Speaker 1: Hello, Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh Darris, Now
you have to include me out tonight. I've got to
discuss an idea for a movie. Uh uh, Now I
can't make it, Angel and I can't miss this. These
characters have dreamed up the perfect switch. Instead of shooting pictures,
they plan to shoot people.
Speaker 2: Once again.
Speaker 3: The Adventures of the Falcon dedicated to private investigators everywhere,
Those hard hitting detectives who, like Mike Wearing, risk their
lives to aid law enforcement agencies. So join him now
when the Falcon salves the case of the Falling Star.
It's Sunday afternoon in New York, and in his hotel suite,
Ken Marlowe, who loves smashed his way to movie start
him by portraying a two fist drinking man. He's giving
a sample of the performance that made him think. Only
this time, Ken isn't acting.
Speaker 1: I'll fix them all.
Speaker 2: When I get throw those crumbs, I'll know better than
the horse.
Speaker 4: Or Yeah, that's about time, fella, that's what I thought too.
Speaker 2: Huh, how are you Ken?
Speaker 4: Jackie Howard, I'm sorry, I was expecting somebody else. I
bet she's a lot prettier, Nothing like that, I'm here
with a wife. It's a funny thing. I didn't even
know you were in town. I thought I left you
on the West coast.
Speaker 2: Haven't you heard? Trailways runs all over the country. What
I got to do is bad ticket. Look, Jackie, I
know what you want. I intended it.
Speaker 4: I intended to clean up that fifteen grand I owe
you before I left. It's nineteen fifteen nineteen.
Speaker 2: What's the difference. I'm good for it. Are Amon told
me you washed up a National Pictures? They're crazy. I'm
in like Flynn. I'm glad to hear it. Of course,
if they don't pick up your option, you see my position.
As I said, you're into me for nineteen grand, and as.
Speaker 4: I said, I'm good for it. I can write my
own ticket at any studio. Who is the number one
box office draw on forty nine?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 2: Well, they are no there you were? That was forty
nine ken three years is like three hundred in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: I tell you got nothing to worry about it. National
will pick up my option on the twenty third, And
when can I expect you to pick up these IOUs Look, Jackie,
if you're going to take that attitude, you can whistle
for your dough.
Speaker 2: Nobody pushes me around. Oh that's right. I forgot. You're
a pretty tough boy in pictures. That's right. Luckily I
never go to the movies. That's the it. Let's understand
each other, Ken, you owe me nineteen grand I expect
to have it on the twenty third.
Speaker 4: If I'm busy, Laura, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Oh there's no need to apologize, Missus Marlowe. I'm Jackie Howard.
Speaker 6: How do you do? I've heard so much about.
Speaker 2: You, and I wish I could say it wasn't true.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm sure I'm in the way, So if you.
Speaker 5: Excuse no, no bother.
Speaker 2: I was just leaving. Well, what do you say?
Speaker 5: Ken?
Speaker 2: Shall we make it for a week from Friday. I'll
tell my best, that's all I ask. Well, this has
been a real pleasure, Missus marlone. Maybe we'll love me
to get I hope. So, dirty Bob, what was he doing?
Speaker 5: If you have business?
Speaker 6: Darling, I don't want to make a noise like a wife.
But if you owe.
Speaker 2: Jackie Howard's not your business.
Speaker 6: Don't you understand I'm only thinking of you If you're in.
Speaker 2: A gym, I stop.
Speaker 6: All I want to know.
Speaker 4: You want to do is drive me Frice, there's my coat.
I'm going to find a place where a man can
have a drink and peace.
Speaker 1: Oh hi, Steve, can I help you?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Mister mallow? Never mind I see him? Hello, Ken, I've
been looking for you.
Speaker 2: How do you watch?
Speaker 1: Steve?
Speaker 5: Just saw Laura. You're really living your part, aren't you?
Speaker 2: Boy?
Speaker 5: I have the two fisted he man. That's a beautiful
shine as she's sporting. Somebody asks no, but I hate
to see you love her up.
Speaker 7: She's one in a million because she's stuck by you.
When you've gotten that mess out in Beverly Hill.
Speaker 2: Why don't you mind your own business? Steve?
Speaker 4: I tried like you're not very good at it. I
pay you two hundred bucks a week to take care
of my publicity. I haven't seen my name in print
for months.
Speaker 7: Sometimes a publicity man does a job by keeping his
client's name out of the papers.
