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(doorbell rings)

Yes?

You?

Archie Goodwin.
What's your name?

Mr. Yeager.

How do you do?

(Archie)
In his $39 suit and $3 shirt,

thomas yeager didn't
have the air of a man

who might make
a sizable contribution

to Nero Wolfe's
bank balance.

I admitted him anyway.

I'll have to tell you
who i am, of course.

Not unless it's material.

Else there was
no use coming.

Well, fire away.

This, uh, is in the
strictest of confidence.

Ah, yes, well, of course.

Unless you're loaded with
something too heavy for me,

like murder or treason.

"Other sins only speak,
murder shrieks out.

Treason doth
never prosper."

Fear not, mr. Goodwin,
i am loaded with neither.

Oh, good.

My name is, uh,
thomas yeager.

I'm vice president of
continental plastics,

and i think
i'm being followed.

Mr. Yeager, is it?

Listen, that's, uh,
kindergarten stuff.

I mean, any
reputable agency...

what agency would have
a man as good as you?

Hey, well, even if i'm half
as good asithink i am,

it would be to
waste me spotting a tail.

No, but this
is special.

I suspect i'm being followed
only at certain times.

I expect to be followed

when i leave my home
at 34 east 68th street

at seven this evening

to go across the park
to 156 west 82nd street.

You see, i don't want it
known that i have

any connection
with that address.

If i'm not followed,
that would be the end of it.

Until i go the next time,
of course.

Well, which is more
important to you,

not to be followed
or to identify...

they're both important.

I'll expect you
a

no, no, hold on,
hold on.

Please, if you will.

Now, at 7:00,
you're to leave your house,

go over to second avenue,
walk 30 paces,

you'll see a lunch room.

In frontthe lunch room
there'll be a taxi.

Go up to the taxi driver and
say, "you need a shave."

He will say to you,
"my face is tender."

Give him the address.

Get in the cab,
sit back and relax.

I knew you'd be
the man for it.

"Measure your mind's height
by the shadow it casts."

I often do.

Thank you.

Hey, buddy, got a match?

Oh! I could diet
tack.

Are you crazy?

I gotta go, i gotta tell 'em
what to put on the front page.

You never leave
the building before midnight.

That's 'cause i'm always
giving the mayor advice.

What is it?

What do you got on
a guy named thomas yeager,

vice president,
continental plastics?

Not much, but i could have
the morgue send stuff up.

Why?

He's real?

Well, continental plastics,
one of the big ones,

and he's been vice president
five years now.

Come on, that's it?
All, all this for that?

That's it.
Come on, that's it? All, all this for that?

I can go now?

Yeah.

Good.
Thank you.

Oh... just remember,
treason never does prosper.

Okay.

(boys)
Shoot it.

Shoot the ball!

Come on, over here,
over here.

Pass it!

Pass it.
Come on.

He takes a clear
shot...

over here.

He scores!

Where'd
the ball go?

Where'd
the ball go? There it is.

(gasps)
Let's get out of here!

It's 7:30, where is he?

Where he isn't.30, where is he?

I'm gonna go
phone him.

If he comes while

have trouble
starting your engine

until i come back out.

(phone rings)

Mrs. Yeager's resi

ah... hello.

Could i speak
to mr. Yeager?

Who is this, please?

With cramer and stebbins
at yeager's place,

my curiosity was piqued.

I needed more
information from lon.

Coffee, please.

Here.

How the hell did you know
that thomas g. Yeager

was gonna be murdered when
you saw me three hours ago?

Well, i didn't, i don't.
I merely wanted...

yeah, balls.
Thank you.

Well, anyway, i appreciate
the page one box,

"Nero Wolfe
scoops cops again."

How does this sound?

"Nero Wolfe, private eye
extraordinaire,

"was delving deep
into the yeager murder

"hours before the body
was even discovered.

Meanwhile, his lackey, Archie
Goodwin, saw this reporter..."

wait, wait,
hold on, hold on!

The whole world knows
i'm not a lackey.

I'm not a lackey.

I'm a, um...
a flunky.

Yes, you are.
So, give.

Well, you need to pretend for
a moment that i did not know

r was killed
well, you need to pretend for until you told me. D not knoweage

no, no, just pretend.

When did they
find the body?

10 after 7:00.

Playing ball. Kids

they chase a stray into
this construction site.

And therped up nicely in a t
arp.

How do they know
he was murdered?

Well, he had a big hole
in his head,

wasn't made by his finger.

Apparently, the body had been
there since the night before.

You two guys
call this in?

(Archie)
Wait a minute...

they hauled his body
over a pile of gravel

and then tucked him in
with a tarp?

Yeah, i only
report the news.

"Thomas yeager speaking
at the banquet

of the national
plastics association."

Archie, Archie,
i was sitting there

with this
entire yeager file

opened on my desk
when the flash came.

And in about an hour,

the whole city desk is
gonna be wondering,

how come i was such a genius
to know to ask for that file.

And if i tell them,
some benevolent soul

is gonna wanna
tell the cops.

Yes, yes...

you want a milkshake?

Can i have a
milkshake, please?

Strawberry!

Why did it take so long for
them to discover the body?

Nobody was working.

There was something wrong
with the equipment.

Would you tell me what's
going on here, please?

Look, i know
absolutely nothing about...

no, i know nothing, absolutely
nothing about thomas yeager

except what i have
read in your file.

That's fine,
that's foronthe record.

What about between us?

Come off it, i'm offering you
a deal here.

If you forget my curiosity
about thomas yeager,

i will put you on
my christmas card list.

Christmas?

Cohen, spelled c-o-h-e-n.

I wanted to go investigate
on 82nd street,

but intelligence,
guided by experience,

told me Wolfe needed to be
informed in person,

or he would
refuse to play.

The, uh, quarterly tax payments
will be due in 37 days.

Must you harp on
the obvious?

I would like permission
to dig up a client.

By what modus,
a sandwich board?

Heh-heh, that's funny,
you're very funny.

No no, i have a target.

Well, a possible
target anyway.

This afternoon, a man named
thomas yeager came by

and hired me to follow him
to a specific address

and to see if
i could spot a tail.

Ah, so you have a client?

No.

No?

Thomas yeager is dead.

His body was found
very near

that specific address
at seven p.m.

Then it's over?

Uh, no.

No.

No, because the client
is not dead.

Archie.

I suppose it would be
more accurate to say

we neverhad
a client because...

the man who came to see me
was not thomas yeager.

You see, this is thomas yeager
giving a speech.

Beyond all doubt?

Yes, sir.

