1 00:01:57,718 --> 00:01:59,414 What was that shot? What happened? 2 00:01:59,553 --> 00:02:00,593 It was nothing. A prowler. 3 00:02:00,721 --> 00:02:02,713 Why don't you go back to bed? 4 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:01,245 Mr. Mannix? 5 00:03:01,381 --> 00:03:02,381 That's right. 6 00:03:02,482 --> 00:03:04,678 Mr. Otway's expecting you. Go right on in. 7 00:03:04,818 --> 00:03:05,842 Thank you. 8 00:03:05,986 --> 00:03:08,512 Oh, and this is for you. 9 00:03:08,655 --> 00:03:09,850 What is it? 10 00:03:09,990 --> 00:03:13,358 Your retainer and expenses for the first three days. 11 00:03:13,493 --> 00:03:16,463 If I decide to take the case, I'll pick it up on my way out. 12 00:03:16,596 --> 00:03:18,861 Do you know how much is in there? 13 00:03:21,334 --> 00:03:23,530 Enough to buy my soul for the next three days? 14 00:03:52,365 --> 00:03:55,563 I've never had much experience with private investigators. 15 00:03:55,702 --> 00:03:57,568 It's not exactly my line. 16 00:03:57,704 --> 00:04:00,105 Some attorneys, I imagine, do very well out of it. 17 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,471 But, uh, thankfully, I have never had to 18 00:04:02,609 --> 00:04:05,340 resort to that kind of thing. 19 00:04:05,479 --> 00:04:08,313 Nothing personal. Sit down. 20 00:04:13,653 --> 00:04:15,679 Do you consider yourself competent 21 00:04:15,822 --> 00:04:18,951 to handle a matter of some, uh, delicacy? 22 00:04:19,092 --> 00:04:22,494 It's always a matter of some delicacy, 23 00:04:22,629 --> 00:04:24,474 or you'd be talking to the police, wouldn't you? 24 00:04:24,498 --> 00:04:26,763 Perhaps, perhaps. 25 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:28,368 Who's the client? 26 00:04:28,502 --> 00:04:30,130 It's a man that you normally 27 00:04:30,270 --> 00:04:33,172 wouldn't, uh, bump into in your circle. 28 00:04:33,306 --> 00:04:36,743 Which means that your one and only concern 29 00:04:36,877 --> 00:04:40,712 must be for his reputation. 30 00:04:40,847 --> 00:04:42,611 How trustworthy are you? 31 00:04:42,749 --> 00:04:45,981 On a scale of ten, I'd say about, uh, 32 00:04:46,119 --> 00:04:47,678 nine and a half. 33 00:04:49,122 --> 00:04:53,218 Well, I suppose that's as much as one can hope for nowadays. 34 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,024 Did my secretary arrange the matter of your fee? 35 00:04:58,698 --> 00:05:00,894 You haven't told me who the client is. 36 00:05:01,034 --> 00:05:03,026 Mr. Mannix, this is not one of your 37 00:05:03,170 --> 00:05:07,005 run-of-the-mill keyhole-peeping operations. 38 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:11,972 I want a man who will follow instructions to the letter. 39 00:05:14,815 --> 00:05:17,182 Then you don't want me. 40 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:18,410 How do you know? 41 00:05:20,287 --> 00:05:21,983 My clients tell me what they want done, 42 00:05:22,122 --> 00:05:24,318 not how they want it done. 43 00:05:25,192 --> 00:05:28,162 Thanks for letting me audition. 44 00:05:28,829 --> 00:05:29,829 Young man? 45 00:05:32,833 --> 00:05:34,165 Let's have lunch. 46 00:05:42,008 --> 00:05:44,204 Did you read about last night's shooting? 47 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:45,539 Which one? 48 00:05:45,679 --> 00:05:49,810 You know, I date back to a time when a lethal weapon 49 00:05:49,950 --> 00:05:52,647 fired at a human being was still news, 50 00:05:52,786 --> 00:05:55,881 and not the daily trivia of urban life. 51 00:05:56,022 --> 00:06:01,325 No, I meant the shot fired at my client, Dr. Graham Aspinall. 52 00:06:02,963 --> 00:06:04,056 I read about it. 53 00:06:04,197 --> 00:06:07,429 I suppose if all the knowledgeable people 54 00:06:07,567 --> 00:06:10,696 in the world were to compile a list of men 55 00:06:10,837 --> 00:06:13,534 least likely to be shot at, 56 00:06:13,673 --> 00:06:17,166 Dr. Aspinall would be in the top ten. 57 00:06:17,310 --> 00:06:18,835 You have to take my word for that, 58 00:06:18,979 --> 00:06:22,177 because I'm sure you know nothing at all about his work. 59 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:25,649 It's a new surgical technique, isn't it, for inoperable tumors? 60 00:06:25,785 --> 00:06:27,515 Yeah. 61 00:06:27,654 --> 00:06:28,883 Well, you surprise me. 62 00:06:29,022 --> 00:06:32,356 Yes. It's for tumors previously 63 00:06:32,492 --> 00:06:34,961 considered inoperable, which brings new hope 64 00:06:35,095 --> 00:06:37,963 to countless thousands of people, not to mention 65 00:06:38,098 --> 00:06:41,466 the lives that he's already saved with his own hands. 66 00:06:41,601 --> 00:06:45,629 Now, who in heaven's name, 67 00:06:45,772 --> 00:06:47,968 would want to destroy a man like that? 68 00:06:48,108 --> 00:06:51,875 The police seem to think it was a prowler, an addict, 69 00:06:52,012 --> 00:06:53,708 looking for narcotics in a doctor's home. 70 00:06:53,847 --> 00:06:55,873 It's a very common occurrence, apparently. 71 00:06:56,016 --> 00:06:57,177 But you don't believe it? 72 00:06:57,317 --> 00:06:59,548 No. I do believe it. 73 00:06:59,686 --> 00:07:01,177 So does Dr. Aspinall. 74 00:07:02,956 --> 00:07:03,956 Then why call me? 75 00:07:04,057 --> 00:07:08,153 Mrs. Aspinall... she's European, 76 00:07:08,295 --> 00:07:12,460 and she's not accustomed to the American way of life. 77 00:07:12,599 --> 00:07:18,266 So your job will be to restore her peace of mind, 78 00:07:18,405 --> 00:07:21,170 unless, of course, she's right. 79 00:07:22,309 --> 00:07:25,177 Does, uh, Mrs. Aspinall suspect anyone? 80 00:07:25,312 --> 00:07:28,612 Well, if she does, she hasn't confided in me. 81 00:07:28,748 --> 00:07:31,081 Would she have confided in her husband? 82 00:07:31,217 --> 00:07:33,709 I seriously doubt it. 83 00:07:35,655 --> 00:07:38,784 Then, uh, who would you suggest I talk to? 84 00:07:38,925 --> 00:07:42,521 Well, now, aren't you the man who refuses 85 00:07:42,662 --> 00:07:44,756 to be told how to do his job? 86 00:07:44,898 --> 00:07:46,867 Good day, Mr. Mannix. 87 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,266 Did my secretary arrange for your expense account? 88 00:07:50,403 --> 00:07:51,268 Yes. 89 00:07:51,404 --> 00:07:53,339 Good. Take care of the check. 90 00:08:03,616 --> 00:08:05,608 Mrs. Aspinall? 91 00:08:07,954 --> 00:08:10,150 My name is Mannix. 92 00:08:10,290 --> 00:08:13,954 You asked Mr. Otway to hire a private investigator. 93 00:08:14,094 --> 00:08:16,154 This is a very delicate operation. 