1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Now, Roma Wines present... 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 This evening, The Dead of the Night, starring Robert Cummings. 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,000 To your happiness and entertaining guests. 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,000 To your enjoyment of everyday meals. 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 as Roma Wines bring you... 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Suspense! 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:54,000 This is the man in black here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Who tonight from Hollywood bring you in his first appearance in a radio drama, 14 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 since his enlistment as United States Army Air Force Flight Instructor, 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,000 one of the screen's favorite young players, Mr. Robert Cummings. 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,000 And so with the strange events which befell the young Californian named Jimmy Barton, 17 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 in The Dead of the Night, and with the performance of the young actor, 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Robert Cummings, we again hope to keep you in... 19 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Suspense! 20 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Helen and I had never been apart since our folks died. 21 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Never before that summer when I got a job up at Lake Arrowhead. 22 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 She was supposed to go with me, wait on tables or something. 23 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 It was to be our vacation, but at the last minute she decided to stay in L.A. 24 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 She figured her boyfriend Steve might be coming home on a furlough. 25 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 I should have known better. My sister was such a kid, 26 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 but I let her talk me into it, and I left her there alone. 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 That was the beginning of the whole thing. 28 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 That's when she met him, Phil Armstrong. 29 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 If I hadn't gone away that summer, I guess Phil would be alive today. 30 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,000 All during the time that I was gone, Helen didn't write much, 31 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 and what letters I did get didn't seem natural. 32 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 So I was anxious to finish my job and get home. 33 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 I expected her to be at the bus station, but she wasn't. 34 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 And when I got to the apartment, I could hear someone moving inside. 35 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 The door was locked, so I knocked. 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Helen? 37 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Who is it? 38 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 It's me. 39 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Jenny? 40 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Yeah, open the door. 41 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Oh, Jenny. Yes, it is. 42 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Hi, honey. Since when have you taken the locking the door and the data? 43 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 What did you do to yourself? Your face. 44 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Were you in an accident? 45 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 I fell, Jimmy. I fell and I hurt myself. 46 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Well, your eyes swollen shut. Let me look at it. 47 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Jimmy, I have something to tell you. 48 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 What are these suitcases doing here? 49 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,000 You and I are going away, Jimmy. We've got to get out of here. 50 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,000 I packed everything. 51 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 We're going no place till you tell me what this is all about. 52 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Well, Jimmy, while you were gone, I got married. 53 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Married? You mean Steve was here on his furlough? 54 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 No, Jimmy, not to Steve. 55 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 But you were engaged to him. 56 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Yes, I know. I got a letter from him right after you left. 57 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 He married someone he met where he was stationed. 58 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Oh, Helen. Gee, I... 59 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 I was pretty upset, Jimmy, and that's when I met Phil Armstrong. 60 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Oh, but gee, I think you might have... I don't even know the guy. 61 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 No, neither did I. I was unhappy. 62 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Well, you just don't go off and marry someone you don't know. 63 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 That's what I did, Jimmy. Now we've got to get out of here. 64 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Huh? But why? 65 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Because there's been trouble. 66 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 What kind of trouble? 67 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 I'm afraid, Jimmy. It's terrible. 68 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 He takes something. I don't know what. 69 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 But sometimes he's... he's crazy. 70 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Helen. 71 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Yes? 72 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Your face. You didn't fall. 73 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 No. 74 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 He did that. I'll... I'll kill him. 75 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 He'll kill you. That's what I mean. 76 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 That's what we've got to get away. 77 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Well, you can get a divorce, can't you? 78 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 He threatened me if I even tried to get one. 79 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 We'll put him under a peace bond. We'll... 80 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 What good would a peace bond be, Jimmy, if he killed one of us? 81 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 So I let her talk me into running away. 82 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 I guess I shouldn't have, but I knew that if I saw him after what he'd done to her... 83 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Well, anyhow, I saved my salary and I had some gas coupons. 84 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,000 We didn't know where we were going, but we started out. 85 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 I don't know what he'll do when he finds I've gone. 86 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Helen, don't you think we ought to go to the police? 