"By noon tomorrow." "12 o'clock on the nose." "That's all." "And when did your son leave school?" "At half past three." "Miss Pavey is very kind." "She's always very careful that the children leave school at the right time." "She never keeps them in." "And it gets dark so soon now, you see." "He should have been here at four o'clock." "I got home at six." "My wife was in a terrible state." "She phoned Miss Pavey and several of our neighbours." "Michael left school at the right time." "He walks it in fifteen minutes." "There are no roads to cross." "It's a quiet residential area with nice-looking houses." "And it's a safe spot." "We've never had any reason to worry." "Then we both went out looking for him, but it got dark." "I phoned the local Police Station." "And then I got this .. this call." "I got this telephone call." "Then we knew what had happened." "He asked for two thousand pounds!" "I haven't got it." "I haven't got anything." "He's a .. bright boy." "We put all our savings into his education." "I don't know what to do." "─ Well, we might find a witness." "A passer-by or a neighbour." "No, we phoned nearly everyone." "Nobody saw or heard anything." "It's so quiet." "You could .. walk off with a house and no-one notice." "We'll check everything anyway." "We've already started inquiries in the immediate vicinity." "We'll have to give him the money." "I don't know how, but we'll have to." "Mr Wilson, I'll tell you what I'm going to do." "I'm going to be very frank with the press about this." "I advise you to do the same." "I guess they think parents of a boy at that school must have plenty of money." "Well, when they find out their mistake." "And they'll have to wait a long time for the money, they'll likely release him." "I must try and get that money quickly." "They may hurt him." "I don't think they'll do that." "You see, he's very young." "He's no threat to them as a witness." "And I'm not leading you up the garden path." "I want to be as big a comfort as I can to you." "Now tell me, have you got a recent photograph of your son?" "Oh yes, I've got one here." "Taken last summer." "─ Thank you." "My assistant Connor, would like a list of what he was wearing." "You see, if they move him about." "You never can tell, somebody might spot him." "He's wearing .." "A Navy-blue blazer." "Short white trousers." "A grey school cap." "And a grey tie with a thin red stripe." "And shoes" "And white socks." "Well thank you, Mr Wilson." "I'll have somebody around to be with you all the time." "And I'll be round myself tomorrow." "We'll wait for them to phone you." "Don't worry about the money." "I'll see that you get that." "But if you can keep them talking long enough .." "We'll be able to trace that call and .." "You may have your boy back before you know it." "Goodnight, Mr Wilson." "Mrs Wilson." "Yes." "Well, he might be stupid enough to phone from his own house." "Use his own phone." "You never know your luck." "Yes, it's a rotten business." "Well thanks, George." "We'll be in touch." "Who was that?" "George Galloway." "Post Office Investigation Branch." "Everything set?" "─ Yes." "They're monitoring all calls to Wilson's number." "All we have to do is to go there and wait for him to ring." "If he rings." "He'll ring." "Come on." "Do you think he'll call Wilson, sir?" "Yes, I think he'll have another go." "Why not?" "He's gone this far." "He knows Wilson's desperate and the appeal in the paper isn't worth a thing." "A rich man would have paid off secretly maybe and .." "A lot quicker, too." "I think the publicity might stampede him into something." "[ Radio ] "Car Johnny."" "Car Johnny." ""Message for Superintendent Hume"" "Hume here." ""The body of a boy answering the description of Michael Wilson .."" ""Has been found dead in Rayner's Wood." "Identification, positive."" ""Shall I repeat?"" "No." "Message understood." "The boy was dead from the word go." "Wilson will never go through with it now, sir." "Unless .." "Unless we don't tell him until after he takes the call." "No, we'll tell him." "And he'll take the call." "[ Telephone ]" "[ Telephone ]" "He'd better answer it, sir." "[ Telephone ]" "Yes?" "Yes?" "No." "No, I won't be coming to the office today." "Was that him?" "─ No, it was just a friend." "Have you heard anything?" "Have you found Michael?" "Yes." "We have .." "Mrs Wilson .." "Thank God." "Is he alright?" "Colin, they've found him." "He's not hurt, is he?" "They haven't hurt him?" "Well, where is he?" "I'm." "I'm sorry, Mrs Wilson." "Oh no." "Oh God, no!" "No!" "No, God .. no!" "No." "Go and get a doctor." "Don't use the phone." "Take me to him." "Take me to my son." "Not now." "Not yet." "You pick my car up by the neck." "I'll string you up by the neck!" "You'll see." "You are nothing but a peasant." "Why don't you find a job in a slaughterhouse?" "Why don't you get on your broomstick and fly back to Capistrada?" "Please stop." "Listen, Mr Hopta." "Mr Hopta .. one day." "That man will make me really mad." "Mrs M, one day you'll get a heart attack if you keep fighting with Freddie." "I'm not fighting, but you see .." "He is always chasing my cat." "Why don't you leave him alone!" "Don't let him bother you." "He's alright." "He don't mean no harm." "He's just playing, really." "He likes chasing the cats." "Yeah, I know." "I suppose he doesn't mean