And his body was found
near the address

named by the
impostor yeager?

Yeah, and the block
there on 82nd street

is no place for some
corporate big shot.

Then you will spend the
evening at the typewriter.

Record your conversation
with the impostor, verbatim.

Well, you're the boss.

So the body
lay there all day?

Yes, very, very well hidden,
i might add.

If he was killed elsewhere
and brought to 82nd street

to impress or implicate
someone at that address,

the body would not
have been hidden.

It would have been
displayed.

So, can we assume
yeager was killed inside

and the body hidden
in the closest spot?

It doesn't account for
the tarp over him,

15682nd street
was a sl

peculiar for a slum:
Anabloydoor lock,

for which you have to be
willing to shell out 61.50.

You want something?

Yes, i'm here to see
the superin... tendent.

Did i just stammer
when i said that?

Are you a policeman?

No, a newspaperman.

I know i'm supposed to say
something right now,

but the only thing
i can think of is, uh...

will you marry me?

Papa!

A newspaperman!

Maria.

Name's Goodwin,
i'm with thegazette.

I want to rent a room
for $100 a week.

No rooms.

Okay, $200... i wanna get
pictures of people

coming to see
the scene of a murder.

I said, no rooms.

300.
No.

All right, 500.
You're loco.

I'm loco?

You're snitting your nose
at $500 a week.

What's your name?

Cesar Perez.

I am a citizen of the
United States of America.

Yes?
Well, so am I.

Only i'm not with
thegazette.

I, uh, i work
for Nero Wolfe.

And fer
not to tell the police

that we know yeager was
killed here on sunday.

Get out, get out!
Get out of this house!

Did you kill yeager?

I got a knife.

I got this.

Qui,
Cesar. I got this. S a

el sbe.

Pare con esso, va pensar
que son secretos.

Habla ingles.

My husband did not
kill mr. House.

Mr. Yeager,
we call him mr. House

because he owns
the building.

How do you know
he was killed here?

Well, that might take awhile.

Do you have a room inside
with some chairs?

No... we sit down
with friends.

I can stand on my
feet if you can.

Now, who was mr. House
coming to see on sunday?

(mrs. Perez)
I don't know.

Why don't you
try that again.

Have you ever
been up there?

Look, i'm asking
the questions here.

He came around 7:00.

He asked my husband to bring
him roast pheasant and oysters

from the usual place.

If someone come later,
we don't hear.

We weren't
supposed to hear.

Hmm.

Have you ever been
up to the room?

We clean every day.

Ah, so you got keys.

Maria, vete tu cuarto.

Pero, mama...
anda, andate de aqui.

Go.

Well, well, well.

(clears throat)

Have you cleaned
here since sunday?

Si, yesterday morning.

Why'd you kill him?
Because of maria?

Me? No.

All right, look, you got rid
of the fingerprints here,

i understand that,

but there's prints
all over that tarp.

And if one of them matches
yours, you're done.

Felita.

Esta bien.

You are a private detective,
so we pay you, $100.

No, not if you
killed yeager.

I told him he must
put on gloves,

but he didn't.

My husband
come running to me,

what could we do?

If we call a policeman,
we know what would happen.

And i couldn't sleep
with that thing up there.

(elevator running)

Someone's coming up!

All right, don't think,
don't lie...

why would you cover him
in a tarp?

He was dead.

A man dead,
you cover him.

Ah, well, you should
have worn gloves.

Now, stand back.

(gasps)

Oh, ha-ha, thank god!

It's mrs. Perez,
isn't it?

We don't know you.

(Archie)
I do!

It's meg duncan,

the lovely star of
"back door garden".

Who are you?

Oh, oh, ohhh!

I saw your show last week
from the eighth row.

You were wonderful.

Do you really
think so?

Now, i'm not a cop,
i work for Nero Wolfe.

Oh, you're...

you're Nero Wolfe's
Archie Goodwin.

Yes.

Ahh... i just came to get
something that belongs to me.

Something with my
initials on it, okay?

It's a, uh,
a cigarette case.

Whenid you
leave it here?

I didn't say i had.

How did it get here?

Does that matter,
mr. Goodwin?

Why did you
kill yeager?

You brute!

Ohh, you are a man,
aren't you?

Naw, i'm just
a working detective.

Did you kill yeager?

Of course not.

I know i can't
bribe you, mr. Goodwin,

but, look,

just get me
my cigarette case

and give it to me
whenever you want,

and i'll pay whatever
you say... $1,000?

Well, well,
my stock is going up.

You know, just
a little while ago,

mrs. Perez dangled
a hundred in front of me,

and now you're
offering me a grand.

Yes.

Well...
(ticks tongue)

However...

too many clients can be
worse than too few.

Now, if i happen to find
your cigarette case,

you can come and retrieve it
at Nero Wolfe's office

at say, 2:30?

You don't have
a matinee today.

But, why can't you...

and, uh, give
me your key.

My key?

Give me your key.

My key.

The key,
that got you in here.

My key.

Right.

Here is my key.

Thank you for coming.

Run along.

Yes! Yes.

But why can't you...
ah!

Please, i'll try to find
your little case.

Until 2:30, mr. Goodwin.

Now, when she saw you,
she said,

"thank god, mrs. Perez."

I'm... she must have
seen me when she come in.

I don't know her.

We were paid
not to know her.

At it. U're

at it. The only reason i believe
is the expression

on your husband's face when
he told me about the tarp.

Now, i am gonna send
a man to stay here.

You are to supply him
with food,

which i will pay for.

I expect to see you at
Nero Wolfe's office

today at 3:00,
do you got that?

All right,
i need you to leave

so i can have a look around.

(mrs. Perez)
You take things?

If i take something that
you think i shouldn't,

op.

(Archie)
I couldn't find saul, so i sent for Fred

and told him to pack
a bag for a week.

Then i got to work
investigating.

Your new home,
i hope you enjoy it.

I'll make do.

Pah!
I won't see them.

(Archie)
Well, naturally, you don't like it.

I mean, there
may be 20 women

with a key to that room.

Now, i realize you won't
want to be involved

with that kind
of setup.

Nonsense.

Nonsense.

Yes, modern satyr is part man,
part pig, part jackass.

He hasn't even
the charm of the roguish.

He doesn't lean gracefully
against a tree

with a flute in his hands.

The preposterous bower of
carnality you have described

is a sorry makeshift.

But at least
mr. Yeager tried.

A pig and a jackass,
yes, yes.

But the flute strain
was in him.

As it once was in me, hmm.

No doubt he
deserved to die, but,

i would welcome
a sufficient inducement

to expose his killer.