87 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Oh, I'm afraid, Jimmy. I know him. I know what he'd do if he found out we'd reported him. 88 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 But they'd protect us, Helen. They'd protect us. 89 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 What if he got to us before they got to him? 90 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 And she looked so frightened, I thought it best to let her do it her way. 91 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,000 We got to Santa Monica that night and we stopped at a motel near the water. 92 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Well, a week slipped by and Helen seemed to be forgetting. 93 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 She didn't jump every time someone knocked at the door. 94 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 And she began to get a nice tan. 95 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 I managed to get a job. It was at McGuffey's Potluck Gallery... 96 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 and one of the shooting concessions on the pier. 97 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Then one night late as I came home from work, I heard voices coming from our apartment. 98 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 I knew who it was and I knew that from what Helen had told me... 99 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 it would be foolish for me to go in unarmed. 100 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 So I ran back to the shooting concession. 101 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,000 It didn't take long, but when I got back, the lights were out... 102 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000 and the sound of voices was gone. I tried the door. 103 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 It was very dark. 104 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 And then my foot struck something soft and heavy on the floor. 105 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I snapped on the switch and the room was flooded with light... 106 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 and I looked down into a dead man's face. 107 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 The Night of Suspense 108 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Tonight for Suspense, Roma wines are bringing you a star, Mr. Robert Cummings... 109 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,000 whom you have heard in the prologue to The Dead of the Night by Mel Dinelli. 110 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Tonight's tale of suspense. 111 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 The Night of Suspense 112 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Yes, it is true that our own wonderful vineyard country in California... 113 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 produces in Roma wines that discriminating people in many foreign lands... 114 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 esteem as an imported delicacy. 115 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Yet you here at home can enjoy these distinguished Roma wines for mere pennies a glass full. 116 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Daily with your meals or when entertaining or anytime... 117 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,000 you can delight yourself and your guests with a wonderful taste... 118 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,000 that comes from age-old wine making traditions perfected by modern knowledge. 119 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:54,000 For a treat you are certain to enjoy, place on the table with dinner tomorrow night... 120 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 a cool bottle of hearty rich red Roma California Burgundy. 121 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,000 It doesn't matter what the meal is or what kind of glasses you use to serve Roma. 122 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 It's good in any glass with any meal. 123 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Your family, your guests will find new pleasure in even the simplest foods. 124 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,000 For Roma wine makes any meal a feast at only pennies a glass. 125 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Try it yourself tomorrow. 126 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Ask your dealer for R-O-M-A Roma wine. 127 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 128 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Robert Cummings... 129 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:39,000 who as young Jimmy Barton resumes his narrative concerning the death of a brother-in-law... 130 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:44,000 in The Dead of the Night, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 131 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:59,000 It's funny how in the biggest, the most important, the most terrifying moments of your whole life... 132 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 you remember little tiny insignificant things. 133 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 I remember that I set my alarm. 134 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 It was to go off at five o'clock. 135 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 I'd set it to wake me up that afternoon. 136 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,000 And a bird started to chatter outside as I stood there shivering with cold and terror... 137 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,000 looking down at that dead man's face. 138 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Although I'd never seen him alive, I knew this was Phil, her husband. 139 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:28,000 There was a deep gash over his eye and the blood still flowed from it onto the floor. 140 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 I stepped over him and I ran into the bedroom. 141 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Helen! Helen! 142 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 But there was no one in the bedroom, nor in the kitchen. 143 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,000 And then I heard the front door open. 144 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Jimmy! 145 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Close that door, Helen. 146 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Oh, Jimmy! 147 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Close it, do you hear me? 148 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Be quiet! Turn the lights out. 149 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Be quiet, I tell you. 150 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Oh, Jimmy, what have I let you in for? 151 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Stay where you are. Don't move, Helen. 152 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Who is it? 153 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 I don't know. Keep quiet. 154 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Jimmy! 155 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Oh, Jimmy! It's Mrs. Gordon. 156 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Is she... She's going to unlock the door. 157 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Oh, just a minute, Mrs. Gordon. I'll get something on. 158 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Jimmy, what's going on in there? All the plants have been complaining. 159 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Just some friends of mine, Mrs. Gordon. They were having a party. They're gone now. 160 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Jimmy, Bart, you should be ashamed of yourself. Now open this door. I want to talk to you. 161 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Well, I'm not dressed. I was taking a shower. 