Original subtitles

Can I do this? What do I do?

Shall I do this?

Here it is.

We've

got

two tons of potatoes.

Tom.

Tom!

I'll drink to that.

Did you know the subject Thomas Grunemann?

Yes. Very well.

He was my best friend.

We grew up together.

Can you account for his disappearance in any way?

Mrs. Grunemann? No.

Did he, uh, recently appear to be agitated or, uh, depressed in any way?

No.

Uh, Mr. Cable, at the plant, uh, did he voice any grievance or discontent about

his work there?

No, not at all. As a matter of fact, Tom operated best when he was under

pressure. Please forgive me, Mrs. Grunemann, but, uh, I have to ask, did

he, uh, your husband, did he ever show any, uh...

Uh, moral or sexual problems or peculiarities? No, no.

Any marital problems in general?

We were very happy.

Did he ever mention specifically a girl or a woman in New York City?

No.

No? Why?

We were covered in his desk at the plant, and one of the drawers, a...

a typewritten letter that was evidently written on the Friday before he

disappeared.

It was written to a girl in New York City, and we contacted the police. They

brought her in, questioned her, and she said that she had received six or seven

letters of this kind.

Can I see it?

Well, it's, uh... It's an obscene letter, Mrs. Grumman.

I would like to see it.

remember that it was written by a very disturbed man.

I don't believe it.

I'd like you to know that situations of this kind are not unique, Mrs.

Grinneman. A man will lead a double life, a Jekyll and Hyde existence, and

his wife has no idea of what's going on.

Has anybody talked to you about the financial arrangements?

Well, it depends naturally on how long you want me for and what you want to do.

I know you.

It would be very nice.

Well, I'd like to spend the evening with you if you'd like that.

Have you ever been with a woman?

before paying her?

Do you like it?

I mean, I have a feeling that that turns you on very particularly.

What turns me on is because I have a good imagination and I like pleasing.

Do you mind if I take my sweater off?

Well, I think in the confines of one's house, one should be free of clothing

and inhibitions.

Oh, and... Ambitions are always nice because they're so nice to overcome.

Don't be afraid.

I'm not.

As long as you don't hurt me more than I like to be hurt.

I will do anything you ask.

You should never be ashamed of things like that. I mean, you mustn't be.

You know, there's nothing wrong. Nothing is wrong.

I think the only way that any of us can ever be happy is to... is to let it all

hang out. You know, do it all and fuck it.

Hi. Can you stand up, please?

Hello. Hi.

Hi,

can I see your eyes? Let me see your hair.

Take your hat off.

Yeah.

Okay. Too pretty. Too pretty. Too pretty.

She's kind of exotic.

Now, that's the coloring. That's the coloring. The coloring is great. Yeah, I

don't know.

It's not quite it, though. No, not really.

Hello. Can I see your hands?

Thank you. She's a funny hand. Yeah.

No. No.

Hi. She is great. Beautiful eyes.

Yes, lovely. Hi. That's the coloring, you know? Yeah, let me see your smile.

I think she has that cross between Iran and... She's great, but I've seen you

before. Yes, I think so. Have you done any cosmetic ads?

Yes, I have. You have?

A conflict.

It's got to be a new face.

Don't call that agency.

Irene Dunn would have had it. That would be perfect.

C-minus. C-minus. You've got to find me today.

Okay, that's it. Thank you, ladies. Thank you. Thank you.

It's been six months.

Tom Grunemann's been missing for half a year.

And all the FBI has to offer is a report that must bore even you.

There are thousands of honest, decent men who simply disappear every year.

Neither Mrs. Grunemann nor I are willing to just dismiss this case.

and therefore we feel entitled to investigate on our own.

You're entitled?

There are some very competent... John Clute offered us his services, and we've

accepted.

Clute knew Tom, and he has a great many ideas about the case.

You ever done any missing persons work before?

No.

Have you spent any time in the city?

No. Well, speaking frankly, you're wondering why we thought of Clute.

Frankly.

He's interested.

And he cares.

Why didn't you ever find out anything from that girl?

We held her under surveillance, expecting your boy Grunemann to show up

there.

Didn't. Arrested her on a CP charge, convicted, two months women's city

prison, offered to reduce sentence.

She cooperated.

Now, she thought she remembered Grunemann from those letters from

before. She made that connection.

But she hadn't seen him since then and couldn't identify his photograph.

A good call girl.

She'll turn six or seven hundred tricks a year.

Faces get blurred.

And since then, she's reported several incidents, like breather calls,

anonymous phone calls.

