1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,420 END 2 00:00:21,420 --> 00:00:23,420 此 moment31 3 00:00:51,420 --> 00:01:16,340 For you men and women in the armed forces of the United Nations, we present one of America's 4 00:01:16,340 --> 00:01:24,940 top spine tinglers, a radio rebroadcast of a program dedicated to the mysterious, the 5 00:01:24,940 --> 00:01:29,700 unusual, and sometimes the supernatural. 6 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:40,540 A program of suspense. 7 00:01:40,540 --> 00:01:41,540 This is the truth. 8 00:01:41,540 --> 00:01:43,580 Do you understand? 9 00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:45,300 The truth. 10 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:47,060 It must be the truth. 11 00:01:47,060 --> 00:01:56,860 It has to be. 12 00:01:56,860 --> 00:02:01,140 I Robert Winsley Graham, a doctor and psychiatrist by profession, do hereby of my own free will 13 00:02:01,140 --> 00:02:05,980 and volition, albeit with deepest regret, make the following full and complete statement 14 00:02:05,980 --> 00:02:11,100 relative to that all but unbelievable series of events which has brought such disaster and 15 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:15,540 misfortune to my house, particularly to my poor wife, Isabelle. 16 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:19,500 It had its beginning, properly speaking, some two months ago to be exact on the evening 17 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:20,500 of July 25th. 18 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:26,380 We were in the drawing room, Isabelle at the piano, practicing, as she said, around Jane 19 00:02:26,380 --> 00:02:30,340 and I on the opposite sides of the room. 20 00:02:30,340 --> 00:02:36,060 Isabelle, what's the matter? 21 00:02:36,060 --> 00:02:37,860 I don't know. 22 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:41,500 I can't seem to keep my mind on anything anymore, even my music. 23 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:42,500 Nerves. 24 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:43,500 Nerves. 25 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:44,500 Isabelle. 26 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:45,500 Yes, Robert. 27 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:49,500 I don't wish to distress you, but it's been going on for quite a little while now. 28 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:50,780 It's not getting any better. 29 00:02:50,780 --> 00:02:51,780 I know. 30 00:02:51,780 --> 00:02:53,900 Let's not discuss it, shall we? 31 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:55,780 We should let me prescribe treatment for you. 32 00:02:55,780 --> 00:02:58,220 I could prescribe something for her. 33 00:02:58,220 --> 00:03:03,380 You do remarkable things now with just the common old drugs under proper control. 34 00:03:03,380 --> 00:03:04,460 Drugs. 35 00:03:04,460 --> 00:03:05,860 It's not drugs that she needs. 36 00:03:05,860 --> 00:03:07,980 It's to get out of this house for a while. 37 00:03:07,980 --> 00:03:10,740 It's to get back to the concert stage where she belongs. 38 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:11,740 It's work. 39 00:03:11,740 --> 00:03:12,740 Aunt Jane, please. 40 00:03:12,740 --> 00:03:13,740 I'm sorry. 41 00:03:13,740 --> 00:03:14,740 I don't believe in beating around the bush. 42 00:03:14,740 --> 00:03:15,740 You're an artist. 43 00:03:15,740 --> 00:03:16,740 You've got talent. 44 00:03:16,740 --> 00:03:19,980 There's no sense in you trying to subordinate yourself to somebody else. 45 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:21,660 Aunt Jane, that's enough. 46 00:03:21,660 --> 00:03:23,580 I'm not subordinating myself to anyone. 47 00:03:23,580 --> 00:03:24,580 Really, Aunt Jane? 48 00:03:24,580 --> 00:03:25,580 You mustn't interfere, you know. 49 00:03:25,580 --> 00:03:27,500 Robert doesn't want me to go back on the stage. 50 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:29,660 Darling, it isn't that I don't want you to go back. 51 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:30,660 I'm proud of you. 52 00:03:30,660 --> 00:03:31,660 You know that. 53 00:03:31,660 --> 00:03:37,340 Only because I think, because I know that going back to a professional career in your 54 00:03:37,340 --> 00:03:39,940 present mental condition would be terribly harmful. 55 00:03:39,940 --> 00:03:40,940 I know, Robert. 56 00:03:40,940 --> 00:03:41,940 I know. 57 00:03:41,940 --> 00:03:42,940 You're right. 58 00:03:42,940 --> 00:03:43,940 After all, I'm a doctor. 59 00:03:43,940 --> 00:03:45,740 It's my business to know these things. 60 00:03:45,740 --> 00:03:46,740 I get it. 61 00:03:46,740 --> 00:03:47,740 Probably the hospital. 62 00:03:47,740 --> 00:03:48,740 Hello? 63 00:03:48,740 --> 00:03:49,740 Hello? 64 00:03:49,740 --> 00:03:52,740 Yes, it's Dr. Graham. 65 00:03:52,740 --> 00:03:54,740 Oh, yes. 66 00:03:54,740 --> 00:03:55,740 Who? 67 00:03:55,740 --> 00:04:03,860 When would you like to see me? 68 00:04:03,860 --> 00:04:05,860 All right. 69 00:04:05,860 --> 00:04:06,860 Fine. 70 00:04:06,860 --> 00:04:09,860 No, no, no trouble at all. 71 00:04:09,860 --> 00:04:12,700 Very well, I'll be expecting you. 72 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:13,700 Goodbye. 73 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:16,860 Who do you suppose that was? 74 00:04:16,860 --> 00:04:17,860 Who? 75 00:04:17,860 --> 00:04:18,860 Roger Holcomb. 76 00:04:18,860 --> 00:04:19,860 Do you remember the case? 77 00:04:19,860 --> 00:04:20,860 Roger Holcomb? 