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00:04:30Do you ever hear the name Nora Moran?
00:04:33Nora Moran?
00:04:35This may refresh your memory.
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00:04:46What has she to do with it?
00:04:48That's the girl.
00:04:51This woman and Dick?
00:04:53I don't believe it.
00:04:55It's true, nevertheless.
00:04:59You said you wanted her as son.
00:05:03Did you ever witness an execution?
00:05:06Why, of course not.
00:05:09Did you ever see the preparation for one?
00:05:12A cold-blooded preparation.
00:05:15From the disposal of a burned-out, lifeless thing
00:05:18that a few moments before the execution was a human being.
00:05:22They begin in the afternoon.
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00:05:36The execution's at eight tonight.
00:05:39Yes, we'll get it there by six.
00:05:41She's five foot one.
00:05:44She's five foot one.
00:05:46Okay, five foot one.
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00:05:54I've got to shave her head.
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00:06:00If she didn't leave, you wouldn't either.
00:06:03She's only 21.
00:06:06I've got to keep that age.
00:06:09I wonder what she's thinking.
00:06:12Her suffering had been so mute and pitiful
00:06:15that they tried to relieve her.
00:06:20Just lie quiet.
00:06:22You'll soon be asleep.
00:06:42Mrs. Watts,
00:06:44are you sure they sent the telegram to Father Ryan?
00:06:47Yes.
00:06:49He'll be praying for you.
00:06:57There might still be a chance for you
00:07:00if you'd only tell why you did it.
00:07:03No.
00:07:05Why won't you tell, dearie?
00:07:09But you could tell me.
00:07:12Not anyone.
00:07:14Gradually, the opiate quieted her body,
00:07:16but her mind was too disordered.
00:07:18And in her confused state,
00:07:20everything became grotesque and unreal.
00:07:23We've all experienced it, and in our helplessness,
00:07:26we call on the one who means protection to us.
00:07:29To Nora, it was Father Ryan.
00:07:31Now is when she was a child.
00:07:33Nora is five years old.
00:07:35She's been with the sisters two years.
00:07:39And she's always been a very good child.
00:07:43Well...
00:07:47There's only one thing that's holding me back.
00:07:52Pleasure, honey.
00:07:54I was only saying
00:07:56I wanted to see how you'd fit on me lap.
00:07:59Darling, come over and try it.
00:08:04We-we got a car.
00:08:07Are you sure?
00:08:09Barring a couple of payments.
00:08:11What's a couple of payments between two good Irishmen
00:08:13like the child and me?
00:08:15Oh, the child and you.
00:08:18It's already the child and you.
00:08:21Well...
00:08:23I don't know.
00:08:25It's already the child and you.
00:08:28Well, we'll see.
00:08:31We'll see.
00:08:34Happiness for eight years.
00:08:36But she remembered only the tragedy that ended.
00:08:39And the car killed him, Father.
00:08:42I didn't know for hours why they didn't come home.
00:08:47What do you want to do now, Nora?
00:08:51It's sinful even to think of it now.
00:08:53But Mother Maria,
00:08:55I don't know what to do.
00:08:57I don't know what to do.
00:08:59I don't know what to do.
00:09:01I don't know what to do.
00:09:03I don't know what to do.
00:09:05I don't know what to do.
00:09:07I don't know.
00:09:09But Mother Maria wanted me to...
00:09:11What was that?
00:09:14Learn to dance.
00:09:16She always said that when she could afford it,
00:09:18I could go to a school.
00:09:20Do you want to do that?
00:09:22Yes.
00:09:26I've paid all the debts and there's $300 left.
00:09:29Would it be wrong to use the money for that?
00:09:31No.
00:09:33Not wrong, Nora.
00:09:35It's the wisest thing.
00:09:36But I want so much to do it.
00:09:39The money would last long enough until I studied
00:09:41and by that time I could get a job in a cafe
00:09:44or I might even get a job in a show.
00:09:52Months of practice,
00:09:54long hours of hard work until she felt prepared.
00:09:57And although her money was almost gone,
00:09:59she started out like thousands of others,
00:10:01confident of immediate success.
00:10:03There was the glamour of the theatre,
00:10:05the lights, the crowds,
00:10:07intoxicating to her because she now felt herself
00:10:09to be a part of it.
00:10:11There were the stage doors of promised mystery and excitement
00:10:14and the daily round of booking offices
00:10:16when she still felt that each new day
00:10:18was to mark the beginning of her success.
00:10:20And then the refusals.
00:10:22Endless days.
00:10:24Voices that spoke.
00:10:26Nothing today.
00:10:27No experience.
00:10:28Nothing today.
00:10:29No.
00:10:30No, you won't do.
00:10:32Signs that haunted her.
00:10:34Chorus filled.
00:10:35No costume today.
00:10:37Chorus filled.
00:10:38Chorus filled.
00:10:39Until she knew the panic that comes with your last dollar
00:10:42and the desperate necessity for any kind of work.
00:10:45The failure there until she saw the end.
00:10:53I'm afraid you're too young to work in a circus.
00:10:56Oh no, I'm not.
00:10:57I'm not too young.
00:10:59I'm old.
00:11:00Oh, please let me have it.
00:11:01Please.
00:11:03All right.
00:11:04Report to Paulino at King Brothers Circus.
00:11:10Excitement.
00:11:11The job.
00:11:12The sound of the time.
00:11:13Tongues.
