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Is Dr. McKillop still awake? 01:26.600 --> 01:30.600 Oh, yes. We don't put him to bed until eight or later. 01:30.600 --> 01:32.600 Is evening service over already? 01:32.600 --> 01:35.600 For a shame, Mary, a Parson's housekeeper. 01:35.600 --> 01:38.600 And do you forget we don't hold service on Wednesdays? 01:38.600 --> 01:41.600 Why, it slipped my mind it was Wednesday, sir. 01:41.600 --> 01:44.600 Of course you've come to read to Dr. McKillop. He'll be so pleased. 01:44.600 --> 01:49.600 There's so little I can do. If he were able to let us know in some way... 01:49.600 --> 01:53.600 I can tell by his eyes, sir. Whenever you're here, they fairly glow. 01:53.600 --> 02:00.600 Well, I suppose. That helpless as he is, not able to speak or even write, 02:00.600 --> 02:03.100 my visits are at least a diversion. 02:03.100 --> 02:08.600 You? You're more than a diversion, sir. You're his hope, if I may say so. 02:08.600 --> 02:11.600 No, Mary. The Lord is his hope. 02:11.600 --> 02:13.600 Oh, yes, sir. 02:13.600 --> 02:19.600 The Lord struck him down with paralysis. And in time, the Lord will surely free him from it. 02:19.600 --> 02:21.600 Where is the doctor? 02:21.600 --> 02:24.600 In his study, sir. We leave him there until bedtime. 02:24.600 --> 02:26.600 Very well. I'll go in for an hour or so. 02:26.600 --> 02:30.600 Stay as long as you like, Dr. Pierce. We won't disturb you. 02:30.600 --> 02:33.600 Dr. McKillop, it's Dr. Pierce come to read to you. 02:33.600 --> 02:36.600 Good evening, Dr. McKillop. 02:37.600 --> 02:41.600 Good evening. Good evening, good evening. 02:41.600 --> 02:44.600 You're a most satisfying companion, McKillop. 02:44.600 --> 02:49.600 You hang on my every word and you never talk back. Never but once. 02:49.600 --> 02:54.600 And after tonight, you won't get the chance, so speak up, doctor. Why don't you? 02:54.600 --> 02:56.600 No? 02:56.600 --> 03:01.600 Oh, of course, the cat's got your tongue. 03:02.600 --> 03:08.600 Well, I'll turn up the lights a bit so I can at least bask in your baleful stare. 03:08.600 --> 03:11.600 Yeah, that's better, much better. 03:11.600 --> 03:15.600 Yes, tonight is your last chance, McKillop. 03:15.600 --> 03:18.600 Tonight is the consummation, the grand finale, the end. 03:18.600 --> 03:25.600 Act III curtain on a great play about death, redemption, about good and evil. 03:25.600 --> 03:30.600 And I won't shrink from your eyes tonight, McKillop. Your eyes can't kill. 03:30.600 --> 03:34.600 But I can kill. I have the mind and the will and the hands. 03:34.600 --> 03:40.600 I've killed one man, you know that. And tonight I'm going to kill again. 03:43.600 --> 03:48.600 No reading from the good book tonight, doctor. No more metaphysics now. 03:48.600 --> 03:52.600 I'm going to tell you a story. Much of it is ancient history to you. 03:52.600 --> 03:56.600 But I think there's enough new to hold your interest. 03:56.600 --> 04:01.600 I know it'll hold my interest because I enjoy talking about myself. 04:01.600 --> 04:07.600 Well, you already know I killed a man. You know who he was. 04:07.600 --> 04:12.600 And you even know who I was before I became Dr. Howard Pierce, 04:12.600 --> 04:18.600 pastor of this good and godly community. At least you know the name, Philip Gentry. 