"Come in, Frank." "I didn't know my father was supposed to knock too." "He doesn't have to,he does it out of good manners." "But he's your husband!" "Even a husband can be good mannered." "I'll take something to study from your pharmacy" "I've made breakfast" "Eden hasn't come alone today" "Want me to bring it up to you?" " No, I'II come down at once." "Has Frank gone?" "Ages ago, don't you know what time it is?" "The Corridor..." " The corridor of the flat next door." "I don't know how i knew that" "I've never set foot in that place." "And then there is no place with such a long corridor" "That's the corridor of the flat next door" "You have already dreamed about it" "Before, and eventually, at the end of the corridor" "You see a person, always the same person..." " Julia Durer!" "Your next door neighbor." "The woman who lives in that flat" "In you dreams you always see her dressed as a striptease artist or a prostitute" "In fact that woman for you represents degradation, vice" "A flat next door is a symbol of vice" "You've refered to that woman before as someone who is not quite respectable" "No, She certainly isn't" "That's it" "Your conscience forces you to disapprove of that woman's way of life" "Perhaps, at the same time her freedom excites you curiousity" "You feel attracted" "This conflict which is responsible for your state and anxiety explains the recurrence of your dream" "What is this those neighbours of yours up to?" "Sounds like a football match..." "carol..." "Brandy?" " No, thanks, Daddy." " You know, you should." "If you got a little drunk every night instead of spending all that money on Dr. Kerr" "It would certain cure your insomnia." "Look, my boy, why don't you take her away for a bit?" "You know a little trip might do her the will of good." "Don't you think?" "She is tempt to go alone." "During her exams" "And?" "Who's going to look after the chambers when you're away for the elections" "Think it over." "Straight on" "It's all this chilly weather that making my arthritis play up" "Morning, Gerard" "I'll tell you what i'll do" "I'm going to my house in Greenfield for a while to prepare for the elections speeches (?" ")" "That use me defending Tommy tomorrow" "I don't suppose you've been mad about the idea" "Oh, Come on, You're not another substitute, you're like my partner" "You know, why otherwise you think your name is the secong one in chambers?" "Because I've married your daughter and you adore her" "Come off it" "It isn't.. it isn't tie i am worried about" "It has shares the least of my worries at the moment" "Well, it's that journey to Harbourville." "Haven't you got a conference within this evening?" "That's no problem." "I was to go on Harbourville tonight and see you tomorrow morning" "Quite a district" "Yes, an hour and a half by car." "The hearing's at ten, that means i have to leave tomorrow morning at seven." "It's certainly be good to find some place to stay tonight" "Well then, you'd better be off" "Well?" "Mrs Smith?" "Well, who is she?" "What?" "Personal?" "No, no, put her through" "Yeah" "Now, who are you?" "If you can't be more precise than that I'm not interested" "A member of my family?" "But who?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Why don't you have dinner with Carol tonight?" "Yes, i know" "Well, i have to go." "By the way, Frank" "You're not been unfaithful to Carol, are you?" "You're joking?" "Of course" "Yes Of course." "You killed Julia Durer..." "By killing Julia, you killed the part of yourself, the part attracted to degradation and vice." "The conflict is been resolved by an act of violence a firm decision, all of which shows we had dealing exclusively with a liberating dream" "Even the...our appearances in the paintings surrounding you and your house have a specific meaning of liberation" "But.." "What about the ones on the balcony?" "The two hippies" "They were part of you as well" "You wanted witnesses for your crime forcing you to leave proof" "This action has certainly produced in your subconsious" "The removal of a block which will surely give us good results" "Dr. Kerr, don't you think I should somehow make it up to Julia Durer?" "By Lambeth Palace road to Belgrave square Arrive in ten minutes" "Details as follows:" "Name:" "Julia Durer, British national" "When was she killed?" " Last tuesday, judjing by the body During monday midnight, tuesday morning" "Six to four that's Scolton's report" " You're right!" "Well, twenty-four hours isn't a lot much time" "Not if there was, it's tuesday and the body wasn't on the plate..." " And today is saturday." "Should be a law against