94 00:08:16,296 --> 00:08:18,288 Please forgive me for a moment. 95 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:22,630 There. 96 00:08:24,304 --> 00:08:26,739 Have you, uh, any reason to think 97 00:08:26,873 --> 00:08:28,501 someone might want to kill your husband? 98 00:08:28,641 --> 00:08:30,667 Of course not. 99 00:08:30,810 --> 00:08:33,780 Well, then you don't really need me. 100 00:08:35,982 --> 00:08:37,507 But how can I be sure? 101 00:08:44,391 --> 00:08:47,293 Exactly what is it you would like me to do? 102 00:08:52,832 --> 00:08:54,858 Well, I... I don't know. 103 00:08:55,001 --> 00:08:58,233 You could maybe question some of my husband's associates. 104 00:08:59,606 --> 00:09:01,939 Well, you just don't go digging into people's lives, 105 00:09:02,075 --> 00:09:03,737 unless you've got a pretty good reason. 106 00:09:08,615 --> 00:09:10,106 They hate him. 107 00:09:10,250 --> 00:09:11,843 Who? 108 00:09:11,985 --> 00:09:15,683 People for whom he sacrificed himself... 109 00:09:15,822 --> 00:09:17,791 sacrificed me. 110 00:09:17,924 --> 00:09:20,587 Why would any of them want him dead? 111 00:09:20,727 --> 00:09:24,664 Jealousy, rivalry, revenge. 112 00:09:24,798 --> 00:09:26,824 What do I know about motives for murder? 113 00:09:26,966 --> 00:09:28,832 You've made a pretty good start. 114 00:09:28,968 --> 00:09:31,665 What are some of the names that go with these motives? 115 00:09:31,805 --> 00:09:33,740 My husband would never forgive me. 116 00:09:33,873 --> 00:09:36,866 Well, now, would you forgive yourself 117 00:09:37,010 --> 00:09:38,342 if someone killed him? 118 00:09:43,316 --> 00:09:46,013 My husband is a great man. 119 00:09:46,152 --> 00:09:50,522 Selfless, brilliant, dedicated. 120 00:09:50,657 --> 00:09:53,855 Admired the world over. 121 00:09:53,993 --> 00:09:58,328 How would it sound if I started retailing cheap gossip 122 00:09:58,465 --> 00:10:03,699 about his personal habits, his egotism, his women? 123 00:10:07,006 --> 00:10:08,838 Mrs. Aspinall... 124 00:10:10,844 --> 00:10:13,143 why do you put up with it? 125 00:10:14,347 --> 00:10:17,044 As his wife, I am somebody. 126 00:10:17,183 --> 00:10:19,118 If I divorced him, made a scandal, 127 00:10:19,252 --> 00:10:21,517 he would still be a great man. 128 00:10:21,654 --> 00:10:23,885 But what would I be? 129 00:10:24,023 --> 00:10:26,652 A pitiful, rejected, middle-aged woman. 130 00:10:26,793 --> 00:10:28,625 Unless you became his moderate widow. 131 00:10:28,761 --> 00:10:31,526 What is that supposed to mean? 132 00:10:31,664 --> 00:10:33,599 A moment ago you asked me to look for motives. 133 00:10:33,733 --> 00:10:35,793 - Yes. - Well, just for argument's sake, 134 00:10:35,935 --> 00:10:37,836 wouldn't you say you had one? 135 00:10:37,971 --> 00:10:39,064 I? 136 00:10:39,205 --> 00:10:42,141 To hang onto the status, your self-respect? 137 00:10:45,211 --> 00:10:46,873 Get out. 138 00:10:55,054 --> 00:10:58,115 Mr. Mannix, do you want names? 139 00:10:58,258 --> 00:11:01,660 Dr. Felix St. Ives. 140 00:11:01,794 --> 00:11:03,387 Why don't you question him? 141 00:11:03,530 --> 00:11:05,021 Who's he? 142 00:11:05,165 --> 00:11:07,862 His disciple, his shadow. 143 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:09,936 The only person with whom my husband shares 144 00:11:10,069 --> 00:11:13,130 his innermost thoughts, the man who would take over 145 00:11:13,273 --> 00:11:15,071 the institute in case of Graham's death. 146 00:11:15,208 --> 00:11:17,040 All right. 147 00:11:17,177 --> 00:11:19,043 Felix St. Ives. 148 00:11:19,179 --> 00:11:20,272 Anyone else? 149 00:11:22,015 --> 00:11:26,077 Charlene Tallifer, his new research assistant. 150 00:11:26,219 --> 00:11:29,087 Except that's not all she does for him. 151 00:11:29,222 --> 00:11:31,157 How do you know? 152 00:11:31,291 --> 00:11:34,455 My husband is too proud for subterfuge. 153 00:11:34,594 --> 00:11:36,688 Why would she want to kill him? 154 00:11:36,829 --> 00:11:41,927 I didn't say she would, but she had a boyfriend. 155 00:11:42,068 --> 00:11:46,597 An intern... Dana... something or other. 156 00:11:46,739 --> 00:11:49,504 Where do I find him? 157 00:11:51,377 --> 00:11:56,714 In whatever special purgatory is reserved for jealous lovers. 158 00:12:38,191 --> 00:12:39,557 Dr. Aspinall? 159 00:12:39,692 --> 00:12:41,058 My name is Mannix. 160 00:12:41,194 --> 00:12:43,060 That supposed to mean something to me? 161 00:12:43,196 --> 00:12:44,276 I'm a private investigator. 162 00:12:44,364 --> 00:12:47,391 Your attorney retained me... Noah Otway. 163 00:12:47,533 --> 00:12:49,195 How did you recognize me? 164 00:12:49,335 --> 00:12:51,065 Well, I can always tell a surgeon. 165 00:12:51,204 --> 00:12:52,866 He's the one with the clean fingernails. 166 00:12:54,540 --> 00:12:56,065 What does Otway want? 167 00:12:56,209 --> 00:12:57,939 He wanted me to make some inquiries 168 00:12:58,077 --> 00:12:59,443 about the shooting last night. 169 00:12:59,579 --> 00:13:01,810 Otway is a toothless old woman 170 00:13:01,948 --> 00:13:04,179 with an obscene lust for melodrama. 171 00:13:04,317 --> 00:13:05,842 He thinks highly of you, too. 172 00:13:05,985 --> 00:13:08,181 Or was it really my wife's idea to hire you? 173 00:13:08,321 --> 00:13:09,846 Oh, never mind. 174 00:13:09,989 --> 00:13:12,982 I'm content to suffer the pangs of uncertainty. 175 00:13:18,331 --> 00:13:21,165 You're convinced that shot fired at you last night 176 00:13:21,301 --> 00:13:23,202 had nothing to do with you personally? 177 00:13:23,336 --> 00:13:25,771 I surprised some unfortunate addict 178 00:13:25,905 --> 00:13:27,100 who was looking for drugs. 179 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,209 I don't believe anyone hates or loves me enough 180 00:13:29,342 --> 00:13:30,342 to take a shot at me. 181 00:13:30,376 --> 00:13:32,538 That's a disgraceful admission, isn't it? 182 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,046 Mind if I talk to some of your associates? 183 00:13:35,181 --> 00:13:37,173 Certainly, I mind. 184 00:13:39,519 --> 00:13:41,988 What are you afraid I'll find out? 185 00:13:42,121 --> 00:13:45,751 That I'm an arrogant, cantankerous, self-important, 186 00:13:45,892 --> 00:13:48,794 greedy, glory-hustling megalomaniac. 187 00:13:48,928 --> 00:13:52,365 That I browbeat my subordinates, debauch my female assistants, 188 00:13:52,498 --> 00:13:55,195 claim sole credit for anyone's discoveries, 189 00:13:55,335 --> 00:13:57,099 and that I would commit any act, 190 00:13:57,236 --> 00:13:59,330 from high treason to indecent exposure, 191 00:13:59,472 --> 00:14:00,963 to knock off a Nobel Prize. 