WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 In just a moment, Suspense, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. 00:07.000 --> 00:09.000 Now let's stop in at Ed Jones for a moment, Billy. 00:09.000 --> 00:10.000 Okay, Dad. 00:11.000 --> 00:12.000 Hello, Ed. 00:12.000 --> 00:13.000 Hello. 00:13.000 --> 00:15.000 How's the world's greatest ignition service station tonight? 00:15.000 --> 00:16.000 I have. 00:16.000 --> 00:17.000 Hi, Billy. 00:17.000 --> 00:18.000 Hi. 00:18.000 --> 00:20.000 I'm busy on a couple of cranky ignition jobs. 00:20.000 --> 00:21.000 Hey, how's the car running? 00:21.000 --> 00:22.000 Never better. Take a look. 00:22.000 --> 00:23.000 Sure. Glad to. 00:23.000 --> 00:26.000 Hey, Dad, Ed's got his radio on. Is it the auto light show? 00:26.000 --> 00:27.000 That's it, Billy. 00:27.000 --> 00:30.000 Suspense is my Thursday night special. 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 Ignition systems, spark plugs, batteries. 00:32.000 --> 00:35.000 Ed, you've got everyone in town switching to auto light. 00:35.000 --> 00:38.000 Billy, your dad's trying to take over the auto light announcers' chores. 00:39.000 --> 00:42.000 Hey, Doug Fairbanks, Jr. is on Suspense tonight. 00:42.000 --> 00:43.000 You like him, Billy? 00:43.000 --> 00:46.000 Yes, sir. He's a self-starting, smooth-running humdinger. 00:46.000 --> 00:48.000 Why, he's got the pep of an auto light ignition system, 00:48.000 --> 00:51.000 a set of spark plugs, and a stateful battery combined. 00:51.000 --> 00:56.000 Oh, here's the show. 01:02.000 --> 01:07.000 Suspense. 01:07.000 --> 01:11.000 Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you 01:11.000 --> 01:15.000 radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 01:15.000 --> 01:18.000 starring tonight, Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 in a tale well calculated to keep you in... 01:22.000 --> 01:24.000 Suspense. 01:25.000 --> 01:27.000 Today, everybody is switching to auto light, 01:27.000 --> 01:30.000 and tonight, auto light takes pleasure in presenting... 01:30.000 --> 01:33.000 Anton Leder's production of Deep Into Darkness, 01:33.000 --> 01:35.000 starring Douglas Fairbanks. 01:35.000 --> 01:39.000 This is a story about fear, and I'm an expert on fear. 01:39.000 --> 01:42.000 Me, Ken Matthews. 01:45.000 --> 01:50.000 That cheap, broken-down hotel room is as good a place as any to start. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 It was all I could afford. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 New York, the city of bright lights, 01:54.000 --> 01:56.000 and the city of light. 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 The city of light. 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 The city of light. 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 The city of light. 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 It was all I could afford. New York, the city of bright lights, 02:05.000 --> 02:08.000 and me, stretched out on a squeaky bed, 02:08.000 --> 02:12.000 watching a spot change shape on the ceiling. 02:12.000 --> 02:15.000 It's a kind of game to keep a man from going crazy. 02:15.000 --> 02:17.000 For seven years, I watched another spot, 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 changed it into a million shapes, 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 got to know it better than I knew myself. 02:22.000 --> 02:26.000 That spot on the ceiling of my cell at Joliet Penitentiary. 02:26.000 --> 02:30.000 When it was over, when they were finally ready to let me go back into the world, 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 the warden had something to say to me, some advice. 02:33.000 --> 02:37.000 Matthews, you're leaving us early because of your good behavior record. 02:37.000 --> 02:40.000 Now, if I were you, I'd stud fresh on the outside, 02:40.000 --> 02:44.000 stay away from Chicago, go someplace new where they don't know you. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 I sort of figured on doing that, warden. 02:46.000 --> 02:56.000 Good. You'll find it easier. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.000 I'd find it easier. I wonder how it is when it's tough. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Nobody knew me in New York. Nobody wanted to know me. 03:03.000 --> 03:06.000 As for a job, well, did you ever wash dishes? 03:06.000 --> 03:08.000 I washed a million. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 Now, any dirty jobs nobody wants to do, I did them all. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 That's how I built up my fortune. 03:12.000 --> 03:16.000 17 dollars and 50 cents, United States currency. 03:16.000 --> 03:21.000 That's how much I was worth this one morning when I saw a sign out in front of a construction job. 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 Men wanted the sign, said I, believed it. I looked up the form. 03:25.000 --> 03:29.000 Bill, what's that compressor? Come on, Jim, keep it moving. 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 Looking for something, bud? 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 Yes, you have a sign out there. Are you hiring men? 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 Could be. What do you do? 03:36.000 --> 03:40.000 Oh, just about anything. I can keep books, handle your time. 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 I used to be an accountant. 03:42.000 --> 03:47.000 But if that's not what you're looking for, well, I can swing a shovel too. I just want a job. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 I like that attitude. Got your discharge certificate with you? 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 Discharge? 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 Yeah, honorable discharge. You always like to give a break to egg service guys. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 Oh, well, I wasn't in the service. 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 Oh, for it? 03:58.000 --> 04:02.000 No, no, I sat out the war. I was in jail. 04:02.000 --> 04:07.000 Oh, looks tough. Got a little mixed up in your account, huh? 04:07.000 --> 04:11.000 No, it was manslaughter. I killed a man. 04:11.000 --> 04:14.000 What about the job? I really need it. 04:14.000 --> 04:17.000 Look, buddy, I don't want you to think this is my idea, but... 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 But you can't use me. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 No, no, I can't. You see... 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 Yes, I see. Start fresh, you say? 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 I got my orders. See, you know how that is. 04:25.000 --> 04:29.000 Bosses figure there's a lot of vets looking for jobs. I got to give them the first crack at things. 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 Well, if I was to... 04:30.000 --> 04:37.000 It's all right. It isn't your fault. Maybe... maybe some other world. 04:39.000 --> 04:46.000 Somehow that was the last straw. I started to hate. I hated everything and everyone. 04:46.000 --> 04:50.000 And then I thought of my fortune, my $17.50. 04:50.000 --> 04:53.000 And suddenly I knew there was something I wanted to buy. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 What do you want to use the gun for, mister? 04:55.000 --> 04:58.000 I don't know. I just want to have it. 04:58.000 --> 05:02.000 Well, we're supposed to put something down there, along with your name and everything. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 Oh, well, put down Target Practice. That's good enough, isn't it? 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 I guess so. What's the name? 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 Put down Smith. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 Smith. Oh, it's like that, huh? 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 Look, mister, I don't want to get into any trouble. 05:12.000 --> 05:14.000 I run a respectable place of business here. 05:14.000 --> 05:15.000 You want to sell the gun, don't you? 05:15.000 --> 05:16.000 Well, sure, but... 05:16.000 --> 05:17.000 You want the $14, don't you? 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 Okay, okay, so it's Smith. And you're going to do some Target Practice. 05:20.000 --> 05:22.000 Give me the 14 bucks and get lost, huh? 05:22.000 --> 05:30.000 Thanks. Thanks a lot. Funny thing, I still don't know why I wanted that gun. 05:30.000 --> 05:34.000 I swear I don't. Kill myself, rob a bank or a filling station, I haven't any idea. 05:34.000 --> 05:38.000 I suppose I just thought that having it would make me feel better. 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 Only it didn't. It hung in my pocket heavy as lead. 05:41.000 --> 05:44.000 Cold, dead, just like its owner. 05:47.000 --> 05:51.000 I turned into a side street, 52nd, 51st. I wasn't sure. 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 I stopped to light a cigarette. 05:53.000 --> 05:58.000 When a car pulled up to the curb, it was a big car with a chauffeur. 05:58.000 --> 06:01.000 A black car, smooth and shiny. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 Then I looked at the man getting out, just one look, 06:06.000 --> 06:09.000 and wheels started spinning around in my head. 06:09.000 --> 06:15.000 I got dizzy. The sidewalk twisted and bounced around like it was having a convulsion. 06:15.000 --> 06:19.000 But when he spoke, the shock of hearing his voice straighten it all out. 06:19.000 --> 06:23.000 Made it cold and clear as hard crystal. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Just a few words to that chauffeur. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 Wait for me, Davis. I won't be long. 06:27.000 --> 06:31.000 He turned and walked past me, right by me into the bank. 06:31.000 --> 06:34.000 But he couldn't walk. He couldn't do anything. 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 That was Lee Burke I was staring at. 06:37.000 --> 06:50.000 Lee Burke, the man I'd killed seven years ago. 06:50.000 --> 06:54.000 For Suspense, Autolite is bringing you Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 in Deep Into Darkness. 06:56.000 --> 07:08.000 Autolite's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 07:08.000 --> 07:11.000 Sure looks like young Doug's got it, eh, Billy? 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 Boy, I'll say he has. What a chip he's got in his shoulder. 07:14.000 --> 07:17.000 Billy, stop chipping and chirping like your mother. 07:17.000 --> 07:21.000 Oh, by the way, Ann, that ignition system of mine score a bullseye? 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 She's completely on the beam. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 My jobs usually are, especially when they're autolite. 07:25.000 --> 07:29.000 Yes, sir. Money can't buy better ignition equipment for your car. 07:29.000 --> 07:33.000 Autolite parts are made by the world's largest independent manufacturers 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 of automobile electrical equipment. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 And autolite service stations are equipped with highly trained men 07:38.000 --> 07:42.000 and specialized machines to give your car the best in automobile service. 07:42.000 --> 07:46.000 That autolite ignition system sounds intelligent enough to take an IQ test, eh, Ed? 07:46.000 --> 07:50.000 Stop pulling edge leg, Billy. 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Autolite service stations are listed in your classified telephone directory 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 under automotive electrical service. 08:33.000 --> 08:37.000 And now autolite brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 08:37.000 --> 08:41.000 Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as Ken in Deep Into Darkness. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 08:44.000 --> 08:48.000 Suspense. 08:59.000 --> 09:03.000 In those few moments of watching a man walk across the sidewalk into a bank, 09:03.000 --> 09:06.000 I lived it all over again, the way it happened when I killed him 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 seven years ago back in Chicago. 09:08.000 --> 09:11.000 There wasn't anything about it I couldn't remember. 09:11.000 --> 09:14.000 Ken, darling. Do you love me, Ken? 09:14.000 --> 09:17.000 Do I love you? Oh, no, not at all. 09:17.000 --> 09:21.000 I just sit in that goofy nightclub night after night because the food's so good. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 Oh, Ken, you're sweet. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 Lila, why don't you forget that place? Give it up. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 Where's it going to get a girl like you dancing in a cheap honky-tonk? 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 You have something better to offer, darling? 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 I've offered it a half a dozen times. Marry me. 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 I got a good job. It'll get better. 09:35.000 --> 09:38.000 Hand me my drink, will you? Sure. Here. 09:38.000 --> 09:41.000 What do you say? 09:41.000 --> 09:45.000 I've told you, Ken, over and over again, I'm not getting married. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 Not to you, anyway. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 You're a sweet guy, sure, and I'm very fond of you, 09:50.000 --> 09:54.000 but little Lila isn't burying herself in any house with a bunch of squalling kids. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 That's for suckers. I don't think you mean that at all. 09:57.000 --> 09:59.000 No? Well, you just watch, darling. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 I'm going to wind up with a diamond so big, 10:01.000 --> 10:04.000 it'll take a two-ton truck to deliver it to me. 10:04.000 --> 10:07.000 I'm going to have so many mink coats, I'll use them for pajamas. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 That's the way to talk, sis. You tell him. 10:09.000 --> 10:11.000 Hello, Lee. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 You're beginning to sound like you're getting good sense. 10:13.000 --> 10:16.000 What are you doing up here with this bookkeeper, anyway? 10:16.000 --> 10:19.000 And a good evening to you, too, Lee. Never mind. 10:19.000 --> 10:22.000 I thought I said I didn't want you wasting your time with him. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 He's all right. Get out of here, Matthews. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 Wait a minute. If Lila wants me to go... 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 Not satisfied with my suggestions, huh? 10:28.000 --> 10:31.000 Well, I have a good mind... Lee, stop it. Put that gun away. 10:31.000 --> 10:34.000 Every time you have a few drinks, you start waving that gun around. 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 Really, Lee, you better put it down. Stop acting like a kid. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 Acting like a kid, huh? I'll show you who's acting like a kid. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 Give me that gun. Lee! 10:42.000 --> 10:45.000 Come on, Lee. Give it to me. I'll break your arm. 10:45.000 --> 10:47.000 Let go of my... 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 Lila, it went off. 10:51.000 --> 10:54.000 I was only trying to take it away from him. 10:54.000 --> 10:58.000 You killed him. Ken, you killed my brother. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 I didn't mean it, I tell you. You saw what happened. 11:01.000 --> 11:03.000 I was only trying to get the gun. 11:03.000 --> 11:05.000 The police will find you. Get out of here. 11:05.000 --> 11:07.000 Hurry, I tell you. Get out! 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 I got out all right in a hurry. 11:16.000 --> 11:20.000 It was pouring that night and I ran down the street with a rain slapping me in the face. 11:20.000 --> 11:23.000 I ran up a back alley into the darkness and then... 11:23.000 --> 11:26.000 Then I stopped. I didn't want to run. 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 Not for the rest of my life. 11:28.000 --> 11:31.000 I went to the nearest police station, turned myself in. 11:31.000 --> 11:35.000 They took me back to the Burks and we found Lila sitting in a chair, glassy-eyed, 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 just staring down at her brother, Lee. 11:38.000 --> 11:44.000 He... He was right where I'd left him, sprawled on the floor, face down. 11:44.000 --> 11:49.000 Lee Burke was dead and they gave me ten years for killing him. 11:52.000 --> 11:56.000 Only now he wasn't dead. He couldn't be. 11:56.000 --> 11:58.000 I'd just seen him walk into a bank. 11:58.000 --> 12:02.000 Uh... A nice car you got. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 Yeah. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 Must be an important man to have a car like that, eh? 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 Yeah, he's a big guy. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Lots of money, I suppose, eh? 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 Yeah, he's crawling with it. Does that make you happy? 12:12.000 --> 12:15.000 His name... Doesn't happen to be Burke, does it? 12:15.000 --> 12:20.000 No, Wilson. Keith Wilson. He also happens to be a stockbroker. 12:20.000 --> 12:22.000 Anything else you want to know? 12:22.000 --> 12:23.000 Keith Wilson? 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 Yeah, now beat it. The boss is coming. 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 The boss? Now, isn't that something? 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 All right, Davis. I'll go straight to the office now. 12:30.000 --> 12:31.000 Yes, sir. 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 You in a hurry, Lee? 12:33.000 --> 12:38.000 Well, there must be some mistake. My name isn't Lee. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 Oh, pardon me. 12:44.000 --> 12:47.000 But it was Lee. There wasn't any doubt about it. 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 And he knew me, too. I could see it in his eyes, 12:50.000 --> 12:52.000 and in the way his face went white. 12:52.000 --> 12:56.000 I didn't understand it. I couldn't figure out why or how, 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 but Lee Burke was alive. 13:02.000 --> 13:05.000 The rest of the fortune went for a taxi ride, but it was worth it to me. 13:05.000 --> 13:09.000 And I guess if I hadn't had enough money to follow Lee's car wherever it went, 13:09.000 --> 13:12.000 I'd have forced the cab driver with that gun I'd bought. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 But it wasn't necessary. We went out to Long Island. Way out! 13:15.000 --> 13:19.000 And then the car swung into a place with a big half-circle drive. 13:19.000 --> 13:24.000 Lee Burke, now Mr. Keith Wilson, was doing very well for himself. 13:24.000 --> 13:27.000 And so was Lila. 13:27.000 --> 13:29.000 What's the matter, Lila? 13:29.000 --> 13:30.000 Ken. 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 Is it like seeing a ghost? 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 Ken. Ken, it's really you. 13:35.000 --> 13:38.000 I saw a ghost just now, too, only he was very much alive. 13:38.000 --> 13:40.000 So that's what he was so excited about. 13:40.000 --> 13:41.000 Lee? 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 Yes, he came in, rushed upstairs, told me to call the airport, 13:43.000 --> 13:44.000 get him a plane for Miami. 13:44.000 --> 13:45.000 Did you? 13:45.000 --> 13:46.000 Not yet. 13:46.000 --> 13:47.000 It won't do any good. 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 Ken. Ken, what do you want? 13:50.000 --> 13:51.000 Why did you come here? 13:51.000 --> 13:54.000 I just wanted to be sure, Lila, absolutely sure. 13:54.000 --> 13:55.000 What are you going to do? 13:55.000 --> 13:59.000 I'd like to kill him. I ought to kill you both. 13:59.000 --> 14:02.000 No, Ken, don't talk like that. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 It wasn't me. I didn't plan it. 14:04.000 --> 14:07.000 But it was a plan, wasn't it, Lila? Wasn't it? 14:07.000 --> 14:08.000 Yes. 14:08.000 --> 14:11.000 You want to tell me about it or do I have to choke it out of him? 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 I'll tell you. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 What's the difference? 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 You didn't kill Lee. You didn't kill anybody. 14:19.000 --> 14:20.000 Huh? 14:20.000 --> 14:21.000 It was a frame-up. 14:21.000 --> 14:24.000 Then how could I have seen him like that? 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 Lee was on the floor, dead. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 No, that wasn't Lee. 14:28.000 --> 14:32.000 He found the man, Ken, a stumbled bum, a drunk, 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 and the man looked just like him, 14:34.000 --> 14:37.000 close enough for what Lee had figured out. 14:37.000 --> 14:40.000 It was the crookedest scheme you ever heard. 14:40.000 --> 14:42.000 Took out insurance with every company in town, 14:42.000 --> 14:44.000 half a million dollars with me as beneficiary. 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 Was going to kill this drifter and disappear, 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 let me collect the money. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 It was as simple as that at first. 14:50.000 --> 14:51.000 Keep talking. 14:51.000 --> 14:52.000 I told him it wouldn't work, Ken, 14:52.000 --> 14:54.000 that they'd never pay off, not that much. 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 Not till they checked fingerprints, teaked everything, 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 but he had that figured too. 