00:11:14Acrobats.
00:11:15Thrills.
00:11:16Excitement.
00:11:17Rehearsing what she'd say.
00:11:18Afraid someone would beat her there.
00:11:20And then this.
00:11:32Oh, thank you.
00:11:33Oh, thank you.
00:11:34Oh, you're welcome.
00:12:01Hey there.
00:12:06She's just about the same size as your last partner.
00:12:32All right.
00:12:36Okay. You'll do very nicely.
00:12:39Oh, Mr. Polito.
00:12:40Hmm?
00:12:41I don't have to go in the cage, do I?
00:12:42No, no. All you have to do is to wear that outfit and look pretty.
00:12:47And, uh, can they, Mr. Smith?
00:13:23Nora was happy with the excitement of circus life.
00:13:33The hurry, the bustle, the thrill of moving on, a new town.
00:13:37The whole thing was a glorious adventure until one night...
00:14:06Paulina's brutality and her fear of him were things that she could never forget.
00:14:26When things happen in our lives, we're conscious of those events.
00:14:32And later, subconsciously, we see our lives as a pattern.
00:14:36And it's easy to recall the events that formed that pattern.
00:14:40And so it was with Nora.
00:14:43She was in a cell waiting to die.
00:14:46And yet she was in the circus.
00:14:49She was dreaming.
00:14:51But yet in her subconscious mind,
00:14:54she was reliving the events that formed the pattern of her life.
00:15:04Mrs. Watts?
00:15:06No, I'm Sadie.
00:15:08Don't you remember me?
00:15:12Oh, I don't.
00:15:14Things seem strange.
00:15:16That's because you're dreaming.
00:15:18And so far, you've dreamed things just as they happen.
00:15:21But I thought when you got to me, I would change the dream if you wanted me to.
00:15:27Paul...
00:15:28I'm not giving you the money.
00:15:31I don't understand you.
00:15:34Don't you remember?
00:15:36After you'd been with the circus for nearly a year, I found you sitting here one night.
00:15:41I was drawn, but not too drawn to know that you were just about ready to bump yourself off.
00:15:48So I gave you a hundred bucks to get away from the circus and Pauline.
00:15:54Oh, yes, now I remember.
00:15:57You were the only one who was friendly to me.
00:16:00Well, I'm not so sure it was a good thing.
00:16:03That's what I'm talking about.
00:16:05If I hadn't given you the money, you might not be here now in jail, waiting to be electrocuted.
00:16:13But I'm not in jail.
00:16:17I'm here.
00:16:19I guess I'd better get broke. I can't help you.
00:16:23But you did help me.
00:16:25You gave me money.
00:16:27Where did I go?
00:16:29You went to New York and got a job in a nightclub.
00:16:32Then what did I do?
00:16:34You killed a man.
00:16:36But before that, I was happy.
00:16:39I was happy for the first time in my life.
00:16:41That's where I met him.
00:16:43Give me the money again.
00:16:45I don't care what happens after that.
00:16:47I'll see him again and I'll be happy.
00:17:15Mr. Lane.
00:17:44Mr. Lane.
00:17:45Yes?
00:17:47That gentleman's here again. He wants to see you.
00:17:49What's his name?
00:17:50Crawford.
00:17:51Oh, yes.
00:18:02Do you live in New York?
00:18:04Yes.
00:18:18I'll stay another week.
00:18:20May I see you again?
00:18:22Of course.
00:18:27Good night.
00:18:28Good night.
00:18:56Good night.
00:19:16Good night.
00:19:45Good night.
00:19:57A week has seven days and seven nights.
00:19:59You don't tell me.
00:20:00Hey, Simple down here has made a discovery.
00:20:02She says a week has seven days and seven nights.
00:20:05Six days and six nights.
00:20:07Five.
00:20:08Four.
00:20:09Three.
00:20:10Two.
00:20:11One.
00:20:12Now, Porter, can you take these bags, please?
00:20:31If I sent for you, would you come to me?
00:20:34Anywhere.
00:21:02Laura, what are you doing?
00:21:04Crying.
00:21:06Crying?
00:21:09The stove works.
00:21:12And the radio works.
00:21:14And the fireplace works.
00:21:16It's so lovely to have a buzz with things that work.
00:21:19I can't stand it.
00:21:21Oh, you darling.
00:21:24I've heard enough.
00:21:25You can spare me the details of their romance.
00:21:28It's all in there.
00:21:29Months of it.
00:21:30While I, like a fool, was slaving for it.
00:21:33Oh, come on now, Edith.
00:21:34Please, please.
00:21:36Let's be honest with ourselves.
00:21:38You weren't thinking any more of Dick than I was.
00:21:41Anything that you did, you did for your own social ambition.
00:21:45And to me, he was just a figurehead that I groomed for the governorship to further my own political power.
00:21:51When I finally got wind of what was going on, he'd become a damned important figurehead.
00:21:56And with the election only two weeks off, one word of scandal would have ruined us.
00:22:01How did you find out about it?
00:22:03Well, I became suspicious of the trips he was taking to the ranch every Monday and Friday.
00:22:08One day I followed him.
00:22:10I found that he was keeping her in a little house just across the state line in Wilchester, about an hour's drive from here.
00:22:16Then I traced the girl's history.
00:22:19And the more I found out about her, the more I was certain she had a definite plan.
00:22:24It was just to sit tight until he was the governor and then collect for the rest of her life.
