WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:22.320 Suspense. 00:22.320 --> 00:29.080 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour, a full 60 minutes of suspense. 00:29.080 --> 00:34.120 Tonight our stars, Miss Helen Walker and Mr. John Beale. 00:34.120 --> 00:38.080 Our story, Deadline at Dawn by William Irish. 00:38.080 --> 00:47.240 A suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Lieder. 00:47.240 --> 00:51.040 If you've ever been alone in a strange big city, you know the haunting loneliness of 00:51.040 --> 00:52.040 it. 00:52.040 --> 00:55.920 And you know how the sight of a familiar face, the sound of a familiar voice can lift your 00:55.920 --> 00:57.720 spirit high. 00:57.720 --> 01:02.240 Even a stranger who comes from your hometown becomes a long lost friend because he brings 01:02.240 --> 01:05.820 with him a breath of home, a flood of memories. 01:05.820 --> 01:09.600 That was the emotion that drew Bricky Coleman and Quinn Williams together. 01:09.600 --> 01:14.080 But their meeting wasn't the joyful happy kind, for it was the beginning of longing 01:14.080 --> 01:17.180 and fear and danger. 01:17.180 --> 01:22.420 And now, with the performances of Helen Walker as Bricky Coleman and John Beale as Quinn 01:22.420 --> 01:28.400 Williams and with William Irish's great story, Deadline at Dawn, we again hope to keep you 01:28.400 --> 01:51.320 in suspense. 01:51.320 --> 01:56.080 Until I met him, men were just pink dance tickets to me. 01:56.080 --> 01:59.960 They were just two and a half cents worth of commission on the dime. 01:59.960 --> 02:04.320 Piers of feet that kept crowding mine all over the map, all over the floor, all over 02:04.320 --> 02:06.440 the night. 02:06.440 --> 02:10.560 They were blank faces that could steer me any way they wanted until their five minutes 02:10.560 --> 02:12.700 were up. 02:12.700 --> 02:17.040 Because I was a New York taxi dancer until I met him. 02:17.040 --> 02:23.040 A girl from a small town, caught and held fast in the big city, with all her dreams 02:23.040 --> 02:26.800 forgotten and all her hopes gone. 02:26.800 --> 02:29.020 And not caring anymore. 02:29.020 --> 02:31.360 Not caring at all. 02:31.360 --> 02:34.280 Until I met him. 02:34.280 --> 02:39.240 They always dimmed the lights for the last dance, just to make the customers feel sentimental 02:39.240 --> 02:41.640 about it all. 02:41.640 --> 02:44.400 At one in the morning, I was through again for the day. 02:44.400 --> 02:50.400 I put on my coat, go out the side door, walk past the sad sacks that thought they were 02:50.400 --> 02:53.600 wolves and loitered on the sidewalk. 02:53.600 --> 02:58.240 And then I'd begin the 20 blocks to home. 02:58.240 --> 03:05.960 Home was a filthy old brownstone down near the river, with a long smace an old army caught. 03:05.960 --> 03:06.960 That was home. 03:06.960 --> 03:13.560 But at least it was a place where I could get out of my shoes and make some coffee and 03:13.560 --> 03:16.680 sleep to forget. 03:16.680 --> 03:20.640 I'd get home about 1.30. 03:20.640 --> 03:23.560 You left your door open. 03:23.560 --> 03:26.240 So I left my door open. 03:26.240 --> 03:28.220 Did you think that was an invitation to walk in? 03:28.220 --> 03:29.560 You better close it now. 03:29.560 --> 03:30.560 Hey, listen here. 03:30.560 --> 03:31.560 Close it. 03:31.560 --> 03:32.560 Please. 03:32.560 --> 03:33.560 All right. 03:33.560 --> 03:41.280 Now, if you're a burglar, you won't find anything. 03:41.280 --> 03:42.280 The rats got here first. 03:42.280 --> 03:43.760 I am a burglar. 03:43.760 --> 03:45.960 Well, then you're not a very smart one. 03:45.960 --> 03:48.160 What are you looking for, coffee grounds? 03:48.160 --> 03:49.800 I wasn't looking for anything. 03:49.800 --> 03:51.920 Well, then why don't you go, please? 03:51.920 --> 03:53.760 Find a nice rich old lady to rob. 03:53.760 --> 03:57.760 Look, I need a place to stay for a while. 03:57.760 --> 04:00.320 I thought maybe you would let me... 04:00.320 --> 04:01.920 What, stay here? 04:01.920 --> 04:03.880 Look, I don't hand out favors. 04:03.880 --> 04:04.880 You're nothing to me. 04:04.880 --> 04:05.880 I know. 04:05.880 --> 04:07.680 It was just a hunch I had. 04:07.680 --> 04:12.200 The way you were looking at me, I thought I could come here for help. 04:12.200 --> 04:14.280 The way I was looking? 04:14.280 --> 04:17.040 I've never seen you before in my life. 04:17.040 --> 04:22.040 Well, you were looking straight at me at the dance hall about an hour ago. 04:22.040 --> 04:25.040 You mean you were at the Cinderella ballroom tonight? 04:25.040 --> 04:26.440 Don't you remember me? 04:26.440 --> 04:27.440 No. 04:27.440 --> 04:28.800 Well, that's funny. 04:28.800 --> 04:30.520 It's not funny at all. 04:30.520 --> 04:33.480 You all look the same to me, namely horrible. 04:33.480 --> 04:36.120 Well, I guess it's my mistake. 04:36.120 --> 04:39.120 But I was sure. 04:39.120 --> 04:42.520 You seem so... so nice. 04:42.520 --> 04:43.520 Did I? 04:43.520 --> 04:44.520 Yeah. 04:44.520 --> 04:46.600 That's because I was thinking of home. 04:46.600 --> 04:48.480 I always do that on the job. 04:48.480 --> 04:49.480 Makes the night go faster. 04:49.480 --> 04:51.920 I guess I know what you mean. 04:51.920 --> 04:54.280 What'd you do, follow me? 04:54.280 --> 04:55.280 No. 04:55.280 --> 04:57.840 The man at the door gave me your address. 04:57.840 --> 04:58.840 For a dollar. 04:58.840 --> 04:59.840 Oh, he did, did he? 04:59.840 --> 05:01.960 Yeah, I wanted to get off the streets. 05:01.960 --> 05:03.560 This time of night, the cops are curious. 05:03.560 --> 05:08.400 I thought I saw one of them following me, so I beat it down this hall to hide. 05:08.400 --> 05:09.680 That's when I found your door open. 05:09.680 --> 05:11.880 You picked a good place for hiding. 05:11.880 --> 05:14.720 Nobody ever comes here but the landlady once a month. 05:14.720 --> 05:17.120 Please let me stay a while. 05:17.120 --> 05:18.120 Please. 05:18.120 --> 05:20.680 What's your name? 05:20.680 --> 05:21.680 Quinn Williams. 05:21.680 --> 05:22.680 Quinn? 05:22.680 --> 05:23.680 Yeah. 05:23.680 --> 05:24.680 Never heard that name before. 05:24.680 --> 05:26.600 It used to be my mother's before she got married. 05:26.600 --> 05:27.600 I see. 05:27.600 --> 05:31.960 What do you say? 05:31.960 --> 05:33.920 You want some coffee, Quinn? 05:33.920 --> 05:34.920 Thanks. 05:34.920 --> 05:35.920 Thanks. 05:35.920 --> 05:37.200 But get this straight. 05:37.200 --> 05:39.520 One cup of coffee and nothing more. 05:39.520 --> 05:41.320 No sugar goes with it. 05:41.320 --> 05:43.000 You give me one blink too many... 05:43.000 --> 05:44.800 Just coffee, I understand. 05:44.800 --> 05:49.360 A man can tell by looking at a girl whether she means one thing or another. 05:49.360 --> 05:52.440 You'd be surprised how many of them ought to have an optician. 05:52.440 --> 05:55.080 I know. 05:55.080 --> 05:57.080 Give me a match for the oven. 05:57.080 --> 06:02.600 Here you are. 06:02.600 --> 06:07.720 I got the oven lit and reached down some cups and sauces and watched him. 06:07.720 --> 06:09.360 Not that I was worried. 06:09.360 --> 06:12.120 I wouldn't have closed the door if I hadn't thought I could handle him. 06:12.120 --> 06:20.280 It was only that he was so young and his face was so tight and strained. 06:20.280 --> 06:24.000 He'd been beat by the city. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.600 Must have been like taking candy away from a baby. 06:26.600 --> 06:31.880 And he trusted me because I'd smiled at him while I was dancing. 06:31.880 --> 06:35.240 And he thought that smile was for him. 06:35.240 --> 06:42.360 I wished it was all of a sudden because he was different. 06:42.360 --> 06:43.360 Coffee won't be long. 06:43.360 --> 06:44.360 That's all right. 06:44.360 --> 06:45.360 I'm in no hurry. 06:45.360 --> 06:47.920 You're pretty young for a burglar, aren't you? 06:47.920 --> 06:50.840 It doesn't take much training. 06:50.840 --> 06:52.520 Where'd you come from? 06:52.520 --> 06:54.520 And how did it happen? 06:54.520 --> 06:57.320 I come from a little town. 06:57.320 --> 06:59.880 It's nothing much, but I like it. 06:59.880 --> 07:01.360 I'm a hick myself. 07:01.360 --> 07:02.360 Yeah? 07:02.360 --> 07:04.960 My place is Glen Falls, Iowa. 07:04.960 --> 07:05.960 What's yours? 07:05.960 --> 07:06.960 What's the matter? 07:06.960 --> 07:07.960 What? 07:07.960 --> 07:08.960 Nothing. 07:08.960 --> 07:10.520 Oh, I thought I said something wrong. 07:10.520 --> 07:12.600 Oh, no, you said something right. 07:12.600 --> 07:16.360 It's crazy, a crazy coincidence, but I come from Glen Falls, too. 07:16.360 --> 07:17.360 Honest? 07:17.360 --> 07:18.360 Honest! 07:18.360 --> 07:19.360 What? 07:19.360 --> 07:20.360 That's amazing. 07:20.360 --> 07:21.360 I know it is. 07:21.360 --> 07:22.360 What street did you live on? 07:22.360 --> 07:25.000 Anderson, up near Pine Street, the second house down between Pine and Old. 07:25.000 --> 07:26.000 When? 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 We're neighbors. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.160 I lived just across the street from you. 07:29.160 --> 07:30.920 Well, how is it we never met? 07:30.920 --> 07:31.920 I don't know. 07:31.920 --> 07:33.520 I came here five years ago. 07:33.520 --> 07:34.760 Oh, I've been here a year. 07:34.760 --> 07:36.840 You must have come to New York before we moved in. 07:36.840 --> 07:37.840 Sure. 07:37.840 --> 07:39.280 Wait a minute. 07:39.280 --> 07:40.960 Have you got a brother with a lot of freckles? 07:40.960 --> 07:42.880 Yeah, Johnny, he's just a kid, about 18. 07:42.880 --> 07:46.120 My sister's been writing to me about her new boyfriend, a boy named Williams. 07:46.120 --> 07:49.560 How perfect he is, except for the freckles, and of course they'll wear off. 07:49.560 --> 07:50.840 That's Johnny! 