1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,160 Suspense. 2 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:29,840 Produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. 3 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:34,480 This radio's outstanding theater of thrills presents the last of a special series of Friday 4 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:36,520 night performances at this hour. 5 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:40,640 Tonight from Hollywood, we bring you a most unusual broadcast. 6 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:45,200 Starring a famous radio couple who have never before appeared in a story of this kind, Mr. 7 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,000 Ozzie Nelson and Miss Harriet Hilliard. 8 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,680 You are accustomed to hearing our stars in their own comedy show, but tonight Ozzie and 9 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:57,640 Harriet appear for us as a couple who are driven to the plotting of murder in Too Little 10 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:03,440 to Live On by Robert Richards, a play well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:13,400 I tell you, it doesn't matter now. 12 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,240 How do you think anything could matter anymore to me now? 13 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,400 You should have let me die. 14 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:19,400 That was the best way. 15 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:24,640 That's all that matters to me now is that I want to die. 16 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:32,000 That's all I care about, being dead. 17 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:42,160 I don't know whether we ever thought about it before this morning or not. 18 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:46,080 It might have crossed our minds sometime, one or the other of us, I don't know. 19 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,080 But we never talked about it, never. 20 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:50,080 Never before this morning. 21 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:54,080 And then this morning, everything just seemed to come to a head. 22 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:57,800 Every little thing that happened all those months and years just seemed to pile up at 23 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:58,800 once. 24 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,720 It just seemed as though this morning was the last straw. 25 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,720 Hi, honey. 26 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,720 Hello, darling. 27 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:14,200 Your breakfast is there keeping warm on the back of his toe. 28 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,200 I'd get it for you, but I'm already late with his. 29 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:17,200 That's all right. 30 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,200 You'd better hurry, though. 31 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,720 I'm not going to the office today. 32 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:20,720 You're not? 33 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:24,280 He wants me to stick around, his lawyer's coming over sometime today. 34 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:25,280 His lawyer? 35 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:26,280 Yeah, don't you remember? 36 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:27,280 I guess I forgot. 37 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:32,200 His lawyer's coming over, so I have to stick around the house all day. 38 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,360 Couldn't you go over to the office and come back? 39 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,480 No, that's not the way he wants it. 40 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,400 He says the lawyer's coming, but he doesn't know when. 41 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,440 At least that's his story. 42 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,040 Well, maybe he really doesn't know. 43 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:44,040 Oh, he knows all right. 44 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,040 Not that it matters much. 45 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,960 I don't have any appointments today anyway. 46 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,440 People around here wouldn't have their teeth fixed if you paid them to. 47 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,080 Well, they can't help it if they're poor, Dave. 48 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:53,080 I didn't say they could. 49 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,280 I just said they can't afford to go to the dentist. 50 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,280 I'm the dentist they can't afford to go to. 51 00:02:58,280 --> 00:02:59,280 I know. 52 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,240 Oh, darling, if we could only move to another neighborhood, then at least you could start 53 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:04,800 building a decent practice. 54 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:05,800 Sure, how? 55 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:06,800 With what? 56 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:07,800 I know. 57 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,280 With Uncle Ed's money, when we get it. 58 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,840 At least that's what we've been telling ourselves the last three years. 59 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:15,840 Couldn't we talk to him? 60 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:16,840 Couldn't we make him see this? 61 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,120 He likes to see us have it tough. 62 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:21,760 He likes to have us dependent on that money. 63 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:23,880 That's all he lives for, and he'll probably live to be a hundred. 64 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:25,880 We've just got to be patient, Dave. 65 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:26,880 Oh, there he is. 66 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:27,880 He's up. 67 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:28,880 I've got to hurry. 68 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,680 I think at least he's spent enough dough to have some decent tires put on that wheelchair 69 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,160 of his so it wouldn't bump around over our heads like a ten ton truck day and night. 70 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,760 Well, I suppose we ought to be thankful he doesn't spend his money. 71 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:40,760 In a way. 72 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,760 Have you seen him this morning? 73 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:44,760 Uh-huh. 74 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:45,760 How's he feeling? 75 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,760 About the same, I guess. 76 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:51,640 He made me bring his lemon juice and water down and heat it up again. 77 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,280 Said it wasn't hot enough. 78 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,680 Willie almost bit me again. 79 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:56,680 Yeah, that mutt. 80 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:57,680 Well, the dog's getting old. 81 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:58,680 I suppose he can't help it. 82 00:03:58,680 --> 00:03:59,680 Any more than Uncle Ed. 83 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:00,680 They could both help it. 84 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:01,680 He wants it that way. 85 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:02,680 He gets a kick out of it. 86 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,680 Now it's got so even, we have to kowtow to a snarling little mutt. 87 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:10,680 He sits there and laughs. 