1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:22,320 Suspense. 2 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:29,080 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour, a full 60 minutes of suspense. 3 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:34,120 Tonight our stars, Miss Helen Walker and Mr. John Beale. 4 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,080 Our story, Deadline at Dawn by William Irish. 5 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:47,240 A suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Lieder. 6 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,040 If you've ever been alone in a strange big city, you know the haunting loneliness of 7 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:52,040 it. 8 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:55,920 And you know how the sight of a familiar face, the sound of a familiar voice can lift your 9 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,720 spirit high. 10 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:02,240 Even a stranger who comes from your hometown becomes a long lost friend because he brings 11 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,820 with him a breath of home, a flood of memories. 12 00:01:05,820 --> 00:01:09,600 That was the emotion that drew Bricky Coleman and Quinn Williams together. 13 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:14,080 But their meeting wasn't the joyful happy kind, for it was the beginning of longing 14 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,180 and fear and danger. 15 00:01:17,180 --> 00:01:22,420 And now, with the performances of Helen Walker as Bricky Coleman and John Beale as Quinn 16 00:01:22,420 --> 00:01:28,400 Williams and with William Irish's great story, Deadline at Dawn, we again hope to keep you 17 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:51,320 in suspense. 18 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:56,080 Until I met him, men were just pink dance tickets to me. 19 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,960 They were just two and a half cents worth of commission on the dime. 20 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:04,320 Piers of feet that kept crowding mine all over the map, all over the floor, all over 21 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,440 the night. 22 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,560 They were blank faces that could steer me any way they wanted until their five minutes 23 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,700 were up. 24 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:17,040 Because I was a New York taxi dancer until I met him. 25 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:23,040 A girl from a small town, caught and held fast in the big city, with all her dreams 26 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,800 forgotten and all her hopes gone. 27 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,020 And not caring anymore. 28 00:02:29,020 --> 00:02:31,360 Not caring at all. 29 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,280 Until I met him. 30 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:39,240 They always dimmed the lights for the last dance, just to make the customers feel sentimental 31 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,640 about it all. 32 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:44,400 At one in the morning, I was through again for the day. 33 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:50,400 I put on my coat, go out the side door, walk past the sad sacks that thought they were 34 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,600 wolves and loitered on the sidewalk. 35 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:58,240 And then I'd begin the 20 blocks to home. 36 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:05,960 Home was a filthy old brownstone down near the river, with a long smace an old army caught. 37 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:06,960 That was home. 38 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:13,560 But at least it was a place where I could get out of my shoes and make some coffee and 39 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,680 sleep to forget. 40 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,640 I'd get home about 1.30. 41 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:23,560 You left your door open. 42 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,240 So I left my door open. 43 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,220 Did you think that was an invitation to walk in? 44 00:03:28,220 --> 00:03:29,560 You better close it now. 45 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:30,560 Hey, listen here. 46 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:31,560 Close it. 47 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:32,560 Please. 48 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:33,560 All right. 49 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:41,280 Now, if you're a burglar, you won't find anything. 50 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,280 The rats got here first. 51 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:43,760 I am a burglar. 52 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:45,960 Well, then you're not a very smart one. 53 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,160 What are you looking for, coffee grounds? 54 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:49,800 I wasn't looking for anything. 55 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:51,920 Well, then why don't you go, please? 56 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:53,760 Find a nice rich old lady to rob. 57 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,760 Look, I need a place to stay for a while. 58 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,320 I thought maybe you would let me... 59 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,920 What, stay here? 60 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,880 Look, I don't hand out favors. 61 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:04,880 You're nothing to me. 62 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:05,880 I know. 63 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,680 It was just a hunch I had. 64 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:12,200 The way you were looking at me, I thought I could come here for help. 65 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,280 The way I was looking? 66 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,040 I've never seen you before in my life. 67 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:22,040 Well, you were looking straight at me at the dance hall about an hour ago. 68 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,040 You mean you were at the Cinderella ballroom tonight? 69 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,440 Don't you remember me? 70 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,440 No. 71 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,800 Well, that's funny. 72 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,520 It's not funny at all. 73 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,480 You all look the same to me, namely horrible. 74 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,120 Well, I guess it's my mistake. 75 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,120 But I was sure. 76 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,520 You seem so... so nice. 77 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:43,520 Did I? 78 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:44,520 Yeah. 79 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,600 That's because I was thinking of home. 80 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,480 I always do that on the job. 81 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:49,480 Makes the night go faster. 82 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,920 I guess I know what you mean. 83 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,280 What'd you do, follow me? 84 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:55,280 No. 85 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:57,840 The man at the door gave me your address. 86 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:58,840 For a dollar. 87 00:04:58,840 --> 00:04:59,840 Oh, he did, did he? 88 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:01,960 Yeah, I wanted to get off the streets. 89 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,560 This time of night, the cops are curious. 90 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:08,400 I thought I saw one of them following me, so I beat it down this hall to hide. 91 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:09,680 That's when I found your door open. 92 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,880 You picked a good place for hiding. 93 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,720 Nobody ever comes here but the landlady once a month. 94 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,120 Please let me stay a while. 95 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,120 Please. 96 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,680 What's your name? 97 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:21,680 Quinn Williams. 98 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:22,680 Quinn? 99 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:23,680 Yeah. 100 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:24,680 Never heard that name before. 101 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,600 It used to be my mother's before she got married. 102 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:27,600 I see. 103 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,960 What do you say? 104 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,920 You want some coffee, Quinn? 105 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:34,920 Thanks. 106 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:35,920 Thanks. 107 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,200 But get this straight. 108 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,520 One cup of coffee and nothing more. 109 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,320 No sugar goes with it. 110 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,000 You give me one blink too many... 111 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,800 Just coffee, I understand. 112 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:49,360 A man can tell by looking at a girl whether she means one thing or another. 113 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,440 You'd be surprised how many of them ought to have an optician. 114 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,080 I know. 115 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,080 Give me a match for the oven. 116 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:02,600 Here you are. 117 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:07,720 I got the oven lit and reached down some cups and sauces and watched him. 118 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,360 Not that I was worried. 119 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,120 I wouldn't have closed the door if I hadn't thought I could handle him. 120 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:20,280 It was only that he was so young and his face was so tight and strained. 121 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:24,000 He'd been beat by the city. 122 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,600 Must have been like taking candy away from a baby. 123 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,880 And he trusted me because I'd smiled at him while I was dancing. 124 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,240 And he thought that smile was for him. 125 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:42,360 I wished it was all of a sudden because he was different. 126 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:43,360 Coffee won't be long. 127 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:44,360 That's all right. 128 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:45,360 I'm in no hurry. 129 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:47,920 You're pretty young for a burglar, aren't you? 130 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,840 It doesn't take much training. 131 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:52,520 Where'd you come from? 132 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,520 And how did it happen? 133 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,320 I come from a little town. 134 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,880 It's nothing much, but I like it. 135 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:01,360 I'm a hick myself. 136 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,360 Yeah? 137 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,960 My place is Glen Falls, Iowa. 138 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:05,960 What's yours? 139 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:06,960 What's the matter? 140 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:07,960 What? 141 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:08,960 Nothing. 142 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:10,520 Oh, I thought I said something wrong. 143 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,600 Oh, no, you said something right. 144 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,360 It's crazy, a crazy coincidence, but I come from Glen Falls, too. 145 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:17,360 Honest? 146 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:18,360 Honest! 147 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:19,360 What? 148 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:20,360 That's amazing. 149 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:21,360 I know it is. 150 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,360 What street did you live on? 151 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,000 Anderson, up near Pine Street, the second house down between Pine and Old. 152 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 When? 153 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 We're neighbors. 154 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,160 I lived just across the street from you. 155 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:30,920 Well, how is it we never met? 156 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:31,920 I don't know. 157 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:33,520 I came here five years ago. 158 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,760 Oh, I've been here a year. 159 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:36,840 You must have come to New York before we moved in. 160 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:37,840 Sure. 161 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:39,280 Wait a minute. 162 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:40,960 Have you got a brother with a lot of freckles? 163 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,880 Yeah, Johnny, he's just a kid, about 18. 164 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,120 My sister's been writing to me about her new boyfriend, a boy named Williams. 165 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,560 How perfect he is, except for the freckles, and of course they'll wear off. 166 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:50,840 That's Johnny! 167 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,920 Oh, so you're the boy next door. 168 00:07:54,920 --> 00:08:04,480 Well, we'd probably have known each other very well if you'd stayed home. 169 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,600 I know. 170 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,440 I wish you had stayed. 171 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,880 I do, too. 172 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,360 What's your name? 173 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,240 Ruth Coleman. 174 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:16,880 Everybody at home calls me Bricky. 175 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:17,880 They started it because I... 176 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,680 I know, because of your hair, huh? 177 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:20,680 That's right. 