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Quiet, please.
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Good evening,
fellow necromaniacs.
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I'm glad so many of you
could come.
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I should explain that the word
has nothing to do with necking.
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I'm awfully sorry I haven't
time to explain it now.
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You'll just have to look it up
in the dictionary.
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As you know...
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we are not allowed to present
our play unless we have a quorum.
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Tonight, we're concerned
with those three little words:
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Who Done It.
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When our story opens...
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the more sordid details are
safely out of the way.
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For the hero of tonight's
Grand Guignol...
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is already quite dead.
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Mr. Alexander Penn Arlington
has arrived.
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Thank you, my dear.
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Mr. Arlington, we are very
happy to have you with us.
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Thank you.
Goodbye, Alexander.
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Goodbye and thank you.
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Thanks.
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Alexander.
My name is Wilfrid.
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We use only
first names here.
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I am your recording angel.
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Rather a lot of us,
aren't there?
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Of Arlingtons, you mean?
No, I meant people.
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Are all these Arlingtons?
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These are the Arlingtons
from Alexander to Arabella.
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Good heavens... Gracious!
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Here we are.
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Is there anything wrong?
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Must I...
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Am I required to sit on this?
With this?
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Indeed not. Not at all.
Get down, if you wish.
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Thank you.
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It's standard equipment,
you know. So many expect it.
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I neglected to prepare myself
on the harp.
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Why, that was music.
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We don't get many
accomplished musicians here.
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And with so many people expecting
to play the harp, well...
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think what it would be like.
Yes, wouldn't it?
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Won't you sit down?
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Now then, let's see.
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Alexander Penn, New York,
United States, Earth.
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Married.
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You'll find those very helpful
when you first begin to fly.
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Later, you won't need them.
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I see you were
a mystery writer.
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Yes. Rather a well-known one,
as a matter of fact.
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Yes, I see.
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Age at time of death, 52.
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Cause of death, murder.
Murder? I beg your pardon.
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But you said murder?
Why, yes. Didn't you know?
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But that's impossible.
I died of a heart attack.
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I think.
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Yes. I was asleep...
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and a stabbing pain woke me.
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Yes, that would follow.
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You were stabbed in the back,
while asleep at your desk.
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With an ivory-handled dagger.
With an ivory...
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Why that's my letter opener.
But who? Who did it?
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That information isn't included
here. You see, this is only your life.
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But I must know. I can't go flying
around not knowing who killed me.
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Don't worry, we'll find out. It'll
be in your murderer's record later on.
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But there must be other ways of
finding out, somebody who knows.
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Yes, but we can't go that high
with details of this sort.
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I don't see why not.
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There, now. Don't let it
make you unhappy.
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Unhappy!
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Don't you realize that, as Slade
Saunders, I wrote over 75 mystery novels?
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Printed in a dozen languages, made
into pictures, plays, everything.
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And now I'm murdered and I
don't even know who did it.
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It's preposterous.
How could I possibly be happy?
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But you must be. Happiness
here is, well, it's obligatory.
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I'm miserable.
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But don't you see, Alexander?
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This is contrary to the...spirit
of the whole occasion.
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Nevertheless, I'm miserable.
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Dear, this won't do at all.
I can't bother...
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Alexander?
Yes.
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This is rather irregular,
but...
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given the last day of your
life to live over again...
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do you think you could uncover
your murderer?
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Unquestionably.
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But is that possible?
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As an archangel I have authority
to make certain adjustments in time.
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Time is quite flexible, you understand,
not like your earthly experience with it.
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We would simply repeat
one segment.
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As I say, it's most irregular,
but if it would make you happy.
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Of course, it's most
thoughtful of you, but...
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would it be repeated exactly?
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As for the final result, yes.
Details would vary.
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Would others be aware of
this repetition? Oh, no.
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It won't even seem
familiar to you.
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You'll merely know that you're
going to be killed at midnight.
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Of course, you could go through with the
murder again, but remain awake this time.
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That should surely
reveal the-
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No, that won't be necessary,
I assure you.
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It would probably be
most uncomfortable.
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Up to within half an hour of the foul
deed will be quite sufficient. Thank you.
