Murder Without Crime (1950) - full transcript

Murder without crime

Subtitles by Seglora

Good Evening,ladies and gentlemen

and if that sounds pre-emptive or defiant

it's because,well story
telling isn't my line

And heck who hasn't got a story anyway

But the truth is perverted
and impish humour

leads me to while away an idle hour
or so before I catch my plane back

My story,the eternal triangle

It could have panned out
that way but it didn't

So I just take it at at the
not so eternal quartet



Well,here it is,Picadilly Circus,I'm
against philosophical introductions

but here slap bang in the middle of
the hub you can help yourself

not even if it is just one
percent taking over

Here success and failure,richess
and poverty,open despair

I know you've heard it all
before and seen it all too

but yeah quite close to us

perhaps walking by now
or gazing at these lights

or riding in one of these buses or cars

Perhaps there is someone who is headed
for a calamitous climatic night,

someone who went on brakes,
is haunted and hunted

someone whose wax and image is destined
to graze or disgrace,the chamber of horror

Such are the perils of destiny

The Teneriffe,my hang out

where I pick up the friends of my
story and put the gigs all together



Of course only the invisible man

could tell you the exact how,
why and where of it all

But I guess I can fill in the
missing pieces,let's go in

You see,just an ordinary club,no worse
than hundred others,no better

Just cosy and gay

That's Larry the best cocktail elbow
in Soho according to Larry

Oh,I nearly forgot there is a two
piece band piano and drums

And always a vacant stool for Grena

A girl dated as a piece of Dresdenchina
with all the sauce of Worcester

Grena is conceit to dazzle with wealth

A couple of Larry's specials in the sapphire
and the eyes and the pearls of her teeth

the rich is enough,so did Helen launch
a thousand keels,so did little Grena

trad in this crimson robe captivate Steve

An author,moderately successful

but in the plodding little round
of daily life,a sad failure

He maintains a punctuality

as the thief of time,that's way
he is going to step out of now

He is two hours late to take Jan to dinner

Jan is his wife of course so
he wouldn't be this late

Poor,Jan,her wings of love
have been sourly clipped

And in the flat below,Matthew,
a pompous indolent lover of luxury

When he entertains,his friends whisper

they are listening to the
mumblings of a distorted brain

in the throes of hallucinations

Thus on drinking a bottle of whisky

he explains that he's taken
pity on the government

by helping an impoverished exchequer

Well,there is the quartet complete

Matthew,Grena,Stephen and Jan

Two blacks,two whites

Shake them together and see what comes out

So back to Stephen's flat
where it all begun

Shut up,you're driving me nuts

How dare you speak to me like that

I refuse to quarrel and I
won't say another word

-Not me,bargain
-Good

Don't think you hurt my pride

you could,beat something long enough,
hard enough it toughens

No bargains,eh

You talk it up as one that didn't cheat

Jan,darling you're behaving like
a jealous little school kid

You bring the worst in me

You're making something out of nothing,
you always were good at that

Gail Arnold,nothing

Not a thing

If I were good enough for you

you wouldn't bother with such a sick and
raking treat,but apparently I'm not

-Very well it didn't pan out,so that's that
-Where are you going?

I'm leaving

Don't be so damned silly

I'm not being silly,anything but

Melodramatic

Not melodramatic,I'm going to have freedom

-From me?
-An all these imitations,I'll be free of it

This fake household

All right,march your superior hobby horse

gallop away to your precious freedom
I hope we both make out together

-We will
-Jan,look

If we don't watch out this is going to
develop into a childish bickering match

What's the sum of it?

You find a few letters,quite innocent ones

if they weren't you would
never have found them

Put this down to the ones I didn't find

You believe it

I can't believe anything more

Think I used to worry myself and love you

Used to watch your face and ask
myself,what's going on back there?

Were you angry with me or I annoyed you?

Why are you so on edge?

You didn't think of asking me

I was too scared

I loved you then

Too much imagination,that the
mill stone on your pretty neck

And as for being moody what right isn't

Your wretched little prose

You haven't wrtten one in years

I got one in mind now,a romantic one

It ought to be suppressed

-Brilliant wit
-Forget about your date

I perk it,I told you

You used to make dates with me

And break them

You married me

Idiotic first love

Jan.I'm sorry,Gail Arnold means nothing
to me I was just kidding around

While I was twiddle my toes

Can't you understand,won't you even try?

I'm sick of trying

You are just a self centred weakling

I suppose Gordon Winter isn't,
why don't you go to him?

Say that again?