07:50.840 --> 07:54.920 Oh, so you're the boy next door. 07:54.920 --> 08:04.480 Well, we'd probably have known each other very well if you'd stayed home. 08:04.480 --> 08:06.600 I know. 08:06.600 --> 08:09.440 I wish you had stayed. 08:09.440 --> 08:11.880 I do, too. 08:11.880 --> 08:13.360 What's your name? 08:13.360 --> 08:15.240 Ruth Coleman. 08:15.240 --> 08:16.880 Everybody at home calls me Bricky. 08:16.880 --> 08:17.880 They started it because I... 08:17.880 --> 08:19.680 I know, because of your hair, huh? 08:19.680 --> 08:20.680 That's right. 08:20.680 --> 08:24.640 Do you ever feel that you want to go back? 08:24.640 --> 08:25.640 Every day. 08:25.640 --> 08:30.240 There's a bus leaves New York every morning at six. 08:30.240 --> 08:33.360 I know, I've been quiet. 08:33.360 --> 08:35.000 I've got the fair sewed up in my mattress. 08:35.000 --> 08:37.000 Why haven't you gone? 08:37.000 --> 08:43.640 Because my mother thinks I'm dancing in a Broadway show, because I'd be too ashamed, 08:43.640 --> 08:45.000 because it's so hard to go back. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.120 Yeah, but you ought to go, Bricky. 08:47.120 --> 08:49.320 This morning at six o'clock. 08:49.320 --> 08:51.200 You ought to go back. 08:51.200 --> 08:53.800 Hard going back alone. 08:53.800 --> 08:59.840 If someone could come with me, would you come home, too, Quinn? 08:59.840 --> 09:01.320 No, Bricky. 09:01.320 --> 09:02.920 You want to escape from the city, don't you? 09:02.920 --> 09:04.160 Just like me, you want to go back? 09:04.160 --> 09:05.160 Yeah, sure I do. 09:05.160 --> 09:06.160 Well, then come with me. 09:06.160 --> 09:08.520 If it's the fair you're worried about, I've got enough for both of us, including a good 09:08.520 --> 09:10.320 dinner in Chicago. 09:10.320 --> 09:11.840 Anything for the boy next door, Quinn. 09:11.840 --> 09:14.160 Thanks, Bricky, but it's too late. 09:14.160 --> 09:17.480 The police will be looking for me around eight o'clock this morning. 09:17.480 --> 09:19.800 Oh, yeah. 09:19.800 --> 09:23.000 I forgot. 09:23.000 --> 09:26.640 How long have you been a burglar? 09:26.640 --> 09:27.640 About three hours. 09:27.640 --> 09:28.640 Three hours? 09:28.640 --> 09:33.360 I did it tonight for the first time. 09:33.360 --> 09:37.200 So you see, Bricky, it's a little too late for me to go back. 09:37.200 --> 09:40.480 I've missed the bus by three hours. 09:40.480 --> 09:44.040 Coffee's ready, Quinn. 09:44.040 --> 09:46.640 Oh, good. 09:46.640 --> 09:47.640 Cream and sugar? 09:47.640 --> 09:48.640 No, thanks. 09:48.640 --> 09:49.640 Black. 09:49.640 --> 10:00.000 Was it easy? 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Very easy. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.040 Why'd you do it? 10:03.040 --> 10:06.240 You'll do anything when you've gone for four days without eating. 10:06.240 --> 10:07.240 Oh. 10:07.240 --> 10:09.640 But it's funny. 10:09.640 --> 10:12.720 After I'd done it, I went straight to the best restaurant in town. 10:12.720 --> 10:15.440 I looked at the menu and got ready to order everything on it. 10:15.440 --> 10:17.080 Two helpings of everything. 10:17.080 --> 10:20.560 All right, I couldn't eat. 10:20.560 --> 10:23.560 So I got up and walked out. 10:23.560 --> 10:26.800 That's when I began to think cops were trailing me. 10:26.800 --> 10:29.520 I'm not used to being a robber. 10:29.520 --> 10:33.120 So you still got it all with you? 10:33.120 --> 10:39.400 $2,500 in cash, divided up into small rolls in all my pockets. 10:39.400 --> 10:41.440 You want to see it? 10:41.440 --> 10:42.440 No. 10:42.440 --> 10:44.240 Neither do I. 10:44.240 --> 10:46.040 But it's there. 10:46.040 --> 10:51.280 I can feel it against my skin, all over my body. 10:51.280 --> 10:53.480 Where did you get it, Quinn? 10:53.480 --> 10:56.760 I was working for an electrician about four months ago. 10:56.760 --> 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 11:01.400 --> 11:02.400 wall. 11:02.400 --> 11:04.160 I had to cut a big hole in the wall to do it. 11:04.160 --> 11:09.840 While I was doing that, I ran into a wooden box in the wall. 11:09.840 --> 11:12.080 I did my work just beside it. 11:12.080 --> 11:13.960 And that box? 11:13.960 --> 11:17.840 That box was the back of a safe. 11:17.840 --> 11:20.820 Put into the wall of a study in the next room. 11:20.820 --> 11:23.680 The front of the safe was good heavy steel. 11:23.680 --> 11:26.800 When they built it, nobody thought it could be broken into from the other side through 11:26.800 --> 11:27.800 the bathroom. 11:27.800 --> 11:33.040 And nobody ever would have either, until an electrician ran into it one day by mistake. 11:33.040 --> 11:35.600 But all this happened four months ago. 11:35.600 --> 11:36.600 Yeah. 11:36.600 --> 11:40.440 You see, I'd brought more tools with me than I needed that day, and I left some of them 11:40.440 --> 11:44.400 in my bag downstairs on a little table near the front door. 11:44.400 --> 11:47.240 When I got back to the shop, I found a key in the bag. 11:47.240 --> 11:51.640 I must have brushed it in while I was putting the tools back after finishing the job. 11:51.640 --> 11:54.680 It turned out to be a key to the front door. 11:54.680 --> 11:56.560 You didn't return it. 11:56.560 --> 11:57.560 I didn't. 11:57.560 --> 12:02.960 Oh, I meant to, but right then I forgot all about it. 12:02.960 --> 12:09.520 And when I did remember that I had the key, I was out of work and hungry and wanting money 12:09.520 --> 12:15.120 badly so I went back there to Nugget Box. 12:15.120 --> 12:18.400 I opened that hole again, pulled the back of the safe out. 12:18.400 --> 12:20.720 I didn't bother with any of the papers or securities. 12:20.720 --> 12:23.280 I just took the cash. 12:23.280 --> 12:24.280 The house was empty. 12:24.280 --> 12:28.880 The man who lives there, a society fella by the name of Graves, was probably out on the 12:28.880 --> 12:33.520 town so I just walked out the front door. 12:33.520 --> 12:40.560 It seems like ten years ago, it was only three hours. 12:40.560 --> 12:45.840 So this Graves man will see the hole in the morning when he goes in to take a shower and 12:45.840 --> 12:46.840 then he'll call the police? 12:46.840 --> 12:53.560 It'll be a quick trial and a short one, but the sentence won't be so short. 12:53.560 --> 13:00.040 The boy next door, the boy you wave to when you come in or out of your gate, the grinning 13:00.040 --> 13:02.560 boy next door, friendly as a puppy. 13:02.560 --> 13:03.560 Go back, Bricky. 13:03.560 --> 13:04.560 It's where you belong. 13:04.560 --> 13:06.360 It's the only kind of life for you. 13:06.360 --> 13:07.360 Come with me, Quinn. 13:07.360 --> 13:08.640 I've told you I can't. 13:08.640 --> 13:10.040 They've got a long arm. 13:10.040 --> 13:15.680 They'll find me and I'd rather have them find me here in the city. 13:15.680 --> 13:17.640 Have you still got the key? 13:17.640 --> 13:19.160 The key you went in with? 13:19.160 --> 13:20.160 Yeah. 13:20.160 --> 13:21.160 Why? 13:21.160 --> 13:26.160 Well, if you can get back in before he comes home, just in and out, long enough to put 13:26.160 --> 13:30.120 the money back, they won't come all the way to Iowa for you just for chopping a hole in 13:30.120 --> 13:31.320 the wall if nothing's been taken. 13:31.320 --> 13:32.320 But, Bricky, that's probably... 13:32.320 --> 13:35.880 Don't you want to go home at six o'clock this morning? 13:35.880 --> 13:36.880 Yes, Bricky. 13:36.880 --> 13:38.840 If he's out on the town, he won't be home yet. 13:38.840 --> 13:40.440 At least that's what we'll pray for. 13:40.440 --> 13:41.440 We? 13:41.440 --> 13:43.000 We'll go together now. 13:43.000 --> 13:46.400 I'll wait outside for you and then we'll go down to the terminal and buy our tickets 13:46.400 --> 13:47.640 and wait for the bus. 13:47.640 --> 13:50.800 We'll wait for dawn together, Quinn. 13:50.800 --> 13:52.400 You mean you'd do this for me? 13:52.400 --> 13:58.480 For the boy next door, anytime, anything. 13:58.480 --> 14:02.400 There was no time to lose. 14:02.400 --> 14:03.960 Graves might be coming home any minute. 14:03.960 --> 14:08.800 I ripped the money out of my mattress and we ran out into the cold, empty streets, just 14:08.800 --> 14:10.720 as a cab cruised by. 14:10.720 --> 14:17.800 We piled into it and told him to take us to 71st Street and to take us fast. 14:17.800 --> 14:19.840 Everybody's always in a hurry. 14:19.840 --> 14:20.840 What's your hurry? 14:20.840 --> 14:21.840 The night's young yet. 14:21.840 --> 14:23.240 Never mind the conversation, Joe. 14:23.240 --> 14:24.240 Drive. 14:24.240 --> 14:27.240 The customer's always right. 14:27.240 --> 14:32.240 I just remembered. 14:32.240 --> 14:33.240 What? 14:33.240 --> 14:37.040 I can't pay for this cab unless I use some of our capital. 14:37.040 --> 14:40.080 I don't care what you use, pal, just show it's money. 14:40.080 --> 14:41.080 Don't worry about it. 14:41.080 --> 14:42.080 You'll get paid. 14:42.080 --> 14:43.200 I'll pay him. 14:43.200 --> 14:45.840 We don't want to use any of our capital, not a single penny. 14:45.840 --> 14:47.280 It's all got to go back. 14:47.280 --> 14:52.480 Ricky, when we get out of this, when we get back home, I'll thank you then. 14:52.480 --> 14:54.880 I'll find a way to thank you. 14:54.880 --> 14:58.040 71st Street, any special number? 14:58.040 --> 15:06.040 No, just let us out here on the corner. 15:06.040 --> 15:09.840 That's 90 cents and I can break a 50 if I have to. 15:09.840 --> 15:12.800 Here's 90 cents and here's a dime. 15:12.800 --> 15:13.800 Have fun. 15:13.800 --> 15:30.840 Well, here we are. 15:30.840 --> 15:31.840 Where's the house? 15:31.840 --> 15:34.720 Across the street and up a little. 15:34.720 --> 15:35.720 You wait here. 15:35.720 --> 15:36.720 All right. 15:36.720 --> 15:38.160 Don't come any closer than this. 15:38.160 --> 15:40.160 I'll be back in no time. 15:40.160 --> 15:41.160 Don't be frightened, Ricky. 