1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 And now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Roma Wines present Suspense. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Brian Dunleavy as star of Lazarus Walks, 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 a suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Suspense. 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It has to be. 18 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:25,000 I, Robert Winsley Graham, a doctor and psychiatrist by profession, 19 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 do hereby of my own free will and volition, albeit with deepest regret, 20 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:37,000 make the following full and complete statement relative to that all but unbelievable series of events, 21 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:45,000 which has brought such disaster and misfortune to my house and particularly to my poor wife, Isabelle. 22 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:52,000 It had its beginning, properly speaking, some two months ago, to be exact, on the evening of August 25th. 23 00:01:52,000 --> 00:02:01,000 We were in the drawing room, Isabelle, at the piano, practicing, as she said, her Aunt Jane and I on opposite sides. 24 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Isabelle, what's the matter? 25 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:12,000 I don't know. I can't seem to keep my mind on anything anymore. Even my music. Nerves. 26 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Nerves. 27 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Aunt Jane, please. 28 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,000 I'm sorry, but I don't believe in beating about the bush. You're an artist. You've got talent. 29 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 There's no sense in your trying to subordinate yourself to somebody else. 30 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Aunt Jane, that's enough. I'm not subordinating myself to anyone. 31 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Really, Aunt Jane, you mustn't interfere, you know. 32 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Robert doesn't want me to go back on stage. 33 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Oh, darling, it isn't that I don't want you to go back. I'm proud of you. You know that. 34 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:44,000 It's only because I think, because I know that going back to a professional career at your present mental condition could be terribly harmful. 35 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Yes, I know, Robert. I know you're right. 36 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,000 After all, I am a doctor. It's my business to know these things. I'll get it, probably, in the hospital. 37 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Hello. Yes, this is Dr. Graham. 38 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Who? 39 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Oh, yes. Yes, why, of course. When would you like to see me? 40 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:11,000 All right, fine. No, no, no trouble at all. Very well, I'll be expecting you. Goodbye. 41 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Isabelle, good heavens, who do you suppose that was? 42 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Who? 43 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Roger Holcomb. Do you remember the case? Roger Holcomb. 44 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Roger Holcomb? 45 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,000 I remember it. 46 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Of course you do. The fellow who was brought back from the dead, as the newspapers put it, about a year ago. 47 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Oh, yes. 48 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,000 You know, he really was dead for four full minutes, as far as medical science was concerned. 49 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 And then Bates brought him around. It was a nine-day's wonder at the time. 50 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,000 What does he want to see you about? 51 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,000 I don't know. Something to do with his experience, obviously. 52 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:49,000 He was in a terribly agitated state, poor fellow. He had been walking up and down in front of the house for an hour, trying to get up courage to ring the bell. 53 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Finally, he phoned from the corner drugstore. 54 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Oh, the poor man. Why in the world would he do that? 55 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Anxiety neurosis. They hounded him in the most shocking way when he got out of the hospital. 56 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,000 You know, preachers and spiritualists and movie agents and just plain fakers. 57 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,000 People trying to find out if he remembered anything of the four minutes when he was supposed to be dead. 58 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 And people just trying to exploit him. 59 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Oh, that's notoriety. Some thrive on it, some don't. One man's meat is another man's poison. 60 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Well, that must be Holcomb now. I'll take him into the office. 61 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Dr. Graham? 62 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Yes. You're Roger Holcomb? 63 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Yes. 64 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Come in. 65 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Thank you. 66 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Holcomb. 67 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Is it? 68 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Sit down. 69 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Why did you come to me, Mr. Holcomb? 70 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Huh? I was told that you specialized in strange cases. 71 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Things that other men can't explain. 72 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Yes, that's true in a way. 73 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 You know what happened when I got out of the hospital? 74 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 How they followed me and questioned me, hounded me day and night. 75 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Trying to find out if I remembered anything. 76 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,000 If I'd experienced anything beyond the grave. 77 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Yes, I remember that. 78 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Then you remember that my answer was always the same, that I remembered nothing, that I knew nothing. 79 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Well, I was wrong. 80 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Oh? What did you experience during those four minutes? 81 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:30,000 I don't know. But it must have been something. Something I don't even dare to think about. 82 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 How do you know this? 83 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Well, it happened the first time on a boat trip, which I'd taken to recover my health. 84 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,000 I found myself chatting with a woman who was seated at my table in the dining salon. 85 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,000 She found occasion, such women often will, to mention her age. 86 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,000 She said, after all, I'm not yet 40. 87 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 And then it happened. 88 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 What happened? 89 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:04,000 From somewhere came crashing into my mind a certain knowledge of the exact day and year of that woman's birth. 90 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:12,000 And with it, a compulsion to speak out. A compulsion which I could no more have resisted than I could have resisted breathing. 91 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:17,000 I said, Madam, you were born in May, weren't you? May 30th. 92 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,000 And then I added the date, the year 1900. She was well over 40. She'd lied to me. 93 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:29,000 It's an innocent enough thing, but I had known the truth and been forced to speak it. 94 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 And I have been ever since. 