1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:27,200 Suspense! 2 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:33,320 This is the man in black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense. 3 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:38,600 With us in Hollywood tonight as star is Mr. Gene Lockhart, whose remarkable characterizations 4 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,560 on the screen have won him a notable following with American audiences. 5 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:49,640 It is with rueful satisfaction, but with satisfaction nonetheless, that the genial Mr. Lockhart 6 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,880 contemplates his reputation. 7 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:58,920 Because of his cinematic misdoings, his numberless treacheries, betrayals and cowardly villainies, 8 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,440 he is one of the most hated men in the country today. 9 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:09,280 Our story this evening by John Shaw is called, Statement of Employee Henry Wilson. 10 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,800 And so with the performance of Gene Lockhart, as he relates and relives the events of the 11 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:19,520 climactic moment in Henry Wilson's life, we again hope to keep you in Suspense. 12 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:36,880 I, I was aware that I was trembling. 13 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:42,960 I tried walking slowly back and forth in front of the desk, but even in motion my knees felt 14 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:46,040 weak and my whole body shook. 15 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:51,600 I was it always I who trembled and never this pompous insect sitting in front of me. 16 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,920 His voice was cool and mocking. 17 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:55,680 His voice was clear and hard. 18 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:00,400 Well, I sympathize with you, of course, Wilson, but the error must be brought to Mr. Larkin's 19 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:01,400 attention. 20 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,400 It is quite a big mistake, though, quite a costly mistake. 21 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,640 Mr. Larkin must know. 22 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:08,960 He wouldn't cover it up. 23 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:09,960 I knew that. 24 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,840 Two years ago, this man had come with the firm. 25 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,120 For eight years before that, I had worked there, enjoying the work, liking the people. 26 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,240 And then he had come there. 27 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:26,240 Have you, have you ever stood quietly by and watched someone rob your house and steal your 28 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:27,240 pocketbook? 29 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,220 I was helpless. 30 00:02:29,220 --> 00:02:30,220 He was ambitious. 31 00:02:30,220 --> 00:02:31,220 He was clever. 32 00:02:31,220 --> 00:02:32,560 He was fluent. 33 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,360 And as of tonight, I was his subordinate. 34 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,400 Two years against 10 years. 35 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,480 Around the office, I had a reputation of being casual and carefree. 36 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,100 But I hated this man. 37 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:46,640 Every inch of me hated this man. 38 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:48,360 And it was not a new hatred. 39 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,120 Of course, there is no question of your honesty. 40 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,400 His voice was patronizing. 41 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,280 The patient teacher and the unruly pupil. 42 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,000 I hated him. 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,400 He smiled up at me and waved his hand in dismissal. 44 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:07,000 He almost brushed a small iron vase off the top of the desk with the gesture. 45 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,800 I, I had seen that vase so often, but I had never seen it out of the eyes that I was looking 46 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:14,800 at it with now. 47 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:15,800 Good night, Wilson. 48 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:16,800 Good night, I said. 49 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:25,960 Good night, clever boy. 50 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:31,000 I walked out into the corridor and rang for the elevator. 51 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,600 What a terrible night, ain't it, Mr. Wilson? 52 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:40,600 I heard the boy talking, like he was yelling at me from some distant mountain. 53 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,640 He was talking and I was answering, but I rather whether or not I was saying I didn't 54 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:45,640 know. 55 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,640 I was thinking of, of something else. 56 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,800 I looked at my watch as I stepped out of the car. 57 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,960 It was 11.30 already. 58 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:54,960 I mentioned it. 59 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,200 You've had a long day today, Mr. Wilson. 60 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,720 Those were the first words of the boy that I heard. 61 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:00,720 Heard clearly. 62 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:01,720 Very clearly. 63 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:03,400 A yes, I told him. 64 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,320 Oh, plenty of overtime this week. 65 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,680 I stood and looked at him for a moment. 66 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,160 Mr. Dodds is still in the office. 67 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:11,840 You might drop in and see if he wants anything. 68 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:12,840 I think he'd be very grateful. 69 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:13,840 I will, sir. 70 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:14,840 I certainly will. 71 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:16,120 It'll help to pass the time, sir. 72 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,240 I don't like to complain, but these nights pass awful slow sometimes. 73 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:20,380 Ah, yes. 74 00:04:20,380 --> 00:04:22,440 Go up and see if he wants anything. 75 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,280 Go up and see. 76 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:29,400 I walked out of the lobby and came back into the building again when the boy had gotten 77 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:30,400 into the elevator. 78 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:31,400 Four flights up. 79 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,560 I took the stairs slowly. 80 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:35,560 I was in no rush. 81 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,920 I must let the boy get out of the room first. 