Crime and Punishment Page #6

Let your detectives look into that.

Roderick, I don't think

you should talk to the inspector like that.

Inspector. Inspect this.

No man could have the nerve

to commit a murder,

then sit in your office,

watch you accuse another man

and tell you he's not guilty!

If I were the guilty man,

I'd find a big stone with a hollow under it

and hide the loot for years.

Don't you think I'd know

you'd wait for the junk to appear?

Accuse me of murder if you like,

but don't insult me by believing that

I'd overlook 1,500 rubles in a mattress.

Use your clumsy methods on half-wits

like the poor fool

whose life you're going to take

to keep your record clear!

Well, I must have been wrong.

I apologise. Excuse me.

Say it again and say it loud!

Please excuse me.

I guess I was a little overzealous.

I'm still just a blundering policeman.

Your health, Professor!

ROOM FOR REN I've been waiting for hours.

I thought you'd come sooner.

I couldn't.

What did the inspector want to know?

Excuse me.

Can you tell me where the room is

that's for rent?

Next door. But you'll have to see

the landlady about it.

Thank you. I'm a stranger in the city,

and I must find a room somewhere to...

Wasn't he at police station this afternoon?

- I didn't notice.

- They are following me.

- Who?

- The police.

Why? What have you done?

What are you afraid of?

Nothing.

Sonya, did you tell the inspector

about meeting me at the pawnbroker's?

Yes.

Then he knew all about my going there

to pawn a watch.

Yes, I told him.

- What else did you tell him?

- Only about the money you gave us.

- And then, he wanted to know...

- What? What else did he want to know?

Before I knew what happened,

he made me tell him what you said,

that she deserved to die.

I tried to take it back afterwards.

Why take it back? I said it to him myself.

Why did you think you had to defend me?

You didn't kill her, did you?

I don't know why, but the thought went

through me just now like a cold wind.

Forgive me.

If I thought you could do a thing like that,

I wouldn't want to live.

What do you care what I am or what I do?

I didn't tell you something else

the inspector made me admit.

What?

That you were the finest man I ever met.

I do this almost every night.

Come out here and look down at the water.

Sometimes the water seems full of stars.

And then I feel I could let this bucket down

and pull up a whole pail full of them.

- You're lonely, aren't you?

- You are, too.

I wonder how many poor devils

have found an answer

to their questions down there.

If only the dead

could ever come back.

They have.

Remember the raising of Lazarus?

Are you happy to have your Bible back?

Would you like me to read

the raising of Lazarus?

I can't understand you, Sonya.

How can you continue living like this?

I believe in God.

What have you or I to hope for out of life?

Don't take away my faith. I need it.

Don't take away my unbelief. I need that.

You couldn't be so blasphemous unless

something were troubling you terribly.

- Won't you tell me what it is?

- I wish I could.

I can't now.

PAWNBROKER:

2 FLIGHTS UP

I hope you'll pardon me calling so early.

I've been trying since yesterday morning

to get in touch with you.

My name is Grilov.

Hasn't your sister ever spoken of me?

She was employed as governess

in my home.

- Don't lie to me. You're from the police.

- The police?

I saw you yesterday at Police Headquarters.

I went there to find out where you lived.

I thought because of your work

in criminology, they might know.

And afterwards, you followed me,

didn't you?

Why, no. I waited,

hoping to see you when you came out.

But you were with the inspector

and I didn't want to intrude.

So I went to the address

I heard that girl give you

and rented a room there, feeling sure

I'd run into you sooner or later.

I hope that clears me of all suspicion.

Well, then, why did you trace me

and what do you want?

Your assistance

in clearing up a great injustice.

It is because of me

that your sister lost her position.

It is because of me

that her good name was...

Well, I'll be frank with you,

at the time this happened,

I was very infatuated with Antonia.

But all that's over.

Why do you tell me all this?

I want you to intercede for me

with your sister.

I know she won't see me.

Odd, isn't it?

What did you expect, her gratitude?

Hardly. That's why I came to you.

I want you to give her this.

My wife died and left some money

to your sister, 500 rubles,

to make up for her unjust suspicions.

All I'm asking is that

you give her the money,

let me see her and apologise.

Haven't you ever committed a wrong?

If you have, you must know that

the worst consequences

are the unforeseen ones.

It's like dropping a stone in a pool.

The waves spread out in all directions

and touch shores you couldn't see before.

You're trying to buy your way

into my sister's life again.

500 rubles and a lot of hypocrisy.

Well, you can't.

She's happy

and she's forgotten you ever existed.

Your money comes too late,

and your apologies aren't wanted. Get out!

All right. I'll see your sister,

and it won't cost me 500 rubles.

Hello. Someone has money to throw away.

Rather an aggressive gentleman.

Your powers of deduction again, Inspector?

Now, don't rub it in.

So, this is where you live, eh?

I knew I'd find a picture of Napoleon here.

But Beethoven? What a strange pair!

You know, Beethoven dedicated

a symphony to Napoleon,

and when he discovered Napoleon

was a false god,

he tore up his dedication.

I wonder whether you'll feel

the same way some day.

I doubt it, but you didn't come here

to improve my mind, did you?

Now, look here. I had to talk to you alone,

away from your family.

Why? To accuse me privately?

I'll admit I connected you with the murder

of the old pawnbroker.

Not at our first meeting,

mind you, but later.

You know

how a policeman's mind functions.

I began piecing things into a pattern.

Your desperate poverty.

Your sister marrying for your sake.

Your fainting when the arrested man

was brought in.

All this talk about supermen

being above the law.

Flashing all that money,

which I didn't know until this morning,

came from your publishers.

You must concede, it would have

looked pretty bad even to you.

Then you no longer connect me

with this amateurish crime?

Please, put the thought out of your mind

once and for all.

- May I smoke?

- Make yourself at home.

You know, I burn up 30 to 40 of these a day.

Nerves, that's all.

Would you believe it?

Every time I'm brought face to face

with a guilty man, I smoke.

I drum with my fingers,

pace up and down the room,

talk about all sorts of irrelevant things

just to avoid getting to the point.

Absurd, isn't it?

If this case isn't cleared up soon,

I'm afraid I'm going to have a breakdown.

I know what you were thinking.

You thought I was looking for a poker.

Nothing of the kind.

Why don't you say what you want

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