WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.000 Suspense! Mr. Brian Dunleavy, a star of Out of Control, a suspense play produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. 00:14.000 --> 00:29.000 I arrived in Gatlinburg around 10 in the morning. I checked in at a hotel called the Mountain Inn, went downstairs to breakfast. 00:29.000 --> 00:37.000 My dog Schnucki went with me, as she always does. I gave my order to the waiter, and as I sat there, I looked the place over. 00:37.000 --> 00:48.000 It was a good-sized room, by the echo in it. There was a log fire crackling in a fireplace on the far side of the room, and a large view window on my right. 00:48.000 --> 00:58.000 Glass has a special kind of echo. There was only one person in the room when I entered. It was a woman, apparently a wealthy and rather vain woman, judging from her perfume. 00:58.000 --> 01:12.000 She was sitting at a table diagonally across from me. I looked in her direction, so to speak. I heard a man's footsteps approaching across the room, and smelled fresh polish on riding boots as he went past me. 01:12.000 --> 01:14.000 He paused before her table. 01:14.000 --> 01:19.000 Well, if it isn't Mrs. Dennis Fillmore. Hello, Marsha. 01:19.000 --> 01:20.000 Walter Crane. 01:20.000 --> 01:22.000 Are you surprised to see me? 01:22.000 --> 01:23.000 What do you want? 01:23.000 --> 01:28.000 I hear your husband is thinking of running for governor. 01:28.000 --> 01:29.000 So what? 01:29.000 --> 01:37.000 Well, Marsha, I've got a newspaper clipping here. I thought it might interest him. It's about your pal, the late Eddie Hasson. 01:37.000 --> 01:38.000 What about Eddie? 01:38.000 --> 01:41.000 I'll read you their headline. 01:41.000 --> 01:49.000 Eddie Hasson killed in auto crash. Colorful Reno figure plunges from Mountain Road. Car out of control, say police. 01:49.000 --> 01:50.000 Dennis, never knew you. 01:50.000 --> 02:05.000 I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I never mean to. But as some people can read what's on the marquee of a movie theater ten blocks away, the most intimate conduct and conversation comes to me from across the room as it's spoken into a microphone. 02:05.000 --> 02:17.000 This is a dubious pleasure for me at most times, but as Marsha Fillmore and Walter Crane continued, my interest became more than casual. He was reading again from the newspaper clipping. 02:17.000 --> 02:26.000 And here at the bottom of the article, Marsha Hanley, hostess at the Blue Parrot Hasson's gambling club, is beneficiary of an insurance policy. 02:26.000 --> 02:33.000 Miss Hanley was the late Mr. Hasson's companion and was to have been married to him upon his divorce decree becoming quinal. 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 Well? 02:34.000 --> 02:44.000 I was just wondering if your brand new politically minded husband would be interested in the fact that you were known locally as a gangster's companion. 02:44.000 --> 02:48.000 You always were a louse, Walter, but I never thought you'd stoop to blackmail. 02:48.000 --> 02:59.000 Look, I lost a good job because of you, Marsha. When an insurance investigator gets fired because his employers think he's too susceptible to beautiful dames, he never gets back on the racket. 02:59.000 --> 03:10.000 I've got to look elsewhere for a source of income. And it so happens there are some things about Eddie Hasson's accident that might interest my former employees. 03:10.000 --> 03:13.000 Eddie's car got out of control and that's all there is to it. 03:13.000 --> 03:20.000 Look, you seem to forget, baby, I investigated that case for Pacific All-Risk before they paid off. 03:20.000 --> 03:30.000 And I didn't tell all the things I knew or all the things I thought because, well, you were making life very interesting for me in those days. 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 Well, Marsha? 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 You're wasting your time, Walter. 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 Am I? 03:35.000 --> 03:40.000 Get out and take your clipping with you. 03:40.000 --> 03:44.000 Well, you can't blame a man for trying. Oh, waiter? 03:44.000 --> 03:45.000 Yes, sir? 03:45.000 --> 03:49.000 Bring me a glass of water, will you? Ice water. 03:49.000 --> 03:51.000 What, something wrong, ma'am? 