June 29, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | Fear in the Dark: 4 Horror Stories About Shadows, Silence, and Survival

Unknown Broadcast | Fear in the Dark: 4 Horror Stories About Shadows, Silence, and Survival

Hello again, my dear. Tonight, I ask you to do something very simple: Turn out the lights. Now listen closely… because in this episode, we descend into the places light forgets—where silence has a voice, and fear finds you by feel alone. These four...

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Hello again, my dear.

Tonight, I ask you to do something very simple:
Turn out the lights.

Now listen closely… because in this episode, we descend into the places light forgets—where silence has a voice, and fear finds you by feel alone.

These four tales are stitched together by the same creeping thread: darkness. The kind that hides your worst thoughts. Or worse… listens to them.

🔹 In the Dark
A man alone in a sealed room with a single candle. What happens when the flame goes out?
He hopes he’s imagining things. He isn’t.
🔹 The Dark Chamber
A closed-off room at the end of a hallway begins to whisper… and a curious mind becomes a haunted one.
🔹 One Dark Night
Two strangers meet during a citywide blackout. But someone’s not telling the truth—and someone’s not getting out.
🔹 The Whole Town’s Sleeping (by Ray Bradbury)
A summer night in a quiet town turns deadly as “The Lonely One” stalks the streets.
A masterwork in slow, building dread from one of horror’s finest voices.

So press play. But keep a light nearby, my dear.Just in case the dark decides to press back.

👁️ Perfect For Fans Of:
Ray Bradbury • Psychological horror • The Twilight Zone • Creeping dread • Lights Out radio plays

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👨‍💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
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Ah, Hello, my dear, how have you been? What's that? Oh?

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I suppose it is a bit.

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Dark in here.

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The fire's not quite burning as bright as maybe it

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normally would. Well, it is summer, and I figure, why

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have it any hotter in here? Although there is still

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a chill in the air. But please have a seat,

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Have a seat, get comfortable. I've been thinking a lot

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as I sat here in the illuminated room, all about

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the things that go bump, the things that lurk, the

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things in the dark.

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CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents, come in.

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Welcome. I'm e. G.

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Marshall.

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I shall not assign time or place to the story

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that follows. It could have happened decades ago in one

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of several localities, very likely is happening somewhere right now,

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and it can happen all over the world at some

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indefinite time in the future if we relax our vigilance,

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for it is but one small episode occurring in a

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totalitarian state.

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Benjamin the Anta, Benjamin Ontack, Benjamin Peck, Yes, what what

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did it?

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I wouldn't do that.

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If I will you, I'm trying to find my husband.

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Take my advice. Don't do you know.

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Him, my husband Benjamin Antack.

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No, I don't know him, and neither does anyone else.

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Our mystery drama in the Dark was written especially for

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the Mystery Theater by Elsabeth Eric and stars Terry Keene.

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It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware Stories.

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I'll be back shortly with that one. Totalitarianism means precisely

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what it says. Of course, you were not permitted to oppose.

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But more than that, and more terrible, you are not

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even permitted to consent. You're only allowed to surrender both

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mind and soul to a vague and ill defined power,

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to a pervasive, half hidden terror. In short, you are

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required to give up everything that makes you you. What

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is incredible is that so many people are not only

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willing but eager to do just that. Benjamin on tech,

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Open up.

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On tech.

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Let's say, police, we know you're in there. Open up.

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Command. Ah, you're Benjamin Antic. Yes, I'm Benjamin on deck

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State Police.

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You'll come with us. May I ask why?

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What for?

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You'll find out? Am I supposed to have done something?

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I get your code. I think there's been some mistake.

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I'm a musician, I played the cello. I don't mix

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in anything political or anything like that. Oh, no, get

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his code for him. Well, I'm not interested in that

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sort of thing.

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I just played the cello. I'm part of a trio

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cello fluting.

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Ah, that's good, thank you, Bruno.

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Here I put this on.

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You'll need it. It's cold outside.

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I can't imagine what you want with me put it on.

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This has to be a mistake of some kind. Ready, Well,

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i'd like to leave a note for my wife. No

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time for that, but it should be home soon.

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Let's get going. I suppose it's best to get it's cruda,

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that's the idea.

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So let's go.

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Benjamin, I'm home. I thought you'd meet me at the station.

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What happened? You rehearsing with Peter and forgot?

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Oh?

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Your mother is going to be all right. She'll be

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glad to hear Benjamin.

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Where are you?

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Are you home?

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You?

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And here?

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I must say that's pretty inconsiderate. After a whole month

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his own mother. I should think at least he'd want

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to hear about her. Yes, Hello, it's Karen, mother antequ.

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Oh Karen, you got home all right?

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Yes, I got home all right. No trouble at the border,

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No trouble how are you feeling?

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Tip?

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Was Benjamin okay?

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As far as I know, he didn't meet me at

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the station.

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I didn't meet you at the station. But it's not

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like my Benjamin. Let me speak to him. I'll give

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him a talking too.

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Well, he's not here, Well, where is he?

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I don't know.

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I thought at first he might be rehearsing with Peter Conrad.

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Peter plays the flute, you know, he and Helena live

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right downstairs. But Benjamin's hill.

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I was here, so that's not where he is.

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So I'm I guess I'll just have to wait for

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him to come home.

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Oh, Karen, if he doesn't come home soon, you know,

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he could have had an accident.

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If he doesn't show up in ten fifteen minutes, I'll

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start calling the hospital.

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All the police.

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All right, yes, now i'd better hang up. Benjamin maybe

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trying to call me from wherever he is here, call

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call better. Still, he'll walk through the door.

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And when he does, Karen, you let me know. Huh

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on what is you know?

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I know?

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Goodbye, my dear, goodbye mother Antick? Benjamin?

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Where are you.

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When worries?

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You know?

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Yeah?

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Helenah you home?

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What is it?

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It's Karen, all right to come in. I'm awfully busy, Karen.

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I need to talk to you. Helena. Well please, Helena.

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Is Benjamin here? Who Benjamin? There's nobody here but me? Look,

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could I come in for a minute. I'm cleaning. The

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children will be home from school in an hour. And

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I was it's just for a minute. I need to

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talk to somebody. Well, thank you, just for a minute.

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What did you want to talk about? I uh, I

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must say. You don't seem very glad to see me.

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It's been a whole month. Has it been that long? Yes,

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Benjamin's mother has been quite sick. I've been looking after her.

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You crossed the border. That wasn't hard. Nobody tried to

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stop me. You were lucky. Well maybe anyhow, missus Antique

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is all right now. I had expected Benjamin to meet

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my train, but he wasn't there, so I came on

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home by myself. When I got here, there's no Benjamins. Really,

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my first thought was, well, of course he's down here

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with Peter. They're practice thing. But then I saw Benjamin's cello,

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so then I thought I really I didn't know what

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to think. I was sort of upset. What would you

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move your feet when you please? Oh, yes, sure, thanks.

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I phoned mother Antek and told her about Benjamin not

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being in the apartment. She said, call the hospitals in

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case he's had an accident, And she said call the police,

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did you or that's what I'd been doing? And nothing,

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I mean, nobody knows anything. Listen, Karen, he'll show.

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I know.

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But I was going crazy waiting, so I thought i'd

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just come down here. I thought maybe you were Peter.

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You can put your feet down there, Helen. Did you

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hear anything anybody? I mean, did you hear anybody come

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to the house. If anybody did, they'd have to go

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right past your apartment to get to the stairs. So

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did you hear anybody?

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No?

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I didn't hear a thing with it, Peter. But sure,

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I don't know or when will he be home?

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So I can ask him?

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He won't be home? Oh you mean he's away? Yes, yes,

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he's away. Where way to go?

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When will he be back?

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I might as well tell you, Karen, Peter and I

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are divorced. Divorced. I just got my decree. But I

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thought you and Peter were. We're so happy together. No

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one never knows, does one about other people. I simply

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can't believe it. What about the children? That's why I

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had to divorce him, because of the children. Helena, you're

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not making sense. Peter adores the children, they adore him. Look, Karen,

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I really don't want to talk about it. It's just

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too painful. You understand, don't you.

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I guess I do.

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Oh look, I'm sure you and Peter we'll get back

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together again.

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Oh, sure you will.

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First time he comes around asks you to take him back,

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you'll say yes.

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Good.

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If he so much as shows his face at that door,

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I'll chase him down the street. Oh really, really, Karen,

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I've got to finish up this cleaning before the children

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get home. So if you don't mind, Eleanor you you

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really don't want me here, do you. But it's not that, Karen,

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it is that. That's exactly what it is. I don't

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know what I've done to offend you, Elenor, but obviously

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i've done something. All I can say is that I'm sorry. Oh, Karen,

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I'm going back upstairs and wait for Benjamin. Oh, Karen,

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I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. Yes, hello, hello, Karen, Dia, Oh, oh, mother,

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Antiket too, And I was hoping.

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If you haven't heard from Benjamin. He hasn't come.

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Home, neither one. I'm starting to worry.

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Of course you are. Maybe I should come and stay

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with you.

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No, no, no, you mustn't do that. You've been very sick.

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If anything should happen to you.

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I don't like crossing the border.

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But if you leave me, I'll be all right. Helena

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Conrad's right downstairs, you know, Helen and Peter. Well Helena, anyway,

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she just told me she's divorced Peter.

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My goodness, Oh why did she do that?

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Because of the children? She said, the children?

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What have the children got to do with it?

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Oh? That's what I said. But she didn't seem to

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want to talk about it. Actually, she didn't seem to

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want to talk to me about anything. He's very nervous

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and tense. I don't know. We've been such good friends.

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I really couldn't understand it at all.

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I don't understand it either, and.

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I just wanted to talk to somebody. Helena was so withdrawn,

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so hostile. I'm sure I must have hurt her feelings

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without knowing it. But I don't know when I could

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have done that, because I haven't been here for a

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whole month.

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No, no, Karen, per but don't let it upset.

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You too much.

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Oh, this makes me feel so long.

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I'm sure you have other friends pert to talk to.

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Of course, of course I haven't. Oh, mother and Tack.

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I have to hang up. There's someone at the door. Oh,

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he wouldn't knock. Look, I'll call you when I know something.

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Please please do a good time, I dear.

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Karen. Helena, Oh, Helen, I'm so glad. Come in, come in.

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I can't stay. I just wanted to tell you I'm

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sorry about well, you know before. I mean, if I

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was all right, please come in better not Look, Karen,

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you said you went to the police. Yes, and I

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called the hospital. Where did you go down to the

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police station? Well, yes, of course. Who did you talk to? Uh,

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the officer at the desk, and he talked to some

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others men in uniform. But yes, they were in uniform,

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and they were the regular police. Well, of course, why

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the regular police wear uniforms. The secret police don't.

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Yes, the secret police in or totalitarian state do not

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wear uniforms. They are plain clothesmen. And theirs is the

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department unto itself separate from the others. No one knows

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who appoints them, perhaps they appoint themselves. But their knock

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on the door of a citizen is the first signal

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that he is losing control over his destiny.

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I'll continue shortly with that. Two.

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If an entire population is of one mind, then no

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individual has any mind at all. If all speak with

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one voice, then no one is saying anything. But this

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is the fundamental aim of the totalitarian state, to break

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each mind and silence each voice. The ultimate would be

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realized when every citizen looked precisely like every other citizen,

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ending in a mass of faceless people.

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Did you hear what I said, Karen? You were talking

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about the police, the regular police, the ones you talk to,

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they wear uniforms, the secret police. Don't Are you trying

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to tell me that Benjamin, that it was the secret

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police that they took him. It's happened to other people,

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happens all the time. But Benjamin, she didn't take any interest,

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He didn't have any interest in things like that. He

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didn't even go to the rallies. Very suspicious. But they

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can't take somebody away for just not doing something, Oh

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can't they can they They can take you away from

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not applauding at the movies at the proper time. I

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can't believe laughing at the improper time. But never did anything.

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Music was his whole life, music, our home and me.

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That's all he cared about. What did they have against him?

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What could they possibly charge him with? You know their motto,

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don't you give us the man, We'll find the charges crazy.

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That's completely crazy. Of course. I can't think of one

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reason they might have come for Benjamin. You can. Benjamin

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was very close to Peter. Well, of course they were friends.

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They played duets together and lived in the same building

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and often had a drink together. Well, of course they did.

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Why not, Karen, Right after you went to your mother

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in laws, a secret state police came for Peter. They

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took him away. Peter. Why Peter? What can they possibly

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want with Peter? How should I know he had? He

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had weak lungs maybe that was it, and weak gloves?

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Is that what they said? He didn't say anything. They

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never say anything. But the man next door was carted

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away and his mother thinks it was because he had

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a heart murmur. She can't think of any other reason.

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Peter as a young man, but a heart murmur, or

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weak lungs. These things can make a man unfitter, unfit,

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like people who are handicapped or emotionally disturbed. Oh, Karen,

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it happens all the time. Certainly you know that I

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have heard. I didn't really know.

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I wasn't sure if.

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They could send Peter away. If they've said, Benjamin, they

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can send anyone away. You mean, to a jail, to

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a jail, to a labor camp, to an insane asylum.

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For all I know.

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They don't tell you where can. They don't tell you anything.

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They never tell you anything because they don't want you

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to know anything. All they want you to know is

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there's nothing you can do about it except forget it.

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Act as though it never happened, never was. Is that

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why you divorced to Peter. Of course that's why. What

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did you think? Or you said something about the children?

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If I did anything, if I if I made a fuss,

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if I behaved as though I as though I minded,

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they take my children away from me and put them

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in a home. Oh no, they would, yes, yes, they would.

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They have they do. A woman I went to school

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with her husband disappeared and she banged on doors, and

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she demanded to know where he was, what they had

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done with him. Well, they took her children. They put

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them in a state nursery. The oldest was only four,

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and they took them. I can't take a chance on

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losing my children, can I? Oh, Helen, I'm so sorry.

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It's all right, it's all right. I just have to

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put it out of my mind. I have to behave

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as though nothing happened. I'm sorry I carried on the

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way I did. I'm really sorry. How could you help it? No,

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I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have told you. I just

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wish you'd forget that I did. And I'm glad that

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you did. I'm grateful to you, glad, and please don't

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be grateful. Don't be anything. As a matter of fact, Karen,

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the best thing would be for us just not to

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see much of each other from now on. But we're friends, well,

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not close friends. We know each other, of course, but

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we are not close friends, not anymore, Helen. No, we

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needed you, not anymore. I need you. I have to

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have somebody to talk to, find somebody else, if.

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You can, Bruno see you for a minute, certain Lisa, Yes, sir,

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I got.

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A new assignment. For you came down from the top.

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I stand ready, you know that says a big one. Good,

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very good.

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What do you want now?

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I've been trailing missus Antik Antick Antick. You remember husbands,

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the jealous We send him away about a month ago.

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I was with you when you picked him up. Well,

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this will be a more interesting job for you. I'd

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like that you go to make a tour of the

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post labor camps.

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Good.

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I've never been inside one. It's interesting. I can imagine

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when do I leave right away? Production has fallen.

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Off and they want to know why is it mal

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lingering or what do we need to tighten up on

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the discipline? Not the camp commanders vigilant. Well, they all

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know you're coming. They'll show you around, make your observations

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and write up your reports. Yes, sir, no one will

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know precisely while you're there. Of course, call it a

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friendly visits, just to keep in touch. Well, you'll know

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what to say. Well, I appreciate these opportunity, sir. I

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want you to know that I'll put someone else on

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missus Antique. Any sort of trouble with her, she went

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to the police, of course, we'll do that. She's seen

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her friend, missus Conrad list downstairs, but not often. Missus

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Conrad isn't too friendly.

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Missus antick see anyone else?

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Yes, she's been all over town trying to contact friends.

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Any success, no real success.

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No, okay.

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As soon as she realizes her normal life is over,

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the better for her. We don't want her infecting other people. No,

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they're staying out of her whale, right.

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Are they better?

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They know what's best for her and for themselves.

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Helena, Helena, please chat for a minute. Go away, Karen, don't.

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I can't. I have to talk to someone. Helena can't

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come to the door. I'm not gonna go away. I'm

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gonna stand right here. I'll day if I have to. Oh, Helena,

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how dare you do this to me? Helena? I'm desperate.

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No friend would do this to a friend. But I'm desperate.

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Don't you know that? We're all desperate? And I'm so frightened.

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It has been six whole weeks. I haven't been able

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to find out anything about Benjamin. Not anything. You never will,

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so make up your mind to it. I don't even

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know if he's alive or dead. Do you know what

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that's like? Not knowing if your husband, I know very

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well what it's like, and talk to me about Lea.

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Just be quiet, look, come on inside, could come inside,

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thank you, thank you, but only for a minute, and

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keep your voice, Helena. I have been all over the city.

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I've gone to see everybody who ever knew Benjamin at all.

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That was very silly of you, and nobody would talk

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to me once I told them why I was there.

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Of course they wouldn't. And if you have any regard

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for them, you won't try to see them. They pass

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right by me on the streets. Of course, they don't

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even look at me till you shouldn't expect them to.

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If you ever cared for them at all, were our friend?

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Well they're not now and they never will be. What

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are you trying to do ruin them? Well, then stay

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away from them and stay away from me, Karen. I

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have my children to think of. Then what am I

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to do? Where am I to go? Who will help me?

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No one? You're one of the lepers now, Karen, you're contagious.

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But what have I just?

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What did Peter do?

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What did Benjamin do?

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What did I do?

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So you see, I don't see I don't see it all.

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You're still such an innocence.

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I can't.

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I've heard things. I don't know whether I believe them

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or not. I just never never thought anything like that

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would happen to me. Karen. I'm going to tell you something,

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and then you've got to go. And if you ever

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repeat what I'm going to say, I would. I wouldn't, Karen.