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Shall we make it five minutes,
just to be on the safe side?
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Very well.
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But I shall have the solution
long before that, of course.
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After all, it's my profession.
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All right.
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We make
a small erasure here.
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Good morning, Horace.
Good morning, boss.
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What time is it?
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Twelve o'clock. Same old time.
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Mrs. Arlington around?
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No. She go riding.
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Alone?
No. With Mr. Benson.
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Had the strangest dream.
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So clear.
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Hello.
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It was no dream, Alexander.
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Who's this?
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Wilfrid.
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But where are you
calling from?
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Isn't that
rather a silly question?
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Yes, I suppose it was, but...
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Hello?
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Anything else, boss?
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No, I... No, not now.
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Come in.
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Good morning, sir.
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Morning, Talbot.
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This is from your publishers. I
thought you'd want to see it right away.
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Well, read it.
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"Dear Alex...
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"We have all read
Murder of a Mannequin...
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"and to be candid,
we're all disappointed.
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"I'll be out tomorrow
to talk this over with you...
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"but frankly we wonder if you haven't
been working too hard, old boy.
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"Could the well
be running dry?
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"Maybe if you took a long rest
to let it fill up again...
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"this yarn could be reworked."
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Of all the idiotic drivel.
"Let the well fill up."
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Never mind,
don't read anymore.
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What are you going to do?
Do? Nothing.
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Fenton doesn't know what he's talking
about. Never has. You know that.
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I'm not so sure.
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You think I'm "slipping" too,
Talbot?
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Well, yes, sir.
Rather badly, in fact.
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But you needn't worry
about it. I have a plan.
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You do, indeed?
And what is that, pray?
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You can go ahead and take the
rest as they suggest, you know...
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without stopping
the Slade Saunders books.
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I could do them.
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You could?
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You could write my books
in my style?
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That is quite the most egotistical and
preposterous statement of my experience.
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Why I continue to employ
such an idiot is beyond me.
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Run along now, Talbot, while my
better nature still has the upper hand.
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It's really
not so very preposterous...
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when you stop to think how much I've
contributed to the last four or five.
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Not only plot, you know,
but an awful lot of rewriting.
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Have you really?
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That's obviously
what's wrong with them.
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We shall correct that here
and now. You're fired, Talbot.
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Calculate your salary
to include today.
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Fetch me the check to sign
and get out.
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And I mean move out of the
house today, too. Is that clear?
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Yes, that is perfectly clear.
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Wait a minute.
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Tell me, Talbot, when Fenton
comes down tomorrow...
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if something happened to me in the
meantime, a fatal accident, say...
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do you think he'd let you continue
with the Slade Saunders books?
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Certainly. He'd be a fool
if he didn't.
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Well, I tabbed you
quickly enough, I must say.
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But let me tell you, Talbot, it'll do
you no good. You can never swing it.
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The books, I mean.
What are you talking about?
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Never mind.
Goodbye, Talbot.
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Goodbye, Arlington.
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Well, that's that. I told
him it wouldn't take long.
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Of course, I shan't
want that anymore.
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Hello, Uncle Alex.
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Well, Vincent?
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I wanted to see you,
Uncle Alex...
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but I didn't want to interrupt
once you'd got started writing.
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Very thoughtful of you,
I'm sure.
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How's your financial situation, Uncle Alex?
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Much as usual,
I should say.
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I'm in a pretty bad spot
myself.
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Much as usual,
I should say.
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I need 500.
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If you recall what I said on
the last occasion of this sort...
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consider it repeated.
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Supplying you with bed and board
strikes me as quite sufficient.
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But this is different, Uncle Alex. This
is serious. These people won't wait.
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Poses you quite a problem,
doesn't it?
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You won't let me have it, then? Exactly.
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I don't see why.
I'm in your will.
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I don't see why I shouldn't
have some of it now.
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Why should I have to wait
until you kick off?
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I find your impatience
rather unseemly, Vincent.
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Indeed, I'm beginning to wonder
why I left you in my will at all.
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Simply that you're my only
blood relative, I suppose.
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I guess you'll
take me out now.
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No. It's a little late
for that.
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Well, okay.
