Sapphire Page #6

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Was you with Sapphire?

Was you,johnnie?

You blow,johnnie. Blow.

Can!t blow without loot.

I!ll bring you loot.

[ Ends ]

That!s him.

Brother, I!m in trouble.

The police. I!ve got to hide up.

We have never been in trouble with the law

and don!t care to be.

Go on away with you, boy. It!s you and your kind

that get us respectable folk a bad name.

Trash.

The police - on my tail.

[ Panting ]

Get out, n*gger.

We got copper trouble, too,

but we ain!t got your sort of woman trouble.

Now get out and stay out.

Dirty black bas -

-[ Man ] Right. Up.

-[ Metal Banging ]

Here, look at that.

What!s the hurry, n*gger?

[ Man #2 ]

Out of the way. nig.

[ Man #3 ]

On your way then. sonny boy.

And hurry!

[ Dog Barking ]

- They!re after me. Please.

- Who!s after you - the teds?

- Please help.

- I daren!t.

They!d break the place to pieces,

tear the shop down. It!s my living, boy.

- Please, mister.

- I tell you I daren!t.

Dad, you!ve got to.

He!s in trouble.

- I tell you I daren!t.

- You!ve got to, Dad.

Come in. This way.

[ Dog Barking ]

[ Footsteps Running ]

- Where were you on Saturday night,johnnie?

- On the streets.

- With Sapphire?

- No, boss. No.

- Which street,johnnie?

- Down the West End.

- Who was with you?

- No one. I was on my pat.

-johnnie all alone, eh?

- The truth,johnnie. Let!s have the truth.

- Where were you Saturday night?

- Where were you Saturday night?

- Answer!

- [ Panting ]

Davy? Where have you been?

Walking.

Davy.

Where were you on Saturday night?

In a car on my way back from Cambridge.

- Where were you on Saturday night?

- I told you.

Davy.

Ever since you were a little boy,

I!ve known when you were lying to me.

Where were you, Sonny?

Mum, I told you never to ask

about Saturday night. Please.

[ Door Closes ]

Saturday night,johnnie.

Where were you?

Out! Out!

- Where?

- On the streets.

- Who with?

- On my pat.

- Who with?

- On my pat.

- When!d you see Sapphire last?

- I don!t know Sapphire!

You phoned the International Club

and left a message for her.

Now, where were you Saturday night?

Out! Out!

Someone!s gonna look at you

in the morning...

someone who saw you with Sapphire.

Want to change your story,johnnie?

No! No!

- Right. Book him.

- Come on. On your feet.

Why do you say you didn!t know Sapphire?

You had a fight over her at Tulip!s.

Didn!t kill her.

All right.

Knew Sapphire, but didn!t kill her.

- You were crazy about her, weren!t you?

- No. We just dance, laugh.

She went white and dropped you,

didn!t she?

Then you ran into her on Saturday night,

followed her and knifed her.

No! We used to dance.

That!s all,just dance!

Where is your knife,johnnie?

Your knife,johnnie -where is it?

Where!s your knife?

All right. Take him away.

Find the knife and we!ve got him.

- [ Train Engine Chugging ]

- [ Children Chattering, Shouting ]

[ Children Shouting, Laughing ]

- Yes?

-johnnie Fiddle.

Out.

Upstairs, far as you can go. Left.

Thank you.

[ Train Engine Chugging ]

[ Learoyd ]

There you are. the two of them.

- In congress, aren!t they?

- No, I wouldn!t say that.

She wasn!t any delicate flower, you know.

just the same as him underneath.

Besides, he didn!t look

so black to her then.

No.

Let!s take a look around.

Huh. Look at this.

And this.

Looks like young Harris

is in the clear.

Yeah, looks that way.

Let!s see what the lab

has to say about it.

[ Children Shouting ]

- It!s quite a long trip.

- What?

From here to Hampstead Heath.

It!s the other side of London.

How the devil did he get there?

Oh, there will be a simple answer

to transport.

You!d really like it to be

this colored boy, wouldn!t you?

Message over the car radio, sir.

There!s a gentleman at the station says he drove

Mr. David Harris from Cambridge last Saturday.

Hey.

[ Laughing ]

There!s your transport for you.

These spades are a load of trouble.

I reckon we should send them back

where they came from.

We wouldn!t have half this bother

if they weren!t here.

Oh, I suppose you!re right.

just the same as you wouldn!t have

old ladies being clobbered by hooligans...

if there weren!t any old ladies.

So, what do you do - get rid

of the hooligans or the people they bash?

Look. Phil. given the right atmosphere.

you can organize riots against anyone-

jews, Catholics, Negroes, Irish...

even policemen with big feet.

[ Laughing ]

Is this the boy you gave a lift to

just outside Cambridge on Saturday?

- Yes.

- What time did you put him down?

I dropped him at the post office,

oh, around &:
00.

He said it was only a 1 0 minutes! walk

away from where he lived.

Are you sure?

[ Chuckles ]

I wouldn!t be here if I wasn!t.

- Do you deny this?

- What!s the use?

Well, thank you, sir.

I hope we haven!t wasted

too much of your time.

Oh, it!s quite all right.

Sorry, old chap.

Well, sit down, Mr. Harris.

What time did you get home

on Saturday?

- 1 1 :
00.

- You heard what the man said.

I got back to town at &:00.

I didn!t get home till 1 1 :00.

Then what did you do in between?

Walked about.

Then I went to the pictures.

Well, why didn!t you say this before?

I didn!t want my father to know.

He worries if I go to the pictures too often

in term time. Thinks it strains my eyes.

Give me your glasses.

- Which cinema did you go to?

- The Ritz.

What were you doing

on Hampstead Heath yesterday?

- If I told you, you wouldn!t believe me.

- Well,just try, will you?

I - I wanted to see where it happened.

I had some idea

I might stumble on something -

something I!d recognize

and you wouldn!t.

And did you?

No.

How about this?

Why were you so anxious

to get rid of this?

I didn!t. I-I -

I-I never saw it before.

I!m told it!s part of a child!s doll,

a wooden doll.

A leg possibly.

- Is that what you think it is?

- Oh, I don!t think it!s anything.

ju-just a piece of wood

I was doodling with.

- You admit picking it up then.

- Yes.

- You just said you didn!t.

- I - I!d forgotten.

Stop lying, Harris.

You were seen pushing this down a drain.

- Why?

- I don!t know. I don!t know.

You mean you won!t say. On your way home

from the post office on Saturday night...

- was it then you met Sapphire?

- No. I never saw her.

- Was it then she told you about the baby?

- I tell you I never saw her!

- How long had you known she was colored?

- I didn!t care! I didn!t care!

But you did care

about your scholarship.

It didn!t carry a grant for a wife, did it?

If you married Sapphire, the scholarship was off.

I loved her!

[ Sobbing ]

I - I tell you I loved Sapphire.

Where were you when she was killed?

- [ Knocking ]

- Yes?

Oh, excuse me, sir.

Mr. David Harris!s father is here

with a solicitor.

Right.

All right, Harris.

You!d better go with him, Phil.

Ralph Piggot.

Piggot, North & Piggot.

Finsbury Pavement.

Mr. Harris asked me to come

and look after his son.

Can I see my client, please?

He!s all yours.

Tough monkey that father. Must have moved

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