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I think it's important to them, to those crazies, to

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pick up innocent people and send them off to a

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camp or whatever. I think it's important. But why why

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should it? Because it tells everybody that nobody is safe nobody,

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nobody is ever safe, nobody not ever. Why What is

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the point of that point? Is to develop a whole

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nation of people who do what they're told, who don't think,

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who don't feel, who simply react like praying dogs to

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a signal. After all, if they're going to take over

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the world, the whole universe, maybe someday they can't have

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people feeling and thinking. Now canny, Hello, Karen, all right,

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i I'm frightened, mother, And Karen, you.

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Mustn't let yourself be frightened.

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You must just carry off hope. But you don't know,

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You just don't know. Watil it happens to you. Then

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you'll know you can't imagine what happens to you. Then

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you know.

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What?

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Can I say?

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Nothing? Nothing because you don't know.

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Well, you'll call me.

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I don't know. I don't know if I should, I don't.

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I don't know about anything.

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Well, then I've called you. We have to keep in touch.

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You and that.

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Mother n tek. Yes, yes, my dear, could you come here?

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Would you come here and stay with me? I'm so frightened.

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I haven't got anybody to talk to. Everybody avoids me,

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and Helena says I shouldn't go near anybody because I

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might put them in danger if they were seen talking

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to me. I mean people I've known for years. Sometimes

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they don't even nod when they pass me on the street.

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They never say hello or anything.

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They just hurry on.

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Boy. Could you come and stay with me until we

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hear something about Benjamin. Could you do that, Karen?

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I think I think we need to be careful. I

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think until things are straightened out somehow, we should.

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Be very very careful about what we do and what

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we say.

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Have you ever thought of what it would be like

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if the entire world were under totalitarian rule, total control

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of the total population theories, not one free voice, not

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one free thought, not one free line of poetry or prose. Well,

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think about it, and then go back. I can read

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again our precious bill of rights. I'll be back shortly

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with our concluding act. I think it is worth repeating

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that the incident you are experiencing could have occurred in

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one of several places.

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And could be happening somewhere right now.

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Because man is intoxicated with the idea that everything is possible,

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is he at the same time convincing himself that everything

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is therefore allowable?

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Is his arrogance really so stupendous as to believe that.

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Sir.

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Ah Bruno, you're back, Yes, sir, twenty minutes ago, I

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thought I should report to you straight off, said, don

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tell me about your inspection, to give me a general idea.

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Well to me, and is of course at this sort

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of thing. That's point. Yeah.

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I was impressed on the whole. The camp seemed to

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be run with remarkable efficiency. They appear to be getting

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the maximum amount of.

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Labor out of all the inmates.

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Is that some actually, sir, They're getting a lot of

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work out of them that really has no purpose, no

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purpose that I could see at any rate, such as well,

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such as carrying rocks from one place to another in

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the morning, and in the afternoon carrying them back to

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where they were to start with. I couldn't believely see

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any point of that. And to keep them busy, keep

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them on the move, I suppose, take my word warrant,

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it's necessary, remind them what they're there for, keep them

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from brooding.

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There was a suicide at one of the camps the

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day I was there.

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Absolutely forbidden descitively it could spread, and so I was

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told all the same to me.

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It was depressing. What else you remember? Just before I went,

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before you sent me off on this.

470
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:18.839
Door, we were talking about that cellist fellow Benjamin on

471
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:19.519
tick Ah.

472
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.640
Is that one his wife is making a nuisance of herself? Well,

473
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:25.759
is she? Yes?

474
00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:29.160
I assigned Charlie to follow her. Seems she's just wandering

475
00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:33.400
the streets calling out her husband's name over and over

476
00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:37.400
and over, and nobody pays attention to him. But it's Arnason,

477
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.920
I understand. I suppose I take Charlie off that Judy

478
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:43.640
and puts you back on. Whatever you say, sir, it'll

479
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:45.599
be a little rest for you after you long to him.

480
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:49.480
Thank you, sir, could now go right up here for

481
00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:53.240
report on the camps. Yes, sir, oh, by the way,

482
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:59.160
the cellist died An Tack really didn't mask long? Did

483
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:01.440
he ride in the box?

484
00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:03.319
In the box? Eh?

485
00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:07.359
Well, those innocents don't take the life in the camps

486
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:11.039
that spend my observation. Their minds start to go and

487
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.960
after that they're finished. Well, run along on type of

488
00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:18.920
your report, six copies, have one on my desk by noon.

489
00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:30.359
Benjamin Ontack, Benjamin.

490
00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:32.559
Mathemonteq.

491
00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:35.480
Yes, what is it?

492
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:37.440
I wouldn't do that if I were you.

493
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:39.880
I'm trying to find my husband.

494
00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:44.160
Take my advice. Don't do you know him?

495
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:46.440
My husband, Benjamin on Tech.

496
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:53.160
No, I don't know him, and neither does anyone else.

497
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:57.640
But lots of people know him. We have lots of friends.

498
00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:02.119
He's well known in his City's formed in public. You see,

499
00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:04.519
he's a chelist and people come to hear him play

500
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.160
hes with a trio. They get written up in the newspapers.

501
00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:11.960
The picture has been in the papers many times them

502
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:16.840
and you see he was taken away I think by

503
00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:17.800
the secret police.

504
00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:21.000
I'd advise you to forget him.

505
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:27.880
I can't. I can't. How how can you forget someone

506
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:33.559
you've lived with so long and loved? How can you

507
00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:37.000
forget someone when you don't know where he is or

508
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:38.039
if he's even alive?

509
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:42.760
He is not, He is dead.

510
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:45.320
Dead.

511
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:56.639
He died in the punishment. So oh, when sometime last week,

512
00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:03.199
I see you sure I was there?

513
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:05.719
I see?

514
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:12.480
Well, then there's no use looking for him, is there?

515
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:15.079
No use? Said that?

516
00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:17.440
I see?

517
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:37.639
Well, thank god, Helena, Karena. Let me in, Please, Helena,

518
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:47.719
I have something to tell you, something important. Well, I'd

519
00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:53.679
like to come in. Please, Okay, come in. I'd like

520
00:35:53.760 --> 00:36:01.039
to sit down. Please, you can't stay, This won't take long. Well, well,

521
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:09.239
what is it? Benjamin's dead dead? How do you know

522
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:12.639
he's dead? Somebody on the street came up to me

523
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:16.199
and told me who I don't know, but he said

524
00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:21.639
he was there when Benjamin died. He died in a punishment.

525
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:22.079
Cell.

526
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:30.000
Imagine my Benjamin, who never hurt a living thing in

527
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:35.440
any way, not by deed or by word. My Benjamin

528
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:41.599
died in a a punishment. So oh, Karen, I'm so

529
00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:47.079
very sorry. I hope he didn't suffer too much for

530
00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:54.480
too long. Perhaps he didn't. You know what I said

531
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:59.440
when the man told me, what did you say? I said,

532
00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:06.599
thank God? And I think I know why I said it.

533
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:12.440
In fact, I'm sure I know why did you If

534
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:14.519
you want to tell me, oh I do. I do

535
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:16.719
want to tell you, if you'll let me, of course

536
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:22.280
I'll let you. This is why, you see, when I

537
00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:26.199
heard that he was dead, he died last week, that's

538
00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:26.960
what the man said.

539
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:27.719
The man was there.

540
00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:32.199
Well, as soon as he told me Benjamin had died,

541
00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:39.360
then I knew. I knew for certain that Benjamin had existed.

542
00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:45.519
Do you understand what I'm saying? I think maybe I do.

543
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:49.440
You see, as long as you don't know, and nobody

544
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:52.320
will tell you, and nobody will admit having known him,

545
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:57.960
your mind begins to play tricks on you. You start

546
00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:02.079
to think maybe there was never any Benjamin at all,

547
00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:06.679
that you made the whole thing up. You know that

548
00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:08.880
isn't true, but you start to believe it. You can't

549
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:13.519
help yourself go on. You begin to feel you never

550
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:17.360
had a husband, You were never married for twenty years.

551
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:20.000
None of that ever happened, except maybe in a dream.

552
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:28.039
But when you find out that that man, that husband,

553
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:35.880
that Benjamin has died, well, that shows that he really

554
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:39.159
lived you see what I mean.

555
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:40.280
I think so.

556
00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:42.440
And you didn't make it up, you didn't dream it,

557
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:47.280
you lived it. It was real, it was true, it

558
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:57.159
was a fact. Something awful happened, something so awful, so

559
00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:03.519
unbelievably awful. But at least now you know.

560
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:06.119
He died.

561
00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:09.119
He's dead.

562
00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:14.519
But you know you did have those twenty years with him,

563
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:20.239
and they were real. They really happened, he really lived.

564
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:30.639
Because now he's dead. Well, I don't want to stay

565
00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:35.639
too long, that's all right. I had to tell someone

566
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:40.719
you stay as long as you like. No, I have

567
00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:46.280
to go upstairs and prone his mother. Thank you, Helena,

568
00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:49.239
thank you very much.

569
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:03.239
Oh yes, Bran, may I speak to you for a moment.

570
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:10.440
It's about missus Anteka, the cello's wife. Oh yes, the

571
00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:14.000
one who was catterwalling around the streets. That's the one.

572
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:17.840
She isn't doing it anymore, sir. It's very wise of her,

573
00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:21.440
But she is doing something else. I wanted to get

574
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:22.400
your opinion on her.

575
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:24.039
Why what she doing?

576
00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:28.280
She stays home all day, but she goes out nights

577
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:33.000
out where, no particular place, just out on the streets

578
00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:36.679
all over town. She's all bundled up in all clothes

579
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.719
higher the hard time recognizing her at first, she looks

580
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:41.480
like an old woman, which she is not.

581
00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:42.119
What does she do?

582
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:43.159
She?

583
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:50.480
She writes on walls? She won, She writes on walls

584
00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:54.559
with chalk. Of course, as soon as she moves on,

585
00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:57.159
I erase whatever she's written by A block or two later,

586
00:40:57.239 --> 00:40:58.840
there she is again, writing on a wall.

587
00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:09.679
What does she write? Think? Feel? Think? Feel? What makes

588
00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:10.559
her do that? I want to?

589
00:41:11.079 --> 00:41:16.559
I can't imagine unless yes on us want well. She

590
00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:19.960
started to thread after I told her that her husband steady,

591
00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:24.880
You see, when she was wondering about shouting his name.

592
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:28.480
That put a stop to it. I told her he

593
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:33.079
died the week before in the box, You fool, you

594
00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:36.960
unmitigated idiots, be sir.

595
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:38.239
You mean me.

596
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:40.039
Don't you know anything at all about the movements?

597
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:44.639
Well? I thought I did. I certainly no one is

598
00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:45.440
supposed to.

599
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:48.719
Know what's happened, same as I'm not supposed to know

600
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:49.599
what's going to happen.

601
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:50.639
But no one told me that.

602
00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:54.559
No one should have to tell. You get a proper

603
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:57.000
blood in your veins, the right spirit in your soul.

604
00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:01.400
You have known without being told. These cattle are not

605
00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:05.159
entitled the facts. They're not entitled anything but what we

606
00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:08.039
choose to tell them. They are there to do what

607
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:11.519
they're told to cheer and obey, and cheer while they're obeying.

608
00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:15.400
You've been with a party this long, you don't even

609
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:15.679
know that.

610
00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:19.920
Think feel.

611
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:24.159
Indeed, they'll think what we tell them to think, and

612
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:26.360
they'll feel what we want them to feel, and that's

613
00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:29.320
the whole idea behind the movement. I'm sorry, sir, I

614
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:33.639
didn't mean if I know, they'd never right, all right,

615
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:35.039
stop blubbering.

616
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.639
Believe me, sir, I'll never make such a mistake again. No,

617
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:46.440
you won't. I've learned my lessons. I wonder if you have. Oh, yes, sir,

618
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:48.039
yes I have.

619
00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:50.960
It seems to me that a year and of forced

620
00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:53.320
labor camp would drive the lesson home.

621
00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:59.159
Don't you think so? Weren't insane a sound? Hey?

622
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:08.719
Whatever you think best, I'm sure that's.

623
00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:10.159
What would be best. I'm sure too.

624
00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:18.320
A little more indoctrination, may Bruno, Yes, sir, I'm sure

625
00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:23.199
that's what I need. I think so too, just to

626
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:25.440
make certain you're worthy to be a member of the

627
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:46.280
ruling class. Now go turn yourself in so the totalitarian

628
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:50.800
states can turn and devour its own within the system.

629
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:56.480
There are those who, for whatever obscure reason, will inevitably

630
00:43:56.599 --> 00:44:01.400
prove themselves unreliable, at least in someone's eyes. And such

631
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:07.239
a one seen thus is destined for reprimand for punishment,

632
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:12.440
or for extermination, because this is the way of the

633
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:15.960
totalitarian state. I shall be back shortly.

634
00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:28.960
One more word.

635
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.480
I have heard that, once upon a time, for what

636
00:44:32.679 --> 00:44:36.559
reason I cannot imagine, a certain gentleman spent many years

637
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:40.079
cutting off the tales of rats, hoping to produce a

638
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:45.400
strain of rats without tales. Now tell me, if we

639
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:49.639
should remove the heads of a sufficient number of persons, would.

640
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:51.719
We at last produce headless people?

641
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:55.159
I can only tell you it didn't work with the rats.

642
00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:00.840
They went right on being born with tales. Our cast

643
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:04.480
included Terry Keane, Carol Titel, Ray Owens, and Ralph Bell.

644
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.960
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

645
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:14.760
Well, I suppose I can put another log on the fire.

646
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:21.880
The wood is not necessarily ideal, you tonight. I haven't

647
00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:25.920
had another delivery in quite a while, so it may

648
00:45:26.119 --> 00:45:28.920
take a bit for it to catch and reach its

649
00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:35.800
full luminance. But that's okay, because as long as we're

650
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:39.920
here sharing this moment with a hot cup of tea

651
00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:44.440
and a smile on our faces. As long as we

652
00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:53.079
are together sharing this experience, I will never fear the

653
00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:54.679
dark chamber.

654
00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:27.440
Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup present inner sanctum, mysteries, good

655
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:29.679
evening friends will be in a sanctum.

656
00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:33.719
This is your host to welcome you through the squeaking door.

657
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:38.440
Throw up tombs down s Anon, don't mind the fact

658
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:40.079
that we've carved your name on it.

659
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:44.920
Oh, it's all a lonesome around here, don't.

660
00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:47.840
It isn't it's Most of the folks who haunt the

661
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:51.280
place are out tonight for their sleds. If it's snow

662
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:54.760
near your house, you may find them ghosting down.

663
00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:57.880
Here, mister Post. Ghosts don't go sledding, do they?

664
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:02.440
Of course, men, especially the ghosts of gangsters. I used

665
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:04.239
to being taken for a sleigh.

666
00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:04.880
Right.

667
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:07.960
Well, now, why don't you take your sled and join

668
00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:09.840
your friends and let me have a word with our

669
00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:13.840
Lipton listeners. Folks, have you ever noticed how often we

670
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:17.239
all use the words good, better, and best. We're always

671
00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:20.840
comparing things because comparisons help us decide what the best

672
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:24.400
things in life are. For example, the perfect way to

673
00:47:24.519 --> 00:47:27.760
prove how really flavorful Lipton tea is is to compare

674
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:32.480
Liptons to any other tea and taste the difference. Lipton's

675
00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:36.119
flavor is brisk, never flatter, wishy, washy. It gives you

676
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:39.360
all the flavor tastes just the way you like tea best.

677
00:47:40.039 --> 00:47:43.320
No other tea gives you more bright, mellow goodness because

678
00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:49.639
that superb flavor of Lipton's is extra rich, extra satisfying. Yes, friends,

679
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:53.639
just compare Liptons to any other tea. You'll find Liptons

680
00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:57.039
gives you brisk flavor, and you'll find Lipton's wonderful brisk

681
00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.039
flavor gives you more contentment.

682
00:47:59.639 --> 00:47:59.840
In a.

683
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:01.960
Right man.

684
00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:05.000
Now you go and catch yourself on that tea pot

685
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:09.079
over there, and get ready to hear about the Dark Chamber.

686
00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:13.840
It's an original radio play by Robert Newman, who witnessed

687
00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:17.239
the story while picking through a keyhole. Yes, and our

688
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:20.519
start tonight is Kenneth Lynch, who plays the role of Joel.

689
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:28.559
Our story tonight is about dead, violent death, and also

690
00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:33.760
about something which is even more terrifying, the unknown. You

691
00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:36.760
don't believe that anything can be more frightening than death,

692
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:41.599
and you've never experienced the ultimate in fear, but you

693
00:48:41.719 --> 00:48:44.840
will within the next few minutes if you'll put out

694
00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:46.639
the lights, pull your chair.

695
00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:49.519
Up close and listen to the dark chamber?

696
00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:57.000
Is it Ryan Swigan?

697
00:48:57.079 --> 00:48:58.360
Hello, please listen.

698
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.239
You've got to help me. You've got you don't know

699
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:03.239
how you can. My name is Watson, Joe Watson. I'm

700
00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:07.119
a driver for the ACME Sanitary hand Laundry. Where I

701
00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:12.679
am I don't know. That's part of the trouble. Hey, wait, listen.

702
00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:15.599
I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. Check the laundry,

703
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:17.119
check the veterans. I'm an XGI.

704
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:17.800
They'll tell you.

705
00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:21.360
I'm straight. Well, I'm in a room someplace. I don't

706
00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:22.920
know where it is, or how I got here, or

707
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.480
what I'm here for. I don't even know how long

708
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:28.159
I've been here. It's a big room, but it's funny.

709
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:30.639
No doors, no windows that I can see, just a

710
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:32.800
couple of chairs in the table with his phone on it.

711
00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:34.000
That's scared.

712
00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:37.880
Find me, find out what this is all about, and

713
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:41.400
get me out of here. Listen, this is the gag,

714
00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:43.880
can't you tell You don't know what it's like, just

715
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:46.400
sitting here waiting, not knowing where or why. Or what's

716
00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:49.159
going to happen? Can't you trace this call or something?

