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Oh God no

no

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Okay girls back to work there's nothing

more to

see back up please we don't want anybody

getting

hurt Mike oh hi you duke I'm sorry I'm

late think he had some errands to do I

couldn't find a cab Mike we got about

100,000 in Damages almost an entire

floor of the old Wing fortunately a fire

door kept the Flames from spreading but

the third patient diing about 20 minutes

ago who was handling it for the arson

- Squad Ed paluchi oh yeah good good Which - Way Straight

Ahead hello Mike oh hi an what have we

got oh we SP the fire to a linen closet

in the patient room I can't let you in

yet boys are still sifting through

watching Mike burn

planks what a mess any signs of us in it

no I'd give odds it was spontaneous

combustion can't beat the heat

especially in a closet filled with old

files and Hospital record I thought you

said it was a linen closet well I guess

they've been having a space problem just

open the new Wing there were four beds

crammed into this bedroom how'd the fire

marshal feel about that well it's listed

as a four bed Ward it's acceptable has

fire exits alarms hoses no problem

except space anded I'd like to talk to

the nurse who was on duty last night

Miss Brandon she's on the third floor

she's pretty badly

burned oh Mr Bates can you spare a

minute not even a half I've got 12 more

patients to move around and uh the day

isn't getting any younger excuse me Mr

Bas we have to

talk

later

should I know him this is a private

Hospital Mike he owns the place Lock

Stock and fire

Insurance Ed what time the alarm go off

didn't station 34 got a phone call at U

257 doesn't this floor have a fire alarm

20 ft away from me

Mike why wouldn't the nurse call the

nurse didn't call someone else reported

the fire I don't have any room for any

more patients why don't you try the

General Hospital

hospital now Mr Long

Street you've got two

hats oh thank you Mr Bates sir I tell

you I'm curious about the contents of

- that linen closet in room - 17 is it customary to store medical

Files in a place where patients might

get their hands on them well in the

first place those files are

outdated second place when you're short

of space you uh you make do that new

Wing was barely open for business

business and in the third place I think

I know just where you're

going where's

that you make my own closet a fire

hazard and maybe your company won't have

to pay the

insurance was it a fire

hazard if there was any negligence

involved it wasn't my fault

my staff were well aware of fire hazards

the hearing will verify that but three

people

died we'll have to talk to uh Miss

Brandon about that are you saying she

was negligent I'm saying that it

certainly looks that

way

yes all

right got two minutes left try to get

him

all right uh just one more question Mr

Bates there were four beds in room 17

three patients died what happened to the

fourth

patient oh that was Mr zadic he wasn't

in the room at the time of the

fire at 3 in the

morning

well got to get back to

work but you don't say Andy you like or

or you don't like I

like take care

now can I help you yes thank you I'm

looking for Mr zic yes that's me oh Mr

zic uh

my name's Long Street I wonder if I

could if I could ask you some questions

questions ask about the fire I'm in

Insurance

Investigator suddenly I become a popular

man Arnold I'll uh see you tomorrow okay

Andy you're a good

boy that's my friend Andrew

Woodman his uncle died in that fire

terrible thing as much you survive yes

this my violin is what saved my

life I couldn't sleep with the heat so I

took my violin and I went to the

solarium and I played borin borine with

strength with

volume and then I heard the

sirens like the air raid wailing in

Warsaw I saw the fire engines from the

window I felt like

yo excuse

me yes can I help you yes I'm looking

for miss Brandon's room room

312 I'm I'm sorry um there's a Carter to

your left uh you make uh an immediate

right and it's the first dir to left

rest store on the left 312 thank you yes

you're

welcome

don't touch me just going to take care

of those burn leave me alone all right

now take it easy now we're going to help

you don't touch me we're going to help

