WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.000 Suspense! 00:01.000 --> 00:22.800 Tonight, Eve, starring Nancy Kelly. 00:22.800 --> 00:24.520 Right over there, Miss Jeremy's second booth. 00:24.520 --> 00:25.520 Thank you. 00:25.520 --> 00:26.520 You've got five minutes. 00:26.520 --> 00:27.520 Hello, Angel. 00:27.520 --> 00:28.520 Oh, Frank. 00:28.520 --> 00:29.520 Right over there, Angel. 00:29.520 --> 00:30.520 Take it easy. 00:30.520 --> 00:31.520 We don't have much time. 00:31.520 --> 00:35.480 Oh, but to have to talk to you like this through an iron screen, not even to be able to touch 00:35.480 --> 00:36.480 you when I... 00:36.480 --> 00:38.480 That's the way it is, Angel, when a guy's been... 00:38.480 --> 00:39.480 Frank. 00:39.480 --> 00:40.560 Frank, I know you didn't do it. 00:40.560 --> 00:41.560 I know you didn't. 00:41.560 --> 00:44.880 Of course I didn't, Angel, but just one of those things, circumstantial evidence. 00:44.880 --> 00:46.600 Oh, but there must be something. 00:46.600 --> 00:47.600 Uh-uh. 00:47.600 --> 00:52.800 I was pretty optimistic during the trial because I knew I didn't do it, I guess, but now that 00:52.800 --> 00:57.040 I look back on it, they had enough coincidence pieced together to convict a dozen innocent 00:57.040 --> 00:58.040 men. 00:58.040 --> 01:00.320 Oh, Frank, how can you be so calm? 01:00.320 --> 01:01.320 How can you... 01:01.320 --> 01:03.320 There's one thing I want you to know. 01:03.320 --> 01:06.680 I want to be sure you didn't believe any of that gossip about my running around with her. 01:06.680 --> 01:07.680 Oh, of course I didn't. 01:07.680 --> 01:08.680 She was a star. 01:08.680 --> 01:09.680 I was a producer. 01:09.680 --> 01:10.680 I needed her for my next picture. 01:10.680 --> 01:14.440 Lorna Moore was a big name in pictures, but you knew I'd been seeing her. 01:14.440 --> 01:16.240 I even told you how I'd quarrel with her. 01:16.240 --> 01:19.240 Oh, Frank, Frank, I know. 01:19.240 --> 01:21.680 Frank, how much more time is there? 01:21.680 --> 01:23.120 Two or three more minutes. 01:23.120 --> 01:25.120 No, no, no, I mean... 01:25.120 --> 01:26.120 Oh. 01:26.120 --> 01:29.040 I'll be back on the 15th, November the 16th. 01:29.040 --> 01:30.040 Six weeks. 01:30.040 --> 01:31.040 Yeah. 01:31.040 --> 01:33.400 Frank, I'm going to do something. 01:33.400 --> 01:34.920 What can you do, Angel? 01:34.920 --> 01:38.000 Don't you realize there's a murderer running around loose? 01:38.000 --> 01:42.360 Some man who's free and having fun and going out with girls. 01:42.360 --> 01:43.360 I'm going to find him. 01:43.360 --> 01:44.360 How could you find him? 01:44.360 --> 01:45.480 The police tried for weeks. 01:45.480 --> 01:46.480 They didn't try. 01:46.480 --> 01:49.080 All they wanted was to convict you. 01:49.080 --> 01:50.200 Uh-uh. 01:50.200 --> 01:53.040 But it is nice to hear you say it, Angel, because... 01:53.040 --> 01:54.160 What? 01:54.160 --> 01:56.280 Because it makes me know you really did love me. 01:56.280 --> 01:57.280 Oh, Frank. 01:57.280 --> 02:01.680 You see, there are things you can face when you're like this you didn't dare talk about 02:01.680 --> 02:04.040 or even think about before. 02:04.040 --> 02:06.000 I always loved you, Eve. 02:06.000 --> 02:09.600 But you were so much younger and full of ambition. 02:09.600 --> 02:10.600 Oh, Frank, don't. 02:10.600 --> 02:11.600 I'm sorry, Angel. 02:11.600 --> 02:15.080 I wish I could have done things for you. 02:15.080 --> 02:18.040 There won't be much left for you now. 02:18.040 --> 02:19.320 You know how it is in this business. 02:19.320 --> 02:20.920 You spend it as fast as you make it. 02:20.920 --> 02:21.920 Frank, stop. 02:21.920 --> 02:22.920 Please, please stop. 02:22.920 --> 02:24.640 I'm a hero. 02:24.640 --> 02:26.440 Forgive me, Angel. 02:26.440 --> 02:29.280 But it's wonderful to know how you do for you. 02:29.280 --> 02:30.280 Frank. 02:30.280 --> 02:32.440 Frank, I'm not going to let this thing happen. 02:32.440 --> 02:34.440 There must be something. 02:34.440 --> 02:36.560 There must be some clue somewhere. 02:36.560 --> 02:37.920 Well, don't you think the police... 02:37.920 --> 02:40.040 Something the police didn't know. 02:40.040 --> 02:42.400 Something you saw when you were up there and didn't tell them. 02:42.400 --> 02:45.960 I couldn't have very well told them anything about that when my whole defense was that I 02:45.960 --> 02:47.480 hadn't been up there. 02:47.480 --> 02:49.640 But there wasn't anything, nothing important. 02:49.640 --> 02:51.440 But there must have been something. 02:51.440 --> 02:56.400 Whoever, whoever was there before you, whoever did it must have left some trace. 02:56.400 --> 02:58.520 Well, there was her address book. 02:58.520 --> 02:59.520 Her, her... 02:59.520 --> 03:04.000 Yeah, I stuck it in my pocket because, well, it was open at the letter J and my name was 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 in it. 03:05.000 --> 03:08.200 It was a silly thing to do, but it's in the little secret drawer in my desk. 03:08.200 --> 03:10.840 Oh, Frank, why didn't you tell somebody sooner? 