"Just you wait a little while, The nasty man in black will come" "With his little chopper, He will chop you up!" "You're out" "Stop singing that awful song" "Don't you hear me?" "Always that awful song" "Just you wait a little while, The nasty man in black will come" "What's the matter?" "I told those kids to stop singing that awful song" "But they keep singing it over and over" "As if we haven't heard enough of that murderer" "Oh, leave them be lf they're singing, at least we know they're okay" "Yes, I guess you're right" "10,000 Marks Reward WHO is THE MURDERER?" "Since June 11, little KLAUS KLAWlTZKY and his sister KLARA have disappeared" "Evidence leads us to believe the children were victims of a similar crime committed last fall against the DOERlNG sisters" "What a pretty ball!" "What's your name?" "Elsie Beckmann" "Did Elsie come with you?" "No, she didn't" "Thank you" "A thrilling new chapter!" "Passionate, moving, sensational" "Just a moment, Mr. Gehrke" "Tell me, Mr. Gehrke." "Yes?" "Have you seen Elsie?" "Didn't she just come up the stairs?" "No, she isn't here yet" "She won't be long now." "Good-bye, Mrs. Beckmann" "Good-bye, Mr. Gehrke" "Extra!" "Extra!" "Extra!" "New crime!" "Who is the murderer?" "Because the police have not published my first letter l am writing today directly to the NEWSPAPERS" "Continue your investigations" "Everything will happen just as I have told you." "But I have not yet finished" "10,000 MARKS REWARD Who is the murderer?" "Christ!" "Here we go again." "It's horrible 10,000 Marks The lettering is too small" "We can't read it" "Hey, you, read it out loud" ""The unknown murderer"." "Let him read!" "Hey!" "Quiet!" ""The terror in our town has found a new..."" "Certain evidence leads us to believe that the murderer is the same one who has already killed eight children" "We must remind you again that a mother's first duty is to guard her children from the danger which always threatens" "Also, the danger is often hidden in some attractive bait" "Candy, a toy, and fruit can be the murderer's weapons" "True, true!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Read, read on" "Okay, okay. "The anxiety of the general public is very high because the police have not yet completed their investigations" "But the police are faced with an almost impossible problem."" ""The criminal has left no clue." "Who is the murderer?"" "What is he like?" "Where is he hiding?" "No one knows." "Still, he is one of us ls it your neighbor?" "Yes, that's right" "Why look at me when you say that?" "You know very well." "What do I know very well?" "Think about it." "What are you saying?" "I saw you go up those stairs behind that little girl" "What?" "!" "You are crazy, you dirty swine!" "Who's a swine?" "Me?" "Or a man who chases little girls?" "You bastard!" "You swine!" "Murderer!" "Gentlemen!" "Gentlemen!" "I'll see you in court." "I'll see you in court" "Now, now, gentlemen!" "Calm down!" "Slanderer!" "Trying to ruin my reputation" "Slanderer!" "Terrible man!" "The police listen to him!" "They're searching my house!" "How awful!" "What a shame!" "Searching a man's house because of an anonymous letter" "Mr. Jager, calm down!" "We're only doing our job" "When we are so upset?" "Scared about the children" "Look, that's why the police must follow every clue" "Any man in the street could be the guilty one" "Can you please tell me what time it is?" "Yes, my child" "Now, my child, go home." "Where do you live?" "What's it to you where the kid lives?" "Why were you bothering that kid?" "But - but - l did nothing!" "What do you want with me?" "Just you wait and see" "Let me go!" "It's an outrage!" "What's going on?" "lt's an outrage!" "What does he want?" "Don't get so excited" "Punch him in the face!" "Bothering children." "Acting like a big shot!" "Let me go!" "I did nothing!" "You wanted to get her alone, didn't you?" "Yes, then kill her like all the others, right?" "It's the murderer!" "It's him!" "Hold him!" "Call the police!" "No police around when you need them." "Officer, officer!" "Move along please, move along now." "Don't block!" "You can catch pickpockets but you'd better get the murderer" "What?" "is he the murderer?" "Move along now." "Come on, get a move on" "MURDERER writes TO NEWSPAPERS" "It's a terrible