WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.400 Suspense. 00:19.400 --> 00:27.360 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour, a full 60 minutes of suspense. 00:27.360 --> 00:32.720 Tonight, starring Eddie Bracken and featuring William Conrad in Nightmare, based on the 00:32.720 --> 00:43.920 short story by William Irish, directed by Anton M. Leeder and produced by Robert Montgomery. 00:43.920 --> 00:46.360 This is Robert Montgomery. 00:46.360 --> 00:48.040 Good night. 00:48.040 --> 00:51.880 You know, when you stop to think about it, one of the nicest things we say to one another 00:51.880 --> 00:54.000 is good night. 00:54.000 --> 00:57.880 A lot of thoughts are implied in those two words and all of them are good. 00:57.880 --> 01:01.000 Actually, what we're saying is have a good night. 01:01.000 --> 01:06.560 May it bring you rest, may you sleep well, and if your sleep is invaded by dreams, may 01:06.560 --> 01:08.960 they be pleasant dreams. 01:08.960 --> 01:14.760 All good, well-intended thoughts bound up neatly into two brief words, good night. 01:14.760 --> 01:17.960 And sleep itself is a condition that most of us welcome. 01:17.960 --> 01:23.120 Quite apart from the biological need it serves, we're grateful for the momentary escape, for 01:23.120 --> 01:28.960 being removed from reality, for the quiet, peaceful hours on the fringe of consciousness. 01:28.960 --> 01:34.640 And so most of us, most of the time, anticipate the night and sleep. 01:34.640 --> 01:38.640 Families and good friends regularly surrender each other to the gentle care of the night 01:38.640 --> 01:40.760 and call it a good thing. 01:40.760 --> 01:45.140 But in the blackest recesses of night, there can be terror. 01:45.140 --> 01:51.400 And the very night that offers you sleep may also offer the torment of dark dreams, vivid, 01:51.400 --> 01:56.000 terrible, half-real dreams that grip you, plague you with horror through the night, 01:56.000 --> 01:58.840 and are reluctant to release you to the morning. 01:58.840 --> 02:05.200 Fear, panic, terror, of such stuff are nightmares made. 02:05.200 --> 02:07.400 Nightmares like the one we bring you tonight. 02:07.400 --> 02:12.600 And now with Nightmare, one of the best-known and most imaginative short stories of Cornel 02:12.600 --> 02:18.120 Woolrich, writing as William Irish, and with our star, Eddie Bracken, we again hope to 02:18.120 --> 02:19.120 keep you in... 02:19.120 --> 02:20.120 Suspense! 02:20.120 --> 02:34.720 First, all I could see was this beautiful face. 02:34.720 --> 02:41.720 This beautiful girl's face, like a white luminous mask swimming detachedly against unfolding 02:41.720 --> 02:42.720 darkness. 02:42.720 --> 02:49.480 There was no danger yet, but I wanted to get out of wherever this was. 02:49.480 --> 02:54.280 There was eight doors in the room with no free wall space between. 02:54.280 --> 02:57.360 I tried one, another, a third. 02:57.360 --> 02:59.880 They were the wrong ones. 02:59.880 --> 03:03.960 I couldn't get out. 03:03.960 --> 03:10.000 The flickering white mask began to change its expression. 03:10.000 --> 03:14.040 Slowly it became evil, vindictive. 03:14.040 --> 03:15.040 It spoke. 03:15.040 --> 03:16.040 It snarled. 03:16.040 --> 03:18.040 There he is, right behind you. 03:18.040 --> 03:19.040 Get him! 03:19.040 --> 03:29.760 Then it... he... was just a black huddle, a dark, lumpy mass. 03:29.760 --> 03:33.440 It slowly uncoiled until it loomed before me upright. 03:33.440 --> 03:40.760 It came toward me, toward me, toward me, with cataleptic slowness. 03:40.760 --> 03:43.800 I wanted to turn and run in the minute, the half minute. 03:43.800 --> 03:45.280 That's all there was left now. 03:45.280 --> 03:46.280 But I couldn't move. 03:46.280 --> 03:49.280 I couldn't lift a foot. 03:49.280 --> 03:57.040 I just wavered back and forth as if my shoes were nailed to the floor. 03:57.040 --> 04:04.280 He came on, his outline still indistinct, like a lumpy clay image. 04:04.280 --> 04:08.680 I could see the arms come up from the sides and couldn't avoid them. 04:08.680 --> 04:10.200 They were like lobster claws. 04:10.200 --> 04:14.320 I could feel its breath on my face. 04:14.320 --> 04:19.040 I could feel the pressure of his hands on the side of my neck rather than in front, 04:19.040 --> 04:22.440 as if trying to break it rather than strangle me. 04:22.440 --> 04:29.960 His thongs were digging into the straining cord right under my ears, pressing into the 04:29.960 --> 04:33.960 tenders flat flesh right beside the jawbone. 04:33.960 --> 04:41.600 I clawed at the merciless hands and tried one off at last, but it wrenched free of my 04:41.600 --> 04:48.320 restraint, trailing a nail scratch across my wrist and clamped itself back where it 04:48.320 --> 04:49.320 had been. 04:49.320 --> 04:57.240 I beat at his hot body, then pulled at it and grabbed at it with the instinctive clutch 04:57.240 --> 04:59.280 of a drowning man. 04:59.280 --> 05:03.080 A button came off in my hand and I hung onto it. 05:03.080 --> 05:07.360 I don't know why, I just hung onto it. 05:07.360 --> 05:09.360 Is he dead? 05:09.360 --> 05:11.240 No, no, not yet. 05:11.240 --> 05:12.240 He says hurry. 05:12.240 --> 05:13.240 Hand me the drill. 05:13.240 --> 05:22.680 I put out my hands, passed them to protect myself, and something was put into one of 05:22.680 --> 05:23.680 them. 05:23.680 --> 05:27.280 She put it into my hand instead of his. 05:27.280 --> 05:35.120 I fixed my hand on a tight, lifted my arm and drove into him from the back. 05:35.120 --> 05:41.800 His dead body fell heavily and sprawled across me. 05:41.800 --> 05:45.200 It took almost a minute for me to push it away. 05:45.200 --> 05:46.920 Is it done? 05:46.920 --> 05:49.200 Did you kill him? 05:49.200 --> 05:52.080 When I stood up, she saw me. 05:52.080 --> 05:57.080 Then she disappeared as though swallowed by a shroud. 05:57.080 --> 05:58.080 I hurried. 05:58.080 --> 06:02.840 I heard a door closed and turned to see which one she'd used to get out that I might remember 06:02.840 --> 06:06.000 and find my way out, but I was too late. 06:06.000 --> 06:07.720 When I turned, she was gone. 06:07.720 --> 06:11.040 And all the doors looked alike again. 06:11.040 --> 06:13.800 I was alone with a dead body. 06:13.800 --> 06:17.880 The core of my fear lay sprawled on the floor. 06:17.880 --> 06:21.320 I had to hide it, had to shut it away. 06:21.320 --> 06:25.560 I tried the doors one by one until one of them opened. 06:25.560 --> 06:30.880 It was a closet, a shallow closet, but enough to hold a body. 06:30.880 --> 06:35.880 I dragged it across the floor. 06:35.880 --> 06:39.600 I shut the door of the closet, pressing it tight in to keep the terror that the body 06:39.600 --> 06:41.680 still held away from me. 06:41.680 --> 06:48.120 Below the knob, I found a key, a strange key shaped like a three-leaf clover. 06:48.120 --> 06:53.720 I turned it, heard the lock click into place, then put the key into my pocket. 06:53.720 --> 06:57.560 But I couldn't keep my eyes away from the knob. 06:57.560 --> 07:02.000 It was turning slowly to the right and then to the left. 07:02.000 --> 07:06.160 And as it turned, it made a ringing noise. 07:06.160 --> 07:08.960 A ringing noise. 07:08.960 --> 07:12.080 A ringing noise. 07:12.080 --> 07:13.080 The knob. 07:13.080 --> 07:17.080 The door. 07:17.080 --> 07:18.560 The phone. 07:18.560 --> 07:20.320 The phone. 07:20.320 --> 07:21.200 Hello. 07:21.200 --> 07:22.120 Eight o'clock, Vince. 07:22.120 --> 07:23.320 Did I wake you? 07:23.320 --> 07:23.920 What? 07:23.920 --> 07:24.640 Who is this? 07:24.640 --> 07:26.280 It's Lil, your sister. 07:26.280 --> 07:28.120 I want you to come up for dinner tonight. 07:28.120 --> 07:31.800 Oh, Lil, look, I'll phone you later when I'm awake, OK? 07:31.800 --> 07:32.400 Oh, sure. 07:32.400 --> 07:33.000 Bye. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 Bye. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.360 It was a dream. 07:38.360 --> 07:40.160 It was all a dream. 07:40.160 --> 07:52.080 Miradors, dead bodies, beautiful women. 07:52.080 --> 07:53.880 How Freudian can you get? 07:53.880 --> 07:55.920 Must have been that salami you had last night. 07:55.920 --> 07:58.240 Never eat salami before going to bed. 07:58.240 --> 07:59.160 11th commandment. 08:03.320 --> 08:07.240 14 minutes after 8, that means I still have time to go. 08:07.240 --> 08:09.640 I stood staring stupidly at my wrist. 08:09.640 --> 08:11.960 There was a deep scratch on my wrist. 08:11.960 --> 08:13.240 For a minute, I was startled. 08:13.240 --> 08:14.960 Then I realized what must have happened. 08:14.960 --> 08:17.680 I scratched myself in my sleep and the details 08:17.680 --> 08:18.840 ended into my dream. 08:18.840 --> 08:21.040 Yeah, that's what must have happened. 08:21.040 --> 08:23.520 I dropped my watch and it was broken, but it didn't matter. 08:23.520 --> 08:24.520 It was a cheap one. 08:24.520 --> 08:26.560 So I continued dressing. 08:26.560 --> 08:29.320 I chose a blue tie, threw up the collar, 08:29.320 --> 08:33.440 drew the tie lane through, and folded it again. 08:33.440 --> 08:35.760 Part of my mind was getting ready to get frightened, 08:35.760 --> 08:38.800 but I held onto it steady like I held the collar. 