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yes hello uh sky hill police because i'd like to speak to inspector levine please
Corbin, Daniel Corbin. the man whose wife is missing
look i spoke to inspector levine over an hour ago and he said
he said... just let me finish will you please. he said he'd be right over
yes yes i know it's labor day weekend but my wife is missing that's that's gotta be
a lot more important than a few lousy traffic violations. if you see the inspector will you
tell him i've got to see him right away afraid something terrible has happened
thanks for coming over inspector. the woman swore that someone had stolen her wallet but
how on earth did you know that she'd left it in the telephone booth? well once she came to
the theater alone two she lived seven miles away three she had to call a taxi to get home
that's pretty good pretty good that's terrific how about a couple of passes for the show oh
thanks i saw it opening night hey you think i'm terrific what about the inspector in
the play what's his name hubbard hubbard now there's a police accent and everything happened
i think i'm gonna go home and practice talking like him cheerio bip tip all that sort of rap you know. see you later.
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inspector levine calling headquarters
bert? you read me bert? bert come on in will you all right bird push the talk button will you bird bird
oh don't worry i'll get the hang of it what you want? anything happening? there's been an
accident out on 9d but now he's on his way anything else yeah another call from
that uh corbin fella who's honeymooning out on Greenfield road. yeah? yeah his wife still hasn't
come back he's getting worried well if he calls again tell him i'm on my way will you and bert
practice with the button. roger inspector
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you're late i read the paper three times i know everything that's going on both at home and abroad
so what's new? who am i harry reisner sit down and play i can't i don't have time to play him on a
case. a case? yeah scotland yacht they got cases i could use a couple of sandwiches to go lunch
i missed all together all right will it be unusual for me pastrami lean all my pastrami's lean yeah
what's the other one better make it a boiled ham on white bread with uh lettuce and meal
nobody's that gory she even around here who's it for cardinal cool daniel corman ah with a wife
missing touch the one look i'm calling from the corbin house he's not here what's more i
don't believe he's ever coming here i think he's sitting right there in the police station making
hand signals at you so why don't you just put him on the phone so i can talk to him how long
mr corbin yes i knew it where the hell are you inspector in your living room mr corbin what
oh i'm sorry the door was open inspector have you got any news oh yeah the traffic is terrible
of all the holidays labor day is the worst please have you found out anything about elizabeth
oh yeah she's missing well that's brilliant i'm the one who told you that oh no no not
exactly mr corbin you told me she was gone well there are a lot of people who are gone
they get up they go they're gone my own wife is gone what that's right if you lived in one of the
garden spots of the east where the air was good where everywhere you look was a picture postcard
where would your wife go on labor day weekend to brooklyn the visit of the sister inspector since
you seem to know where your wife is could we stay on the subject of mine for a couple of minutes
like i said she's missing i checked all the hotels the motels morgues jails city hospitals within a
radius of 250 miles no elizabeth corbin no one even fitting her description definitely missing
i was hoping you'd bring me something more than that i did a sandwich when my wife is at home
i don't need regular i think it'd be the same over here oh really not very hungry good because
i only bought you one sandwich hey there must be something more you can do i'll bet it's in there
i'll bet inspector oh now this is what i call a kitchen oh my wife would fell if she saw this kids
cause she'd clean it up a little bit i said there must be something more you can do for
instance oh you're the policeman not me now that we've straightened that out where's the mustang
nothing has been straightened out inspector three days ago my wife left this house she hasn't been
seen or heard from since i've only been married two weeks this was supposed to be our honeymoon
i'm sure you're considered something of a joke around these parts and i'm being a very bad sport
but it just so happens i love my wife very much and i'm worried sick about her so suppose you
cut out all this the schtick i believe you call it and start giving me some help mr corbin according
to your own report your wife left after the two of you had an argument she left of her own free
will which she has every right to do she is now staying away which again she has every right to do
therefore the police are under no obligation whatsoever to get involved in your domestic
problems except as a matter of courtesy now where's the mustard in the refrigerator thank you
for your information i've alerted every troop in these to watch for a car the yellow starfish gt
with michigan plates suspect i've got a photograph of her in the bedroom any way we can circulate it
yeah she robs a bank we can put it in all the post offices oh come on will you mr corbin i've seen
it happen a thousand times a person is missing everybody gets hysterical the last minute the
missing person walks in cool calm and collected here you'll eat something you feel better
i guess i am hungry what do you got there oh it's boiled ham on white
with mayonnaise and lettuce you'll love it what's that that's pastrami but you wouldn't
like that i like italian food that's just right come on we'll leave it on the terrace
tyler
y'all better mr corbin not really you will you were a horrific spot you got here
it is isn't it it's a wedding present the whole house
no just a loan of it for my company i work for unified motors on the assembly line right
matter of fact i'm vice president in charge of production and design
for the starfish division oh that explains a lot of things
what why you drive a starfish that lousy cars you know i own one once was a real limit
inspector you find my wife i'll make sure you get a new one
what about your wife's family she doesn't have any both her parents
were killed in an air crash two years ago she has no brothers no sisters
inspector i'll tell you the truth i'm scared to death it's not like elizabeth
what'd you find tomorrow
elizabeth has a rather dangerous hobby inspector she drives racing cars matter of fact that's how
we met starfish built a couple of test models last year and she tried out for the team she uh she
didn't get the job but she did get the boss on the one condition that she stopped risking her neck
