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12 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,100 Yes, there's someone to see you. 13 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:11,900 Yeah? 14 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:15,000 This is Superintendent Andrews of the state institution. 15 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,600 Oh, what, what do you got there? 16 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,100 I've set up a dictaphone out in the hall. 17 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:23,200 Careful of the wire, nurse, when you close the door, please. 18 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:24,000 The doctor said. 19 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,100 Yes, yes, I'll make it as brief as possible. 20 00:01:26,100 --> 00:01:27,100 You may go now, nurse. 21 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:28,700 Very well. 22 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:32,400 Oh, do you mind if I hook up this microphone at the head of the bed? 23 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,700 Suit yourself, fella. 24 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:38,900 Well, it was a choice between a dictaphone and a stenographer, and I figured that in your condition... 25 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:41,800 I don't feel too bad. 26 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,700 Well, go on, ask your questions. 27 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:47,000 Now, I, I understand you were driving the bus. 28 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Tell me what happened. 29 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,300 You mean I can tell it my own way? 30 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:52,400 That's right. 31 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,600 Great. 32 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,300 I had an uncle once, you know, that was a writer. 33 00:01:56,300 --> 00:02:01,000 He wouldn't have gone near this kind of a story, though, with a ten-foot pen. 34 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:11,700 No, he went in for happy endings. 35 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:15,800 Uncle Mort wouldn't even have liked the beginning of this one. 36 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,000 Kind of dreary-like up there at the asylum that afternoon. 37 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:26,800 You remember, there'd been quite a snowfall the week before, and far as the eye could see, 38 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:34,200 everything was a dirty gray, like a corpse that's been waiting too long for the undertaker. 39 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:39,900 Well, around four o'clock it got so dark, the lights had to be turned on in the asylum. 40 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:44,800 And then the wind started moaning like a lonely banshee. 41 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:52,000 Fine day for a murder, as the fella said. 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:58,500 Well, there were three passengers sitting in the bus when I went outside for the return trip. 43 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:00,000 Two men and a woman. 44 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,800 Maybe I ought to call her a girl, because she wasn't really much more than that. 45 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,100 Anyway, these three passengers all had returned tickets, 46 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:11,200 and I went down the aisle collecting them. 47 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:12,700 Tickets, please. 48 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:13,700 Can I have your tickets, please? 49 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:16,100 Driver, driver, how soon do we start? 50 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:16,900 Right away, miss. 51 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:19,000 But we're two minutes late already, driver. 52 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,200 Oh, these little jerkwater bus lines never keep to their schedules. 53 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,700 Now we'll never get out of these mountains before that blizzard lets loose. 54 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:26,500 Can I have your ticket, please, mister? 55 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:28,100 You really think there'll be a storm? 56 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:30,000 Why, sure, sure, it can't fail. 57 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,200 And lady, when they have snow up in these godforsaken mountains. 58 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,300 Well, this morning on the bus coming up, a man was telling me. 59 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:38,400 Well, here we go, folks. 60 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:52,100 The windbag was sitting right across the aisle from the girl, second row from the front. 61 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:57,400 Halfway back in the bus sat the third passenger, all huddled up in his overcoat. 62 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,000 He didn't open his track. 63 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,200 Well, that was the picture as we swung out onto the highway for the return trip. 64 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:11,500 This guy in back of me seemed to be itchy to start a conversation with somebody as soon as we got rolling. 65 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:15,300 Well, might as well get acquainted, miss. 66 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:18,200 Fifty miles before we get down to civilization, you know. 67 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,700 John Willard is the name. 68 00:04:20,700 --> 00:04:21,200 I said... 69 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,400 Oh, I beg your pardon. 70 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:25,200 Are you speaking to me? 71 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:26,400 Well, yes. 72 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,000 I'm afraid I was... 73 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Yeah, sure, sure. 74 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,700 These visits to the asylum, they're always depressing, aren't they? 75 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:34,000 Well, this is my first time. 76 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,600 Oh, there's some friend. 