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I fell, Jimmy. 03:29.080 --> 03:32.160 I fell and I hurt myself. 03:32.160 --> 03:33.640 Your eyes swollen shut. 03:33.640 --> 03:35.200 Let me look at it. 03:35.200 --> 03:37.680 Jimmy, I have something to tell you. 03:37.680 --> 03:39.120 What are these suitcases doing here? 03:39.120 --> 03:40.120 You and I are going away, Jimmy. 03:40.120 --> 03:41.120 We've got to get out of here. 03:41.120 --> 03:42.120 I've packed everything. 03:42.120 --> 03:44.640 We're going no place till you tell me what this is all about. 03:44.640 --> 03:49.040 While you were gone, I got married. 03:49.040 --> 03:50.040 Married? 03:50.040 --> 03:52.480 You mean Steve was here on furlough? 03:52.480 --> 03:54.600 No, Jimmy, not to Steve. 03:54.600 --> 03:57.920 Not... but you were engaged to him. 03:57.920 --> 04:01.720 I know, but I got a letter from him right after you left. 04:01.720 --> 04:04.720 He married someone he met where he was stationed. 04:04.720 --> 04:06.240 Oh, Helen, gee. 04:06.240 --> 04:07.240 I was pretty upset, Jimmy. 04:07.240 --> 04:09.240 That's when I met Phil Armstrong. 04:09.240 --> 04:11.760 But gee, I think you might have... 04:11.760 --> 04:13.080 I don't even know the guy. 04:13.080 --> 04:14.080 No, neither did I. 04:14.080 --> 04:15.320 But I was unhappy... 04:15.320 --> 04:17.320 You just don't go off and marry someone you don't know. 04:17.320 --> 04:18.320 That's what I did, Jimmy. 04:18.320 --> 04:20.520 Now, we've got to get out of here. 04:20.520 --> 04:21.520 But why? 04:21.520 --> 04:23.240 Because there's been trouble. 04:23.240 --> 04:24.740 What kind of trouble? 04:24.740 --> 04:26.320 I'm afraid, Jimmy. 04:26.320 --> 04:27.320 He's terrible. 04:27.320 --> 04:28.320 He takes something. 04:28.320 --> 04:31.600 I don't know what, but sometimes he... he's just crazy. 04:31.600 --> 04:32.600 Helen. 04:32.600 --> 04:33.600 Yes? 04:33.600 --> 04:34.600 Your face. 04:34.600 --> 04:36.600 You didn't fall. 04:36.600 --> 04:37.600 No. 04:37.600 --> 04:38.600 He did that. 04:38.600 --> 04:39.600 I'll... I'll kill him. 04:39.600 --> 04:40.600 Or he'll kill you. 04:40.600 --> 04:41.600 That's what I mean. 04:41.600 --> 04:42.600 That's why we've got to get away. 04:42.600 --> 04:43.600 You can get a divorce, can't you? 04:43.600 --> 04:44.600 No, he threatened me if I even tried to get one. 04:44.600 --> 04:45.600 We'll put him under a peace bond. 04:45.600 --> 04:46.600 What good would a peace bond be, Jimmy, if he killed one of us? 04:46.600 --> 04:59.920 So I let her talk me into running away. 04:59.920 --> 05:00.920 I guess I shouldn't have. 05:00.920 --> 05:07.040 But I knew that if I saw him after what he'd done to her... well, anyhow, she looked so 05:07.040 --> 05:08.480 frightened. 05:08.480 --> 05:11.520 I thought it best to let her do it her way. 05:11.520 --> 05:16.040 We got to Santa Monica that night, and we stopped at a motel near the water. 05:16.040 --> 05:20.240 Well, a week slipped by, and Helen seemed to be forgetting. 05:20.240 --> 05:23.440 She didn't jump every time someone knocked at the door. 05:23.440 --> 05:28.000 I managed to get a job at one of the shooting concessions on the pier, and we both began 05:28.000 --> 05:33.520 to feel good for a while. 05:33.520 --> 05:39.360 Then one night late, as I came home from work, I heard voices coming from our apartment. 05:39.360 --> 05:42.920 I knew who it was, and I knew from what Helen had told me it would be foolish for me to 05:42.920 --> 05:46.800 go in unarmed, so I ran back to the shooting concession. 05:46.800 --> 05:51.040 I knew something was going to happen. 05:51.040 --> 05:57.440 It didn't take long, but when I got back, the lights were out, and the sound of voices 05:57.440 --> 05:58.440 was gone. 05:58.440 --> 06:04.440 I tried the door. 06:04.440 --> 06:11.280 It was very dark, and then my foot struck something soft and heavy on the floor. 06:11.280 --> 06:17.080 I snapped on the switch, and the room was flooded with light, and I looked down into 06:17.080 --> 06:22.320 a dead man's face. 06:22.320 --> 06:27.560 I stood there shivering with cold and terror, looking down at that man. 06:27.560 --> 06:32.480 Although I'd never seen him in life, I knew this was Phil, her husband. 06:32.480 --> 06:37.120 There was a deep gash over his eye, and the blood still flowed from it onto the floor. 06:37.120 --> 06:41.000 I stepped over him, and I ran into the bedroom. 06:41.000 --> 06:42.000 Helen! 06:42.000 --> 06:47.120 But there was no one in the bedroom or in the kitchen, and then I heard the front door 06:47.120 --> 06:48.120 open. 06:48.120 --> 06:49.120 Oh, Jimmy! 