Leave the cell door open.
That's all the rest stood.
Let him escape. In my view. It's all very irregular.
It might entail the most embarrassing repercussions. Exec
more certainly, it's the responsibility of the first magnitude.
I'm sorry, Mr Wilson. But you must last all this discussion.
What good of words. I'm sick of words.
Hang the repercussions and the responsibility. If I fail, I am responsible,
leave the cell door open, let him escape. Let him,
it's our only chance
you can threaten me with the bottom pits of hell. And still I insist
this obscenity must be destroyed. Do you hear me destroyed?
Todos? Los Pasajeros,
disembarking
all passengers ready to disembark. I'm traveling for my health.
I am traveling for my health
tenga
list.
Toso
Pasa
Port.
Get your passports ready.
I'm traveling for my health.
There he goes.
You got the boys on your own.
Is she in the park for free?
I don't understand
your business in this contest on your own.
I'm joining my husband.
No, clear
with
an
engine here.
We
have
a
ok.
The ST
on
Polaski,
you take care of him,
Susan,
your business in this country. So
I'm traveling for my health.
How
I am traveling for my health.
You are a native of what country?
Paul?
Hold on
next place.
Para
tested by.
Yeah.
O
Zion.
Siete.
Siete Sero
Os.
Hello?
Yes.
You haven't lost him. You sure? You know where he's going.
My wife is following him.
He's gone to the photographer.
Probably to get a new passport and new instructions
order
it.
I wish to know the whereabouts of Franz Kindler
plants kingdom.
There is no Franz Kindler.
Frank Kindler is dead
and cremated.
It's to come in.
I have a message for friends can
from the old highest.
It, it is forbidden.
I command you in the name of that authority.
Yeah,
if you know that
the name he's using
mm
Connecticut
in the United States.
The town of
Harper
Harper.
No.
Excuse me.
Good afternoon.
Have a nice trip.
Yes. Thank you
quite a story. I have here, Mr Potter.
That's me.
We sh about everything here.
Call the manager. I said, hey, there's two rats fighting in this room.
He said, what do you want for a fucking a quarter, a bullfight
about seven o'clock in the morning. The house detective knocked her out.
He said, is there a man in your room?
Zoe pushed one in.
She was a cute little chambermaid.
Did you have
a
man?
I said,
no,
she
said,
I
just,
of course
there was another
man in the room with me.
He was
a
uh this suitcase.
I could leave it here as a bag
on.
I don't assume no responsibility.
Just put it up on the shelf. It'll be there when you want it.
I
buy
this
magazine.
That'll be a time.
What's the best hotel in town?
Best place to stay down Miss Peabody's. It's just down the road here. Peace
this way, Mr.
Yes, thank you.
I
different.
Ok.
I may come in.
Yes, of course.
Does Mrs
Charan can live here?
Yes, he does, but he isn't here right now.
You expect him?
Yes. In a few minutes. How soon?
Well, I love it.
Few minutes,
a few minutes.
I may,
I may wait here.
Well, yes, if you like.
Do you like Sudan?
Thank you.
You a friend of Mr Rankin's.
He's a friend.
I'm Mary Longstreet.
How do you do?
How do you do
Mr
Rankin ought to be here now,
sometimes he stays after his last class, but
he'll be coming straight here today. I'm sure
because this is our wedding day. You are getting married.
Yes.
At six o'clock.
I know it's most unconventional. My being here today, but
I want to get these curtains up
when he comes.
Which way does he come?
My, uh, from uh, we Webster Hall,
it's, it's the big dome building right over there. You see,
I shall meet you.
Well, who shall I say that,
that
it's high France.
E
we mustn't be seen talking together.
Go back to the church. Into the woods, into the woods. You understand me?
I
love the past.
I'll meet you there.
Hello, Professor Rankin. Hello, man.
What are you up to paper? Chase
chase? I go ahead and lay the trail. You ought to have Jerry's job. Mr Rankin.
Take a little off that waistline. You ought to go with us, Mr Rankin
too.
Oh,
Buzzard.
Her words.
Well, I, I'd like to, I'm afraid I have a couple of things to attend to.
We'll join us later. We'll be out till dark.
All right. Well, we'll catch up with you.
Wonderful.
My lucky.
Yes, my Nicky.
I thought
I had been hanged.
The others might not die
and that man could not stand face to face with you friends.
No, wait for me.
You're not much changed.
Put you back in your old uniform.
Not very much the same France. I am a different man than before.
I do
two of them different Conrad.
You know how I gathered and destroyed every single item in Germany and Poland.
That might have served as a clue to my identity.
Well, guess what I'll be doing at six o'clock tonight,
standing before a minister of the gospel with a woman's hand in mind.
The daughter of a justice of the United States Supreme Court, a famous liberal,
the girls.
Even good to look at.
Yes, the
camouflage is perfect.
Who would think to look for the notorious Franz Kindler in the sacred
precincts of the Harper school surrounded by the sons of America's first families
and I'll stay hidden
until the day when we strike again.
That
there will be another war.
Of course,
war is an abomination. Said the war.
It is to tell you this, that I am here.
He set me free that I might come here and tell who set you free
to you
the all highest
you don't mean.
I mean, God
France,
I'm a new man since I found you. Conrad religious France. France.
All doors were open to me.
All doors.
It was one of God's miracles.
Mhm
They freed you. So you'd
lead them to me.
Have you been followed?
We followed here. Yes. Who followed you?
The evil one?
He looked like any other man. He was, he was dressed like any other man.
He even smoked a pipe.
But I recognized him through his disguise
and I killed him
striking from a high down.
That will be done.
You killed him, the man with the pipe,
the man who followed you.
No one else followed you.
