1 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:11,930 [MUSIC PLAYING] 2 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:26,180 Impact, the force with which two lives come together. 3 00:01:26,180 --> 00:01:30,340 Sometimes for good, sometimes for evil. 4 00:01:30,340 --> 00:01:31,820 [GAVEL KNOCKING] 5 00:01:34,780 --> 00:01:36,270 [INTERPOSING] 6 00:01:41,850 --> 00:01:44,820 But we have our stockholders to answer to... 7 00:01:44,820 --> 00:01:45,950 Phone Mrs. Williams, [INAUDIBLE]. 8 00:01:45,950 --> 00:01:48,120 Tell her to be ready in about an hour and I'll pick her up. 9 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:48,820 Yes, Mr. Williams. 10 00:01:48,820 --> 00:01:50,890 You phone Sam and and see if those papers on their way over 11 00:01:50,890 --> 00:01:51,590 from the executive. 12 00:01:51,590 --> 00:01:53,950 Yes, Will. 13 00:01:53,950 --> 00:01:55,430 [GAVEL KNOCKING] 14 00:02:00,380 --> 00:02:02,650 Well, Mr. Mr. Darcy, what's the score, nine to nothing? 15 00:02:02,650 --> 00:02:03,730 I'm afraid it is, Walt. 16 00:02:03,730 --> 00:02:05,600 If you think you can persuade them to change their minds 17 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,330 go right ahead. 18 00:02:07,330 --> 00:02:10,140 Gentlemen, I never interfere in stock issues, dividends, 19 00:02:10,140 --> 00:02:11,570 or anything else in your department. 20 00:02:11,570 --> 00:02:13,660 I must run my department with no interference. 21 00:02:13,660 --> 00:02:16,740 Either I know why and when I need more factory space 22 00:02:16,740 --> 00:02:18,270 or you need another boy. 23 00:02:18,270 --> 00:02:20,190 And that's all right with me too. 24 00:02:20,190 --> 00:02:22,130 Because I can take these plans and pick 25 00:02:22,130 --> 00:02:24,400 my own spot motor production field. 26 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,180 You won't have to worry so much about dividends, 27 00:02:26,180 --> 00:02:26,880 there won't be many. 28 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,830 [ARGUING] 29 00:02:29,830 --> 00:02:34,030 I'm sure none of us want to lose Walt or our dividends. 30 00:02:34,030 --> 00:02:37,070 What do you say we take another vote? 31 00:02:37,070 --> 00:02:39,550 All in favor of buying the three new factories 32 00:02:39,550 --> 00:02:40,740 signify by saying aye. 33 00:02:40,740 --> 00:02:41,440 Aye. 34 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:42,140 Aye. 35 00:02:42,140 --> 00:02:42,880 Aye. 36 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:43,350 Aye. 37 00:02:43,350 --> 00:02:43,820 Aye. 38 00:02:43,820 --> 00:02:44,290 Aye. 39 00:02:44,290 --> 00:02:44,630 Aye. 40 00:02:44,630 --> 00:02:45,680 Aye. 41 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,270 Aye. 42 00:02:47,270 --> 00:02:48,540 A unanimous vote. 43 00:02:48,540 --> 00:02:49,840 Congratulations, Walt. 44 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:51,780 Congratulate the board, they're the winners. 45 00:02:51,780 --> 00:02:53,890 Williams, if these factors are so 46 00:02:53,890 --> 00:02:56,670 valuable that other companies would jump at the chance 47 00:02:56,670 --> 00:02:58,870 to get them, how do you know that you 48 00:02:58,870 --> 00:03:00,840 can buy them at the price you quoted us? 49 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,220 How do I know? 50 00:03:02,220 --> 00:03:03,470 I bought them this morning. 51 00:03:03,470 --> 00:03:07,560 [ARGUING] 52 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,530 Della, I was asked to rush this up for Mr. Williams. 53 00:03:11,530 --> 00:03:12,680 Did you my wife, Della? 54 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:14,490 Your maid said she's gone to the dentist. 55 00:03:14,490 --> 00:03:15,500 I gave her the message. 56 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:16,470 Oh, fine. 57 00:03:16,470 --> 00:03:18,230 Oh, this just came. 58 00:03:18,230 --> 00:03:19,070 Thank you. 59 00:03:19,070 --> 00:03:20,230 What about those papers? 60 00:03:20,230 --> 00:03:20,930 They're here. 61 00:03:20,930 --> 00:03:21,960 Burke's checking them now. 62 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:22,660 Good. 63 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:40,310 Congratulations, Walt. 64 00:03:40,310 --> 00:03:41,980 Take a look at clause four, those provisions 65 00:03:41,980 --> 00:03:43,080 haven't been clarified yet. 66 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:43,970 Oh no? 67 00:03:46,630 --> 00:03:47,970 I wanted to leave for Tahoe right away. 68 00:03:47,970 --> 00:03:49,490 Get Judge Derring on the phone, will ya? 69 00:03:49,490 --> 00:03:50,380 Nevermind. 70 00:03:50,380 --> 00:03:52,870 I can get faster action if I run out to San Rafael myself 71 00:03:52,870 --> 00:03:54,230 and stick with him until they're right. 72 00:03:54,230 --> 00:03:55,370 [BUZZ] 73 00:03:55,370 --> 00:03:56,070 Yeah? 74 00:03:56,070 --> 00:03:57,970 Mrs. Williams on three. 75 00:03:57,970 --> 00:04:00,380 Oh, put the blueprints of that new diesel in, will ya? 76 00:04:00,380 --> 00:04:01,320 I want Jackson to see them. 77 00:04:04,140 --> 00:04:05,280 Hi, duchess. 78 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,840 I'm afraid now we won't be able to leave til about 5 o'clock. 79 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,710 What? 80 00:04:11,710 --> 00:04:13,450 You're not going with me? 81 00:04:13,450 --> 00:04:15,140 But I counted on it. 82 00:04:15,140 --> 00:04:16,810 But I thought as soon as Dr. Harris took care 83 00:04:16,810 --> 00:04:19,140 of whatever it was, I'd feel better. 84 00:04:19,140 --> 00:04:20,280 I don't. 85 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:21,610 Stupid thing still aches. 86 00:04:21,610 --> 00:04:22,740 And I certainly wouldn't be a very 87 00:04:22,740 --> 00:04:26,340 desirable driving companion. 88 00:04:26,340 --> 00:04:28,360 Now seriously darling, you run along 89 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,880 and buy your little factories and hurry home. 90 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:32,830 I'll send your bag to the office. 91 00:04:32,830 --> 00:04:34,320 And cheat me out of my good bye kiss? 92 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,380 Not a chance. 93 00:04:36,380 --> 00:04:40,350 I've got to drive over to San Rafael, I'll stop on the way. 94 00:04:40,350 --> 00:04:42,600 Love me? 95 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:43,300 Bye, dear. 96 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:57,100 [MUSIC PLAYING] 97 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:05,640 [WHISTLE] 98 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,040 How do you expect me to whistle through a toothache? 99 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:21,890 Nothing in in the whole world smells 100 00:05:21,890 --> 00:05:23,620 as sweet as you do, duchess. 101 00:05:23,620 --> 00:05:25,210 I certainly don't feel sweet. 102 00:05:25,210 --> 00:05:27,000 I'm as grouchy as an old bear. 103 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,820 Well, Doc Williams can give you something to fix that. 104 00:05:29,820 --> 00:05:31,890 Close your eyes. 105 00:05:31,890 --> 00:05:35,220 Relax a minute. 106 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:38,560 Take a look at that and see if you don't feel better. 107 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,820 Oh, Walt. 108 00:05:41,820 --> 00:05:43,490 Oh darling, it's beautiful. 109 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,790 Not bad. 110 00:05:55,790 --> 00:05:56,810 Not bad at all. 111 00:05:56,810 --> 00:06:00,010 You know, to quote my wife, I like monograms on things, 112 00:06:00,010 --> 00:06:02,160 it shows they belong to me, unquote. 113 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,720 When did your wife say such a thing Mr. Williams? 114 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,550 About six years ago when I married her. 115 00:06:07,550 --> 00:06:09,160 She gave me the first monogrammed shirts 116 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,290 I ever owned. 117 00:06:10,290 --> 00:06:11,660 Those were the words on the card. 118 00:06:11,660 --> 00:06:12,590 I still have it. 119 00:06:12,590 --> 00:06:14,290 I certainly hope your board of directors 120 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:16,370 never discovers what a softy you are. 121 00:06:16,370 --> 00:06:17,070 They won't. 122 00:06:17,070 --> 00:06:18,860 Don't worry. 123 00:06:18,860 --> 00:06:21,920 I have only one vulnerable spot. 124 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,440 What really happened this morning? 125 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,370 All I got out of Della was that you stalked out 126 00:06:25,370 --> 00:06:26,610 of the office with blood in your eye 127 00:06:26,610 --> 00:06:30,520 and were back in no time with canary feathers in your mouth. 128 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,420 Oh, I clipped those bird's wings. 129 00:06:32,420 --> 00:06:33,750 They're short. 130 00:06:33,750 --> 00:06:35,430 No one's going to vote me down, sweet. 131 00:06:35,430 --> 00:06:37,120 Not when I know I'm right. 132 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:37,820 Mm-hmm. 133 00:06:37,820 --> 00:06:39,770 But how did you convince the board of that so quickly? 134 00:06:39,770 --> 00:06:44,970 With subtle hints and then easy persuasion. 135 00:06:44,970 --> 00:06:46,470 Like this. 136 00:06:46,470 --> 00:06:50,130 Either I get what I want or you get yourself another boy. 137 00:06:50,130 --> 00:06:51,960 And that's all right with me too. 138 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:53,660 [CRASH] 139 00:06:53,660 --> 00:06:56,150 Walter. 140 00:06:56,150 --> 00:06:57,630 What a clumsy ox. 141 00:06:57,630 --> 00:06:59,160 I'm sorry, duchess. 142 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:00,820 Oh please, sweet, don't be so upset. 143 00:07:00,820 --> 00:07:03,050 [LAUGHING] 144 00:07:03,050 --> 00:07:07,570 If you could have seen your face. 145 00:07:07,570 --> 00:07:11,100 Oh, don't bother dear, Su Lin will take care of that. 146 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:13,590 Not exactly a good prescription for nerves, huh? 147 00:07:13,590 --> 00:07:14,980 You know you're wrong, Dr. Williams. 148 00:07:14,980 --> 00:07:16,290 The way I feel now, a good cat nap 149 00:07:16,290 --> 00:07:18,410 will probably make a new woman out of me. 150 00:07:18,410 --> 00:07:20,470 If it's not going to make you too late. 151 00:07:20,470 --> 00:07:21,300 Yes? 152 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:23,280 I'm sure that by 5 o'clock I'll- 153 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:23,980 - Swell. 154 00:07:23,980 --> 00:07:25,750 I'll run over to San Rafael and get things ironed out 155 00:07:25,750 --> 00:07:27,800 and be back for you by 5:00 on the nose. 156 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,270 Darling, wait. 157 00:07:30,270 --> 00:07:31,490 That's perfectly, silly. 158 00:07:31,490 --> 00:07:33,290 I'll take a taxi cab and meet you in Sausalito. 159 00:07:33,290 --> 00:07:35,990 There's a drugstore on the corner opposite the square. 160 00:07:35,990 --> 00:07:38,860 I'll be there at 5:00 and we can go straight on up to Tahoe. 161 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:40,820 That'll save you all that late afternoon traffic and all 162 00:07:40,820 --> 00:07:43,080 the time it will take to come and pick me up. 163 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,040 Smart woman, my wife, thinks of everything. 164 00:07:49,390 --> 00:07:50,840 Where is your bag, honey? 165 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,570 Oh, Su Lin still has some things to press for me. 166 00:07:54,570 --> 00:07:56,430 You sure you don't mind taking a taxi? 167 00:07:56,430 --> 00:07:58,370 Very sure. 168 00:07:58,370 --> 00:07:59,510 Sweet dreams, duchess. 169 00:08:03,420 --> 00:08:05,510 See you at 5:00. 170 00:08:05,510 --> 00:08:07,400 I'd better get going. 171 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,400 Bye, hon. 172 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,160 Long distance. 173 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:06,330 I want Berkeley seven, nine, seven, two, one. 174 00:09:06,330 --> 00:09:08,720 [PHONE RINGING] 175 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,630 Hello. 176 00:09:10,630 --> 00:09:12,670 Ah, hi ya, beautiful. 177 00:09:12,670 --> 00:09:13,370 Yeah. 178 00:09:37,820 --> 00:09:39,030 Here. 179 00:09:39,030 --> 00:09:40,160 Don't forget, turn this stuff over 180 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,520 to a bell boy at the Airport Hotel in Oakland. 181 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:43,920 Tell him to hold it for Jack Burns. 182 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:45,370 Jack Burns, the Airport Hotel. 183 00:09:45,370 --> 00:09:46,070 That's right. 184 00:09:46,070 --> 00:09:46,980 I'll be checking in later. 185 00:09:46,980 --> 00:09:48,150 What do I owe you? 186 00:09:48,150 --> 00:09:51,720 A $1.15 to here, all this stuff back to Oakland... 187 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:52,830 Yeah, yeah here. 188 00:09:52,830 --> 00:09:54,070 Buy yourself a new pair of pants. 189 00:09:54,070 --> 00:09:54,770 Fine. 190 00:10:42,420 --> 00:10:45,530 Hey, where's that new woman who was going to meet me? 191 00:10:45,530 --> 00:10:48,610 It's after 5 o'clock. 192 00:10:48,610 --> 00:10:53,720 Oh, gee, I was so sure you were going to be OK. 193 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,750 Maybe you'd better get yourself another dentist, huh? 194 00:10:56,750 --> 00:10:59,120 Of course, I understand, honey, of course. 195 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:00,790 Just to prove it to you, I'm coming right on home. 196 00:11:00,790 --> 00:11:04,240 No, you really mustn't, darling. 197 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,750 I'm going to be perfectly all right really. 198 00:11:06,750 --> 00:11:09,070 And besides... 199 00:11:09,070 --> 00:11:10,150 Besides what? 200 00:11:10,150 --> 00:11:12,360 Well, I've done something you're not going to like. 201 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,870 You remember Aunt Margaret back in Illinois? 202 00:11:14,870 --> 00:11:16,100 You mean the old gal in Evanston? 203 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:17,110 I'm way ahead of you. 204 00:11:17,110 --> 00:11:17,960 How much? 205 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:19,670 Well, It isn't money this time. 206 00:11:19,670 --> 00:11:23,560 It's another relative, her favorite nephew Jim Torrence. 207 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:26,140 All of a sudden out of the blue just after you left, 208 00:11:26,140 --> 00:11:27,920 he telephoned me from Berkeley. 209 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,790 OK duchess, I'll see you when I get back. 210 00:11:29,790 --> 00:11:32,630 Well you don't understand, dear. 211 00:11:32,630 --> 00:11:34,140 You're going to see him right away. 212 00:11:34,140 --> 00:11:35,340 I'm what? 213 00:11:35,340 --> 00:11:37,070 Well, all he seemed to want was to be 214 00:11:37,070 --> 00:11:38,790 able to get back to Illinois, so... 215 00:11:38,790 --> 00:11:40,440 So you buy him a ticket. That's easy. 216 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:41,350 Well, it isn't. 217 00:11:41,350 --> 00:11:44,130 I offered to, but he got huffy and said 218 00:11:44,130 --> 00:11:46,780 he didn't want any handouts. 219 00:11:46,780 --> 00:11:48,310 Well, without thinking I told him 220 00:11:48,310 --> 00:11:51,620 we'd pick him up and give him a lift as far as Denver. 