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Sit down, won't you? 03:28.000 --> 03:34.000 Thank you. I hate to disturb you like this, but I've traveled clear across the country. They wouldn't give me the information over the phone. 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 I know. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 You know what this visit is all about, Warden. 03:37.000 --> 03:40.000 To some extent, yes. You think one of our prisoners, Tom Nixon, has escaped. 03:40.000 --> 03:47.000 He has escaped. I'm as sure of it as I'm sure of sitting here now. I saw him at large in New York City two days ago. 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 You knew Tom Nixon well, Miss Rhodes? 03:49.000 --> 03:59.000 Knew him. He was my mother's murderer. My mother was Mrs. George Rhodes of Huntington, Long Island. She ran a boarding house there. He killed her on September 18th, 1933. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 We have all the records of the crime, Miss Rhodes. 04:01.000 --> 04:11.000 Tom was mother's chief boarder for ten years. Know him. Why, I sat opposite him at dinner table from the time I was a girl of fifteen. I knew him as well as I knew mother. I'd know him anyway. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 I see. 04:12.000 --> 04:23.000 And now he's at large. He's free. He's escaped this place. Maybe you're not aware of it. Maybe even his fellow prisoners aren't aware of it. But he's wormed his way out. And he's after me. He's after me. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 Oh, now, my dear young lady. 04:24.000 --> 04:41.000 Warden Graves. Ten years ago, mother was found murdered. I knew it couldn't have been anyone but Tom. I testified against him. I was practically the only witness at the trial. And when they sentenced him here for life, he swore to kill me. He swore in the open court to get even with me. 04:41.000 --> 04:57.000 For ten years, I've lived in deadly fear. I've watched the newspapers for prison breaks. I've moved from house to house, made few friends. He's hung over me like a shadow. Even though I told myself he was locked up here, locked up here forever. And now it's come. 04:57.000 --> 05:00.000 And where exactly did you see the prisoner, Miss Rhodes? 05:00.000 --> 05:06.000 That's just the point. That's why I know he's after me. I saw him in my own apartment house. 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 Well. 05:08.000 --> 05:13.000 He has a job there, running the elevator at night. That's what makes it so horrible. 05:13.000 --> 05:21.000 I've never married Warden Graves. I live all alone in a small three room penthouse on the 18th floor of an office building. 05:21.000 --> 05:27.000 The other night, about a week ago, I came home alone from the movies after midnight. 05:27.000 --> 05:43.000 The big marble lobby of my building was deserted, except in a far corner near the elevator with his back toward me, there was a man down on his hands and knees scrubbing the floor. 05:43.000 --> 05:44.000 Good evening. 05:44.000 --> 05:56.000 Evening. 05:56.000 --> 06:01.000 Well, where is everybody? Isn't the elevator working tonight? 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 You want to go up in the elevator, Mum? 06:03.000 --> 06:04.000 Certainly. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 I'll be right with you. 06:07.000 --> 06:12.000 Okay, Mum, what floor? 06:12.000 --> 06:17.000 I was in the elevator. We had started to ascend before I really saw him. 06:17.000 --> 06:23.000 It was Tom. His hair had turned white. There was a horrible stoop to his shoulders. 06:23.000 --> 06:31.000 Everything about him, the crook of his head, his high, thin, bony nose, the hollow cheekbones were all the same. 06:31.000 --> 06:45.000 And then he turned and stared at me. I could see those deadly, pale, cold eyes, those heavy eyebrows, still black, that familiar, quiet, sarcastic mouth. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 What floor, Mum? 06:47.000 --> 06:51.000 My floor. Yes, the penthouse, please. 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 Penthouse? Where's that, on the roof? 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 Yes, on the roof, please. Eighteenth floor. 06:57.000 --> 07:01.000 Okay. 07:01.000 --> 07:13.000 Warden Graves. It was like being in a cage with a wild beast. He kept watching me, peering at me furtively as the elevator moved with agonizing slowness up and up past the floors. 07:13.000 --> 07:23.000 I shrunk back, averting my face. The light in the car was dim. My only hope was that he did not recognize me. 07:23.000 --> 07:27.000 Here's your floor, Miss. Thank you. Good night. 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 Good night. 