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01:45.760 --> 01:46.760 High time, isn't it? 01:46.760 --> 01:48.760 Quite a proper man you've grown to be too. 01:48.760 --> 01:50.560 We've missed you, Georgie. 01:50.560 --> 01:51.560 More than I can say for you. 01:51.560 --> 01:52.560 Ah, you're fresh. 01:52.560 --> 02:02.360 The street, the only home I've had since my mum and dad was taken, the Blitz, that's how 02:02.360 --> 02:03.360 they got it. 02:03.360 --> 02:09.720 And now I came to live with my Uncle Bert, if you can call that living, where I've been 02:09.720 --> 02:16.480 the last six months is due to him, Dartmoor Penn, one of his little schemes that he talked 02:16.480 --> 02:20.200 me into, saying how safe it was. 02:20.200 --> 02:26.320 And it was for Uncle Bert, but not for me, because Uncle Bert is a crook and a liar. 02:26.320 --> 02:31.240 He'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes, only he'd never get caught. 02:31.240 --> 02:34.240 They could prove it on the dead one sooner than they could on Uncle Bert. 02:34.240 --> 02:38.240 Come along, come along, come along, come along, come along, come along, come along, come along, 02:38.240 --> 02:39.880 come along. 02:39.880 --> 02:44.120 Hey, you there, just a minute. 02:44.120 --> 02:46.360 You're, you're George Williams, ain't you? 02:46.360 --> 02:48.000 That's right, copper, what of it? 02:48.000 --> 02:49.840 Oh, nothing at all, me lad. 02:49.840 --> 02:53.480 Just mind you don't cut any fancy capers now that you're back. 02:53.480 --> 02:55.600 I can take care of myself, I can. 02:55.600 --> 03:00.400 Ah, and if you can't, there are those that can, you know. 03:00.400 --> 03:03.960 That's what it's like being from the street. 03:03.960 --> 03:05.800 You're marked with it. 03:05.800 --> 03:10.880 Just for double, but there's no place to go. 03:10.880 --> 03:13.760 So I'm going home. 03:13.760 --> 03:17.760 Georgie, Georgie Lenk. 03:17.760 --> 03:20.760 Hello, Uncle Bert. 03:20.760 --> 03:24.240 Georgie, I sight my sore eyes, come on in, come in. 03:24.240 --> 03:25.240 Welcome home. 03:25.240 --> 03:29.280 I'm coming in, but there's no need to carry on so about it. 03:29.280 --> 03:30.280 Carry on about it? 03:30.280 --> 03:33.000 Why, you're the prodigal son you are, Georgie, me lad. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.040 It's a fatted calf for you. 03:35.040 --> 03:37.120 Come off it, Uncle Bert. 03:37.120 --> 03:38.480 You don't want me back. 03:38.480 --> 03:41.840 If there was any other place in the whole of England for me to hang my hat, I wouldn't 03:41.840 --> 03:42.840 be back. 03:42.840 --> 03:44.840 Oh, my boy, now that hurts, that does. 03:44.840 --> 03:48.040 To think you'd say that to me, what raised you from a young lad? 03:48.040 --> 03:52.200 Yeah, and got me a six-month stretch at hard labour to top it off. 03:52.200 --> 03:54.680 Downright ungrateful I am, eh, Uncle Bert? 03:54.680 --> 03:59.040 Georgie, I was, I don't know, you'd go ahead and do something I only spoke about in jest. 03:59.040 --> 04:03.320 Yes, but if I'd come home with a swag, you'd have had your share quick enough and know 04:03.320 --> 04:04.320 jest about that. 04:04.320 --> 04:06.120 Well, I'm sorry for what happened, Georgie. 04:06.120 --> 04:09.840 You never know what I've been through, blaming myself for it so well. 04:09.840 --> 04:14.760 But by gone, by gone, but come on into the bedroom and I've got a bit of a surprise for 04:14.760 --> 04:15.760 you. 04:15.760 --> 04:16.760 Hello, George. 04:16.760 --> 04:17.760 Mrs Pendry. 04:17.760 --> 04:22.640 Oh, you see, Bertie does remember me, isn't that nice? 04:22.640 --> 04:26.280 Right, I couldn't very well help it, seeing all the errands I used to run to you from 04:26.280 --> 04:27.840 the shop in I Street. 04:27.840 --> 04:31.000 Hardly expected to see you down in these parts, though. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.040 Well, you see, I don't have the shop any more. 04:34.040 --> 04:36.440 Oh, so did I. 04:36.440 --> 04:40.640 Yes, and, oh, Bert, you tell him. 04:40.640 --> 04:41.640 Tell me what? 04:41.640 --> 04:44.360 That's a surprise, I was telling you about Georgie, led. 04:44.360 --> 04:46.640 Mrs Pendry and I got itched last week. 04:46.640 --> 04:47.640 We're married. 