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00:00nickel 14 kilo 14 kilo go 14 kilo headquarters has a floater on the
00:07Brooklyn side pier Avenue they want some midtown coordination 10 85 I'm rolling
00:12well that's a break Saul our tour just got interrupted mind if I tag we can talk
00:18on the way
00:30and I go back to Bunny Cross yeah hey Pansy what are you doing here
00:49uh Saul was running down an insurance job for Nero Wolf just to tag along uh what have we got
00:56well we're not sure of the cause of death yet but current type tables and liver temp
01:00reading put her in the water about 11 last night somewhere around Midtown I don't
01:03think she walked in her clothes and her jewelry say she's in the chips but we
01:06haven't ID'd her yet so you think a Midtown detective who handles the pretty
01:10people can help huh that's what we asked for
01:13nope that's that I've seen her around okay we'll check missing persons but I would like
01:30you to help coordinate as soon as I get an ID I'm going to want to toss her apartment wherever
01:34we should look
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03:31Watch you, Mr. Wolfe, waiting.
03:45Our wandering Seamus.
03:57Hello, so.
04:02Sir.
04:03Well, how much was the bail out here?
04:09No bail.
04:10Kramer released him, at least for now.
04:11Well, last night, Mr. Kramer believed he had an anti-case.
04:14A couple of things ruined that for him.
04:16Oh.
04:17One, the M.E. worked all night and they couldn't come up with a cause of death.
04:20Two.
04:21Yeah, I stood on the fifth.
04:23You what?
04:25Why?
04:26Because I knew how bad it looked.
04:28I was nuts for going in her apartment.
04:30But that doesn't change the fact.
04:31I was there.
04:32Well, tell him why you were there, Saul.
04:34Well, I just saw April Lyon there on the docks.
04:39All kinds of things going through my mind.
04:43Inspector Kramer has a dead lady and suspects for our play.
04:46So, when I hear they don't have her ID'd, I decide there just might be time to get my stuff out and save the grief.
04:53Not smart, Saul.
04:55How long have you been involved with April McKenzie?
05:01Me?
05:01And April?
05:03Never.
05:04She was a nice girl.
05:05You shouldn't be dead.
05:06You didn't live with her, Saul?
05:08No way.
05:08I just stayed over once in a while when I was in Manhattan.
05:11Saved time.
05:12April and I were just good friends.
05:15Hey, I know how it looks.
05:17But she was lonely.
05:18You want to believe that?
05:19She could talk to me.
05:19You know how you can sometimes say something to a stranger that you won't say to anyone else?
05:24Well, I was April's stranger.
05:27Then I was her friend.
05:29But not in the strictest sense.
05:30I live in France.
05:31It was just a short or two.
05:33I didn't live there.
05:36April knew that it would save me a buck when I was in town.
05:38That's the kind of person she was.
05:40And that's the long and the short of it.
05:41One question, Saul.
05:43Shoot.
05:44The night before last, you stayed here in our guest room.
05:46Why not with your lonely friend at Fifth Avenue?
05:49The guy who pays the rent, you know, it was his night to show up.
05:55Then she wasn't lonely all the time.
05:57Okay, so she let some guy keep her.
05:59So what these days?
06:00April wanted the lifestyle, I guess.
06:02What's the name of the man who pays the rent?
06:05Chester Winslow.
06:06Kingpin of Camberley Publishing.
06:08And he's one hell of a better suspect than I am.
06:10Except that Mr. Kramer did not catch Chester Winslow with his arms full of overnight apparel.
06:15That is all.
06:16Hmm?
06:19No.
06:20No.
06:21No.
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06:30No.
06:30Yes, that's my sister.
06:57Have you determined the cause of death yet, doctor?
06:59Well, the tests I've run so far seem to indicate that she drowned.
07:03You sound like a man with some reservations.
07:04Yes, there's a pupil dilation that I'm just not comfortable with yet.
07:08But until I can run a few more tests, well, we're just going to have to wait, Mr. Goodwin.
07:12Well, do you have a time estimate?
07:13What is all this? My sister drowned. Can't we leave it at that?
07:19Who are you to be interfering?
07:22I have a client, Miss McKenzie.
07:24Well, your client can go to blazes.
07:27I want this over with.
07:30Will you stop it?
07:31Don't you have any feelings at all?
07:34You're just like April was.
07:35Emotional and selfish.
07:40Close your case, Mr. Goodwin.
07:43I'd appreciate knowing when you complete your findings, doctor.
