WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 Now, Roma Wines present... 00:04.000 --> 00:06.000 Suspense! 00:19.000 --> 00:23.000 Tonight, You'll Never See Me Again, starring Joseph Cotton. 00:23.000 --> 00:30.000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:34.000 --> 00:39.000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:39.000 --> 00:44.000 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you... 00:49.000 --> 00:53.000 Suspense! 00:53.000 --> 00:58.000 This is the man in black, here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 00:58.000 --> 01:02.000 Who tonight from Hollywood bring you as star, Mr. Joseph Cotton. 01:02.000 --> 01:09.000 And so with Cornell Woolrich's story of marriage and murder, called You'll Never See Me Again. 01:09.000 --> 01:15.000 And with the performance of Mr. Cotton as an American husband named Ed Bliss. 01:15.000 --> 01:19.000 We again hope to keep you in... Suspense! 01:21.000 --> 01:23.000 So, you're walking out on me. 01:23.000 --> 01:25.000 What does it look like to you? 01:25.000 --> 01:27.000 Like you're walking out on me? Got everything you need? 01:27.000 --> 01:31.000 At least I'm glad you're showing your true colors. I'd rather have found it out now than later. 01:31.000 --> 01:35.000 Didn't take you long, did it, baby? If you're looking for your coat, it's in here. 01:35.000 --> 01:36.000 Thanks. 01:36.000 --> 01:37.000 Need any money? 01:37.000 --> 01:41.000 I don't need anything from you, including your wedding ring. There! 01:41.000 --> 01:43.000 And you know what you can do with it. 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 Sure, a hock it. Well, pick a nice quiet hotel. 01:46.000 --> 01:49.000 I don't have to pick a hotel. I'm no orphan. 01:49.000 --> 01:52.000 And when you get good and sick of it, come on back and maybe I'll still be here. 01:52.000 --> 01:57.000 You'll still be here. You'll never see me again as long as you live. 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 You'll never see me again as long as you live. 02:04.000 --> 02:08.000 You'll never see me again as long as you live, she said. 02:08.000 --> 02:12.000 If I'd known then what I know now, I guess that wouldn't have sounded so funny. 02:12.000 --> 02:16.000 All right. Maybe I'm not the easiest guy in the world to get along with, 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 but it's perfectly natural for a couple to have at least one good fight 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 after they've been married nearly three months. 02:22.000 --> 02:26.000 And I just wasn't going to be the first one to say uncle, that's all. 02:26.000 --> 02:29.000 Still, you don't wait around forever when your wife walks in on you. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 You're not going to be the first one to say uncle, that's all. 02:32.000 --> 02:35.000 Still, you don't wait around forever when your wife walks out on you, 02:35.000 --> 02:38.000 even if you are playing hard to get, so... 02:38.000 --> 02:42.000 The third evening I put in a call, and you all along should head for a mother's place. 02:42.000 --> 02:46.000 Anyway, she practically told me where she was going when she left. 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 Hello? 02:50.000 --> 02:54.000 Oh, hello. Is this Mrs. Alden? 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 Yes. 02:55.000 --> 02:59.000 Oh, this is Ed, Janet's husband. 02:59.000 --> 03:04.000 Oh, oh, yes. How is Janet? 03:04.000 --> 03:06.000 Isn't she there with you? 03:06.000 --> 03:10.000 With me? Why, no. Isn't she with you? 03:10.000 --> 03:11.000 No. 03:14.000 --> 03:16.000 That was all I needed to hear. 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 I grabbed my hat and headed to the bus station. 03:18.000 --> 03:23.000 That was the only way she could have possibly gone to her mother's place at that time of night by bus. 03:23.000 --> 03:28.000 First I wanted to find out if there was anybody who could positively identify her as having left. 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 I got the ticket off. It wasn't very bright. 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 To West Hampton? 03:32.000 --> 03:33.000 Yeah. 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 Well, seems like I remember somebody like that. 03:36.000 --> 03:39.000 It would have been Monday night, just about this time. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 West Hampton, Monday night? 03:41.000 --> 03:42.000 Yeah. 03:42.000 --> 03:45.000 Well, maybe. Couldn't be sure, though. 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 Never mind. Give me a ticket. 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 Uh, where to? 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 Where do you think? West Hampton. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 She was blonde, blue eyes, good looking. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 Uh, sure, sure. I remember her. 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 Where'd you get off? 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 I, uh, think it was West Hampton. 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 We're closed for the night, mister. Come for all walks. 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 I just want... I just wanted some information. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 Huh? 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Can you tell me where the Aldens live? 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 Aldens? Oh, yeah, they're those new people. 