WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Suspense! 00:05.000 --> 00:12.000 Tonight, Thomas Dorne, starring Mr. Henry Fonda, for you to... 00:12.000 --> 00:37.000 Why, Charles Vanda! 00:37.000 --> 00:42.000 It's exciting when there's a storm, and strange things can happen. 00:42.000 --> 00:46.000 Now, some people are sensitive to changes in the weather, like me. 00:46.000 --> 00:48.000 There's nothing odd about that. 00:48.000 --> 00:51.000 It's like people who talk to themselves. 00:51.000 --> 00:53.000 I talk to myself a lot. 00:53.000 --> 00:57.000 I think about things, and I talk to myself about them. 00:57.000 --> 01:00.000 There's nothing odd about that. 01:00.000 --> 01:03.000 Come on, Eddie, get the suitcase packed, and let's get out of here. 01:03.000 --> 01:05.000 Like that, I talk to myself. 01:05.000 --> 01:10.000 You know, just making up my mind because there's no one else around to talk to me. 01:10.000 --> 01:15.000 Just getting myself on the move again, because the landlady wasn't taking care of the room. 01:15.000 --> 01:24.000 She was away on a visit, and her husband, Mr. Waters, was slopping around in a bathrobe trying to run the place. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 Come on, Eddie. 01:26.000 --> 01:30.000 He never makes the bed, and you've used the same towel for a week. 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 It's time to get out. 01:32.000 --> 01:35.000 Lock up the suitcase and get going. 01:43.000 --> 01:45.000 Uh-oh. 01:45.000 --> 01:46.000 There's Waters. 01:46.000 --> 01:49.000 Guess you can't sneak out without his seeing you. 01:49.000 --> 01:51.000 There's a mean man, Eddie. 01:51.000 --> 01:54.000 You can tell by his little eyes. 01:54.000 --> 01:57.000 All fat men aren't good-natured. 01:57.000 --> 02:02.000 He's stuffing himself with pig's knuckles or whatever they are. 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 Well, come on. 02:09.000 --> 02:11.000 Hey, hello, Eddie. 02:11.000 --> 02:13.000 Morning, Mr. Waters. 02:13.000 --> 02:18.000 Pig knuckles don't taste as good as they did an hour ago. 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 This will feed the rest of them to Graham's dog. 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 That would be nice, Mr. Waters. 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 Yeah. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Taking your laundry out? 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 No, sir. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 These are clothes. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 I'm leaving, sir. 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 You what? 02:35.000 --> 02:36.000 Leaving. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 I'm sorry. 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 What's the matter, Eddie? 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 Don't you like the place? 02:40.000 --> 02:45.000 Yes, sir, but I gotta get closer to my work. 02:45.000 --> 02:48.000 Here's the keys before I forget them. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Better wait a while, Eddie. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 Looks like we're gonna have a storm sometime today. 02:53.000 --> 02:55.000 Oh, I don't mind a storm, Mr. Waters. 02:55.000 --> 02:57.000 I'm funny that way. 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 Yeah. 02:58.000 --> 03:02.000 Well, it'll be a lot better if you'd wait till the wife gets back. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 Won't be more than a couple of hours. 03:04.000 --> 03:07.000 You mean she'd blame you for my leaving? 03:07.000 --> 03:08.000 Yeah, she might. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 Got a nasty tongue. 03:10.000 --> 03:13.000 Stick around till she gets back, Eddie. 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 No, I gotta be going. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 Besides, I ain't feeling so hot. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 Been feeling bad all morning. 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 Yeah, getting worse, Eddie. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 I'm sorry, Mr. Waters. 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 It's my stomach. 03:25.000 --> 03:28.000 I'm sorry, Mr. Waters, honest, but I gotta go. 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 Wait a minute. 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 Ain't you forgetting something? 03:32.000 --> 03:33.000 Forgetting something? 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 What are you trying to pull anyhow? 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 I don't get it. 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 You don't, huh? 03:36.000 --> 03:37.000 What about the rent? 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 The rent? 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 Last week's rent, what do you think I am, a sucker? 03:40.000 --> 03:41.000 I paid my rent. 03:41.000 --> 03:44.000 Oh, you did, huh? 03:44.000 --> 03:45.000 Give me that suitcase. 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 I paid it to your wife before she went away. 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 That's your story. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 Go ahead and leave if you wanna, 03:50.000 --> 03:53.000 but this suitcase stays here until I get that rent. 