07:59I shouldn't be too long.
08:01I loved her.
08:03She was my best friend.
08:05She was my best friend.
08:35The closer I get to you, the more you make me see, by giving me all you've got.
08:51Your love has captured me.
09:00Sweeter than sweeter love grows, and heaven's there for those who fool the tricks of time.
09:09Where the hearts of love may find true love, in a special way.
09:18Closer I get to you, the closer I get to you.
09:27The closer I get to you.
09:32the closer I get to you.
09:54Paul, this is Mr. Goodwin.
09:56Oh, yes, a proud and blessed again you met this morning.
09:58Paul Cummings, Paul's my personal manager.
10:00I was hoping you were a booking agent.
10:03Paul can't stand to see me out of work.
10:06Against my better judgment, I'd settle for being a perfect wife.
10:09Then I'd have to go back to work.
10:11Can we talk somewhere?
10:13About April, you mean?
10:14Oh, over here.
10:25April was a sweet kid, Mr. Goodwin.
10:28As a favor to Julie, I tried to find her some work.
10:32I just couldn't sell her in the kind of places she wanted.
10:34Which were?
10:35Well, like this place.
10:36Not the best.
10:38But on the way up, April wouldn't take the joints again.
10:41Unfortunately, she just wasn't good enough.
10:43On the phone, you said Nero Wolfe thinks someone killed April.
10:48Yes, she does.
10:49Well, maybe you ought to ask her sister.
10:51The sister I saw at the morgue didn't seem to be very upset about April's death.
10:56Is that why?
10:57She wasn't upset.
10:59Donna's a math professor at a college uptown.
11:01April was broke when she came home a few months ago.
11:05Donna was ashamed of her.
11:06She wouldn't even buy her a cup of coffee.
11:09As far as she was concerned, April was mud.
11:12Donna's the kind of woman who would go to any lengths to see that that mud didn't spill onto her.
11:16As far as murder?
11:18Her own sister?
11:19I wouldn't put that onto anybody, Mr. Goodwin.
11:22I don't even think Donna could hate anybody that much.
11:26But whatever anybody thinks about the way she lived,
11:30April was a fine, decent person.
11:32Well, thanks for talking to me.
11:36I hope it helps.
11:38If someone did kill April, I want that person found.
11:43It's nice to meet you.
11:44Thanks.
12:02Miss McKenzie, thank you for seeing me.
12:28This is John Stewart, Mr. Goodwin, head of the math department.
12:30Don and I are determined to prove to our students that one-on-one makes two.
12:35We're getting married.
12:36Well, congratulations.
12:37Thanks, but we've still got to prove another ancient mathematical theory
12:41that two can live as cheaply as one.
12:44See you for dinner.
12:48When you called, Mr. Goodwin, I agreed to see you
12:50because I want to put an end to all this.
12:53John doesn't know about my sister.
12:56I just want you to leave me alone.
12:58Miss McKenzie, I find it hard to believe
13:00that you don't want your sister's killer found.
13:02I have not been convinced that there is a killer.
13:05Yeah, the police think there is.
13:07Then it's up to the police, isn't it?
13:12Look, Mr. Goodwin.
13:14April was my sister.
13:15I loved her because of that.
13:18But I hated her for the way she lived.
13:20Her lifestyle killed our father.
13:24He raised two daughters, all alone.
13:28We both owed him everything.
13:31You know how April paid him back.
13:33I don't expect anyone to understand how bitter I feel.
13:40But I can't help it.
13:43I loved my father very much.
13:46I think I do understand.
13:48Then please do leave me alone, Mr. Goodwin.
13:50Most interesting, Archie.
14:03I already found Donna McKenzie a fascinating enigma.
14:07I figured you would.
14:08A woman of good taste, impeccable breeding and education.
14:11She has every right to be distressed.
14:14But right now I have a new challenge for you.
14:16The publisher, Chester Winslow.
14:18I wondered when we'd get around to him.
14:21I wish to speak to Mr. Winslow personally, Archie.
14:23He's practically there.
14:25That is factory.
14:48Oh, perhaps I've exceeded my quota for the day.
15:01Mr. Winslow?
15:02Hey!
15:02I'm reaching for my identification, that's all.
15:06If you don't mind.
15:09I work for Nero Wolfe.
15:11You've probably heard of it.
15:13I'm not in the market for a private detective.
15:15Well, he'd like to have a chat.
15:17Well, have him call my secretary and arrangement of what?
15:20It's about April McKenzie.