178 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,640 Do you ever feel that you want to go back? 179 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:25,640 Every day. 180 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:30,240 There's a bus leaves New York every morning at six. 181 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,360 I know, I've been quiet. 182 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,000 I've got the fair sewed up in my mattress. 183 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Why haven't you gone? 184 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:43,640 Because my mother thinks I'm dancing in a Broadway show, because I'd be too ashamed, 185 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:45,000 because it's so hard to go back. 186 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,120 Yeah, but you ought to go, Bricky. 187 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,320 This morning at six o'clock. 188 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,200 You ought to go back. 189 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,800 Hard going back alone. 190 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:59,840 If someone could come with me, would you come home, too, Quinn? 191 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:01,320 No, Bricky. 192 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,920 You want to escape from the city, don't you? 193 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:04,160 Just like me, you want to go back? 194 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:05,160 Yeah, sure I do. 195 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:06,160 Well, then come with me. 196 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,520 If it's the fair you're worried about, I've got enough for both of us, including a good 197 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:10,320 dinner in Chicago. 198 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:11,840 Anything for the boy next door, Quinn. 199 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,160 Thanks, Bricky, but it's too late. 200 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,480 The police will be looking for me around eight o'clock this morning. 201 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,800 Oh, yeah. 202 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,000 I forgot. 203 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,640 How long have you been a burglar? 204 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:27,640 About three hours. 205 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:28,640 Three hours? 206 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:33,360 I did it tonight for the first time. 207 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,200 So you see, Bricky, it's a little too late for me to go back. 208 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,480 I've missed the bus by three hours. 209 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,040 Coffee's ready, Quinn. 210 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,640 Oh, good. 211 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:47,640 Cream and sugar? 212 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:48,640 No, thanks. 213 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:49,640 Black. 214 00:09:49,640 --> 00:10:00,000 Was it easy? 215 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Very easy. 216 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,040 Why'd you do it? 217 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,240 You'll do anything when you've gone for four days without eating. 218 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:07,240 Oh. 219 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,640 But it's funny. 220 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,720 After I'd done it, I went straight to the best restaurant in town. 221 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,440 I looked at the menu and got ready to order everything on it. 222 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,080 Two helpings of everything. 223 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,560 All right, I couldn't eat. 224 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:23,560 So I got up and walked out. 225 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:26,800 That's when I began to think cops were trailing me. 226 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,520 I'm not used to being a robber. 227 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:33,120 So you still got it all with you? 228 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:39,400 $2,500 in cash, divided up into small rolls in all my pockets. 229 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,440 You want to see it? 230 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:42,440 No. 231 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,240 Neither do I. 232 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,040 But it's there. 233 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:51,280 I can feel it against my skin, all over my body. 234 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,480 Where did you get it, Quinn? 235 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,760 I was working for an electrician about four months ago. 236 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:01,400 One day I got a call to go to a big house on 71st Street and put a fixture in the bathroom 237 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,400 wall. 238 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,160 I had to cut a big hole in the wall to do it. 239 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:09,840 While I was doing that, I ran into a wooden box in the wall. 240 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,080 I did my work just beside it. 241 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:13,960 And that box? 242 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,840 That box was the back of a safe. 243 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,820 Put into the wall of a study in the next room. 244 00:11:20,820 --> 00:11:23,680 The front of the safe was good heavy steel. 245 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:26,800 When they built it, nobody thought it could be broken into from the other side through 246 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:27,800 the bathroom. 247 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:33,040 And nobody ever would have either, until an electrician ran into it one day by mistake. 248 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,600 But all this happened four months ago. 249 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:36,600 Yeah. 250 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,440 You see, I'd brought more tools with me than I needed that day, and I left some of them 251 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,400 in my bag downstairs on a little table near the front door. 252 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,240 When I got back to the shop, I found a key in the bag. 253 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,640 I must have brushed it in while I was putting the tools back after finishing the job. 254 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,680 It turned out to be a key to the front door. 255 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:56,560 You didn't return it. 256 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:57,560 I didn't. 257 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:02,960 Oh, I meant to, but right then I forgot all about it. 258 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:09,520 And when I did remember that I had the key, I was out of work and hungry and wanting money 259 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:15,120 badly so I went back there to Nugget Box. 260 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,400 I opened that hole again, pulled the back of the safe out. 261 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,720 I didn't bother with any of the papers or securities. 262 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,280 I just took the cash. 263 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:24,280 The house was empty. 264 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:28,880 The man who lives there, a society fella by the name of Graves, was probably out on the 265 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:33,520 town so I just walked out the front door. 266 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:40,560 It seems like ten years ago, it was only three hours. 267 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:45,840 So this Graves man will see the hole in the morning when he goes in to take a shower and 268 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:46,840 then he'll call the police? 269 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:53,560 It'll be a quick trial and a short one, but the sentence won't be so short. 270 00:12:53,560 --> 00:13:00,040 The boy next door, the boy you wave to when you come in or out of your gate, the grinning 271 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,560 boy next door, friendly as a puppy. 272 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:03,560 Go back, Bricky. 273 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:04,560 It's where you belong. 274 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:06,360 It's the only kind of life for you. 275 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:07,360 Come with me, Quinn. 276 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,640 I've told you I can't. 277 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,040 They've got a long arm. 278 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:15,680 They'll find me and I'd rather have them find me here in the city. 279 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:17,640 Have you still got the key? 280 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,160 The key you went in with? 281 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:20,160 Yeah. 282 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:21,160 Why? 283 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:26,160 Well, if you can get back in before he comes home, just in and out, long enough to put 284 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,120 the money back, they won't come all the way to Iowa for you just for chopping a hole in 285 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:31,320 the wall if nothing's been taken. 286 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:32,320 But, Bricky, that's probably... 287 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,880 Don't you want to go home at six o'clock this morning? 288 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:36,880 Yes, Bricky. 289 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:38,840 If he's out on the town, he won't be home yet. 290 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:40,440 At least that's what we'll pray for. 291 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:41,440 We? 292 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,000 We'll go together now. 293 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,400 I'll wait outside for you and then we'll go down to the terminal and buy our tickets 294 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:47,640 and wait for the bus. 295 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,800 We'll wait for dawn together, Quinn. 296 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,400 You mean you'd do this for me? 297 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:58,480 For the boy next door, anytime, anything. 298 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,400 There was no time to lose. 299 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:03,960 Graves might be coming home any minute. 300 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,800 I ripped the money out of my mattress and we ran out into the cold, empty streets, just 301 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,720 as a cab cruised by. 302 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:17,800 We piled into it and told him to take us to 71st Street and to take us fast. 303 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,840 Everybody's always in a hurry. 304 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:20,840 What's your hurry? 305 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:21,840 The night's young yet. 306 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,240 Never mind the conversation, Joe. 307 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:24,240 Drive. 308 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,240 The customer's always right. 309 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:32,240 I just remembered. 310 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:33,240 What? 311 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,040 I can't pay for this cab unless I use some of our capital. 312 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,080 I don't care what you use, pal, just show it's money. 313 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:41,080 Don't worry about it. 314 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:42,080 You'll get paid. 315 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:43,200 I'll pay him. 316 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,840 We don't want to use any of our capital, not a single penny. 317 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,280 It's all got to go back. 318 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,480 Ricky, when we get out of this, when we get back home, I'll thank you then. 319 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,880 I'll find a way to thank you. 320 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,040 71st Street, any special number? 321 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:06,040 No, just let us out here on the corner. 322 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,840 That's 90 cents and I can break a 50 if I have to. 323 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,800 Here's 90 cents and here's a dime. 324 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:13,800 Have fun. 325 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:30,840 Well, here we are. 326 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:31,840 Where's the house? 327 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,720 Across the street and up a little. 328 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:35,720 You wait here. 329 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:36,720 All right. 330 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,160 Don't come any closer than this. 331 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,160 I'll be back in no time. 332 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:41,160 Don't be frightened, Ricky. 333 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:42,400 Don't take any chances, Quinn. 334 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,160 If you see any lights, if it looks as if he's gotten back already, don't go all the way 335 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:47,160 in. 336 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:48,720 Just drop the money inside the door. 337 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:49,720 All right, Ricky. 338 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:50,720 Goodbye then. 339 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:51,720 Goodbye, Quinn. 340 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:58,720 Hurry back. 341 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:03,360 I waited for him there in the chilly night on the dark, empty street. 342 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:04,360 Why? 343 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,800 I knew better. 344 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:11,280 New York had taught me one thing and that was never to be a sucker for a man. 345 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,560 But then this was no man. 346 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:19,920 This was the boy who lived across from me on Anderson Street in Glen Falls, Iowa. 347 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:27,440 The boy who'd come here to do big things, to lick the town, and instead he'd been licked. 