:17:02
We believed your $200.
:17:03
You mean--
:17:04
You paid us more
than if you'd told the truth...
:17:07
...and enough more to make it all right.
:17:09
Tell me, Mr. Spade,
am I to blame for last night?
:17:12
You warned us that Thursby
was dangerous.
:17:14
You lied to us about your sister
and all that, but we didn't believe you.
:17:18
No, I wouldn't say that you were at fault.
:17:20
Thank you.
:17:22
Mr. Archer was so alive yesterday...
:17:24
-...so solid and hearty, and--
-Stop it.
:17:27
He knew what he was doing.
Those are the chances we take.
:17:30
Was he married?
:17:31
Yeah, with $10,000 insurance, no children,
and a wife that didn't like him.
:17:34
-Please don't.
-That's the way it was.
:17:37
Anyway, there's no time for worrying
about that now.
:17:40
Out there's a flock of policemen
and assistant DAs...
:17:43
...running around with their noses
to the ground.
:17:46
Mr. Spade, do they know about me?
:17:49
Not yet. I've been stalling 'em
until I could see you.
:17:52
Do they have to know?
:17:53
Can't you shield me so I won't have
to answer their questions?
:17:56
Maybe, but I gotta know
what it's all about.
:17:59
I can't tell you.
:18:02
I can't tell you now.
:18:05
I will later, when I can.
:18:07
You've got to trust me, Mr. Spade.
:18:10
I'm so alone and afraid.
:18:13
I've got nobody to help me
if you won't help me.
:18:16
Be generous, Mr. Spade.
:18:18
You're brave. You're strong.
:18:20
You can spare me some
of that courage and strength, surely.
:18:23
Help me, Mr. Spade. I need help so badly.
:18:25
I've no right to ask you, I know I haven't,
but I do ask you.
:18:29
Help me.
:18:31
You won't need much of anybody's help.
You're good.
:18:34
It's chiefly your eyes,
and that throb you got in your voice...
:18:37
...when you say things like,
"Be generous, Mr. Spade."
:18:40
I deserve that.
:18:42
But the lie was in the way I said it,
not at all in what I said.
:18:48
It's my own fault
if you can't believe me now.
:18:52
Now, you are dangerous.
:18:54
I'm afraid I won't be able
to be of much help to you...
:18:57
...without some idea of what it's about.
:18:59
For instance, I've gotta have some sort
of a line on your Floyd Thursby.