Where did he live? Highgate,
isn't it,very invigorating

You'd let me go

Sure

All right

I shall

Go on then,go

I warn you that smug face is not
going to be that smug tomorrow morning

That's started it

A bit more give and take

and instead of thinking treble whisky
is faster than an express train

she'd been nestling in his arms

More often or not

this kind of facts are pieces quicken the
damn squib but it can lead to plenty

Stephen had no sudden change of heart

some men might rush after their wives
and plead forgiveness,not Stephen

A perfectly peaceful guy
who spoke the right way

when opposed an obstinate mule,hence runs
out on him,right now it is OK by Stephen

he'll just go some place and get
good high,good and quick

Hello,Stephen,were are you off to?

Nowhere

Such indecent haste and go nowhere,
come on I'll break your drive me

Purple club,why not?

Sweetie,what are you doing here?

Being respectable

Oh and my friend,my esteemed tenant
at the moment,none other than Stephen Hault

Any interest?

The authors are ignorant bushmen

Stephen,this is Grena

Grena,who loves to revel me
for bone and sleep in society

You,that,powerful

Grena has some weakness for
vulgar transatlantic jargon

but being our near neighbours
we must bear with that

Mind you my dear,I agree with you entirely
that a positive epidemic plague

-Who
-Authors

Why bring him?

To celebrate

Look like a sober for anything

Oh,yes he is grass widow,you should now

Very long?

-Is he all waxwork?
-A waxwork?

Stephen,a waxwork? I've no doubt ,
my dear,that one day he might be

Madame Tussauds,maybe the hall of liberty
,maybe the chamber of horrors

Nice fellow

I must fly

Stephen,I shall not be in
until the small hours

Witty gambler

Two,Bernard

And Stephen melted into the arms of Grena

Jan throes from the height of heights

The setting couldn't be more perfect

The moon is out,the stars are out

the scents of dew clings temptingly
in the still night air

And what a night?A beautiful
night for romance,any old romance

What is a physiotherapist anyway

Still we might held Jan to forget Stephen,
if she wants to forget him

But Gordon Winter is very understanding

A little star to this face,a dead pan

but here is a challenge she
is going to see through

Or is she?

A guy doesn't keep trying to date a
girl unless something is on his mind

If she must play with fire,ring the bell

But she is still as cold as ice

And suddenly that taxi
sounds warm and inviting

and infinitely preferable of being
understood by old man Winter

I may get that little quack
to make up for Stephen

Of course she won't go
back to Stephen at once

you know cry because of civilisation

And so while Jan wanders
away from her physiotherapist

back at the Tenerife the cocktails
are taking their effect

Tell me about yourself,Grena?

I never think about myself

Think now

I think,I think I have an
unfortunate heritage

You?

It's funny

-I'd known him so long
-Who?

This guy

Can we talk to him about you?

Come,come

Stuck me on a pedestal

That's how every man does
for the woman he loves

Couldn't patch it up

No

The pedestal was too high

I broke in little pieces

How about you?

Me?

Poor heritage too

All my life I met successful
people,talented people, stuffed shirts,

Only dish up for transparent hoax

How is that?

She saw through ,it took time,but she saw

Head is so troubled?

She married not me but an ideal

Cut it out

I'll cut it out

You're magnificent

I wouldn't tell lies with my magnificence

-I am a failure
-What at 22?

If you are not a success by
then when will you be?

You know the way you are
going,straight ahead

-No merry-go-rounds?
-No merry-go-rounds

No ties,no regrets

-Some not many
-Live your own life do what you want to do

It's a good code

It's the only code

-Let's drink to it
-Bless

-You know something?
-What?

How unsuited we are

-Totally
-Nothing in common

Nothing

Should be a thrilling union,come on

Oh,thanks,Good Night Steve,
give me a ring sometime?

Where are you going?

He is going to meet Andrew,
he is waiting for me,I'm late

I can give you a lift,my car is
just outside the door

No,I pick up a cab

Thank you

Who is Andrew?

Why the phoney brush off?

Max

The little fat guy with the
sideboards,he owns the joint

So he owns it

And he likes to keep it respectable

Does it fool him?

This it?

What's the matter,hurt yourself?

No,just having fun

Here you are,use this

Crazy cook

Come on lady,your home

Let's have a look

Just a little scratch,you'll survive

The keys in there

Bringing back alive, Steve

Put the light on honey,it's on the left

I didn't know you lived so close

I'm just round the corner

So I know,that's must be your car

Come on

Thanks

Beauty in distress

How do you feel now?