717
00:49:50.079 --> 00:49:51.440
Okay? Hang on?

718
00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:56.039
Oh thank heaven, I was afraid. Listen, I hear something.

719
00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:56.639
Someone's coming.

720
00:49:56.840 --> 00:49:57.360
Better hang up.

721
00:49:57.840 --> 00:49:59.800
I'll call you back later if I can.

722
00:50:03.880 --> 00:50:04.360
How do you do?

723
00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:06.480
Oho? Are you?

724
00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:07.480
My name's Helmi?

725
00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:10.599
Dofter john Helmy in your name?

726
00:50:11.679 --> 00:50:13.000
I don't have to tell you anything.

727
00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:16.280
That's very true, although I didn't think you were aware

728
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:18.760
of it. I think I already know everything about you

729
00:50:18.920 --> 00:50:19.960
that I'm interested in knowing.

730
00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:24.239
Like what name? Joseph Watson, age.

731
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:29.199
Twenty six, occupation, employee of the Acme Laundry, honorably discharged

732
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:32.280
from the Army six months ago with the Bronze Star

733
00:50:33.039 --> 00:50:34.079
and the Purple Heart.

734
00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:36.599
What so you cased me?

735
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:38.320
Went through my pocket?

736
00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:38.599
Huh?

737
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:41.119
Well, if you know that much, you know I haven't

738
00:50:41.159 --> 00:50:42.760
got any dough money.

739
00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:44.840
I'm not interested in money.

740
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:45.639
What do you want?

741
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:45.840
Then?

742
00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:47.519
Where is this place?

743
00:50:48.039 --> 00:50:50.079
The last thing I remember is making a delivery on

744
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:52.320
Spruce Street, noticing that the lights were out in the

745
00:50:52.360 --> 00:50:55.280
hall and hearing a noise behind me. You are somebody

746
00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:58.519
slug me? That's right, Well it stopped grinning like that

747
00:50:58.639 --> 00:50:59.880
and tell me what this is all about?

748
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:00.880
Of course.

749
00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:04.760
I brought you here because I need your help and

750
00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:05.599
an experiment.

751
00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:10.400
An experiment, who's details I've already worked out with mice

752
00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:12.360
and rabbits and cats.

753
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:13.039
And other animals.

754
00:51:13.800 --> 00:51:15.360
What kind of an experiment?

755
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:17.199
An experiment in fear?

756
00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:18.199
Fair?

757
00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:20.159
Yes, you fought in.

758
00:51:20.159 --> 00:51:23.960
The war, you were wounded. That means you've probably known fear.

759
00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:27.920
And still you won the brother Star, which means you

760
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:32.199
overcame it. Now the question is can you overcome your

761
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:33.159
present fears?

762
00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:35.159
What are you talking about?

763
00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:36.880
You're afraid.

764
00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.519
Nothing has happened to you yet, absolutely nothing, and yet

765
00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:42.199
you are afraid, aren't you.

766
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.360
You're afraid because your face to face will.

767
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:48.440
Be unknown because you don't know what I want and

768
00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:52.360
what I'm planning to do, which is as a children.

769
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:56.559
And that's the way we'll leave it for the moment.

770
00:51:57.119 --> 00:51:58.679
Hey, why am I go back here?

771
00:51:59.239 --> 00:51:59.599
Go back?

772
00:52:10.679 --> 00:52:11.320
Hello? Please?

773
00:52:11.639 --> 00:52:12.679
This is Joe Watson again.

774
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:13.480
Listen.

775
00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:14.519
I got a little more dope.

776
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:16.639
I don't know if it will help, But there was

777
00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:19.280
a guy in here just now said his name was Helming,

778
00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.840
John Helming. That's probably a phony. He's about fifty tall,

779
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:25.559
over six foot, white hair and gray eyes. No, I

780
00:52:25.679 --> 00:52:27.639
still don't know what it's all about her what he's after.

781
00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:30.079
But have you been able to trace this number yet?

782
00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:35.960
How long will it take? Okay, I'll hang on. The

783
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:38.840
lights just went out. The room's pitch dark, and somebody's

784
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:41.440
coming in again. I better stop for Pete's sake.

785
00:52:41.599 --> 00:52:50.960
Hurry, who's that? Who just came in?

786
00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:54.840
How are you a girl?

787
00:52:56.079 --> 00:52:56.840
Keep away from me?

788
00:52:58.000 --> 00:52:58.480
Keep away?

789
00:52:58.559 --> 00:52:58.920
Do you hear?

790
00:52:59.119 --> 00:52:59.639
Keep away?

791
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:01.159
What's the angle?

792
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:01.440
Now?

793
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:02.920
Angle?

794
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:05.480
Why did you bring me here?

795
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:07.239
Wait a minute?

796
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:10.719
You mean he put the snatch on you too?

797
00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:13.599
And I was on my way home chloroform or something,

798
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:19.920
And the next thing I knew, why are you pretending here?

799
00:53:20.039 --> 00:53:20.679
In on it too?

800
00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:22.840
You must be a trap to trap?

801
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:25.679
All right, I'm not in on it. I'm in it

802
00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:30.119
along with you. My name is Watson, Joe Watson.

803
00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:33.559
I'm very grant.

804
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:36.800
You swear, I swear.

805
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:41.079
What would I lie about it for? I wonder why

806
00:53:41.159 --> 00:53:44.159
he put you in here? Put us together?

807
00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:44.800
Who is he?

808
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:46.639
What's he going to do?

809
00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:47.159
I don't know.

810
00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:51.719
He said something about an experiment, an experiment and fear.

811
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:55.159
But he listen, We've got to get out of here somehow,

812
00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:55.840
some ways.

813
00:53:57.440 --> 00:53:59.559
He might be listening very as.

814
00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:03.760
You, my dear. Of course, I'm list what where are

815
00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:05.280
you right here in the dark.

816
00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:06.559
I've been here all the time.

817
00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:08.039
Why are you don't?

818
00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:11.920
He must want you to go for him. He's probably

819
00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:12.639
got a gun.

820
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:16.679
Right again, my dear, that i'll need it. This is

821
00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:21.039
stage two of the experiment. A new stimulus to action

822
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:25.159
has been introduced. Man against the unknown has become man

823
00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:27.119
and woman against the unknown.

824
00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:29.239
But let's get down the breast tacks.

825
00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:30.239
Be sensible about this.

826
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:33.000
Thank you, Joe. That's why I won't need my gun.

827
00:54:33.880 --> 00:54:38.400
This new stimulus has been negated by an increased sense

828
00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:46.639
of responsibility, responsibility towards the girl and therefore by increased.

829
00:54:46.199 --> 00:54:55.280
Fifth plus, you got wiot outside now, so you can relax.

830
00:54:56.199 --> 00:54:59.760
That was the final stimulus in this stage in jo

831
00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:03.760
ride the discovery that I could read your innermost thoughts.

832
00:55:03.920 --> 00:55:07.320
You exactly what you're going to do, but you mustn't

833
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:11.159
let that value. I already know everything you're going to.

834
00:55:11.239 --> 00:55:12.039
Do from now on.

835
00:55:13.800 --> 00:55:25.519
Listen you Helming, Helming, He's gone, I know. Hold on, baby,

836
00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:28.880
don't let it get you. There must be a way,

837
00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:29.679
some way.

838
00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:33.440
Still listening.

839
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:37.519
Hard to say, but I'm going to take a chance.

840
00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:41.960
There's one thing he didn't figure on a telephone. Yes,

841
00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:44.280
I can find it again in the dark.

842
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:47.159
It's over and the here is.

843
00:55:48.679 --> 00:55:51.360
I put through two calls already to the police, told

844
00:55:51.400 --> 00:55:53.199
him what was happening and asked him to get me

845
00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:55.880
out of here. I had to hang up both times

846
00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:57.719
before they could trace the call and get this number.

847
00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:02.480
But this time, Hello, what No, this isn't the operator.

848
00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:03.440
You're on a busy wire.

849
00:56:03.639 --> 00:56:06.440
It doesn't matter, Thank Kevin. I got somebody. I've been

850
00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:07.519
trying for about ten minutes.

851
00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:08.679
Now get off the line.

852
00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:10.480
Well you, I've got to get through to the police.

853
00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:11.519
It's terribly important.

854
00:56:11.559 --> 00:56:13.400
What you've got to help me. You've got to My

855
00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:15.440
name is Ben Lasari and I'm a prisoner some place.

856
00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:16.239
I don't know where it was.

857
00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:21.079
It's true, strange house somewhere. Doctor who says his name

858
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:21.519
is Helming.

859
00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:24.920
What are you laughing at, Joe?

860
00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:25.000
What?

861
00:56:26.039 --> 00:56:27.400
I haven't got headquarters.

862
00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:29.639
I've got a guy that I'm.

863
00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:31.039
Sorry, Ben, it's no use.

864
00:56:32.559 --> 00:56:33.559
We're in the same boat.

865
00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:37.679
You are, a girl named Betty Grant myself. Helming's got

866
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:39.079
us locked up to you.

867
00:56:39.559 --> 00:56:40.800
Yeah, he said he.

868
00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:43.239
Knew everything we were thinking, everything we were going to do.

869
00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:46.079
I did get through of the police before but I

870
00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:47.079
guess he caught wise.

871
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:48.840
We're talking to each.

872
00:56:48.719 --> 00:56:50.039
Other over an inside line.

873
00:56:51.800 --> 00:56:53.800
Yeah, we're through.

874
00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:57.519
No, Joe, don't say that. I don't even think it.

875
00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:00.960
Asking me exactly where he is?

876
00:57:02.639 --> 00:57:03.639
Just where are you being?

877
00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:08.480
You know, it's hard to say. How was out called

878
00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:11.199
when he brought me here. It's a kind of a

879
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:18.400
hall of passage way, cement, floor, ceiling, stone walls. There

880
00:57:18.440 --> 00:57:20.639
doesn't seem to be any door opening or anything like that.

881
00:57:20.760 --> 00:57:22.880
That's what I thought here too, But there must be

882
00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:25.800
wonder how would he have gotten you in there? Listen,

883
00:57:25.880 --> 00:57:27.480
start looking, see if you can find it.

884
00:57:28.039 --> 00:57:30.760
That's true, I have a thought of that. Now I

885
00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:32.440
do find the door that opens in the way you are.

886
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:35.039
That's right, three of us together, we'll surely be able

887
00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:35.880
to figure something out.

888
00:57:35.920 --> 00:57:39.000
Then hold on, I'll start planning on the walls. You'll

889
00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:39.840
see if you hear anything.

890
00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:41.800
Go ahead, what's he doing?

891
00:57:42.199 --> 00:57:43.719
He's going to knock on the walls to see if

892
00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:46.039
he's anywhere near us, and if he is, if he

893
00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:48.199
can find a door we can get together.

894
00:57:50.239 --> 00:57:50.800
Here anything.

895
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:53.440
I'm not sure.

896
00:57:54.840 --> 00:57:58.000
Maybe I'm not sure either.

897
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:01.039
Awful far away?

898
00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:02.440
Is it there?

899
00:58:02.679 --> 00:58:04.159
Listen that wall right there?

900
00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:05.000
Hello?

901
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:07.519
Hello, Ben? Yes, we heard you.

902
00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:08.679
You're right next to us.

903
00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:12.039
How Ben, you listen and Betty you'll not back. Go ahead, Betty,

904
00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:14.760
that way, Ben, you'll be able to tell just which

905
00:58:14.800 --> 00:58:15.280
wall it is.

906
00:58:18.960 --> 00:58:19.119
Here?

907
00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:23.000
I know where it is. How to find the door

908
00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:23.599
if there is one?

909
00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:25.360
Hold on, he's got it.

910
00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:26.880
He's going to see if there's a door.

911
00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:27.920
There must be one.

912
00:58:27.960 --> 00:58:34.000
There must be Ben, Ben, Hello, what is it?

913
00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:38.400
No, but it hurts a moan?

914
00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:42.760
No, Look, there is a door. It's opening.

915
00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:48.440
It's open, doctor Helming.

916
00:58:48.559 --> 00:58:51.679
Why yes, were you expecting someone?

917
00:59:02.760 --> 00:59:05.840
Well, now that you mentioned it, doctor, there was someone

918
00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:09.440
we've been expecting and waiting for since we first heard

919
00:59:09.480 --> 00:59:13.480
about that cozy little place of yours. I think he's

920
00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:18.079
finally arived. He's a tall, rather striking gentleman with a

921
00:59:18.280 --> 00:59:22.880
skull for a face, and his name is dead mister host.

922
00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:26.599
That doctor Helming is insane. He gives me the chills.

923
00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:29.039
Oh maybe it's just because it's so cold to night.

924
00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:29.400
Mary.

925
00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:32.159
You know it's getting so nippy these days that some

926
00:59:32.320 --> 00:59:35.400
of my friends are having fur colors put on their shrounds.

927
00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:39.519
Well, my friends are smarter. They know that the way

928
00:59:39.599 --> 00:59:41.400
to warm up in cold weather is with a hot

929
00:59:41.480 --> 00:59:45.360
cup of fragrant, delicious Lipton tea. A cup of tea

930
00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:47.719
in front of the fireplace just hits the salt these

931
00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:51.400
chilly days. But make it Lipton's and your pleasure is complete.

932
00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:54.480
You brew up a part of Lipton's, throw another log

933
00:59:54.559 --> 00:59:57.519
on the fire, and summer tiptoes right into the room.

934
00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:00.400
Let the wind blow in, the snow pile up on

935
01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:03.000
the roof. There's all the magic of June and a

936
01:00:03.039 --> 01:00:06.800
cup of Liptons in its deep amber color. It's tantalizing

937
01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:11.360
fragrance and its rich, hearty flavor. And what flavor that

938
01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:17.199
is never wishy washy, always brisk and fall and satisfying.

939
01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:20.599
Try it, folks. You can let winter do its worst

940
01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:22.280
when you've got Liptons in your cup.

941
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:23.679
That's right, Mary.

942
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:26.760
It either gets time now for something a little more

943
01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:31.719
cold blooded, such as a cold blooded murder. We're having

944
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:35.039
a juicy one here tonight. Tale of gog a Low.

945
01:00:35.239 --> 01:00:40.119
So let's see what's happening in the dark chamber. It's

946
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:44.280
just a moment later. Now, standing in the darkness of

947
01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:46.920
the strange room, Joe and Betty stare at the tall

948
01:00:47.079 --> 01:00:50.079
figure of doctor Helming, silhouetted against the dim light.

949
01:00:50.199 --> 01:00:50.920
From outside.

950
01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:55.519
I asked you whether you were expecting someone.

951
01:00:56.800 --> 01:00:57.920
Then it was just a trick.

952
01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:00.920
It was you and follow all the time.

953
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:02.760
Do you think i'd know his voice?

954
01:01:03.320 --> 01:01:04.599
Where is he?

955
01:01:04.880 --> 01:01:08.559
Our friend, mister lazare right outside?

956
01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:09.639
What did your doing?

957
01:01:11.239 --> 01:01:11.840
That's why?

958
01:01:11.840 --> 01:01:12.440
Did your too?

959
01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:13.679
Sure?

960
01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:14.679
I know you're killed him?

961
01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:16.920
Did you kill him?

962
01:01:17.559 --> 01:01:19.679
Quite a state you've gotten yourself into.

963
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:23.840
Why is it because you finally tried to do something

964
01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:27.039
about your predicament and failed? Or is it because you

965
01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:30.000
weren't sure whether I would kill or not? And because

966
01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:30.840
you still don't know?

967
01:01:31.840 --> 01:01:32.039
Oh?

968
01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:37.719
No, really, no, you'll be interested to know you have

969
01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:42.039
not done, nor will you do one thing that I

970
01:01:42.239 --> 01:01:43.199
did not foresee.

971
01:01:44.119 --> 01:01:44.960
Every move you.

972
01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:49.880
Made, every emotion you felt was charted outlined.

973
01:01:50.679 --> 01:01:51.000
But that.

974
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:56.880
I think is probably the police. The police, Yes, I

975
01:01:56.960 --> 01:01:58.639
know that you're very anxious to talk to them, and

976
01:01:58.679 --> 01:02:07.920
I'll see that you got a chance to. So good evening, officer.

977
01:02:08.719 --> 01:02:10.480
I'm looking for a guy named tell.

978
01:02:10.360 --> 01:02:11.760
Me doctor him.

979
01:02:11.880 --> 01:02:13.440
I'm doctor Helming. Come in, won't you?

980
01:02:13.880 --> 01:02:14.199
Okay?

981
01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:15.360
Thanks?

982
01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:20.599
This is a kind of a funny business. It's about

983
01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:23.119
a phone car we got a while ago. Finally traced

984
01:02:23.159 --> 01:02:26.199
here a guy who said he was a prisoner or something.

985
01:02:26.239 --> 01:02:27.360
That must have been Watson.

986
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:31.320
Yeah, yeah, that's his name, Joe Watson. You know, of

987
01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:34.719
course I can't tell you how sorry I am. It

988
01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:36.800
was really very careless. I mean, I'll see that it

989
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:39.840
doesn't happen again. What do you mean if you didn't investigating,

990
01:02:39.960 --> 01:02:43.519
which I'm sure you did, then you know that I well,

991
01:02:43.559 --> 01:02:46.159
I don't understanditarium exactly, but I do take a few

992
01:02:46.199 --> 01:02:52.599
patients mental cases for treatment. Ah, I wis you wouldn't

993
01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:57.000
say that Watson's case is particularly interesting. A four F

994
01:02:57.079 --> 01:02:59.920
who wasn't able to enlist and he developed a persecution

995
01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:03.880
think that everyone is down, not everyone exactly. His present

996
01:03:03.920 --> 01:03:05.639
fantasy is that he's an x g I and that

997
01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:07.199
I'm keeping him prisoner.

