WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 The Spence. 00:07.000 --> 00:17.600 Tonight, with the George Murphy, as star of Deaf Bomb Highway 99, a suspense play produced, 00:17.600 --> 00:27.320 edited and directed by William Spear. 00:27.320 --> 00:32.480 Dear Julie, the clock here in my room has just struck seven, which means I have about an 00:32.480 --> 00:34.760 hour for writing this letter to you. 00:34.760 --> 00:40.040 I guess already you've said who's this from, what goes, so I'll tell you right off. 00:40.040 --> 00:44.400 Remember Morton Blake, Speed Blake they called me in high school, the guy who sat behind 00:44.400 --> 00:46.200 you in Algebra II in chemistry? 00:46.200 --> 00:48.920 Now that was more than seven years ago. 00:48.920 --> 00:52.600 And I'm writing to you because there's no one else in the world that I give a darn about. 00:52.600 --> 00:56.400 There never has been, Julie, since I saw you the first time. 00:56.400 --> 01:01.520 Well, I sure had other plans about you and that's probably a surprise too because I never 01:01.520 --> 01:03.920 had the nerve to let you know I was alive before. 01:03.920 --> 01:08.920 But as it is with me now, this letter is all you'll ever know. 01:08.920 --> 01:13.160 Letter telling what a mess I've made of things, what a mess I've made of my life. 01:13.160 --> 01:17.960 You see, Julie, it's because I always decided too late what to do, because I always was 01:17.960 --> 01:18.960 a coward. 01:18.960 --> 01:24.280 That's why I never spoke up and told you back then what I thought about you until it was 01:24.280 --> 01:25.280 too late. 01:25.280 --> 01:27.960 And you married someone else. 01:27.960 --> 01:32.520 That's why I'm writing you the last letter I'll ever write to a girl who can't even 01:32.520 --> 01:34.520 remember my face. 01:34.520 --> 01:38.080 That's why I'm waiting for Captain Shannon to come and get me. 01:38.080 --> 01:41.080 You see, Julie, I'm a murderer. 01:41.080 --> 01:49.520 Yes, in just a little while I'll see the squad car pull up outside and then all the fumbling 01:49.520 --> 01:51.000 and mistakes will be over. 01:51.000 --> 01:55.760 But I want you to understand, that's all, because it really was all her fault, Pauline's. 01:55.760 --> 01:56.760 Do you remember Pauline? 01:56.760 --> 01:57.760 She was that strawberry blonde who hated you so much. 01:57.760 --> 01:58.760 Of course Pauline hated everyone. 01:58.760 --> 01:59.760 She was so sharp and mean and not like you. 01:59.760 --> 02:00.760 But when you got married, I married Pauline just to show myself that I didn't care, just 02:00.760 --> 02:01.760 because she was there handy and you were lost. 02:01.760 --> 02:02.760 It was five long years we were clawing each other like two cats tied in a sack. 02:02.760 --> 02:03.760 Right up to that last night, she'd gone to a show alone. 02:03.760 --> 02:04.760 I was there with her. 02:04.760 --> 02:05.760 I was there with her. 02:05.760 --> 02:06.760 I was there with her. 02:06.760 --> 02:07.760 I was there with her. 02:07.760 --> 02:08.760 I was there with her. 02:08.760 --> 02:09.760 I was there with her. 02:09.760 --> 02:10.760 I was there with her. 02:10.760 --> 02:11.760 I was there with her. 02:11.760 --> 02:12.760 I was there with her. 02:12.760 --> 02:13.760 I was there with her. 02:13.760 --> 02:33.160 I was there with her. 02:33.160 --> 02:33.660 What? 02:33.660 --> 02:36.060 Oh look, Pauline, I work late, I'm tired. 02:36.060 --> 02:37.760 Now why don't you just sit there and be quiet? 02:37.760 --> 02:39.660 Yes, you'd like that, wouldn't you? 02:39.660 --> 02:41.660 You'd like it if I was deaf and dumb. 02:41.660 --> 02:43.160 But you won't shut me up, Morton Blake. 02:43.160 --> 02:45.560 When I want to talk, I'll talk. 02:45.560 --> 02:46.760 What are you stopping for? 02:46.760 --> 02:47.960 It's a boulevard stop sign. 02:47.960 --> 02:49.760 Oh, for isn't that silly? 02:49.760 --> 02:51.060 It's almost two in the morning. 02:51.060 --> 02:52.360 There isn't a car in sight. 02:52.360 --> 02:54.260 Oh, Pauline, let me drive the car, will ya? 02:54.260 --> 02:55.760 All right, sure. 02:55.760 --> 02:56.660 Take your time. 02:56.660 --> 02:59.360 After I waited almost an hour in the cold. 02:59.360 --> 03:01.060 You don't care about anybody but yourself. 