1954 film1954

C.A. Swan:
Where's the nearest police station?

Tony Wendice:
Opposite the church, two minutes walk.

C.A. Swan:
Suppose I walk there now.

Tony Wendice:
What would you tell them?

C.A. Swan:
Everything.

Tony Wendice:
Everything? All about "Mr. Adams" and "Mr. Wilson"?

C.A. Swan:
I should simply tell them that you're trying to blackmail me into...

Tony Wendice:
Into?

C.A. Swan:
...murdering your wife.

Tony Wendice:
[laughs] I almost wish you would. When she heard that we'd have the biggest laugh of our lives.

C.A. Swan:
Aren't you forgetting something?

Tony Wendice:
Am I?

C.A. Swan:
You've told me quite a lot tonight.

Tony Wendice:
What of it?

C.A. Swan:
Suppose I tell them how you followed her to that studio in Chelsea and watched them cooking spaghetti and all that rubbish. Wouldn't that ring a bell?

Tony Wendice:
Oh, it certainly would. They'd assume you'd followed her there yourself.

C.A. Swan:
Me? Why should I?

Tony Wendice:
Why should you steal her handbag? Why should you write her all those blackmail notes? Can you prove you didn't? You certainly can't prove I did. It will be a straight case of your word against mine.