"So where do you think you're going?" "Just for a breath of fresh air." "Tony..." "He won't be back for hours." "Tony!" "Tony!" "Tony!" "You don't want to do it." "Waiting for your turn, weren't you, copper?" "Weren't you!" "You're both dead now." "Tony!" "Colin, don't!" "Colin!" "* The first Noel The angel did say *" "* Was to certain poor shepherds In fields as they lay *" "* In fields where they lay Keeping their sheep *" "* On a cold winter's night That was so deep *" "* Noel, Noel *" "* Noel, Noel *" "* Born is the king Of Israel... *" "Are you Mr. Aaron?" "Yeah, that's right." "Come on." "I don't suppose..." "Well, I don't suppose I'll be very good at this." "Well, nobody is." "The important thing is to get in the photograph." "Ever been to Brighton before?" "Brighton, no." "I've had to change the hotel." "Change the hotel?" "Why?" "What's happened?" "Well, it's just the other place got raided a couple of nights ago..." "Raided?" "It's all right." "It's all right." "I got us booked at the Radley Hotel." "It's a much better place." "It's going to cost a little bit more, that's all." "We'll go up to my office first, and I'll tell you how it all works." "Don't look so worried." "It'll be fine." "Is everything all right?" "Nothing seems to have been taken." "What do you do for a living, if you don't mind my asking?" "Do?" "I'm a lawyer, a barrister." "Ah... barrister." "Yeah, I thought it was something like that." "You see her down there?" "Well, that's your woman." "I can't walk into a hotel with her." "Yeah, you see, I was totally misinformed about the type of gentleman you were, sir." "No." "No, I... can't." "I just can't." "Mm-hmm..." "Perhaps..." "Perhaps I could talk to my wife." "Your wife?" "Yeah, she's an actress." "I mean, she's never done anything like this before." "Do you think she might?" "I mean, I... if it's..." "I could pay more, I mean." "Uh, good evening, my name is..." "I have a double room booked." "What name, sir?" "Uh, er, Franklin." "It's a double room." "I booked it about two days ago." "If you'd like to sign in here, sir." "Thank you very much." "You developed a sudden interest in hotel architecture?" "Hey, Frank." "Hope you're not doing any illegal divorce work." "I'm tailing a suspect here." "There's a lot of coppers love to see you put away, you know?" "Yeah, wouldn't you think there are better things to do?" "You on your own tonight?" "Why don't you come round for dinner?" "I'm okay, Frank." "Hey, it's Christmas, you miserable sod." "Come round." "Would you like a drink, sir?" "A drink?" "Um, no... not for me." "Would you like something?" "The usual... darling." "Champagne." "Oh, champagne..." "Uh, champagne." "You can smile a bit." "Order a prawn cocktail and pretend you're trying to impress me." "Impress you... right." "I'm not very keen on champagne, that's all." "Denny!" "The man I wanted to see." "Give us the car keys." "Why?" "Didn't Bob bring the money round to you..." "Look, don't start, just give us the keys." "Now." "Ah, for..." "Look, it's good faith, isn't it?" "Yeah, yeah." "We had a deal, and I've seen nothing." "I know." "I know." "Bob promised me 200 quid." "He said he'd bring 20 quid round to your house..." "Yeah, but you're months behind with the payments." "I know." "I'm sorry." "Look." "Look, we agreed terms, didn't we?" "Yeah..." "Yeah." "Well, don't make me feel bad about it." "All right, all right, Denny, listen to me." "If the money's not on your desk 9:00 tomorrow morning, keep the car forever." "9:00." "Well..." "So what do we..." "what do I do now?" "I'll go into the bathroom and change." "Knock on the door when you're ready." "Knock on the door when I'm... ready." "There you are." "Excuse me, dear, could you open 46 for me, please?" "I forgot my key." "Thank you." "You're a witness." "You two should be ashamed of yourselves." "Uh, excuse me?" "Excuse me, miss?" "Remember what you saw." "How much did you get?" "$25." "Show me." "I had some debts to pay back." "So you've paid the rent, did you?" "You lying bastard." "How much do we owe now?" "Give it a rest, will you?" "Well, I didn't marry you to live in a bloody office." "Hey, hey." "Close the door." "Whose is this?" "What?" "You've been with someone else, haven't you?" "Oh, Christ, stop it." "No." "You liar." "A client must have dropped it." "You're so damned suspicious." "Because you never change." "You're the one wanted to get married, sweetheart, not me." "Now, close the bloody door." "Get out of there." "Mr. Dangerous." "Where did you get this from?" "A friend of mine brought it back from Italy." "Come on, give me it." "He said it belonged to Mussolini." "Aw!" "Come on." "Is it loaded?" "Yeah, sure." "Of course it's loaded." "Bang!" "Don't worry about going to court, that's easy." "We just need the photograph and the night porter or a chambermaid to act as a witness." "I mean, they might send someone to the hotel to check out that you were seen, but they'll be no problems." "I sincerely hope not." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey, that's my car, you bastard!" "Get out!" "Tony, get out the car." "Come on!" "Get out!" "I won his car in a poker game, you know?" "What a loser." "* ..." "To spend Christmas On Christmas Island *" "* How'd you like To hang your stocking *" "* On a great big coconut tree?" "*" "Time to go to work." "* How'd you like to stay up late Like the islanders do?" "*" "* Wait for Santa to sail in" "* With your presents In a canoe... *" "That's it at the far end, over there." "So keep near me." "Remember, you're a witness." "You two should be ashamed of yourselves." "Okay, just take everybody's names, keep the guests in their rooms for the moment, just make sure nobody leaves." "Are you all right?" "Get some coffee." "I need to talk to you." "Were you in the bar all evening?" "Did you see anything?" "Oh, God." "I can't believe this has happened." "I just saw her..." "What are you doing?" "Well, you touched the door handle, didn't you?" "Oh, I'm sorry." "I forgot." "Well, you're fine." "I guess you can do your own." "No." "Do it for me, Frank." "My hands are shaking too much." "Did you book the room for them?" "Yeah." "Why did you put them on the top floor?" "I don't know." "If you wanted them to be noticed, you'd stick them in the middle of the first floor..." "I don't know, Frank, I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "It's all right." "Don't worry." "You stay where I can find you." "You stay where I can find you." "I want whoever did this." "No!" "No!" "It's just a photograph." "That's all it is." "Oh, Jesus." "What kind of casket do you want, sir?" "Uh, casket." "Uh..." "I..." "I haven't..." "I haven't got much money." "You'd better make it the cheapest." "Why so formal, Frank?" "Can we do this in my office?" "I've got a lot of pressure on me." "It's got to all be done right." "You know Dave Waterston, he's been working with me." "I was Colin's partner." "You remember Colin, Tony?" "Yes." "I remember Colin." "We're not here to discuss that." "Look, Frank, I've already..." "There's no need to go into all that again." "We got your statement." "You know who was killed along with your wife, Tony?" "His name was, uh, Paduin, Padouin." "He was an Italian salesman." "I don't know much else about him." "You obviously haven't read the newspapers." "His real name was Carlo Stasio, famous painter, rich." "I mean, really rich." "How did you meet him?" "I..." "I didn't, until that day." "His, uh, his solicitor came into the office about a month ago." "He said that they wanted to... remain discreet." "In fact, he said that Padouin... that Stasio wanted to use a false name on the hotel registry." "I said that was all right as long as there were witnesses, you know, to identify him in court." "Now, why would a millionaire go to a dogshit little agency like yours?" "Maybe he wanted anonymity, seeing who he was." "I mean, no big agency's going to arrange adulteries anyway, are they?" "They're against the law." "They certainly are, Tony." "We're not going to be able to cover that up." "I know." "You said you were in the hotel bar all night." "From about 10:00, yeah." "Never left your seat." "So?" "The barmaid said you went out for about ten minutes just before you went upstairs." "Jesus, I went to the toilet, right?" "No, no, no, no." "You went upstairs and did her, didn't you?" "They found your prints all over the bed." "Oh, fuck off." "Is that the best you can do?" "You owe people a lot of money." "So what?" "I owe money." "That's not a crime, is it?" "It's an incentive to commit crime." "I'll pretend you didn't say that." "Pretend what you like." "You're not getting away with murder again." "All right, eh." "All right!" "Come on." "Dave, shut up!" "Leave him alone." "Well, ask him, Frank." "Ask me what?" "Do you possess a gun?" "What?" "No..." "What, do you think I killed my wife, and then I killed a complete stranger as well?" "Does that make sense?" "Even to a fucking monkey brain like you, Waterston?" "Nobody thinks anything like that." "If there's nothing else, Frank, can I go?" "There is one more thing." "Have you talked to anyone in the station about the autopsy?" "Whoever killed them also cut off Stasio's thumb as a souvenir." "Oh, Tony..." "Happy Christmas." "What are you doing here?" "Same as you." "So what's the news?" "Oh, nothing." "Someone saw a smart red car outside the back of the hotel." "That's about it." "Stasio's wife." "Who's that?" "I have no idea." "Interesting." "Just remember who's doing the investigation, all right?" "Absolutely." "I'm serious." "I can't have you around me." "Mrs. Stasio, I'm Frank Vance, the Detective in charge of the investigation." "I'd like to offer my condolences, and say that if there's anything you'd like me to do..." "I'll tell you what you can do." "You can go to my house... my house... and throw that bitch, Angeline, out of it." "Right." "When might it be convenient to talk to you, Mrs. Stasio..." "Speak." "I have a floral tribute to deliver." "Drive down to the front entrance and I'll collect it." "Drive down, she says." "Thank you." "I'll take that." "I need to give it to the lady of the house herself." "I'm sorry." "She's not at home to visitors at the moment." "She is at home." "I saw her come in." "Sorry." "Wait, please." "Could you give her this, please?" "Thank you." "I can't help you, I'm afraid." "I haven't asked you anything yet." "Uh..." "Tony." "Tony Aaron." "Angeline White." "I kind of expected to see his wife." "This is a family home, isn't it?" "She doesn't live here anymore." "I'm sorry you've wasted a journey." "Don't you want to find out who killed him?" "Do you know?" "Not yet." "Then why don't we leave that to the police?" "Good day, Mr. Aaron." "It's not a good day." "Not for either of us." "Don't you get frightened here on your own in a big house like this?" "Only when people like you say things like that." "A Detective Inspector Vance has arrived." "Um, it might be better if he doesn't see me." "Do you have a back entrance?" "We don't usually have a need for a back entrance." "If there's nothing else, then I'll dismiss the..." "The