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00:00Package for Nero Wolfe.
00:16There you go.
00:22Is that the sausage, Archie?
00:24Sausage?
00:25Yes. Four pounds.
00:27From Bill Darst, the best sausage maker with the Cherbourg.
00:30Fritz!
00:31You know, Archie, the last time Bill Darst sent me sausages,
00:35the fools packed them in dry ice.
00:37Consequently, they would dreadfully freeze or burn.
00:40However, they seem to...
00:42Get out!
00:44What kind of bomb is that?
00:57It's still missing!
00:59Archie, come back here!
01:02Well?
01:03It's gas.
01:04Tear gas.
01:05No bombs today.
01:06I'm not in the shape I used to be.
01:08You're all Wolfe's residence.
01:09May I speak to Mr. Wolfe, please?
01:10You're all Wolfe's residence.
01:11May I speak to Mr. Wolfe, please?
01:13Just a second.
01:14Arnold Dorso.
01:15You're all Wolfe's residence.
01:16May I speak to Mr. Wolfe, please?
01:18Just a second.
01:19Arnold Dorso.
01:20King of the spiders.
01:21The police have never been able to touch him.
01:22He knows you're out to change that.
01:23I'm not in the shape I used to be.
01:25I'm not in the shape I used to be.
01:28I'm not in the shape I used to be.
01:30I'm not in the shape I used to be.
01:33You're all Wolfe's residence.
01:34May I speak to Mr. Wolfe, please?
01:36Just a second.
01:38Arnold Dorso.
01:39King of the spiders.
01:41Arnold Dorso.
01:43King of the spiders. The police have never been able to touch him.
01:46He knows you're out to change that.
01:48I think we're about to find out why we were sent the loaded frankfurter.
01:56Yes, what can I do for you, Mr. Dorso?
01:58In half an hour, Mrs. Barry Rackham will be arriving at your house.
02:02She will offer you a job. Refuse it.
02:05You will not lose your fee.
02:07In a week, I will be sending you $10,000 in cash.
02:10Twice before, I made you similar offers, Mr. Wolfe.
02:13You disregarded them.
02:14I strongly advise you against repetition.
02:17Do not accept Mrs. Rackham's job.
02:20Am I understood?
02:24Wolfe?
02:25Wolfe!
02:40No!
02:41No!
03:01Youaring FrauÄ—se!
03:07The End
03:36I'm sorry, Mr. Wolfe, this is very difficult for me.
03:41But I suppose when a rich woman marries a man ten years younger than herself...
03:46Sarah.
03:46I want Mr. Wolfe to know exactly why I'm here, Calvin.
03:50Please go on, Mrs. Regan.
03:53Barry's my second husband.
03:56I've always given him money.
03:59Freely.
04:02Second year we were married, he asked for more than the first, and the third year more than the second.
04:06Do you want to know the last amount?
04:08If it will help, yes.
04:10$25,000, that was over six months ago.
04:15I refused.
04:17He's never asked me for money since, not once.
04:20But yet he's spending more than he ever did.
04:23Mr. Leeds, you are Mrs. Rackham's cousin?
04:26Yes.
04:27Have you ever spoken to Mr. Rackham about the source of his money?
04:32Once.
04:33Sarah asked me to.
04:35Barry said he'd been lucky in the stock market.
04:39Did you believe him?
04:41No.
04:41I don't want you to expose my husband, Mr. Wolfe.
04:44I simply want you to find out where and how he's getting his money.
04:47That's all.
04:49Mrs. Rackham, is that a check for $10,000?
04:52Why, yes.
04:55Well, should it be larger?
04:56No, no, no.
04:57You will take the case?
05:02I must take the case, Mrs. Rackham.
05:05Aren't you?
05:06When can you go to Westchester?
05:09Calendar's clear today.
05:10I don't want my husband to suspect anything, Mr. Wolfe.
05:13May I make a suggestion?
05:15I have a place of my own on Sarah's estate.
05:18The hillside kennels I raised Doberman's.
05:20About a month ago, one of my dogs was poisoned.
05:22I could say that Mr. Goodwin is up there to investigate that.