221 00:11:51,620 --> 00:11:55,290 I won't say I'm getting exactly an even trade for you. 222 00:11:55,290 --> 00:11:56,880 But where do I find this guy? 223 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,320 Well, he should be there right now. 224 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,560 I told him to be on the lookout for a cream colored roadster, 225 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:02,130 just in case we failed to recognize 226 00:12:02,130 --> 00:12:04,660 one another after all these years. 227 00:12:04,660 --> 00:12:06,460 Oh darling, you're such a lamb. 228 00:12:06,460 --> 00:12:08,290 Are you sure you forgive me? 229 00:12:08,290 --> 00:12:10,030 What do you think? 230 00:12:10,030 --> 00:12:11,300 Well, I better along. 231 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:13,200 Your cousin Jim might get nervous. 232 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:14,110 Take it easy, sweet. 233 00:12:14,110 --> 00:12:15,760 And miss me, will ya? 234 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:17,610 I do already. 235 00:12:17,610 --> 00:12:23,460 Don't drive fast, and please take care of yourself, softy. 236 00:12:23,460 --> 00:12:24,160 Goodbye. 237 00:12:35,070 --> 00:12:36,500 Hello, Della? 238 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:38,320 Yeah, Mrs. Williams wasn't able to go with me. 239 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,000 Now, while I'm gone, you see that she 240 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,090 gets her roses every morning. 241 00:12:42,090 --> 00:12:43,300 That's right. 242 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:48,260 But this time on all the cards put, love from Softy. 243 00:12:48,260 --> 00:13:06,270 Yeah, S O F T Y. Hello. 244 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:10,780 You must be Jim Torrence. 245 00:13:10,780 --> 00:13:12,600 Yeah, that's me. 246 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:13,760 I'm Walt Williams. 247 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:14,480 Hi, Jim. 248 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,110 Hi. 249 00:13:16,110 --> 00:13:17,500 Where's Irene? 250 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:18,870 Oh, she's a little under the weather 251 00:13:18,870 --> 00:13:21,260 at the last minute, worst luck. 252 00:13:21,260 --> 00:13:24,000 Ah, that's too bad. 253 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,580 I was hoping I'd see her. 254 00:13:25,580 --> 00:13:28,490 Yeah, I'm disappointed too. 255 00:13:28,490 --> 00:13:29,700 Where's your luggage? 256 00:13:29,700 --> 00:13:31,010 Ah, I'm wearing it. 257 00:13:31,010 --> 00:13:32,490 Less trouble that way. 258 00:13:43,970 --> 00:13:46,020 Irene tells me you're heading for Illinois. 259 00:13:46,020 --> 00:13:46,710 Yeah. 260 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,800 Goings been a little rough, huh? 261 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,290 I haven't exactly been worried about my income tax. 262 00:13:56,290 --> 00:13:58,210 What's your line, Jim? 263 00:13:58,210 --> 00:14:02,170 Oh, I guess I'm a better salesman than anything else. 264 00:14:02,170 --> 00:14:03,520 Hmm. 265 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:05,320 You know, I can give you a couple letters when you get 266 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,780 back to Chicago that might help you. 267 00:14:07,780 --> 00:14:08,970 That's fine. 268 00:14:08,970 --> 00:14:12,020 A little in with the top brass never hurts. 269 00:14:12,020 --> 00:14:13,850 What outfit were you with? 270 00:14:13,850 --> 00:14:16,440 Patton's Third Army. 271 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:17,760 How was it? 272 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:19,380 Rough. 273 00:14:19,380 --> 00:14:23,420 Except for the time in Italy, I kind of like it there. 274 00:14:23,420 --> 00:14:25,150 Patton's outfit never got to Italy. 275 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:29,780 Of course. 276 00:14:29,780 --> 00:14:32,230 But most civilians never know or care 277 00:14:32,230 --> 00:14:35,100 and I figured you didn't either. 278 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:36,490 Well, I fooled you that time. 279 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:53,120 Our last chance to chow for a while, how about it? 280 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:53,820 No, thanks. 281 00:14:53,820 --> 00:14:56,020 I grabbed a hamburger while I was waiting for you. 282 00:14:56,020 --> 00:14:57,270 I can still taste the harness. 283 00:15:02,410 --> 00:15:03,780 Are you sure you won't change your mind? 284 00:15:03,780 --> 00:15:05,250 Nah, I'm going to grab a little shut eye. 285 00:15:12,830 --> 00:15:14,330 Chicken sandwich and a Coke. 286 00:15:14,330 --> 00:15:15,680 One chicken sandwich. 287 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:17,110 Chicken sandwich coming up. 288 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,380 Give me change for a dollar, will you? 289 00:15:24,380 --> 00:15:25,350 Oh, sure. 290 00:15:33,380 --> 00:15:34,080 Thank you. 291 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:46,760 San Francisco, uh, Klondike two, six, seven, one, four. 292 00:15:46,760 --> 00:16:10,540 [PHONE RINGING] 293 00:16:10,540 --> 00:16:14,650 Klondike two, six, seven, one, four does not answer. 294 00:16:14,650 --> 00:16:21,450 Oh, well, well, try Setter one, two, five, nine, nine, please. 295 00:16:21,450 --> 00:16:23,190 Bayview Apartments. 296 00:16:23,190 --> 00:16:25,310 Oh yes, Mr. Williams. 297 00:16:25,310 --> 00:16:27,470 No, your maid isn't there tonight, sir. 298 00:16:27,470 --> 00:16:29,250 She said Mrs. Williams was taking something 299 00:16:29,250 --> 00:16:31,450 to make her sleep and wasn't to be disturbed. 300 00:16:31,450 --> 00:16:32,270 But perhaps... 301 00:16:32,270 --> 00:16:33,570 No, no, don't disturb her. 302 00:16:33,570 --> 00:16:35,410 Just leave a message that I won't 303 00:16:35,410 --> 00:16:38,870 forget about a certain problem. 304 00:16:38,870 --> 00:16:39,570 Mhm. 305 00:16:42,540 --> 00:16:44,060 I think I have it, sir. 306 00:16:44,060 --> 00:16:47,770 You want her to forget all about a certain problem. 307 00:16:47,770 --> 00:16:51,990 Softy, is that S O F T Y? 308 00:16:51,990 --> 00:16:54,280 Softy is going to take care of it thoroughly. 309 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:55,150 Is that all? 310 00:16:55,150 --> 00:16:56,230 Yes, that's all. 311 00:16:56,230 --> 00:16:59,170 She'll understand. 312 00:16:59,170 --> 00:17:01,170 Be sure she gets it the first thing in the morning. 313 00:17:01,170 --> 00:17:01,860 Bye. 314 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:15,860 Oh, hi. 315 00:18:15,860 --> 00:18:17,530 It's been so long since I've been behind the wheel 316 00:18:17,530 --> 00:18:19,260 of anything but a Caterpillar or a Jeep, 317 00:18:19,260 --> 00:18:21,920 I had to find out what a real buggy feels like. 318 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,020 Why don't you drive for a while? 319 00:18:23,020 --> 00:18:23,940 That's swell. 320 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:25,000 Nothing would suite me better. 321 00:18:55,460 --> 00:19:00,050 Tell me, uh, Irene still got that little scar on her cheek? 322 00:19:00,050 --> 00:19:02,240 The one she from the fall? 323 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:02,940 Yeah. 324 00:19:02,940 --> 00:19:05,850 You can hardly see it now though. 325 00:19:05,850 --> 00:19:08,280 How did you know about that? She just got it last summer. 326 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:10,300 I thought you said you hadn't seen her for years. 327 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:14,890 Uh, uh, from Aunt Margaret, of course. 328 00:19:14,890 --> 00:19:16,100 How else? 329 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:17,580 She always sends me the news in her letters. 330 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,950 I'm sure Aunt Margaret will be pretty happy to see you. 331 00:19:41,950 --> 00:19:46,270 Irene says you're the favorite nephew. 332 00:19:46,270 --> 00:19:48,130 I'm afraid my lovely cousin was just 333 00:19:48,130 --> 00:19:51,050 giving me a build up for your benefit. 334 00:19:51,050 --> 00:19:53,540 You don't know Irene. 335 00:19:53,540 --> 00:19:54,530 Maybe not. 336 00:20:22,370 --> 00:20:23,410 What's the matter? 337 00:20:23,410 --> 00:20:24,460 I think we've got a flat. 338 00:20:37,660 --> 00:20:39,100 Yeah, flat as a flounder. 339 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:43,800 Well, let's get to work. 340 00:20:46,750 --> 00:20:50,170 I Hey, look out there, young fellow. 341 00:20:50,170 --> 00:20:51,110 It's quite a drop. 342 00:21:14,690 --> 00:21:17,180 You got a flashlight? 343 00:21:17,180 --> 00:21:18,350 I think I have. 344 00:21:18,350 --> 00:21:19,460 Get the jack, I'll take a look. 345 00:21:30,420 --> 00:21:32,370 Did you find it? 346 00:21:32,370 --> 00:21:34,770 Yeah. 347 00:21:34,770 --> 00:21:36,220 It won't be long now. 348 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:04,490 Come on, let's get going. 349 00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:06,490 Uh, wait a minute. 350 00:22:06,490 --> 00:22:08,240 Did one of your cuff links fall off? 351 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,010 Huh? 352 00:22:10,010 --> 00:22:11,210 Well, something dropped. 353 00:22:11,210 --> 00:22:14,090 I, I saw it fall down there at your feet. 354 00:22:14,090 --> 00:22:14,790 Hm. 355 00:22:18,770 --> 00:22:20,300 It must have rolled under the car. 356 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,800 From Irene and me. 357 00:22:48,350 --> 00:22:49,050 Hello. 358 00:22:56,130 --> 00:22:56,830 Need a hand? 359 00:22:56,830 --> 00:22:59,650 No, no, I'm all set now. 360 00:22:59,650 --> 00:23:00,620 OK. 361 00:23:00,620 --> 00:23:01,320 Goodnight. 362 00:23:54,130 --> 00:23:54,830 Keys. 363 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:44,630 Need any help, bud? 364 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,060 That guy must be crazy. 365 00:25:10,530 --> 00:25:35,950 [HORN HONKING] 366 00:25:35,950 --> 00:25:37,550 Now, in case my husband should be late and have 367 00:25:37,550 --> 00:25:39,550 to rush for his plane, this will be taken care of. 368 00:25:39,550 --> 00:25:40,990 Thank you. 369 00:25:40,990 --> 00:26:04,870 Show Mrs Burns to 302. 370 00:26:04,870 --> 00:26:06,840 MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Irene and me, sucker. 371 00:26:10,030 --> 00:26:11,910 Irene and me, sucker. 372 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,840 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Take care of yourself, Softy, Softy. 373 00:28:08,940 --> 00:28:24,870 [KEYS TYPING] 374 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,270 Young lady. 375 00:28:51,270 --> 00:28:52,580 Excuse me. 376 00:28:52,580 --> 00:28:54,680 I want to see Mrs. Walter Williams. 377 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:55,490 I'm sorry, sir. 378 00:28:55,490 --> 00:28:57,650 But she left orders not to be disturbed. 379 00:28:57,650 --> 00:28:59,910 I'm sorry too, Lt. 380 00:28:59,910 --> 00:29:01,110 Quincy of the police department. 381 00:29:07,050 --> 00:29:37,270 [PHONE RINGING] 382 00:29:37,270 --> 00:29:38,150 Hello. 383 00:29:38,150 --> 00:29:44,550 I thought I left orders not to be... Oh, I see. 384 00:29:44,550 --> 00:29:45,450 Ask him to come up, please. 385 00:30:12,950 --> 00:30:20,370 [DOOR BELL] 386 00:30:43,180 --> 00:30:43,900 Yes? 387 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:44,600 I'm Lt. 388 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,580 Quincy with the police department. 389 00:30:46,580 --> 00:30:52,520 I'm study to disturb you at this hour, but may I come in? 390 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:53,500 Of course. 391 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:04,610 Well, lieutenant? 392 00:31:04,610 --> 00:31:08,150 Did your husband go on a motor trip late this afternoon? 393 00:31:08,150 --> 00:31:09,800 Why, yes, he went to Denver on business. 394 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,560 Why? 395 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,930 Was he driving a Packard Roadster? 396 00:31:13,930 --> 00:31:18,680 Yes, is, is anything wrong? 397 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,370 I'm afraid there is. 398 00:31:21,370 --> 00:31:22,070 Won't you sit down? 399 00:31:22,070 --> 00:31:26,310 Has, has something happened to my husband? 400 00:31:26,310 --> 00:31:29,740 Yes, Mrs. Williams. 401 00:31:29,740 --> 00:31:31,490 He's dead, isn't he? 402 00:31:31,490 --> 00:31:34,380 Yes. 403 00:31:34,380 --> 00:31:38,300 Oh, Walt, I knew something like this would happen. 404 00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:41,350 I begged him time and again not to pick up hitchhikers. 405 00:31:41,350 --> 00:31:43,490 It wasn't a hitchhiker, Mrs. Williams. 406 00:31:43,490 --> 00:31:45,450 It was just an accident. 407 00:31:45,450 --> 00:31:49,560 He ran into a truck, a gasoline truck. 408 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,320 You mean there was fire? 409 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,950 He must have been driving pretty fast. 410 00:31:54,950 --> 00:31:57,160 I don't think he felt anything after the crash. 411 00:32:03,690 --> 00:32:07,300 If there's nothing more you need me for, lieutenant, I... 412 00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:10,000 I think I understand. 413 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,320 And may I say you've taken this with a great deal of courage. 414 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:15,210 Goodnight, Mrs. Williams. 415 00:32:27,730 --> 00:32:30,690 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Take care of yourself, Softy. 416 00:32:30,690 --> 00:32:33,650 MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Irene and me, sucker. 417 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:44,000 Ready? 418 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,860 Yeah. 419 00:32:45,860 --> 00:32:47,260 That Williams must have been quite a guy. 420 00:32:47,260 --> 00:32:49,360 Yeah, he went to work for Universal Motors 421 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:50,490 as a sheet metal worker. 422 00:32:50,490 --> 00:32:51,230 Mhm. 423 00:32:51,230 --> 00:32:53,440 In less than ten years he's their top production man. 424 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,380 Well, he sure went out in a blaze of glory. 425 00:32:55,380 --> 00:32:56,080 Yeah. 426 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:56,990 All right, let's go. 427 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:20,770 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Softy. 428 00:33:20,770 --> 00:33:22,580 MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): From Irene and me, sucker. 429 00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:23,720 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Softy. 430 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:24,710 MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Sucker. 431 00:33:24,710 --> 00:33:25,210 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Softy. 432 00:33:25,210 --> 00:33:26,310 MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Sucker. 433 00:33:48,670 --> 00:33:50,660 Could Mr. Burns have taken a later plane 434 00:33:50,660 --> 00:33:55,150 and still make connections for Mexico City? 435 00:33:55,150 --> 00:33:57,150 I see. 436 00:33:57,150 --> 00:33:58,650 Thank you. 437 00:33:58,650 --> 00:33:59,640 [KNOCK] 438 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,170 Yes? 439 00:34:01,170 --> 00:34:03,900 There's some telegrams for tar tar. 440 00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:05,450 Just put them under the door, Su Lin. 441 00:34:11,170 --> 00:34:12,040 [KNOCK] 442 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:17,550 Please, tar tar, a policeman Quincy most anxious to see you. 443 00:34:17,550 --> 00:34:18,940 Ask him to wait, Su Lin. 444 00:34:39,270 --> 00:34:43,240 Mrs. Williams will see you presently. 