You would?

Certainly.

Ohh.

But your objective was to
find an acceptable client.

I concede your craft,
your finesse,

i even felicitate you,

but where are we
to send a bill?

Well, we know about
the preposterous bower.

And are we
blackmailers?

All right, all right.

What about the man who
came, posed as yeager?

Yes.

Manifestly, he has an educated
fondness for words.

"Elsethere would be
no use in coming."

Extraordinary, "else"
instead of "or".

Yes, it was the first
thing i noticed.

Then, merely talking
along, he said,

"other sins only speak,
murder shrieks out."

John webster,
"the duchess of malfl".

And "measure your mind's height
by the shadow it casts."

Robert browning,
i had to look that up.

Browning repels me.

Oh, me too.

Was he trying
to impress you?

Impress me?
No.

Just so, he, he had them
on the tip of his tongue.

A what?

He teaches literature.

Oh... uh, well,
that's a relief.

If he knew yeager was dead,
perhaps because he killed him,

why did he come here
with that tarradiddle?

Well, if he killed yeager
and then he came here,

then he's cracked.

But i saw him,
you know,

and he wasn't,
he wasn't cracked.

Then he did not know.

(doorbell rings)
Then he did not know.

I would like to
speak with him.

, i would too,
i would like to speak with him.

And that's why i, uh,
i put Fred there.

Phooey!

You got Fred there
because i cannot now

merely say that
the incident is closed.

Yes, Fritz.

A duncan, sir.

Well, did he find it?

Yes, he did.

And you may have it back
for $50,000.

50,000?

Oh, but you don't
mean that, you can't.

Do not smoke a cigarette
in my office.

If you wish to smoke,
go out on the stoop.

Put it out!

All right,
i'll put it out.

Are you familiar
with the statutes

regarding the suppression
of evidence?

My cigarette case
isn't evidence.

I didn't say it was.

I wasn't in that room
on sunday night.

For us to return
a cigarette case

that might
convict a murderer

is far too great
a risk for $1,000.

You may have it for $50,000
with a certified check.

Well, why not a million?

That would depend on how
you answer my questions.

You haven't
asked me any.

When was the last time
you were in that room?

I didn't say
i was in that room.

That's egregious,
you had keys.

Oh, my god.

Mr. Wolfe, this could
ruin my career.

Must you drag me into it?

I did not drag you into that
room this morning, madam.

Oh, god.

Mr. Wolfe has asked you
not to smoke.

When you did visit it...
i mean the room...

were there others?

No.

But you knew
there were others.

I knew there were others.

He wanted you to know.

He derived... pleasure,

not only from his
present companion,

but from her awareness
of her colleagues...

many colleagues.

Surely, he was not
silent about them,

surely,
he spoke of them...

in comparison...
praise or derogation?

Madam, if you wish to
have this episode

pass into history
as quickly as possible,

tell me about the others.

Are you going to keep
my cigarette case?

For the present, yes.

Then you have me
at your mercy.

I wish i'd clawed
your eyes out.

Can i get your autograph?

(elevator running)

(straining)

(shrieking)

Put me dt me down!

(speaking spanish)

(yelling in spanish)

I won't insist you
fill me in verbatim.

She killed him.

Of course, after all,
he was paying them

$300 a month to keep
his tenement.

She discovered that yeager
had debauched her daughter,

and she killed him.

She said that?
Certainly not.

She resented
the implication with fury.

Yes, yes,
well, so do i.

Maria's not debauched.

Call Fred in.

If and when she orgies
with a satyr,

he will lean
gracefully against a tree

while playing the flute.

Orgy is not a verb.

It is now.

(phone ringing)

Nero Wolfe's office...

Archie, i got one.

It's Fred,
he's caught a fish.

Instructions?

What good would it do
to give you instructions?

Fred.
Yes, sir.

She ain't hurt any.

I wish she was,
look what she did to me.

Wow.

Did you tell her
who you are?

No, i wouldn't
do her the favor.

That's her bag
over there.

Who are you?

I will, uh, unwrap you
in a minute, uh, miss...

julia mcgee.

Yeah, uh, Nero Wolfe

wants to talk to anybody
who has a key to this room.

Let me up!

The police, of course,
would be interested, too.

Well, why don't you
think it over there

while we unwrap you...
Fred?

Oof!

I... am mr. Yeager's
private secretary.

I came here to get
the dictation book

oh, there's no
dictation book here.

Maybe you left it
somewhere else.

So, this is
yeager's room.

Well, now that
i know that...

no, Fred, you
don't know that.

The less you know
the better.

Now, i lied to her,
and she fell for it.

I am not answering
any of your questions.

Where is there
a phone?

Follow me.

Or i will follow you.

There was a man there,
and they attacked me,

and they've taken me
to Nero Wolfe's.

Yes, of course.

Mr. Aiken will be here
in 20 minutes.

And who is mr. Aiken?
Aiken?

Benedict aiken?

He's the president
of continental plastics.

(whistles)

When did you leave

your dictation
book there?

I should let you know
that i'm not going to answer

any questions until
mr. Aiken gets here.

Well, that won't do.

I can't prevent him
from coming,

but he'll enter when
it's convenient for me.

Fine.

I went to that room this
evening because mr. Aiken

wanted me to see if
there was anything there

to con with it.

And he provided you
with keys?

No, mr. Yeager did.

I had been there on a few
occasions to take dictation.

And do you think it
a suitablemilieu

for business dictation?

No, i thought it was very
vulgar for him to ask me there.

But he was my boss, and it
wasn't my place to think.

Finally, i decided that
my loyalty

shouldn't be to mr. Yeager,
but to the corporation.

It paid my salary,
after all.

So, a month ago,
i told mr. Aiken.

And that's all i'm saying
until he gets here.

Sir...

when miss mcgee told me
abo

i asked her to mention it
to no one,

but not to refuse
to go back there again.

I wanted time to consider
how to deal with this.

Did you mention it
to yeager?

No, i was about
to take it up

with my board
of directors

when we received
news of his death.

Naturally,
that was unpleasant,

well, very unpleasanurdered,

but it would be disastrous
for continental plastics

if the existence
of that room became known.

You won't deny that's
a legitimate concern.

Legitimate and desperate.

You cannot
possibly hope

that his connection
will never be divulged.

I don't hope... i act.

And i will pay you to tell me
how you learned of the room.

Oh, i don't sell information,
sir, i sell services.

I'm buying them.
I'm hiring you.

To do what?

Whatever is necessary

to protect the reputation
of my corporation.