05:27All right, Mr. Leeds.
05:29Fritz will show you out.
05:31Good day.
05:32Bye.
05:33Bye.
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05:451100.
05:46Donald Do���so calls.
05:48Mrs. Recum arrives precisely half an hour later and offers me a check for exactly $10,000.
05:56What does that suggest to you, Archie?
05:58Well, it suggests to me that, uh, we should turn the whole thing over to the cops.
06:03Not this case.
06:05Well, that phone's going to ring again, or another package is going to be delivered and it's not going
06:10to be hors d'oeuvres.
06:11And we have to stop delivery, do we not?
06:13Once and for all.
06:14Well, the question is how.
06:16Yes, that is precisely the question.
06:20Well, if I'm going to make it up to Westchester, I better get started.
06:43Isabel, be a nice doggie.
07:02Nobby, stay.
07:03I'm just a guest.
07:05Here, Nobby.
07:07That's a good girl.
07:09Mr. Goodwin?
07:10Thanks for calling off the troops.
07:13I'm Annabelle Frye, Mrs. Rackham's daughter-in-law.
07:16Mr. Leeds had to go on an errand, but he'll be back soon.
07:19You always let the livestock run around loose?
07:21Nobby wouldn't have hurt you.
07:23She always stops three paces off.
07:25Springing distance.
07:27Great.
07:28Glad she knows how to count.
07:29Yes.
07:30That's a good girl.
07:31You go home now.
07:32Go home now.
07:34That's a good girl.
07:35How many of those does Mr. Leeds have?
07:38A dozen, now.
07:39He brings them and sells them.
07:40Calvin's always said he'd rather live with his Dobermans than with a woman.
07:46And which would you prefer, Mr. Goodwin?
07:48A woman.
07:50I think.
07:50I haven't found her yet, but maybe I'm not looking in the right kennel.
07:56There's Calvin now.
08:00Goodbye, Mr. Goodwin.
08:01Oh, don't forget, Calvin.
08:06Dinner at eight tonight, and do bring Mr. Goodwin.
08:09Of course, Annabelle.
08:11Hi.
08:11Hi, how are you doing?
08:12Good.
08:13Why do I get the feeling that Mrs. Fry doesn't believe I'm here just about your dog?
08:18Well, Sarah might have told her she confides in Annabelle.
08:21I can see what?
08:22Will her husband be at dinner?
08:24Her husband's dead.
08:26What happened?
08:27Vietnam happened.
08:29Broke Sarah up.
08:30Badly.
08:32He was her only son.
08:36Annabelle's been the strong one.
08:38And they've been very close ever since.
08:41That's my place right there.
08:42You overweight?
08:50You don't run her enough, Sarah.
08:52I know, Calvin.
08:53I'll take her for a walk after dinner.
08:55Where's Barry?
08:56Oh, I'm sure he'll be along shortly.
08:58Barry always manages to be a little late.
09:00He thinks it's fashionable.
09:03You know, I'm disappointed in you.
09:06Why?
09:07Well, you're much too nice looking to be a detective.
09:10I don't tell anyone.
09:12It's just disguised.
09:14Oh, here's Barry now.
09:16Bless him.
09:17Sorry I'm late, darling.
09:18Where were you?
09:19The club.
09:21What are you drinking, Calvin?
09:22Your liquor.
09:23Barry, this is Archie Goodwin.
09:25So you're the detective Calvin hired about the dog.
09:27Well, he hired Nero Wolf.
09:29I just do the running around.
09:31Let me freshen your drink.
09:34I'll go see what's holding dinner up.
09:36Excuse me.
09:37Oh, thank you, darling.
09:38You're very kind.
09:43Smoke?
09:43No, thanks.
09:48Think you'll get anywhere, Goodwin, on this job, Calvin?
09:50I don't know.
09:51Who hates mean-looking dogs around here besides me?
09:54That dog was poisoned over a month ago.
09:56Why should Leeds wait that long and then decide to blow himself to a fee for Nero Wolf?
10:01He can't afford it.
10:03I guess you better ask Mr. Leeds about that.