06:49.120 --> 06:50.120 Close the door, Helen. 06:50.120 --> 06:51.120 Jimmy! 06:51.120 --> 06:54.120 Close it, do you hear me? 06:54.120 --> 06:55.120 Be quiet. 06:55.120 --> 06:58.120 Turn the lights out. 06:58.120 --> 07:01.120 Be quiet, I tell you. 07:01.120 --> 07:02.120 Oh, Jimmy. 07:02.120 --> 07:03.120 What have I let you in for? 07:03.120 --> 07:04.120 Stay where you are. 07:04.120 --> 07:05.120 Shh. 07:05.120 --> 07:06.120 Don't move, Helen. 07:06.120 --> 07:07.120 Who is it? 07:07.120 --> 07:08.120 I don't know. 07:08.120 --> 07:09.120 Keep quiet. 07:09.120 --> 07:12.120 Jimmy, it's Mrs. Gordon. 07:12.120 --> 07:19.640 She's going to unlock the door. 07:19.640 --> 07:21.040 Just a minute, Mrs. Gordon. 07:21.040 --> 07:22.040 I'll get something on. 07:22.040 --> 07:23.040 Jimmy, what's going on in there? 07:23.040 --> 07:26.040 All the tenants have been complaining. 07:26.040 --> 07:28.360 Oh, some friends of mine, Mrs. Gordon. 07:28.360 --> 07:30.800 They were having a party. 07:30.800 --> 07:31.800 They're gone now. 07:31.800 --> 07:33.800 Jimmy Barton, you should be ashamed of yourself. 07:33.800 --> 07:34.800 Open this door. 07:34.800 --> 07:35.800 I want to talk to you. 07:35.800 --> 07:37.160 I'm not dressed. 07:37.160 --> 07:38.160 I was taking a shower. 07:38.160 --> 07:39.960 Well, flip something on. 07:39.960 --> 07:41.080 I'm tired. 07:41.080 --> 07:42.080 I was just going to bed. 07:42.080 --> 07:43.080 Jimmy, I told you I wanted to talk to you. 07:43.080 --> 07:44.080 Now, will you open this door? 07:44.080 --> 07:45.080 She has a passkey, Jimmy. 07:45.080 --> 07:46.080 All right. 07:46.080 --> 07:51.080 All right, Mrs. Gordon. 07:51.080 --> 07:52.080 Just let me get some clothes on. 07:52.080 --> 07:53.080 I didn't know what to do. 07:53.080 --> 07:58.080 I knew that she was determined to come in. 07:58.080 --> 08:01.280 Mrs. Gordon is a nosy old woman. 08:01.280 --> 08:02.280 But she meant well. 08:02.280 --> 08:05.800 She'd taken it upon herself to mother Helen and me since the first minute she laid eyes 08:05.800 --> 08:06.800 on us. 08:06.800 --> 08:10.720 And we'd had a time keeping her out of the apartment with her pots of jam and her bowls 08:10.720 --> 08:11.720 of soup. 08:11.720 --> 08:12.720 What do we do, Jimmy? 08:12.720 --> 08:13.720 Helen, take him by the feet. 08:13.720 --> 08:14.720 No. 08:14.720 --> 08:17.720 Helen, take him by the feet. 08:17.720 --> 08:23.360 We started half dragging, half carrying him towards the bedroom, the rug slipping along 08:23.360 --> 08:25.400 the floor as we moved. 08:25.400 --> 08:27.360 We'd just gotten into the bedroom and then... 08:27.360 --> 08:32.360 Well, if your mother isn't here to look after you, I'm going to do it myself. 08:32.360 --> 08:33.360 We can't leave him here. 08:33.360 --> 08:34.360 She might come into the bedroom. 08:34.360 --> 08:35.360 Quick, the bathroom. 08:35.360 --> 08:36.360 Jimmy, where are you? 08:36.360 --> 08:37.360 Jimmy, what if she comes in here? 08:37.360 --> 08:38.360 Pull back those shower curtains. 08:38.360 --> 08:39.360 Jimmy, we can't. 08:39.360 --> 08:40.360 Don't argue. 08:40.360 --> 08:41.360 Pull them back. 08:41.360 --> 08:42.360 Jimmy, I can't get his legs in. 08:42.360 --> 08:43.360 Here. 08:43.360 --> 08:44.360 I'll double them up. 08:44.360 --> 08:45.360 There. 08:45.360 --> 08:46.360 Now pull the curtains together. 08:46.360 --> 08:47.360 Jimmy, what's been going on in here? 08:47.360 --> 08:48.360 Look at my rug. 08:48.360 --> 08:49.360 Has there been a fight? 08:49.360 --> 08:50.360 Just a minute, Mrs. Gordon. 08:50.360 --> 08:51.360 Jimmy, why are you so upset? 08:51.360 --> 08:52.360 I'm not upset. 08:52.360 --> 08:53.360 I'm just worried about my daughter. 08:53.360 --> 09:10.800 Jimmy, what's going on in here? 09:10.800 --> 09:12.800 Get me a razor out of the medicine chest. 09:12.800 --> 09:13.800 Here. 09:13.800 --> 09:15.800 What are you going to do? 09:15.800 --> 09:16.800 Never mind. 09:16.800 --> 09:17.800 Stay where you are. 09:17.800 --> 09:20.800 I'm coming, Mrs. Gordon. 09:20.800 --> 09:24.200 Well, just as I suspected, you've been fighting. 09:24.200 --> 09:25.200 You've hurt yourself. 09:25.200 --> 09:26.760 Here, let me see your hand. 09:26.760 --> 09:28.960 It isn't bad, Mrs. Gordon. 09:28.960 --> 09:31.040 No wonder you didn't want me to come in. 09:31.040 --> 09:32.040 Where's Helen? 09:32.040 --> 09:33.100 She's out. 09:33.100 --> 09:34.100 She hasn't been here all evening. 09:34.100 --> 09:35.880 Here, let's look at your hand. 09:35.880 --> 09:36.880 It isn't bad, Mrs. Gordon. 