WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 Now, Roma Wines present... 00:04.000 --> 00:10.000 Suspense! 00:10.000 --> 00:24.000 Tonight, the Bluebeard of Balak, starring Merle O'Brien. 00:24.000 --> 00:28.000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:28.000 --> 00:31.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:31.000 --> 00:36.000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 00:36.000 --> 00:39.000 To your happiness and entertaining guests. 00:39.000 --> 00:42.000 To your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:42.000 --> 00:48.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you... 00:48.000 --> 00:52.000 Suspense! 00:52.000 --> 00:57.000 This is the man in black here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 00:57.000 --> 01:01.000 Who tonight from Hollywood bring you a star, Miss Merle O'Brien. 01:01.000 --> 01:07.000 And a suspense play inspired by an actual recent news item from occupied France. 01:07.000 --> 01:12.000 And so with the Bluebeard of Balak and with the performance of Merle O'Brien, 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 we again hope to keep you in... 01:14.000 --> 01:21.000 Suspense! 01:21.000 --> 01:24.000 Alright, get back, stand back there. 01:24.000 --> 01:25.000 Back up the wall. 01:25.000 --> 01:27.000 How many were there this time? 01:27.000 --> 01:29.000 One. They found most of them. 01:29.000 --> 01:30.000 And? 01:30.000 --> 01:31.000 It was a soldier, a German. 01:31.000 --> 01:33.000 I heard it was an officer. 01:33.000 --> 01:35.000 Stay back. Back there. Come on. 01:35.000 --> 01:37.000 But they're still digging? 01:37.000 --> 01:39.000 Yes. What officer was it, did they say? 01:39.000 --> 01:41.000 They think it was Captain Mueller. You know the doctor. 01:41.000 --> 01:43.000 They think? 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 They don't know. They're looking for his head. 01:46.000 --> 01:52.000 One, two, three, four. 01:52.000 --> 01:56.000 Ah, it's an anhyzer. How about this? 01:56.000 --> 02:00.000 Of course they found the body, identified the body. Why don't they identify him? 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 Identify him? 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 The Bluebeard. Why they find out who he is. 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 Listen, listen. 02:07.000 --> 02:14.000 Attention, attention. Villages of Balak, Saint-Jean, Brelanion, Flumey. 02:14.000 --> 02:27.000 Attention. This morning's victim of the Bluebeard of Balak is identified as Captain Franz Mueller, medical officer, attached to the staff of Colonel Strelitz. 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 Oh, an officer. 02:29.000 --> 02:35.000 For the first time the Bluebeard himself has been seen, and a description has been provided. 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 Mr. Lübio, please. 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 Yes. 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 I must speak with Colonel Strelitz. Is he here? I have information. 02:41.000 --> 02:43.000 Information about what? 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 About the Bluebeard. Is the Colonel here? 02:45.000 --> 02:48.000 He's in the staff car. Over there. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Please take me to him. I must see him. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 And who are you? 02:51.000 --> 02:56.000 This is Gilles Combre, Madame Combre. I live on the road to Flumey, just outside the village. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 Well, all right, come along, Madame. 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 Is that the Colonel, sitting in the back of the car? 03:02.000 --> 03:09.000 Yes. Now you wait here. I'll see. 03:09.000 --> 03:13.000 Colonel Strelitz, Corporal Brecht. 03:13.000 --> 03:18.000 Mr. Oberst, there's a woman from the village, Madame Combre. She has alleged information about the Bluebeard. 03:18.000 --> 03:23.000 Well, what a hysterical women's room, Mr. Oberst. 03:23.000 --> 03:27.000 What shall we do, Kreutzer? It's a possibility. Where is she? 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 Over there, Mr. Oberst. I told you to wait. 03:30.000 --> 03:31.000 All right. Come on. 03:31.000 --> 03:35.000 Yes, Mr. Oberst. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 To Colonel Lübio, Madame. 03:37.000 --> 03:41.000 Thank you. 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 This is Madame Combre, Herr Oberst. 03:43.000 --> 03:47.000 Madame, this is my aide, Lieutenant Kreutzer. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 It was kind of you to let me speak with you, Monsieur. 03:50.000 --> 03:55.000 Kind? Naturally, Madame. When we were told you have information about the Bluebeard. 03:55.000 --> 03:56.000 Yes, I have. 03:56.000 --> 04:00.000 We can't overlook anything. Now that he's killed one of my own officers. 04:00.000 --> 04:03.000 I know, I know. And I, I am next. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 So? 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 The Bluebeard is going to kill me. He's going to kill me tonight unless you help me. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 Unless you come home with me and stop him. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 This is your information? 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 Yes. 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 Why, every woman in Belach believes she is next on the Bluebeard's list. 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 But I know. 04:17.000 --> 04:21.000 Madame, the Colonel's time is valuable. We thought you had real information. 04:21.000 --> 04:25.000 You don't expect us simply because you hysterically believe that... 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 No, no, please. I know, Colonel Strelitz. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 How can you know? 04:29.000 --> 04:34.000 Because, Monsieur. Because the Bluebeard is, is my husband. 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 Why? Your husband is... 04:37.000 --> 04:42.000 Dr. Pierre Combre. Yes. He's the man you're looking for. 04:42.000 --> 04:47.000 I've known it for a long time. He is the Bluebeard. 04:47.000 --> 04:51.000 Tonight for Suspense, Roma wines are bringing you a star. 04:51.000 --> 04:57.000 Miss Merle Oberon, whom you have heard in the prologue to The Bluebeard of Belach by Sylvia Richards. 04:57.000 --> 05:00.000 Tonight's tale of suspense. 05:07.000 --> 05:12.000 In many foreign lands, wherever you are, you will find a lot of fun. 05:12.000 --> 05:23.000 In many foreign lands, wherever wine connoisseurs gather, they enthusiastically praise the distinguished character of Roma wines. 05:23.000 --> 05:29.000 Such praise of Roma wines in foreign lands can only mean that they are truly magnificent in quality. 05:29.000 --> 05:35.000 Roma wines' excellence is due to a unique combination of California's perfect soil and climate. 05:35.000 --> 05:42.000 From whence come the choice Roma wine grapes, plus age-old winemaking skill and modern knowledge. 05:42.000 --> 05:49.000 These combine to make Roma constant in quality, uniformly fine, unexcelled in value. 05:49.000 --> 05:58.000 Tomorrow, discover for yourself the delightful Roma taste and goodness enjoyed by more Americans than any other wine. 05:58.000 --> 06:06.000 Simply serve as an appetizer before dinner a cool glass of golden, nut-like Roma California Sherry. 06:06.000 --> 06:11.000 Then on the table, place a bottle of cool, hearty Roma Burgundy. 06:11.000 --> 06:19.000 You will be pleasantly surprised at the extra delight it adds to your meal, how it will win new compliments from family or guests. 06:19.000 --> 06:22.000 Yet, the cost is only pennies a glass full. 06:22.000 --> 06:29.000 Get Roma wines tomorrow. If your dealer is temporarily out of Roma, please try again soon. 06:29.000 --> 06:33.000 Ask for R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 06:33.000 --> 06:39.000 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 06:40.000 --> 06:49.000 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Miss Merle Oberon as Madame Cécile Combré in the Bluebeard of Bellac. 06:49.000 --> 06:54.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 07:09.000 --> 07:14.000 Eleven o'clock. He'll be here in an hour. And if you had not come here with me... 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 You have nothing to fear Madame. The house is well guarded. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 But won't the guards frighten him away? 07:19.000 --> 07:26.000 The instructions are to let him through. They will come in only when we have him trapped and we are armed. 07:26.000 --> 07:30.000 Yes, and he does not carry a gun. You know he uses a knife. 07:30.000 --> 07:36.000 Madame Combré, why didn't you come to us before if you knew your husband was Bluebeard? 07:36.000 --> 07:43.000 First I wasn't sure. Then, when I was sure... well, he was still my husband. 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 Then why now? 07:45.000 --> 07:52.000 Because now he will kill me and I'm afraid. I knew when he went away with the body of Captain Muller yesterday. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 You saw the captain? 07:54.000 --> 08:00.000 Yes, I saw it. And when Pierre looked at me, I knew he'd kill me. Tonight. 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 Yes, he may try. 08:02.000 --> 08:06.000 It's been weeks of fear and the night, the endless nights... 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 Have you been married long Madame? 08:08.000 --> 08:11.000 Long? No, less than a year. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 You aren't French, are you? 08:13.000 --> 08:18.000 No, no, I'm English. I spent a summer in Flomey about four years ago and I liked it, so I stayed. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 I taught English in the village school there. 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 Dr. Combré? 