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bye

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there you see we're not late that's 10

points for us darling we're not on

opposing teams well we were the last

time he came home well he was just

getting over a difficult time

he's retribution for my sins oh he's my

son

i know and i do love him because you

love him and i love you

and he loves you and

everybody loves everybody you're

wonderful try and say that a little less

amazed will you i need it for my ego

well you are

wonderful i know it i'm also terrified

you know he's only 13 years old do you

realize that 13 years is a complete life

cycle for some species

don't be silly he's only a child he's

rasputin risen from the dead

stop it it's a joke it's not funny

yeah you're a little scared yourself

aren't you

that's comforting

so

hello oh

darling i asked you to come along

i'm sorry darling you know i don't like

to drive if i don't have to how are you

robert

fine thank you sir must be stuart parker

this is mr hamilton this is my mother

wow

why are you what you're the most

beautiful human being i've ever seen

outside the movies thank you stuart stew

i'm sorry stew

come on i'm triple park anyway we gotta

get the luggage

come on

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would you look at this place man it's

like the alamo or something

you really raise cattle well we have a

few

you must have to pinch yourself about 50

million times a day to remind yourself

you're living in the 20th century i mean

this is totally unreal fellas going

inside i'll take care of these i'll take

mine all right i got it

i'll take it

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hello welcome home again robert

thank you laura it's nice to be home

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i will see if there's anything more in

the car

just one more bag in there laura

i think could you not do fine with your

stepfather it's not my stepfather

he's mr hamilton smeared your mother

isn't he

for the moment

feel this feel that balance

my father knew more about guns than any

living person

sure had a lot of money i've got all his

stuff in here

his books his papers his bridge designs

his hiding trophies all of his guns

i don't let anyone fool with them

hey it's loaded how come it's loaded

you said you had to keep a gun ready to

use you said you never knew when you had

keep them all loaded

i mean that's crazy it's not crazy

it's just being prepared i think i'll go

upstairs wait

you haven't seen everything yes

see that he built that bridge on the

sacramento

and that one there that stone he was

killed on

on his own bridge wow he wasn't driving

my mother was oh that one it's on the

columbia river

it's about the biggest year ever built

he built them all over the country

it's beautiful hey i really have to go

to the best in the south of louisiana

it was a real tough bridge to build

because there was a delta there

they had to put parliaments down 30 feet

even though the bridges

hey fellas laura says there's some cold

chicken in the refrigerator i didn't

hear you not

i'm really hungry i haven't finished

showing him the things in here well if

he's your guest and he's hungry

he's not that hungry

come on stew i'll show you where the

kitchen is i thought you said he was my

guest

i get killed if i talk to my folks like

you talk to yours

mr hamilton what's mr hamilton

doesn't matter what you say to a bug

does it he's a bug that's all

something to be gotten rid of eventually

when he gets too annoying leave me out

of it this time huh

can't afford to can i

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um thank you

he has a kind of uh peculiar

relationship with stu don't you think

i mean this master slave thing you

wonder why stu even puts up with it

well he isn't as smart as robert the

smartest children are always the

bossiest and you needn't make it sound

as if there's anything wrong with it

aren't we defensive today

but he hasn't been here one day and

you're already saying nasty things about

it he's a nasty little kid

see

you lose your sense of humor every time

he comes home you notice that

i haven't noticed you're saying anything

riotously funny either

well

i wonder who it is you see every time he

comes home who you here

obviously not the same boy i do darling

he may be just unhappy he's more than

just an abby

then mixed up a lot of people are mixed

up these days elaine

come on well then all right he's

difficult i grant you that he resents

you

we knew that this was going to happen

and we knew that we were going to have

to use a little patience

it's already been a year and he has

shown some progress i see it

he used to suffer silently now he's

openly hostile i have never seen that

once

so he does speak up once in a while it's

better to get your feelings out isn't it

darling

please don't give up

he needs a father like you someone to

make him understand that there's more to

being a man than just dominating

everyone

he needs you not a psychiatrist

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please try

okay

what are you doing i'm unpacking

get out of here i want you in here i

thought we settled that last time

i'm only trying to help you robert

didn't i tell you what i do to you yes

you told me

and naive you said climate every word

what if i tell you mother of this

you know what if she'd never believe you

in a million years

nobody asked you to come in here mr

hamilton

what's he doing paying you to snoop

i wasn't snooping lord oh servant snoop

that's what my father said your father

had a lot of misconceptions

get out of here don't you ever say

anything against my father

ever i can't stop

thinking they know so long ago you were

my baby and a good baby

killed snoopy old laura

with a paperweight but i probably

left too many clues

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oh hi stu come on in you don't have to

