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00:00The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detectives.
00:11The people who make 76 gasoline and Triton Motor Oil, Union Oil Company present...
00:21The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detectives, starring Wally Mayer and Kathy Lewis.
00:30The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detectives, starring Wally Mayer and Kathy Lewis.
00:40If some of you have wondered where Mike Shane has been during regular office hours the past few days,
00:45you'll find the answer on the front page of this evening's San Francisco Papers.
00:49That's right, the murder trial of Jack Holmes.
00:52At this moment, which is along about 6.30, Phyllis Knight has one of those newspapers spread out on the desk before her.
00:58As she glares at the headlines, Mike is talking on the phone to Inspector Faraday.
01:02Yeah, Faraday, yeah, I just got back from court.
01:04Didn't take the jury long to decide. Less than two hours, Mike.
01:07That boy is no more guilty than I am. Sure, somebody killed the watchman, but not Jack Holmes.
01:11Now, don't take it so hard, Mike, just because your sweetheart hired you to investigate.
01:15All right, all right, maybe I'm sentimental about those two kids, but I say Jack Holmes isn't the killer type.
01:20And with a nice girl like Janet Miley... Oh, Faraday, Faraday, I let him down and Janet was so certain I could help him.
01:26Take it easy, Mike, you did your best, but the evidence was against you.
01:29Yeah, sure, sure it was. Is that unusual? Why, I've cleared dozens of guys when it looked like...
01:34Janet, what's wrong? Hello. Hello, Mike.
01:37I'll talk to you later, Faraday, the girl's just walked in.
01:39Janet, are you sick? You're white as a sheet.
01:42Here, get her some water, honey, quick. Yeah.
01:44Mr. Shane. Yes?
01:46Jackie. Yeah?
01:47Jackie. Here, here, sit down, honey, let me help you.
01:50Oh, the poor kid, she's all unstrung about the verdict.
01:52No, it's more than that, her hands are like ice.
01:54He didn't do it, I just discovered the grocery.
01:59What? Janet, what are you trying to say, honey?
02:01My room, somebody went through.
02:07Here, here, Janet, drink this water. Janet?
02:1012, 15, I just discovered, I went and told him, I thought he would...
02:20Mike, Mike, she's fainted. I'm going to call a doctor.
02:23Phyllis. Yeah?
02:24Call Inspector Faraday, she's dead.
02:43Okay, Mike, I fixed it, we can go to Jack's cell now.
02:46All right, all right, now remember, honey, not a word about Janet's death.
02:49Jack will go all to pieces and we'll learn nothing.
02:51I know, I know, but it seems so hard-hearted.
02:54This way, kids.
02:56Oh, boy.
02:59Sad business, eh?
03:00Guess the girl figured after that jury's verdict, she didn't have anything left to live for.
03:04Suicide?
03:05Uh-uh, no, no.
03:07If Janet found something she thought would clear Jack, she certainly wouldn't take poison.
03:10Unless she took the poison before she got the information that would clear Jack.
03:14No, then she would have called a doctor.
03:17If we can believe her dying words, she went first to some man, told him her discovery, then came to us.
03:23She didn't even know she was poisoned.
03:25All right, but who did it?
03:27We only knew what she was trying to tell us.
03:29Better pipe down, that's Jack's cell with a jailer standing outside.
03:32Oh, yes, and now let me do most of the talking.
03:35All right, Morrissey, open it up.
03:37Yes, Inspector.
03:42Hello, Jack.
03:44Hello.
03:46How do you feel, Jack?
03:48Top of the world.
03:50It's so cheering to be condemned to death for a crime you didn't commit.
03:53You had a fair trial, my boy.
03:55The jury could decide only on the evidence presented.
03:57I told them I left the warehouse that night way before it happened.
04:00At 12.15, I was at home.
04:02But no, they take the word of that cab driver.
04:04He did pick you up at the warehouse door, and he said the clock in the drugstore read a quarter past 12.
04:09I checked the clock myself the next day.
04:11It was an electric, right on time.