04:47.640 --> 04:50.440 So you see, George, you'll have to call me Aunt Edna now. 04:50.440 --> 04:51.440 Married? 04:51.440 --> 04:53.680 First wet me off my feet, he did. 04:53.680 --> 04:54.680 You married him. 04:54.680 --> 04:55.680 And why not? 04:55.680 --> 05:02.800 George, I know it seems a bit queer to someone your age, two people as old as we are, but 05:02.800 --> 05:04.840 we were both lonely. 05:04.840 --> 05:06.520 Since my husband died, I've had no one. 05:06.520 --> 05:07.880 And she needs someone to take care of her. 05:07.880 --> 05:10.080 Can't get a bad match now, you know. 05:10.080 --> 05:11.720 My old heart. 05:11.720 --> 05:13.080 You remember, don't you, George? 05:13.080 --> 05:18.160 And so she let me take over the job and made me the happiest man in the world to boot. 05:18.160 --> 05:20.640 You do understand, don't you, George? 05:20.640 --> 05:24.920 Well, I expect you'll be moving out of this rattle, then. 05:24.920 --> 05:27.920 Both of you will go and live in your house, I expect, eh, Mrs Pendry? 05:27.920 --> 05:29.640 It's Mrs Williams now, led. 05:29.640 --> 05:30.640 Aunt Edna. 05:30.640 --> 05:31.640 Aunt Edna, then. 05:31.640 --> 05:35.760 Well, you see, I don't have my house any more, George. 05:35.760 --> 05:37.720 Ah, there's a dabby lot around here. 05:37.720 --> 05:41.240 And, well, we didn't want to give him any chance to say, I've married Aunt Edna for 05:41.240 --> 05:42.240 her money. 05:42.240 --> 05:43.240 So I sold my house, too. 05:43.240 --> 05:47.960 But I don't care where I live, so long as I'm with Bert. 05:47.960 --> 05:50.920 And you're just as welcome here as ever. 05:50.920 --> 05:52.080 Even more. 05:52.080 --> 05:55.320 You have your room upstairs you always used to have and all. 05:55.320 --> 05:56.320 Oh. 05:56.320 --> 05:57.320 Hey, hold on. 05:57.320 --> 05:58.320 What's up? 05:58.320 --> 05:59.320 Where is it? 05:59.320 --> 06:00.320 Where's what? 06:00.320 --> 06:01.320 You know what? 06:01.320 --> 06:02.320 The picture. 06:02.320 --> 06:03.760 The picture of my mother that was over the mantelpiece. 06:03.760 --> 06:07.120 Oh, Bert, I asked you to leave it where it was. 06:07.120 --> 06:09.480 There's a new mistress in the house now, led. 06:09.480 --> 06:10.480 Never mind about that. 06:10.480 --> 06:11.480 Where's the picture? 06:11.480 --> 06:12.480 Hand it over. 06:12.480 --> 06:13.480 All the mind are you to... 06:13.480 --> 06:14.480 Hand it over, I said. 06:14.480 --> 06:17.480 And it's no good raising her out because I can't hand it over. 06:17.480 --> 06:19.280 What have you done with it? 06:19.280 --> 06:21.000 You had no right to put your filthy hands on it. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Edna must know I burned it. 06:23.000 --> 06:24.000 Burned it? 06:24.000 --> 06:26.800 The only thing I had in the world to remind me of her. 06:26.800 --> 06:27.800 Why, why, you rotten old... 06:27.800 --> 06:28.800 Well, get away from me now. 06:28.800 --> 06:29.800 Don't you raise your hand to me. 06:29.800 --> 06:30.800 Bert, get away from me. 06:30.800 --> 06:31.800 Bert. 06:31.800 --> 06:32.800 Oh, you're a crazy young fool. 06:32.800 --> 06:33.800 Now, now, now, see what you've done. 06:33.800 --> 06:34.800 Why, what's up with her? 06:34.800 --> 06:35.800 That's right, you blithering, get it here. 06:35.800 --> 06:36.800 Give me your hand. 06:36.800 --> 06:37.800 Get her to her room. 06:37.800 --> 06:38.800 No, I... 06:38.800 --> 06:46.800 I don't need you both, but if George wouldn't mind getting me a bit of my medicine. 06:46.800 --> 06:48.800 Get your blue bottle in the kitchen cupboard. 06:48.800 --> 06:50.800 A teaspoon and a half, a glass of water. 06:50.800 --> 06:52.800 Go on, don't sting there. 06:52.800 --> 06:54.800 All right, all right, keep your air on. 06:54.800 --> 06:55.800 Come along, my dear. 06:55.800 --> 06:56.800 Thank you, Bert. 06:56.800 --> 06:57.800 Come on. 06:57.800 --> 07:00.800 On the bed with you now. 07:00.800 --> 07:01.800 There you are. 07:01.800 --> 07:02.800 Here's your medicine. 