WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 00:11.000 --> 00:13.000 Suspense! 00:17.000 --> 00:21.000 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Peter Laurie, a star of Nobody Loves Me, 00:21.000 --> 00:30.000 a suspense play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:30.000 --> 00:38.000 Suspense! Radio's outstanding theatre of thrills is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:38.000 --> 00:46.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 00:46.000 --> 00:52.000 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:52.000 --> 01:00.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you Peter Laurie in a remarkable tale of... 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 Suspense! 01:10.000 --> 01:15.000 Hello. Are you guys in charge of this prison? 01:15.000 --> 01:17.000 Well, hello, bright eyes. 01:17.000 --> 01:18.000 Who's in charge here? 01:18.000 --> 01:20.000 Just a minute. How did you get in? 01:20.000 --> 01:23.000 I walked in. Who's the top man here? 01:23.000 --> 01:26.000 This is the squad room, son. If you have a complaint, give it to the death sergeant. 01:26.000 --> 01:29.000 No, I don't want to bother him. He's sleeping. 01:29.000 --> 01:31.000 Jenkins sleeping? Boy, it'll like to... 01:31.000 --> 01:32.000 You better sit down! 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 Hey, Costello, he's got a gun. 01:34.000 --> 01:37.000 Yeah, I got a gun. Sit down. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 Hey, son, you must be crazy. 01:40.000 --> 01:43.000 Maybe, but I think I know what I'm doing. 01:43.000 --> 01:45.000 You can't hold up a police station, mister. 01:45.000 --> 01:46.000 No? 01:46.000 --> 01:47.000 There's no dough here. 01:47.000 --> 01:50.000 No, no, no, no. Look, son, look. Keep your hands up. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 I didn't move. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 Hey, you, shove that chair over for me. 01:54.000 --> 01:57.000 Yeah, yeah. OK, mister. 01:57.000 --> 02:02.000 Yeah, I have a lot to talk about, and I want to be comfortable. 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 Come to tell you cups a story. 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 Look, mister, this isn't funny. 02:07.000 --> 02:11.000 Just tell your story and give your present. How's that? 02:11.000 --> 02:13.000 Well, what do you mean, a present? 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 Why, I'm a regular Santa Claus. 02:15.000 --> 02:17.000 Going to give you $10,000. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 Now, now, look. 02:19.000 --> 02:24.000 There is $10,000 reward for the kidnap of Peggy Stewart, am I right? 02:24.000 --> 02:25.000 You did that? 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Where is she? Where's the girl? 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 You forget this gun. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 You also forget I said I was going to tell you a story first. 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 Sit down, Captain. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 You mean you're confessing? 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 Yeah, story of my life. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 You get plenty of thrills. You know why? 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Now, look, son, look. 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 Plenty of thrills. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Because my name is Reese. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Joe... Joe Reese. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Then you... you killed her. You... you killed her. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 Oh, so you have heard about me. 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 Yes. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 Killer Reese. 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 Killer Reese, Captain. 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 Then you admit I got a story. 03:01.000 --> 03:04.000 I'm going to tell it in my own way. 03:04.000 --> 03:07.000 First things first, last things last. 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 And Peggy Stewart comes last. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Look, just tell us, sir. 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 Did you kill her, Joe? 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 I started at the beginning. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 The beginning when I... when I was born. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 And don't interrupt. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 Okay. Okay, we won't interrupt. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 Because, you see, I... 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 I think a lot about when I was born. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Hmm? 03:28.000 --> 03:31.000 Maybe somebody loved me then. 03:31.000 --> 03:36.000 Maybe when I... when I sucked in my first breath of air and let out a yell. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 Maybe my mother loved me. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 Maybe she wished I was dead. 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 She didn't live long enough for me to find out. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 But after she died, 03:45.000 --> 03:49.000 it was like I was just shoved clean out of the world. 03:49.000 --> 03:52.000 Shoved off to an aunt and an uncle 03:52.000 --> 03:57.000 who had the meanest, grime-iest, stinking-est little souls 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 even you fellows could hope to meet. 