07:31.000 --> 07:35.000 Good night. You can go back down. I don't need anything, thank you. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 What's the matter? Forgotten your door key? 07:38.000 --> 07:43.000 No, no, it's just, it's right in my bag. I'll find it in a minute. 07:43.000 --> 07:44.000 You want me to let you in? 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Let me in? No, no, good Lord. 07:46.000 --> 07:50.000 I got pass keys to all the doors. It's no trouble. 07:50.000 --> 08:06.000 No, thanks, but I, no, no, no, I have it right here. Good night. 08:06.000 --> 08:09.000 And that was the first time you saw him? 08:09.000 --> 08:13.000 Yes. I wanted to die. I didn't know where to turn. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 And that was all he did or said? 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 Yes, but it wasn't so much what he said. It was the awful resemblance. 08:19.000 --> 08:23.000 The feeling that he was only playing with me, torturing me like a cat with a mouse. 08:23.000 --> 08:27.000 Warden Graves, I didn't even have a phone. I've always been afraid to be listed in the phone book. 08:27.000 --> 08:34.000 And the only way up to that penthouse was by that one elevator. I was trapped up there at his mercy whenever he wanted to come. 08:34.000 --> 08:35.000 What did you do? 08:35.000 --> 08:43.000 I spent the night crouched against the wall with a flat iron in my hand, waiting for that key to click in my lock. 08:43.000 --> 08:46.000 And the next morning? 08:46.000 --> 09:05.000 The next day I began to wonder if it all wasn't just a dream. 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 Good morning, Miss Ward. 09:07.000 --> 09:11.000 Good morning, Gallagher. 09:11.000 --> 09:17.000 Lovely weather we've been having. Lovely, dry and brisk, but not too brisk. Not over-court weather yet. No, not over-court weather yet. 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 I was only saying to Foley this morning. 09:19.000 --> 09:20.000 Gallagher? 09:20.000 --> 09:21.000 Yes, Miss Rhodes, yes. 09:21.000 --> 09:25.000 Who's that new night man running the elevator? The one who came on last night? 09:25.000 --> 09:30.000 Oh, Foley? You mean Foley, Miss Rhodes? Why, that's Charlie Foley. Nice old chap, ain't he? 09:30.000 --> 09:33.000 Very friendly and obliging too. Treated me to coffee this morning before I came on. 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 Charlie Foley? 09:34.000 --> 09:43.000 Yep, that's his name. They're very partial to the Irish here in this building. Gallagher, Foley. But he's a nice, trustworthy chap, Miss Rhodes. 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 Honest too. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 Good morning, Miss Rhodes. 09:49.000 --> 09:54.000 Good morning. 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 Forget something, Miss Rhodes? 09:56.000 --> 10:06.000 No, no. Just about this Mr. Foley. It's just that he's rather odd-looking. I was wondering where he came from and if he's perfectly all right. 10:06.000 --> 10:14.000 All right? Let me tell you something. He was personally recommended by Ellsworth, Hitchcock, Pearson & Scott, the owners of the place. 10:14.000 --> 10:23.000 And that's the first time that's ever happened in my experience. Don't you worry about him, Miss Rhodes. He's a good man, member of our union and married with two children. 10:23.000 --> 10:29.000 Believe me, he was the only recommended man. 10:29.000 --> 10:35.000 Well, it all sounds like a foolproof alibi, Miss Rhodes. And so you went back? 10:35.000 --> 10:44.000 I didn't want to, even then. I spent the day hunting for another apartment. But you know wartime New York warden graves. There wasn't another apartment to be had. 10:44.000 --> 10:51.000 I let myself be convinced until that night when I saw him again. 10:51.000 --> 10:57.000 Good evening, Miss Rhodes. 10:57.000 --> 11:07.000 He called me Miss Rhodes. And now there was a cruel, sarcastic smile about his lips. The kind of smile I'd seen him give to Mama. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 You think he recognized you then? 11:09.000 --> 11:19.000 Recognized me? Warden graves I haven't changed. Perhaps I've grown a little thinner. Don't you see he'd come there only to trap me? He'd taken that particular job, plotted, schemed. 11:19.000 --> 11:24.000 Here's your floor, Miss Rhodes. 11:24.000 --> 11:34.000 It was only a question of when, when he was going to do it, when the axe was going to fall. He kept grinning at me as I stepped out of the elevator. 11:34.000 --> 11:38.000 Good night, Miss Rhodes. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 Good night. 11:41.000 --> 11:46.000 Who is it? 11:46.000 --> 11:51.000 Who's there? 11:51.000 --> 12:01.000 Excuse me, Miss Rhodes. There wasn't any answer to my ring. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 What do you want? What are you doing here? 12:03.000 --> 12:07.000 It's your laundry. They told me to put it inside the door in case you weren't home. 12:07.000 --> 12:11.000 My laundry? But you knew I was home. You just brought me up. 12:11.000 --> 12:23.000 I'm sorry, Miss Rhodes. I'm very sorry. 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 That's all right. Good night. 12:25.000 --> 12:38.000 It was a crazy mistake. There I was thinking you could get up here some other way. But there isn't any other way, is there? 12:38.000 --> 12:39.000 No. 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 The service elevator doesn't get up this far, does it? 12:43.000 --> 12:44.000 No. 12:44.000 --> 12:52.000 It's just like you're all alone here, alone on the roof. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 Yes. 12:54.000 --> 12:59.000 Don't come any closer. I'll kill you. I'll kill you with my bare... 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 Who was that, Mama? 13:01.000 --> 13:04.000 Get out. Get out. Get out. 13:04.000 --> 13:13.000 I'm a buzzer. I better answer it. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 And then what happened? 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 Nothing. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 He came back again that night? 13:19.000 --> 13:24.000 No. I haven't seen him since. I barricaded myself in that night. 13:24.000 --> 13:28.000 Once it occurred to me that I might escape by running down 18 flights of fire stairs. 13:28.000 --> 13:32.000 But the thought of meeting him back in the gloomy darkness kept me back. 13:32.000 --> 13:36.000 I didn't know where the fire stairs ended. Perhaps in the cellar, where I would be utterly defenseless. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 Too bad you don't have a telephone. 13:38.000 --> 13:43.000 Oh, it's horrible. The next morning I got down to the public phone and put through the call to hear, but it wasn't any use. 13:43.000 --> 13:44.000 That was the day I was out of town. 13:44.000 --> 13:49.000 Yes, but Warden and I still don't see why they couldn't have told me. After all, I was giving them information. 13:49.000 --> 13:54.000 It's one of our strictest regulations at Oswald Potomy State Penitentiary never to discuss any of our prisoners over the telephone. 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 That's what they said. 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 So you came all the way out here in person? 13:58.000 --> 13:59.000 Yes. 13:59.000 --> 14:03.000 And now you wish me to send someone to apprehend this man? 14:03.000 --> 14:06.000 I want you to bring him back, that's all. Back where he belongs. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 Miss Rhodes, Tom Nixon doesn't need to be brought back. He's here. 14:09.000 --> 14:14.000 Oh, no, Warden Graves, please. I've seen him with my own eyes. Talk to him face to face. 14:14.000 --> 14:20.000 Maybe there's someone here calling himself Tom Nixon, but he's escaped. He's free. I know it. 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 Will you just step this way with me, Miss Rhodes? 14:22.000 --> 14:25.000 No, no, I don't want to see him. I don't want to see his cellar or talk to anybody or... 14:25.000 --> 14:32.000 Tom Nixon's dead, Miss Rhodes. He's buried in the prison yard. I'd like you to see his grave. 14:42.000 --> 14:48.000 And this is the photograph taken of him just a week before he died. You see, he wasted away quite a bit. 14:48.000 --> 14:56.000 He was in the infirmary all last year, became very religious too toward the end, spent a good deal of his time praying. 14:56.000 --> 14:57.000 Praying? 14:57.000 --> 15:02.000 Mm-hmm. All the fights seemed to go out of him as soon as he knew he was seriously ill. 15:02.000 --> 15:06.000 But you'd say this was his picture, wouldn't you, Miss Rhodes? 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 Yes. It's Tom, all right. 15:08.000 --> 15:13.000 Mm-hmm. And these little personal belongings, ordinarily we turn these over to the family, 15:13.000 --> 15:21.000 but in Tom's case, there wasn't much family. You'd recognize these as his? 15:21.000 --> 15:29.000 Yes. I don't know them all, but that gold watch, he used to wear it every Sunday at Marble. 15:29.000 --> 15:33.000 He wrote a couple of notes before he died to a fellow prisoner and to the prison chaplain. 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 You remember this handwriting? 15:35.000 --> 15:38.000 Yes. This seems to be it. 15:38.000 --> 15:43.000 Well, Miss Rhodes, now you feel a little better about your elevator operator? 15:43.000 --> 15:46.000 You must think me a fool, an awful fool. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 No, not at all, not at all. 15:48.000 --> 15:55.000 But the likeness was so extraordinary. It was almost like seeing a ghost. 15:55.000 --> 16:00.000 A ghost? Come, come, Miss Rhodes, snap out of it. 16:00.000 --> 16:05.000 Now that you've gotten all this off your chest, isn't it perfectly obvious that that poor night man's done nothing 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 or said nothing to you at all out of the ordinary? 16:08.000 --> 16:14.000 It's only that, well, you seem to be the victim of some kind of guilt complex. 16:14.000 --> 16:17.000 Guilt complex? I'm not guilty of anything. 16:17.000 --> 16:20.000 Oh, what I mean is Tom has been on your mind now for 10 years. 16:20.000 --> 16:24.000 You testified against him. He threatened you. Gradually you see him everywhere. 16:24.000 --> 16:27.000 No, no, only this once, only these last few nights. 16:27.000 --> 16:31.000 All right, but now you know the truth. That should clear your fears forever. 16:31.000 --> 16:34.000 Tom's dead and buried. Now go back and take a look at that night man again. 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 Now that you know Tom's dead, I'll lay odds the whole resemblance will vanish. 16:38.000 --> 16:39.000 Well, I hope so. 16:39.000 --> 16:42.000 My advice to you, Miss Rhodes, would be to go straight home. 16:42.000 --> 16:46.000 Use that elevator as much as possible. Get acquainted with this foley fellow. 16:46.000 --> 16:49.000 For your own sake, try to get the better of these hallucinations. 16:49.000 --> 16:52.000 Otherwise you'll start seeing poor Tom everywhere you turn. 16:52.000 --> 16:56.000 I'll try, Warden Graves. Well, thank you. You've been very kind. 16:56.000 --> 17:18.000 Not at all. 17:18.000 --> 17:26.000 Good evening, Charles. 17:26.000 --> 17:27.000 Evening, ma'am. 17:27.000 --> 17:30.000 I have some bags here, Charles. Will you help me with them, please? 17:30.000 --> 17:37.000 Okay. 17:37.000 --> 17:38.000 That all, ma'am? 17:38.000 --> 17:42.000 Yes, thank you. This is for you, Charles. 17:42.000 --> 17:50.000 No, thanks, ma'am. I never take tips. 17:50.000 --> 17:54.000 It's all right. I'd like you to have it. I'm sure the superintendent wouldn't mind. 17:54.000 --> 18:00.000 The superintendent hasn't anything to do with it. 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 Well, aren't we going to start? 18:02.000 --> 18:07.000 Yeah, in a minute. 18:07.000 --> 18:08.000 Been out of town? 18:08.000 --> 18:11.000 Why, why, yes, I have. 18:11.000 --> 18:14.000 You've gone quite a while. I didn't see you for three or four nights. 18:14.000 --> 18:18.000 I was in the country visiting a friend. 18:18.000 --> 18:23.000 Oh. 18:23.000 --> 18:26.000 It's beautiful weather out there. The leaves are beautiful. 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 I wouldn't know. 18:28.000 --> 18:29.000 You live in the city, Charles? 18:29.000 --> 18:30.000 Of course. 18:30.000 --> 18:33.000 Oh, isn't it hard to bring up children in the city? 18:33.000 --> 18:34.000 Children? 18:34.000 --> 18:37.000 Yes. Didn't I understand Gallagher to say you had two children? 18:37.000 --> 18:40.000 Me? What chance I have to have any children? 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 Oh, I'm sorry. 18:42.000 --> 18:49.000 I'm a bachelor. By the way, my name is not Charles. 18:49.000 --> 18:52.000 Well, guess this must be my floor. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 No, it's not. 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 Then why are we stopping? 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 The elevator's stuck. Power's been cut off. 19:00.000 --> 19:01.000 Cut off? 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 Mm-hmm. 19:03.000 --> 19:06.000 How could that happen? It's never happened before as long as I've lived here. 19:06.000 --> 19:11.000 Yeah? Well, sooner or later, I guess it had to happen. 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 Isn't there some way we can get it back on? Some buzzer for the cellar or something? 19:15.000 --> 19:18.000 If the power's off, the buzzer isn't working. 19:18.000 --> 19:21.000 It's a wonder the lights are still on. 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 The lights? 19:22.000 --> 19:26.000 Yeah. They'll go out in a few minutes, though. 19:26.000 --> 19:31.000 Then it'll be black in here. Black as a grave. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 Let's get out of here. Open the door. 19:33.000 --> 19:34.000 Can't. She won't budge. 19:34.000 --> 19:35.000 But you haven't even tried. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 I don't have to try. We're stuck between floors. 19:38.000 --> 19:41.000 The door's flush with a solid wall. 19:41.000 --> 19:42.000 Solid wall? 19:42.000 --> 19:48.000 Yeah. We're kind of bricked up in a cell. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 But there must be some way out of here. 19:50.000 --> 19:54.000 Isn't there a little door in the roof? Something you can pry open? 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 Something you can climb up out of into the shaft? 19:56.000 --> 19:57.000 I don't see any. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 But there must be. Climb up and feel around before the light gives out. 20:00.000 --> 20:04.000 There's nothing to get hold of. It's nothing but steel and mirrors. 20:04.000 --> 20:05.000 And I'm not tall enough. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Stand on my backs. That's a good idea. 20:07.000 --> 20:08.000 You'll never hold me. 20:08.000 --> 20:10.000 Oh, it's all right. Just hurry. 20:10.000 --> 20:13.000 Here. The Gladstone's strongest. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 No. Never make it. 20:15.000 --> 20:18.000 Stand on your tiptoes. Stretch. 20:18.000 --> 20:19.000 No. 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 Let me try. 20:25.000 --> 20:26.000 Oh, dear. No, I can't. 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 I didn't think so. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 What are we going to do? What are we going to do? 20:30.000 --> 20:31.000 Wait. 20:31.000 --> 20:32.000 Wait? 20:32.000 --> 20:36.000 Wait until somebody comes along downstairs and finds the elevator stuck 20:36.000 --> 20:39.000 and then rings up the superintendent. 20:39.000 --> 20:42.000 Oh, it's... That might be ours. 20:42.000 --> 20:43.000 Sure. 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 No! Help! Help! 20:45.000 --> 20:48.000 Somebody help! Help! 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 You're wasting your time. 20:50.000 --> 20:54.000 Everybody's left the building, I know, because they've all signed out. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 This air shaft's thick, isolated. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 Nobody's down in the basement. 20:59.000 --> 21:03.000 And there won't be any passengers ringing for an elevator this time of night. 21:03.000 --> 21:06.000 You seem awfully sure about all that. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Why not? 21:08.000 --> 21:09.000 Cigarette? 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 No, thanks. 21:10.000 --> 21:13.000 Do you think it's safe to smoke in here? 21:13.000 --> 21:16.000 Sure. And supposing it isn't. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 What's the difference? 21:18.000 --> 21:22.000 Here, have one. It'll soothe your nerves. 21:22.000 --> 21:25.000 No, thanks. The air's so close. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 Jumpy, ain't you? 21:27.000 --> 21:31.000 No, I suppose really there's nothing to be afraid of. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 Sooner or later, they'll come. 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 Oh, sure. 21:35.000 --> 21:37.000 Eventually. 21:37.000 --> 21:41.000 It's just that this waiting and all these mirrors and being stuck... 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 You're not jumpy on account of me? 21:43.000 --> 21:46.000 You? No, no, of course not. 21:46.000 --> 21:54.000 But you were kind of jumpy with me the other night, weren't you? 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 The other night? 21:55.000 --> 21:59.000 When I came into your apartment unexpectedly. 21:59.000 --> 22:01.000 That was a mistake. 22:01.000 --> 22:02.000 A mistake? 22:02.000 --> 22:06.000 Yes, I just thought you were someone else, a friend of mine. Someone I've always been afraid of. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 Oh. 22:07.000 --> 22:12.000 But now I've learned it couldn't be you because this friend's dead. Dead and buried. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 Dead and buried? 22:14.000 --> 22:15.000 Yes. 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 What was his name? Maybe I know him. 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 Oh! What was that? 22:19.000 --> 22:22.000 Only the lights. I knew they'd give out sooner or later. 22:22.000 --> 22:27.000 Oh, no! No, they can't! I can't stay here alone in the dark with you! 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 So you are jumpy with me. 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 No, no! 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 I thought you said this guy was dead and buried. 22:31.000 --> 22:33.000 He is! He is! I saw his grave! 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 Then why are you screaming like that? 22:34.000 --> 22:40.000 I'm not screaming! I mean, it's so dark in here. So closed and creepy. 