00:22:28At least you had sense enough to see that.
00:22:31Well, you've read her letters. Do they sound like it?
00:22:34Certainly. They're just the sort of letters she would write to lull his suspicions.
00:22:39Perhaps. Perhaps.
00:22:43Before you judge that girl,
00:22:47picture her lying in her cell,
00:22:50trying in her disordered mind
00:22:53to relive the months she was in that cottage.
00:23:02Do you think we could get the president to put three Mondays and four Fridays in the week?
00:23:07Why?
00:23:08For those are the days I see you.
00:23:13Come over here, dear, will you?
00:23:15Immediately.
00:23:23You've been happy here, haven't you, dear?
00:23:26When I was a little girl, we used to say foolish questions deserve foolish answers.
00:23:41It's so heavy, it turns on my fingers.
00:23:54Don't do it.
00:23:56Why not?
00:23:58I don't know.
00:24:01I don't know!
00:24:04Now you've done it.
00:24:09Is that all you take off?
00:24:12Oh, I'm glad.
00:24:15She has such pretty hair.
00:24:19She has such pretty hair.
00:24:27She heard their voices dimly and seemed to know what they were doing.
00:24:31She was going to die,
00:24:33and the thing she was dying for was about to happen.
00:24:41What is it, dear? What's the matter?
00:24:44I know now.
00:24:46It's the circus.
00:24:48Listen.
00:25:04You must leave.
00:25:06You must leave now.
00:25:13Answer it.
00:25:15No, I won't.
00:25:16You must.
00:25:17But don't you understand?
00:25:19If we don't see him, it won't happen.
00:25:23It's too late now.
00:25:25You must answer it.
00:25:33Yes.
00:25:35That's right.
00:25:37I must.
00:25:47I must.
00:25:54I beg your pardon. My name is John Grant.
00:25:57I'd like to see Mr. Crawford.
00:25:59Why, please.
00:26:00I don't bother lying. I know that he's here.
00:26:04Well, funny you're finding me here.
00:26:06Miss Moran, do you know Mr. Grant?
00:26:08How do you do?
00:26:09I just dropped in to see Miss Moran's father.
00:26:11He's an old friend of mine.
00:26:13Not in at the moment, I suppose?
00:26:14No.
00:26:15I see.
00:26:16We talk.
00:26:19Do you mind if we talk in here?
00:26:20Fine.
00:26:21Fine.
00:26:24Excuse me.
00:26:25Go now, please.
00:26:26Don't talk to him.
00:26:28I must.
00:26:29You stay out here.
00:26:31Miss Moran's father's been sending her flowers.
00:27:01Well?
00:27:03Hard to find out about this.
00:27:05There's an extra out.
00:27:07An extra?
00:27:09About this?
00:27:10Yes.
00:27:15How could they have got out of it?
00:27:17This isn't even in our state.
00:27:20Oh, well, there isn't anything to it, anyway.
00:27:23I met her while I was in New York.
00:27:25So when she moved down here, she told me.
00:27:28I met her while I was in New York.
00:27:30So when she moved down here, she dropped me a note.
00:27:32Surely a friendly note to call.
00:27:34Every Monday and Friday.
00:27:36With an alibi like that, you don't write the front page.
00:27:38You ought to be in the comic section.
00:27:41Has Edith seen it?
00:27:43I don't know.
00:27:44She can read.
00:27:48Squirm a while.
00:27:49I'll watch.
00:27:50I ought to get something back for my money.
00:27:53Talking like that won't help, John.
00:27:55You've got to think of something.
00:27:56All right.
00:27:57I'll do the thinking.
00:27:58I'll do the talking.
00:28:00The story hasn't broken in the papers yet.
00:28:04You mean you told me that...
00:28:05I just wanted to give you a taste of how you'd feel if I did break it.
00:28:08If you're not out of here in exactly ten minutes, that's what's going to happen.
00:28:11I'll break it myself.
00:28:13I'll break it on the front page of every newspaper in the state.
00:28:15You belong with it.
00:28:16You wouldn't do that, wouldn't I?
00:28:18Let me tell you something.
00:28:19You're running for governor.
00:28:20You're a married man.
00:28:22The fact that you're married to my sister doesn't mean a thing to me.
00:28:24That's her business.
00:28:25I've spent a lot of time and money building you to where you are,
00:28:27and if you think for a moment I'm going to let you toss it
00:28:29just because you've fallen for some cheap little dame, you're mistaken.
00:28:31She isn't cheap.
00:28:32You bet your life she isn't.
00:28:33She's going to cost you plenty.
00:28:35What do you mean?
00:28:36Figure it out for yourself.
00:28:38Why do you suppose a girl from a New York nightclub
00:28:40would bury herself in a place like this?
00:28:42How do you know she comes from a nightclub?
00:28:43How did I know that she was in a circus before she was in a nightclub?
00:28:46I've got her number.
00:28:48I know her past history.
00:28:49You're crazy.
00:28:50Am I?
00:28:51Well, I'll tell you just how crazy I am.
00:28:53Either you end this thing right now or you're through.
00:28:55You'll go back to being an office boy.
00:28:58What did you mean about knowing her history?
00:29:00Get her in here and ask her yourself.
00:29:01No, please.
00:29:02No?
00:29:03All right.
00:29:04I'll get her in myself.
00:29:05You'll talk to me?
00:29:09Come in.
00:29:19You heard what was said?