95 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Well, and this condition has existed only since your... 96 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Since my four minutes beyond the grave, yes. 97 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,000 It's as though... well, this will sound... 98 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:56,000 It's as though in that brief time I had glimpsed eternity, that I'd seen revealed all truth of all the ages. 99 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Now, I know that sounds foolish, but... 100 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,000 This is most amazing. 101 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Tell me, you have a family and friends who are understanding... 102 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Oh, for heaven's sake, Doctor, don't you understand what this has done to me? 103 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Yes, I had a family, friends, a girl I was going to marry. 104 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Today I'm an outcast, a pariah. I'm shunned, feared. It's hate. Hate it! 105 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Mr. Holcomb, I believe that this condition is very real to you, causes you very real anguish. 106 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 And I want to help you. 107 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Do you think you can? 108 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 I am confident that I can. 109 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Do you suppose you could arrange to stay with me here at my home for a matter of weeks or months, if necessary? 110 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Oh, I'd do anything, anything in the world to be a normal man again. 111 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Well, you'll have your own quarters. You'll be quite comfortable, I assure you. 112 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Well, I'm sure. It's a lovely house, what I've seen of it. 113 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Yes, I'm rather lucky. I'm interested in research primarily, not much money in that, you know, 114 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:00,000 but a couple of years ago I came into quite a nice inheritance. The house went with it. 115 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Oh, what is it? What's the matter? 116 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:12,000 The inheritance was not yours, it was your wife's. The house is your wife's. You are penniless. 117 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,000 That's true. I don't know why I lied to you. Pride, I suppose. 118 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 I'm sorry. I told you I couldn't help it. I'll go now. 119 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 No, no, please. It was my fault. It's a small matter. 120 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 But you see now that... 121 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 I want to help you. 122 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Do you believe me now? 123 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:38,000 I believe, Mr. Holcomb, either that you are far more ill than I realized, or that in the months to come, 124 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:56,000 you and I must venture into a realm never before explored by mortal man. 125 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,000 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Brian Dunleavy in Lazarus Walks, 126 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:06,000 a radio play by Robert L. Richards from a story by J. 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I don't care what Robert says. 158 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 I've been sick, that's all. He's made you sick. 159 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 That's ridiculous. Maybe it's just that he's afraid of losing you. 160 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Maybe he's even afraid of losing your money. 161 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 But I'm absolutely convinced that whether he's meant it or not, 162 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 he's made you believe there's something the matter with you that isn't. 163 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Aunt Jane, I simply forbid you to talk this way. 164 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Isabel, Isabel, do something before it's too late. 165 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Do? Why, it's yet a way. Leave him, divorce him, anything. 166 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Aunt Jane, you don't know what you're saying. 167 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Oh, I hope we're not interrupting. 168 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Of course not, darling. 169 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Hello, Roger. 170 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Hello, Isabel. This is Pot. 171 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Good afternoon. 172 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 How are you feeling, Roger? 173 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Well, better, I think. 174 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,000 I think it would be better if we didn't discuss our states of mind, Isabel. 175 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Oh, yes. Of course. I'm sorry. 176 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Well, would you like me to play something for you? 177 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,000 You know, I think I'm beginning to get the feel of it again. Really, I do. 178 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,000 You're sure we haven't interrupted some conversation? 179 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Of course not. 180 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:55,000 We were just discussing how helpful you've been in getting Isabel back to her work again. 181 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,000 Roger. 182 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:03,000 No, you are not. You were telling Isabel to divorce her husband. 183 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Why? 184 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Isabel. 185 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 186 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Roger, come back here. 187 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Isabel, is that true? 188 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 You brought him in here deliberately. 189 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Is that true? 190 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,000 It doesn't matter. Oh, you know now how I felt for a long time. 191 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Yes, I'm afraid I have. 192 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Robert, it was all so silly. She didn't mean it. It was just that she... 193 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,000 I did mean it. I'm sorry, Isabel, but I've been under this roof too long, as it is. 194 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Oh, Aunt Jane, you're not leaving us. 195 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 It's the best, Isabel. 196 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Yes, I think it is decidedly best that you go at once. 197 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:39,000 The End 198 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,000 It was this incident which gave me my first insight into the relationship 199 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,000 which was destined to develop between Isabel Roger and myself. 200 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:56,000 The first and most obvious result was that Isabel and I became further estranged as each day passed. 201 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:02,000 It was difficult to speak of even the most casual things with this strangely terrifying specter of truth 202 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,000 always at our elbow. 203 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:08,000 The situation reached its inevitable climax the evening that Leopold Sierinski, 204 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,000 the famous conductor of the Los Angeles Symphony, 205 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:17,000 was to call on Elizabeth with a view to a resumption of her professional career under his auspices. 