88 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,680 We've just got to be patient, Dave. 89 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:17,680 One thing, when we get that $30,000, we sure will have earned it. 90 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:18,680 Dave. 91 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:19,680 Yeah? 92 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:20,680 What about the lawyer? 93 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:21,680 What about it? 94 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,840 I mean, what do you suppose it means? 95 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:26,840 What should it mean? 96 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:30,400 He's always getting that guy over here every three or four months and going into some kind 97 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:31,400 of a huddle. 98 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,600 But why should he want you here? 99 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,000 Probably needs us both as witnesses to something. 100 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,760 You know, he's been talking an awful lot lately about that orphanage over in Brooklyn. 101 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,480 Sure, and last winter all he could talk about was some foundling home for stray dogs down 102 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:44,480 in Pennsylvania. 103 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,160 He's just cracking the whip, that's all, to see us jump. 104 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,480 Oh, Dave, if he was to change his will now after all we've been through. 105 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:51,480 Oh, don't worry, he won't. 106 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:52,480 Oh, there he goes. 107 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:53,480 He's something for his breakfast. 108 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:54,480 Coming right up, Uncle Ed. 109 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:55,480 Let's see. 110 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:56,480 I hope his eggs are right. 111 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:03,480 Get the coffee off the back of the stove, darling, while I get a cup. 112 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,480 Okay. 113 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:05,480 Take it easy. 114 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:06,480 It's all right, honey. 115 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:07,480 It's only a little bit of a mess. 116 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,880 It's all right, honey. 117 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:10,880 Only a cup. 118 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:11,880 I know. 119 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,880 Sometimes it makes me so nervous. 120 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,880 I feel as though I'm going crazy. 121 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:18,880 Take it easy, dear. 122 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,880 Here, let me get the coffee. 123 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,880 No, no, I'm all right now. 124 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,400 There's a pan of milk warming on the stove. 125 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:33,960 Fill this bowl about half full and break up a handful of those little dog biscuits in it. 126 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:34,960 Okay. 127 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:35,960 Sugar, salt, pepper, cream. 128 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:37,640 All right, come on. 129 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,760 Open the door for me, will you, darling? 130 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:43,360 Here, I'll carry the tray. 131 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:45,560 No, he likes to have me bring it. 132 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,560 What's the difference? 133 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,360 Oh, don't ask me, Dave. 134 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,360 Oh, the paper for him. 135 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:53,360 Oh, you've got it. 136 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,360 Oh, I haven't read the paper yet myself. 137 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:56,360 Shh, shh, shh. 138 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:57,360 You can read it later. 139 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:58,360 Come on. 140 00:05:58,360 --> 00:05:59,360 Is your breakfast, Uncle Ed? 141 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:06,360 All right. 142 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,360 I'm sorry I was a little late. 143 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,960 Well, set it down, set it down. 144 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,160 I heard what you said about the paper, David. 145 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,160 If it's getting so, you even begrudge a little thing like that to a helpless invalid. 146 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,560 No, I don't begrudge it, Uncle Ed. 147 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,080 Here's your paper. 148 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,560 So important for you to read the paper, why don't you subscribe for two of them? 149 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,160 I'm afraid the budget in this family won't stand for little luxuries like that. 150 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:34,360 When I was your age, I had my first thousand dollars in the bank. 151 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,360 Things were a little different in those days, Uncle Ed. 152 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:37,360 I was a little different. 153 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:38,960 That's what the difference was. 154 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,560 All right, set Willie's breakfast down for him, Ira. 155 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:42,560 No, no. 156 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,160 Not there, over by his bed where he can get at it. 157 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:46,160 Yes, Uncle Ed. 158 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,160 I'm afraid Willie doesn't like me anymore. 159 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,160 Here, I'll give it to him. 160 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,160 Hey, hey, hey, stop that. 161 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,160 Don't you dare strike that dog, David. 162 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,360 I wasn't going to hit him, I just wanted to let go of my skin. 163 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,360 Poor Willie. 164 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,960 Oh, hell, if Myra would take him out once in a while, he wouldn't feel that way. 165 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:03,960 I take him out any time you ask me to, Uncle Ed. 166 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:04,960 I forget sometimes. 167 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:06,960 You ought to do it without my asking. 168 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,160 Well, you can go now. 169 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,360 I know you don't want to stay any longer than you have to. 170 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,360 Oh, Myra, hand me my glasses over on the bureau. 171 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:15,360 Glasses? 172 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:16,360 Yes, Uncle Ed. 173 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:17,360 Here. 174 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,360 Oh, Myra, you fool. 175 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,360 Oh, Uncle Ed, I'm so sorry. 176 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,360 Maybe I can mend them. 177 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:23,360 Of course you can't mend them. 178 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,360 They're broken, you idiot. 