00:29:21Yes, I heard.
00:29:22All of it?
00:29:24I guess so.
00:29:25It's true, isn't it?
00:29:27What?
00:29:28About you being with the circus.
00:29:30The same one that's playing here tonight.
00:29:33Yes, that's right.
00:29:35What was your name then?
00:29:37Same as it is now.
00:29:39Shouldn't it have been something else?
00:29:41Or have there been so many you didn't bother with it?
00:29:45Yes, that's right.
00:29:47There have been so many I didn't bother with that.
00:29:49Men like him who were married.
00:29:51Men...
00:30:15Did I do it better that time?
00:30:28You did it all right.
00:30:30It's because I've dreamed it so much.
00:30:32When it really happened, all I could think of was that he has a wife.
00:30:35That hurt so that I couldn't think of much else.
00:30:38But now it's different.
00:30:40Every time I dream it, I think of different things to say to him
00:30:42that will hurt him and make him leave.
00:30:44But I can't do it anymore.
00:30:46I just can't.
00:30:48You won't have to.
00:30:50Why?
00:30:52Don't you remember?
00:30:56I don't have to go through that again, do I?
00:30:59It happened.
00:31:01But that was because I didn't leave soon enough.
00:31:03Don't you understand?
00:31:04All I have to do is go now.
00:31:05It won't happen.
00:31:06Don't you see how easy it is?
00:31:07I'll just leave.
00:31:08I'll go now.
00:31:09It won't happen.
00:31:10But it did happen.
00:31:11Did it?
00:31:14Yes.
00:31:15That's right.
00:31:17I killed him.
00:31:19And upon said trial was found guilty of murder
00:31:22in the first degree for said killing.
00:31:25And on the 14th day of May, 1933,
00:31:28was sentenced to be put to death.
00:31:37Come, look at her.
00:31:39I don't want to.
00:31:40Come on, look at her.
00:31:48What's the matter with her?
00:31:49She's dead.
00:31:52I don't like the way they fixed her hair.
00:31:54They shaved part of it off.
00:31:56Why?
00:31:58Why did they do that?
00:31:59So the current would go through her head.
00:32:02It doesn't go through her head.
00:32:04It goes through her head, her arms and her legs.
00:32:07That's a lie.
00:32:09It goes through her head, her arms and her legs.
00:32:12If you don't believe it, come to the execution tonight.
00:32:15They're going to kill her again.
00:32:17The warden wasn't pleased with the way she died.
00:32:20I won't have it.
00:32:21They can't do that.
00:32:22But they've done it.
00:32:23Don't you understand?
00:32:25She's dead.
00:32:29I'm not dead.
00:32:31I'm not dead.
00:32:33I'm dreaming.
00:32:34Help me.
00:32:38Don't let me go back to sleep again.
00:32:40Please.
00:32:43Help me to wake up.
00:32:46I mustn't go back to sleep.
00:32:48Poor lamb.
00:32:49You were dreaming, weren't you?
00:32:52Yes.
00:32:55Maybe if I walk, I can stay awake.
00:33:00You can't do that.
00:33:02Yes, I can.
00:33:04If you'll help me.
00:33:19And upon said trial was found guilty of murder in the first degree for said killing.
00:33:24And on the 14th day of May, 1933, was sentenced to be put to death.
00:33:30Stop it.
00:33:31Megan, stop.
00:33:33Why don't you be human?
00:33:35Can't you see she's almost crazy?
00:33:37But I'm supposed to read it.
00:33:39I'm supposed to read it here in her cell.
00:33:42All right, read it here.
00:33:44Can't you read it to yourself?
00:33:47I guess I can do that.
00:33:50Maybe if I just mumbled, it'd be all right.
00:33:52Mumble and be damned.
00:33:55And upon said trial...
00:34:03What's that?
00:34:04Six o'clock.
00:34:07Don't worry.
00:34:12At six o'clock that night, Nora wasn't the only one walking the floor.
00:34:16I was in my office listening to the prison whistle.
00:34:19And I realized that I'd been listening to it all day.
00:34:22I didn't know what to think.
00:34:24Dick was now the governor.
00:34:26He promised me a new government.
00:34:28I didn't know what to think.
00:34:29Dick was now the governor.
00:34:31He promised to refuse a stay of execution.
00:34:34I didn't know whether he'd hold to his promise.
00:34:36I didn't know whether she'd stick to hers.
00:34:38What do you mean?
00:34:39What are you trying to tell me?
00:34:41When Dick left that night, I stayed to settle with her.
00:34:48Won't you please go now?
00:34:50As soon as we understand each other.
00:34:52I'll give you what you want within reason.
00:34:54That settles the account for all time.
00:34:57No future payments, no kickback.
00:34:59Do you understand?
00:35:01There'll be no kickback as you call it.
00:35:03And no payments at all.
00:35:04So you can go now.
00:35:06What's your game?
00:35:08I doubt if you'd understand it.
00:35:10Goodbye.
00:35:12Wait a minute.
00:35:15Have you any money?
00:35:17Enough.
00:35:18Enough for what?
00:35:19To take me where I'm going.
00:35:23Who rented this place?
00:35:26Me, Dick.
00:35:28Is the rent paid?
00:35:30Till next Wednesday.
00:35:32When are you leaving?
00:35:34On the next train.
00:35:36You might as well take this.
00:35:38It's his.
00:35:41You'd better let me give you some money now.
00:35:44No.