192 00:14:02,475 --> 00:14:05,604 And once I found that out, what do I do with it? 193 00:14:07,046 --> 00:14:08,844 Whatever it is you fellas do. 194 00:14:08,981 --> 00:14:11,041 Put on a false mustache, tap phones, 195 00:14:11,184 --> 00:14:14,382 dog footsteps, interrogate people in the dead of night, 196 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,251 make passes at beautiful female suspects, 197 00:14:17,390 --> 00:14:19,621 look down your noses at the police. 198 00:14:20,727 --> 00:14:22,525 I'll bet I know your favorite author. 199 00:14:23,996 --> 00:14:26,431 Don't bet on anything concerning me. 200 00:14:28,134 --> 00:14:30,126 Good day, Mr. Mannix. 201 00:14:48,354 --> 00:14:50,220 You are persistent, aren't you? 202 00:14:50,356 --> 00:14:51,881 Just trying to make a dollar. 203 00:14:52,024 --> 00:14:53,720 Oh, what's Otway paying you? 204 00:14:53,860 --> 00:14:56,056 More than I'm worth so far. 205 00:14:56,195 --> 00:14:59,063 So far is apt to be as far as you'll get. 206 00:14:59,198 --> 00:15:00,791 Possibly. 207 00:15:00,933 --> 00:15:02,299 Oh, I know how it is. 208 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:03,926 How what is? 209 00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:07,336 A touching eagerness to build some sort of a case. 210 00:15:07,473 --> 00:15:09,408 Get a little more mileage out of a good client. 211 00:15:09,542 --> 00:15:12,410 Is that how you run your shop? 212 00:15:14,147 --> 00:15:15,479 You've got a bad mouth, Mannix. 213 00:15:15,615 --> 00:15:17,607 It gets me there, and it gets me back. 214 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:20,982 One of these days it may not get you all the way back. 215 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,181 May I question your associates? 216 00:15:24,323 --> 00:15:26,519 Mr. Mannix, you're becoming a pest. 217 00:15:26,659 --> 00:15:28,355 Goes with the territory. 218 00:15:28,494 --> 00:15:32,932 I told you there's nothing more to ask about. 219 00:16:00,860 --> 00:16:03,159 Think that was a coincidence, too? 220 00:16:03,296 --> 00:16:04,320 I don't know. 221 00:16:04,464 --> 00:16:06,592 That's what makes life interesting. 222 00:16:08,267 --> 00:16:10,327 - You all right? - Very well, thank you. 223 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:12,962 You weren't supposed to park your car here today. 224 00:16:13,105 --> 00:16:14,334 There were signs up. 225 00:16:14,474 --> 00:16:16,841 Well, I'm a creature of habit. I always park here. 226 00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:21,004 I'd, uh, like to talk to the man who's operating that crane. 227 00:16:21,147 --> 00:16:22,171 Nobody's operating it. 228 00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:23,544 He's on a lunch break. 229 00:16:26,652 --> 00:16:28,780 If you'll drop me off in town, Mr. Mannix, 230 00:16:28,921 --> 00:16:31,281 I'll be glad to buy you a drink. You look like you need one. 231 00:16:32,158 --> 00:16:35,526 If I ever needed an operation, you'd be my man. 232 00:16:35,661 --> 00:16:38,893 But I'm not so sure I'd want to drink with you. 233 00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:55,538 Thank you. 234 00:16:55,681 --> 00:16:57,547 Now can we talk about your associates? 235 00:16:57,683 --> 00:17:00,209 I suppose you think you've got me at a weak moment. 236 00:17:00,353 --> 00:17:01,463 Well, it hadn't occurred to me 237 00:17:01,487 --> 00:17:03,149 that you were capable of human weakness. 238 00:17:05,458 --> 00:17:07,450 You'd be surprised. 239 00:17:10,296 --> 00:17:12,356 All right. Go on. Interrogate them all. 240 00:17:12,498 --> 00:17:13,898 Dig deep enough, and you'll discover 241 00:17:14,033 --> 00:17:16,764 untold depths of depravity, professional rivalries, 242 00:17:16,903 --> 00:17:18,997 heights of human jealousy worthy of Othello. 243 00:17:19,138 --> 00:17:20,138 But murder? 244 00:17:20,172 --> 00:17:21,765 No. 245 00:17:21,908 --> 00:17:23,900 No, all our training, all our mental processes 246 00:17:24,043 --> 00:17:26,035 are directed toward saving lives. 247 00:17:27,980 --> 00:17:29,346 What about your patients? 248 00:17:29,482 --> 00:17:31,974 Why would a patient want to kill me? 249 00:17:32,118 --> 00:17:34,118 The only ones who ever come to me have already been 250 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:36,121 written off as dead by their own doctors. 251 00:17:36,255 --> 00:17:38,349 Inoperable tumors? 252 00:17:38,491 --> 00:17:40,517 There are no inoperable tumors. 253 00:17:40,660 --> 00:17:42,526 Any intern can remove a tumor. 254 00:17:42,662 --> 00:17:44,756 The trick is to do it without killing the patient. 255 00:17:44,897 --> 00:17:46,695 And you can? 256 00:17:46,832 --> 00:17:49,233 I have devised a kind of strategy, 257 00:17:49,368 --> 00:17:51,462 invented certain instruments, 258 00:17:51,604 --> 00:17:54,369 a way of approaching certain tumors no one else will touch. 259 00:17:54,507 --> 00:17:56,271 I succeed about half the time. 260 00:17:56,409 --> 00:17:57,900 Now, who'd want to kill me for that? 261 00:17:58,044 --> 00:18:00,138 Disappointed relative. 262 00:18:00,279 --> 00:18:02,214 Say, could I take a look at your files? 263 00:18:03,950 --> 00:18:05,475 I'm afraid not. 264 00:18:05,618 --> 00:18:07,329 I don't suppose they go in much for professional ethics 265 00:18:07,353 --> 00:18:08,651 in your line of country. 266 00:18:08,788 --> 00:18:11,656 But we plumbers do have to be just a little more discreet. 267 00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:13,487 Yeah, I know. 268 00:18:13,626 --> 00:18:16,460 Uh, we private eyes have this terrible reputation for 269 00:18:16,596 --> 00:18:19,464 kickbacks, fee-splitting and gypping insurance companies. 270 00:18:24,804 --> 00:18:27,501 All right. You can start with this one. 271 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:31,509 Charlene Tallifer, my research assistant. 272 00:18:32,979 --> 00:18:36,507 I suppose it was the hausfrau who steered you in my direction. 273 00:18:36,649 --> 00:18:39,175 Who do you mean by that? 274 00:18:39,318 --> 00:18:42,186 Oh, you know who. Gerta. 275 00:18:42,321 --> 00:18:44,347 Poor, dear Mrs. Aspinall. 