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48 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,720 Vanity for one thing I suppose. 49 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,900 The record for posterity of the perfect crime. 50 00:03:35,900 --> 00:03:37,720 As you know I'm a writer by profession. 51 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:39,840 I think more clearly on paper. 52 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,480 By keeping this diary I was able to plan my murder step by step. 53 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,080 Details, little things that happened in the course of a day which might so easily have 54 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,360 been forgotten or overlooked were written down in this diary where I could refer back 55 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,520 to them and make use of them if need be. 56 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,240 But you found out that a real life murder could not be carried out so easily as the 57 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,120 murders you wrote about in your detective novels eh Mr. Lane? 58 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,280 I wouldn't go so far as to say that Inspector. 59 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,040 In fact except for the ending I think this diary is quite the best murder story I've 60 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,040 ever written. 61 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:14,160 Yeah and quite the most incriminating document I've ever known a prospective murderer to 62 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:15,640 leave lying around. 63 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:16,640 Incriminating? 64 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:18,640 In a way I suppose. 65 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,880 In another way this diary might turn out to be my best defense. 66 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,880 How do you figure that Mr. Lane? 67 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,480 Oh supposing I read some part of it aloud to you and let you decide for yourself. 68 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:29,480 Very well Mr. Lane. 69 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:30,480 Far away. 70 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,800 That was my first entry. 71 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,520 June 18th. 72 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:44,040 Yes I'm going to kill a man. 73 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,760 It takes great singleness of purpose to commit a murder. 74 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:53,440 But if ever for a moment I stray from that purpose I've only to think of Ronnie. 75 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,880 Ronnie was my son. 76 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,240 One evening two weeks ago he was crossing the road outside our house. 77 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,600 He had gone into the village to buy some candy. 78 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,520 For him it could have been only a paralyzing blaze of headlights around the corner. 79 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,680 A moment's nightmare. 80 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,840 And then the impact turning everything to darkness forever. 81 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:14,720 His body was hurled into the ditch. 82 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,040 He was dead at once. 83 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,640 The motorist who killed Ronnie did not stop. 84 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,160 The police have failed to trace him. 85 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,600 They say he must have been going 50 around that blind corner for the child's body to 86 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,240 have been thrown and injured as it was. 87 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,080 The man who drove that car. 88 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:40,000 He is the man I have got to find and kill. 89 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,000 June 25th. 90 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,720 I found my first clue today. 91 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:44,720 My mind was on Ronnie. 92 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,000 I was driving toward a neighboring town. 93 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 The hills around were green. 94 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,040 The boxwood hedges still damp from last night's rain. 95 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,320 Translucent like giant chunks of emerald. 96 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,120 Suddenly the front wheels of my car hit into a great puddle. 97 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,880 A sheet of water splashed up over the front of the windshield and drenched me from the 98 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:02,880 side. 99 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:04,960 I pulled up at the far side of the water splash. 100 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:10,280 I got out cursing myself for my preoccupation and began mopping away at the windshield. 101 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:12,800 A man leaning over a farm gate addressed me. 102 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:13,800 Whoa. 103 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,160 Looks like you got a proper shower bath, mister. 104 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:17,160 Yes. 105 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,960 They've petrified the county for months to repair that hole. 106 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:23,360 People always driving into it splash themselves all over. 107 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,680 Ponticing of all though was about a fortnight ago when a chap tried to use it to get a free 108 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:28,680 car wash. 109 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:29,680 Oh really? 110 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:30,680 Yeah. 111 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:31,680 It was my wife's birthday to be exact. 112 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,440 About eight o'clock we was on our way to Chelanum to see the picture show. 113 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,880 Just coming out of the gate this chap driving one of those loose long sports jobs hits the 114 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:42,360 water splash. 115 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:43,360 You don't say. 116 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:44,360 Oh. 117 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,000 And then the fellow says something to the girl he's driving with. 118 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,080 What do you suppose they do? 119 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,440 They back up and run through the splash again. 120 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:53,440 And then again. 121 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,440 They did it four times. 122 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,800 Eight o'clock. 