Fine

No more bulletins

Get yourself a drink while
I repair the damage

Fix me one,will you?

-Whiskey?
-Anything goes

There is no ice,I'm afraid,
I lied about scotch,you like it?

I was weaned on it

The flat I mean

Very quaint

A pal I used to know decorated it for me

Went to Onslow twice a week

Twice a week too much

Don't you get the scary living here alone?

I don't live here alone,
I share it with Millie,thanks

-Millie,who is Millie?
-A girl friend

That's her bed next door

What are those?

My nerves

-You want to be careful
-So I am

Better now,doctor's order

Cause I take it,they are sticky

Coming away like anything just now

Shocks aren't good

These for your nerves
too,you silly little fool

-Here yo
-Oh,no don't you rea..

I'll look after these

Don't be mad at me,Steve,come on,loosen up

I just can't get at you

-I'm here
-Sure

It is not even any waxwork any more

At least you could not wax

What am I now

Steve,why was I ever going to that
beastly little club,then I'd never met you

I didn't mean that

I'm glad I went and you went

It's going to be worth it,yes,isn't it?

What about Millie?

She won't be back yet

We have our own friends,Millie and me

Sometimes we make it a party
and sometimes we don't

It's big enough

I'm sorry Grena

-Sorry?
-I can't stay

Why not?

I don't like crowds beside I had a sick
night.I'm old enough,I push off

Steve,what do you want me
to do with your sugar candy

Why don't you

Don't make any sense if that's
what you are driving at

There is so much you don't see

You are still in love,aren't you?

-Who?
-Your wife

Grena,haven't I told you to go to bed

Go on,go on

You want this back don't you?
Your cigarette case

Thank you very much

Come on,let me in

I can open my own front door

-Upside down
-Upside down

Don't be so noisy

It's all right

There is nobody in,nobody at all

It's that door up there,
come on give me the keys

You'll find them on the down this time

There we are,look,see

Very forward

Just what my mother used to say

I am glad I came

Are you?

Do you think you should have done?

Must be long past your bed time

-This is nice
-You say

Tedious,bizarre

Yes

Just like Matthew himself,
he owns all this junk

Hideous,revolting

But not sordid

You play better on home ground

Come on,you are going face me?

So I am prayed of old age ,Grena

I'll never grow old

The moment men stop lighting
me ,I hand in my chips

No need to jump in the bay just yet

-You know what?
-What

What we need is champagne
makes you feel good

I'm not good,Steve,not good at all

Why try to be something you are not?

Going overdo do you?

Well,this is a bedroom

No Matthew charge here

Dressing table

Being so tidy

Still if I had a bedroom
like this I'll keep it tidy too

Would you?

Perfect

No,not quite should be ice

I'm sorry I shouldn't have come here

You didn't want me to,disturb you

Disturbs me?

She does all the time,doesn't she

Rubbish

That was the way of it

Sure this happened before a billion
times,the young lovers quarrel

She stocks off to an admirer and ducks out

and he gets caught in the
rebound and he can't

And then,then she goes on nursing her pride

or if she is a sensible kid,she gets wise
to herself and Jan is a sensible kid

The irony is that she hadn't
wise that quite so quickly

Hello

Jan

Got my what?

Your pyjama top,I swept it by mistake,
I'll post it to you tomorrow

Where are you?

The Kinnerston's,just round the corner

But I thought

You'll find another pair
in the linen cupboard

Damned my pyjamas

Steve,you're drunk

Yes

What was that?

Are you alone?

Steven?

Jan,listen

Stay put I'll fetch you

Don't bother I'll come round

No,don't do that I'll get the car

I'll be there in a few minutes

Hello,this is room 77 I'm checking out

Yes,now

So she's coming back to you

and all she has to do to have
you running in fifty circles

is just to drop two pennies in the slot
and I'm out,it's all off just like that

Just like that

-I'll ring for a cab
-Don't bother

Grena,for heavens sake be sensible

Sensible

I can't argue with you ,go on home

I beg you pardon

Silly of me

I should have guessed

That this would change your life

So you think that's all I am

Think you can buy me I throw it you
need to undo your cheque book

Isn't it enough?

No

Since you reduced it to that
level it isn't enough

I'm sorry I can't afford anymore
you'd better go back to your club

Are you going?

Get out

Go on,get out of here

And you're going,you're not doing a cabaret
act now,let down,you're ridiculous

Do I? You'll see

Stop then and behave yourself again

You leave me alone

Grena

Stand up

Matthew,I thought

I check my house

You want many things above all the
stuff that's confined in memory

That's why you came up?