04:13Unless the cab driver was lying, and he seemed like an honest guy.
04:16I see.
04:17Even my loyal detective, Mr. Shane, says I'm guilty.
04:19Oh, no. No, Jack, you don't understand.
04:21Go ahead. Say I killed the watchman. Say I stole the diamonds.
04:24You never were working for Janet and me.
04:26Yes, we were, Jack, and we still are.
04:28That's why we're here.
04:29It's about Janet. She's not so good.
04:32What?
04:34What are you trying to say?
04:36She came to the office a little while ago and tried to tell us something.
04:39Some new evidence she had found, but, well, she got sick.
04:42What's wrong? Is she all right? Where is she?
04:45Now, easy, son, easy. She's still at the office.
04:47She's had a lot of mixed-up things, Jack.
04:49Her room had been ransacked, something about a grocery that you weren't guilty,
04:53and she had discovered proof and told him so.
04:56Him? Who's him?
04:58Oh, that's what we don't know.
05:00Did, uh, does Janet have any close men friends she might go to?
05:05Not that I know of. We've been engaged for almost a year now.
05:08She never mentioned any.
05:10Our boss, Mr. Phillips, is a good friend of both of us.
05:12Yes, and he's paying the fee on the case.
05:14She might have gone to him, or maybe to his partner.
05:17Mr. Russell? Oh, no, not that old crack.
05:19Well, why come to me, Janet's the one to tell you.
05:21Well, as we said, Jack, she's all busted up over this thing, and she isn't well.
05:26Well, she can talk, can't she?
05:31Can't she?
05:32Jack.
05:34I can see it in your faces.
05:38Something's happened to her.
05:41What is it? Tell me!
05:45She's dead, isn't she?
05:48We're awfully sorry, son.
06:08I see you went out to my home, Mr. Shane.
06:10That's right, Mr. Phillips, and your wife told us you were working at the office this evening.
06:13Yes, Russell and I spent so many days in court on the trial.
06:16We had to work evenings to keep up with business.
06:19I wouldn't imagine there'd be such a turnover in the wholesale jewelry line.
06:22You'd be surprised.
06:24Our firm cuts and mounts gems for at least half the better jewelry stores in the city.
06:28Then the robbery and loss of the diamonds didn't hurt your trade.
06:31It would have, Inspector, except for the capture and trial of Jack Holmes.
06:35Of course, we're covered by insurance.
06:37If you'll step into the office.
06:39Mr. Phillips, Mr. Phillips.
06:40Yes, Bauer?
06:41May I see you a moment, sir?
06:42Excuse me, please. Go right into the office.
06:44Okay, sure.
06:45Thank you.
06:48Well, good evening, Mr. Russell, Miss Russell.
06:50Good evening.
06:51I believe you and your sister know Inspector Faraday.
06:54Of course.
06:55How are you, Inspector?
06:56Fair enough, thanks.
06:57So the lady executives work nights around this company, too.
07:00If she's the treasurer, she does.
07:03Well, sorry to keep you waiting.
07:05And now, Mr. Shane, I suppose you'd like your fee,
07:08now that nothing more can be done for poor Jack.
07:10Well, I'd hardly bring Inspector Faraday along just to collect the check, Mr. Phillips.
07:14Well, I assume...
07:15The case has cracked wide open again.
07:17Janet Miley has just died.
07:18What? Janet?
07:19She was poisoned.
07:20She staggered into our office about an hour ago, gasped out a few words, and she died.
07:26I was afraid of this.
07:27Remember, Anne, I said to you, if the jury brought in a guilty verdict...
07:30It wasn't suicide, Mr. Russell.
07:32I said she was poisoned.
07:33Poisoned?
07:34Her dying words were that she'd found new evidence,
07:37and that she had gone to him, some man, and told him.
07:40Well, of course, she came to me, but she didn't say anything about evidence.
07:43What time was this, Mr. Phillips?
07:45About six o'clock.
07:46She was crying and hysterical.