07:02.800 --> 07:03.800 Here, give it to you. 07:03.800 --> 07:04.800 Here, here, here, drink this now, pet. 07:04.800 --> 07:05.800 Oh, thank you, Bert. 07:05.800 --> 07:06.800 Feeling better now? 07:06.800 --> 07:07.800 I'll be all right after a bit. 07:07.800 --> 07:08.800 I'll just lie here and rest for a while, if you don't mind. 07:08.800 --> 07:09.800 Why, sure. 07:09.800 --> 07:10.800 We'll be just outside here if you want anything. 07:10.800 --> 07:11.800 Come on, Georgie. 07:11.800 --> 07:12.800 I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm not going to be able to get you anything. 07:12.800 --> 07:13.800 I'm going to have to go. 07:13.800 --> 07:14.800 I'm going to have to go. 07:14.800 --> 07:15.800 I'm going to have to go. 07:15.800 --> 07:16.800 I'm going to have to go. 07:16.800 --> 07:17.800 I'm going to have to go. 07:17.800 --> 07:18.800 I'm going to have to go. 07:18.800 --> 07:19.800 I'm going to have to go. 07:19.800 --> 07:20.800 I'm going to have to go. 07:20.800 --> 07:31.440 I'm going to have to go. 07:31.440 --> 07:45.320 I'm going to have to go. 07:45.320 --> 07:47.320 You heard what she said, we was both lonely. 07:47.320 --> 07:49.320 Lonely. 07:49.320 --> 07:54.320 You're not tying yourself down playing nursemaid to some old A-bag because you're lonely. 07:54.320 --> 07:55.320 Not you! 07:55.320 --> 07:57.320 George, you're speaking of my wife. 07:57.320 --> 07:59.320 Your what? 07:59.320 --> 08:02.320 Your wife's money, that's all you've got your eye on. 08:02.320 --> 08:03.320 Ah, so that's it. 08:03.320 --> 08:07.320 Then why didn't I move into the fine posh house of hers up now, Street? 08:07.320 --> 08:08.320 Why didn't I? 08:08.320 --> 08:10.320 Because you'd rather have the cash, I expect. 08:10.320 --> 08:13.320 All right, suppose I do come into a bit of cash one day. 08:13.320 --> 08:15.320 One day. 08:15.320 --> 08:17.320 If you can wait that long. 08:17.320 --> 08:19.320 And just what do you mean by that? 08:19.320 --> 08:21.320 I don't know. 08:21.320 --> 08:23.320 All I know is I'm not having any. I'm clearing out. 08:23.320 --> 08:25.320 Now, tonight! 08:31.320 --> 08:35.320 But I didn't go. Oh, I don't know why. 08:35.320 --> 08:40.320 That night when it was late enough so I reckoned they'd be asleep, I made straight for the kitchen. 08:40.320 --> 08:45.320 I was near dead from hunger, I was. I started rummaging through the cupboard. 08:45.320 --> 08:49.320 Then I saw it. Right next to a bottle of medicine. 08:49.320 --> 08:51.320 A little box it was. 08:51.320 --> 08:54.320 Marked with a skull and crossbones. 08:54.320 --> 08:56.320 Poison. 08:56.320 --> 08:58.320 Rat poison. 09:04.320 --> 09:05.320 Hello, George. 09:05.320 --> 09:06.320 Edna! 09:06.320 --> 09:08.320 Why, what's the matter? 09:08.320 --> 09:10.320 Looked as though I'd scared you half to death. 09:10.320 --> 09:14.320 Oh, me? Oh, no, no. You just came on me a bit sudden, that's all. 09:14.320 --> 09:16.320 I didn't expect to find you up. 09:16.320 --> 09:18.320 I've been wanting to talk to you. 09:18.320 --> 09:19.320 Why? 09:19.320 --> 09:22.320 Why don't you and your Uncle Bert get along? 09:22.320 --> 09:28.320 Well, if you must know, Uncle Bert and I don't quite see eye to eye on one or two things. 09:28.320 --> 09:31.320 But, oh, well, I'll be out of his way soon enough. Never fear about that. 09:31.320 --> 09:34.320 George, I know Bert isn't all that... 09:34.320 --> 09:37.320 Well, I know what people say about him. 09:37.320 --> 09:39.320 But he's been good to me. 09:39.320 --> 09:43.320 Got his reasons too, I dare say. He's a sharp one, he is. 09:43.320 --> 09:51.320 He's been good to me, and perhaps if he had a chance, if he hadn't been in the street, he'd have been a good man all his life. 09:51.320 --> 09:57.320 The street. That's what we all put our troubles onto here. The street. 09:57.320 --> 10:02.320 I know it's hard, George. But if maybe you could get yourself a bit of education. 10:02.320 --> 10:06.320 Oh, why, of course. All I have to do is trot along up to Oxford with the rest of the millionaire sons. 10:06.320 --> 10:13.320 No, I didn't mean that. Just learn a trade for a starter. And for the money? Well, I've got a bit of money. 