445 00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:47,210 You'll wait please. 446 00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:54,660 [DOOR BELL] 447 00:34:54,660 --> 00:34:56,080 Flowers for Mrs. Walter Williams. 448 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:57,070 Thank you. 449 00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:10,620 Roses, Mr. Williams always sends when he is away. 450 00:35:10,620 --> 00:35:13,100 You seem to have been fond of Mr. Williams. 451 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:15,350 Su Lin is honored to have served him five years. 452 00:35:15,350 --> 00:35:17,180 And he... 453 00:35:17,180 --> 00:35:23,480 I'm sorry to keep you waiting, Lieutenant. 454 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,800 I wouldn't be disturbing you again if it wasn't necessary. 455 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,810 And I won't be keeping you but a moment. 456 00:35:28,810 --> 00:35:29,920 You're being very considerate. 457 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,380 Won't you sit down? 458 00:35:48,970 --> 00:35:52,680 Everyone's been most thoughtful. 459 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:53,710 And why shouldn't they be? 460 00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:00,380 Forgive me. 461 00:36:00,380 --> 00:36:03,130 I'm all right now. 462 00:36:03,130 --> 00:36:04,250 What was it, Lieutenant? 463 00:36:04,250 --> 00:36:07,030 The state police would like to have some information. 464 00:36:07,030 --> 00:36:09,630 They found some wavy skid marks for quite a distance 465 00:36:09,630 --> 00:36:12,480 on the road as if the car had been out of control 466 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:13,740 when it crashed. 467 00:36:13,740 --> 00:36:17,900 Tell me, was Mr. Williams a reckless driver? 468 00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:21,350 Why no, he was a fast driver, but certainly not reckless. 469 00:36:21,350 --> 00:36:26,280 Well, was he, was he a heavy drinker? 470 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,890 Quite the contrary. 471 00:36:27,890 --> 00:36:29,870 What about his health? 472 00:36:29,870 --> 00:36:32,390 Could he have had a heart attack and lost consciousness 473 00:36:32,390 --> 00:36:34,630 before the accident? 474 00:36:34,630 --> 00:36:37,820 I, no, he, he was in perfect health. 475 00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:40,990 But he'd been working much too hard lately 476 00:36:40,990 --> 00:36:43,860 and, and was overtired. 477 00:36:43,860 --> 00:36:48,100 Perhaps he fell asleep at the wheel last night. 478 00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:49,300 Oh, poor darling. 479 00:36:51,930 --> 00:36:53,810 If only I'd been able to go with him last night 480 00:36:53,810 --> 00:36:55,230 he might still be alive. 481 00:36:55,230 --> 00:36:56,900 Well, maybe and maybe not. 482 00:36:56,900 --> 00:36:59,130 You mustn't blame yourself, Mrs. Williams. 483 00:36:59,130 --> 00:37:02,770 Fate plays an important part in these matters. 484 00:37:02,770 --> 00:37:03,490 Your handkerchief. 485 00:37:27,020 --> 00:37:29,430 When's the next train to San Francisco? 486 00:37:29,430 --> 00:37:30,130 10:00 a.m. 487 00:37:30,130 --> 00:37:31,700 tomorrow. 488 00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:33,900 Uh, you're sure there isn't one sooner? 489 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:34,870 No, I'm sorry. 490 00:38:12,210 --> 00:38:14,150 We have a circuit now, sir. 491 00:38:14,150 --> 00:38:16,880 Evanston calling Mrs. Margaret Hubbard's 492 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,250 residence in Evanston. 493 00:38:18,250 --> 00:38:19,530 One moment please. 494 00:38:19,530 --> 00:38:25,760 [PHONE RINGING] 495 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:26,460 Hello? 496 00:38:26,460 --> 00:38:28,230 Mrs. Margaret Hubbard? 497 00:38:28,230 --> 00:38:28,930 Yes. 498 00:38:28,930 --> 00:38:29,920 Who's this? 499 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:30,910 Long distance. 500 00:38:30,910 --> 00:38:34,430 I have a call from Mr. James Torrence. 501 00:38:34,430 --> 00:38:35,830 Who? 502 00:38:35,830 --> 00:38:38,640 Mr. James Torrence. 503 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,680 He's a nephew, Jim Torrence. 504 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,490 The call is for your nephew Jim Torrence. 505 00:38:43,490 --> 00:38:46,150 I haven't any nephew, and I don't know any Jim Torrence. 506 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:56,150 Sir, uh, Mrs. Hubbard says she doesn't... 507 00:39:43,050 --> 00:39:45,660 What's the matter, son? 508 00:39:45,660 --> 00:39:48,090 Looks like you need a doctor. 509 00:39:48,090 --> 00:39:49,490 A doctor? 510 00:39:49,490 --> 00:39:51,070 I can't leave the station, but old Doc. 511 00:39:51,070 --> 00:39:52,720 Bender's just across the road there. 512 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,450 Yeah. 513 00:39:57,450 --> 00:39:59,530 Doctor. Think you can make it? 514 00:40:02,150 --> 00:40:03,800 Yeah. 515 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:04,500 I'll make it. 516 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:18,990 Now, take it easy, man. 517 00:40:18,990 --> 00:40:21,530 There's some concussion there. 518 00:40:21,530 --> 00:40:23,130 You've got to watch your step for a while. 519 00:40:23,130 --> 00:40:23,830 Yeah. 520 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:47,080 Walter Williams' beautiful widow, who by her own request, 521 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,990 sat alone in the family alcove during the service. 522 00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:02,340 Smart, someone might have caught her licking her chops. 523 00:41:24,390 --> 00:41:26,560 Hey, what's that? 524 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,360 Walter Williams. 525 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,380 Walter, hey, ain't that the guy that... For the love of Mike, 526 00:41:33,380 --> 00:41:34,840 what is that briefcase doing here? 527 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:35,540 He's dead. 528 00:41:35,540 --> 00:41:37,440 They did him a dirty tricky if he ain't. 529 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,040 Now, wait a minute. 530 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:39,930 Don't touch it. 531 00:41:39,930 --> 00:41:58,130 We better turn it over to the police. 532 00:41:58,130 --> 00:42:02,150 [BUZZ] 533 00:42:02,150 --> 00:42:03,630 Homicide, Captain Callahan. 534 00:42:03,630 --> 00:42:04,750 Oh yes, Chief. 535 00:42:04,750 --> 00:42:06,790 The Duke just came in from Washington. 536 00:42:06,790 --> 00:42:09,090 The fingerprints are those of a James Torrence. 537 00:42:09,090 --> 00:42:10,660 I'm putting Quincy on it. 538 00:42:10,660 --> 00:42:11,760 Right. 539 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,500 That opens up a new can of peas on the Williams accident. 540 00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:16,480 There's the FBI report on the guy. 541 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,460 Playing with ladies' affections seems to come natural with him. 542 00:42:19,460 --> 00:42:21,620 All you've got to do, Quincy, is find him. 543 00:42:21,620 --> 00:42:23,030 Yes, that's all I've got to do. 544 00:42:23,030 --> 00:42:24,670 Last known whereabouts of Jim Torrence 545 00:42:24,670 --> 00:42:26,950 was in a moving van somewhere between Sacramento and points 546 00:42:26,950 --> 00:42:28,640 east. 547 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,250 Wait a minute, wait a minute. 548 00:42:30,250 --> 00:42:34,260 Last known address care of his sister, Mrs. Joseph Rosetti, 549 00:42:34,260 --> 00:42:36,030 Irving Apartments, Berkeley. 550 00:42:36,030 --> 00:42:37,650 Well, what are you waiting for, Quincy? 551 00:42:37,650 --> 00:42:38,370 Let's go. 552 00:42:41,790 --> 00:42:44,310 Did Torrence leave any forwarding address? 553 00:42:44,310 --> 00:42:48,190 No, he said he was going to send it to me. 554 00:42:48,190 --> 00:42:51,640 Sorry to trouble you. 555 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,170 Oh, uh, Lieutenant. 556 00:42:53,170 --> 00:42:55,710 If you should happen to hear from him, will you let me know? 557 00:42:55,710 --> 00:42:58,430 There's an unpaid telephone bill and a bundle of laundry. 558 00:43:01,390 --> 00:43:02,530 Laundry? 559 00:43:02,530 --> 00:43:03,270 Let's have a look. 560 00:43:03,270 --> 00:43:11,550 Maybe I'll have to take. 561 00:43:11,550 --> 00:43:13,460 Not without a receipt you don't. 562 00:43:13,460 --> 00:43:14,770 You mean you don't trust the police? 563 00:43:14,770 --> 00:43:16,940 In my business you don't trust anybody. 564 00:43:16,940 --> 00:43:17,640 Mine too. 565 00:43:20,690 --> 00:43:22,610 Holy St. Valentine's Day. 566 00:43:22,610 --> 00:43:24,590 Look he had the same thing on his shirts too. 567 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,930 Well, romance in your late tenant's life. 568 00:43:42,930 --> 00:43:44,520 Did you ever see the lady? 569 00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,250 You know, I never did. 570 00:43:46,250 --> 00:43:47,720 But I always knew when she'd been 571 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:50,490 here, the wonderful perfume. 572 00:43:50,490 --> 00:43:52,980 I'll lay you ten to one she's a rich widow. 573 00:43:52,980 --> 00:43:54,520 Could be. 574 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,090 But I'll get you his telephone bill. 575 00:43:57,090 --> 00:43:58,840 Pretty fancy stuff for a hitchhiker. 576 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,450 Yeah, but he's a pretty fancy hitchhiker. 577 00:44:01,450 --> 00:44:04,200 According to the shirt maker, a certain lady in the town 578 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,050 had these made special. 579 00:44:06,050 --> 00:44:08,080 And they're just like her husband's 580 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,910 only his initials were WW. 581 00:44:10,910 --> 00:44:12,940 Sort of smells, don't it, Cal? 582 00:44:12,940 --> 00:44:15,310 Now, take a look at this little item. 583 00:44:15,310 --> 00:44:17,860 It was also found in the laundry. 584 00:44:17,860 --> 00:44:22,250 I for Irene and W for... Well, it could be for Williams too, 585 00:44:22,250 --> 00:44:23,410 couldn't it? 586 00:44:23,410 --> 00:44:24,880 [PHONE RINGING] 587 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:26,880 Yeah. 588 00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,780 Homicide, Callahan speaking. 589 00:44:30,780 --> 00:44:31,750 Hello? 590 00:44:31,750 --> 00:44:34,890 Oh, hello, Fritz. 591 00:44:34,890 --> 00:44:36,730 What news? 592 00:44:36,730 --> 00:44:38,260 Uh-huh. 593 00:44:38,260 --> 00:44:39,800 Any luck? 594 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,100 Both days, huh? 595 00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:42,050 Swell. 596 00:44:42,050 --> 00:44:44,020 Have it typed up and sign it. 597 00:44:44,020 --> 00:44:46,120 This report from Fritz will be a nice little topper 598 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:47,710 for this pile. 599 00:44:47,710 --> 00:44:50,530 His check up shows calls from Torrence's phone 600 00:44:50,530 --> 00:44:52,390 to Williams' private number. 601 00:44:52,390 --> 00:44:55,160 And a flock of them going the other way including one 602 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,310 on the seventh and several on the eighth. 603 00:44:57,310 --> 00:44:59,430 The eighth in case you've forgotten 604 00:44:59,430 --> 00:45:02,120 is the date of Walt Williams' accidental death. 605 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:03,750 That ought to be enough to get an indictment out 606 00:45:03,750 --> 00:45:05,200 of the grand jury. 607 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,000 Go pick her up. 608 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,990 I'd like to play a long shot first. 609 00:45:12,990 --> 00:45:14,580 It might give us two for one. 610 00:45:14,580 --> 00:45:15,890 Well, take them one at a time. 611 00:45:15,890 --> 00:45:16,680 A bird in the hand... 612 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,540 Is not going to lead us to its mate. 613 00:45:19,540 --> 00:45:21,470 I'd like to give the lady a little more rope. 614 00:45:21,470 --> 00:45:22,220 Well I... 615 00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:23,580 Thanks, I thought you'd agree. 616 00:45:28,020 --> 00:45:50,720 [DOOR BELL] 617 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:52,120 Well, Lieutenant, uh, you just caught me. 618 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:52,820 I was... 619 00:45:52,820 --> 00:45:53,740 I'm glad. 620 00:45:53,740 --> 00:45:55,240 I have some rather startling news 621 00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:58,470 I thought you should know before it hits the headlines. 622 00:45:58,470 --> 00:45:59,170 Come in. 623 00:45:59,170 --> 00:46:00,150 Thank you. 624 00:46:12,420 --> 00:46:13,560 Sit down, won't you, Lieutenant? 625 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:14,260 Thank you. 626 00:46:14,260 --> 00:46:17,050 I'm very anxious to hear about this news. 627 00:46:17,050 --> 00:46:20,410 It seems that your first hunch, remember, that a hitchhiker was 628 00:46:20,410 --> 00:46:23,770 responsible for your husband's death, well, Mrs. Williams, 629 00:46:23,770 --> 00:46:25,570 you may have been right. 630 00:46:25,570 --> 00:46:27,750 Why, I, I don't understand, 631 00:46:27,750 --> 00:46:29,950 Your husband's briefcase turned up in Kansas City 632 00:46:29,950 --> 00:46:32,260 yesterday in a moving van that had stopped 633 00:46:32,260 --> 00:46:34,210 at the scene of the accident that night. 634 00:46:34,210 --> 00:46:36,910 Apparently the murderer made his getaway in it. 635 00:46:36,910 --> 00:46:40,000 That explains the wavy skid marks 636 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,480 that made us suspect your husband was 637 00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,350 ill or unconscious at the time of the crash. 638 00:46:44,350 --> 00:46:48,210 Yes, I, I suppose it does. 639 00:46:48,210 --> 00:46:51,720 And by now the man is probably out of the country 640 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:53,870 and never will be found. 641 00:46:53,870 --> 00:46:56,500 Don't you worry, Mrs. Williams. 642 00:46:56,500 --> 00:46:58,480 There were fingerprints on that briefcase. 643 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,120 And as soon as we get the FBI report from Washington 644 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,280 his identity will be known and this description 645 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:04,980 sent out on police broadcast. 646 00:47:04,980 --> 00:47:06,630 Oh, we'll find him all right. 647 00:47:06,630 --> 00:47:09,460 But just know we're keeping things quiet so the murderer 648 00:47:09,460 --> 00:47:12,800 will feel safe until we are ready to close in on him. 649 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,180 Yes, I I can see the wisdom of that. 650 00:47:16,180 --> 00:47:20,890 Yes, I thought you would understand and cooperate. 651 00:47:20,890 --> 00:47:23,720 As soon as we know his name, it is possible 652 00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:26,660 that you might recognize it as someone with a motive. 653 00:47:26,660 --> 00:47:27,740 There's that possibility. 654 00:47:30,290 --> 00:47:32,600 You know I'll do everything I can to help. 655 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,570 Are you sure of it? 656 00:47:34,570 --> 00:47:35,410 Now, I'll run along. 