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01:11.900 --> 01:15.000 This is Superintendent Andrews of the state institution. 01:15.000 --> 01:18.600 Oh, what, what do you got there? 01:18.600 --> 01:21.100 I've set up a dictaphone out in the hall. 01:21.100 --> 01:23.200 Careful of the wire, nurse, when you close the door, please. 01:23.200 --> 01:24.000 The doctor said. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.100 Yes, yes, I'll make it as brief as possible. 01:26.100 --> 01:27.100 You may go now, nurse. 01:27.100 --> 01:28.700 Very well. 01:28.700 --> 01:32.400 Oh, do you mind if I hook up this microphone at the head of the bed? 01:32.400 --> 01:34.700 Suit yourself, fella. 01:34.700 --> 01:38.900 Well, it was a choice between a dictaphone and a stenographer, and I figured that in your condition... 01:38.900 --> 01:41.800 I don't feel too bad. 01:41.800 --> 01:43.700 Well, go on, ask your questions. 01:43.700 --> 01:47.000 Now, I, I understand you were driving the bus. 01:47.000 --> 01:49.000 Tell me what happened. 01:49.000 --> 01:51.300 You mean I can tell it my own way? 01:51.300 --> 01:52.400 That's right. 01:52.400 --> 01:53.600 Great. 01:53.600 --> 01:56.300 I had an uncle once, you know, that was a writer. 01:56.300 --> 02:01.000 He wouldn't have gone near this kind of a story, though, with a ten-foot pen. 02:01.000 --> 02:11.700 No, he went in for happy endings. 02:11.700 --> 02:15.800 Uncle Mort wouldn't even have liked the beginning of this one. 02:15.800 --> 02:20.000 Kind of dreary-like up there at the asylum that afternoon. 02:20.000 --> 02:26.800 You remember, there'd been quite a snowfall the week before, and far as the eye could see, 02:26.800 --> 02:34.200 everything was a dirty gray, like a corpse that's been waiting too long for the undertaker. 02:34.200 --> 02:39.900 Well, around four o'clock it got so dark, the lights had to be turned on in the asylum. 02:39.900 --> 02:44.800 And then the wind started moaning like a lonely banshee. 02:44.800 --> 02:52.000 Fine day for a murder, as the fella said. 02:52.000 --> 02:58.500 Well, there were three passengers sitting in the bus when I went outside for the return trip. 02:58.500 --> 03:00.000 Two men and a woman. 03:00.000 --> 03:04.800 Maybe I ought to call her a girl, because she wasn't really much more than that. 03:04.800 --> 03:08.100 Anyway, these three passengers all had returned tickets, 03:08.100 --> 03:11.200 and I went down the aisle collecting them. 03:11.200 --> 03:12.700 Tickets, please. 03:12.700 --> 03:13.700 Can I have your tickets, please? 03:13.700 --> 03:16.100 Driver, driver, how soon do we start? 03:16.100 --> 03:16.900 Right away, miss. 03:16.900 --> 03:19.000 But we're two minutes late already, driver. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.200 Oh, these little jerkwater bus lines never keep to their schedules. 03:22.200 --> 03:24.700 Now we'll never get out of these mountains before that blizzard lets loose. 03:24.700 --> 03:26.500 Can I have your ticket, please, mister? 03:26.500 --> 03:28.100 You really think there'll be a storm? 03:28.100 --> 03:30.000 Why, sure, sure, it can't fail. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.200 And lady, when they have snow up in these godforsaken mountains. 03:33.200 --> 03:36.300 Well, this morning on the bus coming up, a man was telling me. 03:36.300 --> 03:38.400 Well, here we go, folks. 03:45.400 --> 03:52.100 The windbag was sitting right across the aisle from the girl, second row from the front. 03:52.100 --> 03:57.400 Halfway back in the bus sat the third passenger, all huddled up in his overcoat. 03:57.400 --> 04:00.000 He didn't open his track. 04:00.000 --> 04:05.200 Well, that was the picture as we swung out onto the highway for the return trip. 04:05.200 --> 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. 04:11.500 --> 04:15.300 Well, might as well get acquainted, miss. 04:15.300 --> 04:18.200 Fifty miles before we get down to civilization, you know. 04:18.200 --> 04:20.700 John Willard is the name. 04:20.700 --> 04:21.200 I said... 04:21.200 --> 04:24.400 Oh, I beg your pardon. 04:24.400 --> 04:25.200 Are you speaking to me? 04:25.200 --> 04:26.400 Well, yes. 04:26.400 --> 04:28.000 I'm afraid I was... 04:28.000 --> 04:29.000 Yeah, sure, sure. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.700 These visits to the asylum, they're always depressing, aren't they? 04:31.700 --> 04:34.000 Well, this is my first time. