1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Now, Roma wines present. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Tonight, The Black Curtain, starring Cary Grant. 4 00:00:23,000 --> 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 --> 00:00:46,000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, as Roma wines bring you... 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Suspense! 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,000 This is the man in black here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 12 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 To introduce this weekly half hour of Suspense! 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Tonight in Hollywood, we are honored and happy to have with us... 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,000 One of the Entertainment World's most distinguished gentlemen, Mr. Cary Grant. 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 This becomes somewhat of an anniversary broadcast. 16 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Since it was one year ago tonight that Mr. Grant inaugurated this series of Suspense programs, sponsored by Roma wines. 17 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:23,000 And in response to requests from our listeners, he will appear once more in the Suspense play by Cornell Woolrich, which starred him on that occasion. 18 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:30,000 And so with the black curtain and with the performance of Cary Grant, we again hope to keep you in Suspense! 19 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 It began, or rather life began again for me, I guess you'd say. 20 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 That day on that street, my head was pounding terribly. 21 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 I could hear all the noise and the people milling around. 22 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Everything was a jumble at first. 23 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 All right, all right, Gangway, let the doctor through. 24 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,000 I see what happened, Mr. Policeman. He was running and boy, he really gave himself a clunk on the beam. 25 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Get back there now. 26 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Oh, my head. 27 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Take it easy, take it easy. 28 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 His wallet fell out of his pocket and a big boy grabbed it and ran away. 29 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Back everybody back, give the doctor room. 30 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 I'm OK. Never mind, Doc, I'm OK. 31 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 There seems to be nothing much to matter with you, sir. 32 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 No, I'm all right. 33 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Guess I can talk to him now, Doc. 34 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Yes, sure, go ahead, officer. Just a bad bump on the head, I think. 35 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Yeah, you're all right. You're all right. You can walk now, can't you? 36 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Sure, sure. Here, here, let me brush you off. 37 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Thanks. I'll be fine. 38 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Hey, hey, wait a minute. What am I doing with the Nova code on? 39 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 All right, now, mister, just so they got it on the plotter, what's your name and where do you live? 40 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Townsend, Frank Townsend, 820 Rutherford Street. 41 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Here, have a cigarette. You're still shaking. 42 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 No, thanks, I don't smoke. 43 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,000 OK, well, I'll be getting back. 44 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Talk to me at the receiving hospital if you want us to check you out. 45 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Yes, I will. 46 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Here's your hat, mister, I found it. 47 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Thanks, kid. 48 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 That's all now. Come on, move along, move along. This guy's all right. 49 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Oh, thanks, son, thanks. 50 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Hey, sorry about the fellow that got your wallet. 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Anyway, here's your cigar case, Mr. Townsend. I found it right alongside you. 52 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000 But I don't own a case. 53 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 No, besides, look at the initials, D-N. 54 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 I don't know, same initials in the hat, see, D-N. 55 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Yes, but this isn't my hat. 56 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Don't you even know your own hat, mister? 57 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm trying to think. Where is this? 58 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 What? 59 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 This street. 60 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,000 You're on Tillery Street. 61 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Tillery Street? What am I doing on Tillery Street? 62 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:35,000 He's lost. 63 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 All right now, sir, look, my suggestion is that you go on home and go lie down. 64 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 It's cold. Start in the snow again. 65 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 No, wait a minute, wait a minute. Don't leave me. 66 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Tell me, what... what happened? 67 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Well, you slipped on this icy sidewalk. 68 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Fell down, hit your head good and hard on the curb. 69 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 You were up about 20 minutes. 70 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Wait, wait, ice on the sidewalk? 71 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Look at it. That street cleaning department ought to clear away that snow too. 72 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 But, but, snow and ice? 73 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Sure, why? 74 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Snow in July? 75 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,000 July? It's December. December 1944. 76 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 1944? 77 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 You better get on home, son. Good night. 78 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 1944? 79 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 December 1944? 80 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 The last I remember was July 1941. 81 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Three years just gone. 82 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Amnesia. 83 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 A black curtain comes down over your mind out of nowhere. 84 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,000 That black curtain had been over my eyes for three years. 85 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Where had I been? Who had I been? 86 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,000 I hadn't been Frank Townsend. 87 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 I'd been someone else. 88 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,000 D.N. Someone whose initials were D.N. 89 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 I walked along Tillery Street thinking about it. 90 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Those three years. 91 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 What? I could have been married. 92 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 I could have been a thief. 93 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Something made me turn around on the street for a moment. 94 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 And that was when I first saw him. 95 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Grey eyes. He'd been talking to the cop who took my name. 96 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 He looked up as I did. 97 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 And then he started to walk rapidly in my direction. 