WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 Now, Roma Wines present... 00:13.000 --> 00:15.000 Suspense! 00:20.000 --> 00:26.000 Tonight, Voyage Through Darkness, starring Olivia de Havilland and Reginald Gardner. 00:26.000 --> 00:32.000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:32.000 --> 00:35.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:35.000 --> 00:40.000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 00:40.000 --> 00:43.000 To your happiness and entertaining guests. 00:43.000 --> 00:46.000 To your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:46.000 --> 00:51.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you... 00:51.000 --> 00:56.000 Suspense! 00:58.000 --> 01:03.000 This is the Man in Black, here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 01:03.000 --> 01:10.000 Tonight from Hollywood, we bring you the distinguished American leading lady of the screen, Miss Olivia de Havilland. 01:10.000 --> 01:18.000 Miss de Havilland appears as a girl named Judith Webster, who found herself embarked upon a journey into darkness. 01:18.000 --> 01:25.000 Travelling with her on this perilous voyage is that suave and debonair actor, Mr. Reginald Gardner. 01:25.000 --> 01:33.000 So with the performances of Mr. Havilland and Mr. Gardner in this sea-going adventure play, we again hope to keep you in... 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 Suspense! 01:36.000 --> 01:41.000 Suspense! 01:45.000 --> 01:51.000 It happened in 1939, shortly before England and Germany were at war. 01:51.000 --> 01:59.000 I was in London, serving as traveling companion to Mrs. Edna Prescott, a wealthy, quite elderly American woman. 01:59.000 --> 02:06.000 She wasn't a pleasant person, and the city's practice blackouts were a particular source of annoyance to her. 02:06.000 --> 02:11.000 I remember thinking how ironic it was that she should die during one of them. 02:11.000 --> 02:18.000 I even thought it the cause, until the doctors assured me her death was due to a common heart ailment. 02:18.000 --> 02:25.000 I was very busy for the next few days, arranging passage to America, getting my train ticket down to Southampton, and... 02:25.000 --> 02:30.000 and carrying out the promise I had made so many times to Mrs. Prescott. 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 I didn't relish any part of that. 02:33.000 --> 02:38.000 Miss Webster, Miss Webster, oh yes, yes, yes, the young woman who's escorting the casket. 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 Here's your ticket, gate five, please. 02:41.000 --> 02:46.000 Vote train for Southampton, this way, please. 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 The young woman who's escorting the casket. 02:49.000 --> 02:55.000 He said it so, so matter-of-factly, as if such things occurred every day. 02:55.000 --> 02:57.000 I suppose they do. 02:57.000 --> 03:02.000 And yet, every minute on that train I felt uncomfortable. 03:02.000 --> 03:10.000 On edge, it seemed as if the trip to Southampton and the steamer docks would never end. 03:10.000 --> 03:18.000 I remember how glad I was when it did, and how cheerful Stewart's voice sounded as he greeted me at the head of the gangway. 03:18.000 --> 03:23.000 Good evening, Miss. Welcome aboard. May I show you to your cabin? 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 Please do, Stewart, I'm very tired. 03:26.000 --> 03:29.000 12A, B deck, this way, Miss. 03:29.000 --> 03:34.000 Police, track him down, blackout killer! Police, hunt on train, the blackout killer! 03:34.000 --> 03:37.000 I hope they get him all right, Miss. 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 Get who? 03:38.000 --> 03:41.000 Police, have new clue on blackout killer! 03:41.000 --> 03:45.000 Boy, that blackout killer. Please have a new clue on him, he says. 03:45.000 --> 03:49.000 Oh, oh yes, an awful thing. 03:49.000 --> 03:54.000 Ah, here we are, Miss, 12A. You have it all to yourself. 03:54.000 --> 03:58.000 Thank you, Stewart. Oh, I'm sorry, here you are. 03:58.000 --> 04:03.000 Oh, it's quite all right, Miss. Thanks, and good night. Call me if you need me now. 04:03.000 --> 04:05.000 Good night. 04:05.000 --> 04:11.000 In my stateroom. Perfectly safe, I realized how jittery I'd been, how upset. 04:11.000 --> 04:17.000 And now, how relieved. Suddenly I began to laugh, right out loud. 04:17.000 --> 04:21.000 My fears had been so foolish, so very foolish. 04:21.000 --> 04:26.000 An hour later, I went out on deck. 04:26.000 --> 04:33.000 I no longer felt tired, and I wanted to watch the lights of the coastline fading away from us. 04:33.000 --> 04:38.000 I was standing near the aft rail, quietly looking out across the water. 