15:41.160 --> 15:42.400 Don't take any chances, Quinn. 15:42.400 --> 15:46.160 If you see any lights, if it looks as if he's gotten back already, don't go all the way 15:46.160 --> 15:47.160 in. 15:47.160 --> 15:48.720 Just drop the money inside the door. 15:48.720 --> 15:49.720 All right, Ricky. 15:49.720 --> 15:50.720 Goodbye then. 15:50.720 --> 15:51.720 Goodbye, Quinn. 15:51.720 --> 15:58.720 Hurry back. 15:58.720 --> 16:03.360 I waited for him there in the chilly night on the dark, empty street. 16:03.360 --> 16:04.360 Why? 16:04.360 --> 16:06.800 I knew better. 16:06.800 --> 16:11.280 New York had taught me one thing and that was never to be a sucker for a man. 16:11.280 --> 16:14.560 But then this was no man. 16:14.560 --> 16:19.920 This was the boy who lived across from me on Anderson Street in Glen Falls, Iowa. 16:19.920 --> 16:27.440 The boy who'd come here to do big things, to lick the town, and instead he'd been licked. 16:27.440 --> 16:32.980 Instead he was hiding in the dark, sneaking along the streets, helpless. 16:32.980 --> 16:34.360 The boy next door. 16:34.360 --> 16:37.520 Then I suddenly crouched back into our doorway. 16:37.520 --> 16:39.760 A patrolman was coming on his tour of duty. 16:39.760 --> 16:43.000 He stopped near me, not 10 yards away. 16:43.000 --> 16:48.400 But his back was to me and his hand was opening a call box. 16:48.400 --> 16:53.000 Rausen reporting in, 2.35 a.m. 16:53.000 --> 16:56.280 How's the rummy game going? 16:56.280 --> 16:58.880 And another thing, side. 16:58.880 --> 17:01.000 Quiet as a church. 17:01.000 --> 17:05.600 He finished his call, closed the box, and went on down the street. 17:05.600 --> 17:13.120 Then he turned a corner and disappeared, and I breathed again. 17:13.120 --> 17:15.280 He'd been right, though. 17:15.280 --> 17:23.720 It was quiet as a church, and that was wrong, because Quinn should have been back long ago. 17:23.720 --> 17:24.720 Bricky. 17:24.720 --> 17:27.720 What's the matter? 17:27.720 --> 17:28.720 Bricky. 17:28.720 --> 17:29.720 Tell me, Quinn, what is it? 17:29.720 --> 17:30.720 What is it? 17:30.720 --> 17:31.720 What are you frightened about? 17:31.720 --> 17:32.720 What happened in there? 17:32.720 --> 17:33.720 He's been killed. 17:33.720 --> 17:34.720 What? 17:34.720 --> 17:35.720 The man who lives there? 17:35.720 --> 17:36.720 Yeah, Mr. Graves. 17:36.720 --> 17:37.720 Was it you, Quinn? 17:37.720 --> 17:38.720 Did you do it the first time you were in there and I... 17:38.720 --> 17:39.720 I swear I didn't, Bricky. 17:39.720 --> 17:40.720 I only took the money. 17:40.720 --> 17:41.720 He wasn't even there. 17:41.720 --> 17:42.720 He must have come back since. 17:42.720 --> 17:43.720 I knew you didn't, Quinn. 17:43.720 --> 17:44.720 I knew even though I asked. 17:44.720 --> 17:45.720 Go down to the terminal. 17:45.720 --> 17:46.720 Get your ticket and climb on that bus and forget we ever met. 17:46.720 --> 17:47.720 Go on, Bricky. 17:47.720 --> 17:48.720 Beat it before they find out. 17:48.720 --> 17:49.720 Not with the money. 17:49.720 --> 17:50.720 I'm not going to do that. 17:50.720 --> 17:51.720 I'm not going to do that. 17:51.720 --> 17:52.720 I'm not going to do that. 17:52.720 --> 17:53.720 I'm not going to do that. 17:53.720 --> 17:54.720 I'm not going to do that. 17:54.720 --> 17:55.720 I'm not going to do that. 17:55.720 --> 17:56.720 I'm not going to do that. 17:56.720 --> 18:05.720 I'm not going to do that. 18:05.720 --> 18:26.720 I'm not going to do that. 18:26.720 --> 18:36.720 I'm not going to do that. 18:36.720 --> 18:51.720 I'm not going to do that. 18:51.720 --> 19:04.720 I'm not going to do that. 19:04.720 --> 19:07.520 He was brave, not afraid. 19:07.520 --> 19:10.320 He was going into it, not running away from it. 19:10.320 --> 19:12.760 There's a step here. 19:12.760 --> 19:15.520 The stair creaked under our weight. 19:15.520 --> 19:20.960 I wondered if there were anyone else in the house, anyone still alive. 19:20.960 --> 19:23.480 Suppose someone had slept through the murder, 19:23.480 --> 19:25.600 or had be awakened any moment by us. 19:25.600 --> 19:26.480 I'll turn to the right. 19:26.480 --> 19:28.960 OK. 19:28.960 --> 19:32.000 We're on the second floor now. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.160 I smell the aroma of leather and woodwork. 19:35.160 --> 19:39.240 I smell the last lingering trace of a cigar. 19:39.240 --> 19:45.200 I smelled powder, a harsh, deadly powder. 19:45.200 --> 19:47.160 And then I thought I saw, I thought 19:47.160 --> 19:50.760 I smelled something sweet, something very sweet. 19:50.760 --> 19:52.240 Here, Bricky. 19:52.240 --> 19:55.080 All right. 19:55.080 --> 19:58.160 They say you can't smell a recent death, 19:58.160 --> 20:02.160 but I could smell a stillness and a presence in it 20:02.160 --> 20:04.280 that was more than just emptiness. 20:04.280 --> 20:05.080 Get your eyes ready. 20:05.080 --> 20:05.880 Here go the lights. 20:09.520 --> 20:11.400 The dead man lay in the middle of the study, 20:11.400 --> 20:14.080 and his face was all out of focus. 20:14.080 --> 20:17.760 The lines that had been laugh lines were creases now. 20:17.760 --> 20:20.200 The mouth that had been either strong or weak 20:20.200 --> 20:24.680 was just a gap now, a place where the face was open. 20:24.680 --> 20:27.040 The eyes that had been either kindly or cruel 20:27.040 --> 20:31.840 were just glossy, lifeless insects now. 20:31.840 --> 20:36.960 This was the dead man, and we'd come for his secret. 20:36.960 --> 20:38.920 This is it, Bricky. 20:38.920 --> 20:40.440 Yes. 20:40.440 --> 20:42.520 This is it. 20:42.520 --> 20:44.000 Now what do we do? 20:44.000 --> 20:46.760 Well, shouldn't we close? 20:46.760 --> 20:50.840 It's, they seem to be watching us. 20:50.840 --> 20:52.240 No, don't touch him. 20:52.240 --> 20:53.280 I don't know how to anyway. 20:53.280 --> 20:55.880 Oh. 20:55.880 --> 20:58.480 He's, he's still on his tuxedo. 20:58.480 --> 21:00.360 He couldn't have been home very long. 21:00.360 --> 21:02.040 No. 21:02.040 --> 21:04.800 Can you tell what it was done with? 21:04.800 --> 21:07.400 No, I'll have to unbutton his jacket. 21:07.400 --> 21:09.640 All right. 21:09.640 --> 21:10.120 Go ahead. 21:13.920 --> 21:15.600 There it is. 21:15.600 --> 21:16.960 Must have been a gun. 21:16.960 --> 21:17.840 Yeah, a bullet. 21:17.840 --> 21:18.920 It's round and frazzled. 21:18.920 --> 21:19.920 A knife would have made a slit. 21:19.920 --> 21:21.640 Then we can be sure no one else was in the house, 21:21.640 --> 21:22.720 or they would have heard it go off. 21:22.720 --> 21:24.080 And the killer must have taken the gun away. 21:24.080 --> 21:25.440 There's no sign of one lying around. 21:25.440 --> 21:26.520 So he didn't do it himself. 21:26.520 --> 21:27.440 It can't be suicide. 21:27.440 --> 21:29.560 That's right. 21:29.560 --> 21:30.720 Now what? 21:30.720 --> 21:33.120 We'd better look in his pockets. 21:33.120 --> 21:33.840 Yes. 21:33.840 --> 21:35.080 I'll do it. 21:35.080 --> 21:37.120 You look the things over as I hand them to you. 21:37.120 --> 21:38.440 All right, Quinn. 21:38.440 --> 21:40.160 I'll start up here in the breast pocket. 21:40.160 --> 21:42.840 That's the highest pocket in anybody's suit. 21:42.840 --> 21:44.320 His handkerchief. 21:44.320 --> 21:46.280 Look, Quinn. 21:46.280 --> 21:48.760 The bullet went through this. 21:48.760 --> 21:53.280 The way it folded it just made one little hole. 21:53.280 --> 21:56.680 When you open it up, it makes three separate holes. 21:56.680 --> 22:00.280 Like when you cut papers and make them into patterns. 22:00.280 --> 22:02.600 The one on the left side's empty. 22:02.600 --> 22:06.120 The right hand pocket, empty too. 22:06.120 --> 22:07.560 Try inside the jacket. 22:07.560 --> 22:08.400 Yeah. 22:08.400 --> 22:10.080 Take out everything, no matter what it is. 22:12.760 --> 22:16.320 Cigarette case, silver, Tiffany's. 22:16.320 --> 22:19.680 Three cigarettes in it. 22:19.680 --> 22:22.280 The wallet, two fives and a single. 22:22.280 --> 22:24.800 Two ticket stubs from tonight's show at the Belasco. 22:24.800 --> 22:27.640 C, 112 and 114. 22:27.640 --> 22:30.160 So we know where he was from 830 to 11. 22:30.160 --> 22:32.400 Anything else? 22:32.400 --> 22:33.440 Business cards. 22:33.440 --> 22:37.240 Stafford, Holmes, Inglesby, whoever they are. 22:37.240 --> 22:39.240 Oh, and a snapshot. 22:39.240 --> 22:40.360 Girl in riding togs. 22:40.360 --> 22:41.720 Let's see that. 22:41.720 --> 22:42.360 Yeah. 22:42.360 --> 22:46.160 It's the same ones in the silver frame over there on the desk. 22:46.160 --> 22:48.440 To Steven with love from Barbara. 22:48.440 --> 22:49.400 Then she didn't do it. 22:49.400 --> 22:51.160 If she had, she wouldn't be there on his desk anymore. 22:51.160 --> 22:53.160 Just the silver frame maybe, but not her anymore. 22:53.160 --> 22:54.120 That's common sense. 22:54.120 --> 22:56.320 All right, let's go on. 22:56.320 --> 22:58.200 I'll have to lift him a little. 22:58.200 --> 22:59.080 Go ahead. 23:01.920 --> 23:06.960 Left rear in the trousers, nothing. 23:06.960 --> 23:11.640 Right rear, spare handkerchief. 23:11.640 --> 23:16.080 Left side, nothing. 23:16.080 --> 23:26.360 Right side, match folder, loose change, latch key. 23:26.360 --> 23:28.680 That's it. 23:28.680 --> 23:30.840 Not much help. 23:30.840 --> 23:32.800 Do we know what we're doing, Bricky? 23:32.800 --> 23:35.840 Oh, I don't know. 23:35.840 --> 23:36.760 Quinn. 23:36.760 --> 23:38.320 What? 23:38.320 --> 23:41.440 A man who's a cigarette smoker, and we found that case 23:41.440 --> 23:42.880 in his pocket. 23:42.880 --> 23:44.760 Would he go in for cigars too? 23:44.760 --> 23:45.160 Maybe. 23:45.160 --> 23:46.280 Some people smoke both. 23:46.280 --> 23:50.000 But would he smoke two cigars alone by himself? 23:50.000 --> 23:52.520 Look, Quinn, two butts in this tray. 23:52.520 --> 23:53.520 Yeah. 23:53.520 --> 23:56.840 And the tray is between two chairs facing each other. 