Also, somebody may be following her, watching her, things like that.

So I guess it's conceivable that Grunemann's still around there, still

bugging her.

Hey, Trina, Bree.

Yeah, listen I could use a quick 50 you got a commuter for me Terrific

Yeah, right

Terrific yeah, bye

I'm Bree.

Yeah, come in, please.

I'm glad to know you, Bree.

I'm glad you could come.

Sit down, please.

Can I get you a drink?

Yeah, I'd like a ginger ale. Thank you.

I'm from Chicago.

You come to New York often?

Often.

I don't come to New York too often.

That's too bad.

Three times a year, maybe.

What kind of party did you have in mind?

We could, uh... We could have a nice half-and-half party for 50.

We could have a good time for 50.

Or if you wanted something extra, it would be a little more.

Um... Yeah, I have, uh... Maybe a

nice... Listen, would it be all right to... Tell me

what you want. Tell me what you want.

Oh,

what?

Oh, yes.

Very good.

Very good.

I like to get business out of the way at the beginning. That way we don't have to

think about it. Then we can just have a good time.

I like your mind.

Yeah.

So... Chicago.

This is the bed.

This is the bed.

There's the bed in operating position.

Oh, you're so nice.

Come here.

Come here.

We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing.

He hastens and saves wisdom divine.

And from the beginning, the fire...

It's 12 midnight, this is Jim Donnelly, WNEW News.

Con Edison has again resorted to a cutback in voltage to conserve

generating capacity.

At 3%, the...

Hello? Hello?

Who is it? Miss Daniel, my name is Clute.

John Clute.

I'd like to talk to you.

What do you want?

My name is John Clute.

You said that.

I'm an investigator. I'd like to ask you some questions about Tom Grunemann.

Who? Tom Grunemann. He wrote you some letters.

Wow. He was a research engineer at the Tuscarora Laboratories in Pennsylvania,

and he disappeared from there last December.

And I've been hired to look for him.

Why?

You know what I'm talking about, Miss Daniel.

Honest.

Can I ask you some questions, please?

Do you have any identification?

You're not a cop?

You're not FBI?

You're a private detective.

And you just want to ask me some questions.

They're not very recent. That's last year. They're quite good.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Tell me, what have you done that I might have seen on Broadway or off Broadway?

Well, I study with George Tater.

George. George is very good. He's a good man to begin with.

And I've been in two of his productions, workshops and productions. Workshop.

Well, they're very nice. Very nice. Tell me, how do you feel about being an

actress?

Oh, I like it very much. Do you think you know yourself?

I like acting.

As much as anybody, I guess. Do you really know yourself?

No. So it's very important. I forget myself when I act. No, no, you can't

forget yourself. You can't. You have to know yourself and kind of like yourself.

You have to relate.

Relate to people.

I had an identity crisis two years ago, and since then I've been working to know

myself.

It's very important.

Don't hide your face, you know?

There's a nice space you shouldn't hide. Excuse me just a second.

Uh,

Gillian? Yes, okay, send her in.

Well, I'm very busy. It was wonderful for you to stop by, and if you're in

anything, off of Broadway or... How are you today?

I'm not going to be able to come back anymore.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Did I fail you, Bree?

Well, I mean, I've been coming here all this time, and I've been paying you all

this money, and why do I still want a trick? Why do I still walk by a phone

and want to pick up the phone and call?

Did you think I had some magic potion?

You'd come in and tell me what your problem was, and I would just take it

away?

What's the difference between going out on a call as a model or as an actress or

as a call girl? You're successful as a call girl. You're not successful...

Because when you're a call girl, you control it. That's why.

Because someone wants you.

Not me.

There are some Johns that I have regularly that want me, and that's

terrific.

But they want a woman.

And I know I'm good.

And I arrive at their hotel or their apartment.

And they're usually nervous, which is fine, because I'm not. I know what I'm

doing.

And for an hour... For an hour, I'm the best actress in the world and the best

fuck in the world.

And... Why do you say you're the best actress in the world at that time?

Because it's an act.

That's what's nice about it. You don't have to feel anything. You don't have

to... care about anything. You don't have to like anybody. You just, uh...

You just...

lead them by the ring in their nose in the direction that they think they want

to go in, and you get a lot of money out of them in as short a period of time as

possible, and you control it, and you call the shots, and I always

feel just great afterwards.

And you enjoyed it?

No.

Why not?

You said there's nothing wrong with it. Why not, you said? Well, there's a

difference. I mean, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

Morally, I didn't enjoy it. Physically, I came to enjoy it because it

made me feel good.

