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The wine for your table is Roma wine, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:39.000 --> 00:44.000 The Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California welcomes you again to this weekly half hour of... 00:44.000 --> 00:46.000 Suspense! 00:46.000 --> 00:51.000 Tonight from Hollywood, Roma wines bring you as stars two of the screen's most distinguished actors. 00:51.000 --> 00:56.000 Mr. Thomas Mitchell and Mr. Donald Crisp. 00:56.000 --> 01:00.000 They appear this evening in a play written for suspense by Robert Tallman, 01:00.000 --> 01:08.000 in which psychiatry is called upon to deal with a sick mind, which has unknowingly been tempted thrice by murder. 01:08.000 --> 01:13.000 And so are the performance of Thomas Mitchell as the millionaire tycoon Edgar Lowndes, 01:13.000 --> 01:16.000 and of Donald Crisp as the psychiatrist Dr. Aronson. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 We again hope to keep you in... 01:18.000 --> 01:21.000 Suspense! 01:32.000 --> 01:33.000 Yes? 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 There's Mr. Edgar Lowndes here to see you, Dr. Aronson. 01:36.000 --> 01:40.000 Lowndes, Lowndes? Edgar Lowndes? When did we get him for patient? 01:40.000 --> 01:43.000 I think you'd better talk to him, Doctor. 01:43.000 --> 01:45.000 Yes, and I think he'd have to go through the usual routine. 01:45.000 --> 01:51.000 I don't go through usual routines. I'm Edgar Lowndes. I dare say you've heard the name before, Doctor. 01:51.000 --> 01:54.000 And who hasn't? Edgar Lowndes, the railroad magnet. Sit down, sir. 01:54.000 --> 02:00.000 Thank you. Well, I'm a man of a few words, Doctor. Frankly, I'm at my wit's end. 02:00.000 --> 02:04.000 Why, if my business associates had any idea I was consulting a psychoanalyst, 02:04.000 --> 02:08.000 I'd be laughed off the floor of the stock exchange. But we'll never mind that. 02:08.000 --> 02:14.000 It's these headaches, Doctor. I've been having an aspirin codeine. Nothing seems to help. 02:14.000 --> 02:15.000 How long has this been going on? 02:15.000 --> 02:20.000 A little over a month. Since the death of my wife, in fact. We were very attached, you know. Very attached. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 Her death was a shock to you? 02:22.000 --> 02:27.000 No, I wouldn't say a shock, precisely. She's been an invalid for years. Bad heart. 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 Wasn't so much what happened the night she died, but the way it happened. 02:30.000 --> 02:34.000 Oh, but why shoot off my mouth to you about it? I've told the story a thousand times, 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 till everybody's sick of hearing it. 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 Well, perhaps you haven't told all the story, even yet. 02:39.000 --> 02:44.000 Well, as a matter of fact, that's the truth, Doctor. There's one little thing I left out. 02:44.000 --> 02:47.000 But the funny part of that is, I didn't know it myself till yesterday. 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 And what was that? 02:48.000 --> 02:54.000 Well, I was dressing for dinner. I was getting ready to go out when in comes my wife's servant. 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 You know, her nurse. She's all flattered about something else. 03:01.000 --> 03:05.000 Mr. Louns, I hope you'll forgive me for bursting in like this, but Mrs. Louns... 03:05.000 --> 03:06.000 Yes, yes, yes, speak up, sir. 03:06.000 --> 03:10.000 Well, she's resting quite well, Mr. Louns, but she did have that little attack this afternoon. 03:10.000 --> 03:15.000 And I can't be here this evening. And what with the servant's night out being tonight, I thought... 03:15.000 --> 03:20.000 Yes, you thought I'd better stay with her, and I certainly will. Now you just go along about your business. 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 I look after Mrs. Louns personally. 03:22.000 --> 03:26.000 Oh, I knew you'd see it that way. You're a good, considerate man, Mr. Louns. 03:30.000 --> 03:31.000 Edgar. 03:31.000 --> 03:35.000 Feeling a little rocky, darling? Well, old Edgar's not going to let you down, 03:35.000 --> 03:38.000 not even if it means losing that war contract. 