1 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:12,229 ♪ All the day long whether rain or shine ♪ 2 00:00:12,316 --> 00:00:14,710 ♪ She's a part of the assembly line ♪ 3 00:00:14,797 --> 00:00:17,147 ♪ She's making history working for victory ♪ 4 00:00:17,234 --> 00:00:19,541 ♪ Rosie brrr the Riveter ♪ 5 00:00:19,628 --> 00:00:22,065 ♪ Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage ♪ 6 00:00:22,152 --> 00:00:24,415 ♪ Sitting up there on the fuselage ♪ 7 00:00:24,502 --> 00:00:27,897 Never can get enough girls for all the shifts. 8 00:00:27,984 --> 00:00:29,725 And heaven knows we have to work 9 00:00:29,812 --> 00:00:33,120 24 hours a day for victory. 10 00:00:33,207 --> 00:00:35,078 Sure. 11 00:00:35,165 --> 00:00:37,907 They're a real nice bunch, you'll see. 12 00:00:37,994 --> 00:00:39,256 This here's Martha. 13 00:00:39,343 --> 00:00:40,997 'Martha, meet Alice Miller.' 14 00:00:41,084 --> 00:00:43,260 Hi there. Joining the line? 15 00:00:43,347 --> 00:00:44,348 I suppose. 16 00:00:44,435 --> 00:00:46,133 Husband overseas? 17 00:00:46,220 --> 00:00:48,439 - Watch it girls. - Oh, goodness. 18 00:00:48,526 --> 00:00:51,660 Better get that girl a pair of slacks. 19 00:00:51,747 --> 00:00:52,922 That's Fannie. 20 00:00:55,533 --> 00:00:56,708 Dottie. 21 00:00:56,795 --> 00:00:57,796 This the new girl? 22 00:00:57,883 --> 00:01:00,277 Yes, sir, my neighbor Alice. 23 00:01:00,364 --> 00:01:02,192 Know how to work a vertical lathe? 24 00:01:02,279 --> 00:01:04,194 I've never worked a day in my life. 25 00:01:04,281 --> 00:01:06,327 Oh, it's no tougher than a sewing machine, you'll see. 26 00:01:08,851 --> 00:01:09,895 What is it? 27 00:01:09,982 --> 00:01:12,333 Air raid siren. Just practice. 28 00:01:12,420 --> 00:01:13,638 If it was the real thing, you would have heard 29 00:01:13,725 --> 00:01:14,813 the bombs already. 30 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:18,513 ♪ Rosie the riveter gal ♪ 31 00:02:17,789 --> 00:02:19,051 Lil. 32 00:02:19,139 --> 00:02:20,923 Hey, Dana. 33 00:02:21,010 --> 00:02:22,664 Are these the Rosie the Riveters? 34 00:02:22,751 --> 00:02:24,100 Give 'em the parts, a few weeks 35 00:02:24,187 --> 00:02:26,320 they could build you a war plane. 36 00:02:26,407 --> 00:02:28,104 How's your story going? 37 00:02:28,191 --> 00:02:29,975 Well, this was the assignment that nobody wanted. 38 00:02:30,062 --> 00:02:31,673 But my great aunt was one of the workers. 39 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,893 And turns out, there's a bigger story here. 40 00:02:36,068 --> 00:02:38,636 Martha, come meet Lilly Rush. 41 00:02:42,684 --> 00:02:44,729 You're the lady detective? 42 00:02:44,816 --> 00:02:46,078 Nice to meet you. 43 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:48,559 Martha worked with my Aunt Alice. 44 00:02:48,646 --> 00:02:50,474 A real nice gal. 45 00:02:50,561 --> 00:02:54,086 Quiet as a mouse, at first, but couldn't have been sweeter. 46 00:02:54,174 --> 00:02:55,305 Terrible, what happened? 47 00:02:56,872 --> 00:02:59,614 The official story was she died in a fall? 48 00:02:59,701 --> 00:03:01,442 But here's the thing. 49 00:03:01,529 --> 00:03:05,315 The night they say she fell was my last night on the job. 50 00:03:05,402 --> 00:03:07,578 Before I left, I asked the owner 51 00:03:07,665 --> 00:03:09,406 where Alice was.. 52 00:03:09,493 --> 00:03:10,625 ...wanting to say goodbye. 53 00:03:11,843 --> 00:03:13,280 And? 54 00:03:13,367 --> 00:03:14,585 He told me she quit. 55 00:03:14,672 --> 00:03:16,500 Wasn't working there anymore. 56 00:03:16,587 --> 00:03:18,154 But they found her body the next day 57 00:03:18,241 --> 00:03:20,374 at the factory in her work clothes. 58 00:03:20,461 --> 00:03:22,724 Could your memory be... mistaken? 59 00:03:22,811 --> 00:03:25,466 Ah...you get old 60 00:03:25,553 --> 00:03:27,163 you start forgetting things. 61 00:03:27,250 --> 00:03:28,817 You don't start making them up. 62 00:03:31,646 --> 00:03:33,038 What was the owner's name? 63 00:03:33,125 --> 00:03:34,214 Henry Walker. 64 00:03:34,301 --> 00:03:37,129 Mean as a snake, and a drinker. 65 00:03:37,217 --> 00:03:39,871 I could smell liquor on his breath that night. 66 00:03:39,958 --> 00:03:41,656 Guy was hiding something. 67 00:03:41,743 --> 00:03:44,441 Like maybe Alice didn't fall. 68 00:03:44,528 --> 00:03:46,313 Maybe she was pushed. 69 00:04:29,530 --> 00:04:32,446 A 60 year old case? Talk about your ancients. 70 00:04:32,533 --> 00:04:35,057 - Who brought it to you, Lil? - Dana Hunter. 71 00:04:35,144 --> 00:04:38,365 Her great aunt died in a factory accident, 1943. 72 00:04:38,452 --> 00:04:39,670 'Is that that pushy reporter?' 73 00:04:39,757 --> 00:04:41,629 Yeah, the pretty one. Covers court. 74 00:04:41,716 --> 00:04:43,544 She's doing a story on the women of World War II. 75 00:04:43,631 --> 00:04:45,154 Met some of the factory girls who knew her aunt. 76 00:04:45,241 --> 00:04:46,764 I don't like that Dana. 77 00:04:46,851 --> 00:04:48,636 Yeah, that's 'cause she covered the Chimayo job. 78 00:04:48,723 --> 00:04:51,116 Kept writing you had no new leads. 79 00:04:52,857 --> 00:04:54,381 Truth hurts, man. 80 00:04:56,687 --> 00:04:58,167 Anyway now she's thinking this accident 81 00:04:58,254 --> 00:04:59,864 looks more like homicide. 82 00:04:59,951 --> 00:05:02,867 Say it was. Doer's probably dead. Whole thing's a formality. 83 00:05:02,954 --> 00:05:04,826 You just don't want to drive out to Records and Storage. 84 00:05:06,088 --> 00:05:07,481 Sixty years, huh? 85 00:05:07,568 --> 00:05:09,047 Sixty one. 86 00:05:09,134 --> 00:05:11,311 Skip it. No one cares. 87 00:05:11,398 --> 00:05:12,703 What's with you? 88 00:05:12,790 --> 00:05:14,705 He's just happy. It's his anniversary. 89 00:05:14,792 --> 00:05:16,446 'You want to KO this one, boss?' 90 00:05:16,533 --> 00:05:18,361 Too old to matter? 91 00:05:18,448 --> 00:05:19,841 'No. Take a drive.' 92 00:05:19,928 --> 00:05:21,582 'See what's there.' 93 00:05:21,669 --> 00:05:23,975 Great, boss. Thanks. 94 00:05:28,589 --> 00:05:31,156 We really need this "Police Telegraph"? 95 00:05:31,243 --> 00:05:32,723 'Need everything we can get.' 96 00:05:32,810 --> 00:05:35,247 It's probably, like...one page. 97 00:05:35,335 --> 00:05:36,553 'Oh, we could blow it off.' 98 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,250 60 year old case.. 99 00:05:38,338 --> 00:05:40,035 ...we're not going to need much help. 100 00:05:40,122 --> 00:05:41,645 What's the factory report say? 101 00:05:41,732 --> 00:05:43,125 'Accidental death.' 102 00:05:43,212 --> 00:05:45,780 Impact from the fall broke her neck, but.. 103 00:05:45,867 --> 00:05:47,825 Hmm, this is interesting. 104 00:05:47,912 --> 00:05:49,566 Guess who found her body? 105 00:05:49,653 --> 00:05:51,873 Uh... I give up. 106 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,354 - Henry Walker. - The mean drunk? 107 00:05:54,441 --> 00:05:56,094 The mean drunk who told Martha 108 00:05:56,181 --> 00:05:57,139 Alice didn't work there anymore. 109 00:05:57,661 --> 00:05:59,141 Hmm. 110 00:05:59,228 --> 00:06:01,796 Oh, September '43. 111 00:06:01,883 --> 00:06:04,712 Telegraph from the 39th District. 112 00:06:04,799 --> 00:06:06,322 Three pages. 113 00:06:06,409 --> 00:06:08,759 "Alice Miller, age 22. 