Lured Page #7

And sizing her up

She caught my eye, she's beautiful

I saw how a man sat next to her,

she showed him a note and he left

I saw the perfect opening

So you could carry on with your plans

I had no plans, it was a coincidence

Coincidence, is it a coincidence

that you own the same typewriter, is...

it a coincidence that certain keys

are out of alignment?

Is it also a coincidence that you use

Victoria paper? And of course it's a

coincidence the pictures of the

missing girls were in your possession...

They were found in your files

I don't know how they got there!

I don't know

Well then I suppose it's nothing but

coincidence that on the last poem we

received describing the dress Sandra

bought in your presence

your fingerprints were

clearly marked

That's my fingerprint?

Yes, Mr. Fleming, your fingerprint

and we anticipate finding more

such evidence

Well, nothing here either

all right, that's enough

Any luck?

No sir

Me neither!

Central calling inspector Barret

The chief says you can Bring the men

back, he's found something

All right

That's all men!

'Poet killer believed to be at Bay'

Yes, she was strangled before she

was put into the river

...not bruises, marks on throat

and the distinct decolouration...

- She's been in the water for at least

2 weeks, she was tied up to a rock

Thank you gentlemen, it must be the

missing persons bureau

Temple speaking, do you have any

pictures of the body? Did you check

the identification? And the name?

Thank you

We had better luck taking her out of

the river than digging in your guts,

Mr. Fleming take a close look at

this please, did you know her?

No

I think you did. Her name was Lucy

Barnard, does that help you?

No, I've never seen this girl

But inspector you don't think that...

Robert strangled that girl, and

drown her and possibly many others

I never said I did, I said that

everything thus far points to his guilt

You could establish his innocence if

you could prove where he was in

February 3rd, April 17th, May 1st

July 20th and August 10th

I can look in my records

We've already taken the liberty to

look in your records

There's no indication in your diary

as Mr. Fleming's nightly movements

However we know from it where

you were. Incidentally Mr Willes,

why did you go to the concert

that night?

I've been attending the concert

every Monday night for years

I see, and Fleming just happened to

go that night. And the

...rest of the evidence?

It could've been planned against

Robert, every bit of it

Including his fingerprints on

that poem that we've seen?

That proves nothing either. Read

that, now your fingerprint is on it

And yours, Mr. Willes?

I'm glad you admit that, it proves

my point. Someone could've tricked...

...Robert placing all those evidences

on his desk and in his files

Who for instance?

A number of people. Some jealous

woman, one of the many employees

his secretary, mine, one of the

servants, the chofer even I

I thought of that too Mr. Willes

We've questioned any number of

...posible suspects

Did you plan the evidence?

What do you think inspector?

I think Fleming could do better than

engaged you as his barrister

The simplest way for you to

establish Fleming's innocence is...

...to establish someone else's guilt

Good night

Good night inspector

Miss Carpenter!

It's not useful Miss, he hasn't

changed his mind about seeing you

But he has to. I have to see him.

this is all wrong

Let me go in please!

Hold on Miss, he has another visit

in there anyway, one at a time

Who is in there?

Mr. Willes is

Have you been able to do anything?

I've got you the best counsel in

England, he'll surprise Temple

Mr. Temple, you'd be frightened

It's the evidence. How was he able...

to get it? All that evidence pointing

to me, taken from my files even my

...own home. All carefully labelled

with my name

Who would want this to happened to

me? L've spent an eternity here...

...trying to discover that but

I can't, Julian

You think I'm guilty too, don't you?

No, I don't Robert. And I don't think

the evidence against you is conclusive

Is that also the lawyer's opinion?

Well, not exactly. Listen Robert...

his opinion is that the evidence is

fundable but merely circumstantial

I could be hanged on

circumstantial evidence

You shouldn't talk like

you weren't thinking!

The experts call it circumstantial I

call it a rope around my head

Don't loose your confidence. He might

get you out with a life sentence

Life in prison

I rather confess and had the rope

Robert! Robert! Robert!

Robert let me talk...!

He despises me, Julian

I saw it on his face

He doesn't despise you Sandra. He

doesn't understand the circumstances,

is not you working against him

But I could make him understand

if he only let me talk to him

Perhaps I can persuade him to see you

He needs you badly of course

Yes?

How extraordinary

Thank you for letting me know

Come in

- Inspector Temple

Good morning Mr. Willes

Are you free?

Of course, sit down

Thank you, I've been thinking about

our discussion the other day

You gave me a different view of

of the case

Really? In what way?

I came to the conclusion that you

were right. Robert is not guilty

Good, I'm glad you agree, I thought

you said the facts were undisputable

Too much so, too many of them

too perfect

Facts must have psychological

symmetry but in Fleming's case...

...they haven't so they fall apart

What do you mean by that inspector?

Let's take a Look at this fellow

Fleming, he's a healthy man, he lives

with the world. He's vain but what

man attractive to women isn't?

He has a temper, but who that has

imagination and flair doesn't

He has tremendous enthusiasm for

life and people and he's very honest

He envies no one. He's a great lover

of beauty and he doesn't make a big

...deal about that either, agreed?

Mr. Willes I've described the type

of man who doesn't commit murder

He doesn't have to kill in order to

win, our criminal does

I'm afraid I can't quite follow you...

inspector

I'll lead you. Our criminal is a man

who's afraid to meet women openly

...and in the presence of others

so he advertises

in the personal column, correct?

Perhaps

This man has no brilliant approach to

a social existence, he lives a hiding

life, finds compensation by indulging

himself with incredible fantasies

How could you know that?

By the poems, the imaginings of a

man with grotesque ideas of romance

A man who finds his pleasure in

destroying beauty rather than love it

Interesting

To this way of thinking,

death is more beautiful than life

Unfortunately he's compelled to

express this thought

Come on inspector, that's a slim

reason for murder

Mr. Willes. That kind of

expression requires murder

I would never had suspected you had

such a remarkable insight

Mr. Willes, may I have your copy

of Bodelaire?

Bodelaire?

Yes

That's a very unusual request,

This is a very unusual case

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