Speaker 2: What kind of a crack is that?
Speaker 7: Who squared that beef with that girl in Santa Monica
and that chicken and seen it?
Speaker 5: Look, Steve, if you don't like it, you know what
you can do.
Speaker 7: You know, I was just thinking, if national doesn't pick
up your eruption.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 2: Who says, so I could go to a metro or fill.
Speaker 7: I got a scoop for you.
Speaker 5: Boy.
Speaker 7: They wouldn't let you through the main gate.
Speaker 5: Your only chance is national.
Speaker 7: You gotta behave yourself until they make up their minds?
Speaker 5: Kind of a jam?
Speaker 7: Did you get yourself into with Jackie Howard?
Speaker 5: Oh, so Laura has been She hasn't been doing anything
of the kind.
Speaker 7: I saw Jackie in the lobby. I put two and
two together.
Speaker 4: But I can stop adding and pay more attention to business.
We'd all be better off. Why don't you get me
some publicis?
Speaker 5: Okay? Maybe you could stop a runaway horse top me.
Speaker 2: Funny.
Speaker 7: I was just pointing out that putting three quarts of
booze away isn't considered front page stuff anymore.
Speaker 5: You see, editors are funny.
Speaker 2: They wait a minute, Wait a minute, I got an idea.
Speaker 5: Suppose my life was threatened, Oh forget it.
Speaker 2: Why it sounds pretty good to me now if we
went to the con.
Speaker 7: In case you haven't heard Ken horsing around with the
laws of pretty serious matter.
Speaker 4: Okay, isn't Mike wearing a buddy of yours at private
Dick they call a falcon.
Speaker 5: What about it?
Speaker 2: They keep playball? No, No, Mike wouldn't touch anything that's phonny.
Speaker 5: Why would he have to know?
Speaker 4: I suppose we cooked up some anonymous far it's out.
Why because I thought of it.
Speaker 5: Ken, don't be ridic.
Speaker 2: We're gonna handle it my way.
Speaker 4: We'll hire the falcon to be my bodyguard, and you
leak it to the papers. I'll be worth a couple
of column I don't like it, K I don't like
paying your salary. While I dream up the ideas, I'll
go call wearing set up a date.
Speaker 5: Well that's the story, Mike.
Speaker 7: After the third phone called, Ken thought we ought to
do something about it.
Speaker 1: I assume not that I was worried.
Speaker 4: You understand I can take care of myself, but I
had to think of Laura.
Speaker 2: Laura my wife. You know how a gal worries.
Speaker 1: Tell me some more about these phone calls. Mar Alone,
do you recognize the voice? No, I thought it was
a gag at first. What convinced you otherwise?
Speaker 4: Well, this morning someone he took a pot shot at
me while I was playing golf with Steve.
Speaker 1: Do you report it to the police?
Speaker 5: He didn't want to, Mike, but I insisted.
Speaker 1: What did they say?
Speaker 5: They thought it was a publicity stunt? Is this no?
Speaker 1: You sure, Steve?
Speaker 5: I look, Mike, you've known me for how many years? Ten? Twelve?
I think I've always leveled with you.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you can't blame me for being suspicious.
Who did you talk to at headquarters? A Sergeant Corbett?
Now there's a phoney. If I ever met one. He
happens to be a friend of mine. Oh, offense, old man, Kippe.
Have you any idea who might be after him? No
indulging in any extracurricular activities? You mean women?
Speaker 4: You take me for an idiot. I'm married to the
greatest little girl in the world.
Speaker 1: You owe anybody any money? No, I'm the kind of
pays his bills. I'm always on the dot. You sound
too good to be true. Ah. The more I hear
of this, the more I'm convinced Corbett was right. Come again,
the way you tell it, you're the most popular man
in the class. Okay, if that's the way you feel,
we'll get somebody else. There are other private detectives in
New York and better too.
Speaker 5: I Steve.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Mikee, I forget. It's not your fault. Just say
it's a clash of personalities. Yeah, it's a long palla seeing.
Give me a call before you leave town.
Speaker 5: I will well. I hope you are satisfied.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: I think wearing is gonna work out fine.
Speaker 5: So help me your nuts. Didn't you hear what he said?
Speaker 4: He thinks this is a publicity stunt. All he caught
was the prologue. He'll play ball after the first actor.
Speaker 5: What are you talking about.