10:07Driving back tonight?
10:09I may stay over.
10:11Sunday traffic isn't bad if you leave early.
10:12That's not a bad idea, Goodwin.
10:15Leave early.
10:19Dinner's ready, Sarah.
10:20Oh, thank you, Annabelle.
10:21Come along, everybody.
10:23I'm sorry, Nobby.
10:24Calvin says you're too fat.
10:26You stay here.
10:27We'll take our walk later.
10:28Anyone there, Nobby?
10:49Mr. Squirrel, probably.
10:51Come on, Nobby.
10:52Come on, Nobby.
11:22Come on, Nobby.
11:44Yeah, come in.
11:48Have you got a sick dog?
11:49No, why?
11:50If something's whimpering in pain, I can hear it through my window.
11:54Take a look.
12:20It's Nobby!
12:23Oh, Nobby!
12:29Oh, no!
12:31What is it?
12:32She's been stabbed.
12:36You think the man who poisoned your other dog did this?
12:39Possible.
12:41Oh, Nobby!
12:43I gave it to Sarah two years ago.
12:47When she was hurt, she came crawling to me.
12:50Now, wait a minute. Didn't Mrs. Rackham say she was taking the dog for a walk?
13:03Sarah!
13:07Sarah!
13:13Sarah!
13:20Sarah!
13:32Stabbed.
13:33Oh.
13:34Call the police.
13:35That's what you do.
14:06What are you doing, airing the house?
14:09He's gone.
14:11What do you mean, gone?
14:12Mr. Wolfe, last night, after you called about the murder,
14:17when I got up to make breakfast, the door was like that, wide open.
14:23What is all this?
14:24He left these in his room, one for me, one for Theodore, one for you.
14:29Theodore, Mr. Hewitt will take the orcas.
14:32He will need your help.
14:33He should pay you about 300 weekly.
14:37Fritz, remain in the house until it is sold.
14:40Your monthly salary will continue as usual, until then.
14:47Archie, do not look for me.
14:49I have retired from the detective business.
14:52I don't want to work for Mr. Hewitt, Archie.
14:54You have to find him, Archie.
14:57Where will he sleep?
14:59Who will take care of him?
15:00Something's wrong.
15:08Very wrong.
15:10Nobody scares Nero Wolfe.
15:12Not even Arnold Dorso.
15:14Now, he wouldn't just run away.
15:17Oh, Archie.
15:18Mark Vucic called.
15:20What did he want?
15:21He wondered why he hadn't seen you or Mr. Wolfe at the restaurant lately.
15:27He was worried.
15:28He's worried.
15:29Look, start packing up the orchids.
15:31I'll be back later.
15:32And shut the damn door.
15:42Archie.
15:43Hello, Marco.
15:44Nero, any chance you can scare up a meal?
15:47I've been driving around all day talking to myself.
15:49I'll fix something.
15:50Rich, tell you Wolfe is gone?
15:52On the telephone.
15:53Nero Wolfe is an old and dear friend of mine.
15:56I always thought it a folly for him to be a detective.
15:59A cook.
16:00A great cook.
16:02He should have been a cook.
16:04He'd probably eat more than he cooked.
16:06Yesterday, I got a rack of lamb.
16:09Remember, Nero and lamb, garnished.
16:13It's still hanging in the meat locker.
16:15Come, I'll show you.
16:17You will look at the lamb and maybe cry a little.
16:20Looking good, Marco.
16:33Everything fresh every day.
16:35I've been there.
16:57Archie, well, you certainly took your time getting here.
17:00I had Marco on telephone early this morning.
17:02I didn't realize I might have to send up flares.
17:05That's it. A spaghetti commercial.
17:07You'll be perfect.
17:10Are we going to shake hands or not, Archie?
17:14I didn't think that you'd run out on us for a second.
17:17But just for the record, what are you doing in a meat locker?
17:22Let's go upstairs. Marco gave me a small room.
17:24We can talk up there without breathing to that.
17:34Very nice.
17:51I think Pierre just a touch more tarragon would be most helpful.