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I wasn't kidding when I said I
was serious about this, Uncle Alex.
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If I don't get the money
tonight...
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I don't even dare
leave the house.
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I may have to do
something drastic.
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Oh?
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How drastic?
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I don't know.
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But whatever happens,
it won't be my fault.
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Hello, dear.
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Bye. I'll see you tonight.
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Right, goodbye.
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Hello, dear.
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I think I'd rather
have you tell me goodbye.
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Alex, don't be stuffy.
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Everybody kisses everybody
today, you know that.
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Goodbye or hello,
it's only friendly.
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Rather a warm friendship,
I should say.
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Alex, really. You'd think I
was having an affair with Wally.
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Aren't you?
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Have you any idea how hateful you
can be when you put your mind to it...
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which is all too often?
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Have you any idea how I might feel
to find my wife in the arms of that...
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vacuous, impecunious
young nincompoop?
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Just what do you expect, when I
practically have to see you by appointment?
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Should I sit alone all day
and embroider and sigh...
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and wait for you to toss me
a word or a look as you pass?
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So I'm neglecting you now.
Is that it?
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Aren't you?
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Certainly not to the extent that I intend
to share you with Benson, or anyone else.
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Let that be understood, here and
now, and let Benson also understand...
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that he is no longer persona grata
in these precincts. Is that clear?
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What absolute nonsense.
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As it happens, he's taking me
to the theater tonight.
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If you want to declare this Victorian
ultimatum, you go right ahead.
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I certainly shan't.
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Benson.
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Money.
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Love.
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Everybody.
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What a trusting soul I was,
to be sure.
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But wait...
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there was a situation like
this in Murder of a Moneybags.
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Yes.
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No, that's no help.
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Maybe Murder of...
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No.
248
00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,000
How can one reconstruct
something that hasn't happened?
249
00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,500
But wait.
It's going to happen.
250
00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,300
Here in this room,
at midnight. That's definite.
251
00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:21,100
So the murderer must be here,
obviously.
252
00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:27,100
Carol and Benson can't be
back in time.
253
00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,000
All I have to do is to wait
and see if Talbot comes back.
254
00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,300
If he doesn't,
it's my dear nephew.
255
00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:37,500
Of course, how simple.
256
00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:23,400
Mr. Arlington?
257
00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,300
So it is Talbot.
258
00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:35,200
He hasn't quite
got his nerve up yet...
259
00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:37,500
but he'll be back.
260
00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:50,800
Now what?
261
00:15:57,300 --> 00:16:00,200
Hello, darling. We didn't
think you'd be up. Obviously.
262
00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,300
You thought I'd be asleep at my
desk, in the study, I suppose.
263
00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:05,600
What?
This is insufferable.
264
00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,500
Absolutely outrageous.
Of all the inconsiderate...
265
00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:12,200
All right. Everybody.
We'll have everybody. Horace!
266
00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:15,600
You needn't think you can
thwart me by swarming in at...
267
00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:17,100
Yes, sir.
268
00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:20,600
Fetch my nephew. Wake him if you have
to, but get him down here right away.
269
00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,500
Talbot, too. He just went up.
Yes, sir.
270
00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:27,100
Have them come to my study. And hurry,
Horace. I'll get to the bottom of this.
271
00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,800
Good. Now sit down. Thank you.
272
00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:36,100
I have very little time,
so please listen closely.
273
00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:38,100
Now then...
274
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someone is going to
murder me shortly...
275
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and I'm certain
it's one of you.
276
00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:45,300
The point is,
I want to know which one.
277
00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,700
And I intend to find out. But
since my time is very limited...
278
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I'll thank each one of you not to
interrupt and to answer questions promptly.
279
00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:54,900
Now then, you.
280
00:16:56,300 --> 00:16:58,700
You looked quite promising
earlier, my boy.
281
00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:02,900
But you certainly seem to have been sound
asleep, so I'm inclined to eliminate you now.
282
00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:04,900
Sure, Uncle Alex.
283
00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:06,500
What would I want to
kill you for?
284
00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:08,900
For a third of my estate,
naturally.
285
00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:11,200
Well, sure, I could
use the dough, Uncle A...
