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00:00:00THE END
00:02:30You and your husband.
00:02:34Sit down, please.
00:02:44What was the man's name?
00:02:45Dr. Frank Peralta.
00:02:48Dr. Frank Peralta.
00:02:49All right, what happened?
00:02:50When I went in this morning to clean up, it was about half past seven.
00:02:55There he was.
00:02:56Just lay in there.
00:02:58You live at the same address, I believe, Mr. Benson.
00:03:00That's right.
00:03:00Same floor.
00:03:02And you saw Dr. Peralta last night?
00:03:03Around 10 o'clock.
00:03:05He was coming in.
00:03:05I was going out.
00:03:06Was he alone?
00:03:07No, he had a young lady with him.
00:03:09You know the young lady?
00:03:10Never saw her before.
00:03:11Very pretty, very nice looking.
00:03:13Remember what she was wearing?
00:03:14Some kind of a blue suit, flowers in her hair.
00:03:17Gloves?
00:03:18No, I don't think so.
00:03:19But I don't remember exactly.
00:03:21They were going in up to his apartment, presumably.
00:03:23That's what I assumed, of course.
00:03:25When I was about 10 o'clock?
00:03:26Around 10.
00:03:27Think you'd know her if you saw her again?
00:03:29I think so.
00:03:30We met face to face.
00:03:32I see.
00:03:34What do you know about her, Mrs. Didrikson?
00:03:36Well, I live in the apartment just under Dr. Peralta.
00:03:39About 10.35 last night, I heard this thud on the floor above my ceiling.
00:03:43How do you know the time so well?
00:03:44I just turned on the 10.30 news.
00:03:46I heard footsteps on the stairs outside, so I opened my door a bit and looked out.
00:03:51I was curious.
00:03:53Yes.
00:03:54I'm glad you were.
00:03:56What'd you see?
00:03:56A young woman, quite pretty, passed me and went out the front door.
00:04:00From Dr. Peralta's apartment?
00:04:01Well, I suppose so.
00:04:03But you didn't actually see her come out of his door?
00:04:07I'm not sure, but I don't think so.
00:04:10Do you think you'd recognize her again if you saw her?
00:04:13Oh, yes, yes, I'm sure I would.
00:04:15I got a very good look at her.
00:04:16She passed under the light.
00:04:18I see.
00:04:21You're Dr. Peralta's secretary.
00:04:23I was.
00:04:25What do you know about any plans he had for last night?
00:04:27He had an engagement for dinner with a girl named Teresa Collins.
00:04:32You didn't care for Miss Collins, I take it?
00:04:34I know very little about her.
00:04:36But I couldn't believe that Dr. Peralta was in love with her.
00:04:39You mean he thought he was?
00:04:41Oh, sometimes he did and sometimes he didn't.
00:04:44But she treated him so wickedly.
00:04:46She kept him in such a state.
00:04:49But he was going to propose to her last night, he said.
00:04:53Teresa Collins?
00:04:55Do you know where she lives?
00:04:56No.
00:04:58But I can tell you where she works.
00:05:00She runs a magazine stand in the lobby of the medical building,
00:05:02where Dr. Peralta's offices are.
00:05:05Were.
00:05:21Mrs. Davidson, you go first.
00:05:23Just look around, see if you see anybody you know.
00:05:26In the middle years, but not a bad little number at that.
00:05:28Keep your mind on what you're doing, will you?
00:05:39You go out with me and I'll buy you a steak.
00:05:41Good enough for me.
00:05:43I ain't kidding.
00:05:44Neither am I.
00:05:47When I get out of this monkey soup,
00:05:49I ain't such a bad looking guy.
00:05:57Now, Benson, you go.
00:05:58That's the girl, all right.
00:05:59Behind the counter.
00:06:00You sure of it?
00:06:01Well, pretty sure.
00:06:03Pretty sure.
00:06:04Won't you swear to it?
00:06:05I think so.
00:06:07Still, there's something.
00:06:08Yes, I'll swear to it.
00:06:10Well, I hope you'll remember that.
00:06:13Don't you remember me?
00:06:15Sure, if you want me to.
00:06:16I remember you, all right.
00:06:22Where'd she go?
00:06:23How do I know?
00:06:24What about in there?
00:06:24That's the girl, all right, behind the counter.
00:06:26You swear to it?
00:06:27Yep.
00:06:28On a stack of Bibles, a mile high.
00:06:29Okay.
00:06:30Thanks.
00:06:31We'll get in touch with you later.
00:06:35Looks pretty good.
00:06:38Miss Collins?
00:06:39Yes?
00:06:40I'm from the police department.
00:06:42I, uh, I beg your pardon?
00:06:43Good morning, doctor.
00:06:44I wonder if you could show me something in the line of lemon drops.
00:06:48How about lemon drops?
00:06:50That's a very good idea.
00:06:52Well, I don't know how I can thank you enough.
00:06:55I'm not.
00:07:01I'm sorry.
00:07:02Okay.
00:07:03I wonder if you'd mind telling me how you spent last night.
00:07:05Why?
00:07:06Do you mind?
00:07:06No, but...
00:07:07From about 8 o'clock on.
00:07:08What's it all about?
00:07:10Begin at 9.
00:07:11Will you tell me then?
00:07:12Sure.
00:07:12All right.
00:07:13I went for a walk in Jefferson Park.
00:07:15Alone?
00:07:16Yes.
00:07:17How long did that take you?
00:07:18Oh, I got home about 11.30, quarter of 12.
00:07:20For nearly three hours, you walked alone in the park?
00:07:23Well, not exactly.
00:07:24For about two hours, I was listening to the band concert.
00:07:27And then when it was over, I strolled down by the lake and sat listening to the singing
00:07:30over the water.
00:07:30Then I got chilly, so I went on home.
00:07:32And all that time, you never met anybody you knew?
00:07:34Well, I didn't say that.
00:07:35Anybody who knows you, I should say.
00:07:37My butcher and his wife sat back at me during the concert.
00:07:40Oh.
00:07:41What's his name?
00:07:41Mr. Peterson.
00:07:43Vine and 14th.
00:07:44That's where his shop is.
00:07:45Uh-huh.
00:07:46You speak to him?
00:07:47Oh, sure.
00:07:48We're old friends.
00:07:50I can check, remember?
00:07:52All right, check.
00:07:54Anyone else?
00:07:56Yes, the park policeman down by the lake.
00:07:58We talked for quite a while.
00:08:00You know his name and number?
00:08:02No, but we know each other.
00:08:03We've talked down there before at night.
00:08:05What's he?
00:08:06Some kind of sweetheart?
00:08:07Well, not till I get his name, anyway.
00:08:10Well, the truth is...
00:08:12And a boy named Nat, Nat De Groot, walked home with me.
00:08:18Where did I find him?
00:08:21He works at the True Value shop at 15th and Vine.
00:08:24And he actually walked home with you?
00:08:26Go ask him if you don't believe me.
00:08:29I intend to.
00:08:30All right, now, what's this all about?
00:08:34Dr. Frank Peralta was murdered last night.
00:08:38Murdered?
00:08:40Stabbed to death.
00:08:41Straight through the heart.
00:08:51Doctor.
00:08:53Terry!
00:08:55Terry!
00:08:59What happened?
00:09:06Break it up!
00:09:07Break it up!
00:09:07Yes, sir.
00:09:08All right, folks.
00:09:09Keep moving.
00:09:09Keep moving.
00:09:11It's all over, lady.
00:09:12Keep moving.
00:09:14Well, what do you want?
00:09:32Hello, Frankie.
00:09:34Okay.
00:09:35She's all right now.
00:09:36A little shaky, but okay, the doctor says.
00:09:38All right, let her go.
00:09:40Are you kidding?
00:09:42Of course I'm not kidding.
00:09:43It's a free country, isn't it?
00:09:45You mean with two witnesses who saw her smack at the place?
00:09:48Against three who saw her smack away from it.
00:09:51Four smacking miles away from it.
00:09:54I saw them.
00:09:55Three solid, tax-paying, God-fearing citizens.
00:09:59Know her and talked to her all over Jefferson Park last night.
00:10:03Nine o'clock till 11.35.
00:10:06Well, what do you know about that?
00:10:07I don't get it.
00:10:08I just don't get it.
00:10:09Don't make any more sense to me than Chinese music.
00:10:21Second floor, front, lieutenant.
00:10:23Thanks.
00:10:39Can I come in?
00:10:41Certainly.
00:10:42Thanks.
00:10:46How are you feeling now?
00:10:48All right, thanks.
00:10:50It sticks, you know.
00:10:51It sticks?
00:10:52The alibi.
00:10:54Oh, well, of course.
00:10:56It's the truth.
00:10:57That butcher now.
00:10:59He couldn't be in love with you.
00:11:00No.
00:11:01The cop might.
00:11:03Another guy, but not the butcher, I don't think.
00:11:05I don't think so either.
00:11:07Guys generally fall in love with you, don't they?
00:11:09Some.
