"Come on in, Frank." "I didn't know that even my father had to knock." "He doesn't have to, but he does." "Yourfather is polite." "Yes, but he's your husband!" "well, even a husband can have good manners." "You mind if I take an aspirin?" "I may have caught a cold riding the motorcycle." "Our good friend Deborah called." "She's coming to dinner tonight as well." "Want me to bring you some breakfast?" " No, I'II be there in a second." "Did Frank go out?" "A while ago." "Do you know what time it is?" "Do you recognize this hallway?" " It's from the house next door." "Weird..." "I don't know how I know..." "I've never been in that apartment." "No house has a hallway that long!" "Your subconscious knows it as the hallway from the house next door." "You've dreamed about it many times: its always the same and..." "Like all the othertimes, crowded with naked people." "Then, all of a sudden, you faII into nothingness and find someone..." "always the same person waiting for you..." " julia Durer!" "exactly!" "julia Durer, your neighbor." "You dream of having an affair with this lady who lives next door to you..." "In fact that woman represents to you sin, moral degradation." "The house next door is a symbol of sin and vice." "From what you've told me, this Durer doesn't exactly live a sin-free life." "Ah, no." "No." "She definitely doesn't." "There, you see?" "Your conscience forces you to disapprove of this woman's lifestyle, but at the same time her freedom interests you." "At the bottom of your recurring dream lies this conflict." "The chilly sexual relations between you and your husband aggravates it." "It distorts the situation to the point that, subconsciously, you feel very attracted to the open lifestyle enjoyed by julia Durer." "What's up with ourfriends next door?" "Like being at a soccer game..." "Not bad, though." "The music's pretty good, right, Deborah?" "carol..." "carol!" "Cognac?" " No, thanks, Daddy." " You should." "If you got a good buzz every night instead of wasting money on Dr. Kerr" "I guarantee your insomnia would go away." "I don't like how carol's been acting lately." "Why don't you take off somewhere for a bit?" "I'm sure a nice trip would be good for her." "Don't you think?" "Yes, but she has to go by herself." "Joan has finals to study for and who's going to look after the firm while you tour for the electoral campaign?" "Think it over." "Larry, Iet's go home." "I can't concentrate on anything here in London: the party..." "I can't concentrate on anything here in London: the party the hassles with the NichoIson case, other problems...there's too much." "Know what I'm doing tomorrow?" "I'm going to my house in greenfield." "to prepare my speech on the problems with the European Common market." "So tomorrow I'II defend Tommy." "He won't like it!" " Nonsense, Frank!" "You're not my substitute, you're a partner now." "And why?" "Because I'm your son-in-Iaw and you adore your daughter." "Frank, Tommy isn't your problem." "You'II do great, I know it." "But today is Monday and tonight..." "And tonight what?" "... you have an appointment with Warren in HanderviIIe, I believe." "No, there's no problem." "I'II go to HanderviIIe and be back tomorrow." "It's pretty far..." "An hour and a half by car." "The hearing's at ten, if I leave by eight I'II be fine." "The only hassle is having to sleep over." " You should leave soon then!" "Yes?" "Mrs. Smith?" "Who's she?" "Yes ..." "It's a personal matter?" "alright, I'II talk to her..." "Yes, yes..." "Who are you?" "Listen, if you can't explain it clearly I can't understand." "What?" "..." "Someone in my family?" "But who..." "No, no, I want to know, otherwise..." "hello, He..." "hello..." "Why don't you have dinner with carol tonight?" "Yes... that's a good idea." "alright, I'm leaving." "Listen Frank, are you cheating on my daughter?" "." "This is a joke I hope." "Yes... yes, I wasjoking." "You killed julia Durer..." "By killing this woman, you killed the part of you attracted by vice." "The conflict within you was resolved by an act of violence:" "a liberating dream, as shown by the macabre vision of the decomposed bodies of the people you live with." "I would also say that the appearance of your stepdaughter in the dream a stepdaughter you do not feel loved by, is another clear sign of liberation." "But those... that red-haired young man and his girlfriend ... those two hippies on the balcony..." " Witnesses invented by your Ego." "You wanted them to witness the crime." "Their presence prevented you from picking up yourfur coat and letter opener." "That's a good thing: you were forced to leave behind evidence." "It's the removal of a mental block, and can be nothing but positive." "Dr. Kerr, don't you think I should go and thank julia Durer?" "When did they kill her?" " well..." "I'd say Tuesday, judging by the body." "Or Monday night." "Six to one the medical