Mhm
You must be brought to salvation. France
confess your sins as I have
proclaim your guilt
only thus, you can attain salvation.
You really think so. Conrad, it will take strength,
such strength as can come only from God
Neil by me friends
and together we will pray to Him
to give you strength.
I have sinned against heaven
and before thee,
I am not worthy to be called thy son,
say these words after me.
I despair of my sins,
I despair of my sins.
Oh God of all goodness.
How could I ever have offended the
of our goodness.
This
white fellas
don't let him get away.
Ok.
So
there's a trail
this boy fellas,
dearly beloved.
We are gathered together here in the sight of God and in the face of this company
to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony
and forsaking all others. Keep thee only unto her so long as ye both shall live,
I will
Mary wilt thou have this man for thy wedded husband to
live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony,
wilt thou love him, comfort him,
honor and keep him in
sickness and in health and forsaking all others.
Keep thee only unto him so long as ye both shall live.
They will.
Good afternoon,
good afternoon
wedding.
Yep.
Judge Longstreet's daughter.
He is Supreme Court justice. You know,
bottle of aspirin, please. Right back there. Third shelf down the top.
You see the big ones on the left, the economy size
have to get it yourself. Mr
right back there.
All your needs are on our shelves. Just look around and help yourselves
right in there, right. This one. That's, that's it. That's it.
Living down in Mississippi by
it.
Just a few days old.
Uh, some coffee too, please?
Or should I get it myself? Cafeteria style around here?
That's right.
Self-service.
The
usual thing. Yes, that's, that's $3 even Mr Todd.
Thank you. Good evening.
No limit on the claim.
But all the people around here take it black.
The one on the right mister.
How is that? You,
who is Miss Long Street? Marrying one of the teachers down at school?
A stranger in town.
I issued the license.
Oh.
Yep.
I'm town clerk.
Yeah.
Checkers.
All right.
Town clerk. Oh,
yeah.
Well, that must be quite a responsibility. Oh, town clerk runs the town.
You might see.
We usually make it for, uh, 1520.
We often play as high as 25 cents the game.
Well, it's kind of stiff for me but
I'll take a flyer. Make a million and lose a million.
That's the way it goes
I move.
Hm.
All right.
Well, you must know just about everybody in town here. Not just about
know everybody
your own business.
Mhm.
Uh huh.
School business.
Oh,
no.
Shall and champion.
Mm.
No.
Buy it.
Oh, antique dealer.
They all come to Harper.
Judge Longstreet's got the best collection in these parts. Won't do you?
No good though. No, I don't suppose he sells.
Happen to know there are
any other out of town buyers here.
Uh, let me
come to think of it. There's a fellow. Come in this morning.
Yeah.
Came on the same bus with you
left the suitcase here and never did come back for it.
He,
he might have been one of them
but
y'all,
no, he was more of the missionary type
wasn't in here but a minute just looked in the phone book. Tiny little fella. He was
thinnish.
Unfortunate looking.
Hurt your head. My,
no, no, no, nothing serious. Oh, that's too bad.
It's a game. You got to keep your mind on
25 cent, please.
I won't pretend I'm not disappointed.
Father. Has anybody seen my brand new husband?
Don't tell me he's deserted you already? Yes. Looks as if the brute, listen, red.
Have you seen Charles?
You go find him for me. Go on, go on, go find Charles. Hurry up.
I've looked everywhere for him. Mary and I can't find him. I wonder where he could be.
I'm getting worried. Are you, darling?
What about
you've changed,
don't you think you'd better
after all? Are we supposed to be going on a honeymoon or something?
Give me five minutes.
Mhm.
Hello?
Hello. There
was that you working up there on the clock? No, no, I was just cleaning around it.
It's a beautiful thing from
what I can see out front. Beautiful.
Yes. Uh, my name is Wilson. Oh, I'm Long Street. No. Long Street.
I'm glad to know you, Mr Wilson.
I couldn't judge any too well out front, but I'd say it was, uh,
late 16th century probably by Hore
of Strasbourg.
Uh, the clock.
Well, I wouldn't know my brother-in-law's going to work on it.
Is he up there now.
No, no, he's on his honeymoon. He plans to work on it when he gets back. Oh,
is he an expert?
Well, yes. But it's really more of a hobby with him.
Really?
Well, it is with me too.
Honeymoon.
Yes.
He and my sister,
um, he has to be back on Friday because of the examinations.
He's one of the teachers at the school.
His name is Rankin.
Oh,
it's nice to be able to show it to someone who knows what Revere Silver is all about.
But personally, my specialty is pewter.
I asked a pewter,
the Revere workmanship, although sometimes heavy in design almost invariably
shows the sign of a master craftsman.
He's beautiful.
Noah. Hello, honey,
Mr Wilson, my daughter Mary. How do you do
in
Charles? Rankin? How do you, how do you do? I
hope you don't mind my intruding on your homecoming.
Leaving Mary
Jeff. How are you?
You're looking good
home, Miss Mary, dear
Sarah.
Oh,
if you don't sit down it'll get cool.
Come
on,
Jim.
Well, sister, how
are the mountains
were Mr Wilson?
Will you come sit over here on my right, Jeff, your usual place, darling.
You're right there.
Your Odyssey Charles on skis. He's absolutely wonderful.
Yes, darling. You are. And I'm pretty good too, aren't I very well
for a beginner? Do you remember to keep your knees together in your apparatus in?
Yes, fresh. I did.
Mr Wilson here is compiling a catalog of Paul Revere Silver. How nice.
Mr Wilson is also an authority on clocks. Oh, really? That's Charles's hobby too.
Yes. So, your brother tells me? I understand.
You got to fix the one in the church tower.
I may try.