04:38.000 --> 04:42.000 I was looking at the sky, and I saw a blackout killer. 04:42.000 --> 04:46.000 I was looking at the sky, and I saw a blackout killer. 04:46.000 --> 04:51.000 I was looking at the sky, and I saw a blackout killer. 04:51.000 --> 04:55.000 I was looking at the sky, and I saw a blackout killer. 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 Beautiful, isn't it? Oh. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 I'm sorry, did I frighten you? 04:59.000 --> 05:03.000 Yes, yes, you did. I didn't realize there was anyone near that lifeboat. 05:03.000 --> 05:07.000 Well, I'm sorry, I was sure you saw me. I never would have... 05:07.000 --> 05:13.000 Well, it's all right, really. I've been nervous tonight, anyway. I'm not always so jumpy. 05:13.000 --> 05:16.000 What you need is an ocean void. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 Maybe that's it. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 Were you watching the shore lights? 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Yes, and I never did answer your question. They are beautiful. 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 Very. And the sea alone is beautiful. 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 She has moods, you know, just like a woman. 05:29.000 --> 05:35.000 Gentle sometimes, and soothing. Then suddenly flying into a rage and dashing things to pieces. 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 Then quieting right down again. 05:37.000 --> 05:40.000 That's right. I see we feel the same about her. 05:40.000 --> 05:43.000 Does she frighten you sometimes? 05:43.000 --> 05:45.000 The same way women frighten me. 05:45.000 --> 05:46.000 Oh? 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 I mean, when I don't understand them. 05:48.000 --> 05:53.000 Well, I thought it was the general male consensus that we weren't supposed to be understood. 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 Only loved, isn't that the rest of it? 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 Something like that. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 Anyway, it's a philosophy I disagree with. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 That's refreshing. 05:59.000 --> 06:02.000 Ah, the lady is amused. 06:02.000 --> 06:07.000 Oh, not at all. It's just that the lady detects a bachelor. 06:07.000 --> 06:09.000 Because I have a mind of my own? 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 That's one good clue. 06:11.000 --> 06:14.000 Well, listen to me. I'm lecturing to you as if I... 06:14.000 --> 06:18.000 I believe that bit of triteness ends up as if I'd known you all my life. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 Now, wait a minute. There's another which makes it perfectly all right. 06:21.000 --> 06:26.000 It's that shipboard friendships last forever, business. 06:26.000 --> 06:30.000 However, my name is Alan Bruce. Yours? 06:30.000 --> 06:31.000 Judith Webster. 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 Miss or...? 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 Miss. 06:33.000 --> 06:36.000 Good. Well, we got through that. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 Quite nicely. 06:37.000 --> 06:41.000 You suppose we could get through a dance? There's music in the sun, all. 06:41.000 --> 06:45.000 Well, there's no longer any view of the shorelights. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 However, you did say the sea alone was beautiful. 06:48.000 --> 06:52.000 I was so wrong. There's nothing as monotonous as all that water. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 It is kind of flat. 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 Yes. Well, let's trade it for champagne, shall we? 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 Be with you in a minute. 06:58.000 --> 06:59.000 Where are you going? 06:59.000 --> 07:03.000 Just over here. I wanted to do the skipper a little favor. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 What is it? Oh, the lifeboat cover. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 How did that ever get so loose? 07:08.000 --> 07:13.000 I, uh... I don't know. I noticed it a while back. 07:13.000 --> 07:16.000 There. Well, that should do it. 07:16.000 --> 07:21.000 Strange. It was almost as if... Oh, no. 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 Well, what were you going to say? 07:23.000 --> 07:28.000 Well, I was going to get melodramatic and suggest that someone might have been hiding there. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 You mean a stowaway? 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 Yes. Well, of course it's silly. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 I wouldn't say so. 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 No joking? 07:36.000 --> 07:42.000 Not at all. It's quite possible someone could have slipped on board and hid in that boat. 07:42.000 --> 07:46.000 That's why I think we shouldn't mention this to anyone. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 What? 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 It would only cause an alarm. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 But I don't understand. 07:52.000 --> 07:56.000 Do you really think there might have been someone... someone... 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 someone... 08:02.000 --> 08:07.000 I shall never forget that moment and the thoughts which went racing through my mind. 08:07.000 --> 08:13.000 My nervousness on the train, those horrible headlines about the blackout killer. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 That newsboy had shouted an hour before. 08:15.000 --> 08:21.000 Alan's strange attitude about the lifeboat, the whole unpleasant nature of this voyage, 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 and my promise to Mrs. Prescott. 08:23.000 --> 08:30.000 I wanted to turn and run, wanted to cry out, but somehow I couldn't. 08:30.000 --> 08:34.000 It was like a dream when you... when you can't move. 08:34.000 --> 08:39.000 And then the darkness was swept away and I was no longer dreaming. 08:39.000 --> 08:42.000 I was... I was in Alan's arms dancing. 08:42.000 --> 08:48.000 There were laughing, carefree people all about us and the ship's salon was so bright and friendly. 08:48.000 --> 08:53.000 I was ashamed for even thinking there might have been anything wrong. 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 Had enough? They just brought our champagne. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 Well, in that case, yes. I had about given up. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 What a fine way to talk about my dancing. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 You know perfectly well what I mean. 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 All right. Let her go, waiter. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 Right you are, sir. 09:11.000 --> 09:15.000 There we are. All right. Thank you, waiter. That'll be all. 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 Yes, sir. 09:16.000 --> 09:17.000 Oh, that does look good. 09:17.000 --> 09:21.000 And is. Well, what should we toast to? Shipboard friendship? 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Shipboard friendship. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 You know, I... 09:25.000 --> 09:27.000 What is it? Something wrong? 09:27.000 --> 09:30.000 No, nothing at all. Just thought I saw something and I... 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 Will you excuse me a moment? 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 Well, of course. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 I won't be long. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 Everything all right, miss? 09:37.000 --> 09:41.000 Oh, excuse me, miss, but the gentleman, he dropped this billfold. 09:41.000 --> 09:44.000 Oh, thank you, waiter. I didn't notice. Would you just leave it there on the table? 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 Very good, miss. There you are. 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 The billfold fell open as the waiter placed it on the table. 09:51.000 --> 09:54.000 I couldn't take my eyes from it. 09:54.000 --> 09:58.000 There was an identification card in plain sight. 09:58.000 --> 10:03.000 The name on the card was not Alan Bruce. 10:03.000 --> 10:14.000 It was Charles Drew. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 Sorry to have run off that way. I never should have. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Didn't know the fellow at all. 10:19.000 --> 10:23.000 Say, you haven't touched your champagne. You'll let all the kick go out of it. 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 I'm afraid all the kick has gone out of it. 10:25.000 --> 10:28.000 Well, we'll soon take care of that. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 Oh, my billfold. Where did you find it? 