I can't undertake
not to disclose

mr. Yeager's connection.

Events might
take charge.

For me to take
charge of events.

How?

By guiding them.

The most feasible plan,
seems to me,

is to provide the police
with a solution to the murder

which does not
involve that room.

And if that proves
to be impossible?

It will have been
a waste of your money.

My self-esteem is not up to
tackling the impossible, sir.

All right, then.

Archie, the typewriter,
two carbons.

On behalf of the corporation,
i hereby hire Nero Wolfe

to perform the task
of protecting...

"...and Nero Wolfe
will disclose no facts

"unless he is compelled
to do so

"by his legal obligation

as a citizen
and a licensed detective."

Your fee isn't specified.

It will depend on
what i do.

And who decides
if you have

faithfully observed
that provision?

Reason and good faith,
jointlapplied.

How did you discover
that room?

I don't start a difficult
job by babbling.

Don't be absurd,
you're working for me.

Confound it, sir!

Do you want me to
do this job or no?

It's not what i want,
it's what i am stuck with.

You are my handle.

Miss mcgee.

(Archie)
One thing we had learned:

(Archie)
One thing we had learned: Mcg ee was a liar.

No man had his secretary come
to that room for dictation...

not even if she was a lump...

which julia mcgee
definitely was not.

(straining)

I was a witling
to take this job.

All i can do is flounder
around in the slush.

Yeah...

yesterday we had
too many clients...

today, we have only one,
but that's still too many

because we cannot
possibly fill his order.

Nothing in that room should
connect it to yeager, nothing.

It's hopeless.

He owned it, it will be
an item in his estate.

The house, not the room.

We could try a coup.

We could offer mr.
And mrs. Perez $20,000

to move to some
far corner of the earth,

provided they sign
a confession,

then deliverolice
once they are safely away.

We could do that.

Ah, wonderful.

Only has
one flaw...

they didn't kill him.

That's your opinion.

My opinion...

it's an opinion that has
damn good legs under it.

How about some, you know,

good old-fashioned
detective work here.

Means, motive,
opportunity.

Oh, sure, you flee,

because you know
reason can't crack this.

I mean,
what this case needs

is a good old-fashioned dose
of genius, but apparently

you haven't turned
the switch on.

You know... or luck,
we could use some luck,

but i don't know
where you keep it hidden.

You know, just in case.

Phooey!

It's too much.

As opposed torouge.

So which
are you using?

I'm going to use
therougefor color.

Yes, well, if you
need that book,

you're not
cooking for me.

Pardon?

$14,682,235 and 50...
what is this?

That is the cash reserves
of continental plastics.

After i finished
sweeping the sidewalk,

i had nothing else
left to do.

You know i like to
keep busy, so...

yes.

(doorbell rings)

Well...

maybe you have
some luck after all.

Nero Wolfe?

Well, it's his house.

I want to see him.

Uh, yes, but normally...

i'm ellen yeager,
mrs. Thomas g. Yeager.

How much do you want
as a retainer?

Uh, ladies and gentlemen,
client number four.

I want you to find out
who killed my husband

and exactly what happened.

And then, i will decide
what to do about it.

Madam, in the interest
of your protection, l...

don't bother,
i know all about it.

He was a sick man.

Completely oversexed.

I've kept still about it
for years, but not anymore.

Shut up!

I'm blunt because i can't
let you rattle off

confidential information

under the illusion
that you're hiring me.

You can't.

I've already been
engaged to investigate

the murder
of your husband.

You are not.

Indeed, i am.

No, you're engaged

to keep it from
being investigated.

The board doesn't care about
the murderer being caught.

All they care about
is the corporation.

I have a block of stock now,
i don't care.

They can't keep me from
telling the district attorney

about that room
if i decide to.

What room?

You know perfectly
well what room.

Julia mcgee went there
last night,

ught her here.
Julia mcgee went there last night, and you bro

benedict aiken told a board
member, and he told me.

You're Archie Goodwin?
I want to see that room.

Now, where is it?

How much do you want
for your retainer?

Archie...
the, uh, typewriter.

Two carbons.

I, mrs. Thomas yeager,

hereby engage Nero Wolfe to
investigate the circumstances

of the death of my husband.

Ah-ah-ah!

Don't you think...
that this would be

a great place
for a p.t.a. Meeting?

What's your name, honey?

Oh, don't tell me
you're modest.

Do you want me
to leave?

Yes.
No.

Well, maybe i will.

And maybe i won't.

Comnna be?

Loosen up,
you'll live longer.

If, in trying to
find the murderer,

a conflict exists
between his contract

with continental plastics...

(ellen yeager)
"...it is understood

"that he will terminate
his engagement

"with continental plastics

"and will adhere to this
engagement with me.

"It is also understood that i,
mrs. Thomas yeager,

"will do nothing to interfere
with this investigation

without giving him
notice in advance"?

This isn't right.

I told you,
i want you to find out

who killed my husband,

and then, tell me andi
will decide what to do.

Nonsense, the people of
the state of new york

will decide what to do.

Well, i'm not
gonna sign it.

I promised my husband
i would

never sign anything
without showing him first.

What?

Perhaps you would
like me to sign it.

Well, it doesn't do any good
to sign the thing.

What counts is what
you do, not what you sign.

Now, how much do you want
for a retainer?

I do not ask
for a retainer.

Nor do i ask for a fee,

if that
you killed your husband.

You won't!

There was a time when i...
felt like killing him.

But that was years ago,
when the children were young.

Now, how much
do you want?

One dollar.

Now...

i want to see that room!

No, not now.

But i want to see that room,
and i want to see it now.

You, you said that
you have known for years

that your husband
was oversexed.

You used the word "sick"
yourself, so presumably...

yes, yes... i asked my doctor
if there was something

that could be done,
but there was no use.

My husband
wouldn't do it.

(doorbell rings)

I have a friend whose
husband is an alcoholic...

it's the same thing.

You went to see
a therapist?

(Archie)
Inspector cramer of homicide west

has never been a client, and
his expression made it clear

he hadn't come to
ante a retainer.

Greetings, i'd open up,
but he has company.

Yeah, i know.

Does mrs. Thomas yeager
ring a bell?

She's been here for nearly
half an hour, open up.

Uh, make yourself at home,
i'll go check.

Yeah, the, uh...

the man, uh, the man
about the chair?

Uh... his man
brought the chair

about half an hour ago
and wants to discuss it.

The chair.

Yes.

Mrs. Yeager,
inspector cramer

from the new york city
police department

is at the door,
he knows you're here.

