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02:02.880 --> 02:03.880 Hello? 02:03.880 --> 02:09.560 I suppose I had one of my spells. 02:09.560 --> 02:14.040 I never could remember very well just after them, but I know I'd been working or trying 02:14.040 --> 02:15.040 to. 02:15.040 --> 02:17.200 It was my latest and I thought it would be my best. 02:17.200 --> 02:20.920 It was about a woman who killed her husband. 02:20.920 --> 02:23.480 But I'd had all kinds of trouble with the end. 02:23.480 --> 02:27.480 Everything was all right up until the explanation, how she did it. 02:27.480 --> 02:31.920 I knew of course, but somehow I just couldn't write it. 02:31.920 --> 02:32.920 It wouldn't gel. 02:32.920 --> 02:35.080 It had been going on like that for some weeks. 02:35.080 --> 02:38.240 Then today I must have had another spell. 02:38.240 --> 02:44.760 I'd been having them ever since the accident, ever since Ned was drowned. 02:44.760 --> 02:45.760 They'd begin with headaches. 02:45.760 --> 02:49.160 It would get worse and worse and I'd lie down. 02:49.160 --> 02:53.120 And when I'd wake up, I wouldn't remember for a while. 02:53.120 --> 02:55.480 Sometimes when I woke up, I wouldn't even be in the same place. 02:55.480 --> 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 03:01.800 --> 03:04.680 once I even found myself sitting in a car out in the garage. 03:04.680 --> 03:08.120 It was a strain of everything, of course. 03:08.120 --> 03:10.880 That's why I started going to Dr. Winter. 03:10.880 --> 03:14.120 And now it seemed as though my poor nerves were fated. 03:14.120 --> 03:19.320 One shock after another, because now Dr. Winter was dead. 03:19.320 --> 03:22.320 You see, he'd been murdered. 03:22.320 --> 03:23.320 Yes? 03:23.320 --> 03:24.320 Emily? 03:24.320 --> 03:25.320 Yes? 03:25.320 --> 03:28.320 This is Harry, Harry Bailey. 03:28.320 --> 03:33.320 Where have you been? 03:33.320 --> 03:34.320 Why? 03:34.320 --> 03:38.320 I've been right here, Harry. 03:38.320 --> 03:39.320 Why don't you answer your phone? 03:39.320 --> 03:42.320 I've been trying to get you all afternoon. 03:42.320 --> 03:43.320 I must have been asleep. 03:43.320 --> 03:45.320 How's the book coming? 03:45.320 --> 03:47.320 Oh, not very well, I'm afraid, Harry. 03:47.320 --> 03:48.320 Still stale? 03:48.320 --> 03:49.320 I guess so. 03:49.320 --> 03:50.320 I'm awfully sorry, Harry. 03:50.320 --> 03:53.320 I know I promised it to you weeks ago, but... 03:53.320 --> 03:54.320 Forget it. 03:54.320 --> 03:55.320 Those things happen. 03:55.320 --> 03:58.320 Listen, Emily, I've got a great little proposition for you. 03:58.320 --> 04:01.320 It'll make you some money, it'll get your mind off the book for a while, and it'll be 04:01.320 --> 04:03.320 worth a million dollars worth of publicity for us. 04:03.320 --> 04:04.320 What's the catch? 04:04.320 --> 04:06.320 Well, I was talking to young Hayes. 04:06.320 --> 04:10.320 He practically runs the old man's newspaper chain for him now, you know. 04:10.320 --> 04:13.320 And he wants you to cover the Winter case for the whole syndicate. 04:13.320 --> 04:14.320 Oh... 04:14.320 --> 04:16.320 Now, wait a minute before you make any snap judgments. 04:16.320 --> 04:20.320 In all the time I've been your publisher, I've never given you a bump steer yet, have 04:20.320 --> 04:21.320 I? 04:21.320 --> 04:23.320 But, Harry, I'm not a reporter. 04:23.320 --> 04:24.320 That's just it. 04:24.320 --> 04:29.320 You write it from your point of view, the way it looks to the country's foremost woman 04:29.320 --> 04:30.320 detective story writer. 04:30.320 --> 04:34.320 The clues, the evidence, how it all fits together. 04:34.320 --> 04:36.320 Truth is stranger than fiction, and so on. 04:36.320 --> 04:37.320 You see what I mean? 04:37.320 --> 04:39.320 Well, oh, I don't know. 04:39.320 --> 04:41.320 You see, I was his... 04:41.320 --> 04:43.320 I was a patient of his, Harry. 