114 00:06:08,846 --> 00:06:12,154 "Reported missing by husband, Nelson, 11:20 in the evening." 115 00:06:12,241 --> 00:06:14,504 "He found two whiskey glasses on the kitchen table 116 00:06:14,591 --> 00:06:17,507 "when he came home, but...no Alice." 117 00:06:17,594 --> 00:06:19,074 She was partying with someone? 118 00:06:19,161 --> 00:06:21,729 And Henry Walker had liquor on his breath that night. 119 00:06:21,816 --> 00:06:23,165 Drinking buddies? 120 00:06:23,252 --> 00:06:24,384 Or more? 121 00:06:25,602 --> 00:06:27,691 Problem is, Walker's dead. 122 00:06:27,778 --> 00:06:28,997 1988. 123 00:06:29,084 --> 00:06:30,085 Is anyone alive? 124 00:06:32,348 --> 00:06:34,045 Alice's husband.. 125 00:06:34,132 --> 00:06:35,307 ...in East Falls. 126 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,227 I never understood those whiskey glasses. 127 00:06:42,314 --> 00:06:44,447 Alice and I were teetotalers. 128 00:06:44,534 --> 00:06:45,927 You were out that evening? 129 00:06:46,014 --> 00:06:47,929 Seeing about getting my old job back. 130 00:06:48,016 --> 00:06:50,975 Got home and don't I find those two glasses out on the table? 131 00:06:51,062 --> 00:06:52,150 What time was that? 132 00:06:52,237 --> 00:06:54,196 Oh, eight or so. 133 00:06:54,283 --> 00:06:57,765 I got worried enough by 11:00 to notify the police. 134 00:06:57,852 --> 00:06:59,419 You didn't know she'd gone to the factory? 135 00:06:59,506 --> 00:07:02,204 She'd quit that place the day I got back from the war. 136 00:07:02,291 --> 00:07:04,772 So you must have been surprised they found her there. 137 00:07:04,859 --> 00:07:07,209 I'd only been back a few days. 138 00:07:07,296 --> 00:07:09,516 I figured, crossed wires. 139 00:07:09,603 --> 00:07:11,996 Maybe they got her to come back for one last shift. 140 00:07:12,083 --> 00:07:14,434 - She didn't like the job? - Oh, she did. 141 00:07:14,521 --> 00:07:17,654 - But she was a "Curtains Girl". - What's that? 142 00:07:17,741 --> 00:07:20,483 The saying was, "When it's curtains for the Axis 143 00:07:20,570 --> 00:07:23,007 it's lace curtains for her." 144 00:07:23,094 --> 00:07:26,489 So when the war was done, back to the kitchen? 145 00:07:26,576 --> 00:07:29,013 I know it's out of fashion now, but that's all Alice wanted. 146 00:07:30,624 --> 00:07:32,582 I-I blame myself for sending her to work. 147 00:07:32,669 --> 00:07:34,628 It was my idea. 148 00:07:39,284 --> 00:07:41,722 ♪ Till then my darling ♪ 149 00:07:41,809 --> 00:07:44,551 Tomatoes do real well, so do radishes. 150 00:07:44,638 --> 00:07:46,074 It's so difficult preparing Nelson's meals. 151 00:07:46,161 --> 00:07:48,032 He won't eat that variety meat. 152 00:07:48,119 --> 00:07:50,818 'Our boys need the fresh cuts more than we do.' 153 00:07:53,168 --> 00:07:54,996 Take a look, Nelson. 154 00:07:55,083 --> 00:07:57,651 We've planted our own Victory Garden. 155 00:07:57,738 --> 00:07:58,869 Swell. 156 00:08:01,655 --> 00:08:03,570 Alice.. 157 00:08:03,657 --> 00:08:06,224 ♪ Our dreams ♪ 158 00:08:06,311 --> 00:08:09,010 ♪ Will live though we are apart ♪ 159 00:08:09,097 --> 00:08:10,925 'Oh, no.' 160 00:08:11,012 --> 00:08:12,317 We knew this was coming. 161 00:08:12,404 --> 00:08:13,710 What'll I do? 162 00:08:13,797 --> 00:08:14,929 Write me every day. 163 00:08:15,843 --> 00:08:17,932 Pray for victory. 164 00:08:18,019 --> 00:08:19,803 It's his duty, Alice. 165 00:08:19,890 --> 00:08:20,848 I know. 166 00:08:20,935 --> 00:08:22,589 I know. 167 00:08:22,676 --> 00:08:24,025 Look here, Kitten. 168 00:08:24,112 --> 00:08:25,330 "Women wanted." 169 00:08:25,417 --> 00:08:26,854 "For important war work." 170 00:08:26,941 --> 00:08:29,552 Oh, no. I couldn't possibly. 171 00:08:29,639 --> 00:08:31,902 Lot of girls are working for victory. 172 00:08:31,989 --> 00:08:33,469 I'm too shy. 173 00:08:33,556 --> 00:08:35,123 I'm not cut out for that kind of thing. 174 00:08:35,210 --> 00:08:36,341 It'll help pass the time. 175 00:08:37,429 --> 00:08:39,693 Bring me home faster. 176 00:08:39,780 --> 00:08:41,303 I'll take you to the factory Monday. 177 00:08:41,390 --> 00:08:43,261 Introduce you to my boss. 178 00:08:43,348 --> 00:08:45,786 Kitten, give it a try. 179 00:08:45,873 --> 00:08:48,702 You might surprise yourself. 180 00:08:48,789 --> 00:08:52,444 ♪ Is nothing but time till then ♪ 181 00:08:54,708 --> 00:08:56,361 I should have listened to her. 182 00:08:56,448 --> 00:08:58,625 She was too delicate for that kind of thing. 183 00:08:58,712 --> 00:09:02,019 Ever meet Alice's boss, Henry Walker? 184 00:09:02,106 --> 00:09:03,760 No, never did. 185 00:09:03,847 --> 00:09:05,632 'Know any of her factory friends?' 186 00:09:05,719 --> 00:09:08,112 Just our neighbor Dottie, who got her the job. 187 00:09:08,199 --> 00:09:09,505 Lives right over there. 188 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:25,260 I was Mr. Walker's secretary. 189 00:09:25,347 --> 00:09:26,304 Good man? 190 00:09:26,391 --> 00:09:28,916 He was a Christian man.. 191 00:09:29,003 --> 00:09:30,961 ...but he was in a lot of pain. 192 00:09:31,048 --> 00:09:34,182 He lost two sons to the war. 193 00:09:34,269 --> 00:09:36,576 Is that why he drank? 194 00:09:36,663 --> 00:09:38,578 He wasn't a saint. 195 00:09:38,665 --> 00:09:40,231 Think he and Alice could have had a drink 196 00:09:40,318 --> 00:09:41,842 together before work that night? 197 00:09:41,929 --> 00:09:43,844 Heavens no. 198 00:09:43,931 --> 00:09:47,282 He was the boss, she was.. 199 00:09:47,369 --> 00:09:49,458 She was just a factory girl. 200 00:09:49,545 --> 00:09:50,633 It's probably been done before. 201 00:09:52,374 --> 00:09:55,551 More likely it was one of her new friends. 202 00:09:55,638 --> 00:09:57,074 What new friends? 203 00:09:57,161 --> 00:10:00,948 Alice had started to run with a fast crowd at Brill. 204 00:10:01,035 --> 00:10:03,080 And they were known to hit the sauce. 205 00:10:03,167 --> 00:10:05,343 Hmm, so was your boss. 206 00:10:05,430 --> 00:10:09,870 Once again, Mr. Walker and Alice were not friendly. 207 00:10:11,523 --> 00:10:12,481 What was the problem? 208 00:10:14,875 --> 00:10:17,312 A secretary doesn't tell secrets. 209 00:10:17,399 --> 00:10:18,966 Mr. Walker's dead, Dottie. 210 00:10:19,053 --> 00:10:22,491 You...you can't hurt him. 211 00:10:22,578 --> 00:10:23,710 Well. 212 00:10:25,233 --> 00:10:28,279 Alice did come to me one day.. 213 00:10:28,366 --> 00:10:30,194 'I say it's rotten, we girls getting' 214 00:10:30,281 --> 00:10:31,718 the lowest wages. 215 00:10:31,805 --> 00:10:33,676 Why don't you write Mrs. Roosevelt about it? 216 00:10:33,763 --> 00:10:37,288 She likes to meddle into unpopular causes. 217 00:10:37,375 --> 00:10:39,464 Excuse me, Dottie. 218 00:10:39,551 --> 00:10:42,990 You should be on a poster with that perfect wave. 219 00:10:43,077 --> 00:10:45,514 Am I intruding? 220 00:10:45,601 --> 00:10:46,733 I'll leave you girls. 221 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:52,347 Stay away from that one. She's got a past. 222 00:10:52,434 --> 00:10:55,567 So, how are you doing out on the floor? 223 00:10:55,655 --> 00:10:57,831 I've doubled my pace on the drill press. 224 00:10:57,918 --> 00:10:59,833 Well, that's fine. 225 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:02,096 I've noticed something, Dottie, the last few weeks. 