1:02:01
Take her home.
1:02:05
So, Germain, going on the warpath?
1:02:09
I'm sickened.
1:02:11
If I had a chance,
I wouldn't hesitate.
1:02:13
But if the police failed...
- They couldn't succeed.
1:02:17
They're looking for someone
with logical motives.
1:02:20
That's stupid!
1:02:22
A poison pen acts
on much more mysterious motives
1:02:27
that are incomprehensible
to the average man,
1:02:30
and even more so
to the average policeman.
1:02:35
In all the cases I've studied,
1:02:38
the culprits suffered
from the same complex:
1:02:41
All were more or less sexual perverts.
1:02:45
- Old maids.
- Yes, people like my sister-in-law.
1:02:49
Or widows, impotent men,
1:02:51
ugly old men, cripples.
1:02:55
A disability, even when hidden,
1:02:58
often leaves a secret wound
that can fester.
1:03:05
Hello, Mr. Vorzet.
1:03:15
- So, my dear fellow...
- Sorry.
1:03:19
So you think the Raven...
1:03:20
The case of the Raven
is more complicated.
1:03:24
In two months, he composed
850 letters in capital letters.
1:03:30
I'm wondering if a single person,
1:03:32
even with a good deal of leisure,
could have done all that.
1:03:38
Then there are strange cases
of domestic contagion,
1:03:42
where you have a husband and wife,
1:03:45
or a brother and sister,
1:03:47
bent over nightly in the lamplight,
writing poison-pen letters.
1:03:55
What are you thinking?
1:03:57
I know. lt occurred to me, too.