so she agreed and i thought that was the end of it and then and then suddenly
last wednesday she announced she was going into the six-hour watkins glen next year anyhow one
thing led to another and the next thing i knew she she left the house i heard her start the car and
i heard her drive off i haven't seen her since you always leave your keys in the car no no she
she has a set of her own yeah when she when she didn't show up the next morning i thought
maybe she'd had an accident 90 miles an hour is a normal cruising speed but
that's when i called you and you you said there was nothing reported
my next thought was that maybe she'd been kidnapped but there's been no calls no notes
i don't know what else it could be inspector i i don't know how else to explain it
i don't either yeah i'll make sure the state troopers keep a sharp lookout i think it would
be wise to alert the city cops in manhattan too why there oh the stores mr club in the stores
missing wives head for department stores like pigeons the capistrano swallows whatever hey maybe
you ought to put a notice in the paper that you won't be responsible for our debts no no inspector
i don't think that'll be necessary elizabeth's pretty rich girl is that right how rich oh 10 12
million dollars now there's rich mr corbin suppose something would have happened to hey god forbid
who would get all that money well i don't know we never discussed that uh i would i guess you guess
inspector if you read executive magazine you know my present salary at um is 450 000 a year
plus stock options plus bonuses plus expense account last year that came to just a little
under 1 million bucks i don't think anybody could accuse me of marrying elizabeth for her money
the fire in lone pine last night claimed the lives of donna pilfery iii and her 86
year old grandfather edmund it's believed that the elder peal tree dozed off with a cigarette
will mean
good evening my son oh god you guys scared the hell out of me
i'm sorry but you really uh scared the hell out of me yes i suppose i must have please forgive
me mr corbin you are daniel corbin yes well i'm father keller heard the pastor at st barnabas hi
i'm sorry if i started i could use another drink how about yourself well have you got any sherry
uh no i don't think so scotch scotch should be fine on the rocks neat please
well it's a lovely house you have here mr gordon as i passed it many many times
but i've never seen the inside rather like you and saint barnabas if you know what i mean
now i'm just a visitor here in sky girl father i've only been here two weeks
there was a sunday and each of them i believe thank you mr corbin i uh i'm afraid i'm not
much of a church goer anymore father but uh my wife makes up for me yes i know
you do well i saw her last sunday i hope to see you again this sunday
i hope you do too father but uh right now that seems like pretty much a long shot you see uh
my wife's disappeared disappeared yes we had a bit of a squabble i guess you'd call it and uh
she became rather hot under the collar she's irish who isn't
mr corbin suppose she wanted to come back
would you greet her without reproach would you would you welcome her with open arms
of course father i love my wife i'd be the happiest man on earth i believe you my son
hello danny i'm sorry if i worried you but i had to be alone for a while to think things out
i'm back to stay i love you too much to risk losing you daddy please say something
father this isn't your idea of some kind of a joke oh what do you mean mr corbin
i've never seen this woman before in my life
i'm not calling you a liar margaret
no just how come you're the only person in town that has four prowlers a week all right i'll send
somebody they'll be right over okay bye-bye this is headquarters colin mcnally come on in mcnally
mcnally this is headquarters calling come in mcnally i'm calling you huh push the button
oh yeah i'll get it inspector mcnally this is headquarters yeah burt
guess what ah not again you got it okay bird i'm on my way over and out
so stand pretty late aren't you inspector yeah when my wife away i'm not so anxious
to go home bird to bursitis it's acting up again you'll give a little rub sure
no uh maybe the other one should have gone over to margaret chadway's just reported another prowler
that's mcnally's territory i don't want to cut him huh he wouldn't mind believe me
it wouldn't mind believe me what do you mean haven't you noticed she only has prowlers on
the night mcnally works late you mean uh him and her a match made in heaven
below we did hurts right there well you know hey if you know about it how come you let him get away
with it get away with what he's supposed to be on duty isn't he he's gonna go anyway better we
know when this way we know how to reach him and win that's pretty smart thanks i meant mcnally
skuggle police mm-hmm this is that it's daniel corbin for you
mr corbin have you heard from your wife she is
but she isn't uh would you mind backing up a little bit i think i must have missed something
now she says she's my wife but she's not and who is she i don't know how did you get there now that
that's one of the odd things what well her car you know a starfish same urine model is elizabeth's
license number i don't know i haven't been outside to check yet but are you sure she's
not your wife what do you mean of course i'm sure but where's she now she's in the living
room with uh father kelleher with who the priest who brought her back the priest who bought her
have you been drinking mr corbin no inspector i have not been drinking they're here both of them
come over and see for yourself are you kidding i wouldn't miss it for the world i'll see you later
huh
didn't help me bert well i just spoke to police i'll be right over where'd she go
your wife that's not my wife here i am darling you're feeling better
why are you wearing that that belongs to my wife your wife is wearing it see how nicely it fits
mr corbin perhaps the straight of these past three days plus the shock of seeing your wife
you must be the one who's in shock now that can't be the same woman you saw in church last sunday
my wife has red hair but she is we spoke for several moments this is insane don't you
understand that's an imposter daddy please don't do that you know what dr ackerman said who the
hell is dr ackerman said that too much drinking could bring on another one of your attacks
a tax oh yes i see what are you talking about i've never had any attacks none of this is true danny
you're giving father a terrible impression usually i'm able to calm him down without any help at all
lately it's been getting worse what are you talking about dr ackerman said
that our rest home might be necessary now father i pray that that won't be necessary
danny if you keep on like this i don't see what else we can do
hey look i told you i was sorry ain't not enough
danny what i have to do
do i have to get down on my knees in bed cause i'll do that if that's what you want
