:27:00
Every-time I buy a dress
or a pair of shoes he yells his head off.
:27:03
He won't let me go anywhere.
:27:04
He keeps me shut up.
He's always been mean to me.
:27:07
Even his life insurance
all goes to that daughter of his.
:27:11
- That Lola.
- Nothing for you at all, huh?
:27:13
No. And nothing is just
what I'm worth to him.
:27:17
So you lie awake in the dark
and listen to him snore and get ideas.
:27:21
Walter, I don't want to kill him.
I never did.
:27:24
Not even when he gets drunk
and slaps my face.
:27:30
- Only sometimes you wish he was dead.
- Perhaps I do.
:27:33
And you wish it was an accident
and you had that policy. For $50,000.
:27:37
- Is that it?
- Perhaps that too.
:27:41
The other night we drove home
from a party. He was drunk again.
:27:45
When we got into the garage...
:27:46
he just sat there with his head
on the steering wheel...
:27:48
and the motor still running.
:27:51
And I thought what it would be like
if I didn't switch it off
:27:55
...just closed the garage door
and left him there.
:27:58
I'll tell you what it would be like...
:27:59
if you had that accident policy,
and tried to pull a monoxide job.
:28:01
We have a guy in our office
named Keyes.
:28:04
For him a set-up like that would be
just like a slice of rare roast beef.
:28:07
In 3 minutes
he'd know it wasn't an accident.
:28:08
In 10 minutes
you'd be sitting under the hot lights.
:28:11
In half an hour
you'd be signing your name to a confession.
:28:13
But Walter,
I didn't and I'm not going to do it.
:28:15
Not if there's an insurance company
in the picture, baby.
:28:17
They know more tricks
than a carload of monkeys.
:28:19
And if there's a death mixed up
in it, you haven't got a prayer.
:28:22
They'll hang you as sure as
ten dimes will buy a dollar.
:28:25
And I don't want you to hang, baby.
:28:30
Stop thinking about it, will you.
:28:36
So we just sat there, and she started
crying softly, like the rain on the window
:28:40
and we didn't say anything. Maybe she had
stopped thinking about it, but I hadn't.
:28:46
I couldn't. Because it all tied up with
something I had been thinking about for years
:28:50
since long before I ever ran into
Phyllis Dietrichson.
:28:54
Because, in this business you can't sleep
for trying to figure out the tricks...
:28:59
they could pull on you.