78 00:04:20,860 --> 00:04:21,860 I remember it. 79 00:04:21,860 --> 00:04:22,860 Of course you do. 80 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:25,660 The fellow was brought back from the dead, as the newspapers put it, about a year ago. 81 00:04:25,660 --> 00:04:26,660 Oh, yes. 82 00:04:26,660 --> 00:04:31,460 Well, he really was dead for four full minutes, as far as medical science was concerned. 83 00:04:31,460 --> 00:04:32,860 Then Bates brought him around. 84 00:04:32,860 --> 00:04:34,420 It was nine days' wonder at the time. 85 00:04:34,420 --> 00:04:35,420 What did he want to see you about? 86 00:04:35,420 --> 00:04:36,420 I don't know. 87 00:04:36,420 --> 00:04:37,420 Something to do with his experience, obviously. 88 00:04:37,420 --> 00:04:38,980 He was in a terribly agitated state. 89 00:04:38,980 --> 00:04:41,780 The fellow had been walking up and down in front of the house for an hour, trying to 90 00:04:41,780 --> 00:04:43,780 get up courage to ring the bell. 91 00:04:43,780 --> 00:04:44,780 Finally phoned from the corner drugstore. 92 00:04:44,780 --> 00:04:45,780 Why, the poor man. 93 00:04:45,780 --> 00:04:47,260 Why in the world should he do that? 94 00:04:47,260 --> 00:04:48,260 Anxiety and neurosis. 95 00:04:48,260 --> 00:04:50,860 They hounded him, you know, in the most shocking way. 96 00:04:50,860 --> 00:04:52,860 He got out of the hospital. 97 00:04:52,860 --> 00:04:56,420 Preachers and spiritualists and movie agents, just plain fakers. 98 00:04:56,420 --> 00:04:59,940 People trying to find out if he remembered anything of the four minutes he was supposed 99 00:04:59,940 --> 00:05:01,220 to be dead. 100 00:05:01,220 --> 00:05:02,700 People just trying to exploit him. 101 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:05,740 Oh, it must be Holcomb now. 102 00:05:05,740 --> 00:05:09,700 Take him into the office. 103 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:12,500 Dr. Graham? 104 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:15,740 Yes, you're Roger Holcomb? 105 00:05:15,740 --> 00:05:16,740 Yes. 106 00:05:16,740 --> 00:05:17,740 Come in. 107 00:05:17,740 --> 00:05:18,740 Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Holcomb. 108 00:05:18,740 --> 00:05:19,740 Yes, sir. 109 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:22,740 You come this way, please, to my office. 110 00:05:22,740 --> 00:05:25,740 Now, just sit down anywhere. 111 00:05:25,740 --> 00:05:26,740 Lie down on the couch if you like. 112 00:05:26,740 --> 00:05:27,740 You look tired. 113 00:05:27,740 --> 00:05:28,740 I am tired. 114 00:05:28,740 --> 00:05:29,740 Tired of the dead. 115 00:05:29,740 --> 00:05:30,740 Give me your hand, please. 116 00:05:30,740 --> 00:05:32,740 For heaven's sake, there's nothing wrong with my pulse. 117 00:05:32,740 --> 00:05:35,260 If that's all you think it is, I'll go. 118 00:05:35,260 --> 00:05:37,340 Why did you come to me, Mr. Holcomb? 119 00:05:37,340 --> 00:05:39,140 You know my history. 120 00:05:39,140 --> 00:05:40,780 Yes, most medical men do. 121 00:05:40,780 --> 00:05:43,140 Up until your disappearance. 122 00:05:43,140 --> 00:05:46,060 Yeah, most medical men do, all right. 123 00:05:46,060 --> 00:05:47,860 Then they tell me I'm crazy. 124 00:05:47,860 --> 00:05:49,740 Do you think you are, Mr. Holcomb? 125 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:50,740 Oh, I see. 126 00:05:50,740 --> 00:05:51,740 You're like all the rest. 127 00:05:51,740 --> 00:05:52,740 Yes, I am. 128 00:05:52,740 --> 00:05:53,740 Just a minute, Mr. Holcomb. 129 00:05:53,740 --> 00:05:57,500 You came to me for advice or treatment. 130 00:05:57,500 --> 00:06:00,420 I suggest you tell me your story. 131 00:06:00,420 --> 00:06:07,260 Well, I was told you specialized in a strange case, things that other men can't explain. 132 00:06:07,260 --> 00:06:09,000 That's true in a way. 133 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,100 You know what happened when I got out of the hospital. 134 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:12,100 Yes. 135 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,620 Followed me, questioned me, hounded me, day and night, trying to find out if I remember 136 00:06:15,620 --> 00:06:19,620 anything, had experienced anything beyond the grave. 137 00:06:19,620 --> 00:06:21,620 Yes, I remember that. 138 00:06:21,620 --> 00:06:24,620 Well, then you remember that my answer was always the same. 139 00:06:24,620 --> 00:06:27,620 That I remembered nothing. But I knew nothing. 140 00:06:28,620 --> 00:06:30,620 Well, I was wrong. 141 00:06:30,620 --> 00:06:34,620 Oh? What did you experience during those four minutes? 142 00:06:35,620 --> 00:06:38,620 I don't know. But it must have been something. 143 00:06:38,620 --> 00:06:41,620 Something I don't even dare to think about. 144 00:06:41,620 --> 00:06:43,620 How do you know this? 145 00:06:43,620 --> 00:06:46,620 Well, it happened the first time on a boat trip, 146 00:06:46,620 --> 00:06:48,620 which I'd taken to recover my health. 147 00:06:48,620 --> 00:06:52,620 I found myself chatting with a woman who was seated at my table in the dining salon. 148 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:55,620 She found occasion, as such women often will, to mention her age. 149 00:06:55,620 --> 00:06:58,620 She said, after all, I'm not yet 40. 150 00:06:58,620 --> 00:07:00,620 And then it happened. 151 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:01,620 What happened? 152 00:07:01,620 --> 00:07:04,620 Well, from somewhere came crashing into my mind 153 00:07:04,620 --> 00:07:08,620 a certain knowledge of the exact day and year of that woman's birth. 