i love you
do you elizabeth huh do you really love me listening no no nothing to be afraid huh
i just want to give you the chance to prove how much you love me elizabeth darling
well i'm glad you worked things out mr corbin
i expect to thank god you're here i want you to arrest that woman before kissing for impersonating
my wife why couldn't she impersonate mine please inspector no jokes not now come on mr corp answer
me when i came in just now were you or were you not kissing this girl you claim it's not your
wife it wasn't what you thought it was what was it then mouth-to-mouth resuscitation how do you do
i'm inspector murray levine of the skycoa police how are you doing inspector i'm elizabeth corbin
no she is not i'm afraid my husband's alive that's a lie you're not a fan it's not elizabeth damn it
come on mister don't holler will you i got 20 20 hearing inspector that is not my wife
that is your tough love my remarkable powers of deduction tell me your father
keller yes that's right how'd he do father good evening myself wait a minute you mean
you don't know him how many priests can there be in a town this size well since he's never
been arrested and i haven't been to mass with just a couple of ships that pass in the night
tell me father is that elizabeth corbin or not no holy hol what are you asking him for i'm
the one who's married to her then you weren't married to her no no not this one the real one
what do you think father well it appears as if the poor man no longer recognizes his wife hmm
all right inspector you want to see my wife come on come on
what's he got a wife on every floor
it's gone i photographed my wife i told you about it she took it she took her when she came up here
to change slow down will you mr corbin you took her didn't you i took what darling the
photograph of elizabeth what have you done with it i honestly don't know what you're talking about
all right inspector searcher what i said i'd like you to search her
well i'd like to too mr corbin but you see i can't i
i don't have a warrant it's all right inspector i don't mind being searched you don't i'm a husband
what are you waiting for mr corbin
i'm not her husband mrs corbin would you and father keller excuse us for a minute please
oh certainly inspector uh would you like a cup of coffee oh i'd love one thank you
how about you darling now stop calling me that you have no right calling me that
mr corbin can i talk to you in the library for a minute please please
all right mr corbin what's going on here i already told you inspector that
that woman is pretending to be my wife i know what you told me but it doesn't make much sense does it
your wife goes hey when she comes back she's not your wife anymore what does it mean
i don't know a motive mr corbin there has to be a motive even a country cop knows that well
maybe what we need here inspector is a city cop meaning what like no offense is back there
but living in a small town like this maybe you just don't come into contact with what
tell me mr corbin what is so terrific about this case it would take dick tracy to figure it out
and where do i sound like i come from sleepy hollow 28 years i worked for the city of new york
eight years pounding a beat six years on a patrol car 14 years in homicide
i took my wife and my pension and i came up here because it was some place the only thing
a policeman could die from was boredom and so far mr corbin your little problem has done very
little to relieve the monotony i'm i'm sorry i'm sorry inspector i guess i am pretty upset
sorry too i'm a cop shouldn't lose my temper should listen to all sides all right you say
this woman is the phony okay if that's true what's the reason what's a motor i don't know
this afternoon you told me your wife was rich is it possible she's after her money what do you mean
by that well i'm just asking because if she is wow she has picked a pretty good way of going after it
which is what suppose a new elizabeth appeared on the scene and she could convince everyone that she
is the real one are you forgetting one thing inspector she'd never be able to convince me
you're forgetting one thing mr corbin she might not have to
what do you mean well if you're right then i were you and watch what i ate my god
what can i do try to think think of someone else who saw your wife up here two others
three others their safety and numbers although i don't know their mother must be some when you
first came up here ah no no it was late at night the next morning when you went
out no we didn't go out why not you're on a honeymoon oh that's right that's right did
anybody drop by a delivery man no i don't think a mailman no the box is down the road
elizabeth hello
oh did you want something well is it mrs carbonine uh mrs score i'm mr corbin oh well how do you do
i'm rebecca foster vice chairperson of the ladies village preservation society the lsvp foster come
on in please oh well inspector levine what brings you here is something the man said
oh good evening father good evening mrs foster why did you want to see mrs corner well as you
know inspector uh labor day is the target date for our fundraising drive and i'm sure that mrs carbon
wants to give us a very generous contribution why are you sure mrs foster because she told me
so she did when early last week where did you see her in town no no i came here to the house
something is wrong isn't it no no mrs foster did you get a good look at mrs corbin i mean
are you positive you would know her if you saw her again now inspector my joints may be
stiffening a bit but there's nothing wrong with my eyesight of course i know her why we talked
for almost an hour she seemed very interested in our work but she couldn't find her checkbook and
she promised me that if i'd come back later she'd make us a very generous contribution
mrs foster i am delighted you did come back you have no idea how delighted i am and
after you've seen my wife i can personally promise you a very large donation
well now that's very generous of you mr corbin thank you very much where is your wife
uh i don't know you don't suppose you skipped out do you sorry it takes so long
you moved everything around while i was gone
sugar bowl in the refrigerator elizabeth darling uh look who's here oh
mrs foster you did come back i'm so glad
would you like a cup of coffee well yes thank you miss coleman i think i would
i'll get another cup thank you excuse me
you mean you do know her of course i do ginger wife isn't she my wife has red hair
no i would have remembered that
what's the matter have i said something wrong
thank you for your help mrs foster i'll see you to your car well thank you very much
inspector good night good night good night mrs foster
is there any more coffee mrs corbin i'm afraid i'm nodding off sure father in the kitchen thank you
things aren't going very well for you are they darling what are you up to
you wouldn't want me to spoil the surprise would you