00:11:09Peralta?
00:11:10He was a very dear friend.
00:11:14Very dear.
00:11:15Why'd you quarrel with him?
00:11:16The elevator boy heard you yesterday.
00:11:17It wasn't a quarrel.
00:11:18We just differed about something.
00:11:19Rusty never liked him.
00:11:21Oh.
00:11:22Jealous?
00:11:22You think Rusty might have killed him?
00:11:24Why?
00:11:25Well, he was in love with you too, wasn't he?
00:11:27For a policeman, you certainly spend a lot of time thinking about love.
00:11:30Yeah, I'm the romantic type.
00:11:32Thanks.
00:11:32You left-handed?
00:11:34Excuse me, is this visit social or professional?
00:11:36You gave the doctor his lemon drops with your right hand.
00:11:39I was born left-handed.
00:11:42Most of the things I've learned to do since I do right-handed.
00:11:45I didn't like being left-handed.
00:11:46The medical examiner figures he was stabbed right-handed.
00:11:50What am I supposed to say to that?
00:11:51I'm just waiting to see.
00:11:55If you don't mind...
00:11:56We'll break it, you know.
00:11:58This alibi.
00:11:59It may take time, but I've figured it yet for dough.
00:12:02If you don't mind, I'd like you to leave.
00:12:04I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
00:12:06You and your...
00:12:06Mary!
00:12:23So that's it.
00:12:25My sister, Ruth.
00:12:28Why didn't you tell me?
00:12:32Excuse me.
00:12:34I was going to when the time came.
00:12:36Everybody knows it, so there wouldn't have been much use to try to hide it.
00:12:39Not at the medical building, they don't know it.
00:12:41No, not there.
00:12:43That was so we could take days off when we wanted to.
00:12:45When we didn't have another job.
00:12:47Do you make a habit of that kind of monkey business?
00:12:50All twins do now and then.
00:12:53Well...
00:12:55You're Terry.
00:12:56And you're Ruth.
00:12:58You've no idea how much this relieves me.
00:13:00That's nice.
00:13:01I was beginning to think I was losing my marbles.
00:13:03It's not always easy to tell us apart, that's true.
00:13:06So I see.
00:13:07Which one now was in Jefferson Park last night?
00:13:10One of us.
00:13:11That I know.
00:13:12Which one is what I ask?
00:13:14You or you?
00:13:18Oh, well, now, no use stalling about it because I'll get it out of you one way or another.
00:13:22So...
00:13:22How?
00:13:24Look, you don't want to make this any tougher than it is, do you?
00:13:27So let's have it and get it over with.
00:13:29Which of you did which last night?
00:14:00One of us spent the evening in Jefferson Park.
00:14:10One of us spent the evening in Jefferson Park and the other...
00:14:14But what one did which is what I'm asking.
00:14:16And which one did which?
00:14:23Okay.
00:14:24I'll just have to run you both in.
00:14:27Are you allowed to play the field like that?
00:14:29What do you mean?
00:14:30Can you throw any number of people you want to into court and tell the judge to take his pick?
00:14:34I'm afraid you're going to look awfully funny explaining that even to a lawyer.
00:14:37What lawyer?
00:14:38The one that's coming straight to the police station if we're not here to answer the phone
00:14:41any time tonight.
00:14:42Pretty smart, aren't you?
00:14:44Not done.
00:14:45Well, listen to this.
00:14:46Did you ever hear of a little charge called obstructing justice?
00:14:49Yes.
00:14:50Then would you like to reconsider?
00:14:52Me?
00:14:53Or her?
00:14:56Look.
00:14:58Will you tell me one thing?
00:15:00One of us.
00:15:01Will you cut that out?
00:15:03Is there no way at all of telling you two girls apart?
00:15:05We're identical.
00:15:06I thought I told you that...
00:15:13It's all right, dear.
00:15:15He's not going to do anything.
00:15:17You don't think so, huh?
00:15:19No, I don't.
00:15:20I know what our rights are, and so would a judge.
00:15:23And one of them is the constitutional right not to say anything that might incriminate us.
00:15:27Constitutional right, she says.
00:15:28And will you please leave?
00:15:30Or do you want me to call our lawyer now?
00:15:32Okay, Miss Collins.
00:15:33I'm a policeman, not a lawyer, so I'll give you this round.
00:15:35But just one round, remember.
00:15:36So don't try to duck out or anything like that because we're going to unravel this thing yet.
00:15:40The law's never been licked yet by one of these Rube Goldberg defenses,
00:15:43and it's not going to start with this one.
00:15:45And bring a warrant next time you come with a name already written in.
00:15:47Say, what did you do?
00:15:48Did you read up on this before you did it?
00:15:50Never mind telling me.
00:15:51I don't want to hear it.
00:16:00Uh, I forgot to tell you, Lieutenant.
00:16:02Yeah?
00:16:03It's two of them.
00:16:04Two twins.
00:16:05Did you get that?
00:16:06Yeah, I got that.
00:16:07Look, very much alike the fellow was telling me.
00:16:09Some people can't even tell her what Barty said.
00:16:11Can't they really?
00:16:12Well, that's the way twins are, you know.
00:16:14Yeah, thanks.
00:16:15I can see you've got your eyes open all right.
00:16:17Well, I try to keep on my toes as much as possible, Lieutenant.
00:16:20And don't think we don't appreciate it either.
00:16:23Good night.
00:16:24Good night, Lieutenant.
00:16:27Thank you, sir.
00:16:32It's no use.
00:16:33There isn't even a piece of print on this handle.
00:16:36Gloves?
00:16:36Could be.
00:16:37You know, there ought to be a state law against the sale of gloves to murderers.
00:16:40You know what they'd do in the old days.
00:16:42That's no good.
00:16:42Ladies' brew's too easy.
00:16:44Get me Judge Hill.
00:16:45Let's see.
00:16:50Judge Hill.
00:16:52You know, Lieutenant, I was just thinking.
00:16:54Yeah?
00:16:54I was just thinking, maybe one of these babies has got a birthmark somewhere.
00:16:58And I was just wondering if it might not be a good idea if I ran back there and made
00:17:02a kind of a thorough examination of both of them.
00:17:06Just an idea.
00:17:07All right.
00:17:08Now, if you're through with the comedy relief, here's a list of witnesses I want you to get
00:17:11after.
00:17:11Have them here at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
00:17:12Sharp.
00:17:13Got it?
00:17:14Got it.
00:17:16Oh, Judge?
00:17:16Judge Hill.
00:17:18Lieutenant Stevenson, Detective Bureau.
00:17:19I want a couple of warrants for Ruth Collins and Teresa Collins.
00:17:23That's right.
00:17:25Charge, suspicion of murder.
00:17:27Yes, sir.
00:17:27Both of them.
00:17:29What?
00:17:30I'm going to hang numbers on their backs like football players.
00:17:39All right.
00:17:40Bring her in.
00:17:48Where do you live, Collins?
00:17:50492 Candale Avenue.
00:17:52Have you ever been arrested before?
00:17:54No.
00:17:54Turn around.
00:17:59That's her, all right.
00:18:00No question in the world.
00:18:01Bring her in.
00:18:02Nowhere in a million.
00:18:03Came to me face to...
00:18:06Your name, Teresa Collins?
00:18:08It is.
00:18:09You two girls are held in suspicion of murder.
00:18:12What have you got to say for yourselves?
00:18:14Neither one of us intends to say anything until we've talked to a lawyer.
00:18:18Well, how do you like that?
00:18:20Nowhere in a million, huh?
00:18:28What do you think, Doc?
00:18:29Really?
00:18:30No idea, Rusty.
00:18:32It's hard to believe she could have done such a thing.
00:18:34Oh, she didn't.
00:18:34I know she didn't.
00:18:36Those guys are crazy.
00:18:38You better have a lemon drop.
00:18:39Good for the nerves.
00:18:42Send them in.
00:18:43Will you go in, please?
00:18:48Well, they're not going to get me to say one word against her.
00:18:50I'll tell you that right now.
00:18:52I knew her too well.
00:19:01We're sorry, Rusty.
00:19:03Dr. Elliott, Mr. District Attorney.
00:19:05Thank you very much for coming over, Doc.
00:19:06Not at all, sir.
00:19:07Sit down, will you?
00:19:13I don't think this is going to take us very long, Rusty.
00:19:16You told Lieutenant Stevenson that you saw Dr. Peralta and the girl at the magazine stand talking and apparently arguing
00:19:22on the morning of the day Dr. Peralta was killed.
00:19:24That right?
00:19:26Yes, sir.
00:19:27Can you tell me which girl that was?
00:19:31No, sir.
00:19:32You're sure of that?
00:19:33Well, I didn't know that there were two of them.
00:19:38Quite a coincidence, doctor.
00:19:42Quite.
00:19:45Scott Elliott, psychologist, B.A., M.D. and Ph.D., author of Twins, a Clinical Study, Mental Traits of Identical
00:19:52Twins, Twins and Siblings, all published by the State University Press.