04:30.000 --> 04:31.000 Yeah. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 Well, you go up the crossroad there and then turn to your left, 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 go on down the hill, it's the one, two, three... 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 Let me see. No, fourth driveway on your right. 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 Did anyone ask you how to get there last Monday night? 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 No, we're closed Monday. 04:43.000 --> 04:44.000 Thanks. 04:44.000 --> 04:55.000 The fourth driveway on your right. 04:55.000 --> 05:00.000 Oh, come on, come on, come on. 05:00.000 --> 05:05.000 Must be somebody lost their way. 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 Yes? 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 I'm, uh, Ed Bliss, Janet's husband. 05:08.000 --> 05:12.000 Oh. Oh, oh, yes. Uh, come in, Ed. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 I've been looking forward so much to meeting you. 05:15.000 --> 05:18.000 I wish it could have been under different circumstances, though. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 Yeah. 05:19.000 --> 05:20.000 Oh, I'm so sorry. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Oh, uh, haven't you heard anything yet, Ed? 05:23.000 --> 05:24.000 No, me? No. 05:24.000 --> 05:25.000 I can't understand it. 05:25.000 --> 05:27.000 It's not like her to do a thing like that. 05:27.000 --> 05:28.000 Oh, Ed, I... 05:28.000 --> 05:32.000 Pardon me, I want you to meet Mr. and Mrs. Farley. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 We were just playing a little bridge. 05:34.000 --> 05:35.000 How do you do? 05:35.000 --> 05:38.000 And this is my husband, Joe Alden. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 I guess that makes him your stepfather-in-law, doesn't it? 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 Uh, Joe, this is Ed Bliss. 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 How do you do? 05:45.000 --> 05:46.000 Nice to meet you, Ed. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 Well, I guess we'd better be going. 05:49.000 --> 05:51.000 Yes, I guess we had. 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 I do hope that your wife... 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 Well, I wouldn't worry about that. 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 Oh, uh, you heard about it, did you? 05:57.000 --> 06:02.000 Well, Ed, you see, they dropped in a little while after you phoned and rethought it. 06:02.000 --> 06:03.000 Oh, that's all right. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 Well, thanks for asking us over. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Come again real soon. 06:08.000 --> 06:09.000 Yes, we'll do that. 06:09.000 --> 06:10.000 We will. 06:10.000 --> 06:11.000 I hope you are. 06:11.000 --> 06:12.000 Good night. 06:12.000 --> 06:13.000 Good night. 06:13.000 --> 06:14.000 Good night. 06:14.000 --> 06:18.000 Oh, Ed, I hope you didn't mind about them. 06:18.000 --> 06:19.000 It's all right. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 Okay. 06:20.000 --> 06:25.000 Well, come on into the living room, then, and tell us about it. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 Not much to tell you that you don't know, is there? 06:28.000 --> 06:29.000 No. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 No, I suppose not. 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 Sit down. 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 Thanks. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 Uh, can't I get you something to eat? 06:35.000 --> 06:36.000 No, no, no, thanks. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 Oh, some coffee or something. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 I think I'll pass up the refreshments this time. 06:40.000 --> 06:43.000 Well, I know how you must feel. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 Yeah, I guess you do. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 But I still can't... I just can't... 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 You've, uh, painted this room lately, haven't you? 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 Yeah. 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 What about it? 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 Nothing, just... looks a little funny, that's all. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 You think so? 06:55.000 --> 06:58.000 Yeah, that brick wall in front of the house is kind of new, too, isn't it? 06:58.000 --> 07:01.000 You know I'm a brick lair by trade, don't you? 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 Well, now that you've mentioned it, I... 07:02.000 --> 07:05.000 Oh, Joe, how can you talk about... 07:05.000 --> 07:08.000 You better go on upstairs, Laura. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 She's taking it pretty hard. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 Yeah. 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 You seem to be bearing up all right, though. 07:13.000 --> 07:16.000 You haven't lost any sleep over it yet yourself, have you? 07:16.000 --> 07:18.000 I'm not her husband. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 This doesn't get against anywhere. 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 How was that? 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 Laura, I guess she's going to bed. 