03:38.000 --> 03:43.000 I'm going to sit right here with you, sweetheart, and Louns, Reed and Kupnick can go hang. 03:43.000 --> 03:47.000 Oh, no, Edgar, there's no reason for you to stay, really. There isn't. 03:47.000 --> 03:51.000 Just the same, I'm going to stay right here with my little wife this evening. 03:51.000 --> 03:57.000 Really, Edgar, it's not necessary. If you'll just get the brown bottle out of the medicine chest, 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 the digitalis, and leave it here by my bed with a glass of water... 04:00.000 --> 04:05.000 And leave you here alone in this big house, feeling the way you do? Not much, not for a hundred war contracts. 04:05.000 --> 04:12.000 Now, Edgar, do as I say. Just leave the medicine here by my bed, and everything will be all right. 04:12.000 --> 04:16.000 Now, go on, darling, and do as I say. Please, it's the brown bottle. 04:22.000 --> 04:25.000 Now, Dr. Aaronson, what would you have done under the circumstances? 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 After all, I'd left her alone before and nothing had happened, 04:28.000 --> 04:33.000 and this dinner was important in a business way. That night was my big chance. 04:33.000 --> 04:36.000 Your big chance. Yes, I suppose it was. 04:36.000 --> 04:39.000 Well, to make a long story short, she died while I was out. 04:39.000 --> 04:43.000 Now, if only I'd stayed with her. That's what I kept telling myself, 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 and people I told the story to kept telling me that I shouldn't reproach myself. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 After all, it could have happened to anyone. 04:49.000 --> 04:56.000 And then yesterday, yesterday I was packing up her things, and I came across this bottle in the medicine cabinet. 04:56.000 --> 05:00.000 It was the digitalis. I'd left the wrong bottle by her bedside. 05:00.000 --> 05:04.000 That was what drove me nearly crazy, Doctor, finding that bottle. 05:04.000 --> 05:08.000 It was bad enough leaving her alone, but making a blunder like that on the medicine. 05:08.000 --> 05:12.000 Why, it made me feel almost like I'd, you know, I'd murdered her. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 But as you say, it was your big chance. 05:15.000 --> 05:20.000 Huh? What do you mean? What are you trying to tell me? 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 You mean you think I wanted to get rid of her? 05:23.000 --> 05:28.000 You say that, Mr. Lowndes. I didn't. But I see our time is up. I can't talk to you any more today. 05:28.000 --> 05:31.000 Oh, what, you've got to. You can't leave me up in the air like this. 05:31.000 --> 05:34.000 Why, you practically accuse me of wanting to murder my wife. 05:34.000 --> 05:40.000 Perhaps we'll understand your feelings towards your wife better, Mr. Lowndes, when we've discussed the others. 05:40.000 --> 05:44.000 What others? Hey, what are you trying to give me? 05:44.000 --> 05:59.000 Relief, Mr. Lowndes, for those headaches of yours. 05:59.000 --> 06:05.000 Tonight, for Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as stars Mr. Thomas Mitchell and Mr. Donald Crisp, 06:05.000 --> 06:10.000 whom you have heard in the first act of Case History on Edgar Lowndes. 06:10.000 --> 06:21.000 Tonight's tale of Suspense. 06:21.000 --> 06:27.000 Far from the scene we've just left, far to the south across the equator, is another scene I ask you to visit with me. 06:27.000 --> 06:33.000 It's just before the dinner hour on the beautiful Roof Terrace Cafe of the Hotel Metropolitano of Guy Q. 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Here are your notes on the case. 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 Oh good, just leave them here on the desk. And oh, Miss Finchley. 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 Yes, doctor. 08:16.000 --> 08:21.000 From now on when Mr. Lowndes is in the consultation room, I want you to keep an eye on my private office. 08:21.000 --> 08:25.000 Make sure that the recording equipment is in operation at all times. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 I want a record of every word he says. 