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* [Charles Gounod:
"Funeral March of a Marionette"]

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Good evening.

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This misty bit of ectoplasm...

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forming on the inside
of your television screen...

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is one Alfred Hitchcock...

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coming to you from across that
great barrier that divides
the quick from the dead:

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the Atlantic Ocean.

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I have materialized
for the express purpose...

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of warning you that
during tonight's séance...

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you will witness
a playlet entitled:

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"And So Died Riabouchinska."

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Oh, yes. Before we have
our play, I would like
to make an announcement...

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to those of you
who can't stay until the end.

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The butler did it.

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*[music playing]

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[horn honking]

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(Pop)
How are ya', Macey.

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Beat, as usual.

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I see you're improving
your mind again.

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Yeah. Like you do, with those
confession books you read.

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We're both intellectuals, Pop.
See what I got?

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What's that?
The boyfriend went up
to Las Vegas...

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to win enough to buy me
a mink coat, and this is what
he came back with.

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Hey, I haven't seen
a silver dollar
in a long time.

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I'll match you for it.

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No. I'm gonna keep it
for a good luck piece.

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I'll tell you what I will do.
I'll match you with it.

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If I lose,
I'll give you a quarter.

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Okay.
Who's matching who
and who's paying?

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I'm matching you.
And if things go
according to schedule...

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I'll probably pay for it.

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Go on! You made a dollar
off me already this week.

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[door opening]

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Good evening.
(Macey)
Hi.

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How are tricks, Mr. Fabian?
Fine, thank you.

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Mr. Fabian,
you're the first ventriloquist
I've ever known...

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who took his dummy home
every night.

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Well, I can't risk
anything happening.

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Be a little late
for me to turn into
a song-and-dance man.

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That's what I'd have to do
if this were stolen.

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*[music continues playing]

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[people clapping]

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He should worry
if it's stolen.

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I hear it's insured for
thousands of dollars.

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Me, I'd see that it was stolen
and collect the insurance.

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Come on. Let's match.
Okay.

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(Pop)
What'd you have
to do that for?

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(Macey)
Too many vodkas
last night, Dad.

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The lights are on
the blink down here.
I've got some matches.

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What's the matter?
You're afraid of the dark?

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[screaming]

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Mr. Silver,
you told me earlier...

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that you had seen
Ockham once before.

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Before you discovered his body
at the bottom of the stairs.

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Now,
are you positive about this?

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Yes, sir. If I hadn't
seen him more than once,
I wouldn't be so sure.

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But I saw him a couple
of times, I tell you.

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He came asking
after Mr. Fabian.
That's the ventriloquist.

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What'd he say exactly?

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Wanted to know the times
of the shows. That is,
when Mr. Fabian went on.

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The time that would be
the most convenient
to see him.

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You tell Mr. Fabian this?
I did.

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And what'd
Mr. Fabian have to say?

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He said to tell him
he was too busy to see anyone.

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That there were a lot of
crackpots around wanting
to be ventriloquists...

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and he wasn't in the mood
to answer a lot of questions.

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Did he act uneasy about it
when you told him?

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No, he didn't.
He didn't seem to care
when I told him...

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that the man said he had
something very important
to talk to him about.

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Okay, Mr. Silver.
That's all for now. Thanks.

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Where's Mr. Fabian's
dressing room?
The next one down the passage.

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Okay. Thanks for the coffee.
Okay.

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[people chattering]

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Oh.

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I'm Mel Douglas, Lieutenant.
Mr. Fabian's manager.

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Is there anything
I can do to help?

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Not right now.
But stick around, will you?

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Mr. Fabian.

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Mrs. Fabian.

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I'm Detective
Lieutenant Krovich.
How do you do?

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How do you do?

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I understand, Mrs. Fabian,
that you are an assistant...

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in your husband's act.
Is that right?
Yes, I am.

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How long, may I ask?

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Too long.
Alice, please.

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My wife has been my assistant
for almost eight years now,
Lieutenant.

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Did either of you know Ockham,
the man who was murdered?

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No.

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You ever hear his name before?
No.

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Mrs. Fabian, I asked
if you'd ever heard
the name Ockham before?

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No, I have not.

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Mr. Fabian,
the doorman told me earlier...

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that he told you Ockham
had been around inquiring
for you.

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Said he had something
very important to tell you.

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Well, that may
very well be true. I mean,
about his inquiring for me.

