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uh

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well

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at first all i could see was this face

this beautiful babe's face floating

toward me

and in my head was this slow

crazy melody like a tomb from another

world

and then i saw the room a queer

mirrored room and somehow i was inside

there was danger there i knew that

i wanted to turn and run but i couldn't

it was as if my brain was handcuffed

then i had to do what i had come to do

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so

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hmm

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yes

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so

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what a dream

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those thumb prints on my throat they

weren't there last night when i

undressed

what it couldn't be

that all happened in a nightmare talk

about your realistic dreams

i couldn't have done it in my sleep

choke myself without waking up

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blood

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i must have scratched myself

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um

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the things out of the dream i'd never

seen them before

they hadn't been there when i undressed

last night

the button wasn't mine the key wasn't

mine

but if they were there it must have

happened

the dream the struggle the murder

everything

but how could something like that

happen and i wouldn't know it was i

going insane

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across the rooftops i could see the

river

out there everything was status quo the

hassle was in here

with me my stomach was riding a roller

coaster

i couldn't face going to work i didn't

want to see anybody

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you got me canal 47362

don't tell me don't tell me

the troubles you have known

don't tell me please don't tell me

i have troubles enough of my own

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if you've got a man that you want to

keep

i've nothing more than this to say

keep one eye open every time you sleep

all your men will get away

and that's the last

you'll ever see of your mind

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it was the very last time

i said

my

listen baby if you're not coming down

because you saw about last night forgive

and forget what are you saying

well if a guy's sick he's sick how long

do you think it'll be

well i don't know i'll try to get

pee-wee what do you say what's what's

the matter

four signs we gotta cut your boyfriend

turns up sick what is it did he tell you

is it something serious you don't think

just because i wouldn't use his

arrangements oh billy he wouldn't stand

up for the session you know that it

must be somehow serious i know you love

the guy i love him too but you gotta

admit he's a screwball

well it's the kind of screwball i like

have it your way we got to get a sub

fat chance let's see thomas pee-wee

thomas

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the more i tried to figure it the sicker

i got

even that weird nightmare music kept

tearing at me

where did i ever hear it before

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all of a sudden the room started

spinning

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oh

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hotel new orleans stan grayson's room

please

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mr grayson doesn't answer

oh thank you

funny the genius shouldn't be there oh

billy if he was laid up like you know

what i mean

no i don't something awful fishy about

this he can be replaced don't do

anything rash give me a chance to talk

to him what could

that do and you guys played that last

number lousy

i had to get out of my room out into the

sunshine i had to stay out of the

shadows

and i knew that tonight i'd be afraid of

the dark

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yeah i walked all day i didn't know