657 00:47:35,410 --> 00:47:36,960 You'll hear from me. 658 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:37,660 I'll let myself out. 659 00:47:37,660 --> 00:47:38,810 Don't bother. 660 00:47:38,810 --> 00:47:41,170 And don't worry. 661 00:47:41,170 --> 00:47:41,870 Good day. 662 00:48:44,620 --> 00:49:29,600 [TYPING] 663 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,210 See, everything after the letter J in the first name 664 00:49:32,210 --> 00:49:35,580 has been obliterated by heavy writing over it. 665 00:49:35,580 --> 00:49:37,830 The only impressed letters legible 666 00:49:37,830 --> 00:49:40,590 are those between words or before them, 667 00:49:40,590 --> 00:49:43,820 like RNS at the end of this name here. 668 00:49:43,820 --> 00:49:48,760 And the Hotel Santa here before the word Evanston. 669 00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,890 Well, Tom, don't you think it's about time you retire? 670 00:49:51,890 --> 00:49:53,800 Why there isn't even evidence there of Mrs. Williams 671 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:55,270 intent to communicate with Torrence. 672 00:49:55,270 --> 00:49:57,320 And who do you think she beat a path to the telegraph office 673 00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,750 to wire to, the League of Decency? 674 00:49:59,750 --> 00:50:00,680 I'll tell you what I think. 675 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:02,790 That you should have brought her in when I first told you to. 676 00:50:02,790 --> 00:50:03,960 By the time you get her now, she'll 677 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:05,290 have figured out a way to tip Torrence off. 678 00:50:05,290 --> 00:50:06,520 He'll be that much tougher to find. 679 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,010 Not unless she's tipped him off from your office. 680 00:50:09,010 --> 00:50:10,790 Ernie's got her on ice waiting for you. 681 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:27,760 Pretty good, huh? 682 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:29,750 Fastest growing little town in Idaho. 683 00:51:27,710 --> 00:51:28,560 Have a heart, son. 684 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:29,760 Are you trying to wreck that engine? 685 00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:35,210 Oh. 686 00:51:35,210 --> 00:51:37,400 Sure, it's a hobby of mine. 687 00:51:41,650 --> 00:51:43,680 The way you're going at it you can't miss. 688 00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:55,150 Here, I just can't let you ruin that beautiful motor. 689 00:51:55,150 --> 00:51:55,850 Back her up. 690 00:52:09,290 --> 00:52:10,290 OK, start her up. 691 00:52:28,230 --> 00:52:28,930 Shut it off. 692 00:52:40,700 --> 00:52:46,370 You're certainly not a mechanic by trade with hands like that. 693 00:52:46,370 --> 00:52:47,510 Maybe it's a hobby of mine. 694 00:52:56,810 --> 00:52:59,300 Gee, what happened to your head? 695 00:53:03,310 --> 00:53:05,830 Perhaps I was talking when I should have been listening. 696 00:53:05,830 --> 00:53:08,280 OK? 697 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:08,980 OK by me. 698 00:53:08,980 --> 00:53:14,460 Thanks a lot, Harold. 699 00:53:14,460 --> 00:53:15,420 So long, Marsha. 700 00:53:15,420 --> 00:53:17,820 Bye. 701 00:53:17,820 --> 00:53:18,780 She's all right now. 702 00:53:21,660 --> 00:53:23,660 You better lay it off until the boss gets back. 703 00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:27,210 I'm the boss. 704 00:53:30,260 --> 00:53:32,900 I guess the new cars are a little bit over my head, 705 00:53:32,900 --> 00:53:35,160 Now, with a jalopy it's different. 706 00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,360 Aren't there any mechanics around here you can hire? 707 00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,130 No, they all went over to the new factory in Mannsville. 708 00:53:40,130 --> 00:53:42,680 I guess they got better wages. 709 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,080 Tough break. 710 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:46,450 How much do I owe you? 711 00:53:46,450 --> 00:53:48,080 Oh, forget it. 712 00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:49,150 But I'll be shoving along. 713 00:53:49,150 --> 00:53:50,570 Well, at least have a Coke on the house. 714 00:53:50,570 --> 00:53:53,470 You might as well. 715 00:53:53,470 --> 00:53:55,090 Marsha, can I use your phone a minute please? 716 00:53:55,090 --> 00:53:59,240 - Sure, help yourself, Uncle Ben. - It never rains but it pours. 717 00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:01,260 650 please. 718 00:54:01,260 --> 00:54:03,660 Flat tire this morning and now the danged engine 719 00:54:03,660 --> 00:54:04,360 stalled on me. 720 00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:05,130 Nice and cold. 721 00:54:05,130 --> 00:54:06,520 Woodson's Garage. 722 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,060 No, I did not give you the wrong number. 723 00:54:09,060 --> 00:54:11,710 Fine thing using my phone to cheat me out of a repair bill. 724 00:54:11,710 --> 00:54:12,840 Aren't you ashamed? 725 00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:14,200 Gave me the wrong number. 726 00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:15,980 650 please. 727 00:54:15,980 --> 00:54:17,550 You're a nice girl, Marsha Peters 728 00:54:17,550 --> 00:54:19,010 and your Ma's a fine woman. 729 00:54:19,010 --> 00:54:21,250 And I'll always buy my gas and oil here. 730 00:54:21,250 --> 00:54:24,210 But you ain't never going to tinker with my car again. 731 00:54:24,210 --> 00:54:25,080 Busy? 732 00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,460 Busy, always busy. 733 00:54:28,460 --> 00:54:29,770 Wait a minute. 734 00:54:29,770 --> 00:54:31,820 We're not so busy. 735 00:54:31,820 --> 00:54:33,090 Would you like to do another good deed 736 00:54:33,090 --> 00:54:36,780 and give Uncle Ben a hand? 737 00:54:36,780 --> 00:54:38,600 Why not? Where is your car, mister? 738 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:39,540 Maybe I can help you. 739 00:54:39,540 --> 00:54:41,510 Why, are you a good mechanic? 740 00:54:41,510 --> 00:54:44,880 Very good and very reasonable. 741 00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:46,000 Well, just what you need, girl. 742 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,270 Better hire him. 743 00:54:48,270 --> 00:54:50,120 It's an idea, Uncle Ben. 744 00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:51,040 Come on. 745 00:54:54,700 --> 00:54:55,450 Thanks for the Coke. 746 00:54:55,450 --> 00:54:56,150 Sure. 747 00:55:01,870 --> 00:55:04,870 Well, I got Uncle Ben fixed up all right. 748 00:55:04,870 --> 00:55:07,050 Nothing but a sticky carburetor valve. 749 00:55:07,050 --> 00:55:07,750 Goodbye. 750 00:55:07,750 --> 00:55:08,640 Well, I hope he paid you. 751 00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:09,340 What for? 752 00:55:09,340 --> 00:55:10,970 It only took a minute. 753 00:55:10,970 --> 00:55:12,810 You're certainly not money conscious stranger. 754 00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:16,180 Here. 755 00:55:19,070 --> 00:55:21,570 This is no kind of work for a girl. 756 00:55:21,570 --> 00:55:24,100 Somebody has to do it if I want to stay in business. 757 00:55:24,100 --> 00:55:24,930 And I want to. 758 00:55:29,530 --> 00:55:33,750 Most be some business that you're better suited for. 759 00:55:33,750 --> 00:55:35,320 Can you lease this place to somebody? 760 00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:36,590 Sure. 761 00:55:36,590 --> 00:55:39,130 I did while my husband was overseas. 762 00:55:39,130 --> 00:55:41,830 But when he was killed in Okinawa, 763 00:55:41,830 --> 00:55:45,240 well, we made a lot of plans for the future here. 764 00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:46,570 And I had a hunch he'd like it if I 765 00:55:46,570 --> 00:55:48,910 took over and tried to make a go of it. 766 00:55:48,910 --> 00:55:51,190 Takes more than a hunch to do that. 767 00:55:51,190 --> 00:55:52,890 I got along famously. 768 00:55:52,890 --> 00:55:56,210 Business has been fine until lately when the help got short. 769 00:55:56,210 --> 00:55:59,550 Could be again if I had a good mechanic. 770 00:55:59,550 --> 00:56:01,340 Yeah. 771 00:56:01,340 --> 00:56:03,290 You sure need one all right. 772 00:56:03,290 --> 00:56:05,130 Oh, for Pete's sake say yes or no. 773 00:56:08,420 --> 00:56:11,280 Do you want the job or don't you? 774 00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,560 You mean you'd hire me without knowing anything about me? 775 00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:17,240 You can repair automobiles, what else do I need to know? 776 00:56:17,240 --> 00:56:20,920 Except your name, well? 777 00:56:25,170 --> 00:56:26,990 Why not? 778 00:56:26,990 --> 00:56:28,770 Sure, I'll try it for a while until you 779 00:56:28,770 --> 00:56:30,560 get someone permanent. 780 00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:31,890 The name's Bill Walker. 781 00:56:31,890 --> 00:56:33,580 OK, Bill, it's a deal. 782 00:56:33,580 --> 00:56:37,070 And maybe if business gets real good you'll want to stay. 783 00:56:37,070 --> 00:56:38,310 Don't count on it. 784 00:56:38,310 --> 00:56:39,600 Where's this go on the rack? 785 00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:40,290 Yeah. 786 00:56:48,170 --> 00:56:52,220 Marsha, Marsha, it happened. 787 00:56:52,220 --> 00:56:54,080 It's a boy, eight and a half pounds. 788 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:55,450 A pair of shoulders like a prize fighter. 789 00:56:55,450 --> 00:56:57,430 Well, congratulations, papa. 790 00:56:57,430 --> 00:56:58,130 How's Jane? 791 00:56:58,130 --> 00:56:58,770 Ah, perfect. 792 00:56:58,770 --> 00:56:59,500 Everything's perfect. 793 00:56:59,500 --> 00:57:03,640 I've got to get down to the store and tell the gang. 794 00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,830 I almost forgot. 795 00:57:06,830 --> 00:57:07,530 Oh, gee, thanks. 796 00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:16,720 I'm sorry I won't have enough for the gang. 797 00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:17,420 Yippee! 798 00:57:24,590 --> 00:57:26,660 Maybe you can use this token from a slightly 799 00:57:26,660 --> 00:57:28,890 delirious new father. 800 00:57:28,890 --> 00:57:30,240 Thanks. 801 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:33,740 Say, we haven't settled the matter of wages yet. 802 00:57:33,740 --> 00:57:36,940 Maybe I can't pay your regular salary. 803 00:57:36,940 --> 00:57:38,470 Suppose we leave that open until you find out 804 00:57:38,470 --> 00:57:40,690 how much I'm worth to the business. 805 00:57:40,690 --> 00:57:43,290 Doesn't seem to be any business right now. 806 00:57:43,290 --> 00:57:45,020 Might be a good time for me to get rid of this beard 807 00:57:45,020 --> 00:57:46,750 and find a place to board. 808 00:57:46,750 --> 00:57:47,690 We live right next door. 809 00:57:47,690 --> 00:57:48,460 I'll go ask Mom. 810 00:57:48,460 --> 00:57:49,380 She'll know of a place. 811 00:57:49,380 --> 00:57:51,200 Sort of a peaceful house. 812 00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:52,740 I noticed it this morning. 813 00:57:52,740 --> 00:57:54,220 Oh, gosh I forgot. 814 00:57:54,220 --> 00:57:56,850 She's down helping Mrs. Wellsley with her canning. 815 00:57:56,850 --> 00:57:59,270 Mom finds homes for everything from stray cats... 816 00:57:59,270 --> 00:58:01,860 To stray mechanics? 817 00:58:01,860 --> 00:58:04,190 Well, you're not a stray anymore. 818 00:58:04,190 --> 00:58:04,890 I'll go phone. 819 00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:13,720 Pearl, 674 please. 820 00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:14,420 Hello, Ms. Wellsley. 821 00:58:14,420 --> 00:58:17,370 May I speak to Mother. 822 00:58:17,370 --> 00:58:18,550 Hi, Mom. 823 00:58:18,550 --> 00:58:21,430 I've got some good news for you. 824 00:58:21,430 --> 00:58:23,460 I hired a man for the station. 825 00:58:23,460 --> 00:58:24,160 Yeah. 826 00:58:26,950 --> 00:58:29,090 No, nobody we know. 827 00:58:29,090 --> 00:58:34,070 He's from... He's from out of town. 828 00:58:34,070 --> 00:58:36,070 Needs a place to board, you got a good one up your sleeve? 829 00:58:39,900 --> 00:58:42,020 OK. 830 00:58:42,020 --> 00:58:45,940 She says she has to meet you first to come home for supper. 831 00:58:45,940 --> 00:58:48,310 Huh? 832 00:58:48,310 --> 00:58:50,530 And you like apple or cherry pie? 833 00:58:50,530 --> 00:58:52,060 Cherry. 834 00:58:52,060 --> 00:58:53,810 Cherry it is, Mom. 835 00:58:53,810 --> 00:58:55,790 See you later. 836 00:58:55,790 --> 00:58:57,780 Now, I've got to get rid of this. 837 00:58:57,780 --> 00:59:00,130 Hey, where's the nearest barbershop? 838 00:59:00,130 --> 00:59:02,970 The one and only, just up two blocks. 839 00:59:02,970 --> 00:59:04,630 Tell Judd you're working for me. 840 00:59:04,630 --> 00:59:06,450 When you get back we'll close up and go home. 841 00:59:06,450 --> 00:59:07,150 Thanks. 842 00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,560 Oh, that's real nice. 843 00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:18,190 You must have had a good bringing up, young man. 844 00:59:18,190 --> 00:59:19,270 Thank you for the young man. 845 00:59:23,210 --> 00:59:25,180 We thank thee Lord for thy bounty 846 00:59:25,180 --> 00:59:28,130 and ask thy blessing on this food 847 00:59:28,130 --> 00:59:32,090 and our new friend who shares it with us. 848 00:59:32,090 --> 00:59:34,420 I hope you're good and hungry, Mr. Walker. 849 00:59:34,420 --> 00:59:35,840 Who wouldn't be? 850 00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:40,070 Marsha eats like a sparrow with all the hard work she does. 851 00:59:40,070 --> 00:59:41,790 Can I have your plate, please? 852 00:59:41,790 --> 00:59:44,710 Well, she can taking it easy now and boss the help. 853 00:59:44,710 --> 00:59:47,060 She never takes anything easy. 854 00:59:47,060 --> 00:59:49,260 She has to put her whole heart and soul into everything 855 00:59:49,260 --> 00:59:50,290 she does. 856 00:59:50,290 --> 00:59:52,770 Well, now that you're through with me, Mom, how about Bill? 857 00:59:52,770 --> 00:59:54,650 Have you thought of a place for him to stay? 858 00:59:54,650 --> 00:59:56,380 Well, why can't he stay right here? 859 00:59:56,380 --> 00:59:59,250 We have a spare bedroom going to waste. 860 00:59:59,250 --> 01:00:02,360 And I think you like my cooking. 861 01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,330 Like it? 862 01:00:04,330 --> 01:00:05,840 That's very kind of you, Mrs. King. 863 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,610 But it seems an imposition. 864 01:00:08,610 --> 01:00:11,450 Imposition nothing, that's good business. 865 01:00:11,450 --> 01:00:13,410 I can get back what I pay you in board and room. 866 01:00:13,410 --> 01:00:16,030 Oh, Marsha, what a thing to say. 867 01:00:16,030 --> 01:00:18,140 If you'd like to stay, we'd like to have you. 868 01:00:18,140 --> 01:00:19,540 Will you have some more vegetables? 869 01:00:23,270 --> 01:00:26,090 Mrs. King, you have a boarder. 870 01:00:26,090 --> 01:00:28,070 May I have a biscuit please? 871 01:00:28,070 --> 01:00:29,060 Excuse me. 872 01:00:47,910 --> 01:00:49,400 OK, Ms. Gallis. 873 01:01:04,310 --> 01:01:05,570 It's wonderful the way tools seem 874 01:01:05,570 --> 01:01:09,120 to come alive in your hands. 875 01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,720 You seem to sort of come alive too as 876 01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:15,910 though you got real pleasure out of working with them. 877 01:01:15,910 --> 01:01:18,180 I do. 878 01:01:18,180 --> 01:01:20,510 When you're doing a job with them 879 01:01:20,510 --> 01:01:24,430 you can't think of anything else. 880 01:01:24,430 --> 01:01:26,700 Bill, if something's bother you, 881 01:01:26,700 --> 01:01:27,990 why don't you get rid of it? 882 01:01:31,290 --> 01:01:34,180 What would you prescribe, doctor? 