report is Jackson's!" " Right!" "He's always unclear." "Lots can happen in twenty-four hours..." "It's been a few days, the body wasn't on ice..." " Right, it's Saturday." "I'd strangle people who discover crimes on Saturday." "The cleaning lady?" "She went twice a week but didn't have keys to the apartment." "So Wednesday she couldn't get in." "Durer often left without telling her." "But this morning she noticed that terrible smell..." "And so she ruined our whole week-end." "Good morning, Inspector." "Excuse me, you're Inspector Corvin?" "I'm LoweII, head of the crime scene unit." "Since when?" " A week ago..." "I was the head of Records before that." "That's reassuring!" "Heroin." "If someone injected a similar dose, they'd break the sound barrier." "That's cute..." " Thank you!" " typical filing room joke!" "Inspector, the body is in here." "tell it to hold on." "Any other drugs?" " Yes, we've got a little bit of everything... hashish, LSD, cocaine..." " What do the neighbors say about Durer?" "According to the cleaning lady, the neighbors treated her like a leper and they wondered where she got the money to live in a place like this..." "Interrogate all the neighbors... but discreetly." "One of them is the daughter of a politician who may be a senator soon." "So you can't tell me anything?" "Wasn't Durer a friend of yours?" "No, we didn't even know her." "Excuse me but I don't think we have anything to tell you." "We can't help shed light on this crime." " Crime?" "I'm confused, Miss, I don't believe I mentioned any crime." "Why would you think that?" " The apartment next door is full of police... the crime scene guys brought in a ton of equipment, you're here..." "You go to all this trouble when somebody slips on a banana peel and dies?" "Yes, sometimes we handle even those cases." "Someone may have placed that banana peel on purpose." "Anyway, yes there has been a crime, it was committed last Monday... or Tuesday... actually it most probably happened sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning." "Did you or your family notice anything strange, screams, noises ..." "loud thuds, anything?" "Monday night?" "No, only thunder." "Do you remember?" "We had a big storm." "You didn't hear anything either, Mrs. Hammond?" "..." "Mrs. Hammond?" "No, no, nothing." "only thunder..." "Okay." "In any case, if you remember anything, call us." "Even if you think it may not be important." "Monday night... the night we had a thunderstorm..." "The night Frank went to HanderviIIe, yes... that night." "Yes, I remember, it poured all night." "Do you know it was so bad I couldn't even see the road and had to pull over." "julia Durer?" "That's unbelievable..." "I can imagine." "Yes, Joan," "I'II be right over." "Our neighbor, julia Durer." "That bitch from hell who's always making noise?" " Somebody killed her." "Ah, doesn't surprise me!" " Joan says carol is upset." "No, this I didn't know." "Go over to see her right away Frank." " Of course." "She's turned the place upside down." "She's gone crazy trying to find her fur..." "The Gordon woman from the third floor phoned." "She said julia Durer was strangled, found haIf-naked with a fur next to her." "You didn't bring the paper, Frank?" "You always bring it." "The paper, carol?" "Oh yes, I'm sorry I did bring it." "I must have put it somewhere, I'II look for it later..." "What are you trying to hide from me!" " carol!" "Stop thinking about it!" "I'd Iike to...but it's not easy..." "with everything going on over there." "Mrs. Hammond is dining, Mrs. Gordon." "Then don't bother her." "tell her she can call me back." "I'II be home." "I need to talk to her." "I have to tell her something very, very important." "Yes." "Mrs. Gordon?" "hello, dear." "Did I bother you?" "Have you had a chance to read the paper?" "No, I haven't read any of them yet." "Why?" "I gave you the wrong information...in the confusion I guess I misunderstood..." "That good-for-nothing, yes, Durer, was not strangled." "No, my dear, not at all." "They stabbed herthree times, each one of the stabs fatal." "It says so quite clearly in the paper." "At what time would you Iike the car, ma'am?" " Shut up, idiot!" "..." "Oh, sorry!" "Two of them in the middle of her chest and one slightly beneath the first two." "And with a letter opener!" "Can you imagine what a horror that was." "A beastly murderer can't be ....." "carol." "What are you doing?" "Did something happen?" "The letter opener!" "Oh, Frank, it's not possible." "Not possible that even my letter opener has disappeared." "I have to find it..." "She was killed with just that, a letter opener." "Just like I killed her in the dream, in the same way!" "Mrs. Gordon said she was stabbed three times in the chest." "I stabbed her with the letter opener three times in the chest too!" "That's absurd, carol." "Absurd!" "Oh, Frank." "help me Frank!" "help me!" "I'm