04:43.320 --> 04:45.320 All right, all the better. 04:45.320 --> 04:47.320 Famous man murdered in small resort town. 04:47.320 --> 04:51.320 Just so happens, famous woman mystery writer lived in same small town. 04:51.320 --> 04:53.320 Even was murdered man's patient. 04:53.320 --> 04:57.320 Knows everybody by their first names, and so forth and so on. 04:57.320 --> 05:01.320 Emily, this will put your name in headlines in every city in the country. 05:01.320 --> 05:03.320 I know, that's the trouble. 05:03.320 --> 05:07.320 You see, well, what will Cora say? 05:07.320 --> 05:08.320 Well, why? 05:08.320 --> 05:09.320 What's it to Cora? 05:09.320 --> 05:14.320 Well, I'll grant you she may have had a slightly exaggerated idea of his importance, but after 05:14.320 --> 05:17.320 all, she was his man Friday for the past year. 05:17.320 --> 05:23.320 And now to have her own mother, stepmother, anyway, writing it all up in the papers and 05:23.320 --> 05:24.320 making capital out of it. 05:24.320 --> 05:25.320 Don't be silly, Emily. 05:25.320 --> 05:30.320 Somebody's got to write it, and you'll do it with sympathy and honesty and understanding. 05:30.320 --> 05:34.320 What's the greatest thing that could happen as far as getting a fair break in the papers 05:34.320 --> 05:35.320 is concerned? 05:35.320 --> 05:38.320 And it's a chance in a lifetime for you, Emily, no kidding. 05:38.320 --> 05:42.320 Oh, I'd like to, as I say. 05:42.320 --> 05:44.320 All right, Harry, I'll do it. 05:44.320 --> 05:45.320 Have a girl. 05:45.320 --> 05:48.320 Now listen, I'll have Hayes draw up the contracts right away. 05:48.320 --> 05:49.320 Anything you say, Harry. 05:49.320 --> 05:50.320 As well. 05:50.320 --> 05:51.320 I'll be in touch. 05:51.320 --> 05:52.320 Right now. 05:52.320 --> 05:53.320 Good night, Harry. 05:53.320 --> 05:55.320 Hello, Mother. 05:55.320 --> 05:56.320 Hello, darling. 05:56.320 --> 05:57.320 Who was that? 05:57.320 --> 05:58.320 Harry Bailey. 05:58.320 --> 06:01.320 He wants me to cover the winter case with a Hayes syndicate. 06:01.320 --> 06:02.320 He what? 06:02.320 --> 06:03.320 I told him I would. 06:03.320 --> 06:04.320 Oh, Mother. 06:04.320 --> 06:06.320 Oh, Mother, how could you? 06:06.320 --> 06:07.320 Why not, Cora? 06:07.320 --> 06:11.320 Because, because it's bad enough that he's dead without dragging it through the papers 06:11.320 --> 06:12.320 all over again. 06:12.320 --> 06:14.320 But it will be in the papers anyway, darling. 06:14.320 --> 06:18.320 And as Harry says, at least I can give it sympathy and understanding. 06:18.320 --> 06:20.320 Sympathy and understanding. 06:20.320 --> 06:21.320 By Cora. 06:21.320 --> 06:23.320 Please, Mother, please don't do it. 06:23.320 --> 06:24.320 Stay out of it. 06:24.320 --> 06:27.320 We'll only get more heartaches out of it, that's all. 06:27.320 --> 06:28.320 Why, Cora? 06:28.320 --> 06:32.320 Why, you almost sound as though you were afraid. 06:32.320 --> 06:34.320 Are you afraid of anything? 06:34.320 --> 06:35.320 Afraid? 06:35.320 --> 06:38.320 All right, then maybe I am. 06:38.320 --> 06:40.320 Maybe that's just what I am. 06:40.320 --> 06:41.320 Afraid. 06:48.320 --> 06:50.320 I had never really understood, Cora. 06:50.320 --> 06:52.320 She was Ned's child, not mine. 06:52.320 --> 06:54.320 I was only her stepmother. 06:54.320 --> 06:58.320 Not that we weren't the best of friends, but she'd always been a little strange. 06:58.320 --> 07:00.320 More like a mother, I imagine. 07:00.320 --> 07:04.320 And then the shock of losing Ned and this on top of it. 07:04.320 --> 07:07.320 There were times when she seemed almost in a daze. 07:07.320 --> 07:10.320 It was hard to blame her. 07:10.320 --> 07:13.320 The next day Harry phoned to say the contracts were all in order 07:13.320 --> 07:16.320 and I was to report to Lieutenant Hahn of the Homicide Bureau 07:16.320 --> 07:19.320 who would permit me to interview the girl they were holding for the murder. 