any harm but you see .." "My cat is all I got." "So I get mad." "I don't know why those cats .." "They don't learn to keep out of his dustbins." "They know there is nothing there but trouble." "Oh Mrs M, you are a sweet woman, you really are." "And one of these days, after my wife has gone and left me .." "I'm going to come jumping .. pow, wow .." "Poo!" "Right over this wall." "And you .. better watch out." "Mr Hopta." "If you don't look out, one of these days .." "I'll come to your house and take you away from our wife." "That, I've got to see." "How is Trudy?" "Well, I don't see her very much these days, you know." "We have quarreled." "─ Oh no." "I thought she was your little darling." "What happened?" "Oh nothing, nothing." "We quarreled over her Mama and Papa." "I shouldn't have fought with her." "Now I am sorry, you see but .." "I can't help her because she doesn't come to see me." "Mrs M, why don't you talk to her?" "Why not phone her and say you're sorry and want to see her?" "No, no, no." "She has to come and visit me." "No, no, no, no." "Now you listen to me." "Trudy loves you .. you phone her." "Maybe she's stubborn just like you are, and don't want to make the first move." "How sweet you are." "Yes, perhaps someday I will call her." "But not now, I have no change." "No pennies for the phone, you know." "Yes, right now." "And I've got the pennies for the phone." "Four of them, here." "Four pennies." "We don't want to see you pining away, Mrs M." "It's very kind of you." "You know, Mr Hopta .." "I love you." "─ Ho, ho." "I mean it." "I mean it, I love you." "You are a lovely man." "A lovely man." "─ I tell you what." "You go and phone Trudy." "And the next time I see you, I'll give you a big kiss." "Mr Wilson." "I want you to listen very carefully to what I've got to say." "Now at any moment now, that phone is going to ring." "And the person that did this is going to be talking to you." "He's dead." "They won't call." "My boy is dead." "But they don't know that you know that." "So they will call and it may be our only chance of catching him." "Mr Wilson." "Mr Wilson, do you understand what I'm saying?" "The person on that phone doesn't know we've found the boy." "Nobody knows except you and us." "But it may come out." "And if it does." "The killer will lose contact with us." "Now do you see?" "So this may be our one and only chance of catching him." "One slip-up and they've gone." "And it's a million-to-one against us ever finding him again." "So you've got to keep them talking." "Mr Wilson." "I can't." "You must." "You're the only one who can do this." "They know your voice." "They may even know you." "No." "No." "You can do it." "Please, please help us." "I can't." "I can't." "Now please leave me." "I don't want you here." "You will." "You will because you've got to." "No." "Go away." "Go away, please." "Leave us alone." "Just .." "Leave us alone." "Mr Wilson." "If this man gets away now .." "Would you ever be able to forgive yourself?" "[ Telephone ]" "[ Telephone ]" "Hello?" "Wilson speaking." ""Wilson, have you got the two thousand pounds?"" "I'm getting it." "I'm getting it for you." "You must give me more time." "─ "You can get it."" ""Anybody can get it."" ""I don't even know who you, but if you want your kid, get two thousand pounds."" "But I don't earn that much." "I just haven't got it." "You've got to give me a little bit more time." "It's a lot of money to me." ""Don't play games with me."" ""How much does it cost you to send him to that school?"" "How is my boy?" "Is he alright?" ""Don't try and be clever and he'll be alright."" ""Don't worry any more." "Everything will turn out fine and dandy."" "Liar!" "Liar!" "Why did you kill my son?" "What has my son ever done to you?" "Penny, penny, come out." "Maybe you've done it." "Thank you very much." "Yes?" "Yes?" "Oh good." "Very good." "Yes, we'll be here." "The call has been traced to a call box in Dudley Road." "They're on their way." "Play that tape again." ""Wilson .. have you got that two thousand pounds?" "Excuse me madam, will you come with me?" "I'm just taking you down to the station." "No!" "I don't do nothing bad." "Please." "No, it is a mistake." "It's alright, madam." "─ Let me go." "Let me go." "─ It's quite alright, madam." "Hello there?" "Hello?" "No, it doesn't mean a thing to me." "Yes?" "Yes .. oh." "I see." "Alright, take her down to the station." "I'll be there directly." "What's up?" "They missed him." "By a few seconds they bloody well missed him." "Well, I'm going back to the station." "Are you positive you didn't know that voice?" "Would you like me to play it again?" "─ No, please." "I didn't get anything from it." "Nothing." "Nothing at all." "I'm sorry, Mr Wilson." "Terribly sorry." "Excuse me, sir." "─ Yes?" "That's the lady they picked up in the phone booth." "Connor, get onto that pal of yours at the Post Office." "Ask him if we can have some extra copies of that recording, will you." "Right, sir." "Do you know anything about her?" "─ Not much." "She's Italian." "What's her name?" "─ Mrs Marotta" "Hello, Mrs Marotta." "I'm Superintendent Hume." "I'm sorry you've been frightened but how are you feeling now?" "Better?" "Good, thank you." "I feel good." "Ah, I'm so pleased." "Now, Mrs Marotta." "We could have a little chat, just the two of us, just a few words." "But