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 They wouldn't check a thing if a fall guy pleaded guilty 15:00.000 --> 15:01.000 to a murder charge. 15:01.000 --> 15:02.000 So that's how it was. 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 You were the fall guy. 15:04.000 --> 15:06.000 I let you take me home that night, remember? 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 I remember. 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 Lee had his gun loaded with blanks. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 It was an act, the whole thing. 15:11.000 --> 15:14.000 Then when you ran, he finished the job. 15:14.000 --> 15:17.000 He had the drunk in the bedroom dressed in his clothes. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 He brought him into the living room, 15:19.000 --> 15:23.000 killed him right in front of me. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 That's who you saw when you got back. 15:25.000 --> 15:26.000 Good Lord. 15:26.000 --> 15:29.000 That's why I hate my brother, 15:29.000 --> 15:31.000 why I don't care what happens to him. 15:31.000 --> 15:32.000 Thanks, Lila. 15:32.000 --> 15:34.000 That's going to make it easier. 15:34.000 --> 15:35.000 Lila? 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 Lila, did you call the airline? 15:36.000 --> 15:37.000 No, Lee, not yet. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 But I told you not to waste any time. 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 You don't know what this means. 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 She knows what it means, Lee. 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 We all do. 15:45.000 --> 15:46.000 What do you want? 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 Why'd you follow me here? 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 Look, I think you'd better get out of here. 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 I'd stay away from that telephone, Lee. 15:52.000 --> 15:53.000 I'd stand still if I were you. 15:53.000 --> 15:55.000 You'd better do as he says, Lee. 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 He's got a gun. 15:56.000 --> 15:57.000 Ken, listen to me. 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 You can't do this, not now. 15:59.000 --> 16:00.000 You don't want any more trouble. 16:00.000 --> 16:01.000 Why, if the police found out... 16:01.000 --> 16:02.000 The police? 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 If you told them I was going to kill you, 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 it wouldn't make sense, Lee, 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 because I've already done that, remember? 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 Look, Ken, I can explain the whole thing. 16:10.000 --> 16:11.000 It was a mistake. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 I'm glad you know that now. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 I've made a lot of money, Ken. 16:15.000 --> 16:16.000 I've been very lucky. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 I'll split with you. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 You looked like you could use some money. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 Yes, I could. 16:21.000 --> 16:22.000 Sure, that's good. 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 Only forget the gun, huh? 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 And stop acting like you want to kill me. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 You wouldn't gain anything that way. 16:28.000 --> 16:31.000 Come on, Lila, fix some drinks or something, huh? 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 We'll talk this over friendly-like. 16:33.000 --> 16:36.000 Ken, you know Lila was always crazy about you. 16:36.000 --> 16:38.000 I was always crazy about her. 16:38.000 --> 16:39.000 Oh, Ken, I... 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 But let's talk about something else right now, Lee. 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 Let's talk about America. 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 You know, this is a wonderful country, 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 the way the laws are set up to protect a man. 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 Ever hear of double jeopardy, Lee? 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 It brings up a rather interesting fact 16:50.000 --> 16:54.000 that you can't try a man twice for the same crime. 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 Seven years I spent paying for killing you, 16:57.000 --> 17:00.000 seven years at Joliet, and you weren't even dead. 17:00.000 --> 17:04.000 That means I've paid for something I haven't done yet. 17:04.000 --> 17:08.000 I still have the right, Lee, to kill you once more. 17:08.000 --> 17:11.000 Oh, Ken, stop it. You're talking crazy. 17:11.000 --> 17:13.000 There must be something you want. 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 I only want to kill you, Lee, 17:15.000 --> 17:17.000 because you deserve to be killed. 17:17.000 --> 17:18.000 We both know that, don't we? 17:18.000 --> 17:21.000 Only I don't think I'll kill you now, not right away. 17:21.000 --> 17:24.000 Oh, we'll be reasonable, is that it, Ken? 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 Be reasonable, I say. 17:27.000 --> 17:30.000 I'm going to stay right with you, 24 hours a day, 17:30.000 --> 17:32.000 right up to the time you deal. 17:32.000 --> 17:35.000 I know exactly when and how I'm going to kill you. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 And you won't know. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 You'll never know, Lee, until it happens. 17:39.000 --> 17:43.000 You'll just wait. Just sit and wait and wait. 17:50.000 --> 17:53.000 I never left the Berks mansion, never let them leave. 17:53.000 --> 17:56.000 I was with Lee from the time he got up until he went to bed. 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 I stayed with him every waking hour, 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 and I never stopped twisting his life like a piece of putty. 18:01.000 --> 18:04.000 Putting fear in his mind until, well, 18:04.000 --> 18:07.000 until there didn't seem to be anything else left there at all. 18:07.000 --> 18:10.000 Just a trembling, driving fear in everything he did, 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 everything he said. 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 Lila, Lila, can't we do something? 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 Get to somebody. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 Oh, Lee, what can I do? 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 You could have said something to the servants. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 You had a chance before he sent them away. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 I didn't. It all happened too fast. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Got rid of them as easily as he cut the telephone wires. 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 We've got to do something. 18:28.000 --> 18:30.000 Get in touch with somebody. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 With, with Madeleine, maybe. 18:32.000 --> 18:35.000 Oh, yes? What will your blue-blood fiancé think of you now 18:35.000 --> 18:38.000 when you suddenly stop calling two days before your wedding 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 and then don't show up? 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 The wedding? Oh, Lila, don't you see? 18:42.000 --> 18:45.000 If anything should happen to the wedding now, I'd be ruined. 18:45.000 --> 18:48.000 Oh, he can't get away with this. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 He'll let down some time. He's got to sleep. 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 So do we. Lila's right, Lee. 18:52.000 --> 18:55.000 Ken, you were there by the door. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 You heard about your wedding? Yes, Lee. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 I got back just in time tonight. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 Can I pour you a Manhattan? 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 Oh, no, no, I don't want any. Your funeral... 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 Oh, don't, don't say that. 19:05.000 --> 19:09.000 You're falling apart much faster than I thought, Lee. 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 It wasn't taking long at all. 19:19.000 --> 19:23.000 Lee couldn't sit still for a minute, couldn't take his eyes off me. 19:23.000 --> 19:29.000 Of course, little things like this didn't exactly help. 19:29.000 --> 19:31.000 Who, who, who is it? 19:31.000 --> 19:35.000 Ken? Yes, Lee, it's Ken. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 Got the gun? 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 I have the gun, Lee. 19:39.000 --> 19:43.000 Oh, this... this is the time, huh? 19:43.000 --> 19:46.000 No, Lee, no, I don't think so. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 Here, drink this. 19:48.000 --> 19:52.000 What is it? Milk, warm milk. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 It'll put you to sleep. 19:54.000 --> 19:57.000 For good, you mean? No, no, no, just until morning. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 You see, I wouldn't think of killing a man on his wedding day. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 Huh? 20:02.000 --> 20:06.000 Don't tell me you've forgotten your wedding to the blue-blooded Miss Dehaven. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 You've come a long way, Lee, marrying into the social register. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 Oh, don't, Ken. Come on, drink up. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 You'll need your strength for the wedding. 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 No, no, that's all off. I haven't even called her, Ken. 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 Lila has. I made her call. 20:18.000 --> 20:23.000 She made some very pretty excuses for you, and the wedding will go on as scheduled. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 What... what are you going to do? 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 Nothing, only behave yourself tomorrow. 20:28.000 --> 20:32.000 Do as you're told, and you might live through the ceremony. 20:32.000 --> 20:36.000 Will thou, Keith, take this woman to thy wedded wife, 20:36.000 --> 20:40.000 to live together after God's ordinance in the holy state of matrimony? 20:40.000 --> 20:44.000 Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health, 20:44.000 --> 20:48.000 and forsaking all others, keep thee unto her so long as ye both shall live? 20:48.000 --> 20:51.000 Say no, Jen, say no. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 I will not. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 I will not. 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 I will not. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 I will not. 20:59.000 --> 21:03.000 I will not. 21:03.000 --> 21:04.000 Uh-uh, say no, Ned. 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 Indeed I will. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 I will not. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.000 Much, much, quietly. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 Watching revolving things. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 ominous incantations. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 Dolphin at the arrive. 21:16.000 --> 21:24.940 An Spielberg from 21:24.940 --> 21:26.460 I wasn't sure how much it mattered. 21:26.460 --> 21:28.460 That depended on Lila. 21:28.460 --> 21:30.740 When I was sure Lee was asleep that night, 21:30.740 --> 21:32.220 I met her in the living room. 21:32.220 --> 21:33.820 Got right to the point. 21:33.820 --> 21:35.260 Something on your mind, Ken? 21:35.260 --> 21:36.180 Yes. 21:36.180 --> 21:37.140 Mousy. 21:37.140 --> 21:38.500 Who's Mousy? 21:38.500 --> 21:41.940 Ken, you look so tired, so thin. 21:41.940 --> 21:42.780 Tell me, Lila. 21:42.780 --> 21:44.060 Tell me about Mousy. 21:44.060 --> 21:45.620 What do you know about him? 21:45.620 --> 21:47.100 Lee's been talking about him in his sleep, 21:47.100 --> 21:50.660 talking about Mousy and you, Lila, and me. 21:50.660 --> 21:52.460 You'd better tell me all about it. 21:52.460 --> 21:54.660 Ken, you're hurting my arm. 21:54.660 --> 21:56.540 I don't know anything about Mousy. 21:56.540 --> 21:57.900 Maybe he was there at the wedding. 21:57.900 --> 21:58.500 Maybe you saw him. 21:58.500 --> 21:59.380 Maybe you gave him the message. 21:59.380 --> 21:59.900 Did you, Lila? 21:59.900 --> 22:01.100 Ken, stop it. 22:01.100 --> 22:03.220 You know I promised I wouldn't do anything like that. 22:03.220 --> 22:03.900 Don't you trust me? 22:03.900 --> 22:04.580 Trust you? 22:04.580 --> 22:05.220 Should I, Lila? 22:05.220 --> 22:06.100 Do you really think I should? 22:06.100 --> 22:09.020 But you know how I feel about you. 22:09.020 --> 22:10.700 Surely you don't think... 22:10.700 --> 22:12.580 Oh, Ken. 22:12.580 --> 22:13.460 Ken, darling. 22:13.460 --> 22:14.220 Get away from me. 22:14.220 --> 22:15.020 Ken! 22:18.300 --> 22:20.660 So that's it. 22:20.660 --> 22:23.660 It was all just a gag to keep the little girl in line. 22:23.660 --> 22:25.900 How did you expect me to feel after all this happened? 22:25.900 --> 22:27.780 That's right. 22:27.780 --> 22:30.700 I was naive, wasn't I? 22:30.700 --> 22:32.780 Sure. 22:32.780 --> 22:34.900 OK. 22:34.900 --> 22:36.940 Well, I won't be naive anymore. 22:36.940 --> 22:38.020 You can bet on that. 22:38.020 --> 22:38.420 Lila. 22:38.420 --> 22:40.620 Good night, Ken, darling. 22:47.620 --> 22:51.180 When I cooled off, I realized I'd gone too far. 22:51.180 --> 22:53.340 She wouldn't be on my side anymore, 22:53.340 --> 22:57.380 unless I could talk to her again and make it all 22:57.380 --> 23:00.100 seem like a mistake, a joke, maybe. 23:00.100 --> 23:02.140 Yeah, that'd be the thing. 23:02.140 --> 23:03.940 But when I went to find her, she wasn't around. 23:03.940 --> 23:05.780 I didn't see her again till next morning. 23:09.940 --> 23:11.860 Every morning, I went out to the gate for the paper. 23:11.860 --> 23:14.300 But this time, I waited for Lila to get up and come down. 23:14.300 --> 23:16.460 So I could talk to her before Lee came in, 23:16.460 --> 23:18.300 try to fix things. 23:18.300 --> 23:21.500 And standing there in the hallway, I fixed things all right. 23:21.500 --> 23:23.740 Fixed them good. 23:23.740 --> 23:24.580 Lila. 23:24.580 --> 23:25.700 Yes? 23:25.700 --> 23:30.260 I want you to know that, well, that I'm 23:30.260 --> 23:31.580 sorry about last night. 23:31.580 --> 23:32.460 It's all right. 23:32.460 --> 23:33.380 No, it isn't. 23:33.380 --> 23:35.460 No, I didn't mean what I said at all. 23:35.460 --> 23:40.940 I guess I'd built up so much hate that, well, I was upset. 23:40.940 --> 23:43.020 I was blind to how you feel about me, 23:43.020 --> 23:44.380 how I really feel about you. 23:44.380 --> 23:46.900 Ken, you're asking me to be naive again. 23:46.900 --> 23:48.180 Yes, I guess I am. 23:48.180 --> 23:50.100 I like you that way. 23:50.100 --> 23:53.140 I looked for you last night to tell you you weren't around. 23:53.140 --> 23:54.060 Where'd you go? 23:54.060 --> 23:56.300 I, oh, Ken. 23:56.300 --> 23:56.980 It's all right. 23:56.980 --> 23:58.580 I don't care where you went. 23:58.580 --> 24:00.900 Anyway, now you know how I really feel. 24:00.900 --> 24:03.340 Ken, you don't know what you're saying. 24:03.340 --> 24:04.100 Yes, I do, Lila. 24:04.100 --> 24:05.620 I've been thinking. 24:05.620 --> 24:06.740 That's the way it ought to be. 24:06.740 --> 24:08.780 We've been a couple of lost souls, 24:08.780 --> 24:11.340 but maybe by forgetting the past, trying 24:11.340 --> 24:12.940 to find some peace of mind. 24:12.940 --> 24:14.140 Ken. 24:14.140 --> 24:15.500 Think about it, will you, Lila? 24:15.500 --> 24:18.580 I went out then, out the door and down the driveway, 24:18.580 --> 24:21.140 left her standing there staring after me. 24:21.140 --> 24:22.820 Suddenly, as I was almost to the gate, 24:22.820 --> 24:25.100 I heard her coming, running fast. 24:25.100 --> 24:26.020 Ken. 24:26.020 --> 24:27.300 No, Ken, come back. 24:27.300 --> 24:29.420 And then I saw it, a car that had been parked down the road. 24:29.420 --> 24:30.780 It was moving now, gathering speed, 24:30.780 --> 24:31.980 coming right past the gate. 24:31.980 --> 24:32.900 Ken. 24:32.900 --> 24:33.780 Ken, look out. 24:33.780 --> 24:34.700 And then she was there. 