162 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Well, slip something on. 163 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Well, I'm tired. I just was going to bed. 164 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Jimmy, I told you I wanted to talk to you. Now will you open this door? 165 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 She has a passkey, Jimmy. 166 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,000 All right. All right, Mrs. Gordon. Just let me get some clothes on. 167 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 I'll give you two minutes. 168 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:49,000 I didn't know what to do. I knew she was determined to come in. Mrs. Gordon was a nosy old woman. 169 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,000 She meant well. She'd taken it upon herself to mother Helen and me. 170 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,000 She was always coming into the apartment with her pots of jam and her bowls of soup. 171 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 I knew no matter what I said, nothing would stop her. 172 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 What do we do, Jimmy? 173 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 He's all about a minute left. 174 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Helen, take him by the feet. 175 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 No. 176 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Helen, take him by the feet. 177 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 It's no use. It's no use. 178 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:14,000 We started half dragging, half carrying him towards the bedroom. 179 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 The rug's slipping along the floor as we moved. 180 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,000 We'd just gotten into the bedroom and then... 181 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Time's up, Jimmy. And as long as your good mother isn't here to look after you, I'm going to myself. 182 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 We can't leave him here. She might come into the bedroom. 183 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Quick. The bathroom. 184 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Jimmy, where are you? 185 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 What if she comes in here? 186 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Pull back those shower curtains. 187 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Jimmy, we can't. 188 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Don't argue. Pull them back. 189 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Jimmy, I can't get his legs in. 190 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Here, I'll double them up. There. Pull the curtains together, quick. 191 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Jimmy, what's been going on here? Why, look at my rugs. Has there been a fire? 192 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Just a minute, Mrs. Gordon. 193 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Jimmy, what's on this floor? And on this gas heater? Is this floor? 194 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Jimmy, Jimmy. 195 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Get me a razor out of the medicine chest. 196 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 What are you going to do? 197 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Never mind. 198 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,000 You stay here. 199 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,000 I'm coming, Mrs. Gordon. 200 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Great. Just as I suspected. 201 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 You've been fighting and you've hurt yourself. Now let me see your hand. 202 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Oh, it isn't bad, Mrs. Gordon. 203 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 Oh, no wonder you didn't want me to come in. Where's Helen? 204 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 She's out. She hasn't been here all evening. 205 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Well, let's look at that hand. 206 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,000 It isn't bad, Mrs. Gordon, really. 207 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 You let me see that hand. 208 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Jimmy, this is the bad gas. Have you disinfected it? 209 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 Yes, yes I have. 210 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Well, let me bandage it for you. 211 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 But this towel's all right. 212 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,000 It's not all right. Where are your bandages and things? In the bathroom? 213 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 No, no. I mean, I don't have any. 214 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Now you're just saying that, Jimmy Barton, because you don't want to be bandaged. 215 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,000 You're not fooling me. I'm going right into the bathroom and getting... 216 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,000 No, not the bath... I mean, I don't have any. 217 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Well, I'll just see for myself. 218 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 No, no, Mrs. Gordon. 219 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Jimmy, why, you've dripped blood all over this floor. 220 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Here, let's look in this medicine closet. 221 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 There, I knew it. Here's some tape and some gauze, too. 222 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Mrs. Gordon, can't we just do this in the living room? 223 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,000 No, we'll do it right here. 224 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Now, here's some alcohol. Come on, put your hand over here. 225 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:29,000 We stood there and she bandaged me and I kept wondering where Helen had gone. 226 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,000 And then I saw the shower curtain move slightly and I knew. 227 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,000 For a moment I thought Mrs. Gordon had seen it, too. 228 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Jimmy, just look at that shower curtain. 229 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Yes. 230 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Goodness, you smid, that was blood, too. 231 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Well, I'd better clean things up for you before Helen gets home. 232 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Why, you'll scare the life out of me. 233 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 I'll clean it up, Mrs. Gordon. You've done enough. 234 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Thanks very much for taking care of this hand. 235 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Well, all right, if you don't want me to. 236 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Now, you'd better get some sleep. I'll see you in the morning. 237 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Good night, Jimmy. 238 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Good night, Mrs. Gordon. 239 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Oh, Jimmy. 240 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Helen. 