77 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:37,500 My husband. 78 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:38,600 Husband? 79 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,200 Oh, well, now that's too bad. 80 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:41,600 I hope he... 81 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:42,400 Hey, what's that? 82 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:43,700 Some kind of siren. 83 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:46,500 Yeah, that's the asylum alarm, all right. 84 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:47,300 The driver? What... 85 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:50,500 One of the inmates must be playing hide and seek with the keepers. 86 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:52,000 Happens every once in a while. 87 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,500 Gosh, what if it's my brother? 88 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:54,700 Oh? 89 00:04:54,700 --> 00:04:55,900 He the bustin' out kind? 90 00:04:55,900 --> 00:05:01,600 Well, it kind of upsets him to see one of the family, but then if we don't come to see him, it upsets him even more. 91 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,100 And I see what you mean. 92 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:06,200 Do they... do they always catch them? 93 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,200 Well, they tell me the place has never lost a customer yet. 94 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,200 Oh, you know, a moment ago I... 95 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,300 I was praying that it wasn't Jim, but now I don't know. 96 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:15,800 Even if they had to... 97 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,400 Well, I mean, it would... it would be better than seeing him as he was today. 98 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,400 Any... anything would be better than... 99 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:21,600 Listen, listen. 100 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,300 Hey, that's a police siren. 101 00:05:23,300 --> 00:05:25,500 Sounds like they're almost on top of us. 102 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:26,700 Yes, there they are. There they are. 103 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:28,600 Look out. Look out. They're gonna pass us. 104 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:33,800 Pass nothing. They're flagging me down. 105 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,000 All right. Just keep your seats, everybody. 106 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:37,900 They're guards. 107 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:40,600 With rifles. 108 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,000 Hey, we're... 109 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:42,900 We're looking for somebody. 110 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:44,800 Yeah, we heard the asylum alarm. 111 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:45,400 Is someone... 112 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:46,600 You know anyone along the road? 113 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:47,700 Not even a jackrab. 114 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:49,400 Officer, who escaped? 115 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:50,800 Greg. Albert Greg. 116 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,500 Oh. 117 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:52,200 What a relief. 118 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,300 Hey, Holly, take yourself a walk down the aisle and keep your rifle ready when you look behind those back seats. 119 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:58,700 Are you kidding? 120 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:00,400 When was this coming out party? 121 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,100 I don't know. Maybe as much as a couple hours ago. 122 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:05,400 Does this Greg have a gun? 123 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,000 Can't guarantee he hasn't. 124 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,600 But it was a file that sprung him. 125 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,100 A tiny steel file. 126 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:13,600 Must have been working away at the bar since the day he was committed a month ago. 127 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,100 His stay was short. 128 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:16,200 Nobody back here. 129 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,100 Okay, now check the gents for identification. 130 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:20,700 You know how it is, Robbie. You can't take chances. 131 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:22,100 Oh, of course not. Here's mine. 132 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:22,500 Huh? 133 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:24,100 Oh. Okay, Dlander. 134 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:26,700 Uh, your name, Frank Keniston? 135 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:28,700 You can read, can't you? 136 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:29,500 Ha! 137 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:30,800 Friendly cuss, ain't you? 138 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,600 You know, that's the first peep that passenger has let out. 139 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,600 I was beginning to think he was a deaf mutant. 140 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:36,200 Yeah? 141 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,100 Well, uh, here driver, you can have this stuff back. 142 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:39,100 Oh, thanks. 143 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:41,100 John Willard? 144 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:41,900 Yes, sir. 145 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:43,500 Okey-dokey. 146 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:45,100 Come on, Denton, let's scram. 147 00:06:45,100 --> 00:06:46,900 We gotta find Greg before he finds anybody. 