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Let us examine this so-called accident.
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First, your husband takes out
this policy in absolute secrecy. Why?
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Because he doesn't want his family
to suspect what he intends to do.
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Do what?
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Next, he goes on this trip entirely alone.
He has to be alone.
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He hobbles all the way out
to the observation platform,
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very unlikely with his leg in a cast,
unless he has a strong reason.
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Once there, he finds he is not alone.
There is a man there.
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- What was his name, Keyes?
- His name was Jackson. Probably still is.
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So he gets rid of this Jackson
with some flimsy excuse about cigars.
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- And then he is alone. And then he does it.
- Does what?
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He jumps. Suicide.
In which case the company is not liable.
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You know that, of course.
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Now we could go to court...
1:05:43
I don't know anything.
In fact I don't know why I came here.
1:05:47
Just a moment, please. I said we could
go to court. I didn't say we want to.
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What I want to suggest
is a compromise on both sides.
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A settlement for a certain sum,
a part of the policy value...
1:05:56
Don't bother, Mr. Norton.
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When I came in here I had no idea
you owed me any money.
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You told me you did.
Then you told me you didn't.
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Now you tell me you want to
pay me a part of it, whatever it is.
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You want to bargain with me,
at a time like this.
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I don't like your insinuations about my husband
and I don't like your methods.
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In fact I don't like you,
Mr. Norton.
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Goodbye, gentlemen.
1:06:19
Nice going, Mr. Norton.
You sure carried that ball.
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Only you fumbled on the goal line.
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Then you heaved an illegal forward pass
and got thrown for a forty-yard loss.
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Now you can't pick yourself up
cause you haven't got a leg to stand on.
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I haven't eh?
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- She can go to court
and we can prove it was suicide.
- Can we?
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Mr. Norton, the first thing
that hit me was that suicide angle.
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Only I dumped it in the
wastepaper basket just 3 seconds later.
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You ought to take a look
at the statistics on suicide sometime.
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You might learn a little something
about the insurance business.
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Mr. Keyes,
I was raised in the insurance business.
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Yeah. In the front office.
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Come on, you never read
an actuarial table in your life, have you?
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I've got ten volumes on suicide alone.
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Suicide by race, by color,
by occupation, by sex,
by seasons of the year, by time of day.