15:21Yes, Mr. Wolfe, I did know April McKenzie.
15:35But I have no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding her death.
15:40You did, among other things, however, pay her rent.
15:43Public knowledge of which could make things very difficult for me, Mr. Wolfe.
15:46Very difficult indeed.
15:47There has already been a great deal of difficulty placed upon my client, Mr. Winslow.
15:51He is suspected of murder.
15:53I'm prepared to pay you handsomely to keep my name out of this affair.
15:59Mr. Wolfe, I didn't kill April McKenzie.
16:03I hope not, sir.
16:04Because I intend to clear my client, Mr. Panzer, of all the charges against him.
16:10Then we have nothing further to discuss.
16:13Good day, Mr. Wolfe.
16:14Mr. Goodwin.
16:26Interesting exchange.
16:28Do you not agree?
16:29So let me in on it.
16:33Soon enough, Roger.
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17:07Oh, my God.
17:37Oh, my God.
18:07Oh, my God.
18:37Let's check for Lividity here.
18:42You knew him?
18:43He was the ME assigned to the April McKenzie case.
18:46Talked to him a couple of times on the phone since.
18:49What about?
18:50He had some tests to run to rule out something that was bothering him.
18:53I was checking on his progress.
18:55Why?
18:55We have a client that you're trying to sink for the April McKenzie murder.
19:00Saul Panzer had pad privileges at the apartment, Goodwin.
19:03We caught him there, remember?
19:05An innocent bystander, believe me.
19:07Sure.
19:08Goodwin, what do you know about the test Dr. Davis was running?
19:11Uh, he said something about the pupil dilation in the eyes.
19:16Bob it.
19:17That's it?
19:18Well, now.
19:19Is that why you called me here?
19:20I called you here because the man I sent over to the coroner's office checked Dr. Davis' work area.
19:26Your name was on a notification list along with mine for the results of the McKenzie test.
19:31So?
19:32The doc told me early on that he had a sample of body tissue that was critical in those tests he was making.
19:39He came back to work last night at the lab at 7 o'clock according to the coroner's sign-in sheet.
19:43Two of the people on the cleanup crew saw him at 9 o'clock.
19:45He never signed out of the lab.
19:47Our patrol boat found him floating in the water at 6 o'clock this morning, face down.
19:50And I thought maybe you might know something.
19:52We didn't.
19:57I don't.
19:59You mentioned something about body tissue.
20:00Missing from the lab.
20:02Missing?
20:03And critical to establishing the cause of April McKenzie's death.
20:07That's about it.
20:09A condition favorable to your client, Goodwin?
20:14Goodwin, I asked you a question.
20:16I'm more favorable to the killer if there is one, Inspector.
20:19But it won't be Saul Panzer, believe me.
20:21Goodwin, I wish you and Wolf would lay off always trying to make my life easier.
20:30No external evidence of trauma, Inspector.
20:33An autopsy will have to give us the cause of death.
20:36Well, I'll check with you later then, Doctor.
20:38I'm Lydia Proctor.
20:39But I won't be on this case, Inspector.
20:41The on-duty M.E. will be, uh, Dr. Sullivan.
20:44I appreciate your help.
20:46Anytime.
20:47Were you close to Dr. Davis?
20:52We were colleagues in pathology.
20:56I had a great deal of respect for his work.
21:02Now, Mr. Winslow, to what do I owe the honor?
21:05Oh, Mr. Wolf, I'd like you to, uh, reconsider the employment offer I made yesterday.
21:12Anyway, this should serve as an appropriate retainer.
21:17Fifty thousand dollars.
21:18Far more than I'm sure your client, Mr. Panzer, can pay for your services.
21:22I'm sorry, sir, but the answer is still no.
21:24I anticipated that.
21:25But I know your reputation.
21:28I'm certain that if your Mr. Panzer is guilty,
21:30you'll lead him to the bar of justice, client or not.
21:34What is that to do with the matter at hand?
21:36Take the fifty thousand dollars.
21:38No strings.
21:39You're not simply giving away that much money, sir.
21:42What do you expect for us?
21:44If you could prove that I had nothing to do with the death of April McKenzie
21:47and you keep my name out of it, the money is yours.
21:49If, on the other hand, you produce evidence which convicts me,
21:53you can also keep the money and turn me over to the police.
21:57An interesting offer.
21:59I am personally convinced that if April McKenzie was murdered,
22:02it was by your client, Mr. Panzer.
22:04Of course you have a reason.