where

it didn't matter i had to talk to

somebody

gina i'd get sympathy from gina

what i needed was an explanation

renee my brother-in-law he ought to be

able to figure something

hi wait a minute

i've seen you somewhere before

hello sis i was just telling renee it

couldn't have been 10 minutes ago

i was saying if you didn't show up in

the next few days i was going to send

out a posse

just in time for dinner if you didn't

know staying for dinner aren't you

yeah sure hey you look a little peaked

i keep telling renee you don't take care

of yourself those restaurants those

hours you feel all right and more cases

well you look peaked just a little time

been working today recording session oh

good

i hope you have a hit where's renee

now where would he be in the garage

waiting to see what he's working on now

my do-it-yourself husband

he gets so wrapped up he's just as

liable to forget about his dinner

so you tell him it'll be on the table in

five minutes will you tell him

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hello renee sad

don't ever creep up on me like that i'm

just liable to cut your head off

how do you like that sweetheart isn't

she beauty

when'd you get her oh about three weeks

ago steel you know this fella's wife

she's afraid of the water

say relay i've got to talk to you well

i'll just with off the bottom

wait a minute so the heating on you

fella

renee i've got a real problem

oh shoot i don't know where to start i

don't know how to start

you and you had a row well i'll fix it

up for you

no i wish it was that easy well what

else

you know you're gonna think that i

flipped my lid

last night i had a nightmare i dreamed i

killed a man

well he had nightmare i don't know who

he was

i don't know where it was supposed to be

but it was in some kind of a mirrored

room

i had a fight with him i stabbed him

with some kind of a

steel tool of some kind i

well during the struggle a button came

off his coat

and after i'd killed him i'd locked his

body in a closet

and i took the key well it was quite a

dream

then when i woke up well

look

and this morning there was blood on my

wrist

oh no no listen to me

i figured that i'd scratch myself in my

sleep so i washed it off but that was

before i saw these

you're all a piece is good renee you've

got to help me we're sure kid sure

you don't know what i've been through

today

where'd you get this i told you i no i

mean where'd you first get it before you

dreamed about it

you haven't been listening to me you

don't understand what i'm telling you i

didn't have it before i dreamed about it

i never saw it before then

then when i woke up it turns out real

i warned you before you work too hard

and you play too hard

i know you're a musician you're high

strung with that artistic temperament

but you've got nowhere to draw the line

renee and it isn't up to me to elect you

about drinking either

but hanging out in bars look i wasn't

drunk

and i'm not loony there's a door

somewhere right this minute and this key

belongs to it

and behind that door there's a man dead

i don't know who he is i don't know

where it is i don't know how it happened

but it must have happened and i must

have done it

otherwise how would it come to me in my

sleep like this

and these things now you listen to me

kid you had these things before you

picked them up someplace and forgot them

someplace long time ago

and last night you uh have some chili

con carne or drink too many and you cook

up a nightmare

and unless you remember these old things

and you weave them in no

no no no say no now either dream of

thing or it actually happens

don't worry you had a battle with a guy

and you ran something into when you

sleep you'd wake up all right

it happened renee i tell you it happened

you dreamed that you never had these

things

now look why don't you take a few days

rest your wedding the nerves then

take gina down a biloxi do a little

fishing

that's your answer yes take a vacation

that's all you can tell me

please if i tell you once more that i

never saw these things before now forget

these things

and not a word of this to sue you

understand she worries about you enough

you haven't helped me a bit well

naturally not

you expect me to arrest you for

murdering somebody in the dream

well the rest will have to happen in the

dream too

because i'm off beauty when i'm dreaming

come on come on kid let's wrap ourselves

around some chow

would you do me a favor smile pursue

really

down at all keep cracking the polish off

that one nail

you like curry shrimp stan you better

like away sue because that's what we're

gonna have

you feeling better stan i i thought you

were sick

well i was i just wasn't feeling well i

kept calling the room all day and there

was no one there and billy got a little

bit suspicious

i just didn't feel like working today

and i wasn't sick enough to stay in my

room why does everybody have to make

a big thing out of it

the blood i washed it off

i don't know how long i was blacked out

i hately remember coming to for a moment

and i felt that i was being carried

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and then i blacked out again

it must have been around midnight

something awakened me

feel any better

did i do any talking did i say anything

no nothing

but you scare the daylights out of them

what am i going to do

sue is sleeping now i took gina home a

while ago

did they ask any questions what do you

think what'd you say

the truth no no not what you're thinking

not that dream business but the real

truth

you've been wearing yourself out hey how

can i

ghost that he made for himself in here

go on

keep on talking like that you'll drive

me batty instead of that why don't you

try and help me

oh you're a detective take the key in

the button you've had plenty of cases

where you had less than that to begin

with

find out where they came from find out

what they were doing on me find out

where that mirrored room is

now forget them once and for all forget

them

i can't they're all i've got to find out

what happened

nothing has happened you're just selling

yourself a phony bill of goods just as

phony as that nail polish was blood

that's the kind of trick your mind's

been playing on you it can't be that

i look and don't you crack the shoe

about this nonsense or up

well just don't crack she's fretted

herself about you plenty ever since your

mother died

i know now would be the worst time of

all

now why not well i wasn't going to tell

you until later but uh

you're gonna have a kid oh that's fine

renee that's fine

after being married nine years is great

so now you know so forget it will you

and if you keep hopping on this spooky

business i'm going to grab you and take

it down to a head doctor so help me

now go on get some sleep

sleep i felt i'd never sleep again until

i knew the answer

four days went by without a lead

i scoured the papers not one line about

the murder

i couldn't figure and all week i've been

avoiding gina

i didn't want her involved in this

horror that kept gnawing at my brain

something didn't happen soon

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that was it out of the world melody

