WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 In just a moment, suspense with Madeleine Carroll. 00:05.000 --> 00:09.000 Hello. Oh, hello, Tom. Where are you? 00:09.000 --> 00:11.000 Thought you were driving over tonight. 00:11.000 --> 00:14.000 Couldn't get your car started. Well, what's wrong with it? 00:14.000 --> 00:17.000 Well, sounds like ignition trouble to me, Tom. 00:17.000 --> 00:19.000 Why don't you call Ed's Auto Electric? 00:19.000 --> 00:22.000 Best service station in town. He's an auto light man. 00:22.000 --> 00:24.000 Really knows his stuff and believes in preventive service. 00:24.000 --> 00:28.000 You know, fixes things before they happen. Carries auto light parts. 00:28.000 --> 00:33.000 You know, auto light. Spark plugs, batteries, complete ignition systems. 00:33.000 --> 00:35.000 Yeah, that's right, the works. 00:35.000 --> 00:39.000 Oh, by the way, Tom, auto light has that swell high tension show on the air. 00:39.000 --> 00:41.000 Suspense. Ever hear of it? 00:41.000 --> 00:44.000 Well, why don't you tune in? It's coming on right now. 00:44.000 --> 00:47.000 Suspense. 00:47.000 --> 00:55.000 Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills. 00:55.000 --> 01:01.000 Starring tonight, Miss Madeleine Carroll in Anton Lido's production of The Muppets. 01:01.000 --> 01:18.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 01:18.000 --> 01:20.000 Oh, Mr. Ballou, there's a woman outside. 01:20.000 --> 01:24.000 She doesn't have an appointment, but she must speak to Mr. Ballou privately. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.000 All right, I'll speak to him. 01:26.000 --> 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. 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 Will you come in, please? 01:34.000 --> 01:37.000 Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Ballou. 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 Please sit down. Dottie, buzz me when it's half past. 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 Okay, Mr. Ballou. 01:42.000 --> 01:44.000 We can't be overheard here, can we? 01:44.000 --> 01:46.000 No. Now then, Mrs. 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 I'd rather you didn't take notes. 01:48.000 --> 01:51.000 Oh, well, all right. But I do need your name. 01:51.000 --> 01:52.000 I'll take it. 01:52.000 --> 01:57.000 Do lawyers have any kind of code or rule against revealing confidential information? 01:57.000 --> 02:03.000 Like priests? Yes. However, you want me to promise before I hear your case? 02:03.000 --> 02:04.000 Yes. 02:04.000 --> 02:08.000 All right, if it makes you feel better, I've handled hundreds of divorces. 02:08.000 --> 02:09.000 Oh. 02:09.000 --> 02:12.000 And never lost a patient. It is a divorce. 02:12.000 --> 02:16.000 Yes, in a way. But he's dangerous, and there's a child. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 The court's usual order is to have a child. 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 But he's dangerous, and there's a child. 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 The courts usually lean toward giving the mother custody. 02:24.000 --> 02:28.000 I know, but Mr. Ballou, I'm in desperate trouble, I'm afraid. 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 You can't understand till I tell you. 02:30.000 --> 02:31.000 Well, then? 02:31.000 --> 02:34.000 You see, I'm English. My husband is American. 02:34.000 --> 02:37.000 He grew up here in Boston, a very prominent family. 02:37.000 --> 02:40.000 The Morissons. He's Dr. Paul Morrison. 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 Yes, I know Dr. Morrison. Oh? 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 That is, I've heard of him. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Then you know he's a surgeon. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 I met Paul in London in 1939. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 We were married very soon after we met. 02:50.000 --> 02:54.000 And then England went to war, and Paul decided to stay in England to help out. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 He was different then. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 So deeply concerned over human suffering. 02:59.000 --> 03:03.000 The war changed him. Changed him hideously. 03:03.000 --> 03:06.000 For those first two years in London, we were happy. 03:06.000 --> 03:09.000 Almost completely happy. 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 Quite suddenly, America was in the war, 03:15.000 --> 03:19.000 and Paul had his orders to return to the American Army Medical Corps. 03:19.000 --> 03:24.000 We spent the little time we had left at a cottage in the country. 03:24.000 --> 03:28.000 And all the time I was trying to forget the one thing that had been praying on my mind 03:28.000 --> 03:32.000 ever since they told me at the hospital that... 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 But I couldn't. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 And so finally, even though it was our last day together, 03:38.000 --> 03:43.000 I went up to London to do what I had always known someday I would have to do. 03:43.000 --> 03:46.000 It was late afternoon when I returned. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 Who is it? Oh, darling, where on earth have you been? 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 I'm sorry I'm so late, Paul. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Never mind about being sorry. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 Come over here this instant, give me a kiss. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Want to know something? 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 What? 04:01.000 --> 04:04.000 You're a heartless hussy going off and leaving me alone all day. 04:04.000 --> 04:05.000 Our last day. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 Do you think I'd have gone if it hadn't been important? 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 Look, darling, I'm a doctor too. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 I don't know what doctor you want to see this time, 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 none of us can perform miracles. 04:13.000 --> 04:17.000 I don't believe in miracles, Paul, and I didn't go to London to see a doctor. 04:17.000 --> 04:20.000 I went to find out if we could adopt a child. 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 Adopt a child? 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 I know you've always been against the idea, Paul. 04:23.000 --> 04:26.000 Darling, this is no time to go into a big complicated thing like that. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 I'm going to be on my way home by this time tomorrow. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 It's not this time tomorrow I'm thinking about, Paul. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 It's all my life. 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 If I can't have a child of my own, then I want to adopt one. 04:34.000 --> 04:35.000 But Sheila, I... 04:35.000 --> 04:39.000 I sort of halfway picked out one at the orphanage today. 04:39.000 --> 04:40.000 What? 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 You were a child in an air raid, and, oh, Paul, you've always wanted a boy. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 I've wanted a son, yes. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 But adopting a child involves certain risks. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 There are fundamental laws of heredity. 04:50.000 --> 04:51.000 Now you're being plain old-fashioned. 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 You can call it anything you like. It's out of the question. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 Why? Give me one reason why. 04:55.000 --> 04:56.000 You know the reasons as well as I do. 04:56.000 --> 05:00.000 All I know is I'm a woman and I want a child. 05:00.000 --> 05:03.000 Sheila, come here. Look at me. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 Maybe I'm old-fashioned or overcautious, 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 but if we got a child that way, 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 picked him out like something on a grocery shelf, 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 you might feel he was your son, but he wouldn't be mine. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 And the son has to be for both of us, or not at all. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 I stayed on in London for more than six months after Paul left. 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 It was ghastly there for everyone. 05:26.000 --> 05:30.000 As for me, I lived in a fever of loneliness, worse than loneliness. 05:30.000 --> 05:34.000 Then my mother asked me down to the country to wait out the war with her. 05:34.000 --> 05:38.000 It was a summer evening when I took a crowded train from Paddington, 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 and I sat alone in the compartment, numb with my hunger for Paul. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 You must understand, that day I wasn't myself. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 I wasn't accountable. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 You see, I had a double kind of loneliness. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 When the conductor opened my compartment door for other passengers, 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 I didn't even look up at first. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 Here we are, missus. I'll let you in. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 Oh, thank you ever so much. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 Give us the window seat. 05:59.000 --> 06:01.000 No, I want the window seat. 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 No, dear, no, dear, and you too. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 I reckon the missus is going to want some of their fresh air for the little neighbor. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 You can have my seat if you like. It doesn't make any difference to me. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 Oh, it's very calm of you, miss, I'm sure. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Mum, I want to see the guards, then. 06:12.000 --> 06:13.000 Not now, Johnny. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 But, mum, you promised. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Missus, I'll let you know when we're near Reading Junction. 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 Oh, thank you. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 Your trouble at all, missus. 06:20.000 --> 06:24.000 I hope Mary's not taking up too much room on the seat, miss. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 No, no, not at all. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 Well, she's shoving and pushing me, mum. 06:27.000 --> 06:28.000 Oh, Mary. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 I'm not either. I just need more room in here. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 Oh, enough, stop, you two, stop it. 06:32.000 --> 06:36.000 Mary, stop rummaging in my carry-all. There's nothing in it to eat. 06:36.000 --> 06:39.000 Oh, dear. Children can be such a troll. 06:39.000 --> 06:42.000 Now watch, now, now hush. 06:42.000 --> 06:44.000 Yes, I know you're hungry. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Can I hold him for a minute? 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 What, what, miss? 06:47.000 --> 06:50.000 Mary is a pig. Mary is a pig. 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 Pig yourself. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 Do you two like to look at pictures? 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 Here's a magazine with all sorts of pictures about America. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 Oh, dear, dear. 06:56.000 --> 06:57.000 My husband sent it to me. 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 Oh, that's cons of you, miss, I'm sure. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 No, thank you, lady, thank you. 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 Thank you. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Well, that'll keep him quiet. 07:04.000 --> 07:07.000 My mother ought to be too, people, that's yours. 07:07.000 --> 07:09.000 I'll hold the baby while you fill his bottle. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 What, if it won't trouble you? 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 Oh, no, no, I don't mind. 07:17.000 --> 07:21.000 I sat there, scarcely breathing, looking down at the baby in my lap. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 It was as though I'd never felt warmth before. 07:24.000 --> 07:30.000 He stopped whimpering and looked up at me with very big brown eyes that seemed to hold recognition. 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 He's taken a real fancy to you, miss, and now mistake. 07:33.000 --> 07:34.000 What's his name? 07:34.000 --> 07:37.000 Jamie. It was his father's name. 