Original subtitles

The music is comforting, isn't it?

Have some tea, George?

No, thanks

I always like a cup of hot tea in the afternoon, drink it slowly

It helps impede the mind, it's a mind of blessing, but not one to be sneezed at

It's good with lemon

Father Roth, it's taken me a month

to work my courage to tell you what I'm going to tell you now

Yes

I want to leave this parish

I'm going to ask the Bishop for a change

That's an understandable impulse

It's no impulse, Father, I've been wrestling with it for two months now

St Stephens is a fine church but I don't have to tell you what it's like

You've been here long enough, you know

Yes. I know

I find it impossible to serve these people

Poor people are difficult to serve, George

But it isn't poverty, Father, they are weary, smaller without a spark in them

there is a leech in them

We should have some tea, George

A cup of tea won't change my views about this dreary, godforsaken parish

I dislike sermonizing during my tea time

God's warriors must always be ready for battle, even though with the teacups

Sit down, George. Pull the chair

It's not wise to be too sure of the right way to do good, George

Priests believe it's their job to bring God to the people

but sometimes it's the people who bring God to the priest

That's what happened to me

I was just like you

A little bitter

wondering how it was possible to bring faith

into so dreary and nonspiritual place as this parish

And then a curious thing happened, a murderer

a youth with blood and sin on him, brought me nearer to God

A murderer straight into your faith, Father?

Brought me nearer to God

It's a small but a vital difference

His name was Martin Lynn, his mother was a fine hard working woman

His father took to drink, held up a store and committed suicide

while the police was coming to arrest him

This was when the boy was thirteen fourteen year old

Under the law's of the Church

my predecessor Father Kirkman, had to refuse a suicide Christian burial

When this happened, the boy preferred to think of the Church as a brute

instead of his father

The religion became a swindle and a sham to him

That's how Martin solved his problem for a time

It was a bitter, tragic solution

and yet it was because of Martin Lynn that I'm still here now

And full of conviction that I am in the midst of a holy place

He was just a lad working in a flower shop

when I first knew him driving a truck delivering flowers

- Hi, Martin - Hi

- For you - Boy, do I hate flowers

- Hi, you got to the orchid's market - Yes, Mr Swanson

Did we get a good buy?

I got them for half what they usually cost

Good boy

Made all deliveries already

I didn't stop for lunch I want to get home early

I hate to bring this up, Mr Swanson, but I've been working here for four years now

Four years? Just imagine

I've taken interest like with those orchids whenever I can I try to save you money

And I appreciate it

My mother is still sick, I got doctor's bills, medicine bills

they are rising, I'm wearing the same clothes I just can't make ends meet

I'd like you to give you a rise, Martin, you deserve it

but this is a small shop, we had a lot of expenses

You promised me that last year, Mr Swanson

I didn't press you, I can't wait any longer

I got to send my mother to Arizona, she'll never get any better here

I go to Arizona too, if I could afford it

I'm an old man, Martin, I've put in my years

I don't want a favour, just pay what I'm worth

You'll have a job here, as long as I live, Martin, believe me

As soon as I see way clearer, you get a rise, you don't have to ask, trust me

I'm a real friend

If you are a friend, help me

Let me think about it

What is that to think about?

Well, I have to check with my bookkeeper, we'll talk about it next week

Don't be upset, remember, I'm your friend

- Good Night, fellows - Good Night, Martin

Hi, stranger

Hi

Where have you been during the last few weeks, what have you been doing?

I've been busy. Staying up counting my money

What are we celebrating?

It's a beggar case when I get to see you

Can I help that I am so popular?

Where is your room mate?

Martha left for the east I am all alone now

That's a break for me

This place is too expensive for one person

I have to look for another room mate

I wish you didn't

- I wish I could - I wish you could

Yah

We are right back wishing it

The rates paid until the 1st

As long as I still have the stove, we can have dinner here every night

Just like we were married

Not quite

Pull the wine

- Martin - Yah

Why don't we get married?

Do I have to tell you?

If it's money we will never get married

Money, what's money. I just drive a truck for a front

Come on, drink up, Julie

We found each other

We are lucky people

Hello

Just a minute, it's for you

For me?

Hello

Mrs Lally

When?

Did you send for the doctor?

How is she now?

She is sleeping

Yah

Yes, sure

Sure, thanks

My mother had another attack

She shouldn't have gone out today

She is out of danger, isn't she?

Yes, she is sleeping

Sit down. I'll get dinner ready

I can't

She'll be asking for me

Just for a little while?

I haven't seen you in three weeks

I worked late last night

just so I could get off early today and make things nice for you

If I could just send her to Arizona, like the doctors said, she'd get better

I tried, Julie, you do not know how hard I tried

but I can't, I can't the money, that's how it is

it's driving me crazy but what can I do?

You tell me? What is I'm supposed to do?

Wait

I've been waiting ever since I met you, how long?

I don't know, wait

There's no room for me, I can see

What are you talking?

I love you, Julie

How can you love me, you never see me

I love you, Julie

I love you

Martin

Where are you, Martin?

I'm here, mother

Why do you keep looking out the window?