179 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,560 Don't talk to her like that. 180 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:27,560 What's that? 181 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,360 I said don't talk to her like that. 182 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:30,360 Dave, please. 183 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:31,360 Oh, I see. 184 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:32,360 Now you're trying to bully me. 185 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,360 A helpless old man in a wheelchair. 186 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:35,360 Well, I won't stand for it. 187 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:36,360 Uncle Ed, he didn't mean anything. 188 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,360 I made my bargain with you, David, and I intend to keep it as long as you do. 189 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,360 And I've never complained about the care you've given me, although heaven knows it's been 190 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,360 a little enough. 191 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,860 But don't think for a minute I'll stand for anything like this. 192 00:07:48,860 --> 00:07:50,360 I'm sorry, Uncle Ed. 193 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,360 Don't grade that scarcely enough. 194 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,360 Well, it won't happen again. 195 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,360 Look, I'll get the glasses fixed. 196 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,360 I know a guy that can do it right away. 197 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,360 Probably take a week, and in the meantime I'll be as blind as a bat. 198 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:03,360 And don't expect me to pay for it. 199 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:04,360 No, don't worry. 200 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:05,360 I'll pay for it. 201 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,360 You'll have them back tonight. 202 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,360 Oh, this reminds me, David, be sure that you're here when my lawyer comes today. 203 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:12,360 I'll be here. 204 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,360 That's why I stayed home from the office. 205 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,360 Well, that's all for now. 206 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,360 Oh, and I suppose neither of you's taken the trouble lately to find out which of my prescriptions 207 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:22,360 need refilling. 208 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:24,360 Oh, yeah, I was thinking of that yesterday. 209 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:25,360 Oh, were you? 210 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:26,360 Well, let's do it now. 211 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,360 Bismuth's entirely gone. 212 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,360 Look, entirely gone. 213 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,360 You better get another bottle of iron tonic. 214 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,360 You see, the drops. 215 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,360 Well, that's all right for now. 216 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,360 And the thionic cyanide. 217 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,360 You better get that refilled too while you're at it. 218 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,360 Take the bottle and the bismuth too. 219 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,360 I'll go right away, Uncle Ed. 220 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,360 Yes, you do, and you come right back. 221 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,360 You know that I must have my bismuth not later than 20 minutes after each meal. 222 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,360 Yes, I know. 223 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,360 Come on, Myra. 224 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,360 I hate myself. 225 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,360 I'll take it easy, dear. 226 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:05,360 It's all right. 227 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,360 It's all right now. 228 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,360 I'll tell you what, I've tried. 229 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,360 I can't go on like this. 230 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,360 I'll take it easy, honey. 231 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,360 It will be much longer. 232 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,360 We've been saying that for three years. We're like prisoners. 233 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,360 We can't go out of the house together because somebody has to be with him. 234 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,360 We can't have friends in because they disturb him. 235 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,360 Oh, Dave, we can't even have a baby. 236 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:30,360 I could kill him. 237 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,360 Sometimes I could kill him. 238 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Dave, don't. 239 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,360 I mean it. When I see what he's doing to you, when I see him making a slave out of you, 240 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,360 making a nervous wreck out of you so you can't even call your soul your own. 241 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,360 No, no, Dave, please. Please, I'm all right now. 242 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,360 Sure, we made a bargain, like he said. 243 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,360 But not this kind of a bargain. 244 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,360 Oh, darling, I know it's just as bad for you as it is for me. 245 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,360 It's just that I'm here alone with him all day. 246 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,360 I'm sorry. I shouldn't have let myself go that way. 247 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,360 Oh, I hate myself, Myra. If I'd known I was going to be like this. 248 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,360 It's not your fault, darling. I knew what we were doing. 249 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,360 I'm not even a man anymore. 250 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,360 I let him sit there and say things to my wife that a man wouldn't take from anybody on earth. 251 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,360 But I take it. 252 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,360 I take it in a smile. 253 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,360 Oh, Dave, Dave, it's not your fault. 254 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,360 Oh, it is my fault. If I was any kind of a man, I'd do something about it. 255 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,360 But there's nothing to do, don't you see? 256 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,360 I should never have acted like this. 257 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,360 We've just got to be patient and wait, that's all. 258 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:27,360 Wait. Maybe another three years, maybe ten more years. 259 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:28,360 Oh, honey. 260 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,360 Oh, what's the use of kidding ourselves? 