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 He was killed last week in a bomber over Germany. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Oh, I'm terribly sorry. 07:42.000 --> 07:44.000 But at least you have the children. 07:44.000 --> 07:45.000 Oh, yes, miss. 07:45.000 --> 07:52.000 But sometimes, I don't know, sometimes I think it would be better if I didn't have this last one. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Oh, no, you can't mean that. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 It's not easy, miss, with no man to provide. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 You said you were married, miss. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Do you have any children? 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 No, I have no children. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 Oh, baby, oh. 08:05.000 --> 08:11.000 You'd know if you had one, knowing all the things I won't be able to give him. 08:11.000 --> 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. 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 You'd regret it all your life. 08:22.000 --> 08:25.000 But it's his life I'm thinking about when I say it. 08:25.000 --> 08:30.000 Of course, I'm not brave enough to do it, but I wish I was. 08:32.000 --> 08:38.000 Oh, well, if wishes were horses, as they say. 08:38.000 --> 08:42.000 We're just pulling into Redding Junction, missus, if you still want to get their cappuccino. 08:42.000 --> 08:44.000 Oh, thank you, thank you, Johnny and Mary. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 Come on, Mary, Mum's going to get us something to eat. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 I want to see this pie first. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 Well, you can look at the magazine when you come back. 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 Now, now, run along, Bussov, you'll wait for me outside. 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 All right, Mum. Come on, lazy. 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 Wait till I get my coat on. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 I'll take Johnny now, miss. 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 I'm going to sit right here. Why don't I hold him till you come back? 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 Oh, I wouldn't want to bother you. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 Oh, it's no bother at all. 09:04.000 --> 09:09.000 Well, you won't have any trouble with him. He's always been a good baby. 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 Mum, come on, come on. 09:11.000 --> 09:15.000 I'm coming, I'll wait. If you're sure, miss, quite sure. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 Oh, yes, I'm quite sure. 09:17.000 --> 09:19.000 Maybe you'll say what I did was wicked, 09:19.000 --> 09:21.000 that she didn't tell me to take her child. 09:21.000 --> 09:23.000 But I know she did. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 She made her decision and I made mine. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 After a few minutes, I got up and carried the baby down the corridor. 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 I was trembling so I was afraid I'd drop him. 09:31.000 --> 09:35.000 I managed to get off the train and made my way across the crowded platform. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 It was nearly time for the train to pull out. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 Hurry up, now. Train's leaving. 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 I'm going to get the baby. 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 Hurry up, now. Train's leaving. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 Then I saw the woman, her two older children coming toward me. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 I stepped behind a post. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Oh, she's a pig. Mary's a wicked pig. 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 Too bad. 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 Come on, now we've got to hurry. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 Now we've got to hurry. 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 I stood there and watched the three climb onto the train. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 Then he began to move. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 And it was the brakes or a train whistle. 10:06.000 --> 10:09.000 If only I hadn't imagined it was something else. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 Above the racket of the train, it sounded like... 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 Like a woman screaming. 10:31.000 --> 10:35.000 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Miss Madeline Carroll 10:35.000 --> 10:39.000 and the radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:48.000 --> 10:52.000 Hello. Oh, it's you again, Tom. Swell program, eh? 10:52.000 --> 10:55.000 What? The name of that Auto Light service station? 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 Well, it's Ed's Auto Electric. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 Just look for the big Auto Light sign down on Main Street. 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 But wait, here's more dope on Auto Light service. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 Listen to Frank Martin. 11:34.000 --> 11:39.000 Auto Light, Auto Light service stations are listed in your classified telephone directory 11:39.000 --> 11:42.000 under Automotive Electrical Service. 11:45.000 --> 11:48.000 And now, Auto Light brings back to a hearty welcome 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 to the most popular 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 and most popular 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 and most popular 11:53.000 --> 11:55.000 and most popular 11:55.000 --> 11:57.000 and most popular 11:57.000 --> 11:59.000 and most popular 11:59.000 --> 12:01.000 and most popular 12:01.000 --> 12:05.000 and most popular 12:02.000 --> 12:06.000 and most popular 12:04.000 --> 12:08.000 and most popular 12:11.000 --> 12:08.000 and most popular 12:11.000 --> 12:16.000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 12:16.000 --> 12:20.000 Miss Madeline Carroll as Sheila in The Morrison Affair, 12:20.000 --> 12:27.000 a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense. 12:27.000 --> 12:29.000 He suspects something's wrong, but... 12:29.000 --> 12:31.000 Well, then make a clean breast of it. Tell him. 