Some day we are going take one of those trains

I'm going to get you out of here

That's all you need to get well

I'm trying to get better, Martin, I'm trying

Try and get some sleep

Light up the Madonna

You prayed enough, mother, close your eyes, try to sleep

She is in the dark, Martin, I can't see her

Why doesn't Father Roth come?

You mustn't give up, mother

You got to get better

What's to become of you, Martin?

You got to get well, mother

You've got to

Mrs Lally

My mother is dying

Everything has been done which can be done, Martin

The doctor did his best

She can't die

I won't let her. We got to do something

There is nothing we can do, Martin

She is in God's hands

Don't talk to me about God. He never did anything for her

All you can do for her, Martin, is to pray

She prayed all her life, never missed a morning mass, she was a slave to the church

they took every dime she could lay her hands on

- Stop howling will you - Martin, people will hear you

- I don't care who hears me - Call me back

You'd better send for the priest, Martin

A priest can't do no good

I'm expecting an important call

Well, if you want a private call, Mr Craig, why don't you have one put in your flat?

- Who are you calling? - Father Roth

I told you I don't want no priest

You're doing wrong, Martin

That's my nickel, Mr Craig

Mr Craig, my mother is dying

I got my own troubles, Martin

Just do like the doctor told you, Martin

If you need me, call

Hello, Mo

What do you mean makes him no good no more?

I'm got to get even

I'll get you the thirty bucks, I'll get them, I'll get them

Have some cheese, Thomas

No thanks

What I really like is cantaloupe

Cantaloupe? What ever made you think ot that

They are in season now, quite reasonably this year, the stores are full of them

Must been 20 years since I tasted cantaloupe and I've learned not to miss it

Self denial is a virtue, but why extend it to cantaloupes?

Mary Jane like to see you, Father

Have her wait

She seemed disturbed

She says it's urgent

Have her wait

Everything is always urgent

You'll have to wait

But I can't wait, it's about his niece

Come in here

What about my niece?

Come on, come on, speak up

Rita has gone, packed all her things and left

I tried to stop her but she wouldn't listen

- Gone where? - With Malcolm. His divorce became final

That's all they've been waiting for

No church will marry them and we can never marry outside the Church

But she is, Father, they are going to have a civil ceremony

Where?

At the Justice of Peace over in Lakeview

I promised to her I wouldn't tell but I felt it was my duty to come to you, Father

You've done your duty, Mary Jane, you can go now

I've got to stop her

How? She is of age

I can't understand that girl

I tried so hard to bring her up right

You tried too hard

You tried to make the church her whole life

you never asked her what she wanted

I can't do anything with her

but she will listen to you, you can stop her, you can bring her back

You've got to do this for me, Thomas, please bring her back, please try

You know I'll do anything for you, if I could Father, I'll try

You have the gift being able to reach people

I sensed it the first day you walked into my rectory

It's a blessing which has been denied me

I devoted a life time to the people of this parish

yet I wonder if I ever reached anyone

Hurry, please

Hello

Yes of course

It's Mrs Lally on the phone

she'd like Father Roth to come and see Mrs Lynn tonight

Tell her Father Roth has gone on a call

I'll come my self

But she asked for Father Roth, he has been seeing her

I see

Will you remember to tell Father Roth, I'm leaving as soon as I finish the dishes

Very well

Mrs Lally, Father Roth is out on a call, he'll come over as soon as he returns

But Father Kirkman could come

You know the trouble there was

with Father Kirkman when Mr Lynn died, I think we better wait for Father Roth

Thank you anyway

Martin

I don't like to interfere but

I know what your mother wants

I've sent for Father Roth

It's what she wants, Martin

Mother doesn't want anything, she'll never want anything again

Poor boy, you poor boy

Stay with her, Mrs Lally, I got to make arrangements for the funeral

Martin, do me a favour back me, will you kid, make sure the sport is fun

My mother is dead

Tough

I got to make arrangements for the funeral

Wait a second

Come on in, kid

You look like, you are about ready to keel over

I'll get you a hot cup of coffee

Irene

Put a light on the coffee and have something to eat

There is nothing in the house

Get down to the delicatessen and get something

What do I am suppose to use for money?

You got personality, use that

Sit down, kid

You are in no condition of making arrangements all by yourself

people will take advantage of you

Everyone is out for a take, remember that, Martin

And they wait for opportunities like this

Some people got no character but what you need is a friend to go along with you, check

She's got to have a fine funeral

Sure, and you can have it but you got to know how to go about it

How much insurance did you mother leave?

None

None?

