WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.000 And now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:08.000 --> 00:12.000 Roma Wines presents Suspense. 00:15.000 --> 00:21.000 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Gene Lockhart as star of Statement of Employee Henry Wilson. 00:21.000 --> 00:30.000 A Suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:30.000 --> 00:37.000 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 00:37.000 --> 00:40.000 That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. 00:40.000 --> 00:45.000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. 00:45.000 --> 00:50.000 To your happiness in entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 00:50.000 --> 00:53.000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, 00:53.000 --> 00:59.000 as Roma Wines bring you Gene Lockhart in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:03.000 --> 01:07.000 I, I was aware that I was trembling. 01:07.000 --> 01:11.000 I tried walking slowly back and forth in front of the desk, 01:11.000 --> 01:16.000 but even in motion my knees felt weak, and my whole body shook. 01:16.000 --> 01:22.000 Why was it always I who trembled, and never this pompous insect sitting in front of me? 01:22.000 --> 01:27.000 His voice was cool and mocking. His voice was clear and hard. 01:27.000 --> 01:33.000 I sympathize with you of course, Wilson, but there were error must be brought to Mr. Larkin's attention. 01:33.000 --> 01:38.000 That's quite a big mistake there. Quite a costly mistake. 01:38.000 --> 01:41.000 Mr. Larkin must know. In the morning. 01:41.000 --> 01:43.000 He wouldn't cover it up. I knew that. 01:43.000 --> 01:47.000 Since 1938 I'd been working there, enjoying the work, liking the people. 01:47.000 --> 01:50.000 Then he had come, two years ago. 01:50.000 --> 01:57.000 Have you ever stood quietly by and watched someone rob your house or steal your pocketbook? 01:57.000 --> 02:02.000 I was helpless. He was ambitious. He was clever, and he was fluent. 02:02.000 --> 02:09.000 And as of tonight, I was his subordinate. Two years against ten years. 02:09.000 --> 02:15.000 Around the office I had a reputation for being casual and carefree, but I hated this man. 02:15.000 --> 02:20.000 Every inch of me hated this man. It wasn't a new hatred. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 Of course there's no question of your honesty. 02:22.000 --> 02:27.000 His voice was patronizing. The patient teacher and the unruly pupil. 02:27.000 --> 02:33.000 I hated him. He smiled up at me and waved his hand in dismissal. 02:33.000 --> 02:40.000 He almost brushed a small iron vase off the top of the desk with a gesture. 02:40.000 --> 02:48.000 I'd seen that vase so often, but I'd never seen it out of the eyes that I was looking at it with now. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Good night, Wilson. 02:50.000 --> 02:54.000 Good night, I said. Good night, clever boy. 02:54.000 --> 03:00.000 I walked out into the corridor and rang for the elevator. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Ah, terrible night, ain't it, Mr. Wilson? 03:03.000 --> 03:08.000 I heard the boy talking, like he was yelling from some distant mountain at me. 03:08.000 --> 03:12.000 He was talking and I was answering, but what either of us was saying I didn't know. 03:12.000 --> 03:18.000 I was thinking of something else. And then I heard him say something very clearly. 03:18.000 --> 03:23.000 What do you know? It's eleven-thirty already. You've had a long day today, Mr. Wilson. 03:23.000 --> 03:29.000 Yes. Mr. Dodds is still in his office. You might drop in and see if he wants anything. 03:29.000 --> 03:30.000 I think he'd be very grateful. 03:30.000 --> 03:34.000 Oh, I will, sir. I certainly will. Yeah, it'll help pass the time. 03:34.000 --> 03:39.000 I walked out of the lobby and came back into the building again when the boy had gotten into the elevator. 03:39.000 --> 03:44.000 Four flights up. I took the stairs slowly. I was in no rush. 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 I must let the boy get out of the room first. 03:47.000 --> 03:54.000 He said the night passed slowly. This one wouldn't, and yet there'd be an eternity compressed in it. 03:54.000 --> 03:59.000 When I got to the fourth floor, I stopped at the top of the stairs and watched the door to Dodds' office. 03:59.000 --> 04:03.000 The elevator was parked at the floor, so I knew the boy was in the room. 04:03.000 --> 04:08.000 A short while later he came out, and I crouched back in the shadows until he'd gone down in the car. 04:08.000 --> 04:13.000 And then I walked into Dodds' waiting room. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 Who's there? 04:15.000 --> 04:19.000 I called out my name and entered the office proper. 04:19.000 --> 04:22.000 Yes, what is it, Wilson? 