23:56.840 --> 23:58.840 One cigar in one notch of the tray, 23:58.840 --> 24:01.080 the other one around on the other side from it. 24:01.080 --> 24:03.240 Two people, Quinn, two men. 24:03.240 --> 24:04.720 And they were having an argument. 24:04.720 --> 24:05.960 One of them was worked up about something. 24:05.960 --> 24:08.640 You see, this butt is smooth at the mouth end. 24:08.640 --> 24:09.560 And look at this one. 24:09.560 --> 24:11.480 Chewed to ribbons, chewed to a fringe. 24:11.480 --> 24:12.480 That tells it. 24:12.480 --> 24:13.160 Which is which? 24:13.160 --> 24:14.840 Who was calm and who was steamed up? 24:14.840 --> 24:18.360 And who was the other man with Graves? 24:18.360 --> 24:19.320 Oh, Quinn. 24:19.320 --> 24:19.840 Wait a minute. 24:19.840 --> 24:20.320 Here's something. 24:20.320 --> 24:20.840 What? 24:20.840 --> 24:22.480 It must have fallen out of his pocket. 24:22.480 --> 24:24.600 He was probably sitting on it. 24:24.600 --> 24:25.760 Fine. 24:25.760 --> 24:26.960 Another book of matches. 24:26.960 --> 24:28.640 That's just it, another one. 24:28.640 --> 24:30.000 Graves had some on him. 24:30.000 --> 24:31.400 So this is the other man. 24:31.400 --> 24:32.880 And did he leave his name on it? 24:32.880 --> 24:34.680 No, but he was excited. 24:34.680 --> 24:37.120 Look how many matches he used up just on that one cigar. 24:37.120 --> 24:39.120 The folder could have been half used up before he began. 24:39.120 --> 24:40.840 Maybe, but take this. 24:40.840 --> 24:41.960 What does it tell you? 24:41.960 --> 24:45.320 It tells me to chew Dawson's gum. 24:45.320 --> 24:48.520 Not the cover, inside. 24:48.520 --> 24:49.240 I don't know. 24:49.240 --> 24:50.200 What are you driving at? 24:50.200 --> 24:51.360 Oh, wait. 24:51.360 --> 24:53.080 Here, take my matches. 24:53.080 --> 24:56.480 Now tear one off and strike it. 24:56.480 --> 24:58.480 All right. 24:58.480 --> 25:01.320 OK, blow it out. 25:01.320 --> 25:03.120 You see what you did? 25:03.120 --> 25:04.000 No. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.840 You tore the match from the right hand side, didn't you? 25:06.840 --> 25:07.320 Yeah. 25:07.320 --> 25:08.280 That's what everybody does. 25:08.280 --> 25:10.160 They start on the outside, on the right, 25:10.160 --> 25:11.880 and work their way over to the left. 25:11.880 --> 25:14.240 But this folder was worked in reverse. 25:14.240 --> 25:15.560 Now do you see? 25:15.560 --> 25:20.560 The man sitting in this chair, facing Graves, was left handed. 25:20.560 --> 25:21.560 I see. 25:21.560 --> 25:23.640 We're making progress. 25:23.640 --> 25:24.400 Are we, Quinn? 25:24.400 --> 25:25.720 Well, of course we are. 25:25.720 --> 25:27.760 We know this man was rattled about something. 25:27.760 --> 25:30.320 That he whittled away 15 matches to one cigar, 25:30.320 --> 25:32.520 then mangled it to ribbons between his teeth. 25:32.520 --> 25:34.720 That he was probably on bad terms with Graves, 25:34.720 --> 25:35.840 and that he's left handed. 25:35.840 --> 25:37.000 Fine. 25:37.000 --> 25:38.440 Only you've missed something. 25:38.440 --> 25:39.520 What? 25:39.520 --> 25:41.840 The matches belong to a woman. 25:41.840 --> 25:43.120 A woman? 25:43.120 --> 25:45.320 A woman chopped that cigar to pieces? 25:45.320 --> 25:47.960 Smell the folder. 25:47.960 --> 25:49.080 What do you get? 25:49.080 --> 25:50.680 Sulfur, the way matches always smell. 25:50.680 --> 25:51.960 Give that a minute to clear away. 25:51.960 --> 25:53.160 That's the stronger of the two. 25:53.160 --> 25:54.200 It tops the other. 25:54.200 --> 25:54.600 Now. 25:57.520 --> 25:58.440 OK. 25:58.440 --> 25:59.840 Perfume, isn't it? 25:59.840 --> 26:00.560 Yeah. 26:00.560 --> 26:03.000 It's been carried around all day in a handbag. 26:03.000 --> 26:05.560 A handbag that stinks of perfume. 26:05.560 --> 26:07.800 I noticed it in the dark when we were coming in. 26:07.800 --> 26:09.760 There's been a woman in this room tonight. 26:09.760 --> 26:11.440 Well, that gives us two of them. 26:11.440 --> 26:13.040 A man and a woman. 26:13.040 --> 26:14.440 And they weren't here together. 26:14.440 --> 26:16.520 There are only two chairs, one for Graves, 26:16.520 --> 26:18.000 and the other one for each of his visitors. 26:18.000 --> 26:20.200 Who was the last to go, the man or the woman? 26:20.200 --> 26:22.360 I don't know, but we're started. 26:22.360 --> 26:24.880 Look what we've dug up in half an hour. 26:24.880 --> 26:30.440 Two unidentified people in the biggest city in the world. 26:30.440 --> 26:32.080 You're right. 26:32.080 --> 26:33.280 It's no use. 26:33.280 --> 26:35.080 Oh, even so, we can't give up. 26:35.080 --> 26:36.800 It's no use. 26:36.800 --> 26:40.120 And what's more, I'm yellow, Bricky. 26:40.120 --> 26:41.160 Let's give it up. 26:41.160 --> 26:43.760 You're not yellow, Quinn, or I wouldn't be up here 26:43.760 --> 26:46.040 in this room with you. 26:46.040 --> 26:48.280 I'd better tell you this while I can, Bricky. 26:48.280 --> 26:50.560 What? 26:50.560 --> 26:51.240 I love you. 26:55.360 --> 27:00.560 It's 3 o'clock, Quinn, and we have till 6. 27:00.560 --> 27:02.120 Three hours. 27:02.120 --> 27:02.960 Bricky. 27:02.960 --> 27:08.440 Save it, Quinn, save it for the bus when we're on our way home. 27:08.440 --> 27:10.280 All right. 27:10.280 --> 27:13.600 But I don't know what to do next, do you? 27:13.600 --> 27:17.280 No, I don't. 27:17.280 --> 27:19.160 What's that? 27:19.160 --> 27:20.640 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 27:20.640 --> 27:22.040 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 27:22.040 --> 27:27.960 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 27:27.960 --> 27:30.520 In tonight's full hour of suspense, 27:30.520 --> 27:34.360 Helen Walker and John Beale co-star in Deadline at Dawn 27:34.360 --> 27:36.000 by William Irish. 27:36.000 --> 27:38.000 Tonight's study in suspense. 27:38.000 --> 27:46.480 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 27:46.480 --> 27:49.520 In just a moment, we will return with Act 2 of Suspense. 27:49.520 --> 27:52.960 This is CBS, the Columbia broadcasting system. 27:52.960 --> 27:55.920 And now, back to our Hollywood sound stage 27:55.920 --> 28:00.240 in Act 2 of Deadline at Dawn, co-starring Miss Helen Walker 28:00.240 --> 28:04.600 as Bricky Coleman and Mr. John Beale as Quinn Williams 28:04.600 --> 28:08.480 in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 28:08.480 --> 28:20.120 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 28:20.120 --> 28:21.920 All the emotions of a lifetime have 28:21.920 --> 28:24.520 been crowded into one night for Bricky Coleman and Quinn 28:24.520 --> 28:25.520 Williams. 28:25.520 --> 28:29.600 And Dawn is a fast approaching deadline which they must meet. 28:29.600 --> 28:31.520 The bus which will take them to home in safety 28:31.520 --> 28:34.840 seems remote and unattainable as they stand now 28:34.840 --> 28:38.920 over the body of a dead man in the quiet apartment, 28:38.920 --> 28:41.600 knowing that they must find his murderer 28:41.600 --> 28:44.840 or stand incriminated for the crime themselves. 28:44.840 --> 28:49.640 And suddenly, a terrifying sound comes to them. 28:49.640 --> 28:51.120 What is it, Bricky? 28:51.120 --> 28:51.640 What is it? 28:51.640 --> 28:53.280 It sounds like a burglar alarm. 28:53.280 --> 28:55.120 Or a front doorbell, maybe. 28:55.120 --> 28:57.240 Wait a minute, there's a box over there against the wall. 28:57.240 --> 28:59.240 Telephone, follow the cord. 28:59.240 --> 29:00.240 It's in his desk. 29:00.240 --> 29:02.680 In the drawer. 29:02.680 --> 29:04.680 What should we do? 29:04.680 --> 29:05.680 I ought to answer it. 29:05.680 --> 29:06.360 Oh, be careful. 29:06.360 --> 29:07.240 You'll have the police here. 29:07.240 --> 29:08.480 They'll know it's not his voice. 29:08.480 --> 29:09.640 I'll talk lower. 29:09.640 --> 29:11.360 I'll pretend I'm him. 29:11.360 --> 29:12.280 Say a prayer, Bricky. 29:16.800 --> 29:17.720 Hello? 29:17.720 --> 29:20.080 Darling, this is Barbara. 29:20.080 --> 29:21.760 I had to speak to you. 29:21.760 --> 29:24.400 We've never parted angry like this before. 29:24.400 --> 29:25.520 I know. 29:25.520 --> 29:28.280 Maybe if we hadn't gone there to that parochy place, 29:28.280 --> 29:29.520 it wouldn't have happened. 29:29.520 --> 29:30.520 No. 29:30.520 --> 29:31.920 Who was she? 29:31.920 --> 29:34.960 The tall redhead in the light green dress? 29:34.960 --> 29:36.320 I don't know. 29:36.320 --> 29:38.840 You told me that before. 29:38.840 --> 29:41.360 Then why'd she slip a note into your hand? 29:41.360 --> 29:43.120 I saw her do it, you know. 29:43.120 --> 29:44.000 Did you? 29:44.000 --> 29:45.520 And then you couldn't wait to see me to my door 29:45.520 --> 29:47.000 and get me off your hands. 29:47.000 --> 29:48.920 What happened, Steve? 29:48.920 --> 29:52.040 Did this woman come by to see you afterward? 29:52.040 --> 29:54.000 Is that why you wanted to get rid of me? 29:54.000 --> 29:56.400 No, Barbara. 29:56.400 --> 29:58.040 Steve? 29:58.040 --> 30:00.400 You sound so far away. 30:00.400 --> 30:02.480 Is it the telephone? 30:02.480 --> 30:04.200 Or is it you? 30:04.200 --> 30:05.320 Poor connection. 30:05.320 --> 30:09.640 You sound so cagey, as if someone were there now. 30:09.640 --> 30:11.320 Can't you talk louder? 30:11.320 --> 30:12.520 I'm sorry. 30:12.520 --> 30:13.920 What's going on there? 30:13.920 --> 30:15.320 This is Steven, isn't it? 30:15.320 --> 30:16.240 It's just catching on. 30:16.240 --> 30:16.840 I'm sunk. 30:16.840 --> 30:20.080 Take your hand away from the mouthpiece and turn it my way. 30:20.080 --> 30:21.680 Sugar, come on. 30:21.680 --> 30:23.360 I'm getting tired of waiting. 30:23.360 --> 30:27.840 How much longer you going to stand there talking? 30:27.840 --> 30:30.040 I'm sorry, Steven. 