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But that doesn't mean
that I'd seen or heard
of him before.

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Mr. Silver says, too,
that he told you the name
of the man inquiring for you.

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But that doesn't mean
that I'd remember hearing
the name.

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Not even an unusual name
like Ockham?

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Well, I've always had
a very poor memory for names.

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(Riabouchinska)
Let me out.
Let me out, someone.

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Please let me out.

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No, Riabouchinska.
This is serious business.

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Now you be quiet.
That's a good girl.

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What is this, Fabian?

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You mustn't mind her,
Lieutenant. She always
wants to get into the act.

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(Riabouchinska)
But perhaps Lieutenant Krovich
would like to question me?

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Don't be silly, Riabouchinska.

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We can do without the comedy,
Fabian. I'd like to get on
with this, if you don't mind.

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Please, let me out.
All right. Give me the key.

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All right.
Give me the key.

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Thank you, Lieutenant Krovich.
You are very kind.

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Isn't she lovely,
Lieutenant?

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She's appeared in Paris, Rome,
Vienna, all the big cities.

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Everyone loves her.

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She's irresistible.

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Please don't talk about me.
You know Alice
doesn't like it.

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Why, Alice always likes it.

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Why do you say that?
You know it isn't true.

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I think you'd better
go back into your box,
Riabouchinska.

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But I don't want to.
I'm as much part
of this murder as Alice.

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Or Mr. Douglas.
Don't you dare
drag him into this.

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It's just that I want
the truth to be told...

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and if I'm locked away
in my box,
I know it will not be.

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You see,
Fabian is such a liar,
and I have to watch him.

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You get that thing
out of my sight!
I'm sick of it!

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You hate that dummy,
don't you, Mrs. Fabian?

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Well, wouldn't you if--
(Mr. Fabian)
Alice.

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You don't have
to tell him anything.
Tell him about Mr. Douglas.

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Will you keep her quiet?
Apparently,
she prefers to talk.

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Mr. Fabian, Mr. Douglas is out
in the hall. Would you ask him
to come in, please?

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I will, indeed.
Come along, Riabouchinska.

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[people chattering]

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How long have
you been married?
Seven years.

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I married Fabian
because I loved him,
and I thought he loved me.

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But then I discovered
that his work was
really his entire life.

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He'd spend hours rehearsing
his act with the dummy.

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I hardly ever saw him
except when we were on stage.

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He never had any time
for me. He was always
working with her.

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You mean to tell me
you're jealous of a doll?

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Oh, I know it sounds silly,
and I suppose it's
the greatest tribute...

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I could pay him
as a ventriloquist.

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But I began to resent her.
I couldn't help it.

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Do you know he spent
hundreds of dollars
on her wardrobe...

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when I had nothing to wear?

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Why, Lieutenant,
do you know that he even--

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Why, Mr. Douglas.
Come on in.

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Did you know the dead man?
No, I did not.

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You sure that
somewhere along the line
in your various dealings...

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you might not have met him
and then forgotten?

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I have a very good memory
for faces, and I certainly
would not have forgotten his.

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Such an ugly little man--

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We're not here to discuss
his physical appearance!

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Now,
a man's been murdered...

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and someone here's
not telling the truth.

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Someone here is
not telling the truth.

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I think we've all seen enough
of your dummy act on stage...

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without getting any more
of it here.
Mr. Douglas...

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what's your relationship
with Mrs. Fabian?
Now, just a minute.

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Don't get angry.
That's exactly what
he'd like you to do.

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I already told him
what I went through
the past seven years.

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Isn't it natural,
with so little...

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love and understanding
from my husband...

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that I'd turn to someone else?

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Yes, things are beginning
to shape up now.

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You know, Ockham was
a very poor man,
down on his luck.

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He came to the theater
tonight because he knew
about you and Douglas.

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Now, maybe he threatened
to speak to Mr. Fabian
about you.

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If you didn't buy him off.

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That would give you
the best reason in the world

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to get rid of him,
wouldn't it?

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Well, there was no need
to kill anyone.

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You see, Fabian knew
all about Alice and me.

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Did you?
I did, indeed.

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[laughs]

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I did, indeed.

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I wouldn't laugh
if I were you, Fabian.

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I wouldn't laugh.

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[audience clapping]
Thank you.

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Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you very much.

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Riabouchinska,
have you anything to say
to your audience?

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(Riabouchinska)
I think you are
all wonderful.