241 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 I had to hide someplace. It was terrible. 242 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 I know, it was the only thing you could do. 243 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Jimmy! 244 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Yes? 245 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Jimmy, I forgot to tell you that I'm having some painting done tomorrow. 246 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 So you'll have to be out of here early. 247 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 So I'm not getting painters these days without making them wait for the tenants to get up, you know. 248 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,000 All right, Mrs. Gordon, I'll be out first thing in the morning. 249 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Good night. 250 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Good night. 251 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Now we'll have to get him out of here. 252 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Yeah. 253 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Where will we take him? 254 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 I don't know. I've got to think. 255 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Here, Helen, you try and get some rest. 256 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Jimmy, let me go to the police. 257 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Let me tell them that I did it. 258 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Let me tell them what he was. 259 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 They won't do anything to me. 260 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 No, no. You try and rest. 261 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 What time is it? 262 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 About six. 263 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Six. We've got two hours before the painters get here. 264 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 What are we going to do, Jimmy? 265 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Let's see. 266 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 This is the car. 267 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,000 No one will see us if we take him through the service porch into the garage. 268 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000 And what? 269 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 I don't know, but that'll get him out of here anyway. 270 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 I think I can do it alone, Helen. 271 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Listen, Jimmy, we're in this mess because of me. 272 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 I'm going to help you. 273 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 I'll be ready in a minute. 274 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,000 When I went into the bathroom, the shower curtains were standing open. 275 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,000 His legs had slipped from their cramped position and they'd pushed themselves into the room. 276 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 He sat there with his head twisted down and his chin digging into his chest. 277 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,000 I took a washcloth and I... 278 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 It was awful. 279 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,000 I wiped the blood off his face just in case anyone saw us. 280 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 They might think he was just sick. 281 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 I tried to lift him, but I slipped. 282 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,000 And his head made a holler sound as it thumped down on the shower floor. 283 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Helen, help me get him into the luggage compartment of the car. 284 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Where are we going, Jimmy? 285 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Helen, won't you please stay in the apartment? Please? 286 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 No, no, I couldn't. I'm going with you. 287 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Helen, haven't you done enough? 288 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 I'm going with you. 289 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Too late now to wish that I hadn't... 290 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Where are we going? 291 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 To the pier, the Santa Monica Pier. 292 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Beyond the concessions, you can drive a car on the end there. 293 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 Lucky it's so foggy. 294 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Yeah, what time is it? 295 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Five of seven. 296 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 We'll have to act fast, because the fog will be clearing soon. 297 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,000 It'll be harder to get him out of this car. 298 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Now, you stay here. I can manage this alone this time. 299 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 I'll help you, Jimmy. 300 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 You stay here, do you hear me? 301 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,000 All right, call me if you need me. 302 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I'll go around the back. Keep your eyes open. 303 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Yeah. 304 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Jimmy. 305 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 What? 306 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Someone's coming. 307 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Who is it? 308 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000 I can't see. 309 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Jimmy, it's a policeman. 310 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,000 What? 311 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 It's a policeman. Jimmy. 312 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Oh, it's all right. I know him. It's Red Davis. 313 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 He's the beach patrolman. 314 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Hello, Red. 315 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Well, hello, Jimmy. 316 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Say, when do you get your sleep? 317 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Didn't you close up after that swing-ship dance last night? 318 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Yeah, Red, but I couldn't seem to remember if I'd locked up the old shooting gallery, 319 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 so I came over this morning to have a look around. 320 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 I see. 321 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Oh, I'm sorry. This is my sister. 322 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Red, this is Helen. This is Red Davis. 323 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Hello. 324 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 So you're an early riser, too, huh? 325 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Yes. 326 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Well, the fog's clearing up. 327 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,000 It looks like we're going to get some sun today for a change. 