finding bodies on a saturday." "Didn't a cleaning lady come to visit her lately?" "Twice a week but she didn't have the key" "She didn't bother too much on Wednesday" "Ms Durer was always getting off for a few days without letting her know" "But this morning she noticed the bad odeur." "She ruined our week-end." "Good morning, Inspector." "Excuse me, Inspector Corvin?" "I'm Lowel, of the scientific squad." "Since when?" " Last week.." "I was in Animal Cruelty Division" "Very encouraging!" "Heroin." "If anyone give themselves a dose with that, they'd jump the sound barrier." "The boy has wit" "Inspector, the body is in the other room." "Ask it to wait" "Any other drugs?" " A bit of everything... hashish, LSD, cocaine, marijuana" " What about the neighbors?" "Oh, Ms Durer never speaked to any of them" "In fact according to the cleaning lady, they tried to avoid her" "The neighbours, Brandon Talk to every bloody one of them" "But do it nicely" "There's woman in one of the flats who headman Brighten's daughter" "Alright, sir Did you know this Durer?" "I said Did you know Julia Durer?" "We certainly didn't know her." "Excuse me but I don't think we'll be able to give you any help in this murder." "Murder?" "I didn't say that it was murder" "What makes you think that it was?" "Oh, Come on, sergeant The whole house is crowding with policemen" "Murder squad, scientific squad, drug squad, and all the rest" "Don't tell me that all this carry-on when someone slips on the banana skin and happens to split their skull" "There are times however when we have to be sure of that somebody didn't leave a skin there on purpose" "In any case, the murder was committed on Monday late at night or else on Tuesday morning or afternoon, probably Monday night" "Do any of you remember anything out the way?" "You know, screams, sounds of fighting" "Out struggle" "Monday night?" "No, just a thunder" "No, that was a storm" "Do you?" "Mrs Hammond Mrs Hammond" "No, i don't Just a thunder" "Well, if you think of anything at all Doesn't matter how insignificant" "Carol!" "Carol!" "Monday night" "The night of the storm" "The night...the night Frank went to Harbourville" "Yes that night" "Yes, I remember, because my windscreen wiper broke And i had to stop" "Julia Durer?" "Yes" "Of course" "Yes Right away" "It's our neighbor, Julia Durer." "Is that the one who's always making so much noise?" " She's been murdered." "I'm not surprised" " Joan says Carol is very upset." "But i don't see.." "You'd better go to her Frank." " Yes." "She's turned the place upside down." "She's gone crazy trying to find her fur..." "The Gordon woman from the third floor phoned." "She said julia Durer was strangled, found haIf-naked with a fur next to her." "You didn't bring the paper, Frank?" "You always bring it." "The paper, carol?" "Oh yes, I'm sorry I did bring it." "I must have put it somewhere, I'II look for it later..." "What are you trying to hide from me!" " carol!" "Stop thinking about it!" "I'd Iike to...but it's not easy..." "with everything going on over there." "Allo, Mrs. Hammond is dining, Mrs. Gordon." "Then don't bother her." "tell her she can call me back." "I'II be home." "I need to talk to her." "I have to tell her something very, very important." "Yes." "Mrs. Gordon?" "hello, dear." "Did I bother you?" "Have you had a chance to read the paper?" "No, I haven't read any of them yet." "Why?" "I gave you the wrong information...in the confusion I guess I misunderstood..." "That good-for-nothing, yes, Durer, was not strangled." "No, my dear, not at all." "They stabbed herthree times, each one of the stabs fatal." "It says so quite clearly in the paper." "At what time would you Iike the car, ma'am?" " Shut up, idiot!" "..." "Oh, sorry!" "Two of them in the middle of her chest and one slightly beneath the first two." "And with a letter opener!" "Can you imagine what a horror that was." "A beastly murderer can't be ....." "Carol!" "Carol!" "carol." "What are you doing?" "Did something happen?" "The letter opener!" "Oh, Frank, it's not possible." "Not possible that even my letter opener has disappeared." "I have to find it..." "She was killed with just that, a letter opener." "Just like I killed her in the dream, in the same way!" "Mrs. Gordon said she was stabbed three times in the chest." "I stabbed her with the letter opener three times in the chest too!" "That's absurd, carol." "Absurd!" "Oh, Frank." "help me Frank!" "help me!" "I'm begging you!" "Why do you want to see the body, Mr Hammond?" "Well, for no specific reason." "She was our neighbor" "That's alright." "You really want to