It made me feel like I wasn't alone.

It made me feel that I had some

control over myself, that I had some control over my life, that I could

determine things for myself.

I don't know why I'm here.

It's just so silly to think that somebody else can help anybody.

Beautiful. A joy.

It's good to see you again.

Likewise.

I just got back from Canada, you know.

And I... Well, I have something

rather...

Exciting to tell you. Yes.

Cannes was very amusing.

We played Bach, Ra, and Chemin de Fer.

And a very nice little Italian marquee was rather enthusiastic about me.

But a young man can be so silly.

And then one night, the gambling tables.

I saw him.

The stranger, he was looking at me.

He was standing very still on the other side of the room.

And his eyes were looking right into me.

And I knew that the first time in my life.

At least.

Not young. He wasn't young.

He had gray sideburns.

Actually, he looked rather like you. Yes.

No one could tell me who he was.

Was he an exiled prince or a mercenary?

But there was a feeling stirring inside me, a pagan feeling.

The next day on the beach, my beach pavilion it was so warm on the sand

and i saw him again he was staring at me

his eyes were burning into me

i was helpless he didn't even have to say

anything and i knew i knew that somehow

You know, I've never liked young men.

And I knew that he would awaken something in me that

no young man had ever awakened.

He was so wise.

He taught me so many things.

With his hands.

With his mind.

I felt so beautiful.

Miss Daniels?

Can I come upstairs and ask you some questions now?

You bastard.

Is this the shakedown, hon?

Because you picked a loser. I don't have it. I'm looking for Tom. Jesus, you

think I'd be living in this kip if I were taking calls full time?

I'd be back on Park Avenue.

Can I ask you some questions?

Oh, you'll get me thrown back in the brig, you mean.

Have a seat.

Would you like some wine?

Some beer?

No, thank you.

Any beer, anyway.

Look, you know, I've already told the police everything I know.

I don't even remember the schlub.

Yeah, they showed me that already.

I understand this is Grunman.

I told them. I don't remember.

Family type man.

Figures.

Look, will you please just try to get it from my side?

A year ago, I was in the life full time.

Living on Park Avenue.

This very nice apartment, leather furniture.

And then the cops dropped on me. They caged me.

Started asking me about a guy, some guy that I'm supposed to have seen a year

before that. Two years ago.

He could be in Yemen.

Grunman. What does that mean? It's a name. I don't know him.

And they start showing me these pictures and they don't mean anything to me.

Then they started asking me if I'd been getting letters from some guy out in

Cabbageville. Tuscarora.

Yeah, all right, I had been.

Very sick letters.

So they said, well, that's, that's Grunman. So would you please tell us

when you and he... Well,

there was a guy once, a freak.

Could have been him. I mean, apparently, groomsmen like to beat up on girls.

And, uh, well, this guy hired me, and then he tried to kill me. And that was

about two years ago.

Okay, Tommy, baby, Ellie, Ellie, and free kid, I got the gumdrops.

You remind me of my uncle.

What else do you remember about the man who beat you up?

Nothing.

Except that he wasn't kidding, that's all.

See, uh, usually it's a fake-out.

You probably know about that.

They pretend to tie you up and you wear a dress with a cloth belt and they

pretend to whip you.

What the hell? It's their money. I don't care. I'll swing from a shower rod and

whistle Maytime.

Except, uh, this guy really freaked out on it.

But you cannot identify this man as Tom Grunemann.

I can't identify him as anybody!

So, is that it?

Listen, uh... Why don't you go downstairs?

You have such a nice mouth.

And get those tapes.

And bring them back up here.

And we'll have a party.

You and I. Wouldn't that be nice?

What about afterwards, about the telephone calls?

Just phone calls, right.

What is it? The phone rings, you answer, there's nobody there.

Kids getting their kicks, burglars finding out if the apartment's empty. It

happens all the time in New York. It doesn't mean anything.

You reported that you had been followed.

Look, I'm sorry.

I've been leading everybody astray. It doesn't... Yeah, okay, I get

these feelings.

But they're just feelings. That's just me.

Well, I'm sure you'll find this amusing, but I'm afraid of the dark.

Or, um, sometimes I get spooked. I think I see people, hear things.

Or like I go out in the morning and I think somebody's been prying open my

mailbox. Or if there's trash in front of my door, I think somebody's trying to

freak me out.

It doesn't... It's just nerves. I'm a nervous broad. It doesn't mean anything.

Reed Daniels.

Who is Ted?