00:35:47But if you change your mind, I'll be at the Carleton Hotel tonight.
00:35:55I'll be at the Carleton Hotel tonight.
00:35:57I sat in a hotel room trying to figure the girl out.
00:36:25I couldn't believe she turned down money.
00:36:27But at the end of two hours, when she hadn't called,
00:36:30I decided she wasn't going to.
00:36:51Well.
00:36:55So you changed your mind about the money?
00:36:57No.
00:36:58Come in here.
00:37:03Come in here.
00:37:04Please.
00:37:09Help me move this.
00:37:10What's wrong?
00:37:11Push it away from the fireplace.
00:37:18What happened?
00:37:19Who is it?
00:37:21Polino.
00:37:22He was with the circus.
00:37:24He's the man I live with.
00:37:27Been watching the house all evening.
00:37:29Came in after you left.
00:37:31He'd been outside watching and listening.
00:37:33Said he was going to blackmail Dick.
00:37:35He knew all about us.
00:37:38Wanted me to come back to him and help him get money from Dick.
00:37:41Then you...
00:37:42Yes, I...
00:37:43I hit him with that whip.
00:37:45I hit him three times.
00:37:46Three times over the head.
00:37:49What'll I do?
00:37:51You'll wait here until I call the police.
00:37:53No, don't do this.
00:37:54Why not?
00:37:55We must keep the police out of this.
00:37:56Wait a minute.
00:37:57I happen to be a district attorney.
00:37:59It's my business to prosecute people who commit murder.
00:38:02If this had happened 40 miles from here in my county,
00:38:04it would be my duty to send you to the electric chair.
00:38:07So if it's in your mind to have me help you get away with this,
00:38:09you may as well save your breath.
00:38:11I didn't know you were a district attorney.
00:38:13I thought you'd be willing to help me to keep Dick out of this.
00:38:16Dick? He is out of it.
00:38:17I know, but don't you see, if they arrest me, the whole thing'll come out.
00:38:21He rented this house.
00:38:22He's been coming here for months.
00:38:24There are a dozen different things that'll drag him into it.
00:38:26If the newspapers get hold of it, they'll ruin him.
00:38:29They won't care about me, but he's an important man.
00:38:31They'll tear him to pieces.
00:38:32And his wife along with him.
00:38:34Dammit, why didn't you think of this before you committed murder?
00:38:44He went to bed drunk every night.
00:38:46Who?
00:38:48Polina.
00:38:49What about her?
00:38:50We could take him in your car to where the circus train is loading.
00:38:53Then when we got to the darkest part of the street, we could throw him out.
00:38:57Somewhere the circus is bound to find him.
00:38:59And they'd find that he'd been murdered?
00:39:01No, they'll just think he's drunk.
00:39:03They found him like that before.
00:39:05What about the wound on his head?
00:39:07When we've thrown him out, I'll put a rock under his head.
00:39:11They'll think he hit it when he fell.
00:39:13They'll think that's what killed him.
00:39:14Nothing doing.
00:39:16Oh, don't!
00:39:19Wait! Please!
00:39:21Don't you realize what you're doing?
00:39:23You're destroying everything that has taken you years to build up.
00:39:25And it isn't necessary.
00:39:27All I'm trying to do is get Polina away from this house.
00:39:30Suppose I helped you.
00:39:32And you got caught after I left.
00:39:34You mean, would I tell that you'd help me?
00:39:37I wouldn't do a thing like that.
00:39:48Turn here.
00:40:19Slow up now.
00:40:26Can you manage it alone?
00:40:28Yes.
00:40:33Let me out around the corner.
00:40:35We'll never get away with this.
00:40:37Yes, we will. There's no one inside.
00:40:43I'm sorry.
00:40:45Bye-bye.
00:41:09Go on.
00:41:16You can imagine my feelings as I drove away and left her.
00:41:19All I could think of was getting out of that town.
00:41:22So I checked out of the hotel and drove home.
00:41:33I've changed my plans, Kato.
00:41:35Bring a hot drink to my room.
00:41:45I went through hell that night.
00:41:47One minute I knew that she was sincere.
00:41:50The next minute, I was certain that I'd walked into the cleverest little trap imaginable.
00:41:55No matter how I think it, the answer was the same.
00:41:58If she was sincere, the plan was a thousand to one shot.
00:42:02If she succeeded, she'd collect me.
00:42:05If she failed and she'd been lying, she'd talk.
00:42:08And faced with the rest, how did I know that she'd pin the actual murder onto me?
00:42:12It was my word against hers.
00:42:14And the very integrity expected of me as a public official would have thrown the balance against me
00:42:18if it were known that I was mixed up.
00:42:22I figured the consequences of what I'd done from every possible angle,
00:42:26except the one that actually happened.
00:42:30Mr. Grant?
00:42:32Hmm?
00:42:34I'm sorry to disturb you, sir, but headquarters on the phone.
00:42:37They say it's very urgent.
00:42:39All right, Kato.
00:42:42Hello? Yes?
00:42:44Good morning, Mr. Grant.
00:42:46There's been a murder on a circus train.
00:42:49It's a murder on a circus train.
00:42:51It's a murder on a circus train.
00:42:53It's a murder on a circus train.
00:42:55It's a murder on a circus train.
00:42:57There's been a murder on a circus train that pulled in here this morning.
00:43:02Pulled in here?
00:43:03Yes.