if i could find out where i'd heard it

that would give me something to go on

one of my friends ought to know that

tune

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never met up with that one stan boy

sorry

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man that's a weirdy you got me

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it was the same from one end of bourbon

street to the other it was a tune that

stumped the experts

sorry stan i guess i lose the six to

four thousand dollars

thanks anyway me

it was her a babe from the mirrored room

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i beg your pardon you say something

i thought you were somebody else it's

not very original but

it'll do for a starter no you got me

wrong i i really thought you were

somebody else then i say is that so then

you say yeah

this friend of mine she looks just like

you from the back

yeah from the back naturally and pretty

soon

you're sitting down next to me we're

having a drink together so why don't we

just uh skip all the preliminaries

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what was that when you started it right

he says

two are the same thanks

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the greatest

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you come here often if nothing happened

i was gonna let one more number run over

me and then i was going if nothing

happened

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what's your name joe

joe may hi jill mate

i'm imaginable

well here's to um what do we drink dude

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sunshine

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why sunshine

i just like it better than the dark

me too every morning when that sun's

shining i'm fine

with the time night rolls around if i

ain't got something lined up

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honey you are in a state of the

galloping jitters

i'm upset about something like to tell

mom about it

you think i lost my marbles

take a good look around all kinds of

people sitting by themselves

trying to find companionship or maybe a

little sunshine in a glass

sometimes i think we're all mine as a

few morals

what do you want oscar i guess he wants

to give me another

drink i have a better idea my place

call it a place it's not quite an

apartment it's right around the corner

we can have ourselves a quiet drink

there you can tell me all your troubles

and pretty soon they'll just fade away

okay

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okay

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um

my closet's full of men's clothes

and no man to put them on

gonna find a man to love me

before this day is gone

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a woman ain't a woman

she ain't got herself a man

a woman ain't a woman

she ain't got herself a man

there must be a man

it's not very big

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make yourself comfortable sit down

on that it's my oriental blood

i like to sit cross-legged and brood um

fix yourself something i'll be right

gotta back a man

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um

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hi

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do you want to tell me your troubles now

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um

what's the matter

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joe

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so

who is it me renee

hello renee

still dragging your nose well i've got

something downstairs that'll cheer you

up

oh for pete's sakes renee come on come

on don't be a mule put it on

we're going on the little picnic i don't

want to go anywhere

well don't you want to help your sister

celebrate celebrate what brand new car i

just got her

well that's fine i hope she enjoys it

but i don't want to go anywhere

you're going to hide in your room like a

groundhog i'll look here

this is sunday it's my day off susie and

i are taking a ride in the country and

she cooked a big pot of jambalaya just

for you look will you stop treating me

as though i'm cracked

i don't want to take a jaunt in the

country to shake the devils out of me if

that's what you're after

not do it for sue will you don't make

her worry

do you want me to have a baby with

wrinkles in his forehead

come on and a boy

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now look renee you're putting me in an

embarrassing position ah come on don't

be a weasel

come on

hello gina how are you stan hi sue how

you feeling

oh me i'm fine good swell car

just another toy for my boy here that's

so i bought it just for you

oh sure i can't even drive

stan just this wasn't my idea at all you

know oh don't apologize i'm glad you

picked me up

well where should we go kids oh just

anywhere out in the country

any ideas dad what about biota force

well by allah should it

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buy you the force it just popped into my