261 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,360 How do we know how long it's going to take him to die? 262 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,360 Sometimes I don't even think he's sick. 263 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,360 Sometimes I think he's just putting it on to make us wait on him. 264 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,360 But the doctor said... 265 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,360 Don't be a fool, doctors. It's been done. 266 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,360 Even when he does die, how can we ever be sure? 267 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,360 Dave, you don't... 268 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,360 I think he's just that mean, yes. 269 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,360 Snatch the money away at the last minute and die laughing at us. 270 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,360 But he said it was a bargain. He said he promised... 271 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,360 You think promises mean anything to him? 272 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,360 Well, could he do it without... I mean, with... 273 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,360 Do what? 274 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:02,360 Change his will. 275 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,360 Well, sure he could do it any time he wanted to. 276 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,360 Without even telling us? 277 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,360 Nothing that says he has to tell us anything. 278 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,360 Oh, Dave's a lawyer. 279 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:11,360 Yeah, I know. 280 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:12,360 Today? 281 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,360 Why does he have to come today of all days? 282 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,360 After I broke his glasses and you hollered at him? 283 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,360 Yeah, I know. 284 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,360 Could he do it just like that today? 285 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:22,360 Sure. 286 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,360 If he'd do it today, he could do it any time. 287 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,360 We'd never know until he told us. 288 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,360 Oh, he wouldn't. He couldn't. 289 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:30,360 Why not? 290 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,360 He might just as well do it anyway. 291 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,360 He'll hold it over us in the last minute like he did just now... 292 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,360 Till we probably die of heart failure before he does. 293 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,360 But you said just a few minutes ago... 294 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,360 No, I've been kidding myself for three years, but not anymore. 295 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,360 Dave, what are we going to do? 296 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,360 What can we do? 297 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,360 I don't know, Myra. 298 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,360 I don't know. 299 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:52,360 Yet. 300 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,360 If only something could happen. 301 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,360 Like what? 302 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,360 Nothing's going to happen, Myra. 303 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,360 Unless we make it happen. 304 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,360 Dave, we couldn't... 305 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,360 We can't go on like this either. 306 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:06,360 We can tell him to go... 307 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,360 And throw away three years of our lives? 308 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,360 The three years we've rotted in this dump? 309 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:13,360 We've earned that money. 310 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,360 Ten thousand dollars a year isn't half enough for what we've gone through. 311 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,360 Dave, I don't care about the money. 312 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,360 Well, I do. 313 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,360 Anybody but him, I'd feel different. 314 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,360 I don't have any more feeling about him than I do that dog up there. 315 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,360 Dave, you don't really mean... 316 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,360 I don't know what I mean. 317 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,360 Listen, I've got to go over to the drug store and get his medicine. 318 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:35,360 All right. Hurry back. 319 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,360 I'll only be a minute. It's just across the street. 320 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:40,360 Dave. 321 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:41,360 Yeah? 322 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:42,360 What about the lawyer? 323 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:43,360 What about him? 324 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,360 What if he should come now? 325 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,360 Yeah, well, keep an eye out for him. 326 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:49,360 But what if he comes? 327 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,360 I don't know. I've got to think. 328 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:53,360 Stall him off. Tell him something. 329 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:54,360 What should I tell him? 330 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,360 Tell him the old man's sick. He can't see him. 331 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:57,360 Sick? 332 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,360 Yeah, yeah, sick. 333 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:00,360 All right, Dave. 334 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:01,360 Oh, Dave, have you got his glasses? 335 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,360 Yeah, I'll give them to Mr. Herman at the drug store. 336 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,360 He knows an Oculus right here in the neighborhood. 337 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:07,360 He wouldn't mind sending them over. 338 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,360 All right. Hurry. 339 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:16,360 Well, good morning, Dr. O'Connor. 340 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:17,360 Oh, morning, Clancy. 341 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,360 Taking the day off today? 342 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,360 Yeah, yeah, that's right. Take him easy. 343 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,360 Say, how's the old gentleman this morning? 344 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:24,360 Oh, he's all right. 345 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,360 I'm glad to hear it. Glad to hear it. He's a fine old man. 346 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:32,360 Hello, Mr. Herman. 347 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,360 Well, Dr. O'Connor, you're coming for your regular batch of medicines, I suppose. 348 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,360 Yeah, yeah, that's right. 349 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,360 How is Mr. O'Connor? Better, I hope. 350 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,360 Well, I'm afraid he's been having a little pain lately. 351 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,360 Oh, that's too bad. He's such a courageous old man, so cheerful. 352 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:47,360 Yes. 353 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,360 Every time I go by and he's sitting up there by his window, he waves. 354 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,360 All his sentences and remembrance are quickened. 355 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,360 Yes, your uncle is a real gentleman. 356 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:57,360 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. 