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 Oh. 07:24.000 --> 07:28.000 Well, I guess I better be getting down against that last buzz. 07:28.000 --> 07:29.000 How about staying overnight? 07:29.000 --> 07:30.000 No, thanks. 07:30.000 --> 07:31.000 Suit yourself. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 Wait a minute. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 I'll put the porch line on. 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 I'd say all right. 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 Ah, that's better. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 By the way, what happened? 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 What do you mean, what happened? 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 I suppose you and Janet had a row. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 What's that got to do with anything? 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 I hear you got kind of a temper. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 Were you a little too quick with the flat of your hand? 07:51.000 --> 07:52.000 What's all this for? 07:52.000 --> 07:53.000 The benefit of the neighbors? 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 It might be. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 Have you notified the police yet? 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 No, and I don't like the way you ask questions. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 OK, OK. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Want me to walk down to the bus with you? 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 It's pretty dark. 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 Maybe that's why I'd rather walk down alone. 08:06.000 --> 08:07.000 Now, wait a minute, Ed. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 I think maybe you got me wrong. 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 All right, all right. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 Maybe I have. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 Say good night to Mrs. Alden for me. 08:13.000 --> 08:14.000 Yeah. 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 Let us hear from you. 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 Don't worry. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 You'll hear from me all right. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 Still plenty dark when I got back to town, 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 but I took a shortcut at the corner just the same, 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 a path across a vacant lot. 08:31.000 --> 08:34.000 Between the lot and my house, there's a hedge. 08:34.000 --> 08:37.000 I was just going through it when I stopped cold. 08:37.000 --> 08:39.000 There was a light on in my house. 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 Only it wasn't a regular light. 08:41.000 --> 08:45.000 It was the beam of a flashlight moving past the living room window. 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 That could only mean one thing, cops. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 Of course, it was Joe Alden that tipped them off. 08:50.000 --> 08:54.000 I just waited, and then I heard the front door open and close. 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 I saw two men standing outside. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 One of them went up the street. 08:58.000 --> 09:01.000 Very soon I heard a car drive off. 09:01.000 --> 09:05.000 The other man was just a shadow now standing by a tree in front of the house. 09:05.000 --> 09:09.000 You could see he was expecting me to come from the other direction. 09:09.000 --> 09:12.000 I stepped through the hedge and went over to him. 09:14.000 --> 09:17.000 Would you be looking for anybody in particular? 09:17.000 --> 09:18.000 I might be. 09:18.000 --> 09:19.000 Who are you? 09:19.000 --> 09:20.000 Ed Bliss. 09:20.000 --> 09:21.000 Who are you? 09:21.000 --> 09:24.000 Detective Stillman, Bureau of Missing Persons. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 How did you know anyone was looking for you? 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 Oh, I'm just bright that way. 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 Yeah? 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 Well, they like bright boys down at headquarters. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 Come on, let's go. 09:42.000 --> 09:47.000 Tonight for Suspense, Roma wines are bringing you a star, Mr. Joseph Cotton, 09:47.000 --> 09:54.000 whom you have heard in the first act of tonight's tale of Suspense. 10:01.000 --> 10:06.000 In many foreign countries where discerning tastes have found Roma wines, 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 they are an expensive luxury imported and treasured. 10:09.000 --> 10:16.000 For Roma wines are in every sense fine wines from the choicest vineyard country of California. 10:16.000 --> 10:22.000 They are products of age-old winemaking skill, aided by modern quality controls and tests 10:22.000 --> 10:26.000 that assure unvarying excellence of taste and character. 10:26.000 --> 10:30.000 Yet Roma wines cost you mere pennies a glass full. 10:30.000 --> 10:36.000 Such enjoyable flavor and constant quality, such low cost, such high wine value, 10:36.000 --> 10:40.000 have made Roma by far America's largest selling wines, 10:40.000 --> 10:45.000 enjoyed by millions with meals when entertaining anytime. 10:45.000 --> 10:47.000 Try Roma wine yourself. 