22:06I believe that April confided my name to Mr. Panzer,
22:11though we had agreed to keep our relationship a private matter.
22:15What makes you think Saul Panzer was the only one who knew?
22:18Because I believe your client, Saul Panzer,
22:21has been using the name of Milton Thales,
22:23care of General Delivery, Grand Central Station,
22:26Lexington Avenue and 45th Street,
22:27to extract money from me for his silence.
22:30Are you saying, sir,
22:32that someone is blackmailing you?
22:34At the rate of $5,000 a month.
22:37And I believe your client, Mr. Panzer,
22:39has been collecting that money, Mr. Wolf.
22:42So,
24:28Please don't hurt me.
24:55Please don't hurt me.
25:55Insulin poisoning, not from drowning.
25:57Insulin is totally absorbed in the body, as I recall, and becomes virtually untraceable.
26:01Exactly.
26:03How could you prove it was used as a murder weapon?
26:05I conducted a microscopic examination of April McKenzie's body.
26:09I found what I was looking for, a needle mark on her thigh.
26:13Insulin is absorbed into the bloodstream, but I counted on finding traces in the injection site.
26:22And that is why you were examining the tissue?
26:25I've proven it, Mr. Wolfe.
26:28Just before Mr. Goodwin came in, the mice died in the proper test sequence.
26:32April McKenzie was murdered by insulin poisoning.
26:35I'm the last to know everything around here.
26:45I mean, after all, I only represent the police.
26:48Please, Mr. Kramer, be content with what you now know about the tissue sample and the insulin poisoning.
26:53Perhaps you will share the identity of April McKenzie's lover with me?
26:57It was not Saul Panzer, I can assure you of that, sir.
27:00And because Saul met April McKenzie more than a month after her paramour was allegedly blackmailed,
27:05I am also convinced Saul is not the blackmailer.
27:08The name, Wolfe.
27:09Who is paying her bills?
27:10Cookies and milk, Inspector.
27:12Yes.
27:12Excellent, yes.
27:13Excellent.
27:13It is exactly the center cut from a proper beating.
27:20Yes, yes.
27:21Wolfe, you going to answer my question?
27:22This highly sensitive and delicate undertaking will last only a moment, Mr. Kramer, if you don't mind.
27:29I'll write the wine now.
27:30Listen.
27:31Be careful.
27:35Yes, yes.
27:37Enough, enough.
27:39Yes.
27:42Now.
27:43The time has come, Fritz.
27:52That is absolutely beautiful, Fritz.
27:55Ah, the slicing is perfection, Fritz.
27:58Magnificent thinness.
28:02Would you like the honor, sir?
28:05You are the chef, Fritz.
28:10What's all the ceremony about?
28:12Jack Veal.
28:14To our knowledge, it's never been served in North America.
28:17The recipe is 200 years old.
28:19Yak?
28:20The milk?
28:21Yak milk.
28:22He had it flown in all the way from the Himalayas.
28:24Yak milk?
28:25That's sick.
28:27Ah, yes.
28:30Dinner.
28:32Yes.
28:35Yes.
28:35Dinner a week from tomorrow.
28:41I wait with anticipation, Fritz.
28:45This is all for next week?
28:46A good meal is nurtured, Inspector.
28:49A good meal is nurtured, Inspector.
28:50Nurtured.
28:51Nurtured.
28:52Well, how about nurturing my curiosity?
28:54Wolf, who is the man who says he's being blackmailed?
28:57There are reasons I cannot reveal that to you at the moment, Mr. Kramer.
29:00But I assure you, if it becomes essential to the proper disposition of the case, you shall be the first one to know.
29:05Don't start giving away the store.
29:07Mr. Wolf has a plan, Inspector.
29:09You've been invited to watch it unfold.
29:11Be grateful.
29:11I will need your help, Mr. Kramer, should you decide my plan has merit.
29:15Why don't you sit down, please?
29:20All right.
29:21What do I do?
29:22One, we would like you to determine who it is that's been following Archie the past few days.
29:28And two?
29:29Two is the major undertaking.
29:31It involves Milton Thales of Lexington Station.
29:34The blackmailer's phony name in the general delivery station.
29:37We have a wide range of suspects to select from, but from all appearances, the best choice at the moment is April's sister, Professor Donna McKenzie.
29:46She's a flamethrower, all right, but she's also too obvious.
29:49Possibly.
29:50However, the cause to suspect her is the name Milton Thales, or Thales of Miletus.
29:58Thales of Miletus?