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 Yeah. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 And Ella and Uncle Walter. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 Oh, they were a pair. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 Why, they even looked alike. 04:08.000 --> 04:11.000 Faces like rotting cabbages 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 and their mean little mouths 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 yapping away in the middle of them. 04:16.000 --> 04:21.000 Those two would have eaten the heart out of a saint. 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 But I was so little when I went there, 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 I didn't even know what I was missing. 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 Until one day when I was about nine, 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 I found a kitten. 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 A dirty, sick little kitten. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 Joe, Joe Rees, what you got there? 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 Just a little cat. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 How do you speak to me? 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 I mean, ma'am. 04:44.000 --> 04:47.000 We found it down the alley, Mother, back at the fish store. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 You get it out of here, Joe. You get it out quick. 04:49.000 --> 04:51.000 I told you, Joe. 04:51.000 --> 04:52.000 Please, ma'am, it... 04:52.000 --> 04:53.000 You hear me? 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 It won't eat much. Please. 04:55.000 --> 04:58.000 You hear me? You get it out of here. 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 Dirty thing. 05:00.000 --> 05:03.000 If I see it again, Uncle Walt will beat the stuffing out of you. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 Yes, ma'am. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 Ought to kill it. 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 Would, too, but it'd turn my stomach. 05:11.000 --> 05:13.000 Now get both of you. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 Yes, Mother. 05:16.000 --> 05:18.000 What you gonna do with it, Joe? 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 I don't know. Nothing. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 We could have some fun, I bet. 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 Tie something to its tail. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 No, I don't want to. 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 Might as well. We could have some fun. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 No, I said... 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 Say, feel. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 Yeah? What about it? 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 It's buzzing inside. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Like machinery. 05:38.000 --> 05:39.000 Oh, that's purring. 05:39.000 --> 05:40.000 Purring? 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 Sure. It has to do that when they're glad. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 It's glad? About what? 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 Bet it thinks you're gonna feed it. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 Oh, yes. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 What do cats eat, Cousin Alex? 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 You ain't gonna keep it. 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 Sure I'm gonna keep it. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 I'm gonna keep it somewhere she don't know. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 You're crazy. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 I'm not. I'm gonna keep it. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 It likes me. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 That's why. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 Likes you? A cat? 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Then why is it buzzing? Purring. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 Sure it likes me. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Oh, it doesn't. It's hungry. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 I'll stop it, purring. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 Look. 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 What you doing, Alex? 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 Watch it when I twist its tail. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 No, don't. Hey! 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 Hey, now look what you've done. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 Now it ain't purring. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 Joe! Joe, what are you doing? 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 It clawed me. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 It clawed me and now it's scared. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 It clawed me. 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 Scared now. Scared. 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 You ever feel a kitten? 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 What it's really like? 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Skinny little kitten? 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 Why it's nothing but fur. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 Soft and... 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 ...and a head. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 And its back bone is... 