348 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:32,980 Instead he was hiding in the dark, sneaking along the streets, helpless. 349 00:16:32,980 --> 00:16:34,360 The boy next door. 350 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,520 Then I suddenly crouched back into our doorway. 351 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:39,760 A patrolman was coming on his tour of duty. 352 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,000 He stopped near me, not 10 yards away. 353 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:48,400 But his back was to me and his hand was opening a call box. 354 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:53,000 Rausen reporting in, 2.35 a.m. 355 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,280 How's the rummy game going? 356 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,880 And another thing, side. 357 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,000 Quiet as a church. 358 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,600 He finished his call, closed the box, and went on down the street. 359 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:13,120 Then he turned a corner and disappeared, and I breathed again. 360 00:17:13,120 --> 00:17:15,280 He'd been right, though. 361 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:23,720 It was quiet as a church, and that was wrong, because Quinn should have been back long ago. 362 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:24,720 Bricky. 363 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,720 What's the matter? 364 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:28,720 Bricky. 365 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:29,720 Tell me, Quinn, what is it? 366 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:30,720 What is it? 367 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:31,720 What are you frightened about? 368 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:32,720 What happened in there? 369 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:33,720 He's been killed. 370 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:34,720 What? 371 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:35,720 The man who lives there? 372 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:36,720 Yeah, Mr. Graves. 373 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:37,720 Was it you, Quinn? 374 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:38,720 Did you do it the first time you were in there and I... 375 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:39,720 I swear I didn't, Bricky. 376 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:40,720 I only took the money. 377 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:41,720 He wasn't even there. 378 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:42,720 He must have come back since. 379 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:43,720 I knew you didn't, Quinn. 380 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:44,720 I knew even though I asked. 381 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:45,720 Go down to the terminal. 382 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:46,720 Get your ticket and climb on that bus and forget we ever met. 383 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:47,720 Go on, Bricky. 384 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:48,720 Beat it before they find out. 385 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:49,720 Not with the money. 386 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:50,720 I'm not going to do that. 387 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:51,720 I'm not going to do that. 388 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:52,720 I'm not going to do that. 389 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:53,720 I'm not going to do that. 390 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:54,720 I'm not going to do that. 391 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:55,720 I'm not going to do that. 392 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:56,720 I'm not going to do that. 393 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:05,720 I'm not going to do that. 394 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:26,720 I'm not going to do that. 395 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:36,720 I'm not going to do that. 396 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:51,720 I'm not going to do that. 397 00:18:51,720 --> 00:19:04,720 I'm not going to do that. 398 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,520 He was brave, not afraid. 399 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,320 He was going into it, not running away from it. 400 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,760 There's a step here. 401 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,520 The stair creaked under our weight. 402 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:20,960 I wondered if there were anyone else in the house, anyone still alive. 403 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,480 Suppose someone had slept through the murder, 404 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,600 or had be awakened any moment by us. 405 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:26,480 I'll turn to the right. 406 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,960 OK. 407 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,000 We're on the second floor now. 408 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,160 I smell the aroma of leather and woodwork. 409 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:39,240 I smell the last lingering trace of a cigar. 410 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:45,200 I smelled powder, a harsh, deadly powder. 411 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,160 And then I thought I saw, I thought 412 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,760 I smelled something sweet, something very sweet. 413 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:52,240 Here, Bricky. 414 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,080 All right. 415 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,160 They say you can't smell a recent death, 416 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,160 but I could smell a stillness and a presence in it 417 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,280 that was more than just emptiness. 418 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:05,080 Get your eyes ready. 419 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:05,880 Here go the lights. 420 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,400 The dead man lay in the middle of the study, 421 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,080 and his face was all out of focus. 422 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,760 The lines that had been laugh lines were creases now. 423 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,200 The mouth that had been either strong or weak 424 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,680 was just a gap now, a place where the face was open. 425 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,040 The eyes that had been either kindly or cruel 426 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:31,840 were just glossy, lifeless insects now. 427 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:36,960 This was the dead man, and we'd come for his secret. 428 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,920 This is it, Bricky. 429 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,440 Yes. 430 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,520 This is it. 431 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,000 Now what do we do? 432 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,760 Well, shouldn't we close? 433 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,840 It's, they seem to be watching us. 434 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,240 No, don't touch him. 435 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,280 I don't know how to anyway. 436 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,880 Oh. 437 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,480 He's, he's still on his tuxedo. 438 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,360 He couldn't have been home very long. 439 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,040 No. 440 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,800 Can you tell what it was done with? 441 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,400 No, I'll have to unbutton his jacket. 442 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,640 All right. 443 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:10,120 Go ahead. 444 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,600 There it is. 445 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:16,960 Must have been a gun. 446 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:17,840 Yeah, a bullet. 447 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:18,920 It's round and frazzled. 448 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:19,920 A knife would have made a slit. 449 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:21,640 Then we can be sure no one else was in the house, 450 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:22,720 or they would have heard it go off. 451 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,080 And the killer must have taken the gun away. 452 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:25,440 There's no sign of one lying around. 453 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:26,520 So he didn't do it himself. 454 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:27,440 It can't be suicide. 455 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,560 That's right. 456 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:30,720 Now what? 457 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,120 We'd better look in his pockets. 458 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:33,840 Yes. 459 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,080 I'll do it. 460 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,120 You look the things over as I hand them to you. 461 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:38,440 All right, Quinn. 462 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,160 I'll start up here in the breast pocket. 463 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,840 That's the highest pocket in anybody's suit. 464 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,320 His handkerchief. 465 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,280 Look, Quinn. 466 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,760 The bullet went through this. 467 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:53,280 The way it folded it just made one little hole. 468 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,680 When you open it up, it makes three separate holes. 469 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,280 Like when you cut papers and make them into patterns. 470 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,600 The one on the left side's empty. 471 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:06,120 The right hand pocket, empty too. 472 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:07,560 Try inside the jacket. 473 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:08,400 Yeah. 474 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,080 Take out everything, no matter what it is. 475 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,320 Cigarette case, silver, Tiffany's. 476 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,680 Three cigarettes in it. 477 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,280 The wallet, two fives and a single. 478 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,800 Two ticket stubs from tonight's show at the Belasco. 479 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,640 C, 112 and 114. 480 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,160 So we know where he was from 830 to 11. 481 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,400 Anything else? 482 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:33,440 Business cards. 483 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,240 Stafford, Holmes, Inglesby, whoever they are. 484 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,240 Oh, and a snapshot. 485 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:40,360 Girl in riding togs. 486 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:41,720 Let's see that. 487 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:42,360 Yeah. 488 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:46,160 It's the same ones in the silver frame over there on the desk. 489 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,440 To Steven with love from Barbara. 490 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,400 Then she didn't do it. 491 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,160 If she had, she wouldn't be there on his desk anymore. 492 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,160 Just the silver frame maybe, but not her anymore. 493 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,120 That's common sense. 494 00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:56,320 All right, let's go on. 495 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,200 I'll have to lift him a little. 496 00:22:58,200 --> 00:22:59,080 Go ahead. 497 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:06,960 Left rear in the trousers, nothing. 498 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,640 Right rear, spare handkerchief. 499 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:16,080 Left side, nothing. 500 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:26,360 Right side, match folder, loose change, latch key. 501 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:28,680 That's it. 502 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,840 Not much help. 503 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:32,800 Do we know what we're doing, Bricky? 504 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,840 Oh, I don't know. 505 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:36,760 Quinn. 506 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,320 What? 507 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,440 A man who's a cigarette smoker, and we found that case 508 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:42,880 in his pocket. 509 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,760 Would he go in for cigars too? 510 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:45,160 Maybe. 511 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,280 Some people smoke both. 512 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,000 But would he smoke two cigars alone by himself? 513 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,520 Look, Quinn, two butts in this tray. 514 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:53,520 Yeah. 515 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,840 And the tray is between two chairs facing each other. 516 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,840 One cigar in one notch of the tray, 517 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,080 the other one around on the other side from it. 518 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,240 Two people, Quinn, two men. 519 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,720 And they were having an argument. 520 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:05,960 One of them was worked up about something. 521 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,640 You see, this butt is smooth at the mouth end. 522 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:09,560 And look at this one. 523 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,480 Chewed to ribbons, chewed to a fringe. 524 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,480 That tells it. 525 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:13,160 Which is which? 526 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,840 Who was calm and who was steamed up? 527 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,360 And who was the other man with Graves? 