30:30.040 --> 30:31.520 Forgive me. 30:31.520 --> 30:34.600 I didn't know. 30:34.600 --> 30:35.600 You can hang up now. 30:38.280 --> 30:39.640 I feel like a heel. 30:39.640 --> 30:40.560 Well, stop it. 30:40.560 --> 30:41.520 We don't have time. 30:41.520 --> 30:43.040 The parakey. 30:43.040 --> 30:44.120 That's a nightclub, isn't it? 30:44.120 --> 30:45.600 Yes, on 54th Street. 30:45.600 --> 30:47.280 A woman slipped him a note, Quinn. 30:47.280 --> 30:47.960 All woman. 30:47.960 --> 30:48.680 Could be. 30:48.680 --> 30:49.800 Do you think he tore it up? 30:49.800 --> 30:50.360 Maybe not. 30:50.360 --> 30:51.600 Maybe he wanted to have a good look at it 30:51.600 --> 30:52.720 when he got home, alone. 30:52.720 --> 30:53.840 Let's look again. 30:53.840 --> 30:55.920 Well, I went through those pockets pretty carefully. 30:55.920 --> 30:56.800 I'm sure it's not that. 30:56.800 --> 30:58.440 He might have missed something. 30:58.440 --> 31:01.760 Quinn, turn him over again. 31:01.760 --> 31:02.640 All right. 31:07.840 --> 31:08.840 Nothing. 31:08.840 --> 31:10.720 Nothing at all. 31:10.720 --> 31:11.760 Shall we go through the desk? 31:11.760 --> 31:12.760 Wait a minute. 31:12.760 --> 31:14.200 What? 31:14.200 --> 31:17.320 Run your eyes over him again. 31:17.320 --> 31:18.960 I don't see a thing. 31:18.960 --> 31:20.960 He's very well dressed. 31:20.960 --> 31:25.400 And yet, isn't that a hole in the heel of his sock? 31:25.400 --> 31:27.920 There, just showing over the shoe. 31:27.920 --> 31:30.040 That's funny. 31:30.040 --> 31:33.400 Take his shoe off, Quinn. 31:33.400 --> 31:33.800 OK. 31:38.400 --> 31:39.000 The note. 31:39.000 --> 31:39.840 Of course. 31:39.840 --> 31:41.280 He didn't want Barbara to see it. 31:41.280 --> 31:42.920 So he hid it here until he could be alone. 31:42.920 --> 31:44.320 And he never was alone. 31:44.320 --> 31:45.280 Just a scrawl. 31:45.280 --> 31:46.800 Go on. 31:46.800 --> 31:53.000 Mr. Graves, I'd like to speak to you in private 31:53.000 --> 31:56.000 after you've taken the young lady home. 31:56.000 --> 31:57.760 And I don't mean some other time. 31:57.760 --> 31:59.640 I mean tonight. 31:59.640 --> 32:03.080 I wouldn't want to be disappointed. 32:03.080 --> 32:04.240 That's all. 32:04.240 --> 32:05.560 It isn't signed. 32:05.560 --> 32:07.280 A woman of the matches. 32:07.280 --> 32:08.440 Sounds like a shakedown. 32:08.440 --> 32:09.280 You mean blackmail? 32:09.280 --> 32:09.760 That's right. 32:09.760 --> 32:11.600 He'd have to pay attention to a note like this. 32:11.600 --> 32:13.480 Then we're going night clubbing, my boy. 32:13.480 --> 32:14.760 We'll visit the parakeet. 32:14.760 --> 32:15.880 It'll be closing by now. 32:15.880 --> 32:17.080 She must have been seen there. 32:17.080 --> 32:18.760 A tall redhead in a light green dress. 32:18.760 --> 32:20.480 We'll check with the people who work there. 32:20.480 --> 32:21.480 They'll still be around. 32:21.480 --> 32:23.280 Waiters, checkroom girl, washroom attendant. 32:23.280 --> 32:24.120 We'll find her. 32:24.120 --> 32:25.040 Oh, we will, Becky. 32:25.040 --> 32:26.920 How tracer if I have to go over the hairbrushes 32:26.920 --> 32:29.240 in the dressing room one by one for stray red hairs. 32:29.240 --> 32:30.280 Well, let me kill the lights. 32:30.280 --> 32:31.000 I'll be right with you. 32:31.000 --> 32:32.120 Hey, don't forget the switch. 32:32.120 --> 32:33.440 The one over the sink in the bathroom. 32:33.440 --> 32:36.000 Oh, I will. 32:36.000 --> 32:36.720 Come on, Quinn. 32:36.720 --> 32:38.200 Time's running out. 32:38.200 --> 32:40.760 In a minute. 32:40.760 --> 32:43.560 Is anything wrong? 32:43.560 --> 32:45.280 I don't know. 32:45.280 --> 32:47.040 Look what I found. 32:47.040 --> 32:48.720 Why, it's a check. 32:48.720 --> 32:49.920 Yeah. 32:49.920 --> 32:54.560 Made out to Stephen Graves for $12,000. 32:54.560 --> 32:56.160 Signed by Arthur Holmes. 32:56.160 --> 32:57.480 And look how it's stamped. 32:57.480 --> 32:58.360 Returned. 32:58.360 --> 32:59.000 No funds. 32:59.000 --> 33:00.160 Where'd you find it? 33:00.160 --> 33:01.880 In the dry bottom of the tub. 33:01.880 --> 33:03.360 How did it ever get there? 33:03.360 --> 33:04.840 Just one way. 33:04.840 --> 33:07.960 When I came here tonight, the first time, I did it. 33:07.960 --> 33:08.520 How? 33:08.520 --> 33:10.400 Well, don't you see, when I pulled the cash box out 33:10.400 --> 33:12.640 and opened it, the check must have slipped out 33:12.640 --> 33:14.200 into the tub without my noticing it. 33:14.200 --> 33:14.920 Oh. 33:14.920 --> 33:19.080 And then this fellow Holmes came, our jittery cigar smoker. 33:19.080 --> 33:22.400 Maybe to ask Graves not to prosecute on a bad check. 33:22.400 --> 33:25.240 To stall for time. 33:25.240 --> 33:28.080 Graves went to find the check, and he couldn't. 33:28.080 --> 33:31.480 Because it was on the other side of the wall, in his bathtub. 33:31.480 --> 33:34.240 And Holmes thought he was trying to put something over on him. 33:34.240 --> 33:39.840 And you think Holmes shot him, killed him for $12,000? 33:39.840 --> 33:41.400 It's been done before. 33:41.400 --> 33:43.240 And what about our redhead? 33:43.240 --> 33:44.160 Bricky, it's the man. 33:44.160 --> 33:44.840 It's got to be. 33:44.840 --> 33:47.440 I think it's the woman. 33:47.440 --> 33:48.800 We'll have to split up. 33:48.800 --> 33:50.240 No, let's do it together. 33:50.240 --> 33:50.840 The way we started. 33:50.840 --> 33:51.520 It's too late. 33:51.520 --> 33:52.960 We can't follow them one at a time. 33:52.960 --> 33:54.520 Our deadline's at dawn, Quinn, and we've 33:54.520 --> 33:56.000 got less than three hours. 33:56.000 --> 33:58.040 Well, that bus to Glen Falls. 33:58.040 --> 33:59.400 The last bus. 33:59.400 --> 34:01.080 Remember that. 34:01.080 --> 34:05.920 It's the last bus for you, and for me, too. 34:05.920 --> 34:08.760 Then we'll be saying goodbye, Bricky? 34:08.760 --> 34:10.800 Yes, Quinn. 34:10.800 --> 34:12.880 Goodbye till dawn. 34:12.880 --> 34:25.480 We went down into the empty streets without talking to each other again. 34:25.480 --> 34:28.640 And I went one way, and Quinn went the other. 34:28.640 --> 34:30.840 In 10 minutes, we were blocks apart. 34:30.840 --> 34:32.400 Maybe miles. 34:32.400 --> 34:35.880 But it seemed to me that I was still at his side, still with him, 34:35.880 --> 34:41.000 as he finally found an all-night drugstore and went back into a booth. 34:41.000 --> 34:43.720 I knew he'd dial all the Arthur Holmeses in the book 34:43.720 --> 34:47.120 and talk to a lot of angry, sleepy people. 34:47.120 --> 34:52.120 And then he'd find the right one, the Arthur Holmes we wanted. 34:52.120 --> 34:54.040 What would Quinn do then? 34:54.040 --> 34:56.000 What would he say? 34:56.000 --> 34:56.800 What would happen? 35:06.320 --> 35:07.280 Hello? 35:07.280 --> 35:08.480 Yes. 35:08.480 --> 35:11.040 Is this Mr. Arthur Holmes? 35:11.040 --> 35:12.280 Who is this? 35:12.280 --> 35:14.000 Well, Mr. Holmes, you don't know me. 35:14.000 --> 35:16.600 Who is this that wants to speak to Mr. Holmes? 35:16.600 --> 35:18.680 The name isn't known to you, Mr. Holmes, but... 35:18.680 --> 35:21.440 What makes you think this is, Mr. Holmes? 35:21.440 --> 35:23.960 And are you aware that it's almost 4 o'clock in the morning? 35:23.960 --> 35:25.560 What do you want? 35:25.560 --> 35:28.640 I have a check here that belongs to Mr. Holmes. 35:28.640 --> 35:31.080 Will you let me talk to him? 35:31.080 --> 35:32.560 You're speaking to him. 35:32.560 --> 35:36.120 It's made out to Stephen Graves, and I have it right here in my hand. 35:36.120 --> 35:37.760 Where did you find it? 35:37.760 --> 35:39.160 I found it on the seat of a taxi. 35:39.160 --> 35:41.200 It must have slipped out of someone's wallet. 35:41.200 --> 35:42.600 Who was with you when you found it? 35:42.600 --> 35:45.280 No-one, just me, by myself. 35:45.280 --> 35:47.640 Whom did you show it to afterwards? 35:47.640 --> 35:48.840 No-one. 35:48.840 --> 35:50.080 Who's with you now? 35:50.080 --> 35:51.640 No-one, I swear. 35:51.640 --> 35:55.040 And you called because you thought I might want it back? 35:55.040 --> 35:56.880 That's right. 35:56.880 --> 35:58.600 I'm sorry, your time is up. 35:58.600 --> 36:00.520 Deposit another nickel, please. 36:00.520 --> 36:02.480 Shall I hang up, Mr. Holmes? 36:02.480 --> 36:03.400 Put in another nickel. 36:03.400 --> 36:06.400 Tell me, what's your name? 36:06.400 --> 36:07.880 Quinn Williams. 36:07.880 --> 36:09.520 Tell me something about yourself. 36:09.520 --> 36:10.520 What do you do? 36:10.520 --> 36:12.160 Are you a married man? 36:12.160 --> 36:13.480 No, I'm single. 36:13.480 --> 36:14.680 I live by myself. 36:14.680 --> 36:15.720 Not even a roommate? 36:15.720 --> 36:18.000 Nobody, strictly lone wolf. 36:18.000 --> 36:19.560 I'd like to see that check, Quinn. 36:19.560 --> 36:21.560 Maybe I can do something for you. 36:21.560 --> 36:22.560 Fair enough. 36:22.560 --> 36:24.800 There's a little bar called Owens down on 51st. 36:24.800 --> 36:25.800 Do you know it? 36:25.800 --> 36:26.800 I know where it is. 36:26.800 --> 36:29.800 It'll take me about 15 minutes to get dressed and get down there. 36:29.800 --> 36:30.800 Here's 15 minutes. 36:30.800 --> 36:34.720 Good for you? 36:34.720 --> 36:35.720 Just fine, Mr. Holmes. 36:35.720 --> 36:38.720 I'll see you there. 36:38.720 --> 36:42.200 You're a cagey boy, Mr. Holmes. 36:42.200 --> 36:43.200 But you swallowed. 36:54.200 --> 36:55.200 Quinn? 36:55.200 --> 36:56.200 Yeah? 36:56.200 --> 36:58.400 Over here in the booth. 36:58.400 --> 37:00.160 Good evening, Mr. Holmes. 37:00.160 --> 37:01.160 Good evening. 37:01.160 --> 37:03.160 Sit down, won't you? 37:03.160 --> 37:05.160 Yeah, I will. 37:05.160 --> 37:07.160 You're right on time. 37:07.160 --> 37:08.160 Sure. 37:08.160 --> 37:10.160 So are you. 37:10.160 --> 37:11.160 Here's a drink for you. 37:11.160 --> 37:14.160 I had to order a head so I'd be allowed to stay in here. 37:14.160 --> 37:16.160 It's past closing time. 37:16.160 --> 37:17.160 Thanks. 