883 01:01:34,180 --> 01:01:37,340 Amputation for the stupid chip on your shoulder. 884 01:01:57,260 --> 01:02:01,640 What you need is a ring job, save yourself some money. 885 01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,300 Gee, Bill, with the baby and everything I 886 01:02:04,300 --> 01:02:05,550 just can't afford it now. 887 01:02:05,550 --> 01:02:07,210 Ah, we'll take care of that. 888 01:02:07,210 --> 01:02:10,050 Hey, boss. 889 01:02:10,050 --> 01:02:10,860 How's Ed's credit? 890 01:02:10,860 --> 01:02:12,480 Good enough for a ring job? 891 01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:16,190 Well, sure if I can hold Junior as collateral. 892 01:02:16,190 --> 01:02:18,070 Oh, not a chance fella. 893 01:02:18,070 --> 01:02:19,670 Never mind I'll do it on my own time. 894 01:02:19,670 --> 01:02:21,050 Ah, thanks Bill. 895 01:02:21,050 --> 01:02:22,150 Maybe we'll see you tonight, huh? 896 01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:28,980 Some shoulders, huh? 897 01:02:28,980 --> 01:02:30,440 Yeah. 898 01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,880 Some father, huh? 899 01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:33,860 Bye Marsha. 900 01:02:33,860 --> 01:02:36,300 Bye. 901 01:02:36,300 --> 01:02:37,480 Nice kids. 902 01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:39,610 Hey, was that clowning about they're being hard up? 903 01:02:39,610 --> 01:02:42,030 No, things have been pretty tough for him 904 01:02:42,030 --> 01:02:44,170 ever since he got out of the service. 905 01:02:44,170 --> 01:02:47,080 Fix the car for him and only charge him for the labor, OK? 906 01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:48,830 Then he gets it for free. 907 01:02:48,830 --> 01:02:50,860 I'd already figured on knocking that off. 908 01:02:50,860 --> 01:02:54,560 Say, we could make it an anniversary present. 909 01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:55,520 Anniversary of what? 910 01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:57,540 Junior's arrival and mine. 911 01:02:57,540 --> 01:02:59,780 Three months ago today. 912 01:02:59,780 --> 01:03:00,780 Time certainly flies. 913 01:03:00,780 --> 01:03:03,820 That was a lucky day when you came to MP Service. 914 01:03:03,820 --> 01:03:05,860 Your work's been bringing in a lot of business. 915 01:03:05,860 --> 01:03:06,560 I'm glad of that. 916 01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:11,640 Say, look boss, why don't we three celebrate 917 01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:13,350 tonight and go to the movies? 918 01:03:13,350 --> 01:03:15,270 Ed said he and Jane were going. 919 01:03:15,270 --> 01:03:17,860 Well, that lets Mom out, she'll be babysitting. 920 01:03:17,860 --> 01:03:18,830 I'd love to go, Bill. 921 01:03:18,830 --> 01:03:20,260 I haven't been in ages. 922 01:03:20,260 --> 01:03:22,600 Here's your opportunity. 923 01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:23,470 Go to work. 924 01:03:27,980 --> 01:03:28,680 [INTERPOSING VOICES] 925 01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:33,920 Extra, extra. 926 01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:35,830 This is Sheila Graham with the latest news 927 01:03:35,830 --> 01:03:38,140 of the shocking Williams' murder case. 928 01:03:38,140 --> 01:03:41,120 While beautiful Irene Williams is held for trial charged 929 01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:43,150 with conspiring to kill her late husband, 930 01:03:43,150 --> 01:03:45,680 the police are searching for James Torrence believed 931 01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:47,930 to be the lover of Mrs. Williams and her partner 932 01:03:47,930 --> 01:03:49,810 in the horrible murder of Walter Williams. 933 01:03:57,210 --> 01:03:59,700 If I'm handling your case, my dear Mrs. Williams, 934 01:03:59,700 --> 01:04:03,140 I want one third of everything you get. 935 01:04:03,140 --> 01:04:04,350 You're out of your mind. 936 01:04:04,350 --> 01:04:06,540 You don't realize what I'll get as Walt's widow. 937 01:04:06,540 --> 01:04:09,390 Perhaps you don't realize the spot you're in. 938 01:04:09,390 --> 01:04:11,320 Torrence's fingerprints were found not only 939 01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:14,280 on your husband's briefcase but in a manner 940 01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:18,510 of speaking on your reputation as well. 941 01:04:18,510 --> 01:04:22,000 There's a detective named Quincy, a very smart cookie, 942 01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:24,800 he isn't exactly for you. 943 01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:26,190 Frankly, Mr. Warner, I'm beginning 944 01:04:26,190 --> 01:04:31,010 to wonder if my attorney is for me. 945 01:04:31,010 --> 01:04:34,140 Underestimating the enemy's ammunition 946 01:04:34,140 --> 01:04:36,470 would scarcely be wise. 947 01:04:36,470 --> 01:04:39,550 Now, if we can get to trial before Torrence is found, 948 01:04:39,550 --> 01:04:42,060 he'll never get a conviction. 949 01:04:42,060 --> 01:04:43,450 But... 950 01:04:43,450 --> 01:04:45,470 But what? 951 01:04:45,470 --> 01:04:49,970 If he shows up we may have to fry him. 952 01:04:49,970 --> 01:04:51,770 Oh no. 953 01:04:51,770 --> 01:04:55,880 Let's not cross that bridge until we have to. 954 01:04:55,880 --> 01:05:00,450 But if it comes to a choice, we're not going to burn, 955 01:05:00,450 --> 01:05:01,150 are we? 956 01:05:08,990 --> 01:05:11,490 Aren't you the chatterbox this afternoon? 957 01:05:11,490 --> 01:05:13,460 What about this afternoon? 958 01:05:13,460 --> 01:05:15,460 Oh, sorry, boss, I guess I was wool gathering. 959 01:05:15,460 --> 01:05:18,160 You're only supposed to do that in the spring. 960 01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,630 Is there anything you don't know? 961 01:05:20,630 --> 01:05:21,840 Yes. 962 01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:26,440 What's San Francisco got that we haven't? 963 01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:27,940 Better newspapers for one thing. 964 01:05:27,940 --> 01:05:32,270 Anyway, California's supposed to be the land of opportunity. 965 01:05:32,270 --> 01:05:35,300 I thought that by now you liked it here. 966 01:05:35,300 --> 01:05:38,240 I do very much. 967 01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:42,110 It's a good town, nice people, swell boss. 968 01:05:42,110 --> 01:05:44,040 Thanks. 969 01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:45,010 We like you too. 970 01:05:47,900 --> 01:05:49,210 No fooling though, you'd be surprised 971 01:05:49,210 --> 01:05:53,430 how many people ask questions about you. 972 01:05:53,430 --> 01:05:55,250 What kind of questions? 973 01:05:55,250 --> 01:05:58,310 Oh, where you came from, do you have any family? 974 01:05:58,310 --> 01:06:01,150 Do you like it here and are you going to stay? 975 01:06:01,150 --> 01:06:02,690 Al Knox asked me at the movie last night 976 01:06:02,690 --> 01:06:05,110 if you wanted to join the volunteer fire department. 977 01:06:05,110 --> 01:06:09,010 Just interested friendly things. 978 01:06:09,010 --> 01:06:10,450 I suppose it is natural for people 979 01:06:10,450 --> 01:06:12,950 to wonder about a stranger who moves into their community 980 01:06:12,950 --> 01:06:15,470 like I did. 981 01:06:15,470 --> 01:06:18,420 You know, I've been thinking maybe it 982 01:06:18,420 --> 01:06:21,020 wasn't such a good idea you and I going to the movies 983 01:06:21,020 --> 01:06:21,760 last night. 984 01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:24,800 It's all right being seen in the station and here with Mom, 985 01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:26,390 but... 986 01:06:26,390 --> 01:06:28,860 You get used to that in a town this size. 987 01:06:28,860 --> 01:06:32,670 They're always trying to marry people off. 988 01:06:32,670 --> 01:06:36,540 You just ignore it and after a while they forget about it. 989 01:06:36,540 --> 01:06:40,720 I'll go get cleaned. 990 01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:42,830 You know, I hate to tell you how many 991 01:07:42,830 --> 01:07:44,000 years this Sunday takes me back. 992 01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:46,700 Did you always fall asleep during the service? 993 01:07:46,700 --> 01:07:49,400 I wasn't asleep, Mrs. Peters. 994 01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,780 I merely closed my eyes to concentrate. 995 01:07:51,780 --> 01:07:54,160 Oh, so that's what you call it. 996 01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:57,390 I had to nudge you to stop you from yawning. 997 01:07:57,390 --> 01:08:02,530 Quiet, you're disturbing my reminiscent mood. 998 01:08:02,530 --> 01:08:04,890 It even smells the same. 999 01:08:04,890 --> 01:08:08,510 It could be the same bees buzzing in the same clover. 1000 01:08:08,510 --> 01:08:11,270 As they say, you can take a boy out of the country but... 1001 01:08:11,270 --> 01:08:13,110 A rolling stone gathers no moss. 1002 01:08:17,350 --> 01:08:20,810 It has to stop rolling sometime, doesn't it, Bill? 1003 01:08:20,810 --> 01:08:24,290 Sometime maybe. 1004 01:08:24,290 --> 01:08:27,860 We grow a very becoming shade of moss here in Larkspur. 1005 01:08:27,860 --> 01:08:30,770 Don't you think? 1006 01:08:30,770 --> 01:08:33,200 You grow a lot of nice things here. 1007 01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:34,650 Any one in particular? 1008 01:08:37,580 --> 01:08:39,830 I'll have to skip the answer to that one. 1009 01:08:39,830 --> 01:08:43,580 Someone tore it out of the book. 1010 01:08:43,580 --> 01:08:47,700 You're married aren't you, Bill? 1011 01:08:47,700 --> 01:08:49,440 Yep. 1012 01:08:49,440 --> 01:08:50,140 That's right. 1013 01:08:53,070 --> 01:08:54,500 You must have loved her very much 1014 01:08:54,500 --> 01:08:58,560 to be hurt so deeply, to be so afraid 1015 01:08:58,560 --> 01:08:59,820 of someone, even yourself. 1016 01:09:03,210 --> 01:09:07,670 Maybe it's better that way, then no one gets hurt. 1017 01:09:07,670 --> 01:09:10,980 Bitterness and hatred hurt everyone. 1018 01:09:10,980 --> 01:09:12,910 Can't you see, Bill? 1019 01:09:12,910 --> 01:09:16,450 They're like a wall that shuts out all the sunshine 1020 01:09:16,450 --> 01:09:19,900 from the garden and lets everything wither. 1021 01:09:19,900 --> 01:09:21,990 Make room in your heart for something else, can't you? 1022 01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:29,670 I guess this is my day for sermons. 1023 01:09:29,670 --> 01:09:31,030 Sorry. 1024 01:09:31,030 --> 01:09:34,790 As Mom would say, you never rich mining in a fella's business. 1025 01:09:38,580 --> 01:09:39,270 [SIREN] 1026 01:09:39,270 --> 01:09:39,970 Hey that's a fire. 1027 01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:47,320 Anybody home? 1028 01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:48,530 In here, Bill. 1029 01:10:48,530 --> 01:10:50,610 Mrs. Wellsley sent a couple of jars of peaches 1030 01:10:50,610 --> 01:10:52,560 said you helped her can them. Oh, thank you. 1031 01:10:56,690 --> 01:10:58,410 When I delivered the doc's car he 1032 01:10:58,410 --> 01:10:59,850 insisted that I have a bite with him. 1033 01:10:59,850 --> 01:11:01,030 Where's the boss? 1034 01:11:01,030 --> 01:11:03,070 She took a book back to the library for me. 1035 01:11:03,070 --> 01:11:03,770 Oh. 1036 01:11:07,010 --> 01:11:08,000 What a day. 1037 01:11:11,110 --> 01:11:12,650 Hey, what's the idea? 1038 01:11:12,650 --> 01:11:14,960 Are you darning my socks? 1039 01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:16,700 Well I thought a drawer full of holey ones 1040 01:11:16,700 --> 01:11:18,730 isn't doing you much good. 1041 01:11:18,730 --> 01:11:20,830 I found it when I put fresh papers in your bureau 1042 01:11:20,830 --> 01:11:21,530 yesterday. 1043 01:11:24,950 --> 01:11:27,100 You have a heap of the things that need mending, 1044 01:11:27,100 --> 01:11:29,400 haven't you son? 1045 01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:31,220 Does Marsha know? 1046 01:11:31,220 --> 01:11:33,230 Do you think I'd tell her? 1047 01:11:33,230 --> 01:11:35,160 This is your problem, Bill. 1048 01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:36,960 Because I found out about it doesn't give me the right 1049 01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:40,190 to tell anyone else, not even Marsha. 1050 01:11:40,190 --> 01:11:42,080 When you trust folks you trust them. 1051 01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:43,920 And you give them a chance to work out things the way 1052 01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:45,200 that seems right to them. 1053 01:11:48,990 --> 01:11:51,290 How can one little woman be so big? 1054 01:11:53,900 --> 01:11:56,830 Don't forget, it's a lot easier to be tolerant 1055 01:11:56,830 --> 01:12:01,620 and understanding at 50 than it is at 25. 1056 01:12:04,390 --> 01:12:06,930 I'm going next door for a while, Grandma Thompson's ill. 1057 01:12:19,630 --> 01:12:20,320 Mom. 1058 01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:26,280 Bill, are you home? 1059 01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:33,250 Bill, are you in there? 1060 01:12:33,250 --> 01:12:34,270 Yeah. 1061 01:12:34,270 --> 01:12:35,350 Mom went next door, Marsha. 1062 01:12:35,350 --> 01:12:36,050 Hi. 1063 01:12:36,050 --> 01:12:37,100 Did you work awfully late? 1064 01:12:37,100 --> 01:12:39,440 Oh, about 6:00. 1065 01:12:39,440 --> 01:12:41,780 Anything wrong? 1066 01:12:41,780 --> 01:12:43,120 Come in. 1067 01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:44,250 I want to tell you something. 1068 01:12:48,020 --> 01:12:50,500 I'm checking out. 1069 01:12:50,500 --> 01:12:51,820 Has something happened? 1070 01:12:51,820 --> 01:12:54,760 No, I'm doing what I should have 1071 01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:57,550 done a long time ago moving along. 1072 01:12:57,550 --> 01:13:00,990 But why, Bill? 1073 01:13:00,990 --> 01:13:02,750 My name isn't even Bill. 1074 01:13:02,750 --> 01:13:04,460 There isn't any Bill Walker. 1075 01:13:04,460 --> 01:13:08,220 I'm Walter Williams, the late Walter Williams. 1076 01:13:10,750 --> 01:13:13,790 Walter Williams? 1077 01:13:13,790 --> 01:13:15,300 I don't understand. 1078 01:13:15,300 --> 01:13:17,050 You may not even after I've told you. 1079 01:13:17,050 --> 01:13:19,330 But at least you'll know the whole story. 1080 01:13:19,330 --> 01:13:20,030 Sit down please. 1081 01:13:25,990 --> 01:13:30,790 Finally Larkspur and you. 1082 01:13:30,790 --> 01:13:31,670 From there on you know. 1083 01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:37,280 I'm glad you're going back to make things right. 1084 01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:38,140 Going back? 1085 01:13:38,140 --> 01:13:41,480 Wild horses couldn't drag me back. 1086 01:13:41,480 --> 01:13:43,210 What are you going to do about your wife? 1087 01:13:43,210 --> 01:13:43,910 Nothing. 1088 01:13:43,910 --> 01:13:45,470 You're going to let her go to trial for murder? 1089 01:13:45,470 --> 01:13:46,220 Oh no, Bill. 1090 01:13:46,220 --> 01:13:46,920 Why not? 1091 01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:49,180 She tried to kill me, she and her cousin. 1092 01:13:49,180 --> 01:13:50,250 But they didn't. 1093 01:13:50,250 --> 01:13:51,510 Who said they didn't? 1094 01:13:51,510 --> 01:13:53,850 Let them try and prove it. 1095 01:13:53,850 --> 01:13:54,980 No matter what your wife did, you 1096 01:13:54,980 --> 01:13:57,570 can't be tried for something that didn't happen. 1097 01:13:57,570 --> 01:13:58,850 Oh Bill, can't you see? 1098 01:13:58,850 --> 01:14:00,170 You bet I can see. 1099 01:14:00,170 --> 01:14:02,120 She deserves everything she's getting. 