10:47.000 --> 10:50.000 Tomorrow at dinner, no matter what you're serving, 10:50.000 --> 10:56.000 place on the table a cool bottle of ruby red hearty Roma California Burgundy. 10:56.000 --> 11:02.000 See how much new zest it adds to food, how it makes a real occasion of even the simplest meal. 11:02.000 --> 11:10.000 To enjoy this extra mealtime pleasure, just ask your dealer for R.O.M.A. Roma wine, 11:10.000 --> 11:15.000 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 11:15.000 --> 11:22.000 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Mr. Joseph Cotton, 11:22.000 --> 11:26.000 who in the person of Ed Bliss resumes the story called, 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 You'll Never See Me Again. 11:28.000 --> 11:32.000 Tonight's study in suspense. 11:32.000 --> 11:48.000 She stood there in the shadows watching my face. 11:48.000 --> 11:52.000 Detective Stillman of the Bureau of Missing Persons. 11:52.000 --> 11:57.000 I'd been expecting this to happen sooner or later, but now that it had, I was stunned for a moment. 11:57.000 --> 11:59.000 He said it again. 11:59.000 --> 12:02.000 Come on, bright boy, they're expecting us at headquarters. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 Now wait a minute, I want to talk to you. I'm in a jam. 12:04.000 --> 12:05.000 Oh, you're telling me. 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 Not the way you think. Would you come inside with me? 12:07.000 --> 12:09.000 I've been inside. 12:09.000 --> 12:12.000 What kind of a furnace do you have in your cellar, Bliss? 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 An oil burner. 12:13.000 --> 12:16.000 The kind that turns on automatic with an electric cut-in? 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 That's right. Why? Is there a fuse blown? 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 How did you know there was a fuse blown? 12:20.000 --> 12:26.000 Was that why you were searching my house with a flashlight, or was it because you didn't have a warrant? 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 Oh, you really are a bright boy, aren't you? 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Well, come on, come on. 12:30.000 --> 12:34.000 Now listen, listen. I don't want to have any arguments. I want help, and I want it bad. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 Will you give me a break? 12:35.000 --> 12:36.000 What kind of a break? 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 Well, this is no place to talk. Will you come inside? 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 Okay, okay, but you'd better talk fast and good. 12:41.000 --> 12:49.000 Don't worry. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 Fuse box is right down here. 12:52.000 --> 12:58.000 I'll flash your light up here. Always keep a couple of fuses on top of it. 12:58.000 --> 13:02.000 Here, there we are. Let's go in the front room. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 After you. 13:04.000 --> 13:10.000 Okay. 13:10.000 --> 13:13.000 Now, now what do you want to talk about? 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 Don't you understand? She's my wife. I'm scared. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 Then why did you run out? Why didn't you tell the police? 13:17.000 --> 13:20.000 Because at first I thought it was just, you know, one of those things. 13:20.000 --> 13:22.000 I mean, I knew where she'd gone, back to her mother's. 13:22.000 --> 13:23.000 How did you know that? 13:23.000 --> 13:27.000 Because I went down there after her, because all kinds of people saw her go bus drivers, ticket sellers. 13:27.000 --> 13:31.000 Only when I got there, she wasn't there. 13:31.000 --> 13:35.000 How much life insurance did you carry on her bliss? 13:35.000 --> 13:37.000 Twenty-five thousand. 13:37.000 --> 13:41.000 That's quite a lot for a seventy-five dollar a week architect, isn't it? 13:41.000 --> 13:46.000 Oh, her mother paid for it, a wedding present. For heaven's sake, what do you think I did, burn it in the cellar or something? 13:46.000 --> 13:49.000 No, no, we know you didn't do that. 13:49.000 --> 13:50.000 We looked. 13:50.000 --> 13:54.000 Oh, cut it out, cut it out, will you? I, I love her. We've only been married three months. 13:54.000 --> 13:55.000 Well, what do you want me to do? 13:55.000 --> 13:58.000 Give me a break. You take me down to headquarters now. It may be hours. 13:58.000 --> 13:59.000 Oh, it'll be hours, all right. 13:59.000 --> 14:03.000 In the meantime, if there's still a chance, there's got to be. 14:03.000 --> 14:06.000 She's somewhere and she's in danger. I know it. 14:06.000 --> 14:07.000 Yeah, how? 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 I tell you, I followed her down to her mother's place in West Hampton. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 There's a guy at the station who remembers selling her a ticket. 14:11.000 --> 14:15.000 The bus driver remembers her getting off there and then she just disappeared. 14:15.000 --> 14:16.000 Then what? 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 I went down to her mother's house. They hadn't seen her. 14:19.000 --> 14:23.000 But there's something funny about it. There's something funny about her mother and that stepfather. 14:23.000 --> 14:27.000 There's something funny about that house and about that room. 14:27.000 --> 14:28.000 What room? 14:28.000 --> 14:32.000 That living room of theirs. Listen, you've got to let me help you find her. 14:32.000 --> 14:39.000 You've got to go down to West Hampton with me because I've got a hunch somehow that, that I'm the only one who can find her. 14:39.000 --> 14:45.000 All right, Bliss. All right. 