82 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,520 He said the nights passed slowly. 83 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:46,760 This one wouldn't, and yet there would be an eternity compressed in it. 84 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,720 When I got to the fourth floor, I stood at the top of the stairs and watched the door 85 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,320 to Dodds' office. 86 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,680 The elevator was parked at the floor so I knew the boy was in the room. 87 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:00,000 A short while later, he came out, and I crouched back in the shadows until he'd gone down in 88 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:06,000 the car, and then I walked into the room, not in a crouch or moving my feet so that 89 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,880 no sound would wake the stillness, but casually, honestly. 90 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,880 There was a small waiting room at Mr. Dodds' office. 91 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,640 In two years, he had a waiting room. 92 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,600 In ten, I had none. 93 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,480 I felt like laughing at the symbolism of that fact. 94 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:22,560 Who's there? 95 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,280 I called out my name and entered his office. 96 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:26,280 Yes? 97 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:28,440 What is it, Wilson? 98 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:34,000 He was still sitting down, and the iron vase was still alongside of him, very close to 99 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 him. 100 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I started to talk. 101 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,120 I don't know what about business, things in general. 102 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:39,120 I've quite forgotten. 103 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,960 I reached across and picked up the iron vase casually, very casually, but his eyes went 104 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:53,160 wild suddenly, and he jumped, and I hit him square on the top of the head with the vase. 105 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:54,320 It wasn't a very good shot. 106 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,040 I had no leverage, but he started to slump back in the chair. 107 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:02,800 I hit him again hard, and again and again, and a red streak ran across his forehead, 108 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:04,240 and he laced him. 109 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:05,800 I put my hand against his heart. 110 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:18,320 For a moment, there was a soft beating, and then I could feel nothing. 111 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,280 I was very calm and very warm. 112 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:24,880 I was calmer than I'd ever been before. 113 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,760 I wiped off the vase and put it back onto the desk. 114 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,720 I ran through the papers the guards had been looking at until I found the one paper I was 115 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:32,720 looking for. 116 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:36,760 I ripped it into little bits, and I put the pieces into my pocket. 117 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,160 Outside the building, my first act would be to scatter the pieces. 118 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,680 I'd cover my mistake myself. 119 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,760 I moved slowly back to the door. 120 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,480 I wiped the door knob and looked once around the room before I opened the door and stepped 121 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:54,080 out into the waiting room, and then... 122 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,120 Going home, Mr. Wilson? 123 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,520 I stood there, afraid to turn, afraid to think. 124 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:05,560 I slammed the door shut behind me and stood in front of it. 125 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,240 Are you all right, Mr. Wilson? 126 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,240 I tried to talk, but the words got caught somewhere in my throat. 127 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,840 It was the sweeper, Tom Heapy, the night sweeper. 128 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,080 I almost fainted. 129 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:18,320 Everything had been set so nicely. 130 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:19,560 I'd left the building. 131 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,500 The elevator boy had come up and found Dodds in good health. 132 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:24,360 Someone had stolen him later and killed him. 133 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,240 That would be the elevator boy's story. 134 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,960 If there was no suspicion attached to anyone, it would be the boy. 135 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:30,560 I had left the building. 136 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:35,120 I had left the building, but now this. 137 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,320 Are you all right, Mr. Wilson? 138 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:38,320 I'm fine, Tom. 139 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:39,760 A bit of a cold, that's all. 140 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:40,760 A weakens one. 141 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:41,760 How are the wife and kids? 142 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:42,760 Fine, fine. 143 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,560 The shock was wearing off. 144 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,040 Mr. Dodds is in his room now. 145 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:47,600 Tom, working very late tonight. 146 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,000 You'd better, you know, let his office go for this once. 147 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,080 Well, if you say so, Mr. Wilson. 148 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,280 I could give it a quick brush, though, sir. 149 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,240 I wouldn't disturb him, none. 150 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,000 I stood firm in front of the door. 151 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,440 For a moment, I wondered if he'd seen anything when I'd come out of the room. 152 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:05,280 It was possible. 153 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,280 He could have looked over my shoulder. 154 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:08,280 Ah, no. 155 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,440 No, he hadn't seen anything. 156 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,000 He began to sweep the sitting room, and I stood and watched him. 157 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,800 I couldn't let him get out of here. 158 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,480 I'd go to the chair if he told me about being there. 159 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:21,480 And I couldn't kill him, too. 160 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,920 Oh, what a quick step it had been. 161 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,200 Back to normal. 