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 ...like a thin string of beads. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 Curled just so. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 When it's scared... 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 ...its eyes stare. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 All one collar. 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 And its neck is thin. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Thinner than a match. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Like a string of beads. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 Just nothing between your fingers. 07:12.000 --> 07:20.000 Just nothing. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 The theater of thrills, suspense. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Between the acts of suspense... 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 ...this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 This holiday weekend... 08:00.000 --> 08:04.000 ...millions of Americans will return to the traditional way of observing Labor Day. 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 By having friends and for dinner. 08:06.000 --> 08:10.000 That's why Elsa Maxwell makes the most appropriate suggestion. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 She says, 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 We have good reason to celebrate Labor Day this year. 08:14.000 --> 08:16.000 So make your holiday entertaining... 08:16.000 --> 08:20.000 ...really festive by enjoying good Roma wine. 08:20.000 --> 08:24.000 At dinner, serve Roma California Burgundy Cool. 08:24.000 --> 08:28.000 This splendid wine, so delightful, delicious, distinguished... 08:28.000 --> 08:32.000 ...lends charm and flavor magic to any meal. 08:32.000 --> 08:36.000 Yes, as Elsa Maxwell says... 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 ...you'll enjoy the delicate piquancy... 08:38.000 --> 08:42.000 ...and fruity robust taste of Roma Burgundy. 08:42.000 --> 08:46.000 Only Roma gives you the goodness of luscious grapes... 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 ...from California's choicest vineyards. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 Gathered at peak of flavor, gently pressed... 08:50.000 --> 08:54.000 ...then unhurriedly guided to flavor perfection... 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 ...by Roma's ancient winemaking skill. 08:56.000 --> 09:00.000 And finally, bottled right at the winery. 09:00.000 --> 09:04.000 Roma wines are always unvaryingly good. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 Yet cost only pennies a glass. 09:06.000 --> 09:12.000 Remember, because of uniformly fine quality at reasonable cost... 09:12.000 --> 09:17.000 ...more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 09:17.000 --> 09:21.000 R-O-M-A, Roma wines. 09:21.000 --> 09:25.000 And now Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage... 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 ...Peter Laurie in Nobody Loves Me. 09:28.000 --> 09:32.000 A narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense. 09:32.000 --> 09:43.000 It never turned my stomach. 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 So it was easy. Very easy. 09:46.000 --> 09:49.000 Yes, but Joe, where did you leave the girl, Peggy? 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Didn't I tell you not to interrupt? 09:51.000 --> 09:55.000 I am telling you what I have to tell cats first and girls last. 09:55.000 --> 10:00.000 I sat in the backyard holding the dead kitten... 10:00.000 --> 10:03.000 ...and it was soft for a long time. 10:03.000 --> 10:08.000 The next day it was stiff and hard on its fur. 10:08.000 --> 10:12.000 Funnier, a kid nine years old even knew about killing, but... 10:12.000 --> 10:16.000 ...what I knew, cause when I was more than four... 10:16.000 --> 10:20.000 ...I saw Uncle Walter kill a chicken. 10:20.000 --> 10:27.000 I saw his mean, stringy shoulders jump when he brought the axe down. 10:27.000 --> 10:32.000 You know, that's how I knew because watching Uncle Walter... 10:32.000 --> 10:36.000 ...I could tell he liked to kill. 10:36.000 --> 10:40.000 Liked it way down inside of him. 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 And I hated him. 10:43.000 --> 10:46.000 So whenever I killed anything or anybody... 10:46.000 --> 10:52.000 ...after that I was killing Uncle Walter and everybody liked him. 10:52.000 --> 10:57.000 I hated him. I hated him till he died. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 Joe, come here. 11:02.000 --> 11:06.000 Your poor Uncle Walt is passing on and I want you to see him before he goes. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 Joe. 11:07.000 --> 11:08.000 Yes, ma'am. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 Don't say a word unless he speaks to you. 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 I won't. 11:14.000 --> 11:17.000 Go stand on the other side of the bed. 11:17.000 --> 11:23.000 Listen to the blessed man fighting for his life. Just listen to him. 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 Yes, I listen. 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 Oh, did I listen. 11:30.000 --> 11:33.000 And I only wished he knew he was dying. 11:33.000 --> 11:36.000 I wanted to tell him. 11:36.000 --> 11:40.000 I wanted to say, you are dying, Uncle Walter. 11:40.000 --> 11:43.000 And I'm wishing you dead. 11:43.000 --> 11:49.000 That's why I'm strangling the wind out of your turkey neck. 11:49.000 --> 11:54.000 I'm burying a knife in your filthy heart. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 I am doing it. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 Me, Joe. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 Look at him. 