:38:00
The old man who lived downstairs says
he heard the kid yell ´´l´m gonna kill ya.´´
:38:04
A second later,
he heard the body hit the floor.
:38:07
He ran to the door and saw the kid run out
of the house. What´s that mean to you?
:38:12
l wonder how clearly he heard
the boy´s voice through the ceiling.
:38:15
He didn´t. The window was open. So was
the one upstairs. lt was a hot night.
:38:19
lt was another apartment.
lt´s not easy to identify a shouting voice.
:38:23
He identified it in court.
:38:24
The lady across the street looked right in
the open window and saw the stabbing.
:38:29
- lsn´t that enough for you?
- No, it isn´t.
:38:31
Boy, how do you like this guy?
lt´s like talkin´ into a dead phone.
:38:35
She said she saw it through
the windows of a moving el train.
:38:38
There were six cars on the train.
She saw it through the last two.
:38:41
She remembered insignificant details.
How can you argue with that?
:38:45
Has anybody here any idea
how long it would take an el...
:39:00
This isn´t a game.
:39:05
Did you see him?
:39:07
The nerve! The absolute nerve!
:39:11
- Forget it. lt´s not important.
- This isn´t a game?
:39:14
- Who does he think he is?
- Forget it now.
:39:18
Any idea how long it takes an el train
at medium speed to pass a given point?
:39:23
- What has that to do with it?
- Guess.
:39:25
- l wouldn´t have any idea.
- What do you think?
:39:27
- l don´t know. Ten, twelve seconds?
- A pretty good guess. Anyone else?
:39:32
- Sounds right to me.
- What´s the guessing game for?
:39:34
- What do you say?
- Ten seconds.
:39:36
- All right. What are you getting at?
- This.
:39:40
lt takes a six-car el train
ten seconds to pass a given point.
:39:43
Say the given point is the open window
of the room where the killing took place.
:39:47
You can reach out
and almost touch the el tracks, right?
:39:50
Now let me ask you this. Has anyone
here ever lived near the el tracks?
:39:54
l just finished painting an apartment that
overlooked an el line. lt took three days.
:39:59
- What was it like? Noisy?
- Oh, brother! No matter. We were punchy.