1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 In just a moment, suspense with Madeleine Carroll. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Hello. Oh, hello, Tom. Where are you? 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Thought you were driving over tonight. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Couldn't get your car started. Well, what's wrong with it? 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Well, sounds like ignition trouble to me, Tom. 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Why don't you call Ed's Auto Electric? 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Best service station in town. He's an auto light man. 8 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Really knows his stuff and believes in preventive service. 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,000 You know, fixes things before they happen. Carries auto light parts. 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,000 You know, auto light. Spark plugs, batteries, complete ignition systems. 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Yeah, that's right, the works. 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Oh, by the way, Tom, auto light has that swell high tension show on the air. 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Suspense. Ever hear of it? 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Well, why don't you tune in? It's coming on right now. 15 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Suspense. 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills. 17 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Starring tonight, Miss Madeleine Carroll in Anton Lido's production of The Muppets. 18 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:18,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 19 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Oh, Mr. Ballou, there's a woman outside. 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 She doesn't have an appointment, but she must speak to Mr. Ballou privately. 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 All right, I'll speak to him. 22 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:32,000 I'll lay you six to five. It's a divorce. She's got that nothing must get in the paper lure. 23 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Will you come in, please? 24 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Ballou. 25 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Please sit down. Dottie, buzz me when it's half past. 26 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Okay, Mr. Ballou. 27 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,000 We can't be overheard here, can we? 28 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 No. Now then, Mrs. 29 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,000 I'd rather you didn't take notes. 30 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Oh, well, all right. But I do need your name. 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,000 I'll take it. 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Do lawyers have any kind of code or rule against revealing confidential information? 33 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Like priests? Yes. However, you want me to promise before I hear your case? 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Yes. 35 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 All right, if it makes you feel better, I've handled hundreds of divorces. 36 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Oh. 37 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 And never lost a patient. It is a divorce. 38 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Yes, in a way. But he's dangerous, and there's a child. 39 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 The court's usual order is to have a child. 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 But he's dangerous, and there's a child. 41 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,000 The courts usually lean toward giving the mother custody. 42 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 I know, but Mr. Ballou, I'm in desperate trouble, I'm afraid. 43 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 You can't understand till I tell you. 44 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Well, then? 45 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 You see, I'm English. My husband is American. 46 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 He grew up here in Boston, a very prominent family. 47 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 The Morissons. He's Dr. Paul Morrison. 48 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Yes, I know Dr. Morrison. Oh? 49 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 That is, I've heard of him. 50 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Then you know he's a surgeon. 51 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 I met Paul in London in 1939. 52 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 We were married very soon after we met. 53 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 And then England went to war, and Paul decided to stay in England to help out. 54 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 He was different then. 55 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 So deeply concerned over human suffering. 56 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 The war changed him. Changed him hideously. 57 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 For those first two years in London, we were happy. 58 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Almost completely happy. 59 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Quite suddenly, America was in the war, 60 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 and Paul had his orders to return to the American Army Medical Corps. 61 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,000 We spent the little time we had left at a cottage in the country. 62 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 And all the time I was trying to forget the one thing that had been praying on my mind 63 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 ever since they told me at the hospital that... 64 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 But I couldn't. 65 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 And so finally, even though it was our last day together, 66 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,000 I went up to London to do what I had always known someday I would have to do. 67 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 It was late afternoon when I returned. 68 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Who is it? Oh, darling, where on earth have you been? 69 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 I'm sorry I'm so late, Paul. 70 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Never mind about being sorry. 71 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Come over here this instant, give me a kiss. 72 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Want to know something? 73 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 What? 74 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,000 You're a heartless hussy going off and leaving me alone all day. 75 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Our last day. 76 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Do you think I'd have gone if it hadn't been important? 77 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Look, darling, I'm a doctor too. 78 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 I don't know what doctor you want to see this time, 79 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 none of us can perform miracles. 80 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 I don't believe in miracles, Paul, and I didn't go to London to see a doctor. 