09:36.880 --> 09:38.880 You let me see that hand. 09:38.880 --> 09:39.880 There. 09:39.880 --> 09:42.560 But, Jimmy, this is a bad gash. 09:42.560 --> 09:43.560 Have you disinfected it? 09:43.560 --> 09:44.560 Yes. 09:44.560 --> 09:45.560 Yes, I have. 09:45.560 --> 09:46.560 Well, let me bandage it for you. 09:46.560 --> 09:47.560 No, this towel's all right. 09:47.560 --> 09:48.560 It's not all right. 09:48.560 --> 09:49.560 Where are your bandages and things? 09:49.560 --> 09:50.560 In the bathroom? 09:50.560 --> 09:51.560 No, no. 09:51.560 --> 09:52.720 I don't have any. 09:52.720 --> 09:55.840 You're just saying that, Jimmy Barton, because you don't want to be bandaged. 09:55.840 --> 09:56.840 You're not fooling me. 09:56.840 --> 09:59.040 And I'm going right into the bathroom and get some. 09:59.040 --> 10:00.040 No, not the bathroom. 10:00.040 --> 10:02.040 I mean, I don't have any. 10:02.040 --> 10:04.040 Well, I'll just see for myself. 10:04.040 --> 10:07.040 No, no, Mrs. Gordon. 10:07.040 --> 10:09.440 Jimmy, you've dripped blood all over this floor. 10:09.440 --> 10:12.160 Here, let's look in this medicine closet. 10:12.160 --> 10:13.160 There. 10:13.160 --> 10:14.160 I knew it. 10:14.160 --> 10:15.960 Here's some tape and some gauze, too. 10:15.960 --> 10:18.360 Mrs. Gordon, can't we do this in the living room? 10:18.360 --> 10:19.720 No, we'll do it right here. 10:19.720 --> 10:21.600 Now, here's some alcohol. 10:21.600 --> 10:24.440 Put your hand over here. 10:24.440 --> 10:27.120 We stood there, and she bandaged me. 10:27.120 --> 10:29.880 And I kept wondering where Helen had gone. 10:29.880 --> 10:33.840 And then I saw the shower curtain move slightly. 10:33.840 --> 10:34.840 And I knew. 10:34.840 --> 10:38.960 For a moment, I thought Mrs. Gordon had seen it move, too. 10:38.960 --> 10:41.480 Jimmy, just look at that shower curtain. 10:41.480 --> 10:42.480 Yes. 10:42.480 --> 10:45.040 Goodness, you smeared that with blood, too. 10:45.040 --> 10:47.520 I'd better clean things up before Helen gets home. 10:47.520 --> 10:48.880 You'll scare the life out of her. 10:48.880 --> 10:51.360 I'll clean it up, Mrs. Gordon. 10:51.360 --> 10:52.800 You've done enough. 10:52.800 --> 10:54.840 Thanks very much for taking care of this hand. 10:54.840 --> 10:57.320 Well, all right, if you don't want me to. 10:57.320 --> 10:58.320 Now you'd better get some sleep. 10:58.320 --> 10:59.320 I'll see you in the morning. 10:59.320 --> 11:00.320 Good night, Jimmy. 11:00.320 --> 11:01.320 Good night, Mrs. Gordon. 11:01.320 --> 11:02.320 Jimmy. 11:02.320 --> 11:03.320 Shh, Helen. 11:03.320 --> 11:04.320 Oh, I had to hide someplace, and it was terrible. 11:04.320 --> 11:05.320 I know, I know. 11:05.320 --> 11:06.320 It was the only thing you could do. 11:06.320 --> 11:07.320 Oh, Jimmy. 11:07.320 --> 11:08.320 Yes? 11:08.320 --> 11:09.320 Jimmy, I forgot to tell you that I'm having a heart attack. 11:09.320 --> 11:10.320 I'm having a heart attack. 11:10.320 --> 11:11.320 I'm having a heart attack. 11:11.320 --> 11:12.320 I'm having a heart attack. 11:12.320 --> 11:13.320 I'm having a heart attack. 11:13.320 --> 11:14.320 I'm having a heart attack. 11:14.320 --> 11:15.320 I'm having a heart attack. 11:15.320 --> 11:16.320 I'm having a heart attack. 11:16.320 --> 11:19.240 I'm having a heart attack. 11:19.240 --> 11:20.240 Yes? 11:20.240 --> 11:21.500 Jimmy, I forgot to tell you that I'm having some painting done tomorrow, so you'll have 11:21.500 --> 11:22.500 to be out of here early. 11:22.500 --> 11:26.060 It's hard enough getting painters these days without making them wait for my tenants to 11:26.060 --> 11:27.060 get up. 11:27.060 --> 11:28.060 All right, Mrs. Gordon. 11:28.060 --> 11:29.520 I'll be out first thing in the morning. 11:29.520 --> 11:30.520 Good night. 11:30.520 --> 11:31.520 Good night. 11:31.520 --> 11:34.520 Do I have to get him out of here? 11:34.520 --> 11:35.520 Yeah. 11:35.520 --> 11:36.520 Where will we take him? 11:36.520 --> 11:37.520 I don't know. 11:37.520 --> 11:38.520 I've got to think. 11:38.520 --> 11:39.520 Helen, you try and rest. 11:39.520 --> 11:40.520 Jimmy, let me get to the police. 11:40.520 --> 11:43.100 Let me tell them that I did it. 11:43.100 --> 11:45.800 Let me tell them what he was and they won't do anything to me. 11:45.800 --> 11:48.200 No, no, you try and rest. 11:48.200 --> 11:49.200 What time is it? 11:49.200 --> 11:50.200 About six. 11:50.200 --> 11:52.600 I've got two hours before the painters get here. 11:52.600 --> 11:54.200 What are you going to do? 11:54.200 --> 11:55.440 Well, there's the car. 11:55.440 --> 11:58.840 No one will see us if we take him through the service porch into the garage. 