"One night, in a town ..." "Who's there?" "Hello, did I wake you?" "It doesn't matter." "I was in bed but I was reading" "Would you lend me a cigarette?" "Certainly." "Any scandalous news?" "News is never scandalous for us journalists" "Here, serve yourself." "Thanks." "Do you have the time, as my watch shows 12:03 am, but I think it's slow." "Oh, no, that's right." "Thank you." "Hey, what about your cigarette?" "I worked so hard, I'm exhausted!" "Good night." "One more, darling." "One more, one more" "Come now, let me go." "Not a sound." "God..." "Give me courage." "Help!" "Murder!" "Mrs. Kelly!" "What is it?" "What is it?" "Oh, it's horrid!" "Just horrid!" "Hello, police?" "Come right away to the Kelly apartments." "They found a murdered woman." "Yes!" "At Mrs. Kelly's!" "Mr." "Ferriter!" "Who's there?" "It's Mrs. Kelly." "For God's sake, open the door and let me in." "Yes I'm coming!" "Yes?" "Oh, Mr. Ferriter, it's not fair, it's horrific." "We need the police." "She was killed last night." "Who?" "Theresa Burke was killed." "Who is Theresa Burke?" "I can't think straight." "I meant to say Mrs. Boulter." "Murdered?" "Yes!" "Stabbed in the back." "Fine, leave me" "You don't think ill of me?" "I wanted to warn you right away." "What?" "This woman that I always commplained about was killed, and you want me to help you?" "Why, yes." "It's you who let me transform this house in a bad neighbourhood and you'll lose your hold on it." "This murder is a manifestation of divine justice!" "Go, get out!" "You dirty rat!" "You have done nothing but bother everyone since you came here." "At first I took pity on you because you were sick and dirty" "You're like a dog who bites those who feed him!" "You and your bigotry can go to hell!" "What are you doing?" "Uh, I came to find Mr. Ferriter." "Go, leave." "Be quiet." "Hands off, you brute!" "You're Mr. Ferriter?" "Yes." "Why was that woman so angry with you?" "Because of the rent?" "She came to inform me of the death of Mrs. Boulter." "You didn't know yet?" "Well I just woke up." "Aren't you living the life." "But why was she screaming at you?" "It's her who starting yelling when I said that I'd say everything I know about that lady." "What do you know?" "I'll tell it to competent authorities." "I'm a competent authority." "I don't believe it." "What's this, you won't say anything?" "I'm going to write reports on every person in this establishment." "So you'd better answer my questions." "Your name?" "Francis Ferriter." "Age and profession?" "26 years old." "Journalist." "You work for?" "The Morning Star." "Last question." "What time did you get in last night?" "Midnight." "Did you see anyone?" "Yes, I chatted with Fitzpatrick, the insurance agent, who lives next door." "Fine." "I'll send your information to the police chief." "For the time being, don't go out." "Mr. Callaghan how did you get in?" "I gave strict orders—" "Through the window!" "Then leave through the window." "Go, quickly." "Come on, be nice, let me go by." "I absolutely must see Ferriter." "I have a message from the boss—" "Fine." "Just do it fast." "And after you've seen him, leave." "I'll be in trouble if the police chief finds you here." "My God, I've been here for an hour." "I had to slip past the brigadier." "So you might be able to give me a tip?" "On what, the murder?" "Come now, don't be stupid." "You live in the same house as this chick, you can tell me a little about her?" "By the way, I saw the body." "It's no laughing matter, eh?" "Come on, give me some tips." "I know some things about this woman but I will say them myself to the editor in chief." "I do not like in the least the vulgar manner that you treat this serious situation." "You can be a real bastard sometimes." "I am absolutely indifferent to your opinion of me, Callaghan." "I find you to be simultaneous immoral and infintely vulgar." "You'll do it for me." "I swear you will." "Hurry up, they await you at the police station!" "I'm coming." "I'm an honest woman!" "I have a spotless reputation!" "I won't be pushed around by some flatfooted cop!" "Get your dirty paws off of me!" "This way, Mr. Ferriter." "I'm sorry." "You're sick?" "Sit down." "I was recently ill, and this whole situation is overwhelming." "You're Mr. Ferriter, journalist?" "You should be used to these things." "I'm concerned with social and literary issues." "I understand." "We've met before, haven't we?" "I don't think so." "Cigarette?" "No thank you." "You don't smoke?" "Almost never." "I remember now." "You're the one who looted a bookstore two years ago." "You were a law student then, I believe." "The books we burns were immoral." "I was acting under the orders I received." "Yeah, yeah." "You're part