you no don't just take it easy now get

out of here no no

no that's a way we're just going to take

care of those Burns it's all right now

take it easy be

okay

easy it

easy right

girl right

girl it easy you all

right

uh doctor yes I wonder if I can talk to

you just a

minute are you um relative no I'm an

insurance investigator oh that's too bad

I was hoping there was a relative around

someplace mean there isn't one none that

she wants to talk about how badly was

she burned she's going to have some

minor scars from the burn

I wish I could say the same about her

mind there's a lot of guilt there guilt

mhm she feels she murdered three

people

well the heat wave is over then why are

my keys ma thing actually it won't be

over until tomorrow terrific may I oh

sure she's one to Mike's reports go

ahead

there

are uh there were

seven

Witnesses how' I do three cars were sent

by rail oh

oh hang in there you're improving

thanks uh is he around h no he's

visiting the

nurse again I thought he's working for

me he is what does he do there I guess

he just waits for her to say

something

he can wa to

him

yeah

how is she Stone Mike do you want out of

this case no it's becoming a heavy trip

for you isn't

it that's a flight of

fancy I see myself back in a hospital

room again same fear same anger same

guilt only this time I'm on the other

side of the room but the pain hasn't

diminished

well somehow I think that makes you a

fortunate

man Mike I've got an insurance company

on my back they commiserate with that

girl but they want to know one thing do

they or don't they pay the insurance

claim Duke a possible criminal

negligence is not a possible arson I

don't have anything but a possible

negligence that girl is all I've got

that's not what Puchi

says was identified as belowing to the

hospital it's found in the linen closet

and

fragments there were traces of piic acid

on them any reasonable excuse for it

being there no any fingerprints some

smudges no make yet how much does spage

stand to collect on

this almost

100,000 I hope he makes it easy for us

you want to work together or

- independently oh well let's work - together

Independently took me 10 years to raise

the money to renovate this

place the old Wing was my last

Spike you think I'd risk the entire

place to a fire just a nail down one

last Spike Mr Bas nobody's accusing you

of

Anything now Mr Long Street come

on first the police now

you on the night of the fire I was at a

fundraising party and the 30 people that

were there will testify to that well

then you have nothing to worry about do

you yes but I'm still a

suspect my grandfather started this

Hospital in 1934 and my father was one

of the best surgeons in the state but he

had no taste for administration but I do

and I have carried this Hospital into

the 20th century on my back and Along

Comes an incompetent and negligent nurse

and here I am picking up the

pieces so don't talk to me just Long

Street I am just I am just one of the

victims why don't you talk to the

guilty

did you send the

flowers

yes who are

you I'm a

friend

why CU I was once inside those

bandages

my staff were well aware of fire

hazards she feels she murdered three

people I see myself back in the hospital

room

again Kelly oh one of the most dedicated

nurses I've ever worked with no family

you know came through the orphy truck

which is probably why she adopted all of

- her patients they loved her M bat called - her incompetent well Mr bat's Fair boss

But he'd call Florence Nightingale

incompetent if she dropped her lamp is

that what happened to Kell what does she

say well She's suffering from a large

dose of guilt she won't

talk you should having her problems the

last couple of months how's been

affecting her work what kind of problems

money health I don't know maybe

love she have a boyfriend if she has

he's been a well-kept secret not Sean

not Hur not

disgusted well then what makes you think

she was having love problems oh because

I've had more than my share you know

takes some one to know

one okay thanks uh miss emry one more

thing was Mr zadic in the habit of using

old salarium in the middle of the night

I oh probably anytime you wanted now the

- recreation room we love his music I mean - didn't bother the other patients oh well