00:19:56Your own particular field, in fact.
00:19:58Well, I have devoted quite some time and study to the subject.
00:20:01Did you know there were twins in this case?
00:20:04No, one at a time, twins look a good deal like, uh, like singletons.
00:20:09Incidentally, is there any foundation for the old popular belief that twins are usually penalized in some way by nature,
00:20:16either physically or psychically?
00:20:18No, no, that's a superstition.
00:20:21Well, that clears that up.
00:20:23Lieutenant Stevenson reports that you had some kind of conversation with Dr. Perala that morning.
00:20:27Would you mind repeating what was said?
00:20:30He asked me if I'd ever come across a case of split personality.
00:20:34Go on.
00:20:35Well, of course, I told him I had.
00:20:37Then he asked if there was ever any danger in such a case.
00:20:41He used the word danger?
00:20:43Yes.
00:20:43Or if I thought all that kind of thing was exaggerated.
00:20:46To which you replied?
00:20:47I told him I couldn't say.
00:20:50Well, I couldn't answer him with a generality when it was obvious he had something specific in mind.
00:20:55Then he said something, uh, oh, I had a battle with her this morning and I'm seeing her tonight.
00:21:00It's rather important.
00:21:02And we separated.
00:21:06Seeing whom tonight?
00:21:08Miss Collins, I supposed.
00:21:10Which one?
00:21:14I have no idea.
00:21:17Well, then, can you tell me now which one of these girls was behind the counter that morning?
00:21:23No.
00:21:24That's all.
00:21:25Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for helping us out here this morning.
00:21:31Take the girls outside for a moment.
00:21:39You see?
00:21:41You're going to let them get away with it?
00:21:42What else can I do, lieutenant?
00:21:44You haven't a witness that can tell one girl from the other.
00:21:46I wouldn't have a ghost of a chance in court.
00:21:48A kid just out of law school could make a monkey out of me with a setup like that.
00:21:52I couldn't even get an indictment from the grand jury.
00:21:54They'd want to know which one, too.
00:21:56But one of them murdered him, you know.
00:21:58I'm sure of it.
00:21:59And you tell me which one, and I'll put her in the chair.
00:22:01I have just as much concern for the proper operation of the law as you, lieutenant.
00:22:04But in this case, we're helpless.
00:22:06If you have no more evidence than you've shown me,
00:22:09it would simply be a waste of time to try to take it into court.
00:22:12Okay.
00:22:13Let's have them back.
00:22:20Come in.
00:22:31One of you women is a murderess.
00:22:33You've killed a man in cold blood.
00:22:35The other is an accomplice.
00:22:37But the law upholds your refusal to give any testimony under the circumstances.
00:22:41It also forbids the indiscriminate prosecution of more than one person
00:22:45in order to make sure of one guilty one.
00:22:48This protection now enables you to become parties to an outrageous and shameful miscarriage of justice.
00:22:54I have no words adequate to express my contempt and abhorrence for both of you.
00:22:59Now get out.
00:23:02We're free?
00:23:04You're free.
00:23:10Goodbye, lieutenant.
00:23:12Au revoir, Miss Collins.
00:23:32Remember me?
00:23:33Stevenson.
00:23:34Of course, lieutenant.
00:23:36Come on in.
00:23:39Ah.
00:23:40Sorry, Stokey.
00:23:41I don't mind ordinary music.
00:23:43It's the wonderful stuff that bores me.
00:23:45That's snobbish, you know.
00:23:47Well, this is an ordinary place where the gimmicks.
00:23:50Gimmicks?
00:23:50Don't you witch doctors treat people with tinker toys?
00:23:54They're in the laboratory at the university.
00:23:56What about that office you keep at the medical building?
00:23:58Just a convenient place to get case histories.
00:24:01I don't practice, really.
00:24:02Will you have a lemon drop?
00:24:03No, thanks.
00:24:04Sit down.
00:24:10Ever given any thought to this twin case?
00:24:13I suppose you'd given that one up.
00:24:16Mm-mm.
00:24:16No.
00:24:17Not me.
00:24:19Not me personally.
00:24:20This is on my own time.
00:24:22You don't look ambitious.
00:24:24It's not ambition.
00:24:25I'm just peculiar.
00:24:26I don't like a perfect crime.
00:24:27Not even in books.
00:24:29I don't like to think things are organized that way so somebody can beat a square rep.
00:24:34Yes, I've thought about it.
00:24:36I rather like those girls.
00:24:37Oh, one of them anyway.
00:24:38She seemed very nice.
00:24:40You don't know which one?
00:24:42No, I'm afraid not.
00:24:44I never had a chance to talk to them together.
00:24:46You think you'd know if you did?
00:24:48I imagine so.
00:24:49You couldn't tell that day in the DA's office, could you?
00:24:53No.
00:24:54You see, the whole thing just burns me to a crisp.
00:24:58Why?
00:24:59How do you know somebody else didn't do it?
00:25:01I don't.
00:25:01In the meantime, I'll play along with the twins, at least one of them.
00:25:04Do you realize, Doc, that one of those girls could knock that guy off in the corner of Broad and
00:25:08Main with 50 witnesses,
00:25:09and we still couldn't hang it on her?
00:25:11Oh, I guess not.
00:25:13I could be in that room myself and see her plant that knife with my own eyes.
00:25:17And do you know I couldn't make it stick unless I grabbed her by the wrist and held on to
00:25:20her until I had her in solitary?
00:25:22I just can't bear it, I tell you.
00:25:24I can't bear it.
00:25:26So?
00:25:26So, first, tell me this.
00:25:29You're a twin expert.
00:25:31Do you know anything whatever about those two dames that would give me a chance to begin to work?
00:25:37Well, sure.
00:25:37What?
00:25:38The crime.
00:25:40The crime?
00:25:41Well, of course.
00:25:42You don't suppose just anyone could commit a murder, do you?
00:25:44Well, you're going to have to be very patient with me.
00:25:48Just what do you mean by that?
00:25:50Character.
00:25:51Personality.
00:25:53Not even nature can duplicate character, even in twins.
00:25:56I interviewed a pair of twins one time so alike that dogs got mixed up about them.
00:26:01Once living a thousand miles apart, they both got toothaches in the same tooth,
00:26:05and each one had that tooth pulled out.
00:26:07Do you know why they were living that far apart?
00:26:10Why?
00:26:11Because one was lecturing at a big eastern university,
00:26:14and the other was serving a stretch in Leavenworth.
00:26:18Different characters.
00:26:19I see.
00:26:22Well, it's the, uh, it's the same here, I should say.
00:26:25If you're right about these girls, one could.
00:26:27One couldn't commit murder, and, well, that's all there is to it.
00:26:31Yeah, that's all there is to it.
00:26:34Constitutional rights.
00:26:37Oh, well.
00:26:38Another thing.
00:26:40Do you often interview twins?
00:26:42Often.
00:26:43But not for the police.
00:26:46What about the one you've liked?
00:26:49What about her?
00:26:51Suppose she's innocent.
00:26:54There's no particular reason to believe she's in any danger, if that's what you mean.
00:26:59Living with a killer?
00:27:04It's really not my business, that kind of thing.
00:27:06If one of them kills that way with a knife,
00:27:09don't you think there's a chance she'd kill again, her sister,
00:27:12if she ever became nervous about it?
00:27:14Don't about it.
00:27:15I'll never ask you the name.
00:27:16Or proof.
00:27:16I'll bet not.
00:27:17I swear it, on anything you say,
00:27:20someday you call me and say you found the answer, and I'll be satisfied.
00:27:23Why?
00:27:23I've already told you, because then I'll know there's still no such thing as a perfect crime.
00:27:28The system worked.
00:27:29You still can't beat a square rap.
00:27:37Social regularity, huh?
00:27:38If that's your name for it.
00:27:42Well, it's out of the question, the whole idea.
00:27:45I'm not a detective, and there's no reason whatever to assume I could be of the slightest help to her.
00:27:50Besides, I didn't say I was in love with a girl.
00:27:53Simply said I liked her.
00:27:56But how do I know she wasn't the one who did it?
00:27:58You can't just look at a person and tell a thing like that.
00:28:00For all I know, she may have been killing people for years.
00:28:03Both of them.
00:28:04All I said was that she was very pleasant, very nice,
00:28:08and it's not easy to believe that...
00:28:19Why, Mr. Lemon Drops?
00:28:22Well, there couldn't be anybody but Terry.
00:28:24How are you, Doc? Glad to see you.
00:28:25Thanks.
00:28:26You too, over here.
00:28:27Thanks.
00:28:27Still chomping on that cast-iron candy.
00:28:30I've told you before, I don't chomp.
00:28:32I wear them down.
00:28:37Well, no wonder I never got it.
00:28:39Didn't you really?
00:28:40An expert like you?
00:28:41Nope.
00:28:42Obviously, you were both wonderful.
00:28:44Oh, I'd almost forgotten there was such a thing as kidding.
00:28:47Things haven't been so good, eh?