162 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,840 I was nervous again, and I felt a sickness at the bottom of my stomach. 163 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:33,200 I tried to talk, to talk, and I sounded stupid. 164 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,440 Tom looked at me. 165 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:35,800 I wouldn't. 166 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:37,440 I wouldn't have to touch him. 167 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:38,960 It would be his word against mine. 168 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:39,960 And I had left the building. 169 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,520 I opened the door quickly and went back into Dodds' office. 170 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:49,320 I tried to keep my eyes away from that thing at the desk. 171 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,240 I remember that he'd kept a bottle in one of the doors, and I took it and brought it 172 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,120 out to the sitting room with me. 173 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,880 Oh, Tom, Mr. Dodds has a birthday tomorrow, and he wonders if you'll drink his health 174 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:01,880 with me. 175 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,760 Well, I don't think you'd better take any tonight. 176 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,440 Mr. Dodds has a birthday. 177 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,640 Sometime tomorrow he'll be a day old in the next world. 178 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,280 Tom was famous for his liquor habits, but he hesitated. 179 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:12,280 Well, now... 180 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:13,280 I poured the drinks. 181 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,560 I don't think you'd better... 182 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:16,180 Up with it, Tom, and down with it. 183 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:17,680 And here's to Mr. Dodds. 184 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:19,240 Well, all right. 185 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:20,720 Here's kindness. 186 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,440 He drank one. 187 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:24,440 He drank another. 188 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,400 He drank a third, and still I poured them into him. 189 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,640 He got talkative and grew very gay, but he didn't pass out. 190 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:33,640 I looked at my watch. 191 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,840 It was almost half past 12. 192 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:38,880 One whole hour I'd wasted with him. 193 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,440 I could stand no more. 194 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:41,440 He was drunk. 195 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,120 Any test would show that. 196 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,720 His story tomorrow would be listed as a drunkard's babble. 197 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:50,440 I had left the building an hour ago. 198 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,560 I couldn't afford to waste any more time. 199 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:55,280 I walked behind him, and he was laughing. 200 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,600 And I hit him as hard as I could on the back of the neck. 201 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,560 He pitched forward off the chair onto the floor. 202 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:08,040 I dragged him into Dodds' office, and I lifted him into the chair facing Dodds. 203 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,200 I brought the bottle in from the sitting room and put it on the desk in front of Dodds. 204 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,200 I took the iron vase and curled Tom's hands around it for the fingerprints, and I dropped 205 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,200 it at his feet. 206 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,200 A bottle. 207 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,200 A fight. 208 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:19,200 A killing. 209 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:24,320 I was sweating. 210 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,640 I went out into the sitting room again and almost fell to my knees. 211 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,080 I was frightened. 212 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:30,920 I had to get out of here. 213 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,080 I got to the lobby and looked out of the shadows at the elevator. 214 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,760 The boy was sitting on a chair outside the car, and he seemed asleep. 215 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,320 I came out of the darkness and went quickly towards the street and began to walk rapidly. 216 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,560 I wanted to get somewhere out of the world. 217 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:48,280 Would I ever sleep again? 218 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,920 Many murderers are not supposed to, and I want to rest. 219 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:52,920 Ah! 220 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,400 I had a sudden idea. 221 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,120 I went into a cafeteria and used the telephone. 222 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:03,160 I called the building and got the elevator boy on the phone. 223 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:04,160 Hello there. 224 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:05,160 Hello, Jim. 225 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,880 Oh, this is Mr. Wilson, Jim. 226 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,320 Has Mr. Dodds left yet? 227 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:14,600 The voice that answered me was sleepy, and the words were hard to make out, but I knew 228 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:16,600 all the answers. 229 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,480 Well, listen closely, Jim. 230 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,480 Will you tell him that the address of the place we were talking about is 144 Grey Street? 231 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:24,880 Yes, one for... 232 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,160 Yes, that's right. 233 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,280 Oh, he'll know what I mean. 234 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,240 Will you go up and tell him now, Jim? 235 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:31,440 All right. 236 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,720 Thanks a lot, Jim. 237 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,700 I was sure the sweeper would be discovered in the room with Dodds. 238 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:39,080 The address was a Turkish bath. 239 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:40,080 It's logical. 240 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,280 A man working all night might want to go to a Turkish bath afterwards. 