When the door is closed you can't hear

anything out here during the day we like

to keep it open and uh now that old mcab

is gone why we have no

complaints mcab Lester mcab one of fire

victims a terrible way to remember

Somebody by his

offensiveness that was all Lester you

mean he and Mr zic they they didn't get

along oh like spicy foods and an ulcer

rker and Woodman they understood the

music but

mcab he was a

Philistine to him a violin was a a

fiddle a thing you use to to dance or or

get drunk an excuse to

enjoy but with me music is no excuse it

is a reason it is a reason to live you

ask me how we got

along I tell you Mr Long Street we did

not

oh clear fingerprints I just spoke with

paluchi there something else Mike no

ignition

device they' calculated the jar

contained a mixture of chemicals with a

piic acid

base that would ignite at a relatively

high

temperature like may be during a heat

wave huh that's some natural ignition

device it's also something very

unnatural gamble for someone intending

to start a fire had no Assurance the

fire would start ter might have been

discovered that you might have

dropped Mike I want to know why the

nurse didn't sound the

alarm I don't know do you have't

questioner you any time for that the

time is now there's too much pain there

now Duke for whom hi all right Nikki

good news or bad news well a little bit

of both first the bad news no no no no I

want to hear the good news first I need

a little boo

oh okay well I found out that Daniel

Bates has a perfectly clean slate and

the only thing that anyone can find

fault with is his overzealous nature in

canvasing for phones that's

it our Prime Suspect gets whitewashed

and that's good news terrific kid what's

the bad news your car's getting a

parking

ticket thanks a lot well you asked for

the good news first talk to her

Mike all right Nikki you want to you

want to do some more digging who want

you to check out Arnold

zadic

Kelly

yes has Lieutenant Puchi been here to

see you this afternoon well then you

know what's going on yes I know the

German Insurance

Investigator that's my job Kelly that's

not who I am your friend well I'd like

to

Be ask you questions did you see Mr Bas

going to room 17 the day of the fire no

Arnold's attic he lived there oh did you

see him carry anything with him into the

room I don't know it doesn't matter

Kelly it does matter that fire was Del

liely set there's no way you could have

prevented it I wasn't at my

desk where were

you if I had been at my desk my patients

might still be alive all right three

people died in that fire their lives are

over yours will be too if you don't stop

- carrying them around his unfinished - business finish

It

Wife

ncky I thought you might like a lift

home ah yes

thanks you uh wanted to know about

Arnold's attic he not good he has

leukemia doctors don't give me much of a

chance he's been here in the hospital

for 3 months before that he worked as a

building superintendent ever since he

came to the states he hasn't been able

- to pursue his regular profession in - Poland he was a chemical

Engineer why does

some you told me yourself zatic had a

motive I said that he and one of his

roommates didn't get along you mean

that's not a motive Duke a man about to

die a natural death hating another man

enough to kill well since when a dying

and killing mutually

exclusive Mike zadic did have a motive

he had the knowledge of chemistry to

make the incendiary bomb and he had the

opportunity to go out to get the

chemicals and to steal the porcelain

jar

hello it's Lieutenant pluch here you in

no all right hello hello an we've hit

dead ends all the way what's happening

with you well nothing Ed I've hit the

same dead ends I'll call you when I have

something

positive yeah yeah let's stay in

touch I think that was a mistake duuke I

want more time I I don't like the motive

and the the method bothers me even more