inspector
don't do that i have to talk to you why don't you quit while you're behind every
time i give you a chance it gets even worse do you want to hear the latest disaster
what now this car this starfish the one your wife drove back in
it has the same license numbers the ones she drove away in now look your wife seems like a
very attractive reasonable intelligent woman why don't you go inside and try to patch things up
you don't believe a single word i've been saying mr corbin you don't need a policeman what you
need is maybe a marriage counselor maybe even all right go ahead say it a doctor all right
inspector i'll make an agreement with you you go in there right now and you and terry mr corbin
check her out ask her questions make her give you names dates places
and after that if you're still satisfied that's elizabeth corbin i'll go and have my head examined
how do we have a deal i would have my head examined
but you let me do the talking
that tongue of your starts wagging i'm gonna let my friend sydney make sandwiches out of it
mrs corbin poor man's exhausted can i ask you a couple of questions please certainly
inspector but let's talk in the library that way father keller can get some sleep
this is corbin earlier today dear uh mr corbin told me all about the argument you two had on
thursday night it's wednesday wednesday wednesday night you're right you're right would you mind
telling me your version my inspector there isn't really very much to tell danny issued one of those
ultimatums that men are so fond of and i replied by telling him that gloria steinem had freed the
slaves and from then on it just went from bad to worse and i guess we were both pretty unreasonable
and it ended when i left if i'd known the effect it was gonna have on danny i never would have
you took the car yeah you knew he always left the keys in it huh well i have my own set
do you have any identification mrs cortman sure
here thank you
it's quite a collection you ever have cash
is your driver's license elizabeth douglas yes my maiden name must wear corrective lenses wear
your glasses mrs clubman you're on contact lenses i'm very nearsighted inspector you're
not asking her any hard questions you think you could do any better go ahead and ask all right
what train did we take here from detroit you know i can't answer that
why not because we drove danny don't you remember it was your car
what's my private unlisted phone number at the office 555-4326
the scorers love 30 mr corbin still your serve
what's your mother's maiden name now quick without thinking emily carter
well is that right i don't know i i never knew it terrific and still ripping
that's terrific mr corbin keep asking her more questions you don't know the answer to
you'll break it down any minute now all right here's one i know she doesn't know the answer to
we spent the night before we got married at a small hotel in detroit what's the name of it well
come on don't tell me you've forgotten danny how could i ever forget anything about that night it
was the hotel brittany room 655 wrong she's wrong inspector absolutely wrong the wrong room anybody
can be no no it's not the room it's the hotel wasn't the hotel brittany i've never even heard
of the hotel brittany well there's your proof take it easy were you simple enough to check out
do you really think you could get away with a crazy stunt like this
danny now you're really frightening me don't you see that you need help you're the everyone's gonna
need help now but let me listen i want you to check out a hotel brittany in detroit if there
is one and ask him if they had a mr and mrs daniel corbin about what two weeks ago about two weeks
ago yeah it could be room six five five call me back yeah i'm at the corbin house all right
won't be too long inspector has it ever occurred to you that uh
if she's a phony then that priest in there might be a phony too
are you serious well you don't think she's in this alone no you took too much planning
you're right mr corbin and i'll tell you who mr big is the one behind the whole caper is holiness
the pope never mind the jokes inspector you can check him out can't you what harm can it do
it was easier in new york all they had there was organized crime
when you go back to detroit this time do me a favor will you
stay there hello margaret inspector larry i'm fine dog thank you listen there's officer mcnally there
mcnally the policeman the one who went out to investigate the prowler
you'll look outside for me so look out for that hello mcnally you got back inside very fast
listen i'm not disturbing the investigation am i
good are you a catholic aren't you mcnally what's the name of the priest in town here
i see what's he look like uh-huh thanks yeah you can go back outside now bye-bye mr corbin
you'll be interested to hear that father keller is completely kosher hello deborah
is that right okay
just like she said brittany hotel room 655. i don't believe it you must have forgot
i didn't forget i was never there we just checked with the desk clerk well then they
they they got to him they bought him off well they have a string of agents across the country
inspector there has to be some explanation believe me there is inspector i'm not crazy but they're
trying to drive me crazy she wants to put me away in some mental hospital she said so what
i said was that you could very well wind up that way if you can't keep your nerves under control
there is nothing the matter with my nerves my nerves are perfectly all right
lana what there's something about it no no everything is peachy creamy it's time to go
home let these people get some sleep ah yes of course we all need a good night's sleep
inspector i'll give danny something to help him relax i don't want you giving me anything
just your sleeping pills the ones that dr ackerman said you could take
i don't know any dr ackerman it's uh my husband's doctor has been treating him for ten oh he has not
please let's not start all over again i had enough of one day let's go father good night
the poor man yeah inspector one uh
inspector those uh those sleeping pills would you do me a favor what
take them back to the lab have them test it lab one lab we don't even have a fingerprint kit
besides the way your luck is running i wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be oscar inspector
look are you really worried about the pills yes then don't take them be well mr corbin
well looks like we're alone at last done it darling yes
why are you going off to bed then
i think i will you sure i can't give you something to help you sleep
quite sure well just finish your drink then
i thought you didn't want me drinking anymore a sip every now and then isn't gonna hurt
you is that what dr ackerman said yeah as a matter of fact it is
where are you going get some ice you should remember darling i like my scotch on the rocks
how could i ever forget i'll get it for you huh no don't buy i want to now i'll bring you the ice