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 I think he's going to speak. 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 Oh, no, no. 12:07.000 --> 12:13.000 No, he's not. 12:13.000 --> 12:16.000 Oh, he's dead. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 He's gone. 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 Yeah, he's gone. 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 Oh, that blessed saintly man. 12:23.000 --> 12:26.000 Joe, you'll never know how much he did for you. 12:26.000 --> 12:29.000 You'll never be able to thank him. 12:29.000 --> 12:32.000 He's in heaven now. 12:32.000 --> 12:34.000 Yeah, I bet. 12:34.000 --> 12:36.000 Don't you understand, Joe? 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 You're Uncle Walter's dead. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 Sure, I understand. 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 Then can't you say something? 12:42.000 --> 12:43.000 Sure. 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 Uncle Walter's dead. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 15 years. 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 Too late for me. 12:54.000 --> 13:00.000 One day after that, I mashed a toad under a rock. 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 And there was a white dog I caught in a fence, 13:03.000 --> 13:07.000 and it was torn and threw stones at it, dozens of stones. 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 Each day I killed one thing, 13:09.000 --> 13:14.000 and some things died quick and some died slow. 13:14.000 --> 13:18.000 But I, I always felt the same. 13:18.000 --> 13:20.000 I felt good. 13:24.000 --> 13:28.000 I found there was room in the world for a bright young fellow like me. 13:28.000 --> 13:32.000 There was work to spare for a man who didn't mind killing. 13:32.000 --> 13:36.000 Sometimes a box a job I could get, sometimes more. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 Hey, pick up that pencil, fatty. 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 Yeah, you, Sergeant. 13:40.000 --> 13:42.000 I'll give you a list. 13:42.000 --> 13:47.000 Well, there was the Bresco brothers, all three of them. 13:47.000 --> 13:51.000 A guy named Lyons who was two-timing somebody's wife. 13:51.000 --> 13:54.000 Oh, and that chorus babe, Daisy, me, Marks. 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 13:56.000 --> 13:58.000 She got her fingers in a wrong pie. 13:58.000 --> 14:01.000 Izzy Turnbull, the weasel. 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 An old codger named Haskett. 14:03.000 --> 14:04.000 They call him... 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 Yeah, yeah, that's enough of them, Joe. 14:06.000 --> 14:08.000 Now, please, where'd you leave the girl? 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 I'll get her around to her. 14:10.000 --> 14:11.000 Where'd you kill her, Joe? 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 I am telling this. It's my story. 14:13.000 --> 14:14.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure, Joe. 14:14.000 --> 14:18.000 Because it all happened different with Peggy Stewart. 14:19.000 --> 14:22.000 See, I wasn't supposed to kill her. 14:22.000 --> 14:26.000 The boy sent me around to Case to Stewart House for the kidnapping. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 It was all I was supposed to do, 14:28.000 --> 14:31.000 but the girl who was out, who was in the house, 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 and when the girl was alone, it was a big job. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 Why, with her father owning half the state 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 and holding a mortgage on the rest, 14:38.000 --> 14:41.000 we expected it to pay off plenty. 14:42.000 --> 14:43.000 Yes, sir? 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 I'm looking for work. 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 There's nothing here. 14:46.000 --> 14:50.000 Oh, I thought maybe raking the yard, or I can drive. 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 No, there isn't anything. 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 Is there anyone else here I could ask? 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 Morris? Morris, who are you talking to? 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 Mrs. Peggy, looking for work. 14:58.000 --> 15:01.000 Oh, what kind of work? 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 Anything, ma'am, anything at all. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 You see, I'm going to college, 15:05.000 --> 15:08.000 and I just want some work for the summer, 15:08.000 --> 15:11.000 and I have a bad back, so I can't do anything heavy. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 Oh, I see. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 Well, maybe we have something. I'll ask my father. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 Miss Peggy! 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 Father isn't home right now, but if you want to wait. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 Oh, sure, sure, I'll wait. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 You can come inside, Mr. uh... 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 Sanders, Joe Sanders. 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 Well, come in, Joe. 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 Morris was about to give me my lunch. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 Maybe you'd like to eat with me. 15:34.000 --> 15:37.000 So for more than an hour, I was on the inside, 15:37.000 --> 15:40.000 looking out, just for once. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 It did things to me. 15:42.000 --> 15:46.000 That room, all sunshiney where we eat, 15:46.000 --> 15:50.000 blue dishes, the food cooked in little dabs, 15:50.000 --> 15:55.000 and so good, I was just boiling with heat. 15:55.000 --> 15:59.000 I couldn't look at her, at the girl, or talk. 15:59.000 --> 16:02.000 She didn't seem to notice what was happening to me, 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 but that's what really got me. 16:04.000 --> 16:07.000 She didn't once look scared. 16:07.000 --> 16:10.000 Hey, you, you ever see Miss Peggy? 16:10.000 --> 16:16.000 She's little, all curved and little and bright and soft. 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 Even her voice is soft. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 I'd never known anybody like her, 16:21.000 --> 16:25.000 except people in books I read in a modern library, you know. 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 I couldn't take it. 16:27.000 --> 16:31.000 I want to make her like the other girls I'd known, 16:31.000 --> 16:34.000 make her get that look in her eyes. 16:34.000 --> 16:36.000 You're not eating, Joe. 16:36.000 --> 16:39.000 Huh? Oh, I've been thinking. 16:39.000 --> 16:40.000 Oh? 16:40.000 --> 16:41.000 Aren't you scared? 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 Scared? 16:42.000 --> 16:46.000 Being alone like this with a fellow you don't even know. 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 Scared of you? 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 Lots of girls, huh? 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 Why? Are you dangerous? 16:52.000 --> 16:53.000 I don't know. 16:53.000 --> 16:56.000 Lots of girls think I am. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 There must be something in it. 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 You mean you're a wolf. 17:00.000 --> 17:03.000 No, no, I don't mean it that way. 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 Well, if you are, I think you're a nice wolf, 17:05.000 --> 17:06.000 the nicest I know. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 It's not what I mean. 17:08.000 --> 17:11.000 Anyway, you just don't know me. 17:11.000 --> 17:14.000 It's funny. I feel like I do. 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 I feel I've known you for a long time. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 What's the matter, Joe? 17:19.000 --> 17:23.000 Nothing. Nothing is the matter. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 I guess I'd better be going. 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 Aren't you going to wait for Father? 17:27.000 --> 17:28.000 He'll be here soon. 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 No, I guess I'd better not wait. 17:30.000 --> 17:31.000 But you said you... 17:31.000 --> 17:37.000 You see, I just remembered I got to be someplace at 2 o'clock. 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 Oh, well, if you come back tomorrow... 17:40.000 --> 17:43.000 That's it. Yes, I'll come back tomorrow. 17:43.000 --> 17:45.000 Maybe that'll be even better. 17:45.000 --> 17:47.000 I can talk to Father tonight about you. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 Then I'm sure he'll give you a job. 17:49.000 --> 17:51.000 Sure, you do that. That'll be swell. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 But you will come back. Promise? 17:53.000 --> 17:57.000 Oh, sure, sure. I'll come back. 18:03.000 --> 18:08.000 I couldn't figure it out how a girl like her could be with me 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 and not be scared. 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 And after I practically warned her, too, 18:12.000 --> 18:15.000 you can see how I tried to warn her, but she... 18:15.000 --> 18:18.000 She just looked at me, at my eyes. 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 My eyes! 18:20.000 --> 18:25.000 And hers stayed just the same, blue and soft, 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 like she was looking at anyone. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 Hey, there is killing in my eyes. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 Lots of killing. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 Anyone can see that. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 But then... 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 Then it hit me. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 I had to make her scared. 18:40.000 --> 18:45.000 I had to get her to look at me in a beautiful, naked way 18:45.000 --> 18:48.000 from back deep in her head. 18:48.000 --> 18:53.000 Her blue eyes, all glazed, all over. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 Oh, one color. 19:02.000 --> 19:06.000 Well, I got my car out and drove back to her house. 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 It was night already, and there were lights on, 19:09.000 --> 19:13.000 and windows were open, and this time I went right to the front door. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 I'll go follow. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 What... What, Joe? 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 Hello, Miss Peggy. 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 Did you come to see Father tonight? I haven't talked to him yet. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 No, I... I came to see you. 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 Well, that's nice, Joe. I... I... 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 I came to get you. 19:34.000 --> 19:36.000 Get me? 19:36.000 --> 19:38.000 Sure, don't you remember? 19:38.000 --> 19:40.000 I came back, like you said. 19:40.000 --> 19:42.000 Going to take you away. 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 Like I said. 19:44.000 --> 19:46.000 Yeah, see? 