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Otto Preminger, Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie, Constance Smith, Françoise Rosay, Judith Evelyn
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00:03:27Lora.
00:03:33Lora.
00:03:50Good afternoon, sister.
00:03:52Good afternoon.
00:03:53Thanks.
00:03:56Oh, nurse.
00:03:57Yes, the Gauthier boy just called for you.
00:03:59Our hero.
00:04:00Oh, here's the letter for Dr. Pearson.
00:04:02Oh, it's you, Marie.
00:04:22Are you here again?
00:04:25Now, is that a friendly way to greet your sister?
00:04:27The fact that we're sisters doesn't necessarily mean that we're friends.
00:04:35Has Paul returned from Montreal?
00:04:38You're back today?
00:04:39Then he may expect you to be home.
00:04:43I have to be married for six years.
00:04:46I don't have to be reminded of my duties as a wife.
00:04:50All right, Cora, we are sisters.
00:04:51I'm going to speak my mind frankly.
00:04:53You're married to a good man.
00:04:56Paul's respected here as a person and as a doctor.
00:04:58I think you should be very careful not to do anything that might harm him.
00:05:04You're trying to warn me about something.
00:05:06What is it?
00:05:07You can't chase after younger men in a town this size without starting gossip.
00:05:12Especially when the man is as well-known as Dr. Pearson.
00:05:15I won't even answer that.
00:05:17I hope you can answer it till you confess.
00:05:19Don't be such a hypocrite.
00:05:21You've never forgiven me because of Paul.
00:05:24Well, not my fault that he preferred to marry me.
00:05:27You may still be after him for all I know.
00:05:29Don't judge me by yourself.
00:05:33Good afternoon, Mrs. Laurent.
00:05:35Good afternoon, Doctor.
00:05:36What can I do for you?
00:05:37Hear your call, Doctor.
00:05:41It's about our Audubon Club.
00:05:45We meet at my house every other Tuesday night.
00:05:48Right now we're studying bird life on the Gaspé Peninsula.
00:05:53The smaller birds.
00:05:55And I wondered if you'd care to join us.
00:05:57That's very kind of you, Mrs. Laurent, but I'm not very much interested in birds.
00:06:01I thought you were small.
00:06:02This one is urgent, Doctor.
00:06:03They call twice.
00:06:05Oh, it's mostly just a way of getting together socially.
00:06:08And I thought perhaps that, since you were a comparative newcomer here, that you might be lonely.
00:06:14Sometimes.
00:06:16I appreciate that, but my practice keeps me pretty busy.
00:06:19Actually, I haven't enough time for myself.
00:06:21You will understand.
00:06:23Of course.
00:06:25I forget you're seeing people all day.
00:06:28I mean, as a doctor.
00:06:30I hope you don't mind my suggesting it.
00:06:31Not at all.
00:06:33Good day, Doctor.
00:06:34Good day.
00:06:34Good day.
00:06:34Good day.
00:06:37You must come over soon, Marie, and see Paul.
00:06:40Yes, Cora.
00:06:41Still in patience.
00:06:42I'd better hurry.
00:06:44And Denise, your landlord's daughter, called too.
00:06:47She has a cold.
00:06:48I'll stop to see her later when I go home.
00:06:54Oh, a doctor.
00:06:56Here's a letter for you.
00:07:04You game, Rochelle?
00:07:22Good evening, Doctor.
00:07:24What's wrong with you, Assistant?
00:07:26You're the doctor, Doctor.
00:07:28Come in.
00:07:56Come in.
00:07:58Good evening.
00:08:04Good evening.
00:08:08Don't open the window.
00:08:09I've got a cold.
00:08:11Can't stand that perfume.
00:08:13Now, what seems to be the trouble?
00:08:15I...
00:08:16I ache all over, and...
00:08:19I have no energy.
00:08:20Come, I'll be more specific.
00:08:22Where do you ache?
00:08:24Up my back.
00:08:25Toward the left.
00:08:28Sit up.
00:08:32It's...
00:08:32There.
00:08:33I'll take that jacket off.
00:08:34Just the jacket.
00:08:47Here?
00:08:48Yes.
00:08:50How about here?
00:08:51Yes, there too.
00:08:52Say 33.
00:08:5833.
00:08:59Don't shout.
00:09:0133.
00:09:0333.
00:09:0533.
00:09:06All right.
00:09:06Lie down, please.
00:09:07Have you got a handkerchief?
00:09:18Isn't my nightgown enough?
00:09:32Why are you holding your breath?
00:09:33Oh, I'm sorry.
00:09:35Breathe deeply, please.
00:09:42Now, breathe normally.
00:09:43Well, what do you want?
00:09:54Mrs. Laurent's here to see Dr. Pearson.
00:09:56In a few minutes.
00:09:58Yes, doctor.
00:10:02Wait outside.
00:10:04Yes.
00:10:04Yes.
00:10:04Yes.
00:10:13Is that all?
00:10:14Yes.
00:10:16Well, what's wrong with me?
00:10:17You know better than I.
00:10:19I don't know what you mean.
00:10:21I think you do.
00:10:23Please don't be mysterious.
00:10:25All right, I'll tell you.
00:10:26You're not sick and you don't need a doctor.
00:10:29Why, I...
00:10:29I come to me.
00:10:30Don't pretend.
00:10:31If you just want a man to visit you, why don't you call one of your friends?
00:10:35Some doctors are also men.
00:10:37That's true, but they're foolish if they mix business with pleasure.
00:10:40I'll send your father the bill at the end of the month.
00:10:42You have no heart.
00:10:46I'm sure you have enough for both of us.
00:10:54Dr. Pearson, please forgive me, but I have to talk to you.
00:10:58Certainly.
00:11:00I know I sounded silly at the hospital today,
00:11:03but I couldn't say what I really came to tell you.
00:11:06Because of your sister?
00:11:07Yes, because of me.
00:11:10Sit down, Mrs. Laurent.
00:11:12Nothing like this has ever happened to me before.
00:11:20I don't know what to do.
00:11:21To do about what?
00:11:23A letter I received.
00:11:25It's so awful.
00:11:27I've made up my mind whether to show it to you.
00:11:29It seems it concerns you.
00:11:33Read it.
00:11:33You've got one, too.
00:11:40It's evidently the same printing.
00:11:42Same red ink.
00:11:49Mrs. Laurent,
00:11:50I'm watching you and Dr. Pearson
00:11:52stop before it's too late.
00:11:55No signature.
00:11:57Something that looks like an old-fashioned quill.
00:11:59Dr. Pearson,
00:12:07before I tell Dr. Laurent about you and Cora,
00:12:10I'll give you this chance to leave town.
00:12:13Why, us?
00:12:14Why should anybody pick us?
00:12:16I don't know.
00:12:17Dr. Pearson,
00:12:21you haven't talked about me to anyone in the...
00:12:25Well,
00:12:25in a personal way,
00:12:26that could have been misinterpreted.
00:12:28No, I don't understand.
00:12:29What do you mean?
