:59:01
You're gonna get both of us in trouble,
so why don't you be a nice fellow?
:59:04
Why don't you take your big hands off me
and knock off?
:59:06
- I'm warning you Neff. You hear me?
- I hear you. That's the trouble.
:59:08
- I can't seem to tune you out.
- All right. That's enough.
:59:11
Oh, Neff. I didn't know
you lived here too.
:59:15
- I'm ready for your statement
on this story now, Doctor.
- What story is that, Neff?
:59:18
Oh, cut it out. You think I've been
walking around with my head in a bag?
:59:20
You and the Public Health Service
turning this town upside down?
:59:23
A murdered hoodlum, a ship in quarantine
and now a woman dead.
:59:26
- An idiot could figure it out.
- You qualify. What do you figure?
:59:29
I figure the guy had smallpox or cholera
or something like that.
:59:32
And I want to know why this story
wasn't released to the press.
:59:35
- Listen, you...
- Wait a minute, Warren.
:59:41
Now, look, Neff.
:59:43
It isn't smallpox,
and it isn't cholera.
:59:47
It's plague...
pneumonic plague.
:59:53
- Plague?
- That's why we can't let you have the story.
:59:57
- You can't let me have it.
- That's right.
1:00:00
With a chance of an epidemic?
1:00:04
- I knew you guys were crazy...
- Wait a minute, Neff. Wait a minute.
1:00:08
Wait for what?
Somebody else to die?
1:00:10
Not much.
You've already wasted a day and a half.
1:00:14
I'm sorry, but I can't
let you print this story.
1:00:16
You can't let me print it.
Since when have you been making the rules?
1:00:18
- I represent the Public Health Service.
- Well, I represent the public...
1:00:21
and they've got a right to know what's going on,
and no two-bit civil servant...
1:00:23
Regardless of your opinion,
I've got to do what I think is best.
1:00:26
Did you do what you thought was best
for that woman who just died?
1:00:28
If the doctor had known what was going on,
couldn't he have saved her? Couldn't he?
1:00:33
- I don't know.
- You don't know.
1:00:35
And because you don't know,
you don't want anybody else to know.
1:00:37
- Well, there's a chance we could contain...
- You bet there is!
1:00:39
And don't think for a minute that everybody
in this town isn't going to get it.
1:00:42
Aw, drop it. If your editor's got the story,
let him go ahead and print it.
1:00:46
- Well, my editor doesn't have it,
but he's going to get it.
- Oh, he doesn't have it, eh?
1:00:50
What do you know?
1:00:54
- Take him.
- A pleasure.
1:00:56
- What do you think you're trying to pull?
- He speaks to no one.
1:00:59
- What's the charge?
- Loitering, public nuisance, anything you like.