10:13.320 --> 10:17.320 Oh, no, I don't need any help. Yours or anybody else's. 10:17.320 --> 10:20.320 By the last six months, I've had about all the reforming I can stand. 10:20.320 --> 10:25.320 Oh, it's not that, George. You're like a nephew to me now. 10:25.320 --> 10:31.320 You'd better stick to reforming Uncle Bert. He needs it as much as I do. I've made him a bit more. 10:31.320 --> 10:35.320 Oh, hello, Georgie. I told you you'd get hungry if you didn't eat. 10:35.320 --> 10:37.320 Hmm. Proper fortune teller you are. 10:37.320 --> 10:43.320 What are you doing up at this time of night, Edna? You shouldn't be jumping up in the middle of the night with your heart and the shape it is. 10:43.320 --> 10:46.320 Oh, I heard, George. I just wanted to see if he was all right. 10:46.320 --> 10:50.320 Well, up along the bed now, there's a good girl. I'll take care of her, Georgie. 10:50.320 --> 10:53.320 Well, good night. 10:53.320 --> 10:55.320 Good night, my dear. 10:55.320 --> 11:02.320 You're not in a proper mood, George. You'll never make your way in the world. Not the way you're going about it. 11:02.320 --> 11:07.320 I suppose you know just how to go about it. That's why you've lived in this filthy hole all your life. 11:07.320 --> 11:12.320 I wouldn't say that. But I know one way. Money's one way, and I've got me plans. 11:12.320 --> 11:16.320 What's this? This part of your flans, is it? 11:16.320 --> 11:19.320 That? What? It's rat poison, ain't it? 11:19.320 --> 11:21.320 I ain't never seen no rats around here. 11:21.320 --> 11:26.320 Well, there's no arm having a bit of Andy, is there? Hands of prevention is worth a pound of cure, you know. 11:26.320 --> 11:31.320 And a proper Andy place you've got for it too, haven't you? Right next to a bottle of medicine. 11:31.320 --> 11:37.320 Ah, so that's it. So now I'm a cruel and inhuman monster that would poison his own wife, is that it? 11:37.320 --> 11:43.320 I didn't say you would. But I, uh, I didn't say you wouldn't, neither. 11:43.320 --> 11:52.320 I think I've got it all planned, eh? I slip her the poison and no one even bothers to ask why she rolled up because they all know she got a bad ticker. Is that the way you see it? 11:52.320 --> 11:54.320 I see you've done a bit of thinking at any rate. 11:54.320 --> 12:01.320 Now look here, George, my lad. Even if I was the monster you say, I'd be the last one to kill her. Don't you see? 12:01.320 --> 12:03.320 Not yet I don't. 12:03.320 --> 12:10.320 I hope to make out a will, Georgie. I'll get the stuff anyway. 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I knew he was rotten enough to... 14:42.320 --> 14:49.320 Well, I... I watched him like an orc. I fixed all the meals myself, saying I wanted to help around the house. 14:49.320 --> 15:07.320 The poison was always there, up in the kitchen cupboard next to a medicine, with the skull and crossbones on it, and the seed. 15:07.320 --> 15:11.320 Hello there, Georgie-led. Justin can't have a spot of tea with us. 15:11.320 --> 15:12.320 Tea? 15:12.320 --> 15:17.320 Well, what's what about that? We're not top-spreps, but we can have a spot of tea all the same, I expect. 15:17.320 --> 15:20.320 It was Bert's idea, said it made it seem more of a family-like. 15:20.320 --> 15:22.320 Have a cup, Georgie? 15:22.320 --> 15:26.320 No, thanks, but I'll... I'll turn the tray around for you, though. 15:26.320 --> 15:27.320 Here, here, hold on. 15:27.320 --> 15:34.320 Looks a bit unsteady, but... Oh, there you are. Now, you get Aunt Edna's cup, and she gets yours. 15:34.320 --> 15:36.320 But there's no matter, is there? 15:36.320 --> 15:38.320 Of course not, it's all the same tea. 15:38.320 --> 15:40.320 You don't mind, do you, Uncle Bert? 15:40.320 --> 15:43.320 Why, no, no, why should I? 15:43.320 --> 15:48.320 Oh, it is nice to have a cup of tea about this time of day. I'd almost forgotten. 15:48.320 --> 15:52.320 Well, drink up, Uncle Bert. You'll only get cold sitting there. 15:52.320 --> 15:56.320 What's a petition, Adi? I like it a bit cool, and myself. 