:18:02
I can't tell you now.
:18:05
I will later, when I can.
:18:07
You've got to trust me, Mr. Spade.
:18:10
I'm so alone and afraid.
:18:13
I've got nobody to help me
if you won't help me.
:18:16
Be generous, Mr. Spade.
:18:18
You're brave. You're strong.
:18:20
You can spare me some
of that courage and strength, surely.
:18:23
Help me, Mr. Spade. I need help so badly.
:18:25
I've no right to ask you, I know I haven't,
but I do ask you.
:18:29
Help me.
:18:31
You won't need much of anybody's help.
You're good.
:18:34
It's chiefly your eyes,
and that throb you got in your voice...
:18:37
...when you say things like,
"Be generous, Mr. Spade".
:18:40
I deserve that.
:18:42
But the lie was in the way I said it,
not at all in what I said.
:18:48
It's my own fault
if you can't believe me now.
:18:52
Now, you are dangerous.
:18:54
I'm afraid I won't be able
to be of much help to you...
:18:57
...without some idea of what it's about.
:18:59
For instance, I've gotta have some sort
of a line on your Floyd Thursby.
:19:03
I met him in the Orient.
:19:05
We came from Hong Kong last week.
He promised to help me.
:19:07
He took advantage of my dependence
on him to betray me.
:19:10
Betray you? How?
Why did you want him shadowed?
:19:13
To find out how far he'd gone,
whom he'd met, things like that.
:19:17
- Did he kill Archer?
- Certainly.
:19:19
He had a Luger in his shoulder holster.
Archer wasn't shot with a Luger.
:19:24
Mr. Spade, you don't think I had anything
to do with the death of Mr. Archer?
:19:29
- Did you?
- No.
:19:30
That's good.
:19:31
Floyd always carried an extra revolver
in his coat pocket.
:19:34
Why all the guns?
:19:36
He lived by them.
:19:37
The story is that he first came
to the Orient...
:19:40
...as bodyguard to a gambler
who'd had to leave the States.
:19:42
The gambler had since disappeared
and Floyd knew about it. I don't know.
:19:46
I do know he always went heavily armed,
and he never went to sleep...
:19:50
...without covering the floor around his bed
with newspapers...
:19:53
...so that nobody could come silently
into his room.
:19:55
You picked a nice sort of playmate.
:19:57
Only that sort could have helped me,
if he'd been loyal.