00:12:32Difficult to say,
00:12:33and I hope you won't think I'm being immodest.
00:12:35But you know how people gossip in a small town
00:12:37just to have something to talk about.
00:12:39So when I got the letter,
00:12:41it struck me that you might have made
00:12:42some remark about me.
00:12:44Innocently, of course.
00:12:45And someone may have picked it up.
00:12:48You're a beautiful young woman,
00:12:49Mrs. Laurent.
00:12:50That's quite obvious to anyone who looks at you.
00:12:53But I'm certain I've had no occasion to mention it.
00:12:56I'm sorry.
00:12:57I'll drive you home.
00:12:59That's awfully nice of you.
00:13:01But I don't think it's better,
00:13:02under the circumstances.
00:13:04Well, perhaps you're right.
00:13:08I wouldn't worry too much about this, Mrs. Laurent.
00:13:10It's probably just a foolish joke,
00:13:12and the best thing we can do
00:13:13is to put it out of our minds.
00:13:15Thank you, Doctor.
00:13:16I hope you're right.
00:13:17I've taken so much of your time.
00:13:18Please forgive me.
00:13:19That's all right.
00:13:21What you said before
00:13:22about my being beautiful,
00:13:25that's one of the nicest things
00:13:26that's ever been told me.
00:13:30I've taken so much of your time.
00:14:00Do you want something?
00:14:22We don't like to complain.
00:14:24Jean-Louis tells me his coffee was cold for by Christmas this morning.
00:14:27Well, I'm sorry, Mrs. Gauthier.
00:14:29I didn't make the coffee.
00:14:31Now, do you realize what Jean-Louis
00:14:32and all the other fine boys have gone through?
00:14:35Fighting for us?
00:14:36Sacrificing themselves for us?
00:14:38I'll speak to the cook, Mrs. Gauthier.
00:14:40Please do.
00:14:41Or I'll speak to Dr. Pearson.
00:14:43As you wish.
00:14:44I'll go to Dr. Pearson.
00:14:49Now, I'll go to the chief doctor.
00:14:51I will.
00:14:53In gratitude.
00:14:55Serving cold coffee to a war hero.
00:14:57Oh, you want me to raise your neck?
00:14:59Yes, please, Mom.
00:15:00Well, then look at me.
00:15:01Oh, my God.
00:15:02How can we be able to raise her quietly at the house?
00:15:06Look at me, of course.
00:15:08Don't worry, it doesn't hurt me.
00:15:09Oh, I've never been cut yet.
00:15:12Don't move, my dear.
00:15:14It's going very well.
00:15:15Hello, Rochelle.
00:15:19Morning, Doctor.
00:15:20Two, three-cent stamps, please.
00:15:23Want to know how my sister's feeling this morning?
00:15:25Hello.
00:15:26Morning, Pearson.
00:15:27Oh, I didn't know you were back.
00:15:30An old husband mustn't leave his young wife alone too long.
00:15:33Remember all the trouble the virtuous Penelope had?
00:15:36Fighting of suitors while her husband was away in the Trojan Wars.
00:15:39I'd say ten years was a long time to leave any wife.
00:15:42Sometimes a lot can happen in ten days.
00:15:44Yes, your wife told you about the letters you received.
00:15:47Yes, we make a practice of telling each other everything.
00:15:53Besides, I received a similar letter myself.
00:15:58You did?
00:15:58Yes.
00:16:01With additional details.
00:16:05It implies that you took advantage of my absence.
00:16:08This is no longer a joke.
00:16:11Frankly, I never thought it was.
00:16:14Oh, I don't mean that.
00:16:17For a second, I took the accusation.
00:16:20Seriously?
00:16:21At the same time, we can't just dismiss it.
00:16:25You see, when I was a young man, I spent part of my internship in a hospital for mental diseases.
00:16:31And while I don't claim to be an expert, I know enough about psychopathic behavior to be certain that a person who spread such poison is sick and therefore dangerous.
00:16:44Will you give me a lift to the hospital?
00:16:46Of course.
00:16:46And if my diagnosis is correct, it could be almost anybody in this town.
00:16:53It could even be you, doctor.
00:16:55Why should I make trouble for myself?
00:16:57Don't you know?
00:16:58That's a symptom of the psychopath.
00:17:00He acts against his own interest.
00:17:01Oh, it might be Chevrolet there.
00:17:04Bonjour, Chevrolet.
00:17:05Comment va?
00:17:06Eh bien, so merci, Dr. Laurent.
00:17:08Et vous-même.
00:17:08Good morning, Dr. Pearson.
00:17:10Good morning.
00:17:11Have you sent any anonymous letters lately?
00:17:14What?
00:17:15What is that?
00:17:15Oh, always up to some joke, our good Dr. Laurent.
00:17:22By your own theory, it may very well be you.
00:17:25You're right.
00:17:27Never heard of that.
00:17:29You might very well be right.
00:17:30I think we should simply disregard the letters.
00:17:33Whoever's sending them will stop when he finds the no reaction.
00:17:35Eh, perhaps.
00:17:37It's my experience that a thing like this always gets worse before it gets better.
00:17:45Dr. Pearson, Jean-Louis Gucci, insist on seeing you.
00:18:12All right, I'm coming.
00:18:13What seems to be the trouble, Jean-Louis?
00:18:38They keep things away from me.
00:18:41Who does?
00:18:42He means me.
00:18:43I'll handle this.
00:18:44What's being kept from you?
00:18:46I don't know.
00:18:47You're imagining things, Jean-Louis.
00:18:49The operation was successful and you're getting well.
00:18:52I don't get enough fresh.
00:18:54Why not?
00:18:55Last night I was just going to sleep when she woke me up.
00:18:59It was time for his medicine.
00:19:00If he's asleep, forget his medicine.
00:19:02But you said every four hours.
00:19:03I also said not to disturb him when he's asleep.
00:19:06I didn't remember that.
00:19:07Please remember that in future.
00:19:08You have a good sleep tonight, Jean-Louis.
00:19:13You'll feel better tomorrow.
00:19:23Yes, Pearson.
00:19:24Maybe you or Dr. Laurent should take a look at Gautier.
00:19:26The boy is beginning to show signs of paranoia.
00:19:28Pearson?
00:19:29Sean, we're just a hero of this, don't we?
00:19:31What would people think if it got out that one of our doctors says he's crazy?
00:19:35I didn't say he was crazy.
00:19:36I just said someone ought to keep an eye on him.
00:19:37I'll speak to Laurent, but I think it's nonsense.
00:19:40If you think so.
00:19:44Higgins, we've got to do something about your friend Pearson.
00:19:47You've got one of those scarlet pen letters, eh?
00:19:49How did you know?
00:19:50Oh, everybody knows about them.
00:19:52This one is very disturbing.
00:19:54Dr. Elyer, if you don't want the hospital to become involved in a scandal,
00:19:58you will do well to get rid of Pearson immediately.
00:20:01You see?
00:20:02I don't see anything except the hand of a cracked one.
00:20:05I expected you to defend Pearson as you're one of his few friends.
