WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Suspense. 00:07.000 --> 00:12.000 Tonight, George Murphy and Miss Nancy Coleman as stars of Too Little to Live On. 00:12.000 --> 00:16.000 A suspense play produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 00:21.000 --> 00:25.000 I don't know whether we ever thought about it before this morning or not. 00:25.000 --> 00:30.000 It might have crossed our minds sometime, one or the other of us. I don't know. 00:30.000 --> 00:35.000 But we never talked about it. Never. Never before this morning. 00:35.000 --> 00:39.000 Then this morning everything just seemed to come to a head. 00:39.000 --> 00:45.000 Every little thing that had happened all those months and years just seemed to pile up at once. 00:45.000 --> 00:49.000 It just seemed as though this morning was the last straw. 00:49.000 --> 00:51.000 Hi, honey. 00:51.000 --> 00:54.000 Hello, darling. Breakfast is there, keeping warm on the back of the stove. 00:54.000 --> 00:56.000 I'd get it for you, but I'm already late with his. 00:56.000 --> 00:57.000 Oh, that's all right. 00:57.000 --> 00:58.000 You better hurry, though. 00:58.000 --> 01:00.000 Oh, I'm not going to the office today. 01:00.000 --> 01:01.000 You're not? 01:01.000 --> 01:03.000 No, he wants me to stick around. 01:03.000 --> 01:07.000 Don't you remember his lawyer is dropping in sometime today only he doesn't know when? 01:07.000 --> 01:08.000 At least that's his story. 01:08.000 --> 01:09.000 Maybe he really doesn't know. 01:09.000 --> 01:12.000 Oh, he knows all right. Not that it matters much. 01:12.000 --> 01:15.000 I don't have any appointments today anyway. 01:15.000 --> 01:19.000 People around here wouldn't have their teeth fixed if you paid them to. 01:19.000 --> 01:20.000 They can't help it if they're poor, Dave. 01:20.000 --> 01:23.000 I didn't say they could. I just said that they can't afford to go to the dentist. 01:23.000 --> 01:25.000 It happens that I'm the dentist they can't afford to go to. 01:25.000 --> 01:28.000 Darling, there ought to be some way we can move to another neighborhood 01:28.000 --> 01:30.000 so at least you can start building a decent practice. 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 Sure. How? With what? 01:32.000 --> 01:33.000 I know. 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 With Uncle Ed's money. When we get it. 01:36.000 --> 01:39.000 At least that's what we've been telling ourselves for the past three years. 01:39.000 --> 01:41.000 Couldn't we talk to him? Couldn't we make him see that? 01:41.000 --> 01:43.000 Oh, you know how much chance there is of that. 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 He likes to see us having it tough. 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 He likes to have us depending on that money. 01:48.000 --> 01:51.000 That's all he lives for. He'll probably live to be a hundred. 01:51.000 --> 01:53.000 We've just got to be patient, Dave. 01:53.000 --> 01:56.000 Oh, there he is. He's up. I've got to hurry. 01:56.000 --> 02:00.000 I think at least he'd spend enough dough to have some decent tires put on that wheelchair of his 02:00.000 --> 02:03.000 so it wouldn't bump around over our heads like a ten-ton truck day and night. 02:03.000 --> 02:06.000 Well, I suppose we ought to be thankful he doesn't spend his money in the way. 02:06.000 --> 02:09.000 Have you, uh, have you seen him this morning? 02:09.000 --> 02:10.000 Uh-huh. 02:10.000 --> 02:11.000 How's he feeling? 02:11.000 --> 02:13.000 About the same, I guess. 02:13.000 --> 02:16.000 He made me bring his lemon juice and water down and heat it up again. 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 He said it wasn't hot enough. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 Willie almost bit me again. 02:19.000 --> 02:20.000 Oh, that mutt. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 Oh, doggy's getting old. I suppose he can't help her. 02:22.000 --> 02:23.000 Any more than Uncle Ed. 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 They could both help her. He wants it that way. 02:26.000 --> 02:27.000 He gets a kick out of it. 02:27.000 --> 02:31.000 Because now it's gotten so even, we have to kowtow to a snarling little mutt. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 And he sits there and laughs at us. 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 Well, we've just got to be patient, Dave. 02:35.000 --> 02:40.000 Well, one thing, when we get that $30,000, we sure will have earned it. 02:40.000 --> 02:41.000 Dave. 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Yeah? 02:42.000 --> 02:43.000 What about the lawyer? 02:43.000 --> 02:44.000 Well, what about it? 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Well, I mean, what do you suppose it means? 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 What should it mean? 02:47.000 --> 02:50.000 He's always getting the old fool over every three or four months 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 and going into some kind of a huddle. 02:52.000 --> 02:53.000 Why should he want you here? 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 How should I know? 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 Maybe he needs both of us as witnesses or something. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.000 No, he's been talking an awful lot about that orphanage over in Brooklyn. 03:00.000 --> 03:01.000 Oh, sure. 03:01.000 --> 03:05.000 Last winter, all he could talk about was some filing home for stray dogs down in Pennsylvania. 03:05.000 --> 03:08.000 Oh, he's just cracking the whip, that's all, to see us jump. 03:08.000 --> 03:12.000 Oh, Dave, if he was to change his will now, after all we've been through, it... 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 Oh, don't worry, it won't. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 There he goes, he's coming for his breakfast. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 Coming right up, Uncle Ed. 03:20.000 --> 03:21.000 Let's see. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 Oatmeal, toast. 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 I hope he'll have his eggs right. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Get the coffee off the back of the stove, darling, when I get a cup. 03:28.000 --> 03:29.000 Okay. 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 Oh, it's all right, it's all right, honey. 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 It was only a cup. 03:34.000 --> 03:37.000 Oh, I know, it's only that, but sometimes he makes me so nervous, 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 I feel as though I was going crazy. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 Take it easy, take it easy, honey. 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 Here, let me get the tray. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 No, I'm all right now. 03:45.000 --> 03:48.000 Let's see, there's a pan of milk warming on the stove. 03:48.000 --> 03:52.000 Fill this bowl about half full and break up a handful of those little dog biscuits in it. 03:52.000 --> 03:53.000 Okay. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 Let's see, sugar, salt, pepper, cream. 03:59.000 --> 04:00.000 All right, come on. 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 Open the door for me, will you, darling? 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 Here, I'll carry the tray. 04:04.000 --> 04:05.000 Oh, no, he likes to have me bring it. 04:05.000 --> 04:06.000 Well, what's the difference? 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 Oh, don't ask me, Dave. 04:07.000 --> 04:08.000 Oh, the paper. 04:08.000 --> 04:09.000 Oh, you've got it. 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 Well, look, I haven't read the paper yet myself. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 Shh, you can read it later. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 Come on. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 Here's your breakfast, Uncle Ed. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 All right, all right, all right. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 I'm sorry, I was a little late. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 Oh, set it down, set it down. 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 I heard what you said about the paper, David. 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 Getting so even begrudge a little thing like that to a helpless invalid. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 I don't begrudge it, Uncle Ed. 04:37.000 --> 04:41.000 So important for you to read the paper, why don't you subscribe for two of them? 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 Well, I'm afraid the budget in this family won't stand for little luxuries like that. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 When I was your age, I had my first thousand dollars in the bank. 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 Well, things were a little different in those days, Uncle Ed. 04:51.000 --> 04:52.000 I was a little different. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 That's what the difference was. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Set Willie's breakfast down for him, Ira. 04:56.000 --> 04:59.000 No, no, no, not there over by his bed where he can get at it. 04:59.000 --> 05:00.000 Yes, Uncle Ed. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 I'm afraid Willie doesn't like me anymore. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 Here, here, I'll give it to him. 05:07.000 --> 05:08.000 Hey, hey, stop that. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 Hey, don't you dare strike that dog, David. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 I wasn't going to hit him. I just want him to let go of my slave. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 Myra, take him out once in a while. He wouldn't feel that way. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 I take him out any time you ask me to, Uncle Ed. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 I forget sometimes. You ought to do it without my asking. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 Well, you can go now. 05:22.000 --> 05:24.000 I know you don't want to stay any longer than you have to. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 Hey, Myra, hand me my glasses. They're on the bureau. 