• [Pacing, smoking, drinking]

• Inspector, I swear…

• Mrs. Corban, what was sidney doing here?

• [duo with elizabeth] he was delivering brunch for our anniversary.

• […elizabeth] then I heard sidney call for help.

• What.

• ... Found danny screaming and threatening sidney with a knife.

• I’m not going to stand here and listen to these lies.

• [father] terrible mistake. We didn’t realize how sick this man is. He should have been committed long ago.

• You’ve listened to them. Will you listen to me?

• I’ve been listening to you, and look at the results!

• Levine, sidney saw my real wife the night we arrived. He remembered she was a redhead…

• A red head, levine, a red head. He saw her again five days ago when she ordered the brunch….

• This was the break we were looking for. That’s why they killed him… they killed my witness!

• [I’d better get him a tranquilizer] no!

• You would have believe him. You would have believed your friend.

• You’re right. I would have believed sidney.

• Levine, why would I kill my own witness, my only hope?

• Recognized this woman, as you say, I would have believed him.

• Then why did I telephone you?

• Why? Why? How do I know why? Ask your psychiatrist, maybe he has the answer.

• I have no psychiatrist! There’s nothing wrong with me! I’m not crazy!

• [large gap – ep comes in.]

• [levine] take it easy mister.

• E.P.!

• I told you to stay in there!

• Ep, you’re beautiful. You’re the u.s. calvary! The united states marines! I love you!

• separates us] corban, who is this.

• Levine, this is my boss. This is everett parker jr. Meet inspector levine?

• [parker and levine] … wisecracks. This is a serious matter, mr. parker

• Go ahead, levine, ask him! Ask him!

• [levine and parker] danny, touch base with me. What have you been up to?

• Nothing ep. Absolutely nothing! But you wouldn’t believe the spot I’m in…

• You’ve arrive just in time to save my neck. They’re out to nail me.

• [levine] licence. It doesn’t prove anything [parker] what!

• Come on, levine. Let’s wrap this up. Trot her out.

• [levine] well, mr. parker, what do you say?

• Go on ep. Tell him!

• [confirms. Elizabeth] thank you e.p.

• Hey, e.p.!

• … they have every right to be here.

• E.p. Why?

• Always glad to help out an old buddy.

• Help me? Why, you miserable buffoon, you just helped me to the chair…

• Levine, he’s lying.

• Crazy? ] maybe he has] … pleasant weekend with my… with my wife and

• He’s lying! That’s not his wife!

• Levine] maybe that’s not my wife… I should be that lucky.

• Don’t you see what’s happened, levine? When parker said she was my wife he thought he was…

• Covering up for me the way he expects me to cover…

• For him for her who he says is his wife but she isn’t

• [parker leaving,, levine] .. Lunch. He’ll be out by the time you return. I’ll talk to you later.

• E.p.! Don’t go, please!

• …lousing up my weekend. I won’t forget it.

• Levine, arrest him!

• Inspector, I think he needs a needle to calm him down.

• No needles! Nobody’s giving me a needle!

• The only thing that helped him last time was electric shock.

• No, no!

• Thanks for your advice. He’ll get whatever he needs.

• Levine, for the love of god, before you throw me to the wolves, just two minutes alone, please!

• No.

• Levine. I overheard you last night. I don’t want you to calm me down or humor me…

• Just listen to me two minutes.

• Father, mrs, excuse me. Two minutes.

• Levine, parker thought he was helping me. He saw a priest here and figured I was in a jam….

• He knew she isn’t my wife.

• … why the hell isn’t she worried about the real elizabeth showing up?

• That’s just it levine. You planted a thought last night, and I’ve been trying to ….

• Push it out of my mind, but it keeps coming back, about insurance…

• Maybe elizabeth is working with them.

• Kidding. Her inheritance makes your insurance look like petty cash.

• But elizabeth doesn’t know about the inheritance. She never saw the letter.