wages are in envelopes in the hall." "What does Stasio need the oxygen for?" "Was he ill?" "He thought he was ill." "There was nothing wrong with him." "Goodbye." "Where's all his paintings, then?" "What are you doing here?" "Would you please ask this man to leave, Detective, and not come back again?" "Get out, like the lady says." "I warned you, didn't I?" "Keep out of this." "Was she his mistress?" "He was doing all right for an old man." "Maybe I should take up painting." "I'm giving her 24-hour protection for the next couple of days." "I'll tell my men to arrest you if you show up here again, all right?" "You never offered me 24-hour protection." "Oh, come on, Frank." "It's obvious." "It's got to be Selina, the wife." "She gets dumped for a younger woman, thrown out of her home." "She feels bitter." "She doesn't want Stasio to go through with divorcing her, so she kills him." "Absolutely." "There's only one drawback..." "she didn't do it." "How do you know?" "She was at a party in London, all night, at least 20 witnesses." "She didn't do it." "And what about Angeline, where was she?" "Come on, Frank, I know you asked." "I didn't have time to." "She says she was with the family solicitor." "At midnight?" "I don't want you with me." "Come on, Frank." "Ton, don't make me have an argument about it." "Would it be all right if I take the car?" "No, it ain't all right." "Go on." "I understand you represented Stasio," "Mr. Roscoe." "Yes, that's correct." "Why did you pick Tony's..." "Mr. Aaron's agency to fake the adultery?" "Look, I'm not saying..." "It's all right." "I'm not interested in any of that." "Why Mr. Aaron?" "Well, he'd, uh... done some work for me a couple of times before... matrimonial, similar work." "I didn't really know him." "I see." "What was Stasio like as a client?" "Very difficult." "He was forever changing his mind." "But he paid well." "Is that a question?" "Why did you meet Angeline the night that he was murdered?" "That is a question." "Mr. Stasio had instructed me to invite her here to explain about the..." "adultery when it was already too late to stop it." "She didn't know?" "Why didn't he tell her?" "You'd have to ask her." "What time did she leave?" "Very late." "About 10:00." "What did you do then?" "I went home." "Mr. Aaron?" "Mr. Aaron!" "It's your own fault." "I told you not to come back here." "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean to frighten you." "You didn't frighten me." "I frightened you." "It's a bit late to be making pastry, isn't it?" "I think you'll be fine." "You can leave now." "I don't want to leave." "If I blow this, the two cops out front will come running in here." "I think you should give that to me." "I seem to be in more danger of sudden violence than you do." "Is this you?" "It has the curious effect of making strangers think they know me." "Where did you meet Stasio?" "At an exhibition in Miami." "I admired his paintings." "He asked me to model for him." "And here you are." "I was an art student." "I decided to give up painting when I saw what he could do with his eyes shut." "An artist's work leaps in value after his death, isn't that true?" "Always." "You must be sitting on a gold mine." "Well, do you think I killed him to make money?" "I was just thinking out loud." "I could take this painting to any gallery in the world and get $20,000 for it, probably more." "If you take it out, you can keep it." "What are you trying to prove?" "It's a serious offer." "I wanted to show you you care more about money than I do." "Yeah, well, you've got more of it to not care about." "It's signed." "Yeah?" "All these paintings are signed." "I thought famous painters didn't sign their work until it was sold, to stop people stealing them." "People can steal paintings." "People can forge signatures, so Stasio did something really clever... he put his thumb print after his name." "Only the ones on the wall have his thumb print on them." "The rest are worthless." "Pretty smart, huh?" "Yeah, pretty smart." "Now you've had the tour." "You hated him, didn't you?" "Why do you say that?" "He was an amazing man." "He was the most powerful man I ever met, but he was... so obsessive, and he became..." "obsessed with me." "He threw Selina out." "He said he'd divorce her and marry me, even though I kept telling him I was going back to America." "I didn't mean to stay with him." "Things just..." "got out of hand... and then, he wouldn't let me go." "He said he'd kill himself if I left." "Maybe that's what happened." "Maybe he shot your wife and then... shot himself." "Yeah, sure, and then what did he do with the gun?" "Son?" "What am I supposed to be looking at?" "You weren't there, Frank." "Look carefully." "Tony had this shooting competition." "Souvenir?" "A souvenir, from the war." "Why did you lie to me?" "For it, and I'm in enough shit as it is, all right?" "No, it is not all right." "Get it." "I'd forgotten all about it." "Don't make a big deal." "It was here." "I swear it was here." "It's gone." "I know it was in there." "It's been taken." "Hazel was playing with it last week." "She must have put it somewhere." "This is the gun you'd forgotten all about?" "Good morning!" "What are you doing?" "May I ask... where did you go when you left the solicitor's on the night of the murder?" "Home." "What are you doing?" "Straight home?" "I may have driven around for a while," "I was pretty upset." "You'll have to do better than that." "I had few drinks." "I don't remember exactly where I went." "What are you looking for?" "Lots of things." "Like