WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.760 This is Hollywood and CBS presenting forecast number four. 00:15.760 --> 00:20.260 Herbert Marshall directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the first program of a proposed new series 00:20.260 --> 00:36.800 entitled Suspense. 00:36.800 --> 00:42.280 Tonight's forecast program ladies and gentlemen represents the ideal form of collaboration. 00:42.280 --> 00:46.240 Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, brilliant English director of such outstanding motion pictures as the 00:46.240 --> 00:51.320 39 steps, Rebecca and foreign correspondent was eager to create a very special type of 00:51.320 --> 00:54.340 radio drama, the suspense story. 00:54.340 --> 00:58.520 As narrator and star for his production, he thought at once of the distinguished actor 00:58.520 --> 01:03.800 with whom he had been associated in countless British film successes, Herbert Marshall. 01:03.800 --> 01:08.740 Mr. Marshall suggested that they dramatize a certain favorite story of his and that story 01:08.740 --> 01:11.720 happened to be the very one Mr. Hitchcock had had in mind. 01:11.720 --> 01:30.720 This is Bella Clown's classic in chills, The Lodger. 01:30.720 --> 01:35.200 The Lodger is a work of fiction which springs from recorded fact. 01:35.200 --> 01:39.360 A story which begins in the year 1888 in London. 01:39.360 --> 01:43.920 A London terrorized by the fifth in a succession of recent murders. 01:43.920 --> 01:48.280 It was believed that these deeds were the work of one person, a tall gaunt figure in 01:48.280 --> 01:52.760 a black Inverness cape carrying a small narrow bag. 01:52.760 --> 01:57.320 That meager description provided by a highly unnerved witness was the sum total of all 01:57.320 --> 01:59.360 that was known of the murderer. 01:59.360 --> 02:03.720 It was enough however to keep alive and alert the interest of all London, of all those in 02:03.720 --> 02:11.840 fine quarters and all those in small grimy houses as for example, Ellen Bunting. 02:11.840 --> 02:14.960 Ellen was no different from all the other middle aged housewives dwelling in the great 02:14.960 --> 02:17.480 city's squalid Whitechapel district. 02:17.480 --> 02:20.140 She knew all the known facts of the case. 02:20.140 --> 02:24.180 As Herbert Marshall will tell you, Ellen knew it was quite proper to refer to this wielder 02:24.180 --> 02:31.120 of the knife as the Avenger. 02:31.120 --> 02:40.160 Of course, Ellen Bunting was far more concerned with her personal problems than with thoughts 02:40.160 --> 02:41.160 of the Avenger. 02:41.160 --> 02:45.120 Yet the case of that strange elusive killer quite often forced all other matters from 02:45.120 --> 02:46.120 her mind. 02:46.120 --> 02:50.800 There was that mad meaningless scheme he seemed to follow. 02:50.800 --> 02:53.200 All his victims for example have been women. 02:53.200 --> 02:58.160 All have been young, attractive and oddly enough, blonde. 02:58.160 --> 03:03.520 But Ellen could no more understand the motive for his brutal slashings than could the police. 03:03.520 --> 03:09.040 This night she and her husband Robert Bunting sat before their fireplace reading the newspaper 03:09.040 --> 03:11.120 account of the latest murder. 03:11.120 --> 03:18.280 The Avenger had struck again. 03:18.280 --> 03:21.280 As Ellen expressed it, he might be anybody. 03:21.280 --> 03:23.280 He might be the fellow you pass on the street. 03:23.280 --> 03:25.520 It's a terrible thought. 03:25.520 --> 03:28.440 Yes, if only the police had something to go on. 03:28.440 --> 03:30.960 It looks like that Avenger's just too quick for them. 03:30.960 --> 03:34.480 Look, it says here that this girl he got last night was like all the others. 03:34.480 --> 03:39.680 Pretty, blonde and let's see, described by her friends as a very light-hearted girl. 03:39.680 --> 03:40.680 What a pity. 03:40.680 --> 03:43.160 Did you ever stop to think who fits that to a tee? 03:43.160 --> 03:44.640 In fact, fits all those girls? 03:44.640 --> 03:45.640 Why? 03:45.640 --> 03:46.640 By my own Daisy. 03:46.640 --> 03:47.640 Oh, that's a horrible thought. 03:47.640 --> 03:51.040 Well, maybe it's a good thing she's with her aunt then instead of here. 03:51.040 --> 03:53.280 London ain't a safe place for any girl right now. 03:53.280 --> 03:56.880 Ah, just the same, I can't help thinking how fine it'll be to have her back, Ellen. 03:56.880 --> 04:01.480 Now Bunting, you know that Daisy seems just as much my own daughter as she is yours. 04:01.480 --> 04:04.800 But I'm telling you, there's no sense even thinking about having her back right now. 04:04.800 --> 04:06.080 We just can't afford it. 04:06.080 --> 04:07.080 Oh, I know that Ellen. 04:07.080 --> 04:10.120 Only, well, maybe we could manage it some way. 04:10.120 --> 04:11.120 How? 04:11.120 --> 04:13.540 Haven't I scrimped myself half crazy trying to keep us going? 04:13.540 --> 04:15.200 But you don't care about that, do you? 04:15.200 --> 04:17.440 No, your Daisy's more important to you than I am. 04:17.440 --> 04:19.080 No, no, no, Ellen, Ellen, that don't sound like you. 04:19.080 --> 04:21.200 Oh, I can't help if it don't. 04:21.200 --> 04:22.320 What are we going to do? 04:22.320 --> 04:23.320 Tell me that. 04:23.320 --> 04:24.320 We'll get along, dear. 04:24.320 --> 04:25.320 Something will turn up. 04:25.320 --> 04:26.880 Oh, we haven't had a lodger for months. 