29:59Yes, he was the chief of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece, the founder of the geometry of lines.
30:05Great.
30:05Maybe I ought to book him.
30:06I get it.
30:08How could a mathematics professor resist?
30:11Exactly, Mr. Kramer.
30:12Very good.
30:14And with cause to suspect Professor McKenzie, we should be able to use our ancient Greek wise man to explore all the possibilities in this most perplexing case.
30:23How?
30:24To start with, by enlisting the aid of Julie Keene.
30:28Mr. Wolfe believes that if you, as April's best friend, write this letter to Donna McKenzie, it may help solve the case.
30:35Let me see if I understand.
30:38I'm telling Donna in this letter that I know she's this Thales character?
30:42Correct.
30:43And that I want her to pay me the $20,000 she's already collected in blackmail, I'll turn her over to the police?
30:49Correct again.
30:50And what are you hoping she'll do?
30:52Well, if she pays the money, we'll have the proof.
30:54I don't mean to interfere, Mr. Goodwin, but it appears to me that if Donna McKenzie is the murderer, she has one alternative besides paying Julie the money.
31:05I didn't think of that.
31:07Look, it's risky.
31:08I know.
31:09But it's the only plan we have.
31:11Sure, I'm dead and you have your proof.
31:13We'll be watching you around the clock.
31:19Honey, I think if we can help find out who killed April, you ought to do whatever has to be done.
31:24Yes?
31:38Job on the express.
31:40Letter from Donna McKenzie.
31:41Oh.
31:46Sure.
31:54What is it, Donna?
32:15It's you.
32:17You okay?
32:19I'm just on edge, I guess.
32:21Oh, relax.
32:22I'm your protection, remember?
32:24I think it's just the waiting.
32:26Yeah, it's tough.
32:28You about ready for your show?
32:30Yeah, just give me one more minute.
32:32I'll be right out.
32:33I'll be at the bar.
32:54How's she doing?
33:06Nervous, but she'll be fine.
33:07Look, I hope you're doing the right thing.
33:09Making two of us.
33:10Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Chez Petit.
33:27And our first session for the evening, ladies and gentlemen, for your kind of entertainment,
33:32today's kind of singer, Julie Keene.
33:36Come on, Julie, baby.
33:44The troops are in the country.
33:46Call an ambulance.
34:07Julie.
34:08Julie.
34:09Julie.
34:10Can you hear me?
34:12Julie.
34:13Can you hear me?
34:14Julie, come on.
34:15Wake up.
34:16Wake up, Julie.
34:17What is it?
34:18Who opened the stage door?
34:20I did.
34:21Someone knocked.
34:22Said he worked for Nero Wolf.
34:24He was checking on me.
34:25Who was it?
34:26He wore a mask.
34:27A tall man.
34:28I couldn't see his face.
34:29We caught her in time, so it looks like she'll be okay.
34:30Fact is, they're talking about discharging her in a couple of hours.
34:31Satisfaction?
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35:25Thank you all for coming.
35:28It is time to clear the air, so to speak.
35:35When the East River gave up the lifeless body of April McKenzie,
35:39police action was immediate and relentless.
35:42In a swift foray to her Fifth Avenue apartment,
35:44they surprised one Saul Panzer in the stance of the fleeing lover,
35:50and they were confident that he was their man.
35:52He was not.
35:56Mr. Panzer, as the police later conceded,
35:59was guilty of nothing more heinous than saving the price of an occasional hotel room,
36:06and in so doing was able to enjoy the innocent companionship
36:09of another lonely soul, his friend April McKenzie.
36:13Saul Panzer was not the only man in Miss McKenzie's garland of friends.
36:17There was another, possibly of loftier social standing than Mr. Panzer,
36:21and most certainly the possessor of a higher credit rating.
36:26This man, whose visits to the apartment on Fifth Avenue were not solely for innocent companionship,
36:31was a guest of April McKenzie on the night she was killed.
36:35Mr. Wolfe, you said it was time to clear the air.
36:39Instead, you seem to be polluting it.
36:42Will you please sit down, Mr. Winslow.
36:47Now, to the cause of Miss McKenzie's death,
36:51not drowning as was at first believed,
36:54but rather insulant poisoning,
36:56subtle, untraceable,
36:58and fatal.
36:59My evaluation of this was that her murder was designed to look like an accident,
37:03to head off an extensive police investigation.
37:06Designed by whom?
37:07All in good time, Miss Keene.
