To all of you. We have given what we could,
our fund of knowledge,
our discipline,
all the ideals that we hold precious.
We have nothing more to give you but our prayers and our hopes.
The future is yours.
May you take it into your strong young hands with a high purpose, bend it to your will,
shape it into a brave and shining destiny.
And now
it is my great pleasure
to confer our academic degree with honor
on the most distinguished student of this class,
Roderick Raskolnikov stepped forward
in the history of our institution.
There have been few young men
who compared with him in mental brilliance
and few for whom the future held greater promise.
I extend my congratulations to his mother
and to his sister,
to whom this present moment is the reward for years of sacrifice.
I've spoken for the university
now, I want to speak for myself.
I'm proud to have had you as one of us,
sad that you're leaving.
Good luck to you.
God bless you.
Definitely.
Who
was brilliant?
Few from the future help. Great. Our promise
to
help
here here. Wait a minute. Oh Dimitri.
Have you met my sister, Antonia, informally, mother. This is Dimitri.
My son has mentioned you in every letter.
He tells me you're his best friend, don't you believe him? He's no friend of mine. A
man rooms with me for years and never tells me about his sister.
I did tell you but not enough.
How was I to know if I'm looking at you that she was so beautiful.
Here's your chance, Tony. No brains. Not much money but enough. So, work fast.
Oh, Roderick, I'm so happy.
His watch was your father's.
He told me to give it to you on this day.
How proud he'd have been
if only he could have lived to give it to you himself.
Mhm.
Good afternoon. We haven't seen much of you these past two days.
Have you been praying or only fasting? I've been contemplating life.
You'd better contemplate the rent.
I haven't had a penny out of you in six months. How much longer do you expect me to wait?
Can you stand to strain another half hour? Oh, you're going to pay me in half an hour
and if it isn't being too personal, just how are you going to raise the money?
I am going to rob a bank.
You think? You're funny. Hey, well, I don't pick up your things and get out of here.
Leave you.
I couldn't do that. I am too attached to you.
You pay your rent tonight or I'll take measures.
You're a disgrace to my house someday.
They'll put a sign on it,
telling the world that I Raskolnikov once had the privilege of starving here.
Dimitri
Frick,
here's something I had to show you. Have you seen this?
There's an article in this called Sidelights on Crime and
it contains some of the theories you're always talking about.
It's great. It will upset a lot of old fashioned nonsense. You must read it.
Not bad.
Say, have you read this before? Not since I wrote it.
I should have known that nobody but you could have written this article.
Have you seen the review on it
or doesn't it make you feel good? As a matter of fact, it's a bit uh
uncomfortable.
I'm getting more of a thrill out of this than you are. What's the matter?
Didn't you get paid for the article I did? And the money came in handy.
Antonia lost her position and I sent it home. That's just like you.
The first money you've earned in years. I had to, to,
your mother will be here next week,
Roderick. Now, don't be offended.
Listen, if they're coming here, you can't receive them the way you're living.
They'll be terribly upset. You've got to let me lend you some money.
I'm just an ordinary sort of fellow Roderick. But you, you're a genius someday.
When you're famous,
I'll be proud that I've helped add on to want help from you or anybody.
It's nearly seven.
I have some important business to attend to see you some other time.
Oh, it's you.
Who's this
one of your gentlemen friends?
No,
none. Have you got this time?
How do you steal this?
You say that about everything I bring here?
Why shouldn't I
look who brings them
been in our family a long time?
What do you want for this?
It's in there with mother pearl, the stones of garnets.
Darn it, eh,
Worth at least 100 roubles. And I thought I could get 20 for it.
Joe. It's been in your family a long time.
If you look on the first page, you'll see. My name was written down when I was born
and my little brother and sister mark down there too.
Mm. How long since you've looked inside of it? I read it every night.
You read the Bible every night
you oughtn't to be allowed to touch it.
I'll give you approvals for it.
I'll take the approvals. Wait a minute,
the inlay is coming loose. There's another stone missing. I'll give you six.
Take it or leave it. What have you got?
What?
I'll take the six,
the less you give me, the easier it will be for me to pay back, I suppose.
But this is only one
you said six
roubles. That's right. Six.
There's three months interest on your shawl. 10% a month on eight rules makes 240
you owe me two months interest on your silver necklace and your buckles
that makes five rules five and six leaves one. Is that clear
or do you expect me to be in business for love?
Well, then what are you waiting for? Do you want your bible back?
No,
come along then get out. Don't hang around here all day.
A common little gutter snipe.
Let me see your watch
to my son may wear it in honor.
I want 50 roubles on it.
I'll give you 10.
You can't do that to me.
Give me the tenant. Let me get out of here before before. What, before you eat me up?
What did you lose?
It's a ruble. It dropped out my hand when she pushed me out the door.
Somebody ought to push her straight into the next world. I've got to find it.
What use is that money to her?
It could save 100 lives like you as a man. It's plain arithmetic.
You could use some of your money, couldn't you?
What will you do if you don't fan,
she ought to be stamped out.
You shouldn't say things like that.
Black beetle squatting up there on her money box.
It would be a service to humanity. Crime would be a strange way of serving humanity.
Here it is. I found it.
I don't know what I would have done without it.
Why is it that all women weep when they are happy?
My little brother and sister haven't had a thing to be told it.
Are you the only one to look after them?
You know, his father
only he drinks to forget his troubles and
the more he drinks, the more mother scores and the more she scores,
the more he drinks.
So between the two, there's hardly any time left for us.
I forgot there was still some kindness in the world.
Thank you.
I forgot there was still some beauty in it.
Now, let me tie this around your wrist so that you can't lose it.
The money's in there.