begging you!" "Why do you want to see the body?" "well, there's no specific reason." "She was a neighbor and..." "Here, have a drink, it'II pick you up." " Thanks." "Does that fur coat mean anything to you?" "Your wife is looking for you, Mr. Hammond." "She's at the entrance." "carol!" "What were you thinking!" " I told her to wait outside!" " Carol!" " Mrs Hammond!" "Careful!" "And according to carol the body was in the same position as it was in the dream." "Do you think that..." "Yes, it's possible." "But everything else?" "It shouldn't be hard for you to convince them to show you the evidence." "And you'II see that the fur coat and letter opener do belong to carol." "Ah, it's crazy." "That's all I can say." "We should give carol some kind of explanation, it doesn't matter what." "There's only one explanation: somebody who's trying to drive her insane." "Yeah, someone who has the ability to guess what takes place in her dreams." "Make sense to you?" "Nothing you have told me so far seems logical." "It's all absurd." "Do you realize?" "If it wasn't for my daughter I wouldn't give it a minute." "If someone came to me with a story like this I'd kick him right out..." "In my opinion, it's an easy case." "In my opinion, it's an easy case." "AII we need to do is go fishing in the social circle that Durer lived in." "Ex-actress, junkie, she has to have plenty of friends just like her." "We turn up the heat on them, and one will crack." "That's true, Chief." "Those kinds of people can talk a Iot, and you don't have to lean on them." "But when you try and squeeze them, nothing useful comes out of it." "You think?" "..." "In my opinion that's not the right way to approach it." "You have another way?" "So far, the only hard evidence we have are the fingerprints." "The fur coat, the letter opener, the white scarf are all covered with prints." "We find the woman who owns it..." " Just a guess." "Who says it's a woman?" "The fur coat doesn't belong to the victim." "So you think it belongs to the murderer, a woman..." "But the cleaning lady might be wrong." "She didn't recognize the fur coat." "But remember, she didn't recognize the boots either." "The ones julia Durer was wearing." "They were new, you could tell from the soles." "She had just bought them." "Chief McKenna ..." "Yes, Inspector Corvin is here..." "Fantastic!" "He confessed!" "Come, my dear Inspector." "The Durer case is solved." "I almost forgot: the murderer is a man..." "hello, Mino..." "There he is." "Name's Harry Smith." "Hippie, no permanent address, 23 years old." "It's him, no doubt." "He's Irish, has red hair, knew Miss Durer and he has a prior conviction for sexual assault." " Do the prints match?" "We haven't checked yet Inspector, but he spilled the goods." "He's all yours, Sir." "alright kid, so you confessed." "Good for you." "Go on, tell us." " I did it, I did it for my brother George." "To avenge him." "When my brother, my brother George..." " Get to the details!" "..." "Inspector!" "..." "The Inspector wants to know how you killed her." "She was there, standing in front of me with herfur coat." "She had it on now, eh?" "Yes, she was wearing it." "She was classy..." "She had on the fur coat ... ah ... and boots too." "The black boots." "I told her: take off the coat." "And she took it off." "And..." "She wasn't wearing anything underneath!" "..." "By an chance, was she wearing a white scarf?" "." " No no, I told you, nothing." "only black panties and the boots." "She was beautiful, naked like that..." " Yes, we got it." "Go on..." "So I told her: 'Do you remember my brother George?" "'" "And then I jumped on her with the dagger!" "You mean with the letter opener..." "With the letter opener?" "No, no, with the dagger, the knife you use for hara-kiri!" "And I pushed it into her in the belly, all the way up to the hilt!" "And then I turned it, again and again and again!" "You don't believe me, right?" "I can tell from the expressions on your faces!" "Okay, then look." "Look." "Here's her guts next to those of the Prime Minister I killed this morning." "Roast them and stuff them down his throat..." "Long live ireland, ireland of heroes!" "Down with the Queen!" "Get back to work, chaps..." "You're going back to the animal cruelty Division!" "What do you want to ask them?" "Just because you saw them in a dream..." "Joan, please!" "..." "I'm going insane..." "You have to make up your mind!" "." "AII these people..." "AII right..." "Nothing." "How could you even think about it?" "Don't let your imagination run away with you." "Maybe there's an explanation." "They knew Durer." "They went to her house a few times." "You probably saw them, maybe on the stairs or entering the building or when they were leaving." "And so one night you dreamed about them." "Did they tell you they were friends of hers?" "I don't know:" "I was guessing." "Eddy Berry, you bastard, how