He does not!
How could he?

Why do i bother
talking in code

when you're gonna just
tell her who it is?

Well, presumably, you might
be under surveillance.

(shrieks)
How dare they!

Me! Ahh!

Am i being
followed around?

Good day, ms. Yeager.

Am i being
followed around?

Well, when there's a
murderer on the loose,

we don't like
to take any chances.

You didn't
protect my husband,

you didn't even
find his body.

Well, there are things
to protect you from

beside personal violence.

Heh-heh, like, uh...
making mistakes.

If you said anything to Wolfe
about your husband's death...

i hired him to find out
who killed my husband!

If i had anything to tell
anybody, i'll tell him, not you.

Now get out of my way.

I want to know what
you told Wolfe!

Ask him.

Goodwin!

When are you gonna take me
to see that room?

As soon as i can.

Hurry up!

Why did you have
Goodwin ask lon cohen

for the dope on mrs. Yeager

two hours before
yeager's body was found?

Hmm, that is specific.

Can you be specific?

I don't know
that that's such

a good idea, mr. Gerson.

You might get into
some trouble.

Certainly.

I'll call back.

How did you know
he was dead?

I didn't know he was dead.

Someone, call him "x",
said something in this room

that made mr. Goodwin ask
mr. Cohen for information.

But first, nothing
that "x" said

indicated that he knew
yeager was dead,

and second, nothing
"x" said was true.

Is "x" mrs. Yeager?

No, i wouldn't name
him if i could...

but i can't.

Mm-hmm, okay, all right.

Okay.

But you're taking
a big risk, Wolfe.

Puedemos quedarnos.

Vendran por nosotros
y te prendran preso.

Uerte
vendran por nosotros cambio. Y te prendran preso. S

que iriamos sinte, Cesar?

There is a woman
upstairs.

Yeah, that's
why i'm here.

Wait.
No!

Si, tenemos a decirle.
We must tell him.

Maria agrees
with me.

Do you want me
to break the tie?

If you are not an honest man,
may the good god help us.

Da me lo.

"John morton seymour,
attorney at law."

He gave it to us.

He say mr. Yeager tell him
to give it to us

48 hours after he died.

Hmm... a deed.

He gave you the house,
wonderful.

How long have you
known about this?

We didn't know.

Go away
tonight, but now we fight. To

this mr. Seymour,
he say that mr. Yeager

make it so that nobody
ever know he own this house.

And we must
no say he own it.

So i say we stay.

Yeager told you,
didn't he?

That was his mistake.

You knew the house would
be yours when he died.

If you listen,
do you call us liars?

You got a bible?

Por supuesto.
Of course.

All right, i'm gonna
choose to believe you.

But you better not
skip town,

that's the worst
thing you can do.

(gasps)

You.

Why did you do that?
This is my room.

Yeah, well,
i'm a detective,

and as you know,
detectives have bad habits.

How many times have you
been in the room upstairs?

I am not allowed
up there.

Ah...

and why should i
tell you anyway?

So you can go and tell
my mother?

Excuse me,
i shut the door now.

(bang)

A nice talk with you
would've been more desirable.

So, what do you like to do
on your weekends?

I spend a lot of time
with my wife.

Am i intruding?

Oh, it's you.

Well, when Fred said that
Archie Goodwin was coming,

i nearly swooned.

I've seen you
at "the flamingo".

(Archie)
Any woman who could thaw Fred

on assignment was
worth a serious look.

Especially since
she was more comfortable here

than anyone else so far.

That's not very nice,
is it?

Yeah, well, see, i'm only
nice when i'm dancing.

"Mrs. Dinah hough,
64 eden street."

Why are you here,
uh, mrs. Hough?

My umbrella.

Right, well,
it's in the closet there.

You'll have to manage, though,
without it for a while.

How'd it get here?

I left it here.

You know what?
I need a refill.

I'll get it myself.

Fred?

Why don't you tell me
about thomas yeager?

Him about
why don't you tell me three weeks ago. Thomas yeager?

He said he knew a place
that was worth coming.

And i came... once.

I mean, he didn't actually
assault me, but, uh,

never say anything
bad about the dead.

I am not actually worried
about being suspected,

but, uh, i know how clever
they are at tracing things,

and well, if things
were to get out

my husband might
lose his job.

Ah, yes, he works for
continental plastics?

Oh, no, no, no,
for n.y.u.

He's a professor.

Well, an assistant
professor.

A professor, huh?

Mm-hmm.
Of what?

English lit.

Ahh... ah, yes.

"Measure your mind's height
by the shadow it casts."

(knock at door)

"Other sins only speak,
murder shrieks out."

How in the name of god...

there's nothing i'd enjoy more
than chatting with you,

but mr. Wolfe will be down
from the plant room soon.

I don't know what
you're talking about.

Who are you?

I am the ghost
of thomas g. Yeager.

Don't be a sap,
you can't get away with it.

We'll see about that.

How do you think
i got this address?

I just had a little talk
with your wife.

That's a lie.

Oh, yeah, dinah hough,
hazel eyes,

tilts her head a little
to the right when she...

where did you see her?

I'm not giving you
any more than that.

Ask mr. Wolfe, ome on.

Where is my wife?

(Wolfe)
Mr. Hough, would you like the police

to know your name
and address?

Until mr. Goodwin tells me
where he saw my wife,

i'm explaining nothing.

Very well... Archie?

Yes, your wife,
she came to

156 west 82nd street
this afternoon.

She had keys.

Your position is futile,
mr. Hough.

What did you hope
to accomplish

by sending mr. Goodwin
on a pointless errand?

You talked to her, Goodwin,
what did she tell you?

Yeah, i talked to her
and i gotta tell you,

as lies go,
it was not a very good one.

She said she had been
to that apartment

only once and
hadn't stayed long.

Why did you think
that was a lie?

No, no, i...

i didn't think it was a lie,
i knew it was a lie.

Mr. Hough, we have
humored you,

but our indulgence
is not boundless.

My wife...

my wife shouldn't
have married me.

She wanted things
i couldn't supply.

She wanted to do things
that i'm not inclined to.

So she did them
without me.

About a year ago,
she suddenly had a watch

that must have
cost $1,000.

Then she had a fur coat.

And then she started
coming home after dawn.

(dinah laughing)

I descended into snooping.

"Curiosity creeps into
the homes of the unfortunate

under the names
of duty or pity."

Pascal.

Nietzsche.

At least my wife
came home that evening.

I didn't ask her
where she'd been.

I hadn't asked her that
for a year.

But i found out
who he was.