07:48Begged me to help Jack to get a retrial or an appeal.
07:51I tried to comfort her.
07:53Excuse me, Mr. Phillips, but I thought you'd like these invoices.
07:56I'm very busy, Mr. Ballard.
07:57Oh, yes, sir. I'll leave them here on the desk.
07:59If Jim had found any new evidence, it'd hardly be likely to clear Jack Holmes.
08:03I'm pretty well convinced that young man is a born criminal.
08:06Mr. Russell, that's unfair.
08:07Is it?
08:08Look at the court testimony.
08:09Phillips and I found short ages in Jack's account books.
08:12We called him back to the office that night to explain.
08:14He couldn't.
08:15Said he wanted to spend the night checking back through his records.
08:18Phillips and I left.
08:19Next thing we know, 1,300 carats worth of diamonds are missing.
08:23Night watchman's found dead.
08:24You never found the diamonds?
08:25Of course not. He hid them.
08:27I'm afraid it's true.
08:29The watchman's clock was smashed.
08:31It stopped at 12.10.
08:33The cab driver picked up Jack at 12.15.
08:36Mr. Bauer, would you mind leaving the room?
08:38Oh, yes, sir. I'm sorry.
08:43He's new here.
08:44Bauer is the nosiest secretary I've ever hired.
08:46Bauer!
08:47Now I remember.
08:48Remember what?
08:49Well, I was in the outer office this evening.
08:52When Janet came out of this room, Bauer stopped her.
08:54I heard him say something about going out to a bar and having a little chat.
08:57I'm going to call him back.
08:58A bar, eh?
08:59Do you suppose the poison was slipped into a drink?
09:01Mr. Bauer!
09:02Oh, Mr. Bauer, hold up!
09:03Stop!
09:04Inspector, what's wrong?
09:05He's running for the front door!
09:18We'll return to Michael Shane and his adventures in just a moment.
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10:41While Inspector Faraday hurries off in pursuit of the fleeing Secretary Bauer,
10:45Mike and Phyllis have set off on an errand of their own,
10:48and now in the hallway of a certain apartment house.
10:51303.
10:54Here we are, 327.
10:57Mike, that Secretary Bauer, he's tied into this somehow.
11:01Snooping around to hear what we've said and then running from the inspector.
11:04Well, leave that problem to Faraday.
11:06Wow, this place looks all in order.
11:10And wait a minute, honey, her bed.
11:12It's not made up, it's cut to pieces.
11:14Yeah, the stuffing pulled out of the mattress.
11:16What on earth were they looking for?
11:18Let's go in here, let me see.
11:21Oh, the bathroom.
11:22Mike, look at the medicine cabinet.
11:25And the floor.
11:26Uh-huh.
11:27Bottles and jars scattered all over the place.
11:29Oh, my God.
11:31Look at this cold cream jar.
11:33Here, the cream's been scooped out and dropped all over the basin.
11:35Huh?
11:36Oh, that's an old trick, honey.
11:37Hiding gems in a woman's makeup.
11:39Mike, you don't think Jet, that she had the diamonds?
11:42Somebody thought so.
11:43Maybe she did.
11:44No.
11:45No, that's too dizzy.
11:48Oh, come on, let's check the other room again.
11:52Here, there's something worth looking at.
11:55Oh, come on, let's check the other room again.
11:59Here, there's something worth looking into.
12:01A desk.
12:02Yeah.
12:03Somebody else found it, too.
12:04Drawers yanked out of it, it's a mess.
12:06I doubt if there's anything left for us, but I'll double-check.
12:10Bill, checking.
12:12No.
12:13No, just the usual stuff.
12:15Say, how about that wastebasket, honey?
12:16How about it?
12:17Here.
12:18I put it in my thumb and pulled out a plumb, what a big girl am I.
12:21Yeah.
12:23A check, two and a half.
12:25Paid to the order of Janet Miley.
12:28$2,000.
12:30And signed by...
12:32Well, I'll be a...
12:33Anne Elizabeth Russell.
