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00:00Yellow?
00:01Hayes?
00:02Yes?
00:03Better get over here.
00:04He's beating her again.
00:06Who is this?
00:07A neighbor from across the hall.
00:09He's hurting her bad this time.
00:30Maggie?
00:56Maggie?
01:00Maggie?
01:03Maggie?
01:31Holy Christ!
01:32Jonathan Gunn!
01:33Now!
02:00What?
02:01Like Waita!
02:02So no,
02:03See?
02:04Like who?
02:05Mal again.
02:06Now,
02:07I hate this joy.
02:10Me?
02:11Can you celebrate this car?
02:13No!
02:14Will you?
02:15...
02:46On the night your husband was killed, Mrs. Malloy, were you at home?
02:50No, I was at the theater with friends, Tina and Jerry Nelson and Tom Irwin.
02:55Then you couldn't have asked your neighbor across the hall to call Peter Hayes and tell him your husband was beating you.
03:01No.
03:02As a matter of fact, your neighbor has already testified to the court's satisfaction that when the call was made, he was on a commercial airline of flying to Los Angeles.
03:10But your husband had struck you on other occasions.
03:14Yes.
03:14And the defendant knew about those other incidents, knew about your husband's violent temper.
03:21Mrs. Malloy.
03:23Yes.
03:25What was your relationship with Peter Hayes?
03:29Were you lovers?
03:31We were friends.
03:33But in love?
03:37Yes.
03:39In love.
03:40Michael Malloy was an investment counselor.
03:48I handled his legal work.
03:50I was also his friend.
03:52And after he was married, Mrs. Malloy's friend.
03:55And you knew the defendant, Peter Hayes?
03:58Yes.
03:59Mr. Deegan, do you recall the defendant ever referring to Michael Malloy's temper?
04:06It was just his way of saying it, not really meaning it.
04:09What exactly did he say?
04:13He just said that if he ever touches her again, I'll stop him.
04:16Some juicy murder, huh?
04:28Hey, what do you and Mr. Wolfe think?
04:30Oh, we always depend on you, Charlie.
04:34Guilty.
04:35Look, anybody won't take the stand to defend himself.
04:38God will be guilty.
04:40That would empty Washington in a week.
04:42Good afternoon, Mr. Herald.
04:55On the phone, you said it was important.
04:58He's my son.
04:59I want you to find him.
05:00Find him, Mr. Herald?
05:02Is he lost?
05:03A runaway?
05:05Not in the ordinary sense.
05:07Several years ago, I took my son Paul into my business.
05:09He stole $66,000.
05:13I kicked him out.
05:15Kicked him out of the business.
05:16Kicked him out of the house.
05:18Now, it's five years ago.
05:19I haven't seen him since.
05:22Ah.
05:23Last month, I found out he didn't steal the money.
05:26Another hasty assumption, Mr. Herald?
05:29No.
05:30We caught the real thief, a friend of my son's.
05:32Whom your son, I imagine, was protecting.
05:34Now, you want to find your son so that you can apologize.
05:41I have nothing to apologize for.
05:44At the time, there was ample evidence that he took the money.
05:48He didn't even try to defend himself.
05:50And what have you done about finding him?
05:52Well, I put ads in the paper.
05:54They did as much good as the police.
05:56And I found us Lieutenant Murphy of Missing Persons.
05:59He gave me your name.
06:00Now, this is a picture of, a graduation picture of my son.
06:08High school.
06:09He was, uh, just before his 18th birthday.
06:13How old is he now, sir?
06:1527.
06:17Evidently, you think he is in New York.
06:19Why?
06:20Well, every year he sends his mother a Christmas card.
06:24The last five were postmarked in New York City.
06:28Now, Mr. Wolf, you think you can find him?
06:30Oh, Jim.
06:36What's that for?
06:37For writing a check, Mr. Hill.
06:40Ah.
06:42I suppose you're entitled to a retainer.
06:47All right.
06:48How much will it be, Mr. Wolf?
06:51Five thousand will do.
06:53We'll start.
06:54Five thousand?
06:57Lieutenant Murphy said you were expensive.
06:59Perhaps you feel your son is not worth it.
07:04I've got to go back to Omaha.
07:07My wife is angry enough as it is.
07:10Just drop it on the desk, please.
07:14Mr. Hill.
07:15I hope I'm doing the right thing.
07:36How long do you think this is going to take?
07:37At least five thousand dollars worth.
07:40Good afternoon, Mr. Hill.