148 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:47,600 Yeah. 149 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,500 Hey, driver, you can turn around now and go back. 150 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:49,900 Go back? 151 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:50,900 Go back? Why? 152 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:51,600 Oh, no, no. 153 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:52,700 This Greg is a killer. 154 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:54,900 What I mean is when the mood strikes him, he strikes. 155 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:56,600 Well, what's that gotta do with us turning back? 156 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,900 Didn't I tell you this man kills even without reason? 157 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:00,100 Now he's got plenty of reason. 158 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:02,100 He's gotta get out of these mountains, but quick. 159 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:05,200 If he's down the road, there are lots of ways he could stop a bus. 160 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,300 I say turn back. 161 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:08,500 But that blizzard's liable to break any minute now. 162 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:10,200 We could be snowbound up here for days. 163 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,700 And if I have to spend another, even a night, one night in that asylum, 164 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:15,300 so help me, they'd have to keep me there. 165 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:16,300 Oh, listen driver, listen to me, please. 166 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:19,300 Just a second, Mr. Willard. You're just one passenger. 167 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:20,700 There are three. 168 00:07:20,700 --> 00:07:22,300 Now let's take a vote. 169 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:23,100 What about you, Miss? 170 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:25,800 I'd... whatever you say. 171 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,200 Mr. Kinniston? 172 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,200 I say keep going. 173 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:31,200 That settles it. 174 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:32,000 Hurry up, Denton. 175 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,700 Wait a minute. What... what does this killer Greg look like? 176 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:39,700 Uh, what? The description says, uh, slight build, weighed about 140. 177 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:43,300 Uh, dark hair, brown eyes, 27 years old. 178 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:44,900 Denton, get the lead out of your britches. 179 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:45,900 Yeah, but you know, I still... 180 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:47,500 We warned him, didn't we? 181 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:49,400 Now if they meet up with him, it's their funeral. 182 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:50,600 Yeah. 183 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,100 Well, we can take care of ourselves, fellas. 184 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:07,600 Well, after the guards left, I really set that bus to rolling. 185 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,600 Out of the mirror, up above the driver's seat, 186 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,100 I could see that the girl was plenty scared. 187 00:08:14,100 --> 00:08:16,600 But she had nerve, I'll say that for her. 188 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,200 When we slid around some of those snowbank curves, 189 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:23,100 her lips would be drawn so tight the lipstick had a white quarter. 190 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:25,400 But she didn't say boo. 191 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,900 Willard, the windbag across the aisle from her, 192 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:31,300 gave up trying to draw her into a conversation. 193 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:34,400 And as for the third passenger, that English guy, Kinniston, 194 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,400 sitting halfway towards the back there, 195 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,100 he kept acting like a clam afraid of losing its oyster. 196 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:51,100 Might as well have had a lockjaw, if you get what I mean. 197 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:53,200 Well, we hadn't gone more than another mile or two 198 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:54,900 before the wind started to rise, 199 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:57,300 and kept it up until you'd have thought all the devils in hell 200 00:08:57,300 --> 00:08:59,100 were trying to break loose. 201 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:03,500 It got black as the inside of a tomb until the snow started to fall. 202 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:07,500 But with that wind whipping it around, it didn't exactly fall. 203 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:10,100 Mister, that's what I call a blizzard. 204 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:11,500 This is getting on my nerves. 205 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:13,200 What have we got here anyway? A collection of zombies? 206 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:14,500 Somebody say something! 207 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:16,200 I was just going to say... 208 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:17,700 You were going to say that the weather is rotten. 209 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:19,000 Yeah, and she can say that again. 210 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,300 But that isn't what I was going to say. 211 00:09:20,300 --> 00:09:23,100 No? What then, lady? 212 00:09:23,100 --> 00:09:27,500 It occurred to me why the guards asked for identification. 