528 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:19,320 Oh, Quinn. 529 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:19,840 Wait a minute. 530 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:20,320 Here's something. 531 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:20,840 What? 532 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,480 It must have fallen out of his pocket. 533 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,600 He was probably sitting on it. 534 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:25,760 Fine. 535 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:26,960 Another book of matches. 536 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,640 That's just it, another one. 537 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,000 Graves had some on him. 538 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,400 So this is the other man. 539 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:32,880 And did he leave his name on it? 540 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,680 No, but he was excited. 541 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,120 Look how many matches he used up just on that one cigar. 542 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,120 The folder could have been half used up before he began. 543 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:40,840 Maybe, but take this. 544 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:41,960 What does it tell you? 545 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,320 It tells me to chew Dawson's gum. 546 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,520 Not the cover, inside. 547 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:49,240 I don't know. 548 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:50,200 What are you driving at? 549 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,360 Oh, wait. 550 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:53,080 Here, take my matches. 551 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,480 Now tear one off and strike it. 552 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,480 All right. 553 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,320 OK, blow it out. 554 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,120 You see what you did? 555 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:04,000 No. 556 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,840 You tore the match from the right hand side, didn't you? 557 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:07,320 Yeah. 558 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,280 That's what everybody does. 559 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,160 They start on the outside, on the right, 560 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:11,880 and work their way over to the left. 561 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,240 But this folder was worked in reverse. 562 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,560 Now do you see? 563 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:20,560 The man sitting in this chair, facing Graves, was left handed. 564 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:21,560 I see. 565 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,640 We're making progress. 566 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:24,400 Are we, Quinn? 567 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,720 Well, of course we are. 568 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,760 We know this man was rattled about something. 569 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,320 That he whittled away 15 matches to one cigar, 570 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,520 then mangled it to ribbons between his teeth. 571 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,720 That he was probably on bad terms with Graves, 572 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,840 and that he's left handed. 573 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,000 Fine. 574 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,440 Only you've missed something. 575 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,520 What? 576 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,840 The matches belong to a woman. 577 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,120 A woman? 578 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:45,320 A woman chopped that cigar to pieces? 579 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,960 Smell the folder. 580 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,080 What do you get? 581 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,680 Sulfur, the way matches always smell. 582 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:51,960 Give that a minute to clear away. 583 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,160 That's the stronger of the two. 584 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,200 It tops the other. 585 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:54,600 Now. 586 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:58,440 OK. 587 00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,840 Perfume, isn't it? 588 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:00,560 Yeah. 589 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,000 It's been carried around all day in a handbag. 590 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,560 A handbag that stinks of perfume. 591 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:07,800 I noticed it in the dark when we were coming in. 592 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,760 There's been a woman in this room tonight. 593 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,440 Well, that gives us two of them. 594 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,040 A man and a woman. 595 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,440 And they weren't here together. 596 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,520 There are only two chairs, one for Graves, 597 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,000 and the other one for each of his visitors. 598 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,200 Who was the last to go, the man or the woman? 599 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,360 I don't know, but we're started. 600 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:24,880 Look what we've dug up in half an hour. 601 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:30,440 Two unidentified people in the biggest city in the world. 602 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,080 You're right. 603 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,280 It's no use. 604 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,080 Oh, even so, we can't give up. 605 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,800 It's no use. 606 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,120 And what's more, I'm yellow, Bricky. 607 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:41,160 Let's give it up. 608 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,760 You're not yellow, Quinn, or I wouldn't be up here 609 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,040 in this room with you. 610 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,280 I'd better tell you this while I can, Bricky. 611 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,560 What? 612 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,240 I love you. 613 00:26:55,360 --> 00:27:00,560 It's 3 o'clock, Quinn, and we have till 6. 614 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,120 Three hours. 615 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:02,960 Bricky. 616 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:08,440 Save it, Quinn, save it for the bus when we're on our way home. 617 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,280 All right. 618 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,600 But I don't know what to do next, do you? 619 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,280 No, I don't. 620 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,160 What's that? 621 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:20,640 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 622 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,040 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 623 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:27,960 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 624 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,520 In tonight's full hour of suspense, 625 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,360 Helen Walker and John Beale co-star in Deadline at Dawn 626 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:36,000 by William Irish. 627 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Tonight's study in suspense. 628 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:46,480 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 629 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,520 In just a moment, we will return with Act 2 of Suspense. 630 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,960 This is CBS, the Columbia broadcasting system. 631 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,920 And now, back to our Hollywood sound stage 632 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,240 in Act 2 of Deadline at Dawn, co-starring Miss Helen Walker 633 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,600 as Bricky Coleman and Mr. John Beale as Quinn Williams 634 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,480 in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 635 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:20,120 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 636 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:21,920 All the emotions of a lifetime have 637 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,520 been crowded into one night for Bricky Coleman and Quinn 638 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:25,520 Williams. 639 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,600 And Dawn is a fast approaching deadline which they must meet. 640 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,520 The bus which will take them to home in safety 641 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,840 seems remote and unattainable as they stand now 642 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,920 over the body of a dead man in the quiet apartment, 643 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,600 knowing that they must find his murderer 644 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,840 or stand incriminated for the crime themselves. 645 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:49,640 And suddenly, a terrifying sound comes to them. 646 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,120 What is it, Bricky? 647 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:51,640 What is it? 648 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,280 It sounds like a burglar alarm. 649 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:55,120 Or a front doorbell, maybe. 650 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,240 Wait a minute, there's a box over there against the wall. 651 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,240 Telephone, follow the cord. 652 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,240 It's in his desk. 653 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,680 In the drawer. 654 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,680 What should we do? 655 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,680 I ought to answer it. 656 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:06,360 Oh, be careful. 657 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:07,240 You'll have the police here. 658 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:08,480 They'll know it's not his voice. 659 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:09,640 I'll talk lower. 660 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,360 I'll pretend I'm him. 661 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:12,280 Say a prayer, Bricky. 662 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:17,720 Hello? 663 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,080 Darling, this is Barbara. 664 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,760 I had to speak to you. 665 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,400 We've never parted angry like this before. 666 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,520 I know. 667 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,280 Maybe if we hadn't gone there to that parochy place, 668 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:29,520 it wouldn't have happened. 669 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:30,520 No. 670 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:31,920 Who was she? 671 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,960 The tall redhead in the light green dress? 672 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,320 I don't know. 673 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,840 You told me that before. 674 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,360 Then why'd she slip a note into your hand? 675 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,120 I saw her do it, you know. 676 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,000 Did you? 677 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,520 And then you couldn't wait to see me to my door 678 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,000 and get me off your hands. 679 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,920 What happened, Steve? 680 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,040 Did this woman come by to see you afterward? 681 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,000 Is that why you wanted to get rid of me? 682 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,400 No, Barbara. 683 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,040 Steve? 684 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,400 You sound so far away. 685 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,480 Is it the telephone? 686 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,200 Or is it you? 687 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,320 Poor connection. 688 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,640 You sound so cagey, as if someone were there now. 689 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,320 Can't you talk louder? 690 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,520 I'm sorry. 691 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:13,920 What's going on there? 692 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,320 This is Steven, isn't it? 693 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,240 It's just catching on. 694 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:16,840 I'm sunk. 695 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,080 Take your hand away from the mouthpiece and turn it my way. 696 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,680 Sugar, come on. 697 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,360 I'm getting tired of waiting. 698 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,840 How much longer you going to stand there talking? 699 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,040 I'm sorry, Steven. 700 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,520 Forgive me. 701 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,600 I didn't know. 702 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:35,600 You can hang up now. 703 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,640 I feel like a heel. 704 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:40,560 Well, stop it. 705 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:41,520 We don't have time. 706 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,040 The parakey. 707 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,120 That's a nightclub, isn't it? 708 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,600 Yes, on 54th Street. 709 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,280 A woman slipped him a note, Quinn. 710 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:47,960 All woman. 711 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:48,680 Could be. 712 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:49,800 Do you think he tore it up? 713 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:50,360 Maybe not. 714 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:51,600 Maybe he wanted to have a good look at it 715 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:52,720 when he got home, alone. 