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 Oh, no, you mustn't. He mustn't ever know. 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 He'll kill me or Jamie or both of us. 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 How on earth did you make your husband believe? 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 That was easy. 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 I figured it all out on the way to Mother's. 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 I took a bus at Reading Junction, 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 then another train. 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 It was almost midnight when I got home 12:47.000 --> 12:49.000 and let myself in the front door. 12:49.000 --> 12:51.000 MUSIC 12:55.000 --> 12:57.000 Mother was waiting up. 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 Is that you, Sheila? 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 Yes, Mother. Oh, you've had me well at home. 13:01.000 --> 13:03.000 Sheila! 13:03.000 --> 13:05.000 Is the fire still lit in the kitchen, Mum? 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 Don't ask questions now, please. He's hungry. 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 I'm going to heat him up some milk. 13:09.000 --> 13:11.000 Whose baby is it? He's mine now. 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 What do you mean, Sheila? Whose was it? 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 I don't know. Here, hold him while I get the milk. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 Oh, shh, baby, shh. 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 You mean you've adopted him? 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 I stole him. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 Sheila! I don't ask you to understand, Mother. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 I only ask you to help me 13:25.000 --> 13:27.000 because I'm your child and because 13:27.000 --> 13:29.000 I can't ever have a child of my own. 13:29.000 --> 13:31.000 But Paul won't let you keep this child. 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 If he thinks it's his own, he will. 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 Oh, look, the poor little mite's starving. 13:35.000 --> 13:37.000 Yes. 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 It may be years before the war's over 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 and I see Paul again. He'll look forward to seeing his son. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 But he's bound to ask where his son was born. 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 He was born here. 13:45.000 --> 13:47.000 There are records of such things, Sheila. 13:47.000 --> 13:49.000 The date, the place, the parents, the doctor... 13:49.000 --> 13:51.000 I know. 13:51.000 --> 13:53.000 Mother, telephone Dr Lucas. 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 Dr Lucas? Why, he... 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 He's a charlatan. He's not even a real doctor. 13:57.000 --> 13:59.000 Oh, does that matter? 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 He's greedy and that's the kind of man I need. 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 Tell him I want to see him tomorrow. 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 Because tomorrow 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 my son Jamie will be born. 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 That night before I went to bed 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 I cabled Paul at his last APO address. 14:15.000 --> 14:17.000 Why haven't you answered my letters? 14:17.000 --> 14:19.000 Or don't you like my news? 14:19.000 --> 14:21.000 His answering cable came in the morning. 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 What letters? What news? 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 We'll phone. 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 It was going to be easy. 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 Paul had travelled so much. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 New York, Baltimore, three months in the Pacific. 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 It would be easy to make him believe 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 that some of his mail had gone astray. 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 I waited all day for Paul's call 14:37.000 --> 14:39.000 and for Dr Lucas. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 That miserable little man took his time about it. 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 Ah, Mrs Morrison. 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 I'm late but your mother assured me 14:45.000 --> 14:47.000 no one was ill. 14:47.000 --> 14:49.000 No, it's about my son. 14:49.000 --> 14:51.000 Why, I didn't hear that you had... 14:51.000 --> 14:53.000 I'm having difficulties about his birth record. 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 I've lost the certificate and I need a duplicate. 14:55.000 --> 14:57.000 Why, Mrs Morrison, I'm sure if you write to... 14:57.000 --> 14:59.000 As a matter of fact, I want the record changed. 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Changed? 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 I want the certificate to say that he was born here today. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 Mrs Morrison. 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 It can be done, can't it? 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 It's rather difficult. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 You mean it's expensive? 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 Yes, very expensive. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 There's the risk to a doctor's reputation. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 How much? 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 Er... 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 A thousand pounds. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 All right. 15:25.000 --> 15:27.000 No, I'm afraid it will have to be 1200 pounds. 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 All right, but that's all I can pay. 15:29.000 --> 15:31.000 Here, you can write it out under this lamp. 15:31.000 --> 15:33.000 One moment, I'll find the form. 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 Yes, here it is. 