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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.
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Door, we were talking about that cellist fellow Benjamin on
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tick Ah.
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Is that one his wife is making a nuisance of herself? Well,
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is she? Yes?
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I assigned Charlie to follow her. Seems she's just wandering
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the streets calling out her husband's name over and over
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and over, and nobody pays attention to him. But it's Arnason,
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I understand. I suppose I take Charlie off that Judy
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and puts you back on. Whatever you say, sir, it'll
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be a little rest for you after you long to him.
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Thank you, sir, could now go right up here for
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report on the camps. Yes, sir, oh, by the way,
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the cellist died An Tack really didn't mask long? Did
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he ride in the box?
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In the box? Eh?
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Well, those innocents don't take the life in the camps
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that spend my observation. Their minds start to go and
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after that they're finished. Well, run along on type of
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your report, six copies, have one on my desk by noon.
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Benjamin Ontack, Benjamin.
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Mathemonteq.
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Yes, what is it?
492
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I wouldn't do that if I were you.
493
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I'm trying to find my husband.
494
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Take my advice. Don't do you know him?
495
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My husband, Benjamin on Tech.
496
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No, I don't know him, and neither does anyone else.
497
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But lots of people know him. We have lots of friends.
498
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He's well known in his City's formed in public. You see,
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he's a chelist and people come to hear him play
500
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hes with a trio. They get written up in the newspapers.
501
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The picture has been in the papers many times them
502
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and you see he was taken away I think by
503
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the secret police.
504
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I'd advise you to forget him.
505
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I can't. I can't. How how can you forget someone
506
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you've lived with so long and loved? How can you
507
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forget someone when you don't know where he is or
508
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if he's even alive?
509
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He is not, He is dead.
510
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Dead.
511
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He died in the punishment. So oh, when sometime last week,
512
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I see you sure I was there?51300:35:05.239 --> 00:35:05.719
I see?51400:35:08.480 --> 00:35:12.480
Well, then there's no use looking for him, is there?51500:35:14.239 --> 00:35:15.079
No use? Said that?51600:35:17.039 --> 00:35:17.440
I see?51700:35:20.239 --> 00:35:37.639
Well, thank god, Helena, Karena. Let me in, Please, Helena,51800:35:37.719 --> 00:35:47.719
I have something to tell you, something important. Well, I'd51900:35:47.800 --> 00:35:53.679
like to come in. Please, Okay, come in. I'd like52000:35:53.760 --> 00:36:01.039
to sit down. Please, you can't stay, This won't take long. Well, well,52100:36:01.880 --> 00:36:09.239
what is it? Benjamin's dead dead? How do you know52200:36:09.360 --> 00:36:12.639
he's dead? Somebody on the street came up to me52300:36:12.719 --> 00:36:16.199
and told me who I don't know, but he said52400:36:16.239 --> 00:36:21.639
he was there when Benjamin died. He died in a punishment.52500:36:21.840 --> 00:36:22.079
Cell.52600:36:24.159 --> 00:36:30.000
Imagine my Benjamin, who never hurt a living thing in52700:36:30.320 --> 00:36:35.440
any way, not by deed or by word. My Benjamin52800:36:35.559 --> 00:36:41.599
died in a a punishment. So oh, Karen, I'm so52900:36:41.960 --> 00:36:47.079
very sorry. I hope he didn't suffer too much for53000:36:47.239 --> 00:36:54.480
too long. Perhaps he didn't. You know what I said53100:36:54.760 --> 00:36:59.440
when the man told me, what did you say? I said,53200:37:01.440 --> 00:37:06.599
thank God? And I think I know why I said it.53300:37:08.440 --> 00:37:12.440
In fact, I'm sure I know why did you If53400:37:12.480 --> 00:37:14.519
you want to tell me, oh I do. I do53500:37:14.719 --> 00:37:16.719
want to tell you, if you'll let me, of course53600:37:16.800 --> 00:37:22.280
I'll let you. This is why, you see, when I53700:37:22.440 --> 00:37:26.199
heard that he was dead, he died last week, that's53800:37:26.239 --> 00:37:26.960
what the man said.53900:37:27.000 --> 00:37:27.719
The man was there.54000:37:28.440 --> 00:37:32.199
Well, as soon as he told me Benjamin had died,54100:37:34.159 --> 00:37:39.360
then I knew. I knew for certain that Benjamin had existed.54200:37:41.920 --> 00:37:45.519
Do you understand what I'm saying? I think maybe I do.54300:37:46.960 --> 00:37:49.440
You see, as long as you don't know, and nobody54400:37:49.519 --> 00:37:52.320
will tell you, and nobody will admit having known him,54500:37:54.239 --> 00:37:57.960
your mind begins to play tricks on you. You start54600:37:58.039 --> 00:38:02.079
to think maybe there was never any Benjamin at all,54700:38:03.000 --> 00:38:06.679
that you made the whole thing up. You know that54800:38:06.800 --> 00:38:08.880
isn't true, but you start to believe it. You can't54900:38:08.920 --> 00:38:13.519
help yourself go on. You begin to feel you never55000:38:13.599 --> 00:38:17.360
had a husband, You were never married for twenty years.55100:38:17.480 --> 00:38:20.000
None of that ever happened, except maybe in a dream.55200:38:22.400 --> 00:38:28.039
But when you find out that that man, that husband,55300:38:30.000 --> 00:38:35.880
that Benjamin has died, well, that shows that he really55400:38:36.039 --> 00:38:39.159
lived you see what I mean.55500:38:39.760 --> 00:38:40.280
I think so.55600:38:40.599 --> 00:38:42.440
And you didn't make it up, you didn't dream it,55700:38:43.519 --> 00:38:47.280
you lived it. It was real, it was true, it55800:38:47.440 --> 00:38:57.159
was a fact. Something awful happened, something so awful, so55900:38:58.840 --> 00:39:03.519
unbelievably awful. But at least now you know.56000:39:05.599 --> 00:39:06.119
He died.56100:39:08.559 --> 00:39:09.119
He's dead.56200:39:11.360 --> 00:39:14.519
But you know you did have those twenty years with him,56300:39:14.559 --> 00:39:20.239
and they were real. They really happened, he really lived.56400:39:20.400 --> 00:39:30.639
Because now he's dead. Well, I don't want to stay56500:39:30.719 --> 00:39:35.639
too long, that's all right. I had to tell someone56600:39:36.559 --> 00:39:40.719
you stay as long as you like. No, I have56700:39:40.840 --> 00:39:46.280
to go upstairs and prone his mother. Thank you, Helena,56800:39:48.400 --> 00:39:49.239
thank you very much.56900:40:00.159 --> 00:40:03.239
Oh yes, Bran, may I speak to you for a moment.57000:40:06.000 --> 00:40:10.440
It's about missus Anteka, the cello's wife. Oh yes, the57100:40:10.599 --> 00:40:14.000
one who was catterwalling around the streets. That's the one.57200:40:14.960 --> 00:40:17.840
She isn't doing it anymore, sir. It's very wise of her,57300:40:18.199 --> 00:40:21.440
But she is doing something else. I wanted to get57400:40:21.480 --> 00:40:22.400
your opinion on her.57500:40:22.960 --> 00:40:24.039
Why what she doing?57600:40:24.679 --> 00:40:28.280
She stays home all day, but she goes out nights57700:40:29.079 --> 00:40:33.000
out where, no particular place, just out on the streets57800:40:33.159 --> 00:40:36.679
all over town. She's all bundled up in all clothes57900:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.719
higher the hard time recognizing her at first, she looks58000:40:39.760 --> 00:40:41.480
like an old woman, which she is not.58100:40:41.639 --> 00:40:42.119
What does she do?58200:40:43.119 --> 00:40:43.159
She?58300:40:45.079 --> 00:40:50.480
She writes on walls? She won, She writes on walls58400:40:51.039 --> 00:40:54.559
with chalk. Of course, as soon as she moves on,58500:40:54.719 --> 00:40:57.159
I erase whatever she's written by A block or two later,58600:40:57.239 --> 00:40:58.840
there she is again, writing on a wall.58700:40:58.920 --> 00:41:09.679
What does she write? Think? Feel? Think? Feel? What makes58800:41:09.719 --> 00:41:10.559
her do that? I want to?58900:41:11.079 --> 00:41:16.559
I can't imagine unless yes on us want well. She59000:41:16.719 --> 00:41:19.960
started to thread after I told her that her husband steady,59100:41:21.079 --> 00:41:24.880
You see, when she was wondering about shouting his name.59200:41:25.400 --> 00:41:28.480
That put a stop to it. I told her he59300:41:28.760 --> 00:41:33.079
died the week before in the box, You fool, you59400:41:33.960 --> 00:41:36.960
unmitigated idiots, be sir.59500:41:37.760 --> 00:41:38.239
You mean me.59600:41:38.320 --> 00:41:40.039
Don't you know anything at all about the movements?59700:41:40.920 --> 00:41:44.639
Well? I thought I did. I certainly no one is59800:41:44.760 --> 00:41:45.440
supposed to.59900:41:45.559 --> 00:41:48.719
Know what's happened, same as I'm not supposed to know60000:41:48.800 --> 00:41:49.599
what's going to happen.60100:41:49.679 --> 00:41:50.639
But no one told me that.60200:41:50.760 --> 00:41:54.559
No one should have to tell. You get a proper60300:41:54.639 --> 00:41:57.000
blood in your veins, the right spirit in your soul.60400:41:57.119 --> 00:42:01.400
You have known without being told. These cattle are not60500:42:01.679 --> 00:42:05.159
entitled the facts. They're not entitled anything but what we60600:42:05.320 --> 00:42:08.039
choose to tell them. They are there to do what60700:42:08.159 --> 00:42:11.519
they're told to cheer and obey, and cheer while they're obeying.60800:42:13.440 --> 00:42:15.400
You've been with a party this long, you don't even60900:42:15.480 --> 00:42:15.679
know that.61000:42:18.039 --> 00:42:19.920
Think feel.61100:42:20.039 --> 00:42:24.159
Indeed, they'll think what we tell them to think, and61200:42:24.199 --> 00:42:26.360
they'll feel what we want them to feel, and that's61300:42:26.480 --> 00:42:29.320
the whole idea behind the movement. I'm sorry, sir, I61400:42:30.159 --> 00:42:33.639
didn't mean if I know, they'd never right, all right,61500:42:34.239 --> 00:42:35.039
stop blubbering.61600:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.639
Believe me, sir, I'll never make such a mistake again. No,61700:42:38.800 --> 00:42:46.440
you won't. I've learned my lessons. I wonder if you have. Oh, yes, sir,61800:42:46.639 --> 00:42:48.039
yes I have.61900:42:48.559 --> 00:42:50.960
It seems to me that a year and of forced62000:42:51.159 --> 00:42:53.320
labor camp would drive the lesson home.62100:42:55.239 --> 00:42:59.159
Don't you think so? Weren't insane a sound? Hey?62200:43:01.840 --> 00:43:08.719
Whatever you think best, I'm sure that's.62300:43:07.079 --> 00:43:10.159
What would be best. I'm sure too.62400:43:11.840 --> 00:43:18.320
A little more indoctrination, may Bruno, Yes, sir, I'm sure62500:43:18.440 --> 00:43:23.199
that's what I need. I think so too, just to62600:43:23.280 --> 00:43:25.440
make certain you're worthy to be a member of the62700:43:25.519 --> 00:43:46.280
ruling class. Now go turn yourself in so the totalitarian62800:43:46.400 --> 00:43:50.800
states can turn and devour its own within the system.62900:43:51.280 --> 00:43:56.480
There are those who, for whatever obscure reason, will inevitably63000:43:56.599 --> 00:44:01.400
prove themselves unreliable, at least in someone's eyes. And such63100:44:01.440 --> 00:44:07.239
a one seen thus is destined for reprimand for punishment,63200:44:08.159 --> 00:44:12.440
or for extermination, because this is the way of the63300:44:12.559 --> 00:44:15.960
totalitarian state. I shall be back shortly.63400:44:28.199 --> 00:44:28.960
One more word.63500:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.480
I have heard that, once upon a time, for what63600:44:32.679 --> 00:44:36.559
reason I cannot imagine, a certain gentleman spent many years63700:44:36.679 --> 00:44:40.079
cutting off the tales of rats, hoping to produce a63800:44:40.159 --> 00:44:45.400
strain of rats without tales. Now tell me, if we63900:44:45.440 --> 00:44:49.639
should remove the heads of a sufficient number of persons, would.64000:44:49.440 --> 00:44:51.719
We at last produce headless people?64100:44:53.119 --> 00:44:55.159
I can only tell you it didn't work with the rats.64200:44:55.840 --> 00:45:00.840
They went right on being born with tales. Our cast64300:45:00.920 --> 00:45:04.480
included Terry Keane, Carol Titel, Ray Owens, and Ralph Bell.64400:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.960
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.64500:45:10.440 --> 00:45:14.760
Well, I suppose I can put another log on the fire.64600:45:15.000 --> 00:45:21.880
The wood is not necessarily ideal, you tonight. I haven't64700:45:21.880 --> 00:45:25.920
had another delivery in quite a while, so it may64800:45:26.119 --> 00:45:28.920