11:58.840 --> 11:59.840 Then what? 11:59.840 --> 12:02.960 I don't know, but that'll get him out of here anyway. 12:02.960 --> 12:04.720 I think I can do it alone, Helen. 12:04.720 --> 12:09.120 Listen, Jimmy, we're in this mess because of me, and I'm going to help you. 12:09.120 --> 12:24.840 For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Elliot Reid in Dead of Night. 12:24.840 --> 12:37.480 Roma Wines presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:37.480 --> 12:44.760 Presented by Roma, R-O-M-A, Roma Wines, those better tasting wines that come from California's 12:44.760 --> 12:50.680 finest vineyards to enrich your table, to enhance the hospitality of your home. 12:50.680 --> 12:57.120 To bring you better tasting wine, Roma selects and presses California's choicest grapes. 12:57.120 --> 13:03.040 Then Roma vintners with ancient skill and winemaking resources, unmatched in America, 13:03.040 --> 13:08.800 guide this sun-drenched grape treasure unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection. 13:08.800 --> 13:14.760 These fine wines are placed with other Roma wines of years before, and from these reserves, 13:14.760 --> 13:21.200 the world's greatest reserves of fine wine, Roma later selects for your enjoyment. 13:21.200 --> 13:27.080 Now, you can enjoy the premium quality of your favorite Roma California wine at savings 13:27.080 --> 13:29.440 up to 20%. 13:29.440 --> 13:36.560 Tomorrow as a special after dinner treat, try rich Roma port or mellow muscatel. 13:36.560 --> 13:41.320 Be sure to ask for Roma, America's favorite wine. 13:41.320 --> 13:46.880 And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Elliot Reid as Jimmy Barton with 13:46.880 --> 14:04.360 Cathy Lewis as Helen in Dead of Night, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:04.360 --> 14:08.880 When I went into the bathroom, the shower curtains were standing open. 14:08.880 --> 14:13.960 His legs had slipped from their cramped position and they'd pushed themselves into the room. 14:13.960 --> 14:19.680 He sat there with his head twisted down and his chin digging into his chest. 14:19.680 --> 14:22.840 I took a washcloth and I... 14:22.840 --> 14:24.800 It was awful. 14:24.800 --> 14:27.920 I wiped the blood off his face. 14:27.920 --> 14:33.440 Just in case anyone saw us, they might think he was just sick. 14:33.440 --> 14:38.280 Then I tried to lift him, but I slipped and his head made a hollow sound as it thumped 14:38.280 --> 14:44.600 down on the shower floor. 14:44.600 --> 14:47.120 Helen helped me get him into the luggage compartment of the car. 14:47.120 --> 14:48.560 Where are we going, Jimmy? 14:48.560 --> 14:50.360 Helen, won't you stay in the apartment, please? 14:50.360 --> 14:51.360 No, I couldn't. 14:51.360 --> 14:52.360 I'm going with you. 14:52.360 --> 14:57.360 All right, come on. 14:57.360 --> 15:07.640 Lucky, it's so foggy. 15:07.640 --> 15:09.360 What time is it? 15:09.360 --> 15:10.360 Five or seven. 15:10.360 --> 15:12.560 The fog will be clearing soon. 15:12.560 --> 15:14.880 It'll be harder getting him out of the car than... 15:14.880 --> 15:15.880 Jimmy. 15:15.880 --> 15:16.880 What? 15:16.880 --> 15:17.880 Jimmy, there's a Santa Monica Pier. 15:17.880 --> 15:20.080 You can drive cars out to the end of it. 15:20.080 --> 15:21.080 Maybe we can... 15:21.080 --> 15:32.200 Yeah, it's worth a try anyway. 15:32.200 --> 15:33.200 We'll have to act fast. 15:33.200 --> 15:34.960 That fog's clearing. 15:34.960 --> 15:35.960 You stay here. 15:35.960 --> 15:36.960 I can manage alone this time. 15:36.960 --> 15:37.960 Jimmy. 15:37.960 --> 15:38.960 You stay here this time. 15:38.960 --> 15:39.960 All right. 15:39.960 --> 15:40.960 Call me if you need me. 15:40.960 --> 15:42.720 I'll go around to the back. 15:42.720 --> 15:43.720 Keep your eyes open. 15:43.720 --> 15:44.720 All right. 15:44.720 --> 15:45.720 Jimmy, someone's coming. 15:45.720 --> 15:46.720 Who is it? 15:46.720 --> 15:47.720 I can't see. 15:47.720 --> 15:48.720 Jimmy, it's a policeman. 15:48.720 --> 15:49.720 What? 15:49.720 --> 15:50.720 It's a policeman. 15:50.720 --> 15:51.720 Jimmy. 15:51.720 --> 15:52.720 Oh, it's Slugger Vanda. 15:52.720 --> 15:53.720 He's patrolman on the pier. 15:53.720 --> 15:54.720 Hello, Slugger. 15:54.720 --> 15:55.720 Well, hello, Jimmy. 15:55.720 --> 16:08.920 When do you get your sleep, Jimmy? 16:08.920 --> 16:11.920 While you're working? 16:11.920 --> 16:15.240 Yeah, Slugger. 16:15.240 --> 16:19.200 But I couldn't seem to remember if I'd locked up the old shooting gallery. 16:19.200 --> 16:20.920 So I came over this morning to have a look around. 