998
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:12.679
Who's plenty tough. Well, I guess you'll run along. I'm

999
01:03:12.719 --> 01:03:13.360
shorry I brought it.

1000
01:03:13.400 --> 01:03:15.440
Don't you want to see them first? Officer, talk to them.

1001
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:18.719
There's no need to adapted. We get cards from cranks

1002
01:03:18.760 --> 01:03:22.400
every day. We are investigative cards. But I insist, after all,

1003
01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:26.719
you only have my word for it. Uh, there's well,

1004
01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:28.119
there's just one thing I'd like.

1005
01:03:28.199 --> 01:03:31.599
To coach you. You should I know, I'll clear down

1006
01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:38.800
right in here, room.

1007
01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:43.679
It's a cramp, and that means then you take that

1008
01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:44.159
my man.

1009
01:03:44.400 --> 01:03:47.079
Sure, sure, Joe took a little time to face a card.

1010
01:03:47.159 --> 01:03:50.079
But everything's okay. Oh, thank you heavy.

1011
01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:52.639
It was such a screwy story. I was afraid that.

1012
01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:57.039
Wait wait a minute, then, why is he standing there

1013
01:03:57.159 --> 01:04:00.000
like that? Why haven't you got the bracelets on him?

1014
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:00.960
After the hearing?

1015
01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:04.239
Don't need it in neither rough stuff? He said, it's

1016
01:04:04.280 --> 01:04:05.119
coming along quietly.

1017
01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:06.519
Why you're lying?

1018
01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:10.559
I don't know why. There's something wrong?

1019
01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:11.599
Here's something.

1020
01:04:12.920 --> 01:04:13.159
I know.

1021
01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:16.039
Do you think we made the whole thing up?

1022
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:17.719
We're crazy?

1023
01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:18.880
That's true.

1024
01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:22.199
He told you we were, and you believe them. Gosh

1025
01:04:22.360 --> 01:04:26.800
not Look but well you stop saying. I can only

1026
01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:32.840
prove it somehow, show you, I know, well, Arry Murder.

1027
01:04:33.039 --> 01:04:36.119
That'll open your eyes. Somewhere in that wall is a door.

1028
01:04:36.320 --> 01:04:38.400
Make them open it, show you what's behind it. I

1029
01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:40.239
think maybe it lest be going.

1030
01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:42.920
But there is a door there, officer, just a second,

1031
01:04:43.039 --> 01:04:43.960
I'll open it for you.

1032
01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:46.880
Here we are.

1033
01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:52.840
Sure body, it's gone.

1034
01:04:54.440 --> 01:04:58.039
It's start as are the pot is it turns it again?

1035
01:04:58.119 --> 01:04:58.320
Later?

1036
01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:02.800
Gives another thing? Eh, I shouldn't have said that. Hey,

1037
01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:05.079
can I go up this way now? Down to the

1038
01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:06.639
end of the corridor than to your right.

1039
01:05:06.880 --> 01:05:09.199
Hey, I'm sorry I gave you hosble.

1040
01:05:09.559 --> 01:05:12.320
All right, thank you for being so understanding.

1041
01:05:12.519 --> 01:05:14.239
Quite all right, goodbye?

1042
01:05:16.320 --> 01:05:23.079
Well children, don't look that way, Joe, don't I know

1043
01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:26.760
what you're thinking, And it's not true. We're not crazy.

1044
01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:31.079
There was a body there, of course you hit it.

1045
01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:34.800
When you went out to let the copin the telephone.

1046
01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:37.840
You left that here purposely wanted me to Joseph get

1047
01:05:37.840 --> 01:05:38.440
the police here.

1048
01:05:39.199 --> 01:05:42.480
Obviously, I told you that this was to be an

1049
01:05:42.519 --> 01:05:46.159
experiment and fear. What I didn't tell you was that,

1050
01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:49.000
in a sense, I was one of the subjects too.

1051
01:05:49.559 --> 01:05:52.480
It was important for me to learn how I would

1052
01:05:52.559 --> 01:05:56.039
function under pressure and speaking objectively, I think I did

1053
01:05:56.159 --> 01:05:56.559
rather well.

1054
01:05:56.960 --> 01:05:59.800
Don't you Why are you doing all this?

1055
01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:00.639
Why are you act?

1056
01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:03.119
There's no reason why I shouldn't tell you.

1057
01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:07.920
If anyone truly understands the nature of fear is able

1058
01:06:08.079 --> 01:06:11.920
accurately to forecast the actions and reactions of an individual,

1059
01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:14.239
then he can use fear as a weapon.

1060
01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:17.039
Society will react as the individual reactions.

1061
01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:22.280
You see, Society doesn't want to believe that anything can menace.

1062
01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:26.480
It doesn't want to take action to protect itself any

1063
01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:29.480
more than the individual does. This was something that Hitler

1064
01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:38.199
and Mussolini understood intuitively. I understand it scientifically. They failed,

1065
01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:43.960
but I shall succeed. I'm afraid That's all I have

1066
01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:46.960
time for as far as you two are concerned. The

1067
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:52.639
experiment is finished, completely finished. I have a few arrangements

1068
01:06:52.679 --> 01:06:57.800
to take care of, and then well make the best

1069
01:06:57.840 --> 01:07:00.599
of these last few minutes before.

1070
01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:01.760
They will be your last.

1071
01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:13.159
Joe, do you hear anything?

1072
01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:15.480
Is he coming back?

1073
01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:17.800
Not yet.

1074
01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:23.239
He's going to kill us, isn't he just the way

1075
01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:25.679
he killed LIZERI.

1076
01:07:26.920 --> 01:07:27.960
He's going to try to.

1077
01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:31.679
Why are you sitting there.

1078
01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:33.400
Like that looking at me?

1079
01:07:34.559 --> 01:07:34.920
M hmm.

1080
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:40.800
I guess because it's the first chance I've had to

1081
01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:41.320
look at you.

1082
01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:43.079
How do you mean.

1083
01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:47.920
When he first put you in here, it was all dark.

1084
01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:50.719
So many things happened after that.

1085
01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:57.119
It's funny there are things that you can tell about

1086
01:07:57.119 --> 01:08:00.840
a person even in the dark. I kind of thought

1087
01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:03.480
you were a little and I knew you were awful,

1088
01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:07.239
nice and had a lot of nerve, but I didn't

1089
01:08:07.239 --> 01:08:08.199
think it'd be so pretty.

1090
01:08:09.400 --> 01:08:13.679
I'm not so pretty, Joe. I'm not very brave either.

1091
01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:20.560
I'm scared. I'm awful scared, So I don't want to die.

1092
01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:24.760
Don't worry about it, baby, don't think.

1093
01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:31.520
About it, just sitting here like this, waiting and there's

1094
01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:35.479
nothing we can do. Every time we did try to

1095
01:08:35.600 --> 01:08:39.640
do something with something he knew about was expecting us

1096
01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:46.239
to do. Please Joe, something happened to you. You were

1097
01:08:46.319 --> 01:08:49.159
scared before too, but now I.

1098
01:08:49.279 --> 01:08:49.960
Was not knowing.

1099
01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:53.479
It was scary, not knowing what was going to happen

1100
01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:56.600
or why, or what you could do about it. But

1101
01:08:56.760 --> 01:09:00.319
once you do no, once you make up your mine,

1102
01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:04.000
and then you've got to forget about it, forget.

1103
01:09:03.760 --> 01:09:06.479
About everything, make up your mind about what.

1104
01:09:09.359 --> 01:09:12.159
This is going to sound kind of funny, especially now,

1105
01:09:12.279 --> 01:09:18.640
But well, do you have anyone special fellow?

1106
01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:20.560
I mean, why?

1107
01:09:22.079 --> 01:09:24.640
Oh, I know that's good.

1108
01:09:26.199 --> 01:09:29.800
I mean, gee, it's a shame we never met before.

1109
01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:32.960
If we had, we wouldn't be here now. I mean,

1110
01:09:33.039 --> 01:09:36.880
we probably would have been out together someplace. And what

1111
01:09:37.079 --> 01:09:37.960
time do you get through work?

1112
01:09:38.039 --> 01:09:39.880
Usually about six?

1113
01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:42.399
The store closes at five thirty?

1114
01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:45.239
Me too, I could have picked you up at about six.

1115
01:09:47.640 --> 01:09:48.600
I hear something.

1116
01:09:50.279 --> 01:09:56.640
He's coming, Yeah, okay, get up.

1117
01:09:58.800 --> 01:10:00.800
Over in the corner of the road, said that he'll

1118
01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:02.560
see you as soon as he opens the door.

1119
01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:06.960
What about you, I'll be waiting over here behind the door.

1120
01:10:07.119 --> 01:10:11.039
You're not going I know I haven't got much.

1121
01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:15.680
Of a chance, but I'll wish me luck. It'll be quick.

1122
01:10:16.079 --> 01:10:20.880
Oh no, Joe, please, all right, my young friends. Time,

1123
01:10:21.960 --> 01:10:26.600
all my arrangements have been completed, and I'm where's what's right?

1124
01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:31.319
It's okay.

1125
01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:34.279
Maybe I didn't get me the barrel of the guner

1126
01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:40.760
good lord got him in the chest. You couldn't have

1127
01:10:41.039 --> 01:10:45.079
done You couldn't outside, buddy, So you can find another phone,

1128
01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:48.039
call a police again, this time telling to bring an ambion.

1129
01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:51.760
But you couldn't have done it. It was all plotted,

1130
01:10:52.600 --> 01:10:56.520
grafted and worked out in the tail. I knew just

1131
01:10:56.680 --> 01:10:59.960
what you were going to do, how you would really

1132
01:11:01.239 --> 01:11:03.479
by this time, you were to be in a state

1133
01:11:03.560 --> 01:11:09.039
of complete frustration, resigned, ready to die.

1134
01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:11.479
Why did you do it?

1135
01:11:12.680 --> 01:11:12.880
Why?

1136
01:11:13.039 --> 01:11:13.399
I don't know.

1137
01:11:14.319 --> 01:11:14.880
I just take it.

1138
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:19.600
I've got to know. You got to tell me. Was

1139
01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:26.239
it because of the girl? Out of the desperation, because

1140
01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:29.359
you knew you were going to die?

1141
01:11:29.479 --> 01:11:29.920
Anyway?

1142
01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:33.399
I tell you, I don't know. I just know that,

1143
01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:52.560
like I'll take just so much pushing around, pushing.

1144
01:11:52.319 --> 01:11:55.840
Around, Yeah, that sounds to me as if one of

1145
01:11:55.920 --> 01:11:58.079
our characters is going to get a lot of pushing

1146
01:11:58.159 --> 01:12:01.079
around at the end of a pitchfork and in a

1147
01:12:01.239 --> 01:12:02.479
very warm climate.

1148
01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:05.520
It's good Old Helming's finished.

1149
01:12:06.359 --> 01:12:08.039
He's got to be if we're to have at least

1150
01:12:08.079 --> 01:12:10.720
two copses the inner Sanctum minimum.

1151
01:12:11.840 --> 01:12:14.960
Oh you think that's a little laboratory, not at all.

1152
01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:18.039
We've got to have at least two copses to play

1153
01:12:18.079 --> 01:12:23.760
our theme song when a body meets a body theme song.

1154
01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:26.199
I didn't know we had one, Oh Mary, We've got

1155
01:12:26.279 --> 01:12:29.279
lots of them. Didn't you ever hear our skeleton song?

1156
01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:32.880
I ain't got nobody.

1157
01:12:33.199 --> 01:12:36.520
Mister host. Let's be serious for a moment, because I

1158
01:12:36.680 --> 01:12:38.920
want to talk about one of the most serious things.

1159
01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:40.119
In life, our health.

1160
01:12:41.279 --> 01:12:44.640
For instance, the war may eventually lead to an increase

1161
01:12:44.760 --> 01:12:48.119
in tuberculosis. And that's why the makers of Lipton Tea

1162
01:12:48.199 --> 01:12:50.800
and Lypton Soup have asked me to remind you of

1163
01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:55.079
the annual sale of Christmas Seals. Funds raised by this

1164
01:12:55.279 --> 01:13:00.399
sale support to perculosis control programs, X rays, health, edge education,

1165
01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:04.840
and medical research. Remember, over a half million people in

1166
01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:08.600
the United States and Canada suffer from this disease, so

1167
01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:12.119
buy as many Christmas seals as you can. No one

1168
01:13:12.279 --> 01:13:16.720
is safe from tuberculosis until everyone is safe, and Christmas

1169
01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:18.800
seals can save lives.

1170
01:13:26.079 --> 01:13:29.920
And our friends. Here's a word of wholesome advice. If

1171
01:13:29.960 --> 01:13:33.439
you've had any murderous thoughts lately, give them. Our picture

1172
01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:36.960
just doesn't pay well. I know a lady who killed

1173
01:13:36.960 --> 01:13:39.720
off her husband and you know it just ruined her

1174
01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:43.640
marriage as he grew very cold with.

1175
01:13:45.680 --> 01:13:45.840
Oh.

1176
01:13:45.920 --> 01:13:48.279
By the way, this month's In a Sanctum Mister novel

1177
01:13:48.399 --> 01:13:50.760
is The Fearful Passage by H. C.

1178
01:13:50.960 --> 01:13:51.439
Branson.

1179
01:13:52.399 --> 01:13:55.000
Yes, the next week's in a Sanctum story directed by

1180
01:13:55.159 --> 01:13:58.279
Hyman Brown and brought to you by Lipton Tea and

1181
01:13:58.359 --> 01:14:03.319
Lipton Soup. Next week's story is about a vampire. He's

1182
01:14:03.359 --> 01:14:06.520
a very stingy fellow. That's when you go out with him,

1183
01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:11.159
the drinks are always on you. That's really we're going

1184
01:14:11.239 --> 01:14:12.439
to try to make him feel at home.

1185
01:14:12.560 --> 01:14:12.760
Yeah.

1186
01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:16.119
So I just ordered a good supply of bats with

1187
01:14:16.319 --> 01:14:20.039
green eyes, a coffin for him to sleep in, and

1188
01:14:20.199 --> 01:14:21.359
I would mistake.

1189
01:14:21.039 --> 01:14:22.119
The drive to his heart.

1190
01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:25.840
I wouldn't stake my life on his friends, but he

1191
01:14:26.079 --> 01:14:28.239
may visit you before next Tuesday.

1192
01:14:30.800 --> 01:14:35.439
Until then, good, I pleasant dream.

1193
01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:55.039
Well, the fire does seem to be picking up the

1194
01:14:55.119 --> 01:15:02.840
flame certainly have their hunger going strong as the room

1195
01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:10.319
begins to irradiate. Well, I suppose there's only so much

1196
01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:16.840
one fireplace and a few old candles can provide. But

1197
01:15:17.000 --> 01:15:23.600
don't you worry. We fill the room with fellowship and stories,

1198
01:15:23.880 --> 01:15:29.720
the things that make humans and those like humans so special.

1199
01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:33.600
But it's no match for one dark night.

1200
01:15:35.079 --> 01:15:55.199
The whistler. I am the whistler, and I know many things.

1201
01:15:55.600 --> 01:15:56.439
Or I walk by me.

1202
01:15:57.399 --> 01:16:00.920
I know many strange heads, the hearts of men and

1203
01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:02.640
women who were stepped into the shadows.

1204
01:16:03.359 --> 01:16:07.199
Okay, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare

1205
01:16:07.319 --> 01:16:07.920
not speak.

1206
01:16:09.840 --> 01:16:13.600
And now the whistlers strange stories. One dark night.

1207
01:16:22.960 --> 01:16:25.039
Though it was only eight o'clock in the evening, it

1208
01:16:25.159 --> 01:16:28.159
was quite dark and the houses along the tree lined

1209
01:16:28.199 --> 01:16:31.840
suburban street were quiet. In one house, a light could

1210
01:16:31.840 --> 01:16:34.279
be seen burning brightly through the front windows of the

1211
01:16:34.359 --> 01:16:38.560
house on the corner, its illuminating rays reaching out across

1212
01:16:38.720 --> 01:16:42.279
the front lawn to form fingerlike shafts of light and shadows.

1213
01:16:43.239 --> 01:16:47.760
And inside, Frank Jason paced the living room floor, moving

1214
01:16:47.840 --> 01:16:51.319
with the nervous stepths and motions of a sensitive animal

1215
01:16:51.439 --> 01:16:52.520
contemplating danger.

1216
01:16:53.720 --> 01:16:56.520
Frank Jason stopped dispacing on occasions.

1217
01:16:56.720 --> 01:16:59.800
Fare down at a large dark stain in the center

1218
01:16:59.800 --> 01:17:06.000
of the living room, cracking Dan talk for a long moment,

1219
01:17:06.319 --> 01:17:09.760
your mind racing. Then you hurried at the front door.

1220
01:17:13.920 --> 01:17:16.640
Hello, Frank, not disturbing you, am I?

1221
01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:18.960
No dolls?

1222
01:17:18.960 --> 01:17:23.960
Of course coming, you've seen nervous.

1223
01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:26.760
I'm not worried about the next door neighbor dropping in?

1224
01:17:26.880 --> 01:17:27.039
Are you?

1225
01:17:28.079 --> 01:17:29.720
I saw your light on. I thought i'd drop in.

1226
01:17:30.159 --> 01:17:31.760
You're ever loving wife and I had a date to

1227
01:17:31.800 --> 01:17:32.720
go shopping in the morning.

1228
01:17:32.800 --> 01:17:34.920
The glad you stop, my dolls. I was about to

1229
01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:35.279
phone you?

1230
01:17:35.960 --> 01:17:38.079
Oh thank what's the matter?

1231
01:17:38.840 --> 01:17:39.439
Something wrong?

1232
01:17:40.319 --> 01:17:43.000
It's about Cora. Do you have any idea where she

1233
01:17:43.039 --> 01:17:43.279
could be?

