Cape Fear

00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,980 caused his landlady to ask him to vacate the premises. 373 00:27:54,298 --> 00:27:57,258 He was forced to find other, uh, more expensive lodgings. 374 00:27:57,634 --> 00:28:00,261 All right, what are you getting at? What's the point? 375 00:28:00,387 --> 00:28:02,805 Don't the police have a right to interrogate a suspect, anymore? 376 00:28:04,058 --> 00:28:05,350 Sam... 377 00:28:06,393 --> 00:28:09,062 You know, if-if anybody had told me, a week ago, 378 00:28:09,146 --> 00:28:11,689 that you were capable of a remark like that... 379 00:28:13,817 --> 00:28:16,361 Uh, uh, let me continue with the pattern... 380 00:28:16,445 --> 00:28:18,529 On Wednesday, he was picked up twice! 381 00:28:18,614 --> 00:28:21,908 First on Suspicion of Burglary, second, on Suspicion of Grand Theft Auto. 382 00:28:22,117 --> 00:28:25,536 His new landlord become aware of this, in some manner... 383 00:28:25,788 --> 00:28:27,872 And again, Mr. Cady was forced to move. 384 00:28:27,956 --> 00:28:30,124 His present lodgings are squalid and uncomfortable. 385 00:28:30,834 --> 00:28:33,795 Well, today is Thursday. You must be about finished. 386 00:28:33,879 --> 00:28:35,213 For the moment, yes. 387 00:28:35,297 --> 00:28:37,632 Then what is this "pattern" you're talkin' about? 388 00:28:38,634 --> 00:28:42,345 Well, I'm sure that, uh, Mr. Bowden here is still enough of a lawyer to see it. 389 00:28:43,806 --> 00:28:45,723 My client is an ex-convict. 390 00:28:45,808 --> 00:28:48,059 He's been constantly harassed by the police. 391 00:28:48,143 --> 00:28:50,812 Subjected to extreme mental cruelty and public degradation! 392 00:28:50,896 --> 00:28:53,481 He's even been denied an adequate place to live! 393 00:28:53,649 --> 00:28:56,567 To be very blunt, gentlemen, my client has been thoroughly rousted! 394 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,824 And isn't it also a fact... that with manpower as short as you say it is, 395 00:29:03,534 --> 00:29:07,320 that officers are assigned, day and night, to guarding the premises 396 00:29:07,404 --> 00:29:10,473 of one private individual who happens to be a personal friend of yours? 397 00:29:10,457 --> 00:29:12,458 This, without any evidence of danger! 398 00:29:12,643 --> 00:29:13,893 You're referring to my house. 399 00:29:14,745 --> 00:29:15,545 Yes, I am! 400 00:29:16,271 --> 00:29:17,410 Then I ask... 401 00:29:18,934 --> 00:29:20,775 Who furnished you with that information? 402 00:29:31,645 --> 00:29:35,389 Well, I think you will find that this is a matter, of uh... 403 00:29:35,473 --> 00:29:37,691 of common knowledge, in the department. 404 00:29:37,818 --> 00:29:39,569 Grafton, I want you to listen to this: 405 00:29:40,362 --> 00:29:43,906 I don't owe Sam Bowden any special favors, nor do I give any. 406 00:29:44,575 --> 00:29:46,884 In each twenty-four hours, there's been less than two hours 407 00:29:46,969 --> 00:29:50,096 devoted to guarding his house, and I'm prepared to substantiate that! 408 00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:51,831 Now, are you finished? 409 00:29:54,251 --> 00:29:56,377 That depends, gentlemen. 410 00:29:56,795 --> 00:30:02,133 It depends wholly on the treatment that my client receives, from now on. 411 00:30:04,219 --> 00:30:05,553 Come, Mr. Cady. 412 00:30:06,989 --> 00:30:08,281 Gentlemen. 413 00:30:12,478 --> 00:30:14,520 I'll, uh, see you around, Counselor. 414 00:30:22,905 --> 00:30:25,406 Well, now you can see why I wanted you to hear this, Sam. 415 00:30:25,491 --> 00:30:28,409 I can't do anything more, without an overt act. 416 00:30:28,535 --> 00:30:30,536 Like a neat little murder? 417 00:30:30,621 --> 00:30:32,914 Yeah? You show me a law that prevents crime. 418 00:30:33,874 --> 00:30:36,000 All we can do is act after the fact. 419 00:30:36,084 --> 00:30:37,668 You remember the Hoffman murder? 420 00:30:38,337 --> 00:30:41,172 Before she was killed, Mrs. Hoffman came up here, week after week, 421 00:30:41,256 --> 00:30:44,217 tellin' us that her husband was gonna do it, and I believed it. 422 00:30:44,301 --> 00:30:46,777 But I couldn't arrest a man for somethin' that might be in his mind. 423 00:30:46,862 --> 00:30:48,154 That's dictatorship. 424 00:30:48,722 --> 00:30:50,223 Now, Sam, you're a citizen. 425 00:30:50,307 --> 00:30:51,933 Would you want it any other way? 426 00:30:56,647 --> 00:30:58,481 Well, what am I supposed to do? 427 00:30:59,775 --> 00:31:03,544 Pull up the drawbridge? Sit home with a loaded gun? 428 00:31:03,629 --> 00:31:05,196 Have the groceries dropped in by airlift? 429 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,532 That's kind of an artificial way to live, wouldn't you say? 430 00:31:08,825 --> 00:31:11,536 Sam, I'm going to make a humiliating suggestion. 431 00:31:11,820 --> 00:31:13,996 And it