154 00:07:08,620 --> 00:07:11,620 And with it, a compulsion to speak out. 155 00:07:11,620 --> 00:07:15,620 A compulsion which I could no more have resisted than I could have resisted breathing. 156 00:07:15,620 --> 00:07:20,620 I said, Madam, you were born in May, weren't you? May 30th. 157 00:07:20,620 --> 00:07:23,620 She looked at me in utter astonishment. 158 00:07:23,620 --> 00:07:25,620 We'd never even seen each other before in our lives. 159 00:07:25,620 --> 00:07:29,620 And said, yes. And then I added the date. The year 1900. 160 00:07:29,620 --> 00:07:32,620 You see, she was well over 40. She'd lied to me. 161 00:07:32,620 --> 00:07:35,620 Innocent enough thing. But I had known the truth. 162 00:07:35,620 --> 00:07:38,620 And I can force to speak. 163 00:07:38,620 --> 00:07:40,620 And I have been ever since. 164 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:44,620 This phenomenon has occurred often? 165 00:07:44,620 --> 00:07:46,620 More times than I can remember. 166 00:07:46,620 --> 00:07:49,620 Every time a direct lie, no matter how trivial it is, 167 00:07:49,620 --> 00:07:53,620 part of it, in my presence, I suddenly know the answer to that lie. 168 00:07:53,620 --> 00:07:57,620 I know the truth. And I'm compelled to speak it. 169 00:07:57,620 --> 00:08:00,620 And this condition has existed only since your... 170 00:08:00,620 --> 00:08:03,620 Since my four minutes beyond the grave. 171 00:08:03,620 --> 00:08:05,620 Quite. 172 00:08:05,620 --> 00:08:09,620 It's as though in that brief time I glimpsed eternity. 173 00:08:09,620 --> 00:08:13,620 If I'd seen reveal all truth of all the ages, 174 00:08:13,620 --> 00:08:17,620 I could never tell you how horrible that seemed. 175 00:08:17,620 --> 00:08:21,620 I found that men, even the most honest of men, 176 00:08:21,620 --> 00:08:23,620 live by lies. 177 00:08:23,620 --> 00:08:26,620 Tell me, you have a family, friends, who are understanding? 178 00:08:26,620 --> 00:08:29,620 Oh, for heaven's sake, doctor, don't you understand what this has done to me? 179 00:08:29,620 --> 00:08:33,620 Yes, I had a family and friends. A girl I was going to marry. 180 00:08:33,620 --> 00:08:36,620 Today I'm an outcast. Pariah. 181 00:08:36,620 --> 00:08:40,620 I'm shunned, feared. I'm hated. Yes, hated. 182 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:44,620 Miss Dawkins, I believe that this condition is very real to you. 183 00:08:44,620 --> 00:08:48,620 It causes you very real anguish. I want to help you. 184 00:08:48,620 --> 00:08:51,620 Do you think you can? I'm confident that I can. 185 00:08:51,620 --> 00:08:55,620 Suppose you could arrange to stay with me here at my home for a matter of weeks or months, if necessary. 186 00:08:55,620 --> 00:08:59,620 Well, I'll do anything. Anything in the world to be a normal man again, but... 187 00:08:59,620 --> 00:09:01,620 But what? 188 00:09:01,620 --> 00:09:04,620 Dr. Graham, I can see that you still don't believe in what... 189 00:09:04,620 --> 00:09:06,620 No. I beg of you. 190 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:09,620 You don't know the terrible responsibility I'd be to you. 191 00:09:09,620 --> 00:09:13,620 I'd be like a spy, like some inexorable prosecutor from another world. 192 00:09:13,620 --> 00:09:16,620 Sir Holcomb, let me worry about that. 193 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:18,620 All right. 194 00:09:18,620 --> 00:09:21,620 Is there anyone else in your household who might object? 195 00:09:21,620 --> 00:09:23,620 Oh, no. There's only my wife and her aunt. 196 00:09:23,620 --> 00:09:26,620 I have your own quarters. It'd be quite comfortable, I assure you. 197 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:28,620 I'm sure I'd be... It's a lovely house, but I've seen a bit... 198 00:09:28,620 --> 00:09:31,620 Yes, I'm rather lucky. I'm interested in research primarily. 199 00:09:31,620 --> 00:09:33,620 Not much money in that, you know, but... 200 00:09:33,620 --> 00:09:35,620 A couple of years ago I came into quite a nice inheritance. 201 00:09:35,620 --> 00:09:37,620 The house went with it. 202 00:09:37,620 --> 00:09:39,620 What is it? 203 00:09:39,620 --> 00:09:41,620 What's the matter? 204 00:09:41,620 --> 00:09:44,620 The inheritance was not yours. 205 00:09:44,620 --> 00:09:46,620 It was your wife's. 206 00:09:46,620 --> 00:09:48,620 The house is your wife's. 207 00:09:48,620 --> 00:09:51,620 You were penniless. 208 00:09:56,620 --> 00:09:58,620 That's true. 209 00:09:58,620 --> 00:10:01,620 I don't know why I lied to you. 210 00:10:01,620 --> 00:10:03,620 Pride, I suppose. 211 00:10:03,620 --> 00:10:05,620 I'm sorry. I told you I couldn't help it. 212 00:10:05,620 --> 00:10:07,620 I'll go now. 213 00:10:07,620 --> 00:10:09,620 Please. 214 00:10:09,620 --> 00:10:11,620 Mr. Holcomb, my fault is the small matter. 215 00:10:11,620 --> 00:10:13,620 But you see, now that I... 216 00:10:13,620 --> 00:10:15,620 I want to help you. 217 00:10:15,620 --> 00:10:17,620 Do you believe me now? 218 00:10:17,620 --> 00:10:21,620 I believe, Mr. Holcomb, either that you are far more ill than I realized 219 00:10:21,620 --> 00:10:24,620 or that did months come, 220 00:10:24,620 --> 00:10:27,620 you and I must venture into a realm 221 00:10:27,620 --> 00:10:35,620 more explored by mortal man. 222 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:39,620 It was utterly fantastic. 223 00:10:39,620 --> 00:10:41,620 And yet it was true. 224 00:10:41,620 --> 00:10:44,620 I checked the facts again and again. 225 00:10:44,620 --> 00:10:48,620 He could not possibly have known, and yet he knew. 226 00:10:48,620 --> 00:10:52,620 Could you imagine what this meant to a man of science? 