123 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,560 Your wife's birthday wouldn't be June 3rd would it? 124 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,240 Oh right, yeah. 125 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:05,240 But how'd you know? 126 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:10,240 Well you see a friend of mine was celebrating that night. 127 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,240 He was driving toward, toward. 128 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:14,240 Severnbury. 129 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,000 That's where this fellow and his lady friend were going. 130 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,440 I remember his lady friend says George ask the man whether he had turned to the right 131 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,360 or the left at the next fort. 132 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:23,360 George. 133 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,360 George. 134 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:25,360 Yes that's right. 135 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,360 George's name. 136 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,360 And um Severnbridge. 137 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:28,360 Yes. 138 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:29,360 Yes. 139 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:36,840 The way he drives ought to have brought him here by just around eight o'clock. 140 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:41,000 He, he didn't have a crumpled right front fender did he? 141 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,840 Oh that he did. 142 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:44,040 And that bloke was your friend. 143 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:45,680 He sure is a proper nut. 144 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:47,480 Well peculiar at least. 145 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:48,480 Yes. 146 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,080 Yes he is peculiar. 147 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,960 Driving through that water splash all over again and again. 148 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:53,960 Four times he does it. 149 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:54,960 He wasn't laughing either. 150 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,560 Didn't seem like a joke somehow. 151 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,760 Looks like he's trying to get a free car wash. 152 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,600 Funny way I'd say to get the mud off. 153 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:04,600 Yes. 154 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:05,600 Yes. 155 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:06,600 Maybe it was tar though. 156 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:07,600 Yes. 157 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:08,600 Or blood. 158 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:09,600 July 12th. 159 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:10,600 At Severnbridge. 160 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:24,880 Have talked to any number of the town's people and I've met a number of Georges. 161 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:29,560 But not one of them have owned or driven a low slung sports job. 162 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,080 Not like the one I've been looking for anyway. 163 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,960 It may be that I have to start all over again. 164 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:35,960 On some other tack. 165 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:43,680 I was returning to the inn this afternoon when I noticed a car parked on the side of 166 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:44,680 the road up ahead. 167 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:49,600 A girl with bright hair was working the rear wheel and a small lad beside her was doing 168 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:50,600 his best to help. 169 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,600 I pulled up beside them. 170 00:08:52,600 --> 00:09:03,200 It was a long low slung sports job. 171 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:04,200 I say can I help? 172 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,200 Well, what do you think Phil? 173 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:07,200 Oh yes sir. 174 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,160 Yes if you would lend a hand. 175 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:13,000 I'm afraid we're not quite heavy enough to weight the jack handle down for another tour. 176 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,160 Now here fellow let me have a go at it. 177 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:20,000 I say the paint doesn't seem quite to match on the right front fender. 178 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 The fender? 179 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,560 Well dad had a new fender put on a while back. 180 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:24,920 It got bunged up or something. 181 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,960 I can't tell you how awful nice it is of you to help us out. 182 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:28,960 Not at all. 183 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,640 By the way I wonder if you and Phil here wouldn't stop for tea with me at the inn afterwards. 184 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:34,640 Not far you know. 185 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,360 We're expected at home sir. 186 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,360 Perhaps you could come along with us. 187 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,360 What do you do sir? 188 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,040 Why I'm a writer Phil. 189 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,440 Oh you really must come to see us. 190 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,240 It's Gables on Devon Road. 191 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,760 My brother-in-law's place. 192 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:47,760 The name's Rattery. 193 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,280 We'll give you a ring tomorrow and set a date. 194 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,200 My sister will love meeting a real author and so will George. 195 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,920 Did you say your brother-in-law's name is George? 196 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:03,400 July 16th. 197 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:08,160 I've met him. 198 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:13,120 I've spent an evening talking to him. 199 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,120 George Rattery. 200 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:22,760 So you're a friend of Lena's eh? 201 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:23,760 Storybook detective. 202 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:24,760 A writer. 203 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,760 Easy enough to write about a dead body. 204 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:37,080 But I'd like to see an author that guts enough to look at one. 205 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,440 I had been more than a little afraid that George might turn out to be a sympathetic 206 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:41,440 character. 207 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,800 That need not concern me any longer. 