Under Suspicion Page #2

Synopsis: A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. This will only take ten minutes, they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Stephen Hopkins
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
49%
R
Year:
2000
110 min
Website
748 Views


Everyone has somewhere else

they'd like to be.

Now, Henry, if you don't mind...

please...

tell us one more time

how you came upon the girl.

I jogged up to Ricardi's

like I always do.

I grabbed the dog.

Better run him

a little faster, Henry.

He's getting a belly

as round as yours!

F***in' old geezer.

Come on, boy.

Let's go. Let's go!

This dog-

He was definitely with you?

What dialect do you need this in?

Yes, the dog was with me.

The dog was with me.

Got it?

You're saying Tango-

He was there.

Good. You're catching on.

Tango's all right.

Keeps me company

on my runs.

We took the path

by my house like always.

- Suddenly Tango wasn't there.

- Tango, come on, boy!

I called to him,

but he wouldn't come.

I could hear him.

He was growling, barking...

acting peculiar.

That's when I turned back.

I kept calling.

Tango, come on, boy.

The dog wouldn't come.

You couldn't see the girl

at this point?

Obviously not from the path.

But I could see Tango

in there moving around.

So you ventured off

into the grove.

That's when I saw her.

At first I thought

she was asleep.

She was almost-

I want to say-

angelic.

The way she just lay there.

Her eyes-

They were dark brown.

They were still open.

Sue Ellen Huddy.

She was three days shy

of her 13th birthday.

- How did you discern she was dead?

- I touched her.

I mean, I put my head

on her chest.

There was no heartbeat.

That was that.

- The dog found the body.

- That's correct.

Mr. Ricardi states firmly that

you did not run the dog yesterday.

He admits that on most days you do,

but not yesterday.

Well, he just

doesn't remember right.

Well, that may be, but in that case,

your neighbor...

Miss Lazzo,

doesn't remember either.

And another neighbor, Mr. Irwin,

also suffers memory loss.

In the whole area, you're the only one

who remembers correctly.

- Who am I to believe?

- Them, naturally.

Come on. You're taking this personally.

I'm just trying to find the truth.

You know, you enjoy hounding me.

- How is that, Henry?

- You forget I know all your tricks.

A murder by some thug or nutcase-

That's average.

But when it's a pillar

of the legal community...

that's more than

just a witness-

Then it's banner headlines,

television.

It'd help in your push to become

our next police superintendent, right?

Come on, Victor.

Confess.

See? I got you.

Let's say you're right.

Everything you say.

I bag a prominent attorney...

hang his pelt on the trophy wall

of my new luxurious offices.

What about your neighbors, then?

Are you saying that

they're all out to get you too?

- How would I know?

- Why would they be?

Maybe because I'm very rich?

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