227 00:10:52,620 --> 00:10:56,620 If I could fathom the depths of Roger Holcomb's mind, 228 00:10:56,620 --> 00:10:59,620 I could make a contribution to the body of scientific knowledge 229 00:10:59,620 --> 00:11:03,620 absolutely without parallel in modern times. 230 00:11:03,620 --> 00:11:06,620 I'd be more famous and pasturer, Ehrlich. 231 00:11:06,620 --> 00:11:08,620 It remained the problem of Isabelle. 232 00:11:08,620 --> 00:11:10,620 I was aware of the danger, of course. 233 00:11:10,620 --> 00:11:14,620 I was acutely aware of the peculiarly delicate balance of her mind at that time. 234 00:11:14,620 --> 00:11:17,620 The fact that the presence of a man like Roger Holcomb 235 00:11:17,620 --> 00:11:22,620 might be seriously detrimental to my rather well-conceived plans for Isabelle. 236 00:11:22,620 --> 00:11:25,620 I believed I could control the situation. 237 00:11:25,620 --> 00:11:27,620 I had one moment to proceed. 238 00:11:27,620 --> 00:11:31,620 Actually, Holcomb's presence made itself felt almost immediately. 239 00:11:31,620 --> 00:11:34,620 The first incident came after he'd been with her. 240 00:11:40,620 --> 00:11:43,620 Isabelle, please stop that playing and listen to me. 241 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:46,620 Aunt Jane, you know Robert has said I mustn't talk about it, 242 00:11:46,620 --> 00:11:47,620 that it's bad for me. 243 00:11:47,620 --> 00:11:49,620 I don't care what Robert said. 244 00:11:49,620 --> 00:11:51,620 But he's my doctor and my husband. 245 00:11:51,620 --> 00:11:53,620 And I'm not sure that he should be either. 246 00:11:53,620 --> 00:11:56,620 Aunt Jane, I don't know much about psychiatry, 247 00:11:56,620 --> 00:11:59,620 but I do know that making trouble between a husband and a wife... 248 00:11:59,620 --> 00:12:02,620 I'm not making anything that isn't there already, and you know it. 249 00:12:02,620 --> 00:12:05,620 Good heavens, girl. Look at yourself. 250 00:12:05,620 --> 00:12:07,620 Look what's happened to you since your marriage. 251 00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:08,620 I've been sick. 252 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:09,620 He's made you sick. 253 00:12:09,620 --> 00:12:10,620 That's ridiculous. 254 00:12:10,620 --> 00:12:12,620 Maybe it's just that he's afraid of losing you. 255 00:12:12,620 --> 00:12:14,620 Maybe he's even afraid of losing your money. 256 00:12:14,620 --> 00:12:17,620 But I'm absolutely convinced that whether he's meant to or not, 257 00:12:17,620 --> 00:12:20,620 he's made you believe there's something the matter with you that isn't. 258 00:12:20,620 --> 00:12:22,620 Aunt Jane, I simply forbid you to talk this way. 259 00:12:22,620 --> 00:12:24,620 I saw he brings this psychopath into the house. 260 00:12:24,620 --> 00:12:26,620 And don't bring Roger into it. 261 00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:27,620 He's Robert's patient. 262 00:12:27,620 --> 00:12:29,620 It's Robert's work and it's none of our business. 263 00:12:29,620 --> 00:12:30,620 What about your own work? 264 00:12:30,620 --> 00:12:31,620 It doesn't matter. 265 00:12:31,620 --> 00:12:32,620 It doesn't matter? 266 00:12:32,620 --> 00:12:35,620 Aunt Jane, you simply don't understand. 267 00:12:35,620 --> 00:12:37,620 Robert is my husband. 268 00:12:37,620 --> 00:12:39,620 I trust him and I love him. 269 00:12:39,620 --> 00:12:41,620 Nothing can ever come between us. 270 00:12:41,620 --> 00:12:44,620 I'd destroy anything. 271 00:12:44,620 --> 00:12:45,620 I'd kill anyone who tried. 272 00:12:45,620 --> 00:12:48,620 Isabel. Isabel, do something before it's too late. 273 00:12:48,620 --> 00:12:49,620 Do what? 274 00:12:49,620 --> 00:12:50,620 Get away. 275 00:12:50,620 --> 00:12:51,620 Leave him. 276 00:12:51,620 --> 00:12:52,620 Divorce him. Anything. 277 00:12:52,620 --> 00:12:54,620 Oh, I hope we're not interrupting. 278 00:12:54,620 --> 00:12:56,620 Of course not, darling. 279 00:12:56,620 --> 00:12:57,620 Hello, Roger. 280 00:12:57,620 --> 00:12:58,620 Hello, Isabel. 281 00:12:58,620 --> 00:12:59,620 Good afternoon. 282 00:12:59,620 --> 00:13:01,620 How are you feeling, Roger? 283 00:13:01,620 --> 00:13:02,620 I'm better, I think. 284 00:13:02,620 --> 00:13:07,620 I think it would be better if we didn't discuss our states of mind, Isabel. 285 00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:09,620 Oh, of course. I'm sorry. 286 00:13:09,620 --> 00:13:12,620 Well, would you like me to play something for you? 287 00:13:12,620 --> 00:13:15,620 You know, I think I'm beginning to get the feel of it again. 288 00:13:15,620 --> 00:13:16,620 Really, I do. 289 00:13:16,620 --> 00:13:18,620 You're sure we haven't interrupted some conversation? 290 00:13:18,620 --> 00:13:19,620 Of course not. 291 00:13:19,620 --> 00:13:25,620 We were just discussing how helpful you've been in getting Isabel back to her work again. 292 00:13:25,620 --> 00:13:26,620 Roger. 293 00:13:26,620 --> 00:13:29,620 No. No, you were not. 294 00:13:29,620 --> 00:13:33,620 You were telling Isabel to divorce her husband. 295 00:13:36,620 --> 00:13:37,620 Isabel. 296 00:13:37,620 --> 00:13:38,620 I'm sorry. 297 00:13:38,620 --> 00:13:39,620 I'm sorry. 298 00:13:39,620 --> 00:13:40,620 Roger, come back. 299 00:13:40,620 --> 00:13:42,620 Isabel, is that true? 300 00:13:42,620 --> 00:13:43,620 You brought him in here deliberately. 301 00:13:43,620 --> 00:13:44,620 Is that true? 302 00:13:44,620 --> 00:13:45,620 It doesn't matter, I suppose. 