Now, when you get home, don't let father see what you've got. Understand.
Give it to mother.
Wait a minute, let me make you pretty.
Give this to your sister. Don't tell her who gave it to you.
Move the
arm,
come out and move along.
Excuse me. What did you say?
I said, excuse me, say it again and say it loud. Excuse me.
Say it loud.
No.
Last.
How much higher do I have to climb one more flight? The last door on top the
next place you brought me to. I must say
I didn't expect your son to be living in a palace,
but you didn't tell me he was living in a place like this.
We didn't know he should have written as the truth
throughout the week.
Oh, it's awful
p him
in a place like that to me.
Oh, Roderick, this is our friend Mr Lucian. My son. How do you do, sir.
Mr Lucian's a very important man.
I'm honored. He
holds two government positions.
Two,
I'm doubly honored.
I can't tell you how kind of helpful he's been to us after Antonio lost her position.
We were in terrible trouble. Mother, please don't, let's talk about it.
Now, what trouble
she wouldn't let me write.
The husband of the woman she worked for, turned out to be the most horrible person
I had to leave because I wasn't obliging.
Let's not go over that again. Mother tell him about the revolver,
revolver.
She had to keep it under her pillow at night to protect herself from him.
And his wife found out and lied about me. After I left.
You can imagine how easy it was to find a position after that.
It was lucky. Mr Lucian came along to help us.
Shall we tell your brother? Now,
why not? You'll have to know some time.
I know this will be a great surprise to you, Roderick.
But Mr Lucian and your sister are engaged to be married, showing a ring. Antonia,
Tony engaged.
Well, sir, is that all you have to say? I want to understand this clearly.
What's there to understand?
Mr Lucian has honored me by asking me to become his wife
and I've accepted because I,
I
love him, madam.
Let me compliment you on your son's manners. Oh, please don't be offended.
Her happiness means everything to him.
Roderick.
I think you ought to know that Mr Lucian's marrying
your sister without asking for any dowry at all.
I may say that I have fairly advanced ideas on the subject of marriage.
Indeed. I prefer a girl like your sister who's experienced poverty.
I believe that a wife should always look up to her husband as a benefactor.
And here's the best news of all. Roderick.
Mr Lucian has agreed to employ you as his private secretary.
I'm afraid you're stating things a little too. Definitely.
I didn't absolutely agree to employ your son.
But Mr Lucian, you did.
You promised me? It was quite definite. No, I did not promise. How can you say that
you did
for the sake of clarifying our future relationship?
Please understand that I prefer not to be contradicted.
Oh,
excuse me, for coming to a room like this.
I just had to thank you for the money you gave us.
I would have come soon. Only I
didn't know where you lived or even your name.
Then I remembered that porn
broker could tell from her books.
Excuse me?
I had to thank you.
I'd better go now.
Not until you meet my mother and sister.
Mother.
What's your name?
Sonia. Sonia, a friend of mine.
How do you do?
How do you do? My sister Tonia?
I don't think you should be asked to meet
a person who's a nameless acquaintance of your brothers.
Which one of your two government positions permit you to insult
her it's my duty to protect the honor of the woman.
I'm going to make my wife. Did you say your honor? If she marries you?
She doesn't know what the word means.
What are you saying? Don't get excited mother.
I know you didn't mean it. You were upset. I forbid you to speak to him. I'm sorry, Mr
Lian.
I expected a different sort of welcome for you.
I shall not hold this against you, Antonia,
but you're never to see your brother again.
Do you understand? Come
to me? Don't go with him, leave me alone. I'll do what I please
mother. You must stop here, take her home with you at once.
But darling, we've nowhere to go.
Mr Lucian promised to pay our hotel bills after we got here.
You mean
without his help? You have no place to sleep tonight. Roderick, don't you?
See, there's no use fighting against the will of heaven.
All I can see is that my sister's selling herself for a night's lodging.
Don't make this seem worse than it is. She's doing this for you. I won't have it.
This is only a question of money. Are you going to let him buy Antonio's future?
And yours? And man,
we'll talk this over again in the morning.
I'm sure you'll feel differently about it then.
Money,
money.
Ok.
What are you tying all those knots for? You'll find out.
Just wait,
you've studied these things, you know,
better than anyone else that crime has always found out.
I've studied these things. They won't find me out.
I won't make mistakes.
The ideals that we hold precious.
The future is yours.
Take it into your strong young hands with a high purpose.
I'll take it into my strong young hands.
Car
Antonio's marrying him for your sake.
You won't have to marry him for my sake. Move along.
Move
along. Get out of my way.
What do you want?
It's after hours.
It's me,
don't you remember?
I've got a valuable cigarette case.
Nice. All this
to come around with your rubbish.
Come in.
Let's see, this valuable cigarette case of yours.
Was it made of lead gold?
What's the idea of making?
So in knocks,
it must be inlaid with diamonds the way you've tied it.
Come on, you old hag. I need some money tonight.
Nobody home.
That's strange. She never goes out
what
slashed on the inside.
There must be somebody home
because he couldn't go out and leave the door less on the inside.
Something clear about this. Let's go down and get the water.
All right, gentlemen, we'll see, we'll see
the latch was on a moment ago.
Help murder police
police.
Good evening, evening.
Ok. For something.
I took some of your old newspapers and I haven't seen a paper for days
company to see you.
Has it
run?
Just see
you've been sleeping with your gloves on.
There's a policeman here for you
here. He is officer.
Are you the Rider Raskolnikov?
Come with me. You're one of the headquarters.
You'll find out when you get there. Hurry up, be hungry all day.
Excuse me?
It's going.
What I want to know is who says they were drunk in my cafe and
fighting as far as I can judge every neighbor within the rage of a mile.