wait for an invitation around here

just took another look at that tree you

know that's the prettiest tree i've ever

seen

bar none really stu would you like to

help us finish up mr ribbons

okay but not very good at stuff like

that

i mean i'm really pretty clumsy well you

just put your finger right there

sure seems funny doing all this

christmas stuff without it being all

you know cold and messy outside that's

one of the mixed blessings of california

yeah would you like to try another one

sure

where all right yeah you got to find a

new vocation there

do your parents live abroad too

your father lived in greece someone who

lives in san francisco

oh that's not so far well you know

people are

some of them like to have kids around

some of them don't

well we do and we were very happy that

you came home with robert for the

vacation

we love having you

do you go to san francisco during the

summer time

no i got to camp school in the winter

camp in the summer

i have my summer stuff in a trunk in the

basement at school so i can get erect

there's any gap stay with the headmaster

you must like him very much

sure seems funny wrapping all this stuff

up just to rip it open again

hey would you like to take the grand

tour before dinner sure that would be

great mr house come on

don't you think robert would have

already showed you around by now

you won't believe the egg richmond guy

i don't know what he's doing up there

all this time i don't guess it matters

trading in his diary robert can sit down

sure so do i we write everything down

it's good practice we're gonna work in a

crime desk at the new york times when we

finish school

oh is it time to wear that

if they won't give us a job we're gonna

go to hollywood and write horror movies

stuff like

count three boards bloody woods you know

trevor's robert spelled backwards

and what's used stew naturally spelled

backwards

walk right into that one didn't he yeah

i guess i did

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you room with robert i might next

semester he doesn't have a roommate

since johnny spence left and there's

something in our room

the headmaster said he thought i ought

to move in with robert anyway since we

spend all our time together

you don't want to sure i do robert and i

aren't good friends

best friends where did johnny spence go

hmm

johnny spence oh

seattle oh there sure is some pretty

nice place you have here

what's that the stables right that's the

next stop

how many horses do you have 4 15 or 20

they're not mine no they belong to

robert's father

you want to know the truth i rarely go

down there

i don't know i don't like horses very

much they don't like me

no kidding i'm scared to death the

horses myself

well that's great you say there's a long

walk going down here

come on there's a lot of things to see

it's bad for my image to admit to

something like that

i mean i like everything else i'm

supposed to like football

soccer hockey how about robert does he

participate in things like that i mean

games and all is he any good at it

football no games yes hey

i need to talk to you right now in my

room okay but did you have to jump out

like that

kids can get heart attacks you know i

read about a kid who got a heart attack

someday somebody's gonna teach you to

keep your big mouth

shut this is your best friend

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come on

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where's stew well robin wanted to talk

to they

went upstairs mrs hamilton

dinner's ready thank you laura the boys

are upstairs

mr hamilton i have to be in the kitchen

i have something on the stove you know

don't worry about it laura i'll get him

thank you sir

paul is something bothering laura

i don't know

i swear this is ridiculous robert i'm

not gonna tell anybody

i swear

i swear

holy stack of bibles 10 miles high and a

holy stack of bibles 10 miles high

i will carve an l on my forehead for

liar

i will carve an l in my forehead for

liar

if i ever tell anybody if i ever tell

anybody

that we killed him that you killed him

we you no

we we that's better

i don't know why you don't trust me

robert we're friends

why would i want to tell and get myself

that's why

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dinner's ready

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well what time is it

nearly two oh darling why don't you come

back to bed

oh

what's bothering you

honey i'm gonna have to go into town

tomorrow what is the day before

christmas

yeah i have to see the publisher but the

traffic will be awful

can it wait no no i don't

know where are you going now well i left

some papers downstairs i'll just be a

minute honey

paul now you get some sleep huh since

you are going into town in the morning

would you get robert a present honey

isn't there enough stuff down there

already

he told me what he really wants it might

work

as a peace offering if it came from you

all right all right sure anything a

rifle

all his very own won't you get it for

him

no oh you'd make such a a big hit honey

i i love you very much and there's

nothing i'd like more than

to be a hit with robert but i'm not

gonna get him a rifle

but he knows how to handle guns honey

the answer's no

period why

because there are already too many guns

in this house

hello hello someone else on here

look this line is in use get off the

phone will you

hello

uh i'll call you back in the morning

uh

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so

what's going on who is this you know

what time it is

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it's paul hamilton peter i'm sorry about