03:10.840 --> 03:11.840 What was the use? 03:11.840 --> 03:13.920 If I'd told them I'd been up there... 03:13.920 --> 03:17.400 Oh, yes, there was another little thing. 03:17.400 --> 03:18.400 I hadn't thought... 03:18.400 --> 03:19.400 Frank, what? 03:19.400 --> 03:20.400 A smell. 03:20.400 --> 03:21.400 A what? 03:21.400 --> 03:22.400 A smell. 03:22.400 --> 03:23.400 Your time's up, Mrs. Jeremy. 03:23.400 --> 03:24.400 Frank, I'll write. 03:24.400 --> 03:25.400 I'll write every day. 03:25.400 --> 03:26.400 All right, Mrs. Jeremy. 03:26.400 --> 03:27.400 Goodbye. 03:27.400 --> 03:28.400 So long, Angel. 03:28.400 --> 03:29.400 October 5th. 03:29.400 --> 03:44.400 Frank, darling, I found the little address book where you said it was. 03:44.400 --> 03:45.400 It's not much to go on. 03:45.400 --> 03:47.560 There are hundreds of names. 03:47.560 --> 03:50.960 But under the J's, there are only three others besides yours. 03:50.960 --> 03:53.320 I'm going after them one at a time. 03:53.320 --> 03:55.920 Tomorrow, I'm going down to see Lieutenant Trout of the Homicide Bureau. 03:55.920 --> 03:59.880 He always seemed to me one of the few who tried to be fair. 03:59.880 --> 04:00.880 And I might need help. 04:00.880 --> 04:08.040 Oh, darling, I know it isn't much, but you must keep on hoping something will happen 04:08.040 --> 04:14.160 if only because I love you so desperately. 04:14.160 --> 04:20.560 What's your angle, Mrs. Jeremy? 04:20.560 --> 04:21.560 My angle? 04:21.560 --> 04:22.560 Yeah. 04:22.560 --> 04:23.560 Why are you doing all this? 04:23.560 --> 04:25.600 Well, but he's my husband. 04:25.600 --> 04:26.600 I love him. 04:26.600 --> 04:30.400 Oh, look, Mrs. Jeremy, the cops around this town aren't exactly dummies, you know. 04:30.400 --> 04:32.760 You know what you were like before you married him. 04:32.760 --> 04:34.440 All right, Dick Tracy. 04:34.440 --> 04:35.920 The person can change, can't they? 04:35.920 --> 04:37.560 Sure they can. 04:37.560 --> 04:40.760 A cop just hates to have anyone think they can make a sucker out of him. 04:40.760 --> 04:41.760 You know how they are. 04:41.760 --> 04:43.840 Well, you can skip the apologies if that's where they're supposed to be. 04:43.840 --> 04:44.840 Sure. 04:44.840 --> 04:46.880 Now, what do you want me to do? 04:46.880 --> 04:50.280 Well, what kind of evidence would I have to have? 04:50.280 --> 04:51.800 How specific would it have to... 04:51.800 --> 04:54.080 What, to upset a first degree murderer? 04:54.080 --> 04:56.080 Well, something in writing. 04:56.080 --> 04:57.680 That's not so easy. 04:57.680 --> 05:00.760 Have you got a suspect in mind, some particular person? 05:00.760 --> 05:01.760 No, not yet. 05:01.760 --> 05:03.160 But you might have. 05:03.160 --> 05:04.800 Well, there's one other thing. 05:04.800 --> 05:07.280 It's an old, old trick, but it's still good. 05:07.280 --> 05:08.280 What's that? 05:08.280 --> 05:09.680 Did you ever see one of these things? 05:09.680 --> 05:11.240 No, I don't think so. 05:11.240 --> 05:13.280 Here, talk into this little gadget here. 05:13.280 --> 05:15.280 Well, what, what'll I say? 05:15.280 --> 05:16.280 Oh, anything. 05:16.280 --> 05:18.280 Just talk. 05:18.280 --> 05:23.280 Lieutenant Trout is one of the most chivalrous gentlemen I've ever met. 05:23.280 --> 05:26.280 You're quite a realist, aren't you? 05:26.280 --> 05:29.280 Here, now listen. 05:29.280 --> 05:34.280 Lieutenant Trout is one of the most chivalrous gentlemen I've ever met. 05:34.280 --> 05:35.280 See? 05:35.280 --> 05:36.280 A, a diptyphone. 05:36.280 --> 05:37.280 Yeah. 05:37.280 --> 05:38.280 It might come in handy. 05:38.280 --> 05:41.280 Well, it, it might. 05:41.280 --> 05:46.280 October 7th. 05:46.280 --> 05:49.280 Darling, Trout has installed a diptyphone in my new apartment. 05:49.280 --> 05:51.280 It's only a room, really. 05:51.280 --> 05:55.280 And of course, I've changed my name to Evelyn Jarvis in my appearance. 05:55.280 --> 05:59.280 I don't think that even you, my darling, would recognize me now. 05:59.280 --> 06:01.280 The phone numbers are a dead end so far. 06:01.280 --> 06:07.280 The first was a dressmaker and the next a man who's definitely been in the South Pacific for over a year. 06:07.280 --> 06:10.280 But there's one more, a Jerry Jordan. 06:10.280 --> 06:13.280 I'm going to call him this afternoon. 06:13.280 --> 06:16.280 Oh, my darling, I miss you. 06:16.280 --> 06:21.280 I miss you so terribly. 06:21.280 --> 06:26.280 Hello? 06:26.280 --> 06:29.280 Oh, is this Mr. Jerry Jordan? 06:29.280 --> 06:30.280 Yes. 06:30.280 --> 06:33.280 Well, I've finally found you. 06:33.280 --> 06:34.280 Can you guess who this is? 06:34.280 --> 06:36.280 Well, I'm afraid I'm not very good at that. 06:36.280 --> 06:38.280 Oh, all right. 06:38.280 --> 06:40.280 I suppose I'll have to tell you. 06:40.280 --> 06:43.280 This is Evelyn Jarvis. 06:43.280 --> 06:44.280 Oh. 06:44.280 --> 06:47.280 Well, don't you know who I am? 06:47.280 --> 06:48.280 No, I'm sorry. 06:48.280 --> 06:49.280 I don't, Miss Jarvis. 06:49.280 --> 06:53.280 Well, this is embarrassing. 