241 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:48,200 Jim, Jim would walk in now, and Heaven only knew what came next. 242 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,880 The sweeper would be caught like a rat in a trap, drunk, and with a murdered man sitting 243 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:53,880 across from him. 244 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,680 I walked home through streets that crushed me in their shadows, between walls that whispered 245 00:11:57,680 --> 00:11:59,160 at me as I passed. 246 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:04,520 I sat up in my room for hours listening to the sounds Manhattan makes in the night, and 247 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,480 finally, finally I fell asleep. 248 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:20,240 And I sat, and I slept, and I dreamed until sunrise. 249 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:21,680 I woke with a start. 250 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:24,240 I was shaking like some miserable wet cur. 251 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,360 I took a drink and tried breathing deeply. 252 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,920 Somewhere I read that deep breathing killed that scared feeling. 253 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:32,760 What in blazes was I frightened about? 254 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:33,760 I was safe. 255 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:34,760 I was completely safe. 256 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,400 But when I left the house, I was still shaking. 257 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,640 I walked all around the block that the building was on before I went inside. 258 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,960 It looked like any other morning. 259 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:51,280 On the floor where my office was, I saw a policeman, and then another, and then my world 260 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:56,160 was surrounded by a ring of police and plainclothes men. 261 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:57,160 I must watch my nerves. 262 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:01,400 I must move carefully, very carefully. 263 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,440 None of them paid any more attention to me than they did to any of the others. 264 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,080 They assembled all of us in the president's office, and then one of them, a sharp alert 265 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,120 young man, began to talk. 266 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,040 Last night, please. 267 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:20,800 Last night an attempt was made on the life of one of your associates, Mr. Charles Dodds. 268 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,160 A murmur ran around the room. 269 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,360 I was talking with the rest, being surprised with the rest. 270 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,000 But what did he, what does he mean, an attempt? 271 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,280 Dodds had been dead, or had he? 272 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:39,920 Unfortunately, however, the attack was not successful. 273 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:44,000 And Mr. Dodds has supplied us with some rather unbelievable information. 274 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Oh. 275 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Information which we are checking. 276 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,800 I tried to hold myself. 277 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:53,240 I felt faint suddenly, and then something happened inside me, and I did not break. 278 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:54,240 It was a trick. 279 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:55,240 It was a trick. 280 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:56,240 I was sure of it. 281 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:01,240 The detective stared at us, running his eyes across our faces, across my face, searching, 282 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,520 staring, and then he, he shrugged his shoulders. 283 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:12,880 Well, as a matter of fact, Mr. Dodds was killed. 284 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:17,160 And another man you might know also died last night. 285 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,000 Mr. Thomas Higbee, the night sweeper. 286 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Higbee? 287 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Dead, too? 288 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,760 Again, that rustle of voices, that droning conversation that I was part of. 289 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,680 Some of them had known Higbee, liked him. 290 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,360 I hadn't meant to kill him. 291 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:32,760 Could there be some mistake? 292 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:34,400 I wanted to ask one of these men. 293 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:35,400 Was there some mistake? 294 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:36,720 I hadn't meant to kill him. 295 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,440 Mr. Dodds was clubbed to death. 296 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,280 A night sweeper died of a heart attack. 297 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,760 Nothing more is known as yet about what happened here last night. 298 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:48,120 You must all consider yourselves at the disposal of the police, till you're told otherwise. 299 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,120 Blast them. 300 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,120 Why didn't they say something? 301 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:52,820 They were lying to these people. 302 00:14:52,820 --> 00:14:53,820 Nothing more was known. 303 00:14:53,820 --> 00:14:54,820 That's nonsense. 304 00:14:54,820 --> 00:14:56,460 Why, it was all there for them to see. 305 00:14:56,460 --> 00:14:57,840 It told its own story. 306 00:14:57,840 --> 00:14:59,240 Higbee had killed Dodds. 307 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,360 Poor, harmless little Higbee had killed that big, famous executive. 308 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:04,360 And now... 309 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,960 Mr. Wilson, will you come this way, please? 310 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,080 Just a little routine questioning, that's all. 311 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,920 Everybody here will have to undergo it. 312 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:12,920 I must wash myself. 313 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:18,880 I must go very slowly. 314 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:22,000 Sit here, won't you, Mr. Wilson? 315 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,680 Now, do you remember what time you left the office last night? 316 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:26,680 Yes, yes. 317 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:27,680 It was 11.30. 318 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,600 I remember mentioning it to the elevator boy. 319 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,200 And what time did you get home? 320 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,600 Oh, somewhere about half past 12, I guess. 321 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,400 Yes, just about that time. 322 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,280 Is there anybody who would swear to that? 323 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:41,920 Well, the elevator boy... 324 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:43,800 Oh, I don't mean that. 325 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,480 Is there anyone who saw you go into your house at 12.30? 