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.600 Oh, there's some friend. 04:36.600 --> 04:37.500 My husband. 04:37.500 --> 04:38.600 Husband? 04:38.600 --> 04:40.200 Oh, well, now that's too bad. 04:40.200 --> 04:41.600 I hope he... 04:41.600 --> 04:42.400 Hey, what's that? 04:42.400 --> 04:43.700 Some kind of siren. 04:43.700 --> 04:46.500 Yeah, that's the asylum alarm, all right. 04:46.500 --> 04:47.300 The driver? What... 04:47.300 --> 04:50.500 One of the inmates must be playing hide and seek with the keepers. 04:50.500 --> 04:52.000 Happens every once in a while. 04:52.000 --> 04:53.500 Gosh, what if it's my brother? 04:53.500 --> 04:54.700 Oh? 04:54.700 --> 04:55.900 He the bustin' out kind? 04:55.900 --> 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. 05:01.600 --> 05:03.100 And I see what you mean. 05:03.100 --> 05:06.200 Do they... do they always catch them? 05:06.200 --> 05:09.200 Well, they tell me the place has never lost a customer yet. 05:09.200 --> 05:12.200 Oh, you know, a moment ago I... 05:12.200 --> 05:14.300 I was praying that it wasn't Jim, but now I don't know. 05:14.300 --> 05:15.800 Even if they had to... 05:15.800 --> 05:19.400 Well, I mean, it would... it would be better than seeing him as he was today. 05:19.400 --> 05:20.400 Any... anything would be better than... 05:20.400 --> 05:21.600 Listen, listen. 05:21.600 --> 05:23.300 Hey, that's a police siren. 05:23.300 --> 05:25.500 Sounds like they're almost on top of us. 05:25.500 --> 05:26.700 Yes, there they are. There they are. 05:26.700 --> 05:28.600 Look out. Look out. They're gonna pass us. 05:28.600 --> 05:33.800 Pass nothing. They're flagging me down. 05:33.800 --> 05:37.000 All right. Just keep your seats, everybody. 05:37.000 --> 05:37.900 They're guards. 05:37.900 --> 05:40.600 With rifles. 05:40.600 --> 05:42.000 Hey, we're... 05:42.000 --> 05:42.900 We're looking for somebody. 05:42.900 --> 05:44.800 Yeah, we heard the asylum alarm. 05:44.800 --> 05:45.400 Is someone... 05:45.400 --> 05:46.600 You know anyone along the road? 05:46.600 --> 05:47.700 Not even a jackrab. 05:47.700 --> 05:49.400 Officer, who escaped? 05:49.400 --> 05:50.800 Greg. Albert Greg. 05:50.800 --> 05:51.500 Oh. 05:51.500 --> 05:52.200 What a relief. 05:52.200 --> 05:56.300 Hey, Holly, take yourself a walk down the aisle and keep your rifle ready when you look behind those back seats. 05:56.300 --> 05:58.700 Are you kidding? 05:58.700 --> 06:00.400 When was this coming out party? 06:00.400 --> 06:03.100 I don't know. Maybe as much as a couple hours ago. 06:03.100 --> 06:05.400 Does this Greg have a gun? 06:05.400 --> 06:07.000 Can't guarantee he hasn't. 06:07.000 --> 06:08.600 But it was a file that sprung him. 06:08.600 --> 06:10.100 A tiny steel file. 06:10.100 --> 06:13.600 Must have been working away at the bar since the day he was committed a month ago. 06:13.600 --> 06:15.100 His stay was short. 06:15.100 --> 06:16.200 Nobody back here. 06:16.200 --> 06:19.100 Okay, now check the gents for identification. 06:19.100 --> 06:20.700 You know how it is, Robbie. You can't take chances. 06:20.700 --> 06:22.100 Oh, of course not. Here's mine. 06:22.100 --> 06:22.500 Huh? 06:22.500 --> 06:24.100 Oh. Okay, Dlander. 06:24.100 --> 06:26.700 Uh, your name, Frank Keniston? 06:26.700 --> 06:28.700 You can read, can't you? 06:28.700 --> 06:29.500 Ha! 06:29.500 --> 06:30.800 Friendly cuss, ain't you? 06:30.800 --> 06:33.600 You know, that's the first peep that passenger has let out. 06:33.600 --> 06:35.600 I was beginning to think he was a deaf mutant. 06:35.600 --> 06:36.200 Yeah? 06:36.200 --> 06:38.100 Well, uh, here driver, you can have this stuff back. 06:38.100 --> 06:39.100 Oh, thanks. 06:39.100 --> 06:41.100 John Willard? 06:41.100 --> 06:41.900 Yes, sir. 06:41.900 --> 06:43.500 Okey-dokey. 06:43.500 --> 06:45.100 Come on, Denton, let's scram. 06:45.100 --> 06:46.900 We gotta find Greg before he finds anybody. 06:46.900 --> 06:47.600 Yeah. 06:47.600 --> 06:49.500 Hey, driver, you can turn around now and go back. 06:49.500 --> 06:49.900 Go back? 06:49.900 --> 06:50.900 Go back? Why? 06:50.900 --> 06:51.600 Oh, no, no. 06:51.600 --> 06:52.700 This Greg is a killer. 06:52.700 --> 06:54.900 What I mean is when the mood strikes him, he strikes. 06:54.900 --> 06:56.600 Well, what's that gotta do with us turning back? 06:56.600 --> 06:58.900 Didn't I tell you this man kills even without reason? 