98 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 I backed away instinctively. 99 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Something about him spelled trouble. 100 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,000 He caught me and came forward. 101 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Hey, hey you! Stop! Stop, Townsend! Stop! Townsend! 102 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Instinctively I knew I should run. Get away from me. 103 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Hey, you! 104 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 I looked back as I ran to the corner. He had a gun in his hand. 105 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 He raised it. 106 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Then I turned and ran for my life. 107 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:47,000 What lay behind that black curtain which separated Townsend from his past? 108 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Roma wines are presenting Hollywood's distinguished Cary Grant 109 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,000 as star of tonight's tale of suspense. 110 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Haven't you often realized that many of life's finest enjoyments 111 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,000 are simple and moderate rather than the opposite? 112 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 I give you the words of a high and well-loved authority, Miss Elsa Maxwell, 113 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 international expert on smart entertaining and gracious living. 114 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Good hospitality is always simple, genuine, and moderate. 115 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,000 That is why I often suggest enjoyment of delicious Roma sauternes 116 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 when you have friends into dinner or with your everyday meals. 117 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Serve this delicate golden sauternes well chilled with any food 118 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 in any glasses you have. 119 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Special wine glasses are pretty but not very important. 120 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Now, what can I add to such charming good sense as that? 121 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Maybe just this. Roma sauternes and all Roma wines 122 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 are the best that California's magnificent sun-ripened grapes can provide. 123 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 In glorious color, fragrance, and flavor. 124 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Protected for you by the ancient wine skill of Roma's famed wineries. 125 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:05,000 That's why Roma wines and Roma quality do not vary, never fall short, 126 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 but are always enjoyable. 127 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Unchanging high quality gives tremendous popularity to Roma wines 128 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 and makes low cost possible. 129 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Only pennies a glass. 130 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 131 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,000 R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 132 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage 133 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Mr. Cary Grant and The Black Curtain. 134 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:42,000 A story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 135 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Why was that man following me with a gun? 136 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 What did gray eyes want with me? 137 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 I must have done something. 138 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 I had to get away, some place to be safe and think. 139 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 I beat it down into the subway and hid. 140 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 For two hours I stayed down there. 141 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 I thought it all out carefully during those two hours. 142 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,000 I knew I was on the spot for something. 143 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Gray eyes meant business. 144 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 What could it be? 145 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Who had I been during those last three years 146 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 with that black curtain in front of them? 147 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Well, maybe I've been a gangster 148 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 when he was one of a mob that wanted to rub me out. 149 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I didn't know. 150 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 No identification, my wallet stolen. 151 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Nothing in my pockets would help. 152 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Just D.N. in the hat. 153 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,000 And D.N. on the cigar case. 154 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 D.N. 155 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 My head was aching with worry. 156 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,000 My stomach had panic in it. 157 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,000 I had to find out who I'd been, what I'd done. 158 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000 But how? Where? 159 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Tillery Street. 160 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 That's where I'd been when I woke up. 161 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Tillery Street. 162 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Well, maybe gray eyes would go back there too 163 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 looking for me. 164 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 But I had to take that chance. 165 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Yes? 166 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 Yes? 167 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Good evening, Pop. 168 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Hello. Oh, hello there. 169 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Oh, you know me. 170 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Sure. Couldn't see under that hat at first. 171 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 What can I do for you? 172 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Have you got an evening paper I could look at? 173 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 No, sir, I never read them. 174 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 There's not much trouble in the world these days anyhow. 175 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Say, how you been? 176 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 You haven't been around two or three weeks. 177 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Oh, no? Well, I've been busy. 178 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Oh, look, Pop. 179 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Yeah? 180 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,000 I made a bet with a friend of mine 181 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,000 that even though you see so many customers 182 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 you'd walk right up and give me my full name. 183 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Oh, well, I'm sorry. I don't know it. 184 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,000 I don't think I ever heard your name. 185 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 But I know your girl. 186 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 My girl? 187 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Oh, you do? 188 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Well, maybe I can still win my bet. 189 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Why, of course. Ruth. 190 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Lives right across the street, the artillery apartment. 191 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Oh, well, that's right. 