One reason

Another to return this book you lent me

May I see if I can find
something more solemn

Upon my soul,what have you been doing

Doing nothing,what?

You look like dead

You know,getting quite upturned just now

I did?

Yes,and there wasn't an answer the door

I was quite prepared to find
you dangling somewhere

Why?

I heard a scream

Scream?

The kind of scream a woman gave us

when she finds her lover
dangling in the wardrobe

I could have sworn that it came up here

No,I did not hear anything

Extraordinary,isn't it?

Matthew I don't want
to turn you out but

Surely I'm not going to do that not
before I've chosen my book

No,but I've got to go out

All right,you pop along and let
me select a book at my leisure

That is if you can trust me
alone in your flat? Can you?

Of course

Pleasant evening with Grena?

I heard you come in

Must be an hour

No

My imagination must have
played me tricks tonight

It was a friend

A friend?

Yes I asked her in but she wouldn't

So you decided to drain your sorrows alone

The sight of this solitary debauched
fills me with sad memories

Sad,because they are no more

Champagne the drink for the madly gay

I'll have a whisky

Matthew,I'll have some business to do

My dear Stephen there is no business
which can prevent you getting me a drink?

Or is it?

It'll have to be a quick one

Business at this time of night?

It will excite my curiosity

Say when

I'll never say when

I doubt whether all the scotch in Scotland
could console me tonight,Stephen

I feel sad

Anniversaries are sad,don't you think?

Your birthday?

No,your anniversary too

Four years ago tonight
you came to live here

And I changed from being
a well to do gentleman

with a west end residence to a
landlord by necessity I call myself

This house is far too big for one person

Not for me,Stephen

No,I liked to wander through its corridors

Lurch about its rooms

To sit alone in the dark and think

This room has a strong fascination for me

It was my father's study

A place of awe and terror and fear

My father understood the meaning of fear

And I never came in here without
experiencing an acute sense of it

Furniture

It was perfection

A large square table in the centre

Solitary chair at the head

Up there

Just where that mirror is

You were saying Matthew?

That dagger thing

It's gone

Gone?

Don't tell me my eyesight
is playing tricks?

No,I

Here it is

What have you been doing?

Practising for a circus act?

Now,Matthew please

Oh,yes you want to get rid of me

Jasmine

Jasmine?

I notice it when I came in

Jasmine is a scent,yes it is stronger here

Come on here,Stephen,by this ottoman

You can smell it quite
distinctly can't you?

No,I can't

I'm afraid,Matthew,you're in
a strange mood tonight

What strange,Stephen,merely observant

And I observe,if one can observe a
smell,I observe a smell of scent

Your imagination again

My sense of hearing maybe at fault
surely not my sense of smell

And nearly half from this because
you insist that there is no smell of scent

I insist that there is

All right,I've been disinfecting
the whole place with it

My dear,Stephen,what is the matter?

I'm sorry I'm a bit on edge,
Jan is coming back

How women do chop and change

Why didn't you tell me?

I could have brought daffodils or something

When did you know?

A few minutes ago

You were lucky about the girlfriend

it would have been awkward
if she had turned up

How careless of you

My finger I

I cut myself

My eyesight is playing with tricks tonight

Blood and rouge,what an odd mixture

Nonsense

Very well,Stephen,a substance
I've just transferred

from your handkerchief to
my hand is not rouge

but shall we say a figment
of my imagination

Good Night,Stephen

Now,what

I came up for a book,didn't I?

Well,I shall pick up and read
the first book that I see

And that merely shows that I
read all kinds of literature

Matthew

Yes,Stephen

Really,Matthew,there are some things

Of course,don't think I
feel like reading tonight

Somehow I don't feel I would
be able to concentrate

Good Night,Stephen

Good night,Matthew

And now another crisis

Steve's gloves and Grena's flat

He'd better get it back or

well all I say it was a clue big enough
to put a rope around his neck

Steve certainly skates on
the margin of eternity

Hello,is that you Stephen?

Why don't you answer?

Who is that?

Stephen,Stephen

Stephen

-Stephen
-Jan

Jan,my darling

Why didn't you fetch me I waited

The car I couldn't start her up

Jan

-If only you'd never gone
-It was horrid

-So we ought to get it good
-I know,I know

I was a fool

Me too

-Never again
-No

Never again

Darling,you looked terribly hit up
when you came in

Stupid of me,I thought for a moment,
someone was in here

Someone else I mean

The lights blazing

You must have them left on
when you went out

No

They were on when I came back

Are you sure?