226 00:11:02,183 --> 00:11:04,838 What's that? 227 00:11:04,925 --> 00:11:06,709 We're missing boxes of rivets. 228 00:11:06,796 --> 00:11:08,929 Every third day we're short one. 229 00:11:09,016 --> 00:11:10,365 You must be counting wrong. 230 00:11:10,452 --> 00:11:12,541 No. I'm sure of it. 231 00:11:12,628 --> 00:11:15,239 - I thought I'd tell Mr. Walker. - I wouldn't. 232 00:11:15,326 --> 00:11:17,938 Someone stealing materials like that, it's awfully unpatriotic. 233 00:11:18,025 --> 00:11:19,940 Alice, listen to me now. 234 00:11:20,027 --> 00:11:21,681 Don't mention it to Mr. Walker. 235 00:11:25,989 --> 00:11:28,252 Sounds like something the boss would want to know. 236 00:11:28,339 --> 00:11:31,342 Unless he was the one lifting the boxes. 237 00:11:31,429 --> 00:11:35,042 Mr. Walker wasn't a saint. 238 00:11:35,129 --> 00:11:38,045 What can you remember from the night Alice died, Dottie? 239 00:11:38,132 --> 00:11:40,525 Big event like that probably stayed in your mind pretty good. 240 00:11:43,790 --> 00:11:46,444 I do recall that Mr. Walker disappeared 241 00:11:46,531 --> 00:11:49,056 for quite a while that night. 242 00:11:49,143 --> 00:11:50,361 And.. 243 00:11:51,319 --> 00:11:53,713 ...that was unusual. 244 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,368 Were you there when he found Alice the next day? 245 00:11:57,455 --> 00:11:58,761 No. 246 00:11:58,848 --> 00:12:01,938 We worked the night shift that evening. 247 00:12:02,025 --> 00:12:05,550 He...he shouldn't have been there in the morning. 248 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:21,828 My dad worked his tail off for Brill. 249 00:12:21,915 --> 00:12:23,568 If he was there that morning.. 250 00:12:23,655 --> 00:12:26,920 ...it's 'cause he stayed all night doin' the books. 251 00:12:27,007 --> 00:12:28,225 He do that a lot? 252 00:12:28,312 --> 00:12:29,618 Pull all-nighters? 253 00:12:29,705 --> 00:12:31,751 Whatever it took. 254 00:12:31,838 --> 00:12:33,578 What about drinking on the job? 255 00:12:33,665 --> 00:12:35,276 Was that a regular thing? 256 00:12:35,363 --> 00:12:37,278 Oh, he was a drunk his whole life. 257 00:12:37,365 --> 00:12:38,366 Died of liver failure. 258 00:12:40,150 --> 00:12:41,935 How 'bout Alice Miller? 259 00:12:42,022 --> 00:12:43,980 How'd she and your dad get along? 260 00:12:44,067 --> 00:12:45,939 Look, fellas.. 261 00:12:46,678 --> 00:12:47,984 I was 17. 262 00:12:49,769 --> 00:12:53,163 I was thinking 'bout other things. 263 00:12:53,250 --> 00:12:55,644 You remember her accusing him of skimming supplies? 264 00:12:57,472 --> 00:12:58,865 You know about that? 265 00:12:58,952 --> 00:13:01,171 Yeah. 266 00:13:01,258 --> 00:13:03,608 My, uh.. 267 00:13:03,695 --> 00:13:06,350 ...older brothers died in the war. 268 00:13:08,004 --> 00:13:10,615 Dad felt he was owed some payback. 269 00:13:10,702 --> 00:13:12,226 That justified the pilfering? 270 00:13:14,924 --> 00:13:16,883 Alice shouldn't have brought that up to him. 271 00:13:16,970 --> 00:13:18,536 So she did confront him with it? 272 00:13:29,765 --> 00:13:31,071 Wanna go to the show tonight? 273 00:13:31,158 --> 00:13:32,115 There's something new on. 274 00:13:32,202 --> 00:13:33,508 Yeah. What? 275 00:13:33,595 --> 00:13:35,597 Think it's called "Casablanca." 276 00:13:35,684 --> 00:13:38,687 Take a girl your own age. Someone from school. 277 00:13:38,774 --> 00:13:40,950 Oh, they're all a bunch of dumb clucks. 278 00:13:42,169 --> 00:13:44,040 Inventory. 279 00:13:44,127 --> 00:13:47,609 Fourteen propellers assembled, geared and inspected. 280 00:13:47,696 --> 00:13:49,437 Sixteen for me, dad. 281 00:13:49,524 --> 00:13:51,439 Keep 'em coming. 282 00:13:51,526 --> 00:13:53,745 Um, Mr. Walker, can I have a moment? 283 00:13:55,747 --> 00:13:58,011 ♪ I've shed a million teardrops or more ♪ 284 00:13:58,098 --> 00:14:01,318 It's about, um... the blind rivets. 285 00:14:02,319 --> 00:14:04,147 Yes? 286 00:14:04,234 --> 00:14:06,497 They disappear with regularity. 287 00:14:06,584 --> 00:14:09,196 Both the Cherry and DuPont. 288 00:14:09,283 --> 00:14:11,938 I-I know what you're doing. 289 00:14:12,025 --> 00:14:13,591 What? 290 00:14:13,678 --> 00:14:15,942 That you're involved with side businesses. 291 00:14:16,029 --> 00:14:17,726 You want to be fired on the spot, Miss Miller? 292 00:14:17,813 --> 00:14:18,770 No. 293 00:14:20,294 --> 00:14:22,426 I want something else. 294 00:14:22,513 --> 00:14:23,775 I need help. 295 00:14:27,301 --> 00:14:29,042 There's someone named Ivan. 296 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:36,049 Who was Ivan? 297 00:14:36,136 --> 00:14:37,659 Alice had secrets. 298 00:14:37,746 --> 00:14:39,791 No guesses on what that all meant? 299 00:14:41,184 --> 00:14:43,926 All's I know is.. 300 00:14:44,013 --> 00:14:46,668 ...she thanked him for his help. 301 00:14:46,755 --> 00:14:49,584 and said she hoped to heaven her husband didn't find out. 302 00:14:55,329 --> 00:14:58,245 So who's Ivan? A boyfriend? 303 00:14:58,332 --> 00:15:00,464 What kind of help did Alice need? 304 00:15:00,551 --> 00:15:02,640 Whatever it was, she didn't want the husband knowing. 305 00:15:02,727 --> 00:15:04,164 Hmm, sounds naughty. 306 00:15:04,251 --> 00:15:06,253 Why does she go to the factory owner for help? 307 00:15:06,340 --> 00:15:09,909 He had access to something on the side...underground. 308 00:15:09,996 --> 00:15:11,258 He still a suspect? 309 00:15:11,345 --> 00:15:12,912 Yeah, but his motive ain't clear. 310 00:15:12,999 --> 00:15:15,349 Bank records always come through. 311 00:15:15,436 --> 00:15:17,003 What do you got? 312 00:15:17,090 --> 00:15:19,266 Alice opened up her own bank account.. 313 00:15:19,353 --> 00:15:21,181 ...in May 1943. 314 00:15:21,268 --> 00:15:23,357 Made weekly deposits of $35. 315 00:15:23,444 --> 00:15:25,489 - Her factory salary. - Makes sense. 316 00:15:25,576 --> 00:15:28,405 And it keeps making sense until July '43.. 317 00:15:28,492 --> 00:15:30,277 ...when 2,000 bucks shows up. 318 00:15:30,364 --> 00:15:32,975 How's a woman in 1943 get that kind of money? 319 00:15:33,062 --> 00:15:34,934 Like I said, naughty. 320 00:15:35,021 --> 00:15:36,936 Your mind goes right to the gutter. 321 00:15:37,023 --> 00:15:38,633 Who wants to bet me? 322 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,200 I do. 20 bucks. 323 00:15:44,378 --> 00:15:45,770 Going to court, boss. 324 00:15:45,857 --> 00:15:47,816 Dana dug through her attic last night.. 325 00:15:47,903 --> 00:15:49,731 ...has something for me. 326 00:15:49,818 --> 00:15:50,950 Send her my regards. 327 00:15:54,649 --> 00:15:57,217 Mm-mm. Never heard of Ivan. 328 00:15:57,304 --> 00:15:59,393 Me, neither. Where'd you hear the name? 329 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,482 Just came up in the investigation. 330 00:16:01,569 --> 00:16:04,093 Maybe part of her new crowd from the factory. 331 00:16:04,180 --> 00:16:06,704 Nelson tells me Alice was a writer. 332 00:16:06,791 --> 00:16:07,836 'Oh, yeah?' 333 00:16:07,923 --> 00:16:09,142 Poems, short stories. 334 00:16:09,229 --> 00:16:11,579 She was too shy to let anyone read 'em. 335 00:16:11,666 --> 00:16:13,929 But she always said "Everyone had at least one story 336 00:16:14,016 --> 00:16:15,017 that could stop your heart." 