08:38.800 --> 08:41.280 In the mirror, I could see them. 08:41.280 --> 08:44.680 The bruises on my throat, brownish purple marks, 08:44.680 --> 08:47.960 which hadn't been there when I went to bed the night before. 08:47.960 --> 08:52.760 It took me a moment to realize, to try to reason it out. 08:52.760 --> 08:55.640 I must have done this to myself too, crossing my arms 08:55.640 --> 08:59.240 over my chest and attempting to strangle myself in my sleep. 08:59.240 --> 09:02.640 It didn't make much sense, but it was the best I could do. 09:02.640 --> 09:04.800 I decided not to think anything more about it 09:04.800 --> 09:07.040 and continued dressing. 09:07.040 --> 09:12.280 When I had my jacket on, I put my hand in my change pocket 09:12.280 --> 09:15.600 and took what was in it to check car fare and lunch money. 09:18.600 --> 09:22.080 A button mixed in with a change. 09:22.080 --> 09:25.840 A button that didn't belong to any suit or coat I owned. 09:25.840 --> 09:32.600 I closed my hand over it and I had the feel, the shape. 09:32.600 --> 09:36.080 There was no doubt about it in my mind. 09:36.080 --> 09:38.400 It was the button from the dream. 09:41.080 --> 09:44.560 I rushed to the closet, checked every last thing I had. 09:44.560 --> 09:46.000 The button matched nothing. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.080 It wasn't from anything of mine. 09:48.080 --> 09:49.280 It didn't belong anywhere. 09:49.280 --> 09:51.560 I couldn't kid myself anymore. 09:51.560 --> 09:54.200 People don't find buttons in dreams. 09:56.880 --> 09:59.040 I decided I needed a cup of coffee. 09:59.040 --> 10:01.360 I was getting the jitters. 10:01.360 --> 10:04.800 I slipped into my top coat and opened the door. 10:04.800 --> 10:10.520 Then before I shut it, I checked to make sure I had my key. 10:10.520 --> 10:15.160 The key I took out of my pocket wasn't my key. 10:15.160 --> 10:21.520 It was shaped like a three leaf clover. 10:21.520 --> 10:23.080 My knees were weak. 10:23.080 --> 10:26.200 My stomach was quivering. 10:26.200 --> 10:28.440 But I couldn't go back into the room. 10:28.440 --> 10:31.880 I had to see people, hear cars in the streets. 10:35.720 --> 10:37.080 But it didn't help. 10:37.080 --> 10:37.960 All was real. 10:37.960 --> 10:38.800 Nothing was wrong. 10:38.800 --> 10:41.040 It was me, something in me. 10:41.040 --> 10:44.000 I ducked into a drug store, but I couldn't eat. 10:44.000 --> 10:45.320 Instead, I went to the phone booth 10:45.320 --> 10:46.600 and called my sister, Lil. 10:52.120 --> 10:52.640 Hello? 10:52.640 --> 10:53.140 Hello. 10:53.140 --> 10:54.080 Hello, Lil? 10:54.080 --> 10:54.600 Vince. 10:54.600 --> 10:55.720 Well, you awake now? 10:55.720 --> 10:56.240 Yeah. 10:56.240 --> 10:57.760 Is Cliff at home? 10:57.760 --> 11:00.240 No, he went down to headquarters an hour ago. 11:00.240 --> 11:01.440 You expecting him back? 11:01.440 --> 11:03.560 I am, if he doesn't run off with the blonde. 11:03.560 --> 11:05.480 Then he won't be back until tonight. 11:05.480 --> 11:06.920 Well, you're a detective, too. 11:06.920 --> 11:07.760 How'd you figure that? 11:07.760 --> 11:09.000 Sorry I bothered you, Lil. 11:09.000 --> 11:11.520 I just wanted to talk to Cliff. 11:11.520 --> 11:12.280 What about dinner? 11:12.280 --> 11:13.680 You'll be able to see Cliff then. 11:13.680 --> 11:14.320 Dinner? 11:14.320 --> 11:14.820 Well, sure. 11:14.820 --> 11:15.320 I'm ready to. 11:15.320 --> 11:15.840 No, thanks. 11:15.840 --> 11:16.640 I don't think so. 11:16.640 --> 11:17.140 Goodbye. 11:22.520 --> 11:25.440 I called the store and told them I was sick. 11:25.440 --> 11:27.760 Then I walked all day in the sunshine. 11:27.760 --> 11:32.000 Wherever the sun was brightest, I saw it and stayed in that place. 11:32.000 --> 11:35.120 And when it moved, I moved with it. 11:35.120 --> 11:37.640 I couldn't get it bright enough or strong enough, 11:37.640 --> 11:39.720 yet it didn't seem to warm me. 11:39.720 --> 11:41.680 At about 6 o'clock, I found myself 11:41.680 --> 11:43.040 in front of Cliff's house. 11:43.040 --> 11:45.800 The lights were on inside, and I could see Cliff. 11:45.800 --> 11:50.080 No, it was Lil moving around, setting the table, preparing dinner. 11:50.080 --> 11:52.240 That meant Cliff wasn't home yet. 11:52.240 --> 11:53.200 I waited outside. 11:56.200 --> 11:57.360 Well, what's the matter, kid? 11:57.360 --> 11:57.860 Huh? 11:57.860 --> 11:59.040 Are you afraid to ring the bell? 11:59.040 --> 12:01.000 Oh, Cliff, I didn't hear you coming. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.640 Well, are we going in or are we going to stay out here? 12:03.640 --> 12:04.320 I'm hungry. 12:04.320 --> 12:05.440 Cliff, I got to talk to you. 12:05.440 --> 12:07.000 Something crazy happened to me. 12:07.000 --> 12:08.120 Well, can I wait an hour? 12:08.120 --> 12:10.080 I've had a long, hard day at the office. 12:10.080 --> 12:11.240 Is that you, Cliff? 12:11.240 --> 12:12.200 Yeah, honey. 12:12.200 --> 12:13.480 Well, I thought I heard you talking. 12:13.480 --> 12:14.400 Is someone with you? 12:14.400 --> 12:15.680 No, Vince. 12:15.680 --> 12:17.840 Oh, you said you weren't coming, Vince. 12:17.840 --> 12:18.800 Well, I, I. 12:18.800 --> 12:19.520 Never mind. 12:19.520 --> 12:21.040 The chickens will do for three. 12:21.040 --> 12:21.840 Come on in. 12:25.840 --> 12:28.840 Well, that's Lil, and there's nothing you can do about it. 12:28.840 --> 12:30.600 I hadn't eaten all day, and I hardly 12:30.600 --> 12:32.400 touched the food she served. 12:32.400 --> 12:35.760 I couldn't wait to get Cliff alone and tell him what happened. 12:35.760 --> 12:38.920 The detective should be able to help me. 12:38.920 --> 12:43.720 Well, I'll just finish up the dishes, and then I'll be back. 12:43.720 --> 12:44.720 Get your hat, Cliff. 12:44.720 --> 12:45.400 What? 12:45.400 --> 12:47.480 I've got to talk to you alone. 12:47.480 --> 12:50.280 Oh, well, sure, kid. 12:50.280 --> 12:52.680 Lil, Vince and I are going to stretch our legs. 12:52.680 --> 12:53.880 Be back in a couple of minutes. 12:53.880 --> 12:56.520 No, Cliff, only beer. 12:56.520 --> 13:10.440 OK, OK. 13:10.440 --> 13:12.760 And then there was the button, the same shape 13:12.760 --> 13:14.480 and size and everything. 13:14.480 --> 13:17.000 It was in my trouser pocket with my change. 13:17.000 --> 13:18.960 It's on the dresser back in my own room now. 13:18.960 --> 13:22.080 If you want to come over, you can see it for yourself. 13:22.080 --> 13:26.400 And last of all, the key turned up on me next to my own keys. 13:26.400 --> 13:29.800 In the pocket where I always keep it, here. 13:29.800 --> 13:30.760 This is the key, huh? 13:30.760 --> 13:34.320 Yes, that's the way it looked when I saw it when I was asleep. 13:34.320 --> 13:37.000 The same shape, the same color, the same design. 13:37.000 --> 13:38.040 It even weighed the same. 13:38.040 --> 13:39.000 It even made me. 13:39.000 --> 13:40.480 Hey, hey, hey. 13:40.480 --> 13:43.000 You're all in pieces, aren't you? 13:43.000 --> 13:44.000 I don't take it that way. 13:44.000 --> 13:45.920 Kid, don't let it get you. 13:45.920 --> 13:48.800 Cliff, you've got to help me. 13:48.800 --> 13:52.720 I'm walking on a high wire, and there's no net. 13:52.720 --> 13:54.040 Where'd you get this key from, Vince? 13:54.040 --> 13:55.200 I mean, where did you first get it 13:55.200 --> 13:56.240 from before you dreamed about it? 13:56.240 --> 13:58.160 What you don't understand, that's 13:58.160 --> 13:59.360 what I've been trying to tell you. 13:59.360 --> 14:01.400 I didn't have it before I dreamed about it. 14:01.400 --> 14:03.520 I never saw it before then. 14:03.520 --> 14:06.040 Then I wake up, and it turns real. 14:06.040 --> 14:08.600 That goes for the button, too? 14:08.600 --> 14:10.280 The button, too. 14:10.280 --> 14:14.960 Hell, you not only have no net, you don't even have a wire. 14:14.960 --> 14:16.000 What's really got you going? 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 Are you afraid the dream really happened? 14:18.000 --> 14:18.600 Is that it? 14:18.600 --> 14:19.560 Don't you understand? 14:19.560 --> 14:22.320 There's a door somewhere in this city right at this very minute 14:22.320 --> 14:24.360 that this key belongs to. 14:24.360 --> 14:28.160 There's a man propped up dead behind it. 14:28.160 --> 14:30.600 I don't know where. 14:30.600 --> 14:36.760 I don't know where, no who he is, how or why it happened. 14:36.760 --> 14:39.800 Only that I must have been there. 14:39.800 --> 14:41.040 I must have done it. 14:41.040 --> 14:41.760 Oh, why? 14:41.760 --> 14:44.200 Why would it come to my mind like that in my sleep? 14:44.200 --> 14:45.440 Why? 14:45.440 --> 14:47.800 You're in a bad way, kid. 14:47.800 --> 14:50.320 Say, how about a little drink, huh? 14:50.320 --> 14:51.640 Lil or no lil? 14:51.640 --> 14:53.120 Waiter? 14:53.120 --> 14:54.080 Only coffee. 14:54.080 --> 14:54.600 Oh? 14:54.600 --> 14:56.080 Yes, sir. 14:56.080 --> 14:58.760 Waiter, two coffees. 14:58.760 --> 15:00.640 Two coffees, yes, sir. 15:00.640 --> 15:04.200 When the coffee came, Cliff started questioning me. 15:04.200 --> 15:06.400 And the man, the fellow, whoever he was? 15:06.400 --> 15:09.280 No, I couldn't seem to see his face through the whole thing. 