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23 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:03,880 Hello? 24 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:09,560 I suppose I had one of my spells. 25 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:14,040 I never could remember very well just after them, but I know I'd been working or trying 26 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:15,040 to. 27 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,200 It was my latest and I thought it would be my best. 28 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,920 It was about a woman who killed her husband. 29 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:23,480 But I'd had all kinds of trouble with the end. 30 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,480 Everything was all right up until the explanation, how she did it. 31 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,920 I knew of course, but somehow I just couldn't write it. 32 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:32,920 It wouldn't gel. 33 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:35,080 It had been going on like that for some weeks. 34 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,240 Then today I must have had another spell. 35 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:44,760 I'd been having them ever since the accident, ever since Ned was drowned. 36 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:45,760 They'd begin with headaches. 37 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,160 It would get worse and worse and I'd lie down. 38 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,120 And when I'd wake up, I wouldn't remember for a while. 39 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,480 Sometimes when I woke up, I wouldn't even be in the same place. 40 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:01,800 Instead of lying on the couch or on my bed, I'd be sitting up in a chair or at my typewriter 41 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,680 once I even found myself sitting in a car out in the garage. 42 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,120 It was a strain of everything, of course. 43 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,880 That's why I started going to Dr. Winter. 44 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,120 And now it seemed as though my poor nerves were fated. 45 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:19,320 One shock after another, because now Dr. Winter was dead. 46 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,320 You see, he'd been murdered. 47 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:23,320 Yes? 48 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:24,320 Emily? 49 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:25,320 Yes? 50 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,320 This is Harry, Harry Bailey. 51 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:33,320 Where have you been? 52 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,320 Why? 53 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,320 I've been right here, Harry. 54 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:39,320 Why don't you answer your phone? 55 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,320 I've been trying to get you all afternoon. 56 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:43,320 I must have been asleep. 57 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,320 How's the book coming? 58 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,320 Oh, not very well, I'm afraid, Harry. 59 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:48,320 Still stale? 60 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,320 I guess so. 61 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:50,320 I'm awfully sorry, Harry. 62 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,320 I know I promised it to you weeks ago, but... 63 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:54,320 Forget it. 64 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:55,320 Those things happen. 65 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,320 Listen, Emily, I've got a great little proposition for you. 66 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,320 It'll make you some money, it'll get your mind off the book for a while, and it'll be 67 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,320 worth a million dollars worth of publicity for us. 68 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:04,320 What's the catch? 69 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:06,320 Well, I was talking to young Hayes. 70 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,320 He practically runs the old man's newspaper chain for him now, you know. 71 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,320 And he wants you to cover the Winter case for the whole syndicate. 72 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:14,320 Oh... 73 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,320 Now, wait a minute before you make any snap judgments. 74 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,320 In all the time I've been your publisher, I've never given you a bump steer yet, have 75 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:21,320 I? 76 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,320 But, Harry, I'm not a reporter. 77 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:24,320 That's just it. 78 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:29,320 You write it from your point of view, the way it looks to the country's foremost woman 79 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:30,320 detective story writer. 80 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,320 The clues, the evidence, how it all fits together. 81 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,320 Truth is stranger than fiction, and so on. 82 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:37,320 You see what I mean? 83 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,320 Well, oh, I don't know. 84 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,320 You see, I was his... 85 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,320 I was a patient of his, Harry. 86 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,320 All right, all the better. 87 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,320 Famous man murdered in small resort town. 88 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,320 Just so happens, famous woman mystery writer lived in same small town. 89 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,320 Even was murdered man's patient. 90 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,320 Knows everybody by their first names, and so forth and so on. 91 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,320 Emily, this will put your name in headlines in every city in the country. 92 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,320 I know, that's the trouble. 