What do you want us to do? Go around talking in whispers. Why?
It's the most refined place in town? You ought to know you were there last week.
Please remember madam, I was there in my official capacity.
What do you want?
Why,
why have I been brought here? Hurry.
When your turn comes, he'll give you plenty of time if there was a disturbance
to go out to the person who caused it,
one of your own officers or we won't mention any names.
But in comes your fine captain drunk as a pig and all three bottles of champagne.
Then he lifts up one
like this and brings it down on my piano and starts to play it with his boot.
And when I ask him most politely, please, please not to break my piano.
He slapped me in the face.
Then he slaps on your r and he slaps louise and he slaps Matilda.
He slaps all my entertainers and then he chases me all over the house,
chase yourself over there and cool off.
What's your name? Who's calling me
Rascal
knee? Cough.
You owe your landlady 30 roubles and you refuse to vacate the premises.
Is that,
is that why I'm here?
Are you gonna pay or get out of peace
or must we throw you out?
I pay,
pay tomorrow
grand.
Do you hear?
It's a rum
thought you over at
that shouting. You realize where you are,
do you realize where you are?
See that
sign?
No smoking.
What are you doing with that thing in your face?
You
never know anything about it. Let me go. Let me go.
What's going on here
was the man that tried to sell the earrings. Yes.
We found him working in an empty flat under the old pawn bookers.
I know nothing
but I have no problem with him, sir.
Get him to talk. He knows who committed the murder.
Oh my gracious. He,
he's
ping.
I'm sorry.
The heat.
Who is that? He's a writer, sir. His name is uh just one moment.
Raskolnikov
said Raskolnikov
is just the man I want to see.
Yeah, wait a minute.
This is an unexpected pleasure.
Py
is mine and chief inspector.
You know what I did immediately after I read your article,
I wrote to the editor of current review to find
out the name of the genius who is the author.
I thought I knew something about crime
but I swear you put me and my staff in the kindergarten class,
come into my office. You'll find a little cooler there.
I'd like to have you help us on a brand new murder case.
It'll give you a chance to see how the
and plundering police work.
What do you mean? The policeman took him away? They arrested him. What for
the policeman came and took him away.
Come in, sit down,
an old pawnbroker was killed last night. A well known character by the name of Leona.
Bring the prisoner in BC.
I consider myself very fortunate to have you here.
You see, I have a feeling that you have a,
an instinctive understanding of criminal types
that might be more valuable than all the years of my experience.
You can leave us sit down
an obvious criminal type in my opinion.
What do you think?
Do you mean to say?
You can tell by looking at a man whether he's capable of crime in most cases? Yes,
the born criminal has certain facial characteristics that brand him immediately.
The difficult case is the normal person who
has driven the crime through passion or need
such a man. However, gives himself up in the end through fear,
fear of the law of God
and your ability to inspire fear must be a powerful weapon. Very
half the time it drives a man to us, saving us, the bother of going after him. And then
I wouldn't confess this openly.
But as one criminologist to another, we take credit for being inhumanly skillful.
So you were working in the empty flat underneath the pawnbrokers, huh?
Yes. Your honor. What time last night did you finish work at seven o'clock?
Your honor. Where did you go after you left? Work?
I just went to a place to get a drink. How long did you stay there?
Few hours. Well, what time did you get home?
About midnight?
You had blood on your clothes when you got home last night, didn't you?
Yes, your honor. How did it get there?
We, we were feeling happy, your honor and I, I banged on the table with my glass lava
and it broken and cut my hands.
What did you do when you got home?
I
want her to go to sleep. Your honor.
But, but my wife, she, she started to make a lot of noise, screaming and scolding.
So, so, so I beat her,
you beat your wife often.
Oh no, your honor. Not often.
About once a week.
This must be one of the extraordinary men you describe in your article.
You know,
I was very much amused the way you
classify all men in the ordinary and extraordinary,
ordinary men you say
must obey the law because well, because they are ordinary
but extraordinary men have a right to
transgress the law because they're extraordinary.
Is that right? Not exactly.
I maintain such a man should not be judged by ordinary standards.
For example, Napoleon, a
man may wipe out millions of lives. But if he builds an empire, no one condemns him.
Oh, come my friend. I doubt very much that Napoleon murdered this pawnbroker.
I'm glad my
theorist furnish you with a chance to be with it. Now, don't be so touchy.
You see, my friend, I'm a practical man. A
policeman.
I'm just wondering what instructions I'm to give my men
to help them in discriminating between the great men and the herd.
It would make it a lot simpler for us if they were to have some distinguishing mark
metal ribbon
or a resemblance to Napoleon
like yourself. For instance,
at what time did you get to work this morning?
Seven o'clock, your honor.
But you left your work immediately afterwards.
And at eight o'clock you tried to sell a pair of gold earrings. Yes.
Where did you get those earrings?
I found them. Exactly. Where did you find them
behind the door in, in the empty flat where I was working?
Did you ever see this before?
It's a poker book?
Oh, you know, it's a poker.
Have you ever seen this before?
No, sir.
Look at me.
You tied this package tightly pretending there was something in it.
You wanted to pawn
while she was bending over, trying to untie the knots.
You picked up a poker and struck her over the head.
Confess that you killed her.
Where's the rest of her property?
I know nothing.
We'll take him away.
The more I see of humanity, the more I marvel at its infinite variety.
The difference between a man and a monkey isn't as
great as the difference between one man and another.
You're right, my friend,
one man of genius is worth a million like you.
How'd you know if poker was used by the bungler?
Wiped the blood off the weapon on the victim's apron
from the crease in the cloth and the blood stains. We know it was a poker.
Now,
what do you say
you're the jury?