only if you feel alright." "Now if you'd prefer to wait, we'll drive you home." "I'll come round and talk to you later, hmm?" "No .." "I talk now." "I like it better .. if we talk now." "Good." "I'm very pleased to hear it." "I want to know what it is I've done." "And why I am here." "I'm doing nothing bad." "In my whole life I am doing nothing bad." "But your Policemen, they arrest me." "They arrest me and they make .. a big mistake." "Mrs Marotta." "They didn't arrest you." "You're not arrested." "You can walk out of here any time you like." "But Mrs Marotta." "Did you see in the papers about that little boy called Michael Wilson?" "Ah yes .. kidnap." "I know the papers." "Black letters .. so big." "High." "Yes .. he is kidnapped." "And the man that kidnapped him was in that phone-box just before you." "No." "─ Uhuh." "No!" "Oh." "Now I know why they bring me here." "Why they ask me and ask me." "Oh" "I'll help." "Come this way." "Sit down, Mrs Marotta." ""Yes, sir?"" "Tell Connor to get up the labs." "Tell him to get them shaken up." "I want something turned up." ""Yes, sir."" "And you can transfer all my calls." "I don't want to be disturbed." "Now." "The point is this." "You can be of very great help to us if you've seen that man .." "Taken notice of him or anything about him." "But I understand you don't remember him at all?" "Oh .. it's true." "It's true." "I don't remember anything" "If I only would have known him, well .." "I would have looked at him good." "But I don't know him .. so .." "I did not look." "You see I .." "I stand waiting my phone." "And .." "I was thinking about my own business." "When you've got it in your mind to do something." "You keep on thinking about it .. no?" "Well, that's how it was." "Mrs Marotta." "Tell me everything that happened." "Oh, I know you've gone over all this before but .." "I want to hear it from you in your own words." "That is, if you're not too tired." "I am not tired." "Ah good, good." "Well you tell me, exactly how it was." "The old man is not free, then?" "No, the Italian lady is still with him." "Any news?" "No." "Not unless he has some." "Well, I understand she did see the man alright." "In the box just ahead of her." "Yes?" "Remember something?" "Now take your time, Mrs Marotta." "Take your time." "You've got all the time in the world so long as you don't miss anything." "His feet." "His legs." "You were looking down." "You saw his feet and legs?" "Was there anything special about them?" "I am thinking." "The shoes." "Brown." "Black." "Yes, I think." "And the pants, the pants are dark." "Brown and dark, maybe." "But you see I am all the time looking for my pennies so you see .." "I see but I do not look, you understand?" "Yes." "Well, go on Mrs Marotta." "The door." "The door opened." "And the feet come out." "Oh dear God." "If only I look." "The feet come out." "And right away they stop." "They stop a second and I think .." "Oh dear." "He has just now remembered something else." "He will go inside and phone again." "But no." "Maybe he is thinking which way he will go?" "And he goes away." "By now I have found my pennies, so I go inside and phone my niece." "What?" "─ Oh well." "Well, we'd better see about getting you home." "Thank you very much." "You've been a great help." "I've not helped you at all." "I wish .." "No good to wish now." "Well, it's not your fault." "Now, would you like a cup of coffee?" "That's very nice of you." "Thank you." "They'll bring you a cup of coffee .." "And then someone will come and take you home in the car." "Thank you." "Now I'm very busy so you will excuse me." "Of course." "Auntie Rosa." "Auntie Rosa!" "Auntie Rosa!" "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "Auntie Rosa!" "─ Trudy." "Are you alright?" "Screaming down the phone like that, I thought you'd been murdered." "Oh Trudy, don't talk now." "Don't talk." "I have something terrible to tell you." "Come inside." "Come." "Yes, sir?" "Regional television and radio programs will be interrupted at peak hours." "And before that, after the news." "So you think it's a good idea, sir?" "Fine .. well, if you say so, sir." "That's what we'll do." "Thank you, sir." "Goodbye." "Well." "That's my way of getting the Chief Constable's approval." "Make him think that he thought of it." "Now before our next program we bring you a special Police bulletin." ""Michael Wilson, a six-year old boy."" ""Missing from his home in Hollyoak Park, Bristol."" ""Since approximately 3:30 yesterday afternoon."" ""Was this morning found dead in the vicinity of Rayner's Wood."" ""It is believed that the boy was taken on his way home from school."" ""The Police are anxious to interview .."" ""A man who telephoned the dead child's father at 12 noon today."" ""We have a recording of the conversation between the man and the child's father."" ""Listen carefully."" ""Do you know this voice?"" ""If you do, or if you think you do .."" ""Then please telephone Bridge 5111."" ""Or your local Police Station."" ""Do you know this voice?"" ""Now Wilson."" ""Have you got the two thousand pounds?"" ""You can get it."" ""Anybody can get it."" ""I don't know who you are but if you want your kid, you get two thousand pounds."" ""Don't play games with me." "How much does it cost you to send him to that school?"" ""You'll get it." "Never mind."" ""Don't