what?" "Now, this is a search warrant." "I wonder, would you mind if we took a look around the villa?" "Did you tell the police something to make them tear my car apart?" "No." "No?" "No." "You see, I..." "I did go to the hotel that night." "Mr. Roscoe told me what Carlo was going to do, and I wanted to try and stop him." "I..." "I wasn't going to marry him..." "But I knew he'd fly into a rage... so I just sat in my car." "You sat in your car?" "You didn't go inside?" "I should have told the police, but I was so frightened." "I mean, it looks bad, doesn't it?" "I think his wife killed him." "She was 50 miles away." "Oh." "Well, maybe she paid someone to do it." "Go and talk to her." "Hey, listen, I'm doing my investigations, not yours." "I'll pay you." "To find my wife's killer?" "What kind of person do you think I am?" "Hello, girls." "Someone who needs money." "You could use it to move into a nicer neighborhood." "My mother was a prostitute." "I like living here." "Oh." "Yes." "Oh." "Did you know your father?" "Oh, yes." "I knew all my fathers." "What time did your husband get home on the night of the murder?" "Well, you don't think my husband was involved?" "Good gracious, no." "No." "I just want to clarify in my mind the sequence of events." "About midnight." "He works very late these days." "I was just falling asleep when I heard the car." "What are you doing harassing my wife?" "I'm sorry?" "If you have any questions, you come to the office and ask them." "I have one question." "If you left the office at 10:00, why did it take you two hours to drive three miles home?" "Did you go to the hotel with Angeline?" "I don't have to talk to you." "Oh, you do... sooner or later." "I'm Inspector Vance." "We met at your husband's memorial." "But I've already been talking to Inspector Aaron." "Inspector?" "I'm going to have to sort him out." "Can I have a word?" "He'd had affairs before." "We had an understanding." "He swore that they were nothing, and that he'd never leave me." "Until Angeline." "When he came back from Miami, he'd changed." "He was completely under her spell, did anything she said." "She's a very persuasive woman, very clever." "Are you sure you're not just..." "jealous?" "Of course I'm jealous." "I've made myself ill with jealousy." "That was his first American exhibition in Miami." "I was an art dealer, that's how we met." "Of course, I had to give that all up as soon as we were married." "No wife of his was allowed to work." "I don't care he's dead." "I could lie, but I don't care." "I stopped loving him long before he... threw me out." "Stop going around saying you're a policeman." "In fact, stop going around all together." "You're making me look like an idiot, arriving five minutes after you all the time." "Frank, I can't help it if I'm ahead of the game." "Do you think she's involved?" "No." "She's a very bitter woman who'd love to get her hands back into paintings, but she's innocent." "It's Angeline." "Car was spotless, so was the villa." "Frank, she's ice cool." "Like, today she come in here and tried to hire me to investigate the murders that she committed." "I don't want you seeing her again." "I know why they cut his thumb off, you know." "It was to authenticate the..." "Paintings, yeah." "Well done, Detective." "You're not the only one working." "Frank, look," "Stasio had homes in America, in Italy." "Supposing there's hundreds of paintings lying all over the world, all worthless without the thumbprint." "Oh, Frank, she did it." "I know it." "Everyone thinks I murdered them, don't they?" "No." "I saw a man on the fire escape that night when I was in my car." "Oh, yeah?" "What did he look like?" "It was dark." "I couldn't really see." "Well, what height was he?" "And don't say my height." "Couldn't tell." "Did you tell the police?" "Mm." "They'll think I made it up." "Were you happy with Hazel?" "I don't know." "I'm not an expert in marriages." "When you were with her, did you want to be with other people?" "Oh, yes." "All the time." "I love women." "I lose my head." "Do you think people know what they're doing, or do you think we're... driven by things we can't control." "People are capable of anything." "A boat goes down in the middle of the ocean, and it's not the women and children who get out first, it's the people that are ready to step on the others." "You're so like me." "Am I?" "You don't really like yourself, do you?" "Things'd be different if I was in America." "I'd be a different person, a new start." "I understand Selina." "She's more like me than I care to admit." "Nobody likes being used and then thrown away." "So why did you stay with him?" "Because I need people to tell me that they love me, and when they do," "I get frightened and want to run away." "You're not answering my question." "If he was so terrible, why did..." "There's somebody out there." "Let's go back to the house." "Are you joking?" "Is everything else locked up?" "I feel safe as long as you're here." "Well..." "I can't stay here." "You don't have anywhere to go, do you?" "Look..." "I just can't get involved." "Why don't you go down to the cellar and... choose a wine?" "It's late." "I know nothing about wine." "Then choose a bottle with a pretty label." "Oh, very funny." "Angeline?" "Angeline..." "I don't think you're supposed to serve Bordeaux like that." "I'm going home." "Go on then." "Why did you stay with him?" "What?" "Stasio," "If he was so awful, why did you stay with him, hm?" "I can't believe you, cross-examining me while we're making love." "You know who I