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that's important.

Where are we going?

To a little parking spot I used to use

when I was in high school.

Well, I have to apologize

for the time of day.

I used to hit it a lot later

in the evening.

I'm just as happy with the

time of day, thank you.

Boy, oh Boy.

How I used to operate

from this spot.

Public School 45 must have been

a progressive school.

What did you want to see

me about, Bob?

Well, I've made up my mind about a lot

of things of last night and today.

One thing, I'm not going to

Paris with Colby.

And another thing I've decided,

...I don't want you

to go to Paris.

Really?

What do you want me to do?

- Stick around, see America first.

Might get to meet someone you like.

I might.

With Colby, what have you got?

Money, influence, travel, yachts...

...why don't you let me

take you out of all that?

That's an offer,

if I ever heard one.

I'm really very serious.

I know you are.

What's the matter, Bob?

I don't know.

Maybe today is not the day.

I've spent the whole morning going over

the newspaper accounts of the Kroner trial.

But why?

You just naturally get curious

about someone you kill.

I kept running across

the name of Bruno.

Who's he?

A little engraver that counterteited

the bonds for Kroner.

Honey, Kroner didn't look like the type

to get away with a million dollars.

Neither did Bruno.

He was a strange little man.

A tremendous inferiority he was

always trying to hide,

...he never managed to look like anything

but a twelve-dollar-a-week bookkeeper,

...glasses two feet thick,

not a hair in his head...

Bruno.

A foreigner?

- Originally.

He spoke with a marked accent.

Is Colby going to be at home tonight?

I think so. Why?

Maybe I could get him to throw

some legal business my way.

I'll keep him at home for you.

You'd better get me back

to the office.

One of us has to keep her job.

Well, well.

Little did I think when I first met

Emilio Canepa that you'd...

...be the mother of my children.

Why, is there some connection

between the two?

No Emilio, no summons.

No summons, no children.

We'll name our first one Emilio.

Over my beautiful muscular

dead body.

Look out!

You're not hurt, are you?

Just a mild case of

shuttered nerves.

Feeling that thing slipping didn't

do mine any good, neither.

- Have one?

- Thanks.

That little lantern fell

like Hiroshima.

Forget it.

I think maybe you've given me

a very good idea.

Just as long as it's not

a busted head.

I'll make one yet,

unless my luck holds out.

- Hello, Murdock.

- Good evening.

Much killing going around

the place tonight?

I think Mr. Colby's expecting you.

Ask a dull question,

you'll get a dull answer.

Hello, Bob.

Don't be glad to see me until

you find out what I want.

Noel has already told me.

I'm sorry you changed

your mind about Paris.

Have you told him about the service

our new firm is prepared to offer?

I thought I'd better

save that for you.

Well, we're offering everything

in the legal line.

Ambulance chasings and

grey subpoenas.

Sounds like an up-and-coming outfit.

We sympathize with our clients'

troubles and...

...charge only 500$

for the sympathy.

That's cheaper that the sympathy I'm

getting from Porter and Griswold.

Your proposition sounds very

attractive, count me in.

One call, one client.

Must be my personality.

Oh, did you know your house

was being watched?

Watched?

Yes. Some little bald-headed guy,

with not a hair in his head,

...stopped me outside

by the lamp post.

I don't understand.

It's hard to tell just what he wanted.

He spoke with a hard accent,

...kept blinking at me with

glasses two-feet thick,

...seemed like he was a little

bookkeeper trying to act important.

Bruno.

- You say he stopped you?

- Yes.

He asked me for a light and wanted

to know if I was coming in here.

Yes?

When I told him I was, he said something

about being a friend of Kroner's...

and that you'll hear

from him.

He must have gone.

He's not there now.

- Is there anything I can do?

- I don't know, Bob.

- There isn't any danger, is there?

- I don't think so.

- Bob!

- 'Cause if...

...you'd like me to talk to him.

- Possibly I will, but there's no hurry.

If we want Bruno,

we can always reach him.

But if he's of any threat to us,

I could see him tonight.

No. We'll wait to hear from him.

Thanks anyway.

Maybe I'll call on you later.

I hope this news isn't too bad.

It isn't good, but we

can handle it.

Thank you for the information, Bob.

I'm glad you dropped around tonight.

Thank you for the business.

Good night, Noel.

Good night.

I wonder where Bruno's been

all this years,

...and what brought him back.

The newspaper stories, I imagine.

He never impressed me as being the

sort of fella who makes threats.

He was such a meak little man.

Did you ever meet him, Noel?

- Probably.

- Of course you did.

Sometimes I forget how long you've been

with me. How long we've been together?

Andrew, do you mind...?

What was it you once said

that he reminded you...

...of a twelve-dollar-a-wee

bookkeeper, wasn't it?

Do you have anything else

for me to do this evening?

I don't think so.

- Then I say good night.

- Good night, Noel.

Hello.

This could give me a pretty bad

name with my landlady.

I'd like to know what you meant by

that little performance tonight.

Was I convincing?

You're not a very nice person.

Are you, Regan?

Your high school parking spot

came through beautifully.

- Now, wait a minute, Noel.

- No, you wait

I admit I am a little ashamed

of what...

...an easy target I was

this afternoon.

But primarily I came to find out just

what you were up to tonight.

What's your guess?

Blackmail?

That's a nice business, if you have

the right connections.

I think I deserve a better

answer than that, Bob.

You do.

Sit down.

There's several people in key

positions in this town...

...who believe that Kroner was

deliberately murdered.

That's ridiculous.

Is it?

Would have been comparatively

easy for Colby to frame.

He invites Kroner to the house,

...in the middle of the conversation

he pulls the gun,

...he fires one shot into the floor,

...shoves the gun into

Kroner's hands,

...starts wrestling with him

and yelling for help.

I rush in, Kroner turns startled,

bang bang and it's all over.

You must be out of your mind.

The police don't think so.

In fact, they gave me the idea.

- Why should Andrew want to kill Kroner?

Suppose Colby dreamt up this

old counterfeit deal himself.

He promises Kroner a share of the

profits if he'll take the rap,

...while Colby takes the million

and builds up the business.

Kroner gets out, expecting a

share of the gravy,

...instead, the lights go out.

If I use that kind of reasoning

I can think of at least...

...fifteen motives why

you killed Kroner.

The police have 5000.

What were you trying

to do tonight?

I wanted to see Bruno.

I thought I could startle Colby

into giving me his adress, but...

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