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 And I want you to keep an eye on the recording equipment. 08:30.000 --> 08:33.000 And I want you to keep an eye on the recording equipment. 08:33.000 --> 08:39.000 Make sure that the recording equipment is in operation at all times. I want a record of every word he says in his own voice. 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 Is this a criminal case, Dr. Aronson? 08:41.000 --> 08:42.000 I don't know yet. 08:42.000 --> 08:44.000 But hadn't you ought to... I'm sorry, doctor. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 You can let him come now, if you will, Miss Finchley. 08:46.000 --> 08:49.000 Yes, Dr. Aronson. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 The doctor will see you now, Mr. Lowndes. 08:51.000 --> 08:57.000 Thank you. Well, well. Here I am again. Surprised to see me? 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 How are the headaches, Mr. Lowndes? 08:58.000 --> 09:05.000 Well, sir, they evaporated just like that. I slept like a tough. Don't know how you did it, but you've sold me on the psychiatry deal. 09:05.000 --> 09:10.000 So I thought while we were at it, doctor, I might as well straighten out a couple of other little things that have been worrying me. 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 I rather thought there were others. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 Ha, ha. Now, now, listen, doctor, don't start talking of riddles again. 09:16.000 --> 09:21.000 Maybe you were right. Maybe I did want my wife to die. Unconsciously, of course. 09:21.000 --> 09:27.000 Well, why not? She'd been an invalid for years, always complaining, never really getting anything out of life. 09:27.000 --> 09:37.000 Yes, sir. After I left your office yesterday, I thought the whole thing over, and I said to myself, Edgar Lowndes, you look at this thing squarely. 09:37.000 --> 09:44.000 Maybe you killed her. Maybe leaving the wrong medicine by her bed that night was not so much of an accident as you think it was. 09:44.000 --> 09:51.000 So what? You did her a favor. You did yourself a favor. She never really loved you anyway. If Jim Bascom... 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 Who's Jim Bascom? 09:52.000 --> 10:01.000 Why, uh, he died in a railroad accident. We were brakemen together on the old nickel plate road. Jim and me were like twins. 10:01.000 --> 10:06.000 Roamed together, worked together, liked the same thing, even fell in love with the same girl. 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 Why, I remember the night it happened. We were leaving on the first... 10:09.000 --> 10:12.000 I think we'd better climb on top, Ed. Sorry, signal. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 Hey, wait a minute, Jim. There's Virginia. 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 Ah, bless her heart. I knew she'd come to see us. Hurry up, sweetheart. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 Oh, dear God. I was afraid I'd be too late. 10:21.000 --> 10:25.000 There's another train in the old nickel plate line you wouldn't hold up for us, Virginia. 10:25.000 --> 10:26.000 Oh, Jim. 10:26.000 --> 10:29.000 Maybe. Hey, what about a kiss? 10:29.000 --> 10:31.000 Oh, I'll be damned if I don't. 10:31.000 --> 10:39.000 Why, Edgar, you're jealous, I do believe. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 Well, why not? 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 There. How's that? 10:42.000 --> 10:43.000 Like my own sister. 10:43.000 --> 10:46.000 Oh, come on, Ed. They're getting impatient up there. 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 You've got to tell him this time. You hear me, Jim? 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 Yeah, yeah, I'll tell him. I promise, Virginia. 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 Hey, come on, Jim. 10:52.000 --> 10:55.000 Come on, Ed. Come on. One more kiss, baby. 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 Oh, darling. My darling, take care of her. 10:58.000 --> 11:02.000 I will, baby. Don't forget to send out the invitation. 11:08.000 --> 11:12.000 I knew when I saw him kiss her like that, it was all up for me with Virginia. 