03:01.060 --> 03:02.260 Pauline. 03:02.260 --> 03:03.460 What? 03:03.460 --> 03:05.360 Look, let's stop kidding ourselves. 03:05.360 --> 03:06.960 Let's be honest for five minutes. 03:06.960 --> 03:07.960 Honest? 03:07.960 --> 03:10.860 You're a fine one to speak about being honest. 03:10.860 --> 03:13.160 I just wonder if it really was work that kept you tonight. 03:13.160 --> 03:14.560 After all, I know a couple of things. 03:14.560 --> 03:16.060 Oh, forget all that, will ya? And listen. 03:16.060 --> 03:18.660 What I'm trying to say is our marriage is finished. 03:18.660 --> 03:19.960 You know it and I know it. 03:19.960 --> 03:21.560 It was no good before we started. 03:21.560 --> 03:22.360 Yes. 03:22.360 --> 03:25.560 And whose fault was that, may I ask? 03:25.560 --> 03:26.660 I know what you were thinking of then. 03:26.660 --> 03:27.860 I know who you were mooning about. 03:27.860 --> 03:28.660 I know that. 03:28.660 --> 03:29.960 Oh, all right, all right. 03:29.960 --> 03:31.560 But why should you and I go on? 03:31.560 --> 03:33.960 Why don't we just call the whole thing off? 03:33.960 --> 03:35.960 You've been working too hard, Mort. 03:35.960 --> 03:37.860 You're delirious. 03:37.860 --> 03:39.960 Do you really think I'd ever give you a divorce? 03:39.960 --> 03:42.160 Well, it's as bad for you as it is for me, Pauline. 03:42.160 --> 03:43.260 Why not? 03:43.260 --> 03:44.360 I got my reasons. 03:44.360 --> 03:46.260 But we're wasting our lives. 03:46.260 --> 03:49.360 You're still young and pretty and you could get a much better deal. 03:49.360 --> 03:51.060 And you think you could too, don't you, Mort? 03:51.060 --> 03:51.960 Oh, I don't know. 03:51.960 --> 03:55.260 Well, just because you want your freedom so much, it's no go, see. 03:55.260 --> 03:59.060 Because I like to make you squirm because I loathe and despise you. 03:59.060 --> 04:00.060 Do you get me, Mort? 04:00.060 --> 04:02.260 Yes, yes, I get you. 04:02.260 --> 04:04.960 Pauline, oh, let's don't talk anymore. 04:04.960 --> 04:07.360 Let's forget it. 04:07.360 --> 04:09.360 Look, you don't have to speed up just because we started. 04:09.360 --> 04:11.360 Look, a minute ago I was going too slow. 04:11.360 --> 04:11.760 You said... 04:11.760 --> 04:12.760 Never mind what I said. 04:12.760 --> 04:13.660 Stop going so fast. 04:13.660 --> 04:14.460 Well, I'm under the limit. 04:14.460 --> 04:15.060 Dry up. 04:15.060 --> 04:16.060 Mort will turn over. 04:16.060 --> 04:17.560 Oh, I said dry up. 04:17.560 --> 04:20.460 But Mort, there's somebody on the road. 04:20.460 --> 04:23.160 Morton, but aren't you going to hit him? 04:26.160 --> 04:27.860 You hit him. 04:27.860 --> 04:28.560 You hit him. 04:28.560 --> 04:30.360 You stay in the car, Pauline. 04:30.360 --> 04:31.460 Don't go, Mort. 04:31.460 --> 04:32.160 He's dead. 04:32.160 --> 04:32.860 Maybe. 04:32.860 --> 04:34.160 Just stay where you are. 04:34.160 --> 04:36.160 He's moving. 04:36.160 --> 04:37.660 Hey, mister. 04:37.660 --> 04:38.960 Mister, can you hear me? 04:38.960 --> 04:40.160 Okay. 04:40.160 --> 04:42.460 I drove off. 04:42.460 --> 04:43.760 Couldn't see me in the dark. 04:43.760 --> 04:45.260 Now, don't try to talk. 04:45.260 --> 04:46.960 Here, just hang on to me. 04:46.960 --> 04:48.460 I'll get you into the car. 04:48.460 --> 04:50.260 Good, now you're on your feet. 04:50.260 --> 04:51.760 Who are you, mister? 04:51.760 --> 04:52.760 Name... 04:52.760 --> 04:53.560 Haggerty. 04:53.560 --> 04:54.760 Okay, Mr. Haggerty. 04:54.760 --> 04:57.560 Take it easy now and I'll take you to a doctor. 04:57.560 --> 04:59.860 Doctor, quickly. 04:59.860 --> 05:00.760 Quick. 05:00.760 --> 05:01.960 He's passed out. 05:01.960 --> 05:04.860 Pauline, open the back door. 05:04.860 --> 05:05.560 He's alive. 05:05.560 --> 05:06.060 He's alive. 05:06.060 --> 05:06.560 Here. 05:06.560 --> 05:07.960 There, now if we hurry. 05:07.960 --> 05:10.460 We've got to get him to the hospital right away. 05:12.560 --> 05:14.960 Well, there. 05:14.960 --> 05:16.860 There's the result of your temper, Mort. 05:16.860 --> 05:17.860 My temper? 05:17.860 --> 05:19.660 Well, you know it wasn't my fault. 05:19.660 --> 05:20.960 He jumped right in front of the wheel. 05:20.960 --> 05:22.360 Not your fault. 05:22.360 --> 05:22.960 Not your fault. 