Were you here when I phoned?

The second time

No

Someone answered it,lifted the
receiver and then hung up

Somebody else has been in here

Why,probably got on to a wrong number

That doesn't explain the lights

You've must be mistaken
about switching them off

-Have a drink?
-Please

Gin?

Thanks

By the way Jan,where did
you "Kill the argument"

In my deed box

Do you want it now?

Yes,I've got some papers there,
rather private,you know Sara

I say is it a very good idea
to mix gin and brandy?

I think it's a revolting idea

You've been drinking brandy,haven't you?

Darling,you know,I never touch it

-Here you are
-Thanks

Jan,since you came in

have you taken a book off the shelf
and put this one in its place?

What are you talking about?

That brandy

And the lights,I know I switched them off

Nothing of bird less can waste time
reading books and switching on lights

How long have you been back?

A few minutes

And this flat has been
empty for quite a time

Hardly time to someone
to break into the house

Maybe he didn't have to break in

What,surely you don't think Matthew

Yes,it's me again

I've all strange fears tonight and
I'm afraid of my own company

Jan,my dear you must bear with me,
I feel so lonely tonight so restless

Why,something happened to you?

No,no,it's just that evil
thoughts fill within me

-You'd better have a drink
-I need it

-Brandy?
-Brandy?

You do drink brandy,don't you?

Yes,I do drink brandy

Is that any reason I should do so now?

Give me a whisky,Stephen,please

What it is to rely on a drink
for true companionship

Don't you think so,Jan?

Why don't you get married?

I have toyed with the idea but
there it is,my charm is waning

And my bank balance too

There was a girl once

Where is she now?

Married,mother of six

Thank you

May I abuse your hospitality still further
and relieve you of a cigarette

Yes

If you want to excuse me,
Matthew,I'm rather tired

Jan

Charming

If I were ten, no five years
younger I'd take her off you

No chance? Is my degradation so complete

Foolish of you Stephen

I didn't put it there

You won't mind if I take it

And then one night

when I am overcome with self pity
I'll pop it beneath my pillow

Matthew after I'd gone out tonight
did you hear anything up here?

Before Jan came in,I mean

No,should I've heard something?

I've seemed to have heard
a number of things tonight

that I shouldn't have heard,
I'm quite prepared to believe

that I didn't hear something I
was supposed to hear

Tell me,should I've heard something?

I thought, perhaps,somebody
might have got in

A burglar?

Why don't you telephone for the police

Wonderful people the police

They look in all the most unlikely places

It's probably my imagination

I can't think of a more worse
disease than imagination

Except perhaps conscience

I've some letters to write

You are not at all your genial
health tonight,Stephen

You spend all your time thinking
of a little rouses to get rid of me

I've never been made to feel so
depressingly unwelcome as I have tonight

But bear with me a little longer

I might be rather rather useful to you

I met a friend tonight

Moving into a new house in Golders Green

You know Golders Green all crematorium
and not a pub for miles

Well,he has a alcove and I suggested
something quite simple for it

What?

An Ottoman,Stephen,this Ottoman

No,it's locked

Yes,I got some papers in there

Tolstoy explains why you
do things,such a bore

What about it

I'm afraid not

Why? You always considered it a
nice swell and I agree with you

What a ghastly thought

to think when we are all turned to dust
this monstrosity will still be standing

He'll pay you quite handsomely for it

-It's not mine
-Not yours?

No,it belongs to Jan

Jan?

As far as I'm concerned you could
take the wretched thing out tonight

Can I?

Yes

Crime and its consequences

What a pedantic title

But it is interesting,
Stephen,listen to this

"No murderer can boast that he has
committed the perfect murder

if the body of his victim is discovered
as the body itself is proof

the murder has been committed thus the
murder is immediately deemed imperfect"

Doesn't murder fascinates you,Stephen?

Of course it does but it is no one believing
that the murder could ever touch them

You,Stephen,you can never believe
that murder could touch you?

But think,Stephen, by some street of chance

you may become a hunted terrified creature

whose only possible consolation is

that one day he may find him
immortality in the chamber of horrors

Beware of chance,Stephen

Beware of chance

Now I must thank you

For what?

For banishing my melancholia

Now I shall not go to bed
but instead to a night club

Any suggestions?

Somewhere where my credit is still good

Hello,will you please send a cab
to 22 Branston Square

They are rather limited things,
so it'll have to be the Tenerife

-The Tenerife?
-Yes,the Tenerife

And Grena

And so the seeds were sowed

There is no turning back for Steve,
not now,the corpse has to be disposed of

Whatever Matthew might suspect,he can't
prove anything without a corpse

All right driver,stop around the corner

First lamppost

I do this every evening

a method which ensures I get my daily
exercise,keep the change

Good Night

Stephen,what's the matter?