try and be clever and he'll be alright."" ""Don't worry any more." "Everything will turn out fine and dandy."" "Joe!" ""You'll hear from me."" ""Wilson." "You'll get the .."" "They taped the phone conversation." ""Anybody can get it."" "Yakkety, yakkety, yakkety, yak." "Why don't you shut up and go to bed?" "Oh, sleep!" "Sleep?" "I don't know how you can even think about going to sleep" "Well, what do you want me to do?" "I don't want you to do anything." "But if you want to do something, then make it so that it never happened." "I want you to bring that child back to life again." "I want you to take me away from here." "That's what you can do." "I want you to make it so that I can start my life all over again." "And if you can't do that, then you can't do anything." "Wait a minute." "What's the matter with you?" "Now don't go to pieces on me." "You were great on that phone." "Great." "Nobody would ever recognize that voice of yours." "It was all over the place." "It sounded like a stevedore." "We got nothing to worry about." "You killed that little boy." "Can't you shut up about that." "That's all you've said for the last five hours." "Sure I killed a kid, but listen honey, I didn't mean to kill him." "I just tied him up a little too tight." "How could you let me go down to that phone-box today?" "I don't blame you." "I know it's terrible." "I know what I did is a terrible thing." "But believe me, and I mean this .." "That little kid is better off than most of us." "He's dead." "But he died while he was clean and innocent." "You mustn't think about him anymore." "What is happening to me?" "What is happening to my life?" "I wish to God I'd never met you." "Oh Joe, I didn't mean it." "I didn't mean it." "Hey!" "Sorry, sir." "I .." "I hear on the radio last night." "Why, you didn't tell me?" "Yes, well .." "Well I'm sorry, Mrs Marotta." "So." "The man that was .." "In the box and he was phoning before I did yesterday." "He knew about the child." "Yes, and he's most likely the one that did it." "He knows." "He knows and yet he phones .. for the money?" "Yes, that's right." "That's how it was." "Listen." "Yesterday I told you some things I remembered." "I didn't tell you all." "It was not all." "You mean you remembered something else?" "─ Yes." "No." "Ah Mrs Marotta, you either remember something or you don't." "But mister, I'm going crazy." "Since yesterday, I've closed my eyes." "And I see the shoulders." "After the radio .." "I don't eat." "I am thinking." "And now I know what I can do to help." "Now I know what I must do." "And what is it Mrs Marotta that you must do?" "The man who was in the box." "He has to come and find me." "What?" "─ Yes." "He has to come and find me where I live." "Ah, but Mrs Marotta." "No, listen .. he must come." "He must kill me." "Because I am the one." "The only one .. who has seen him." "But you didn't, Mrs Marotta." "You didn't see him." "But he don't know." "But how is he going to know?" "I know, I know." "He must read in the papers that I've seen him." "And I'll know him if I see him again." "If he sees the picture and where my house is .." "Then he'll come quick to find me." "He's got to .. he must." "When he comes to kill me, well you catch him." "You have him." "That's all." "Yes, that's true." "It's a very fine thing you're offering to do, Mrs Marotta." "But I'm afraid it can't be done." "Why?" "Ah, there are many reasons." "And the big one is you." "Now suppose we do what you want." "And we set this thing up." "And it doesn't come off." "I'm not going to get killed." "In my house, you are hiding." "So when he comes, you catch him." "And he is going to die, not me." "Ah, I'm sorry." "It's out of the question." "Mister." "Mister, look at me." "Mister, listen." "If I die." "And you can find this man, it's a good death, no?" "What better?" "How am I going to die better?" "Huh?" "Give me the Chief Constable." "Hello, Chief." "I've got Mrs Marotta with me." "And she wants to publish in the papers that she's recognized the killer." "And offer herself as bait." "Oh, I know she didn't." "But he doesn't know better." "Can we do this?" "We can't, eh?" "Alright, sir." "We can't." "Thank you." "Well that's it, Mrs Marotta." "Definitely, no." "Even if I wanted to this myself, they wouldn't let me." "But my chief says no." "I've got a boss just like anybody else." "And he doesn't do business that way." "Oh sit down, sit down." "We owe you a ride home anyway." "No." "I will take a bus or walk." "I am used to it." "Goodbye." "You're home early." "What's happened?" "Was something wrong?" "I don't know." "Some mistake." "Read that." "Mrs Marotta?" "But she must be crazy." "She couldn't have been outside the phone-box." "I'd have seen her." "You were probably so panicky you didn't see anything." "But the whole thing don't make no sense." "Look, it says here .." "She's seen this man:" ""with big shoulders .."" ""She'd recognize him again anywhere."" "Hell, you two ain't the best of friends, but .." "She must have seen you going in and out of the house a few times." "Did you talk to her much?" "─ Yes." "Once in a while." "Well, then she'd know you, wouldn't she?" "Why wouldn't she just say "I've seen Mrs Hopta come out of that phone-box?"" "You know what they're trying to do, baby?" "They're trying to be smart." "They ain't got a clue." ""I've