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 Which you've already got. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 You know I paid it to Mrs. Waters. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 You're trying to make me out a liar? 03:58.000 --> 03:59.000 No, but you were here. 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 You got her a seat? 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 Well, she never gave me one. 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 Said I didn't need it. 04:03.000 --> 04:05.000 Give me that suitcase. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 Don't you take a swing at me. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 Well, you can't slap me around. 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 No, wait. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 Eddie, my back. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 Stop pushing. 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 Why, you asked for it. 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 Eddie, Eddie, let go. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 Oh, you don't like it when I fight back, huh? 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 Eddie, Eddie, you're killing me. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 No, I'm not. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Maybe I should. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 There. 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 Help, help somebody. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 Help. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Is that enough? 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Help, help. 04:36.000 --> 04:37.000 Better let him go. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 He looks bad, Eddie. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 Who, who are you talking to? 04:41.000 --> 04:42.000 Myself. 04:42.000 --> 04:49.000 Get over there, you fat. 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 I'm pristine too hard, I guess. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 Gee, he looks bad. 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 He's out cold, Eddie. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 Mr. Waters? 04:59.000 --> 05:02.000 Mr. Waters, you all right? 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Somebody at the door. 05:04.000 --> 05:09.000 Better be quiet. 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 Hey, Waters. 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 That's Mr. Graham from next door. 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 That clock's awful loud. 05:17.000 --> 05:19.000 Are you in there, Waters? 05:19.000 --> 05:21.000 Hey, hey, what's up, Graham? 05:21.000 --> 05:23.000 Oh, come on up here, old pal. 05:23.000 --> 05:25.000 Nothing fishy going on. 05:25.000 --> 05:26.000 Huh? 05:26.000 --> 05:27.000 What, what's going on? 05:27.000 --> 05:31.000 Come here to the door and listen. 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 I, I don't hear nothing. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 Nothing fishy was going on in there. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 Well, what do you mean? 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Waters was yelling his head off a minute ago. 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 Now he won't answer the door. 05:41.000 --> 05:45.000 Hey, hey, Waters, you all right? 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 I, I don't hear him. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Now that's what I mean. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 I think we ought to go in and see what's the matter. 05:50.000 --> 05:52.000 You mean, you mean just walk in? 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 Where do you think? 05:53.000 --> 05:54.000 Huh? 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 They're coming in here, Eddie. 05:56.000 --> 05:59.000 You've got to get away. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 Out the back door. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 No, no, no, they can see you from where they are. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 The attic, that's it. 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 They don't know about that. 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 What do you mean? 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 Up the stairs, but don't make any noise. 06:10.000 --> 06:13.000 Better not let them find you, Eddie. 06:13.000 --> 06:16.000 Up there where you helped Mrs. Waters store the blankets. 06:16.000 --> 06:17.000 Why don't you try knocking on it? 06:17.000 --> 06:20.000 Just step over Mr. Waters, Eddie. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 He looks bad. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 There. 06:23.000 --> 06:24.000 He never knows. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 No, quiet. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 I don't see a point to it. 06:28.000 --> 06:29.000 What? 06:29.000 --> 06:30.000 You mind? 06:30.000 --> 06:31.000 I don't see it. 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 I'll try. 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 Right up here's a place to hide from them. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 And if they start upstairs, I can crawl in the attic. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 Waters! 06:37.000 --> 06:39.000 No answer, Graham. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 Well, isn't that what I told you? 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 Come on, I'm going. 06:42.000 --> 06:43.000 Now I've got to listen. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 I've got to see what they do. 06:44.000 --> 06:45.000 Try, try to go up. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 Can't let them see me. 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 There. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 There, it ain't locked. 06:48.000 --> 06:49.000 Come on in. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 Do you think we ought to? 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 Sure. 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 I'll better put something wrong in here. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 Come on. 06:53.000 --> 06:54.000 I don't like it, Graham. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 I'm getting out. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 Then leave me alone. 06:56.000 --> 06:57.000 Nothing to do with it. 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 Well, this ain't none of my business, Graham. 06:58.000 --> 06:59.000 I feel like a fool if Waters comes strolling down those stairs. 06:59.000 --> 07:00.000 Well, he's not going to... 07:00.000 --> 07:01.000 Look, I'm going to go up the stairs. 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 I'm going to go up the stairs. 07:02.000 --> 07:06.000 I feel like a fool if Waters comes strolling down those stairs. 07:06.000 --> 07:07.000 Well, he's not going to... 07:07.000 --> 07:08.000 Look, look under the table. 07:08.000 --> 07:09.000 Good Lord. 07:09.000 --> 07:10.000 Waters. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 Say, say, listen. 07:11.000 --> 07:12.000 Well, let's get the table away. 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 Don't stand there. 07:13.000 --> 07:14.000 I don't like this, Graham. 07:14.000 --> 07:15.000 Let's get the table away. 07:15.000 --> 07:16.000 I tell you, maybe it's hurt bad. 07:16.000 --> 07:17.000 Grab the table. 07:17.000 --> 07:18.000 All right. 07:18.000 --> 07:19.000 Waters? 07:19.000 --> 07:20.000 Waters, you all right? 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 We'd better call a doctor. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 Yeah, well, there's a phone over there. 07:22.000 --> 07:23.000 Hey, wait. 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 We don't need no doctor. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 What? 07:25.000 --> 07:32.000 We need the police. 07:32.000 --> 07:35.000 The, the, the, the, the, the police? 07:35.000 --> 07:36.000 Yeah. 07:36.000 --> 07:38.000 The guy's dead. 07:38.000 --> 07:41.000 Dead. 07:41.000 --> 07:48.000 Waters was dead. 07:48.000 --> 07:52.000 The words made me weak. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Sick all over. 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 I hadn't hit him hard. 07:56.000 --> 08:01.000 I just grabbed him around the neck and pushed him back when the fight went out of him. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 I remembered the table though. 08:03.000 --> 08:08.000 When he fell against it, it tipped up and must have smashed the back of his head. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 That was it. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 That had killed him. 08:11.000 --> 08:15.000 And now, now they'd start looking for me and when they found me, they'd hang me. 08:15.000 --> 08:23.000 They'll say you killed him, Eddie. 08:23.000 --> 08:24.000 And you'll hang for it. 08:24.000 --> 08:27.000 They're calling the police now. 08:27.000 --> 08:31.000 When they find you here, they'll say you killed him, whether you meant to or not. 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 And they'll be right, Eddie. 08:33.000 --> 08:36.000 You did. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 But maybe you can get away. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Listen. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Be quiet. 08:42.000 --> 08:47.000 See what's going on down there. 08:47.000 --> 08:50.000 No sound but the clock. 08:50.000 --> 08:51.000 Wonder where they are. 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 You can tell the police about this when they get here, Graeme. 08:54.000 --> 08:55.000 Stick around. 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 You're a witness too. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 No, no, sirree. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 I'm going back home. 08:58.000 --> 08:59.000 I don't want to get mixed up in this thing. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 What's the matter? 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 Are you yelling? 09:01.000 --> 09:02.000 No, no, I ain't yelling. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 I told you before this was none of my business and I'll get out right now. 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 All right, go on. 09:05.000 --> 09:06.000 Get out. 09:06.000 --> 09:13.000 I'll wait here until the police come. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 Maybe now's your chance, Eddie. 09:16.000 --> 09:17.000 He's all alone. 09:17.000 --> 09:21.000 Sneak downstairs before the police come. 09:21.000 --> 09:24.000 Get out of this house and get away, far away. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 Watch out for the stairs. 09:26.000 --> 09:30.000 They squeak. 09:30.000 --> 09:33.000 Who's there? 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 I thought I heard something. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 Getting jumpy, I guess. 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 He's right below you, Eddie. 09:39.000 --> 09:42.000 But he can't see you. 09:42.000 --> 09:45.000 Take it easy. 09:45.000 --> 09:48.000 Now's your chance. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 Let Eddie chest. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 Drop it on him. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Of course you don't want to kill him. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 But if you do, you can get away from here. 09:57.000 --> 10:01.000 Just lift it over the rail and drop it. 10:01.000 --> 10:05.000 You killed one man or they'll say you did. 10:05.000 --> 10:08.000 They can only hang you once. 10:08.000 --> 10:12.000 Lift it slowly, Eddie. 10:12.000 --> 10:15.000 Slowly. 10:15.000 --> 10:17.000 Now. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Lift it over. 10:19.000 --> 10:25.000 Quiet. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 You missed your chance. 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 You let the clock scare you. 10:29.000 --> 10:31.000 He's gone. 10:31.000 --> 10:33.000 The police, they're here. 10:33.000 --> 10:46.000 For the first time panic overtook me. 10:46.000 --> 10:50.000 I set down the chest and stepped back into the shadows. 10:50.000 --> 10:53.000 Beside me was the door to the hall closet. 10:53.000 --> 10:57.000 Now remember that in there was the trap door which led to the attic. 10:57.000 --> 11:00.000 I slipped in, got a foot on a wall hook 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 and scrambled up over the clothes that were hanging there. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 I pushed back the little trap door, lifted myself through the hole 11:06.000 --> 11:10.000 and listened for a minute. 11:10.000 --> 11:14.000 I could hear the muffled voices, but I couldn't hear what they were saying. 11:14.000 --> 11:22.000 They must be down there where Mr. Waters is. 11:22.000 --> 11:29.000 Somebody's coming up the stairs. 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 He's coming down the hall. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 The attic was long and low. 11:34.000 --> 11:37.000 He wouldn't think of anyone being up in there. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 Or would he? 11:39.000 --> 11:42.000 It was dark except for the light from a small ventilator. 11:42.000 --> 11:44.000 I moved back into the shadows. 11:44.000 --> 11:49.000 I crouched low because the space was too small to stand up in. 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 Suddenly my hand brushed against a short piece of pipe. 11:52.000 --> 11:56.000 It had been left there for a long time and the dust was thick on it. 11:56.000 --> 12:00.000 But it was a weapon. It made me feel safer. 12:00.000 --> 12:05.000 I moved quietly over the trap door and waited. 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 Get ready for him, Eddie. 12:07.000 --> 12:10.000 If he opens the trap door, you'll have to hit him. 12:10.000 --> 12:17.000 They can only hang you once. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Anybody up there on the search? 12:19.000 --> 12:22.000 No, nobody here. 12:22.000 --> 12:33.000 That's all I remembered for a while. 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 I must have passed out for hours. 12:35.000 --> 12:45.000 When I woke up, the attic was black and heavy with heat. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 Still, there was no storm. 12:47.000 --> 12:52.000 Only a vague threat and distant thunder. 12:52.000 --> 12:55.000 And inside of me there was a threat too. 12:55.000 --> 12:57.000 The beginning of a storm. 12:57.000 --> 13:00.000 My head ached and my mouth was dry. 13:00.000 --> 13:04.000 I knew there was cold water in the icebox and I wanted it. 13:04.000 --> 13:09.000 The storm was coming closer inside of me and I had to be moving. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 I slid the cover back and listened. 13:11.000 --> 13:16.000 The house was quiet with only the ticking of the big hall clock. 13:16.000 --> 13:25.000 So I dropped through the hole and started down the stairs. 13:25.000 --> 13:27.000 Don't let that clock scare you, Eddie. 13:27.000 --> 13:33.000 There's no one here now. 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 Maybe you can get out now, Eddie. 13:35.000 --> 13:41.000 There's your suitcase in the hall. Don't forget that. 13:41.000 --> 13:48.000 Someone's at the door. 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 Hello, Mrs. Waters. The wife wants to... 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 Oh, it's you, Mr. Farrell. 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 I'm glad someone's come over, even you. 13:54.000 --> 13:58.000 I've been alone for hours, ever since the cops got me back from assistant. 13:58.000 --> 13:59.000 Well, the wife says... 13:59.000 --> 14:02.000 Oh, gosh, I can't tell you how bad I feel about this. 14:02.000 --> 14:03.000 Come in, Mr. Farrell. 14:03.000 --> 14:06.000 He was a swell man, Mrs. Waters. Your husband, I mean. 14:06.000 --> 14:07.000 Yes, yes, he was. 