see it..." "Follow me." "Here, have a drink, it'II pick you up." " Thanks." "This fur coat mean anything to you, Mr Hammond?" "No" "Your wife's looking for you, sir." "Carol?" "She's in the hall." "Carol!" "Inspector Corvin!" "There's something here i think you should see, sir." "Madam!" "Carol!" "You think you enjoyed it here?" "Carol!" "Come on, give me hand, get her out of here" "They say the body was found in exactly the same position" "She may just have imagined it" "You can dismiss that." "But what about the rest?" "Could you find some excuse for getting them to show you Corvin's report?" "You'll recognise the fur coat and that paper knife yourself." "That's ridiculous." "There's no other word for it" "We can find some details, anything." "There's must be some explanation: i wonder if someone's trying to drive her out of her mind." "Someone who is capable of guessing her dreams." "You really believe that?" "Is it possible?" "There's nothing even remotely possible in anything you've been telling me" "You know, if she was my daughter i'd know exactly what to do" "If somebody came to me with a story like that I'd kick him off the place..." "As i see it, my friend, this led is a direct out of the way this woman Durer lived" "She's on the stage, took drugs, had friends that all walks alive, keep on questioning them and you'll find that some of them will start spilling" "That's alright if that's what you want" "They can find plenty to say" "Those sort of people love talking about anything at all" "I doubt what you got anyway on that direction?" "Well, what direction do you have in mind?" "I don't know" "The only sure thing we've got to go is another fingerprints." "The paper knife, the fur coat, the white scarf, they're all covered with them." "What we need is to find the woman who owns it..." " Is it your intuition?" "Or do you have a good reason for saying it's a woman?" "The fur coat didn't belong to the victim." "So you it belongs to the murderer's..." "But who's to say the cleaning lady wasn't wrong about the coat." "True, there's no label on it" "And don't forget, my friend, she didn't recognize the boots either." "And Julia Durer had them on." "They were brand new, you can see that by the soles.They've just been bought." "Chief Inspector McCallard ..." "Yes, Inspector Corvin is here with me..." "Oh Good!" "Splendid!" "Come along, inspector." "It looks as all we've got is in the back." "Accidentally, it's a man" "Bye, sweetheart" "Name is Harry Smith, sir Gives his age as 23 years old, height 6 feet, red hair." "Irish." "And he says, he comes from Longford." "Checked the fingerprints?" "No, not yet, sir But he's confessed to it." "He's all yours, super intendant" "So you confessed, have you?" "Well, Let us hear all about it, friend." " I did it to avenge my brother George." "My brother George..." " Facts first!" "..." "The inspector wants to know how you killed her." "She was standing there, in front of me, in her fur coat." "Her fur coat.." "She had the coat on?" "Oh sure She had it done alright the fur coat ..." "the coat and the boots All black they were" "So i said to her: take it off, doll So, she takes it off" "Not a bloody stitch on!" "She wasn't wearing a white silk scarf?" "." " No no, nothing at all" "Well...eh..." "Only black panties and the boots." "She was beautiful, naked like that..." " Alright, alright, you've made your point" "So, then i say to her:" "'Remember my brother George?" "'" "And I plunged her with dagger!" "The paper knife?" "The paper knife?" "Oh no, i brought the paper knife there just to confuse the issue" "It was George's dagger I stuck it fair into her belly Right up to the hilt" "Then I twist it, i twist it!" "i twist it!" "You don't believe me?" "You don't believe me I can see it in your faces!" "Then look." "Look." "Her guts, man I've got her own bloody guts." "Well, What do you think of that?" "Here" "Hello, Britania..." "No, it is my brother George!" "It is my brother George!" "Keep up the good work" "You!" "Will enjoy working in animal Cruelty Division" "Carol, let's go" "Carol?" "Carol?" "But what do you want to ask them?" "If they happen to walk into your dreams?" "Joan, please!" "..." "I'm going completely mad..." "Carol, make up your mind!" "All these people..." "Stay here" "Well?" "Nothing." "How could you think of it?" "You mustn't let these dreams get the better of you." "There's one explanation." "They knew Julia Durer." "They went several times to her flat." "You've must have met them when they were going in or coming out" "Can't you even remember it yourself?" "Did they tell you they knew