Is he guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty?
My king.
What makes you think? So?
He doesn't look guilty to me?
Then in your opinion, this man is innocent, in my opinion,
you have no case enough to send him to the gallows.
You're not going to send an innocent man to the gallows. Why? Now,
to be very honest, if I wanted to keep my record clear,
what about your conscience afterwards? Why should I bother with a conscience?
Let the murderer suffer from his conscience?
The real murderer. That is if this man who is innocent,
but I don't agree with you.
The criminal was just like the man. We've got a stupid coward.
Why? If he hadn't been in a panic, he would have found the old woman's money.
1500 roubles tucked snugly away in a mattress. The first place.
A competent and brainy criminal would have looked
instead he picks up a lot of junk that's of no use to him. Where is he going to unload it?
Half talk professor. This is your problem. Not mine.
You promised to show me some of your blundering police methods
and you certainly have.
Sorry, I can't give more assistance.
Good luck. Thanks.
Why did you call me professor?
Because
uh
you profess to know something about crime.
Uh Roger, what are you here for?
I didn't know what to think when I heard they arrested you.
I'll tell you all about it some other time. You've got to let me have some money.
Now's your chance. Of course, €30
not a penny more and not a penny less.
My mother and sister arrived. They did. Where are they? When can I see them
tonight? I'll wait for you at eight o'clock.
Um
Move along. What are you doing here?
Merely admiring myself.
I am an author. Uh
You look it
move on.
You're not going to push me away again.
And what's more
I'm going in to see the editor.
I want to see the editor.
You'll have to write for an appointment. The editor is a very important man.
So am I
just a minute? Have you got an appointment?
Where do you think you're going to see the editor? You better get out before you throw
you. I
want to see the editor.
What's all the rumpus
someone giving birth to an ideal? My name is Rs
Kolko.
He was trying to brush right in without an appointment.
Well, take a good look at him.
Let him brush right in any time he feels like it
come in, sir.
Do you know what I was doing last night?
Going over the letter that came in on your article?
Some of them are from the most important people in the country.
Why the chief police inspector of our own city wanted to know who wrote it.
I just left him. Really? He asked me to help him on a case. Have a cigar. No, thanks.
Support that. Thanks. When do we get your next article? There won't be any next one.
But what do you mean? You can't stop? Now,
the editor of the National Weekly wants me to do a series for that pirate.
Why doesn't he develop his own writers instead of sting
mine?
You're my discovery.
You didn't think enough of your discovery to put his name on the article.
I'll put your name on the cover if you wish
that parrot is willing to put my name on a check for 750 year
old.
I'll put it on a check for 1000.
How's that?
Or perhaps you prefer the cash.
I'll get it for you.
I'm sorry, you didn't get the idea of dropping in sooner.
Don't be astonished if you see a peculiar animal in a few moments.
It answers to the name of Mr Lucian who is Mr Lucian. He's two government officials
and I'm going to escort them both to the sidewalk.
Yes, sir. You're expected sir. Go right up.
Thank you, sir.
Look here, Roderick. I don't like mysteries. Tell me what's happened.
I've never seen you fling money around like this before.
You've got a new personality to say nothing of new clothes.
Only this morning you were borrowing 30 roubles from me.
Yes, sir. And I'm paying them back now. What's happened to you?
I have learned how not to be afraid. How did you do that? What difference does it make?
If you've discovered some formula for killing fear overnight,
you ought to keep it to yourself.
Publish it. You'll become a benefactor of humanity,
the devil with humanity.
Hello, mother.
You've got a new suit on Rhoderick.
How splendid you look
to meet you.
How do you do? We've been talking about you wondering when we'd see you
for me?
Thank you.
Oh,
Antonia. See who's here,
Antonia.
I thought I'd bring you some flowers. Thank you.
I'm so happy to see you again.
Mr Lucian. May I apologize for what happened the last time?
Of course, I'll accept your apology if you're very sorry, very sorry
and miserable.
I want to make a point of the fact that I am not one to be unforgiving.
Then, may I talk to my sister again? Stop your clowning Roderick.
You know, he didn't mean that seriously. Did you? Why? No, thank you.
You're very generous Dimitri. This is Mr Lucian. My sister's fiance,
your sister's what
fiance. You know, it's what you get married to
Mr Lucian isn't a day. Over 50 all he needs is a little exercise to get this done. Rodwy
Stop. That
he's a terribly important man. Six government positions. Imagine.
Where is it? It, it's too Roderick too.
I'm so sorry.
And you ought to see the ring he gave her.
Tony displayed
a diamond, 5 ft of a carrot.
You couldn't expect any less from a man with 10 government positions.
Could you Roderick? It's a very nice ring. And you know, I hate big stones.
You've been drinking. No, I have not. Yes, you have my dear.
For the sake of clarifying our future relationship.
I prefer not to be contradicted.
I believe you've come here with a deliberate intention of insulting me.
No, no, no emphatically. No, that's my hat. So it is.
You did it on purpose, correct again,
Antonio,
I insist for the last time that you choose
between me and this disorderly brother of yours,
you made it very easy for me to choose Mr Lucian.
Here's your 5/8 of a carrot ring.
And this is for my mother's hotel bill and this is for a new hat.
Your humble servant
that settles him. Roderick. Where did you get this money? Dmitri?
Where did you get that money? Search me. Where did you get it? Roderick?
All I had to do was ask for it. Take what you want.
Like cheat bluff, take life by the throat. Come on.
Let's go out and celebrate Mr Lucian's disposition.
I mean,
his final disposition to my ex future brother
in law and all his government positions.
May they increase and multiply
and may his Children if any be tax collected?
Oh,
by the way, Roderick, I'm about to ask your sister if I may call on her tomorrow.