06:53.280 --> 06:55.280 Didn't you get the letter? 06:55.280 --> 06:55.280 No. 06:55.280 --> 06:56.280 What letter? 06:56.280 --> 06:58.280 Oh, my goodness. 06:58.280 --> 07:07.280 Well, you see, a very good friend of yours, who's also a very good friend of mine, wrote you a letter about me. 07:07.280 --> 07:10.280 Or at least he said he would. 07:10.280 --> 07:11.280 I see. 07:11.280 --> 07:14.280 And I'll give you one other clue. 07:14.280 --> 07:17.280 I'm from out of town. 07:17.280 --> 07:18.280 Now can you guess? 07:18.280 --> 07:21.280 You wouldn't be from San Francisco, would you? 07:21.280 --> 07:23.280 Well. 07:23.280 --> 07:26.280 Ed Thornton, eh? 07:26.280 --> 07:29.280 He always did have a terrible memory for anything but phone numbers. 07:29.280 --> 07:34.280 Well, I didn't mean to bother you, but Ed said to be sure and look you up. 07:34.280 --> 07:37.280 Well, where are you staying? 07:37.280 --> 07:39.280 Oh, I managed to find a little place. 07:39.280 --> 07:40.280 Well, lucky you. 07:40.280 --> 07:42.280 Have you got any plans for dinner? 07:42.280 --> 07:45.280 Why, well, I hadn't really thought. 07:45.280 --> 07:46.280 Say it better still. 07:46.280 --> 07:48.280 Have you got any plans for right now? 07:48.280 --> 07:50.280 Well, really, Mr. Jordan. 07:50.280 --> 07:51.280 No, no, seriously. 07:51.280 --> 07:55.280 By the time we've had a drink and gotten acquainted, you'll be ready for dinner anyway. 07:55.280 --> 07:56.280 Oh, no, no. 07:56.280 --> 08:00.280 Now you wouldn't want Ed Thornton to know you were acting that way, would you? 08:00.280 --> 08:04.280 You just jump in a taxi and tell him to take you to the Brown Derby on Vine Street. 08:04.280 --> 08:06.280 I'll be waiting right there. 08:06.280 --> 08:08.280 Well. 08:08.280 --> 08:13.280 And knowing Ed the way I do, I'm dying to meet you. 08:13.280 --> 08:34.280 Well, as a matter of fact, from what I know, I'm sort of anxious to meet you. 08:34.280 --> 08:36.280 Darling, just a quick P.S. 08:36.280 --> 08:39.280 I'm going to meet him now at the Brown Derby. 08:39.280 --> 08:43.280 Mr. Jerry Jordan, and I have a hunch he's it. 08:43.280 --> 08:45.280 I don't know why. 08:45.280 --> 08:48.280 I'll remember what you said about cigar smoke. 08:48.280 --> 08:53.280 And yet, although I've got a hunch, it makes me feel a little shaky to be going there. 08:53.280 --> 09:05.280 He's, well, he's got such a nice voice to be a murderer. 09:05.280 --> 09:09.280 So that's what he says about me as a fine pal. 09:09.280 --> 09:11.280 I'll say one thing for Ed. 09:11.280 --> 09:14.280 He may be an awful liar, but he sure has well taste. 09:14.280 --> 09:17.280 Well, which proves he's no liar. 09:17.280 --> 09:20.280 But tell me, Jerry, is this the Brown Derby? 09:20.280 --> 09:22.280 I mean the one you hear about? 09:22.280 --> 09:23.280 This is it. 09:23.280 --> 09:27.280 Well, are there any people, you know, famous people here now? 09:27.280 --> 09:28.280 Well, it's a little early. 09:28.280 --> 09:34.280 Well, you know, I've always thought it was awfully silly, really, to be impressed by movie stars. 09:34.280 --> 09:38.280 Still, Hollywood must be sort of an exciting town to live in. 09:38.280 --> 09:42.280 I mean, from some of the things I hear that go on. 09:42.280 --> 09:44.280 That's mostly newspaper talk. 09:44.280 --> 09:46.280 Hollywood's just like any other town. 09:46.280 --> 09:49.280 They have their regular quota of divorces and fistfights. 09:49.280 --> 09:51.280 Oh, and murders. 09:51.280 --> 09:55.280 Oh, you mean that Lorne Amour business? 09:55.280 --> 09:57.280 Well, I read something about it. 09:57.280 --> 10:00.280 Yes, that was a genuine tragedy, all right. 10:00.280 --> 10:03.280 I don't suppose you knew her. 10:03.280 --> 10:06.280 Well, as a matter of fact, Lorne was one of the few celebrities I did know. 10:06.280 --> 10:09.280 Oh, really? What was she like? 10:09.280 --> 10:14.280 Well, Lorne was a long ways from being the sweet little thing she seemed to be on the screen. 10:14.280 --> 10:16.280 Oh, but murder? 10:16.280 --> 10:19.280 Yes, I suppose nothing really excuses that. 10:19.280 --> 10:22.280 Well, anyway, they got the man who did it. 10:22.280 --> 10:25.280 Frank Jeremy? Yes, I guess they did. 10:25.280 --> 10:27.280 You mean you don't think that... 10:27.280 --> 10:29.280 Oh, the case looked good enough. 10:29.280 --> 10:31.280 You can't always tell about those things, though. 10:31.280 --> 10:33.280 Any number of people might have done it. 10:33.280 --> 10:36.280 I'm afraid that Lorne's life was kind of a mess. 10:36.280 --> 10:38.280 Well, Jerry, were you... 10:38.280 --> 10:41.280 Mixed up with Lorne? Oh, no, no. 10:41.280 --> 10:43.280 But didn't the police? 10:43.280 --> 10:45.280 I mean, I should think with a woman like that. 10:45.280 --> 10:46.280 All of her friends... 10:46.280 --> 10:49.280 They nabbed Jeremy so quick, they didn't even question anyone else. 10:49.280 --> 10:51.280 Anyway, I was out of town when it happened. 10:51.280 --> 10:55.280 Oh, Jerry, may I have a cigarette? 