the time

that's okay paul what is it

i need the name of a reliable private

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detective

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is this there mr dunlap's office can't

you read

yeah is he in

you have an appointment well my lawyer's

a friend of his and uh

well he just said i could kind of drop

by but this is kind of urgent

well everybody's got friends everybody's

got something urgent

how about monday at 4 15.

i was a liar

peter greer

come on

you know i've been to a private

detective before i can tell

it's uh like going to an abortionist

you go figuring well you go hoping that

you're

going to a doctor you figured i'd be in

the high rent district like peter grier

panel walls leather chairs oriental rugs

those things make you feel comfortable

well they

make me feel uncomfortable i like to

keep up my uh

humphrey bogart image

well you want to start with uh

your name hamilton paul hamilton and

you're right i

this is the first time i've ever been to

a private detective's office

your wife's playing around no

no no um

what is it

look i think i made a mistake coming

here you see i haven't really

gone through this whole thing right i'm

sorry mr hamill

didn't peter tell you you could trust me

what is it come on i'm nowhere near as

expensive as a shrink

there's a boys school a couple of

hundred miles north of here

hastings military academy

my stepson is aborted there and uh

hastings uh

hatchery of war mongers and uh twisted

little minds

well that's been a little strong don't

you think

is there uh something you want me to do

mr howard

yes i want you to go up there and see if

anyone's been

i want you to if anyone's died at

hastings in the last

year if you're talking about homicide i

don't touch it

perilous to life and limb well who said

anything about homicide

you talked to the cops well i thought

being the type of man you are and their

children involved

according to peter you thanks for the

compliment but no thanks for the job

money might tarnish the humphrey bogart

image is that it

i'm sorry to take a good time okay i'll

take the job

there might be a homicide involved there

it might be that no one's dead at all

you see i have no idea that

i'll find out as the chicken said as he

walked into the fox's mouth

mr dunlap this isn't a joke mr hamilton

when parents suspect their children of

murder

life itself is a joke

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i know steve mcqueen and that old tv

series i keep showing

put that gun away make me

we're just shooting at tin cans mr shut

up put the gun away put it away now in

the house

i don't want you shooting out here now

go on put it away

make me robert

oh i thought i heard several shots i

don't want him shooting out here it

could hurt somebody

but he knows how to use it that's beside

the point the point is i ask him to put

it wants me to knuckle under

but don't worry mother i can take care

of it darling i think you're being a bit

off put the gun away

now

please robert

all right come on stew

paul i know i know i know i should never

mind that's all over with now

the battle maybe not the war darling

i want you to talk to robert i want an

end to this war talking's not gonna help

yes it will

whatever the problem is between you two

i know you can straighten it out if you

just try

he's intelligent you're intelligent he's

not

totally unreasonable and neither are you

elena tried i've tried and tried to talk

to this boy i can't reach him

now don't push this paul please no more

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threats

is it true you write books mr hamilton

that's really something

i never met a real live writer before

school books not real books

seventh grade in history textbooks not

very romantic i'm afraid

how's your ping pongs do what but we

have a ping pong table in the basement

i will give you a banana split for

breakfast if you can beat

me for a banana split at breakfast i can

beat anybody anything

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wow that's a good old mother all right