Speaker 2: Let's find a phone.
Speaker 4: I got to cast a show and I know just
the boy to play the lead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, text Riley around, don't know? Tell him it's Ken Marlow?
Speaker 1: Why you no good louts?
Speaker 6: How can you have the herd.
Speaker 2: Your shirt on text?
Speaker 4: But you thought I forgot about that hundred bucks you
loaned me before I went to Hollywood?
Speaker 1: Well didn't you?
Speaker 2: Oh this is my first trip in New York in
six years.
Speaker 1: You could have mailed it.
Speaker 4: Oh that's too impersonal. I wanted to give it to
you myself with a little bonus. How would you like
to pick up an additional five hundred?
Speaker 1: I don't sound like a Ken Marlow.
Speaker 8: I know and hate.
Speaker 1: What do I have to do.
Speaker 2: Well. I got a little part i'd like you to
try out for in a picture. It's a play I'm
going to produce on my own. But first i'd like
to see a dress rehearsal.
Speaker 1: I don't get it well.
Speaker 4: My wife doesn't know anything about this, and i'd like
to test a reaction. If you meet me in the
Creighton lobby in twenty minutes, we'll run over the script.
Speaker 2: Hey, Laura, you better order some more ice. I'm running low. Oh,
I can why radic.
Speaker 6: You expecting someone?
Speaker 2: Oh, Steve Nichols said he might drop around answer the door.
Speaker 6: That's a second.
Speaker 1: Well, hire sugar.
Speaker 2: I beg your pardon, I beg yours.
Speaker 1: Is Hollywood hot shot in?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: Lara?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: Never mind?
Speaker 1: I'll announce myself.
Speaker 2: Hi am Marlow the devil?
Speaker 1: Are you? We're just an autograph hound?
Speaker 2: Get out? I ward, I put my pencil.
Speaker 1: I had it right here.
Speaker 4: Hey, look at what I found.
Speaker 1: Ken, that's the idea of the gun.
Speaker 2: You can't say you.
Speaker 5: Weren't warn Marlow.
Speaker 2: You're a friend of mine, some dough He told you
to get it up.
Speaker 1: Since you didn't.
Speaker 2: No, you can't get out of my waist. No, you
stop butting in.
Speaker 6: I'm not afraid.
Speaker 2: You don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 6: Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: Look, lady, I got nothing against you. I get out
of the way.
Speaker 6: Say what a hero he is, Ken, he's afraid of
a woman half his son.
Speaker 8: I'm warning you, baby, if you don't get out of
the way out.
Speaker 2: I thought you have it's me, sergeant.
Speaker 1: Well if I think that high flying bird the faulk.
Welcome to our little nest who wrote your material fell
out in California. He works real cheap, he should. So
it was Ken Marlow around to see you this morning. Yeah,
I spotted it for a publicity stunt. That's what I
thought at first too, But I changed my mind. Someone
tried a gun him an hour ago. Obviously they didn't
make it. How do you know, Well, I already talked
to you, mister Marlow. Hey, here's the jacket of the
buller we found in the room. What do you make
of it? It's a blank, that's right, mister Waring, it's
a blank. Marlow is in no danger at all. Well,
I guess that makes me the chump of the year.
I guess it does. Well. I had a little help, Okay, sage,
I'll be seeing you. I got to thank the man
who thought me so deserving at you, Laura, Sorry to
disappoint you. Marlow, you're wearing said no thanks. I just
dropped by to congratulates. You want a magnificent performance?
Speaker 2: What's eating you?
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful job of sucking me in. You
were hired. Whoever took that shot at you? You are nuts?
But I can't figure out is how your wife got
in the act. What happens? She had little pot for herself. Hi,
I don't think she knew the bullet was a blank.
You don't rate a gal like that.
Speaker 2: You got your nerve get out?
Speaker 1: Does that mean I'm fired?
Speaker 2: What do you think good?
Speaker 1: Because I hate to hit a client. Come on, Marlow,
we can't end the scene with you on the floor.
Your public would never stand for it. Now get up
and make like a hero.
Speaker 2: How you Mike?
Speaker 1: Oh? I just not have an expect to see you
again today. You know me always do the unexpected. But
you have to see ken Marlow? Yeah, what happened? Nothing
worth talking about all you're too modern? All right? So
I slapped him a couple of times. He had it coming,
maybe the slaps, but not the rest.