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And have you anything
to say to me?

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I think you are the most
wonderful ventriloquist
in the world.

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And....
And what?

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I love you, Fabian.

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[audience laughing]

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He never went over
as good with
the boy dummy.

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Boy dummy?
Yeah.
He called him Sweet William.

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The girl's better.

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She's real cute, ain't she?
Yes, she is.

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You leaving, Lieutenant?
Yeah. I'll see you tomorrow.

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Hi.
Hi.

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(Riabouchinska)
What are you thinking,
Mr. Fabian?

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(Fabian)
About you, as always.

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And what were you
thinking about me?

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I was thinking
that there were nights
in my life...

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when I dreamed of
the unobtainable.

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And you were what I dreamed.

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Good evening, Lieutenant.
I was rehearsing.

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We're breaking in
a new act next week.

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Now, Fabian, you know we're
not booked anywhere next week.

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She tells the truth,
doesn't she?

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Miss Ilyana Riaminolva.

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*[music playing
in background]

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100 pounds. Black hair.
Blue eyes. Oval face.

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Born 1914 of
Russo-Slav parentage.

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Believed to be
a victim of amnesia.

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You know, Fabian,
it was pretty silly of me to
go through the police files...

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looking for this picture
of a dummy.

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You should've heard them laugh
down there at headquarters.

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But here she is.

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Riabouchinska.

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Not <i>papier-mâché,</i>
not wood, not a doll...

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but a woman that once
lived and moved around.

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And, Fabian, disappeared.

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Well, there's nothing to it.

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I just saw
this woman's picture
a long time ago.

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And, I fashioned
my Riabouchinska after her.
It's not that simple.

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*[drums beating
in background]

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This morning I went through...
a stack of theatrical magazines,
that high.

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I found a very interesting
article concerning an act...

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that toured a second-rate
circuit in 1934.

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The act was known as
"Fabian and Sweet William."

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Sweet William was a boy dummy.

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And there was a girl assistant.

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Ilyana Riaminolva.

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[people clapping
in background]

229
00:11:59,352 --> 00:12:03,056
There was no picture of her
in the article, though.

230
00:12:03,056 --> 00:12:06,059
But at least I had a name.
The name of a real person
to go by.

231
00:12:06,092 --> 00:12:09,796
Very simple for me, then,
to dig up this picture out
of the police files.

232
00:12:14,334 --> 00:12:16,970
Fabian, suppose you tell me
the whole story, huh?

233
00:12:17,070 --> 00:12:20,073
She was my assistant,
that's all. I simply used
her as a model.

234
00:12:20,106 --> 00:12:21,975
You're making me sweat!

235
00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:24,911
Now why don't you stop
fencing around and get on
with the story?

236
00:12:24,944 --> 00:12:28,415
All right.
I have nothing to hide.

237
00:12:28,448 --> 00:12:33,553
It's just as you said.
I was billed as
"Fabian and Sweet William."

238
00:12:33,586 --> 00:12:36,923
And when I was in Los Angeles,
this girl appeared
at the stage door.

239
00:12:36,956 --> 00:12:39,392
She told me she'd followed
my work for years.

240
00:12:39,426 --> 00:12:44,564
She was desperate
for a job, and she wanted
to be my assistant.

241
00:12:44,597 --> 00:12:47,334
She was fresh and eager.

242
00:12:47,367 --> 00:12:52,405
So, before I knew it,
without saying yes or no
or even perhaps...

243
00:12:52,439 --> 00:12:55,241
there she was
on stage with me.

244
00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:58,311
And in two months,
I was in love with her.

245
00:12:58,345 --> 00:13:00,947
Well, you finally admit
that you fell in love
with her.

246
00:13:01,047 --> 00:13:04,884
It's about time you were
getting around to it.
Yes. But there were arguments.

247
00:13:04,918 --> 00:13:07,454
Bitter, bitter arguments.
Unkind.

248
00:13:07,487 --> 00:13:10,156
Unfair things were said.

249
00:13:10,190 --> 00:13:13,293
Once I even burned
her entire wardrobe
in a fit of jealousy.

250
00:13:13,326 --> 00:13:16,062
She took that quite quietly.

251
00:13:16,062 --> 00:13:18,264
And then, one night,
I gave her a week's notice.

252
00:13:18,298 --> 00:13:20,533
I accused her
of being disloyal.

253
00:13:20,567 --> 00:13:23,203
I shouted at her.
I slapped her
and I pushed her out.