00:43:04We've got the girl who did it, but we can't get anything out of her nor the circus people.
00:43:08The whole thing's a mix-up.
00:43:13Yes, I'll come right down.
00:43:16Oh!
00:43:22If you people are trying to shield this girl, you're going to regret it.
00:43:27Was this man dead when you found him in the street?
00:43:30Was he?
00:43:31Don't ask me.
00:43:33He was drunk.
00:43:34If I was drunk, how is it you don't know?
00:43:37Well, I was thinking of something else.
00:43:39It's quite apparent that you were both drunk.
00:43:42Did you put him to bed on the train?
00:43:45Did you?
00:43:46Did you?
00:43:47What do you mean, did I?
00:43:48What were you doing all the time?
00:43:50Well, I...
00:43:51Go on, I'm waiting.
00:43:54She's the one?
00:43:55Yes, so I gathered.
00:43:57Did you see your husband and his friend bring Polino on the train?
00:44:00I did not.
00:44:01I've seen him drunk so many times, I wouldn't have noticed it.
00:44:05Did any of you see him?
00:44:07Did they?
00:44:08Don't ask me.
00:44:09I was thinking of something else.
00:44:10That's enough.
00:44:11We'll get the girl.
00:44:16Have the prisoner brought in.
00:44:22Now, which one of you met the girl?
00:44:24We both did.
00:44:25You say she hasn't been with the circus for some time?
00:44:28About three years.
00:44:29When you met her, was she going toward the train or away from it?
00:44:36Beer.
00:44:37I bet they was drinking beer.
00:44:39You keep your pants on.
00:44:40A lot you got to say roaring drunk yourself.
00:44:44She was going toward the train.
00:44:46Why, if it isn't little Norris's eye when I saw her.
00:44:49I saw her first.
00:44:51She bumped into her.
00:44:53Staggered more likely.
00:44:54You shut up.
00:44:55Now listen.
00:45:02You people wait in the outer room.
00:45:08Come in.
00:45:11God bless you, darling.
00:45:14Sit down, Miss Moran.
00:45:23You admit killing Paulino?
00:45:25Yes.
00:45:27How did you kill him?
00:45:28I told you I hit him over the head with a whip.
00:45:30What did you do with the whip?
00:45:32I threw it away.
00:45:33Where?
00:45:35From the train.
00:45:37Why did you kill him?
00:45:38That's my business.
00:45:40That's my business.
00:45:41But it also happens to be the state's business.
00:45:44I've told you I killed him, isn't that enough?
00:45:46This thing has been going on all morning.
00:45:48Suppose you let me talk with her alone.
00:45:52This is the district attorney.
00:45:55It's my duty to tell you that until you get a lawyer,
00:45:58you don't have to answer any questions you don't want to answer.
00:46:01You can ask me questions, but I won't tell them any more than I told you.
00:46:10Come in.
00:46:16What happened?
00:46:18I ran into those women.
00:46:19Shh.
00:46:20Keep your voice down.
00:46:21Were you close to the body when you ran into them?
00:46:23No.
00:46:25I put a rock under his head and then I went back for my bag.
00:46:29While I was around the corner, I heard old Jake and Miller coming along.
00:46:32They stumbled over him.
00:46:34They were so drunk they didn't know he was dead.
00:46:37I watched them drag him onto the train.
00:46:39In the name of heaven, did you get on the same train?
00:46:41Couldn't help it.
00:46:43While I was watching them drag Polino away,
00:46:45those women bumped into me.
00:46:47Scared me so, when they recognized me, I went to pieces.
00:46:51Don't remember much until I came to and the train was moving.
00:46:54How did they pin it onto you?
00:46:56Police did that.
00:46:58Circus people tried so hard to hush up my past,
00:47:00but Polino, I guess they overdid it.
00:47:03They all think I killed him on the train during the night.
00:47:05Out of all places in the world, the train had to pull in here.
00:47:08Do you realize that I've got to prosecute you?
00:47:11What difference does that make?
00:47:12Somebody else might trace it to the house in Wilchester.
00:47:15You'll know how to keep Dick out of it.
00:47:17You mean you're going through with this?
00:47:19I killed Polino.
00:47:21I did it to save Dick.
00:47:24And you helped me to keep him out of it.
00:47:26Why should I turn now and undo everything we've done?
00:47:29It would ruin Dick. It would ruin you.
00:47:31It wouldn't help me.
00:47:33I'm still guilty of murder.
00:47:35All right.
00:47:36You're guilty of murder and I'm the prosecuting attorney.
00:47:38That's the way it stands. That's the way we're going to go through with it.
00:47:40And let me tell you something else.
00:47:42If you're doing this in the hope that Dick Crawford as governor will grant you a pardon,
00:47:45you may as well forget it.
00:47:47Because that man would sacrifice anything or anyone to satisfy his ambition.
00:47:55You know the rest of it.
00:47:57She went through the entire trial without a word in her own defense.
00:48:00Prosecuted by a man who was as guilty as she was.
00:48:03Saddened to die by an unsympathetic jury.
00:48:05And still never a word.
00:48:07Well, what of it?
00:48:08She was guilty.
00:48:09I certainly don't condone what you did.
00:48:11But it wouldn't have done her any good to drag you into it.
00:48:14Wouldn't have done her any good.
00:48:15Why, any lawyer who knew the whole story could have built up such a case for that girl
00:48:18that Dick would have been run out of the state.
00:48:20I would have been sent to prison for life.