she's transparent you know

yes i am

what are you supposed to talk about

no us what's her to say

what war eventually i'll win

what are we fighting over my mother

obviously

robert do i interfere with your

relationship with your mother

you interfere with my father's

relationship with my mother

maybe you don't know it but he was as

beautiful as she was

it's great it's perfect

you what are you

just a mistake she made

doesn't mean anything to you that she

loves me

she doesn't really she couldn't she says

she does

she's lying why i don't know

it's a lie that's off

suppose it's not a lie i mean just

suppose suppose she really lost me

would you agree to a cease-fire for her

sake

no does it matter to you what she wants

she wants you she wants the wrong thing

and you'll explain that to her

right what if she doesn't buy it she

will

suppose she doesn't i'll insist

boy my name is you something

i'm not your son i never have been and

ever will be your son

i wish you'd get that through your fat

head i'm the son of a great man not a

sniveling school teacher's afraid of his

own shadow

you embarrass me mr hamilton living in

the same house with you embarrasses me

well that's a damn shame and if you ever

call me son again

i'll kill you

there is no earthly reason why every one

of your talks

has to end up as a screaming match why

do you allow it to get out of hand

you're supposed to be in control

i'm going gonna tell you something and

you better believe me the robert

that i tried to make friends with

tonight is a thousand miles worse

than any robert he let you see

you don't believe it huh

i mean look you made a mistake when you

you made a mistake when you forced us to

confront each other

first he lost his father whom he

worshipped and then he lost you or so he

thanks to me

now his back is against the wall

honey i love you and i feel sorry for

him but there's no way

robert and i can become friends no way

there has to be a way maybe in a couple

years i don't think i can stand this for

another couple of years

you're gonna have to stand as long as

you're married to two men

paul as long as you allow stan's memory

to permeate this house then you're

married to two men

and i tell you right now one of them has

about reached the end of his patience

i was driving that car i destroyed his

father so now you want me to destroy his

memory so that the boy has nothing so

that he can accept me

oh in the land of the blind the one eye

shall be king

i think we both can use some sleep

as a matter of fact i think i'll go

downstairs and read for a while

don't bother waiting up

all right maybe right maybe we don't

need sleep

maybe what we need is a little breathing

i'll read downstairs you stay up here

suit yourself

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never mind

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good old

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mother

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merry christmas darling hi oh merry

christmas

oh wow couch is worse than that sleeping

bag in the sierras

well you could have used the bed in the

library you sleep with stan you think

i'm a nut

well then you could have come back

upstairs you know that i can't stay mad

at you for more than about

two seconds next time you let me know

when those two seconds are over with you

hmm there isn't going to be any next

time you were right about everything

it is my fault i'm going to talk to him

i'm going to talk to him about you and

i'm stan and everything

here

um i love you

come on let's get some coffee

would you mind if i um continue playing

santa

all right now bring santa some coffee

huh

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oh

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he's in the kitchen making coffee he

made a sleep downstairs last night

didn't you i mean i know it wasn't easy

for you to do

my father really would have been

probably it was just a misunderstanding

it's all patched up no it's a wedge

don't you sing next week and get him out

of the house

i'll help i promise robert i really am

proud of you too

look darling i want you to come over

here please

darling i love paul

please try to understand it's impossible

you could love him

why is it impossible after my father

robert listen to me

your father wasn't everything with who

don't you say that don't you ever say

that

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look

coming down to the wire folks do not

falter do not fail

mr hamilton would you or would you not

suspect that this is yet

another tie i would with love ferment

gwendolyn

actually having a gwendolyn fantastic

you open that stew love to simply love

to

for me to you rather for me to us

well thank you darling

and gwendolyn your taste is out of sight

stew

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here for me

it says to stew an attack from an

gwendoline and all

thanks for the matinees

they're wonderful but today's christmas

today was the only time this week they

had center orchestra

anyhow there's there's only two weren't

there supposed to be four

i had to order them a couple months ago

i didn't know stu is gonna be here

oh and paul

i guess i just want you all to my cell

phones

darling i really appreciate it i love

you for it

but how do you think paul would feel

robert's got two tickets for the new

english detective play but

for this afternoon darling maybe you

could change them for tomorrow or the

next day

and then we could order two more it's a

waste of money if you're talking about

me

i hate the theater and we're trying

everything bernie's mystery has always

depressed me

the killers are always so civilized you

two go and have a good time

besides stu and i can find some mischief

around here to get into

i bet he has some stories from hastings

that would curl my hair

what could that be on christmas laura

this is for robert isn't it i mean it's

not for me

it is for you son

my parents don't even send me stuff like

this

well if you don't like it i can always

take it back

mrs hamilton

from mr robert

i'll handle this

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that's so curly on i never gave her a

