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Well, hello there, So happy to have you back, my dear.
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What's that? Oh no, no, no, I was always going
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to be right here waiting for you, as I have
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been for well some time now. I suppose Happy New
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Year to you. I hope you had a wonderful one,
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very festive. You know me, know me, all kinds of celebration,
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lots of friends, new year, knew me and all that.
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But what certainly has not changed is my love of
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the macabre, strange and scary. And it seems you are
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in the same boat as I am. So enjoy your
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first cup of tea. We'll go a little late tonight
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just to celebrate. This story is all about that substance
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in your veins, that that life.
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Blood the CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
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Come in.
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Welcome.
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I'm e G.
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Marshall. We live in an age of scientific wonders. The
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far out science fiction of yesterday has become today's reality.
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And yet despite these giant strides unlocking the secrets of nature,
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mankind suffers from confusion and fear, fear partially engendered by
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these very scientific advances that are first hailed as triumphs.
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Why perhaps because the science of technology lacks soul.
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You can't help Amelia. Don't you understand she's beyond help.
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She is is your doing, Professor, You and your computers,
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your laboratories have done this to her.
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You're too emotional, Gerald, Why can't you look upon this
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as a noble and successful experiment.
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Never, I look upon it as a monstrous denial of
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the human spirit and the destruction of love. Our mystery
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drama Lifeblood, was written especially for the Mystery Theater by
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Murray Burnett and stars John Beale and Marian Seldas. I'll
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do that shortly with that one. The Bible has it
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that the Lord created Eve from one of Adam's ribs.
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Tignadian fell in love with a statue of Aphrodite and
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brought her to life as Galatea by his earnest prayers
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to the gods. I'm sure every man has dreamed of
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his idea of the perfect woman. Our story today is
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the tale of a man who made that dream come true.
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Carol, you surprise me. You can't be serious when you
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say you're nervous about seeing Uncle.
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He may think I'm too old for you. By the way, Amelia,
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just how old are you?
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Now?
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That is a question No, gentleman asks a lady you
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should know left anyway? Is uncle waiting for you?
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Yes? And I want you to wait here in Madam
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for me. I'll be right back.
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I'll wait for you.
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Dying.
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Nice to see you, Gerald, Now sit down, make yourself comfortable.
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Oh, I'm glad my niece has come to visit with me.
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I see a lot more of you since she's here.
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No, that's exactly what I've come to talk with you about, Arthur,
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your niece.
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Oh, something important.
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Very I've asked Amelia to marry me, and.
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She said she would.
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Oh.
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No, I've never liked to you, Arthur, and there's certainly
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no reason for you that it.
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Don't be a fool, Gerald, I didn't mean that Amdia
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had turned you down.
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Of course, she accepted you.
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I don't understand. I know, and I'm reluctantly forced to
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explain when you hear why you won't want.
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To marry Amelia.
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Impossible. There's nothing you can say about Amlia that would
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make me love her any less. She's the perfect woman.
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She's not a woman.
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What did you say?
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I said, Amlia is not a woman. She's a robot,
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my creation.
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You can't be serious if I had a niece, Gerald,
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I'd be the happiest man in the world if you
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and she wanted to get married.
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You have everything to make a great husband. You're good looking, successful, intelligent,
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and you've got integrity.
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And thank you. But we're off the point. Are you
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trying to tell me that Amelia is a mindless, soulless
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replica of a woman. And I didn't know it exactly.
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When was the last time you saw a doctor?
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I see you all the time, I mean professionally.
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You think I've gone over the edge. Uh, all right,
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it must be a big shot to you, and you
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deserve some proof. Ask commedia to come in.
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I don't think that's a good idea. You've inferred that
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I've lost my mind. Now I want to prove to
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you that I'm perfectly saying. Ask her in now, all right,
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all right, whatever you say, Arthur, Amelia, would you come
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in for a minute, Sa night.
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Gerald. Have you spoken to uncle Arthur?
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He has come here me and listen to me carefully.
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I always do. Uncle. You taught me that, of course,
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who are your parents? Parents?
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Is your mother and father?
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Oh? My father was your brother and he and mother
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are dead.
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Good, excellent, but who made you, shaped you, taught you,
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told you what to do and say and how to
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Behave you uncle, and.
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Are you grateful?
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I owe everything to you, my very existence.
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I understand Gerald has proposed marriage to you. Yes, Uncle,
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whom would you rather kiss?
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Now? Me or Gerald?
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It really doesn't matter to me. Amelia kiss me then,
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of course?
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Well, Jeral, do you still think I'm out of my mind?
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I don't know what to think. If you've really accomplished this.
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Miracle, how did you do it? What is she made of?
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Sugar and spice and everything nice?
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If what you're telling me is true, this is a
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scientific miracle. If this is really an automaton your preacher
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made up of what in Heaven's name of the results.
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Of years of experimentation with computers, sound waves, unheard of
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advances in physics and chemistry in short ten years of
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my life.
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Of course you realize what this means. When you show
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Amelia to the world and explain your accomplishment, you'll be the.
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Most I have other plans for a media have an
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eye idea, so.
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You've told me, Uncle, I don't understand.
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I intend for her to meet Wilkerson.
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Wilkerson, what's he got to do with this?
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What do you think will happen when that Romeo that
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woman chases set eyes on this beauty?
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Tell me that Gerald, don't tell me you're still harboring
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a grudge against Wilkerson for something that happened ten years
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He's lovely.
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Is that how you describe my public humiliation, my being
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forced to resign as head of the DNA experimentation project,
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of being laughed at because of a stupid mistake that
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wasn't mine.
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No, it's been long forgotten either not by me. Tell me, Amedia,
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what do you think of Harry Wilkerson.
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I think he's a most attractive man, very masculine and brilliant. Oh,
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I've been a fool.
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You couldn't help yourself. No man will be able to
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resist a media now.
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I mean about swallowing this fairydale about a robot. You've
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hypnotized her, that's all. You found a great subject for hypnosis.
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And amnor my child? Come here and bring me a pin?
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What are you going to do?
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Prove to you that.
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Immediate is exactly what I said an unfeeling robot.
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H Thank you, my dear. Now watch as I take
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this pin.
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Be careful plunge it deeply and directly into this lovely arm.
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So no, did that hurt Amlia?
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Of course?
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Not well, Jerald. She still could be hypnotized. Then she'd
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feel no pain.
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Correct, But if she's human, where's the blood.
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You?
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All right? Gerald? Would you like some brandy?
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No? Nothing, thank you, But I would feel better if
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you sent Amelia out of the room.
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Of course, Amelia, certainly, Uncle, I'll be in my room
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if you want me a computer. I fell in love
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with a computer.
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Oh come on, Gerald, I assure you she's far more
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sophisticated and intricate than any a computer. The most advanced
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computer is childish in concept compared.
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To the media.
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Now you understand why I said no to a marriage
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between the two of you.
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And I suppose I should thank you, but I resent
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the fact that you never told me it was an experiment.
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I'm no guinea pig, of course not.
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I never thought of you that way, but I did
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want a test.
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And now that you've seen how successful it was, you
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can help me by introducing a media to Harry Wilkerson.
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I've got to talk you out of it.
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Not a chance. Wilkerson's got it coming for what?
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Because he failed to stand up and take the blame
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for a costly mistake on a project that was headed
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by you. It shows a lack of integrity, but it
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doesn't deserve the kind of punishment you have in mind.
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And you admit it'll work, Wilkerson will fall head over
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heels in love with the media.
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Now you're out of touch, Arthur. Wilkinson's already fallen. He's
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out of his mind about Nita raven Right, the practically engaged.
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So you see that I'll stack a media up against
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any woman in the world.
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I tell you it won't work. You're so blinded by
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your need for revenge you can't see it. You I'm protecting.
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It's interesting. I'll justify that Ord knows what you've created, Arthur.
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I'm still in shock. But you think you've made the
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perfect woman, a creature of real flesh and blood, when,
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as you so graphically demonstrated, Amelia has no blood. And
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what do you think will happen when that fact is
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inevitably discovered. At the time, I thought I'd won the
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argument with my friend, doctor Arthur Moore, But I underestimated
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the depth of the passion that drove this brilliant scientist
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I'd also underestimated his genius. I'll admit I saw much
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less of Arthur than before, because I never again could
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feel it easy with the woman, the thing called Amelia.
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But a month or so after our conversation, he called
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and asked me over.
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I appreciate your coming in such short notice, Gerald, but
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I promised to make it interesting.
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You remember a media, of course?
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Of course, how are you Amelia flourishing?
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Thank you, Jerald. It's so nice to see you again.
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Arthur.
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I know you don't feel entirely at ease with the media,
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but I assure you her presence is necessary.
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Come here, my dear.
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Yes, you remember, Gerald, you made a very cogent point
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the last time we discussed the makeup of our charming
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the media.
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I believe it had to do with blood. And now
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I'm taking this needle. And I really objected these demonstrations.
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Say they leave me feeling decidedly the possession.
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You're uncommonly queasy. I assure you it won't hurt a
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media in the slightest. No, I take the needle so
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and behold, bright ruby red blood naturally flows.
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God Lord, Arthur, what have you done?
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You eliminated the last obstacle standing between a media and
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her introduction to Wilkeson.
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Go put a bandage on that. My dear jar and
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I have to talk, will uncle? Is that real blood? Certainly?
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Would you care to take a sample for testing?
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Nah, take your word for it. How in Heaven's name
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did you do it?
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I'll make a bargain with you.
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You promise to introduce a media to Wilkeson and I'll
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tell you how it works.
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I've told you, Arthur, I don't want any part of this.
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Wilkson's engaged, It's definite. He gave me a ring and
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the date for their wedding will be announced any day.
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Now.
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What's an engagement or even a marriage to a man
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like Wilkinson.
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The minute he sees a media, he's SOPs.
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I tell him the truth. I'm going to ask you
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not to What I revealed to you was given in
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confidence to save you from humiliation.
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You at least owe me the favor of keeping.
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Quiet this deception.
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Would you owe Wilkerson nothing?
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And if he's really sincerely in love with his need
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a raven, he won't do anything about the media.
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But if he does, doesn't he deserve to be taught
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a lesson.
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I want your solemn promise that you keep this a
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secret between us. Well, all right, I promise. It's so
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easy to look back on things you've done and say
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you shouldn't have done them. But at the time it
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didn't seem that too much harm could come from this
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mad scheme. I also thought that Arthur would have some
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difficulty in arranging a meeting between Amelia and wilkeson. I
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found out quickly I was wrong. We live in a
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university town. The university has a large and extensive library,
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but there's also a smaller private library reserved for the
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use of a small group of scientists that Wilkerson first saw.
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Amelia, now tell.
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Me what a beautiful young lady like you wants with
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that complex scientific treatise you have there. You must have
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brains equally of beauty.
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Thank you for the compliment. But I am taking this
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book from my uncle, Professor Moore. Professor Moore, my boss. Really.
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Oh yes, if we work together on a project some
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ten years ago, I'll let me introduce myself. I'm Harry Wilkerson.
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And I'm Amelia Burke.
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You left something down.
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I don't think so, and add you do?
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You should say the beautiful No, no, no, no, the
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ravishing Amelia Burke.
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I'm afraid you're an incorrigible flatterer, mister Professor Wilkerson Harry,
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and I'm Amelia, Amelia.
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I need your help.
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I beg your pardon.
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I desperately need help. I absolutely must have some refreshment
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and some female companionship, or or I shall open my
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mouth and scream and be barred from this labrary forever.
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We certainly can't let that happen, can we, Harry.
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Men have died, and worms have eaten them, but not
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for love, said William Shakespeare, and he was the greatest. However,
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there have been a number of very fine writers who've
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written stories about gallant men who have died for love
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of a woman, but none that I know of, who
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have perished for a robot, at least not yet. I'll
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be back shortly with that too. Fam fatale abound in
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history and literature. They all have one thing in common.
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They possess a strange appeal which leads men to follow
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their sirens song down the path to destruction. They also
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share another characteristic. They are human, Unlike Amelia Burke, who
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is a robot created for the express purpose of ensnaring
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one man, and she seems to be succeeding. Who is Avilia?
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What is she?
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I'm a woman, Harry, really, a very simple, predictable woman.
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Oh, let me contradict you as a man who's not
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inexperienced when it comes to women. Allow me to say
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that you're completely unpredictable and almost unknowable.
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If you're trying to confuse me, you're succeeding.
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All I know about you is that you're the most
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beautiful and charming woman I've ever met.
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Thank you, But who are you really?
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Who are your parents? Why did you suddenly appear on
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the scene to live with your uncle who never mentioned
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you all these years?
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I thought women were a cure sex.
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Oh, you're unbelievable. We've been see each other for two
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weeks and you've never asked whether I was married or
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even engaged.
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Not a single question.
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Why we always meet in these little out of the
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way places.
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The important thing to me is that we're together.
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I couldn't have said that better myself. But don't you
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sometimes long for all little more privacy?
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That might be nice?
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I think that you might feel that way. So I
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spoke with a good friend of mine, a fellow who
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can keep his mouth shut, and I've arranged for us
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to have the use of his apartment this Friday afternoon.
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He's going out of town for the weekend. How does
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that sound to you?
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Like everything else you say, Harry, very nice?
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Oh me, my darling, you're wonderful, just magnificent.
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Thank you uncle.
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Well, I think we ought to recheck your program for
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the big date you have coming up on Friday.
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Who the devil is there? Just sit there at media.
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I'll get rid of whoever it is. Gerald.
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There's a pleasure to see you, but you've really come
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in a time.
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Sorry if I've interrupted anything. It's important that we talk.
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Important to whom to you.
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Oh, there's thing with Wilkerson has gone far enough out there.
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As a matter of fact, it's gone too far.
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Well, that all depends on the point of view.
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Now.
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I'm not here to argue. I'm here to tell you
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author that you must stop it.
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Now.
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Well, we don't like that very much, do we, your media?
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No, unless you stop, I tend to tell Wilkes in
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the Truth.
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Come down a minute, will you.
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I don't want to hear any of your pseudo rational.
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Errol if a me and you were a real, as
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you put it once, flesh and blood woman.
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Would you interfere?
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Come on? Answer? Will you?
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I refuse to answer any hypothetical questions.
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I'll answer for you. You wouldn't and why wouldn't you hurt?
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I've already because it.
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Wouldn't be any of your busines.
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But just because a.
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Media is something out of the ordinary.
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You consider it your duty to warn Wilkinson, or better,
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to make him aware of what a media is.
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I intend to tell him. If that's what you mean,
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believe me either, I'll do it.
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I believe you, even though you're breaking a solemn promise.
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But have you ever thought of.
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What Wilkeson will think of you when you come to
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him with this preposterous, incredible story.
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I'll make him believe me, you know better.
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And once more, I'll see to it that Wilkinson will
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think you are jealous, that you want a media for yourself.
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When I left, I knew that it was a stalemate.
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Either was right, Wilkinson would never believe me. But I
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was determined to do something. The problem was what. When
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I was racking my brains for a solution, Amelia was
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pushing ahead as programmed Emelia, why did you call and
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have me meet you here?
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Isn't this a good place out of the way and discreen?
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No, that's not what I meant. We had an appoint.
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Put it down, Harry. I think we have a lot
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to talk about.
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Whatever you have to say could be said better.
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The per I'm sure you think so, Harry.
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You've changed. What is it?
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Has something happened? How is your fiancee? Her name is
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Nita Raven? If I am not mistaken, Oh well, I
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knew it had to happen sometime.
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It was too good to line.
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Now you understand why I didn't come to the apartment
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and why I won't go to the apartment. I didn't
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know you were engaged.
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I am, and her name is Nita Raven. But that
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doesn't mean I'm not interested in other women, particularly someone's
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fascinating as you.
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Does Nita know about me?
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Of course not.
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But it's all right for me to know about Nita.
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I didn't tell you about her, not those you're too
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important to me. I was afraid that what's happening right
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now would have happened much sooner.
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Nothing's happening, Yes, that's what I mean?
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Or me?
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If we're two adults. You like me, now, don't try
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to deny it. I see it in your eyes, the
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way you talk to me, and I am crazy about you. Now,
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let's forget about everything else. Get over the bomb's apartment.
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You make it sound so simple. That's because it is.
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You belong to someone else. No one belongs to anyone else.
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Have you ever discussed that with Nita?
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Certainly she knows, and when we get married, we both
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don't stop living. She knows. I'm not going to stop
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admiring beautiful women simply because I'm married.
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You may admire me to your heart's content, and you
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can do that here just as well as in your
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friend's apartment.
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Hello, may I speak with a mania?
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Please?
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Who's calling?
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Harry Wilkinson. Oh, Harry, I'm sorry, but you don't more.
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Please forgive me. We've had our problems in the past,
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but I'm going to ask you for a favor. Please
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get her to come to the phone.
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Harry.
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I really don't want to interfere with my niece's life,
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and I also don't have that much influence.
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What can that be? I just want to speak with her.
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All right, Harry.
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I don't promise anything, but I'll see what I can do.
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Go back in ten.
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Minutes when he calls the media, agreed to meet him,
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and we'll proceed as planned.
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I mean, yeah, I hope you notice where we're meeting.
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Nice a pleasant change. You haven't thanked me for coming.
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Ah, here's something else you really are? You refuse even
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to speak to me for three weeks and then I
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finally get your uncle to bring you to the phone. Well, look,
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I've broken my engagement to Nita.
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Poor Harry.
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I don't want your sympathy. I want your love.
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My love has to be earned.
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Don't you think I've earned it these past three weeks.
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I did everything I could to put you out of
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my mind, and look what happened.
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I don't know.
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Oh, I've been driving to my laboratory and see a
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blonde head and a taxicab for another car. Well, I
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couldn't wait to pass the car to make sure that
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it wasn't you. Do you know how many times I
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run across the street because I thought I caught sight
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of you on the other side.
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You sound angry, Well I am. It's never happened to
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me before, not even with Nita.
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Let's forget about me.
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To Shane, how did she take the news when you
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told her the engagement was off.
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I did not come here to talk about Nita. I'm
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here to tell you that we're having dinner every night
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this week, and that we're spending the weekend at Lake Ferris.
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We're invited by some friends of mine who are anxious
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to meet you.
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I have plans for the weekend.
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Cancel them.
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I'm afraid I can't.
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Oh really, I can break an engagement, but you can't
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even change an appointment.
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You seem to be under the impression that I asked
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you to break your engagement.
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Look, I think it's time we level with each other.
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You never asked me to break my engagement, but you
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made it perfectly clear that the only way we could
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have any relationship was if I gave up Nita.
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I was honest with you about my feelings.
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You can't fool me about yours. I know you're attracted
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to me. Are you going to deny that?
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No?
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I am attracted all right now.
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I'm making progress. I've broken a commitment, and I expect
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you to break Why do.
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You make this sound like a business deal. I thought
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you were more romantic.
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Well, I'm upset. I never felt this way about any
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woman in my life and at the one at the
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same time, there's there's something about you that bothers me.
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I think you made a mistake. What you've changed. When
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we first met, you were relaxed and happy. You made
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it clear you liked me, and you hoped I would
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like you. I did. Now you're a different man, up tight,
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grim distracted. I think you feel guilty about breaking your engagement,
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and if you do, there's no future for us. Oh no,
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we want you for the lunch. Think about what I said, Harry,
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and then call me. I promise I'll answer the phone.
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For someone so hung up on romance. You don't. It's
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very close.
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I'm sorry. Dancing isn't my strong point. I only know
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how to waltz and fox trot.
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I would have thought you'd been the queen of disco
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in college.
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Would you have liked me better?
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It's impossible for me to love you anymore than I do. Now?
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Shall we go back to the table?
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Oh as you like?
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The verses were disappointed they didn't meet you the other weekend.
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Calliman, flattered.
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I have a surprise for you.
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I love surprises. What is it?
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Yeah?
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Open this box?
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Oh, it looks like a ring. Is it open the box?
503
00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:41.279
Well?
504
00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:45.319
Do you like it?
505
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:51.519
It's very nice, very nice. That's an engagement ring. I'm
506
00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:55.720
asking you to marry me. I realize, and so I
507
00:27:55.759 --> 00:28:00.119
didn't have to say I realize. I'll bet I more
508
00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:01.160
reaction from a robot.
509
00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:04.680
Would you ever say anything like that? Never, it's disgusting.
510
00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:11.000
Well well, well, well, well a reaction at last. You
511
00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:12.000
You are exquisite.