00:48:22And she would have walked out of that courtroom as free as air.
00:48:24Why, think of the case.
00:48:26The girl is being kept by a man in high public office.
00:48:28She commits murder for him.
00:48:30The district attorney turns around and helps her cover up the murder and then prosecutes her.
00:48:35And furthermore, the murder was not committed in this state.
00:48:38This state had no legal right to try her.
00:48:40I had no legal right to prosecute her.
00:48:42What difference does it make which state tried her?
00:48:44She committed murder.
00:48:46And as for her saying nothing in the courtroom, it's perfectly obvious she did that expecting Dick to get her off.
00:48:51But the one thing in his favor is that he didn't let it influence him when he was faced with his duty.
00:48:56He had the courage and honesty to refuse to save her in spite of who she was.
00:49:01This state had invested him with certain powers and duties.
00:49:04And I'm glad that he at least lived up to that trust.
00:49:06Edith, are you making a campaign speech or just being a damn fool?
00:49:12Like most wives in your self-righteousness, you refuse to recognize any kind of love but your own.
00:49:19You never understood Dick.
00:49:21Neither one of us ever tried to understand him.
00:49:23He was just something that we kicked about between us to satisfy our own purposes and ambitions.
00:49:28We never considered whether he might want what we offered him.
00:49:30We simply forced him into it.
00:49:32You always made him feel he was the weaker.
00:49:35You made him look up and be dependent upon you.
00:49:38Nora worshipped him.
00:49:40In her eyes, he was a great man.
00:49:43She never questioned him.
00:49:44She never asked for anything he didn't offer.
00:49:48And through her love he attained, or I think he attained, something that you or I will never experience.
00:49:57Edith, I want to read you a letter.
00:50:01It's from Dick.
00:50:04Sit down.
00:50:11It starts simply, John, I'm going away with Nora.
00:50:15Away?
00:50:17That's how he puts it.
00:50:19You would call me insane if you knew what had happened to me tonight.
00:50:23And my relating it to you may seem an attempt to justify myself.
00:50:27I don't know.
00:50:29But I ask you to visualize the early hours of the evening.
00:50:33Read all about it.
00:50:35Next frame.
00:50:36Read all about it.
00:50:38Nora Miranda died at eight.
00:50:40Governor denied reprieve.
00:50:42Nora Miranda died.
00:50:44Next frame.
00:50:45Read all about it.
00:50:47Nora Miranda died at eight.
00:50:51Did you send a direct line to the governor's office?
00:50:53No, did he want me to?
00:50:55You tell me where he wants to be and I'll appreciate it.
00:50:57Shall I go back and do it?
00:50:58No, leave him alone.
00:51:00Governor denied reprieve.
00:51:01Read all about it.
00:51:26I tried to shut out the thought of Nora.
00:51:29Her faith in me.
00:51:30The happiness we had known.
00:51:32Her happiness in those first few months.
00:51:35But her voice, memories of her, kept coming back.
00:51:54Do you live in New York?
00:51:56I'll stay another week.
00:51:57May I see you again?
00:51:59Of course.
00:52:03When I send for you, would you come to me?
00:52:05Anywhere.
00:52:11The stove works.
00:52:13And the radio works.
00:52:15The fireplace works.
00:52:17It's so lovely to have a house with everything that works.
00:52:20I can't stand it.
00:52:21Oh, you don't.
00:52:22Oh, you don't.
00:52:25Do you think we could get the president to put three Mondays and four Fridays in the week?
00:52:29Why?
00:52:31For those are the days I see you.
00:52:34Or have there been so many you didn't bother with that?
00:52:38Yes, that's right.
00:52:40There have been so many I didn't bother with that.
00:52:42Men like him who were married.
00:52:44Men...
00:52:52Men...
00:53:05When I left, my actions were those of a stupid schoolboy.
00:53:09Driving away, I began to realize.
00:53:11How could I pass judgment on Laura?
00:53:14I was a married man.
00:53:16Offering her nothing but the question of the security of a house, part of my time.
00:53:20And I knew that no matter how many men there had been in her life.
00:53:23There was only one.
00:53:25Now.
00:53:27I went back.
00:53:44Laura!
00:53:46Laura!
00:53:49Laura!
00:53:56Laura!
00:53:58Hi, Governor.
00:54:01Forget something?
00:54:05I knew we were going to meet someday, but I didn't think it was going to be so soon.
00:54:09Don't listen to him. Don't talk to him. Go away, please.
00:54:12Hey, how much is she worth to you?
00:54:19I don't know.
00:54:49I don't know.
00:55:19He's dead.
00:55:24He's dead.
00:55:40Dead.
00:55:42A murderer.
00:55:44The thought of exposure terrified me.
00:55:47I imagined things.
00:55:49I imagined things.
00:55:59There's no one out there.
00:56:03But I saw a face in the window.
00:56:05You imagined it.
00:56:08Perhaps.
00:56:09I don't know.
00:56:15Oh, my God, Laura.
00:56:17But it wasn't your fault.
00:56:19You did it in self-defense, dear.
00:56:21If you hadn't done it, he would have killed you.
00:56:23But I'm the only one who knows that.
00:56:25And when they find out about us, they won't believe anything I have to say.
00:56:28There's no way out.
00:56:30Oh, but there is a way, if you'll only go.
00:56:32And leave you to face this?
00:56:34I wouldn't have to face it.