head

gina and i always preferred the lake but

something made me sail a force

somehow it seemed important

uh tell me um you know

where you're going no but i got a hunch

that

not too far down this road we'll find

just a spot with nice soft grass and a

cool breeze you ever see

anyone so stubborn the ants around here

just as friendly as the ants farther

down

now what's the matter with that spot

over there

now they were i think the little farther

down all right then stop here

i'm getting hungry okay okay my last

thing that you're eating for two now

you must be awfully hungry

want some more oh no no three plates

were enough

you know if anybody should ask me this

was the best jambalaya i ever ate

just like mother used to make well the

jambalaya my mother used to make wasn't

half as good as yours

over me

hey kids lots more to eat if you want it

no thanks stan

when he coming back to work i don't know

billy's been griping all week

i can't work can you understand that

i can understand it darling but billy

said unless you show tomorrow he doesn't

want you anymore

well that's the way it'll have to be

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don't you trust me stand

why don't you tell me what's troubling

you

i i know you're not really sick

if if you love me please don't shut me

out

forget it gina you can't help me

the best thing for you is to just forget

about us

you know what bender does to me now we

better go

oh stan come on it's going to rain

holy spoke you didn't have to take me

seriously

so

gosh darn wipers are stuck

you should have tried them dear before

you bought it all right all right

and they i can't stand anymore but let's

stop at the first place we'd come to and

get out

right now baby calm down come down

no houses around here

back bridge i'd seen it before

there's a cut up a little way ahead just

around the bend

there's a big house up there i think you

know the section

there's a cut off

are you going to get us more lost than

ever no no keep going

you'll come to it there's a brick

gateway

you turn in there i didn't know how i

knew that

but the closer we came the harder my

heart pounded and the more frightened i

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got it is

turn renee into the gate like he told

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you

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so

let's make a dashboard

i wonder if there's anybody home wish we

could get in after planning

so

i know there must be a key here

someplace

stan you're going to stand out there all

day come on in and close the door

let's have some light not that one

what is this a rib how come you know so

much about this place

it's a rib your brother the great county

hello anybody home

don't do that stan you're cold you're

shaking

well so you we better find a place to

dry out before you get pneumonia

looks like they've been away a long time

you're being a detective comes in handy

there in case anyone shows up we won't

get into trouble for crashing in like

this woman

let's see what gives her the fireplace

well that's a lucky break it's a gas log

better sit down dry out before you catch

cold

ah i'm pushed

must be a kitchen around here someplace

little hot tea won't do any harm

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remember that one sue

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that was it a nightmare melody

it was just that old tune slowed down to

a lower pitch

had i heard it that way before was it

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here

stan why don't you come over here by the

fire

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so

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foreign

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um

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this is the place all right this is the

place

my before

we got the

what are you two doing up there keep her

downstairs

super downstairs be down in a minute

watch the kettle in the kitchen i've got

some water boiling for tea

all right but i wish you'd stop poking

around

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look that's what he was crouched in

front of that night

he must been using a blowtorch

that's what made that bluish light

made her face stand out in the

reflections like a mask

that must be the one i i propped him

behind i've tried

dried blood so when it was hurt was in

here

someone who is dead

are you two coming down and do i have to

come up there and get you

freud studies in hysteria manual of

psychotherapy

narco analysis the owner of this house

must be a doctor or something i'll take

the tray back to the kitchen

no never mind i'll take it

rain ought to let up soon why don't you

catch yourself a little man

do like sue

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closer i don't want him to hear this

sit down now let's hear about another

dream

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you think i lied don't you you know how