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 He's the son of Mr... 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 and Mrs Paul Morrison. 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 Excuse me, please. 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 Yes? 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 Go ahead, Major Morrison. 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 Hello? Hello, Sheila. 15:47.000 --> 15:49.000 Paul! Paul, darling! 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 Where are you? 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 India. I turned the whole army inside out to get a priority. 15:53.000 --> 15:55.000 Can you hear me all right? 15:55.000 --> 15:57.000 Fine. But, darling, why didn't you answer my letters? 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 Well, I answered every one I got. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 Then the important ones got lost or something. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 You haven't heard the news? 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 What news? 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 You're... you're going to be a father, Paul. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.000 Did you hear me, Paul? 16:09.000 --> 16:11.000 Yes. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 But, Sheila, that seems impossible. 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 But it's happened all the same. 16:15.000 --> 16:17.000 Any day now, you'll have a son and heir. 16:17.000 --> 16:19.000 Oh, you've made up your mind. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 It's going to be a boy, eh? 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 That's what you want, isn't it? 16:23.000 --> 16:25.000 Yes, it's what I want. 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 But it seems like a miracle. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 I was dead certain that I... 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 Something wrong, Mrs Morrison? 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 I was cut off. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 Operator! Operator! 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Yes? 16:37.000 --> 16:39.000 I was cut off. It was a call from India. 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 Didn't you hang up? 16:41.000 --> 16:43.000 Certainly not. I was cut off. 16:43.000 --> 16:45.000 Well, I'll try to get your party back. 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 Yes, try. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 But it's all right if you don't. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 What is the name of your son, Mrs Morrison? 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 Jamie. 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 Jamie Morrison. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 Jamie Morrison, born June 3rd, 1940. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 Born June 3rd, 1940. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 Born June 3rd, 1940. 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 June 3rd, 1942. 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 June 3rd, 1942. 17:05.000 --> 17:07.000 You know, Mrs Morrison, heredity is tricky. 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 There's nothing wrong with my son's heredity. 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 And then there's always the danger of being found out, 17:11.000 --> 17:13.000 As long as anyone knows beside yourself. 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 As long as anyone knows beside yourself. 17:15.000 --> 17:17.000 As long as anyone knows beside yourself. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 As long as anyone knows beside yourself. 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 At first, some nights I'd dream that Jamie's mother had come to fetch Jamie. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 At first, some nights I'd dream that Jamie's mother had come to fetch Jamie. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 But that was only at first. 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 I buried my guilt. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 Buried it deep. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 I buried my guilt. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 Four years went by. 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 Then the war was over, and Jamie and I sailed to join Paul in America. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 Then the war was over, and Jamie and I sailed to join Paul in America. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 The day I arrived in New York, I may have been nervous. 17:39.000 --> 17:41.000 But I was sure at last of happiness. 17:41.000 --> 17:43.000 As sure as I'd ever been in my life. 17:43.000 --> 17:45.000 As sure as I'd ever been in my life. 17:45.000 --> 17:47.000 Oh, Paul. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 Oh, Paul. 17:49.000 --> 17:51.000 Paul, darling. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 My dear. Oh, I've never seen you look better, darling. 17:53.000 --> 17:55.000 Motherhood suits you. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 Is that my daddy? 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 Jamie. 17:59.000 --> 18:01.000 Well, how do you do, James? 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 My name isn't James. It's Jamie. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 Jamie? 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 Yes, I've always called him that. I don't know why it's a kind of nickname, I suppose. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 Well, from now on, we'd better settle for James. 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 We Morrisons never appreciated nicknames. 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 Funny about his eyes. 18:13.000 --> 18:15.000 His eyes? 18:15.000 --> 18:17.000 I've got to look up my Mendel. 18:17.000 --> 18:19.000 Can two blue-eyed people have a brown-eyed child? 18:19.000 --> 18:21.000 They must. We did. No matter what Mendel says. 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 Well, he's positively the first Morrison with brown eyes. 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 Well, he's positively the first Morrison with brown eyes. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 But why not? He's the miracle kid. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 But why not? He's the miracle kid. 