Something is on your mind

Won't you tell me?

I suppose it's to do with the
woman you brought back here

This is hers,isn't it?

Stephen I am not going to make a scene

Wish

No one you know

Jan,I don't know how I'm
going to tell you

After you'd gone tonight I

I went out with Matthew to a club

I met her there

Nothing seemed to matter then

I went back to her flat

Then I became to loathe it all
before I could shake her off

What's the use,you can't
explain these things

But it's not such a terrible
thing you've done

Go away,Jan,go away from here

Go away from here

Darling,please tell me

I want to help you

You can't

I've killed her

Stephen

Now you know

But

How?

How? I don't know how

It's all a ghastly jumble,nothing
is clear,not even now

I was drunk

So was she,crazy and mad

It was horrible

I lost my head,panicked,if I'd only
had time to think to sober up

There is time to think now

There must be some way out

Yes

There is

The cottage,it's quite deserted,
no one will ever find

I can drive down tonight and
be back in the morning

-Stephen,no
-No one need ever know

-They must about you and her
-No,she left me at the club

She went alone people saw
her leave by herself

-But Matthew?
-No.Matthew was already gone

Stephen,you can't get through with this

Leaving you was a terrible mistake,
you got to go to the police

I'll come with you,it's your only chance

No,Jan,this is my only chance

While Matthew is out of the way

But don't you see Jan everything
is against me,everything

There is no alternative

They'll find out,they'll always do

No,not always

I know what I'm doing,Jan

The worst possible that you can
do is to hide this thing up

If I give myself up they'd hang me

No,but you might if you don't

Stephen,tell the truth

Tell me it was an accident

An accident? Do you think
they'll believe that?

For the best is manslaughter,
I'd rather take the risk

It's not a risk,share madness

-If anything goes wrong just a few of these
-Stephen

Jan,go away from me,go away,go right away

Let me work this out my way

They must give him..

Jan

There is one last thing you could do for me

Jan,I've

I've lost one of my gloves

It's in her flat

If it's found there,it's Cranfields Mews

Yes,just round the corner,number 5

This is her key

Is she?

No, she is not there

Then where?

-What the devil are you doing here
-My dear Stephen

Get out before I throw you out

You are possibly angry

Cool down, and don't be so hot headed

That's better

You don't let me explain

sort of behaving like a school boy
just been caught stealing the jam

Well,I was having a little nap downstairs

and I heard a sound of a thing being
dragged across the floor up here

I thought I heard you and Jan go out so I
concluded we had an intruder in our midst

You see,I came adequately prepared

Believe me this is the first occasion

on which I've ever abused my honourable
position as a landlord

I thought you've gone to the club

I came back

Now I have some work to
do,will you please go

What is work? I know you are going
to fill up your football coupons

Matthew I'm ordering you to leave my flat

You intrigue me,you've must have
been interrupted in the previous situation

There you stand determined I should go
and here I sit determined I shall stay

You are up to something,Stephen

And I want to know what

All right Mr Sherlock Holmes
what am I up to

First I must find the clue

And I have found the clue

So large that it completely
escaped my notice

-The proverbial trunk
-I'm going away

Yes,I've no doubt of that

How grim it looks already to
receive the mangled remains

Don't be a damned fool

Made for bodies,Stephen,while the tight
squeeze might even accommodate two bodies

Or that might certain
thoughts into your head

which might prove rather unhealthy for me

Really Matthew you really
go and sleep it off

Yes,Stephen,perhaps you are a murderer

and perhaps I have popped up just in time

to prevent you removing
the body of a girl

from the present place of concealment
and putting into this trunk

Yes in another two minutes you
will be caught me red handed

It is a girl,isn't it? Always is

You still insist that Grena
didn't come up tonight?

As a matter of fact,she did

But with Jan coming back I thought
it was not a safe zone

In case you bird it something out

She was still here when Jan phoned?

Yes

And she departed,amicably without any fuss?

Yes

Shall I tell you how I knew
Grena was up here tonight?

Shall I Stephen?

-How?
-By her scent

Or rather the amount she uses

You should been a detective

I flatter myself I should be a good one

Now if you quite finished applauding
me may I see inside this Ottoman?

What?

I'm asking you,Stephen,to see
the inside this Ottoman

Why?