328 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Yeah. 329 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Well, I guess I'll be getting back. 330 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 I think I'll try and catch a few more hours' sleep. 331 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Well, so long. 332 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Yeah, so long. 333 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Oh, say, say, Jimmy. 334 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Yeah? 335 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Say, Jimmy, I have to take my wife over to the nursery today 336 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 to pick up some plants and stuff, you know, 337 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 and I don't have a trunk on my car. 338 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,000 I wonder if you'll let me have yours. 339 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 You'll have to drive me over to Malibu this afternoon, Jimmy. 340 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Yeah, yeah, I'd forgotten. 341 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Well, you can drive over in my car. How's that? 342 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Well, you see... 343 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,000 That brother of yours thinks I wrecked that beautiful car. 344 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Oh, isn't that, Red? 345 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Okay, then I'll be over about noon. 346 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,000 I'll leave my car for you till I get back, huh? 347 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Well, I won't be home at noon, Red. 348 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 All right, I'll meet you at the entrance to the pier. How's that? 349 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 All right, Red. 350 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Well, so long. 351 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Yeah, so long. 352 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Why'd you say goodbye to Jimmy? 353 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Well, if I didn't, he'll go over to the apartment looking for us. 354 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,000 And you don't want any policemen over there, do you? 355 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Oh, oh, no, no, of course not. 356 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,000 We've got to get out of here fast. 357 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 As we drove along the ocean, the fog cleared up rapidly. 358 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 It was almost 8 o'clock and some kids were already out on the beach playing around. 359 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Then I saw a group of early picknickers. 360 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,000 They were unloading their blankets, umbrellas and things. 361 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,000 I guess it was from them I got the idea, from seeing them. 362 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Jimmy, your gas is pretty near on empty. 363 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Yeah. 364 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,000 You got any more coupons? 365 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,000 No, they're all used up. We're going to have to do something soon. 366 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,000 I know, Jimmy. 367 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 We can't go back to the motel with the painters there. 368 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,000 And we can't leave him in the car, red-slab, luscious and pin us down to using it. 369 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,000 There's only one place left. 370 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Where, Jimmy? 371 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Helen, listen. I'm going to let you out of this car. 372 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 You can't help me with what I've got to do now. 373 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000 No, Jimmy, I'm staying with you. 374 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Don't argue, Helen. 375 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,000 I'm not leaving you, Jimmy. 376 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Get out of this car, do you hear me? 377 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000 No. 378 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,000 I haven't time to argue with you. 379 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Jimmy, please. 380 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Now get out. 381 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,000 I won't do it, Jimmy. 382 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Yes, you will if I have to push you out. 383 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Jimmy, you're hurting me. 384 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:30,000 There. 385 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Now go back to the motel. 386 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Get off that running board, Helen. 387 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 I can't leave you alone, Jimmy. 388 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 I want to help you. 389 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,000 I'm not blaming you for killing him, Helen, but now you've got to help me do as I say. 390 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,000 What, Jimmy, what? 391 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 I don't blame you for what you did. 392 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,000 He deserved it. 393 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,000 But now you've got to help me handle things. 394 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Jimmy, you've got to let me... 395 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Goodbye, Helen. 396 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Jimmy! 397 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Oh, Jimmy, don't leave me, Jimmy! 398 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 I watched her out of the mirror. 399 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 She kept calling me. 400 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 I drove on as fast as I could. 401 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,000 I knew what I had to do when I was one chance in a million, but I had to take it, and I 402 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 didn't want her to be part of it. 403 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:08,000 If I could keep him on the beach that whole day, then maybe I'd be able to get ready from 404 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 when night fell. 405 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,000 I wanted to drive further along, but I was afraid I'd run out of gas. 406 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:18,000 So I settled for a deserted strip of beach not far from the motel. 407 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:25,000 I had my swimming shorts and a blanket and a towel in the car, and I got out. 408 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,880 I looked around carefully, and then I opened the luggage compartment. 