10:55.280 --> 10:57.280 I'm sorry, I don't use them. 10:57.280 --> 11:00.280 I'll get you some, however. I only smoke cigars. 11:00.280 --> 11:03.280 What did you say? 11:03.280 --> 11:07.280 I said, I only smoke cigars. 11:14.280 --> 11:16.280 Darling, don't you see? 11:16.280 --> 11:19.280 His name in her book and he admits he knew her in the cigars. 11:19.280 --> 11:21.280 I'm positive. 11:21.280 --> 11:23.280 Now if I can win his confidence, 11:23.280 --> 11:25.280 get him up to my apartment near that dictaphone. 11:25.280 --> 11:27.280 Oh, I know I can do it. 11:27.280 --> 11:29.280 We've still got four weeks, darling, 11:29.280 --> 11:31.280 and I'll have to be awfully careful. 11:31.280 --> 11:35.280 He's clever and he's intelligent. 11:35.280 --> 11:38.280 Imagine a man who can carry a thing like that in his conscience 11:38.280 --> 11:45.280 and still be so terribly nice and courteous and thoughtful. 11:45.280 --> 11:48.280 But I'm going to win for you, darling. 11:52.280 --> 11:54.280 Hello, Jerry. Hello. 11:54.280 --> 11:56.280 You've been waiting long? Not very. 11:56.280 --> 11:59.280 Jerry, is something the matter? 11:59.280 --> 12:01.280 I don't know, darling. 12:01.280 --> 12:03.280 Look, why do we always have to meet here? 12:03.280 --> 12:05.280 Why can't I pick you up at your place? 12:05.280 --> 12:07.280 I don't even know where it is. 12:07.280 --> 12:09.280 Sometimes it's almost as though you were, 12:09.280 --> 12:12.280 well, keeping some sort of a secret from me. 12:12.280 --> 12:15.280 Isn't it a woman's privilege to have secrets? 12:15.280 --> 12:17.280 Don't talk like that, darling. 12:17.280 --> 12:19.280 Jerry, Jerry, you must know by now 12:19.280 --> 12:22.280 I couldn't have any secrets from you. 12:22.280 --> 12:25.280 Oh, I'm a fine one to talk, I guess. 12:25.280 --> 12:28.280 The fact is I've been holding out on you, darling. 12:28.280 --> 12:30.280 I don't live in that hotel. 12:30.280 --> 12:32.280 I live in a place out in Beverly Hills 12:32.280 --> 12:35.280 with about 30 rooms and a swimming pool a block long. 12:35.280 --> 12:37.280 I've got more money than I know what to do with. 12:37.280 --> 12:39.280 Oh? 12:39.280 --> 12:42.280 Darling, I feel like a dog about it now, 12:42.280 --> 12:44.280 but I didn't want you to know at first. 12:44.280 --> 12:47.280 Oh, and till you were sure I didn't care about money. 12:47.280 --> 12:50.280 Is that it? Yes, dear. 12:50.280 --> 12:52.280 Try to forgive me, will you? 12:52.280 --> 12:54.280 Oh, my poor darling. 12:54.280 --> 12:57.280 Will you? Of course I will. I do. 12:57.280 --> 13:00.280 And Jerry? Yes? 13:00.280 --> 13:03.280 About those secrets of mine. 13:03.280 --> 13:07.280 Suppose there were some things I couldn't tell you yet. 13:07.280 --> 13:09.280 Would that matter? 13:09.280 --> 13:12.280 Not if I was sure you would tell me someday. 13:12.280 --> 13:25.280 Jerry, I promise you that someday I will tell you. 13:25.280 --> 13:28.280 Frank, darling, I know the delay must be torture to you, 13:28.280 --> 13:31.280 but you must understand how careful I've got to be. 13:31.280 --> 13:35.280 I've got to have the positive living truth on that dictaphone. 13:35.280 --> 13:38.280 I haven't been able to get him up here yet, 13:38.280 --> 13:40.280 but we've still got 10 days, 13:40.280 --> 13:43.280 and I have a feeling it's going to be soon. 13:43.280 --> 13:45.280 Very soon. 13:45.280 --> 13:47.280 So don't worry, darling. 13:47.280 --> 13:49.280 I miss you. 13:52.280 --> 13:53.280 Who is it? 13:53.280 --> 13:54.280 God knows. 13:54.280 --> 13:57.280 Oh, wait a minute. 13:59.280 --> 14:01.280 Jerry! Darling, I had to. 14:01.280 --> 14:03.280 It's been almost a week and I... 14:03.280 --> 14:05.280 Well, how did you find this place? 14:05.280 --> 14:07.280 What do you think? I didn't tell you where it was if I didn't have reasons. 14:07.280 --> 14:09.280 Let me in, please. I've got to talk to you. 14:09.280 --> 14:11.280 Oh, all right. 14:13.280 --> 14:17.280 Darling, Ed Thornton arrived in town last night. 14:17.280 --> 14:20.280 He came to see me. 14:20.280 --> 14:21.280 Oh? 14:21.280 --> 14:23.280 He's never heard of you. 14:23.280 --> 14:26.280 He doesn't know anybody by the name of Evelyn Jarvis, 14:26.280 --> 14:28.280 or anyone that even looks like you. 14:28.280 --> 14:30.280 Is that what you came up here to tell me? 14:30.280 --> 14:32.280 Darling, darling, I don't care what it is. 14:32.280 --> 14:33.280 Only please, please. 14:33.280 --> 14:34.280 Jerry! 14:34.280 --> 14:38.280 Oh, darling, I want you so much. 14:38.280 --> 14:40.280 Oh, Jerry, Jerry, my darling. 14:40.280 --> 14:43.280 I want you to go away with me tonight. 14:43.280 --> 14:44.280 I want you to marry me. 14:44.280 --> 14:46.280 You... you what? 14:46.280 --> 14:48.280 I want you to marry me. 14:48.280 --> 14:49.280 But first... 14:49.280 --> 14:52.280 Oh, my darling, I've waited so long. 14:52.280 --> 14:53.280 There's something... 14:53.280 --> 14:55.280 There's something I've got to tell you. 14:55.280 --> 14:56.280 No, Jerry. No, Jerry, don't. 14:56.280 --> 14:58.280 I've got to. 14:58.280 --> 15:00.280 And then you can tell me whatever it is, 15:00.280 --> 15:02.280 and we can start even... 15:02.280 --> 15:04.280 if you still want to. 15:04.280 --> 15:07.280 Jerry, do we always have to tell anything? 