of some vigilance group that recruits it's members from the upper class." "I find these violences to always be harmful." "You admit that these protests have their point." "Since they forced the government to warn the public of this propaganda and foreign filth." "That's one opinion." "But my job is to uphold the law, right?" "By the way, you raise an interesting problem in your idea that each citizen is responsible for taking the law into their own hands." "I never said that." "Really?" "Only those with proven morals are allowed into our group." "The law isn't unchanging." "It needs to be constantly reformed." "Calm down, I don't think you're violating the law by being a member of group." "I never said I was still a member." "I left." "Why?" "This investigation is supposed to be official business." "Come now, this is just friendly." "I'm curious." "That's all." "I left this group two months ago, as they refuse to do anything about a complaint I made against the son of one of the most important members." "Dr. Michel O'Leary." "Oh yes?" "The murdered woman was the other person involved in this complaint." "Thank you" "I'm sorry for making you wait, Mr. Ferriter." "I'd like to make my statement." "I'm listening." "Nine months ago, Mrs Boulter was here with a man she said was her husband." "They held repulsive orgies." "One day the man left, and Mrs Boulter's behavious became more and more scandalous." "I complained to Mrs. Kelly that the apartment was being used immorally." "You have concrete proof?" "Certainly!" "One night when coming home from work" "I head the sound of a quarrel from her room" "I knocked on the door, Dr. O'Leary came out of the room, ran past me very rudely." "A little later, I went down to the bathroom and found Madame Boulter, totally drunk with a cut on her lip." "I took her back to her room and she said that" "O'Leary wanted to kill her, but that she had him at her mercy." "How's that?" "The way she acted with me was shameful." "I complained to Mrs. Kelly, but naturally she didn't believe me." "And all the same, I saw men come and go without stop." "So, you put in a complaint with your group." "Why not with the police?" "The police?" "With the law as it is, only the woman is guilty." "And I believe that the man should be punished as badly as she." "So I wanted to denounce them all." "Sadly, there were some well known men among them." "I understand." "So you decided to..." "It had to happen." "I know the killer." "Who is it?" "It's only suspicions." "How could I accused the son of an important man?" "Maybe you should ask Mr. O'Leary, what he was doing yesterday, from 3pm, the time that he came into the house through the back entrance" "Perhaps you should also ask if Mrs. Kelly didn't bring him a drink last night." "It's not my place to make these suggestions." "I'm a persecuted man because I place God over Mammon." "Where were you when you saw O'Leary come in?" "At the window." "He came by the back entrance" "No, no." "Sorry, I forgot you don't smoke." "Well, you gave us some very helpful information." "I'll let you know if we need your testimony for the investigation." "Goodbye." "By the way." "Did you go right to bed after asking for a cigarette from Fitzpatrick, or did you go to the bathroom?" "I never said I went to the bathroom." "I went to bed." "I'm sorry, thats my mistake." "I'm confusing it with a different night." "Goodbye." "Funny guy, that Ferriter." "Anyway, he doesn't smoke." "Follow him." "Now we need to take Kelly to the police station and bring in that idiot O'Leary." "Goodness no!" "We're living in a democracy!" "What about the freedom of press!" "I publish what I want." "You can put your ads somewhere else." "This country!" "What fanatics." "Come in!" "You come here when a crime has been commit in your house." "Isn't it your job to—" "Excuse me sir—" "You're an idiot!" "I only hired you to please your uncle and now that you aren't stuck you're taking my money." "What do you have to say for yourself?" "I'm waiting!" "I have some important information regarding Mrs. Boulter's murder." "Information that could save the country." "News?" "Tell me, young man." "The woman who was killed was..." "There you are, I looked everywhere." "You know about the murder?" "Yeah." "Good thing I found you before the police." "Who, me?" "Why?" "Ferriter talked to them, you absolutely have to go to the police—" "Ferriter?" "That bastard!" "Thank you, Callaghan." "See you later." "...and that's why this is an amazing opportunity for the Morning Star to rouse the nation by denouncing Honoré and everyone associated with this crime." "I have written a manifesto." "Have I gone crazy?" "You want me to accuse Honoré's son of murder, as