scandal" "This will have a bad effect on public opinion, Inspector." "It's very serious" "But, sir, we cannot stop the murderer from writing letters!" "This man is a mental case" "He gets a kick from seeing himself in the papers" "We immediately got in touch with the newspaper" "They sent us the original letter." "The lab is working on it" "Of course, you can't get good fingerprints from a postcard which went through so many hands" "We'll compare the results with our archives" "We must try everything to find a clue or a lead" "Then, we'll send the letter to the graphologist" "The very particular shape of the letters... do you follow me?" "indicates in this man a very strong and pathological sexuality" "Some of the broken letters reveal an actor's personality which can be indolent or even lazy" "In the whole, the handwriting shows clear signs of insanity" "Yes, Inspector, certainly." "You and your men are very good" "But, nevertheless, results, we must have results" "Results!" "Minister, my men are only getting 12 hours sleep a week as well as searches on the spot, Minister" "They start their shift already tired" "Don't forget, this job is nervously trying especially when the success rate is so low" "The homicide officers work restlessly" "They're always on alert following any clue, even the slightest one that may lead us to our man" "Minister, consider their findings on the scene of the crime" "We find, for instance, behind a hedge a little white paper bag" "Clearly it held the candy ln a corner, we found some crumbs and some sugar grains" "Within a radius of 2 kilometers, we have searched in all the candy shops to find out where the bag came from" "But in vain" "Every day the search widens" "but, of course, no one remembers anything" "Nevertheless, we keep on searching, getting nowhere without much hope of finding a solution." "Our men..." "What good is that?" "I know you're trying but an unknown murderer terrorizes the town" "A town of four million and your police are failing" "Minister, you don't seem to understand the difficulties" "Only on the way home of the missing child we got fifteen different testimonies" "Just listen: "Testimony 1478 in the Beckmann murder case..."" "You know nothing." "More than you, Sir!" "Gentlemen!" "Can't you agree what color hat that little girl wore when you saw her?" "Of course, Inspector, it was red" "Inspector, it was green." "lt was a red hat!" "It was a green hat!" "Stop!" "It's hopeless." "Thank you, gentlemen" "Next witness." "Of course, Inspector if you listen to a color-blind man!" "The police have investigated over 1,500 clues" "Documents fill 60 volumes." "We have all available men" "We have systematically combed all adjoining areas" "Every thicket, every piece of undergrowth, every bush in every hole, we might find something" "We sent out police dogs." "The best trackers are on the scent to no avail." "Since the murderer's first crime police have inspected all the flop-houses every night and checked the identity of every vagrant" "Such measures hurt our popularity and make people nervous" "But we watch all railway stations and raid the underworld hangouts" "Despite all this, the police haven't succeeded in finding anything" "The police." "Get back!" "Let me go, you dirty bastard!" "Let me go!" "Please let me go, won't you?" "You son of a bitch!" "Let go!" "Let her go, you filthy pig!" "Quiet!" "Quiet!" "The head cop!" "Quiet!" "You'd like that, wouldn't you?" "Police orders: nobody leaves." "Get your papers ready" "Quiet!" "C'mon kids, let's not be stupid lt's Fatty Lohmann!" "Loh-mann, Loh-mann, Loh-mann!" "Loh-mann!" "Loh-mann!" "Quiet!" "Quiet!" "You'll wear yourselves out lt would be better if you got the murderer" "Yes!" "Much better!" "Quiet!" "Be reasonable!" "Spread out." "All of you spread out." "C'mon, papers out!" "l haven't got any." "Show me your papers" "Please let me go, Inspector" "Show me your papers" "l think we know each other." "Yes, we do" "To the headquarters!" "With all this mess, not a client!" "Don't make any trouble." "No papers and you go to headquarters I am innocent" "Don't talk nonsense" "Quiet!" "Show me your papers" "Don't push. lt's everybody's turn" "Have you got your papers?" "l can't go around with my birth certificate." "That's asking too much" "Don't