Rear Window evaluation action
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L.B. Jefferies: Who said they left then?
Tom Doyle: Who left where?
L.B. Jefferies: The Thorwalds at six o'clock in the morning yesterday.
Tom Doyle: The building superintendant and two tennants in the building lobby. Flat out statements with no hesitation. The Thorwalds were on their way to the railroad station.
L.B. Jefferies: Now Tom, how could anyone possible guess that? Did they have signs on their luggage saying 'Grand Central or Bust'?
Tom Doyle: The superintenant met Thorwald when he came back. When he asked where he'd been, Mr. Thorwald told him that he took his wife to Grand Central Railroad Station and put her on a train for the country. See?
L.B. Jefferies: I see. This superintenant must be a pretty bright guy. Have you checked his bank statements recently? See if he was paid off?
Tom Doyle: [bewildered] Huh?
L.B. Jefferies: Well, what good is his information? It's a second-hand version of an unsupported story by the murderer himself: Thorwald. Now, did anyone actually see the woman that Thorwald was with get on the train?
Tom Doyle: Jeff, I hate to bring this up but this whole thing started because you said she was murdered. Now, did you or anyone else see Mrs. Thorwald being murdered?
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L.B. Jefferies: All right, Doyle. I take it that you didn't find the trunk. And all of this is just some speech you made up at a policeman's ball!
Tom Doyle: I found the trunk, a half an hour after I left here this morning. It was at Grand Central Station.
Lisa Fremont: I suppose it's necessary for a man to tie up a trunk with heavy rope?
Tom Doyle: If the lock is broken, yes.
L.B. Jefferies: And what did you find inside the trunk? Surely no tomato paste to me?
Tom Doyle: Mrs. Thorwald's clothes. Clean, well-packed, not stylish, but presentable.
Lisa Fremont: Didn't you take them to the crime lab to have them examined?
Tom Doyle: I re-packed them and sent them on their merry and legal way.
L.B. Jefferies: Why would a woman who is going away for a short trip does she take everything that she owns?
Tom Doyle: [glares at Lisa] Let's let the female psychologist answer that.
Lisa Fremont: It's looks to me like she is never coming back.
Tom Doyle: Now, that is known as a private family quarrel.
L.B. Jefferies: All right, but if she was never coming back, why didn't he tell his landlord that? I'll tell you why Thorwald never told his landlord that his wife was never coming back. It's because he was hiding something in the apartment... or he still is.
Tom Doyle: [stares at Lisa's overnight bag nearby] Do you tell your landlord everything?
L.B. Jefferies: [embarassed] Uh... I told you to be careful, Tom.