326 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,880 I hardly think so. 327 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,240 At that time, the streets aren't too well populated, you know, officer. 328 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,360 And I live in a house where people mind their own business. 329 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,480 I really don't know anybody in the house. 330 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,040 And I doubt if anybody saw me go into it. 331 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,840 But you can check with the elevator boy, though, as to my going home at 11.30. 332 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,420 Yes, we have already. 333 00:16:06,420 --> 00:16:09,640 You weren't on the best of terms with Dodds, were you, Wilson? 334 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,240 Oh, I was fond of him. 335 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,480 But I don't know what right you have to say a thing like that. 336 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,560 He kind of did you out of a job around here, didn't he? 337 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,800 Oh, he was a smart man. 338 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,360 Mr. Dodds was an exceptionally smart man. 339 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,000 It was not at all a disgrace to lose a position to him. 340 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,120 When I left him last night, he was in excellent health. 341 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:31,600 And if I killed a man every time I had a job taken away from me, I'd have quite a long 342 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,240 line of victims behind me. 343 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,140 Of course, I'm just joking, you know. 344 00:16:36,140 --> 00:16:38,680 You made a phone call to him last night, didn't you? 345 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:40,400 Yes, to the elevator boy. 346 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:45,320 I remember suggesting that he go to a Turkish bath after he'd finished work to sort of tone 347 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:46,320 up. 348 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:47,320 They're very good, you know. 349 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,080 And I mentioned that I knew a very good one that I could recommend. 350 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,560 And then when he asked me the name of it, I couldn't think of the address of the place. 351 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,800 I thought of it later, though, and I phoned the building. 352 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:57,680 Where'd you phone from? 353 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,440 From a little place in the neighborhood. 354 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,080 And about what time did you phone? 355 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:05,120 Well, it was about 12.25, I guess. 356 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:06,880 I was getting a little mixed up. 357 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:07,880 It couldn't have been then. 358 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,080 I was still in the building at 12.30. 359 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:12,120 They were confusing me. 360 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:15,880 You called at exactly 12.55. 361 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:19,560 So you must have miscalculated the time of your arrival at home. 362 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:21,840 However, that isn't important. 363 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,560 None of us is expected to time ourselves from place to place, are we? 364 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,760 When we find too good an alibi, we get kind of suspicious. 365 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,760 Well, I don't think we'll have to bother you anymore, Mr. Wilson. 366 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:33,760 Thank you. 367 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,720 He asked me to send somebody in to see him as I went out. 368 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,320 I forget who it was. 369 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,680 I was thinking very hard. 370 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,400 I went into my office and sat down. 371 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:45,520 So easy. 372 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,920 Was it possible the whole thing was over and so easily? 373 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:50,960 Hello there, Wilson. 374 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,880 Very sad, this business. 375 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:54,880 Very sad. 376 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:56,440 Good morning, Mr. Larkin. 377 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:57,720 But we must go on. 378 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,120 Mr. Dodds would want it that way. 379 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:00,800 Yes, sir, he would. 380 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,880 It's a responsible job he had, Wilson, but you've been with us long enough to know that. 381 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:05,880 Yes, sir. 382 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,360 Do you think you can handle it? 383 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:08,360 Well, sir, I... 384 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:10,240 Yes, sir, I think I can. 385 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:11,240 Good. 386 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,480 Get your stuff together and take over Dodds' old office. 387 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:17,560 You deserve this, Wilson, and I'm sure you'll reward our confidence in you. 388 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:18,720 Well, thank you very much, sir. 389 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:20,400 Of course, I hardly expected... 390 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,480 On second thought, I think you'd better go into his office right away and sort of straighten 391 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:26,160 out some of the things on his desk. 392 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,640 I'll have one of the boys bring your things in later. 393 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:29,640 Very well, sir. 394 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:30,640 Good luck. 395 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:31,640 Thank you, sir. 396 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,680 The fat pompous pig. 397 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,320 Why hadn't he said those things before last night? 398 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:39,480 They were all in a spot now. 399 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,720 They needed poor, stupid Wilson. 400 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,640 They needed me to get them out of a hole. 401 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,320 The further the thing went, the funnier it got. 402 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,760 Books were wrong about virtue and good, counting for anything. 403 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:54,480 To get ahead, you either married the boss's daughter or killed the boss. 404 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,080 I took a pencil and a small notebook and went out into the corridor. 