208 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,800 I shall have no compunction at all about putting his light out. 209 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:56,280 It appears that George is the half owner of a garage down in town. 210 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,280 A man by the name of Carfax is the other partner. 211 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:00,280 A garage. 212 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,200 That would explain how the damaged fender got itself fixed without the police knowing. 213 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:16,840 How can a beast like George have a fine young son like Phil? 214 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:20,200 This afternoon I was rounding the corner of the tea house in the Rattery's garden when 215 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:21,200 I heard voices. 216 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,400 It was Lena and George. 217 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,560 I stopped in my tracks and eavesdropped shamelessly. 218 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:30,760 Sir neat rig you are wearing today Lena. 219 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,120 Is that for Felix Lane's benefit? 220 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,400 Give your compliments for that Carfax woman. 221 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:36,400 Jealous. 222 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,560 Don't make me laugh. 223 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:42,120 But some day you're going to find out that business partner of yours isn't as mild as 224 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,120 he looks. 225 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,120 I wonder what he'd say if he knew that his wife was. 226 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,040 Shut up will you. 227 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,440 And since when did you get so high and mighty? 228 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,920 It wasn't so long ago that you yourself weren't glad enough to. 229 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,120 If you ever open your mouth about any of that I swear I'll kill you. 230 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,660 Talking big now aren't we Miss Snow White? 231 00:12:00,660 --> 00:12:03,320 Just try something and you'll find out. 232 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,280 Remember there are quite a few people who might like to know about that poor kid you 233 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,120 ran down last June. 234 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,840 If it weren't for Violet and Phil I'd. 235 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:11,840 Stop that kind of talk. 236 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:12,840 You hear. 237 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:22,600 Just remember you were with me that night. 238 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,680 August 5th. 239 00:12:24,680 --> 00:12:27,320 Had a look around the Rattery Carfax garage this afternoon. 240 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,480 Told George it might come in useful as material in my book. 241 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,280 All at once I heard a shot and there stood George blazing away over the plotting back 242 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:36,280 with a rifle. 243 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,280 I went up to him. 244 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,160 There. 245 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,480 That's another one of the pests out of the way. 246 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:44,480 We've tried everything. 247 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:45,480 Traps. 248 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:46,480 Poisons. 249 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:47,480 Rat hunts. 250 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:48,480 We can't keep them down. 251 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:49,480 That's a nice rifle. 252 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:50,480 Yeah. 253 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,720 Gave it to Phil when he came back from school in Switzerland. 254 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:55,720 Much too good for him. 255 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,600 Yeah, I'd like to have a go at him. 256 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,760 I raised the rifle and sighted. 257 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,440 George's back was to me. 258 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,600 By shifting a few inches to the right the bullet should enter the base of the brain. 259 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:11,360 Who could prove that George hadn't suddenly stepped in my way? 260 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,720 My finger tightened on the trigger. 261 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,880 I say George I can't find that new tin of rat poison. 262 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:18,960 Phil spreading some out in the dump yesterday. 263 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:20,960 I wonder where he put it. 264 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,960 Oh hello there Lane. 265 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:23,960 Hello Carfax. 266 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,600 Hey, watch out where you're pointing that gun. 267 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:33,080 We wouldn't want anything to happen to the senior partner, right? 268 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,080 Not very funny. 269 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:44,320 I am now a guest in the house of the man I am going to kill. 270 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,880 Violet, Phil's mother, suggested that I come and stay with him for a fortnight and help 271 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,080 Phil in odd hours with his Latin. 272 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,080 George, much to my surprise, joined in heartily with the idea. 273 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,080 I wonder why. 274 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,480 I must watch him very closely because of what happened last night. 275 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,640 We were having coffee in the drawing room after dinner when the conversation took a 276 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,320 most extraordinary turn. 277 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:09,040 They were talking about Violet's new rose bushes. 278 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,840 I suppose they'll be very nice but I can't for the life of me see why you went to all 279 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:13,840 that trouble. 280 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:15,760 Well, the old ones weren't doing very well. 281 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:17,600 They were still alive, weren't they mother? 282 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:21,880 Oh yes dear, but I'm not one to keep something going when it's only half alive. 283 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,960 Oh, I'm glad you're talking about rose bushes. 284 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,520 I should hate to think you felt that way about people. 