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 Yes, sir. He really swelled. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 They didn't come any better than him. 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Anyway, anyway, the wife's seen you from the window, and she said... 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 Won't you come in, Mr. Farrell? 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 In? In there? I mean, well... 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 Just for a minute. 14:19.000 --> 14:23.000 Well, all right, just for a minute. 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 They won't find you, Eddie. 14:25.000 --> 14:28.000 Not if you stay quiet and keep back here in the shadows. 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 I am. I can't stay long. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 Anyway, the wife wants to know if there's anything we can do. 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 I mean, if you're scared to be alone or anything. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 No, no, there's nothing. 14:36.000 --> 14:39.000 Just finish up my dinner, and I'll go to bed very shortly. 14:39.000 --> 14:40.000 And I'm not frightened. 14:40.000 --> 14:43.000 Oh, gosh, gosh, it was awful. Simply awful. 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 The way he was lying there and breathing so heavy. 14:45.000 --> 14:47.000 I was standing right there looking at him. 14:47.000 --> 14:51.000 And it was the way he was breathing that got me sort of gasping. 14:51.000 --> 14:52.000 You know what I mean? 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 Yes, yes, I know, Mr. Farrell, but he's gone now. 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 And there ain't any good... 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 Listen, listen. 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 Did you hear something? 15:00.000 --> 15:01.000 Listen. 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 Hear something? Where? 15:03.000 --> 15:06.000 It sounded like somebody breathing. 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 Stop breathing, Eddie. 15:08.000 --> 15:10.000 I don't hear anything. 15:10.000 --> 15:13.000 Good Lord, it sounded just like him. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 What on earth are you talking about? 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 Your nerves are all on edge, Mr. Farrell. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 No, look, I've got to be getting back. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 If you're sure there ain't nothing we need now. 15:21.000 --> 15:22.000 No, I'm quite all right. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 If there's anything you want, you just call. 15:24.000 --> 15:27.000 I'm going right to bed. I don't feel well. 15:27.000 --> 15:28.000 Well, I shouldn't wonder. I shouldn't wonder. 15:28.000 --> 15:29.000 I'll tell my wife. 15:29.000 --> 15:31.000 Never mind. I'll be all right. 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 Good night, Mr. Farrell, and don't worry about me. 15:34.000 --> 15:35.000 Yes, well, good night. 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 I've got to get back to the wife. 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Good night. 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 I gave her an hour to get to bed and to sleep. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 I stayed right there counting the seconds 15:50.000 --> 15:53.000 and listening to the ticking of the big clock in the hall. 15:53.000 --> 15:58.000 My muscles were stiff and my throat was dry and sore from swallowing. 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 I hardly dared breathe. 16:01.000 --> 16:04.000 Finally, I slipped out, picked up my suitcase, 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 and started to tiptoe out. 16:06.000 --> 16:09.000 The back door would be the best, I thought. 16:09.000 --> 16:12.000 I went slowly in the dark, thinking that I could see 16:12.000 --> 16:16.000 the spot in the kitchen where Mr. Water's body had been after a fight. 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 But the back door was in blackness. 16:19.000 --> 16:22.000 I tried the knob softly. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 The door wouldn't open. 16:26.000 --> 16:29.000 It was locked, not with a night latch, 16:29.000 --> 16:33.000 but with the old-fashioned iron locks that were on all the doors in the house. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 There was no way out without a key. 16:41.000 --> 16:44.000 I started for a window. That was no good either. 16:44.000 --> 16:47.000 The screens were heavy and were nailed firmly in place. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 I'd help nail them myself. 16:49.000 --> 16:52.000 I knew that cutting them would make too much noise. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 There was no way out except with a key, 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 and that must be in Mrs. Water's room. 16:57.000 --> 17:01.000 Back down the hall, I went to the downstairs bedroom. 17:01.000 --> 17:06.000 The door was unlocked, and I opened it and listened. 17:09.000 --> 17:12.000 She's asleep, Eddie. Listen. 17:14.000 --> 17:18.000 The keys must be on the dresser, Eddie, right over there. 