409 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:38,640 It was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, but I started taking his clothes off. 410 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,240 I managed to get my shorts onto him. 411 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:45,000 Lucky we were pretty near the same size, and then I closed the door. 412 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I went out onto the beach and I spread my blanket out on the sand. 413 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Then I went back for him. 414 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:57,000 When there were no cars in sight, I carried him over to where I'd spread my blanket, and 415 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:03,000 I placed him onto it face down with his hands folded over his head as though he were just 416 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 sunbaked. 417 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Then I spread my towel out a short distance from him and I laid down on it. 418 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:16,000 I tried to look relaxed. 419 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 People didn't start to arrive until about an hour later. 420 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Gradually little groups of sunbathers started to form. 421 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,000 He and I, we looked no different from the others. 422 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,000 No one paid any attention to us. 423 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:34,000 I was beginning to feel that everything was going to be easy once it was dark again, but... 424 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Jimmy, I've been looking all over for you. 425 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,000 What? 426 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Oh, hello Mrs. Gordon. 427 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Where's Helen? 428 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Isn't she in the apartment? 429 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,000 No. 430 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000 What time did you go out this morning? 431 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 I couldn't sleep. 432 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 Didn't Helen come in at all last night? 433 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Yes, she did, but she left early too. 434 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 Said she was going into Los Angeles. 435 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Oh, I was so worried about her. 436 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Well, the pain just came, Jimmy, and everything's a mess. 437 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,000 I think I'll sit down here with you a while. 438 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 You're not with anyone, are you? 439 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000 No, no I'm not. 440 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Goodness, I wish I'd brought along some oil. 441 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Looks like it's going to be a hot day. 442 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,000 You know, these days, the start of foggy are very deceiving. 443 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Yeah, yeah, they are. 444 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 This is a real treat for me, Jimmy. 445 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000 I never get out on the beach. 446 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 I think I'll have a nice day of rest for change. 447 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Later we can get some sandwiches. 448 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000 The treats aren't me. 449 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Well, Mrs. Gordon, I hadn't planned on spending the day at the beach. 450 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Oh, it'll be good for you, Jimmy. 451 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Not healthy for a boy your age to be working all night and sleeping all day. 452 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 But Mrs. Gordon, you see, I... 453 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Jimmy, do you know that man over there? 454 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Which one? 455 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Why, that one right there. 456 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 What? No, I don't know him. 457 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Well, he's lying so still. 458 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,000 His back's going to get an awful burn. 459 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Yeah. 460 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Well, do you suppose he's asleep? 461 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 It isn't good to sleep in the sun, you know. 462 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Mrs. Gordon, do you think that the painters will be finished by this afternoon? 463 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Oh, well, I hope so. 464 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:12,000 My, a person can get an awful burn on a day like this. 465 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 You know, someone ought to speak to him. 466 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Mrs. Gordon, wouldn't you like to go for a walk? 467 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,000 Oh, I'm not one for walking. 468 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 You go ahead if you like. 469 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Well, I... 470 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Come on, Dick, pitch it over here. 471 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Oh, those kids. 472 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000 You children, stop that. 473 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 You're getting sand all over me. 474 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Oh, sorry, Lee. 475 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000 No need to play here. 476 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 There's a playground over by the pier. 477 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 Now you just get away from here. 478 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Don't pay no attention to her. 479 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 She don't own the beach. 480 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 Pitch it over here. 481 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 I'm coming at you. 482 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Uh-oh, they hit that guy on the knee. 483 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Bad. 484 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Now see what they've done. 485 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 They've hit that poor man. 486 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Now they'll get what's coming to them. 487 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Mrs. Gordon, sure you don't want to get some sandwiches or something. 488 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000 I'll just stay here and... 489 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Not until I see those two hoodlums get what they deserve. 490 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Shh. 491 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 My, gee, I'm sorry, mister. 492 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Could we have our ball? 493 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Now, look at that. 494 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Ball right in the crook of his arm. 495 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 He's pretending he's asleep. 