What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Page #6

She gave me that check last night.

I see. Just a moment, please.

I guess that'll be all right, Miss Hudson.

- Fifties and twenties all right?

- Yes, please.

- There you are.

- Thank you.

Bye now.

Miss Blanche, I'll tell you right now,

if that sister of yours...

has gone and given you sleeping pills

just to keep you quiet...

while she's out doing I don't know what...

I'm sure as hell

gonna call the police on her.

It's all right, Miss Blanche.

I'm glad I caught you.

I hope you don't mind, there's something

I've been meaning to ask you.

I'm kind of short of help around the house.

I was wondering if you'd mind

my asking your cleaning lady...

to give me a couple of days a week.

As far as I'm concerned,

you can have her as often as you want.

My sister and I are moving,

so we won't want her anymore.

But you'll have to call her because

she isn't here. I've already sent her home.

But I just saw her.

Yes, but I sent her home.

No, but that's impossible.

I saw her go in the house

a few minutes ago.

- In the house?

- Yes.

So you finally decided to come back, huh?

What're you doing here?

- I told you, you were fired.

- Never mind all that.

I want to know

what's going on around here.

- But you said you didn't have your key.

- It just so happens that I did.

So now you can tell me what you mean

by locking Miss Blanche in her room.

This is my house and I can do what I like.

It doesn't matter whose house it is.

You've got to act like a grown woman,

like everybody else.

Suppose there was a fire and

Miss Blanche was locked in her room?

Well, there wasn't.

You open that door

and stop all this nonsense!

- Then give me the key.

- No.

She's asleep. I gave her a pill.

You did?

Then you better give me that key

and be quick about it.

I won't, and you can't make me.

I'm not afraid of you.

All right, Miss Hudson.

I'm not going to fool with you.

If you won't give me that key,

I'll go right down and call the police.

You'll be sorry.

Give me that key.

I didn't mean her any harm.

You better not have done her any harm.

My God, Miss Blanche.

What has she done to you?

I'll get it off in a minute.

Don't worry, Miss Blanche.

I'll get you down from here.

You just rest easy.

Going out, are you, dear?

- You know I am.

- Having dinner with her?

I'm forgotten.

You won't be back too late,

will you, lovey?

Who knows?

You could've been better than all of them.

But they didn't want that.

They just didn't love you enough.

You know that?

They just didn't love you enough.

Miss Hudson?

I'm sorry, Edwin.

I can't let you in.

Not now.

To hell with it!

I can't let you in.

Not now.

What am I going to do?

Miss Hudson, I thought...

I didn't know there was anyone in here.

I just came home and saw a light...

and I thought perhaps

you'd left the lights of your car on.

- I've had that happen to me.

- That's all right, Mrs. Bates.

I had that happen to me once, it's no joke.

You wake up in the morning

and find you've got a dead battery.

No joke.

Well, as long as everything's all right...

- I guess I'll just say good night.

- Good night.

That doesn't prove anything.

- Now what do you think you'll do?

- I'll manage, lovey.

I suppose you think I'm making all this up.

- I wouldn't know.

- Hazel should know, shouldn't she?

She worked in the same studio

and that's when it all happened.

Just after one of those studio parties...

and right in front of her own house.

Jane Hudson drove a car straight

at her own sister and crippled her for life.

Come on, you mean she tried to kill her?

Yes, she did.

She tried to murder her own sister.

How is it they didn't arrest her then?

They would've,

but the studio had it all hushed up...

on account of Blanche Hudson's career.

That sounds very likely.

Yes, doesn't it? So the fine woman

you've chosen to run around with...

turns out to be broke

and a murderer, as well.

- I see!

- Well, it's true!

All right then,

I'll ask her about it when I see her again.

You wouldn't see a woman like that again?

Why not? You just told me

she's got a rich sister.

But you haven't heard the worst of it yet.

- You mean there's more?

- Yes, there is.

After she'd run down her own sister,

your precious Jane Hudson...

ran off and left her there to die,

like some poor animal.

She ran off and disappeared

for three whole days.

What happened then?

Don't tell me they couldn't find her.

They found her, all right.

They found her in some hotel room...

with a man that

she'd never even seen before.

Why should that upset you?

Isn't that how I was conceived?

Yes, this is Miss Hudson.

She left.

About a week ago.

We have a report here filed by her cousin,

listing her as a missing person.

Did she tell you what her plans were,

anything like that?

No, I don't know a thing.

We have some other addresses to check.

Maybe we'll come up with something.

Otherwise we'll probably be

getting in touch with you again.

Meanwhile, if you do hear from her,

we would appreciate you letting us know.

The police are looking for Elvira.

It wasn't my fault. She wouldn't go away.

You heard her,

she wouldn't leave me alone.

I don't know what to do, Blanche.

What am I going to do?

What am I going to do?

If they find her, we'll have to run away.

That's what we'll do. We'll just go away.

But then I wouldn't see Edwin anymore.

He wouldn't like what I did.

It wasn't my fault,

but he wouldn't like what I did.

I don't care. We'll just go to the beach.

We'll go and live at the seashore

all the time, like we used to...

when I was little and Daddy was there.

And maybe we'll have friends.

People would come and see us.

I'd like that.

Blanche, listen to me.

You know I always wanted

everything to be nice, don't you?

I don't see how Elvira

could make me do a thing like that.

I just don't understand.

It was like that time in the hotel room...

when they came and told me

that you were hurt and that I'd done it.

And there was a big man there,

a policeman.

And he hit me and he slapped me and...

I tried to tell him that

I couldn't do a thing like that.

Not to my own sister.

He said I was a liar.

The accident, it...

No, it wasn't an accident.

I did it. You told me so yourself.

I must tell you.

I don't want to talk about it!

Every time I think about something nice,

you remind me of the bad things.

I only want to talk about the nice things.

Remember when Daddy and I

used to rehearse at the beach?

I'd be dancing on the sand...

and all the people

would come and watch...

all crowd around

to see Baby Jane Hudson.

What'll I do?

- Let them in.

- But what if...

It may be Edwin.

Of course. It's Edwin.

You want to make him tell on me.

No, Jane.

Please.

Wait for me.

Yes.

I'm sorry, but we just picked up

this young man in front of your house.

Says he's on his way in to see you.

Is that right?

- I don't understand.

- They're trying to say I'm drunk.

We'll just say that

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