1100 01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:04,380 The sorry part of it is they'll never convict her. 1101 01:14:04,380 --> 01:14:07,010 No, Bill, the sorry part is you're not big enough 1102 01:14:07,010 --> 01:14:10,040 to take a hard jolt to your pride and to your ego. 1103 01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:12,770 Sure, it hurts to be tricked and cheated 1104 01:14:12,770 --> 01:14:13,970 by someone you love and believed in. 1105 01:14:13,970 --> 01:14:15,660 But that doesn't give you the right 1106 01:14:15,660 --> 01:14:17,180 to take justice into your own hands 1107 01:14:17,180 --> 01:14:21,000 to trample on the hearts of others and walk out on life. 1108 01:14:25,250 --> 01:14:28,800 A barren, frustrated boyhood, a marriage 1109 01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:32,710 to a woman who accepted my love yet despised me 1110 01:14:32,710 --> 01:14:35,420 so thoroughly she resorted to murder. 1111 01:14:35,420 --> 01:14:37,980 I'll never think of our moments together without nausea. 1112 01:14:37,980 --> 01:14:42,090 I feel stripped bare, degraded. 1113 01:14:42,090 --> 01:14:43,600 Because you've closed your mind and heart 1114 01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:47,410 to everything else even me. 1115 01:14:52,310 --> 01:14:53,290 Oh Bill, please. 1116 01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:59,100 Don't destroy the one chance we have for happiness. 1117 01:14:59,100 --> 01:15:01,700 We haven't got a chance. 1118 01:15:01,700 --> 01:15:04,220 Doing the right thing never works out. 1119 01:15:04,220 --> 01:15:05,400 I know. 1120 01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:07,010 In this world, you turn the other cheek 1121 01:15:07,010 --> 01:15:09,340 and you get hit with a lug wrench. 1122 01:15:09,340 --> 01:15:12,680 Forgive me, boss. 1123 01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:13,710 Try and forgive me. 1124 01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:56,380 [BABY CRYING] 1125 01:15:56,380 --> 01:15:57,950 MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): It's a boy. 1126 01:15:57,950 --> 01:16:01,330 Pair of shoulders like a prize fighter. 1127 01:16:01,330 --> 01:16:02,490 MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): You know, 1128 01:16:02,490 --> 01:16:03,590 I hate to tell you how many years 1129 01:16:03,590 --> 01:16:04,980 this Sunday takes me back. 1130 01:16:04,980 --> 01:16:09,960 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): 1131 01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:11,960 that need mending haven't you, son? 1132 01:16:23,910 --> 01:16:26,400 [TRAIN WHISTLE] 1133 01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:29,390 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Take care of yourself, Softy. 1134 01:16:29,390 --> 01:16:31,740 MALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Irene and me sucker. 1135 01:16:31,740 --> 01:16:32,870 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Softy. 1136 01:16:32,870 --> 01:16:35,860 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): Softy. FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): 1137 01:16:35,860 --> 01:16:36,860 FEMALE SPEAKER (VOICEOVER): 1138 01:16:36,860 --> 01:16:39,630 to take a hard jolt to your pride and to your ego. 1139 01:16:39,630 --> 01:16:41,970 Sure, it hurts to be tricked and cheated 1140 01:16:41,970 --> 01:16:44,260 by someone you love and believed in. 1141 01:16:44,260 --> 01:16:45,430 But that doesn't give you the right 1142 01:16:45,430 --> 01:16:47,980 to take justice into your own hands, 1143 01:16:47,980 --> 01:16:51,970 trample on the hearts of others and walk out on life. 1144 01:16:51,970 --> 01:16:54,960 But, Bill, please don't destroy the one chance 1145 01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:55,960 we have for happiness. 1146 01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:42,150 Mrs. Peters was kind enough to come along to substantiate 1147 01:17:42,150 --> 01:17:45,050 at least the Larkspur portion of what I've told you. 1148 01:17:45,050 --> 01:17:46,660 Very thoughtful of you, Mrs. Peters. 1149 01:17:46,660 --> 01:17:49,720 Mr. Williams, when you read in the newspaper 1150 01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:51,690 that the hitchhiker who attacked you 1151 01:17:51,690 --> 01:17:54,910 had been a close friend of your wife for some time, 1152 01:17:54,910 --> 01:17:57,870 it must have been a great shock to you. 1153 01:17:57,870 --> 01:18:00,270 I didn't come here to discuss my emotional reactions. 1154 01:18:00,270 --> 01:18:01,340 Lieutenant. 1155 01:18:01,340 --> 01:18:02,540 If you need me for anything further, 1156 01:18:02,540 --> 01:18:04,600 Captain, my office will know where to reach me. 1157 01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:06,740 Let's go, Marsha. 1158 01:18:06,740 --> 01:18:08,600 Just a minute, Mr. Williams. 1159 01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:10,500 We'll need your signed statement for the grand jury 1160 01:18:10,500 --> 01:18:12,410 we ask for your wife's release. 1161 01:18:12,410 --> 01:18:13,660 It won't take long to be typed. 1162 01:18:13,660 --> 01:18:16,120 [PHONE RINGING] 1163 01:18:16,120 --> 01:18:17,380 Yeah. 1164 01:18:17,380 --> 01:18:18,080 All right. 1165 01:18:29,370 --> 01:18:30,350 Come in. 1166 01:18:35,270 --> 01:18:36,250 Sit down. 1167 01:18:39,690 --> 01:18:43,260 Mrs. Williams, we have news for you. 1168 01:18:43,260 --> 01:18:43,960 Really? 1169 01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:45,700 I can scarcely wait. 1170 01:19:01,220 --> 01:19:04,130 It seems it was Torrence who was in the car when it crashed. 1171 01:19:08,050 --> 01:19:11,480 It's Jim, dead? 1172 01:19:22,750 --> 01:19:25,850 You did it. 1173 01:19:25,850 --> 01:19:28,170 You killed him. 1174 01:19:28,170 --> 01:19:30,160 No. 1175 01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:35,000 He tried to kill me, thought he had. 1176 01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:37,440 And he ran into the truck. 1177 01:19:37,440 --> 01:19:39,840 It was an accident. 1178 01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:41,820 An accident? 1179 01:19:41,820 --> 01:19:44,520 You wait all these months to tell this story. 1180 01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:45,830 You let me rot in this filthy jail. 1181 01:19:45,830 --> 01:19:46,530 Wait a minute. 1182 01:19:46,530 --> 01:19:49,690 You let everybody believe you're dead. 1183 01:19:49,690 --> 01:19:52,720 Pretty convenient, wasn't it? 1184 01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:54,950 A dead man can't be tried for murder. 1185 01:19:54,950 --> 01:19:58,070 Mr. Williams, perhaps your wife would understand better 1186 01:19:58,070 --> 01:20:00,820 if you would explain to her about the amnesia. 1187 01:20:00,820 --> 01:20:02,570 Amnesia? 1188 01:20:02,570 --> 01:20:04,360 Oh don't tell me you believe he had amnesia. 1189 01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:05,670 Where's he been all this time just 1190 01:20:05,670 --> 01:20:07,870 wandering around in a daze? 1191 01:20:07,870 --> 01:20:09,670 He tells us he's been in Larkspur, a little town 1192 01:20:09,670 --> 01:20:11,410 in Idaho, working as a mechanic in a service 1193 01:20:11,410 --> 01:20:14,140 station run by Mrs. Peters here. 1194 01:20:23,270 --> 01:20:24,410 I understand perfectly. 1195 01:20:27,100 --> 01:20:30,050 Now that my chance for happiness is dead, 1196 01:20:30,050 --> 01:20:32,250 I suppose you'll demand the divorce I've begged you 1197 01:20:32,250 --> 01:20:33,960 to give me so that I could marry Jim. 1198 01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:36,800 That's fantastic. 1199 01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:38,040 Yes, isn't it? 1200 01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:40,230 After you telling us that the man you picked up 1201 01:20:40,230 --> 01:20:41,520 was a perfect stranger. 1202 01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:42,230 That's not true. 1203 01:20:42,230 --> 01:20:44,500 The time and place for meeting Jim had all been arranged. 1204 01:20:44,500 --> 01:20:46,440 I must advise you there's a law that a wife 1205 01:20:46,440 --> 01:20:47,870 can't testify against her husband. 1206 01:20:47,870 --> 01:20:50,330 There's a law against murder too, but that didn't stop him. 1207 01:20:50,330 --> 01:20:55,880 And nothing's going to stop me until I'm through. 1208 01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:56,080 And nothing's going to stop me until I'm through. It's all right with me, Captain. 1209 01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:56,980 It's all right with me, Captain. 1210 01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:02,540 Go on talk your head off. 1211 01:21:06,870 --> 01:21:10,610 I, I, I was to have gone with him to Denver. 1212 01:21:10,610 --> 01:21:13,260 He insisted on it, although I was quite ill. 1213 01:21:13,260 --> 01:21:16,780 Several hours before we were to leave he came home. 1214 01:21:16,780 --> 01:21:17,840 There was a violent scene. 1215 01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:20,260 He threatened to kill me unless I agreed to give up Jim. 1216 01:21:22,980 --> 01:21:24,160 And I wish he had. 1217 01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:30,080 This is incredible. 1218 01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:32,870 Not one word that she has said is true. 1219 01:21:32,870 --> 01:21:34,830 Then you have nothing to worry about. 1220 01:21:34,830 --> 01:21:38,140 Mrs. Williams, was there a witness to the threat you 1221 01:21:38,140 --> 01:21:40,040 mentioned? 1222 01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:43,830 No, unless the maid overhead. 1223 01:21:43,830 --> 01:21:46,610 She was in the apartment. 1224 01:21:46,610 --> 01:21:48,880 In fact, she picked up the pieces of a vase 1225 01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:50,320 that he threw at me. 1226 01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:53,010 Where is she now? 1227 01:21:53,010 --> 01:21:53,710 I don't know. 1228 01:21:53,710 --> 01:21:55,880 She left me suddenly after all this began. 1229 01:21:58,850 --> 01:22:02,640 Please could the questions wait? 1230 01:22:02,640 --> 01:22:04,510 I feel rather ill. 1231 01:22:04,510 --> 01:22:06,380 Will you have Mrs. Williams ready for the grand jury 10 1232 01:22:06,380 --> 01:22:07,820 o'clock tomorrow morning. 1233 01:22:07,820 --> 01:22:08,520 That's all. 1234 01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:24,170 We're going to hold. 1235 01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:28,160 On what charge? 1236 01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:31,230 Suspicion of murder. 1237 01:22:31,230 --> 01:22:33,290 But he's not guilty of any of these things. 1238 01:22:33,290 --> 01:22:34,710 Then it should be easy for him to prove. 1239 01:22:34,710 --> 01:22:37,600 Take him down and book him. 1240 01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,390 That fiction of Mrs. Williams must have been very convincing. 1241 01:22:40,390 --> 01:22:43,940 No, we just couldn't buy that yawn you tried to sell us. 1242 01:22:43,940 --> 01:22:45,620 Let's go. 1243 01:22:45,620 --> 01:22:46,320 [INTERPOSING VOICES] 1244 01:22:46,320 --> 01:23:11,050 And Daly's going to. 1245 01:23:11,050 --> 01:23:12,040 OK, boys, hop to it. 1246 01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:13,650 I want all I can get by 10:00 a.m. 1247 01:23:13,650 --> 01:23:14,930 tomorrow for the grand jury. 1248 01:23:14,930 --> 01:23:15,770 OK, Chief. 1249 01:23:15,770 --> 01:23:18,880 Oh, Tom, don't miss a bit. 1250 01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:21,320 Dig up everything you can on Williams and the Peters dame. 1251 01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:23,370 You surely believed Irene William's story didn't you, 1252 01:23:23,370 --> 01:23:24,070 Call? 1253 01:23:24,070 --> 01:23:25,620 She made better sense than he did. 1254 01:23:25,620 --> 01:23:28,400 Well, sure, she's a better liar than he is. 1255 01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:30,240 Don't forget I went all through her grieving 1256 01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:31,570 widowhood with her. 1257 01:23:31,570 --> 01:23:32,890 She's a bad customer. 1258 01:23:32,890 --> 01:23:34,810 Well, that's for the grand jury to decide. 1259 01:23:34,810 --> 01:23:36,750 And Williams insisted on letting her talk. 1260 01:23:36,750 --> 01:23:37,980 So it is his funeral. 1261 01:23:37,980 --> 01:23:42,280 Funeral all right, especially with that yawn he told. 1262 01:23:42,280 --> 01:23:45,490 But murder is out of character for him. 1263 01:23:45,490 --> 01:23:47,100 There's a few pieces missing somewhere. 1264 01:23:47,100 --> 01:23:49,000 They might be in Idaho. 1265 01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:51,940 If it's not too much out of character for you to get going. 1266 01:23:51,940 --> 01:23:55,290 You're going to miss me, Cal, when I retire next year. 1267 01:23:55,290 --> 01:23:57,910 Maybe I'll turn private eye and solve your cases for you. 1268 01:24:04,550 --> 01:24:05,250 Hi, Williams. 1269 01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:09,800 Mr. Williams. 1270 01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:10,500 Thanks. 1271 01:24:10,500 --> 01:24:12,290 Sort of feeling it from the bottom here don't you? 1272 01:24:12,290 --> 01:24:13,080 Sorry Williams. 1273 01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:13,840 OK Williams. 1274 01:24:19,820 --> 01:24:24,250 Well, not very good news judging from your faces. 1275 01:24:24,250 --> 01:24:25,930 Well, Walt, the grand jury returned 1276 01:24:25,930 --> 01:24:27,930 an indictment against you. 1277 01:24:27,930 --> 01:24:31,720 Mrs. Williams was released. 1278 01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:33,560 I see. 1279 01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:34,880 Now, don't you worry, Walt. 1280 01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:36,780 We'll have you back at work where you're needed 1281 01:24:36,780 --> 01:24:38,770 and in short order. 1282 01:24:38,770 --> 01:24:40,180 Come on, Eldredge there's a visitor 1283 01:24:40,180 --> 01:24:43,360 waiting for him more attractive than we old fogeys. 1284 01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:45,080 We're just leaving Mrs. Peters. 1285 01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:48,760 But remember, don't hesitate to call on me for anything. 1286 01:24:48,760 --> 01:24:50,090 Thank you so much. 1287 01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:00,340 Hi, boss. 1288 01:25:00,340 --> 01:25:03,560 Bill, what have I done to you? 1289 01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:07,660 If it weren't for me you wouldn't be here. 1290 01:25:07,660 --> 01:25:10,360 If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be. 1291 01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:13,410 I came back here because I wanted to believe in the things 1292 01:25:13,410 --> 01:25:14,350 you do. 1293 01:25:14,350 --> 01:25:17,830 I still do, no matter what happens. 1294 01:25:17,830 --> 01:25:20,240 Will you do something for me? 1295 01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:20,940 Mhm. 1296 01:25:20,940 --> 01:25:21,920 Go back home. 1297 01:25:21,920 --> 01:25:24,700 So I know you'll be taken care of. 1298 01:25:24,700 --> 01:25:26,140 Not a chance. 1299 01:25:26,140 --> 01:25:27,560 You'll have to think of a better reason 1300 01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:29,660 than that to get rid of me. 1301 01:25:29,660 --> 01:25:30,420 I'm a big girl now. 1302 01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:36,970 I've just been to Larkspur, Williams. 1303 01:25:36,970 --> 01:25:38,350 Where I found these newspaper clippings. 