17:18.000 --> 17:23.000 The storm was getting close outside, and I felt all stormy inside. 17:23.000 --> 17:26.000 I had to get the keys, get out of this house. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 It wasn't too dark to see Mrs. Water's in bed. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 She was breathing heavily. 17:31.000 --> 17:35.000 I brushed past the bed and my knee touched the chair. 17:36.000 --> 17:40.000 I went on until I felt something waist high, the dresser. 17:40.000 --> 17:43.000 I moved my hand slowly over the top. 17:43.000 --> 17:46.000 The first thing I saw was the dresser. 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 I moved slowly over the top. 17:48.000 --> 17:52.000 First some clothing, then I felt around for the keys. 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 They weren't there. 17:54.000 --> 17:57.000 I felt more slowly. 17:57.000 --> 18:03.000 A hairbrush, a comb, then a pile of hairpins. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 Where was the key? 18:06.000 --> 18:11.000 I held my breath until Mrs. Water started breathing regularly again. 18:11.000 --> 18:18.000 I was shaking now and scared, and the storm was building up inside. 18:19.000 --> 18:22.000 I reached into a drawer. 18:22.000 --> 18:25.000 I tried not to make any noise, but there was some. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 I reached inside. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 There was something steely and cold. 18:29.000 --> 18:32.000 The key? No. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 No scissors. 18:34.000 --> 18:37.000 Long ones, sharp and pointed. 18:37.000 --> 18:40.000 The phone was frightening. 18:40.000 --> 18:45.000 I wanted to run to get out of the room, but I couldn't remember where the door was. 18:45.000 --> 18:51.000 I held the scissors like a weapon, a knife, and flattened myself against the wall. 18:51.000 --> 18:54.000 Oh dear, the phone. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Eddie. 18:57.000 --> 18:58.000 Eddie hides somewhere. 18:58.000 --> 19:00.000 The phone at this hour. 19:00.000 --> 19:03.000 I stepped back into the closet. 19:03.000 --> 19:07.000 Pulled some clothes in front of me just before she snapped on the light over the bed. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 I'm coming, I'm coming. 19:09.000 --> 19:14.000 I talked softly to myself like I always do when I'm alone and scared. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 You've got the scissors, Eddie. 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 If she comes in here, you'll have to use them. 19:19.000 --> 19:22.000 They must know you killed Mr. Waters. 19:22.000 --> 19:27.000 It wouldn't be right to kill her too, but what if she finds you, Eddie? 19:27.000 --> 19:31.000 You're no killer, Eddie, but you can't be caught, you can't. 19:31.000 --> 19:35.000 If she opens the door, do it. Do it quickly, Eddie, and then run. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Where's that dang bathroom? 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 All right, all right. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 She didn't find you, Eddie. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 You didn't have to kill her. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 She just took her robe off the hook. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 Hello? 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 She didn't have to kill her, did you? 19:52.000 --> 19:53.000 Hello, Mr. Fett. 19:53.000 --> 19:54.000 Not yet. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 But now's your chance, Eddie. 19:56.000 --> 20:01.000 Her handbag's on the bed. 20:01.000 --> 20:02.000 Let's see. 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 Here they are. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 The keys, Eddie. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Get the back door before she's through. 20:08.000 --> 20:31.000 I'll stay out and let you in. 20:31.000 --> 20:38.000 I walked a long time in the rain while a storm out inside me settled down the same steady rhythm as the raindrops. 20:38.000 --> 20:41.000 I hadn't eaten all day and I was weak and shaky. 20:41.000 --> 20:48.000 The water dripped from me and the bag slapped against my leg and my shoes made little splashing noises in the mud. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 I counted my footsteps. 20:50.000 --> 20:54.000 I counted to a thousand and then started over. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 And then through the rain I saw an all-night diner. 20:57.000 --> 21:01.000 I shook the rain from my hat and looked inside. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 There was a man and an apron. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 No one else. 21:05.000 --> 21:17.000 I hesitated for a moment, but the smell of food and coffee came to me and I opened the door and walked in. 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 Ah, what'll it be? 21:18.000 --> 21:19.000 Coffee. 21:19.000 --> 21:20.000 Coffee? 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Bad. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 Boy, you're really wet. 21:24.000 --> 21:25.000 Yeah. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 Boy. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 Give me a sandwich, any kind of sandwich. 21:29.000 --> 21:31.000 Sure, sure, sure, coming up. 21:31.000 --> 21:34.000 Look, kid, take off the coat and let me hang it up for the coffee boiler. 