08:22.000 --> 08:27.000 About a year ago there was an epidemic in Flomey and he, Pierre, came there to help. 08:27.000 --> 08:32.000 It seemed to me when I met him to be very kind, a very noble man. 08:32.000 --> 08:37.000 Of course I didn't know him well, but when he asked me to marry him, I was very happy. 08:37.000 --> 08:44.000 The morning after we were married, he brought me here to Bellac, to this house which had been his family's for many generations. 08:44.000 --> 08:48.000 It was a beautiful morning, early spring. 08:48.000 --> 08:54.000 We came, as you did tonight, up the hill past the summer house to the front door. 08:54.000 --> 09:00.000 Well, here it is, Madame Combré. Come, I'll carry you over the threshold. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 Oh, careful Pierre, don't drop me. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 No chance of that. 09:04.000 --> 09:10.000 Now, this is the hall. Shall I carry you on from room to room? 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 Oh, Pierre, no. Put me down. 09:12.000 --> 09:16.000 Very well. Come this way. 09:18.000 --> 09:24.000 Now, here is the parlor. Oh, hello Captain Muller. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 Good morning, Doctor. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 I've been waiting. I hope you don't mind. 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 They said you'd be back this morning, the people down the road. 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 Yes, I was held up by my wedding. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 Your wedding? 09:37.000 --> 09:44.000 Oh, I'm sorry. Cecil, this is Captain Muller, the medical officer in charge with Colonel Strahlitz. Captain, my wife, Cecil. 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 How do you do here, Muller? 09:46.000 --> 09:51.000 Well, Doctor, I congratulate you. I see even an epidemic can be useful. 09:51.000 --> 09:55.000 That's one way of looking at it. So, what's up, Muller? 09:55.000 --> 10:05.000 Oh, I wanted you to come in tomorrow to help with the vaccinations. About 150 are going out and we need help. 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 The last lot carried typhoid. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 I'd be glad to help. What time? 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 Well, they are leaving at noon. If you're there at eight o'clock, we'll have enough time. 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 I'll be there. 10:15.000 --> 10:18.000 Very well, Doctor. Madame, tomorrow then. 10:18.000 --> 10:19.000 Hail Hitler. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 Hail Hitler. 10:21.000 --> 10:25.000 Ah, now we will go on with our tour. Follow me. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 Pierre, who's to be vaccinated tomorrow? 10:27.000 --> 10:34.000 Oh, Labour draftees being sent to Germany. This is the kitchen. The stairs go up from here. 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 What's upstairs? 10:35.000 --> 10:44.000 Well, off that first landing there are several bedrooms, mine and others, and on the floor above still more. Before the war there were servants. 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 This is a pantry? 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 Yes. 10:46.000 --> 10:50.000 And this door, where does it... Oh, it's locked. What is it? 10:50.000 --> 10:53.000 Ah, an old wine cellar. It's not used. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 A cellar? Do you have a key? 10:55.000 --> 10:57.000 There's nothing down there, Cecile, that would interest you. 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 Oh, but I'd like to see. We might be able to grow mushrooms or... 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 No, Cecile, it can't be used. 11:01.000 --> 11:03.000 Let's look. Where's the key, Pierre? 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 Cecile. 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 Yes? 11:05.000 --> 11:08.000 That door must stay locked. 11:08.000 --> 11:09.000 But Pierre... 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 You understand? 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Yes, but... but why? 11:12.000 --> 11:28.000 No matter what happens, you must never try to go down there. Never. 11:28.000 --> 11:38.000 You see, Monsieur, it was a small thing. Just a room I must not enter. He told me the room was used for his experiments and I believed him. I was in love. 11:38.000 --> 11:47.000 But there were other things and they added up to... fear. Just the taste of fear. A shadow so light I... I didn't know it was there. 11:47.000 --> 11:53.000 It was first of all the gossip I heard in the village when I went to market. 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 Ah, good morning, Madame Convray. You're late today. 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 Pierre worked late last night. Is there any milk, Madame Bourget? 