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 Jim told me when we were crossing the divide, 11:14.000 --> 11:18.000 he and Virginia were going to be married the minute they got back to Milwaukee. 11:18.000 --> 11:21.000 We were carrying an extra heavy load that haul, 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 and when we started down the pass, 11:24.000 --> 11:28.000 Ed, for the Lord's sake, watch me close. 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 Don't turn your wheel until you see me turn mine. 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 One jolt away, this train's rolling down the grade, 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 and we'll all land in the ravine. 11:35.000 --> 11:37.000 Sure, Jim, don't worry. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 I got to be in good shape for that weapon, remember? 11:39.000 --> 11:42.000 Yeah, yeah, I remember. 11:45.000 --> 11:48.000 I watched him walk back along the cars. 11:48.000 --> 11:27.040 It was pretty dark, and I could see the 11:27.040 --> 11:33.040 I had a syndrome in my eyes since we left Salida. 11:33.040 --> 11:35.040 I think I got it. 11:35.040 --> 11:38.040 I hope that old man's not going to get the hang of it. 11:38.040 --> 11:40.040 I hope so. 11:40.040 --> 11:42.040 I hope so. 11:42.040 --> 11:44.040 I hope so. 11:44.040 --> 11:46.040 I hope so. 11:46.040 --> 11:48.040 I hope so. 11:48.040 --> 11:50.040 I hope so. 11:50.040 --> 11:52.040 I hope so. 11:52.040 --> 11:54.040 I hope so. 11:54.040 --> 11:56.840 I had a cinder in my eyes since we left Salida. 11:56.840 --> 11:59.640 I thought I saw him reach the brake wheel on the other car 11:59.640 --> 12:01.000 and signal to me. 12:01.000 --> 12:02.400 I grabbed the wheel in front of me 12:02.400 --> 12:04.900 and break my car with all the strength in my body. 12:06.040 --> 12:08.120 Hey, the large tank, hey! 12:09.640 --> 12:11.720 The load, three of the car behind, 12:11.720 --> 12:14.040 the coupling on Jim's car had broken. 12:14.040 --> 12:16.280 The light changed as we forced the switch 12:16.280 --> 12:24.280 and the runaway cars freezed out at a dead-end spur. 12:35.560 --> 12:38.920 I saw Jim's body jolt free of the splintering car 12:38.920 --> 12:41.160 and hurtle out over the gorge. 12:41.160 --> 12:43.720 Just then we plunged into a tunnel. 12:43.720 --> 12:46.520 I never found Jim's body. 12:54.520 --> 12:58.520 Well, so you can see why I think of trains 12:58.520 --> 13:00.920 in connection with death, can't you, Doctor? 13:00.920 --> 13:03.800 Yes, yes, the association is quite clear. 13:03.800 --> 13:07.960 Uh-huh, now, you're thinking I killed Jim too, aren't you? 13:07.960 --> 13:09.400 Isn't that what you're thinking? 13:09.400 --> 13:11.320 Is that what you're thinking, Mr. Lowndes? 13:11.320 --> 13:13.560 I don't know what to think. 13:13.560 --> 13:15.560 Say, what are you trying to do to me, anyway? 13:15.560 --> 13:17.320 I came here to get professional advice. 13:17.320 --> 13:18.920 You're trying to drive me crazy. 13:18.920 --> 13:20.040 If that's the way you feel, 13:20.040 --> 13:21.720 perhaps you'd better try another doctor. 13:21.720 --> 13:22.200 I will. 13:22.840 --> 13:23.880 By George, I will. 13:23.880 --> 13:25.080 That's just what I'll do. 13:25.080 --> 13:26.920 Well, good luck, Mr. Lowndes. 13:26.920 --> 13:29.240 Huh? No hard feelings? 13:29.240 --> 13:30.040 No, of course not. 13:30.040 --> 13:32.680 And you won't tell anybody about, about... 13:34.120 --> 13:35.480 Why, what is it, Mr. Lowndes? 13:35.480 --> 13:36.120 You're trembling. 13:39.080 --> 13:39.800 There it is again. 13:39.800 --> 13:42.760 There, it's happening again, Doctor. 13:45.560 --> 13:47.000 Say, Doctor, you've got to help me. 13:47.800 --> 13:48.360 You've got to. 13:49.080 --> 13:50.760 Forget what I said about getting another doctor. 13:51.400 --> 13:52.360 I need help. 13:52.360 --> 13:54.360 Mr. Lowndes, calm yourself. 13:54.360 --> 13:55.160 What is it? 13:55.160 --> 13:56.040 What's happening again? 13:56.040 --> 13:57.240 I'm hearing it again. 13:58.280 --> 13:58.840 The train. 13:59.560 --> 14:01.480 Like in the dream, make it go away, Doctor. 14:02.120 --> 14:04.360 But I hear it too, Mr. Lowndes. 14:04.360 --> 14:07.480 It's just a commuting train that passes over the bridge out there. 