mr ripley? i'm alvin maccarron.
i don't care for b.s. i don't care to hear it. i don't care to speak it.
why do you think dickie's father sent him to europe in the first place? did you know at princeton dickie greenleaf half- killed a boy?
at a party. over some girl. he kicked the kid several times in the head. put him in the hospital. the boy had a wire fixed in his jaw. the rome police didn't think to ask mr greenleaf.
nor did they think to check whether a thomas ripley had ever been a student at princeton university. i turned up a tom ripley who'd been a piano tuner in the music department.
see - in america we're taught to check a fact before it becomes a fact. we're taught to nose around when a girl drowns herself, find out if that girl was pregnant, find out if dickie had an embarrassment there.
mr greenleaf appreciates your loyalty. he really does. marge, she's got a hundred theories, but there are a few things she doesn't know. we hope she never knows.
three different people saw dickie get into freddie miles' car. a man who won't identify himself because he was jumping someone else's wife at the time saw dickie removing license plates from a red sports car. the police know about this man because he happens to be a policeman.
i found these in the basement of dickie's apartment. they belonged to freddie's car. mr greenleaf has asked me to lose them in the canal this evening.
mr greenleaf also feels there was a silent promise in dickie's letter to you which he intends to honor. he intends to transfer a good part of dickie's income from his trust into your name. he doesn't intend to give the italian police any information about dickie's past. he's rather hoping you'll feel the same.