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 It was on the floor. The waiter picked it up. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 The waiter? Did he look at it? 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 No. 10:35.000 --> 10:39.000 Well, we found an honest man, eh? Have to remember him. 10:39.000 --> 10:42.000 Hadn't you better look to see if you found an honest woman? 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 I'll take a chance. 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 On my honesty, yes. What about a woman's curiosity? 10:47.000 --> 10:50.000 Oh, I see. Well, now you know. 10:50.000 --> 10:54.000 Well, I must be more careful of my things in future. 10:54.000 --> 10:58.000 But you know, I'm sure you wouldn't tell anyone anything. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 No? 10:59.000 --> 11:03.000 No. I knew from the very first that I could trust you. 11:03.000 --> 11:07.000 Stop your music. Stop your music. Stop. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 What's happened to the music? 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 What's up, Stuart? Why is the music down? What's the matter? 11:11.000 --> 11:14.000 Attention! Attention, everybody! Everybody! 11:14.000 --> 11:17.000 The First Officer has something to say to us. 11:17.000 --> 11:21.000 Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry to break in on your dancing this way, 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 but I assure you this won't take long. 11:23.000 --> 11:28.000 We've just received a radiogram from London, and I must ask your cooperation. 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 That's not important. Maybe it's war with Germany. 11:30.000 --> 11:33.000 No, no, no. It isn't war. Nothing nearly as alarming as that. 11:33.000 --> 11:37.000 However, the London police suspect that we are carrying a stowaway, 11:37.000 --> 11:41.000 and they've asked us to make a thorough search of the ship and report back to them. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 Really? Must be a criminal. 11:43.000 --> 11:44.000 A criminal? Oh, no. I don't... 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 Francis, the blackout killer. 11:46.000 --> 11:47.000 A killer on our ship? 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 Now, wait, wait a moment, please, ladies and gentlemen. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 It won't help to get excited. 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 The ship is being searched. He'll never get off. 11:55.000 --> 11:58.000 All we ask is that you keep your cabins locked. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 I was afraid this might happen. 12:02.000 --> 12:05.000 How long did you expect to keep it from them? 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 Naturally, I was hoping they'd never... 12:07.000 --> 12:10.000 Judith! Judith, what's wrong? Where are you going? 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 Hey, look at him. 12:11.000 --> 12:12.000 What's the devil? 12:12.000 --> 12:15.000 Hey, what's the matter, handsome? She run out on you? 12:15.000 --> 12:16.000 Please, let me through, will you? 12:16.000 --> 12:19.000 Okay, sure. Go do it, mister. Don't let her get away. 12:19.000 --> 12:25.000 You know, maybe she thinks that you're the blackout killer. 12:32.000 --> 12:37.000 Tonight for Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Olivia de Havilland and Reginald Gardner. 12:37.000 --> 12:41.000 You have heard them in the first act of Voyage Through Darkness by Joel Malone. 12:41.000 --> 12:49.000 Tonight's tale of Suspense. 12:54.000 --> 13:00.000 It is a fact that connoisseurs of many foreign lands have discovered the excellence of Roma wines. 13:00.000 --> 13:04.000 The greatness of California's wine country from which Roma comes. 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 But millions of Americans also know these things 13:07.000 --> 13:14.000 and have made Roma by far the most popular, the largest selling of all America's wines. 13:14.000 --> 13:18.000 Here at home, Roma wines are truly inexpensive. 13:18.000 --> 13:25.000 For only pennies a glass, your meals, your entertaining, can have the added delight of superb Roma wines. 13:25.000 --> 13:30.000 You will find them constant in quality of unvarying excellent taste and character. 13:30.000 --> 13:36.000 Fine products of age-old winemaking skill perfected by modern knowledge. 13:36.000 --> 13:42.000 To start enjoying this really fine wine yourself, simply place on the table with dinner tomorrow. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 A well chilled bottle of hearty, ruby red Roma California Burgundy. 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 Don't worry about what the meal is or what glasses you have handy. 13:50.000 --> 13:55.000 You'll be delightfully surprised at how much extra enjoyment you get from your meal. 13:55.000 --> 13:59.000 How Roma wine makes even the simplest meal a feast. 13:59.000 --> 14:03.000 Enjoy Roma wines anytime with meals when entertaining. 14:03.000 --> 14:09.000 It's the easy and expensive way to make a big hit with guests and with the family. 14:09.000 --> 14:19.000 Be sure to ask your dealer for our OMA Roma wines made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 14:19.000 --> 14:27.000 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage, 14:27.000 --> 14:34.000 Miss Olivia de Havilland and Mr. Reginald Gardner as they continue Voyage Through Darkness. 14:34.000 --> 14:39.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:50.000 --> 14:53.000 I'll never know why I let the dining cell on without telling them. 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 Certainly they could no longer be any doubt. 14:55.000 --> 14:59.000 It was all too clear, that loose canvas covering on the lifeboat, 14:59.000 --> 15:03.000 the way he'd been standing there, even the name he had given me, Alan Bruce. 15:03.000 --> 15:06.000 I saw it later on the regular passenger list. 15:06.000 --> 15:12.000 He must have killed Bruce and thrown him overboard, taking not only his name but his stateroom and clothes. 15:12.000 --> 15:16.000 It was all so, so fantastic. 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 Worse than anything else. 15:18.000 --> 15:21.000 I had almost fallen in love with him. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 He knew that, I'm certain. 15:23.000 --> 15:27.000 It was why he was so confident that I wouldn't tell anyone. 15:27.000 --> 15:28.000 And I didn't. 15:28.000 --> 15:34.000 Not even when I spoke to the first officer about, about my promise to Mrs. Prescott. 15:34.000 --> 15:38.000 I wanted to tell him, but somehow I... 15:39.000 --> 15:42.000 Repta, I'll arrange it for early tomorrow morning. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 Most of the passengers will be asleep. 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 Thank you. 15:45.000 --> 15:53.000 I... I... I suppose it's rather unusual, but then Mrs. Prescott was an unusual woman. 15:53.000 --> 15:54.000 Hmm. 15:54.000 --> 15:57.000 I haven't conducted a burial at sea since the last war. 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 However, I'm not entirely unprepared. 15:59.000 --> 16:03.000 The company officials spoke to me about this before sailing and... 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 Well, now, don't you worry, Miss Webster. 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 The ceremony will be quite in order, I assure you. 16:08.000 --> 16:09.000 Thank you. 16:09.000 --> 16:15.000 I'll bid you good day, ma'am. 16:18.000 --> 16:19.000 I wish you hadn't done that. 16:19.000 --> 16:20.000 Ah! 16:20.000 --> 16:23.000 I'm sorry, I seem to have a habit of startling you. 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 What do you want? 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 How long have you been standing there? 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 Long enough to overhear that conversation. 16:28.000 --> 16:29.000 You had no right. 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 What are you doing in my cabin? 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 Please, I know what you're going to say. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 I had no right to be here or to listen. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 However, it's fortunate that I did. 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 What do you mean? 16:38.000 --> 16:42.000 I didn't know that it was Mrs. Prescott's desire to be buried at sea. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 No one knew it. 16:44.000 --> 16:45.000 But it was her last wish. 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 I promised her it would be carried out. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 And tomorrow morning you're keeping that promise? 16:49.000 --> 16:50.000 Yes. 16:50.000 --> 16:54.000 And now, if you'll excuse me, I don't feel very well. 16:54.000 --> 16:55.000 I'd like to... 16:55.000 --> 16:56.000 Wait, please, Judith. 