12:35I think this note went with it, Mike, it's the same handwriting.
12:38Janet, take this and do as I say.
12:41That's all.
12:43Take this and do as I say.
12:45Which apparently Janet did not.
12:47$2,000 is a rather expensive note, thanks.
12:50Well, step this in your purse, Angie.
12:51We're about to go places and ask questions.
12:53You know, if you ask me, Miss Russell...
12:54Shh, honey, quiet.
12:56Somebody's at the door.
12:57Snap out the lights.
12:58I'll slap him against the wall.
12:59I'll jump in when he comes in.
13:00Yeah, all right.
13:03All right, buddy.
13:04Come on, up with your hands.
13:06Let go of me, you dope.
13:08What?
13:09Faraday, you?
13:10Yeah, me.
13:11Oh, I thought you were chasing Bauer.
13:12Got away.
13:13I phoned Phillips for Bauer's home address.
13:15Turned out to be a gas station.
13:16Oh, a phony, eh?
13:18Well, we've got a lead that may be better.
13:20Come on, let's go.
13:33Give the doorbell another push, Mike.
13:35You know, I wish these people would stay put.
13:37First we go to their homes, but they're working at the office.
13:40Now they're not at the office, they're home.
13:42Somebody's coming now.
13:45Yes?
13:47Oh, it's you again.
13:48Don't strain your enthusiasm, Mr. Russell.
13:50May we come in?
13:52Yes.
13:54Mr. Russell, we would like to talk to your sister.
13:57And?
13:58Oh, well, she's upstairs.
14:00Will you ask her to come down, please?
14:01Yes, if you'll go into the living room.
14:03And?
14:04Oh, and?
14:05Will you come downstairs?
14:07May I ask what you people want?
14:09Oh, you'll hear it.
14:10Oh, by the way, sir, I believe your sister is treasurer of your company?
14:14Yes.
14:15For how long?
14:16Six or seven years.
14:17How long was Janet Miley with your firm?
14:19Oh, several years.
14:21She worked in the same department with Jack Holmes.
14:23Look here, I insist on knowing what this is about.
14:26Alfred?
14:27In here, Ann.
14:28Oh, so you're all back.
14:30Yes, these people say they want to talk to you, Ann.
14:33Phyllis, give me that checking note.
14:35Ready and waiting.
14:36Miss Russell, would you look at this note and check, please?
14:41So Janet gave them to you.
14:43What did she tell you?
14:44Right now I'm more interested in what you told her.
14:47What was Janet to do for your $2,000?
14:49$2,000?
14:50Ann, what's the meaning of this?
14:52I was merely trying to save you from yourself, brother dear.
14:55Save me?
14:56I've watched you for a long time, Alfred.
14:58What is?
14:59I saw the way you were mooning around Janet.
15:01I don't know what you're talking about.
15:02Oh, don't you?
15:03I know you proposed marriage to the girl.
15:05And now with Jack out of the way, you thought she'd say yes.
15:08But I'm not going to have another woman in this organization.
15:11I have trouble enough as it is.
15:12That doesn't explain the $2,000, Miss Russell.
15:15Of course it does.
15:16I offered her the money to get out of town and not come back.
15:18Ann, what right had you?
15:20You're not running my life.
15:21Well, this puts a noose land on everything.
15:23Could be that Russell wanted Jack out of the way
15:25so he could have a clear track with Janet.
15:27The diamond robbery might have been conveniently arranged.
15:30That's a lie.
15:31If Miss Russell didn't want her brother to marry Janet
15:33and the girl wouldn't buy off,
15:35then perhaps big sister thought of another way out.
15:38You mean the poison root, Phyll?
15:40How dare you!
15:41You, you!
15:42You mustn't.
15:43I know some naughty names, too.
15:45Oh, surely, Mr. Shane, you've got some brains.
15:48You don't believe such insane twaddle.
15:50Are you referring to my colleagues, Miss Russell, or to your story?
15:52No.
15:53It could be possible you and your brother Alfred
15:55have been putting on a little act for us.
