Force of Evil Page #6

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nothing to worry about.

Wiretapping evidence

isn't always admissible.

I'll look it up for him.

Look it up

for yourself, too,

While you're at it.

Ben tells me if you

listen carefully,

If you try it

several times,

You can catch them

at it.

You can hear

a little click.

Little click.

That's someone lifting

a receiver off the hook-

The man who listens.

Have you ever used

That telephone

of yours

For anything

he shouldn't hear?

I use it

for everything.

I'm at the disposal

of my clients.

You might spend

the rest of your life

Trying to remember what

you shouldn't have said.

What are you

riding me for?

If the phone is tapped,

it's tapped.

Don't get sore just

because you're scared.

Why don't you

test it and see?

That's what Ben did.

That's what he would do.

Did Ben tell you

to come here,

Or did you offer to

deliver the message?

I offered.

Why are you

always offering

To deliver

bad news to me?

What do you want?!

What are you waiting to see?!

What kind of a man

you are-You really are.

Try it

on your own man.

I'm trying you.

What are you afraid of,

to show you're afraid?

If you need

a broken man to love,

Break your husband.

I'm not a nickel.

I don't spend my life

on a telephone.

If that's what

you want for love,

You can't use me.

You're not strong

or weak enough.

Come in.

Is there

anything else

Before I go,

Mr. Morse?

Yes.

You can show

Mrs. Tucker out.

I had expected a certain amount

of trouble from hall-

I'd figured on it-

But it was a little shocking

to find out

That he'd moved in so fast.

It was something to

worry about

And something

to take care of

And something to remember.

Conversations over the phone

aren't much use

As legal evidence,

But they tell a smart lawyer

Where the evidence

can be found,

What it might be.

It was the first step

in making a case

Against the combination,

And the combination was

Ben Tucker and myself.

When you make a living,

you accept the risks,

But I had taken an extra risk

because of Leo

To give him confidence.

I had shown my face

to the bankers that morning.

I had been

tough with Bauer

To make it easy for Leo.

People can be made to talk.

Was my phone talking, too?

A man could spend

the rest of his life

Trying to remember

what he shouldn't have said.

Woman's voice:

at the tone,

The time will be

7:
23 and 1/4.

I had forgotten Doris

for a moment,

And then I was glad

she was there, waiting.

She was someone

to talk to.

We walked down Wall Street

to trinity church,

And she kept watching me,

Wondering what had happened

there in that office of mine.

I think she had

made up her mind

To fall in love with me.

And I wouldn't have minded

at another time.

It would have been a change

from the kind of women I knew.

She wanted me to talk,

to tell her, to convince her

That I didn't

realize what I was doing,

That I didn't understand

the business I was in,

But I enjoyed the idea

of convincing her that I did.

When was it, Mr. Morse,

that Tucker walked in?

I'll tell you.

I'll tell you, Doris,

how the boom was on,

And I could feel money

Spread all over the city

like air,

Like perfume from those

flowers I gave you.

I could breathe

the smell of money.

And was that

when Tucker walked in?

Yes. And Im a man.

What have I got to do

with Tucker?

But he opened his pocket,

and I jumped in headfirst.

I sat there

and measured my strength.

I had so much, Doris-

That's the way I figured-

So much strength,

And it all worked out

this way.

I didn't have enough strength

to resist corruption,

But I was strong enough

to fight for a piece of it.

And now you want

to get out.

Is that what

your trouble is?

My trouble is, miss Lowry,

that I feel like midnight,

And I don't know

what the morning will be,

Except, for a little while,

I felt pretty easy here,

Talking to you,

liking you.

You're the only one

I ever talk to, Doris.

You're the only one

I ever talk to,

And I don't know why,

Except that

you caught me tonight

When I would have talked

to the devil.

But I...

thank you.

It's the truth, Doris.

A man doesn't tell lies

at midnight,

But now I talk to you

because you're Doris.

You see how lovely

that makes you?

What are you now?

Someone to say,

To fool himself

or me, that...

that you love me?

Not so soon.

I won't tell you that,

But it would be such

a comfort to me

To kiss you.

Is that strange?

No.

No, that isn't strange.

Are you from

the bus company?

Why? Would you like

to buy a bus?

You look like

somebody I used to know

In the downtown

detective office.

I do?

What's his name?

I didn't know him

that good.

I just

used to see him around.

I'm a bus inspector.

If you have a complaint

to make about the service,

I'll take it.

Hello, Mr. Bauer.

Hello, Doris.

You leave early today?

No. I wasn't feeling

so good today,

So I didn't come in,

And then I decided

to come in,

But now I don't

feel so good again.

I'm sorry to hear that.

I'm just going up to say

good-Bye and get my things.

I'll tell Mr. Morse

for you.

No. It'll look better

since I got so far

To tell him myself.

All right.

Step lively.

Let's go.

Say, miss,

you forgot your hat.

No! I can't ride

in a patrol wagon!

All right,

come on.

I'm not going in-

Come on!

Let me go! Let me go!

I don't work here!

I don't work here!

Our case

is up next, Ben.

I just told the district

attorney's office

We'll plead guilty.

It'll be top fines

all around.

Anybody can pay fines.

If someone can buy a raid

on one of my banks

For a nickel phone call,

I want my $50,000-A-Year

politician

To tell me why.

Why and how is what

I want to know-

Why and how and who.

It's one

of those things.

It's one of those things

I don't like.

This is goodspeed, Ben.

One of our bankers.

Well, let's hear.

I was taking my dog

out for a walk

When they picked me

up in this car.

It was Ficco.

You remember Ficco

from the beer days?

What is this

with Ficco, Ben?

Well, go on.

Don't make a book of it.

Ficco wanted to know

The whole who's who

on the banks-

Where they were,

who the bankers were,

The facts and figures

on the combination.

I told them I didn't

know because I don't.

Then they kicked me

around a little,

Took a century

out of my pocket,

And dumped me.

Is that all?

We never had

anything like this

Before you came

into the picture, Ben.

What'll I do?

Sell your dog.

What is it, Ben?

What's happening?

I know

what Ficco wants,

And he's not

going to get it.

He was up last night

asking for it.

He knows about hall,

too,

And he thinks

a little rough stuff

Will scare us into

bringing him in.

I told him to his face,

hall or no hall,

If he wants

to make a deal with us,

He'll make it

with a gun.

Now's the time

to be sensible, Ben.

I am sensible.

But Ill see you all

in the gutter,

And Ill see myself

in the gutter,

Before I lose one nickel

of the money

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