I couldn't keep up the payments

Fine things are expensive you got to pay for them

nobody is giving anything away

I'll pay, I don't care what it costs. I don't care how long it takes to pay for it

Nobody lends you money, a kid like you driving the truck

delivering flowers making thirty bucks a week

You're a bad risk

Money, money, that's all that counts in this rat race

If you got it, bury her like a queen

if ain't they pack her in a box and shovel a hole in the ground

I feel for you, Martin, what your mother went through in this rotten world

she ought to go out in style like a somebody

The world owes it to her, it's a rich world but it hates to give, you got to take

Someone out there, someone owes you something

All you got to do is to have the nerve to collect

It doesn't take much to poison a young man's soul

particularly a soul full of pain and helplessness and shame

Yes, I always thought shame was at the bottom of poor Martin's anger

shame for his father's wrongdoing

but he couldn't hate his father, so he turned his hate on the church and its laws

We had done him and his mother wrong

Not the weak unhappy man who had done criminal and suicide

Into such a sick ear, the devil needs only whisper and he did

Father Kirkman

- Father Kirkman - Yes

Yes

I rang the bell, you didn't answer

I didn't hear, the house keeper must have gone

I rang twice, I called at you through the window

What is it. Who are you?

Don't you know me anymore?

Have I seen you before?

I haven't stuck inside a church since my father died

You look familiar, boy, I'd seem to have forgotten

I'll never forget

I was with my mother. She came to plead with you about my father

What's your name, boy?

Martin Lynn

Oh yes, I remember now

Mother is a devout woman, never misses mass. Fine woman

How is she these days?

Don't you know?

I don't get around much anymore

I've seemed to have lost touch with people

The price one pays in growing old

You loose touch with old friends

You were never friend of us

I did what I could for your father

You did nothing. My mother got down there on her knees

and begged for my father and you did nothing

It was too late.

Your father put himself beyond the pale of the church

I couldn't bury him in consecrated ground

He was a suicide

That was also long ago. Why have you come here tonight?

So angry, your mother wouldn't want you to come here like this

What do you want?

You got to do something about my mother

She is ill?

She is dead

My mother is dead. Do you hear me? She is dead

I hear you. Don't shout

She died tonight. All alone.

Why didn't you call me?

For what?

You denied her the last rites?

I can't understand you

Don't try to, that's why I came for

Then tell me why you have come here?

My mother gave her life to the church

Now it's the time for the church to pay her back

You got to give her a fine funeral, you owe it to her

I come to collect

You're angry, boy

You're angry of death. It doesn't do any good

She was cheated all her life, she is not going to be cheated now

Give me the name and the address

I told you. Have you forgotten already?

- Martin Lynn -1218 West Clark street

I want a lot of flowers, you can get all you want from Swanson

I know, I work from him, he can't refuse you

It isn't the flowers that matter

It does to me

I'll see what I can do

You are not going to pack her in a box

and shoveling a hole in the ground no one is looking

She's got to go like, like a somebody

I want a fine sermon, and a good plot of land

I want to go it with something

Something to remember

What is all this nonsense about an expensive funeral

Your mother was a simple woman

To you maybe, to you she was just another shabby woman got in quite in the poor box

To me, to me

She was my mother

She's got to have the best

What you want would cost a lot of money?

You have money. My mother's money. A life time of donations. Spend it on her

Father Roth repeat your nice sermon and I've added to my mass

But a big funeral. This is a poor parish. We have no money

You can fix it with people. Do for her like you do for the rich

I can't give it to you, you must be resigned as your mother was

I won't be. What did that give my mother? Misery and a short life

You're overwrought, boy, calm yourself

you haven't the money for a big funeral, that's the end of it

Go home, sleep, you'll feel different tomorrow

It stopped raining

You'd better go now before it starts again

I'm calling a cab

You look tired

Can you send a cab to St Stephen's Rectory?

Right away

Take this for the cab

- Calm down. See you to the door - Don't touch me

Then why don't you go?

I'm not ready to go

I've been patient with you but there is nothing more to say I tell you to go

No. I want a big funeral for my mother.

I'm not going to go to your promise to give it to her

I told you it was impossible. I told you this is a poor parish

And for the last time I'm telling you the answer is no, no, no.

I want a big funeral

I don't want to see him

You've been telling me that all the way down here, now go tell him

I could have been married and out of this town by now

Why did you have to do it?

Because that's the only reason you wanted to get married to get out of the town

Father, Father Roth

The police came and took our Dan

you've got to get him out, he's the only one working in the family

What did he do this time?

My Dan is a good boy, he didn't do nothing, just likes to carry a gun

You should keep him home at nights

No one answers

It's Mrs Dennis's night off, he doesn't hear the bell

You go down home, I'll go down to the station and see what I can do

Operator, the police, get me the police

It wasn't murder that spoke out of poor Martin

It was pain and inability to understand himself

It may even been his own father he struck at, and not Father Kirkman

God alone knows the answers to such things

What it'll be?

I'm hungry

Get out something. I haven't eaten all day

A big?

I want ham and eggs and flapjacks with lots of butter and syrup, and coffee

I take the coffee now

Coffee

I'll take one of those pies

Where is the wash room?

Just a second, buddy

Any other raids after them?

I don't know how much your water run

Go ahead

You live around here?

I asked you a question

I haven't done anything

Who said you've done anything?

What do you want?

What are you sweating for? It's not hot tonight

I don't feel good

What bothers you?

I'm sick

He says he's sick

What made you sick?

I don't know

You felt good enough to go to a movie

I haven't been to a movie

I haven't been to a movie in a long time

I saw you at the Galaxy tonight

With a girl

No I wasn't with a girl

But you are at the Galaxy? You were there?