05:22.960 --> 05:24.760 He doesn't seem to think it was your fault either. 05:24.760 --> 05:25.460 Well, it wasn't. 05:25.460 --> 05:26.360 You saw. 05:26.360 --> 05:27.660 He ran off from the side without looking. 05:27.660 --> 05:28.260 Oh, sure. 05:28.260 --> 05:29.460 You're lucky. 05:29.460 --> 05:30.460 As usual, Mort. 05:30.460 --> 05:31.360 Lucky? 05:31.360 --> 05:32.260 What are you talking about? 05:32.260 --> 05:33.860 The streets are completely deserted. 05:33.860 --> 05:34.460 Well, it's late. 05:34.460 --> 05:35.460 What's so strange about that? 05:35.460 --> 05:36.960 Nothing. 05:36.960 --> 05:38.060 There weren't any witnesses. 05:38.060 --> 05:38.660 Well, that's right. 05:38.660 --> 05:40.360 No witnesses except him and you. 05:40.360 --> 05:42.460 Yes. 05:42.460 --> 05:44.660 That's right. 05:44.660 --> 05:48.160 Him and me. 05:48.160 --> 05:49.860 What's your hurry, Morton? 05:49.860 --> 05:51.160 What's my... 05:51.160 --> 05:52.460 Well, I've got to get him to a hospital. 05:52.460 --> 05:53.260 He may be dying. 05:53.260 --> 05:53.860 No, Mort. 05:53.860 --> 05:55.860 He's not dying. 05:55.860 --> 05:57.760 You don't have to hurry. 05:57.760 --> 06:02.960 He's dead. 06:02.960 --> 06:04.360 He's dead. 06:04.360 --> 06:06.060 She said it just like that. 06:06.060 --> 06:08.460 Like she was handing me a birthday present. 06:08.460 --> 06:11.460 I pulled the car to the curb and got in the back seat. 06:11.460 --> 06:13.660 The old man was sprawled across the cushions. 06:13.660 --> 06:15.060 His head twisted back. 06:15.060 --> 06:19.560 When I put my face down, there was no whisper of any breathing on my cheek. 06:19.560 --> 06:21.760 I slipped my hand inside his coat. 06:21.760 --> 06:23.260 Still as stone. 06:23.260 --> 06:25.260 Not a flicker from his heart. 06:25.260 --> 06:29.160 I crawled back under the wheel and sat there thinking. 06:29.160 --> 06:30.460 Mort. 06:30.460 --> 06:32.260 Yeah. 06:32.260 --> 06:34.360 You know what you've done? 06:34.360 --> 06:35.360 Yeah. 06:35.360 --> 06:37.060 He's dead. 06:37.060 --> 06:39.560 That means you're guilty of... 06:39.560 --> 06:40.960 What is it, Mort? 06:40.960 --> 06:42.160 Murder? 06:42.160 --> 06:44.360 No, it's not murder. 06:44.360 --> 06:46.760 Or manslaughter. 06:46.760 --> 06:49.660 And even manslaughter will mean prison. 06:49.660 --> 06:50.760 Won't it, Mort? 06:50.760 --> 06:51.360 Huh? 06:51.360 --> 06:53.760 I said manslaughter will mean prison, won't it? 06:53.760 --> 06:54.860 Prison? 06:54.860 --> 06:56.360 No, it wasn't my fault. 06:56.360 --> 06:57.360 You heard him say so. 06:57.360 --> 06:58.860 Yeah. 06:58.860 --> 07:02.360 If I testify that I heard, then you'll get off. 07:02.360 --> 07:02.860 Is that it? 07:02.860 --> 07:03.660 What? 07:03.660 --> 07:05.060 Well, you'll have to testify. 07:05.060 --> 07:05.460 Or else... 07:05.460 --> 07:06.560 Or else what, Mort? 07:06.560 --> 07:07.860 Or else I'll be sent up. 07:07.860 --> 07:09.560 There weren't any other witnesses. 07:09.560 --> 07:10.760 That's right, Morton. 07:10.760 --> 07:11.660 Hey. 07:11.660 --> 07:13.560 What are you trying to tell me? 07:13.560 --> 07:17.260 Mort, you must have imagined that poor man said it wasn't your fault. 07:17.260 --> 07:18.060 What? 07:18.060 --> 07:20.260 Because I didn't hear him say a thing. 07:20.260 --> 07:21.260 You're lying. 07:21.260 --> 07:22.460 You're lying, Pauline. 07:22.460 --> 07:23.460 You heard him. 07:23.460 --> 07:25.460 As soon as I put him in the car, he said, it's not your fault. 07:25.460 --> 07:26.760 Can you prove it, Mort? 07:26.760 --> 07:27.960 Can I prove? 07:27.960 --> 07:30.960 This is what I wanted, Mort. 07:30.960 --> 07:33.460 I'll have my freedom, but you won't have yours. 07:33.460 --> 07:36.460 You'll be that jailbird, Speed Blake. 07:36.460 --> 07:41.260 And you'll have years and years and years to think about the other girls you used to know. 07:41.260 --> 07:42.260 Won't you, Mort? 07:45.760 --> 07:46.960 I looked at her. 07:46.960 --> 07:49.360 She had a thin smile on her lips. 07:49.360 --> 07:51.660 I got a crawling feeling at the back of my neck. 07:51.660 --> 07:54.060 I held onto the wheel so tight, my knuckles began to ache. 07:54.060 --> 07:56.460 Well, Morton, what are you waiting for? 07:56.460 --> 07:57.760 What was I waiting for? 07:57.760 --> 07:59.560 What had I always waited for? 07:59.560 --> 08:00.460 Well, Morton. 