take a bit for it to catch and reach its64900:45:29.039 --> 00:45:35.800
full luminance. But that's okay, because as long as we're65000:45:35.880 --> 00:45:39.920
here sharing this moment with a hot cup of tea65100:45:40.679 --> 00:45:44.440
and a smile on our faces. As long as we65200:45:44.559 --> 00:45:53.079
are together sharing this experience, I will never fear the65300:45:53.280 --> 00:45:54.679
dark chamber.65400:46:06.440 --> 00:46:27.440
Lipton Tea and Lipton Soup present inner sanctum, mysteries, good65500:46:27.480 --> 00:46:29.679
evening friends will be in a sanctum.65600:46:30.760 --> 00:46:33.719
This is your host to welcome you through the squeaking door.65700:46:35.079 --> 00:46:38.440
Throw up tombs down s Anon, don't mind the fact65800:46:38.480 --> 00:46:40.079
that we've carved your name on it.65900:46:43.119 --> 00:46:44.920
Oh, it's all a lonesome around here, don't.66000:46:44.800 --> 00:46:47.840
It isn't it's Most of the folks who haunt the66100:46:47.880 --> 00:46:51.280
place are out tonight for their sleds. If it's snow66200:46:51.440 --> 00:46:54.760
near your house, you may find them ghosting down.66300:46:54.599 --> 00:46:57.880
Here, mister Post. Ghosts don't go sledding, do they?66400:46:58.239 --> 00:47:02.440
Of course, men, especially the ghosts of gangsters. I used66500:47:02.480 --> 00:47:04.239
to being taken for a sleigh.66600:47:04.639 --> 00:47:04.880
Right.66700:47:05.519 --> 00:47:07.960
Well, now, why don't you take your sled and join66800:47:08.079 --> 00:47:09.840
your friends and let me have a word with our66900:47:09.880 --> 00:47:13.840
Lipton listeners. Folks, have you ever noticed how often we67000:47:13.920 --> 00:47:17.239
all use the words good, better, and best. We're always67100:47:17.280 --> 00:47:20.840
comparing things because comparisons help us decide what the best67200:47:20.880 --> 00:47:24.400
things in life are. For example, the perfect way to67300:47:24.519 --> 00:47:27.760
prove how really flavorful Lipton tea is is to compare67400:47:27.840 --> 00:47:32.480
Liptons to any other tea and taste the difference. Lipton's67500:47:32.519 --> 00:47:36.119
flavor is brisk, never flatter, wishy, washy. It gives you67600:47:36.320 --> 00:47:39.360
all the flavor tastes just the way you like tea best.67700:47:40.039 --> 00:47:43.320
No other tea gives you more bright, mellow goodness because67800:47:43.400 --> 00:47:49.639
that superb flavor of Lipton's is extra rich, extra satisfying. Yes, friends,67900:47:50.039 --> 00:47:53.639
just compare Liptons to any other tea. You'll find Liptons68000:47:53.679 --> 00:47:57.039
gives you brisk flavor, and you'll find Lipton's wonderful brisk68100:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.039
flavor gives you more contentment.68200:47:59.639 --> 00:47:59.840
In a.68300:48:01.480 --> 00:48:01.960
Right man.68400:48:02.679 --> 00:48:05.000
Now you go and catch yourself on that tea pot68500:48:05.079 --> 00:48:09.079
over there, and get ready to hear about the Dark Chamber.68600:48:10.280 --> 00:48:13.840
It's an original radio play by Robert Newman, who witnessed68700:48:13.880 --> 00:48:17.239
the story while picking through a keyhole. Yes, and our68800:48:17.360 --> 00:48:20.519
start tonight is Kenneth Lynch, who plays the role of Joel.68900:48:23.400 --> 00:48:28.559
Our story tonight is about dead, violent death, and also69000:48:28.599 --> 00:48:33.760
about something which is even more terrifying, the unknown. You69100:48:33.840 --> 00:48:36.760
don't believe that anything can be more frightening than death,69200:48:37.960 --> 00:48:41.599
and you've never experienced the ultimate in fear, but you69300:48:41.719 --> 00:48:44.840
will within the next few minutes if you'll put out69400:48:44.880 --> 00:48:46.639
the lights, pull your chair.69500:48:46.519 --> 00:48:49.519
Up close and listen to the dark chamber?69600:48:55.440 --> 00:48:57.000
Is it Ryan Swigan?69700:48:57.079 --> 00:48:58.360
Hello, please listen.69800:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.239
You've got to help me. You've got you don't know69900:49:00.239 --> 00:49:03.239
how you can. My name is Watson, Joe Watson. I'm70000:49:03.280 --> 00:49:07.119
a driver for the ACME Sanitary hand Laundry. Where I70100:49:07.199 --> 00:49:12.679
am I don't know. That's part of the trouble. Hey, wait, listen.70200:49:12.840 --> 00:49:15.599
I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. Check the laundry,70300:49:15.719 --> 00:49:17.119
check the veterans. I'm an XGI.70400:49:17.360 --> 00:49:17.800
They'll tell you.70500:49:17.880 --> 00:49:21.360
I'm straight. Well, I'm in a room someplace. I don't70600:49:21.400 --> 00:49:22.920
know where it is, or how I got here, or70700:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.480
what I'm here for. I don't even know how long70800:49:25.519 --> 00:49:28.159
I've been here. It's a big room, but it's funny.70900:49:28.239 --> 00:49:30.639
No doors, no windows that I can see, just a71000:49:30.719 --> 00:49:32.800
couple of chairs in the table with his phone on it.71100:49:33.440 --> 00:49:34.000
That's scared.71200:49:35.719 --> 00:49:37.880
Find me, find out what this is all about, and71300:49:37.960 --> 00:49:41.400
get me out of here. Listen, this is the gag,71400:49:41.519 --> 00:49:43.880
can't you tell You don't know what it's like, just71500:49:43.960 --> 00:49:46.400
sitting here waiting, not knowing where or why. Or what's71600:49:46.440 --> 00:49:49.159
going to happen? Can't you trace this call or something?71700:49:50.079 --> 00:49:51.440
Okay? Hang on?71800:49:51.639 --> 00:49:56.039
Oh thank heaven, I was afraid. Listen, I hear something.71900:49:56.079 --> 00:49:56.639
Someone's coming.72000:49:56.840 --> 00:49:57.360
Better hang up.72100:49:57.840 --> 00:49:59.800
I'll call you back later if I can.72200:50:03.880 --> 00:50:04.360
How do you do?72300:50:06.199 --> 00:50:06.480
Oho? Are you?72400:50:06.639 --> 00:50:07.480
My name's Helmi?72500:50:08.039 --> 00:50:10.599
Dofter john Helmy in your name?72600:50:11.679 --> 00:50:13.000
I don't have to tell you anything.72700:50:13.199 --> 00:50:16.280
That's very true, although I didn't think you were aware72800:50:16.280 --> 00:50:18.760
of it. I think I already know everything about you72900:50:18.920 --> 00:50:19.960
that I'm interested in knowing.73000:50:20.559 --> 00:50:24.239
Like what name? Joseph Watson, age.73100:50:24.000 --> 00:50:29.199
Twenty six, occupation, employee of the Acme Laundry, honorably discharged73200:50:29.199 --> 00:50:32.280
from the Army six months ago with the Bronze Star73300:50:33.039 --> 00:50:34.079
and the Purple Heart.73400:50:34.239 --> 00:50:36.599
What so you cased me?73500:50:37.360 --> 00:50:38.320
Went through my pocket?73600:50:38.440 --> 00:50:38.599
Huh?73700:50:39.480 --> 00:50:41.119
Well, if you know that much, you know I haven't73800:50:41.159 --> 00:50:42.760
got any dough money.73900:50:43.440 --> 00:50:44.840
I'm not interested in money.74000:50:45.039 --> 00:50:45.639
What do you want?74100:50:45.719 --> 00:50:45.840
Then?74200:50:46.639 --> 00:50:47.519
Where is this place?74300:50:48.039 --> 00:50:50.079
The last thing I remember is making a delivery on74400:50:50.159 --> 00:50:52.320
Spruce Street, noticing that the lights were out in the74500:50:52.360 --> 00:50:55.280
hall and hearing a noise behind me. You are somebody74600:50:55.360 --> 00:50:58.519
slug me? That's right, Well it stopped grinning like that74700:50:58.639 --> 00:50:59.880
and tell me what this is all about?74800:51:00.079 --> 00:51:00.880
Of course.74900:51:02.519 --> 00:51:04.760
I brought you here because I need your help and75000:51:04.840 --> 00:51:05.599
an experiment.75100:51:06.599 --> 00:51:10.400
An experiment, who's details I've already worked out with mice75200:51:10.599 --> 00:51:12.360
and rabbits and cats.75300:51:12.119 --> 00:51:13.039
And other animals.75400:51:13.800 --> 00:51:15.360
What kind of an experiment?75500:51:15.480 --> 00:51:17.199
An experiment in fear?75600:51:18.000 --> 00:51:18.199
Fair?75700:51:18.360 --> 00:51:20.159
Yes, you fought in.75800:51:20.159 --> 00:51:23.960
The war, you were wounded. That means you've probably known fear.75900:51:24.679 --> 00:51:27.920
And still you won the brother Star, which means you76000:51:28.000 --> 00:51:32.199
overcame it. Now the question is can you overcome your76100:51:32.320 --> 00:51:33.159
present fears?76200:51:34.119 --> 00:51:35.159
What are you talking about?76300:51:36.039 --> 00:51:36.880
You're afraid.76400:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.519
Nothing has happened to you yet, absolutely nothing, and yet76500:51:40.559 --> 00:51:42.199
you are afraid, aren't you.76600:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.360
You're afraid because your face to face will.76700:51:45.199 --> 00:51:48.440
Be unknown because you don't know what I want and76800:51:48.559 --> 00:51:52.360
what I'm planning to do, which is as a children.76900:51:53.440 --> 00:51:56.559
And that's the way we'll leave it for the moment.77000:51:57.119 --> 00:51:58.679
Hey, why am I go back here?77100:51:59.239 --> 00:51:59.599
Go back?77200:52:10.679 --> 00:52:11.320
Hello? Please?77300:52:11.639 --> 00:52:12.679
This is Joe Watson again.77400:52:13.280 --> 00:52:13.480
Listen.77500:52:13.599 --> 00:52:14.519
I got a little more dope.77600:52:15.079 --> 00:52:16.639
I don't know if it will help, But there was77700:52:16.719 --> 00:52:19.280
a guy in here just now said his name was Helming,77800:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.840
John Helming. That's probably a phony. He's about fifty tall,77900:52:22.920 --> 00:52:25.559
over six foot, white hair and gray eyes. No, I78000:52:25.679 --> 00:52:27.639
still don't know what it's all about her what he's after.78100:52:27.800 --> 00:52:30.079
But have you been able to trace this number yet?78200:52:31.119 --> 00:52:35.960
How long will it take? Okay, I'll hang on. The78300:52:36.079 --> 00:52:38.840
lights just went out. The room's pitch dark, and somebody's78400:52:38.880 --> 00:52:41.440
coming in again. I better stop for Pete's sake.78500:52:41.599 --> 00:52:50.960
Hurry, who's that? Who just came in?78600:52:52.519 --> 00:52:54.840
How are you a girl?78700:52:56.079 --> 00:52:56.840
Keep away from me?78800:52:58.000 --> 00:52:58.480
Keep away?78900:52:58.559 --> 00:52:58.920
Do you hear?79000:52:59.119 --> 00:52:59.639
Keep away?79100:53:00.440 --> 00:53:01.159
What's the angle?79200:53:01.280 --> 00:53:01.440
Now?79300:53:02.480 --> 00:53:02.920
Angle?79400:53:04.480 --> 00:53:05.480
Why did you bring me here?79500:53:06.639 --> 00:53:07.239
Wait a minute?79600:53:08.840 --> 00:53:10.719
You mean he put the snatch on you too?79700:53:11.480 --> 00:53:13.599
And I was on my way home chloroform or something,79800:53:14.400 --> 00:53:19.920
And the next thing I knew, why are you pretending here?79900:53:20.039 --> 00:53:20.679
In on it too?80000:53:20.800 --> 00:53:22.840
You must be a trap to trap?80100:53:22.960 --> 00:53:25.679
All right, I'm not in on it. I'm in it80200:53:26.000 --> 00:53:30.119
along with you. My name is Watson, Joe Watson.80300:53:31.320 --> 00:53:33.559
I'm very grant.80400:53:35.039 --> 00:53:36.800
You swear, I swear.80500:53:37.599 --> 00:53:41.079
What would I lie about it for? I wonder why80600:53:41.159 --> 00:53:44.159
he put you in here? Put us together?80700:53:44.360 --> 00:53:44.800
Who is he?80800:53:45.920 --> 00:53:46.639
What's he going to do?80900:53:46.840 --> 00:53:47.159
I don't know.81000:53:48.079 --> 00:53:51.719
He said something about an experiment, an experiment and fear.81100:53:51.880 --> 00:53:55.159
But he listen, We've got to get out of here somehow,81200:53:55.320 --> 00:53:55.840
some ways.81300:53:57.440 --> 00:53:59.559
He might be listening very as.81400:53:59.639 --> 00:54:03.760
You, my dear. Of course, I'm list what where are81500:54:03.800 --> 00:54:05.280
you right here in the dark.81600:54:05.440 --> 00:54:06.559
I've been here all the time.81700:54:06.639 --> 00:54:08.039
Why are you don't?81800:54:08.960 --> 00:54:11.920
He must want you to go for him. He's probably81900:54:12.000 --> 00:54:12.639
got a gun.82000:54:12.559 --> 00:54:16.679
Right again, my dear, that i'll need it. This is82100:54:16.800 --> 00:54:21.039
stage two of the experiment. A new stimulus to action82200:54:21.199 --> 00:54:25.159
has been introduced. Man against the unknown has become man82300:54:25.400 --> 00:54:27.119
and woman against the unknown.82400:54:27.320 --> 00:54:29.239
But let's get down the breast tacks.82500:54:29.320 --> 00:54:30.239
Be sensible about this.82600:54:30.320 --> 00:54:33.000
Thank you, Joe. That's why I won't need my gun.82700:54:33.880 --> 00:54:38.400
This new stimulus has been negated by an increased sense82800:54:38.440 --> 00:54:46.639
of responsibility, responsibility towards the girl and therefore by increased.82900:54:46.199 --> 00:54:55.280
Fifth plus, you got wiot outside now, so you can relax.83000:54:56.199 --> 00:54:59.760
That was the final stimulus in this stage in jo83100:55:00.159 --> 00:55:03.760
ride the discovery that I could read your innermost thoughts.83200:55:03.920 --> 00:55:07.320
You exactly what you're going to do, but you mustn't83300:55:07.360 --> 00:55:11.159
let that value. I already know everything you're going to.83400:55:11.239 --> 00:55:12.039
Do from now on.83500:55:13.800 --> 00:55:25.519
Listen you Helming, Helming, He's gone, I know. Hold on, baby,83600:55:25.880 --> 00:55:28.880
don't let it get you. There must be a way,83700:55:29.199 --> 00:55:29.679
some way.83800:55:32.639 --> 00:55:33.440
Still listening.83900:55:34.039 --> 00:55:37.519
Hard to say, but I'm going to take a chance.84000:55:37.920 --> 00:55:41.960
There's one thing he didn't figure on a telephone. Yes,84100:55:42.599 --> 00:55:44.280
I can find it again in the dark.84200:55:44.840 --> 00:55:47.159
It's over and the here is.84300:55:48.679 --> 00:55:51.360
I put through two calls already to the police, told84400:55:51.400 --> 00:55:53.199
him what was happening and asked him to get me84500:55:53.239 --> 00:55:55.880
out of here. I had to hang up both times84600:55:55.920 --> 00:55:57.719
before they could trace the call and get this number.84700:55:57.800 --> 00:56:02.480
But this time, Hello, what No, this isn't the operator.84800:56:02.519 --> 00:56:03.440
You're on a busy wire.84900:56:03.639 --> 00:56:06.440
It doesn't matter, Thank Kevin. I got somebody. I've been85000:56:06.480 --> 00:56:07.519
trying for about ten minutes.85100:56:07.559 --> 00:56:08.679
Now get off the line.85200:56:08.719 --> 00:56:10.480