15:57I'll answer that remark, Mr. Shane,
15:58but right now you're wanted on the phone.
16:00What?
16:01Oh, thanks.
16:05Hello?
16:06Mr. Shane, this is Bauer.
16:07Yeah?
16:08Got to see you at once.
16:09What? Where are you?
16:10Listen, I have the real dope on the murder.
16:12Meet me at the old Dutch windmill in Golden Gate Park.
16:15What time?
16:16Let's see, it's just about 10 o'clock.
16:19Make it 10.30 and come along.
16:23Don't tell anybody.
16:24Okay, Bauer.
16:26So it's Bauer.
16:27Where is he, Mike?
16:28Quiet, Inspector.
16:29Well, Mr. Russell, I think we'll be running along.
16:31If we have any more questions, we'll be back.
16:33I'm sure you will.
16:34No, no, please, don't bother to see us to the door.
16:39Mike, where are we going?
16:40Golden Gate Park.
16:42Bauer wants to talk to us secretly.
16:43A great secret with somebody listening on the line.
16:46What? Who's listening?
16:47Miss Ann Russell on the extension phone right in the hall here.
16:51What time is it, Mike?
17:1010.28.
17:11I'll keep back in the shadows with Faraday.
17:13This guy Bauer certainly picked a dramatic spot to meet the old Dutch windmill
17:16in the loneliest corner of the park.
17:18Not to mention spooky.
17:20Look at those four huge veins above us like the arms of a giant hovering over our heads.
17:25Oh, Angel, your poetry picks the doggone best times to bust loose.
17:29I can't help it. I'm nervous.
17:32What time is it now?
17:3310.29.
17:34I don't know. This may be a trap.
17:36Bauer may be after you, Mike.
17:38I don't like anything about that bird.
17:40I don't like anything about tonight, period.
17:42I see a light through the bushes.
17:44A car's coming around the turn.
17:45Got your gun, Mike?
17:46I'm all set. I'll keep back in the shadows.
17:50That sounds like he's driving fast.
17:53What was that? Sounded like a gun by Grandma Faraday. Your nerves.
17:56Here he comes.
17:59Mike, he's passing you. Mike!
18:01Hey, Bauer! Bauer!
18:04He's skidding.
18:06Is he hurt? Is he hurt badly?
18:19Can't tell yet.
18:20Open his shirt, Mike.
18:21It's a waste of time, Inspector. Look at the back of his head.
18:24I guess I was right. We did hear a shot.
18:26But who would do it? Who knew he was coming here to tell...
18:29Oh, that phone call.
18:31Yeah, Ann Russell.
18:33Well, I guess there's no mystery about this killing.
18:35Well, if Faraday hears his wallet, maybe it will answer a few things for us.
18:37Let's see.
18:39Well, what is it? What is it? I'm old enough to be told.
18:42Mr. Bauer wasn't any ordinary secretary. He was an insurance detective.
18:46Planted in that office to find the missing diamonds.
18:48Well, then maybe he ransacked Janet's apartment.
18:50Yes, he did. It says so here in his pocket notebook.
18:52Search girl's room. No evidence. No jewels.
18:54Janet went in to see Phillips. Something's up.
18:56Took her to bar.
18:58Told me to check on mistake 12-15.
19:0112-15.
19:02Mike, remember? Janet tried to tell us something about that.
19:0512-15. That was when Jack was picked up by the taxi driver.
19:08Yes, according to the clock in the drugstore window.
19:11Inspector, let's telephone the coroner and then...
19:14Then what?
19:15Go take a good look at that clock.
19:27Oh, this is a waste of time, Mike.
19:29I checked that clock the day after the robbery.
19:31So did we, Inspector, before the trial began.
19:33It's an electric. It keeps perfect time. It couldn't be wrong.
19:36Save your breath, pal. Mike's in another stubborn spell.
19:39Oh, the drugstore's closed for the night.
19:41Yeah, but there's the clock. You can read it a hundred feet away.