11:59.000 --> 12:01.000 I can let you have a little pint. 12:01.000 --> 12:02.000 Oh, if that's all. 12:02.000 --> 12:05.000 Does the doctor work often at night? 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 Quite often, in his laboratory. 12:07.000 --> 12:10.000 I could not bear a man who potted around after dark. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 But it's his profession. 12:11.000 --> 12:16.000 Maybe, but I would not sleep a wink. Not with this blue beard around. 12:16.000 --> 12:20.000 No, I like a man who is steady, so I know what he's up to. 12:20.000 --> 12:24.000 Oh, how can you bear to live in that big depressing house? 12:24.000 --> 12:25.000 Oh, but I love it. 12:25.000 --> 12:32.000 Well, you're young. I suppose it's romantic to you. It's no place for a woman to be alone. 12:32.000 --> 12:37.000 The first Madame Convray, you know. She died there. 12:37.000 --> 12:42.000 Yes, Pierre told me. But I know he did everything he could. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 Oh, yes? 12:44.000 --> 12:47.000 It was very sudden. Typhoid can be very sudden. 12:47.000 --> 12:53.000 Yes, the certificate said typhoid. That's why your coffin was sealed. 12:53.000 --> 13:01.000 Oh! Hey, Jean! Jean, what is it? What is it? What's happened? Everyone's running. 13:01.000 --> 13:04.000 There's an announcement, Madame. They know who one of them is. 13:04.000 --> 13:05.000 One? Of whom? 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 There were three last night. One of them was a man. 13:07.000 --> 13:08.000 Three? 13:08.000 --> 13:11.000 Why, the blue beard, he killed three in one night. Cut them to bits. 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 Oh, how terrible. 13:13.000 --> 13:17.000 All sliced up and scattered around, Madame Convray. You should have seen. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 Oh, no. Where were they? 13:19.000 --> 13:23.000 In the meadow north of the church. Why, that's near your house. 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 The meadow? 13:24.000 --> 13:33.000 Yes, Madame Convray. If you had been awake, you would have heard him. You or the doctor. 13:39.000 --> 13:45.000 Yes, if I'd been awake, I would have heard. And one night, I was awake. 13:45.000 --> 13:50.000 My husband and I had gone to bed early and I slept well. I'd worked in the garden most of the afternoon. 13:50.000 --> 13:54.000 But shortly after eleven, something, some sound woke me. 13:54.000 --> 13:59.000 It may have been only an owl screech. I lay in the dark and listened. 13:59.000 --> 14:03.000 I didn't hear it again. Then I heard another sound. 14:03.000 --> 14:09.000 And I saw there was a little moonlight. That my husband was out of bed and that he was dressing. 14:09.000 --> 14:10.000 Pierre. 14:10.000 --> 14:11.000 Oh, did I wake you? 14:11.000 --> 14:12.000 Pierre, what is it? 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 Nothing, Cecile. Go back to sleep. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 Is someone ill? Did someone come for you? 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 I have to go out. Go back to sleep, Cecile. I won't be long. 14:19.000 --> 14:21.000 Something woke me. I heard a sound. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 I'm sorry. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 Did someone come for you? Was it Captain Muller? 14:24.000 --> 14:25.000 No. 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 Who is it, Pierre? Who is he? 14:27.000 --> 14:28.000 No one you know. 14:28.000 --> 14:31.000 Where are you going, Pierre? Do you have to go far? 14:31.000 --> 14:32.000 Go back to sleep. I won't be long. 14:32.000 --> 14:33.000 But, but Pierre. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 I'm sorry I woke you. 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 You didn't. I'm sure I heard a... 14:37.000 --> 14:40.000 Cecile, it's best that you go back to sleep. 14:40.000 --> 14:41.000 I just wondered. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 It's best for you. Good night, Cecile. 14:44.000 --> 14:48.000 He went away, Colonel Strelitz, and I lay there in my bed, 14:48.000 --> 14:52.000 rigid, listening to his steps down the dark stairs into this kitchen. 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 I heard the front door open and close. 14:54.000 --> 14:57.000 Then he went down the gravel path in the moonlight. 14:57.000 --> 14:59.000 I waited. 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 It seemed long, yet it was only a little time. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 That clock there, I could hear it through the floor, 15:04.000 --> 15:07.000 chime the quarter, then the half. 15:07.000 --> 15:10.000 When I heard him, it was not yet midnight. 15:10.000 --> 15:14.000 Then he came slowly, climbing the hill. 15:14.000 --> 15:16.000 I slipped out of bed and went down the stairs to the landing there, 15:16.000 --> 15:19.000 from where I could watch him come into the kitchen. 