Well you, I've got to get through to the police.85300:56:10.519 --> 00:56:11.519
It's terribly important.85400:56:11.559 --> 00:56:13.400
What you've got to help me. You've got to My85500:56:13.559 --> 00:56:15.440
name is Ben Lasari and I'm a prisoner some place.85600:56:15.480 --> 00:56:16.239
I don't know where it was.85700:56:17.440 --> 00:56:21.079
It's true, strange house somewhere. Doctor who says his name85800:56:21.159 --> 00:56:21.519
is Helming.85900:56:23.360 --> 00:56:24.920
What are you laughing at, Joe?86000:56:24.960 --> 00:56:25.000
What?86100:56:26.039 --> 00:56:27.400
I haven't got headquarters.86200:56:27.440 --> 00:56:29.639
I've got a guy that I'm.86300:56:29.559 --> 00:56:31.039
Sorry, Ben, it's no use.86400:56:32.559 --> 00:56:33.559
We're in the same boat.86500:56:33.599 --> 00:56:37.679
You are, a girl named Betty Grant myself. Helming's got86600:56:37.760 --> 00:56:39.079
us locked up to you.86700:56:39.559 --> 00:56:40.800
Yeah, he said he.86800:56:40.840 --> 00:56:43.239
Knew everything we were thinking, everything we were going to do.86900:56:44.039 --> 00:56:46.079
I did get through of the police before but I87000:56:46.119 --> 00:56:47.079
guess he caught wise.87100:56:47.760 --> 00:56:48.840
We're talking to each.87200:56:48.719 --> 00:56:50.039
Other over an inside line.87300:56:51.800 --> 00:56:53.800
Yeah, we're through.87400:56:53.960 --> 00:56:57.519
No, Joe, don't say that. I don't even think it.87500:56:59.480 --> 00:57:00.960
Asking me exactly where he is?87600:57:02.639 --> 00:57:03.639
Just where are you being?87700:57:04.440 --> 00:57:08.480
You know, it's hard to say. How was out called87800:57:08.519 --> 00:57:11.199
when he brought me here. It's a kind of a87900:57:11.960 --> 00:57:18.400
hall of passage way, cement, floor, ceiling, stone walls. There88000:57:18.440 --> 00:57:20.639
doesn't seem to be any door opening or anything like that.88100:57:20.760 --> 00:57:22.880
That's what I thought here too, But there must be88200:57:23.000 --> 00:57:25.800
wonder how would he have gotten you in there? Listen,88300:57:25.880 --> 00:57:27.480
start looking, see if you can find it.88400:57:28.039 --> 00:57:30.760
That's true, I have a thought of that. Now I88500:57:30.840 --> 00:57:32.440
do find the door that opens in the way you are.88600:57:32.519 --> 00:57:35.039
That's right, three of us together, we'll surely be able88700:57:35.079 --> 00:57:35.880
to figure something out.88800:57:35.920 --> 00:57:39.000
Then hold on, I'll start planning on the walls. You'll88900:57:39.000 --> 00:57:39.840
see if you hear anything.89000:57:39.960 --> 00:57:41.800
Go ahead, what's he doing?89100:57:42.199 --> 00:57:43.719
He's going to knock on the walls to see if89200:57:43.719 --> 00:57:46.039
he's anywhere near us, and if he is, if he89300:57:46.079 --> 00:57:48.199
can find a door we can get together.89400:57:50.239 --> 00:57:50.800
Here anything.89500:57:52.679 --> 00:57:53.440
I'm not sure.89600:57:54.840 --> 00:57:58.000
Maybe I'm not sure either.89700:58:00.039 --> 00:58:01.039
Awful far away?89800:58:01.360 --> 00:58:02.440
Is it there?89900:58:02.679 --> 00:58:04.159
Listen that wall right there?90000:58:04.800 --> 00:58:05.000
Hello?90100:58:05.519 --> 00:58:07.519
Hello, Ben? Yes, we heard you.90200:58:07.760 --> 00:58:08.679
You're right next to us.90300:58:09.000 --> 00:58:12.039
How Ben, you listen and Betty you'll not back. Go ahead, Betty,90400:58:12.840 --> 00:58:14.760
that way, Ben, you'll be able to tell just which90500:58:14.800 --> 00:58:15.280
wall it is.90600:58:18.960 --> 00:58:19.119
Here?90700:58:20.280 --> 00:58:23.000
I know where it is. How to find the door90800:58:23.039 --> 00:58:23.599
if there is one?90900:58:24.199 --> 00:58:25.360
Hold on, he's got it.91000:58:25.679 --> 00:58:26.880
He's going to see if there's a door.91100:58:27.159 --> 00:58:27.920
There must be one.91200:58:27.960 --> 00:58:34.000
There must be Ben, Ben, Hello, what is it?91300:58:35.000 --> 00:58:38.400
No, but it hurts a moan?91400:58:38.559 --> 00:58:42.760
No, Look, there is a door. It's opening.91500:58:43.199 --> 00:58:48.440
It's open, doctor Helming.91600:58:48.559 --> 00:58:51.679
Why yes, were you expecting someone?91700:59:02.760 --> 00:59:05.840
Well, now that you mentioned it, doctor, there was someone91800:59:05.920 --> 00:59:09.440
we've been expecting and waiting for since we first heard91900:59:09.480 --> 00:59:13.480
about that cozy little place of yours. I think he's92000:59:13.599 --> 00:59:18.079
finally arived. He's a tall, rather striking gentleman with a92100:59:18.280 --> 00:59:22.880
skull for a face, and his name is dead mister host.92200:59:22.960 --> 00:59:26.599
That doctor Helming is insane. He gives me the chills.92300:59:26.800 --> 00:59:29.039
Oh maybe it's just because it's so cold to night.92400:59:29.159 --> 00:59:29.400
Mary.92500:59:30.199 --> 00:59:32.159
You know it's getting so nippy these days that some92600:59:32.320 --> 00:59:35.400
of my friends are having fur colors put on their shrounds.92700:59:36.639 --> 00:59:39.519
Well, my friends are smarter. They know that the way92800:59:39.599 --> 00:59:41.400
to warm up in cold weather is with a hot92900:59:41.480 --> 00:59:45.360
cup of fragrant, delicious Lipton tea. A cup of tea93000:59:45.440 --> 00:59:47.719
in front of the fireplace just hits the salt these93100:59:47.840 --> 00:59:51.400
chilly days. But make it Lipton's and your pleasure is complete.93200:59:51.920 --> 00:59:54.480
You brew up a part of Lipton's, throw another log93300:59:54.559 --> 00:59:57.519
on the fire, and summer tiptoes right into the room.93400:59:57.880 --> 01:00:00.400
Let the wind blow in, the snow pile up on93501:00:00.480 --> 01:00:03.000
the roof. There's all the magic of June and a93601:00:03.039 --> 01:00:06.800
cup of Liptons in its deep amber color. It's tantalizing93701:00:06.920 --> 01:00:11.360
fragrance and its rich, hearty flavor. And what flavor that93801:00:11.599 --> 01:00:17.199
is never wishy washy, always brisk and fall and satisfying.93901:00:17.880 --> 01:00:20.599
Try it, folks. You can let winter do its worst94001:00:20.679 --> 01:00:22.280
when you've got Liptons in your cup.94101:00:22.800 --> 01:00:23.679
That's right, Mary.94201:00:24.480 --> 01:00:26.760
It either gets time now for something a little more94301:00:26.920 --> 01:00:31.719
cold blooded, such as a cold blooded murder. We're having94401:00:31.760 --> 01:00:35.039
a juicy one here tonight. Tale of gog a Low.94501:00:35.239 --> 01:00:40.119
So let's see what's happening in the dark chamber. It's94601:00:40.519 --> 01:00:44.280
just a moment later. Now, standing in the darkness of94701:00:44.320 --> 01:00:46.920
the strange room, Joe and Betty stare at the tall94801:00:47.079 --> 01:00:50.079
figure of doctor Helming, silhouetted against the dim light.94901:00:50.199 --> 01:00:50.920
From outside.95001:00:52.400 --> 01:00:55.519
I asked you whether you were expecting someone.95101:00:56.800 --> 01:00:57.920
Then it was just a trick.95201:00:59.159 --> 01:01:00.920
It was you and follow all the time.95301:01:01.519 --> 01:01:02.760
Do you think i'd know his voice?95401:01:03.320 --> 01:01:04.599
Where is he?95501:01:04.880 --> 01:01:08.559
Our friend, mister lazare right outside?95601:01:08.880 --> 01:01:09.639
What did your doing?95701:01:11.239 --> 01:01:11.840
That's why?95801:01:11.840 --> 01:01:12.440
Did your too?95901:01:13.480 --> 01:01:13.679
Sure?96001:01:13.760 --> 01:01:14.679
I know you're killed him?96101:01:16.119 --> 01:01:16.920
Did you kill him?96201:01:17.559 --> 01:01:19.679
Quite a state you've gotten yourself into.96301:01:19.920 --> 01:01:23.840
Why is it because you finally tried to do something96401:01:23.920 --> 01:01:27.039
about your predicament and failed? Or is it because you96501:01:27.119 --> 01:01:30.000
weren't sure whether I would kill or not? And because96601:01:30.039 --> 01:01:30.840
you still don't know?96701:01:31.840 --> 01:01:32.039
Oh?96801:01:32.320 --> 01:01:37.719
No, really, no, you'll be interested to know you have96901:01:37.920 --> 01:01:42.039
not done, nor will you do one thing that I97001:01:42.239 --> 01:01:43.199
did not foresee.97101:01:44.119 --> 01:01:44.960
Every move you.97201:01:45.079 --> 01:01:49.880
Made, every emotion you felt was charted outlined.97301:01:50.679 --> 01:01:51.000
But that.97401:01:52.559 --> 01:01:56.880
I think is probably the police. The police, Yes, I97501:01:56.960 --> 01:01:58.639
know that you're very anxious to talk to them, and97601:01:58.679 --> 01:02:07.920
I'll see that you got a chance to. So good evening, officer.97701:02:08.719 --> 01:02:10.480
I'm looking for a guy named tell.97801:02:10.360 --> 01:02:11.760
Me doctor him.97901:02:11.880 --> 01:02:13.440
I'm doctor Helming. Come in, won't you?98001:02:13.880 --> 01:02:14.199
Okay?98101:02:15.039 --> 01:02:15.360
Thanks?98201:02:16.880 --> 01:02:20.599
This is a kind of a funny business. It's about98301:02:20.639 --> 01:02:23.119
a phone car we got a while ago. Finally traced98401:02:23.159 --> 01:02:26.199
here a guy who said he was a prisoner or something.98501:02:26.239 --> 01:02:27.360
That must have been Watson.98601:02:27.960 --> 01:02:31.320
Yeah, yeah, that's his name, Joe Watson. You know, of98701:02:31.440 --> 01:02:34.719
course I can't tell you how sorry I am. It98801:02:34.880 --> 01:02:36.800
was really very careless. I mean, I'll see that it98901:02:36.840 --> 01:02:39.840
doesn't happen again. What do you mean if you didn't investigating,99001:02:39.960 --> 01:02:43.519
which I'm sure you did, then you know that I well,99101:02:43.559 --> 01:02:46.159
I don't understanditarium exactly, but I do take a few99201:02:46.199 --> 01:02:52.599
patients mental cases for treatment. Ah, I wis you wouldn't99301:02:52.639 --> 01:02:57.000
say that Watson's case is particularly interesting. A four F99401:02:57.079 --> 01:02:59.920
who wasn't able to enlist and he developed a persecution99501:03:00.599 --> 01:03:03.880
think that everyone is down, not everyone exactly. His present99601:03:03.920 --> 01:03:05.639
fantasy is that he's an x g I and that99701:03:05.760 --> 01:03:07.199
I'm keeping him prisoner.99801:03:07.480 --> 01:03:12.679
Who's plenty tough. Well, I guess you'll run along. I'm99901:03:12.719 --> 01:03:13.360
shorry I brought it.100001:03:13.400 --> 01:03:15.440
Don't you want to see them first? Officer, talk to them.100101:03:15.760 --> 01:03:18.719
There's no need to adapted. We get cards from cranks100201:03:18.760 --> 01:03:22.400
every day. We are investigative cards. But I insist, after all,100301:03:22.480 --> 01:03:26.719
you only have my word for it. Uh, there's well,100401:03:26.719 --> 01:03:28.119
there's just one thing I'd like.100501:03:28.199 --> 01:03:31.599
To coach you. You should I know, I'll clear down100601:03:34.559 --> 01:03:38.800
right in here, room.100701:03:40.639 --> 01:03:43.679
It's a cramp, and that means then you take that100801:03:43.800 --> 01:03:44.159
my man.100901:03:44.400 --> 01:03:47.079
Sure, sure, Joe took a little time to face a card.101001:03:47.159 --> 01:03:50.079
But everything's okay. Oh, thank you heavy.101101:03:50.639 --> 01:03:52.639
It was such a screwy story. I was afraid that.101201:03:53.760 --> 01:03:57.039
Wait wait a minute, then, why is he standing there101301:03:57.159 --> 01:04:00.000
like that? Why haven't you got the bracelets on him?101401:04:00.320 --> 01:04:00.960
After the hearing?101501:04:01.679 --> 01:04:04.239
Don't need it in neither rough stuff? He said, it's101601:04:04.280 --> 01:04:05.119
coming along quietly.101701:04:05.440 --> 01:04:06.519
Why you're lying?101801:04:07.960 --> 01:04:10.559
I don't know why. There's something wrong?101901:04:10.639 --> 01:04:11.599
Here's something.102001:04:12.920 --> 01:04:13.159
I know.102101:04:14.559 --> 01:04:16.039
Do you think we made the whole thing up?102201:04:17.119 --> 01:04:17.719
We're crazy?102301:04:18.400 --> 01:04:18.880
That's true.102401:04:19.480 --> 01:04:22.199
He told you we were, and you believe them. Gosh102501:04:22.360 --> 01:04:26.800
not Look but well you stop saying. I can only102601:04:27.000 --> 01:04:32.840
prove it somehow, show you, I know, well, Arry Murder.102701:04:33.039 --> 01:04:36.119
That'll open your eyes. Somewhere in that wall is a door.102801:04:36.320 --> 01:04:38.400
Make them open it, show you what's behind it. I102901:04:38.800 --> 01:04:40.239
think maybe it lest be going.103001:04:40.400 --> 01:04:42.920
But there is a door there, officer, just a second,103101:04:43.039 --> 01:04:43.960
I'll open it for you.103201:04:46.280 --> 01:04:46.880
Here we are.103301:04:48.400 --> 01:04:52.840
Sure body, it's gone.103401:04:54.440 --> 01:04:58.039
It's start as are the pot is it turns it again?103501:04:58.119 --> 01:04:58.320
Later?103601:04:58.400 --> 01:05:02.800
Gives another thing? Eh, I shouldn't have said that. Hey,103701:05:03.039 --> 01:05:05.079
can I go up this way now? Down to the103801:05:05.199 --> 01:05:06.639
end of the corridor than to your right.103901:05:06.880 --> 01:05:09.199
Hey, I'm sorry I gave you hosble.104001:05:09.559 --> 01:05:12.320
All right, thank you for being so understanding.104101:05:12.519 --> 01:05:14.239
Quite all right, goodbye?104201:05:16.320 --> 01:05:23.079
Well children, don't look that way, Joe, don't I know104301:05:23.199 --> 01:05:26.760
what you're thinking, And it's not true. We're not crazy.104401:05:27.599 --> 01:05:31.079
There was a body there, of course you hit it.104501:05:31.199 --> 01:05:34.800
When you went out to let the copin the telephone.104601:05:35.000 --> 01:05:37.840
You left that here purposely wanted me to Joseph get104701:05:37.840 --> 01:05:38.440
the police here.104801:05:39.199 --> 01:05:42.480
Obviously, I told you that this was to be an104901:05:42.519 --> 01:05:46.159
experiment and fear. What I didn't tell you was that,105001:05:46.320 --> 01:05:49.000
in a sense, I was one of the subjects too.105101:05:49.559 --> 01:05:52.480
It was important for me to learn how I would105201:05:52.559 --> 01:05:56.039
function under pressure and speaking objectively, I think I did105301:05:56.159 --> 01:05:56.559
rather well.105401:05:56.960 --> 01:05:59.800
Don't you Why are you doing all this?105501:06:00.000 --> 01:06:00.639
Why are you act?105601:06:01.400 --> 01:06:03.119
There's no reason why I shouldn't tell you.105701:06:03.760 --> 01:06:07.920
If anyone truly understands the nature of fear is able105801:06:08.079 --> 01:06:11.920
accurately to forecast the actions and reactions of an individual,105901:06:12.360 --> 01:06:14.239
then he can use fear as a weapon.106001:06:14.880 --> 01:06:17.039