337 00:16:16,323 --> 00:16:17,454 So you take after her. 338 00:16:18,455 --> 00:16:20,544 I'll let you gals talk. 339 00:16:20,631 --> 00:16:21,850 Now, if you'd packed your lunch you wouldn't have 340 00:16:21,937 --> 00:16:24,026 to pay six dollars to eat. 341 00:16:24,113 --> 00:16:25,985 Child of the Depression. 342 00:16:26,072 --> 00:16:28,335 Made you a frugal man? 343 00:16:28,422 --> 00:16:31,425 Alice lived through the Crash, too. She understood. 344 00:16:31,512 --> 00:16:34,384 A lesser woman might have minded it. Not her. 345 00:16:36,343 --> 00:16:37,997 Bye. 346 00:16:38,084 --> 00:16:41,348 For years people tried to set him up after Alice died.. 347 00:16:41,435 --> 00:16:44,655 ...and he'd just say, "I've had my wife." 348 00:16:47,267 --> 00:16:49,182 So what'd you find in the attic? 349 00:16:49,269 --> 00:16:50,574 Oh, her diaries. 350 00:16:52,924 --> 00:16:55,231 These cover the early '40s. 351 00:16:55,318 --> 00:16:58,017 Hmm, maybe she wrote about Ivan. 352 00:17:00,410 --> 00:17:02,021 "Badminton with the gang." 353 00:17:02,108 --> 00:17:04,414 That was the big sport in '43. 354 00:17:04,501 --> 00:17:07,330 "Took the Pennsy Railroad to visit mother." 355 00:17:07,417 --> 00:17:09,289 'Amtrak hadn't made the scene yet.' 356 00:17:09,376 --> 00:17:12,161 Anyone find Henry Walker? Or Ivan? 357 00:17:12,248 --> 00:17:13,858 Looking. 358 00:17:13,945 --> 00:17:17,514 "Rations on beef means eggs or horse meat for supper." 359 00:17:17,601 --> 00:17:18,559 'Horse meat?' 360 00:17:18,646 --> 00:17:19,908 Oh, that's a deal breaker. 361 00:17:20,952 --> 00:17:23,129 Ooh, pay dirt. 362 00:17:23,216 --> 00:17:24,173 Ivan? 363 00:17:24,260 --> 00:17:26,871 Uh, Henry. "June 12, 1943. 364 00:17:26,958 --> 00:17:30,658 "Henry sent me to Smokey's Dance Hall." 365 00:17:33,530 --> 00:17:34,575 ♪ I never cared ♪ 366 00:17:34,662 --> 00:17:37,708 ♪ Much for moonlit skies ♪ 367 00:17:37,795 --> 00:17:39,145 ♪ I never winked back ♪ 368 00:17:39,232 --> 00:17:41,886 ♪ At fireflies ♪ 369 00:17:41,973 --> 00:17:43,323 ♪ But now that the stars ♪ 370 00:17:43,410 --> 00:17:45,586 ♪ Are in your eyes ♪ 371 00:17:45,673 --> 00:17:48,371 ♪ I'm beginning to see the light ♪ 372 00:17:50,373 --> 00:17:52,984 I'm looking for the owner. Richard? 373 00:17:53,072 --> 00:17:55,552 - Not here. - Oh, um.. 374 00:17:55,639 --> 00:17:58,207 Maybe I can help you. 375 00:17:58,294 --> 00:18:00,296 I doubt it. 376 00:18:00,383 --> 00:18:02,037 What do you want from Richard? 377 00:18:02,124 --> 00:18:04,257 Nylons? Liquor? 378 00:18:04,344 --> 00:18:05,693 Certainly not. 379 00:18:05,780 --> 00:18:08,087 Black market's his specialty. 380 00:18:08,174 --> 00:18:09,697 That's not what I'm after. 381 00:18:12,003 --> 00:18:13,309 Old Stag with soda, Bruno. 382 00:18:13,396 --> 00:18:14,919 You drinking? 383 00:18:15,006 --> 00:18:16,138 I have to get home. 384 00:18:16,225 --> 00:18:17,792 For what? 385 00:18:17,879 --> 00:18:20,142 Not the husband or kids. 386 00:18:20,229 --> 00:18:21,491 Dr. IQ on the radio? 387 00:18:24,059 --> 00:18:25,669 Maybe I will have a drink. 388 00:18:27,149 --> 00:18:28,411 On the house. 389 00:18:29,847 --> 00:18:31,022 Yeah. 390 00:18:33,199 --> 00:18:34,330 Lonesome, ain't it? 391 00:18:36,724 --> 00:18:38,508 All the men overseas. 392 00:18:38,595 --> 00:18:39,988 Can be. 393 00:18:42,425 --> 00:18:45,036 They tell you at work to steer clear of me? 394 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:47,300 On account of my checkered past? 395 00:18:47,387 --> 00:18:48,518 No details. 396 00:18:48,605 --> 00:18:50,129 Just to keep your distance. 397 00:18:52,218 --> 00:18:53,828 What did you do? 398 00:18:53,915 --> 00:18:55,046 They say I shot my husband. 399 00:18:56,004 --> 00:18:57,136 And I did, too. 400 00:18:58,572 --> 00:18:59,703 But I had a reason. 401 00:19:02,706 --> 00:19:05,709 Did you kill him? 402 00:19:05,796 --> 00:19:07,363 Just blew up his shoulder. 403 00:19:07,450 --> 00:19:09,060 He ran off after that. 404 00:19:11,846 --> 00:19:13,804 So whydidyou come to Smokey's, huh? 405 00:19:16,807 --> 00:19:18,809 I came because I believed what you said. 406 00:19:20,071 --> 00:19:22,422 ♪ Shadowboxing in the dark ♪ 407 00:19:25,381 --> 00:19:27,514 End of entry. 408 00:19:27,601 --> 00:19:30,125 She believed what Fannie said, when? 409 00:19:30,212 --> 00:19:31,735 Who's Fannie? 410 00:19:31,822 --> 00:19:33,215 One of the factory girls. 411 00:19:33,302 --> 00:19:36,044 You think she really shot her husband? 412 00:19:36,131 --> 00:19:38,438 - Better find out. - I'll go with you. 413 00:19:38,525 --> 00:19:40,527 I'd like to meet an 80 year old who shot a guy. 414 00:19:50,276 --> 00:19:52,713 Me and Alice, we started out kinda shaky 415 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,455 but...then we got along. 416 00:19:55,542 --> 00:19:58,284 We pulled an arrest record from 1940, Fannie. 417 00:19:58,371 --> 00:20:00,329 Hmm, not my best year. 418 00:20:00,416 --> 00:20:03,114 Seems you shot your husband in a late-night dispute? 419 00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:06,814 Not until he took a screwdriver to my head. 420 00:20:06,901 --> 00:20:09,904 - Yeah, that's in there, too. - Humph. 421 00:20:09,991 --> 00:20:12,950 You didn't have any reason to hurt Alice, did you? 422 00:20:13,037 --> 00:20:14,865 No, sir! 423 00:20:14,952 --> 00:20:16,258 I loved that girl. 424 00:20:18,434 --> 00:20:20,610 You two must have been an odd pair. 425 00:20:20,697 --> 00:20:24,527 Wartime made for unusual companions. 426 00:20:24,614 --> 00:20:27,095 All the men were away. 427 00:20:27,182 --> 00:20:29,532 You made friends where you could find 'em. 428 00:20:29,619 --> 00:20:31,795 So you and Alice found each other. 429 00:20:31,882 --> 00:20:34,885 Making B-25s together kinda bonds you. 430 00:20:36,713 --> 00:20:39,542 Did you ever hear her talk about Ivan? 431 00:20:39,629 --> 00:20:41,109 Sure. 432 00:20:41,196 --> 00:20:42,371 'Who was he?' 433 00:20:42,458 --> 00:20:44,591 Her cousin, in Europe. 434 00:20:44,678 --> 00:20:47,115 You see, her family was Jewish. 435 00:20:47,202 --> 00:20:50,945 She hadn't heard from Ivan in months, which worried her. 436 00:20:51,032 --> 00:20:54,644 And I told her she had good reason to worry. 437 00:20:55,819 --> 00:20:58,213 ♪ Shoo shoo shoo baby ♪ 438 00:20:59,562 --> 00:21:01,477 ♪ Shoo shoo shoo baby ♪ 439 00:21:03,174 --> 00:21:05,133 ♪ Bye bye bye baby ♪ 440 00:21:05,220 --> 00:21:07,614 ♪ Do-dah do-day ♪ 441 00:21:07,701 --> 00:21:10,443 I met this seaman last night at Smokey's. 442 00:21:10,530 --> 00:21:12,619 You meet a seaman every night at Smokey's. 443 00:21:14,490 --> 00:21:16,318 Anyone bring stockings to donate? 444 00:21:16,405 --> 00:21:17,885 I did. 445 00:21:17,972 --> 00:21:19,365 Penciling in your own seams looks just 446 00:21:19,452 --> 00:21:21,062 'as nice as real nylons.' 447 00:21:22,411 --> 00:21:24,631 Matter of opinion. 448 00:21:26,546 --> 00:21:28,504 Smoking now, are we? 449 00:21:28,591 --> 00:21:31,246 Just on breaks. 450 00:21:31,333 --> 00:21:34,597 ♪ But papa's gotta be rough now ♪ 451 00:21:34,684 --> 00:21:37,208 So this here sailor just came back from Europe. 452 00:21:37,296 --> 00:21:40,299 He says there's real bad things happening over there. 