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 No, nothing's wrong. 03:53.000 --> 03:54.000 Get the water. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Yes, sir. Right away. 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 Why did you do that? 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 What? 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Nothing, skip it. 04:00.000 --> 04:03.000 Oh, the ice water? I'm thirsty, that's all. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 You're sure that's all? 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 What else would I want with ice water? 04:06.000 --> 04:14.000 Forget it. Look, Walter, I'll sell Dennis on the idea of investing some money in a company of yours. 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 Well, now that's more like it. When's he coming up here? 04:17.000 --> 04:20.000 Tomorrow. But you mustn't see him till I've had a chance to talk to him. 04:20.000 --> 04:22.000 Get out of town right away tonight. 04:22.000 --> 04:23.000 Well, where will I go? 04:23.000 --> 04:27.000 I have a fishing lodge up in the mountains. I'll give you the key to the place. 04:27.000 --> 04:32.000 You go up there and stay till I've sold Dennis on the idea. When the time's right, I'll come and get you. 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 I'll cut you in on the deal if you sound good enough. 04:35.000 --> 04:40.000 Women do things sometimes, Walter, that they don't want to be paid for. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 Lonesome women, maybe? 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 Maybe. 04:45.000 --> 04:50.000 Marsha, you're still the most beautiful woman that ever let a man up a garden path. 04:50.000 --> 04:53.000 Let's drink to that, Walter. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 In ice water? 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 In ice water. 04:57.000 --> 05:11.000 The man who had come to blackmail Marsha Fillmore remained to whisper sweet nothings in her ear. 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 It didn't make sense at first, but then I remembered. 05:14.000 --> 05:20.000 I had been told that she was a very beautiful woman. Beautiful to look at, that is. 05:20.000 --> 05:39.000 There are times when I am profoundly grateful that I have no eyes to deceive me. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 It must have been shortly after midnight that I heard it. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 I awoke with a start and sat up in bed. 05:45.000 --> 05:54.000 Although I have been blind for many years, I still reach out automatically for the light switch when I am awakened in the night. 05:54.000 --> 05:58.000 When the light went on, the sound stopped. 05:58.000 --> 06:05.000 I turned it off and waited. 06:05.000 --> 06:09.000 Quiet, schnooki, quiet. 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 It started again. 06:12.000 --> 06:17.000 It seemed to be below my window somewhere down by the garage, hotel garage. 06:17.000 --> 06:24.000 Through the years, I have finally trained myself to identify almost any action by sound. 06:24.000 --> 06:27.000 But this one stumped me at first. 06:27.000 --> 06:36.000 It continued for perhaps ten seconds longer and then it stopped for good and the car door slammed. 06:36.000 --> 06:40.000 I made a careful mental note of the car's motor as it started up. 06:40.000 --> 06:45.000 It was a packer, then. One of the spark plugs was missing fire. 06:45.000 --> 06:49.000 But it got underway fast and was soon out of even my earshot. 06:49.000 --> 06:55.000 Of one thing, I was certain. It turned off the main road onto gravel. 06:55.000 --> 07:02.000 There was only one such turnoff within earshot of the hotel, the private road to the Fillmore's Fishing Lodge. 07:02.000 --> 07:07.000 Evidently, Mr. Walter Crane was going to have a visitor up there sooner than he had expected. 07:07.000 --> 07:15.000 As I dropped off to sleep, the memory of that sound came back to me. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 There was something strange and altogether sinister about it. 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 It was still ringing in my head when I dropped off to sleep. 07:22.000 --> 07:36.000 I was awakened early by an insistent rapping on the door of my room. 07:36.000 --> 07:40.000 Quiet, Stucky! Just a moment! 