975
Anything else, sir?
948
00:41:20,010 --> 00:41:22,777
No, that's... satisfactory.
949
00:41:23,489 --> 00:41:28,885
I assume Mr. Kiernan gave your men a signal.
950
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:29,943
Yes.
951
00:41:29,978 --> 00:41:34,203
He brought us the message, along with Mrs. Jerome,
952
00:41:34,238 --> 00:41:38,428
her son and Hatch, and we set up a surveillance.
953
00:41:38,463 --> 00:41:40,163
But not Miss Dickie?
954
00:41:40,198 --> 00:41:41,203
No.
955
00:41:41,238 --> 00:41:42,766
Neither did Miss Quon.
956
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:45,347
Well, let us ask:
957
00:41:45,382 --> 00:41:49,421
Why did Miss Dickie tell Mr. Goodwin
958
00:41:49,456 --> 00:41:54,044
that Bottweill was going to marry her if it wasn't true?
959
00:41:54,079 --> 00:41:56,681
Surely a stupid thing to do,
960
00:41:56,716 --> 00:41:59,683
since he would inevitably learn the truth.
961
00:41:59,718 --> 00:42:02,447
But it wasn't so stupid
962
00:42:02,482 --> 00:42:07,911
if she had already put the poison in the bottle.
963
00:42:07,946 --> 00:42:13,341
It would purge her of motive, or at least help.
964
00:42:13,376 --> 00:42:15,029
Any comment, Miss Dickie?
965
00:42:15,064 --> 00:42:16,248
Cherry did it!
966
00:42:16,283 --> 00:42:17,432
She killed him!
967
00:42:17,467 --> 00:42:19,202
Don't answer him!
968
00:42:19,237 --> 00:42:20,622
I'm running this now.
969
00:42:20,657 --> 00:42:21,527
It was her!
970
00:42:21,562 --> 00:42:22,363
She's jealous!
971
00:42:22,398 --> 00:42:25,570
She's jealous because he wants to marry me.
972
00:42:26,576 --> 00:42:27,794
He loved me!
973
00:42:27,829 --> 00:42:30,914
Yeah, but she didn't go meet the blackmailer...
974
00:42:31,602 --> 00:42:33,083
and you did.
975
00:42:35,185 --> 00:42:36,986
Archie, please.
976
00:42:42,625 --> 00:42:43,599
Purley.
977
00:42:43,634 --> 00:42:44,967
That seemed unnecessary.
978
00:42:45,002 --> 00:42:46,581
I was sitting right across from her
979
00:42:46,616 --> 00:42:48,386
and might have been trusted to grab her,
980
00:42:48,421 --> 00:42:50,122
but Purley's never very considerate
981
00:42:50,157 --> 00:42:52,806
of other people's feelings, especially mine.
982
00:42:52,841 --> 00:42:55,205
Please, Archie, help me!
983
00:43:08,218 --> 00:43:11,254
What was Saul's second errand?
984
00:43:11,289 --> 00:43:12,322
Saul interviewed
985
00:43:12,357 --> 00:43:14,707
the cleaning woman at Bottweill's.
986
00:43:14,742 --> 00:43:16,141
The wastebasket in his office
987
00:43:16,176 --> 00:43:18,159
had been emptied Thursday afternoon.
988
00:43:18,194 --> 00:43:21,242
Before Margot had her conference with Kurt.
989
00:43:21,277 --> 00:43:21,621
Yes.
990
00:43:21,656 --> 00:43:23,188
Since there was no reason
991
00:43:23,223 --> 00:43:25,560
for anyone to remove only those pieces,
992
00:43:25,595 --> 00:43:27,251
presumably Miss Dickie lied;
993
00:43:27,286 --> 00:43:28,674
and if she lied about the license,
994
00:43:28,709 --> 00:43:31,641
the rest of what she said was under suspicion.
995
00:43:36,413 --> 00:43:38,148
Where are you going?
996
00:43:38,183 --> 00:43:39,848
Out.
997
00:43:39,883 --> 00:43:42,263
To attend to your thousands, I suppose.
998
00:43:42,298 --> 00:43:45,053
I looked up the word "dally. "
999
00:43:45,088 --> 00:43:49,343
It means to act playfully, especially amorously;
1000
00:43:49,378 --> 00:43:52,498
to linger, to waste time.
1001
00:43:52,646 --> 00:43:54,631
I intend to dally.
1002
00:43:57,667 --> 00:44:14,868
Lock the door as you leave.
1003
00:44:14,903 --> 00:44:16,319
It's not Monday.
1004
00:44:20,223 --> 00:44:22,311
That, uh, charity case you're so jealous of,
1005
00:44:22,346 --> 00:44:23,831
well, she's on her way to jail.
1006
00:44:23,866 --> 00:44:26,261
I'm not jealous.
1007
00:44:26,296 --> 00:44:27,954
Ah. She murdered the man she loved.
1008
00:44:27,989 --> 00:44:29,766
She had the right idea.
1009
00:44:31,067 --> 00:44:32,460
I thought we would stay home tonight
1010
00:44:32,495 --> 00:44:34,537
and do a little dancing.
1011
00:44:56,264 --> 00:45:00,330
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