06:58.900 --> 07:00.100 Now he's got plenty of reason. 07:00.100 --> 07:02.100 He's gotta get out of these mountains, but quick. 07:02.100 --> 07:05.200 If he's down the road, there are lots of ways he could stop a bus. 07:05.200 --> 07:06.300 I say turn back. 07:06.300 --> 07:08.500 But that blizzard's liable to break any minute now. 07:08.500 --> 07:10.200 We could be snowbound up here for days. 07:10.200 --> 07:13.700 And if I have to spend another, even a night, one night in that asylum, 07:13.700 --> 07:15.300 so help me, they'd have to keep me there. 07:15.300 --> 07:16.300 Oh, listen driver, listen to me, please. 07:16.300 --> 07:19.300 Just a second, Mr. Willard. You're just one passenger. 07:19.300 --> 07:20.700 There are three. 07:20.700 --> 07:22.300 Now let's take a vote. 07:22.300 --> 07:23.100 What about you, Miss? 07:23.100 --> 07:25.800 I'd... whatever you say. 07:25.800 --> 07:28.200 Mr. Kinniston? 07:28.200 --> 07:30.200 I say keep going. 07:30.200 --> 07:31.200 That settles it. 07:31.200 --> 07:32.000 Hurry up, Denton. 07:32.000 --> 07:35.700 Wait a minute. What... what does this killer Greg look like? 07:35.700 --> 07:39.700 Uh, what? The description says, uh, slight build, weighed about 140. 07:39.700 --> 07:43.300 Uh, dark hair, brown eyes, 27 years old. 07:43.300 --> 07:44.900 Denton, get the lead out of your britches. 07:44.900 --> 07:45.900 Yeah, but you know, I still... 07:45.900 --> 07:47.500 We warned him, didn't we? 07:47.500 --> 07:49.400 Now if they meet up with him, it's their funeral. 07:49.400 --> 07:50.600 Yeah. 07:50.600 --> 07:53.100 Well, we can take care of ourselves, fellas. 08:02.700 --> 08:07.600 Well, after the guards left, I really set that bus to rolling. 08:07.600 --> 08:10.600 Out of the mirror, up above the driver's seat, 08:10.600 --> 08:14.100 I could see that the girl was plenty scared. 08:14.100 --> 08:16.600 But she had nerve, I'll say that for her. 08:16.600 --> 08:19.200 When we slid around some of those snowbank curves, 08:19.200 --> 08:23.100 her lips would be drawn so tight the lipstick had a white quarter. 08:23.100 --> 08:25.400 But she didn't say boo. 08:25.400 --> 08:27.900 Willard, the windbag across the aisle from her, 08:27.900 --> 08:31.300 gave up trying to draw her into a conversation. 08:31.300 --> 08:34.400 And as for the third passenger, that English guy, Kinniston, 08:34.400 --> 08:37.400 sitting halfway towards the back there, 08:37.400 --> 08:41.100 he kept acting like a clam afraid of losing its oyster. 08:41.100 --> 08:51.100 Might as well have had a lockjaw, if you get what I mean. 08:51.100 --> 08:53.200 Well, we hadn't gone more than another mile or two 08:53.200 --> 08:54.900 before the wind started to rise, 08:54.900 --> 08:57.300 and kept it up until you'd have thought all the devils in hell 08:57.300 --> 08:59.100 were trying to break loose. 08:59.100 --> 09:03.500 It got black as the inside of a tomb until the snow started to fall. 09:03.500 --> 09:07.500 But with that wind whipping it around, it didn't exactly fall. 09:07.500 --> 09:10.100 Mister, that's what I call a blizzard. 09:10.100 --> 09:11.500 This is getting on my nerves. 09:11.500 --> 09:13.200 What have we got here anyway? A collection of zombies? 09:13.200 --> 09:14.500 Somebody say something! 09:14.500 --> 09:16.200 I was just going to say... 09:16.200 --> 09:17.700 You were going to say that the weather is rotten. 09:17.700 --> 09:19.000 Yeah, and she can say that again. 09:19.000 --> 09:20.300 But that isn't what I was going to say. 09:20.300 --> 09:23.100 No? What then, lady? 09:23.100 --> 09:27.500 It occurred to me why the guards asked for identification. 09:27.500 --> 09:28.300 Huh? 09:28.300 --> 09:30.100 The description of Killer Greg. 09:30.100 --> 09:34.400 Slight build, 140 pounds, dark hair, brown eyes, 27 years old. 09:34.400 --> 09:36.200 So what? 09:36.200 --> 09:37.800 It's a remarkable thing. 09:37.800 --> 09:40.500 That description would fit you, Mr. Willard. 09:40.500 --> 09:42.600 Huh? Oh? 09:42.600 --> 09:44.400 And Mr. Kiniston, too. 09:44.400 --> 09:46.400 What's that? Me? 09:46.400 --> 09:47.900 That's a peculiar thing. 09:47.900 --> 09:49.200 Isn't it, driver? 09:49.200 --> 09:53.800 Yeah. Come to think of it, both of them could fit that description. 09:53.800 --> 09:57.900 And I've also heard that he's got a very soft face. 09:57.900 --> 10:00.000 Almost like a woman. 