254
00:13:24,537 --> 00:13:26,806
She disappeared that night.

255
00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,642
Disappeared, Fabian?
Yes.

256
00:13:30,910 --> 00:13:33,713
And when I found next day
that she'd really gone...

257
00:13:33,747 --> 00:13:37,083
I was desperate.
I couldn't eat.
I couldn't sleep.

258
00:13:37,083 --> 00:13:38,985
I couldn't even do my work.

259
00:13:39,085 --> 00:13:43,089
So you took out advertisements
in all the trades,
describing her in detail...

260
00:13:43,123 --> 00:13:44,824
and asking her to come back,
is that right?

261
00:13:44,858 --> 00:13:47,427
How did you know that?
Your wife told me.

262
00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:51,898
What else did she tell you?
I am asking
the questions here, not you.

263
00:13:51,931 --> 00:13:54,467
Anyhow, she told me plenty.

264
00:13:54,501 --> 00:13:57,303
So you better stick
to the truth from now on,
Fabian.

265
00:13:59,005 --> 00:14:01,675
Then you put
a private detective
on the case, didn't you?

266
00:14:01,708 --> 00:14:04,577
Yes.
A record of her was sent
to the largest cities.

267
00:14:05,912 --> 00:14:09,249
And that was the end of it
for the police.

268
00:14:09,282 --> 00:14:10,717
But not for me.

269
00:14:11,651 --> 00:14:13,353
She might be dead.

270
00:14:13,386 --> 00:14:15,455
She might be just
running away,
but wherever she was,

271
00:14:15,488 --> 00:14:17,791
I knew that somehow...

272
00:14:18,558 --> 00:14:20,226
I would have her back.

273
00:14:21,327 --> 00:14:23,697
I suppose it was through
Sweet William in a way...

274
00:14:23,730 --> 00:14:27,600
that I got the idea of how
to get her back.
Sweet William?

275
00:14:27,634 --> 00:14:29,302
[people laughing
in background]

276
00:14:29,336 --> 00:14:32,539
Yes.
The act wasn't doing too well.
I had imitators, many of them.

277
00:14:32,572 --> 00:14:34,808
All boy dummies, they were.

278
00:14:34,841 --> 00:14:37,277
So I decided to do away
with Sweet William.

279
00:14:38,678 --> 00:14:41,548
I bought new wood.

280
00:14:42,682 --> 00:14:44,084
Beautiful...

281
00:14:44,551 --> 00:14:46,653
fine-grained wood.

282
00:14:47,654 --> 00:14:49,956
And then I began to carve...

283
00:14:49,989 --> 00:14:53,093
slowly and carefully.

284
00:14:53,093 --> 00:14:55,662
Make the little nostrils so.

285
00:14:55,695 --> 00:15:00,500
Cut the thin black eyebrows
round and high.

286
00:15:00,533 --> 00:15:02,268
Make the cheeks small hollows.

287
00:15:03,136 --> 00:15:05,672
At first, I grew discouraged.

288
00:15:05,705 --> 00:15:10,110
How, after all,
could a cold chunk of wood
convey any idea...

289
00:15:10,143 --> 00:15:13,613
of the exquisite
features of Ilyana?

290
00:15:13,646 --> 00:15:16,649
My Ilyana, who was gone.

291
00:15:17,550 --> 00:15:20,620
But I was obsessed.
So I continued on.

292
00:15:20,653 --> 00:15:25,058
It took me a whole month
just to carve her hands.

293
00:15:25,058 --> 00:15:26,559
The weeks passed.

294
00:15:27,427 --> 00:15:29,329
And then, one day...

295
00:15:30,230 --> 00:15:33,433
I finally held
the puppet in my arms.

296
00:15:33,466 --> 00:15:37,937
And suddenly,
the tiny hand moved.

297
00:15:39,506 --> 00:15:42,442
And the wooden body
became soft...

298
00:15:42,475 --> 00:15:46,179
and pliable and warm.

299
00:15:46,212 --> 00:15:49,182
Oh, come on now, Fabian.

300
00:15:49,215 --> 00:15:53,586
The eyes opened
and she looked up at me.

301
00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:56,556
Her little mouth opened
just the tiniest fraction
of an inch.

302
00:15:56,589 --> 00:15:59,092
She wanted to
tell me something.

303
00:15:59,092 --> 00:16:02,462
There was a whisper.
I couldn't make it out
at first.