81 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 I went to find out if we could adopt a child. 82 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Adopt a child? 83 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 I know you've always been against the idea, Paul. 84 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Darling, this is no time to go into a big complicated thing like that. 85 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 I'm going to be on my way home by this time tomorrow. 86 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 It's not this time tomorrow I'm thinking about, Paul. 87 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 It's all my life. 88 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 If I can't have a child of my own, then I want to adopt one. 89 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 But Sheila, I... 90 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,000 I sort of halfway picked out one at the orphanage today. 91 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,000 What? 92 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 You were a child in an air raid, and, oh, Paul, you've always wanted a boy. 93 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 I've wanted a son, yes. 94 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 But adopting a child involves certain risks. 95 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 There are fundamental laws of heredity. 96 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Now you're being plain old-fashioned. 97 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 You can call it anything you like. It's out of the question. 98 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Why? Give me one reason why. 99 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,000 You know the reasons as well as I do. 100 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 All I know is I'm a woman and I want a child. 101 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Sheila, come here. Look at me. 102 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Maybe I'm old-fashioned or overcautious, 103 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 but if we got a child that way, 104 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 picked him out like something on a grocery shelf, 105 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 you might feel he was your son, but he wouldn't be mine. 106 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 And the son has to be for both of us, or not at all. 107 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 I stayed on in London for more than six months after Paul left. 108 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 It was ghastly there for everyone. 109 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,000 As for me, I lived in a fever of loneliness, worse than loneliness. 110 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Then my mother asked me down to the country to wait out the war with her. 111 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,000 It was a summer evening when I took a crowded train from Paddington, 112 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 and I sat alone in the compartment, numb with my hunger for Paul. 113 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 You must understand, that day I wasn't myself. 114 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 I wasn't accountable. 115 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 You see, I had a double kind of loneliness. 116 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 When the conductor opened my compartment door for other passengers, 117 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,000 I didn't even look up at first. 118 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Here we are, missus. I'll let you in. 119 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Oh, thank you ever so much. 120 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Give us the window seat. 121 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 No, I want the window seat. 122 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 No, dear, no, dear, and you too. 123 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 I reckon the missus is going to want some of their fresh air for the little neighbor. 124 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 You can have my seat if you like. It doesn't make any difference to me. 125 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Oh, it's very calm of you, miss, I'm sure. 126 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Mum, I want to see the guards, then. 127 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Not now, Johnny. 128 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 But, mum, you promised. 129 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Missus, I'll let you know when we're near Reading Junction. 130 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Oh, thank you. 131 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Your trouble at all, missus. 132 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,000 I hope Mary's not taking up too much room on the seat, miss. 133 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 No, no, not at all. 134 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Well, she's shoving and pushing me, mum. 135 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Oh, Mary. 136 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 I'm not either. I just need more room in here. 137 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Oh, enough, stop, you two, stop it. 138 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Mary, stop rummaging in my carry-all. There's nothing in it to eat. 139 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Oh, dear. Children can be such a troll. 140 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Now watch, now, now hush. 141 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Yes, I know you're hungry. 142 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Can I hold him for a minute? 143 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 What, what, miss? 144 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Mary is a pig. Mary is a pig. 145 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Pig yourself. 146 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Do you two like to look at pictures? 147 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Here's a magazine with all sorts of pictures about America. 148 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Oh, dear, dear. 149 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,000 My husband sent it to me. 150 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Oh, that's cons of you, miss, I'm sure. 151 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 No, thank you, lady, thank you. 152 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Thank you. 153 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Well, that'll keep him quiet. 154 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 My mother ought to be too, people, that's yours. 155 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 I'll hold the baby while you fill his bottle. 156 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 What, if it won't trouble you? 157 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Oh, no, no, I don't mind. 158 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,000 I sat there, scarcely breathing, looking down at the baby in my lap. 159 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 It was as though I'd never felt warmth before. 160 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:30,000 He stopped whimpering and looked up at me with very big brown eyes that seemed to hold recognition. 161 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 He's taken a real fancy to you, miss, and now mistake. 