15:09.280 --> 15:12.640 I only saw it at the very end after it was already too late. 15:12.640 --> 15:15.760 And then when the door started to open again, 15:15.760 --> 15:18.040 after I locked him in, and it seemed 15:18.040 --> 15:21.360 as though I was going to find out something horrible about him, 15:21.360 --> 15:23.200 I guess. 15:23.200 --> 15:25.280 But I woke up before there was time. 15:25.280 --> 15:26.320 Uh-huh. 15:26.320 --> 15:29.040 And last of all the place, you say nothing 15:29.040 --> 15:31.520 but doors all around you. 15:31.520 --> 15:33.440 Have you been in a place like that lately? 15:33.440 --> 15:35.600 Have you ever seen one in a magazine illustration 15:35.600 --> 15:37.040 and a story you've read in a movie? 15:37.040 --> 15:38.560 No, no. 15:38.560 --> 15:41.520 Well, let's get away from the dream for a minute. 15:41.520 --> 15:43.200 Let's leave it alone. 15:43.200 --> 15:45.360 Starting to get me, too. 15:45.360 --> 15:47.880 Now, what did you do last night before this whole thing came up? 15:47.880 --> 15:50.040 Nothing, just what I do every night. 15:50.040 --> 15:51.800 I left the store at the usual time, 15:51.800 --> 15:53.240 had my meal at the usual place. 15:53.240 --> 15:54.920 Oh, you're sure it wasn't something you ate? 15:54.920 --> 15:57.760 No food is responsible for that key. 15:57.760 --> 16:00.360 You can't create a thing like that from a dream. 16:00.360 --> 16:03.160 And I didn't have it when I went to bed last night. 16:03.160 --> 16:04.060 Ah! 16:08.640 --> 16:11.600 Cliff didn't lose his temper right away. 16:11.600 --> 16:14.360 He's a good detective and a good guy. 16:14.360 --> 16:16.800 Listen, Vince, there's no halfway business 16:16.800 --> 16:17.680 about these things. 16:17.680 --> 16:19.080 It's either one thing or the other. 16:19.080 --> 16:20.920 Either you dream a thing or you don't dream it. 16:20.920 --> 16:22.120 It really happens. 16:22.120 --> 16:23.480 Now, you're 26 years old. 16:23.480 --> 16:24.920 You're not a kid. 16:24.920 --> 16:25.680 Now, don't worry. 16:25.680 --> 16:28.120 You'd know it and you'd remember it plenty plain afterwards 16:28.120 --> 16:29.440 if you ever came to grips with a guy 16:29.440 --> 16:31.520 and he had you by the throat like in this dream 16:31.520 --> 16:33.680 and you rammed something in his back. 16:33.680 --> 16:35.280 I don't take any stock in this stuff 16:35.280 --> 16:36.960 about people walking in their sleep 16:36.960 --> 16:38.760 and doing things without knowing it. 16:38.760 --> 16:40.600 They can walk a little ways from the bed, maybe. 16:40.600 --> 16:43.440 But the minute anybody touches him or does anything to stop him, 16:43.440 --> 16:44.800 they wake right up. 16:44.800 --> 16:47.640 They can't be manhandled and go right on sleeping through it. 16:47.640 --> 16:49.120 I never walked in my sleep. 16:49.120 --> 16:51.000 You can ask Lil if you think... 16:51.000 --> 16:53.440 Now, do you have any recollection at all, 16:53.440 --> 16:55.920 no matter how faint of being out of your room last night, 16:55.920 --> 16:58.240 of grappling with a guy or ramming something into him? 16:58.240 --> 16:59.080 No. 16:59.080 --> 17:01.840 All I have is a perfectly clear recollection 17:01.840 --> 17:06.000 of going to bed dreaming that I did all these things 17:06.000 --> 17:08.640 and then waking up again. 17:08.640 --> 17:09.720 OK, then. 17:09.720 --> 17:11.040 That's all there is to it. 17:11.040 --> 17:12.680 And it didn't happen. 17:12.680 --> 17:14.320 You either dream him or you do him. 17:14.320 --> 17:16.600 There's no two ways about it. 17:16.600 --> 17:19.040 Don't say anything to Lil about it, will you, Cliff? 17:19.040 --> 17:20.640 Eh, I should say not. 17:20.640 --> 17:23.440 Don't want her to take you for bugs. 17:23.440 --> 17:25.280 Eh, you'll get over it, Vince. 17:25.280 --> 17:29.000 First I'll get to the bottom of it, and then I'll get over it. 17:29.000 --> 17:32.040 Cliff, are you going to help me? 17:32.040 --> 17:34.000 What do you want me to do? 17:34.000 --> 17:35.040 Well, you're a detective. 17:35.040 --> 17:37.960 You got the key, and the button's over in my room. 17:37.960 --> 17:40.000 You must have often had less to work with. 17:40.000 --> 17:41.720 Find out where they came from. 17:41.720 --> 17:43.080 Find out what they're doing on me. 17:43.080 --> 17:44.520 Now, listen, cut that stuff out of you. 17:44.520 --> 17:46.080 Here, I don't want to hear any more about the key. 17:46.080 --> 17:48.720 I got it, and I'm keeping it, and you're not going to see it again. 17:48.720 --> 17:51.440 And if you hop on their spooky stuff anymore, I'll help you, all right? 17:51.440 --> 17:53.080 Right into the nearest sanitarium. 17:53.080 --> 18:03.400 I was on my own, just like before I'd been there. 18:03.400 --> 18:05.560 Me in my shadows. 18:05.560 --> 18:09.200 Next day, I phoned the store and told them I still wasn't feeling when. 18:09.200 --> 18:14.240 Then, well, I stopped in at a newspaper advertising bureau and composed an ad. 18:14.240 --> 18:15.120 Classified? 18:15.120 --> 18:16.040 Yes, real estate. 18:16.040 --> 18:17.160 This the entire copy? 18:17.160 --> 18:17.640 Uh-huh. 18:17.640 --> 18:20.080 Check it with me, see if it's correct, please. 18:20.080 --> 18:24.720 Wanted, I am interested in inspecting with a view toward leasing or buying a house with 18:24.720 --> 18:28.400 an octagonal mirror-paneled room or alcove, period. 18:28.400 --> 18:34.320 Location, size, and all other details of secondary importance, provided it has this one essential 18:34.320 --> 18:38.080 feature desired for reasons of a sentimental nature, period. 18:38.080 --> 18:42.400 Communicate Boxale World Express, giving exact details, period. 18:42.400 --> 18:43.520 Is that everything you want to say, sir? 18:43.520 --> 18:44.880 Yes, I believe so. 18:44.880 --> 18:45.800 How long you want it to run? 18:45.800 --> 18:46.320 A week. 18:46.320 --> 18:47.520 Should hear something in that time. 18:47.520 --> 18:48.040 Sure, shouldn't I? 18:48.040 --> 18:48.960 Should. 18:48.960 --> 18:52.360 Lady once advertised for an alligator that answered to the name of Lulu, and she got 18:52.360 --> 18:53.360 it in four days. 18:53.360 --> 19:04.920 I guess alligators answering to the name of Lulu are more plentiful than houses with octagonal 19:04.920 --> 19:07.280 mirrored-paneled rooms. 19:07.280 --> 19:09.960 I got some answers, but none of them are right. 19:09.960 --> 19:12.480 None of the houses fit the scene of the dream. 19:12.480 --> 19:19.480 Last day, Sunday, I was in my room. 19:19.480 --> 19:20.480 Hiya, kid. 19:20.480 --> 19:21.480 Hello, Clef. 19:21.480 --> 19:22.480 What are you dressed for? 19:22.480 --> 19:26.240 Well, matter of fact, Lil and I are going to take a ride out in the country for the day, 19:26.240 --> 19:27.720 and she packed a lunch for three. 19:27.720 --> 19:29.200 Cold beer, ham, and turkey sandwiches. 19:29.200 --> 19:30.200 Clef, I'm all right. 19:30.200 --> 19:34.160 I don't need fresh air jaunts to get rid of the devils, if that's the strategy you're 19:34.160 --> 19:35.160 trying to... 19:35.160 --> 19:36.160 Oh, no, kid. 19:36.160 --> 19:39.840 You see, I got this new secondhand Chevy in exchange for my old secondhand Chevy, and 19:39.840 --> 19:45.800 I thought that maybe you'd like it. 19:45.800 --> 19:48.600 In the end, I decided to go with them on their picnic. 19:48.600 --> 19:49.600 Clef was right. 19:49.600 --> 19:53.360 There was no point sitting around brooding and waiting for something to happen. 19:53.360 --> 20:01.840 I might as well forget it for a few hours, if I could. 20:01.840 --> 20:05.760 After our picnic lunch, I was almost beginning to relax. 20:05.760 --> 20:07.240 Have another sandwich, Clef? 20:07.240 --> 20:08.240 Oh, why? 20:08.240 --> 20:11.240 I'll think of a reason later. 20:11.240 --> 20:13.360 You have just talked me into it, my dear. 20:13.360 --> 20:14.640 Just toss it over, huh? 20:14.640 --> 20:15.640 How about you, Vince? 20:15.640 --> 20:19.600 If I had another sandwich, Lil, I'd never be able to move another muscle. 20:19.600 --> 20:22.080 Where are we anyhow? 20:22.080 --> 20:23.080 I don't know. 20:23.080 --> 20:24.080 Ask the pilot. 20:24.080 --> 20:25.080 He got us here. 20:25.080 --> 20:26.080 So help me. 20:26.080 --> 20:27.080 I was flying blind. 20:27.080 --> 20:29.840 Well, here's a weather report just came in, friends. 20:29.840 --> 20:30.840 Rain and soon. 20:30.840 --> 20:33.840 Well, how soon do you think, Vince? 20:33.840 --> 20:34.840 Right now. 20:34.840 --> 20:36.840 Come on, get the stuff into the car. 20:36.840 --> 20:38.520 Oh, I'm getting some. 20:38.520 --> 20:39.520 Vince, you take the blanket. 20:39.520 --> 20:40.520 I got the baskets, huh? 20:40.520 --> 20:41.520 Oh, hurry up or we'll float back to town. 20:41.520 --> 20:58.520 Clef, dear, I hate to be a pest, but the lightning frightens me. 20:58.520 --> 21:02.240 If you can't find your way back to the main road, can't you turn in somewhere and stop 21:02.240 --> 21:03.240 awhile? 21:03.240 --> 21:04.240 Oh, I'm sorry, Lil. 21:04.240 --> 21:05.240 It's hard to see through the rain. 21:05.240 --> 21:07.440 Well, if you spot a house or a barn, please turn in. 21:07.440 --> 21:08.440 I'm scared. 21:08.440 --> 21:09.440 Yeah, of course. 21:09.440 --> 21:13.040 I mean, if only I had some idea where we are. 21:13.040 --> 21:16.000 I can't see 10 feet ahead in this stuff. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.880 There's a cutoff a little ways ahead. 21:18.880 --> 21:22.340 Around the next turn, if you take it, it'll lead us to a house with a big wide porch. 21:22.340 --> 21:23.340 We can get in under there. 21:23.340 --> 21:25.600 Well, how did you know that? 21:25.600 --> 21:27.600 Were you ever up around here at these parts before? 21:27.600 --> 21:28.600 No. 21:28.600 --> 21:29.600 Well, then how did you? 21:29.600 --> 21:30.600 I don't know. 21:30.600 --> 21:33.600 Well, let's concentrate on driving instead of conversation. 21:33.600 --> 21:35.480 Have you seen any road signs? 21:35.480 --> 21:37.480 No, Cliff, not a thing, yeah. 21:37.480 --> 21:40.840 Are you getting us more tangled up than we already were, Vince? 21:40.840 --> 21:41.840 No. 21:41.840 --> 21:42.840 Don't stop. 21:42.840 --> 21:43.840 Keep going. 21:43.840 --> 21:44.840 You'll come to it. 21:44.840 --> 21:46.040 Two big stone lanterns. 21:46.040 --> 21:47.840 Turn the car left between them. 21:47.840 --> 21:50.840 I don't know how I knew that myself. 21:50.840 --> 21:52.840 Oh, there they are. 21:52.840 --> 21:53.840 There they are. 21:53.840 --> 21:56.840 Well, turn, Cliff, like he told you. 21:56.840 --> 21:57.840 Yeah. 21:57.840 --> 21:58.840 Oh, look. 21:58.840 --> 21:59.840 Look through the trees. 21:59.840 --> 22:00.840 There's a house back there. 22:00.840 --> 22:01.840 Oh, Vince was right. 22:01.840 --> 22:03.840 Oh, well, I'd be glad to get out of this storm. 22:03.840 --> 22:08.840 I'll stop as close to the entrance as possible, dear. 22:08.840 --> 22:13.840 All right, honey. 22:13.840 --> 22:24.840 Well, it's dry here, but I wish we could get in and away from that lightning. 22:24.840 --> 22:27.840 Try the doorbell, Cliff. 22:27.840 --> 22:28.840 Okay. 22:28.840 --> 22:35.840 Well, no one seems to answer. 22:35.840 --> 22:38.840 There's a key under the window box with the geranium. 22:38.840 --> 22:41.840 Oh, he's kidding, but look anyway, Cliff. 22:41.840 --> 22:42.840 Okay. 22:42.840 --> 22:47.840 Oh, isn't that the sweetest? 22:47.840 --> 22:56.840 I'd better put on this light so we can see where we're going. 22:56.840 --> 22:57.840 Not that switch. 22:57.840 --> 22:59.840 That's the one to the porch. 22:59.840 --> 23:02.840 The one that controls the hole is on the other side. 23:02.840 --> 23:03.840 He's right. 23:03.840 --> 23:06.840 Well, what is this, a rib? 23:06.840 --> 23:09.840 How do you know so much about this place anyway, Vince? 23:09.840 --> 23:11.840 Oh, just a lucky guess on his part. 23:11.840 --> 23:12.840 Good afternoon. 23:12.840 --> 23:13.840 Cliff. 23:13.840 --> 23:14.840 Anybody home? 23:14.840 --> 23:15.840 Don't do that. 23:15.840 --> 23:16.840 He's cold, Cliff. 23:16.840 --> 23:17.840 He's shaking. 23:17.840 --> 23:18.840 Yeah. 23:18.840 --> 23:19.840 I was shaking. 23:19.840 --> 23:20.840 Do you see him? 23:20.840 --> 23:21.840 And I was closed. 23:21.840 --> 23:22.840 He's acting so nervous. 23:22.840 --> 23:24.840 But I was dripping with perspiration. 23:24.840 --> 23:28.840 I didn't know what made me say those things about the road and the key and the light switches, 23:28.840 --> 23:31.840 but they came out as though I had been here before. 23:31.840 --> 23:32.840 I was scared. 23:32.840 --> 23:37.840 Well, over the summer, I guess, but it's funny they'd leave it unlocked like that. 23:37.840 --> 23:39.840 The electricity's still unconnected. 23:39.840 --> 23:42.840 Oh, here being a detective comes in handy, Cliff. 23:42.840 --> 23:45.840 We shouldn't get in trouble walking in like this. 23:45.840 --> 23:49.840 Well, as long as we're here, I don't think anybody would mind if we made some coffee. 23:49.840 --> 23:50.840 I'd love some. 23:50.840 --> 23:51.840 How about you, Cliff? 23:51.840 --> 23:52.840 Sure. 23:52.840 --> 23:54.840 Go ahead. 23:54.840 --> 23:59.840 I couldn't look at Cliff, though I felt his eyes burning a hole in the back of my neck. 23:59.840 --> 24:04.840 Lil went into the kitchen, and I began to wander around nervously. 24:04.840 --> 24:08.840 I found a bedroom and then a two-entrance bath. 24:08.840 --> 24:12.840 I went out by the second entrance, and I was in another bedroom. 24:12.840 --> 24:16.840 Through the doorway, across the room, I could see myself. 24:16.840 --> 24:21.840 My face was whiter than my shirt, and my body was quivering. 24:21.840 --> 24:28.840 I shifted, came closer, dying a little, wavering as I advanced. 24:28.840 --> 24:30.840 Two of me. 24:30.840 --> 24:33.840 Three, four, five, six, seven. 24:33.840 --> 24:41.840 I was across the threshold now, and the door, brought around from its position flat against the outside wall, pulled in after me, 24:41.840 --> 24:47.840 flashed the eighth image of myself on its mirror-backed surface. 24:47.840 --> 24:50.840 Of myself and Cliff. 24:50.840 --> 24:52.840 Cliff. 24:52.840 --> 24:53.840 No! 24:53.840 --> 24:54.840 What's the matter, Vince? 24:54.840 --> 24:56.840 Cliff, this is the place, this is the place. 24:56.840 --> 24:57.840 Yeah. 24:57.840 --> 24:59.840 Now wipe off your fur, it's a-ringing wet. 24:59.840 --> 25:00.840 Have you got it? 25:00.840 --> 25:02.840 I got it. 25:02.840 --> 25:05.840 Try this one first. 25:05.840 --> 25:07.840 That's a fake. 25:07.840 --> 25:08.840 What's the two doing up there? 25:08.840 --> 25:10.840 Keep it downstairs a minute. 25:10.840 --> 25:14.840 Don't come up, honey. Vince is taking his pants off to dry them. 25:14.840 --> 25:19.840 Well, I'm hungry. I'll see if there's something around for sandwiches. 25:19.840 --> 25:22.840 Look, it's a safe cut open. 25:22.840 --> 25:28.840 That's what he was crouched before that night when he seemed to be just like a puddle on the floor. 25:28.840 --> 25:30.840 He must have had a blowtorch down there on the floor in front of him. 25:30.840 --> 25:39.840 That's what made the bluish light and made her face stand out in the reflection like a mask. 25:39.840 --> 25:44.840 And that door that you haven't opened yet, it's the one I propped him up in. 25:44.840 --> 25:46.840 No, don't, not right away. 25:46.840 --> 25:48.840 Just give me a minute longer, just give me a chance to get- 25:48.840 --> 25:53.840 Cut it out. 25:53.840 --> 25:54.840 Empty. 25:54.840 --> 25:58.840 But there's blood on the back wall on the floor. 25:58.840 --> 26:01.840 Dry cake blood. 26:01.840 --> 26:03.840 Vince. 26:03.840 --> 26:21.840 All right, kid, let's hear about another dream. 26:21.840 --> 26:29.840 In tonight's full hour of suspense, Eddie Bracken appears as Vince in Nightmare by William Irish. 26:29.840 --> 26:41.840 Tonight's study in suspense. 26:41.840 --> 26:45.840 In just a moment, we will return with Act Two of Suspense. 26:45.840 --> 26:58.840 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 26:58.840 --> 27:03.840 And now, back to our Hollywood soundstage and to our producer, Mr. Robert Montgomery, 27:03.840 --> 27:14.840 for Act Two of Nightmare, starring Eddie Bracken in a narrative well calculated to keep you in suspense. 27:14.840 --> 27:20.840 It had all belonged to Vince until now, a wild dream heightened by young imagination. 27:20.840 --> 27:25.840 It was his alone. Awful as it was, it all belonged to him. 27:25.840 --> 27:29.840 But he had shared his nightmare with Cliff, and Cliff is a detective. 27:29.840 --> 27:31.840 He'd never once believed Vince. 27:31.840 --> 27:34.840 He told him he was cock-eyed that it couldn't be true. 27:34.840 --> 27:40.840 But there they are, the two of them, in a deserted house with which Vince seems quite familiar, 27:40.840 --> 27:42.840 although he swears he's never been there. 27:42.840 --> 27:49.840 And they face each other in a room paneled with eight mirrors, just like the room in Vince's Nightmare. 27:49.840 --> 28:02.840 I don't know what Cliff would have done up there in the mirror at Alcove, 28:02.840 --> 28:06.840 but I blessed my sister when she called us down for coffee. 28:06.840 --> 28:09.840 Cliff and I went through the motions of eating with Lil, 28:09.840 --> 28:13.840 and then waited tensely until she dozed off in the living room, 28:13.840 --> 28:16.840 tired out of the excitement of the storm. 28:16.840 --> 28:20.840 Then Cliff pushed me back into the kitchen and shut the door. 28:20.840 --> 28:25.840 He gave me a look that belonged in a police station basement and lit a cigarette. 28:25.840 --> 28:29.840 He didn't offer me one. Policemen don't with their suspects. 28:29.840 --> 28:33.840 He bounced the match down, then he shoved his hands deep in his pockets. 28:33.840 --> 28:36.840 Now make it short and make it quick and leave Freud out of it. 28:36.840 --> 28:38.840 You think I lied, don't you? 28:38.840 --> 28:41.840 You knew which cut-off to take that would get us here from a dream, didn't you? 28:41.840 --> 28:44.840 You knew about the stone lanterns at the entrance from a dream, didn't you? 28:44.840 --> 28:47.840 You knew where the key to the front door was, from a dream. 28:47.840 --> 28:51.840 You knew which was the front porch switch and which was the hall from a dream. 28:51.840 --> 28:54.840 Well, you know what I'd do to you if you weren't Lil's brother? 28:54.840 --> 28:56.840 I'd push your lying face right through the back of your head. 28:56.840 --> 28:57.840 Cliff! 