15:56.320 --> 15:59.320 Well, is there anything wrong with your tea, Bert? Mine's lovely. 15:59.320 --> 16:03.320 Shouldn't be anything wrong with it. Fix it himself, he did. 16:03.320 --> 16:06.320 Of course there's nothing wrong with it. 16:06.320 --> 16:10.320 Oh, no, Lovers Bert, no need to take it all down in a gulp. 16:10.320 --> 16:12.320 Think you were swallowing rank poison. 16:12.320 --> 16:16.320 Come on, stick in your throat then, Uncle Bert. 16:16.320 --> 16:20.320 What is it? There, there. 16:20.320 --> 16:26.320 Oh, I got a swallow in me windpipe. It's good, though. 16:26.320 --> 16:30.320 Fix me another cup like a good lad, will you, Georgie? 16:30.320 --> 16:32.320 You can fill mine, too, if you will, George. 16:32.320 --> 16:34.320 Right you are. 16:34.320 --> 16:36.320 Do you know where the tea is, Georgie? 16:36.320 --> 16:37.320 No, I... 16:37.320 --> 16:41.320 No, it's in the kitchen cupboard, right next to the medicine. 16:41.320 --> 16:45.320 You'll find it, Georgie. Right next to the medicine. 16:49.320 --> 16:53.320 But the tea wasn't next to the medicine. It wasn't there at all. 16:53.320 --> 17:00.320 Only the little box was there, with the skull and crossbones, and still unopened. 17:00.320 --> 17:04.320 Poison. I found the tea and poured out the two cups. 17:04.320 --> 17:07.320 But all the time my eye was on the little box. 17:07.320 --> 17:10.320 And I was thinking how I had to get away, had to get away. 17:10.320 --> 17:14.320 And about the money, and how easy it would be. 17:14.320 --> 17:17.320 And then it come to me, all in a flash, what Bert was up to. 17:17.320 --> 17:20.320 And why I'd done nothing about it. 17:20.320 --> 17:23.320 Because he'd known what I was thinking before I knew it myself. 17:23.320 --> 17:26.320 He knew what I was thinking out there in the kitchen right then. 17:26.320 --> 17:30.320 He knew I was thinking about... murder. 17:37.320 --> 17:39.320 That night I hid the box. 17:39.320 --> 17:41.320 Didn't chuck it out, mind. You only hid it. 17:41.320 --> 17:44.320 In a place not too hard to find. 17:44.320 --> 17:49.320 Next morning it was back in the cupboard, right next to the medicine. 17:49.320 --> 17:53.320 Poison. No mistake about it now. 17:53.320 --> 17:58.320 Another of Uncle Bert's nice, safe little schemes. 17:58.320 --> 18:00.320 Safe for him. 18:00.320 --> 18:03.320 He'd all become right out in so many words with it. 18:03.320 --> 18:06.320 Nothing to arrange but the terms. 18:06.320 --> 18:10.320 I knew he'd get to that too, once he was sure of me. 18:10.320 --> 18:14.320 All he had to do was wait was what he thought. 18:14.320 --> 18:24.320 Wait for me to kill her. 18:24.320 --> 18:27.320 Hello there, Georgie Millett. Cleaning up the breakfast dishes, eh? 18:27.320 --> 18:30.320 Well, it don't look like I'm playing a bloody game of darts, does it now? 18:30.320 --> 18:32.320 Georgie. 18:32.320 --> 18:35.320 I was looking for that rat poison last night. 18:35.320 --> 18:37.320 Had the devil's own job to find it. 18:37.320 --> 18:39.320 I could have told you where it was. 18:39.320 --> 18:41.320 Found some rats at last, have you? 18:41.320 --> 18:43.320 Not in particular. 18:43.320 --> 18:46.320 Thought it best to have it out there, where it's handy though. 18:46.320 --> 18:48.320 Well, it's handy now, all right. 18:48.320 --> 18:50.320 Saw where I put it, did you? 18:50.320 --> 18:52.320 Now look here, Georgie. 18:52.320 --> 18:54.320 You know how I feel about you. 18:54.320 --> 18:56.320 What's mine is yours. 18:56.320 --> 19:00.320 Whatever I have, or whatever I might share and share alike. 19:00.320 --> 19:02.320 Fifty-fifty. 19:02.320 --> 19:04.320 Partners. That's me. 19:04.320 --> 19:07.320 First I've ever known you to offer a bloke so much as a time of day. 19:07.320 --> 19:09.320 Might be the last two. 19:09.320 --> 19:11.320 But the one time might be worth all the rest. 19:11.320 --> 19:13.320 Hey, Georgie. 