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Come in. Come in, Walter.
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Hello, Keyes.
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I want to ask you something.
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After all the years we've known each other,
do you mind if I make a rather blunt statement?
1:18:12
- About what?
- About me.
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Walter, I'm a very great man.
This Dietrichson business.
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It's murder,
and murders don't come any neater.
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As fancy a piece of homicide
as anybody ever ran into.
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Smart and tricky and almost perfect, but...
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I think Papa has it all figured out...
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figured out and wrapped up in tissue paper
with pink ribbons on it.
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Go ahead, I'm listening.
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You know what?
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That guy Dietrichson
was never on the train.
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- He wasn't?
- No, he wasn't.
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Now look Walter,
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you can't be sure of killing a man
by throwing him off a train...
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that's going 15 miles an hour.
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The only way you can be sure
is to kill him first...
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and then
throw his body on the tracks.
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That would mean either killing him
on the train...
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or... and this is where
it really gets fancy...
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you kill him somewhere else
and put him on the tracks.
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Two possibilities,
and I personally buy the second.
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- You're way ahead of me, Keyes.
- Look, Walter, it was like this.
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They killed the guy...
the wife and somebody else...
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and then the somebody else took the crutches
and went on the train as Dietrichson
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and then the somebody else jumped off
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and then they put the body on the tracks
where the train had passed.
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An impersonation, see.
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And a cinch to work.
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Because it was night,
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very few people were about,
they had the crutches to stare at
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and they never really looked at the man at all.
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It's fancy all right, Keyes.
Maybe it's a little too fancy.
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Is it? I tell you it fits together
like a watch.
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And now let's see
what we have in the way of proof.
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The only guy that really got a good look
at this supposed Dietrichson...
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is sitting right outside my office.
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I took the trouble
to bring him down here from Oregon.
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- Come in, Mr. Jackson.
- Yes sir, Mr. Keyes.
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- These are fine cigars you smoke.
- Two for a quarter.
1:19:56
- That's what I said.
Did you study those photographs?
- Yes, indeed.