1:31:00
Please step to the other end of the room?
1:31:02
- But nothing happens.
- Give it time. Run, Mommy, fast.
1:31:04
Anyone for a drink?
1:31:05
But, really, where does all this get us?
1:31:07
Remember, you said it was funny
that I didn't hear any sounds of a struggle?
1:31:11
Well, I did think that...
1:31:12
I didn't hear anything
because there was no struggle.
1:31:15
But all this: his broken wrist,
the shot he fired.
1:31:19
MacFay didn't fire that shot.
1:31:21
He was dead when it went off.
1:31:23
The murderer staged
this whole thing, just as I have...
1:31:25
to make it look as if there'd been a row.
1:31:27
This little trick gave him or her...
1:31:30
a chance to get away and get an alibi.
1:31:32
Well, that broken wrist
sort of eliminates a woman, doesn't it?
1:31:36
It's easy to break a dead man's wrist.
Even a woman could do that.
1:31:42
- Mrs. Bellam.
- Yes?
1:31:44
You were the last one to see Col. MacFay,
weren't you?
1:31:46
Yes.
1:31:47
- What time was that?
- About midnight.
1:31:50
But you can't say I did it.
He wasn't killed until 1:00.
1:31:53
You mean the shot didn't go off until 1:00.
We don't know yet when he was killed.
1:31:57
You were an old sweetheart of MacFay's,
weren't you?
1:32:00
- Weren't you?
- What's that got to do with it?
1:32:03
Maybe we'd better have
everybody in on this.
1:32:06
Try the second door down on the left.
The key's in the lock.
1:32:09
- Who is it?
- lf I know my perfumes...
1:32:12
it's Dorothy or Agnes
or whatever her name is.
1:32:15
I haven't done anything. You let me go.
I haven't anything to do with this.
1:32:18
- Then what are you doing here?
- I came to see Mr. Charles.
1:32:21
When I came to work for you,
I'd gotten out of prison.
1:32:23
- Good gracious.
- I was going straight.
1:32:25
I knew the police wouldn't believe me
after the killing, so I lit out.
1:32:28
But I couldn't rest easy.
I had to explain to Mr. Charles.
1:32:31
Why should an ex-convict,
seek employment...
1:32:33
in the home of a man
known to the world as a great detective?
1:32:35
Because he never refused a break
to anybody in his life.
1:32:38
I meant to prove to them
that I could make good.
1:32:40
I was going to tell them.
1:32:41
That's all right. I knew about you.
1:32:44
Wait a moment. Guild says this woman
was the one at Chestevere Apartments.
1:32:47
I'm afraid for once
the Lieutenant is wrong. She wasn't.
1:32:51
Look, Nickie, it's smoking.
1:32:56
It worked.
1:32:59
Give me that rod.