Well, it's quite an undertaking.
Show the kind of a wife I am. I hope he fails. I like Harper just the way it is.
Even if the clock that doesn't run.
Have you been in half long, Mr Wilson?
Mm. Since, uh Friday a week ago.
Well, you lost a day. I patched you up on Friday,
by the way. How's the head? Oh, very much improved. Thanks to you, doctor.
You were hurt on Thursday. Remember the day of the wedding?
Yes, that's right.
Wednesday. I left Bangor.
You were hurt, Mr Wilson. Oh, nothing serious.
Well, serious enough to raise a bump on his head the size of a billiard ball.
The usual door.
It's a good thing. Your back sister, that dog of yours has been inconsolable.
Well, all right. Red. Wait a minute. Here you are
this for missing me. How's that?
It's a good boy.
How was your meeting, Adam
Irritating
Foreign Policy Association.
I read that fellow's report. Standish.
I think he's full of room.
Well, that's the way we used to talk in the 19 thirties. Noah. Standish,
the London Times, man of Berlin.
Yes, of course. He was quoting rumors. Mostly
men drilling by night underground meeting places and
pagan rituals. Do you believe in Paul?
Well, anything's possible.
I'm sorry, sir. But I think it's ridiculous.
Oh,
there may be some fanatics but no German in his
right mind can still have a taste for war.
Do you know Germany? Mr
Rann?
I'm sorry, I,
I have a way of making enemies when I'm on that subject. I get pretty unpopular.
Well, we shall consider it the
objective opinion of an objective historian.
Historian,
a psychiatrist could explain it better.
The German sees himself as the innocent victim of world
envy and hatred conspired against set upon by inferior peoples,
inferior nations.
He cannot admit to error, much less to wrongdoing.
Not the German.
We chose to ignore Ethiopian Spain, but we learned from our casualty list.
The price of looking the other way men of truth everywhere have come to know
for whom the bell tolled but not the German.
He still follows his warrior gods
marching to
Wagnerian strains his eyes still fixed upon the fiery sword of Siegfried.
And in those subterranean meeting places that you don't believe in.
The Germans dream world comes alive and he takes his place
in shining armor beneath the banners of the Teutonic knights.
Mankind is waiting for the messiah, but for the German,
the messiah is not the prince of peace
and he's,
it's another Barbarossa,
another Hitler.
Well, then you uh
you have no faith in the reforms that are being affected in Germany.
I don't know Mr Wilson. I can't believe that
people can be reformed except from within
the basic principles of equality and freedom.
Never have, never will take root in Germany.
The world of freedom has been voiced in every other tongue.
All men are created equal. Liberte Gal
Fraternity. But
in German,
there's Marx proletarians unite who have nothing to lose two chains.
But Marx wasn't a German. Marx. It was a Jew.
But my dear child, if we concede your argument, there is no solution.
Well, that's it. Once again. I differ.
Well, what is it then?
Annihilation.
The last babe in arms.
Oh, Charles. I can't imagine you're advocating a Carthaginian peace.
Well, as a historian,
I must remind you that the world hasn't had much trouble from Carthage in the past
2000 years.
Well, there speaks our pedagogue.
Uh, speaking of teachers, Mr Wilson players.
Yeah,
the faculty is coming for tea next Tuesday.
If you have nothing better to do, would you like to join us?
I'd like to. But, uh, my work here is finished.
I'm leaving Harper tomorrow.
Extraordinary, isn't it? Clark's being Mr Wilson's hobby too.
He is,
isn't it?
Well,
how do you like your new house? He loves it. Come here red. I
think I'll take you for a walk in that
way.
You don't have to take him out. Just let him out. He won't run off. All right.
I need to walk. I'm restless. Come on, boy.
That's good.
How are you coming along?
I'll be in Washington tomorrow afternoon. You were right about ranking.
He is above suspicion.
A
red.
Come here.
Yeah.
Uh, give me long distance.
I won. Washington DC.
Well, who, but a Nazi would deny that Karl Marx was a German because he was a Jew.
I think I'll stick around for a while.
What is it, dear?
Oh.
Oh, I'm sorry. I was,
I was dreaming.
Got that little man.
What little man?
Oh, you know, dear, I told you about him.
He came here the day we were married.
Ok.
Light me a cigarette. Will you?
No, I've never had a dream like that before.
It frightened me.
Thanks.
You know, the little man was
walking all by himself
across a deserted city square,
wherever he moved,
he threw a shadow on it.
But when he moved away, Charles,
the shadow stayed there behind him and spread out just like a carpet.
I wish you could think who he might have been. You're over tired.
Hips. Breath
here, dear. Put this out with you.
What was that?
Well, that sounded like red to us.
The world's the matter with you. I put him in the cellar,
darling. No wonder he's
howling.
He's never been locked up in his entire life. Ready
to level this. He must be trained
at night. He will sleep in the cellar
in the daytime may be kept on a leash.
Charles. I don't believe in dogs being treated like prisoners.
It's my dog.
Are you
marry?
I know it's best.
Hi there. Red. What? You'd gone to live with your mistress?
Oh, Mary brought him home city halls all night.
Uh, fishing any good in these parts? Pretty fair.
Would you like to come along?
I'm afraid I've got the wrong clothes on, but the fish probably won't mind.
Thank you.
I'm just not lucky today. That's all.
Would you like a candy bar? I don't mind if I do. Thank you.
All your folks like fishing.
Oh, my dad's great. He always brings in something.
But what about Charles? Charles?
Oh,
I have to call him Mr Rankin at school. I get a little mixed up sometimes.
Um,
he spends most of his time on the clock. You know?
Why don't you like him? No.
What do you mean?
You don't like your brother-in-law?
