The cops, especially the Lieutenant, act suspicious for a number of reasons:he refuses to identify his client or provide details about the casehe didn""t go to Miles"" house to break the news to his wife Iva as he said he did (he gave the job instead to Effie, his efficient assistant)he has no witnesses to support his whereabouts for he last hourAnd then they divulge the reason for their visit - Floyd Thursby was murdered in front of his hotel only a half hour after Sam left the Archer murder scene."" In a chilling, perversely evil and memorable monologue to the Lord, the misogynistic killer-evangelist with borderline sanity, glances heavenward and delivers an insane prayer.Its record of a total of ten Academy Awards wins held firm until 1959, whenBen-Hur (1959)won eleven Oscars..I should have liked to have lived here then - color, excitement,power,freedom.Scottie notices old maps and woodcuts from the wild days of San Francisco.Elster, who knows about Scottie""s accident, retirement, and subsequent weakened psychological state from newspaper reports [and using it to his full advantage] explains how he was sorry to read about Scottie""s harrowing incident on a rooftop and his newly-discovered vertigo.