dozen of red roses

her birthday the anniversary christmas

that's all he ever gave her aside from

robert

mr hamilton seems to like you this i'm

up for it after by this family any old

day

makes me nervous leaving him and you

alone together all afternoon

i'm gonna say something what'll i say

he asked her about hastings the games we

play

what do you say

okay what would i say i better stay home

you can't do anything right

it's gonna look really weird if you

don't go now just tell me what you want

me to say

nothing don't even talk to him sting

your room and read comics

my lips are sealed

you know what i'll do to you if you

follow me up i know i know

i will still i will

back up captain marvel cavalry's just

over the hill

cavalry's always just over the hill

darling we'll have to skip dessert or

we'll miss the curtain

if it came to a showdown mother who

would you choose

i don't know what you're talking about

mr hamilton or me

i don't see how it could ever come to

that what if it does

well what if for instance

i don't know he started accusing me of

awful things

robert that's silly maybe but what if he

does

what would you do paul would never say

anything against you because he likes

you

he's trying to like you he's trying to

get rid of me

robert he is not what i want to know is

whose side are you on

robert i will not whose side

you're starling of course because you're

my son

it's up to you isn't it

who stays and who goes

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let me talk to dunlap please look i

don't care if it

is christmas i want to talk to him hey

where can i reach him

huh let me expect him back

hamilton paul hamilton yeah he's up at

hastings on my case on business for me

well isn't there any way i can reach him

up there

okay i say thank you

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so you bought him a gun a repeating

rifle

exactly what he wanted darling he was so

excited

how did you find the store open on

christmas i called them yesterday

they couldn't deliver but they left it

for us with mr peters at the station

elaine the play was marvelous darling

you would have adored it

we have to talk of course darling but

wait i've got to tell you it's it's

absolutely uncanny how robert can figure

out a plot

he really has a fabulous mind it wasn't

five minutes after the curtain went up

and he told me exactly

who was going to kill who who was going

to be suspected and how they were going

to get away with it

and it was very complicated elaine stop

it what

elena i want you to be calm and listen

to me calmly because one of us

better be and i'm not

i think robert killed somebody

what are you trying to do

now that's a horrible thing to say

that's funny he said you were going to

do this

today while we were having lunch he said

you were going to say awful things about

it

that you were going to try to get rid of

him i thought he was being paranoid

do you know what he asked me which one

would i choose you or him

i think it's really sad when your own

child doesn't have any more confidence

in your love for him than that

and if he's justified in not having

confidence he wrote in his diary

i don't want to hear it well you're

gonna have to hear it because he's

dangerous

my son

that's it you get out of here

get out of this house i have the proof

i don't want to hear any more lies

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so

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so

what did you tell him nothing he came in

once but i pretended i was asleep

this time i want you awake quietly sit

up and pay attention

where's mother i want her to come out

with me while i test this

it's getting a little late in it for

target practice

where's my mother she's in the kitchen i

suppose

dinnertime not quite

excuse me after the bathroom

sit down

stu did robert kill

johnny spence actually kill him you mean

that's crazy

i found robert's diary

he says quite clearly and unequivocally

killed

spence at 3 15.

that'd be ashamed of somebody you know

ruin this really pretty carpet

let's do it stew you can go to the

bathroom after you've answered my

questions not before

swear i wouldn't tell

son sometimes it's better to break our

promises than to keep it

he'll kill me well if that's the case

then he needs help

badly look at me

did he or didn't he kill johnny spins

well

he didn't not really what does that mean

he did it in a game not not really

what game just a game we play

crying out loud there's nothing else to

do with hastings unless you're good at

cars or something

me and robert are good at murders i get

most of my plots out of these robert's

better at making them up out of his head

we kill people we can't stand like we

killed the stewardess on the plane

coming up

and there was this house mother at

school uh

mrs gwen the bane of my existence she

was my latest

i crept into a room at 3am 3 is the best

time to kill people

and i gagged her and i slittered the

road and i carved my initials in her

forehead

and dumped her out the window then i

snuck outside

and dragged her door where they're

building the new gym and put her in and

dump concrete

all over robert said it was perfect

except there wouldn't be any concrete

ready to pour at 3am

what really happened is she got to be 65

and retired

tell me about johnny spins

stu i'm not supposed to tell as part of

the game two

we take the fifth under cross

examination

nasty

it was a creme de la creme as far as

murders go the perfect murder

no loopholes whatsoever robert

broke his neck with a karate chop which

doesn't show you now then pushed him

into the swimming pool

the empty swimming pool get it obviously

he wasn't looking where he was going

fell in and broke his neck a terrible

terrible accident

is johnny spence still up at hastings

well

no where is he

his father got transferred to seattle

it's best when you can kill somebody

who's really gonna leave like that

or like mrs quinn

you swear this is the truth mister

you don't think we'd really truly kill

anybody do you

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honey will you let me talk to you for a

