A scene from Dial M for Murder 1954
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

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.

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