well as denounce half of my subscribers and advertisers?" "You want me to become a newspaper for blackmail?" "I'm sorry." "You act like a Christian." "You know your duty." "What?" "Get out." "Tell your uncle to hell with his protegés." "Get the hell out!" "I'm Dr. O'Leary." "I want to see Chief Lavan." "One moment, Dr. O'Leary." "He's waiting for you in his office." "Dr. O'Leary, this way please." "Hello." "Hello." "Can I speak with you in private?" "Something personal?" "No, about the murder." "Impossible, I'm afraid." "Well go ahead." "Fire away." "I left at midnight." "So you suspect me." "That's it, isn't it?" "I suspect everyone near the victim until I've caught the guilty person." "But how am I supposed to prove my innocence with Ferriter setting me up?" "Do you know him well?" "He's been spying on me for months." "My father's the head of his group." "Yes I know all about that." "I often went to Theresa's." "He even reprimanded me." "I adored that girl." "Had a heart of gold." "I would've married her." "You knew her for a long time?" "8 years." "I was at the hospital where she was a nurse." "We loved each other." "Then... you know what happened." "Don't overdo it, continue." "When I said I wanted to marry her, my parents went insane with anger." "I left for England." "My mother paid off Theresa, who went back to her parents." "But I wrote to her." "Then she wanted to blackmail me when she came back with Boulter." "Calm down." "Tell me your story calmly." "Well, we both changed." "She became a woman of easy virtue and I became a respectable doctor." "She wrote to me." "Told me she needed money to feed the kid." "What, there was a child?" "Yes." "I wanted my letters back." "She got angry." "So I hit her." "But only the one time." "Don't think I'm the kind of guy to do something so cowardly, to kill her from behind." "Why, no, no." "Tell me, was Mrs. Boutler—" "But she wasn't married." "It was just some guy she met, picked up off the street." "A facade." "Her name was Theresa Burke." "Did she speak to you of Ferriter?" "Ferriter?" "I'll get him, that dirty rat!" "Stop him, eh?" "I'll arrest you if you keep acting like that." "Do what you want but I'll kill him the first chance I get." "I'll put you in a cell, it'll calm you down!" "Sorry." "Yeah, I hit Theresa." "She made advances towards Ferriter." "I laughed." "I said it would be a great joke to make him fall in love with her." "That kind of guy, they're the easiest to trick." "A strange sense of humour." "So you had fun making this boy miserable after having made that woman miserable." "Alright, now tell me about last night." "I didn't kill her!" "I left at midnight, she walked me all the way to the yard." "The door at the yard." "She walked you herself?" "Word of honour." "Wait outside." "Have Mrs. Kelly enter." "And we'll send for the agent." "Hello?" "Yes?" "Ah, hello sir." "Ferriter spoke to the head of the newspaper?" "No." "No." "No arrest so far." "I'm trying to limit the scandal." "Keep me up to date." "Goodbye, sir." "She won't enter without her husband." "Have them both come in." "Stay here I told you to way" "Come, you two." "You heard the brute." "Let's go, Jerry." "Act like a man!" "Let's go." "Go ahead, Jerry." "Go!" "I'm sorry sir." "Speak, Jerry!" "Listen hear, chief—" "Straighten up a bit, will you?" "Straighten up, you heard the chief!" "I'm sorry sir!" "Button up!" "Talk to the chief now." "Well... you speak..." "Oh, you were supposed to go first!" "What did you want to say?" "Something about us..." "Yes." "I will explain it." "Chief, my name is Jerry Kelly." "Discharged from the army." "With commendation from my regiment's Colonel." "You're Mrs. Kelly's husband?" "Well, not legally..." "We've been together for 12 years..." "We never heard from him again..." "Well you live together?" "Should we be blamed for this, because of what happened?" "It doesn't concern me." "Tell me what you know of" "Theresa Burke." "Be careful how you put it." "She received a lot of people," "Mr. Chief." "Respectable married men." "Other than Dr. O'Leary." "Well it's not up to poor folk like us to denounce rich people to the police." "Nobody complained." "And there was Mr. Ferriter." "What did he say?" "He accused me of running a brothel." "Theresa was afraid of him." "He saw her all the time, he tried to convert her." "He found it funny to make her work." "We have nothing against Mr. Ferriter." "He lead a regulated life." "Like that of a soldier." "Which one of you opened the gate this morning?" "That would be me." "I was woken up by the screams from Miss Mitch." "How she screamed!" "How did you find the gate..." "Locked or not?" "Locked, sir." "You're sure?" "Absolutely sure." "Locked