16:20.920 --> 16:21.920 Oh, I see. 16:21.920 --> 16:24.240 This is my sister, Slugger. 16:24.240 --> 16:25.840 Hello, this is Slugger Vanda. 16:25.840 --> 16:26.840 How do you do? 16:26.840 --> 16:27.840 Hello. 16:27.840 --> 16:28.840 Well, you're an early riser too, huh? 16:28.840 --> 16:29.840 Yes. 16:29.840 --> 16:30.840 Well, the fog's clearing up. 16:30.840 --> 16:32.840 Looks like we're going to get some sun today, Franchet. 16:32.840 --> 16:33.840 Yeah. 16:33.840 --> 16:35.520 Well, I guess I'll be getting back. 16:35.520 --> 16:38.600 I think I'll try and catch a few more hours sleep. 16:38.600 --> 16:39.600 So long. 16:39.600 --> 16:40.600 Yeah, so long. 16:40.600 --> 16:41.600 Oh, say, say, Jimmy. 16:41.600 --> 16:42.600 Yeah? 16:42.600 --> 16:46.840 Say, Jim, I have to take my wife over to a nursery today and pick up some plants and 16:46.840 --> 16:49.000 stuff, and I don't have a trunk on my car. 16:49.000 --> 16:50.640 I wonder if you'd let me use your car. 16:50.640 --> 16:51.640 I... 16:51.640 --> 16:54.680 Well, you have to drive me over to Malibu this afternoon, Jimmy. 16:54.680 --> 16:55.680 Yeah, I'd forgotten. 16:55.680 --> 16:56.680 Well, you can drive over in my car. 16:56.680 --> 16:57.680 How's that? 16:57.680 --> 16:58.680 Well, you see... 16:58.680 --> 16:59.680 Your brother thinks I'll wreck that beautiful car? 16:59.680 --> 17:00.680 Oh, it isn't that, Slugger. 17:00.680 --> 17:01.680 Okay, then, okay. 17:01.680 --> 17:02.680 I'll be over about noon. 17:02.680 --> 17:05.680 I'll leave my car for when I get back. 17:05.680 --> 17:06.680 I won't be home at noon, Slugger. 17:06.680 --> 17:07.680 Well, then I'll meet you at the entrance to the pier. 17:07.680 --> 17:08.680 How's that? 17:08.680 --> 17:09.680 All right, Slugger. 17:09.680 --> 17:10.680 Okay. 17:10.680 --> 17:11.680 Why'd you say you'd meet him? 17:11.680 --> 17:15.680 Oh, if I don't, he'll go over to the apartment looking for you. 17:15.680 --> 17:16.680 I mean, for us. 17:16.680 --> 17:17.680 And I don't want a policeman going over there. 17:17.680 --> 17:18.680 Oh, I'm sorry. 17:18.680 --> 17:25.680 As we drove along the ocean, the fog cleared up rapidly. 17:25.680 --> 17:34.320 It was almost 8 o'clock, and some kids were already out on the beach playing around. 17:34.320 --> 17:36.280 Then I saw a group of early picnickers. 17:36.280 --> 17:40.480 They were unloading their blankets and umbrellas and things. 17:40.480 --> 17:43.600 I guess it was from them that I got the idea. 17:43.600 --> 17:44.600 From seeing them. 17:44.600 --> 17:45.600 Listen, Helen. 17:45.600 --> 17:49.920 I'm going to let you out of this car. 17:49.920 --> 17:51.560 You can't help me with what I have to do now. 17:51.560 --> 17:52.560 No. 17:52.560 --> 17:53.560 Jimmy, I'm staying with you. 17:53.560 --> 17:54.560 Don't argue, Helen. 17:54.560 --> 17:55.560 I'm not leaving you, Jim. 17:55.560 --> 17:58.000 We can't go back to the apartment with the painters there, and we can't leave him in 17:58.000 --> 17:59.000 the car. 17:59.000 --> 18:01.920 Slugger's liable to see us and pin us down to using it. 18:01.920 --> 18:02.920 There's only one place left. 18:02.920 --> 18:03.920 Where, Jimmy? 18:03.920 --> 18:04.920 Helen, get out of this car. 18:04.920 --> 18:05.920 Do you hear? 18:05.920 --> 18:06.920 Well, but, Jimmy... 18:06.920 --> 18:07.920 I haven't time to argue with you. 18:07.920 --> 18:08.920 I... 18:08.920 --> 18:09.920 Get out. 18:09.920 --> 18:10.920 I won't do it, Jimmy. 18:10.920 --> 18:11.920 Yes, you will. 18:11.920 --> 18:12.920 If I have to push you out... 18:12.920 --> 18:13.920 Oh, Jimmy, you're hurting me. 18:13.920 --> 18:14.920 There. 18:14.920 --> 18:15.920 I'm sorry. 18:15.920 --> 18:16.920 Go back to the apartment. 18:16.920 --> 18:17.920 Get off that running board, Helen. 18:17.920 --> 18:18.920 I can't leave you alone, Jimmy. 18:18.920 --> 18:19.920 I want to help you. 18:19.920 --> 18:21.560 I'm not blaming you for killing him, Helen. 18:21.560 --> 18:23.160 But now you've got to do as I say. 18:23.160 --> 18:24.160 What? 18:24.160 --> 18:25.160 What did you say? 18:25.160 --> 18:26.640 I don't blame you for what you did. 18:26.640 --> 18:27.640 He deserved it. 18:27.640 --> 18:29.360 But now you've got to help me handle things. 18:29.360 --> 18:30.360 Jimmy, you've got to let me explain. 18:30.360 --> 18:31.360 Goodbye, Helen. 18:31.360 --> 18:32.360 Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy! 18:32.360 --> 18:33.360 I watched her out of the mirror. 18:33.360 --> 18:34.360 She kept calling me. 18:34.360 --> 18:35.360 I drove on as fast as I could. 