Speaker 4: What are you talking about he's dead, Mike, He's what
he's out for all time? Were you wearing brass nuts?
You're crazy? I wish I were better. Get your coat, fella,
I got a long ride ahead.
Speaker 3: An hour has passed since Mike Wearing was informed Ken
Marlowe was dead, and now at the scene of the crime,
Sergeant Corbett gives our hero some fatherly advice.
Speaker 4: Less and Mike, I got it all figured out. I'm
sure you'll be able to cop a plea.
Speaker 1: What are you babbling about? Well, it was self defense,
wasn't it. You didn't mean to kill him and I didn't,
and I left here. He was at the other end
of the room with the back of his head caved in. Well,
let's just hit or But how did it get that way?
I didn't slug him from behind, and he must have
hit it when he fell against what that sofa wouldn't
hurt a fly. How about the fireplace, No, he wasn't
anyone near it. It'd be blood stains if he were.
There must be something around that caused the damage. The
familiar blunt instrument. Yeah, let's see those fire times clean?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: How about those book ends? Not a stain on him. Listen, Mike,
maybe the killer took the weapon with him. Does that
mean you're absolving me if we can come up with
some evidence. You think the murderer might have walked off
with it? I doubt it. A lot of blood flowed.
I can't see anyone taking a chance on staining his clothes. Well,
he didn't leave it around for us to find he
Wait a minute, there's something missing in this room. What
and that's just the trouble. I can't I got it? Liquor?
What are you talking about? Marlow was a drinker. A
boy like him would have at least one bottle around. Hey,
you're right, where's the trash basket in the pantry, Well,
let's get it. The killer might gamble. The next time
the chamber made came through, she dumped without a second glance.
He quite a collection. Eh, there's a baby, don't touch it.
I won't. But mine are probably the only thing of
prints that aren't out of everyone else who was up here.
Must have been invited to help himself. Yeah, you're probably right,
A Haskell. Take this down to the lab. Well, now
you're convinced I had nothing to do with this murder. Yeah,
but if you didn't kill Marlowe? Who did? That's what
I intend to find out. Why don't you stay out
of this mine? Oh? No where? But tailored this frame
did a lovely job. It's just lucky I didn't fit
the picture. I can't blame me if I want to
get my hands on the artist.
Speaker 7: I tell you, Mike, I don't know anything about it.
First I heard of it was when the cops phoned
me they found Ken's body.
Speaker 1: Whose bright idea was his publicity start in the first place, Steve?
Speaker 5: I didn't want any part of it.
Speaker 1: And why did you bring him to me?
Speaker 5: I couldn't help myself, Mike. I was working for the man.
Speaker 1: That's another thing I don't understand. How come you tied
up with a heel like Marlowe?
Speaker 5: The dough was good?
Speaker 1: When did your last get it? According to what I
hear now, he was strictly no pay. When did you
get your last salary check? Come on, Steve, it'll be
easy enough to find.
Speaker 5: Out three months ago.
Speaker 1: Then why did you stick he was on the skin?
Speaker 5: No, he wasn't National head till Friday to pick up
his option.
Speaker 1: You think they would have There is no telling.
Speaker 5: It wasn't even money Bett.
Speaker 1: Oh who had it in for him?
Speaker 5: No one?
Speaker 1: Look Steve when no longer playing games? The o Judowe,
he must have vote others.
Speaker 5: Jackie Howard?
Speaker 1: Who's Jackie Howard?
Speaker 5: He owns a gambling joint or the strip? Ken was
into him for around twenty.
Speaker 1: Grand Is this Howard character in time?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Staying at the Brighton?
Speaker 1: Okay, we got one suspect. Let's try for two. What
about missus Marlowe?
Speaker 5: Don't talk like a chump.
Speaker 1: She was in love with the guy, and he certainly
didn't raid a wife like that.
Speaker 5: Nobody does.
Speaker 1: Oh, so like you go for yourself.
Speaker 5: Oh, don't be silly. You know I'm married.
Speaker 1: I suppose you feel like a big brother to her.
Speaker 5: That's exactly how I feel.
Speaker 1: You know something, Steve, I believe you. Thanks, No, I
mean it. I think Laura explains why you continued working
for Marlone. Maybe that's why you knock yourself out, suppressing
those items that would have ruined them. You didn't want
her hurt, right, Yeah, why.
Speaker 5: Steve, it won't make any sense to you.