No I wasn't

How could I go to a movie after what happened

How could I

What happened?

My mother died

That's what happened, my mother died

Relax, son

Somebody held up the cashier at the Galaxy

I'd nothing to do with it, I tell you my mother has died

If you have nothing to do with it, then you have nothing to worry about

Stand up

Stand up

Who is Martin Lynn?

Me

Why do you write your own name?

Afraid you are going to forget who you are?

What were you doing at the Galaxy tonight?

I was just walking by

Why did you run away?

I didn't run

We saw you

It was all those people, I was surrounded, I had to go home

Such a hurry to go home, why did you stop here?

I'm hungry, I haven't eaten all day

Go ahead. Eat

I don't feel like it

You said you were hungry, eat

You want me to feed you?

All right, let's go

Where?

You're sick. We're taking you home

Hey, who is going to pay for this food?

Pay the man, you ordered it

Let's go

You know if anybody would gain anything by his death?

Nobody

Except me, perhaps

You?

The parish would probably be mine now

You haven't gained much

Father Kirkman had trouble with any parishioner?

We have trouble all day long, but there was nothing to bring on this

A stranger doesn't walk into the rectory and kill a priest?

Must have been someone in the parish who hated him

It may interest you to know, Mandel

that Father Kirkman not only spent 40 years here

but every dime that was left in him

he didn't even hold out enough for his own burial expenses

How could anyone hate him?

I got to find a reason and an outsider wouldn't have none

The killer is someone you know

probably someone you see every day, I need your help, Father

How can I help?

Look, Father, we're dealing with the most violent and dangerous type of person

He didn't come here to steal, he didn't carry a gun

Yet this man couldn't go on living

one more day without coming here tonight and killing a priest

You know all the people Father Kirkman dealt with, you know who they are

You talk as if I know who it is, Mandel

That's right

But I don't

I think you do

I don't see the world full of crooks and killers, Mandel

I'm not trying to shield anybody

But I can't give you the names of all the people

we have had trouble with, you would have half the parish in jail

I've had them there, one time or another

But for what?

Certainly nothing that would lead to murder

I wouldn't be too sure of that

Miss Conroy you'll have to come down to the station make a statement in the morning

Just a routine but I have to file a report

Good Night, Father

Don't bother I know my way out

Rita?

There is nothing to stop you now

from getting married, or going out of town or doing anything you like

You are free. That should make you feel good.

I should feel bad but I don't. I don't feel free either

What do you feel?

Empty

Rita

I promised your uncle look after you if anything should ever happen to him

Thanks, but I can look after myself

When did you say your mother died?

Tonight

Where is she?

I don't know

Why don't you tell us the truth, kid?

You stick up the Galaxy alone or was there somebody with you?

No

You didn't want to do it, did you?

It was the other guy's idea, wasn't it?

Who was the other guy?

No

Go on tell us we let you go off easy

You're a good kid

We can see that

He made you do, didn't he?

Mrs Lally. She know where my mother is

Mrs Lally

Mrs Lally

All right, let's go

She's not home

- Come on, let's go - I can't go I got to find my mother

Come on

Mr Craig

Mr Craig

He'll tell you my mother died

Mr Craig

Let's go

Are you going to stay up all night?

Can't figure it

What did they pick up the kid for?

Why didn't you open the door and find out?

I don't know what the kid did

Better to find out before talking to any cops

Where did you go tonight?

I didn't go anywhere, I didn't leave the house

how many times do I have to tell you that?

I know what to say, what I am asking is where you went

That's all you have to know I didn't leave the house tonight

OK, if you been at home all night it is time you were in bed

What were you doing in a warehouse yard?

I was taken a short cut

So you climbed a six foot fence to take a short cut?

Book him, attempted robbery

Let's go

We picked this kid up running away from the Galaxy

gave us a story about his mother dying, we took him home, and there was no one there

It's true, Mrs Lally.

Shut up. Sit down

Where is your mother?

She was right there in the bed when I left

Why did you leave?

I went to make arrangements for the funeral

Galaxy theatre?

No, I was just passing the Galaxy

On your way where?

To Murray's Mortuary

Why did you have to go there, why didn't you just phone?

My mother got to have the best

I wanted to see Murray myself

She's got to have a fine funeral

A fine funeral?

You got that kind of money?

No. That's what I wanted to talk to Murray about

How I could pay for it

So held up the Galaxy, that would pay for it

You don't understand

Then make me understand?

You see my mother died, I have no father, I was alone

I had to do something to make it up to her

I don't believe you

It's the truth

And make me believe it

Look at me when I talk to you

What do you want me to say?

I want me to tell me where you walked

Light hurt your eyes?

Kill the lights

Try to remember

Take your time

I remember walking by the church

What church?

St Stephen's

Do you know Father Kirkman?

Yeah

When did you seem him last?

I don't know. Father Roth is my mother's priest

When you were passing did you see anybody leave the rectory or the church?

I did see someone

What did he look like?

It was an old woman coming out of the church

Do you know who she was?