18:35.360 --> 18:44.360 I knew that what I was going to do was one chance in a million. 18:44.360 --> 18:46.280 But I knew I had to take it. 18:46.280 --> 18:50.160 And I didn't want her to be part of it. 18:50.160 --> 18:56.600 If I could keep him on the beach that whole day, then maybe I'd be able to get rid of 18:56.600 --> 18:57.880 him when night fell. 18:57.880 --> 19:02.680 It wasn't until after I stopped that I realized I'd driven right back to a strip of beach 19:02.680 --> 19:04.680 not far from the apartment. 19:04.680 --> 19:07.840 I had my swimming shorts and a blanket and a towel in the car. 19:07.840 --> 19:09.840 And I got out. 19:09.840 --> 19:12.840 I looked around carefully. 19:12.840 --> 19:16.720 And then I opened the luggage compartment. 19:16.720 --> 19:20.200 It was the hardest thing I'd ever done in my life. 19:20.200 --> 19:25.560 But I started taking his clothes off. 19:25.560 --> 19:28.280 I managed to get my shorts onto him. 19:28.280 --> 19:31.800 Lucky, we were pretty near the same size. 19:31.800 --> 19:33.560 Then I closed the door. 19:33.560 --> 19:34.920 And I went out onto the beach. 19:34.920 --> 19:37.640 And I spread my blanket out on the sand. 19:37.640 --> 19:39.720 And I went back for him. 19:39.720 --> 19:44.200 When there were no cars in sight, I carried him over to where I'd spread my blanket. 19:44.200 --> 19:49.240 And I placed him on it face down with his hands folded over his head as though we were 19:49.240 --> 19:52.440 sunbathing. 19:52.440 --> 19:55.960 Then I spread my towel out a short distance from him. 19:55.960 --> 19:58.400 And I laid down on it. 19:58.400 --> 20:03.960 And I tried to look relaxed. 20:03.960 --> 20:07.440 People didn't start to arrive until about an hour later. 20:07.440 --> 20:11.360 And gradually, little groups of sunbathers started to form. 20:11.360 --> 20:14.800 He and I, we looked no different from the others. 20:14.800 --> 20:17.160 No one paid any attention to us. 20:17.160 --> 20:21.200 And I was beginning to feel that everything was going to be easy once it was dark again. 20:21.200 --> 20:24.680 Jimmy, I've been looking all over for you. 20:24.680 --> 20:25.680 What? 20:25.680 --> 20:26.680 I... 20:26.680 --> 20:27.680 Hello, Mrs. Gordon. 20:27.680 --> 20:28.680 Where's Helen? 20:28.680 --> 20:30.680 Isn't she in the apartment? 20:30.680 --> 20:31.680 Oh, no. 20:31.680 --> 20:33.680 And what time did you go out this morning? 20:33.680 --> 20:34.680 I... 20:34.680 --> 20:35.680 I couldn't sleep. 20:35.680 --> 20:37.160 Say, didn't Helen come in at all last night? 20:37.160 --> 20:38.160 Oh, yes. 20:38.160 --> 20:39.160 Yes, she did. 20:39.160 --> 20:41.240 But she left early, too. 20:41.240 --> 20:42.240 Said she was going into Los Angeles. 20:42.240 --> 20:45.840 Oh, and I left her a note to tell her I was going down to the beach today. 20:45.840 --> 20:47.520 I was so worried about her. 20:47.520 --> 20:50.120 Say, the painters came, Jimmy. 20:50.120 --> 20:51.120 Everything's a mess. 20:51.120 --> 20:53.760 You know, I think I'll just sit here with you for a while. 20:53.760 --> 20:56.560 You're, uh, you're not with anyone, are you? 20:56.560 --> 20:57.560 No. 20:57.560 --> 20:58.560 No, I'm not. 20:58.560 --> 21:00.360 I wish I brought some oil along. 21:00.360 --> 21:02.360 Looks like it's going to be a hot day. 21:02.360 --> 21:06.320 These things, these days, it start off foggy or deceiving, you know? 21:06.320 --> 21:07.320 Yeah, they are. 21:07.320 --> 21:10.040 This is a real treat for me, Jimmy. 21:10.040 --> 21:11.920 I never get out on the beach. 21:11.920 --> 21:14.440 I think I'll have a nice day of rest for a change. 21:14.440 --> 21:16.280 Later, we can get some sandwiches. 21:16.280 --> 21:17.280 The treat's on me. 21:17.280 --> 21:19.080 Oh, Mrs. Gordon, no. 21:19.080 --> 21:21.480 I hadn't planned on spending the day at the beach. 21:21.480 --> 21:23.600 Oh, it'll be good for you, Jimmy. 21:23.600 --> 21:27.000 Not healthy for a boy your age to be working all night and sleeping all day. 21:27.000 --> 21:28.000 But, Mrs. Gordon, I... 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 Oh. 21:29.000 --> 21:34.800 Say, Jimmy, do you know that man over there? 21:34.800 --> 21:35.800 Which one? 21:35.800 --> 21:36.800 That one right there. 21:36.800 --> 21:37.800 No. 21:37.800 --> 21:38.800 I don't know him. 21:38.800 --> 21:39.800 He's lying so still. 21:39.800 --> 21:40.800 His back's going to get an awful burn. 21:40.800 --> 21:41.800 Yeah. 21:41.800 --> 21:42.800 You suppose he's asleep? 21:42.800 --> 21:45.800 See, it isn't good to sleep in the sun. 21:45.800 --> 21:51.800 Mrs. Gordon, will the painters be finished by this afternoon? 