93 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,320 You see, well, what will Cora say? 94 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,320 Well, why? 95 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:09,320 What's it to Cora? 96 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:14,320 Well, I'll grant you she may have had a slightly exaggerated idea of his importance, but after 97 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,320 all, she was his man Friday for the past year. 98 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:23,320 And now to have her own mother, stepmother, anyway, writing it all up in the papers and 99 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:24,320 making capital out of it. 100 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:25,320 Don't be silly, Emily. 101 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:30,320 Somebody's got to write it, and you'll do it with sympathy and honesty and understanding. 102 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,320 What's the greatest thing that could happen as far as getting a fair break in the papers 103 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:35,320 is concerned? 104 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,320 And it's a chance in a lifetime for you, Emily, no kidding. 105 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,320 Oh, I'd like to, as I say. 106 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,320 All right, Harry, I'll do it. 107 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:45,320 Have a girl. 108 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,320 Now listen, I'll have Hayes draw up the contracts right away. 109 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:49,320 Anything you say, Harry. 110 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:50,320 As well. 111 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,320 I'll be in touch. 112 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:52,320 Right now. 113 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:53,320 Good night, Harry. 114 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,320 Hello, Mother. 115 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:56,320 Hello, darling. 116 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:57,320 Who was that? 117 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:58,320 Harry Bailey. 118 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,320 He wants me to cover the winter case with a Hayes syndicate. 119 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:02,320 He what? 120 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:03,320 I told him I would. 121 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:04,320 Oh, Mother. 122 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,320 Oh, Mother, how could you? 123 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:07,320 Why not, Cora? 124 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,320 Because, because it's bad enough that he's dead without dragging it through the papers 125 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:12,320 all over again. 126 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,320 But it will be in the papers anyway, darling. 127 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,320 And as Harry says, at least I can give it sympathy and understanding. 128 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,320 Sympathy and understanding. 129 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:21,320 By Cora. 130 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,320 Please, Mother, please don't do it. 131 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:24,320 Stay out of it. 132 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,320 We'll only get more heartaches out of it, that's all. 133 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:28,320 Why, Cora? 134 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,320 Why, you almost sound as though you were afraid. 135 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,320 Are you afraid of anything? 136 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:35,320 Afraid? 137 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,320 All right, then maybe I am. 138 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,320 Maybe that's just what I am. 139 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:41,320 Afraid. 140 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,320 I had never really understood, Cora. 141 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,320 She was Ned's child, not mine. 142 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,320 I was only her stepmother. 143 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:58,320 Not that we weren't the best of friends, but she'd always been a little strange. 144 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,320 More like a mother, I imagine. 145 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:04,320 And then the shock of losing Ned and this on top of it. 146 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,320 There were times when she seemed almost in a daze. 147 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,320 It was hard to blame her. 148 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,320 The next day Harry phoned to say the contracts were all in order 149 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,320 and I was to report to Lieutenant Hahn of the Homicide Bureau 150 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,320 who would permit me to interview the girl they were holding for the murder. 151 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:23,320 And in general act as my guide, philosopher and friend. 152 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,320 But upon appearing at his office, I found a gentleman with his hat on his head 153 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,320 and his feet on his desk who didn't bother to remove either 154 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,320 and merely stared at me. 155 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:35,320 Something? 156 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,320 I'm Emily Carlisle. 157 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,320 I was told to report to you, your Lieutenant Hahn. 158 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:41,320 Uh-huh. 159 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,320 I was told that you would sort of show me the ropes. 160 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,320 Mm-hmm. 161 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:50,320 I deduce from your attitude that you are not particularly pleased by the prospect. 162 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,320 I cannot tell a lie. You deduce right. 163 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,320 Well, isn't this nice? We're not going to get along. 