08:00.460 --> 08:01.560 I began to think of something. 08:01.560 --> 08:04.160 A line my beloved wife's ran through my brain. 08:04.160 --> 08:05.060 No witnesses. 08:05.060 --> 08:06.360 There were no witnesses. 08:06.360 --> 08:08.060 Why wait, Mort? 08:08.060 --> 08:08.860 Be a man. 08:08.860 --> 08:09.860 No witnesses. 08:09.860 --> 08:10.960 There were no witnesses. 08:10.960 --> 08:14.360 I could dump the old man's body somewhere on the edge of town and no one would be the wiser. 08:14.360 --> 08:15.660 No one but Pauline. 08:15.660 --> 08:16.860 But... 08:16.860 --> 08:21.860 But what if there was no Pauline? 08:24.860 --> 08:26.260 Where are you going? 08:26.260 --> 08:28.560 This isn't the way, Mort. 08:28.560 --> 08:31.160 Morton, look at that speedometer. 08:31.160 --> 08:34.160 I tell you, you're going the wrong way, Mort. 08:34.160 --> 08:36.660 We're way past the city limits. 08:36.660 --> 08:38.160 Morton. 08:38.160 --> 08:39.460 Morton, stop this car at once. 08:39.460 --> 08:41.660 Stop it, do you hear? 08:41.660 --> 08:43.160 Okay. 08:43.160 --> 08:44.060 Okay. 08:44.060 --> 08:46.760 I'll stop the car, Pauline. 08:46.760 --> 08:48.860 Oh. 08:48.860 --> 08:50.660 Mort, you... 08:50.660 --> 08:54.360 You didn't really believe me when I said I wouldn't testify? 08:54.360 --> 08:55.460 Did you, Mort? 08:55.460 --> 08:56.560 Yes. 08:56.560 --> 08:57.860 Yes, I believed you. 08:57.860 --> 08:59.560 But I was only kidding. 08:59.560 --> 09:00.660 I wouldn't think of not telling you. 09:00.660 --> 09:02.360 I believed you, Pauline. 09:02.360 --> 09:03.360 But you know I'd never do such a thing. 09:03.360 --> 09:05.560 I believed you, and so I'm going to kill you. 09:05.560 --> 09:06.960 You're... 09:06.960 --> 09:07.860 You're joking. 09:07.860 --> 09:09.460 Am I? 09:09.460 --> 09:11.260 You wouldn't dare, Mort. 09:11.260 --> 09:12.260 Anyway, how could you? 09:12.260 --> 09:14.260 Look outside, Pauline. 09:14.260 --> 09:16.460 Did you notice where we are? 09:16.460 --> 09:17.660 What do you mean? 09:17.660 --> 09:19.460 We're on Austin Bluff. 09:19.460 --> 09:21.560 Remember the cliff just ahead? 09:21.560 --> 09:23.360 Oh, Morton. 09:23.360 --> 09:26.460 Must be at least 300 feet to the bottom. 09:26.460 --> 09:27.760 Pretty picture, huh, baby? 09:27.760 --> 09:28.660 Oh, please. 09:28.660 --> 09:29.760 Please, Morton. 09:29.760 --> 09:30.860 Come on, get out of the car. 09:30.860 --> 09:31.460 No. 09:31.460 --> 09:32.460 No, no, no! 09:32.460 --> 09:33.460 Oh, yes, yes. 09:33.460 --> 09:34.460 We're going for a walk, Pauline. 09:34.460 --> 09:35.960 No, no! 09:35.960 --> 09:37.560 A walk in the moonlight. 09:37.560 --> 09:38.860 Just you and me. 09:38.860 --> 09:41.960 After five years, we ought to have a little romance, we two. 09:41.960 --> 09:48.460 She didn't budge, and her eyes blazed at me. 09:48.460 --> 09:50.660 I got out of the car and closed the door. 09:50.660 --> 09:52.960 Walked around to the other side to pull her out. 09:52.960 --> 09:55.360 But she locked the door from the inside before I got there. 09:55.360 --> 09:57.460 I ran fast, back to the other side. 09:57.460 --> 09:59.460 I wasn't fast enough, she'd locked that door. 09:59.460 --> 10:00.760 And the back doors, too. 10:00.760 --> 10:01.960 She and Haggerty were locked in. 10:01.960 --> 10:05.060 Oh, it made me crazy wild to see her little white face in there. 10:05.060 --> 10:08.660 The face that had kept me from anything a guy could want in life. 10:08.660 --> 10:09.560 Open up. 10:09.560 --> 10:10.260 Open up the door. 10:10.260 --> 10:10.960 You can't get away. 10:10.960 --> 10:12.160 I got the keys, so quit stalling. 10:12.160 --> 10:13.660 Open up. 10:13.660 --> 10:14.660 Stop it. 10:14.660 --> 10:15.860 Stop that horn or I'll... 10:15.860 --> 10:17.660 OK, I'll fix that. 10:17.660 --> 10:20.060 You won't keep that ragging up long, sweetheart. 10:20.060 --> 10:21.060 Let's see now. 10:21.060 --> 10:22.060 Which is it? 10:22.060 --> 10:24.060 Ah, ah, there. 10:24.060 --> 10:25.060 Got him. 10:25.060 --> 10:26.860 You see, Pauline? 10:26.860 --> 10:29.060 You'd be smart to come out and get it over with. 10:32.060 --> 10:34.060 I pressed my face against the glass. 