17:58Just a suggestion, sir.
18:04No other course was possible.
18:07I had accepted Mrs. Rackham's check.
18:10Arnold Dorso's warning had to be taken seriously.
18:12Theodore and Fritz were in danger, as were you, Archie.
18:16It seemed wisest for me to disappear.
18:19The point is, what do we do now?
18:20And how much of a chance have we got to do it?
18:23There are two possibilities.
18:25We get Dorso or he gets us.
18:27Precisely.
18:28And we may find that Arnold Dorso will lead us to Mrs. Rackham's murderer.
18:32Meanwhile, what do I do?
18:34Start reading the want ads or take in washing?
18:39I want you to go back to the house.
18:42Act as if I had abandoned both the case and you.
18:47Be bitter.
18:48Quite bitter about my disappearance.
18:51And wait.
18:53For what?
18:54Arnold Dorso is certain to know you were at the scene of the murder.
18:57I have a feeling he may think you were angry enough at me to do his bidding.
19:03You will therefore just wait, Archie, for Dorso to play his hand.
19:09I know just the place.
19:11A bar where his gorillas hang out.
19:14The King's Castle.
19:15Is it true?
19:20Is Nero Wolf really gone?
19:22With the wind.
19:23But you must know where he is.
19:24He couldn't simply disappear.
19:26Well, I'll admit with his size, that would be a little hard.
19:30But I'm the only detective left in this establishment.
19:34He ran out on us.
19:38Then I want to hire you.
19:41To do what?
19:41Do you think that one of us, who was at dinner the other night, killed Sarah?
19:48Well, it's possible.
19:49Do you know who it was yet?
19:52Well, I only said it was possible.
19:53Do you think that I killed her?
19:56I picked up an afternoon paper.
19:59Mrs. Rackham's will leaves you a million dollars.
20:02That's not a bad motive.
20:03She left Calvin Leeds half a million.
20:05Okay, for cousin Calvin, half as much motive.
20:08Well, what about Barry?
20:09As Sarah's husband, he inherits the rest of the estate.
20:12That makes him richer than all of us.
20:13Wouldn't that give him the most motive?
20:16What you really want is for me to find proof that Barry Rackham murdered his wife.
20:20Isn't that it?
20:21He did kill her.
20:22I'm sure of it.
20:25Look, I know how you feel.
20:28Now, maybe Rackham killed her.
20:29But I couldn't guarantee that I would come up with the evidence that he did.
20:37And you wouldn't like it if I didn't.
20:40I'm sorry.
20:41I know Barry's guilty.
20:49I'll get the evidence of myself if I have to.
21:05Made the front page, pal.
21:07Well, they promised me a picture.
21:10Name's Christy.
21:12Max Christy.
21:14From the West Coast.
21:15Ever hear of me?
21:18Sorry.
21:19I'm local.
21:20So you're Nero Wolf's Archie Goodwin.
21:24So?
21:25Your boss took a powder.
21:27Yeah.
21:28With a can that came in.
21:32Left you out in the cold, huh?
21:33Yeah, but I'll be all right.
21:37If it doesn't snow.
21:39You got a job that might keep the snowflakes off your back?
21:42Interested?
21:43That depends.
21:45What kind of job is it?
21:46Tailor guy.
21:49Five hundred a day.
21:52Three bills over scale.
21:54It's that hot, huh?
21:54Look, you do this job and you'll be dipping into the biggest river of money that ever flow.
22:09Who do I tail?
22:10Barry Rackham.
22:13Oh, now, isn't that a coincidence?
22:15Just before Wolf left me twisting in the wind, we were working for Mrs. Rackham.
22:21I know that.
22:22Rackham's taking a suite at the Hancock Hotel.
22:30But understand this, Goodwin.
22:32If you get any facts, try to peddle them elsewhere, like the cops, you would be in a very bad situation.
22:40Do I draw you a map of how bad?
22:44If I was standing up, my knees would be shaking.
22:49Don't overplay it, pal.
22:50Well, do you take the job or don't you?
22:53I'll sleep on it.
22:54You want me.
22:55I'm at Klondike 5.