512
00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:14.200
Promise me you'll never use that word adamn?51300:28:14.400 --> 00:28:16.160
What's strong with the experts?51400:28:16.160 --> 00:28:18.240
Nothing to joke about? You know the word? I mean,51500:28:21.400 --> 00:28:22.160
I can think.51600:28:22.000 --> 00:28:24.119
Of a lot of words some ladies might object to.51700:28:24.160 --> 00:28:27.880
But sorry, all right, all right, she will never pass51800:28:27.920 --> 00:28:30.839
my lips again. Now I slip on the ring. We'll51900:28:30.839 --> 00:28:32.240
steal our engagement with the kids.52000:28:32.400 --> 00:28:35.640
Hy I know you're going to think this is sorry,52100:28:35.640 --> 00:28:39.920
but this isn't the ring I.52200:28:39.960 --> 00:28:44.759
Wanted, Darling, if you knew how long I search.52300:28:44.640 --> 00:28:50.640
Beautiful, but call me sentimental. The ring I want is52400:28:50.680 --> 00:28:51.839
the one you gave Nita.52500:28:53.400 --> 00:28:56.440
Oh, come on, a media, Anita's out of my life.52600:28:56.480 --> 00:28:58.160
I'm not going to ask for the ring back.52700:28:58.200 --> 00:29:01.079
If she had any pride, she'd give it that well,52800:29:01.160 --> 00:29:01.599
forget it.52900:29:02.680 --> 00:29:04.839
I'll get you any ring you want, except that.53000:29:04.880 --> 00:29:08.480
That's the only way I'll really feel sure of your love.53100:29:09.480 --> 00:29:16.400
I want the ring that Nita has. Otherwise we're not engaged.53200:29:20.720 --> 00:29:23.960
A famous poet, commenting on the human race, wrote, the53300:29:24.039 --> 00:29:28.400
female of the species is deadlier than the male. I53400:29:28.400 --> 00:29:31.440
don't think anyone can question that some form of robot53500:29:31.799 --> 00:29:34.960
is a definite part of man's future. But are we53600:29:35.079 --> 00:29:39.079
going to have to apply the same yardstick to the automatons.53700:29:40.119 --> 00:29:42.000
We should have the answer when I returned with the53800:29:42.039 --> 00:29:49.400
final act of lifeblood shortly. Have you ever wished your53900:29:49.400 --> 00:29:52.400
bank would pay you interest on your checking account? Wouldn't54000:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.200
it only seem fair? Wed Otero Savings think so. That's54100:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.160
why we're offering the check in account. It's better than54200:29:59.240 --> 00:30:02.880
checking because you get five and quarter percent interest. At Otero.54300:30:02.960 --> 00:30:06.000
You get the best of both the interest earning capability54400:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.720
of a savings account with the complete flexibility of a54500:30:08.799 --> 00:30:13.599
checking account. The Otero checking account from Otaro Savings member54600:30:13.720 --> 00:30:14.839
f slice.54700:30:17.240 --> 00:30:18.559
You miss Jimmy's Birthday part?54800:30:18.640 --> 00:30:20.680
I was with a client and I sent Jimmy's your54900:30:20.839 --> 00:30:21.759
child's only.55000:30:21.519 --> 00:30:23.319
Gonna have one drink. I didn't mind.55100:30:23.480 --> 00:30:26.000
No, you never mean to, but I've had it Mary,55200:30:26.079 --> 00:30:27.279
you quit drinking or I'm late?55300:30:27.839 --> 00:30:31.119
Please sound familiar. That was a scene from my life.55400:30:31.279 --> 00:30:33.720
My wife thought I had a drinking problem. I didn't,55500:30:33.720 --> 00:30:35.880
but I was scared. I wasn't in control, and I55600:30:35.920 --> 00:30:38.359
didn't want to lose my family. We went to the55700:30:38.400 --> 00:30:42.039
recovery center. We worked together and solved our problems. Life55800:30:42.079 --> 00:30:44.880
can be good again. Call the Recovery Center eight two55900:30:44.880 --> 00:30:47.200
five four nine five one The Recovery Center.56000:30:51.960 --> 00:31:02.519
And perfection is the goal of many driven people.56100:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.519
The fact is that absolute perfection is unattainable. It should56200:31:07.519 --> 00:31:10.920
be because if you stop to consider, life with a56300:31:10.920 --> 00:31:14.559
perfect man or a woman would be rather formidable. Harry56400:31:14.559 --> 00:31:17.880
Wilkson doesn't think so. He's fallen in love with a56500:31:17.920 --> 00:31:21.920
perfect woman, a media burke. He's unaware that Amdia is56600:31:21.960 --> 00:31:24.960
a robot, the creation of a genius who holds a56700:31:25.000 --> 00:31:28.160
long standing grudge against him and who's determined to use56800:31:28.200 --> 00:31:31.519
a media to extract a terrible revenge.56900:31:32.119 --> 00:31:34.599
I thank you for the invitation, Gerald, but I'll.57000:31:34.400 --> 00:31:35.279
Never die out.57100:31:35.440 --> 00:31:38.400
I thought you might make an exception, Professor. The dinner57200:31:38.440 --> 00:31:40.880
is an occasion for me to congratulate you upon the57300:31:40.920 --> 00:31:43.720
success of your stratagem to even the score with Wilkeson.57400:31:44.000 --> 00:31:48.920
I think your congratulations are a trifle premature. Really, Wilkson's57500:31:48.920 --> 00:31:51.839
broke off his engagement Anita. He's a man driven almost57600:31:51.839 --> 00:31:54.799
to the point of distraction. He's on such a short57700:31:54.880 --> 00:31:57.240
view that his colleagues object to working with him.57800:31:57.480 --> 00:31:59.920
What more do you want? I want him to have57900:32:00.119 --> 00:32:01.640
of the final gift.58000:32:01.680 --> 00:32:04.119
The thing he wants more than anything in the world.58100:32:04.599 --> 00:32:06.880
I want to see him married to a media.58200:32:07.319 --> 00:32:09.720
But he hasn't seen or spoken with a media in58300:32:09.799 --> 00:32:12.000
a month, and she's seeing other men.58400:32:12.319 --> 00:32:14.000
You seem well informed.58500:32:14.359 --> 00:32:17.799
Have you talked with Werkerson, Yes, but not about Amelia.58600:32:18.359 --> 00:32:20.119
She's a subject he refuses to discuss.58700:32:20.279 --> 00:32:20.799
I've tried.58800:32:21.279 --> 00:32:24.359
I don't understand this sudden revival of interest in the58900:32:24.400 --> 00:32:25.359
media on your part.59000:32:25.559 --> 00:32:29.200
Art You produced a robot so perfect that she can59100:32:29.240 --> 00:32:34.359
pass as a woman. Now that's a scientific miracle. I'm59200:32:34.359 --> 00:32:38.440
your best friend, yet I haven't the slightest idea of59300:32:38.480 --> 00:32:43.160
how you did it In my position, wouldn't you be curious?59400:32:43.319 --> 00:32:47.440
Now this is my life work. You're a physician. Quite frankly,59500:32:47.480 --> 00:32:51.119
the process is so complicated it would take weeks for59600:32:51.240 --> 00:32:55.559
me to explain the various intricate and even dangerous steps.59700:32:55.200 --> 00:32:57.079
I use to create the finished product.59800:32:57.240 --> 00:33:00.960
Well, couldn't just simplify parts of it? For I'm I'm59900:33:01.000 --> 00:33:03.039
not asking you to devose the secret of how you60000:33:03.160 --> 00:33:07.039
simulated the marvelous skin on. How you solve the problem60100:33:07.079 --> 00:33:09.519
of the blood that seems to course through her veins?60200:33:10.240 --> 00:33:14.599
But her responses are what fascinates me. How do you60300:33:14.680 --> 00:33:17.359
program her so that her answers to questions follow a60400:33:17.440 --> 00:33:22.160
logical train of thought. I'll give you a hit gerald stimuli.60500:33:23.160 --> 00:33:27.680
Everything in nature responds to certain stimuli, and they in60600:33:27.720 --> 00:33:32.960
turn trigger other responses. That's logical, but vague, and that's60700:33:33.039 --> 00:33:37.079
the way I intend for it to remain. I'm opposed60800:33:37.079 --> 00:33:40.319
to the deception you're practicing. It isn't only Wilkerson who60900:33:40.319 --> 00:33:44.640
has fallen under the spell of this mindless robot, but61000:33:44.799 --> 00:33:46.160
now she's deceiving others.61100:33:46.680 --> 00:33:50.000
That is why that fools all of them. And that's61200:33:50.079 --> 00:33:51.960
exactly the point I'm going to prove.61300:33:52.839 --> 00:34:02.079
That's how I'll get my satisfaction. Of course, Arthur was right.61400:34:03.119 --> 00:34:06.400
After long hours considering how I could expose Amelia as61500:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.760
a robot, I hit upon the idea that the weakness61600:34:09.880 --> 00:34:13.760
was Amelia herself. Because of my own experience with her,61700:34:14.239 --> 00:34:16.760
I had some understanding of how she had been programmed.61800:34:17.679 --> 00:34:20.320
I felt that perhaps I could disturb her pattern enough61900:34:20.320 --> 00:34:24.320
to expose her. But I had to get her alone,62000:34:24.559 --> 00:34:28.000
and Arthur rarely went out. He monitored her phone calls,62100:34:28.559 --> 00:34:30.920
but I knew he would attend an important lecture on62200:34:31.079 --> 00:34:35.480
DNA and cloning the following night, so I called and62300:34:35.599 --> 00:34:36.880
got her permission to visit.62400:34:37.440 --> 00:34:39.880
It's so nice to see you again, Gerald. Have you62500:34:39.960 --> 00:34:40.360
missed me?62600:34:40.599 --> 00:34:43.679
How could I not miss such an interesting person as you, Amelia?62700:34:43.920 --> 00:34:46.599
You're much more interesting than I did.62800:34:46.639 --> 00:34:50.199
Your uncle tell you to say that my uncle, Amelia,62900:34:50.920 --> 00:34:54.159
I know who you are, or rather what you are?63000:34:54.360 --> 00:34:57.320
Of course you do. Your uncle Arthur's dearest friend. How63100:34:57.360 --> 00:34:59.559
do you know that the way I know everything else?63200:34:59.639 --> 00:35:04.239
I yes know it. Well, what do you and your63300:35:04.320 --> 00:35:06.840
uncle talk about? Can't we talk about us?63400:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.960
We can, but I'd rather have you tell me what63500:35:10.039 --> 00:35:11.360
you and your uncle talk about.63600:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.480
We don't talk about much.63700:35:16.079 --> 00:35:17.320
Are you fond of your uncle?63800:35:17.440 --> 00:35:19.119
I love him, I owe him everything.63900:35:19.760 --> 00:35:21.480
What do you do when you're alone with him?64000:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.519
Mostly we listen to records?64100:35:26.000 --> 00:35:27.360
What kind of records?64200:35:27.559 --> 00:35:28.800
All kinds of music?64300:35:29.000 --> 00:35:29.280
Talk?64400:35:29.679 --> 00:35:32.280
Oh, lots of talking records. That's how I learned to64500:35:32.400 --> 00:35:38.159
dance talk or music both. That's how you learn everything, man,64600:35:38.800 --> 00:35:41.719
through records. I beg your pardon.64700:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.760
Don't you think it might be nice if I made64800:35:45.800 --> 00:35:47.639
some records and we listened to them.64900:35:48.079 --> 00:35:50.559
I'd enjoy that? Oh excuse me?65000:35:53.719 --> 00:35:53.880
Hello?65100:35:55.440 --> 00:36:00.880
Ooh Harry, what a delightful surprise. Of course I mean it,65200:36:01.400 --> 00:36:06.519
I mean everything I say to you. That's ridiculous. We're65300:36:06.559 --> 00:36:11.079
not playing a game. There's no winning or losing. Of65400:36:11.159 --> 00:36:18.760
course I missed you. Yes, yes, I'll be there.65500:36:21.440 --> 00:36:23.000
Was that Harry Wilkerson?65600:36:23.079 --> 00:36:25.519
Yes, and he has wonderful news. I'm sorry, Gerald, but65700:36:25.519 --> 00:36:27.599
I must leave now. I'm going to meet Harry. You65800:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.239
can stay and wait for uncle if you like. I'm65900:36:30.320 --> 00:36:41.199
sure you understand, Amelia.66000:36:42.480 --> 00:36:46.639
Let me pinch you. Why to make sure the dreams66100:36:46.760 --> 00:36:48.639
come true? Come in, come in.66200:36:51.039 --> 00:36:52.920
What a lovely apartment.66300:36:53.639 --> 00:36:57.280
I told you you'd like it. Oh, why the devil66400:36:57.280 --> 00:36:59.320
did it take you so long to get here? Think66500:36:59.360 --> 00:37:02.159
of what we've been missing, thank you, of the happiness66600:37:02.199 --> 00:37:02.880
we've lost.66700:37:02.639 --> 00:37:04.840
At cat Ever, don't you have something to show me?66800:37:07.679 --> 00:37:14.840
All right? Hold out your hand. There that's what you wanted. Oh, yes,66900:37:16.039 --> 00:37:20.639
you know It's amazing that even fits familiar with this67000:37:21.079 --> 00:37:26.559
ring eye the wed. Oh, man, I need you so desperately.67100:37:27.440 --> 00:37:28.559
When are we going to get married?67200:37:28.639 --> 00:37:29.039
Whenever?67300:37:29.079 --> 00:37:29.400
You like?67400:37:29.480 --> 00:37:32.960
My darling? Well, isn't the lady you're supposed to set67500:37:33.039 --> 00:37:33.519
the dates?67600:37:34.239 --> 00:37:34.440
Oh?67700:37:34.519 --> 00:37:36.480
I suppose. So I'll have to speak to my uncle.67800:37:37.519 --> 00:37:39.519
I wonder how he'll feel about your marrying me.67900:37:39.679 --> 00:37:42.039
He wants what I want and what's best for me.68000:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.400
Oh, if you knew how I missed not seeing you68100:37:45.480 --> 00:37:49.719
this past month. I thought the loneliness would gradually disappear,68200:37:49.760 --> 00:37:52.639
but it only got worse as the days went by.68300:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.840
I've missed you more, My poor darling.68400:37:55.880 --> 00:37:58.440
You could have saved yourself all that misery if you've68500:37:58.559 --> 00:38:00.519
just gotten the ring for me right off.68600:38:02.119 --> 00:38:05.559
That was the most difficult and painful thing I've ever68700:38:05.679 --> 00:38:06.199
been faced with.68800:38:06.400 --> 00:38:07.360
Did need to try to?68900:38:07.559 --> 00:38:10.159
Oh? I mean I love you. I prove that.69000:38:10.480 --> 00:38:10.920
I warn you.69100:38:11.000 --> 00:38:14.480
The subject of the ring is taboo. We'll never mention69200:38:14.559 --> 00:38:15.360
it again.69300:38:16.079 --> 00:38:21.920
Okay if you want. After all, a wife must please69400:38:21.960 --> 00:38:22.639
her husband.69500:38:27.480 --> 00:38:27.719
Arthur.69600:38:28.280 --> 00:38:29.960
I'm here to check on a rumor that I hope69700:38:30.039 --> 00:38:30.519
is false.69800:38:30.880 --> 00:38:33.800
It was about a media and Harry Wilkerson getting married.69900:38:34.159 --> 00:38:34.719
It's true.70000:38:35.719 --> 00:38:38.199
Have you any idea? What a hell's brew your confounding?70100:38:38.840 --> 00:38:42.119
Harry Wilkerson is no robot, whatever you may think of him.70200:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.039
He's a human being with feelings and sensibility.70300:38:45.280 --> 00:38:48.840
Becoming hysterical Wilkerson's forthcoming marriage to a.70400:38:48.920 --> 00:38:51.119
Media is none of your business.70500:38:51.679 --> 00:38:53.199
That you persist in making it so.70600:38:53.719 --> 00:38:56.280
Leads me to conclude that you're not entirely over your70700:38:56.320 --> 00:38:57.920
early infatuation.70800:38:57.400 --> 00:38:57.880
With the media.70900:38:58.000 --> 00:38:59.960
Oh you really believe that, don't you?71000:39:00.119 --> 00:39:00.599
Of course?71100:39:01.039 --> 00:39:04.000
And as a media's creator, I can understand it. She71200:39:04.159 --> 00:39:09.280
was designed to be irresistible and also controllable only by me.71300:39:10.199 --> 00:39:13.000
She was created to please men, and.71400:39:13.039 --> 00:39:17.280
She has either I employ you as a friend, as71500:39:17.280 --> 00:39:20.320
someone who has your best interest at heart, give up71600:39:20.360 --> 00:39:24.880
this insanity. I know your sincere, Gerald, but nothing you71700:39:24.960 --> 00:39:27.880
say or do will make me change my plan. And71800:39:28.039 --> 00:39:30.760
what happens when, inevitably, at some time in the future,71900:39:31.039 --> 00:39:34.159
Wilkeson discovered the truth about a media. Ah, that's an72000:39:34.199 --> 00:39:39.760
interesting speculation. I am looking forward to that day. What72100:39:39.880 --> 00:39:44.039
do you suppose he'll do? I have no idea, But72200:39:44.079 --> 00:39:47.760
what will you gain if you told Wilkeson the truth? Now?72300:39:48.280 --> 00:39:49.920
Wouldn't that be humiliation enough?72400:39:49.960 --> 00:39:53.119
For him and satisfaction enough for you to know that72500:39:53.159 --> 00:39:56.079
you are so completely fooled a scientist like wilkeson the72600:39:56.239 --> 00:39:57.559
sailor birth Gerald.72700:39:58.039 --> 00:40:01.159
Nothing you say will stop me from walking down the72800:40:01.400 --> 00:40:10.880
church aisle tomorrow to give the bride away.72900:40:13.559 --> 00:40:17.480
Oh Cheryl, Oh, you've caught me at a terrible time.73000:40:17.559 --> 00:40:19.199
Didn't you know that I'm getting married in an hour?73100:40:19.599 --> 00:40:20.519
Not if I can help it?73200:40:22.400 --> 00:40:23.239
What the devil is it?73300:40:23.440 --> 00:40:24.159
Erry?73400:40:24.360 --> 00:40:27.039
Your marriage to a Melia will be a disaster. It's73500:40:27.039 --> 00:40:28.960
simply a plot on the part of Arthur More to73600:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.920
make a fool of you. Have you lost your mind?73700:40:32.199 --> 00:40:38.559
Amelia is a mannequin, an automaton, a robot programmed by Moore.73800:40:40.960 --> 00:40:41.360
Jerold.73900:40:43.599 --> 00:40:47.360
I can see you believe that I'm sorry for you.74000:40:47.440 --> 00:40:50.079
I don't know it's causes operation, but I'll prove it74100:40:50.119 --> 00:40:52.960
to you. But I'm meeting my best man in forty74200:40:53.000 --> 00:40:55.960
five minutes. I'm already layer a scientist. You at least74300:40:56.000 --> 00:40:58.760
let me prove the truth of what I'm saying. Well,74400:40:58.800 --> 00:41:01.320
how do you propose to do? And just meet me74500:41:01.360 --> 00:41:03.480
at the church in half an hour. But don't let74600:41:03.599 --> 00:41:05.880
Arthur Moore or a media know that you have arrived.74700:41:10.760 --> 00:41:13.639
I conceived a wild plan, but it was the only74800:41:13.679 --> 00:41:16.440
thing I could dream up. I raced to the church,74900:41:16.800 --> 00:41:19.719
praying that Moore's eagerness would have him bring Amelia early.75000:41:20.559 --> 00:41:22.920
When I saw I was right, I stopped in the75100:41:22.960 --> 00:41:27.440
minister's study briefly, and then entered the room where they were.75200:41:28.519 --> 00:41:32.159
Gerald, what a surprise, come to say a last pond75300:41:32.199 --> 00:41:33.000
farewell to.75400:41:32.920 --> 00:41:36.840
The beautiful bride something like that, and also to ask, now.75500:41:37.639 --> 00:41:39.079
No more pleading with me too?75600:41:39.239 --> 00:41:41.800
Oh, excuse me, I see that I'm wanted in the75700:41:41.840 --> 00:41:44.880
minister's study. I'll be right back, my dear, and don't75800:41:44.920 --> 00:41:47.199
be too nice to our dear friend, Gerald.75900:41:48.719 --> 00:41:53.960
Amelia, come with me where to meet someone you know76000:41:54.199 --> 00:41:54.639
and like?76100:41:55.639 --> 00:41:55.960
Quickly?76200:41:56.039 --> 00:42:02.360
Now, Harry, don't you know it's bad luck for the76300:42:02.400 --> 00:42:04.159