14:07.480 --> 14:12.360 Look out of the window, you can see it. 14:12.360 --> 14:15.640 Oh, of course. 14:16.760 --> 14:17.480 Thank heaven. 14:18.600 --> 14:20.280 I thought the dream had... 14:20.280 --> 14:22.280 You never told me about a dream before. 14:22.280 --> 14:23.800 No, and I'm not going to. 14:23.800 --> 14:25.080 You know too much already. 14:25.800 --> 14:27.560 Yes, Mr. Lowndes, I'm afraid you're right. 14:27.560 --> 14:37.560 I know too much already. 14:40.360 --> 14:43.160 And I have kept a complete record of each interview with this patient 14:43.160 --> 14:46.760 by means of a recording machine concealed in my private office. 14:46.760 --> 14:50.440 There is no doubt that the patient has twice committed murder unconsciously, 14:50.440 --> 14:52.840 and on the day the patient stopped the analysis, 14:52.840 --> 14:57.720 he exhibited hysterical symptoms which were brought on by the sound of a railroad train. 14:57.720 --> 14:59.400 Yes, go on from there, Ms. Finchley. 14:59.400 --> 15:00.120 New paragraph. 15:00.840 --> 15:02.840 The train is a death symbol for this man 15:03.560 --> 15:06.040 and appears to be the subject of a recurrent dream. 15:07.320 --> 15:12.360 The danger of the present situation lies in the fact that the patient's unconscious impulses 15:12.920 --> 15:17.720 have been brought to the surface without being rationalized. 15:17.720 --> 15:21.080 There is, in my opinion, a positive danger that the patient, 15:21.080 --> 15:25.640 in his present condition, may commit one or even more conscious murders, 15:26.360 --> 15:39.960 particularly should he take it into his head to board a railroad train. 15:49.000 --> 15:49.800 Yes, sir? 15:49.800 --> 15:53.320 Ah, pardon me, but I noticed you were traveling alone too, 15:53.320 --> 15:56.040 and I wondered if you'd like to join me in a little game of cards. 15:56.040 --> 15:58.520 Oh, well, that's a great idea. Come on in. 15:58.520 --> 16:01.560 Thank you, thank you. Railroads are my line. Edgar Longs. 16:02.440 --> 16:03.560 Not E.J. Longs? 16:03.560 --> 16:04.120 Uh-huh. 16:04.120 --> 16:06.680 Oh, this is in the nature of an honor, sir. 16:06.680 --> 16:10.120 You're something of a tycoon, Mr. Longs. 16:10.120 --> 16:10.680 Thanks, thanks. 16:10.680 --> 16:12.840 My name's Ellis. Neckwear is my line. 16:12.840 --> 16:17.240 Mr. Ellis, say, I could use a couple of neckties. 16:17.240 --> 16:18.520 Got any samples with you? 16:18.520 --> 16:21.480 Oh, sure thing, Mr. Longs. Right here in this case. 16:22.120 --> 16:24.360 There you are, sir. Take your pick. 16:24.360 --> 16:26.600 Compliments at the Swallowgintravat Company. 16:26.600 --> 16:28.920 Come on out. This one strikes my fancy. 16:28.920 --> 16:31.640 Well, go ahead. Take it. See any others you like? 16:31.640 --> 16:32.520 Well, let me think. 16:32.520 --> 16:34.440 Oh, here's another tray under there. 16:34.440 --> 16:35.720 Say it. Hey, look. 16:35.720 --> 16:36.520 What? 16:36.520 --> 16:38.440 Out the window there. You see it? 16:38.440 --> 16:39.480 I don't see anything. 16:39.480 --> 16:39.640 You... 16:41.160 --> 16:42.120 What are you doing? 16:43.400 --> 16:43.800 Come on. 16:43.800 --> 16:44.360 Come on. 16:48.680 --> 16:51.640 So his line was neckwear, was it? 17:08.040 --> 17:09.640 Elsa, pardon me. 17:10.680 --> 17:12.920 But I noticed you were traveling alone, sir, 17:12.920 --> 17:15.480 and I wondered if you'd like to join me in a little game of cards. 17:15.480 --> 17:18.040 Oh, that's a good idea. Come in, come in. 17:18.040 --> 17:20.200 My name's Jenkins. Cutlery's my line. 17:20.200 --> 17:21.880 Knives, scissors, and surgical instruments. 17:21.880 --> 17:23.000 What's your line? 17:32.120 --> 17:34.840 Police of five Midwestern states are on the lookout tonight 17:34.840 --> 17:38.840 for the homicidal maniac who stalked the quarters of the Lightning Express, 17:38.840 --> 17:40.600 transcantled a luxury train, 17:40.600 --> 17:43.320 claiming the total of three victims murdered in cold blood. 17:43.880 --> 17:46.360 Edgar J. Lowndes, an executive of the railroad 17:46.360 --> 17:48.600 who was aboard the train on the fatal night, 17:48.600 --> 17:51.640 has posted a personal reward of $50,000 17:51.640 --> 17:54.680 to anyone giving information leading to the arrest of the murderer. 