to get here from a dream didn't you

you know where the key was from a dream

didn't you

that's fumbling around didn't fool me

you knew where the

light switch was from a dream

if you earned sue's brother i push your

lying face out through the back of your

head

i told you how the whole thing happened

you came to me for help

but you didn't have guts enough to come

clean to say look granny i went to such

and such a place and i killed a guy

such as such a guy because i can check

your reason no yeah i cook up a dream

i can respect a man no matter how

terrible a crime he's committed if he

owns up to her

i can respect the man who deny it flatly

but a guy that'll come to someone trade

on the fact that he happens to be

married to a sister

abuse this common sense make a fool out

of him i didn't i told you everything to

me

well i've got no use for him he's lower

than the lowest track we ever brought in

for kniving somebody in an alley

look renee look i found this key in my

pocket when i woke up

look i found this button trying to play

on my sympathies weren't you

trying to get me to think in terms of

doctor so as to get you off was that it

was it

renee well that was quite a dream

well the dream is over baby is awake now

you're going to tell me the facts

and whether it goes any further than me

that's my business but

at least i'm gonna get them how can i

tell you what i don't know

what were you doing in here that night

what brought you here i was never here

before

the man you killed what was his name are

you gonna tell me are you

are you gonna answer me how can i answer

you what i don't know

why did you tell them why

i've handled closed mouth guys before

now you're gonna tell me or i'm gonna

kill you with my own hands

get over there

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i'll ask the questions what are you

doing here they're coming out of the

rain that's future

not yet identify yourselves and be quick

about it

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remember new york's homicide division

claire know your result

how about doing a little identifying

yourself i'm a deputy attached to the

sheriff's office in this parish shirt

tolerance is the name

it's my brother-in-law staff grayson hi

i'm detailed to keep an eye on this

place uh i was home having about to eat

all the way back to the station see

how did you get in here i thought i had

it locked you found a key in the flower

part on the porch

you did it must have been a spare

i had the original we didn't know there

was a spare what do you mean you were

detailed keep an eye on this place

didn't you know there was a murder

committed here last week

what is that

i'd like to hear about it murders my

business

have a cigarette a new thanks sir uh

i cut them out about a month back i

always carry a pocket full of these now

this place belonged to a wealthy couple

named bellman

he's in the importing business often

goes away a long business trip

he was away when it happened somewhere

in mexico in fact

we haven't been able to notify him yet

his wife was a pretty little thing

was that kind of flirty there was a

young duck she used to run around with

his name was uh a bob cloon was

a milkman found mrs bellnav about uh

daybreak monday

and near the road that leads up here

dead

dime unconscious both legs broken skull

fractured

inside's all busted up

kind of gets him don't it things like

this are new to him i guess

uh about this woman uh how did it happen

well the car did it we found it later

hair and blood on the tires

bob klum's car then water that's my

chief he comes up here to look around

and

he finds a safe busted in a mirrored

room upstairs

i'll take you up there sure if you want

married role

yeah well that gave us our case we

figured that clue knew that bellnav had

a lot of money in the safe

when he went to mexico so he came up

here and started to heist it

and then mrs bellnap caught it she ran

out a freighty killer

he got his car chased down the road ran

over her

all of a sudden life was swell again i

don't know how to drive

and renee knew that too

here uh have a small care yeah

you got a match yeah

well that was the case we thought we had

till wednesday

i thought you alright yeah we sent out a

general alarm for clue

then on wednesday morning mrs bellnet

came too

first thing she asked for is bob all

right he didn't kill bob cloon did he

he yeah what she told us sent us hot

footing back here

we found cloone's body propped up behind

one of those mirrored doors upstairs

been stabbed with an ice pick or

something she died that night

well they went our case

did you uh did you get anything on the

rail killer

practically everything except the guy

himself she took a good look at him when

it happened

cut all the dope over my chief's office

i just on my way over there you

interested

yeah who knows i i've even been able to

help you find the killer glad to have

you come along

thanks uh i better let the girls know

we'll be gone for a while

oh my wife

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you should let her get you this is just

routine with us

i know it's just that i'm not used to

this sort of discussion

yeah i can understand that i was a

little bit squeamish myself when i first

started this job

i told gina sue is still asleep

come on i'll stay here come on

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isn't that odd uh captain warner that

they never printed anything about it in

the new orleans papers well they're

playing ball with us

yes sir we had the theory if the killer

didn't read anything about us finding

the bodies he might come back take a

look

maybe he'd want to find out what

happened to mrs bellnap

yep this is the description she gave us

before she died

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getting along about that age i had to