1234
01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:44.680
It's not home.

1235
01:17:44.960 --> 01:17:47.359
No, I haven't seen her since this morning when I

1236
01:17:47.439 --> 01:17:48.119
left for the office.

1237
01:17:48.640 --> 01:17:50.840
It happens, that's strange.

1238
01:17:51.680 --> 01:17:53.199
What do you suppose did you see your today?

1239
01:17:54.079 --> 01:17:57.359
On ten this morning coffee? That's when we planned to

1240
01:17:57.359 --> 01:17:59.359
go shopping tomorrow. I came by to tell her I

1241
01:17:59.359 --> 01:17:59.920
couldn't make it.

1242
01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:03.079
I'm worried. Does worried sick? A call everywhere?

1243
01:18:03.199 --> 01:18:06.199
Wait? Could she have gone to see her sister.

1244
01:18:06.479 --> 01:18:08.840
I thought of the first thing. She does. That often

1245
01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:11.119
takes off without telling me, but she usually calls me

1246
01:18:11.199 --> 01:18:13.079
when she gets there, and she hasn't.

1247
01:18:13.479 --> 01:18:15.479
No, would you call her sister's place?

1248
01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:18.039
Yes, no answer, but he'd.

1249
01:18:17.880 --> 01:18:20.479
Probably gone out. She could have tried to reach you

1250
01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:21.279
and you weren't here.

1251
01:18:21.479 --> 01:18:23.119
I haven't left the house since I got back from

1252
01:18:23.119 --> 01:18:23.560
the office.

1253
01:18:23.800 --> 01:18:27.199
Oh, I'm sure Colora is all right. She just forgot

1254
01:18:27.239 --> 01:18:28.560
the call, you know how she is.

1255
01:18:28.880 --> 01:18:30.439
Yeah, that could be.

1256
01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:32.560
I suppose I'll be up for a while. Let me

1257
01:18:32.600 --> 01:18:36.840
know if you hear from her. Yeah, sure, and don't worry.

1258
01:18:37.359 --> 01:18:38.920
I'm sure Coraa is all.

1259
01:18:38.880 --> 01:18:42.119
Right the night cry nice.

1260
01:18:52.159 --> 01:19:19.760
Hello operator, give me the police department. If famous to Jason,

1261
01:19:19.800 --> 01:19:21.840
you last saw your wife this morning when you left

1262
01:19:21.840 --> 01:19:25.159
to the office. Yes, that's right, Lieutenant. She didn't mention

1263
01:19:25.239 --> 01:19:28.279
her plans for the day or the evening. No, what

1264
01:19:28.399 --> 01:19:31.279
time did you get back from the office? Around three

1265
01:19:31.399 --> 01:19:34.560
thirty or so, a bit earlier than usual? Oh? Any

1266
01:19:34.640 --> 01:19:37.840
reason for that, mister Jason. Well, yes, I thought it'd

1267
01:19:37.880 --> 01:19:39.239
be nice if Karl and I drove out to the

1268
01:19:39.279 --> 01:19:41.880
beach House for the weekend. The beach House, we have

1269
01:19:41.960 --> 01:19:44.279
a little place at Shelton's Cove. Use it for summer

1270
01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:47.880
vacation weekend. Yeah, I see. So you got here on

1271
01:19:48.159 --> 01:19:54.880
three thirty and there was no note message of any time. No, well,

1272
01:19:55.000 --> 01:19:57.119
still early only age thirty. You'll probably hear from her

1273
01:19:57.399 --> 01:19:59.359
if not like her, Lieutenant, not like her at all.

1274
01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:01.960
She's left without telling you where she's going before. Yes,

1275
01:20:02.039 --> 01:20:05.199
but she usually calls later. This time she hasn't called.

1276
01:20:05.239 --> 01:20:07.199
I waited until seven thirty and then told her sister

1277
01:20:07.279 --> 01:20:09.479
in Santa Barbara. There was no answer. I finally got

1278
01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:11.720
through to her just before you got here, Lieutenant, and

1279
01:20:12.159 --> 01:20:14.760
Colora hadn't been there, and her sister hadn't heard from her.

1280
01:20:15.079 --> 01:20:16.560
Something happened to her, something dreadful.

1281
01:20:16.600 --> 01:20:16.840
I know it.

1282
01:20:16.920 --> 01:20:19.199
I take it easy, missage Jason. There's no need to

1283
01:20:19.279 --> 01:20:20.279
get excited.

1284
01:20:20.039 --> 01:20:21.000
No need here.

1285
01:20:21.239 --> 01:20:26.079
Let me show you something, Lieutenant. Over here. Well, that

1286
01:20:26.199 --> 01:20:30.319
small scatter rug on the carpet, lift it up? Okay,

1287
01:20:33.239 --> 01:20:35.960
Oh what's it? That stain wasn't there this morning, Lieutenant.

1288
01:20:36.399 --> 01:20:38.399
Now there was a scatter rug. Somebody put it there

1289
01:20:38.399 --> 01:20:39.439
to hide the stain in the carpet.

1290
01:20:40.159 --> 01:20:40.359
Mm.

1291
01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:44.399
Well, then I happened to notice.

1292
01:20:44.239 --> 01:20:46.760
It shortly before I called you. The rug doesn't belong here.

1293
01:20:46.800 --> 01:20:48.840
We usually have it in front of the fireplace. I

1294
01:20:49.000 --> 01:20:51.159
was curious when I would to pick it up, and

1295
01:20:52.439 --> 01:20:57.680
well that's when I saw the stain. Uh huh, could

1296
01:20:58.880 --> 01:21:04.479
could it be blood? Yeah, it could be, mister Jason.

1297
01:21:05.319 --> 01:21:05.960
We'll check it.

1298
01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:17.479
A kaleidoscope of thoughts and reactions go crick crossing through

1299
01:21:17.520 --> 01:21:17.960
your mind.

1300
01:21:18.039 --> 01:21:18.880
Now, don't they bring?

1301
01:21:19.359 --> 01:21:21.239
As you wait with the Lieutenant for his men from

1302
01:21:21.279 --> 01:21:25.439
the police lab to arrive, go about their intricate methodical

1303
01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:28.920
check works. You watch them for a while and then

1304
01:21:29.039 --> 01:21:31.920
wander out of the kitchen, discover that your hand is

1305
01:21:32.079 --> 01:21:35.720
trembling as you light a cigarette. You're not thinking of

1306
01:21:35.800 --> 01:21:37.520
the man in the living room, are you, Franks?

1307
01:21:38.520 --> 01:21:39.399
Not at this moment.

1308
01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:42.079
As you stare out the window in the darkness of

1309
01:21:42.159 --> 01:21:45.399
the garden and back, and then your thoughts are interrupted

1310
01:21:45.479 --> 01:21:49.760
by the appearance of the Lieutenant at your size, mister Jason, Yes,

1311
01:21:50.279 --> 01:21:53.039
I have the report. Is it?

1312
01:21:53.359 --> 01:22:00.880
Yeah? Blood? I was afraid of that, this description of

1313
01:22:00.920 --> 01:22:03.880
your wife, mister Jason, dark.

1314
01:22:03.760 --> 01:22:05.680
Hair, thirty eight years old, five.

1315
01:22:05.560 --> 01:22:08.840
Feet four, weighed approximately one hundred and eighteen pounds. Yes,

1316
01:22:10.680 --> 01:22:12.920
like that. You come down a headquartered with me down

1317
01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:17.479
to the morgue, the morgue, the body of women answering.

1318
01:22:17.520 --> 01:22:21.560
This general description was found in the bay several hours ago.

1319
01:22:22.600 --> 01:22:25.920
You mean you think it might be? Yeah, and then

1320
01:22:25.960 --> 01:22:30.760
again it might not be, mister Jason. You'll feel up

1321
01:22:30.800 --> 01:22:51.720
to it. Yes, yes, of course, here we go, mister Jason,

1322
01:22:52.479 --> 01:22:56.479
Lieutenant just a moment, if you don't mind, Oh here,

1323
01:22:56.520 --> 01:22:57.319
what you like to sit out?

1324
01:22:58.439 --> 01:22:59.000
I'll be all right.

1325
01:23:00.279 --> 01:23:02.920
It's just like I know, I know, take it easy,

1326
01:23:07.159 --> 01:23:20.880
all right, I guess I'm ready. Let's get it over with. Well,

1327
01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:30.640
mister Jason. No, that's not Cora, Thank heavens, it's not Cora.

1328
01:23:36.960 --> 01:23:37.760
Well, mister Jason.

1329
01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:42.520
Let's get a cup of coffee. Thanks, Lieutennan, I could

1330
01:23:42.600 --> 01:23:43.000
use one.

1331
01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:51.479
It all feels unreal. Who you doesn't miss, Franks.

1332
01:23:51.840 --> 01:23:55.239
Your conversation with a police lieutenant, his lab man working

1333
01:23:55.279 --> 01:23:58.479
in your living room, the visit to the Moor. All

1334
01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:01.479
things that you read about on the papers but never.

1335
01:24:01.520 --> 01:24:03.640
Quite pictured, is happening to you.

1336
01:24:04.840 --> 01:24:08.760
Yes, Frank, It's all like a dream, a haze of

1337
01:24:09.039 --> 01:24:14.119
unfamiliar activity, of questions and answers and nervousness, and cigarettes

1338
01:24:14.159 --> 01:24:18.039
and cups of coffee held in the shaking hands. And

1339
01:24:18.159 --> 01:24:22.039
then Finally, with the lieutenant driving you home, your nerves

1340
01:24:22.119 --> 01:24:26.159
begin to settle back into place. Reality returns all both

1341
01:24:26.239 --> 01:24:29.319
simultaneously with the sound of the police car.

1342
01:24:29.399 --> 01:24:33.720
Front tires touching the curb in front of your own home.

1343
01:24:35.479 --> 01:24:42.159
Oh, thanks, lieutenant, you've been very kind at all. You'll

1344
01:24:42.199 --> 01:24:44.680
let me know if you're hearing if I get a

1345
01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:47.359
good night's rest, Yes, good night.

1346
01:24:56.600 --> 01:25:02.279
Hello. Oh oh, Doris saw you leaving the police car

1347
01:25:02.319 --> 01:25:02.800
a while ago.

1348
01:25:03.600 --> 01:25:07.199
Yes, I called him about Cora. I'm afraid something has

1349
01:25:07.239 --> 01:25:07.720
happened to her.

1350
01:25:08.079 --> 01:25:12.960
Of course something's happened to her, Frank, What he's dead,

1351
01:25:13.119 --> 01:25:15.880
isn't she? And only the two of us know where

1352
01:25:15.960 --> 01:25:16.279
she is.

1353
01:25:18.319 --> 01:25:19.159
I don't understand.

1354
01:25:19.359 --> 01:25:21.560
She's in your back garden where you buried her two

1355
01:25:21.640 --> 01:25:40.399
hours ago, right, darling, And now back.

1356
01:25:40.279 --> 01:25:41.560
To the whistler.

1357
01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:57.000
The feeling of a nightmare returns quickly, doesn't his friend?

1358
01:25:57.439 --> 01:25:59.800
In the swift accusing word from Doris.

1359
01:25:59.560 --> 01:26:03.680
Martin, next door neighbor, she saw you, didn't She saw

1360
01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:06.199
you bury your wife Cora in the garden in back

1361
01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:06.800
of your house.

1362
01:26:07.640 --> 01:26:09.239
And now the dread secret has.

1363
01:26:09.159 --> 01:26:13.479
To be shared with Yes, Frank, the momentary safety you

1364
01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:15.840
sensed as you said good night to the police lieutenant

1365
01:26:15.960 --> 01:26:21.199
is gone, wiped away even more shockingly because of the calm,

1366
01:26:21.279 --> 01:26:25.800
assured serenity of the foftly, smiling, attractive young woman standing

1367
01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:29.800
before you. You turn mechanically and moved towards the house,

1368
01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:34.520
and Doris Martin turns too, shadow like and strangely a

1369
01:26:34.600 --> 01:26:37.319
part of you now as she follows you inside.

1370
01:26:41.039 --> 01:26:43.800
You see, Frank, I came over late this afternoon to

1371
01:26:43.840 --> 01:26:47.079
talk with Karr about the shopping trip with plans. That

1372
01:26:47.279 --> 01:26:50.720
door was opened. I walked into the kitchen. The two

1373
01:26:50.760 --> 01:26:51.760
of you were too busy.

1374
01:26:51.640 --> 01:26:56.039
Arguing to hear me, and then you heard everything.

1375
01:26:56.600 --> 01:27:00.000
Yes, the money you were talking about, the old lady,

1376
01:27:00.119 --> 01:27:03.119
thirty five thousand dollars. That was Missus Saraday, wasn't it.

1377
01:27:03.760 --> 01:27:05.760
Yeah, it was Missus Faraday.

1378
01:27:06.000 --> 01:27:09.079
Cora had been her secretary companion once you had been

1379
01:27:09.119 --> 01:27:10.159
Missus Saraday's lawyer.

1380
01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:11.880
That's how you met, all right, Doris.

1381
01:27:12.439 --> 01:27:15.239
The old lady has passed the money somewhere in the house,

1382
01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:17.880
and when she died, you and Kara took it. No

1383
01:27:17.960 --> 01:27:20.439
one ever knew she told you.

1384
01:27:21.479 --> 01:27:21.520
No.

1385
01:27:21.840 --> 01:27:24.239
I thought of added things up after overhearing your conversation

1386
01:27:24.359 --> 01:27:28.159
this afternoon. Cora was all set to skip out.

1387
01:27:28.039 --> 01:27:29.399
With the money, wasn't she Yes?

1388
01:27:30.119 --> 01:27:32.159
If I hadn't come home early, surprised her.

1389
01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:35.399
You surprised me, Frank. I never saw you in such

1390
01:27:35.399 --> 01:27:38.520
a rage. And then when you ticked up.

1391
01:27:38.479 --> 01:27:40.199
The letter open does all right?

1392
01:27:43.239 --> 01:27:43.960
You need a drink?

1393
01:27:44.079 --> 01:27:44.119
No?

1394
01:27:47.439 --> 01:27:48.640
What are you going to do, Doris?

1395
01:27:49.319 --> 01:27:49.359
Do?

1396
01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:54.199
Why? Nothing, Darling, nothing at all. I'll keep your little secret.

1397
01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:59.079
When you does, of course, providing, providing I make it

1398
01:27:59.119 --> 01:27:59.720
worth your while?

1399
01:28:00.399 --> 01:28:00.720
Is that it?

1400
01:28:02.399 --> 01:28:05.680
You won't find me greedy? Frank? I think we'll get

1401
01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:10.680
alongside the two of us, Darling, Darling your life. It's

1402
01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:12.000
only the doorbell. I'll get it.

1403
01:28:12.239 --> 01:28:14.880
No, no, no, wait, you better get out the back way.

1404
01:28:15.000 --> 01:28:18.640
But it's Late't wait, it might not look right.

1405
01:28:18.680 --> 01:28:21.279
I don't be silly. Look, I'm your next door neighbor.

1406
01:28:21.319 --> 01:28:23.640
I just heard about cars disappearance. I'm her best friend,

1407
01:28:23.880 --> 01:28:27.000
sent right where you are. Friends, the most natural thing

1408
01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:29.600
in the world for me to be right here worrying

1409
01:28:29.800 --> 01:28:30.039
with you.

1410
01:28:37.560 --> 01:28:42.159
Oh ho, hell eave me, oh shaye at now wait

1411
01:28:42.199 --> 01:28:43.560
a minute, wait a minute, let me see let me

1412
01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:49.119
see you at Doris? All right, right, that's right, Well,

1413
01:28:49.319 --> 01:28:50.279
nice to see you, honey.

1414
01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:53.800
The folks hup uh Frank is come in.

1415
01:28:56.000 --> 01:29:01.119
Whoa Hi, thank you? How's a boy? Hello, Harry? Have

1416
01:29:01.239 --> 01:29:05.159
you been Oh great, that's great. I thought you were

1417
01:29:05.199 --> 01:29:05.640
out of town.

1418
01:29:05.800 --> 01:29:07.560
Yeah, I just got in. I'm on my way to

1419
01:29:07.600 --> 01:29:09.199
San Diego, so I lied on.

1420
01:29:09.399 --> 01:29:13.479
Thought i'd stopped buying. See you kids place. Where's Corra? Yes, sleep,

1421
01:29:13.600 --> 01:29:20.199
she's not here. Ah, Hey, hey found her?

1422
01:29:20.279 --> 01:29:20.800
Something wrong?

1423
01:29:21.760 --> 01:29:21.880
You know?

1424
01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:27.159
Looks so good? Yes, something is wrong, Harry. Corra has disappeared. Disappeared, Cora.

1425
01:29:27.399 --> 01:29:29.039
She wasn't home when I got back from the office.

1426
01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:30.920
I called everywhere. No one has seen her.

1427
01:29:31.680 --> 01:29:31.880
Hey.

1428
01:29:32.520 --> 01:29:35.039
Maybe she's better than an accident. Hey, you check the hospitals.

1429
01:29:35.079 --> 01:29:35.960
Police are taking care of it.

1430
01:29:36.039 --> 01:29:36.279
Harry.

1431
01:29:39.520 --> 01:29:43.520
Uh, look, Frank, you and Cora.

1432
01:29:43.840 --> 01:29:46.800
Yes, well, I mean glad you didn't have a quarrel,

1433
01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:47.239
did you.

1434
01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:49.239
No, of course not had.

1435
01:29:49.479 --> 01:29:51.199
She might have gone up to Santa Fire. But it's

1436
01:29:51.439 --> 01:29:55.479
all she's not there, and you you don't have well,

1437
01:29:55.520 --> 01:29:56.720
you don't have any idea where.

1438
01:29:56.600 --> 01:30:00.039
She might have been. I don't like this, Frank, I

1439
01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:00.800
don't like it at all.

