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dream world. "Despair is a narcotic: it lulls the mind into indifference." But life must go on.
Into the cafe come Lena Couvais and her nephew Jean. As they pass Verdoux, Lena recognizes him. Realizing that he is trapped, Verdoux manages to elude Jean by going in and out of a revolving door and locking him in a room. He uses the interval of liberty he has won to bid goodnight to the girl. "I'm going to fulfill my destiny." He follows the detectives inside. After the fainting Lena points and gasps, "That's him!" Verdoux calmly lifts her off the floor, bows sardonically: "Henri Verdoux, at your service."
Train Wheels. In court the spectators are asked by the prosecutor to look at the "cruel and cynical monster." . . . Verdoux turns toward them obligingly. . . . The prosecutor decries his lack of "decent instincts" . . . demands that the criminal who made a "business" of killing ... be punished "for the protection of society," etc. . . . Wheels. . . . "Verdict expected soon." Asked if he has anything to say, Verdoux remarks, "Mass killing — does not the world encourage it? . . . I'm an amateur in comparison." After the verdict of guilty, he states ominously, "I shall see you all soon — very soon!"
Train wheels. In prison Verdoux, accepting his fate, offers philosophical explanations: "We can't have good without evil; shadows are cast by the sun." He refuses to be photographed. A reporter interviews him, "You'll have to admit crime doesn't pay." "Not in a small way," replies Verdoux. His statements confound the little group. Reporter: "What's this talk about good and evil?" Verdoux: "Arbitrary forces, my good fellow! Too much of either would destroy us all." Reporter: "We can never have too much good in this world." Verdoux: "The trouble is we've never had enough. We don't know." The reporter tries to get a "story" but Verdoux goes on expounding. "Wars, conflict — it's all business.