22:57Three, two.
22:58Three, two.
23:01Better write it down so you don't forget.
23:04For five hundred a day, I'm an elephant.
23:06So we baited Trapp and Mr. Christie comes to sniff at it.
23:19He is certain to be a minion of Mr. Dorsos.
23:22Yeah, but what's Dorsos after?
23:24I mean, why would he have me tail Rackham?
23:26My guess is that now that Mr. Rackham has become a millionaire, he would like to resign from the organization.
23:33But you do not resign from a club like Arnold Dorsos.
23:37Dead or alive, you must keep paying your dues.
23:40Then I take Christie's job.
23:42Is that the way we play this hand?
23:45Until we find out how Mr. Dorsos means to ensnare Barry Rackham.
23:48Oh, uh, I almost forgot.
23:52Yes?
23:53Lay off the saffron.
23:55What?
23:56In the bouillabaisse.
23:58The chef's coming unglued.
23:59Amateurs!
24:01A kitchen full of amateurs, sir.
24:04Do you hear what I say?
24:06I'm surrounded by amateurs.
24:09Have you been tailing me, Goodwin?
24:11Who's that interested in where I go?
24:13I've got this bad memory for names.
24:15If you're working for Annabelle, she's wasting your money.
24:18I didn't kill my wife.
24:21Okay, what else didn't you do?
24:24I'll give you a thousand dollars for the name of the person who hired you.
24:27It's a sale.
24:28I like to get what I pay for.
24:30Absolutely.
24:41All right, who's the client?
24:44Arnold Dorsos.
24:48There's five grand more in it for you if you tell me what he's after.
24:56I can tell you a guess.
24:58I'll buy it.
25:00Now, I think Dorsos wants to use me to frame you for the murder of your wife.
25:05I think he's going to ask me to remember something that happened the night she was killed.
25:11Something that up to now has slipped my mind for a nice, big, juicy price.
25:17Now, if I remember it the way Dorsos wants me to, it's going to put you away for life.
25:24I didn't kill her.
25:24I swear to you, Goodwin, I didn't.
25:26Look, whether you did or whether you didn't, I'm not about to help frame you.
25:30Work for me, Goodwin, and I'll top anything Dorsos offers.
25:32Look, you're too scared now.
25:34Ring me when you cool off.
25:36Then, maybe we can talk a deal.
25:48Well, you've done very well, Archie.
25:51As an unemployed detective, now you have two jobs.
25:54Okay, so I take Rackham's offer.
25:57But he's scared.
25:58I mean scared.
26:00He has reason to be.
26:01I'm supposed to meet Max Christie back at the bar this afternoon.
26:05I've typed up the whole Rackham thing in my report, just in case I'm being staked out.
26:10Satisfactory.
26:11Now, the next move is Mr. Dorsos.
26:14Yeah.
26:15I could wind up in smaller pieces than those vegetables if I'm not careful.
26:19Then be careful, Archie.
26:21Be very careful.
26:22All right.
26:28Says here you took six grand from Rackham.
26:31You practically stuffed it in my ear.
26:35Goodwin, do you have any idea who you're dealing with?
26:39Hey, I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, you know?
26:43Sure, I know who I'm dealing with.
26:44And I expect to live to 90, at least.
26:47Let's go.
26:52Got a car outside.
26:54What's that for, wood chucks?
26:57You never go to a bar mitzvah without them.
27:01You know you're a trouble, Goodwin?
27:04What you think is funny might get your head blown off.
27:08Now, let's go.
27:10I'm supposed to have you there by four o'clock.
27:27Get down.
27:28What?
27:30Face down on the floor.
27:32I'd like to enjoy the scenery.
27:33I'll describe it to you.
27:35I've been breathing dust for an hour.
28:02That's better than not breathing at all.
28:04He's got a .38 in his belt.
28:06We'll take care of it.
28:07Up, friend.
28:10Let's go.
28:30Sit down, Goodwin.
28:34Do you know who I am?
28:41Sure.
28:42You're Arnold Dorso, the sausage maker.
28:46Where is Nero Wolfe?