00:20:08Higgins, besides, you're mentioned, too.
00:20:13As to Higgins, ask him about the cutback he received from the hospital contracts last January.
00:20:20Well, go ahead, ask me.
00:20:22Now, I'm not accusing you of anything, but where there's a lot of smoke is a little fire.
00:20:26Yes?
00:20:27Then let me read you this.
00:20:29You got one, too?
00:20:30Yes.
00:20:31The first paragraph is the usual stuff about Pearson and his morals,
00:20:36but the second one's about you.
00:20:38And the chief doctor who keeps this man on his staff is indiscreet in other ways.
00:20:43He should not see your daughter alone in his office.
00:20:47She is underage.
00:20:49I hope you don't believe this.
00:20:52To say such a thing about me, a married man with five children.
00:20:56As you say, where there's a lot of smoke.
00:20:57Higgins, you may be right.
00:20:59We'll pay no attention to this fiend.
00:21:01We'll simply tear up the letters.
00:21:03Both of them?
00:21:04Yes, both of them.
00:21:05All right.
00:21:05Doctor.
00:21:19Yes?
00:21:20Denise is really sick.
00:21:22That's too bad.
00:21:23If you don't believe me, look for yourself.
00:21:25I've been cupping her to draw out the infection,
00:21:33but I'm sure she'd much rather have you do it.
00:21:37Evil nonsense.
00:21:39Have you something better to offer?
00:21:41Do you want to spend all your life in bed?
00:21:43I have a headache.
00:21:47Then why didn't you have Rochelle put those cups on your head?
00:21:49It would have looked even funnier.
00:21:52You're a beast.
00:21:58Now, I think you've actually managed to catch that cold.
00:22:01You ought to be congratulated.
00:22:04If I were your father, I'd give you a spanking.
00:22:07You have no sympathy.
00:22:09I can't understand how you ever got to be a doctor.
00:22:11The same way you got to be a patient.
00:22:13By working at it.
00:22:15I'd write a prescription and send Rochelle down to Chevrier to get it filled.
00:22:19Unless you'd rather hold on to that headache.
00:22:22I hope whoever's sending those letters keeps it up until they run you out of town.
00:22:28How do you know about those letters?
00:22:32My sister works at the post office, remember?
00:22:36Well, as far as running me out of town is concerned,
00:22:38I wouldn't be too hopeful about that.
00:22:41I hope you'll excuse the liberty.
00:22:56Rochelle let me in.
00:22:58She told me you were treating her sister.
00:23:00And I didn't wish to interrupt such an agreeable duty.
00:23:03Will you have a chair?
00:23:03A marvelous collection.
00:23:07But why this preoccupation with time?
00:23:11Isn't life brief enough?
00:23:14Besides, these must be very expensive to accumulate.
00:23:18There's, of course, one has a private income.
00:23:22This, for instance, if you don't mind.
00:23:25It's an old Dutch make and very delicate.
00:23:27Oh, yes.
00:23:29And so is my mission tonight.
00:23:32You see, the hospital authorities have asked me to investigate, informally, of course,
00:23:37the matter of the poison pen letters,
00:23:40which, unfortunately, are causing quite a serious situation.
00:23:43So you begin by investigating the principal victim.
00:23:47Is that illogical?
00:23:48If you'd been murdered, certainly the first thing would be to examine your body.
00:23:53Since this attack happens to be directed against your character,
00:23:57it becomes my reluctant duty to invade your privacy.
00:24:00Sending these letters is a crime.
00:24:02Why aren't the police handling it?
00:24:03Two good reasons.
00:24:05First, the hospital is not anxious for that type of publicity.
00:24:09Second, knowing the police,
00:24:11they would probably make even more blunders than I would.
00:24:14Well, what have you learned so far?
00:24:16About you?
00:24:17About the letters.
00:24:18That most people suspect my sister-in-law, Mary.
00:24:22Because it is known she disapproves of my wife
00:24:25and that she is not too fond of you.
00:24:28Do you think she's guilty?
00:24:29Once she and I were engaged to be married.
00:24:32So I know Mary very well.
00:24:33I believe she's innocent.
00:24:35But that may not help her.
00:24:37What do you mean?
00:24:38My friend, in times of hysteria,
00:24:41the accusation in itself is enough to establish guilt.
00:24:45And now in regard to you,
00:24:47some idiots,
00:24:49oh, don't try to guess who.
00:24:50You've got lots of them.
00:24:52Decided to make certain inquiries about you in London.
00:24:56The information came back that you were
00:24:58a leading gynecologist with a large practice.
00:25:02and that two years ago you gave it all up
00:25:05and suddenly dropped out of sight.
00:25:08Is that true?
00:25:10Yes, that's true.
00:25:12Well, since this is a somewhat unusual circumstance,
00:25:16do you care to explain?
00:25:18For the sake of these idiots I just mentioned.
00:25:21No, I don't.
00:25:24I don't want to press you, doctor.
00:25:26But we've had some explanations that you may care to deny.
00:25:30I've no interest in them one way or another.
00:25:31Well, it takes a long time to build up a practice.
00:25:38A fine practice.
00:25:41Then to go off and leave it.
00:25:43But I'm sure you must have had a good reason.
00:25:47I hope you didn't mind my coming.
00:25:49Not at all.
00:25:50I suppose I ought to thank you.
00:25:52No, no, don't exaggerate.
00:25:54Good night, doctor.
00:25:55Good night.
00:25:55Good night.
00:26:13I've written out the prescription.
00:26:27You'll have Rochelle go down to Chevrolet.
00:26:30Why are you standing there?
00:26:32Why don't you go back to bed?
00:26:36You won't be satisfied until you catch pneumonia.
00:26:39Perhaps this is just another one of your tricks.
00:26:43Come on, now do as I say and get back to bed.
00:26:58Don't stand there staring at me.
00:27:01You're a doctor.
00:27:01You've seen lame people before.
00:27:04I just didn't know.
00:27:06When I wear my shoes, no one can tell.
00:27:09What's the difference?
00:27:10Other men find me attractive.
00:27:13All but you.
00:27:14With your hateful coldness and superior airs.
00:27:19Like someone standing in judgment.
00:27:30I'm sorry, Denise.
00:27:32Really sorry.
00:27:33You're a doctor.
00:27:43I'm sorry.
00:27:48You're a lot.
00:27:49I'm sorry.
00:27:49You're a little bit too.
00:27:49I'm sorry.
00:27:50Yeah.
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00:28:20Let me go
00:28:32Let me go
00:28:35I half suspected it
00:28:37Go please
00:28:38First I'll send you over to the police
00:28:40What are you talking about?
00:28:41You know very well what I'm talking about
00:28:43Don't be silly
00:28:44I found the letter downstairs
00:28:46Where?
00:28:48In the mailbox, where else?
00:28:51I was just trying to deliver it to you
00:28:52Without waking you up
00:28:53This letter hasn't gone through the mail
00:28:54Someone must have put it in the box during the night
00:28:58Did you see anyone?