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I'd love to.

Maybe the next time you're in town.

I'd like to meet you very much. You've got a nice voice.

Actually, I'm having a conversation with a very nice cop.

He's not a cop, actually. He's a private...

Is

that how you get most of your dates? Somebody gives your name to somebody

else? Most of them, yeah.

And that how you met the man who beat you up?

I don't remember. It was two years ago. God. Well, how else do you get dates?

Pimps?

Oh.

You're very square, Cookie. No, pimps don't make dates for you. They just take

the money.

The police have given me a list of names.

I'd like to ask you about them.

Frank Laguran?

Look, I'm sure this is going to amuse you too, but I'm really trying to get

away from all that.

What about this evening, the old man?

You saw that?

God damn you!

He's 70 years old.

His wife is dead. He's been cutting garments since he was 14.

He's maybe in his whole life had one week vacation, and I'm all he's got.

And he never lays a hand on me.

What harm is there in that?

And what's your bag, Clute?

What do you like? You a talker? A button freak?

You like to have your chest walked around with high-heeled shoes?

Maybe you like to have us wash your tinkle?

Okay.

Or do you get it off wearing women's clothes?

Goddamn hypocrite squares!

Okay.

Oh, I hope this isn't going to hurt my cold any worse.

Now tell me about Frank Laguran.

He was my old man. We broke up. When?

When did you break up?

About eight months ago.

Would you mind not doing that?

I could trade you for those tapes.

Doesn't it get lonely down there in your little room?

Or maybe I could bring you some friends. I've got some terrific friends.

No, thank you.

Well, men have paid $200 for me, and here you are turning down a freebie.

You could get a perfectly good dishwasher for that.

What are you doing with my keys?

Give me your hand.

I knew it.

Don't be afraid.

I'm going to sit you down on the bed.

There's someone on the roof.

You didn't get him? No.

Was it Grunman?

I didn't see him.

Who sent you on that date?

Frankie Laguran.

You and I will go talk to Frank Laguran tomorrow.

Don't be afraid.

I'm not.

Would you like me to hold you?

I'm just trying to figure you out.

I may say not many people have been very successful at that.

That's all right. I'll figure you out before the evening is over.

I hope you do.

The only responsibility you have to me is to enjoy yourself.

Oh, and ambitions are always nice because they're so nice to overcome.

Because I'm very bad, you know. In what way? How are you bad?

Oh, in my head. I have very wicked ideas.

Lots of them.

I'm sure that as you're sitting at your great desk, you have all kinds of

strange things going through your mind.

You should never be ashamed of things like that.

Nothing is wrong.

anything you ask.

I think the only way that any of us can ever be happy is to let it all hang

out.

I was just finishing up some work. I'm marking up a few photographs.

I used to be a photographer. Retail?

Before I get into publishing.

He knows you're a pimp, Frankie.

He knows you were my pimp.

Excuse me.

Brie, why don't you wait outside?

Always respected, Brie.

I'd like to make something clear. I've just got a couple of questions. I want

to make something clear.

You know, I don't go after a girl.

A girl comes to me.

Her choice.

Right? I'm looking for a man, Tom Grunemann. Miss Daniels tells me that

the date that beat her up two years ago might have been that man and that you

sent her on that date.

Two years ago?

Sorry.

I understand you use narcotics.

Maybe I could have someone come over and look at your... arms.

You know, I may stand better with the cops than you do.

Why don't you sit down and relax?

Between the girls.

Two other girls, then.

Two other girls besides Bree.

One of them, Jane McKenna.

She blows a little jealous of Bree, you know?

Bree comes first.

And evidently she knew this freak beats up on women.

She cons me into passing him on to Bree.

So Bree'd get hurt, you know?

I didn't know until afterwards.

You can't tell them that one of their own in-laws laid a freak on them.

Peace in the family.

Beyond that, I don't know.

That's all she wrote.

Did you see the man?

No.

How can I get hold of Jane McKenna?

Baby, would I be telling you all this?

She copped out long ago.

She committed suicide, Baxter.

And the other girl?

What's her name?

Arlen. Arlen.

Paige.

How do I find her?

I don't know. She's a junkie.

Make that scene, you can be anywhere. Here, San Francisco. They just drop out.

Anything else?

Would you like my friend Frankie?

Not very much.

Didn't he tell you what you wanted?

Where can I find Arlen Page?

You're not going to find Arlen Page. She's a junkie.

Didn't he tell you that he sent me that guy?

Jane McKenna sent you that guy.

Well, she's dead.

Hey.