I think it was Mrs Pearson she own's the corner grocery shop

Check that

How much longer are you going to keep me asking questions, I got to find my mother

We'll find your mother for you

Book him for suspicion of robbery

Good Evening, Father, I guess you can go right in

Thank you

You take all the chances, he gets all the profit, what's his name?

Hello, Father

Take him out, see if you can help him remember

Father, have you thought of someone?

No, I haven't

Do you have a boy Danny Williams here?

We've had him here three hours. You're late

What's he done?

Nothing, but if he keeps on carrying a gun somebody is going to get hurt

Then take it away from him

We've taken one away from him already

I'll turn him over to the DA to get a year

He is the soul supporter of his mother and his sister

If you accept the responsibility I'll release him

But remember you asked for it

Lock him up for a week, throw a bit scaring to him

That'll scare the daylight out of him

Oh, father, do you know a boy named, Martin Lynn?

Yes, I just came from his house, his mother died tonight

What about him?

We picked him up around the theatre that was robbed tonight

Martin is not a thief

and he wouldn't go robbing theaters the night his mother died

He bothers me

You can't lock people up because they bother you, Mandel?

Either you got something on Martin or let him go

I haven't got anything on him but..

He bothers you, you said that, what are you holding him for?

I get a feeling, when a guy is hiding something

With this kid I got it strong

You can't book a man on your personal feelings, Mandel

What are you charging him with?

You think he is OK, yeah?

He worked at Swanson's flower shop

ever since his father died supporting his mother, taking care of her

He is the one of the boy in the parish I had no trouble with

He was around the church tonight too

Just about the time

You just said you picked him up for a theatre robbery

Make up your mind

His story of seeing Mrs Pearson leave the church checks

but there is something strange about that kid

His mother died tonight, Mandel

You know some people do feel something when their mother dies

OK, you can have him

Release the Lynn kid

But he still bothers me

Martin Lynn

Hello, Martin

Come on, Martin, I'll drive you home

Martin, I can only give your mother conditional absolution

You should have called me sooner

Where is she now?

I had to take her to Murray's

we'll go there tomorrow and make the arrangements

The church will help out

I don't want any help from the church

Why do you feel that way for the church, Martin?

Because all you do is take, you give nothing

What this parish takes doesn't even cover the maintenance

This is no way home

Where are you taking me?

To the rectory, not good to be by yourself tonight

What is good for me? The rectory?

At least you won't be alone, you'll have someone to talk to

We got nothing to talk about

I quit the church when my father died

You mean you stopped coming, you haven't stopped believing

I don't believe in anything anymore

God or the Holy Ghost

You can give up God, Martin but he never gives you up

Right now it seems everything is against you

Firefight it alone, no man is strong enough to stand alone

Look, Father, you live your life, I live mine

Make a right at the next corner and take me home

Who is it?

Martin

I called Mrs Lally

She told me. I'm sorry Martin

I wanted to come over but I thought you'd rather be alone

Can I get you something?

No, I don't want anything

Your hands are so cold

I've been walking a lot

Let it out, Martin, go ahead cry

I should have sent her to Arizona a long time ago

You didn't have the money

I should have gotten it

How could you?

I should have robbed, I should have killed

Crazy talk

It didn't make any sense

It was too late to help her

What are you talking about?

If I had gone that before while she was still alive, that had made sense

You don't make sense at all

Your mother is alive

Nobody understands until their own mother dies

Then you know how little you did

It's not the end of the world tonight, Martin

You feel that now but

these things pass

Julie, all you ever got from me was hurt

I can only hurt you more

You couldn't hurt anybody, Martin

Not you

Where are you going?

She said they were giving her a fine funeral

They won't

I got to get it for her

It past midnight there is nowhere you can go now

I need flowers, lots of flowers, for all of us

Oh, rest, Martin, lie down here, I'll get you a blanket

I can't rest

Then wait, I'll get dressed and go with you

Go back to bed, Julie, sleep

Tomorrow

I'll see you tomorrow

Father, I've been a good catholic all my life

you got to help me get back to my ship

I need 2 dollars for buss fare

You almost as you need a drink

I do? I just had one

You are not going to spend the 2 $ at some bar, are you?

Father that would be a terrible sin

He wouldn't like another drink, would you?

I think I would, where is it the one?

Let me get dressed, I'll drive you to the bus

He just want to ask you a few questions

They got nothing on me

Take your hands off me

Why did they take him?

They didn't say, they just took him

What did he do?

He didn't do anything, everything something happens around here, they pull him in

Yeah, like last night with me

But Mr Craig will get out, he's smart

Smart people don't live in this neighbourhood

You knew I wouldn't stick up a theatre

I never carried a gun in my life

What made you think I picked you up for the Galaxy job?

You know a kid named Martin Lynn?

Yeah

What do you know about him?

Not much

He lives upstairs with his mother

She died last night

Did you see him last night?

- Yeah - Yeah, what?

He stopped by on his way out

Said something about making arrangements for the funeral

that's all

He talked about getting a big funeral

His mother didn't leave a dime

The kid only earns 30 bucks a week

What's all this talk about a big funeral

I told him to forget it

Where were you last night?