496 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,000 He's not going to hand it to them, but just wait till they reach for it. 497 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000 He'll give them something besides their ball all night. 498 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,000 What are you waiting for, Dicky? 499 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,000 It's our ball. 500 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Just take it. 501 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Oh, hey, mister, could we have... 502 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Go on, take it. 503 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Here, I'll get it. 504 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Thanks, mister. 505 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 I got... 506 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000 What's the matter? 507 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Gee, he's cold. 508 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 What did you say? 509 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000 He's cold, lady. 510 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 His arm's like ice. 511 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 I just touched it. 512 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 You probably hurt him. 513 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 A little ball like this couldn't hurt anybody. 514 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Well, nevertheless, it did. 515 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Here. 516 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Now, let's have a look. 517 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 And then she started moving toward him. 518 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 I knew it was useless to try and stop her. 519 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000 And then she reached over and put her hand on his back. 520 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,000 And suddenly she was screaming. 521 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, this man is dead. 522 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,000 He's dead, soldier. 523 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Before long, there was a crowd of people around us. 524 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,000 And someone called the police. 525 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 I wanted to run, but I knew that would be the wrong thing to do, 526 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,000 so I just stayed there, numb-like, watching things. 527 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,000 When the police came, they started questioning everybody. 528 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Mrs. Gordon was first. 529 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Why, why, he'd been there all morning. 530 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 I came early and he was here already. 531 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Just like that. 532 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000 You know, with his face down. 533 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Just like he was coming. 534 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,000 Was there anyone else around when you arrived? 535 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Around? 536 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Yes, Jimmy was here. 537 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000 He was here all alone with him. 538 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Weren't you Jimmy? 539 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Yes, yes, I was. 540 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Yes, you see, you were. 541 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 Doesn't anyone know this man? 542 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Do you know him, Jimmy? 543 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,000 I told you kids to keep away from here now, did you hear me? 544 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,000 We discovered him, didn't we? 545 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 But it hadn't been for us. 546 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Yeah, and you don't even know a clue when you see one. 547 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Look at his fingernails. 548 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,000 What's that? 549 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 Oh, the child's right, officer. 550 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Now just look for yourself. 551 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Let me see that. 552 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Yes. 553 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000 It looks like powder, something flaky. 554 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Are you sure none of you people around here recognize him? 555 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,000 Recognize him? 556 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Well, I've never seen him. 557 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Officer. 558 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000 Why that? 559 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Why that he's lying on? 560 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,000 It's from my motel. 561 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 See, it's stamped right under where you moved his hand. 562 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Oh, oh dear. 563 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Look for yourself. 564 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,000 See, it says seaside motor cabin. 565 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 566 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Yes. 567 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000 And you're sure he wasn't registered? 568 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Why, I'm positive. 569 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,000 Is there anyone else around here from your motel? 570 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Jimmy, look. 571 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000 Jimmy! 572 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,000 Here comes Helen. 573 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Look, she's crying. 574 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Mrs. Gordon, I ask if there was anybody else around here. 575 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Huh, what's that? 576 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Oh, yes, yes, Jimmy Barton here and that girl. 577 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,000 You see, she's his sister. 578 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,000 They've been with us for several weeks. 579 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Jimmy. 580 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000 What have you got to say, Jimmy? 581 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,000 And suddenly everyone was looking at me and at Helen as she ran towards us. 582 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:50,000 And like a fool, I started to run too in Helen's direction to ward her off. 583 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 I didn't get to see her. 584 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,000 I didn't get far, however. 585 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Someone caught me with the arm. 586 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Jimmy, Jimmy, I've been looking all over for you. 587 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Don't say anything, Helen. 588 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Let me do the talking. 