mess with me." "That's asking too much, Inspector" "Headquarters for you" "Look here, it's disgusting" "Poor workmanship, old boy." "You've had it." "To headquarters" "Better luck next time, Willie" "Shut your face!" "Next" "Fancy boy" "What's wrong?" "Pop Lohmann's got him" ""Unsolved burglary at a fur shop."" "Well, I guess I'd better take you down to headquarters" "But... my papers are in order" "Next" "No luck, huh?" "Papers I have none" "Headquarters" "No luck" "Next, come on, let's go" "This is wrecking our business, Sarge, trouble every night" "You can't have ten minutes peace anymore." "Give us a break!" "It's no joke for us either, out every night" "Of course, but you're drivin' away my clientele and the guy you're looking for ain't here" "Do you know how mad everyone is about this guy who's causing a raid every night?" "'Specially the girls." "Sure, they solicit but believe me, everyone is a little mother at heart I know a lot of crooks, get sort of tender when they see kids lf they catch that bastard they'll wring his neck" "Ready to go, Sarge?" "Good night" "So it's the Crocodile tonight." "Two loads for the nick" "What's keeping Schranker?" "is it three o'clock yet?" "I'll find out" "Hello, the exact time, please." "Two minutes to three" "Thank you" "There are more police on the street tonight than whores" "Wherever you spit, cops" "Even when you've got a broad, they don't leave you alone" "They've gone nuts." "All they think about is the murderer I have a little six-year-old and every night I have to look under the bed and in the closet to see if the murderer is hiding there" "You can't even do your job." "The police are everywhere" "There's no privacy anymore." "I'm fed up with it" "Tell us something new" "What's keeping Schranker?" "Maybe he's been caught" "Not him." "He did a bank job in London." "Scotland Yard trapped him" "There he was, hands up, back to the wall, millions of cops around two seconds later there were two corpses and he'd beat it!" "The best man between Berlin and San Francisco" "Six years they've looked and they haven't caught him yet" "Haven't caught him yet, but dogs can kill wolves" "Shut up" "The suspense is killing me." "He's always right on time" "God be praised!" "At last!" "Well, hello!" "You've finally come." "Good afternoon" "Are you crazy?" "Close the curtains" "Gentlemen, the meeting can now begin" "According to regulations, I confirm that the leadership of every organization in our union is represented l assume you are all authorized to vote on behalf of your members" "Good." "Let's not be held up by procedure" "We all know why we are here." "Some non-member is screwing up our affairs." "Daily raids by the police for the child murderer interfere with our business." "We can't put up with this pressure any longer in every hotel, cafe or pad" "This state of affairs must not be allowed to continue" "We have to put things right again or we'll all be ruined" "Our funds are exhausted." "We'll have to use money allocated for our colleagues' wives who are being "hosted" by the state" "Furthermore, our reputation is suffering" "Gentlemen, the cops are looking for the murderer in our ranks!" "When I run into a cop while on business, he knows the risk and so do l. lf one of us dies, OK, that's a risk one takes lt can happen." "But you and I are not on the level of this murderer" "Absolutely!" "We are doing our job, we have to make a living" "But this monster has no right to live." "He must disappear!" "He must be eliminated, without pity, without scruples" "Gentlemen, our members have to carry on normal business without being handicapped by nervous policemen" "I ask you for advice I suggest a closer watch on id cards, systematic searches and police raids." "More raids, and much tougher ones" "Spies." "We need spies among the police to give us warnings" "The girls must take a little more notice of the cops" "We get into trouble because one of the girls has talked too much to her cop boyfriend." "Now the girls have to tell us what gives" "We must be allowed to search any house, apartment, back yard in order to find a clue" "We have contacts, we have to make a statement to the press we have to tell them that we condemn the bastard too" "We should make it known that he isn't in the underworld