15:07.280 --> 15:09.280 Does that matter now? 15:09.280 --> 15:11.280 I've got to, Evelyn. 15:11.280 --> 15:12.280 I can't keep it any longer, 15:12.280 --> 15:15.280 not the way I feel about... about you. 15:15.280 --> 15:17.280 Jerry. 15:17.280 --> 15:22.280 I've... I've killed someone. 15:22.280 --> 15:24.280 I'm a murderer. 15:24.280 --> 15:25.280 Who? 15:25.280 --> 15:27.280 Lorne Moore. 15:27.280 --> 15:30.280 And another man is going to die for it. 15:30.280 --> 15:33.280 Jerry. Oh, no, my darling. 15:33.280 --> 15:34.280 Listen to me. 15:34.280 --> 15:36.280 It doesn't matter. 15:36.280 --> 15:38.280 I don't care what you've done. 15:38.280 --> 15:40.280 Jerry, I love you. 15:40.280 --> 15:43.280 You know that. I love you. 15:43.280 --> 15:44.280 Can you still? 15:44.280 --> 15:46.280 I've loved you from the beginning. 15:46.280 --> 15:48.280 It didn't matter then, and it doesn't matter now. 15:48.280 --> 15:51.280 Darling, what do you mean, 15:51.280 --> 15:53.280 it didn't matter then? 15:53.280 --> 15:54.280 Did you... 15:54.280 --> 15:56.280 Yes, I knew. 15:56.280 --> 15:58.280 Do you know who I am? 15:58.280 --> 15:59.280 Who? 15:59.280 --> 16:00.280 I'm Eve Jeremy, 16:00.280 --> 16:03.280 the wife of the man who's going to die for it. 16:03.280 --> 16:04.280 His wife? 16:04.280 --> 16:06.280 Yes. 16:06.280 --> 16:08.280 Now you know. 16:08.280 --> 16:11.280 And you're willing to let him die? 16:11.280 --> 16:13.280 He deserves to die for the things he's done. 16:13.280 --> 16:15.280 He'd have probably killed her anyway if you hadn't. 16:15.280 --> 16:16.280 I knew he was seeing her. 16:16.280 --> 16:17.280 He was a beast, Jerry. 16:17.280 --> 16:19.280 I knew from the beginning it was a mistake. 16:19.280 --> 16:20.280 He beat me. 16:20.280 --> 16:22.280 He beat me and he tortured me. 16:22.280 --> 16:24.280 I can't even tell you some of the things he... 16:24.280 --> 16:26.280 When... when does it happen? 16:26.280 --> 16:30.280 The 16th. Tomorrow night. 16:30.280 --> 16:31.280 Tomorrow night? 16:31.280 --> 16:33.280 Does that matter to you? 16:33.280 --> 16:35.280 I'd let 50 men die to get you, darling. 16:35.280 --> 16:37.280 That's why I haven't seen you. 16:37.280 --> 16:38.280 That's why I haven't seen you. 16:38.280 --> 16:39.280 I was waiting until... 16:39.280 --> 16:40.280 We could be in Argentina tomorrow night. 16:40.280 --> 16:41.280 I'll pack. 16:41.280 --> 16:43.280 I can get plane tickets tonight from a friend. 16:43.280 --> 16:44.280 I don't have to change, do I? 16:44.280 --> 16:45.280 Oh, you look lovely. 16:45.280 --> 16:48.280 I'll just throw a couple of things in a bag. 16:48.280 --> 16:49.280 Nobody will know about this place anyway. 16:49.280 --> 16:50.280 Make it quick, though. 16:50.280 --> 16:53.280 And it's a perfectly logical time for me to go away for a while. 16:53.280 --> 16:55.280 Hurry, baby, hurry. 16:55.280 --> 16:57.280 I'm already now. 16:57.280 --> 16:59.280 How do I look? 16:59.280 --> 17:01.280 Oh, you look beautiful, darling. 17:01.280 --> 17:02.280 Wait. 17:02.280 --> 17:03.280 What? 17:03.280 --> 17:05.280 I ought to write a note to him. 17:05.280 --> 17:06.280 Your husband? 17:06.280 --> 17:07.280 Yes. 17:07.280 --> 17:10.280 Just to keep us both in the clear. 17:10.280 --> 17:12.280 He won't get it until just before... 17:12.280 --> 17:13.280 What are you going to say? 17:13.280 --> 17:16.280 Well, you can read it if you want to. 17:16.280 --> 17:17.280 No, no. 17:17.280 --> 17:18.280 Here. 17:18.280 --> 17:19.280 I'll mail it for you. 17:19.280 --> 17:20.280 No, I'll just stick it in my handbag. 17:20.280 --> 17:21.280 I'll mail it at the airport. 17:21.280 --> 17:22.280 Are you ready? 17:22.280 --> 17:23.280 Yes. 17:23.280 --> 17:25.280 Come on, Jerry. 17:27.280 --> 17:30.280 Well, good evening, Mrs. Jarrett. 17:30.280 --> 17:32.280 Oh, hello. 17:32.280 --> 17:34.280 You taking a little trip? 17:34.280 --> 17:37.280 Wouldn't you if you were me? 17:37.280 --> 17:39.280 Sure, I know how you feel. 17:39.280 --> 17:40.280 You in a hurry? 17:40.280 --> 17:41.280 Sort of. 17:41.280 --> 17:44.280 My friend here was going to run me down to the airport. 17:44.280 --> 17:47.280 Lieutenant Trout, Mr. Jordan. 17:47.280 --> 17:48.280 Well, I won't keep you but a minute, 17:48.280 --> 17:51.280 and then I'll give you a fast trip down there in a squad car. 17:51.280 --> 17:53.280 Want to step inside a minute? 17:53.280 --> 17:54.280 All right. 17:56.280 --> 17:59.280 Your friend here know what you've been doing? 17:59.280 --> 18:00.280 In a way. 18:00.280 --> 18:02.280 Any luck with our little gadget? 18:02.280 --> 18:03.280 What little gadget? 18:03.280 --> 18:05.280 Oh, a dictaphone. 18:05.280 --> 18:06.280 Lieutenant Trout thought... 18:06.280 --> 18:08.280 You thought, Mrs. Jarrett. 18:08.280 --> 18:10.280 All right, I thought. 18:10.280 --> 18:11.280 Mind if I turn it on? 18:11.280 --> 18:12.280 No, go ahead. 