28:48Egypt, I think.
28:50And I couldn't care less.
28:52Why, are you going to send one of your goons over to Cairo to drill him?
28:55I'll help load the gun.
28:56I have no interest in pursuing an opponent who's fled the field.
28:59That would not be profitable.
29:00Well, then forget about Wolfe.
29:02He's gone.
29:03And I still have to pay the rent.
29:05Now, why have you got me tailing Barry Rackham?
29:08Max Christie had a very successful operation on the West Coast.
29:13With a slight improvement, that operation could be enormously successful right here in New York.
29:17But that slight improvement would require the cooperation of a wealthy and well-placed individual.
29:23Barry Rackham would be ideal.
29:24He would supply us with lists of his friends, the extent of their personal wealth, the women the men liked, and the men their wives liked.
29:35You're talking blackmail.
29:38What's in it for me?
29:40Your share of the profit would be 5% of the net, provided you delivered Barry Rackham to us again.
29:45You mean if I scare him back into it?
29:47If you wish to put it that way.
29:48Yeah, well, what if I got to scare him with?
29:50Evidence that he committed murder.
29:51You've got it?
29:54If I need it, I'll have it.
29:57Well, don't get me wrong, but, um, pinning a murder rap on a millionaire isn't a taffy pull.
30:05Now, how much protection have I got?
30:09You supply us with those lists, and you'll have protection.
30:12You'll also be amply rewarded.
30:15Do we understand each other?
30:17Provided you understand that I don't like you much.
30:21Nobody likes me, Goodwin.
30:25There was only one man who was my intellectual equal.
30:28Nero Wolfe.
30:29And his nerve failed him.
30:32You're telling me I'm the one that's out on the street?
30:37Nice talking to you, Goodwin.
30:39Too bad about Nero Wolfe.
30:48I once had great admiration for him.
30:52So did I.
30:53Well, we do meet in the funniest places.
31:15You're early.
31:16Will you walk me to the elevator, Barry?
31:18Good night, Mr. Goodwin.
31:18I interrupt something?
31:38Annabelle and I had some misunderstandings to clear up.
31:41She's a great girl for clearing things up.
31:43Well, do you have anything to report?
31:46I spent an hour today with Arnold Dorso.
31:51What did he say about me?
31:53Nothing good.
31:57Here's your six grand.
31:58I hate to give it back, but I keep it.
32:02Look, if you take money from a murderer for helping him beat the rap, you have to be a lawyer.
32:07And I haven't been admitted to the bar.
32:09I told you, Goodwin, I didn't murder my wife.
32:12Dorso doesn't have anything on me.
32:14He just won't let me quit.
32:16Great, fine.
32:17Well, that's between you and Dorso.
32:19I just came here to return the money and tell you that the deal is off.
32:23But I do have a suggestion to make, strictly on my own.
32:27Make it.
32:27You're in a hole.
32:31I've never seen a guy in one deeper.
32:34Now, according to you, your main concern is to see that you don't get framed for the murder of your wife.
32:40Now, let me arrange for you to see Dorso.
32:43I mean, he wants you back in the organization.
32:46You give him a new list, like the ones you've been giving him all along,
32:49with names, estimates of personal wealth, I mean, stuff that he can use.
32:55Tell him you'll play along.
32:57He'll let you off the hook.
33:02I'm afraid of Dorso.
33:04You don't know him.
33:05Look, I know him all right.
33:07Now, what about tomorrow?
33:08I'll set it up.
33:12Tomorrow?
33:12No.
33:14No, I can't.
33:14I just...
33:15Look, hey, relax.
33:17I'll pick you up at a quarter to three.
33:19Well, here it is.
33:23Hello, honey.
33:34Well, there it is.
33:47Now, my only problem is getting it past the gorillas in the garage, keeping Dorsos' foot off the floor signal, and remembering to snap on the tape recorder. Piece of cake.
33:59Try not to be so pessimistic, Archie. I have complete faith in your ingenuity.
34:05Well, that's nice, but while you're at the stove, I'll be in the frying pan. Wish me luck.