1304 01:25:38,350 --> 01:25:39,820 Of course, some of them are three months old 1305 01:25:39,820 --> 01:25:42,980 but you seem to treasure them so I brought them along. 1306 01:25:42,980 --> 01:25:44,490 So? 1307 01:25:44,490 --> 01:25:46,490 I don't think they exactly substantiate 1308 01:25:46,490 --> 01:25:48,540 your claim of amnesia. 1309 01:25:48,540 --> 01:25:50,420 As if you were interested in substantiating any 1310 01:25:50,420 --> 01:25:51,370 claim of mine. 1311 01:25:51,370 --> 01:25:53,010 Now let's get one thing straight. 1312 01:25:53,010 --> 01:25:54,370 Most people when they get in a jam 1313 01:25:54,370 --> 01:25:56,930 think the police are only interested in the prosecution. 1314 01:25:56,930 --> 01:25:59,540 Our job is to get the facts, the truth. 1315 01:25:59,540 --> 01:26:02,400 And the truth never hurt anyone but the fella that lied. 1316 01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:03,670 All I seen was a beautiful woman. 1317 01:26:03,670 --> 01:26:05,380 Ah, quit kidding yourself, Williams. 1318 01:26:05,380 --> 01:26:06,450 You made the bone up. 1319 01:26:06,450 --> 01:26:09,160 I had no more to do with Torrence's death than you did. 1320 01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:12,140 And out of the whole population of northern California 1321 01:26:12,140 --> 01:26:14,460 you just happened to pick up a hitchhiker who 1322 01:26:14,460 --> 01:26:16,310 happened to be your wife's boyfriend. 1323 01:26:16,310 --> 01:26:18,660 Ah, have a heart will you? 1324 01:26:18,660 --> 01:26:21,380 I suppose you'll tell the truth when you take the stand. 1325 01:26:21,380 --> 01:26:23,830 But you better have some mighty conclusive proof 1326 01:26:23,830 --> 01:26:25,840 if you expect the jury to believe it. 1327 01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:27,690 Wait, Lieutenant. 1328 01:26:27,690 --> 01:26:30,000 Bill, we all know you're not guilty. 1329 01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:32,690 But we're going to need help to prove it and need it badly. 1330 01:26:32,690 --> 01:26:33,390 Lt. 1331 01:26:33,390 --> 01:26:35,080 Quincy can't take sides, but if we're right 1332 01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:37,430 he has to be on ours. 1333 01:26:37,430 --> 01:26:41,300 And I have a hunch he wants to be. 1334 01:26:41,300 --> 01:26:44,090 Why don't you tell him the whole story? 1335 01:26:44,090 --> 01:26:45,620 All of it, please. 1336 01:26:49,050 --> 01:26:51,060 I'd like to. 1337 01:26:51,060 --> 01:26:51,890 Thank you very much. 1338 01:26:55,990 --> 01:26:59,560 I guess I should have told the whole truth in the first place. 1339 01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:01,480 But I wanted to be clean this mess up 1340 01:27:01,480 --> 01:27:03,010 with as little scandal as possible. 1341 01:27:15,690 --> 01:27:17,550 Well? 1342 01:27:17,550 --> 01:27:19,070 No sign of the lug wrench or anything. 1343 01:27:19,070 --> 01:27:20,810 My dear Mrs. Peters, will you please 1344 01:27:20,810 --> 01:27:22,330 stop trying to be a detective? 1345 01:27:22,330 --> 01:27:24,320 How many times do you think the police have combed 1346 01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:26,900 this spot for any kind of evidence? 1347 01:27:26,900 --> 01:27:28,940 Now be a nice girl, take Mr. Williams' advice. 1348 01:27:28,940 --> 01:27:30,350 Go back to Larkspur. 1349 01:27:30,350 --> 01:27:32,620 What time is it? 1350 01:27:32,620 --> 01:27:33,840 It's only 4 o'clock. 1351 01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:35,220 We still have time to go back to town 1352 01:27:35,220 --> 01:27:37,520 and go on a hunt for Su Lin. Now, look here, young woman. 1353 01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:39,530 You've had me on the run since early morn. 1354 01:27:39,530 --> 01:27:42,970 But Lieutenant, the maid seems to be our only hope now. 1355 01:27:42,970 --> 01:27:44,880 We've got to keep looking until we find her that's all. 1356 01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:45,580 That's all? 1357 01:27:45,580 --> 01:27:49,060 Wait, she was naturalized wasn't she? 1358 01:27:49,060 --> 01:27:50,820 Shuffling chopsticks. 1359 01:27:50,820 --> 01:27:52,760 Quincy you dumb flat foot. 1360 01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:54,700 This Su, what's her name? 1361 01:27:54,700 --> 01:27:56,130 Was Chinese born. 1362 01:27:56,130 --> 01:27:58,060 If her port of entry was San Francisco 1363 01:27:58,060 --> 01:28:00,530 there'd still be a file on her photo and all. 1364 01:28:00,530 --> 01:28:03,280 Let's go. 1365 01:28:03,280 --> 01:28:05,140 Back to town, immigration. 1366 01:28:25,950 --> 01:28:27,870 I hope the counselor has given us the right lead. 1367 01:28:39,100 --> 01:28:41,670 Are you Ah Sing? 1368 01:28:41,670 --> 01:28:43,670 Understand? 1369 01:28:43,670 --> 01:28:45,130 You speak the English? 1370 01:28:45,130 --> 01:28:48,470 Also French, Italian, and Hebrew. 1371 01:28:48,470 --> 01:28:51,440 May Ah ask what is desired? 1372 01:28:51,440 --> 01:28:53,660 We're looking for Su Lin Chung. 1373 01:28:53,660 --> 01:28:55,320 A Chinese counselor said you were her uncle 1374 01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:57,000 and might tell us where she is. 1375 01:28:57,000 --> 01:28:59,460 This daughter of my brother has she 1376 01:28:59,460 --> 01:29:00,760 offended the honorable police? 1377 01:29:00,760 --> 01:29:01,860 Oh no. 1378 01:29:01,860 --> 01:29:03,630 They just wanted to ask her some questions about Mr. 1379 01:29:03,630 --> 01:29:07,100 Williams, the man she used to work for. 1380 01:29:07,100 --> 01:29:10,750 Ah Sing's heart is heavy that he cannot lead you to her. 1381 01:29:10,750 --> 01:29:14,090 But things that are not known cannot be told. 1382 01:29:14,090 --> 01:29:16,800 Well if you hear anything of her report it to headquarters. 1383 01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:27,450 Su Lin, untruth is not good for soul. 1384 01:29:27,450 --> 01:29:29,920 And not wisdom when told to policeman. 1385 01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:32,550 Better for the soul to be kind than to be wise. 1386 01:29:32,550 --> 01:29:35,010 Su Lin must keep silent to help in this matter. 1387 01:29:39,410 --> 01:29:41,350 You know, you're quite a gal. 1388 01:29:41,350 --> 01:29:43,830 In case I haven't told you lately. 1389 01:29:43,830 --> 01:29:47,590 You're just too easily pleased that's all. 1390 01:29:47,590 --> 01:29:48,710 There must be a way out. 1391 01:29:48,710 --> 01:29:51,560 Why can't we find it? 1392 01:29:51,560 --> 01:29:53,070 Oh, buck up, boss. 1393 01:29:53,070 --> 01:29:54,080 Tomorrow's another day. 1394 01:29:56,680 --> 01:29:57,950 It's the day you go to trial. 1395 01:30:01,770 --> 01:30:04,640 Bill, I'm afraid. 1396 01:30:04,640 --> 01:30:07,620 And the state intends to prove beyond any reasonable doubt 1397 01:30:07,620 --> 01:30:09,220 that the defendant, Walter Williams, 1398 01:30:09,220 --> 01:30:11,970 did with malice of forethought kill the deceased James. 1399 01:30:11,970 --> 01:30:15,050 Torrence who he knew to be hie wife's lover. 1400 01:30:15,050 --> 01:30:16,860 And then with his victim dead beside him 1401 01:30:16,860 --> 01:30:19,450 he drove he car into the course of an oncoming truck, 1402 01:30:19,450 --> 01:30:22,240 jumping clear himself some seconds prior to the crash. 1403 01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:23,740 And subsequent he made his getaway 1404 01:30:23,740 --> 01:30:25,500 in the back of a loaded furniture van. 1405 01:30:25,500 --> 01:30:28,770 And for three months as Bill Walker he laughed at justice, 1406 01:30:28,770 --> 01:30:31,000 but it imprisoned his unfaithful wife 1407 01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:34,030 for conspiracy in his own murder. 1408 01:30:34,030 --> 01:30:36,550 But then he decided that being dead cramped his style. 1409 01:30:36,550 --> 01:30:39,000 He thought he could eat his cake and it too. 1410 01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:42,940 So he returned, most anxious to explain his long absence 1411 01:30:42,940 --> 01:30:44,740 and to write the dreadful mistake that 1412 01:30:44,740 --> 01:30:47,950 had imprisoned his wife for three months. 1413 01:30:47,950 --> 01:30:49,810 Ladies and gentlemen it was a cold 1414 01:30:49,810 --> 01:30:51,590 blooded premeditated murder. 1415 01:30:51,590 --> 01:30:54,470 It must be punished to the fullest extent of the law. 1416 01:30:54,470 --> 01:30:57,710 Call the first witness please. 1417 01:30:57,710 --> 01:30:59,060 Captain Callahan, did Walter Williams 1418 01:30:59,060 --> 01:31:02,830 tell you what suddenly cured his amnesia after three months? 1419 01:31:02,830 --> 01:31:03,650 No, he did not. 1420 01:31:03,650 --> 01:31:05,680 But he did tell you the man that struck the blow which caused 1421 01:31:05,680 --> 01:31:07,400 the amnesia was a total stranger, 1422 01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:08,700 a hitchhiker he had picked up. 1423 01:31:08,700 --> 01:31:09,400 Yes. 1424 01:31:09,400 --> 01:31:11,100 And that he knew nothing of this man's identity 1425 01:31:11,100 --> 01:31:13,810 or a relationship with his wife until he suddenly recovered 1426 01:31:13,810 --> 01:31:16,290 from his amnesia and heard or read the details. 1427 01:31:16,290 --> 01:31:17,630 That's what he said. 1428 01:31:17,630 --> 01:31:20,230 We should all thank you, Captain. 1429 01:31:20,230 --> 01:31:22,140 Your witness counselor. 1430 01:31:22,140 --> 01:31:24,370 No questions. 1431 01:31:24,370 --> 01:31:30,030 No, I saw no signs of amnesia, but definite concussion. 1432 01:31:30,030 --> 01:31:32,760 He was a bit evasive in answering questions. 1433 01:31:32,760 --> 01:31:34,550 But not vague or unsure. 1434 01:31:34,550 --> 01:31:36,510 In your opinion, doctor, could this head injury 1435 01:31:36,510 --> 01:31:38,230 have been caused by a fall? 1436 01:31:38,230 --> 01:31:39,490 Yes. 1437 01:31:39,490 --> 01:31:40,970 If the head had struck on some object 1438 01:31:40,970 --> 01:31:44,130 such as a stone or a metal pipe. 1439 01:31:44,130 --> 01:31:45,360 That's all, thank you. 1440 01:31:45,360 --> 01:31:47,200 Your witness. 1441 01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:49,220 Dr. Bender, are you familiar with the tool known as the lug 1442 01:31:49,220 --> 01:31:51,290 wrench for changing automobile wheels? 1443 01:31:51,290 --> 01:31:52,310 I'm afraid I am sir. 1444 01:31:52,310 --> 01:31:55,690 I've had a regular epidemic of flat tires lately. 1445 01:31:55,690 --> 01:31:57,010 Well then in your opinion could this 1446 01:31:57,010 --> 01:31:58,570 head injury which you treated had been 1447 01:31:58,570 --> 01:32:00,800 caused by a blow from a lug wrench? 1448 01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:01,500 Yes. 1449 01:32:01,500 --> 01:32:03,210 It could have been caused by that too. 1450 01:32:03,210 --> 01:32:05,430 Thank you, doctor. 1451 01:32:05,430 --> 01:32:07,200 The ones with the earliest dates you'll notice 1452 01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:08,430 are heavily creased as though they've 1453 01:32:08,430 --> 01:32:10,210 been carried in a wallet or a coat pocket. 1454 01:32:10,210 --> 01:32:11,160 Thank you. 1455 01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:11,860 Lt. 1456 01:32:11,860 --> 01:32:13,670 Quincy, will you kindly tell the court 1457 01:32:13,670 --> 01:32:16,550 where you found these newspaper clippings. 1458 01:32:16,550 --> 01:32:19,940 In the bedroom occupied by Mr. Williams in Mrs. 1459 01:32:19,940 --> 01:32:23,290 Peters' home in Larkspur, Idaho. 1460 01:32:23,290 --> 01:32:26,000 Is this your handwriting Miss Revere? 1461 01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:27,690 Yes, sir and that's the message, 1462 01:32:27,690 --> 01:32:29,930 at least a record carbon of it. 1463 01:32:29,930 --> 01:32:33,080 Would you read it to the court please? 1464 01:32:33,080 --> 01:32:35,520 June 98:32 p.m. 1465 01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:38,950 Message for Mrs. Walter Williams Penthouse D. Mr. Williams 1466 01:32:38,950 --> 01:32:40,430 called, said he wants you to forget 1467 01:32:40,430 --> 01:32:44,540 all about a certain problem that Softy's 1468 01:32:44,540 --> 01:32:46,840 going to take care of it thoroughly. 1469 01:32:46,840 --> 01:32:50,170 Was there any other conversation? 1470 01:32:50,170 --> 01:32:52,270 Well, I just asked if that was all, 1471 01:32:52,270 --> 01:32:54,150 and he said yes, she'll understand. 1472 01:32:56,690 --> 01:32:59,480 And sort of laughed as if it were a joke and hung up. 1473 01:32:59,480 --> 01:33:01,900 Some joke killing the wife's boyfriend. 1474 01:33:01,900 --> 01:33:07,650 [LAUGHTER] 1475 01:33:07,650 --> 01:33:09,680 The state versus Walter Williams. 1476 01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:12,160 All the rounds so far have gone to the prosecution. 1477 01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:15,030 And it was a grim faced Williams who was returned to his cell 1478 01:33:15,030 --> 01:33:15,980 this afternoon. 1479 01:33:15,980 --> 01:33:17,430 What the score will be after he takes 1480 01:33:17,430 --> 01:33:19,200 the stand is anybody's guess. 1481 01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:20,870 But he's going to need some lucky punches 1482 01:33:20,870 --> 01:33:23,210 to get a decision. 1483 01:33:23,210 --> 01:33:25,410 And though Torrence struck with intent to kill, 1484 01:33:25,410 --> 01:33:28,090 after telling you, this is from Irene and me, sucker, 1485 01:33:28,090 --> 01:33:29,680 you still telephoned Illinois to find 1486 01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:32,460 out if there was a cousin Jim. 1487 01:33:32,460 --> 01:33:35,270 You are hard to convince aren't you, Mr. Williams? 1488 01:33:35,270 --> 01:33:37,060 Is it so incredible that a man should fight 1489 01:33:37,060 --> 01:33:39,010 against believing such a thing about his wife? 1490 01:33:39,010 --> 01:33:40,610 Oh, that is very touching. 1491 01:33:40,610 --> 01:33:42,820 I'm a husband who planned a trip on which he intended to destroy 1492 01:33:42,820 --> 01:33:44,480 his wife and did kill her lover. 1493 01:33:44,480 --> 01:33:45,370 That's a lie. 1494 01:33:45,370 --> 01:33:47,580 Your honor, I object to the conclusions drawn 1495 01:33:47,580 --> 01:33:49,170 by the prosecutor and move that it 1496 01:33:49,170 --> 01:33:50,360 be stricken from the records. 1497 01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:52,930 But your honor, there is a corpus delicti, remember? 1498 01:33:52,930 --> 01:33:54,560 Was your wife's lover. 1499 01:33:54,560 --> 01:33:57,750 Objection sustained. 1500 01:33:57,750 --> 01:34:00,700 There's also her own story which in front of witnesses 1501 01:34:00,700 --> 01:34:02,200 you insist that she tell. 1502 01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:04,280 And then we have your own two different stories 1503 01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:05,470 from your own lips. 1504 01:34:05,470 --> 01:34:08,430 One featuring a perfectly strange hitchhiker, the second 1505 01:34:08,430 --> 01:34:10,160 an equally strange cousin Jim without a question 1506 01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:48,540 of substantiation for either of them. 1507 01:34:48,540 --> 01:34:48,740 Of substantiation for either of them. Su Lin! 1508 01:34:48,740 --> 01:34:49,240 Su Lin! 1509 01:34:53,220 --> 01:34:54,710 Follow that Yellow cab. 1510 01:35:14,630 --> 01:35:15,630 Please hurry. 1511 01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:48,000 Wait for me. 1512 01:36:03,940 --> 01:36:04,930 Su Lin! 1513 01:36:09,910 --> 01:36:13,400 Su Lin. 1514 01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:14,390 Ah Sing. 1515 01:36:14,390 --> 01:36:15,570 You remember me, don't you? 1516 01:36:15,570 --> 01:36:17,990 I was here with Lt Quincy from the police department. 