10:00.000 --> 10:02.700 What do you think, Mr. Kiniston? 10:02.700 --> 10:04.900 I don't happen to feel like talking. 10:04.900 --> 10:05.800 Yeah? 10:05.800 --> 10:09.800 Well, personally, I think the more I think of what she said, the more remarkable it becomes. 10:09.800 --> 10:11.500 Yeah, she's got something there. 10:11.500 --> 10:14.300 Only remarkable isn't the word. 10:14.300 --> 10:15.700 What do you mean, Mr. Willard? 10:15.700 --> 10:17.900 This man, Greg, may be insane, but he's not dumb. 10:17.900 --> 10:19.300 Now, put yourself in his place. 10:19.300 --> 10:23.000 He knows he hasn't got a ghost of a chance making a getaway in the asylum clothing, see? 10:23.000 --> 10:26.500 So he borrows the wardrobe and identification of some stranger. 10:26.500 --> 10:27.400 Do you follow me? 10:27.400 --> 10:29.200 We're way ahead of you, Willard. 10:29.200 --> 10:31.300 It wouldn't be difficult for a killer. 10:31.300 --> 10:34.600 I should say not. But that still isn't the end of his problem, see? 10:34.600 --> 10:35.800 He's fighting against time. 10:35.800 --> 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. 10:41.100 --> 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. 10:47.500 --> 10:49.400 You've got quite an imagination, Willard. 10:49.400 --> 10:51.300 Yeah? Well, thanks. 10:51.300 --> 10:56.100 Now, the odds that Greg will be able to get himself transportation are mighty slim, except... 10:56.100 --> 10:57.900 except for this bus line. 10:57.900 --> 10:58.600 So let's suppose... 10:58.600 --> 11:00.900 You've got a great imagination, all right. 11:00.900 --> 11:02.300 You got it all figured out. 11:02.300 --> 11:04.100 Bit too bad, if you ask me. 11:04.100 --> 11:05.400 Remember, please, sir. 11:05.400 --> 11:08.200 You're the one who was so dead set against turning back. 11:08.200 --> 11:09.900 Really, Kinnison? 11:09.900 --> 11:11.900 Well, I'll leave it to the lady here in the driver. 11:11.900 --> 11:15.100 Do I act like a lunatic? Huh? 11:15.100 --> 11:16.600 Well? 11:16.600 --> 11:18.200 Search me. 11:18.200 --> 11:22.900 There were times, long periods of time, when Jim didn't either. 11:22.900 --> 11:24.700 My husband, I mean. 11:24.700 --> 11:26.600 That was the terrible part of it. 11:26.600 --> 11:30.400 He'd be... he'd be just like the old days, and we'd be so happy together, and then... 11:30.400 --> 11:33.700 and then all of a sudden, just without warning, he... 11:33.700 --> 11:36.400 Oh, I heard of lots of cases like that. 11:36.400 --> 11:39.600 Well, they tell me that sometimes it takes half a dozen of those, uh... 11:39.600 --> 11:42.100 special doctors, those, uh... 11:42.100 --> 11:43.700 Psychiatrists? 11:43.700 --> 11:45.400 Yeah, psychiatrists. 11:45.400 --> 11:49.900 Yeah, well, sometimes they gotta put a person under a microscope and study them for a long time 11:49.900 --> 11:53.100 before they can be sure, one way or the other. 11:53.100 --> 11:55.100 And many's the time they make mistakes. 11:55.100 --> 11:56.100 Well, I heard it one time when... 11:56.100 --> 11:57.400 Shut up! 11:57.400 --> 11:59.400 Nobody's gonna talk like that about me. 11:59.400 --> 12:01.500 It's Kinnison that's been acting crazy, 12:01.500 --> 12:03.500 and I'll bet it wouldn't take a half a dozen psychiatrists... 12:03.500 --> 12:05.500 What's that? 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14:33.700 --> 14:34.700 Let's hear the rest of it. 14:34.700 --> 14:35.700 Okay, okay. 14:35.700 --> 14:38.660 If you'll help me get a swig of that water. 14:38.660 --> 14:39.660 Sure. 14:39.660 --> 14:41.660 The way they got me rigged up here. 14:41.660 --> 14:43.660 Oh, thanks. 14:43.660 --> 14:49.380 Let's see now, where was I? 14:49.380 --> 15:00.380 Oh yeah, Acts 2, 3, and 4 coming up. 15:00.380 --> 15:05.820 After the avalanche struck, I just sat there gripping the steering wheel, sort of stunned. 15:05.820 --> 15:08.780 There wasn't a sound except for the wind. 15:08.780 --> 15:13.060 And that was muffled by the snow barrier that packed us in. 15:13.060 --> 15:17.940 Even on the far side, the bus was buried up to the middle of the windows. 15:17.940 --> 15:22.060 Well, all this was only a matter of seconds, I suppose. 15:22.060 --> 15:25.860 And then suddenly the quiet was broken by the most gosh-awful racket. 