Your tapes.

Golly gee, just what I've always wanted.

Dirty phone calls.

What for?

Well, I'm through with your part of it. You told me what you could.

Well, tell me, Clute.

Did we get you a little, huh? Just a little bit? Us city folk?

The sin, the glitter, the wickedness, huh?

Oh, that's so pathetic.

Fuck off.

I'll tell you something, Jack.

It is in the bells that I hear my voices.

Oh, not today when they all rang. That was nothing but jangling.

But here, in this corner...

Where the bells come down from heaven and the echoes linger?

Or in the fields where they come across the quiet of the countryside, my voices

are in them?

Hark.

Do you hear?

Dear child of God, that's just what you said.

At the half hour they will say, be brave, go on.

At the three quarters they will say, I am thy help.

It is at the hour when the great bell goes after, God will save France.

Oh, it is then that St. Margaret and St. Kevin Thank you. Thank you very much.

Very interesting accent.

Thank you.

All right. What do you want, cop?

I can't find Alan Page without your help. I told you you wouldn't find him.

If I can't find him,

then you're in trouble. So what do you say?

It's going to cost.

Time is money.

Okay, well, I can pay you $100.

$100, I can make it a lunch break.

$100 is all I've got.

I thought you were very good upstairs.

Will you buy me a coffee?

Buy you lunch?

You want lunch?

Whenever it suits you.

No, make it...

Monday at 8 p.m.

I said Monday, 8 p.m., baby. Now, don't be naughty.

He's a lovely man.

Comes here, spends a bundle of money, never even touches the girls.

Comes from Grosse Pointe, has a big house, eight servants.

But all he wants to do is come here and scrub out my bathroom.

8 p.m. Monday.

Mr. Clean.

Oh, Arlen Page.

I had to let her go.

With the kind of people I get here, I couldn't have a gal who was half zonked

out all the time.

You know, I get the creme de la creme.

Now she was trouble.

And I don't allow any trouble here.

Que ti vuol fare?

Do you have any idea where I can look for her?

Oh, try Mama Reese's.

Ray, if you ever get lonely or you haven't got any place else to go, you

come here.

You'll always have a home here.

She's a junkie.

She was with you after she left Frankie, wasn't she?

Well, she's not now.

I tried to do everything for her.

I took her into my own place, my own little flat on first.

You know that sweet place?

We could have had everything together.

Everything.

Then the bitch sold my mink.

Do you know anybody that's seen her at all? As far as I'm concerned, she's

dead.

Who is it?

Brie Daniels.

I couldn't sleep.

I keep thinking I hear noises.

Oh, it's probably just my imagination.

Sit down.

I'm sorry I woke you up.

I just, uh... I don't think he's going to come back again.

I just don't want to be alone right now.

Do you mind if I stay here a while?

If you'd like to go back upstairs, I'd come. I'd really rather not go upstairs.

Why don't you lie down here?

Sleep here.

Where are you going to sleep?

I'll pull that out.

Lie down.

Thank you.

Goodnight.

What's the matter?

You were terrific.

A real tiger.

Are

you

upset because you didn't make me come?

I never come with a John.

Don't feel bad about losing your virtue. I sort of knew you would.

Everybody always does.

Arlen Page? Yeah, she was with me about three months.

She was lucky I kept her that long.

She was out of it.

Somebody said she was streetwalking over on...

Lexington Avenue.

Or was it 8th?

You might take a look.

Or try Bill Asia, if you can find him.

Yeah, she used to dress the way you do.

The whore? Yeah, I threw her out.

Do you know where she went from here?

Live like animals, her and the man.

Out.

She was living with a man?

was wasting the heart.

Arlen, it's Free.

Kathy, is that you?

It's all right.

Kathy, we've got a radio.

Arlen, it's okay.

Free, honey, I'm waiting for someone.

You've got to help us. We've got to ask you some questions.

Can't you see I'm strung out?

It'll only take you a couple of minutes.

A couple of years ago with Frankie and Jane, Jane sent me a guy that beat up a

lot. If he sees you, he won't come.

Was she seeing a freak, one of her regular Johns? Was he a freak?

Yeah. What about it?

Did he come around a lot?

No, he was an older guy. The guy was older. That's very important.

Arlen, get them out of here!

I'm begging you.

It's very important, please.

Give me a description of him, anything at all.

Kathy.

Kathy, listen. You don't slip.

Kathy. Kathy, don't run. Kathy.

Kathy, don't run.

I've got a radio.

Thank you.

narcotics addict.

Oh, I believed her.