357 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,360 Well, what will it be today? 358 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:07,360 Oh, the iron tonic business, 100 tablets, and refill the thiocyanate prescription. 359 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,360 Here, I brought the bottle. 360 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,360 All right, I'll get it for you right away. 361 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,360 You got a prescription for the thiocyanate, a new one? 362 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,360 No, but I'll sign it. 363 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,360 Oh, sure, that's right. You can sign it. 364 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,360 You know how it is, Doctor, we've got to be careful of these things. 365 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,360 You better give me the big tablets this time. 366 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:25,360 Sure thing. 367 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,360 You reach just over the counter there, you'll find the prescription blank. 368 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,360 Just below there. You got it? 369 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,360 Oh, yeah, yeah, thanks. 370 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:37,360 There we are. 371 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,360 Don't bother, Rappi. 372 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:44,360 All right. Let's see, that's 487. 373 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,360 487. Here, I've got it even. 374 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,360 Oh, and say, Mr. Herman, I wonder if you could do me a little favor. 375 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,360 Why, surely anything, Doctor? 376 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,360 My uncle broke his glasses this morning. 377 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,360 Oh, say, that's too bad. 378 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,360 He's almost helpless without them. 379 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,360 Yeah, that's right. I know he is. 380 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,360 I wonder if you could send him around to a good oculus in the neighborhood. 381 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,360 Why, sure, sure I could. No trouble at all. 382 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,360 I could go myself, but he's not feeling too well this morning, 383 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,360 and I ought to get right back. 384 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,360 Whatever the bill is, you know I'm good for it. 385 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:17,360 Don't you worry about that. 386 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:21,360 Why, sure, I'll do that right away for you, Dr. Connors. 387 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:22,360 Well, thanks. 388 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:24,360 Thank you, Dr. Connors. 389 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,360 Give the old gentleman my best, Doctor. 390 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,360 Sure, sure, I will. 391 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:36,360 Dave? 392 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:37,360 Yeah, did the lawyer come? 393 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:38,360 No, did you get the glasses? 394 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,360 Yeah, I gave them to Mr. Herman. Come on in the kitchen. 395 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:45,360 I got the medicine, Myra. 396 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:46,360 Oh. 397 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,360 Myra, do you know what these things are that he's been taking? 398 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:50,360 No, not exactly. 399 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:54,360 Well, this is bismuth, stuff he takes after each meal, three or four of them, 400 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,360 the stuff he's due to take right now. 401 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,360 Dave. 402 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,360 No, no, wait a minute. These are thiosinate. 403 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,360 He only takes these once in a while for his heart, just one of them, 404 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,360 plus that one because I got bigger tablets this time. 405 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,360 Dave, what are you trying to say? 406 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:16,360 I'm trying to say if he took three or four of these instead of his bismuth, 407 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,360 by mistake, he would kill them. 408 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:21,360 Dave, no. 409 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:22,360 By mistake, I said. 410 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:23,360 It couldn't be. 411 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,360 Yes, it could. Look at the tablets. 412 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,360 Can you tell them apart? 413 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:32,360 Hardly. 414 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,360 If they were in the wrong bottle. 415 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,360 Afterwards, they'd know if they were in the wrong bottle, they'd know that somebody was... 416 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,360 No, he'd think it was all right from the shape. 417 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,360 Afterwards, we'd put them back in the right bottle. 418 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,360 Well, then they'd know it couldn't be a mistake. 419 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,360 They'd know he could read right on the bottle from the label. 420 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,360 No, they wouldn't. They'd know he couldn't read the label. 421 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,360 They'd know he couldn't read anything. 422 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:52,360 His glasses. 423 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,360 That's right, his glasses. 424 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,360 And the oculus, they'd have to swear to it. 425 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,360 Dave, are you sure... 426 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,360 Are you sure he can't see? 427 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,360 He's blind as a bat without them. That much I know is real. 428 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:05,360 Dave. 429 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:07,360 Don't you see? It's the only way, Myra. 430 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:10,360 The chance of a lifetime. No tampering with anything. 431 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:13,360 No changing labels so they could analyze glue if they got suspicious. 432 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:14,360 None of that. 433 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:15,360 I know, but... 434 00:17:15,360 --> 00:17:17,360 And don't forget his lawyer's coming today. 435 00:17:17,360 --> 00:17:18,360 Couldn't we just tell him to go? 436 00:17:18,360 --> 00:17:19,360 What about the money? 437 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:22,360 Dave, I... I can't think. 438 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:23,360 The front door. 439 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:25,360 That must be the lawyer now. 440 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:29,360 Yeah, it is. 441 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:31,360 I can see him standing outside. 