00:28:49Not so good.
00:28:50You saw the papers, those pictures.
00:28:52We're celebrities now.
00:28:54No work, you mean.
00:28:55One look at our face, and they don't forget.
00:28:57Not in this town.
00:28:58That's a little rugged.
00:29:00Well, you can't blame them.
00:29:02You saw what the district attorney said.
00:29:03I wish you wouldn't say things like that.
00:29:06Well, he knows.
00:29:07He must have read the papers everybody else did.
00:29:09I know, but...
00:29:10Well, then maybe my idea, that is the real reason why I'm here,
00:29:14may be of some good to you as well as me.
00:29:16How do you mean?
00:29:18Well, I'd like to add you, too, to my collection.
00:29:21Of twins.
00:29:22Well, I'm the old twin student, remember?
00:29:24And I'd like very much to add you girls to it.
00:29:26Well, I'd pay you something.
00:29:27Of course, not much, but it'll only be an hour or so each day at your own convenience.
00:29:32We did that once, when we were kids, in Chicago.
00:29:34Well, then you know generally what it is.
00:29:36Physical, verbal, psychological, the standard stuff.
00:29:39Are you quite sure you're not doing this for the police?
00:29:41I was gathering data on twins before I ever met a policeman.
00:29:44I was doing it long before I laid eyes on either of you girls.
00:29:48Must have been my main preoccupation in research for years.
00:29:51And I'll probably still be doing it after you're both married and settled down with twins of your own.
00:29:57Which you're very likely to have, you know.
00:29:59What exactly is your purpose in this?
00:30:01The purpose of all research.
00:30:03To learn as much as possible about the subject.
00:30:05In this case, to add to my knowledge of identical twins.
00:30:08And you'd pay us?
00:30:09Twenty-five dollars a week, a piece.
00:30:12Well, that's the customary allowance.
00:30:14And for that, I'd expect you to come to the laboratory at least three times a week,
00:30:18separately, for not more than, oh, two hours anyway on each visit.
00:30:23What do you think?
00:30:24I don't think we're interested.
00:30:26I don't like the idea of being a guinea pig.
00:30:28Well, I don't want to press you if you're afraid in any way.
00:30:31We have nothing to be afraid of, Doctor.
00:30:34Nothing but snoopers.
00:30:37In that case, there's nothing more to be said.
00:30:40I'm sorry if I've given that impression, and I apologize.
00:30:44I'm sorry, too.
00:30:45I think we should do it.
00:30:48I don't think Dr. Elliot's a snooper, and I know of no other reason why we shouldn't.
00:30:51We could certainly use the money.
00:30:53You don't mind being asked a lot of personal questions?
00:30:57Why should I?
00:30:58Or why should you?
00:30:59Oh, if it's for a good purpose.
00:31:02I think we should do it, because there's no reason for us to fear it,
00:31:05because we do need the money, and because, well, we've always liked Dr. Elliot.
00:31:10Both of us.
00:31:12Well, then let's leave it like this.
00:31:13Talk it over between yourselves and call me.
00:31:16I hope you can see things Terry's way, but if you can't, I'll understand, and no harm done.
00:31:20Goodbye now.
00:31:21Goodbye.
00:31:22Goodbye, Terry.
00:31:23I hope I'll be seeing you both soon.
00:31:24Goodbye, Doctor.
00:31:25We'll call you.
00:31:26Please do.
00:31:35What's the matter with you?
00:31:39Do you think that was very wise?
00:31:41Why?
00:31:42What are you afraid of?
00:31:43I'm not afraid.
00:31:45It's...
00:31:45Don't lie about it.
00:31:46You are afraid.
00:31:47You're more and more afraid every day.
00:31:49Why?
00:31:50Terry, you know very well what it is.
00:31:52You think I killed him.
00:31:54Why don't you admit it?
00:31:55But I don't.
00:31:56You know I don't.
00:31:57Then why are you so frightened?
00:31:59Terry, if they knew which one of us was in his apartment that night, you know what that
00:32:02would mean.
00:32:03He proposed to me there, and I said yes.
00:32:06Why should I kill him?
00:32:07I know that, dear.
00:32:09I know you didn't do it.
00:32:10I know it so well that I'm willing to do anything to keep them from learning you were in his
00:32:13apartment
00:32:14that night.
00:32:15That's the only reason I'm frightened.
00:32:16Believe me, dear.
00:32:18Please believe me.
00:32:20Well, then, is there anything about yourself that you're afraid for Elliot to learn?
00:32:24Of course not.
00:32:26Well, then, stop worrying.
00:32:28There's no need for it.
00:32:30And besides, he's very attractive.
00:32:33Very good looking.
00:32:35I like him.
00:33:01You don't think we could fool you now?
00:33:03No, not anymore, Terry.
00:33:05I even have you spotted at the magazine stand.
00:33:08How do you mean?
00:33:09Well, I know some of the times when it was you, and some when it was Ruth.
00:33:12Not all of them, of course, but some.
00:33:16What was the difference?
00:33:17I don't know.
00:33:19Meaning I'm not sure yet.
00:33:21Which one did you like the best?
00:33:23Oh, you.
00:33:24Really?
00:33:25Sit over here, will you?
00:33:26I don't know.
00:33:29Why?
00:33:31Why what?
00:33:32Why do you say you like me best?
00:33:34Because that's always the answer during office hours.
00:33:41What's this one?
00:33:43These are pictures of ink blots.
00:33:45Actually, the kind you probably made yourself when you were a child.
00:33:48Just blobs of ink and the paper folded over.
00:33:51What's it for?
00:33:52It's another way of examining personality.
00:33:55I'm going to hand them to you one by one.
00:33:58And all you have to do is tell me what you see there.
00:34:01What it looks like to you.
00:34:03Quickie?
00:34:04If you see it quickly, sure.
00:34:06As soon as you make something out of it, you tell me, that's all.
00:34:09You ready?
00:34:09Mm-hmm.
00:34:11Now, face that way, please.
00:34:16Well, what does it look like to you?
00:34:19It might be a mask.
00:34:20You see?
00:34:21The black slanting holes for eyes, heavy eyebrows, and pursed lips give it a fixed expression.
00:34:27Anything else?
00:34:28May I turn it?
00:34:29Any way you wish.
00:34:34This looks like the face of a white lamb with a black nose.
00:34:37It's got a mark on its forehead.
00:34:39It looks like a moth, spreading its wings over a butterfly.
00:34:43Beneath its front paws are two men, face down, with their arms outstretched.
00:34:48It all seems symbolic of something.
00:34:49The lamb looks so innocent, but it has two men under its paws.
00:34:53Symbolic of what?
00:34:56The lamb of death.
00:35:01I wonder if you're really as cool as you pretend.
00:35:04Oh, no, I'm not.
00:35:05I don't think so, either.
00:35:06Outside the office, I'm Robert Taylor with jet propulsion.
00:35:10What do you see in this one?
00:35:15What does it look like to you, Terry?
00:35:18These are two men, back to back, but they don't seem to be aware of each other.
00:35:24Now it's changing into the full face of the man with drooping moustache and slanting eyes.
00:35:29And this is a dancer, a woman, dancing with a puppet.
00:35:33Now you see the puppet reaching to pad a cruel rival that pretends not to see her.
00:35:37But all the time he's trying to reach near enough to do her some harm.
00:35:41May I have a cigarette, please?
00:35:56By the way, why did you leave Nebraska, Ruth?
00:35:59Well, we've been living on this farm for about a year, and the farmer's wife wanted to adopt me legally.
00:36:05The doctor said she couldn't have any children, but they could only afford to adopt one of us.
00:36:10Why'd they pick you instead of Terry, do you know?
00:36:13Oh, just happened, I suppose.
00:36:14No particular reason.
00:36:16There's not much choice between twins, you know.
00:36:17But Terry was very upset when she heard about it, naturally.
00:36:20So we just decided to pull out, that's all.
00:36:24What do you see in this one?
00:36:29Well, these are two people in costume, and they're dancing around a maypole.
00:36:33And they're bending over because they've just about wound up the ribbons.
00:36:37Is that what you want?
00:36:38That's it.
00:36:39Anything else?
00:36:41The alternative, you wish.
00:36:43Oh.
00:36:47These are two skaters, like in the ice show.
00:36:50And they're leaning backward, one foot high in the air, and their arms extended.
00:36:58Uh, how'd Terry find out, do you know?
00:37:01Hmm?
00:37:02Oh, the farmer, I think.
00:37:04He never liked it from the beginning, for some reason.
00:37:07Was he cranky?
00:37:08No, I got along fine with him, but Terry, for some reason...
00:37:12What do you see in this one?
00:37:14Oh, these are two old ladies, sitting back to back in an open street car,
00:37:18like the old cable cars in San Francisco.
00:37:20And they seem frightened.
00:37:22They've got...
00:37:22They're holding on to their arms of their chairs with their hands,
00:37:25and they've got their feet tucked tightly under their seats.