28:57.840 --> 28:59.840 You came to me for help, didn't you? 28:59.840 --> 29:01.840 But you didn't have guts enough to come clean. 29:01.840 --> 29:06.840 I can respect a guy no matter what he's done, if he'll own up to it, make a clean breast of it. 29:06.840 --> 29:09.840 I can even understand to make allowances for a guy that'll deny it flatly, lie about it. 29:09.840 --> 29:11.840 That's only human nature. 29:11.840 --> 29:16.840 You're the guy that'll come to somebody trading on the fact that he's married to a sister and he knows he'll give him an ear, 29:16.840 --> 29:19.840 making a fool out of him, like you did me. 29:19.840 --> 29:22.840 Well, I've got no use for him. He's low and lousy and no good. 29:22.840 --> 29:25.840 Look, I found this key in my pocket when I got up this morning. 29:25.840 --> 29:29.840 How did it get there? Look, I found this button. 29:29.840 --> 29:32.840 There was some dream, wasn't it, all right? 29:32.840 --> 29:35.840 All the dream's over and baby's awake now. 29:35.840 --> 29:38.840 And we're gonna start in from scratch right here in this place, you and me, 29:38.840 --> 29:41.840 and I'm not gonna get the facts out of you. Whether they go any further than me or not, that's my business. 29:41.840 --> 29:43.840 But at least I'm gonna get them. 29:43.840 --> 29:45.840 Don't hit me, Cliff. Please. 29:45.840 --> 29:48.840 Now, what were you doing at that place? Huh? 29:48.840 --> 29:50.840 What brought you here? 29:50.840 --> 29:53.840 I was never here before. I never saw it until I came here today with you and Lil. 29:53.840 --> 29:56.840 Who was the guy you did it to? What was his name? 29:56.840 --> 29:59.840 I don't know. I tell you. I don't know. 29:59.840 --> 30:01.840 Are you gonna answer me, Vince? Are you gonna answer me? 30:01.840 --> 30:03.840 I can't. You're asking me things like that. 30:03.840 --> 30:06.840 Answer me when I ask you a question. 30:06.840 --> 30:08.840 I don't know. I don't know! 30:08.840 --> 30:12.840 You're not gonna get away with this kid I've handled clothes moth guys before and I... 30:16.840 --> 30:20.840 I don't use this gun much, but I know what to do with it. 30:20.840 --> 30:22.840 Who are you? 30:22.840 --> 30:24.840 What you two doing in here? 30:24.840 --> 30:27.840 We came in out of the rain. Does that suit you? 30:27.840 --> 30:30.840 Might. Might not. 30:30.840 --> 30:33.840 Identify yourselves and hurry up about it. 30:33.840 --> 30:36.840 Look inside the wallet. 30:36.840 --> 30:39.840 Where you going? For a drink of water. 30:39.840 --> 30:42.840 Left tap. Right one's hot water. Thanks. 30:42.840 --> 30:45.840 Cliff Dodge, Homicide Squad. 30:45.840 --> 30:48.840 Glad to know you, Dodge. 30:48.840 --> 30:50.840 How about a little identifying yourself? 30:50.840 --> 30:53.840 Well, I'm a deputy attached to the sheriff's office. 30:53.840 --> 30:56.840 Detailed, keep eye on this place. 30:56.840 --> 31:00.840 See my badge? I was to home having a little supper and... 31:00.840 --> 31:03.840 Hey, how'd you get in? 31:03.840 --> 31:06.840 Thought I had it all locked up safe and sound. 31:06.840 --> 31:09.840 The key was better than a flower box on the porch. 31:09.840 --> 31:12.840 It was, huh? Must be a spare then. Funny. 31:12.840 --> 31:14.840 We never knew there was a second one ourselves. 31:14.840 --> 31:17.840 Why should this house be your particular concern? 31:17.840 --> 31:19.840 Was a murder uncovered in it last week? 31:19.840 --> 31:21.840 There was. 31:21.840 --> 31:24.840 Well, I'd like to hear about it. All about it. 31:26.840 --> 31:28.840 We all sat down. 31:28.840 --> 31:31.840 Cliff was enjoying this talking shop with a big city detective. 31:31.840 --> 31:34.840 Cliff listened while he kept an eye on me. 31:34.840 --> 31:37.840 Well, this house belonged to a wealthy couple named Fleming. 31:37.840 --> 31:40.840 Husband was away on business in South America when it happened. 31:40.840 --> 31:43.840 In fact, we ain't been able to reach him to notify him yet. 31:43.840 --> 31:45.840 Wife was a purty little thing. 31:45.840 --> 31:48.840 Was? Yep, real purty. Flirty, too. 31:48.840 --> 31:51.840 Used to fool around with a friend of her husband's named Ayers. 31:51.840 --> 31:53.840 Dan Ayers. 31:53.840 --> 31:57.840 Well, that morning the milkman saw a bundle of rags by the side of the road not far from here. 31:57.840 --> 32:01.840 Twas little Miss Fleming, all covered with dew and leaves and twigs. 32:01.840 --> 32:02.840 Dead? 32:02.840 --> 32:03.840 Dying. 32:03.840 --> 32:07.840 She must have dragged herself along the ground for hours, too weak to yell for help. 32:07.840 --> 32:09.840 Milkman took her to the hospital. 32:09.840 --> 32:12.840 Both legs broken, skull fracture, internal injuries. 32:12.840 --> 32:14.840 Oh, no. 32:14.840 --> 32:17.840 Hey, kind of gets this young fella, don't it? 32:17.840 --> 32:19.840 Stuff's new to him, I guess. 32:19.840 --> 32:20.840 What was it? Who did it to the woman? 32:20.840 --> 32:22.840 Dan Ayers' car. 32:22.840 --> 32:26.840 We found it with blood and hairs on the tires and fenders, abandoned under some trees. 32:26.840 --> 32:32.840 At the same time, Waggoner, that's my chief, he found the safe in this house busted and looted. 32:32.840 --> 32:36.840 It's in an eight-sided mirrored room that got on the floor above. 32:36.840 --> 32:38.840 I'll take you up and show you afterwards. 32:38.840 --> 32:39.840 Oh. 32:39.840 --> 32:41.840 Cut it out, Vince. 32:41.840 --> 32:44.840 Why don't he go outside if this gets him? 32:44.840 --> 32:46.840 I want him in here with us. He should get used to this. 32:46.840 --> 32:48.840 Well, suit yourself. 32:48.840 --> 32:50.840 Well, finding that safe give us a case. 32:50.840 --> 32:55.840 Ayers knew Fleming kept lots of dough in that safe, knew he went away on business trips. 32:55.840 --> 33:00.840 This last time, Ayers come up here, went to work on the safe, and got caught by Mrs. Fleming. 33:00.840 --> 33:03.840 She takes one look and starts running for town to get help. 33:03.840 --> 33:04.840 Why didn't she use the telephone? 33:04.840 --> 33:06.840 Because this warrant no simple robbery. 33:06.840 --> 33:11.840 She must have seen by the look on his face that he'd kill her, so she run for her life. 33:11.840 --> 33:16.840 He comes down, gets into his car, catches up with her, and runs her down, drives right over. 33:16.840 --> 33:18.840 He thinks she's dead and takes off. 33:18.840 --> 33:20.840 You say he drove the car right over us. 33:20.840 --> 33:24.840 I don't know how to drive. I don't know how to drive. 33:24.840 --> 33:30.840 Cliff knew it too. His expression changed, and he pushed his pack of cigarettes over to me. 33:30.840 --> 33:33.840 Uh, have a smoke, kid. It'll do you good. 33:33.840 --> 33:34.840 Thanks. 33:34.840 --> 33:42.840 Well, we sent out a general alarm for Ayers, but at five that afternoon, Mrs. Fleming regained consciousness for a short time. 33:42.840 --> 33:48.840 Waggoner, my chief, was there, and he heard her say, Is Dan all right? He didn't kill Dan, did he? 33:48.840 --> 33:54.840 Well, that was enough to send us hotfootin' right back to the house, and we found Ayers' dead body. 33:54.840 --> 33:55.840 No. 33:55.840 --> 33:59.840 He'd been stabbed in the back with some kind of a drill. Dead since the night before. 33:59.840 --> 34:03.840 Mrs. Fleming died about eight that evening. There went our case. 34:03.840 --> 34:05.840 Did you get anything on the real killer? 34:05.840 --> 34:08.840 Well, practically everything but the guy himself. 34:08.840 --> 34:14.840 She was right in the alcove when it happened, saw the killer by the torchlight, and lasted long enough to give us a complete description. 34:14.840 --> 34:17.840 All the dope is over at my chief's office. 34:17.840 --> 34:19.840 Well, let's go over there. Give it the once over. 34:19.840 --> 34:21.840 Come on, Vince, you too. I'll leave a note for Lil. 34:21.840 --> 34:22.840 Look, Cliff, I... 34:22.840 --> 34:26.840 Come on, Vince. I know this is out of your line, but you better come anyhow. 34:43.840 --> 34:45.840 Glad you came over, Mr. Dodge. You too, Mr. Hardy. 34:45.840 --> 34:48.840 I'm interested in hearing the description of the killer. 34:48.840 --> 34:51.840 Well, it's pretty complete. I got it from Mrs. Fleming. 34:51.840 --> 34:54.840 Here's a transcription. My whole interview with her at the hospital. 34:54.840 --> 34:56.840 Had a stenographer take it down into bedside. 34:56.840 --> 34:57.840 Uh-huh. 34:57.840 --> 35:01.840 He was one of those efficient young sheriffs, and they droned on and on. 35:01.840 --> 35:06.840 My clothes became drenched with perspiration, and my stomach was quivering again. 35:06.840 --> 35:08.840 See you there, buddy. 35:08.840 --> 35:10.840 Ah, well, here's what you want, Dodge. 35:10.840 --> 35:17.840 The killer was about 25 and skinny. Cheekbones stood out, cast shadows in the torchlight as it wavered on his face. 35:17.840 --> 35:18.840 Uh-huh. 35:18.840 --> 35:20.840 He must be looking at me. 35:20.840 --> 35:23.840 I covered my cheeks with my hands and stared down at the floor. 35:23.840 --> 35:26.840 My face was burning under my fingers. 35:26.840 --> 35:31.840 Had light brown hair. She even remembered that it was parted low on the left side. 35:31.840 --> 35:34.840 Take a woman to notice a thing like that, even at such a moment. 