04:26.880 --> 04:28.720 Nobody even comes to look at the room anymore. 04:28.720 --> 04:30.120 Yes, but things will work out, Ellen. 04:30.120 --> 04:32.200 Oh, they ain't never going to work out. 04:32.200 --> 04:34.640 So we won't even have a roof over our heads and... 04:34.640 --> 04:35.640 What? 04:35.640 --> 04:37.840 Oh, I'm sorry, Robbie. 04:37.840 --> 04:39.360 I didn't mean to take on so... 04:39.360 --> 04:40.360 Oh, I know, dear, I know. 04:40.360 --> 04:41.360 It's all right. 04:41.360 --> 04:42.840 Oh, I didn't think it. 04:42.840 --> 04:44.440 It's just that I've been so worried. 04:44.440 --> 04:46.440 Well, don't you go worrying another second, old girl. 04:46.440 --> 04:48.240 Why, first thing you know, you won't be pretty anymore. 04:48.240 --> 04:49.800 You'll have your face all wrinkled and your... 04:49.800 --> 04:50.800 Now, I'll see here, Bunting. 04:50.800 --> 04:52.560 Let's see a smile. Come on, just have one smile for me. 04:52.560 --> 04:53.560 Oh, leave me alone. 04:53.560 --> 04:54.560 Just one smile like you used to, eh? 04:54.560 --> 04:55.560 I'll be darned with you. 04:55.560 --> 05:00.560 Well, who do you suppose that could be? 05:00.560 --> 05:03.560 Well, late for visitors, I... 05:03.560 --> 05:06.840 Bunting, do you think it could be somebody looking for rooms? 05:06.840 --> 05:07.840 Well, it might be. 05:07.840 --> 05:09.320 You want me to go to the door? 05:09.320 --> 05:10.320 No, I'll go. 05:10.320 --> 05:11.320 Oh. 05:11.320 --> 05:12.320 You just stay here. 05:12.320 --> 05:13.320 Yes, all right. 05:13.320 --> 05:16.320 Now, be sure you get a good look at the ways before you let them in, dear. 05:16.320 --> 05:17.320 Oh, I'm coming. 05:17.320 --> 05:20.320 Oh, I do hope it's... 05:20.320 --> 05:23.320 Yes, sir? 05:23.320 --> 05:28.320 Is it not true that you let lodgings? 05:28.320 --> 05:29.320 Yes, sir. 05:29.320 --> 05:30.320 Won't you come in, sir? 05:30.320 --> 05:31.320 Thank you. 05:31.320 --> 05:32.320 Could I, uh... 05:32.320 --> 05:33.320 Could I take your cape, sir? 05:33.320 --> 05:34.320 There's no need. 05:34.320 --> 05:35.320 Now, I am looking for a quiet room. 05:35.320 --> 05:36.320 It must be quiet. 05:36.320 --> 05:37.320 Oh, we have that, sir. 05:37.320 --> 05:38.320 Above all, our house is quiet. 05:38.320 --> 05:39.320 Your bags, sir. 05:39.320 --> 05:40.320 May I take it? 05:40.320 --> 05:41.320 No, I'll hold it. 05:41.320 --> 05:42.320 It'll be so good as to show me the room, please. 05:42.320 --> 05:43.320 Oh, yes, yes. 05:43.320 --> 05:44.320 I'll be very happy to. 05:44.320 --> 05:45.320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 05:45.320 --> 05:46.320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 05:46.320 --> 05:47.320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 05:47.320 --> 05:48.320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 05:48.320 --> 05:49.320 Oh, I'll be very happy to. 05:49.320 --> 05:50.320 Oh, yes, yes, sir. 05:50.320 --> 05:51.320 It's right up these stairs, sir. 05:51.320 --> 05:52.320 This way. 05:52.320 --> 05:53.320 Thank you. 05:53.320 --> 06:02.320 You see, sir, there's just my husband and me here, and we're ever so quiet, and I'm 06:02.320 --> 06:05.320 sure you'll find this room to your liking, sir. 06:05.320 --> 06:07.320 Here we are. 06:07.320 --> 06:10.320 Now, I'll just light the gas. 06:10.320 --> 06:11.320 There. 06:11.320 --> 06:12.320 Mm-hmm. 06:12.320 --> 06:13.320 Very good. 06:13.320 --> 06:16.320 It is pleasant, isn't it, sir? 06:16.320 --> 06:18.320 And there's not many rooms with such pretty pictures. 06:18.320 --> 06:19.320 Are there now? 06:19.320 --> 06:21.320 We've had them in the family for years, sir, and... 06:21.320 --> 06:23.320 Pictures interest me very little. 06:23.320 --> 06:28.320 You see, what really impresses me about the room is the very simplicity of it, the, um, 06:28.320 --> 06:29.320 the bareness. 06:29.320 --> 06:30.320 Yes, sir. 06:30.320 --> 06:31.320 It's not at all crowded, is it? 06:31.320 --> 06:33.320 It will be quite suitable, Mrs... 06:33.320 --> 06:34.320 Buntings. 06:34.320 --> 06:35.320 Mrs. Buntings. 06:35.320 --> 06:39.320 You see, I do a great deal of studying in my book here, the Holy Bible. 06:39.320 --> 06:40.320 Yes, sir. 06:40.320 --> 06:42.320 Please, sir, let me help with your luggage. 06:42.320 --> 06:43.320 No, don't touch it. 06:43.320 --> 06:44.320 Oh, but I only wish to... 06:44.320 --> 06:45.320 Oh, you only wish to help, of course. 06:45.320 --> 06:46.320 You must forgive me, Mrs. Buntings. 06:46.320 --> 06:49.320 It's just that I... 06:49.320 --> 06:51.320 I'm so very weary. 06:51.320 --> 06:52.320 Of course, sir. 06:52.320 --> 06:55.320 He bringeth them to their desired haven. 06:55.320 --> 06:57.320 Beautiful words, Mrs. Buntings. 06:57.320 --> 06:58.320 Indeed they are, sir. 06:58.320 --> 07:01.320 And now at last I have found my haven of rest. 07:01.320 --> 07:02.320 Yes, sir. 07:02.320 --> 07:04.320 Then, then you'll be taking the room. 07:04.320 --> 07:09.320 Let us see now, um, what you're going to charge me with, attendance mind. 07:09.320 --> 07:12.320 I shall be staying in most of the time and I shall be wanting meals. 07:12.320 --> 07:13.320 Oh, we can see to that. 07:13.320 --> 07:17.320 Then does, um, 30 shillings a week suit you? 07:17.320 --> 07:18.320 30... 