405 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,760 I stood for a moment outside Dodds' office, just like last night, and then I pushed the 406 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:09,000 door open slowly, the sitting room, and then the door to the office. 407 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,240 I opened it and walked inside. 408 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:17,880 I heard the door close softly behind me, and I stood there, smelling the death in the air. 409 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,520 And then, and then, I saw it. 410 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:22,520 I saw it. 411 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,840 I tried to yell, but I couldn't get the words out. 412 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:32,280 There, there in front of me, sitting in the chair. 413 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:37,520 What I'd propped him last night was Tom Higbee, his eyes open, his expression blank and staring, 414 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,400 and at his feet was the bottle and the vase, the same bottle, the same vase. 415 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,920 Dodds was all that was missing. 416 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,640 I turned and I bolted into the hall. 417 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:47,960 Higbee? 418 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,280 What's the matter, Wilson? 419 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:51,760 You look like you'd seen a ghost. 420 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,760 In the office, in the office. 421 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:54,760 Higbee. 422 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:55,760 Higbee? 423 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:56,760 Why, Higbee's dead, man. 424 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:57,760 What's the matter? 425 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,240 Mr. Larkin, where's Mr. Larkin? 426 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:00,240 Here I am, Wilson. 427 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:01,240 What's the matter? 428 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:02,240 In the office, in the office. 429 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:03,240 What? 430 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:08,680 Why, if nothing's the matter in here, I don't... 431 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,640 I walked in after him. 432 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,680 There was nothing there, nothing. 433 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,720 No Higbee, no bottle, no vase. 434 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,960 But I saw them. 435 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:16,960 I saw them. 436 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:17,960 Oh, was I going crazy? 437 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:18,960 Was I beginning to go mad? 438 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:19,960 I felt Larkin's pat on my shoulder. 439 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,960 He murmured something about everybody being a little touchy, a little jumpy. 440 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:29,960 And then he left and I was alone in the room. 441 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:34,960 Be careful, be careful, be careful. 442 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:39,680 I stood, I stared at the desk and at the chair. 443 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,120 No one was there. 444 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:42,960 No one could have been there. 445 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,960 I must watch myself. 446 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:46,960 What? 447 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,480 Oh, I beg your pardon. 448 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,280 Oh, not at all. 449 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,480 I seem to be in the wrong room. 450 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,480 I'm Mrs. Charles Dodds. 451 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,560 I'm looking for that young detective. 452 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:00,080 He doesn't seem to be out here. 453 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,480 I believe he's in the end room, questioning the employees. 454 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:06,160 Then I don't suppose he'll be able to see me for a little while. 455 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:07,760 Do you mind if I wait here for him? 456 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:08,760 Well, I... 457 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:09,760 Thank you so much. 458 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,760 Excuse me for a second. 459 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:16,280 Charlie, will you tell the detective that Mrs. Dodds is waiting for him in... 460 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:17,280 in my new office? 461 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,760 Oh, you've already seated yourself. 462 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,520 I was going to suggest that perhaps this seat might... 463 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:24,760 She was sitting in his chair. 464 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,280 There was blood in that chair. 465 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,200 This is quite all right, thank you. 466 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,760 Charles would have liked to see the way everybody's taking his death. 467 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,160 Everyone is so kind to me. 468 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,280 Mr. Dodds was a fine man, a fine man. 469 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,080 You're Mr. Wilson, aren't you? 470 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:39,880 He used to talk about you. 471 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,920 Thought you were a very bright person. 472 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:44,960 He seemed very fond of you. 473 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:45,960 I... 474 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,920 I don't know how I'll be able to go on without him. 475 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,920 Mrs. Dodds, you mustn't, you mustn't. 476 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,880 I'm sorry. 477 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,760 He wouldn't like to see me carrying on like this, would he? 478 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,560 We were going to buy a home in Westchester this summer. 479 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,880 Did he ever tell you that? 480 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:05,880 Yes. 481 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,360 Just outside Yonkers. 482 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:10,520 We have two lovely little ones. 483 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,520 Toby and Little Mary. 484 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,920 He loved the New York state countryside. 485 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,360 We talked so much about it. 486 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:18,560 On, on she rambled. 487 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:19,560 He liked this. 488 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:20,560 He didn't like that. 489 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:21,560 The children, the children. 490 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:22,560 Toby and Little Mary. 491 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,560 Toby and Little Mary, she was driving me crazy. 