00:29:00Do you think I stay up all night watching?
00:29:02I don't know how late you stay up
00:29:04Well
00:29:05Last night
00:29:07I went to bed right after you went in to see Denise
00:29:10The second time
00:29:13Goodbye, Doctor
00:29:17Goodbye, Doctor
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00:32:52You're early.
00:33:21Yes, my dear.
00:33:23But I wonder if I'm early enough.
00:33:34Dr. Pierce.
00:33:35Dr. Pierce.
00:33:38I want to ask a favor of you.
00:33:40Well?
00:33:41I wish you wouldn't mention to anyone that just saw me in church tonight.
00:33:45Yeah, I left the hospital without permission.
00:33:48This is my night on duty.
00:33:50Why did you leave?
00:33:52I went to confession.
00:33:54Are you sure that's all you want to tell me, Marie?
00:33:59Yes.
00:34:01That's all.
00:34:01Come in.
00:34:29I just wanted to say good night, darling.
00:34:38Good night.
00:34:42Lonely?
00:34:43No, I'm not.
00:34:45I don't believe it.
00:34:47You have these clots for the same reason that other lonely people have cats.
00:34:53Wind them and take care of them.
00:34:54They'll never love you.
00:34:57They'll never love you.
00:34:57Not one.
00:34:59You're trying to prove something, aren't you?
00:35:02I know you better than you know yourself.
00:35:04Well, it pleases you to think so.
00:35:17You didn't talk that way to me last night.
00:35:19Wouldn't it be best if we both forgot last night?
00:35:22I saw you and Coraloran at the church.
00:35:27Is that why we must forget?
00:35:29Don't be ridiculous.
00:35:35It's not so ridiculous.
00:35:36After all, there may be some truth in those letters.
00:35:41All right.
00:35:42If you want to believe that maniac.
00:35:44What am I to believe?
00:35:48Something's changed you.
00:35:50Please tell me, darling.
00:35:52I haven't changed.
00:35:54I've got my own reasons for not wanting to become involved.
00:35:58With you or anyone else.
00:36:00I suppose I should be grateful for small favors.
00:36:03That you had a human moment.
00:36:05Perhaps it was pity.
00:36:08Maybe you felt nothing at all.
00:36:09Maybe there's no feeling in you.
00:36:11Maybe...
00:36:12Dr. Pearson speaking.
00:36:23What?
00:36:25When did it happen?
00:36:28Yes, I'll come right over.
00:36:31Jean-Louis Gauthier, one of the patients at the hospital,
00:36:33received one of those letters.
00:36:35It said he had an incurable cancer.
00:36:37The boy cut his throat with a razor.
00:36:39Forget it.
00:36:48The boy get it.
00:36:55It said!
00:37:03Come on!
00:37:05Amore tu eis pezente,
00:37:11Mi voce a te precazioni stai.
00:37:19Christi e te te,
00:37:26Tu lo eis pezente,
00:37:34E tu eis pezente,
00:37:39Tu sei a te eis pezente.
00:37:56Tu te te,
00:37:59Tu te eis pezente,
00:38:02Tu te,
00:38:04Tu te eis pezente,
00:38:06Tu te eis pezente,
00:38:08The End
00:38:38The End
00:39:08My fellow citizens, we have gathered here to pay our last respects to a young man whose courage and splendid character have been an inspiration to us all.
00:39:32Our hearts go out to Jean-Louis's devoted mother in her time of sorrow.
00:39:41Nor will we forget the cause of her grief, that assassin of character and now a murderer.
00:39:49For I say that he murdered this poor woman's son as surely as though he had driven this poison pen through the young man's heart.
00:40:00I will hold accountable any officials in the administration of the town or the hospital.
00:40:08If I find they have been negligent or derelict in their duties to safeguard our community from this insidious monster.
00:40:19As your mayor, I am conscious of my great responsibility.
00:40:26I pledge to turn the scorching searchlight of public investigation on Emmy, who would shield this menace that walks in our midst.
00:40:36I warn you, no matter whose toes I step on, I intend to get to the bottom of this thing.
00:40:46First, I will investigate the death certificate.
00:40:50Why was the poor victim listed as temporarily insane?
00:40:55Was he really insane?
00:40:57Or was it done only to hush up the whole thing so that the church would then participate in his funeral?
00:41:04And you, my bright young man, where have you been hiding?
00:41:10This is your responsibility, isn't it?
00:41:12I wanted to hold an investigation, sir, but...
00:41:16But what?
00:41:17Why didn't you?
00:41:18What were you waiting for?
00:41:20The hospital authorities refused to cooperate.
00:41:23I deny my son's charge, Your Honor.
00:41:25We were proceeding in our own way.
00:41:27And what way was that?
00:41:29We put the investigation in the hands of Dr. Laurent here.
00:41:32Since when is Dr. Laurent at the police department?
00:41:36Oh, I assure you, Mr. Mayor, I had no wish to become involved.
00:41:39At my time of life, a man learns to value his privacy.
00:41:43As you may remember, Cicero says...
00:41:46Dr. Laurent, at the moment, I am not interested in what Cicero says,
00:41:50but in what you have to say on the scarlet pen.
00:41:54I'm afraid I must disappoint you.
00:41:57I have very little to say.
00:41:58You mean you spent all this time on the case and accomplished nothing?
00:42:05I have developed a theory.
00:42:08In studying the letters, I have detected this slight variation in their tone,
00:42:13which leads me to suspect there might be more than one author.
00:42:18So now we have a flock of poison pen writers.
00:42:21Perhaps only two.
00:42:22You see, there is a type of insanity known to students of abnormal behavior as folie a deux,
00:42:29which, as you know, means insanity of two.
00:42:32It occurs when an insane person somehow imposes his obsessed ideas on someone else,
00:42:40someone close to him.
00:42:41You mean it's contagious?
00:42:42It isn't so far off.
00:42:45An idea can be contagious.
00:42:47Well, in this case, the second person, usually the weaker of the two,
00:42:52accommodates the first, and they act as one.
00:42:55Your Honor, in my opinion, this is a lot of nonsense.
00:42:58We all know there's one person everyone suspects.
00:43:01The sister of Dr. Laurent's wife, Mary Corbin.
00:43:04Well, yet the authorities of the hospital have done nothing about that.
00:43:08I protest my son's insinuation that we were withholding evidence.
00:43:12Her motives are clear.
00:43:14She's been on bad terms with all three of the principal victims.
00:43:17First with her own sister, second with Dr. Pearson, and finally with Jean-Louis Gauthier.
00:43:21Yet nothing was done until I took matters into my own hands.
00:43:24Your Honor, Mary Corbin is being held outside at my orders.
00:43:27I ask your permission to have her brought here.
00:43:29Your Honor, if I may...
00:43:30Bring her in.
00:43:34Miss Corbin, would you sit here, please?
00:43:48Miss Corbin, you've already admitted that you had numerous differences with the deceased Jean-Louis Gauthier.
00:43:56That's true, isn't it?
00:43:57It was a difficult patient.