room to see the bride before the wedding.76400:42:04.360 --> 00:42:07.119
That's an outdated zup position, Amelia. All right, Gerald, get76500:42:07.159 --> 00:42:10.400
on with it. I'm warning you. I've come prepared with Amelia.76600:42:10.840 --> 00:42:11.760
Do you like me?76700:42:12.159 --> 00:42:15.400
Of course, Jerald, very much. You are one of the76800:42:15.440 --> 00:42:18.280
most fascinating men I've ever met. All right, what is76900:42:18.320 --> 00:42:19.199
this rigamariot?77000:42:19.840 --> 00:42:20.320
Amelia?77100:42:21.320 --> 00:42:25.360
Will you kiss me? Of course? Now, Shop, I'm giving77200:42:25.360 --> 00:42:26.400
a scientist's poof.77300:42:28.119 --> 00:42:37.199
Kiss me, Amelia, Amelia, you're truly a lovely, bewitching preacher.77400:42:39.000 --> 00:42:40.039
Will you marry me?77500:42:40.559 --> 00:42:40.800
Why?77600:42:40.880 --> 00:42:44.480
Of course? Oh? Oh wait no, Uncle Arthur told me77700:42:44.559 --> 00:42:46.840
not to be too nice to you.77800:42:47.000 --> 00:42:55.280
Uncle uncle Arthur told a media what about me? How77900:42:55.320 --> 00:42:56.400
can you think of anyone else?78000:42:56.400 --> 00:42:56.559
Well?78100:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.360
I want you to marry me, Amelia, to be my wife.78200:42:59.840 --> 00:43:01.280
You want to, don't you?78300:43:01.679 --> 00:43:06.000
Of course? Dear Gerald, I've always liked you. You know that.78400:43:06.320 --> 00:43:09.119
Shut up, you stupid mind. There's no sense in starting78500:43:09.159 --> 00:43:09.639
at harrys.78600:43:09.639 --> 00:43:10.880
He's only a robot only.78700:43:12.000 --> 00:43:15.840
I told you I can't prepared, and now I'm going78800:43:15.880 --> 00:43:16.559
to prove it.78900:43:17.199 --> 00:43:18.760
What's going on here? Work?79000:43:19.280 --> 00:43:21.840
What do you wash your mind? Put that knife down79100:43:22.159 --> 00:43:26.239
until I destroyed your monstrous creation. Now watch while I79200:43:26.280 --> 00:43:31.119
reper inside a stop him, Gerald? Somebody there right by79300:43:31.119 --> 00:43:32.280
your heart you're.79400:43:32.199 --> 00:43:37.719
Supposed to be and there stops lasting Alia.79500:43:39.239 --> 00:43:40.039
Don't you see?79600:43:40.360 --> 00:43:42.280
The professor is bleeding alsong Earl.79700:43:44.079 --> 00:43:46.079
Maybe you were right, Harry.79800:43:46.280 --> 00:43:49.199
Get an ambulance here, immediately, move man.79900:43:49.880 --> 00:43:55.000
Tuly Earl. The knife is going too deep, too much80000:43:55.199 --> 00:43:56.039
loss of blood.80100:43:56.119 --> 00:43:57.159
Don't talk out here.80200:43:57.239 --> 00:44:01.360
It doesn't matter now you see I was telling the80300:44:01.400 --> 00:44:04.599
truth when I said, I gave ten.80400:44:04.440 --> 00:44:06.519
Years of my life to me.80500:44:07.960 --> 00:44:15.119
I did give her life, Geril my own life's blood.80600:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.800
The story never made the newspapers. When the coroner told80700:44:23.800 --> 00:44:27.280
the district attorney that Emilia was indeed a robot, the80800:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.119
state felt there was no way they could prosecute Wilkinson80900:44:30.199 --> 00:44:36.480
for murder or even manslaughter. Until now, I kept quiet,81000:44:37.599 --> 00:44:40.400
but I never stopped wanting to tell the story to81100:44:40.440 --> 00:44:50.920
the world. And quite a story it is. Harry Wilkeson81200:44:51.079 --> 00:44:55.440
resigned and left town quietly. You may take the story81300:44:55.480 --> 00:44:58.800
as a fairy tale, a horror story, or as a81400:44:58.840 --> 00:45:00.840
warning to its yours.81500:45:01.280 --> 00:45:02.519
Oh, and there is.81600:45:02.559 --> 00:45:05.559
Another aspect to the story that should be considered. I'll81700:45:05.599 --> 00:45:19.199
be right back to explore it with you. And we81800:45:19.320 --> 00:45:22.559
know that the district attorney felt the state couldn't prosecute81900:45:22.599 --> 00:45:26.519
Harry Wilkerson for the murder of a robot. But if82000:45:26.559 --> 00:45:29.880
it was indeed Wilkerson's knife that was responsible for the82100:45:29.960 --> 00:45:34.360
life blood seeping from Professor Arthur Moore, could that perhaps82200:45:34.400 --> 00:45:39.199
be construed as murder or at least manslaughter For you82300:45:39.320 --> 00:45:43.320
lawyers in the audience, A pretty little legal problem, one82400:45:43.400 --> 00:45:47.000
for which I should be grateful for your guidance. Our82500:45:47.039 --> 00:45:50.760
cast included John Deale, Marionseldus, Ralph Bell and Gordon Gould.82600:45:51.320 --> 00:45:54.400
The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.82700:45:56.920 --> 00:46:00.239
And now a preview of our next do.82800:46:00.920 --> 00:46:02.960
So this is your room, Rodney.82900:46:03.360 --> 00:46:08.519
It's very nice, but my so hot and stuffy.83000:46:09.559 --> 00:46:11.159
Demmit, let's open a window.83100:46:11.199 --> 00:46:15.000
It's midsummer and you have all the windows closed.83200:46:17.000 --> 00:46:18.400
Yeah, that's better.83300:46:19.199 --> 00:46:21.559
Yeah, let's see your butterflies.83400:46:23.320 --> 00:46:29.760
Well, aren't you going to show me your collection? Yea, Rodney?83500:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.440
Why are you staring like that?83600:46:33.480 --> 00:46:38.800
Rodney? Don't come any closer to me. I don't like you, Rodney.83700:46:39.119 --> 00:46:40.280
What's the matter with you?83800:46:46.719 --> 00:46:49.719
Until next time? Pleasant?83900:47:01.920 --> 00:47:08.519
Well, that certainly gave us something to consider, wouldn't you say? Oh,84000:47:08.559 --> 00:47:09.400
what's that?84100:47:09.480 --> 00:47:09.679
Oh?84200:47:09.840 --> 00:47:13.239
No, no, no, don't you worry about that? That lock?84300:47:13.800 --> 00:47:21.239
Oh it cannot be broken, not by mortal means anyway. No, no, no,84400:47:21.840 --> 00:47:26.679
nothing but a key will do. And speaking of confinement,84500:47:27.920 --> 00:47:32.079
what about the opposite of confinement? What about freedom? Have84600:47:32.199 --> 00:47:36.119
you thought about any trips, any adventures, any excursions, any84700:47:36.440 --> 00:47:40.679
sojourns you want to take in the new year. I84800:47:40.800 --> 00:47:46.199
myself have limited options, but I have been many places.84900:47:46.480 --> 00:47:50.559
I suppose I'm on a Vacation from.85000:47:50.519 --> 00:48:01.440
Life presents The Mysterious Traveler, produced and directed by Bob85100:48:01.480 --> 00:48:02.800
Other and David Cogan.85200:48:09.639 --> 00:48:12.800
This is a Mysterious Traveler in writing you to join85300:48:12.880 --> 00:48:15.360
me on another journey into the realm of the strange85400:48:15.400 --> 00:48:19.000
and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip,85500:48:19.440 --> 00:48:21.840
that it will thrill you a little and chill you85600:48:21.880 --> 00:48:24.519
a little. So settle back, get a good rip on85700:48:24.559 --> 00:48:27.559
your nerves, and be comfortable if you can.85800:48:34.159 --> 00:48:37.320
By the way, did you have a good vacation this summer?85900:48:38.039 --> 00:48:44.039
And I it's quiet time, no unusual excitement, no unpleasant86000:48:44.039 --> 00:48:47.280
event that shook your nerves so that you jump when86100:48:47.280 --> 00:48:50.559
a strange hand knocks on your window at midnight or86200:48:50.639 --> 00:48:55.280
a slow, heavy footsteps come up to your door. That's good.86300:48:56.119 --> 00:48:58.320
Then you're in shape to go on another vacation with86400:48:58.480 --> 00:49:09.280
me tonight. It's the story I call vacation from Life.86500:49:10.239 --> 00:49:12.800
The spot I have in mind for your vacation is86600:49:12.800 --> 00:49:17.119
a tiny harbor along the northern Maine coast, an isolated86700:49:17.159 --> 00:49:20.840
beach reached only by boat from the nearest town two86800:49:20.880 --> 00:49:25.360
miles away, and so lonely. There's only a single cottage,86900:49:25.960 --> 00:49:29.280
but it's going to be vacant soon. The president oor87000:49:29.400 --> 00:49:31.639
won't be leaving it after tonight.87100:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.800
My name is Matthew Clark. I am forty years old,87200:49:40.840 --> 00:49:44.239
and I teach Greek in New York City. I suppose87300:49:44.280 --> 00:49:47.199
you could say I'm a typical professor, since I wear87400:49:47.360 --> 00:49:52.159
glasses stuper little. I'm absent minded at times, and as87500:49:52.199 --> 00:49:54.039
my wife has said so many times and the ten87600:49:54.119 --> 00:49:57.280
years we've been married, I hardly know a screwdriver from87700:49:57.280 --> 00:50:00.239
a monkey eventual, how to replace a burned out big87800:50:00.360 --> 00:50:06.119
light bulb. A fumbler. That's her favorite word to describe me. Well,87900:50:06.159 --> 00:50:10.280
she's going to find out it's not true. But I88000:50:10.320 --> 00:50:13.000
mustn't get excited. I won't be able to finish. As88100:50:13.000 --> 00:50:16.719
if I might, I don't keep calm putting this. In88200:50:16.800 --> 00:50:20.800
our cottage on Desolation Beach in Maine, it's almost dark88300:50:21.039 --> 00:50:23.599
and the waves are pounding on the sand. The wind88400:50:23.679 --> 00:50:27.440
is rising. There's a real northeaster coming. But four days ago,88500:50:27.760 --> 00:50:29.679
when I came up here to open the cottage, the88600:50:29.719 --> 00:50:32.880
sun shone, the water sparkled, and except for the driftwood88700:50:32.920 --> 00:50:35.079
and seaweed along the beach, there wasn't a hint of88800:50:35.079 --> 00:50:39.599
the fierce storms that can lash this shore. I made88900:50:39.639 --> 00:50:42.440
sure that the cottage was in good shape, aired the rooms,89000:50:42.679 --> 00:50:45.079
and put away the stock of provisions that Thompson had89100:50:45.079 --> 00:50:47.559
brought from me from the village in his boat. And89200:50:47.559 --> 00:50:49.280
then while I waited for Seth to call for me,89300:50:49.320 --> 00:50:52.079
I walked along the beach, cooking into the piles of driftwood,89400:50:52.119 --> 00:50:56.000
like a boy searching for treasure. And I found it.89500:50:56.880 --> 00:50:59.239
I found something that set my heart to pounding and89600:50:59.280 --> 00:51:01.679
brought a flush of excitement to my face, something that89700:51:01.800 --> 00:51:05.719
roused my imagination to a feverish pitch. It was a89800:51:05.800 --> 00:51:09.239
mind enabled mind torn loose Smith's mooring some place in89900:51:09.280 --> 00:51:12.480
the Atlantic during the war, and tossed ashore at last,90000:51:12.719 --> 00:51:16.239
here at my feet. It was hidden in the seaweed,90100:51:16.679 --> 00:51:19.559
a three foot steel ball with five hundred pounds of90200:51:19.639 --> 00:51:23.599
TNT inside it, waiting for an incautious touch to set90300:51:23.639 --> 00:51:26.920
it on. When I saw it, I started back an alarm,90400:51:27.760 --> 00:51:31.519
and then in a flash I knew knew what a90500:51:31.599 --> 00:51:33.559
treasure I'd found and what it was going to mean90600:51:33.599 --> 00:51:36.159
to me. I was gloating over it so that I90700:51:36.159 --> 00:51:38.840
didn't even hear seth boat arrive at my dock until90800:51:38.840 --> 00:51:41.960
he called to me further if I ready to behind90900:51:42.039 --> 00:51:45.480
the town. I turned to see Seth stepping down off91000:51:45.519 --> 00:51:48.119
my dock. I hurried toward him. Yes, Seth, I'm ready.91100:51:48.159 --> 00:51:50.840
I were just stretching my legs while I waited.91200:51:51.320 --> 00:51:52.679
Then your boating around.91300:51:52.360 --> 00:51:53.159
That drift wood.91400:51:53.480 --> 00:51:57.000
I figured maybe you'd found some worthwhile, said, What I91500:51:57.039 --> 00:52:02.320
found was a very dead codfish, and extremely you rewind. Well,91600:52:02.559 --> 00:52:06.039
here's the boat. How emfess side? For Pete's sake. Don't91700:52:06.039 --> 00:52:07.719
never step right in the guttle of a boat when91800:52:07.719 --> 00:52:10.480
it's rocking. You leave to fall into the boat and91900:52:10.480 --> 00:52:13.199
break a leg, or you're over the side. You maybe drowned,92000:52:14.000 --> 00:52:16.000
because you've told me that before happens you not more92100:52:16.000 --> 00:52:20.119
than eleven times. Yeah, I'll hop in the first. Now92200:52:20.199 --> 00:52:20.800
give me a hand.92300:52:21.000 --> 00:52:21.280
That's it.92400:52:22.079 --> 00:52:26.760
Jump down here beside me. Look out, professor. When you92500:52:26.800 --> 00:52:28.519
lose your balance and the boat, don'll never grab the92600:52:28.519 --> 00:52:29.679
engines usually hot.92700:52:30.360 --> 00:52:31.960
Let me see how bad you burn your hands?92800:52:32.239 --> 00:52:32.519
Really?92900:52:32.760 --> 00:52:34.920
Is it not too bad? It's clumsy of me, though,93000:52:34.960 --> 00:52:35.639
wasn't there for.93100:52:35.679 --> 00:52:39.440
Us to burn? Ain't bad with the little engine? Grease93200:52:39.480 --> 00:52:43.119
and picked it up there?93300:52:44.000 --> 00:52:48.960
Now you sit on back there, anyone said, stay set time?93400:52:50.880 --> 00:52:54.880
Truth is, professor. I don't trust you on machinery, no93500:52:55.039 --> 00:53:04.039
more than I would have baby. My hand burned painfully,93600:53:04.039 --> 00:53:06.519
but I was too elated to notice. All the way93700:53:06.519 --> 00:53:08.880
back to the village and then by trained to New York,93800:53:09.159 --> 00:53:12.239
thoughts and plans raced through my mind. I formulated in93900:53:12.280 --> 00:53:14.239
the scard at half a dozen schemes until the right94000:53:14.320 --> 00:53:18.079
one came to me, so simple it would be impossible94100:53:18.119 --> 00:53:21.719
to go wrong. And then I fell asleep as peacefully94200:53:21.719 --> 00:53:26.000
as a child. In New York. Next morning, I hurried94300:53:26.000 --> 00:53:28.599
down to tenth Street, to a tiny apartment six flights up,94400:53:28.719 --> 00:53:30.800
and eagerly wrapped on the brass knocker.94500:53:36.280 --> 00:53:38.199
Oh my, Matthew, Matthew, it's you.94600:53:38.480 --> 00:53:41.119
Yes, Ruth. I know you didn't expect me so early,94700:53:41.199 --> 00:53:42.360
but here I am.94800:53:42.760 --> 00:53:45.199
I didn't expect you so early, but I am glad94900:53:45.239 --> 00:53:45.679
to see you.95000:53:45.960 --> 00:53:46.599
Who did you come in?95100:53:46.840 --> 00:53:47.159
Thank you.95200:53:48.960 --> 00:53:52.280
I'm making some coffee to I'll be comfortable only for95300:53:52.360 --> 00:53:52.760
a moment.95400:53:53.920 --> 00:53:57.280
As Ruth bustle around making coffee, I sat down and relaxed.95500:53:57.880 --> 00:54:00.920
The tiny apartment was soothing. There was an atmosphere of95600:54:00.960 --> 00:54:04.159
peace and choiet about it that delighted me and Ruth95700:54:04.199 --> 00:54:09.000
herself delighted me even more. She was small, charmingly feminine.95800:54:09.559 --> 00:54:12.519
She was a teacher too, of ancient history. We'd met95900:54:12.559 --> 00:54:14.519
during one of my summer lectures at the university and96000:54:14.559 --> 00:54:17.880
quickly found much in common. One of our favorite pastimes96100:54:18.000 --> 00:54:21.400
was to discuss the life of the ancient world, perhaps96200:54:21.440 --> 00:54:24.280
the Punic War or the history of Greece. She from96300:54:24.280 --> 00:54:26.639
the standpoint of the historium, I from that of a96400:54:26.639 --> 00:54:29.119
student of the language and literature.96500:54:29.159 --> 00:54:32.719
Matthew, drink this hot and strong the way you like it.96600:54:32.880 --> 00:54:33.760
Thank you.96700:54:33.800 --> 00:54:39.400
Oh you dropped it well, Matthew, who read your hand?96800:54:40.280 --> 00:54:41.320
What have you done to it?96900:54:41.320 --> 00:54:44.000
It's just a little burn, nothing to worry about, Matthew.97000:54:44.039 --> 00:54:46.960
You must take care of yourself. I'm going to fix97100:54:47.039 --> 00:54:50.880
that burn at some lotion right here and bandages. Just97200:54:50.960 --> 00:54:52.920
sit and drink your coffee while I take care of it,97300:54:53.679 --> 00:54:55.559
and tell me all about the cottage and the trip97400:54:55.639 --> 00:54:56.320
and everything.97500:54:56.880 --> 00:55:00.400
The touch of her fingers was amazingly soothing, And as97600:55:00.400 --> 00:55:02.559
she managed my hand, I told her of my trip. No,97700:55:02.679 --> 00:55:04.559
I said nothing of the mind that I'd found on97800:55:04.599 --> 00:55:07.440
the beach. She listened to me as a woman should,97900:55:07.760 --> 00:55:11.480
with interest and appreciation. She made me forget my clumsiness,98000:55:11.599 --> 00:55:17.840
my awkwardness, that conversation. I cannot deny it. My insignificance98100:55:18.079 --> 00:55:20.559
in the world, no wonder. I loved her with a98200:55:20.599 --> 00:55:23.559
devotion that my friends would have thought impossible. In poor, dull,98300:55:23.760 --> 00:55:28.559
dry Matthew Clark, Professor of Greek it was with the98400:55:28.599 --> 00:55:32.440
reluctance that I said goodbye when I finished my coffee.98500:55:32.559 --> 00:55:35.599
I know you have to go, Matthew, but tweet.98600:55:35.280 --> 00:55:37.239
Of you to God in you know that I come98700:55:37.320 --> 00:55:38.119
often her if I could.98800:55:38.199 --> 00:55:40.800
Ruth, of course, Matthew, I understand.98900:55:42.039 --> 00:55:44.480
I will I see you again before your takeification.99000:55:44.960 --> 00:55:47.400
Of course, my dear, I'll stop in day after tomorrow99100:55:47.679 --> 00:55:52.880
and Ruth, yes, I hope to have some news for you,99200:55:52.960 --> 00:55:57.280
then some good news, Yes, my dear, I hope so.99300:55:58.360 --> 00:55:59.079
But for now.99400:56:00.119 --> 00:56:06.840
Wow, how different it was. When I reached my own99500:56:06.880 --> 00:56:10.880
apartment in Washington Square, Louise, my wife greeted me with99600:56:10.920 --> 00:56:13.880
a brisk contempt, which has been her attitude toward me99700:56:13.880 --> 00:56:15.719
almost from the first week that we were married.99800:56:19.159 --> 00:56:24.119
Yes, oh, so your home. Yes, I'm home, safe and sound,99900:56:24.159 --> 00:56:27.920
my dear, safe but not completely sound. I see that100000:56:28.119 --> 00:56:30.280
bandage on your hand. What did you do to yourself100100:56:30.280 --> 00:56:30.760
this time?100200:56:31.599 --> 00:56:35.360
Oh, I burned myself slightly on the engine of Seth100300:56:35.400 --> 00:56:36.119
Thompson's boat.100400:56:36.280 --> 00:56:39.079
Well, you wouldn't be you if you didn't hurt yourself somehow.100500:56:39.920 --> 00:56:44.400
I'll put the bandage on. I see it's fresh. A100600:56:44.519 --> 00:56:46.039
very nice young lady in the drug store at the100700:56:46.039 --> 00:56:46.840
station fixed it.100800:56:46.960 --> 00:56:47.280
You see.100900:56:47.320 --> 00:56:49.199
I stopped right by some oil.101000:56:49.320 --> 00:56:52.880
Never mind the details. I suppose you want me to101100:56:52.960 --> 00:56:54.599
drop everything and fix some breakfast for you.101200:56:54.719 --> 00:56:57.320
Oh no, my dear, No, I had a couple of101300:56:57.320 --> 00:56:59.280
coffee as the drug store. Well, thank goodness to that.101400:57:00.320 --> 00:57:02.079
Well how's the cottage.101500:57:02.400 --> 00:57:04.639