It's none of my business. But I wish you'd tell me why.
Well,
I, I like him well enough.
Right.
I don't know any reason why I shouldn't,
don't tell me I'm butting in because I know I am, but I can't help myself.
It's my business.
I hate bringing you into this. Noah. But
you're the only one I can turn to.
I need your help very badly.
Well, what is it?
Your sister may be in great trouble.
I know that you're mad enough for what I'm going to ask you to do for her.
The truth is I'm
not really an antique dealer.
I'm
a,
sort of a detective.
Well,
what do you want me to do, Mr Wilson?
It would help me a lot if I knew every move Charles Rankin made on the day of his wedding
right up to the ceremony.
Well, I should be able to,
unless Charles realizes what I'm doing, I'll keep him busy.
Gee, Mr Wilson, you must be wrong.
Mary wouldn't fall in love with that kind of a man.
I hope I am wrong. No, but
that's the way it is.
People can't help who they fall in love with.
Good evening, Mr Father
evening, Mr Wilson
make a lot
later.
85 cent
here. You and Professor Anton, uh, aim to fix the clock.
Mm,
figured to tell time rightly
and will the angel circle around the Belfry?
Is that a man or a woman? Angel Mr Wilson?
I don't know.
Well,
I reckon don't make much a difference amongst angels.
Well,
Eva,
no, no, no, no, no, we'll, we'll play it out. Uh,
that's my po,
it's 25 cents here.
So, uh, by the way, did, uh
Mr Rankin pick up his supper this evening?
No,
he trying to get through up there about now.
Yes, I know
it gets dark early these days.
Our little man never did pick up his suitcase. Did he?
No
strange,
ain't it though?
I've been tempted once or twice to
look to see what's inside. It
didn't even allow.
Well, it seems to me that under the circumstances that you have a perfect right.
You do.
Uh, well,
I
wouldn't want to do it without a witness. Oh, that's me. It is.
Well, that's all I wanted to know.
But I'm
trying to look in that thing to see if we're
in here.
Wonder what's in it.
Cl
him
sweater
soap and the razor wrapped in a towel with Ss Christoval
written
across it. A
pair of old shoes. Yeah.
Yeah.
Nothing but religious pamphlets.
Yeah, that's
all
Mr
Wilson. Hi. You were
drinking
Mr Potter? And I have been poking our noses into somebody else's business.
That suitcase. The chap left it here and he never did call back.
That's been more than two weeks ago. Did he say what he was doing in Harvard?
No, looked in the phone book. Didn't telephone
kind of funny looking. He was a scrawny little fellow with big stary Blue Eye.
Had a queer walk back any second he might break into a run.
Did he have a foreign accent?
Well, yes, he did.
Uh, not so much of an accent as a foreign way of talking. Do
you happen to know who he could be? Mrs Rankin?
Why? Why? No,
I was just trying to complete your mystery for you.
Don't. All foreign strangers have to have foreign accents.
Mary. Have you seen Red?
I know
not since I took him home to you a couple of days ago.
He's been spending all his time out in the woods
and he doesn't even come home for his meals.
I thought you told me he never ran away. He never did. No,
that's why Noah's so anxious. Come on now.
Good night, Mr Wilson.
Noah.
Were you able to find out anything?
Me,
he did go to Rankin's house
and your sister did see him?
Did Mary say? So she started to,
now your sister is a fine woman. Noah.
But she must find out the kind of man she's married to.
You don't know Mary. She, she wouldn't listen to anything against him.
Much less bully. Noah. We must arrange it so that she finds out for herself.
You understand?
Yes.
One thing said and she knows nothing now, nothing at all
except that he didn't want her to admit having seen someone. She did see
I'd give something to
know what explanation he's making right now.
I was a student in Geneva.
There was a girl
the night before I was to leave, we went out on the lake together.
She told me unless I promised to marry her, she'd never return to
Sua.
Oh, I thought she was joking
naturally but
she wasn't
before I could stop her. She stood up in the boat.
Ok.
What I,
I dived in after her but
it was too late. She was gone.
Only one person knew we were on the lake together.
Her brother,
he knew I hadn't murdered her,
but he he told me he'd be willing to call it an accident for compensation.
I gave him all I had and left Switzerland
as the years went by.
I allowed myself to believe that the dead past really was dead.
And then
on our wedding day, Mary,
he appears again,
her brother,
this little man,
I gave him all the money I have in the world
and he went away again.
Do
I
need?
You should have told me
I not carry this,
this awful thing around by yourself.
You're a very wonderful person, Mary.
I love you very much.
Oh, Charles.
What,
why didn't he go back for his things?
Well,
I suppose once he had money he could,
he could afford better,
darling. I'm, I'm terribly nervous.
I think I'll work up in the clock
alone tonight by myself. It will calm me.
You understand, don't you? Of course, I understand.
Shall I walk you home?
No dear. There's no need for that.
It's pretty late. That's all right.
And Harper, there's nothing to be afraid of.
I love you.
Coral Red.
He heard my whistle. I'll bet
we couldn't bark or anything.
He just crawled his fire and died.
Why do you think he died?
Well, let's go and find out
that's young Longstreet's dog. Red
looks like he's dead to me.
They, they're taking him up to
doctor Lawrence's office. Would you know anything about it?
Wonder what
the world is? Not
really,
uh,
checkers?
No. No. Thanks
that Coke nickel.
Thank you, Mr Franklin.
Oh, a doctor.
How long could the dog have lived with that amount of poison in him?
Oh, not more than a minute or so, I'd say
well,
then the red must have been poisoned within a few 100 yards of where you found him.
Noah.
And the latter part of the distance
he must have been moving slower and slower.
Thank you very much doctor.
