![]() Meanwhile, Louise Patterson has arrived to sketch a picture of the man who bought her painting. After he explains everything to her, she agrees to locate the cabbie. Georgette, finding the painting in her bedroom, goes to George's office to confront him about his affair with Pauline York. Hagen, meanwhile, has printed an article in the evening newspapers offering a reward for a missing Patterson painting, hoping to bait the killer. George is now trapped, unable to interview a cabbie who took Janoth home following the murder. As witnesses to Pauline and George's drunken antics are gathered in the Janoth building, the antiques dealer spots George in the lobby and tells Janoth that the killer is in the building. ![]() Janoth craftily says he merely wanted the exclusive on a good story. George arrives first and finds Pauline dead, turns the clock ahead, then goes to confront Janoth about why he did not go to the police. One staff member, Don Klausmeyer, figures out that the blonde seen with Jefferson Randolph the previous night is a model named Pauline York and goes to her apartment. There, George sends his staff out on assignment to locate Jefferson Randolph, then tries to hide the fact that the descriptons all point to him. George believes Janoth is trying to find the man who was seen with Pauline and feels compelled to return to New York. Janoth telephones and apologizes before asking George to locate a man named Jefferson Randolph. George, meanwhile, has flown to Virginia to meet his wife Georgette, and tells her that after he missed their train, he walked the streets despondently because she had not waited for him. He also takes George's handkerchief that was soaked in green liquor from Pauline's purse, and returns the sundial to Burt's bar. He then calls one of his loyal editors, Steve Hagen, for help, and Hagen goes to Pauline's apartment and sets her clock back. Enraged, he stabs her with the sundial, killing her. When Janoth insults her, Pauline cruelly declares that women only go out with him for his power and position. Pauline tells Janoth she spent the evening with a man named Jefferson Randolph. Before reaching Pauline's door, Janoth catches a glimpse of a man catching the elevator, and he and Pauline then quarrel about their respective infidelities. ![]() Around one-thirty in the morning, Pauline sees Janoth arriving and rushes George out the door with his painting. Eventually, George takes Pauline home and collapses in a drunken stupor on her couch. ![]() Playfully fulfilling their quest for a green clock, Burt gives George and Pauline a sundial, then adorns it with a green ribbon. Later, they visit Burt's Sports Bar, which George frequents, and George introduces Pauline to McKinley, a radio actor friend whose roles have included President McKinley and Jefferson Randolph. While in an antique shop, George and Pauline out-bid a middle-aged woman for a Patterson painting, unaware that she is the eccentric Louise Patterson herself. ![]() After George tells Pauline that Janoth fired a man earlier in the day for choosing red ink over Janoth's preferred green, they go on a drunken search for a green clock as a "present" for Janoth, who is obsessed with time. Pauline, also tired of Janoth's egocentric manipulations, offers to help George humiliate Janoth by writing a torrid biography of him. He then joins Janoth's mistress, Pauline York, in a bar and misses his honeymoon train while drowning his sorrows. Fed up with being loyal to a firm that is jeopardizing his family life, George quits. As George Stroud, editor-in-chief of Crimeways magazine, hides from security guards in the clock tower of the Janoth Publications building in New York City, he reflects on the fact that thirty-six hours before, he was leading a normal life as a Janoth employee: George, who is finally about to go on his honeymoon after seven years of marriage, is ordered by his tyrannical boss, Earl Janoth, to go on assignment or be fired. ![]()
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