162 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,000 What's his name? 163 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Jamie. It was his father's name. 164 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 He was killed last week in a bomber over Germany. 165 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Oh, I'm terribly sorry. 166 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 But at least you have the children. 167 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Oh, yes, miss. 168 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:52,000 But sometimes, I don't know, sometimes I think it would be better if I didn't have this last one. 169 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Oh, no, you can't mean that. 170 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 It's not easy, miss, with no man to provide. 171 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 You said you were married, miss. 172 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Do you have any children? 173 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 No, I have no children. 174 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Oh, baby, oh. 175 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:11,000 You'd know if you had one, knowing all the things I won't be able to give him. 176 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I can't help thinking it'd be better off if I left him on someone's doorstep, so to speak, someone well fixed like you. 177 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 You'd regret it all your life. 178 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,000 But it's his life I'm thinking about when I say it. 179 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Of course, I'm not brave enough to do it, but I wish I was. 180 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Oh, well, if wishes were horses, as they say. 181 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 We're just pulling into Redding Junction, missus, if you still want to get their cappuccino. 182 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Oh, thank you, thank you, Johnny and Mary. 183 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Come on, Mary, Mum's going to get us something to eat. 184 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 I want to see this pie first. 185 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Well, you can look at the magazine when you come back. 186 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Now, now, run along, Bussov, you'll wait for me outside. 187 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 All right, Mum. Come on, lazy. 188 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Wait till I get my coat on. 189 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 I'll take Johnny now, miss. 190 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,000 I'm going to sit right here. Why don't I hold him till you come back? 191 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Oh, I wouldn't want to bother you. 192 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Oh, it's no bother at all. 193 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Well, you won't have any trouble with him. He's always been a good baby. 194 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Mum, come on, come on. 195 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 I'm coming, I'll wait. If you're sure, miss, quite sure. 196 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Oh, yes, I'm quite sure. 197 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Maybe you'll say what I did was wicked, 198 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 that she didn't tell me to take her child. 199 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 But I know she did. 200 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 She made her decision and I made mine. 201 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 After a few minutes, I got up and carried the baby down the corridor. 202 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 I was trembling so I was afraid I'd drop him. 203 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,000 I managed to get off the train and made my way across the crowded platform. 204 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 It was nearly time for the train to pull out. 205 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Hurry up, now. Train's leaving. 206 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 I'm going to get the baby. 207 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Hurry up, now. Train's leaving. 208 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Then I saw the woman, her two older children coming toward me. 209 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 I stepped behind a post. 210 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Oh, she's a pig. Mary's a wicked pig. 211 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Too bad. 212 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Come on, now we've got to hurry. 213 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Now we've got to hurry. 214 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 I stood there and watched the three climb onto the train. 215 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Then he began to move. 216 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 And it was the brakes or a train whistle. 217 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 If only I hadn't imagined it was something else. 218 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,000 Above the racket of the train, it sounded like... 219 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Like a woman screaming. 220 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,000 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Miss Madeline Carroll 221 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,000 and the radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 222 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Hello. Oh, it's you again, Tom. Swell program, eh? 223 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,000 What? The name of that Auto Light service station? 224 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Well, it's Ed's Auto Electric. 225 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Just look for the big Auto Light sign down on Main Street. 226 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 But wait, here's more dope on Auto Light service. 227 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Listen to Frank Martin. 228 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Auto Light, Auto Light service stations are listed in your classified telephone directory 229 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 under Automotive Electrical Service. 230 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,000 And now, Auto Light brings back to a hearty welcome 231 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 to the most popular 232 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000 and most popular 233 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 and most popular 234 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 and most popular 235 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 and most popular 236 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,000 and most popular 237 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 and most popular 238 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 and most popular 239 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,000 and most popular 240 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,000 and most popular 241 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:08,000 and most popular 242 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:16,000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 243 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Miss Madeline Carroll as Sheila in The Morrison Affair, 244 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:27,000 a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense. 245 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,000 He suspects something's wrong, but... 246 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Well, then make a clean breast of it. Tell him. 247 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Oh, no, you mustn't. He mustn't ever know. 248 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 He'll kill me or Jamie or both of us. 249 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 How on earth did you make your husband believe? 