all right so zatic new chemistry but

that that incendiary bomb I mean that's

absurd there's no ignition device that

means he doesn't know when or if the

fire would start Duke zadic lived and

slept in that very same room now how

would he know when not to be there

doesn't make any sense you told me he

was going to die now maybe he didn't

care about going up in Flames maybe his

being in the salarium playing his violin

was an accident maybe he survived

unintentionally all I know is you are

withholding information from the arson

Squad and they are not going to like it

when they find out well that's my

problem well I've got things to

do I'll see you goodbye Nikki night dude

dude I'm sorry you're

angry we're good

friends I'll get over

it

Good day Mr Long Street Mr

Z Andy and me

we we just come back from burying his

uncle I'm

sorry well um I have to get

going yes Andy you you

go

Okay two people were at the funeral him

and me that's where the the old man had

to show for 72 years on this

Earth how desperately he held on to

life but then he'd already been dead for

3 years a stroke did that the fire only

gave a reason to bury

him if I sound bitter Mr Long Street

it's

because funerals are

tomorrow and I do not like looking into

the

future

are you here by

accident I was waiting for you uh more

question that fire was no accident I

know this place is like the United

Nations each person tells one other

person the secret of the day end pretty

soon we're taken someone with a

- knowledge of chemistry to make that - incendiary

Bomb

then you know that I was once a chemical

engineer

yes do you think I could have started

this fire I don't want to think

so

Evening Mr Long Street hello Mrs k um I

left a chicken in the oven and an

unhappy man in the courtyard who a Mr

paluchi Nikki and Mr Paige are with him

and um you know they don't look too

happy either all right thanks m g don't

forget take that chicken out bye-bye

bye-bye

Mike you're in trouble with me oh hello

there I thanks come on how do you think

I feel when you tell me over the phone

you've got no leads then one of my men

stumbles on at the fact that you're Miss

Bell I am my own Miss Bell that your

Miss bell is out digging up information

on Arnold's D is that the kind of

cooperation I should expect from you

yeah the reason he didn't say anything

- was because he had a hunch that didn't - go anywhere motive opportunity and a

Knowledge of chemical combustion are

hardly dead ends oh come on now add all

- that evidence is circumstantial and you - know what's

This smell

it think acid we searched zad's room was

hidden in a dresser

drawer I'm booking him on suspicion of

murder and

arson any fingerprints on this wipe

clean going to take him downtown you

know the procedures the jar could have

been planted that's for the jury to

decide that man's a terminal

patient I can understand you're being

- mad at me but I've got a hunch about - zanic and

I'm I'm asking you as a personal favor

not to take him downtown I can't do that

I just don't book him give me some time

for what a hunch come on Mike suppose I

leave him alone and he starts another

fire just put him under

surveillance that'll cost me man I can't

spare who's going to pay for it the

taxpayers I'll pay for

it I'll put some investigators on them

around the

clock all right Duke I'll hold off for

24 hours you guys are

ridiculous thanks

dude Mike tell me what your hunch is I

don't have

one then you better get one in a

hurry ell I'm over at the

window are you planning to

jump no well that's a beginning then

isn't

it the police are going to arrest Arnold

zadic for starting the fire Arnold

ironic isn't it you want to be accused

of the crime nobody pays attention he

wants to be absolved of the crime and

nobody pays attention you're paying

- attention I don't know if I like it well - then dislike Kelly that's better than