I found a telephone number

scribbled on a scrap
of paper in her purse.

So, you came to see
mr. Goodwin.

Yes, i knew that when
mr. Yeager didn't turn up,

mr. Goodwin would
find out why.

He would describe me
to yeager,

and yeager would
tell my wife.

And she would know
that i know.

You see, that's
what was most important.

I couldn't tell her.

I wanted her to know
that i knew.

God she wasn't
i wanted her to know there on sunday. Hank

are you sure of that?

Certainly i'm sure,
mr. Wolfe.

We sleep in separate beds,

but when she turns over,
i hear her.

I seldom feel sorry for people
that Wolfe has in a corner.

They usually deserve it,
but this time, i was tempted.

Oh, it's cold today.

I heard this show is
supposed to be very good,

so, i am excited.

Oh, no...

i forgot my money.

Okay, you two
keep going

and i'll catch up
with you later, okay?

See you.

Archie.

We've received a letter
from farmer jenkins.

You remember him,
from putnam county.

He would like to know
how many starlings

we'll be requiring this year.

Please reply to him that
we will take the usual 40.

Wolfe was so desperate
to avoid work,

he surprised me,

but then he finally
caved in.

But then he finally
caved in. Know, your exclusion

is no longer valid...

they knew they would
get the house.

Nor is that pathetic
imbecile hough excluded.

He could have taken
the keys from his wife

and killed yeager and, uh,
took some action

that would make it seem
highly unlikely that he did.

Well, that only has three
holes as far as i can see.

Well, i see four.

None beyond
patching.

Problem is, we don't have
a single card to play,

you realize that?

Our big ace, that we know
abou worthless.

Longer we keep it
up our sleeve,

the more ticklish it becomes
when the police find...

good night to you, too!

(phone ringing)

Hello?

Si.

No.

No, no...

(sobbing)

I told you we sit down
with friends.

Are you a friend?

You can do nothing,
nobody can.

Not even god himself.

That's the trouble
with a time like this.

There's nooom for anything
except... she's dead.

But i have room,

i have room for wanting
to know who killed her.

I'll kill him.

Calmate.

Anything about
her going out that

might have had something
to do with yeager?

She knew nothing
about yeager.

She never spoke with him.

And she knew nothing about
the women who came here.

Well, i don't
believe that.

Now, she had
very good ears.

She heard me
enter this house.

She watched me from this room,
through this door.

She knew about
the others.

No! No!

But she did.

Maria wouldn't
do that!

Why wouldn't a beautiful,
intelligent girl

be interested in what was
happening in her house?

Just outside her house?

It would be absurd for her
not to be interested.

All right, all right,
listen.

Have the police
been here?

Si, in this room.

Did they, uh, did they
take anything?

No.

Look, i know this is
a very difficult time.

But we have to, uh, figure out
how this happened.

Now, why don't
you two go to bed,

or if you can't go to bed,
go to the kitchen.

And, if you will,
i'd like to stay here

and have a look around and
see if i can find something...

that might be helpful.

Vamos.
Vamos, querido.

(speaking spanish)

Que es esto?

All right, mrs. Perez,
(clears throat)

Do you have a dollar?

Why?

Because you are going
to hire Nero Wolfe

to investigate the death
of your daughter.

I am taking all of this
back to his office.

Now, if the police find it,

they'll know about yeager
and the room upstairs.

I'm not sure.

Well, i am sure.

And if you are not my client,
then i am concealing evidence.

You were right before.

Well, i haven't
earned any medals yet.

Okay, you are now a client.

Now, the police
will almost certainly

be by here to
ask questions.

Under no circumstances do you
mention yeager, all right?

The man upstairs you've
been making breakfast for?

Don't bother making
breakfast anymore,

'cause i'm gonna
send him home.

Now...

i'm gonna gather
this stuff up,

bring it over
to mr. Wolfe's office.

Uh, mrs. Perez, tell your
huand we're friends.

Si, gracias.

(Archie)
Ah, you know,

i've danced with that one
once or twice at the flamingo.

Once or twice.

Yes.

Why are there no sketches
of meg duncan?

Well, because
she doesn't need one.

Name and face
already attached.

"With all my love, meg."

So, when she saw a woman
she did not know,

maria made a sketch.

Yes, and put a date
on the sketch.

Julia mcgee was there
last sunday.

Yes, there she is.

So, this julia mcgee
either killed him,

or she found him dead.

Well, that would eliminate
the Perez family.

Hey, i'm not crowing.

I wish i'd been wrong, then
maria would still be alive.

That's mere conjecture.

No, no, no, no...

our theory is that whoever
killed yeager killed maria...

or we haven't got a theory.

She saw the killer,
made contact.

She wouldn't have
done it for the hell of it,

se would've wanted
to make a deal.

Okay, get Fred.

And miss mcgee.

How much do we owe Fred?

We are now out three "cs"
on the yeager investigation

and have a total of
$2 in retainers.

Fred received his instructions
without a blink.

So there

i would like to be present
when Wolfe tells him

to go to moscow and
tail nikita kruschev.

(doorbell rings)

Ah, miss mcgee.

You've brought your boss.

Right this way.

Why did you send
for miss mcgee?

I am your employer,
you should notify me.

Fred?
Yes, sir.

You wish to speak?

Yes, sir.

Last sunday,
when i was covering

the house at 82nd street,

she came after dark
and entered the building.

And why did you not
speak of this on tuesday?

Well...

when i ran into her
on tuesday,

it was a real
tangle and...

remembered that,
well, after

l-i didn't want to be
a witness in a murder case.

So you withheld
vital information

for 36 hours.

I'm sorry, sir,
i know i let you down.

Just go to the
front room and wait.

Im,
just go to the miss mcgee? Nd wait. D you kill h

(aiken)
Don't answer...

sir, i dare
contrive a solution

that will satisfy the
conditions of our contract

only by knowing
the truth.

Miss mcgee!

(aiken)
I am ordering you.

I didn't kill him.

I came in there
and he was dead.

He was dead!

And what did you do?

Nothing, i just
sat there and...

i don't know, after
a few minutes, i left.

Did you tell anyone,
anyone at all?

No.

Not mr. Aiken?
No.

You said your loyalty
should be to the corporation,

not mr. Yeager,
when you betrayed him.

I didn't betray...

betray: Verb,
second definition.

"To prove faithless
to one who trusts."

I am still
completely loyal...

t
i am still there that night, pletely loyal...

not to take dictation,

i assume that you had decided
to switch

back to mr. Yeager.

My loyalty has nothing
to do with it, mr. Wolfe.