442 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:32,360 What should we do? 443 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:33,360 Get rid of him. 444 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:35,360 Well, hurry, before he rings again, he might hear us. 445 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:36,360 Will I tell him? 446 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:40,360 Well, what you told me to tell him, that he's had a bad turn, we're calling the doctor, 447 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:44,360 and if he asks any questions any time, we could say it was... 448 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:46,360 Yeah, all right. 449 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:50,360 Good morning, Mr. Eldridge. 450 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:51,360 Well, how do you do, Dr. O'Connor? 451 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:55,360 Say, I'm sorry you had to come way out here, but my uncle has had sort of a bad turn. 452 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:57,360 Oh, I'm so sorry. Nothing serious. 453 00:17:57,360 --> 00:18:00,360 No, we're calling the doctor. I don't think it's anything serious, Mr. Eldridge. 454 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:02,360 I don't see how it could be. 455 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:03,360 Why, no. 456 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:05,360 But he was wondering if you could come back some other day. 457 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:09,360 Oh, I see. Well, it's just a matter of his signature on the document. 458 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:11,360 Yeah, well, I'm really afraid he is not good, Mr. Eldridge. 459 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:14,360 I see. Well, perhaps I could phone him later in the day. 460 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:15,360 Could... 461 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:16,360 I say I could phone him. 462 00:18:16,360 --> 00:18:18,360 There'd be no objection to that, would there? 463 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:21,360 No, no, no. But if there's any message, I could give it to him later. 464 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:26,360 Yes, well, you might say that I've made the changes that he requested. 465 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:27,360 He'll know what I mean. 466 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:29,360 All right, I'll do that, and thank you, Mr. Eldridge. 467 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:30,360 Thank you, Dr. O'Connor. Good day, sir. 468 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:31,360 Goodbye. 469 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:36,360 Has he gone? 470 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:36,360 Yeah. 471 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:37,360 Did he... 472 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:40,360 No, no, no. It was all right. 473 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,360 What is it, Dave? Did he say anything? 474 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:46,360 Oh, he said that he made the changes, whatever they were, and that he'd understand. 475 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:49,360 He said that all he wanted was his signature on some document. 476 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:50,360 His will? 477 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:51,360 We didn't say that. 478 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:52,360 Oh. 479 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:54,360 No, or never, Myra. 480 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:59,360 Oh, Dave, let me just think. Just for a minute. 481 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:02,360 Come on, what about it? 482 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:05,360 Yes. All right. 483 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:08,360 All right. Here are the two bottles. 484 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:10,360 Come on now. 485 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:11,360 Oh, Dave, no. 486 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:12,360 You've got to come. 487 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:13,360 Why? 488 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:15,360 Because... because you have. 489 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:16,360 All right. 490 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:19,360 You don't have to say anything. 491 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:20,360 All right. 492 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:30,360 Oh, hey. 493 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:34,360 Got here someone at the front door. 494 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:37,360 No, there hasn't been anyone here. Has there, Myra? 495 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:38,360 No. 496 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:40,360 Oh, I thought it might have been Mr. Eldridge. 497 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:42,360 I got your medicine. 498 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:43,360 You took long enough about it. 499 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:46,360 I'll put it over here by the bed where you can get it. 500 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:48,360 Well, what do you want, Myra? 501 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:50,360 I... I just came to get your tray. 502 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:52,360 Didn't Willie like his breakfast? 503 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:54,360 Oh, it was too hot, of course. 504 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,360 Let me give it to him now. 505 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,360 Have you got water for your pills? 506 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:00,360 Yes. What about my glasses? 507 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,360 Oh, they'll be ready this evening. 508 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:03,360 All right. 509 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:05,360 Are you sure Mr. Eldridge is up here the minute he arrives? 510 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:07,360 Yes, yes, I will, Uncle Ed. 511 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:10,360 This. 512 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:11,360 Want me to take the tray? 513 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:12,360 No. 514 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:14,360 I've got it. 515 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:21,360 Oh, Dave, how could we? 516 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:23,360 The use of that, it's done now. 517 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:25,360 It's horrible. 518 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:29,360 Don't you realize that we're... 519 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:30,360 that it... 520 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,360 Murder? All right, it is, and I'm glad. 521 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:33,360 Dave, don't say that. 522 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:34,360 What's the difference what you call it? 523 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:35,360 It was the only thing to do. 524 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:36,360 It's even better for him this way. 525 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:37,360 David, I'm afraid. 526 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:39,360 There's nothing to be afraid of. 527 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:41,360 Listen. 528 00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:42,360 Yeah. 529 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,360 He's wheeled himself over to take his pills. 530 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:49,360 Dave, does it... 531 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:51,360 Will it... 532 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:52,360 Take long? 533 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:55,360 That is age, and if his heart is anything like what the doctor says it is, no. 534 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:56,360 Is it... 535 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:57,360 Painful? No. 536 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:59,360 Like a heart attack, that's all. 537 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:01,360 What was that? 538 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,360 He must have fallen. 