Society will react as the individual reactions.106101:06:17.079 --> 01:06:22.280
You see, Society doesn't want to believe that anything can menace.106201:06:22.360 --> 01:06:26.480
It doesn't want to take action to protect itself any106301:06:26.599 --> 01:06:29.480
more than the individual does. This was something that Hitler106401:06:29.519 --> 01:06:38.199
and Mussolini understood intuitively. I understand it scientifically. They failed,106501:06:39.199 --> 01:06:43.960
but I shall succeed. I'm afraid That's all I have106601:06:44.159 --> 01:06:46.960
time for as far as you two are concerned. The106701:06:47.119 --> 01:06:52.639
experiment is finished, completely finished. I have a few arrangements106801:06:52.679 --> 01:06:57.800
to take care of, and then well make the best106901:06:57.840 --> 01:07:00.599
of these last few minutes before.107001:07:00.400 --> 01:07:01.760
They will be your last.107101:07:10.320 --> 01:07:13.159
Joe, do you hear anything?107201:07:14.760 --> 01:07:15.480
Is he coming back?107301:07:17.360 --> 01:07:17.800
Not yet.107401:07:19.599 --> 01:07:23.239
He's going to kill us, isn't he just the way107501:07:23.320 --> 01:07:25.679
he killed LIZERI.107601:07:26.920 --> 01:07:27.960
He's going to try to.107701:07:30.519 --> 01:07:31.679
Why are you sitting there.107801:07:31.679 --> 01:07:33.400
Like that looking at me?107901:07:34.559 --> 01:07:34.920
M hmm.108001:07:38.400 --> 01:07:40.800
I guess because it's the first chance I've had to108101:07:40.880 --> 01:07:41.320
look at you.108201:07:42.320 --> 01:07:43.079
How do you mean.108301:07:45.840 --> 01:07:47.920
When he first put you in here, it was all dark.108401:07:49.400 --> 01:07:50.719
So many things happened after that.108501:07:53.239 --> 01:07:57.119
It's funny there are things that you can tell about108601:07:57.119 --> 01:08:00.840
a person even in the dark. I kind of thought108701:08:00.840 --> 01:08:03.480
you were a little and I knew you were awful,108801:08:03.559 --> 01:08:07.239
nice and had a lot of nerve, but I didn't108901:08:07.239 --> 01:08:08.199
think it'd be so pretty.109001:08:09.400 --> 01:08:13.679
I'm not so pretty, Joe. I'm not very brave either.109101:08:15.840 --> 01:08:20.560
I'm scared. I'm awful scared, So I don't want to die.109201:08:21.920 --> 01:08:24.760
Don't worry about it, baby, don't think.109301:08:24.600 --> 01:08:31.520
About it, just sitting here like this, waiting and there's109401:08:31.600 --> 01:08:35.479
nothing we can do. Every time we did try to109501:08:35.600 --> 01:08:39.640
do something with something he knew about was expecting us109601:08:39.680 --> 01:08:46.239
to do. Please Joe, something happened to you. You were109701:08:46.319 --> 01:08:49.159
scared before too, but now I.109801:08:49.279 --> 01:08:49.960
Was not knowing.109901:08:50.079 --> 01:08:53.479
It was scary, not knowing what was going to happen110001:08:53.600 --> 01:08:56.600
or why, or what you could do about it. But110101:08:56.760 --> 01:09:00.319
once you do no, once you make up your mine,110201:09:00.359 --> 01:09:04.000
and then you've got to forget about it, forget.110301:09:03.760 --> 01:09:06.479
About everything, make up your mind about what.110401:09:09.359 --> 01:09:12.159
This is going to sound kind of funny, especially now,110501:09:12.279 --> 01:09:18.640
But well, do you have anyone special fellow?110601:09:18.680 --> 01:09:20.560
I mean, why?110701:09:22.079 --> 01:09:24.640
Oh, I know that's good.110801:09:26.199 --> 01:09:29.800
I mean, gee, it's a shame we never met before.110901:09:29.960 --> 01:09:32.960
If we had, we wouldn't be here now. I mean,111001:09:33.039 --> 01:09:36.880
we probably would have been out together someplace. And what111101:09:37.079 --> 01:09:37.960
time do you get through work?111201:09:38.039 --> 01:09:39.880
Usually about six?111301:09:40.920 --> 01:09:42.399
The store closes at five thirty?111401:09:42.720 --> 01:09:45.239
Me too, I could have picked you up at about six.111501:09:47.640 --> 01:09:48.600
I hear something.111601:09:50.279 --> 01:09:56.640
He's coming, Yeah, okay, get up.111701:09:58.800 --> 01:10:00.800
Over in the corner of the road, said that he'll111801:10:00.840 --> 01:10:02.560
see you as soon as he opens the door.111901:10:03.279 --> 01:10:06.960
What about you, I'll be waiting over here behind the door.112001:10:07.119 --> 01:10:11.039
You're not going I know I haven't got much.112101:10:10.880 --> 01:10:15.680
Of a chance, but I'll wish me luck. It'll be quick.112201:10:16.079 --> 01:10:20.880
Oh no, Joe, please, all right, my young friends. Time,112301:10:21.960 --> 01:10:26.600
all my arrangements have been completed, and I'm where's what's right?112401:10:30.880 --> 01:10:31.319
It's okay.112501:10:31.399 --> 01:10:34.279
Maybe I didn't get me the barrel of the guner112601:10:35.279 --> 01:10:40.760
good lord got him in the chest. You couldn't have112701:10:41.039 --> 01:10:45.079
done You couldn't outside, buddy, So you can find another phone,112801:10:45.119 --> 01:10:48.039
call a police again, this time telling to bring an ambion.112901:10:48.119 --> 01:10:51.760
But you couldn't have done it. It was all plotted,113001:10:52.600 --> 01:10:56.520
grafted and worked out in the tail. I knew just113101:10:56.680 --> 01:10:59.960
what you were going to do, how you would really113201:11:01.239 --> 01:11:03.479
by this time, you were to be in a state113301:11:03.560 --> 01:11:09.039
of complete frustration, resigned, ready to die.113401:11:10.560 --> 01:11:11.479
Why did you do it?113501:11:12.680 --> 01:11:12.880
Why?113601:11:13.039 --> 01:11:13.399
I don't know.113701:11:14.319 --> 01:11:14.880
I just take it.113801:11:15.279 --> 01:11:19.600
I've got to know. You got to tell me. Was113901:11:19.680 --> 01:11:26.239
it because of the girl? Out of the desperation, because114001:11:26.319 --> 01:11:29.359
you knew you were going to die?114101:11:29.479 --> 01:11:29.920
Anyway?114201:11:30.079 --> 01:11:33.399
I tell you, I don't know. I just know that,114301:11:35.359 --> 01:11:52.560
like I'll take just so much pushing around, pushing.114401:11:52.319 --> 01:11:55.840
Around, Yeah, that sounds to me as if one of114501:11:55.920 --> 01:11:58.079
our characters is going to get a lot of pushing114601:11:58.159 --> 01:12:01.079
around at the end of a pitchfork and in a114701:12:01.239 --> 01:12:02.479
very warm climate.114801:12:03.800 --> 01:12:05.520
It's good Old Helming's finished.114901:12:06.359 --> 01:12:08.039
He's got to be if we're to have at least115001:12:08.079 --> 01:12:10.720
two copses the inner Sanctum minimum.115101:12:11.840 --> 01:12:14.960
Oh you think that's a little laboratory, not at all.115201:12:15.800 --> 01:12:18.039
We've got to have at least two copses to play115301:12:18.079 --> 01:12:23.760
our theme song when a body meets a body theme song.115401:12:23.920 --> 01:12:26.199
I didn't know we had one, Oh Mary, We've got115501:12:26.279 --> 01:12:29.279
lots of them. Didn't you ever hear our skeleton song?115601:12:29.960 --> 01:12:32.880
I ain't got nobody.115701:12:33.199 --> 01:12:36.520
Mister host. Let's be serious for a moment, because I115801:12:36.680 --> 01:12:38.920
want to talk about one of the most serious things.115901:12:38.760 --> 01:12:40.119
In life, our health.116001:12:41.279 --> 01:12:44.640
For instance, the war may eventually lead to an increase116101:12:44.760 --> 01:12:48.119
in tuberculosis. And that's why the makers of Lipton Tea116201:12:48.199 --> 01:12:50.800
and Lypton Soup have asked me to remind you of116301:12:50.880 --> 01:12:55.079
the annual sale of Christmas Seals. Funds raised by this116401:12:55.279 --> 01:13:00.399
sale support to perculosis control programs, X rays, health, edge education,116501:13:00.880 --> 01:13:04.840
and medical research. Remember, over a half million people in116601:13:04.920 --> 01:13:08.600
the United States and Canada suffer from this disease, so116701:13:09.000 --> 01:13:12.119
buy as many Christmas seals as you can. No one116801:13:12.279 --> 01:13:16.720
is safe from tuberculosis until everyone is safe, and Christmas116901:13:16.800 --> 01:13:18.800
seals can save lives.117001:13:26.079 --> 01:13:29.920
And our friends. Here's a word of wholesome advice. If117101:13:29.960 --> 01:13:33.439
you've had any murderous thoughts lately, give them. Our picture117201:13:33.920 --> 01:13:36.960
just doesn't pay well. I know a lady who killed117301:13:36.960 --> 01:13:39.720
off her husband and you know it just ruined her117401:13:39.840 --> 01:13:43.640
marriage as he grew very cold with.117501:13:45.680 --> 01:13:45.840
Oh.117601:13:45.920 --> 01:13:48.279
By the way, this month's In a Sanctum Mister novel117701:13:48.399 --> 01:13:50.760
is The Fearful Passage by H. C.117801:13:50.960 --> 01:13:51.439
Branson.117901:13:52.399 --> 01:13:55.000
Yes, the next week's in a Sanctum story directed by118001:13:55.159 --> 01:13:58.279
Hyman Brown and brought to you by Lipton Tea and118101:13:58.359 --> 01:14:03.319
Lipton Soup. Next week's story is about a vampire. He's118201:14:03.359 --> 01:14:06.520
a very stingy fellow. That's when you go out with him,118301:14:06.560 --> 01:14:11.159
the drinks are always on you. That's really we're going118401:14:11.239 --> 01:14:12.439
to try to make him feel at home.118501:14:12.560 --> 01:14:12.760
Yeah.118601:14:12.880 --> 01:14:16.119
So I just ordered a good supply of bats with118701:14:16.319 --> 01:14:20.039
green eyes, a coffin for him to sleep in, and118801:14:20.199 --> 01:14:21.359
I would mistake.118901:14:21.039 --> 01:14:22.119
The drive to his heart.119001:14:23.039 --> 01:14:25.840
I wouldn't stake my life on his friends, but he119101:14:26.079 --> 01:14:28.239
may visit you before next Tuesday.119201:14:30.800 --> 01:14:35.439
Until then, good, I pleasant dream.119301:14:50.000 --> 01:14:55.039
Well, the fire does seem to be picking up the119401:14:55.119 --> 01:15:02.840
flame certainly have their hunger going strong as the room119501:15:03.000 --> 01:15:10.319
begins to irradiate. Well, I suppose there's only so much119601:15:10.479 --> 01:15:16.840
one fireplace and a few old candles can provide. But119701:15:17.000 --> 01:15:23.600
don't you worry. We fill the room with fellowship and stories,119801:15:23.880 --> 01:15:29.720
the things that make humans and those like humans so special.119901:15:30.000 --> 01:15:33.600
But it's no match for one dark night.120001:15:35.079 --> 01:15:55.199
The whistler. I am the whistler, and I know many things.120101:15:55.600 --> 01:15:56.439
Or I walk by me.120201:15:57.399 --> 01:16:00.920
I know many strange heads, the hearts of men and120301:16:00.960 --> 01:16:02.640
women who were stepped into the shadows.120401:16:03.359 --> 01:16:07.199
Okay, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare120501:16:07.319 --> 01:16:07.920
not speak.120601:16:09.840 --> 01:16:13.600
And now the whistlers strange stories. One dark night.120701:16:22.960 --> 01:16:25.039
Though it was only eight o'clock in the evening, it120801:16:25.159 --> 01:16:28.159
was quite dark and the houses along the tree lined120901:16:28.199 --> 01:16:31.840
suburban street were quiet. In one house, a light could121001:16:31.840 --> 01:16:34.279
be seen burning brightly through the front windows of the121101:16:34.359 --> 01:16:38.560
house on the corner, its illuminating rays reaching out across121201:16:38.720 --> 01:16:42.279
the front lawn to form fingerlike shafts of light and shadows.121301:16:43.239 --> 01:16:47.760
And inside, Frank Jason paced the living room floor, moving121401:16:47.840 --> 01:16:51.319
with the nervous stepths and motions of a sensitive animal121501:16:51.439 --> 01:16:52.520
contemplating danger.121601:16:53.720 --> 01:16:56.520
Frank Jason stopped dispacing on occasions.121701:16:56.720 --> 01:16:59.800
Fare down at a large dark stain in the center121801:16:59.800 --> 01:17:06.000
of the living room, cracking Dan talk for a long moment,121901:17:06.319 --> 01:17:09.760
your mind racing. Then you hurried at the front door.122001:17:13.920 --> 01:17:16.640
Hello, Frank, not disturbing you, am I?122101:17:18.239 --> 01:17:18.960
No dolls?122201:17:18.960 --> 01:17:23.960
Of course coming, you've seen nervous.122301:17:24.600 --> 01:17:26.760
I'm not worried about the next door neighbor dropping in?122401:17:26.880 --> 01:17:27.039
Are you?122501:17:28.079 --> 01:17:29.720
I saw your light on. I thought i'd drop in.122601:17:30.159 --> 01:17:31.760
You're ever loving wife and I had a date to122701:17:31.800 --> 01:17:32.720
go shopping in the morning.122801:17:32.800 --> 01:17:34.920
The glad you stop, my dolls. I was about to122901:17:34.960 --> 01:17:35.279
phone you?123001:17:35.960 --> 01:17:38.079
Oh thank what's the matter?123101:17:38.840 --> 01:17:39.439
Something wrong?123201:17:40.319 --> 01:17:43.000
It's about Cora. Do you have any idea where she123301:17:43.039 --> 01:17:43.279
could be?123401:17:44.000 --> 01:17:44.680
It's not home.123501:17:44.960 --> 01:17:47.359
No, I haven't seen her since this morning when I123601:17:47.439 --> 01:17:48.119
left for the office.123701:17:48.640 --> 01:17:50.840
It happens, that's strange.123801:17:51.680 --> 01:17:53.199
What do you suppose did you see your today?123901:17:54.079 --> 01:17:57.359
On ten this morning coffee? That's when we planned to124001:17:57.359 --> 01:17:59.359
go shopping tomorrow. I came by to tell her I124101:17:59.359 --> 01:17:59.920
couldn't make it.124201:18:00.039 --> 01:18:03.079
I'm worried. Does worried sick? A call everywhere?124301:18:03.199 --> 01:18:06.199
Wait? Could she have gone to see her sister.124401:18:06.479 --> 01:18:08.840
I thought of the first thing. She does. That often124501:18:09.000 --> 01:18:11.119
takes off without telling me, but she usually calls me124601:18:11.199 --> 01:18:13.079
when she gets there, and she hasn't.124701:18:13.479 --> 01:18:15.479
No, would you call her sister's place?124801:18:15.600 --> 01:18:18.039
Yes, no answer, but he'd.124901:18:17.880 --> 01:18:20.479
Probably gone out. She could have tried to reach you125001:18:20.560 --> 01:18:21.279
and you weren't here.125101:18:21.479 --> 01:18:23.119
I haven't left the house since I got back from125201:18:23.119 --> 01:18:23.560
the office.125301:18:23.800 --> 01:18:27.199
Oh, I'm sure Colora is all right. She just forgot125401:18:27.239 --> 01:18:28.560
the call, you know how she is.125501:18:28.880 --> 01:18:30.439
Yeah, that could be.125601:18:30.680 --> 01:18:32.560
I suppose I'll be up for a while. Let me125701:18:32.600 --> 01:18:36.840
know if you hear from her. Yeah, sure, and don't worry.125801:18:37.359 --> 01:18:38.920