seen this man." Well, I've got news for you, lady." "It wasn't no man." "It was my wife." "I don't know what you're so happy about." "You don't seem to realize what you've done, the kind of trouble you're in." "What do you mean: you're in?" "You must mean "we"." "You are sharing my life-jacket." "Anyway, we ain't in any trouble." "We know something that they don't know." "So stop worrying about it." "I was only in that phone-box for a minute." "Why did she have to be there at the same time?" "I don't know." "Hey." "Wait a minute." "Oh." "I could shoot myself." "I sent her to that phone-box." "I got her to call Trudy." "I even gave her the pennies." "How could I be so stupid?" "It was right around that time, too." "I could shoot myself." "Joe, you're not going over there?" "Of course I'm going over there." "It's the only way we find out what we have to know." "Is she saw anybody, it was you." "Alright." "You just keep your nose inside." "But what about the reporters?" "Suppose they start investigating?" "They'll do anything to get a story." "They'll try to track down your relatives to get pictures for their papers." "You just don't know how these things work, auntie Rosa." "[ Door knocks ]" "Oh, Mr Hopta." "Come in." "─ Hello, Mrs M." "Have a coffee with us, Mr Hopta." "No thanks." "My stomach ain't been too good lately." "That's why I'm home early." "No." "I just dropped in to say hello to our new celebrity." "Celebrity?" "She's had her picture plastered over newspaper in town." "Her name, address and everything." "And she won't believe me when I tell her the danger she's in over all this." "You tell her, Mr Hopta." "Please, you tell her." "Well gee, I hadn't really thought very much about it." "But Maybe Trudy is right." "You know, you .." "Could get yourself into an awful lot of trouble." "Look, auntie Rosa." "You just come right out and say you made a mistake." "You didn't see anybody." "I am not going to say .." "I haven't seen this man because .." "I have seen him." "You did?" "You really did see him, Mrs M?" "No, she didn't." "She told me before she didn't see him." "Now she's trying to say that she did." "You know you didn't see anybody." "You just think you did." "Or maybe you were trying to attract a little attention.?" "I'm sorry, auntie Rosa." "I didn't mean that." "A horrible, terrible bad thing happens to a little boy." "How can you say you haven't seen anything, huh?" "I saw him." "I was outside of the phone-box." "It was somebody." "Somebody I know." "Somebody I've seen around here." "I don't know how." "But I am sure." "One day, I shall remember." "Now you listen to me." "You've no business to publish a story like that before checking with us first." "I don't give a damn what right the pubic have got." "The Police are too understaffed to protect anyone making statements to the press." "We regard the publicity given to her as unfortunate." "Well." "That covers us." "She's forced our hand, but maybe that's the very best thing that could happen." "The question is how to use this situation and protect her." "I've had men covering the house ever since this story first came out but .." "What I want is .." "Somebody .. inside the house." "And she knows you, doesn't she." "And let's face it, you don't really look like a Copper, do you." "So I think you're just the person to volunteer for the job." "I'll have to kill her." "Don't do it." "Don't do it." "I've got to do it." "She knows." "The little lady knows." "She doesn't know that it's you, yet." "But one of these days she will." "One of these days." "You're going to be walking down the street or coming out of the back door." "Or she's going to see you shopping." "And something is going to click in that brain-box of hers." "And she'll say "ah"." ""That's the one that was in the phone-box."" "And before you know it, I'll be doing the trap-door fandango." "Now, I like the old lady." "She's a dear, sweet, lovable little woman." "But she has to go." "Joe, what's happening to you." "A child is dead." "Isn't that enough?" "And now you talk about going out and deliberately killing Mrs Marotta." "Where's it all going to end?" "Can't you get it in your head, I don't want to kill her." "Well then, don't Joe." "Please." "Please, Joe." "Let's just go away from here." "Let's go and get into that old van and just drive away from here." "Drive away?" "Where to?" "Where you going to go?" "What are you going to live on?" "We ain't got money enough to buy gas for that stinking old van." "Here, look." "That's my life savings." "That represents twenty years." "As an orderly in that stinking hospital." "Emptying bedpans, carrying trays." "Yes doctor, no doctor." "Yes, nurse." "Right away, nurse." "Well, how far do you think I'm going to get on that?" "Joe .. don't start." "Don't start that again." "Don't start that again." "And don't you tell me what to do." "Don't you ever tell me what to do." "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be in this mess." "You wanted the money and you took the child." "Now don't you try and blame me." "All your life has been spent blaming other people for your own failures." "And if you mean it's my fault because you married me, that's not true either." "You don't have to stay in the country." "I'd go to America with you any time." "I'd have worked my fingers to the bone for you." "But