276 00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:47,016 Not that it matters. I wouldn't blame her if she did. 277 00:18:47,159 --> 00:18:48,354 Thank you. 278 00:18:48,494 --> 00:18:50,759 If I ever became a gardening freak 279 00:18:50,896 --> 00:18:52,831 who couldn't even talk to her husband, 280 00:18:52,965 --> 00:18:56,697 I hope I have the good grace to step in front of a fast train. 281 00:18:56,836 --> 00:18:59,772 I don't ever want to outstay my welcome with any man. 282 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,706 You're wise beyond your years. 283 00:19:02,842 --> 00:19:04,276 Bull. 284 00:19:04,410 --> 00:19:06,675 I just saw what happened to my mother, 285 00:19:06,812 --> 00:19:10,305 none of which interests you in the slightest. 286 00:19:10,449 --> 00:19:12,418 What you want to hear is who do I suspect 287 00:19:12,551 --> 00:19:14,713 would want to kill my lord and master, right? 288 00:19:14,854 --> 00:19:16,720 Question did occur to me. 289 00:19:16,856 --> 00:19:19,655 Answer: nobody. 290 00:19:19,792 --> 00:19:21,488 Nobody in his right mind. 291 00:19:23,796 --> 00:19:25,458 How about someone in their wrong mind? 292 00:19:25,598 --> 00:19:27,123 Like who? 293 00:19:27,266 --> 00:19:30,532 Well, I heard something about a disposable boyfriend. 294 00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:32,502 Dana? 295 00:19:32,638 --> 00:19:34,163 Try to kill someone? 296 00:19:35,741 --> 00:19:38,540 If he tried to crush a snail, he'd sprain an ankle. 297 00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:41,807 Your boss must know somebody who could fire a gun 298 00:19:41,947 --> 00:19:43,006 without going into shock. 299 00:19:43,149 --> 00:19:46,176 Who'd stand to benefit by his death? 300 00:19:46,318 --> 00:19:49,015 His second in command? 301 00:19:49,155 --> 00:19:51,147 Felix St. Ives? 302 00:19:53,993 --> 00:19:56,394 You want to hang something on Felix, use your own rope. 303 00:19:56,529 --> 00:19:59,658 What makes you think I want to hang something on him? 304 00:20:01,667 --> 00:20:05,195 Well, it's rather obvious, isn't it? Poor jerk. 305 00:20:05,337 --> 00:20:07,363 Oh, you feel sorry for him, too? 306 00:20:07,506 --> 00:20:10,101 I don't feel anything for him. He made his choice. 307 00:20:11,544 --> 00:20:13,706 Being Dr. Aspinall's assistant? 308 00:20:13,846 --> 00:20:16,372 That's a pretty good choice, I'd say. 309 00:20:17,516 --> 00:20:19,314 What was the alternative? 310 00:20:20,686 --> 00:20:24,214 He was engaged to a lovely English girl. 311 00:20:24,356 --> 00:20:27,383 Her father even got him a research grant at Cambridge. 312 00:20:27,526 --> 00:20:29,791 Graham, of course, didn't want him to leave. 313 00:20:29,929 --> 00:20:33,127 So St. Ives stayed. Why? 314 00:20:33,265 --> 00:20:35,564 That was before my time. 315 00:20:35,701 --> 00:20:37,363 But you know the story? 316 00:20:37,503 --> 00:20:40,063 Cheap gossip. 317 00:20:40,206 --> 00:20:43,699 But not too cheap for you to dangle in front of me. 318 00:20:45,044 --> 00:20:47,240 Well, what's the difference? 319 00:20:47,379 --> 00:20:51,749 They say... they say Graham himself moved in 320 00:20:51,884 --> 00:20:54,911 and got a little something going with the English girl. 321 00:20:55,054 --> 00:20:57,414 Felix couldn't last more than a round or two with the champ, 322 00:20:57,523 --> 00:20:59,583 so he just threw in the towel. 323 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:05,491 And, uh... what happened to the girl? 324 00:21:06,665 --> 00:21:09,191 She suddenly went back to England. 325 00:21:09,335 --> 00:21:11,566 Later we heard that she committed suicide. 326 00:21:13,506 --> 00:21:16,237 Yet St. Ives kept right on working for Dr. Aspinall? 327 00:21:16,375 --> 00:21:18,367 Hmm. 328 00:21:18,511 --> 00:21:20,343 Sounds pretty sick, doesn't it? 329 00:21:21,847 --> 00:21:23,941 Then again, Felix is such a cold fish. 330 00:21:24,083 --> 00:21:25,312 Unless... 331 00:21:25,451 --> 00:21:28,114 Unless he's biding his time, his moment for revenge. 332 00:21:36,028 --> 00:21:37,963 Don't put words in my mouth. 333 00:21:38,097 --> 00:21:40,396 That's what you think, isn't it? 334 00:21:46,505 --> 00:21:49,202 All right, Mr. Mannix. 335 00:21:49,341 --> 00:21:52,402 Graham was planning to retire from the institute this year, 336 00:21:52,545 --> 00:21:55,777 go into private practice and start making some real bread... 337 00:21:55,915 --> 00:22:00,182 Leaving his shoes all warm for Felix St. Ives to step into. 338 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:02,083 I talked him out of it. 339 00:22:03,989 --> 00:22:06,254 You must have been pretty persuasive. 340 00:22:07,259 --> 00:22:09,228 I can be. 341 00:22:11,096 --> 00:22:13,156 Very persuasive. 342 00:22:14,667 --> 00:22:18,229 How do you feel about the girl who killed herself? 343 00:22:18,370 --> 00:22:20,566 I never knew her. 344 00:22:20,706 --> 00:22:24,336 What if Dr. Aspinall dropped you the way he did her? 345 00:22:24,476 --> 00:22:25,774 There's no man in the world 346 00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:27,880 who could make me pull the plug on myself. 347 00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:30,005 Maybe not. 348 00:22:31,150 --> 00:22:34,086 Wouldn't you be just a little bit tempted to, uh... 349 00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:36,121 Try and kill Graham? 350 00:22:39,725 --> 00:22:41,591 No. 351 00:22:49,802 --> 00:22:51,498 Would you mind? 352 00:23:06,819 --> 00:23:09,345 Dana, this is Mr. Mannix. 353 00:23:09,488 --> 00:23:12,754 Mr. Mannix, this is Dana Croft, 354 00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:16,829 the man you described as my disposable boyfriend. 355 00:23:16,962 --> 00:23:19,522 Now, doesn't he have "suspect" written all over him? 356 00:23:22,568 --> 00:23:25,265 Who's he? The latest scalp on your belt? 357 00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:28,769 He's a private detective. 358 00:23:28,908 --> 00:23:31,070 I want to talk to you alone. 359 00:23:31,210 --> 00:23:32,576 Did you hear what I said? 360 00:23:32,711 --> 00:23:33,711 Let's go for a drive. 361 00:23:33,846 --> 00:23:35,314 Dana, the carnival's over. 362 00:23:35,447 --> 00:23:38,906 It's been over for months, and we have nothing to talk about. 363 00:23:39,051 --> 00:23:41,987 There's still plenty I've got to talk about. You... 364 00:23:43,622 --> 00:23:45,591 This is a private conversation. Get lost. 365 00:23:58,938 --> 00:24:00,201 I said beat it. 366 00:24:01,307 --> 00:24:03,503 Sounds to me like the lady wants you to leave. 367 00:24:03,642 --> 00:24:05,440 Please. 