453 00:21:40,386 --> 00:21:41,865 Like what? 454 00:21:41,952 --> 00:21:44,041 Like there's these camps for Jews. 455 00:21:45,652 --> 00:21:48,176 We're doin' the same to the Japs. 456 00:21:48,263 --> 00:21:50,526 'Cept these aren't just internment camps. 457 00:21:50,613 --> 00:21:52,615 Then what are they? 458 00:21:52,702 --> 00:21:55,009 They're killing people there. 459 00:21:55,096 --> 00:21:58,795 We'd be hearing it on Ed Murrow if that were true. 460 00:21:58,882 --> 00:22:00,971 You sure they're doing that to Jews? 461 00:22:01,058 --> 00:22:02,973 Herding 'em up and takin' em off to die. 462 00:22:04,758 --> 00:22:06,847 - I don't believe it. - Neither do I. 463 00:22:06,934 --> 00:22:10,503 ♪ Your big tall papa's off to the seven seas ♪ 464 00:22:14,942 --> 00:22:17,074 It seems crazy now. 465 00:22:17,161 --> 00:22:19,990 But most people didn't know the truth 466 00:22:20,077 --> 00:22:21,383 until the liberation. 467 00:22:21,470 --> 00:22:22,689 Hmm. 468 00:22:22,776 --> 00:22:24,343 So Alice was trying to help Ivan? 469 00:22:25,953 --> 00:22:30,349 Smokey's owner was a Portuguese fellow... Richard. 470 00:22:30,436 --> 00:22:33,264 Had a...contact in the consulate 471 00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:34,483 who could be helpful to her. 472 00:22:35,484 --> 00:22:36,790 For a fee. 473 00:22:36,877 --> 00:22:38,835 Said for $2,000 474 00:22:38,922 --> 00:22:41,795 he would smuggle Ivan into Lisbon. 475 00:22:41,882 --> 00:22:44,058 The amount in her bank account. 476 00:22:44,145 --> 00:22:47,017 Oh, so...she got the money? 477 00:22:48,323 --> 00:22:50,064 Any idea how? 478 00:22:50,151 --> 00:22:52,109 Well, no thanks to her husband. 479 00:22:52,196 --> 00:22:54,155 So Nelsondidknow Ivan? 480 00:22:54,242 --> 00:22:56,636 Oh, sure. And Alice begged him to help.. 481 00:22:58,289 --> 00:22:59,508 ...but he wouldn't budge. 482 00:23:07,690 --> 00:23:09,866 Thought you didn't know who Ivan was, Nelson. 483 00:23:09,953 --> 00:23:11,912 You forget he was your wife's cousin? 484 00:23:11,999 --> 00:23:13,435 No. 485 00:23:13,522 --> 00:23:16,220 Then what? 486 00:23:16,307 --> 00:23:17,744 I want to cooperate. 487 00:23:17,831 --> 00:23:20,616 It's a funny way of showing it. 488 00:23:20,703 --> 00:23:22,183 I brought these letters. 489 00:23:22,270 --> 00:23:23,924 All my correspondence from the war. 490 00:23:24,011 --> 00:23:27,057 Let's not lose focus. Why did you lie about Ivan? 491 00:23:27,144 --> 00:23:29,451 Because I didn't believe her. I didn't think he was in danger. 492 00:23:31,235 --> 00:23:33,934 Here, this letter is from Alice, June, '43.. 493 00:23:34,021 --> 00:23:35,631 ...asking me for the money. 494 00:23:35,718 --> 00:23:37,677 And tellin' you what she heard about the camps? 495 00:23:37,764 --> 00:23:40,549 But I was in Europe. I'd never heard such a thing. 496 00:23:40,636 --> 00:23:41,550 I thought it was just gossip that she 497 00:23:41,637 --> 00:23:42,899 picked up at the factory. 498 00:23:44,771 --> 00:23:47,295 And you're a frugal man. 499 00:23:47,382 --> 00:23:48,949 So I wrote back and said no. 500 00:23:50,516 --> 00:23:53,040 A few months later, Ivan was dead. 501 00:23:55,651 --> 00:23:58,088 So how do you figure - Alice came by that 2 - K? 502 00:23:58,175 --> 00:23:59,742 I don't know how. 503 00:23:59,829 --> 00:24:01,875 But with these letters, you can tell when. 504 00:24:04,051 --> 00:24:05,922 What do you mean? 505 00:24:06,009 --> 00:24:09,143 She wrote about him in every letter until July 11. 506 00:24:09,230 --> 00:24:10,623 And then she doesn't mention him again. 507 00:24:10,710 --> 00:24:12,276 So the problem was solved by then. 508 00:24:16,193 --> 00:24:18,152 - Can we hang onto these? - Please. 509 00:24:20,328 --> 00:24:21,460 I'm sorry I lied. 510 00:24:22,939 --> 00:24:24,941 I just.. 511 00:24:25,028 --> 00:24:28,858 ...been so ashamed of this for 60 years. 512 00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:34,124 Between the diaries and letters, we know 513 00:24:34,211 --> 00:24:36,736 Alice got that money July tenth. 514 00:24:36,823 --> 00:24:39,521 A month after she started trying to raise it. 515 00:24:39,608 --> 00:24:41,305 Could be the month Ivan died. 516 00:24:41,392 --> 00:24:43,046 So what happened that day, July tenth? 517 00:24:43,133 --> 00:24:45,309 Well, she worked a day shift then there was a 518 00:24:45,396 --> 00:24:47,747 "Swing for Victory" dance at Smokey's. 519 00:24:47,834 --> 00:24:49,662 - Smokey's again. - 'Yeah.' 520 00:24:49,749 --> 00:24:51,141 'I figure something happened that night.' 521 00:24:51,228 --> 00:24:53,796 Someone she met there, gave her the 2K. 522 00:24:53,883 --> 00:24:55,494 In exchange for what? 523 00:24:57,321 --> 00:24:58,453 Let's recreate the night. 524 00:24:58,540 --> 00:24:59,715 Go back to Smokey's and take 525 00:24:59,802 --> 00:25:01,630 'Fannie and Martha with us.' 526 00:25:01,717 --> 00:25:03,240 Well, the place is still around. 527 00:25:03,327 --> 00:25:05,939 - An Italian restaurant now. - There you go. 528 00:25:06,026 --> 00:25:10,247 Scotty found the old owner, uh, Richard. Retired in Merion. 529 00:25:10,334 --> 00:25:11,901 Well, between the three of them maybe they can piece 530 00:25:11,988 --> 00:25:13,250 together Alice's night. 531 00:25:13,337 --> 00:25:14,513 Let's take a field trip. 532 00:25:28,614 --> 00:25:30,354 Ohh. 533 00:25:30,441 --> 00:25:32,313 Lordy, I spent a lot of hours here. 534 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,793 'It makes me feel 20 again.' 535 00:25:35,577 --> 00:25:38,275 - You swing? - Excuse me? 536 00:25:38,362 --> 00:25:39,973 She means, dance. 537 00:25:40,060 --> 00:25:42,192 Oh, right. Uh, no. 538 00:25:42,279 --> 00:25:44,804 I'm a two-left-feet guy. 539 00:25:46,893 --> 00:25:49,417 The good time girls. 540 00:25:49,504 --> 00:25:51,680 - Well, look who's kickin'. - Oh, Richard. 541 00:25:51,767 --> 00:25:53,682 Francesca. 542 00:25:53,769 --> 00:25:55,815 Martha. 543 00:25:55,902 --> 00:25:58,339 I'm John Stillman, and this is Lilly Rush. 544 00:25:58,426 --> 00:26:00,994 Ah, how do you do? 545 00:26:01,081 --> 00:26:03,474 You remember our friend Alice Miller? 546 00:26:03,562 --> 00:26:07,478 A real swell girl palled around with us the summer of '43. 547 00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:10,569 Oh, sure. Ha ha ha. 548 00:26:10,656 --> 00:26:12,092 There was one night in particular 549 00:26:12,179 --> 00:26:14,224 the Swing for Victory dance. 550 00:26:14,311 --> 00:26:16,357 Big business that night. 551 00:26:16,444 --> 00:26:18,838 I worked the bar with Bruno. 552 00:26:18,925 --> 00:26:23,103 Oh, and I met a real nice Marine. 553 00:26:23,190 --> 00:26:25,540 And Alice and I were dancing. 554 00:26:25,627 --> 00:26:29,544 Collecting a quarter a song. 555 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:46,779 That makes three dollars even. 556 00:26:46,866 --> 00:26:48,998 Mmm. Martha. 557 00:26:51,087 --> 00:26:53,089 Was that serviceman getting fresh with you? 558 00:26:53,176 --> 00:26:54,830 Yes. Lucky thing you came by. 559 00:26:56,310 --> 00:26:58,138 Oil us up, Richard. 560 00:26:58,225 --> 00:26:59,182 What you drinking? 561 00:26:59,269 --> 00:27:00,401 Rum and Coca-Cola. 562 00:27:01,881 --> 00:27:05,101 Saw you out there breaking hearts, Alice. 