07:40.000 --> 07:44.000 I fumbled about, found my robe, and put it on. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Captain McClane? 07:46.000 --> 07:47.000 I'm Duncan McClane. 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 May I come in for a moment? 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 Of course. 07:50.000 --> 07:59.000 I do hope you'll forgive me for bursting in here like this, but I saw you in the dining room yesterday morning and when I heard who you were, I hope you won't be angry with me. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Why, not at all. 08:01.000 --> 08:06.000 Past my getting up time anyway, it must have been the mountain air that made me oversleep. Won't you sit down? 08:06.000 --> 08:07.000 Thank you. 08:07.000 --> 08:08.000 Cigarette? 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 Yes, thanks. 08:09.000 --> 08:13.000 Here, I've got it. 08:13.000 --> 08:17.000 You know, you're really amazing. One would never suspect that you're... 08:17.000 --> 08:20.000 Blind? 08:20.000 --> 08:26.000 Well, Mrs. Fillmore, we blind people can compensate to a certain extent by developing other senses more acutely. 08:26.000 --> 08:27.000 You know my name. 08:27.000 --> 08:32.000 I took the liberty of asking the head waiter last night who the lady was with the intoxicating perfume. 08:32.000 --> 08:36.000 Just as I asked who the man was with the police dog. 08:36.000 --> 08:41.000 Oh no, Snooki here is not a police dog. She's just an amiable old German shepherd. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 I have a police dog, though. Dressed. 08:44.000 --> 08:48.000 I only take him along when I'm on especially dangerous assignments. 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 Oh, I gather you're not on one now. 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 Shall we get to the point, Mrs. Fillmore? 08:54.000 --> 09:01.000 Oh, well... well, there's a man staying here in this hotel, or rather he was. 09:01.000 --> 09:04.000 His name is Walter Crane. He's a blackmailer. 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 Yes? 09:05.000 --> 09:11.000 Well, there's no need going into it, but he's got hold of something about my past. 09:11.000 --> 09:14.000 If it were published, it would ruin my husband's career. 09:14.000 --> 09:19.000 There's only one thing to do with a blackmailer, Mrs. Fillmore. Turn him over to the police. 09:19.000 --> 09:26.000 Oh, no, you don't understand. The police here is Sheriff Blackmer. He and my husband are political enemies. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 I'm afraid it would be too good an opportunity for him to pass up. 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 Yes, I see your point. 09:31.000 --> 09:35.000 My... my first instinct was to get Walter Crane away from here. 09:35.000 --> 09:38.000 I told him to go up to our fishing lodge. I even gave him the key. 09:38.000 --> 09:44.000 I even pretended to renew an old interest which he once fancied I had in him personally. 09:44.000 --> 09:45.000 Always a mistake. 09:45.000 --> 09:49.000 Oh, but you don't know the worst of it. My husband came in from Knoxville early this morning, 09:49.000 --> 09:52.000 and without even waking, he went straight on up to the fishing lodge. 09:52.000 --> 09:56.000 He left a note asking me to join him up there. 09:56.000 --> 09:59.000 My husband is a violent and unreasonable man when he's angry. 09:59.000 --> 10:04.000 Captain McClain, if he finds Walter Crane staying there in the lodge, he's likely to think that... 10:04.000 --> 10:07.000 Just what are you afraid of, Mrs. Fillmore? 10:07.000 --> 10:13.000 I'm afraid my husband... Heaven forgive me for such a thought. 10:13.000 --> 10:16.000 I'm afraid my husband will murder him. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 There. Now I've said it. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 Yes. Now you've said it. Excuse me. 10:21.000 --> 10:27.000 Yes? Oh, Mrs. Fillmore, yes. She's right here. It's for you, Mrs. Fillmore. 10:27.000 --> 10:32.000 Oh, no. Don't go. I'm afraid it... Hello? 10:32.000 --> 10:36.000 Yes. Sheriff Blackmer? 10:36.000 --> 10:40.000 Oh, how dreadful. 