164 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,320 I wouldn't say that, Miss Carlisle, or is it, Mrs....? 165 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,320 Miss, my married name is Wales. I was married to Ned Wales, you know. 166 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:03,320 Ah. 167 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,320 Suppose we clear the air, little Lieutenant. 168 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,320 I take it the barrier between us is the old one of professional versus amateur, 169 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,320 dealer in fact versus dealer in fiction, 170 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,320 and you disapprove of fiction. 171 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,320 No, I got nothing against detective stories or detective story writers. 172 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,320 I even read them myself once in a while for laughs. 173 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,320 Well, that is encouraging. 174 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:25,320 What? 175 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,320 To find that you can not only read but laugh. 176 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,320 Heh. Okay. 177 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,320 Then just what is the difficulty, Lieutenant? 178 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,320 I don't like to see people tried in the newspapers. 179 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,320 I have no intention of trying, Miss G... What's her name? 180 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:40,320 Claire Ogilvy. 181 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,320 I have no intention of trying her. All I want to do is present the facts. 182 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:45,320 Tell the story. 183 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:46,320 Uh-huh. 184 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,320 Well, I guess you want to see her, don't you? 185 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,320 Among other things, yes. 186 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,320 Unless, of course, you have something better to do. 187 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,320 Oh, no, no. You're on my assignment from now on. 188 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,320 I'm in the dog house. 189 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,320 Well, I can think of less appropriate places. 190 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:01,320 Heh. Okay. 191 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,320 Why? 192 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:03,320 This is a big case. 193 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,320 National sensation, special prosecutors, hullabaloo in the papers, 194 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,320 special feature writers like you. 195 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:10,320 Yes? 196 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,320 And I'm in a minority of one around here, so nobody likes me. 197 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,320 Stop being cryptic, Lieutenant. 198 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,320 Uh, what are you driving at? 199 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,320 They've got a big thing on their hands and they want a conviction. 200 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:21,320 I don't agree. 201 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:22,320 About what? 202 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:23,320 About the girl. 203 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,320 You see, uh, I think she's innocent. 204 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:33,320 That was interesting. 205 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,320 The girl was even more interesting. 206 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,320 She was about 25, a pretty girl, 207 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,320 and she was lying on her bunk in the cell, 208 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,320 staring up at the one dim light in the ceiling 209 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,320 she didn't even look around when I came in. 210 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,320 This is Miss Emily Carlisle, the writer, Claire. 211 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,320 She wants to talk to you. 212 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:59,320 I'll be back after a while, Miss Carlisle. 213 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,320 Go away. Leave me alone. 214 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,320 I can't, Claire. I have a job to do. 215 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,320 That makes you different, I suppose. 216 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,320 I know, but I still have a job to do. 217 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,320 That's what they all say. They've got a job to do on me. 218 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,320 Who's trying to do a job on you, Claire? 219 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,320 A lot of smart people who make their living at it, like you. 220 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:20,320 You mean that they're trying to say that you killed him and you didn't? 221 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,320 I loved him, you fool. Why would I kill him? Why would I kill him? 222 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,320 Why did you confess to killing him? 223 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,320 He was dead, wasn't he? What difference did it make? 224 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,320 That's what they wanted me to say, so what difference did it make? 225 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,320 Then you didn't kill him. 226 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:38,320 All right, I killed him. That's what you want me to say, too. 227 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,320 All right, I killed him. 228 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,320 I don't want you to say anything, dear. 229 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,320 I just want to know what happened. 230 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,320 He was killed, murdered. That's what happened. 231 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,320 They say you quarreled with him. 232 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,320 I dug my nails into him. I wanted to hurt him. 233 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,320 There was blood on my dress, and so I burned it, and they found that. 234 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,320 Then when I heard what had happened, I ran away, and they found me. 235 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,320 Oh, they've got everything fixed just fine. 236 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,320 I had a job to do, that's all, and they did it. 237 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:10,320 And the sooner they get it over with, the better, and then everybody will be happy. 