00:43:59The point is you quarreled.
00:44:00Surely you don't think that I'd do such a terrible thing
00:44:02because I had some differences with Jean-Louis.
00:44:04Please restrict yourself to answering my questions.
00:44:07Sorry.
00:44:09On the night the tragedy occurred,
00:44:12you were supposed to be on duty as the nurse in Jean-Louis' ward, weren't you?
00:44:16Yes.
00:44:17You knew he was depressed.
00:44:20You also knew he had a razor.
00:44:23But you left your post without permission,
00:44:25and you were away at the time he committed suicide.
00:44:28I was wrong, really, without permission.
00:44:29I admit that.
00:44:30Where did you go?
00:44:32I told you I went to confession.
00:44:34Why did you go at that particular time?
00:44:36You could have gone the next day.
00:44:37Why just the night when you were on duty?
00:44:39I went because I received this letter.
00:44:55Mary Corbin,
00:44:56if you go to church at eight tonight,
00:44:58you will find that Pearson is meeting your sister.
00:45:03Dr. Pearson,
00:45:05what are you to say about this note?
00:45:07Nothing.
00:45:08Were you at church at eight o'clock on the night of the suicide?
00:45:12Yes, I was.
00:45:14Was Miss Corbin there at the same time?
00:45:16Yes, I saw her coming out of a confessional booth.
00:45:19This is a somewhat embarrassing question, doctor.
00:45:23Did you meet Mrs. Laurent?
00:45:26Yes, I saw her there.
00:45:29It seems to me, gentlemen, that things have gone far enough.
00:45:32I, too, was at church that night.
00:45:34I met Pearson, and we had a little chat.
00:45:35I can assure you he didn't go there to meet my wife.
00:45:39Naturally, Dr. Laurent,
00:45:40we have the utmost confidence in Dr. Pearson and your wife.
00:45:44But with your sister-in-law,
00:45:46it's a different matter.
00:45:47I am afraid I shall have to order her arrest.
00:45:51But I didn't write those letters.
00:45:53You must believe me.
00:45:54I didn't do it.
00:45:55I had nothing to do with them.
00:45:56You will book her on a charge of criminal libel.
00:45:59Yes, Your Honor.
00:46:00Mr. Mayor.
00:46:00Yes.
00:46:01I know nothing about the law.
00:46:03I don't see how Miss Corbin can be charged with the crime when so far there's no proof.
00:46:07No proof?
00:46:07You just heard some pretty convincing evidence.
00:46:10It wasn't convincing to me.
00:46:11I agree with Dr. Pearson.
00:46:13What about a letter Marie received?
00:46:15She might have written the letter to herself to avoid suspicion.
00:46:18That seems far-fetched and improbable.
00:46:20I don't believe it.
00:46:20Gentlemen, you'll excuse me,
00:46:22but I don't care to debate the question with you any further.
00:46:24I've made up my mind.
00:46:26Sergeant, you'll place Miss Corbin under arrest.
00:46:27She's to be kept in custody.
00:46:36There'll be no bail.
00:46:37And she's to have no pen and paper.
00:46:57I'll only give you a few minutes.
00:47:07I don't mind waiting.
00:47:09Travel with the doctor and see the contract.
00:47:20Hello, Mrs. Fredette.
00:47:22Oh, that's a piss.
00:47:24How's Juliet?
00:47:25Juliet?
00:47:25Oh, she's much better, Doctor.
00:47:27In fact, if she went out,
00:47:29she's visiting some friends.
00:47:31But yesterday she had quite a high fever.
00:47:33Well, you know how children are.
00:47:35Down one day and up the next.
00:47:37I tried to reach you, but...
00:47:38Mrs. Fredette, could you come in for a...
00:47:40Pearson?
00:47:42How do you do?
00:47:45I'm sorry, Dr. Pearson.
00:47:47Juliet's very fond of you.
00:47:49And we know you're a good doctor,
00:47:51but you can understand.
00:47:53All this talk...
00:47:53Good day, Mrs. Fredette.
00:47:57Take care.
00:48:09Good day.
00:48:11Good day.
00:48:11Good day.
00:48:12Buーん.
00:48:12This video.
00:48:13It'll be a good day.
00:48:18Good day.
00:48:19Good night.
00:48:19Got a light?
00:48:49Are you worried about Mrs. Fredette?
00:48:58Not about Mrs. Fredette especially.
00:49:00If this keeps up the knees, I'll have to leave.
00:49:02It won't keep up.
00:49:04The people here like you, they know you're a fine doctor.
00:49:07Repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.
00:49:10No one's safe, but a doctor's more vulnerable than other people.
00:49:14Once a scandal starts in his private life, he's through.
00:49:19Do you mind if I ask you a question?
00:49:22Go ahead.
00:49:24Why did you give up your London practice and come to a place like this?
00:49:28See, you've heard rumors too.
00:49:31But I didn't believe it.
00:49:33It had to do with my marriage.
00:49:37My wife is dead.
00:49:40We married very young without knowing much about each other.
00:49:44She probably never realized what it meant to be a doctor's wife.
00:49:46Especially a doctor who was busy and hardly ever at home.
00:49:51She got lonely, I suppose.
00:49:53Anyway, she fell in love, or thought she did.
00:49:57She left me and went to live with him for a time.
00:49:59Then it broke up.
00:50:02She asked me to take her back.
00:50:03I couldn't forget what she did.
00:50:07I guess I couldn't forgive it.
00:50:09Anyway, I said no.
00:50:11She went away, and after a time, she called me on the telephone.
00:50:15She begged me to take her back and start again.
00:50:18I hung up on her.
00:50:20I'm not excusing myself any more than I'm excusing her.
00:50:23The next week, they brought her to the hospital.
00:50:27An overdose of sedatives.
00:50:29It was too late to save her.
00:50:35That was a long time ago.
00:50:37I went to pieces, I guess.
00:50:39I couldn't go on with my practice.
00:50:41I couldn't do anything.
00:50:43I just drifted from place to place.
00:50:45And then slowly, I felt I wanted to work again.
00:50:49This seemed far enough away.
00:50:51I was just beginning to think I had a place here when these letters came along.
00:50:57And Denise.
00:50:59And Denise.
00:51:00And Denise.
00:51:01And Denise.
00:51:30No one ever gets any mail since they locked Maria.
00:51:44Everyone but you has the sense to be thankful.
00:51:53Here you are, my dear.
00:52:47Amen.
00:53:17Amen.
00:53:47Amen.
00:54:17My brothers and sisters, we gather together this morning with a special sense of thankfulness
00:54:30for our daily friends from the evil which had come upon us like the plague of olden
00:54:37times, casting its shadow over all of us, separating father from son, neighbor from
00:54:45son, neighbor, yet not without God's lesson, for it caused each of us to pause and examine
00:54:55our own hearts for the sin which we would hide even from our confessor and from ourselves.
00:55:05So our Lord in his infinite mercy has purified us and at the same time removed from our midst
00:55:14the miserable water of these letters.