I'm sure Coraa is all.125901:18:38.880 --> 01:18:42.119
Right the night cry nice.126001:18:52.159 --> 01:19:19.760
Hello operator, give me the police department. If famous to Jason,126101:19:19.800 --> 01:19:21.840
you last saw your wife this morning when you left126201:19:21.840 --> 01:19:25.159
to the office. Yes, that's right, Lieutenant. She didn't mention126301:19:25.239 --> 01:19:28.279
her plans for the day or the evening. No, what126401:19:28.399 --> 01:19:31.279
time did you get back from the office? Around three126501:19:31.399 --> 01:19:34.560
thirty or so, a bit earlier than usual? Oh? Any126601:19:34.640 --> 01:19:37.840
reason for that, mister Jason. Well, yes, I thought it'd126701:19:37.880 --> 01:19:39.239
be nice if Karl and I drove out to the126801:19:39.279 --> 01:19:41.880
beach House for the weekend. The beach House, we have126901:19:41.960 --> 01:19:44.279
a little place at Shelton's Cove. Use it for summer127001:19:44.319 --> 01:19:47.880
vacation weekend. Yeah, I see. So you got here on127101:19:48.159 --> 01:19:54.880
three thirty and there was no note message of any time. No, well,127201:19:55.000 --> 01:19:57.119
still early only age thirty. You'll probably hear from her127301:19:57.399 --> 01:19:59.359
if not like her, Lieutenant, not like her at all.127401:19:59.520 --> 01:20:01.960
She's left without telling you where she's going before. Yes,127501:20:02.039 --> 01:20:05.199
but she usually calls later. This time she hasn't called.127601:20:05.239 --> 01:20:07.199
I waited until seven thirty and then told her sister127701:20:07.279 --> 01:20:09.479
in Santa Barbara. There was no answer. I finally got127801:20:09.520 --> 01:20:11.720
through to her just before you got here, Lieutenant, and127901:20:12.159 --> 01:20:14.760
Colora hadn't been there, and her sister hadn't heard from her.128001:20:15.079 --> 01:20:16.560
Something happened to her, something dreadful.128101:20:16.600 --> 01:20:16.840
I know it.128201:20:16.920 --> 01:20:19.199
I take it easy, missage Jason. There's no need to128301:20:19.279 --> 01:20:20.279
get excited.128401:20:20.039 --> 01:20:21.000
No need here.128501:20:21.239 --> 01:20:26.079
Let me show you something, Lieutenant. Over here. Well, that128601:20:26.199 --> 01:20:30.319
small scatter rug on the carpet, lift it up? Okay,128701:20:33.239 --> 01:20:35.960
Oh what's it? That stain wasn't there this morning, Lieutenant.128801:20:36.399 --> 01:20:38.399
Now there was a scatter rug. Somebody put it there128901:20:38.399 --> 01:20:39.439
to hide the stain in the carpet.129001:20:40.159 --> 01:20:40.359
Mm.129101:20:42.600 --> 01:20:44.399
Well, then I happened to notice.129201:20:44.239 --> 01:20:46.760
It shortly before I called you. The rug doesn't belong here.129301:20:46.800 --> 01:20:48.840
We usually have it in front of the fireplace. I129401:20:49.000 --> 01:20:51.159
was curious when I would to pick it up, and129501:20:52.439 --> 01:20:57.680
well that's when I saw the stain. Uh huh, could129601:20:58.880 --> 01:21:04.479
could it be blood? Yeah, it could be, mister Jason.129701:21:05.319 --> 01:21:05.960
We'll check it.129801:21:06.960 --> 01:21:17.479
A kaleidoscope of thoughts and reactions go crick crossing through129901:21:17.520 --> 01:21:17.960
your mind.130001:21:18.039 --> 01:21:18.880
Now, don't they bring?130101:21:19.359 --> 01:21:21.239
As you wait with the Lieutenant for his men from130201:21:21.279 --> 01:21:25.439
the police lab to arrive, go about their intricate methodical130301:21:25.560 --> 01:21:28.920
check works. You watch them for a while and then130401:21:29.039 --> 01:21:31.920
wander out of the kitchen, discover that your hand is130501:21:32.079 --> 01:21:35.720
trembling as you light a cigarette. You're not thinking of130601:21:35.800 --> 01:21:37.520
the man in the living room, are you, Franks?130701:21:38.520 --> 01:21:39.399
Not at this moment.130801:21:39.960 --> 01:21:42.079
As you stare out the window in the darkness of130901:21:42.159 --> 01:21:45.399
the garden and back, and then your thoughts are interrupted131001:21:45.479 --> 01:21:49.760
by the appearance of the Lieutenant at your size, mister Jason, Yes,131101:21:50.279 --> 01:21:53.039
I have the report. Is it?131201:21:53.359 --> 01:22:00.880
Yeah? Blood? I was afraid of that, this description of131301:22:00.920 --> 01:22:03.880
your wife, mister Jason, dark.131401:22:03.760 --> 01:22:05.680
Hair, thirty eight years old, five.131501:22:05.560 --> 01:22:08.840
Feet four, weighed approximately one hundred and eighteen pounds. Yes,131601:22:10.680 --> 01:22:12.920
like that. You come down a headquartered with me down131701:22:12.960 --> 01:22:17.479
to the morgue, the morgue, the body of women answering.131801:22:17.520 --> 01:22:21.560
This general description was found in the bay several hours ago.131901:22:22.600 --> 01:22:25.920
You mean you think it might be? Yeah, and then132001:22:25.960 --> 01:22:30.760
again it might not be, mister Jason. You'll feel up132101:22:30.800 --> 01:22:51.720
to it. Yes, yes, of course, here we go, mister Jason,132201:22:52.479 --> 01:22:56.479
Lieutenant just a moment, if you don't mind, Oh here,132301:22:56.520 --> 01:22:57.319
what you like to sit out?132401:22:58.439 --> 01:22:59.000
I'll be all right.132501:23:00.279 --> 01:23:02.920
It's just like I know, I know, take it easy,132601:23:07.159 --> 01:23:20.880
all right, I guess I'm ready. Let's get it over with. Well,132701:23:20.960 --> 01:23:30.640
mister Jason. No, that's not Cora, Thank heavens, it's not Cora.132801:23:36.960 --> 01:23:37.760
Well, mister Jason.132901:23:38.239 --> 01:23:42.520
Let's get a cup of coffee. Thanks, Lieutennan, I could133001:23:42.600 --> 01:23:43.000
use one.133101:23:49.000 --> 01:23:51.479
It all feels unreal. Who you doesn't miss, Franks.133201:23:51.840 --> 01:23:55.239
Your conversation with a police lieutenant, his lab man working133301:23:55.279 --> 01:23:58.479
in your living room, the visit to the Moor. All133401:23:58.640 --> 01:24:01.479
things that you read about on the papers but never.133501:24:01.520 --> 01:24:03.640
Quite pictured, is happening to you.133601:24:04.840 --> 01:24:08.760
Yes, Frank, It's all like a dream, a haze of133701:24:09.039 --> 01:24:14.119
unfamiliar activity, of questions and answers and nervousness, and cigarettes133801:24:14.159 --> 01:24:18.039
and cups of coffee held in the shaking hands. And133901:24:18.159 --> 01:24:22.039
then Finally, with the lieutenant driving you home, your nerves134001:24:22.119 --> 01:24:26.159
begin to settle back into place. Reality returns all both134101:24:26.239 --> 01:24:29.319
simultaneously with the sound of the police car.134201:24:29.399 --> 01:24:33.720
Front tires touching the curb in front of your own home.134301:24:35.479 --> 01:24:42.159
Oh, thanks, lieutenant, you've been very kind at all. You'll134401:24:42.199 --> 01:24:44.680
let me know if you're hearing if I get a134501:24:44.720 --> 01:24:47.359
good night's rest, Yes, good night.134601:24:56.600 --> 01:25:02.279
Hello. Oh oh, Doris saw you leaving the police car134701:25:02.319 --> 01:25:02.800
a while ago.134801:25:03.600 --> 01:25:07.199
Yes, I called him about Cora. I'm afraid something has134901:25:07.239 --> 01:25:07.720
happened to her.135001:25:08.079 --> 01:25:12.960
Of course something's happened to her, Frank, What he's dead,135101:25:13.119 --> 01:25:15.880
isn't she? And only the two of us know where135201:25:15.960 --> 01:25:16.279
she is.135301:25:18.319 --> 01:25:19.159
I don't understand.135401:25:19.359 --> 01:25:21.560
She's in your back garden where you buried her two135501:25:21.640 --> 01:25:40.399
hours ago, right, darling, And now back.135601:25:40.279 --> 01:25:41.560
To the whistler.135701:25:54.000 --> 01:25:57.000
The feeling of a nightmare returns quickly, doesn't his friend?135801:25:57.439 --> 01:25:59.800
In the swift accusing word from Doris.135901:25:59.560 --> 01:26:03.680
Martin, next door neighbor, she saw you, didn't She saw136001:26:03.760 --> 01:26:06.199
you bury your wife Cora in the garden in back136101:26:06.279 --> 01:26:06.800
of your house.136201:26:07.640 --> 01:26:09.239
And now the dread secret has.136301:26:09.159 --> 01:26:13.479
To be shared with Yes, Frank, the momentary safety you136401:26:13.640 --> 01:26:15.840
sensed as you said good night to the police lieutenant136501:26:15.960 --> 01:26:21.199
is gone, wiped away even more shockingly because of the calm,136601:26:21.279 --> 01:26:25.800
assured serenity of the foftly, smiling, attractive young woman standing136701:26:25.840 --> 01:26:29.800
before you. You turn mechanically and moved towards the house,136801:26:30.800 --> 01:26:34.520
and Doris Martin turns too, shadow like and strangely a136901:26:34.600 --> 01:26:37.319
part of you now as she follows you inside.137001:26:41.039 --> 01:26:43.800
You see, Frank, I came over late this afternoon to137101:26:43.840 --> 01:26:47.079
talk with Karr about the shopping trip with plans. That137201:26:47.279 --> 01:26:50.720
door was opened. I walked into the kitchen. The two137301:26:50.760 --> 01:26:51.760
of you were too busy.137401:26:51.640 --> 01:26:56.039
Arguing to hear me, and then you heard everything.137501:26:56.600 --> 01:27:00.000
Yes, the money you were talking about, the old lady,137601:27:00.119 --> 01:27:03.119
thirty five thousand dollars. That was Missus Saraday, wasn't it.137701:27:03.760 --> 01:27:05.760
Yeah, it was Missus Faraday.137801:27:06.000 --> 01:27:09.079
Cora had been her secretary companion once you had been137901:27:09.119 --> 01:27:10.159
Missus Saraday's lawyer.138001:27:10.239 --> 01:27:11.880
That's how you met, all right, Doris.138101:27:12.439 --> 01:27:15.239
The old lady has passed the money somewhere in the house,138201:27:15.840 --> 01:27:17.880
and when she died, you and Kara took it. No138301:27:17.960 --> 01:27:20.439
one ever knew she told you.138401:27:21.479 --> 01:27:21.520
No.138501:27:21.840 --> 01:27:24.239
I thought of added things up after overhearing your conversation138601:27:24.359 --> 01:27:28.159
this afternoon. Cora was all set to skip out.138701:27:28.039 --> 01:27:29.399
With the money, wasn't she Yes?138801:27:30.119 --> 01:27:32.159
If I hadn't come home early, surprised her.138901:27:32.319 --> 01:27:35.399
You surprised me, Frank. I never saw you in such139001:27:35.399 --> 01:27:38.520
a rage. And then when you ticked up.139101:27:38.479 --> 01:27:40.199
The letter open does all right?139201:27:43.239 --> 01:27:43.960
You need a drink?139301:27:44.079 --> 01:27:44.119
No?139401:27:47.439 --> 01:27:48.640
What are you going to do, Doris?139501:27:49.319 --> 01:27:49.359
Do?139601:27:50.439 --> 01:27:54.199
Why? Nothing, Darling, nothing at all. I'll keep your little secret.139701:27:54.439 --> 01:27:59.079
When you does, of course, providing, providing I make it139801:27:59.119 --> 01:27:59.720
worth your while?139901:28:00.399 --> 01:28:00.720
Is that it?140001:28:02.399 --> 01:28:05.680
You won't find me greedy? Frank? I think we'll get140101:28:05.680 --> 01:28:10.680
alongside the two of us, Darling, Darling your life. It's140201:28:10.720 --> 01:28:12.000
only the doorbell. I'll get it.140301:28:12.239 --> 01:28:14.880
No, no, no, wait, you better get out the back way.140401:28:15.000 --> 01:28:18.640
But it's Late't wait, it might not look right.140501:28:18.680 --> 01:28:21.279
I don't be silly. Look, I'm your next door neighbor.140601:28:21.319 --> 01:28:23.640
I just heard about cars disappearance. I'm her best friend,140701:28:23.880 --> 01:28:27.000
sent right where you are. Friends, the most natural thing140801:28:27.039 --> 01:28:29.600
in the world for me to be right here worrying140901:28:29.800 --> 01:28:30.039
with you.141001:28:37.560 --> 01:28:42.159
Oh ho, hell eave me, oh shaye at now wait141101:28:42.199 --> 01:28:43.560
a minute, wait a minute, let me see let me141201:28:43.680 --> 01:28:49.119
see you at Doris? All right, right, that's right, Well,141301:28:49.319 --> 01:28:50.279
nice to see you, honey.141401:28:50.600 --> 01:28:53.800
The folks hup uh Frank is come in.141501:28:56.000 --> 01:29:01.119
Whoa Hi, thank you? How's a boy? Hello, Harry? Have141601:29:01.239 --> 01:29:05.159
you been Oh great, that's great. I thought you were141701:29:05.199 --> 01:29:05.640
out of town.141801:29:05.800 --> 01:29:07.560
Yeah, I just got in. I'm on my way to141901:29:07.600 --> 01:29:09.199
San Diego, so I lied on.142001:29:09.399 --> 01:29:13.479
Thought i'd stopped buying. See you kids place. Where's Corra? Yes, sleep,142101:29:13.600 --> 01:29:20.199
she's not here. Ah, Hey, hey found her?142201:29:20.279 --> 01:29:20.800
Something wrong?142301:29:21.760 --> 01:29:21.880
You know?142401:29:22.000 --> 01:29:27.159
Looks so good? Yes, something is wrong, Harry. Corra has disappeared. Disappeared, Cora.142501:29:27.399 --> 01:29:29.039
She wasn't home when I got back from the office.142601:29:29.199 --> 01:29:30.920
I called everywhere. No one has seen her.142701:29:31.680 --> 01:29:31.880
Hey.142801:29:32.520 --> 01:29:35.039
Maybe she's better than an accident. Hey, you check the hospitals.142901:29:35.079 --> 01:29:35.960
Police are taking care of it.143001:29:36.039 --> 01:29:36.279
Harry.143101:29:39.520 --> 01:29:43.520
Uh, look, Frank, you and Cora.143201:29:43.840 --> 01:29:46.800
Yes, well, I mean glad you didn't have a quarrel,143301:29:46.960 --> 01:29:47.239
did you.143401:29:47.920 --> 01:29:49.239
No, of course not had.143501:29:49.479 --> 01:29:51.199
She might have gone up to Santa Fire. But it's143601:29:51.439 --> 01:29:55.479
all she's not there, and you you don't have well,143701:29:55.520 --> 01:29:56.720
you don't have any idea where.143801:29:56.600 --> 01:30:00.039
She might have been. I don't like this, Frank, I143901:30:00.079 --> 01:30:00.800
don't like it at all.144001:30:00.920 --> 01:30:02.640
Sit down, Harry. I was about to six a drink144101:30:02.680 --> 01:30:03.079
for Frank.144201:30:03.199 --> 01:30:05.479
No, no, don't trouble, Doris, no trouble.144301:30:05.600 --> 01:30:07.640
How about you, Harry do Yeah, yeah, I.144401:30:07.680 --> 01:30:08.359
Could go over it.144501:30:08.439 --> 01:30:11.800
Drinks playing water Plaine water it is. Yeah.144601:30:12.920 --> 01:30:14.439
I don't know what to make of this. Fine for144701:30:14.560 --> 01:30:17.880
you like Cora to take off like that, not to144801:30:18.000 --> 01:30:20.600
let you know where she is. I don't mind telling you, Harry,144901:30:20.640 --> 01:30:22.720
I'm worried. I'm worried, sick an issue.145001:30:22.880 --> 01:30:25.399
Sure, I know how you feel, and I wish there145101:30:25.479 --> 01:30:26.159