238 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:11,320 Maybe even me. 239 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,320 Why did you quarrel with him? 240 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:21,320 Have you ever been in love with some man, and then one fine day you found out you were just the last of a long list of other women? 241 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,320 Have you? Have you? 242 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:28,320 Yes. As a matter of fact, I have. 243 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,320 Oh. Then you know why I quarreled with him. 244 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:32,320 Yes. 245 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,320 All right, then, and I'll tell you something else, too. 246 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:40,320 I didn't kill him, but now I wish I had. Do you hear me? I wish I had! 247 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:53,320 Well, I suppose she told you she killed him, and you believed it. 248 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,320 First she said she had killed him, and then she said she hadn't. 249 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,320 You didn't answer the second part. 250 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,320 She indicated you have certain evidence. 251 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,320 Okay. Come in here. 252 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:10,320 The DA's got the original sample, but pictures should give you a rough idea. 253 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,320 Oh, what's that? 254 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:16,320 A piece of a dress that was found under the bed. They matched it to the dress she burned, oh, more or less. 255 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,320 And what's that plaster thing? 256 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,320 Cast of tire marks. Did you read Dick Tracy? 257 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:28,320 Oh, I've used plaster casts of tire marks myself in my books, but, you know, they look a little vague. 258 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:29,320 They are. 259 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:33,320 You know something, Lieutenant? I'm inclined to agree with you. 260 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:34,320 About what? 261 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,320 About the girl. I think she is innocent. 262 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,320 Oh. So you can write it from the who-den-it angle, huh? 263 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,320 That's as far as I'd be, Lieutenant, if you please, and a little more attention to detail. 264 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:48,320 By the way, why is everyone so anxious to believe this particular girl did it? 265 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,320 Because they think they can make it stick. Why look further? Because it's good for them. 266 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,320 They make their reputations that way, just like your boss makes circulation. 267 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,320 Let's face it. You and I know what Dr. Winter was like. 268 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,320 There must be a dozen girls in this town who have just as much reason for killing him as this one. 269 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:04,320 That's what I said. 270 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:09,320 As for the confession, she's obviously an hysteric. Any good alieness could break that down. 271 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:10,320 Oh, I said that too. 272 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:17,320 And as for this stuff, I don't know much about tires, but this dress pattern is as common as a cotton handkerchief. 273 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,320 There must be 50 of them within a mile of where we're standing right now. 274 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,320 Same goes for the tires. I've told them all that. 275 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,320 Then there must be something wrong with your methods, Lieutenant. 276 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,320 Now, what do we deduce from all this? 277 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:29,320 I'll tell you what I deduce. 278 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:30,320 What? 279 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:36,320 As a woman who's killed a man in this town, a murderess. 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It took my mind off myself, the book I should have been finishing and couldn't. 299 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:46,320 And poor Ned being drowned last summer. That had been more of a strain than even I realized. I knew that now. 300 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:53,320 Not that I wasn't terribly fond of Ned, but we hadn't been as close as we once were. 301 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:57,320 But it had been a shock. That's why I'd been going to Dr. Winter myself. 302 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:03,320 It is much as told me that the spells I had were a direct result of what happened to Ned. 303 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:09,320 Oh, it shows you how tiny and yet how strange our little world can be here. 304 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:15,320 Here I was writing up the case of Dr. Winter's murder for the newspapers. 305 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:21,320 Of course, right away I discovered that the evidence against the girl they were holding was all circumstantial. 306 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:25,320 And Lieutenant Hahn got me prints of the pictures. 307 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,320 A piece from the dress they said she was wearing and attire marks. 308 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:33,320 And I went out to do a little checking of my own. 309 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:40,320 First I went to Gorman's Department Store. Actually, it's the only real store for women's things in town. 310 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,320 Well, well, well, well, Miss Carlisle. Long time no see, eh? 311 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,320 What can I do for you? 312 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:50,320 I was wondering if you could identify a dress for me. A certain dress? 