492 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:25,560 Stop it, I wanted to yell. 493 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,000 Get out of here and leave me in peace. 494 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 Get out of here, you witch. 495 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Get out, get out. 496 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:34,640 Mrs. Dodds, Detective Lewis would like to see you now. 497 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,640 Thank you for everything, Mr. Wilson. 498 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:37,640 And goodbye. 499 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:38,640 Goodbye. 500 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,640 Goodbye and get out and leave me alone. 501 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,760 I hadn't meant to do anything like that. 502 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,000 I hadn't wanted to do any of the things I was doing. 503 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,160 All I'd wanted to do was to kill Dodds. 504 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,000 All these other things, they weren't mine. 505 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,440 I hadn't killed Higbee. 506 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,040 He can't haunt me. 507 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,920 His wife can't cry at me. 508 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:55,920 Heart attack. 509 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:56,920 That's it. 510 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:57,920 Higbee died of a heart attack. 511 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:58,920 I beg your pardon, sir. 512 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:00,080 Have you seen Mrs. Higbee? 513 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:01,320 The detective is looking for her. 514 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,320 How would I see her? 515 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:03,320 Am I everybody's guardian? 516 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,320 How can anybody get lost in this office? 517 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:06,320 Sorry, sir. 518 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:07,320 Mrs. Higbee. 519 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,320 Stop it, you fool. 520 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,320 Mrs. Higbee. 521 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:10,320 You howling idiot. 522 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,320 Can't you be looked for quietly? 523 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,320 You will drag Higbee from his grave with your yelling. 524 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:13,320 Two widows. 525 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:14,320 What? 526 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,320 You manufacture widows, don't you, Mr. Wilson? 527 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:16,320 Widows and orphans. 528 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:17,320 Tell me, Mr. Wilson, is it your life's work or is it just a hobby with you? 529 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:18,320 Tell me, Mr. Wilson. 530 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:19,320 Who is that? 531 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,320 Who is that talking? 532 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:21,320 Do they think they can make a fool of me? 533 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:22,320 I'm not a fool. 534 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:23,320 I'm a fool. 535 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,320 I'm a fool. 536 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:25,320 I'm a fool. 537 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,320 I'm a fool. 538 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,320 I'm a fool. 539 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,320 I'm a fool. 540 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,320 I'm a fool. 541 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,320 I'm a fool. 542 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,320 I'm a fool. 543 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,320 I'm a fool. 544 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:36,320 I'm a fool. 545 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,720 Aha, aha, the office communication. 546 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:39,560 It's off. 547 00:23:41,060 --> 00:23:43,180 Oh, stop it, Mr. Wilson. 548 00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:44,840 You'll go bombing. 549 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,760 You've committed the perfect crime. 550 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,940 Don't go crazy and spoil it. 551 00:23:48,940 --> 00:23:49,780 No. 552 00:23:49,780 --> 00:23:52,000 Perfection is instinctive with you, isn't it? 553 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,020 Yes, yes. 554 00:23:53,020 --> 00:23:56,360 Not a plan did you make, spontaneous perfection. 555 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:57,200 Yes, yes. 556 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,240 There aren't many who do that. 557 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,000 Go on, go on, voices can't frighten me. 558 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,240 They deserve to die, and that's why they're dead. 559 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,700 Thou shalt not kill, Mr. Wilson. 560 00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:10,480 Thou shalt not kill. 561 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,960 Thou shalt not kill. 562 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,040 Not Igby. 563 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,120 I didn't kill him. 564 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:16,120 His heart stopped. 565 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,280 Do you hear me, that's all? 566 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:18,320 I didn't kill him. 567 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:19,200 Now you voices stop. 568 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:20,040 Do you hear me? 569 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,080 Stop it, I command. 570 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:21,920 Stop it. 571 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,880 Is something wrong, Mr. Wilson? 572 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,440 What do you mean is there's something wrong? 573 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:26,440 Do you hear them too? 574 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:27,560 Well, you mustn't listen. 575 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:28,380 They lie. 576 00:24:28,380 --> 00:24:29,220 Do you hear me? 577 00:24:29,220 --> 00:24:30,060 They lie. 578 00:24:30,060 --> 00:24:32,040 Now get out, get out, get out. 579 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,200 You must talk only to me. 580 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,040 You understand me? 581 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,160 Only to me, not to these others. 582 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:37,520 Don't say anything to them. 583 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,780 Only to me, only to me. 584 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:42,640 Well, what do you want? 585 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:43,920 Well, I don't know. 586 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,920 You think they'll say something bad about me, don't you? 587 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,460 So you can carry me off to jail. 588 00:24:47,460 --> 00:24:48,760 That's what you're waiting for, isn't it? 589 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:49,840 Well, you're going to be disappointed. 