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 Glass? Oh, yes, Uncle Ed. 05:29.000 --> 05:30.000 Here. 05:31.000 --> 05:33.000 Myra, you clumsy fool. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 Oh, Uncle Ed, I'm so sorry. Maybe I can mend them. 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 Of course you can't mend them, the broken, you idiot. 05:37.000 --> 05:39.000 Don't talk to her like that. 05:39.000 --> 05:40.000 What was that? 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 I said don't talk to her like that. 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 Dave, please, please. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 Oh, I see. Now you're trying to bully me. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 A helpless old man in a wheelchair. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Well, I won't stand for it. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Oh, Uncle Ed, he didn't mean anything. 05:50.000 --> 05:51.000 I made my bargain with you, David. 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 And I intend to keep it as long as you do. 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 I've never complained about the care you've given me, 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 although heaven knows it's been a little enough. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 But don't think for a minute I'll stand for anything like this. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Well, I'm sorry, Uncle Ed. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 I'm afraid that's scarcely enough. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 Well, it won't happen again. 06:07.000 --> 06:09.000 Look, I'll get the glasses fixed. 06:09.000 --> 06:11.000 I know a guy can do it right away. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 This will probably take a week. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 In the meantime, I'll be as blind as a bat. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 And don't expect me to pay for it. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 Look, don't worry. I'll pay for it. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 You'll have them back tonight. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 This reminds me, David, be sure that you're here 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 when my lawyer comes today. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 I'll be here. I stayed home from the office on purpose. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Well, that's all for now. 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 Oh, I suppose neither of you have taken the trouble lately 06:33.000 --> 06:36.000 to find out which of my prescriptions need refilling. 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 Oh, yes. Yes, I was thinking of that yesterday. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 Oh, are you? Well, let's do it now anyway. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 The bismuth's entirely gone, and you know how I depend on that. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 You'd better get another bottle of iron tonic. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 The drops, well, that's all right for now. 06:48.000 --> 06:51.000 And the thiocyanate, you'd better get that refilled too 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 while you're at it. 06:52.000 --> 06:53.000 Take the bottle and the bismuth too. 06:53.000 --> 06:54.000 I'll go right away, Uncle Ed. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 Yes, do, and come right back. 06:56.000 --> 06:57.000 You know, I must have my bismuth out 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 later than 20 minutes after you leave. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 Yes, I know, I know. 07:00.000 --> 07:03.000 Come on, Myra. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 Oh, I hate myself, Myra. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Take it easy, Myra. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Take it easy. It's all right. Now it's all right. 07:10.000 --> 07:13.000 Oh, Dave, I've tried, I've tried. 07:13.000 --> 07:14.000 I can't go on like this. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 Take it easy, Doc. Take it easy. 07:16.000 --> 07:17.000 It won't be much longer. 07:17.000 --> 07:19.000 But how long? How long? 07:19.000 --> 07:20.000 I know. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 We've been saying that for three years. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 We're like prisoners. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 We can't go out of the house together 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 because somebody has to be with him. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.000 We can't have friends in 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 because they disturb him. 07:30.000 --> 07:32.000 Oh, Dave. 07:32.000 --> 07:35.000 Dave, we can't even have a baby. 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 I could kill him. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 Sometimes I could kill him. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Darling, I... 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 I know it's just as bad for you as it is for me. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 It's just that... 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 I'm here alone with him all day. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 I'm sorry. I... 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 I shouldn't have let myself go that way. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 I hate myself, Myra. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 If I'd known it was going to be like this... 07:57.000 --> 07:58.000 It's not your fault, darling. 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 I knew what we were doing. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 I'm not even a man anymore, Myra. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 I let him sit there and say things to my wife 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 that a man wouldn't take from anybody on earth. 08:05.000 --> 08:08.000 But I take it. I take it and smile. 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 Dave, Dave, it's not your fault. 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 It is my fault. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 Because if I was any kind of a man, 08:11.000 --> 08:12.000 I'd do something about it. 08:12.000 --> 08:16.000 But there's nothing to do, don't you see? 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 I should never have acted like this. 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 We... 08:20.000 --> 08:23.000 We've just got to be patient and wait, that's all. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.000 Wait. Wait. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Maybe another three years. 08:28.000 --> 08:29.000 Maybe ten more years. 08:29.000 --> 08:30.000 Oh, honey. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 What's the use of kidding ourselves? 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 How do we know how long it's going to take him to die? 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Sometimes I don't even think he's sick. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 Sometimes I think he's just putting it on 08:38.000 --> 08:39.000 to make us wait on him. 08:39.000 --> 08:40.000 But the doctor says... 08:40.000 --> 08:41.000 Oh, he could fool a doctor. It's been done. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.000 And even when he does die, 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 how can we ever be sure? 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 Oh, Dave, you don't think... 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 I think he's just that mean. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 He'd snatch the money away at the last minute 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 and die laughing at us. 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 And the lawyer's coming today. 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 Sure. Sure. He could do it today. 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 He could do it any time. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 And we'd never know. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 Not until he told us. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 He wouldn't. He couldn't. 09:00.000 --> 09:01.000 Why not? 09:01.000 --> 09:04.000 He might just as well do it anyhow. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 He'll hold it over us until the last minute, 09:06.000 --> 09:07.000 like he did just now. 09:07.000 --> 09:10.000 Until we probably will die of heart failure before he does. 09:10.000 --> 09:11.000 But you said just a few minutes ago... 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 I know. I know. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 I've been kidding myself for three years. 09:15.000 --> 09:16.000 But not anymore. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 Oh, Dave, Dave, what are we going to do? 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 What can we do? 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 I don't know, Myra. I don't know. 09:23.000 --> 09:26.000 If only something could happen. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 Nothing's going to happen, Myra. 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 Unless we make it happen. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 Dave, we couldn't. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 We can't go on like this either. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 We could tell him to go. 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 And throw away three years of our lives, 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 the three years that we've waited. 09:41.000 --> 09:42.000 We've earned that money already, Myra. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 Ten thousand dollars a year is much for what we've done. 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 Oh, Dave, I don't care about the money. 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 Well, I do. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 If it was anyone else, I'd feel different. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 I don't have any more feeling about him 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 than I do that dog up there. 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 Dave, you don't really mean... 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 I don't know what I mean, Myra. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 Listen, I've got to go over to the drug store 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 and get his medicine. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 Well, hurry back. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 I'll only be a minute. It's just across the street. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 I'll watch out for the lawyer. 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 Yeah, and stall him off if he comes. 10:09.000 --> 10:23.000 Hurry. 10:23.000 --> 10:24.000 Hello, Mr. Herman. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Well, Dr. O'Connor. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 You come for your regular batch of medicines, I suppose. 10:28.000 --> 10:29.000 That's right. 10:29.000 --> 10:31.000 How is he, Dr. O'Connor? Better, I hope? 10:31.000 --> 10:34.000 Well, I'm afraid he's been having a little pain lately. 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 Oh, that's too bad. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 He's such a courageous old man, so cheerful. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 Every time I go by, sitting up there by his window, he waves. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 Always, he sends his little remembrance at Christmas. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 That's your uncle's real gentleman. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 Yeah, yes, that's right. 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 Well, what'll it be today? 10:48.000 --> 10:52.000 Well, the iron tonic and the bismuth, a hundred tablets. 10:52.000 --> 10:56.000 And, oh, yes, would you refill the thiocyanate prescription? 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 Here, I brought the bottles. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 All right, I'll get it for you right away. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 You got a prescription for the thiocyanate? 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 No, no, but I'll sign it. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 Oh, sure, that's right, you can sign it. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 Now it is, Doctor, we gotta be careful of these things. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 You better give me the big tablets this time. 11:12.000 --> 11:13.000 Sure thing. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 You reach just over the counter, you'll find a prescription blank. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 Just below there, you got it? 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 Yeah, yeah, thanks. 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 Oh, there we are. 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 Don't bother to wrap it. 11:22.000 --> 11:23.000 All right. 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 That's 487. 11:25.000 --> 11:28.000 Here, I've got it even. 11:28.000 --> 11:29.000 Thanks. 11:29.000 --> 11:39.000 Oh, thank you, Dr. O'Connor. 11:39.000 --> 11:42.000 Well, you taking the day off, Doctor? 11:42.000 --> 11:49.000 Yes, that's right. 11:49.000 --> 11:50.000 Dave? 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 Yeah, the lawyer come? 11:52.000 --> 11:53.000 No. 11:53.000 --> 12:00.000 Come on in the kitchen. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 I got the medicine, Myra. 12:02.000 --> 12:03.000 Oh? 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 Myra, do you know what these things are that he's been taking? 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 No, not exactly. 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 Well, this is bismuth, the stuff he takes after every meal, 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 three or four of them, the stuff he's due to take right now. 12:14.000 --> 12:15.000 Dave. 12:15.000 --> 12:16.000 Now, wait a minute. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 These are thiocyanate. 12:18.000 --> 12:22.000 He only takes these once in a while for his heart, just one of them. 12:22.000 --> 12:25.000 Less than one now because I got the bigger tablets this time. 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 Dave, what are you trying to say? 12:28.000 --> 12:34.000 I'm trying to say if he took three or four of these instead of his bismuth, 12:34.000 --> 12:37.000 by mistake, it would kill him. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 Dave, no. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.000 By mistake, I said. 12:40.000 --> 12:41.000 Well, it couldn't be. 12:41.000 --> 12:42.000 Yes, it could. 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 Look at the tablets. 12:46.000 --> 12:49.000 Can you tell them apart? 