250 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 That was easy. 251 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 I figured it all out on the way to Mother's. 252 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 I took a bus at Reading Junction, 253 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 then another train. 254 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 It was almost midnight when I got home 255 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 and let myself in the front door. 256 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,000 MUSIC 257 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Mother was waiting up. 258 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Is that you, Sheila? 259 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 Yes, Mother. Oh, you've had me well at home. 260 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Sheila! 261 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Is the fire still lit in the kitchen, Mum? 262 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Don't ask questions now, please. He's hungry. 263 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,000 I'm going to heat him up some milk. 264 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Whose baby is it? He's mine now. 265 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 What do you mean, Sheila? Whose was it? 266 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,000 I don't know. Here, hold him while I get the milk. 267 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Oh, shh, baby, shh. 268 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 You mean you've adopted him? 269 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 I stole him. 270 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Sheila! I don't ask you to understand, Mother. 271 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 I only ask you to help me 272 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,000 because I'm your child and because 273 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 I can't ever have a child of my own. 274 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 But Paul won't let you keep this child. 275 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 If he thinks it's his own, he will. 276 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Oh, look, the poor little mite's starving. 277 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Yes. 278 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 It may be years before the war's over 279 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 and I see Paul again. He'll look forward to seeing his son. 280 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 But he's bound to ask where his son was born. 281 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 He was born here. 282 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 There are records of such things, Sheila. 283 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 The date, the place, the parents, the doctor... 284 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 I know. 285 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Mother, telephone Dr Lucas. 286 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Dr Lucas? Why, he... 287 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 He's a charlatan. He's not even a real doctor. 288 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Oh, does that matter? 289 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,000 He's greedy and that's the kind of man I need. 290 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Tell him I want to see him tomorrow. 291 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Because tomorrow 292 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 my son Jamie will be born. 293 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,000 That night before I went to bed 294 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 I cabled Paul at his last APO address. 295 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Why haven't you answered my letters? 296 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Or don't you like my news? 297 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 His answering cable came in the morning. 298 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 What letters? What news? 299 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 We'll phone. 300 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 It was going to be easy. 301 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Paul had travelled so much. 302 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,000 New York, Baltimore, three months in the Pacific. 303 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 It would be easy to make him believe 304 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 that some of his mail had gone astray. 305 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 I waited all day for Paul's call 306 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 and for Dr Lucas. 307 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 That miserable little man took his time about it. 308 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Ah, Mrs Morrison. 309 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,000 I'm late but your mother assured me 310 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,000 no one was ill. 311 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,000 No, it's about my son. 312 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Why, I didn't hear that you had... 313 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 I'm having difficulties about his birth record. 314 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 I've lost the certificate and I need a duplicate. 315 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Why, Mrs Morrison, I'm sure if you write to... 316 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 As a matter of fact, I want the record changed. 317 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Changed? 318 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 I want the certificate to say that he was born here today. 319 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Mrs Morrison. 320 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 It can be done, can't it? 321 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 It's rather difficult. 322 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 You mean it's expensive? 323 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Yes, very expensive. 324 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 There's the risk to a doctor's reputation. 325 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 How much? 326 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Er... 327 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,000 A thousand pounds. 328 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 All right. 329 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 No, I'm afraid it will have to be 1200 pounds. 