206 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,000 I gave a great deal of thought to that evening. 207 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 It had to be handled with the greatest tact. 208 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Robert, you will help me, won't you? 209 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Of course I will, darling. 210 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Robert, does he have to have dinner with us tonight? 211 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Roger? Isabel, you know how I stand on that. 212 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Oh yes, I know, but just this once. 213 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Even once, Isabel, to keep him in his room like a spoiled child when we have guests 214 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 might undo everything I've accomplished in weeks. 215 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 I know, darling, of course you're right, but... 216 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 Roger, come in. 217 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,000 Robert. 218 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 Yes? 219 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 I was wondering if I mightn't be excused. Just tonight. 220 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 You're having dinner with us, Roger. 221 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Must I? 222 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 You know you must, Roger, and you know why. 223 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Roger, don't you want to meet Mr. Sierinski? He's really a wonderful person. 224 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Yes, indeed I would very much, but... 225 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,000 You know, Roger, I made my debut with him in 1934. 226 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,000 I did a concert with him every year until... until... 227 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Isabel was very talented. 228 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:24,000 I was. I am. 229 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Roger, I'm going to play with him again, you know. 230 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 He... he wants me to open the season in November. 231 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Can you imagine what it means to me? 232 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,000 I'm so glad, Isabel. 233 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 And Robert has finally given his consent, haven't you, dear? 234 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Robert? 235 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 I'm sorry. What was it you said, Isabel? 236 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 I said you'd given your consent to my playing with Sierinski. 237 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:53,000 I... Isabel, you know I don't want you to think that I'd ever stand in your way. 238 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Yes, I... I know, dear. 239 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,000 I'll do the... the Emperor concerto and... and you'll come to hear me. 240 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 You do want to, don't you, Roger? 241 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Well, I... Please, Isabel, don't ask me things that I can't... 242 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 What's the matter? What's the matter with both of you? 243 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 You act as though you thought I wouldn't be able to appear. 244 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 As though the whole idea were hopeless or something. 245 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Isabel, please. 246 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,000 I am going to play. And I'll be better than I ever was. 247 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,000 You know I will, don't you? Don't you? 248 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Yes, yes, of course, Isabel. You'll play wonderfully. 249 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,000 No. No, Robert, no, that's untrue. 250 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:36,000 You're very certain that Isabel will be prevented from ever playing a game by death. 251 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Death? 252 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Oh, Isabel, forgive me. Forgive me. 253 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:47,000 By death? No. No, it's not true. 254 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Tell me it isn't. 255 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Roger. Roger, who's going to die? 256 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Answer me. Roger, do you hear me? Answer me. 257 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Answer me! 258 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:15,000 When Sirenski arrived, I told him that it would be quite impossible for Isabel to leave her room. 259 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:21,000 The concert was cancelled and, indeed, to my knowledge, she has never touched the piano since that day. 260 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:32,000 By now, to even the most casual observer, it must appear only natural that Isabel had every motive for a desperate, almost paranoid hatred of Roger Holcomb. 261 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,000 This much was clear to me, the rest not yet. 262 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:40,000 As a precautionary measure, I prescribed a drug for Isabel, which she at last consented to take. 263 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:45,000 I gave her her own supply and she administered it to herself as I had directed. 264 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,000 But one thing, from any point of view, was certain. 265 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:55,000 I had to keep Roger and Isabel apart. Perhaps what I feared was, indeed, inevitable. 266 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:10,000 I honestly did not think so at the time. 267 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Roger. Roger. 268 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Yes? 269 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 It's me, Isabel. 270 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000 What do you want? 271 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Let me in, please. 272 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,000 No. 273 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Please. It's terribly important. 274 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Robert said... 275 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,000 No. But he said... he said it would be all right this time. 276 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Are you sure? 277 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Yes. Yes, please. 278 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 All right. 279 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Now, what do you want? 280 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 I want to talk to you, that's all. 281 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,000 What about? That's so important. 282 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Roger, why don't you ever leave your room anymore? 283 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Can't you guess? 284 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Do you think I hate you? 285 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Oh, Isabel, I don't know what to think anymore. 286 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,000 You do, don't you? 287 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,000 I warned him. I told him it would happen. 288 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Now I'm going mad up here thinking you'd be anguished I've caused you... 289 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 But, Roger, I don't... you must believe me. 290 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 I know what it's been like for you having me here, Isabel. 291 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Roger. Roger, you see... 292 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 You see, for the first time in my life, 293 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 I think my husband is wrong about something. 294 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Wrong? 