22:40.000 --> 22:42.000 What did you do to this friend that makes you so jumpy? 22:42.000 --> 22:45.000 Do? Do to him? Nothing! I didn't do a thing! 22:45.000 --> 22:46.000 No. 22:46.000 --> 22:49.000 It was he! He threatened me! He was a murderer. 22:49.000 --> 22:52.000 He killed my mother in cold blood ten years ago. 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 He was our border for ten years. 22:55.000 --> 22:58.000 And one afternoon... Don't move! Don't move! 22:58.000 --> 23:00.000 I'm not moving. Go on. 23:00.000 --> 23:06.000 One afternoon I came home and there was mother lying on the floor with her throat. 23:06.000 --> 23:07.000 No, no! Where are you? I can't... 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 Go on. 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 No, no! I can't stand it! I can't stand it! Tom! 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 It's you, Tom, isn't it? 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 I thought you said your friend was dead and buried. 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 Stop playing with me! Stop torturing me! 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 Tell me the truth. You escaped, didn't you? 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 You didn't die and it was someone else. Someone else's grave. 23:22.000 --> 23:25.000 Just as I thought. You escaped and found me here. 23:25.000 --> 23:29.000 Answer me, Tom! Where are you? I can't see you! I can't... 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 Ah! 23:31.000 --> 23:35.000 Oh, no. No, Tom. 23:35.000 --> 23:39.000 I didn't mean it. I didn't. I didn't mean to send you there. 23:39.000 --> 23:44.000 It was only because I loved you, Tom. Loved you so blindly, passionately for years. 23:44.000 --> 23:47.000 And hated mama. And hated you for loving her. 23:47.000 --> 23:50.000 It was only to get revenge on you both that I killed her. 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 And framed you. 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 Mama was so cruel to me, Tom. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 She treated me like a slave. 23:57.000 --> 24:00.000 And all the time flaunting you in my face. 24:00.000 --> 24:02.000 Oh. 24:02.000 --> 24:06.000 If you'd spoken one kind word to me, Tom, at the trial. 24:06.000 --> 24:09.000 One word to let me know you loved me. 24:09.000 --> 24:15.000 Oh. 24:23.000 --> 24:27.000 You're going to kill me, aren't you, Tom? 24:32.000 --> 24:35.000 No, no, Tom! I don't want to die! I don't want to die! 24:35.000 --> 24:39.000 I don't want to die, Tom! 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 Here's the lobby, mama. 24:56.000 --> 24:59.000 You can get out here. I'll take you back up to the penthouse 24:59.000 --> 25:02.000 as soon as we've picked up the other passenger. 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 What? The lobby? 25:04.000 --> 25:07.000 You brought me down to the lobby? Yes. 25:07.000 --> 25:10.000 Then you're not Tom? No. 25:10.000 --> 25:14.000 You're not going to kill me? I'm free? Yes. 25:14.000 --> 25:18.000 Then it was all just a crazy illusion. 25:18.000 --> 25:21.000 A nightmare because the power went off. 25:21.000 --> 25:24.000 And you look so much like Tom Nixon. 25:24.000 --> 25:27.000 Oh, forgive me, please forgive me for being so absurd. 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 It's okay. 25:29.000 --> 25:32.000 And you'll forget about those silly things I said, won't you? 25:32.000 --> 25:35.000 I mean, the mistake was just because I was beside myself. 25:35.000 --> 25:37.000 What silly things, mama? 25:37.000 --> 25:40.000 Those silly things about my mother and Tom. 25:40.000 --> 25:42.000 Now, this is for you. 25:42.000 --> 25:45.000 No, no, I insist this time. I insist. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 I'm sorry, mom. 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 But I'm afraid I never accept tips. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 Oh, but you must. 25:51.000 --> 26:02.000 Particularly from people who framed my twin brother. 26:02.000 --> 26:04.000 Good evening, Warden Graves. 26:04.000 --> 26:06.000 Good evening, Lieutenant Nixon. 26:06.000 --> 26:23.000 Well done. 26:23.000 --> 26:29.000 And so closes The Nightman starring Virginia Bruce and Richard Waltham. 26:29.000 --> 26:33.000 Tonight's study in suspense. 26:33.000 --> 26:37.000 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 26:37.000 --> 26:40.000 To every woman listening tonight, 26:40.000 --> 26:46.000 I want to say a special word about making every dinner or supper you serve taste better. 26:46.000 --> 26:50.000 I want to urge you to start serving Roma wine with your meals. 26:50.000 --> 26:53.000 It's simple. 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