I believed her absolutely.

The man who did those beatings was not Tom Grunemann. All right, suppose it

wasn't Tom. Where does that get you?

Tom is still connected to the case because of the letters, whether he wrote

them or not.

I think the only way that I'm going to find him is to find the man who did do

the beatings. The only way I'm going to find him is to pursue Arlen Page and try

and secure from her some kind of identification.

I'll be flying back to Pennsylvania on Friday, and I'll fill them in on things.

How is it back there?

I think you're homesick.

I'll be back on Thursday.

John, I want to tell you how much I respect your dedication.

Thank you.

get ideas.

I'm sure that if you're sitting at your great desk, you have all kinds of

strange things going through your mind.

You should never be ashamed of things like that.

Nothing is wrong.

Do you mind if I take my sweater off?

I like to sort of walk around here with no clothes on.

Better, I think people wear clothes much too often, don't you? I think in the

confines of one's house, one should be free of clothing and inhibition.

I think the only way that any of us can ever be happy is to let it all hang out.

You know, do it all and fuck it.

I was trying to get away from a world that I had known

because I don't think it was very good for me, and I found myself

looking up its ass

and seeing people that I used

to know and that I...

That I liked a lot.

That were my friends.

Uh... Sort of.

Girls.

And, uh...

That

could have been me.

I mean, I know what I know. I'm... I'm not stupid.

Well, I guess I just realized that, uh...

that

I don't really give a damn.

What I would really like to do is be faceless and bodiless.

And be left alone.

You're lucky they're still here.

We don't keep unclaimed possessions in suicide cases more than a year.

Number 497.

Huh.

Yeah. Jane McKenna.

Well, there's this man that I met, this detective, and I don't know exactly what

is happening or what he wants out of me or anything like that, but

he took care of me.

Did you feel threatened by it?

Well, I don't know. When you're used to being lonely and somebody comes in and

moves that around, it's sort of scary, I guess.

How do you feel when you feel scary?

Angry. At whom?

Whoever it is that's making me feel that way. Do you feel angry at him?

A lot of the time, yes. How do you feel angry? What do you want to do?

Manipulate him?

How?

In all the ways that I can manipulate people.

I mean, it's easy to manipulate men, right?

bringing a freighter down to kill Van Gogh.

Propellers washed it up on top.

Martin Page was probably an alias.

I mean, it's... It's my baby dead.

I gotta get up.

I mean, you don't know what it means, my baby dead.

Gotta get up.

Lieutenant Pask, please.

John Clute.

I think we should run down a check on everybody who knew Tom Grunemann.

I don't think the man who wrote the letters was Tom.

Just run down a check on everything, I guess.

You're up, are you?

How are you?

Trask wants you to call him.

He told me about Arlen.

It probably doesn't have anything to do with anything.

But just as a precaution, when you go out, if you tell me where you're going

to go,

a phone number where I can find you, just so I can always keep in touch with

you.

Okay?

Sure.

i feel physically that's what's different i mean i feel my body feels i

enjoy uh making love with him

which uh is a very

baffling and bewildering thing for me because i've never felt that before i

just wish that i could let things happen and uh enjoy it you know for what it is

and while it lasts and... and, uh... and relax about it.

But all the time, all the time, I keep feeling the need to destroy it, to...

to... to break it off, to... go back to the... to the...

the comfort of being numb again.

Um... I keep hoping, in a way, that it's gonna end.

Because, uh... I mean, I had more control before when I was with Trix. At

least I knew what I was doing and I was setting everything up. Now I... I... And

that's what's so strange, is that I'm not setting anything up, that

something is... I mean, you obviously know what this is like, but I've never

felt it before. It's a new thing, and it's so strange, the sensation that

something...

that is flowing from me naturally to somebody else... without its

being prettied up or... I mean, he's seen me horrible.

He's seen me ugly.

He's seen me... mean.

He's seen me hoary.

And it doesn't seem to matter.

And he seems to accept me.

And I guess having sex with somebody and feeling those sort of feelings towards

them is very new to me.

And I wish that I didn't keep wanting to destroy it.

You know, I'm trying to stay out of it.

You try to get somebody else and if I change my mind I'll call you, okay?

You're not going to get hung up on me, are you?

Yes, sir, I got to help you? Yeah, can I have a bag, please? A couple of bags,

please. Uh,

yeah. Let me have some of those small tomatoes.

No mushy ones.

Yeah, okay, thanks.

What you got in your bag?

What? What have you got in your bag?

Please.

Bye.

He cut up my clo- Oh my god.