14:45.000 --> 14:47.000 I don't know why, but I believe you. 14:47.000 --> 14:48.000 You do? You'll go? 14:48.000 --> 14:53.000 Yeah. And I, I shouldn't believe you either because... 14:53.000 --> 14:54.000 Because what? 14:54.000 --> 14:59.000 What was your wife wearing when she ran out on you Monday night? 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 What was she wearing? 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 Yes, yes. You must remember what she was wearing. 15:02.000 --> 15:13.000 Well, she was wearing a gray flannel suit, a skirt and jacket, you know, a pink silk shirt waist, patent leather, high heeled shoes and those crazy little hats. 15:13.000 --> 15:14.000 Any baggage? 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 Yeah, a little tan suitcase. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 You're sure of that? 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 Sure. 15:18.000 --> 15:21.000 Well, that's why I shouldn't believe you. 15:21.000 --> 15:22.000 Why not? 15:22.000 --> 15:29.000 Because when you find somebody's clothes around, you usually start looking for the body right nearby. 15:29.000 --> 15:31.000 Well, what do you mean? 15:31.000 --> 15:35.000 They weren't burnt up because that fuse had blown. 15:35.000 --> 15:41.000 But we found every one of those things in the furnace down in your cellar about 20 minutes ago. 15:47.000 --> 15:51.000 He said that I knew there wasn't much time, but he was going up to West Hampton with me anyway. 15:51.000 --> 15:58.000 That was the main thing. Of course, first he had to route out the bus driver, the ticket seller and check my story with them just to be sure I wasn't trying to pull a fast one. 15:58.000 --> 16:04.000 If that was all right, I'd expected that. And we climbed into the police car and headed out to West Hampton. 16:04.000 --> 16:09.000 He believed me now all right. That car couldn't have been pushed any harder if I'd been driving it myself. 16:09.000 --> 16:12.000 Still, it was getting daylight and we got there. 16:12.000 --> 16:16.000 Parked the car a little ways down the road and walked toward the house. 16:18.000 --> 16:21.000 See what I mean, Bert? Take that brick wall for instance. 16:21.000 --> 16:22.000 Oh, what about it? 16:22.000 --> 16:23.000 It's new. 16:23.000 --> 16:26.000 What did he build that for? It's not tall enough to hide the road. 16:26.000 --> 16:29.000 It's not even tall enough to keep a dog out. Why'd he build it? 16:29.000 --> 16:32.000 Well, maybe he built it to keep it in practice. Come on, come on, let's go in. 16:34.000 --> 16:35.000 It's awfully quiet. 16:35.000 --> 16:42.000 Why not? They're probably in bed, where I'd be if I hadn't let you talk me into this. 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 Listen, Bert, you don't think... 16:43.000 --> 16:46.000 I'm here, ain't I? Go on, ring the bell. 16:49.000 --> 16:50.000 No answer. 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 Keep trying. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 Shades are all down. I don't think they're in... 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 Come on, let's try the back door. 16:58.000 --> 17:02.000 Shades are down on this side of the house too. Look, the garage is empty. 17:02.000 --> 17:06.000 Yeah. Well, I guess our bird's a fluke of the coop, all right? 17:06.000 --> 17:07.000 Bert, I don't like this. 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 Come on, we'll try this back door anyway. 17:10.000 --> 17:11.000 Uh-oh, it's locked. 17:11.000 --> 17:13.000 Here, here's an axe. 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 I'd like to try my keys first. 17:15.000 --> 17:18.000 There, that's got it. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 This the way to the front of the house? 17:20.000 --> 17:23.000 I guess so. I've never been back here. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 Yeah, this is it. Here's the front hall. 17:26.000 --> 17:27.000 There. 17:28.000 --> 17:29.000 There it is. 17:29.000 --> 17:30.000 What? 17:30.000 --> 17:31.000 That room. 17:31.000 --> 17:32.000 The living room I was telling you about. 17:32.000 --> 17:33.000 What about? 17:33.000 --> 17:34.000 Snap on the lights. 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 All right, I still say, what about it? 17:38.000 --> 17:41.000 I don't know, but I think it's a good idea to try it. 17:41.000 --> 17:45.000 All right, I still say, what about it? 17:45.000 --> 17:49.000 I don't know, but don't you get something funny about it? 17:49.000 --> 17:50.000 Oh, what? 17:50.000 --> 17:54.000 Well, the lights or something about that fresh paint, the rug. 17:54.000 --> 17:56.000 There's something, though I know there's something. 17:56.000 --> 17:57.000 Oh, come on, come on. We're wasting time. 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 There's something screwy about the whole joint. 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 We went over the place from top to bottom. 18:03.000 --> 18:07.000 I wanted to get back to that room, and time was awful important. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 But Bert Stillman wanted to look into everything, 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 which was only right and natural. 18:11.000 --> 18:16.000 And then we ran into something that was just about the last thing I expected. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 What's this door here? 18:18.000 --> 18:19.000 I don't know. 18:19.000 --> 18:22.000 I thought we'd covered everything on the ground floor before. 