34:10Of course. I'm as anxious as you are to be finished with this case. It's difficult to be aware.
34:17I miss everything I care for. My house, my bed, my orchids. Theodore and Fritz.
34:33Let's hope by tomorrow night you won't be missing me, too. Good night, Anatole.
34:47I know. Taxis are getting harder to come by.
35:01I know. Taxis are getting harder to come by. Can I drop you somewhere?
35:16You wouldn't work for me, but you would for a murderer.
35:21Just who is the murderer I'm working for?
35:24You took $6,000 from Barry Rackham. I think it's obvious what he paid for.
35:29Hey, now, wait a minute. Now, let's get the record straight.
35:33First, I don't have a dime of Rackham's money.
35:35I knew you'd deny it.
35:36Look, Annabelle, you can't take the law into your own hands.
35:45I know what you were up to last night in Rackham's suite.
35:49You're going to bat your eyes at him and get him soused enough to talk?
35:56Now, take a pro's advice.
35:58Don't try and nail this case down by yourself.
36:01You'll just get hurt.
36:02Sarah deserves justice.
36:06Look, you also need some idea of how to go about getting it.
36:12Now, you leave Rackham to me.
36:13I can't tell you what's going on,
36:15but I'm asking you to lay back and trust me.
36:23Annabelle!
36:23It's open.
36:37That was, uh, are the estimates and the names?
36:47Let's go.
36:53I've got the same gun and the same holster.
37:11What's in the case?
37:13Stuff Mr. Dorso wants.
37:15Well, open it up!
37:17Okay.
37:29This way.
37:29This way.
37:47Wait outside, Max.
37:48Right, Mr. Dorso.
37:55Sit down, Mr. Rackham.
38:02Did you acquaint him with our proposal?
38:05I dotted the I's and crossed the T's.
38:07Did he accept?
38:08He did.
38:09The estimate, the names?
38:11In here.
38:11You deserted our organization once, Mr. Rackham.
38:15That's usually fatal.
38:18But in your case, I'm prepared to make an exception.
38:21You do recognize that we have mutual interests.
38:26Do you?
38:28I recognize it.
38:33Of course you'll be receiving a fair percentage of the profits.
38:36Not quite the 5% of Mr. Goodwin's, but of course now you're a wealthier man than Mr. Goodwin, aren't you?
38:45The estimates.
38:56Touch that floor signal and this goes off.
38:58Oh, you're crazy.
39:00Turn your chair around.
39:01Turn your chair around.
39:06You take the rope out of the case and tie him up.
39:09I said tie him up.
39:22Now get over here and sit down.
39:24Come on.
39:28Now, Mr. Dorso, let's have a little talk.
39:33First of all, Nero Wolf isn't in Egypt.
39:36He's giving cooking lessons at a joint called Rustamance.
39:39Great food.
39:40I recommend it.
39:42Now, here's the situation.
39:45I'm going to give it to you just the way Wolf told me to.
39:49Now there's a tape recorder in that attaché case, and it's been going ever since I came into the steam room.
39:54By now, the feds have enough to cook you over a slow fire.
39:59Say, 10 to 20?
40:02If you think I'm giving you a snow job and there's nothing in that case but lint, you talk up.
40:08I believe it.
40:10Good.
40:11Now we can deal.
40:13Now you told me that you have evidence, or you can get evidence, that will convict Rackham of murder.
40:18Is that true?
40:20I have evidence against him.
40:22Okay.
40:23We swap.
40:24The evidence on that tape for the evidence that will convict Rackham.
40:29Do we trade?
40:30Yes.
40:37Great.
40:38I'll take delivery now.
40:41Where is it?
40:41Here in this room?
40:44It's in the safe.
40:45Okay.
40:51I'm going to loosen your hands, but you just remember, I'm a lot faster with that gun than you are with your foot.
41:00You shot the boss.
41:14Reach!
41:15What for?
41:15You let him in with a gun.
41:16He's watching.
41:28Gold.
41:29What about him?
41:32Leave him for the cops.
41:47May I speak to Anatole, please?