35:34.840 --> 35:39.840 And an unusually long forelock that kept falling in front of his face. 35:39.840 --> 35:45.840 My hand went up a little higher and brushed mine back. It only fell down again like it always did. 35:45.840 --> 35:49.840 His eyes were fixed and glassy as though he was mentally unbalanced. 35:49.840 --> 35:54.840 He had on a knitted sweater. It was darned up in the neckline and a different colored yarn. 35:54.840 --> 35:57.840 Little made it for me, and I'd burned it with a cigarette. 35:57.840 --> 36:00.840 She fixed it up the best way she could, and Clef knew about it. 36:00.840 --> 36:04.840 Yeah? Took us hours to get, but that's it. 36:04.840 --> 36:07.840 Uh, you got pictures of Mrs. Fleming and ours? 36:07.840 --> 36:09.840 Mm-hmm. Death photographs. Care to see them? 36:09.840 --> 36:11.840 Yeah, let's have a look, huh? 36:11.840 --> 36:16.840 I got weaker and dizzier as they handed the pictures around. 36:16.840 --> 36:23.840 I didn't look at them, but I saw Clef distract the other men's attention long enough to slip them on top of the file case. 36:23.840 --> 36:26.840 Next thing I knew, we were getting ready to put the lights out and leave. 36:26.840 --> 36:29.840 Coming, Vince? Yeah. 36:32.840 --> 36:35.840 I'll run you folks back to the house. It's on my way home. 36:35.840 --> 36:37.840 Well, Sheriff, thank you very much for... 36:37.840 --> 36:42.840 Oh, uh, say, Vince, run back a minute and see if I left my cigarettes in Mr. Wagner's office, huh? 36:42.840 --> 36:43.840 Sure. 36:43.840 --> 36:46.840 Sheriff, I want you and the deputy to look me up. 36:49.840 --> 36:56.840 His voice dwindled behind me, and I was in the darkened office again, alone. 36:56.840 --> 37:00.840 I knew what I'd been sent back for. He wanted me to see those pictures. 37:00.840 --> 37:03.840 I switched on the lights. They were on the file case. 37:03.840 --> 37:08.840 I took them in my hands and I stared at them. 37:18.840 --> 37:20.840 Well, out like a light. 37:20.840 --> 37:22.840 Now, what did it, you spoles of pictures? 37:22.840 --> 37:25.840 Uh, he's not well. He's under treatment by a doctor right now. 37:25.840 --> 37:28.840 He gets these dizzy spells now and then. That's all it is. 37:28.840 --> 37:30.840 Hey, yeah, kid, drink this water. 37:30.840 --> 37:31.840 Yes. 37:31.840 --> 37:34.840 Now, shut up and don't say anything. You'll be all right. 37:34.840 --> 37:36.840 Sorry for all the trouble we've caused. 37:36.840 --> 37:39.840 Perfectly all right. Come back any time. 37:45.840 --> 37:48.840 That was a place I never wanted to go back to. 37:48.840 --> 37:51.840 Cliff and I didn't say much as the deputy drove us to the house. 37:51.840 --> 37:54.840 We picked up Lil and started back to town. 37:54.840 --> 37:56.840 I think you've got a nerve, Cliff. 37:56.840 --> 37:58.840 We couldn't talk them either. 37:58.840 --> 38:01.840 Because Lil was blazing, saw it, Cliff, 38:01.840 --> 38:04.840 and leaving her alone, laced into it. 38:04.840 --> 38:06.840 And I think for once he was grateful. 38:06.840 --> 38:09.840 Kept him from thinking too steadily about me. 38:09.840 --> 38:14.840 She only quit when we were near my place and she saw me holding my head. 38:14.840 --> 38:16.840 What's the matter, Vince? Don't you feel well? 38:16.840 --> 38:19.840 The outing was a little bit too strenuous for him. 38:19.840 --> 38:21.840 No wonder the way you drive. 38:21.840 --> 38:23.840 Yeah? Well, I got us here, didn't I? 38:23.840 --> 38:27.840 Great. I'll see what I can do about having you decorated for it. 38:27.840 --> 38:29.840 I'll go up with Vince a minute. 38:29.840 --> 38:31.840 No, it's all right. I'm feeling... 38:31.840 --> 38:33.840 I'm coming up with you, Vince. 38:38.840 --> 38:42.840 He closed the door to my room behind us and then turned to me. 38:42.840 --> 38:46.840 He spoke low and very undramatically. No fireworks. 38:46.840 --> 38:48.840 Lil's waiting downstairs. 38:48.840 --> 38:51.840 I'm going to take her home first before I do anything. 38:51.840 --> 38:53.840 I love Lil. 38:53.840 --> 38:57.840 It's bad enough what this is going to do to her when she finds out. 38:57.840 --> 39:01.840 I'm going to see she gets at least one good night's sleep before she does. 39:01.840 --> 39:03.840 Clef. Clef. 39:03.840 --> 39:05.840 Run out. That's the best thing you can do. 39:05.840 --> 39:07.840 Meet your finish on the hoof somewhere else 39:07.840 --> 39:09.840 where your sister and I don't have to see it happen. 39:09.840 --> 39:11.840 And if you're still here when I come back, 39:11.840 --> 39:15.840 I'm going to arrest you for the murder of Dan Ayers and Dorothy Fleming. 39:15.840 --> 39:18.840 I don't have to ask you if you kill those two people. 39:18.840 --> 39:21.840 They fainted dead on the floor when you saw their pictures. 39:21.840 --> 39:25.840 Now, take my advice and don't be here when I get back. 39:25.840 --> 39:28.840 I'll turn in my information at my own precinct house 39:28.840 --> 39:31.840 and they can pass it on to Wagner. 39:31.840 --> 39:34.840 Then I'll hand over my own badge in the morning. 39:34.840 --> 39:36.840 Clef. 39:36.840 --> 39:38.840 I'm frightened. 39:38.840 --> 39:41.840 Killers always are. 39:41.840 --> 39:43.840 Afterwards... 39:43.840 --> 39:54.840 Don't forget you got a half hour. 39:54.840 --> 39:57.840 I didn't move for about half the time he'd given me. 39:57.840 --> 40:01.840 Then my hand went to my cheek as it had in the sheriff's office 40:01.840 --> 40:03.840 and my face felt bristly. 40:03.840 --> 40:06.840 Without thinking, I went into the bathroom 40:06.840 --> 40:10.840 and turned on the warm water tap. 40:10.840 --> 40:15.840 I took my cream and blade holder from the cabinet. 40:15.840 --> 40:17.840 Not a sheer reflex of habit. 40:17.840 --> 40:20.840 And I realized I didn't need the cream and the holder 40:20.840 --> 40:23.840 and I put them back. 40:23.840 --> 40:37.840 I took the razor in my hand. 40:37.840 --> 40:40.840 I was seeing black spots in front of my eyes 40:40.840 --> 40:43.840 when he tried to get in the door. 40:43.840 --> 40:48.840 I tried to keep very quiet so I'd think I'd lambed and go away. 40:48.840 --> 40:50.840 Vince! Vince! 40:50.840 --> 40:53.840 Why didn't he go away? I could barely stand up. 40:53.840 --> 40:57.840 Open the door, Vince, or I'll shoot the lock away. 40:57.840 --> 41:00.840 I held my breath for a second 41:00.840 --> 41:09.840 and then I had no strength left. 41:09.840 --> 41:11.840 Vince! 41:11.840 --> 41:26.840 You could have saved yourself the trip back. 41:26.840 --> 41:28.840 They didn't keep me at the hospital. 41:28.840 --> 41:31.840 Just took stitches in my wrist and told me to go home 41:31.840 --> 41:33.840 and take it easy for a while. 41:33.840 --> 41:38.840 I hadn't been able to do even that right. 41:38.840 --> 41:41.840 It was four in the morning when we got back to my room. 41:41.840 --> 41:45.840 Cliff stood over me while I undressed and got into bed. 41:45.840 --> 41:47.840 Now, remember, just take it easy. 41:47.840 --> 41:50.840 What about the arrest? Postponed? 41:50.840 --> 41:52.840 Canceled. 41:52.840 --> 41:54.840 I gave you your chance to run out and you didn't take it. 41:54.840 --> 41:56.840 As a matter of fact, I sent Lil home alone. 41:56.840 --> 42:01.840 I've been downstairs watching the street door the whole time. 42:01.840 --> 42:04.840 When a guy's willing to let the life run out of his veins, 42:04.840 --> 42:06.840 there must be something to his story. 42:06.840 --> 42:09.840 You don't die to back up lies. 42:09.840 --> 42:12.840 I think you've been telling the truth, to the best of your knowledge. 42:12.840 --> 42:14.840 I'm tired. 42:14.840 --> 42:18.840 Licked. I don't even want to talk about it anymore. 42:18.840 --> 42:23.840 Well, I think I'd better stick with you tonight anyway. 42:23.840 --> 42:27.840 That's all right. I won't try it again. 42:27.840 --> 42:29.840 Mmm. 42:29.840 --> 42:31.840 Mmm. 42:31.840 --> 42:34.840 Oh. Mmm. 42:34.840 --> 42:36.840 Ah. 42:36.840 --> 42:39.840 There's blood on the floor. 42:39.840 --> 42:42.840 You sure picked a messy way. 42:42.840 --> 42:46.840 I did think of gas. This hotel doesn't have... 42:46.840 --> 42:50.840 If more houses had no gas, there'd be fewer... 42:50.840 --> 42:53.840 Sure. All the modern conveniences. 42:53.840 --> 42:56.840 But electricity is undependable, too. 42:56.840 --> 42:58.840 Lights go out. 42:58.840 --> 43:00.840 Happened to a fella in the next room one night. 43:00.840 --> 43:02.840 Heard he had to use a candle. 43:02.840 --> 43:06.840 It was the same night that I had the dream. 43:06.840 --> 43:09.840 How did you know he had to use a candle? 43:09.840 --> 43:11.840 Were you in there at the time? 43:11.840 --> 43:14.840 No, he wrapped and stuck his head in my door for a minute. 43:14.840 --> 43:17.840 Wanted to know if the power had failed all over. 43:17.840 --> 43:20.840 You know how people are in hotels like this. 43:20.840 --> 43:23.840 Why do you have to do that? Couldn't he tell by the hall? 43:23.840 --> 43:25.840 All lights go out at 11.30. 43:25.840 --> 43:27.840 Guess it was after that. 43:27.840 --> 43:30.840 That's still no reason why he should bust in on you. 43:30.840 --> 43:32.840 I'd like to hear the rest of this. 43:32.840 --> 43:34.840 I told you all the rest told me. 43:34.840 --> 43:37.840 That's what you think. Watch what I can get out of it. 43:41.840 --> 43:43.840 He wouldn't let me go to sleep. 