00:37:27Oh, look at those chins.
00:37:30And this is a drum majorette with a high, bearskin shako.
00:37:33And she's very straight and graceful, light-footed.
00:37:38And she's got her knee high in the air.
00:37:42Thank you very much.
00:37:46Hello?
00:37:48Well, it's about time.
00:37:50Sorry I'm late.
00:37:52What'd you do, go through town?
00:37:54No.
00:37:55Scott and I just got to talking.
00:37:58Talking?
00:37:59After that inkblot stuff.
00:38:01Who do you suppose ever thought that went up?
00:38:03Talking about what?
00:38:04Oh, just gabbing.
00:38:07Chicago, movies, when we were kids.
00:38:10Not about us.
00:38:12No, mostly about himself.
00:38:14He was really awfully funny about when he went to school.
00:38:16He must have been.
00:38:18He was, really.
00:38:19Once he drops that office act, he's really an awful lot of fun.
00:38:22The way he used to be around the cigar stand, remember?
00:38:25Is that his line down memory lane?
00:38:26I don't think it was a line.
00:38:28He just seemed to want to talk, that's all.
00:38:30Nothing romantic?
00:38:32I'm afraid not.
00:38:34Dear me, you sound disappointed.
00:38:36No.
00:38:38Not falling for him, are you?
00:38:40My goodness, Terry.
00:38:41Sometimes it seems as if that were all you ever thought about, falling for somebody.
00:38:44Of course not.
00:38:46Just don't want to see you do anything foolish, that's all.
00:38:49Yes, Mama.
00:38:50Because I'm not convinced yet that he's being strictly on the level with us in this thing.
00:38:54No.
00:38:56Well, I don't know, of course.
00:38:59Oh, I can't believe it.
00:39:02Well, perhaps not.
00:39:03But if I were you, I'd be just a little careful.
00:39:06Not too friendly.
00:39:07Yes.
00:39:09Oh.
00:39:11If only we weren't so...
00:39:13I know.
00:39:14It's not very pleasant.
00:39:15But as long as we are, we'll just have to be on our guard with everybody.
00:39:20Particularly him.
00:39:27I believe we're great.
00:39:30No.
00:39:41No.
00:39:43No.
00:39:55I think that's almost...
00:39:56Well, it's something I hadn't figured on, never even dreamed of.
00:40:00Well, I'm not going to ask any questions. I said I wouldn't and I won't.
00:40:03All I can do is stand here, a poor, broken-down old policeman, and wait for whatever you want to
00:40:07tell me.
00:40:09Well, you know the inkblot test.
00:40:12I've made several other kinds of tests to check and cross-check.
00:40:15But in the inkblot test, about 80% of the people who study the blots will see generally the same
00:40:20figures, the same illusions and visions.
00:40:22What the other 20% see in the same blots, reflecting the true secret patterns of their own minds and
00:40:28personalities, is quite illuminating and pretty accurate.
00:40:32Uh-huh.
00:40:32In this particular case, there doesn't seem to be much room for doubt about one thing.
00:40:36What?
00:40:37One of our young ladies is insane.
00:40:40Very clever, very intelligent, but insane.
00:40:48Now, this one's called a free association test.
00:40:51And it's so simple that even I understand what I'm doing.
00:40:54Look, if all this is to find out which of us is the smarter, I can save you a lot
00:40:57of time.
00:40:58It's Terry.
00:40:58Is that official?
00:40:59You know, it's a funny thing about us.
00:41:01I'm older than she is, seven minutes and 55 seconds.
00:41:04But that isn't the way it feels.
00:41:05All our lives, she's been the older sister, always helping and protecting me.
00:41:10Uh, sit over there, please.
00:41:12And like a mother, too, actually, because we've been orphans since we were ten.
00:41:17I wish you'd get it out of your head that this is a contest.
00:41:19I'm interested in absolute, not comparative results.
00:41:23Yes, Professor.
00:41:26You know something?
00:41:27What?
00:41:28I'm a very pleased man today.
00:41:30Good.
00:41:31Which I haven't been for, uh, almost a week.
00:41:34No.
00:41:35Because you haven't seemed happy.
00:41:37I'm sorry.
00:41:38I was afraid I'd done something that offended you.
00:41:41Oh, no.
00:41:42Well, I didn't mean to, I assure you.
00:41:45It was something else.
00:41:46I was a little worried about something else.
00:41:50But it's all right now?
00:41:51Yes, it's okay now.
00:41:53Good.
00:41:54That's the way it ought to be.
00:41:56Well, uh, back to cold science.
00:42:00Now, I'm going to give you some words, one at a time.
00:42:02And as soon as you hear the words, you answer with the first word that comes into your mind.
00:42:06Not a sentence, just a single word.
00:42:08And answer as quickly as you can.
00:42:09That's the important part of it.
00:42:11Speed.
00:42:13You ready?
00:42:14Mm-hmm.
00:42:15Table.
00:42:17Chair.
00:42:18Are you ready?
00:42:21Dark.
00:42:21Night.
00:42:23Moon.
00:42:24Beams.
00:42:25Knife.
00:42:26Scissors.
00:42:29White.
00:42:30Black.
00:42:31Mirror.
00:42:32Death.
00:42:38King.
00:42:40Queen.
00:42:42Blossom.
00:42:44Flower.
00:42:46River.
00:42:47Lake.
00:42:50But how could you have said it?
00:42:52How do I know?
00:42:53It just popped out.
00:42:55But I don't understand all this fuss.
00:42:56What possible harm can it do?
00:42:59None.
00:43:00None whatever.
00:43:01I don't give two cents for that fellow in his kindergarten games.
00:43:05I can do that stuff 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and beat him at it every time.
00:43:09He doesn't frighten me with that stuff.
00:43:12But it's you I'm worried about.
00:43:14But why?
00:43:16Because it shows your mind's still on that thing.
00:43:18And you can't deny it.
00:43:19When he said mirror and you automatically said death, that proved it.
00:43:22It may not mean a thing to him, but it does to me because I understand some of that mumbo
00:43:25-jumbo.
00:43:26And it's a dead giveaway that it's still in your mind and I had something to do with it.
00:43:33Why do you keep saying a thing like that?
00:44:08Forget it.
00:44:09Maybe that's what's troubling you.
00:44:12Maybe you're thinking you should do it even now.
00:44:14But that's utterly ridiculous.
00:44:16Such a thought never entered my head.
00:44:18Because if you are, there's the phone right there.
00:44:21Oh, Terry, stop it.
00:44:24You're talking nonsense.
00:44:25Am I?
00:44:25Of course you are.
00:44:27I hope so.
00:44:29Because if you ever suspected me, I don't know what I'd do.
00:44:35I really don't.
00:44:44Cousin.
00:44:46Chair.
00:44:48Moon.
00:44:49Stars.
00:44:52King.
00:44:53Queen.
00:44:54Death.
00:44:55Mirror.
00:44:58Girl.
00:45:01Woman.
00:45:03Black.
00:45:04White.
00:45:05it rose thorn i have an idea you aren't very much impressed with any of this stuff actually are you
00:45:18terry no then why do you think i'm here just humoring the old professor i imagine that all
00:45:25or nothing else to do hadn't it ever occurred to you that i might like seeing you no it hadn't
00:45:30to tell the truth don't you like to see me if you knew how anxious i was for you to
00:45:35get here this
00:45:36afternoon you wouldn't have to ask that honest very honest then maybe we could see each other
00:45:42outside the office sometime oh we will i'm sure would you like to very much all right when soon
00:45:51uh but not until we finish with these tests i'm afraid what's that got to do with it look it's
00:45:57hard enough for me to keep my mind on science as it is please don't make it any more difficult
00:46:01for
00:46:01me all right but the first night afterward it's a date the very next night remember i'll remember
00:46:07terry good night i was really crazy about that boy but terry simply couldn't stand him she insisted he
00:46:18wasn't on the level and that's the way it turned out he wasn't how'd you find out he dated her
00:46:22one
00:46:22night and she told me terry's turned in i guess um how many men have you been crazy about oh
00:46:31that
00:46:31was just kid stuff we're about 16 then i think all this autobiography i'm giving you is this for science
00:46:40too no no this is personal the more i know about you the more i want to know i want
00:46:47to know everything
00:46:48about you that's possible now for myself and apparently you will good night uh do you think
00:46:57when all this business is over i can call and ask you out for dinner dancing or just to talk
00:47:02in a
00:47:02purely personal way you think you'll still want to that's what i'm looking forward to do you mind
00:47:08no i like it you're a wonder
00:47:23good night
00:47:41it's all right i'm not asleep don't turn on the light i'll undress in the bathroom
00:48:00it's all right
00:48:01so
00:48:20you're taking a sleeping pill tonight i don't think so i slept all right last night
00:48:26i think you better take two two what on earth for well if you take two maybe you won't be
00:48:33so
00:48:33troubled in your sleep you mean i talk talk try you scare me half to death sometimes good heavens
00:48:43dreaming i suppose no you don't remember what you dream well i don't remember even dreaming
00:48:50recently you don't remember my waking you last night when you were sobbing no no what you said to me
00:49:00no what i said such big deep sobs as if you were terrified as if you were seeing something so
00:49:07dreadful you couldn't bear to face it you don't remember what it was i don't remember anything
00:49:14about it at all but i thought you wakened no pretty harring for a few minutes
00:49:23i can't imagine what it was to frighten me so has it happened before a few times
00:49:30one night you're rather gay for a change quite gay in fact seems to have been something about
00:49:36scott scott oh dear you think quite a lot of him don't you i do like him but
00:49:46is he like you oh some i imagine ever say anything you know nothing serious just casual things ever
00:49:57kiss you uh-uh he may be just trying to pump you you know oh i don't think so
00:50:12don't you want to know what seemed to be frightening you i don't know whether i do or not
00:50:19you've talked about it before in your sleep you were worried about one of us being crazy
00:50:27the old saying you know that one of twins is likely to be abnormal but that's not true
00:50:33that's a superstition you heard scott tell the district attorney that i know
00:50:40why that's an old wife's tale we've heard it for years both of us but it's not true
00:50:46didn't you hear scott say it wasn't yes i heard him
00:50:52oh this is so awful it frightens me the whole idea of talking and dreaming and sobbing and
00:51:04remembering nothing about it well it can't be very pleasant but it's not really so important
00:51:10just bad dreams i know such a thought
00:51:19but it's not really so muut
00:51:19i know such a thought
00:51:46so
00:51:46so
00:51:51What's this one?
