Capítulo 13 de 13 · 3'18"
Lisa broke into Thorwald's apartment and got caught, and Jeff is trying to fix it by phone: bail money on one line, the detective on the other. What he really sells Doyle is the evidence she walked out with: "Like Mrs. Thorwald's wedding ring. That's like what." A ring left behind, he argues, means the wife is not alive.
Lisa Goes After Thorwald Herself
❝ Monólogo · 4 frases Jeff's closing argument
He knots the calls, the card and the case into one tightening argument.
Lisa sneaks into Thorwald's apartment for evidence and gets arrested. Jeff scrambles: he sends Stella for his wallet to post bail, then phones Doyle and tells him Lisa came out with proof — Mrs. Thorwald's wedding ring. If the wife were alive, he argues, she would be wearing it. Doyle agrees to run the ring down.
The scene is a comic scramble with a serious point underneath. Lisa has done what nobody else would: walked into the suspect's apartment and come out with hard evidence. Jeff, meanwhile, is stuck in a chair, reduced to phone calls and small change. His own line names what she pulled off — "She went in to get evidence and she came out with evidence" — and the ring is the proof: "If that woman was alive, she'd be wearing that ring." Doyle's skepticism is finally cracking, but not because of the ring alone; Jeff has also noticed the buried garden, the night trips with a metal case, and the long-distance calls. The humour comes from the contrast: the man who cannot walk is the one piecing the case together, while the police detective keeps saying he will run it down.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“Well, unless he's dumber than I think he is, he won't wait until his lease is up.”
A single mocking concession shows how well he reads the man, and he enjoys it.
Informal
“If that woman was alive, she'd be wearing that ring. Right?”
An unreal conditional turns a small object into proof and leaves the other man nowhere to go.
Neutral
“Like Mrs. Thorwald's wedding ring. That's like what.”
He throws the mocking question back in three words, and the anger is all in the repetition.
Informal
“She went in to get evidence and she came out with evidence.”
The mirrored in-and-out structure turns a tense arrest into a triumphant punchline.
Neutral
And I'll tell you something else. All the telephone calls he made were long distance, all right? Now, if he called his wife long distance on the day she left, after she arrived in Merritsville, why did she write a card to him saying that she'd arrived in Merritsville?
She broke into Thorwald's apartment to look for evidence and he came home. Jeff called the police to get her out safely, so she was taken in and needed bail.
Mrs. Thorwald's wedding ring. Jeff argues that a living woman would be wearing it, so its being left behind suggests the wife is dead.
He wants the detective to take the case seriously. He reports Lisa's arrest and the ring, and lists the other clues: the buried garden, the metal case and the long-distance calls.
It means to ruin or mess something up. Doyle uses it when he tells Jeff not to spoil his evening with another crazy-killer story.
He says he will run the ring down and, if it checks out, put an escort on Thorwald. He also sends someone with bail money for Lisa.