am, Tony?" "Ah..." "Ah." "Nobody." "But I've met Picasso, Brock, Matisse," "I've been to Mexico, Paris, the South Seas, and places people only dream about." "When I die, I'll still exist." "People will stare at me in galleries all over the world." "We're nothing, you and me." "We'll only get out of the gutter on someone else's back." "Everybody can be special." "You and me, we burn to be what we're not." "We have to be special, and we'll do anything for it." "Wouldn't you do anything for it?" "Oh, yes." "Yes." "Frank, wait." "Wait." "I can't do this." "You be the killer." "Okay..." "Right..." "Okay, I come in through the door." "I kill them both, shoot them." "I, uh, cut off his thumb here..." "Then leave." "No." "Why didn't they try and get up out of bed?" "Why'd they just sit there?" "Why'd they let you pick up a pillow?" "Okay, okay." "They're not frightened... because they know me." "That's right." "One of them knows me." "And the killer never came in through that door." "Look at the direction of the blood on the wall." "They're both turned towards the bathroom." "You're being very slow." "Bathroom's got a balcony." "A sash with a sliding lock." "The easiest window in the world to open." "There's no fire escape." "I wouldn't want to chance this as an escape route, especially at night." "Why are you assuming that the killer left the hotel after the murders?" "He went over the roof." "Shit." "This window leads to the kitchen." "It's closed in the evenings in winter." "From here, no one can see you if you walk back downstairs into the lobby." "It's good, Frank." "There's only one thing that worries me about this... where's the gun?" "Everyone in the hotel was searched, checked the rooms, rubbish tips, everything, no gun." "Walk back, will you?" "Go through it again." "What did they do with the gun?" "Wait a minute!" "Where do those lead?" "Yeah, heat's the water for the whole hotel." "I stoke it up at night, and then again first thing in the morning." "How often is it turned off?" "Never." "It's designed so that the ashes drop through to a tray below." "What are you looking for?" "There's something at the back there, you see?" "You reckon you could reach that?" "What make was your gun?" "Oh, Frank..." "What make was your gun?" "Beretta." "I have to arrest you." "I have to." "Somebody's setting me up, here, Frank." "Look, I didn't tell you this, but a few days ago, I came back, and the office door had been forced open." "Now, I didn't see anything..." "Don't even start." "But it's true." "If I give this to Waterston," "This is enough to convict you." "It's Angeline, she did it." "She was outside the hotel that night." "I know she did it." "Why, what was her motive?" "Frank, she hated him..." "Tony, I am holding your fucking gun." "Look, you've got to keep this to yourself for a few days." "No, no." "Two days." "We can nail her." "24 hours." "What if anyone finds out" "I'm holding back evidence?" "Frank, what's more important to you, our old friendship or police procedure?" "Don't you useour friendship..." "Why not?" "Why not?" "What else have I got left?" "You were the only one who stuck by me, Frank, the only one." "Stick by me now." "I could get in a lot of trouble." "No details about the will have yet been made public..." "Mrs. Stasio, well, you know each other, obviously." "Shall we begin?" "The will is a document of considerable length, and the deceased names a number of art foundations and libraries who are to receive his diaries and sketch books and other effects, but I'll concentrate first on the main division of the estate" "and the paintings, which is considerably more straightforward." ""To my dearest Angeline," ""I leave everything I possess, to be disposed of as she wishes."" "It's outrageous!" "That's it?" "But I..." "That's it?" "She gets all the paintings?" "There is no reference to you in the will, Mrs. Stasio." "But I was with him when he wrote his will, I..." "When was this written?" "When was it written?" "December the 21st, 1959." "The day he died." "He changes his will so that she gets everything, and that same day, he's murdered." "You bitch." "You couldn't wait." "As soon as he'd signed everything, you got rid of him, didn't you?" "I told you, Frank, I told you." "She got his name on the paper... bang." "That will is completely legal." "She's going to walk away with everything." "There's something about Roscoe" "I don't buy." "Maybe they're in it together." "I'm going to tail him." "What?" "Frank, what does she have to do to convince you?" "Look, it's got nothing to do with bloody Roscoe, it's Angeline, and I can nail her, she trusts me." "Don't you go up there again." "You leave her to me." "Look, I'm just going to talk to her, that's all." "I just want to talk to you." "What are you doing?" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "You were looking for something, weren't you?" "You think I murdered them?" "No." "Get out of here." "Go on, get out." "Look, I'm sorry." "I had to be sure." "Stay away from me." "Angeline, I can't stay away from you." "Everyone thinks I murdered him to get his money." "I don't care about the money, and I don't want the paintings." "Look, I know you didn't do it." "You don't know." "I do." "How can you know?" "How can you say that after I find you searching through everything?" "How can I trust you?" "Because we have to trust each other." "We have to trust each other." "We have to." "Come with me." "I want to show you somewhere." "Can I have a word?" "Go away, we're busy." "Police." "Oh, no." "Have I got things wrong." "What's going on?" "I think you better wait in the kitchen, sonny." "You're in a lot of trouble." "I'm sure I don't need to remind you of the law, do I?" "Can I, uh..." "Can I get dressed?" "No." "We had a bit of trouble selling this place... and I kept the key that Hazel gave me." "I come here quite often." "No, the lights don't work." "A club owner lived here." "He was planning a robbery." "We just had to watch the place." "It wasn't dangerous." "Two other policemen were watching his club." "I got to know his wife, Hazel." "Kept coming in to see her, every night." "Frank warned me to stop, but I wouldn't." "I couldn't stop myself." "Then one night, another policeman, Colin, got... into trouble because of me." "I got him killed." "Sometimes..." "Sometimes, I think of my life as the same bad thing played over and over again..." "This isn't the same, you're innocent." "You have nothing to be frightened of." "But I'm not innocent." "I've never been innocent." "What about this man who killed Colin?" "Maybe he's trying to get revenge." "I don't think so." "They hanged him last year." "People always think they're better than me... and they are." "We're just the same." "No, we're not the same." "Buy a plane ticket back to America." "Why?" "Because really bad things are going to happen." ""Be lucky."" "Frank gave it to me when I graduated police college." "Well, a truck ran over it." "It's never been the same since." "What's wrong?" "You all right?" "Angeline?" "Angeline..." "Angeline!" "Oh, Christ." "You're a sick bastard." "What were you doing here?" "Screwing her like last night?" "You're in it together, aren't you?" "Yeah, sure." "I want a confession." "All right, I confess." "You witness that, Paul?" "No, this isn't right, we don't..." "No, no." "Oh, come on, then, beat me up." "Yeah." "Let's do this one for Colin, shall we?" "What do you want me to say?" "I'll tell you anything." "I can't go to prison." "You planned it all with Angeline, didn't you?" "You told her the moment Stasio changed his will..." "Yeah, I told her, but I swear" "I didn't have any idea what was going to happen." "But you know who murdered him, don't you?" "Yeah, it was Angeline, wasn't it?" "I don't want any calls!" "Look..." "Tony?" "Where?" "All right." "Wait there." "Just wait there." "Right, listen," "Go to your office now, get the old will, get the files on the Stasio family, all the letters." "I want the notes on all the meetings," "I want everything, all right?" "Don't you cheat me." "Everything." "I'll join you there in 20 minutes." "Sorry." "I'm sorry, Frank." "What the hell happened?" "Ah..." "Oh, I walked into a door." "It kicked the shit out of me." "What's so funny?" "I've cracked it." "Roscoe is ready to tell us everything." "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six..." "Hey, Tony, enjoy the last of the old decade." "Happy New Year, Roscoe." "No!" "Frank, come on, let's call somebody, for God's sake." "There's a note." "He's left a note." "Hey..." "Just help me turn him over, will you?" "Come on." "Oh, God." "What's that?" "Pick it up." "What's it say?" "Come on, what's it say?" "Tony?" "What is your current profession?" "I'm a private detective." "And what does the majority of your work consist of?" "It varies." "Well, I understand you have a speciality." "Well, I do a lot of matrimonial work." "You falsify adulteries to enable people to get divorces." "I like to think I help unhappy people to put their lives back together." "You make it sound like a charity." "Of course, it isn't a charity, is it, Mr. Aaron?" "You make money out of other people's misery." "What, like barristers, you mean?" "As I understand it," "You would make your wife go to bed with these men, and then you'd go to court and testify to witnessing their adultery, is that more or less what you did?" "More or less." "And how many, approximately, of these... dirty weekends did you arrange?" "I don't know, a dozen, maybe?" "Yes, well, let's not argue with that figure for the moment, a dozen." "So on at least a dozen occasions, you went to court... and lied." "And you lied and you lied again..." "Well..." "It doesn't inspire much confidence in you telling the truth now, does it, Mr. Aaron?" "Why did you leave the police force?" "Well..." "Well, a friend... a friend of mine was killed, and, um..." "And what, Mr. Aaron?" "I couldn't take the pressure, I had to leave." "Isn't it the case that you were told to resign in return for formal charges being dropped against you?" "That's enough, Mr. Jenkins." "The jury will ignore that last remark." "Mr. Aaron..." "Why did you marry your wife?" "What do you mean?" "That's a stupid question." "Well, stupid or not, why did you marry your wife?" "The same reason everybody does, because I loved her." "I don't believe that's the truth." "Tony bought a car off me a couple of years ago, and we got to be friends." "He was seeing this married woman at the time, you know." "This was Hazel Powers?" "Yeah, that's right." "Then a copper was killed by Powers, and he was... tried and hung." "Anyway, Tony and I were drinking one night, and he said he was going to marry Hazel, you know." "I couldn't believe it, because all he'd ever said before was she was just a good..." "Yes?" "Good in bed." "I never thought he really cared about her." "I said this to him, and he just laughed." "He said, "Have you seen her house?" "Do you know how much money she's got?"" "He didn't leave much doubt about why he was marrying her." "Did you see Mr. Aaron subsequent to the marriage." "After they got married," "Tony found out