00:51:52Blood pressure, Terry. Impulse.
00:51:54While we're talking.
00:51:55You mean a lie detector?
00:51:57That's the easy name for it. Do you mind?
00:51:59Why should I? What do you want me to talk about?
00:52:02I'll let you know when we're ready.
00:52:04How much more of this stuff have we got?
00:52:07Winding up this week.
00:52:08Friday afternoon and that's that.
00:52:10The whole thing?
00:52:12The work's complete.
00:52:14Then Saturday night's the night.
00:52:15Good night?
00:52:16If you tell me you've forgotten.
00:52:19Oh, sure.
00:52:20Remember?
00:52:22Yeah, that's right.
00:52:23Well?
00:52:25Oh, I'm afraid I did forget. I'm terribly sorry.
00:52:28You mean you can't make it?
00:52:30We didn't the other night, but...
00:52:33What a man.
00:52:34And me thinking that you were simply living for that night.
00:52:37Well, it's inexcusable, I know, but we finished so much sooner than I expected.
00:52:42Who's my rival?
00:52:43You have no rival, you know that.
00:52:46That always the answer during office hours, too?
00:52:49Your memory's too good.
00:52:51Come on, let's get on with this now, shall we?
00:52:53And straighten that out later.
00:52:54Oh, there's nothing to straighten out.
00:52:55My heart's broken, that's all.
00:52:57Let's have the machine.
00:52:58All I want you to do is answer a few simple questions.
00:53:01Not on any forbidden subjects, so you need me worried about that.
00:53:04Well, it's all over the whole thing.
00:53:06Ask me anything you wish.
00:53:07Uh, does that go for Ruth, too?
00:53:10Well, that you better ask her.
00:53:12Oh, yes, yes, of course.
00:53:15Well, I hope so, anyway.
00:53:17You've both been through a pretty terrible ordeal.
00:53:19If you've managed to come out of it okay, that's... that's wonderful.
00:53:23Well, what are you going to ask me?
00:53:25Oh, you were telling me the other day about when you lived in Ohio, before you moved to Chicago, remember?
00:53:31Anything else interesting along about that time?
00:53:33Oh, offhand.
00:53:35Um, I believe that Ruth was telling me about a boy that she went with that you didn't care very
00:53:40much for.
00:53:42Oh, Freddie Eklund.
00:53:44Yes, I think that was the name.
00:53:46In, uh, in Dayton.
00:53:49Why?
00:53:50What did she say?
00:53:51Uh, she just said that you told her he wasn't on the level.
00:53:54And proved it.
00:53:56Was she complaining?
00:53:57Good heavens, no.
00:53:58She was grateful you know how she depends on you.
00:54:01She was just rambling along about how you've always looked after her.
00:54:04Sort of like an older sister, she says.
00:54:06Did she tell you that I knew him first?
00:54:08No, I don't believe she did.
00:54:11Well, that's the truth of the matter.
00:54:12I met him first and introduced him to her.
00:54:15And he didn't care in the slightest for her, and I knew it.
00:54:17And then he started going round with her, without her even dreaming for one second
00:54:21that it was actually me that he was interested in.
00:54:46Terry.
00:54:48Terry!
00:54:49Hmm?
00:54:50Hmm?
00:54:52Oh, what is it, dear?
00:54:54That light again!
00:54:56Wake up, dear.
00:54:58You're dreaming again.
00:55:00No, no, it wasn't a dream.
00:55:02Didn't you see it?
00:55:03There wasn't anything to see, dear.
00:55:05You're dreaming, I tell you.
00:55:06It wasn't a dream.
00:55:07I wasn't asleep.
00:55:09The whole room lighted up, Terry.
00:55:11I saw everything in a great flash.
00:55:13Now you're all right.
00:55:15There's nothing to be afraid of.
00:55:20Oh, but I was sure I saw it.
00:55:22I was sure of it.
00:55:24It doesn't matter.
00:55:26It really doesn't.
00:55:28But what is it?
00:55:30What do you think it is?
00:55:32Oh, something's happening to me, and I don't know what it is.
00:55:35I don't understand it.
00:55:38You're just imagining things.
00:55:40Your nerves are playing little tricks on you.
00:55:42That's all.
00:55:44I'm so scared.
00:55:46I'm so scared.
00:55:47I don't know what to do.
00:55:53It's nothing, really.
00:56:05Just remember, I'm with you.
00:56:07And I'm always going to be with you.
00:56:10No matter what.
00:56:21So that's all there is to it.
00:56:24Yes, that's all there is, I'm afraid.
00:56:27I didn't promise you a great deal more, remember?
00:56:29All I can say positively is that Ruth didn't do it.
00:56:32She simply isn't capable of that sort of thing.
00:56:34That I know.
00:56:35That does narrow it down a bit, though.
00:56:37Terry's a paranoic.
00:56:39Paranoic has no more conscience, no more sense of right and wrong than a two-year-old.
00:56:44Paranoic's capable of anything.
00:56:47That's something, but not much.
00:56:49You can't run loonies until they've done something, broken some kind of law.
00:56:52If their families don't see fit to commit them, you just have to wait till somebody's set on fire.
00:56:57Unfortunately.
00:56:58Pretty tough on Ruth.
00:57:00You've got to tell her, aren't you?
00:57:03I suppose so, but it's not going to be easy.
00:57:07Apparently she hasn't the ghost of a suspicion.
00:57:09No?
00:57:10What about that double alibi?
00:57:12She could be tricked.
00:57:14Terry could trick her.
00:57:15Well.
00:57:19Much obliged anyway, Doc.
00:57:21Yeah, sorry I couldn't have been more help to you, Lieutenant.
00:57:24Good night, Sergeant.
00:57:25Good night, Doc.
00:57:27You going to see Ruth again soon?
00:57:29I expect to.
00:57:30Tell her, right away, no matter how hard it is.
00:57:32I will.
00:57:32Because it's six to an even, you know, the other one's going to pop off again before it's over.
00:57:36It's quite possible.
00:57:38It's better than that, and watch out for yourself, too.
00:57:41Oh, I don't think I figure very seriously in her calculations.
00:57:44She didn't mind these tests.
00:57:46They were just another challenge to her.
00:57:48Another opportunity to show the world what contempt she has for it.
00:57:51That was the first tip-off I got on her.
00:57:53I thought you said there was no pattern to her psychotics calculations.
00:57:56Well, it's...
00:57:57Don't be too modest, Doc.
00:58:00All right, I'll tell her.
00:58:01When?
00:58:04Tonight.
00:58:05Tonight, if I can.
00:58:06Good night.
00:58:07Good night.
00:58:12You know, it might help if Terry came out and spit on the sidewalk or something.
00:58:17Then we could pick her up.
00:58:19If I was that young man, I'd feel a trifle nervous.
00:58:22Yeah, why?
00:58:23Because from the way he tells it, whether he knows it or not,
00:58:25he looks very much to me like the new Peralta.
00:58:28Target for the night, huh?
00:58:29Uh-huh.
00:58:30That's the way it is, you know.
00:58:32The minute the doctor falls in love with the patient,
00:58:34from then on, he's about as useful as a papoose.
00:58:46Hello?
00:58:48Hello.
00:58:49Hello, Ruth.
00:58:50Hello, Scott.
00:58:52How are you, dear?
00:58:53Are you alone?
00:58:54Yes.
00:58:55Why?
00:58:56Well, I don't want Terry to know.
00:58:59Do you think I could see you alone sometime tonight?
