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Calloway lectures Martins on the penicillin racket Harry Lime ran: stolen medicine diluted and sold to patients, leaving gangrene, dead mothers and damaged children. He cuts through Martins' outrage with evidence of his own: 'This isn't Santa Fe, I'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy.' Then the projector shows the men behind it.
❝ Monólogo · 4 frases Calloway Tells Martins to Go Home
❝ Monólogo · 6 frases The Truth About Harry's Racket
Calloway has Martins brought to police headquarters and tells him he has been blundering among Vienna's worst racketeers and is now wanted for murder. He explains the penicillin racket, then orders a slide show of the evidence, revealing that the ring was run by Harry Lime and that a man named Harbin, who helped steal the drugs, has disappeared.
The scene is Calloway's prosecution of Harry Lime, delivered as a lecture with a drink and a slide projector. He mocks Martins' western-hero fantasy — 'This isn't Santa Fe, I'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy' — and then replaces it with the arithmetic of the racket: penicillin stolen from military hospitals, 'diluting it to make it go further,' sold to people who needed real medicine. The vilest detail is aimed at sentiment: the children who died were the lucky ones, because the unlucky ones went mad. Calloway is not only informing Martins; he is dismantling the friend he came to defend, and the file and lantern show are the tools. Martins resists, demanding 'one shred of evidence,' and the scene closes on him being handed exactly that — photos linking Lime, Harbin and the rest.
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“This isn't Santa Fe, I'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy.”
Three flat denials strip the western fantasy away, and the rhythm makes the rebuke land.
Informal
“I'm only a little fool. I'm an amateur at it. You're a professional.”
Self-mockery hides the blade: amateur against professional turns the insult around.
Informal
“You've been shaking your cap and bells all over town.”
Cap and bells turns Martins into the town jester, and the image does all the mocking.
literary
“You will. I don't want another murder in this case and you were born to be murdered, so you're going to hear the facts.”
He answers a refusal before it comes, then pins Martins with born to be murdered.
Informal
“Calloway, you haven't shown me one shred of evidence.”
One shred makes the lack of proof feel physical, and the challenge gains weight.
Formal
“This is more like a mortuary than police headquarters.”
The mortuary comparison says in one line how cold and death-soaked the case feels.
Informal
I told you to go away, Martins. This isn't Santa Fe, I'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy. You've been blundering around with the worst bunch of racketeers in Vienna, your precious Harry's friends, and now you're wanted for murder.
These were murders. Men with gangrened legs, women in childbirth, and there were children, too. They used some of this diluted penicillin against meningitis. The lucky children died. The unlucky ones went off their heads. You can see them now in the mental ward. That was the racket Harry Lime organised.
Siguiente · 14in your imageLa escena: Martins and Anna Argue About HarryBecause he has been seen with the racketeers around Harry, and the police hold him responsible for a death connected to the case. Calloway uses the charge to force him to listen.
Stolen penicillin from military hospitals was diluted so it could be sold in greater quantity. The weakened medicine left patients crippled or dead, and children insane, which is how Harry Lime made his money.
By showing photographs and files. He names Harbin as the man who stole drugs for Lime, and produces evidence linking Harry to Kurtz and the racket.
Because he does not want to believe his friend is guilty. He keeps insisting on proof even as Calloway describes children dying, refusing to convict Harry without hard facts.
It means the smallest amount of proof. Martins uses it to say Calloway has given him only accusations, not the evidence that would settle the question of Harry's guilt.