213 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:28,300 Huh? 214 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:30,100 The description of Killer Greg. 215 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:34,400 Slight build, 140 pounds, dark hair, brown eyes, 27 years old. 216 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,200 So what? 217 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:37,800 It's a remarkable thing. 218 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,500 That description would fit you, Mr. Willard. 219 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:42,600 Huh? Oh? 220 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,400 And Mr. Kiniston, too. 221 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,400 What's that? Me? 222 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:47,900 That's a peculiar thing. 223 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:49,200 Isn't it, driver? 224 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,800 Yeah. Come to think of it, both of them could fit that description. 225 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,900 And I've also heard that he's got a very soft face. 226 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:00,000 Almost like a woman. 227 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,700 What do you think, Mr. Kiniston? 228 00:10:02,700 --> 00:10:04,900 I don't happen to feel like talking. 229 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:05,800 Yeah? 230 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,800 Well, personally, I think the more I think of what she said, the more remarkable it becomes. 231 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,500 Yeah, she's got something there. 232 00:10:11,500 --> 00:10:14,300 Only remarkable isn't the word. 233 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:15,700 What do you mean, Mr. Willard? 234 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:17,900 This man, Greg, may be insane, but he's not dumb. 235 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:19,300 Now, put yourself in his place. 236 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:23,000 He knows he hasn't got a ghost of a chance making a getaway in the asylum clothing, see? 237 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,500 So he borrows the wardrobe and identification of some stranger. 238 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:27,400 Do you follow me? 239 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,200 We're way ahead of you, Willard. 240 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,300 It wouldn't be difficult for a killer. 241 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:34,600 I should say not. But that still isn't the end of his problem, see? 242 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:35,800 He's fighting against time. 243 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:41,100 Yes. He's got to get out of these godforsaken mountains down to civilization before they can throw a noose around the whole area. 244 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:47,500 And he knows, he knows, if he's brought back alive, he'll be wearing a straitjacket until he's old as Methuselah. 245 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:49,400 You've got quite an imagination, Willard. 246 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,300 Yeah? Well, thanks. 247 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:56,100 Now, the odds that Greg will be able to get himself transportation are mighty slim, except... 248 00:10:56,100 --> 00:10:57,900 except for this bus line. 249 00:10:57,900 --> 00:10:58,600 So let's suppose... 250 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,900 You've got a great imagination, all right. 251 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:02,300 You got it all figured out. 252 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:04,100 Bit too bad, if you ask me. 253 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:05,400 Remember, please, sir. 254 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,200 You're the one who was so dead set against turning back. 255 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:09,900 Really, Kinnison? 256 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:11,900 Well, I'll leave it to the lady here in the driver. 257 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:15,100 Do I act like a lunatic? Huh? 258 00:11:15,100 --> 00:11:16,600 Well? 259 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,200 Search me. 260 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,900 There were times, long periods of time, when Jim didn't either. 261 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:24,700 My husband, I mean. 262 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:26,600 That was the terrible part of it. 263 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,400 He'd be... he'd be just like the old days, and we'd be so happy together, and then... 264 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,700 and then all of a sudden, just without warning, he... 265 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:36,400 Oh, I heard of lots of cases like that. 266 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,600 Well, they tell me that sometimes it takes half a dozen of those, uh... 267 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,100 special doctors, those, uh... 268 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:43,700 Psychiatrists? 269 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:45,400 Yeah, psychiatrists. 270 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,900 Yeah, well, sometimes they gotta put a person under a microscope and study them for a long time 271 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:53,100 before they can be sure, one way or the other. 272 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:55,100 And many's the time they make mistakes. 273 00:11:55,100 --> 00:11:56,100 Well, I heard it one time when... 274 00:11:56,100 --> 00:11:57,400 Shut up! 275 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,400 Nobody's gonna talk like that about me. 276 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:01,500 It's Kinnison that's been acting crazy, 277 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:03,500 and I'll bet it wouldn't take a half a dozen psychiatrists... 278 00:12:03,500 --> 00:12:05,500 What's that? 279 00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:06,500 An avalanche! 280 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:07,500 An avalanche! 