10:40.000 --> 10:47.000 Oh, I know we didn't know him. I... I did speak to him for a moment yesterday evening, but I... 10:47.000 --> 10:53.000 Of course I'd be glad to help you in any way I can. I'll... I'll be in my cottage. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 What is it? 10:55.000 --> 10:59.000 I found him. His... his car plunged over the embankment. 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 He was killed instantly. When? 11:01.000 --> 11:05.000 Some people in the cottage down below saw it happen. When? 11:05.000 --> 11:15.000 Just five minutes ago. 11:15.000 --> 11:21.000 On the way over to her cottage, I stopped at the hotel desk and sent a wire to the Seeing Eye Kennel in New Jersey. 11:21.000 --> 11:25.000 Send Dresd Air Express immediately. 11:25.000 --> 11:31.000 Dresd is my police dog. The dog I use only on very dangerous missions. 11:31.000 --> 11:47.000 Sheriff Blackmer was a big, professionally cheerful man, but I could tell from his voice that he was plenty worried. 11:47.000 --> 11:52.000 Glad to have you in on this, Captain McClain. We don't have many cases of this kind in these parts. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 I'll be glad to do what I can, Sheriff Blackmer. 11:54.000 --> 12:00.000 Oh, so this is one of them there Seeing Eye critters. Don't look no different from any other pooch to me. 12:00.000 --> 12:02.000 Nice poochie. 12:02.000 --> 12:06.000 I thought those Seeing Eye dogs were trained to be gentle. 12:06.000 --> 12:09.000 I trained this one myself for a special job. 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 What kind of job? 12:11.000 --> 12:16.000 Don't bother to explain. I think I know the answer to that one. 12:16.000 --> 12:19.000 Well, now let's get down to business. Mrs. Fillmore. 12:19.000 --> 12:27.000 Yes, I suppose you want some information about that road up to the fishing lodge. It's quite steep and hard to negotiate if you don't know it. 12:27.000 --> 12:29.000 I know the road very well, Mrs. Fillmore. 12:29.000 --> 12:30.000 Well, then what are you... 12:30.000 --> 12:34.000 You said you didn't know this man, Walter Crane. 12:34.000 --> 12:38.000 Sheriff, I was very foolish when I spoke to you on the phone. 12:38.000 --> 12:43.000 As a matter of fact, he's a very old friend of mine, or was. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 I think you'll understand when I tell you my husband was very jealous. 12:46.000 --> 12:49.000 Jealous enough to have killed him? 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 Killed him? I thought he died in an auto crash. 12:52.000 --> 12:59.000 He was murdered and thrown into the car just before it crashed. He died with an ice pick through his heart. 13:02.000 --> 13:08.000 Whatever she knew, she wasn't telling. That part of it came to her as a complete surprise. 13:08.000 --> 13:11.000 I know that now, and I knew it at the time. 13:11.000 --> 13:18.000 Whatever Marcia Fillmore had known about Walter Crane's death, she was innocent of stabbing him through the heart with that ice pick. 13:18.000 --> 13:23.000 As for the rest of it, her alibi was perfect. I was her alibi this time. 13:23.000 --> 13:28.000 She was in my room when it happened, 20 miles from the scene of the crime. 13:28.000 --> 13:36.000 But someone had driven up to that lodge before Dennis Fillmore, someone who had made elaborate preparations for that little drive. 13:38.000 --> 13:43.000 As I walked over to the hotel garage, the memory of that sound came back to me. 13:43.000 --> 13:50.000 The sound that I was convinced held the key to the mystery of Walter Crane's death, and Eddie Hassen's as well. 13:52.000 --> 13:54.000 I found a mechanic working on a car. 13:54.000 --> 13:58.000 Morning, sir. Hi, looking for your car? 13:58.000 --> 14:01.000 No, I don't drive. 14:01.000 --> 14:05.000 Oh. Mrs. Fillmore asked me to stop by. Is her car ready yet? 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 Yeah, sure. It was only one of the spark plugs. 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 This the car? 14:08.000 --> 14:09.000 Yeah. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 Station wagon. Packard, isn't it? 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Ah, you've got a good sense of touch, mister. 14:13.000 --> 14:18.000 Thank you. Hey, that's nice upholstered. Real leather, isn't it? 14:18.000 --> 14:19.000 Yep. 14:20.000 --> 14:21.000 Hey, that's peculiar. 