37:17.160 --> 37:20.160 What's the matter, son? 37:20.160 --> 37:21.160 Nothing. 37:21.160 --> 37:25.160 It'd just be funny, that's all. 37:25.160 --> 37:31.160 Funny and kind of corny if you'd slipped a little something into this. 37:31.160 --> 37:32.160 Take mine, then. 37:32.160 --> 37:35.160 I haven't put it to my mouth yet. 37:35.160 --> 37:38.160 I think I will. 37:38.160 --> 37:40.160 Bottoms up. 37:40.160 --> 37:45.160 Bottoms up. 37:45.160 --> 37:46.160 My car's around the corner. 37:46.160 --> 37:49.160 Would you rather talk about it there? 37:49.160 --> 37:51.160 Yeah, I would. 37:51.160 --> 37:52.160 I think we ought to be alone. 37:52.160 --> 37:54.160 That's easy, son. 37:54.160 --> 37:56.160 We can be alone. 38:08.160 --> 38:09.160 That's enough driving. 38:09.160 --> 38:10.160 Pull up. 38:10.160 --> 38:12.160 I just thought we'd coast a bit. 38:12.160 --> 38:14.160 We can't sit talking at the curb at this hour. 38:14.160 --> 38:17.160 We'll have a cop down on us sticking his nose into the car. 38:17.160 --> 38:19.160 What's wrong with that? 38:19.160 --> 38:20.160 I don't know. 38:20.160 --> 38:22.160 Do you? 38:22.160 --> 38:24.160 I was asking you. 38:24.160 --> 38:27.160 However, if you want to pull up. 38:33.160 --> 38:35.160 The East River. 38:35.160 --> 38:38.160 A mighty mysterious place at this time of day. 38:38.160 --> 38:40.160 You're pretty close to the edge, aren't you? 38:40.160 --> 38:42.160 The wheels are blocked. 38:42.160 --> 38:45.160 You're not nervous, are you? 38:45.160 --> 38:48.160 No, I'm not. 38:48.160 --> 38:50.160 Now, about that check. 38:50.160 --> 38:53.160 I didn't find that check in a cab, Mr. Holmes. 38:53.160 --> 38:56.160 I found it in Stephen Grave's house. 38:56.160 --> 38:59.160 Where he's lying right now on the floor. 38:59.160 --> 39:00.160 Dead. 39:00.160 --> 39:02.160 Stephen dead? 39:02.160 --> 39:04.160 And your cigar is still in the room with him. 39:04.160 --> 39:06.160 Chewed to a pulp. 39:06.160 --> 39:09.160 A corona, like the one you're smoking right now. 39:09.160 --> 39:11.160 You should have taken it with you, Mr. Holmes. 39:11.160 --> 39:13.160 After you'd killed him. 39:13.160 --> 39:16.160 You seem to know a good deal about this. 39:16.160 --> 39:18.160 A little. 39:18.160 --> 39:21.160 Not enough to know who the killer is. 39:21.160 --> 39:25.160 I feel a little sorry for you. 39:25.160 --> 39:29.160 I didn't know you were as young as you are over the phone. 39:29.160 --> 39:32.160 What have I... 39:32.160 --> 39:34.160 What have I got to do with it? 39:34.160 --> 39:37.160 You're having a lot of trouble with your eyes, aren't you? 39:37.160 --> 39:40.160 Lights on the dashboard have got rings around them, haven't they? 39:40.160 --> 39:43.160 Like big soap bubbles. 39:43.160 --> 39:45.160 What are you talking about? 39:45.160 --> 39:47.160 Say, you talk too much. 39:47.160 --> 39:50.160 You've talked yourself into the grave. 39:50.160 --> 39:54.160 I would have believed you about finding that check in a taxi. 39:54.160 --> 39:57.160 You would have gone to sleep in the car, and when you woke up, 39:57.160 --> 39:59.160 you wouldn't have the check on you anymore. 39:59.160 --> 40:02.160 But you'd have had a ten dollar bill in your pocket, too. 40:02.160 --> 40:04.160 Sugarcoat the experience. 40:04.160 --> 40:07.160 Head weighs too much, doesn't it? 40:07.160 --> 40:09.160 Too heavy for your neck. 40:09.160 --> 40:10.160 My head. 40:10.160 --> 40:12.160 You should have stuck to your own drink, son. 40:12.160 --> 40:14.160 You were suspicious. 40:14.160 --> 40:16.160 But not suspicious enough. 40:16.160 --> 40:19.160 You took the wrong glass. 40:19.160 --> 40:22.160 Me, I'm a chess player. 40:22.160 --> 40:24.160 You know what chess is? 40:24.160 --> 40:28.160 It's figuring out your opponent's move before he makes it. 40:28.160 --> 40:30.160 It's a funny thing. 40:30.160 --> 40:32.160 The way my head... 40:32.160 --> 40:35.160 Like a solid rock. 40:35.160 --> 40:39.160 You're going to sleep here in the car. 40:39.160 --> 40:42.160 Then you're going into the river without a mark on you. 40:42.160 --> 40:44.160 But I'll take the check before I dump you. 40:44.160 --> 40:46.160 It's probably in your shoe. 40:46.160 --> 40:51.160 It's about where your type of youngster would think was a clever hiding place for it. 40:51.160 --> 40:53.160 Just clear my head. 40:53.160 --> 40:55.160 And then kick. 40:55.160 --> 40:57.160 Kick. 40:57.160 --> 41:01.160 Trying to kick out the glass, son? 41:01.160 --> 41:05.160 You haven't the strength of a kick left in you. 41:05.160 --> 41:08.160 No, it's all over. 41:08.160 --> 41:11.160 That's water in front of us. 41:11.160 --> 41:14.160 That even black line you see. 41:14.160 --> 41:17.160 Right over the hubcap. 41:17.160 --> 41:20.160 Can't even move, can you? 41:20.160 --> 41:22.160 That's right. 41:22.160 --> 41:26.160 Make a lazy pass with your hand like you're brushing away flies. 41:26.160 --> 41:29.160 That's about all you're able to do. 41:29.160 --> 41:34.160 In a minute, you won't even be able to do that. 41:34.160 --> 41:37.160 There go your eyes. 41:37.160 --> 41:43.160 Down, down, down. 41:43.160 --> 41:46.160 You won't get away with this, mister. 41:46.160 --> 41:48.160 Bricky knows. 41:48.160 --> 41:50.160 There are two of us. 41:50.160 --> 41:53.160 Not just one. 42:02.160 --> 42:04.160 And so I walked away from Quinn. 42:04.160 --> 42:07.160 And I was alone again. 42:07.160 --> 42:10.160 I'd met him only a few hours before. 42:10.160 --> 42:14.160 And with him I'd met my past and my home. 42:14.160 --> 42:17.160 And everything I loved and wanted. 42:17.160 --> 42:20.160 And now I was alone again. 42:20.160 --> 42:24.160 Somewhere in this sleeping city, Quinn was after his man. 42:24.160 --> 42:27.160 And I was after my woman. 42:27.160 --> 42:33.160 My redhead. My long-stemmed American beauty. 42:33.160 --> 42:35.160 The nightclub parakey was dead. 42:35.160 --> 42:38.160 Dead, but not quite cold. 42:38.160 --> 42:41.160 Just in the process of giving up the ghost. 42:41.160 --> 42:45.160 Every other minute a solitary figure would come out and walk away. 42:45.160 --> 42:48.160 Someone who earned a living inside. 42:48.160 --> 42:52.160 This was the five o'clock in the afternoon of the nightclub workers. 42:52.160 --> 42:56.160 Whose clock goes in the opposite direction to that of the rest of the world. 42:56.160 --> 42:59.160 And what did I have to go on? 42:59.160 --> 43:04.160 A redhead blackmailer who would quickly scribble a note to a man. 43:04.160 --> 43:09.160 And that kind of woman doesn't ordinarily carry around pencil and paper in her purse. 43:09.160 --> 43:13.160 She sends messages with her eyes and her hips. 43:13.160 --> 43:19.160 If she wants a pencil, she's got to borrow it from the help. 43:19.160 --> 43:21.160 Excuse me. 43:21.160 --> 43:22.160 What's the matter? 43:22.160 --> 43:23.160 You work here, don't you? 43:23.160 --> 43:25.160 I'm in the check room until something better turns up. 43:25.160 --> 43:26.160 Why? 43:26.160 --> 43:29.160 I wondered, did my friend in a light green dress, a redhead, 43:29.160 --> 43:31.160 did she borrow a pencil from you tonight? 43:31.160 --> 43:33.160 It works the other way around, honey. 43:33.160 --> 43:36.160 The men take out their pencils and give me names and addresses and telephone numbers. 43:36.160 --> 43:37.160 I got a fistful. 43:37.160 --> 43:38.160 But didn't a woman... 43:38.160 --> 43:39.160 It's no dice, honey. 43:39.160 --> 43:41.160 I don't even see any women in my stall. 43:41.160 --> 43:43.160 Oh. 43:45.160 --> 43:47.160 Another long day. 43:47.160 --> 43:49.160 My feet swell up all the time. 43:49.160 --> 43:50.160 You want to try up some salts. 43:50.160 --> 43:52.160 Water is hot as you can stand. 43:52.160 --> 43:53.160 Excuse me. 43:53.160 --> 43:55.160 Well, my name's Jerry. 43:55.160 --> 43:57.160 But don't let the name stand in your way. 43:57.160 --> 44:01.160 I'm looking for my friend, a redhead in a light green dress. 44:01.160 --> 44:03.160 Did she borrow a pencil from you tonight? 44:03.160 --> 44:04.160 Not at my end of the bar. 44:04.160 --> 44:05.160 How about it, Frank? 44:05.160 --> 44:07.160 Sure, Joan Bassett. 44:07.160 --> 44:08.160 About midnight. 44:08.160 --> 44:12.160 She's always borrowing something and forgetting to give it back. 44:12.160 --> 44:14.160 How that girl forgets. 44:14.160 --> 44:15.160 That's the way Joni is. 44:15.160 --> 44:17.160 Do you know where I can find her? 44:17.160 --> 44:19.160 Well, try to Concord. 44:19.160 --> 44:21.160 That was the last address. 44:21.160 --> 44:23.160 But she's probably moved by now. 44:23.160 --> 44:24.160 Thanks, fellas. 44:24.160 --> 44:26.160 Can't I do anything for you? 44:26.160 --> 44:28.160 Another time, Jerry. 44:28.160 --> 44:29.160 Okay, that's a promise. 44:29.160 --> 44:30.160 Another time. 44:40.160 --> 44:42.160 What can I do for you? 44:42.160 --> 44:43.160 Be friendly, Pop. 44:43.160 --> 44:44.160 Say hello. 44:44.160 --> 44:45.160 Hello. 44:45.160 --> 44:46.160 That's better. 44:46.160 --> 44:47.160 What do you want, a room? 44:47.160 --> 44:48.160 We're full up. 44:48.160 --> 44:50.160 What room's my girlfriend got? 44:50.160 --> 44:51.160 I want to run up and tell her something. 44:51.160 --> 44:52.160 You know, Joni. 44:52.160 --> 44:53.160 Joan Bassett? 44:53.160 --> 44:54.160 Yeah, Joan Bassett. 44:54.160 --> 44:56.160 Only we don't have to be so formal. 44:56.160 --> 44:57.160 She's in 409, sugar. 44:57.160 --> 44:58.160 Hey, wait a minute. 44:58.160 --> 44:59.160 I'll try again. 44:59.160 --> 45:00.160 I'll skip that. 45:00.160 --> 45:01.160 She don't have to put on no ears with me. 45:01.160 --> 45:02.160 Who's she kidding? 45:02.160 --> 45:03.160 I know she's two weeks behind. 45:03.160 --> 45:04.160 No rent. 45:04.160 --> 45:05.160 All right. 