285 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,000 Of course not. 286 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:35,320 But on the other hand, I do think if a person were incurably ill that they ought to, well, 287 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,680 that is they ought to have the right to ask their doctor to put them out of their misery. 288 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,680 Don't you think so, Felix? 289 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:42,680 Well, I... 290 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:47,260 Oh, speaking of doctors reminds me, George, don't forget your tonic. 291 00:14:47,260 --> 00:14:48,760 I said after every meal. 292 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:49,760 Tonic. 293 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:50,760 Pass it here. 294 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:51,760 Yeah. 295 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:52,760 How old stuff. 296 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:53,760 Bitter as gall. 297 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:54,760 Poison. 298 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:55,760 That won't kill you, George. 299 00:14:55,760 --> 00:15:04,760 Felix, would you really be in favor of doing away with all unfortunate? 300 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,760 Well, I... 301 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:11,880 Well, what about your incurable social pest, the person who makes life miserable for everyone 302 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,280 else around him? 303 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,960 I think a person would be justified in killing someone like that. 304 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,240 I do think you're all getting a little morbid. 305 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,760 The kind of a person I describe has no right to life. 306 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:26,240 Of course, that's to say I would if I could do it without running my neck into a noose. 307 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,720 Now in my book, I'm working on a very pretty murder. 308 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,320 Quite my masterpiece, I think. 309 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,320 Well, he's darn close about it. 310 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,320 Locked doors, sealed lips and all that. 311 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,600 Of course he sees he's writing a thriller, but we've no proof, have we? 312 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,760 I think you would show us the man you're scoffing at, don't you, Lena? 313 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:44,760 I can't. 314 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:45,760 I'm sorry. 315 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:46,760 I'm sorry. 316 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:47,760 I've got a complete, unfinished manuscript of mine. 317 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:48,760 I'm funny that way. 318 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,280 Oh, Felix, please, get it and read some of it. 319 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:52,880 Come on, don't be a spoilsport. 320 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:53,880 I'll go and get it myself. 321 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:54,880 Read it out loud. 322 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,200 If the blushing author is too coy, by heaven, I'll go upstairs and pitch it now. 323 00:15:58,200 --> 00:15:59,200 You'll do nothing of the sort. 324 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:00,200 I've read it. 325 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,640 I will not have people snooping about among my manuscripts. 326 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:04,440 That was close. 327 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:09,920 After all, there is no book but this diary. 328 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,600 I must keep it well hidden in my room. 329 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,240 At last, I have my plan. 330 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:26,040 It took a great deal of subtle taunting and persuasion, but it came off at last. 331 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:31,800 George is going sailing with me this afternoon, and he can't swim. 332 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,240 Drowning is very painful, they say, in the early stages. 333 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:35,240 That's good. 334 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:36,240 I'm glad. 335 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,960 George's lungs bursting, the top of his head shrieking with pain, his hands scrabbling 336 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,880 pain into thrust against the giant weight of the water. 337 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:49,720 But if I cannot kill George today on the open sea with the wind in my favor and myself the 338 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:55,440 undisputed master of the situation, if I fail today, then I will know that it is not my 339 00:16:55,440 --> 00:17:12,640 destiny to be a murderer, and I will make no further attempt on the life of George Rattory. 340 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:18,640 And that, Inspector Blount, is the last entry in my diary. 341 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,880 But you and George did go sailing, didn't you? 342 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,720 Yes, it was after lunch on the same day. 343 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:25,640 We walked down to the docks together. 344 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:31,240 George, as you can imagine, was rather clumsy about a boat, but it was only a few minutes 345 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,440 after he clambered aboard that we were out in the main water, sailing free. 346 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:39,720 George had his feet braced against the centerboard case, and his hands gripped the gunnel. 347 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,720 A squall was coming up. 348 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:48,240 Hey, that motorboat is getting pretty close, isn't it? 349 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:49,240 Uh-huh. 350 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:50,240 There'll be plenty of room, George. 351 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,400 Power vessels have to give way to sailing vessels, you know. 352 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:54,400 Give way? 353 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,400 Why do you think about that size is going to give way to a crate like this? 354 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:58,400 Hey there, what are you up to? 355 00:17:58,400 --> 00:17:59,400 Look out, I tell you, you can't. 356 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:00,400 What? 357 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:01,400 What if you ran into us? 358 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,400 I'll bloody well hang on to your... 359 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:03,400 We're both drowned. 360 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:04,400 What are you doing? 