07:50That's what I like.
07:51A warm, caring parent.
07:53Do you believe in coincidences?
08:05I mean, that they have meaning.
08:07Only when my horse comes in.
08:09That's a coincidence.
08:10Carl Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst, had a theory that coincidences simply did not exist.
08:18They were merely events that were meant to happen together.
08:20Because they were somehow significant to each other.
08:25He called his theory synchronicity.
08:29Can't think of a better name for it.
08:32Archie, why did you bring me this particular newspaper, folded this particular way to this particular murder story?
08:38Charlie, down at the corner, wanted your opinion.
08:40There are a number of coincidences here.
08:43The accused man, Peter Hayes, like Mr. Herold's son, made no effort to defend himself either.
08:50That happens.
08:51And the names, Archie.
08:52Peter Hayes Paul Herold.
08:57You mean the initials?
08:59P.H., the same.
09:01Dr. Jung would have been proud of you.
09:04Okay, wait a minute, wait a minute.
09:06So the initials are the same.
09:08And they both didn't defend themselves.
09:10I mean, that hardly adds up to an open and shut case.
09:13Archie, it is easy enough for a man to change his name.
09:16But deep within everyone's soul, you need to retain a trace of his true identity.
09:23Often he clings to the initials he was born with.
09:27Hey, look, come around here.
09:28Look, the high school photograph of Paul Herold.
09:32The newspaper photograph of Peter Hayes.
09:35His face is hidden in the newspaper photo, but I would say about 27 years old.
09:41The shape of the head.
09:43The chin.
09:44Making him at least a possibility, would you not say?
09:47Wouldn't that be something?
09:49Yeah.
09:50I want to know when Peter Hayes was born, Archie.
09:53All about his family, all about the trial.
09:55Okay, but if this Hayes character really is Paul Herold, we're not going to be doing his mother much of a favor.
10:02Charlie thinks the jury is going to sink him.
10:04We were hired to find the young man, Archie.
10:06Anything beyond that, we'll have to wait.
10:10Okay.
10:10I'm Peter Hayes' attorney, and I don't even know where he was born.
10:23He won't talk about his background.
10:25He says he has no family.
10:28All right, Mr. Goodwin.
10:30You want to see the trial transcript?
10:33There it is.
10:34Read it and weep.
10:35Does something about this case make you angry, Mr. Fryer?
10:41Not angry.
10:43Frustrated.
10:45Now, I don't know why Nero Wolfe is interested in my client, but go ahead.
10:50What have I got to lose?
10:52One more favor, Mr. Fryer.
10:54Can you arrange for me to talk to Hayes?
10:56He won't talk to you.
10:58He won't even talk to me, and I'm trying to save his life.
11:02Maybe he'll listen.
11:05My name is Archie Goodwin.
11:16Okay.
11:17So you know who you are?
11:19Do you?
11:22I work for Nero Wolfe, private detective.
11:26Father James Harold hired Mr. Wolfe to find you.
11:29What are you talking about?
11:30My name is Hayes.
11:31Peter Hayes.
11:32Not Harold.
11:33I've got a picture of you, Paul.
11:34Your senior year in high school.
11:37Now that I've seen you, I believe you're it.
11:40Now, we're going to have to tell your father we found you.
11:42I told you.
11:43I don't have a father.
11:45Look, you can disown him.
11:46But he hasn't disowned you.
11:49Now, what about your mother?
11:51My mother died ten years ago.
11:53One look at you and your father, I'll know.
11:55You want me to send for it?
11:57Hey, look.
11:58You're wrong.
11:58You're making a mistake.
11:59If he comes, I won't see him.
12:07For God's sakes, don't tell him.
12:09You don't know what he's like.
12:12I've met him.
12:15Mr. Fryer.
12:16Peter, you've withheld information from me.
12:20You haven't given me a chance to put up a decent defense.
12:23Maybe Nero Wolf can help you.
12:26No one can help me.
12:29Might as well be dead.
12:30I'd do anything I could to help Peter.
12:38Mrs. Malloy, this is undoubtedly a difficult question for you to answer, but it may help us.
12:44When did your husband first physically strike you?
12:47A few months after we were married.
12:51I'd been his secretary and I went to his office.
12:55We were going to lunch.
12:56I picked up an invoice from the Metro Safe Deposit Company.
13:03Habit, I guess.
13:04Michael got terribly angry.
13:06He slapped me.
13:08Pushed me back against the wall.
13:11He shouted that I was never to touch his papers again.