368 00:24:07,012 --> 00:24:08,708 We're not through yet. 369 00:24:14,553 --> 00:24:17,079 You're not exactly seeing me at my best tonight. 370 00:24:17,222 --> 00:24:18,952 What is your best? 371 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,622 Where do I find him? 372 00:24:22,761 --> 00:24:25,321 Are you really trying to set up Dana as a suspect? 373 00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:28,127 I'm wide open for suggestions. 374 00:24:30,369 --> 00:24:34,136 My money's on the crown prince, Dr. Felix St. Ives. 375 00:24:36,241 --> 00:24:39,302 You're what they call a private eye. 376 00:24:39,445 --> 00:24:40,445 Hmm... 377 00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:42,844 could we, uh, talk somewhere? 378 00:24:42,982 --> 00:24:44,348 About what? 379 00:24:44,483 --> 00:24:47,476 The possibility of someone trying to kill Dr. Aspinall. 380 00:24:50,022 --> 00:24:52,150 No need for privacy. I'm among friends. 381 00:24:52,291 --> 00:24:56,661 You don't mind discussing the girl you used to be engaged to? 382 00:24:56,795 --> 00:24:58,730 No secret about her. 383 00:24:58,864 --> 00:24:59,957 We broke off. 384 00:25:00,099 --> 00:25:01,590 She killed herself. 385 00:25:01,734 --> 00:25:03,930 Cause and effect? I'd have no way of knowing. 386 00:25:04,069 --> 00:25:05,662 There wasn't any death bed letter. 387 00:25:05,804 --> 00:25:08,467 You mind telling me why you broke up? 388 00:25:12,044 --> 00:25:14,036 Why do people die? 389 00:25:14,179 --> 00:25:15,511 'Cause they can't help it. 390 00:25:15,647 --> 00:25:18,481 Dr. Aspinall had nothing to do with it? 391 00:25:18,617 --> 00:25:20,176 Why don't you ask him? 392 00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:22,220 I'm interested in your opinion. 393 00:25:23,689 --> 00:25:25,089 In my opinion, 394 00:25:25,224 --> 00:25:27,716 Graham Aspinall is the greatest man in his field. 395 00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:30,261 I certainly don't intend to blame him for the death 396 00:25:30,396 --> 00:25:32,107 of a girl who probably would have killed herself 397 00:25:32,131 --> 00:25:33,131 sooner or later. 398 00:25:33,165 --> 00:25:34,965 You don't think he deliberately encouraged her 399 00:25:35,067 --> 00:25:36,262 to fall in love with him? 400 00:25:36,402 --> 00:25:37,267 Why should he? 401 00:25:37,403 --> 00:25:39,531 To retain his right hand. 402 00:25:39,671 --> 00:25:42,334 I wouldn't put it past him. He runs on that kind of fuel. 403 00:25:42,474 --> 00:25:43,669 Hmm. 404 00:25:43,809 --> 00:25:45,368 You don't hold any grudge? 405 00:25:45,511 --> 00:25:47,104 I'm not a saint, Mr. Mannix. 406 00:25:47,246 --> 00:25:48,990 I have feelings, but they're not as important 407 00:25:49,014 --> 00:25:50,175 as the work I'm doing here. 408 00:25:50,315 --> 00:25:53,080 Or the prospect of stepping into Dr. Aspinall's shoes? 409 00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:54,481 Could be a long time from now. 410 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:56,020 Unless somebody killed him. 411 00:25:57,456 --> 00:25:59,948 I suppose that would speed things up a bit, wouldn't it? 412 00:26:01,860 --> 00:26:04,261 Can you think of anyone else who'd benefit from his death 413 00:26:04,396 --> 00:26:05,864 as much as you would? 414 00:26:07,433 --> 00:26:10,699 Logically, I'm your number one suspect. 415 00:26:10,836 --> 00:26:13,067 Perhaps your only suspect. 416 00:26:13,205 --> 00:26:16,369 But people don't always kill according to logic, do they? 417 00:26:37,062 --> 00:26:39,930 Mr. Mannix, you really believe somebody's 418 00:26:40,065 --> 00:26:42,364 trying to kill Dr. Aspinall? 419 00:26:42,501 --> 00:26:44,663 I don't know, uh, Gloria. 420 00:26:44,803 --> 00:26:46,396 What do you believe? 421 00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:47,767 Aha. 422 00:26:47,906 --> 00:26:50,637 If I told you that, you'd know something. 423 00:26:50,776 --> 00:26:53,075 You think I'm wasting my time around here? 424 00:26:53,212 --> 00:26:54,942 Oh, just the opposite. 425 00:26:55,948 --> 00:26:58,975 Maybe we can discuss it over dinner. 426 00:27:04,756 --> 00:27:07,248 Do you mind, Gloria? 427 00:27:07,392 --> 00:27:09,987 Excuse me. 428 00:27:20,339 --> 00:27:21,637 Peggy? 429 00:27:21,773 --> 00:27:22,773 Want to check this? 430 00:27:22,875 --> 00:27:25,106 Uh, you don't need to stick around any longer. 431 00:27:25,244 --> 00:27:27,110 That's what you think. 432 00:27:27,246 --> 00:27:29,681 I'm doing the minutes at the last three PTA meetings. 433 00:27:29,815 --> 00:27:31,044 How's it going? 434 00:27:31,183 --> 00:27:34,483 Swimmingly, except there's no water in the pool. 435 00:27:34,620 --> 00:27:36,213 Any leads? 436 00:27:36,355 --> 00:27:38,119 Yeah, nothing but leads... 437 00:27:38,257 --> 00:27:40,624 All going in different directions. 438 00:27:40,759 --> 00:27:41,590 Yeah, this is fine. 439 00:27:41,727 --> 00:27:43,696 Maybe there's no case, Joe. 440 00:27:43,829 --> 00:27:45,092 Oh, there's a case all right. 441 00:27:45,230 --> 00:27:46,357 I was with Dr. Aspinall 442 00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:48,524 when somebody aimed a ton of cement at his head. 443 00:27:52,771 --> 00:27:54,239 Mr. Mannix's office. 444 00:27:54,373 --> 00:27:57,502 Would you tell Mr. Mannix that Mr. Otway must see him at once? 445 00:27:57,643 --> 00:27:58,872 At his office? 446 00:27:59,011 --> 00:28:00,309 No. 447 00:28:00,445 --> 00:28:02,004 At the Roman baths in 15 minutes. 448 00:28:02,147 --> 00:28:04,810 Would you put Mr. Otway on, please? 449 00:28:04,950 --> 00:28:08,614 I'm sorry. He's already left for the baths. 450 00:28:48,627 --> 00:28:50,926 Excuse me. I'm looking for Mr. Otway. 451 00:28:51,063 --> 00:28:52,087 Oh, yes, sir. 452 00:28:52,231 --> 00:28:54,700 Uh, he's in the sauna over there, across the rotunda. 453 00:28:54,833 --> 00:28:56,301 Thank you. 454 00:29:50,689 --> 00:29:51,918 Peggy, get me Otway. 455 00:29:52,057 --> 00:29:53,218 Don't have to. 456 00:29:53,358 --> 00:29:54,553 Why not? 457 00:29:54,693 --> 00:29:56,389 He's waiting in your office. 458 00:30:01,099 --> 00:30:02,260 Mr. Mannix. 459 00:30:02,401 --> 00:30:03,641 Surprised to see me, Mr. Otway? 460 00:30:03,735 --> 00:30:04,964 Why? 461 00:30:05,103 --> 00:30:06,696 Your secretary called about an hour ago 462 00:30:06,838 --> 00:30:08,864 and said you were waiting at the Roman baths. 463 00:30:09,007 --> 00:30:10,873 My secretary? 