00:55:19Now our hearts delivered from fear must go to him and thank him.
00:55:27Mary Corbin and I are two different persons.
00:55:31I shall continue cleansing the town until finally it is purged of Pearson.
00:55:38Send the usual signature.
00:55:39He doesn't even respect the church.
00:55:41But apparently we made a mistake in regard to Mary Corbin.
00:55:44Mistake indeed.
00:55:46You had no right to arrest her in the first place.
00:55:48What is done is done.
00:55:49She'd be released at once.
00:55:51Oh, I see.
00:55:51You throw the poor woman into a cell and now you let her out.
00:55:55That's very generous of you.
00:55:56Well, I...
00:55:56Anyway, we're right back where we started.
00:55:59Only this time we've got a little something to go on.
00:56:01This piece of paper fell down from the choir loft.
00:56:08It could have come from nowhere else.
00:56:13And there were only 18 people up there.
00:56:16The same 18 people who were here in front of me.
00:56:19You can't accuse us like this.
00:56:21It's silly.
00:56:21One of us would have seen it.
00:56:23Yes.
00:56:24Some of you must have seen it.
00:56:26Then we would tell you, wouldn't we?
00:56:28Unless you're protecting the guilty one, yes.
00:56:30Why should we want to protect the guilty one?
00:56:34That's what I'm going to find out.
00:56:37You'll hear from me later.
00:56:40Monsieur LeMayor, may I have a word with you?
00:56:51And so, to determine which of the 18 people at this table is the author of these letters,
00:56:58we've decided on a test.
00:57:00Before we begin it,
00:57:04I give the guilty person one more chance to confess.
00:57:15All right, Dr. Laurent,
00:57:17would you explain?
00:57:18The test is very simple.
00:57:25I shall dictate some of those poison pen letters.
00:57:30You will copy them on the sheets in front of you, in capitals.
00:57:38Now, we know, of course, that the guilty party will try to disguise his handwriting.
00:57:41But it's difficult to keep this up without lapses.
00:57:45And we can usually tell.
00:57:46Now, I adjourn with Mr. Elie, in urging whoever it is,
00:57:56to spare himself and us the necessity of subjecting you to this test.
00:58:01I have to confess.
00:58:02I have to confess.
00:58:03Yes.
00:58:04I protested before, and I continue to protest against these humiliating suspicions.
00:58:15So do I.
00:58:16And I.
00:58:17Yes, sir.
00:58:18Yes, sir.
00:58:19All right, all right.
00:58:20I'm sorry, but I'm afraid the innocent will have to bear with us to help us find the guilty
00:58:26one.
00:58:27Please pick up your plans.
00:58:31Order number one.
00:58:32Mrs. Laurent, I am watching you and Pearson.
00:58:48And Pearson, stop before it is too late, or others will
00:59:01suffer beside you.
00:59:06Just finishing up, Doctor.
00:59:07I didn't know you were working here, Mrs. Gauthier.
00:59:09Dr. Elie put me on.
00:59:12Now that my son's pension is stopped, I have to make a living.
00:59:17Besides, the way I figure, the killer isn't far from this hospital.
00:59:24No?
00:59:25Why do you say that?
00:59:27Jean-Louis was all I had in life.
00:59:29I've lost him.
00:59:32When you lose someone you love, it makes you think.
00:59:35I've fought a lot.
00:59:37And I got my suspicions.
00:59:40Whom do you suspect?
00:59:43I'm holding my tongue until I'm dead certain.
00:59:47Then you'll know soon enough.
00:59:59Here is the letter he sent to my son.
01:00:04Jean-Louis Gauthier.
01:00:05Jean-Louis Gauthier.
01:00:07Dr. Pearson, who is treating you, is as false to you as he is to the wife of his friend.
01:00:19He hasn't told you the truth.
01:00:22The truth is that you have cancer.
01:00:26The answer's long overdue.
01:00:30The one my son used.
01:00:44Heaven rest his soul.
01:00:47Mrs. Gauthier, don't you think you'd better let me keep it for you?
01:00:57Don't worry, Doctor.
01:01:02I don't suspect you.
01:01:06Good night, Doctor Pearson.
01:01:09Good night.
01:01:10Good night.
01:01:11Good night.
01:01:15About you and Connor.
01:01:22I give you...
01:01:25...this chance...
01:01:28...to leave town.
01:01:31That's all for tonight.
01:01:35Thank you very much.
01:01:37Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your cooperation.
01:01:46Shall we go to my office?
01:01:48I'd rather study them first.
01:01:50Ship as we meet tomorrow. I'll call you in the morning.
01:01:55Good night.
01:01:58Oh, Dr. Laurent.
01:02:00Yes?
01:02:01I think I know who's writing these letters.
01:02:03Well.
01:02:04Do you promise to protect me?
01:02:06All right, Rochelle, tell me.
01:02:08It's Robert Elie.
01:02:12Rochelle!
01:02:17You'd better go on home.
01:02:18No, I'll wait for you. Run along.
01:02:21I'll be ready in a few minutes, my dear.
01:02:24I want a word with Dr. Pearson.
01:02:26Oh, would you tell him I'm waiting for him, please?
01:02:28Of course.
01:02:29Denise.
01:02:30I've wanted to talk to you for a long time.
01:02:31But I kept putting it off.
01:02:32Because it's not altogether pleasant.
01:02:33Yes?
01:02:34If I tell you that I'm doing this for your own good.
01:02:35I know how silly that sounds when it concerns a man and two women.
01:02:39What man?
01:02:40What man?
01:02:41What are you trying to tell me?
01:02:42I'm afraid I'm doing it badly.
01:02:43And you'll only get angry.
01:02:44Please, Mrs. Laurent.
01:02:45Just say what's on your mind and I'll decide whether or not to get angry.
01:02:46It's about Dr. Pearson.
01:02:47I can't stand by any longer.
01:02:48If I tell you that I'm doing this for your own good.
01:02:49If I tell you that I'm doing this for your own good.
01:02:50I know how silly that sounds when it concerns a man and two women.
01:02:53What man?
01:02:54What are you trying to tell me?
01:02:55I'm afraid I'm doing it badly.
01:02:56And you'll only get angry.
01:02:57Please, Mrs. Laurent, just say what's on your mind and I'll decide whether or not to get angry.
01:03:04It's about Dr. Pearson.
01:03:06I can't stand by any longer.
01:03:07Watching you getting deeper and deeper involved and there's no hope of...
01:03:10I don't know how to put it.
01:03:12Well, you've gone this far.
01:03:14You'll have to finish.
01:03:16He'll never marry you.
01:03:17But...
01:03:18I've never been to the table.
01:03:20What are you trying to tell me?
01:03:21I'm afraid I'm doing it badly.
01:03:23I'm afraid I'm doing it badly.
01:03:26And you'll only get angry.
01:03:27Never in the world.
01:03:29It's hardly any concern of yours.
01:03:33I thought you knew about us.
01:03:35About you?
01:03:37You and Pearson?
01:03:39Well, with all those letters, it isn't exactly a secret.