539 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:03,360 Then he... 540 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:04,360 Yeah, yeah. 541 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:06,360 A minute anyway. 542 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:07,360 We ought to go up. 543 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:08,360 No, no, wait a minute. 544 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:09,360 But the bottles. 545 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:10,360 That's plenty of time. 546 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:11,360 Shouldn't you wear gloves or something? 547 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:14,360 No, I thought it would look funnier if there weren't any fingerprints. 548 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:15,360 David, we ought to go up, even if... 549 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:17,360 I mean, it would look better. 550 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:19,360 All right. 551 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:24,360 We'll have to call the doctor. 552 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,360 We'll have to anyway, either way. 553 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:27,360 I suppose. 554 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:28,360 Don't worry. 555 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:31,360 It won't be like that. 556 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:34,360 The wheelchair is empty. 557 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:35,360 He's not here. 558 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:37,360 Quick, look in the closet. 559 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:39,360 No. 560 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:40,360 Under the bed. 561 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:42,360 Dave. 562 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:44,360 Look, Willie. 563 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:45,360 He's dead. 564 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:46,360 The dog is dead, Myra. 565 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:48,360 But how? 566 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:51,360 There's a note on the chair. 567 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:54,360 What? 568 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:55,360 Dave, what is it? 569 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:58,360 It's from him. 570 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,360 It says, My dear, dear niece and nephew, 571 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:07,360 the thing has at last occurred which I have always known would someday inevitably occur. 572 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:11,360 Poor little Willie has given his life to save mine. 573 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:18,360 It may interest you to know that from my window I saw Mr. Eldridge leaving the house. 574 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:24,360 I also suspect that the incident of breaking my glasses was not quite an accident. 575 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,360 And so, my dear children, I have gone to the police. 576 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:32,360 And the little bottles with their transposed contents are in my pocket 577 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:36,360 as final and conclusive evidence of your murderous intent. 578 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:41,360 Fortunately, I have never been quite as helpless as I allowed you to believe. 579 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:47,360 And I have in fact conserved my strength for precisely such an emergency, 580 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:50,360 a circumstance to which it now appears I owe my life. 581 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:57,360 For your further information, Mr. Eldridge was not coming to change my will. 582 00:22:57,360 --> 00:22:58,360 Dave? 583 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:04,360 Now my would-be heirs and assigns, a fond farewell. 584 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,360 I will see you in court. 585 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:09,360 Your loving Uncle Ed. 586 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:11,360 P.S. 587 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:15,360 Did you hear my body fall? 588 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:18,360 I thought you would like that. 589 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:19,360 I did. 590 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:21,360 How could he have gotten out? 591 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:25,360 Down the front stairs while we were... 592 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:29,360 You said he couldn't read the label. 593 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:30,360 He didn't. 594 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:32,360 He tried it on the dog. 595 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:33,360 What can he do? 596 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:35,360 Attempted murder. 597 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:37,360 Twenty years to life. 598 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:38,360 But would they believe... 599 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,360 They'd believe what everybody else believes. 600 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:42,360 A fine old gentleman. 601 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:43,360 Why? 602 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:45,360 There it is. 603 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:47,360 There it is. 604 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:49,360 David. 605 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:50,360 Yes. 606 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:53,360 Are there any more? 607 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:54,360 What? 608 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:56,360 The pills. 609 00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:58,360 Myra. 610 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,360 There isn't anything else to do, is there, Dave? 611 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:03,360 No. 612 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:05,360 I guess not. 613 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:07,360 Are there more? 614 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:09,360 Enough? 615 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:10,360 Yes. 616 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:13,360 Of the little ones in my pocket. 617 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:14,360 These? 618 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:15,360 Yes. 619 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:16,360 How many? 620 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,360 Half a dozen. 621 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,360 You said it didn't hurt? 622 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:23,360 No. 623 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:25,360 Not much. 624 00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:27,360 Oh, David. 625 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:30,360 I didn't want to have children. 626 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:33,360 What do I do? 627 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:34,360 Look out the window. 628 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:35,360 See who it is. 629 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:36,360 Oh, David. 630 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:37,360 I'm afraid. 631 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:38,360 What's there to be afraid of now? 632 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:40,360 Couldn't we go away somewhere? 633 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:41,360 Some other country? 