I was nowhere near the Galaxy

Why do you keep talking about the Galaxy? Who asked you?

I know it's common

I didn't pick you up for that

What then?

A priest was murdered last night

You are not going to make me a priest killer

Sit down

What are you trying to do me, Mandel

What's going on?What's this all about?

Somebody killed him

Sure, OK

Somebody in the parish

What am I doing here? What do I have to do with it?

You once threatened Father Kirkman

- A - Don't deny it

We got witnesses

What was the trouble?

Irene wanted a church wedding

She went to see Kirkman, he told her some things about me

Almost passed this up

I just told him to keep his ears in his church right chaplain mall

I was only kidding

Whoever saw him last night was not kidding

Book him suspicion of murder

Why don't you throw the Galaxy job while you are at it?

Come on

And there was a mail robbery why don't you book me for that too

Go ahead

His crime had only made him angrier

He didn't think of repentance, he thought only of his dead mother

With blood on his soul

he continued to dream like a child of something beautiful for her

And he continued to cry out for his rights

The pitiful rights that life had always denied him

We finally decided to come to work, did we?

Mr Swanson, I can't work today

Really?

Any special reason?

Or perhaps you are just not in the mood to drive a truck

My mother passed away last night

I'm sorry, Martin

You can have the day off

Here, give these to Howard, tell him he has to make the deliveries

Yes, Sir

Martin, those orders must go out. Take them to Howard

Mr Swanson I'll need flowers for my mother's funeral

Of course, we never forget our employees in time of sorrow

Tell, Stanley to make you up a wreath

No, I don't want just a wreath, what I want is lot of flowers

My mother is going to have a big funeral

Is that so?

Martin, don't just stand there those orders are waiting, take them to Howard

But you don't understand

I need lots of flowers, I want enough to fill a room in Murray's

The room at Murray's?

My mother liked flowers, that’s one of the reasons I wanted to work here

I could take her some every day

Please, Mr Swanson

Martin, to fill the room at Murray's

would cost several hundred dollars, you can't afford that

I don't want anything for nothing, Mr Swanson

I'll pay

Like any customer

I want gladiolas and black and red roses

She always liked red roses

You can take it out of my pay, each week

Martin, you are not being sensible, you've got to think of the cost

I don't care about the cost, I said I'd work it off

It's not a good arrangements for either of us

Take those to Howard

Please, Mr Swanson

Martin, we have customers waiting

I'm a customer, I was here first

I can't extend you any credit, now let go my coat

I can't go anywhere else no one else knows me

You can't get them here, now let go of me

Now, look Mr Swanson

I worked hard here for four years, you gonna do this for me

I won't have you here shouting

get you files somewhere else and don't bother to come back, you are fired

I'm sorry to have kept you waiting

Very nice gladiolas there

- Would you care to see them - Yes, please

- Yes? - My mother is here

Mrs Martin Lynn

Oh yes, won't you sit down, please

A lovely day, isn't it?

Mr Murray, Mr Lynn has come about his mother

Please

Mr Lynn, no one appreciate more than we do the difficulties of the bereaved

There comes a time in all of our lives when we must face this moment

But you must not think of your mother as dead, think of her as merely resting

The kind of funeral you chose for her

the expression of your love and devotion, price is of no consequence here

She's got to have a fine funeral

I don't care what it costs

Will you step this way please?

Would you make out a bank credit card for Mr Lynn

For what amount?

The maximum

Will you sign these cheques please, Mr Lynn

- Use your initial Mr Lynn? - No

Where are you employed, Mr Lynn?

I was working at Swanson's Flower Shop

Who is your present employer?

I haven't got in the chase yet

I'm afraid that we will have some difficulties with the banks

Endorser will do, Miss Shore

You'll have to get some endorser, Mr Lynn

What kind of endorsers?

Three signatures required, responsible businessmen, just three

I don't know any businessmen

Friends will do, Miss Shore

Can you get three friends, men who own their own homes or have some property?

My friends don't have any property

Some well to do relative? An uncle or an aunt?

No, I have none

By whose authorization was Mrs Lynn brought here?

- Father Roth - I see

I suggest you allow Father Roth to make the arrangements with us

It's my mother who is going to her grave

not Father Roth's. I don't want a charity funeral

We've had dealings with Father Roth before

he's quite capable of looking after your interest

No. I want to know what you are going to do to her

Obviously, Mr Lynn, you can't afford your desires but everything will be proper

Proper? What does that mean? A 49$ funeral or you shovel her in?

Please, Mr Lynn

We are conducting a service

I'll get a job tomorrow, I'll pay you every cent, don't you trust me?

We trust you, Mr Lynn, it's the banks, they have their rules you know

Excuse me, please

Do you mean..

Miss Shore, will you give Mr Lynn every consideration you can

Does that men that I can't have it?

This is a business, Mr Lynn. Mr Murray can only give you what you can pay for

But I said I'll pay

Let Father Roth deal with him, otherwise you will get the 49$ service

With the church, he will have to give you something decent

I want to see Mr Murray, get him back here!