13:14He kept the safe deposit box you knew nothing about?
13:18No, it wasn't his.
13:20Whose then?
13:21The bill was made out to Richard Randall.
13:24And the night of your husband's death, you were at the theater with friends?
13:29Yes.
13:30So they can account for your whereabouts all evening?
13:35Well, most of the evening.
13:37I was with Tina and Jerry Nelson and Tom Irwin.
13:42Fanny Irwin, Tom's wife, had come down with a headache and Tina called and asked me to fill in.
13:48They already had the tickets.
13:51She said Tom would meet us at the theater.
13:53And did he?
13:54Yes.
13:55He was terribly late.
13:57Jerry Nelson waited for him in the lobby.
14:01And they both came in about the middle of the first act.
14:04I see.
14:05We'll want to check out that safe deposit box, Miss Malloy.
14:08Do you have a lawyer?
14:10Yes.
14:11Patrick Deegan.
14:12He was my husband's lawyer.
14:14Well, please arrange for him to meet you and Mr. Goodwin at the Metro Safe Deposit Company tomorrow morning at 10.
14:20I'll take care of the formalities.
14:22Good day, Mrs. Malloy.
14:23Good night.
14:43Is there really any hope?
14:44Of course. You know, he's not sleeping back there. He's hard at work.
14:49When he opens his eyes, he'll probably open ours, too.
14:58Nice balance, Fitz.
15:01Perhaps a touch more garlic, eh?
15:05It needs no more garlic. Perhaps a soupçon of saffron.
15:11Are you out of your mind? Saffron and the marinade for a shish kebab?
15:16Saffron and the marinade for the shish kebab.
15:19Got it all solved, I suppose? A little of that old synchronicity?
15:23Oh, yes.
15:26Well, if Peter Hayes was framed, the killer probably arranged for Mrs. Malloy to be out of the apartments.
15:33Jara knew she'd be out.
15:34The friends who invited her to the theater certainly knew.
15:38And perhaps one of them engineered the invitation.
15:40Why don't you get Saul Panzer to check them out, eh?
15:42Saul's out of town. What about Johnny Keams?
15:45Johnny Keams would do fine.
15:47Be sure that he has some expense money.
15:50Right.
15:56Very well, Fitz.
15:57I will concede the garlic.
16:00But not the saffron.
16:05It's your stomach.
16:06It's your first stop, Johnny.
16:19The Nelsons.
16:20Jerry and Tina.
16:22They're expecting you.
16:23So are the Irwins over on the east side.
16:25They're the theater party.
16:26Yeah, except Fanny Irwins.
16:28Fanny had the headache.
16:28Now, this is all the information you'll need.
16:32What Wolfe is after is what happened the night of the murder.
16:36Whose idea was it to invite Mrs. Malloy?
16:39Why Tom Irwin was late for the theater.
16:41Now, if you hit pay dirt, get in touch as soon as possible.
16:44One night job.
16:46You going back home now?
16:47I got one stop to make.
16:49Malloy's office.
16:50His secretary.
16:51Deal your bread.
16:51I know what you've done.
16:54But the police won't hear it from me.
16:59If we stay cool, we can both come out of this rich and sassy.
17:04Sure.
17:06Tomorrow we'll be fine.
17:08Okay.
17:09Are you Archie Goodwin?
17:11Mrs. Malloy asked me to wait for you.
17:13Miss Brand, right?
17:15The steps in the carton.
17:16Great.
17:17Miss Brand, just what kind of a man was your boss?
17:23Mr. Malloy?
17:24What kind of man is any boss?
17:26Mr. Goodwin, you wouldn't know someone who needs a secretary, would you?
17:30This is my last week here.
17:32Oh, I'm a good typist.
17:34A little ragged on shorthand, but...
17:37You won't be out of work long.
17:41My face is my worst enemy.
17:43Bosses aren't interested in how fast you type?
17:45Or if I can.
17:48Malloy, too.
17:49I can't say he didn't try.
17:51Even though he knew I was engaged to be married.
17:54The week before he was killed, he did ask me to go to South America with him.
17:59On business, he said.
18:02South America might have been fun.
18:04Hmm, and no business.
18:06Well, maybe I would have gone.
18:08If I wasn't, like I said, sort of engaged.
18:12I'll ride down with you.
18:16Great.
18:16But my hands are full, so let's keep it strictly business, okay?
18:20I've waited up for you.
18:32Would you like a sandwich?