I'm sure it's a man who looks like he wouldn't hurt a fly ln his normal state, he might even play marbles with the kids" "or cards with his wife." "Otherwise, murderers like Grossmann or Haarmann couldn't live for years like they did without their neighbors suspecting them at all" "We have to get that across to the public." "They must help" "Don't talk to me about the public helping. lt disgusts me just to hear them talk." "Excuse me, Chief!" "But it's the truth." "Christ!" "Help from the public brings no clues!" "Just a pile of letters with the most incredible accusations!" "Quite true" "Calls to the police the moment a garbage man crosses a yard!" "But when we need accurate information, they can't remember!" "They've seen nothing." "That's help from the public for you" "You're exaggerating a little, Lohmann" "No, he isn't" "Most of the people don't feel concerned" "The majority of them doesn't realize that a child disappearance is also their problem" "I've got an idea!" "Let's get one of those guys, a telepath one who finds handkerchiefs and pocketbooks that have been hidden l don't think the reward is enough" "Chief, we have to offer a real fortune for the murderer" "None of this is getting us anywhere" "That won't do any good." "What's your idea?" "Well, we just can't wait until the police decide to arrest the fellow" "The difficulty in solving crimes like this comes from the fact that the criminal and the victim are connected only by chance" "An instantaneous impulse is the killer's only motive" "We find the victim, we identify him, then we find out when he was last seen." "Then, nothing more" "Children disappear and you know what state we find them in" "if we find them" "And the killer... as we know, in this kind of crime never leaves a mark behind" "This is what makes our job so hard and our success so rare" "The police have been looking for eight months" "Now, they'll catch him only by luck" "We can't wait for that." "We'll be ruined before then" "Then what will we do?" "We'll have to catch him ourselves" "Yes!" "We must." "That's it" "There is still one possible way!" "The guilty man must have a record somewhere." "A man that disturbed must have come upon the law before." "We've got to contact every clinic every prison, every asylum." "We'll have to make inquiries about everyone freed as harmless but with the same pathological condition as the killer" "Every square foot must be permanently watched" "From now on, no child takes a step without us being warned" "OK, but how do we do it?" "There must be people who can go everywhere, not be noticed who can follow children without arousing suspicion who can follow children right up to their front doors" "People no one would suspect" "But who?" "People like that don't exist." "Who could do it?" "Who?" "The beggars." "The beggars' union can do it" "Sausage going up." "God!" "This cheese smells good" "That finishes you" "Stop snoring!" "You'll wake up the lice" "2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16" "Now we must take the back yards" "Yes, from number 1 to 88" "Next" "You are responsible for the courtyards in every block, 1 to 88" "Right!" "What's next?" "89 to 196 High Street 89 to 196 High Street." "What's your union number?" "3, 7, 95, Emil Dustermann 3, 7, 95, Dustermann, Emil" "There you are, Emil." "Maybe you'll win 15,000" "Touch wood!" "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen" "Thank you" ""When searching homes, we must look for any clue which could establish where the murderer's letter to the papers originated lf there is an old wooden table, if there is a red pencil or writing paper of the same type." "Inquiries must be discreet."" "Idiot" "And here's a list of mental patients who have been let out as cured or harmless in the last five years" "Reports from every institute, private and public" "And that's a list of their present addresses" "Good morning" "Does a Mr. Beckert live here?" "What?" "Does Mr. Beckert live here?" "I'm afraid I can't hear you." "I'm a bit hard of hearing" "As if I couldn't tell." "Does Mr. Beckert live here?" "Oh, Mr. Beckert..." "Yes..." "But he has just gone out" "Too bad, I wanted to see him I'm from the income Tax office" "Oh, good God!" "Tax people?" "Would you like to wait?" "Yes, thank you" "Please take a seat." "Thank you" "Like something to read?" "Thank you." "You're most kind" "Tell me, Mrs. Winkler, does Mr. Beckert take this paper?" "Mr. Beckert?" "No, he always borrows mine" "Mom!" "I was looking for you" "You don't have to do this!" "You know why" "Good evening." "What would you like?" "Coffee" "No... a vermouth... no, a brandy" "There you are" "Another one" "The bill!" "Two brandies. 