The Boston Strangler Page #6

He sat in this chair talking to her.

These look like soot marks.

He must have brought it in on his shoes.

Did she have a boyfriend?

Three, but two of them are faggots.

We think the other one was banging her.

So what? Everyone's banging everybody.

It's a horny world.

Shake them down, you'll probably find

all three have good, solid alibis.

No, no. This is our man.

She let him in, all right,

but she didn't know him.

He's probably not a homosexual.

If we don't find him fast,

we'll all be riding three-wheel bikes...

...and emptying parking meters.

TV ANNOUNCER:

Thus was the life and the death...

...of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Leaders of a hundred nations

come in tribute:

De Gaulle of France...

...Prince Philip of Great Britain...

...Erhard of Germany...

...the great among men.

A gathering such as this

has never been seen...

- JUDY:
Can't have it.

- ...in America.

- MICHAEL:
Yes, I can.

- No, you can't.

- Yes, I can.

- No, you can't.

Oh, shh, shh, shh. Be quiet, Michael.

Don't be sad, Daddy.

Come here.

A riderless horse, stirrups backward

for the fallen chieftain.

- DESALVO:
Irmgard...

- I just can't believe he's dead.

I can't either.

I'm going to check out the furnace.

I left when it happened.

Now, Al?

I might as well.

I want to get some air anyway.

Try to be back by 6:00.

Dinner will be ready.

Okay. See you later.

Kennedy's coffin,

borne on the same caisson...

...which carried the body

of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

It is a day of national mourning

in his own land.

It is a day when men around the world...

...wonder how this thing so needless

could have happened.

Men wonder...

...and find no answer.

They can only pause in silence

to mourn his passing.

- DESALVO:
Hi.

- Yes?

Um, super sent me to check your bathroom.

I didn't think anyone was working today.

Yeah, isn't it awful?

But I had this house marked down

for today.

Can't you come back in a day or so?

Well, yeah, I guess so.

Sorry to bother you.

No, wait.

I don't want to miss

getting the bathroom fixed.

It's in there.

DESALVO:
Uh-huh.

- Yeah. That looks kind of bad.

- I know. That's what I keep telling them.

DESALVO:
Yeah.

Even the tile is falling apart.

[MUFFLED CRYING]

- WOMAN:
Who is it?

- Painter.

Owner sent me over to look at your walls.

He didn't say anything to me.

- Well, you're on my list.

- Have the owner phone me you're okay.

If you don't want the work done,

it's all right by me.

All right, come up.

[DOOR BUZZES]

Hey, hey. What are you doing?

- Hey, is that your car?

- Yeah.

Will you do me a big favor and move it?

I got furniture to drop here.

Okay.

[NO BUZZING]

[BUZZES]

Hi. I'm looking for an apartment.

The manager's apartment's

over there, number three.

But there are no vacancies.

DESALVO:
Now, don't scream,

and you won't get hurt.

[SOBBING SOFTLY]

[YELLING]

NAGY:
Miss Cluny?

Yes?

This is John Bottomly,

who wants to talk to you.

I'm here because the man who attacked

you may be very important to us.

We think the man might have been

the Strangler.

Oh, my God.

You're very lucky to be alive.

What was the last thing you remember

before you woke up in this bed?

I was ironing.

I remember I was ironing

some small things.

I don't like ironing.

You don't remember anything until here?

Um, I remember that I couldn't move.

I kept trying to move and I couldn't.

- What stopped you?

- CLUNY:
I don't know.

- It was like I was paralyzed.

- Paralyzed completely? Your whole body?

I don't think so.

I could move from side to side.

I kept trying.

Try to remember why you couldn't move

your hands and feet.

All right.

Miss Cluny...

[ELEVATOR RUNNING]

[MALE VOICE HEARD FAINTLY]

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

He just broke into my house!

[CAR HORN HONKS]

[SIREN WAILING]

Mr. DeSalvo, your attorney,

Mr. Asgeirsson here...

...tells me you're resisting

his representing you.

I strongly urge you to follow his counsel.

But I don't need an attorney.

I haven't done anything.

How did you get here? You suppose

the officers have nothing to do...

...but go around framing innocent

people? Why should they?

Yeah. That's what I'd like to know.

Why should they?

LEARY:
This standard burglar tool was

found on you when you were arrested.

- Do you deny it's yours?

- He admits it's his ruler.

Why shouldn't I admit it?

I bought it in Jordan Marsh.

Next thing I know...

...these cops knocked me down

for no reason at all.

Mr. DeSalvo, these officers, Mr. Taylor

and four other witnesses...

...state that you were pursued for

two blocks before being captured.

I don't care. They're lying.

Nobody chased me anywhere.

I, um... I think there's

a very strong possibility...

...that Mr. DeSalvo is mentally disturbed.

Do you agree?

It's possible.

Mr. DeSalvo, by law...

...you'd have a preliminary hearing

within the next 48 hours.

I don't think you're up to it.

The law provides that you may be

committed to a state institution...

...to determine if and when

you are competent to stand trial.

Boston City Hospital.

I dreamed about rags being torn,

just torn over and over again.

BOTTOMLY:

Were the rags tearing themselves up?

Were they in someone's hands?

No, they were just rags.

- You haven't minded being hypnotized?

- No. It makes me feel rested afterwards.

I'd like to put you under right now

while you're thinking of those rags.

Now, follow my hand with your eyes.

Keep it in focus.

Your eyes are getting tired.

You want to sleep.

You want to go back to your dream

to help us, to see those rags...

...and remember who was tearing them.

I bit his hand.

I can see it. I can taste it.

I bit his hand hard.

- Are you under now?

- No!

NAGY:
Can you see beyond the hand,

his face, his body?

No.

Try.

I can't.

You know what I mean?

- But I don't belong here.

- Mm-hm.

- I guess everybody says that, don't they?

- Mm-hm.

You know how I got here?

Uh, some cop knocked me down

outside Jordan Marsh's...

...and they found this ruler on me.

They said it was a burglar's tool.

How do you like that? It was just a ruler.

I use it in my work.

You know, I'd like to be able

to tell this to somebody.

God, I'm afraid to breathe.

CLINICAL RECORD:

NAGY:
It's fascinating.

DeSalvo's preliminary diagnosis...

...indicates the possibility of

a classic multiple-personality situation.

In such cases, does the patient know

he has two personalities?

No.

You mean he actually doesn't know

what the other part of him is doing?

Well, "the other part of him"

is the wrong phrase.

It's hard to accept, but there are actually

two totally separate personalities.

I mean, literally, actually, two separate

people enclosed in one body.

And they take turns using the body.

[PHONE RINGS]

Excuse me.

Dr. Nagy.

Oh, it's the dispensary.

Thank you.

The wound was a human bite.

He claims he caught it in some machinery.

- DINATALE:
He's lying.

- He may not be lying.

If this diagnosis is valid, he wasn't

bitten. The other man was.

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