:43:01
- You got it?
- It's blood, all right, quite fresh.
:43:04
I'd say not more than 24 hours.
:43:06
Get it to the lab right away.
:43:08
That clinches it.
Paine was killed in his room.
:43:11
Somebody came in and slugged him.
He bumped his head when he fell.
:43:15
He had a silver plate in his head
:43:17
as a result of a shrapnel wound in
the war. The fall must've killed him.
:43:20
I buy that, Lieutenant.
:43:22
The killer tried to get the body out,
but he was surprised by someone,
:43:26
probably Dixon when he came
through the front door.
:43:29
He ducked behind
the staircase here, and hid the body.
:43:32
That's the reason
for the bloodstain on the wall.
:43:35
- If it is Paine's blood.
- We'll get the lab report shortly.
:43:39
Now, we can establish
the time of the killing
:43:42
as between 12.30,
when Paine must've got here
:43:45
and, uh, 3am, when the killer
knocked out the watchman on the pier.
:43:52
Hello, Dixon. You know Mr Gilroy
from the DA's office.
:43:55
- Sure. How are you?
- Hello.
:43:57
A lot of fancy footwork you did
last night, Dixon. You and Mr Paine.
:44:01
It couldn't be helped, Lieutenant.
:44:03
I can't understand
how you didn't see him.
:44:06
You came in here at 12.50,
Klein talked to you on the phone.
:44:09
That's right.
:44:11
Paine came, packed and left at 1.10.
That's when the taxi picked him up.
:44:15
You must've practically
passed each other.
:44:17
Well, he wasn't here,
so I thought he might be drinking.
:44:20
I had a look in a couple of bars.
:44:22
It's queer to figure a guy on the lam
is going to be sitting around bars.
:44:25
- What time did Dixon come back?
- About 1.50.
:44:28
- And you left right after that?
- Right. We started chasing Paine.
:44:31
It's obvious. He lays a fake trail.
He goes to the Pennsylvania Station,
:44:36
and then he decides to come back
and hide out in his own apartment.
:44:39
He figures the police have been there
and they won't come looking again.
:44:42
What time did Jiggs Taylor
say he was here?
:44:45
- About 2.15.
- That pretty well fingers him.
:44:48
Yeah, and he came down crazy angry,
according to his daughter,
:44:51
- ready to knock Paine's block off.
- You're wasting your time on Taylor.
:44:54
How's that? It looks completely
definite: Motive, opportunity.
:44:58
- Scalise did it.
- I don't see that at all, Dixon.