Now that I've seen how you kick her suitors out. Do you object? Suppose I do?
All right. Here's a chance to stub your toes. Antonia. May I call on you tomorrow?
I'm afraid if I don't say yes,
you kick me out.
I,
according to this entry in her book, you visited the murdered woman on July the 11th.
Is that right? Yes, sir. At
what time
about seven o'clock
are these the articles you pawn?
Yes, sir. What do you do for a living?
How long have you been away from home?
About four months?
Any trouble with the police during that time?
No, sir.
You'd better take this Bible with you.
Thank you, sir.
Oh, just a minute.
Why you were doing business with the pawnbroker? Did you notice anyone else?
Someone came to pawn a watch while I was there a man or a woman, a man.
What did he look like? Can you describe him? Oh, yes, sir.
I even know his name Raskolnikov.
Oh,
you know him? Well,
no, sir. I've never seen him before.
Then I talked to him later as we were coming out and
I dropped a ruble and he helped me find it.
And then he, he gave my little brother some money.
How much?
Nine roubles I think was all he had. Generous. Oh, yes, sir.
He's the finest man I ever met.
Find out if Raskolnikov
still lives at the same address.
How often have you seen him since then?
Only once, sir, when I went to thank him for the money he gave my little brother.
So you know where he lives? I found out by asking the pawnbroker.
You saw her again too?
When was that? The next morning? She was very cross with me for bothering her.
Oh, she was, was she
the old hag? I dare say she deserved what she got. That's just what he said.
Then you did see him after the murder. Oh, no, sir.
He said things like that before she was killed.
What else did he say about it?
Do you remember the exact words? No, sir.
I'm not even sure that he said the things I told you.
I don't remember really.
He still lives at the same address, sir. He paid his landlady the 30 roubles.
He ordered the same morning. He was here.
That was the morning after the murder, wasn't it?
Uh Yes, sir. From my questions. You think I suspect your friend?
That's not. So
I have a very high regard for him.
You may go. Now,
I want to thank you
for this.
What are you doing? Here,
the inspector sent for me. He returned my Bible and asked me a few questions.
Did you want to know anything about me?
Yes. What did you?
I will see you later. Where do you live? On Catherine Street?
The first house from the bridge, on the second floor.
I'll be over to see you as soon as I'm through.
Uh, how are you, sir? Have a cigarette? No, sir.
You've not smoking. Yes, sir. Too bad.
I'll announce you to the inspector, sir. I'll announce myself
morning inspector. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.
I'm so delighted to see you again.
I'm not even going to ask if you had any special reason of coming here.
As a matter of fact, I have,
I was hoping this visit was an act of pure friendship.
Would you have a little brandy?
I never refuse
your health professor.
Thank you.
I've come to claim a watch that must have come into your possession.
You know, my possession. I hated to part with it, but uh,
necessity often gets the better of sentiment.
So I took it to the old woman to pawn
what old woman
pawnbroker
one we were talking about. Oh, did you have dealings with her?
You know, all about that by now? No, not at all. How should I
didn't you find my name in her book?
Let me see.
Oh, yes, to be sure. I don't know how I could have missed it.
You know, you're the first of our clients who has come here voluntarily, perhaps,
uh,
the answers are all afraid to
except for you. Not a Napoleon in the whole outfit.
Oh,
excuse me.
Thank you.
I'm sorry. But your watch isn't listed among the things we found in her place.
I'm afraid it's in the possession of the murderer.
I hope you will do all you can to get it back for me. I assure you,
I leave nothing undone to locate your watch.
Thank you.
I knew you'd feel that way about it.
Incidentally.
I'm wondering why you didn't mention your watch the day you were in my office
the day you fainted
one doesn't like to talk about going to a pawn shop.
Of course not.
I quite understand
something the matter with your eye.
Yes, it has a silly habit of twitching at the wrong moment.
I've no control over it really.
Or perhaps it was dazzled by the splendor of your new clothes.
Things have taken a turn for the better.
Yes. Things have taken a turn for the better.
How about another drink?
I'm sorry, you must leave so soon.
Going anywhere in particular.
I know I was going to visit my mother.
They say every great man owes his genius to his mother.
I should like to meet her.
This is Captain
Porfiry, chief inspector of all the police. My mother and sister.
How do you do? How do you do? I'm honored.
And this young man has practically been living here for the past two weeks.
We may need your help to throw him out. Don't be silly, Roderick.
We love having Dimitri here.
He seems to like this place. Maybe the police can tell me why
you don't need to take this for that
inspector
to the police. You're hitting it pretty hard today.
You know, you had two drinks in my office.
I'm glad Roderick your friend, the inspector mentioned it.
I've been worrying about it too. Yes.
Even Demetria has spoken of it, by the way, does your son faint easily?
I know. Have you ever known him to faint?
No.
The reason I asked about two weeks ago in my office,
they brought in a man suspected of murder at
the mention of the word murder. He fainted dead away.
I told you, why didn't I it's worth the heat and you were starving. Yes.
Too poor to buy fool.
Yet that very morning you suddenly produced 30 roubles and paid your rent.
Where did you get that money? If your giant man isn't equal to that mystery?
You might ask my friend,
he borrowed the 30 roubles from me.
When
so what is this? A cross examination? Yes.
He invites himself into my home and then he accuses me of murder, murder.
He committed murder. What are you talking about? Are you crazy?
Don't put words in my mouth.
I made no accusation and why all this, what have you against me.
The fact that I visited the PBR
and didn't tell you
that I fainted my new clothes.
Here's some money too.
Let your detectives look into that.
Roderick.
I don't think you should talk to the inspector like that.
Inspector. Inspect this.