07:18.320 --> 07:20.320 Why, yes, sir, yes, sir, that will be quite all right. 07:20.320 --> 07:22.320 Good, and I shall pay you in advance. 07:22.320 --> 07:25.320 My name is Sleuth, Mrs. Buntings. 07:25.320 --> 07:26.320 Mr. Sleuth. 07:26.320 --> 07:28.320 S-L-E-U-T-H. 07:28.320 --> 07:31.320 Think of a hound, Mrs. Buntings, and you'll never forget my name. 07:31.320 --> 07:35.320 Twenty-three, four, 30 shillings. 07:35.320 --> 07:36.320 Thank you, sir. 07:36.320 --> 07:40.320 And I think I should enjoy a little light supper now, Mrs. Buntings. 07:40.320 --> 07:41.320 Bread and butter, perhaps. 07:41.320 --> 07:43.320 Could you arrange that? 07:43.320 --> 07:44.320 Most certainly, sir. 07:44.320 --> 07:45.320 I-I'll do that now. 07:45.320 --> 07:47.320 And if you'd be requiring any beer or spirits... 07:47.320 --> 07:48.320 Certainly not. 07:48.320 --> 07:50.320 Oh, sir, what, what did I say? 07:50.320 --> 07:52.320 I thought you understood me, Mrs. Buntings, 07:52.320 --> 07:54.320 and I had hoped that you and your husband were abstainers. 07:54.320 --> 07:55.320 But we are, sir. 07:55.320 --> 07:57.320 We don't keep nothing about. 07:57.320 --> 07:58.320 I would have had to go out and... 07:58.320 --> 07:59.320 Of course, of course. 07:59.320 --> 08:01.320 Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Buntings. 08:01.320 --> 08:03.320 I fear I spoke sharply. 08:03.320 --> 08:05.320 I don't wish you to think me rude. 08:05.320 --> 08:07.320 After all, you, you've been so kind. 08:07.320 --> 08:08.320 Consider it. 08:08.320 --> 08:11.320 I hope I know a gentleman when I see one. 08:11.320 --> 08:13.320 Thank you, thank you very much. 08:13.320 --> 08:15.320 Now I'll just hurry with your supper. 08:23.320 --> 08:25.320 Ellen, Ellen, did he take the room? 08:25.320 --> 08:27.320 Don't bother me now. I have to get him some supper. 08:27.320 --> 08:28.320 What did you mean? 08:28.320 --> 08:30.320 Come to the kitchen where he won't hear us. 08:30.320 --> 08:31.320 He took it, Ellen? 08:31.320 --> 08:32.320 Yes, he took the room. 08:32.320 --> 08:34.320 Yes, we're all right now. 08:34.320 --> 08:37.320 Look, 30 shillings. 08:37.320 --> 08:38.320 30 shillings. 08:38.320 --> 08:39.320 A week in advance. 08:39.320 --> 08:41.320 Oh, it's wonderful, wonderful. 08:41.320 --> 08:42.320 Ellen, do you see what this means? 08:42.320 --> 08:44.320 Yes, you can have Daisy now. 08:44.320 --> 08:45.320 Yes. 08:45.320 --> 08:46.320 Here, Bunting, 08:46.320 --> 08:48.320 warm that teapot and put some tea leaves in it. 08:48.320 --> 08:49.320 Righto, righto. 08:49.320 --> 08:50.320 Do you know something, old girl? 08:50.320 --> 08:52.320 We're not going to worry too much about Daisy being 08:52.320 --> 08:53.320 in danger of that Avenger fella. 08:53.320 --> 08:54.320 Whatever do you mean, Robbie? 08:54.320 --> 08:56.320 Well, she's not a girl who takes a drink, you know. 08:56.320 --> 08:57.320 What's that to do with it, please? 08:57.320 --> 08:59.320 Oh, something I read in the paper while he was upstairs 08:59.320 --> 09:00.320 with the gentleman. 09:00.320 --> 09:03.320 They just found out that every one of the Avenger's victims 09:03.320 --> 09:04.320 had been drinking. 09:04.320 --> 09:07.320 They figured he must be some kind of a rabid abstainer. 09:09.320 --> 09:11.320 What up a kill, dear chan? 09:11.320 --> 09:12.320 Now hurry, Bunting, please. 09:12.320 --> 09:13.320 Yes. 09:14.320 --> 09:15.320 Two thoughts. 09:15.320 --> 09:17.320 Two thoughts only governed Ellen's mind. 09:17.320 --> 09:20.320 The lodgers liked supper and her own good fortune 09:20.320 --> 09:22.320 at having such a lodger. 09:22.320 --> 09:23.320 Mr. Sleuth was an eccentric sort, 09:23.320 --> 09:25.320 but then he was such a gentleman, so quiet, 09:25.320 --> 09:28.320 so very religiously inclined. 09:28.320 --> 09:30.320 She started up a staircase to Mr. Sleuth's room, 09:30.320 --> 09:32.320 her husband at her side. 09:32.320 --> 09:34.320 You won't be long to be safe, though, 09:34.320 --> 09:35.320 once Daisy's back in London, eh? 09:35.320 --> 09:37.320 We'll see if she stays closer than the house. 09:37.320 --> 09:38.320 Hmm? 09:38.320 --> 09:39.320 Well, I'll be downstairs. 09:39.320 --> 09:41.320 Hurry up with your supper, old girl. 09:43.320 --> 09:46.320 She has passed down many wounded from her. 09:46.320 --> 09:48.320 Many strong men have been slain by her. 09:48.320 --> 09:49.320 Come in. 09:50.320 --> 09:52.320 And know the wickedness of folly. 09:52.320 --> 09:53.320 By Mr. Sleuth? 09:53.320 --> 09:54.320 Yes. 09:54.320 --> 09:55.320 What is it? 09:55.320 --> 09:56.320 Those pictures. 09:56.320 --> 09:57.320 Those pretty girls. 09:57.320 --> 10:02.320 You've turned all their faces to the wall. 10:10.320 --> 10:12.320 And that maneuver, that strange action, 10:12.320 --> 10:14.320 was the beginning of Ellen's concern. 10:14.320 --> 10:16.320 Soon they came to her a recollection 10:16.320 --> 10:18.320 of the black Inverness cape, 10:18.320 --> 10:19.320 the small narrow bag, 10:19.320 --> 10:22.320 the urgent matter of alcoholic drink. 