Julia Durer?" "I don't know if they did or not." "It's all i guessed." "Joan!" "Hi, Dave Berry" "Now, here we have a photograph of the victim's body, and below it that is the murder weapon," "I.." "I would like you to turn your attention to discovery which we consider is very important to the case" "It is this, inspector Corvin The tweed sole of a shoe or bare foot will always leave a print even after wiping your feet thouroughly, if you..." "if you understand me" "And that prints can be picked up." "And it was raining that night." " exactly!" "So any person that night left prints behind you see." "I want you now to take a look at that photograph taken with our special camera and as you see it very detailed" "Now..now, look at the pins They indicate exactly the footprints we found" "As you see, they're covered wide end" "Smart work." " And nothing of no particular, inspector!" "You mean somewhere among these are the prints of a murderer." " No..." "Why not?" " Well, I wouldn't say so, sir" "In fact, in this photograph we've looked at They're all over the place" "Except here, around the victim's bed." "In fact, in this area, inspector there are no wet footprints whatsoever." "And that's where the body was." "Exactly, inspector And as i already pointed out there are no wet prints anywhere around the bed" "So even now conclude that none of these people left footprints with bed of victim" "So it's clear that none of them could have killed her" "Unless, of course, they took their shoes off..." "That is quite possible." "But there's of course a much simpler explanation" "That the murderer's feet were dry So they didn't leave any prints" "It means he didn't come from the outside, but from the inside" "Maybe not the flat, but the same building." "This certain narrows the field a bit" "All you have to do is check, Brannon" "Like always of course, from top to the bottom." "Excuse me, i'm hoping you can help us Just try to remember if you have seen this face before" "Please look very carefully" "Mrs Hammond" "May i see it please?" "Certainly, sir." "Never seen him before" "Inspector, these are been blown up as you requested" "The thumb prints of a persons who handled the photograph." "Ok, Carry on" "Now, look carefully and you'll see that this one matches exactly the thumb print we found on the paper knife" "There, you see A perfect match." "Alan?" " Yes, inspector" " Well?" "The thumb prints you've just seen is identical with that found on the paper knife." "It's just been taken from a photograph marked with a letter B" "And this one was a photograph handled by Mrs Carol Hammond." "Mrs. Hammond, remember that anything you say will be taken down and then be given an evidence" "You want to know if I killed her!" "Listen, Carol..." "Forget i'm a lawyer, i'm asking you as your father whatever you may have done, all i want is to help you to get out of this mess" "But to do that i must know the exact truth" "The truth..." " Please..." "Father, there's only one thing i can tell you." "One." "I wouldn't kill her!" "That's all i wanted to know!" "I didn't kill her." "When a judge grounds bail if a figure that high" "You got to have doubts about it." " He's fortunate." "There's a bloody big war around me." "I can see anyway around it" "But the evidence, inspector." "All that stuff is full of her prints" "The paper knife, the fur coat are hers." "Yeah, there's a proof, alright." "The fingerprints" "But not much of a motive." " Well.." "Do you know that Mrs. Hammond has been on psychoanalysis for some time?" "That means she could escape punishment if they succeed in passing it up she's mad." "I wouldn't know." "But i do know if i can't find some real logical motive, i'll end up with have nuts myself." "By killing Julia, you killed the part of yourself, the part attracted to degradation and vice." "The conflict has been resolved by an act of violence a firm decision, all of which shows..." "Well." "That should do, i think." "You see, Carol had no reason for the hate Julia Durer, And, obviously, she wouldn't want her to be killed." "It was her ego." "And you expect us to convince a jury that it wasn't Carol, it was her ego?" "Very often, Mr. Brighten The truth comes to light in very odd colours" "And it's a duty of science to intervene.." "well..in common sense" "Yes The facts all fit in with the Barthelmy case" "The opinion of the experts was conlusive" "The court accepted the view that Arthur Barthelmy was..." "when he killed his sister in a state of total unconsciousness" "I remember that case" "Split personality..." "So Arthur Barthelmy was acquitted!" "All of