1.65, please" "Thank you very much" "Number 24:" "Beckert." "He does not take the Courier" "A walnut table with a cloth." "No red pencil or traces of one" "No writing paper. ln the waste basket, a printed ad and a postcard with flowers and "Regards, Paul" on it but no address of sender." "An empty cigarette pack" "Ariston brand, a bag of candy with the candy store name on it" "Wait a moment..." "Ariston, did you say?" "Ar-is-ton..." "That rings a bell..." "Ariston" "Hello." "Get me the file on the Marga Perl murder." "Hurry" "Thank you very much" "That's funny." "I've heard that before" "It was... it was..." "Hey!" "Henry!" "What is it?" "Listen a moment." "Someone whistling." "Can you hear him?" "There" "He's just stopped." "Did you see him, the guy who was whistling?" "Yes, I can still see him." "Yes?" "Yes." "He's talking to a little girl and walking her down the street" "After him and don't let him go!" "But why?" "The day Elsie Beckmann was killed, someone bought a balloon" "He was with a little girl and he whistled just like that!" "Damn it, man!" "Are you crazy throwing peels on the ground?" "I might have broken my neck!" "Unbelievable I should report you to the police, you're a menace to the public" "Uncle" "There!" "That's it." "They found three cigarettes butts at the scene of the crime." "Aristons!" "Yes, the cigarettes are the same, but there's no old wooden table" "Of course, he could have written that letter somewhere else" "Heavens, the windowsill!" "You're right" "Just a minute" "A red pencil!" "God, at last we're getting somewhere" "Yes, yes, what?" "They have his trial!" "Have they found him?" "The beggars found him" "He was talking to a little girl." "They put a mark on him" "Can't you be quiet?" "What's that?" "They are following the sign." "He isn't out of sight for a second" "He's being watched" "Uncle." "What is it?" "You're all dirty" "Where?" "There, on your shoulder" "Here, I'll wipe it off" "What's the matter?" "Come on, let's go" "He hasn't come out yet or we would have seen him" "He must be in the courtyard, he didn't come out this way" "He must be somewhere" "Maybe he's hiding inside the building" "Closing time!" "He mustn't get out with everyone leaving" "Christ!" "Here come the first ones already" "Let's go out in the street" "Keep a sharp lookout" "Turn off the light or he'll suspect something when he comes back" "What time is it?" "Nearly 6:30" "He must still be in the building, anyway, he didn't come out" "Ok, Ok, yes..." "No, just a moment" "The beggars have gone for more help to search the whole area" "The murderer must still be in the building" "What sort of place is it?" "Nothing but offices. I don't know what's in the cellar" "There's a branch of the savings bank on the ground floor and from the first to the fifth, nothing but offices above that are lofts" "Look at that. lt ain't possible" "Anyone there?" "Anyone there?" "What next?" "Anyone there?" "Damn carelessness, all that trouble for one door" "Yes, good" "Looks like that guy is really cornered now I think we should tip off the cops right away" "l agree." "Now then, listen carefully" "Hello." "Just a moment." "What?" "Ok, call me right back" "What is it?" "What's the matter?" "Are you crazy or something?" "The police?" "No." "We're going to get that guy ourselves" "Listen... now, the time is" "8:00" "Good." "Then at 9:00, 10:00, 11:00!" "Good evening." "Did you know your gates are not closed?" "What?" "But that's impossible!" "I've only just..." "But it is" "Open up, and no noise!" "Are you going to open up?" "Come on, get it open" "Get a move on!" "How many watchmen are there in the building?" "Ok, so you don't want to answer?" "There are two watchmen on their rounds" "Bloody hell!" "Damn it" "Shit!" "Careful with the lights." "And don't walk like elephants" "What's the story?" "He isn't in the basement." "We went through it and found