716 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:53,840 Let's look again. 717 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:55,920 Well, I went through those pockets pretty carefully. 718 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:56,800 I'm sure it's not that. 719 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,440 He might have missed something. 720 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,760 Quinn, turn him over again. 721 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,640 All right. 722 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:08,840 Nothing. 723 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,720 Nothing at all. 724 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:11,760 Shall we go through the desk? 725 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:12,760 Wait a minute. 726 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,200 What? 727 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,320 Run your eyes over him again. 728 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:18,960 I don't see a thing. 729 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,960 He's very well dressed. 730 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,400 And yet, isn't that a hole in the heel of his sock? 731 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,920 There, just showing over the shoe. 732 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,040 That's funny. 733 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,400 Take his shoe off, Quinn. 734 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:33,800 OK. 735 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:39,000 The note. 736 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:39,840 Of course. 737 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,280 He didn't want Barbara to see it. 738 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:42,920 So he hid it here until he could be alone. 739 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,320 And he never was alone. 740 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:45,280 Just a scrawl. 741 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,800 Go on. 742 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:53,000 Mr. Graves, I'd like to speak to you in private 743 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000 after you've taken the young lady home. 744 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,760 And I don't mean some other time. 745 00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,640 I mean tonight. 746 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,080 I wouldn't want to be disappointed. 747 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,240 That's all. 748 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,560 It isn't signed. 749 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,280 A woman of the matches. 750 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:08,440 Sounds like a shakedown. 751 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:09,280 You mean blackmail? 752 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:09,760 That's right. 753 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,600 He'd have to pay attention to a note like this. 754 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,480 Then we're going night clubbing, my boy. 755 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:14,760 We'll visit the parakeet. 756 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:15,880 It'll be closing by now. 757 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,080 She must have been seen there. 758 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,760 A tall redhead in a light green dress. 759 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,480 We'll check with the people who work there. 760 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:21,480 They'll still be around. 761 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,280 Waiters, checkroom girl, washroom attendant. 762 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:24,120 We'll find her. 763 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,040 Oh, we will, Becky. 764 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,920 How tracer if I have to go over the hairbrushes 765 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,240 in the dressing room one by one for stray red hairs. 766 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:30,280 Well, let me kill the lights. 767 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:31,000 I'll be right with you. 768 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,120 Hey, don't forget the switch. 769 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,440 The one over the sink in the bathroom. 770 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,000 Oh, I will. 771 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:36,720 Come on, Quinn. 772 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,200 Time's running out. 773 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,760 In a minute. 774 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,560 Is anything wrong? 775 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,280 I don't know. 776 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,040 Look what I found. 777 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,720 Why, it's a check. 778 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:49,920 Yeah. 779 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,560 Made out to Stephen Graves for $12,000. 780 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,160 Signed by Arthur Holmes. 781 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,480 And look how it's stamped. 782 00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:58,360 Returned. 783 00:32:58,360 --> 00:32:59,000 No funds. 784 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,160 Where'd you find it? 785 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,880 In the dry bottom of the tub. 786 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,360 How did it ever get there? 787 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:04,840 Just one way. 788 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,960 When I came here tonight, the first time, I did it. 789 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:08,520 How? 790 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,400 Well, don't you see, when I pulled the cash box out 791 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,640 and opened it, the check must have slipped out 792 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,200 into the tub without my noticing it. 793 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:14,920 Oh. 794 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:19,080 And then this fellow Holmes came, our jittery cigar smoker. 795 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,400 Maybe to ask Graves not to prosecute on a bad check. 796 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,240 To stall for time. 797 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,080 Graves went to find the check, and he couldn't. 798 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,480 Because it was on the other side of the wall, in his bathtub. 799 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,240 And Holmes thought he was trying to put something over on him. 800 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:39,840 And you think Holmes shot him, killed him for $12,000? 801 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,400 It's been done before. 802 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,240 And what about our redhead? 803 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:44,160 Bricky, it's the man. 804 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:44,840 It's got to be. 805 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,440 I think it's the woman. 806 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:48,800 We'll have to split up. 807 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,240 No, let's do it together. 808 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:50,840 The way we started. 809 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:51,520 It's too late. 810 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,960 We can't follow them one at a time. 811 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,520 Our deadline's at dawn, Quinn, and we've 812 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,000 got less than three hours. 813 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,040 Well, that bus to Glen Falls. 814 00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,400 The last bus. 815 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,080 Remember that. 816 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:05,920 It's the last bus for you, and for me, too. 817 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,760 Then we'll be saying goodbye, Bricky? 818 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,800 Yes, Quinn. 819 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,880 Goodbye till dawn. 820 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:25,480 We went down into the empty streets without talking to each other again. 821 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,640 And I went one way, and Quinn went the other. 822 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,840 In 10 minutes, we were blocks apart. 823 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,400 Maybe miles. 824 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,880 But it seemed to me that I was still at his side, still with him, 825 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:41,000 as he finally found an all-night drugstore and went back into a booth. 826 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,720 I knew he'd dial all the Arthur Holmeses in the book 827 00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:47,120 and talk to a lot of angry, sleepy people. 828 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:52,120 And then he'd find the right one, the Arthur Holmes we wanted. 829 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,040 What would Quinn do then? 830 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,000 What would he say? 831 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:56,800 What would happen? 832 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:07,280 Hello? 833 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:08,480 Yes. 834 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,040 Is this Mr. Arthur Holmes? 835 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,280 Who is this? 836 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,000 Well, Mr. Holmes, you don't know me. 837 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,600 Who is this that wants to speak to Mr. Holmes? 838 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,680 The name isn't known to you, Mr. Holmes, but... 839 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,440 What makes you think this is, Mr. Holmes? 840 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,960 And are you aware that it's almost 4 o'clock in the morning? 841 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,560 What do you want? 842 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,640 I have a check here that belongs to Mr. Holmes. 843 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,080 Will you let me talk to him? 844 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,560 You're speaking to him. 845 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,120 It's made out to Stephen Graves, and I have it right here in my hand. 846 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,760 Where did you find it? 847 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,160 I found it on the seat of a taxi. 848 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,200 It must have slipped out of someone's wallet. 849 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:42,600 Who was with you when you found it? 850 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,280 No-one, just me, by myself. 851 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,640 Whom did you show it to afterwards? 852 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:48,840 No-one. 853 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,080 Who's with you now? 854 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,640 No-one, I swear. 855 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,040 And you called because you thought I might want it back? 856 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,880 That's right. 857 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,600 I'm sorry, your time is up. 858 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,520 Deposit another nickel, please. 859 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,480 Shall I hang up, Mr. Holmes? 860 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:03,400 Put in another nickel. 861 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,400 Tell me, what's your name? 862 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:07,880 Quinn Williams. 863 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,520 Tell me something about yourself. 864 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:10,520 What do you do? 865 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,160 Are you a married man? 866 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,480 No, I'm single. 867 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:14,680 I live by myself. 868 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:15,720 Not even a roommate? 869 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:18,000 Nobody, strictly lone wolf. 870 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,560 I'd like to see that check, Quinn. 871 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,560 Maybe I can do something for you. 872 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:22,560 Fair enough. 873 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,800 There's a little bar called Owens down on 51st. 874 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:25,800 Do you know it? 875 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:26,800 I know where it is. 876 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,800 It'll take me about 15 minutes to get dressed and get down there. 877 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:30,800 Here's 15 minutes. 878 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,720 Good for you? 879 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:35,720 Just fine, Mr. Holmes. 880 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:38,720 I'll see you there. 881 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:42,200 You're a cagey boy, Mr. Holmes. 882 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,200 But you swallowed. 883 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:55,200 Quinn? 884 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:56,200 Yeah? 885 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,400 Over here in the booth. 886 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,160 Good evening, Mr. Holmes. 887 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,160 Good evening. 888 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,160 Sit down, won't you? 889 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,160 Yeah, I will. 890 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,160 You're right on time. 891 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,160 Sure. 892 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,160 So are you. 893 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:11,160 Here's a drink for you. 894 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,160 I had to order a head so I'd be allowed to stay in here. 895 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,160 It's past closing time. 896 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,160 Thanks. 897 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,160 What's the matter, son? 898 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:21,160 Nothing. 