590 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:50,800 You see, they're quiet. 591 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:51,640 What's quiet? 592 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:52,460 Yeah, who's quiet? 593 00:24:52,460 --> 00:24:53,560 You think I'm going to tell you. 594 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,240 They won't say anything unless I tell them to, 595 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:56,600 and I'm not going to tell them to say anything, 596 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:57,800 not one little word. 597 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,480 Last night, last night you wanted to know 598 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,520 all about last night, when you asked them, 599 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:02,360 but they won't tell you. 600 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,120 But the expression on that face, look at him, Lieutenant. 601 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:06,720 They were there, they saw me hit him, 602 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:07,840 but they won't say anything. 603 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,240 They were there, but they won't tell you a thing, 604 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,440 not one little word, not a single thing. 605 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:11,280 He's a gibbering idiot. 606 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:12,120 Because I'm not going to let him. 607 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:13,920 Oh, I shouldn't have let you monkey around. 608 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,880 We could have gotten it out of him some other way. 609 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,000 You and your psychology. 610 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,600 You know, you should leave that stuff in colleges. 611 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,160 All I did was plant Higbee in the office 612 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,640 and route Mrs. Dodds in here 613 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,320 and talked into the ventilating system. 614 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,160 Those voices had me creepy too. 615 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,320 Incidentally, Dodds was single. 616 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:29,160 Why? 617 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:30,920 That girl's my fiancee, she's an actress. 618 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,120 Well, for, why did you tell them Higbee was dead? 619 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:36,600 No, maybe you better not explain. 620 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,200 Psychology, huh? 621 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,520 Well, what are we going to do with the confession now? 622 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,040 We should have pinched him the moment he walked in here. 623 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,320 Maybe I'm lucky I never went to college. 624 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:47,800 There's no use you waiting here. 625 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:48,800 They won't tell you anything. 626 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,200 They're mine, all mine. 627 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,520 I tell them what to say. 628 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,360 All right, get the wagon up here. 629 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:55,840 I'm not going to walk this thing through the streets. 630 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:00,840 I won't say a word. 631 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,280 Henry Wilson, it's the judgment of this court 632 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,000 that you be sent to the Hillview Mental Home 633 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,520 and be kept there in close confinement until... 634 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:15,360 Ah. 635 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:23,880 On the voice went. 636 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,080 I had stopped listening to voices, 637 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,000 all but the ones that I couldn't help hearing. 638 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,680 But, but I'm not crazy. 639 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,360 I'm not crazy. 640 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,360 I tell people that and they look at me clearly. 641 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:38,800 The stupid fools. 642 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,560 The guards here have spread the lies that I have fits. 643 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,680 Lies, lies I tell you. 644 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,600 They say every night when the moon comes up, I have fits. 645 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,040 Loud roaring fits. 646 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:50,520 Well, they lie. 647 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,480 Because it's then that I hear the voices. 648 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,720 I hear Dodds and his wife and Toby and little Mary. 649 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,200 And I sit quietly and I listen to them. 650 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,080 Do you think I can have a fit in front of them? 651 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,280 Do you now? 652 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,480 No, I'd be ashamed. 653 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:07,960 I tell you I'm not crazy. 654 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,400 And they lie when they tell you that they lie. 655 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,880 All of them, they lie. 656 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:28,120 They're the lies, lies, lies, lies, lies. 657 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:31,280 And so closes Statement of Employee Henry Wilson, 658 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,360 starring Gene Lockhart. 659 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:54,640 Tonight's tale of Suspense. 660 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,240 This is the man in black who conveys to you 661 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,080 Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense 662 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,240 with us again next week, same time, 663 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:09,880 when our two distinguished stars will be Margot and Philip Dawn. 664 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,840 They will appear in a suspense play by John Dixon Carr, 665 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:26,920 entitled Cabin B 13. 666 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,240 The producer and director of Suspense is William Spear, 667 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,080 who with Led Gluskin and Lucian Marowick, 668 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,360 conductor and composer, and John Shaw, the author, 669 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:49,840 collaborated on tonight's Suspense. 670 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,680 Suspense fans, please note that this program will shortly 671 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:54,720 move to a different day of the week. 672 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,520 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