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00:01You can't mean that.
00:03What do my friends think?
00:05I couldn't stand the humiliation.
00:07Oh, you'll get over it, quickly enough, as quickly as you did your other marriage.
00:11Why are you talking this way?
00:14What did that phony doctor tell you?
00:16That's not important.
00:17We've made a mistake.
00:18Now let's forget it, shall we?
00:20But you can't throw me over.
00:21I've looked forward.
00:22I've planned.
00:23You're taking me to Washington with you, away from these people, these memories.
00:28I've got to go with you, Stanley.
00:30No, I'm sorry, it's final.
00:34You ought to see a doctor, Claire.
00:36A doctor like Jeff.
00:38I looked for you at the party, after he talked to me.
00:41Mellie wanted to ask you something.
00:43Doyle told me where I'd find you, but I didn't believe him either.
00:46But finding you here proves many things.
00:50You're not well, Claire.
00:53I'm all right.
00:56I didn't mean to crack up.
00:59At least we could have a farewell drink together.
01:03No hard feelings, really.
01:06Why don't you fix some for us?
01:09I must say, you're being regular about it.
01:13To begin.
01:14It's a big bed.
01:15To my essencinComery.
01:16Thanks a lot.
01:18The bum bite.
01:20I can take to do that without opening the other door.
01:21I'm reasonable.
01:22I'm a lonely person...
01:23Do that.
01:24It's only my father his son.
01:25I was ready for us.
01:26I'm waiting for you.
01:27I love you, too.
01:28Do that!
01:29I'm just a boy.
01:30Done.
01:31I was a grandma.
01:33We came with a father.
01:34But this is truth.
01:36You will marry me, but this is not free this is what I did.
02:07Clare!
02:23What have you done?
02:30I did nothing.
02:33You killed a mess.
02:34I killed him?
02:37Don't you remember?
02:39You came in just a few minutes ago.
02:42You saw us talking.
02:44You looked funny.
02:46Crazy.
02:47You said you were going to kill Stanley because he stole me from you.
02:51So you picked up the knife and you...
02:53You stabbed him.
02:55You're out of your mind.
02:58No, I'm not.
02:59Insane.
03:00No.
03:01No, I saw you do it.
03:03You dropped the knife and you ran out the door.
03:07I tried to stop you.
03:09Came in just a few minutes later.
03:12Right now.
03:13You murdering little idiot.
03:17Les, don't.
03:18Mason, you won.
03:19Alan just conceded the election.
03:20You're going to.
03:21You're going to go.
03:22You're going to get her on a minute right there.
03:24So you see, doctor, the evidence is really stacked against Les Burns.
03:35I and the others feel that he's absolutely innocent.
03:38Now, I asked you down here to see if there wasn't something you could do to help us prove
03:42Les is innocent and Claire's guilt.
03:44Because just as sure as my name is Hack Doyle, she's framing.
03:48I agree with you 100%.
03:49I am positive that Mrs. Hanneman killed Stanley, but because of her testimony and finding the
03:56knife in Les's hand when you arrived at the scene, the police could come to only one
04:01conclusion.
04:01Surely there's something you can do to help him.
04:03He's innocent.
04:04I know he is.
04:05Look, you were once connected with a big city police department.
04:09Then you must have run across cases of this sort.
04:12I know now that Claire Cummings is a nut if I ever saw one.
04:16Yes, you're right, Mr. Herrick.
04:17I'll at least have a try at it.
04:20I'm just as interested in finding Stanley's murderer as you are improving Mr. Burns' innocence.
04:27Now, I have a plan that might break her down.
04:36Well, good morning, Dr. Clevenger.
04:39To what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?
04:42It's no pleasure for me, Mrs. Hanneman, I assure you.
04:47I just came to ask one question.
04:53Why did you kill Stanley Mason?
04:55What?
05:00How ridiculous you are, Doctor.
05:03Am I?
05:03You see, I had a talk with Stanley last night concerning your betrothal, and advised him
05:12against it.
05:14It's safe to assume that when he came to tell you there wouldn't be any marriage, you killed
05:18him in a fit of anger, and then concocted a story to implicate Mr. Burns.
05:23It's the most absurd accusation I ever heard.
05:28You seem to forget that Les Burns' fingerprints were found on the knife, and that he was seen
05:33standing with it in his hand.
05:35The police have all the facts, Doctor.
05:37Not all of them.
05:39All they need to convict Les Burns.
05:43Do you mind if I finish my column?
05:45No.
05:46Why, no.
06:00I suppose you'll tell the police I killed Stanley, and give them that fantastic story to back
06:04up your accusations.
06:05It won't sound so fantastic to them, Mrs. Hanneman.
06:08I discovered one or two other flaws in your story.
06:11They'll laugh at you.
06:13It's insane.
06:14Absurd.
06:14Oh, you're wrong.
06:16You see, I've spent my life delving into distorted minds like yours.
06:20I worked for the police for many years as a consulting psychiatrist.
06:24You sound more like a hypnotist.
06:27And I'm quite fed up with your insane theories.
06:32Now, Doctor, looking for something, Hank?
06:36Police are on their way.
06:38Police?
06:42What for?
06:44I see the three of you dreamed this one up.
06:54Well, as long as you're going to have me arrested, you might as well read my last column.
07:00Go ahead.
07:00Read it, Hack.
07:02Read it out loud.
07:03I killed Stanley Mason.
07:08I killed Carl Hanneman.
07:10I killed Blackie Tallinn.
07:12You didn't know about Blackie, did you?
07:14You hid that story on page five.
07:16Unsolved robbery in slang.
07:18I killed Stanley Mason because he no longer wanted to marry me.
07:27Stanley Mason was the top of the ladder for me.
07:29The top rung.
07:32I had money.
07:33And now I was going to have position.
07:36He was taking me to Washington with him.
07:37I could leave then without making the police suspicious.
07:42Clever of me, wasn't it?
07:44Why did you frame Les Burns?
07:46Why?
07:48Because he caught me with blood on my hands.
07:51Because at last even he had discarded me.
07:52I never loved any of them.
07:56You, Al.
07:57Hanneman.
07:58Mason.
08:00But Les, I wanted to hang on to him.
08:04He was of no use to me, but I couldn't let him go.
08:09Maybe I did love him.
08:14Hello.
08:16Miss Cummings?
08:18No, she's off.
08:19I'm glad you confessed.
08:21Because you never could have gotten away with it much longer.
08:24I would have but to put you, Dr. Klippinger.
08:26You and your slimy, scientific snooping.
08:29As soon as you came in, I realized it was you who turned Stanley Mason against me.
08:33You sent him to his death just as much as I.
08:36Sit down, Claire.
08:37Why, but for you, I'd have everything I ever wanted in life.
08:40I hated you.
08:41Because you were the first man who ever saw inside my mind.
08:45And I'm going to kill you.
08:46Let go of my arm!
08:50Come on.
09:20You were a little late, Myrna.
09:23Well, it was probably better this way.
09:26I can scarcely believe it.
09:28A woman as beautiful as that.
09:31You didn't know her very well.
09:34None of us really didn't know her very well.
09:36She wasn't even a good newspaper.
09:51Come on.
09:51Come on.
09:51Come on.
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