19:44Neon hands. Neon numerals.
19:46It says 11-10.
19:47What time have you got, Farideh?
19:4811-10. Now are you satisfied?
19:50Jack came out of the jewelry place two doors north of the drugstore.
19:53The taxi picked him up.
19:55The driver saw the clock in the window.
19:58The window!
19:59What are you staring at, Mike?
20:01The grocery store over there.
20:02Inspector, call a cab and get the driver who picked up Jack Holmes.
20:17In just a moment, we'll return to Mike and Phyllis.
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21:33It's a few minutes past midnight.
21:35At a lonely street corner in the commercial district,
21:37Mike, Phyllis, and Inspector Faraday are talking to a scared little taxi driver.
21:42Look, fellas, it's just like I said in court.
21:45I'm cruising along here and I see this guy.
21:47Inspector, I know that, Smitty. Now, we just want you to show us.
21:49Now, do exactly as you did that night.
21:51Yeah, cruise down the street and pretend you're picking up Jack Holmes.
21:54And we'll get in the back seat and ride along.
21:56Okay, okay. Climb in.
21:58Here, darling, come here.
21:59Thank you.
22:06I turn this corner here, see?
22:09And I'm moseying along when I spot him crossing the street.
22:12He waves at me, so I slows down.
22:18I stops right about here.
22:20Jack was standing in the middle of the street. You open the door.
22:22Which one?
22:23The right one. He climbs in and gives me the address.
22:26Well, go ahead. Open the door, Smitty.
22:28Gee, ain't you got no imagination?
22:30Now, Smitty, when did you see the clock?
22:33Right now, when I leans over to close the door.
22:35Every day's in the winter, see?
22:37All lit up with deons.
22:39Okay, look at it. What time does the clock say?
22:41Uh, gee, it's just like that night. 12.15.
22:45Mike, you were right.
22:46He made the same mistake all over again.
22:48Look at it again, Smitty, and look hard. Now, come on, look hard.
22:50What do you mean, look hard?
22:52The clock says, hey, there's something screwy.
22:55The numbers, they're backwards.
22:56Right, Smitty, right. You're not looking at the clock.
22:59You're looking at the reflection in the grocery store window.
23:02The real clock is across the street in the drugstore.
23:04The drugstore clock reads a quarter to 12,
23:07but the reflection looks like a quarter after 12.
23:10Thirty minutes different, Smitty.
23:12Gee, I got a sworn. Say, I did swear.
23:14You ain't going to pinch me, are you?
23:16No, Smitty.
23:17Now, are you willing to do something for us?
23:19Me? Yeah, sure. Anything, fellas.
23:21All right, we're going to pick up three passengers,
23:23and one of them is the murderer.
23:33Here we are, Phillips. Here's the office.
23:35All right.
23:39Mr. Shane, I doubt we'll find anything in here
23:42that the police haven't already gone over.
23:44Well, they had the wrong slam, Mr. Phillips.
23:46You see, someone planned to steal those diamonds,
23:48but they needed a fall guy, Jack Holmes.
23:51So they faked a shortage in his account books.
23:53Then they called him that night,
23:55very indignant at discovering his true identity.
23:59Then they called him that night,
24:01very indignant at discovering his dishonesty.
24:03Just a minute. I was the one who found him out.
24:05Shut up, Ann.
24:06Jack said he wanted to check back through his records.
24:08He didn't leave till a quarter to 12.
24:10About midnight, the thief came here and stole the diamonds.
24:13The night watchman surprised the thief and was killed.
24:16Then the cab driver blundered about the drugstore clock,
24:19and Jack was really on the spot.
24:21For the killer, it was a beautiful out.
24:23Janet discovered the mistake this afternoon.
24:25She told it to Bauer. He checked her story.
24:28When he discovered Janet was dead,
24:30he tried to tell me what Janet told him.
24:33That's why he was killed.
24:34Oh, that's rubbish. Bauer ran away from the inspector. Why?
24:37He must have had a reason.
24:38He had. He wasn't ready to talk yet.