Please, it'll do you no good to shout

I'll do more than shout

Don't go down there

Mr Murray

Mr Murray

What are you following me for?

Why don't you leave me alone? What do you want from me?

What's the matter, Martin?

I won't stand for it, I'll tell you I won't stand for it

Stand for what?

Him. Spying on me

Even here. Trying to trick me like he did the last night

Nobody is spying on you, Martin

Lt Mandel and I came here on our own business

We didn't even know you where here

What were you doing down there?

I was looking for Murray

We hadn't finished making the arrangements

Everything will be taken care of

Your way, his way but not my way

Now get hold of yourself, Martin

I know you are upset by all that has happened

but you can't go around bothering people

I just came from Swanson

He was awful nice until he fired me, I had no money

Where are you going?

What do you care?

You shouldn't be alone at a time like this, Martin. Why don't you come along with me?

For what?

Maybe you'd rather come with me

He'll be all right, come along, Martin

Father, I think we will have the Kirkman case cleared up before the week is over

You know the man who did it?

No, but we found the weapon

Mass crucifix on the desk

Lab reports should traces of dried blood that matched Father Kirkman

Then whoever did it came unarmed

With no intention of killing

Something was said that made him insane with anger

More there was an argument, all right?

But what about?

Who could he had a violent quarrel with?

Sometimes total strangers ring our bell and demand things

They can get mean if they are denied

This was no stranger

Father Kirkman hadn't been very active since I came to the parish

That's six years now

Someone had a grudge against him and before that

why would they suddenly go berserk last night?

Because something happened last night to bring a fresh to mind

Something so strong that the killer couldn't wait any longer

Mrs Dennis, the house keeper

could tell us the people Father Kirkman had trouble before with before I came

We’re checking all the people in the parish

who had any real trouble last night

We'll find the tie in somewhere

Yeah, I feel a lot better about this case

Come in, Martin

Martin

Come here

Don't you make any trouble for Swanson or Murray

Come in, Martin

Sit down, I'll have Mrs Dennis make some tea

Hello, Mrs Pearson

Rita, I just remembered

on my way to church last night I saw a man out in front of the rectory

Right here where I am standing

He rang the bell, and looked in the window and then went in

Who was it?

I'd recognize him, I'd know him if I saw him again

You should go to the police, right away

Rita? Where is the boy that was here?

He just left

Mrs Pearson was here, she says she saw someone outside the rectory last night

I told her to go to the police

See who it is, will you?

I want to see the Father, Father

Father, I can't stand it any more, look what Ned did to me

he doesn't bring his pay home no more, what am I going to do, Father?

I've talked my heart out to Ned, I think you should go to the police

Fine priest you are, telling me that, locking him up ain't going to help pay the bill

I've tried Mrs More, but I can't stop him

That's him, he followed me here, don't let him in

Let him in, Rita

You just be quiet, let me handle this

I warned you not to come here

- Let's calm down - You stay out of this, Father

Come on, I'll take care of you, and we go home

Let me

Let her go

Ned, did he hurt you

Did he hurt you

Oh, my love

Wait until I get you home

Father Roth speaking

Yes, yes of course

That was a shock to all of us

Yes I understand how you feel

That's the way we all feel

Yes

Yes

Yes, I will

Yes, I will thank you for calling

Give evil a root and it will grow and thrive

And it was growing and thriving now in Martin Lynn

Urging him to commit a second murder

To strangle a harmless old lady, who was a danger to him

But he didn't kill again because there was no real evil in poor Martin

Only pain and confusion and a blindness towards himself

Martin

Martin what are you doing here?

I had to see you

I can't get away until six

I can't wait

What's wrong?

- What floor is Dr Cogan? - Two

Tell me

Floors please two

Floor six please

Two Out please

Poor Martin wanted to tell his girl about his crime

I know now that the words of confession stuck in his throat

And that no bullet could have been more painful that the secret he carried

But he couldn't speak about the accident that had made him a murderer

And he stayed in the dark with his pain

You look exhausted. You didn't get any sleep, did you?

I won't be seeing you again, Julie

What are you saying?

I shouldn't have met you in the first place

But what have I done?

Find someone else, Julie

I don't want anyone else

You'll have to

But why? why?

Don't ask me, take me down, Julie

I won't live without you

You don't know. I go to get away

You are not going anywhere without me

Take me down, I said

Listen to me Martin, please listen to me

Go home and get your things and bring them to my place

You can rest there and try and sleep

I'll be home by seven

Julie

Julie, what have I done to you

As soon as his mother died

he rushed out of the house and didn't come back for half the night

This morning he looked like a ghost

I got to see him right away, Mrs Lally

Don't you have any idea where he could be?

He never went anywhere

That's Martin now, I know his foot steps

Martin

I want to talk to you, Martin

I don't want to listen

Why did you run out on me today?

Because I'm fed up with your preaching

I didn't come here to preach

Then what do you want?

I want to help you

The only help I need is money for my mother's funeral

And you can't give it to her

Why is it so important to you to have a big funeral?