Indifference I'd like to believe that

Arnold was innocent I want to know

everything that went on that night Kelly

and let's start off by where you were

come on Kelly get off this recrimination

bit will you if you want to feel guilty

let it out maybe I can point an accusing

finger at you you can really wallow in

- it now where were you when the fire - broke

Out

I I was downstairs at the parking lot

entrance I I met somebody

boyfriend it doesn't matter Kelly maybe

it does no he has no connection with the

hospital except that he knows me believe

me his name isn't important to you right

then why not tell me why hasn't he been

up here to see you why all the

secrecy we said goodbye that night did

he bury you too that man hasn't even

called he's

married it's

over

it was over that

night and he just went back to his wife

and his kids that's

all Kelly

I'm I'm

sorry you're sorry for

me and you're sorry for

Arnold what about those people that died

in the

fire are they just yesterday's ashes

Blown Away

way I'm no innocent bystander just

shedding tears of

sympathy I was there I was involved they

were my responsibility they were my

patience and I am sick with that

feeling they're

dead and I can't dismiss

them now that man mccave he was the only

victim two other people died in that

fire that's right Striker and

Woodman what's this all about Mr Bates

we'd like to borrow their files I'm

sorry but that's confidential we realize

that but uh we'd appreciate your

help

yes here they

are Bernard Striker and Anthony Woodman

thank

you how did they pay their bills the

government took care of Striker he was

on welfare what about Woodman Woodman he

had a business manager who paid his

bills he was quite well to

do why are the sudden interest in these

men well I'll be honest with you Mr

Bates I've been so intent on trying to

prove the fire was set for the insurance

money that I overlook the people who

died in it question is what if the fire

- wasn't set to burn down the building but - kill somebody in

It how

much who's

beneficiary all right Duke thanks thanks

thanks a

lot I got that talking book you

wanted I know you're here I can hear you

breathing one of the patients who died

in the fire Anthony Woodman left an

state of half a million dollars to whom

of the hospital that means Bates Arnold

zadak and to a nephew Z friend Andy

Andrew Woodman was discharged from the

Marines 2 years ago since then he's been

in and out of work mostly out did he

have any service time in demolition no

and no schooling in chemistry either

what's he doing now he's living in a

rooming house and working at a cleaning

and dying plant oh wait a minute uh

cleaning and

dying if I remember my high school

chemistry there's some kind of

relationship between cleaning and dying

and picric acid so Woodman could have

had access to the base chemicals go to

- the Head of the Class but where did he - learn to make a bomb out of

It

Z Mr Long

Street do you have any idea why I have

the feeling that I'm being watched yes

because you

are

oh well thank you for telling me it's

easier to accept when I know it's real

and not paranoia will they stay along

with me no

good having lived so many years in

Poland it's it's like a Pavlo reflex I'm

watched I perspire the feeling is not

comfortable Mr zadic did you know that

Andy's Uncle left you part of his estate

no or the irony does not Escape

me I wonder why he chose to remember me

in that way maybe it's because he liked

your

music I'd like you to tell me everything

you know about Andy Woodman Andy did you

ever discuss chemistry with him never

have I discussed incendiary devices with

Andy or with anyone

else the boy's uncle died in this fire

you understand the boy was devoted to

the man every day would visit him every

day Mr zadic Andy is also a

beneficiary well well even so I don't

believe the boy could do what you

suggest the police found a jar of

- pickrick acid in your room if it doesn't - belong to you how did it get

There anything well he's not talking I

guess I can't blame him he's only got

one friend if that's what you call him I

struck gold at the public library a

textbook chemical combustion Andy

Woodman took it out about 4 months ago

it was listed on his card like a sin on

a blank page and that's the book Andy

Woodman took out of the library 4 months

ago it's circumstantial mik and you want

to arrest zadic on the very same

evidence motive opportunity and the

knowledge to make the incendiary and a

jar of pierc acid in his room oh come on

- Ed the kid had plenty of chance to plant - it how am I going to prove he planted it

I'm giving you facts and you're giving

me theories Mike on the evidence you've

given me would you hang Andy Woodman I

tell you what I wouldn't hang Arnold is

adic on the evidence you gave me that's

not what I asked

you

oh no I I couldn't hang

him the 24 hours isn't

up you've got 6

hours we're going to remove the bandages

tomorrow I'm not going to give you roses

Kelly it's not going to be pleasant

there's damaged tissue there in time uh

we'll be able to do some plastic surgery

to hide

it

That'll leave scars too won't it you

know

that come

in hello Mr Long Street oh uh doctor I'm

sorry oh it's it's all right I was just

leaving now I'll see you tomorrow

morning so long

MH now from the sound of his voice

tomorrow morning's

important

they taking my bandages

off are you

afraid

yes I am

afraid I'm afraid of what's underneath

these

bandages I don't want to see the

future I don't want to face those ugly

scars and I'm leaning on you

with your blind

eyes that'll never see me beyond your

fantasy it's a nice

fantasy it's comfortable to know that

you

care I do care

Kelly Kelly I uh I need some help your

help

uh

Commitment I wouldn't ask you if there

was any other way but now there's some

danger involved

so I want you to think about it before

you

answer I know you've got enough problems

- of your own right now so I'll understand - if your answer is

No hello Andy I need

help Andy I need some

money who is this Kelly Brandon nurse

Brandon

remember I'm in the

hospital and I need some plastic

surgery I need some

money this is some kind of a joke right

I mean I make 75 bucks a week you're

getting $100,000 from your uncle hey

what is this I want $50,000

Andy you must be out of your

mind I saw you put that porcelain jar in

the

closet I want you to come to the

hospital with part of the money tomorrow

morning or I'll call the

police I I I don't know what you're

talking about tomorrow morning

Andy well I don't know

no if he's as frightened as I am if he

has a reason to be all right Kelly two

more bateson's attic right

right

is

Sh

Dr the

knife

take him outside and read him his

rights Kelly you all right

yes Lieutenant which one you're right

Mike Andy thanks thank

you Miss

Brandon you're all right thank you

you are you all right Kelly I'm

fine would you like to get out of this

room for a little while yes okay

come

you

heard

yes I'm

sorry so am

I for many

things Mr Long Street

I I'm told that it is you who has kept

me from going to

jail thank

you you have the faces of people who

care too

much don't worry about me I have no time

to carry injuries my violin and me we we

work it

out we have a dialogue the two of

us

What are you

thinking I'm listening to a

dialogue

you I don't want you there when they

take off my

bandages I want to use my own strength

all

right you're all right Miss

Brandon that's the first time I've seen

you

smile

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