Speaker 1: Like, Oh, try me.
Speaker 5: First day I met her, she reminded me of Edith. Edith,
my kid's sister. She was married to a boy like Ken, and.
Speaker 1: What happened to her?
Speaker 5: She's dead?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Sorry, maybe she's better off.
Speaker 1: So are you transferred your feeling to Laura?
Speaker 5: Anything wrong with it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I think it's very commendable. So I wonder how Laura
feels about it?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, why don't I find out?
Speaker 5: Oh look, Mike, you're not to bother her.
Speaker 2: She knows nothing about Ken's murder.
Speaker 1: Well, I've only got your word for it, Steve. Not
that I don't believe you understand, But I'd like to
text these things for myself. I'll be seeing you, fella.
Speaker 6: Who is it?
Speaker 1: I'd like to say, Laura Marlow.
Speaker 6: There's no one here by that name.
Speaker 1: I know there is. This is Mike wearing missus Marlon.
Speaker 6: Please go away.
Speaker 1: I got to talk to you.
Speaker 4: Leave me.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't disturb you, but it's important.
Speaker 6: Come in.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 6: How do you know I was here?
Speaker 1: Sergeant Corbett told me I just saw Steve.
Speaker 6: Nichols and Steve sent you here.
Speaker 1: No, as a matter of fact, he insisted I leave
you alone.
Speaker 6: Where'd you come?
Speaker 1: Because I want to solve your husband's murder.
Speaker 6: Can meant nothing to you.
Speaker 1: He was a client, He tricked you. I still took
his money. It's I whoever killed him involved me. I
don't forget things like that. I'll tell me what sort
of a man was your husband? You must have some idea, yes,
but I like the woman's viewpoints.
Speaker 6: It was wonderful.
Speaker 1: Oh come now, Angel, you can't expect me to buy that.
Speaker 6: I don't care what you heard. Sorry, took a drink
once in a while. Is there anything wrong with it?
Speaker 1: What about slapping you around?
Speaker 6: He never did.
Speaker 1: You can't blame me for jumping to conclusions. But take
a blind man not to notice those bruises on your
face and arm? How did you get him? I feel
the question is that ken push you? How dear you look,
missus Marlow. I don't mean to be obnoxious, but we've
been a murder to solve. Did your husband play around
on the outside?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: What about those stories?
Speaker 6: Why is every one of them? He was started by
his enemies.
Speaker 1: Oh so he was just a misunderstood kid.
Speaker 6: I understood him and that's all it counted.
Speaker 1: All right, missus Marlone, I think you're telling the truth.
Speaker 6: I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: You should be, because if Jackie Howard doesn't turn out
to be a liar, I won't know what to do.
Take care of yourself, Angel and I got to run along.
Speaker 4: Graft back your hard nineteen Please tell Graham Jackie Hard.
Speaker 2: Right here by.
Speaker 1: Hello, Jackie, my name is Mike Waring.
Speaker 2: What's the idea?
Speaker 1: Well, this is the only way I can think of
to get acquainted. I'd like to talk to you about
Ken Marlowe. You're a portter, no private detective. We are
representing myself. I understand Marlow wasn't huck to you.
Speaker 2: Well, I understand that from you.
Speaker 1: Might holding that match.
Speaker 2: Thanks who told you Marlow was into me?
Speaker 1: Steve Nichols?
Speaker 2: Well, I got a flash for Steve. Marlow took care
of those I used this morning.
Speaker 1: I don't see how he owed you nineteen grand. According
to the police, he had only eight hundred bucks in
his checking account.
Speaker 2: He paid me in cash.
Speaker 1: Got it out of his mattress.
Speaker 2: I suppose, well, now that you mention it, I believe
he did.
Speaker 1: You know, Jackie, you are a welcome changed from everybody
else in this case, am I? Yeah? They were telling
the truth.
Speaker 2: Suppose I showed you the money.
Speaker 1: Well, you probably could. Boy like you always travels well heeled,
But can you prove it? Came from Allow.
Speaker 2: Well, let's look at it another way. Can you prove
it didn't.
Speaker 1: If I can, it'll make you a choice.
Speaker 2: Suspect, you're no worrying. There's one thing I don't like
about New York. There must be something in the air
that makes everybody run off at the mouth.
Speaker 1: No, I suppose it's different on the coast, while we
have a special treatment for those who do. I'd like
to see it.