10:34.060 --> 10:35.660 She was crouched down in the front seat. 10:35.660 --> 10:37.560 Her eyes watched every move I made. 10:37.560 --> 10:39.360 She was trapped, and she knew it. 10:39.360 --> 10:41.160 I could see Haggerty in the back seat, 10:41.160 --> 10:42.960 his head still twisted back. 10:42.960 --> 10:44.860 His eyes were shut, and his sprawled old body 10:44.860 --> 10:46.660 had a look of pain and surprise. 10:46.660 --> 10:49.160 Even wild like I was, I felt bad about him. 10:49.160 --> 10:50.360 But I had to hurry. 10:50.360 --> 10:51.860 Pauline was fooling with the lights, 10:51.860 --> 10:53.360 flashing them on and off. 10:53.360 --> 10:55.560 I fell around on the ground and I found a good solid rock. 10:55.560 --> 10:57.960 I picked it up and I showed it to her. 10:57.960 --> 10:58.960 Open up. 10:58.960 --> 11:01.760 This is your last chance or I'll smash the window. 11:01.760 --> 11:04.160 OK, whatever you say, baby. 11:04.160 --> 11:06.160 Here we go. 11:06.160 --> 11:07.360 No! 11:07.360 --> 11:09.360 No, Martin, no! 11:09.360 --> 11:10.560 Now for that walk. 11:10.560 --> 11:12.960 No, no, no, don't, don't hurt me, please. 11:12.960 --> 11:13.860 Don't hurt me. 11:13.860 --> 11:15.160 Come on, I'll stop that screaming. 11:15.160 --> 11:17.160 Martin! 11:17.160 --> 11:20.260 Now, I think it's a clear drop here. 11:20.260 --> 11:21.360 No ledge. 11:21.360 --> 11:22.260 That's water. 11:22.260 --> 11:23.760 See that glow down there? 11:23.760 --> 11:24.660 That's water. 11:24.660 --> 11:25.660 Taylor Creek. 11:25.660 --> 11:28.160 Clear all the way down. 11:28.160 --> 11:29.660 Oh, you want to talk, huh? 11:29.660 --> 11:30.960 OK, talk. 11:30.960 --> 11:32.160 You can even yell. 11:32.160 --> 11:33.160 No one will hear you now. 11:33.160 --> 11:34.660 You can do this, Martin. 11:34.660 --> 11:36.360 I promise I won't hurt you. 11:36.360 --> 11:37.960 You're not the kind of person to kill. 11:37.960 --> 11:39.560 You can't do it. 11:39.560 --> 11:41.060 Can I? 11:41.060 --> 11:43.960 You'd be surprised what I can do, Pauline. 11:43.960 --> 11:45.660 No, please. 11:45.660 --> 11:46.560 Stop it, Martin. 11:46.560 --> 11:47.960 Goodbye, baby. 11:47.960 --> 11:49.960 No! 11:49.960 --> 11:51.360 Goodbye. 11:51.360 --> 11:52.360 Sweet dreams. 12:03.960 --> 12:06.260 Yes, Julie, I did it. 12:06.260 --> 12:10.560 When you get this letter, you'll be the only person who will really know why. 12:10.560 --> 12:13.960 You'll know that I'm only sorry that I didn't kill her sooner. 12:13.960 --> 12:17.460 All right, so you can't quite remember which guy I was. 12:17.460 --> 12:19.560 I was the tall one or the redheaded one. 12:19.560 --> 12:22.060 Or if you spoke to me when you saw me in the hall, 12:22.060 --> 12:25.060 that doesn't matter to you or to me now. 12:25.060 --> 12:28.460 What matters is that I lived with her for five years. 12:28.460 --> 12:32.760 Five years that I might have spent at least thinking about you. 12:32.760 --> 12:34.360 Well, it was done. 12:34.360 --> 12:38.860 I climbed back into the car, the clock on the dash said 20 after 2. 12:38.860 --> 12:41.960 I still had to get rid of the old man's body before daylight. 12:41.960 --> 12:43.960 So I started driving. 12:43.960 --> 12:47.860 When I came to a strip of forest along the road, I stopped my car and got out. 12:47.860 --> 12:50.660 Right then, the beam of a spotlight pinned me in my tracks. 12:50.660 --> 12:51.660 I didn't move. 12:51.660 --> 12:52.960 I saw it was a cop. 12:52.960 --> 12:55.360 Hey, what you doing there? 12:55.360 --> 12:57.860 I started walking towards him, rolling his motorcycle. 12:57.860 --> 13:00.060 No parking anywhere along the highway, mister. 13:00.060 --> 13:02.760 Oh, well, okay, officer. I didn't know. 13:02.760 --> 13:04.660 This ain't no lovers lane. You gotta keep moving. 13:04.660 --> 13:07.860 Oh, I'm sorry. I'll get moving right away, officer. 13:07.860 --> 13:10.760 Hey, you're not carrying any vegetables in your car, are you? 13:10.760 --> 13:12.360 Uh, vegetables? Oh, no. 13:12.360 --> 13:15.160 There's a beetle thing on again. 13:15.160 --> 13:17.160 I just better take a look in the back there. 13:17.160 --> 13:18.160 Oh, there's nothing in the back. 13:18.160 --> 13:19.160 Hey! 13:19.160 --> 13:20.660 What? What? 13:20.660 --> 13:22.460 Listen. 