330 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 All right, but that's all I can pay. 331 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Here, you can write it out under this lamp. 332 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 One moment, I'll find the form. 333 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Yes, here it is. 334 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 He's the son of Mr... 335 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 and Mrs Paul Morrison. 336 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Excuse me, please. 337 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Yes? 338 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Go ahead, Major Morrison. 339 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Hello? Hello, Sheila. 340 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Paul! Paul, darling! 341 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Where are you? 342 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 India. I turned the whole army inside out to get a priority. 343 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Can you hear me all right? 344 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Fine. But, darling, why didn't you answer my letters? 345 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Well, I answered every one I got. 346 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Then the important ones got lost or something. 347 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 You haven't heard the news? 348 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 What news? 349 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 You're... you're going to be a father, Paul. 350 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Did you hear me, Paul? 351 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Yes. 352 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 But, Sheila, that seems impossible. 353 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 But it's happened all the same. 354 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Any day now, you'll have a son and heir. 355 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Oh, you've made up your mind. 356 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 It's going to be a boy, eh? 357 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 That's what you want, isn't it? 358 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Yes, it's what I want. 359 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 But it seems like a miracle. 360 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 I was dead certain that I... 361 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Something wrong, Mrs Morrison? 362 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I was cut off. 363 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Operator! Operator! 364 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Yes? 365 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 I was cut off. It was a call from India. 366 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Didn't you hang up? 367 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Certainly not. I was cut off. 368 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Well, I'll try to get your party back. 369 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Yes, try. 370 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 But it's all right if you don't. 371 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 What is the name of your son, Mrs Morrison? 372 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Jamie. 373 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Jamie Morrison. 374 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Jamie Morrison, born June 3rd, 1940. 375 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Born June 3rd, 1940. 376 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Born June 3rd, 1940. 377 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 June 3rd, 1942. 378 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,000 June 3rd, 1942. 379 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 You know, Mrs Morrison, heredity is tricky. 380 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 There's nothing wrong with my son's heredity. 381 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 And then there's always the danger of being found out, 382 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 As long as anyone knows beside yourself. 383 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 As long as anyone knows beside yourself. 384 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,000 As long as anyone knows beside yourself. 385 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 As long as anyone knows beside yourself. 386 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 At first, some nights I'd dream that Jamie's mother had come to fetch Jamie. 387 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 At first, some nights I'd dream that Jamie's mother had come to fetch Jamie. 388 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 But that was only at first. 389 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,000 I buried my guilt. 390 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Buried it deep. 391 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 I buried my guilt. 392 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Four years went by. 393 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,000 Then the war was over, and Jamie and I sailed to join Paul in America. 394 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Then the war was over, and Jamie and I sailed to join Paul in America. 395 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 The day I arrived in New York, I may have been nervous. 396 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 But I was sure at last of happiness. 397 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 As sure as I'd ever been in my life. 398 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 As sure as I'd ever been in my life. 399 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Oh, Paul. 400 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Oh, Paul. 401 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Paul, darling. 402 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 My dear. Oh, I've never seen you look better, darling. 403 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Motherhood suits you. 404 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Is that my daddy? 405 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Jamie. 406 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Well, how do you do, James? 407 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 My name isn't James. It's Jamie. 408 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Jamie? 409 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Yes, I've always called him that. I don't know why it's a kind of nickname, I suppose. 410 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Well, from now on, we'd better settle for James. 411 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 We Morrisons never appreciated nicknames. 412 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Funny about his eyes. 413 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000 His eyes? 414 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 I've got to look up my Mendel. 415 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Can two blue-eyed people have a brown-eyed child? 416 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,000 They must. We did. No matter what Mendel says. 417 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Well, he's positively the first Morrison with brown eyes. 418 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Well, he's positively the first Morrison with brown eyes. 419 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,000 But why not? He's the miracle kid. 420 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,000 But why not? He's the miracle kid. 421 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 The miracle kid. 422 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Blue eyes. Brown eyes. 423 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 I rolled the phrases around my mind, 424 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 hunting their real meaning. 