Oh my god.

Hello?

The only responsibility you have to me is to enjoy yourself.

She can't remember.

It could have been on a... It could have been hidden in his pocket. I've seen one

of those.

Trask and some officers are going to come and examine your apartment.

I want you to stay here today and tomorrow.

You'll be safe here.

I'll only be gone for a few minutes tomorrow.

You look like you've been with many women, but I didn't know if you'd ever

paid for a woman before.

I mean, you wouldn't need to. So if you do, it's obviously because it excites

you. Because you're not a man that would have to pay for a woman. You could have

any woman you wanted.

The only responsibility you have to me is to enjoy yourself.

Just so you know that I will do anything you ask, what you want.

Since you know that there are no limits to my imagination.

And I place no moral judgments on anything.

We checked out 42 letters of Tom Gunneman's friends, and we only came up

with one with any similarity to the obscene letter.

All right, there's Tom Gunneman.

Different margins, different spacings.

That's mine.

Said, check out everybody.

Same margins, top and sides.

Now, he does best with his middle fingers.

You get fainter registrations from outside keys.

Notice how he invariably does that, the T and the H.

Who is it?

Peter Cable.

But you have no case.

There's not even a body.

I'm sorry we have to meet here, John, but I'm pretty rushed for time. I have a

very important business meeting tonight in Chicago.

Any developments?

I think I can close the case.

I think I can close the case, sir, if I can have $500 to purchase Jane McKenna's

address book.

I don't understand, Beamer.

Well, I've found a contact who will sell me the book. Her little black book

contained the name of the client that beat up Brie Daniel.

He is also the man who came into Brie Daniel's apartment yesterday and wrecked

it.

We know that now because of the semen that he left in her underwear.

The blood type is AB, and Tom's was type A, so it wasn't Tom.

Well, I think this man killed Jane McKenna and killed Arlen Page. I think

he drowned them.

I think you should prepare yourself for the fact that possibly Tom is dead.

But the only way I'm going to find out is to find him, and I need the money

before tomorrow night.

You're meeting him tomorrow night.

Yes, in my place. He's going to come to my apartment and bring the book to me.

At what time?

About 8.30?

All right, fine. I'll notify the board as soon as I get to Chicago and have

them wire you the money immediately.

Thank you, John. I certainly hope you're wrong about Tom.

Thank you, sir. Good luck.

I don't want you to do this.

Bree.

I'm just going to a girlfriend's apartment.

I can't stay here, obviously.

Please.

Not with him.

This other girl's got a very big apartment.

Lots of room.

It's not necessarily how it looks.

Look, we all respect each other, right?

I respect you.

Brie respects you.

But you gotta respect her, too.

Her best interests.

Mrs. Daniels, I have to close up now.

Leave your name and number with her service, and I'm sure she'll get back to

you as soon as she has a chance.

I can't.

Well, I have to close up now.

I almost killed somebody.

Well, I'm certain the doctor would like to speak with you about it. As a matter

of fact, I'll have her call you as soon as she gets home. I promise.

Can I use your phone?

Is Mr. Goldfarb there?

Mr. Goldfarb Sr.? I've got to talk to

somebody.

I'm just a little way across town. Can I come over?

Detective Trask, please.

Hi, John Clute.

He didn't take the plane. He canceled out.

I'm at home in my apartment.

I don't know where she is. She's left, but I'll find her.

Okay, well, I'll leave word if I go out.

I have an appointment with Mr. Goldfarb.

Mr. Goldfarb!

Mr. Goldfarb!

Hello. What can I do for you?

I'm sorry, I mean Mr. Goldfarb Sr.

All my father left about 15 minutes ago. He didn't feel so good.

Can I help you? He's working himself to death, poor man.

Are you sure I can't help you? No, it's not important.

No, really, I don't mind.

You're going to miss your train, Mr.

Goldfarb.

Excuse me.

Did he leave a message for me, Bree Daniels?

Oh, I thought that was for tomorrow.

May I leave Mr. Goldfarb a message?

Mrs. Bree Daniels, has the doctor checked in yet?

When she does, would you tell her I'm at 246-1383, and I'll wait here about five

minutes.

Can you tell me how I can get in touch with the doctor, please? The doctor

hasn't checked in yet.

I'm trying to locate a Miss Breed Daniels.

I'm sorry, sir, but we only take messages for the doctor.

Has she called in or anything?

Has she called the doctor at all today? Has she seen the doctor? I believe Miss

Daniels did leave a forwarding number. Can you give me that number, please? I'm

a police officer. Please don't make me prove this. I mean, it is important.