which shows that we're dealing exclusively with a liberating dream." "A dream!" "..." "Of course at the time I had believed that i was interpreting a dream." "Neither Carol nor I could have thought that it was a tragic reality." "Carol is still convinced it was a dream." "Yes, it's possible." "The images of what happend the other night are stored in her memory, unreal element supplied by the fantasies of the unconscious, generally occured in dreams as symbols" "Yes, like the green field and the bird that followed her around" "Exactly." "Take her love seeds with Julia Durer which represents the love-hate relation" "And then, probably, those two hippies..." "Listen:" "What about the ones on the balcony?" "The two hippies" "They were you as well" "What did you mean by saying "very probably the two hippies"" "Theoretically, they could also find a place on a list of real elements" "You mean that they might have been witnesses to the murder actually can be did by my daughter" "Split personality or not then how do you explain the fact that they've never come blackmail her?" "Give me a light please?" "Thanks" "When did Carol tell you?" "The last time i saw her in the clinic." "The idea of keeping her shut up in the clinic to wait for the trial ln her condition she needs absolute quite and rest before getting back her strength I can imagine the rest and quiet." "She'll just worry herself to death." "You see, she's been thinking about other case, the ones like hers" "By the way, Frank How did she ever hear about Barthelmy?" "She used to work in her father's practice at the time of the Barthelmy case." "She's just graduated" "And what does it meant for you?" "He said that if she was in a practice, she'd have made a great lawyer" "But does he accept his line of defense?" "He didn't believe it." "But he had to admit it." "That Barthelmy got off." "And you, Frank, what do you think?" "It really was most unfortunate, Mr. Hammond" "And I do assure you that whoever left that door open will be punished." "But i wonder if Mrs. Hammond would mind being a little less curious." "Someone was chasing me... lt was one of our male nurses." "Unintentionally gave you a fright" "No... before that..." " I saw him..." "Hallucinations!" "..." "But, darling, nobody saw hippy wandering in the park and, you know, they really did search the place" "Well, i did I did!" "Hallucination actually means that one believes what one sees" "But I wasn't even thinking of hippy at that moment." "I was very quiet Very relaxed" "Alright!" "So you were quiet and relaxed Sitting up there, in your chair" "And, let's suppose you really saw him" "Do you you know who he was?" "He was the one with the red hair The hippy you remember from your dream" "That is the only reasonable explanation, you know." "Be calm, Mrs. Hammond, be calm." "But it was him. I tell you." "It was him!" "I want the truth, Frank." "How long is this been going on?" "You know i've met Deborah after a few days I arrived in London. I was broke, completely broke." "She'd been very nice to me." "Remember, she asked you to take me to your chambers?" "I asked you how long she has been your mistress?" "Two years." "You have a very good memory, Frank. I'm sure you remember that the day before the murder, we were in here together while i had a telephone call..a rather strange call that made me ask you a question." "Yes." "You asked me if I've been unfaithful to Carol." "And you then asked me if I was joking." "Maybe, I was joking Frank, but you won't" "What do you mean?" " Mm.." "Just try this for size as a theory." "Suppose that telephone call came from Julia Durer," "That she knew about your affair and she was blackmailing you." "Afterall, she didn't know that she only has to open her mouth and our professional association would've ended like that." "Nobody has ever blackmailed me." "No?" "Well, let's suppose, Frank" "Afterall, it would've provided a plausible motive, wouldn't it?" "For what?" "Killing Julia Durer?" ".." "That's ridiculuous!" "Well, is it?" "To kill Julia Durer and put the blame on Carol." "That's crazy!" "You're forgetting your Carol's fingerprints on the paper knife and a fur coat." "Well, it is Carol's fur coat and Carol's paper knife" "It's perfectly natural that her fingerprints should be all over it." "But, Does that prove that it was Carol?" "And could only have been Carol?" "That talked her to the place where Julia Durer was killed" "And the dream?" "You're forgetting the dream!" "Oh Yes, yes" " Carol was supposed to dream the murder while somebody else did it in exaclty the same way the murder was commited." "Dream