The Talk of the Town Page #3

- It's all very simple.

Who owns that car?

Professor Lightcap has arrived.

These are his pyjamas.

Take that look off your face.

I stayed to finish the house.

It was too late to phone you...

- Hi, Nora.

- Donald, what are you doing here?

- That's some getup.

- What do you want?

Came to interview Lightcap.

- He's not even here yet.

- Not expected for weeks.

- I'd know his pyjamas anywhere.

- How'd he know that?

Get a shot of Miss Shelley...

You lift that camera, I bust it.

Get out of here.

It serves you right, Nora.

Get dressed and come right...

Oh, a beard.

I take it all back, baby.

And what, may I ask, is going on here?

Professor, this is my mother.

Professor Lightcap, I'm so glad.

I've heard of you but

I was afraid you were a younger man.

My name is Forrester.

I'd like an interview.

I'm sorry.

- Your opinion in the Dilg case would...

- Dilg's escaped.

- No!

- Yeah.

What do you say about this jailbreak?

An admission of guilt?

- I'm not acquainted with the case.

- The burning of the Holmes factory...

- Mr. Lightcap wants his breakfast.

- And reasonable solitude.

Now will you please go.

- Will you come right home?

- Yes, dear.

- Where does it go, Miss Shelley?

- Right over there.

- Excuse me, bud.

- No, right over there, Eddie.

- You weren't expected till noon.

- That is becoming quite evident.

- Bless you.

- Thank you.

- You must've been caught in the rain.

- I was.

- Your mother doesn't seem frightening.

- She's very changeable.

- Why should I be frightening?

- Now, Mother, he wants to do his work.

Get out of those pyjamas.

- Why, Sam Yates! Look at you.

- Hello, Nora.

I'm hiding in the middle of a parade.

- Why, Sam Yates.

- Michael. I'll be doggoned.

- How'd you know I wanted to see him?

- I didn't know you knew him.

I went to school with him.

What did you call me about then?

- I didn't call you.

- You didn't?

- They gave me a message...

- Somebody must be cuckoo.

- Have you been fighting?

- I fight three times a day.

At school you had a tendency toward

riots. I thought you'd outgrow it.

I hate the way this town

is going after Leopold Dilg.

Anybody who believes what Holmes says

about him has got to settle with me.

I take it you're Dilg's lawyer.

I am not. That is, I am.

The state appointed me.

But Dilg doesn't want me. He says an

innocent man doesn't need a lawyer.

- Original thinker.

- He certainly is.

He's the only honest man in town

and they want to hang him.

Sam, really.

He's been shouting for years

that Holmes is crooked.

Mind you, he's just a worker with

gumption enough to fight the boss.

Getting quite a following too.

So, what happens?

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