13:22.460 --> 13:24.060 Where does that guy think he's going? 13:24.060 --> 13:26.160 Oh, yes. He's speeding all right. 13:26.160 --> 13:28.160 Say, am I gonna slap a ticket on him? 13:28.160 --> 13:29.860 But you clear out of here, mister. 13:29.860 --> 13:31.660 I don't ever park on this highway again. 13:31.660 --> 13:32.860 Oh, no. 13:32.860 --> 13:34.360 No, sir, never again. 13:40.260 --> 13:43.560 So I took another road and got back on Highway 99. 13:43.560 --> 13:45.360 By then, I felt jittery. 13:45.360 --> 13:46.760 I smoked one cigarette after another, 13:46.760 --> 13:48.860 and the sweat was rolling down my face. 13:48.860 --> 13:51.760 I found another spot, and this time, I made sure I was alone. 13:51.760 --> 13:54.560 Then I parked the car, and I opened the back door. 13:54.560 --> 13:56.360 I reached in for Hagerty's body. 13:56.360 --> 13:59.760 He was still limp and warm, and really, I was sorry about him. 13:59.760 --> 14:01.760 You see, that proves I wasn't the killer. 14:01.760 --> 14:03.960 That proves that it was her fault, Pauline. 14:03.960 --> 14:06.360 And if she hadn't been like she was, I never would have killed. 14:06.360 --> 14:07.660 Not anymore. 14:07.660 --> 14:11.660 Well, I got the old man out onto the road, and I left him. 14:19.160 --> 14:21.260 When I got home, I put the car in the garage, 14:21.260 --> 14:23.360 and I looked it over to see that everything was okay. 14:23.360 --> 14:25.260 There was no blood on the seat. That was a break. 14:25.260 --> 14:27.660 The window was broken, of course, but I could fix that. 14:27.660 --> 14:29.060 There was mud on the tires. 14:29.060 --> 14:31.360 So I got out the garden hose, and I washed them down. 14:31.360 --> 14:32.760 Then I went into the house. 14:32.760 --> 14:35.260 I was pretty nervous, and I knew that I had to be on my toes 14:35.260 --> 14:38.160 for the next few days, so I took a couple of sleeping pills. 14:38.160 --> 14:39.260 They did the trick. 14:39.260 --> 14:41.660 I was asleep the minute my head hit the pillow. 14:50.760 --> 14:53.360 The telephone sounded like it was ringing miles away. 14:53.360 --> 14:55.460 I didn't know if it was day or night. 14:55.460 --> 14:59.160 I stumbled down the hall, shaking my head, trying to clear my brain. 15:01.560 --> 15:03.760 Hello? Hello? 15:03.760 --> 15:05.460 Is this Martin, Blake? 15:05.460 --> 15:06.360 Yes. 15:06.360 --> 15:09.060 This is Sergeant Graham down at headquarters. 15:09.060 --> 15:11.560 Oh, yes, yes. Is there anything wrong? 15:11.560 --> 15:14.360 I have some bad news for you, Blake. 15:14.360 --> 15:16.160 Bad? Bad news? 15:16.160 --> 15:20.260 Yeah. A report just came in from the East Precinct. 15:20.260 --> 15:24.060 A couple of campers found a body at the bottom of the cliff. 15:24.060 --> 15:25.160 Yes? 15:25.160 --> 15:31.760 Well, tough to tell you, but the body's been identified as your wife, Pauline. 15:37.060 --> 15:38.460 It looked like an accident. 15:38.460 --> 15:39.960 They didn't suspect a thing. 15:39.960 --> 15:41.560 I was in the clear. 15:41.560 --> 15:43.060 The sleeping pills were still working. 15:43.060 --> 15:45.060 I wanted to go back to bed, but I didn't dare. 15:45.060 --> 15:48.660 I had to get down to the morgue right away to identify what was left of Pauline. 15:48.660 --> 15:50.560 I thought that might throw me, 15:50.560 --> 15:53.460 but I was as cold as steel when they took me in this year. 15:53.460 --> 15:56.160 They were watching me, so I pulled a little act. 15:56.160 --> 15:57.960 Hey, hey, hey, take it easy here. 15:57.960 --> 15:59.260 Sit down. I'll get you some water. 15:59.260 --> 16:02.460 Oh, thanks. I'm all right now. 16:08.960 --> 16:11.260 Here. Take a swallow of this. 16:12.460 --> 16:14.160 Oh, thanks. 16:14.160 --> 16:19.360 I guess... I guess you must get pretty hardened at these things after a while. 16:19.360 --> 16:21.660 Yeah. We see them every day. 16:21.660 --> 16:24.460 But I don't know. You never really get used to it. 16:24.460 --> 16:26.560 We had another sad case this morning. 16:26.560 --> 16:28.460 Another accident? 16:28.460 --> 16:29.760 Yeah, yeah. 16:29.760 --> 16:31.160 They brought in an old fella. 16:31.160 --> 16:32.760 Found him on Highway 99. 16:32.760 --> 16:35.160 Smacked by a hit-and-run driver. 