I suppose it had been broken into and half off101600:57:04.639 --> 00:57:05.280
things stolen.101700:57:05.639 --> 00:57:07.960
No, it was in fine shape. One of the shoves101800:57:08.039 --> 00:57:09.039
was blown off, that was all.101900:57:09.400 --> 00:57:12.119
What about the electricity? I suppose you forgot to have102000:57:12.199 --> 00:57:12.639
it turned on?102100:57:12.760 --> 00:57:15.039
Oh, my dear, I attended that first thing. The place102200:57:15.119 --> 00:57:16.679
is ready and waiting for us.102300:57:16.679 --> 00:57:19.320
Well, and hardly believe you haven't forgotten something.102400:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.239
But I can't stand here talking. I have things to do.102500:57:22.679 --> 00:57:25.280
I suppose you'll want to rest.102600:57:25.440 --> 00:57:27.480
Yes, I would rather like a nap. I didn't sleep102700:57:27.480 --> 00:57:30.239
so very well on the train. Very well, I'll see102800:57:30.239 --> 00:57:34.440
you at dinner. There's something else I want to talk102900:57:34.440 --> 00:57:37.079
to you about, but it can wait.103000:57:40.840 --> 00:57:44.119
Something else she wanted to talk about. Well, there was103100:57:44.119 --> 00:57:46.840
something else that I wanted to talk about too. I103200:57:46.920 --> 00:57:48.920
was sure it would do no good, but I had103300:57:48.920 --> 00:57:52.960
to mention it. I didn't see Louise again until dinner,103400:57:53.000 --> 00:57:55.719
and then she wasted no time and coming to the point.103500:57:57.239 --> 00:58:00.400
Matthew, I want to speak to you about your insurance.103600:58:01.239 --> 00:58:02.159
My insurance dollar.103700:58:02.480 --> 00:58:05.599
I said insurance, didn't I She wouldn't repeat my words103800:58:05.639 --> 00:58:06.599
after me like a parrot.103900:58:06.960 --> 00:58:10.440
Well, I'm sorry, Louise, It's just that I rather think104000:58:10.480 --> 00:58:12.679
I'm carrying all the insurance I can afford on the104100:58:12.800 --> 00:58:13.639
teacher's salary.104200:58:14.000 --> 00:58:17.599
On a teacher's salary, that's exactly the point. I suppose104300:58:17.639 --> 00:58:20.960
something happened to you, what's to become of me certainly104400:58:20.960 --> 00:58:22.119
hasn't been able to say anything.104500:58:23.000 --> 00:58:27.400
There is my life insurance, five thousand dollars a pitness104600:58:27.400 --> 00:58:28.360
in these times.104700:58:29.039 --> 00:58:31.519
No, Matthew, you must take out more insurance.104800:58:31.920 --> 00:58:34.400
With your ridiculous faculty for getting hurt, you might easily104900:58:34.519 --> 00:58:35.679
kill yourself at any time.105000:58:35.719 --> 00:58:37.960
Oh, that's a rather callous thing to say, Louise.105100:58:38.440 --> 00:58:42.079
It's practical, that's all. I look at your burned hand.105200:58:42.599 --> 00:58:43.360
You might just ease.105300:58:43.360 --> 00:58:46.440
We have fallen overboard and drowned, has fallen against the engines.105400:58:46.199 --> 00:58:50.920
Louise, I'm not a child, which brings me to something105500:58:50.920 --> 00:58:52.440
that I want to say.105600:58:53.760 --> 00:58:57.519
Well say it, then, Louise.105700:58:58.519 --> 00:59:02.519
For some time I felt that you were dissatisfied with105800:59:02.599 --> 00:59:03.719
me as a husband.105900:59:04.079 --> 00:59:05.400
Indeed, you can go on, Matthew.106000:59:05.639 --> 00:59:07.800
You seem to look upon me as a rather feeble106100:59:07.800 --> 00:59:11.440
witted creature whom you must constantly admonish. I'm sure it106200:59:11.440 --> 00:59:13.039
can be no pleasure to you to be tied to106300:59:13.079 --> 00:59:14.039
such a manager, you think.106400:59:13.920 --> 00:59:16.960
Me, Louise, how are you driving at, Matthew.106500:59:18.079 --> 00:59:20.880
Well, you have a very fine intelligence and great energy,106600:59:20.920 --> 00:59:23.320
and you deserve to be a free woman, able to106700:59:23.360 --> 00:59:25.880
carve a better place for yourself in the world. Yes,106800:59:26.039 --> 00:59:28.679
you're a handsome woman. You could easily find a husband106900:59:28.679 --> 00:59:32.480
more worthy of you, someone like that insurance agent Court107000:59:32.599 --> 00:59:33.840
Van Balga, for instance.107100:59:33.880 --> 00:59:36.159
And just why do you mentioned Court vn Walter.107200:59:36.360 --> 00:59:39.199
Well, it's just as an example. He's obviously attracted to you,107300:59:39.360 --> 00:59:39.800
that's all.107400:59:41.119 --> 00:59:43.440
And so you think I should.107500:59:43.159 --> 00:59:45.519
Divorce you, Well, I can't help feeling that you'd be107600:59:45.599 --> 00:59:46.760
much happier if you did, Louise.107700:59:47.000 --> 00:59:52.320
Possibly I would be. But I know my duty without me, Matthew,107800:59:52.400 --> 00:59:55.480
and it would be quite lost. I'm sure you've managed107900:59:55.480 --> 00:59:59.920
to kill yourself somehow within a year. I'm your wife108001:00:00.119 --> 01:00:04.599
met you, and your wife, I shall remain until death,108101:00:05.360 --> 01:00:07.519
as they say, do us part.108201:00:11.079 --> 01:00:15.119
Until death do us part. Well, I had tried, I'd108301:00:15.159 --> 01:00:17.800
done my best to save her. Now I had to108401:00:17.800 --> 01:00:20.519
go ahead with my own plans. After all, I had108501:00:20.519 --> 01:00:23.360
a writer some happiness too. I may be a professor108601:00:23.400 --> 01:00:25.719
of Greek, but I'm also a man with a man's108701:00:25.760 --> 01:00:30.559
ability to love and hate. Yes, to love Ruth and108801:00:30.639 --> 01:00:34.199
to hate Louise. I hadn't even known how fiercely I108901:00:34.239 --> 01:00:36.760
hated her until after I met Ruth, and then hatred109001:00:36.760 --> 01:00:39.320
had well leponed me with a violence that had astonished me.109101:00:40.199 --> 01:00:42.079
Some men might put up with such a woman for109201:00:42.119 --> 01:00:44.519
a lifetime, but I'm not one of them. They are109301:00:44.559 --> 01:00:47.760
the weeklies of the world. Men, Real men take what109401:00:47.800 --> 01:00:49.519
they want from life, and I was determined to be109501:00:49.840 --> 01:00:55.199
such a man. Next day I did as Louise insisted.109601:00:55.280 --> 01:00:58.079
I called upon court n Bouta, the blonde, handsome refugee109701:00:58.079 --> 01:01:00.280
who has become so Americanized that he speaks better English109801:01:00.320 --> 01:01:03.280
than most Americans, and who sells life insurance to men109901:01:03.360 --> 01:01:05.960
by flirting with their wives.110001:01:06.719 --> 01:01:07.559
I don't like him.110101:01:08.079 --> 01:01:12.239
His easy self assurance and blatant masculinity revolts me. But110201:01:12.559 --> 01:01:13.880
my business didn't take long.110301:01:14.599 --> 01:01:17.679
There you are, mister Clark, an accident insurance policy for110401:01:17.719 --> 01:01:21.119
twenty thousand dollars able to your so charming wife without110501:01:21.119 --> 01:01:22.320
a fuss of red tape.110601:01:22.480 --> 01:01:24.239
Yes, I think it's a waste of money, but Luise110701:01:24.280 --> 01:01:24.599
wanted it.110801:01:25.360 --> 01:01:27.840
Who can say what will happen in this uncertain existence?110901:01:27.880 --> 01:01:32.400
My friend up their main the fierce tides, the slippery rocks,111001:01:32.440 --> 01:01:35.440
the great storms. At any moment, an accident may snatch111101:01:35.440 --> 01:01:36.440
a man's life from him.111201:01:36.679 --> 01:01:39.400
I suppose so, But I don't know why Louise looks111301:01:39.440 --> 01:01:41.519
upon me as such a child. She's just as I have111401:01:41.559 --> 01:01:45.559
to get hurt as ion, so another policy to ensure111501:01:45.679 --> 01:01:49.960
her life as well. Of course, I'm just an underpaid professor.111601:01:50.119 --> 01:01:52.159
I can hardly throw money around for insurance as easily111701:01:52.199 --> 01:01:52.679
as all that.111801:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.280
All the more reason you needed. If something happened to111901:01:55.280 --> 01:01:59.440
the lovely missus Clark. If I say the expenses was bankrupt.112001:01:59.119 --> 01:02:02.880
You guess they would so let me write a joint112101:02:02.920 --> 01:02:05.800
polacy to cover both of the premium will only be112201:02:05.800 --> 01:02:10.679
a little more well, all right, I suppose it is112301:02:10.679 --> 01:02:13.000
the practical thing to do, when Louis always liked to112401:02:13.000 --> 01:02:13.599
be practiced.112501:02:13.880 --> 01:02:15.960
Of course, when you leave.112601:02:15.880 --> 01:02:18.480
Tomorrow evening from Grand Central Station, I'll give myself the112701:02:18.519 --> 01:02:20.119
pleasure of seeing you off. I may be able to112801:02:20.119 --> 01:02:26.960
help with the baggage and from our my friend. So112901:02:27.079 --> 01:02:31.039
that was that a fumbler. Was I incompetent, unable to113001:02:31.079 --> 01:02:35.159
plan or to fail in anything. Louise would see her113101:02:35.199 --> 01:02:37.960
life was insured in my favor for twenty thousand dollars,113201:02:38.079 --> 01:02:40.719
and Fan Balta would have to testify that he taught113301:02:40.800 --> 01:02:45.559
me into it twenty thousand. What freedom that would give113401:02:45.599 --> 01:02:50.639
Ruth in me? We could travel see Europe, Greece, visit113501:02:50.639 --> 01:02:53.480
the very spots where Socrates walked and Plato composed his113601:02:53.519 --> 01:02:58.599
immortal dialogues. But I can see my jubilants as Louise113701:02:58.679 --> 01:03:03.679
notice it them and happy the brief visitor Ruth say113801:03:03.679 --> 01:03:07.000
goodbye and tell us something of the wonderful future ahead113901:03:07.039 --> 01:03:07.360
for us.114001:03:07.719 --> 01:03:11.320
Oh, Matthew, Matthew, I can hardly believe it's Greece. Rome114101:03:11.480 --> 01:03:14.559
venis all the famous parts of the old world to114201:03:14.679 --> 01:03:15.320
be wonderful.114301:03:15.400 --> 01:03:17.639
Yes, we'll live life for a change roof instead of114401:03:17.679 --> 01:03:19.519
just reading about it in books.114501:03:19.079 --> 01:03:21.639
And your wife, she has a great toe.114601:03:21.880 --> 01:03:24.320
Yes, she's going to divorce me. I'm not the man114701:03:24.400 --> 01:03:25.400
for her, and we both know it.114801:03:25.719 --> 01:03:27.800
I think you're a fine man, Matthew.114901:03:28.199 --> 01:03:31.679
Thank you, my dear. But Louise looks at things differently.115001:03:32.800 --> 01:03:35.440
And we'll be back soon and attend to everything. Then,115101:03:36.360 --> 01:03:45.280
very soon, I promise you, Yes, very soon, much sooner115201:03:45.280 --> 01:03:49.599
than anyone but myself could guess. That night, Louise and115301:03:49.639 --> 01:03:50.519
I left on the Main.115401:03:50.400 --> 01:03:52.320
Express, true to his word.115501:03:53.159 --> 01:03:56.079
Baldos, smirking and odious, was on hand to see us off,115601:03:56.119 --> 01:03:58.239
and Louise made a foolish pots over him.115701:04:00.079 --> 01:04:01.960
Really should have come to the train with us court115801:04:02.159 --> 01:04:03.320
It wasn't necessary, but.115901:04:03.440 --> 01:04:06.239
Of course not for the pleasure, dear lady.116001:04:06.440 --> 01:04:09.159
And the way you carried all our bags.116101:04:09.000 --> 01:04:11.360
Who Matthew could never have carried half of them, even116201:04:11.400 --> 01:04:12.400
if he hadn't burned his.116301:04:12.400 --> 01:04:17.199
Hands the hand learned Greek Greek. Oh well, I hope116401:04:17.199 --> 01:04:19.199
you have a fine trips. Thank you. I shall be116501:04:19.239 --> 01:04:21.519
up to myself next week. I'll drop in on you.116601:04:21.719 --> 01:04:24.159
We'll be looking for you, Court. We'll never give you116701:04:24.199 --> 01:04:25.719
if you fail us, will we? Matthew?116801:04:26.800 --> 01:04:30.199
Oh never mind, Oh dear, it's train time.116901:04:30.679 --> 01:04:34.199
Goodbye course, goodbye, dear lady.117001:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.199
Oh Court, you shouldn't have done that.117101:04:37.719 --> 01:04:40.039
I'm not used to having my hand kiss.117201:04:39.679 --> 01:04:43.159
In that case, dear lady.117301:04:43.159 --> 01:04:45.920
Oh, oh Court, you're a wicked man to kiss me117401:04:46.000 --> 01:04:47.519
like I had in front of my own husband.117501:04:49.320 --> 01:04:50.599
In that case, I'll forgive you.117601:04:50.679 --> 01:04:51.119
Goodbye.117701:05:02.960 --> 01:05:06.119
I pretended not to notice. Louise is ridiculous friendly with117801:05:06.280 --> 01:05:09.719
Curt Fanalda and we went to our drawing room. Took117901:05:09.760 --> 01:05:12.880
past quickly and exactly unscheduled. Late in the afternoon of118001:05:12.920 --> 01:05:13.400
the next.118101:05:13.239 --> 01:05:14.400
Day, we were in s.118201:05:14.599 --> 01:05:21.280
Thompson's boat approaching our cottage on Desolation Bay. There should118301:05:21.280 --> 01:05:24.320
be Miss Clark cottage jumped through the winter at roll.118401:05:24.599 --> 01:05:27.800
Yes, better than I expect is, considering that Matthew closed118501:05:27.920 --> 01:05:28.639
up last fall.118601:05:29.400 --> 01:05:32.360
All the beach is still season well. The storms last118701:05:32.400 --> 01:05:34.760
year that piled up plenty of weeks and stuff. Really,118801:05:34.880 --> 01:05:37.519
I expect you can burn it though. Oh, speaking of118901:05:37.519 --> 01:05:40.760
burning house, your hand, professor, it's getting well said. I'm119001:05:40.840 --> 01:05:43.639
still confortay with it, but it's healing, and then burns119101:05:43.639 --> 01:05:46.440
can be bad business. I noted fella three years ago119201:05:46.440 --> 01:05:54.960
burned his hands died of it. Yes, sir lockjaw, here119301:05:55.000 --> 01:05:58.159
we are last. I'm tired up and help you on.119401:05:58.280 --> 01:06:01.760
Lord and you folks all set for your vacation. Only119501:06:02.119 --> 01:06:04.119
you're going to have kind of nasty weather.119601:06:03.920 --> 01:06:04.920
The next three days.119701:06:05.000 --> 01:06:07.880
Why is a storm coming up? Oh goodness, the sky119801:06:07.920 --> 01:06:10.920
has gotten gratince we left it, and the winds kicking up.119901:06:10.920 --> 01:06:13.679
Looking at the white camps out there, Yeah, we're in120001:06:13.760 --> 01:06:16.679
for real no easter. I hope you folks ain't forgotten nothing,120101:06:16.679 --> 01:06:18.639
because I won't be able to make it here the120201:06:18.760 --> 01:06:20.559
storm goes down.120301:06:20.760 --> 01:06:21.840
But that's the most.120401:06:21.639 --> 01:06:24.880
Provoked, to be sure. Laying plenty of firewood, yeah, you'd120501:06:24.920 --> 01:06:28.079
be cold and damp. Looks over well, I better be120601:06:28.079 --> 01:06:30.360
getting this stuff for shore up. Not the storm's blown120701:06:30.440 --> 01:06:40.360
up fast, and I figured, just listen to.120801:06:40.320 --> 01:06:43.320
That wind, we might have even had a few nice120901:06:43.360 --> 01:06:44.480
days to begin our vacation.121001:06:45.039 --> 01:06:48.440
It is too bad, by Dere, but you don't seem121101:06:48.519 --> 01:06:50.199
very concerned about it.121201:06:50.239 --> 01:06:52.679
If anything, you seem to be quite happy that we're121301:06:52.679 --> 01:06:53.559
going to have a storm.121401:06:54.440 --> 01:06:55.679
Oh but I'm not.121501:06:57.599 --> 01:07:02.000
Now, let's see everything put away, Matthew, Why didn't you121601:07:02.079 --> 01:07:03.039
have the phone and saw that.121701:07:03.159 --> 01:07:04.920
I asked the price of running a wire out this121801:07:05.079 --> 01:07:06.119
far was prohibitively.121901:07:06.480 --> 01:07:09.079
Oh money, money, I'm so tired of not being able122001:07:09.079 --> 01:07:10.880
to do what I want because it cost too much.122101:07:12.159 --> 01:07:15.760
Oh well, Matthew, we need firewood. It's getting very cold,122201:07:15.800 --> 01:07:17.599
and all we have that big log beside her.122301:07:18.079 --> 01:07:20.039
Yes, of course, I'll go pick up some on the beach.122401:07:20.280 --> 01:07:26.079
I'll be back in ten minutes. I hurried out of122501:07:26.159 --> 01:07:28.840
the cottage. The wind howled and the waves were pounding122601:07:28.880 --> 01:07:32.159
on the beach, sending white foam flying. I strolled along122701:07:32.199 --> 01:07:35.519
the hard packed sand, exdusted me. Everything was working to122801:07:35.559 --> 01:07:39.000
help me the storm, my burnt hand, everything was combined.122901:07:39.119 --> 01:07:41.960
Who aid me? As if I planned it so. One123001:07:42.000 --> 01:07:44.400
hundred feet from the house, I found the mine, just123101:07:44.440 --> 01:07:47.280
as I'd left it, hidden beneath the seaweed, a three123201:07:47.320 --> 01:07:51.400
foot lobe of concentrated storm nestling among the driftboard of123301:07:51.400 --> 01:07:55.119
seaweed and dead fish, covered with barnacles, so finus and123401:07:55.239 --> 01:08:00.679
looking so deadly. Carefully, I lifted the sea I'd placed123501:08:00.719 --> 01:08:03.519
on top of them and exposed the detonating horns. There123601:08:03.559 --> 01:08:06.000
was deadly knobs of metal sticking up from the mine123701:08:06.079 --> 01:08:08.719
and spelling death to any ship that touched them. Next,123801:08:08.760 --> 01:08:11.039
I found several pieces of wood nearby, just the right123901:08:11.079 --> 01:08:13.840
side throughund a fireplace, and pulled from the sand the124001:08:13.920 --> 01:08:16.199
length of rope which once had anchor. A fisherman dropped124101:08:16.199 --> 01:08:19.279
the pot, and now came the dangerous pot. I had124201:08:19.279 --> 01:08:21.840
to fasten several pieces of the firewood to the detonating124301:08:21.880 --> 01:08:24.640
horns of the mine, using the rope to tie them fast.124401:08:25.640 --> 01:08:28.399
With the wind blowing steadily stronger and the storm coming closer,124501:08:28.640 --> 01:08:32.960
I worked as delicately, and the surge a humbler while124601:08:33.039 --> 01:08:38.279
I not now. In five minutes the job was done.124701:08:38.439 --> 01:08:41.199
The drift would tied security to the detonating horns, a124801:08:41.319 --> 01:08:44.399
sup of booby trap for anyone seeking firewood on that beach,124901:08:44.640 --> 01:08:47.079
A strong pool on one of the pieces tied to125001:08:47.119 --> 01:08:51.159
the mine, and afterwards, what evidence would there be? It125101:08:51.199 --> 01:08:54.159
would be tragic, of course, but really no one saw125201:08:54.239 --> 01:08:56.760
the Louise stumbled into a mine while walking on the beach.125301:08:57.960 --> 01:09:01.520
I'd mourned for a while and then married, dear, sweet,125401:09:01.680 --> 01:09:07.159
adoring through I was finished, I put seaweed back to125501:09:07.159 --> 01:09:09.720
cover the line, leaving with the food on top where125601:09:09.720 --> 01:09:12.239
it'd be easy to see and pick up. And then125701:09:12.279 --> 01:09:14.439
I hurried back to the cottage and my heart was125801:09:14.479 --> 01:09:16.319
pounding in my chest with a noise like the thunder125901:09:16.319 --> 01:09:18.359
of the waves as I flung the door open and entered.126001:09:19.760 --> 01:09:22.399
Well, Matthew, hire's the firewood.126101:09:23.279 --> 01:09:25.840
I'm sorry, Louise. It hurt my burnt hand. I couldn't126201:09:25.840 --> 01:09:26.640
carry anything back.126301:09:26.680 --> 01:09:28.560