45:05.160 --> 45:25.160 If you know that well, go on up. 45:25.160 --> 45:26.160 What do you want? 45:26.160 --> 45:27.160 You. 45:27.160 --> 45:29.160 I want to talk to you. 45:29.160 --> 45:30.160 Yeah? 45:30.160 --> 45:32.160 Well, just stand out there a minute and tell me what about. 45:32.160 --> 45:34.160 We got a friend in common, you and I. 45:34.160 --> 45:35.160 It's possible. 45:35.160 --> 45:36.160 Go on. 45:36.160 --> 45:39.160 This friend's name is Stephen Graves. 45:39.160 --> 45:43.160 Suppose you come in a minute. 45:43.160 --> 45:45.160 I'll hear what's on your mind. 45:45.160 --> 45:46.160 Sure. 45:46.160 --> 45:49.160 I thought that might do it. 45:49.160 --> 45:51.160 Do you have to lock the door? 45:51.160 --> 45:52.160 Yeah, I think I do. 45:52.160 --> 45:53.160 Whatever you think best. 45:53.160 --> 45:55.160 Begin with your name. 45:55.160 --> 45:57.160 You can put me down as Carolyn Miller. 45:57.160 --> 46:00.160 All right, Carolyn Miller. 46:00.160 --> 46:02.160 Now about Stephen Graves. 46:02.160 --> 46:03.160 What makes you think I know him? 46:03.160 --> 46:04.160 Stop being polite. 46:04.160 --> 46:05.160 You know him. 46:05.160 --> 46:06.160 Did he mention me to you? 46:06.160 --> 46:07.160 No. 46:07.160 --> 46:10.160 He wasn't doing any mentioning of anybody. 46:10.160 --> 46:12.160 He wasn't doing anything. 46:12.160 --> 46:15.160 You've been over to see him lately? 46:15.160 --> 46:16.160 Very lately. 46:16.160 --> 46:19.160 I just came from there now. 46:19.160 --> 46:21.160 How did you find him? 46:21.160 --> 46:24.160 I found him dead. 46:24.160 --> 46:27.160 I see. 46:27.160 --> 46:29.160 That tap in the kitchen is loose again. 46:29.160 --> 46:35.160 Excuse me a minute while I tighten it. 46:35.160 --> 46:38.160 I'd known we weren't alone the moment I came into that room. 46:38.160 --> 46:42.160 And I knew that faucet in the kitchen was a signal for a quick conference. 46:42.160 --> 46:43.160 It was my chance. 46:43.160 --> 46:45.160 Maybe I had a minute, maybe only 30 seconds. 46:45.160 --> 46:49.160 There was only time for one thing, the open handbag on the dresser. 46:49.160 --> 46:50.160 Nothing there. 46:50.160 --> 46:54.160 Lipstick, powder, usual junk. 46:54.160 --> 46:59.160 And then an unpaid hotel bill for $17.89 from this place, the Concord. 46:59.160 --> 47:02.160 No good, worthless, and my time was up. 47:02.160 --> 47:06.160 Yet something screamed at me to hold on to it, to slip it inside my stocking high up, 47:06.160 --> 47:11.160 and to get back into my chair. 47:11.160 --> 47:13.160 Well, that's done. 47:13.160 --> 47:16.160 Now, where were we? 47:16.160 --> 47:17.160 With Stephen Graves. 47:17.160 --> 47:18.160 Oh, yeah. 47:18.160 --> 47:21.160 Did you go up there alone or did you have somebody with you? 47:21.160 --> 47:22.160 Alone. 47:22.160 --> 47:25.160 I don't take my grandmother with me when I'm visiting. 47:25.160 --> 47:26.160 I see. 47:26.160 --> 47:28.160 Somebody stop you at the door and tell you, is that how you found out? 47:28.160 --> 47:31.160 Cops and people hanging around, lots of excitement? 47:31.160 --> 47:32.160 No one knows it. 47:32.160 --> 47:33.160 I found him alone. 47:33.160 --> 47:36.160 I had a key to the house that he'd given me. 47:36.160 --> 47:39.160 I went up and there he was, dead. 47:39.160 --> 47:42.160 What'd you do, holler bloody murder and bring everyone down the place? 47:42.160 --> 47:44.160 I got out of there fast and quiet. 47:44.160 --> 47:46.160 I don't want to be mixed up in it. 47:46.160 --> 47:48.160 Smart girl. 47:48.160 --> 47:50.160 And all this happened just a little while ago, huh? 47:50.160 --> 47:51.160 Yeah. 47:51.160 --> 47:52.160 Nobody knows yet but you? 47:52.160 --> 47:54.160 Me and you. 47:54.160 --> 47:55.160 Did you come here alone? 47:55.160 --> 47:57.160 All alone. 47:57.160 --> 48:00.160 Everything I do, I do alone. 48:00.160 --> 48:02.160 I guess I've hit the jackpot. 48:02.160 --> 48:04.160 Yeah, you sure have, baby. 48:04.160 --> 48:07.160 You've hit it hard. 48:07.160 --> 48:09.160 Make it tight, Griff, so she can't make any noise. 48:09.160 --> 48:10.160 It's tight. 48:10.160 --> 48:11.160 Don't worry about that. 48:11.160 --> 48:14.160 Well, Miss Carolyn Miller, you're in trouble now. 48:14.160 --> 48:15.160 You tell her. 48:15.160 --> 48:18.160 So Stephen Graves is dead and you felt a little nosy about it, huh? 48:18.160 --> 48:20.160 You wanted the details, all right. 48:20.160 --> 48:21.160 You can have them. 48:21.160 --> 48:23.160 You seemed to have known him pretty well. 48:23.160 --> 48:24.160 Maybe he told you, did he? 48:24.160 --> 48:28.160 Did he tell you about his kid brother who married a tavern hostess back in Boston? 48:28.160 --> 48:33.160 Did he tell you what that did to the fine old family name when this girl began asking for money? 48:33.160 --> 48:36.160 When she came to New York and began asking Stephen for money? 48:36.160 --> 48:40.160 Did he tell you that he paid and paid and finally decided to stop paying? 48:40.160 --> 48:44.160 So this girl and her friend had to pay him a little visit tonight to try to persuade him? 48:44.160 --> 48:46.160 Did he tell you that? 48:46.160 --> 48:50.160 Did he tell you what happened when he couldn't be persuaded? 48:50.160 --> 48:52.160 No. 48:52.160 --> 48:54.160 No, he didn't tell you that. 48:54.160 --> 48:56.160 Because he wasn't talking by then. 48:56.160 --> 48:58.160 By then he was dead. 48:58.160 --> 49:00.160 That's enough. You want to spend the night at it? 49:00.160 --> 49:01.160 All right. 49:01.160 --> 49:03.160 Well, what's the play now? 49:03.160 --> 49:05.160 Don't you figure we ought to... 49:05.160 --> 49:07.160 No, not here in the room. That's begging for it. 49:07.160 --> 49:09.160 You don't understand. I don't mean chop chop, that kind of stuff. 49:09.160 --> 49:12.160 I mean, we're four flights up. 49:12.160 --> 49:13.160 That ought to be enough. 49:13.160 --> 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. 49:17.160 --> 49:20.160 And it jams, so she's got to push it. 49:20.160 --> 49:22.160 There's always a follow-up. It's a little messy. 49:22.160 --> 49:23.160 Let me take care of this. 49:23.160 --> 49:25.160 Yeah, like you took care of the other. 49:25.160 --> 49:28.160 When I told you just to throw a scare into him so he'd come across. 49:28.160 --> 49:31.160 Well, some scare you through, Adam Griff. 49:31.160 --> 49:33.160 Yeah, I scared him right out of his skin, right out of his hide. 49:33.160 --> 49:35.160 I don't want you to be so impulsive this time. 49:35.160 --> 49:37.160 Well, then let's blow. 49:37.160 --> 49:38.160 We'll stuff her in the closet. 49:38.160 --> 49:41.160 Backs up against a dead wall so she'll never be heard. 49:41.160 --> 49:43.160 It'll be days before they get around to busting the door down. 49:43.160 --> 49:45.160 Yeah, we'll be far away by then. 49:45.160 --> 49:46.160 Yeah, far away. 49:46.160 --> 49:48.160 Okay, I can pack in ten minutes. 49:48.160 --> 49:49.160 Yes, I'll give you a hand. 49:49.160 --> 49:51.160 Hey, what? Wait a minute. 49:51.160 --> 49:54.160 I'm missing that hotel bill. It must have fallen somewhere on the floor. 49:54.160 --> 49:57.160 Don't worry about that. He can make up a new one for you down at the desk. 49:57.160 --> 49:58.160 Oh, yeah, sure, that's right. 49:58.160 --> 50:01.160 Well, shall we get her out of the way first? 50:01.160 --> 50:03.160 Yeah. 50:03.160 --> 50:05.160 Hang Carolyn Miller in the closet. 50:05.160 --> 50:07.160 Oopsy daisy. 50:07.160 --> 50:08.160 Make her comfortable, Griff. 50:08.160 --> 50:09.160 Sure. 50:09.160 --> 50:12.160 We want to be extra nice to her because there's a little fresh air in there. 50:12.160 --> 50:13.160 Yeah, it'll only be a minute. 50:13.160 --> 50:14.160 Griff. 50:14.160 --> 50:15.160 Yeah, what's the matter now? 50:15.160 --> 50:16.160 Put her down. 50:16.160 --> 50:17.160 What do you mean? 50:17.160 --> 50:18.160 Put her down, quick! 50:18.160 --> 50:19.160 I ought to have my head examined. 50:19.160 --> 50:20.160 You mean you slipped on something? 50:20.160 --> 50:23.160 Yeah, forgot. We both clean forgot. 50:23.160 --> 50:25.160 What was it tipped her off to me? 50:25.160 --> 50:27.160 She didn't pull my name and address out of a hat? 50:27.160 --> 50:28.160 Yeah. 50:28.160 --> 50:30.160 Take that gag off her. 50:30.160 --> 50:33.160 You try to scream and I'll dent you. 50:33.160 --> 50:34.160 I won't scream. 50:34.160 --> 50:36.160 Now talk. How'd you know I knew him? 50:36.160 --> 50:38.160 How'd you know where to find me? 50:38.160 --> 50:42.160 I'm gonna let you have it and I'm gonna keep letting you have it until you answer. 50:42.160 --> 50:46.160 You dropped your hotel bill over there. 50:46.160 --> 50:48.160 I found it lying in the room with him. 50:48.160 --> 50:51.160 I ought to slap you down to the soles of your feet. 50:51.160 --> 50:52.160 You left your calling card. That's what you did. 50:52.160 --> 50:55.160 Oh, she's lying. I swear I saw it in my handbag after I got back. 50:55.160 --> 50:56.160 Did you take it out to show him? 50:56.160 --> 50:57.160 Answer me, did you? 50:57.160 --> 51:03.160 Sure. While you were waiting downstairs, it was part of the buildup to show him how bad I needed money, but... 51:03.160 --> 51:04.160 I know I put it back again. 51:04.160 --> 51:05.160 You think you know. 51:05.160 --> 51:08.160 Well, I... I'm almost positive. 51:08.160 --> 51:12.160 It fell out. It was for $17.89. 51:12.160 --> 51:16.160 It had past you stamped on it in purple ink. 51:16.160 --> 51:18.160 It even had your room number on it. 51:18.160 --> 51:20.160 And what did you do with it? Did you bring it with you? 51:20.160 --> 51:25.160 I left it where it was. I was afraid to touch anything. 51:25.160 --> 51:28.160 We'll have to go back and get it. 51:28.160 --> 51:32.160 All right, we will. We'll take her with us. 51:32.160 --> 51:34.160 Fix it. It'll look like she did it to him. 51:34.160 --> 51:38.160 What you want to do in the first place, Griff, why don't you do it over there? 