was something I could do.145201:30:26.960 --> 01:30:27.640
What can we do?145301:30:29.000 --> 01:30:30.359
Nothing, nothing, I guess.145401:30:30.680 --> 01:30:34.119
Just sit and wait, that's all. Just sit and wait.145501:30:40.880 --> 01:30:43.760
Harry's sudden appearance at the house is something to wonder145601:30:43.880 --> 01:30:47.680
and worry about, isn't it, Frank. Yes, you haven't seen145701:30:47.840 --> 01:30:50.720
or heard from him in weeks, and yet tonight of145801:30:50.800 --> 01:30:54.479
all night, here he is sitting in the easy chair145901:30:54.560 --> 01:30:59.119
across from you, eyeing you curiously. I'm not saying much now,146001:31:00.039 --> 01:31:03.840
iping his drink slowly, the strange expression on his face,146101:31:04.560 --> 01:31:07.119
and your fears mounts, and your mind becomes more and146201:31:07.239 --> 01:31:12.279
more uneasy and restless as the minutes go by. Finally,146301:31:12.640 --> 01:31:15.520
Harry places the empty glass down on the end table.146401:31:15.680 --> 01:31:18.720
Well, I think I'll shove off. Don't let me know146501:31:18.720 --> 01:31:19.920
if you heard anything from Corra Her.146601:31:20.399 --> 01:31:24.079
I'll be staying at you're my hotel, then then you're146701:31:24.119 --> 01:31:25.159
not going on to Sandiego.146801:31:25.399 --> 01:31:26.479
No, no, it can wait.146901:31:26.880 --> 01:31:27.800
I'll just stick around.147001:31:28.439 --> 01:31:31.319
Well, thanks for the drink, night Harry, Night, Frank.147101:31:31.720 --> 01:31:33.800
I'll be seeing him nice, Harry.147201:31:36.760 --> 01:31:38.800
Now you can relax now, Darling, he's gone.147301:31:39.079 --> 01:31:39.640
No thanks to you.147401:31:40.439 --> 01:31:43.520
Why did you have to carriage him to stay? I147501:31:43.720 --> 01:31:45.640
just wanted to find out what was on his mind.147601:31:46.720 --> 01:31:48.520
You know, your dear brother in law is a big147701:31:48.840 --> 01:31:53.520
fat liar. What he said he got into town a147801:31:53.560 --> 01:31:54.720
couple of hours ago, didn't he?147901:31:55.239 --> 01:31:55.399
Yes?148001:31:56.119 --> 01:31:59.000
Really if I did the student though, he was here148101:31:59.039 --> 01:32:02.199
in this house last night with Cora while you were148201:32:02.239 --> 01:32:07.239
out rolling here last night. That's right. I saw him148301:32:07.319 --> 01:32:11.680
leaving around ten. Now why do you suppose he lied, Frank?148401:32:12.800 --> 01:32:13.399
I don't know.148501:32:14.479 --> 01:32:18.000
I can make a guess. Coral was always very fond148601:32:18.039 --> 01:32:22.079
of her little brother Harry, wasn't she? Yes, So he148701:32:22.199 --> 01:32:24.239
dropped in last night mentioned he was on his way148801:32:24.279 --> 01:32:28.920
to San Diego. This gives caraa an idea. She'll take148901:32:29.000 --> 01:32:32.720
the money, drives south with Harry. Maybe he takes her149001:32:32.760 --> 01:32:36.079
to the border for services rendered. She cuts him in149101:32:36.199 --> 01:32:37.399
on the thirty five thousand.149201:32:39.079 --> 01:32:41.359
Well, what do you think I think that's a very149301:32:41.399 --> 01:32:42.920
good guest. Stars a very good guest.149401:32:42.960 --> 01:32:46.279
She's probably arranged to meet somewhere this afternoon. Corara didn't show,149501:32:46.319 --> 01:32:48.239
so little Harry trots over here tonight to find out149601:32:48.279 --> 01:32:51.039
what's pulling things up. Of course she knows about that money.149701:32:51.079 --> 01:32:53.640
I'm sure of it. Now he's gonna stick around. He149801:32:53.760 --> 01:32:58.960
means trouble, Frank, real tub. I think we'd better keep149901:32:59.000 --> 01:33:01.000
a close watch on him from now on.150001:33:05.520 --> 01:33:08.239
They're very little fleet for you that night, is there, Frank?150101:33:08.640 --> 01:33:09.920
Your certain daughters is right?150201:33:10.840 --> 01:33:14.239
Harry and Cora working together running away, sharing the money.150301:33:15.199 --> 01:33:18.319
And now that Cora has disappeared, he must suspect that150401:33:18.479 --> 01:33:19.760
you had something to do with.150501:33:21.239 --> 01:33:24.399
The following morning, as you wander into the kitchen, you150601:33:24.560 --> 01:33:27.439
happen to glance out the window and see someone moving150701:33:27.520 --> 01:33:31.439
about in the back garden through the trees, someone near150801:33:31.600 --> 01:33:33.560
the daddy of bed.150901:33:41.079 --> 01:33:46.119
Hey morning, Frank, Oh Harry, you just got by to151001:33:46.119 --> 01:33:47.640
see if you'd had anything from Cora.151101:33:48.359 --> 01:33:49.960
No, not a word.151201:33:50.920 --> 01:33:52.920
Well, I saw your bedroom, cretons would go on. I151301:33:52.920 --> 01:33:56.159
didn't want to disturb you. You wouldn't live rough night.151401:33:56.279 --> 01:33:56.439
Huh.151501:33:57.359 --> 01:34:01.479
Well, get myself wondering about you know where she could151601:34:01.520 --> 01:34:03.119
have gone to and why.151701:34:04.640 --> 01:34:09.159
Oh cigarette, Frank, thanks no having that breakfast and you151801:34:09.199 --> 01:34:14.199
think I'll go back to the house you're coming? Uh yeah, Hey,151901:34:14.279 --> 01:34:17.199
you know you've picked up your garden. Nice, Frank, real nice.152001:34:17.960 --> 01:34:20.239
Well, I don't have too much time to work on152101:34:20.319 --> 01:34:23.359
it weekends mostly steady. You've done a nice job.152201:34:24.000 --> 01:34:27.840
I see you've changed the Daddy Begs ground and turned up.152301:34:29.640 --> 01:34:31.760
Yes, Cora's idea.152401:34:32.159 --> 01:34:33.720
She likes.152501:34:33.880 --> 01:34:42.920
Daniels say, say, isn't that your the phone? Yes, that152601:34:43.079 --> 01:34:45.439
might be the police. I hope there's some news.152701:34:51.119 --> 01:34:53.359
Hell'll get rid of him, Frank.152801:34:55.560 --> 01:34:58.600
Just a moment. Well, what is it, Frank, It's not152901:34:58.720 --> 01:35:00.920
the police. It's it's my office.153001:35:01.000 --> 01:35:02.319
I have to go in.153101:35:02.680 --> 01:35:05.800
Oh oh, well, now I'll be shoving off. Have some153201:35:05.920 --> 01:35:08.319
business to take care of downtown. I'll be back at153301:35:08.359 --> 01:35:09.520
the hotel around six to night.153401:35:09.560 --> 01:35:11.680
If you want to get in touch, all right, Harry,153501:35:11.760 --> 01:35:12.199
how long.153601:35:12.119 --> 01:35:21.479
I'll be seeing you, Doris, I'll be over.153701:35:22.119 --> 01:35:22.800
What did he want?153801:35:22.960 --> 01:35:24.119
I said, now, be over?153901:35:34.119 --> 01:35:36.159
I don't see why you get so excited.154001:35:36.239 --> 01:35:38.439
We're not discussing things over the poem. It's too risky.154101:35:38.840 --> 01:35:39.399
You hurt me.154201:35:40.680 --> 01:35:43.439
All right, So what did Harry want?154301:35:43.560 --> 01:35:46.000
He was asking about Cora. He noticed the flower bit154401:35:46.039 --> 01:35:47.239
I turned over. I think he suspects.154501:35:47.399 --> 01:35:48.720
Don't be ridiculous. How could he?154601:35:48.800 --> 01:35:50.039
I don't know, but he suspects.154701:35:50.079 --> 01:35:53.680
I tell you, I see, Well, what are we gonna do?154801:35:53.880 --> 01:35:55.239
I don't know, Doris, Sorry, I don't know.154901:35:56.199 --> 01:35:59.479
I think the beach cottage is a perfect place for it.155001:35:59.560 --> 01:36:02.399
Frank, the perfect place for what?155101:36:03.680 --> 01:36:08.680
For Harry's little accident. Don't you remember what happened out155201:36:08.680 --> 01:36:11.199
there less than a year ago? You mean the fire,155301:36:11.359 --> 01:36:15.479
the explosion, that's right, the old fashioned lamp, Frank hanging155401:36:15.560 --> 01:36:18.479
on a pulley from the ceiling. The explosion it caught.155501:36:19.600 --> 01:36:23.319
That was an accident, Only this time it'll be on purpose.155601:36:24.279 --> 01:36:25.640
How can we get Harry out there?155701:36:25.880 --> 01:36:28.800
I'll call him the hotel Knight. Tell him we that is.155801:36:28.840 --> 01:36:31.359
The neighbors are worried about you. We think you've gone155901:36:31.399 --> 01:36:34.119
out to the cottage. Carla's disappearance has grieved you. So156001:36:34.319 --> 01:36:36.600
we're a little afraid of what you might do. That156101:36:37.479 --> 01:36:38.399
someone should be with you.156201:36:38.680 --> 01:36:39.840
Yes, yes, I see.156301:36:39.920 --> 01:36:43.359
He gets out there, finds the cottage, dark lights, the lamp.156401:36:44.760 --> 01:36:46.399
I trouble with her over, Frank.156501:36:47.119 --> 01:36:52.439
Were the coming of night?156601:36:52.560 --> 01:36:56.640
You're strangely calm, aren't you, Frank, sharing Dora's confidence that156701:36:56.760 --> 01:36:57.640
the plan will work.156801:36:58.199 --> 01:36:59.800
Yes, because it must.156901:37:01.199 --> 01:37:03.520
You'll find that your car has a low tire, so157001:37:03.680 --> 01:37:06.680
you borrow Dorothy's car and drive out to the beach157101:37:06.800 --> 01:37:09.600
and park a short distance from the cottage. Go the157201:37:09.640 --> 01:37:12.800
rest of the way on foot. It doesn't take you157301:37:12.960 --> 01:37:15.800
long for what you have to do. Set the booby157401:37:15.880 --> 01:37:19.279
trap for Harry, and a few minutes later you put157501:37:19.359 --> 01:37:20.439
in the call to Dorith.157601:37:21.439 --> 01:37:24.840
Yes, Frank, I am. I talked to our friend at157701:37:24.880 --> 01:37:27.199
the hotel. He'll be leaving for the cottage in a157801:37:27.479 --> 01:37:28.119
quarter of an hour.157901:37:28.279 --> 01:37:33.479
Good, it's all set for him. I'm heading back to158001:37:33.560 --> 01:37:34.640
town now, Frank.158101:37:34.920 --> 01:37:37.600
Yes, after you get back and put my car away,158201:37:38.279 --> 01:37:38.920
will you call me?158301:37:39.479 --> 01:37:41.000
Sure, Dorith, I'll call.158401:37:46.960 --> 01:37:49.319
It's a few minutes past seven when you return to158501:37:49.399 --> 01:37:53.239
your house. Harry will be leaving his hotel shortly, and158601:37:53.359 --> 01:37:56.199
then the short drives of the cottage and it will158701:37:56.279 --> 01:37:57.199
be all over.158801:37:59.319 --> 01:38:02.399
Back home. You'll reach for the phone to call Doris.158901:38:02.600 --> 01:38:13.159
When evening mister Jason, oh lieutenant'll come in.159001:38:16.159 --> 01:38:16.399
Start.159101:38:16.439 --> 01:38:20.560
I dropped by the neighborhood all afternoon, checking shops stores.159201:38:20.640 --> 01:38:23.840
But then there's been no news of Kara. I haven't159301:38:23.880 --> 01:38:26.439
turned up a lead yet. However, I put in the159401:38:26.479 --> 01:38:29.000
call to headquarters a few minutes ago. It seems they159501:38:29.079 --> 01:38:31.720
got word from a service station attendant out of the beach.159601:38:32.239 --> 01:38:35.439
What thinks he saw a light at your beach cottage159701:38:35.439 --> 01:38:38.039
earlier to night. Could have been a reflection of a159801:38:38.159 --> 01:38:40.399
car passing on the road, though he's not sure. He159901:38:40.640 --> 01:38:43.079
must have been mistaken there. Still, if you let me160001:38:43.119 --> 01:38:44.399
have the key, I'd like to run out there and160101:38:44.479 --> 01:38:47.560
have a look. Now, yeah, I don't have a squad160201:38:47.640 --> 01:38:53.840
car picked me up. No, what well I mean I'll160301:38:54.119 --> 01:38:59.159
drive you out there, Lieutenant. Well, I really really, it's160401:38:59.199 --> 01:39:02.960
no trouble and i'd like to go please, okay, or160501:39:03.039 --> 01:39:05.920
call headquarters let him know where I'll be. I'll get160601:39:05.960 --> 01:39:07.079
my car out of the garage.160701:39:10.520 --> 01:39:13.119
You glance nervously at your watch as you start out160801:39:13.159 --> 01:39:15.600
of the house to the garage. You're reach in your160901:39:15.640 --> 01:39:18.520
pocket for your car keys, and then remember you left161001:39:18.600 --> 01:39:22.039
him in your car. You've got to stall a lieutenant off,161101:39:22.079 --> 01:39:25.880
don't you, Frank. Yes, Harry is probably just leaving his161201:39:26.000 --> 01:39:28.680
hotel now, and it wouldn't do if you and the161301:39:28.760 --> 01:39:30.840
lieutenant reached the cottage before he did.161401:39:31.560 --> 01:39:35.760
Delay Frank, five minutes or so, that's all you need.161501:39:36.920 --> 01:39:41.279
You reach your car, bend down and unscrew the tire161601:39:41.399 --> 01:39:42.399
valve on the low tire.161701:39:43.560 --> 01:39:46.880
A few minutes later, the lieutenant joins you you're wrong.161801:39:46.760 --> 01:39:51.520
With the Jason or straight shore flat toyre. Oh maybe161901:39:51.560 --> 01:39:53.600
I had better call a squad. No, no, no, don't162001:39:53.640 --> 01:39:55.920
bother won't take us five minutes to change the tire.162101:39:56.640 --> 01:39:59.520
Then we'll drive out to the cottage. Okay, I guess162201:39:59.520 --> 01:40:01.199
a few minutes. This one way or another won't make162301:40:01.279 --> 01:40:14.279
much difference. The whitler will return in just a moment162401:40:14.359 --> 01:40:18.560
with a strange ending to the night's story. And now162501:40:18.720 --> 01:40:19.520
back to the whistler.162601:40:25.319 --> 01:40:28.079
The time you need to change your flat tire is important,162701:40:28.159 --> 01:40:31.520
isn't it, Frank, Yes, because it will delay the police162801:40:31.520 --> 01:40:34.680
lieutenant from reaching the beach cottage before your brother in law,162901:40:34.760 --> 01:40:38.239
Harry Evans does, before the accident that will take his163001:40:38.359 --> 01:40:41.760
life and free you of Harry's threat. As you reach163101:40:41.840 --> 01:40:45.159
inside the car and take the keys from the admission switch,163201:40:45.680 --> 01:40:48.960
you hear your phone ring inside the house. You hand163301:40:49.000 --> 01:40:51.600
your car keys to the lieutenant and hurry up the163401:40:51.680 --> 01:40:54.720
driveway to answer your phone, but you reach the phone163501:40:54.800 --> 01:40:55.239
too late.163601:40:55.720 --> 01:40:56.840
The wire is dead.163701:40:57.399 --> 01:41:02.079
And a moment later, boris, why didn't you call me163801:41:02.199 --> 01:41:02.880
or into the phone?163901:41:03.079 --> 01:41:05.239
Lieutenant showed up. Look, Doris, he's talk at the car164001:41:05.359 --> 01:41:06.880
now wants me to go out to the cottage with him.164101:41:06.880 --> 01:41:09.199
I'm trying to stall him until I'm certain Harry gets there.164201:41:09.760 --> 01:41:13.880
He wants Frank Harry is dead. What he didn't fall164301:41:14.000 --> 01:41:16.640