286
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but I wouldn't want to see you
knocked off just for that.
287
00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,100
If I could get it
any other way.
288
00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,000
You. You're the one
who interests me now.
289
00:17:21,100 --> 00:17:23,600
Just what did you
come back for tonight?
290
00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:24,900
I forgot something.
291
00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:27,700
I see. What was it?
Let me see it!
292
00:17:28,100 --> 00:17:29,600
I couldn't find it.
293
00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:31,400
Just as I thought.
294
00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,700
The insane idea that you
could write my books...
295
00:17:33,700 --> 00:17:35,800
has preyed upon
your fuzzy little mind...
296
00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:39,000
until you believe it so strongly
you're ready to kill for it, aren't you?
297
00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:40,200
Answer me! Aren't you?
298
00:17:40,300 --> 00:17:42,300
You must be out of your mind.
299
00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:45,300
Alex, honestly. What is this?
Are you all right?
300
00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:50,100
I've been avoiding this,
of course.
301
00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:52,600
One hates to think
his own wife might...
302
00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:54,600
But we must face facts now.
303
00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:58,100
And the facts are that you have,
for some unaccountable reason...
304
00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:01,100
become enamored of this
outsize amoeba.
305
00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:04,400
But you can't have him without
losing me and my money...
306
00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:08,200
so murder would solve your problem
very well, too, now, wouldn't it?
307
00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,500
Alex. Of all the nonsense.
308
00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:11,600
Really?
309
00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:14,700
You shouldn't have been home
till one, you know...
310
00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:18,200
and yet here you are in plenty
of time. Why? Tell me that!
311
00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,800
Because the show was
a crashing bore. What else?
312
00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,600
Yes, it was terrible.
Really.
313
00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:27,100
Yes. Perhaps
you've been overlooked.
314
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,200
After all, stabbing is hardly
a woman's way, is it?
315
00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:34,100
And since you're penniless yourself and
know you can't have Carol without money...
316
00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,800
I can hardly see her doing
her own housekeeping, can you?
317
00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,400
Mending her own clothes,
dyeing her own hair.
318
00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,500
Alex!
319
00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,400
But as my widow, she'd be
quite well off, you know.
320
00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:45,000
So I put it to you, Benson...
321
00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:48,000
that you'd very much like to
see me gone. Dead. Wouldn't you?
322
00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,500
So you could have both Carol
and my money.
323
00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:54,200
Well, when you put it that way,
Alex, you make it sound so attractive.
324
00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:56,100
Yes. I guess I would.
325
00:18:56,300 --> 00:18:57,700
This is getting nowhere.
326
00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,900
If only I'd agreed
to go through with it.
327
00:19:01,300 --> 00:19:05,500
I must know. If only
I could extend the time now.
328
00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,600
Hello.
Alexander.
329
00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,300
Is this?
Yes. This is Wilfrid.
330
00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:25,300
Would you really like to
extend the time?
331
00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:27,400
Actually go through
with it again?
332
00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:28,700
Could I?
333
00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:30,100
Yes.
334
00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:33,700
Would it come off
right on time, just as before?
335
00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:35,600
The final event
would be the same.
336
00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:39,000
Well? You have only
a few seconds.
337
00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,000
Yes.
338
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,800
I want to do it.
339
00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:44,600
Thank you.
340
00:19:46,700 --> 00:19:47,700
Who was that?
341
00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:49,800
That was Wilfrid,
my recording angel.
342
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,400
You see, I'm dead.
I mean I was...
343
00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,700
I was murdered once before,
but I didn't know who did it...
344
00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,600
and Wilfrid has allowed me
to come back to find out.
345
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,700
Very considerate of him,
I think.
346
00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:03,400
But I still don't know...
347
00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,700
and he's going to let me
go through with it again.
348
00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,500
Please don't ask me to explain,
you wouldn't understand.
349
00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:09,700
We certainly wouldn't.
350
00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:12,800
The point is,
in a few moments...
351
00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:16,100
someone is going to stab me
in the back, with this.
352
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,500
But this time I'm going to be
awake, and I'll know who it is.
353
00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:21,100
So go on. Clear out.
All of you.