so
my goodness you startled me did i ring no i don't think i did father i thought you'd
gone yes i thought so too but you see i forgot that i drove here with mrs corbin i don't have
any transportation oh i see it right back with inspector levine he's busy he's he's examining
your car i can't imagine what the man is looking for can you put if i could just ring for a taxi
yeah come in thank you
you still seem terribly upset mr corbin is there anything i can do to help help
yes you know a matter of fact there is have a drink what oh no i've already had one and one
is pretty much my gift please i insist uh put hair on your shirt all right thank you
cheers what oh yes cheers
oh i didn't hear you come in yes i know mr corbin is psychic i think he doesn't wait for doorbells
i see he got you a drink he could have waited for the ice i take mine without ice thank you
where's your drink darling it's uh just gone into father keller
it's what doesn't matter
you just try oh no
oh my god
you killed him i killed him i i didn't kill anybody i just i just gave him a drink that same
drink you gave me i've got to call the police i don't bother i'm calling myself queen's still here
she put something in my drink she didn't know i saw her but father keller had drank
drinking and now he's dead wow he's dead inspector he's lying right there on the
floor she's gonna say i did it but i didn't she did it she meant it for me
wait a minute
he's gone what mrs corbin what's happening now while you were straightening out the room you
didn't happen to notice a body lying around any place did you i don't think so inspector was there
some particular body that you were looking for you know spotty that that priest keller
he was lying right there inspector father keller her left here with you all right
she's hitting it that's what she's done just look around he's here somewhere
my god
excuse me but i forgot that i drove here with mrs corbin i don't have any
transportation so if i could just ring for a taxi what's wrong have i interrupted something
elizabeth
daddy
danny please
what's the matter darling you look like you've seen a ghost
was that your calling oh the water's great as long as you're in it you really ought to take a swim
you'll sleep like a baby some other time danny
danny come on in come on in okay the water's great you see how cold it is oh
katie what's wrong did i keep thinking about when you kissed me today
was strong he was angry and possessive
you're used to getting exactly what you want aren't you you just reach out and take it
why don't you just reach out and take me
doesn't take much does it what
to make a complete fool out of you oh it's all gonna be easier than i thought
daddy if you can't defend yourself now at this point in the game
what are you gonna do when the going gets really rough
now you're being a bad sport
where you going i don't know anywhere away from here somewhere i can think
there are the keys in my car danny don't be stupid there's nowhere you can go i'll find you
damn
he just left yeah i couldn't stop him he's going to be coming down to the bottom of the
hill in just a minute get the yellow starfish all right whatever you do don't lose him
game's up i thought you'd gone nobody's going anywhere oh not now
you slipped up i've got the proof i've been looking for really dying what's that
my keys they don't fit your car
it's all a bad dream
thanks for coming special mr corbin it's two o'clock in the morning what are you
running over here telethon for mental health he said to let you know if anything happened
and then write a letter inspector i finally got the proof that she's an imposter
all right mr corbin what is it hello inspector you baxter sue
so i didn't realize that you were joining us on our honeymoon well your husband was
just about to prove that you're an imposter inspector i can assure you i'm perfectly real
you wanna hear what i've got yes of course that car outside it's not mine
say that again the starfish she came back in it's not the same car my wife went away in my
key doesn't fit really what meaning that my real wife still has the real car that's a good point
what do you say he's mistaken may i see your keys please sure
oh there it is
well they look the same to me well go out and try them for heaven's sake what kind of
policemen test them by looking at them mr corbin i am very tired i have had a day thanks to you of
monumental aggravation i don't need any policeman lessons i will test these keys in the car when i'm
good and ready is that clear that's clear i'm ready don't anybody leave town till i get back
that would be your key now mine
you see nothing
i can't be here
ah but it is i tried that myself darling you were tired and upset no no i was positive
there's a snappy little car mr coleman maybe i'll try another one i swear to you my key
didn't fit does it never occur to you it might have been the trunk key that is not my car
specter if you excuse me i think i better change i'm beginning to get just a little bit chilly
doesn't surprise me i didn't know why it's gonna look like that at two o'clock in the morning
all right inspector i quit i give up
you were right mr corbin
what your key doesn't fit that car
but i i don't understand i heard you start the engine twice yeah i used a key twice
then you you believe me you really believe i didn't say that why should i believe it like
you've always been telling me the truth like you told me you didn't know that dr ackerman
in detroit but that's the truth inspector like you don't have to take my word for it call him
on the phone if you don't believe me if he exists at all oh he exists all right he's a
psychiatrist in gross point he's quite a well-known one and he says you've been a
patient of this for almost five years he's crazy isn't that funny that's what he says about you
inspector i'm not but i will be if this this keeps up oh mr corbin as a policeman i should say you're
a crazy person and the case is closed but as a native of new york i'm an expert on craziness and
i have the craziest feeling you're not as crazy as you sound go go on please well when things don't
fit together i get this tickling in the brain and right now my brain is tickling to beat the band
do you want to hear what i think might be happening now i said mike because it's
just a tickle now go on i'm listening okay now get ready for a few what-ifs all right
what what if what if what if number one what if someone else knew about your wife's situation 12
million dollars and no family a couple of someone else's and they had a plan worked out to take her
place without anybody knowing about it maybe even going to europe so no one would ever find out
now we come to what if number two see if you agree with this
what if you come along unexpectedly and you marry her before they get a chance to make their move
you're a big complication to them successful wealthy in your own right beyond suspicion as
we say in the business not even a chance of them cutting you in so what is the only way