19:13.320 --> 19:16.320 Only times I've known you'd cheat your own grandmother out of the last two teeth in her head. 19:16.320 --> 19:18.320 That's as may be. 19:18.320 --> 19:21.320 But if you're partners, you're taking your chances together, aren't you? 19:21.320 --> 19:24.320 Both of you in the same, for bad or for good. 19:24.320 --> 19:27.320 Got to treat each other fair and square then, don't you? 19:27.320 --> 19:29.320 If it's like that. 19:29.320 --> 19:31.320 That's how it is, all right. 19:31.320 --> 19:33.320 You think it over. See if you don't. 19:33.320 --> 19:35.320 Bird. Oh, Bird. 19:35.320 --> 19:37.320 Yes, my dear? 19:37.320 --> 19:39.320 Could you bring me a bit of my medicine? 19:39.320 --> 19:41.320 You're sick and bad, are you? 19:41.320 --> 19:45.320 Not fair, but a bit of the medicine might help. 19:45.320 --> 19:47.320 Right you are. 19:47.320 --> 19:50.320 Well, Georgie, you know how to fix it, don't you? 19:50.320 --> 19:52.320 I know how to fix it. 19:52.320 --> 19:54.320 I'll just nip along down the road then. 19:54.320 --> 19:56.320 Got a few things to attend to. 19:56.320 --> 19:58.320 But I'll be back in plenty of time. 19:58.320 --> 20:00.320 Mind you are then. 20:00.320 --> 20:10.320 And Georgie, fix it right this time. 20:10.320 --> 20:13.320 I got the medicine and mixed it up as usual. 20:13.320 --> 20:15.320 But I scarcely knew what I was doing. 20:15.320 --> 20:18.320 It was all the time I was thinking about the street. 20:18.320 --> 20:21.320 About my shirt that was always frayed and dirty. 20:21.320 --> 20:24.320 About my baggy second hand soup. 20:24.320 --> 20:26.320 And how, well, what did she matter to me anyhow? 20:26.320 --> 20:29.320 She was a sure thing to roll up in a year or two anyway. 20:29.320 --> 20:31.320 What with that ticker of hers? 20:31.320 --> 20:34.320 And if she did now, I was free. 20:34.320 --> 20:36.320 Free. 20:36.320 --> 20:38.320 The next thing I knew, I'd opened the box 20:38.320 --> 20:41.320 and dumped enough of the stuff into her glass to kill a carthorse. 20:41.320 --> 20:43.320 Then I was carrying it into her. 20:43.320 --> 20:45.320 Walking like in a dream. 20:45.320 --> 20:47.320 And wondering where my voice was coming from. 20:47.320 --> 20:51.320 It sounded so strange and far away. 20:51.320 --> 20:54.320 Just sit it down on the table, will you, George? 20:54.320 --> 20:55.320 Righto. 20:55.320 --> 20:57.320 Aren't you, Aunt Edna? 20:57.320 --> 21:00.320 I hate to be such a trouble to you, George. 21:00.320 --> 21:03.320 You've been awfully good about the house here and all. 21:03.320 --> 21:05.320 Oh, it's no trouble. 21:05.320 --> 21:07.320 All the same. 21:07.320 --> 21:08.320 I know it isn't easy. 21:08.320 --> 21:10.320 Oh, I don't mind. 21:10.320 --> 21:12.320 Always used to help my mum about the house. 21:12.320 --> 21:15.320 You loved your mother a lot, didn't you, George? 21:15.320 --> 21:17.320 Yes, I... 21:17.320 --> 21:19.320 Yes, I did. 21:19.320 --> 21:21.320 I wish you do. 21:21.320 --> 21:23.320 But I know she'd want you to do. 21:23.320 --> 21:25.320 If she was alive. 21:25.320 --> 21:26.320 What's that? 21:26.320 --> 21:28.320 Get away. 21:28.320 --> 21:30.320 Get away from the street. 21:30.320 --> 21:33.320 I know she's praying for that. 21:33.320 --> 21:35.320 Wherever she is. 21:35.320 --> 21:37.320 The street does things to people, George. 21:37.320 --> 21:39.320 Terrible things. 21:39.320 --> 21:41.320 Well, I... I will. 21:41.320 --> 21:43.320 I will get away one day. 21:43.320 --> 21:45.320 One day may be too late. 21:45.320 --> 21:46.320 Maybe it will. 21:46.320 --> 21:48.320 Maybe it won't. 21:48.320 --> 21:50.320 Why don't you let me help you? 21:50.320 --> 21:52.320 I know she'd want that, too. 21:52.320 --> 21:54.320 Do you? 21:54.320 --> 21:56.320 Do you really think she would? 21:56.320 --> 21:58.320 Oh, I know she would. 21:58.320 --> 22:00.320 George, please. 22:00.320 --> 22:04.320 No, no, I said I don't want any help and I don't. 22:04.320 --> 22:06.320 All right, George. 22:06.320 --> 22:10.320 I won't see any more. 22:10.320 --> 22:12.320 Hand me my medicine, please. 22:12.320 --> 22:14.320 What? 22:14.320 --> 22:16.320 My medicine. 22:16.320 --> 22:18.320 On the table. 22:18.320 --> 22:20.320 Oh, here you are. 22:20.320 --> 22:22.320 Thank you. 22:22.320 --> 22:24.320 Oh, I'm sorry. 