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Why does the priest touch his face?
shareThe priest marrying Barbara and Julien is the brother of the original victim who was trying to find out the truth. Julien punched him out when he discovered the intrusion, and wasn't until the priest was out that he realize who the man was.
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The priest marrying Barbara and Julien is the brother of the original victim who was trying to find out the truth.Julien's wife was having an affair with the priest's brother, i.e. the original victim.
I assumed that the motivation for the murder was jealousy. Can you explain about "trying to find out the truth" as I seem to have missed that.
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Julien's wife came to town to escape her sordid past (she was involved with a gang of horse dopers and gamblers). She married Julien while conducting affair with his lawyer. The lawyer was her first lover, and he obviously thought of her as HIS. The original victim was a notorious town playboy with lots of other women on the side, and just added Julien's wife to his trophy. This enrages the lawyer into killing the playboy, hiring the private detective to find out the wife's past and then killing the wife. In the midst of all that, the playboy's brother, the priest was trying to find out what happen, and started to poke around. That's when he got punched out by Julien.
shareI agree. That was also my understanding.
There was a grammar ambiguity. You wrote
The priest marrying Barbara and Julien is the brother of the original victim who was trying to find out the truth.You intended it to be read as:
The priest marrying Barbara and Julien is the brother of the original victim. The priest was trying to find out the truth.And I read it as:
The priest marrying Barbara and Julien is the brother of the original victim who [the original victim] was trying to find out the truth.I did not think that the original victim was trying to find out the truth and I was asking about that.
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