07:19.320 --> 07:23.320 And in general act as my guide, philosopher and friend. 07:23.320 --> 07:28.320 But upon appearing at his office, I found a gentleman with his hat on his head 07:28.320 --> 07:32.320 and his feet on his desk who didn't bother to remove either 07:32.320 --> 07:34.320 and merely stared at me. 07:34.320 --> 07:35.320 Something? 07:35.320 --> 07:37.320 I'm Emily Carlisle. 07:37.320 --> 07:40.320 I was told to report to you, your Lieutenant Hahn. 07:40.320 --> 07:41.320 Uh-huh. 07:41.320 --> 07:44.320 I was told that you would sort of show me the ropes. 07:44.320 --> 07:45.320 Mm-hmm. 07:45.320 --> 07:50.320 I deduce from your attitude that you are not particularly pleased by the prospect. 07:50.320 --> 07:52.320 I cannot tell a lie. You deduce right. 07:52.320 --> 07:56.320 Well, isn't this nice? We're not going to get along. 07:56.320 --> 07:59.320 I wouldn't say that, Miss Carlisle, or is it, Mrs....? 07:59.320 --> 08:02.320 Miss, my married name is Wales. I was married to Ned Wales, you know. 08:02.320 --> 08:03.320 Ah. 08:03.320 --> 08:06.320 Suppose we clear the air, little Lieutenant. 08:06.320 --> 08:10.320 I take it the barrier between us is the old one of professional versus amateur, 08:10.320 --> 08:13.320 dealer in fact versus dealer in fiction, 08:13.320 --> 08:16.320 and you disapprove of fiction. 08:16.320 --> 08:19.320 No, I got nothing against detective stories or detective story writers. 08:19.320 --> 08:22.320 I even read them myself once in a while for laughs. 08:22.320 --> 08:24.320 Well, that is encouraging. 08:24.320 --> 08:25.320 What? 08:25.320 --> 08:29.320 To find that you can not only read but laugh. 08:29.320 --> 08:31.320 Heh. Okay. 08:31.320 --> 08:33.320 Then just what is the difficulty, Lieutenant? 08:33.320 --> 08:36.320 I don't like to see people tried in the newspapers. 08:36.320 --> 08:39.320 I have no intention of trying, Miss G... What's her name? 08:39.320 --> 08:40.320 Claire Ogilvy. 08:40.320 --> 08:44.320 I have no intention of trying her. All I want to do is present the facts. 08:44.320 --> 08:45.320 Tell the story. 08:45.320 --> 08:46.320 Uh-huh. 08:46.320 --> 08:48.320 Well, I guess you want to see her, don't you? 08:48.320 --> 08:50.320 Among other things, yes. 08:50.320 --> 08:53.320 Unless, of course, you have something better to do. 08:53.320 --> 08:55.320 Oh, no, no. You're on my assignment from now on. 08:55.320 --> 08:57.320 I'm in the dog house. 08:57.320 --> 09:00.320 Well, I can think of less appropriate places. 09:00.320 --> 09:01.320 Heh. Okay. 09:01.320 --> 09:02.320 Why? 09:02.320 --> 09:03.320 This is a big case. 09:03.320 --> 09:07.320 National sensation, special prosecutors, hullabaloo in the papers, 09:07.320 --> 09:09.320 special feature writers like you. 09:09.320 --> 09:10.320 Yes? 09:10.320 --> 09:13.320 And I'm in a minority of one around here, so nobody likes me. 09:13.320 --> 09:15.320 Stop being cryptic, Lieutenant. 09:15.320 --> 09:17.320 Uh, what are you driving at? 09:17.320 --> 09:20.320 They've got a big thing on their hands and they want a conviction. 09:20.320 --> 09:21.320 I don't agree. 09:21.320 --> 09:22.320 About what? 09:22.320 --> 09:23.320 About the girl. 09:23.320 --> 09:25.320 You see, uh, I think she's innocent. 09:25.320 --> 09:33.320 That was interesting. 09:33.320 --> 09:36.320 The girl was even more interesting. 09:36.320 --> 09:39.320 She was about 25, a pretty girl, 09:39.320 --> 09:41.320 and she was lying on her bunk in the cell, 09:41.320 --> 09:44.320 staring up at the one dim light in the ceiling 09:44.320 --> 09:47.320 she didn't even look around when I came in. 09:47.320 --> 09:50.320 This is Miss Emily Carlisle, the writer, Claire. 09:50.320 --> 09:52.320 She wants to talk to you. 09:52.320 --> 09:59.320 I'll be back after a while, Miss Carlisle. 09:59.320 --> 10:01.320 Go away. Leave me alone. 