04:22.000 --> 04:29.000 He was still sitting down, and the iron vase was still alongside of him, very close to him. 04:29.000 --> 04:34.000 I started to talk. I don't know what about business, things in general. I've quite forgotten. 04:34.000 --> 04:39.000 I reached across and picked up the iron vase casually, very casually. 04:39.000 --> 04:47.000 But his eyes went wild suddenly, and he jumped, and I hit him square on the top of the head with the vase. 04:47.000 --> 04:52.000 He started to slump back in the chair. I hit him again, hard, and again, and again. 04:52.000 --> 04:58.000 A red streak ran across his forehead, and he... he lay still. 04:58.000 --> 05:04.000 I put my hand against his heart. For a moment there was a soft, beating. 05:04.000 --> 05:09.000 Then I could feel nothing. 05:09.000 --> 05:14.000 I... I'm often very nervous. 05:14.000 --> 05:21.000 Ordinary little situations often upset me, like... like getting up to make a speech at the club, or meeting strange young ladies. 05:21.000 --> 05:28.000 And I had just taken a life, and I was calmer than I'd ever been before. 05:28.000 --> 05:33.000 I wiped the vase off and put it back on the desk. I moved slowly back to the door. 05:33.000 --> 05:37.000 I wiped the door now, and I was back to the door. 05:37.000 --> 05:43.000 I wiped the door now, looked once around the room before I opened the door, and stepped out into the waiting room. 05:43.000 --> 05:46.000 And then... 05:47.000 --> 05:51.000 Going home, Mr. Wilson. 05:51.000 --> 05:56.000 I stood there, afraid to turn, afraid to think. 05:56.000 --> 05:59.000 I slammed the door shut behind me and stood in front of it. 05:59.000 --> 06:01.000 Are you... are you all right, Mr. Wilson? 06:01.000 --> 06:05.000 I tried to talk, but the words got caught somewhere in my throat. 06:05.000 --> 06:09.000 It was the sweeper, Tom Heaney, the night sweeper, crazy Tom. 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 I almost fainted. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 Everything had been set so nicely. 06:14.000 --> 06:18.000 I'd left the building, the elevator boy had come up and found Dodds in good health. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 Someone had stolen him later and killed him. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 That would be the elevator boy story. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 I'd left the building. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Are you... are you all right, Mr. Wilson? 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 I had left the building, but... 06:27.000 --> 06:31.000 I'm fine, Tom. A bit of a cold, that's all. 06:31.000 --> 06:35.000 Mr. Dodds is in this room now, Tom, working very late tonight. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 You'd better let his office go for this once. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 Oh, well, if you say so, Mr. Wilson. 06:40.000 --> 06:43.000 Of course, I could give it a quick brush through, though, sir. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 I won't disturb him, then, honestly. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 I stood firm in front of the door. 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 I won't... I won't disturb him. 06:47.000 --> 06:51.000 He began to sweep the sitting room, and I stood and watched him. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 I was nervous again. 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 I had a sickness at the bottom of my stomach. 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 I tried to talk, to talk, and I sounded stupid. 06:59.000 --> 07:03.000 Tom looked at me, and then I thought it would be his word against mine. 07:03.000 --> 07:08.000 A crazy, rambling old man, crazy Tom, and I had left the building. 07:08.000 --> 07:09.000 Well, well, well, well. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 Look how dirty it was. 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 Say, I'm a good sweeper, you know that? 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 Yes, sir, darn good sweeper. 07:15.000 --> 07:16.000 Do you see this broom? 07:16.000 --> 07:17.000 I've got a new broom. 07:17.000 --> 07:20.000 See? See my new broom? See it? 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 Oh, yes, sir, new broom. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 I looked at my watch. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 There's almost 12. 07:25.000 --> 07:28.000 All the time I was wasting with him, I could stand no more. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 Crazy Tom. 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 His story tomorrow would be listed as an idiot's babble. 07:33.000 --> 07:36.000 I had left the building an hour ago. 07:36.000 --> 07:38.000 I couldn't afford to waste any more time. 07:38.000 --> 07:39.000 I walked behind him. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 He was laughing, and I hit him on the back of the neck. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 Not, not, not too hard. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 Just enough to stun him. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 He pitched forward onto the floor. 07:49.000 --> 07:53.000 I dragged him into Dog's office. 07:53.000 --> 07:56.000 I lifted him into the chair facing Dog's. 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 I brought his new broom in from the sitting room, 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 leaned it against the desk in front of Dog's. 08:00.000 --> 08:04.000 I took the iron, the iron bars, 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 and I curled Tom's hands around it for the fingerprints 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 and dropped it at his feet. 08:09.000 --> 08:12.000 Ah. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 Crazy Tom. 08:14.000 --> 08:17.000 An insult, a fight, a killing. 08:17.000 --> 08:21.000 I got to the lobby and looked out of the shadows of the elevator. 08:21.000 --> 08:24.000 The boy was sitting on a chair outside the car asleep. 08:24.000 --> 08:27.000 I came out of the darkness, and I went quickly toward the street 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 and began to walk, rapidly. 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 Then I had a sudden idea. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 I went into a cafeteria and used the telephone. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 I called the building I'd just left 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 and got the elevator boy on the phone. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Hello there, Jim. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 This is Mr. Wilson, Jim. 08:42.000 --> 08:44.000 Hasn't he been here? 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 Jim, this is Mr. Wilson, Jim. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 Hasn't Mr. Dog's left yet? 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 The voice that answered me was sleepy, 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 and the words were hard to make out, 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 but I knew all the answers. 08:55.000 --> 08:57.000 Well, listen closely, Jim. 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 Will you tell him that the address of the place we were talking about 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 is 144 Gray Street? 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 Yes, 144... 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 That's right. He'll know what I mean. 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 Will you go up and tell him now, Jim? 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 Thanks a lot, Jim. 09:10.000 --> 09:14.000 I was sure the sweeper would be discovered in the room with dogs. 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 The address was a Turkish bath. That's logical. 09:16.000 --> 09:20.000 A man working all night might want to go to a Turkish bath afterwards. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 Jim would walk in there now. 09:23.000 --> 09:27.000 The sweeper would be caught like a rat in a trap, babbling nonsense, 09:27.000 --> 09:29.000 and with a murdered man sitting across from him. 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 I walked home. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 I sat up in my room for hours, 09:35.000 --> 09:39.000 listening to the sounds Manhattan makes in the night. 09:39.000 --> 09:43.000 I heard chimes ring somewhere in the neighborhood. 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 I heard an airplane pass overhead, 09:45.000 --> 09:49.000 and across the hall, someone started to play the radio softly, 09:49.000 --> 09:52.000 and snatches of music filled it into my room. 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 I... I was frightened. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 I sat in my chair and prayed. 09:58.000 --> 10:01.000 What for? I don't know. 10:01.000 --> 10:05.000 Had I done everything to protect myself? Was I safe? 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 I couldn't think clearly now. 10:07.000 --> 10:10.000 I'd left the building. 10:10.000 --> 10:13.000 Finally, I fell asleep. 10:13.000 --> 10:20.000 I sat and slept and dreamed until sunrise. 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 For suspense, Roma wines are bringing Eugene Lockhart 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 in statement of employee Henry Wilson, 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 a radio play by John Shaw. 10:40.000 --> 10:46.000 Roma wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:54.000 --> 10:59.000 Between the acts of Suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines. 10:59.000 --> 11:06.000 Right now, in sunny California's famed wine grape districts of Napa, Sonoma, Lodi, and San Joaquin, 11:06.000 --> 11:10.000 wine growers are picking nature's grape treasure. 