Speaker 2: I'll have to discuss it first with a fellow Californian.
But uh, don't be discouraged. I'll get back to you. Yes, Hellostan.
Speaker 7: Oh, hie, Jackie, I thought by now you would be
on your way back to the coast.
Speaker 2: You thought wrong. Same, you got yourself a nice little spot.
Speaker 7: Look, Jackie, I don't want to seem rude, but I
was just on my way.
Speaker 5: Out or relax.
Speaker 2: I won't stay long. Too bad about Canaan? Yeah, what
do you think killed him?
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Oh you must have, Steve, you're a bright boy. No,
maybe a ride now, I had you pegged as a
kind who kept his nose clean. And don't I not
my book? Why don't you tell Mike Wearing that Mollo
owed me money, and he asked me, you're the real
helpful type, aren't you.
Speaker 5: I do my best.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it doesn't pain. People don't appreciate it. What's the
matter of boy? Can't you catch your bread dirty? Maybe
that's a good thing. You talk too much anyway, Little
Doc Howard's treatment may break the habit. O home still, Steve,
I'm afraid this is gonna hurt.
Speaker 3: Two hours have passed since Steve Nichols received a little
of Jackie Howard's specialized treatment, and now in Steve's hotel room,
we find him recuperating from the visit.
Speaker 6: Where's the doctor? You sure you gave him the right
room number.
Speaker 1: Take it easy, Laura, he'll be here all right, Steve,
try some of this. Come on, it's good for what
ails you?
Speaker 5: Mike.
Speaker 1: Don't talk, Just drink it down.
Speaker 5: I'm all right. How did you find me?
Speaker 1: She called me?
Speaker 6: How do you feel?
Speaker 2: Laura here?
Speaker 6: Raise your head off, fix the pillow.
Speaker 5: You're duh?
Speaker 1: Who did it? Steve? Who gave you the shillaking?
Speaker 5: I don't know?
Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, you can't hold out.
Speaker 6: Must you question him now?
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm afraid I must. This is all tied up
with your husband's murder. But Jackie Howard wasn't it?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Why did he do it? I have no idea you
know anything that would definitely mark him as Marlow's killer?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: You sure, Steve anything at all? Think of the thing
you've got to It's our only chance of making this
come out the way we want.
Speaker 6: I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Well, Jackie must have felt he had good reason to
give Steve that beating. What do you mean, well, you
don't feel Laura killed her husband?
Speaker 5: Who? Now? Look, Mike, I told you, I.
Speaker 1: Take it you don't. So that brings us back to
Jackie again. Now, what would be his motive in killing Marlowe?
Speaker 5: Well? Ken hold him money?
Speaker 1: How could he be sure Mala wouldn't raise it?
Speaker 6: Ken couldn't.
Speaker 1: We were broke, But you would have been an easy
street if national picked up his option. I don't think
they would still where there's life this hope. You told
me they had to let twenty third. Today is the eighteenth,
So so Jackie would be sucker not to wait it out.
Speaker 6: What are you getting here?
Speaker 1: Well, if neither you nor Jackie killed your husband, who
does that leave? I don't know, Yes you do it's Steve? No, Yes,
that's why Howard gave him that pasting. He felt Steve
cost him nineteen grand I don't believe it.
Speaker 6: You didn't do it, Stee, tell me, tell me. I
gotta know.
Speaker 5: He's right, Laura?
Speaker 6: Why why? I can never hurt you?
Speaker 5: No, but he hurts you.
Speaker 6: He was the only man I ever loved, and you
killed him.
Speaker 5: Don't you see, honey? I was Laura? Mike explains it.
Speaker 1: I can't. He was no good and she loved him.
I'm sorry, Steve, I've gotta call the police.
Speaker 4: What do you say, Mike? Some more coffee? No thanks, sir,
I come on, come on, cheer it up. What are
you dragon for?
Speaker 1: You must have some idea. Steve Nichols was my friend
and he committed a murder. There's no question about that.
Tell me something. Was he in love with Laura? If
he was, he was able to kid himself in the
believing it was strictly platonic. He thought marlow was hard
timing her. Only was right now he Wasn't you mean?
There was nothing to those stories about Marlowe playing around.
Oh they were true enough, but they didn't mean a
thing to Laura. She was in love with him, and
that's all that counted. This goes to prove it's awful,
dangerous to play God. You never know what's best for
other people.