10:01.320 --> 10:03.320 I can't, Claire. I have a job to do. 10:03.320 --> 10:05.320 That makes you different, I suppose. 10:05.320 --> 10:07.320 I know, but I still have a job to do. 10:07.320 --> 10:10.320 That's what they all say. They've got a job to do on me. 10:10.320 --> 10:12.320 Who's trying to do a job on you, Claire? 10:12.320 --> 10:15.320 A lot of smart people who make their living at it, like you. 10:15.320 --> 10:20.320 You mean that they're trying to say that you killed him and you didn't? 10:20.320 --> 10:24.320 I loved him, you fool. Why would I kill him? Why would I kill him? 10:24.320 --> 10:26.320 Why did you confess to killing him? 10:26.320 --> 10:28.320 He was dead, wasn't he? What difference did it make? 10:28.320 --> 10:31.320 That's what they wanted me to say, so what difference did it make? 10:31.320 --> 10:33.320 Then you didn't kill him. 10:33.320 --> 10:38.320 All right, I killed him. That's what you want me to say, too. 10:38.320 --> 10:39.320 All right, I killed him. 10:39.320 --> 10:42.320 I don't want you to say anything, dear. 10:42.320 --> 10:44.320 I just want to know what happened. 10:44.320 --> 10:48.320 He was killed, murdered. That's what happened. 10:48.320 --> 10:50.320 They say you quarreled with him. 10:50.320 --> 10:53.320 I dug my nails into him. I wanted to hurt him. 10:53.320 --> 10:57.320 There was blood on my dress, and so I burned it, and they found that. 10:57.320 --> 11:00.320 Then when I heard what had happened, I ran away, and they found me. 11:00.320 --> 11:03.320 Oh, they've got everything fixed just fine. 11:03.320 --> 11:06.320 I had a job to do, that's all, and they did it. 11:06.320 --> 11:10.320 And the sooner they get it over with, the better, and then everybody will be happy. 11:10.320 --> 11:11.320 Maybe even me. 11:11.320 --> 11:13.320 Why did you quarrel with him? 11:13.320 --> 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? 11:21.320 --> 11:24.320 Have you? Have you? 11:24.320 --> 11:28.320 Yes. As a matter of fact, I have. 11:28.320 --> 11:31.320 Oh. Then you know why I quarreled with him. 11:31.320 --> 11:32.320 Yes. 11:32.320 --> 11:35.320 All right, then, and I'll tell you something else, too. 11:35.320 --> 11:40.320 I didn't kill him, but now I wish I had. Do you hear me? I wish I had! 11:49.320 --> 11:53.320 Well, I suppose she told you she killed him, and you believed it. 11:53.320 --> 11:57.320 First she said she had killed him, and then she said she hadn't. 11:57.320 --> 11:59.320 You didn't answer the second part. 11:59.320 --> 12:01.320 She indicated you have certain evidence. 12:01.320 --> 12:04.320 Okay. Come in here. 12:04.320 --> 12:10.320 The DA's got the original sample, but pictures should give you a rough idea. 12:10.320 --> 12:11.320 Oh, what's that? 12:11.320 --> 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. 12:16.320 --> 12:18.320 And what's that plaster thing? 12:18.320 --> 12:21.320 Cast of tire marks. Did you read Dick Tracy? 12:21.320 --> 12:28.320 Oh, I've used plaster casts of tire marks myself in my books, but, you know, they look a little vague. 12:28.320 --> 12:29.320 They are. 12:29.320 --> 12:33.320 You know something, Lieutenant? I'm inclined to agree with you. 12:33.320 --> 12:34.320 About what? 12:34.320 --> 12:37.320 About the girl. I think she is innocent. 12:37.320 --> 12:40.320 Oh. So you can write it from the who-den-it angle, huh? 12:40.320 --> 12:43.320 That's as far as I'd be, Lieutenant, if you please, and a little more attention to detail. 12:43.320 --> 12:48.320 By the way, why is everyone so anxious to believe this particular girl did it? 12:48.320 --> 12:52.320 Because they think they can make it stick. Why look further? Because it's good for them. 12:52.320 --> 12:55.320 They make their reputations that way, just like your boss makes circulation. 