304
00:16:02,495 --> 00:16:05,598
And, then, the little head
moved this way gently...

305
00:16:05,632 --> 00:16:07,734
and then that way gently.

306
00:16:07,767 --> 00:16:10,804
Then the mouth
half-opened again.

307
00:16:10,837 --> 00:16:13,306
And I bent my head to hear.

308
00:16:14,774 --> 00:16:19,346
I love you, Fabian.

309
00:16:20,947 --> 00:16:23,616
I didn't come in here
to see you do your dummy act,
Fabian.

310
00:16:23,650 --> 00:16:27,187
Next, you'll be asking me
to put my ear on that block
of wood and hear a heartbeat!

311
00:16:27,220 --> 00:16:29,422
A man's been murdered.
I'm here to find out
who did it!

312
00:16:29,456 --> 00:16:31,091
What's you're telling me
all this prove?

313
00:16:31,124 --> 00:16:34,761
I'll tell you what it proves.
It proves that I was
in love with Ilyana.

314
00:16:34,794 --> 00:16:36,930
I didn't kill her,
if that's what
you're thinking.

315
00:16:36,963 --> 00:16:39,065
If I had, why would I have
put a detective on her track?

316
00:16:39,065 --> 00:16:40,934
I didn't say that you did!

317
00:16:40,967 --> 00:16:44,404
But what about Ockham?
Who killed him?
I tell you I don't know.

318
00:16:44,437 --> 00:16:46,806
I tell you I didn't even
know the man.

319
00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,075
*[music playing
in background]

320
00:16:54,814 --> 00:16:57,784
*[music playing
in background]

321
00:17:11,297 --> 00:17:13,533
Ockham?
Sure, I know him. Not well.

322
00:17:13,566 --> 00:17:15,635
Came in one day wanting
to know if I could book him.

323
00:17:15,669 --> 00:17:17,837
Danny, will you please
make up your mind?

324
00:17:17,871 --> 00:17:20,106
Did you book him?
No. Jugglers are passé.

325
00:17:20,140 --> 00:17:21,741
He tell you anything
about himself?

326
00:17:21,775 --> 00:17:25,445
Plenty. To hear him tell it,
he was probably the greatest
juggler in the world.

327
00:17:25,478 --> 00:17:29,783
Okay! You got yourself a deal.
$150. Right.

328
00:17:29,816 --> 00:17:33,186
You see him
only that one time?
No, he came around twice.

329
00:17:33,219 --> 00:17:35,522
I told him to call me
once in a while,
I'd see what I could do.

330
00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:37,590
He did call
a couple of times.

331
00:17:37,624 --> 00:17:40,126
He got kind of sore
when I told him
there was nothing doing.

332
00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,329
Hey, Phil,
that deal is all set. $150.

333
00:17:43,363 --> 00:17:44,831
And finally
on his last call...

334
00:17:44,864 --> 00:17:46,933
he said he was going to come
and pick up his press book.

335
00:17:46,966 --> 00:17:49,903
He left a press book here?
Yeah. As if I wanted it.

336
00:17:49,936 --> 00:17:52,439
Well, it was the best
that I could do.

337
00:17:52,472 --> 00:17:54,240
Seems like he spent
half his life...

338
00:17:54,274 --> 00:17:56,576
pasting his little heart away
in his press book.

339
00:17:56,609 --> 00:17:58,078
He never did pick it up.

340
00:17:58,078 --> 00:18:00,246
I guess the only reason
he didn't was that
he got knocked off.

341
00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,249
Just get that press book
for me, will you?
Oh, sure.

342
00:18:03,283 --> 00:18:05,618
You know, guys like that
would rather lose
their right arm...

343
00:18:05,652 --> 00:18:09,022
than lose their
press clippings.
Do me a favor, will you?

344
00:18:09,022 --> 00:18:10,290
What's that?
Take it with you.

345
00:18:10,323 --> 00:18:13,059
I'm loaded down
with press books.
Sure. Thanks.

346
00:18:13,093 --> 00:18:14,661
Hello?

347
00:18:14,694 --> 00:18:18,631
No, no, there's nothing
doing today, kid. I'm sorry.
Things are pretty slow.

348
00:18:18,665 --> 00:18:20,033
Yeah, okay.

349
00:18:21,735 --> 00:18:25,538
Did I know Ockham? Did I know
Ockham? You're beginning to
sound like a broken record.