18:34Cold Danish ham and fresh sliced pineapple.
18:38No thanks, Fritz.
18:40Did the great man retire?
18:41Oh, an hour ago.
18:43Oh, Mr. Wolfe said to tell you that Johnny Keims did not call in.
18:51Huh.
18:51No, honey, I'm wrapping it up right now.
18:53Then I'll report into Wolfe's office and make track straight home.
18:57Bye.
18:57Bye.
18:57Bye.
18:57Bye.
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19:32At 10.45 last night, a private investigator named John J. Keims was run down and killed by a car in the East 90s.
19:39The car was left on Upper Broadway.
19:40The car was also hot.
19:41We know Keims sometimes did odd jobs for you.
19:44Was he working for you last night?
19:45Yes.
19:46On what?
19:47If the car that struck Johnny Keims was stolen, it was not an accident.
19:52It was murder.
19:53Well, we figured that out, too, Wolfe.
19:56Now, what was he doing for you?
19:57Checking out several facts in the Peter Hayes murder case.
20:00The Hayes case?
20:01The jury's already got everything on that.
20:03Then why was Johnny Keims murdered?
20:05You tell me.
20:06You tell me.
20:07Because he was following a clue to the identity of Michael Malloy's real murderer, who clearly felt threatened.
20:13Did you go through Johnny Keims' personal things?
20:17That's routine.
20:18What did you find?
20:20Keys, cigarettes, driver's license, a handkerchief, a pen, a little cash.
20:24How much cash?
20:25Seven, eight bucks.
20:27Archie, how much expense money did you give Johnny?
20:30A hundred dollars.
20:31Five twenties.
20:31Five twenties.
20:32Are you saying a police officer stole that money?
20:36The money is gone, Mr. Kramer.
20:38Hey, Wolfe.
20:39You're gonna go one step too far.
20:40You're gonna go one inch too far.
20:42I'm gonna nail you.
20:44Sergeant.
20:50You think Johnny used the hundred dollars to buy information?
20:54Mm-hmm.
20:57But you probably never got.
21:00Well, he would have told us.
21:01If I had not fully believed Peter Hayes was innocent before, Archie.
21:05I do now.
21:09Well, it's almost ten, Archie.
21:10You have an appointment at the Metro Safe Deposit Company.
21:14You're a witness to my protest.
21:16This box may be opened well in advance of close of probate, but at a time convenient to the widow.
21:22Open it, Mr. Negan.
21:23I represent the Internal Revenue Service.
21:25You've seen the court order.
21:26What about private papers?
21:28Open it, please.
21:29Open it, please.
21:40How much?
21:41Seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars and no cents.
21:46Did you tell that money was there?
21:48I did not, sir.
21:49So what's gonna happen to it?
21:51Well, once the Internal Revenue Service takes its share, I assume it's part of the estate.
21:56See, but that's what I mean.
21:58Maggie, Mrs. Malloy, touch it.
22:01She doesn't want any part of anything to do with Mike or his estate.
22:05Understandable, if not practical.
22:08Well, it didn't matter much when there were no visible assets, but now it does.
22:11And I want to protect her.
22:14From herself, if necessary, she's entitled to that money.
22:17She went through enough for it.
22:18Have you had any idea where it came from?
22:20It was a complete surprise.
22:22So is Mike Malloy's using an alias.
22:25To his wife as well, apparently.
22:27I just wish somebody would talk some sense into Maggie.
22:31I don't know if Mike had any relatives or not, but if he did, they're gonna be swarming like termites for a bite of that money.
22:37I will talk to her, Mr. Deegan.
22:40Good day, sir.
22:56Hi.
22:57I gotta go.
22:58Okay, bye.
23:01Hello, Mr. Goodwin.
23:02How are you today?
23:03How are you?
23:04It's fine.
23:06Well, we're all here as you requested, and a sacrifice to our working day, I might add.
23:11Are you Nero Wolfe?
23:12No, ma'am.
23:13I'm Archie Goodwin, Mr. Wolfe's assistant.
23:15Won't you all come in?
23:24Mission accomplished.
23:25The theater party plus the lady with the headache.
23:28That is right.
23:30Mrs. Malloy.
23:32Mrs. Malloy.
23:35I'm Jerry Nelson, my wife Tina, Fanny Irwin, and Tom Irwin.
23:42Hello.
23:44We're here because of Maggie.
23:46She thinks we might be able to help Peter Hayes.
23:48I don't see how, but here we are.