00:56:36I have a plan.
00:56:38If you'll only leave and trust me.
00:56:41Can't you understand why I'm asking you to do this?
00:56:45Don't you realize that it isn't killing him that will ruin you?
00:56:47It's me.
00:56:50The months we've spent here.
00:56:53They'll take those months from us and spread them across the front page of every newspaper.
00:56:58They'll make them ugly and cheap.
00:57:00Instead of what they were.
00:57:03I'm not asking you to be cowardly.
00:57:06I'm asking you to let me keep the only happiness I've ever known.
00:57:11You'll go.
00:57:13Won't you?
00:57:18No.
00:57:20Yes.
00:57:23No.
00:57:25I don't ask you to believe what happened next.
00:57:27I simply say it happened.
00:57:29Don't do that.
00:57:31Laura.
00:57:34What are they doing to you?
00:57:36Nothing, dear.
00:57:38They're hurting you.
00:57:40You're frightened.
00:57:42What is there to be frightened of?
00:57:44Death.
00:57:45You're in death.
00:57:47Father Ryan is with me now.
00:57:49I want you to hear what he's saying.
00:57:51And remember it always.
00:57:53It's the prayer for the dead.
00:57:55No, I don't want to hear it.
00:57:57Don't make me hear it.
00:57:59But it's beautiful.
00:58:01Listen.
00:58:03Eternal rest give to them, O Lord.
00:58:05And let perpetual light shine upon them.
00:58:07Eternal rest and perpetual light.
00:58:09Is that frightening?
00:58:11No.
00:58:13Then think of it that way.
00:58:15I can't.
00:58:17All I can think of is that you're dying for something I did.
00:58:19I'm not dying for something you did.
00:58:21I'm dying for all the good things you're going to do.
00:58:24And I'm dying rather than give up something that was precious to me.
00:58:27My life, maybe.
00:58:29I could have life with you if I told the truth.
00:58:31If I had the courage to tell the truth, I'd be free.
00:58:34They might put me in prison, but I'd be free.
00:58:36I'd be free of Grant.
00:58:38What of your wife?
00:58:40You can't do that to her.
00:58:42She's like him.
00:58:43She's like dominating, scheming, planning my life.
00:58:46And they always win.
00:58:48I wanted to pardon you, but he wouldn't let me.
00:58:53Why do I say he wouldn't let me?
00:58:55I could have done it.
00:58:57I can do it now.
00:58:59I can phone now and stop it.
00:59:01I can sign an unconditional pardon and you'll be free.
00:59:03What's free, dear?
00:59:05To go out and struggle?
00:59:07And perhaps no more men like Felina?
00:59:09To go on day after day,
00:59:11knowing that somewhere in the world you're beginning to hate me?
00:59:13Why should I hate you?
00:59:15Because people change.
00:59:17What will she be 15 years from now?
00:59:20Just someone who can put you behind the bars anytime she wants to.
00:59:23Do you want to go through life waiting for that to happen?
00:59:26Let her die.
00:59:28That was his voice.
00:59:30I didn't think that. He said it. You heard him, didn't you?
00:59:32I wouldn't want you to think I felt that way about you.
00:59:34I know you wouldn't change.
00:59:36You understand, it was his voice.
00:59:37Don't let me die because you're afraid.
00:59:40Let me die because it's my destiny to die.
00:59:43Let me feel that in dying I'll make it possible for you to go on.
00:59:55You said there was no one there.
00:59:57You looked and you said there was no face at the window.
00:59:59You said I imagined it.
01:00:01You did.
01:00:03And what's he doing here?
01:00:05If he saw me, why doesn't he say something?
01:00:07There's no one there.
01:00:09Yes, there is. And I know what he wants.
01:00:11He's waiting. He's waiting until I let you die.
01:00:13And then I'll have to kill him to keep him from telling.
01:00:15That'll be three murders.
01:00:17The first wasn't murder.
01:00:19You did it in self-defense.
01:00:21If I let them kill you, it'll be murder.
01:00:23And then I'll have to kill him. That'll be three.
01:00:26The first wasn't murder.
01:00:28And the second one hasn't happened.
01:00:30The first wasn't murder and I can stop the second.
01:00:33I'll stop it now.
01:00:35I'll stop it now.
01:00:37Stop it. Stop the execution.
01:00:39I'm the governor and I say stop the execution.
01:00:41I did it, you hear?
01:00:43I killed him and you can't execute her.
01:00:49I did it.
01:00:54I did it, Nora.
01:01:07At first I couldn't understand her going so quickly.
01:01:10And then I looked at the phone.
01:01:14It was dead.
01:01:16Nora was dead.
01:01:24Did she know that I had tried?
01:01:26I think so.
01:01:28Because her voice came to me.
01:01:30Quiet. Reassuring.
01:01:33There's nothing to fear in death.
01:01:35Listen.
01:01:37Eternal rest give to them, O Lord,
01:01:39and let perpetual light shine upon them.
01:01:42Eternal rest and perpetual light.
01:01:45Is that frightening?
01:01:51I couldn't have put those words in her mouth.
01:01:54She must have been here.
01:02:07Is she alive?
01:02:28I know she's here.
01:02:30So while I can still hear her say,
01:02:32eternal rest give to them, O Lord,
01:02:34Give to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.
01:02:50It ends there.
01:02:53Or does it begin?
01:02:56I wonder.
01:03:04It ends there.
01:03:34THE END