350
00:18:25,572 --> 00:18:27,907
I've told you a dozen times,
I never saw Ockham...

351
00:18:27,941 --> 00:18:30,543
until I saw him at
the morgue yesterday.
You're lyin'.

352
00:18:30,577 --> 00:18:32,278
Fabian, I've given you
your last chance.

353
00:18:32,312 --> 00:18:33,947
Don't you see that
I have a show to do?

354
00:18:34,047 --> 00:18:36,683
You've got more
than a show to do!
How do you explain this?

355
00:18:38,885 --> 00:18:41,154
Is the world so full
of Luke Ockhams
that were jugglers...

356
00:18:41,187 --> 00:18:43,289
who played on the same bill
as Fabian and Sweet William...

357
00:18:43,323 --> 00:18:45,892
at the Grand in Chicago,
that this might be
another one?

358
00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:51,798
All right. So I knew him.
That doesn't prove
that I killed him.

359
00:18:51,831 --> 00:18:55,135
No. But it proves
that you've been lyin'
straight down the line.

360
00:18:55,168 --> 00:18:59,072
(Riabouchinska)
Luke Ockham's first letter
came a month ago.

361
00:18:59,105 --> 00:19:04,144
No.
I see. You won't talk.
Is that it, Fabian?

362
00:19:04,177 --> 00:19:05,445
But she will.

363
00:19:06,913 --> 00:19:08,048
Here.

364
00:19:09,449 --> 00:19:10,884
Make her talk.

365
00:19:14,387 --> 00:19:15,922
I think she'll tell the truth.

366
00:19:23,263 --> 00:19:26,299
There was only
one Luke Ockham.

367
00:19:26,332 --> 00:19:28,301
And he was a juggler.

368
00:19:28,335 --> 00:19:32,072
And he had been on
the same bill with
Fabian and Sweet William...

369
00:19:32,105 --> 00:19:34,741
at The Grand Theatre
in Chicago.

370
00:19:34,774 --> 00:19:38,912
And he remembered
that once there had
been a woman...

371
00:19:38,945 --> 00:19:42,182
before there was a dummy.
No.

372
00:19:42,215 --> 00:19:44,484
Let her talk.

373
00:19:44,517 --> 00:19:46,186
Yes.

374
00:19:46,219 --> 00:19:48,488
Yes, I must talk.

375
00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:50,890
I must tell the truth.
No.

376
00:19:51,758 --> 00:19:55,495
There is something
I must say.

377
00:19:55,528 --> 00:19:56,896
I was in the....

378
00:19:58,164 --> 00:20:00,100
I said let her talk,
Fabian.

379
00:20:00,967 --> 00:20:02,068
I...

380
00:20:02,969 --> 00:20:07,107
I was in the room
when Luke Ockham came.

381
00:20:07,140 --> 00:20:09,843
I lay in my box,
but I listened.

382
00:20:09,876 --> 00:20:11,745
And I heard. And I know.

383
00:20:12,645 --> 00:20:13,880
They...

384
00:20:15,248 --> 00:20:18,785
They had
an argument about money.

385
00:20:19,786 --> 00:20:23,056
He wanted Fabian
to pay him $1,000.

386
00:20:23,089 --> 00:20:25,425
I heard him cry out
and fall.

387
00:20:25,458 --> 00:20:27,394
His head must've
struck the floor.

388
00:20:27,427 --> 00:20:29,262
You heard nothing.

389
00:20:29,295 --> 00:20:32,465
You're deaf. You're wood.
I know because I created you.

390
00:20:32,499 --> 00:20:36,903
I may be wood,
but I can hear.

391
00:20:36,936 --> 00:20:42,042
I hear through you.
And I speak the truth
through you.

392
00:20:43,543 --> 00:20:45,512
Go on. What happened then?

393
00:20:45,545 --> 00:20:48,515
The choking sounds stopped.

394
00:20:48,548 --> 00:20:51,317
I heard Fabian drag
Mr. Ockham down the stairs...

395
00:20:51,351 --> 00:20:53,586
under the theater,
to the basement.

396
00:20:53,620 --> 00:20:56,022
Down, down...

397
00:20:56,056 --> 00:20:59,225
down, I heard them going.

398
00:20:59,259 --> 00:21:02,629
So you killed Ockham because
he knew that you killed
Ilyana Riaminolva...