nothing" "Friede and Auguste are still going through the boiler rooms" "Wait" "That's the last one" "Go up and join Emile." "He needs help" "Go on, get a move on!" "Schranker sent me" "Good." "Listen carefully lt's a new type of time switch" "Here's a general plan here." "If the time switches aren't set they automatically go off at the nearest police station." "Get it?" "Have you got it?" "What do you think I am, some kind of a nut?" "He isn't in the boiler room." "Fine" "We moved all the coal" "Are you nuts?" "What if the door is wired up?" "Want to get the police here?" "Well, we have to get in if we're going to search the whole place" "But not by the door, you ass!" "Use the office on the floor above" "Go through the ceiling" "Right, let's go" "Hey!" "What's up?" "Hey!" "Answer me." "What's happening?" "Paul - tell us" "What's going on?" "I heard some banging!" "What did you say?" "What's the hurry?" "I must see Schranker!" "He's in the attic!" "I heard him knocking." "He's in the attic!" "Keep quiet" "Get on with it, then" "He must be there" "There's the switch" "Force the locks" "Come on." "Hurry up!" "I've got him." "He's in the attic I heard someone hammer l told Schranker immediately" "He's up there with 8 men." "They'll get him any moment I just came down to tell you lf l hadn't been alert, we'd have looked for him for hours" "Look out!" "The watchman!" "3... 1... 4 314" "Let's get out of here!" "The cops will be here any moment." "The watchman rung in" "Let's get out of here!" "Stop!" "Quiet!" "We've got 5 more minutes and 6 more compartments to search." "Carry on." "Get on with it." "Only hurry!" "Out of the way." "You can't do it that way" "He's not in here" "Next door!" "Come on." "Quicker" "Not here either" "Come on, keep it up!" "Next door" "Quick!" "We've only got about 3 minutes left" "Hurry up!" "Quickly!" "This one hasn't got a padlock, he must be here." "Go on, open it!" "It's locked from the inside, let me do it!" "Hurry up, only one minute left!" "Here he is, here he is, the dirty bastard!" "Get going, hurry up - Everybody out!" "Go on - move!" "Hurry up, quickly!" "Christ!" "Get out while you can, you fool!" "Anybody left?" "A few up top, they're on the way" "No reason for you to wait for them." "With or without that guy lt doesn't matter, get away." "What are they up to?" "Christ!" "Bloody hell!" "At last!" "Thank God!" "Hey!" "He's not down here." "Who's pulled up the ladder?" "Who's pulled up the ladder?" "Bunch of morons" "Hello" "Hands up" "How can I put my hands up when I'm trying to hang onto the ladder?" "Get out of there" "For once, I'm innocent" "As a newborn babe" "This will surprise you, Franz, but I believe you" "Well, then everything is in order. I can leave then" "One minute" "Cigarette?" "Oh, boy" "I'll take your word for it" "On condition you tell me who was the man you were looking for and found there?" "I don't understand, Inspector." "A man, you said?" "I know nothing about that." "There must be some mistake I know nothing, nothing at all" "Of course." "Only I don't understand why you are covering up for the gang who left you in the lurch." "Funny friends!" "Leaving you right in it and running off." "Bah!" "That won't wash with me, Inspector" "After all, I'm not risking very much" "Maybe a little bit of damage." "But nothing was stolen" "Of course, something was stolen." "In fact, a good deal" "What?" "Stolen?" "How much?" "If you talk, I'll tell you I've already told you, I don't know anything" "All right." "Well, think about it." "It's amazing what one remembers when one is left alone for an hour or two" "Take him away!" "Send the night watchman in here" "Get the watchman Damowitz" "Sit down" "Now then, you said in your statement" " Listen carefully" "You may have to repeat it under oath" "You clearly heard one of the burglars say to another, "we've found him I've discovered the guy." "He's in the attic." ls that correct?" "Yes, Inspector." "Yes, I'll swear to whatever you want" "Right." "You may go home now." "But please be ready to testify" "Of course, Inspector." "Good day, Inspector" "Tell me, is Inspector Lohmann in the building?" "He's talking to someone?" "No, it doesn't matter. I'll come up" "What?" "Good." "Hasn't come in yet." "You're watching Mrs. Winkler?" "Come in" "We've surrounded