Thanks, Jim
Mr Peabody. Would you please get that magazine rack in and hurry up about it?
Yeah, it's just a part.
Hurry up
now.
Move along and
after you Mr Wilson,
after you, Noah,
bring him right in there,
right?
What does the law say about this kind of murder?
Is it the same as killing a man?
It ought to be. It's just as bad.
Four paws muddy.
No madam. He
dry leaves mixed with the mud.
Red must have been digging somewhere in the woods.
Have you any idea what for Mr Wilson?
A body? I think
mining case,
the little man
then
just caught me. Anything wrong wrong.
What do you mean? Including up like this? Yeah, just going on a search.
What you after? I found a machine on, on what the search
for the body
state. Police dept
half the town just reach up there for
show
one misses the news of the Clock Tower.
What body they searching for? I bet this fellow left his bags here.
Strong little duck
unhappy looking.
I knew he'd come to a bad end.
It ought to be 15 cents. Mr
Professor. I'll just put it on your account.
Oh, Sarah told me you're up here.
Why are you backing?
Are we going somewhere? We aren't dearest.
I am.
What are you talking about
as a rule? Men leave their wives because they don't love them.
I must leave you because
I do.
Oh, you won't object once. You know, the kind of man you married.
But you are the man I have married and that's all that matters,
darling. I meant it when I said for better or for worse.
Even to
killing Red.
You couldn't,
it was an accident.
No, I meant to kill him.
Murder can be a chain mary one link leading to another until it circles your neck.
Red was digging at the grave
of the man I killed.
Yes, you're a little man.
You killed him
with these hands.
The same hands that have held you close to me.
Are you satisfied to let me go?
But why,
why did you do it?
I'd have given him all I had. But his dreams were far grander.
He knew that your father was well to do.
He knew that Justice Longstreet would be glad
to protect his daughter from any scandal by
paying a few $1000.
Mary,
I should have gone away and lost myself in a world where he could never find me. But
I loved you
and I was weak
to
hand.
If one of us goes, we'll both go.
You would have shared half my trouble if I'd had any
Charles,
what is there to connect you with that man?
Nothing. Actually,
you're the only one that knows. I knew him
well, then you need have no fear if I'm the only one who can speak.
But Mary
in failing to speak,
you become part of the crime,
but I'm already a part of it
because I'm a part of you
and you shudder at the first touch of my hands as though it was the touch of death.
Nerves.
Oh, hold me close, child, hold me close.
Mr Peabody. You go back to town with the sheriff and open up the coroner's office.
I knew darn well, it was the same color.
Of course, he's changed some, uh,
being buried in the earth. Does it?
Even Mr Wilson
even Noah,
even Mr
Boss, ain't it?
What do we do about Mary? We can't leave her alone with him. Now, we know
now she realizes now that whatever story he told her about Meineke
was false.
Noah.
I think your sister should be ready to hear the truth.
Charles
Will they make me look at the body?
I shouldn't think so
because I couldn't do it.
I mean, I don't think I could
see. I've never seen a dead person.
I
many having to tea Mary
28 altogether. I think
you didn't eat nothing at dinner,
Miss Mary
28 for just you and
no who will manage. All right.
But suppose I should, I should. What? I don't know.
I only know I'm terrified of seeing anybody or being seen.
You must get a tight hold of yourself.
If you're determined to go through this thing, you've snow before
exactly what you're going to do and say at all times,
perfect naturalness at all times.
Listen to me.
I am prepared
to go to the police. If your father, Miss Barry, he wants to talk to you.
Yes, thank you, Sarah.
Hello.
Yes, I think so.
Just a minute and I'll see.
He wants me to come over
if you ask me to.
He said he wanted to see me along.
There's nothing unusual about a father wanting to see his daughter. Is there.
Is there?
All right, Adam, I'll be right over,
don't you think that's rather strange? Strange? No. Strange.
Tell you what I'll do.
I'll go over the church and work on the clock while you were with your father
and you can buy and pick me up later.
I'm so afraid
there. So why is wanting to see me alone in
his voice? Sounds so different. You know what you're gonna say?
Come in, dad
is something wrong.
Mr Wilson is here on a very serious matter.
We must try to help him every way possible.
What, what, what do you want to know Mr Wilson?
You know about the body that was discovered yesterday, Mr Rangan.
Yes.
Did you ever meet the disease?
No, no, no, I never met him.
Have you seen the body?
No.
Well, then, uh
how can you be sure you've never met him?
Of course, I can't be certain,
Mr Wilson. Do you suspect me of something?
If so what
of shielding a murderer?
Perhaps this photograph will refresh your memory.
Do you recognize this man
that is Conrad
Meineke
commander in charge of one of the more efficient concentration camps?
You know him, don't you?
You have met him here in Harbor?
No, no, I, I've never seen that man. Mr Wilson.
Uh Judge, would you mind putting out the lights?
I've been showing your father some films and I'd like you to see them too.
I'm on the Allied Commission for the punishment of War criminal.
It's my job to bring escaped Nazis to justice.
It's that job that brought me to Harper.
Well, surely you don't think that
Mr
Wilson, I've never,
I've never so much as even seen a nat.
Well, you might, without you realizing it,
they look like other people and
act like other people when it's to their benefit.
A gas chamber. Mrs Rankin,
the candidates were first given hot showers so that their pores would
be open and the gas would act that much more quickly.
And this is lime pit
in which hundreds of men, women and Children were buried alive.
Why do you want me to look at these horrors,
all this you're seeing.
It's all a product of one mind,
the mind of a man named
Franz Kindler.
Yes, he was the most brilliant of the younger minds of the Nazi Party.