from the inside?" "The inside." "Yes sir." "You're ready to swear it?" "I'm ready to swear it." "Mr." "Laval" "Dirty rat!" "Bastard!" "Shut up!" "Dr." "O'Leary attacked him." "Lock him up." "Pounced on him like a tiger!" "Are you hurt, Mr. Ferriter?" "I'd thank you to lock up this man." "Only you can ensure justice is served." "I've lost my position." "How's that?" "My newspaper's head made me leave when I spoke to him of O'Leary." "But I'm ready to accuse O'Leary before the tribunal" "She told me, when I saw her in the bathroom, that he would use his father." "Yes yes." "Then?" "I also accuse in this murder Mr. Cory, director of the school for refusing to denounce the corruption of this town" "I accuse the government!" "And the whole population!" "Driven by the same sordid materialism and lust for money!" "I ask you to bring these criminals to justice!" "As this act is a symbol of the destruction of Sodom!" "Excuse me — are you accusing Mr. O'Leary?" "I accuse him of murder." "No." "You can only accuse him of domestic abuse." "You're not putting him away for homicide?" "Don't concern yourself with the murder!" "Do you want to accuse him of domestic abuse?" "Tell me." "Did you also suggest to Mr. Cory to attack O'Leary?" "I am so alone." "Answer me." "Yes!" "So you had a plan." "You knew a crime had been committed, and instead of going to the police—" "What would that have done?" "No one would have listened to me." "Everyone makes fun of me because my body's weak" "And O'Leary is the son of a rich man so he gets protected from scandal." "She was a lost soul." "Not even her lover would buy her back." "So you took it upon yourself to dishonour people?" "You asked Mr. Cory to do it, and he refused." "Now you ask me." "Well I refuse too." "Got it?" "I refuse." "Don't underestimate me!" "The future might bring you some surprises, you're smart, but don't think too much of yourself." "Do what you want I'm not scared." "Did you know that this morning, the door for the back entrance was locked from inside?" "Did you know?" "You don't smoke, do you?" "Almost never?" "And that's why I don't go through with your plans." "I like religion but not fanatics." "How would you feel about being judged, Mr. Ferriter?" "And I'm not speaking about death penaly!" "Enough!" "Enough!" "I'm not accusing anyone!" "I take it back I don't want to harm anyone!" "We're all so miserable." "I was crazily made to hate everyone." "And you have every right to persecute me." "But you don't have the right to keep me here" "You're interrogating me without my lawyer." "It's illegal." "Who is keeping you?" "I still have friends." "I'm warning you." "I won't let you get me." "You won't exploit my physical weakness!" "You have no right to keep me here!" "Who's keep you?" "You came here of your own free will." "You had me followed!" "My friends won't let you persecute me!" "Then go find your friends!" "No one's stopping you!" "It won't end here, you know!" "Mr. Moran." "One moment please." "I have something very important to tell you." "You don't look well." "What's wrong?" "Did you hear about the murder?" "What murder?" "A woman, Mrs Boulter." "She was killed last night in the house I live in." "I got involved in this crime." "So I came to ask for your help." "What?" "Involved in..." "If we collectively proclaim this to be a death of divine wrath we can rouse the country against these abuses!" "I don't understand." "What we need are laws that protect women." "You think corrupt women are a public commodity?" "And it's just to let the man who caused her pain go free?" "If I was you, Ferriter—" "You're a hypocrite!" "Go to hell and take your diabolical propaganda with you." "Damn you!" "It's Francis' address." "I begged him to leave that horrid neighbourhood." "Yes yes it's there in big letters, and my friends will be too happy to exploit this scandal." "What a laugh for them." "My brother-in-law involved with a prostitute!" "They will find out." "He was involved with that woman." "Asked me to find her work." "And now the investigation will reveal all the scandalous details." "I'm already being threated about losing my place at the university." "They persecute me for my liberal ideas." "My book on faith." "This will have an impact in Europe!" "I will be boycotted by the press." "Burned in public by young fanatics from that vigilance group that your son is a part of." "And now this story." "And it's your fault, Mrs. Ferriter." "You encouraged him." "What are you saying?" "When his father died, I told him to keep up studies to become a lawyer." "Lawyer!" "Couldn't he have joined a serious newspaper at least?" "Where the articles are well payed for?" "But no, he writes for a journal of