361 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:05,400 What? 362 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,400 A bit close, but perfectly safe. 363 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,400 Perfectly safe. 364 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:08,400 That barge didn't miss us by a yard. 365 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:21,880 The same thing happened the other day when I was out with Phil. 366 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:22,880 He didn't lose his nerve. 367 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:23,880 Oh, he didn't, eh? 368 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,880 By the way, you better not stand up in the boat again. 369 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:28,880 That's one thing that's not safe. 370 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:29,880 Very well, my friend. 371 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,880 But I shouldn't try any of those funny tricks you've been planning. 372 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:34,880 Tricks? 373 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:35,880 What tricks? 374 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:36,880 You know what I mean, you filthy snake. 375 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:41,880 I searched your room just before lunch, and I found your diary. 376 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:50,880 Yes, I posted that precious diary of yours after my solicitor just before I came out here. 377 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,880 I posted it, mind you, just before we went sailing. 378 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:58,880 So you see, it'll be most unfortunate for you if you let me drown. 379 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,880 Well, what's the matter? 380 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,880 Must your lying tongue have you? 381 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,880 I ought to break your jaw for you. 382 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,880 I've a good mind to hand over your diary to the police. 383 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:12,880 Don't be silly. 384 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,880 You know perfectly well you won't do anything of the kind. 385 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,880 I'm for the very good reason that you don't want the police to haul you in on a charge 386 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,880 of manslaughter for killing my son. 387 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,880 Well, you can't prove I ran over your son. 388 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,880 Aren't you forgetting that Lena was with you that night? 389 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:27,880 The police will get a confession out of her in no time. 390 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,880 Why, you... 391 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:34,880 You, if ever I see you again after today, you slugger, I'll bash you into a jelly. 392 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,880 Oh, shut up, George. 393 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,880 I guess we've both been a little too clever. 394 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:56,880 It looks like a stalemate. 395 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,880 I docked the boat and George stormed off the minute we landed. 396 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:01,880 I came straight here to the inn. 397 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:03,880 Yes, I know. 398 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,880 Perhaps it's just as well I didn't succeed. 399 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,880 Going back to writing detective stories after committing the perfect crime, 400 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:12,880 would be like going back to playing with tin soldiers after winning the Battle of Waterloo. 401 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,880 You seem to be awfully sure of your alibi. 402 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,880 Well, after all, there's no crime in planning a murder, is there? 403 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:20,880 Providing nobody's hurt? 404 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,880 Unfortunately, somebody has been hurt. 405 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:25,880 What do you mean? 406 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:26,880 What are you trying to tell me? 407 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:33,880 George Rattery died yesterday evening of the effects of strychnine poisoning. 408 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,880 George dead? Strychnine poisoning? 409 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,880 Oh, my planning. All my high on tragic purpose. 410 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,880 And the beast ends by taking his own life. 411 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,880 Poison. I remember now he used to talk about suicide quite a lot. 412 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,880 But I thought he only did it because the subject was so upsetting to his wife. 413 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,880 I never dreamed. 414 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:55,880 How did he take it? 415 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:57,880 With his tonic. 416 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,880 But it couldn't possibly have been suicide, Mr. Lane. 417 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,880 But who? What else could it have been? 418 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:05,880 It could have been murder. 419 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,880 Unfortunately, we have no evidence except this diary of yours. 420 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,880 What would the bottle lead to the tonic? 421 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,880 George Rattery died almost instantly after taking his tonic at dinner. 422 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,880 But before the doctor arrived, that bottle disappeared. 423 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,880 Well, any suspects? 424 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:26,880 Every person closely associated with George Rattery had enough motive to murder him. 425 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,880 But you had the strongest motive. 426 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,880 After all, George Rattery did kill your son. 427 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,880 Am I under arrest? 428 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,880 Not officially as yet. 429 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,880 But naturally, I posted a guard outside your room. 430 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,880 In the meantime... 431 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:43,880 But, man, you can't go in there. He told him. 432 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,880 Officer, let me by. I tell you, I've got to see Inspector Blum. 433 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:48,880 Please, Mother. I say it's no good. 434 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,880 Be quiet, Phil. Why couldn't you stay at home? 435 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,880 Officer, let me by. I must see. 436 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,880 Now, let them come in, Officer. 437 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:57,880 Good afternoon, Mrs. Rattery. 438 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:58,880 Phil. 439 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,880 Hello, Phil. 440 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:00,880 Hello, Felix. 