15:25.860 --> 15:29.860 It was as if somebody had up and given the signal for my passengers to go completely nuts. 15:29.860 --> 15:30.860 Get me out of here! 15:30.860 --> 15:31.860 Get me out of here! 15:31.860 --> 15:32.860 Look out! 15:32.860 --> 15:33.860 Willard's got an axe! 15:33.860 --> 15:34.860 The axe! 15:34.860 --> 15:35.860 Take it away from him! 15:35.860 --> 15:36.860 Let go of it, Willard! 15:36.860 --> 15:37.860 Let go of that axe! 15:37.860 --> 15:38.860 No! 15:38.860 --> 15:39.860 No! 15:39.860 --> 15:40.860 That did it. 15:40.860 --> 15:41.860 He's the one. 15:41.860 --> 15:42.860 He's the one! 15:42.860 --> 15:43.860 Lucky I saw him get that fire axe. 15:43.860 --> 15:52.500 It's what the district attorney likes to call a lethal weapon. 15:52.500 --> 15:53.500 And then some. 15:53.500 --> 15:54.940 Step back, he's coming too. 15:54.940 --> 15:55.940 Tie him up. 15:55.940 --> 15:57.500 You'll find a rope in the dashboard compartment. 15:57.500 --> 15:58.500 Get it for me. 15:58.500 --> 16:01.580 Driver, I'll report you for this. 16:01.580 --> 16:02.580 You will, huh? 16:02.580 --> 16:05.340 I was going to smash a window so we could get out of here. 16:05.340 --> 16:06.340 Oh, yeah? 16:06.340 --> 16:07.340 Sure. 16:07.340 --> 16:08.340 What did you think I... 16:08.340 --> 16:09.340 Oh. 16:09.340 --> 16:10.340 Oh, so that's it, huh? 16:10.340 --> 16:11.340 Here's the rope, driver. 16:11.340 --> 16:12.340 Look here. 16:12.340 --> 16:15.380 Wait a minute, you can't do this, you can't tie me up, you fools. 16:15.380 --> 16:17.740 I'm not killer Greg. 16:17.740 --> 16:18.740 Maybe he isn't. 16:18.740 --> 16:19.740 Maybe. 16:19.740 --> 16:22.380 But like that guard said, we can't take chances. 16:22.380 --> 16:24.460 If you're innocent, mister, you can prove it to the authority. 16:24.460 --> 16:28.020 If we ever live that long, have you forgotten we're trapped here by an avalanche and a blizzard 16:28.020 --> 16:31.020 that could go on and on and on? 16:31.020 --> 16:33.020 Just the same... 16:33.020 --> 16:35.020 This is ridiculous. 16:35.020 --> 16:38.540 Hey, missy, you feeling all right? 16:38.540 --> 16:41.900 No, I'm not crazy, driver. 16:41.900 --> 16:44.540 But I guess I was a little. 16:44.540 --> 16:47.500 Actually there's no proof that killer Greg is on this bus. 16:47.500 --> 16:49.220 Well, if you put it that way... 16:49.220 --> 16:51.740 It's all my fault and I'm sorry. 16:51.740 --> 16:55.540 My only excuse is that I was just so upset by seeing Jim, my husband. 16:55.540 --> 16:57.140 Well, I still say that... 16:57.140 --> 16:58.140 No, no, no. 16:58.140 --> 17:01.540 Now we've got to start acting like rational human beings. 17:01.540 --> 17:06.740 Let poor Mr. Willard up from the floor. 17:06.740 --> 17:07.740 Thanks, lady. 17:07.740 --> 17:08.740 Well, all right. 17:08.740 --> 17:10.540 But I'm warning you, Willard, no funny stuff. 17:10.540 --> 17:12.700 Oh, snap out of it, driver, will you? 17:12.700 --> 17:14.940 We've got to get out of this mess. 17:14.940 --> 17:15.940 Hand me that axe. 17:15.940 --> 17:17.140 Do I look that dumb? 17:17.140 --> 17:18.420 Oh, all right, all right. 17:18.420 --> 17:19.940 Then use it yourself. 17:19.940 --> 17:21.580 Smash your window so we can crawl out. 17:21.580 --> 17:24.020 Willard, even you don't look that dumb. 17:24.020 --> 17:25.420 What makes you think the windows won't open? 17:25.420 --> 17:26.420 Huh? 17:26.420 --> 17:27.420 It's an open one. 17:27.420 --> 17:28.420 What for? 17:28.420 --> 17:29.420 To let in the blizzard? 17:29.420 --> 17:30.420 But we've got to get out of here, driver. 17:30.420 --> 17:31.420 Not me. 17:31.420 --> 17:34.660 It would take a bear to make even a city block in that wind-swept hell. 17:34.660 --> 17:35.980 We can't stay here. 17:35.980 --> 17:36.980 Why not? 17:36.980 --> 17:37.980 We're not freezing. 17:37.980 --> 17:38.980 Yet. 17:38.980 --> 17:39.980 The driver's right. 17:39.980 --> 17:43.020 Our best chance is to sit pat until the storm lets up. 17:43.020 --> 17:45.180 Yeah, but what if it doesn't, huh? 17:45.180 --> 17:47.020 What if it lasts longer than we do? 17:47.020 --> 17:48.020 What then, huh? 17:48.020 --> 17:49.020 What then? 17:49.020 --> 17:50.020 Shut up! 17:50.020 --> 17:51.820 Blowing your top won't do any good, Willard. 17:51.820 --> 17:53.820 Nobody's ever confused me with Pollyanna. 17:53.820 --> 17:55.260 But things could be worse. 17:55.260 --> 17:59.260 This is as good an igloo as any, and if and when the weather clears, well, we can send 17:59.260 --> 18:00.260 out a party for help. 18:00.260 --> 18:03.380 Or maybe a road clearing crew will come to our rescue. 