24:34.700 --> 24:36.180 She threw herself right in front of me. 24:36.180 --> 24:37.100 Ah! 24:37.100 --> 24:38.980 Oh! 24:38.980 --> 24:40.420 I heard the shouts. 24:40.420 --> 24:41.940 I felt her thrown heavily against me, 24:41.940 --> 24:44.020 and then I heard the sound of a gunshot. 24:44.020 --> 24:46.180 Thrown heavily against me, and then, and then 24:46.180 --> 24:48.420 her body went limp in my arms. 24:48.420 --> 24:51.820 I held her close for a second, and then I lowered her 24:51.820 --> 24:52.700 to the ground. 24:52.700 --> 25:07.620 I walked back up the drive, alone. 25:07.620 --> 25:08.940 Lee was out in front of the house, 25:08.940 --> 25:12.020 sitting on a bench in front of a big tree. 25:12.020 --> 25:13.740 He'd heard the shots, I'm sure, but he was just 25:13.740 --> 25:16.300 sitting there, probably waiting for Lila to come back 25:16.300 --> 25:20.300 and say that, that Mousie had taken care of me. 25:20.300 --> 25:24.460 He turned and looked up as I walked toward him. 25:24.460 --> 25:25.340 Lila? 25:29.020 --> 25:31.140 Oh, no. 25:31.140 --> 25:33.980 His eyes seemed to look right through me somehow. 25:33.980 --> 25:36.420 He was that full of fear, I guess. 25:36.420 --> 25:38.100 His fingers gripped the tree in back of him, 25:38.100 --> 25:39.860 dug deep into the bark. 25:39.860 --> 25:42.260 He was waiting for me to kill him. 25:42.260 --> 25:48.500 Lila's dead, Lee. 25:48.500 --> 25:51.300 Your gunman got her instead of me. 25:51.300 --> 25:53.700 Lila? 25:53.700 --> 25:56.300 Lila? 25:56.300 --> 25:59.580 I'm sorry, because there was something I didn't have time 25:59.580 --> 26:00.780 to tell her. 26:00.780 --> 26:03.380 I never intended to kill you, Lee. 26:03.380 --> 26:07.420 I was just showing you how seven years looked crowded 26:07.420 --> 26:09.140 into a few days. 26:09.140 --> 26:10.220 Seven years? 26:10.220 --> 26:11.540 Yeah, that's right. 26:11.540 --> 26:13.100 I guess you know now. 26:13.100 --> 26:16.140 I guess you know why and what you did. 26:16.140 --> 26:17.340 Lee. 26:17.340 --> 26:19.140 Lee, this is Ken. 26:19.140 --> 26:20.260 I'm talking to you. 26:20.260 --> 26:21.940 Ken? 26:21.940 --> 26:22.860 Ken? 26:22.860 --> 26:23.860 Ha. 26:23.860 --> 26:25.860 Ha ha ha. 26:25.860 --> 26:29.340 Ha ha ha. 26:29.340 --> 26:33.260 I don't know any Ken. 26:33.260 --> 26:34.700 And he didn't. 26:34.700 --> 26:37.140 He didn't even know himself. 26:37.140 --> 26:40.380 The way his eyes looked, I don't think he ever will again. 26:40.380 --> 26:42.220 They weren't Lee Burke's eyes anymore. 26:42.220 --> 26:44.420 They belonged to someone else. 26:44.420 --> 26:46.060 Funny. 26:46.060 --> 26:51.260 The man who tried to be somebody else had finally made it. 26:51.260 --> 27:10.500 And it was not good to look upon. 27:10.500 --> 27:13.580 Thank you, Douglas Fairbanks, for an outstanding performance 27:13.580 --> 27:14.860 on Suspense. 27:14.860 --> 27:18.220 Talk about performance, Dad. 27:18.220 --> 27:21.220 Auto light ignition is good, but what about Doug Fairbanks? 27:21.220 --> 27:22.660 He's really got it, Billy. 27:22.660 --> 27:24.060 Well, let's get going. 27:24.060 --> 27:25.060 Your mother and I. 27:25.060 --> 27:26.380 Mom will be as full of suspensions. 27:26.380 --> 27:29.100 Your auto light ignition system is full of pip, purr, power, 27:29.100 --> 27:30.900 and pistol point performance. 27:30.900 --> 27:33.140 That boy knows his auto light peas, 27:33.140 --> 27:35.260 and he doesn't miss any cues, eh, Hap? 27:35.260 --> 27:38.700 Yes, an auto light is your cue to real motoring enjoyment. 27:38.700 --> 27:40.580 So remember, wherever you go, 27:40.580 --> 27:45.260 auto light means spark plugs, ignition engineered spark plugs. 27:45.260 --> 27:49.340 Auto light means batteries, stay full batteries. 27:49.340 --> 27:57.140 Auto light means ignition system, the lifeline of your car. 27:57.140 --> 28:03.980 And now here again is Mr. Douglas Fairbanks. 28:03.980 --> 28:07.140 I've enjoyed this appearance on Suspense very much. 28:07.140 --> 28:10.740 And I've noted with great interest as a Suspense fan that Agnes 28:10.740 --> 28:13.180 Moorhead will return to the sound stage next week, 28:13.180 --> 28:15.740 the scene of her splendid performances of the past. 28:15.740 --> 28:18.460 As one of the many who applauded her portrayal in the Suspense 28:18.460 --> 28:21.620 classic Sorry, Wrong Number, I'll be listening with anticipation 28:21.620 --> 28:25.340 next week for Agnes Moorhead in The Yellow Wallpaper, 28:25.340 --> 28:27.540 a powerful study in... 28:27.540 --> 28:40.420 Suspense. 28:40.420 --> 28:43.580 Douglas Fairbanks may soon be seen in his own production, 28:43.580 --> 28:45.300 The O'Flynn. 28:45.300 --> 28:48.940 Tonight's Suspense play was written by Edward James 28:48.940 --> 28:51.740 with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by 28:51.740 --> 28:52.740 Ludd Luskin. 28:52.740 --> 28:55.340 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. 28:55.340 --> 28:58.860 Leader. Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Ms. 28:58.860 --> 29:01.660 Agnes Moorhead in The Yellow Wallpaper. 29:01.660 --> 29:11.140 This is the Auto Light Suspense Show signing off. 29:11.140 --> 29:12.140 Good night. 29:12.140 --> 29:14.420 Switch to Auto Light. 29:14.420 --> 29:26.740 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.