It was Kindler who conceived the theory
of genocide mass the population of conquered countries
so that regardless of who won the war,
Germany would emerge the strongest nation in Western Europe.
Biologically speaking,
unlike Gables Himmler
and the rest of them
Kindler had a passion for anonymity.
The newspapers carried no picture of him.
Oh, no.
And just before he disappeared,
he destroyed every evidence that might link him with his past.
Down to the last fingerprint.
There's no clue to the identity of Franz Kindler,
except one little thing.
He has a hobby that almost amounts to a mania
clocks.
So have lots of people.
You yourself? Well, I,
I'm not quite finished, Mrs Rankin
in prison
in Czechoslovakia. A war criminal was awaiting excusing.
This was Conrad Meineke,
one time executive officer for France Kinler.
He was an obscenity on the face of the earth.
A stench of burning flesh was in his clothes,
but we gave him his freedom on the chance that he might lead me to Kindler.
He let me hear Mrs Rankin
and here I lost him
until yesterday,
your dog Rhett found him for me.
But unfortunately, Mee
was dead and buried.
Now in all the world
there is only one person who can identify Franz Kindler.
That person is the one who knows,
knows definitely
who Meineke came to Harbor to see.
No, he's not a si,
my Charles is not a
si,
you were in Rankin's house during the afternoon of the day.
Rankin's house. Yes. Yes. Did anyone come while you were there?
Not that I remember now. Try hard to remember. It's not so long ago. Only two weeks.
You were hanging curtains. No one came. Were you alone all the time?
No. Who else was there?
Charles?
He came right after his last blasphemy
and we were together for more than an hour.
You, you have nothing to link my husband with this man, Kendra.
Except a wild suspicion.
It's a ridiculous suspicion.
You're trying to use me to implicate him and you can't,
you can't involve me in a lie and that's,
that's all it is is a lie.
It's a lie. You know,
it's a lie. It's a lie. Mary Mary,
wait a minute, Mattie,
let it,
wait a minute. Sister.
That,
oh,
that's better.
You know that your
welfare and Noah means more to me than anything, don't you?
Yes.
You've got to face this thing with complete honesty. Sister,
your entire happiness may well depend on your telling me the absolute truth,
Mr Wilson is right
and you have innocently married a criminal.
Well, then there is no marriage.
There's no call upon your loyalty as a wife.
He's good.
He's good. He wouldn't hurt any,
anybody except to
protect somebody he loved. He's,
he's good. Well, then the truth can't hurt him.
Charles was not with you that afternoon. Sister.
I remember your saying. So when you came home
you're against him too, Adam? Yes, you are.
You've never liked him. That's why you don't believe me now. Leave us alone, Adam,
he's not a
nazi. He's not one of those people. He's not leave us alone.
She has the facts now,
but she won't accept them
and too horrible for her to acknowledge.
Not so much the Rankin could be Kindler but
that she could ever have given her love to such a creature.
But we have one ally,
her subconscious.
It knows what the truth is and is struggling to be heard.
Will to truth within your daughter is much too strong to be denied.
Look here, Wilson,
if he's not Charles Rankin,
we should be able to expose him without too much difficulty.
I'm not interested in proving that he isn't Charles Rankin.
I'm only interested in proving that he's Franz Kindler. How do you propose to do that
through your daughter?
Time has taken, she's headed for a breakdown.
That's the usual result of a person being inwardly divided.
Rankin will recognize this and that's what I'm banking on. What do you mean?
Well, he can't afford to trust a person approaching his theory.
He won't, he'll have to act,
he may try to escape before she collapses, which would only be an admission of guilt.
Oh,
go on.
You may kill her.
You're shocked at my cold bloodedness. Well, that's quite natural. You're a father
and it's because you are a father.
Judge Longstreet that I'm talking to you like this.
Naturally, we will try to prevent murder being done.
However,
the proof that murder is a thing would be
the strongest evidence that your daughter could have.
Charles,
listen,
striking
100 years after
he was trapped Charles, just like you said, Mr Wilson was there.
He tried to tell me that you were a nazi
and I was supposed to believe it.
Imagine you being a scape
nazi. Oh, he thinks he's very clever that Wilson,
his idea was to horrify me into telling him about the little man
who did he say? He thought I was
a Nazi
Franz Kindler.
He made it all up just to trick me.
But I didn't tell him anything and I didn't tell father anything.
I outfaced both of them. Charles.
You'll be civil enough to prove you're not. Then
Natty,
we'll just find someone who is in your class at college
and he'll identify you and that's all they'll be doing.
What you say is true. You can't touch me
quite safe.
He would say nothing.
Well, I won't tell
us,
I promise I won't, they can torture him and I won't tell them anything.
Hm.
But Chimes have awakened properly.
We must go down and greet him.
You must act naturally,
smile at them, you understand?
Are you all right?
Yes, I'm all right.
We'll face them, darling.
And when she struck that angel star marching, it was a sight to behold,
professor. You sure knocked it off. My hats off to you. Congratulations, Mr Rankin.
What director did you like it?
What I wanna know is she's gonna chime all night long.
How's your buddy gonna get into sleep?
We'll face them, darling.
All of them,
them chickens. Yours is gonna be on and off roost every 15 minutes.
Yeah,
Sarah.
Sarah, I've told you, I want these curtains drawn.
I don't like the sunlight streaming in. It's bad for them. Mary.
That's rubbish and you know it
up at the other house, we never proved
it has nothing to do with it. This is my house and I want them drawn.
You suit yourself. Then
it was going to look mighty gloomy for the party.
Is it that time already?
Were you able to see when I opened the grave? Mr Randall? Was it too horrible?
Well, not the most pleasant sight. There's Mary. Hello, Mary.
Filling out prescriptions. That's part of this business of hate
sleeping pills. That's another
dollars. 65. Ok.
