John Williams credited as playing...
Colonel Whittingham
- Colonel Whittingham: Ever read a book called, "Crime and Punishment"?
- Maxwell Fleury: No. Why?
- Colonel Whittingham: Well, you should. It's about just this sort of thing. A man who's committed a crime and his relationship with a detective who knows he's committed it, but still can't prove it. There's a - they have a secret together. There's a - deep bond between them. It's rather like a love affair; because, the detective is the only man in the world who understands him - and in his heart, the murderer wants to be found out by the detective.
- Sylvia Fleury: Poor chap - he came out here with such high hopes.
- Colonel Whittingham: Well a chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.
- Bradshaw: Is there much discontent in the islands, Colonel?
- Colonel Whittingham: Crime is my business Mr Bradshaw, not politics.
- Sylvia Fleury: Is there anyone you suspect, Colonel Whittingham?
- Colonel Whittingham: Now, Mrs. Fleury, you know policemen, they suspect everybody.
- Colonel Whittingham: Patience, my boy, that's the ticket. I know that sounds dull to you impatient chaps, but, that's police work. Oh, he'll probably play into my hands whoever the fellow is. I'm in no hurry.
- Colonel Whittingham: I said something like that to a bloke once. I can't remember who. Oh, middle age, my boy, no memory at all.