10:22.320 --> 10:24.320 And these details began to shape themselves 10:24.320 --> 10:25.320 into a pattern which grew more disturbing 10:25.320 --> 10:27.320 with each passing hour. 10:27.320 --> 10:29.320 The day following, the larger did not leave 10:29.320 --> 10:31.320 the upstairs room once, 10:31.320 --> 10:33.320 nor did he leave the next day. 10:33.320 --> 10:36.320 And the oddness of this took its place in the pattern. 10:36.320 --> 10:38.320 Then, too, the approaching arrival of Daisy, 10:38.320 --> 10:40.320 her stepdaughter, added to her concern. 10:40.320 --> 10:42.320 On the second night, her sleep was restless 10:42.320 --> 10:45.320 with vague, horrifying images. 10:45.320 --> 10:48.320 And so when she heard the first stealthy footsteps 10:48.320 --> 10:52.320 outside her bedroom, she was instantly awake. 10:52.320 --> 10:53.320 Oh. 10:53.320 --> 10:55.320 Tensely. 10:55.320 --> 10:57.320 She followed those steps down the stairs, 10:57.320 --> 10:58.320 down the hallway. 10:58.320 --> 11:00.320 She heard the front door open 11:00.320 --> 11:02.320 and then click shut. 11:02.320 --> 11:04.320 Out of stillness, fell upon the house. 11:04.320 --> 11:06.320 And outside, the streets were so silent, 11:06.320 --> 11:08.320 she could hear distinctly the clock from a church tower 11:08.320 --> 11:12.320 a mile away, told the owl. 11:12.320 --> 11:14.320 In her troubled frenzy, 11:14.320 --> 11:16.320 she pictured a lone figure 11:16.320 --> 11:18.320 plodding through the deep fog, 11:18.320 --> 11:20.320 moving quietly, 11:20.320 --> 11:21.320 stealthily, 11:21.320 --> 11:23.320 stalkingly, 11:23.320 --> 11:24.320 searching, 11:24.320 --> 11:26.320 finding. 11:32.320 --> 11:35.320 When, soon after, she heard the ludge of return, 11:35.320 --> 11:37.320 she sought to quiet the horrible dread 11:37.320 --> 11:38.320 which had possessed her. 11:38.320 --> 11:40.320 She assured herself that Daisy's arrival that day 11:40.320 --> 11:42.320 was no cause for alarm. 11:42.320 --> 11:44.320 Now she reasoned, 11:44.320 --> 11:46.320 how could there be anything really evil 11:46.320 --> 11:49.320 about so religious a gentleman as Mr. Sleuth? 11:49.320 --> 11:51.320 But for her, there was no more sleep, 11:51.320 --> 11:53.320 merely a tormented state of half-consciousness, 11:53.320 --> 11:55.320 a state which suddenly had dropped from her 11:55.320 --> 11:57.320 shortly after pay break. 12:00.320 --> 12:02.320 Horrible murder! 12:02.320 --> 12:04.320 Horrible murder. 12:04.320 --> 12:06.320 That was the piercing scream of a newsboy 12:06.320 --> 12:07.320 far down the street. 12:07.320 --> 12:10.320 The Avenger strikes during night! 12:10.320 --> 12:12.320 Then in bunting, heard the boy cry out 12:12.320 --> 12:14.320 the Avenger's latest trope, 12:14.320 --> 12:16.320 made during the night. 12:16.320 --> 12:19.320 It's the Avenger! 12:19.320 --> 12:22.320 Horrible murder in King's Trough! 12:22.320 --> 12:26.320 A man of sex, he's become an Avenger! 12:26.320 --> 12:28.320 He's become an Avenger! 12:28.320 --> 12:30.320 The Avenger strikes again! 12:30.320 --> 12:33.320 He's become an Avenger! 12:33.320 --> 12:36.320 A victim of my horrible murder! 12:36.320 --> 12:37.320 Avenger! 12:37.320 --> 12:38.320 Avenger! 12:38.320 --> 12:51.320 Avenger! 12:51.320 --> 12:53.320 Ellen's first glimpse that morning 12:53.320 --> 12:55.320 of the grave-faced lodger 12:55.320 --> 12:57.320 brought the steepest night's warm terror 12:57.320 --> 12:59.320 full to the surface. 12:59.320 --> 13:00.320 But on the next instant, 13:00.320 --> 13:04.320 she saw the pitilable helpless weariness in his eyes, 13:04.320 --> 13:08.320 and curiously the terror began to pass. 13:08.320 --> 13:09.320 She found that she was hoping desperate 13:09.320 --> 13:12.320 that her fears were unfounded. 13:12.320 --> 13:13.320 Earlier, she had determined to tell bunting 13:13.320 --> 13:15.320 of the awful convictions in her mind. 13:15.320 --> 13:18.320 Now, however, she felt she must be certain, 13:18.320 --> 13:21.320 certain before she spoke to a soul. 13:21.320 --> 13:23.320 She knew there was one thing she must examine. 13:23.320 --> 13:25.320 That was the lodger's single piece of luggage. 13:25.320 --> 13:26.320 She'd thought of it often. 13:26.320 --> 13:28.320 What could it hold? 13:28.320 --> 13:29.320 Not much in the way of clothing, surely. 13:29.320 --> 13:32.320 It was too small, too narrow. 13:32.320 --> 13:34.320 It was more like a case. 13:34.320 --> 13:37.320 A case for a knife. 13:41.320 --> 13:42.320 It was along toward noon 13:42.320 --> 13:43.320 that Ellen found her opportunity 13:43.320 --> 13:45.320 to search the lodger's room. 13:45.320 --> 13:47.320 Soon after bunting left to meet Daisy, 13:47.320 --> 13:49.320 Mr. Sleuth himself walked from the house. 13:49.320 --> 13:50.320 Ellen watched the tall, thin figure 13:50.320 --> 13:52.320 in the black, inward-esquip 13:52.320 --> 13:53.320 disappear down the street, 13:53.320 --> 13:56.320 and then she rushed upstairs into the room. 13:56.320 --> 13:57.320 Quickly, she moved to the closet. 13:57.320 --> 13:59.320 It was no different from what it had always been. 13:59.320 --> 14:00.320 I tell you empty. 14:00.320 --> 14:01.320 She found nothing into the bed. 14:01.320 --> 14:02.320 She went then to the chest of drawers 14:02.320 --> 14:03.320 against the wall. 14:03.320 --> 14:04.320 She opened the top drawer 14:04.320 --> 14:05.320 and found inside nothing but a frayed shirt, 14:05.320 --> 14:06.320 two handkerchiefs, 14:06.320 --> 14:08.320 the next drawer underclothes, socks, 14:08.320 --> 14:09.320 the next empty. 