21:51.800 --> 21:52.800 I hope so. 21:52.800 --> 21:56.800 You know, a person can get an awful burn on a day like this. 21:56.800 --> 21:58.800 Somebody ought to speak to him. 21:58.800 --> 22:00.800 Mrs. Gordon, wouldn't you like to go for a walk? 22:00.800 --> 22:01.800 Oh, I'm not one for walking. 22:01.800 --> 22:02.800 You can go ahead if you like. 22:02.800 --> 22:03.800 Well, I... 22:03.800 --> 22:05.800 Come on, Dick, pitch it over here. 22:05.800 --> 22:06.800 Oh, those kids. 22:06.800 --> 22:07.800 You children, stop that. 22:07.800 --> 22:08.800 You're getting sand all over me. 22:08.800 --> 22:09.800 Sorry, lady. 22:09.800 --> 22:10.800 There's no need to play ball here. 22:10.800 --> 22:11.800 There's a playground over by the pier. 22:11.800 --> 22:12.800 Now get away from here. 22:12.800 --> 22:13.800 I don't pay no attention to her. 22:13.800 --> 22:14.800 She don't own the beach. 22:14.800 --> 22:15.800 Pitch it over here. 22:15.800 --> 22:16.800 Oh, we hit that guy in the beazer. 22:16.800 --> 22:17.800 Now see what they've done. 22:17.800 --> 22:18.800 They've hit that poor man. 22:18.800 --> 22:19.800 Now they'll get what's coming to them. 22:19.800 --> 22:20.800 Mrs. Gordon, are you sure you don't want to go up and jump on the beach? 22:20.800 --> 22:21.800 I'm not going to jump on the beach. 22:21.800 --> 22:22.800 I'm going to jump on the beach. 22:22.800 --> 22:23.800 I'm going to jump on the beach. 22:23.800 --> 22:24.800 I'm going to jump on the beach. 22:24.800 --> 22:41.800 I'm going to jump on the beach. 22:41.800 --> 22:46.800 Look at that. Balls right in the crook of that man's arm. He's pretending he's asleep. 22:46.800 --> 22:50.800 He's not gonna hand it to them. But just wait till they reach for it. 22:50.800 --> 22:53.800 He'll give them something besides their ball. 22:53.800 --> 22:55.800 Hey, mister, could we... 22:55.800 --> 22:58.800 Ah, what are you waiting for, Dicky? It's our ball. Just take it. 22:58.800 --> 23:02.800 Go on, take it. Here, I'll get it. 23:02.800 --> 23:05.800 Thanks, mister. For you. 23:05.800 --> 23:07.800 What's the matter? 23:07.800 --> 23:08.800 Hey, he's cold. 23:08.800 --> 23:10.800 What did you say? 23:10.800 --> 23:13.800 He's cold, lady. His arm's like ice. I just touched it. 23:13.800 --> 23:14.800 Why don't you... 23:14.800 --> 23:16.800 Well, you probably hurt him. 23:16.800 --> 23:19.800 Ah, a little ball like this couldn't hurt nobody. 23:19.800 --> 23:22.800 Well, nevertheless, it did. Here, let's have a look. 23:24.800 --> 23:26.800 And then she started moving toward him. 23:26.800 --> 23:29.800 I knew it was useless to try and stop her. 23:29.800 --> 23:32.800 And she reached over and put her hand on his back. 23:32.800 --> 23:34.800 And suddenly she was screaming... 23:34.800 --> 23:40.800 I can't believe it! This man's dead! 23:42.800 --> 23:45.800 Before long, there was a crowd of people around us. 23:45.800 --> 23:47.800 And someone called the police. 23:47.800 --> 23:50.800 I wanted to run, but I knew that would be the wrong thing to do. 23:50.800 --> 23:53.800 So I stayed there, numb like, watching things. 23:53.800 --> 23:56.800 When the police came, they started questioning everyone. 23:56.800 --> 23:58.800 Mrs. Gordon was first. 23:58.800 --> 24:01.800 But he'd been there all morning. I came early and he was here already. 24:01.800 --> 24:04.800 Just like that, with his face down, just like he was Sunday. 24:04.800 --> 24:06.800 Was there anyone else around when you arrived? 24:06.800 --> 24:10.800 Well, yes, Jimmy was here. He was here all alone with him, weren't you, Jimmy? 24:10.800 --> 24:12.800 Yes. Yes, I was. 24:12.800 --> 24:13.800 Doesn't anyone know the man? 24:13.800 --> 24:16.800 Hey, I told you kids to keep away, do you hear? 24:16.800 --> 24:19.800 Ah, we discovered him, didn't we? If it hadn't been for us, you... 24:19.800 --> 24:23.800 Yeah, you don't even know a clue when you see one. Look at his fingernails. 24:23.800 --> 24:25.800 See, the child's right, Officer. Look. 24:25.800 --> 24:28.800 Ah, what's that? Now, let's see. 24:28.800 --> 24:31.800 Ah, it looks like powder, something flaky. 24:31.800 --> 24:34.800 You sure none of you people around here recognize him? 24:34.800 --> 24:36.800 Well, I've never seen him. 24:36.800 --> 24:40.800 Officer, that blanket he's lying on, it's from my motel. 24:40.800 --> 24:43.800 See, it's stamped right under where you moved his hand. 24:43.800 --> 24:45.800 Seaside motor cabins. 24:45.800 --> 24:46.800 You sure he wasn't registered? 24:46.800 --> 24:47.800 I'm positive. 