12:55.320 --> 12:59.320 Let's face it. You and I know what Dr. Winter was like. 12:59.320 --> 13:03.320 There must be a dozen girls in this town who have just as much reason for killing him as this one. 13:03.320 --> 13:04.320 That's what I said. 13:04.320 --> 13:09.320 As for the confession, she's obviously an hysteric. Any good alieness could break that down. 13:09.320 --> 13:10.320 Oh, I said that too. 13:10.320 --> 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. 13:17.320 --> 13:20.320 There must be 50 of them within a mile of where we're standing right now. 13:20.320 --> 13:22.320 Same goes for the tires. I've told them all that. 13:22.320 --> 13:25.320 Then there must be something wrong with your methods, Lieutenant. 13:25.320 --> 13:28.320 Now, what do we deduce from all this? 13:28.320 --> 13:29.320 I'll tell you what I deduce. 13:29.320 --> 13:30.320 What? 13:30.320 --> 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. 15:39.320 --> 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. 15:46.320 --> 15:53.320 Not that I wasn't terribly fond of Ned, but we hadn't been as close as we once were. 15:53.320 --> 15:57.320 But it had been a shock. That's why I'd been going to Dr. Winter myself. 15:57.320 --> 16:03.320 It is much as told me that the spells I had were a direct result of what happened to Ned. 16:03.320 --> 16:09.320 Oh, it shows you how tiny and yet how strange our little world can be here. 16:09.320 --> 16:15.320 Here I was writing up the case of Dr. Winter's murder for the newspapers. 16:15.320 --> 16:21.320 Of course, right away I discovered that the evidence against the girl they were holding was all circumstantial. 16:21.320 --> 16:25.320 And Lieutenant Hahn got me prints of the pictures. 16:25.320 --> 16:29.320 A piece from the dress they said she was wearing and attire marks. 16:29.320 --> 16:33.320 And I went out to do a little checking of my own. 16:33.320 --> 16:40.320 First I went to Gorman's Department Store. Actually, it's the only real store for women's things in town. 16:40.320 --> 16:44.320 Well, well, well, well, Miss Carlisle. Long time no see, eh? 16:44.320 --> 16:46.320 What can I do for you? 16:46.320 --> 16:50.320 I was wondering if you could identify a dress for me. A certain dress? 16:50.320 --> 16:53.320 A dress? Why, sure. What kind of a dress? You have mine. 16:53.320 --> 16:57.320 No, I don't want to buy one. I just want to find out about one. 16:57.320 --> 17:02.320 A particular dress. This dress that this picture was taken of. That's only a piece of it, of course. 17:02.320 --> 17:04.320 Oh. Oh. Oh, that. 17:04.320 --> 17:08.320 Yes. You've sold quite a few of them, haven't you? 17:08.320 --> 17:12.320 Say, I hear you're going to write up this Winter case for the papers. That right, Miss Carlisle? 17:12.320 --> 17:15.320 Why, yes, I am. As a matter of fact, this dress... 17:15.320 --> 17:20.320 Oh, I know this dress all right. We had them last spring. Sold like hotcakes. Four dozen of them. 17:20.320 --> 17:25.320 Did you keep any record of who you sold them to? Could I get a list? 17:25.320 --> 17:31.320 No. No. No complete record. Mostly cash sales, you know. Made up a partial list. That's all. A partial list. 17:31.320 --> 17:33.320 Well, that's what I want. That's better than nothing. 17:33.320 --> 17:37.320 Going into competition with the police department now, eh? 17:37.320 --> 17:41.320 No, I'm trying to help them, Mr. Gorman. If you'll give me... 17:41.320 --> 17:47.320 You better see them about that yourself, then. Lieutenant Hahn. Gave him the list three weeks ago. You better see him. 17:47.320 --> 17:51.320 Oh. I didn't know he had one. He never told me. 17:51.320 --> 17:55.320 Cops don't always tell everything they know, eh? 17:55.320 --> 18:00.320 You go see Lieutenant Hahn. He's the man you want to see, Lieutenant Hahn. 18:00.320 --> 18:07.320 I felt a little silly. Why hadn't he told me? But then, of course, I had never asked him. 18:07.320 --> 18:12.320 My next stop was Morton's Big Service Station on the corner of North and Main. 18:12.320 --> 18:16.320 They did practically all the tire business in town. 18:16.320 --> 18:18.320 How do, Miss Carlisle? Fill it up? 18:18.320 --> 18:22.320 Why, yes. I guess so. Oh, but I wanted to ask you something. 