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 Now you're getting that look. 19:48.000 --> 19:52.000 Now you're beginning to look at me the right way. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 Don't, Joe. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 You're hurting me. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 No, no, I'm not hurting you, Peggy. 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 Not much yet. 20:00.000 --> 20:05.000 Just enough so you'll look up at me like something in a trap. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 You won't hurt much more when I kill you. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 When you... 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 Joe, Joe, please! 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 That's what I said when I kill you. 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 Oh, no! 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 Papa! Help! 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 Papa! 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 I dumped her in the front seat, 20:23.000 --> 20:26.000 and after I got the car in her, she didn't move anymore. 20:26.000 --> 20:30.000 She sat there with her big eyes staring at the road. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 I didn't talk anymore. 20:32.000 --> 20:35.000 I thought fast, and I drove fast. 20:35.000 --> 20:39.000 I thought how it was going to be, killing her. 20:39.000 --> 20:43.000 And I was still thinking when we got to the hideout. 20:43.000 --> 20:45.000 Huh? 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 Where it is? 20:47.000 --> 20:52.000 Oh, it's up in the mountains, and I like it there. 20:52.000 --> 20:57.000 It's nothing but a shed, but someone had a house there once, 20:57.000 --> 21:01.000 and there are still lilac bushes, and roses, 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 lots of roses. 21:04.000 --> 21:08.000 When I lifted her out of the car to carry her into the shed, 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 I could smell the lilacs, 21:10.000 --> 21:15.000 and there was just enough moon to see her face. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 You don't have to carry me. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 I can walk. 21:20.000 --> 21:23.000 Just the same, I carry you. 21:23.000 --> 21:26.000 That's part of the fun for me. 21:26.000 --> 21:30.000 You don't want to spoil my fun. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 Where are we? 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 What difference does it make? 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 No difference. 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 Then don't ask so many questions. 21:38.000 --> 21:41.000 You won't see much of it anyway. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 Okay. 21:45.000 --> 21:47.000 Inside. 21:47.000 --> 21:49.000 Walk straight ahead and stand still. 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 It's dark. 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 I got a candle. 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 There. 21:55.000 --> 21:57.000 Now get over there and sit down. 21:57.000 --> 21:58.000 On the floor? 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 Yes, on the floor. 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 What do you want? 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 All the comforts of home? 22:03.000 --> 22:07.000 Of your beautiful, clean, bright, wonderful home? 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 Why don't you tell me what you want? 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 Joe, what's the matter? 22:11.000 --> 22:12.000 What did I do to you? 22:12.000 --> 22:13.000 Nothing. 22:13.000 --> 22:14.000 You did nothing to me. 22:14.000 --> 22:16.000 Then why are you... 22:16.000 --> 22:17.000 Why, Joe? 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 Go on, say it. 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 Why am I going to kill you? 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 Yes. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 It's a very foolish question. 22:24.000 --> 22:25.000 I got to kill you. 22:25.000 --> 22:26.000 But why? 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 I got to talk to you, 22:28.000 --> 22:32.000 watch your eyes, and tell you a lot of things. 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 I got to hold you. 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 Please, Joe. 22:34.000 --> 22:39.000 I got to know how you feel before you die. 22:39.000 --> 22:41.000 Hold you like this. 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 Do you love me, Peggy? 22:43.000 --> 22:44.000 Do you? 22:44.000 --> 22:45.000 Love you? 22:45.000 --> 22:46.000 Sure. 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 That's what I asked. 22:48.000 --> 22:49.000 Of course not. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 Of course I don't love you. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 You see? 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 Nobody loves me. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 Nobody ever loved me. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 Maybe a cat once. 22:58.000 --> 23:01.000 Everyone hates me, Peggy. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 But I don't hate you either. 23:03.000 --> 23:04.000 See? 23:04.000 --> 23:05.000 That's funny. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 I just thought of something. 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 You know what? 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 Joe, how can you... 23:09.000 --> 23:10.000 No, this is important. 