24:47.800 --> 24:49.800 Is there anyone around here from your motel? 24:49.800 --> 24:50.800 Look, look, Jimmy. 24:50.800 --> 24:52.800 Jimmy! Jimmy! 24:52.800 --> 24:53.800 Here comes Helen. She's crying. 24:53.800 --> 24:56.800 Mrs. Gordon, I asked if there's anybody around here from your motel. 24:56.800 --> 24:59.800 Yes, just Jimmy Gordon here. And that girl, she's his sister. 24:59.800 --> 25:02.800 They've been with us for several weeks. 25:02.800 --> 25:07.800 And suddenly everyone was looking at me and at Helen as she ran towards us. 25:07.800 --> 25:12.800 And like a fool, I too started to run in Helen's direction to ward her off. 25:15.800 --> 25:18.800 I didn't get far, though, for someone caught me by the arm. 25:18.800 --> 25:20.800 Jimmy, I've been looking all over for you. 25:20.800 --> 25:23.800 Don't say anything, Helen. Let me do the talking. Don't say anything. 25:23.800 --> 25:30.800 Jimmy, when you forced me out of the car this morning, you said you didn't blame me for having killed him. 25:30.800 --> 25:31.800 Helen, be still. Don't... 25:31.800 --> 25:35.800 Jimmy, I didn't kill him. I thought you had. 25:35.800 --> 25:38.800 I was helping you get rid of him because I thought you'd done it. 25:38.800 --> 25:40.800 Helen, are you telling the truth? 25:40.800 --> 25:44.800 I swear it, Jimmy. Bill and I were quarreling. 25:44.800 --> 25:47.800 He'd been taking something again. He was just like he was crazy. 25:47.800 --> 25:51.800 And I knew there'd be trouble when you came home from work, so I got out the back way 25:51.800 --> 25:54.800 and I went looking for you on the pier, and I couldn't find you. 25:54.800 --> 25:59.800 I went back to the apartment and I... I... I found him on the floor. I thought you'd... 25:59.800 --> 26:01.800 But Helen, why didn't you say so? 26:01.800 --> 26:05.800 You didn't give me a chance, Jimmy. You just took it for granted that I did. 26:05.800 --> 26:07.800 Then who did kill him, Helen? 26:07.800 --> 26:11.800 That's what I'm trying to tell you. Nobody killed him. 26:11.800 --> 26:12.800 What are you talking about? 26:12.800 --> 26:18.800 I went to the apartment a little while ago to wait for you, and while I was there, I remembered about Bill last night. 26:18.800 --> 26:23.800 How strangely he'd acted, Jimmy, and how he'd almost fallen several times while we were quarreling. 26:23.800 --> 26:29.800 And then I saw the gas heater, Jimmy. There was a sharp edge on the top of it with blood on it. 26:29.800 --> 26:31.800 He must have fallen. He must have... 26:31.800 --> 26:33.800 But Helen, we've no way of proving that. 26:33.800 --> 26:36.800 There was something else, Jimmy. The wall above the heater was scratched. 26:36.800 --> 26:39.800 That there might be fingerprints. There might be... 26:39.800 --> 26:40.800 Officer! 26:40.800 --> 26:41.800 Yeah? 26:41.800 --> 26:45.800 That flaky stuff you found under his fingernails, that might have been plastic. 26:45.800 --> 26:47.800 Uh-huh. I think we'd better get down to the station. 26:47.800 --> 26:49.800 Oh, Jimmy, they've got to believe us! 26:49.800 --> 26:54.800 Don't cry, Helen. As long as we know that we didn't do it, that's all that matters. 26:54.800 --> 26:58.800 Everything's gonna be all right. Don't cry anymore. 27:03.800 --> 27:05.800 Well, that's about it. 27:05.800 --> 27:11.800 Lucky for us, everything checked pretty well back at the motel, and the autopsy showed he was full of some kind of drug. 27:11.800 --> 27:14.800 They call it highly toxic. 27:14.800 --> 27:24.800 But I guess it was really Mrs. Gordon who saved our necks for us, besides talking so loud and so long that they'd have probably acquitted us just to be rid of her. 27:24.800 --> 27:31.800 She did dig up a witness who'd heard Helen and Phil quarreling, and who'd seen Helen leave alone after he'd threatened her. 27:31.800 --> 27:36.800 Well, everything's all right now. Helen and I are beginning to forget. 27:36.800 --> 27:48.800 But it's Mrs. Gordon who's making quite a nuisance of herself on the beach these days, as she goes along poking all the sunbathers and asking if they're sure they're all right. 27:48.800 --> 27:53.800 And now we will hear from the star of tonight's show, Mr. Elliot Reed. 27:53.800 --> 27:57.800 Thank you very much. It was a great pleasure to appear on tonight's broadcast of Suspense. 27:57.800 --> 28:04.800 For the next three weeks, Suspense will originate from New York, when you will hear Eva LeGallion, Alan Baxter, and Gloria Swanson. 28:04.800 --> 28:19.800 Tonight's Suspense play was written by Mel Dinelli. 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