00:59:01Of course.
00:59:02When?
00:59:03Anytime.
00:59:04Whenever you say.
00:59:05Could I make it rather late?
00:59:06Around 11?
00:59:08She'll be asleep by then.
00:59:1011's all right for me.
00:59:12Supposing I come to your apartment at 11 or a little after?
00:59:14I'll leave the front door unlocked and you come straight up the top of the stairs.
00:59:17I understand.
00:59:38Come in.
00:59:45Do you mind?
00:59:47What?
00:59:48No.
00:59:49Well, of course not.
00:59:51I couldn't be more pleased.
00:59:53Well, you know very well there's no one in the whole world I'd rather see walk in that door.
00:59:56I saw your light.
00:59:57I've been walking and I thought perhaps if you weren't busy for a little while.
01:00:00No, no, no.
01:00:01I was just wondering what to do next.
01:00:04Not that it's anything important.
01:00:06Feeling, uh, feeling depressed?
01:00:09I guess so.
01:00:10Something like that.
01:00:14Look, if you had your dinner, then what do you say?
01:00:17Instead of having dinner with me tomorrow night, how about having it with me tonight and tomorrow night?
01:00:21Oh, I didn't mean...
01:00:22And as many other nights as you can spare, too.
01:00:25But tonight, my dear, I think we should have it with music.
01:00:54I'm sure you don't want to tell me.
01:00:57What causes hallucinations?
01:01:01Hallucinations?
01:01:02Things you imagine you see or hear.
01:01:03What causes them?
01:01:05Oh, bad nerves.
01:01:08Just nerves?
01:01:10Or a sick mind.
01:01:22May I explain something?
01:01:24No, no, please don't.
01:01:25I think I'd like to go home now.
01:01:27Would you get my bag and gloves?
01:01:29I'll wait for you here and we'll go out this way.
01:01:32Of course, dear.
01:01:32I'll be right back.
01:01:56I'll be right back.
01:02:03Uh, police headquarters.
01:02:07Uh, Lieutenant Stevenson, please.
01:02:11Lieutenant, this is Scott Elliot.
01:02:14What do you think of me in the role of a human booby trap?
01:02:18So you got the picture at last, huh?
01:02:20It's possible.
01:02:22Now, will you still be there at 10.30?
01:02:24I want to talk to you about something that's come up tonight.
01:02:27Something that may be a little more in your line than mine.
01:02:30I'll be right here, partner, from 10.30 on.
01:02:35She loaded again?
01:02:36Looks like it.
01:02:37He's a very smart guy for a college man.
01:03:00He's a very smart guy for a college man.
01:03:28I was worried.
01:03:30Where did you go?
01:03:31Walk.
01:03:33With Scott?
01:03:35No.
01:03:58Haven't you seen him?
01:03:59He called about seven.
01:04:01Who?
01:04:03Scott.
01:04:04I told you I haven't seen him.
01:04:09You just come in.
01:04:10No, I'm just going out.
01:04:12To dance.
01:04:18I don't know whether I ought to leave you here alone or not.
01:04:21Oh, don't be silly.
01:04:22I'm all right.
01:04:24Have you been taking your capsules?
01:04:26No.
01:04:27Why not?
01:04:28They're no good.
01:04:30Well, maybe you don't take enough.
01:04:32But be careful.
01:04:34Don't take too many.
01:04:40Look, darling.
01:04:44Try not to worry so much.
01:04:46No matter what happens, they can't do a thing without my consent.
01:04:50And I'll never in the world give that, believe me.
01:04:53I'm no dear.
01:04:55So don't be too scared.
01:04:57We'll never be separated.
01:04:59You and I are going to be together.
01:05:01As long as we live.
01:05:03Remember that, darling.
01:05:05Always.
01:05:10Good night, dear.
01:05:12I won't stay out too late.
01:05:15Goodbye.
01:05:15Goodbye.
01:05:15Bye-bye.
01:05:51Bye-bye.
01:06:17Bye-bye.
01:06:48Come in.
01:06:51Oh, I'm so glad you came.
01:06:58Oh, I wondered about how you lived.
01:07:02I apologize for his neatness, but I have no woman around to keep it messed up all the time.
01:07:07I'll hold it.
01:07:08Could I get you something to drink?
01:07:10No, thanks.
01:07:11I hope I didn't alarm you with all that urgency and mystery.
01:07:15No, I was just puzzled that you felt you had to have some excuse.
01:07:17I'd have come anyway.
01:07:19You know that.
01:07:20Sit here.
01:07:22But it wasn't an excuse.
01:07:24I was quite serious.
01:07:25It's something I thought we should discuss right away, privately.
01:07:27But has it got to be tonight?
01:07:29Oh, I'm afraid so, dear.
01:07:30It's quite important.
01:07:31It's about Terry.
01:07:32You don't like Terry, do you?
01:07:34Of course I like her.
01:07:36But what?
01:07:37But...
01:07:38But I love you.
01:07:40Why?
01:07:42Why do I love you?
01:07:43Why me and not her?
01:07:45That's something I'm very curious about.
01:07:47Why did you choose me instead of her?
01:07:49We're so much alike.
01:07:50What was it you thought you saw in me that you didn't see in her?
01:07:54How can I answer that?
01:07:56All I know is that you're the one I fell in love with.
01:07:59What else do I have to know?
01:08:01Am I better looking than she is?
01:08:03Well, to me you are, of course.
01:08:05Don't laugh.
01:08:06I'm serious.
01:08:07I want to know what you think the difference is.
01:08:11For instance, kiss me.
01:08:18Now, do you really believe you could tell that from one of Terry's?
01:08:22Or my lips from hers?
01:08:26I think so.
01:08:27Have you ever kissed Terry?
01:08:29No.
01:08:30Well, then how could you possibly know?
01:08:32How could you even say such a thing?
01:08:34I'm not sure, but...
01:08:37Well, I think I'd know in my heart.
01:08:39Would you really?
01:08:41I think so.
01:08:43Well, of course, I don't believe it for a second.
01:08:45But I wanted to ask you anyway, because...
01:08:47Well, after all, it's Terry they usually go for.
01:08:50She's the one that really sends them.
01:08:51But that's not true.
01:08:53Well, of course it's true.
01:08:55Terry's a smart one.
01:08:57I've told you that before.
01:08:59No.
01:09:00No, they don't go for her.
01:09:03That's the trouble with her.
01:09:04That's what I wanted to talk to you about.
01:09:06Well, I'm afraid I don't know what you mean.
01:09:08Well, it's not an easy thing to tell you, but I feel that I should.
01:09:13Terry's...
01:09:14She's not well.
01:09:15She's sick inside.
01:09:17And she needs help from you and from me, if possible.
01:09:21Sick?
01:09:22How?
01:09:25She's twisted inside.
01:09:27How it got started, I don't know.
01:09:30Some incident when you were babies, I imagine, that you've both forgotten.
01:09:33But there's a natural strong rivalry between sisters.
01:09:36And ever since that incident, whatever it was, it's grown more and more bitter in her until now it's...
01:09:43It's abnormal.
01:09:44And she needs care and attention right away.
01:09:48Terry and I have never been rivals.
01:09:50Never.
01:09:51Not in the slightest.
01:09:52All women are rivals fundamentally.
01:09:55But it never bothers them because they automatically discount the successes of others
01:09:58and alibi their own failures on the grounds of circumstances.
01:10:02Luck, they say.
01:10:03But between sisters, it's a little more serious.
01:10:06The circumstances are generally about the same.
01:10:08So they have fewer excuses with which to comfort themselves.
01:10:12That's why sisters can hate each other with such terrifying intensity.
01:10:17As for twins, especially identical twins,
01:10:21when you must have some idea yourself what agonies of jealousy are possible.
01:10:30Go on.
01:10:37People, men particularly, find it easy enough to like you.
01:10:40You're natural and normal.
01:10:42By the grace of God, you've managed to escape that poison of rivalry and jealousy.
01:10:47But not she.
01:10:48In spite of the truth of what you say, that actually on the surface there's really so little to choose
01:10:52between you.
01:10:55That is, of course, a lie.
01:10:59I'm sorry, my dear, but it isn't.
01:11:01It's the whole history of her case, by her word as well as yours.
01:11:04Well, that boy in Dayton, remember?
01:11:06And the lawyer in Chicago.
01:11:08And that family that wanted to adopt you, but not her.
01:11:11It's the same story over and over and over again.
01:11:14Whichever they met first, it was you they preferred in the end.
01:11:17I've never listened to such utter nonsense in all my life.
01:11:20And I called you tonight because I want you to talk to her about this.
01:11:24I want you as the one nearest and dearest to her,
01:11:27to persuade her to go to her doctor and put herself under his care,
01:11:29and I want you to get her to do this at once.
01:11:32And if I refuse to insult her with such incredible rot?
01:11:35But you mustn't.
01:11:35I can't tell you how important it is that she get this care immediately.
01:11:39And if she refuses?