899 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,160 It'd just be funny, that's all. 900 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:31,160 Funny and kind of corny if you'd slipped a little something into this. 901 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:32,160 Take mine, then. 902 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,160 I haven't put it to my mouth yet. 903 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,160 I think I will. 904 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,160 Bottoms up. 905 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:45,160 Bottoms up. 906 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,160 My car's around the corner. 907 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,160 Would you rather talk about it there? 908 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,160 Yeah, I would. 909 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:52,160 I think we ought to be alone. 910 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,160 That's easy, son. 911 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,160 We can be alone. 912 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,160 That's enough driving. 913 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,160 Pull up. 914 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,160 I just thought we'd coast a bit. 915 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,160 We can't sit talking at the curb at this hour. 916 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,160 We'll have a cop down on us sticking his nose into the car. 917 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,160 What's wrong with that? 918 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,160 I don't know. 919 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,160 Do you? 920 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,160 I was asking you. 921 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,160 However, if you want to pull up. 922 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,160 The East River. 923 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,160 A mighty mysterious place at this time of day. 924 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,160 You're pretty close to the edge, aren't you? 925 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,160 The wheels are blocked. 926 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,160 You're not nervous, are you? 927 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,160 No, I'm not. 928 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,160 Now, about that check. 929 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,160 I didn't find that check in a cab, Mr. Holmes. 930 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,160 I found it in Stephen Grave's house. 931 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,160 Where he's lying right now on the floor. 932 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:00,160 Dead. 933 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,160 Stephen dead? 934 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,160 And your cigar is still in the room with him. 935 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,160 Chewed to a pulp. 936 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,160 A corona, like the one you're smoking right now. 937 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,160 You should have taken it with you, Mr. Holmes. 938 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,160 After you'd killed him. 939 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,160 You seem to know a good deal about this. 940 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,160 A little. 941 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,160 Not enough to know who the killer is. 942 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:25,160 I feel a little sorry for you. 943 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:29,160 I didn't know you were as young as you are over the phone. 944 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,160 What have I... 945 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,160 What have I got to do with it? 946 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,160 You're having a lot of trouble with your eyes, aren't you? 947 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,160 Lights on the dashboard have got rings around them, haven't they? 948 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,160 Like big soap bubbles. 949 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,160 What are you talking about? 950 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,160 Say, you talk too much. 951 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,160 You've talked yourself into the grave. 952 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:54,160 I would have believed you about finding that check in a taxi. 953 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,160 You would have gone to sleep in the car, and when you woke up, 954 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,160 you wouldn't have the check on you anymore. 955 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,160 But you'd have had a ten dollar bill in your pocket, too. 956 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,160 Sugarcoat the experience. 957 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,160 Head weighs too much, doesn't it? 958 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,160 Too heavy for your neck. 959 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,160 My head. 960 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,160 You should have stuck to your own drink, son. 961 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,160 You were suspicious. 962 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,160 But not suspicious enough. 963 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,160 You took the wrong glass. 964 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,160 Me, I'm a chess player. 965 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,160 You know what chess is? 966 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:28,160 It's figuring out your opponent's move before he makes it. 967 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,160 It's a funny thing. 968 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,160 The way my head... 969 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,160 Like a solid rock. 970 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:39,160 You're going to sleep here in the car. 971 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,160 Then you're going into the river without a mark on you. 972 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,160 But I'll take the check before I dump you. 973 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,160 It's probably in your shoe. 974 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:51,160 It's about where your type of youngster would think was a clever hiding place for it. 975 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,160 Just clear my head. 976 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,160 And then kick. 977 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,160 Kick. 978 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,160 Trying to kick out the glass, son? 979 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:05,160 You haven't the strength of a kick left in you. 980 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,160 No, it's all over. 981 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,160 That's water in front of us. 982 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:14,160 That even black line you see. 983 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,160 Right over the hubcap. 984 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,160 Can't even move, can you? 985 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,160 That's right. 986 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:26,160 Make a lazy pass with your hand like you're brushing away flies. 987 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,160 That's about all you're able to do. 988 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:34,160 In a minute, you won't even be able to do that. 989 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,160 There go your eyes. 990 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:43,160 Down, down, down. 991 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,160 You won't get away with this, mister. 992 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,160 Bricky knows. 993 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,160 There are two of us. 994 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,160 Not just one. 995 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,160 And so I walked away from Quinn. 996 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,160 And I was alone again. 997 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,160 I'd met him only a few hours before. 998 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:14,160 And with him I'd met my past and my home. 999 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,160 And everything I loved and wanted. 1000 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,160 And now I was alone again. 1001 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:24,160 Somewhere in this sleeping city, Quinn was after his man. 1002 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,160 And I was after my woman. 1003 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:33,160 My redhead. My long-stemmed American beauty. 1004 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,160 The nightclub parakey was dead. 1005 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,160 Dead, but not quite cold. 1006 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,160 Just in the process of giving up the ghost. 1007 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:45,160 Every other minute a solitary figure would come out and walk away. 1008 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,160 Someone who earned a living inside. 1009 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:52,160 This was the five o'clock in the afternoon of the nightclub workers. 1010 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:56,160 Whose clock goes in the opposite direction to that of the rest of the world. 1011 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,160 And what did I have to go on? 1012 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:04,160 A redhead blackmailer who would quickly scribble a note to a man. 1013 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:09,160 And that kind of woman doesn't ordinarily carry around pencil and paper in her purse. 1014 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,160 She sends messages with her eyes and her hips. 1015 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:19,160 If she wants a pencil, she's got to borrow it from the help. 1016 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,160 Excuse me. 1017 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,160 What's the matter? 1018 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:23,160 You work here, don't you? 1019 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,160 I'm in the check room until something better turns up. 1020 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:26,160 Why? 1021 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,160 I wondered, did my friend in a light green dress, a redhead, 1022 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,160 did she borrow a pencil from you tonight? 1023 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,160 It works the other way around, honey. 1024 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,160 The men take out their pencils and give me names and addresses and telephone numbers. 1025 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:37,160 I got a fistful. 1026 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:38,160 But didn't a woman... 1027 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,160 It's no dice, honey. 1028 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,160 I don't even see any women in my stall. 1029 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,160 Oh. 1030 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,160 Another long day. 1031 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,160 My feet swell up all the time. 1032 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:50,160 You want to try up some salts. 1033 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,160 Water is hot as you can stand. 1034 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:53,160 Excuse me. 1035 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,160 Well, my name's Jerry. 1036 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,160 But don't let the name stand in your way. 1037 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:01,160 I'm looking for my friend, a redhead in a light green dress. 1038 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,160 Did she borrow a pencil from you tonight? 1039 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:04,160 Not at my end of the bar. 1040 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:05,160 How about it, Frank? 1041 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,160 Sure, Joan Bassett. 1042 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:08,160 About midnight. 1043 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:12,160 She's always borrowing something and forgetting to give it back. 1044 00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,160 How that girl forgets. 1045 00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,160 That's the way Joni is. 1046 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,160 Do you know where I can find her? 1047 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,160 Well, try to Concord. 1048 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,160 That was the last address. 1049 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,160 But she's probably moved by now. 1050 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,160 Thanks, fellas. 1051 00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,160 Can't I do anything for you? 1052 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,160 Another time, Jerry. 1053 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,160 Okay, that's a promise. 1054 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:30,160 Another time. 1055 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,160 What can I do for you? 1056 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:43,160 Be friendly, Pop. 1057 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:44,160 Say hello. 1058 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:45,160 Hello. 1059 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:46,160 That's better. 1060 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:47,160 What do you want, a room? 1061 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:48,160 We're full up. 1062 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,160 What room's my girlfriend got? 1063 00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:51,160 I want to run up and tell her something. 1064 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:52,160 You know, Joni. 1065 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:53,160 Joan Bassett? 1066 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:54,160 Yeah, Joan Bassett. 1067 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,160 Only we don't have to be so formal. 1068 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,160 She's in 409, sugar. 1069 00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,160 Hey, wait a minute. 1070 00:44:58,160 --> 00:44:59,160 I'll try again. 1071 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:00,160 I'll skip that. 1072 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:01,160 She don't have to put on no ears with me. 1073 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:02,160 Who's she kidding? 1074 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:03,160 I know she's two weeks behind. 1075 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:04,160 No rent. 1076 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:05,160 All right. 