are you?" "We've photographed the body of the victim, other evidence and the weapon, collected all fingerprints..." "What I would Iike you to focus on are the footprints right here on the floor." "No matter how much one tries to wipe them dry, neither the sole of a shoe nor the sole of a foot can be wiped dry enough so as not to leave prints." "We call them damp prints, and we always manage to get them." "And it was raining that night." " exactly!" "And so whoever entered the house that night, had to leave damp prints." "Look at this enlargement we made." "As you can see, there are many, many prints around the living room." "Same thing in the hallway." "And they're all damp prints." "Good job." " We're nothing if not thorough, Inspector!" "So then one of these prints belongs to the murderer." " No!" "..." "I mean..." "Why not?" " well, as I showed you," "Prints can be found everywhere in this area, as in the whole house." "The exception is the area around the victim's bed." "In fact, there are no prints whatsoever overthere." "See?" "Not one." "But..." "I don't understand..." "That's where..." "Where the crime took place and where the body was found and where there are no prints at all." "So, none of the people who left damp prints behind got close to the victim." "clearly, none of them could have killed her." "Not one of them!" "..." " unless one of them took their shoes off..." "Yes, that's a possibility." "But I think there's a much simpIertheory..." "certainly... the murderer's shoes were dry and so they were not from someone who came in from the outside but maybe from another apartment in the same building." "This narrows the field significantly, inspector." "well, all we have to do is check...." " certainly inspector." "Like always, we'II check the building from top to bottom." "If I may, our suspicions point to this guy who's a repeat offender." "Can you tell me if you have seen this man before, around here?" "please Miss, take a close look at the picture." "You too, Mrs. Hammond." "Can I take a look?" "certainly, sir." "No, I've never seen him." "These are the enlargements you requested, Inspector." "The thumb prints of the people who touched the photograph." "And?" "..." "Okay, this a bIow-up of the section of the prints we're interested in." "We place it on top of the fingerprints we found on the letter opener," "And ...you see?" "It matches perfectly." "So?" " Okay inspector, the print which matches the one found on the letter opener was taken from the photo marked B, and it belongs to... one moment while I check... to Mrs. carol Hammond." "Mrs. Hammond, it is my duty to inform you that from this moment anything you say may be used against you." "You're asking all these questions..." "Even you want to ask me if I killed her!" "I'm your father, carol..." "I'm asking you as your father, not as your lawyer." "I'II get you out on bail, even if you're accused of a terrible crime." "But please understand, considering all the evidence against you, I need to know the truth." "The truth..." " I'm begging you..." "Dad, I can only say one thing." "One thing." "I'm not the one who killed her!" "carol!" "That's all I need to know!" "When a judge sets bail forthis high an amount, it's a pretty clear indication that he has few doubts." " Lucky him." "I, on the other hand, am full of doubts." "I am not convinced." "And the evidence, Inspector?" "." "Her prints are all overthe murder weapon..." "And both the letter opener and fur coat belong to her." "Yes, yes, of course, evidence." "We have loads of proof." "A Iot of evidence but not a shred of motive." " True, but the facts remain." "Did you know Hammond was in therapy?" "Oh yeah?" "Then maybe she'II get out of it." "They want to claim insanity..." "I don't know." "But a Iot of things can change, if we find a logical, solid motive." "I absolutely have to find it..." "or I'II be the one going insane." "You killed julia Durer." "Furthermore, this dream has a clear purpose." "By killing this woman, you killed the part of you attracted by vice and sin." "The conflict within you was resolved by an act of violence." "Okay." "Let's stop here." "As you can tell, carol did not have a motive for hating Ms. Durer." "Much less wanting to kill her." "If there were any motives at all, they were in her subconscious." "So you think that we need to convince the jury that it wasn't Carol, but rather her subconscious..." " lt's not so strange." "A dissociation between a person's conscious and subconscious could be enough to push that person to commit the crime unconciously." "Yes, yes there are even precedents." "It happened in the Barthelmy trial." "And the opinion of the expert was the determining factor." "The court bought the view that Barthelmy killed his sister in a state of total unconsciousness." "A case of dual personality..." "And Arthur Barthelmy was acquitted!" "All of