Time might have known that you can't even bring in tire,126401:09:28.600 --> 01:09:29.479
would you, humbler it?126501:09:29.600 --> 01:09:31.479
I did gather some. I left it on top of126601:09:31.479 --> 01:09:33.319
a pile of seaweed down the beach, but I couldn't126701:09:33.319 --> 01:09:34.119
bring it any further.126801:09:34.319 --> 01:09:36.239
Now I suppose I have to go get it.126901:09:36.319 --> 01:09:38.399
Well, I'll help you, but I can't pick the sticks127001:09:38.479 --> 01:09:38.960
up alone.127101:09:38.960 --> 01:09:41.520
Oh no, Matthew, you stay here and get the fire started.127201:09:42.439 --> 01:09:43.000
Maybe you can.127301:09:42.920 --> 01:09:44.880
Chop some sprinters off that log, even if you can127401:09:45.000 --> 01:09:45.479
use only.127501:09:45.359 --> 01:09:47.800
One hand, of course, I'll have a fine fire going127601:09:47.840 --> 01:09:50.239
when you get back. I can handle the action with127701:09:50.319 --> 01:09:50.800
one hand.127801:09:51.239 --> 01:09:56.039
You see, Matkew, you're acting rather oddly.127901:09:57.159 --> 01:09:59.319
Your face is flushed. I wonder if you could be128001:09:59.359 --> 01:09:59.960
getting a fever.128101:10:00.560 --> 01:10:01.199
I don't think so.128201:10:01.279 --> 01:10:03.000
Then, on top of everything else, i'd have to nurse you.128301:10:03.319 --> 01:10:06.359
I'm presently all right, Louise, and I'll have this log128401:10:06.479 --> 01:10:13.000
chump by the time you'll get back. Oh have you done.128501:10:13.319 --> 01:10:13.920
What I cut?128601:10:13.920 --> 01:10:16.239
My leggy? Help me to the chair, my arm.128701:10:16.920 --> 01:10:20.560
Yeah, I'll sit down there, let's see.128801:10:21.000 --> 01:10:23.520
Oh oh my, Louise, look at all the blood.128901:10:24.159 --> 01:10:25.920
Continue, sit still, Matthew. I can't tell a thing that129001:10:26.000 --> 01:10:27.640
you squoiling, So let me.129101:10:27.760 --> 01:10:30.800
Bleeding, sir. Look it's coming out in little spirits. Louise,129201:10:31.199 --> 01:10:31.720
do something.129301:10:32.560 --> 01:10:35.399
I'm very much afraid Matthew that you've cut an artery.129401:10:36.199 --> 01:10:37.319
Huh an artery?129501:10:38.039 --> 01:10:42.159
Oh no, I always knew something like this would happen someday, Louis.129601:10:42.279 --> 01:10:45.119
Just don't just stand there. Do something. Put it trinically129701:10:45.159 --> 01:10:47.880
on my leg. No, Matthew, no, what do you mean?129801:10:48.119 --> 01:10:50.399
I mean the state has obviously intended you to die,129901:10:50.439 --> 01:10:52.079
and I don't propose to interfere.130001:10:52.319 --> 01:10:52.640
Louise.130101:10:52.640 --> 01:10:54.520
I don't understand you. What are you saying, Matthew.130201:10:54.560 --> 01:10:57.000
Listen to me when you said the other day that130301:10:57.000 --> 01:10:59.119
I should be married to someone like court By Walter,130401:10:59.279 --> 01:11:03.439
you are perfect right. I love course and he loves me,130501:11:03.560 --> 01:11:03.960
he said.130601:11:04.000 --> 01:11:06.680
So you're joking. Not do something about my like I'm130701:11:06.680 --> 01:11:07.279
breathing the death.130801:11:07.399 --> 01:11:10.920
Yes, Matthew, you are, But I was talking about court130901:11:11.000 --> 01:11:13.439
Don Walter. If I were free, he'd marry me. I131001:11:13.560 --> 01:11:16.439
know he would, but not if I were penniless. He's131101:11:16.439 --> 01:11:20.560
European and they're practical about muet on my lege. I'm131201:11:20.560 --> 01:11:24.039
not hard for you to grasp, Matthew, but I'm not131301:11:24.119 --> 01:11:25.960
going to lift a hand to help you.131401:11:26.079 --> 01:11:26.880
Would you go through?131501:11:27.359 --> 01:11:28.800
You're my why I won't be for long.131601:11:28.920 --> 01:11:29.920
Soon i'll be your widow.131701:11:30.359 --> 01:11:32.359
I'll have a dollar of twenty five thousand dollars to131801:11:32.399 --> 01:11:33.079
bring your course.131901:11:33.119 --> 01:11:36.000
Your man. He's not really interested in you. You don't132001:11:36.039 --> 01:11:36.640
know what you're doing.132101:11:36.760 --> 01:11:37.199
I do.132201:11:37.560 --> 01:11:41.039
I'm being completely practical when I urge you to take132301:11:41.039 --> 01:11:41.760
out that insurance.132401:11:41.800 --> 01:11:42.159
Matthew.132501:11:42.600 --> 01:11:44.600
I think I was hoping something like this would happen.132601:11:45.079 --> 01:11:46.760
Maybe I was even planning to make it happen.132701:11:46.800 --> 01:11:47.399
I'm not sure.132801:11:48.119 --> 01:11:50.760
But now it has happened with no help from me.132901:11:51.279 --> 01:11:53.159
I have a right to love and happiness with a133001:11:53.199 --> 01:11:54.239
real man, and I'm taking it.133101:11:54.880 --> 01:11:56.520
Please, please, please help me, Matthew.133201:11:56.680 --> 01:11:57.920
I'm going outside now.133301:11:58.920 --> 01:11:59.840
I'm going to watch the storm.133401:12:01.319 --> 01:12:03.520
Have you gone to half an hour? Then I'll bring133501:12:03.560 --> 01:12:04.359
back from firewood.133601:12:04.920 --> 01:12:07.760
If when I come back I find you be on help.133701:12:08.239 --> 01:12:11.399
I'll be terribly shocked and distressed, but there won't be133801:12:11.399 --> 01:12:12.359
a thing I can do about it.133901:12:12.399 --> 01:12:15.199
Oh no, Louise, wait, wait, I have something to tell you.134001:12:15.279 --> 01:12:17.600
I'm not interested in anything you have to say.134101:12:17.760 --> 01:12:21.479
No important, You mustn't go out, You mustn't.134201:12:21.159 --> 01:12:22.079
Pick up any firewood.134301:12:30.159 --> 01:12:34.520
My friends. Just half an hour ago, Louisa's not there134401:12:34.560 --> 01:12:37.279
on the beach, an hour watching the waves, can't understand,134501:12:37.279 --> 01:12:42.600
and waiting, waiting, And I'm sitting here, getting weaker, weaker.134601:12:43.640 --> 01:12:45.239
I tried to bring to get on my leg, but134701:12:45.600 --> 01:12:48.319
they already so good bleeding you didn't stop it. I134801:12:48.439 --> 01:12:50.960
never always good at first day, I never always good134901:12:50.960 --> 01:12:55.279
at anything, just the fumbler all my life. Too late135001:12:55.359 --> 01:12:58.159
now to help me. In a few moments, a weeks,135101:12:58.159 --> 01:13:00.920
we'll start back. She'll pick up some firewood on the beach,135201:13:01.239 --> 01:13:03.319
probably the firewood that I left, still coming big place135301:13:03.359 --> 01:13:06.399
because of the be convenient. She'll pull hard. The jar135401:13:06.520 --> 01:13:18.640
will set off a decamating mechanism of a mind ing135501:13:19.840 --> 01:13:25.640
brout the window of the college. My scheme worked its work,135601:13:27.199 --> 01:13:33.079
so I'm not such a complete after all. But I'm135701:13:33.079 --> 01:13:37.600
getting weaker. I can't write anymore. I just want to135801:13:37.640 --> 01:13:41.199
say that this is my last you know, in Testament135901:13:42.560 --> 01:13:47.119
twenty five thousand dollars from my insurance policies I leave136001:13:47.199 --> 01:13:50.520
for the Handicraft Foundation for boys to be used in136101:13:50.560 --> 01:13:55.159
teaching boys how to do things with their hands, especially136201:13:55.359 --> 01:14:00.640
direct but it be yours in teaching first aid, the136301:14:00.840 --> 01:14:09.119
use of tool, especially access. Every boy should know how136401:14:10.119 --> 01:14:14.319
to use an ax without cutting himself.136501:14:35.880 --> 01:14:40.920
This is a material serb again. So that cottage is empty. Now,136601:14:42.039 --> 01:14:44.920
there's really nothing wrong with it, just a broken window136701:14:44.960 --> 01:14:47.600
and a few shingles torn loose by the explosion of136801:14:47.640 --> 01:14:50.560
that drifting mine that washed the shore down the beach.136901:14:51.560 --> 01:14:54.840
You could fix it easily if you'd like to know137001:14:54.960 --> 01:14:55.439
where it is.137101:14:55.560 --> 01:14:55.880
I could.137201:14:57.399 --> 01:14:58.840
Oh, you have to get off here.137301:14:59.039 --> 01:15:02.239
I'm sorry, and I'm sure we'll meet again.137401:15:03.600 --> 01:15:06.520
I take this same train every week.137501:15:06.600 --> 01:15:26.159
At this time, you've just heard The Mysterious Traveler, a137601:15:26.239 --> 01:15:28.960
series of dramas of the strange and terrifying. All the137701:15:29.079 --> 01:15:32.199
characters in today's story were entirely fictitious, and any resemblance137801:15:32.239 --> 01:15:35.319
to actual persons living or dead was purely coincidental. In137901:15:35.439 --> 01:15:38.640
the cast today were Maurice Toplin, Eric Westler, Vicki Bohler,138001:15:38.720 --> 01:15:42.600
Helen Titus, and Stephen Schnabel. Original music was played by138101:15:42.640 --> 01:15:45.920
Paul Taubman. A Mysterious Traveler is written, produced and directed138201:15:46.000 --> 01:15:48.000
by Bob Authur and David Cogan.138301:15:49.399 --> 01:15:52.399
Well, my dear, it looks like you could use a138401:15:52.479 --> 01:15:55.279
little bit more tea, and the fire could use a138501:15:55.319 --> 01:15:59.199
bit more wood. Yes, in this room right now, so138601:15:59.359 --> 01:16:06.399
many things are being consumed verheriantly and fair enough. The winter,138701:16:06.640 --> 01:16:11.439
the cold, the dark or it's a very hungry tie138801:16:12.399 --> 01:16:18.159
for man and beasts, and of course beyond beyond. But138901:16:18.319 --> 01:16:21.640
let's talk a little bit more about fear, because this139001:16:21.840 --> 01:16:25.359
story I picked out very special. You see, when a139101:16:25.479 --> 01:16:30.319
story is great, but it's performed even better, that, my dear,139201:16:30.920 --> 01:16:33.439
is when murder comes to life.139301:16:41.399 --> 01:16:45.680
That evening, friends, this is your host, and welcome you139401:16:45.880 --> 01:16:48.399
through the creaking door into the anner tank.139501:16:49.560 --> 01:16:51.000
Come in, come in, fell.139601:16:50.840 --> 01:16:53.079
Over a word this morning while cleaning the.139701:16:53.159 --> 01:16:58.319
Ghosts out of the attic. Longevity means living on and139801:16:58.439 --> 01:17:05.760
on without a stop. Just dug in for keys. A139901:17:05.920 --> 01:17:08.199
century old uncle of mine is still around, a regular140001:17:08.439 --> 01:17:12.720
hearty old perennial, absolutely wild about outdoor living, spends all140101:17:12.760 --> 01:17:17.079
his time haunting the garden like a century plant.140201:17:18.000 --> 01:17:19.840
Yeah, we watering planet to day.140301:17:22.840 --> 01:17:25.039
And I alad who hasn't gone a dale listen to140401:17:25.159 --> 01:17:28.760
eighty fifth birthday, just as if time had stopped for140501:17:30.199 --> 01:17:35.079
confidentially it did, and he died promptly at the stroke140601:17:35.159 --> 01:17:36.039
of eighty five.140701:17:44.760 --> 01:17:48.840
Tonight's Inner Sanctum mystery Murder Comes to Life was written140801:17:48.880 --> 01:17:52.159
by John Robert and stars Charles Irving and the role140901:17:52.199 --> 01:17:55.439
of John, with Santa Sortega as sorrowful.141001:17:59.560 --> 01:18:04.840
And for our weekly dizzy spell. We're aboard a ship,141101:18:05.479 --> 01:18:10.239
the SS Monterey, entering San Francisco Harbor. A long deckhand141201:18:10.359 --> 01:18:14.920
leans over the rail, brooding into the farm. He tenses suddenly,141301:18:15.479 --> 01:18:18.239
as if keying his ears and mind to a sound.141401:18:18.000 --> 01:18:24.479
In the sea. Jean Leplank. Jean Leplank.141501:18:25.479 --> 01:18:28.279
The seaman shakes his head as if the name glances141601:18:28.359 --> 01:18:31.880
off him meaninglessly. He moves a hand across his face,141701:18:32.640 --> 01:18:36.079
as if removing mists that cloud his vision, as if141801:18:36.199 --> 01:18:40.039
desperately anxious to accept the identity Jean la Blank as141901:18:40.079 --> 01:18:40.479
his own.142001:18:42.279 --> 01:18:46.760
Charl La Blank. Here is it my name? The name142101:18:46.840 --> 01:18:50.560
I forgot long ago and I fell a pint. And142201:18:50.720 --> 01:18:53.199
if it is my name, why can't I accept it?142301:18:53.279 --> 01:18:56.000
And believe it. Why do I insist I'm someone else142401:18:56.079 --> 01:19:01.520
and run? Sean L. Blank. I've gone throughty years.142501:19:01.600 --> 01:19:04.760
The names pursue me, demanding that I stand my ground142601:19:04.840 --> 01:19:10.680
and face it. Everywhere Lisbon, Bombay, Tripply and the last time,142701:19:11.920 --> 01:19:14.880
the last time in the bar in an island port142801:19:15.239 --> 01:19:21.319
were forgotten. Men drift to forget. Hello, John le Blanc,142901:19:21.680 --> 01:19:24.920
her name wherever I go, I hear it. Wherever I go,143001:19:25.079 --> 01:19:28.199
it whisper present me, shouts at me. It's strives me crazy.143101:19:28.239 --> 01:19:31.760
It's your name, mister, running from it. We'll get you143201:19:31.880 --> 01:19:36.560
nowhere here, Jean la Blank. But I'm belmar My name143301:19:36.680 --> 01:19:42.359
is Belmarre. Jean le Blank, San Francisco, USA. You've been143401:19:42.399 --> 01:19:44.399
shuttling from island to island on the bum, like a143501:19:44.439 --> 01:19:49.119
man without a country, but yours, Jean la Blank, San Francisco, USA.143601:19:50.359 --> 01:19:52.279
You're as sure as that I ought to be.143701:19:54.239 --> 01:19:57.720
We've traveled around the world and back together. You step ahead,143801:19:57.760 --> 01:20:00.880
slippers and eel, and me on your tail. You've been143901:20:01.279 --> 01:20:06.079
following me, you say, like grim dead. Why fifty thousand144001:20:06.159 --> 01:20:09.279
dollars that's the price you'll fetch.144101:20:10.359 --> 01:20:11.960
Look, look where we are.144201:20:12.600 --> 01:20:14.960
You've got to stop following, sure, I'll stop the blank.144301:20:15.840 --> 01:20:18.920
Would you stop running? I'll make you stop if I144401:20:19.000 --> 01:20:24.800
have to kill you. A gun huh, your grease lightning144501:20:24.880 --> 01:20:28.920
on the draw a killer if you only had what144601:20:29.039 --> 01:20:34.119
it takes to pull a trigger. Go on, try and144701:20:34.239 --> 01:20:44.039
pull the trigger. I can't, can't. My fingers a number.144801:20:46.079 --> 01:20:50.119
It's just if they were asleep yellow when the chip144901:20:50.159 --> 01:20:50.800
sat down.145001:20:51.239 --> 01:20:55.760
It's just as you've always been. But my fingers aren't numb.145101:20:55.960 --> 01:20:56.760
Here's proof.145201:20:58.680 --> 01:21:01.800
It was an iron bar actually against my skull, A145301:21:01.920 --> 01:21:04.239
hole open in the earth, and I plunged through it.145401:21:11.920 --> 01:21:15.399
I came to with the moon on my face, the145501:21:15.479 --> 01:21:16.439
wind in my ears.145601:21:18.479 --> 01:21:22.439
I was in an open field, in an abandoned quarry,145701:21:22.960 --> 01:21:24.359
under a pile of rocks.145801:21:26.079 --> 01:21:26.600
It was like.145901:21:28.199 --> 01:21:29.319
Rising from the dead.146001:21:31.439 --> 01:21:35.920
Shadowy figure was standing over me, a sour little guy146101:21:37.000 --> 01:21:40.000
with a mournful look, as if he made a habit146201:21:40.159 --> 01:21:46.239
of crying. I watched him remove the rocks covering me,146301:21:47.560 --> 01:21:51.600
one by one, tossed them into a pile.146401:21:53.319 --> 01:21:56.760
Out of an a chippy, a rat taching a cry146501:21:56.880 --> 01:21:57.920
like you were allowed to junk.146601:22:00.119 --> 01:22:04.720
How did it feel a week in my pins? If146701:22:04.760 --> 01:22:09.840
I was just born, as if I've come back from146801:22:09.880 --> 01:22:11.119
the dead, I'm.146901:22:11.039 --> 01:22:13.960
Not kidding about as dead as any guy could get.147001:22:15.600 --> 01:22:16.399
Who did it to me?147101:22:17.399 --> 01:22:20.920
A legend on this much? It was a cup, the147201:22:21.039 --> 01:22:22.760
retired cup cop.147301:22:23.399 --> 01:22:26.640
Yeah, he said I was worth fifty thousand dollars to him?147401:22:28.159 --> 01:22:28.800
What did he mean?147501:22:29.279 --> 01:22:31.560
That's how much Jean le branc Is went to a cup.147601:22:32.600 --> 01:22:35.159
Look right, don't just stop drifting from port to port147701:22:35.319 --> 01:22:39.600
and face up to yourself. Call yourself by your right name.147801:22:39.840 --> 01:22:41.680
But but I'm Belmar.147901:22:42.800 --> 01:22:45.720
I'm known as Belmar. I ship as Belmar.148001:22:46.079 --> 01:22:49.560
Your mind's still in the rut. Well, it's like that,148101:22:49.720 --> 01:22:56.720
wearing a rut. We we go together, I cam and eggs.148201:22:57.800 --> 01:22:59.199
Maybe you want to know where you picked up the148301:22:59.279 --> 01:23:03.920
name Bellmar. No, I'm gonna tell you anyhow. See this148401:23:04.079 --> 01:23:07.800
tin can. Yes, you land out of Frisco on a148501:23:07.840 --> 01:23:11.199
ship that haul a cog with these tin cans canned fruit.148601:23:12.000 --> 01:23:18.119
This one held apricots. Read the band name bell Ma, Yeah,148701:23:19.199 --> 01:23:24.439
bell Ma, bell my fruits with your class has been148801:23:24.479 --> 01:23:28.479
trying to cram himself into one empty fruit can. I148901:23:28.560 --> 01:23:30.399
could bust right out crying.149001:23:31.640 --> 01:23:34.079
I mean so much to you.149101:23:34.560 --> 01:23:37.720
I just dug out of that rock pile tonight, No,149201:23:39.159 --> 01:23:39.960
how long for now?149301:23:40.279 --> 01:23:41.399
But wait who are you?149401:23:41.520 --> 01:23:42.159
You didn't tell me.149501:23:43.119 --> 01:23:45.119
You used to call me Ben in the old days,149601:23:46.039 --> 01:23:47.520
and you were the big boss and I was a149701:23:47.640 --> 01:23:52.840
racket boy. Ben's name, sorrowful man.149801:23:56.840 --> 01:24:00.880
He was gone. I was alone with the wind.149901:24:03.000 --> 01:24:06.720
There was a batter tin can beside me, wearing a150001:24:06.840 --> 01:24:16.279
label that read Elma. I went back to the club.150101:24:16.359 --> 01:24:20.039
I'd blanked out him. There were questions I wanted answered,150201:24:20.800 --> 01:24:21.800
want something, mister.150301:24:24.119 --> 01:24:27.800
Do yes? Me surprised?150401:24:28.159 --> 01:24:31.239
Who you were killed in here last night?150501:24:31.560 --> 01:24:31.800
Sure?150601:24:33.000 --> 01:24:37.159
Here I am my own ghost, eh and thin air?150701:24:38.039 --> 01:24:42.640
Reach out and feel go on, popa, I feel what150801:24:42.880 --> 01:24:46.439
you were. You were better than a doornads. Quit hoising150901:24:46.479 --> 01:24:49.199
around and get down to cases. Who gave me the business? Look,151001:24:49.199 --> 01:24:50.600
I don't want to get mixed, I asked, who gave151101:24:50.600 --> 01:24:51.119
me the business?151201:24:51.399 --> 01:24:51.520
Uh?151301:24:52.479 --> 01:24:56.199
Tramp as far as I know, called himself Sandersen, like151401:24:56.319 --> 01:24:57.479
he was a stranger on the island.151501:24:57.479 --> 01:25:00.039
And who pronounced me dead old bailey? He said it151601:25:00.079 --> 01:25:02.000
was a sort of unofficial carner here on the island.151701:25:02.039 --> 01:25:03.920
And how is it I ended up in a stone quarry?151801:25:04.359 --> 01:25:06.399
And how come the island police weren't notified of my151901:25:07.159 --> 01:25:11.039
my murder? Nobody goes to please on this island. Old152001:25:11.039 --> 01:25:13.119