12:49.000 --> 12:50.000 Hardly. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 If they were in the wrong bottle? 12:53.000 --> 12:57.000 But afterwards, they'd know they were in the wrong bottle. 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 They'd know that somebody must have... 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 No. 13:00.000 --> 13:03.000 No, he'd think it was all right from the shape. 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 But afterwards, we'd put him back in the right bottle. 13:06.000 --> 13:09.000 But then they'd know it couldn't be a mistake. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 They'd know he could read right on the bottle from the label. 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 No, no, they wouldn't. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 They'd know he couldn't read the label. 13:15.000 --> 13:16.000 They'd know he couldn't read anything. 13:16.000 --> 13:17.000 His glasses? 13:17.000 --> 13:18.000 That's right. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 His glasses and the oculus would have to swear to it. 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 Oh, Dave, are you sure you can't see? 13:22.000 --> 13:23.000 He's as blind as a bat without them. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 That much I know is real. 13:25.000 --> 13:26.000 Oh, Dave. 13:26.000 --> 13:27.000 It's the only way, Myra. 13:27.000 --> 13:28.000 It's the chance of a lifetime. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 No tampering of anything, no changing labels 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 so they can analyze the glue if they get suspicious. 13:32.000 --> 13:33.000 None of that. 13:33.000 --> 13:40.000 And don't forget, his lawyer's coming today. 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 Couldn't we just tell him to go? 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 What about the money? 13:45.000 --> 13:48.000 Oh, Dave, I can't think. 13:48.000 --> 13:49.000 Oh, the front door. 13:49.000 --> 13:51.000 Must be lawyer Eldridge. 13:51.000 --> 13:53.000 Yeah, it is. 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 I can see him standing outside. 13:55.000 --> 13:56.000 What do we do? 13:56.000 --> 13:57.000 Get rid of him. 13:57.000 --> 13:58.000 Hurry before he rings again. 13:58.000 --> 13:59.000 He might hear it. 13:59.000 --> 14:00.000 What shall I tell him? 14:00.000 --> 14:03.000 Say that he's had a bad turn. 14:03.000 --> 14:04.000 We're calling the doctor. 14:04.000 --> 14:09.000 Then if he asks any questions any time, we could say it was... 14:09.000 --> 14:10.000 Yeah. 14:10.000 --> 14:11.000 All right. 14:11.000 --> 14:17.000 Good morning, Mr. Eldridge. 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 How do you do, Dr. O'Connor? 14:19.000 --> 14:21.000 Let's talk out here. 14:21.000 --> 14:24.000 I'm sorry you had to come way out here, 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 but my uncle has had sort of a bad turn. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 Oh, I'm so sorry. 14:28.000 --> 14:29.000 Nothing serious, I hope. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 Well, we're calling the doctor. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 No, I don't think it's anything serious, Mr. Eldridge. 14:33.000 --> 14:34.000 I don't see how it could be. 14:34.000 --> 14:35.000 Why, no. 14:35.000 --> 14:39.000 But he was wondering if you could come back some other day. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 I see. 14:41.000 --> 14:46.000 Well, it's just a matter of his signature on a document. 14:46.000 --> 14:49.000 I'm really afraid he isn't up to it, Mr. Eldridge. 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 I see. 14:50.000 --> 14:54.000 Well, perhaps I could phone him later in the day. 14:54.000 --> 14:55.000 Could... 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 I say I could phone him. 14:56.000 --> 14:59.000 There would be no objection to that, would there? 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 Oh, no, no. 15:00.000 --> 15:03.000 But if there's any message that I could give him later... 15:03.000 --> 15:04.000 Yes. 15:04.000 --> 15:11.000 Well, you might say that I've made the changes that he requested. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 He'll know what I mean. 15:13.000 --> 15:14.000 All right. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 I'll do that. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 And thank you, Mr. Eldridge. 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 Thank you, Doctor. 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 And good day, sir. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 Goodbye. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.000 Has he gone? 15:20.000 --> 15:21.000 Yeah. 15:21.000 --> 15:22.000 Did he? 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 No. 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 No, it was all right. 15:24.000 --> 15:25.000 What is it, Dave? 15:25.000 --> 15:26.000 Did he say something? 15:26.000 --> 15:39.000 He said that he'd made the changes, whatever they were, and that he'd understand. 