192 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Ruth. 193 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Ah, but now, what apartment? 194 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Apartment 3C, of course. 195 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Don't I take the sandwiches up there every night? 196 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 3C? Yeah. 197 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Yes, well, thanks. 198 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Will you win your bet, mister? 199 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Oh, yes, I think I will. 200 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 What is your name, so I'll know it next time. 201 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 I'll tell you tomorrow. 202 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,000 So long. So long, Pop. Obviously... 203 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 What's the matter, Drop? Something? 204 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 No, nothing. Nothing. 205 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Just tying my shoe. 206 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 I'd just been going to walk out when I saw him 207 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 standing across the street. 208 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Grey eyes again. 209 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 I took down behind the store window and watched him. 210 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 He looked over in my direction. 211 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 And then up and down the street. 212 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 And then he lit a cigarette and slowed down to the corner. 213 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,000 The minute he disappeared, I yanked the door open, 214 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,000 dashed out and ran across the tillery apartments and went in. 215 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Who is it? 216 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Ruth? Yes? 217 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 It's me. 218 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Dan! 219 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Oh, Danny, where have you... Get in here. 220 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Oh, darling, it's really you. 221 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 I thought... Hello, Ruth. 222 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Oh, Danny, why did you come here? 223 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 He's been around twice today. He may be in the neighborhood right now for all you know. 224 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Yes, who? Who? 225 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Well, Slattery, of course. 226 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Slattery? 227 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Oh, has he got grey eyes? 228 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 What? Yeah. 229 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Did you ever see a detective that didn't? 230 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Oh, sure, sure. 231 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Danny, what's the matter with you? 232 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 You're acting so strangely. 233 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Well, I... 234 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 I just want to look at you. 235 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 You seem so different, so far away. 236 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 You haven't kissed me. 237 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Well, that's easily fixed. 238 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Oh, darling, where have you been for three weeks? 239 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Oh, all around. 240 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Miss me? Oh, you know I did. 241 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 Danny, Danny, just both... 242 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Do you think we could get away tonight? 243 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 I've got $3,000 saved up. 244 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 We could go to Mexico or South America and... 245 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 We could get married. 246 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Nearing, 247 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 the tour of the world. 248 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Daniel Nearing? 249 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Oh, Mr. and Mrs. 250 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Sounds plenty good to me. 251 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Oh, you'll never know how good. 252 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 And we'll get out of here tonight. 253 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 I'll call up and tell them I'm quitting my job. 254 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 I'll say I'm sick. All my stuff's here. 255 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Nothing's out there but a couple of uniforms. 256 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 I'll make Ada and Franklin a present of those. 257 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Ada and Franklin? 258 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Don't you bother your head about those two. 259 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 They weren't glad when it happened. 260 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 A couple of vultures. 261 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Why, to them. 262 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Oh, with you back, Danny, with you back. 263 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Just think with my $3,000 we could... 264 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Well, do you think you ought to quit your job? 265 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Well, absolutely, I think so. 266 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 I never was cut out to be a nurse anyway. 267 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 No, you weren't. 268 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Any more than I was... 269 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Any more than you were meant to be a secretary. 270 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Any more than you were meant to be a secretary. 271 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,000 I... That's right. 272 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,000 I never wanted to be a secretary. 273 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I just drifted into it, I guess. 274 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 It kind of got on my nerves, especially toward the end. 275 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 It kind of got on my nerves, especially toward the end. 276 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 The boss was no cinch to work for. 277 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 The boss was no cinch to work for. 278 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 He certainly wasn't. He was a rat. 279 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 The whole D.P. Bunch were mean, rotten. 280 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 The whole D.P. Bunch were mean, rotten. 281 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 The whole family. 282 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Yeah, that's right. 283 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 All except the old man. 284 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Oh, the old man. Yes. 285 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 I sort of liked him, didn't I? 286 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 He loves you too, Danny. 287 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 I think he wished you'd been his son. 288 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 He's the only reason I've stuck around out there this long. 289 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,000 He's the only reason I've stuck around out there this long. 290 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 How are things out there? 291 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Oh, they've been questioning all of us. 292 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 They've laid off lately, though, since you... 293 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Oh, don't let's talk any more about it. 294 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 You're back. That's the main thing. 