18:12.280 --> 18:14.280 There's nothing... 18:15.280 --> 18:17.280 I've got two evidence. 18:18.280 --> 18:20.280 I can't keep it any longer. 18:20.280 --> 18:23.280 Not the way I feel now about you. 18:23.280 --> 18:24.280 Jerry, don't... 18:24.280 --> 18:26.280 I've killed someone. 18:26.280 --> 18:27.280 I'm a murderer. 18:27.280 --> 18:29.280 Who? 18:29.280 --> 18:30.280 Lorna Moore. 18:30.280 --> 18:33.280 And another man is going to die for it. 18:35.280 --> 18:36.280 All right. 18:37.280 --> 18:40.280 Guess that's about all we need to know, isn't it? 18:40.280 --> 18:42.280 I guess it is. 18:43.280 --> 18:46.280 Well, I told you I'd get him, didn't I? 18:46.280 --> 18:47.280 Yeah. 18:48.280 --> 18:49.280 Evelyn. 18:49.280 --> 18:52.280 You can wrap him up and take him away, Lieutenant. 18:52.280 --> 18:54.280 And don't forget to send me back my husband 18:54.280 --> 18:55.280 the first thing in the morning. 18:55.280 --> 18:57.280 Come on, Jordan. 18:57.280 --> 18:59.280 Eve. 18:59.280 --> 19:01.280 So long, sucker. 19:02.280 --> 19:03.280 Eve. 19:05.280 --> 19:08.280 They sure gave you the right name, baby. 19:08.280 --> 19:09.280 Yeah? 19:10.280 --> 19:13.280 Only you wouldn't have needed the apple. 19:13.280 --> 19:24.280 Or the snake. 19:27.280 --> 19:29.280 Oh, Frank, darling. 19:29.280 --> 19:31.280 It just doesn't seem possible. 19:31.280 --> 19:33.280 Back here in our own home, 19:33.280 --> 19:35.280 out here on our own terrace again. 19:35.280 --> 19:37.280 Everything just the way it was. 19:37.280 --> 19:38.280 Yeah. 19:38.280 --> 19:41.280 Do you remember when we first took the place, 19:41.280 --> 19:44.280 how happy we were and how the agent took us out on this terrace 19:44.280 --> 19:47.280 and asked us if it would be too high up, 19:47.280 --> 19:49.280 if we were afraid of high places? 19:49.280 --> 19:50.280 Mm-hmm. 19:50.280 --> 19:54.280 Frank, is something bothering you? 19:54.280 --> 19:55.280 Well, Eve... 19:55.280 --> 19:57.280 Oh, tell me, darling. 19:57.280 --> 20:00.280 Oh, I know you've been through so much. 20:00.280 --> 20:02.280 When I think that today you might have... 20:02.280 --> 20:04.280 Now, look, Angel, I haven't had a kick coming. 20:04.280 --> 20:05.280 You saved my life. 20:05.280 --> 20:06.280 Oh, darling. 20:06.280 --> 20:07.280 And I know what the answer is anyway, 20:07.280 --> 20:10.280 but it would only prey on my mind if I didn't talk to you about it. 20:10.280 --> 20:13.280 And there shouldn't be anything like that between us ever, should there? 20:13.280 --> 20:15.280 Oh, of course not, darling. 20:15.280 --> 20:17.280 What is it? 20:17.280 --> 20:19.280 I...I have a record here. 20:19.280 --> 20:21.280 What record? 20:21.280 --> 20:23.280 That the police took off your dictaphone. 20:23.280 --> 20:24.280 Oh, well, Frank, I... 20:24.280 --> 20:25.280 I want to play it back for you, Angel. 20:25.280 --> 20:27.280 I'll put it on the phonograph here on the terrace. 20:27.280 --> 20:28.280 Oh, but Frank, please, dear. 20:28.280 --> 20:30.280 It's all right, Angel. I know. 20:31.280 --> 20:33.280 Jerry. Oh, my Jerry. 20:33.280 --> 20:35.280 Listen to me. 20:35.280 --> 20:37.280 It doesn't matter. 20:37.280 --> 20:39.280 I don't care what you've done. 20:39.280 --> 20:41.280 Jerry, I love you. 20:41.280 --> 20:42.280 Do you know that? 20:42.280 --> 20:44.280 I love you. 20:45.280 --> 20:46.280 Can you still? 20:46.280 --> 20:48.280 I've loved you from the beginning. 20:48.280 --> 20:50.280 It didn't matter then, and it doesn't matter now. 20:50.280 --> 20:54.280 Darling, what do you mean, it didn't matter then? 20:55.280 --> 20:56.280 Did you... 20:56.280 --> 20:57.280 Yes, I knew. 20:57.280 --> 20:59.280 You know who I am? 20:59.280 --> 21:00.280 Who? 21:00.280 --> 21:02.280 I'm Eve Jeremy, 21:02.280 --> 21:04.280 the wife of the man who's gonna die for it. 21:04.280 --> 21:05.280 His wife? 21:05.280 --> 21:06.280 Yes. 21:06.280 --> 21:08.280 Now you know. 21:08.280 --> 21:10.280 And you are? 21:11.280 --> 21:13.280 Is... 21:13.280 --> 21:15.280 Is that all? 21:15.280 --> 21:17.280 That was the end of the record. 21:17.280 --> 21:19.280 That was all that was recorded. 21:19.280 --> 21:21.280 It's all right, Angel. It's all right. 21:21.280 --> 21:23.280 I know. 21:23.280 --> 21:25.280 Oh, Frank. 21:25.280 --> 21:28.280 Don't you see I had to play it that way? 21:28.280 --> 21:31.280 Don't you see I had to make him think that's... 21:31.280 --> 21:33.280 so I could save you? 21:33.280 --> 21:35.280 Sure, I know, Angel. 21:35.280 --> 21:37.280 I just wanted to hear you say it, I guess. 21:37.280 --> 21:39.280 Please, Angel, I understand. 21:39.280 --> 21:40.280 Do... 21:40.280 --> 21:41.280 Do you really? 21:41.280 --> 21:43.280 Well, of course I do. 21:43.280 --> 21:45.280 I'm a hero, Angel. 21:45.280 --> 21:46.280 Oh, darling. 21:46.280 --> 21:47.280 Listen, it's all over now. 21:47.280 --> 21:49.280 I'll tell you... 21:49.280 --> 21:50.280 Let's celebrate. 21:50.280 --> 21:52.280 All right. Let's. 21:52.280 --> 21:54.280 I'll go down and get us some wine, champagne or something. 21:54.280 --> 21:56.280 Oh, that'd be wonderful. 