14:21.000 --> 14:22.000 What is? 14:22.000 --> 14:25.000 The floor is wet and cold. 14:25.000 --> 14:29.000 Oh, maybe they went fishing this morning. They carry a chunk of ice sometimes when they go trout fishing. 14:29.000 --> 14:42.000 Ice? Of course. That's what it was. Ice. 14:42.000 --> 14:47.000 Captain McClane, you must believe me. I know that my husband didn't do this terrible thing. 14:47.000 --> 14:52.000 Then why did you come to me this morning and tell me you were afraid your husband would murder Crane? 14:52.000 --> 14:55.000 Oh, don't you understand why I needed help? 14:55.000 --> 15:00.000 I knew you only work on murder cases, so I tried to get you interested by making that story up. 15:00.000 --> 15:05.000 I think I can save your husband, Marcia, but only if you tell me the absolute truth. 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 Oh, I will. I swear I will. 15:07.000 --> 15:11.000 Did you go up there to that cabin last night to see Walter Crane? 15:11.000 --> 15:12.000 No. 15:12.000 --> 15:16.000 Lie number one. You drove up there around 12.30. 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 How did you know? 15:18.000 --> 15:23.000 I heard a car drive out about that time. It was a Packard with one dead spark plug. 15:23.000 --> 15:27.000 This morning your Packard was in the garage getting a spark plug replaced. 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 You don't know I went up there. 15:29.000 --> 15:36.000 I heard you turned off on a gravel road about halfway up the mountain. Your road is the only one up that way. 15:36.000 --> 15:42.000 All right. All right, I did go up there. But I wasn't there when it happened. 15:42.000 --> 15:46.000 Marcia, have you ever seen this bottle before? 15:46.000 --> 15:52.000 Certainly. It had verlin in it, sleeping medicine. It's a prescription of my husband's. 15:52.000 --> 15:55.000 Have you any idea how it got in Crane's car? 15:55.000 --> 15:58.000 I gave it to him. He said he couldn't sleep. 15:58.000 --> 16:00.000 How did you give it to him? 16:00.000 --> 16:05.000 In the bottle, of course. Are you intimating that I drugged him? 16:05.000 --> 16:09.000 I'm only trying to find out what Crane did the last few hours of his life. 16:09.000 --> 16:13.000 If he took an overdose of sleeping medicine, it might account for the accident. 16:13.000 --> 16:18.000 He might have got up this morning still woozy from the effects of the drug, got in his car, 16:18.000 --> 16:25.000 released the emergency brake and blacked out for a split second as sometimes happens in the reaction to an overdose of sleeping medicine, 16:25.000 --> 16:31.000 lost control of the car and crashed over the embankment. It might have been as easy as that. 16:31.000 --> 16:34.000 But that wouldn't account for the ice pick through his heart. 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 No. Not unless... 16:38.000 --> 16:42.000 You took a chunk of ice up there last night, didn't you? 16:42.000 --> 16:50.000 I don't know how you knew... Well, yes, he needed some, especially if he was going to do some trout fishing 16:50.000 --> 16:53.000 and Walter was very fond of ice water. 16:53.000 --> 16:56.000 Yes, I know. He ordered some last night at dinner. 16:56.000 --> 17:01.000 Is there anything you don't see with those sightless eyes of yours? 17:01.000 --> 17:05.000 I still don't see the murderer of Walter Crane. 17:05.000 --> 17:10.000 I thought for a moment there you suspected me. 17:10.000 --> 17:16.000 You were perfectly capable of it. You had the motor, you had the ice pick, but you weren't there when it happened. 17:16.000 --> 17:20.000 No. They can't prove that Dennis was, can they? 17:20.000 --> 17:23.000 Well, he's a pretty likely candidate, isn't he, Marcia? 17:23.000 --> 17:28.000 Oh, I'm so worried about him. They have a posse out for him. Where will he go, I wonder? 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 I wonder. 17:30.000 --> 17:40.000 I knew where he'd go, and so did she, and they both knew that matters would have to come to a head that night. 17:40.000 --> 17:45.000 I didn't tell Sheriff Blackmer everything, but he agreed to drive me up there. 17:45.000 --> 17:50.000 About 20 minutes after the sheriff left, a man came into the lodge. 17:50.000 --> 17:53.000 From the storeroom where I was hidden, I could hear perfectly. 