Because I believe there is a body in there

the body of a girl you've murdered,
the body of Grena

You're raving

Then you won't mind convincing
me of my own sanity?

-No
-Why not?

For one thing Jan has the key

Has she Stephen?

-What's that?
-The key,Stephen

Thank you

Now you answer

Who else to rest your strength
against mine again?

Now confess that you are concealing
the body of Grena in this Ottoman

-It is full of bodies
-I'm not concerned with the number of bodies

But merely of Grena's,is that included?

Yes,if you like,yes

So you admit that murder has been done?

It's my duty to see that justice is done

And what speedier method
than to phone the police

In cases of emergencies dial 999

I take it that the discovery of an
Ottoman full of bodies is an emergency

What makes you so sure that?

Because I myself came up here tonight

You looked

Yes I looked and now I must
come to terms of my conscience

You wouldn't kill me,Matthew

I want?

No I pay taxes to provide amongst
other amenities the public hangman

What do you want?

Many things,but one thing above all

to deliver over to the Law the
man who has violated the Law

in the most vicious way
that it can be violated

Matthew,please

Don't cringe and whine
for your miserable act

think of Grena,was she given
the chance to beg for her life

You don't understand how it was

Oh,yes I do

When she refused your advances
you attacked her mercilessly

Matthew,that's not true,I swear

I'm not conducting a prosecution,Stephen,

You will be given ample
opportunities stating your case

before of 12 of your fellow men

and it's on the plausibility on that
occasion hat your future will rest

Wait,wait

Think of Jan

I invariably do

Once you said you'd do anything for her

Hasn't it ever occurred to you that Jan
might find consolation in my arms

Believe me,I am an expert in
consoling a woman in distress

Matthew give me a chance

No,Stephen

it's my satisfaction,my pleasure if you
like,to hand you over to the Justice

You put me so inhuman

Inhuman? To expose a murderer

You must have some feeling

I shan't for her either

-You say that now but afterwards
-No,Stephen

Don't confuse your emotions with mine

I've analysed my emotions very carefully

My mind,the greatest emotion of all,is fear

I'm quite immune to other
persons sufferings

But you,Stephen,you're experiencing
something much greater than I've ever done

Because you are experiencing
fear and envy you for that Stephen

I envy you

Don't Matthew,please ,have some mercy

Mercy? Could you dare to look in this
Ottoman and ask for mercy,Stephen?

Could you?

Could you Stephen?

No,no,no,no

Listen to me Stephen,you are going to die,
you hear,you are going to die

You go to hang,you'll go to hang,hanging

Yes,I'm still here

-Feeling better,Stephen?
-What happened?

I'm afraid the excitement
proved too much for you

Have I been out long?

I didn't time you my stop watch is pawned

-Have you
-Phoned the police?

Oh,no,why should I stab
a man in the back?

Now Stephen please write me a cheque
my rent is due,don't you remember?

Do you want it now?

Don't be tedious,Sephen,I shouldn't
asked for it now,if I didn't want it now

Afraid that you might lose you money

Under the circumstances
I should like certain of it

Can you blame me?

Thank you

Now you will be writing another cheque

This time for 1500 pounds

What hellish game are you playing now?

No game at all,Stephen

while waiting for you to recover
I'll be doing a little thinking

And I've come to conclusion that my
honesty can be bought at a price

Since any sum that I should have
required for hushing up a murder,

Would be far in excess of you could provide

I'm faced with two alternatives

One,to hand you over to justice,
and the other to let you go free

I've decided on the latter course

Don't you think one good
term deserves another?

Go on,Matthew

For some time now

I've been trying to let my flat downstairs,
but I shall let it to you Stephen

At a rental of 1500 £ payable in
advance,in fact payable now

Have I explained everything
for you,Stephen?

Yes

You are blackmailing

Blackmail?

Why so hurry to assume?

I'm only offering my flat

admittedly at a high rental but
still within bounds of reasonability

Good Gracious man,I just had
the bathroom repainted blue

You like blue bathrooms,Stephen?

I don't want your flat maybe

Don't be too hasty

It has advantages

A basement where a man can work undisturbed

And a furnace, a large furnace,
one of the good old fashioned type

1500£ ?

Is that going to break you Stephen?

That will do you good to be broken

Yes,Stephen

It is not a pleasant feeling,
as I learnt my cost only too well

-I'm sorry
-Don't pity me

After all I could work

Thank you

Well,Matthew

Just like more drinking than I tootle off

I'm sorry I can't stop to lend a hand
but I suffer from a weak constitution

I wonder,Stephen

Will you get away with it?