24:40You see, there's one detail we didn't tell you people.
24:42Bauer was a detective himself.
24:44He was one.
24:45Oh, yes, yes. Hired by the insurance company to find those diamonds.
24:47You mean that he was...
24:48Do you think he found the diamonds?
24:50I'm sure he didn't.
24:51If we can step inside the office, Mr. Phillips, I'll show you why.
24:55Now, Bauer had a suspect, but it was the wrong one.
24:59He did know, however, that Jack was innocent.
25:01And when he telephoned me,
25:03the same call you listened in on, Miss Russell,
25:06the killer knew he was trapped unless...
25:08I don't believe it.
25:09I didn't hear anything on that phone.
25:10Oh, yes, you did, Miss Russell.
25:12You ought to have recognized it.
25:13Now, perhaps you will now.
25:14Mr. Shane, stop this cat-and-mouse business.
25:16Please, please.
25:17That clock on the bookcase there.
25:18In five seconds, it's going to strike the hour.
25:20Now, listen.
25:22One...
25:23Two...
25:24Three...
25:25This is fantastic.
25:26Four...
25:34Well, distinctive chimes, aren't they?
25:37This is the same clock I heard strike
25:39while I was talking to Bauer on the phone.
25:41He called from this very room.
25:43There was only one man who knew where I was
25:45who could tell Bauer where to phone me.
25:48Mr. Phillips.
25:49Me?
25:50You're insane.
25:51Am I?
25:52Bauer told you Jack was innocent,
25:53and you sat there in your chair and heard him say
25:55to meet me at the old Dutch windmill at 10.30.
25:57So you killed him.
25:58He trusted the wrong person, just as Janet did.
26:00She came to you, told you about the drugstore clock.
26:03You had to stop her tongue.
26:05You poured her a drink from this water jug
26:07on your desk with poison in the glass.
26:09You anything to say to that, Mr. Phillips?
26:11No.
26:12No, nothing.
26:13I thought not.
26:14All right, Inspector.
26:21Oh, come on in the house, kids.
26:23Mrs. Farraday will be glad to fix us some eggs and coffee.
26:26Oh, no, no, no.
26:27It's pretty late, Farraday.
26:29I think we all better get to bed.
26:31Look at Phil here.
26:32She's almost asleep.
26:33I am not.
26:34I was just thinking.
26:36How did you know, Mike,
26:37that the clock you heard over the phone
26:38was in Phillips' office?
26:39Oh, I heard it the first time we went there, dear.
26:41It just took me a little while
26:42to get it placed in my memory.
26:44Oh, I see.
26:45I see.
26:46I see.
26:47I see.
26:48It just took me a little while
26:49to get it placed in my memory.
26:50Oh.
26:51Clocks ran all through this case, didn't they?
26:53The watchman's clock stopped at 12.10,
26:55the drugstore clock that convicted poor Jack,
26:58the office clock that caught the murderer.
27:00Yes, sometimes a clock can tell more
27:02than the time of day.
27:04Oh.
27:05Oh, Mike, that's corny,
27:06but I knew you'd say it.
27:07I was just waiting for it.
27:08Well, I guess Michael's entitled
27:10to a little corn off the cob tonight.
27:12That was neat thinking, my boy.
27:14A clock reflected in the window
27:15and the hands reversed by 30 minutes.
27:17Not if I'd have thought of it myself.
27:18Oh, Ferdy, please.
27:19Mike's ego.
27:20Huh?
27:21Besides, I think I know
27:22why he's so leery of clocks lately.
27:23Oh, now, listen here, honey.
27:24If you mean yesterday...
27:25Go on, Phil.
27:26Let's have it.
27:27Well, Mike had a date with me for 6 o'clock
27:28and he was an hour late.
27:29No, no, Angel.
27:30Please, no, no.
27:31And guess what his alibi was.
27:32What?
27:33He thought he saw a clock that said 5 p.m.
27:34It was a grocery scale
27:35with five pounds of potatoes in it.
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