04:18.600 --> 04:23.600 But you never knew the soul of Philip Gentry, doctor, the contempt, the sum of evil 04:23.600 --> 04:27.600 that was in me the night it all began. That was three months ago. 04:27.600 --> 04:31.600 A stormy night, as you remember. And where was I? 04:31.600 --> 04:35.600 I was crouching in a swamp with a man named Mack 04:35.600 --> 04:39.600 because we had just escaped from prison, hiding like an animal in the deep, muddy news, 04:39.600 --> 04:43.600 alien from the whole human race. 04:43.600 --> 04:47.600 Gentry, Gentry, where are you going? Take a highway, fool. 04:47.600 --> 04:51.600 We have to get out of this mud and make time. But Pete's back there in the swamp. You can't leave him. 04:51.600 --> 04:56.600 Why not? We got to all stick together. He'll die back there. Listen, we took it for chances when we made this break. 04:56.600 --> 05:01.600 I'm not taking extra chances for anyone. But make time before daylight and before the rain stops. 05:01.600 --> 05:05.600 We'll bring out dogs in the morning. Dogs? OK, OK, you're the boss. 05:05.600 --> 05:09.600 There's a highway now beyond the fence. OK, so what do we do now? Where do we go? 05:09.600 --> 05:13.600 Split up. But Gentry, shouldn't we stick together? We split up. 05:13.600 --> 05:17.600 I go my way, you go yours. I'll meet you in Chicago later. At Tony's place? At Tony's place. 05:17.600 --> 05:21.600 In two or three weeks, the manhunt cools off. OK. 05:21.600 --> 05:25.600 OK, we'll make a great team, you and me. We'll make them suckers scream, Chicago. 05:25.600 --> 05:29.600 And then maybe South America. All right, Mack, save the dreaming for later, right now. 05:29.600 --> 05:33.600 You get moving. Now go on, fast. 05:33.600 --> 05:37.600 He headed north. 05:37.600 --> 05:41.600 I walked a mile or more this way, south. 05:41.600 --> 05:45.600 Then I saw the car. It was parked close to the edge of the road. 05:45.600 --> 05:49.600 Its headlight almost blacked out by the driving rain. And by the glow of the flashlight, 05:49.600 --> 05:53.600 I saw a man bending into the rain, struggling to change a tire. 05:53.600 --> 05:57.600 He was alone, so I walked up to him. 05:57.600 --> 06:01.600 You startled me. 06:01.600 --> 06:05.600 I didn't expect to see anyone out so late. 06:05.600 --> 06:09.600 You picked a bad night for a flat. Yes, it's the second today. 06:09.600 --> 06:13.600 I'm going to be awfully late. Here, here, let me... Oh, no, no, but if you'd hold the light. 06:13.600 --> 06:17.600 Sure. From a long way? Yeah, from Detroit. 06:17.600 --> 06:21.600 I'm on my way to Carleton. I was supposed to get there this afternoon. 06:21.600 --> 06:25.600 That's your home, Carleton? Well, it will be. 06:25.600 --> 06:29.600 I'm the new minister there. My name's Pierce. Oh, of course. 06:29.600 --> 06:33.600 I didn't notice you were a preacher. Do you know Carleton? 06:33.600 --> 06:37.600 Oh, pretty well. I'm taking over for old Dr. McKillop at Grace Church. 06:37.600 --> 06:41.600 Oh, yeah, I've heard of him. He's been in bad health, so I'm taking his place. 06:41.600 --> 06:45.600 This bolt is stubborn. I can't seem to get it. 06:45.600 --> 06:49.600 Here, here, let me try. No, no, no, I'll manage. If I can just... 06:49.600 --> 06:53.600 Give me the wrench. No, really, just hold the light. I said give me the wrench. 06:53.600 --> 06:57.600 All right, it's awfully good of you, but... 06:57.600 --> 07:02.600 What are you doing? I need your car, Dr. Pierce. You're going to be even later than you thought. 07:02.600 --> 07:06.600 No, please! Please don't hit me! No! 07:06.600 --> 07:24.600 Help! 07:24.600 --> 07:28.600 Let me see your license, buddy. My license? 