they can salvage their operation get rid of me exactly exactly but how
not by murder not unless they have to i mean too many things could go wrong especially with two
people disappearing so now we come to what if number three what if they could drive you crazy
or get enough people to believe you're crazy they put you away anyway then with you in the laughing
academy they can go on with their plan as though you never existed that's it well what do you think
i i think you're a genius that makes two of us but we need a documents something from the city of
detroit or the state of michigan about your wife uh photographs fingerprints something like that
and our friends were very smart on that score too every office in the country is shut tighter than
the drum because of the labor day weekend i'm afraid we're completely stymied until tuesday
tuesday yeah what am i supposed to do in the meantime help me i'll try but you gotta help too
well tell me anything stop running around yelling at everybody play along with them
conserve your energy and keep looking for what for the floor on their plan
mr corbin there is no such thing as the perfect crime except in the movies
every crime like every gem has a floor i know that because my father used to be a jeweler and what we
have to do is search for the floor on their plan and then we've got them but you got to hold on to
your nerves because they're going to make it very rough on you now the first thing you have to do
well have you two discovered whose key does what and to who absolutely your key fits his
car and his key fits your car and they both lived happily ever after mrs corbin i was just telling
your husband you ought to get a full night's sleep otherwise he's liable to see more dead
bodies disappear do uh you have a guest room or some other place where he won't be disturbed
sure the room next two hours is there a connecting door no why
well with you in the next room it would be very easy for amanda walking asleep
mr corbin why don't you go up try to relax everything's gonna be just fine huh
yes sir all right
good night danny pleasant dreams
why are you saying inspector you think danny's crazy please go listen that's what doctors
say all i know is i don't think you should stay here tonight he's
really very upset in my opinion he could explode get really violent
surely you're exaggerating you didn't see him before i had to humor him i had to tell
him i was on his side i even made up a [ __ ] and bull story to calm him down inspector
i really appreciate your concern but i can't leave danny tonight i can't leave him any night
if i hadn't done it before none of this would be happening okay you want to use one of these
not really no there's nothing to it that's why they're so dangerous you just aim and pull the
trigger i don't want it please take it it'll make me feel better about leaving here alone tonight
and maybe tomorrow we'll get a doctor to take a look at him okay good night good night inspector
thanks for everything really
gotta get out
no
bang bang darling you're dead
she's gone
i wouldn't do that if i were you suppose i did anyway what would you do
blow your brains off my son you slept late it's almost noon elizabeth left
some breakfast for you in the kitchen you're very fortunate to have such a thoughtful wife
all right well who shall find out the wife find it the good thing sounds chapter 18.
proverbs father yes well you can't win them
all uh mr corbin
i wouldn't try leaving by the back door either you'll find somebody quite unpleasant out there
hey who are you uh uh give me a minute i'll remember in a minute uh and you'll
miss the call but i ask who you are uh i remembered you first uh wait it's coming to me
uh i'm sydney of cindy's uh sandwich shop i'm delivering delivering what uh what does it look
like to get his burger dress i'll bring you your lunch mister personally i got three delivery boys
and sydney himself the boss is bringing in person and you know who you can thank for it you're white
you've got some terrific wife there mister oh if you're through delivering i wish you just uh
go on clear on out cindy not only delivers he unpacks yes sir some terrific wife uh you
better be careful i might even run off with her if there's anything in the world that drives me crazy
it's a natural redhead you want to run off whether i'll make you sandwiches
natural redhead who's a redhead your wife you said she's a redhead look if it's
not natural i'm sorry i saw my wife only once gwen tell me when they're doing business hours
i swear i mean that what day uh early last week when she came in to order all this stuff
sydney may not realize it but you just saved my life not don't move stay right here
i have to call inspector levy give him my regards he's a sweet fella but a rotten chess player
uh
i fixed it i told y'all fix it look the phone is ringing oh
look at that inspector right there geigel police uh-huh just a second it's corbin
yeah mr corbin inspector you gotta come over here right away what do you think i am a commuter look
inspector i know you're convinced i'm crazy and all those what ifs last night were just
to put on but inspector i found that flaw you were talking about there's a man here right now
who says he can positively identify my wife my real wife mr coleman are you sure he's reliable
well you tell me it's your friend sydney the sandwich maker i'll be right over
how's ravine you should have asked him to lunch too his wife's away he's a little lonely
uh he's uh he's on his way over listen sydney a woman's gonna walk in here in a minute
right here right no no this one's a brunette and uh she's a little disturbed as a matter
of fact she ran away from mental hospital so we have to humor until levine can get here to take
her back humor her how well she thinks she's my wife oh boy now you mustn't disagree with
her sydney because whenever that happens she becomes violent daddy i'm back whatever you do
don't mention my real wife telephone gets here if you got that danny where are you i'll be a clam
i don't even want to discuss the traffic
but uh what happened you're here surprise hi you friend of my husband
this is sydney of a sydney sandwich shop he brought buy some lunch oh how sweet
yes i asked him to stay it turns out he's quite a chess player i knew you played chess
a lot of things you don't know about me darling best part about marriage constant surprises right
sydney sure why not okay uh we'll be three father kelleher makes four and levine levine in speculate
no i said lavi that's french for the wine wine's the best thing to go with my pastrami
i bet we've got some darling why don't you go look for it while i set the table
good lady she really believes it i thought you said she was a brunette uh she was she had a diet
that must have been why she went out this morning who used to be a brunette sydney
who who uh oh my wife my wife was a brunette yeah what is she now uh 52.