01:03:44I don't believe you.
01:03:47You must be very much in love with her.
01:03:50She's so blind.
01:03:54You're lying.
01:03:55You're making all this up.
01:03:58Every bit of it.
01:03:59I thought it over.
01:04:01And I decided they would be kinder to tell you to your face.
01:04:05What about your husband?
01:04:07I suppose you've been kind to him, too.
01:04:09As far as he knows, I'm a good wife.
01:04:12And I am, in a way.
01:04:14Much as he needs a wife.
01:04:25The first is a scarlet plan.
01:04:34The second was written by Denise Knight.
01:04:37Although different plans were used in the test, the similarity is unmistakable.
01:04:42This is absurd.
01:04:44It couldn't be Denise.
01:04:45You can see with your own eyes.
01:04:47The papers could have got mixed up.
01:04:49Look, here's her name.
01:04:51Denise Turner.
01:04:52I was very careful to mark each one.
01:04:55Well, I'll have a talk to her.
01:04:57Pearson, I'm an old man.
01:05:00And I only want to be helpful.
01:05:02I thought if you plan to get married, you had a right to this information before I turned
01:05:06it over to that young idiot, Robert Elie.
01:05:10I have no intention of getting married.
01:05:12Denise is not a vicious person.
01:05:15Even if she did it, there must be some explanation.
01:05:19Some twist in her mind.
01:05:20In that case, everything can be excused.
01:05:22No one can be held accountable for anything.
01:05:24Excuse me, Doctor, but you are a little rigid.
01:05:27Too ready to judge.
01:05:29You believe that people are either good or bad.
01:05:33Yet, good and evil can change places.
01:05:39Like light and shadow.
01:05:41How can we be sure where the one ends and the other begins?
01:05:46Or which side we are on at a given moment?
01:05:49It's very simple.
01:05:51It'll stop the light from swaying.
01:05:55You see?
01:05:57Come in, Doctor.
01:06:00Denise couldn't wait any longer.
01:06:02She happened to tell you, Doctor Pearson.
01:06:04You see, Doctor, the advantage of having a wife is much more constant.
01:06:08What are you writing?
01:06:22None of your business.
01:06:23Give me that letter.
01:06:24I will not.
01:06:24Oh, yes, you will.
01:06:25Get out of my room.
01:06:27Not until I see what you're writing.
01:06:29That's no use to me.
01:06:30He's handed over.
01:06:30No.
01:06:32Don't touch me.
01:06:33Let me go.
01:06:35Let me go.
01:06:36That's again.
01:06:40That's again.
01:06:40That's again.
01:06:40can't go.
01:06:41Let me go.
01:06:44Let me go.
01:06:52Let me go.
01:06:52what does this mean what did mrs. Lauren tell you as if you didn't know please go away and leave me
01:07:18alone I don't know Denise I haven't the slightest idea what this letter is about are you going to
01:07:25deny that you're having an affair with her that you meet her every time Laurent turns his back
01:07:28did she tell you that something you didn't count on apparently when did she tell you tonight
01:07:35Denise you must believe me it isn't true then why on earth would she say such a thing she'd have
01:07:41to be mad I haven't any idea unless she is mad I'm going over there this time of night yes I've got
01:07:51to talk to you around by the way you were right to bite me this time I deserved it
01:07:58so
01:08:07oh come in doctor I wanted to see you for just a few minutes I realize it's late not at all
01:08:35girl and I have both night owls girl I saw you from the window she's making some coffee and you
01:08:43don't mind I'd like to see you alone oh well we can talk in my office
01:08:48please just sit down
01:08:58well I've just had a talk with Denise and I'm convinced she isn't the one who's writing these
01:09:09letters surely you wouldn't expect her to admit it I'd know if she were lying then you must know
01:09:16very well I must say I could not be that certain even with my wife since you put it that way I'm
01:09:23inclined to agree with you as far as your wife's concerned you're becoming very difficult to follow
01:09:29earlier this evening mrs. Laurent made a statement to Denise that hasn't the slightest basis in fact
01:09:35if it had it's obvious I wouldn't be here telling it to you your wife said that she and I were having a love affair
01:09:44I said that yes
01:09:52I know what you're thinking
01:10:22if I could tell you how many sleepless nights I've spent driving this moment sooner or later it had to come out
01:10:32people who are mentally unbalanced no matter how cleverly they cover their tracks for a time
01:10:39finally do something like this which gives them away
01:10:43then it is mrs. Laurent at the beginning when the letters first started I I thought of almost everyone else even of you doctor if you remember
01:10:54but my own wife
01:11:01if you'd rather not talk about it now
01:11:06if you'd rather not talk about it now
01:11:08no no it's better that I tell you everything
01:11:12sometimes it seems so incredible that I almost doubt my own sanity
01:11:21one day when I came home early from the hospital
01:11:26I caught her writing these letters
01:11:29she begged me not to tell
01:11:31she promised never to do such a thing again
01:11:34I believed her
01:11:36perhaps because I wanted to believe her so much
01:11:39also she she seemed to realize what a dreadful thing she'd done
01:11:44for a few days if you remember the letters stopped
01:11:47and they started again
01:11:49I was beside myself
01:11:51I didn't know what to do
01:11:52I couldn't bring myself to expose her
01:11:55and
01:11:56yes
01:11:57I even began to protect her
01:12:00even to the extent that you were willing to let her sister go to jail
01:12:03yes even that
01:12:05and tonight you switched your wife's and Denise's letters didn't you?
01:12:09she would have been cleared later
01:12:11like Marie
01:12:12you thought that clearing her later would have made it all right
01:12:15here you go again Pearson
01:12:17right or wrong
01:12:19as though that matters when the person you love beyond anything else in the world
01:12:24might be taken away from you
01:12:27a man my age has little left to live for
01:12:31when he's fortunate enough to have as his wife
01:12:34a young and beautiful woman treasures her
01:12:39more than a young man could possibly understand
01:12:44but as a doctor you knew she needed treatment
01:12:47yes
01:12:48but in whose hands did she stand a better chance of being cured?