this guy, Powers, had huge debts." "He was virtually bankrupt." "His club was sold, his house was put on the market, and Hazel didn't end up with anything at all." "He was really mad when he found out." "He said he'd made the biggest mistake of his life." "Mr. Aaron, were you aware that your wife had an insurance policy through the access trades union of which she was a member?" "No." "Well, I wasn't until I went through her things after..." "Do you recall the conditions of the policy?" "I just read it through once." "You stood to gain a thousand pounds in the event of her death." "Look, it's a standard insurance policy..." "Thank you, Mr. Aaron, that's all for now." "I can say with complete confidence that this is the gun that killed them both." "We asked him twice if he owned a gun." "He denied it both times." "Is this your gun?" "I said, is this your gun, Mr. Aaron?" "It looks like my gun." "How did it come to be in the boiler room of the hotel?" "It was stolen from me." "I had a break-in in my office." "Really?" "And when did you report it stolen?" "I didn't know anything was missing at the time." "I didn't realize until after the murders." "And were there any witnesses to this alleged break-in?" "Yes, the client I was helping." "He was with me." "Who is this man?" "He's a barrister." "Oh, and, uh, we'll get a chance to talk to this barrister, will we?" "He doesn't want to appear in court." "Really?" "Well, that'll be the first barrister I've ever known to be shy of appearing in court." "So really, what you're telling us is that no one can substantiate this alleged break-in?" "Yes, this barrister can." "Yes, well..." "Why did you have a gun?" "I mean, did you, uh... did you use it to threaten people?" "Really, My Lord, I must object." "I'm just trying to understand." "I mean, why did you have a gun?" "I don't know, I just kept it, that's all." "And when did you apply for a license for the gun?" "I didn't have a license for it." "We've got to get that barrister to talk." "He won't." "I've tried." "The beretta was fired three times in all from a distance of less than four feet, using one of the bedroom pillows to muffle the noise." "Stasio was hit twice..." "Give this to Frank." "The first bullet penetrated his chest and his heart, and in all probability, he was already dead when the second shot was fired." "You've made yourself hard to meet." "Look, I'm afraid you're wasting your time, Detective." "I've already told you I have nothing to..." "Is he telling the truth about the break-in?" "Look, I can't help you, I'm afraid." "My reputation is..." "Sod your reputation." "Is he telling the truth?" "I have nothing to say." "Now, please leave me alone." "Is there room for me?" "Look, I'd like to remind you who I am, Detective." "I'm not going to be bullied..." "I'm not giving you a choice." "This is a man's life, or do you want me to tell your fancy friends what kind of person you are?" "This your coat?" "I had paid Mr. Aaron to arrange for myself and a woman to be photographed together to help me..." "obtain a divorce." "He met me at Brighton station, and then we went back to his office to sign some papers." "I immediately noticed something was wrong, the door had been forced open." "Mr. Aaron checked in his desk and around, but couldn't see anything missing at the time, and we continued with... with our business." "But there were definite signs of a break-in?" "Yes." "Yes, there were." "You're part of the prosecution." "I'm still not certain..." "You're part of the prosecution, Frank!" "You can't go looking for evidence for the bloody defense." "I'm not sure anymore." "You've got the gun." "What more do you want?" "You know he did it, you just don't want to believe it." "Waterston knows something." "What's he got up his sleeve?" "I mean, there's the gun, yes." "Even the suicide note." "They're damning, but they're circumstantial." "Nothing directly connects you." "There are no eyewitnesses, so he's got to have something more." "But there isn't anything more." "I went to the hotel that night to wait for Carlo." "I was going to drive him home after the, uh... the photograph." "I was there for about half an hour when I saw something." "What did you see?" "I saw someone climb over the roof of the hotel, they stopped for a moment, and then they climbed into a window." "That's the kitchen window, that's the third floor window at the front of the hotel." "Yes." "Did you see who it was?" "It was definitely a man, from their clothes, but it was dark." "I couldn't see them very well." "So you have no idea who it might have been?" "I know exactly who it was." "You say it was dark, how can you be so sure?" "Before they went back inside the hotel, they stopped to light a cigarette." "Did you see their face in the light?" "At that distance?" "No, but... they had a lighter, and it didn't work properly, so they tapped it against their hand, and then they shook it twice, and then tried to light it." "It was... such an individual way of lighting a cigarette." "I forgot all about it, until I saw Tony Aaron do exactly the same thing with his lighter." "Liar!" "She's a liar!" "She's making it up!" "Sit down, Mr. Aaron." "What did she buy, the woman who was just in here?" "An aeroplane ticket for America." "Why do you want to know?" "One-way ticket?" "Yes." "You have seen the evidence." "The solicitor's letter, the gun." "You've seen the shocking photographs of the dead." "Now, you must be thinking... what kind of a person could commit this atrocity." "A man thrown out of the police force, who, by his own