get me some eating glasses

maybe this will help thanks

killer was about 30 medium build

brown hair his eyes were fixed and

glassy

he could have been mentally unbalanced

have any pictures of them this uh mrs

bell nap including i mean

we had some taken in the morgue can i

have a look at them sure thing

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thank you stop raining think you'll have

that barbecue kevin

well sure thing he drives a bone by six

o'clock

any ideas no i just thought it might fit

him something at our office

have a look at them stan who knows that

you might even know these people

it was them all right the faces in a

nightmare

now i knew there was no escape i was a

murderer

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he went out like a light what do you

suppose made him do it

looking at the pictures of those dead

people things like that sure get them

i noticed that before he's not well he

gets these dizzy spells every now and

then

it's only since i never mind

yeah take this

yeah that's better yeah

as soon as i get them home we'll be 100

well i hope so

thanks it's all right i'll be seeing you

bye

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thanks sue i'm sorry the rain spoiled

the picnic take care of yourself stan

you too i'll call you

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i'm going up for a minute you happen to

be parked now hydrant

well mcburn is on the beat if says

anything just tell him whose car it is

i'm going to take sue home before i do

anything else i love sue

i think you love gina that's your

business all i know is that i love sue

bad enough what this is going to do to

her when she finds out renee what am i

going to do

run out i'm giving you that one last

chance

if they catch up with you i want you to

meet your finish somewhere else not here

if you're still here in the morning i'm

going to arrest you for the matter of

those two people

i still don't know what happened

i don't have to ask you if you killed

them you passed out

cold when you saw their dead faces in

those pictures i'm gonna turn in what i

know

tomorrow at my precinct house they can

pass it on to warner

i'll be back in the morning

you better be gone

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me

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oh i beg your heart

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test

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after

can't you go any faster got it wide open

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15.

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hmm you should have left me

you shouldn't let me when i didn't think

of that way out

come on get up

i didn't want to drag you into this what

is it stan

if you're in such terrible trouble that

you wanted to

but why renee why would he want to go

and

do such a never mind now i'll handle it

now you uh you go on down and takes you

home don't tell her anymore you have to

tell her that uh stan is sick and i

thought i better stay with him tonight

okay

what whatever it is just make him

understand i'm with him you go right

ahead will you

take care of sue

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uh

renee did i wake you

what about the arrest what about it

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you're gonna take me down in the morning

what's the sense of waiting

none maybe yeah i have a smoke

no thanks yeah what i can figure

i give you a chance to run out instead

you try to kill yourself

why i can't escape from myself

there's something wrong with me i killed

those people i don't know how or why or

how i got there you should have let me

jump

nothing wrong with this lamp maybe the

fuse is on

it happened the old guy in the next room

one night yeah

yeah he had to use a candle

same night i had the dream

yeah just a loose bulb would you say how

to use a candle what do you mean no

were you in there with him huh no no he

came left in my door

stuck his head in wanted to know if my

lights had gone up

where they have to come in here couldn't

he tell by the hall i don't know

there is a little night light now maybe

it's on a different circuit

the night you had this dream that's

right

tell me everything that happened that

night anything unusual at the club

well we were all keyed up about a

recording session the next day

we've played our closing number at the

club same as always he took

me out on the top it was a

merry-go-round

oh what a spin he had me in

my heart was wrapped up in soul but when

the fire grew cold the way he threw me

down

was a sin and here's the kicker

i wouldn't figure if he just wanted

me again i'd say fine

what's your sad story

what's your sad story

what's your sad story it can't

be sadder than mine

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he took me out on the town it was a

merry-go-round

oh what a spin he had me in

my heart was wrapped up and sold but

when the fire grew cold the way he threw

me down

was

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if he just wanted me again i'd say

why what's your sad story

what's your sad story

what's your sad story

it can't be

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thank you very much we'd like to play