1440
01:30:00.920 --> 01:30:02.640
Sit down, Harry. I was about to six a drink

1441
01:30:02.680 --> 01:30:03.079
for Frank.

1442
01:30:03.199 --> 01:30:05.479
No, no, don't trouble, Doris, no trouble.

1443
01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:07.640
How about you, Harry do Yeah, yeah, I.

1444
01:30:07.680 --> 01:30:08.359
Could go over it.

1445
01:30:08.439 --> 01:30:11.800
Drinks playing water Plaine water it is. Yeah.

1446
01:30:12.920 --> 01:30:14.439
I don't know what to make of this. Fine for

1447
01:30:14.560 --> 01:30:17.880
you like Cora to take off like that, not to

1448
01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:20.600
let you know where she is. I don't mind telling you, Harry,

1449
01:30:20.640 --> 01:30:22.720
I'm worried. I'm worried, sick an issue.

1450
01:30:22.880 --> 01:30:25.399
Sure, I know how you feel, and I wish there

1451
01:30:25.479 --> 01:30:26.159
was something I could do.

1452
01:30:26.960 --> 01:30:27.640
What can we do?

1453
01:30:29.000 --> 01:30:30.359
Nothing, nothing, I guess.

1454
01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:34.119
Just sit and wait, that's all. Just sit and wait.

1455
01:30:40.880 --> 01:30:43.760
Harry's sudden appearance at the house is something to wonder

1456
01:30:43.880 --> 01:30:47.680
and worry about, isn't it, Frank. Yes, you haven't seen

1457
01:30:47.840 --> 01:30:50.720
or heard from him in weeks, and yet tonight of

1458
01:30:50.800 --> 01:30:54.479
all night, here he is sitting in the easy chair

1459
01:30:54.560 --> 01:30:59.119
across from you, eyeing you curiously. I'm not saying much now,

1460
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:03.840
iping his drink slowly, the strange expression on his face,

1461
01:31:04.560 --> 01:31:07.119
and your fears mounts, and your mind becomes more and

1462
01:31:07.239 --> 01:31:12.279
more uneasy and restless as the minutes go by. Finally,

1463
01:31:12.640 --> 01:31:15.520
Harry places the empty glass down on the end table.

1464
01:31:15.680 --> 01:31:18.720
Well, I think I'll shove off. Don't let me know

1465
01:31:18.720 --> 01:31:19.920
if you heard anything from Corra Her.

1466
01:31:20.399 --> 01:31:24.079
I'll be staying at you're my hotel, then then you're

1467
01:31:24.119 --> 01:31:25.159
not going on to Sandiego.

1468
01:31:25.399 --> 01:31:26.479
No, no, it can wait.

1469
01:31:26.880 --> 01:31:27.800
I'll just stick around.

1470
01:31:28.439 --> 01:31:31.319
Well, thanks for the drink, night Harry, Night, Frank.

1471
01:31:31.720 --> 01:31:33.800
I'll be seeing him nice, Harry.

1472
01:31:36.760 --> 01:31:38.800
Now you can relax now, Darling, he's gone.

1473
01:31:39.079 --> 01:31:39.640
No thanks to you.

1474
01:31:40.439 --> 01:31:43.520
Why did you have to carriage him to stay? I

1475
01:31:43.720 --> 01:31:45.640
just wanted to find out what was on his mind.

1476
01:31:46.720 --> 01:31:48.520
You know, your dear brother in law is a big

1477
01:31:48.840 --> 01:31:53.520
fat liar. What he said he got into town a

1478
01:31:53.560 --> 01:31:54.720
couple of hours ago, didn't he?

1479
01:31:55.239 --> 01:31:55.399
Yes?

1480
01:31:56.119 --> 01:31:59.000
Really if I did the student though, he was here

1481
01:31:59.039 --> 01:32:02.199
in this house last night with Cora while you were

1482
01:32:02.239 --> 01:32:07.239
out rolling here last night. That's right. I saw him

1483
01:32:07.319 --> 01:32:11.680
leaving around ten. Now why do you suppose he lied, Frank?

1484
01:32:12.800 --> 01:32:13.399
I don't know.

1485
01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:18.000
I can make a guess. Coral was always very fond

1486
01:32:18.039 --> 01:32:22.079
of her little brother Harry, wasn't she? Yes, So he

1487
01:32:22.199 --> 01:32:24.239
dropped in last night mentioned he was on his way

1488
01:32:24.279 --> 01:32:28.920
to San Diego. This gives caraa an idea. She'll take

1489
01:32:29.000 --> 01:32:32.720
the money, drives south with Harry. Maybe he takes her

1490
01:32:32.760 --> 01:32:36.079
to the border for services rendered. She cuts him in

1491
01:32:36.199 --> 01:32:37.399
on the thirty five thousand.

1492
01:32:39.079 --> 01:32:41.359
Well, what do you think I think that's a very

1493
01:32:41.399 --> 01:32:42.920
good guest. Stars a very good guest.

1494
01:32:42.960 --> 01:32:46.279
She's probably arranged to meet somewhere this afternoon. Corara didn't show,

1495
01:32:46.319 --> 01:32:48.239
so little Harry trots over here tonight to find out

1496
01:32:48.279 --> 01:32:51.039
what's pulling things up. Of course she knows about that money.

1497
01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:53.640
I'm sure of it. Now he's gonna stick around. He

1498
01:32:53.760 --> 01:32:58.960
means trouble, Frank, real tub. I think we'd better keep

1499
01:32:59.000 --> 01:33:01.000
a close watch on him from now on.

1500
01:33:05.520 --> 01:33:08.239
They're very little fleet for you that night, is there, Frank?

1501
01:33:08.640 --> 01:33:09.920
Your certain daughters is right?

1502
01:33:10.840 --> 01:33:14.239
Harry and Cora working together running away, sharing the money.

1503
01:33:15.199 --> 01:33:18.319
And now that Cora has disappeared, he must suspect that

1504
01:33:18.479 --> 01:33:19.760
you had something to do with.

1505
01:33:21.239 --> 01:33:24.399
The following morning, as you wander into the kitchen, you

1506
01:33:24.560 --> 01:33:27.439
happen to glance out the window and see someone moving

1507
01:33:27.520 --> 01:33:31.439
about in the back garden through the trees, someone near

1508
01:33:31.600 --> 01:33:33.560
the daddy of bed.

1509
01:33:41.079 --> 01:33:46.119
Hey morning, Frank, Oh Harry, you just got by to

1510
01:33:46.119 --> 01:33:47.640
see if you'd had anything from Cora.

1511
01:33:48.359 --> 01:33:49.960
No, not a word.

1512
01:33:50.920 --> 01:33:52.920
Well, I saw your bedroom, cretons would go on. I

1513
01:33:52.920 --> 01:33:56.159
didn't want to disturb you. You wouldn't live rough night.

1514
01:33:56.279 --> 01:33:56.439
Huh.

1515
01:33:57.359 --> 01:34:01.479
Well, get myself wondering about you know where she could

1516
01:34:01.520 --> 01:34:03.119
have gone to and why.

1517
01:34:04.640 --> 01:34:09.159
Oh cigarette, Frank, thanks no having that breakfast and you

1518
01:34:09.199 --> 01:34:14.199
think I'll go back to the house you're coming? Uh yeah, Hey,

1519
01:34:14.279 --> 01:34:17.199
you know you've picked up your garden. Nice, Frank, real nice.

1520
01:34:17.960 --> 01:34:20.239
Well, I don't have too much time to work on

1521
01:34:20.319 --> 01:34:23.359
it weekends mostly steady. You've done a nice job.

1522
01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:27.840
I see you've changed the Daddy Begs ground and turned up.

1523
01:34:29.640 --> 01:34:31.760
Yes, Cora's idea.

1524
01:34:32.159 --> 01:34:33.720
She likes.

1525
01:34:33.880 --> 01:34:42.920
Daniels say, say, isn't that your the phone? Yes, that

1526
01:34:43.079 --> 01:34:45.439
might be the police. I hope there's some news.

1527
01:34:51.119 --> 01:34:53.359
Hell'll get rid of him, Frank.

1528
01:34:55.560 --> 01:34:58.600
Just a moment. Well, what is it, Frank, It's not

1529
01:34:58.720 --> 01:35:00.920
the police. It's it's my office.

1530
01:35:01.000 --> 01:35:02.319
I have to go in.

1531
01:35:02.680 --> 01:35:05.800
Oh oh, well, now I'll be shoving off. Have some

1532
01:35:05.920 --> 01:35:08.319
business to take care of downtown. I'll be back at

1533
01:35:08.359 --> 01:35:09.520
the hotel around six to night.

1534
01:35:09.560 --> 01:35:11.680
If you want to get in touch, all right, Harry,

1535
01:35:11.760 --> 01:35:12.199
how long.

1536
01:35:12.119 --> 01:35:21.479
I'll be seeing you, Doris, I'll be over.

1537
01:35:22.119 --> 01:35:22.800
What did he want?

1538
01:35:22.960 --> 01:35:24.119
I said, now, be over?

1539
01:35:34.119 --> 01:35:36.159
I don't see why you get so excited.

1540
01:35:36.239 --> 01:35:38.439
We're not discussing things over the poem. It's too risky.

1541
01:35:38.840 --> 01:35:39.399
You hurt me.

1542
01:35:40.680 --> 01:35:43.439
All right, So what did Harry want?

1543
01:35:43.560 --> 01:35:46.000
He was asking about Cora. He noticed the flower bit

1544
01:35:46.039 --> 01:35:47.239
I turned over. I think he suspects.

1545
01:35:47.399 --> 01:35:48.720
Don't be ridiculous. How could he?

1546
01:35:48.800 --> 01:35:50.039
I don't know, but he suspects.

1547
01:35:50.079 --> 01:35:53.680
I tell you, I see, Well, what are we gonna do?

1548
01:35:53.880 --> 01:35:55.239
I don't know, Doris, Sorry, I don't know.

1549
01:35:56.199 --> 01:35:59.479
I think the beach cottage is a perfect place for it.

1550
01:35:59.560 --> 01:36:02.399
Frank, the perfect place for what?

1551
01:36:03.680 --> 01:36:08.680
For Harry's little accident. Don't you remember what happened out

1552
01:36:08.680 --> 01:36:11.199
there less than a year ago? You mean the fire,

1553
01:36:11.359 --> 01:36:15.479
the explosion, that's right, the old fashioned lamp, Frank hanging

1554
01:36:15.560 --> 01:36:18.479
on a pulley from the ceiling. The explosion it caught.

1555
01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:23.319
That was an accident, Only this time it'll be on purpose.

1556
01:36:24.279 --> 01:36:25.640
How can we get Harry out there?

1557
01:36:25.880 --> 01:36:28.800
I'll call him the hotel Knight. Tell him we that is.

1558
01:36:28.840 --> 01:36:31.359
The neighbors are worried about you. We think you've gone

1559
01:36:31.399 --> 01:36:34.119
out to the cottage. Carla's disappearance has grieved you. So

1560
01:36:34.319 --> 01:36:36.600
we're a little afraid of what you might do. That

1561
01:36:37.479 --> 01:36:38.399
someone should be with you.

1562
01:36:38.680 --> 01:36:39.840
Yes, yes, I see.

1563
01:36:39.920 --> 01:36:43.359
He gets out there, finds the cottage, dark lights, the lamp.

1564
01:36:44.760 --> 01:36:46.399
I trouble with her over, Frank.

1565
01:36:47.119 --> 01:36:52.439
Were the coming of night?

1566
01:36:52.560 --> 01:36:56.640
You're strangely calm, aren't you, Frank, sharing Dora's confidence that

1567
01:36:56.760 --> 01:36:57.640
the plan will work.

1568
01:36:58.199 --> 01:36:59.800
Yes, because it must.

1569
01:37:01.199 --> 01:37:03.520
You'll find that your car has a low tire, so

1570
01:37:03.680 --> 01:37:06.680
you borrow Dorothy's car and drive out to the beach

1571
01:37:06.800 --> 01:37:09.600
and park a short distance from the cottage. Go the

1572
01:37:09.640 --> 01:37:12.800
rest of the way on foot. It doesn't take you

1573
01:37:12.960 --> 01:37:15.800
long for what you have to do. Set the booby

1574
01:37:15.880 --> 01:37:19.279
trap for Harry, and a few minutes later you put

1575
01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:20.439
in the call to Dorith.

1576
01:37:21.439 --> 01:37:24.840
Yes, Frank, I am. I talked to our friend at

1577
01:37:24.880 --> 01:37:27.199
the hotel. He'll be leaving for the cottage in a

1578
01:37:27.479 --> 01:37:28.119
quarter of an hour.

1579
01:37:28.279 --> 01:37:33.479
Good, it's all set for him. I'm heading back to

1580
01:37:33.560 --> 01:37:34.640
town now, Frank.

1581
01:37:34.920 --> 01:37:37.600
Yes, after you get back and put my car away,

1582
01:37:38.279 --> 01:37:38.920
will you call me?

1583
01:37:39.479 --> 01:37:41.000
Sure, Dorith, I'll call.

1584
01:37:46.960 --> 01:37:49.319
It's a few minutes past seven when you return to

1585
01:37:49.399 --> 01:37:53.239
your house. Harry will be leaving his hotel shortly, and

1586
01:37:53.359 --> 01:37:56.199
then the short drives of the cottage and it will

1587
01:37:56.279 --> 01:37:57.199
be all over.

1588
01:37:59.319 --> 01:38:02.399
Back home. You'll reach for the phone to call Doris.

1589
01:38:02.600 --> 01:38:13.159
When evening mister Jason, oh lieutenant'll come in.

1590
01:38:16.159 --> 01:38:16.399
Start.

1591
01:38:16.439 --> 01:38:20.560
I dropped by the neighborhood all afternoon, checking shops stores.

1592
01:38:20.640 --> 01:38:23.840
But then there's been no news of Kara. I haven't

1593
01:38:23.880 --> 01:38:26.439
turned up a lead yet. However, I put in the

1594
01:38:26.479 --> 01:38:29.000
call to headquarters a few minutes ago. It seems they

1595
01:38:29.079 --> 01:38:31.720
got word from a service station attendant out of the beach.

1596
01:38:32.239 --> 01:38:35.439
What thinks he saw a light at your beach cottage

1597
01:38:35.439 --> 01:38:38.039
earlier to night. Could have been a reflection of a

1598
01:38:38.159 --> 01:38:40.399
car passing on the road, though he's not sure. He

1599
01:38:40.640 --> 01:38:43.079
must have been mistaken there. Still, if you let me

1600
01:38:43.119 --> 01:38:44.399
have the key, I'd like to run out there and

1601
01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:47.560
have a look. Now, yeah, I don't have a squad

1602
01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:53.840
car picked me up. No, what well I mean I'll

1603
01:38:54.119 --> 01:38:59.159
drive you out there, Lieutenant. Well, I really really, it's

1604
01:38:59.199 --> 01:39:02.960
no trouble and i'd like to go please, okay, or

1605
01:39:03.039 --> 01:39:05.920
call headquarters let him know where I'll be. I'll get

1606
01:39:05.960 --> 01:39:07.079
my car out of the garage.

1607
01:39:10.520 --> 01:39:13.119
You glance nervously at your watch as you start out

1608
01:39:13.159 --> 01:39:15.600
of the house to the garage. You're reach in your

1609
01:39:15.640 --> 01:39:18.520
pocket for your car keys, and then remember you left

1610
01:39:18.600 --> 01:39:22.039
him in your car. You've got to stall a lieutenant off,

1611
01:39:22.079 --> 01:39:25.880
don't you, Frank. Yes, Harry is probably just leaving his

1612
01:39:26.000 --> 01:39:28.680
hotel now, and it wouldn't do if you and the

1613
01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:30.840
lieutenant reached the cottage before he did.

1614
01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:35.760
Delay Frank, five minutes or so, that's all you need.

1615
01:39:36.920 --> 01:39:41.279
You reach your car, bend down and unscrew the tire

1616
01:39:41.399 --> 01:39:42.399
valve on the low tire.

1617
01:39:43.560 --> 01:39:46.880
A few minutes later, the lieutenant joins you you're wrong.

1618
01:39:46.760 --> 01:39:51.520
With the Jason or straight shore flat toyre. Oh maybe

1619
01:39:51.560 --> 01:39:53.600
I had better call a squad. No, no, no, don't

1620
01:39:53.640 --> 01:39:55.920
bother won't take us five minutes to change the tire.

1621
01:39:56.640 --> 01:39:59.520
Then we'll drive out to the cottage. Okay, I guess

1622
01:39:59.520 --> 01:40:01.199
a few minutes. This one way or another won't make

1623
01:40:01.279 --> 01:40:14.279
much difference. The whitler will return in just a moment

1624
01:40:14.359 --> 01:40:18.560
with a strange ending to the night's story. And now

1625
01:40:18.720 --> 01:40:19.520
back to the whistler.

1626
01:40:25.319 --> 01:40:28.079
The time you need to change your flat tire is important,

1627
01:40:28.159 --> 01:40:31.520
isn't it, Frank, Yes, because it will delay the police

1628
01:40:31.520 --> 01:40:34.680
lieutenant from reaching the beach cottage before your brother in law,

1629
01:40:34.760 --> 01:40:38.239
Harry Evans does, before the accident that will take his

1630
01:40:38.359 --> 01:40:41.760
life and free you of Harry's threat. As you reach

1631
01:40:41.840 --> 01:40:45.159
inside the car and take the keys from the admission switch,

1632
01:40:45.680 --> 01:40:48.960
you hear your phone ring inside the house. You hand

1633
01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:51.600
your car keys to the lieutenant and hurry up the

1634
01:40:51.680 --> 01:40:54.720
driveway to answer your phone, but you reach the phone

1635
01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:55.239
too late.

1636
01:40:55.720 --> 01:40:56.840
The wire is dead.