07:28.600 --> 07:33.600 Oh, yes, I have it here. Here it is. 07:33.600 --> 07:37.600 Howard Pierce, occupation. 07:37.600 --> 07:42.600 Oh, Minister, I didn't notice. Yes, but what is it? Was I speeding? 07:42.600 --> 07:47.600 No, no, we were checking all cars on this road. There was a break at the State Pen. 07:47.600 --> 07:50.600 Three men, they might come this way. Oh, I see. 07:50.600 --> 07:53.600 Oh, but I won't hold you any longer, Reverend. You're going far? 07:53.600 --> 07:57.600 No, to Carleton. Oh, now I get it. 07:57.600 --> 08:01.600 Well, imagine me not catching on right away. Catching on? 08:01.600 --> 08:06.600 Sure, you must be the new preacher for Grace Church, taking Dr. McKillop's place. 08:06.600 --> 08:09.600 Yes, I am. You're going to the parsonage now? 08:09.600 --> 08:14.600 I was, but... Well, I'm going to headquarters now, and I have to go right by Dr. McKillop's house. 08:14.600 --> 08:16.600 You follow me. Oh, I couldn't... 08:16.600 --> 08:22.600 Oh, it's not out of my way at all. Not more than a block. I'll go slow so you can't lose me. Okay? 08:22.600 --> 08:25.600 Well, all right. Oh, that's the ticket. 08:25.600 --> 08:30.600 Really tickle old Dr. McKillop. Have you delivered right through his door? 08:30.600 --> 08:35.600 Say, I bet you never counted on this kind of reception, Carleton Reverend Pierce. 08:35.600 --> 08:40.600 Now, did you? 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My arrival in your dull, pleasant town of Calton, remember? 10:53.600 --> 10:58.600 Officer Owens and your very beautiful daughter escorted me into your study. 10:58.600 --> 11:01.600 Father, Mr. Owens brought Dr. Pierce. 11:01.600 --> 11:06.600 Dr. Pierce, come in, come in. You and Mr. Owen wait outside for a few minutes, Lucy. 11:06.600 --> 11:08.600 Yes. All right, Father. 11:08.600 --> 11:13.600 Sit over here, Dr. Pierce. I can't tell you how relieved I am to see you. 11:13.600 --> 11:17.600 I, uh, I'm relieved to finally be here, Dr. McCollum. 11:17.600 --> 11:22.600 Yes, well, I really couldn't bring myself to sleep tonight without first talking to you. 11:22.600 --> 11:24.600 You see, the situation's serious. 11:24.600 --> 11:25.600 Serious? 11:25.600 --> 11:28.600 My health, I'm a sick man. I've had one stroke, as you know. 11:28.600 --> 11:29.600 Oh, yes, yes, you wrote. 11:29.600 --> 11:34.600 Yes, well, I could have another one at any minute. The doctor says a worse one. 11:34.600 --> 11:39.600 And I feel it essential that the work of the parish is in firm hands. 11:39.600 --> 11:41.600 This parish needs a young man. 11:41.600 --> 11:43.600 Well, I hope to be of service. 11:43.600 --> 11:48.600 I've heard only good of you, Dr. Pierce. And you know, you're even younger than you looked. 11:48.600 --> 11:49.600 Than I looked? 11:49.600 --> 11:52.600 In the picture you sent, darker, too. Your hair... 11:52.600 --> 11:54.600 I'm afraid it wasn't a good likeness. 11:54.600 --> 11:57.600 I have the picture here, somewhere on my desk, with your letters. 11:57.600 --> 12:00.600 What did you want to talk to me about, Dr. McKillop? 12:00.600 --> 12:05.600 Oh, the work of the parish. Oh, yes, yes, yes, here's the photograph. It's... 12:05.600 --> 12:08.600 It's... Dr. Pierce. 12:08.600 --> 12:10.600 Is there something wrong, Dr. McKillop? 12:10.600 --> 12:16.600 It's not... Who are you? This isn't your picture. Who are you? 12:16.600 --> 12:18.600 I don't think that would interest you, Dr. McKillop. 