17:56.600 --> 17:57.960 Well, it's happened. 17:57.960 --> 18:00.360 There was nothing you could have done to prevent it, doctor. 18:00.360 --> 18:03.480 Even if you'd sent your report to the police, there wasn't enough evidence. 18:03.480 --> 18:05.800 And there still isn't enough evidence. 18:05.800 --> 18:07.080 Well, you run along. 18:07.080 --> 18:09.880 I'm going to stay here and finish these reports in longhand. 18:09.880 --> 18:11.080 You can type them in the morning. 18:11.080 --> 18:12.280 You're sure you don't need me? 18:12.280 --> 18:13.000 Absolutely. 18:13.000 --> 18:14.040 I think I'll take your advice. 18:14.040 --> 18:15.080 Good night, doctor. 18:15.080 --> 18:15.560 Good night. 18:17.400 --> 18:18.280 Oh, Miss Finchley. 18:19.160 --> 18:20.440 I almost forgot to tell you... 18:21.960 --> 18:24.120 She's gone. What a nuisance. 18:24.120 --> 18:26.120 Talking to yourself, doctor? 18:27.320 --> 18:27.880 Lowndes. 18:28.840 --> 18:29.960 How did you get in here? 18:29.960 --> 18:31.080 The door was unlocked. 18:31.720 --> 18:34.120 Would you rather I come back during office hours? 18:34.120 --> 18:36.760 Why, why, yes, yes, I'd rather you did, Mr. Lowndes. 18:37.480 --> 18:38.440 Was it very urgent? 18:38.440 --> 18:40.360 It's the headaches, doctor. They've come back. 18:40.360 --> 18:41.880 It started again about a week ago. 18:43.880 --> 18:47.960 Well, well, that's after what happened on the train. 18:48.680 --> 18:49.800 Doctor, tell me the truth. 18:51.080 --> 18:53.320 Did I commit those murders or didn't I? 18:53.880 --> 18:55.800 You're the only one who knows the answer to that. 18:56.920 --> 18:58.680 Something to do with the dream, I think. 18:58.680 --> 18:59.640 Oh, yes, the dream. 19:00.280 --> 19:02.680 We were getting around to that when you left here the last time. 19:03.240 --> 19:04.040 Now, tell me about it. 19:04.040 --> 19:06.520 Well, I hear the sound of the train. 19:06.520 --> 19:09.160 And I'm sitting there beside someone, a stranger, I think. 19:09.160 --> 19:13.080 He's wearing a checked waistcoat and there's a heavy gold watch chain 19:13.080 --> 19:17.080 with a milk's tooth suspended from it, like the one my father used to wear 19:17.080 --> 19:18.680 when I was a child in Wisconsin. 19:19.240 --> 19:20.840 Tell me something about your father. 19:20.840 --> 19:22.360 He died when I was quite young. 19:23.240 --> 19:25.400 He'd been an invalid, doctor, ever since I could remember. 19:25.400 --> 19:28.280 He used to sit in an armchair, in a wheelchair, it was, really, 19:28.280 --> 19:29.640 in front of the parlor window. 19:29.640 --> 19:31.880 He looked out into the street hour after hour. 19:32.440 --> 19:35.640 Sometimes when I came running into the house, he'd put out his cane and... 19:35.640 --> 19:37.480 ...tripped me, and I hated him for that. 19:38.680 --> 19:43.960 At one time, doctor, I think I was about eight or nine years old at the time. 19:43.960 --> 19:46.200 Edgar, come in here this instant. 19:46.200 --> 19:47.720 Your father wants to talk to you. 19:47.720 --> 19:50.200 Ah, heck, Mother, I was going to get up a ball game. 19:50.200 --> 19:51.320 Now, the ball game can wait. 19:51.320 --> 19:52.360 You come along with me. 19:52.360 --> 19:53.960 Can I ever have any fun, Mother? 19:53.960 --> 19:54.680 Can I? 19:54.680 --> 19:55.160 Hush up. 19:56.360 --> 19:57.560 Here he is, Jonathan. 19:59.560 --> 20:00.360 Come closer, boy. 20:01.480 --> 20:02.520 I'll never look at you. 20:02.520 --> 20:03.560 Yes, Father. 20:03.560 --> 20:06.200 Yes, Father. Just as I thought. 20:06.840 --> 20:09.480 Grass stains all over the new suit I bought for you, huh? 20:09.480 --> 20:10.120 Where? 20:10.120 --> 20:10.440 There. 20:10.440 --> 20:11.080 Ow! 20:11.080 --> 20:13.080 And there, and there, and there, and there. 20:15.240 --> 20:18.280 I won't have him get the idea just because his father's an invalid. 20:18.280 --> 20:21.640 He can roll in the dirt like a gutter snipe and get away with it. 20:21.640 --> 20:22.360 Stop blubbering. 20:24.040 --> 20:25.080 Now, go wash your face. 20:25.800 --> 20:27.480 I'm driving into town today. 20:27.480 --> 20:29.160 I want you to go along, run errands. 