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 To bring you better tasting wines, 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 each year Roma, America's greatest vendor, 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 starts with the choicest grapes obtainable. 11:18.000 --> 11:24.000 This year, as always, Roma is crushing from the prized grapes of California's finest vineyards. 11:24.000 --> 11:30.000 Patiently, unhurriedly, the vast, succulent grape treasure is guided to tempting perfection 11:30.000 --> 11:34.000 by Roma's unmatched skill and resources. 11:34.000 --> 11:37.000 Then, along with Roma wines of years before, 11:37.000 --> 11:40.000 this abundance of taste richness awaits selection 11:40.000 --> 11:44.000 from the world's greatest wine reserves for your pleasure. 11:44.000 --> 11:48.000 And whatever your pleasure may be, an afternoon or evening party, 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 a dinner or carefree evening at home, 11:50.000 --> 11:55.000 you'll find there's a Roma California wine to enrich the occasion. 11:55.000 --> 12:00.000 For pleasant entertaining, enjoy gold mellow Roma Muscatel, 12:00.000 --> 12:03.000 or serve fragrant nut-like Roma Sherry. 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 Perfect first call for dinner. 12:05.000 --> 12:08.000 And to provide tasteful luxury at your dinner table, 12:08.000 --> 12:12.000 delicious Roma California Burgundy or Sauternes. 12:12.000 --> 12:18.000 Remember, more Americans enjoy Roma than any other wine. 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 So insist on Roma. 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 R-O-M-A. 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I was completely safe. 13:05.000 --> 13:09.000 But when I left the house, I was still shaking. 13:09.000 --> 13:15.000 I walked all the way around the block the building was on before I went inside. 13:15.000 --> 13:20.000 On the floor where my office was, I saw a policeman, then another, 13:20.000 --> 13:25.000 and then a world was bounded by a ring of police and plainclothes men. 13:25.000 --> 13:27.000 They assembled all of us in the president's office, 13:27.000 --> 13:31.000 and one of them, a sharp, alert young man, began to talk. 13:31.000 --> 13:38.000 Last night, an attempt was made on the life of one of your associates, Mr. Charles Dodds. 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 Oh, no. 13:40.000 --> 13:44.000 I remember when I ran around the room, I was talking with the rest, being surprised with the rest. 13:44.000 --> 13:48.000 But what did he mean, an attempt? This was a trick. 13:48.000 --> 13:54.000 As a matter of fact, Mr. Dodds was killed. 13:54.000 --> 13:59.000 And another man you might know also died last night, Thomas Higbee, the night sweeper. 13:59.000 --> 14:03.000 Oh, Higbee, you crazy Tom, dead too. 14:03.000 --> 14:08.000 Mr. Dodds was clubbed to death. The night sweeper died of a heart attack. 14:08.000 --> 14:11.000 Nothing more is known yet about what happened here last night. 14:11.000 --> 14:17.000 You must all consider yourselves at the disposal of the police, till you're told otherwise. 14:17.000 --> 14:20.000 Mr. Wilson, will you come this way, please? 14:20.000 --> 14:21.000 Yes. 14:21.000 --> 14:25.000 Just a little routine question, and that's all. Everyone here will have to undergo it. 14:25.000 --> 14:29.000 Why, surely, surely. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 Sit here, Mr. Wilson. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 Thank you. 14:33.000 --> 14:36.000 Now, remember what time you left the office last night? 14:36.000 --> 14:42.000 What time? Why, 11.30. Yes, 11.30. I remember the elevator boy mentioned it. 14:42.000 --> 14:44.000 What time did you get home? 14:44.000 --> 14:48.000 Oh, summer's about half past 12, I guess. Yes, just about that time. 14:48.000 --> 14:49.000 Is there anybody who would swear to that? 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 Well, the elevator boy... 14:50.000 --> 14:55.000 I don't mean that. Is there anyone who saw you go into your house at 12.30? 14:55.000 --> 15:00.000 No, I hardly think so. At that time, the streets aren't too well populated, you know, officer. 15:00.000 --> 15:03.000 And I live in a house where people mind their own business. 15:03.000 --> 15:08.000 I really don't know anybody in the house, and I doubt if anyone saw me go into it. 15:08.000 --> 15:12.000 Now, you can check with the elevator boy, though, as to my going home at 11.30. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 Yes, yes, we already have. 15:14.000 --> 15:17.000 You were on the best of terms with Dodds, were you, Wilson? 