1637
01:40:57.399 --> 01:41:02.079
And a moment later, boris, why didn't you call me

1638
01:41:02.199 --> 01:41:02.880
or into the phone?

1639
01:41:03.079 --> 01:41:05.239
Lieutenant showed up. Look, Doris, he's talk at the car

1640
01:41:05.359 --> 01:41:06.880
now wants me to go out to the cottage with him.

1641
01:41:06.880 --> 01:41:09.199
I'm trying to stall him until I'm certain Harry gets there.

1642
01:41:09.760 --> 01:41:13.880
He wants Frank Harry is dead. What he didn't fall

1643
01:41:14.000 --> 01:41:16.640
for our little gag. Instead of going out to the cottage,

1644
01:41:16.640 --> 01:41:21.479
he went straight to your backyard started digging, Dorish. I

1645
01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:24.359
got behind him with a shovel. You were right, Frankie

1646
01:41:24.399 --> 01:41:27.840
knew I found Kara's ear ring in his pocket. You

1647
01:41:27.960 --> 01:41:29.479
must have found it near the flower bed this morning.

1648
01:41:29.560 --> 01:41:30.880
Doris, where is he? What did you do?

1649
01:41:31.000 --> 01:41:31.359
What else?

1650
01:41:32.079 --> 01:41:34.159
We had to get him out of there. I dragged

1651
01:41:34.239 --> 01:41:37.000
him into your garage. He's to your car in the ignition.

1652
01:41:37.119 --> 01:41:38.640
So I put Harry in the drunk compartment.

1653
01:41:38.760 --> 01:41:41.880
Trunk compartment. The spare tire is in there. The lieutenant

1654
01:41:41.880 --> 01:41:45.600
will find the body. I have found the body mister Jason,

1655
01:41:46.319 --> 01:41:50.960
and the two murderers too. By the chummy arrangement you

1656
01:41:51.239 --> 01:41:52.239
two neighbors.

1657
01:42:16.359 --> 01:42:17.199
Well, when.

1658
01:42:18.640 --> 01:42:24.119
I suppose the room isn't quite as dark and ominous

1659
01:42:24.920 --> 01:42:30.840
as it was before. But I suppose very little can

1660
01:42:30.920 --> 01:42:38.119
bring a hominess to these thick concrete walls. Oh what's that?

1661
01:42:38.680 --> 01:42:45.119
Oh no, no, no. A tomb would be far more ornate.

1662
01:42:46.159 --> 01:42:51.680
I suppose do you ever sometimes look off into the darkness,

1663
01:42:51.880 --> 01:42:56.000
look off into the into the nothingness, and for a

1664
01:42:56.119 --> 01:43:04.119
brief moment you realize that while you're sitting here, thinking, imagining, dreaming.

1665
01:43:05.720 --> 01:43:10.640
At the same time, The Whole Town's Sleeping.

1666
01:43:16.560 --> 01:43:20.880
And now Tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills

1667
01:43:21.960 --> 01:43:30.439
suspense Tonight the story of terror in the Streets. We

1668
01:43:30.600 --> 01:43:34.239
call it The Whole Town Sleeping. So now, starring Miss

1669
01:43:34.359 --> 01:43:38.239
Janet Nolan, here is tonight suspense play written by Ray Bradbury,

1670
01:43:39.079 --> 01:43:40.680
The Whole Town Sleeping.

1671
01:43:48.199 --> 01:43:50.720
It was a warm summer night in the middle of

1672
01:43:50.920 --> 01:43:52.039
Illinois Country.

1673
01:43:53.039 --> 01:43:57.359
The little town was deep, far away from everything, kept

1674
01:43:57.399 --> 01:44:01.680
to itself by a river and a foreign and a ravine.

1675
01:44:03.119 --> 01:44:03.640
In the town.

1676
01:44:03.720 --> 01:44:08.520
The sidewalks were still scorched, the stores were closing, and

1677
01:44:08.640 --> 01:44:13.359
the streets were turning dark. Screen doors wind their springs

1678
01:44:13.479 --> 01:44:17.199
and banged, and there was the sound of grandmar Handland's

1679
01:44:17.199 --> 01:44:23.079
swing hammock across the street on a solitary porch, Lavinia nets,

1680
01:44:23.840 --> 01:44:28.000
aged thirty seven, very straight and slimm sat with a

1681
01:44:28.119 --> 01:44:33.479
tinkling lemonade and her white fingers tapping it to her lips, waiting.

1682
01:44:34.520 --> 01:44:35.640
Here. I am Leavinia.

1683
01:44:35.920 --> 01:44:40.079
Lavinia turned. There was Francine at the bottom porch step.

1684
01:44:40.239 --> 01:44:44.359
She was all and snow white and didn't look thirty five.

1685
01:44:45.640 --> 01:44:47.960
I will be a minute, Francine. I'll just lock the door,

1686
01:44:48.399 --> 01:44:51.640
all right. Oh I do like your dress, dear. Why

1687
01:44:51.840 --> 01:44:52.159
thank you?

1688
01:44:52.319 --> 01:44:52.520
Dear.

1689
01:44:52.760 --> 01:44:55.239
You look so well in that color. I'm afraid I

1690
01:44:55.279 --> 01:44:57.720
could never wear it. It makes me look sallow. No,

1691
01:44:57.880 --> 01:45:00.960
it doesn't, I'm sure not. Of course, I've always loved

1692
01:45:01.000 --> 01:45:06.239
you in white evening, ladies, Good evening, Missus Hanlon. Good evening.

1693
01:45:06.840 --> 01:45:09.880
Worry you ladies going all dressed up so pretty to

1694
01:45:10.000 --> 01:45:13.279
the Majestic theater, Missus Hanlon. Robert Mitcham's playing, and not

1695
01:45:13.399 --> 01:45:15.680
as a stranger. You won't catch me out on a

1696
01:45:15.760 --> 01:45:19.760
night like this, not with the lonely one strangling women.

1697
01:45:20.279 --> 01:45:22.039
Lock myself in with my gun.

1698
01:45:22.319 --> 01:45:23.359
That's what I'm going to do.

1699
01:45:23.960 --> 01:45:25.439
I wouldn't worry, Missus Hanlon.

1700
01:45:26.079 --> 01:45:27.640
What about Eliza Ramsell.

1701
01:45:28.039 --> 01:45:29.359
You think he's not worrying.

1702
01:45:30.199 --> 01:45:31.920
Lock myself in with my gun.

1703
01:45:32.039 --> 01:45:33.279
That's what you lady should do.

1704
01:45:36.640 --> 01:45:42.159
So silly, silly old woman, Lavinia. You you don't believe

1705
01:45:42.199 --> 01:45:44.920
all that gossip about the lonely one, do you? A

1706
01:45:45.000 --> 01:45:47.159
lot of silly old women who haven't got anything better

1707
01:45:47.199 --> 01:45:50.239
to do than talk. Well, just the same. Hattie McDonald's

1708
01:45:50.359 --> 01:45:53.600
was killed a month ago, and ROBERTA Ferry the month before,

1709
01:45:54.520 --> 01:45:58.439
and now Eliza Ramsel disappearing. Eliza Ramsell walked off of

1710
01:45:58.520 --> 01:46:02.359
the Traveling Man. I bet, but the others strangle a

1711
01:46:02.680 --> 01:46:03.479
friends scene.

1712
01:46:08.439 --> 01:46:10.760
They reached the edge of the ravine that cut the

1713
01:46:10.920 --> 01:46:11.600
town in two.

1714
01:46:12.720 --> 01:46:20.239
Stood there behind them were the lighted houses ahead, deepness, moisteness,

1715
01:46:21.199 --> 01:46:27.800
fireflies and dark. The ravine had to be crossed to

1716
01:46:27.880 --> 01:46:31.279
reach the movies, deep and black as a cut into

1717
01:46:31.359 --> 01:46:34.840
the hills, Then a creaking bridge to cross over the stream,

1718
01:46:35.720 --> 01:46:39.079
then one hundred and thirteen steps up the steep.

1719
01:46:38.880 --> 01:46:42.920
And brambled bank to the other side. The ladies stood

1720
01:46:42.960 --> 01:46:44.319
there looking down.

1721
01:46:46.720 --> 01:46:49.279
It won't be me coming back to night, Lavinia. It'll

1722
01:46:49.319 --> 01:46:52.960
be you. Oh, I'd never never walk there alone at night.

1723
01:46:53.199 --> 01:46:56.439
Never bosh, you can say bosh, but it'll be you

1724
01:46:56.600 --> 01:47:01.000
alone on the path not me, Ola. I do wish

1725
01:47:01.039 --> 01:47:03.560
you didn't live on this side. Don't you get lonely

1726
01:47:03.640 --> 01:47:06.760
living by yourself in that house all made love to

1727
01:47:06.840 --> 01:47:10.760
live alone. Come on, we'll take the short cut. I'm afraid. Oh,

1728
01:47:11.079 --> 01:47:13.880
come on, don't be so silly. I'll hold your hands.

1729
01:47:15.960 --> 01:47:19.800
Lavinia, cool as meant ice cream, took the other woman's

1730
01:47:19.920 --> 01:47:24.279
arm and led her down the dark, winding path into

1731
01:47:24.439 --> 01:47:29.680
cricket warmth and frog sound and mosquito delicate silence.

1732
01:47:30.119 --> 01:47:33.760
Oh, let's run VideA flea. No, why should we?

1733
01:47:35.119 --> 01:47:38.239
If Lavinia hadn't turned her head just then, she wouldn't

1734
01:47:38.239 --> 01:47:41.680
have seen it. But she did turn her head, and

1735
01:47:41.840 --> 01:47:45.920
it was there, back among a clump of bushes, half hidden,

1736
01:47:47.039 --> 01:47:48.159
but laid out, as if.

1737
01:47:48.079 --> 01:47:51.359
She had put herself there to enjoy the soft stars.

1738
01:47:52.640 --> 01:47:58.760
Lay Eliza Ramson, her face moonfreckled, her eyes like white marble.

1739
01:48:00.000 --> 01:48:03.159
And then Francine saw it too, and the women stood

1740
01:48:03.199 --> 01:48:05.880
on the path for a frozen second, not believing what

1741
01:48:06.039 --> 01:48:19.840
they saw. Lavinia held Francine, and the policemen were all

1742
01:48:19.880 --> 01:48:25.319
around in the ravine grass. Flashlights started about, voices mingled,

1743
01:48:26.359 --> 01:48:28.520
and the night grew on toward eight thirty.

1744
01:48:29.800 --> 01:48:32.760
You didn't move her, ladies, of course, no, oh no,

1745
01:48:33.000 --> 01:48:33.880
we couldn't touch her.

1746
01:48:33.960 --> 01:48:34.680
How could wing?

1747
01:48:35.039 --> 01:48:38.479
And there was nobody. We didn't hear anything, sounds anything unusual?

1748
01:48:39.439 --> 01:48:43.279
No nothing. It's the lonely one, isn't it.

1749
01:48:43.920 --> 01:48:46.279
He did it, didn't He couldn't say, ma'am.

1750
01:48:47.079 --> 01:48:51.000
We knew her, you know, she was a friend of ours.

1751
01:48:52.199 --> 01:48:55.239
I'm sorry. Well, I'll have one of my men walk

1752
01:48:55.279 --> 01:48:56.039
across the ravine.

1753
01:48:56.199 --> 01:48:59.640
That won't be necessary, Thank you very much, will be

1754
01:48:59.680 --> 01:49:05.359
all right, Come along, dear, And they.

1755
01:49:05.359 --> 01:49:10.600
Crossed the ravine, each with her own thoughts fears, and

1756
01:49:10.720 --> 01:49:14.840
the creek waters under the bridge whispered I'm the lonely one.

1757
01:49:15.720 --> 01:49:22.039
I'm the lonely one. I kill people. Then they were

1758
01:49:22.079 --> 01:49:25.439
at the top of the stairs and bathed in safe

1759
01:49:25.560 --> 01:49:26.760
light from the street lamp.

1760
01:49:28.479 --> 01:49:31.359
I've never seen a dead person before. It's only a

1761
01:49:31.399 --> 01:49:34.079
little after eight thirty. We'll pick up Helen and get

1762
01:49:34.119 --> 01:49:38.079
on to the show, the show, Olavinia. You don't mean it,

1763
01:49:38.600 --> 01:49:41.520
of course I do. We've got to forget this. It's

1764
01:49:41.560 --> 01:49:45.560
not good to remember. But Eliza's back there. We need

1765
01:49:45.760 --> 01:49:50.000
to laugh. We've got to pretend that nothing happened. But

1766
01:49:50.199 --> 01:49:53.680
she was our friend. We can't help her. There's no

1767
01:49:53.880 --> 01:49:58.039
good brooding about it. I'm going to get it out

1768
01:49:58.079 --> 01:50:01.039
of my mind, and you should too. Now, if we hurry,

1769
01:50:01.079 --> 01:50:14.199
we won't miss too much. I thought you never come.

1770
01:50:14.319 --> 01:50:17.520
You're an hour late. Well, we someone found Eliza Ramsell

1771
01:50:17.640 --> 01:50:18.479
dead in the ravine.

1772
01:50:19.640 --> 01:50:21.920
Oh, no, Eliza?

1773
01:50:23.159 --> 01:50:28.000
Who fond her? We don't know how awful did you

1774
01:50:28.079 --> 01:50:28.439
see her?

1775
01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:29.399
Was it terror?

1776
01:50:29.560 --> 01:50:30.800
Let's not talk about it.

1777
01:50:31.079 --> 01:50:31.199
Oh?

1778
01:50:31.239 --> 01:50:33.159
I really think I should lock myself in my house.

1779
01:50:33.479 --> 01:50:34.760
I don't think we'd better go to night.

1780
01:50:34.920 --> 01:50:37.039
Of course we will. It's the last showing to day.

1781
01:50:37.680 --> 01:50:42.039
Besides the lonely one can't kill three ladies. They're safety

1782
01:50:42.079 --> 01:50:45.520
in numbers. Anyway, it's too soon. The murders come a

1783
01:50:45.600 --> 01:50:52.039
month separated. Come along, Helen, Well, I'll get a sweater.

1784
01:50:52.479 --> 01:50:57.279
You wait for me. Why didn't you tell her about

1785
01:50:57.399 --> 01:50:59.399
us finding Eliza? Why upset her?

1786
01:51:00.119 --> 01:51:00.319
Time?

1787
01:51:00.439 --> 01:51:03.600
Enough tomorrow? I told you tonight we've got to forget.

1788
01:51:04.239 --> 01:51:06.479
We're going to the show and let's not talk about

1789
01:51:06.520 --> 01:51:07.000
it anymore.

1790
01:51:07.039 --> 01:51:07.760
And nuts the nut.

1791
01:51:14.840 --> 01:51:18.520
The ladies walked down town and stopped at the drug store,

1792
01:51:18.600 --> 01:51:20.520
which was a few doors from the theater.

1793
01:51:21.279 --> 01:51:24.880
Aveny about a quarter's worth of green mint shoes and

1794
01:51:24.960 --> 01:51:27.279
the Druggis dropped the mints into a sack with a

1795
01:51:27.520 --> 01:51:28.319
silver shovel.

1796
01:51:28.840 --> 01:51:31.560
You look mighty cool this noon, miss Levine. When you

1797
01:51:31.760 --> 01:51:34.880
was in so cool and nice, someone asked after you.

1798
01:51:35.239 --> 01:51:37.840
Oh yeah, man sitting in the country.

1799
01:51:38.479 --> 01:51:40.359
He watched you walk out, and he says to me,

1800
01:51:41.159 --> 01:51:45.840
who's that, Just like Batty said, why that's Slavinia Nebbs,

1801
01:51:45.960 --> 01:51:46.960
prettiest maiden.

1802
01:51:46.800 --> 01:51:47.439
Lady in town.

1803
01:51:47.520 --> 01:51:52.520
I says beautiful, He says beautiful. Where she lived?

1804
01:51:52.880 --> 01:51:53.319
You didn't?

1805
01:51:53.600 --> 01:51:56.039
You didn't give him her address? I hope you didn't.

1806
01:51:56.680 --> 01:52:00.800
Well, maybe I shouldn't have. I didn't give him exact address.

1807
01:52:01.359 --> 01:52:02.960
I shed over on Park Street, you know.

1808
01:52:03.039 --> 01:52:03.680
Near the ravine.

1809
01:52:04.159 --> 01:52:06.319
Kind of casual. I'm sorry.

1810
01:52:07.039 --> 01:52:07.880
What did he look like?

1811
01:52:08.600 --> 01:52:13.039
Oh not much, guess wore a dark shoot tail, kind

1812
01:52:13.079 --> 01:52:16.000
of thin, Probably nothing but a stranger passion through.

1813
01:52:16.159 --> 01:52:18.920
I'm sorry, Miss Ralevignya. There's no charge for the peppermine.

1814
01:52:19.000 --> 01:52:22.159
Don't be silly, mister Briggs. Well, I know what we're

1815
01:52:22.239 --> 01:52:25.319
going to do right now. We're going straight home. That

1816
01:52:25.600 --> 01:52:29.720
man asking after you your next Lavinia? You want to

1817
01:52:29.760 --> 01:52:32.760
be dead in that ravine. It was just a man,

1818
01:52:33.199 --> 01:52:35.159
that's all. It doesn't mean a thing.

1819
01:52:35.439 --> 01:52:36.399
That's what I figure.

1820
01:52:36.600 --> 01:52:39.600
Nothing to worry, nothing to worry about. I'm not going

1821
01:52:39.680 --> 01:52:40.359
to miss the movie.

1822
01:52:40.760 --> 01:52:41.960
You two can do what you want.

1823
01:52:42.199 --> 01:52:44.359
I'm going well, I think we should all go home,

1824
01:52:44.479 --> 01:52:46.520
so do I. She's right, Lavinya, No, she's not.