for our little gag. Instead of going out to the cottage,164401:41:16.640 --> 01:41:21.479
he went straight to your backyard started digging, Dorish. I164501:41:21.560 --> 01:41:24.359
got behind him with a shovel. You were right, Frankie164601:41:24.399 --> 01:41:27.840
knew I found Kara's ear ring in his pocket. You164701:41:27.960 --> 01:41:29.479
must have found it near the flower bed this morning.164801:41:29.560 --> 01:41:30.880
Doris, where is he? What did you do?164901:41:31.000 --> 01:41:31.359
What else?165001:41:32.079 --> 01:41:34.159
We had to get him out of there. I dragged165101:41:34.239 --> 01:41:37.000
him into your garage. He's to your car in the ignition.165201:41:37.119 --> 01:41:38.640
So I put Harry in the drunk compartment.165301:41:38.760 --> 01:41:41.880
Trunk compartment. The spare tire is in there. The lieutenant165401:41:41.880 --> 01:41:45.600
will find the body. I have found the body mister Jason,165501:41:46.319 --> 01:41:50.960
and the two murderers too. By the chummy arrangement you165601:41:51.239 --> 01:41:52.239
two neighbors.165701:42:16.359 --> 01:42:17.199
Well, when.165801:42:18.640 --> 01:42:24.119
I suppose the room isn't quite as dark and ominous165901:42:24.920 --> 01:42:30.840
as it was before. But I suppose very little can166001:42:30.920 --> 01:42:38.119
bring a hominess to these thick concrete walls. Oh what's that?166101:42:38.680 --> 01:42:45.119
Oh no, no, no. A tomb would be far more ornate.166201:42:46.159 --> 01:42:51.680
I suppose do you ever sometimes look off into the darkness,166301:42:51.880 --> 01:42:56.000
look off into the into the nothingness, and for a166401:42:56.119 --> 01:43:04.119
brief moment you realize that while you're sitting here, thinking, imagining, dreaming.166501:43:05.720 --> 01:43:10.640
At the same time, The Whole Town's Sleeping.166601:43:16.560 --> 01:43:20.880
And now Tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills166701:43:21.960 --> 01:43:30.439
suspense Tonight the story of terror in the Streets. We166801:43:30.600 --> 01:43:34.239
call it The Whole Town Sleeping. So now, starring Miss166901:43:34.359 --> 01:43:38.239
Janet Nolan, here is tonight suspense play written by Ray Bradbury,167001:43:39.079 --> 01:43:40.680
The Whole Town Sleeping.167101:43:48.199 --> 01:43:50.720
It was a warm summer night in the middle of167201:43:50.920 --> 01:43:52.039
Illinois Country.167301:43:53.039 --> 01:43:57.359
The little town was deep, far away from everything, kept167401:43:57.399 --> 01:44:01.680
to itself by a river and a foreign and a ravine.167501:44:03.119 --> 01:44:03.640
In the town.167601:44:03.720 --> 01:44:08.520
The sidewalks were still scorched, the stores were closing, and167701:44:08.640 --> 01:44:13.359
the streets were turning dark. Screen doors wind their springs167801:44:13.479 --> 01:44:17.199
and banged, and there was the sound of grandmar Handland's167901:44:17.199 --> 01:44:23.079
swing hammock across the street on a solitary porch, Lavinia nets,168001:44:23.840 --> 01:44:28.000
aged thirty seven, very straight and slimm sat with a168101:44:28.119 --> 01:44:33.479
tinkling lemonade and her white fingers tapping it to her lips, waiting.168201:44:34.520 --> 01:44:35.640
Here. I am Leavinia.168301:44:35.920 --> 01:44:40.079
Lavinia turned. There was Francine at the bottom porch step.168401:44:40.239 --> 01:44:44.359
She was all and snow white and didn't look thirty five.168501:44:45.640 --> 01:44:47.960
I will be a minute, Francine. I'll just lock the door,168601:44:48.399 --> 01:44:51.640
all right. Oh I do like your dress, dear. Why168701:44:51.840 --> 01:44:52.159
thank you?168801:44:52.319 --> 01:44:52.520
Dear.168901:44:52.760 --> 01:44:55.239
You look so well in that color. I'm afraid I169001:44:55.279 --> 01:44:57.720
could never wear it. It makes me look sallow. No,169101:44:57.880 --> 01:45:00.960
it doesn't, I'm sure not. Of course, I've always loved169201:45:01.000 --> 01:45:06.239
you in white evening, ladies, Good evening, Missus Hanlon. Good evening.169301:45:06.840 --> 01:45:09.880
Worry you ladies going all dressed up so pretty to169401:45:10.000 --> 01:45:13.279
the Majestic theater, Missus Hanlon. Robert Mitcham's playing, and not169501:45:13.399 --> 01:45:15.680
as a stranger. You won't catch me out on a169601:45:15.760 --> 01:45:19.760
night like this, not with the lonely one strangling women.169701:45:20.279 --> 01:45:22.039
Lock myself in with my gun.169801:45:22.319 --> 01:45:23.359
That's what I'm going to do.169901:45:23.960 --> 01:45:25.439
I wouldn't worry, Missus Hanlon.170001:45:26.079 --> 01:45:27.640
What about Eliza Ramsell.170101:45:28.039 --> 01:45:29.359
You think he's not worrying.170201:45:30.199 --> 01:45:31.920
Lock myself in with my gun.170301:45:32.039 --> 01:45:33.279
That's what you lady should do.170401:45:36.640 --> 01:45:42.159
So silly, silly old woman, Lavinia. You you don't believe170501:45:42.199 --> 01:45:44.920
all that gossip about the lonely one, do you? A170601:45:45.000 --> 01:45:47.159
lot of silly old women who haven't got anything better170701:45:47.199 --> 01:45:50.239
to do than talk. Well, just the same. Hattie McDonald's170801:45:50.359 --> 01:45:53.600
was killed a month ago, and ROBERTA Ferry the month before,170901:45:54.520 --> 01:45:58.439
and now Eliza Ramsel disappearing. Eliza Ramsell walked off of171001:45:58.520 --> 01:46:02.359
the Traveling Man. I bet, but the others strangle a171101:46:02.680 --> 01:46:03.479
friends scene.171201:46:08.439 --> 01:46:10.760
They reached the edge of the ravine that cut the171301:46:10.920 --> 01:46:11.600
town in two.171401:46:12.720 --> 01:46:20.239
Stood there behind them were the lighted houses ahead, deepness, moisteness,171501:46:21.199 --> 01:46:27.800
fireflies and dark. The ravine had to be crossed to171601:46:27.880 --> 01:46:31.279
reach the movies, deep and black as a cut into171701:46:31.359 --> 01:46:34.840
the hills, Then a creaking bridge to cross over the stream,171801:46:35.720 --> 01:46:39.079
then one hundred and thirteen steps up the steep.171901:46:38.880 --> 01:46:42.920
And brambled bank to the other side. The ladies stood172001:46:42.960 --> 01:46:44.319
there looking down.172101:46:46.720 --> 01:46:49.279
It won't be me coming back to night, Lavinia. It'll172201:46:49.319 --> 01:46:52.960
be you. Oh, I'd never never walk there alone at night.172301:46:53.199 --> 01:46:56.439
Never bosh, you can say bosh, but it'll be you172401:46:56.600 --> 01:47:01.000
alone on the path not me, Ola. I do wish172501:47:01.039 --> 01:47:03.560
you didn't live on this side. Don't you get lonely172601:47:03.640 --> 01:47:06.760
living by yourself in that house all made love to172701:47:06.840 --> 01:47:10.760
live alone. Come on, we'll take the short cut. I'm afraid. Oh,172801:47:11.079 --> 01:47:13.880
come on, don't be so silly. I'll hold your hands.172901:47:15.960 --> 01:47:19.800
Lavinia, cool as meant ice cream, took the other woman's173001:47:19.920 --> 01:47:24.279
arm and led her down the dark, winding path into173101:47:24.439 --> 01:47:29.680
cricket warmth and frog sound and mosquito delicate silence.173201:47:30.119 --> 01:47:33.760
Oh, let's run VideA flea. No, why should we?173301:47:35.119 --> 01:47:38.239
If Lavinia hadn't turned her head just then, she wouldn't173401:47:38.239 --> 01:47:41.680
have seen it. But she did turn her head, and173501:47:41.840 --> 01:47:45.920
it was there, back among a clump of bushes, half hidden,173601:47:47.039 --> 01:47:48.159
but laid out, as if.173701:47:48.079 --> 01:47:51.359
She had put herself there to enjoy the soft stars.173801:47:52.640 --> 01:47:58.760
Lay Eliza Ramson, her face moonfreckled, her eyes like white marble.173901:48:00.000 --> 01:48:03.159
And then Francine saw it too, and the women stood174001:48:03.199 --> 01:48:05.880
on the path for a frozen second, not believing what174101:48:06.039 --> 01:48:19.840
they saw. Lavinia held Francine, and the policemen were all174201:48:19.880 --> 01:48:25.319
around in the ravine grass. Flashlights started about, voices mingled,174301:48:26.359 --> 01:48:28.520
and the night grew on toward eight thirty.174401:48:29.800 --> 01:48:32.760
You didn't move her, ladies, of course, no, oh no,174501:48:33.000 --> 01:48:33.880
we couldn't touch her.174601:48:33.960 --> 01:48:34.680
How could wing?174701:48:35.039 --> 01:48:38.479
And there was nobody. We didn't hear anything, sounds anything unusual?174801:48:39.439 --> 01:48:43.279
No nothing. It's the lonely one, isn't it.174901:48:43.920 --> 01:48:46.279
He did it, didn't He couldn't say, ma'am.175001:48:47.079 --> 01:48:51.000
We knew her, you know, she was a friend of ours.175101:48:52.199 --> 01:48:55.239
I'm sorry. Well, I'll have one of my men walk175201:48:55.279 --> 01:48:56.039
across the ravine.175301:48:56.199 --> 01:48:59.640
That won't be necessary, Thank you very much, will be175401:48:59.680 --> 01:49:05.359
all right, Come along, dear, And they.175501:49:05.359 --> 01:49:10.600
Crossed the ravine, each with her own thoughts fears, and175601:49:10.720 --> 01:49:14.840
the creek waters under the bridge whispered I'm the lonely one.175701:49:15.720 --> 01:49:22.039
I'm the lonely one. I kill people. Then they were175801:49:22.079 --> 01:49:25.439
at the top of the stairs and bathed in safe175901:49:25.560 --> 01:49:26.760
light from the street lamp.176001:49:28.479 --> 01:49:31.359
I've never seen a dead person before. It's only a176101:49:31.399 --> 01:49:34.079
little after eight thirty. We'll pick up Helen and get176201:49:34.119 --> 01:49:38.079
on to the show, the show, Olavinia. You don't mean it,176301:49:38.600 --> 01:49:41.520
of course I do. We've got to forget this. It's176401:49:41.560 --> 01:49:45.560
not good to remember. But Eliza's back there. We need176501:49:45.760 --> 01:49:50.000
to laugh. We've got to pretend that nothing happened. But176601:49:50.199 --> 01:49:53.680
she was our friend. We can't help her. There's no176701:49:53.880 --> 01:49:58.039
good brooding about it. I'm going to get it out176801:49:58.079 --> 01:50:01.039
of my mind, and you should too. Now, if we hurry,176901:50:01.079 --> 01:50:14.199
we won't miss too much. I thought you never come.177001:50:14.319 --> 01:50:17.520
You're an hour late. Well, we someone found Eliza Ramsell177101:50:17.640 --> 01:50:18.479
dead in the ravine.177201:50:19.640 --> 01:50:21.920
Oh, no, Eliza?177301:50:23.159 --> 01:50:28.000
Who fond her? We don't know how awful did you177401:50:28.079 --> 01:50:28.439
see her?177501:50:28.840 --> 01:50:29.399
Was it terror?177601:50:29.560 --> 01:50:30.800
Let's not talk about it.177701:50:31.079 --> 01:50:31.199
Oh?177801:50:31.239 --> 01:50:33.159
I really think I should lock myself in my house.177901:50:33.479 --> 01:50:34.760
I don't think we'd better go to night.178001:50:34.920 --> 01:50:37.039
Of course we will. It's the last showing to day.178101:50:37.680 --> 01:50:42.039
Besides the lonely one can't kill three ladies. They're safety178201:50:42.079 --> 01:50:45.520
in numbers. Anyway, it's too soon. The murders come a178301:50:45.600 --> 01:50:52.039
month separated. Come along, Helen, Well, I'll get a sweater.178401:50:52.479 --> 01:50:57.279
You wait for me. Why didn't you tell her about178501:50:57.399 --> 01:50:59.399
us finding Eliza? Why upset her?178601:51:00.119 --> 01:51:00.319
Time?178701:51:00.439 --> 01:51:03.600
Enough tomorrow? I told you tonight we've got to forget.178801:51:04.239 --> 01:51:06.479
We're going to the show and let's not talk about178901:51:06.520 --> 01:51:07.000
it anymore.179001:51:07.039 --> 01:51:07.760
And nuts the nut.179101:51:14.840 --> 01:51:18.520
The ladies walked down town and stopped at the drug store,179201:51:18.600 --> 01:51:20.520
which was a few doors from the theater.179301:51:21.279 --> 01:51:24.880
Aveny about a quarter's worth of green mint shoes and179401:51:24.960 --> 01:51:27.279
the Druggis dropped the mints into a sack with a179501:51:27.520 --> 01:51:28.319
silver shovel.179601:51:28.840 --> 01:51:31.560
You look mighty cool this noon, miss Levine. When you179701:51:31.760 --> 01:51:34.880
was in so cool and nice, someone asked after you.179801:51:35.239 --> 01:51:37.840
Oh yeah, man sitting in the country.179901:51:38.479 --> 01:51:40.359
He watched you walk out, and he says to me,180001:51:41.159 --> 01:51:45.840
who's that, Just like Batty said, why that's Slavinia Nebbs,180101:51:45.960 --> 01:51:46.960
prettiest maiden.180201:51:46.800 --> 01:51:47.439
Lady in town.180301:51:47.520 --> 01:51:52.520
I says beautiful, He says beautiful. Where she lived?180401:51:52.880 --> 01:51:53.319
You didn't?180501:51:53.600 --> 01:51:56.039
You didn't give him her address? I hope you didn't.180601:51:56.680 --> 01:52:00.800
Well, maybe I shouldn't have. I didn't give him exact address.180701:52:01.359 --> 01:52:02.960
I shed over on Park Street, you know.180801:52:03.039 --> 01:52:03.680
Near the ravine.180901:52:04.159 --> 01:52:06.319
Kind of casual. I'm sorry.181001:52:07.039 --> 01:52:07.880
What did he look like?181101:52:08.600 --> 01:52:13.039
Oh not much, guess wore a dark shoot tail, kind181201:52:13.079 --> 01:52:16.000
of thin, Probably nothing but a stranger passion through.181301:52:16.159 --> 01:52:18.920
I'm sorry, Miss Ralevignya. There's no charge for the peppermine.181401:52:19.000 --> 01:52:22.159
Don't be silly, mister Briggs. Well, I know what we're181501:52:22.239 --> 01:52:25.319
going to do right now. We're going straight home. That181601:52:25.600 --> 01:52:29.720
man asking after you your next Lavinia? You want to181701:52:29.760 --> 01:52:32.760
be dead in that ravine. It was just a man,181801:52:33.199 --> 01:52:35.159
that's all. It doesn't mean a thing.181901:52:35.439 --> 01:52:36.399
That's what I figure.182001:52:36.600 --> 01:52:39.600
Nothing to worry, nothing to worry about. I'm not going182101:52:39.680 --> 01:52:40.359
to miss the movie.182201:52:40.760 --> 01:52:41.960
You two can do what you want.182301:52:42.199 --> 01:52:44.359
I'm going well, I think we should all go home,182401:52:44.479 --> 01:52:46.520
so do I. She's right, Lavinya, No, she's not.182501:52:53.399 --> 01:52:55.039
They argued for five minutes.182601:52:55.119 --> 01:52:58.439
Then the three of them went to the theater, Francine182701:52:58.479 --> 01:53:04.880
and Helen reluctantly, Lavinia head high, self possessed cool. In182801:53:05.000 --> 01:53:08.880
the auditorium, they sat in the odor of ancient brass polish,182901:53:09.439 --> 01:53:13.079
waiting for the second show to begin, and the lights183001:53:13.079 --> 01:53:13.800
began to fade.183101:53:26.119 --> 01:53:29.319