43:43.840 --> 43:46.840 I had to tell him about the man next door 43:46.840 --> 43:48.840 before the night of the dream. 43:48.840 --> 43:51.840 That particular night I had been reading in bed. 43:51.840 --> 43:54.840 As I put down the lights and about ready to doze off, 43:54.840 --> 43:56.840 he knocked. 43:56.840 --> 43:58.840 Come in. 43:59.840 --> 44:02.840 He was holding the candle right in front of his face 44:02.840 --> 44:04.840 between his eyes. 44:04.840 --> 44:06.840 In the darkness I had to stare at the candlelight 44:06.840 --> 44:08.840 and his eyes behind it. 44:08.840 --> 44:10.840 He explained about the lights and... 44:10.840 --> 44:12.840 Please excuse me for intruding. 44:12.840 --> 44:14.840 You must be tired. 44:14.840 --> 44:16.840 Very tired. 44:16.840 --> 44:18.840 You look so sleepy. 44:20.840 --> 44:22.840 No, it's... 44:22.840 --> 44:24.840 I know. You want to sleep. 44:24.840 --> 44:26.840 I shouldn't have come. 44:28.840 --> 44:30.840 You can sleep now. 44:31.840 --> 44:33.840 Sleep well. 44:34.840 --> 44:36.840 Your eyes are so heavy. 44:36.840 --> 44:43.840 You look so tired. 44:43.840 --> 44:45.840 And that's all there was to it. 44:45.840 --> 44:47.840 He left and I went to sleep. 44:47.840 --> 44:49.840 Did you hear him shut the door? 44:49.840 --> 44:51.840 Well, I suppose so. 44:51.840 --> 44:53.840 I don't mean suppose. 44:53.840 --> 44:55.840 I mean, did you actually hear the door shut? 44:55.840 --> 44:57.840 Think about it, kid. This is important. 44:57.840 --> 44:59.840 I don't remember. 44:59.840 --> 45:01.840 Well, another thing then. 45:01.840 --> 45:03.840 Did you ever have any conversation with him 45:03.840 --> 45:05.840 other than hello and goodbye? 45:05.840 --> 45:07.840 Once going down in the elevator, 45:07.840 --> 45:09.840 he absolutely insisted that I take one. 45:09.840 --> 45:11.840 So I did. 45:11.840 --> 45:13.840 Testing willpower. 45:13.840 --> 45:15.840 Never mind. I don't want to frighten you right now. 45:15.840 --> 45:17.840 Look, you get some sleep, kid. 45:17.840 --> 45:19.840 You're a week after what you tried to do tonight. 45:19.840 --> 45:21.840 Where are you going? I thought you were staying here tonight. 45:21.840 --> 45:23.840 I'm going back to the Fleming House 45:23.840 --> 45:25.840 and to Wagner's headquarters too while I'm at it. 45:25.840 --> 45:27.840 Now? Yeah. 45:27.840 --> 45:29.840 You're going all the way back up there 45:29.840 --> 45:31.840 at this hour of the morning? 45:31.840 --> 45:33.840 And, Vince, don't give up yet. 45:33.840 --> 45:35.840 I'll make some cuts like you tried tonight. 45:45.840 --> 45:47.840 I didn't wake until noon, 45:47.840 --> 45:49.840 but I didn't dare leave the room 45:49.840 --> 45:51.840 for a cup of coffee. 45:51.840 --> 45:53.840 I didn't want to miss Cliff when he got back. 45:53.840 --> 45:55.840 About two, there was a knock on the door 45:55.840 --> 45:57.840 and I almost fell over in my rush to open it. 45:57.840 --> 45:59.840 Cliff, I... 45:59.840 --> 46:01.840 Oh, excuse me. 46:01.840 --> 46:03.840 Sure, mister. 46:03.840 --> 46:05.840 Say, are you Vincent Hardy? Yes. 46:05.840 --> 46:07.840 Well, I think I got what you want. 46:07.840 --> 46:09.840 What I want? 46:09.840 --> 46:11.840 Yeah, my Uncle Henry built it. He was crazy. 46:11.840 --> 46:13.840 It's got a room with eight sides. 46:13.840 --> 46:15.840 I'm terribly sorry, 46:15.840 --> 46:17.840 but I'm not in the market for that house any longer. 46:17.840 --> 46:19.840 You Wayne? No. 46:19.840 --> 46:21.840 Oh, you're like Uncle Henry too, huh? 46:21.840 --> 46:23.840 He would have liked you. 46:23.840 --> 46:31.840 Well, good-bye. 46:31.840 --> 46:35.840 Cliff finally showed up around three. 46:35.840 --> 46:37.840 He looked terrible. 46:37.840 --> 46:39.840 He hadn't slept all night. 46:39.840 --> 46:41.840 He showed me a picture he'd brought. 46:41.840 --> 46:43.840 You know this guy, Vince? 46:43.840 --> 46:45.840 This guy? 46:45.840 --> 46:47.840 Well, the glasses are missing 46:47.840 --> 46:49.840 and the mustache and the hair is in rumple, 46:49.840 --> 46:51.840 but Cliff's got a good eye. 46:51.840 --> 46:53.840 Yeah? 46:53.840 --> 46:55.840 This is the guy from next door. 46:55.840 --> 46:57.840 Where'd you get this picture? 46:57.840 --> 46:59.840 From Wagner. It's Mrs. Fleming's husband. 46:59.840 --> 47:01.840 They're both the same fellow? 47:01.840 --> 47:03.840 Right. 47:03.840 --> 47:05.840 But there's no out in it for you. 47:05.840 --> 47:07.840 Now, get that straight, kid. 47:07.840 --> 47:09.840 I checked the fingerprints Wagner got there, yours. 47:09.840 --> 47:11.840 You and nobody but you went into the Fleming house, 47:11.840 --> 47:13.840 killed Ayers and hid his body in the closet. 47:13.840 --> 47:15.840 No. 47:15.840 --> 47:17.840 But you didn't kill Dorothy Fleming because you can't drive. 47:17.840 --> 47:19.840 Now, somebody else did that in Ayers' car. 47:19.840 --> 47:21.840 Somebody who brought you up there and was waiting for you 47:21.840 --> 47:23.840 at a safe distance. 47:23.840 --> 47:25.840 But why didn't I know I was doing? 47:25.840 --> 47:27.840 Well, that'll come later. What we have to do now is prove 47:27.840 --> 47:29.840 that the circumstance of the drink could have happened. 47:29.840 --> 47:31.840 Get it down on record officially. 47:31.840 --> 47:33.840 It isn't perfect, but it's the best we can do. 47:33.840 --> 47:35.840 Well, what do you want? 47:35.840 --> 47:37.840 I think it's better if you don't know too much. 47:39.840 --> 47:41.840 A telegram addressed to Mrs. Fleming 47:41.840 --> 47:43.840 was received from her husband while I was up there. 47:43.840 --> 47:47.840 He's arriving back from South America today. 47:47.840 --> 47:49.840 Where are we going? 47:49.840 --> 47:51.840 Where is the place you'd least rather go 47:51.840 --> 47:53.840 of all places right now? 47:53.840 --> 47:55.840 That... that room. 47:55.840 --> 47:57.840 That house. 47:57.840 --> 47:59.840 I'm sorry, kid, but that's the place you're gonna have to go back to 47:59.840 --> 48:01.840 and stay in alone tonight. 48:01.840 --> 48:03.840 If you ever want to get out from under the shadows again. 48:05.840 --> 48:07.840 Now, what do you say? Shall we make the try? 48:09.840 --> 48:11.840 Okay. 48:11.840 --> 48:13.840 I'm ready. 48:21.840 --> 48:23.840 I'd been sitting on the floor 48:23.840 --> 48:25.840 outside the mirrored alcove to rest 48:25.840 --> 48:27.840 when I heard him come in. 48:29.840 --> 48:31.840 He didn't come right up. 48:31.840 --> 48:33.840 I suppose he stopped to put his things away. 48:33.840 --> 48:35.840 Then I heard him tap the keys of the piano downstairs. 48:35.840 --> 48:37.840 Then I heard his footsteps coming, 48:37.840 --> 48:39.840 and I pushed myself backwards 48:39.840 --> 48:41.840 along the floor into the alcove. 48:43.840 --> 48:45.840 My heart was pounding so hard 48:45.840 --> 48:47.840 I had to keep my mouth open. 48:49.840 --> 48:51.840 He was in the bedroom, 48:51.840 --> 48:53.840 opening suitcases, looking for things. 48:55.840 --> 48:57.840 I was so worried. 48:57.840 --> 48:59.840 I was so worried. 48:59.840 --> 49:01.840 I was so worried. 49:01.840 --> 49:03.840 I was so worried. 49:03.840 --> 49:07.120 My heart feels at ease now that really 49:07.840 --> 49:10.840 everything about tonight was clear and 49:10.840 --> 49:13.840 I could hear the民 mercury 49:13.840 --> 49:15.840 going назад in all earrings... 49:15.840 --> 49:04.300 effective в 49:19.840 --> 49:21.840 Then the person he was Crash! 49:21.840 --> 49:23.840 he step until you clip around 49:27.840 --> 49:29.840 Now about two minutes after that 49:29.840 --> 49:31.840 I could see the doctor's room. 49:31.840 --> 49:35.640 He heard me as I stepped into the room and whirled around. 49:35.640 --> 49:39.840 I wanted to yell at the top of my lungs at him. 49:39.840 --> 49:42.340 But I kept my lips together. 49:42.340 --> 49:46.640 Cliff had drilled me carefully on how I should act, what I should say. 49:46.640 --> 49:51.240 He'd particularly warned me to make Fleming talk first. 49:53.540 --> 49:56.340 How did you get here? 49:56.340 --> 49:58.340 You showed me the way, didn't you? 49:58.340 --> 49:59.940 You... 49:59.940 --> 50:02.240 You remembered coming here? 50:02.240 --> 50:03.740 You didn't think I would, did you? 50:03.740 --> 50:06.740 You... you couldn't have. 50:06.740 --> 50:09.840 Then how did I come back again? You explain it. 50:09.840 --> 50:13.940 Well, how long have you been in here? Like... 50:13.940 --> 50:14.840 Like this? 50:14.840 --> 50:18.140 Since after dark. I got in before you came home. 50:18.140 --> 50:18.940 What'd you bring with you? 50:18.940 --> 50:21.440 Nobody. Just this, a 44 automatic. 50:21.440 --> 50:24.840 That's all the company I wanted with you. 50:24.840 --> 50:27.440 Exactly how much do you remember? 50:27.440 --> 50:28.940 Much more than you think. 50:28.940 --> 50:31.340 You remember the drive-up? 50:31.340 --> 50:33.140 You couldn't have. 50:33.140 --> 50:36.040 I told you to remember it only as a dream. 50:36.040 --> 50:37.540 You had look. 50:37.540 --> 50:39.040 What look? 50:39.040 --> 50:43.640 I was holding a thumbtack pressed into the palm of each hand the whole way. 50:43.640 --> 50:48.840 Then why did you do everything that you were directed to do so passively? 