14:09.320 --> 14:10.320 There remained then only one possible place 14:10.320 --> 14:11.320 for the small, narrow bag, 14:11.320 --> 14:14.320 the bottom drawer, and it was locked. 14:14.320 --> 14:15.320 Tugging at the drawer, she heard suddenly 14:15.320 --> 14:17.320 the opening of the front door downstairs. 14:17.320 --> 14:19.320 Panic stricken, she rushed out of the room 14:19.320 --> 14:21.320 and down the hall to the head of the stairs. 14:21.320 --> 14:22.320 Upstairs, Ellen. 14:22.320 --> 14:24.320 Ellen, Daisy's here. 14:24.320 --> 14:27.320 Oh, Mother Ellen, it's so good to see you. 14:27.320 --> 14:29.320 Oh, whatever's the matter? 14:29.320 --> 14:30.320 Yeah, she's gone quite white. 14:30.320 --> 14:33.320 Oh, well, I'm all right. 14:33.320 --> 14:35.320 I wasn't expecting you so soon. 14:35.320 --> 14:38.320 Oh, you don't know how fine it is to be back, Mother Ellen. 14:38.320 --> 14:39.320 The country's all right in its way, 14:39.320 --> 14:42.320 but there's nothing like London now, is there? 14:42.320 --> 14:43.320 No, no, there isn't. 14:43.320 --> 14:44.320 But as long as that avenger's about, 14:44.320 --> 14:46.320 I can see we're going to have to do something 14:46.320 --> 14:47.320 about these blonde locks, say, Ellen. 14:47.320 --> 14:49.320 Oh, don't worry about that. 14:49.320 --> 14:52.320 I'll dye them maybe, or just pin them under my hat. 14:52.320 --> 14:55.320 Daisy, I might as well get you settled. 14:55.320 --> 14:56.320 Oh, now, Father, isn't that just like her? 14:56.320 --> 14:58.320 She's straight to the point. 14:58.320 --> 14:59.320 No, of course. 14:59.320 --> 15:00.320 With a sixpence, she'll have a dust cloth in your hand 15:00.320 --> 15:02.320 before you've got your coat off. 15:02.320 --> 15:03.320 Oh. 15:06.320 --> 15:07.320 Mr. Sleuth. 15:07.320 --> 15:09.320 Mrs. Bunting, I see my door is open. 15:09.320 --> 15:11.320 Oh, we were just leaving, sir. 15:11.320 --> 15:13.320 Does this mean that all of you have been in my room? 15:13.320 --> 15:14.320 Oh, not at all, sir. 15:14.320 --> 15:15.320 What must I do? Keep it locked? 15:15.320 --> 15:18.320 But you see, sir, I was just tidying up a bit, 15:18.320 --> 15:21.320 and Mr. Bunting, he brought his daughter up, sir. 15:21.320 --> 15:23.320 She just arrived. 15:23.320 --> 15:24.320 Mrs. Daisy, sir. 15:24.320 --> 15:26.320 Pleased to meet you, sir. 15:26.320 --> 15:29.320 She's been away for quite a long while, you see, Mr. Sleuth, 15:29.320 --> 15:32.320 and that's why we're a bit excited, you might say. 15:32.320 --> 15:34.320 Yes, you must have been surprised when you came in, 15:34.320 --> 15:36.320 hearing us laughing and carrying on that way. 15:36.320 --> 15:38.320 Yes, yes, I must say I was. 15:38.320 --> 15:43.320 However, Miss Daisy, there are all types of joy, are there not? 15:43.320 --> 15:45.320 Yes, I'm sure there are. 15:45.320 --> 15:48.320 The despicable evil joy of the abandoned 15:48.320 --> 15:50.320 and the divine happiness of the blessed. 15:50.320 --> 15:52.320 A vast difference, that. 15:52.320 --> 15:54.320 You do understand me, don't you? 15:54.320 --> 15:56.320 Yes, sir. Yes, Mr. Sleuth. 15:56.320 --> 15:58.320 I devoutly hope so, Miss Daisy. 15:58.320 --> 16:02.320 Nowadays there are so very few young women like yourself who do. 16:02.320 --> 16:06.320 In fact, I... I all but despair ever of finding one. 16:06.320 --> 16:08.320 If... if you'll excuse us now, sir, 16:08.320 --> 16:10.320 we'll... we'll be getting Daisy's things put away. 16:10.320 --> 16:14.320 Of course, Mrs. Bunting, and I must be getting to my room. 16:14.320 --> 16:17.320 Believe me, Miss Daisy, it's been a revelation to meet you. 16:17.320 --> 16:19.320 Oh, thank you, sir. 16:19.320 --> 16:21.320 I'm sure we shall have much to discuss. 16:21.320 --> 16:26.320 You're a queer when all right, but such a gentleman, Miss Daisy. 16:33.320 --> 16:37.320 At that moment, Ellen had been determined to pour out her terrible knowledge, 16:37.320 --> 16:39.320 and then the moment passed by. 16:39.320 --> 16:41.320 She told herself that perhaps the past few days had been nothing more 16:41.320 --> 16:45.320 than a grim illusion, a tormenting play of imagination. 16:45.320 --> 16:48.320 She would wait then until she had attended the Colonel's inquest 16:48.320 --> 16:50.320 into the last avenge of murder. 16:50.320 --> 16:53.320 There, perhaps, she would hear evidence to disprove all her fears, 16:53.320 --> 16:57.320 to assure her there was no earthly harm in Daisy being so near the lodge. 16:57.320 --> 16:59.320 This was her gravest concern now, 16:59.320 --> 17:03.320 for on the next day, Mr. Sleuth made it a point to see the girl more than once, 17:03.320 --> 17:07.320 and fearfully, Ellen saw that Daisy welcomed his visits. 17:07.320 --> 17:10.320 As Ellen was preparing to step out to the inquest, 17:10.320 --> 17:13.320 she heard once more the voices of her stepdaughter and the lodger 17:13.320 --> 17:16.320 coming to her through the kitchen door. 17:16.320 --> 17:18.320 She hesitated before entering. 17:18.320 --> 17:23.320 Intense. Strangely apprehensive. 17:23.320 --> 17:27.320 I do believe, Mrs. Sleuth, I've never known a gentleman with such funny ideas. 17:27.320 --> 17:31.320 Oh, Mother Ellen, you should hear what Mr. Sleuth was just saying. 