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 You've been avoiding me, haven't you? 16:59.000 --> 17:00.000 Yes, I have. 17:00.000 --> 17:04.000 I hope it's only because you've been upset about Mrs. Prescott, I mean. 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 That's one reason. 17:05.000 --> 17:06.000 Oh, I'm sorry. 17:06.000 --> 17:13.000 I... I almost thought we were beginning to, well, to become very good friends. 17:13.000 --> 17:16.000 You know, you're the only person on board whom I can trust. 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 You're very sure about that, aren't you? 17:18.000 --> 17:19.000 Of course. 17:19.000 --> 17:22.000 You know who I am and what I'm doing on this ship. 17:22.000 --> 17:24.000 And yet you've told no one. 17:24.000 --> 17:25.000 I've wanted to. 17:25.000 --> 17:26.000 I know. 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 Women were never meant to keep secrets. 17:28.000 --> 17:31.000 However, I'm going to ask you to keep one more. 17:31.000 --> 17:32.000 I'd rather not. 17:32.000 --> 17:33.000 Sorry. 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 I must include you this time. 17:35.000 --> 17:40.000 And you see, it requires a change in your plans so they'll fit in with mine. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 I'm afraid I don't understand. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 It's very simple. 17:44.000 --> 17:52.000 Judith, this may upset you, but I must ask that you tell them that you've changed your mind. 17:52.000 --> 17:55.000 That you don't want Mrs. Prescott buried at sea. 17:55.000 --> 17:56.000 What? 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 You remember what they said. 17:58.000 --> 18:02.000 Even if they couldn't find the stowaway, he'd never get off the ship. 18:02.000 --> 18:04.000 Well, he could get off. 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 Very easily. 18:06.000 --> 18:11.000 If you'd allow him to take Mrs. Prescott's place in that casket. 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 What? In that casket? 18:13.000 --> 18:14.000 Yes. 18:14.000 --> 18:15.000 Clever, eh? 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 Clever? 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 Not every man would think of it. 18:19.000 --> 18:23.000 Simple as it may seem, everyone searching the ship, questioning each passenger, 18:23.000 --> 18:28.000 and all the while the man they were seeking would be safe inside the casket. 18:28.000 --> 18:31.000 He would only have to wait patiently. 18:31.000 --> 18:34.000 And then be hoisted from the ship's hold, lowered onto the pier, 18:34.000 --> 18:37.000 and whisked safely away in a funeral car. 18:37.000 --> 18:40.000 When he was discovered by the funeral attendants? 18:40.000 --> 18:45.000 Oh, I'm sure they'd be so shocked at the dead coming to life, he'd have little trouble in... 18:45.000 --> 18:48.000 Stop it! Stop it, you here! 18:48.000 --> 18:51.000 If you haven't any respect for the dead, I'm afraid I have. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 Oh, Mrs. Prescott, you mean. 18:53.000 --> 18:56.000 I should have told you that part of it. 18:56.000 --> 18:59.000 Her last wish has already been carried out. 18:59.000 --> 19:04.000 You see, her body was removed from the casket the night we sailed. 19:04.000 --> 19:08.000 Mrs. Prescott is already buried at sea. 19:11.000 --> 19:14.000 You've thought of everything, haven't you? 19:14.000 --> 19:29.000 Yes. In my position, one must. 19:29.000 --> 19:33.000 I remained in my cabin all that day, and the next. 19:33.000 --> 19:36.000 I was afraid to see him again. 19:36.000 --> 19:41.000 I can't explain the strange fascination he held over me. 19:41.000 --> 19:47.000 I remember how surprised the first officer looked when I told him I had changed my mind about burial. 19:47.000 --> 19:54.000 It was as if he sensed the truth, as if he knew Mrs. Prescott's body wasn't in the casket, that it was empty. 19:54.000 --> 20:13.000 But of course it was only my imagination and my sense of guilt for this terrible wrong I was doing. 20:13.000 --> 20:18.000 When we sailed into New York Harbor, I went out on deck. 20:18.000 --> 20:22.000 He was standing there near the port rail. I went up to him. 20:22.000 --> 20:25.000 He turned and smiled as if he'd been expecting me. 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 Oh, there you are. I've missed you. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 Haven't been under the weather? 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 No, I've been perfectly well. 20:32.000 --> 20:35.000 You had me worried, not showing up at dinner. 