425 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 I was over-sensitive, of course, but... 426 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 But from the first day, I felt that Paul was hostile to Jamie. 427 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 But from the first day, I felt that Paul was hostile to Jamie. 428 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Where's my miracle kid? 429 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 He's taking his nap. What do you want with him? 430 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 I'm driving down to the rifle range with a friend. 431 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 I thought I'd take James along. 432 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Oh, but he's too young, Paul. 433 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Too young for what? 434 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 To play with guns. 435 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 That's just why I want to take him along. 436 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000 The sooner he knows how to handle guns, the better off he'll be. 437 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,000 The sooner he knows how to handle guns, the better off he'll be. 438 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Mommy! Mommy! 439 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Mommy! 440 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Mommy! 441 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Mommy! Mommy! 442 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Where are you, Mommy? 443 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Here I am, Jamie. 444 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Mommy, I fell off. 445 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Oh, darling, darling, what's happened? 446 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 I fell off the horse. He went too fast and jumped around, 447 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 and I fell off and hurt my knee. 448 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Yeah, I brought the iodine. He's more scared than hurt. 449 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Oh, not iodine. Use peroxide. It won't sting. 450 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,000 I told you he was too young to ride. 451 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Oh, it was a gentle horse. 452 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Jamie lost his seat when it started to trot, that's all. 453 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 We'll do better next time, won't we, kid? 454 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 I guess so, Daddy. 455 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,000 There won't be a next time. 456 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Yes, there will be, Sheila. 457 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Jamie, go up to Mother's room. 458 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I'll be along in a minute to fix your knee. 459 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 All right, Mommy. 460 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 There's candy in my bureau. You know where. 461 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Yes, Mommy, I know. 462 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Paul, what are you trying to do? 463 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 I'm trying to make my son like my son. 464 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 He's my son too, you know. 465 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 What you're doing to him, Sheila, 466 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 he's not anybody's son. He's a zombie. 467 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 I swear I'd rather see him dead than what you want him to be. 468 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I suppose it was then that I first realized what I would have to do. 469 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 But someday, someday soon, I'd have to get Jamie away from Paul. 470 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 I was frightened. 471 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 I even began to carry a gun in my bag. 472 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,000 And I began to make plans. 473 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,000 I'd start again, build a new life for myself and my son. 474 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Then yesterday, I knew that I'd have to hurry, 475 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,000 that I couldn't postpone my decision any longer. 476 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 I found out when Paul came home from the hospital, 477 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 he came directly to my house. 478 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 He was in a terrible state. 479 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,000 He came home from the hospital. He came directly to my room. 480 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Ah, there you are. 481 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 I want to tell you something, Sheila. 482 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 What is it? What's happened? 483 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 A big day at the conference. 484 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Oh, you mean the medical conference. 485 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 A psychiatrist from Chicago named Drake 486 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 read a paper on psychosomatic medicine. 487 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 Terrific. And then there was a curious report on euthanasia. 488 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,000 You know, mercy killing. Interesting, but extreme. 489 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000 In what way? 490 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Well, the doctor delivering the report favors 491 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,000 not only the mercy killing of incurables, 492 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,000 but also the death of the person who hates weeding out 493 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000 and purifying the race by studying heredity 494 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000 and eliminating those whose heredity is questionable. 495 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 A real crackpot. 496 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Horrible. 497 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Sheila, while his report was going on, though, 498 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,000 I began to wonder about you and Jamie. 499 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 About me and Jamie? 500 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Yes. I wanted to ask you, 501 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 is there something about Jamie's heredity 502 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 that you don't want me to know? 503 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Then I understood. 504 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 The danger was real and now. 505 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,000 For myself, but mostly for Jamie. 506 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Paul was playing with me like a cat plays with a mouse. 