23:50Last night, a man and my employer, Mr. John Keems, was murdered.
23:59His assignment was to discover if Mrs. Malloy's invitation to the theater had been intentionally designed to get her out of her apartment.
24:07Intentionally?
24:08Of course not. It's because I'm down with a splitting headache.
24:13But it was you, Mrs. Nelson, who telephoned Mrs. Malloy to ask her to fill in. Is that not right?
24:18Yes, but I don't remember whose ID it was. Jerry and I were having dinner at Tom and Fanny's when her headache got worse.
24:26Tom?
24:27How do I know?
24:29It occurred to all of us, I guess.
24:31In any case, that Keems fellow asked the same questions, and we weren't able to help him.
24:35Very little can help Johnny Keems now, but I mean to find out who ran him down.
24:41Mr. Keems spoke to you yesterday, too, and your husband. Asked you the same question?
24:46Yes, but we weren't able to help him either.
24:48Perhaps the murderer found out somehow that Mrs. Malloy would be at the theater, and not at home.
24:54Who is this murderer, and how could he have found out?
24:57We were the only ones that knew that Maggie was taking Fanny's place.
25:01Except for Ella.
25:02Who?
25:03Ella Reyes, my maid.
25:06Mr. Irwin, you were late getting to the theater, I understand.
25:11Yes, I was picking up some medicine for my wife.
25:14So it would have been possible for you to have committed the crime and still reached the theater by the middle of the first act, yes?
25:20Oh, I see. So now I'm a suspect, is that it?
25:23It's rather too soon to tell, Mr. Irwin.
25:26And Mr. Nelson, he waited for you, alone, in the lobby of the theater, huh?
25:32That's right, and I can't prove that I was there all the time either.
25:36Mr. Nelson, Johnny Keems was killed either because he had learned something,
25:39I was about to learn something that threatened to expose the murderer.
25:45Well, ladies and gentlemen, I think that's about all.
25:47Thank you very much, you've been most helpful. Goodbye.
25:53Uh, Mrs. Moore, would you wait, please?
25:56Mr. Walker would like to speak to you alone.
25:58Yes, of course.
25:59Mr. Beloyed, you and Mrs. Nelson were already in your seats at the theater, but the curtain went up, right?
26:08Yes.
26:09And neither of you left your seat before the end of the first act?
26:12No.
26:14And three of those people, therefore, had the chance to visit your apartment and kill your husband?
26:20Well, Fanny Irwin couldn't. She was at home, waiting for her medicine.
26:22Yes, so she and her husband said, but they might have agreed to make up that story.
26:28I don't think Tom and Fanny Irwin have agreed on anything for months.
26:32Why not?
26:33Well, according to Tina, they've been fighting.
26:35She's convinced that Fanny is having an affair, Patrick Deegan.
26:39Patrick Deegan, the attorney?
26:42If the Nelsons or the Irwins couldn't tell Johnny Keems anything important,
26:47who could he have spent $100 on for information?
26:52I don't know.
26:53Well, what about the maid, Ella Reyes?
26:56Yes.
26:58Go see her, Archie,
27:00and find out if Johnny's $100 bought anything of value.
27:17I don't know.
27:18I don't know.
27:19I don't know.
27:20I don't know.
27:21I don't know.
27:22I don't know.
27:23I don't know.
27:24I don't know.
27:28All right, everybody.
27:29Back up.
27:31What happened, Eddie?
27:32Hi, Archie.
27:33The lady was shot.
27:34Everybody, back up, I said.
27:35Such a nice young woman, too.
27:37Ella Reyes, her name was.
27:38Worked up there, top floor.
27:41Excuse me.
27:42Now, what's the condition, AK?
27:44Five.
27:47Yes?
27:50I'm downstairs.
27:51Fritz told me Maggie Malloy is still up there with you.
27:56What did you find out?
27:57I didn't get to talk to Ella Reyes.
28:00Police found her body in a vacant lot.
28:02Our murderer is getting desperate.
28:05Mrs. Malloy is here, Archie.
28:07I think it prudent that she remain here.
28:09What about Inspector Kramer?
28:11I mean, he'll be on our necks if he finds out.
28:13You know, he'll make the connection.
28:15Hmm.
28:16Be polite and courteous with the police, as always, Archie.
28:19But I do not wish to be disturbed.
28:26Sure?
28:27Right.
28:28You don't want to be disturbed.
28:30And Inspector Kramer, of course, will be sympathetic.
28:33Understanding.
28:34As he throws away the key.