21:56.280 --> 21:58.280 I'll go now, only... 21:58.280 --> 22:00.280 What, darling? 22:00.280 --> 22:03.280 Well, just getting out of the clink, I don't have any money. 22:03.280 --> 22:04.280 Do you? 22:04.280 --> 22:05.280 Oh, of course, darling. 22:05.280 --> 22:07.280 Right there in my handbag. 22:07.280 --> 22:08.280 Where? 22:08.280 --> 22:09.280 Oh. 22:09.280 --> 22:11.280 Oh, sure. 22:11.280 --> 22:13.280 Sure, you've got plenty. 22:13.280 --> 22:15.280 Say, here's a letter. 22:15.280 --> 22:16.280 A letter? 22:16.280 --> 22:18.280 Yeah, and it's addressed to me. 22:18.280 --> 22:19.280 A letter? 22:19.280 --> 22:20.280 A letter? 22:20.280 --> 22:21.280 Oh, Frank. 22:21.280 --> 22:23.280 Well, you must have forgotten to... 22:23.280 --> 22:24.280 Frank. 22:24.280 --> 22:25.280 No, Frank. 22:25.280 --> 22:27.280 No, Frank, no. 22:27.280 --> 22:29.280 No, Frank, I didn't... 22:29.280 --> 22:31.280 I can explain just how, Frank. 22:31.280 --> 22:32.280 Please, Frank. 22:32.280 --> 22:33.280 Angel! 22:33.280 --> 22:35.280 Ah! 22:57.280 --> 22:59.280 Lieutenant Trout, homicide. 22:59.280 --> 23:00.280 Trout. 23:00.280 --> 23:02.280 Trout, this is Frank Jeremy. 23:02.280 --> 23:04.280 A terrible thing has just happened. 23:04.280 --> 23:05.280 What? 23:05.280 --> 23:07.280 My wife, suicide. 23:07.280 --> 23:08.280 Nerves, I guess. 23:08.280 --> 23:10.280 She jumped off the terrace before I could stop her. 23:10.280 --> 23:11.280 It's 14 stories. 23:11.280 --> 23:13.280 Was suicide, was it? 23:13.280 --> 23:16.280 She gave me a note in her own handwriting just before... 23:16.280 --> 23:17.280 Oh. 23:17.280 --> 23:19.280 Well, of course, if the note says so. 23:19.280 --> 23:21.280 It does, all right. 23:21.280 --> 23:23.280 The case is closed. 23:23.280 --> 23:25.280 Here, I'll read it to you. 23:25.280 --> 23:27.280 It says, 23:27.280 --> 23:30.280 Frank, my darling, I've been wrong all the time. 23:30.280 --> 23:31.280 I've failed you utterly. 23:31.280 --> 23:34.280 Now I can't even bear the thought of facing you. 23:34.280 --> 23:37.280 When you read this, I will be gone. 23:37.280 --> 23:39.280 This is farewell. 23:39.280 --> 23:41.280 Forever. 23:41.280 --> 23:43.280 Signed, Eve. 23:55.280 --> 23:57.280 And so closes Eve, 23:57.280 --> 23:59.280 starring Nancy Kelly. 23:59.280 --> 24:01.280 Tonight's study in... 24:01.280 --> 24:03.280 Suspense. 24:04.280 --> 24:08.280 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 24:08.280 --> 24:10.280 And now, further to intrigue you, 24:10.280 --> 24:12.280 we of Suspense present a special preview 24:12.280 --> 24:14.280 of our next exciting tale. 24:14.280 --> 24:16.280 And here it is, 24:16.280 --> 24:19.280 a tantalizing glimpse of our next adventure in... 24:19.280 --> 24:20.280 Suspense. 24:20.280 --> 24:21.280 Warden Graves. 24:21.280 --> 24:22.280 Yes, Miss Rhodes. 24:22.280 --> 24:23.280 Sit down, won't you? 24:23.280 --> 24:24.280 Thank you. 24:24.280 --> 24:25.280 I hate to disturb you like this, 24:25.280 --> 24:27.280 but I've traveled clear across the country. 24:27.280 --> 24:29.280 They wouldn't give me the information over the phone. 24:29.280 --> 24:30.280 I know. 24:30.280 --> 24:32.280 You know what this visit is all about, Warden? 24:32.280 --> 24:33.280 To some extent, yes. 24:33.280 --> 24:35.280 You think one of our prisoners, Tom Nixon, has escaped? 24:35.280 --> 24:36.280 He has escaped. 24:36.280 --> 24:39.280 I'm as sure of it as I'm sure of sitting here now. 24:39.280 --> 24:42.280 I saw him at large in New York City two days ago. 24:42.280 --> 24:44.280 You knew Tom Nixon well, Miss Rhodes? 24:44.280 --> 24:45.280 Knew him? 24:45.280 --> 24:46.280 He was my mother's murderer. 24:46.280 --> 24:49.280 My mother was Mrs. George Rhodes of Huntington, Long Island. 24:49.280 --> 24:51.280 She ran a boarding house there. 24:51.280 --> 24:54.280 He killed her on September 18, 1935. 24:54.280 --> 24:56.280 We have all the records of the crime, Miss Rhodes. 24:56.280 --> 24:58.280 Tom was Mother's chief boarder for ten years. 24:58.280 --> 24:59.280 Know him. 24:59.280 --> 25:01.280 Why, I sat opposite him at dinner table 25:01.280 --> 25:03.280 from the time I was a girl of 15. 25:03.280 --> 25:05.280 I knew him as well as I knew Mother. 25:05.280 --> 25:06.280 I'd know him anyway. 25:06.280 --> 25:07.280 I see. 25:07.280 --> 25:09.280 And now he's at large. He's free. 25:09.280 --> 25:11.280 Somewhere or other, he's escaped this place. 25:11.280 --> 25:13.280 Maybe you're not aware of it. 25:13.280 --> 25:15.280 Maybe even his fellow prisoners aren't aware of it. 25:15.280 --> 25:17.280 But he's wormed his way out. 25:17.280 --> 25:18.280 And he's after me. 25:18.280 --> 25:19.280 He's after me. 25:19.280 --> 25:21.280 Oh, now, my dear young lady. 25:21.280 --> 25:22.280 Warden Graves. 25:22.280 --> 25:24.280 Ten years ago, Mother was found murdered. 25:24.280 --> 25:26.280 I knew it couldn't have been anyone but Tom. 25:26.280 --> 25:28.280 I testified against him. 25:28.280 --> 25:31.280 I was the chief, practically the only witness at the trial. 