37:08By the grace of an alert laboratory worker,
37:13Dr. Lydia Proctor,
37:15the previously untraceable insulin poisoning
37:17was proven to be, in fact, the cause of death.
37:21While Miss Proctor was on her way to this proof,
37:22the East River yielded the body of a second victim,
37:25Dr. Davis, the medical examiner for whom she worked.
37:28But, why?
37:31Was a pattern beginning to develop?
37:34No.
37:35There was no motive.
37:37Nothing to point in that direction that we might follow.
37:39But then,
37:41suddenly,
37:42out of nowhere,
37:44a single word materialized and floated before us.
37:47A shabby, unclean word.
37:54Blackmail.
37:55And we had our motive.
37:57Am I correct, Mr. Winslow?
38:00How should I know?
38:01Does the name Milton Thales
38:03mean anything to you, sir?
38:05I don't know what you're talking about, Mr. Wolfe.
38:09Do you, Miss Keene?
38:10No.
38:11A moment ago, you asked me who designed the death of April McKenzie
38:14so that it would appear accidental.
38:15Is that not so?
38:17Yes, yes, I did.
38:19Would it come as a surprise if I said it was
38:21you, Miss Keene?
38:24What?
38:25You think I killed April?
38:27No, Miss Keene.
38:29But you're as deeply involved as if you had.
38:31You see, at the time, you were attacked outside the stage door.
38:36Inspector Kramer had his men watching Donna McKenzie.
38:38So she could not have been the one who attacked you.
38:41Well, maybe she had an accomplice.
38:43Julie said it was a man she saw.
38:44The point, Mr. Cummings, is that Miss Keene was not attacked at all.
38:49I almost died.
38:50I was in the hospital.
38:51Yes, Miss Keene.
38:52But you knew help was waiting in the persons of Archie Goodwin and Paul Cummings.
38:56Inspector Kramer's men, at my request, were covering the alley as well.
39:00They saw you let yourself out of the stage door.
39:02And then they saw you inject yourself.
39:06Just enough to make you ill, but not fatally ill.
39:10What is all this?
39:11Julie's not a murderer or a blackmailer.
39:13No, Mr. Cummings.
39:14She is not either of those.
39:17Well, then who?
39:19You, sir.
39:21You were the blackmailer.
39:23You killed April McKenzie.
39:25Because she found out you were blackmailing Chester Winslow and threatened to expose you.
39:30Julie was only a reluctant accomplice.
39:33She was in love with you.
39:35When she discovered you were blackmailing Mr. Winslow, she agreed to your plan.
39:39To throw suspicion away from you and upon Donna McKenzie.
39:42Or upon her fiancé, Professor Stewart.
39:44That's ridiculous.
39:45Where's your proof?
39:54Explain, if you will, Mr. Cummings, your relationship to this man.
39:58He works for me, so what?
39:59He has told us his side of the story, Mr. Cummings.
40:02The gambling debt you were trying to make good.
40:04Your life was worthless unless you paid your debts.
40:08It became the motive for blackmail when Julie told you about April McKenzie's affair with Chester Winslow.
40:14Paul, I told you not to.
40:18I begged you.
40:21Let's go, Mr. Cummings.
40:22And I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to come along, too, Ms. Cummings.
40:25Let's go, Mr. Cummings.
40:26I don't know.
40:57I'm sorry.
40:58You had to be exposed to all this.
41:00I'm not sorry, Mr. Wolfe.
41:03I'm glad that John knows.
41:04It was stupid to try to hide it from him.
41:06Wouldn't have mattered.
41:07Don't you know that?
41:09I want to go home.
41:13I haven't cried for April yet.
41:18Yes.
41:26Next time, Saul.
41:40Try a hotel.
41:42It won't be your next time.
41:43Yeah.
41:44How many men have lived and died by that?
41:46Ah, yes.
41:47Yes.
41:49Ah, yes.
41:51Not bad.
42:01Not bad.
42:04A grotesque understatement, Saul.
42:06It is impeccable.
42:08Yeah.
42:09My mother fixes it every Friday.
42:13I'll get you her recipe, Fritz.
42:15It has even a little better flavor.
42:20Your mother has no such recipe, sir.
42:22This is yak, deal.
42:25I don't think that's what she calls it.
42:29Maybe you'd like to meet my mother.
42:30I would not, sir.
42:32Yak, deal, indeed.
42:35Your mother.
42:37It sure tastes the same.
42:42Does your mother perhaps come from the Himalayas?
42:45Himalayas?
42:46No.
42:47Hoboken.
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