fanaticism!" "That's where he found his collaborators." "Mom I need to leave." "Can you give me some money?" "It's because of the police." "I'm sorry to bring shame to you but—" "Well, explain yourself!" "No, there's no time!" "I must leave!" "I just need some money." "Don't look at me like that!" "Do you mean to say—" "Didn't you hear me, I need money!" "A woman was killed in my building!" "So I need to leave town." "I need to get my gloves." "And my housecoat." "I understand." "There you go." "Thank you." "Please forgive me." "No one's allowed to leave." "Go back home at once." "Oh, I don't want to stay here!" "Go, I have orders." "Go home." "Mr. Ferriter." "Where are you going?" "My room." "Come this way." "You're being watched by the police." "Why have the room guarded now that she's dead?" "You live here young man?" "Yes I live here." "I'm her aunt." "I came to get her things." "May God rest her soul." "I live in the country, but I came as soon as I heard." "Did you know her?" "Yes, a bit." "She was very beautiful." "Her beauty lost her." "The poor creature." "I know the man who caused her sadness." "Yes." "I pity her with all my heart." "I believe you." "And I thank you for your kind words." "You have a kind face." "Honest." "If all men looked like you, I wouldn't have come here on such a sad occasion." "You really believe I'm good?" "One doesn't often find someone like you." "She was good too." "I raised her." "Right up until she left for town, to become a nurse." "She was so beautiful." "And pure like an angel." "Yes, I know." "I saw her portrait there, in the room." "Is that where she was killed?" "Yes, it was there." "Yes." "Excuse me." "I need to do something before I leave." "I ask you to forgive me in her place, for all I've done." "You don't need to say it." "Maybe you don't understand me." "But with your soul, which could tell that I'm good." "Hey you, stop!" "Hey, open the door!" "One minute!" "What are you doing in here?" "Hey come back!" "Hey what's all this?" "What are you doing in here?" "Just taking a look around your room." "He ran up the stairs, boss." "And you clambered up behind him, eh?" "I couldn't catch him." "You don't have the right to do this!" "What are you plotting?" "Boss, I need to talk to you." "Fine." "One minute, Mr. Ferriter." "Then I can give you a more satisfactory explanation." "That's enough." "I've had enough of this persecution." "The tap was running when I went in." "He was doing something." "When the door was closed—" "Go back to your place." "And keep you cool in the future." "Yes, sir." "What are you doing with my gloves?" "The police steal now?" "Go away, Mr. Ferriter." "Stop being childish." "I wonder if this cigarette was the one you borrowed from Fitzpatrick" "You forgot to smoke it." "You almost never smoke." "Your sarcasm doesn't trouble me." "These gloves also make me curious." "I found them in the pocket of your housecoat." "Strange place to put your gloves, isn't it?" "Why should you care where I put my gloves?" "Don't be silly." "Now I'll have to bring you and your gloves." "You have nothing against me, nothing at all!" "Nothing but a summon of damnation." "Want to see?" "You have nothing with these stories of cigarettes and gloves." "Why are you scared?" "Why all this hesitation?" "I'm going through your room like I've gone through every room in the house." "It doesn't mean that it's one of the lodgers who did it." "You have enough evidence on the man you have in prison." "Don't kid yourself." "O'Leary was let go." "The door was locked from inside." "It proves he's innocent." "So you think—" "I don't think anything at all." "It's a well that police officers are people unable of thought, acting in a ridiculous manner ans collecting grotesque objects like" "cigarettes, or a pair of gloves." "And who examine them scientifically." "Do what you want." "Take them." "You have nothing on me." "I've had enough of your suspicions." "Who said anything about suspicion?" "It's just a formality." "Hurry up and finish!" "Come on, kids." "Mr. Ferriter." "Let me remind you that none of the inhabitants of this building are authorized to leave town." "Understood?" "You don't scare me!" "You and your gloves." "What's happened?" "How is all this the law?" "It's an extraordinary thing that I did." "I can see her now." "With tenderness." "I will confess." "I will confess." "What was that?" "Thank you ma'am." "May the lord protect you." "Money for a sick man?" "Anyone else here for confession?" "Yes, Father, me." "When was you last confession?" "Two weeks ago, Father." "Only, I..." "Speak up, I can't hear you." "I hid something from my last three confessions." "I thought it was a glorious thought, not a sin." "Now