507 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 This talk about mercy killing, heredity, 508 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 this subtle, cruel talk, 509 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 threatening me with Jamie's death, 510 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 announcing in advance the mercy killing 511 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,000 of a child who is inferior because he isn't a morsel. 512 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 That's why I've come to you, Mr. Ballou. 513 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 I can't risk Paul's death. 514 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 I can't risk Paul's getting custody. 515 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 I have to take Jamie away first, 516 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 far away where Paul can't reach him, 517 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 and then get a divorce. 518 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 I want you to tell me where it's safest for us to go 519 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 and get the papers I need. 520 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 Mrs. Morrison, 521 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:12,000 I promised that whatever you told me would be confidential. 522 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 I'm sorry I made that promise. 523 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000 If I hadn't, I'd go to Dr. Morrison and tell him... 524 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 He wouldn't! 525 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 ...that his wife carries a heavy load of guilt, 526 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:26,000 a very heavy load, and it's colouring everything she does. 527 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 You think I'm insane? 528 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 I think you have dangerous delusions. 529 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,000 And you won't help me? 530 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 I can't, Mrs. Morrison. 531 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 The psychiatrist might help you, 532 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 but only if you go to him now before it's too late. 533 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Mrs. Morrison! Mrs. Morrison! 534 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 You have to go to the hospital. 535 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Dr. Morrison said for you to come right away. 536 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,000 What is it, Elsa? What's happened? 537 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,000 It's the little boy. 538 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 Jamie! He got hold of one of his daddy's guns. 539 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 He's done it! He's killed Jamie! 540 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Jamie was playing with it, and it went off 541 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 when it was pointed right at himself. 542 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,000 He's hurt bad. 543 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Take my blood, Paul. Take it. I'll do anything. 544 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Sheila, get hold of yourself. You're hysterical. 545 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 We have to know his blood type first. 546 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 The lab should be calling back any minute. 547 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Paul, I'd rather you didn't operate. 548 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Ask Dr. McDonald. 549 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 This isn't McDonald's kind of a case. I... 550 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Don't you trust me, Sheila? 551 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 I thought you might be too nervous being his father. 552 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Am I, Sheila? 553 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 What? Am I his father, Sheila? 554 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Dr. Morrison speaking. All right. 555 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 It's the lab. Hello? 556 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Yes, Brooks. It's what? 557 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 You're absolutely sure? 558 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Did you check twice? I see. 559 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Yes, thank you. 560 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 You gave the results of the blood test. 561 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Paul. We can't use your blood, Sheila. 562 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 You know from the blood test? 563 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Yes, Dr. Morrison. 564 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Get the boy ready for operation. I'll start immediately. 565 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Yes, doctor. 566 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 No, what, Sheila? No, don't tell me. 567 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 All I know is that your blood is type A, 568 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,000 and mine is type A, and James's type B. 569 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 Wait here, Sheila. 570 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Don't do it, Paul. 571 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,000 Do what? 572 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,000 I won't let you operate. I won't. I won't. 573 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Get Dr. McDonald, or I'll kill you. 574 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,000 You're out of your mind. You can't shoot that gun. 575 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 I can and I will before I let you touch Jamie. 576 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Now that you know he's not your son... 577 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000 I've always known it. You're lying. 578 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000 From the first moment I saw him, 579 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 it's a proven medical fact two blue-eyed people 580 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 cannot have a brown-eyed child. 581 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 And all your cruelty was deliberate. 582 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 At first I thought you'd been unfaithful 583 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 to another man who was his father, 584 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 but the blood proves he's not yours either. 585 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 You adopted him. I stole him, 586 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 and I'm not going to lose him now. 587 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000 We're all ready, Dr. Morrison. Thank you. 588 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Wait here, Sheila. Paul, I warned you. 589 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 Mrs. Morrison, don't! 590 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,000 He fell like a sack of dry leaves, 591 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,000 and liquid the color of dark grapes 592 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 seeped through and spread slowly 593 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,000 across the front of his surgeon's jacket. 