• … set up for a double cross… your wife will be on the missing list, forever.

• Oh no! if that happens, we’re finished.

• Not we, you…. You’re worse shape than before. Sidney made you a murderer

• I’m not!

• … parker turned you into a raving lunatic

• Levine, what happens to me now?

• [phone] … did he react at all? I’ll be down in a flash.

• What happened?

• Operated on sidney.

• What?

• Shut up corban… not a word from you

• Sidney’s alive?

• Just about.

• But he’s alive. Has he said anything?

• … few words, then coma. I’m gonna tear over to the hospital.

• Levine, he knows the truth. Please call me the minute he talks.

• Yeah – yeah.

• Wait! You said sidney spoke a few words. Did they tell you what he said?

• Yeah, yeah, they told me.

• What did he say?

• [watching store? – elizabeth] where’s the inspector?

• Uh, that bracelet business again. He had to run out.

• … these are probably the last sidney specials in existence.

• You can’t keep up an act like this forever. One mistake and you’re caught.

• … it’s all been worked out on a punch card.

• Somewhere, somehow.. You’ll overlook something.

• … you didn’t tell us your boss was coming up here this weekend.

• Levine isn’t through with him yet.

• Nor us. Tell me, is his wife very jealous?

• You can’t blackmail him. E.P. will tell the truth.

• … holiday driving can be dangerous.

• Oh, no!

• Labour day statistics, what’s one or two more digits?

• Where do you stop?

• Game over danny, when we win all the marbles… but that won’t happen until you lose all of yours.

• But don’t forget levine, you’re playing against levine, and he’s no idiot.

• … picks up the hints we toss his way.

• You’re wrong, you’re wrong. There’s the unexpected. Something you can’t…

• Feed into a computer. The unexpected.

• You mean sidney?

• What, what about sidney?

• .. There’s an extension phone in the kitchen.

• Kelleher! Where’s kelleher! Where is he?

• … he left a few minutes before levine did.

• No… no!

• Hello? No. Oh, really? … I’ll give him the message.

• That’s levine – let me talk to him!

• … but he’ll be back soon.

• Sidney is Okay! Sidney has talked! Sidney has told the truth!

• End act three scene 1

• [elizabeth] … I can almost taste that money now.

• Begin scene 2 – sitting on bench

• No one’s taking me away. I’m not leaving this house. Do you hear me?

• Darling, the honeymoon is over.

• I won’t go.• [they’re scaring me with their plans] And now you

know the how. Buzzy, pack some of his things.

• I knew it. I knew it. I knew that was your plan all along. I’ll tell levine. Levine has…

• Got to believe me. Sidney must have said something before he died.

• … saturation point. Besides, he never did believe your fantastic stories.

• Nobody’s budging me from here. Not levine, not the whole catskill police force.

• … violent ward… but don’t worry, we’ll see that you do.

• You won’t. You can’t.

• … get it over with fast. Levine will be here any minute.

• No! You can’t… If I’m dead, he’ll know you did it.

• … hold him buzzy.

• Keep away! Keep away, I’m warning you.

• .. Blanks in that gun. You know that.

• They’re not blanks. They’re real bullets. Levine reloaded the gun just before he left.

• Sure danny. Sure he did.

• Don’t come any closer!

• Oh my god!

• You wouldn’t believe me! I told you… I warned you.

• Now you have two strikes against you.

• I tried to warn you… I told you.

• Two murders in one day… you’ll make the olympic team.

• It was self defense. You know it! You were going to poison me!

• … what an imagination you have. [car approaching]

• Levine!

• … daniel corban, did you shoot father kelleher?

• Yes, but.

• … you’ve had a busy day, little man.

• Levine, they were going to poison me. I had to stop him. She, that monster, she had a vial of nicotine.

• Nicotine?

• They said you wouldn’t be able to detect it, because I’m a heavy smoker…

• I had to do it. He was coming at me.• … then I learned that an unknown man in a white

coat had been seen outside sidney’s room.