22:24.320 --> 22:26.320 I slipped, I did. 22:26.320 --> 22:28.320 Did you? 22:28.320 --> 22:30.320 Yes, I... 22:30.320 --> 22:32.320 I thought you struck the glass out of my hand. 22:32.320 --> 22:34.320 No, no, I didn't. 22:34.320 --> 22:36.320 Anyway, it's no matter. 22:36.320 --> 22:38.320 I'll get you some more. 22:38.320 --> 22:40.320 George. 22:40.320 --> 22:42.320 Aunt Edna, you've got to get away from here. 22:42.320 --> 22:44.320 Get away? 22:44.320 --> 22:46.320 Yes, now, today, before it's too late. 22:46.320 --> 22:48.320 Perhaps it is too late. 22:48.320 --> 22:50.320 No, no, it isn't. 22:50.320 --> 22:52.320 Aunt Edna, you've got money. 22:52.320 --> 22:54.320 You've got to go. 22:54.320 --> 22:56.320 Are you sure? 22:56.320 --> 22:58.320 That's best? 22:58.320 --> 23:00.320 I know it is for everyone. 23:00.320 --> 23:02.320 For you, I mean. For your elf. 23:02.320 --> 23:04.320 That's it. That's what I mean. 23:04.320 --> 23:06.320 I was thinking about your elf. 23:06.320 --> 23:08.320 Oh, you'll never get well here. 23:08.320 --> 23:10.320 You'll die here. 23:10.320 --> 23:12.320 I've been prepared for that. 23:12.320 --> 23:14.320 For quite a while. 23:14.320 --> 23:16.320 Oh, Aunt Edna, not here. 23:16.320 --> 23:18.320 You've got to go. Promise me you'll go. 23:18.320 --> 23:20.320 Yes. 23:20.320 --> 23:22.320 Perhaps that is best. 23:22.320 --> 23:24.320 All right, George. 23:24.320 --> 23:26.320 I'll go. 23:36.320 --> 23:38.320 That night I slept. 23:38.320 --> 23:40.320 Really slept. 23:40.320 --> 23:42.320 For the first time in weeks. 23:42.320 --> 23:44.320 When I woke up, it seemed late. 23:44.320 --> 23:46.320 I heard the sound of dishes down in the parlor. 23:46.320 --> 23:48.320 I jumped into my clothes in a flash 23:48.320 --> 23:50.320 and looked down the stairs. 23:50.320 --> 23:52.320 They were having breakfast. 23:52.320 --> 23:54.320 Coffee. 23:54.320 --> 23:56.320 I seemed to turn all sick inside. 23:56.320 --> 23:58.320 I ran down the back stairs to the kitchen 23:58.320 --> 24:00.320 and over to the cupboard. 24:00.320 --> 24:02.320 The boss was still there, but... 24:02.320 --> 24:04.320 But it was empty. 24:04.320 --> 24:06.320 The poison had been used. 24:06.320 --> 24:08.320 Since yesterday. 24:08.320 --> 24:10.320 I ran out into the parlor. 24:10.320 --> 24:12.320 Oh, thanks. I'll think of a riddle. 24:12.320 --> 24:14.320 Don't. Don't drink it. 24:14.320 --> 24:16.320 What's good in you? 24:16.320 --> 24:18.320 Did you drink it, Edna? Tell me. 24:18.320 --> 24:20.320 My coffee? Why, yes. 24:20.320 --> 24:22.320 It's poisoned you. 24:22.320 --> 24:24.320 Shut up, you fool. 24:24.320 --> 24:26.320 I won't shut up. I knew he'd do it. 24:26.320 --> 24:28.320 He wanted me to and when I wouldn't, he did it himself. 24:28.320 --> 24:30.320 But he won't get away with it, Edna. 24:30.320 --> 24:32.320 I've got to call the police. I'll get your doctor. 24:32.320 --> 24:34.320 George. No. 24:34.320 --> 24:36.320 You've set her off again, you fool. 24:36.320 --> 24:38.320 Get a meds, quick. 24:38.320 --> 24:40.320 Get a meds and I'll tell you. I'll see to her. 24:40.320 --> 24:42.320 Medicine. 24:42.320 --> 24:44.320 She's dead. 24:44.320 --> 24:46.320 Dead? 24:46.320 --> 24:48.320 Oh, don't try any of that, Uncle Bert. 24:48.320 --> 24:50.320 You poisoned her. You didn't. 24:50.320 --> 24:52.320 And I know it. 24:52.320 --> 24:54.320 I looked at the box in the kitchen 24:54.320 --> 24:56.320 and it's empty. 24:56.320 --> 24:58.320 And I'm going to the police. 24:58.320 --> 25:00.320 George. Well? 25:00.320 --> 25:02.320 I swear I didn't. I... 25:02.320 --> 25:04.320 I swear I... 25:04.320 --> 25:06.320 She made the coffee herself. 25:06.320 --> 25:08.320 She brought it out 25:08.320 --> 25:10.320 with her own hands. 25:10.320 --> 25:12.320 She did? George. 25:12.320 --> 25:14.320 Call the doctor. 25:14.320 --> 25:16.320 She's down for me. Call the doctor. 25:16.320 --> 25:18.320 Quick. That's it. 25:18.320 --> 25:20.320 You've been 25:20.320 --> 25:22.320 the ruddy mastermind so far. 25:22.320 --> 25:24.320 You get 25:24.320 --> 25:26.320 your own doctor. 