no, it had to be you." "You had to do it all alone." "For 20 years you talk about making money and going home like a conquering hero." "And you've never even earned enough money to pay the fare." "You know better than to talk to me like that." "Yes, go on .. go ahead." "That's all I've ever had from you." "For 20 years of loving you." "Go on." "Oh, baby." "Oh baby, baby, baby, baby." "Stick with me." "Trust me." "Everything will be alright." "I'll take care of everything." "[ Door knocks ]" "Oh, Mr Hopta." "What a nice surprise." "Come in, come in." "Good evening, good evening, Mrs M." "Another visit." "How nice of you." "How is your tummy." "Oh it's fine now." "It's much better." "Just one of those bugs, I guess." "Good." "No, it's you we're worried about now." "You are worried about me?" "No, no, no Mr Hopta." "Everything that's happened I bring on myself." "No, no." "I don't want that you worry about me." "Do you want a cup of tea?" "I wouldn't say no." "If you're making one for yourself, I'd love to join you." "Right away." "I'll tell you what I came over about, Mrs M." "You know, I've been doing a lot of thinking about .." "What we were discussing when Trudy was here, you know." "And it's been worrying me." "So, I talked it over with the wife." "And she agrees with me." "We think that you need some protection in here." "I don't know what the Police are doing, or what they're up to." "But it seems to me they should have a man around here by now." "How nice of you." "Anyway, here is the proposition." "Like I say, I talked it over with the wife." "Now we don't think that you should stay alone here." "Especially at night." "So, if you've got an extra room." "I figured that the best thing would be for me to come over and .." "Sleep here." "You know." "Come and stay nights just to make sure you're okay." "Well, Mr Hopta." "It's very nice of you, but I don't need it." "No, no really, I do not need it because you see .." "The Police." "They look after me." "Oh the Police, they take care you, huh?" "Well, where are they now?" "Out there somewhere?" "Across the road?" "Up the other end of the street?" "No, you need somebody right here in the house." "Huh?" "I don't see anybody out there." "Not .. a soul." "I mean .." "You know, you never know." "Now where is this kind of a guy going to .." "Pop up from?" "He'll be clever." "He's probably got more brains than all of the Police put together." "Aren't you scared?" "Sure, I am scared." "I am plenty scared." "Where is Trudy?" "Has she gone home?" "Yes, she left." "She will come later." "Maybe." "I don't know because you see .." "We are apart." "Not very friendly." "Because she wants me to say I haven't seen anything." "Or I should run away." "Well, I tell you Mr Hopta." "If you do something wrong." "Then you are scared." "And if you are scared and you run away then it's in a .." "I've got all my stuff unpacked and I've got the .." "Oh." "Sorry, I .." "I didn't know you had company." "You don't disturb." "Mr Hopta is an old friend of mine." "He lives here, next door." "Hi." "I'm Bill Connor." "─ Hi." "Trudy has told me a lot about you." "I'm down here for a couple of weeks and .." "Her people don't think it would look very good if I stayed at her place." "So, auntie Rosa here is putting me up." "Well, that's very nice." "I'm pleased to meet you." "It's nice for Mrs M, too." "I guess you've been reading the papers." "Yes." "You know, I don't understand a bloke like that." "I suppose he must be mentally sick or something." "Yeah .. he's crazy." "You come from out of town, huh?" "About ten miles out" "I work at the Bargold Foundry." "Is that so?" "Well, that's interesting." "My old man used to work in a foundry in Pittsburgh." "He operated a blast furnace." "What do you do?" "Nothing so high-class as that." "I'm just about as low as you can go." "Oh .. what's that?" "I'm a casting cleaner." "It's just about as dirty a job s you can get." "You work with a drill?" "Thanks aunt Rosa." "That's right." "You go in with the drill as soon as the casting is emptied and cooled off." "And you knock off all the slag and burrs that's baked on to it." "It's rugged." "─ Yeah, it's pretty rough." "You get much overloading?" "You get it on some production runs." "And then nearly always have to set up a night shift." "My old man." "He used to stink." "I can smell him to this day." "That foundry smell." "It used to get into his clothes." "And his hair, down into his paws, even." "It takes a helluva long time to get it out." "It's kind of a, you know .." "The metal dust and coal dust and the sand all mixed up together." "Sort of a grey smell." "And once you got a load of it .." "You never forget it." "You want to know something?" "You don't smell like you worked in a foundry." "You smell like a Cop." "Ain't that right?" "Well, I'm glad to see you guys doing something." "I was just about to offer my services to Mrs M as a bodyguard." "But now I guess I won't be needed." "Mr Hopta, I didn't want to make you a fool you know." "No, no." "But Mr Connor said to me .." "Not to say one word to anybody so .." "I don't know what to do." "You did quite right, Mrs Marotta." "And I'd appreciate if you wouldn't tell anybody, either." "OH sure, sure." "You don't have to worry about me." "Well, I've got to go." "Thanks for the tea, Mrs M." "Goodbye, Mr