15:22.000 --> 15:25.000 But when he came into the kitchen, I could not speak, 15:25.000 --> 15:27.000 for he was not alone. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 Over his shoulders, he carried a body, 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 a man, I think, 15:32.000 --> 15:35.000 and he was stooped under his horrible burden. 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 He crossed the kitchen without a word. 15:37.000 --> 15:40.000 He did not hear what I was sure he must hear, 15:40.000 --> 15:43.000 the pounding of my heart. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 He took a key from his pocket, 15:45.000 --> 15:46.000 holding the body with one hand, 15:46.000 --> 15:49.000 unlocked that door to the wine cellar, 15:49.000 --> 15:52.000 and went into its awful blackness. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 Then I was back in my room. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 I don't remember how I got there, 15:56.000 --> 15:58.000 cold and shaking in my bed. 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 When I heard, oh, Monsieur, it was bitterful. 16:01.000 --> 16:04.000 I heard rising from the depths of the earth, 16:04.000 --> 16:07.000 from where he had gone, 16:07.000 --> 16:10.000 the scream of a man in fearful agony. 16:17.000 --> 16:18.000 Cecile. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 Yes, Pierre. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 You are still awake. 16:21.000 --> 16:22.000 No, Pierre, I... 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 I told you to go back to sleep. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 I was, Pierre, I did. 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 But you are awake now. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 Something... I heard something. 16:29.000 --> 16:30.000 Yes, you heard? 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 It was a man. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 Yes, you heard? 16:34.000 --> 16:37.000 It must have been you opening the door. 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 Oh. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 You came in suddenly. You must have... 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 Yes, yes, I think I did. 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 Well, we'll go to sleep now. 16:45.000 --> 16:48.000 Yes, we'll go to sleep. 16:48.000 --> 16:49.000 Pierre. 16:49.000 --> 16:50.000 Yes. 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 Was someone ill? 16:51.000 --> 16:52.000 Yes. 16:52.000 --> 16:55.000 Who was it, Pierre? 16:55.000 --> 16:56.000 Did you have to go far? 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 We'll go to sleep now, Cecile. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 What time is it? 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 It's just past midnight. 17:13.000 --> 17:16.000 Midnight was usually the hour, his hour. 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 He always came back soon after. 17:18.000 --> 17:19.000 And the following day, 17:19.000 --> 17:20.000 there were always the announcements 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 on the loudspeakers in the village. 17:22.000 --> 17:25.000 Bodies, pieces of bodies. 17:25.000 --> 17:28.000 It was the day when he and your men found out it. 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 It was so horrible for me, 17:30.000 --> 17:31.000 because she was so beautiful 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 and still only a child. 17:33.000 --> 17:36.000 And you remember, the body was yet warm. 17:36.000 --> 17:37.000 So the whistles were blown, 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 calling all the village to the church square, 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 because the bluebeard might still carry his knife 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 or have blood on him. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 Or he might not get there 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 and be known because he was missing. 17:49.000 --> 17:50.000 I was in the village, 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 and I ran to the square with the mayor. 17:52.000 --> 17:53.000 And we stood in line with the others. 17:53.000 --> 17:54.000 Everyone was there. 17:54.000 --> 17:56.000 Everyone except Pierre. 17:56.000 --> 17:57.000 What terror I felt. 17:57.000 --> 18:00.000 Monsieur, when you began to call the names. 18:05.000 --> 18:08.000 Madame Combre, are you here? 18:08.000 --> 18:09.000 It's just the sun. 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 It's so warm, yet I feel chilly. 18:11.000 --> 18:14.000 You're very pale, aren't you? 18:14.000 --> 18:15.000 Here. 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 Why, I don't see Pierre. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 Here, here. 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 Oh, he's probably with Captain Muller. 