WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.080 Suspense. 00:15.080 --> 00:17.480 This is the Man in Black. 00:17.480 --> 00:22.120 Here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 00:22.120 --> 00:25.160 Two of Hollywood's most deaf players are with us tonight. 00:25.160 --> 00:29.460 This Geraldine Fitzgerald and Sir Cedric Hardwick. 00:29.460 --> 00:34.800 These Fitzgerald and Sir Cedric are here to match wits in a suspenseful tale by John Dixon 00:34.800 --> 00:39.360 Carr called Will You Walk into My Parlor? 00:39.360 --> 00:42.960 If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is compounded 00:42.960 --> 00:47.080 of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. 00:47.080 --> 00:52.200 In this series, our tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious 00:52.200 --> 00:58.120 situation and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. 00:58.120 --> 01:01.480 And so with Will You Walk into My Parlor? 01:01.480 --> 01:05.960 And the performances of Geraldine Fitzgerald and Sir Cedric Hardwick, we again hope to 01:05.960 --> 01:13.000 keep you in Suspense. 01:13.000 --> 01:31.160 Just how far does any man trust his wife or his fiance either, for that matter? 01:31.160 --> 01:36.280 An English bazaar, a garden party in the grounds of Leighton Hall in Kent one fine summer afternoon 01:36.280 --> 01:37.280 before the war. 01:37.280 --> 01:42.600 Leighton Hall is the home of Major and Mrs. Grant, always ready in the cause of charity. 01:42.600 --> 01:46.320 There's the stern red brick of the hall rising above oak trees. 01:46.320 --> 01:49.800 Against green lawns are the stalls and the swings and the roundabouts and the coconut 01:49.800 --> 01:54.720 chives. 01:54.720 --> 01:59.760 They are not well patronized now because a summer storm is coming up and the wind is 01:59.760 --> 02:04.240 whipping at the tents, flapping the gaudy banners in a fantastic manner and sending 02:04.240 --> 02:07.920 the spectators hurrying away in search of shelter. 02:07.920 --> 02:13.040 But over in a far corner is the fortune teller's tent, bawdy and purple and gold, yet with 02:13.040 --> 02:16.800 more than just a suggestion of mystery. 02:16.800 --> 02:21.440 Beside it is a miniature shooting gallery, presided over by Major Grant himself. 02:21.440 --> 02:26.560 Near the center of the bazaar is the bandstand where the village musicians play lustily 02:26.560 --> 02:29.280 to keep the patronizers from leaving. 02:29.280 --> 02:35.200 But as the wind rises, it seems that only two of them are oblivious to the coming storm, 02:35.200 --> 02:37.000 for they are in love. 02:37.000 --> 02:40.480 The young man is tall in sport coat and flannels. 02:40.480 --> 02:45.960 The young lady in a flowing gown of a startling beauty which suggests a halo, a startling 02:45.960 --> 02:51.480 beauty that blows against the gray of the sky and the paint of the tents. 02:51.480 --> 02:57.840 She has her hand on his arm for protection against what, you ask? 02:57.840 --> 03:01.280 Nothing, just for protection. 03:01.280 --> 03:05.760 Philip darling, I want to get my fortune told before we leave. 03:05.760 --> 03:08.200 Mary, the wind, I'm sure is going to pour any minute. 03:08.200 --> 03:09.200 Oh, it won't take long. 03:09.200 --> 03:10.720 We'll beat the storm, wait and see. 03:10.720 --> 03:13.920 I hate to drag you away from the match, but I do want to visit him. 03:13.920 --> 03:15.640 You don't believe in that rubbish, do you Mary? 03:15.640 --> 03:17.000 No, I don't suppose I do. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.640 But I never can resist getting my fortune told. 03:20.640 --> 03:22.000 I suppose it's a woman's prerogative. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.720 And they say this man is overly good. 03:23.720 --> 03:26.000 They say it's marvelous how he can tell you all about yourself. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.480 You know that already, don't you? 03:27.480 --> 03:29.680 Oh Phil darling, please don't be so unimaginative. 03:29.680 --> 03:33.000 All right, Mary, I'll be good. 03:33.000 --> 03:34.640 Who is the fortune teller, by the way? 03:34.640 --> 03:36.960 There's his sign on the tent, the great Omar, 03:36.960 --> 03:39.800 palmist and crystalgazer, sees all, knows all. 03:39.800 --> 03:42.560 No, I mean, who is he in real life, friend of the major's? 03:42.560 --> 03:43.880 Maybe the major could tell us. 03:43.880 --> 03:45.720 There he is now. 03:45.720 --> 03:47.520 Hello there, you two. 03:47.520 --> 03:48.280 Over here. 03:48.280 --> 03:49.000 Hello, Major. 03:49.000 --> 03:52.200 Please, Phil, we don't have to go there, do we? 03:52.200 --> 03:52.840 Go where? 03:52.840 --> 03:54.200 To that shooting range of the major's. 03:54.200 --> 03:55.440 I hate guns. 03:55.440 --> 03:57.560 It's right next to the fortune teller's tent, Mary, 03:57.560 --> 03:59.520 and we can't assault our host. 03:59.520 --> 04:00.720 Coming, Major. 04:00.720 --> 04:02.720 Look at the major, he's beaming all over his face 04:02.720 --> 04:05.680 and twisting that white mustache into a corkscrew. 04:05.680 --> 04:07.800 I suppose he's heard about us. 04:07.800 --> 04:10.920 Mary, my very contrary woman, you're not ashamed of being 04:10.920 --> 04:11.880 engaged to me, are you? 04:11.880 --> 04:14.080 Oh, you know it's nothing like that, Phil. 04:14.080 --> 04:16.440 I'm much too much in love with you. 04:16.440 --> 04:18.600 Only all the old cats in the village 04:18.600 --> 04:20.440 are probably saying awful things about me. 04:20.440 --> 04:22.760 Now what the devil could they be saying about you? 04:22.760 --> 04:25.200 Mary Sherwood, Phil Lester. 04:25.200 --> 04:26.360 Hello, Major Grant. 04:26.360 --> 04:29.360 Oh, you young rascals, you young so-and-sos. 04:29.360 --> 04:30.840 Give me a hand, each of you. 04:30.840 --> 04:32.480 And many congratulations. 04:32.480 --> 04:33.320 Thank you. 04:33.320 --> 04:34.160 Thank you very much, Major. 04:34.160 --> 04:37.280 We feel rather pleased about it ourselves. 04:37.280 --> 04:38.120 Pleased I do. 04:38.120 --> 04:40.360 And you, young woman, you come over here 04:40.360 --> 04:42.480 and then you'll have every one of us Britishers 04:42.480 --> 04:46.080 at your feet, what do you do, but snary a fellow American 04:46.080 --> 04:48.680 when he's helpless and away from home. 04:48.680 --> 04:50.440 And do I love being snared? 04:50.440 --> 04:53.160 Yes, old girl, it looks as though you had your man 04:53.160 --> 04:54.480 where you wanted him. 04:54.480 --> 04:57.640 Now tell me your secret, are you a demon in disguise? 04:57.640 --> 04:58.480 Please, Major Grant. 04:58.480 --> 05:00.440 It's an awfully good desire, isn't it, if she is. 05:00.440 --> 05:02.240 Please, Major, please, Phil. 05:02.240 --> 05:04.480 Why, is anything wrong? 05:04.480 --> 05:08.000 No, nothing, but it's getting dark and the wind's rising. 05:08.000 --> 05:09.640 It's going to pour any minute now. 05:09.640 --> 05:12.760 Oh, a moment before you were the one who said not to worry. 05:12.760 --> 05:14.320 Oh, that won't matter, my girl. 05:14.320 --> 05:16.080 The show's nearly over anyway. 05:16.080 --> 05:19.080 We did pretty well, if I do say so myself. 05:19.080 --> 05:21.400 We came over here really to see the fortune teller. 05:21.400 --> 05:23.000 If you don't mind letting go of my hand. 05:23.000 --> 05:24.720 No, you don't, my girl, not a bit of it. 05:24.720 --> 05:26.320 You won't let me go? 05:26.320 --> 05:28.760 Not until you patronize this charity. 