295 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,000 You're back. That's the main thing. 296 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,000 I want to forget New Jericho and the whole... 297 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 New Jericho, huh? Yes. 298 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Oh, Danny. 299 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Danny, if only it hadn't happened. 300 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 What hadn't? You know what? 301 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Danny, what's going to become of you and me? 302 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000 I wish I knew. 303 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Danny, get away from that window. 304 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Leave that shade down. He's down there. 305 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Who? Grey Eyes. 306 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 He's standing in front of the hydrant. 307 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 He's coming in here. In the building. 308 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Oh, did he see you? 309 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Look, Ruth, will you help me? 310 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 What are you going to do? Give myself up. 311 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 No. No. Well, it's better than getting shot at. 312 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 What can they do to me? You crazy fool. 313 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 They can send you to the chair. 314 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 The chair? What do you think happens to a man 315 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,000 who's a murderer? Murder? 316 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Murder? 317 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Ruth, listen to me. 318 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,000 I'm not a murderer. 319 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 The whole world says I committed murder. I say I didn't. 320 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 The me that's in me says I didn't. 321 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 I never said you were, Danny. I always said you didn't do it. 322 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,000 But they found the body and they... 323 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Oh, only you hadn't run away. 324 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Oh, so that's it. 325 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 All right, nearing. Open up. 326 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Oh, why did you come here, Danny? Why? 327 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Why? Ruth, quick. 328 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 We've got to get out of here. How about the fire escape? 329 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Shaft. Dumb waiter. Dumb waiter. 330 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Oh, in here. 331 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Lock that kitchen door, quick. 332 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Now, get in. 333 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,000 I'll stand on top and work the ropes. 334 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,000 I don't think you can hold us both. We've got to. 335 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Now, can you hear me? 336 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Yes, Danny. 337 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Danny, what do we do? 338 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 We're going back there to New Jericho. 339 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 New Jericho? Oh, no, Danny, don't. 340 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 No, please. For me, don't, don't. 341 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 I've got to. I've got to find out. 342 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 We're going together. 343 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 No, no, Danny, no. I've got the money. 344 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 We can get out of here and we can... 345 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Now, stop it. Oh, Danny, my arm. 346 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,000 You're hurting me. 347 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 From here on in, we're sticking together. 348 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 You're going to take me back there, Ruth. 349 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Back where it happened. All right, darling. 350 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Crazy, but I'll go wherever you go. 351 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 I can't lose you again. 352 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,000 On the train, Ruth and I said very little to each other. 353 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 While I had hidden the telephone booth at Pennsylvania Station, 354 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 she'd bought us a couple of cheap overcoats. 355 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,000 I sat hunched up in mine, thinking, thinking. 356 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Ruth had brought along the newspaper clippings. 357 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,000 I looked at what they said for the 20th time, 358 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 trying to see if there was anything there that would help me. 359 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 I was thinking, thinking, thinking. 360 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 I was thinking, thinking, thinking. 361 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 I was thinking, thinking, thinking. 362 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Trying to see if there was anything there that would help me. 363 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Dietrich's slayer sword, it said. 364 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,000 The secretary wanted him brutal slaying at suburban estate. 365 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Police are pressing the search for Daniel Nearing, 366 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,000 secretary and the employee of the late John Dietrich, 58, 367 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 member of a well-known local family, 368 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,000 who was shot and killed in the drawing room of his new Jericho estate 369 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 on the morning of November the 7th. 370 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Nearing disappeared November the 7th, 371 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,000 on the morning of which date he is known to have had a bitter quarrel with the deceased. 372 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,000 This last was attested to at the inquest by Ada and Franklin Dietrich, 373 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 widow and brother of the murdered man. 374 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Well, I had all the facts now. 375 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 Wanted for murder. 376 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,000 And yet everything that was in me told me that no matter who I'd been, 377 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 however many memories I had lost, that I was no killer, 378 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,000 that I just couldn't have... 379 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 No Jericho! No Jericho! 380 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 I had to get into the Dietrich house 381 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 and stand again in that room where it had all happened. 382 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Maybe something would come back to me. 383 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Maybe there would be some... 384 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 No Jericho! 385 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Danny! Danny! 386 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Over here, Ruth. 387 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 It's dark. I couldn't see. 388 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Ada and Franklin just left. Drove down to the village. 