now, calm down." "Speak clearly." "I planned to kill a woman." "What are you saying?" "Let me explain." "Here it is." "How long before we know?" "Not to long, I think." "Let me know right away at my office." "I'll phone you." "I know it's a spirit that took control of me, and pushed me to commit this great act." "But I don't know if this spirit was send by God or the Devil" "I wouldn't have been able to do it myself." "My son, don't shy away from what you've done." "Not at all, Father, I take all responsibility." "Only, I wanted to know if, in your opinion, I acted under the influence of lust or love of purity." "Maybe you were under a trance?" "Born of an excess of passion?" "No, not at all." "It was like I was intoxicated by a morbid faith which needed to end with a blood sacrifice." "But what do you mean by "blood sacrifice"?" "What?" "He's been with the priest for two hours?" "I wonder what this pious little guy could be telling him." "If only we could listen." "Maybe he's revealing everything." "It wouldn't be the first time." "Stop!" "That sort of testimony would be of no value in the criminal court." "They wouldn't be able to use it." "Real smart to try that." "If man has a divine destiny, he must crush all evil in his path." "If not, his existence is a savage fight without end." "Your thoughts are sent by the devil." "You won't absolve me?" "You would have refused her too!" "You talk to the whole world, but you don't listen — you — I — it's idiotic!" "Don't get out of there!" "May God forgive him." "Have pity, sir." "Go away, old man." "I also came asking for help." "And I'm returning empty handed." "They have nothing to give, nothing at all!" "Good evening, darling" "Want to have some fun?" "What's with you?" "Lost your tongue?" "Why don't you answer me?" "Wait." "I'd like —I'd like to speak to you." "So what do you say?" "Are you drunk or something?" "I am sorry if I offended you." "But if I stare at you so intently, it's because you remind me of someone." "I think I have a lot of things to tell you." "What are you doing in this neighbourhood?" "Oh, you're just like her." "A bit nicer." "Oh my." "What's with you?" "You're ready to go to sleep." "You probably drank everything you could find." "What?" "I'm not doing well tonight." "Why are you all alone?" "I'd like to be your friend." "Well give me a cigarette, Professor." "But I don't smoke." "What?" "Well get the hell out of here!" "Just my luck!" "Wait." "What." "I'd like to walk with you." "Wait!" "I don't want this man to see me." "Who is he?" "Check which way he goes." "He went around the corner." "I'm sick of this." "Are you crazy?" "Now that he's gone let's go somewhere." "Wait." "Do you have money?" "Yes." "Let's see it." "Here." "That's all you got?" "I have some more bills in my wallet." "Well then, let's go!" "come, let's have a drink!" "First I want us to be friends." "What's your name?" "Cool down." "No hurry." "I'm Molly." "And you?" "Francis." "Very good, Francis." "No" "What's wrong?" "I"ve never been somewhere like that before." "People scare me." "Come on, no one will notice you." "Come on!" "Hands off!" "Hi, Molly!" "Hi." "Come, there's a table." "What's wrong with your friend, Molly?" "He's tired and cold." "He needs some rum." "I think he's had enough." "You think I'm drunk?" "If I told you I never drank a glass of alcohol." "Good one!" "Why are you laughing?" "Someone I cared about died this morning." "You could have just told me." "Poor guy." "Hey, bring me a brandy at least." "A big one." "Here." "What is it?" "Rum." "Drink it fast, it'll do you good." "I've never drank alcohol." "Looks like he's got a lot on his mind." "And now, God is dead." "What, who's dead?" "A woman I loved." "She was like you." "Ah, another hooker." "What's that?" "You know what I am?" "You know what a hooker is?" "Yes, she was a hooker." "Just like me." "I knew it." "That's why I followed you." "The important thing is to love." "And to pity those who don't." "Love is the most noble way to suffer." "Yeah, yeah." "Come here, your coat's all wet." "Offer something for my two friends?" "Let them have drinks!" "I hated love because no one loved me." "I persecuted all who loved." "I persecuted her too." "And still..." "Oh whatever, how about another round?" "Here, drink, be merry!" "Take some money!" "It's a pleasure to meet you, your majesty." "I'm Madge." "I'm Lisa." "Here, look at this leg." "Prettiest you ever saw, isn't it?" "Calm down." "Don't listen to them, cutie." "Go away." "Find you own." "Quiet down." "I'm not here for the reason you think." "I have a much more noble motive." "Let's drink and be merry!" "Hello?" "This is Lavan." "Ah, hello professor." "So, the results?" "Really?" "Not