05:28.760 --> 05:31.800 As a preparation of polishing off your husband after marriage, 05:31.800 --> 05:34.040 why not try a few rounds with a rifle? 05:34.040 --> 05:35.760 Show us what kind of a shot you are. 05:35.760 --> 05:36.600 No, please. 05:36.600 --> 05:40.000 No, no, no, here's a neat little model, Winchester 61. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.240 22 caliber, yeah, try it. 05:42.240 --> 05:44.080 I know it's stupid and silly on me, 05:44.080 --> 05:46.680 and it's not the rifle really. 05:46.680 --> 05:49.280 It's anything to do with death. 05:49.280 --> 05:50.120 Death? 05:50.120 --> 05:52.480 I mean anything that suggests death. 05:52.480 --> 05:54.400 Ever since I was a child, 05:54.400 --> 05:56.400 I've never even been able to look at a dead person 05:56.400 --> 05:59.360 in a coffin, it scares me. 05:59.360 --> 06:02.120 Mary, a dead person? 06:02.120 --> 06:03.640 Somebody's going to get killed, darling. 06:03.640 --> 06:06.160 You just fire away and see if you can hit the target. 06:06.160 --> 06:08.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 06:08.640 --> 06:10.520 All right, if you insist, I... 06:10.520 --> 06:11.360 Watch out! 06:12.880 --> 06:16.080 Bullseye, you've hit the electric light in the roof. 06:16.080 --> 06:17.280 You're not supposed to aim at that. 06:17.280 --> 06:18.120 Oh, I'm so sorry, I... 06:18.120 --> 06:20.280 Look here, speaking of dying, 06:20.280 --> 06:22.560 if that's your style of target shooting, 06:22.560 --> 06:24.840 down if I'm not going to crawl out from under this counter 06:24.840 --> 06:26.080 and stand behind her. 06:26.080 --> 06:27.080 Here, make way. 06:27.080 --> 06:28.960 It isn't funny, Phil. 06:28.960 --> 06:31.080 I'm sorry, but I can't go on with this. 06:31.080 --> 06:32.520 Here's the rifle. 06:32.520 --> 06:33.600 All right, here I am. 06:34.560 --> 06:37.000 Sorry, Mary, if I'd known it was going to affect you like this. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.160 Oh, it's all right. 06:38.160 --> 06:39.360 I tell you what, you run along 06:39.360 --> 06:41.240 and see the fortune teller, my dear. 06:41.240 --> 06:42.560 Come with me, Phil, won't you? 06:42.560 --> 06:45.000 He'll only admit one at a time. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.360 Well, why don't you go ahead, darling? 06:47.360 --> 06:48.520 I'll wait for you here. 06:48.520 --> 06:49.520 All right, Phil. 06:51.520 --> 06:54.840 You know, Major, I am an idiot for upsetting her. 06:54.840 --> 06:57.320 You're a very lucky young fellow, my lad. 06:57.320 --> 06:59.280 I hope you realize that. 06:59.280 --> 07:01.640 Oh, I realize it all right. 07:01.640 --> 07:04.920 I hope this fortune teller doesn't keep her in there very long. 07:04.920 --> 07:06.720 Yeah, why? 07:06.720 --> 07:09.240 Look at the sky, it's getting black as pitch. 07:09.240 --> 07:10.920 If you're not careful, this wind is going to blow 07:10.920 --> 07:12.560 all your tents into the next county. 07:12.560 --> 07:15.120 Well, these tents are pretty securely pegged, young fellow. 07:15.120 --> 07:16.680 I think we can risk it. 07:16.680 --> 07:18.720 It's so dark that... 07:18.720 --> 07:19.800 Wait a minute, look there. 07:19.800 --> 07:21.400 Yeah, where? 07:21.400 --> 07:23.640 The fortune teller's tent. 07:23.640 --> 07:24.720 He's got a light inside 07:24.720 --> 07:26.520 and you can see his shadow against the tent. 07:26.520 --> 07:30.200 It's like his shadow's green. 07:30.200 --> 07:33.000 Look, sir, there's Mary going in. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.240 Now she's sitting down across the table from him. 07:35.240 --> 07:36.440 I say, young fellow, 07:36.440 --> 07:39.200 do you happen to know who the fortune teller really is? 07:39.200 --> 07:41.120 No, as a matter of fact, I was going to ask you. 07:41.120 --> 07:42.760 Well, I'll tell you a little secret. 07:42.760 --> 07:46.120 He's a detective inspector from Scotland Yard. 07:46.120 --> 07:47.520 A what? 07:47.520 --> 07:50.040 A detective inspector from Scotland Yard. 07:50.040 --> 07:53.320 He came down here on business, forged half-prounds or something. 07:53.320 --> 07:55.440 So the chief constable and I asked him to do our, 07:55.440 --> 07:57.040 be our fortune teller. 07:57.040 --> 07:58.960 He's one of these glittering-eyed blokes 07:58.960 --> 08:01.560 and in a turban with brown paint on his face. 08:01.560 --> 08:02.960 Does he know anything about palmistry? 08:02.960 --> 08:05.720 No, no, but he knows a lot about human nature. 08:05.720 --> 08:08.520 That, my lad, is Inspector Brandon. 08:08.520 --> 08:11.040 He's a specialist in poison cases. 08:11.040 --> 08:12.720 They say never forgets a face. 08:12.720 --> 08:13.600 Wait a minute. 08:13.600 --> 08:16.000 Why, is anything wrong? 08:16.000 --> 08:18.320 What's he saying to Mary? 08:18.320 --> 08:20.640 Look at those shadows. 08:20.640 --> 08:23.280 Mary's jumped up and back to waiting. 08:23.280 --> 08:24.800 He's pointing his finger at her. 08:24.800 --> 08:26.360 Now she's backing out of the tent. 08:26.360 --> 08:27.400 Look, Major, he's following her. 08:27.400 --> 08:29.080 Can you hear what he's saying? 08:29.080 --> 08:33.200 Remember, my dear, ashes to ashes and dust to dust. 08:33.200 --> 08:34.400 No, no. 08:34.400 --> 08:37.360 Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. 08:49.360 --> 08:51.440 Mary, darling, get hold of yourself. 08:51.440 --> 08:53.440 Mary. 08:53.440 --> 08:55.760 Darling, you shouldn't get all upset over that fortune 08:55.760 --> 08:57.400 telling lingo. 08:57.400 --> 08:58.280 What's wrong with you? 08:58.280 --> 09:00.240 What was he saying to you? 09:00.240 --> 09:01.960 Saying to me? 09:01.960 --> 09:03.880 Nothing at all, really. 09:03.880 --> 09:07.120 Only the usual thing about a happy life and a little illness, 09:07.120 --> 09:08.040 but nothing serious. 09:08.040 --> 09:10.280 Then why were you so frightened? 09:10.280 --> 09:12.000 Frightened? 09:12.000 --> 09:13.280 But I wasn't frightened. 09:13.280 --> 09:14.720 Oh, no, Mary, I'm sorry. 09:14.720 --> 09:16.960 I saw your shadow on the wall of that tent 09:16.960 --> 09:19.480 and I heard you shrieking. 09:19.480 --> 09:21.600 I think I'll go in and get my fortune told 09:21.600 --> 09:22.800 and see what all this is about. 09:22.800 --> 09:23.840 Phil, you mustn't. 09:23.840 --> 09:24.680 Why not? 09:24.680 --> 09:27.120 I felt a drop of rain on my head. 09:27.120 --> 09:28.920 It's going to pour down in a second. 09:28.920 --> 09:30.400 Hadn't we better run for the house? 09:30.400 --> 09:32.480 Well, you go on up to the house, Mary. 09:32.480 --> 09:35.840 Oh, Phil, I don't want to be by myself. 09:35.840 --> 09:37.080 All right, then, dear. 09:37.080 --> 09:37.840 There's the Major. 09:37.840 --> 09:39.880 Here, give him this gun, will you? 09:39.880 --> 09:41.760 I'll be with you in a moment. 09:41.760 --> 09:43.200 I'm going to see that faker. 09:46.720 --> 09:49.560 Fortune teller, may I come in? 09:49.560 --> 09:51.480 You may. 09:51.480 --> 09:54.040 Please to enter. 09:54.040 --> 09:55.880 Thank you. 09:55.880 --> 09:57.720 Sit down in the chair opposite to me. 09:57.720 --> 09:59.920 First tell me the date of your birth, 09:59.920 --> 10:02.120 then look at the crystal on the table in front of you. 10:02.120 --> 10:03.440 Just a minute, Inspector Brandon. 