17:31.320 --> 17:33.320 Perhaps, Daisy, you would excuse yourself. 17:33.320 --> 17:37.320 He thinks people, and especially girls, should spend all their time praying. 17:37.320 --> 17:39.320 I sought to explain, Mrs. Bunting, 17:39.320 --> 17:42.320 that all women are placed on this earth filled with evil. 17:42.320 --> 17:46.320 They therefore must struggle constantly to find the paths of righteousness. 17:46.320 --> 17:50.320 Why, Mr. Sleuth, you mean a girl's not to enjoy life at all? 17:50.320 --> 17:51.320 Not to have fun? 17:51.320 --> 17:54.320 Frivolity, my child, is the devil's breeding ground, 17:54.320 --> 17:56.320 and all his implements are there. 17:56.320 --> 18:00.320 Temptation, pleasure, wine. 18:00.320 --> 18:02.320 Oh, that's crazy. 18:02.320 --> 18:05.320 Well, there's nothing I like better than a glass of wine, and I'm... 18:05.320 --> 18:07.320 You drink. 18:10.320 --> 18:12.320 She didn't know what she was saying, Mr. Sleuth. 18:12.320 --> 18:14.320 Just a child, and Daisy, you'd better go now. 18:14.320 --> 18:16.320 But I didn't say nothing wrong. 18:16.320 --> 18:18.320 What's the harm in a glass of wine? 18:18.320 --> 18:20.320 She lieth in wait as for a prey, 18:20.320 --> 18:22.320 and increaseth the transgressors among men. 18:22.320 --> 18:24.320 I don't know what you mean. 18:24.320 --> 18:26.320 I never heard such nonsense. 18:26.320 --> 18:28.320 You call holy scripture nonsense? 18:28.320 --> 18:30.320 So what I prayed against is true. 18:30.320 --> 18:32.320 You are beyond salvation. 18:32.320 --> 18:35.320 That's not so. I'm a good girl, I am, and I won't have you saying that. 18:35.320 --> 18:37.320 Daisy, Daisy, go into the front room. 18:37.320 --> 18:41.320 It's quite all right, Mrs. Bunting. I must be going upstairs anyway. 18:41.320 --> 18:43.320 I'm used to being misunderstood, you know. 18:43.320 --> 18:47.320 People never realize that my efforts are simply for the greater good of humanity. 18:47.320 --> 18:49.320 Of course, sir. 18:49.320 --> 18:53.320 And that the power on high will direct my hand toward the expulsion of all evil. 18:54.320 --> 18:57.320 Daisy, Daisy, listen to me. 18:57.320 --> 18:58.320 Yes? 18:58.320 --> 19:00.320 I've got to tell you about... about... 19:00.320 --> 19:02.320 About what, Mother Ellen? 19:02.320 --> 19:05.320 Nothing. I've got to go out for a while now. 19:05.320 --> 19:13.320 I'll be back. 19:16.320 --> 19:20.320 The moment to reveal the secret horror had come again and passed. 19:20.320 --> 19:22.320 Ellen's sudden recollection of Mr. Sluphes, 19:22.320 --> 19:24.320 as he stood in the doorway, had overwhelmed her. 19:24.320 --> 19:26.320 She must give him this vast chance, 19:26.320 --> 19:28.320 this last frantic search for disproving evidence, 19:28.320 --> 19:31.320 this trip to the inquest. 19:31.320 --> 19:33.320 If that chance should fail, 19:33.320 --> 19:35.320 she would tell Bunting or the police. 19:35.320 --> 19:38.320 So, with the knowledge that Bunting was left in the house to look after Daisy, 19:38.320 --> 19:41.320 she boarded the underground train bound for the coroner's court. 19:41.320 --> 19:44.320 But as the train pulled away from the station, 19:44.320 --> 19:48.320 a new torture came to her, began to mount in her mind. 19:48.320 --> 19:51.320 It was the sudden realization that provided Sluphes was the murderer, 19:51.320 --> 19:54.320 she was equally responsible for his crimes. 19:54.320 --> 19:57.320 She had been giving him protection. 19:57.320 --> 20:01.320 Protection, protection, protection, protection, protection. 20:01.320 --> 20:05.320 If anything should happen to Daisy, she would be equally guilty. 20:05.320 --> 20:09.320 Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. 20:09.320 --> 20:12.320 Only as guilty as the Avenger. 20:12.320 --> 20:35.320 Avenger, Avenger, Avenger, Avenger. 20:35.320 --> 20:39.320 Alan, seated at the rail of the small but crowded inquest room, 20:39.320 --> 20:42.160 seated at the rear of the small but crowded inquest room, 20:42.160 --> 20:44.420 listened to each of the witnesses as they were called. 20:44.420 --> 20:48.080 And from one of them she found the first hope she had known for many days. 20:48.080 --> 20:52.460 This witness lived next to the alley in which the avenger had committed his crime that night. 20:52.460 --> 20:57.420 She had seen him from her window and the man she described in no way resembled Evans Largent. 20:57.420 --> 21:01.040 But in another moment, Evans' hope was swept away. 21:01.040 --> 21:03.080 It was pointed out that the fog had been so heavy that night 21:03.080 --> 21:06.680 that the witness could not possibly have seen the murderer from her window. 21:06.680 --> 21:10.280 She left the stand replaced by a Mr. Cannot. 21:10.280 --> 21:14.680 This elderly gentleman was certain that he had not only seen but talked with the avenger. 21:14.680 --> 21:17.480 He was in Regent's Park, he testified, only a few moments before... 21:17.480 --> 21:19.640 Only a few moments before the murder, Mr. Coroner. 21:19.640 --> 21:26.200 When I saw him, he was quite a tall man, very gaunt looking and carrying a handbag. 21:26.200 --> 21:27.480 A handbag, you say? 21:27.480 --> 21:29.640 Yes, a small, narrow one. 21:29.640 --> 21:33.720 Just such a bag, I might add, as might contain a knife. 