WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 And now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 00:07.000 --> 00:11.000 Roma Wines present Suspense. 00:15.000 --> 00:20.000 Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr. Brian Dunleavy as star of Lazarus Walks, 00:20.000 --> 00:25.000 a suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear. 00:25.000 --> 00:32.000 Suspense. 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It has to be. 01:19.000 --> 01:25.000 I, Robert Winsley Graham, a doctor and psychiatrist by profession, 01:25.000 --> 01:30.000 do hereby of my own free will and volition, albeit with deepest regret, 01:30.000 --> 01:37.000 make the following full and complete statement relative to that all but unbelievable series of events, 01:37.000 --> 01:45.000 which has brought such disaster and misfortune to my house and particularly to my poor wife, Isabelle. 01:45.000 --> 01:52.000 It had its beginning, properly speaking, some two months ago, to be exact, on the evening of August 25th. 01:52.000 --> 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. 02:01.000 --> 02:05.000 Isabelle, what's the matter? 02:05.000 --> 02:12.000 I don't know. I can't seem to keep my mind on anything anymore. Even my music. Nerves. 02:12.000 --> 02:13.000 Nerves. 02:13.000 --> 02:14.000 Aunt Jane, please. 02:14.000 --> 02:19.000 I'm sorry, but I don't believe in beating about the bush. You're an artist. You've got talent. 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 There's no sense in your trying to subordinate yourself to somebody else. 02:22.000 --> 02:25.000 Aunt Jane, that's enough. I'm not subordinating myself to anyone. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Really, Aunt Jane, you mustn't interfere, you know. 02:27.000 --> 02:31.000 Robert doesn't want me to go back on stage. 02:31.000 --> 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. 02:35.000 --> 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. 02:44.000 --> 02:47.000 Yes, I know, Robert. I know you're right. 02:47.000 --> 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. 02:53.000 --> 02:57.000 Hello. Yes, this is Dr. Graham. 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 Who? 02:58.000 --> 03:04.000 Oh, yes. Yes, why, of course. When would you like to see me? 03:04.000 --> 03:11.000 All right, fine. No, no, no trouble at all. Very well, I'll be expecting you. Goodbye. 03:11.000 --> 03:15.000 Isabelle, good heavens, who do you suppose that was? 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 Who? 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 Roger Holcomb. Do you remember the case? Roger Holcomb. 03:19.000 --> 03:20.000 Roger Holcomb? 03:20.000 --> 03:21.000 I remember it. 03:21.000 --> 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. 03:27.000 --> 03:28.000 Oh, yes. 03:28.000 --> 03:33.000 You know, he really was dead for four full minutes, as far as medical science was concerned. 03:33.000 --> 03:37.000 And then Bates brought him around. It was a nine-day's wonder at the time. 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 What does he want to see you about? 03:38.000 --> 03:42.000 I don't know. Something to do with his experience, obviously. 03:42.000 --> 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. 03:49.000 --> 03:52.000 Finally, he phoned from the corner drugstore. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Oh, the poor man. Why in the world would he do that? 03:54.000 --> 03:59.000 Anxiety neurosis. They hounded him in the most shocking way when he got out of the hospital. 03:59.000 --> 04:04.000 You know, preachers and spiritualists and movie agents and just plain fakers. 04:04.000 --> 04:10.000 People trying to find out if he remembered anything of the four minutes when he was supposed to be dead. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 And people just trying to exploit him. 04:12.000 --> 04:17.000 Oh, that's notoriety. Some thrive on it, some don't. One man's meat is another man's poison. 04:17.000 --> 04:20.000 Well, that must be Holcomb now. I'll take him into the office. 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 Dr. Graham? 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 Yes. You're Roger Holcomb? 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 Yes. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 Come in. 04:34.000 --> 04:35.000 Thank you. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Holcomb. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Is it? 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 Sit down. 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 Why did you come to me, Mr. Holcomb? 