12:18.600 --> 12:22.600 Something's happened to Dr. Pierce. What did you do to him? You're... 12:22.600 --> 12:25.600 What do you think I did, Dr. McKillop? 12:25.600 --> 12:26.600 Oh... 12:26.600 --> 12:28.600 Go on, guess. Guess. 12:28.600 --> 12:32.600 Don't play with me, you sanctimonious fool. Speak up. Speak. 12:32.600 --> 12:34.600 Speak. 12:34.600 --> 12:40.600 Oh, brother, don't tell me. Don't tell me you've had a stroke. You... You can't speak. Is that it? 12:40.600 --> 12:44.600 Well, I'll find out. I'll take that picture, Dr. McKillop. 12:44.600 --> 12:45.600 Now, if you don't... 12:45.600 --> 12:47.600 Dr. Pierce, we thought we heard... 12:47.600 --> 12:50.600 Yes, Miss Lucy, something's happened to your father. We were talking and all of a sudden... 12:50.600 --> 12:53.600 Oh, say, he's sick. I'll call the doctor, Miss Lucy. 12:53.600 --> 12:55.600 Pierce, please, Mr. Owen. Is it... 12:55.600 --> 12:57.600 It's another stroke. He can't speak. Apparently, he can't move. 12:57.600 --> 13:00.600 Oh, Father. Father, what can we do? 13:00.600 --> 13:02.600 We'll have to wait for the doctor. Maybe even... 13:02.600 --> 13:06.600 I know. The doctor said he could be paralyzed for months, years, but he mustn't die. 13:06.600 --> 13:10.600 No, no. I'm sure the Lord will spare him if we have faith. 13:10.600 --> 13:15.600 Yes. Look. Look, he can hear us. See his eyes. 13:15.600 --> 13:16.600 I see. 13:16.600 --> 13:19.600 It's a blessing you got here tonight, Dr. Pierce. A blessing. You are going to stay. 13:19.600 --> 13:20.600 Well, I... 13:19.600 --> 13:20.600 Oh, but you must. 13:20.600 --> 13:25.600 Well, I wasn't sure, but since this has happened to your father, yes, I'll stay. 13:25.600 --> 13:27.600 I hope I prove worthy. 13:41.600 --> 13:48.600 Dear friends, you may wonder that I chose this subject for my first sermon to you, 13:48.600 --> 13:51.600 the agony of the thief. 13:51.600 --> 13:55.600 It is no wonder, for as I spoke to you of such a man, 13:55.600 --> 13:58.600 a thief beaten, outcast, and alone, 13:58.600 --> 14:02.600 I spoke at the same time of each of us, 14:02.600 --> 14:06.600 from the mighty to the fallen, of that substance 14:06.600 --> 14:13.600 which we all share our human dignity as beings made in the image of God. 14:13.600 --> 14:19.600 Remember the agony of our Lord who shared by two thieves, 14:19.600 --> 14:26.600 crucified beside him, that he might be numbered among the transgressors. 14:26.600 --> 14:30.600 And remember his words to one, 14:30.600 --> 14:36.600 Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise. 14:36.600 --> 14:40.600 We will sing hymn 426. 14:40.600 --> 14:43.600 O God, our help in ages past. 14:51.600 --> 14:54.600 My first sermon, Dr. McKillop, and it was duck soup for me. 14:54.600 --> 14:57.600 You couldn't understand how such a thing could be done without faith. 14:57.600 --> 14:59.600 Well, you didn't know I'd been a lawyer. 14:59.600 --> 15:01.600 I've done a lot without faith, McKillop. 15:01.600 --> 15:05.600 It doesn't take such a holy man to care for your sheep. 15:05.600 --> 15:08.600 From the first day until now, I've been the ideal person. 15:08.600 --> 15:11.600 Even the day I got that call from young Hubbard. 15:11.600 --> 15:13.600 Yes, I played that part. 15:13.600 --> 15:16.600 Oh, I forget that this is all news to you. 15:16.600 --> 15:19.600 You didn't know about that, about the conversation I had with young Hubbard 15:19.600 --> 15:21.600 in the study of the church. 