Hopta." "─ Bye bye." "He is such a lovely man." "He is such a lovely man." "He does so many things for me." "You can't imagine." "Do you know he fixed my light .." "He's a lovely man." "He fixes this, he fixes that." "I fix you!" "What's the matter with you?" "You don't have to sit there looking so miserable." "I ain't done nothing." "They got a Cop over there." "You haven't done anything?" "That's what I said." "They got a Cop over there." "Oh, thank God." "Jo .." "Joe, leave it now." "Don't try to do it again." "You'll only get caught." "I thought you were going to keep out of this." "I just don't want you to get caught, that's all." "And you will, you know." "No-one is that clever." "I couldn't bare it, Joe." "I'm that clever, sweetheart." "That guy over there making out he's .." "Trudy's boyfriend working in a foundry." "I got him in ten seconds." "Don't you worry your little head." "I'm going to do it and nobody's going to catch me." "And." "Right now I just figured out how it's got to be done." "How?" "If I don't tell you, it's not your problem." "Nobody is going to know nothing about this." "Where are you going?" "─ Out." "Where?" "Back to the hospital." "I forgot something." "Joe!" "I heard you come in." "You've been gone a long time." "I know." "I couldn't find what I was looking for." "I must have left it someplace else." "What have you lost?" "Nothing." "Boy, am I tired." "I got to get to bed." "I got to be up early." "You don't have to be up at six o'clock when you're on day-shift." "I want to try and do something with that stinking van." "Why don't you just shut up and go to sleep." "?" "Good morning, Mr Connor." "─ Good morning." "My iron doesn't work." "Do you want some breakfast?" "Some bacon and eggs?" "That would be marvelous." "─ Good." "I had mine already you know." "I was up very early this morning." "There." "Nice, warm coffee." "Help yourself now." "I want to see if I can understand something about this iron." "I can't understand the problem." "I don't understand nothing." "What shall I do now with it?" "Joe, come on." "Why don't you eat your breakfast?" "─ Oh, yeah." "Thank you, darling." "What's the rush?" "You haven't eaten your breakfast." "I just want to make sure that old van will get me there." "Ah, Mr Hopta." "What are you doing here?" "Well to tell you the truth, I was just coming in to see how you were." "You are just the man I wanted." "Come in, please." "Come." "Come in please, Mr Hopta." "Good morning." "─ Morning." "Give me your hat." "Thank you." "And sit down." "Just a second." "You see." "If you give me two minutes of your time before you go to work." "And look at my iron which is broken." "Look." "It doesn't work anymore." "I don't know." "I don't understand nothing." "Have you got a screwdriver?" "A what?" "A screwdriver, you know." "─ Oh yes." "Sorry." "There." "This one." "It's so kind of you to help me." "I didn't know what to do before." "Do you want a cup of coffee?" "Yes, that's fine." "Well, Mr Hopta." "Thank you." "You know, I think it was the fuse." "No." "It's right here in the plug." "Right here." "In there?" "Oh dear." "I'm glad she didn't ask me." "I'm hopeless at that sort of thing." "[ Cat miaow ]" "Oh, my cat!" "My cat is dead." "He is dead." "─ Dead?" "No, no my Bruno." "Don't drink that!" "It's poisoned." "Poisoned?" "Hello Edmonds?" "The Wilson murder." "I want every place in town checked for a quantity of missing drugs or poison." "And look into any break-ins into similar premises over the last few weeks." "And if any of these places report a loss." "Get a list of the employees and check them." "And I want that milk bottle fingerprinted." "And the front door steps fingerprinted." "I don't care whether it takes a month." "I want that information." "I think that .. somewhere, someplace." "God must have a little corner for a cat, too." "That's why my other cat." "My .. dear Bruno." "She will miss him." "Poor old Bruno." "It's a sad thing for you, Mrs M." "Yes, it's very sad." "But Mr Hopta." "Could you imagine if it would have happened." "To Mr Connor?" "Or to myself, or to you?" "I guess we were just lucky." "Well young fellow." "You boys getting anywhere?" "It seems a damn funny thing to me this guy comes up here without being seen." "Looks like your men are sleeping or you need to put more of them on the job." "Well, there's nothing much I can say to that except .." "Well, we're doing our best." "I've just been on the radio to the Superintendent." "We're going to move all the men in closer today." "We've been looking for somebody who's trying to get into the area." "But I have a feeling that it .." "Maybe somebody who already lives nearby." "Well, I tell you something." "It wouldn't surprise me." "You meet people every day of your lives and never know what goes on inside them." "It could be anyone of these people around here." "Yes, it's true." "I know it's true." "You see, in my mind." "There .. is something I will remember." "It is someone .." "I will know .. and .." "It's getting close." "Close." "I'm sure one day I will know." "Well, I hope so." "In the meantime, are you going to stay here?" "Yes, I will." "─ Oh." "You're a wonderful woman, Mrs M." "You have to do what you have to do." "Mr Connor." "I am going to bed now." "Do you want something?" "A cup of tea or coffee?" "No thanks, Mrs Marotta." "I