One rat,
sleeping pills don't approve of it. No man does day's work.
Man gets a night's sleep least ways he couldn't let
start
bing.
I believe Mrs Rankin
ordered some ice cream ice cream
already gone. The
fellow said he was going past your house. So give it to him.
Mr Wilson.
Mr
Dragon.
I wouldn't dream of setting foot outside the house unless Fred were along.
Who knows he might be anywhere,
the murder. I mean, waiting for a new victim.
I hope you haven't gotten you kind enough to invite me, Mrs Ragin.
No, of course not. Mr Wilson. Mr Potter asked me to deliver this.
Oh, the ice cream's good. And Sarah's waiting for it. I hope it hasn't melted.
Well, I won't detain you any longer. I,
I have a drink for you.
Just let
you know Dr
Hipper.
Oh, yes, of course. How are you,
Dr
Grandma Lawrence? Can I get you something?
Nothing more. Thank you.
To
the,
where's Dr
Rankin?
He'll be here in just a few minutes. I won't have a word with him about that clock.
Thank
you.
Three
weeks
on my last trip.
But
may I get you
and
Jack?
And what was that? Frenchman's name? Oh, hello dear. Hello
long.
If there may well be 10 or a dozen graves out there in those woods,
autopsy showed the murders committed just three weeks ago. May I get you some?
Thank you. No,
Jeff, may I get you? I
remember what Emerson says about crime.
Oh, there's Rankin. He may not sorry to be late. I'm
fine. Thanks
everybody.
Oh,
hello there.
Are you
Wilson? You know the quotation,
Emerson quotation of crime and the Earth. Is made of glass.
No, I don't
uh commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
Commit a crime,
commit a crime.
And it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods,
the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole,
you cannot recall the spoken word.
You cannot wipe out the food track.
You cannot draw up the ladder. So as to leave no inlet or clue,
you're Mr Wilson, aren't you?
Do you know you're our number one suspect in our murder case
so far, you're the only suspect Potter put the finger on you.
He thinks you committed the crime to get possession of some priceless an T
Mr
Wilson,
Mr
Gan. I wish you left that park alone.
Harper was a nice quiet place until it started banging
Mary.
What's Wilson doing here?
I don't know
you invited him, didn't you?
What's he after? I don't know.
Are you all right?
Yes, quite all right.
I remember Friday Mary. That's all right.
Good night.
May I help you then? No,
Mary,
Mary.
It's all,
it's
all
it broke
and the beads fell all over the floor.
He took her upstairs
when I left. I could still hear a cry.
All the floodgates have opened
her subconscious is almost one.
Now, ar we must know every move that Mrs Rankin makes.
She's never to leave the house unless I know where she's going.
If for any reason I can't be found. She's to be detained no matter on what pretext.
You understand, Sarah,
don't worry she won't get by me when she snapped those beads,
she signed her own death warrant.
We're carrying her life in our hands.
Every time she walks on a slippery sidewalk
is near something that can fall,
drives an automobile, anything that could result in an accidental death.
Her life is in danger.
This judge she won't get by me.
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
Good afternoon.
Today we will attempt to finish with the career of Friedrich de Grosse
Konig
Van
Royen
Kus
Brandenburg, Prince Von Paulen
Frederick the great to you.
8 68 65.
Hello.
So
Mary,
hi, this is Charles.
Can you hear me dear?
I
can't speak very loudly where I am, but I want you to understand this.
Something very important has come up.
He must come to the church immediately.
The church tower,
you understand?
Yes, I understand. I don't want anybody to know that you're going there.
Mary don't tell anybody you're going go to the church tower and
leave your car in the rear and come through the back door.
Ok.
He got it.
They're coming.
Yes. Stack that wood down over the rest of them and then get back to work. Hey.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Watch that Mr Peabody.
You're removed. Professionally
going someplace.
We are two.
Well, I asked you where you was going, Miss Mary. I heard.
Well,
Sarah, you seem to forget. I'm no longer a child. I'm a married woman.
Well, you ain't been married very long.
Wait, Mrs Rankin.
What is it? I'm in a hurry.
Well, you don't need to go bite my head off.
What is it, Sarah?
Well, I,
I know
if you've got something to say, say it. What is it, Sarah?
I don't know what's got into you lately. Indeed.
I don't, you never was mean to me like this back at the old house. Sarah. Maybe I might
want my usefulness. I'm not as young as I used to be.
Maybe you don't want to be around anymore for heaven's sake.
Stop fucking such nonsense. Well, it's true. And you know it,
I'm gonna pack my things to lithium. Did I am
Sarah? I'm sorry if I've hurt your feelings. I didn't mean to really, I didn't
Sarah.
Now I couldn't get along without you and you know that don't you.
But don't you?
Honestly, honestly, Sarah,
Sarah, please wait just a
minute.
Sarah,
you will never leave me, will you?
You know how I feel about you, don't you? Yes, I do.
It's like it was my own daughter, my own little girl. How could I Sarah?
I've got to go now. Really? I do. I promised to be somewhere.
Well, well, where to miss Mary,
stop fussing Sarah.
It's a secret.
I
be.
What's the matter?
Sarah? What's the matter my heart?
I can't breath
the pain.
No, Miss
Mary. Please
don't leave me.
Don't leave me lie right there and keep quiet. Keep quiet.
I'm
dying.
You're not
dying.
Stay
with me. I won't leave you.
130, please.
B
Mary.
Look,
I was supposed to meet Charles at the Clock Tower right away and I can't get there.
Will you go and tell him to, please wait for me
and no one,
no one's to know where or why you're going. It, it, it's important.
All right.
238, please.