16:35.160 --> 16:35.960 Is that right? 16:35.960 --> 16:38.460 Yeah. Nasty business. 16:38.460 --> 16:41.360 Of course, this old man isn't dead, but still... 16:41.360 --> 16:43.660 Hey, you're jumpy. 16:43.660 --> 16:45.260 Here, I'll get you another glass. 16:45.260 --> 16:46.360 Oh, thanks. 16:46.360 --> 16:49.360 You see, seeing my wife, I guess I... 16:49.360 --> 16:51.660 Sure, I understand. 16:51.660 --> 16:55.060 Yeah. Just take it easy. 16:55.060 --> 16:55.760 Well... 16:55.760 --> 16:56.860 Feel better? 16:56.860 --> 16:58.460 Yeah, sure. 16:58.460 --> 17:02.260 Uh, you were telling me the old man wasn't dead? 17:02.260 --> 17:03.860 No, no, he, uh... 17:03.860 --> 17:08.160 Just by luck, one of the boys got a very faint heartbeat when they felt his pulse. 17:08.160 --> 17:10.660 Well, he went to work on him fast and it looks like he's gonna pull through. 17:10.660 --> 17:13.360 Oh, that's... that's sure a break. 17:13.360 --> 17:14.660 Uh, for him, I mean. 17:14.660 --> 17:16.160 Yeah, yeah. 17:16.160 --> 17:17.560 He's at the receiving hospital. 17:17.560 --> 17:19.660 The report is he's come along fine. 17:19.660 --> 17:21.760 Got a bad smack in the head, lost his memory. 17:21.760 --> 17:22.760 Oh. 17:22.760 --> 17:24.060 For... for good? 17:24.060 --> 17:26.560 No, no, they say it's only temporary. 17:26.560 --> 17:29.860 They say when he snaps out of it, he may even remember the dirty rat that hit him. 17:29.860 --> 17:39.060 Hagerty was alive. 17:39.060 --> 17:40.060 Alive. 17:40.060 --> 17:42.060 Well, of course, I should have been glad. 17:42.060 --> 17:44.560 The poor old guy had never done anything to me. 17:44.560 --> 17:46.460 But I couldn't think that way then. 17:46.460 --> 17:48.460 Hagerty was alive and he'd remember me. 17:48.460 --> 17:50.060 He'd remember Pauline was with me. 17:50.060 --> 17:51.560 I almost gave up, I almost shouted, 17:51.560 --> 17:53.660 All right, I did it, I killed my wife. 17:53.660 --> 17:56.360 Something kept me fighting long enough to get out of there. 17:56.360 --> 17:59.160 Long enough to drive to the hospital where Hagerty was. 17:59.160 --> 18:02.460 It was taking an awful chance, but I couldn't stay away. 18:02.460 --> 18:05.060 I was just walking up to the desk to find out his room number one. 18:05.060 --> 18:06.460 Blake! 18:06.460 --> 18:07.360 Aren't you Morton Blake? 18:07.360 --> 18:09.760 Uh, yes, yes, I am. 18:09.760 --> 18:12.360 Well, I'm Captain Shannon from headquarters. 18:12.360 --> 18:14.060 I just saw you down at the morgue. 18:14.060 --> 18:15.460 Oh, oh, yes, I, uh... 18:15.460 --> 18:16.660 I didn't remember. 18:16.660 --> 18:19.860 Well, I can't tell you how sorry I am about your wife. 18:19.860 --> 18:21.160 Oh, yes, sir. 18:21.160 --> 18:22.460 Thanks, Captain. 18:22.460 --> 18:24.060 Funny running into you here. 18:24.060 --> 18:25.960 Yes, sir, I, I... 18:25.960 --> 18:30.760 Well, I thought I'd find out if I could get a room and take a rest for a few days. 18:30.760 --> 18:32.160 I feel pretty shot. 18:32.160 --> 18:34.060 Hmm, I can imagine. 18:34.060 --> 18:38.160 But I don't think you have a chance the way hospitals are crowded. 18:38.160 --> 18:40.060 You better get your rest at home. 18:40.060 --> 18:41.460 Get a friend to stay with you. 18:41.460 --> 18:43.160 Yeah, I guess you're right. 18:43.160 --> 18:46.360 I drive you home, but I got called down on this hit-and-run case. 18:46.360 --> 18:49.560 Oh, the old man, the attendant at the morgue was telling me. 18:49.560 --> 18:52.560 Yeah, he's conscious now, so I'm going out to talk to him. 18:52.560 --> 18:55.360 Uh, do you think he'll know who hit him? 18:55.360 --> 18:58.260 They said over the phone he has a good description, 18:58.260 --> 19:00.360 and even if he isn't good, 19:00.360 --> 19:04.660 we've got the tire print of the car and a footprint of the driver. 19:04.660 --> 19:06.360 You have? From where? 19:06.360 --> 19:09.460 There was a lot of mud where the car stopped. 19:09.460 --> 19:12.260 The driver was careless. That kind usually are. 19:12.260 --> 19:15.060 Oh, uh, there's a doctor on the case now. 19:15.060 --> 19:16.460 Oh, Dr. Leeds. Yes. 19:16.460 --> 19:18.360 I was just coming up to talk to old Haggerty. 19:18.360 --> 19:21.660 Yes, I know. Did the nurse tell you he described the driver, Captain? 