15:17.000 --> 15:21.000 Oh, I responded him, Mark. I don't know what right you have to say a thing like that. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 Kind of did you out of a job around here, didn't he? 15:23.000 --> 15:27.000 Well, he was a smart man. Mr. Dodds was an exceptionally smart human being. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 It wasn't at all a disgrace to lose a position to him. 15:30.000 --> 15:35.000 If I killed a man every time I had a job taken away from me, I'd have quite a long line of victims behind me. 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 You made a phone call to him last night, didn't you? 15:37.000 --> 15:44.000 To the elevator boy, yes. I remember Mr. Dodds suggesting that he'd go to a Turkish bath after he'd finished work to sort of tone up. 15:44.000 --> 15:48.000 They're very good, you know. And I mentioned that I knew a good one that I could recommend. 15:48.000 --> 15:52.000 And then when he asked me the name of it, I couldn't think of the address of the place. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 But I thought of it later, and I phoned the building. 15:54.000 --> 15:55.000 Where'd you phone from? 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 From a little place in the neighborhood. 15:56.000 --> 15:57.000 About what time did you phone? 15:57.000 --> 16:00.000 About, uh, 12.25, I guess. 16:00.000 --> 16:05.000 I was getting a little mixed up. It couldn't have been then. I was still in the building at 12.30. They were confusing me. 16:05.000 --> 16:11.000 You called at 12.55, Mr. Wilson. So you must have miscalculated the time of your arrival at home. 16:11.000 --> 16:18.000 However, that isn't important. None of us is expected to time ourselves from place to place, are we? 16:18.000 --> 16:23.000 When we find too good an alibi, we get kind of suspicious. 16:23.000 --> 16:27.000 Well, I don't think we'll have to bother you anymore, Mr. Wilson. Thank you. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 Thank you. Thank you. 16:36.000 --> 16:38.000 Oh, hello there, Wilson. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 Very sad. This business is very sad. 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 Yes, Mr. Larkin, yes, sir. 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 But we must go on. Mr. Dodge would want it that way. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 Yes, sir, he would. 16:46.000 --> 16:50.000 It's a responsible job he had, Wilson. You've been with us long enough to know that. 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 Yes, sir. 16:51.000 --> 16:54.000 Do you think you can handle it? 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 Well, sir, I think I... Yes, sir, I think I can. 16:57.000 --> 17:00.000 Good. Get your stuff together and take over Dodge's old office. 17:00.000 --> 17:04.000 You deserve this, Wilson. I'm sure you'll reward our confidence in you. 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 Thank you very much, sir. I heartily beg you. 17:06.000 --> 17:12.000 Oh, on second thought, I think you'd better go into his office right away and sort of straighten out some of the things on his desk. 17:12.000 --> 17:13.000 Yes, sir. 17:13.000 --> 17:14.000 I'll have one of the boys bring your things in later. 17:14.000 --> 17:15.000 Very well, sir. 17:15.000 --> 17:17.000 Yes, yes. Well, good luck, Wilson. 17:17.000 --> 17:18.000 Thank you, sir. 17:18.000 --> 17:24.000 The fat pompous pig. They were in the spot now. Now they needed poor stupid Wilson. 17:24.000 --> 17:29.000 They needed me to get them out of a hole. It was funny. 17:31.000 --> 17:36.000 I took a pencil and a small notebook out of my desk and went back out into the corridor. 17:36.000 --> 17:41.000 I stood for a moment outside Dodge's door, just like last night. 17:41.000 --> 17:45.000 Then I pushed the door open, slowly. 17:45.000 --> 17:50.000 The sitting room. Then the door to the office. 17:50.000 --> 17:53.000 I opened it, walked inside. 17:53.000 --> 17:57.000 I heard the door close softly behind me. 17:57.000 --> 18:03.000 And I stood there, smelling the desk in the air. 18:03.000 --> 18:07.000 And then, and then I saw it. 18:07.000 --> 18:15.000 I tried to yell, but no sound came out. 18:15.000 --> 18:23.000 There, there in front of me, sitting in the chair where I'd popped him last night was Tom Hidby. 18:23.000 --> 18:26.000 His eyes open, his expression blank and staring. 18:26.000 --> 18:29.000 And at his feet was the broom and the vase. 18:29.000 --> 18:32.000 The same new broom, the same iron vase. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 Dodge was all that was missing. 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 I turned, I bolted out into the hole. 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 What's the matter, Wilson? Why you look as if you've seen a ghost. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 In the office, in the office. Hidby. 18:43.000 --> 18:46.000 Hidby? Why, Hidby's dead, man. What's the matter? 18:46.000 --> 18:47.000 Mr. Lockett, Mr. Lockett. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 What's the matter with you, Wilson? 18:49.000 --> 18:50.000 In the office, in the office. 18:50.000 --> 18:51.000 What? 18:51.000 --> 18:54.000 Nothing's the matter in here. 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 I walked in after him. 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 There was nothing there. 19:00.000 --> 19:05.000 Nothing. No Hidby, no broom, no iron vase. 19:05.000 --> 19:08.000 But I'd seen them. I'd seen them. 19:08.000 --> 19:14.000 What's that? Was I going crazy? Was I beginning to go mad? 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 I felt Larkin's pat on my shoulder. 19:17.000 --> 19:21.000 He remembered something about everybody being a little touchy, a little jumpy. 19:21.000 --> 19:27.000 Then he left, and I was alone. No room. 19:27.000 --> 19:31.000 Be careful. Be careful. Be careful. 19:31.000 --> 19:35.000 I stood and stared at the desk and at the chair. 19:35.000 --> 19:40.000 No one was there. No one could have been there. 19:40.000 --> 19:45.000 Oh, my imagination. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 What? 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 Oh, I beg your pardon. 19:48.000 --> 19:49.000 Not at all. 19:49.000 --> 19:52.000 I seem to be in the wrong room. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 I'm Mrs. Charles Dodds. 19:54.000 --> 19:57.000 I'm looking for that young detective. He doesn't seem to be out here. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 I believe he's in the end room, questioning the employees. 20:00.000 --> 20:05.000 Oh, yes. Then I don't suppose he'll be able to see me for a little while. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Do you mind if I wait for him here? 20:07.000 --> 20:08.000 Well, I... 20:08.000 --> 20:09.000 Thank you so much. 20:09.000 --> 20:12.000 Excuse me just a second. 20:12.000 --> 20:23.000 Frank, will you tell the detective that Mrs. Dodds is waiting for him in... my new office? 20:23.000 --> 20:27.000 Mrs. Charles would have liked to see the way everybody is taking his death. 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 Everyone is so kind to me. 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 Mr. Dodds was a fine man. A fine man. 20:32.000 --> 20:35.000 Yes. You're Mr. Wilson, aren't you? 20:35.000 --> 20:36.000 Yes. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 He used to talk about you, Mr. Wilson. 20:38.000 --> 20:42.000 Thought you were a very bright person. He seemed very fun. 20:42.000 --> 20:46.000 I... I just don't know how I'll be able to go on without him. 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 Mrs. Dodds, you mustn't. You mustn't. 20:49.000 --> 20:56.000 Sorry. He wouldn't like to see me carrying on like this, would he? 20:56.000 --> 21:00.000 You know, we were going to buy a home in Westchester this summer. 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 Can I ever tell you that, Mr. Wilson? 21:02.000 --> 21:03.000 No. 21:03.000 --> 21:07.000 Yes, just outside Yonkers. We have two lovely little ones. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 You know, Toby and little Mary. 21:09.000 --> 21:12.000 He loved the New York State countryside. 21:12.000 --> 21:16.000 On, on she rambled. He liked this. He didn't like that. 21:16.000 --> 21:19.000 The children, yes, and the children. Toby and little Mary. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Little Mary and Toby. She was driving me crazy. 21:21.000 --> 21:24.000 Stop it, I want to be ill. Get out of here. Leave me in peace. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 Get out of here, you witch. 21:26.000 --> 21:30.000 Oh, Mrs. Dodds, Detective Lewis would like to see you now. 21:30.000 --> 21:34.000 Oh. Thank you for everything, Mr. Wilson. Bye. 21:34.000 --> 21:37.000 Goodbye. Goodbye. 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 Get out and leave me alone. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 I hadn't meant to do anything like that. 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 I hadn't wanted to do any of the things I was doing. 21:43.000 --> 21:47.000 All I wanted to do was to kill Dodds. All these other things, they weren't mine. 21:47.000 --> 21:51.000 I hadn't killed Higbee. He can't haunt me. His wife can't cry at me. 21:51.000 --> 21:57.000 Ah, ah, heart attack. Yes. Higbee died of a heart attack. 21:57.000 --> 22:02.000 I beg your pardon, sir. Have you seen Mrs. Higbee? The detective is looking for her. 22:02.000 --> 22:06.000 How would I see her? Am I everybody's guardian? How can anybody get lost in this office? 22:06.000 --> 22:10.000 Sorry, sir. Mrs. Higbee? Mrs. Higbee? 