for you all night but even musicians

have to sleep good night folks

hey baby you were the greatest tonight

thanks darling can i walk you home

you look a little tired stan if you

don't know friends stan what have you

decided to use the old arrangements on

the recording date tomorrow

are you kidding i haven't slept for a

week getting these ready maybe that's

what's wrong we need a little shut-eye

genius

well you can't just throw them out

what's the matter with them well you

asked me i'll tell you they're too far

out they're not commercial

who says i says you can't hear the

melody

if the public can't hear the maldive

you're dead d-e-d

dead and how long you gonna keep playing

the same old corn just because this

stuff is a little progressive you want

to leave it up to the guys here

you played the uranus what do you think

fellas yeah he's right stan who

progressed

too modern you haven't said anything

well you wouldn't want me to lie stan

here's that

we'll play the old arrangements tomorrow

like horny ones stan

i know you're disappointed about the

arrangement i'll see you tomorrow gina

so i came back here to the hotel and and

you came upstairs and went to sleep

well no i was still burned at billy so i

stopped in at the bar

downstairs i thought i'd

unwind before i tried to sleep and this

whole fellow britain

the one that lived in the next room here

he came over and bought me a drink

he was a friendly old duck been living

here for a week or so

i used to meet him in the elevator i

thought i'd have a brandy but

he insisted a daiquiri be more relaxing

and you know i don't like rum but

he was such a nice old guy that i took

it just to please him

mm-hmm how many drinks did you have

just a couple and i came up here and i

went to bed

you went right to sleep no i read the

paper like i do every night i always

read the sports

i just put out the light and closed my

eyes when i heard this knock at the door

who is it harry britton from next door

a second

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pardon me did did i wake you no

no no i just put out the light you did

my light went out that's what i wanted

to see you about i thought maybe the

circuit was off you're like working a

trial

yes i guess it was just the globe that

burned out sorry to trouble you

not at all you're tired aren't you i can

see you're pretty tired

i'm sorry no really it's all right

you're tired and i woke you up

it's all right

i just got a one-track mind used to

mumbling to himself maybe

anyway he finally closed the door and i

dropped right off to sleep

now wait a minute are you sure the door

closed after him

did you hear it did you see it close

what difference does it make the door

must have closed he went away and i went

to sleep

he was standing in the door there with a

candle in his hand and he kept saying

you're tired but so what

his eyes were fixed and glassy

he could have been mentally unbalanced

what

oh i was uh just uh remembering

something in that deathbed statement

that mrs beldnap made a warner

you say you uh used to talk to this

photo every once in a while

what about sports politics

one time going down the elevator he had

this box of mentholated cough drops

he kept taking him out and offering to

me have a cough drop

go ahead and have one no thanks i don't

like them

go on there they're good for you no

thanks really

you ought to try one your voice sounds

kind of hoarse

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i took it because i felt kind of sorry

for him i really hate those cough traps

he took a daiquiri too because you

suggested it

yeah testing willpower maybe

you seem to be trying to make something

out of this what is it oh nothing

nothing that makes any sense yet

you uh get some sleep here will you

where you going

i'm going back to the bell lab house to

see if i can get some more information

no all the way back there at this hour

of the morning

i don't know what i've got if anything

and no more shortcuts

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so

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so

i thought you'd never get here when i

was here early this morning

then i had to go back out there again

yeah have a look

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well

who is it

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that's britain the man who had the room

next door to me britain

is also louis belnap the murdered

woman's husband

then was he the one who

there's no art in this for you stan

not yet i checked your fingerprints with

the ones warner god at the merritt room

you found your way into the belknap

house

you killed bob cloon and shoved this

body into a closet

and mrs belnap you didn't kill her

you can't drive we think

bellnav drove you up there and

was waiting for you outside and mrs

belnap ran out and the husband using

cloone's car deliberately ran over

why didn't i know what was going on what

i was doing

we think we know why

there's only one way to prove it show

that it could have happened the first

time by

making it happen all over again

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you mean go back and go through it all