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 You know, I've come to depend on you. 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 Yes, I know. 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 I've decided not to let you get away from me. 20:41.000 --> 20:44.000 After this is all over, we must, um... 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 You haven't much time. 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 Oh, that's right. This may not be easy. Wish me luck. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 Haven't I done more than that already? 20:51.000 --> 21:01.000 Yes, of course. Only, uh, I mean, like this, Judith. 21:01.000 --> 21:07.000 As suddenly as he had taken me in his arms, he released me, and I remained there by the rail as he hurried away. 21:07.000 --> 21:14.000 I watched as the ship moved on into the harbor under the guidance of the tugboats with their shrill, insistent little whistles. 21:14.000 --> 21:20.000 I listened to the shouts of the crew and long shoremen. 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Soon we were alongside the pier. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Oh, the shoremen are coming, the shoremen! 21:24.000 --> 21:28.000 And the steward was shouting from the head of the gangway, and then... 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Then I saw it. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 The casket. 21:34.000 --> 21:37.000 They were lowering it toward the pier. 21:37.000 --> 21:41.000 There was a car waiting, a long black car, and suddenly I realized what I had done. 21:41.000 --> 21:45.000 What a fool I had been. What a cowardly, frightened little fool. 21:45.000 --> 21:50.000 Wait! Stop them! Don't let them take it! Don't let them! 21:50.000 --> 21:54.000 Wait, please! You mustn't touch that casket! There's something wrong! 21:54.000 --> 21:57.000 Huh? Hey, what's the matter with you, lady? Get out of the way, will you? 21:57.000 --> 22:00.000 But there's a man in there alive! He's hiding! 22:00.000 --> 22:04.000 You're sure? Hide and go seek. He's played in a coffin. Go on, lady, we've got work to do. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 Clammore's rear door is tight, Ed. 22:06.000 --> 22:10.000 Please! Please, you must listen to me! If you won't, I'll call the police. 22:10.000 --> 22:15.000 Someone has got to stop him. He'll... Did I hear you call for the police? 22:15.000 --> 22:18.000 Oh, yes, these men won't listen to me, but there's a... 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 A man... hiding in this casket. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 Of course there is. We put him in there, Judith. 22:24.000 --> 22:27.000 What did you say? I said we put him in there. 22:27.000 --> 22:30.000 Or rather, we let him walk right into our trap. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 Wait a minute. 22:32.000 --> 22:35.000 Are you trying to tell me there's someone else inside that casket? 22:35.000 --> 22:38.000 Well, surely you're not trying to say that. 22:38.000 --> 22:41.000 Well, surely you're not trying to say that you thought I was in there. 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 But who else? 22:43.000 --> 22:46.000 Who else? Why, the blackout killer, of course. 22:46.000 --> 22:49.000 Then... then he's getting away. You're letting him get away. 22:49.000 --> 22:53.000 No, no, Judith. Those men know who's inside that casket. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 And they know right where to take him. 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 Take him? 22:57.000 --> 23:01.000 You know, Judith, for someone who helped plan this entire thing, you're acting very strangely. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 I'm acting strangely? 23:03.000 --> 23:06.000 It's almost as if you didn't know who I am at all. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 I don't. 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 What? 23:09.000 --> 23:12.000 I said I don't know you. I still don't. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 But the night I dropped my billfold, I thought surely... 23:15.000 --> 23:19.000 All I learned that night was your real name, Charles Drew. 23:19.000 --> 23:22.000 You mean you didn't look at the rest of my papers? 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Certainly not. 23:24.000 --> 23:27.000 But that's amazing. Say, you are different. 23:27.000 --> 23:30.000 Yes, and I suppose you're the everyday run-of-the-mill type. 