don't but thanks anyway." "You know, I don't like the idea that you sit up all night." "Sleep." "Nothing will happen tonight." "Don't worry about me, Mrs Marotta." "I'll be alright." "You get some sleep." "And don't forget I'm here." "And there is a Policemen in every street for a quarter of a mile around." "Goodnight." "Goodnight." "Thank you." "Come on, Pepo." "There." "There." "Nighty, nighty." "There." "Nighty, nighty." "There." "There .. there, little darling." "Miaow .. miaow." "Pepo, Pepo, Pepo." "What's the matter with you?" "Are you missing Bruno?" "You too?" "Shall we get up now?" "We get up and we make a nice cup of tea." "The two of us, yes?" "What's the matter?" "What's happened?" "Catch him!" "Get him!" "Police." "Can you help me?" "─ Yes, I can." "Well, you're Mrs Hopta, aren't you?" "─ Yes." "Mrs Marotta has been attacked." "She's hysterical." "Can you go to her?" "─ How do you mean?" "Just go and sit with her." "I've got to get on to headquarters." "Yes, well my husband is here, he's in bed." "Be as quick as you can, will you." "─ Yes." "Yes, I will." "Joe." "Joe .. darling, where are you?" "Joe!" "Thank God." "─ It's alright, alright." "Leave me alone." "Joe, they want me to go over there." "That Policeman has asked me to go over there." "Now, what do I do?" "─ I know." "I heard but you can't go." "Joe, let me go." "Please let me go." "Please." "Don't you see it's our only chance we can get this over with." "What are you talking about?" "─ Listen to me, Joe." "Listen." "If I go over there in your coat and she doesn't recognize me .." "Then you have nothing more to worry about." "It's our only chance now." "If you try all this again, you're going to be caught." "And anyway, you may be doing it all for nothing." "Because if she doesn't know me." "Then you can forget all about it." "Alright." "Go!" "Can I come in?" "Oh dear." "Please, come in." "Come in." "I'm very sorry .." "To get you out of bed at this time." "Oh, that's alright." "I will help if I can." "What happened?" "Oh .. you know .." "A man." "A man tried to kill me." "He had a horrible face." "A horrible face." "Well, the Policeman was here." "─ Yes." "Where is he now?" "He is upstairs." "Talking to the Police." "He has a radio you know." "Can I make you a cup of tea?" "That would be very nice of you." "The kettle is over there." "I don't know why." "My God, it was terrible." "Believe me." "I .." "I was so scared." "A terrible face." "A big, big face." "Oh dear." "Do you smoke, Mrs Marotta?" "Oh .. sometimes." "Will you have one now?" "Thank you." "Thank you so much." "You are very kind." "I've never seen such a horrible face in my life." "Never, never, never." "Oh." "You didn't let it stand." "I'm sorry." "I'm used to quick-brew tea in my house ." "Oh never mind, it should be alright just the same." "Thank you." "Ah, God." "Drink this and you'll feel better." "Thank you." "Do you know." "It is very nice of you to look after me like this." "Extremely nice." "Do you know what I was thinking?" "I would like to have you .." "Here, for dinner on Sunday." "You and your husband." "And I will prepare a lovely Italian dinner." "That would be lovely." "I'll tell Joe." "He likes you a lot." "He is such a lovely, lovely man." "Now you have to go home." "I am alright now." "You are sure you're alright?" "─ Yes I am alright, thank you." "Goodbye, Mrs Marotta." "─ Goodbye." "Oh, I'll get it." "There." "─ Thank you." "Goodbye, Mrs Marotta." "Don't worry anymore." "Everything will be fine and dandy." "Feet." "The feet." "[ Voice-over ] "Don't worry anymore." "Everything will turn out fine and dandy."" ""Fine and dandy." "Fine and dandy." "Fine and dandy."" "It's her." "It's her." "She didn't know you?" "Oh Joe." "You just made the best decision of your life!" "We don't have to worry anymore." "Not anymore." "Oh baby, I love you and we're going to celebrate." "But first I've got to get rid of these dungarees." "I'll stick them under the staircase." "I'm supposed to be sick you know." "You get out the whiskey." "─ Right." "You're a great girl and I'll make you happy for the rest of our life .." "If it's the last thing that I do." "Here's to you." "Oh Joe, don't let's talk about it anymore." "It's all over." "Ann." "Ann." "Baby!" "What is it?" "What is it?" "Tell me, baby." "Oh my God." "Oh." "Oh my God!" "Oh my baby." "Oh .." "Oh my baby, it was a mistake." "It was a mistake you see." "I tried to .." "It was the glass." "Just another mistake." "Why, I sure make a lot of mistakes, don't I." "I don't see how anybody who makes as many mistakes as I do .." "Can live this long." "Do you?" "But you, you'll .. you'll .." "You listen to me." "Baby, I'll make it up to you." "I'm going to make it up." "Alright." "I got the potential." "I got a lot of potential." "You stick with .. stick with me, baby." "And you're going to be wearing diamonds the size of cashew nuts." "But you see, everybody." "I've made a mess of it." "Mister Hopta." "All you fellows must know a lot about the Army." "In the Army, any time .." "You showed any get up and go, they'd always put them down." "The Army was wonderful." "You know, I loved it." "The comradeship." "And the men all pulling together." "When Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah!" "Hurrah." "When Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrah .." "T-G"