Media as we came in, a man in the darks183201:53:29.359 --> 01:53:31.640
you followed us. He was thin. I think he had183301:53:31.680 --> 01:53:34.279
a pale face. He just came in and he's sitting183401:53:34.359 --> 01:53:34.960
behind us.183501:53:35.039 --> 01:53:38.520
What God, oh, Helen, what man man behind us?183601:53:38.880 --> 01:53:41.119
It's the one mister Brigston was in the trug store183701:53:41.279 --> 01:53:44.840
behind us. Now I'm calling the manager.183801:53:45.000 --> 01:53:45.399
It's him.183901:53:45.760 --> 01:53:47.640
Oh stop the movie, stop it.184001:53:47.920 --> 01:53:48.680
What are you lying?184101:53:49.399 --> 01:53:51.279
It's the Murder of the Lonely One.184201:53:51.439 --> 01:53:51.880
He's here.184301:53:52.520 --> 01:53:53.279
Put on the light.184401:53:53.720 --> 01:54:08.960
Lie the drugstore. Clock's at eleven twenty five. They'd come184501:54:09.039 --> 01:54:12.399
out of the theater feeling new, and now they were184601:54:12.560 --> 01:54:17.079
laughing at Francine, and Francine was laughing at herself.184701:54:17.479 --> 01:54:21.319
You see how silly it was, All that riot for nothing?184801:54:21.720 --> 01:54:24.079
You were running up the icecreaming lights on.184901:54:24.560 --> 01:54:25.640
We had thought I die.185001:54:25.720 --> 01:54:30.119
All that poor man the theater manager's brother from Racine.185101:54:31.399 --> 01:54:35.479
Oh crampy, well I did apology. Now you see what185201:54:35.640 --> 01:54:39.119
a panic can do. And all for nothing. We shouldn't185301:54:39.119 --> 01:54:42.039
have stopped for sodas though. Wasn't that a wonderful picture?185401:54:42.239 --> 01:54:43.600
Will you ever forget?185501:54:49.439 --> 01:54:52.840
The streets were clean and empty. Not a car, or185601:54:52.920 --> 01:54:55.079
a truck or a person was in sight.185701:54:55.960 --> 01:54:59.720
The ladies walked under a flickering neon sign, buzzing like185801:54:59.800 --> 01:55:03.760
a dying insect, the sounds of the heel shot on185901:55:03.880 --> 01:55:04.760
the big pavement.186001:55:05.680 --> 01:55:08.520
First, we'll walk you home, frency. Oh no, i'll walk186101:55:08.600 --> 01:55:11.199
you home. If you walk me home, you'd have to186201:55:11.279 --> 01:55:13.159
come back across the ravine alone.186301:55:13.680 --> 01:55:14.279
I know you.186401:55:14.520 --> 01:55:16.439
If a leaf even fell on you, you dropped in.186501:55:17.159 --> 01:55:17.359
Well.186601:55:17.399 --> 01:55:19.720
I I could stay the night at your house. No,186701:55:20.000 --> 01:55:34.640
it's all settled. First, I'll take you home, and then Helen, Lavinia,186801:55:35.000 --> 01:55:37.640
Helen stay here with me tonight. It's late.186901:55:37.840 --> 01:55:38.119
Missus.187001:55:38.159 --> 01:55:41.399
Murdoch has an extra room. No thanks, I don't sleep187101:55:41.479 --> 01:55:44.760
well away from my own bed. Oh please, Levinia, please,187201:55:45.880 --> 01:55:48.840
I don't want you dead. Now, You've got to stop this.187301:55:49.560 --> 01:55:50.119
I mean it.187401:55:50.880 --> 01:55:54.039
I promise I'll call you the very minute I get home, now,187501:55:54.079 --> 01:55:54.359
will you?187601:55:54.520 --> 01:55:54.760
Will you?187701:55:54.880 --> 01:55:55.119
Really?187801:55:55.680 --> 01:55:58.760
I promise? And Helen you make her promise you to call.187901:55:59.079 --> 01:56:09.199
I will well, good night, Be careful now I'll walk188001:56:09.359 --> 01:56:09.960
you home.188101:56:13.279 --> 01:56:15.279
The courthouse clock struck the hour.188201:56:16.279 --> 01:56:20.319
The sounds went across a town that was empty, emptier188301:56:20.399 --> 01:56:24.840
than it had ever been before, over empty streets and188401:56:25.000 --> 01:56:27.520
empty lots and empty LUNs.188501:56:27.720 --> 01:56:29.960
The sound went and.188601:56:31.960 --> 01:56:38.199
Eleven twelve. I don't suppose it's any use asking you188701:56:38.319 --> 01:56:42.319
to stay, Livinia. There's no reason for me too. You've188801:56:42.359 --> 01:56:46.840
acted so strangely tonight. I'm just not afraid, that's all.188901:56:47.600 --> 01:56:51.279
And I'm curious. I suppose, of course I'm using my head.189001:56:51.800 --> 01:56:56.840
I mean, logically, the lonely one can't be around, not now,189101:56:57.000 --> 01:56:59.119
the police and them. Did you ever think that maybe189201:56:59.159 --> 01:57:05.079
your subconscious doesn't want you to live anymore? You and Francine. Honestly, hell,189301:57:05.199 --> 01:57:07.640
I feel so guilty. I'll be drinking a cup of189401:57:07.720 --> 01:57:09.720
coffee just about the time you get to the ravine189501:57:09.800 --> 01:57:14.039
And ooh that awful bridge in the dark. Hey, you189601:57:14.199 --> 01:57:15.960
will call us a minute you get home, won't you.189701:57:16.319 --> 01:57:17.840
I won't sleep a wink if you don't.189801:57:18.079 --> 01:57:20.760
I'll call now. Good night.189901:57:23.279 --> 01:57:27.439
Levinni and Ebbs walked down the midnight streets, down the190001:57:27.600 --> 01:57:32.199
late summer silence. She saw the houses with her dark windows,190101:57:33.359 --> 01:57:35.439
and far away she heard a dark barking.190201:57:36.840 --> 01:57:37.720
She thought to herself.190301:57:38.640 --> 01:57:42.439
In five minutes, I'll be safe at home. In five minutes,190401:57:42.439 --> 01:57:46.479
I'll be falling. Franccene and Helen. They're so silly, like190501:57:46.640 --> 01:57:50.680
old hens. Old I'm older than either of them.190601:57:51.000 --> 01:57:56.720
I'm She heard a man's voice singing away among the trees,190701:57:56.880 --> 01:58:00.159
and she walked a little faster, and then, coming on190801:58:00.199 --> 01:58:00.960
the street.190901:58:00.720 --> 01:58:03.720
Tarter at the demming moonlight, was a man.191001:58:06.439 --> 01:58:08.800
Look who it is. What a time and night for191101:58:08.880 --> 01:58:09.960
you to be out of miss Ebbs.191201:58:10.640 --> 01:58:14.319
Officer Kennedy. Oh, I'm so glad it's.191301:58:14.239 --> 01:58:16.640
You' Something wrong, missus Ebbs.191401:58:16.840 --> 01:58:19.840
No, nothing at all. I'm just glad it's you.191501:58:20.439 --> 01:58:21.960
You know you shouldn't be out now.191601:58:22.760 --> 01:58:25.159
I know I've been to the movies. It is late.191701:58:25.720 --> 01:58:26.840
Come on, hap better see your home.191801:58:26.960 --> 01:58:29.319
Oh no, I can make it fine.191901:58:29.760 --> 01:58:32.479
The moon's going behind the trees be pretty dark.192001:58:33.439 --> 01:58:35.520
I'm not afraid of the dark, mister Kennedy.192101:58:36.199 --> 01:58:37.520
You sure you'll be all right?192201:58:37.920 --> 01:58:38.439
Quite sure?192301:58:38.880 --> 01:58:39.680
All I can tell you what.192401:58:40.960 --> 01:58:42.199
I'll wait here. Do you cross?192501:58:42.800 --> 01:58:44.239
If you need help, just give you all and I'll192601:58:44.239 --> 01:58:44.720
come running.192701:58:45.880 --> 01:58:47.239
I'll check by your house later.192801:58:47.199 --> 01:58:47.840
On my way back.192901:58:48.399 --> 01:58:50.000
Thank you, good night.193001:58:53.920 --> 01:58:55.359
As she walked away, she.193101:58:55.560 --> 01:58:58.399
Thought, I won't walk in the ravine with any man.193201:58:59.520 --> 01:59:01.520
How do I know who the lonely one is?193301:59:02.520 --> 01:59:02.560
No?193401:59:03.159 --> 01:59:03.520
Thank you?193501:59:04.159 --> 01:59:05.079
Then the ravine.193601:59:06.199 --> 01:59:08.560
She stood on top of the one hundred and thirteen193701:59:08.680 --> 01:59:12.720
steps down the steep, brambled back that led across the193801:59:12.800 --> 01:59:15.720
creaking bridge one hundred yards and up through the black193901:59:15.800 --> 01:59:17.039
hills to Park Street.194001:59:17.920 --> 01:59:21.079
Three minutes from now. I'll be putting my key in194101:59:21.199 --> 01:59:25.479
the house door. Nothing can happen. Nothing.194201:59:26.319 --> 01:59:30.960
She started down the dark green steps into the deep ravine.194301:59:31.159 --> 01:59:36.960
Nights five, seven, eight nine.194401:59:37.199 --> 01:59:42.600
The ravine was deep and the world was gone, the194501:59:42.720 --> 01:59:47.479
world of safe people in bed, the locked doors, the town,194601:59:48.359 --> 01:59:53.319
the drug store, theater lights, everything was gone.194701:59:54.479 --> 01:59:59.920
Only the ravine existed and lived, black and huge.194802:00:01.960 --> 02:00:03.520
Thirty one.194902:00:04.640 --> 02:00:11.359
Nothing's happened as it. No one around is there. I195002:00:11.479 --> 02:00:13.760
remember that old ghost story you told each other when195102:00:13.800 --> 02:00:15.720
you were children about the.195202:00:15.880 --> 02:00:19.920
Dark man coming into your house and you upstairs in bed.195302:00:21.119 --> 02:00:24.039
And now he's at the first step coming up to195402:00:24.079 --> 02:00:28.800
your room. Now he's at the second step. Now he's195502:00:28.840 --> 02:00:34.199
at the third, the fourth, the fifth step. How you195602:00:34.399 --> 02:00:38.359
laughed and screamed at the story. Now the horrid man195702:00:38.479 --> 02:00:42.239
is at the twelfth step opening your door. And now195802:00:42.279 --> 02:00:52.479
he's standing by your bed. What what there at the195902:00:52.520 --> 02:00:53.640
bottom of the steps.196002:00:54.840 --> 02:00:59.880
Man under the light. No, he's gone.196102:01:01.880 --> 02:01:02.800
He was waiting there.196202:01:06.199 --> 02:01:14.000
But there's nothing. It's empty, there's nothing, nothing on the bridge. Fool,196302:01:15.039 --> 02:01:15.920
it's that story.196402:01:16.000 --> 02:01:16.840
I told myself.196502:01:17.920 --> 02:01:24.560
Oh silly, shall I calm mister Kennedy. Did he hear196602:01:24.640 --> 02:01:29.359
him scream? Or did I scream? Maybe I only thought196702:01:29.399 --> 02:01:29.680
I did.196802:01:31.039 --> 02:01:34.479
Then he didn't hear me at all. I'll go back up,196902:01:35.079 --> 02:01:40.479
go to Helen's and sleep there tonight. No, it's nearer197002:01:40.720 --> 02:02:02.640
home now, don't be silly. Wait, someone holloween me. Someone's197102:02:03.600 --> 02:02:08.720
on the steps behind me. I don't dare turn around.197202:02:15.079 --> 02:02:33.960
Every time I dig a step, he takes one. Officer Kennedy,197302:02:35.680 --> 02:02:36.159
is it that you?197402:02:38.600 --> 02:02:38.760
Is it?197502:02:41.720 --> 02:02:47.800
The crickets were suddenly still. The crickets were listening. The197602:02:47.960 --> 02:02:52.520
knight was listening to her. Then there was a sound,197702:02:54.760 --> 02:02:59.840
only a wood chuck, surely eating a hollow log. But197802:03:00.039 --> 02:03:03.840
it was Lavinia Nebs. It was most surely the heart197902:03:03.960 --> 02:03:09.760
of Lavinia Nebs. She went down the steps, faster, faster, run.198002:03:10.880 --> 02:03:14.039
She heard music, and a mad way, a sully way.198102:03:14.159 --> 02:03:17.399
She heard the search of music that pounded at a rush,198202:03:17.800 --> 02:03:20.600
lunching her past her and passed her down down into198302:03:20.600 --> 02:03:21.840
the middle of the ravine.198402:03:23.680 --> 02:03:30.560
Across the bridge. Run it, run it, don't carry, don't look.198502:03:30.600 --> 02:03:32.479
If you see him, you'll not be able to all.198602:03:33.600 --> 02:03:37.880
Just run and across the bridge, up the path between198702:03:37.920 --> 02:03:38.439
the hills.198802:03:38.880 --> 02:03:42.119
On the top of the path the street, and even198902:03:42.159 --> 02:03:46.479
with the light, the fierce swirled about her, closing and pressing,199002:03:47.159 --> 02:03:47.359
if you.199102:03:47.439 --> 02:03:50.399
Find it, I'll never go alone.199202:03:51.359 --> 02:03:52.119
I was a fool.199302:03:52.399 --> 02:03:56.479
Never again did you let me get home? But then199402:03:57.760 --> 02:04:05.319
I'll never go I am alone. Robins, please please let me, please,199502:04:06.640 --> 02:04:10.680
please give me ted to get inside and lock the199602:04:10.800 --> 02:04:21.319
door and ip the safe. Oh save but home home, listen,199702:04:23.680 --> 02:04:29.279
oh way, oh.199802:04:34.520 --> 02:04:35.039
The window.199902:04:45.720 --> 02:04:52.399
There's no one there at all. Nobody. There was no200002:04:52.520 --> 02:04:57.199
one following me at all, Nobody running after me.200102:04:59.079 --> 02:05:03.039
Oh silly. If a man had been following me he200202:05:03.119 --> 02:05:07.039
had caught me. I can't run as fast as a man.200302:05:09.079 --> 02:05:14.079
I wasn't running from anything except me. The ravine was200402:05:14.359 --> 02:05:21.199
safer than safe. Oh, it's nice to.200502:05:21.239 --> 02:05:22.119
Be home now.200602:05:24.000 --> 02:05:31.359
Homes are really good, warm, safe place, the only place.200702:05:32.119 --> 02:05:34.319
She had just put her hand out to the light200802:05:34.439 --> 02:05:37.319
switch when she heard it behind her in the blackness.200902:05:38.920 --> 02:05:39.600
Just a movement.201002:05:41.880 --> 02:05:47.880
Who What Who?201102:06:03.319 --> 02:06:31.239
Beautiful suspense in which Miss Janet Nolan starred with Paula Winslow,201202:06:31.399 --> 02:06:34.279
Eve McVeigh and Bill Conrad into Night's presentation of Ray201302:06:34.359 --> 02:06:38.119
Bradbury's The Whole Town Sleeping, adapted by Antony Ellis.201402:06:41.319 --> 02:06:46.840
Well, my dear, now that I'm unwinding a bit with201502:06:46.960 --> 02:06:52.039
a kindly record, I hope that you had a nice201602:06:52.119 --> 02:06:54.159
evening with me, as much as I have with you.201702:06:54.399 --> 02:06:58.399
I so so look forward to these visits of yours,201802:06:58.520 --> 02:07:03.680
and I certainly hope to see you back here again, because,201902:07:03.760 --> 02:07:09.880
as you know, I'll always be here waiting. But for now,202002:07:11.000 --> 02:07:13.359
I know it's time for you to return to your202102:07:14.399 --> 02:07:21.119
normal life, your normal days, your normal nights, whatever that202202:07:21.279 --> 02:07:26.880
word may truly mean. So I'll be here waiting, but202302:07:27.079 --> 02:07:30.960
please do me a favor as you make your way home.202402:07:31.079 --> 02:07:34.720
Across the covered bridge, through the river sticks on your202502:07:34.800 --> 02:07:38.119
way past grandmother's house, and as you lay your head202602:07:38.199 --> 02:07:42.960
on that cool soft pillow, take a moment and be202702:07:43.079 --> 02:07:48.039
thankful for what you have. And I'll see you soon.202802:08:00.359 --> 02:08:01.399
In a payments202902:08:04.039 --> 02:08:04.239
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