281 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:08,500 It's coming down! 282 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:09,500 No! 283 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:10,500 No! 284 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:11,500 No! 285 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:12,500 No! 286 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:13,500 No! 287 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:14,500 No! 288 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:15,500 No! 289 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:16,500 No! 290 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:17,500 No! 291 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:18,500 No! 292 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:19,500 No! 293 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:20,500 No! 294 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:21,500 No! 295 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:22,500 No! 296 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:27,800 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you as star Elliot Reed in Return Trip, a radio 297 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,000 play by Maurice Zim. 298 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:43,500 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 299 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:48,500 Between the acts of suspense, this is Truman Bradley for Roma Wines. 300 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:54,500 Nowadays, renewing old friendships interrupted by the war is a popular American pastime. 301 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:59,500 For most of us, hardly a week goes by without some friend of pre-war vintage dropping in 302 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:00,500 to say hello. 303 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:07,600 Well, that's one of the reasons so many Americans keep Roma California Sherry on hand always. 304 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:13,260 For the gold and amber radiance and tempting nut-like richness of Roma Sherry capture the 305 00:13:13,260 --> 00:13:16,700 very spirit of gracious hospitality. 306 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:19,980 And Roma Sherry does more than welcome guests. 307 00:13:19,980 --> 00:13:23,660 Roma Sherry is the perfect first call to dinner. 308 00:13:23,660 --> 00:13:29,660 The happy, mellow, moderate wine that suits your every entertaining need. 309 00:13:29,660 --> 00:13:35,300 Like the other fine Roma California dessert wines, Roma Port, Roma Muscatel, and Roma 310 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:42,780 Toquet, Roma Sherry is a true wine from just the luscious goodness of the finest grapes. 311 00:13:42,780 --> 00:13:49,500 Patiently guided to taste perfection by Roma winemaking skill and resources unmatched in 312 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:50,740 America. 313 00:13:50,740 --> 00:13:54,260 That's why Roma is America's favorite wine. 314 00:13:54,260 --> 00:13:58,940 Why more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 315 00:13:58,940 --> 00:14:06,940 So insist on Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, and enjoy unvarying goodness at reasonable cost 316 00:14:06,940 --> 00:14:07,940 always. 317 00:14:07,940 --> 00:14:14,140 And now, Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Elliot Reid, starring with Wally 318 00:14:14,140 --> 00:14:20,260 Mayer as Mr. Willard, Kathy Lewis as the girl, and Raymond Lawrence as Mr. Keniston in Return 319 00:14:20,260 --> 00:14:26,860 Trip, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 320 00:14:26,860 --> 00:14:33,700 Well, Superintendent, what do you think of the yarn so far? 321 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:34,700 Let's hear the rest of it. 322 00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:35,700 Okay, okay. 323 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:38,660 If you'll help me get a swig of that water. 324 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:39,660 Sure. 325 00:14:39,660 --> 00:14:41,660 The way they got me rigged up here. 326 00:14:41,660 --> 00:14:43,660 Oh, thanks. 327 00:14:43,660 --> 00:14:49,380 Let's see now, where was I? 328 00:14:49,380 --> 00:15:00,380 Oh yeah, Acts 2, 3, and 4 coming up. 329 00:15:00,380 --> 00:15:05,820 After the avalanche struck, I just sat there gripping the steering wheel, sort of stunned. 330 00:15:05,820 --> 00:15:08,780 There wasn't a sound except for the wind. 331 00:15:08,780 --> 00:15:13,060 And that was muffled by the snow barrier that packed us in. 332 00:15:13,060 --> 00:15:17,940 Even on the far side, the bus was buried up to the middle of the windows. 333 00:15:17,940 --> 00:15:22,060 Well, all this was only a matter of seconds, I suppose. 334 00:15:22,060 --> 00:15:25,860 And then suddenly the quiet was broken by the most gosh-awful racket. 335 00:15:25,860 --> 00:15:29,860 It was as if somebody had up and given the signal for my passengers to go completely nuts. 336 00:15:29,860 --> 00:15:30,860 Get me out of here! 337 00:15:30,860 --> 00:15:31,860 Get me out of here! 338 00:15:31,860 --> 00:15:32,860 Look out! 339 00:15:32,860 --> 00:15:33,860 Willard's got an axe! 340 00:15:33,860 --> 00:15:34,860 The axe! 341 00:15:34,860 --> 00:15:35,860 Take it away from him! 342 00:15:35,860 --> 00:15:36,860 Let go of it, Willard! 343 00:15:36,860 --> 00:15:37,860 Let go of that axe! 344 00:15:37,860 --> 00:15:38,860 No! 345 00:15:38,860 --> 00:15:39,860 No! 346 00:15:39,860 --> 00:15:40,860 That did it. 347 00:15:40,860 --> 00:15:41,860 He's the one. 348 00:15:41,860 --> 00:15:42,860 He's the one! 349 00:15:42,860 --> 00:15:43,860 Lucky I saw him get that fire axe. 350 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:52,500 It's what the district attorney likes to call a lethal weapon. 351 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:53,500 And then some. 352 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:54,940 Step back, he's coming too. 353 00:15:54,940 --> 00:15:55,940 Tie him up. 354 00:15:55,940 --> 00:15:57,500 You'll find a rope in the dashboard compartment. 355 00:15:57,500 --> 00:15:58,500 Get it for me. 356 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:01,580 Driver, I'll report you for this. 357 00:16:01,580 --> 00:16:02,580 You will, huh? 358 00:16:02,580 --> 00:16:05,340 I was going to smash a window so we could get out of here. 359 00:16:05,340 --> 00:16:06,340 Oh, yeah? 360 00:16:06,340 --> 00:16:07,340 Sure. 361 00:16:07,340 --> 00:16:08,340 What did you think I... 362 00:16:08,340 --> 00:16:09,340 Oh. 363 00:16:09,340 --> 00:16:10,340 Oh, so that's it, huh? 364 00:16:10,340 --> 00:16:11,340 Here's the rope, driver. 