04:45.000 --> 04:50.000 Huh? I was told that you specialized in strange cases. 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 Things that other men can't explain. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 Yes, that's true in a way. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 You know what happened when I got out of the hospital? 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 How they followed me and questioned me, hounded me day and night. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Trying to find out if I remembered anything. 05:04.000 --> 05:09.000 If I'd experienced anything beyond the grave. 05:09.000 --> 05:11.000 Yes, I remember that. 05:11.000 --> 05:16.000 Then you remember that my answer was always the same, that I remembered nothing, that I knew nothing. 05:18.000 --> 05:19.000 Well, I was wrong. 05:19.000 --> 05:24.000 Oh? What did you experience during those four minutes? 05:24.000 --> 05:30.000 I don't know. But it must have been something. Something I don't even dare to think about. 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 How do you know this? 05:32.000 --> 05:38.000 Well, it happened the first time on a boat trip, which I'd taken to recover my health. 05:38.000 --> 05:43.000 I found myself chatting with a woman who was seated at my table in the dining salon. 05:43.000 --> 05:47.000 She found occasion, such women often will, to mention her age. 05:47.000 --> 05:51.000 She said, after all, I'm not yet 40. 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 And then it happened. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 What happened? 05:56.000 --> 06:04.000 From somewhere came crashing into my mind a certain knowledge of the exact day and year of that woman's birth. 06:04.000 --> 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. 06:12.000 --> 06:17.000 I said, Madam, you were born in May, weren't you? May 30th. 06:17.000 --> 06:21.000 And then I added the date, the year 1900. She was well over 40. She'd lied to me. 06:21.000 --> 06:29.000 It's an innocent enough thing, but I had known the truth and been forced to speak it. 06:29.000 --> 06:32.000 And I have been ever since. 06:32.000 --> 06:37.000 Well, and this condition has existed only since your... 06:37.000 --> 06:42.000 Since my four minutes beyond the grave, yes. 06:42.000 --> 06:47.000 It's as though... well, this will sound... 06:47.000 --> 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. 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 Now, I know that sounds foolish, but... 06:59.000 --> 07:02.000 This is most amazing. 07:02.000 --> 07:06.000 Tell me, you have a family and friends who are understanding... 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 Oh, for heaven's sake, Doctor, don't you understand what this has done to me? 07:09.000 --> 07:14.000 Yes, I had a family, friends, a girl I was going to marry. 07:14.000 --> 07:21.000 Today I'm an outcast, a pariah. I'm shunned, feared. It's hate. Hate it! 07:21.000 --> 07:29.000 Mr. Holcomb, I believe that this condition is very real to you, causes you very real anguish. 07:29.000 --> 07:31.000 And I want to help you. 07:31.000 --> 07:32.000 Do you think you can? 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 I am confident that I can. 07:34.000 --> 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? 07:40.000 --> 07:44.000 Oh, I'd do anything, anything in the world to be a normal man again. 07:44.000 --> 07:47.000 Well, you'll have your own quarters. You'll be quite comfortable, I assure you. 07:47.000 --> 07:50.000 Well, I'm sure. It's a lovely house, what I've seen of it. 07:50.000 --> 07:55.000 Yes, I'm rather lucky. I'm interested in research primarily, not much money in that, you know, 07:55.000 --> 08:00.000 but a couple of years ago I came into quite a nice inheritance. The house went with it. 08:00.000 --> 08:05.000 Oh, what is it? What's the matter? 08:05.000 --> 08:12.000 The inheritance was not yours, it was your wife's. The house is your wife's. You are penniless. 08:14.000 --> 08:19.000 That's true. I don't know why I lied to you. Pride, I suppose. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 I'm sorry. I told you I couldn't help it. I'll go now. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 No, no, please. It was my fault. It's a small matter. 08:24.000 --> 08:25.000 But you see now that... 