399
00:21:02,662 --> 00:21:05,265
and was blackmailing you?
(Riabouchinska)
No.

400
00:21:05,298 --> 00:21:09,536
He did not kill Ilyana,
only Mr. Ockham.

401
00:21:09,569 --> 00:21:12,238
Then why, Fabian?
Why did you kill him?

402
00:21:12,272 --> 00:21:13,707
Tell him, Fabian.

403
00:21:15,141 --> 00:21:16,976
Go on. Tell him.

404
00:21:19,379 --> 00:21:20,480
He...

405
00:21:21,848 --> 00:21:24,451
He threatened to tell
the world about us.

406
00:21:24,484 --> 00:21:27,287
About Riabouchinska and me.

407
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:32,092
He wanted to hold our love
up to ridicule, but I couldn't
let him do that, could I?

408
00:21:32,125 --> 00:21:35,362
How could we have been
happy that way?
People would've laughed.

409
00:21:35,395 --> 00:21:38,665
People would've turned away.
"Horrible," they would
have said.

410
00:21:38,698 --> 00:21:41,368
"Ugly.
Look at them on that stage,

411
00:21:41,401 --> 00:21:44,604
he's in love
with a piece of wood.
Who do they think they are?

412
00:21:44,637 --> 00:21:48,141
Romeo and Juliet?
Tristan and Isolde?"

413
00:21:48,174 --> 00:21:50,977
"Look at those hideous,
revolting freaks!"

414
00:21:52,345 --> 00:21:55,682
[crying]
So you see, I had to kill him.

415
00:21:57,217 --> 00:22:01,588
He was trying to spoil
the only beautiful thing
that was left in my life.

416
00:22:01,621 --> 00:22:03,857
(Riabouchinska)
It's spoiled now.

417
00:22:03,890 --> 00:22:07,060
There's no way
to go on from here.

418
00:22:07,060 --> 00:22:09,629
No way.
No way?

419
00:22:09,662 --> 00:22:14,501
No, don't leave me,
Riabouchinska. I promise you
everything will be different.

420
00:22:14,534 --> 00:22:17,070
You are forever promising.

421
00:22:17,070 --> 00:22:21,274
You never listen to me
when I try to make you see
how wrong you were.

422
00:22:21,307 --> 00:22:25,412
Yes. But I'll listen now.
From now on, if you'll only
not leave me.

423
00:22:25,445 --> 00:22:27,547
I must.

424
00:22:27,580 --> 00:22:31,751
When you killed him,
I realized that
we could not go on...

425
00:22:31,785 --> 00:22:36,890
because while I've lived
with your lies.

426
00:22:36,923 --> 00:22:42,429
I cannot live
with something that kills.

427
00:22:42,462 --> 00:22:46,666
How can I live now?

428
00:22:51,171 --> 00:22:52,939
Riabouchinska!

429
00:22:54,107 --> 00:22:56,242
Riabouchinska!

430
00:23:02,282 --> 00:23:03,383
She's gone.

431
00:23:04,751 --> 00:23:06,686
I can't find her.

432
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,389
She's run away.
I can't live without her.

433
00:23:10,557 --> 00:23:13,660
Help me to find her. Please.

434
00:23:15,061 --> 00:23:18,631
Help me to find her. Please.

435
00:23:18,665 --> 00:23:20,166
Please.

436
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,135
We'd better go.

437
00:23:22,168 --> 00:23:23,937
*[music playing
in background]

438
00:23:27,907 --> 00:23:29,943
[music intensifies]

439
00:23:37,150 --> 00:23:38,952
*[music stops]

440
00:23:42,489 --> 00:23:44,691
That was pleasant.

441
00:23:44,724 --> 00:23:47,560
It also reminded me
of my youth.

442
00:23:47,594 --> 00:23:51,164
When I was once a part
of a vaudeville act called:

443
00:23:51,197 --> 00:23:53,633
"Doctor Speewack
and his Puppets."

444
00:23:53,667 --> 00:23:55,502
But I never cared
for Doctor Speewack.

445
00:23:55,535 --> 00:23:58,371
He thought he was better
than the rest of us.

446
00:23:58,405 --> 00:24:00,807
But so much
for tonight's entertainment.

447
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,643
Until the next time we return
with another play...

448
00:24:03,677 --> 00:24:04,944
good night.

449
00:24:08,848 --> 00:24:12,786
* [Charles Gounod:
"Funeral March of a Marionette"]