1077 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:25,160 If you know that well, go on up. 1078 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:26,160 What do you want? 1079 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:27,160 You. 1080 00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,160 I want to talk to you. 1081 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,160 Yeah? 1082 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,160 Well, just stand out there a minute and tell me what about. 1083 00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,160 We got a friend in common, you and I. 1084 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:35,160 It's possible. 1085 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,160 Go on. 1086 00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,160 This friend's name is Stephen Graves. 1087 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:43,160 Suppose you come in a minute. 1088 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,160 I'll hear what's on your mind. 1089 00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:46,160 Sure. 1090 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,160 I thought that might do it. 1091 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,160 Do you have to lock the door? 1092 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:52,160 Yeah, I think I do. 1093 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:53,160 Whatever you think best. 1094 00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,160 Begin with your name. 1095 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,160 You can put me down as Carolyn Miller. 1096 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,160 All right, Carolyn Miller. 1097 00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,160 Now about Stephen Graves. 1098 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,160 What makes you think I know him? 1099 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:04,160 Stop being polite. 1100 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,160 You know him. 1101 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,160 Did he mention me to you? 1102 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:07,160 No. 1103 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,160 He wasn't doing any mentioning of anybody. 1104 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,160 He wasn't doing anything. 1105 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,160 You've been over to see him lately? 1106 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,160 Very lately. 1107 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,160 I just came from there now. 1108 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,160 How did you find him? 1109 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,160 I found him dead. 1110 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,160 I see. 1111 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,160 That tap in the kitchen is loose again. 1112 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:35,160 Excuse me a minute while I tighten it. 1113 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,160 I'd known we weren't alone the moment I came into that room. 1114 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:42,160 And I knew that faucet in the kitchen was a signal for a quick conference. 1115 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,160 It was my chance. 1116 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,160 Maybe I had a minute, maybe only 30 seconds. 1117 00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:49,160 There was only time for one thing, the open handbag on the dresser. 1118 00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:50,160 Nothing there. 1119 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:54,160 Lipstick, powder, usual junk. 1120 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:59,160 And then an unpaid hotel bill for $17.89 from this place, the Concord. 1121 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,160 No good, worthless, and my time was up. 1122 00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:06,160 Yet something screamed at me to hold on to it, to slip it inside my stocking high up, 1123 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:11,160 and to get back into my chair. 1124 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,160 Well, that's done. 1125 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,160 Now, where were we? 1126 00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:17,160 With Stephen Graves. 1127 00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:18,160 Oh, yeah. 1128 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,160 Did you go up there alone or did you have somebody with you? 1129 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,160 Alone. 1130 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,160 I don't take my grandmother with me when I'm visiting. 1131 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:26,160 I see. 1132 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,160 Somebody stop you at the door and tell you, is that how you found out? 1133 00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,160 Cops and people hanging around, lots of excitement? 1134 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:32,160 No one knows it. 1135 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:33,160 I found him alone. 1136 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,160 I had a key to the house that he'd given me. 1137 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,160 I went up and there he was, dead. 1138 00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,160 What'd you do, holler bloody murder and bring everyone down the place? 1139 00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,160 I got out of there fast and quiet. 1140 00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,160 I don't want to be mixed up in it. 1141 00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,160 Smart girl. 1142 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,160 And all this happened just a little while ago, huh? 1143 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,160 Yeah. 1144 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:52,160 Nobody knows yet but you? 1145 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,160 Me and you. 1146 00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:55,160 Did you come here alone? 1147 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,160 All alone. 1148 00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,160 Everything I do, I do alone. 1149 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,160 I guess I've hit the jackpot. 1150 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,160 Yeah, you sure have, baby. 1151 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,160 You've hit it hard. 1152 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,160 Make it tight, Griff, so she can't make any noise. 1153 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:10,160 It's tight. 1154 00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:11,160 Don't worry about that. 1155 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,160 Well, Miss Carolyn Miller, you're in trouble now. 1156 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:15,160 You tell her. 1157 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,160 So Stephen Graves is dead and you felt a little nosy about it, huh? 1158 00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,160 You wanted the details, all right. 1159 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:21,160 You can have them. 1160 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,160 You seemed to have known him pretty well. 1161 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:24,160 Maybe he told you, did he? 1162 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:28,160 Did he tell you about his kid brother who married a tavern hostess back in Boston? 1163 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:33,160 Did he tell you what that did to the fine old family name when this girl began asking for money? 1164 00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,160 When she came to New York and began asking Stephen for money? 1165 00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:40,160 Did he tell you that he paid and paid and finally decided to stop paying? 1166 00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:44,160 So this girl and her friend had to pay him a little visit tonight to try to persuade him? 1167 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,160 Did he tell you that? 1168 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:50,160 Did he tell you what happened when he couldn't be persuaded? 1169 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,160 No. 1170 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,160 No, he didn't tell you that. 1171 00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,160 Because he wasn't talking by then. 1172 00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,160 By then he was dead. 1173 00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,160 That's enough. You want to spend the night at it? 1174 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:01,160 All right. 1175 00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,160 Well, what's the play now? 1176 00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,160 Don't you figure we ought to... 1177 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,160 No, not here in the room. That's begging for it. 1178 00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,160 You don't understand. I don't mean chop chop, that kind of stuff. 1179 00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:12,160 I mean, we're four flights up. 1180 00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:13,160 That ought to be enough. 1181 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:17,160 The three of us get to drinking up here, she goes over to the window to try to open it for a little air. 1182 00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,160 And it jams, so she's got to push it. 1183 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,160 There's always a follow-up. It's a little messy. 1184 00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,160 Let me take care of this. 1185 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,160 Yeah, like you took care of the other. 1186 00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,160 When I told you just to throw a scare into him so he'd come across. 1187 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,160 Well, some scare you through, Adam Griff. 1188 00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,160 Yeah, I scared him right out of his skin, right out of his hide. 1189 00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,160 I don't want you to be so impulsive this time. 1190 00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,160 Well, then let's blow. 1191 00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:38,160 We'll stuff her in the closet. 1192 00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,160 Backs up against a dead wall so she'll never be heard. 1193 00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,160 It'll be days before they get around to busting the door down. 1194 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,160 Yeah, we'll be far away by then. 1195 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,160 Yeah, far away. 1196 00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,160 Okay, I can pack in ten minutes. 1197 00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:49,160 Yes, I'll give you a hand. 1198 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,160 Hey, what? Wait a minute. 1199 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,160 I'm missing that hotel bill. It must have fallen somewhere on the floor. 1200 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,160 Don't worry about that. He can make up a new one for you down at the desk. 1201 00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:58,160 Oh, yeah, sure, that's right. 1202 00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:01,160 Well, shall we get her out of the way first? 1203 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,160 Yeah. 1204 00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,160 Hang Carolyn Miller in the closet. 1205 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,160 Oopsy daisy. 1206 00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:08,160 Make her comfortable, Griff. 1207 00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:09,160 Sure. 1208 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,160 We want to be extra nice to her because there's a little fresh air in there. 1209 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:13,160 Yeah, it'll only be a minute. 1210 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:14,160 Griff. 1211 00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:15,160 Yeah, what's the matter now? 1212 00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:16,160 Put her down. 1213 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,160 What do you mean? 1214 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:18,160 Put her down, quick! 1215 00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:19,160 I ought to have my head examined. 1216 00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:20,160 You mean you slipped on something? 1217 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,160 Yeah, forgot. We both clean forgot. 1218 00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,160 What was it tipped her off to me? 1219 00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,160 She didn't pull my name and address out of a hat? 1220 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:28,160 Yeah. 1221 00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,160 Take that gag off her. 1222 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,160 You try to scream and I'll dent you. 1223 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,160 I won't scream. 1224 00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,160 Now talk. How'd you know I knew him? 1225 00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:38,160 How'd you know where to find me? 1226 00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,160 I'm gonna let you have it and I'm gonna keep letting you have it until you answer. 1227 00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:46,160 You dropped your hotel bill over there. 1228 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,160 I found it lying in the room with him. 1229 00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,160 I ought to slap you down to the soles of your feet. 1230 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:52,160 You left your calling card. That's what you did. 1231 00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:55,160 Oh, she's lying. I swear I saw it in my handbag after I got back. 1232 00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:56,160 Did you take it out to show him? 1233 00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:57,160 Answer me, did you? 1234 00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:03,160 Sure. While you were waiting downstairs, it was part of the buildup to show him how bad I needed money, but... 1235 00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,160 I know I put it back again. 1236 00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:05,160 You think you know. 1237 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,160 Well, I... I'm almost positive. 1238 00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:12,160 It fell out. It was for $17.89. 1239 00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:16,160 It had past you stamped on it in purple ink. 1240 00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,160 It even had your room number on it. 1241 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,160 And what did you do with it? Did you bring it with you? 1242 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:25,160 I left it where it was. I was afraid to touch anything. 1243 00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:28,160 We'll have to go back and get it. 1244 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:32,160 All right, we will. We'll take her with us. 1245 00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,160 Fix it. It'll look like she did it to him. 1246 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:38,160 What you want to do in the first place, Griff, why don't you do it over there? 