20:29.160 --> 20:32.200 The car my father drove was an old electric, a battery job. 20:32.840 --> 20:36.840 His legs were completely paralyzed, and my mother had to practically lift him into it. 20:36.840 --> 20:39.880 But the car itself was entirely controlled by hand. 20:40.360 --> 20:43.000 Driving it gave him a sense of power he needed. 20:43.560 --> 20:51.240 I used to dread those trips into town with him, the horrible spectacle of Mother helping him in and out of the car while the neighbors stared. 20:51.240 --> 20:55.720 And then riding along with him alone without anyone, nothing, to intervene for me. 20:55.720 --> 20:59.880 That was the worst. 21:05.080 --> 21:06.520 Well, speak up, boy. 21:07.320 --> 21:08.520 Why don't you say something? 21:08.520 --> 21:09.480 Cat got your tongue? 21:10.120 --> 21:11.240 No, sir. 21:11.240 --> 21:13.880 I don't know why I had to raise a boy like you. 21:13.880 --> 21:16.280 You don't even keep me company on these trips into town. 21:16.840 --> 21:19.000 Poor, helpless invalid, your own father. 21:19.640 --> 21:20.520 I'm sorry, sir. 21:20.520 --> 21:21.720 You're sorry. 21:21.720 --> 21:24.040 I think I'll give you another canine when we get home. 21:24.040 --> 21:26.200 Just to make good and sure you're sorry, huh? 21:26.200 --> 21:27.000 What do you say to that? 21:28.520 --> 21:29.720 Oh, bother. 21:29.720 --> 21:31.080 Now look what's happened. 21:31.080 --> 21:32.200 Stalled. 21:32.200 --> 21:33.560 Batteries run down again. 21:34.200 --> 21:36.200 Get out and open the hood in the back, boy. 21:36.200 --> 21:37.480 You see a switch there. 21:37.480 --> 21:40.440 Turn it to the left where it says, uh, reserve battery. 21:40.440 --> 21:41.000 Hurry up. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.160 We're stopped right on the railroad track. 21:43.160 --> 21:46.280 Turn the switch to the left where it says reserve battery. 21:46.280 --> 21:47.320 Yes, yes. Hurry up. 21:47.320 --> 21:49.640 There's a train along here any minute. 21:49.640 --> 21:51.160 Oh, yes, father. 21:51.160 --> 21:52.920 Don't just stand there looking stupid. 21:52.920 --> 21:54.440 Go and turn the switch. I told you. 21:55.880 --> 21:57.000 What's the matter with you? 21:57.000 --> 21:57.880 Have you gone crazy? 21:58.520 --> 22:00.040 Don't you hear the train coming, Edgar? 22:01.080 --> 22:02.600 Edgar, you want your father to be killed? 22:02.600 --> 22:04.760 I can't get out of here by myself, Edgar. 22:04.760 --> 22:06.280 Now please do as I say. 22:06.280 --> 22:08.840 No, the train can kill you for all I care. 22:08.840 --> 22:09.880 I'm going back home. 22:09.880 --> 22:11.480 Son, don't you understand what you're doing? 22:11.480 --> 22:13.480 You're murdering your own father. 22:13.480 --> 22:14.920 Now this is murder. 22:15.560 --> 22:17.160 Murder, I tell you. Murder. 22:17.720 --> 22:18.760 Murder. 22:18.760 --> 22:28.760 I want you. 22:35.320 --> 22:37.720 I walked home with those words of his ringing in my ears. 22:37.720 --> 22:39.000 I can hear him really yet. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.320 Son, don't you understand what you're doing? 22:42.280 --> 22:43.880 You're murdering your own father. 22:44.920 --> 22:45.960 Murder. 22:45.960 --> 22:47.400 It's murder, I tell you. 22:47.400 --> 22:48.200 It's murder. 22:49.000 --> 22:49.800 Murder. 22:49.800 --> 22:52.600 But I never felt a qualm. 22:52.600 --> 22:55.800 Those words were like sweet music to me, doctor. 22:57.800 --> 23:02.120 Well, that's the end of the story. 23:03.320 --> 23:04.760 But it's only the beginning. 23:05.720 --> 23:07.880 When I walked into this office for the first time, 23:07.880 --> 23:09.960 I was a man suffering from headaches, 23:10.520 --> 23:13.640 seemingly brought on by grief over the death of a loved one. 23:13.640 --> 23:16.680 Now I see myself as a man who murdered his father, 23:16.680 --> 23:19.720 his best friend, and his wife, who must kill and kill again. 23:20.120 --> 23:23.160 Because every time I kill, I'm killing him, 23:23.720 --> 23:27.160 my father, whom I hated beyond all comprehension 23:28.200 --> 23:31.160 and for whom one death agony was not enough. 