28:36Branch, get the front door, will you?
28:49You know, Wolf's resident.
28:52Oh, hello, Inspector.
28:56Really?
28:57Shot?
28:58And you found the hundred dollars on her?
29:01Well, then it couldn't have been Peter Hayes then, could it?
29:04I mean, he's in jail, right?
29:06Oh, stuff it, Goodwin.
29:07Now, where's Maggie Malloy?
29:08I haven't seen her since lunch.
29:10What do you want her for?
29:12I want her for questioning.
29:13The fact is that I happen to think that maybe Peter Hayes has been protecting her all along.
29:18Interesting theory.
29:20Wish we'd have thought of it.
29:21Don't get funny with me, Goodwin.
29:23I know Wolf is up for something, and she's involved.
29:26You parked her somewhere, maybe right there, and if so, you and Wolf are accessories.
29:30Inspector, that would be obstructing justice.
29:34Goodwin, if she's there, I'm gonna pull that place apart like a vacuum cleaner.
29:39My duties here require at least another hour of my uninterrupted attention, Archie.
29:54I know, but Mr. Harold wants to terminate your employment.
29:58He says Lieutenant Murphy of Missing Persons introduced him to his son.
30:04I see.
30:06Very well.
30:08You have a record of the expenses, Archie.
30:11All you have to do is add the fee.
30:13Fifty thousand dollars.
30:15That's ridiculous.
30:17What have you done to earn a fee?
30:19The police found my son.
30:21I don't think you have the least idea where he is.
30:24Oh, I know where he is, Mr. Harold, but that is not the point.
30:27The point is, sir, I suspect you of the rankest duplicity.
30:31What?
30:32Lieutenant Murphy has his own glory to consider.
30:34A not inconsiderable task, by the way.
30:37But he is an honest man.
30:39He must have told you that I discovered your son.
30:43Fifty thousand dollars is outrageous.
30:46I'm not gonna pay him.
30:47Oh, yes, you will.
30:49And perhaps even more.
30:51You see, I not only have abundant evidence that it was I who found your son,
30:55but in a matter of an hour or two, I will have also exonerated him of a murder conviction.
31:01Yes, sir.
31:02You will pay.
31:05Exonerate?
31:06The reason you were not told he was found was that he did not want you to be told.
31:11That is an understatement, sir.
31:14Did you speak to him?
31:16Well, I saw him. He wouldn't talk to me.
31:20Now, tell me, Mr. Wolf.
31:23How can you exonerate him?
31:25By revealing the real murderer.
31:27Of course, as I said, it could take an hour or two.
31:31I'm not the monster you think I am, Mr. Wolf.
31:35If Paul is innocent, I want him protected.
31:39Perhaps protection and understanding should have begun a long time ago, Mr. Herald.
31:48Now, if you will excuse me.
31:51Mr. Herald?
32:05Hold it, Goodwin.
32:06It's you, Inspector.
32:07Open up.
32:08Now, do you have the papers that would force me to open this door?
32:10I got them right here, Goodwin.
32:11I got a search warrant and an arrest warrant for Margaret Malloy.
32:12Goodwin, you know this might be the day, obstructing justice, hiding a witness, compounding a felony?
32:18Now, open the door or we'll break it in, which would suit me just fine.
32:35Let's go.
32:36Yes, sir, he has a search warrant.
32:50He seems to suspect that we're hiding the lady.
32:53His two associates are presently downstairs going through Fritz's quarters.
32:57Of course, sir.
32:59Politeness and courtesy at all times.
33:03Yes, sir.
33:05We'll find her, Goodwin.
33:07You and Wolf are just pulling a bluff.
33:09Goodwin, why don't you just save time and turn her over to us?
33:13I wouldn't want to deprive you of the fun of looking, Inspector.
33:15Nothing down there except a bedroom and a couple hundred cookbooks.
33:18Mostly in French, so I'm sure you didn't read them.
33:21All right, let's go to the dining room and the front room.
33:24Oh, Sergeant, don't forget the look in the china closet and the silver chest.
33:28Mrs. Malloy is not a large woman. She could be hiding anywhere.
33:31You know you're a scream, Goodwin.
33:33Nothing.
33:34Check the pantry.
33:35I did, nothing there.
33:36Did you check the cookie jar?
33:37Okay, Wolf's room.
33:45Oh, nothing behind the dart board, Sergeant.
34:03Mr. Wolf just uses it for his morning exercise.