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 Look, what is this? 23:32.000 --> 23:38.000 Oh, it's all very simple, Judith. I... I thought you'd learned of my affiliation with Scotland Yard when you had my billfold. 23:38.000 --> 23:41.000 You mean you're a detective? 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 I've even been called a bloodhound. 23:43.000 --> 23:47.000 Then all this time you've been trailing the killer. 23:47.000 --> 23:50.000 That's right. We had a tip-off he might be on this ship, 23:50.000 --> 23:53.000 and when I discovered the loose lifeboat covering, I was certain of it. 23:53.000 --> 23:57.000 Then Alan Bruce, he... he wasn't murdered at all. 23:57.000 --> 24:00.000 He never existed. Just a name I was using. 24:00.000 --> 24:04.000 Good Lord, Judith, you know detectives never travel under their own names. It just isn't done. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 No, no, everything has to be done the hard way. 24:06.000 --> 24:10.000 I suppose that that's why you just didn't find the killer and arrest him on board. 24:10.000 --> 24:14.000 Oh, no. Hardly. You see, I couldn't find him. 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 Searched the ship from top to bottom, and I... 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 I guess he really would have given me the slip if I hadn't looked in the casket. 24:19.000 --> 24:21.000 He was hiding there all the time. 24:21.000 --> 24:22.000 No, it was empty. 24:22.000 --> 24:23.000 I don't get it. 24:23.000 --> 24:25.000 Neither did I at first. 24:25.000 --> 24:30.000 Then I began to wonder why he would remove Mrs. Prescott's body from her casket unless it was part of some plan. 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 And... 24:31.000 --> 24:35.000 And I decided that it was. A weird, yet thoroughly clever plan. 24:35.000 --> 24:39.000 Remember I told you not every man would think of it? 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 Yes, you did say that. 24:41.000 --> 24:45.000 He had only to wait patiently until the ship docked. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 Then at the last minute slip into the casket... 24:47.000 --> 24:52.000 And be hoisted out of the hold onto the pier and whisked safely away in the funeral car. 24:52.000 --> 24:57.000 And think, if it hadn't been for you, he might have gotten away with it. 24:57.000 --> 25:01.000 Oh, you helped plenty by calling off that burial and leaving the way open for him. 25:01.000 --> 25:05.000 Oh, no, Charles. I nearly wrecked everything. 25:05.000 --> 25:09.000 I... I thought you were the killer. 25:09.000 --> 25:12.000 Oh, ha-ha-ha. Well, no wonder you avoided me. 25:12.000 --> 25:15.000 I was so mixed up. I... I thought I knew so much. 25:15.000 --> 25:18.000 No, no, it's my fault, darling. I overestimated you. 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 Is it all clear to you now? 25:20.000 --> 25:25.000 Well, I... No, that is, it's clear about how... 25:25.000 --> 25:30.000 Well, the killer and the casket, but I don't know whether... 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 What? You mean about the lifeboat and... 25:32.000 --> 25:37.000 No, no, about you. I'm not clear whether or... 25:37.000 --> 25:39.000 You mean whether or not I'm really Scotland Yard? 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 Well, I am. You can really... 25:41.000 --> 25:44.000 No, I'm just not sure whether... 25:44.000 --> 25:46.000 But, Judith, there's nothing else. 25:46.000 --> 25:49.000 Oh, except, of course, that I love you and... 25:49.000 --> 25:50.000 What was that again? 25:50.000 --> 25:52.000 I said I love you. 25:52.000 --> 25:55.000 Uh, how can I be sure? 25:55.000 --> 25:58.000 Judith, darling. 25:58.000 --> 26:20.000 Oh, oh, Charles, that makes it very clear. 26:20.000 --> 26:26.000 And so closes Voyage Through Darkness, starring Olivia de Havilland and Reginald Gardner. 26:26.000 --> 26:30.000 Tonight's study in Suspense. 26:30.000 --> 26:34.000 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 26:34.000 --> 26:40.000 If you are one who does not yet know how much and how delightfully Roma wines add to your meals, 26:40.000 --> 26:45.000 well, let me urge you not to miss out any longer on such a treat as this. 26:45.000 --> 26:47.000 There's nothing complicated about it. 26:47.000 --> 26:53.000 Just get and serve Roma wine with any meal or any time in any kind of glass you wish. 26:53.000 --> 26:59.000 Serve it chilled. 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