over again no not exactly

you killed a man stan right now you're

guilty

what we have to do is prove that you

didn't know what you were doing

and why you didn't know how what do you

mean

well we haven't any time to lose they

located belknap yesterday he wired

warner

to have his wife reburied in the family

plot

he'll arrive in time for the funeral it

should go down

i was scared sick but i got back into

that house before belknap returned from

the funeral

a couple of friends drove back with him

i waited upstairs

looking down into the living room as

they said goodbye why don't you come and

stay at our place tonight

louis yes we'd like to have you don't

worry about me

i'll be fine here sure you won't come

with us

no thanks a lot good night

he was coming up i wanted to get out of

there but i had to stay it was my only

chance to save myself

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so

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so

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so

how'd you get here you showed me the way

didn't you

you remember coming here you didn't

think i would

you couldn't help then how'd i get here

you explain it

how long have we been here like this

since just before dark

i got in while you were at the funeral

who'd you bring with you

just this you remembered coming here

you couldn't have you had the look the

typical look of the hypnotized subject

i faked it no matter how good you think

you are then why did you do everything i

told you to

when i dropped the knife in your hand

and told you what to do you took it

i figured maybe you'd pay off afterwards

to keep me quiet

and if i tried to quit then i figured

i'd have found a knife in my back

but what happened what went wrong in

here

i let you out of the car i told you what

to do i dropped the knife somewhere in

the dark

but i came up anyway cloon was stealing

your door and

about to run off with your wife wasn't

that it yes yes i could have been killed

by clune

but just by mistake your wife put a

weapon in my hands and i had to use it

to save myself

that explains why she got out of the

house i finished her

with the car i should have known you

were not in control

oh no your control was all right

you still have the talent but you just

said yes and you fell for it

i didn't know what i was doing when i

came up here i never would have found

you but i happened to see your face in

the newspaper

as the husband of the murdered woman and

i recognized you as britain

i didn't come back to be paid off for

what i did

you couldn't make me murder i killed

that man in self-defense

but now i'll never be able to clear

myself in the eyes of the law

and you're going to pay for doing that

to me now

this way no no wait don't do that i

can do something for you i'll give you

money up i'll get you out of the country

you should have left me alone

wait just one minute just one minute

to make you see just 60 seconds

you don't want to kill me those two had

plotted against me for months i knew it

that's why i did what i did i had to do

it

can't you understand i had to do it you

can understand that

he's got him going better get up there

and cover the front stairs

if you'd suffered the indignities from

those two that i did you'd have done the

same thing

just a few seconds please you don't want

to kill me

look up look up please

see just 30 seconds

i'm sure i can make you see just a few

seconds should go up and take him no no

not yet

we've got to let him really put him

under we've got to have proof for a jury

but he can do it

15 seconds that's right

look up killing me won't quiet your

conscience

you don't want to shoot me

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drop the gun it's too heavy drop the gun

drop it grayson you're too tired to hold

it up

just drop it you'll feel so much better

just let go of it better still give the

gun to me grace

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you're tired that's

better

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that horrible curtain closed over me

again

i couldn't fight it

let's get up there

oh did he get past you

nobody came down those stairs well let's

try the other rooms

captain warren broussard

there's a back stairway through here

we better split up if you see anything

yell

you're guilty you killed cloon

give me your coat

get in the water there you'll find peace

warner tolerance over here

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foreign

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he's a goner

you all right now kid

all of a sudden i'm all right

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anything else madam um i i i think i'll

have

another order of ducks

i saw the note he attacked upon the door

he was nowhere to be found

that was

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i was so nervous i had to do something

while i waited so i ate

this is going to cost your fortune well

for junior i could afford it oh hurry up

tell me

what to do i'll have to have a hearing

over the evidence renee gave me he says

i'll have no trouble getting a dismissal

oh thank goodness you ought to be very

proud of your husband

oh i will be when he pays this check

don't get your own don't tell me

the troubles you have known

don't tell me please don't tell me

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keep one eye open every time you sleep

all your men will get away

and that's the last

you'll ever see of your mind

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it was the very last time

i saw

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my mind