Billy pronounced you're dead. Everybody looked the other way while152101:25:13.159 --> 01:25:14.119
Sanderson carried.152201:25:13.880 --> 01:25:16.760
Out the back door eats me.152301:25:18.119 --> 01:25:19.239
You know, was stone dead?152401:25:19.359 --> 01:25:19.640
Rightly?152501:25:19.760 --> 01:25:20.560
Is standing now?152601:25:21.119 --> 01:25:25.399
Sorry, pall Sorry, I had to come back and spoil it.152701:25:30.560 --> 01:25:33.439
I went looking for Old Bailey, the coroner.152801:25:34.760 --> 01:25:37.960
I wondered to know why an unconscious man qualified with152901:25:38.039 --> 01:25:42.680
him as a corpse ready for immediate burial. I found153001:25:42.760 --> 01:25:45.680
him along the edge of the beach, living in a153101:25:45.800 --> 01:25:49.279
shack built of packing cases and old strips of cardboard.153201:25:50.640 --> 01:25:53.079
And the tide came in the ocean, soaked through the153301:25:53.199 --> 01:25:56.920
sides and up through the floor. It was as if153401:25:57.159 --> 01:26:00.640
Old Bailey wanted the shack to wash out to see.153501:26:02.439 --> 01:26:04.159
The tide was in when I got.153601:26:04.079 --> 01:26:10.840
There, Well, you're here, son, What brought you? You better153701:26:11.000 --> 01:26:13.840
talk fast? The way the waves are coming will be153801:26:14.039 --> 01:26:15.560
washing out to see you.153901:26:15.960 --> 01:26:17.079
Want that to happen?154001:26:17.359 --> 01:26:21.199
Is, of course precisely my idea in building here.154101:26:22.560 --> 01:26:24.800
What brought you? You're not surprised to see me?154201:26:24.960 --> 01:26:25.760
Why should I be?154301:26:26.119 --> 01:26:30.159
You pronounced me dead last night. A mistake from the154401:26:30.199 --> 01:26:32.640
look see, a mistake that almost buried.154501:26:32.399 --> 01:26:33.039
Me for caps.154601:26:33.199 --> 01:26:36.680
I'm ashamed of my incompetence but I promise you the154701:26:36.800 --> 01:26:41.359
recall of your death certificate the very next time I lived.154801:26:41.560 --> 01:26:44.800
Look, mister coroner, you know what dead man when you154901:26:44.880 --> 01:26:48.720
see one. My idea is that somebody hired you to155001:26:48.800 --> 01:26:53.680
pronounce me dead, baby, and maybe not quite wrigling. How155101:26:53.720 --> 01:26:56.239
much did you get to pronounce me dead? Barely enough155201:26:56.359 --> 01:26:57.640
to free myself of death?155301:26:57.720 --> 01:26:58.560
I ask how much.155401:27:00.119 --> 01:27:00.159
Me?155501:27:00.479 --> 01:27:03.479
Fifty dollars from who wanted my death certificate?155601:27:03.560 --> 01:27:08.039
And why now you're asking an old sinner to play informer.155701:27:09.039 --> 01:27:11.319
I'm not asking, Bailey.155801:27:12.520 --> 01:27:19.079
You're demanding on pain of death. You overestimate the price155901:27:19.159 --> 01:27:20.399
and put on my life.156001:27:20.840 --> 01:27:24.560
We'll see, we'll see if we can push the price out,156101:27:25.479 --> 01:27:26.039
you'll lose.156201:27:26.600 --> 01:27:30.279
But that death certificate from you, how do you please156301:27:31.399 --> 01:27:37.000
the lord? Huh, you're losing your life.156401:27:38.319 --> 01:27:49.199
Some the sea tours when the paper hunting over ranus,156501:27:49.600 --> 01:27:50.680
I've heard it full at me.156601:27:51.279 --> 01:27:54.239
I was being shunting in the middle, horrible.156701:28:09.439 --> 01:28:10.000
I came to.156801:28:11.640 --> 01:28:16.319
Buying face up on the beach. The storm was over156901:28:17.000 --> 01:28:22.039
and tide was hot. Old Bailey was gone, and in157001:28:22.159 --> 01:28:25.760
his paper hot too. I could see the wreckage way157101:28:25.840 --> 01:28:30.439
in the distance. Riding the ocean swell, I was half157201:28:30.600 --> 01:28:34.560
dead but alive a miracle.157301:28:35.319 --> 01:28:38.680
I gotta keep you alive and going. Boss, Well had157401:28:38.720 --> 01:28:42.279
happened on the blame for the condition you're in, You're157501:28:42.359 --> 01:28:45.399
the blame. Oh it was me who beat you over157601:28:45.439 --> 01:28:49.680
the head and sent your mind wandering. Yep, I really157701:28:49.720 --> 01:28:50.520
want to know about it.157801:28:51.079 --> 01:28:53.920
Yes, what was your last day in Friscoe?157901:28:54.760 --> 01:28:57.520
The cops who are around our hideout setting up machine guns,158001:28:57.920 --> 01:28:59.960
toss and take ass, but them's all ready to close158101:29:00.079 --> 01:29:02.359
him with the pinch. The only way out was to158201:29:02.439 --> 01:29:08.239
shoot our way out. And you can't remember anything by yourself?158301:29:09.920 --> 01:29:15.119
Well, oh, I try, but something gets in my ways,158401:29:15.680 --> 01:29:17.319
solid jumble in my mind.158501:29:17.600 --> 01:29:19.680
I was the only one doing any shooting on our side.158601:29:20.119 --> 01:29:22.319
You were blowing your top, screaming like a crazy man,158701:29:22.640 --> 01:29:26.720
gun fright, and always gave you the willies. I slug158801:29:26.760 --> 01:29:28.800
you to shut you out. Later I got you out158901:29:28.840 --> 01:29:31.359
and smuggled the two of us apport a ship. It159001:29:31.520 --> 01:29:34.439
was a fighter carrying fruit canes with the name Belmar159101:29:34.520 --> 01:29:40.439
on him and and Blank could get away. I call159201:29:40.520 --> 01:29:45.560
it quits, Just get away and lay low jew Blank there.159301:29:47.359 --> 01:29:54.279
Powerful, Yeah, tell me what was your John Leblank like159401:29:55.359 --> 01:29:59.439
before he began to scream last day in Frisco.159501:30:00.960 --> 01:30:04.039
Top man of the World. You had the world in159601:30:04.119 --> 01:30:06.920
your best pocket. Bush, you were the Jesse James. I159701:30:06.920 --> 01:30:10.079
don't read about it as a kid, only better the159801:30:10.239 --> 01:30:11.720
stuff you pull that Frisco on.159901:30:11.840 --> 01:30:15.199
It's ere what sort of stuff.160001:30:15.680 --> 01:30:18.079
Banks mu Seem's mail trucks.160101:30:18.239 --> 01:30:21.600
Just fifed No murder.160201:30:21.920 --> 01:30:24.399
Murder was a rub. Like I said, guns gave you160301:30:24.439 --> 01:30:25.319
the willings.160401:30:26.000 --> 01:30:30.800
At last day in Fisco police had a hideouts around it.160501:30:30.920 --> 01:30:34.479
You said, how did they get that close?160601:30:35.239 --> 01:30:37.239
That's a question. I was waiting for you to get160701:30:37.279 --> 01:30:41.039
around it. They were tipped up by a still picture160801:30:41.119 --> 01:30:45.800
named Queenie Simpson. The job you mucked on Queeney still160901:30:45.920 --> 01:30:48.039
needs to be done if you ever want to go home.161001:30:49.199 --> 01:30:53.720
Oh, it's a lot to remember all once luck to161101:30:53.920 --> 01:30:54.920
a minute, you.161201:30:54.960 --> 01:30:57.520
Mean, it's a lot to believe. You think maybe I'm161301:30:57.560 --> 01:31:00.319
working a gag, but I'm trying to swing in calling161401:31:00.359 --> 01:31:04.439
yourself Jean le blank and waiting for a fall guy. Okay,161501:31:06.239 --> 01:31:10.359
we'll find things out your own way. I'll be around.161601:31:18.920 --> 01:31:23.239
So I went about finding things out my own way.161701:31:24.560 --> 01:31:27.960
I went looking for Sanderson to double check on why161801:31:28.119 --> 01:31:30.840
he broke my head so that a phony death certificate161901:31:30.880 --> 01:31:34.840
could be issued in the name of Jean LeBlanc. I162001:31:34.960 --> 01:31:38.159
found him camped in a hobo jungle fifty yards away162101:31:38.199 --> 01:31:39.399
from a railroad embankment.162201:31:41.000 --> 01:31:41.760
Le Blank.162301:31:43.239 --> 01:31:46.840
Back from the can it You never killed me. I162401:31:46.920 --> 01:31:49.920
didn't know you just thought you did. I only passed162501:31:49.960 --> 01:31:56.039
out and you buried me alive. I'm disappointed, not too much.162601:31:56.199 --> 01:32:01.840
Maybe you're worth fifty thousand dollars in reward money dead162701:32:02.159 --> 01:32:08.560
or alive. Yeah, this will restore your memory. It was162801:32:08.600 --> 01:32:13.159
a police notice offering a fifty thousand dollars reward for162901:32:13.279 --> 01:32:20.960
the capture of Jean le Blank, dead or alive. I163001:32:21.079 --> 01:32:24.520
get your death certificate, angle, Sanderson. With me dead, it163101:32:24.520 --> 01:32:27.039
would have been easier for you, no carting me back.163201:32:27.520 --> 01:32:31.000
Just show that death certificate Old Dailey issued and collect.163301:32:31.039 --> 01:32:35.439
Anyhow, if you live, that wouldn't be a thread with163401:32:36.399 --> 01:32:39.760
a death notice. Who's going to die?163501:32:39.880 --> 01:32:40.000
Now?163601:32:41.479 --> 01:32:50.159
You of strangulation. I don't worry you, not a bit.163701:32:51.479 --> 01:32:53.840
I told you last night you weren't to kill a type.163801:32:54.920 --> 01:32:56.760
You're threatened, then you run.163901:32:56.920 --> 01:33:00.520
That I've changed, Sanderson. I stopped running thanks to you.164001:33:01.520 --> 01:33:02.039
Thanks to me.164101:33:02.239 --> 01:33:04.560
Hey, you opened my head last night in the fears,164201:33:04.680 --> 01:33:07.760
ran out and I facing to myself. Now, I don't164301:33:07.800 --> 01:33:10.439
cry baby anymore. I'm not the killer type, and I164401:33:10.520 --> 01:33:14.159
am here. You will laugh until I flow a field.164501:33:16.199 --> 01:33:18.600
I had the strings of one hundred men of minds.164601:33:18.880 --> 01:33:25.439
My fingers were steel blood, have a chance, And I164701:33:25.600 --> 01:33:28.079
struggled a black, patchy war of a one eye slipped.164801:33:28.800 --> 01:33:32.039
I was staring into an empty eye socket, looking for164901:33:32.159 --> 01:33:35.239
the last glimpse of myself that would finally stitch broken165001:33:35.279 --> 01:33:37.000
fragments together into a single piece.165101:33:37.560 --> 01:33:39.000
Who was I really?165201:33:39.159 --> 01:33:40.720
And what was I all about?165301:33:42.960 --> 01:33:54.000
I saw nothing in that empty eye socket. I sat165401:33:54.079 --> 01:34:01.800
around with Sanderson, fascinated by the face of death, waiting165501:34:02.159 --> 01:34:04.119
for sorrowful's approval.165601:34:04.760 --> 01:34:06.199
The nice night's worked for us.165701:34:07.359 --> 01:34:10.680
What did you kill him with my bare hands? I165801:34:10.840 --> 01:34:12.720
strangled him with my bare hands.165901:34:13.920 --> 01:34:18.079
We're better, all right. Takes care of job number one.166001:34:19.119 --> 01:34:23.199
Job number two is Queenie Simpson.166101:34:23.680 --> 01:34:28.279
Nobody else this time with a gun?166201:34:29.560 --> 01:34:35.880
Sure, with a gun this time. Where do I find166301:34:36.319 --> 01:34:37.399
Queenie Simpson?166401:34:37.960 --> 01:34:41.560
Well, she's always been the Wonderland. Okay, she works a166501:34:41.600 --> 01:34:44.479
shuting gallery there it was. She always have kill her?166601:34:44.560 --> 01:34:46.720
And you've got the cups up a tree. She's ther166701:34:46.760 --> 01:34:49.279
only witness against you. He'll her and you're the reck166801:34:49.319 --> 01:34:52.000
at king of Frisco again, with the town eating out166901:34:52.000 --> 01:34:52.680
of your hand.167001:34:53.439 --> 01:35:01.760
San Francisco. It's been a long way around getting home, sorrowful.167101:35:13.000 --> 01:35:18.239
I've come back to a forgotten word, halfway around the167201:35:18.359 --> 01:35:28.520
globe to murder a forgotten woman. The Wonderland Arcade is167301:35:28.600 --> 01:35:32.760
a honky tonk strip as a flea circus, the wax Wicks,167401:35:33.159 --> 01:35:38.520
a piano somewhere beating out ragtime, and Queenie Simpson's shooting gallery.167501:35:39.720 --> 01:35:44.079
I'm waiting, keeping out of sight, watching until Queenie Simpson167601:35:44.279 --> 01:35:46.199
is between customers.167701:35:49.760 --> 01:35:52.239
What's the tab for a rifle load? Sister?167801:35:53.479 --> 01:35:54.319
So I all shot?167901:35:54.760 --> 01:35:55.239
Crowd up?168001:35:56.239 --> 01:35:59.920
It's cheap enough. Watch me shoot?168101:36:00.079 --> 01:36:03.800
Ye oh.168201:36:05.239 --> 01:36:06.000
Yeah, pretty good.168301:36:07.199 --> 01:36:07.560
Thanks.168401:36:09.600 --> 01:36:16.560
I'm even better for the revolver. What would it take168501:36:16.840 --> 01:36:20.119
to coax you to get up against that target?168601:36:22.520 --> 01:36:26.479
I'd say you got the coaxer right in your hand.168701:36:27.800 --> 01:36:32.760
Jean sure, Sean, Who.168801:36:34.119 --> 01:36:35.319
Jean le Blanc?168901:36:37.039 --> 01:36:40.479
I've been expecting you to call sometimes.169001:36:40.279 --> 01:36:42.479
You're sure I'm Jean le Blanc.169101:36:42.960 --> 01:36:44.359
Must be Jean le Blanc.169201:36:45.079 --> 01:36:47.079
Only Jean le Blanc would come to kill me.169301:36:47.279 --> 01:36:49.159
Why I tipped off the cops?169401:36:49.159 --> 01:36:49.920
Tell him all about you?169501:36:50.039 --> 01:36:50.199
Why?169601:36:50.840 --> 01:36:51.239
What game?169701:36:51.279 --> 01:36:51.960
Are we playing now?169801:36:52.479 --> 01:36:53.279
Hi, double crossing?169901:36:53.319 --> 01:36:53.920
Your here to kill me?170001:36:54.239 --> 01:36:55.119
Now, let's get it over with.170101:36:56.800 --> 01:36:58.920
You've got eleven shots left.170201:37:03.399 --> 01:37:09.359
She's up against the target, indifferent to her fate. I170301:37:09.560 --> 01:37:15.359
stare at her, and then I lose her. My gun170401:37:15.479 --> 01:37:19.119
drops to my side. I can't shoot. My fears are back.170501:37:19.800 --> 01:37:22.720
I'm choked up with here, with fear that drove me170601:37:22.880 --> 01:37:23.920
across the world.170701:37:25.560 --> 01:37:30.000
Sorrowful, Yeah me still, Johnny on the spot. Go ahead,170801:37:30.119 --> 01:37:32.880
pull that trigger till double crosses.170901:37:34.199 --> 01:37:38.279
I can't pull the triggers.171001:37:38.640 --> 01:37:41.600
Don't turn yell and now you come back a long way.171101:37:42.560 --> 01:37:44.800
Pull that trigger and you're the big horse again.171201:37:46.079 --> 01:37:46.640
I can't.171301:37:46.760 --> 01:37:47.439
I can't.171401:37:47.600 --> 01:37:50.600
My fingers and numb, my hands feel dead.171501:37:50.760 --> 01:37:51.880
Are stuck along with you?171601:37:52.479 --> 01:37:52.960
Call Dad?171701:37:53.039 --> 01:37:53.960
You a mile an island.171801:37:54.239 --> 01:37:54.680
I wanted to.171901:37:54.880 --> 01:37:56.439
You're worried about your with me to come out of172001:37:56.439 --> 01:37:57.199
a breach storm.172101:37:57.760 --> 01:37:58.640
But now it's over.172201:38:00.039 --> 01:38:02.640
Once that for all. Are you gonna make like Charlotte172301:38:02.640 --> 01:38:06.199
Blake and pull that trigger? I can't.172401:38:06.319 --> 01:38:10.399
I'm Jean le Blake, but I can't measure up to172501:38:10.560 --> 01:38:11.520
what you expect.172601:38:11.680 --> 01:38:23.640
I'm afraid, sorrowful shot Queenie as surely as I couldn't.172701:38:25.640 --> 01:38:28.840
I watch her stiff, and while a red stain on172801:38:28.960 --> 01:38:32.840
her dress over her heart spins and spins into a172901:38:33.000 --> 01:38:36.600
wider and wider circa.173001:38:39.319 --> 01:38:42.239
There was somebody in my book once the blind.173101:38:42.800 --> 01:38:43.800
Don't blame me, sir.173201:38:45.439 --> 01:38:49.880
You build a statue in your mind, and now it173301:38:50.640 --> 01:38:52.840
turns out it's only a clay statue.173401:38:54.520 --> 01:38:57.119
Uh, police cars, hear the signs.173501:38:58.119 --> 01:39:02.079
Take one more shots, sorrowful me, shoot your statue down173601:39:02.119 --> 01:39:03.159
before the police come.173701:39:04.000 --> 01:39:04.439
I can't.173801:39:04.600 --> 01:39:07.640
I must. Either way I die, but I'd rather it173901:39:07.840 --> 01:39:13.520
was you this way. I won't die, screaming shoe, sorrowful.174001:39:13.880 --> 01:39:27.560
Please, I'm on the ground, staring up the sorrowful, staring174101:39:27.640 --> 01:39:30.319
at the uniformed police.174201:39:33.000 --> 01:39:39.119
Here here in the corner of whose eye, as if174301:39:39.199 --> 01:39:43.560
he's crying on a crying jag. You'll never come out.174401:39:46.840 --> 01:39:47.239
It was.174501:39:50.319 --> 01:39:57.199
Shaking head, bewildered. He still can't get it through his head.174601:39:58.479 --> 01:40:04.279
At the statue, he sean le Blank never resembled the174701:40:04.439 --> 01:40:23.079
man even a little bit, Oh poor la Blank. Even174801:40:23.159 --> 01:40:26.279
now with his worries over, he's having himself a fit.174901:40:27.520 --> 01:40:28.560
Ties four by six.175001:40:28.640 --> 01:40:32.479
The cat could make a test me that old Bailey175101:40:32.640 --> 01:40:36.840
fifty bucks in your pronuncia dead any old time, even175201:40:36.880 --> 01:40:43.680
if it cuos I hear he's doing shady business as usual.175301:40:44.600 --> 01:40:50.159
His shingles hang on David Jones's locker, his engraved invitations175401:40:50.199 --> 01:40:55.119
to please call read dropping any old crime.175501:41:00.039 --> 01:41:07.319
Yeh Inner.175601:41:07.439 --> 01:41:09.840
Sanctum is heard each week in the United States over175701:41:09.960 --> 01:41:14.199
CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System, and has been rebroadcast for175801:41:14.319 --> 01:41:17.840
servicemen and women overseas through the facilities of the United175901:41:17.880 --> 01:41:21.880
States Armed Forces Radio Service, The Voice of Information and Education.176001:41:22.479 --> 01:41:39.319
M m hmmm mm hmmm, h m hm h m176101:41:39.479 --> 01:41:59.159
hmmmmmm h m hmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.176201:42:40.880 --> 01:42:44.319
Please please put your feet up. That is my favorite chair,176301:42:44.399 --> 01:42:47.520
one of my most prized possessions. Oh no, no, no no.176401:42:48.199 --> 01:42:52.439
My point is it's good to share in such things,176501:42:53.000 --> 01:42:58.600
to enjoy such things. To see others enjoy them is176601:42:58.680 --> 01:43:02.560
almost as good as enjoying yourself, at least when they're176701:43:02.600 --> 01:43:06.520
a good friend like you. Oh what's that?176801:43:07.239 --> 01:43:08.279
Oh no, no no.176901:43:09.560 --> 01:43:12.359
I may not have much, but I have quality, and177001:43:12.479 --> 01:43:14.680
that's always been better than in quantity.177101:43:15.920 --> 01:43:16.199
M hm.177201:43:17.000 --> 01:43:21.239
This tea is hot good. We're going to need it177301:43:22.000 --> 01:43:28.760
for one more story. This one isn't about shering. It's177401:43:28.840 --> 01:43:31.600
called sell me your life.177501:43:34.319 --> 01:43:37.560
No, Roma Wines present.177601:43:44.359 --> 01:43:45.119
Suspense?177701:43:50.199 --> 01:43:51.960
Can I sell me your life?177801:43:52.239 --> 01:43:53.640
Starry leave omen?177901:43:57.520 --> 01:44:01.760
Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's178001:44:01.840 --> 01:44:06.359
our Oma Roma Wines, those excellent California wines that can178101:44:06.359 --> 01:44:08.840
add so much pleasantness to the way you live, to178201:44:09.039 --> 01:44:14.560
your happiness and entertaining guests to your enjoyment of everyday meals. Yes,178301:44:14.880 --> 01:44:18.560
right now a glassful would be very pleasant as Roma178401:44:18.640 --> 01:44:21.119