No man could have the nerve to commit a murder.
Then sit in your office.
What you accuse another man
and tell you he's not guilty.
If I were the guilty man, I'd find a big stone with a hollow under it
and hide the loot for years.
Don't you think? I'd know you'd wait for the junk to appear
accuse me of murder if you like.
But don't insult me by believing that I had overlooked 1500 troops in a mattress.
Use your clumsy methods and have
it
like the poor fool whose life you are going to take to keep your record clear.
Well,
I must have been wrong.
I apologize. Excuse me. Say it again and say it loud.
Please. Excuse me.
I guess I was a little overzealous.
I'm still just a blundering policeman.
You're a health professor.
I've been waiting for hours. I thought you'd come sooner. I couldn't.
What did the inspector want to know?
Excuse me?
Can you tell me what the room is for rent next door?
But you'll have to see the landlady about it. Thank you.
I'm a stranger in the city and I must find a room somewhere tonight,
wasn't he? At the police station this afternoon.
I didn't notice you're following me. Who the police? Why, what have you done?
What are you afraid of? Nothing?
Sonia? Did you tell the inspector about meeting me at the pawnbroker's?
Yes.
And he knew all about my going there to plan a
watch.
Yes, I told him.
What else did you tell him?
Only about the money you gave us?
And then he wanted to know what, what else did you want to know
before I knew what happened? He made me tell him what you said
that you deserved to die.
I tried to take it back afterwards.
Why? Take it back?
I said it to him myself.
Why did you think you had to defend me?
You didn't kill her, did you?
I don't know why. But the thought went through me just now like a cold wind.
Forgive me.
If I thought you could do a thing like that, I wouldn't want to live.
What do you care
what I am or what I do?
I didn't tell you something else. The inspector made me admit
what
that you are the finest man I ever met.
I do this almost every night.
Come out here and look down at the water.
Sometimes the water seems full of stars
and then I feel I could let this bucket down and pull up a whole pailful of.
You're lonely,
aren't you?
You are too.
I wonder how many poor devils have found an answer to their questions down there.
If only the dead
could ever come back,
they have.
Remember the raising of Lazarus?
Are you happy to have your Bible back?
Would you like me to read the raising of Lazarus?
I can't understand you, Sonia. How can you continue living like this?
I believe in God.
What have you or I had to hope for out of life.
Don't take away my faith.
I need it.
Don't take away my unbelief.
I need that.
You couldn't be so blasphemous unless something were troubling you terribly.
Won't you tell me what it is?
I wish I could.
I can't. No,
I hope you'll pardon me? Col so early
I've been trying since yesterday morning to get in touch with you.
My name is Grillo.
Hasn't your sister ever spoken of me?
She was employed as governors in my home. Don't lie to me.
You're from the police, the police. I saw you yesterday at police headquarters.
I went there to find out where you lived.
I thought because of your work in criminology, they might know.
And afterwards you followed me, didn't you? I know.
I waited, hoping to see you when you came out,
but you were with the inspector and I didn't want to intrude.
So I went to the address. I heard that girl give you and rented a room there
feeling sure I'd run into you sooner or later.
I hope that clears me of our suspicion.
Me
Why did you praise me? What do you want
your assistance in clearing up a great injustice?
It is because of me that your sister lost her position.
It is because of me, that her good name was. Well, I'll be frank with you at the time.
This happened. I was very infatuated with Antonia but all that's over.
Why do you tell me all this? I want you to get a seat for me with your sister.
I know she won't see me.
Art, isn't it?
But did you expect her gratitude?
Hardly? That's why I came to you.
I want you to give her this.
My wife died and left some money to your sister. 500
roubles
to make up for her unjust suspicions.
All I'm asking is that you give her the money. Let me see her and apologize.
Haven't you ever committed a wrong?
If you have? You must know that the worst consequences are the
unforeseen ones.
It's like dropping a stone in a pool.
Waves spread out in all directions and touched shores. You couldn't see before
you're trying to buy your way into my sister's life again.
500 roubles and a lot of hypocrisy.
Well, you can't.
She's happy and she's forgotten you ever existed.
Your money comes too late and your apologies aren't wanted. Get out.
All right,
I'll see your sister and it won't cost me 500 roubles.
Hello? Someone I wanted to throw away.
Hm. Rather an aggressive gentleman.
You have powers of deduction again. Inspector. Now, don't rub it in.
So, this is where you live. Huh?
I knew I'd find a picture of Napoleon here
but Beethoven, what a strange pair.
You know, Beethoven dedicated the symphony to Napoleon.
And when he discovered Napoleon was a false God,
he tore up his dedication.
I wonder whether you will feel the same way someday. I doubt it.
But you didn't come here to improve my man. Did you? Now, look here,
I had to talk to you alone away from your family. Why?
To accuse me privately?
I'll admit I connected you with the murder of the old pawnbroker.
Not at our first meeting, mind you but later,
you know how a policeman's mind functions.
I began piecing things into a pattern,
your desperate poverty, your sister marrying for your sake.
You're fainting when the arrested man was brought in
all this talk about Superman being above the law
flashing all that money which I didn't know
until this morning came from your publishers.
You must concede. It would have looked pretty bad even to you
and you no longer connect me with this amateurish crime.
Please put the thought out of your mind once and for all,
buy a smoke, make yourself at home.
You know, I burn up 30 or 40 of these a day.
Nerves. That's all.
Would you believe it?
Every time I'm brought face to face with a guilty man?
I smoke.
I drum with my fingers,
face up and down the room and talk about all sorts of irrelevant things
just to avoid getting to the point.
Absurd, isn't it?
If this case isn't cleared up soon, I'm afraid I'm gonna have a breakdown.