15:22.600 --> 15:23.600 Dr. Pierce? 15:23.600 --> 15:24.600 Yeah? 15:24.600 --> 15:27.600 I missed your first service, honey doctor. 15:27.600 --> 15:28.600 I thought I ought to pay you a call. 15:28.600 --> 15:30.600 Well, I'm glad you did. Sit down. 15:30.600 --> 15:31.600 Oh, thank you. 15:31.600 --> 15:34.600 My name's Hubbard. I work at the bank, First National. 15:34.600 --> 15:35.600 I'm chief teller. 15:35.600 --> 15:38.600 That's a very responsible job for a young man. 15:38.600 --> 15:39.600 Oh, I don't know. I suppose it is. 15:39.600 --> 15:42.600 But I don't have much more responsibility than the other tellers, 15:42.600 --> 15:43.600 except at the end of the month. 15:43.600 --> 15:44.600 Then it's a strain. 15:44.600 --> 15:45.600 The end of the month? 15:45.600 --> 15:47.600 Well, sure. Well, that's when I... 15:47.600 --> 15:49.600 You know, I've never told anyone about this. 15:49.600 --> 15:52.600 So even with you, Mr. Hubbard, it's confidential. 15:52.600 --> 15:55.600 Oh, naturally, not so far as you're concerned, Dr. Pierce. 15:55.600 --> 15:56.600 You see, the 30th of the month, 15:56.600 --> 15:58.600 we move all our deposits to the Federal Reserve Bank. 15:58.600 --> 16:00.600 $50,000 or more. 16:00.600 --> 16:03.600 Well, you can see how I wouldn't want some people to know that. 16:03.600 --> 16:06.600 You mean you take the deposits alone? 16:06.600 --> 16:08.600 Oh, no, that would be even worse than it is. 16:08.600 --> 16:10.600 There's an armored truck comes to take the money. 16:10.600 --> 16:12.600 Comes by around 9.30 at night. 16:12.600 --> 16:14.600 But I'm alone in the bank until it gets there. 16:14.600 --> 16:15.600 Mm-hmm. 16:15.600 --> 16:17.600 Well, sometimes when I'm sitting there at my desk, 16:17.600 --> 16:19.600 I think how easy it would be. 16:19.600 --> 16:22.600 All someone would have to do is shoot me through the glass door. 16:22.600 --> 16:23.600 You see what I mean? 16:23.600 --> 16:25.600 Faith, McKillop. 16:25.600 --> 16:29.600 God never sendeth mouth, but he sendeth meat. 16:29.600 --> 16:32.600 Out of all this community's 35,000 souls, 16:32.600 --> 16:36.600 Hubbard chose me to share that secret. 16:36.600 --> 16:39.600 Sent a letter that night to Mack, care of Tony's in Chicago. 16:42.600 --> 16:44.600 As you can see, Mack, the setup is simple. 16:44.600 --> 16:46.600 We're going to have to get the money. 16:46.600 --> 16:48.600 We're going to have to get the money. 16:48.600 --> 16:50.600 We're going to have to get the money. 16:50.600 --> 16:53.600 As you can see, Mack, the setup is simple and foolproof. 16:53.600 --> 16:55.600 If you do as I say, leave Tony's now. 16:55.600 --> 16:58.600 Hide out until the 20th of June, then head this way. 16:58.600 --> 17:01.600 Case the job first, because you must be at the bank 17:01.600 --> 17:04.600 not later than 9.00 p.m. on the 30th. 17:04.600 --> 17:05.600 You're as gentry. 17:10.600 --> 17:11.600 That meant two months to wait, 17:11.600 --> 17:13.600 two months until the death of young Hubbard, 17:13.600 --> 17:17.600 two months until I had $50,000 and a clear getaway, 17:17.600 --> 17:19.600 two months until tonight. 17:19.600 --> 17:23.600 Two pleasant months to play a saintly part, 17:23.600 --> 17:26.600 warmed by adulation, warmed by love, 17:26.600 --> 17:28.600 because even you could see what was happening to your daughter, 17:28.600 --> 17:30.600 your very beautiful daughter, Lucy. 17:32.600 --> 17:36.600 Dr. Pierce, do you ever think of anything besides your work? 17:36.600 --> 17:38.600 I don't know, Lucy. What sort of things? 