15:39.000 --> 15:42.000 He said that all he wanted was his signature on some document. 15:42.000 --> 15:43.000 His will? 15:43.000 --> 15:44.000 He didn't say that. 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 Oh. 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 It's now or never, Myra. 15:47.000 --> 15:50.000 Oh, Dave, let me just think for a minute. 15:50.000 --> 15:51.000 What's the use? 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 Yes, I suppose. 15:53.000 --> 15:57.000 Well, what about it? 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 Yes. 15:59.000 --> 16:00.000 All right. 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 Okay. 16:01.000 --> 16:02.000 Oh, Dave. 16:02.000 --> 16:15.840 All right. 16:15.840 --> 16:16.840 Here are the two bottles. 16:16.840 --> 16:17.840 Come on. 16:17.840 --> 16:18.840 Oh, Dave, no. 16:18.840 --> 16:19.840 You've got to come. 16:19.840 --> 16:20.840 Why? 16:20.840 --> 16:21.840 Because you have. 16:21.840 --> 16:22.840 All right. 16:22.840 --> 16:25.840 You don't have to say anything. 16:25.840 --> 16:26.840 All right. 16:26.840 --> 16:44.360 Can I hear someone at the front door? 16:44.360 --> 16:46.720 No, there hasn't been anyone here. 16:46.720 --> 16:47.720 Has there, Myra? 16:47.720 --> 16:48.720 No. 16:48.720 --> 16:49.720 Oh. 16:49.720 --> 16:51.680 But it might have been Mr. Elrich. 16:51.680 --> 16:52.920 I got your medicine. 16:52.920 --> 16:54.120 You took long enough about it. 16:54.120 --> 16:57.120 I'll put it over here by the bed where you can get it. 16:57.120 --> 16:59.360 What do you want, Myra? 16:59.360 --> 17:01.120 I just came to get your tray, Uncle Ed. 17:01.120 --> 17:02.120 Oh, you did. 17:02.120 --> 17:04.580 Didn't Willie like his breakfast? 17:04.580 --> 17:05.580 It was too hot, of course. 17:05.580 --> 17:07.580 I'm going to give it to him now. 17:07.580 --> 17:10.480 Have you got water for your pills? 17:10.480 --> 17:11.480 Yes. 17:11.480 --> 17:12.480 And what about my glasses? 17:12.480 --> 17:14.480 They'll be ready this evening. 17:14.480 --> 17:15.480 All right. 17:15.480 --> 17:17.600 Can you show Mr. Elrich up here the minute he arrives? 17:17.600 --> 17:21.640 Oh, yes, I will, Uncle Ed. 17:21.640 --> 17:24.320 Do you want me to take the tray? 17:24.320 --> 17:27.320 No, I've got it. 17:27.320 --> 17:28.320 Oh. 17:28.320 --> 17:32.400 Oh, Dave, how could we? 17:32.400 --> 17:36.120 What's the use of that? 17:36.120 --> 17:37.120 It's done now. 17:37.120 --> 17:38.120 It's so horrible. 17:38.120 --> 17:39.120 Is it? 17:39.120 --> 17:41.120 Don't you realize that we're... 17:41.120 --> 17:42.120 Murder? 17:42.120 --> 17:45.040 All right, it is. 17:45.040 --> 17:46.040 And I'm glad. 17:46.040 --> 17:47.040 Dave, don't say that. 17:47.040 --> 17:48.040 What's the difference what you call it? 17:48.040 --> 17:49.520 It's the only thing to do. 17:49.520 --> 17:51.200 It's even better for him this way. 17:51.200 --> 17:52.800 David, I'm afraid. 17:52.800 --> 17:54.800 There's nothing to be afraid of. 17:54.800 --> 17:55.800 Listen. 17:55.800 --> 17:56.800 Yeah. 17:56.800 --> 18:00.800 He'd wheel himself over to take his pills. 18:00.800 --> 18:01.800 Dave. 18:01.800 --> 18:02.800 Hmm? 18:02.800 --> 18:03.800 Does it... 18:03.800 --> 18:04.800 Will it take long? 18:04.800 --> 18:15.480 At his age, and if his heart is anything like what the doctor says it is, no. 18:15.480 --> 18:16.480 Is it? 18:16.480 --> 18:17.480 Painful? 18:17.480 --> 18:18.480 No. 18:18.480 --> 18:20.480 Like a heart attack, that's all. 18:20.480 --> 18:21.480 What was that? 18:21.480 --> 18:22.480 He must have fallen. 18:22.480 --> 18:23.480 Denise. 18:23.480 --> 18:24.480 Yeah, in a minute anyway. 18:24.480 --> 18:25.480 We ought to go up. 18:25.480 --> 18:26.480 No, wait a minute. 18:26.480 --> 18:27.480 But the bottle... 18:27.480 --> 18:28.480 There's plenty of time. 18:28.480 --> 18:29.480 Shouldn't you wear gloves or something? 18:29.480 --> 18:30.480 No, no, I thought of that. 18:30.480 --> 18:31.480 It would look funny if there weren't any fingerprints. 18:31.480 --> 18:32.480 Oh, Dave, we ought to go up even if... 18:32.480 --> 18:33.480 It would look better. 18:33.480 --> 18:34.480 All right, all right. 18:34.480 --> 18:35.480 And in case. 18:35.480 --> 18:36.480 Just in case. 18:36.480 --> 18:37.480 We'll have to call the police. 18:37.480 --> 18:38.480 Oh, Dave, I'm sorry. 18:38.480 --> 18:39.480 I'm sorry. 18:39.480 --> 18:40.480 I'm sorry. 18:40.480 --> 18:41.480 I'm sorry. 18:41.480 --> 18:42.480 I'm sorry. 18:42.480 --> 18:43.480 I'm sorry. 18:43.480 --> 18:44.480 I'm sorry. 18:44.480 --> 18:45.480 I'm sorry. 18:45.480 --> 18:46.480 I'm sorry. 18:46.480 --> 18:47.480 I'm sorry. 18:47.480 --> 18:48.480 I'm sorry. 18:48.480 --> 18:49.480 I'm sorry. 18:49.480 --> 18:50.480 We'll have to call the doctor. 18:50.480 --> 18:51.480 We'll have to anyway. 18:51.480 --> 18:52.480 Either way. 18:52.480 --> 18:53.480 Suppose... 18:53.480 --> 18:54.480 Don't worry. 18:54.480 --> 18:55.480 It won't be like that. 18:55.480 --> 18:56.480 The wheelchair's empty. 18:56.480 --> 18:57.480 He's not here. 18:57.480 --> 18:58.480 Quick, look in the closet. 18:58.480 --> 18:59.480 No, under the bed. 18:59.480 --> 19:00.480 Oh, Dave, look. 19:00.480 --> 19:01.480 Willie. 