Mr. Yeager asked me to take
dictation, and i did.

It's futile.

I'll learn nothing
from you.

Sir, i don't think
she killed him,

and i don't
think you do.

You're only making
things worse.

(clears throat)
Wolfe!

Oh, uh, sorry, now,
when he gets like this,

it's like we're not
even here, see.

He can hear me.

No, no,
he can't hear you,

he can't hear anything,
anyone, no.

Miss mcgee,
give me your keys.

What?
Your keys!

Do you call this
protecting the interests

of the corporation?

How the deuce did you get
to be the president?

You spout,
and you sputter,

and you say i have
made it worse.

If i hadn't resorted
to humbug,

we would not now know
that mr. Yeager

was in that room
when he was killed.

And i might have
blundered fatally.

Humbug?
What, what...

mr. Durkin was never
at the house on sunday.

Oh!
You tricky bastard.

I am now gravely
compromised.

If i had my share
of prudence

i would be on the telephone
with inspector cramer.

Where were you last night
from 9:00 to midnight?

That's none of
your damn business.

Very well.
Miss mcgee?

No, don't answer him,
he's a liar and a blackmailer.

No, i want to...

i was having dinner
with friends,

and i got home
after midnight.

What exactly do you
want, mr. Wolfe?

Es it matter?
What exactly do you want, mr. Wolfe? What do

this is ridiculous!

Nice way to treat
our one paying client.

You realize that we've...

never been so close to
catastrophe and ignominy.

Yes, sir.

Now, it is imperative
that we find the murderer

before mr. Cramer
finds that room.

Hmm... errands?

Fred.

You will have
lunch with us.

Get saul and orrie,

have them here
by this afternoon.

And, uh,
what about me?

Presumably that woman,
meg duncan,

was at the theater
last evening.

Well, presumably
i can find out.

The play ends at eleven.

If she made a plan with
maria Perez for 11:30,

she wouldn't have to
rush to make it.

Instructions after you
get saul and orrie.

(Wolfe)
You've already made

your appointments,
haven't you?

(Archie)
Yes, but there's time.

My date with the actress is
not for any particular minute.

Well, you, you'd
better get going.

No, i want to stick around
and provide the details.

Uh, no, we won't be
needing you.

Well...

i could make some, uh,

pointed remarks right now,
but, uh...

he occasionally shows
remarkably good judgment.

She's got a headache,
she can't see you.

I made an appointment.

Is that Archie
Goodwin, matilda?

He says he is.

Send him in.

Well, you heard her,
matilda,

.
Send him in

well.

I haven't got
a headache.

Sit here.

So...

where were you
yesterday evening

between nine
and midnight?

I wish i'd clawed
your eyes out.

You've already
used that line.

Did you ever see or speak
to a maria Perez?

I don't know who that is.

She was murdered
last night.

Now, she had a secret stash
that she kept in her chest.

In it were three
photographs of you.

One of them was signed.

O
onsome money. As signed.

Nine $5 bills.

Oh my god, the money.

Yes, "oh my god,
the money."

Do bills show
fingerprints?

Certainly.

Now, let's get to
why and when

you gave her the money.

Oh, uh,
i don't remember.

Is that really
important?

Because you know what i'd
like to be talking about?

Actually, what i'd rather be
doing right now is, uh...

yes...
(clears throat)

The time, the place,
the girl...

it's all a, uh...
splendid combination,

but now is not
the time and, uh,

besides, i'm not sure
your motives are pure.

You have your hand on me.

Ah, yes, um...

it's a conditioned reflex.

It's a wonder that
i didn't use both hands.

Now, about the money.

Ah, yes...
the money.

About a year ago, she sent
a note to my dressing room.

She signed it
with her address.

Thataddress.

I asked her backstage.

At first she wanted theater
tickets for her and her friends,

and then she decided
she wanted hush money.

Well, that's what
she called it.

Hush money?

$5 a month.

Have you seen her?

Aren't you

surprised?
No, nothing surprises me.

She was so proud.

She was so beautiful,
and, my god, so proud.

She told me about watching.

When she heard
the street door open,

she'd turn out her light
an the door a crack.

I knew she was doing it
when i went there.

It gave me
a feeling...

i don't know why.

It made it more exciting
that she was looking.

Come a little closer.

Yes.

Do you like to watch?

I like to be watched.

Yeah...
but watch out.

Me, i gotta go
finish my chores.

Don't worry about
your money.

Hush money is
recoverable.

(Archie)
I had no appointment

with mr. Or mrs.
Austin hough,

because i preferred to have
one of them alone.

But it didn't
work out that way.

Did you find your
wife yesterday?

What do you want?

Nothing startling.

You probably know
about the murder

of a girl named
maria Perez?

No, i haven't
been out today.

Who was maria Perez?

Mr. Wolfe is wondering

how you spent your evening,
and your wife's.

Balls.

Balls... is that
by browning?

It sounds more elizabethan,

although i'm not up
on elizabethans.

You want to know how
my wife spent the evening.

Why don't you ask her?

Dinah...

the girl murdered
last night,

what was her name?

Maria Perez.

Mr. Goodwin wants to know
where you were last night.

I think you'd
better tell him.

He saw you at
that place yesterday,

and he might as well
talk to you now.

Austin, no.

I told you yesterday

that i wanted her
to know that i knew,

because i couldn't
tell her.

I was afraid of
what might happen.

Well, now it.

Tell him where
you were last night.

Here.

I was here, austin.

And was i with you?

Yes.

Yes, austin.

You've seen her,
now you can go.

Oh, no.

She's your wife, not mine.

But i would like to know if
a doctor has seen her yet.

No.

No?

Do you want me to send for
a doctor, mrs. Hough?

No.

I'm talking to her!

No.

Send her a bottle
of champagne.

I was more interested
in my next errand,

which was finding out
how mrs. Yeager

spent the previous evening.

Inheriting widows
of murdered men

always deserved attention.

(whistles)

Are we going
somewhere?

Yes, you're gonna take me
to see that room now,

the car is waiting.

No, no, not now.

No, it's not
a good time.

You said you would take me
as soon as you got the chance.

I tried to call you
last night,

you weren't home.

I certainly was...

my son was here for dinner
with his wife.

Now, come on.

Not now, not today.

I thought so.

There is no such room.

Yes, there's a room.

I've seen the room
with my own eyes.

I don't believe you.

Benedict aiken invented it,
or Nero Wolfe or you did.

You've been making
a fool of me.

I'm gonna call
the district attorney.

Oh, oh, oh, mrs. Yeager,
just, please, if you will.

