The Thin Man

Nick arrives at Mimi’s, and she asks what happens when someone conceals evidence. Nick says probably nothing will happen to her if she turns it over and the jury sees her as an ex-wife still concerned for her former husband. She asks if Nick thinks she has a motive for hiding evidence, and he assumes it’s because she wants to blackmail Wynant. She tries to hit him, and he surprises her by saying Chris Jorgensen is Victor Rosewater. She looks truly surprised, which in turn surprises Nick. When Nick asks her what she is concealing, she says it was all a lie. Gilbert walks in and asks to speak with Nick alone after they finish. Mimi asks how he knows her husband is Rosewater, and Nick tells her a woman he was seeing told the police. Mimi wonders if he married her to get back at Wynant and killed Julia because she threatened to expose him. Nick goes to leave, and Gilbert comes in, admitting that he was eavesdropping while waiting for Nick.

Gilbert says a letter came for Chris and he steamed it open. It is from Georgia, Chris’s wife, asking for a meeting; it verifies he is indeed Rosewater and a bigamist. Gilbert agrees to give it to Nick for the police. He tells Nick that Dorothy stole morphine from him that he obtained for an experiment. Nick calls Guild and tells him about the letter. In return, Guild tells him Nunheim has been gunned down.

Nora is doing a puzzle when Nick comes home, and he helps her while he tells her what happened. Nora is astonished by the Wynant/Jorgensen family’s behavior toward each other and the world. Dorothy calls and tells Nick she took the morphine from Gilbert only to keep him from getting addicted. They go to a party at the house of an archeologist, and Dorothy comes with Harrison Quinn. The guests gossip because Dorothy isn’t his wife, whom they all know. Quinn gives Nick drunken stock advice, and he and Dorothy fight in front of everyone. Nick and Nora help them leave. Nick takes an intoxicated Quinn to his apartment, where his depressed and tired wife watches Nick put him to bed.

Nick, Nora, and Dorothy go to a restaurant where Macaulay is eating with a redheaded woman. Nick tells him that Jorgensen was Rosewater. Macaulay says he knew him and can’t see him killing Julia. Nora suggests they go to Studsy’s place since it’s not past midnight.

The speakeasy is full, and Studsy is happy to see them. He tells them that Nunheim’s girlfriend is there saying the police killed him because he knew too much. Morelli shows up and apologizes for shooting Nick. He reveals that he knew Julia well because they grew up together in Cleveland but never dated. Nunheim’s girlfriend, Miriam, confronts the table saying they were the last people with him before he was killed. Morelli tells them that after being released from jail, Julia tried to get work at a place she could steal from but ended up being taken care of by Wynant. She told Morelli to stop coming to see her, as Wynant was paying for everything, and she didn’t want to engender that arrangement. That was in October and about the time Wynant went away. A man comes up to their table and accuses them of killing Nunheim. Before he can get the sentence out, Morelli, Studsy, and two other bartenders drag him out.

They leave around 2 am and drop Dorothy at her home. She asks them up to see Mimi. They find the police and Guild with her. Mimi says she wants to talk to Nick alone and asks in a roundabout way if she can get away with setting up Chris with the evidence she concealed. Nick tells her to come clean. After a lot of lying and trying to manipulate the situation, she says she found a distinctive watch chain in Julia’s hand, one made of the three types of metal produced by Wynant’s workshop and with his initials on it. It’s one of a kind and definitely his. She says she took it out of Julia’s dead hand before the police arrived. Nick convinces her to tell Guild and leaves the room.