You must understand my position.

I must comply with the rules of the exchange. Yeah, I understand all that.

Will you just give me the number, please?

Can we talk about this reasonably?

I know you're expecting some kind of extravagant behavior, but... Do you

believe me?

Yes.

We can talk.

Well, it's just an ordinary matter.

I'm a very well-off man. I have a...

position to respect.

And I would feel personally very uncomfortable to be connected with a

certain kind of woman. I'm sure you understand what I mean.

Look, John Clute works for me.

I know you're his contact.

And I know he's trying to acquire...

Jane McKenna's book.

I'm in a position to offer more for her than he can.

You don't understand what I'm talking about, do you?

Yes, Jane McKenna's book.

And I'll try to get it for you.

No.

Obviously, you're frightened and you're lying.

No, I'm not. I will. I'll try to get it for you.

Is this something Clute's invented?

Is this a trap for me?

Clute knows about me, doesn't he?

Knows what about you?

Then everybody knows about me.

So it doesn't make any difference what I do anymore, does it?

I have no idea what I'm going to do.

And I'm so deeply puzzled.

I've done terrible things. I've killed three people.

But yet I don't consider myself a terrible man.

No more than... than others.

See, Tom Grunemann discovered me. We were here on business together.

And he found... Me and Jane McKenna in my hotel room.

She had become hysterical and she started screaming.

And I guess I hit her. I don't actually recall. It all happened so quickly.

Anyway, she fell and hit her head. And that's when Tom came in the room. I

guess he must have heard her screaming.

But I never understood really why.

She did that. She had never screamed before.

And it was the revulsion and the contempt that I saw in his face.

And the certainty that sooner or later he would use it against me within the

company.

And I tried to endure that as long as I possibly could.

You see?

You just want me to keep on talking, don't you?

No, I don't. I do understand. I really do.

Well, that's what you all do.

You make a man think that he's accepted.

It's all just a great big game to you.

And you're all obviously too lazy and too warped to do anything meaningful

with your life, so you...

prey upon the sexual fantasies of others.

I'm sure it comes as no great surprise to you when I say that... there are

little corners in everyone... which were better off left alone.

Little sicknesses, weaknesses, which... which should never be exposed.

But that's your stock and trade, isn't it?

And I was never really fully aware of mine until you brought them out.

How far out of town are we?

About five miles outside of New York. Do you mind if I turn the lights down?

No, it's up to you. Turn the light off, if you'd like.

My name is Peter Cable.

I work for the Toll American Corporation, which is situated in

Pennsylvania and in New York.

Obviously, I would not be telling you these things if my intentions weren't

honorable.

Oh.

You look familiar to me.

In what way?

I don't know. Your face looks familiar to me.

I guess I have a confession to make.

We did meet before, about two years ago.

And I often wondered whatever happened to Arlen Page.

And here you are.

Yeah, I remember.

Listen, I... I've got to get out of here. I mean, I can't... What's the

matter?

I remember you. I remember you. You beat me up. That's what you did.

It's okay.

Just freak me out for a minute. That's all.

I promise to drive you back.

Afterwards.

Why don't you just tell me what you'd like, and then after you tell me what

you'd like... I'd like to spend just some time with you. I have been looking

for you for two years.

Why?

That's my business.

However, I will say that you gave me a great deal of pleasure.

I saw in you things that I had not seen in other women of your profession.

all physically it's all right no it's not all right of course you know it's

not all right no it is all right i mean if that's what you but you have to tell

me first and then and if that's what you want that's fine arlen why

don't you lie down on the bed and make yourself comfortable i'll not strap you

in i'll not tie you down just lie down on the bed please

be comfortable nothing's going to happen

Nothing's going to happen.

Okay.

Why don't you... Why don't you make yourself comfortable? I am perfectly

comfortable. Just put your head down.

You have this lovely long...

you know i've explained to him what what i have to do and and i think you know i

think he understands what could ever happen for us i mean we're so different

and uh i mean i know enough about myself to know that whatever lies in store for

me it's not going to be uh setting up housekeeping with somebody in tuscarora

and darning socks and doing all that i mean that's just i'd go out of my mind

It's so hard for me to say it. God! To say what? I'm going to miss him.

Ray Daniels?

How is Roy?

Well, I'm leaving town right now, and I don't expect to be back.

You're very nice.

Thank you.

I have no idea what's going to happen.

I just... I can't stay in this city, you know?

Maybe I'll come back.

You'll probably see me next week.