313 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,320 A dress? Why, sure. What kind of a dress? You have mine. 314 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,320 No, I don't want to buy one. I just want to find out about one. 315 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,320 A particular dress. This dress that this picture was taken of. That's only a piece of it, of course. 316 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,320 Oh. Oh. Oh, that. 317 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:08,320 Yes. You've sold quite a few of them, haven't you? 318 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:12,320 Say, I hear you're going to write up this Winter case for the papers. That right, Miss Carlisle? 319 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:15,320 Why, yes, I am. As a matter of fact, this dress... 320 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:20,320 Oh, I know this dress all right. We had them last spring. Sold like hotcakes. Four dozen of them. 321 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:25,320 Did you keep any record of who you sold them to? Could I get a list? 322 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:31,320 No. No. No complete record. Mostly cash sales, you know. Made up a partial list. That's all. A partial list. 323 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,320 Well, that's what I want. That's better than nothing. 324 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:37,320 Going into competition with the police department now, eh? 325 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:41,320 No, I'm trying to help them, Mr. Gorman. If you'll give me... 326 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:47,320 You better see them about that yourself, then. Lieutenant Hahn. Gave him the list three weeks ago. You better see him. 327 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,320 Oh. I didn't know he had one. He never told me. 328 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,320 Cops don't always tell everything they know, eh? 329 00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:00,320 You go see Lieutenant Hahn. He's the man you want to see, Lieutenant Hahn. 330 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:07,320 I felt a little silly. Why hadn't he told me? But then, of course, I had never asked him. 331 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:12,320 My next stop was Morton's Big Service Station on the corner of North and Main. 332 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,320 They did practically all the tire business in town. 333 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,320 How do, Miss Carlisle? Fill it up? 334 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,320 Why, yes. I guess so. Oh, but I wanted to ask you something. 335 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,320 Sure, Miss Carlisle. What is it? 336 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,320 Well, you see this thing? 337 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,320 It's the imprint of an auto tire, and I want... Oh, from the winter case, huh? 338 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,320 The cops was already in here. I heard you was working on the case, Miss Carlisle. 339 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,320 In a way. And I was trying to find out about this tire. I mean... 340 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,320 Well, that tire, man, that's a 616 Goodstone. It's pretty new, too. 341 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,320 You can see from this middle tread here, you see. 342 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,320 I don't see how anybody could prove much by this here. 343 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,320 Do you sell many of these? What did you call them? 344 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,320 616 Goodstone. Oh, yeah, plenty. That's what I'm talking about. 345 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,320 I don't see how you could prove much with that tire. 346 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,320 You find them on all kinds of cars. I know, but... 347 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,320 Look, here, you got them on your own car, Miss Carlisle. 348 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,320 Same kind, 616 Goodstone. Almost new, too. 349 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:08,320 You see what I mean? Oh, yes. Yeah, I see. 350 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,320 Yeah, plenty of them kind of tires around. 351 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,320 Hey, you want that tank of gas now, Miss Carlisle? 352 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:24,320 No. No, thank you. Never mind. 353 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:30,320 It's funny how you never notice things like tires, if you're a woman anyway. 354 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,320 They did always handle things like that, and then afterwards, Cora had done it. 355 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:41,320 Cora. And of course, as the boy had said, there were hundreds of tires like it. Hundreds. 356 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:47,320 Cora wasn't home yet, and I wandered around the house and tried to think, but I didn't get very far. 357 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:53,320 I was afraid one of my headaches was coming on. I decided to try and write my first article. 358 00:19:53,320 --> 00:20:01,320 But when I sat down at the typewriter, I remembered I hadn't put the cover over it the last time, and it was all dusty. 359 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:06,320 I went to the broom closet and rummaged around in the basket we keep there for old rags. 360 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:11,320 I just started to dust off the typewriter when I noticed it. It was the rag I held in my hand. 361 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:17,320 It wasn't just an ordinary rag. It was a piece of a dress, and it wasn't just an ordinary dress. 362 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:32,320 It had a cute little red and white print pattern, the kind of a dress the police said was worn by the woman who had murdered Dr. Winter. 363 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:37,320 It was then I heard Cora coming in. Stinctively, I thrust the rag just in my hand into the desk. 364 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,320 Mother, you home? 365 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,320 Oh, hello, darling. Been shopping? 366 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,320 Just a few odds and ends. What have you been doing? 