303 00:13:45,620 --> 00:13:47,620 You've known how I felt for a long time. 304 00:13:47,620 --> 00:13:48,620 Yes, I'm afraid I have. 305 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:50,620 But Robert, it was all so silly. She didn't mean it. 306 00:13:50,620 --> 00:13:51,620 I did mean it. 307 00:13:51,620 --> 00:13:52,620 But I did mean it. 308 00:13:52,620 --> 00:13:53,620 I'm sorry, Isabel. 309 00:13:53,620 --> 00:13:55,620 But I've been under this roof too long, as it is. 310 00:13:55,620 --> 00:13:56,620 Oh, Jane, you're not leaving us. 311 00:13:56,620 --> 00:13:58,620 It's best, Isabel. 312 00:13:58,620 --> 00:14:00,620 Yes? 313 00:14:00,620 --> 00:14:03,620 Yes, I think it's unquestionably best. 314 00:14:03,620 --> 00:14:05,620 Best that you go at once. 315 00:14:10,620 --> 00:14:12,620 She left us, of course. 316 00:14:12,620 --> 00:14:16,620 I'd always believed that Jane exercised an unfortunate influence over Isabel. 317 00:14:16,620 --> 00:14:19,620 I did not dream it had reached such a point as this. 318 00:14:19,620 --> 00:14:23,620 Yet this incident gave me my first insight into the relationship 319 00:14:23,620 --> 00:14:27,620 which was destined to develop between Isabel, Roger and myself. 320 00:14:28,620 --> 00:14:32,620 The first and most obvious result was that within a matter of weeks, 321 00:14:32,620 --> 00:14:35,620 Isabel was to lose every friend she had. 322 00:14:35,620 --> 00:14:39,620 We became further estranged as each day passed. 323 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:43,620 It was difficult to speak of even the most casual things with this 324 00:14:43,620 --> 00:14:48,620 strangely terrifying spectre of truth always at our elbow. 325 00:14:49,620 --> 00:14:52,620 The situation reached its inevitable climax the evening that 326 00:14:52,620 --> 00:14:55,620 Leopold Sirinsky, the famous conductor of the Los Angeles Symphony, 327 00:14:55,620 --> 00:14:58,620 was to call on Isabel with a view to resumption of her professional career 328 00:14:58,620 --> 00:15:00,620 under his auspices. 329 00:15:00,620 --> 00:15:02,620 I gave a great deal of thought to that evening. 330 00:15:02,620 --> 00:15:04,620 It had to be handled with a great... 331 00:15:06,620 --> 00:15:08,620 Robert, you will help me, won't you? 332 00:15:08,620 --> 00:15:09,620 Of course I will, darling. 333 00:15:09,620 --> 00:15:12,620 I don't know whether you realize how important it is to me. 334 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:14,620 I have nothing but the music now. 335 00:15:14,620 --> 00:15:18,620 I've been working so hard, playing sometimes half the night while you were asleep. 336 00:15:18,620 --> 00:15:20,620 Yes, I've heard you. 337 00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:25,620 Sometimes it seems that the piano is all that's helping me to keep my sanity. 338 00:15:25,620 --> 00:15:29,620 My darling, I want you to let me prescribe something for you. 339 00:15:29,620 --> 00:15:31,620 By the time we face this thing, you're trouble, I mean. 340 00:15:31,620 --> 00:15:35,620 Robert, does he have to have dinner with us tonight? 341 00:15:35,620 --> 00:15:38,620 Roger, Isabel, you know how I stand on that. 342 00:15:38,620 --> 00:15:39,620 Oh, yes, but just once... 343 00:15:39,620 --> 00:15:45,620 Even once, Isabel, to keep him in his room like a spoiled child when we have guests. 344 00:15:46,620 --> 00:15:49,620 It might undo everything I've accomplished in weeks. 345 00:15:49,620 --> 00:15:51,620 Of course, you're right. 346 00:15:51,620 --> 00:15:53,620 Roger, come in. 347 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:57,620 Robert, I was wondering if I might be excused just for a night. 348 00:15:57,620 --> 00:15:59,620 You're having dinner with us, Roger. 349 00:15:59,620 --> 00:16:00,620 Must I? 350 00:16:00,620 --> 00:16:02,620 You know you must, Roger, and you know why. 351 00:16:02,620 --> 00:16:05,620 Why, Roger, don't you want to meet the great Leopold Sirinsky? 352 00:16:05,620 --> 00:16:06,620 He's really a wonderful person. 353 00:16:06,620 --> 00:16:08,620 Yes, indeed I would very much. 354 00:16:08,620 --> 00:16:11,620 You know, I made my debut with him in 1934. 355 00:16:11,620 --> 00:16:14,620 I did a concert with him every year until my... 356 00:16:14,620 --> 00:16:15,620 until I... 357 00:16:15,620 --> 00:16:18,620 Isabel, who was very talented, you know. 358 00:16:18,620 --> 00:16:20,620 I was? I am. 359 00:16:20,620 --> 00:16:22,620 Oh, Roger, I'm going to play with him again. 360 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:24,620 He wants me to open the seasons in November. 361 00:16:24,620 --> 00:16:26,620 Can you imagine what that means to me? 362 00:16:26,620 --> 00:16:28,620 I'm so glad, Isabel. 363 00:16:28,620 --> 00:16:32,620 And Robert has finally given his consent, haven't you, dear? 364 00:16:32,620 --> 00:16:34,620 I'm sorry, what was it you said, Isabel? 365 00:16:34,620 --> 00:16:37,620 I said you'd given your consent to my playing with Sirinsky. 366 00:16:37,620 --> 00:16:39,620 Isabel, you... 367 00:16:39,620 --> 00:16:42,620 you know I don't want you to think that... 368 00:16:42,620 --> 00:16:44,620 I'd ever stand in your way. 369 00:16:44,620 --> 00:16:45,620 I know, dear. 370 00:16:45,620 --> 00:16:48,620 Roger, I'll do the Emperor concerto, 371 00:16:48,620 --> 00:16:50,620 and you will come to hear me. 372 00:16:50,620 --> 00:16:52,620 You do want to, don't you, Roger? 373 00:16:52,620 --> 00:16:54,620 Please, Isabel, don't ask things of me that can't... 374 00:16:54,620 --> 00:16:55,620 What's the matter? 375 00:16:55,620 --> 00:16:57,620 What's the matter with both of you? 376 00:16:57,620 --> 00:17:00,620 You act as though you thought I wouldn't be able to appear. 377 00:17:00,620 --> 00:17:03,620 As though the whole idea were hopeless or something. 