minute

please

i'm gonna please honey i was wrong

my suspicions were wrong i i just talked

this too will you give me another chance

oh to prove that my son is some vicious

evil sick little

that's right now

oh no honey now i want another chance to

make friends with him one last

irrevocable chance

no

all right i'll call a cat

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i think it it it may be awkward

moving your things out in front of the

boys and all that

that's your decision i think maybe it

would be better if you

stayed the night

12-hour rebreathing thank you very much

oh i'll take the boys out tomorrow

somewhere where you pack your things and

get out i think we'll be less awkward by

all means let's destroy our lives

together as

as gracefully as possible

i'm freezing this won't

what take long do

some of your hair

snow of mine

and i sterilized the knife

now give me your hand what are you gonna

do

mix our blood with our hair and burn it

that binds us together forever makes it

impossible for either one of us

ever to betray who's gonna betray now

give me your hands stew

uh

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okay

really stinks doesn't it just remember

stew

anybody who portrays a blood brother

really gets it bad

so bad that well

that you could stand it

morning good morning sir

morning mother where are you going

into town this publisher wants you to

come in and stay for a week rather than

having to commute every day

you mean in a hotel you mean you won't

even be coming back at night

i'll be staying at the sheridan they

want to look over the galleys it's

more convenient that way

gee because that means your opinion's

really very important to them

stew what are you doing with your

uniform on

i need to go back to the academy mrs

hamilton i'm sorry

what on earth for there won't be anybody

there for another week

my father's flying in from greece since

when

i called school this morning collect of

course

to see if there's anything from my folks

i mean

you know christmas and all they usually

call at least

there was a telegram from my father he's

coming up to hastings

i'm leaving on the noon plane why don't

you call him and ask him to come down

here it's a shame that you have to no no

you've been really great people and it's

been really great being here you know

the watch and the ties and all but well

i've seen my dad in about a million

years you know

come on mother let's go oh darling i

don't think i'd better go right now

i'm sure he'd both rather slink away

without you in attendance robert

well wouldn't you oh yes absolutely

don't stand economy please i will be

glad to take you to the airport

that's all right i'll take him it's on

my way see come on over let's go

goodbye stuart come on mrs hamilton

see you back at school stu right

right

yeah we're having your finger

yeah you know no i don't suppose you

tell me

i'm really tired this morning mr

hamilton would you mind

if i didn't answer any questions or

anything

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got it

mr hamilton is a gentleman to see you oh

dunlap come on in

i uh i tried to get you on the phone a

couple of times and

look you want some coffee or something

you got some we have some

sorry um i'm gonna talk to you i talked

to uh

well some people discovered about that

wild goose chase i sent you on up there

it seemed like my suspicions were based

on what turned out to be a bizarre and

rather elaborate little game

because you found out the same thing i

can't think of a worse way to spend my

money

this game uh

how's it played well it's uh

really doesn't matter now boy i was

worried about johnny spence seems to be

alive and well and living in seattle in

seattle

i told you that you know what you find

out

johnny spence died at hastings military

academy about a month ago

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laura you want to see if stu is around

asking to come in please yes sir

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fell backwards into an empty swimming

pool

broke his neck recorded as an accident

but there are an awful lot of fishy

elements involved

firstly the pool where he fell was only

eight feet deep

hardly deep enough to kill a kid unless

he hit exactly right and secondly the

pool had a cover that had been removed

nobody knows when or why or or who did

it

thirdly the blow that broke his neck

came from the side

there was a bruise visible now how do

you fall on the

side of your neck braids oh of course if

you weren't looking for a homicide it

wouldn't look like an accident if you

weren't looking for homicide but if you

were you'd question about uh

six of his classmates this johnny spence

had a

an awful lot of enemies particularly a

kid named mueller

here it's all in here

you want to see me mr hamilton yes yeah

this is mr dunlap he's a private

detective

what's your last name son parker

he's the one that told me johnny

spencer's death was a a figment of my

stepson's imagination

what's your stepson's name

robert mueller

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killed spence at 3 15 today good