01:11:43If you refuse, Terry,
01:11:47I'm afraid I'll have to tell who killed Frank Peralta and why.
01:12:20You can't.
01:12:22You don't know.
01:12:24I think I do.
01:12:27Not that it matters,
01:12:29because there's nothing you'll ever be able to do about it.
01:12:31Whatever you guess.
01:12:33Shall I remind you anyway?
01:12:35If you wish.
01:12:38Peralta was killed because the same thing happened to you again.
01:12:41It was Ruth he really loved,
01:12:43without even knowing she existed.
01:12:45What was you he courted?
01:12:47Took to dinner, the movies, and the dance.
01:12:49Finally asked to marry him.
01:12:50He didn't know there were twins.
01:12:53All he knew was that every now and then
01:12:55the girl at the counter brought him a warmth that he missed at other times.
01:12:58That's what puzzled him.
01:13:00That's why he asked me about a split personality.
01:13:03Nor do I think you were aware of all this
01:13:04until that night in his apartment
01:13:06when he spoke of his curious difference in you from time to time.
01:13:08Then you knew what had happened again.
01:13:11It was Ruth he was in love with, not you.
01:13:14So you made sure that if you couldn't have his love,
01:13:17neither should Ruth.
01:13:21Who else have you told this to?
01:13:30I say, who else have you told this ridiculous story to?
01:13:35Nobody else so far.
01:13:36And there'll be no need to tell it again
01:13:38if only you'll do what I suggest.
01:13:39Now go to your doctor and be guided wholly by what he says.
01:13:42I see no particular necessity for that.
01:13:45It's just as I told you.
01:13:46There's nothing whatever you can do about it
01:13:48no matter how strongly you feel.
01:13:50You don't think so?
01:13:52No.
01:13:52I'm afraid you've just been wasting your time.
01:13:55Haven't you forgotten Ruth?
01:13:56Not at all.
01:13:58Well, you must have
01:13:59because I can assure you
01:14:00she won't take this ridiculous story so lightly.
01:14:03I don't suppose so.
01:14:04She's been behaving so strangely lately
01:14:06that I wouldn't put anything past her.
01:14:08But I doubt if anybody would take seriously
01:14:10the word of a girl who suffers from hallucinations.
01:14:13Or hasn't she told you?
01:14:16Just a minute.
01:14:18What do you mean by that?
01:14:19Where's Ruth now?
01:14:21Look.
01:14:22Are you so sure you know which one you've kissed?
01:14:24Of course I am.
01:14:25Look closely.
01:14:27Are you certain?
01:14:33Hello.
01:14:35Speaking.
01:14:36Have you still got that Terry there with you?
01:14:39Well, could you bring her over by yourself
01:14:41or do you want me to send the wagon?
01:14:43Just a minute.
01:14:45Who is that?
01:14:46A guy from the hospital.
01:14:47I'll be with you in a minute.
01:14:49Sorry, Doc, but I'm afraid I've got bad news for you.
01:14:52I got nervous after I left you
01:14:53and I decided to come over here
01:14:54and take a look for myself.
01:14:56I hate to have to tell you this,
01:14:58but when I got in here...
01:15:01What?
01:15:05No.
01:15:17All right, Stevenson.
01:15:18I'll be right over.
01:15:24Ruth's dead.
01:15:26She's killed herself.
01:15:29Does that surprise you?
01:15:46I'm terribly sorry, Doc, but I...
01:15:49Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Miss Collins.
01:15:53Sit here.
01:15:55May I go in?
01:15:56Well, I suppose so, if you want to.
01:15:58The examiner's in there.
01:15:59You go with him, Franklin.
01:16:03Can you tell me what happened?
01:16:06She took some of this sleeping junk, apparently.
01:16:09It was empty on the washstand of the bathroom.
01:16:13She's been taking it for the last two or three months.
01:16:16Miss Collins.
01:16:20I hate to have to ask you questions at a time like this,
01:16:23but did she have any reason that you know of?
01:16:26Yes, I'm afraid she did.
01:16:28What was it, Miss Collins?
01:16:30Her conscience.
01:16:31Oh, yeah?
01:16:34I don't...
01:16:34Well, now take your time, Miss Collins.
01:16:37I'm not pressing you.
01:16:38I know it's a tough situation.
01:16:39I'm all right.
01:16:41It's just I've been under such a strain,
01:16:43and now this.
01:16:46But she's free now, poor darling.
01:16:50And I have a right to some peace, too.
01:16:53Of course you have.
01:16:54Make a clean breast of it now, the whole thing.
01:16:56You'd be surprised how much better you feel.
01:17:04She killed him.
01:17:07She killed him?
01:17:10She said she didn't, but I know she did.
01:17:13I believed her at first.
01:17:14I kept on believing her for a long time.
01:17:17But now I know she did it.
01:17:18Take this down.
01:17:20That night, Miss Collins, what happened?
01:17:22When I got home from Jefferson Park,
01:17:24she was already in bed.
01:17:25I thought asleep.
01:17:27Then when it all came out,
01:17:28she got me to promise not to say anything.
01:17:30Because she knew, I knew,
01:17:31she'd been out with him.
01:17:32You believed her then?
01:17:33Yes, but...
01:17:35There was something the matter with Terry.
01:17:37She was sick inside.
01:17:39She was twisted.
01:17:42You mean Ruth?
01:17:43No, Terry.
01:17:44I'm Ruth.
01:17:46It was a kind of deep bitterness.
01:17:48Wait a minute.
01:17:50I thought you were Terry.
01:17:52No, I'm talking about Terry.
01:17:54I'm Ruth.
01:17:55But didn't you...
01:17:57Didn't I what?
01:17:59Nothing.
01:17:59I'm just a little...
01:18:01Go on.
01:18:03Well, then Scott found out about it.
01:18:04Something in those tests.
01:18:06And he told me tonight.
01:18:07He told me she was...
01:18:09not right.
01:18:11She was sick inside.
01:18:13With jealousy.
01:18:14That's why she killed him, Scott says.
01:18:16He didn't know there were two others.
01:18:18All he knew was...
01:18:19Just a minute.
01:18:21What are you trying to pull?
01:18:23I'm just telling him what you told me, dear.
01:18:25Just about what you told me, remember?
01:18:27But this isn't Ruth.
01:18:28This is Terry.
01:18:30Now, Scott.
01:18:31We've been over all that once tonight.
01:18:33This is ridiculous.
01:18:34I know this girl almost as well as I know myself.
01:18:36And it's Terry.
01:18:37How do you know?
01:18:38How do I know?
01:18:39I've been studying them daily for almost two months.
01:18:41I have no more difficulty telling these girls apart
01:18:43than I have telling you and me apart.
01:18:44Can you prove it?
01:18:46Prove it?
01:18:46All I know is that she says she's Ruth.
01:18:48She certainly sounds like Ruth.
01:18:49And unless you have some way of proving different...
01:18:51Shall I go on?
01:18:52You bet.
01:18:52I think we're beginning to get somewhere with this thing.
01:18:54Go right ahead.
01:18:55Well, the test only showed what I'd known for a long time.
01:18:58That she hated me.
01:18:59Hated me from the bottom of her heart.
01:19:00Because men found it easy enough to like me, but not her.
01:19:03It was the same story over and over and over again.
01:19:05Whichever they meant first...
01:19:11I'm sorry, dear.
01:19:34I'm sorry.
01:19:44You're not sore, are you, Doctor?
01:19:45Of course not.
01:19:47The reason I didn't explain to you what I was going to do,
01:19:48I didn't know myself until I got here.
01:19:50It was only after a kind of a Dutch uncle talked with Ruth
01:19:53that the idea came to me,
01:19:53and then it was too late to explain anything,
01:19:55so I just had to take a chance, that's all.
01:19:57Well, all I can say is you aged me ten years.
01:19:59But under the circumstances, I forgive you.
01:20:01Do you want to know why I got nervous?
01:20:03Why?
01:20:05Psychological reasons.
01:20:06Oh.
01:20:07They rubbed off on me.
01:20:08I got to thinking about what you told me,
01:20:09and then it occurred to me that maybe Ruth
01:20:11was in more danger than you were.
01:20:13After all, even a nut can figure out
01:20:14that it's simpler to get rid of a rival
01:20:16than to go on knocking off her boyfriends
01:20:17all the rest of her life.
01:20:19I take back what I said about the police, Lieutenant.
01:20:22Thank you, Doc.
01:20:40Fourth floor, Novelty Department 975, this week only.
01:20:56Was the mirror me?
01:20:58The reflection was.
01:21:00That's what twins are, you know.
01:21:02Reflections of each other.
01:21:03Everything in reverse.
01:21:05And now will you answer one question for me?
01:21:08What?
01:21:09Under the circumstances,
01:21:10you're going to say it's impossible, of course,
01:21:12but...
01:21:14Why are you so much more beautiful than your sister?
01:21:16Well, you're so much better than your sister.
01:21:26Like, oh, all worlds.
01:21:27prodded into t arbeids
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