18:23.000 --> 18:24.000 It's locked. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Yeah, it must be some sort of back bedroom. 18:29.000 --> 18:32.000 Oh, dog gone at the keys won't fit this one. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 Honey, only room in the house that was locked. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 Well, maybe we've got what we're looking for. 18:36.000 --> 18:37.000 Give me that axe. 18:37.000 --> 18:42.000 Bert, don't you see? If she was here and they've gone, they must have taken her. 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 Well, who's she? 18:51.000 --> 18:52.000 Mrs. Alden. 18:52.000 --> 18:53.000 Your wife's mother? 18:53.000 --> 18:54.000 Yeah. 18:55.000 --> 18:56.000 Where's your daughter? 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 Oh, please, please. 18:58.000 --> 18:59.000 Come on, come on. Where is she? 18:59.000 --> 19:00.000 I don't know. 19:00.000 --> 19:01.000 Was she here? 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 Yes, yes, but... 19:03.000 --> 19:04.000 Where is she now? 19:04.000 --> 19:05.000 I don't know. 19:05.000 --> 19:06.000 Did she leave with your husband? 19:06.000 --> 19:07.000 I don't know. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 Why didn't you tell me she was here the other night? 19:10.000 --> 19:11.000 Joe told me not to. 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 She was here, but the next morning Joe told me she'd left. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 And this morning, she left. 19:20.000 --> 19:25.000 Look, look, what did you lock yourself up in here for? 19:26.000 --> 19:31.000 I knew when Joe left that something, something terrible... 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 And when you came, I was frightened. 19:34.000 --> 19:35.000 I'm frightened. 19:35.000 --> 19:36.000 Come on, Ed. Where to? 19:36.000 --> 19:37.000 Don't you get it? 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 For some reason, the stepfather's put the snatch on her. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 We've got to put a call through the headquarters, get the highway patrols to watch for her. 19:42.000 --> 19:43.000 What about her? 19:43.000 --> 19:44.000 Oh, she comes along. 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 Oh, please. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 Come on, come on. 19:46.000 --> 19:47.000 Bert, yeah, there's something wrong about this. 19:47.000 --> 19:50.000 You bet your life there, oh, no, I mean, why would he, why would he do it? 19:50.000 --> 19:51.000 What motive would he have? 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 You let me worry about the motive, you worry about your wife. 19:53.000 --> 19:56.000 Got some connection with what's wrong about that room, whatever it is. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 Will you forget about this room? We've got to get... 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 I want to look just once more. I know there's something. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 Listen, listen, do you want your wife back or don't you? 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 There's no... Bert, Bert, I've got it. 20:04.000 --> 20:05.000 It's got what? 20:05.000 --> 20:06.000 It's lopsided. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Don't you see? It's, it's not on the square. 20:08.000 --> 20:09.000 Are you crazy? 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 Oh, no, I'm an architect. Look. 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 The light's on in the middle of the ceiling. 20:12.000 --> 20:13.000 The windows aren't in the middle of the wall. 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 So what? 20:14.000 --> 20:15.000 The design on the rug is wrong. 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 It's, it's cut, cut off too close to that wall. 20:17.000 --> 20:18.000 Bert. 20:19.000 --> 20:20.000 What? 20:20.000 --> 20:21.000 That wall. 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 That's why the room has just been repainted. 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 That's why he built that brick wall in front of the house. 20:26.000 --> 20:27.000 I don't get it. 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 One wall of this room is a dummy. 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 Built out in front of the real one. 20:31.000 --> 20:32.000 That's why the room looks lopsided. 20:32.000 --> 20:35.000 That's why he built the brick fence to get bricks without arousing suspicion. 20:35.000 --> 20:36.000 Which wall? 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 That one. 20:37.000 --> 20:38.000 And Bert... 20:39.000 --> 20:40.000 It must be hollow. 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 Give me that axe. You don't think that Janet... 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 Bert, Bert, give it to me. Let me. 20:45.000 --> 20:46.000 Get back, you hear me? 20:46.000 --> 20:47.000 Bert! 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 Mrs. Alden, is Janet... 20:49.000 --> 21:05.000 That's a baby, Mrs. Alden. 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 Ed. 21:06.000 --> 21:07.000 Yeah? 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 Ed. 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 Didn't you say your... 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 Your wife was young? 21:14.000 --> 21:15.000 Twenty-three. 