441 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,880 Please. Please, I can't stand it any longer. 442 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,880 They're accusing Felix here of murdering my husband. 443 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:06,880 He had nothing to do with it. 444 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,880 Mother said she doesn't know what she's saying. 445 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,880 For heaven's sake, Phil, will you be quiet? 446 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,880 It was I who killed George. 447 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,880 He treated me very badly. He was unspeakable to Phil. 448 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,880 There was another woman... 449 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:18,880 I can't go on. 450 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,880 Are you trying to tell me, Mrs. Rattery, that you gave your husband poison? 451 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:23,880 Yes. 452 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:24,880 Mother. 453 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:26,880 I tell you, I poisoned him. 454 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,880 Where did you get the poison, Mrs. Rattery? 455 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,880 Well, I bought it at that chemist shop. 456 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:33,880 What chemist shop? 457 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,880 The one on Abbey Lane near the corner of High Towers. That's it. 458 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,880 Uh-huh. 459 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,880 What became of the bottle of tonic after your husband's death? 460 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,880 I broke it. I buried it. 461 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,880 I'm sorry, Mrs. Rattery. The police have checked. 462 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,880 You didn't buy any poison at the chemist's. 463 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,880 Mother, I told you it was no good. 464 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,880 Sir, Mother is trying to save me. 465 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,880 It was I, sir. I killed him. 466 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:58,880 What? Phil, you don't... 467 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,880 Don't believe him. Don't believe him. He's just a foolish child. 468 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:02,880 He doesn't know what he's saying. 469 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:03,880 Go on, Phil. 470 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,880 Well, you see, sir, I left the note. 471 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,880 I was running away, but Mother found the note before I quite got out the door. 472 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:12,880 A boy gets such strange ideas. He couldn't have done it. 473 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,880 He's just a boy. You know he couldn't. 474 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:19,880 You see, sir, when they accused Felix here, I couldn't stand it any longer. 475 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,880 That's why I wrote you the note that Mother found it first. 476 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,880 She said if she confessed, that they wouldn't do much to her, 477 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,880 that the police would understand. 478 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,880 Felix makes them believe me. I can prove I did it. 479 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,880 Now, go on, Phil. You say you can prove it. What do you mean? 480 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,880 I have it here in my pocket, sir. I've had it hit ever since. 481 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,880 See, here it is. It's still half full. It's Dad's bottle of tonic. 482 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:43,880 Phil! 483 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:44,880 Phil, where did you get that? 484 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,880 I took it off the buffet after the doctor said Dad was dead. 485 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,880 This is very serious, Phil. You know that. 486 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:52,880 He's lying. He couldn't have. He's just a little boy. 487 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,880 Please, all of you, have a favor to ask. 488 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,880 Let me talk to Phil alone for a few minutes. 489 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,880 It won't hurt anything. I think I may be able to help solve this whole thing. 490 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,880 Phil didn't do it. Well, that's right. 491 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:03,880 Yes, but the bottle... 492 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,880 Just give Phil and me ten minutes alone. 493 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,880 Very well. We'll wait outside. 494 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,880 Ten minutes, mind you, Phil. No more. 495 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,880 Come here, Phil. 496 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:15,880 I'm a murderer, Felix. 497 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,880 You are not a murderer, Phil. No one could ever tell me that. 498 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:19,880 I left a note. 499 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,880 We've gone all over that. 500 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,880 I killed him. He beat Mother. I killed him, I told you. 501 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,880 Stop that, Phil. I know better. 502 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,880 They thought you did it, Felix. 503 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,880 I heard them talking about your diary. 504 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,880 You wanted to kill him. You said so in your diary. 505 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,880 Maybe I did, but... 506 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:35,880 They hang you, Felix. 507 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,880 So that's why you wrote the note and pretended you did it. 508 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,880 Yes, I saw you in the pantry with Dad's bottle of tonic 509 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,880 before you went for the sale with him. 510 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,880 You saw me? Oh, I'm sorry, Phil. Sorry you saw me. 511 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,880 Naturally, you jumped to the conclusion that I... 512 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,880 Poor little man. 513 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,880 There's nothing for you to worry about now, Phil. 514 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,880 You mean they're not going to hang you, Felix? 515 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,880 They're not going to hang me. 516 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,880 You won't let them do anything to you? Promise me. 517 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,880 No, I won't let them do anything to me. 518 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,880 But, Phil, there are other things for you to think about now. 519 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,880 Now that your father's gone, you are head of the house. 