Wines bring you suspense.178501:44:23.000 --> 01:44:25.399
This is the man in black here for the Roma178601:44:25.439 --> 01:44:30.079
Wine Company of Fresno, California, who tonight from Hollywood bring178701:44:30.159 --> 01:44:33.239
you as star mister Lee Bowman, who is currently being178801:44:33.359 --> 01:44:36.279
co starred with Rita Hayworth and Janet Blair in the178901:44:36.319 --> 01:44:41.600
Columbia Technicolor musical Tonight and every night He appears this179001:44:41.720 --> 01:44:45.119
evening as a rather embittered young man whose life really179101:44:45.199 --> 01:44:48.279
began in spite of himself at the very moment when179201:44:48.279 --> 01:44:50.840
he had planned to take leave of it. And so179301:44:51.159 --> 01:44:53.680
with sell Me Your Life, and with the performance of179401:44:53.760 --> 01:44:56.560
Lee Bowman as Joe Bland, we again hope to keep179501:44:56.600 --> 01:44:58.119
you in suspense.179601:45:02.159 --> 01:45:05.000
All right, all right, quiet down, I want to hear179701:45:05.039 --> 01:45:11.159
this guy's story. Go ahead, Bland, No, why waste any179801:45:11.199 --> 01:45:13.520
more time, because I'm going to hear your version of179901:45:13.560 --> 01:45:15.479
what happened. I'm going to hear it now.180001:45:16.119 --> 01:45:18.960
Listen, lieutenant, less than two hours ago, I was ready180101:45:19.000 --> 01:45:21.279
to kill myself. Do you think I'm going to spend180201:45:21.319 --> 01:45:23.319
any time now trying to convince you I ought to live?180301:45:23.920 --> 01:45:26.479
What difference does it make? Come on, let's get out180401:45:26.520 --> 01:45:26.720
of here.180501:45:26.920 --> 01:45:29.800
Let's have the story. I don't get it.180601:45:30.319 --> 01:45:31.640
You're not going to believe any part of it, and180701:45:31.680 --> 01:45:33.760
you know it. So far as you're concerned, I'm already180801:45:33.760 --> 01:45:34.199
in the chair.180901:45:34.399 --> 01:45:36.920
We'll see. Go on with the story.181001:45:37.760 --> 01:45:39.560
Do you believe that tonight I was standing on top181101:45:39.560 --> 01:45:41.720
of the railing of the Grand Street Bridge, ready to jump?181201:45:42.000 --> 01:45:43.039
Do you no?181301:45:43.640 --> 01:45:46.560
No, of course you don't. All right, keep going, let's181401:45:46.560 --> 01:45:54.079
hear it all. Well, that's where I was, and that's181501:45:54.119 --> 01:45:54.880
what I was about to do.181601:45:56.439 --> 01:46:00.439
Do you know how it feels, lieutenant, standing there then181701:46:00.479 --> 01:46:03.840
all of a sudden making your decision. I didn't worry181801:46:03.880 --> 01:46:06.720
too much about being seen. It was too late at181901:46:06.800 --> 01:46:10.680
night and the mist was too heavy. I looked down182001:46:10.680 --> 01:46:15.039
at the black water. Then I closed my eyes. I182101:46:15.159 --> 01:46:18.920
caught my breath, and then then the headlights hit me.182201:46:24.319 --> 01:46:26.760
And the next second I knew the driver had seen me.182301:46:27.880 --> 01:46:30.840
I heard the car stop and the door open. I182401:46:30.880 --> 01:46:33.199
couldn't move, I couldn't jump on over, and I couldn't182501:46:33.199 --> 01:46:36.039
climb back down. I just stood there and listened to182601:46:36.079 --> 01:46:37.520
the footsteps come toward me.182701:46:37.760 --> 01:46:38.319
And then stop.182801:46:39.520 --> 01:46:40.640
What do you think you're doing?182901:46:41.319 --> 01:46:41.720
A woman?183001:46:42.399 --> 01:46:44.039
Footsteps should have told me that, but they didn't.183101:46:44.359 --> 01:46:46.359
I wonder if you know how silly you look pitched183201:46:46.439 --> 01:46:46.760
up there?183301:46:47.439 --> 01:46:50.439
I got my first good look at her, then dark hair,183401:46:50.720 --> 01:46:53.880
about thirty and yeah, a knockout.183501:46:54.159 --> 01:46:55.880
Come on, come on down.183601:46:56.560 --> 01:46:58.039
Why don't you get back in your car and go183701:46:58.159 --> 01:46:58.960
on about your business.183801:46:59.039 --> 01:47:01.439
I'm waiting for you to come down, for else to183901:47:01.520 --> 01:47:05.800
jump over. That's right, gesture as big as that deserves184001:47:05.800 --> 01:47:14.119
an audience. I'll see that you have one. Well I'm waiting. Ah,184101:47:15.199 --> 01:47:16.000
that's more like it.184201:47:16.359 --> 01:47:17.880
Okay, the place is yours?184301:47:17.880 --> 01:47:19.800
No, no, wait, don't you understand I want to help you?184401:47:20.399 --> 01:47:23.279
Why what difference does it make to you?184501:47:23.399 --> 01:47:24.319
Yeah, let's get in the car.184601:47:24.680 --> 01:47:27.680
There's nothing you or anybody else can do. Can't you184701:47:27.800 --> 01:47:28.079
see I?184801:47:28.359 --> 01:47:32.359
Oh you're tired, aren't you? How long have you been walking? H?184901:47:33.800 --> 01:47:36.199
I don't know ours?185001:47:36.600 --> 01:47:39.199
I guess, then, come on, at least I can give185101:47:39.239 --> 01:47:40.520
you a lift to your next bridge.185201:47:44.920 --> 01:47:48.399
I can't explain it, but I guess I just didn't185301:47:48.439 --> 01:47:51.960
have much fight left in me. Because there I was185401:47:52.319 --> 01:47:55.199
driving on off the bridge, and all of a sudden185501:47:55.239 --> 01:47:59.039
I found myself spilling the whole thing. I told her185601:47:59.079 --> 01:48:01.720
how a certain pallem I juggle the company books, my185701:48:01.800 --> 01:48:04.359
books as well as his, about how he could never185801:48:04.439 --> 01:48:07.520
admit I was innocent because he dropped over dead this morning,185901:48:08.319 --> 01:48:10.279
about how the auditors would be through by tomorrow and186001:48:10.279 --> 01:48:11.359
I'd be up for embezzlement.186101:48:12.359 --> 01:48:12.600
Yeah.186201:48:13.399 --> 01:48:16.199
I can see by your face you think that old186301:48:16.279 --> 01:48:21.880
corny story, but it's true. Well, I told her about it,186401:48:22.279 --> 01:48:24.199
about how that would put me away for good, because186501:48:24.199 --> 01:48:32.039
it would make my third conviction. Then I told her,186601:48:32.439 --> 01:48:34.800
and I knew she wouldn't believe that either, but I186701:48:34.960 --> 01:48:37.920
told her just the same. I was innocent of those186801:48:38.039 --> 01:48:39.640
previous crimes, as innocent as.186901:48:39.560 --> 01:48:42.239
I was of this one, innocent of all of them.187001:48:42.319 --> 01:48:42.800
Is that right?187101:48:43.680 --> 01:48:43.840
Yes?187201:48:45.279 --> 01:48:48.159
Well, why don't you let me out here? Thanks very much?187301:48:48.279 --> 01:48:48.479
Wait?187401:48:48.640 --> 01:48:51.840
Wait, that money they think you took, wouldn't it help187501:48:51.880 --> 01:48:53.520
if you could somehow make it good?187601:48:54.399 --> 01:48:54.680
Sure?187701:48:55.520 --> 01:48:55.640
All?187801:48:55.680 --> 01:48:57.600
I gotta do is walk in tomorrow morning and plank187901:48:57.640 --> 01:48:58.560
down a thousand.188001:48:58.279 --> 01:49:01.079
Dollars, only a thousand, only one thousand.188101:49:01.760 --> 01:49:03.600
And I've got four dollars and sixty two cents in188201:49:03.680 --> 01:49:04.119
my pocket.188301:49:04.720 --> 01:49:08.560
And there's someone I want you to meet, hight who188401:49:09.039 --> 01:49:12.199
your future employer? I hope his name is Andrew.188501:49:11.960 --> 01:49:15.920
Boudin Bodine vote a banker.188601:49:16.119 --> 01:49:19.720
Yes, you see, I'm missus Bodine.188701:49:20.119 --> 01:49:20.800
It won't work.188801:49:21.199 --> 01:49:24.159
Are you no reason to say that? My husband has188901:49:24.199 --> 01:49:25.479
helped hundreds of people?189001:49:25.680 --> 01:49:26.520
It can't work.189101:49:26.720 --> 01:49:28.279
The breaks I haven't getting will go right on, and189201:49:28.319 --> 01:49:29.520
there's nothing you can do to stop them.189301:49:30.399 --> 01:49:30.920
My like's over.189401:49:31.000 --> 01:49:31.800
I tell you it's spent.189501:49:32.079 --> 01:49:35.439
No no knock yet it isn't. And if you don't189601:49:35.479 --> 01:49:39.840
want it, I'll take it, please, but just one hour,189701:49:40.359 --> 01:49:44.000
sell me your life. What have you got to lose?189801:49:52.560 --> 01:49:55.119
She took me into the Bodine place, and we came189901:49:55.199 --> 01:49:58.399
straight to the library. Here, that's where mister Bodine would be,190001:49:58.720 --> 01:50:03.199
she said. But then when she opened the door, I190101:50:03.479 --> 01:50:06.840
saw a young looking guy. He was over there working190201:50:06.880 --> 01:50:07.359
at the desk.190301:50:07.399 --> 01:50:09.119
Oh, I'm sorry, mister far Day. It was just that190401:50:09.199 --> 01:50:10.399
I expected my husband.190501:50:10.600 --> 01:50:14.159
Oh, another one of those conferences. I'm afraid he was190601:50:14.239 --> 01:50:15.680
called away only a few moments ago.190701:50:15.800 --> 01:50:19.680
That's unfortunate. Oh, this is mister Fladay, my husband's secretary.190801:50:19.760 --> 01:50:20.800
I don't know you well.190901:50:20.920 --> 01:50:21.199
Thank you.191001:50:22.039 --> 01:50:23.399
I don't believe I heard your name.191101:50:23.640 --> 01:50:25.439
If you don't mind, mister Foday, I wonder if you'd191201:50:25.479 --> 01:50:26.359
excuse us right.191301:50:26.560 --> 01:50:30.239
Certainly, certainly, my work's pretty well cleared up anyway, Good night,191401:50:30.359 --> 01:50:32.239
missus Brodin, good night.191501:50:34.880 --> 01:50:36.680
See the fact that my husband isn't here right now191601:50:36.800 --> 01:50:38.119
isn't really going to matter too much.191701:50:39.479 --> 01:50:43.720
I'm appealing to you for help, appealing to me for help.191801:50:43.920 --> 01:50:47.239
Yes, during the time you've been under sentence, you've naturally191901:50:47.319 --> 01:50:52.159
had considerable contact with well criminals. I want you to192001:50:52.279 --> 01:50:57.119
identify just such a person. I. Yes, I don't get192101:50:57.199 --> 01:51:00.199
what my husband's life is in danger. I'm sure of it.192201:51:00.920 --> 01:51:01.399
In danger.192301:51:02.680 --> 01:51:05.560
No no, I shan't tell you whom I suspect. I192401:51:05.640 --> 01:51:07.720
want you to find that out. I want you to192501:51:07.800 --> 01:51:12.279
give me proof. Most important, I want you to give192601:51:12.319 --> 01:51:17.199
my husband protection how by watching him, by observing everyone192701:51:17.279 --> 01:51:24.159
who comes in contact with him. Are the casually or regularly? Oh? Yes,192801:51:24.239 --> 01:51:25.680
would you just step over there to the desk?192901:51:26.439 --> 01:51:26.479
No?193001:51:26.600 --> 01:51:30.039
No, no, no, behind it now, that first drawer on193101:51:30.119 --> 01:51:32.399
the left, Yes, that's it.193201:51:33.279 --> 01:51:33.680
Open it.193301:51:36.239 --> 01:51:36.359
Right.193401:51:36.720 --> 01:51:39.720
It's skill full of bills, one hundred dollars bills.193501:51:40.760 --> 01:51:44.079
My husband calls it his trust fund. It's always there193601:51:44.119 --> 01:51:47.039
to help those he feels deserve help. Cut off ten193701:51:47.079 --> 01:51:49.880
of them, please please go on right.193801:51:51.720 --> 01:51:52.319
I can't do that.193901:51:52.560 --> 01:51:56.560
It isn't charity in your case at salary, and it194001:51:56.560 --> 01:51:58.479
will settle up that difficulty at your office, and I194101:51:58.560 --> 01:52:00.960
want it. It doesn't. We can always add to it.194201:52:02.039 --> 01:52:05.039
But but if you don't know anything about me, you194301:52:05.079 --> 01:52:06.520
don't even know what's coming to that.194401:52:07.319 --> 01:52:10.960
You'll probably start work for us tomorrow. And oh, oh yes,194501:52:11.039 --> 01:52:13.880
here's a pad if you'll just jump down where we194601:52:13.960 --> 01:52:15.880
can reach you your mind.194701:52:16.880 --> 01:52:18.520
No, of course not.194801:52:20.000 --> 01:52:24.439
It's the Rex Hotel. They've got a payphone in the lobby.194901:52:25.439 --> 01:52:26.760
I put the number down there.195001:52:27.079 --> 01:52:28.600
Good, that should do it.195101:52:29.520 --> 01:52:33.399
Are you're forgetting something? Aren't you forgetting something? My name?195201:52:34.479 --> 01:52:38.239
I put it down too, it's Bland, Joe Bland.195301:52:38.600 --> 01:52:42.560
I'm happy to know you, Joe. Haven't you've forgotten something?195401:52:43.159 --> 01:52:43.199
Me?195501:52:44.680 --> 01:52:46.399
What a thousand dollars?195601:52:51.319 --> 01:52:55.239
You're a wonderful person, missus Boudine. I wish I knew195701:52:55.239 --> 01:52:55.800
how to thank you.195801:52:56.399 --> 01:52:59.119
I'll tell you. Just stay alive.195901:53:10.039 --> 01:53:13.560
I took the slow way home tonight, because, whether you196001:53:13.640 --> 01:53:15.640
believe it or not, Vance, there was a lot of196101:53:15.720 --> 01:53:19.199
thinking I wanted to do, mostly about that woman i'd met,196201:53:20.359 --> 01:53:23.239
And while I was climbing upstairs to my room, I196301:53:23.359 --> 01:53:28.199
realized what she'd really done. All because of her, I'd196401:53:28.239 --> 01:53:31.720
sort of been born again. I let myself into my196501:53:31.880 --> 01:53:38.239
room and switched on the overhead light. All right, Joe,196601:53:39.319 --> 01:53:42.319
just put your hands up. There you were Vance sitting196701:53:42.359 --> 01:53:45.439
in a chair across the room. I'd never seen you before.196801:53:45.960 --> 01:53:51.760
That's it. I just keep him up a Dvance Police headquarters,196901:53:52.239 --> 01:53:53.439
stand still while I check you.197001:53:53.479 --> 01:53:55.680
Over the office.197101:53:57.319 --> 01:54:01.239
I didn't think they'd get to that till tomorrow. That's so.197201:54:03.640 --> 01:54:10.439
Here we are, a thousand bucks, serial number G six.197301:54:10.920 --> 01:54:16.039
That's it, all right? Where's the rest? The rest? That's197401:54:16.079 --> 01:54:16.520
all there is.197501:54:16.640 --> 01:54:19.760
Eh, that's what I thought. It took you long enough197601:54:19.800 --> 01:54:21.920
to get here and listen. I was going to turn197701:54:21.960 --> 01:54:23.319
that over to the company in the morning.197801:54:23.359 --> 01:54:23.840
The company.197901:54:23.920 --> 01:54:24.399
What company?198001:54:24.960 --> 01:54:25.000
What?198101:54:26.199 --> 01:54:29.319
My company? Don't you know what you're talking about. Just198201:54:29.359 --> 01:54:30.439
tell me where you put the gun.198301:54:31.319 --> 01:54:34.600
The gun hid that too? Huh Wait a minute, I198401:54:34.720 --> 01:54:35.600
never had any gun.198501:54:36.439 --> 01:54:36.880
What is this?198601:54:37.039 --> 01:54:39.119
I don't know what just you are as dumb as jack.198701:54:40.119 --> 01:54:42.760
Anybody would leave his name, address, and phone number on198801:54:42.880 --> 01:54:46.319
his victim's desk. Can't be very right. I just posted198901:54:46.359 --> 01:54:48.920
a reward for the guy who robbed and then murdered199001:54:48.920 --> 01:54:51.600
Andrew Bodine. Looks like I'm the guy who's going to199101:54:51.600 --> 01:54:59.359
collect it. What Andrew Bodine murdered? As if you didn't know, sweetheart?199201:55:00.079 --> 01:55:01.600
Come on, we're going back out there.199301:55:10.039 --> 01:55:10.359
Tonight.199401:55:10.439 --> 01:55:11.199
For suspense.199501:55:11.399 --> 01:55:14.399
Roma Wines are bringing you a star, mister Lee Bowman,199601:55:14.600 --> 01:55:17.000
whom you have heard in the first act of Sell199701:55:17.079 --> 01:55:17.880
Me Your Life.199801:55:18.000 --> 01:55:18.680
By emul C.199901:55:18.840 --> 01:55:22.039
Tepperman to Night's Tale of Suspense.200001:55:30.520 --> 01:55:34.119
This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. ELSA.200101:55:34.239 --> 01:55:38.079
Maxwell is recognized internationally as an authority on gracious living.200201:55:38.720 --> 01:55:40.640
You will be interested in something she said the other200301:55:40.720 --> 01:55:43.560
day about wine and wartime food rationing.200401:55:43.960 --> 01:55:44.239
Listen.200501:55:44.720 --> 01:55:47.439
I find that people who know one simple secret of200601:55:47.520 --> 01:55:51.640
serving delicious meals aren't bothered much by food rationing. That200701:55:51.840 --> 01:55:56.199
secret is to enjoy good Roma wine with food. For instance,200801:55:56.279 --> 01:55:59.079
I recently had dinner with some old friends. The main200901:55:59.159 --> 01:56:02.159
dish was kidney bean casserole. And to give this simple201001:56:02.239 --> 01:56:05.760
food a delightful party flavor. My host has served cool201101:56:05.960 --> 01:56:11.079
Roma California Burgundy. Everyone remarked about its wonderful bouquet and aroma,201201:56:11.560 --> 01:56:14.640
and about the way that good Roma Burgundy added enjoyment201301:56:14.720 --> 01:56:17.880
to our plain meal. Such added enjoyment is one of201401:56:17.920 --> 01:56:22.359
the reasons why more and more people serve delightful Roma wine.201501:56:22.640 --> 01:56:26.239
That's a grand suggestion from Elsa Maxwell. So why not201601:56:26.399 --> 01:56:30.680
try Roma California Burgundy with your dinner tomorrow night. You'll201701:56:30.840 --> 01:56:35.319
enjoy its tart piquancy. It's fruity, robust taste, the happy201801:56:35.399 --> 01:56:39.880
result of selecting luscious wine grapes from California's choicest vineyards,201901:56:40.319 --> 01:56:43.439
guided to perfection by the ancient wine skill of Roma's202001:56:43.520 --> 01:56:49.199
famed wineries. Good Roma wines never vary, They're always enjoyable,202101:56:49.600 --> 01:56:54.760
yet cost only pennies a glass. Remember, more Americans enjoy202201:56:54.920 --> 01:56:57.399
Roma than any other wine.202301:56:58.239 --> 01:57:03.000
R O M A Roma wines. And now it is202401:57:03.079 --> 01:57:05.640
with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage.202501:57:05.800 --> 01:57:08.720
Lee Bowman as Joe Bland, who has been saved from202601:57:08.840 --> 01:57:12.720
death by suicide, only to face a murder charge, a202701:57:12.840 --> 01:57:16.239
situation well calculated to keep you in suspense.202801:57:22.880 --> 01:57:26.359
We came back here to the Bodine's library. The room202901:57:26.479 --> 01:57:30.439
was packed, loaded with police and reporters. Was full of203001:57:30.479 --> 01:57:33.399
Andrew Bodine too. He was stretched out behind the desk,203101:57:33.920 --> 01:57:34.720
covered with a sheet.203201:57:34.840 --> 01:57:37.079
Hey, Blan, look over this way right into the camera.203301:57:37.720 --> 01:57:39.840
That's it about this guy's finger, Prince, Lieutenant.203401:57:40.039 --> 01:57:42.079
We got him off his police record. Yeah, they masked203501:57:42.079 --> 01:57:43.840
the prints on the desk drawer, all right where the203601:57:43.880 --> 01:57:44.439
money wasn't me?203701:57:44.960 --> 01:57:45.199
I know?203801:57:45.520 --> 01:57:48.279
He admits taking the money, a thousand of it, says203901:57:48.359 --> 01:57:52.119
Missus Boudin told him to take it. Anything else, Yeah,204001:57:52.279 --> 01:57:54.560
admits he needed the dough. Says he's about to be204101:57:54.840 --> 01:57:58.159
stuck on an embezzlement chart, as he admitted shooting Lincoln.204201:57:58.239 --> 01:58:02.439
Yet looks like you. Oh here's that that secretary.204301:58:02.119 --> 01:58:02.760