295 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Yes. 296 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Don't you see? 297 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 He's been worried about both of us, and so this... 298 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 this distrust has grown up between us. 299 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Well, I don't distrust you, Isabel. 300 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 You've been more wonderful to me. 301 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 But you're... you're afraid of me. 302 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 And that amounts to the same thing. 303 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,000 And it's bad for both of us. It's hurting both of us. 304 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,000 I've often felt I wanted to talk to you, to beg your pardon... 305 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Oh, Roger, you don't have to do that. We're both... 306 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,000 We're both sick. 307 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,000 But I... I think if we saw each other sometimes, 308 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 if we talked the whole thing out, it would help us both. 309 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Does... does Robert think so, too? 310 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,000 No. 311 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Then he didn't tell you it was all right to see me? 312 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,000 No. I lied to you. 313 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,000 You what? 314 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,000 I lied to you. 315 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,000 You lied to me. 316 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,000 And it didn't happen. 317 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000 Isabel, don't you see? I am getting well. It didn't happen. 318 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000 I know. I know, Roger. I don't think it does happen anymore, 319 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,000 except with... except with Robert. 320 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,000 With Robert? But what makes you think that I... 321 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,000 I don't know. Something about the way he acts. 322 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 The way he is. 323 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,000 But Isabel, he is curing me, then. 324 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Perhaps you shouldn't have... 325 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000 No! 326 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Don't you understand? We must see each other. 327 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 We must talk. 328 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Isabel. 329 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Robert, something's happened that I must take... 330 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,000 Please, you're completely overwrought. 331 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,000 But, Robert... 332 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,000 I must insist. Isabel, why did you do this? 333 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,000 I'm sorry. 334 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,000 You have to have a sedative right away. Isabel, get the bottle from your room. 335 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,000 No. 336 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Mine? 337 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Yes. Yes, hurry. 338 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,000 All right. 339 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Robert, she lied to me. 340 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Yes, yes, I know. But, Roger, I must absolutely forbid you to talk now. 341 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 You must trust me. 342 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Why... all right, but... but later I want to have a long talk. 343 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,000 Of course we shall. 344 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Here it is. And I brought my hypodermic, too. 345 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 I'm glad you did. The other one's mislaid somewhere. 346 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Will you give it to him, please? 347 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000 I? 348 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Yes, this has upset me rather badly. My hands are shaking. 349 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Oh, Robert, I'm terribly sorry. 350 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 No matter now. Give him the hypodermic. In the upper arm. 351 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,000 That's right. 352 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000 Yes. 353 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Right there. 354 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Thank you. Leave us now, please, Isabel. 355 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Yes. All right. 356 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 How are you feeling now, Roger? 357 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Huh. I'm fine, Robert. I think I'm better than I have been in months. 358 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,000 I know you're better. That's why I was so upset. You see? 359 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Well, why, Robert? 360 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 I can't tell you all my reasons now, but you must trust me and believe in me. 361 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Oh, I... I do. 362 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 It's only that I'm afraid. 363 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 For your health. 364 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Ah! 365 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Roger! 366 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:53,000 No! You're afraid of... murder! 367 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000 It was clear to me now. I knew I must take immediate action. 368 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:14,000 I knew that the most terrible consequences might result if Isabel were alone with Roger Holcomb even for a moment. 369 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,000 For he knew. He said so. There was no other explanation. 370 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,000 I thought it through most carefully, and yet no plans are perfect. 371 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000 No man is infallible. 372 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Isabel. 373 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Ah! 374 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 Robert. You frighten me. 375 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,000 What were you doing? 376 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Why, nothing. 377 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Don't lie to me, Isabel. 378 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 I'm not. I was... 379 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 You were coming from Roger's room. 380 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,000 No. No, I swear I wasn't. 381 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Isabel, don't you understand that you're sick? 382 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000 That I've insisted on these things for your own good and his... 383 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 All right. I was going to talk to him, but I haven't. 384 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Oh, Isabel, why do you try to tell me that? 385 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 But it's true, Robert. Really true. 386 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Is it? 387 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Roger. Roger! 388 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 What? What's the matter? 389 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Look. 390 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Robert. 391 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Oh, no, it couldn't be. 392 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,000 It is. He's dead. 393 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,000 Dead? 394 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,000 The hypodermic by his side. The drug. Your drug. Your hypodermic. 395 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 But it's only a sedative. 