Shadow of a Doubt Page #6

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You're a detective. There's something

the matter and you're a detective.

- Charlie, listen.

- I don't want to listen.

Why, you're not on a survey at all.

You lied to us. You lied to Mother.

You just wanted to get in our house.

Police.

That's what it is.

What do you want with us?

Why are you here, lying to us?

Look, Charlie, you've got to listen to me.

You've got to trust me.

When you've done nothing but lie?

And you probably didn't want to

take me out at all the way I thought.

You just wanted to ask me

a lot of questions.

Have I asked you a lot of questions?

Have I?

Alright, I'm a detective.

A pretty bad one.

Now, won't you even listen to me?

- Why should I when you lied to me?

- I had to.

When I came here to find a man,

I hadn't counted on you.

- I hadn't counted on your family.

- Find a man? What man?

There's a man loose in this country.

We're after him.

We don't know much.

We don't even know what he looks like.

Charlie, think. How much

do you know about your uncle?

Why, he's my mother's brother.

What's he got to do with it?

This man we want may be your uncle.

Oh, I don't believe you.

Go away and leave me alone.

We're after one man.

Your uncle may be that man.

But in the East, there's another man

who's being hunted too,

through Massachusetts and into Maine.

He may be the one.

My uncle hasn't done anything.

He knows it would kill

my mother if he did.

He's her younger brother,

just like Roger is mine.

Why don't they arrest

that man in the East?

Why don't you go away

and leave us alone?

Charlie, when we were eating tonight

and talking about our folks

and what we'd done and how we felt,

we were like two ordinary people.

We'd been brought up about the same.

- You liked me and I liked you.

- Oh, it doesn't matter now.

What do you mean, "It doesn't matter"?

It's the only thing that does.

If it weren't for you,

you don't think I ' d care

how or where I caught up

with your uncle, do you?

Because if he's the guy, I'm going to

catch up with him. Remember that.

And you're going to keep

your mouth shut.

You're going to keep your mouth shut

because you're such a nice girl

you'd help if you knew

your uncle was the man we wanted.

- I wouldn't help you.

- And I know you would.

And I'm trying to make it easier for you.

If your uncle's the man we want,

we'll get him out of town quietly.

- We won't arrest him here.

- Arrest him here? With mother -

I'm trying to tell you we won ' t.

- Please, Charlie.

- I won't say anything.

Oh, take me home!

Good night, Charlie.

It's going to be funny

when you find out you're wrong.

Good night.

- Hello, Charlie. Home already?

- Oh, yes, Dad.

It's so nice out, I thought

I'd get some air before I went to bed.

You better run in. Your Uncle Charlie's

been asking about you.

I think I'll just go up the back way.

I- I'm tired and I don't feel like talking.

Alright. Suit yourself.

- Take care of yourself.

- Mm-hm.

- Good night, Herb.

- Good night, Charlie.

Good night, Charlie.

What were we saying, Herb?

Did I notice what?

Well, did you taste anything funny

about that coffee you had

at my house this evening?

No. It tasted all right.

That's what I mean. It wasn't all right.

- Put something in it?

- Put a little soda.

About the same amount that I'd have used

if I'd wanted to use poison.

Well, you don't say?

I never tasted a thing.

Of course, I might not notice the soda.

You'd notice the soda more

than you would the poison.

For all you knew, you might

just as well be dead now.

- Aren't you asleep yet, Ann?

- Uh-uh.

Charlotte, what are you doing?

Oh, I'm just looking for a recipe

I thought I saw,

but it's just so torn up.

They have papers in the "libarry",

new ones and old ones.

Miss Corcoran will get them out for you.

She won't even notice

if you cut out a little, bitty recipe.

Oh, it's not that important.

What time does the library close?

If you read as much as you should,

you'd know it closes at 9:00.

Oh, well.

If I think about it, maybe I'll go tomorrow.

You really ought to go to sleep, Ann.

Get back there!

Get back! Get back!

Just a moment, Charlie.

What do you think I am out here for?

Oh, I'm sorry, Mr Norton.

Alright. Go ahead.

Oh! Miss Corcoran, please let me in.

Oh, please!

Oh, thank you.

Really, Charlie. You know as well as I do

the library closes at 9:00.

If I make one exception,

I'll have to make a thousand.

I'm sorry, Mrs Corcoran, but there is

something in the paper I've got to see.

I'm surprised at you, Charlie.

No consideration.

- Oh, I'll only be a minute.

- You've got all day to come here.

I don't know why you want

to rush in here tonight like a madwoman.

I'll give you just three minutes.

Can't be anything really awful.

I'll prove to him it isn't.

Page three -

Hello.

- Where's Charlie?

- Still asleep. I don't want to wake her.

- Charlie still asleep?

- No, she just woke up.

I shouldn't have let her sleep so long,

but she needed it.

She doesn't look quite herself.

She'll be down for dinner.

Mother, let me finish mashing those.

I'll fix the rest of dinner

and get it on the table.

You go talk to Uncle Charlie.

- How do you feel?

- Fine.

I must have been tired. I slept like a log.

Uncle Charlie was asking for you again.

He's fond of you.

That nice young man came to ask

after you. I told him you were asleep.

I'm rested now. Is the gravy made?

Now you're humming that waltz.

Please don't hum that tune anymore.

I've just got it out of my head

and don't want it started again.

Please remember, don't hum that tune.

And don't keep getting up

every few minutes.

You just sit there and be a real lady.

Alright, if you say so,

but at least I can carry in the soup.

Roger, wash your hands!

Joe. Charles. Dinner.

- Mama -

- Ann, don't put things behind your ear.

And don't whisper.

Anyone could hear you a block away.

May I sit by you at the table?

By me? I should think

you'd want to sit by Uncle Charlie.

- No, I want to sit by you.

- Why do you want to change?

Mother, let her change if she wants to.

Roger doesn't mind.

No, certainly not.

Uncle Charlie might think... Certainly not.

- Mother, let her change.

- OK, but Ann has some foolish ideas.

Go in the dining room, both of you.

What's going on here?

Have I lost my little girl?

Roger wanted to sit next to you,

and I thought it would be nice

if the children took turns.

- I never...

- Never what, Roger?

- Nothing.

- Come, Ann. Come and help me.

Joe! I brought it in by mistake.

Nothing special in it.

- Want to look at the headlines, Charles?

- Thank you, Joe.

Roger, don't make so much noise

with your soup.

If he holds his lips together, he

could draw it carefully, like a horse.

- Don't be disgusting.

- May I dip my bread in it?

- Where's Charlie?

- She wanted to serve dinner.

- She ' ll be in in a minute.

- You're right, Joe.

Nothing special tonight. Oh, here she is!

- Here ' s my girl.

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