18:22.320 --> 18:24.320 Sure, Miss Carlisle. What is it? 18:24.320 --> 18:26.320 Well, you see this thing? 18:26.320 --> 18:30.320 It's the imprint of an auto tire, and I want... Oh, from the winter case, huh? 18:30.320 --> 18:34.320 The cops was already in here. I heard you was working on the case, Miss Carlisle. 18:34.320 --> 18:37.320 In a way. And I was trying to find out about this tire. I mean... 18:37.320 --> 18:41.320 Well, that tire, man, that's a 616 Goodstone. It's pretty new, too. 18:41.320 --> 18:43.320 You can see from this middle tread here, you see. 18:43.320 --> 18:46.320 I don't see how anybody could prove much by this here. 18:46.320 --> 18:49.320 Do you sell many of these? What did you call them? 18:49.320 --> 18:53.320 616 Goodstone. Oh, yeah, plenty. That's what I'm talking about. 18:53.320 --> 18:56.320 I don't see how you could prove much with that tire. 18:56.320 --> 18:58.320 You find them on all kinds of cars. I know, but... 18:58.320 --> 19:01.320 Look, here, you got them on your own car, Miss Carlisle. 19:01.320 --> 19:04.320 Same kind, 616 Goodstone. Almost new, too. 19:04.320 --> 19:08.320 You see what I mean? Oh, yes. Yeah, I see. 19:08.320 --> 19:10.320 Yeah, plenty of them kind of tires around. 19:10.320 --> 19:12.320 Hey, you want that tank of gas now, Miss Carlisle? 19:12.320 --> 19:24.320 No. No, thank you. Never mind. 19:24.320 --> 19:30.320 It's funny how you never notice things like tires, if you're a woman anyway. 19:30.320 --> 19:34.320 They did always handle things like that, and then afterwards, Cora had done it. 19:34.320 --> 19:41.320 Cora. And of course, as the boy had said, there were hundreds of tires like it. Hundreds. 19:41.320 --> 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. 19:47.320 --> 19:53.320 I was afraid one of my headaches was coming on. I decided to try and write my first article. 19:53.320 --> 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. 20:01.320 --> 20:06.320 I went to the broom closet and rummaged around in the basket we keep there for old rags. 20:06.320 --> 20:11.320 I just started to dust off the typewriter when I noticed it. It was the rag I held in my hand. 20:11.320 --> 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. 20:17.320 --> 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. 20:32.320 --> 20:37.320 It was then I heard Cora coming in. Stinctively, I thrust the rag just in my hand into the desk. 20:37.320 --> 20:39.320 Mother, you home? 20:39.320 --> 20:42.320 Oh, hello, darling. Been shopping? 20:42.320 --> 20:44.320 Just a few odds and ends. What have you been doing? 20:44.320 --> 20:47.320 Oh, a little of this, a little of that. 20:47.320 --> 20:54.320 Um, Cora, what about the car? Won't we be needing new tires pretty soon? 20:54.320 --> 20:58.320 Well, now I had new ones put on all around only a little while ago. You remember? 20:58.320 --> 21:00.320 I'd forgotten. When was that? 21:00.320 --> 21:03.320 Oh, six weeks ago anyway. 21:03.320 --> 21:05.320 Then it was before? 21:05.320 --> 21:07.320 Before what? 21:07.320 --> 21:08.320 The murder. 21:08.320 --> 21:12.320 Will you stop it? Do you have to go through with this thing, Mother? 21:12.320 --> 21:16.320 I think it's better for me to write it than some stranger, don't you? 21:16.320 --> 21:17.320 If you wish. 21:17.320 --> 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? 21:29.320 --> 21:30.320 We were home. 21:30.320 --> 21:31.320 Are you sure? 21:31.320 --> 21:33.320 Don't you remember? 21:33.320 --> 21:35.320 It's... isn't it silly? 21:35.320 --> 21:38.320 You had one of your headaches. I was in my room. You were in yours. 21:38.320 --> 21:41.320 Then I was asleep all evening. 