464 00:30:11,009 --> 00:30:13,308 She's ill in bed, 465 00:30:13,445 --> 00:30:17,212 and the police department closed the Roman baths a month ago. 466 00:30:19,184 --> 00:30:20,447 What are you doing here? 467 00:30:20,585 --> 00:30:24,852 Well, Mr. Mannix, you are off the case. 468 00:30:24,990 --> 00:30:28,222 And here is your severance pay. 469 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,955 You're cancelling the investigation? 470 00:30:31,096 --> 00:30:35,192 We have decided that there is nothing more to investigate. 471 00:30:35,334 --> 00:30:37,667 I'm sorry. 472 00:30:37,803 --> 00:30:39,897 Someone just tried to kill me. 473 00:30:40,038 --> 00:30:42,371 Really? 474 00:30:44,009 --> 00:30:46,774 Well, I suppose a man in your line of work 475 00:30:46,912 --> 00:30:49,472 does make his share of enemies. 476 00:30:49,614 --> 00:30:50,946 It's been a pleasure, sir. 477 00:30:51,083 --> 00:30:52,346 Good night. 478 00:30:58,990 --> 00:31:00,982 Yes? 479 00:31:02,260 --> 00:31:04,525 Mr. Mannix is here to see you, Graham. 480 00:31:04,663 --> 00:31:07,565 I suppose you've already told him I was in? 481 00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:10,168 I convinced her it was important. 482 00:31:10,302 --> 00:31:12,737 Important to you? 483 00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:15,397 Uh, you're the client, Dr. Aspinall, not me. 484 00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:18,169 Really? Then why did someone tonight try to kill you? 485 00:31:18,310 --> 00:31:20,609 How did you know that? 486 00:31:20,746 --> 00:31:22,840 You told Otway. He told me. 487 00:31:22,981 --> 00:31:25,541 Would you like some coffee, Mr. Mannix? 488 00:31:25,684 --> 00:31:26,777 Make it instant. 489 00:31:26,918 --> 00:31:28,750 He won't be here long enough for you to brew 490 00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:30,947 a pot of regular, will you, Mr. Mannix? 491 00:31:31,089 --> 00:31:35,026 Thank you just the same, Mrs. Aspinall. 492 00:31:38,964 --> 00:31:40,899 Otway says he's dropping the investigation. 493 00:31:41,032 --> 00:31:42,295 Is that a fact? 494 00:31:42,434 --> 00:31:43,902 Didn't he consult you about it? 495 00:31:44,035 --> 00:31:45,663 What for? 496 00:31:45,804 --> 00:31:47,604 Then you're satisfied to have me off the case? 497 00:31:47,739 --> 00:31:50,208 If my lawyer feels there's no basis for it any longer... 498 00:31:50,342 --> 00:31:52,368 You're willing to bet your life on that? 499 00:31:55,113 --> 00:31:58,106 Mr. Mannix, if you're angling for another job... 500 00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:01,379 It's a job only as long as my clients are being shot at. 501 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,352 When they start shooting at me, 502 00:32:03,488 --> 00:32:05,320 I'm not working for money any longer. 503 00:32:05,457 --> 00:32:06,550 I'm working for blood. 504 00:32:06,691 --> 00:32:08,319 Well, good luck. 505 00:32:08,460 --> 00:32:10,258 And if you should ever need a bullet removed 506 00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:11,727 from a difficult spot... 507 00:32:11,863 --> 00:32:15,994 You remind me of the way my doctor defines minor surgery. 508 00:32:16,134 --> 00:32:18,763 It's surgery done on other people. 509 00:32:18,904 --> 00:32:21,464 Oh, by the way, uh, your dues are paid until midnight 510 00:32:21,606 --> 00:32:23,939 in case you change your mind. 511 00:32:29,815 --> 00:32:33,775 Graham, you shouldn't have sent him away. 512 00:32:33,919 --> 00:32:36,650 You know you shouldn't have. 513 00:32:52,471 --> 00:32:54,463 Mr. Mannix? 514 00:32:54,606 --> 00:32:56,234 Gloria Paget. 515 00:32:56,374 --> 00:32:57,535 Remember me? 516 00:32:57,676 --> 00:32:59,668 How could I forget? 517 00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:01,780 I've got to see you. 518 00:33:01,913 --> 00:33:03,472 About what? 519 00:33:03,615 --> 00:33:05,743 Just get here. 520 00:33:05,884 --> 00:33:08,080 Dr. Aspinall's office. 521 00:33:08,220 --> 00:33:10,485 Would you make an effort, please, Mr. Mannix? 522 00:33:10,622 --> 00:33:11,783 It's very important. 523 00:33:11,923 --> 00:33:14,950 I gather it can't wait until morning. 524 00:33:15,093 --> 00:33:18,120 By morning, someone could be dead. 525 00:33:18,263 --> 00:33:20,698 All right. 526 00:33:33,144 --> 00:33:35,170 Come in, Mr. Mannix. 527 00:33:35,313 --> 00:33:36,645 Gloria. 528 00:33:41,319 --> 00:33:43,686 You wanted to know what I believe, right? 529 00:33:43,822 --> 00:33:44,881 Right. 530 00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:46,701 Well, in my opinion, for what it's worth... 531 00:33:46,725 --> 00:33:48,557 And you can take it or leave it... 532 00:33:48,693 --> 00:33:50,133 I'd say the person you're looking for 533 00:33:50,195 --> 00:33:52,721 is one of Dr. Aspinall's surgical patients. 534 00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:54,799 Well, I asked the doctor about that. 535 00:33:54,933 --> 00:33:57,266 He pretty much convinced me that there was nothing in it. 536 00:33:57,402 --> 00:33:59,803 Did he tell you about File 201? 537 00:33:59,938 --> 00:34:01,463 A patient? 538 00:34:01,606 --> 00:34:03,404 That's the way we have them in our file. 539 00:34:03,542 --> 00:34:06,307 No name, just a number. 540 00:34:06,444 --> 00:34:09,209 Could I, uh, take a look at that file? 541 00:34:09,347 --> 00:34:11,043 It's locked up in Dr. Aspinall's office. 542 00:34:11,182 --> 00:34:15,745 Gloria, why would somebody like that want to kill the only man 543 00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:17,446 who might be able to save his life? 544 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,626 Oh, Mr. Mannix, you're so square. 545 00:34:27,732 --> 00:34:29,564 Round me off. 546 00:34:29,701 --> 00:34:32,728 Well, the patients we get are strictly cases of 547 00:34:32,871 --> 00:34:36,364 "abandon hope all ye who enter here." 548 00:34:36,508 --> 00:34:41,242 And you think somebody might want one of them not to recover? 549 00:34:41,379 --> 00:34:43,974 Well, some of them are very wealthy, 550 00:34:44,115 --> 00:34:46,812 very powerful, like File 201. 551 00:34:46,952 --> 00:34:50,013 Now suppose somebody felt that even a 50/50 chance 552 00:34:50,155 --> 00:34:51,248 was too good for him. 553 00:34:51,389 --> 00:34:53,722 Otherwise, why just a number, right? 