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 I want to help you. 08:27.000 --> 08:31.000 Do you believe me now? 08:31.000 --> 08:38.000 I believe, Mr. Holcomb, either that you are far more ill than I realized, or that in the months to come, 08:38.000 --> 08:56.000 you and I must venture into a realm never before explored by mortal man. 08:56.000 --> 09:01.000 For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Brian Dunleavy in Lazarus Walks, 09:01.000 --> 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. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 I've been sick, that's all. He's made you sick. 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 That's ridiculous. Maybe it's just that he's afraid of losing you. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 Maybe he's even afraid of losing your money. 11:58.000 --> 12:01.000 But I'm absolutely convinced that whether he's meant it or not, 12:01.000 --> 12:04.000 he's made you believe there's something the matter with you that isn't. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 Aunt Jane, I simply forbid you to talk this way. 12:06.000 --> 12:10.000 Isabel, Isabel, do something before it's too late. 12:10.000 --> 12:14.000 Do? Why, it's yet a way. Leave him, divorce him, anything. 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 Aunt Jane, you don't know what you're saying. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Oh, I hope we're not interrupting. 12:19.000 --> 12:21.000 Of course not, darling. 12:21.000 --> 12:22.000 Hello, Roger. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 Hello, Isabel. This is Pot. 12:24.000 --> 12:25.000 Good afternoon. 12:25.000 --> 12:27.000 How are you feeling, Roger? 12:27.000 --> 12:29.000 Well, better, I think. 12:29.000 --> 12:34.000 I think it would be better if we didn't discuss our states of mind, Isabel. 12:34.000 --> 12:38.000 Oh, yes. Of course. I'm sorry. 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 Well, would you like me to play something for you? 12:41.000 --> 12:44.000 You know, I think I'm beginning to get the feel of it again. Really, I do. 12:44.000 --> 12:48.000 You're sure we haven't interrupted some conversation? 12:48.000 --> 12:49.000 Of course not. 12:49.000 --> 12:55.000 We were just discussing how helpful you've been in getting Isabel back to her work again. 12:57.000 --> 12:58.000 Roger. 12:58.000 --> 13:03.000 No, you are not. You were telling Isabel to divorce her husband. 13:03.000 --> 13:04.000 Why? 13:04.000 --> 13:05.000 Isabel. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 Roger, come back here. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 Isabel, is that true? 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 You brought him in here deliberately. 13:13.000 --> 13:14.000 Is that true? 13:14.000 --> 13:18.000 It doesn't matter. Oh, you know now how I felt for a long time. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 Yes, I'm afraid I have. 13:19.000 --> 13:23.000 Robert, it was all so silly. She didn't mean it. It was just that she... 13:23.000 --> 13:27.000 I did mean it. I'm sorry, Isabel, but I've been under this roof too long, as it is. 13:27.000 --> 13:29.000 Oh, Aunt Jane, you're not leaving us. 13:29.000 --> 13:30.000 It's the best, Isabel. 13:30.000 --> 13:34.000 Yes, I think it is decidedly best that you go at once. 13:34.000 --> 13:39.000 The End 13:41.000 --> 13:45.000 It was this incident which gave me my first insight into the relationship 13:45.000 --> 13:49.000 which was destined to develop between Isabel Roger and myself. 13:49.000 --> 13:56.000 The first and most obvious result was that Isabel and I became further estranged as each day passed. 13:56.000 --> 14:02.000 It was difficult to speak of even the most casual things with this strangely terrifying specter of truth 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 always at our elbow. 14:04.000 --> 14:08.000 The situation reached its inevitable climax the evening that Leopold Sierinski, 14:08.000 --> 14:11.000 the famous conductor of the Los Angeles Symphony, 14:11.000 --> 14:17.000 was to call on Elizabeth with a view to a resumption of her professional career under his auspices. 14:17.000 --> 14:20.000 I gave a great deal of thought to that evening. 14:20.000 --> 14:23.000 It had to be handled with the greatest tact. 14:24.000 --> 14:28.000 Robert, you will help me, won't you? 14:28.000 --> 14:30.000 Of course I will, darling. 14:30.000 --> 14:34.000 Robert, does he have to have dinner with us tonight? 14:34.000 --> 14:37.000 Roger? Isabel, you know how I stand on that. 14:37.000 --> 14:39.000 Oh yes, I know, but just this once. 14:39.000 --> 14:45.000 Even once, Isabel, to keep him in his room like a spoiled child when we have guests 14:45.000 --> 14:48.000 might undo everything I've accomplished in weeks. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 I know, darling, of course you're right, but... 14:50.000 --> 14:52.000 Roger, come in. 14:52.000 --> 14:53.000 Robert. 14:53.000 --> 14:54.000 Yes? 14:54.000 --> 14:57.000 I was wondering if I mightn't be excused. Just tonight. 14:57.000 --> 14:59.000 You're having dinner with us, Roger. 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 Must I? 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 You know you must, Roger, and you know why. 15:02.000 --> 15:07.000 Roger, don't you want to meet Mr. Sierinski? He's really a wonderful person. 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 Yes, indeed I would very much, but... 15:09.000 --> 15:12.000 You know, Roger, I made my debut with him in 1934. 15:12.000 --> 15:17.000 I did a concert with him every year until... until... 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 Isabel was very talented. 15:19.000 --> 15:24.000 I was. I am. 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 Roger, I'm going to play with him again, you know. 15:26.000 --> 15:29.000 He... he wants me to open the season in November. 15:29.000 --> 15:32.000 Can you imagine what it means to me? 15:32.000 --> 15:33.000 I'm so glad, Isabel. 15:33.000 --> 15:36.000 And Robert has finally given his consent, haven't you, dear? 15:36.000 --> 15:39.000 Robert? 15:39.000 --> 15:42.000 I'm sorry. What was it you said, Isabel? 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 I said you'd given your consent to my playing with Sierinski. 15:45.000 --> 15:53.000 I... Isabel, you know I don't want you to think that I'd ever stand in your way. 15:53.000 --> 15:56.000 Yes, I... I know, dear. 15:56.000 --> 16:00.000 I'll do the... the Emperor concerto and... and you'll come to hear me. 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 You do want to, don't you, Roger? 16:02.000 --> 16:05.000 Well, I... Please, Isabel, don't ask me things that I can't... 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 What's the matter? What's the matter with both of you? 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 You act as though you thought I wouldn't be able to appear. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 As though the whole idea were hopeless or something. 16:13.000 --> 16:14.000 Isabel, please. 16:14.000 --> 16:18.000 I am going to play. And I'll be better than I ever was. 16:18.000 --> 16:22.000 You know I will, don't you? Don't you? 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 Yes, yes, of course, Isabel. You'll play wonderfully. 16:27.000 --> 16:30.000 No. No, Robert, no, that's untrue. 16:30.000 --> 16:36.000 You're very certain that Isabel will be prevented from ever playing a game by death. 16:36.000 --> 16:38.000 Death? 16:38.000 --> 16:42.000 Oh, Isabel, forgive me. Forgive me. 16:42.000 --> 16:47.000 By death? No. No, it's not true. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 Tell me it isn't. 16:49.000 --> 16:53.000 Roger. Roger, who's going to die? 16:53.000 --> 16:57.000 Answer me. Roger, do you hear me? Answer me. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 Answer me! 17:09.000 --> 17:15.000 When Sirenski arrived, I told him that it would be quite impossible for Isabel to leave her room. 17:15.000 --> 17:21.000 The concert was cancelled and, indeed, to my knowledge, she has never touched the piano since that day. 17:21.000 --> 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. 17:32.000 --> 17:35.000 This much was clear to me, the rest not yet. 17:35.000 --> 17:40.000 As a precautionary measure, I prescribed a drug for Isabel, which she at last consented to take. 17:40.000 --> 17:45.000 I gave her her own supply and she administered it to herself as I had directed. 17:45.000 --> 17:48.000 But one thing, from any point of view, was certain. 17:48.000 --> 17:55.000 I had to keep Roger and Isabel apart. Perhaps what I feared was, indeed, inevitable. 17:55.000 --> 18:10.000 I honestly did not think so at the time. 18:10.000 --> 18:13.000 Roger. Roger. 18:13.000 --> 18:15.000 Yes? 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 It's me, Isabel. 18:17.000 --> 18:18.000 What do you want? 18:18.000 --> 18:19.000 Let me in, please. 18:19.000 --> 18:20.000 No. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 Please. It's terribly important. 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 Robert said... 18:23.000 --> 18:28.000 No. But he said... he said it would be all right this time. 18:28.000 --> 18:29.000 Are you sure? 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 Yes. Yes, please. 18:31.000 --> 18:33.000 All right. 