21:33.720 --> 21:35.000 Has Ellen heard these words? 21:35.000 --> 21:37.960 The tension which had been mounting up within her became almost unbearable. 21:37.960 --> 21:40.120 Rigid with horror, she gripped the arms of her chair. 21:40.120 --> 21:41.560 She heard the coroner... 21:42.760 --> 21:45.560 I shall have to ask for more order in the court. 21:45.560 --> 21:49.320 And now, Mr. Cannot, I understand you heard this man speak. 21:49.320 --> 21:52.600 Oh, yes, he had a rather high, hesitating voice. 21:52.600 --> 21:55.640 An educated man, I would judge, but quite mad. 21:55.640 --> 21:56.680 What do you mean by that? 21:56.680 --> 22:00.920 Well, as he emerged from the fog, he was talking aloud to himself. 22:00.920 --> 22:05.960 Believe me, sir, he was reciting scriptures from the Bible. 22:10.200 --> 22:12.440 Scriptures from the Bible? 22:12.440 --> 22:16.360 Horrified, Ellen rose from her seat, only half hearing the confusion about her. 22:17.960 --> 22:19.960 Are you asking us to believe? 22:19.960 --> 22:25.960 I would say, Mr. Cannot, that the man we are looking for would be least of all, a religious man. 22:25.960 --> 22:28.120 And that's where you're in error, Mr. Coroner. 22:28.120 --> 22:30.920 The religious note is the very key to the case. 22:30.920 --> 22:33.080 Very interesting. That'll be all, Mr. Cannot. 22:33.080 --> 22:36.040 Just a moment, sir. Don't you understand? 22:36.040 --> 22:39.320 The man you're after must be a religious maniac. 22:39.320 --> 22:41.160 That's the only explanation possible. 22:41.160 --> 22:43.160 You will please stand down. 22:44.600 --> 22:47.080 The court was dismissing the very truth. 22:47.080 --> 22:48.440 Ellen knew that now. 22:48.440 --> 22:49.800 She would no longer keep silent. 22:49.800 --> 22:51.800 Her hands shut forth and she screamed. 22:51.800 --> 22:55.400 I... I want to say... 22:55.400 --> 22:57.400 Ellen Bunting, on the verge of speaking, fainted. 22:57.400 --> 23:01.400 And then, when she was revived a few moments later, she said nothing. 23:01.400 --> 23:03.400 Her brain was in too great a turmoil. 23:03.400 --> 23:05.400 Her nerves too shocked. 23:05.400 --> 23:09.400 Like one in a dream, she allowed herself to be led from the courtroom. 23:09.400 --> 23:11.400 The voices of spectators were only vague sounds to her. 23:11.400 --> 23:13.400 I thought she was going to say something. 23:13.400 --> 23:15.400 Yes, it was hysterics. 23:15.400 --> 23:17.400 Yeah, that bit about the noise. 23:17.400 --> 23:19.400 I thought she was going to say something. 23:19.400 --> 23:21.960 Yes, it was hysterics. Yeah, that bit about the knife. 23:21.960 --> 23:23.960 Yeah, the knife. 23:23.960 --> 23:25.960 The knife. The knife. 23:25.960 --> 23:27.960 As Ellen Bunting proceeded home, 23:27.960 --> 23:29.960 with the remarks from the spectators remain in her mind, 23:29.960 --> 23:31.960 she heard them over and over. 23:31.960 --> 23:33.960 That bit about the knife. 23:33.960 --> 23:35.960 Such a vag is making me... 23:35.960 --> 23:37.960 That knife. 23:37.960 --> 23:41.960 We all see she stays closer than the house, eh? 23:41.960 --> 23:43.960 No harm in being safe. 23:43.960 --> 23:45.960 Direct my hand toward the expulsion of all evil. 23:45.960 --> 23:47.960 Expulsion of all evil. 23:47.960 --> 23:49.960 I saw her in a glass of wine. 23:49.960 --> 23:51.960 I didn't say nothing wrong. 23:51.960 --> 23:53.960 As Ellen neared her neighborhood, 23:53.960 --> 23:55.960 her dread increased. 23:55.960 --> 23:57.960 With each moving footstep, the grip of terror grew tighter, 23:57.960 --> 23:59.960 tighter about her. 23:59.960 --> 24:01.960 She moved faster, faster. 24:01.960 --> 24:03.960 Before she were in time, she was two streets away from the house. 24:03.960 --> 24:05.960 Then one, then... 24:05.960 --> 24:07.960 Then she saw Bunting. 24:07.960 --> 24:09.960 Sharp like the thrust of a knife, she realized what this meant. 24:09.960 --> 24:11.960 Daisy was left alone with the lodger. 24:11.960 --> 24:13.960 BUNTING! 24:13.960 --> 24:15.960 BUNTING! 24:15.960 --> 24:17.960 Yes, your son in? What is it? 24:17.960 --> 24:19.960 Oh, Bunting, tell me, Bunting. 24:19.960 --> 24:21.960 Where's Daisy? Where is she? I say, where? 24:21.960 --> 24:23.960 Why, at home. 24:23.960 --> 24:25.960 Oh, listen to me. Try to understand. 24:25.960 --> 24:27.960 Sleuth is the Avenger. 24:27.960 --> 24:29.960 What are you saying? 24:29.960 --> 24:31.960 Oh, lodger, he's the Avenger, Bunting. 24:31.960 --> 24:33.960 Oh, but there's no time for that. Daisy's in danger. Hurry! 24:33.960 --> 24:43.960 Here we are, Bunting. Here we are. 24:43.960 --> 24:45.960 Daisy! Daisy! 24:45.960 --> 24:47.960 Daisy, where are you? I look in the kitchen, Bunting. 24:47.960 --> 24:49.960 You try the sitting room. 24:49.960 --> 24:51.960 Daisy! Daisy! Where are you, Daisy? 24:51.960 --> 24:53.960 Answer me, Daisy! 24:53.960 --> 24:55.960 Oh. 24:55.960 --> 24:57.960 She's right in the bedroom. 24:57.960 --> 24:59.960 Geez, she's not here. What about the dining room? 24:59.960 --> 25:01.960 She's not there. She's not downstairs. 25:01.960 --> 25:03.960 She has just his room. 25:11.960 --> 25:13.960 Go on. 25:13.960 --> 25:15.960 Open the door. 25:15.960 --> 25:17.960 Oh. 25:31.960 --> 25:33.960 Cut! 25:33.960 --> 25:35.960 Okay, Mr. Hitchcock. 25:35.960 --> 25:37.960 Track cut and clear. 