41:51Tell Theodore I shall be up to look at the orchids as soon as I am finished here, Prince.
41:55Now, Mr. Emery, you were saying...
42:01I brought that tape Goodwin gave me six times now, Wolf, and I'll tell you something.
42:05If I had to submit that recording in court, I'd never get a conviction.
42:08Why not, sir?
42:09Because all it proves is intent to blackmail.
42:11Not that Barry Rackham killed his wife.
42:13Oh, surely there's no question now of Barry's guilt.
42:15I'm afraid there is, Mrs. Fry.
42:17The district attorney is quite right.
42:18Your deposition said that Dorso told Goodwin here that he could produce evidence that would convict Barry Rackham.
42:24Read it again, Mr. Emery.
42:26My deposition clearly states that I assumed at the time that Mr. Dorsal had such evidence.
42:32We searched Dorsal's office.
42:34If there was anything there, Goodwin lifted it.
42:37There was nothing there for Mr. Goodwin to lift, Inspector.
42:39I want a straight answer, Wolf.
42:42Do you think Rackham killed his wife, or don't you?
42:48Mr. Rackham was morally guilty of murder, sir.
42:52Three years ago, a young girl, Della Montrose.
42:56A hit-and-run episode that Arnold Dorso originally used to force Rackham into the organization.
43:03But as for Sarah Rackham, no, I do not think Mr. Rackham killed her.
43:07As a matter of cold fact, I know he did not, because I know now who did.
43:15Who?
43:19Last night, I asked myself, how did Arnold Dorso know that Mrs. Rackham was coming here to consult me?
43:26How did he know the exact amount of the checks she was going to offer me?
43:29Who informed him?
43:31Her husband?
43:32Obviously not, since Mr. Rackham was trying to leave the Dorso organization.
43:37Mrs. Fry?
43:40Possible, but not likely.
43:42There was only one person Mrs. Rackham said she had confided in.
43:47That was her cousin, Calvin Leeds.
43:49Is that not correct, Mr. Leeds?
43:53Ah, well, certainly.
43:54But I didn't even know Arnold Dorso.
43:57On the contrary, Mr. Leeds, it was you who introduced Barry Rackham to him,
44:01when you sold Arnold Dorso two guard dogs.
44:04Ah, what are you saying?
44:07I'm a blackmailer?
44:08No, Mr. Leeds, not a blackmailer.
44:11A murderer.
44:12You are actually accusing me, before witnesses, of murdering Sarah?
44:34For the money you would inherit from her estate, sir.
44:37I'm also accusing you, sir, of deliberately and ruthlessly
44:41thrusting the same knife with which you killed Mrs. Rackham
44:45into the stomach of a dog who loved and trusted you.
44:49No one could have done that but you, sir.
45:03The night in the woods, that dog would have not been far from its mistress.
45:07Anyone else would have had to kill the dog first, then Mrs. Rackham.
45:10As long as the dog was at her heels, no one could get near her but you, Mr. Leeds.
45:17You sent the dog away when you joined your cousin in the woods.
45:22It obeyed you, and then you addressed yourself to the killing of a helpless woman.
45:28And when the knife had done its work, you stood there in the dark
45:32and called the dog back.
45:36And it came and smelled the blood.
45:41But it did not attack because it loved and trusted you.
45:46So with the same knife, you stabbed it.
45:50And then you went back to the cottage.
45:53Mr. Goodwin heard the dog whimpering under his window a few moments later.
45:56And then, sir, you used the dog even after it had died.
46:03You told Mr. Goodwin it had crawled back to you, to your doorstep.
46:10And you patted it.
46:12You were moved.
46:14A man with a dying friend.
46:18But it snarled, sir.
46:22Oh, not because it was hurt.
46:23But it snarled because it knew at the end
46:26that you were unworthy of its love and trust.
46:32Do you remember that snarled, Mr. Leeds?
46:39Will you ever forget it?
46:40I don't know.
46:52Pockets for a new wolf?
47:21Archie, is that the four stuffed chickens from Fred Haskins?
47:29Beat it kid, you got the wrong house.
47:51Pockets for a new wolf?
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