51:38.160 --> 51:40.160 Give my double-header to figure out. 51:40.160 --> 51:41.160 Maybe. 51:41.160 --> 51:42.160 Oh, it's the only way. 51:42.160 --> 51:45.160 Rub out this detour by finishing her off where she started from. 51:45.160 --> 51:49.160 All right. Come on, Carolyn Miller. 51:49.160 --> 51:51.160 We're going for a little ride. 51:51.160 --> 51:56.160 And so I went back into Stephen Grave's house for the second time that night. 51:56.160 --> 51:58.160 They pushed me ahead of them in the darkness, 51:58.160 --> 52:01.160 whispering to each other not to use any lights yet, 52:01.160 --> 52:05.160 just as Quinn and I had done a few hours before. 52:05.160 --> 52:09.160 Or was it a few years before? 52:09.160 --> 52:11.160 I don't know. 52:11.160 --> 52:13.160 I don't know. 52:13.160 --> 52:15.160 I don't know. 52:15.160 --> 52:17.160 I don't know. 52:17.160 --> 52:21.160 Or was it a few years before? 52:21.160 --> 52:24.160 Then we were in the study and the lights were snapped on 52:24.160 --> 52:28.160 and the dead man was still on the floor 52:28.160 --> 52:30.160 and nobody stepped forward to say, 52:30.160 --> 52:33.160 Bricky, is that you? 52:33.160 --> 52:37.160 No. He wasn't there. 52:37.160 --> 52:42.160 Quinn wasn't there waiting to help me, to save me. 52:42.160 --> 52:44.160 Well, let's do what we have to do and get out fast. 52:44.160 --> 52:47.160 No, not yet. There's something else first. 52:49.160 --> 52:51.160 Well, you. 52:51.160 --> 52:53.160 Where is it? 52:53.160 --> 52:55.160 Where's that hotel bill? 52:55.160 --> 52:57.160 Where'd you say you saw it? 52:57.160 --> 53:01.160 Over there by him is where I said. 53:01.160 --> 53:03.160 And you believed me. 53:03.160 --> 53:07.160 Then you didn't... you lied. 53:07.160 --> 53:09.160 I lied. 53:09.160 --> 53:11.160 Where is it? Where have you got it? 53:11.160 --> 53:13.160 That's... that's your little problem. 53:13.160 --> 53:16.160 Let me have the gun. I'll do it. 53:16.160 --> 53:17.160 Here it is, Griff. 53:17.160 --> 53:20.160 Get away from him. Move over. 53:20.160 --> 53:22.160 Stand still, Carolyn Miller. 53:22.160 --> 53:25.160 I want to come real close. 53:25.160 --> 53:29.160 I want them to worry about whether it's suicide. 53:29.160 --> 53:32.160 Yes, Griff. 53:32.160 --> 53:34.160 I'll stand still. 53:34.160 --> 53:37.160 Good girl, Carolyn. 53:37.160 --> 53:39.160 Good girl. 53:39.160 --> 53:42.160 It didn't hurt. 53:42.160 --> 53:44.160 It didn't hurt at all. 53:44.160 --> 53:47.160 And I opened my eyes to find out why. 53:47.160 --> 53:50.160 Griff stood in the middle of the room, his face contorted, 53:50.160 --> 53:52.160 an arm squeezing hard around his neck. 53:52.160 --> 53:55.160 And behind his face was another face, a face I knew, 53:55.160 --> 53:59.160 Quinn's face, the boy next door fighting for me, fighting to save me. 53:59.160 --> 54:02.160 Then Quinn went down, all lopsided, and Quinn was on top, 54:02.160 --> 54:04.160 punching at him again and again, 54:04.160 --> 54:06.160 and John was racing across the room with an and iron, 54:06.160 --> 54:07.160 raising a hand. 54:07.160 --> 54:09.160 I never played football as a little girl, 54:09.160 --> 54:12.160 but on this night I decided it was time to try. 54:28.160 --> 54:31.160 Ricky. Ricky, darling. 54:31.160 --> 54:32.160 Quinn. 54:32.160 --> 54:34.160 Are you all right? 54:34.160 --> 54:37.160 Somebody's ringing church bells in my head. 54:37.160 --> 54:41.160 Oh, you knocked yourself out with that flying tackle. 54:41.160 --> 54:43.160 Quinn. Quinn, what happened? 54:43.160 --> 54:49.160 Oh, yeah, they're both asleep, Ricky, as sound as can be. 54:49.160 --> 54:53.160 I see you've wrapped them up nicely. 54:53.160 --> 54:56.160 Yeah, I had to tear up a few good sheets to do it, 54:56.160 --> 54:58.160 but I don't think Mr. Graves would have minded. 54:58.160 --> 55:00.160 I'd given up, Quinn. 55:00.160 --> 55:03.160 I thought I'd beat you back here. 55:03.160 --> 55:05.160 I'd given up. 55:05.160 --> 55:07.160 Oh, Ricky. 55:07.160 --> 55:10.160 I saw them coming in with you outside on the street. 55:10.160 --> 55:12.160 I was watching from one of the front windows, 55:12.160 --> 55:15.160 and something about the way you were walking between them, 55:15.160 --> 55:18.160 sort of stiff, told me they had a gun on you. 55:18.160 --> 55:21.160 So I backed up into the bathroom and laid low. 55:21.160 --> 55:23.160 They're the ones, Quinn. They did it. 55:23.160 --> 55:24.160 I know. 55:24.160 --> 55:25.160 And we can go now. 55:25.160 --> 55:26.160 It's a quarter to six. 55:26.160 --> 55:28.160 We can catch that bus for home. 55:28.160 --> 55:30.160 There's one more thing to be done, Ricky. 55:30.160 --> 55:33.160 It'll only take a minute, 55:33.160 --> 55:40.160 and then you and I aren't going to have any more to worry about. 55:40.160 --> 55:42.160 Is this the police? 55:42.160 --> 55:44.160 I want to report a murder. 55:44.160 --> 55:46.160 Oh, Quinn. 55:46.160 --> 55:49.160 Stephen Graves, in his home on East 71st Street. 55:49.160 --> 55:52.160 There are two people tied up in the same room with the body, 55:52.160 --> 55:53.160 and they're the killers. 55:53.160 --> 55:55.160 You'll find a special delivery letter in the desk 55:55.160 --> 55:57.160 from Graves' younger brother, 55:57.160 --> 56:00.160 and that'll tell you the reason for the killing. 56:00.160 --> 56:01.160 What? 56:01.160 --> 56:04.160 No, this isn't any rib. 56:04.160 --> 56:07.160 I wish it was. 56:07.160 --> 56:08.160 Me? 56:08.160 --> 56:11.160 Just a guy who happened to be passing by. 56:11.160 --> 56:13.160 We can take their car. He left his keys in it. 56:13.160 --> 56:28.160 Come on, Quinn, hurry. 56:28.160 --> 56:29.160 Master Quinn. 56:29.160 --> 56:31.160 We'll make it. Don't you worry, Ricky. 56:31.160 --> 56:35.160 I'm not worried. I know we will. 56:35.160 --> 56:37.160 What happened to you tonight? 56:37.160 --> 56:38.160 Did you find Holmes? 56:38.160 --> 56:39.160 Yeah. 56:39.160 --> 56:40.160 And? 56:40.160 --> 56:41.160 And he tried to kill me. 56:41.160 --> 56:42.160 Quinn! 56:42.160 --> 56:44.160 It was your name that saved me, Bricky. 56:44.160 --> 56:46.160 I called out your name, 56:46.160 --> 56:48.160 I told him you were in on this with me, 56:48.160 --> 56:50.160 and he changed his mind in a hurry. 56:50.160 --> 56:53.160 Then we saved each other. 56:53.160 --> 56:54.160 That's right. 56:54.160 --> 56:56.160 What about the check? How did it figure? 56:56.160 --> 56:59.160 Well, Holmes was caught short when he wrote that check, 56:59.160 --> 57:01.160 and Graves got sore when the bank returned it. 57:01.160 --> 57:03.160 They talked it over tonight, 57:03.160 --> 57:06.160 and it ended up with Graves giving him another day to raise the money. 57:06.160 --> 57:08.160 The reason Holmes was so jittery 57:08.160 --> 57:10.160 was that the check seemed to have disappeared. 57:10.160 --> 57:13.160 He didn't know what Graves might be pulling. 57:13.160 --> 57:15.160 And, of course, Graves wasn't pulling anything, 57:15.160 --> 57:17.160 with that check lying in the bottom of his bathtub. 57:17.160 --> 57:19.160 You told Holmes how it got there? 57:19.160 --> 57:21.160 Yeah. 57:21.160 --> 57:23.160 And look what I've got. 57:23.160 --> 57:25.160 Two hundred dollar... 57:25.160 --> 57:27.160 Quinn! 57:27.160 --> 57:29.160 No, I didn't steal it. 57:29.160 --> 57:31.160 After he decided he wouldn't kill me, 57:31.160 --> 57:34.160 Holmes and I got very chummy. 57:34.160 --> 57:37.160 He said we'd both made a mistake in the same night. 57:37.160 --> 57:41.160 Me breaking into a safe and him with his bad check. 57:41.160 --> 57:43.160 He'd slipped me a pill earlier in the evening, 57:43.160 --> 57:46.160 and now he was walking me around to sober me up. 57:46.160 --> 57:48.160 That's when he gave me the money. 57:48.160 --> 57:50.160 A nest egg for me, he said. 57:50.160 --> 57:53.160 I could send it back to him a little at a time later on. 57:53.160 --> 57:55.160 We'll send it back, Quinn. 57:55.160 --> 57:57.160 We, Bricky? 57:57.160 --> 58:00.160 We're in this together, aren't we? 58:00.160 --> 58:02.160 Yes, Bricky, we are. 58:02.160 --> 58:04.160 Oh, look, Quinn, we made it. 58:04.160 --> 58:06.160 We're in time. The bus is still there. 58:06.160 --> 58:09.160 Come on, Bricky, let's go on home. 58:09.160 --> 58:11.160 Let's go on home. 58:35.160 --> 58:38.160 Thank you, Helen Walker and John Beale, 58:38.160 --> 58:41.160 for your truly wonderful performances as Bricky and Quinn. 58:41.160 --> 58:44.160 And to Lillian Bief, Rye Billsbury, 58:44.160 --> 58:47.160 Edith Tachner, Buddy Gray, and Bill Johnstone, 58:47.160 --> 58:50.160 thanks for your splendid support. 58:50.160 --> 58:52.160 With this performance, Suspense leaves the air 58:52.160 --> 58:54.160 for a short vacation period. 58:54.160 --> 58:58.160 We will return on Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, 58:58.160 --> 59:00.160 starting Thursday, July 8th, 59:00.160 --> 59:03.160 with an outstanding series of gripping suspense stories 59:03.160 --> 59:06.160 featuring the acting of your favorite stars of the screen. 59:06.160 --> 59:10.160 Watch for the new Suspense series starting Thursday, July 8th. 59:10.160 --> 59:14.160 Miss Helen Walker may soon be seen in My Dear Secretary, 59:14.160 --> 59:18.160 and Mr. John Beale will soon be seen in Paramount's Abigail Dearheart. 59:18.160 --> 59:22.160 Deadline at Dawn by William Irish was adapted for radio by Irving Ravitch 59:22.160 --> 59:25.160 and was produced and directed by Anton M. Leder. 59:25.160 --> 59:27.160 Ludgluskin is our musical director and conductor, 59:27.160 --> 59:30.160 Lucian Morrowek composes the original scores. 59:30.160 --> 59:32.160 Be sure to watch for the new half-hour series 59:32.160 --> 59:36.160 of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 59:36.160 --> 01:00:03.160 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.