367 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,320 Oh, a little of this, a little of that. 368 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:54,320 Um, Cora, what about the car? Won't we be needing new tires pretty soon? 369 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,320 Well, now I had new ones put on all around only a little while ago. You remember? 370 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,320 I'd forgotten. When was that? 371 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,320 Oh, six weeks ago anyway. 372 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,320 Then it was before? 373 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,320 Before what? 374 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,320 The murder. 375 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,320 Will you stop it? Do you have to go through with this thing, Mother? 376 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,320 I think it's better for me to write it than some stranger, don't you? 377 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:17,320 If you wish. 378 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:29,320 But it's so different from what happens in stories. For instance, I can't even remember what we were doing the night, the night it happened. Can you? 379 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:30,320 We were home. 380 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:31,320 Are you sure? 381 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,320 Don't you remember? 382 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,320 It's... isn't it silly? 383 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,320 You had one of your headaches. I was in my room. You were in yours. 384 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,320 Then I was asleep all evening. 385 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,320 I suppose you were. 386 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,320 But you don't know. You weren't with me. What a pity. 387 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:48,320 I'll start, Topper. 388 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:49,320 Oh, Cora. 389 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,320 Yes? 390 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,320 Whatever happened to that old print dress? It was yours, I think. 391 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:55,320 What print dress? 392 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:00,320 You know, with a red and white flowered print. You did have one like that, didn't you? 393 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,320 I haven't seen it for quite a while. 394 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,320 But it couldn't have just disappeared. 395 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,320 The last time I saw it, you had it. And then I don't know what happened to it. 396 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,320 I had it? 397 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,320 Don't you remember? 398 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,320 No. Would... would this be it, Cora? 399 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,320 Oh. So this has all been a cross-examination, has it? 400 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,320 There were certain things I had to know, Cora. 401 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:26,320 But I won't stand for it, you hear? You can do anything you like about yourself, but I won't let you drag me into it. I won't. 402 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,320 You were in love with him, too, weren't you, Cora? 403 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,320 Yes. Yes. Now are you satisfied? 404 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:40,320 Yes, I was in love with him. I was in love with him! 405 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:45,320 When I woke up, the sun was shining, and I was lying on the bed in Cora's room. 406 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,320 And Cora was gone. 407 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,320 I made some coffee, and then I went down to see Lieutenant Hahn. 408 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,320 What's the matter, Miss Carlisle? You look sort of played out. 409 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,320 I had rather a restless night. 410 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:00,320 I've been thinking about this thing, Lieutenant. 411 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,320 I've been thinking about it a lot. 412 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,320 Been doing a little checking up, I hear. 413 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,320 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 414 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:10,320 I've been thinking about it a lot. Been doing a little checking up, I hear. 415 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:14,320 Yes, Lieutenant. Why didn't you tell me you had that list about the dresses? 416 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:20,320 Was it because you knew that someone in my house had bought one of those dresses? 417 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,320 You're speaking of your stepdaughter, Cora Wales. 418 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,320 Yes. 419 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:29,320 We did know it, of course, but we knew the same thing about a couple of dozen other women. It didn't make much difference. 420 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,320 Oh. 421 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,320 Got any new ideas? 422 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:37,320 Look, Lieutenant, I've been writing a new book, or trying to, about a murder. 423 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,320 A woman who kills her husband. I didn't know how to finish it. 424 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:44,320 Now, look, it's all sort of mixed up in my mind, but... 425 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:48,320 you know the old theory about a murderer will always return to the scene of the crime? 426 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:49,320 I don't get it. 427 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,320 I know. Put it this way. 428 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:56,320 If someone killed because the person they killed knew something, 429 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,320 they'd have to kill anyone else who knew that same thing now, wouldn't they? 430 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,320 You still going on the theory the Ogilvy girl's innocent? 431 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:04,320 I know she's innocent. 432 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,320 You know? That's pretty strong talk, Miss Carlisle. 