378 00:17:03,620 --> 00:17:04,620 Isabel, please. 379 00:17:04,620 --> 00:17:05,620 I am going to play. 380 00:17:05,620 --> 00:17:06,620 I'll be better than I ever was. 381 00:17:06,620 --> 00:17:08,620 You know I will, don't you? Don't you? 382 00:17:08,620 --> 00:17:11,620 Of course, Isabel, you play wonderfully. 383 00:17:12,620 --> 00:17:13,620 Roger. 384 00:17:13,620 --> 00:17:15,620 No, Robert, you're... 385 00:17:15,620 --> 00:17:20,620 you're very certain that Isabel will be prevented from ever playing again 386 00:17:20,620 --> 00:17:23,620 by death. 387 00:17:24,620 --> 00:17:25,620 Death? 388 00:17:25,620 --> 00:17:29,620 Oh, Isabel, forgive me, forgive me, please. 389 00:17:29,620 --> 00:17:31,620 By death? No. 390 00:17:31,620 --> 00:17:33,620 Oh, no. 391 00:17:33,620 --> 00:17:35,620 Please, Roger, it's not true. 392 00:17:35,620 --> 00:17:37,620 Tell me it isn't. 393 00:17:37,620 --> 00:17:39,620 Roger, answer me. 394 00:17:39,620 --> 00:17:41,620 Answer me. 395 00:17:41,620 --> 00:17:43,620 Roger, do you hear me? Answer me. 396 00:17:44,620 --> 00:17:46,620 Answer me! 397 00:17:55,620 --> 00:17:57,620 When Sirenski arrived, I told him it would be quite impossible 398 00:17:57,620 --> 00:17:59,620 for Isabel to leave her room. 399 00:17:59,620 --> 00:18:01,620 The concert was cancelled, and indeed, to my knowledge, 400 00:18:01,620 --> 00:18:03,620 she's never touched the piano since that day. 401 00:18:03,620 --> 00:18:05,620 By now, to even the most casual observer, 402 00:18:05,620 --> 00:18:08,620 it must appear only natural that Isabel had every motive 403 00:18:08,620 --> 00:18:11,620 for a desperate, almost paranoid hatred of Roger Holcomb. 404 00:18:11,620 --> 00:18:13,620 This much was clear to me. 405 00:18:13,620 --> 00:18:15,620 The rest, not yet. 406 00:18:15,620 --> 00:18:17,620 But one thing from any point of view was certain. 407 00:18:17,620 --> 00:18:20,620 I had to keep Roger and Isabel apart. 408 00:18:20,620 --> 00:18:23,620 Perhaps what I feared was indeed inevitable. 409 00:18:23,620 --> 00:18:26,620 I honestly did not think it so at the time. 410 00:18:26,620 --> 00:18:29,620 As a precautionary measure, however, I prescribed a drug for Isabel, 411 00:18:29,620 --> 00:18:31,620 which she had last consented to take. 412 00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:34,620 I gave her her own supply, she administered it to herself, 413 00:18:34,620 --> 00:18:36,620 as I had directed. 414 00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:43,620 Roger? Roger? 415 00:18:43,620 --> 00:18:44,620 Yes? 416 00:18:44,620 --> 00:18:45,620 It's Isabel. 417 00:18:45,620 --> 00:18:47,620 What do you want? 418 00:18:47,620 --> 00:18:48,620 Let me in, please. 419 00:18:48,620 --> 00:18:49,620 No. 420 00:18:49,620 --> 00:18:50,620 Please, it's terribly important. 421 00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:51,620 Well, I was thinking... 422 00:18:51,620 --> 00:18:52,620 I know. 423 00:18:52,620 --> 00:18:55,620 But he said it would be all right this time. 424 00:18:55,620 --> 00:18:56,620 Are you sure? 425 00:18:56,620 --> 00:18:58,620 Yes. Yes, please. 426 00:18:58,620 --> 00:19:00,620 All right. 427 00:19:00,620 --> 00:19:02,620 Now, what do you want? 428 00:19:02,620 --> 00:19:05,620 I want to talk to you, that's all. 429 00:19:05,620 --> 00:19:08,620 What about if it's so important? 430 00:19:08,620 --> 00:19:11,620 Roger, why don't you ever leave your room anymore? 431 00:19:11,620 --> 00:19:13,620 Aren't you gay? 432 00:19:13,620 --> 00:19:15,620 Do you think I hate you? 433 00:19:15,620 --> 00:19:18,620 Isabel, I don't know what to think anymore. 434 00:19:18,620 --> 00:19:19,620 You do, don't you? 435 00:19:19,620 --> 00:19:22,620 I warned him. I told him it would happen. 436 00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:23,620 Now I'm going mad up here. 437 00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:25,620 I think he'll be anguished I've caused you. 438 00:19:25,620 --> 00:19:27,620 But Roger, I don't. You must believe me. 439 00:19:27,620 --> 00:19:29,620 I know what it's been like for you having me here. 440 00:19:29,620 --> 00:19:33,620 Roger, you see, for the first time in my life, 441 00:19:33,620 --> 00:19:36,620 I think my husband is wrong about something. 442 00:19:36,620 --> 00:19:37,620 Wrong? 443 00:19:37,620 --> 00:19:39,620 Yes. Don't you see? 444 00:19:39,620 --> 00:19:41,620 He's been worried about both of us. 445 00:19:41,620 --> 00:19:44,620 And so this distrust has grown up between us. 446 00:19:44,620 --> 00:19:46,620 Well, I don't distrust you. 447 00:19:46,620 --> 00:19:48,620 You've been more wonderful to me than I've been to you. 448 00:19:48,620 --> 00:19:50,620 But you're afraid of me. 449 00:19:50,620 --> 00:19:52,620 And that amounts to the same thing. 450 00:19:52,620 --> 00:19:54,620 And it's bad for the both of us. 451 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:56,620 It's hurting both of us. 452 00:19:56,620 --> 00:19:58,620 I've often felt I wanted to talk to you, 453 00:19:58,620 --> 00:19:59,620 beg your pardon. 454 00:19:59,620 --> 00:20:01,620 Oh, you don't have to do that. 455 00:20:01,620 --> 00:20:03,620 We're both sick. 456 00:20:03,620 --> 00:20:05,620 But I think if we saw each other sometimes, 457 00:20:05,620 --> 00:20:07,620 if we talked the whole thing out, 458 00:20:07,620 --> 00:20:09,620 it would help us both. 459 00:20:09,620 --> 00:20:11,620 Does Robert think so, too? 460 00:20:11,620 --> 00:20:13,620 No. 461 00:20:13,620 --> 00:20:16,620 Then he didn't tell you it was all right to see me? 462 00:20:16,620 --> 00:20:19,620 No. I lied to you. 463 00:20:19,620 --> 00:20:20,620 You what? 464 00:20:20,620 --> 00:20:22,620 I lied to you. 465 00:20:22,620 --> 00:20:25,620 You lied to me. And it didn't happen. 