confession, now makes his living by fraud and deception." "A man who has perjured himself regularly in court for the past two years." "A man who was desperate for money, and I suggest to you... was prepared to do anything to get it." "I..." "I know things look bad, and I'm no angel, I've done things wrong, but I didn't do this." "Somebody stole my gun and tried to frame me." "That's what happened." "Why should I kill my wife?" "I mean, I could just divorce her." "I mean, what they're saying..." "They're saying I killed my wife for a thousand pounds, and then killed this man as well, so that people wouldn't suspect me?" "It's sick." "It's..." "I couldn't do anything like that." "I don't deny I've lied." "I've done a lot of things wrong in my life, but not this." "God, not this." "Someone in the jury's smiling." "It's going to be all right." "Have you reached a verdict that is the verdict of you all?" "We have." "And to the charge of murder, do you find the defendant guilty or not guilty?" "Guilty." "No..." "No." "No." "I'm innocent." "No." "No." "Get off me." "Get off me." "No." "No." "No." "I'm innocent." "It wasn't me." "It wasn't me." "I'm innocent." "I'm innocent, I tell you." "She's clean." "I followed her, everything." "I've turned in my appeal." "Oh, Christ." "She did it, Frank, she did it." "What can I do?" "I can't do anything more." "Do you know what I get in here?" "I get these two pricks watching me night and day." "Saying, "Do I want a game of dominoes?"" "Do I even want to play a game of dominoes?" "I'm being hung in the morning, Frank," "So don't just sit there and tell me you can't do anything." "Search the house again." "We missed something." "I can't get another warrant to search the same place..." "When I was in Stasio's studio, she found me, and she went crazy." "Search the house again." "Eat your steak before it gets cold, Tony." "Fuck, steak!" "Frank, find something." "Search the house again." "Paul, it's me." "Call the airports." "If she turns up anywhere, try getting customs to hold onto her for a while." "Think of something." "Yeah, well, just fucking do it." "No, sir, no." "I can't answer that question." "There's been no word of a pardon." "I'm sorry, you'll have to ask the press officer." "You'll have to ask the press officer about that as well." "All right, thank you." "Sorry, I can't help you." "It's time to go, sir." "Yes." "No, I'm afraid the governor is unavailable for comment at the moment." "No." "I'm not going to make it." "I'm not going to make it!" "No, no, hey, guys." "Wait." "Wait, please." "I didn't do it." "I didn't do it!" "I didn't do it." "Wait." "I didn't do this." "I didn't do it." "Come on, lad, behave." "I swear to God, I didn't do it." "I'm innocent." "Oh, Jesus." "Oh, Jesus, God, I'm innocent." "I didn't do this." "Listen, I swear I'm innocent." "I didn't do this." "I didn't do this." "I swear I didn't." "No." "I don't want that." "I don't want it." "Listen, I'm innocent." "Don't go away." "Please, stay." "Look, it wasn't me." "Hey!" "Oi!" "Where you think you're going?" "Please." "Please..." "Please, I'm innocent." "I'm innocent!" "What's wrong?" "Don't want to go or something?" "Bye." "Good." "You leaving Brighton?" "That sounded like a command." "I didn't mean..." "I know." "Well... there's still a lot of people you owe money to." "Yeah." "What?" "No, Frank." "Go on." "No." "Buy yourself a suit and a shave." "I'm sorry I didn't believe you." "Life's too short." "Well, look, I'll see you around." "I don't think so." "It's not visiting day." "Frank swung it for me." "I thought you'd like some fresh air." "So where are you going?" "Oh, America." "I was going there." "I didn't quite make it, though." "So how much did she pay you?" "What?" "Selina." "Please, don't start." "She's certainly got enough now." "You should at least get half, all the risks you've taken." "You were bound to go to prison for fixing the divorces." "That was good." "That threw people off the scent." "You thought, "Six months for double murder, that can't be bad."" "I didn't come here for this." "You..." "searching through my things, looking for evidence." "You remember?" "Sure." "I remember." "But you weren't searching for evidence, were you?" "You were planting it for Frank to find." "You only got to know me so you could set me up." "Goodbye, Angeline." "Then who killed them if it wasn't you?" "You did." "And you're still trying to drag somebody down with you, even now." "You killed him." "That's why you're doing life." "Think yourself lucky you're not a man." "They would have hanged you by now." "Oh, I'll think myself lucky." "Don't go." "I've got a boat to catch." "I miss you." "I miss you every day." "I'm..." "I'm sorry nothing turned out right." "Tony, you have to tell me." "I'm going to go crazy in here not knowing for sure." "Please... just tell me." "No one will believe me, no matter what I say." "I've got to know." "Just tell me once..." "Did you do it?" "Did you?" "Whisper." "Did you?" "Did you do it?" "Is he in?" "I've only put 30 paintings on the market, but I could sell the lot." "Everything." "I want to wait a while... until the prices go up." "We're going to be very rich." "You know, I might make you an offer for your Stasio one day." "You said she was only after his money, but she wasn't." "She just wanted to be somebody." "Who cares?" "She's out of the way now." "You fell in love with her, didn't you?" "That's why you waited so long to plant the evidence." "No." "No, it was just business." "Come on, Tony." "You've got everything you always wanted."