It's the only way now I can make it up to her

Make what up? You are a good son, you never run around

you worked hard brought them all your pay cheques

Your mother used to tell me how proud of you she was

And let her die

But nobody could have saved her

I could have, if she had listened to me

When my father died I just wanted to move away from here

But she wouldn't leave the church

The church was a big comfort to your mother

It was no help when my father died

You mean Father Kirkman wasn't?

Priest is only a man, Martin, your mother understood that

She didn't do anything against church just because the priest didn't help her

My mother was afraid of the church

It had her scare

Don't scare me

Something does

Driving you out of your mind

Look what happened with Swanson with Murray

and look what's happening to you

Just take a look at yourself, Martin

You went in to see Father Kirkman last night

He wrote your name on his desk pad

A sheet was ripped off, but the impression of writing is still there

Mrs Lally called Father Kirkman about my mother

He could have written the name then

He could have

So my name is on a pad what does that prove?

Nothing

Then why did you tell me?

How much longer can you go on like this?

You are destroying yourself

What do you want from me?

I want you to forgive Father Kirkman

I want you to forgive him because he did the very best you know how

Because he was tired, he spent 40 years working in this parish

helpless people, broken people, people

who came to him because there was no else place to go

Something happens to a man

I think Father Kirkman knew what had happened to him

The very last time I saw him, that's what he said to me

Such a man deserves to reach at least one more person, even in death

Let him, Martin

All right, I thought you were alone, Martin

Excuse me, Father

Come in, come in

Father Roth is just leaving

I'm in no hurry

There will be plenty of time, Martin

- I'll see you later - Stay

What would you come for?

Nothing, I've been sitting in all day waiting to hear from Craig

And there is nothing worse than just waiting

Is there, Father?

Sometimes all you can do is wait, and wait and wait

When is the funeral?

Tomorrow

Don't sit there

Right after, you ought to get out of here, Martin

Away from everything, forget it all. Don't you think so, Father?

Where does one go to forget

There is much space outside this room

Go east, or go south where there is sunshine

It's easier to get the sunshine

I don't have to go anywhere

I can forget right here, right in this room

You talk bravely, Martin but you sound someone who is afraid

I got a car downstairs waiting

Just be seated, Mrs Pearson

I'll tell you when we are ready for you

All right men step out

Check them inside, send the out one by one, and ring the bell and look in the window

Come on

Come on let's go back from here

Now take your time, look him over carefully

Must be afraid but you must be positive before pointing anyone out

Understand

All right

He is ready

All right, you

Ring the bell

Look in the window

That's not the man

Next guy

You

Ring the bell

Relax, Martin, cops are like kids, they got to have their fun

You. Your next

Let's go

Ring the bell

Ring the bell

Let the button

Look in the window

That's not him either

Next guy

Come on kid

OK you

As soon as they get finished playing those bogus they'll get me a couple of drinks

OK you

Come on

Take off your hat

Ring the bell

Look in the window

That's him

She is crazy, she is as blind as a bat

I didn't do it, what are you trying to do to me, Mandel?

I didn't kill no priest, you know it, you know it

What I can't prove, I don't know

Book him for murder

All right boys, give me a break

Mandel, give me a break, the Galaxy, I stuck up the Galaxy

It's too easy, Craig, who wouldn't prefer a robbery charge to murder

It's true Mandel, believe me

Stop howling you are wasting your breath, let's get out

Well, Father, what do you think?

I think you just made a terrible mistake

OK, kid you can go

Last night you called me out for holding a guy

because he bothered me, well this bothers me too

I don't make the rules I just follow them

Martin Lynn the murderer was free

The police would never bother him again

but something stood in his way

his immortal soul

No priest was talking to him, no church was giving him counsel

Yet there was a voice in Martin's stronger than all the anger and hatred in him

The voice of conscience tormented and frightened him

and sent him to the only kind face he'd known in the world, his mother's

I couldn't get you any flowers

There won't be any music, and there won't be any reminisces

Maybe nobody will even show up

Just the two of us

That's all we ever had

It will be enough now

Father Kirkman died last night

Father Roth knows I killed him

I was angry but I didn't mean him any harm

It was just

nobody cared

It made no difference to anybody

what was happening there was like nobody know he ever lived

It's been that way always

I was trying to tell that to Father Kirkman

I wanted him to look at me, like he cared

I wanted to see him feel like I felt

If he had showed me he was sorry

just one second

That's all I wanted

I'm so tired

My head hurts

I want to sleep, but I can't

It hurts

It hurts bad

What should I do?

Tell me mother

Please tell me what I should do

Mother

Mother

Oh, God

Oh, God

Help me Father, you must help me

Will they let me go to the funeral?

Won't they?

We'll go together Martin

Your mother would like that

I know now I saw God in Martin Lynn

at that moment I knew that conscience had triumphed over fear and despair

May I pour you some tea, George?

Please

Is he still alive?

Ye, he writes me letters from his cell

he looks forward to kneeling before the altar where Father Kirkman once stood

I wish I could help someone like that

I don't think I helped Martin Lynn as much as helped me

to see an understand that faith

is a part of the human soul even when the soul wars against it

- Have some lemon, George - Thank you