riddance

you need to turn this and my report and

the boy over to the police mr hamilton

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lately

it's beautiful isn't it yeah i'll race

ya oh no robert i haven't been on a

horse in a long time

spence has something dumb about robert's

father

i don't know why he said it he knew

robert

maybe he just got sick of the bragging

anyhow they started fighting

really fighting this robert was

they fought for about four days every

chance they got you know

then he got him out by the empty

swimming pool

away from everything and hit him like i

said

that karate chop that was it

where were you i'm the world's biggest

card mr dunlap

answer his question stu i was there

you just stood there robert made me

so you're being accomplished and less

likely to tell i guess i already used to

13. near old enough for all this huh

well

young kids have a real good chance to

make a recovery mr hamilton if you get

them to the proper authorities quick

enough

it's pretty clear that your boy needs

help cops have got

good people working for them

psychiatrists

we can afford a private psychiatrist

we'll get the best in the country

and sweep all this under a rug

he's my wife's only child he's a

murderer

he's sick he has to be cured you can't

send a 13 year old boy to the gas

chamber

nobody said anything about sending him

to a gas chamber

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salad

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paul who's that man outside

tell me

all right his name is al dunlap he

is a private detective

this is his report this

this is robert's diary they both say the

same thing

robert killed johnny spence

or you can ask stu he was there

honey

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so

batman robin how's trixx

come you must be off relentless forces

of evil call us

i really ought to pack i guess i'll pack

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later

robert

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roberts

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oh laura where are the boys they just

went out into the woods back there

mr edmonton robert has his gun

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now you better call the police

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who's the archbeam today batman

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far enough for what shooting accident i

got this new gun and all and i'm not too

used to it

big on accidents aren't you my mistake

was not arranging yours a lot

sooner you're the only eyewitness

otherwise steroid against my

no proof i'm not gonna tell robert i

promise

please get over there come on

i thought we were gonna go to greece

this summer i thought you were gonna

teach me how to play tennis

i thought we were friends get out

come on walk what do you want to kill

two people for

one's one too many already there's no

way you're gonna get away with two

i mean eventually they catch murderers

even the bosses strangler

there's no way i'm gonna get away with

spence with you alive

the cops would put needles underneath

your fingernails and it'd be all over

but the shouting

what do you want to bet not my life

that's for sure

back further with you dead all i have to

worry about is my story

i don't have to worry about some

weak-kneed blabbermouth

run yeah go on run try and run away

maybe you'll make it run run i said

i'll never know

oh i'm all right now you've got to stop

robert

he's going to kill stewie

please be careful

robert

robert

robert where are you

robert come back

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robert

robert

robert let stu go let this stay between

you and me

oh

come on now your company further not

kill steve

robert robert weiss do

the fact that he saw you kill johnny

spencer doesn't matter anymore

stu told the detective he told me

you're going to kill us too are you

going to kill everybody in the world

i know i know why you want to kill stew

because you want to be like your father

because killing stew is what he do but

is senseless

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you were away at school so much you

never really knew what the man was like

and then when you came home you you saw

what you wanted to see

not what was really there

he was a psychopath robert do you hear

me a psychopath

he was a dangerous man

people that he worked with were afraid

of him even the people that knew him

best

even your mother no

you know what he did when you were born

he beat you he beat you because you

cried at night

crying in the night anointed you weren't

even a month old

your mother hated him then they went

home together that night in the rain

and she was driving she asked him for a

divorce

he started yelling at her and that was

the accident

you see what you've been living is a lie

robert

and it's been our fault for not telling

you we wanted you to believe what you

wanted to believe

now it's time to face up riley

face what you've become and what you've

done

robert

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get away get away

it is true

i should have told you a long time ago

answer me and you can't please god don't

turn the hand

you killed a boy but i handled my hand

don't you

see he said my father was an awful man

those are real cops what are real cops

doing here for crying out loud

this is all phony we're just making it

up as we go

can't they see we're all in costume

they can't take him away cops don't take

batman away

ever we're just playing just fooling

around

you know spence is in seattle

mrs gwyn is in atlantic city nobody got

hurt

not really you're making an awful

mistake

we're just playing a little game just a

game that's all

somebody tell them

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