365 00:16:11,340 --> 00:16:12,340 Look here. 366 00:16:12,340 --> 00:16:15,380 Wait a minute, you can't do this, you can't tie me up, you fools. 367 00:16:15,380 --> 00:16:17,740 I'm not killer Greg. 368 00:16:17,740 --> 00:16:18,740 Maybe he isn't. 369 00:16:18,740 --> 00:16:19,740 Maybe. 370 00:16:19,740 --> 00:16:22,380 But like that guard said, we can't take chances. 371 00:16:22,380 --> 00:16:24,460 If you're innocent, mister, you can prove it to the authority. 372 00:16:24,460 --> 00:16:28,020 If we ever live that long, have you forgotten we're trapped here by an avalanche and a blizzard 373 00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:31,020 that could go on and on and on? 374 00:16:31,020 --> 00:16:33,020 Just the same... 375 00:16:33,020 --> 00:16:35,020 This is ridiculous. 376 00:16:35,020 --> 00:16:38,540 Hey, missy, you feeling all right? 377 00:16:38,540 --> 00:16:41,900 No, I'm not crazy, driver. 378 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:44,540 But I guess I was a little. 379 00:16:44,540 --> 00:16:47,500 Actually there's no proof that killer Greg is on this bus. 380 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:49,220 Well, if you put it that way... 381 00:16:49,220 --> 00:16:51,740 It's all my fault and I'm sorry. 382 00:16:51,740 --> 00:16:55,540 My only excuse is that I was just so upset by seeing Jim, my husband. 383 00:16:55,540 --> 00:16:57,140 Well, I still say that... 384 00:16:57,140 --> 00:16:58,140 No, no, no. 385 00:16:58,140 --> 00:17:01,540 Now we've got to start acting like rational human beings. 386 00:17:01,540 --> 00:17:06,740 Let poor Mr. Willard up from the floor. 387 00:17:06,740 --> 00:17:07,740 Thanks, lady. 388 00:17:07,740 --> 00:17:08,740 Well, all right. 389 00:17:08,740 --> 00:17:10,540 But I'm warning you, Willard, no funny stuff. 390 00:17:10,540 --> 00:17:12,700 Oh, snap out of it, driver, will you? 391 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:14,940 We've got to get out of this mess. 392 00:17:14,940 --> 00:17:15,940 Hand me that axe. 393 00:17:15,940 --> 00:17:17,140 Do I look that dumb? 394 00:17:17,140 --> 00:17:18,420 Oh, all right, all right. 395 00:17:18,420 --> 00:17:19,940 Then use it yourself. 396 00:17:19,940 --> 00:17:21,580 Smash your window so we can crawl out. 397 00:17:21,580 --> 00:17:24,020 Willard, even you don't look that dumb. 398 00:17:24,020 --> 00:17:25,420 What makes you think the windows won't open? 399 00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:26,420 Huh? 400 00:17:26,420 --> 00:17:27,420 It's an open one. 401 00:17:27,420 --> 00:17:28,420 What for? 402 00:17:28,420 --> 00:17:29,420 To let in the blizzard? 403 00:17:29,420 --> 00:17:30,420 But we've got to get out of here, driver. 404 00:17:30,420 --> 00:17:31,420 Not me. 405 00:17:31,420 --> 00:17:34,660 It would take a bear to make even a city block in that wind-swept hell. 406 00:17:34,660 --> 00:17:35,980 We can't stay here. 407 00:17:35,980 --> 00:17:36,980 Why not? 408 00:17:36,980 --> 00:17:37,980 We're not freezing. 409 00:17:37,980 --> 00:17:38,980 Yet. 410 00:17:38,980 --> 00:17:39,980 The driver's right. 411 00:17:39,980 --> 00:17:43,020 Our best chance is to sit pat until the storm lets up. 412 00:17:43,020 --> 00:17:45,180 Yeah, but what if it doesn't, huh? 413 00:17:45,180 --> 00:17:47,020 What if it lasts longer than we do? 414 00:17:47,020 --> 00:17:48,020 What then, huh? 415 00:17:48,020 --> 00:17:49,020 What then? 416 00:17:49,020 --> 00:17:50,020 Shut up! 417 00:17:50,020 --> 00:17:51,820 Blowing your top won't do any good, Willard. 418 00:17:51,820 --> 00:17:53,820 Nobody's ever confused me with Pollyanna. 419 00:17:53,820 --> 00:17:55,260 But things could be worse. 420 00:17:55,260 --> 00:17:59,260 This is as good an igloo as any, and if and when the weather clears, well, we can send 421 00:17:59,260 --> 00:18:00,260 out a party for help. 422 00:18:00,260 --> 00:18:03,380 Or maybe a road clearing crew will come to our rescue. 423 00:18:03,380 --> 00:18:04,380 Yes. 424 00:18:04,380 --> 00:18:07,420 Yes, I suppose that's the same thing to do. 425 00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:08,420 Wait here. 426 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:09,420 How about you, Willard? 427 00:18:09,420 --> 00:18:14,460 You also decided to do the sane thing? 428 00:18:14,460 --> 00:18:17,020 I don't like that crack you want more like it now. 429 00:18:17,020 --> 00:18:18,700 Look, we're not starting that again. 430 00:18:18,700 --> 00:18:22,300 Now, it's going to be a long night, and we might just as well make ourselves comfortable 431 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:23,820 and try to get some sleep. 432 00:18:23,820 --> 00:18:24,820 Sleep. 433 00:18:24,820 --> 00:18:25,820 Cut it out. 434 00:18:25,820 --> 00:18:28,100 Now, Miss, you take the back seat. 435 00:18:28,100 --> 00:18:30,340 It's the only one that runs the full width of the bus. 436 00:18:30,340 --> 00:18:32,380 You can use your lap robe for a quilt. 437 00:18:32,380 --> 00:18:34,060 All right, driver. 438 00:18:34,060 --> 00:18:37,220 I want to apologize again to everyone for the way I behaved. 439 00:18:37,220 --> 00:18:39,620 I'm casting suspicion. 440 00:18:39,620 --> 00:18:40,620 Forget it. 441 00:18:40,620 --> 00:18:41,620 Need any help? 442 00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:42,620 No, no, thanks. 443 00:18:42,620 --> 00:18:46,660 I just don't know what came over me starting that idiotic talk. 444 00:18:46,660 --> 00:18:48,660 Please believe that I... 445 00:18:48,660 --> 00:18:49,660 Why? 446 00:18:49,660 --> 00:18:52,660 What's the matter? 447 00:18:52,660 --> 00:18:55,660 Why are you staring at the floor? 448 00:18:55,660 --> 00:18:58,660 Well, say something. 449 00:18:58,660 --> 00:18:59,660 Look. 450 00:18:59,660 --> 00:19:00,660 Look. 451 00:19:00,660 --> 00:19:01,660 A file. 452 00:19:01,660 --> 00:19:04,660 A tiny steel file. 453 00:19:04,660 --> 00:19:05,660 The one that Greg... 454 00:19:05,660 --> 00:19:08,860 The one that the avalanche hit, there was a mad scramble. 455 00:19:08,860 --> 00:19:10,900 One of you lost it then. 456 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:11,900 One of you is Greg. 457 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:12,900 Killer Greg. 458 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:13,900 Let me out of here. 459 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:14,900 Oh, let me out of here. 460 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:15,900 Please let me out of here. 461 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:16,900 Oh, my God. 462 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:21,900 We've got to get out of here. 463 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:27,500 Well, we just let her wear herself out, kicking and banging on the door. 464 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:29,340 Nobody said a word. 465 00:19:29,340 --> 00:19:32,700 Willard and Kinniston just stared at me and at each other. 