25:30.320 --> 25:32.320 So long, Uncle Bert. 25:32.320 --> 25:36.320 Happy landings. 25:46.320 --> 25:48.320 I went next door 25:48.320 --> 25:50.320 and asked Mrs. Wiggins to call the police. 25:50.320 --> 25:52.320 Then I went 25:52.320 --> 25:54.320 back to the house. 25:54.320 --> 25:56.320 I picked up Edna in my arms 25:56.320 --> 25:58.320 and carried her to a room. 25:58.320 --> 26:00.320 And laid her on a bed. 26:00.320 --> 26:02.320 I smoothed out a pillow for her head 26:02.320 --> 26:04.320 as though she was still alive. 26:04.320 --> 26:06.320 Then I saw it. 26:06.320 --> 26:08.320 The picture of my mother. 26:08.320 --> 26:10.320 And the note. 26:10.320 --> 26:12.320 Dear George. 26:12.320 --> 26:14.320 Don't be sorry for me 26:14.320 --> 26:16.320 and don't think badly of me. 26:16.320 --> 26:18.320 I was wrong to close my eyes to things 26:18.320 --> 26:20.320 just because I didn't want to see them. 26:20.320 --> 26:22.320 But after yesterday 26:22.320 --> 26:24.320 I knew you were right. 26:24.320 --> 26:26.320 I was wrong to close my eyes to things 26:26.320 --> 26:28.320 just because I didn't want to see them. 26:28.320 --> 26:30.320 I knew you were right. 26:30.320 --> 26:32.320 And it was best for me to go away. 26:34.320 --> 26:36.320 Give this note to the police. 26:36.320 --> 26:38.320 So that they will know it was 26:38.320 --> 26:40.320 me and not you that poisoned him. 26:42.320 --> 26:44.320 I found a picture of your mother in the attic. 26:44.320 --> 26:46.320 She was 26:46.320 --> 26:48.320 so beautiful that 26:48.320 --> 26:50.320 I could see why 26:50.320 --> 26:52.320 even Bert couldn't really burn it. 26:52.320 --> 26:54.320 Like he said. 26:54.320 --> 26:56.320 Take the money that I've left 26:56.320 --> 26:58.320 and leave the street. 26:58.320 --> 27:00.320 But carry her picture with you 27:00.320 --> 27:02.320 wherever you go. 27:02.320 --> 27:04.320 For I know 27:04.320 --> 27:06.320 she will always be 27:06.320 --> 27:08.320 watching over you. 27:08.320 --> 27:10.320 As she was yesterday. 27:10.320 --> 27:12.320 To keep you from harm. 27:14.320 --> 27:16.320 And so shall I. 27:18.320 --> 27:20.320 Your friend. 27:20.320 --> 27:26.320 Etna. 28:20.320 --> 28:24.320 Grand Estate Wines are the crowning achievement of Vintner skill. 28:24.320 --> 28:26.320 And all Grand Estate Wines 28:26.320 --> 28:28.320 are distinguished limited bottlings 28:28.320 --> 28:31.320 by Roma, America's greatest Vintner. 28:31.320 --> 28:34.320 Each is born of choicest grapes. 28:34.320 --> 28:37.320 Then unhurriedly guided to rich taste perfection 28:37.320 --> 28:39.320 by ancient Roma skill, 28:39.320 --> 28:41.320 the magic of necessary time, 28:41.320 --> 28:45.320 and America's finest wine making resources. 28:45.320 --> 28:47.320 With tomorrow's dinner 28:47.320 --> 28:49.320 enjoy the rare taste luxury 28:49.320 --> 28:53.320 the gracious pleasure of Grand Estate Wines. 28:53.320 --> 28:55.320 Presented by Roma, 28:55.320 --> 28:57.320 the greatest name in wine. 28:57.320 --> 28:59.320 This is Roddy McDowell. 28:59.320 --> 29:02.320 I just wanted to say a few words in my own voice. 29:02.320 --> 29:06.320 It's been a very great pleasure for me to be able to appear on Suspense. 29:06.320 --> 29:08.320 Thank you and good night. 29:08.320 --> 29:12.320 Roddy McDowell is currently appearing in the Metro Golden Mayor Technicolor production 29:12.320 --> 29:14.320 Holiday in Mexico. 29:14.320 --> 29:18.320 Tonight's Suspense play was written by Sanford Schlesinger and Robert Richards. 29:18.320 --> 29:20.320 Next Thursday, same time, 29:20.320 --> 29:25.320 you will hear Mr. Van Heflin as star of Suspense. 29:27.320 --> 29:29.320 Produced and directed by William Spear 29:29.320 --> 29:33.320 for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. 29:36.320 --> 29:38.320 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as 29:38.320 --> 29:40.320 Glenn Ford, James Stewart. 29:40.320 --> 29:43.320 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, 29:43.320 --> 29:48.320 radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 29:48.320 --> 30:16.320 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.