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 Oh, I'm all right. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 Let me have the sugar. 21:36.000 --> 21:39.000 Sugar? 21:39.000 --> 21:40.000 Cream? 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 No. 21:42.000 --> 21:43.000 These sandwiches all right? 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 It's all gone. 21:45.000 --> 21:46.000 Hello, Casey. 21:46.000 --> 21:49.000 Well, what's cooking with the police department on a night like this? 21:49.000 --> 21:50.000 Good day, Mike. 21:50.000 --> 21:53.000 Give me a cup of coffee and I'll hurry with it. 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 A cup, Eddie? 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 Don't run, take it easy. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 Coffee coming up, Casey. 21:58.000 --> 21:59.000 Hey, kid. 21:59.000 --> 22:00.000 Hey. 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 Beef sandwich okay? 22:01.000 --> 22:02.000 Sure. 22:02.000 --> 22:05.000 This raincoat's dripping all over your floor. 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 I'll hang it up, Mike. 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 Okay. 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 It's really wet out there. 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 He's hanging up his gun too, Eddie. 22:11.000 --> 22:14.000 Maybe you couldn't get it if you have to. 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 Well, how'd you get so wet, kid? 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 Didn't see you before. 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 I got caught in the storm. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 Yeah, I see. 22:24.000 --> 22:29.000 Oh, thanks, Mike. 22:29.000 --> 22:38.000 Look, kid, maybe you'd better come along with me down to the station house. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 It was done. 22:40.000 --> 22:41.000 It was over. 22:41.000 --> 22:42.000 They'd caught me. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 I'd felt free up until now. 22:44.000 --> 22:47.000 I looked at where his gun was hanging by his raincoat. 22:47.000 --> 22:50.000 Now I'd have to try it. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 I'd have to kill again, I thought. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 I could get them both and get away, maybe. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 They could only hang me once. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 How about it, kid? 22:58.000 --> 23:00.000 I'll book you as a sleeper. 23:00.000 --> 23:04.000 Well, morning you'll be dried out on your way. 23:04.000 --> 23:05.000 Okay? 23:05.000 --> 23:09.000 You mean, you mean just sleep there? 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 Well, sure. 23:11.000 --> 23:14.000 There won't be any charge against you. 23:14.000 --> 23:19.000 Well, well, thanks, but I've got to get along. 23:19.000 --> 23:22.000 Okay, have it your own way. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Well, what do I owe you, Mike? 23:24.000 --> 23:25.000 Just a dime. 23:25.000 --> 23:26.000 Here. 23:26.000 --> 23:27.000 Thanks. 23:27.000 --> 23:28.000 You been hitting the ball tonight? 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 I'll say. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 Been taking the doc around. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 I have to go back and pick him up now. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 Oh, emergency case, huh? 23:35.000 --> 23:39.000 Yeah, doc called it botulism, something like tomaine poisoning. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 Said it was from eating pig's feet. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Old lady Waters up on Elm Street. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 You gotta be awful careful of them things. 23:45.000 --> 23:48.000 Yeah, they'd wonder about them, but I guess she ate them anyhow. 23:48.000 --> 23:54.000 They were from the same batch that killed her husband earlier today. 23:54.000 --> 23:57.000 She didn't know that was what happened to him, and she ate him too. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 Ah, tomaine's bad stuff. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 Hits you, just like that. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 Yeah, well, so long. 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 So long, Casey. 24:05.000 --> 24:06.000 More coffee, kid? 24:06.000 --> 24:07.000 No, thanks. 24:07.000 --> 24:11.000 Did you hear that about Mr. and Mrs. Waters both dying from the same thing? 24:11.000 --> 24:12.000 Yeah. 24:12.000 --> 24:13.000 Pig's nuts. 24:13.000 --> 24:16.000 Ah, you gotta be careful of that tomaine stuff. 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 Well, looks like the storm's over. 24:19.000 --> 24:20.000 Sure is. 24:20.000 --> 24:21.000 The moon's out. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 Just a summer storm and now it's all over. 24:23.000 --> 24:25.000 Yeah, it'll make it nice for you. 24:25.000 --> 24:26.000 Feel all right? 24:26.000 --> 24:27.000 Me? 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 I feel swell. 24:29.000 --> 24:45.000 Music. 24:45.000 --> 25:10.000 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service. 25:10.000 --> 25:20.000 Music.