466 00:20:25,620 --> 00:20:27,620 Isabel, don't you see? 467 00:20:27,620 --> 00:20:29,620 I am getting well. It didn't happen. 468 00:20:29,620 --> 00:20:30,620 I know. 469 00:20:30,620 --> 00:20:33,620 I don't think it does happen anymore. 470 00:20:33,620 --> 00:20:35,620 Except with Robert. 471 00:20:35,620 --> 00:20:37,620 What makes you think they don't? 472 00:20:37,620 --> 00:20:38,620 I don't know. 473 00:20:38,620 --> 00:20:41,620 Something about the way he acts. 474 00:20:41,620 --> 00:20:42,620 The way he is. 475 00:20:42,620 --> 00:20:44,620 But if he is curing me, 476 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:46,620 then perhaps you shouldn't have come up with me. 477 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:47,620 No, no. Don't you understand? 478 00:20:47,620 --> 00:20:49,620 We must see each other. We must talk. 479 00:20:49,620 --> 00:20:51,620 No, listen. 480 00:20:51,620 --> 00:20:52,620 Isabel. 481 00:20:52,620 --> 00:20:54,620 Robert, something's happened that I must tell you about. 482 00:20:54,620 --> 00:20:55,620 Please, you're completely overwrought. 483 00:20:55,620 --> 00:20:56,620 Oh, but Robert, if you want to... 484 00:20:56,620 --> 00:20:57,620 Isabel, why did you do this? 485 00:20:57,620 --> 00:20:58,620 I'm sorry. 486 00:20:58,620 --> 00:20:59,620 You have to have a sedative right away. 487 00:20:59,620 --> 00:21:00,620 Isabel, get the bottle from your room. 488 00:21:00,620 --> 00:21:01,620 Mine? 489 00:21:01,620 --> 00:21:02,620 Yes, yes. Please, hurry. 490 00:21:02,620 --> 00:21:04,620 Robert, she lied to me. 491 00:21:04,620 --> 00:21:05,620 Yes, yes, I know. 492 00:21:05,620 --> 00:21:07,620 But, Roger, I must absolutely forbid you to talk now. 493 00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:08,620 You must trust me. 494 00:21:08,620 --> 00:21:09,620 All right. 495 00:21:09,620 --> 00:21:10,620 But later I won't have a long talk with you. 496 00:21:10,620 --> 00:21:11,620 Of course we shall. 497 00:21:11,620 --> 00:21:12,620 Here it is. 498 00:21:12,620 --> 00:21:14,620 I brought my hypodermic too. 499 00:21:14,620 --> 00:21:15,620 I'm glad you did. 500 00:21:15,620 --> 00:21:16,620 The other one's mislaid, Summer. 501 00:21:16,620 --> 00:21:17,620 Will you give it to him, please? 502 00:21:17,620 --> 00:21:18,620 I? 503 00:21:18,620 --> 00:21:20,620 Yes, I'm sorry, but this is upsetting me rather badly. 504 00:21:20,620 --> 00:21:21,620 My hands are shaking. 505 00:21:21,620 --> 00:21:22,620 Robert, I'm terribly sorry. 506 00:21:22,620 --> 00:21:23,620 No matter. 507 00:21:23,620 --> 00:21:24,620 Now give him the hypodermic. 508 00:21:24,620 --> 00:21:26,620 That's right. 509 00:21:26,620 --> 00:21:27,620 Thank you. 510 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:29,620 Leave us now, please, Isabel. 511 00:21:29,620 --> 00:21:31,620 All right. 512 00:21:31,620 --> 00:21:33,620 How are you feeling now, Roger? 513 00:21:33,620 --> 00:21:35,620 Well, I'm fine, Robert. 514 00:21:35,620 --> 00:21:37,620 I think I'm better than I've been in months. 515 00:21:37,620 --> 00:21:38,620 I know you're better. 516 00:21:38,620 --> 00:21:40,620 That's why I was so upset to see you. 517 00:21:40,620 --> 00:21:41,620 Why, Robert? 518 00:21:41,620 --> 00:21:43,620 I can't tell you all my reasons now, 519 00:21:43,620 --> 00:21:45,620 but you must trust me and believe in me. 520 00:21:45,620 --> 00:21:46,620 Oh, I do, but... 521 00:21:46,620 --> 00:21:50,620 Only that I'm afraid of your health. 522 00:21:50,620 --> 00:21:51,620 Roger. 523 00:21:51,620 --> 00:21:56,620 No, you're afraid of murder. 524 00:21:56,620 --> 00:21:57,620 What? 525 00:21:57,620 --> 00:21:58,620 Murder. 526 00:21:58,620 --> 00:22:00,620 Roger, listen to me. 527 00:22:00,620 --> 00:22:01,620 Roger. 528 00:22:01,620 --> 00:22:02,620 Murder. 529 00:22:02,620 --> 00:22:06,620 Roger, what are you talking about? 530 00:22:06,620 --> 00:22:08,620 Roger. 531 00:22:08,620 --> 00:22:10,620 Roger! 532 00:22:17,620 --> 00:22:19,620 It was clear to me now. 533 00:22:19,620 --> 00:22:21,620 I knew I must take immediate action. 534 00:22:21,620 --> 00:22:23,620 I knew that the most terrible consequences might result 535 00:22:23,620 --> 00:22:27,620 if Isabel were alone with Roger, even for a moment. 536 00:22:27,620 --> 00:22:30,620 But he knew that he'd said so with no other explanation. 537 00:22:30,620 --> 00:22:32,620 I thought it through most carefully, 538 00:22:32,620 --> 00:22:35,620 and yet no plans are perfect. 539 00:22:35,620 --> 00:22:37,620 No man is infallible. 540 00:22:45,620 --> 00:22:46,620 Isabel! 541 00:22:46,620 --> 00:22:47,620 Robert. 542 00:22:47,620 --> 00:22:48,620 What are you doing? 543 00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:49,620 Nothing. 544 00:22:49,620 --> 00:22:50,620 Don't lie to me, Isabel. 545 00:22:50,620 --> 00:22:51,620 I'm not. 546 00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:52,620 You were coming from Roger's room. 547 00:22:52,620 --> 00:22:53,620 No. 548 00:22:53,620 --> 00:22:54,620 No, I swear I wasn't. 549 00:22:54,620 --> 00:22:56,620 Isabel, don't you understand that you're sick? 550 00:22:56,620 --> 00:22:59,620 I've insisted on these things for your own good and his. 551 00:22:59,620 --> 00:23:00,620 All right. 552 00:23:00,620 --> 00:23:02,620 I was going to torture him, but I had to. 553 00:23:02,620 --> 00:23:03,620 Oh, Isabel. 