1:27:00
- what would you do?
- Nothing. Nothing at all.
1:27:03
I see. Well, thank you very much.
1:27:05
- You mean you'd let him get away with it?
- Well, we'd have to.
1:27:08
You can't try a man
for the same crime twice.
1:27:11
If he's acquitted, he could boast about it
and we couldn't touch him.
1:27:14
- And that was Church's plan.
- What was?
1:27:16
He advertised himself as the murderer,
while his accomplice did the dirty work.
1:27:21
He takes a house on Long Island.
1:27:22
He threatens MacFay,
terrorizes the household.
1:27:25
After the murder, he disappears...
1:27:27
still calling attention to himself
as the killer.
1:27:29
When things look blackest for him,
he walks in here, inviting me to take him.
1:27:34
His plan was to get tried for that murder,
spring a last-minute alibi...
1:27:37
and walk out of that court scot-free.
1:27:39
You mean that he had this alibi
all the time?
1:27:42
Yes, but he didn't want us to know it.
1:27:44
That's why Dum-Dum beat up a drunk
last night when he tried to tell me.
1:27:47
- You did?
- Was that it? Was that why you hit him?
1:27:50
I hit him because he start a fight.
1:27:53
Maybe Vogel will tell us.
He didn't want it known either.
1:27:55
What are you trying to pull?
1:27:57
Your men jumped him, too.
1:27:59
Were you in on this?
1:28:00
You think I'd be in on a thing
with that rat?
1:28:02
Looks bad for you, Vogel.
1:28:04
You were down on the Island.
You knew the set-up.
1:28:06
You tried to keep Smitty from talking.
Your men threatened me.
1:28:09
- Told me if I didn't lay off...
- My men? What men?
1:28:12
The ones who dropped that chip
at the West Indies Club last night.
1:28:15
- Come on, Diamond Back, spill it.
- Okay.
1:28:19
I run a place uptown.
1:28:22
It's... Well, it's a place.
1:28:24
Get what I mean,
or should I wait for my lawyer?
1:28:27
We get it. You don't want to admit
you run a gambling joint. Go on.
1:28:30
The night before last, Church comes in
and sits in for two and a half hours...
1:28:34
including the time MacFay
was killed on the Island.
1:28:36
Then you helped him get his alibi.
1:28:38
I tell you I wasn't in this with him.
1:28:40
I didn't know what was going on.
1:28:42
Then why did you keep it quiet?
1:28:44
That night a bunch of my best customers
were there.
1:28:47
A bank president. Big guys like that.
Big and respectable.
1:28:51
If they admit in court they were there,
they may as well cut their throats.
1:28:55
So I'm out to get the guys who can spill it.
1:28:58
And your men were out to get me,
thank you.