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 Now, what do you want? 18:35.000 --> 18:36.000 I want to talk to you, that's all. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 What about? That's so important. 18:38.000 --> 18:42.000 Roger, why don't you ever leave your room anymore? 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 Can't you guess? 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 Do you think I hate you? 18:46.000 --> 18:47.000 Oh, Isabel, I don't know what to think anymore. 18:47.000 --> 18:48.000 You do, don't you? 18:48.000 --> 18:51.000 I warned him. I told him it would happen. 18:51.000 --> 18:54.000 Now I'm going mad up here thinking you'd be anguished I've caused you... 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 But, Roger, I don't... you must believe me. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 I know what it's been like for you having me here, Isabel. 18:59.000 --> 19:02.000 Roger. Roger, you see... 19:02.000 --> 19:05.000 You see, for the first time in my life, 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 I think my husband is wrong about something. 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 Wrong? 19:08.000 --> 19:09.000 Yes. 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 Don't you see? 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 He's been worried about both of us, and so this... 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 this distrust has grown up between us. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 Well, I don't distrust you, Isabel. 19:17.000 --> 19:18.000 You've been more wonderful to me. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 But you're... you're afraid of me. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 And that amounts to the same thing. 19:22.000 --> 19:25.000 And it's bad for both of us. It's hurting both of us. 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 I've often felt I wanted to talk to you, to beg your pardon... 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 Oh, Roger, you don't have to do that. We're both... 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 We're both sick. 19:33.000 --> 19:37.000 But I... I think if we saw each other sometimes, 19:37.000 --> 19:41.000 if we talked the whole thing out, it would help us both. 19:41.000 --> 19:44.000 Does... does Robert think so, too? 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 No. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 Then he didn't tell you it was all right to see me? 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 No. I lied to you. 19:50.000 --> 19:51.000 You what? 19:51.000 --> 19:52.000 I lied to you. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 You lied to me. 19:54.000 --> 19:55.000 And it didn't happen. 19:55.000 --> 19:58.000 Isabel, don't you see? I am getting well. It didn't happen. 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 I know. I know, Roger. I don't think it does happen anymore, 20:01.000 --> 20:04.000 except with... except with Robert. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 With Robert? But what makes you think that I... 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 I don't know. Something about the way he acts. 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 The way he is. 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 But Isabel, he is curing me, then. 20:12.000 --> 20:13.000 Perhaps you shouldn't have... 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 No! 20:14.000 --> 20:17.000 Don't you understand? We must see each other. 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 We must talk. 20:25.000 --> 20:26.000 Isabel. 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 Robert, something's happened that I must take... 20:28.000 --> 20:29.000 Please, you're completely overwrought. 20:29.000 --> 20:30.000 But, Robert... 20:30.000 --> 20:34.000 I must insist. Isabel, why did you do this? 20:34.000 --> 20:35.000 I'm sorry. 20:35.000 --> 20:38.000 You have to have a sedative right away. Isabel, get the bottle from your room. 20:38.000 --> 20:39.000 No. 20:39.000 --> 20:40.000 Mine? 20:40.000 --> 20:41.000 Yes. Yes, hurry. 20:41.000 --> 20:42.000 All right. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 Robert, she lied to me. 20:44.000 --> 20:48.000 Yes, yes, I know. But, Roger, I must absolutely forbid you to talk now. 20:48.000 --> 20:49.000 You must trust me. 20:49.000 --> 20:52.000 Why... all right, but... but later I want to have a long talk. 20:52.000 --> 20:53.000 Of course we shall. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 Here it is. And I brought my hypodermic, too. 