the whole block lf he wanted to get home, he'd run into us" "Now you have to wait I'll be in my office if you have some news" "Hell..." "What do you want?" "I wanted to ask you a favor" "Disgusting I wanted to ask you" "Anyway, read a bit of that" "Reports?" "Yes" "Burglary in an office block" "Bennostrasse?" "That's a very quiet neighborhood" "Perhaps it's not as quiet as all that" "Hell, this is becoming serious" "Did they intend to empty the whole place, then?" "What can they have been looking for in the coal?" "Look at that. lt's incredible" "Good Lord!" "This is madness!" "Ah, now it makes sense." "They were after the safe" "Good God!" "What's it all about?" "I don't understand it at all" "They haven't even attacked that one." "Are they all crazy?" "Well, I'll be damned!" "Well, what have you got to say?" "Nothing stolen, but a man taken" "Fantastic!" "And Franz the burglar was arrested. lsn't talking" "Frightened, evidently." "Actually, I know him well" "He's one who'd rather jump from the fifth floor than get mixed up in a murder" "Could we set a trap for him?" "Could you help me, Lohmann?" "I see what you're getting at" "Let's take a look at this Franz" "You're wanted for questioning" "What?" "Four people for me?" "Come on" "The murder squad?" "Inspector Karl Lohmann" "What do you want with me?" "What's the murder squad want?" "Yes, old boy, your case has been passed over to me now" "But why?" "What for?" "You did your work a little too well" "One of the watchmen" "Dead?" "Planning and assisting with a murder. lt's a bad show, Franz I can't go on with it. I don't want to have anything to do with it I'll tell you everything, everything I know" "Very wise, but unfortunately too late Inspector, it can't be too late..." "Please, Inspector lt isn't possible!" "Listen, I'm going to tell you everything" "Even who we were looking for in that damn building" "Well, then" "The child murderer" "What?" "What?" "Who?" "The child murderer, Inspector" "Wait" "This had to happen to me!" "Of all people" "Sit down" "Now, we're going to have a little talk lf you want to, Inspector" "And mind you, don't lie." "OK, let's start" "What have you do to with the murderer, and where'd you take him?" "Well, Inspector, you know the old distillery of Kuntz and Levy?" "The one that went bankrupt?" "Yes." "Since then the building's been abandoned and nobody cares" "What do you want with me?" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "I've done nothing to you, let me go, you swine!" "Let me go!" "What do you bastards want with me?" "What do you want?" "Help!" "Help!" "Let me go. I want to get out." "Get me out of here" "Let me out!" "You will not get out of here" "But gentlemen, I don't even know what you want me for l beg you, set me free." "There must be some mistake" "No, no." "No mistake." "lmpossible." "There's no mistake" "No mistake" "Do you recognize it?" "It's a balloon like the one you gave little Elsie Beckmann!" "A balloon like that" "Where did you bury little Martha?" "But I never..." "I never even knew her" "You never knew her?" "And what about this one?" "And this one?" "You didn't know this one either, huh?" "Stop him, stop him..." "Don't let him get away" "Let me go!" "You have no right to treat me this way!" "We'll show you what right we have!" "You have no right to hold me here" "Right?" "Someone like you has no rights." "Kill him!" "Yes, kill him!" "We must treat him like a mad dog." "Crush him!" "You talk of rights." "You will get your rights" "We are all law experts here" "from 6 weeks in Tegel prison to 15 years in Brandenburg" "You will get your rights, you will even get a lawyer" "Everything will be done according to the rule of law" "A lawyer?" "A lawyer?" "I don't need a lawyer" "Who is accusing me?" "You, maybe?" "You?" "Just a moment. lf l were you, sir, I'd keep quiet" "Your life's at stake, in case you didn't know it" "Who are you?" "I have the dubious honor of being your defense counsel" "But I'm afraid it won't be much use to you" "But, but..." "Do you want to kill me?" "Murder me, just like that?" "We just want to render you harmless" "But you'll only be that way when you are dead" "But if you kill me, it'll be cold-blooded murder!" "I demand that you hand me over to the police" "I demand to be handed over