19:01.480 --> 19:02.480 He's dead. 19:02.480 --> 19:03.480 The dog is dead, Myra. 19:03.480 --> 19:04.480 But how? 19:04.480 --> 19:05.480 Here. 19:05.480 --> 19:06.480 Here's a note on the chair. 19:06.480 --> 19:07.480 Oh. 19:07.480 --> 19:08.480 Oh, my God. 19:08.480 --> 19:09.480 Oh, my God. 19:09.480 --> 19:10.480 Oh, my God. 19:10.480 --> 19:11.480 Oh, my God. 19:11.480 --> 19:12.480 Oh, my God. 19:12.480 --> 19:13.480 Oh, my God. 19:13.480 --> 19:14.480 Oh, my God. 19:14.480 --> 19:15.480 Oh, my God. 19:15.480 --> 19:16.480 Oh, my God. 19:16.480 --> 19:17.480 Oh, my God. 19:17.480 --> 19:18.480 Oh, my God. 19:18.480 --> 19:19.480 Dave, what is it? 19:19.480 --> 19:20.480 It's from him. 19:20.480 --> 19:30.480 It says, My dear, dear niece and nephew, The thing has at last occurred which I have always 19:30.480 --> 19:33.200 known would one day inevitably occur. 19:33.200 --> 19:37.640 Poor little Willie has given his life to save mine... 19:37.640 --> 19:45.100 It may interest you to know that from my window I saw Mr. Eldredge leaving the house. 19:45.100 --> 19:50.320 I also suspect that the incident of breaking my glasses was not quite an accident. 19:50.320 --> 19:53.140 And so, my dear children, I have gone to the police. 19:53.140 --> 19:54.140 You? 19:54.140 --> 19:55.140 David! 19:55.140 --> 19:59.660 The little bottles with their transposed contents are in my pocket as final and conclusive evidence 19:59.660 --> 20:01.180 of your murderous intent. 20:01.180 --> 20:02.180 Oh! 20:02.180 --> 20:07.660 You see, I have never been quite as helpless as I allowed you to believe, and have in fact 20:07.660 --> 20:12.620 conserved my strength for precisely such an emergency, a circumstance to which it now 20:12.620 --> 20:15.380 appears I owe my life. 20:15.380 --> 20:20.980 For your further information, Mr. Eldridge was not coming to change my will. 20:20.980 --> 20:25.780 And now my would-be heirs and assigns, a fond farewell. 20:25.780 --> 20:30.420 I will see you in court, your loving Uncle Ed. 20:30.420 --> 20:31.900 P.S. 20:31.900 --> 20:34.060 Did you hear my body fall? 20:34.060 --> 20:36.980 I thought you would like that. 20:36.980 --> 20:37.980 I did. 20:37.980 --> 20:41.300 How could he have gotten out? 20:41.300 --> 20:45.620 He was on the front stairs while we were... 20:45.620 --> 20:47.180 You said he couldn't read the label. 20:47.180 --> 20:48.180 He didn't. 20:48.180 --> 20:51.740 He tried it on the dog. 20:51.740 --> 20:53.300 What can they do? 20:53.300 --> 20:54.980 Attempted murder. 20:54.980 --> 20:56.820 Twenty years to life. 20:56.820 --> 20:58.060 But would they believe it? 20:58.060 --> 21:00.180 They'd believe what everybody else believes. 21:00.180 --> 21:02.700 A fine old gentleman. 21:02.700 --> 21:04.380 Life. 21:04.380 --> 21:07.380 There it is. 21:07.380 --> 21:08.380 David. 21:08.380 --> 21:09.380 Yes? 21:09.380 --> 21:12.700 Are there any more? 21:12.700 --> 21:13.700 What? 21:13.700 --> 21:15.700 Of the pills. 21:15.700 --> 21:16.700 Oh, my. 21:16.700 --> 21:21.180 There isn't anything else to do with them, Dave. 21:21.180 --> 21:22.180 No. 21:22.180 --> 21:25.340 No, I guess not. 21:25.340 --> 21:26.340 Are there more? 21:26.340 --> 21:27.340 Enough? 21:27.340 --> 21:28.340 Yes. 21:28.340 --> 21:32.860 Of the little ones in my pocket. 21:32.860 --> 21:33.860 These? 21:33.860 --> 21:34.860 Yes. 21:34.860 --> 21:35.860 How many? 21:35.860 --> 21:36.860 Half a dozen. 21:36.860 --> 21:41.860 You said it didn't hurt. 21:41.860 --> 21:43.460 No, no, darling. 21:43.460 --> 21:44.460 Not much. 21:44.460 --> 21:51.100 I did so want to have children. 21:51.100 --> 21:52.100 The front door. 21:52.100 --> 21:53.100 They're here. 21:53.100 --> 21:54.100 You'd better go down. 21:54.100 --> 21:55.100 So they leave us alone. 21:55.100 --> 21:56.100 Give us time. 21:56.100 --> 21:57.100 All right. 21:57.100 --> 21:58.100 Goodbye, Myra. 21:58.100 --> 21:59.100 No, no, wait. 21:59.100 --> 22:00.100 Go on. 22:00.100 --> 22:01.100 Go on. 22:01.100 --> 22:02.100 Goodbye. 22:02.100 --> 22:07.100 Yes, Officer. 22:07.100 --> 22:17.460 Good evening, Mrs. O'Connor. 22:17.460 --> 22:18.460 I'm sorry, but... 22:18.460 --> 22:19.460 Yes, Clancy, I know. 22:19.460 --> 22:20.460 Oh? 22:20.460 --> 22:23.500 I'm afraid you don't, ma'am. 22:23.500 --> 22:25.580 I got some bad news for you, Mrs. O'Connor. 22:25.580 --> 22:27.300 It's about your uncle. 22:27.300 --> 22:28.300 Yes. 22:28.300 --> 22:31.100 I don't know how he could have got out there, but... 22:31.100 --> 22:35.180 Well, he was just hit by a car. 22:35.180 --> 22:36.180 Yes. 22:36.180 --> 22:37.180 Hit? 22:37.180 --> 22:38.180 Yes, ma'am. 22:38.180 --> 22:39.180 He's dead. 22:39.180 --> 22:40.180 Dead? 22:40.180 --> 22:41.180 Yes. 22:41.180 --> 22:42.180 Dead? 22:42.180 --> 22:43.180 David! 22:43.180 --> 22:44.180 David! 22:44.180 --> 22:45.180 David! 22:45.180 --> 22:46.180 David! 22:46.180 --> 23:13.820 That's all? 23:13.820 --> 23:17.100 I tried, but they stopped me. 23:17.100 --> 23:20.820 David had died before I got there. 23:20.820 --> 23:21.820 That's all. 23:21.820 --> 23:50.900 I'm sorry. 23:50.900 --> 23:52.660 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service.