17:53.000 --> 17:57.000 He didn't turn on any lights, but went out to the kitchen and started some coffee. 17:57.000 --> 18:02.000 It could only have been Dennis Fillmore who paced up and down in that darkened room. 18:02.000 --> 18:05.000 Then I heard the door open and a woman's footsteps coming in. 18:05.000 --> 18:06.000 Dennis! 18:06.000 --> 18:07.000 Marcia! 18:07.000 --> 18:08.000 Dennis! 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 You shouldn't have come here. What are you trying to do, lead them to me? 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 I didn't tell the sheriff about you, Dennis. I swear I didn't. 18:12.000 --> 18:13.000 Tell him what? 18:13.000 --> 18:16.000 Dennis, I know you killed Crane. 18:16.000 --> 18:19.000 So you know I'm a murderer. Then what are you doing here? 18:19.000 --> 18:23.000 Oh, Dennis, I love you so much. I hated that man. I'm glad you killed him. 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 What was Crane to you? 18:25.000 --> 18:29.000 I was going to tell you, darling. I used to know him. He's a blackmailer. 18:29.000 --> 18:33.000 It was perfectly innocent before I met you, but with your career and I... 18:33.000 --> 18:37.000 I didn't want you to get mixed up in it. That's why I told you to hide. 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 Oh, I'm sorry, Marcia. Don't cry. 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 Oh, I love you, Dennis. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 I made some coffee. Would you like some of it? 18:43.000 --> 18:48.000 Yes. You sit. You sit still, darling. I'll get it. 18:48.000 --> 18:54.000 Dennis, what are we going to do? Have you thought about it? 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 I'm thinking as hard as I can, Marcia. 18:57.000 --> 19:01.000 You can't confess to this terrible thing, Dennis. I just won't let you. 19:01.000 --> 19:05.000 I don't think the insurance company would pay if I were electrocuted, would they? 19:05.000 --> 19:11.000 Oh, Dennis, don't say such things. Here, drink your coffee. 19:11.000 --> 19:18.000 It tastes rough, but it's hot. What's the matter with you? 19:18.000 --> 19:24.000 I just feel faint. I can't seem to get my breath. It's stuffy in here. 19:24.000 --> 19:27.000 It must be the wood smoke. I had trouble starting the fire. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 Come along outside. The air will block you out. 19:29.000 --> 19:31.000 All right. 19:33.000 --> 19:36.000 Yes, there. That is better. 19:36.000 --> 19:38.000 Would you like to take a drive somewhere? 19:38.000 --> 19:42.000 No, Dennis. Let's just sit in the car for a while. It's a very good idea. 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 All right. 19:48.000 --> 19:55.000 They sat there in the car perhaps ten minutes before the car door slammed shut. 19:55.000 --> 20:01.000 And then I heard it. The sound that had been ringing in my ears since that first night. 20:01.000 --> 20:04.000 But now I was hearing the real thing for a second time. 20:04.000 --> 20:09.000 As calmly as the neighborhood ice man chipping out a fifty pound chunk for a housewife, 20:09.000 --> 20:16.000 the murderer was making preparations for a third experiment in a method of almost perfect crime. 20:28.000 --> 20:29.000 Hello, Marcia. 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 You. How did you get here? 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 I'm afraid I was eavesdropping. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 Then you heard what Dennis said. 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 Yes, I did, Marcia. 20:37.000 --> 20:41.000 Oh, Captain McCrane, would you? Could you forget what Dennis said? 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 Crane was a blackmailer. What does it matter who killed? 20:43.000 --> 20:49.000 Don't come any closer, Marcia. This dog isn't Schnucki. This is Dreist. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 The dog I told you about, remember? 20:51.000 --> 20:55.000 The one you take on dangerous missions? You're frightening me, Captain. 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 You've terrified me for two whole days, Marcia. 20:58.000 --> 21:02.000 You're the most perfect killer I've ever met. 21:02.000 --> 21:05.000 You said yourself I couldn't have stabbed Walter Crane. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 Eddie Hasson wasn't stabbed. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 You're bluffing. You can't prove a thing. 21:09.000 --> 21:15.000 No. That's the beauty of your method. The ice melts away before the accident happens. 21:15.000 --> 21:16.000 Ice? 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 That's your method, Marcia. 21:18.000 --> 21:21.000 First the victim is drugged with an overdose of sleeping medicine, 21:21.000 --> 21:24.000 then lured into the car and kept there till he falls asleep. 21:24.000 --> 21:29.000 The rest is simple. Put ice wedges under the front wheels and release the emergency brake. 21:29.000 --> 21:34.000 When the wedges melt away, the car rolls over the embankment with the sleeping man in it. 21:34.000 --> 21:38.000 You're miles away from the scene and the evidence has vanished. 21:38.000 --> 21:42.000 Literally melted away. Only this time it's not going to work. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 What are you going to do? 21:44.000 --> 21:47.000 Phone Sheriff Blackmer. I want him to get here before that ice melts. 21:47.000 --> 21:48.000 Captain Crane. 21:48.000 --> 21:53.000 Stay where you are, Marcia. It would be a shame to have Dreist mutilate your beauty. 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 Your beauty is your most powerful weapon, you know. 21:56.000 --> 22:00.000 I only hope it won't free you and turn you loose to start killing again. 22:00.000 --> 22:03.000 You. What do you know about a woman's beauty? You blind woman. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 Marcia, stay back. I warn you. This dog is a killer. 22:06.000 --> 22:10.000 I'll kill you and that mongrel with me. I've hated you from the moment I first saw you. 22:10.000 --> 22:14.000 What kind of a man is it that looks at a woman with those cold, dead eyes? 22:14.000 --> 22:30.000 You'd be better off dead. I'm doing you a favor. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 She's dead, all right. 22:32.000 --> 22:36.000 I'm sorry. The dog, I guess I'll have to have him put away. 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 That won't be necessary, Captain. She did that for you. 22:39.000 --> 22:42.000 Jabbed the ice pick square between his eyes. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 Poor fellow. 22:44.000 --> 22:48.000 I can't figure out how did she manage to stab Crane and still keep her alibi. 22:48.000 --> 22:49.000 She didn't stab Crane. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 Then who did? 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 Nobody. 22:52.000 --> 22:53.000 Then how? 22:53.000 --> 22:57.000 It was a freak accident. The ice pick was on the seat of the car when it crashed. 22:57.000 --> 23:00.000 I knew that when you told me the angle at which it entered the body. 23:00.000 --> 23:03.000 That's why I kept insisting that Marcia hadn't stabbed him. 23:03.000 --> 23:07.000 That and the fact that the stabbing was so obviously news to her. 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 She really thought her husband had done it. 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 After she left Crane asleep in the car. 23:12.000 --> 23:16.000 So much so that she even accused him of doing it. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 By the way, is he all right? 23:18.000 --> 23:21.000 Oh sure, just a little dopy from the sleeping pills. 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 I guess he's really broken up about her. 23:23.000 --> 23:25.000 He really loved her, the sap. 23:25.000 --> 23:27.000 I can't blame her though. She really was a beautiful woman. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 When she looked at you with those big blue eyes of hers, 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 you could believe anything she wanted you to believe. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 So they told me. 23:33.000 --> 23:40.000 Yes, Sheriff. Sometimes I'm very glad I have no eyes to deceive me. 23:40.000 --> 24:03.000 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service. 24:10.000 --> 24:14.000 The Armed Forces Radio Service 24:40.000 --> 24:44.000 The Armed Forces Radio Service 25:10.000 --> 25:14.000 The Armed Forces Radio Service