01:12:51strange doctor in some institution
01:12:54or a husband who loved and understood her
01:12:57must have been apparent she wasn't improving under your care
01:13:00that's true
01:13:07but I was praying for time
01:13:10time to
01:13:11to find the key that would unlock her mind
01:13:14and free her from the terrible fixation that held her emotions in a vice
01:13:19what I'm going to tell you now
01:13:23I couldn't reveal even to my closest friend
01:13:26so I trust that you'll regard it as a medical fact
01:13:31and keep it in the strictest confidence
01:13:34of course
01:13:36the first year after I married Cora
01:13:41was the happiest in my life
01:13:44then gradually
01:13:47difference in our ages began to tell
01:13:50Cora was young
01:13:52and to recapture my own youth
01:13:56was not in my power
01:13:58so I wasn't too surprised
01:14:00when I found her
01:14:02casting glasses on younger men
01:14:04yes
01:14:05there were others before you doctor
01:14:07but by the time you came
01:14:10she was less able to control her actions
01:14:13wait a minute
01:14:14if that's true
01:14:15the letters were working against her purpose
01:14:17their intention was to drive me out of town
01:14:19you know
01:14:21for a long while that puzzled me too
01:14:25soon I found out
01:14:27the letters were her way of making contact with you
01:14:31at the same time
01:14:32she was unwilling to be unfaithful to me
01:14:34you were a love object
01:14:36but you were also
01:14:37a reminder of her own guilty feelings
01:14:40you see she had to prove to herself
01:14:42two contradictory things
01:14:44that she could attract you
01:14:46and that she could do without you
01:14:48I don't have to tell you as a doctor
01:14:50that such a conflict can destroy
01:14:52the precarious balance of the human mind
01:14:55my wife is a victim of circumstances
01:14:59she couldn't control
01:15:02I failed her as a husband
01:15:06now I failed her as a doctor
01:15:09I don't know which way to turn
01:15:13and uh
01:15:14all I ask is that
01:15:16you do what you think is best for her
01:15:20naturally she'll have to be treated
01:15:23I suggest you commit her immediately
01:15:26oh my god
01:15:27I can't
01:15:28I can't
01:15:29put my name on her commitment papers
01:15:31otherwise they'll put her in jail
01:15:33just as they did with Marie
01:15:34can't do it then
01:15:37will you do it for me
01:15:41I know it's a great favor to ask but
01:15:44all right
01:15:46I'll go to the hospital
01:15:47and have them send a car
01:15:48you can bring her things over later
01:15:50we'll put her in a temporary room
01:15:52for observation
01:15:53till we can decide the best place for her
01:15:56Pearson
01:15:57let me talk at the old man
01:15:59but at this moment
01:16:00I have no words to thank you
01:16:02that's not necessary
01:16:03come in
01:16:17good evening
01:16:22good evening doctor
01:16:23will you wait outside nurse
01:16:24I want to have a talk with Mrs. Laurent
01:16:26look at me Cora
01:16:39I'm your friend
01:16:40I want you to trust me
01:16:56your husband told me all about the letters
01:17:00what did he tell you
01:17:01well that is an important corner
01:17:03I didn't believe very much of it
01:17:05he made me write the letters
01:17:08at least in the beginning
01:17:10that's what I figured
01:17:15but why did you do it
01:17:21I don't know
01:17:24he said you never looked at me
01:17:26young men didn't like me
01:17:32he told me I was beautiful
01:17:33but I had ice water in my veins
01:17:36he kept saying
01:17:37you're lucky to be married to me
01:17:38no young man would stay with you
01:17:41when we went to dances
01:17:43he said men only asked me
01:17:44because I was his wife
01:17:46how long have you been married?
01:17:50nearly six years
01:17:52I was 19 then
01:17:54and how did you first meet Dr. Lou?
01:17:57he was engaged to my sister
01:17:59he dropped her
01:18:01then he began calling on me
01:18:03for he was furious
01:18:05I think I married him out of spite
01:18:08you weren't in love with him
01:18:10how could I be?
01:18:13he was like my father
01:18:16after a while I couldn't bear for him to touch me
01:18:19he began saying I was cold
01:18:22he kept telling me that
01:18:24repeating and repeating
01:18:26I used to cry myself to sleep at night
01:18:29I was afraid he was right
01:18:31and it was my fault and not his
01:18:33I really didn't mean to do anything wrong
01:18:37I didn't write that letter to Jean-Louis Cartier
01:18:41I didn't know about that one
01:18:43please believe me
01:18:44I didn't
01:18:50how did it all start?
01:18:57when you came to town
01:18:59I wanted you to notice me
01:19:01but you hardly paid any attention
01:19:04and I was afraid to think too much about you
01:19:08because he was a doctor who could read my thoughts
01:19:11that's what he said
01:19:14how did he find out?
01:19:16I don't know
01:19:18I don't know
01:19:20he said the letters were the only way to get you out of my mind
01:19:24that if I wrote about it
01:19:27and put my thoughts down on paper
01:19:29it would be like purging myself
01:19:32he was a fool
01:19:34he just gave me an excuse to see you
01:19:39I shouldn't say things like that to you, should I?
01:19:41if I'm going to help you
01:19:42you'll have to tell me everything
01:19:44you want to help me?
01:19:47yes
01:19:49then I wrote some letters he didn't know about
01:19:52the first one was to you
01:19:55the time you came to the choir heirs
01:19:56I'll remember
01:19:58you stood next to me in the dark church
01:20:01you touched my hand
01:20:03when you let me read the letter
01:20:05I knew it by heart
01:20:07but I read it again
01:20:09because you brought it to me
01:20:12and he came
01:20:14he guessed I'd written it
01:20:16and said I must never do it again
01:20:18I must only write the ones he dictated
01:20:19he dictated
01:20:24despite my whole beautiful evening
01:20:26but you did send other letters
01:20:29yes, he couldn't stop me
01:20:31I sent them to everyone I could think of
01:20:33I wanted them all to know about us
01:20:37you didn't mind, did you?
01:20:39you don't think I'm wicked?
01:20:41I think you're sick and need someone to take good care of you
01:20:44I can't stay here
01:20:46you'll find me
01:20:48no, he won't be allowed to come near you
01:20:51I promise that
01:20:53once you're free of him you'll soon be cured
01:20:55now I'll try and get some sleep
01:20:57you'll come to see me?
01:20:58you'll come to see me?
01:21:09yes, Cora, I'll come as often as I can
01:21:12you won't forget me?
01:21:14no, I won't forget you
01:21:15no, I won't forget you
01:21:25all right, nurse
01:21:35oh, nurse, I want no one admitted to Mr. Laurent's room unless there's a doctor present
01:21:36absolutely no one
01:21:37is that clear?
01:21:39yes, doctor
01:21:41sister, would you please get me Robert Elliott on the phone, the Crown Prosecutor?
01:21:44keep ringing until he wakes up
01:21:45I'll be in my office
01:21:47farewell, doctor
01:21:49sister, would you please get me Robert Elliott on the phone, the Crown Prosecutor?
01:21:52keep ringing until he wakes up
01:21:53I'll be in my office
01:21:54you're welcome
01:22:18don't turn it off
01:22:39dr. Laurent?
01:22:48Let's have a look in his office.
01:23:18Dead?
01:23:19Yes.
01:23:48Police station, please.
01:23:55He must have been writing this when it happened.
01:23:59There's no need to worry, Mrs. Rodesk.
01:24:15I'll ask Chen Ria to fill the prescription and send it here right away.
01:24:18Thank you, Doctor.
01:24:20You are wonderful to come back and forgive us after the way we behaved.
01:24:24That's all right.
01:24:25Just keep Juliet in bed for another day or two.
01:24:27I'll look in again on Monday.
01:24:28Goodbye.
01:24:29Thank you, Doctor.
01:24:36How's the patient?
01:24:38Fine.
01:24:43How are you?
01:24:45Doing nicely, thank you.
01:24:48Here we go.
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