34:06You know, he has to throw the darts from the other side of the bed,
34:09detour around to retrieve them, and then go back to the firing line.
34:13Almost 20 yards a day.
34:15Goodwin, can it.
34:17Clean, Inspector.
34:24You've met Mr. Wolf's assistant inspector, Theodore Horstman,
34:27a fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society.
34:30What's in that room back there?
34:31That's my room. That's a private room.
34:33I'll take a look.
34:34No, no, no, no.
34:35Careful, please.
34:38Where have you got it stashed, Wolf?
34:40You know you're obstructing justice?
34:42Now you're accusing me of being witless, Mr. Kramer.
34:44If I were to suggest she look for sanctuary,
34:46I would not commit a double felony.
34:48I would not want to know where she was.
34:50Nothing in there, Inspector.
34:51Theodore, I want detailed notes on the reactions of the Steelings
34:55through all this commotion.
34:56You understand?
34:57Oh, excuse me, sir.
34:59You haven't heard the last of this wolf.
35:01You're always welcome here, Mr. Kramer.
35:03With a warrant, of course.
35:05There we are.
35:18Yes!
35:22They've all gone?
35:23Yes, indeed they have, Mr. Malloy.
35:25Indeed they have.
35:26I think the seedlings will be all right after all, sir.
35:28Certainly, Theodore.
35:29Excuse me, mind you.
35:35Mr. Malloy's secretary, Delia Brandt, said that he had invited her to accompany him to South America.
35:54Is that correct?
35:55She refused.
35:56She said.
35:57Is it your impression that she could have been untruthful?
36:00That she could have accepted the invitation?
36:03Anyone with a wiggle like hers could always be lying.
36:06Especially if she knew why Mr. Malloy was planning the trip.
36:10The money?
36:11Three quarters of a million dollars, Archie.
36:13That money has motivated three deaths.
36:16A little talk with Delia Brandt could clear that up.
36:20No answer.
36:26It might be better if she were out when you searched her apartment.
36:29Assuming you still remember how to open the locked door.
36:33It's like riding a bicycle.
36:35Once you've done it, you never forget.
36:50All right.
37:03Here he is.
37:06Here, is not the store.
37:08There are nothing again for me.
37:10I'm afraid I am not too busy.
37:15Yes, sir?
37:45Yes, sir, you said that she has not called.
37:49I have been all right by the telephone.
37:52It has not run.
38:15I have been all right.
38:22I have been all right.
38:41I have been all right.
38:56I have been all right.
39:07Yes?
39:08To your brand's dead.
39:10The place has been ransacked.
39:12That's my guess.
39:13The killer didn't find what he was looking for, but I think I did.
39:16Locker key.
39:17To what locker?
39:18Do you have any idea?
39:19The 434GC.
39:22I'd say Grand Central Station.
39:25All right, report the murder, Raji.
39:27But not the key just yet.
39:29Then find the locker and see what it contains.
39:55Just as I thought.
40:07You knew what was in it.
40:08I knew what had to be in it.
40:10Archie, we will have to gather all our principles here again.
40:14Use your vaunted charm.
40:16And for the moment, get Mr. Kramer on the phone.
40:19I will need his assistance with some of the more sordid details.
40:23If the inspector sees Maggie Malloy here,
40:26we could wind up in the slammer.
40:29Not necessarily.
40:31Inspector Kramer, please.
40:34Nero Wolfe.
40:40Mr. Kramer!
40:42I am calling to fulfill my responsibilities as a private investigator.
40:47Oh, yes, sir.
40:49Yes, sir.
40:50If you will arrange for a meeting here,
40:52I will arrange to hand over to you, the murderer.
40:56Is this another one of your Chinese puzzles, Wolfe?
41:05Yeah, okay.
41:07Six o'clock.
41:08But you better deliver.
41:12What about Mrs. Malloy?
41:14Well, he has every reason to believe that she will soon come out of hiding.
41:23Ladies and gentlemen,
41:24I have asked you all here because I intend to unmask a desperate,
41:28conscienceless and up to now anonymous killer.
41:33A point of immediate curiosity
41:35concerned the circumstances leading to Mrs. Malloy's invitation
41:38to the theater the night of Mr. Malloy's murder.
41:41Oh, not that again.
41:42Yes, Mr. Irwin, that again.
41:45Johnny Keems gave Ella Reyes, your housemaid, $100,
41:50in return for which she was to tell him what really happened
41:53with regard to your wife's headache.