10:03.440 --> 10:06.000 Do you mind if we drop the mumbo jumbo? 10:06.000 --> 10:07.760 Well, as a matter of fact, I'd like to drop it. 10:07.760 --> 10:11.920 It's been rid of a strain talking like Hamlet's ghost. 10:11.920 --> 10:13.880 Well, what's on your mind? 10:13.880 --> 10:16.760 Well, maybe it's only the heat or my own nerves, 10:16.760 --> 10:19.360 but what were you saying to Miss Sherwood? 10:19.360 --> 10:20.760 Miss who? 10:20.760 --> 10:23.880 The young lady who was just in here, my fiancee. 10:23.880 --> 10:25.320 What's wrong? 10:25.320 --> 10:26.480 Why did you jump like that? 10:26.480 --> 10:28.440 Did you say fiancee? 10:28.440 --> 10:29.520 Of course, why not? 10:29.520 --> 10:30.600 Now look here, mister. 10:30.600 --> 10:33.240 Oh, my name is Lester, Philip Lester. 10:33.240 --> 10:35.400 And what did you say her name is? 10:35.400 --> 10:37.800 Mary Sherwood. 10:37.800 --> 10:39.680 Here, what's all this mystery? 10:39.680 --> 10:42.880 Tell me, Mr. Lester, has she lived here in the village 10:42.880 --> 10:44.280 for very long? 10:44.280 --> 10:45.640 Oh, only about six months. 10:45.640 --> 10:47.400 How long have you been engaged to her? 10:47.400 --> 10:49.640 Believe me, I have a reason for asking that. 10:49.640 --> 10:52.160 How long have you been engaged? 10:52.160 --> 10:54.160 Well, a week tomorrow, but... 10:54.160 --> 10:56.280 A week tomorrow? 10:56.280 --> 10:57.640 Hmm. 10:57.640 --> 10:59.160 Did she by any chance invite you to dinner 10:59.160 --> 11:01.080 at her house tomorrow night? 11:01.080 --> 11:01.680 Dinner? 11:01.680 --> 11:03.360 Has she? 11:03.360 --> 11:05.480 Yes, as a matter of fact, she has, but I don't see... 11:05.480 --> 11:09.800 You know who this Mary Sherwood really is? 11:09.800 --> 11:11.000 No? 11:11.000 --> 11:13.120 Well, I'll tell you, she is... 11:13.120 --> 11:13.880 Inspector Brandon! 11:13.880 --> 11:15.440 Ah! 11:15.440 --> 11:17.840 Never stand with your shadow against the light! 11:17.840 --> 11:18.520 Here, hit! 11:18.520 --> 11:20.480 Mr. Brandon, I'm terribly sorry, 11:20.480 --> 11:23.480 but Philip shouldn't have given me this dreadful rifle to hold. 11:23.480 --> 11:25.960 All I did was touch the trigger by accident. 11:25.960 --> 11:28.120 I hope I haven't hit anything. 11:32.480 --> 11:35.160 In the quiet village of Sutton, later that same night, 11:35.160 --> 11:38.840 after the unfortunate accident that couldn't be helped, 11:38.840 --> 11:41.360 a rather white-faced young man, Philip Lester, 11:41.360 --> 11:44.960 slips down the road, pauses in front of the door to the inn, 11:44.960 --> 11:47.680 starts to enter, and then changes his mind. 11:47.680 --> 11:50.000 He looks over his shoulder and then walks around the building, 11:50.000 --> 11:52.960 being very careful to stay within its shadow. 11:52.960 --> 11:56.400 He slips in through the side door and makes sure that no one sees him, 11:56.400 --> 11:58.280 as he makes his way quietly up the stairs 11:58.280 --> 12:00.960 to a darkened passageway outside the bedrooms, 12:00.960 --> 12:02.640 glances at the number on the first door, 12:02.640 --> 12:05.200 and then hurries down the hall, 12:05.200 --> 12:07.320 stops in front of room 27. 12:07.320 --> 12:08.840 Oh! 12:08.840 --> 12:10.480 Yes? 12:10.480 --> 12:13.120 Come in! 12:13.120 --> 12:14.320 Inspector Brandon, I... 12:14.320 --> 12:15.600 Why, I thought... 12:15.600 --> 12:16.600 Close the door, close it quickly. 12:16.600 --> 12:18.360 Yes, sir. 12:18.360 --> 12:19.560 You... 12:19.560 --> 12:20.720 You're sitting up. 12:20.720 --> 12:22.760 And taking an audition, thank you. 12:22.760 --> 12:24.000 Oh... 12:24.000 --> 12:25.360 Excuse me, Inspector, but I... 12:25.360 --> 12:27.680 heard you were still unconscious and not expected to live. 12:27.680 --> 12:31.040 Yes, that was the report that I asked Dr. Stiles to give out. 12:31.040 --> 12:31.600 But why? 12:31.600 --> 12:34.520 I had my reasons, Mr. Lester. 