389 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Did they say anything about you being out here on your day off? 390 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Yeah, Ada made some crack. 391 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 But I said I had nothing to do in town and came out to write some letters. 392 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Let's go, then. 393 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 Danny, I'm scared. 394 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Please, let's not stay here. 395 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 You said you loved me. 396 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 I do, Danny, I do. That's why I'm scared. 397 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,000 They're only going to the village. They'll be back in half an hour at the most. 398 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Open the door, Ruth. 399 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Hurry. I've got to see the inside. 400 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 That room. The place where it happened. 401 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 No, it's wrong, Danny. I'm telling you, you're crazy. 402 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,000 They'll find you. 403 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Open the door, Ruth. Quickly. 404 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,000 All right. 405 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Now, let's have a look at that room. 406 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Please, Danny, don't talk about it. Please. 407 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 So this is where I'm supposed to have murdered John Dietrich? 408 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Danny, please. 409 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Where was it? 410 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Show me exactly where it was, Ruth. I've got to know. 411 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 It was there. Right there. 412 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,000 It was standing by the grandfather's clock. 413 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Are you going crazy, Danny? If they get to you, you'll hang. 414 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 By the clock? You still believe me, don't you, Ruth? 415 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,000 I believe you, Danny, but I'm scared. 416 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,000 I love you. 417 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Wait, Ruth. What's that? Listen. 418 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 That's only the old man. 419 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 He's asleep in that room. Don't go in there, Danny. 420 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Don't please awake him. 421 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000 I want to see him. 422 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,000 No, don't, Danny. No, he can't help you. 423 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,000 You know he's paralyzed and he can't talk. 424 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Turn on the light. I want to see him. 425 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000 There you're. Walk him out. 426 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 It's me, Mr. Dietrich. Ruth. 427 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 This is Danny. 428 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 You remember Danny, don't you? 429 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Hello, Mr. Dietrich. 430 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 See how his eyes are shining? 431 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Yes. 432 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Tell me, was he here when it happened? 433 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,000 You know that, Danny. Why do you ask such funny questions? 434 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 He's been in bed here for five years. 435 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000 He has? 436 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Well, that mirror on the wall here. 437 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 That clock. Look. 438 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,000 You can see the grandfather's clock in the other room. 439 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 What are you getting at, Danny? 440 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Well, he could see it. 441 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 The old man could see the murder through the mirror. 442 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Oh, if he only could talk. 443 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 But he can't talk. You scare me, Danny. Don't... 444 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,000 He saw the man who killed John Dietrich. 445 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Look. He understands what I'm saying. 446 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 He's blinking his eyes. 447 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Oh, stop torturing him, Danny. Can't you see what you're doing to him? 448 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,000 He's trying to say something. 449 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Look. His eyes are blinking. 450 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 He's going to help me. 451 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Go outside and watch, Ruth. Go on. 452 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 I'll watch out at the entrance, Roy. 453 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Be careful, Danny. They'll be back any minute. 454 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,000 Leave me alone with him. 455 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 I'll pull if I hear them coming. 456 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Look now, Mr. Dietrich, don't be afraid. 457 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I'm going to ask you a question, and I'd like you to answer me. 458 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Are you trying to tell me something about the murder? 459 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Now, blink your eyes. Blink twice if you are. 460 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 That's it. Once, twice. 461 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000 That's good. 462 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Did you see it happen here in your mirror? 463 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Blink once if the answer is no. 464 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,000 Twice if the answer is yes. 465 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 Once, twice. 466 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 You did, huh? You saw it. 467 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 All right, Mr. Dietrich. 468 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Now, then. Is the murderer in this house? 469 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Danny, Danny, they're coming. Franklin, Nader. 470 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 Get out of here and hide. Run, Danny, run! 471 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000 Is the murderer in this house? 472 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Blink once for no, twice for yes. 473 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Yes! In this house. 474 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,000 Danny, Danny, they're coming! 475 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Wait, wait a moment. I've got it. 476 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Mr. Dietrich, was it me? 477 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Once for no, twice for yes. Was it me? 478 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Get out of here, Danny. In the big room there behind the curtains. 479 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000 I'll talk to them. 480 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Okay. Thanks, Mr. Dietrich. I'll be back. 481 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Ruth, Ruth, is that you in Father's room? 482 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Yes, Mrs. Dietrich. 483 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Are you here alone? 484 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Why, yes. Why? 485 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,000 We, we thought we heard voices. 