21:41.320 --> 21:43.320 I suppose you were. 21:43.320 --> 21:47.320 But you don't know. You weren't with me. What a pity. 21:47.320 --> 21:48.320 I'll start, Topper. 21:48.320 --> 21:49.320 Oh, Cora. 21:49.320 --> 21:50.320 Yes? 21:50.320 --> 21:54.320 Whatever happened to that old print dress? It was yours, I think. 21:54.320 --> 21:55.320 What print dress? 21:55.320 --> 22:00.320 You know, with a red and white flowered print. You did have one like that, didn't you? 22:00.320 --> 22:02.320 I haven't seen it for quite a while. 22:02.320 --> 22:04.320 But it couldn't have just disappeared. 22:04.320 --> 22:07.320 The last time I saw it, you had it. And then I don't know what happened to it. 22:07.320 --> 22:09.320 I had it? 22:09.320 --> 22:11.320 Don't you remember? 22:11.320 --> 22:15.320 No. Would... would this be it, Cora? 22:15.320 --> 22:19.320 Oh. So this has all been a cross-examination, has it? 22:19.320 --> 22:21.320 There were certain things I had to know, Cora. 22:21.320 --> 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. 22:26.320 --> 22:29.320 You were in love with him, too, weren't you, Cora? 22:31.320 --> 22:35.320 Yes. Yes. Now are you satisfied? 22:35.320 --> 22:40.320 Yes, I was in love with him. I was in love with him! 22:40.320 --> 22:45.320 When I woke up, the sun was shining, and I was lying on the bed in Cora's room. 22:45.320 --> 22:47.320 And Cora was gone. 22:47.320 --> 22:51.320 I made some coffee, and then I went down to see Lieutenant Hahn. 22:51.320 --> 22:55.320 What's the matter, Miss Carlisle? You look sort of played out. 22:55.320 --> 22:57.320 I had rather a restless night. 22:57.320 --> 23:00.320 I've been thinking about this thing, Lieutenant. 23:00.320 --> 23:02.320 I've been thinking about it a lot. 23:02.320 --> 23:04.320 Been doing a little checking up, I hear. 23:04.320 --> 23:06.320 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 23:06.320 --> 23:10.320 I've been thinking about it a lot. Been doing a little checking up, I hear. 23:10.320 --> 23:14.320 Yes, Lieutenant. Why didn't you tell me you had that list about the dresses? 23:14.320 --> 23:20.320 Was it because you knew that someone in my house had bought one of those dresses? 23:20.320 --> 23:23.320 You're speaking of your stepdaughter, Cora Wales. 23:23.320 --> 23:24.320 Yes. 23:24.320 --> 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. 23:29.320 --> 23:30.320 Oh. 23:30.320 --> 23:32.320 Got any new ideas? 23:32.320 --> 23:37.320 Look, Lieutenant, I've been writing a new book, or trying to, about a murder. 23:37.320 --> 23:40.320 A woman who kills her husband. I didn't know how to finish it. 23:40.320 --> 23:44.320 Now, look, it's all sort of mixed up in my mind, but... 23:44.320 --> 23:48.320 you know the old theory about a murderer will always return to the scene of the crime? 23:48.320 --> 23:49.320 I don't get it. 23:49.320 --> 23:51.320 I know. Put it this way. 23:51.320 --> 23:56.320 If someone killed because the person they killed knew something, 23:56.320 --> 24:00.320 they'd have to kill anyone else who knew that same thing now, wouldn't they? 24:00.320 --> 24:03.320 You still going on the theory the Ogilvy girl's innocent? 24:03.320 --> 24:04.320 I know she's innocent. 24:04.320 --> 24:07.320 You know? That's pretty strong talk, Miss Carlisle. 24:07.320 --> 24:10.320 Well, call it woman's intuition. Call it whatever you like. 24:10.320 --> 24:12.320 I just know that there's someone... 24:12.320 --> 24:16.320 Look, Miss Carlisle, maybe I had you wrong yesterday. 24:16.320 --> 24:18.320 I can see you're not kidding about this thing. 24:18.320 --> 24:21.320 Not that I pretend to know what you're talking about, but... 24:21.320 --> 24:24.320 if you've really got something, you better tell Papa. 24:24.320 --> 24:25.320 No, no. 24:25.320 --> 24:26.320 You... 24:25.320 --> 24:26.320 I can't. 24:26.320 --> 24:29.320 You say you think somebody's going to come back to the scene of the crime. 