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 The miracle kid. 18:35.000 --> 18:37.000 Blue eyes. Brown eyes. 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 I rolled the phrases around my mind, 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 hunting their real meaning. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 I was over-sensitive, of course, but... 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 But from the first day, I felt that Paul was hostile to Jamie. 18:45.000 --> 18:47.000 But from the first day, I felt that Paul was hostile to Jamie. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 Where's my miracle kid? 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 He's taking his nap. What do you want with him? 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 I'm driving down to the rifle range with a friend. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 I thought I'd take James along. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Oh, but he's too young, Paul. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 Too young for what? 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 To play with guns. 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 That's just why I want to take him along. 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 The sooner he knows how to handle guns, the better off he'll be. 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 The sooner he knows how to handle guns, the better off he'll be. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 Mommy! Mommy! 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 Mommy! 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 Mommy! 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 Mommy! Mommy! 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 Where are you, Mommy? 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 Here I am, Jamie. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 Mommy, I fell off. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 Oh, darling, darling, what's happened? 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 I fell off the horse. He went too fast and jumped around, 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 and I fell off and hurt my knee. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 Yeah, I brought the iodine. He's more scared than hurt. 19:29.000 --> 19:31.000 Oh, not iodine. Use peroxide. It won't sting. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 I told you he was too young to ride. 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 Oh, it was a gentle horse. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 Jamie lost his seat when it started to trot, that's all. 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 We'll do better next time, won't we, kid? 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 I guess so, Daddy. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 There won't be a next time. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 Yes, there will be, Sheila. 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 Jamie, go up to Mother's room. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 I'll be along in a minute to fix your knee. 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 All right, Mommy. 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 There's candy in my bureau. You know where. 19:53.000 --> 19:55.000 Yes, Mommy, I know. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 Paul, what are you trying to do? 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 I'm trying to make my son like my son. 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 He's my son too, you know. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 What you're doing to him, Sheila, 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 he's not anybody's son. He's a zombie. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 I swear I'd rather see him dead than what you want him to be. 20:07.000 --> 20:11.000 I suppose it was then that I first realized what I would have to do. 20:11.000 --> 20:15.000 But someday, someday soon, I'd have to get Jamie away from Paul. 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 I was frightened. 20:17.000 --> 20:19.000 I even began to carry a gun in my bag. 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 And I began to make plans. 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 I'd start again, build a new life for myself and my son. 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 Then yesterday, I knew that I'd have to hurry, 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 that I couldn't postpone my decision any longer. 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 I found out when Paul came home from the hospital, 20:31.000 --> 20:33.000 he came directly to my house. 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 He was in a terrible state. 20:35.000 --> 20:38.000 He came home from the hospital. He came directly to my room. 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 Ah, there you are. 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 I want to tell you something, Sheila. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 What is it? What's happened? 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 A big day at the conference. 20:46.000 --> 20:48.000 Oh, you mean the medical conference. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 A psychiatrist from Chicago named Drake 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 read a paper on psychosomatic medicine. 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 Terrific. And then there was a curious report on euthanasia. 20:54.000 --> 20:56.000 You know, mercy killing. Interesting, but extreme. 20:56.000 --> 20:58.000 In what way? 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 Well, the doctor delivering the report favors 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 not only the mercy killing of incurables, 21:02.000 --> 21:05.000 but also the death of the person who hates weeding out 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 and purifying the race by studying heredity 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 and eliminating those whose heredity is questionable. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 A real crackpot. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 Horrible. 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 Sheila, while his report was going on, though, 21:13.000 --> 21:16.000 I began to wonder about you and Jamie. 