I've no doubt through avoiding
meeting the public hangman

But will you be able to square
it with your conscience

Nerve yourself,prepare yourself

Don't imagine and
above all don't dream

Because I'm propping up a bar
for the next six months

Far better to see pink elephants
coming over your bed rail

than watch young girls rising
sylphlike from ancient Ottomans

Yes

Yes,it needs a callous man to go
through with a thing like this

Someone like you,Matthew

Who can laugh and talk in the same room as

I beg you pardon

I suppose I shouldn't be
sitting on the coffin

Now,that won't do it all,will it?

Dear,dear,extremely sacrilegious

Indifference, Stephen,acquire it,study it

This drink is it full of deadly nightshade?

Brimming over

You know,Stephen,you should
indulge more in the hobby of thinking

A fascinating hobby

Thinking

Think,Stephen,of Jan,
truly shining right amongst us

but if only she had possessed
the priceless gift of tolerance

and not left you this evening

Think,Stephen,if you have possessed
the equally priceless gift of strength

think of this last glass of champagne,
perhaps that did the trick

Transplanting you from a
world where all soft and free

to a hell where coherent
thought was impossible

and life became short and brutal action

Poor Stephen

Face a certainly truth in you
to enact in one of her tragedies

Stark remorseless tragedy,I wonder,Stephen,
I wonder,if I can visualize your final fate

Can anyone visualize his final fate?

To fate

Stephen I've enjoyed myself
more this last hour or so

that I've ever enjoyed myself before

But now the time has come to
explain my devilish persecution

Sit down,Stephen,sit down,
you look so tall standing there

What's on your mind.Mattehw?

Hatred,Stephen

Bitter and unquenchable hatred

I've never shown my hatred,why should I?

After all to me you represented a certain
sum of money but I hated you,Stephen

Hated you and with every day I've hated you

too many nights I watched you dress
up and boast by your conquest of women

the might of champagne and caviare

you stuffed into your self

but it was downright unbearable
when one's them is hungry

You are not that hard up

Yes,I've been slowly starving
downstairs for years

starving for the things that are my life

Good food,rare wines,beautiful women

I'm hungry for them,and I've been
hungry for them for too long

If you,weak cowardly you,you only had
to rise your weak cowardly finger to Jan

Jan?

I'll do anything for her

I love her

You love her

I loved her for years

I still love her

You've poisoned me

No,Mattew,no

You poisoned yourself

That was made for me,you hear,me

But you changed the glasses,didn't you

You would do it out of
that glass,wouldn't you

Wouldn't you? Well that's fate,Mattew,
do you hear,fate,you drank to it you fool

Distress Grena is not dead,do you
hear me Stephen,she is not dead

-What?
-Look in the Ottoman

Grena,she is still alive

Look for yourself,and see
if she is there,still alive

Do you believe me?
What have you done with her?

Matthew where is she? Where is she?

Nice Stephen,you only stunt her,
when I found her unconscious

I took her downstairs,
she was all right,I took her home

when I realized you thought
she was dead and still up here

It was all a joke,Stephen,a terrible joke

Stephen,you are not a murderer,but if I die

Stephen it's Jan,listen.darling
Grena is alive

You speak to him

Hello,Steve

Yes,it's Grena,no Steve you didn't kill
anyone,let me speak to Matthew

Stephen,I want to speak to Matthew

She wants to speak to you Matthew

You hear she wants to
speak to you,it's Grena

Go on,Matthew, speak to her,
tell her,tell her

tell her about your joke,Matthew
,go on tell her how it ended

Tell her how clever you've been,you,
Matthew,tell her how clever you've been

Stephen,what's the matter

Stephen,Stephen,Stephen

Stephen

And that's how they found him

an overdraft at the bank

and a list of creditors as long my
IOU and a stomach full of poison

Suicide the coroner said

Suicide? While the balance of his
mind was disturbed,the Tenerife?

It looks just the same but it is not,
Grena doesn't come here anymore

There you are I may exaggerate
things a little that's our way I guess

Oh Stephen,yes Stephen made
the grade on his own little racket

romantic novels,treacly sentimental
stuff all sugar no spice

And he and Jan are going
feature postcard

with farm,a couple of kids and roses
around the door.I shouldn't wonder

The door seem very far from
Tenerife and Larry's cocktails

So many peeks,so many
stories,some curious all true

and most infinitely trivial

black and white shake them all
together and see what comes out

toss the coins,spin the wheel take
off the lid slit off when a pipe burst

well time is out I must
go and catch my plane

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