1247 00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,160 Give my double-header to figure out. 1248 00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:41,160 Maybe. 1249 00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:42,160 Oh, it's the only way. 1250 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,160 Rub out this detour by finishing her off where she started from. 1251 00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:49,160 All right. Come on, Carolyn Miller. 1252 00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,160 We're going for a little ride. 1253 00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:56,160 And so I went back into Stephen Grave's house for the second time that night. 1254 00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,160 They pushed me ahead of them in the darkness, 1255 00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,160 whispering to each other not to use any lights yet, 1256 00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:05,160 just as Quinn and I had done a few hours before. 1257 00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:09,160 Or was it a few years before? 1258 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,160 I don't know. 1259 00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,160 I don't know. 1260 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,160 I don't know. 1261 00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,160 I don't know. 1262 00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:21,160 Or was it a few years before? 1263 00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,160 Then we were in the study and the lights were snapped on 1264 00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:28,160 and the dead man was still on the floor 1265 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,160 and nobody stepped forward to say, 1266 00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,160 Bricky, is that you? 1267 00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:37,160 No. He wasn't there. 1268 00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:42,160 Quinn wasn't there waiting to help me, to save me. 1269 00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,160 Well, let's do what we have to do and get out fast. 1270 00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:47,160 No, not yet. There's something else first. 1271 00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,160 Well, you. 1272 00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,160 Where is it? 1273 00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,160 Where's that hotel bill? 1274 00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,160 Where'd you say you saw it? 1275 00:52:57,160 --> 00:53:01,160 Over there by him is where I said. 1276 00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,160 And you believed me. 1277 00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:07,160 Then you didn't... you lied. 1278 00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,160 I lied. 1279 00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,160 Where is it? Where have you got it? 1280 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,160 That's... that's your little problem. 1281 00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,160 Let me have the gun. I'll do it. 1282 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:17,160 Here it is, Griff. 1283 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,160 Get away from him. Move over. 1284 00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,160 Stand still, Carolyn Miller. 1285 00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,160 I want to come real close. 1286 00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:29,160 I want them to worry about whether it's suicide. 1287 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,160 Yes, Griff. 1288 00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,160 I'll stand still. 1289 00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,160 Good girl, Carolyn. 1290 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,160 Good girl. 1291 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:42,160 It didn't hurt. 1292 00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,160 It didn't hurt at all. 1293 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,160 And I opened my eyes to find out why. 1294 00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,160 Griff stood in the middle of the room, his face contorted, 1295 00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:52,160 an arm squeezing hard around his neck. 1296 00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,160 And behind his face was another face, a face I knew, 1297 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:59,160 Quinn's face, the boy next door fighting for me, fighting to save me. 1298 00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,160 Then Quinn went down, all lopsided, and Quinn was on top, 1299 00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,160 punching at him again and again, 1300 00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,160 and John was racing across the room with an and iron, 1301 00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:07,160 raising a hand. 1302 00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,160 I never played football as a little girl, 1303 00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,160 but on this night I decided it was time to try. 1304 00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,160 Ricky. Ricky, darling. 1305 00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:32,160 Quinn. 1306 00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,160 Are you all right? 1307 00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,160 Somebody's ringing church bells in my head. 1308 00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:41,160 Oh, you knocked yourself out with that flying tackle. 1309 00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,160 Quinn. Quinn, what happened? 1310 00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:49,160 Oh, yeah, they're both asleep, Ricky, as sound as can be. 1311 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:53,160 I see you've wrapped them up nicely. 1312 00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,160 Yeah, I had to tear up a few good sheets to do it, 1313 00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,160 but I don't think Mr. Graves would have minded. 1314 00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,160 I'd given up, Quinn. 1315 00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,160 I thought I'd beat you back here. 1316 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,160 I'd given up. 1317 00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,160 Oh, Ricky. 1318 00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:10,160 I saw them coming in with you outside on the street. 1319 00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,160 I was watching from one of the front windows, 1320 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,160 and something about the way you were walking between them, 1321 00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,160 sort of stiff, told me they had a gun on you. 1322 00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,160 So I backed up into the bathroom and laid low. 1323 00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,160 They're the ones, Quinn. They did it. 1324 00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:24,160 I know. 1325 00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:25,160 And we can go now. 1326 00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:26,160 It's a quarter to six. 1327 00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:28,160 We can catch that bus for home. 1328 00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,160 There's one more thing to be done, Ricky. 1329 00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,160 It'll only take a minute, 1330 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:40,160 and then you and I aren't going to have any more to worry about. 1331 00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,160 Is this the police? 1332 00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,160 I want to report a murder. 1333 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,160 Oh, Quinn. 1334 00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:49,160 Stephen Graves, in his home on East 71st Street. 1335 00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,160 There are two people tied up in the same room with the body, 1336 00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:53,160 and they're the killers. 1337 00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,160 You'll find a special delivery letter in the desk 1338 00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:57,160 from Graves' younger brother, 1339 00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:00,160 and that'll tell you the reason for the killing. 1340 00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:01,160 What? 1341 00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,160 No, this isn't any rib. 1342 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,160 I wish it was. 1343 00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:08,160 Me? 1344 00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,160 Just a guy who happened to be passing by. 1345 00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,160 We can take their car. He left his keys in it. 1346 00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:28,160 Come on, Quinn, hurry. 1347 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:29,160 Master Quinn. 1348 00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,160 We'll make it. Don't you worry, Ricky. 1349 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:35,160 I'm not worried. I know we will. 1350 00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,160 What happened to you tonight? 1351 00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:38,160 Did you find Holmes? 1352 00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:39,160 Yeah. 1353 00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:40,160 And? 1354 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:41,160 And he tried to kill me. 1355 00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:42,160 Quinn! 1356 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,160 It was your name that saved me, Bricky. 1357 00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,160 I called out your name, 1358 00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,160 I told him you were in on this with me, 1359 00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:50,160 and he changed his mind in a hurry. 1360 00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:53,160 Then we saved each other. 1361 00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:54,160 That's right. 1362 00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:56,160 What about the check? How did it figure? 1363 00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:59,160 Well, Holmes was caught short when he wrote that check, 1364 00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,160 and Graves got sore when the bank returned it. 1365 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,160 They talked it over tonight, 1366 00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:06,160 and it ended up with Graves giving him another day to raise the money. 1367 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,160 The reason Holmes was so jittery 1368 00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,160 was that the check seemed to have disappeared. 1369 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,160 He didn't know what Graves might be pulling. 1370 00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,160 And, of course, Graves wasn't pulling anything, 1371 00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,160 with that check lying in the bottom of his bathtub. 1372 00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,160 You told Holmes how it got there? 1373 00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:21,160 Yeah. 1374 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,160 And look what I've got. 1375 00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:25,160 Two hundred dollar... 1376 00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,160 Quinn! 1377 00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,160 No, I didn't steal it. 1378 00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,160 After he decided he wouldn't kill me, 1379 00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:34,160 Holmes and I got very chummy. 1380 00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,160 He said we'd both made a mistake in the same night. 1381 00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:41,160 Me breaking into a safe and him with his bad check. 1382 00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,160 He'd slipped me a pill earlier in the evening, 1383 00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:46,160 and now he was walking me around to sober me up. 1384 00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,160 That's when he gave me the money. 1385 00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,160 A nest egg for me, he said. 1386 00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,160 I could send it back to him a little at a time later on. 1387 00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,160 We'll send it back, Quinn. 1388 00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:57,160 We, Bricky? 1389 00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,160 We're in this together, aren't we? 1390 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,160 Yes, Bricky, we are. 1391 00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,160 Oh, look, Quinn, we made it. 1392 00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,160 We're in time. The bus is still there. 1393 00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,160 Come on, Bricky, let's go on home. 1394 00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:11,160 Let's go on home. 1395 00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:38,160 Thank you, Helen Walker and John Beale, 1396 00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:41,160 for your truly wonderful performances as Bricky and Quinn. 1397 00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,160 And to Lillian Bief, Rye Billsbury, 1398 00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:47,160 Edith Tachner, Buddy Gray, and Bill Johnstone, 1399 00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:50,160 thanks for your splendid support. 1400 00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:52,160 With this performance, Suspense leaves the air 1401 00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,160 for a short vacation period. 1402 00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:58,160 We will return on Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, 1403 00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:00,160 starting Thursday, July 8th, 1404 00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,160 with an outstanding series of gripping suspense stories 1405 00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,160 featuring the acting of your favorite stars of the screen. 1406 00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:10,160 Watch for the new Suspense series starting Thursday, July 8th. 1407 00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:14,160 Miss Helen Walker may soon be seen in My Dear Secretary, 1408 00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:18,160 and Mr. John Beale will soon be seen in Paramount's Abigail Dearheart. 1409 00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:22,160 Deadline at Dawn by William Irish was adapted for radio by Irving Ravitch 1410 00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:25,160 and was produced and directed by Anton M. Leder. 1411 00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:27,160 Ludgluskin is our musical director and conductor, 1412 00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:30,160 Lucian Morrowek composes the original scores. 1413 00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:32,160 Be sure to watch for the new half-hour series 1414 00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:36,160 of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 1415 00:59:36,160 --> 01:00:03,160 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.