Deathtrap Page #5

to preach ecology

Or join the reverend moon.

Who knows?

What are you going

to do with him?

Bury him

behind the garage.

No. In the

vegetable patch.

Easier digging.

Why don't you take a brandy

or something, darling?

I am going to be

a winner again.

I'm going to be the envy

of all the people i envy.

All your dear friends

Are going to see you

living on my money.

Myra, would you

mind helping me

Carry the body, please?

Myra, it's done.

There's no point in

my getting a hernia.

Myra, come and help me

carry the bloody body!

Hurry up!

Take this other end.

Quickly!

Come on!

Aah!

Don't do that.

Come on, now.

Thank god

he wasn't the fat one.

Did you scrape your shoes off

before you came in?

We're out one rug,

but i saw some lovely ones

At bloomingdale's

the other day.

I've tidied up

the study, darling.

All the props are back--

I have a feeling you're

about to deliver a speech.

Oh, i've just been

trying to understand

How you could do it,

sidney.

Bearing in mind your

disappointments,

Your embarrassment at

our financial situation,

But i can't.

And i don't know how

you're going to be able

To feel like a winner

When we'll both know

that it's his play.

I can't understand

that either.

I mean, you are...

Completely alien

to me, sidney.

And that just can't

be since 5:
00.

I mean, you must always

have been very different

From the man

i thought you were.

I don't think the police

are going to be

As disinterested

as you do either,

So i wouldn't want

anything to happen

That would embarrass you

or be--

Look like

we were being suspicious

If they came

to question us.

Well, how could they?

He disappeared in quogue.

This is easthampton.

Mm-Hmm.

By checking into

his past associations.

I mean,

his name and address

Were on the return envelope,

weren't they, honey?

Anybody at the theater

last night could have seen it,

They could have

remembered it, right?

If they do come,

I'll simply say

that he did write to me,

Asking for

a secretarial position.

He sent me his rsum,

and i threw it away,

Which i know i shouldn't

have done, constable,

But then i've been

so busy night and day

Writing this play.

Now, which one was he?

Was he the fat one?

The thin one?

Or was he this one?

This one?

Ah, yes, the one

who is so interested

In the hare krishna

movement.

Sidney?

In a month or so,

if we haven't been arrested...

Sidney!

What?

I want you to leave.

I want you to leave.

We'll have a few arguments

in people's living rooms.

You can write them for us,

little tiffs about money

Or you ogling

nan wesson.

Oh, i wish you could take

the vegetable patch with you,

But since you can't,

you'll buy it from me, ok?

As soon as the money

starts rolling in

Before you go

to the riviera.

You'll buy the goddamn

vegetable patch,

You'll buy the house,

you'll buy the whole 9.3 acres.

We could get buck raymond

or maury escher

To set a fair price.

[Laughs] darling, you've

had such a painful--

Aah!

Don't touch me!

Myra,

you have been through

A shocking

and painful experience

And you are

not yourself.

Neither am i.

Behind all

the sidney bruhl dialogue

I am peeing

the sidney bruhl pants.

I'm terrified

of being caught

And absolutely

guilt-Ridden

About having been

insane enough to do it.

I'm going

to give half the money

To the new

dramatists league.

I swear it.

Now is no time to talk

about it. Anything.

I mean,

in a week or so,

When we're both

ourselves again,

Everything will look

a lot cheerier.

You are yourself.

Right now. And so am i.

[Doorbell rings]

Go ahead. He sent me

a rsum, officer.

It's lottie and ralph, come

to yammer about the party.

It's probably

helga ten dorp

And her famous

pointing finger.

[Doorbell rings]

It is lottie and ralph.

Damn them.

I've got to let them in.

Are you up

to facing them?

No. You go--

You go upstairs.

Alone?

Jesus christ.

Dear lady--

Aaah!

[German accent]

it's only me.

I am your neighbor

from the house of prisky.

Uh, please,

will you let me come in?

Hello.

Hello.

I'm helga ten dorp,

mr. Bruhl.

It's most urgent

i speak to you.

I called information,

But that lady

will not tell your number.

Please, will you

let me come in?

Yes, yes. Please.

I am friend and client

of paul wyman.

I apologize for so late

i'm coming,

But you will forgive

when i makes the explaining.

Oh, you forgive

my costume!

I do running

morning and night.

Uh, this shines in dark.

I don't get hit

by traffic, yeah.

Yeah.

There's a room

with pain.

No, not kitchen, no.

Sidney:
excuse me,

miss ten dorp.

Pain.

Pain.

Pain.

[Gasps]

just like i sees them.

Pain.

Pain, pain, pain!

Neither of us--

Why keep you such

pain-Covered things?

Those?

They're antiques and

souvenirs from my plays.

I'm a playwright.

Ja, sidney bruhl.

Paul wyman tells me.

Paul sells my book

when finished.

This is

my wife myra.

How do you do?

My dear, what gives you

such pain, dear lady?

Oh, well, nothing.

Really.

Oh, no, no.

Something pains you.

Paul tells you of me?

I am helga ten dorp.

I am psychic.

Yes, he told us.

I wanted to talk

to you--

I always know i feels

the pain from here.

And more than pain.

Since 8:
30, when begins

the merv griffin show.

I'm on next week,

you will watch.

Oh, yes, yes,

certainly.

Will you make a note

of that, myra?

Thursday night.

I call the information,

But the lady will

not tell me number.

I say, "it's urgent,

you must tell me number.

I'm helga ten dorp.

I'm psychic."

She says,

"guess the number."

Well, i try,

But i see only the 324,

which is everybody.

Because the pain

gets worse.

And more than pain.

More than pain?

Ja, something else

here.

Something frightening.

No, no, no, thank you,

it will interfere.

What will?

Uh, the drink you were

about to offer me.

Must keep unclouded

the head. Never drink.

Were you going to

offer her a drink?

Yeah.

Was used many times

by beautiful woman,

But only pretending.

That's fantastic.

That was used

every night

In my play

the murder game

By tallulah,

a beautiful actress.

Will be used again

by another woman.

Not in play,

but because of play...

Because of play,

another woman uses this knife.

You must put away

these things.

Yes, yes, i will.

In a month or so, i'm going

to sell the whole collection.

I'm fed up

with them anyway.

May be too late.

Listen, my dears,

I do not enjoy

to make unhappy people,

But i must speaks when

i see something, ja?

Yeah.

There's danger here.

Much danger to you

and to you.

There's death

in this room.

Something

that invites death,

That--That

carries death.

It's a deathtrap.

One says this in english,

the deathtrap?

Yes, yes, that's the

title of my new play.

That's where you're

getting it from.

There is a death

in the play.

That's what you're

responding to.

I work at that desk

over there.

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

Yeah.

It feels like

real death.

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