18:03.380 --> 18:04.380 Yes. 18:04.380 --> 18:07.420 Yes, I suppose that's the same thing to do. 18:07.420 --> 18:08.420 Wait here. 18:08.420 --> 18:09.420 How about you, Willard? 18:09.420 --> 18:14.460 You also decided to do the sane thing? 18:14.460 --> 18:17.020 I don't like that crack you want more like it now. 18:17.020 --> 18:18.700 Look, we're not starting that again. 18:18.700 --> 18:22.300 Now, it's going to be a long night, and we might just as well make ourselves comfortable 18:22.300 --> 18:23.820 and try to get some sleep. 18:23.820 --> 18:24.820 Sleep. 18:24.820 --> 18:25.820 Cut it out. 18:25.820 --> 18:28.100 Now, Miss, you take the back seat. 18:28.100 --> 18:30.340 It's the only one that runs the full width of the bus. 18:30.340 --> 18:32.380 You can use your lap robe for a quilt. 18:32.380 --> 18:34.060 All right, driver. 18:34.060 --> 18:37.220 I want to apologize again to everyone for the way I behaved. 18:37.220 --> 18:39.620 I'm casting suspicion. 18:39.620 --> 18:40.620 Forget it. 18:40.620 --> 18:41.620 Need any help? 18:41.620 --> 18:42.620 No, no, thanks. 18:42.620 --> 18:46.660 I just don't know what came over me starting that idiotic talk. 18:46.660 --> 18:48.660 Please believe that I... 18:48.660 --> 18:49.660 Why? 18:49.660 --> 18:52.660 What's the matter? 18:52.660 --> 18:55.660 Why are you staring at the floor? 18:55.660 --> 18:58.660 Well, say something. 18:58.660 --> 18:59.660 Look. 18:59.660 --> 19:00.660 Look. 19:00.660 --> 19:01.660 A file. 19:01.660 --> 19:04.660 A tiny steel file. 19:04.660 --> 19:05.660 The one that Greg... 19:05.660 --> 19:08.860 The one that the avalanche hit, there was a mad scramble. 19:08.860 --> 19:10.900 One of you lost it then. 19:10.900 --> 19:11.900 One of you is Greg. 19:11.900 --> 19:12.900 Killer Greg. 19:12.900 --> 19:13.900 Let me out of here. 19:13.900 --> 19:14.900 Oh, let me out of here. 19:14.900 --> 19:15.900 Please let me out of here. 19:15.900 --> 19:16.900 Oh, my God. 19:16.900 --> 19:21.900 We've got to get out of here. 19:21.900 --> 19:27.500 Well, we just let her wear herself out, kicking and banging on the door. 19:27.500 --> 19:29.340 Nobody said a word. 19:29.340 --> 19:32.700 Willard and Kinniston just stared at me and at each other. 19:32.700 --> 19:38.900 By and by, the girl stopped her fussing, and then she stood and stared at the three of us 19:38.900 --> 19:39.900 in rotation. 19:39.900 --> 19:42.740 It would have made her flesh crawl. 19:42.740 --> 19:47.420 Outside, the blizzard was getting worse, if possible. 19:47.420 --> 19:52.540 Finally, I reached into the watch pocket of my pants and brought out the old timepiece. 19:52.540 --> 19:53.540 What... 19:53.540 --> 19:55.540 What time is it, driver? 19:55.540 --> 19:57.540 I broke the crystal. 19:57.540 --> 20:00.540 It still says a quarter of four. 20:00.540 --> 20:01.540 It's... 20:01.540 --> 20:02.540 It's five-thirty. 20:02.540 --> 20:05.540 Only an hour and a half since we started out. 20:05.540 --> 20:07.540 An hour and a half. 20:07.540 --> 20:09.540 Five-thirty in the afternoon. 20:09.540 --> 20:12.540 The very best, we're stuck until morning. 20:12.540 --> 20:13.540 Fourteen. 20:13.540 --> 20:14.540 Sixteen hours. 20:14.540 --> 20:16.540 Might as well be forever. 20:16.540 --> 20:19.300 Look, miss, we just got to make the best of it. 20:19.300 --> 20:21.540 I still think you ought to go back to the rear seat. 20:21.540 --> 20:22.540 Can't sleep? 20:22.540 --> 20:23.540 If you can. 20:23.540 --> 20:26.820 Willard, the driver and myself will be keeping a rather close eye on each other. 20:26.820 --> 20:28.820 In the light of recent developments... 20:28.820 --> 20:29.820 Developments? 20:29.820 --> 20:30.820 You'll be all right. 20:30.820 --> 20:32.820 Hey, driver, give me that axe. 20:32.820 --> 20:33.820 Huh? 20:33.820 --> 20:35.820 Let her have it for her protection. 20:35.820 --> 20:36.820 Sure. 20:36.820 --> 20:37.820 Sure, let her have it. 20:37.820 --> 20:38.820 Yes. 20:38.820 --> 20:40.820 Yes, give it to me. 20:40.820 --> 20:41.820 Okay. 20:41.820 --> 20:43.820 You holding on to the file, too? 20:43.820 --> 20:44.820 Of course she is. 20:44.820 --> 20:48.820 The file could also be a lethal weapon. 