25:31.280 --> 25:33.280 And when they sentenced him here for life, 25:33.280 --> 25:35.280 he swore to kill me. 25:35.280 --> 25:38.280 He swore in the open court to get even with me. 25:38.280 --> 25:41.280 For ten years, I've lived in deadly fear. 25:41.280 --> 25:43.280 I've watched the newspapers for prison breaks. 25:43.280 --> 25:45.280 I've moved from house to house. 25:45.280 --> 25:47.280 Made few friends. 25:47.280 --> 25:49.280 He's hung over me like a shadow. 25:49.280 --> 25:51.280 Even though I told myself he was locked up here. 25:51.280 --> 25:53.280 Locked up here forever. 25:53.280 --> 25:55.280 And now it's come. 25:55.280 --> 25:57.280 And where exactly did you see the prisoner, Miss Rhodes? 25:57.280 --> 25:58.280 That's just the point. 25:58.280 --> 26:00.280 That's why I know he's after me. 26:00.280 --> 26:04.280 I saw him in my own apartment house. 26:04.280 --> 26:05.280 Well. 26:05.280 --> 26:07.280 He has a job there. 26:07.280 --> 26:09.280 Running the elevator at night. 26:09.280 --> 26:11.280 That's what makes it so horrible. 26:11.280 --> 26:13.280 I've never married Warden Graves. 26:13.280 --> 26:16.280 I live all alone in a small three room penthouse 26:16.280 --> 26:18.280 on the 18th floor of an office building. 26:18.280 --> 26:21.280 The other night, about a week ago, 26:21.280 --> 26:23.280 I came home alone from the movies. 26:23.280 --> 26:25.280 After midnight. 26:25.280 --> 26:28.280 The big marble lobby of my building was deserted. 26:28.280 --> 26:30.280 Except in a far corner near the elevator 26:30.280 --> 26:32.280 with his back toward me, 26:32.280 --> 26:35.280 there was a man, down on his hands and knees, 26:35.280 --> 26:37.280 scrubbing the floor. 26:41.280 --> 26:42.280 Good evening. 26:42.280 --> 26:54.280 Evening. 26:54.280 --> 26:55.280 Well. 26:55.280 --> 26:57.280 Where is everybody? 26:57.280 --> 26:59.280 Isn't the elevator working tonight? 26:59.280 --> 27:01.280 You want to go up in the elevator, Mom? 27:01.280 --> 27:02.280 Certainly. 27:02.280 --> 27:05.280 I'll be right with you. 27:05.280 --> 27:06.280 Okay, Mom. 27:06.280 --> 27:10.280 What floor? 27:10.280 --> 27:12.280 I was in the elevator. 27:12.280 --> 27:15.280 And he had started to ascend before I really saw him. 27:15.280 --> 27:17.280 It was Tom. 27:17.280 --> 27:19.280 His hair had turned white. 27:19.280 --> 27:21.280 And there was a horrible stoop to his shoulders. 27:21.280 --> 27:23.280 Everything about him. 27:23.280 --> 27:24.280 The crook of his head. 27:24.280 --> 27:26.280 His high, thin, bony nose. 27:26.280 --> 27:28.280 The hollow cheekbones. 27:28.280 --> 27:30.280 Were all the same. 27:30.280 --> 27:33.280 And then he turned and stared at me. 27:33.280 --> 27:36.280 I could see those deadly pale, cold eyes. 27:36.280 --> 27:38.280 Those heavy eyebrows. 27:38.280 --> 27:39.280 Still black. 27:39.280 --> 27:43.280 That familiar, quiet, sarcastic mouth. 27:43.280 --> 27:45.280 What floor, Mom? 27:45.280 --> 27:46.280 Oh. 27:46.280 --> 27:48.280 My floor. 27:48.280 --> 27:49.280 Yes. 27:49.280 --> 27:50.280 The penthouse, please. 27:50.280 --> 27:51.280 Penthouse? 27:51.280 --> 27:52.280 Where's that? On the roof? 27:52.280 --> 27:53.280 Yes. 27:53.280 --> 27:54.280 On the roof, please. 27:54.280 --> 27:55.280 Eighteenth floor. 27:55.280 --> 27:57.280 Okay. 27:59.280 --> 28:01.280 Warden Graves. 28:01.280 --> 28:04.280 It was like being in a cage with a wild beast. 28:04.280 --> 28:06.280 He kept watching me. 28:06.280 --> 28:07.280 Peering at me furtively. 28:07.280 --> 28:12.280 As the elevator moved, agonizing, slowness, up and up past the floors. 28:12.280 --> 28:15.280 I shrunk back, averting my face. 28:15.280 --> 28:17.280 The light in the car was dim. 28:17.280 --> 28:20.280 My only hope was that he did not recognize me. 28:23.280 --> 28:24.280 Here's your floor, Miss. 28:24.280 --> 28:25.280 Thank you. 28:25.280 --> 28:26.280 Good night. 28:26.280 --> 28:28.280 Good night. 28:31.280 --> 28:32.280 Good night. 28:32.280 --> 28:33.280 You can go back down. 28:33.280 --> 28:35.280 I don't need anything, thank you. 28:35.280 --> 28:36.280 What's the matter? 28:36.280 --> 28:38.280 Forgotten your door key? 28:38.280 --> 28:39.280 No. 28:39.280 --> 28:40.280 No, it's just... 28:40.280 --> 28:41.280 It's right in my bag. 28:41.280 --> 28:42.280 I'll find it in a minute. 28:42.280 --> 28:44.280 You want me to let you in? 28:44.280 --> 28:45.280 Let me in? 28:45.280 --> 28:46.280 No. 28:46.280 --> 28:47.280 No, good Lord. 28:47.280 --> 28:49.280 I got pass keys to all the doors. 28:49.280 --> 28:50.280 No trouble. 28:50.280 --> 28:51.280 No, thanks, but I... 28:51.280 --> 28:52.280 No. 28:52.280 --> 28:53.280 No. 28:53.280 --> 28:54.280 No, I have it right here. 28:54.280 --> 28:55.280 Good night. 29:03.280 --> 29:05.280 And so until our next performance, 29:05.280 --> 29:08.280 when you will hear the rest of this exciting tale, 29:08.280 --> 29:10.280 we keep you in... 29:10.280 --> 29:36.280 Suspense! 29:40.280 --> 30:03.280 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service. 30:10.280 --> 30:17.280 Thank you.