sydney i think my husband's been telling you stories stories did he tell you that i
wasn't his wife no he never said anything like that he told you i was his wife sure what else
see cindy he doesn't think that i'm his wife he thinks i'm an impostor oh
what do you think i think you know something and i just wonder what it could be listen uh maybe i
better go i just remembered an appointment i know you can't go now what do we do with all
this food it'll keep believe me sydney have we met somewhere before no uh i i'd have remembered
who ordered all this food that you brought mrs coleman uh i mean you when did i do that
you don't remember oh it had to have been earlier in the week uh sometime before thursday huh
i stopped by your shop right yes uh no i don't know listen i really gotta go see me
it's just that you said that we never met i did well i meant we never met formally cindy bernstein
happy to meet you ah here's where everybody is my goodness something certainly smells good
father kelleher sydney sydney sandwich shop i'm happy to meet you my son you know i was
in sydney shop just a few days ago and now he doesn't recognize me yes i know you know
oh you called inspector levine and told him there's an extension in the library
all right it's true i did call him you see sydney saw the real elizabeth
in a couple of minutes when inspector levine gets here he's going to tell him the whole story
i don't think so what's going on around here sorry it's all right sydney just
stand behind me that won't do anything to you now they wouldn't dare adam buzzy
get out of the way mr corbett what's going on here sloveni inspector under god's sake hurry
i'm not dead slovene's gone he loaded it with blanks no what are you doing
no
gently
away by the car turn the radio up i don't want to miss any call yes sir inspector
i can't believe it sydney
when my wife and i first came to this town four years ago we didn't know a soul
all we knew was that it wasn't brooklyn
so we walked around for a year like strangers and one day a new store opened in town
sandwich shop
sydney put a knee at the end of the word shop give it a little class you know
he brought a part of brooklyn with him
the nicest part the nicest part
now he's gone
of all the fancy summer resorts in america a psychopath has to come to this one
and then my friend is gone inspector i swear to you be quiet what you've got to swear to i don't
want to hear this time all i wonder some answers and for a change they better be the right one
mrs corbin what was sydney doing here
danny ordered some lunch my wife ordered the lunch before she disappeared her face
come on mrs coleman well i heard voices in the kitchen and when i went in cindy saw me and he
said uh hello mrs corbin it's absurd cindy was getting more and more confused because he knew
me from the other day and uh danny was getting more and more upset and no but that's not true
i'm not gonna tell you again mrs corbin when did you dye your hair and why this morning
early i thought it would help calm danny down inspector all he said since i came back was that
his real wife had red hair and that's true i mean i did have red hair when danny and i first met
anyway i thought it would help him if he could just see me the way i used to be you know the way
he wanted me to be i understand i came in here i sat down with father kelleher the next thing
we knew sydney was calling for help from the kitchen danny was there screaming hysterically
and threatening sydney with a die specter i am not going to stay here and listen to any more
of these lies i am not you want to go downtown i can arrange it and a straight jacket i tried
to use the gun that you gave me i know don't tell me i loaded it with blank so nobody would get hurt
at the first sound of a shot my man was supposed to run in here like a rabbit
yeah that was a mistake that was the worst mistake i ever made in my life it was god's will inspector
we've all made our share of mistakes
i should have realized how sick this poor man was i should have insisted he
be given proper medical attention yesterday before it was too late
all right now you've listened to them were you listening to me now i'm listening to you
look at the results inspector sydney knew she wasn't my real wife that's why they killed him
don't you see they had to before he could talk to you because you would have believed him you
would have believed your friend that's right i would have believed suddenly she stabbed him i
took the knife away from her that's why i was holding her when you came in i mean why would
i kill my only witness my one remaining hope who knows what is a crazy person i'm not crazy
they murdered my only witness what do i have to do before you believe me bring sydney back can
you do that mr corbin get your jacket i'm taking you and i should have taken you in yesterday
hello yeah
i don't believe it did he say anything
i figured i'll be right over it's unbelievable what is it the best news you'll ever hear sydney's
not dead he's not no the ambulance boys they found a heartbeat nothing fancy but enough to
keep him going until they get him into surgery he said he wanted to know who was minding the store
i don't have the time to take you in right now suddenly comes first time hey
no dean you can't i'll be back as soon as i can don't leave me like this
god knows what they'll do lavine come back let me know i'm a dead man
uh
what is it about men when they're completely helpless they're like little boys oh
danny you're acting like you're afraid of me i mean what's there to be afraid of look at me
how can you possibly hope to get elizabeth's money there are lawyers executors ah yes
little men who worship written instructions and they'll get their instructions from a
very exclusive bank in london where an account was opened some months ago in your wife's name
i myself personally flew over and deposited ten thousand pounds along with some not bad
looking signatures you know the terrific thing about banks as long as you give them the money
they'll let you be anybody that you say you are see danny i think we've got it covered
except for one thing huh sydney's still alive and he'll tell what really happened hmm
just might do that mighty then again he might not
what do you mean well you know how accommodating hospitals can be especially to a solicitous priest
priest you mean your friend buzzy forget it's too late you'd never get by levine where is he anyway
keller keller gone some time ago before levine
before
how danny you really got to do something about that
extension almost anybody could be listening in
yes
no i'm sorry inspector living left here a few minutes ago
uh can i give him a message in case he calls here first yes i see
oh yes i'll tell him
bye
it was the hospital sydney talked to me told the whole story you're finished
poor sydney
i'm afraid he's dead again it's time for good
didn't take long dude
well i didn't see any point in hanging around i only had the one patient to visit anyone see it
a few people i suppose buzzy i'm sure i told you well what do you expect i'm not invisible you know
so they saw a priest at a hospital so what calm down buzzy
i'm getting good and sick you're giving the orders around here now
where is it written that you're the haunt show huh [ __ ] you want to be the honcho
you're the honcho now why don't you just calm down get yourself a drink
excuse me
can't wait to get out of these clothes don't worry everything goes according to plan levine
turns up here carts our friend and they're off to the booby hatch and by tonight you'll be defrocked