19:21.660 --> 19:25.160 Yes, I'm going to take it down and, uh, make the arrest. 19:25.160 --> 19:27.460 Fine, but would you mind waiting about two hours? 19:27.460 --> 19:30.360 The old man's sleeping now, and rest is important to a man his age. 19:30.360 --> 19:34.460 Mind, doctor? No, no, what's time to me? 19:34.460 --> 19:37.460 It's two hours more for the hit-and-run driver, whoever he is, 19:37.460 --> 19:41.660 to wonder just how smart he really was. 19:41.660 --> 19:43.560 And we know the answer. 20:02.860 --> 20:06.060 So, Julie, I'm waiting now. 20:06.060 --> 20:10.560 I'm writing you all this because I got a crazy idea that you have a right to know. 20:10.560 --> 20:14.060 You, a girl I knew seven years ago who won't remember me. 20:14.060 --> 20:17.560 Who won't remember that nickname, Speedy, or if I had freckles. 20:17.560 --> 20:18.560 I did. 20:18.560 --> 20:20.860 First you signed my book on class day. 20:20.860 --> 20:23.260 You didn't, because I didn't have the nerve to ask. 20:23.260 --> 20:26.960 So maybe it isn't a real girl at all that I'm writing this to. 20:26.960 --> 20:30.160 I guess I'm writing to how I failed. 20:30.160 --> 20:32.560 To how I never did anything on time. 20:32.560 --> 20:35.260 To how I thought good and acted bad. 20:35.260 --> 20:39.260 But you see, what I think you were adds up to how much I failed. 20:39.260 --> 20:42.260 I guess every guy in the world has someone like you. 20:42.260 --> 20:44.260 A girl in a blue dress. 20:44.260 --> 20:46.360 An excess of having her now. 20:46.360 --> 20:49.260 Knocks back the limelight and they drove up now. 20:49.260 --> 20:50.960 They drove up now. 20:50.960 --> 20:53.160 Captain Shannon and a couple of cops. 20:53.160 --> 20:54.860 Hang on, Mike. 20:54.860 --> 20:56.260 Okay. 20:56.260 --> 20:58.860 Well, I've only got seconds to get ready for them. 20:58.860 --> 21:09.460 So, goodbye, Julie. Goodbye. 21:09.460 --> 21:12.960 Blake. Blake. 21:12.960 --> 21:14.660 All right, you can come in now. 21:14.660 --> 21:16.660 It isn't locked. 21:16.660 --> 21:19.460 Yes, I brought this to Hagerty, Blake. 21:19.460 --> 21:21.460 I think we all ought to have a little talk. 21:21.460 --> 21:23.260 Sure. Sure, I know. 21:23.260 --> 21:24.960 This is the man, isn't it, Hagerty? 21:24.960 --> 21:27.760 Yes, but I told you, Captain, it wasn't his fault. 21:27.760 --> 21:29.260 You told him what? 21:29.260 --> 21:30.460 Of course. 21:30.460 --> 21:32.560 I stepped out and you couldn't miss hitting me. 21:32.560 --> 21:35.160 But he left you there. You might have been dying, Hagerty. 21:35.160 --> 21:36.960 No, he got scared. 21:36.960 --> 21:38.460 I don't blame him. 21:38.460 --> 21:41.960 I'm not going to make any charges, Captain, and that's that. 21:41.960 --> 21:44.460 Well, I guess that's all, Blake. 21:44.460 --> 21:46.760 Oh. Oh. 21:46.760 --> 21:48.860 You ought to be happy about it. 21:48.860 --> 21:50.460 What? But wait. 21:50.460 --> 21:51.360 Didn't he tell you about... 21:51.360 --> 21:52.260 What about your wife? 21:52.260 --> 21:54.360 Sir, that she was with me in the car? 21:54.360 --> 21:56.560 Last night? Your wife was with you? 21:56.560 --> 21:57.760 Hagerty. 21:57.760 --> 21:59.060 He didn't tell you? 21:59.060 --> 22:01.860 And now it's too late. I... I... 22:01.860 --> 22:03.060 What's wrong with you, Blake? 22:03.060 --> 22:03.960 Come and get the water. 22:03.960 --> 22:06.160 It's too late. I... I took... 22:06.160 --> 22:07.560 I took cyanide. 22:07.560 --> 22:09.860 When you drove up, it's too late. 22:09.860 --> 22:11.760 You see, I killed Pauline. 22:11.760 --> 22:12.860 But Hagerty never said... 22:12.860 --> 22:14.260 I know. I know. 22:14.260 --> 22:15.160 He didn't see it. 22:15.160 --> 22:17.560 He passed out before I put him in the car. 22:17.560 --> 22:19.060 It's too late. 22:19.060 --> 22:21.760 It's funny about me, Captain. 22:21.760 --> 22:24.860 Oh, but I was always too late. 22:24.860 --> 22:27.060 And I used to call him Steve. 22:27.060 --> 22:29.160 Oh. Oh. 22:29.160 --> 22:30.160 Blake. 22:47.760 --> 22:51.560 George Murphy, a star of death on Highway 99. 22:51.560 --> 22:53.160 Tonight's study in... 22:53.160 --> 22:55.060 Suspense. 23:23.160 --> 23:27.460 This is the Armed Forces radio surface. 24:23.160 --> 24:25.860 © BF-WATCH TV 2021