433 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,320 Well, call it woman's intuition. Call it whatever you like. 434 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,320 I just know that there's someone... 435 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,320 Look, Miss Carlisle, maybe I had you wrong yesterday. 436 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,320 I can see you're not kidding about this thing. 437 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,320 Not that I pretend to know what you're talking about, but... 438 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,320 if you've really got something, you better tell Papa. 439 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,320 No, no. 440 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,320 You... 441 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,320 I can't. 442 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,320 You say you think somebody's going to come back to the scene of the crime. 443 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,320 I don't know. I don't know what I think. 444 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,320 I just know that... 445 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,320 Look, Miss Carlisle, I don't like it. You're upset and you're frightened. 446 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,320 No. 447 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,320 I want to help you. 448 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,320 No, no. I have to do this my own way. 449 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:42,320 Do what? 450 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:43,320 I don't know. 451 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,320 Well, I can't very well use a rubber hose to get it out of you, 452 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,320 but I just want you to remember that whatever I do, it's part of my job. 453 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,320 What? What's part of your job? 454 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:59,320 To see that nobody else gets killed around here, including you. 455 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,320 I could feel the headache coming on as I left his office. 456 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,320 I almost ran to my car. 457 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,320 All I could think of was that I had to get home before it happened. 458 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:18,320 But it was coming over me awfully fast, faster than it ever had before. 459 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,320 The house was empty. 460 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,320 I threw myself on the couch and pressed my hands over my eyes. 461 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,320 The pain was horrible. 462 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:26,320 Horrible. 463 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,320 And then suddenly I had the feeling that I wasn't alone. 464 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,320 That someone was standing there, standing over me. 465 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,320 Someone I couldn't see. 466 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:37,320 Someone who was crushing my brain, squeezing my temples in a kind of terrible, invisible vice. 467 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,320 Someone who was trying to kill me. 468 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,320 I was having a dream. 469 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,320 Another of those horrible dreams. 470 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:55,320 I was dreaming that I'd gone upstairs to Cora's room and she was there packing her things. 471 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,320 She didn't see me or hear me. 472 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,320 And I crept into the room very softly. 473 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,320 It seemed as though I had a heavy poker or something in my hand. 474 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,320 I crept up very softly behind her. 475 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,320 I raised the poker and then she whirled around. She saw me! 476 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,320 You knew it wasn't an accident, didn't you? 477 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,320 You knew he didn't just drown. 478 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,320 You knew I killed your father. I pushed him. 479 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,320 And when I went to Dr. Winter, he found out too. 480 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,320 Something buried in my subconscious, he said. 481 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:25,320 And he made me tell him. 482 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,320 He told you all that, didn't he? 483 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,320 So now I'm going to have to kill you too, Cora. 484 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,320 I'm going to have to kill you! 485 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,320 All right, Miss Carlisle. All right. 486 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,320 You better come along now. 487 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:01,320 I hear the doctors keep talking about schizophrenia. 488 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,320 That's a double personality, you know. 489 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:09,320 They seem to think I did all those things without even knowing it. 490 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,320 Drowning Ned. 491 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,320 Trying to kill Cora. 492 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,320 That's what the spells were, they say. 493 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,320 The other personality. 494 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,320 Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 495 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,320 But I wish I could talk to Dr. Winter. 496 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,320 I went to him first about the spells. 497 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,320 He said he could cure me if I told him the truth. 498 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,320 Only, of course, I can't talk to him now. 499 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,320 He's dead. 500 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:43,320 I killed him. 501 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:04,320 In just a moment, we will hear from Gloria Swanson, tonight's star of Suspense. 502 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:11,320 Presented by Roma. 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