17:38.600 --> 17:40.600 Well, do you ever think of yourself, 17:40.600 --> 17:42.600 of a full life for yourself? 17:42.600 --> 17:44.600 Why, of course, that's why I work. 17:44.600 --> 17:47.600 My work gives me a full life. 17:47.600 --> 17:49.600 You don't know what I mean. 17:49.600 --> 17:51.600 Yes, I think I do. 17:51.600 --> 17:53.600 You see, I have to tell you, 17:53.600 --> 17:54.600 even if you don't want to hear it. 17:54.600 --> 17:55.600 Lucy, my dear, I... 17:55.600 --> 17:58.600 I have to tell you that I love you, Howard. 17:58.600 --> 18:00.600 I know I can't expect that to mean much to you. 18:00.600 --> 18:02.600 It means a great deal. 18:02.600 --> 18:03.600 Not enough. 18:03.600 --> 18:06.600 Lucy, dear, you told me once that you were engaged to someone. 18:06.600 --> 18:09.600 Yes, I'm supposed to be. 18:09.600 --> 18:15.600 Tom's all right, but he's little and unimportant and afraid. 18:15.600 --> 18:18.600 He's afraid to dare anything, to do anything. 18:18.600 --> 18:19.600 He's meek. 18:19.600 --> 18:22.600 The meek shall inherit the earth. 18:22.600 --> 18:24.600 You don't believe that, Howard Pierce. 18:24.600 --> 18:27.600 Even if you are a parson, you don't believe it. 18:27.600 --> 18:29.600 What do I believe, Lucy? 18:29.600 --> 18:31.600 I don't know exactly. 18:31.600 --> 18:34.600 But when I first saw you, I knew that you were like me. 18:34.600 --> 18:37.600 You have boldness and strength. 18:37.600 --> 18:48.600 You have an inward feeling about life. 18:48.600 --> 18:49.600 I let it ride. 18:49.600 --> 18:51.600 There wasn't any harm in that, Doctor, so far as I could see. 18:51.600 --> 18:54.600 Lucy was a great help, blinded by what she called love. 18:54.600 --> 18:57.600 And what did I feel? Love? 18:57.600 --> 18:59.600 Doctor, a man who has mastered the use of words 18:59.600 --> 19:03.600 as I have no longer knows what they mean, but only what they do. 19:03.600 --> 19:06.600 With Lucy, so long as the word love served me, I used it. 19:06.600 --> 19:09.600 After a while, it became a source of danger. 19:09.600 --> 19:13.600 That was last week, Wednesday, when I came in the evening to read to you. 19:13.600 --> 19:17.600 Howard, Howard, the most wonderful news. Guess. 19:17.600 --> 19:18.600 How can I guess? 19:18.600 --> 19:21.600 Don't you know the most wonderful thing that could ever happen to us? 19:21.600 --> 19:22.600 No, what's that, Lucy? 19:22.600 --> 19:26.600 Well, I've never breathed a word to Father about us because you asked me not to. 19:26.600 --> 19:28.600 Not until he can talk to us and give his blessing. 19:28.600 --> 19:29.600 Lucy, you didn't. 19:29.600 --> 19:30.600 No, no, not yet. 19:30.600 --> 19:35.600 But the Doctor was here today, and he told me Father will speak again soon, any day now. 19:35.600 --> 19:38.600 He doesn't know why. He hasn't already. Isn't that wonderful? 19:38.600 --> 19:40.600 Yes, yes, it is. 19:40.600 --> 19:41.600 Howard, what's the matter? 19:41.600 --> 19:42.600 Nothing's the matter. 19:42.600 --> 19:44.600 What there is, I can see that you... 19:44.600 --> 19:46.600 Sit down, Lucy. 19:46.600 --> 19:47.600 All right, Howard. 