telepathy!" "Are you trying to tell me that Carol is some kind of a psychic?" " The dream..." "Dr. Kerr has been good enough to let me have the tapes that..." "his sessions with Carol." "So then i might prepare a defense on the basis of split personality" "He thought i might find something useful And, indeed, i think i had." "Listen to this:" "I can remember the door.. the door opening...it's all so hazy now" "Yesterday morning the whole thing was so clear..." "Why didn't you make your notes as usual?" "I could remember it so easily I didn't need to make any notes" "Dreams have a short life in the memory." "You should always write them down." "It's all so hazy now." "Yesterday morning the whole thing was so clear." "Why didn't you make your notes as usual?" "Did you know that Carol kept a record of her dreams?" "No..." " Oh yes you did, Frank, and so did Joan and Deborah." "She wrote them on little bits of paper." "She kept them in the desk in her room" "Any of you could have read them in any time." "And goodness knows how often many of you did." "And you could certainly have read her notes about that particular dream." "A dream, Frank, just a dream..." "And having read them, you could have used them to create a murder." "A real murder." "I see your point." "It's quite possible." "for someone who only had to walk across the landing into this flat" "And that someone would certainly have no trouble with taking a few things with him" "In fact, three things: paper knife, fur coat, and a white scarf." " Right!" "That finally explains why she was wearing these new boots." "She'd never had them on before." "The murderer put them on her." "Because she was wearing them in Mrs Hammond's dream." "So this person stabbed her with the paper knife." "Three times." "Dropped the paper knife, the fur coat and a white scarf beside her" "And then, put on her boots, black boots." "Do you really think all those details were written down in her notes!" "..." "Perhaps, you should ask whoever wrote them" " Unless of course you wrote them yourself" "Don't worry, she never kept her notes." "Sometimes they stayed there a few days and then she teared them up." "Have you ever happen to read them?" "A few times." "Very interesting dreams they were too" "It's hardly the time, Joan" " Did you know she went to bed with Julia Durer in her dreams?" "Stop it, now!" "Daddy, wouldn't it be better to tell me what it is?" " Can't you guess?" "No" "Did you read the papers this morning?" " No, not yet, why?" "And you don't know the latest on the Durer's case?" " No, i don't" "The police on the point of arresting someone who is under strong suspicion" "Arresting?" "And it can't be Carol?" "!" "Did they say who?" "No!" "Not in the newspapers." "They haven't mentioned my name yet" "You?" "Now you know what's the matter." "If something doesn't happen..." "I.." "Greenfield." "Yes, sir!" "Aren't you taking me home?" "Greenfield is your home!" "Look, you didn't kill Julia Durer, but you don't know who did either." "If you want to know, Be at the Wendent's street catholic church At 4 o'clock, ok?" "Bring twenty quid with you." "Wendent street, catholic church." "4 o'clock, ok?" "Drop the knife away, otherwise i'll put a bullet through you head!" "Hello Jenny!" "Get out of here...!" "What do you want?" "Oh nothing, I've got a date" "The Red head told me to wait here for him" "What's that for?" "What are you doing?" "Painting...." "Wait for me, Robbie I won't be long" "Well, at least we now can be sure that the Red head isn't the ghost." "But flesh and blood." " He's blood, alright." "And he has a very special reason for wanting to kill our friend Mrs Hammond l should have had her followed and watched." "Check on every man with red hair, don't let anyone to slip through." "Not even the Prince of Wales" "Ok, sir!" "Good thing we're not in Ireland!" "Yellow mark" "Do you sell them?" " You want to buy it?" "If you do that little thing i asked you.." "I've forgotten all about it I told you" "He may remember, old Redhead" " Where can i find him?" "Didn't he tell you to come here and meet you?" "If you tell me he is I will pay you twenty quid." "What do you remember that so important?" "I can't tell you over the phone!" " Anyone else knows about it?" "No!" "Nobody." "It is about Carol, but i didn't tell her because it would've driven her out of ther mind." "What's her to do with all this?" "It was a person who told me a story about her." "It was some time ago, I've forgotten all about it." "And this person, but i'm sure i can handle him, he's always needing money for drugs, if you know what i