Hello. May I speak to Mr Wilson?
Looks like it's coming up for snow.
Yes, that's right.
Oh, Mrs Rann. Mrs Lundstrom, isn't it? After hours?
You ladies are working too hard at the library. Oh, no, Mr Rankin.
We closed as usual at 330.
You're perfectly right.
I dismissed class 10 minutes early.
It's
344.
I was playing Checkers with Mr Potter and I didn't realize,
you know what you are, Mr Rankin. You're the absent
minor professor.
You sure are lucky today. I am and you sure are. Good afternoon, Mr
Potter. Good afternoon Mr He,
I'm sorry, Mr
Potter. I can't find
the
right over there by the mittens. Come on, Mr
Potter
help
us.
Right,
right back in a minute,
right over there by that box where I told you there was go,
you got a late
thing out.
How much do you want? 85 cents? That's an awful lot.
Come higher. This year.
You want this thing? Well, I'll keep it in here.
You know, Mr Potter, you're a bad influence. I, uh,
I intended to only spend a couple of minutes. You made me spend the whole afternoon.
Look what time it is.
I'd like to get even.
It's your move.
T,
like I told you, it's coming up for snow.
They keep the fishing
double or nothing.
Good afternoon, Mr Potter
Charles.
He didn't go to the church. No, no. Sarah. Sarah. What about Sarah?
Just as I was leaving, Sarah had some kind of an attack. She's resting now. Yes.
And Jeff said it wasn't very serious but that I should stay with her.
What's the matter?
Nothing's the matter
then why did you want me to go to the church?
You said it was important
is important. I think at you
it's my sense of proportion is
failing me. Is the,
please, Charles. What is,
I'm sorry,
I've just begun to feel a strain.
You see, I have my weak moments too.
I'll tell you of my own good to,
they found out anything more. No, nothing. It's nothing to find out
unless you. I don't know. I haven't seen anybody all day. I've been in my room.
There's a rumor going around that there's an arrest to be made
my headaches.
The incident of the beads yesterday
made me doubt your strength.
I thought maybe you'd gone to your father and told him something
if you had
he didn't have to be afraid.
No.
How did you tell Noah.
Hm.
Why, what about,
didn't you see him?
Why should I see Noah.
What did you come here directly from the church? Am I being cross examined? No.
But when I found I couldn't leave Sarah,
I called no one told him to go there and tell you I was detained.
I told you not to call anybody but surely Noah, call him and tell him not to go.
Why can't I talk to him?
Call him. I say he's gone.
If he dies, his blood will be on your hands. Where are you from? It's your med
that's done. This
would have been all right if it was you
so that you,
you had to be here
on that day
calling Noah.
Did you kill Noah. Yes. If he goes to the church and climbs up the ladder,
was that you intended to kill, wasn't it?
No,
why wasn't it? I
Brian
k
kill me.
Tell me I want you to,
I couldn't face life knowing what I've been to you and what I've done to Noah.
But when you kill me, don't put your hands on me
here.
Use
this
Mary
oh
operator,
operator. Get me the state police.
Yes. The uh roadblocks are up.
We're watching the railroad station and he isn't hiding in the words
that not
it.
That's not
it.
You'll get worse. And
now I'll go for the police,
Mr Wilson. Well, if he is what I think he is, it's got to be easy.
We'll do everything possible to bring him back. Go on Mr Wilson.
She's not in the house
like
all her.
I don't know
if that's what he's hiding.
If she gets there before us,
what do we do?
Call Captain Samuels and the deputies get all the help you can wear.
Mm.
Ouch.
The church, the church. What about you? I'll get there now. Hurry up. Now.
What if your sister may be still alive?
Don't move.
I have a gun.
You don't need it.
I am alone.
What are you doing here?
Lift me up.
You're telling the truth.
Why should I lie?
You were followed here.
I came by our way
through the cemetery. No one saw me.
If I needed the excuse, I was afraid you wouldn't let me up.
What do you want?
It came to kill you.
No, no, Mary. It's you. That's gonna die.
You were meant to fall through that ladder.
They are going to fall.
I don't mind if I take you with me.
You are a fool.
They search the woods. I watched them
here like God looking into the lands,
I'll hide in the woods. They won't search there again a day or two.
They'll be sure I got out of,
they find me. They'll know you're still here. But darling,
you're on the verge of a breakdown. Now. You've cracked.
Why else would you leave your bed.
I to an empty church to
the dead of night.
Any child could see you'd wind up killing yourself. Killing is what led you here.
It won't help you. Now,
look out the window,
look,
well, that's, that's an old trick. Mr Wilson. A very poor trick tricks.
That's all you know, is tricks.
I don't eat any tricks
no matter what happens to me. Tricks won't do you any good.
You're finished here, Franz Kinler,
the citizens of Harper.
They've come after you
for plain and ordinary people. The ones you've been laughing at have Franz Kindler.
Well, you can't fool them anymore.
Oh,
sure. You can kill me. Mary, half the people down there.
But there's no escape.
You'd have a world and they closed in on you till there was only Harper
that closed in on you and there was only this room
and this room too is closing in on you.
It's not true of the things they say I did.
It's all their idea.
I followed orders. You gave the orders.
I, I only did my duty.
Don't send me back to the,
I'm not a criminal.
You are.
Give me that capital.
All right, Mr Wilson. Very safe. Let me give you a hand. No, no, no, no, no, thanks. Hi.
What happened?
Vay and Harper.
Don't get that.
Come on down.
No, not until you get me a new letter.
I've had my ankle busted and my head conked
from here. All in my friends. I'm taking it easy.
Well, I'll get you another ladder. Mr Wilson. You've had enough trouble.
Good night, Mary.
Pleasant dreams.