The Stranger1946

Mr. Wilson:
Look out the window. Look!

Professor Charles Rankin:
Well, that's... that's an old trick, Mr. Wilson, a very poor trick.

Mr. Wilson:
Tricks. That's all you know is tricks. I don't need any tricks! And no matter what happens to me, tricks won't do you any good. You're finished, Herr Franz Kindler.

[noise of a crowd begins to build outside the church]

Mr. Wilson:
The citizens of Harper, they've come after you. The plain, little, ordinary people, the ones you've been laughing at, Herr Franz Kindler! Well, you can't fool them anymore. Oh, sure, you can kill me, Mary, half the people down there, but there's no escape. You had a world and it closed in on you till there was only Harper. That closed in on you and there was only this room! And this room, too, is closing in on you! It's not true, the things they say I did. It was all their idea.

Professor Charles Rankin:
I followed orders.

Mr. Wilson:
You gave the orders.

Professor Charles Rankin:
I only did my duty. Don't send me back to them. I can't face them. I'm not a criminal.

Mr. Wilson:
You are.