41:56But Ella never got to tell Johnny because Johnny was murdered,
42:00and Ella herself was murdered.
42:02Yes, Mrs. Irwin?
42:04I'm sorry.
42:05I'm sorry.
42:06And nothing.
42:08Did Ella Reyes try to blackmail you, Mrs. Irwin,
42:11after she talked to Johnny Keems and realized her information
42:14could be worth far more than $100?
42:17Certainly not.
42:18Blackmail me for what?
42:20For knowing that your headache was faked,
42:23or that you and Mr. Deegan are having an affair.
42:29Hey, wait now.
42:30Where did you get an idea like that?
42:32Who took advantage of Mrs. Malloy's being at the theater
42:35to kill Michael Malloy?
42:37Mr. Nelson, who waited for Mr. Irwin in the theater lobby?
42:41Mr. Irwin, who said he went for medicine for his wife?
42:45Mrs. Irwin herself, if she was alibying her husband?
42:50Or Mr. Deegan, whose whereabouts were never accounted for?
42:55I guess the time to suspect me is now, Mr. Wolfe.
42:58But if I were going to kill anybody, it'd be my wife,
43:00or Patrick Deegan, if they were having an affair.
43:04But why would I kill Delia Brandt?
43:07She had evidence that connected the murderer
43:09to three quarters of a million dollars,
43:12which she and Michael Malloy were going to share in South America,
43:15money that Malloy and his partner had stolen from the trust fund.
43:19Partner?
43:21Are you talking about the money in the safe deposit box?
43:23Nobody knew about that.
43:24The partner knew, Mr. Deegan.
43:27He knew where it was, too, but he could not get at it.
43:30He was frantic when he knew it was going to be exposed
43:33at the Metro Safe Deposit Company.
43:36Frantic also because he thought perhaps something connecting him to the theft
43:40was in that box.
43:42He was relieved that only the money was there.
43:45But he knew then that he was vulnerable.
43:49Well, who is he, anyway?
43:51In a moment, Mr. Kramer.
43:53Another point of curiosity.
43:55Where and how was that money accumulated?
44:00Delia Brandt could have answered that and saved her life.
44:03But instead, she hid the evidence of fraud
44:06and tried to make a deal with a ruthless killer.
44:09Well, what evidence? You do nothing.
44:12In your friendship's search for the key to this as a shake case, Mr. Deegan,
44:18you overlooked the one place where Miss Brandt had hidden it,
44:21in the locket or the chain you used to strangle her with.
44:26Anything in that case could be Michael Malloy's cover-up for what he did!
44:31Mrs. Erwin, I ask you again.
44:36Did you fake the headache to make sure Mrs. Malloy would take her place at the theater?
44:41Did you act on Mr. Deegan's instructions?
44:44Or are you going to persist in your alliance with him
44:47and make yourself an accessory to a number of crimes you did not know he had planned?
44:52No, you're right. I didn't know.
44:55I wasn't a party killing anyone. It was all his doing.
45:01Well, let's go, Mr. Deegan.
45:10Ladies and gentlemen, that will be all.
45:13Thank you very much for coming.
45:22Mr. Wolfe, that means that...
45:24That Peter Hayes is innocent, of course.
45:26He was determined to protect you even at the cost of his own freedom.
45:30He truly believed you might have done it.
45:32I don't know what to say, how to repay you.
45:35I've been amply paid, Mrs. Malloy. You have my word.
45:38I'm grateful too, Mr. Wolfe.
45:40I believe that.
45:41If you are, then may I suggest, sir,
45:45that you have another try at making peace with your son.
45:49I have perhaps been an obstinate and lonely man.
45:57Bye now.
45:58Goodbye.
46:19Bye now.
46:20Bye now.
46:21Bye now.
46:22Now listen to me, my fine petaled friend.
46:42And that applies to all the rest of you.
46:44I've heard all the nonsense about talking gently to your flowers as if they were sensitive children.
46:52So you will forget all that. You are bred as aristocrats and you are to be treated as being above the common herd.
46:59You will do as you were told. And if you don't, there is always the compost heap.
47:06Do I make myself clear?
47:08They're not children around.
47:09What was that, Osman?
47:10If you two could stop arguing for a moment, I've got some news.
47:14Yes, what is it, Archie?
47:16It's all over. Paul Harreld's a free man.
47:18Hmm. That is factory. Thank you.
47:25And now, Horstman, just what was it exactly you were trying to say?
47:30They're not children, you know.
47:32Hmm.
47:33Hmm.
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