which goes to show that this is clearly a dream of liberation." "A dream!" "..." "Of course in that moment I thought I needed to explain a dream." "Neither Carol nor I could know that it was a tragic reality instead." "Carol is still convinced it was only a dream." "Yes, that's understandable." "The scenes from that night were memorized as being from a dream." "Meanwhile, the reality was confused by imaginations from her subconscious, pieces which in her dream are seen as symbols." "Right, like the painting of a meadow with the swan that followed her around." "Exactly." "Just like the affectionate acts with Julia Durer." "These are symptomatic of a love-hate relationship." "And maybe those two hippies have the same meaning as well..." "Listen:" "But those... that red-haired young man... those two hippies on the balcony..." "Witnesses invented by your Ego." "Why do you say "maybe also" the two hippies, if they are symbolic?" "Theoretically, nothing prevents them from being among the real elements." "In other words, they were present at my daughter's crime." "is that what you mean, Dr. Kerr?" "." "They were there and didn't do anything?" "Why didn't they at least try to blackmail her?" "." "If that's the case, then they were working with someone." "Give me a light please?" "When did Carol talk to you about it?" "When I went to visit her in the hospital." " My God, Frank!" "What an idea keeping her locked up in a mental hospital until hertrial!" "In her condition she needs peace and quiet to fully recuperate." "I highly recommend that peace and quiet." "She'll just worry herself to death." "As shown by the fact that she started thinking about that case similarto hers." "By the way, what did she know about the Barthelmy case?" "She was working in herfather's law firm at the time of the trial." "And her father?" "What's his opinion?" "That if she had been a man, he would have made a great lawyer out of her..." "But..." "Do you believe in this defense strategy?" "It repulses him." "His daughter will have become a psychiatric experiment..." "What about you, Frank, what do you think?" "A very unfortunate incident for which I am deeply sorry." "In any case, I assure you that whoever left that door open shall be punished." "But..." "I have to ask you, Mrs. Hammond, to please be less curious." "Somebody was following me..." " Of course!" "It was one of our male nurses." "He's the one who scared you." "By accident... of course." "No... not the nurse..." " He told me so..." "No... even before that. I saw him well, I'm sure of it ..." "A hallucination!" "..." "But..." "Carol, there were no red-haired hippies in the park today." "You're wrong. I saw him." "A hallucination means to see things that are not there..." "But I wasn't thinking about anything at that particular moment." "I was lying down..." "everything was peaceful..." "Alright!" "Let's say that you did see him." "You saw someone with red hair." "That doesn't mean anything, sweetie." "A lot of people have red hair." "Seeing this person bothered you because it reminded you of your dream." "That is the simplest and most reasonable explanation." "Calm down." "It was him, Frank. I'm telling you." "You have to believe me." "I want the truth, Frank." "How long has this story been going on?" "I met Deborah after I came to London. I was in a funk..." "My first marriage had failed..." "She helped me out a lot, notjust emotionally." "She was the one who begged you to hire me." "I asked you how long has Deborah been your lover?" "Two years." "I know you have a good memory, Frank. I'm sure you remember that the day before the crime, you were with me when I received a strange call which prompted me to ask you a question." "Ah... yeah. I remember your asking me if I was cheating on Carol." "And you then asked me if I was kidding." "Obviously, I wasn't kidding Frank, but neither were you..." "What does that mean?" " Let's create a theory." "See if it works." "Suppose that particular call came from Julia Durer, that she knew about your affair and was blackmailing you." "You knew that if she talked our business relationship would have been terminated instantly." "So..." "No, no one's ever blackmailed me." "No?" "But let's pretend, just for a second." "You have to admit that it would be a strong motive." "Don't you think?" "For what?" "To kill Durer?" ".." "That's absurd!" "You think so?" "To kill Julia Durer and place the blame on Carol." "That's ridiculous!" "You're forgetting your daughter's prints on the fur coat and on the letter opener!" " They're hers, I know... I think it's only natural that her prints are on them." "But where's the proof that it was her, that it was my daughter and my daughter only who brought those objects to the scene of the crime?" "And the dream?" "You're forgetting all about the dream!" "That's right, the dream!" " So Carol dreamed about the crime in every detail