563 00:27:05,188 --> 00:27:07,103 With that neckline, who can overlook her? 564 00:27:07,190 --> 00:27:08,801 Oh, is it too low? 565 00:27:08,888 --> 00:27:11,107 Oh, it's just not the Alice we met a few months ago. 566 00:27:11,194 --> 00:27:14,807 I suppose it's just nice having some men our age around again. 567 00:27:14,894 --> 00:27:17,113 They'll all be shipped off again soon. 568 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,160 Then it's back to us girls and the gimps with bad teeth. 569 00:27:20,247 --> 00:27:22,205 We are not all 4-F. 570 00:27:24,730 --> 00:27:27,254 $20 for every dance the rest of the night. 571 00:27:27,341 --> 00:27:29,735 - Why, Buddy. - Starting right now. 572 00:27:29,822 --> 00:27:31,388 You got to stop this. 573 00:27:31,475 --> 00:27:33,173 You're selling your dances, I'm buying 'em. 574 00:27:33,260 --> 00:27:34,609 You can't keep following me. 575 00:27:34,696 --> 00:27:36,132 Behave yourself, Buddy. 576 00:27:36,219 --> 00:27:37,220 Don't treat me like a kid. 577 00:27:38,047 --> 00:27:39,527 You are a kid. 578 00:27:39,614 --> 00:27:40,746 I'm old enough to go kill people. 579 00:27:40,833 --> 00:27:43,226 I'm old enough to be with you. 580 00:27:43,313 --> 00:27:45,446 - Lays it right out, don't he? - Mm-hmm. 581 00:27:45,533 --> 00:27:46,665 Let's go for a walk. 582 00:27:54,237 --> 00:27:56,500 So Henry's son was there? 583 00:27:56,587 --> 00:27:58,024 I'd forgotten that. 584 00:27:58,111 --> 00:28:00,113 And Alice left with him? 585 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,637 Don't think I saw her the rest of the night. 586 00:28:02,724 --> 00:28:07,207 The boy was pretty determined to get her alone. 587 00:28:07,294 --> 00:28:09,513 Oh, Buddy had it bad for Alice. 588 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,952 And I had forgotten about that Marine, too. 589 00:28:13,039 --> 00:28:14,780 Oh, look him up. 590 00:28:14,867 --> 00:28:16,433 Maybe he'll get fresh with you again. 591 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,131 No. 592 00:28:21,787 --> 00:28:24,006 Oh, this Richard owned a dance hall. 593 00:28:24,093 --> 00:28:25,573 had a colorful career. 594 00:28:25,660 --> 00:28:27,140 He was a horse bookie, graftman 595 00:28:27,227 --> 00:28:30,970 and proprietor of a "House of Assignation." 596 00:28:31,057 --> 00:28:32,841 A house of what? 597 00:28:32,928 --> 00:28:35,888 It's polite for whorehouse. 598 00:28:35,975 --> 00:28:37,716 I'm calling it a night, guys. 599 00:28:39,108 --> 00:28:40,806 Yeah, crap. I gotta get home. 600 00:28:43,373 --> 00:28:46,159 You want to hit the Black Sheep, have a pint? 601 00:28:46,246 --> 00:28:47,551 No, I'm good. 602 00:28:49,989 --> 00:28:52,687 You talking to Elisa at all? 603 00:28:52,774 --> 00:28:55,734 Uh, she's back in the hospital. 604 00:28:55,821 --> 00:28:56,952 Oh, I didn't know, Scotty. 605 00:28:57,039 --> 00:28:58,171 You know, it's a circle game. 606 00:28:59,302 --> 00:29:00,869 She's sick, then better. 607 00:29:02,436 --> 00:29:04,481 And for a while you're hoping and then.. 608 00:29:05,569 --> 00:29:07,049 ...it starts again. 609 00:29:07,136 --> 00:29:09,051 Yeah. 610 00:29:09,138 --> 00:29:12,359 I just can't go round and round with her anymore. 611 00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:32,553 So, I was sweet on Alice. So what? 612 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,077 Sweet can turn to sour on a dime. 613 00:29:35,164 --> 00:29:36,687 And if it's "So what?" why not tell us that 614 00:29:36,775 --> 00:29:38,951 in our first conversation? 615 00:29:39,038 --> 00:29:41,127 It was just a kid's crush. 616 00:29:41,214 --> 00:29:44,565 20 bucks in 1943 was a lot of money to throw down. 617 00:29:44,652 --> 00:29:46,480 Where's a 17 year old get cash like that? 618 00:29:46,567 --> 00:29:48,656 My dad. 619 00:29:48,743 --> 00:29:50,049 'Tell us what happened when you and Alice' 620 00:29:50,136 --> 00:29:52,007 went walking after the dance. 621 00:29:52,094 --> 00:29:53,226 What's it matter? 622 00:29:53,313 --> 00:29:54,967 That wasn't the night she died. 623 00:29:55,054 --> 00:29:56,707 Then you don't mind telling us about it. 624 00:29:59,623 --> 00:30:00,581 Oh, Jiminy. 625 00:30:03,584 --> 00:30:05,238 We didn't go walking. 626 00:30:06,761 --> 00:30:07,893 We went driving. 627 00:30:18,251 --> 00:30:21,167 ♪ I got a gal who's always late ♪ 628 00:30:22,603 --> 00:30:24,605 ♪ Any time we have a date ♪ 629 00:30:24,692 --> 00:30:25,824 ♪ But I love her ♪ 630 00:30:28,043 --> 00:30:30,872 ♪ Yes I love her ♪ 631 00:30:30,959 --> 00:30:32,831 How do you come by gasoline for this big ol' car 632 00:30:32,918 --> 00:30:34,789 in times like these? 633 00:30:34,876 --> 00:30:36,747 My dad has his ways. 634 00:30:38,445 --> 00:30:40,795 ♪ 'Cause I want her ♪ 635 00:30:40,882 --> 00:30:42,579 Sorry, Alice. 636 00:30:42,666 --> 00:30:44,973 Honest. I lost my cool. 637 00:30:47,149 --> 00:30:48,281 Okay. 638 00:30:52,807 --> 00:30:55,505 So, why are you trying to make money? 639 00:30:55,592 --> 00:30:56,767 To help someone. 640 00:30:57,725 --> 00:30:58,857 Who? 641 00:31:00,249 --> 00:31:01,729 It's complicated. 642 00:31:01,816 --> 00:31:02,948 Never mind about it. 643 00:31:03,992 --> 00:31:05,124 You and your secrets. 644 00:31:06,734 --> 00:31:09,868 - Well, I got a secret, too. - What's that? 645 00:31:09,955 --> 00:31:13,436 My dad has an account for me, for when I get called. 646 00:31:13,523 --> 00:31:14,960 Yeah? 647 00:31:15,047 --> 00:31:16,875 He wants me to take it and run away. 648 00:31:16,962 --> 00:31:18,789 Wait out the war. 649 00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:20,356 He doesn't want to lose a third son. 650 00:31:20,443 --> 00:31:23,185 Yeah. But no amount of money is going to make me run. 651 00:31:23,272 --> 00:31:24,621 I want to serve. 652 00:31:24,708 --> 00:31:27,320 Soon as I turn 18, do like my brothers did. 653 00:31:27,407 --> 00:31:30,976 ♪ Is you is or is you ain't my baby ♪ 654 00:31:33,804 --> 00:31:35,284 I want you to have the money. 655 00:31:38,461 --> 00:31:39,593 I couldn't. 656 00:31:41,812 --> 00:31:43,684 I know I'm just a kid to you. 657 00:31:43,771 --> 00:31:46,992 Buddy, you're a swell kind of guy.. 658 00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:49,255 ...and you're gonna find a girl who's just right for you. 659 00:31:49,342 --> 00:31:51,474 Will you wait for me? 660 00:31:51,561 --> 00:31:53,259 I can't. 661 00:31:53,346 --> 00:31:54,913 I ain't scared of dying. 662 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,523 Don't say that. 663 00:31:56,610 --> 00:31:58,220 But I am scared of going.. 664 00:31:59,482 --> 00:32:01,702 ...and never having kissed you. 665 00:32:01,789 --> 00:32:05,662 ♪ Is you is or is you ain't my baby ♪ 666 00:32:07,316 --> 00:32:09,753 Well, here's a dirty shame. 667 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,973 You're at that window day and night, aren't you, Dottie? 668 00:32:12,060 --> 00:32:15,237 - I was simply walking Lady. - Weren't spying at all. 669 00:32:15,324 --> 00:32:16,847 You should be ashamed of yourself, Buddy. 670 00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:17,936 I'm not. 671 00:32:18,023 --> 00:32:19,111 But you're a red-blooded youth 672 00:32:19,198 --> 00:32:21,026 it's almost understandable. 