466 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:38,900 By and by, the girl stopped her fussing, and then she stood and stared at the three of us 467 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:39,900 in rotation. 468 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:42,740 It would have made her flesh crawl. 469 00:19:42,740 --> 00:19:47,420 Outside, the blizzard was getting worse, if possible. 470 00:19:47,420 --> 00:19:52,540 Finally, I reached into the watch pocket of my pants and brought out the old timepiece. 471 00:19:52,540 --> 00:19:53,540 What... 472 00:19:53,540 --> 00:19:55,540 What time is it, driver? 473 00:19:55,540 --> 00:19:57,540 I broke the crystal. 474 00:19:57,540 --> 00:20:00,540 It still says a quarter of four. 475 00:20:00,540 --> 00:20:01,540 It's... 476 00:20:01,540 --> 00:20:02,540 It's five-thirty. 477 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:05,540 Only an hour and a half since we started out. 478 00:20:05,540 --> 00:20:07,540 An hour and a half. 479 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:09,540 Five-thirty in the afternoon. 480 00:20:09,540 --> 00:20:12,540 The very best, we're stuck until morning. 481 00:20:12,540 --> 00:20:13,540 Fourteen. 482 00:20:13,540 --> 00:20:14,540 Sixteen hours. 483 00:20:14,540 --> 00:20:16,540 Might as well be forever. 484 00:20:16,540 --> 00:20:19,300 Look, miss, we just got to make the best of it. 485 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:21,540 I still think you ought to go back to the rear seat. 486 00:20:21,540 --> 00:20:22,540 Can't sleep? 487 00:20:22,540 --> 00:20:23,540 If you can. 488 00:20:23,540 --> 00:20:26,820 Willard, the driver and myself will be keeping a rather close eye on each other. 489 00:20:26,820 --> 00:20:28,820 In the light of recent developments... 490 00:20:28,820 --> 00:20:29,820 Developments? 491 00:20:29,820 --> 00:20:30,820 You'll be all right. 492 00:20:30,820 --> 00:20:32,820 Hey, driver, give me that axe. 493 00:20:32,820 --> 00:20:33,820 Huh? 494 00:20:33,820 --> 00:20:35,820 Let her have it for her protection. 495 00:20:35,820 --> 00:20:36,820 Sure. 496 00:20:36,820 --> 00:20:37,820 Sure, let her have it. 497 00:20:37,820 --> 00:20:38,820 Yes. 498 00:20:38,820 --> 00:20:40,820 Yes, give it to me. 499 00:20:40,820 --> 00:20:41,820 Okay. 500 00:20:41,820 --> 00:20:43,820 You holding on to the file, too? 501 00:20:43,820 --> 00:20:44,820 Of course she is. 502 00:20:44,820 --> 00:20:48,820 The file could also be a lethal weapon. 503 00:20:48,820 --> 00:20:56,420 Well, she took the axe and the file back to the rear seat with her, and we all sat down 504 00:20:56,420 --> 00:20:57,420 to wait. 505 00:20:57,420 --> 00:21:02,420 Those were the longest seconds of the longest minutes of the longest hours that ever... 506 00:21:02,420 --> 00:21:08,420 Well, somehow it got to be nine o'clock, ten, eleven. 507 00:21:08,420 --> 00:21:17,420 Finally, it was midnight. 508 00:21:17,420 --> 00:21:23,420 Ever fought against sleep with the cold numbing you and the wind lulling you? 509 00:21:23,420 --> 00:21:27,420 Oftentimes, even the fear of sudden death can't win against those odds. 510 00:21:27,420 --> 00:21:33,420 Time and again, the girl's eyes would close just for a second, and then they stayed closed 511 00:21:33,420 --> 00:21:39,420 longer, and her head nodded and her body slumped over against the corner of the seat. 512 00:21:39,420 --> 00:21:44,420 I got up and started down the aisle. 513 00:21:44,420 --> 00:21:45,420 Where you going? 514 00:21:45,420 --> 00:21:46,420 Shh, Keniston. 515 00:21:46,420 --> 00:21:47,420 Can't you see she's asleep? 516 00:21:47,420 --> 00:21:48,420 Where are you going? 517 00:21:48,420 --> 00:21:49,420 Her lap robe slipped to the floor. 518 00:21:49,420 --> 00:21:52,420 I was going to pick it up and cover her so she wouldn't freeze. 519 00:21:52,420 --> 00:21:53,420 Any objections? 520 00:21:53,420 --> 00:21:54,420 I'll do it. 521 00:21:54,420 --> 00:21:55,420 Oh, no, you won't. 522 00:21:55,420 --> 00:21:56,420 Go ahead, driver. 523 00:21:56,420 --> 00:21:57,420 See, Keniston? 524 00:21:57,420 --> 00:21:59,420 Willard thinks I should do it. 525 00:21:59,420 --> 00:22:02,420 That makes it two to one. 526 00:22:02,420 --> 00:22:05,420 Help me! 527 00:22:05,420 --> 00:22:10,420 Help me with this wild cat! 528 00:22:10,420 --> 00:22:15,420 Get that file away from her before she jabs my eyes out! 529 00:22:15,420 --> 00:22:20,420 She was like a devil on a pinwheel, and I was lucky to tear loose before she did any more 530 00:22:20,420 --> 00:22:22,420 damage to me. 531 00:22:22,420 --> 00:22:25,420 Afterwards, when Willard told her what I was up to, she apologized. 532 00:22:25,420 --> 00:22:30,420 But I didn't go near her again all the rest of that night. 533 00:22:30,420 --> 00:22:37,420 Well, about five o'clock the blizzard stopped, and at seven the sun managed to break through. 534 00:22:37,420 --> 00:22:39,420 Then we held a council of war. 535 00:22:39,420 --> 00:22:41,420 We can't send out for help. 536 00:22:41,420 --> 00:22:42,420 Why not? 537 00:22:42,420 --> 00:22:43,420 Don't you see, Mr. Willard? 538 00:22:43,420 --> 00:22:48,420 If we split up the men, whichever of you is Greg would have too good an opportunity, 539 00:22:48,420 --> 00:22:50,420 whether he goes or stays. 540 00:22:50,420 --> 00:22:53,420 You could go alone. 541 00:22:53,420 --> 00:22:54,420 I'd never make it. 542 00:22:54,420 --> 00:22:56,420 We could all go together. 543 00:22:56,420 --> 00:22:58,420 How about that driver? 544 00:22:58,420 --> 00:23:02,420 Well, no, I'd rather stick with a bus, Keniston. 545 00:23:02,420 --> 00:23:07,420 But before we decide anything, let's get out and look around. 546 00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:12,420 We got a window open on the far side of the bus and crawled through, the girl first. 547 00:23:12,420 --> 00:23:14,420 She was still clutching the axe and the file. 548 00:23:14,420 --> 00:23:15,420 Here! 549 00:23:15,420 --> 00:23:16,420 Come here and look! 550 00:23:16,420 --> 00:23:17,420 What? 551 00:23:17,420 --> 00:23:19,420 We've been through the doors and we've escaped the avalanche entirely. 552 00:23:19,420 --> 00:23:20,420 We can shovel our way out. 553 00:23:20,420 --> 00:23:21,420 I'm sure we can. 554 00:23:21,420 --> 00:23:26,420 There were two shovels in the tool compartment at the tail guard of the bus. 555 00:23:26,420 --> 00:23:32,420 That only let two men shovel at a time, and the third man getting a breather meanwhile. 