19:47.600 --> 19:49.600 I was going to tell you before, my dear. 19:49.600 --> 19:54.600 You see, well, I can't marry you, not ever. 19:54.600 --> 19:55.600 You can't? 19:55.600 --> 19:57.600 Please, you mustn't ask me why. 19:57.600 --> 19:59.600 It doesn't matter why. Do you understand? 19:59.600 --> 20:01.600 It's because you don't love me. 20:01.600 --> 20:07.600 If you have to believe that, all right, only you must go on and live your life as though you never met me. 20:07.600 --> 20:09.600 As though I never met you. 20:09.600 --> 20:10.600 You know what that means? 20:10.600 --> 20:11.600 Whatever it means. 20:11.600 --> 20:13.600 It means I'll marry Tom. 20:13.600 --> 20:16.600 It means I'll have a little, quiet, secure life. 20:16.600 --> 20:17.600 The best life for you, Lucy. 20:17.600 --> 20:20.600 Tom. Tom in place of you. 20:20.600 --> 20:25.600 Well, maybe you're right. I won't ever have great happiness with him, but after this I'll never have a greater unhappiness. 20:25.600 --> 20:27.600 You mustn't be bitter, Lucy. 20:27.600 --> 20:32.600 If you hadn't known me, you would have married your Tom and you would have loved him. 20:32.600 --> 20:35.600 All right. All right, I will marry him. 20:35.600 --> 20:39.600 I'll marry him this week in church, and you'll perform the service, Howard. 20:39.600 --> 20:42.600 You'll be the one to make me Mrs. Tom Hubbard. 20:42.600 --> 20:43.600 Who did you say? 20:43.600 --> 20:46.600 Tom Hubbard. I'll be a banker's wife. 20:46.600 --> 20:50.600 I... I never knew his name before. 20:50.600 --> 21:00.600 Well, no matter what you think, Lucy, I'm sure you'll be happy. 21:00.600 --> 21:05.600 Don't ask me why I didn't kill you, Dr. McKellip, when I heard that you might speak now at any time. 21:05.600 --> 21:08.600 I can still smother you with a pillow and no one would know. 21:08.600 --> 21:13.600 I suppose killing always was distasteful to me, a job for cruder minds. 21:13.600 --> 21:15.600 It isn't because of any moral squirreles, believe me. 21:15.600 --> 21:20.600 And don't you believe, Doctor, that ethics had any part in what I did about Lucy either, not for one minute. 21:20.600 --> 21:23.600 It was just that I wanted my hands free for this last week. 21:23.600 --> 21:27.600 It was just that I believe in leaving a place tidy, no loose ends. 21:27.600 --> 21:33.600 If it happens that my neat habits turn in a good deed now and then, that doesn't make me a boy scout. 21:33.600 --> 21:41.600 After all, if I were a higher being like you, I might be upset by thinking of such things as... 21:41.600 --> 21:48.600 ...killing Lucy's husband tonight, Tom Hubbard, as he sits at his desk at the bank. 21:48.600 --> 21:53.600 Here it is, the 30th, and I've got a very important date in half an hour. 21:53.600 --> 21:57.600 Well, Doctor, did that interest you? 21:57.600 --> 22:00.600 Now that you know the real Philip Gentry, do you understand? 22:00.600 --> 22:02.600 I doubt it. 22:02.600 --> 22:09.600 I doubt if you, with your good book and your hymnal, your years of tending the good sheep in the rich green pastures here... 22:09.600 --> 22:13.600 ...could ever understand one-tenth of what a man like me feels and is. 22:13.600 --> 22:16.600 It doesn't matter. I don't need your understanding. 22:16.600 --> 22:19.600 Good night, Doctor, and sleep well. 22:21.600 --> 22:23.600 Good night, Dr. Pierce. Will you drop in tomorrow? 22:23.600 --> 22:40.600 Tomorrow? Well, we'll see about tomorrow. We'll see. 22:46.600 --> 22:47.600 Who is it? 22:47.600 --> 22:51.600 It's Dr. Pierce, Tom. Let me in. 22:51.600 --> 22:54.600 Oh, Doctor, just a minute. 