554 00:23:03,620 --> 00:23:05,620 Why do you try to tell me that? 555 00:23:05,620 --> 00:23:07,620 But it's true, Robert, really true. 556 00:23:07,620 --> 00:23:09,620 Is it? 557 00:23:09,620 --> 00:23:12,620 Roger? 558 00:23:12,620 --> 00:23:14,620 Roger? 559 00:23:14,620 --> 00:23:17,620 What's the matter? 560 00:23:17,620 --> 00:23:20,620 Look. 561 00:23:20,620 --> 00:23:22,620 Robert. 562 00:23:22,620 --> 00:23:24,620 No, it couldn't be. 563 00:23:24,620 --> 00:23:25,620 It is. 564 00:23:25,620 --> 00:23:26,620 He's dead. 565 00:23:26,620 --> 00:23:27,620 Dead? 566 00:23:27,620 --> 00:23:30,620 Hypodermic by his side, the drug, your drug, your hypodermic. 567 00:23:30,620 --> 00:23:32,620 But it's only a sedative. 568 00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:34,620 Except that in large enough quantity, it's fatal. 569 00:23:34,620 --> 00:23:35,620 You knew that. 570 00:23:35,620 --> 00:23:36,620 Oh, Robert, don't listen to me. 571 00:23:36,620 --> 00:23:37,620 Isabel, why? 572 00:23:37,620 --> 00:23:38,620 Why, I warned you. 573 00:23:38,620 --> 00:23:39,620 Robert, look at me. 574 00:23:39,620 --> 00:23:40,620 It's Isabel. 575 00:23:40,620 --> 00:23:41,620 It's your wife. 576 00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:42,620 You can't. 577 00:23:42,620 --> 00:23:43,620 Oh, no. 578 00:23:43,620 --> 00:23:44,620 Where are you going? 579 00:23:44,620 --> 00:23:45,620 Come back. 580 00:23:45,620 --> 00:23:47,620 I'm going to call the police. 581 00:23:47,620 --> 00:24:02,620 It was perhaps the most terrible decision a man ever had to make, even though it did come 582 00:24:02,620 --> 00:24:06,620 not as a shock to me, even from my point of view as a scientist. 583 00:24:06,620 --> 00:24:08,620 It was terrible enough. 584 00:24:08,620 --> 00:24:12,620 Yet it had to be done, and I had done it. 585 00:24:12,620 --> 00:24:16,620 I did not speak to her as we waited, and she made no further attempt to appeal to me. 586 00:24:16,620 --> 00:24:21,620 She seemed utterly stupefied, perhaps, as a result of the drugs she had herself been taking. 587 00:24:21,620 --> 00:24:25,620 Perhaps because she suddenly realized she was hopelessly trapped. 588 00:24:25,620 --> 00:24:28,620 When the police arrived, I told the story with a little emotion. 589 00:24:28,620 --> 00:24:34,620 Yes, yes, there are fingerprints all right on both the bottle and the hypodermic. 590 00:24:34,620 --> 00:24:35,620 Those would be my wife's, of course. 591 00:24:35,620 --> 00:24:36,620 They both belong to her. 592 00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:38,620 Is that true, Mrs. Graham? 593 00:24:38,620 --> 00:24:39,620 Yes. 594 00:24:39,620 --> 00:24:43,620 Dr. Graham, do I understand then that you are formally charging your wife with the murder 595 00:24:43,620 --> 00:24:44,620 of Roger Holcomb? 596 00:24:44,620 --> 00:24:46,620 Well, you could hardly expect me to do that, could you? 597 00:24:46,620 --> 00:24:47,620 I'm simply telling you the facts. 598 00:24:47,620 --> 00:24:49,620 You said she hated Holcomb, and you knew it. 599 00:24:49,620 --> 00:24:51,620 My wife has been mentally ill for some time. 600 00:24:51,620 --> 00:24:53,620 Now, many people can testify to that. 601 00:24:53,620 --> 00:24:55,620 You will plead insanity, of course. 602 00:24:55,620 --> 00:24:59,620 Dr. Graham, I can't tell you how sorry I am, but the things you have told me add up to 603 00:24:59,620 --> 00:25:02,620 only one thing that you yourself obviously recognize. 604 00:25:02,620 --> 00:25:03,620 Yes. 605 00:25:03,620 --> 00:25:09,620 Your wife, Isabel Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb. 606 00:25:09,620 --> 00:25:10,620 What did you say? 607 00:25:10,620 --> 00:25:15,620 I said your wife, Isabel Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb. 608 00:25:15,620 --> 00:25:17,620 No. 609 00:25:17,620 --> 00:25:20,620 I murdered him. 610 00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:26,620 What? 611 00:25:26,620 --> 00:25:36,620 I tried to make it appear that Isabel had done it, and I succeeded. 612 00:25:36,620 --> 00:25:39,620 But I killed him. 613 00:25:49,620 --> 00:25:53,620 No plans are perfect. 614 00:25:53,620 --> 00:25:57,620 No man is infallible. 615 00:25:57,620 --> 00:26:04,620 Yes, I killed Roger Holcomb, and he himself revealed the truth. 616 00:26:04,620 --> 00:26:08,620 I'd planned to dispose of Isabel for many months. 617 00:26:08,620 --> 00:26:10,620 I'd never loved her. 618 00:26:10,620 --> 00:26:12,620 I'd loved only science. 619 00:26:12,620 --> 00:26:15,620 I wanted her money, and Holcomb found it out. 620 00:26:15,620 --> 00:26:17,620 That was the risk I ran. 621 00:26:17,620 --> 00:26:24,620 That any chance lie in his presence, either by Isabel or myself, to bring out the truth, 622 00:26:24,620 --> 00:26:27,620 and it did. 623 00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:31,620 I had no alternative once he'd discovered that. 624 00:26:31,620 --> 00:26:37,620 But to kill him, it's easy enough to throw the blame on Isabel. 625 00:26:37,620 --> 00:26:43,620 I had not counted on that terrible compulsion for the truth, 626 00:26:43,620 --> 00:26:51,620 that strange affliction of Roger Holcomb's, to his power over me. 627 00:26:51,620 --> 00:27:02,620 Did it transfer itself at his death to me, or was it conscience? 628 00:27:02,620 --> 00:27:05,620 It's a pity that it had to end this way. 629 00:27:05,620 --> 00:27:13,620 He's a fascinating case. 630 00:27:23,620 --> 00:27:28,620 And so closes Lazarus Walks, starring Orson Welles. 631 00:27:28,620 --> 00:27:35,620 Tonight's tale of suspense. 632 00:27:58,620 --> 00:28:23,620 This rebroadcast is a presentation of the Armed Forces Radio Service. 633 00:28:28,620 --> 00:28:30,620 Thank you.