24:29.320 --> 24:31.320 I don't know. I don't know what I think. 24:31.320 --> 24:33.320 I just know that... 24:33.320 --> 24:36.320 Look, Miss Carlisle, I don't like it. You're upset and you're frightened. 24:36.320 --> 24:37.320 No. 24:36.320 --> 24:37.320 I want to help you. 24:37.320 --> 24:41.320 No, no. I have to do this my own way. 24:41.320 --> 24:42.320 Do what? 24:42.320 --> 24:43.320 I don't know. 24:43.320 --> 24:47.320 Well, I can't very well use a rubber hose to get it out of you, 24:47.320 --> 24:50.320 but I just want you to remember that whatever I do, it's part of my job. 24:50.320 --> 24:52.320 What? What's part of your job? 24:52.320 --> 24:59.320 To see that nobody else gets killed around here, including you. 25:05.320 --> 25:08.320 I could feel the headache coming on as I left his office. 25:08.320 --> 25:10.320 I almost ran to my car. 25:10.320 --> 25:13.320 All I could think of was that I had to get home before it happened. 25:13.320 --> 25:18.320 But it was coming over me awfully fast, faster than it ever had before. 25:18.320 --> 25:20.320 The house was empty. 25:20.320 --> 25:23.320 I threw myself on the couch and pressed my hands over my eyes. 25:23.320 --> 25:25.320 The pain was horrible. 25:25.320 --> 25:26.320 Horrible. 25:26.320 --> 25:29.320 And then suddenly I had the feeling that I wasn't alone. 25:29.320 --> 25:31.320 That someone was standing there, standing over me. 25:31.320 --> 25:33.320 Someone I couldn't see. 25:33.320 --> 25:37.320 Someone who was crushing my brain, squeezing my temples in a kind of terrible, invisible vice. 25:37.320 --> 25:39.320 Someone who was trying to kill me. 25:44.320 --> 25:47.320 I was having a dream. 25:47.320 --> 25:50.320 Another of those horrible dreams. 25:50.320 --> 25:55.320 I was dreaming that I'd gone upstairs to Cora's room and she was there packing her things. 25:55.320 --> 25:58.320 She didn't see me or hear me. 25:58.320 --> 26:00.320 And I crept into the room very softly. 26:00.320 --> 26:03.320 It seemed as though I had a heavy poker or something in my hand. 26:03.320 --> 26:05.320 I crept up very softly behind her. 26:05.320 --> 26:08.320 I raised the poker and then she whirled around. She saw me! 26:11.320 --> 26:13.320 You knew it wasn't an accident, didn't you? 26:13.320 --> 26:15.320 You knew he didn't just drown. 26:15.320 --> 26:18.320 You knew I killed your father. I pushed him. 26:18.320 --> 26:21.320 And when I went to Dr. Winter, he found out too. 26:21.320 --> 26:24.320 Something buried in my subconscious, he said. 26:24.320 --> 26:25.320 And he made me tell him. 26:25.320 --> 26:27.320 He told you all that, didn't he? 26:27.320 --> 26:29.320 So now I'm going to have to kill you too, Cora. 26:29.320 --> 26:31.320 I'm going to have to kill you! 26:42.320 --> 26:44.320 All right, Miss Carlisle. All right. 26:44.320 --> 26:46.320 You better come along now. 26:56.320 --> 27:01.320 I hear the doctors keep talking about schizophrenia. 27:01.320 --> 27:04.320 That's a double personality, you know. 27:04.320 --> 27:09.320 They seem to think I did all those things without even knowing it. 27:09.320 --> 27:11.320 Drowning Ned. 27:11.320 --> 27:13.320 Trying to kill Cora. 27:13.320 --> 27:16.320 That's what the spells were, they say. 27:16.320 --> 27:18.320 The other personality. 27:18.320 --> 27:21.320 Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 27:21.320 --> 27:24.320 But I wish I could talk to Dr. Winter. 27:24.320 --> 27:27.320 I went to him first about the spells. 27:27.320 --> 27:31.320 He said he could cure me if I told him the truth. 27:31.320 --> 27:35.320 Only, of course, I can't talk to him now. 27:35.320 --> 27:37.320 He's dead. 27:37.320 --> 27:43.320 I killed him. 27:58.320 --> 28:04.320 In just a moment, we will hear from Gloria Swanson, tonight's star of Suspense. 28:04.320 --> 28:11.320 Presented by Roma. 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