The Postman Always Rings Twice Page #9

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Just take me down to the beach.

We've been so happy there.

And let's be happy again...

...just once more.

And then I promise that everything will

be settled, one way or the other...

...before we come back.

I'll get the car, Cora.

Frank.

All the hate and revenge has left me...

...but is it all out of you?

I'm trying to find some way

I could prove it to you.

Maybe I know a way.

Let's swim out there, way, way out...

...until we're so tired that

we'll just barely be able to get back.

- How is that gonna prove-- ?

- Please, Frank.

Come on, I'll show you.

This is far enough.

- Are you tired?

- Very tired. How about you?

I'm still all right.

Frank...

...what I wanted to be sure of was...

...whether you trust me.

If you don't believe

that I can never turn on you again...

...and if you don't want me to go back

with you...

...you could swim back by yourself.

I'm too tired,

I could never make it alone.

Nobody will ever know.

Cora, Cora, don't say another word.

Darling, save your strength.

I'll take you in.

Are you sure now?

I'm sure.

I've been waiting a long time

for that kiss.

When we get home, Frank,

then there will be kisses.

Kisses with dreams in them.

Kisses that come from life,

not death.

I hope I can wait.

Darling.

Look out!

Frank!

Cora.

This man, Frank Chambers,

and the dead woman...

...first murdered her husband

to get his estate.

Then Chambers murdered her

so that he'd have it all to himself.

The jury was out five minutes.

The judge said in sentencing me...

...that he was giving

the same consideration...

...he'd show any other mad dog.

I see.

I see.

And now, Father...

...comes the important thing

you can do for me.

Do you think she knows?

Knows that you didn't kill her?

She must know it.

But that's the awful part

when you monkey with murder.

Somehow...

...maybe it flashed through her head

when the car hit...

...that maybe I did do it.

Father, do you think she knows

the truth?

We can hope.

We got off to a wrong start,

and somehow or other...

...we never got back on the right track.

But I didn't kill her.

I loved her so much,

I tell you, I would have died for her!

I just talked to the governor.

But, I...

I didn't do it.

- I didn't do it, I tell you!

- Wait a minute!

All right, suppose you didn't do it.

Get me a new trial. I'm not gonna

go in that gas chamber for killing her!

Suppose you got a stay of execution, new

trial, acquittal of killing Cora. Then what?

Last night they auctioned off the fixtures

at the Twin Oaks.

A man who bought the cash register

found a note in the back of the drawer.

He brought it to me.

It's addressed to you.

Cora wrote it.

It's a very beautiful note, Frank...

...written by a girl

who loved a man very much.

I imagine it was written

earlier the very night she died.

A note of farewell, isn't it?

She did try and run away that night.

And since she had no idea anyone

would ever see that note but you...

...it therefore has

just enough of a confession...

...to convict you of helping her

kill her husband.

So if you were to leave this room

because you didn't kill her...

...you'd soon be back here again

for helping her kill Nick.

What's the use?

Then...

Then what's gonna happen to me

is not because I killed her?

No, laddie, for killing Nick.

You know...

...there's something about this

that's like...

Well, it's like...

...you're expecting...

...a letter that you're just crazy

to get...

...and you hang around

the front door...

...for fear you might not hear him ring.

You never realize

that he always rings twice.

What's that?

Well, he rang twice for Cora...

...and now he's ringing twice for me,

isn't he?

That's about it.

The truth is, you always

hear him ring the second time.

Even if you're way out in the backyard.

Father.

You were right.

It all works out.

I guess God knows more

about these things than we do.

Somehow or other...

...Cora paid for Nick's life with hers.

And now I'm going to.

Father...

...would you send up a prayer

for me and Cora?

And if you could find it in your heart...

...make it that we're together,

wherever it is.

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