520 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,880 That's a man's job, Phil. 521 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,880 There's a lot you've learned about courage these last few days. 522 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,880 Living takes a lot of courage. 523 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,880 I've just pretty grown up talk, Phil. Do you understand me? 524 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,880 I'm trying, Felix. 525 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,880 You remind me a lot of my own son. 526 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,880 You mean the boy my father ran... 527 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,880 That's right, Phil. Yes, you're a lot like him. 528 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,880 Would he have gone sailing with us? 529 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,880 Oh, yes. I think Ronnie would have been quite a sailor. 530 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:39,880 Can we go sailing tomorrow, Felix? 531 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:40,880 Not tomorrow, Phil. 532 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,880 Are you going away, Felix? 533 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,880 Yes, but not as far as most people might think. 534 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,880 You sound very strange, Felix. 535 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,880 I have a note to write. I have to make everything ship-shaped. 536 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,880 You go on out to your mother and tell them they may join me in a few minutes. 537 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,880 Can't I wait, Felix? 538 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,880 No, Phil. Go ahead now. 539 00:25:58,880 --> 00:25:59,880 But... 540 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:01,880 Those are orders. Keepers orders. 541 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,880 Aye, aye, sir. 542 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,880 Goodbye, son. 543 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:13,880 I thought I'd made the last entry in this diary, but there will have to be one more. 544 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,880 This diary was kept for only one purpose. 545 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,880 To make George and the police believe that I planned to kill the beast by drowning him. 546 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,880 Death was already waiting for George Rattery at home in the bottle of his tonic... 547 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:29,880 where I had placed three pellets of rat poison taken by me from the garage. 548 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,880 My plan was almost perfect. 549 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,880 The only thing I didn't expect was that someone loved me enough... 550 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,880 to try to destroy the evidence I had so carefully planted... 551 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,880 in an effort to help me... 552 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,880 and even to confess to my crime in order to save my skin. 553 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,880 I know now that my life ended with the death of my son, Ronnie. 554 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:54,880 It seems that I must have just come back to life for a few weeks to save Phil. 555 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,880 Yes, I killed George Rattery. 556 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,880 I have no regrets. 557 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,880 I might have known that the matter would be taken care of fiddly. 558 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,880 It says in the Bible, the beast must die. 559 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,880 But the man dieth also. 560 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,880 Yea, they both must die. 561 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,880 George was right about that tonic of his. 562 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,880 It is very bitter. 563 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,880 And so closes The Beast Must Die... 564 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:43,880 starring Herbert Marshall, tonight's tale of Suspense. 565 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,880 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 566 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:51,880 Have you discovered the age-old secret of famous chefs and lovers of fine food? 567 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:57,880 Namely, how good wine makes even the simplest, most inexpensive meals really exciting events? 568 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,880 How Roma wines perform flavor miracles in bringing out rich new savoriness? 569 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,880 Well, the next time you cook any of the red meats, stews, fish, or poultry, 570 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:14,880 add a generous portion of any Roma California table wine, delicious sautern, hearty burgundy, or tasty claret. 571 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,880 Then put the same bottle well chilled on the table with your meal. 572 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:25,880 You will be amazed at the wonders Roma wine performs in bringing out all the appetizing goodness of even the simplest foods. 573 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:31,880 Remember, Roma wines, these marvelous aids to greater enjoyment of daily meals, 574 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,880 cost only pennies a glass full. 575 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,880 So any home can afford the pleasure they give to everyday living. 576 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:43,880 Ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines, America's largest selling wines, 577 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:48,880 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 578 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:54,880 This is Herbert Marshall, and at the request of the United States Army, I'm addressing this to every soldier listening. 579 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,880 Volunteers are once more being accepted for immediate training by the parachute troops. 580 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,880 Paratroopers receive $50 extra per month in base pay. 581 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,880 Officers get $100 extra per month. 582 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:09,880 If you think you can qualify for the paratroops, apply to your company commander immediately. 583 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,880 Mr. Marshall appeared to the courtesy of Metro Golden Mayor, producers of White Cliffs of Dover. 584 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:21,880 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Peter Lorre with Richard Conte as stars of Suspended. 585 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:28,880 Presented by Roma wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 586 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:56,880 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.