• That was kelleher! That was the man in the white coat. Levine, he left the house before you did!

• [elizabeth] that’s right. He went to visit a patient.

• He killed sidney!

• … nicotine! How could you have known, unless maybe you were telling the truth.

• I was, levine, I told you. They want to kill me. In a mental hospital….

• Make it look like a suicide! If only there were some way I could convince you.

• … it can help verify statements made in 90% of the cases like this.

• You, you want me to take this test?

• That’s the idea. How about it?

• Of course. Gladly. Gladly.

• … and my husband is already a sick man.

• She’s afraid levine! I demand that injection. I demand it.

• [protest from liz] … shots from me than the enemy. Ready, corban?

• I’m ready.

• [phone call, struggle] . Confessed she stole it herself. Now we’ll find out the truth about this.

• The truth is on the point of this needle! Nicotine, Levine! While you were on the phone…

• She dipped it in the poison.

• What?

• You can check it! We’ve got her, levine. We’ve won! Thank God! ….

• No more lies, no more tricks, no more frustrations.

• .. Your friendly catskill cop. Me!

• What? Oh my god! The police inspector himself. You! You arranged everything….

• The alibis, the phone calls. Everything to drive me crazy. And your official position you could get away with murder.

• And I was trying to convince you that she wasn’t my wife! Elizabeth. Where is my wife?

• You weren’t afraid of elizabeth coming back, because she can’t. She’s dead! She’s dead, isn’t she?

• How can you prove it?

• You won’t get away with this. I’ll call the district attorney.

• … what would you tell him? That levine is a crook?

• And a murderer!

• … with the corny jokes. What makes you think he’s gonna believe you?

• The pieces fit. You’re the hotshot expert on insurance cases…

• Your original plan was to collect my insurance. Then along came that letter…

• Elizabeth’s inheritance. The kitty suddenly became a giant jackpot. Nothing could stand…

• In your way then. Sidney knew about my wife, so you killed him.

• [you killed sidney] I was a witness.

• That frame won’t work. You’re forgetting. Sidney didn’t die from a knife wound…

• He was killed by poison, and you and your buddy were the only ones who had…

• Access to his room at the hospital. Another piece that fits.

• I suppose we killed father kelleher too?• No, I killed him, but that was self defense. I can prove

that, and, somehow, I’ll prove you murdered elizabeth, too.

• … there’s no body. How can you accuse us of murder?

• They’ll find the body, levine. They’ll search for her. They’ll find her.

• [calls bravin]… all right stupid, you’re on.

• Hello? Mr. Bravin, you are the district attorney for sullivan county?...

• Please listen to what I have to say. First, I’m not crazy. That’s what they want you to think…

• Mr bravin, my wife elizabeth will not be found alive. She’s dead. Murdered by these people. The phony mrs. Corban…

• And levine. He’s running the whole show. Yes! That’s what I don mean! Levine and his pals…

• Murdered y wife! Hey, now wait a minut mr. Bravin. I’m not crazy! You said you would… wait! Don’t hang up mr. Bravin!

• … put you in a nutshell right now. Here - • Mr. Bravin, he wants you to think that I’m insane.

That’s why he’s letting me talk to you.

• I know it’s wild, but look. They bring this woman to pose as my wife…

• They plan to kill me to collect the insurance, and my wife’s inheritance, too...

• That’s why they killled elizabeth. I know she’s dead. Mr. Bravin, they had to kill her

• Otherwise, the whole plan would fall apart. Proof of her death! I don’t know. I’m mixed up. Let me think.

• … there’s no body! no body!

• Yes there is! There is! Elizabeth is dead. There is a body.

• Where? Where?

• She’s in my car! Off mountain view road. The sharp curve!

• [levine explains] we’re just leaving, mr. parker.

• You stupid, sex mani…

• [end]