673 00:32:21,113 --> 00:32:22,549 Please, Dottie. 674 00:32:22,636 --> 00:32:25,247 You have a good man overseas and he deserves better. 675 00:32:25,334 --> 00:32:27,119 - Someone like you, you mean? - Maybe so. 676 00:32:27,206 --> 00:32:28,772 I know you'd love that. 677 00:32:28,859 --> 00:32:31,036 Well, listen to the five-cent tramp. 678 00:32:31,123 --> 00:32:32,515 Says the fussy old maid. 679 00:32:35,518 --> 00:32:38,869 ♪ Just when you're sure of what you'll find ♪ 680 00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:41,481 ♪ She's gone and made a change ♪ 681 00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:45,789 So, you gave her the money. 682 00:32:45,876 --> 00:32:48,923 Two thousand bucks. No questions asked. 683 00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:51,491 That old maid comment must have hit below the belt. 684 00:32:51,578 --> 00:32:53,493 Especially back then. 685 00:32:53,580 --> 00:32:56,322 A girl who wasn't married was considered a real flop. 686 00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,847 And I guess.. 687 00:32:59,934 --> 00:33:03,068 ...Dottie was pretty in love with Alice's husband. 688 00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:06,985 That could make you want take a girl out. 689 00:33:08,856 --> 00:33:10,336 Arrange for an accident. 690 00:33:15,776 --> 00:33:17,212 We've been reading your letters, Dottie. 691 00:33:17,299 --> 00:33:19,345 I don't know what you mean. 692 00:33:21,216 --> 00:33:23,044 'Wartime correspondence.' 693 00:33:25,786 --> 00:33:28,049 '"Dear Nelson' 694 00:33:28,136 --> 00:33:31,792 "How empty the neighborhood feels with you gone." 695 00:33:31,879 --> 00:33:33,533 He gave you that? 696 00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:36,101 "I hear the radio reports every night 697 00:33:36,188 --> 00:33:38,755 and think of my brave soldier fighting the Axis." 698 00:33:38,842 --> 00:33:42,063 Now, why are you calling someone else's husband 699 00:33:42,150 --> 00:33:44,239 "My Soldier?" 700 00:33:44,326 --> 00:33:47,590 Are you accusing me of having an affair with Nelson? 701 00:33:48,374 --> 00:33:49,636 No, we ain't. 702 00:33:51,899 --> 00:33:53,857 Boy, that Alice had all the luck. 703 00:33:53,944 --> 00:33:57,426 Popular at work and more popular than you ever were. 704 00:33:57,513 --> 00:33:59,820 I wasn't in-interested in that. 705 00:33:59,907 --> 00:34:01,996 Hitting the town nights with her new girlfriends. 706 00:34:02,083 --> 00:34:04,129 'Going to the show, dancing.' 707 00:34:04,216 --> 00:34:05,652 'Teenage boys falling for her' 708 00:34:05,739 --> 00:34:07,349 right there on the street for all to see. 709 00:34:07,436 --> 00:34:09,134 Why couldn't some stuff like that happen to you? 710 00:34:09,221 --> 00:34:12,615 Why were you an old maid, and she was the girl of the hour? 711 00:34:12,702 --> 00:34:14,878 So you know about that night with Buddy. 712 00:34:14,965 --> 00:34:16,924 Well, she had sweethearts to spare, and you had none. 713 00:34:18,143 --> 00:34:19,970 All you wanted was Nelson. 714 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:22,060 And factory accidents... did happen. 715 00:34:24,453 --> 00:34:27,239 Alice was changing. 716 00:34:27,326 --> 00:34:28,588 Straying. 717 00:34:28,675 --> 00:34:31,112 I felt Nelson should know. 718 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:34,289 So you wrote to him real faithful. 719 00:34:34,376 --> 00:34:36,944 Maybe he'd get the drift you'd make the better wife. 720 00:34:37,031 --> 00:34:38,163 How'd it go when he got back? 721 00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:41,949 You make your move? 722 00:34:42,036 --> 00:34:43,951 He came home wounded. 723 00:34:44,038 --> 00:34:47,128 And it was plain as day that Alice didn't know 724 00:34:47,215 --> 00:34:48,782 how to be a good wife anymore. 725 00:34:50,827 --> 00:34:53,047 'Really nice of you to bring pie, Dottie.' 726 00:34:53,134 --> 00:34:55,441 Blueberry, too. Nelson's favorite. 727 00:34:55,528 --> 00:34:57,747 Kind of a welcome home. 728 00:34:57,834 --> 00:35:00,315 Got any vanilla ice cream, Alice? Make it a la mode. 729 00:35:00,402 --> 00:35:02,404 No, I don't. 730 00:35:02,491 --> 00:35:04,754 I noticed the Victory Garden's dead. 731 00:35:04,841 --> 00:35:07,061 I didn't keep it up. 732 00:35:07,148 --> 00:35:09,629 House could use a dusting, too. 733 00:35:09,716 --> 00:35:11,021 No pie for me, Dottie. 734 00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:12,545 I'm off to the night shift. 735 00:35:12,632 --> 00:35:14,068 I would think now that Nelson's home 736 00:35:14,155 --> 00:35:16,201 you'd be done at the factory. 737 00:35:16,288 --> 00:35:19,291 - Easy. - Oh, heavens, I'm sorry. 738 00:35:19,378 --> 00:35:21,641 'Try this, dear.' 739 00:35:21,728 --> 00:35:23,077 Since when is there whiskey in the house? 740 00:35:23,164 --> 00:35:26,341 I thought for your pain. 741 00:35:26,428 --> 00:35:28,474 Do you mean to say, Alice, that you're going to keep on 742 00:35:28,561 --> 00:35:30,911 at Brill, even with Nelson home? 743 00:35:30,998 --> 00:35:32,782 Turns out I like it there. 744 00:35:32,869 --> 00:35:36,046 - Do you now? - It's nice feeling useful. 745 00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:39,137 Do you know, Nelson, I helped build fourteen B-25 Mitchells? 746 00:35:40,355 --> 00:35:42,227 My. 747 00:35:42,314 --> 00:35:44,054 Plus having my own paycheck. 748 00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:45,578 I give you your allowance. 749 00:35:45,665 --> 00:35:48,407 Just feels different when you've earned it yourself. 750 00:35:48,494 --> 00:35:51,714 Well, I work because I'm a single gal. 751 00:35:51,801 --> 00:35:55,501 If I were married, I'd be more than content to just keep house 752 00:35:55,588 --> 00:35:58,504 do the washing, bake pies. 753 00:36:00,941 --> 00:36:03,335 I made some nice friends at the factory, too. 754 00:36:03,422 --> 00:36:06,120 Yeah, I heard about your friends. 755 00:36:06,207 --> 00:36:08,775 In particular, a young teenage friend. 756 00:36:17,392 --> 00:36:18,785 I'll take these to Martha. 757 00:36:18,872 --> 00:36:20,526 It's her last shift tonight. 758 00:36:29,056 --> 00:36:30,362 More pie? 759 00:36:34,540 --> 00:36:36,150 He didn't go for it, huh? 760 00:36:36,237 --> 00:36:37,369 No. 761 00:36:39,022 --> 00:36:41,024 I'm sure it's amusing to you young people 762 00:36:41,111 --> 00:36:42,635 but to this day.. 763 00:36:42,722 --> 00:36:45,594 ...I would jump for Nelson if he wanted me. 764 00:36:45,681 --> 00:36:47,205 But he wanted Alice. 765 00:36:47,292 --> 00:36:48,771 Mm. 766 00:36:48,858 --> 00:36:51,165 Even after she changed so. 767 00:36:51,252 --> 00:36:53,515 Now, did he go to the factory that night.. 768 00:36:53,602 --> 00:36:55,517 ...to set his wife flying straight again? 769 00:36:58,128 --> 00:37:00,218 You were real helpful giving us Mr. Walker, Dottie. 770 00:37:00,305 --> 00:37:02,524 Is that because you were protecting someone else? 771 00:37:02,611 --> 00:37:04,309 Nelson is a good man. 772 00:37:04,396 --> 00:37:05,614 'Now, come on, now, Dot.' 773 00:37:07,137 --> 00:37:08,443 He ain't gonna choose you. 774 00:37:19,672 --> 00:37:22,022 I saw him with Mr. Walker that night. 