1825
01:52:53.399 --> 01:52:55.039
They argued for five minutes.

1826
01:52:55.119 --> 01:52:58.439
Then the three of them went to the theater, Francine

1827
01:52:58.479 --> 01:53:04.880
and Helen reluctantly, Lavinia head high, self possessed cool. In

1828
01:53:05.000 --> 01:53:08.880
the auditorium, they sat in the odor of ancient brass polish,

1829
01:53:09.439 --> 01:53:13.079
waiting for the second show to begin, and the lights

1830
01:53:13.079 --> 01:53:13.800
began to fade.

1831
01:53:26.119 --> 01:53:29.319
Media as we came in, a man in the darks

1832
01:53:29.359 --> 01:53:31.640
you followed us. He was thin. I think he had

1833
01:53:31.680 --> 01:53:34.279
a pale face. He just came in and he's sitting

1834
01:53:34.359 --> 01:53:34.960
behind us.

1835
01:53:35.039 --> 01:53:38.520
What God, oh, Helen, what man man behind us?

1836
01:53:38.880 --> 01:53:41.119
It's the one mister Brigston was in the trug store

1837
01:53:41.279 --> 01:53:44.840
behind us. Now I'm calling the manager.

1838
01:53:45.000 --> 01:53:45.399
It's him.

1839
01:53:45.760 --> 01:53:47.640
Oh stop the movie, stop it.

1840
01:53:47.920 --> 01:53:48.680
What are you lying?

1841
01:53:49.399 --> 01:53:51.279
It's the Murder of the Lonely One.

1842
01:53:51.439 --> 01:53:51.880
He's here.

1843
01:53:52.520 --> 01:53:53.279
Put on the light.

1844
01:53:53.720 --> 01:54:08.960
Lie the drugstore. Clock's at eleven twenty five. They'd come

1845
01:54:09.039 --> 01:54:12.399
out of the theater feeling new, and now they were

1846
01:54:12.560 --> 01:54:17.079
laughing at Francine, and Francine was laughing at herself.

1847
01:54:17.479 --> 01:54:21.319
You see how silly it was, All that riot for nothing?

1848
01:54:21.720 --> 01:54:24.079
You were running up the icecreaming lights on.

1849
01:54:24.560 --> 01:54:25.640
We had thought I die.

1850
01:54:25.720 --> 01:54:30.119
All that poor man the theater manager's brother from Racine.

1851
01:54:31.399 --> 01:54:35.479
Oh crampy, well I did apology. Now you see what

1852
01:54:35.640 --> 01:54:39.119
a panic can do. And all for nothing. We shouldn't

1853
01:54:39.119 --> 01:54:42.039
have stopped for sodas though. Wasn't that a wonderful picture?

1854
01:54:42.239 --> 01:54:43.600
Will you ever forget?

1855
01:54:49.439 --> 01:54:52.840
The streets were clean and empty. Not a car, or

1856
01:54:52.920 --> 01:54:55.079
a truck or a person was in sight.

1857
01:54:55.960 --> 01:54:59.720
The ladies walked under a flickering neon sign, buzzing like

1858
01:54:59.800 --> 01:55:03.760
a dying insect, the sounds of the heel shot on

1859
01:55:03.880 --> 01:55:04.760
the big pavement.

1860
01:55:05.680 --> 01:55:08.520
First, we'll walk you home, frency. Oh no, i'll walk

1861
01:55:08.600 --> 01:55:11.199
you home. If you walk me home, you'd have to

1862
01:55:11.279 --> 01:55:13.159
come back across the ravine alone.

1863
01:55:13.680 --> 01:55:14.279
I know you.

1864
01:55:14.520 --> 01:55:16.439
If a leaf even fell on you, you dropped in.

1865
01:55:17.159 --> 01:55:17.359
Well.

1866
01:55:17.399 --> 01:55:19.720
I I could stay the night at your house. No,

1867
01:55:20.000 --> 01:55:34.640
it's all settled. First, I'll take you home, and then Helen, Lavinia,

1868
01:55:35.000 --> 01:55:37.640
Helen stay here with me tonight. It's late.

1869
01:55:37.840 --> 01:55:38.119
Missus.

1870
01:55:38.159 --> 01:55:41.399
Murdoch has an extra room. No thanks, I don't sleep

1871
01:55:41.479 --> 01:55:44.760
well away from my own bed. Oh please, Levinia, please,

1872
01:55:45.880 --> 01:55:48.840
I don't want you dead. Now, You've got to stop this.

1873
01:55:49.560 --> 01:55:50.119
I mean it.

1874
01:55:50.880 --> 01:55:54.039
I promise I'll call you the very minute I get home, now,

1875
01:55:54.079 --> 01:55:54.359
will you?

1876
01:55:54.520 --> 01:55:54.760
Will you?

1877
01:55:54.880 --> 01:55:55.119
Really?

1878
01:55:55.680 --> 01:55:58.760
I promise? And Helen you make her promise you to call.

1879
01:55:59.079 --> 01:56:09.199
I will well, good night, Be careful now I'll walk

1880
01:56:09.359 --> 01:56:09.960
you home.

1881
01:56:13.279 --> 01:56:15.279
The courthouse clock struck the hour.

1882
01:56:16.279 --> 01:56:20.319
The sounds went across a town that was empty, emptier

1883
01:56:20.399 --> 01:56:24.840
than it had ever been before, over empty streets and

1884
01:56:25.000 --> 01:56:27.520
empty lots and empty LUNs.

1885
01:56:27.720 --> 01:56:29.960
The sound went and.

1886
01:56:31.960 --> 01:56:38.199
Eleven twelve. I don't suppose it's any use asking you

1887
01:56:38.319 --> 01:56:42.319
to stay, Livinia. There's no reason for me too. You've

1888
01:56:42.359 --> 01:56:46.840
acted so strangely tonight. I'm just not afraid, that's all.

1889
01:56:47.600 --> 01:56:51.279
And I'm curious. I suppose, of course I'm using my head.

1890
01:56:51.800 --> 01:56:56.840
I mean, logically, the lonely one can't be around, not now,

1891
01:56:57.000 --> 01:56:59.119
the police and them. Did you ever think that maybe

1892
01:56:59.159 --> 01:57:05.079
your subconscious doesn't want you to live anymore? You and Francine. Honestly, hell,

1893
01:57:05.199 --> 01:57:07.640
I feel so guilty. I'll be drinking a cup of

1894
01:57:07.720 --> 01:57:09.720
coffee just about the time you get to the ravine

1895
01:57:09.800 --> 01:57:14.039
And ooh that awful bridge in the dark. Hey, you

1896
01:57:14.199 --> 01:57:15.960
will call us a minute you get home, won't you.

1897
01:57:16.319 --> 01:57:17.840
I won't sleep a wink if you don't.

1898
01:57:18.079 --> 01:57:20.760
I'll call now. Good night.

1899
01:57:23.279 --> 01:57:27.439
Levinni and Ebbs walked down the midnight streets, down the

1900
01:57:27.600 --> 01:57:32.199
late summer silence. She saw the houses with her dark windows,

1901
01:57:33.359 --> 01:57:35.439
and far away she heard a dark barking.

1902
01:57:36.840 --> 01:57:37.720
She thought to herself.

1903
01:57:38.640 --> 01:57:42.439
In five minutes, I'll be safe at home. In five minutes,

1904
01:57:42.439 --> 01:57:46.479
I'll be falling. Franccene and Helen. They're so silly, like

1905
01:57:46.640 --> 01:57:50.680
old hens. Old I'm older than either of them.

1906
01:57:51.000 --> 01:57:56.720
I'm She heard a man's voice singing away among the trees,

1907
01:57:56.880 --> 01:58:00.159
and she walked a little faster, and then, coming on

1908
01:58:00.199 --> 01:58:00.960
the street.

1909
01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:03.720
Tarter at the demming moonlight, was a man.

1910
01:58:06.439 --> 01:58:08.800
Look who it is. What a time and night for

1911
01:58:08.880 --> 01:58:09.960
you to be out of miss Ebbs.

1912
01:58:10.640 --> 01:58:14.319
Officer Kennedy. Oh, I'm so glad it's.

1913
01:58:14.239 --> 01:58:16.640
You' Something wrong, missus Ebbs.

1914
01:58:16.840 --> 01:58:19.840
No, nothing at all. I'm just glad it's you.

1915
01:58:20.439 --> 01:58:21.960
You know you shouldn't be out now.

1916
01:58:22.760 --> 01:58:25.159
I know I've been to the movies. It is late.

1917
01:58:25.720 --> 01:58:26.840
Come on, hap better see your home.

1918
01:58:26.960 --> 01:58:29.319
Oh no, I can make it fine.

1919
01:58:29.760 --> 01:58:32.479
The moon's going behind the trees be pretty dark.

1920
01:58:33.439 --> 01:58:35.520
I'm not afraid of the dark, mister Kennedy.

1921
01:58:36.199 --> 01:58:37.520
You sure you'll be all right?

1922
01:58:37.920 --> 01:58:38.439
Quite sure?

1923
01:58:38.880 --> 01:58:39.680
All I can tell you what.

1924
01:58:40.960 --> 01:58:42.199
I'll wait here. Do you cross?

1925
01:58:42.800 --> 01:58:44.239
If you need help, just give you all and I'll

1926
01:58:44.239 --> 01:58:44.720
come running.

1927
01:58:45.880 --> 01:58:47.239
I'll check by your house later.

1928
01:58:47.199 --> 01:58:47.840
On my way back.

1929
01:58:48.399 --> 01:58:50.000
Thank you, good night.

1930
01:58:53.920 --> 01:58:55.359
As she walked away, she.

1931
01:58:55.560 --> 01:58:58.399
Thought, I won't walk in the ravine with any man.

1932
01:58:59.520 --> 01:59:01.520
How do I know who the lonely one is?

1933
01:59:02.520 --> 01:59:02.560
No?

1934
01:59:03.159 --> 01:59:03.520
Thank you?

1935
01:59:04.159 --> 01:59:05.079
Then the ravine.

1936
01:59:06.199 --> 01:59:08.560
She stood on top of the one hundred and thirteen

1937
01:59:08.680 --> 01:59:12.720
steps down the steep, brambled back that led across the

1938
01:59:12.800 --> 01:59:15.720
creaking bridge one hundred yards and up through the black

1939
01:59:15.800 --> 01:59:17.039
hills to Park Street.

1940
01:59:17.920 --> 01:59:21.079
Three minutes from now. I'll be putting my key in

1941
01:59:21.199 --> 01:59:25.479
the house door. Nothing can happen. Nothing.

1942
01:59:26.319 --> 01:59:30.960
She started down the dark green steps into the deep ravine.

1943
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Nights five, seven, eight nine.

1944
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The ravine was deep and the world was gone, the

1945
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world of safe people in bed, the locked doors, the town,

1946
01:59:48.359 --> 01:59:53.319
the drug store, theater lights, everything was gone.

1947
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Only the ravine existed and lived, black and huge.

1948
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Thirty one.

1949
02:00:04.640 --> 02:00:11.359
Nothing's happened as it. No one around is there. I

1950
02:00:11.479 --> 02:00:13.760
remember that old ghost story you told each other when

1951
02:00:13.800 --> 02:00:15.720
you were children about the.

1952
02:00:15.880 --> 02:00:19.920
Dark man coming into your house and you upstairs in bed.

1953
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And now he's at the first step coming up to

1954
02:00:24.079 --> 02:00:28.800
your room. Now he's at the second step. Now he's

1955
02:00:28.840 --> 02:00:34.199
at the third, the fourth, the fifth step. How you

1956
02:00:34.399 --> 02:00:38.359
laughed and screamed at the story. Now the horrid man

1957
02:00:38.479 --> 02:00:42.239
is at the twelfth step opening your door. And now

1958
02:00:42.279 --> 02:00:52.479
he's standing by your bed. What what there at the

1959
02:00:52.520 --> 02:00:53.640
bottom of the steps.

1960
02:00:54.840 --> 02:00:59.880
Man under the light. No, he's gone.

1961
02:01:01.880 --> 02:01:02.800
He was waiting there.

1962
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But there's nothing. It's empty, there's nothing, nothing on the bridge. Fool,

1963
02:01:15.039 --> 02:01:15.920
it's that story.

1964
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I told myself.

1965
02:01:17.920 --> 02:01:24.560
Oh silly, shall I calm mister Kennedy. Did he hear

1966
02:01:24.640 --> 02:01:29.359
him scream? Or did I scream? Maybe I only thought

1967
02:01:29.399 --> 02:01:29.680
I did.

1968
02:01:31.039 --> 02:01:34.479
Then he didn't hear me at all. I'll go back up,

1969
02:01:35.079 --> 02:01:40.479
go to Helen's and sleep there tonight. No, it's nearer

1970
02:01:40.720 --> 02:02:02.640
home now, don't be silly. Wait, someone holloween me. Someone's

1971
02:02:03.600 --> 02:02:08.720
on the steps behind me. I don't dare turn around.

1972
02:02:15.079 --> 02:02:33.960
Every time I dig a step, he takes one. Officer Kennedy,

1973
02:02:35.680 --> 02:02:36.159
is it that you?

1974
02:02:38.600 --> 02:02:38.760
Is it?

1975
02:02:41.720 --> 02:02:47.800
The crickets were suddenly still. The crickets were listening. The

1976
02:02:47.960 --> 02:02:52.520
knight was listening to her. Then there was a sound,

1977
02:02:54.760 --> 02:02:59.840
only a wood chuck, surely eating a hollow log. But

1978
02:03:00.039 --> 02:03:03.840
it was Lavinia Nebs. It was most surely the heart

1979
02:03:03.960 --> 02:03:09.760
of Lavinia Nebs. She went down the steps, faster, faster, run.

1980
02:03:10.880 --> 02:03:14.039
She heard music, and a mad way, a sully way.

1981
02:03:14.159 --> 02:03:17.399
She heard the search of music that pounded at a rush,

1982
02:03:17.800 --> 02:03:20.600
lunching her past her and passed her down down into

1983
02:03:20.600 --> 02:03:21.840
the middle of the ravine.

1984
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Across the bridge. Run it, run it, don't carry, don't look.

1985
02:03:30.600 --> 02:03:32.479
If you see him, you'll not be able to all.

1986
02:03:33.600 --> 02:03:37.880
Just run and across the bridge, up the path between

1987
02:03:37.920 --> 02:03:38.439
the hills.

1988
02:03:38.880 --> 02:03:42.119
On the top of the path the street, and even

1989
02:03:42.159 --> 02:03:46.479
with the light, the fierce swirled about her, closing and pressing,

1990
02:03:47.159 --> 02:03:47.359
if you.

1991
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Find it, I'll never go alone.

1992
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I was a fool.

1993
02:03:52.399 --> 02:03:56.479
Never again did you let me get home? But then

1994
02:03:57.760 --> 02:04:05.319
I'll never go I am alone. Robins, please please let me, please,

1995
02:04:06.640 --> 02:04:10.680
please give me ted to get inside and lock the

1996
02:04:10.800 --> 02:04:21.319
door and ip the safe. Oh save but home home, listen,

1997
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oh way, oh.

1998
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The window.

1999
02:04:45.720 --> 02:04:52.399
There's no one there at all. Nobody. There was no

2000
02:04:52.520 --> 02:04:57.199
one following me at all, Nobody running after me.

2001
02:04:59.079 --> 02:05:03.039
Oh silly. If a man had been following me he

2002
02:05:03.119 --> 02:05:07.039
had caught me. I can't run as fast as a man.

2003
02:05:09.079 --> 02:05:14.079
I wasn't running from anything except me. The ravine was

2004
02:05:14.359 --> 02:05:21.199
safer than safe. Oh, it's nice to.

2005
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Be home now.

2006
02:05:24.000 --> 02:05:31.359
Homes are really good, warm, safe place, the only place.

2007
02:05:32.119 --> 02:05:34.319
She had just put her hand out to the light

2008
02:05:34.439 --> 02:05:37.319
switch when she heard it behind her in the blackness.

2009
02:05:38.920 --> 02:05:39.600
Just a movement.

2010
02:05:41.880 --> 02:05:47.880
Who What Who?

2011
02:06:03.319 --> 02:06:31.239
Beautiful suspense in which Miss Janet Nolan starred with Paula Winslow,

2012
02:06:31.399 --> 02:06:34.279
Eve McVeigh and Bill Conrad into Night's presentation of Ray

2013
02:06:34.359 --> 02:06:38.119
Bradbury's The Whole Town Sleeping, adapted by Antony Ellis.

2014
02:06:41.319 --> 02:06:46.840
Well, my dear, now that I'm unwinding a bit with

2015
02:06:46.960 --> 02:06:52.039
a kindly record, I hope that you had a nice

2016
02:06:52.119 --> 02:06:54.159
evening with me, as much as I have with you.

2017
02:06:54.399 --> 02:06:58.399
I so so look forward to these visits of yours,

2018
02:06:58.520 --> 02:07:03.680
and I certainly hope to see you back here again, because,

2019
02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:09.880
as you know, I'll always be here waiting. But for now,

2020
02:07:11.000 --> 02:07:13.359
I know it's time for you to return to your

2021
02:07:14.399 --> 02:07:21.119
normal life, your normal days, your normal nights, whatever that

2022
02:07:21.279 --> 02:07:26.880
word may truly mean. So I'll be here waiting, but

2023
02:07:27.079 --> 02:07:30.960
please do me a favor as you make your way home.

2024
02:07:31.079 --> 02:07:34.720
Across the covered bridge, through the river sticks on your

2025
02:07:34.800 --> 02:07:38.119
way past grandmother's house, and as you lay your head

2026
02:07:38.199 --> 02:07:42.960
on that cool soft pillow, take a moment and be

2027
02:07:43.079 --> 02:07:48.039
thankful for what you have. And I'll see you soon.

2028
02:08:00.359 --> 02:08:01.399
In a payments

2029
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Cou