556 00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:34,420 It took a lot of shoveling. 557 00:23:34,420 --> 00:23:36,420 Was some head of dirt? 558 00:23:36,420 --> 00:23:38,420 Hurt your hand? 559 00:23:38,420 --> 00:23:40,420 No, nothing much. 560 00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:43,420 This feels good to take off those stiff leather gloves. 561 00:23:43,420 --> 00:23:47,420 Nasty blisters you got on that right hand. 562 00:23:47,420 --> 00:23:48,420 Something... 563 00:23:48,420 --> 00:23:50,420 Hey, Keniston, are you shoveling or talking? 564 00:23:50,420 --> 00:23:52,420 We'll never get out of here at this rate. 565 00:23:52,420 --> 00:23:55,420 It's your turn anyway. 566 00:23:55,420 --> 00:23:57,420 I'm tired. 567 00:23:57,420 --> 00:23:58,420 Not as tired as Willard looks. 568 00:23:58,420 --> 00:23:59,420 I'll relieve him. 569 00:23:59,420 --> 00:24:02,420 No, no, that's all right. 570 00:24:02,420 --> 00:24:05,420 I can keep going yet for a while. 571 00:24:05,420 --> 00:24:08,420 Okay then, Keniston, here. 572 00:24:08,420 --> 00:24:09,420 Let me take a turn. 573 00:24:09,420 --> 00:24:11,420 I know I won't be of much help, but I can at least try. 574 00:24:11,420 --> 00:24:14,420 No, no, no, you're mountain guard. 575 00:24:14,420 --> 00:24:16,420 Though I'm sure you could do as well as Keniston. 576 00:24:16,420 --> 00:24:18,420 Keniston. 577 00:24:18,420 --> 00:24:19,420 Where's Keniston? 578 00:24:19,420 --> 00:24:20,420 Why, he's right... 579 00:24:20,420 --> 00:24:22,420 Stop him! 580 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:26,420 Keniston was making a mad dash through the snow. 581 00:24:26,420 --> 00:24:28,420 Willard dropped his shovel and tore after him. 582 00:24:28,420 --> 00:24:32,420 I yelled for Willard to let him go, but I don't think he even heard me. 583 00:24:32,420 --> 00:24:34,420 For a while it looked like Keniston was going to make it. 584 00:24:34,420 --> 00:24:37,420 But then he floundered and fell in a snow drift. 585 00:24:37,420 --> 00:24:40,420 And before he could get underway again, Willard knifed him. 586 00:24:40,420 --> 00:24:42,420 Oh, no! 587 00:24:48,420 --> 00:24:50,420 Well, he'll stay put for a while. 588 00:24:50,420 --> 00:24:51,420 What'd you do, knock him out? 589 00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:52,420 Well, what else was there to do? 590 00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:53,420 Is he... 591 00:24:53,420 --> 00:24:55,420 I know all the time it was Keniston. 592 00:24:55,420 --> 00:24:57,420 You think his running away proves it? 593 00:24:57,420 --> 00:24:59,420 It's the same as if he confessed. 594 00:24:59,420 --> 00:25:00,420 He knew it was his last and only chance. 595 00:25:00,420 --> 00:25:02,420 What are we going to do with him now? 596 00:25:02,420 --> 00:25:03,420 Tie him up. 597 00:25:03,420 --> 00:25:05,420 Then we're getting him on the bus out of here. 598 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:10,420 Say, I wonder if there's a reward. 599 00:25:15,420 --> 00:25:19,420 In no time at all we had the bus clear and headed for civilization. 600 00:25:19,420 --> 00:25:23,420 Those snow-covered mountain roads weren't exactly my idea of a speedway, 601 00:25:23,420 --> 00:25:25,420 but I gave my motor the gun. 602 00:25:25,420 --> 00:25:28,420 Willard and the girl didn't take their eyes off Keniston. 603 00:25:28,420 --> 00:25:32,420 I kept watching him too, out of the mirror, over the driver's seat. 604 00:25:32,420 --> 00:25:34,420 He looks like he's coming too. 605 00:25:34,420 --> 00:25:35,420 Don't worry, driver. 606 00:25:35,420 --> 00:25:37,420 Those knots I made in the rope won't give. 607 00:25:37,420 --> 00:25:42,420 Besides, I'm keeping the axe handy, just in case. 608 00:25:42,420 --> 00:25:43,420 He's opening his eyes. 609 00:25:43,420 --> 00:25:45,420 Watch him now. Watch him. 610 00:25:45,420 --> 00:25:48,420 Yes, watch me. And listen to me too. 611 00:25:48,420 --> 00:25:49,420 Shut up, Keniston. 612 00:25:49,420 --> 00:25:52,420 I'll stop this bus and put you out for good. 613 00:25:52,420 --> 00:25:53,420 Not before I've had my say. 614 00:25:53,420 --> 00:25:55,420 Willard and you too, lady. 615 00:25:55,420 --> 00:25:57,420 Why do you think I tried to make a break for it? 616 00:25:57,420 --> 00:25:58,420 Because you were... 617 00:25:58,420 --> 00:25:59,420 You're killer Greg. 618 00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:00,420 You fools! 619 00:26:00,420 --> 00:26:02,420 You blind, stupid fools! 620 00:26:02,420 --> 00:26:07,420 Was it my watch that had his crystal smashed at a quarter to four yesterday afternoon? 621 00:26:07,420 --> 00:26:09,420 So it was mine. So what? 622 00:26:09,420 --> 00:26:11,420 At a quarter to four yesterday afternoon, 623 00:26:11,420 --> 00:26:15,420 killer Greg waylaid the real driver of this bus and took his place. 624 00:26:15,420 --> 00:26:17,420 That's how the crystal came to be broken. 625 00:26:17,420 --> 00:26:20,420 Shut up, Keniston. You can't talk your way out of this. 626 00:26:20,420 --> 00:26:22,420 It could be a coincidence. 627 00:26:22,420 --> 00:26:23,420 Sure, sure. 628 00:26:23,420 --> 00:26:25,420 That's what I thought too. Coincidence. 629 00:26:25,420 --> 00:26:29,420 Until I noticed the blisters on the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand. 630 00:26:29,420 --> 00:26:31,420 A file would make blisters like that. 631 00:26:31,420 --> 00:26:35,420 A file held in the right hand of killer Greg. 632 00:26:35,420 --> 00:26:38,420 Look at him! Look at him! It's true! 633 00:26:38,420 --> 00:26:39,420 Greg! Greg! 634 00:26:39,420 --> 00:26:41,420 Don't come a step closer, any of you. 635 00:26:41,420 --> 00:26:43,420 You make the slightest moving off crash the whole lot of us. 636 00:26:43,420 --> 00:26:45,420 Don't do it, Greg. Stop the bus. 637 00:26:45,420 --> 00:26:46,420 We won't do anything. 638 00:26:46,420 --> 00:26:48,420 It was a perfect plan. It had to work. 639 00:26:48,420 --> 00:26:50,420 If only that avalanche hadn't come along. 640 00:26:50,420 --> 00:26:52,420 But I'll still make it. 641 00:26:52,420 --> 00:26:53,420 I'll make it even if I have to. 642 00:26:53,420 --> 00:26:55,420 Look out, Keniston! 643 00:26:55,420 --> 00:26:59,420 No! No! 644 00:27:10,420 --> 00:27:14,420 It rolled over and over and over and over. 645 00:27:14,420 --> 00:27:19,420 The bus and the glass all smashed. 646 00:27:19,420 --> 00:27:23,420 Everybody was all mangled and... 647 00:27:23,420 --> 00:27:26,420 All right, all right. Go to sleep now. 648 00:27:26,420 --> 00:27:29,420 Sleep? 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