20:48.820 --> 20:56.420 Well, she took the axe and the file back to the rear seat with her, and we all sat down 20:56.420 --> 20:57.420 to wait. 20:57.420 --> 21:02.420 Those were the longest seconds of the longest minutes of the longest hours that ever... 21:02.420 --> 21:08.420 Well, somehow it got to be nine o'clock, ten, eleven. 21:08.420 --> 21:17.420 Finally, it was midnight. 21:17.420 --> 21:23.420 Ever fought against sleep with the cold numbing you and the wind lulling you? 21:23.420 --> 21:27.420 Oftentimes, even the fear of sudden death can't win against those odds. 21:27.420 --> 21:33.420 Time and again, the girl's eyes would close just for a second, and then they stayed closed 21:33.420 --> 21:39.420 longer, and her head nodded and her body slumped over against the corner of the seat. 21:39.420 --> 21:44.420 I got up and started down the aisle. 21:44.420 --> 21:45.420 Where you going? 21:45.420 --> 21:46.420 Shh, Keniston. 21:46.420 --> 21:47.420 Can't you see she's asleep? 21:47.420 --> 21:48.420 Where are you going? 21:48.420 --> 21:49.420 Her lap robe slipped to the floor. 21:49.420 --> 21:52.420 I was going to pick it up and cover her so she wouldn't freeze. 21:52.420 --> 21:53.420 Any objections? 21:53.420 --> 21:54.420 I'll do it. 21:54.420 --> 21:55.420 Oh, no, you won't. 21:55.420 --> 21:56.420 Go ahead, driver. 21:56.420 --> 21:57.420 See, Keniston? 21:57.420 --> 21:59.420 Willard thinks I should do it. 21:59.420 --> 22:02.420 That makes it two to one. 22:02.420 --> 22:05.420 Help me! 22:05.420 --> 22:10.420 Help me with this wild cat! 22:10.420 --> 22:15.420 Get that file away from her before she jabs my eyes out! 22:15.420 --> 22:20.420 She was like a devil on a pinwheel, and I was lucky to tear loose before she did any more 22:20.420 --> 22:22.420 damage to me. 22:22.420 --> 22:25.420 Afterwards, when Willard told her what I was up to, she apologized. 22:25.420 --> 22:30.420 But I didn't go near her again all the rest of that night. 22:30.420 --> 22:37.420 Well, about five o'clock the blizzard stopped, and at seven the sun managed to break through. 22:37.420 --> 22:39.420 Then we held a council of war. 22:39.420 --> 22:41.420 We can't send out for help. 22:41.420 --> 22:42.420 Why not? 22:42.420 --> 22:43.420 Don't you see, Mr. Willard? 22:43.420 --> 22:48.420 If we split up the men, whichever of you is Greg would have too good an opportunity, 22:48.420 --> 22:50.420 whether he goes or stays. 22:50.420 --> 22:53.420 You could go alone. 22:53.420 --> 22:54.420 I'd never make it. 22:54.420 --> 22:56.420 We could all go together. 22:56.420 --> 22:58.420 How about that driver? 22:58.420 --> 23:02.420 Well, no, I'd rather stick with a bus, Keniston. 23:02.420 --> 23:07.420 But before we decide anything, let's get out and look around. 23:07.420 --> 23:12.420 We got a window open on the far side of the bus and crawled through, the girl first. 23:12.420 --> 23:14.420 She was still clutching the axe and the file. 23:14.420 --> 23:15.420 Here! 23:15.420 --> 23:16.420 Come here and look! 23:16.420 --> 23:17.420 What? 23:17.420 --> 23:19.420 We've been through the doors and we've escaped the avalanche entirely. 23:19.420 --> 23:20.420 We can shovel our way out. 23:20.420 --> 23:21.420 I'm sure we can. 23:21.420 --> 23:26.420 There were two shovels in the tool compartment at the tail guard of the bus. 23:26.420 --> 23:32.420 That only let two men shovel at a time, and the third man getting a breather meanwhile. 23:32.420 --> 23:34.420 It took a lot of shoveling. 23:34.420 --> 23:36.420 Was some head of dirt? 23:36.420 --> 23:38.420 Hurt your hand? 23:38.420 --> 23:40.420 No, nothing much. 23:40.420 --> 23:43.420 This feels good to take off those stiff leather gloves. 23:43.420 --> 23:47.420 Nasty blisters you got on that right hand. 23:47.420 --> 23:48.420 Something... 23:48.420 --> 23:50.420 Hey, Keniston, are you shoveling or talking? 23:50.420 --> 23:52.420 We'll never get out of here at this rate. 23:52.420 --> 23:55.420 It's your turn anyway. 23:55.420 --> 23:57.420 I'm tired. 23:57.420 --> 23:58.420 Not as tired as Willard looks. 23:58.420 --> 23:59.420 I'll relieve him. 23:59.420 --> 24:02.420 No, no, that's all right. 24:02.420 --> 24:05.420 I can keep going yet for a while. 24:05.420 --> 24:08.420 Okay then, Keniston, here. 24:08.420 --> 24:09.420 Let me take a turn. 24:09.420 --> 24:11.420 I know I won't be of much help, but I can at least try. 24:11.420 --> 24:14.420 No, no, no, you're mountain guard. 24:14.420 --> 24:16.420 Though I'm sure you could do as well as Keniston. 