50:48.840 --> 50:52.640 I thought there might be something in it for me later if anyone went to all that trouble. 50:52.640 --> 50:54.640 You purposely faked? 50:54.640 --> 50:56.240 I can't believe it. 50:56.240 --> 50:57.740 You didn't even draw back. 50:57.740 --> 51:00.340 Show a sign. I'll let you out of the car. 51:00.340 --> 51:01.940 Put the knife in your hand. 51:01.940 --> 51:03.540 Sent you on towards the house. 51:03.540 --> 51:06.040 Told you how to get in, what to do. 51:06.040 --> 51:07.740 You mean you went ahead unconsciously? 51:07.740 --> 51:10.540 Sure I figured you'd pay me off afterwards. 51:10.540 --> 51:12.840 Oh. 51:12.840 --> 51:16.040 Well, what went wrong inside? 51:16.040 --> 51:19.540 Well, I accidentally dropped the knife you gave me. 51:19.540 --> 51:21.740 Ayers jumped me in the alcove. 51:21.740 --> 51:25.740 In the darkness, your wife put a drill into my hand instead of his. 51:25.740 --> 51:27.440 And I killed him in self-defense. 51:27.440 --> 51:30.040 Yes. And she ran out. 51:30.040 --> 51:33.240 I had to go after her and stop her myself. 51:33.240 --> 51:35.440 I got her with Ayers' car. 51:35.440 --> 51:37.340 She never even saw me. 51:37.340 --> 51:40.040 That's what I wanted to know. 51:40.040 --> 51:42.140 Are you crazy? You must have known. 51:42.140 --> 51:45.440 No, I tricked you. You had me hypnotized that night, all right. 51:45.440 --> 51:49.140 But you've just convicted yourself out of your own mouth to me. 51:49.140 --> 51:51.040 I don't want to be paid off. 51:51.040 --> 51:55.540 You picked someone with a weak willpower maybe, but strong scruples. 51:55.540 --> 51:58.140 I was an honest man. You made me commit murder. 51:58.140 --> 52:00.940 I can't clear myself in the eyes of the law ever. 52:00.940 --> 52:04.340 But you're gonna pay for doing that to me now. This way. 52:04.340 --> 52:06.740 Wait. Don't do that. 52:06.740 --> 52:08.840 That won't help you any. 52:08.840 --> 52:10.740 You shouldn't have left me alone. 52:10.740 --> 52:13.340 That was your mistake. Here you go, Fleming. 52:13.340 --> 52:16.240 Wait. Wait one minute more. 52:16.240 --> 52:17.640 Just a minute. 52:17.640 --> 52:19.540 Now look. 52:19.540 --> 52:21.740 Look at me. 52:21.740 --> 52:25.940 Look at my eyes. 52:25.940 --> 52:29.640 Clip had warned me to be careful, but I wasn't careful enough. 52:29.640 --> 52:33.540 I couldn't seem to help myself. I just glanced at him. 52:33.540 --> 52:36.440 Our eyes met, and suddenly mine couldn't get away anymore, 52:36.440 --> 52:38.640 as though they were hit by glue. 52:38.640 --> 52:42.540 A sort of torpor turned me into wax. 52:42.540 --> 52:44.940 But I made an effort to do one more thing. 52:44.940 --> 52:47.540 It came out as a single sentence. 52:47.540 --> 52:49.840 Fleming? 52:49.840 --> 52:51.840 I'm... 52:51.840 --> 52:53.840 I'm... 52:53.840 --> 52:55.840 I'm going to shoot you. 52:55.840 --> 52:58.840 No. You're tired. 52:58.840 --> 53:01.340 You don't want to shoot anybody. 53:01.340 --> 53:03.340 You're tired. 53:03.340 --> 53:05.840 The gun's too heavy for you. 53:05.840 --> 53:09.840 Why do you want to hold that heavy thing? 53:11.840 --> 53:13.840 That's right. 53:13.840 --> 53:15.840 You're tired. 53:15.840 --> 53:17.840 You're tired. 53:17.840 --> 53:19.840 Tired? 53:31.840 --> 53:34.040 Why, this'll stand up in any court. 53:34.040 --> 53:37.540 There's enough evidence on this wire recorder to send Fleming to the electric chair. 53:37.540 --> 53:39.540 Listen, listen. 53:39.540 --> 53:42.540 What's all that mumbling? I can't quite make out what this... 53:42.540 --> 53:45.540 Hey, we'd better get up. There's a lot of people in this room. 53:45.540 --> 53:47.040 We'd better get up there. Come on. 53:47.040 --> 53:48.540 Fleming must be trying to do... 53:48.540 --> 53:50.540 Holy smokes, he's getting away. Come on. 54:03.040 --> 54:07.040 There's a pencil and paper in the glove compartment. 54:07.040 --> 54:09.040 Take them out. 54:09.040 --> 54:11.040 Good. 54:11.040 --> 54:13.040 Now write what I tell you. 54:13.040 --> 54:15.040 Start. 54:15.040 --> 54:17.040 I am wanted... 54:17.040 --> 54:19.040 for the murder... 54:19.040 --> 54:23.040 of those two people... 54:23.040 --> 54:26.040 at the Fleming house. 54:26.040 --> 54:31.040 They're bound to get me sooner or later. 54:31.040 --> 54:34.040 And I have no chance. 54:34.040 --> 54:38.040 I see no other way... 54:38.040 --> 54:41.040 but this. 54:41.040 --> 54:43.040 Now... 54:43.040 --> 54:46.040 sign your name. 54:46.040 --> 54:49.040 Vincent Hardy. 54:58.040 --> 55:00.040 Now... 55:00.040 --> 55:03.040 get out of the car quickly and take the chain attached to that anchor. 55:03.040 --> 55:06.040 Over there. On your right, over there. 55:06.040 --> 55:08.040 Go ahead. 55:08.040 --> 55:10.040 That's right. 55:10.040 --> 55:14.040 Tie it around your stomach and legs and pick up the anchor. 55:14.040 --> 55:17.040 Yes, that's it. Carry it in your hands. 55:17.040 --> 55:19.040 Yes, very good. 55:21.040 --> 55:23.040 Come on, Connie. 55:23.040 --> 55:25.040 Now then, walk. 55:25.040 --> 55:27.040 Walk to the end of the dock. 55:27.040 --> 55:29.040 Hurry, you fools. 55:29.040 --> 55:31.040 And throw the anchor into the lake. 55:31.040 --> 55:33.040 Go ahead. Hurry. 55:33.040 --> 55:36.040 Red 5, Vincent. 55:42.040 --> 55:45.040 I knew what I was doing was wrong. 55:45.040 --> 55:49.040 I fought against it as hard as I could. 55:49.040 --> 55:51.040 And when I got to the end of the dock... 55:51.040 --> 56:04.040 I just threw the anchor into the lake and my body went up. 56:22.040 --> 56:25.040 Well, there he is. He's all right now. 56:25.040 --> 56:27.040 What have you got, Fleming? 56:27.040 --> 56:29.040 Fleming's dead, Mr. Dodge. 56:29.040 --> 56:32.040 The car hit a tree and folded up like an accordion. 56:32.040 --> 56:35.040 Vince would be gone too if I dosed another minute in that cellar. 56:35.040 --> 56:38.040 Don't feel bad. You did all right by the boy. 56:38.040 --> 56:41.040 You went in after him like a veteran lifeguard. 56:41.040 --> 56:44.040 Say, if you can take care of him, Mr. Dodge... 56:44.040 --> 56:47.040 I want to get these recordings into my safe at the office... 56:47.040 --> 56:50.040 and send some boys out to pick up Fleming in that car. 56:50.040 --> 56:52.040 Yeah, sure. Go ahead, Sheriff. 56:52.040 --> 56:54.040 Vince will be all right. 56:54.040 --> 56:57.040 Was he telling the truth, Cliff? 56:57.040 --> 56:59.040 Yeah. 56:59.040 --> 57:03.040 This Fleming used to be a vaudeville hypnotist. 57:03.040 --> 57:07.040 Tried using his old act to get rid of heirs and his own wife. 57:07.040 --> 57:11.040 That shall be cleared because we have proof that... 57:11.040 --> 57:15.040 you were not responsible for your acts while under the hypnosis. 57:15.040 --> 57:18.040 Thanks, Cliff. 57:18.040 --> 57:22.040 But you'll have to appear in court and stand charges. 57:22.040 --> 57:25.040 I will. 57:25.040 --> 57:27.040 You scared, kid? 57:30.040 --> 57:32.040 Sort of. 57:32.040 --> 57:35.040 Yeah, you'll be all right. 57:35.040 --> 57:38.040 I'll be standing there next to you the whole time. 57:38.040 --> 57:47.040 Well, come on now, let's go. 57:54.040 --> 57:56.040 This is Robert Montgomery. 57:56.040 --> 58:00.040 Our congratulations and thanks to Eddie Bracken and William Conrad... 58:00.040 --> 58:04.040 for two fine performances in Nightmare. 58:04.040 --> 58:08.040 Next week for Suspense, we treat the subject of weather... 58:08.040 --> 58:13.040 in a locale that is famous and infamous for its weather, England. 58:13.040 --> 58:17.040 And in order to do justice to the ill-famed atmospheric conditions... 58:17.040 --> 58:21.040 which often shroud this island, we shall present an hour of suspense... 58:21.040 --> 58:24.040 divided into two separate half-hour dramas. 58:24.040 --> 58:27.040 Two select studies with two elements in common. 58:27.040 --> 58:30.040 Dramatic weather and dramatic suspense. 58:30.040 --> 58:34.040 Taken one at a time, these plays are singular triumphs. 58:34.040 --> 58:40.040 Put them together and, well, I can promise you a deadly combination next week... 58:40.040 --> 58:46.040 when with Wet Saturday by John Collier and August Heat by W.F. Harvey... 58:46.040 --> 58:49.040 we again hope to keep you in suspense. 58:49.040 --> 58:51.040 Good night. 58:51.040 --> 58:55.040 Mr. Montgomery may currently be seen in the Universal International Production... 58:55.040 --> 58:57.040 Ride the Pink Horse. 58:57.040 --> 59:02.040 Mr. Bracken will soon be seen in his forthcoming production, 750 Smith. 59:02.040 --> 59:06.040 Nightmare by William Irish was adapted for radio by Alfred Pauka... 59:06.040 --> 59:10.040 directed by Anton M. Lieder and produced by Robert Montgomery. 59:10.040 --> 59:13.040 Lud Gloskin is our musical director and conductor... 59:13.040 --> 59:16.040 and Lucian Marowak composes the original scores. 59:16.040 --> 59:21.040 Next week, here are two great shows, Wet Saturday and August Heat... 59:21.040 --> 59:25.040 on radio's outstanding theater of thrills, one hour of... 59:25.040 --> 59:27.040 Suspense! 59:27.040 --> 59:43.040 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 59:57.040 --> 59:59.040 Thank you.