554 00:34:53,858 --> 00:34:56,293 Unless he was afraid that somebody would find out. 555 00:34:56,428 --> 00:35:00,126 And you've never seen this file. 556 00:35:00,265 --> 00:35:01,893 Uh-uh. 557 00:35:02,033 --> 00:35:06,266 But you could get it for me if you really put your mind to it? 558 00:35:13,211 --> 00:35:16,079 If Dr. Aspinall found out, I'd lose my job. 559 00:35:16,214 --> 00:35:21,050 Gloria, you didn't call me all the way out here 560 00:35:21,186 --> 00:35:24,520 at this time of night not to show me. 561 00:35:24,656 --> 00:35:26,488 No. 562 00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:29,561 Why are you willing to risk your job? 563 00:35:29,694 --> 00:35:32,459 I'll tell you why. 564 00:35:32,597 --> 00:35:35,157 Because Graham Aspinall doesn't know who his real friends are. 565 00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:38,065 Not all those people hanging around his neck. 566 00:35:38,203 --> 00:35:40,900 Oh, sure, he uses them and... and steps on them, 567 00:35:41,039 --> 00:35:43,474 'cause they don't truly love him. 568 00:35:43,608 --> 00:35:46,009 But you do? 569 00:35:46,144 --> 00:35:48,170 At least I'm not ashamed to admit it. 570 00:35:48,313 --> 00:35:50,509 Does he know how you feel? 571 00:35:52,817 --> 00:35:56,254 When the time comes, he'll know. 572 00:36:24,949 --> 00:36:27,248 Let me try it. 573 00:36:32,557 --> 00:36:34,788 Somebody's tampered with this lock. 574 00:36:34,926 --> 00:36:37,122 Oh, that's impossible. 575 00:36:37,262 --> 00:36:39,629 Who else knows about File 201? 576 00:36:40,765 --> 00:36:42,233 Shh. 577 00:37:11,296 --> 00:37:14,755 The reason your key wouldn't fit, Gloria, is because 578 00:37:14,899 --> 00:37:16,492 I had the lock changed this afternoon 579 00:37:16,634 --> 00:37:19,074 when I noted your deep interest in Mr. Mannix's investigation. 580 00:37:19,137 --> 00:37:20,799 And I don't appreciate being disturbed 581 00:37:20,939 --> 00:37:22,931 at this hour of the night. 582 00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:29,976 You're no longer on the case, Mr. Mannix. 583 00:37:30,115 --> 00:37:31,981 I could have you arrested as a common burglar. 584 00:37:32,117 --> 00:37:33,983 It would probably cost you your license. 585 00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:35,143 Probably. 586 00:37:35,286 --> 00:37:38,051 What made you poke around in here? 587 00:37:38,189 --> 00:37:40,351 Your secretary had a notion there was some connection 588 00:37:40,492 --> 00:37:43,724 between one of your patients and the attempts on your life. 589 00:37:43,862 --> 00:37:46,195 My secretary is a romanticizing imbecile, 590 00:37:46,331 --> 00:37:47,822 and I should have fired her long ago. 591 00:37:47,966 --> 00:37:49,525 Who is File 201? 592 00:37:54,439 --> 00:37:56,965 He's got nothing whatever to do with this case. 593 00:37:57,108 --> 00:37:58,804 Then you admit there is a case? 594 00:37:58,943 --> 00:37:59,967 My lawyer doesn't. 595 00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:01,670 That's why he fired you, isn't it? 596 00:38:01,813 --> 00:38:02,813 Is it? 597 00:38:02,947 --> 00:38:03,971 Whatever the reason. 598 00:38:04,115 --> 00:38:05,559 Maybe he decided you were incompetent. 599 00:38:05,583 --> 00:38:06,983 It's of no interest to me. 600 00:38:07,118 --> 00:38:08,882 Thanks for your concern, Felix, 601 00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:10,716 but Mr. Mannix is quite harmless. 602 00:38:10,855 --> 00:38:13,086 Little overeager to hang onto a client, 603 00:38:13,224 --> 00:38:16,524 but there's no real harm in him, is there, Mannix? 604 00:38:16,661 --> 00:38:18,459 Who is File 201? 605 00:38:20,498 --> 00:38:23,297 Mannix, you're beginning to bore me. 606 00:38:29,507 --> 00:38:32,375 Maybe you'd prefer the police to look into this. 607 00:38:32,510 --> 00:38:34,536 Blackmail? 608 00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:36,204 Professional ethics. 609 00:38:36,347 --> 00:38:38,475 Oh, you flatter yourself. 610 00:38:38,616 --> 00:38:40,983 That's better than no flattery at all. 611 00:38:45,890 --> 00:38:47,791 File 201 is the investment counselor 612 00:38:47,926 --> 00:38:49,724 for a financial empire. 613 00:38:52,297 --> 00:38:54,163 You expect to save him? 614 00:38:54,299 --> 00:38:56,598 He's the same as everyone else I cut open, 615 00:38:56,734 --> 00:38:58,703 no better than an even-money chance. 616 00:38:58,837 --> 00:39:00,396 What if he dies? 617 00:39:00,538 --> 00:39:03,940 Financial chaos, I suppose. 618 00:39:04,075 --> 00:39:07,512 But then, it's not his problem anymore. 619 00:39:12,250 --> 00:39:16,517 And, uh, what if somebody wants him to die? 620 00:39:19,157 --> 00:39:21,456 Well, why drop cement on me? 621 00:39:21,593 --> 00:39:22,856 Why not kill him directly? 622 00:39:22,994 --> 00:39:24,587 Cut out the middle man. 623 00:39:24,729 --> 00:39:27,198 Maybe because it'd be too easy for the police 624 00:39:27,332 --> 00:39:30,063 to figure out who would benefit from File 201's death. 625 00:39:30,201 --> 00:39:31,499 If you're killed, 626 00:39:31,636 --> 00:39:34,231 they'd get tied up in knots investigating that, 627 00:39:34,372 --> 00:39:37,433 and your patient would die of natural causes. 628 00:39:37,575 --> 00:39:40,807 Or is there someone else who could save him? 629 00:39:50,788 --> 00:39:52,518 No, not yet. 630 00:39:54,592 --> 00:39:57,926 I am training other people in my surgical technique, 631 00:39:58,062 --> 00:40:00,531 but before they're ready, my man would be dead. 632 00:40:00,665 --> 00:40:02,327 Who is he? 633 00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:10,007 I can't tell you. 634 00:40:30,295 --> 00:40:31,490 Felix? 635 00:40:31,629 --> 00:40:33,097 Yes, Graham? 636 00:40:33,231 --> 00:40:35,757 Since when do you carry a gun? 637 00:41:26,351 --> 00:41:27,876 You all right? 638 00:41:28,019 --> 00:41:29,146 Yeah. 639 00:41:29,287 --> 00:41:30,414 I'll get you the police. 640 00:41:30,555 --> 00:41:34,219 No. Just give me a little water here, will you? 641 00:41:34,359 --> 00:41:35,452 Oh, my. 642 00:41:35,593 --> 00:41:37,585 Thank you. 643 00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:40,988 I better get you a doctor. 644 00:41:41,132 --> 00:41:43,124 No. 645 00:41:44,902 --> 00:41:46,268 Who were they? 646 00:41:48,339 --> 00:41:50,501 Clients of a client. 647 00:41:50,641 --> 00:41:51,836 What does that mean? 648 00:41:51,976 --> 00:41:54,741 Remember you're not working for me anymore. 649 00:41:54,879 --> 00:41:56,575 Well, this one's on the house. 650 00:41:56,714 --> 00:41:57,738 Uh-huh. 651 00:41:57,882 --> 00:41:59,009 What were they after? 652 00:41:59,150 --> 00:42:00,743 My cash, jewels. 