to the jurisdiction of common law" "That would suit you, wouldn't it?" "Then you'll invoke paragraph 51" "And spend the rest of your life in an institution at state expense" "And then you'd escape, or else get a pardon, then there you are, free as air, with a law-protected pass because of mental illness, off again, chasing little girls" "We're not going to let that happen" "We must make you powerless." "You must disappear" "Yes, disappear!" "I can't help what I do" "I can't help it, I can't..." "The old story, we never can help it in court" "What do you know about it?" "Who are you anyway?" "Who are you?" "Criminals?" "Are you proud of yourselves?" "Proud of breaking safes or cheating at cards?" "Things you could just as well keep your fingers off" "You wouldn't need to do all that if you'd learn a proper trade or if you'd work. lf you weren't a bunch of lazy bastards" "But I..." "I can't help myself!" "I have no control over this this evil thing inside me, the fire, the voices, the torment!" "You mean to say that you have to murder?" "It's there all the time, driving me out to wander the streets following me, silently, but I can feel it there lt's me, pursuing myself I want to escape, to escape from myself!" "But it's impossible l can't escape. I have to obey it." "I have to run... endless streets I want to escape, to get away" "And I'm pursued by ghosts." "Ghosts of mothers" "And of those children..." "They never leave me" "They are there, always there..." "Always, except when I do it" "When I..." "Then I can't remember anything" "And afterwards I see those posters and read what I've done" "Did I do that?" "But I can't remember anything about it" "But who will believe me?" "Who knows what it's like to be me?" "How I'm forced to act..." "How I must..." "Must..." "Don't want to" "Must!" "Don't want to, but must!" "And then... a voice screams I can't bear to hear it I can't go on" "The accused has said that he cannot help himself" "That is to say, he has to murder." "As this is the case he has pronounced his own death sentence" "Someone who admits to being a compulsive murderer should be snuffed out, like a candle" "This man must be wiped out, eliminated" "Perfect!" "Just what I think!" "I wish to speak" "The defense lawyer will speak" "Our very honorable president, who is, I believe, wanted by the police for three murders " "That's got nothing to do with it ...claims that because my client acts under an irresistible impulse he is condemned to death" "He is right!" "He is mistaken." "Because it is that very fact that clears him" "Just a minute, enough!" "Mad old drunk!" "is this very obsession which makes my client not responsible" "And nobody can be punished for something he can't help" "Ridiculous!" "Do you suggest that this brute should get off?" "I mean this man is sick." "A sick man should be handed over not to the executioner, but to the doctor" "Can you promise he'd be cured?" "What use are asylums, then?" "And what would happen if he escaped?" "Yes." "Or if they released him as harmless?" "And what if the compulsion to kill returns?" "Another man-hunt for months" "Paragraph 51 again." "The asylum, then another escape or release" "Then the compulsion all over again, and so on, and on" "No one can kill a man who isn't responsible for his actions" "Not the state, and certainly not you" "The state must see that this man becomes harmless and no longer is a danger to his fellow citizens" "You've never had children, huh?" "So you haven't lost any" "But if you knew what it's like to lose one..." "Go ask the parents!" "Ask them what those days and nights were like when they didn't know what had happened." "And then when they finally knew" "Ask the mothers!" "She's right!" "Do you think they'll have mercy?" "She's right." "l'll say she is" "No mercy!" "No pardon!" "Give the murderer to us" "Kill the beast!" "Crush the brute!" "Kill him!" "Beat him!" "All that won't silence me" "I won't allow a crime to be committed in my presence I demand that this man... that this man be granted the protection of the law" "I demand that this man be handed over to the police" "To the police!" "Filthy stooge" "In the name of the law" "In the name of the people" "This won't bring back our children" "We, too, should keep a closer watch on our children"