at the same moment someone was committing it." "A telepathic dream!" "Or is Carol, in your opinion, a psychic?" " The dream... I asked Dr. Kerr to lend me the tapes he recorded with Carol." "Not to listen to scientific mumbo jumbo on dual personalities but to find something useful." "And I found it." "Listen to this..." "After the hallway all I can remember is a big door opening." "And then... then I don't remember anything." "Yesterday morning everything was so clear... I've told you many times." "Why didn't you write it down!" "Miss Hammond, dreams have a short life in one's memory." "And yet yesterday morning it was all so clear... I've told you many times." "Why didn't you write it down!" "Did you know Carol took notes on her dreams?" "No..." " Yes you did, just like Joan and Deborah knew." "She wrote them down and kept them in her bureau in her room." "Any one of you three had a chance to read them." "Who knows how many times you read them!" "You could have read about that exact same dream." "A dream, Frank, only a dream... that someone else could have copied to the letter and transformed into a crime." "A real crime." "It's not only logical and possible, but extremely easy for someone who only had to go from the apartment next doorto this one..." "And from there they would have had an easy way to grab a few things ..." "Orthree things: a letter opener, a fur coat, and a white scarf." " Exactly!" "Finally we'll be able to explain why she had those brand new boots on." "She was wearing them in the dream and the murderer put them on her." "So this person had to have stabbed her three times in the chest and left behind the letter opener, the fur coat and the white silk scarf!" "..." "Not only that, but also put her black boots on herfeet." "is it possible that every single one of these things was written in her notes!" "..." "You should ask whoever read them - ortell us yourself, if you've read them!" "Don't get bent out of shape." "She didn't keep those notes for long." "Sometimes they sat there for a few days and then she threw them out." "Did you read any of them?" "All of them!" "Your wife had some messed-up dreams!" "..." "Now's not the time..." " Know what she wrote?" "That she had sex with Durer." "Stop it, please!" "Daddy, if you loved me I wouldn't go with women." " Not that again..." "Did you read the papers this morning?" " No, why?" "There are some developments in the Durer case." " Like what?" "It appears the police are about to arrest a strong suspect." "Another suspect?" "They don't think it's Carol anymore?" "But who?" "Did they say?" "No!" "And thank God the papers haven't mentioned my name yet." " You?" "You know, it could be dangerous." "If something doesn't happen soon..." "To Greenfield." "Aren't you going to take me home?" "Greenfield is your home!" "Listen to me: you didn't kill Durer, and you have no idea who did." "If you want to know who did it, you have to go to Alexandra Palace and go into the basement." "There you will find a lit candle." "Make sure you bring fifty pounds, that's the price ..." "Alexandra Palace... today at four o'clock." "Make sure you go, okay?" "Drop the knife, or the next shot will be between the eyes!" "I may be old, but I have good aim." "I've already called the police!" "Hi!" "Look who's back!" "What kind of manners are those?" "is that the way to properly greet someone?" "Get out of the way..." "Did you move here so that you could practice?" "Get out of here...!" "What do you want?" "I came to see Red, he needs to tell me a few things." "He's my friend too, you know. I thought he'd be here." "It looks like he's busier than usual today." "What the hell are you doing?" "Can you explain it?" "Painting...." "Larry, wait for me right here." "Well at least we know Red really exists, he's not a ghost." "He exists and has a good reason to kill Mrs. Hammond." "I should have had herfollowed..." "Scourthe city, Brandon." "Check out anyone who has red hair... and put the screws to him." "Even the Crown Prince." "All redheads?" "Good thing we're not in Ireland!" "What do you call this painting?" " Decay!" "Will you able to sell it?" " Do you want to buy it?" "If you promise to do something for me." "I mind my own business. I don't care about other people's." "I'm like the three monkeys: see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil." "At least tell me where Red is." " You should know, "you're his friend."" "If you tell me where to find him I'll give you twenty forthe painting." "What did you remember that was so important?" "But how can I tell you overthe phone!" " But at least tell me what it's about!" "Something that "Red" told me, the guy I followed when I was following Carol." "I didn't think it was important at the time, but now I see it clears you." "Joan, don't get involved, I'm begging you." "What he told me has to also be told to the Police." "And