25:37.960 --> 25:39.960 Did you say cut? What's the idea, Hitch? I've a few more lines to do. 25:39.960 --> 25:43.960 As Mr. Marshall, the narrator, you have. 25:43.960 --> 25:45.960 As Mr. Sloof, the lodger. 25:45.960 --> 25:47.960 Hitch, you can't stop the play right here. It isn't fair, you know. 25:47.960 --> 25:49.960 Why isn't it, Bob? 25:49.960 --> 25:51.960 What more is there to say? 25:51.960 --> 25:55.960 But, Mr. Hitchcock, won't people want to know what Bunting and me found in the room? 25:55.960 --> 25:59.960 All right, Ellen. What precisely did you find? 25:59.960 --> 26:01.960 Well, nothing, sir. 26:01.960 --> 26:03.960 There. You see? Nothing. 26:03.960 --> 26:05.960 No lodger, no Bible. 26:05.960 --> 26:07.960 And that locked dresser drawer. 26:07.960 --> 26:09.960 What about that? 26:09.960 --> 26:11.960 We unlocked it, sir. 26:11.960 --> 26:13.960 Nothing, sir. 26:13.960 --> 26:15.960 You asked certain Mrs. Bunting? 26:15.960 --> 26:17.960 Oh, you gave me quite a turn, Mr. Sloof. 26:17.960 --> 26:19.960 I mean, Mr. Marshall. Yes, sir, I'm sure, sir. 26:19.960 --> 26:21.960 There was nothing. 26:21.960 --> 26:23.960 Well, forgive me, Mr. Hitchcock, but don't you think we'd better just mention about Daisy? 26:23.960 --> 26:25.960 I don't know, Bunting. 26:25.960 --> 26:27.960 What do you think we ought to say? 26:27.960 --> 26:31.960 Well, just that the reason she wasn't in the house when Ellen and me got there was... 26:31.960 --> 26:33.960 Well, she'd gone out for a walk, that's all. 26:33.960 --> 26:35.960 Did she enjoy it? 26:35.960 --> 26:37.960 Oh, very much, sir. Made it to King's Cross and back in just under an hour, sir. 26:37.960 --> 26:39.960 Splendid time, Bunting. 26:39.960 --> 26:41.960 Well, there you are, Bart. 26:41.960 --> 26:43.960 There's the story. 26:43.960 --> 26:45.960 Now, wait a minute, Mr. Hitchcock. You can't do that. 26:45.960 --> 26:47.960 That's not the story. Of course it's not. 26:47.960 --> 26:49.960 Now, look here, Hitch, here's the fellow who composed and conducted all our music, Wilbur Hitch. 26:49.960 --> 26:51.960 He wants to know about this, too. Everybody does. 26:51.960 --> 26:53.960 All right, Bart. 26:53.960 --> 26:55.960 What is it they want to know? 26:55.960 --> 26:57.960 What became of Mr. Sloof? 26:57.960 --> 26:59.960 Oh, him. Why, he left that afternoon. 26:59.960 --> 27:01.960 They never saw him again. 27:01.960 --> 27:03.960 And now I think we ought to say something about the Columbia Forecast show... 27:03.960 --> 27:05.960 Mr. Hitchcock, sir, will you please... 27:05.960 --> 27:07.960 Stop him, Mr. Marshall. 27:07.960 --> 27:09.960 Listen to me. 27:09.960 --> 27:11.960 Yes? What is it? 27:11.960 --> 27:13.960 They want to know when the Avenger finally was caught. 27:13.960 --> 27:15.960 Oh, well, let me ask you something, Bart. 27:15.960 --> 27:17.960 Are you acquainted with Lauretta Young? 27:17.960 --> 27:19.960 Yes. What's that got to do with it? 27:19.960 --> 27:21.960 Well, in next week's Columbia Preview series, 27:21.960 --> 27:23.960 Miss Young will take the starring role in the drama of an American Red Cross nurse. 27:23.960 --> 27:25.960 That's good news, isn't it? 27:25.960 --> 27:27.960 Oh, that's great. 27:27.960 --> 27:29.960 But now, listen, Hitch, 27:29.960 --> 27:31.960 you've just got to tell that audience exactly when and how Mr. Sloof was caught. 27:31.960 --> 27:33.960 Caught? 27:33.960 --> 27:35.960 Why on earth should he be caught? 27:35.960 --> 27:37.960 Why? Well, he was the Avenger, wasn't he? 27:37.960 --> 27:39.960 Was he? 27:51.960 --> 27:53.960 Your guest, gentle listener, is as good as ours. 27:53.960 --> 27:55.960 Even Mrs. Bella Glowns, who wrote the novel, isn't entirely sure. 27:59.960 --> 28:01.960 For his masterful direction, 28:01.960 --> 28:03.960 our thanks to Alfred Hitchcock, whose latest pictures are 28:03.960 --> 28:05.960 David O. Selznick's Rebecca and Walter Wanger's Foreign Correspondent. 28:07.960 --> 28:09.960 For his superb characterization of Mr. Sloof, 28:09.960 --> 28:11.960 our thanks to Herbert Marshall. 28:11.960 --> 28:13.960 And our thanks to the outstanding British character actor 28:13.960 --> 28:15.960 who tonight portrayed the role of Bunting, Edmund Gwen. 28:19.960 --> 28:21.960 If you liked tonight's programme and want to hear more 28:21.960 --> 28:23.960 in the same highly original Hitchcock vein, 28:23.960 --> 28:25.960 radio versions of The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, for example, 28:25.960 --> 28:27.960 write to CBS and tell us so. 28:27.960 --> 28:31.960 Your interest will help bring suspense to the air as a weekly feature. 28:43.960 --> 28:45.960 Forecast next week presents from Hollywood, 28:45.960 --> 28:47.960 Loretta Young in Angel, 28:47.960 --> 28:49.960 first of a proposed series based on the adventures 28:49.960 --> 28:51.960 and the romance of a typical Red Cross nurse. 28:51.960 --> 28:53.960 From New York, a new sort of comedy show, 28:53.960 --> 28:55.960 Ed Gardner as Archie, 28:55.960 --> 28:57.960 in Duffy's Tavern, 28:57.960 --> 28:59.960 with Gertrude Neeson, Colonel Stupnagle, 28:59.960 --> 29:01.960 Larry Adler and John Kirby's Orchestra. 29:01.960 --> 29:03.960 Don't miss forecast at this hour next week. 29:15.960 --> 29:17.960 Thomas Friedanzen speaking. 29:17.960 --> 29:25.960 From their broadcasting system.