21:15.000 --> 21:18.000 Twenty-three. Well, then you can look. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 This is an older woman. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 Oh. 21:25.000 --> 21:26.000 Do you... 21:26.000 --> 21:27.000 Do you know her? 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 No. 21:31.000 --> 21:34.000 Well, there's your motive here. 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 But who could it be? 21:38.000 --> 21:39.000 I don't know. 21:39.000 --> 21:40.000 She must know. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 Your mother, she can't even talk. 21:43.000 --> 21:44.000 Ed. 21:45.000 --> 21:46.000 You'd know if... 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 If she was the mother. 21:49.000 --> 21:50.000 Of course I'd. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 No. 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 I wouldn't. 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 I never saw Janet's mother until I came here to the house Monday night. 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 Mrs. Alden. 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 Mrs. Alden, answer me. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 I'm... 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 Not Mrs. Alden. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 That's Mrs. Alden. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 That's Mrs. Alden. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 It's just a question of time now whether we'd get back there in time to stop it. 22:24.000 --> 22:27.000 It all fit together now and what Brett didn't know, he got out of the woman on the way back. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 Did you know Joe Alden before? 22:29.000 --> 22:30.000 No. 22:30.000 --> 22:34.000 Not before I came to their house in Eastport to take care of her. 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 I'm a nerd. 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 And Joe and I... 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 Who got the idea to kill her, you or Joe? 22:41.000 --> 22:42.000 He did. 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 When he saw me giving her a sedative once. 22:45.000 --> 22:47.000 He was pretty sick. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Oh, premeditated, huh? 22:49.000 --> 22:50.000 Why did he do it? 22:50.000 --> 22:51.000 Money, of course. 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 She kept a lot of bonds around the house. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 That's what Joe wanted. 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 Is that why you moved from Eastport to West Hampton? 22:57.000 --> 22:58.000 Yes. 22:58.000 --> 23:00.000 Nobody knew us in West Hampton. 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 We moved in at night. 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 They thought there was only two of us. 23:04.000 --> 23:07.000 They thought I was the real Mrs. Alden. 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 When did he do it? 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 About a week after we got there. 23:12.000 --> 23:13.000 One night. 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 By morning she was... 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 Where you found her. 23:24.000 --> 23:28.000 We were doing better than 80 most of the way, but I still didn't think we'd make it naturally. 23:28.000 --> 23:34.000 Bert was afraid to put the local cops around the house or fear Alden would spot them first and take Janet away and do it somewhere else. 23:34.000 --> 23:36.000 If he hadn't done it already. 23:36.000 --> 23:39.000 Because Bert Philman had to fix a coal now. 23:39.000 --> 23:44.000 Janet had come to the West Hampton house and found her mother was missing before Alden had been able to make his getaway. 23:44.000 --> 23:47.000 So Alden had been made to kill Janet too. 23:47.000 --> 23:52.000 Bert knew where he was taking her because of the clothes and the furniture in my house. 23:52.000 --> 23:56.000 That was a tip off that Alden was going to try to plant it on me. 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 It was the only break I had. 23:58.000 --> 24:02.000 At least I knew where to look if I could get there in time. 24:02.000 --> 24:05.000 The outskirts of town we picked up a police escort. 24:05.000 --> 24:08.000 But Bert made them lay off when it got near the house. 24:08.000 --> 24:11.000 We drove up the side street and parked a little ways off. 24:11.000 --> 24:13.000 We walked up to the house. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 There was a car in front of it. 24:19.000 --> 24:20.000 Is that Alden's car? 24:20.000 --> 24:21.000 Yes. 24:21.000 --> 24:22.000 All right. 24:22.000 --> 24:26.000 You're coming in with this lady but the first sound out of you and I'll shoot. 24:26.000 --> 24:27.000 I mean that. 24:27.000 --> 24:28.000 I know. 24:28.000 --> 24:29.000 Got your keys in? 24:29.000 --> 24:30.000 Yeah. 24:34.000 --> 24:35.000 Quiet now. 24:35.000 --> 24:36.000 Yeah. 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 Look. 24:38.000 --> 24:39.000 There's a light. 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 That's the door to the cellar. 24:41.000 --> 24:42.000 Come on. 24:42.000 --> 24:43.000 Listen, listen. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 He's digging. 24:47.000 --> 24:48.000 The light's gone out. 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 He must have heard us. 24:49.000 --> 24:50.000 Put on your flashlight. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 Let's go. 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 There he is. 24:53.000 --> 24:54.000 Ed. 24:54.000 --> 24:55.000 Why you? 24:56.000 --> 24:58.000 Hey, where'd you do that for? 24:58.000 --> 24:59.000 Killed my wife, didn't he? 24:59.000 --> 25:00.000 Switch on the light. 25:00.000 --> 25:01.000 Maybe it isn't too late yet. 25:01.000 --> 25:02.000 There she is. 25:02.000 --> 25:03.000 She's dead. 25:03.000 --> 25:04.000 Yes, yeah. 25:04.000 --> 25:05.000 Chloroform. 25:05.000 --> 25:06.000 You smell it? 25:06.000 --> 25:07.000 Get that cloth off her face. 25:07.000 --> 25:08.000 Too late, can't you see? 25:08.000 --> 25:09.000 Yeah, yeah, I'm afraid. 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 What are you doing carrying a gun, Ed? 25:11.000 --> 25:12.000 I got a permit. 25:12.000 --> 25:15.000 Anyway, what's the use of asking questions like this now when... 25:15.000 --> 25:16.000 Look. 25:16.000 --> 25:17.000 Look, she's moving. 25:17.000 --> 25:18.000 What? 25:18.000 --> 25:19.000 Yes, she's alive. 25:19.000 --> 25:20.000 Give me your hand. 25:20.000 --> 25:21.000 Ed. 25:21.000 --> 25:22.000 Ed, help me. 25:22.000 --> 25:23.000 Ed. 25:23.000 --> 25:24.000 Where you going, Ed? 25:24.000 --> 25:25.000 Put up your hands, Ed. 25:25.000 --> 25:26.000 Okay, okay, they're up. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 Come on back down here. 25:28.000 --> 25:29.000 All right. 25:29.000 --> 25:30.000 Take it easy. 25:30.000 --> 25:31.000 I'm coming. 25:31.000 --> 25:38.000 Ed, you could at least have done it yourself. 25:38.000 --> 25:56.640 Instead of hiring murderers. 25:56.640 --> 25:58.880 What did you do it for, the money? 25:58.880 --> 26:00.240 What do you think, for fun? 26:00.240 --> 26:01.720 Go ahead, talk. 26:01.720 --> 26:04.120 Anything to make you happy. 26:04.120 --> 26:07.320 Would have been perfect if Alden had killed her when he first got her in the cellar like 26:07.320 --> 26:08.320 I told him to. 26:08.320 --> 26:11.560 Maybe he had a sneaking idea I was going to double cross him. 26:11.560 --> 26:15.320 He was stalling until the last minute, I don't know. 26:15.320 --> 26:19.080 Anyway, won't do him much good where he is. 26:19.080 --> 26:20.520 What did you have on him, Ed? 26:20.520 --> 26:22.680 The mother, his wife. 26:22.680 --> 26:24.720 I'd been up there before alone. 26:24.720 --> 26:29.240 I knew he'd killed his wife because I'd seen a picture Janet had of a real mother, and 26:29.240 --> 26:31.200 I spotted the room right away. 26:31.200 --> 26:34.960 I told Alden I'd split the money with him if he did it, and if he didn't... 26:34.960 --> 26:35.960 Go on. 26:35.960 --> 26:38.000 Well, I knew I could pick a fight with Janet. 26:38.000 --> 26:40.280 I knew she'd run up to her mother's. 26:40.280 --> 26:42.840 Then I went up there to make it look good. 26:42.840 --> 26:46.840 After I left, Alden was to call the cops like he did. 26:46.840 --> 26:51.000 You'd take me down here to headquarters, and while you were giving me the old third degree, 26:51.000 --> 26:53.280 Alden was supposed to plant the body in the cellar. 26:53.280 --> 26:57.880 That way, I was in the clear because you'd know I couldn't have done it while I was down 26:57.880 --> 26:59.800 here talking to you. 26:59.800 --> 27:03.720 And you'd know she hadn't been there before because you'd looked. 27:03.720 --> 27:06.320 That's where I planted the clothes and the fannies, remember? 27:06.320 --> 27:07.320 So you would look. 27:07.320 --> 27:08.320 It's small. 27:08.320 --> 27:14.960 I had an alibi, and nobody had a thing on Alden unless I squawked, and he had to take 27:14.960 --> 27:15.960 that chance. 27:15.960 --> 27:20.000 But pretty good there for a while, didn't it? 27:20.000 --> 27:21.240 Yeah, yeah. 27:21.240 --> 27:23.120 Well, your wife's outside. 27:23.120 --> 27:26.320 You want to say anything to her? 27:26.320 --> 27:27.320 Yeah. 27:27.320 --> 27:48.760 Just tell her I said, you'll never see me again. 27:48.760 --> 27:52.360 And so closes You'll Never See Me Again, starring Joseph Cotton. 27:52.360 --> 27:54.360 Tonight's study in suspense. 27:54.360 --> 28:00.600 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 28:00.600 --> 28:05.480 To every woman listening tonight, I want to say a special word about making every dinner 28:05.480 --> 28:08.080 or supper you serve taste better. 28:08.080 --> 28:12.480 I want to urge you to start serving Roma wine with your meals. 28:12.480 --> 28:13.480 It's simple. 28:13.480 --> 28:18.760 The cost is very, very little, and it works magic in making food more enjoyable. 28:18.760 --> 28:24.600 You can serve Roma wine with any meal or any time in any kind of glass you wish. 28:24.600 --> 28:25.800 Serve it chilled. 28:25.800 --> 28:31.120 Try different kinds of Roma wine until you find those you enjoy most of all. 28:31.120 --> 28:38.600 Try hearty red Roma California burgundy or the delicately delicious Roma California sautern. 28:38.600 --> 28:45.400 The cost is only pennies a glass, but you'll find even a pickup supper tastes like a banquet. 28:45.400 --> 28:49.940 Get Roma wines today if your dealer is temporarily out of them. 28:49.940 --> 28:52.160 Please try again soon. 28:52.160 --> 29:01.480 Just ask for our OMA Roma wines, America's largest selling wines made in California for 29:01.480 --> 29:04.560 enjoyment throughout the world. 29:04.560 --> 29:08.880 Joseph Cotton appeared through the courtesy of David O. 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