Don't Bother to Knock Page #5

- Hey, you ain't smiling.

- You better take a look.

- Oh, been listening in again?

- Oh, no.

- I just think you better.

- All right, for you.

Did he try to kiss you?

Emma! Young lady, is there

anything we can get for you?

I don't want you to ask me

any more questions.

- We better go.

- Unless you'd...

- For once, be quiet! We're leaving.

- Yes, I want you to leave me.

There's something I have to do

by myself.

- Don't you ever speak that way to me...

- Be quiet!

- What is it?

- That noise. I thought of Bunny.

Who's the softy? If you're nervous,

why not run up now instead of later?

Hurry back so you

don't miss my gabble.

Yep, but she was kind of pathetic.

Real steady one minute,

and all mixed up the next.

You don't believe me.

Doesn't sound like you to care

whether she was mixed up.

Why'd you leave her?

Because, comes a time in the affairs

of man when he's had too many.

What are you staring at?

You. I never heard you talk

like that before.

Where are you?

Where are you?

Strange signals from the 8th floor.

Conventions.

If only you'd given me a bit longer.

We would've been married.

You never wanted me to have him.

You wouldn't let me wear

the pretty things.

Jimmy, find Pat. Find him!

We were in 809,

little girl was in 807.

Eddie was in the closet.

These people were at the door.

- Then what?

- Then I went into the kid's room.

Her toy elephant was on the floor

and she was...

- What's the matter?

- The little girl.

She was on the wrong bed,

and she didn't move.

I've got to go back. Wait for me.

Come, boy, come here. Oh, please,

give him a few moments longer.

Oh, Rio!

You sent those people around.

You devil!

Pat, it's 809.

I think something's happened.

Nell?

You all right?

- Let's help you out.

- What have they done to you?

- Oh, Mommy, that lady!

- I know, dear.

We've never seen anybody like her.

- I tried to get out. What happened?

- Plenty. You better sit down.

Sir, it wasn't all my fault.

They said she was practically cured.

- What do you mean?

She was in an institution?

Three years, in Oregon.

They said to bring her east

to a new place. She seemed fine...

...until tonight. Before she hit me,

she talked weird.

About Philip, a guy of hers,

as if he were alive.

Take it down.

Tell Mulvey to call the station.

- We thought if she...

- Eddie, what works? Hold it...

- Not him, Pat. It's my niece.

- She's gone!

- I do look terrible.

- Something happen, lady?

My dress is torn.

I'll have to get a new one.

- You won't know me in it.

- Do you need some help, lady?

You tell them I didn't mean it.

Boy!

Put boys on every floor,

and get a man up on the roof.

- Tell them to be careful, Pat.

- She's violent, so go easy.

Rochelle? Give me the bell captain.

I can't find her anywhere.

Maybe she went down the stairway.

You spotted her in the lobby?

Watch her close. She's a maniac.

She may be a killer. Yeah.

Tell them to move around her...

You, you've got some explaining to do.

I'll be up here for a few minutes.

Keep things quiet down there.

Nell?

Don't do that.

You don't wanna do that.

How do you know my name?

Jed told me.

- Jed? Who's he?

- You were with him before. Upstairs.

- No, that was somebody else.

- Why don't you...?

Somebody entirely else.

Nell!

- I didn't think you'd ever come back.

- Give me that, Nell.

Give it to me.

They said you were buried at sea.

I don't want to harm anybody.

I know.

What are you staring at?

This isn't a midway.

Get back to your business.

Leave us alone, please!

- All right, Jack.

- Folks, clear out, please.

Let's sit down now.

I must make you understand.

The man you think I am

died in the Pacific.

I was never in the Pacific.

I never flew to Hawaii.

- In '46.

- In '46 I was in England.

I stayed there

for a year after the war.

Remember him, Nell?

Remember Philip?

- Yeah.

- What did he look like? Think back.

He had brown eyes...

...and shiny black hair.

I'm Jed, Nell. Jed.

People's names...

This is my girl.

I'm in love with her.

- You're not Philip. You never were.

- No.

Philip has black hair.

- Is she the one?

- Just a minute.

Philip's dead, Nell.

Do you know that now?

Yeah.

Do you know it?

Yeah.

Will you come with me, miss?

- You're going to a hospital.

- No!

No, here in New York.

We're gonna help you.

People who love each other...

Jed, you care what happens

to that girl, don't you?

She didn't want to hurt the kid.

She didn't want to hurt anybody.

You do care.

Come on,

I'd like to buy you that drink now.

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