486 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 What are you so jittery about, Ruth? 487 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 I'm tired, that's all. 488 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 May I go to bed now? 489 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Father's still awake, Ruth. 490 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Well, he'll go to sleep all right. 491 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 I'm going upstairs, Mrs. Dietrich, now. 492 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Good night, Ruth. 493 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Good night. 494 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 She's brought someone back here with her. 495 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 It's him, I think. 496 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Who? Dan? Oh, Franklin. 497 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,000 Take it easy, darling. Take it easy. 498 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,000 If he's here, we'll get him. 499 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Back to the evidence we gave against him at the hearing. 500 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Oh, I'm scared. Let's get out of here fast. 501 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,000 I'll go to the village for the police. 502 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 No, no. Call the police. Here, I'll do it. 503 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Hello? Hello? 504 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 It's too late. 505 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 The wires have been cut. 506 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Come on, we'll both drive to the village. 507 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 But he made me wait for us out by the car. 508 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Uh... 509 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 What? Oh. 510 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 What are you doing there, Franklin? 511 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,000 I think I might just need my gun. 512 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Come on, let's be on our way. 513 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 The moment they left the house, I made for the old man's room. 514 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 I called for Ruth, but she was gone. 515 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,000 Maybe Franklin and Ada had caught her after she cut the telephone wire. 516 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 But I couldn't wait. 517 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 My life was hanging on minutes now. 518 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,000 I shot the flashlight on the old man's face again. 519 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Now, Mr. Dietrich, you're helping me fine. 520 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 You know I'm trying to save my life, don't you? 521 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Now, the murderer. Was it me? 522 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Was it me who did it? Me, Danny Nearing. 523 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Blink once for no. 524 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Once. 525 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 You're sure? You're sure it wasn't me? 526 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,000 Oh, you're smiling, Mr. Dietrich, smiling. 527 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Now, now, it was somebody in this house. 528 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Then who was it? 529 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Oh, can't you make a sound? 530 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Help me, you've got to. Was it Ada? 531 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Price for yes, once for no. 532 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Once, not Ada. All right, then. 533 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Was it Franklin? 534 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Up with the hands, Nearing, or you'll never go to trial. 535 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Franklin, wait a minute, you've got to listen. You've got to. 536 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 I've got that flashlight. 537 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 So you're trying to kill the old man too, eh? 538 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 The murderer returns to the scene of his crime. 539 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,000 You know I didn't kill him. 540 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Tell it to the police. 541 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 They'll have him here in a couple of minutes. 542 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Where's your girlfriend, Ruth? 543 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 She's not here. I don't know where she went. 544 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Never mind, they'll find her. 545 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 You're a dead duck, Nearing. 546 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 You killed my brother and beat it. 547 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,000 What did you ever get out of it? That's always puzzled me. 548 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,000 You killed your brother, and now you're going to kill me. 549 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,000 You've gone nuts too. Why should I kill my own brother, you idiot? 550 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,000 To get his share of the estate and his wife, Ada, among other things. 551 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 But you can't stop with killing me. 552 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Someone else knows the truth. 553 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,000 The old man saw it in the mirror. 554 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,000 What? 555 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Yes, you'll have to kill your own father too. 556 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 The old man saw it? How do you know? 557 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 You're lying. He can't talk. He can't even move. 558 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000 He can hear, and he can blink his eyes. 559 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Come over here and look. 560 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Look here you are. 561 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Oh, Rose! 562 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,000 I had to do it. I heard him. He's going to kill you. 563 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Here's the gun, Daddy. Take it. 564 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,000 You'll be all right. 565 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Rose, you shouldn't have done that. 566 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000 In another minute. 567 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000 I'm not sure it was Franklin. 568 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Oh, Dad, please, please, let's run for it. 569 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,000 They'll be here in a second. It's your last chance. 570 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,000 They'll all swear you did it. 571 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Not if I can be with the old man another half a minute. 572 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Mr. Dietrich, Mr. Dietrich, it's Danny again. 573 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 No, Danny, don't, don't, don't. 574 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Tell me, Mr. Dietrich, was it Franklin? 575 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Did Franklin kill your son John? 576 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Blink once if he did. 577 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 What's the matter, Mr. Dietrich? 578 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you. 579 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 Why are you afraid? 580 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 He's afraid, Rose. 581 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Oh, it's this gun. 582 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Here, take the gun, Rose. You take it. He's afraid. 583 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,000 I'm not going to hurt you, Mr. Dietrich. 