22:10.000 --> 22:14.000 Ah, stop it, you fool. You howling idiot. Can't you be looked for quietly? 22:14.000 --> 22:16.000 You'll drag Higbee from his grave with your yelling. 22:16.000 --> 22:19.000 Two widows. 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 What? 22:21.000 --> 22:29.000 You manufacture widows, don't you, Mr. Wilson? Widows and orphans. 22:29.000 --> 22:36.000 Tell me, Mr. Wilson, is it your life's work or is it just a hobby with you? 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 Tell me, Mr. Wilson. 22:38.000 --> 22:43.000 Who is that? Who is that talking? Do they think they can make a fool of me? 22:43.000 --> 22:49.000 Ah, the office communication system. No, no, it's off. 22:49.000 --> 22:55.000 Stop it, Mr. Wilson. You'll go bombing. You've committed the perfect crime. 22:55.000 --> 23:01.000 Don't go crazy and spoil it. Perfection is instinctive with you. 23:01.000 --> 23:02.000 Yes, yes. 23:02.000 --> 23:07.000 Not a plan did you make. Spontaneous perfection. 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 There aren't many who could do that. 23:10.000 --> 23:15.000 Go on. Voices can't frighten me. They deserve to die, and that's why they're dead. 23:15.000 --> 23:28.000 Thou shalt not kill, Mr. Wilson. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill. 23:28.000 --> 23:35.000 No, not Higbee. I didn't kill Crazy Tom. His heart stopped. Do you hear me? That's all? I didn't kill him? 23:35.000 --> 23:40.000 Now, you voices stop. You stop. Do you hear me? Stop. I command it. Stop. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 Is there something wrong, Mr. Wilson? 23:42.000 --> 23:49.000 What? Do you hear them too? You mustn't listen. They lie. Do you hear me? They lie. Now get out. Get out. 23:49.000 --> 23:54.000 You must talk only to me. Do you understand me? Only to me. Not to these others. 23:54.000 --> 24:00.000 Don't say anything to these others. Only to me. Only to me. What do you want? 24:00.000 --> 24:03.000 Well, I don't know. 24:03.000 --> 24:07.000 You think they'll say something bad about me, don't you? Say you can carry me off to jail. 24:07.000 --> 24:12.000 That's what you're waiting for, isn't it? Well, you're going to be disappointed. You see? They're quiet. 24:12.000 --> 24:14.000 What's quiet? Who's quiet? 24:14.000 --> 24:17.000 You think I'm going to tell you? They won't say anything unless I tell them to. 24:17.000 --> 24:20.000 And I'm not going to tell them to say anything. Not one little word. 24:20.000 --> 24:25.000 Last night. You want to know about last night? Ask them. But they won't tell you. 24:25.000 --> 24:28.000 Come here, Lieutenant. Look at the expression on that man's face. 24:28.000 --> 24:33.000 They saw me hit him, and they won't say anything. They were there, but they won't tell you anything. 24:33.000 --> 24:38.000 We could have gotten them out in some other way. You and your psychology. You should leave that stuff in college. 24:38.000 --> 24:42.000 All I did was plant Higbee in the office and write Mrs. Dodds in here and talked in the ventilating system. 24:42.000 --> 24:45.000 Well, those voices had me creeping, too. Incidentally, Dodds was single. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 What? That girl's my fiancee. She's an actress. 24:47.000 --> 24:50.000 Well, for crap. Why did you tell him Higbee was dead? 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 Well, I know. Maybe you better not explain. 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 A little word. Psychology, huh? 24:54.000 --> 24:58.000 Well, what are we going to do with the confession now? We should have pinched him the moment he walked in here. 24:58.000 --> 25:00.000 I'm lucky I never went to college. 25:00.000 --> 25:05.000 There's no use. Why are you waiting here? They won't tell you anything. They're mine. All mine. 25:05.000 --> 25:10.000 I tell them what to say. I tell them the wagon up here. I'm not going to walk this thing through the street. 25:10.000 --> 25:27.000 Henry Wilson, it is the judgment of this court that you be sent to the Hillview Mental Home and be kept there in close confinement. 25:27.000 --> 25:45.000 On, on the voice went. I'd stopped listening to voices, all but the ones that I couldn't help hearing. 25:45.000 --> 25:53.000 But I'm not, I'm not crazy. Not like Tom. I am not crazy. 25:53.000 --> 25:58.000 I tell people that and they look at me clearly. The stupid fools. 25:58.000 --> 26:04.000 The guards here have spread the lie that I have fits. Lies, lies, I tell you. 26:04.000 --> 26:10.000 They say every night when the moon comes up, I have fits. Loud, roaring fits. Well, they lie. 26:10.000 --> 26:16.000 It's then I hear the voices. I hear Dodds and his wife and Toby and little Mary. 26:16.000 --> 26:25.000 I said, quietly, listen to them. Do you think I could have a fit in front of him? 26:25.000 --> 26:52.000 Do you know? I'd be ashamed. 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