a trace of blood?" "Oh well." "But I'm quite surprised." "Very well." "Goodbye, professor." "Is everyone always so happy here?" "If I'm nice to you will you always play with me?" "He's like a defrocked monk." "Do you know how to have fun, kid?" "No, but I'd like to try." "She kissed me one time on the cheek." "Alright, leave him alone." "I told you his friend died this morning." "And he came here to forget her?" "And now for our clients' pleasure the famous Spanish dancer, Miss Madge." "This is my number." "Come see me dance." "Oh!" "Let's go dancing!" "I always liked people who dance, people who sing." "Flowers, birds, rivers, and springs." "I was scared." "Come, Francis." "Let's go dance." "From his socks!" "Not bad!" "I'll take it to the boss right away." "Well done!" "I've always wanted to dance and sing." "Birds do no harm." "And they're happy!" "Why aren't men like birds?" "That's enough, get out." "Get the hell out." "Bastard!" "Never come back!" "I know you." "You're the guy who's been following me." "You should leave There's no point." "I'm free!" "You killed him!" "Come, before the police come!" "But I am free!" "Wait, Lisa." "I have a score to settle with you." "What is it?" "He's mine, I found him." "So get the hell out!" "You get the hell out." "It's me wants." "And he can choose who he wants." "I shouldn't have let him near you." "Go away!" "I'm going!" "So you make up the rules here now?" "Fine." "You can!" "Don't strangle me!" "You keep him!" "Come on, you." "They found this." "Where did you find it?" "Ferriter hid it in his socks." "In his socks?" "What is this?" ""The antichrist is at the door of Christianity and has already ravaged several nations." "Satan's envoys brandish the torches of atheism in the hands of the ignorant."" "What galimatias!" "Wait, what's this? "We soldiers of Christ, we must have a blood sacrifice." "We must kill the sinners in order to have salvatin by their blood."" "Bring Ferriter here." "Right away!" "Hey, how are you?" "I'm fine." "Another bottle." "Alright, I'm coming." "Who's there?" "Molly. with a friend." "Hello." "He's sober." "Unbelievable!" "Francis Ferriter?" "Here?" "And drunk as a skunk?" "Come on, stop that." "When you're with me no one will bother you." "Yes and you swear it." "Well that takes it" "You don't need to take it." "Come sit down." "How's Mr. Ferriter?" "So I have my revenge." "Well me too you know I was talking about–" "Break it up." "Alright Molly." "What's will these men have?" "Well first I'd like them to leave us alone." "What about that!" "The puritan prophet, getting defended by a hooker." "Me too he called me a drunk and a miscreant!" "and look at him now drunk with a streetwalker." "Look he's still trying to be the little saint, poisoning the world with his sermons." "How did this metamorphosis come about?" "I've always wanted to know." "Leave him alone or you'll deal with me!" "All of you stop or I'll kick you out!" "No fights in my bar, understood?" "So tell them to leave my friend alone!" "Know who he is?" "No." "Who is he?" "This gentleman is part of that vigilance group." "Impossible." "And beware, he probably came here to spy on everyone." "Liar!" "Yeah, is it true he's a part of that group?" "He's going to snitch on us?" "It's not true, he isn't a member!" "He didn't drink so much." "It's just that his friend died this morning." "A friend of his!" "That's what he said?" "Well, get him a drink." "I'm buying this round!" "You're paying?" "Yeah!" "Well I'll get it." "So it's like that that you refused to give me tips on the murder." "And you got thrown out the door by the boss." "Well done, you bastard." "There." "It's just on the left." "How disgusting." "You're rude." "You drink like a fish." "And tomorrow you'll complain about us having guilty pleasures." "Pleasures?" "This is hell." "This is what you call pleasure?" "Can't you see I'm here to make amends?" "What are you talking about?" "I'm not talking to you!" "I'm talking to all men." "You're a sad case." "Don't you see that the hypocrite and the libertine are two sides of the same coin?" "I had a revelation of beauty." "Even if I didn't manage to reach it," "I believe that one day man will know supreme virtue and beauty." "I believe it!" "I did harm to a being who had been lead astray and now I'm making amends." "Dirty hypocrite." "Let him speak!" "A sermon in a nightclub like this, how funny!" "Man has a divine destiny, and nothing exists outside of it!" "Let me speak!" " Quiet!" "To think you accused one of my friends for that murder." "Enough." "Get out." "Get out" "Let me speak!" "No, beat it!" "Man has a divine destiny, and nothing exists outside of it!" "Nothing!" "Get out!" "The accused