23:33.320 --> 23:36.440 Now that you know all about these things, my dear doctor, 23:37.160 --> 23:40.200 I'm afraid that you'll have to be the next on my list. 23:40.200 --> 23:43.800 Put that gun away, Edgar. You don't really want to kill me. 23:43.800 --> 23:45.800 I'd be a fool if I didn't. 23:46.520 --> 23:48.120 The headaches will come back, Edgar. 23:48.680 --> 23:50.040 There'll be no one here to cure them. 23:50.040 --> 23:51.240 They won't come back. 23:51.960 --> 23:55.080 You showed me what caused them, didn't you, doctor? 23:55.720 --> 23:57.320 You'll have worse things than headaches. 23:57.720 --> 23:59.560 You'll begin to hear things. You'll have delusions. 24:00.360 --> 24:03.320 You'll think you can hear a train passing outside at this very moment, don't you? 24:03.880 --> 24:06.280 But if you look out of the window, you'll see there's no train there at all. 24:06.280 --> 24:07.640 You won't trust me. 24:07.640 --> 24:10.600 You won't trick me into turning right back. Come out from behind that desk. 24:10.600 --> 24:12.600 Keep your hands up high. That's it. Now then. 24:14.600 --> 24:16.600 What was that? 24:16.600 --> 24:18.600 Don't you understand what you're doing? 24:19.080 --> 24:21.080 Where's that voice coming from? 24:22.040 --> 24:24.040 You're murdering your own father. 24:24.040 --> 24:26.040 There it is again. 24:26.040 --> 24:28.040 It's murder, I tell you. Murder! 24:28.040 --> 24:30.040 Stop it. 24:30.040 --> 24:32.040 Murder! 24:32.040 --> 24:34.040 Stop it. 24:34.040 --> 24:36.040 I hear no voice. 24:36.040 --> 24:40.040 Stop it. I can't stand it. I'll kill myself. 24:40.040 --> 24:42.040 Then give me the gun, Icky. 24:42.040 --> 24:44.040 Doctor, make it stop. Take it away. Only hear. 24:44.040 --> 24:46.040 Make it stop. 24:46.040 --> 24:48.040 That's enough, Miss Finchley. Shut it off. 24:48.040 --> 24:50.040 Are you all right, Dr. Aronson? 24:50.040 --> 24:52.040 Yes, thank you. You almost had me thinking I was hearing voices. 24:52.040 --> 24:54.040 Well, I did hear voices, and that's why I came back. 24:54.040 --> 24:56.040 And I remembered about you wanting Mr. Lowne's interviews recorded. 24:56.040 --> 24:58.040 So I went in the other room and started the machine. 24:58.040 --> 25:00.040 When he became violent, I played back the last part of the record, thinking it might divert his attention. 25:00.040 --> 25:02.040 Good girl. 25:02.040 --> 25:04.040 To get all the evidence we need, we need to get the gun. 25:04.040 --> 25:06.040 Good girl. 25:06.040 --> 25:08.040 To get all the evidence we need now to put Mr. Lowne's where he can't do any more harm. 25:08.040 --> 25:10.040 You may have evidence, but you haven't got me, and you won't get me alive. 25:10.040 --> 25:12.040 You may have evidence, but you haven't got me, and you won't get me alive. 25:12.040 --> 25:14.040 Dr. Aronson, the windows! Stop him! 25:14.040 --> 25:16.040 Sorry, doctor, I can't wait. 25:16.040 --> 25:18.040 I've got to catch a train. 25:18.040 --> 25:20.040 Hey, Jim! Wait for me! 25:20.040 --> 25:22.040 Hey, Jim! Wait for me! 25:22.040 --> 25:24.040 Oh, my God! 25:32.040 --> 25:34.040 21 floors to the street. 25:34.040 --> 25:36.040 Where is it? 20? 25:36.040 --> 25:38.040 Do they skip 13 in this building? 25:38.040 --> 25:40.040 It doesn't matter to Lownes. 25:40.040 --> 25:42.040 He's back with his friend Jim Baskin. 25:42.040 --> 25:44.040 On the old nickel plate line. 25:44.040 --> 25:46.040 On the old nickel plate line. 25:46.040 --> 25:48.040 Listen. 25:48.040 --> 25:50.040 It's just crossing the divide. 25:50.040 --> 25:52.040 It's just crossing the divide. 26:08.040 --> 26:10.040 And so closes 26:10.040 --> 26:12.040 Case History on Edgar Lowne 26:12.040 --> 26:14.040 Starring Thomas Mitchell and Donald Crisp 26:14.040 --> 26:16.040 Tonight's tale of 26:16.040 --> 26:18.040 Suspense 26:18.040 --> 26:20.040 Suspense 26:20.040 --> 26:22.040 Suspense is produced and directed by 26:22.040 --> 26:24.040 William Spear. 26:24.040 --> 26:26.040 To every woman listening tonight, 26:26.040 --> 26:28.040 I want to say a special word about 26:28.040 --> 26:30.040 making every dinner or supper you serve 26:30.040 --> 26:32.040 taste better. 26:32.040 --> 26:34.040 I want to urge you to start serving Roma wine with your meals. 26:34.040 --> 26:36.040 It's simple. 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