18:21.000 --> 18:22.000 He'll be here. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 Pierre Combre. 18:24.000 --> 18:25.000 Pierre. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 Here, here, I'm here. 18:27.000 --> 18:28.000 Pierre. 18:28.000 --> 18:29.000 Don't look at me like that. 18:29.000 --> 18:30.000 You'll attract notice. 18:30.000 --> 18:31.000 You're out of breath. 18:31.000 --> 18:32.000 Where were you, Pierre? 18:32.000 --> 18:33.000 Doesn't matter, I'm here. 18:33.000 --> 18:36.000 But your hands, your clothes, they're wet. 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 So you see, I still did not know. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 And I needed to be sure. 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 I could not live unless I was sure. 18:51.000 --> 18:52.000 So I stole the key. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 The key to the cellar. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Yes, it was that easy. 18:56.000 --> 18:59.000 While he slept, and the next day he went to the village with Captain Muller. 18:59.000 --> 19:02.000 And left me alone with the answer in my hand. 19:02.000 --> 19:05.000 I opened the door and went down those steps. 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 Carrying a candle. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 We will go down there in a moment, Colonel Strelitz. 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 To wait for him. 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 And you will see. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 There is a little room. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 Bare and damp by the candle's light. 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 I saw there was something on the table. 19:19.000 --> 19:20.000 It was his case. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 It was his case. 19:22.000 --> 19:23.000 Filled with knives. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 Surgical instruments. 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 Not strange for a doctor. 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 There was blood on them. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 Fresh blood. 19:30.000 --> 19:31.000 And there was more on the table. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 On the floor. 19:33.000 --> 19:37.000 And much blood on a sheet which I found thrown into the corner. 19:38.000 --> 19:42.000 I found the strength to get out and to lock the door again. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 Put the key back that night. 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 So again I did not know. 19:47.000 --> 19:50.000 I did not really know until yesterday. 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 I was sewing in the front parlor. 19:52.000 --> 19:56.000 And Pierre was walking up and down because he had an appointment with Captain Muller. 19:56.000 --> 19:57.000 But the captain was late. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 What's keeping Muller? 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 Perhaps he got orders. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 More soldiers came into Belac yesterday. 20:03.000 --> 20:04.000 Many more. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 Yes I know but that shouldn't keep him. 20:06.000 --> 20:07.000 There's something going on. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 They're getting ready for something. 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 Yes but why would Muller... 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 Do sit down Pierre. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 Your walking makes me nervous. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 I've spoiled the seam and have to rip it out. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 Oh I'm sorry. 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 Some of the soldiers were searching houses yesterday. 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 I don't know what they were looking for. 20:21.000 --> 20:22.000 Did they come here? 20:22.000 --> 20:24.000 Oh no. At least not while I was here. 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 I was in the village most of the afternoon. 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 That's when I saw the soldiers. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 And there's nothing here to look for. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 Is there Pierre? 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 That's it. Of course. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 Why didn't I think he's down there? 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 Pierre. 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 Where are you going? 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 I'm going down to my cellar Cecile. I have work. 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 Pierre. No. Not the captain. 