23:10.000 --> 23:11.000 Listen. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 It's this way. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 I used to live here in a shack, week sometimes, 23:15.000 --> 23:16.000 and I'd read books. 23:16.000 --> 23:17.000 Oh, good books. 23:17.000 --> 23:18.000 Modern library. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 Do you know about them? 23:20.000 --> 23:21.000 Yes, I know. 23:21.000 --> 23:22.000 Wow, you. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 You can get any book, and it's only a buck. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 It's less than a buck, the best, see? 23:26.000 --> 23:27.000 Yes. 23:27.000 --> 23:32.000 So I read something by a man we used called Oscar Wilde. 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 He says, 23:34.000 --> 23:39.000 each man kills the thing he loves. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 It's in a modern library. 23:41.000 --> 23:46.000 Each man kills the thing he loves. 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 Maybe that's what I am doing. 23:48.000 --> 23:50.000 No, Joe. 23:50.000 --> 23:51.000 You don't love me. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 You don't get it. 23:53.000 --> 23:56.000 Like I said, nobody loves me, but I get love anyway. 23:56.000 --> 23:59.000 I get something like love because 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 when I start to kill you, Peggy, 24:01.000 --> 24:04.000 there won't be anyone else in the world for you. 24:04.000 --> 24:05.000 But me. 24:05.000 --> 24:08.000 No one else will matter. 24:08.000 --> 24:12.000 And then, then your eyes, they'll get shiny. 24:12.000 --> 24:16.000 Oh, so shiny. 24:16.000 --> 24:20.000 And they'll blaze, and they'll bloom, 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 and they'll spread out. 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 That's why I'm going to kill you, Peggy. 24:24.000 --> 24:27.000 Oh, it'll be, it'll be so easy. 24:27.000 --> 24:30.000 There won't be anything in them but me. 24:30.000 --> 24:37.000 All I've got to do is, is take your neck in my hands, like this. 24:37.000 --> 24:46.000 Hey, Peggy, I'm going to kill you. 24:46.000 --> 24:47.000 You heard me say it. 24:47.000 --> 24:50.000 I'm going to kill you now. 24:50.000 --> 24:55.000 Why don't your eyes? 24:55.000 --> 24:56.000 Poor Joe. 24:56.000 --> 24:58.000 What? 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 What did you say? 25:00.000 --> 25:02.000 You've been hurt. 25:02.000 --> 25:05.000 You've been terribly hurt. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 Poor Joe. 25:07.000 --> 25:23.000 I'm sorry. 25:23.000 --> 25:25.000 Oh, well, that's it. 25:25.000 --> 25:28.000 But where did you leave the body, Joe? 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 What are you talking about? 25:30.000 --> 25:31.000 After you killed her. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 Who said I killed her? 25:33.000 --> 25:34.000 Why, you said that you... 25:34.000 --> 25:37.000 You, bonehead, that's what it's all about. 25:37.000 --> 25:40.000 That's why I came in here, to give myself up. 25:40.000 --> 25:45.000 See, see, nobody ever loved me except, except that cat. 25:45.000 --> 25:50.000 And when he got scared, it clawed me, and I had to kill it. 25:50.000 --> 25:54.000 But Miss Peggy, she, she wasn't scared. 25:54.000 --> 25:55.000 I don't get it. 25:55.000 --> 25:59.000 Miss Peggy looked at me, and, and into me, and through me, 25:59.000 --> 26:03.000 and she knew what I was, rotten. 26:03.000 --> 26:11.000 But she said, poor Joe, to me, Joe Reese. 26:11.000 --> 26:15.000 I figured that it was as close as I'd ever get to love her. 26:15.000 --> 26:18.000 Well, I figured it was enough. 26:18.000 --> 26:21.000 Go ahead, answer it, Sergeant. 26:21.000 --> 26:25.000 I guess that's her father saying she's home. 26:25.000 --> 26:28.000 And then you can lock me up, Captain. 26:28.000 --> 26:31.000 I need sleep. 26:31.000 --> 26:34.000 I am dead for sleep. 26:34.000 --> 26:52.000 Roma Wines have brought you Peter Lorre, a star of Nobody Loves Me. 26:52.000 --> 26:57.000 Tonight's study in Suspense. 26:57.000 --> 27:02.000 This is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines, the sponsor of Suspense. 27:02.000 --> 27:07.000 Visiting friends in the family car is once again a popular American custom. 27:07.000 --> 27:10.000 And as Elsa Maxwell said just last week, 27:10.000 --> 27:14.000 be prepared when people drop in unexpectedly. 27:14.000 --> 27:19.000 A smart way to entertain, a sure way to cool off and delight your guests, 27:19.000 --> 27:22.000 is to serve refreshing Roma wine and soda, 27:22.000 --> 27:27.000 a frosty cold iced drink that really quenches thirst. 27:27.000 --> 27:30.000 Yes, and Roma wine and soda, 27:30.000 --> 27:33.000 made with distinguished Roma California burgundy or sautern, 27:33.000 --> 27:36.000 is quick and easy to make. 27:36.000 --> 27:40.000 Just half fill tall glasses with good Roma burgundy or sautern. 27:40.000 --> 27:44.000 Add ice cubes, sparkling water, and a bit of sugar. 27:44.000 --> 27:49.000 And for a decorative touch, garnish with cherries or fruit. 27:49.000 --> 27:52.000 Here's another delightfully different taste treat. 27:52.000 --> 27:55.000 Try Roma Sweet Vermouth, well chilled. 27:55.000 --> 27:57.000 A delicious aperitif. 27:57.000 --> 28:01.000 Zestful, full flavored Roma Vermouth is blended and developed 28:01.000 --> 28:05.000 with all the traditional winemaking skill of Roma wineries. 28:05.000 --> 28:09.000 It's made and bottled in the heart of California's famous vineyards. 28:09.000 --> 28:11.000 Yet surprisingly low priced. 28:11.000 --> 28:14.000 Try Roma Vermouth soon, won't you? 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