is among those who believe they lose out on something amazing." "They think we are enjoying ourselves." "They're afraid we won't be punished for the pleasures that they themselves are missing out on!" "Who did ever find pleasure here!" "We only go here to protest against that bunch of puritains which he is part of!" "Enough!" "Who's there?" "Open up" "Have you seen Mr. Feriter?" "He just left." "How so?" "Where did he go?" "I don't know." "Was he with someone?" "He left with Molly" "Where does she live?" "Wait, you're going to arrest him?" "Oh that's just amazing!" "A perfect story for my paper!" "Wait, my hat." "What there's no light?" "No need." "I don't like the darkness." "I'm scared in the dark!" "Don't yell, someone's sleeping just next door!" "Here's the bed" "I can't see anything." "Come quietly." "Why can't I have light!" "Be quiet, and hurry up." "Enough of this!" "First my money." "Why are you so rude all of the sudden." "Listen, I have some things to tell you." "Will it take long?" "Please listen to me!" "Fine, talk." "I want to fix what I did to Theresa." "That's the only reason I'm here!" "Don't care!" "There's no pardon for me!" "I want to be forgiven." "Forgiven!" "Alright, you're done telling your stories?" "What is it?" "Listen to me!" "What is it?" "There he is!" "No, no!" "Don't touch me!" "I can't take it!" "Go!" "Go!" "They arrested Ferriter." "They found him in a room with a floosy." "Yes yes, of course I'm off to the police station." "Why the handcuffs?" "There was a struggle, chief." "Take them off." "Thank you." "I asked you hear to talk about something." "I have nothing left to say." "Really?" "Since I last saw you we found ... this." "What is it?" "A manuscript that belongs to you." "You can't deny it." "In your handwriting and signed by you." "Francis Ferriter." "I wanted to ask you about this strange document." "I don't know what it's about." "The cigarette and gloves were no help so you made up this manuscript." "You're wrong to act like this," "Mr. Ferriter, this document is very important." "The police have been trying to find it for a long time, to get proof against certain groups who are breaking the law." "No doubt in the name of their ideals." "This manuscript tells us of the real intentions of these fanatics it will be very useful to us." "To you too, Mr. Ferriter." "Sit down." "Mr. Ferriter, the country needs more young people like you." "You have strong morals, sharp intellect and emotions," "Gifted people such as yourself might do a lot to destroy the errors of our social system." "Only, you made a big mistake." "Sorry." "I should have asked about your personal life, surely." "I know you've beed deceived, you've known failure they put you in a vulnerable position." "Exploited by people who hide their immorality under the mask of patriotism and morals." "But they're crooks." "And hypocrites." "Yes they're hypocrites." "They prooved it in not going along with your plot." "Yes, they proved it." "Smart as you are, you saw red." "Who could blame you." "You felt sick, let down." "To see a man who poses as a puritan, cover up his own son's misconduct." "I sympathise with your pain." "And her." "I know you loved her." "Yes, I loved her." "You tried to defend her from him." "You took her to church." "Yes I took her to church and she cried." "And then O'Leary started seeing her again" "Yes." "So you decided to act." "To make the blood sacrifice." "Yes I did it!" "I hid and I stabbed her in the back!" "Give me a drink." "May God have pity on me." "I wanted to lie and fight you but I'm too tired." "I tried to confess to a priest, then to a woman like her but no one wanted to understand me or even listen to me." "I'd like to be forgiven." "I'm ready to admit to everything." "Ferriter, I accuse you of the murder of Theresa Burke." "Anything you say can be used against you by the public prosecutor." "Wait." "I feel I'm going to be sick." "I want you to listen to me." "You can write it all and I'll sign it." "I give up because I'm tired." "And because I want you to know why I killed her." "This manuscript is a collection of all the ideas I borrowed from my masters." "You'll find the same words in their journals." "I wrote it out after I made my decision." "This is the truth." "I killed Theresa because I loved her." "I wanted to have her lover sentenced." "I also wanted to stun humanity." "Did you get that?" "Lastly," "I wanted to know if God exists." "Or if only man has a divine destiny." "That's it." "You won't change anything?" "I promise." "Then I'll sign it." "It's all done now?" "Yes" "Then I'm free." "I'm finally free." "Take him." "Poor guy." "Theresa." "Where are you?" "Subs by dinosaur." "Revised by knappen."