I know what you were thinking.
You thought I was looking for a poker.
Nothing of the kind.
Why don't you say what you want to say? Instead of hounding me?
I don't hound a man I think is guilty.
I'll leave him alone.
I sit back and wait,
but I give him just a little hint that I know
all about his crime that I'm watching him night and day.
The chances are he'll try to escape
and that's when I like to catch him.
If he's in continual fear and suspicion,
he's bound to lose his head and do something
that will make his guilt as plain
as the fact that there's no poker in this room.
I must get back to my duties.
This isn't getting the murderer.
I wonder how far away from me he is at this moment.
Speaking of nerves,
I actually know of cases where the criminal has returned to the
scene of the crime as if he were drawn by a magnet.
Do something foolish and impulsive, like ringing a bell and running away.
It's strange, isn't
it? I must say for a great specialist in crime, you're not helping me very much
if you arrive at a conclusion. Come in to see me.
I'm always in at four o'clock,
you're early. I didn't expect you for an hour.
Oh, I forgot. You haven't your watch,
stop playing this cat and mouse game with me.
If you have a case against me, arrest me. Put me up for a time.
My dear fellow, don't, dear fellow. Me, I won't allow you to keep on torturing me.
I won't allow it.
I'm afraid your nerves are going to pieces.
You remind me of certain types connected with every important crime,
awful nuisances.
They get to thinking about it brooding over it
by some peculiar mental twist, they convince themselves that they're guilty
and then they come here like you
and insist that we put him in jail.
Get out in the open, take a walk, watch the clouds.
Let peace enter your troubled mind.
There's no greater blessing on this earth than peace.
If you were guilty,
the very last thing to do would be to throw
you in prison because that puts you out of suspense.
I let your mind regain its strength.
I might even deprive myself of the chance of getting further
evidence against you.
No, on a case like this,
I can afford to wait sooner or later the man
will come to me and confess because he wants peace.
Did you know that when a man voluntarily confesses
his sentence is reduced?
I may sound like a preacher,
but the truth remains that there is no prisoner still bound as a man's conscience.
Nothing that we could devise
is as horrible as the torture.
Conscience will inflict on a man.
Conscience,
day and night, waking and dreaming. Take your hands off me.
Why should it be my lot to break down a man?
What a profession
I should like. Nothing better than to get away from this clearing house of crime.
Take a walk in the country.
Uh, excuse me, inspector, didn't I tell you to leave me alone? Get out of here.
Get out before I pick am.
But the man is just confessed.
I confess. I am guilty. I am the man.
Oh
me,
you're lying. You didn't kill her. I tried those not.
I tell you, I eat all the head with poker.
I'm the.
Oh, you hated her?
Oh, you idiot. You didn't even know about her until we arrested you,
you didn't know anything about it until we beat it into you.
Take him away if he wants to go to Siberia that bad.
Behold.
Oh
wow.
I didn't expect that
good work inspector.
What a triumph for your methods
first. You make him confess and then you try to make him believe he's innocent.
Marvelous police department.
Let the man alone. Let his mind be at rest. Let his conscience be his prison.
What was that? Beautiful expression? Steel bound.
You should have been a writer.
Better take that walk in the country inspector. You need it.
Are you in a hurry.
No,
Sonia, I must talk to you.
I may never see you again. You're going away.
Where are you going?
I don't know then why?
Because
I am free now. Free from what? From the police? They
suspected me of murder,
but that's all over. Now,
Sonia
come away with me.
Let's leave all this.
We'll get out into the open
where there's peace. Did they find a guilty man?
He confessed this morning, who was it? The painter who worked in the house?
Why all these questions? Leave me alone. I've been questioned enough.
Put that away.
I don't want to be reminded of that old tag and it was a cave and a stone lay against it.
And he said, take away the stone. What stone, what stone are you talking about?
How do you know there was a stone?
It's a stone under which Lazarus was buried.
And Martha, the sister of Lazarus said, but he has been dead for four days.
And he said to her, if thou believes thou will see the glory of God.
And so they took away the stone
and he lifted up his eyes and said,
Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
And when he had thus spoken, he cried in a loud voice. Lazarus come forth
and he that was dead, came forth.
You shouldn't need to be.
Tell
me.
Hi.
Why did you do it?
I was mad on you.
I was mad.
What shall I do now?
I don't know what to tell you because you have no faith.
And if I did have faith,
then I would tell you to confess and atone for what you've done,
confess to the police.
How else can you save the one who is
being punished instead of you confess to the police
and rot in prison?
Is that fool's life so valuable to you? It's his life.
You've no right to take it away from him. Why do you think of him?
Why don't you think of me? I am thinking of you. You can't carry such a burden.
There'll be a greater punishment than,
than any the law can give you.
You can't stand it.
I'll get used to it.
I'm not as weak as you think
I was strong enough to commit a crime.
I'll be strong enough to live with it.
Will you let me kiss you before I go?
Antonio?
Do you see that door?
Sonia lives on the other side of it?
I listen
and I heard your brother tell her that he committed a murder.
You can't make me believe that
you made it up.
It's another one of your contemptible schemes. No, Antonio, I'm not lying.
Ask the girl yourself,
do you want me to call her in?
But you know it's true.
You must have noticed how strangely your brother's been behaving
the other day.
I went to see him and he was frightened out of
his wits because he thought I was from the police.
Antonio. I'll help you get him out of the country.
Anywhere you say
I have money and friends,
I'd do anything for you.
Anything.
I don't believe it.
I don't believe it. All right. Then
it's my duty to inform the police
open that door.
If you really loved your brother, you wouldn't force me to go to the police.
But you'll love your brother and you could love me too.
I know I made a bad start with it.