he'll do it. I'm sure I'll convince him, they're always after drug money." "Where are you going to meet him?" " At Woburn Abbey." "After this you will no longer be a suspect." "Someone in ourfamily will pay the price, but not you." "You'll be all set." "Be careful, Joan!" " Don't worry, Dad... I'll call you right after I finish meeting with him. I'll have clear proof." "Julia Durer's killer won't be able to get away with it any longer." "I have to run now. I'm going to Woburn Abbey." " Be careful... I'm sure that once I meet with Red..." "Ma'am, do you know how this sensitive story came about?" "It came from the phone call someone made to my father." "Exactly!" "May I?" " Help yourself." "A phone call from a person calling herself Mrs. Smith, who by now we're sure was Julia Durer." "Oh, excuse me." "Do you think your husband knew about the phone call?" "It's possible." "Ah." "So you're not sure?" " No, Inspector." "And did your father mention it to you?" " Yes, he did." "Hello, Inspector." "Good to see you at Greenfield." "Why didn't you call?" "Well, at this point your daughter doesn't need a lawyerto talk to me." "Did you know her?" "." "Answer me!" " You have it all wrong. lt wasn't me!" "Talk!" "Who told you about the keys to the basement of Alexandra Palace?" "Answer!" "How did you get in?" "Somebody had to give you the keys." "The guard?" "Come on, out with it, was it the security guard?" " No. I don't know him..." "But maybe he knows you and he gave you the keys, right?" "He gave them to you for a wild party in there..." "He gave them to you for ten pounds..." "He got the money beforehand." "And a night with your woman." "We know this too!" " That's right, he told us!" "He said that because he hates me." " Oh yeah?" "Yeah, yeah, that's right..." "He hates me!" " Say it again!" "Yes, he hates me!" " So then you do know him!" "No, he hates everyone because he's hunchbacked." "And how the hell can you know he's a hunchback if you don't know him?" "He's a hunchback." "Everyone knows that." "He's a hunchback!" "Come on, tell us the truth." "If you want the whole story you gotta give me what I asked for." "He's answering our questions." "We gave him his drugs and he confessed." "He admitted everything." "He killed Joan and he tried to kill your daughter." "And Durertoo..." "No." "Not Durer." "He didn't kill her." "At this point only two people know who committed that crime." "You and... the murderer." "Durer was killed by the person she was blackmailing." "Somebody Durer had pushed too hard, pushed to desperation." "Since she was not blackmailing your son-in-law, it was someone else." "I'm sorry I led you in the wrong direction." " Don't feel bad, Sir." "Goodbye." " Goodbye..." "Excuse me, Inspector, why'd you convince him you know who killed Durer?" "Because I know, Brandon. I'm certain, except for one damn contradiction!" "Miss Bennett..." "Find Dr. Kerr... I want him at Durer's house, I want everyone there." "Talk!" " Sure, sure..." " Come on, get on with it..." "So Jenny and I were at the old theater and those two women followed us." "They came into the bar and then the girl approached us." "Look at this woman and tell me if you recognize her." "I don't know, we see a lot of people!" "..." "Do you remember this one?" "At Julia Durer's house." " We haven't been there in about two weeks..." "Two weeks..." "It was at night." "The last time you were there was it at night?" "At night..." "Yeah." " Was it raining?" "Definitely, there was rain and thunder too." "Why, were we supposed to have seen herthat particular night?" "Yes, precisely that night." "Well, I wouldn't have noticed her even is she was right in front of my nose." "You don't notice anything when you have all that acid in you!" "Yeah, we were tripping on acid...from our head ... down to our toes...." "When you're full of LSD it's like being in another world." "I could look at the lnspector and maybe I see a red dot, or a horse..." "So you don't remember anything about that night ..." " Of course I do!" "So many nice things!" "..." "I remember seeing a lizard in a woman's skin." "That's disgusting..." " No, she was beautiful." "Wonderful!" "Did you climb up there?" "Eh?" "Did you sit up there, in the balcony?" "It's possible." "Yes, I think so." "Whenever I have handcuffs on my tongue gets dry." "At the time we talked to that girl, we had no idea Julia Durer was dead." "We don't read the papers ..." "What happened, then?" "Later on, when we found out about it, we were scared shitless." "When you're high, you'll do just about anything." "There are people who jump out of a building because they think they can fly." "I might have killed her and not even realized it." "And then?" " When we left this place, we were still out of it." "We didn't see Julia, or anybody else ..." "Only those two women knew we had been here." "And one of them was the accused." "And