354
00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:24,200
Obviously, nobody will do it
with the others here as witnesses.
355
00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,400
Arlington, you'd better...
356
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,500
get to a psychiatrist
before it's too late.
357
00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:29,000
Even if one of us
were going to kill you...
358
00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:31,400
you don't think he'd come back
and do it right away, do you?
359
00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,900
With the others inevitably
watching for him?
360
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,600
Possibly not, I don't know.
That's not my responsibility.
361
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,600
But go on. Can't you all
clear out? Can't you hurry?
362
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,800
Alex, carrying this
foolishness one step farther...
363
00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,500
there is one way it could
happen, you know. Right now.
364
00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:49,700
If the murderer could kill you without any
of the rest of us knowing which one he is...
365
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,800
then he'd be safe,
wouldn't he? Yes. Of course.
366
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,100
But that's obviously impossible, so please
- No, it isn't.
367
00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:57,200
Even Slade Saunders should
think of that one, Alex.
368
00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,800
All I have to do is...
369
00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:01,000
Benson! Turn on the lights!
370
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,200
Benson, you underhanded-
371
00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:03,800
Will somebody... Benson!
372
00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:10,900
And another
small erasure here.
373
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:13,700
And that's that.
374
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,000
Do you mean to say that all I just been
through took place while you were...
375
00:21:18,100 --> 00:21:21,100
Yes, as I told you,
time on Earth...
376
00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:24,000
has no relation with time
here, which is eternity.
377
00:21:26,300 --> 00:21:29,500
Well, they did it again.
And you still don't know.
378
00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:32,000
Benson put out the lights.
379
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,500
Somehow, it doesn't seem
to matter so much this time.
380
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,500
That's good.
You see...
381
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,900
nobody seemed at all upset at
the idea of my being killed.
382
00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:44,300
Now I'm beginning to wonder
what sort of person I was.
383
00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:47,000
Well, that would also involve
the kind of people they were.
384
00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:50,400
And after all, none of you
were better than human.
385
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,500
I suppose not. Of course,
you do have one clue.
386
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,600
Whoever killed you would have
to trust Benson implicitly.
387
00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:58,600
Be sure he wouldn't
turn on the lights again.
388
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,100
Of course.
389
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:04,100
They would have to be partners,
who had already planned to kill me.
390
00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:06,100
Carol.
391
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,000
So it was Carol.
392
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,200
Poor thing.
393
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:11,800
She'll get no good out of it.
394
00:22:11,900 --> 00:22:14,700
She's certain to be caught.
She's not nearly clever enough.
395
00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:17,100
Few are.
I say...
396
00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:19,400
you're really quite a
detective yourself, you know.
397
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:20,900
Very good indeed.
398
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,100
I'm sorry.
399
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000
I must sound
dreadfully patronizing.
400
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,600
A habit left over from Earth,
I suppose.
401
00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:29,800
I must have been
rather obnoxious, I fear.
402
00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:33,800
In fact,
under the circumstances...
403
00:22:34,700 --> 00:22:38,100
how did I get in here at all?
All mystery writers go to heaven.
404
00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:40,300
Didn't you know?
They do?
405
00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:41,700
Whatever for?
406
00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:43,300
I really don't know.
407
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,500
I must remember
to ask sometime.
408
00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:54,100
Well...
409
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,900
why they would go to heaven
is certainly a mystery to me.
410
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,000
After she had assisted
her husband...
411
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,400
out of this veil of tears...
412
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,700
Mrs. Arlington sought solace in
a quick marriage to Mr. Benson.
413
00:23:07,900 --> 00:23:10,100
And they lived
happily ever after.
414
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,800
He in
the state penitentiary...
415
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,500
and she at
the women's detention home...
416
00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:18,600
where she found a very
nice job in the mailroom.
417
00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:21,800
Vincent, of course,
became filthy rich.
418
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,600
Which reminds me that we were to hear
from the Committee on Ways and Means.
419
00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:29,300
However, they were
unable to attend.
420
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,800
They didn't have the money
for the bus fare.
421
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,500
In which case, I declare
this meeting adjourned.
422
00:23:36,305 --> 00:23:42,688
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