mean." "Nobody needs to know anything." "You stay out of this, Joan!" "That's what the police are for." "But i'm the only one who can get the proof." "Oh i know, it'll make them suspect someone else in our family but not you, daddy, not you!" "You'll be clear, and that's what matters!" "Joan, you've mustn't!" "Don't worry, daddy!" "Anyway i must go now, i've got to meet the person in Richmond's park and then i'll have the positive proof of who really did kill Julia Durer!" "Mrs Hammond!" " Do you know when this story of blackmail first came to light?" "A telephone call to my father, of course." "Exactly!" "Do you mind?" " Help yourself." "From someone calling herself Mrs. Smith" "Who we would be able to identify as Julia Durer." "I'm sorry." "Do you believe that your husband knew about the phone call?" "Possibly." "But you're not sure?" " No, Inspector." "Did your father mention it to you?" " Yes, he did." "Hello, Inspector" "How nice of you to come." "Why didn't you call me, Carol?" "Oh i think at this stage your daughter can talk to me without the presence of her lawyer." "You know her, didn't you?" "Answer me!" " You're wrong, it wasn't me!" "But you knew her!" "You knew her!" "How was you able to walk into Alexander Palace?" "Because of Val Halloway?" "Come on now, you may as well tell us." "How did you get the keys." "He gave them to you, didn't he?" "I don't know what you're mean." "Never set eyes on him." "Never!" "Well, that's not what he said." "Why didn't you tell the whole truth about it?" "Alright, we'll tell you." "You wanted to do a ceremony of your own in there" "You've gave him five pounds for them." "And a weekend with your girlfriend." "Well, if you have anything to add?" "Well, have you?" "He said that because he hates me." " Really?" "Yes, yes, that's true..." " Say it again!" "He hates me!" " So you do know him!" "No, he hates everyone because he's hunchback" "And how do you know he's a hunchback if you don't know him?" "Everybody knows he's a hunchback!" "Dammit, tell us the truth." "If you give me what i need, i'll tell you everything." "And his reply was as follows.." "Yes, that's true." "He is the one." " He killed Joan and he tried to kill you daughter." "And Julia Durer." "No." "It wasn't him." "At the moment there're two people who know who committed that murder." "The murderer ...and you?" "Julia Durer was murdered by the person she was blackmailing." "Unless she was not blackmailing your son-in-law, you see what i mean." "I'm sorry I've put you on the wrong track, inspector." " No, that's alright." "Goodbye." " Goodbye..." "Goodbye" "Sir, may i ask why you wanted to think you've found the murderer?" "I mean Julia Durer's murderer." "Because I have, Brandon." "And i would have a mathematical certainty if it weren't for one contradiction!" "Just one." "Miss Belt, Would you phone Dr. Kerr and let have Dr. Kerr along too at the Durer's flat." "Right" "Talk!" "Talk!" "Ok, ok" " Well, they followed us there" "All the way to the old theatre, Jenny and me, but when we've got there, they didn't both come" "Only the girl" "Look at that lady and tell me if you've ever seen her before." "We get to see all kinds!" "Where have you seen this one?" "At Julia Durer's." " We haven't been around there for a couple of weeks..." "Two weeks... was it at night?" "Try to remember" "Night" " Was it raining?" "Yes, it was raining and...thundering" "Why though?" "That's the very night." "Well then, no." "Not even we've had her in front of our nose." "What are you expect us to do with all that acid inside us?" "We were filled with acid...from our heads...to our toes...." "And you know something, under the effect of acid, i look at you here and all i see is the red dot, or a galloping horse." "You don't remember anything at all about that night?" " Yeah, i remember!" "Yes, i remember." "I've seen that night a lizard in a woman's skin." "Shit!" " No, beautiful." "Just beautiful!" "Did you climb up there?" "Might have" "Yes, i think we did" "Give us a rest from these, man We went away next morning" "We didn't see Julia, we didn't know she was dead" "We don't read newspapers." "All a lot of crap." "We've only heard two or three days later that she'd been down in" "Well, get on with it!" "What i mean eh..." "Could it've been me..or her Anything's on the cards when you are on the trip" "You're capable of doing anything" "Some take a jump and think they're flying" "You can kill someone and not knowing nothing about anything" "And so?" "We've never said a word to anyone we were there that night." "The girl was the only one we told." "That bloody old