775 00:37:24,285 --> 00:37:25,678 Where? 776 00:37:25,765 --> 00:37:28,289 They went into his office, late. 777 00:37:29,943 --> 00:37:32,815 Stayed about an hour. 778 00:37:32,902 --> 00:37:35,514 That's pretty surprising, seeing Nelson there. 779 00:37:35,601 --> 00:37:36,732 Yes. 780 00:37:38,038 --> 00:37:40,040 'But?' 781 00:37:40,127 --> 00:37:42,434 A secretary doesn't tell secrets. 782 00:37:42,521 --> 00:37:43,783 Plus.. 783 00:37:43,870 --> 00:37:47,439 ...all those feelings you had for him. 784 00:37:47,526 --> 00:37:50,224 Nelson just wanted the wife 785 00:37:50,311 --> 00:37:52,705 that he had before he went away. 786 00:37:55,055 --> 00:37:56,752 That war changed everybody. 787 00:37:58,841 --> 00:38:00,582 'So..' 788 00:38:00,669 --> 00:38:01,975 ...news on Alice? 789 00:38:05,021 --> 00:38:06,153 I talked to Dottie. 790 00:38:08,373 --> 00:38:10,636 Is that right? 791 00:38:10,723 --> 00:38:13,334 You knew Alice put those whiskey glasses out that night. 792 00:38:15,336 --> 00:38:18,034 And that she went to the factory. 793 00:38:18,121 --> 00:38:19,601 'Cause you went there, too. 794 00:38:28,915 --> 00:38:30,177 Dottie said that? 795 00:38:33,180 --> 00:38:36,270 Was it the boy? 796 00:38:36,357 --> 00:38:39,099 Or that she didn't need her allowance anymore? 797 00:38:39,186 --> 00:38:42,624 Didn't make you nice homemade pies? 798 00:38:42,711 --> 00:38:44,452 You learned a lot. 799 00:38:44,539 --> 00:38:45,845 It's my job. 800 00:38:47,586 --> 00:38:49,544 Well, you're good at it. 801 00:38:52,025 --> 00:38:54,636 I've been reading Alice's diaries. 802 00:38:54,723 --> 00:38:56,377 Told you she could write. 803 00:38:58,248 --> 00:39:00,033 Did you know she was so terrified her 804 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,210 first morning of work, she got sick in the girls room? 805 00:39:03,297 --> 00:39:05,038 No. 806 00:39:05,125 --> 00:39:07,170 Almost left at lunch time, 'cause she felt her.. 807 00:39:07,257 --> 00:39:08,781 "...skills were so poor." 808 00:39:08,868 --> 00:39:10,435 I didn't know that. 809 00:39:10,522 --> 00:39:13,481 And she was so filthy at the end of that day that. 810 00:39:13,568 --> 00:39:16,136 She got looks from men on the bus, who.. 811 00:39:16,223 --> 00:39:18,312 "Surely take a dim view of.. 812 00:39:18,399 --> 00:39:21,750 ...working girls in grubby slacks." 813 00:39:21,837 --> 00:39:24,405 It wasn't easy for her, making that change. 814 00:39:24,492 --> 00:39:26,668 No. 815 00:39:26,755 --> 00:39:29,671 But she was brave. 816 00:39:29,758 --> 00:39:31,978 And cleared the way for the people coming behind her. 817 00:39:37,766 --> 00:39:39,551 I loved her. 818 00:39:44,773 --> 00:39:45,905 Then honor her. 819 00:39:47,428 --> 00:39:49,387 Tell the rest of her story. 820 00:39:54,653 --> 00:39:56,872 I just went there to ask her to come home. 821 00:39:58,352 --> 00:39:59,745 And what's so terrible about that? 822 00:40:04,010 --> 00:40:05,185 Nothing. 823 00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:10,538 The factory owner saw something, didn't he? 824 00:40:13,236 --> 00:40:15,543 How'd you keep him quiet? 825 00:40:15,630 --> 00:40:17,284 I gave him my war bonds. 826 00:40:22,985 --> 00:40:25,510 I was only away six months.. 827 00:40:25,597 --> 00:40:28,164 ...but it was like I didn't know the girl I came home to. 828 00:40:47,749 --> 00:40:50,012 - Cheers. - To Martha. 829 00:40:59,326 --> 00:41:01,154 What are you doing here? 830 00:41:01,241 --> 00:41:03,417 We need to talk, Kitten. 831 00:41:03,504 --> 00:41:04,636 You should be home. You're injured. 832 00:41:07,856 --> 00:41:09,510 I'm sorry, Kitten. 833 00:41:11,294 --> 00:41:12,861 Okay. 834 00:41:12,948 --> 00:41:15,995 Now, let's stop all this foolishness and get on home. 835 00:41:16,082 --> 00:41:18,345 I'm not off till 6:00. 836 00:41:18,432 --> 00:41:19,564 Forget this place. 837 00:41:21,043 --> 00:41:22,436 I don't think I can. 838 00:41:24,743 --> 00:41:26,353 I don't care about the boy. 839 00:41:27,702 --> 00:41:28,834 'What Dottie told me.' 840 00:41:33,708 --> 00:41:35,754 I still want to have a life with you, Nelson. 841 00:41:35,841 --> 00:41:38,365 - I do love you. - I love you, Kitten. 842 00:41:38,452 --> 00:41:40,759 It has to be a different kind of life now. I changed. 843 00:41:42,195 --> 00:41:43,326 Give it six months. 844 00:41:44,371 --> 00:41:45,415 You'll change back. 845 00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:46,591 No. 846 00:41:47,896 --> 00:41:49,637 I couldn't bear to sit home. 847 00:41:51,813 --> 00:41:54,686 Not making anything of the day, having no company? 848 00:41:54,773 --> 00:41:55,991 Not now, knowing what I can do. 849 00:41:58,211 --> 00:41:59,691 That there's a whole, rich life I can have 850 00:41:59,778 --> 00:42:01,083 besides being a wife. 851 00:42:01,170 --> 00:42:02,302 That's enough, now. 852 00:42:04,391 --> 00:42:07,394 - It's that or it's nothing. - Alice, now, you cut it out! 853 00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:11,354 Nelson, let me go. 854 00:42:11,441 --> 00:42:13,443 I'll let you go. 855 00:42:43,386 --> 00:42:47,390 ♪ Oh give me land lots of land ♪ 856 00:42:47,477 --> 00:42:50,698 ♪ Under starry skies above ♪ 857 00:42:50,785 --> 00:42:54,572 ♪ Don't fence me in ♪ 858 00:42:54,659 --> 00:42:57,183 ♪ Let me ride through the wide ♪ 859 00:42:57,270 --> 00:43:00,316 ♪ Open country that I love ♪ 860 00:43:00,403 --> 00:43:04,538 ♪ Don't fence me in ♪ Ooo ♪ 861 00:43:04,625 --> 00:43:07,410 ♪ Let me be by myself ♪ 862 00:43:07,497 --> 00:43:10,326 ♪ In the evenin' breeze ♪ 863 00:43:10,413 --> 00:43:12,590 ♪ And listen to the murmur ♪ 864 00:43:12,677 --> 00:43:15,462 ♪ Of the cottonwood trees ♪ 865 00:43:15,549 --> 00:43:17,682 ♪ Send me off forever ♪ 866 00:43:17,769 --> 00:43:20,902 ♪ But I ask you please ♪ 867 00:43:20,989 --> 00:43:24,079 ♪ Don't fence me in ♪ 868 00:43:32,479 --> 00:43:35,874 ♪ Oh give me land lots of land ♪ 869 00:43:35,961 --> 00:43:38,311 ♪ Under starry skies above ♪ 870 00:43:38,398 --> 00:43:41,444 ♪ Don't fence me in ♪ 871 00:43:42,707 --> 00:43:45,797 ♪ Let me ride through the wide ♪ 872 00:43:45,884 --> 00:43:48,321 ♪ Country that I love ♪ 873 00:43:48,408 --> 00:43:51,629 ♪ Don't fence me in ♪ 874 00:43:52,717 --> 00:43:54,980 ♪ Let me be by myself ♪ 875 00:43:55,067 --> 00:43:57,896 ♪ In the evenin' breeze ♪ 876 00:43:57,983 --> 00:44:00,463 ♪ And listen to the murmur of ♪ 877 00:44:00,550 --> 00:44:03,118 ♪ The cottonwood trees ♪ 878 00:44:03,205 --> 00:44:04,990 ♪ Send me off forever ♪ 879 00:44:05,077 --> 00:44:07,993 ♪ But I ask you please ♪ 880 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,823 ♪ Don't fence me in ♪ 881 00:44:11,910 --> 00:44:15,000 ♪ I want to ride to the ridge ♪ 882 00:44:15,087 --> 00:44:18,525 ♪ Where the West commences ♪ 883 00:44:18,612 --> 00:44:19,918 ♪ And gaze at the moon ♪ 884 00:44:20,005 --> 00:44:22,703 ♪ Till I lose my senses ♪ 885 00:44:22,790 --> 00:44:25,097 ♪ And I can't look at hobbles ♪ 886 00:44:25,184 --> 00:44:28,274 ♪ And I can't stand fences ♪ 887 00:44:28,361 --> 00:44:31,320 ♪ Don't fence me in ♪ 888 00:44:31,407 --> 00:44:33,235 ♪ No-o-o ♪ 889 00:44:33,322 --> 00:44:36,064 ♪ Pop oh don't you fence me in ♪