634 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:42,360 With what? 635 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:43,360 With what? 636 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:44,360 It's probably the police now. 637 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:45,360 David, here. 638 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:50,360 You'd better go down and tell them something, anything, just so they'll leave us alone 639 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:52,360 and give us some time. 640 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:53,360 Yes, all right. 641 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:54,360 Myra. 642 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:55,360 Yes. 643 00:24:56,360 --> 00:24:57,360 Goodbye, darling. 644 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:58,360 No, wait. 645 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:00,360 Go on. 646 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:15,360 Goodbye. 647 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:23,360 Yes, officer? 648 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:25,360 Good evening, Mrs. O'Connor. 649 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:26,360 I'm sorry, but... 650 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:27,360 Yes, Clancy, I know. 651 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:29,360 I'm afraid you don't, ma'am. 652 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:32,360 I've got some bad news for you, Mrs. O'Connor, about your uncle. 653 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:33,360 Yes, Clancy, yes. 654 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:38,360 I don't know how he could have got out there, but he was just hit by a car. 655 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:39,360 Yes. 656 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:41,360 Yes, ma'am. 657 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:42,360 He's dead. 658 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:44,360 Dead? 659 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:45,360 Yes. 660 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:46,360 Dead? 661 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:48,360 David! 662 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:50,360 David! 663 00:25:50,360 --> 00:26:05,360 David! 664 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:09,360 That's all. 665 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:12,360 I tried, but they stopped me. 666 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:15,360 David had died before I got there. 667 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:18,360 That's all. 668 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:23,360 I just wanted to have children. 669 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:44,360 I wish I was dead. 670 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,360 Suspense. 671 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:49,360 Produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. 672 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:54,360 Tonight you heard Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard as stars of Too Little to Live On. 673 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:58,360 Now Mr. Spear joins our stars at the microphone. 674 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:01,360 Ozzie and Harriet, may I tell you sincerely that you are great. 675 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:02,360 Well, thank you indeed, Bill. 676 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:03,360 You really mean it? 677 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:04,360 I certainly do. 678 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:05,360 Well, thanks. 679 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:08,360 It's been a real experience to do a show of this kind, Bill. 680 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,360 I don't know about Ozzie there, but I never plotted a murder before. 681 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:14,360 Now, he had such a fine accomplice in the control booth, too. 682 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:16,360 I'm blushing attractively. 683 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:19,360 Incidentally, I'm told that you inherit this broadcast time next week. 684 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:20,360 Yeah, that's right, Bill. 685 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:25,360 Next Friday night at the same time, Harriet and I will be acting like ourselves again in our own show, 686 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:27,360 The Adventures of Ozzie. 687 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:29,360 That's me and Harriet. 688 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:30,360 That's her. 689 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:31,360 This is our last Sunday coming up. 690 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:32,360 Uh-huh. 691 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:33,360 How about Suspense, Bill? 692 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:34,360 You're changing time, too, aren't you? 693 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,360 We are, and we have some pretty exciting things planned. 694 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:40,360 Beginning a week from tomorrow, that's Saturday, January 3rd, 695 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:45,360 Suspense will be broadcast as a full-hour series every Saturday from 8 to 9 o'clock Eastern Time. 696 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,360 Oh, a full hour. That's wonderful. 697 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:48,360 Tell more. 698 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:52,360 Well, with us every Saturday during the series, as the man who will lay down the welcome mat 699 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:55,360 and play host to our listeners, will be a very, very distinguished star. 700 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,360 I'm very happy and very honored to have him with us. 701 00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:00,360 I'll give you another hint. He's an actor-director. 702 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:03,360 I guess you're going to make us wait for his name, huh? 703 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:05,360 Just creating suspense, Harriet. 704 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:07,360 The gentleman's name is Mr. Robert Montgomery. 705 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:08,360 Oh, that's really something. 706 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:10,360 Oh, McBob is great, Bill. 707 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,360 It ought to be a wonderful series. 708 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:15,360 Well, shall we wish each other some kind of good luck or something? 709 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,360 Fine. I'm sure you've had a Merry Christmas, 710 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:19,360 so let's put in a plug for a Happy New Year to you, 711 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:21,360 and a Happy Friday from now on, too. 712 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:23,360 And a Happy Saturday to you, Bill. 713 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:26,360 Ozzie and Harriet appeared through the courtesy of International Silver Company, 714 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:30,360 creators of International Sterling, in 1847, Roger's Brothers Silver Plate. 715 00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:34,360 Tonight's Suspense play, Too Little to Live On, was written by Robert Richards. 716 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:37,360 Appearing in it were Joseph Kearns, who played Uncle Ed, 717 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,360 Wally Mayer, Frank Albertson, and Jerry Hausner. 718 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,360 Music composed by Lucian Morrowek was conducted by Lud Gluskin. 719 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,360 Next week at the same time, listen to the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. 720 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,360 Next Saturday night at 8 o'clock Eastern time, 721 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,360 listen to Mr. Robert Montgomery in Suspense. 722 00:28:53,360 --> 00:29:11,360 Music 723 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:25,360 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.