Now, you are looking
into my eyes.

We are looking
at each other.

Am i a liar?

Yes.

Okay, you're gonna
have to see the room.

Okay, you're gonna
have to see the room. Uffeur.

A taxl... we gotta cover
our tracks.

I'm taking
the chauffeur.

You can't take
a chauffeur.

We're taking a taxi.

A dirty taxi?

We'll get a clean one.

Why do you think the person

that killed my husband
killed that girl?

Uh, it's complicated,
mrs. Yeager,

but it's not a guess.

Where's maria's mother?

I'm gonna
speak to her.

Well, you better not,
mrs. Yeager,

it's been
a tough time for her.

She's taking this
pretty hard.

I know how to
talk to a mother.

(purley stebbins)
Yeah, sorry to bother you

again, mrs. Perez.

We just got a few questions
i need to ask.

Hope you don't mind,
it won't take but two...

Goodwin, you?
And mrs. Yeager, you?

Yeah, uh,
Goodwin, you? Wolfe thought there might beeah,

a connection between
the two murders, you know?

So, uh, you know,
maria might have seen

whoever dumped the body
down into the hole, there.

So, uh, but, you know,
it's incred...

if you and Wolfe
are starting to think alike,

that would be truly amazing,
you could come work for us.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

since when do you
start yapping to me

about anything but
the weather, Goodwin, huh?

Please, sergeant.

I want to thank you,
mrs. Perez.

We've both lost someone
very dear to us.

It's very kind of you
to let us come today,

on a day like this.

I'll phone you
later.

I told you the truth.

If my daughter saw
anything on sunday,

she would have told me,
and she didn't.

Uh-huh.

Did she go anywhere
on sunday evening?

No, we always knew
where she was.

Yeah, yeah.

Goodwin,
we're going downtown.

Uhh, why?
Am i under arrest?

Not yet.

Nice to have a choice.

Mrs. Yeager,
uh, see you.

I'll see you later.

And, uh, mrs. Perez.

Come on.

It suited me fine to get
stebbins out of that house.

I yawned as i got
into the p.d. Car.

I'd needed a good yawn
all day

but had been too busy
to have one.

How long did they
keep you?

I came home a little
after one.

It must have been difficult.

It was, i had to keep a wall
between two sets of facts:

The ones they know

and the ones we hope to god
they'll never know.

Satisfactory.

Mrs. Yeager phoned
and told me

of your impromptu explanation
to mr. Stebbins.

She was impressed.
Satisfactory.

Well, well.

Two "satisfactories"
in one speech?

That's a record.

So, what's on the program?

Saul found what
he was sent to find.

And mr. Aiken and miss mcgee
will be here at 12:15.

This is the evidence
which supports

the conjecture
that whoever killed

mr. Yeager also killed
maria Perez.

My conjecture is that
miss Perez saw someone

whose name she knew

arrive shortly after mr. Yeager
did on sunday evening,

and she undertook an
ambitious venture in extortion.

There's a sketch
here of you, julia.

Yes, and the fact that
it is in this folder

makes it highl
miss mcgee is the killer

because miss Perez sketched
only those she did not know.

Miss Perez kept pictures
of those she

and sketches of those
she did not.

Are you familiar
with this photograph?

Don't be
preposterous!

Preposterous?
Your face is here.

I understand from
mrs. Yeager

that ever since mr. Yeager
became vice president,

he has been an imminent
threat to your leadership.

She would.

I have talked
to others.

I don't have to
listen to this.

I advise you to.

Clearly, julia might have
told you of her appointment,

so you knew yeager
would be there waiting.

The problem
was the keys.

Did he ever ask you to

loan him yours,
miss mcgee?

No.

I don't have to, no!

This is mr. Arthur wenger.

Mr. Wenger,
do you recognize

this man who
stands before you?

Of course.
It's mr. Aiken.

He was in my shop
one day last week

to get dupes made for
a set of abloy keys.

How sure are you?

I couldn't be more sure.

You see, people are
a lot like keys,

they look alike,
but they're different.

I, i don't know faces
as well as i know keys,

but i look at keys,
and i look at faces.

An excellent habit,
thank you, sir.

I got the receipt.

The mote in my eye, sir,
was your avowed concern

for the reputation
of your corporation.

It could hardly be reconciled
with leaving the body

of its vice president
to be found

on the floor in that room.

But envy and despair
were at your innards,

and your need to disgrace him
dominated you utterly.

I don't have to listen
to this, i won't!

Will you risk prison for
this man, miss mcgee?

Hold your tongue...

he's tricked you
once before

and he'll do it again.

You're a fool.
A bumbling, old fool.

If you had any brains
at all, you'd...

yes, i lent him my keys,

and i told him i would
be there sunday night,

so he knew mr. Yeager
would be there.

I had promised to
keepnformed.

Informed!

God, i was the fool.

"Fool" doesn't
do you justice, madam.

Harpy or lamia, perhaps.

Phooey!
Go!

My eyes are inured to ugliness,
but you offend me.

Go!

So much for
what is done.

Now what to do.

You are doomed, sir.

However,
i would like to

satisfy the terms
of my engagement

and protect the reputation
of your corporation.

I doubt much if you care
at this point,

but to that end, i have
prepared this document

which i suggest
that you copy

in your own handwriting
and sign.

Even if you were not convicted,
the trial, the exposure...

shut up!

"I, benedict aiken,
killed thomas yeager

"because he threatened my
control of the corporation

had labored years
"because he threatened my contto build..." yes! Ation

"i shot him in the head

"and transported his body
to a construction site

"on 82nd street

"and covered it with a tarp
to postpone its discovery.

"I feel he deserved to die,

and i express no remorse
for my deed."

"I feel he deserved to die,

"and i express no remorse
for my deed...

benedict aiken."

When was the body found,
Archie?

Thursday afternoon
by the maid.

He mailed that letter,
then he went home,

then he shot himself.

Gentlemen of the board
of continental plastics,

if this affair had been
left to the police

there would have been
a trial.

The existence of that room

would have been
bruted about in the press,

and mr. Aiken
would have been,

instead of the subject
of a brief sensation,

the center of
a prolonged hullabaloo.

Do you question
my assessment

of my services
at $50,000?

I don't.

No, we don't
question that.

We can't.

Would a certified
check be adequate?

I'd prefer cash.

You shall
have it, then.

I owe you a fee, too.

Oh, i have your dollar,
i'll keep that.

You may have copies of
mr. Aiken's statement.

They're cheap
at that price.

I... must excuse myself.

I have a prior
engagement.

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