theatre" "Only those two women knew" "And one of them was the accused." "When we got the news that you're gonna arrest somebody else.." "well, i thought of...i thought.." "And the time has come to shut those two mouths ...And you did" "One of them, anyway." "But you had no trouble killing Joan." "She even came looking for you..." "Joan went looking for him because she thought of their presence in this flat would prove of your innocence." "Yes, she told me on the phone lf these two had been in this flat that might was the murder've been commited like your wife dreamed." "Then Julia Durer could not have been killed the next day by someone who've read that note." "The brand new black boots with brand new soles were given her by you two" "Yeah, we wanted to bring something for Julia." "We gave her the boots." "I have a quiestion to ask you Dr. Kerr" "Is it possible to lie on a psychoanalisys couch?" "It all depends on what you call lying" "Oh, Come on, I mean hiding the truth." "Dr. Kerr, suppose for instance, There was another person here that night in this flat." "And..." "Carol wanted to hush it up" "Yes, of course lt's for you, lnspector. lt's Brandon" "Sorry for keep you waiting, inspector." "Edmond Brighton has commited suicide." "Here, He left the note confessing to the murder of Julia Durer." "Here's we're waitng for the coroner to remove the corpse." "Well, Inspector, at this point I believe that the inquiries closed." "I had the greatest admiration for your father." "Now all i feel is a deepest pity." "If I only knew why he did it..." " But you do know, Mrs. Hammond." "We both know." "Remember that last time I came to see you?" "Your father came into the room while we were talking." "And come in see heard what i was asking you and what you answered." "I'm sorry, do you believe your husband knew about that telephone call?" "Possibly..." " But you're not sure?" " No, Inspector." "Did your father mention it to you?" " Yes, he did" "Yes, i remember" "It wasn't your father, if he have had told you he would certainly told you your husband was present." "That's a detail you could no escape." "Not your husband, Deborah, nor Joan..." "No, it wasn't any of them." "Well then, Mrs. Hammond, who?" "I don't remember..." " It could only have been one person..." "Mrs. Smith, Julia Durer!" "But i've never spoke a word to that woman in my life." " Except in your dreams." "In real life you didn't know Julia Durer and so far we had no clues that can make us believe anything else." "But now we have something." "Your psychoanalysis!" "Your sessions with Dr. Kerr" "Well, Inspector Can i help you?" "This may sound absurd, but is it possible for neurotic to come to you with her problems and then try to hide the truth?" "Quite possible" "But in that case it would leave us with a new and repressed tangle of problems." "You were so mixed up with Julia Durer that you were scared." "In real life, Mrs. Hammond, not in your dreams." "You were quite sure you wouldn't been mixed up in her death because there never've been a whisper of this relationship of yours." "You went to her that night, quite sure that she'd be alone." "And you killed her." "You only noticed the two hippies afterwards." "When you saw them, it was too late." "What you couldn't have noticed that the hippies were filled up with acid." "They didn't see you." "You didn't know they were blind witnesses." "They didn't know who you were, of course." "But later they could have indentified you." "And accuse you." "So you had to start that alibi." "Well, It could've got you off." "It could've make the court believe in the case of schizofrenia." "That's why you invented your dream." "You invented that dream to tell Dr. Kerr a sort of lie" "For your alibi to take route" "You found yourself in the hands of grasping and scrupulous woman." "Wasn't that it, Mrs Hammond?" "That telephone call to your father, is about you." "It could only have been about you." "Mrs Smith here, you are going in for politics, i hear, Mr. Brighton" "You should be careful about scandals on the seamy side of life." "I have a bit of news to sell either to you or the newspapers about someone in your family, i'm sure.." "I'll give you the money." "Your father refused to admit that you've comitted murder." "He wouldn't hear of it." "That's why he was dead against basing his defence on mental abberation." "That's why he insisted on looking for another possibility until he found out the truth" "You committed murder in full consciousness, Mrs Hammond" "You are nothing more or less than a murderess." "And that's why your father took his own life."