1517 01:36:17,990 --> 01:36:19,260 I just followed Su Lin up the stairs. 1518 01:36:19,260 --> 01:36:21,020 I saw her come in here. 1519 01:36:21,020 --> 01:36:22,270 You must be mistaken. 1520 01:36:22,270 --> 01:36:23,910 I'm not mistaken, she's here. 1521 01:36:23,910 --> 01:36:24,890 I must see her. 1522 01:36:24,890 --> 01:36:26,450 Ah Sing, don't you understand? 1523 01:36:26,450 --> 01:36:28,200 It's to save a man from prison, even from death. 1524 01:36:31,610 --> 01:36:32,580 I will send her to you. 1525 01:36:35,510 --> 01:36:40,580 [SPEAKING CHINESE] 1526 01:36:40,580 --> 01:36:41,440 Oh, Su Lin. 1527 01:36:41,440 --> 01:36:43,890 We've been looking for you all these weeks. 1528 01:36:43,890 --> 01:36:45,840 Mr. Williams need your help so desperately. 1529 01:36:45,840 --> 01:36:46,860 I can not help. 1530 01:36:46,860 --> 01:36:48,970 You must forget that you found Su Lin. 1531 01:36:48,970 --> 01:36:50,010 Forget it? 1532 01:36:50,010 --> 01:36:51,450 But you're his only witness. 1533 01:36:51,450 --> 01:36:52,820 You're the only one that can help. 1534 01:36:52,820 --> 01:36:54,060 Not as a witness. 1535 01:36:54,060 --> 01:36:56,410 Only with silence can I repay his great kindness 1536 01:36:56,410 --> 01:36:58,350 to me and my family in China. 1537 01:36:58,350 --> 01:36:59,100 Why? 1538 01:36:59,100 --> 01:37:00,580 I heard other things. 1539 01:37:00,580 --> 01:37:02,900 That most unhappy day from Mrs. Williams 1540 01:37:02,900 --> 01:37:05,500 bedroom his voice very loud and angry. 1541 01:37:05,500 --> 01:37:06,770 A flower vase broke into pieces. 1542 01:37:06,770 --> 01:37:09,060 He can explain all that. 1543 01:37:09,060 --> 01:37:11,290 I do not believe what he's already told. 1544 01:37:11,290 --> 01:37:14,430 That I heard anything would do harm. 1545 01:37:14,430 --> 01:37:15,160 Don't you see? 1546 01:37:20,080 --> 01:37:20,780 Yes. 1547 01:37:24,170 --> 01:37:27,920 Much sorrow comes from women who no not honor the truth. 1548 01:37:27,920 --> 01:37:32,880 And Mrs. Williams she's not true even to that Torrence man. 1549 01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:34,630 What made you say that? 1550 01:37:34,630 --> 01:37:36,820 That night when he was killed, her sickness 1551 01:37:36,820 --> 01:37:38,730 was but wall of falsehood. 1552 01:37:38,730 --> 01:37:41,140 Behind which you could go secretly to a meeting place. 1553 01:37:44,420 --> 01:37:45,800 You mean she went out that night? 1554 01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:51,660 Su Lin are you sure? 1555 01:37:51,660 --> 01:37:52,380 Yes. 1556 01:37:52,380 --> 01:37:53,930 Because next morning in her bedroom 1557 01:37:53,930 --> 01:37:56,580 I found street shoes that had been worn, her coat 1558 01:37:56,580 --> 01:37:59,210 on the closet floor, with the sleeves turned inside 1559 01:37:59,210 --> 01:38:01,340 out as though removed hurriedly. 1560 01:38:01,340 --> 01:38:04,140 And in one pocket a door key to some hotel. 1561 01:38:04,140 --> 01:38:06,360 Su Lin, that's it. 1562 01:38:06,360 --> 01:38:08,030 Proof that she and Torrence had planned 1563 01:38:08,030 --> 01:38:11,100 to meet that night after he killed Mr. Williams. 1564 01:38:11,100 --> 01:38:12,020 What hotel was it? 1565 01:38:14,670 --> 01:38:17,620 Oh, I don't remember. 1566 01:38:17,620 --> 01:38:20,220 The key, what did you do with it. 1567 01:38:20,220 --> 01:38:22,280 Returned to coat pocket. 1568 01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:23,320 Come on. 1569 01:38:23,320 --> 01:38:24,040 We'll get to Lt. 1570 01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:25,470 Quincy, he'll know what to do. 1571 01:38:25,470 --> 01:38:27,430 And pray Su Lin every step of the way. 1572 01:38:34,570 --> 01:38:36,200 Now, hold everything. 1573 01:38:36,200 --> 01:38:38,230 Even if this long shot don't work out, 1574 01:38:38,230 --> 01:38:41,820 we'll just keep on pitching. 1575 01:38:41,820 --> 01:38:54,090 [SPEAKING CHINESE] Here it is, yes. 1576 01:38:54,090 --> 01:38:57,220 Room 302, Airport Hotel, Oakland. 1577 01:38:57,220 --> 01:38:58,650 Maybe we got our miracle. 1578 01:38:58,650 --> 01:39:00,320 Especially the Chinese one. 1579 01:39:00,320 --> 01:39:02,620 It is the hope that Su Lin was a small help to Mr. Williams. 1580 01:39:02,620 --> 01:39:03,530 Oh, Su Lin. 1581 01:39:03,530 --> 01:39:05,190 Come on, next stop Oakland. 1582 01:39:05,190 --> 01:39:06,760 Let's see the little lady's hotel rendezvous. 1583 01:39:06,760 --> 01:39:10,410 I was on night duty. 1584 01:39:10,410 --> 01:39:11,960 But I sure don't remember a looker like this. 1585 01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:13,430 Quite a dish, eh? 1586 01:39:13,430 --> 01:39:15,780 A little too highly seasoned for my digestion, thanks. 1587 01:39:15,780 --> 01:39:18,730 Lieutenant, I just found a couple of cards from room 302 1588 01:39:18,730 --> 01:39:20,150 on June 9th. 1589 01:39:20,150 --> 01:39:23,480 Judge Baxter checked out at noon. 1590 01:39:23,480 --> 01:39:28,420 Mr. and Mrs. J. Burns room not slept in. 1591 01:39:28,420 --> 01:39:30,660 J. Burns, Burns. 1592 01:39:30,660 --> 01:39:33,020 Look Quincy. 1593 01:39:33,020 --> 01:39:34,870 The handwriting on the card is identical to that 1594 01:39:34,870 --> 01:39:35,790 on the photograph. 1595 01:39:35,790 --> 01:39:37,310 And here's a little more of the same thing, 1596 01:39:37,310 --> 01:39:39,110 the cover up telegram to Aunt Margaret. 1597 01:39:39,110 --> 01:39:40,630 And look at the impressions. 1598 01:39:40,630 --> 01:39:43,250 J here and here RNS. 1599 01:39:43,250 --> 01:39:44,590 J Burns. 1600 01:39:44,590 --> 01:39:47,100 That's the name she started a telegram to. 1601 01:39:47,100 --> 01:39:48,610 Room not slept in. 1602 01:39:48,610 --> 01:39:50,540 Say, I got that dame pegged now, Lieutenant. 1603 01:39:50,540 --> 01:39:51,670 She said they'd be out of the room 1604 01:39:51,670 --> 01:39:53,470 by midnight, because her husband was catching a plane. 1605 01:39:59,550 --> 01:40:01,920 But Quincy. 1606 01:40:01,920 --> 01:40:03,630 This ties it all up, doesn't it? 1607 01:40:03,630 --> 01:40:04,870 Yeah, like a greased pig. 1608 01:40:04,870 --> 01:40:05,680 What do you mean? 1609 01:40:05,680 --> 01:40:07,010 We've got the evidence now, the proof. 1610 01:40:07,010 --> 01:40:07,710 Of what? 1611 01:40:07,710 --> 01:40:10,370 Su Lin's theory that Irene was playing the field? 1612 01:40:10,370 --> 01:40:11,840 This evidence only proves that she came here 1613 01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:13,980 to keep a date with a man named Burns. 1614 01:40:13,980 --> 01:40:16,220 We can't even prove that he didn't keep the date. 1615 01:40:16,220 --> 01:40:17,820 But you know he didn't. There wasn't any Burns. 1616 01:40:17,820 --> 01:40:20,010 It was only a name that she and Torrence used. 1617 01:40:20,010 --> 01:40:20,760 Fine. 1618 01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:23,650 If you can prove that Williams will be free. 1619 01:40:23,650 --> 01:40:25,100 But none of this will prove it. 1620 01:40:25,100 --> 01:40:26,060 Sorry, copper. 1621 01:40:26,060 --> 01:40:27,990 But we are just up another blind alley. 1622 01:40:27,990 --> 01:40:31,420 Right There's a couple sample cases for Mr. Sam Anders. 1623 01:40:31,420 --> 01:40:32,720 Came up from the station this morning. 1624 01:40:32,720 --> 01:40:33,850 Take them to Parlor B right away. 1625 01:40:33,850 --> 01:40:34,550 Sure thing, sir. 1626 01:40:53,340 --> 01:40:55,300 Be seated. 1627 01:40:55,300 --> 01:40:57,850 The case of the state versus Walter Williams. 1628 01:40:57,850 --> 01:41:00,250 Proceed, Mr. Eldredge. 1629 01:41:00,250 --> 01:41:03,060 Your honor, we will call Mrs. Irene Williams. 1630 01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:07,070 Take the stand Mrs. Williams. 1631 01:41:16,970 --> 01:41:17,870 Raise your right hand. 1632 01:41:17,870 --> 01:41:19,900 Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give 1633 01:41:19,900 --> 01:41:21,730 has cause to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing 1634 01:41:21,730 --> 01:41:22,950 but the truth, so help you God? 1635 01:41:22,950 --> 01:41:25,670 I do. 1636 01:41:25,670 --> 01:41:26,630 What cooks? 1637 01:41:26,630 --> 01:41:29,710 The defense calling her? 1638 01:41:29,710 --> 01:41:31,210 Mr. Eldredge, what's the purpose 1639 01:41:31,210 --> 01:41:32,500 in calling this witness? 1640 01:41:32,500 --> 01:41:36,570 Merely for purposes of identifying handwriting. 1641 01:41:36,570 --> 01:41:40,160 Now, Mrs. Williams this photograph of you... 1642 01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:41,560 Was stolen from my apartment. 1643 01:41:41,560 --> 01:41:43,560 So according to the inscription, 1644 01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:46,500 to Walt, my adoring and adored husband, Irene, 1645 01:41:46,500 --> 01:41:48,430 this belongs to Mr. Williams. 1646 01:41:48,430 --> 01:41:50,790 This is your handwriting isn't it? 1647 01:41:50,790 --> 01:41:51,970 Of course. 1648 01:41:51,970 --> 01:41:54,760 I'm touched that he should have wanted it so badly. 1649 01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:58,580 And this telegram addressed to Mrs. Margaret Hubbard, 1650 01:41:58,580 --> 01:42:01,190 is that also your handwriting? 1651 01:42:01,190 --> 01:42:01,890 It is. 1652 01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:12,120 Now, Mrs. Burns, I mean Mrs. Williams. 1653 01:42:12,120 --> 01:42:15,760 This photograph is inscribed to Jim my adoring 1654 01:42:15,760 --> 01:42:17,530 and adored, Irene. 1655 01:42:17,530 --> 01:42:18,340 Did you write this too? 1656 01:42:18,340 --> 01:42:20,140 I, I see no point in all this. 1657 01:42:20,140 --> 01:42:22,150 Merely answer counsel's questions. 1658 01:42:22,150 --> 01:42:24,780 Did you write it? 1659 01:42:24,780 --> 01:42:26,160 I did. 1660 01:42:26,160 --> 01:42:27,830 And these letters addressed to Mr. James Torrence, 1661 01:42:27,830 --> 01:42:28,580 did you write them? 1662 01:42:28,580 --> 01:42:29,280 Yes. 1663 01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:40,850 And this monogrammed garment a gift from you to Mr. Torrence? 1664 01:42:40,850 --> 01:42:42,690 Why must I be tortured again by all this? 1665 01:42:42,690 --> 01:42:45,400 I never made any secret of my love for Jim Torrence. 1666 01:42:45,400 --> 01:42:46,660 That's why he's dead. 1667 01:42:46,660 --> 01:42:48,460 Your love for Jim Torrence? 1668 01:42:48,460 --> 01:42:49,630 Yet on the very night he was killed 1669 01:42:49,630 --> 01:42:52,040 you had a rendezvous with a man named Burns didn't you? 1670 01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:53,370 I don't know what you're talking about. 1671 01:42:53,370 --> 01:42:55,140 I don't know any man named Burns. 1672 01:42:55,140 --> 01:42:56,620 I was at home that night very ill. 1673 01:42:56,620 --> 01:42:58,110 Oh yes, the sleeping pills. 1674 01:42:58,110 --> 01:43:00,130 Well, you must walk in your sleep then. 1675 01:43:00,130 --> 01:43:01,550 For you spent at least part of that night 1676 01:43:01,550 --> 01:43:03,280 at the Airport Hotel in Oakland. 1677 01:43:03,280 --> 01:43:05,770 Where you registered for Mr. And Mrs. J. Burns. 1678 01:43:05,770 --> 01:43:08,230 Don't waste the court's time trying to deny it. 1679 01:43:08,230 --> 01:43:13,060 This is the registration card that you signed at 9:20 p.m. 1680 01:43:13,060 --> 01:43:17,590 And there's the room clerk who assigned you to room 302. 1681 01:43:17,590 --> 01:43:22,010 And this, Mr.s Williams, is the key to room 302, which you very 1682 01:43:22,010 --> 01:43:23,740 carelessly left in the pocket of a coat which 1683 01:43:23,740 --> 01:43:25,240 was found in your closet yesterday. 1684 01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:26,650 All right, I was there. 1685 01:43:26,650 --> 01:43:27,730 Are you satisfied? 1686 01:43:27,730 --> 01:43:29,260 Not quite. 1687 01:43:29,260 --> 01:43:32,450 This J. Burns, Mrs. Williams, was his first name Jack? 1688 01:43:32,450 --> 01:43:33,490 Yes. 1689 01:43:33,490 --> 01:43:34,960 Have you been in contact with him lately? 1690 01:43:34,960 --> 01:43:35,660 No, no. 1691 01:43:35,660 --> 01:43:37,560 How long seen you've seen or heard from this Jack Burns? 1692 01:43:37,560 --> 01:43:38,910 Well, I don't know, I don't remember. 1693 01:43:38,910 --> 01:43:39,940 You bet, she doesn't remember. 1694 01:43:39,940 --> 01:43:43,470 Because there isn't any Jack Burns and there never was. 1695 01:43:43,470 --> 01:43:45,270 That was an alias for Jim Torrence. 1696 01:43:45,270 --> 01:43:46,740 And it was Torrence who was to have met you 1697 01:43:46,740 --> 01:43:48,830 that night after your charming little plot 1698 01:43:48,830 --> 01:43:50,530 to kill your husband had been duly executed. 1699 01:43:50,530 --> 01:43:51,890 Not true, it's not true. 1700 01:43:51,890 --> 01:43:53,860 I have bad news, Mrs. Williams. 1701 01:43:53,860 --> 01:43:55,430 I can prove it's true. 1702 01:43:55,430 --> 01:43:59,140 These pajamas, these letters, this picture, all of which 1703 01:43:59,140 --> 01:44:04,200 you identified for the court were found in this suitcase 1704 01:44:04,200 --> 01:44:07,270 which is full of the clothes and personal belongings 1705 01:44:07,270 --> 01:44:09,000 of Mr. James Torrence. 1706 01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:11,330 And the suitcase was found in the baggage room of the Airport. 1707 01:44:11,330 --> 01:44:14,420 Hotel where it's been held since June 9. 1708 01:44:14,420 --> 01:44:21,550 And it says on his tag in large print hold for Jack Burns. 1709 01:44:21,550 --> 01:44:22,450 That is all, Mrs. Williams. 1710 01:44:26,420 --> 01:44:29,560 Just a moment, Mrs. Williams. 1711 01:44:29,560 --> 01:44:30,900 Your honor in view of the evidence 1712 01:44:30,900 --> 01:44:33,670 presented, we now ask for a dismissal of the state's case 1713 01:44:33,670 --> 01:44:35,450 against Walter Williams. 1714 01:44:35,450 --> 01:44:37,970 And we intend to charge Irene Williams with conspiracy 1715 01:44:37,970 --> 01:44:41,430 to commit murder against her husband Walter Williams. 1716 01:44:41,430 --> 01:44:42,130 Oh no. 1717 01:44:50,490 --> 01:44:52,520 The case against Walter Williams dismissed. 1718 01:44:52,520 --> 01:44:53,700 Court adjourned until 2:00. 1719 01:44:57,370 --> 01:44:58,930 Well, that's that, Walt. 1720 01:44:58,930 --> 01:45:00,060 Congratulations, Mr. Williams. 1721 01:45:02,790 --> 01:45:04,280 I haven't the words for it, Quincy. 1722 01:45:04,280 --> 01:45:07,120 But we, we could never have made it without you. 1723 01:45:07,120 --> 01:45:08,450 Ah, sure you could. 1724 01:45:08,450 --> 01:45:11,560 You know, son, right always wins if you give it a little push, 1725 01:45:11,560 --> 01:45:12,730 especially when you've got a copper 1726 01:45:12,730 --> 01:45:13,740 like this one to do the push. 1727 01:45:13,740 --> 01:45:15,350 Well, I'll be seeing you. 1728 01:45:15,350 --> 01:45:16,620 You know, it will seem kind of strange 1729 01:45:16,620 --> 01:45:18,310 to be able to eat and sleep without someone 1730 01:45:18,310 --> 01:45:21,410 getting in your hair all the time. 1731 01:45:21,410 --> 01:45:22,860 Oh, fine, Walt. 1732 01:45:22,860 --> 01:45:25,500 We're looking forward to having your hand on the wheel again. 1733 01:45:25,500 --> 01:45:27,630 The Denver plants are waiting for you to open them. 1734 01:45:27,630 --> 01:45:29,590 You think you could make it in the morning? 1735 01:45:29,590 --> 01:45:30,680 How about it, counselor? 1736 01:45:30,680 --> 01:45:31,620 You bet you can. 1737 01:45:31,620 --> 01:45:32,600 Oh, good. 1738 01:45:32,600 --> 01:45:35,900 Well, I'll be running along. 1739 01:45:35,900 --> 01:45:38,640 Well, do you think you'll like Denver? 1740 01:45:38,640 --> 01:45:41,510 It's OK by me, boss. 1741 01:45:41,510 --> 01:45:47,470 Yes, impact the force with which two lives can come together, 1742 01:45:47,470 --> 01:45:51,100 sometimes for evil, sometimes for good. 1743 01:45:55,540 --> 01:45:57,290 [MUSIC PLAYING]