12:34.520 --> 12:37.440 As you can see, fortunately, I was the recipient of only a flesh wound 12:37.440 --> 12:38.960 across the left shoulder. 12:38.960 --> 12:41.120 It bled a little, but not much. 12:41.120 --> 12:43.000 Then, Inspector, poor Mary's nearly frantic. 12:43.000 --> 12:44.920 She thinks she's killed you. Let me ring her up and... 12:44.920 --> 12:46.760 Stay away from her telephone! 12:46.760 --> 12:47.480 Why? 12:47.480 --> 12:48.920 Because... 12:48.920 --> 12:52.760 Because I want to tell you a few things about Miss Mary Sherwood. 12:52.760 --> 12:54.840 In the first place, she isn't a miss. 12:54.840 --> 12:56.040 She's... 12:56.040 --> 12:57.520 She's had three husbands already. 12:57.520 --> 12:57.920 What? 12:57.920 --> 13:00.800 All of whom died a violent death 13:00.800 --> 13:02.800 by poisoning. 13:02.800 --> 13:03.640 What are you trying to tell me? 13:03.640 --> 13:06.880 Now, just a moment before you lose your temper. 13:06.880 --> 13:10.880 Three husbands and one fiancée whom she didn't bother to marry. 13:10.880 --> 13:12.400 First, the fiancée. 13:12.400 --> 13:15.440 They made mutual wills in each other's favor. 13:15.440 --> 13:17.600 Exactly a week after the engagement, 13:17.600 --> 13:21.000 following dinner at her house, this fellow was taken ill. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.800 Ah, he died before morning in Titanic convulsion. 13:23.800 --> 13:25.160 Inspector, that's ridiculous. 13:25.160 --> 13:27.840 Mary, why she's so young and innocent. 13:27.840 --> 13:29.000 Young, perhaps, but... 13:29.000 --> 13:30.000 I don't believe it. 13:30.000 --> 13:32.720 Don't take my word for it. 13:32.720 --> 13:35.440 I've sent Sergeant Lamb to London on the file. 13:35.440 --> 13:37.640 You can see photographs and fingerprints. 13:37.640 --> 13:38.680 I still don't believe it. 13:38.680 --> 13:41.480 Then tell me, Mr. Lester. 13:41.480 --> 13:45.080 You're quite a wealthy man, aren't you? 13:45.080 --> 13:46.680 Yes, I'm fairly well off. 13:46.680 --> 13:49.200 Have you and this woman made a will in each other's favor? 13:49.200 --> 13:50.280 Mary wouldn't need to do that. 13:50.280 --> 13:52.640 She's got plenty of money and a collection of jewels worth, 13:52.640 --> 13:53.440 I don't know how much. 13:53.440 --> 13:55.920 I quite agree, but you haven't answered my question. 13:55.920 --> 14:00.000 Have you made a will in each other's favor? 14:00.000 --> 14:00.320 Yes. 14:00.320 --> 14:01.880 Whose suggestion was that? 14:01.880 --> 14:02.680 Yours or hers? 14:02.680 --> 14:03.280 I don't remember. 14:03.280 --> 14:05.760 We started talking and agreed it would be a sensible idea. 14:05.760 --> 14:07.360 But it shocked you a little, didn't it? 14:07.360 --> 14:09.480 Now, you wondered why it was necessary. 14:09.480 --> 14:11.680 It's back to the... 14:11.680 --> 14:14.440 A minute ago, you were talking about photographs 14:14.440 --> 14:15.440 and fingerprints. 14:15.440 --> 14:17.880 Well? 14:17.880 --> 14:20.680 You don't mean Mary's been on trial. 14:20.680 --> 14:23.920 She has been on trial three times. 14:23.920 --> 14:25.960 Yes, three times, and under three different names. 14:25.960 --> 14:26.640 But she was acquitted. 14:26.640 --> 14:28.520 Yes, because she had a cast-down alibi. 14:28.520 --> 14:29.400 There, you see? 14:29.400 --> 14:31.040 Wait. 14:31.040 --> 14:33.600 She was acquitted simply because the prosecution couldn't 14:33.600 --> 14:39.880 show how the poison was administered.