when we heard one was under arrest i felt..." "I thought..." "Yes, I thought about..." "Shutting them both up, permanently ... And you did, one of them." "It was easy to kill Joan." "She came looking for you..." "Joan went looking for him since their presence here proves you're innocent." "Yes, she told me so over the phone ... lf these two were in the house during the crime as in your wife's dream that means Durer could not have been killed by someone who read her notes." "Someone else came in." "There was no set-up, as your father-in-law thought." "Those brand new boots were a gift from these two ..." "We wanted to bring Julia something, and she chose them..." "Dr. Kerr, is it possible for someone to lie during a visit to their shrink's office?" "Lie in what sense, Inspector?" " Lie by omission." "Yes, even by omitting a person can lie." "Suppose, for example, there was someone else in this house that night." "And that..." "Carol is trying to cover for them..." "is that it?" "Hello?" "..." "Yes, right away. lt's for you, lnspector. lt's Brandon..." "Yes, inspector, I'm calling from Brighton." "The old man has killed himself." "Yes, he left a note." "Says he's the one who killed Durer." "The Coroner is already working on it." "Then we'll take the body away..." "Well, Inspector, at this point I'd say that the investigation is wrapped up." "I had a lot of respect for your father." "Now I just have a lot of pity." "If at least I knew why he did it ..." " But you do know why, Mrs. Hammond." "And I do too." "Remember when I came to Greenfield?" "I was so close to the truth." "Your father came in while we were talking." "He heard all of my questions and all of your answers." "Mrs. Hammond, do you think your husband knew about that phone call?" "It's possible..." " You're not sure?" " No, Inspector." "Did your father talk to you about it?" " My father, yes..." "No, it wasn't your father, or he would've told you your husband was present." "And you didn't know that." "No, your father didn't tell you about that phone call nor was it your husband, or Deborah, or Joan..." "No, it wasn't anyone of them." "So then who was it, Mrs. Hammond?" "I don't remember..." " There was only one person who knew..." "The only person who could have told you." "Mrs. Smith, Julia Durer !" "I've never talked to that woman in my life." " Except in your dreams." "In real life you didn't know Durer and for now we've no evidence you did." "But we do have something." "Psychoanalysis!" "Your sessions with Dr. Kerr." "When I learned of your father's suicide, I asked your psychoanalyst a question." "Dr. Kerr... is it possible that a patient comes to you for help with their problems, and then hides the truth from you?" "Oh yes. ln a case like that the problem is usually so deep that it comes out, only in bits, from the patient's subconscious." "In other words, you were Julia Durer's lover... ln real life, Mrs. Hammond, not in your dreams." "But you were positive that you would never be blamed for her death because no one ever suspected anything about your relationship..." "You went to visit her that night, knowing she'd be alone." "And you killed her." "You realized the two Hippies were there only after you'd already done it." "By the time you saw them, you lost your cool and ran." "That's why you left your belongings, covered with your prints, near the body." "There was no way you could have known they were so full of drugs they couldn't see anything." "You didn't know they were blind witnesses." "All your errors arise from that." "It's true they didn't know you, but one day they could have recognized you and accused you as the killer." "When you ran into them, you followed them." "You had to silence them or forget about being found not guilty for reasons of temporary insanity." "That was your hope." "You invented the dream in order to tell it to Dr. Kerr who would then be the custodian of your psychoanalytic alibi." "The perfect alibi to justify the murder you'd committed." "You were at Durer's mercy, a very capable woman without scruples." "The phone call for your father, when your husband was present, was regarding you, Mrs. Hammond." "It could only be about you." "You are about to run for election, isn't that true Mr. Brighton?" "Then you'll have to be very careful of scandals." "I have a story that I could sell to you or to a newspaper, a dirty little story about someone in your family." "Someone close to you... I'll give you the money." "Your father refused to admit that you could be a killer." "He couldn't conceive of it and tried desperately to find another answer." "But destiny decided that he, along with me, would know the truth and he chose to kill himself, but not before incriminating himself." "You intentionally killed Durer and by doing so killed your own father." "Unfortunately, you can only be punished for the smaller of your two crimes ..."