But things are different now.
We can be married
and go away together
would be happier than you've ever dreamed.
Tonia. Please keep away
from me.
That's the toy you used to keep in my home, isn't it? Keep away.
Please let me go.
Here's the key.
I hope you attend to search the place.
Not thoroughly, find what you were looking for, not here,
but downstairs into Paula's room, I found this poker.
I'm pretty sure it's the death weapon.
You see that bend,
it left an irregular stain on the apron which could
have been made only with a poker like this.
The porter tells me it was missing on the night of the murder.
It was returned later in his absence.
Furthermore, I'm certain when I have an exam I'll find bloodstains on it,
you know. Perfectly well, that isn't evidence enough.
I know that
perfectly well.
Anyway, if that is the poker you have a confession of a man who says he used it.
He doesn't know what he's saying.
He belongs in a hospital, not a prison.
You're the murderer.
You and nobody else.
You can't prove it.
You can never prove it.
Maybe I can, maybe I can.
But I'll make a deal with you
if you admit your crime.
Now, I'll stage it so that your confession will come as a complete surprise.
One of those last minute affairs to clear an innocent man,
there are plenty of extenuating circumstances.
The most you can get is a few years. I didn't do it.
How long do you think you can keep up this pretense
forever
for all eternity?
You're wasting your time.
Then I'm afraid I'll have to send an innocent man to Siberia.
Very likely to his death.
It's not my doing after all. It's yours.
I don't know how you feel about it, but it's a worse crime than the other
in its way. More cold-blooded and fiendish
and Napoleon might be able to carry that off. But you're not a Napoleon, my friend.
You're not hard enough.
I'm sorry for you.
I wouldn't be in your place for anything in the world.
Oh, by the way,
you once told me, if you had committed the crime, you would have looked for a big stone
with a hollow underneath
to hide what you stole.
If at some future time,
your nerves get the better of you and you're driven to some desperate measure.
Leave a little note behind telling me where the stone is.
I consider it a personal favor.
I took the liberty of coming through that door.
You really ought to keep it locked.
What's that for?
I suppose I owe you an explanation,
but I prefer not to give any.
You probably need the money.
I don't,
all I want to say is that I'm doing this for myself.
I overheard him telling his
his troubles to me,
tell him he need fear. Nothing from me.
What has he to fear from you or anybody else?
The only one he has to be
now is himself.
You are right. My child.
The only one a man ever need fear
is himself.
I must buy him.
I must buy him. Where is he?
No. Where
is
probably with his sister at the
Alexander Street Hotel?
Have you been crying?
No, mother,
the wind blew something to my eyes. You have been crying? What's happened?
Did you quarrel with Dmitri?
No.
Is it Roderick?
Roderick, something has happened to you.
Antonio knows and is afraid to tell me what is it?
Do you know?
What are you going to do?
I'm going away
leaving the country tonight.
Have you won enough?
Yes.
Oh, Roderick. Why did you do it? Why did,
yeah,
you'll take good care of. Mother, won't you?
We are going to Mad Dmitri.
Ok,
Tony.
After I'm gone,
be a friend to Sonia.
You haven't come to me like this since you were a little boy.
Remember
when you were about six
that a, your school books fell out of your hands,
they fell on one of the kittens.
Remember how you nurse it back to help?
You were such a sensitive boy,
so afraid of causing pain.
Remember how you asked me to tell God you didn't mean to do it.
And when I told God
you were so comforted, you fell into a peaceful sleep.
Roderick,
the greatest happiness a mother knows.
And when her Children come to her for comfort,
you believe that I am good, don't you? I know you are.
You know that I always wanted to help you and Tony, you've always been good to us,
Roderick.
No mother, I haven't
and I wanted to help you most.
I forgot you most.
When will I see you again
tomorrow? Perhaps?
I know he shouldn't come here. But I,
and you know it too. He's in trouble. What is it?
I can only tell you that he needs help if it isn't too late. Where did he go? Sonia?
You must stay here tonight.
I want to be your friend. I can't stay here. It may be too late.
I was fine.
Antonio, what has Roderick done? You must tell me
he can't have done anything wrong.
Tell me
he's only your brother now. He's my son. You must tell me mother,
remember that night we arrived?
That's what had happened?
What happened? Do you remember what the inspector said that day? He was here,
mother.
You did
it for us?
That
thanks.
What I
mean,
what are you doing here?
I've been looking everywhere for you.
Roderick. What are you doing here?
I don't know.
Thinking
of escape.
Not that way.
No,
that way. Seems too easy.
I,
last night
he wanted to kiss me.
I didn't want you to
the
sine and the saint
don't call me a saint. I'm only someone who loves you and you're not a sinner.
You didn't do it for yourself. It's no sin to destroy an ugly thing like a, a
black beetle.
You wanted to help others.
It was wrong for me to tell you to give yourself up.
Let's go away to a different country to someplace far off where people won't know us.
We've got money enough. It'd be easy to forget all we've been through.
I'll help you to forget. You'll become famous Roderick and I'll be so proud of you.
Forget everything. Even the man who is going to be condemned instead of me.
He's no man. He's an animal. It won't make any difference to him.
You're giving me back my own words
and they are ugly. They sound false. They're none.
I believe them.
You made me see myself
Napoleon,
a weakling who thought himself brave
who committed a cowardly deed
and called it an act of humanity.
You were going to pray, weren't you
you would like to pray
but you can't,
your prayers won't come.
Do you know why?
Because you've taken my sin on yourself.
I won't let you throw away your soul for me. But I love you
going on here.
If I go to Siberia,
will you wait for me?
Please let me go with you.
I'd go anywhere
with you.
Years will pass.
That could be.
I've been waiting for you.