22:54.600 --> 22:56.600 Hi, I wanted to make sure you... 22:56.600 --> 22:58.600 See, this is the night when the truck's supposed to arrive. 22:58.600 --> 23:01.600 Yes, I remembered. That's how I knew where to find you, Tom. 23:01.600 --> 23:03.600 Do you... Do you want something? 23:03.600 --> 23:07.600 Lucy is feeling sick. I came to send you home. 23:07.600 --> 23:10.600 Lucy? Well, but I can't. I have to stay... 23:10.600 --> 23:12.600 I... I can stay for you. 23:12.600 --> 23:15.600 Gee, I don't know. I'm supposed to stay. 23:15.600 --> 23:17.600 Lucy is calling for you, Tom. 23:17.600 --> 23:19.600 She's really sick? 23:19.600 --> 23:22.600 Well, all right. I guess with you here, it'll be all right. 23:22.600 --> 23:25.600 Just... Just tell me what to do. 23:25.600 --> 23:27.600 Well, that's the money already in those sacks. 23:27.600 --> 23:29.600 Yes. And I sit here? 23:29.600 --> 23:31.600 Yes, right at this desk. 23:31.600 --> 23:34.600 Well, gee, I don't know what the directors will think. 23:34.600 --> 23:36.600 Run along now, Tom. They'll never know why. 23:36.600 --> 23:39.600 Even if someone walks by from the outside, 23:39.600 --> 23:49.600 they'll never know if it's you or me sitting here. 23:49.600 --> 23:55.600 There. That got him right through the head. 23:55.600 --> 24:00.600 Now, he ought to have that money already right near him. 24:00.600 --> 24:02.600 Mac. Huh? What? 24:02.600 --> 24:07.600 Who's there? Mac. Come here, Mac. 24:07.600 --> 24:09.600 Gentry. 24:09.600 --> 24:11.600 Gentry. 24:11.600 --> 24:15.600 Yes. It's Gentry, Mac. 24:15.600 --> 24:18.600 But something's going on here. You're seven years old. 24:18.600 --> 24:22.600 I know. I didn't have a chance to tell you. 24:22.600 --> 24:24.600 The plans were changed, Mac. 24:24.600 --> 24:27.600 Gentry. Honest, Gentry. I didn't mean to... 24:27.600 --> 24:30.600 I know. I know. You'd better go. 24:30.600 --> 24:32.600 I'm dying, Mac. 24:32.600 --> 24:34.600 I ain't going to leave you here. What do you think I am? 24:34.600 --> 24:40.600 Yes, yes, you are. They won't get me, Mac. I'm dying. 24:40.600 --> 24:44.600 You go on now. Only you won't be able to take the money. 24:44.600 --> 24:46.600 Huh? 24:46.600 --> 24:48.600 The plan is all changed. 24:48.600 --> 24:50.600 Okay, okay. That don't matter. That don't... 24:50.600 --> 24:58.600 Remember. Remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. 24:58.600 --> 25:01.600 What? What are you talking about? 25:01.600 --> 25:04.600 That's from the Bible, Mac. 25:04.600 --> 25:10.600 You wouldn't know it, I guess. It's from the Bible. 25:10.600 --> 25:13.600 It was said by a thief. 25:13.600 --> 25:22.600 This, dear friends, was the man Philip Gentry or Dr. Pierce 25:22.600 --> 25:27.600 or whatever other name he may choose in eternity. 25:27.600 --> 25:31.600 The man whom we believe to be the son of God, 25:31.600 --> 25:35.600 the son of God, the son of God, the son of God, 25:35.600 --> 25:39.600 the son of God, the son of God, the son of God, 25:39.600 --> 25:43.600 the son of God, the son of God... 25:55.600 --> 25:59.600 But Jeffrey had been warred the five military commemorations 25:59.600 --> 26:07.600 of the 19th century and the 20th century 26:07.600 --> 26:15.040 what he denied, and to accomplish work as he had in God's vineyard, a man must have faith, 26:16.080 --> 26:22.640 even though he denied that faith. 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