589 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Don't say anything. 590 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,000 Jimmy, when you forced me out of the car this morning, you said you didn't pay me for having killed him. 591 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Helen, be still. 592 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Don't. 593 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Jimmy, I didn't kill him. 594 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,000 I thought you had. 595 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,000 I was helping you get rid of him because I thought you'd done it. 596 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,000 I'm sorry, kid. 597 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Helen. 598 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Helen, are you telling the truth? 599 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,000 I swear it, Jimmy. 600 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Phil and I were quarreling. 601 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 He'd been taking something again. 602 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000 He was like crazy. 603 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,000 This guy, Phil? 604 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 And I knew there'd be trouble when you came home from work. 605 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000 So I got out the back way and I went looking for you on the pier. 606 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,000 When I couldn't find you, I went back to the motel and I found him on the floor. 607 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,000 I thought you... 608 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,000 But Helen, why didn't you say so? 609 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 You didn't give me a chance, Jimmy. 610 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,000 You just took it for granted that I did it. 611 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000 But who did kill him, Helen? 612 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,000 That's what I'm trying to tell you. 613 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,000 Nobody killed him. 614 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,000 What are you talking about? 615 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 I went to the motel a while ago to wait for you. 616 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,000 While I was there, I remembered about Phil last night. 617 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 How strangely he'd acted. 618 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:56,000 I hadn't been able to walk straight and he'd almost fallen several times while we were quarreling. 619 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 And then I saw the gas heater, Jimmy. 620 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 There was a sharp edge on the top. 621 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,000 It was... 622 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000 But he must have fallen. 623 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,000 He must have. 624 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 Oh, but Helen, we've no way of proving that. 625 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,000 There was something else, Jimmy. 626 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,000 What? 627 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,000 The wall above the heater was scratched. 628 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,000 As though someone had clutched that to save himself from falling. 629 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 There might be fingerprints. 630 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,000 There might be. 631 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Oh, no, that's not... 632 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Wait a minute. 633 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Plaster. 634 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Plaster. 635 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Hey, Red, that flaky stuff you found under his fingernails. 636 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000 That might have been plaster. 637 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 And it was. 638 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Well, that's about it. 639 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Everything checked back at the motel and the autopsy showed he was full of dope. 640 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 But I guess it was really Mrs. Gordon who saved our necks for us. 641 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Besides talking so loud and so long that they'd probably acquitted us just to get rid of us, 642 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000 she did dig up a witness who'd heard Helen and Phil quarreling 643 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,000 and who'd seen Helen leave alone after he'd threatened her. 644 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000 Well, everything's all right now. 645 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Helen and I are beginning to forget. 646 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:03,000 But it's Mrs. Gordon who's making quite a nuisance of herself on the beach these days 647 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:25,000 as she goes along poking all the sunbathers and asking if they're sure they're all right. 648 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000 And so closes The Dead of the Night starring Robert Cummings. 649 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000 Tonight's study in suspense. 650 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 651 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,000 If you are one who does not yet know how much and how delightfully Roma wines can add to your meals, 652 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000 well, let me urge you not to miss out any longer on such a treat as this. 653 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,000 There's nothing complicated about it. 654 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Just get and serve Roma wine with meals or anytime in any kind of glass you wish. 655 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Try the many different kinds of Roma wine until you find those you like best of all. 656 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Try Roma California Sherry with its wonderful nut-like flavor as an appetizer. 657 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:08,000 Then hearty Roma Burgundy or the deliciously delicate Roma Sauterne with the meal. 658 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,000 These superb wines make even the simplest meal a feast. 659 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000 Yet they cost you only pennies a glass full. 660 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Get some tomorrow. 661 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,000 And if your dealer is temporarily out of Roma, please try again soon. 662 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Ask for R-O-M-A Roma wines. 663 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,000 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 664 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:34,000 Next Thursday same time you will hear Mr. Charles Lawton as star of Suspense. 665 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,000 Presented by Roma Wines R-O-M-A. 666 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,000 Made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 667 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:54,000 This is CBS Columbia Broadcasting System.