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 I'm glad you did. The other one's mislaid somewhere. 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 Will you give it to him, please? 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 I? 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Yes, this has upset me rather badly. My hands are shaking. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Oh, Robert, I'm terribly sorry. 21:05.000 --> 21:08.000 No matter now. Give him the hypodermic. In the upper arm. 21:08.000 --> 21:09.000 That's right. 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 Yes. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 Right there. 21:12.000 --> 21:15.000 Thank you. Leave us now, please, Isabel. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Yes. All right. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 How are you feeling now, Roger? 21:23.000 --> 21:28.000 Huh. I'm fine, Robert. I think I'm better than I have been in months. 21:28.000 --> 21:32.000 I know you're better. That's why I was so upset. You see? 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 Well, why, Robert? 21:34.000 --> 21:38.000 I can't tell you all my reasons now, but you must trust me and believe in me. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 Oh, I... I do. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 It's only that I'm afraid. 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 For your health. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 Ah! 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 Roger! 21:48.000 --> 21:53.000 No! You're afraid of... murder! 22:04.000 --> 22:08.000 It was clear to me now. I knew I must take immediate action. 22:08.000 --> 22:14.000 I knew that the most terrible consequences might result if Isabel were alone with Roger Holcomb even for a moment. 22:14.000 --> 22:18.000 For he knew. He said so. There was no other explanation. 22:18.000 --> 22:23.000 I thought it through most carefully, and yet no plans are perfect. 22:23.000 --> 22:26.000 No man is infallible. 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 Isabel. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 Ah! 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 Robert. You frighten me. 22:39.000 --> 22:40.000 What were you doing? 22:40.000 --> 22:42.000 Why, nothing. 22:42.000 --> 22:43.000 Don't lie to me, Isabel. 22:43.000 --> 22:45.000 I'm not. I was... 22:45.000 --> 22:47.000 You were coming from Roger's room. 22:47.000 --> 22:48.000 No. No, I swear I wasn't. 22:48.000 --> 22:51.000 Isabel, don't you understand that you're sick? 22:51.000 --> 22:54.000 That I've insisted on these things for your own good and his... 22:54.000 --> 22:57.000 All right. I was going to talk to him, but I haven't. 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 Oh, Isabel, why do you try to tell me that? 22:59.000 --> 23:02.000 But it's true, Robert. Really true. 23:02.000 --> 23:06.000 Is it? 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 Roger. Roger! 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 What? What's the matter? 23:10.000 --> 23:13.000 Look. 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 Robert. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 Oh, no, it couldn't be. 23:17.000 --> 23:21.000 It is. He's dead. 23:21.000 --> 23:23.000 Dead? 23:23.000 --> 23:27.000 The hypodermic by his side. The drug. Your drug. Your hypodermic. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 But it's only a sedative. 23:29.000 --> 23:32.000 Except that in large quantities it's fatal. You know that. 23:32.000 --> 23:35.000 Oh, Robert, no. No, listen to me. 23:35.000 --> 23:38.000 Oh, Isabel, why? Why? When I warned you... 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 Robert, look at me. 23:40.000 --> 23:43.000 Look at me. It's Isabel. It's your wife. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 You can't... 23:45.000 --> 23:46.000 No. 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 Where are you going? 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 Robert, come back here. 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 I'm going to call the police. 23:51.000 --> 23:56.000 The Police 23:58.000 --> 24:01.000 Even though it did not come to me as a shock, 24:01.000 --> 24:04.000 even from my point of view as a scientist, 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 it was terrible enough. 24:06.000 --> 24:09.000 Yet, it had to be done, and I had done it. 24:09.000 --> 24:11.000 I did not speak to her as we waited, 24:11.000 --> 24:14.000 and she made no further attempt to appeal to me. 24:14.000 --> 24:16.000 The police arrived. 