653 00:42:00,885 --> 00:42:02,911 I don't know. The idiots. 654 00:42:03,054 --> 00:42:04,886 I don't believe you. 655 00:42:05,023 --> 00:42:06,685 Well, I couldn't care less. 656 00:42:06,824 --> 00:42:08,417 What brought you here? 657 00:42:08,559 --> 00:42:11,427 I was hoping you could help me convince Aspinall 658 00:42:11,562 --> 00:42:13,929 to tell me about a patient known as File 201. 659 00:42:14,065 --> 00:42:16,591 Why do you want to know about that? 660 00:42:16,734 --> 00:42:19,431 It might help explain the attempts on Aspinall's life. 661 00:42:19,570 --> 00:42:20,970 Who gave you that idea? 662 00:42:21,105 --> 00:42:22,835 His secretary. 663 00:42:22,974 --> 00:42:25,307 She's a hysterical woman. 664 00:42:25,443 --> 00:42:26,934 She's hopelessly in love 665 00:42:27,078 --> 00:42:29,240 with a man who doesn't even know she exists. 666 00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:32,407 And you're convinced File 201 has nothing to do with it? 667 00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:33,574 I didn't say that. 668 00:42:33,718 --> 00:42:34,742 Then you'll ask him? 669 00:42:34,886 --> 00:42:36,184 - No. - Why not? 670 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,686 I don't have to. 671 00:42:37,822 --> 00:42:39,620 You know File 201? 672 00:42:40,658 --> 00:42:42,684 I am File 201. 673 00:42:44,595 --> 00:42:47,326 That's all right. 674 00:42:48,866 --> 00:42:50,300 Why the masquerade? 675 00:42:50,435 --> 00:42:52,904 Well, I've been handling the investments of a group of men 676 00:42:53,037 --> 00:42:57,236 who get an indecently large input of inconvenient cash. 677 00:42:57,375 --> 00:42:59,571 A criminal syndicate? 678 00:42:59,710 --> 00:43:01,542 I don't ask them how they make their money. 679 00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:04,046 What I do for them is legitimate. 680 00:43:04,182 --> 00:43:06,083 We've grown into quite an empire. 681 00:43:06,217 --> 00:43:11,713 But I keep all the facts and the figures right here in my head. 682 00:43:11,856 --> 00:43:14,121 They found out you were terminally ill 683 00:43:14,258 --> 00:43:16,284 and might not survive surgery. 684 00:43:16,427 --> 00:43:17,725 If that were the case, 685 00:43:17,862 --> 00:43:20,559 then my clients would have absolutely nothing 686 00:43:20,698 --> 00:43:21,757 to worry about. 687 00:43:21,899 --> 00:43:24,425 And that is why they tried to kill Dr. Aspinall, 688 00:43:24,569 --> 00:43:28,301 because he is my one hope of staying alive. 689 00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:30,772 That's what's so nice about being legitimate. 690 00:43:30,908 --> 00:43:33,139 Don't be frivolous. 691 00:43:33,277 --> 00:43:36,714 I insured myself, or I thought I did, 692 00:43:36,848 --> 00:43:38,476 as I made a tape 693 00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:41,882 which recorded every single financial transaction 694 00:43:42,019 --> 00:43:43,487 that I'd made for them. 695 00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:46,022 I told them that I'd made that tape, 696 00:43:46,157 --> 00:43:49,286 and I told them that that tape would automatically go 697 00:43:49,427 --> 00:43:54,195 to the district attorney, but only if I were murdered. 698 00:43:56,234 --> 00:43:57,964 I thought I was safe. 699 00:43:58,102 --> 00:44:01,436 Till someone took a shot at Dr. Aspinall. 700 00:44:01,572 --> 00:44:06,135 Yes. So I convinced Mrs. Aspinall to hire you. 701 00:44:06,277 --> 00:44:08,007 You see, I had to find out 702 00:44:08,146 --> 00:44:11,810 if it was one of the doctor's chickens coming home to roost, 703 00:44:11,949 --> 00:44:14,646 or the syndicate out to get me. 704 00:44:14,785 --> 00:44:17,220 When is your surgery? 705 00:44:17,355 --> 00:44:19,551 The day after tomorrow. 706 00:44:19,690 --> 00:44:23,252 If I don't die from lack of sleep before then. 707 00:44:23,394 --> 00:44:24,555 Where are the tapes? 708 00:44:24,695 --> 00:44:26,823 Well-hidden, but not here in this house. 709 00:44:26,964 --> 00:44:30,457 Who knows where they are... in case you don't survive? 710 00:44:31,502 --> 00:44:32,868 Nobody. 711 00:44:33,004 --> 00:44:34,495 What are you going to do about it? 712 00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:36,335 I don't know. 713 00:44:36,474 --> 00:44:38,067 What can I do? 714 00:44:38,209 --> 00:44:39,973 You can tell me where they are. 715 00:44:43,714 --> 00:44:46,650 Suppose they found out. 716 00:44:46,784 --> 00:44:50,016 Have you any idea what your life would be worth? 717 00:44:50,154 --> 00:44:52,180 Not very much. 718 00:44:52,323 --> 00:44:54,417 And you'd still risk it? 719 00:44:54,559 --> 00:44:56,425 Part of the job. 720 00:45:00,898 --> 00:45:02,662 All right. 721 00:45:04,168 --> 00:45:06,160 You go get the tapes. 722 00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,504 Maybe this'll buy me a seat in heaven. 723 00:47:10,895 --> 00:47:12,887 ♪♪ 724 00:48:28,105 --> 00:48:30,097 Oh, excuse me, Nurse. 725 00:48:30,241 --> 00:48:31,675 How is Mr. Otway doing? 726 00:48:31,809 --> 00:48:32,936 Who? 727 00:48:33,077 --> 00:48:35,103 Mr. Otway. 728 00:48:35,246 --> 00:48:37,511 We have no patient by that name. 729 00:48:37,648 --> 00:48:39,879 Well, how about File 201? 730 00:48:40,017 --> 00:48:42,782 You'll have to talk to Dr. Aspinall. 731 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,252 Where is the doctor? 732 00:48:44,388 --> 00:48:46,584 Still in surgery. 733 00:49:17,421 --> 00:49:19,014 Sorry, Doctor. 734 00:49:19,156 --> 00:49:20,681 Mr. Mannix? 735 00:49:20,825 --> 00:49:22,555 You look like you might have whacked 736 00:49:22,693 --> 00:49:24,321 a few tennis balls in your time. 737 00:49:24,462 --> 00:49:25,486 A few. 738 00:49:25,629 --> 00:49:27,495 It's the one thing 739 00:49:27,631 --> 00:49:30,100 that gets all of this out of mind. 740 00:49:30,234 --> 00:49:33,636 It's therapy, especially after I've lost one. 741 00:49:33,771 --> 00:49:36,468 What I'm driving at is, I thrive on competition. 742 00:49:36,607 --> 00:49:38,247 How about playing hooky from investigating 743 00:49:38,309 --> 00:49:40,153 for a couple of hours and hitting a few with me? 744 00:49:40,177 --> 00:49:41,975 I'd like that. 745 00:49:42,112 --> 00:49:44,604 I'll meet you over at the courts in about an hour. 746 00:49:44,748 --> 00:49:46,614 I've got to drop this off at the DA's first. 747 00:49:46,750 --> 00:49:48,742 What's that? 748 00:49:50,321 --> 00:49:52,313 A ticket to heaven.