On four today.204401:58:02.800 --> 01:58:03.600
We've been waiting for you.204501:58:04.359 --> 01:58:07.520
I'm very sorry, Lieutenant, but I was with Missus Bodein.204601:58:07.600 --> 01:58:11.439
She's rather hard hit. Yeah, here's the guy ident if I.204701:58:12.319 --> 01:58:14.880
Well, I should be able to It was less than204801:58:14.880 --> 01:58:16.399
an hour ago that I saw him here.204901:58:16.960 --> 01:58:17.800
Yes, in this room.205001:58:18.319 --> 01:58:19.520
He was with mister Boudeen.205101:58:19.800 --> 01:58:24.439
Mister Bodeine, that's not quite you'll have your chance on205201:58:24.640 --> 01:58:25.039
for today.205301:58:25.359 --> 01:58:29.159
Well, mister Bodine was talking with him, trying to work205401:58:29.199 --> 01:58:32.199
out some way to help him. Why you you probably205501:58:32.279 --> 01:58:35.760
know of the old man's habit of picking up well bums,205601:58:36.039 --> 01:58:38.399
giving them money, trying to get them work.205701:58:38.720 --> 01:58:40.880
I'd want him time and time about that. Just go205801:58:40.960 --> 01:58:41.560
on to the story.205901:58:41.680 --> 01:58:43.560
Yeah, just go on with your lives. I tell you206001:58:43.720 --> 01:58:45.800
to keep still, what for so we can fill up206101:58:45.840 --> 01:58:49.680
that phony story. Listen, dance. I want to see missus Boudein.206201:58:49.880 --> 01:58:51.359
She was with me all the time. I told you206301:58:51.479 --> 01:58:53.840
that she can stop this whole thing in two minutes.206401:58:54.600 --> 01:58:59.159
She she can. If Faraday here hasn't done something to her.206501:59:00.520 --> 01:59:02.800
Why if this fellow must be insane, I want to206601:59:02.800 --> 01:59:04.279
see missus Bodine now.206701:59:04.600 --> 01:59:07.319
She's in no condition to be disturbed. Furthermore, she has206801:59:07.359 --> 01:59:08.840
no connection whatever with this case.206901:59:09.000 --> 01:59:10.720
Oh no, let me give you some advice.207001:59:10.800 --> 01:59:11.000
Plan.207101:59:11.239 --> 01:59:13.119
Keep your mouth shut until I tell you to talk.207201:59:14.079 --> 01:59:18.359
Well, the old man, mister Bodein, asked me to leave207301:59:18.399 --> 01:59:20.560
him alone, So I went right to my room down207401:59:20.600 --> 01:59:23.960
the hall. There was nothing else I could do then. Well,207501:59:24.319 --> 01:59:26.800
it must have been about fifteen minutes that I heard207601:59:26.840 --> 01:59:30.560
a shot. I rushed in here, and and there was207701:59:30.640 --> 01:59:31.399
mister Bodein.207801:59:32.600 --> 01:59:37.319
He was dead. What about Bland gone? That's pretty fast.207901:59:37.600 --> 01:59:39.840
Since you were only down the hall, you'd have seen him, lee,208001:59:39.880 --> 01:59:40.279
wouldn't you.208101:59:40.880 --> 01:59:42.520
Well not if he left by that window there, and208201:59:42.560 --> 01:59:43.199
that's just what he did.208301:59:43.239 --> 01:59:45.000
It was wide open, just as it is, nauser. No208401:59:45.159 --> 01:59:48.439
sign of the gun, no nor the money, almost twenty208501:59:48.560 --> 01:59:49.920
one thousand dollars missing.208601:59:51.560 --> 01:59:54.479
You don't fool around, do you, Joe. You know something.208701:59:54.880 --> 01:59:56.119
You're going to tell me where the rest of that208801:59:56.239 --> 01:59:58.319
dough is. You can find that out from Farady.208901:59:58.359 --> 02:00:00.359
You're also going to tell me about that gun. You209002:00:00.399 --> 02:00:03.279
can also find that out from Fardy. Can't you see it?209102:00:03.319 --> 02:00:03.920
He's the killer.209202:00:03.960 --> 02:00:06.199
You can forget that right now. You're dead, Bland. You209302:00:06.279 --> 02:00:07.880
haven't a chance. You haven't any kind of a case209402:00:07.880 --> 02:00:10.760
at all. I got missus Bodine in here. You'll see209502:00:10.800 --> 02:00:12.520
what kind of a case I have. You'll see what209602:00:12.640 --> 02:00:14.680
kind of a case he's got to. I've had enough209702:00:14.720 --> 02:00:14.840
of it.209802:00:15.479 --> 02:00:16.279
I'll get her myself.209902:00:17.399 --> 02:00:25.520
You're not going anywhere, Missus Boutein. Oh, dear, oh, Missus Boudein.210002:00:25.720 --> 02:00:27.600
I didn't want you to be disturbed. Now, please please,210102:00:27.600 --> 02:00:28.600
you better go back to your room.210202:00:28.640 --> 02:00:28.960
At once.210302:00:31.880 --> 02:00:33.680
I kept hearing my name, Cole.210402:00:34.439 --> 02:00:38.600
I'm Lieutenant Advanced Miss Boudeen. This man here beside me.210502:00:39.560 --> 02:00:40.760
You happen to know who he is?210602:00:43.760 --> 02:00:44.239
This man?210702:00:45.319 --> 02:00:49.920
Yeah, me, I've never seen him before in my life.210802:00:55.920 --> 02:00:59.119
She'd never seen me before in her life. Well, I210902:00:59.279 --> 02:01:03.119
did advance after that. I was with you, sitting between211002:01:03.159 --> 02:01:05.439
you and your pal Tanner and a police car down211102:01:05.520 --> 02:01:08.199
for headquarters, not even hearing those stupid cars.211202:01:09.119 --> 02:01:11.520
Raymond, go to the corner of Hell and twenty and211302:01:12.039 --> 02:01:12.880
two two nine.211402:01:13.039 --> 02:01:13.720
That is all.211502:01:15.840 --> 02:01:17.279
Doing some thinking? Are you a bland?211602:01:18.159 --> 02:01:20.520
And I'm afraid it's a little too late. I was211702:01:20.600 --> 02:01:21.279
doing some thinking.211802:01:22.279 --> 02:01:23.640
I wasn't gonna let it be too late.211902:01:23.920 --> 02:01:26.560
I couldn't let it be too late. How about it, kid,212002:01:27.000 --> 02:01:30.920
anything you want to say? Yeah, I'd like a cigarette.212102:01:31.399 --> 02:01:33.039
Give him a cigarette, Tanner, May.212202:01:33.279 --> 02:01:34.279
I gotta watch the road.212302:01:34.720 --> 02:01:37.319
Okay, keep your eye on him too.212402:01:38.279 --> 02:01:39.479
Hey, Hey, what are you.212502:01:40.960 --> 02:01:41.319
My gun?212602:01:41.479 --> 02:01:41.800
Tennant?212702:01:42.720 --> 02:01:44.760
Cut your foot off that plan you wreck us.212802:01:45.079 --> 02:01:46.720
He's after my gun, cannon.212902:01:47.279 --> 02:01:48.720
Look, I can't.213002:01:51.479 --> 02:01:54.479
Okay, okay, Tannon, just pull a card of a stomp213102:01:54.560 --> 02:01:57.560
and don't reach for your gun, because I'm taking now.213202:01:58.159 --> 02:01:59.720
I might need to or a jerk plan.213302:02:00.079 --> 02:02:00.800
This will never work.213402:02:01.000 --> 02:02:04.720
I'll try anything, even suicide. Didn't you know. I'll stay213502:02:04.760 --> 02:02:11.000
there till I get fans out. Okay, now you come out. No, no,213602:02:11.359 --> 02:02:13.039
don't touch the keys. Just come out.213702:02:13.119 --> 02:02:13.760
It'll never work.213802:02:14.159 --> 02:02:16.520
Be shot down on site, not for a while, baby,213902:02:17.279 --> 02:02:18.199
not in a police car.214002:02:20.479 --> 02:02:24.880
I eighty two Ruben and Malone check under thirteen ten214102:02:25.000 --> 02:02:26.000
hundred block forest.214202:02:26.239 --> 02:02:26.760
That is all.214302:02:32.319 --> 02:02:37.239
Attention, all cars, Attention, all cars. Joe Bland, a qu slayer,214402:02:37.680 --> 02:02:40.119
has just stolen a police car four or six.214502:02:40.399 --> 02:02:42.199
Then I heard it over the car radio.214602:02:42.359 --> 02:02:44.039
This man must be apprehended.214702:02:44.479 --> 02:02:46.479
He is desperate, shoot to kill.214802:02:46.880 --> 02:02:47.560
That is all.214902:02:49.319 --> 02:02:52.760
A tension all cars report from police car one to three.215002:02:53.439 --> 02:02:56.159
Bland has just been sighted passing Serrano.215102:02:55.880 --> 02:02:59.000
Street, speeding all on the Fountain.215202:03:00.239 --> 02:03:03.680
Cars proceed toward northern and Fountain intercept.215302:03:04.039 --> 02:03:04.720
That is all.215402:03:07.960 --> 02:03:13.279
Now crossing Selma and Riverdale. Car nineteen sixty two Farm215502:03:13.399 --> 02:03:15.279
roadblock next intersection.215602:03:15.960 --> 02:03:22.039
Cars twenty thirteen got our rear escape Attention attention.215702:03:22.840 --> 02:03:26.479
Land just sighted abandoning car running east on Selma.215802:03:27.039 --> 02:03:27.560
Stop him.215902:03:28.039 --> 02:03:38.760
This man was not escaped, and somehow, some way, by216002:03:39.000 --> 02:03:41.880
running up alleys by hitching rides, I got back to216102:03:41.920 --> 02:03:45.359
the boating place. The library window, the one that said216202:03:45.399 --> 02:03:48.800
I used to escape was still open. I climbed into216302:03:48.840 --> 02:03:51.920
the room that way. My luck still held long complexity?216402:03:52.039 --> 02:03:54.000
Was there about fiddling papers at the desk?216502:03:54.319 --> 02:03:54.640
Is odd?216602:03:54.680 --> 02:03:57.319
Listening at the radio A report during the past five216702:03:58.079 --> 02:04:01.520
right off Lee's back a bland trail, I said, turn216802:04:01.520 --> 02:04:05.119
it off, urged to be on the ah.216902:04:05.720 --> 02:04:06.399
Stay where you are?217002:04:06.960 --> 02:04:09.600
Why you how call the police?217102:04:09.800 --> 02:04:12.800
Put that down dial one number now'll blow your head off.217202:04:15.119 --> 02:04:18.159
Well it doesn't let that. You heard what they said.217302:04:18.600 --> 02:04:19.880
The police have picked up your trail.217402:04:20.119 --> 02:04:23.039
They'll be here any minute. This won't take long, right,217502:04:24.600 --> 02:04:25.279
what are you going to do?217602:04:25.880 --> 02:04:28.760
Give you the best break you ever had? The gun217702:04:28.840 --> 02:04:31.399
you used to kill Bodine. Also the twenty thousand dollars,217802:04:31.399 --> 02:04:33.000
I'm taking them off your hands. Y.217902:04:33.680 --> 02:04:36.079
You're not only a killer, you're a lunatic.218002:04:36.159 --> 02:04:37.319
I told you I was giving you a break.218102:04:38.600 --> 02:04:39.680
No, not because I like you.218202:04:39.880 --> 02:04:42.000
It's because I hate somebody else more than I hate you.218302:04:43.199 --> 02:04:46.800
You're just like me, A fall guy, a sucker, a pigeon.218402:04:47.159 --> 02:04:49.159
Huh what do you mean?218502:04:49.239 --> 02:04:51.560
Do you really think she's gonna split with you? Share218602:04:51.600 --> 02:04:53.960
the old man's will and insurance money? Why should she218702:04:54.680 --> 02:04:57.479
you see Why should she Why shouldn't she have it all?218802:04:58.000 --> 02:04:58.199
Yeah?218902:04:58.800 --> 02:04:59.960
I don't get your point.219002:05:00.159 --> 02:05:02.760
Why shouldn't she turn you over to see where that219102:05:02.760 --> 02:05:03.279
would put her?219202:05:04.199 --> 02:05:05.079
And then just be her?219302:05:05.720 --> 02:05:07.880
I don't have to listen to this. Figure it out.219402:05:08.479 --> 02:05:10.520
Did she have anything whatever to do with murdering that man?219502:05:10.840 --> 02:05:14.119
Anything except working on you'd be the guy who'd do219602:05:14.199 --> 02:05:15.760
it the minute I left her tonight?219702:05:16.399 --> 02:05:19.359
Well, Hi, how did you know.219802:05:20.880 --> 02:05:21.319
Leonore?219902:05:21.600 --> 02:05:24.960
Is it suppose you were nailed by the cops? Would220002:05:25.000 --> 02:05:27.399
Leonore be loyal to you? I didn't hear her be220102:05:27.479 --> 02:05:30.920
loyal to anybody. If Leonore Bodine had a choice between220202:05:31.000 --> 02:05:33.560
being sole owner of a million bucks and sticking her220302:05:33.640 --> 02:05:36.560
neck out with yours, what do you honestly think she'd do?220402:05:38.199 --> 02:05:38.560
All? Right?220502:05:39.079 --> 02:05:39.720
Where's the money?220602:05:39.880 --> 02:05:40.000
Hi?220702:05:42.119 --> 02:05:42.880
I don't know what to do.220802:05:43.680 --> 02:05:43.760
Hi?220902:05:44.159 --> 02:05:44.600
Where is it?221002:05:46.279 --> 02:05:46.560
Okay?221102:05:47.039 --> 02:05:49.359
There they are the cops. They're gonna find that money221202:05:49.399 --> 02:05:52.439
on you or her. You've got less than a minute, Friday, Oh,221302:05:52.680 --> 02:05:53.319
what's it gonna be?221402:05:54.600 --> 02:05:54.720
Hi?221502:05:54.960 --> 02:05:55.199
Stop?221602:05:55.520 --> 02:05:57.920
Where are you going to get the money? It's in221702:05:58.000 --> 02:05:58.359
my room?221802:05:58.640 --> 02:05:59.119
Just a minute.221902:05:59.159 --> 02:06:03.359
You're staying here, my friends? Your gun on the floor, mister?222002:06:04.680 --> 02:06:06.239
I think we can get along with mine?222102:06:06.720 --> 02:06:07.039
Okay?222202:06:08.119 --> 02:06:09.960
You're a couple of seconds too late. You see, I222302:06:10.000 --> 02:06:11.399
can tell the cops where to find that dough.222402:06:11.520 --> 02:06:13.000
Oh no, you won't tell the cops anything.222502:06:13.039 --> 02:06:13.880
You won't be able to talk.222602:06:14.439 --> 02:06:16.680
You're an escape murder and I killed you. I shot222702:06:16.720 --> 02:06:17.640
you in self defense.222802:06:19.319 --> 02:06:19.840
You're too late.222902:06:20.520 --> 02:06:24.119
They're already here. No, no, it wasn't self defense. Don't move.223002:06:24.479 --> 02:06:26.520
She kills me, you're as good as dead because you'll223102:06:26.520 --> 02:06:28.479
take the rap alone. She'll tell the cops where to223202:06:28.520 --> 02:06:28.960
find that dough.223302:06:29.039 --> 02:06:31.560
And wait, wait, wait, get away from him.223402:06:31.880 --> 02:06:32.680
Away, I'm going to shoot.223502:06:32.760 --> 02:06:35.880
No, you'll tell the police. You're you'll sell me out, fool.223602:06:36.399 --> 02:06:36.920
Listen to him.223702:06:36.920 --> 02:06:39.880
Nobody's going to tell the police. Nobody's get away from him.223802:06:39.920 --> 02:06:40.920
Get away from him, to.223902:06:43.319 --> 02:06:44.039
Get away from you.224002:06:44.279 --> 02:06:44.880
You don't.224102:06:49.319 --> 02:06:54.600
Hm kill him, kill him my cue.224202:06:55.880 --> 02:07:02.920
All right, all right, you've got.224302:07:06.560 --> 02:07:11.520
I got the gun, but I was too late. I224402:07:11.600 --> 02:07:13.079
tried to get a out of his hand before he224502:07:13.359 --> 02:07:15.039
before he shot parently, but I.224602:07:15.399 --> 02:07:15.840
Was too late.224702:07:16.000 --> 02:07:16.720
No, that's not proof.224802:07:16.760 --> 02:07:17.039
Vans.224902:07:19.079 --> 02:07:20.560
All right, the rest of you men, come on in.225002:07:22.319 --> 02:07:40.119
This guy blinds killed another one. There you are, advance.225102:07:40.800 --> 02:07:44.079
That's the story, And like I said, you don't believe it.225202:07:44.520 --> 02:07:47.520
Doesn't matter anyway. I can't win. So you said try him.225302:07:48.319 --> 02:07:50.880
Come on, let's go on back to the headquarters.225402:07:50.520 --> 02:07:53.279
And Lieutenant please see that he stays in the car225502:07:53.439 --> 02:07:53.880
this time.225602:07:54.000 --> 02:07:56.560
I don't worry, Missus Bodine, he won't be back here again.225702:07:57.039 --> 02:07:58.960
You don't set tennant. Yeah, I want me to bring225802:07:59.000 --> 02:08:02.399
this gun along day. Careful you don't smudge any of225902:08:02.439 --> 02:08:03.079
the prints.226002:08:02.840 --> 02:08:08.000
On it, right, okay, boy, Prince a prince fingerprints, eh, Yeah,226102:08:08.199 --> 02:08:12.359
fingerprints on that gun. That's it, Advance. My prints aren't226202:08:12.399 --> 02:08:15.640
on it. They never were on it. Only hers because226302:08:15.640 --> 02:08:16.800
she's the only one who ever used it.226402:08:16.960 --> 02:08:18.079
That's not true, Prince.226502:08:18.680 --> 02:08:20.560
No fingerprints on a gun, no fingerprints on it.226602:08:21.560 --> 02:08:21.800
Yeah.226702:08:22.079 --> 02:08:24.960
The window that window over there, Vance, the one you226802:08:25.039 --> 02:08:28.079
said I opened. Listen the catch on that window. It226902:08:28.119 --> 02:08:32.199
doesn't have my fingerprints. It only has Faraday's or yours.227002:08:32.279 --> 02:08:37.279
Missus beaudein lying. Don't listen to him, rug Bland. So227102:08:37.399 --> 02:08:40.880
it doesn't have your fingerprints on it. Maybe your war gloves.227202:08:40.920 --> 02:08:44.279
Eh if I if I had, I wouldn't have left227302:08:44.279 --> 02:08:46.760
prints on that desk drawer, Advance. That's the drawer where227402:08:46.760 --> 02:08:50.520
the money was. And incidentally, you'll find that dough in227502:08:50.560 --> 02:08:54.720
Faraday's room. How about a lieutenant convinced?227602:08:55.479 --> 02:08:59.359
I rather think I am. What about you, Missus Baudeina227702:08:59.439 --> 02:09:02.119
you convince yes, yes, yes.227802:09:01.960 --> 02:09:04.960
I suppose I am. Well, it looks as though mister227902:09:05.000 --> 02:09:07.560
Bland will have company and you strip the headquarters.228002:09:08.079 --> 02:09:11.079
Ready, I'm afraid I won't have the pleasure of joining you.228102:09:11.199 --> 02:09:12.880
Thanks very much anyway, Haven't.228202:09:12.600 --> 02:09:15.600
You forgotten something, mister Bland. It was a little matter228302:09:15.640 --> 02:09:16.239
of embezzlement.228402:09:16.279 --> 02:09:16.680
I believe.228502:09:17.439 --> 02:09:19.760
I'm so sorry I wasn't able to help you on that.228602:09:20.399 --> 02:09:24.000
Oh you you did all right? That five grand reward228702:09:24.079 --> 02:09:26.600
you've posted, I think I've won it, don't you?228802:09:26.760 --> 02:09:26.880
Now?228902:09:27.000 --> 02:09:27.680
Wait a minute.229002:09:28.359 --> 02:09:30.399
The guy's got a point, Missus Bodine.229102:09:30.680 --> 02:09:32.960
The way I see it, that reward ought to take229202:09:33.000 --> 02:09:36.000
care of the embezzlement charge with quite a nice sum229302:09:36.119 --> 02:09:40.279
left over. Looks like you got jip leonor were asked229402:09:40.319 --> 02:09:42.880
me to sell you a washed up life. I think229502:09:42.920 --> 02:09:45.000
you'll pay for it with your own.229602:09:58.399 --> 02:10:01.640
And so closes Tell Me Your Life, Starring Lee Bowman,229702:10:01.960 --> 02:10:07.680
Tonight's study and suspense. Suspense is produced, edited and directed229802:10:07.800 --> 02:10:09.159
by William spear.229902:10:10.640 --> 02:10:15.119
Ah A little record playing to keep us calm, Keep230002:10:15.199 --> 02:10:20.840
us safe? Keep us from being a bit too fearful. Fearful. Well,230102:10:20.920 --> 02:10:23.239
I hope you know, my dear, how much I appreciate230202:10:23.359 --> 02:10:26.880
you seeing in the new year, and I look forward230302:10:26.920 --> 02:10:32.079
to many more because I'm going nowhere and quite fast.230402:10:33.079 --> 02:10:36.760
But you you need to go home. You need to230502:10:36.840 --> 02:10:40.800
take a stroll through the river, over the woods, past230602:10:40.880 --> 02:10:45.479
grandmother's house, down the roads, down the covered bridges, across230702:10:45.600 --> 02:10:50.239
railroad tracks. Make it back to your neat, tidy home,230802:10:51.359 --> 02:10:56.159
get into your warm, quiet bedroom, and get ready to230902:10:57.239 --> 02:11:01.239
head off to the land of na. But as your231002:11:01.319 --> 02:11:06.159
eyelids get so very very heavy, take a moment before231102:11:06.199 --> 02:11:10.199
you drift away, and just be thankful for what you231202:11:10.359 --> 02:11:12.600
have and I'll see you next time.
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