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 I told the story with as little emotion as possible. 24:19.000 --> 24:22.000 Yeah? Yeah, their fingerprints are all right 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 on both the bottle and the hypodermic. 24:24.000 --> 24:26.000 Those would be my wife's, of course. 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 They both belonged to her. 24:28.000 --> 24:31.000 Is that true, Mrs. Graham? 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 Yes. 24:33.000 --> 24:36.000 Dr. Graham, do I understand you are formally charging your wife 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 with the murder of Roger Holcomb? 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 You could hardly expect me to do that, could you, Inspector? 24:41.000 --> 24:44.000 I am simply telling you the facts. 24:44.000 --> 24:46.000 Yeah? 24:46.000 --> 24:49.000 Well, you've carefully avoided saying anything definite 24:49.000 --> 24:52.000 as to your suspicions, Doctor. 24:52.000 --> 24:55.000 But I get the distinct impression she hated him. 24:55.000 --> 24:58.000 My wife has been mentally ill for some time. 24:58.000 --> 25:01.000 There are many people who can testify to that. 25:01.000 --> 25:04.000 She will plead insanity, Inspector, of course. 25:04.000 --> 25:07.000 Well, Dr. Graham, I can't tell you how sorry I am, 25:07.000 --> 25:10.000 but the things you've told me add up to only one thing, 25:10.000 --> 25:13.000 as you yourself obviously recognize. 25:13.000 --> 25:14.000 Yes. 25:14.000 --> 25:17.000 Your wife, Isabelle Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb. 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 What? 25:19.000 --> 25:22.000 What did you say? 25:22.000 --> 25:26.000 I said your wife, Isabelle Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb. 25:28.000 --> 25:29.000 No. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 No. 25:31.000 --> 25:32.000 I did. 25:32.000 --> 25:33.000 What? 25:33.000 --> 25:50.000 The truth is, I murdered him. 25:50.000 --> 25:52.000 No plans are perfect. 25:52.000 --> 25:54.000 No man is infallible. 25:54.000 --> 25:57.000 Yes, I killed Roger Holcomb, 25:57.000 --> 26:00.000 and I had planned to dispose of Isabelle for many months. 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 I had never loved her. 26:02.000 --> 26:05.000 I had loved only science, and I wanted her money, 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 and Holcomb found it out. 26:07.000 --> 26:10.000 That was the risk I ran, 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 that any chance lie in his presence, 26:12.000 --> 26:15.000 either by Isabelle or myself, would bring out the truth. 26:15.000 --> 26:17.000 And it did. 26:17.000 --> 26:20.000 I had no alternative once he discovered that, 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 but to kill him. 26:22.000 --> 26:25.000 It was easy enough to throw the blame on Isabelle, 26:25.000 --> 26:29.000 but I had not counted on that terrible compulsion for the truth, 26:29.000 --> 26:32.000 that strange affliction of Roger Holcomb's, 26:32.000 --> 26:35.000 and its power over me. 26:35.000 --> 26:39.000 Did it transfer itself at his death to me, 26:39.000 --> 26:42.000 or was it conscience? 26:42.000 --> 26:45.000 It is a pity that it had to end this way. 26:45.000 --> 27:00.000 It was a fascinating case. 27:00.000 --> 27:02.000 Suspense. 27:02.000 --> 27:06.000 Presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, 27:06.000 --> 27:10.000 made in California for enjoyment throughout the world. 27:10.000 --> 27:14.000 And now this is Ken Niles bringing back to our suspense microphone 27:14.000 --> 27:17.000 the star of tonight's play, Brian Donlevy. 27:17.000 --> 27:19.000 Well Brian, we can't give you an Oscar 27:19.000 --> 27:21.000 for your outstanding performance tonight, 27:21.000 --> 27:26.000 but Roma does want you to enjoy this basket of fine Grand Estate wines. 27:26.000 --> 27:30.000 Grand Estate wines, well, that kind of Oscar has taste to it, Ken. 27:30.000 --> 27:32.000 Right you are, Brian. 27:32.000 --> 27:35.000 Here in your basket is Grand Estate California Burgundy, 27:35.000 --> 27:40.000 and Grand Estate Burgundy at mealtime really makes a difference you can taste. 27:40.000 --> 27:45.000 Yes, Grand Estate Burgundy brings out all the taste goodness in juicy roast beef, 27:45.000 --> 27:47.000 adds to your enjoyment of a good steak, 27:47.000 --> 27:51.000 abrasive sizzling chops, or even simple hamburgers. 27:51.000 --> 27:55.000 Ken, you're killing me. 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