24:16.420 --> 24:18.420 Keniston. 24:18.420 --> 24:19.420 Where's Keniston? 24:19.420 --> 24:20.420 Why, he's right... 24:20.420 --> 24:22.420 Stop him! 24:23.420 --> 24:26.420 Keniston was making a mad dash through the snow. 24:26.420 --> 24:28.420 Willard dropped his shovel and tore after him. 24:28.420 --> 24:32.420 I yelled for Willard to let him go, but I don't think he even heard me. 24:32.420 --> 24:34.420 For a while it looked like Keniston was going to make it. 24:34.420 --> 24:37.420 But then he floundered and fell in a snow drift. 24:37.420 --> 24:40.420 And before he could get underway again, Willard knifed him. 24:40.420 --> 24:42.420 Oh, no! 24:48.420 --> 24:50.420 Well, he'll stay put for a while. 24:50.420 --> 24:51.420 What'd you do, knock him out? 24:51.420 --> 24:52.420 Well, what else was there to do? 24:52.420 --> 24:53.420 Is he... 24:53.420 --> 24:55.420 I know all the time it was Keniston. 24:55.420 --> 24:57.420 You think his running away proves it? 24:57.420 --> 24:59.420 It's the same as if he confessed. 24:59.420 --> 25:00.420 He knew it was his last and only chance. 25:00.420 --> 25:02.420 What are we going to do with him now? 25:02.420 --> 25:03.420 Tie him up. 25:03.420 --> 25:05.420 Then we're getting him on the bus out of here. 25:05.420 --> 25:10.420 Say, I wonder if there's a reward. 25:15.420 --> 25:19.420 In no time at all we had the bus clear and headed for civilization. 25:19.420 --> 25:23.420 Those snow-covered mountain roads weren't exactly my idea of a speedway, 25:23.420 --> 25:25.420 but I gave my motor the gun. 25:25.420 --> 25:28.420 Willard and the girl didn't take their eyes off Keniston. 25:28.420 --> 25:32.420 I kept watching him too, out of the mirror, over the driver's seat. 25:32.420 --> 25:34.420 He looks like he's coming too. 25:34.420 --> 25:35.420 Don't worry, driver. 25:35.420 --> 25:37.420 Those knots I made in the rope won't give. 25:37.420 --> 25:42.420 Besides, I'm keeping the axe handy, just in case. 25:42.420 --> 25:43.420 He's opening his eyes. 25:43.420 --> 25:45.420 Watch him now. Watch him. 25:45.420 --> 25:48.420 Yes, watch me. And listen to me too. 25:48.420 --> 25:49.420 Shut up, Keniston. 25:49.420 --> 25:52.420 I'll stop this bus and put you out for good. 25:52.420 --> 25:53.420 Not before I've had my say. 25:53.420 --> 25:55.420 Willard and you too, lady. 25:55.420 --> 25:57.420 Why do you think I tried to make a break for it? 25:57.420 --> 25:58.420 Because you were... 25:58.420 --> 25:59.420 You're killer Greg. 25:59.420 --> 26:00.420 You fools! 26:00.420 --> 26:02.420 You blind, stupid fools! 26:02.420 --> 26:07.420 Was it my watch that had his crystal smashed at a quarter to four yesterday afternoon? 26:07.420 --> 26:09.420 So it was mine. So what? 26:09.420 --> 26:11.420 At a quarter to four yesterday afternoon, 26:11.420 --> 26:15.420 killer Greg waylaid the real driver of this bus and took his place. 26:15.420 --> 26:17.420 That's how the crystal came to be broken. 26:17.420 --> 26:20.420 Shut up, Keniston. You can't talk your way out of this. 26:20.420 --> 26:22.420 It could be a coincidence. 26:22.420 --> 26:23.420 Sure, sure. 26:23.420 --> 26:25.420 That's what I thought too. Coincidence. 26:25.420 --> 26:29.420 Until I noticed the blisters on the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand. 26:29.420 --> 26:31.420 A file would make blisters like that. 26:31.420 --> 26:35.420 A file held in the right hand of killer Greg. 26:35.420 --> 26:38.420 Look at him! Look at him! It's true! 26:38.420 --> 26:39.420 Greg! Greg! 26:39.420 --> 26:41.420 Don't come a step closer, any of you. 26:41.420 --> 26:43.420 You make the slightest moving off crash the whole lot of us. 26:43.420 --> 26:45.420 Don't do it, Greg. Stop the bus. 26:45.420 --> 26:46.420 We won't do anything. 26:46.420 --> 26:48.420 It was a perfect plan. It had to work. 26:48.420 --> 26:50.420 If only that avalanche hadn't come along. 26:50.420 --> 26:52.420 But I'll still make it. 26:52.420 --> 26:53.420 I'll make it even if I have to. 26:53.420 --> 26:55.420 Look out, Keniston! 26:55.420 --> 26:59.420 No! No! 27:10.420 --> 27:14.420 It rolled over and over and over and over. 27:14.420 --> 27:19.420 The bus and the glass all smashed. 27:19.420 --> 27:23.420 Everybody was all mangled and... 27:23.420 --> 27:26.420 All right, all right. Go to sleep now. 27:26.420 --> 27:29.420 Sleep? 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