oh buzzy we're getting so close to that money i can smell the serial numbers
shame on you danny whatever happened to the honor system you know something he's getting to be one
big pain in the neck let's kill him right now and get it over with that's not the plan and
you know it is look the plan isn't chiseled in marvel it can be changed i'm changing it
no no i'm giving the orders now you agreed levine is going to be here any minute and she's right
i mean you can't if you kill me now they'll know you did it
nonsense you're about to have a heart attack that's all just like your friend sydney
what's that i'm an awful in reasonable doses it's given to heart patients in more
exotic amounts it causes as they say in the trade severe vascular collapse
in layman's terms mr corbin your dick is gonna blow out on the inside of your skin
here we are i'm not a real clergyman as you might have suspected but if there's any comfort
in it i'd be glad to say a few words for god's sakes just get it over with oh yes quite right
right armor left mr corbin any preferences i think the side of the neck might be best oh
there are only blanks in that gun you know there no
now levine reloaded it before he left with real bullets fuzzy he's lying i was here the whole
time they're still blanks now they're not so i'm warning you stay away get him buzzy stay away
you shot him
that's the way it goes hancho you knew they weren't blanks that's right but you told him
thanks danny you saved me the trouble of having to split the money
oh my god he's dead each picture thank god you got here
all right coleman let's have it
he's going to the library i want a statement come on you two mrs call me let's go holy
call the wagon and stay with the body until the wagon gets you yes sir come on
inspector it was self-defense they were they were trying to kill me and sydney was he trying to kill
you too looked like he was going to make it and 10 minutes later when they came to take
him to surgery he was dead just like that it was hard just to that that that was keller
you see he left here before you did gave sydney an injection of some drug keller killed sidney
yes inspector father kelleher was here with me the entire time they killed sydney and he tried to
kill me with the same nail look at his pockets if you don't believe me oh mr corbin mr corbin what
am i gonna do with you it's all too wild it's too fanciful it's too impossible every shred
of evidence points to you every shred and what do you want me to do you want me to arrest her
yeah inspector what is it he's dead who's that the priest yes fully we know no sir he wasn't
he started talking all of a sudden but i got it all down the best i could what'd he say
he said that he and this woman were involved in a plot to steal the real mrs corbin's money
that he killed sydney and that they intended to kill mr corbin too then he died did you hear that
did you hear that that's a deathbed statement to a police officer
my god it's over it's finally over we've got her i've won
what are you waiting for arrester
what did you do so much for deathbed statements get his notebook we'll burn them when we get a
chance what is it mr corbin where you come from all cops are honest i used to be honest 28 years
on the force what have i got to show for it huh a pension that's worth less and less every day
9 000 bucks in a bank a dilapidated bungalow in one of the richest communities in america is that
what you give your wife after nearly 30 years of getting shot at you knew all along not all along
i knew something was fishy yesterday i found out father keller wasn't a priest here or anyplace
else and that he and your new wifey had planned this for a long time long before you came along
all those what-ifs last night they were true of course and when i threatened to tell a couple of
other people about it they very generously cut me in not much million dollars in cash
see i'm not a greedy man but now that buzzy's dead maybe our cut gets bigger huh
probably even know where my wife is your wife she right here
oh she's dead it must be you must be that's why that's why none of you is afraid she'd suddenly
show up here has to be dead why's your whole plan it fall apart too bad you can't prove that
mr corbin i don't need any proof that's where you're wrong you're a dead duck without proof
no clues no witnesses you don't even know if there's a body let alone where it is
no give it up mr corbin say goodbye to the nice people you got in the way that's all
it wasn't your fault you just got in the way let's go it's inspector wait please i
you want the money right you want elizabeth's money it doesn't mean anything to me anyway
i'll i'll help you get it your chances will be a lot better with me helping you
what do you got in mind just a minute wait a minute everybody's trying to change the plan
and there's nothing wrong with it the way it was there's nothing wrong with a little
i'll give you just 10 seconds to unlock these cuffs 10 seconds
one false move i'll blow a hole right in your stomach
you just stay put
all right now i'll shoot anybody trying to follow me
oh boy all right all right there's another door
come on
bert levine listen the looney got away
in a speedboat yeah put on the points will you i don't want them to get out of the county
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i'm sorry elizabeth
once wasn't enough i i'm gonna have to do it all over again
i kept counting on someone finding you by now but
it's just as well they didn't
see laureen's gun it's already killed two people so my accusations hold a lot more
water it looks like it kills you too don't you see don't worry darling this time you
want your thing
forgive me elizabeth i won't bother you ever again
oh you can't be alive you're dead i
i kill you
thanks mr corbin that's all we had to know oh let me go she's after me she's a lion he's dead
dead is the day you killed him no i saw her move it wasn't her
it wasn't her no
that's
not elizabeth
you arranged the whole thing that's right
mr corbin why did you do it didn't need our money i i did i i made some investment south
american coffee futures it was supposed to rain all summer in brazil but it did
it didn't rain it lost everything i had over 2 million elizabeth was my only hope she wouldn't
give him the money huh she said she'd have no respect for him said i lose respect for myself
said i'd even find a way to thank her something found a way all right
i i kept kept waiting for someone to find her but normal i found
three days ago looked like an accident too except for a couple of things why blood for instance
what about it well she bled all over herself but not in the car meaning what meaning that either
she was a very neat bleeder or maybe she was through bleeding before she was put in the cup
maybe because of a single maybe you cooked up this whole thing oh no no no no i never
go to this much trouble without at least two babies or was the other one contact lenses
her driver's license said she had to wear them but she wasn't they were in her bag now why
would a near-sighted person drive on a winding mountain road at night without a contact with us
i never could tell even up close we still couldn't build a case against you
we needed more we needed you to go back on your own all those people who were killed
nobody else was killed mr corbin only a wife as you can see there's sydney minding the store
who are all those others? fake elizabeth father keller
that policeman you shot a few friends mr corbin just a few friends
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