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 Yes the captain and Cecile. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 I don't want to be disturbed. 20:56.000 --> 20:58.000 And then I knew. 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 He was going to kill Captain Muller. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 He was going to kill a German soldier. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Worse. An officer. 21:04.000 --> 21:10.000 I knew then Colonel Strelitz that if he would go that far he was no longer a man I could even attempt to reason with. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 His insane urge to kill my turn on anyone. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 Even me. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 I had to stop him. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Cecile. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 Cecile. What are you doing? You can't come down here. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 You. You killed him. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Cecile. Now. I'll have to. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 But I wasn't ready. It's not time. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 Captain Muller. They'll track you down. You. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 You can't get away. 21:36.000 --> 21:39.000 Cecile. Be quiet. I warned you. I told you not to. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Murder. You did it. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 You killed him. And the others. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 I told you. What will you do now? 21:45.000 --> 21:49.000 Do. What do you think I'll have to do? 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 And now. Now you know too. 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 And in a few minutes he'll come. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 And then it'll all be over. 22:14.000 --> 22:16.000 It's almost midnight. 22:16.000 --> 22:18.000 It's a remarkable story madame. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 So he made no attempt to harm you last night. 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 No Colonel Strelitz. It wasn't time. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 Not time. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 He kills only when he feels the need. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 And he'd already killed one. So the need was gone. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 And it was daylight. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 He left then? 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 Yes. I haven't seen him since. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 He looked at me. 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 It was a terrible look. 22:38.000 --> 22:41.000 And he went. And I knew by the look that I would be the next. 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 Tonight. 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 And Captain Miller? 22:45.000 --> 22:47.000 He took the captain's body with him. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Come. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 We must go down to the cellar now. 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 Before midnight. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 Very well. 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 Lieutenant will you bring the lamp? 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 Yes. I'll bring it. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 You see. It's unlocked. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 Has he left it? 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 Close the door behind you Colonel. 23:05.000 --> 23:11.000 I will. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 Careful. The last step. 23:13.000 --> 23:17.000 Another door. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 Oh. It is small and damp. 23:19.000 --> 23:21.000 Is that the table? 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 Where he... 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 Yes. 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 Set the lamp there Lieutenant. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 You can see the stairs. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 They're quite dry by now. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 I see. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 And on the floor. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 Sit down Monsieur. 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 There where you can watch the door. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 I will stand here at the back if you don't mind. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 You're right. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 It's safest for you. 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 Listen. 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 I heard the clock strike. 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 And... 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 Yes. Listen. 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 It's the door. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 Have you your guns? 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 Quiet. Yes. But we want to take him alive. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 You can. He's coming down. 24:01.000 --> 24:07.000 Yes. 24:07.000 --> 24:11.000 Cecile. Are you there? 24:11.000 --> 24:13.000 Put your hands up Dr. Combery. 24:13.000 --> 24:15.000 Ah. Visitors. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 Well done Cecile. 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 Scarcely visitors doctor. 24:19.000 --> 24:21.000 A bit more unpleasant for you. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 Now if you'll... 24:23.000 --> 24:25.000 Put your hands up Colonel Strelitz. 24:25.000 --> 24:27.000 You too Lieutenant. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 Madame Combery. 24:29.000 --> 24:31.000 He's... He's... 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 The blue beard. I'll take your gun Colonel. 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 And yours. 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 No Colonel. I am no blue beard as you knew very well. 24:37.000 --> 24:43.000 It was clever of you to plant the mutilated bodies of your victims to drive me into the open. 24:43.000 --> 24:49.000 To create this legend of a blue beard to make the people of Belac suspect all men who work at night as I do. 24:49.000 --> 24:53.000 To make the village distrust me their leader. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 Madame Combery. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 You saw Captain Muller. Saw his body. 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 Captain? Yes. Pierre killed Captain Muller. 24:59.000 --> 25:01.000 He was his one victim. 25:01.000 --> 25:05.000 Because the captain was suspicious and pried a little too far into this room. 25:05.000 --> 25:11.000 Pierre had to kill him because he was... He saw our radio station behind that wall. 25:11.000 --> 25:15.000 Open it Pierre and let the Colonel see. 25:15.000 --> 25:21.000 You see. The wall opens easily and behind it is the nerve center for Belac. 25:21.000 --> 25:23.000 For our underground army. 25:23.000 --> 25:27.000 Army. Sneaks and cowards who set their women to lying. 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 I lied. What else? 25:29.000 --> 25:33.000 You said that he carried in a body. That there was a scream in the night. That there was a body. 25:33.000 --> 25:37.000 All true Colonel. Yes I carried home a man wounded by your soldiers. 25:37.000 --> 25:41.000 And I removed the bullet without anesthesia for we French have no such luxuries. 25:41.000 --> 25:45.000 So the blood of that patriot is mixed on the table with that of the late Captain Muller. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 Don't you know it's hopeless for you? 25:47.000 --> 25:48.000 Hopeless? 25:48.000 --> 25:54.000 Colonel surely you know that our armies are in France. Americans, English and our underground army which surrounds you. 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 But this house is surrounded by my men. 25:56.000 --> 25:58.000 It was you mean Colonel. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 Are you still there Mr. Porter? 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 Porter? Yeah what do you say Doc? 26:02.000 --> 26:03.000 Everything quiet? 26:03.000 --> 26:06.000 Quiet as a tomb Doc. All things down there. 26:06.000 --> 26:07.000 Who's that? 26:07.000 --> 26:12.000 We have what you call a couple of rats Mr. Porter. Then we are finished. 26:12.000 --> 26:13.000 Okay. 26:13.000 --> 26:16.000 That is Mr. Porter as you heard. He is an American. 26:16.000 --> 26:18.000 An American? You? 26:18.000 --> 26:23.000 He is commanding a large number of parachutists who just an hour ago dropped into our meadow. 26:23.000 --> 26:26.000 And who a few minutes ago very quietly killed the guards you mentioned. 26:26.000 --> 26:28.000 Killed? My God. 26:28.000 --> 26:32.000 Yes and since you were here in the cellar unfortunately you could not hear. 26:32.000 --> 26:35.000 But now Pierre you have your work to finish. 26:35.000 --> 26:37.000 Your work? 26:37.000 --> 26:41.000 I have orders from my army to kill you and the lieutenant. 26:41.000 --> 26:44.000 To secure this advance for our allies. 26:44.000 --> 26:47.000 So with Cecile's help I set this little trap. 26:47.000 --> 26:48.000 Listen to me you want... 26:48.000 --> 26:51.000 Cecile do you want to share the honor? 26:51.000 --> 26:53.000 No. No. No. No. 26:53.000 --> 26:56.000 Please. 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