584 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000 What's the matter? 585 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Why don't you answer me? 586 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Who killed John Dietrich? 587 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 It wasn't me. It wasn't Ada. 588 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000 It wasn't Franklin. 589 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,000 But someone in the house. 590 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Was it... 591 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,000 ...Rose? 592 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Rose! 593 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000 You! 594 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 I told you, I told you not to come. 595 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Oh, I love you, Danny. I wanted you. 596 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 I wouldn't have let them get you. 597 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000 Oh, why, why, Rose? 598 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Why did you kill John Dietrich? 599 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,000 He was always after me. 600 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000 He wouldn't leave me alone. 601 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 I hated him. 602 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000 And then the night he came back, he threatened me. 603 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Said he'd kill me. 604 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 He couldn't have me. Nobody could. 605 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 He had a gun, Danny, and I got it away from him. 606 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 He hit the clock. 607 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 He leaned against it. 608 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 I thought he'd never fall down. 609 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Die. 610 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 It was the day he ran away, and I was crazy. 611 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 They thought it was you, and they started looking. 612 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 You. Why was it you? 613 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 I love you, Danny. I love you. 614 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 I begged you not to come back here. 615 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Rose, please. Put down that gun. 616 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000 No. Stand back, Danny. 617 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Stay over there. 618 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000 I just want to look at you. 619 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,000 I was hoping we could get away together. 620 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,000 But you've been through enough, Danny. 621 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 And all because of me. 622 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Now you're clear, Danny. 623 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 And this is going to clear me. 624 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Darling. 625 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Rose. Dear. Rose. 626 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Well, that's about all there is to tell. 627 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000 I've tried to put it all behind me. 628 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,000 To resume my life where it left off three and a half years ago. 629 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Sometimes when it gets toward evening, I go and walk along Tillery Street. 630 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000 And once in a while somebody, somebody I don't know, 631 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 will say, hello, Danny. 632 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,000 And I just say hello and walk on. 633 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 I don't want to find out anything more. 634 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 I want it all to die away and be still. 635 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 And it will. 636 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000 All except Ruth. 637 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Because somewhere behind that black curtain, 638 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000 I was loved. 639 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,000 And loved someone. 640 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:27,000 We must have known a love that I'll never know again. 641 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 And so closes The Black Curtain, starring Cary Grant. 642 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,000 Tonight's study in Suspense. 643 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. 644 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000 We are sometimes asked, why does Miss Elsa Maxwell always say 645 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000 it is smart to serve Roma wine? 646 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,000 Her explanation is simple. 647 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 It is smart to serve Roma wine. 648 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,000 First of all, because Roma wines are so delicious, 649 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,000 so good with food or any time. 650 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,000 It is smart further, because Roma wine affords simple pleasure. 651 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Enjoyment that is truly moderate. 652 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,000 Finally, it is smart, because it is such an easy and inexpensive addition 653 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,000 to hospitality and everyday living. 654 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Yes, in every way it is smart to serve and enjoy Roma wines. 655 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,000 They are California's finest. 656 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,000 Always good. 657 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Unvaryingly fine in flavor and quality. 658 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000 And remember, the cost is only pennies a glass. 659 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,000 More Americans enjoy Roma than any other wines. 660 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,000 R-O-M-A. Roma wines. 661 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,000 This is Cary Grant. 662 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,000 I certainly enjoyed reappearing tonight on Suspense. 663 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,000 It's a program I've always admired tremendously. 664 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,000 And it's achieved a distinguished success during this past year. 665 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Two weeks from tonight, my friend Robert Montgomery 666 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,000 will be your star in one of the really all-time great suspense plays, 667 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000 The Lodger. 668 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Next Thursday, there will be no performance of Suspense, 669 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,000 because the time will be given over to a special Pearl Harbor Day program 670 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000 on behalf of the Sixth War Loan Drive. 671 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000 And that brings me to the seven most important words 672 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000 I could say to you at this time. 673 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,000 Buy more war bonds and save them. 674 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,000 Thank you, Mr. Grant. 675 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Two weeks from tonight on December 14th, 676 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000 Mr. Robert Montgomery will be your star of... 677 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000 Suspense! 678 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000 Presented by Roma wines made in California 679 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,000 for enjoyment throughout the world. 680 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:43,000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.