396 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Except that in large quantities it's fatal. You know that. 397 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Oh, Robert, no. No, listen to me. 398 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Oh, Isabel, why? Why? When I warned you... 399 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Robert, look at me. 400 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Look at me. It's Isabel. It's your wife. 401 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 You can't... 402 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,000 No. 403 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Where are you going? 404 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Robert, come back here. 405 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 I'm going to call the police. 406 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:56,000 The Police 407 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Even though it did not come to me as a shock, 408 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,000 even from my point of view as a scientist, 409 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 it was terrible enough. 410 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Yet, it had to be done, and I had done it. 411 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 I did not speak to her as we waited, 412 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,000 and she made no further attempt to appeal to me. 413 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000 The police arrived. 414 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000 I told the story with as little emotion as possible. 415 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Yeah? Yeah, their fingerprints are all right 416 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 on both the bottle and the hypodermic. 417 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Those would be my wife's, of course. 418 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 They both belonged to her. 419 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Is that true, Mrs. Graham? 420 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Yes. 421 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Dr. Graham, do I understand you are formally charging your wife 422 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,000 with the murder of Roger Holcomb? 423 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,000 You could hardly expect me to do that, could you, Inspector? 424 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,000 I am simply telling you the facts. 425 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Yeah? 426 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Well, you've carefully avoided saying anything definite 427 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,000 as to your suspicions, Doctor. 428 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000 But I get the distinct impression she hated him. 429 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,000 My wife has been mentally ill for some time. 430 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000 There are many people who can testify to that. 431 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 She will plead insanity, Inspector, of course. 432 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Well, Dr. Graham, I can't tell you how sorry I am, 433 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,000 but the things you've told me add up to only one thing, 434 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,000 as you yourself obviously recognize. 435 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Yes. 436 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Your wife, Isabelle Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb. 437 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,000 What? 438 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,000 What did you say? 439 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 I said your wife, Isabelle Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb. 440 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,000 No. 441 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 No. 442 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,000 I did. 443 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,000 What? 444 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:50,000 The truth is, I murdered him. 445 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 No plans are perfect. 446 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 No man is infallible. 447 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Yes, I killed Roger Holcomb, 448 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,000 and I had planned to dispose of Isabelle for many months. 449 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000 I had never loved her. 450 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,000 I had loved only science, and I wanted her money, 451 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 and Holcomb found it out. 452 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 That was the risk I ran, 453 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 that any chance lie in his presence, 454 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,000 either by Isabelle or myself, would bring out the truth. 455 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 And it did. 456 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,000 I had no alternative once he discovered that, 457 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 but to kill him. 458 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,000 It was easy enough to throw the blame on Isabelle, 459 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:29,000 but I had not counted on that terrible compulsion for the truth, 460 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 that strange affliction of Roger Holcomb's, 461 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,000 and its power over me. 462 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Did it transfer itself at his death to me, 463 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 or was it conscience? 464 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,000 It is a pity that it had to end this way. 465 00:26:45,000 --> 00:27:00,000 It was a fascinating case. 466 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Suspense. 467 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, 468 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,000 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 469 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,000 And now this is Ken Niles bringing back to our suspense microphone 470 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,000 the star of tonight's play, Brian Donlevy. 471 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Well Brian, we can't give you an Oscar 472 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,000 for your outstanding performance tonight, 473 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,000 but Roma does want you to enjoy this basket of fine Grand Estate wines. 474 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Grand Estate wines, well, that kind of Oscar has taste to it, Ken. 475 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000 Right you are, Brian. 476 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Here in your basket is Grand Estate California Burgundy, 477 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:40,000 and Grand Estate Burgundy at mealtime really makes a difference you can taste. 478 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Yes, Grand Estate Burgundy brings out all the taste goodness in juicy roast beef, 479 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,000 adds to your enjoyment of a good steak, 480 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,000 abrasive sizzling chops, or even simple hamburgers. 481 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,000 Ken, you're killing me. 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You know we specialize in the unexpected on Suspense. 494 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,000 No, Mr. Carson will I think astonish a great many listeners 495 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,000 who think of him as a gay mad joke-smith. 496 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000 They'll hear him really give out with a drama 497 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,000 when he appears on Suspense next Thursday. 498 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,000 He'll play a man who wants his freedom badly enough to kill somebody for it. 499 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000 Well that I've got to hear. 500 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Well thanks Ken and Bill and Lud. It's been swell as usual. 501 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Well thank you again Brian. 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