594 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Then people came and dragged me away. 595 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,000 I've seen no one since except those who guard me 596 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 and my lawyer, Mr. Ballew, who came to tell me 597 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,000 that Paul was dead and that Jamie would live. 598 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 The operation was performed successfully 599 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 by Dr. MacDonald. 600 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Then Mr. Ballew began to talk about how to 601 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000 defend me against the charge of murder. 602 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Why not tell him the truth? 603 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,000 Let me tell you the truth, Mrs. Morrison. 604 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 After you shot Dr. Morrison, 605 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,000 he could have lived. 606 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,000 He had to choose between his life and Jamie's. 607 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000 What could he do for Jamie? 608 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 The bullet had lodged in Jamie's brain. 609 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000 It would take hours to find a brain specialist 610 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 as good as Dr. Morrison. 611 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000 But he didn't operate. 612 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 He ordered them to take him to the operating room. 613 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Then for an hour and a half, he stood at Dr. MacDonald's 614 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 elbow directing every move of his scalpel. 615 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,000 When the operation was over, 616 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Dr. Morrison was dying. 617 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:07,000 But Jamie would live. 618 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 And so, in my defense, 619 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Mr. Ballew intends to plead insanity. 620 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,000 But I wasn't insane then. 621 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Nor am I now. I know that. 622 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 I'm nearly a selfish woman. 623 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Everything I did, I did for myself, not for Jamie. 624 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 I can see that now. 625 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:33,000 But Paul gave his life for his son. 626 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,000 And no matter what happens to him now, 627 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Jamie had a father. 628 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 Thank you, Madeline Carroll, for a splendid performance. 629 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Miss Carroll will return in just a moment. 630 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Hello, Tom. Yeah, I knew it was you. 631 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,000 What? 632 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 He just called to say thanks for taking care of Jamie. 633 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 He's a good man. 634 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 He's a good man. 635 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 He's a good man. 636 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000 He's a good man. 637 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 He's a good man. 638 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000 He's a good man. 639 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Listen to that. 640 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000 You haven't proven your own defeat yet. 641 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Did I do well in that? 642 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,000 Now, John, do it. 643 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Um... 644 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000 you $400,000. 645 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,000 Is that all that you have to say? 646 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,000 Kesho, it's over. 647 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000 And good luck. 648 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000 First three seconds, Tom would have won. 649 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 상황 650 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000 And keep in mind, wherever you go, 651 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Auto-Lite means spark plugs, 652 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Ignition engineered spark plugs, 653 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Auto-Lite means batteries, 654 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 Stay full batteries, 655 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Auto-Lite means ignition system, 656 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,000 The lifeline of your car. 657 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 And now here again is Miss Madeleine Carroll. 658 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000 It's been a great pleasure to appear with this fine cast on Suspense. 659 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,000 It's a program I've always enjoyed hearing, 660 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000 and I'm looking forward to next week's story, 661 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,000 in which that rising young star, Burt Lancaster, appears. 662 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,000 It's another gripping study in... 663 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Suspense. 664 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,000 Madeleine Carroll appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox, 665 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 whose current production is The Luck of the Irish, 666 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,000 starring Anne Baxter and her own power. 667 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,000 Tonight's Suspense play was written by Pamela Wilcox, 668 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,000 with music composed by Lucian Marlech and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 669 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,000 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Lieder. 670 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,000 In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as Gregory Peck, 671 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield and others. 672 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to... 673 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:53,000 Suspense, Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 674 00:28:53,000 --> 00:29:00,000 and next Thursday, same time, hear Burt Lancaster. 675 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,000 This is the Auto Light Suspense show. 676 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Drive slowly. 677 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 Death and danger travel in fast company. 678 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Good night. Switch to Auto Light. 679 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:23,000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.