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 About me and Jamie? 21:18.000 --> 21:21.000 Yes. I wanted to ask you, 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 is there something about Jamie's heredity 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 that you don't want me to know? 21:25.000 --> 21:28.000 Then I understood. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 The danger was real and now. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 For myself, but mostly for Jamie. 21:33.000 --> 21:36.000 Paul was playing with me like a cat plays with a mouse. 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 This talk about mercy killing, heredity, 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 this subtle, cruel talk, 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 threatening me with Jamie's death, 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 announcing in advance the mercy killing 21:44.000 --> 21:47.000 of a child who is inferior because he isn't a morsel. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 That's why I've come to you, Mr. Ballou. 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 I can't risk Paul's death. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 I can't risk Paul's getting custody. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 I have to take Jamie away first, 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 far away where Paul can't reach him, 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 and then get a divorce. 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 I want you to tell me where it's safest for us to go 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 and get the papers I need. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 Mrs. Morrison, 22:08.000 --> 22:12.000 I promised that whatever you told me would be confidential. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 I'm sorry I made that promise. 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 If I hadn't, I'd go to Dr. Morrison and tell him... 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 He wouldn't! 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 ...that his wife carries a heavy load of guilt, 22:21.000 --> 22:26.000 a very heavy load, and it's colouring everything she does. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 You think I'm insane? 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 I think you have dangerous delusions. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 And you won't help me? 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 I can't, Mrs. Morrison. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 The psychiatrist might help you, 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 but only if you go to him now before it's too late. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Mrs. Morrison! Mrs. Morrison! 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 You have to go to the hospital. 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 Dr. Morrison said for you to come right away. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 What is it, Elsa? What's happened? 22:55.000 --> 22:57.000 It's the little boy. 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 Jamie! He got hold of one of his daddy's guns. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 He's done it! He's killed Jamie! 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 Jamie was playing with it, and it went off 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 when it was pointed right at himself. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 He's hurt bad. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 Take my blood, Paul. Take it. I'll do anything. 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 Sheila, get hold of yourself. You're hysterical. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 We have to know his blood type first. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 The lab should be calling back any minute. 23:19.000 --> 23:22.000 Paul, I'd rather you didn't operate. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 Ask Dr. McDonald. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 This isn't McDonald's kind of a case. I... 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 Don't you trust me, Sheila? 23:28.000 --> 23:31.000 I thought you might be too nervous being his father. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 Am I, Sheila? 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 What? Am I his father, Sheila? 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 Dr. Morrison speaking. All right. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 It's the lab. Hello? 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Yes, Brooks. It's what? 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 You're absolutely sure? 23:45.000 --> 23:47.000 Did you check twice? I see. 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 Yes, thank you. 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 You gave the results of the blood test. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 Paul. We can't use your blood, Sheila. 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 You know from the blood test? 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 Yes, Dr. Morrison. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 Get the boy ready for operation. I'll start immediately. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 Yes, doctor. 24:01.000 --> 24:03.000 No, what, Sheila? No, don't tell me. 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 All I know is that your blood is type A, 24:05.000 --> 24:08.000 and mine is type A, and James's type B. 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 Wait here, Sheila. 24:12.000 --> 24:15.000 Don't do it, Paul. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 Do what? 24:17.000 --> 24:20.000 I won't let you operate. I won't. I won't. 24:20.000 --> 24:23.000 Get Dr. McDonald, or I'll kill you. 24:23.000 --> 24:25.000 You're out of your mind. You can't shoot that gun. 24:25.000 --> 24:27.000 I can and I will before I let you touch Jamie. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 Now that you know he's not your son... 24:29.000 --> 24:31.000 I've always known it. You're lying. 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 From the first moment I saw him, 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 it's a proven medical fact two blue-eyed people 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 cannot have a brown-eyed child. 24:37.000 --> 24:39.000 And all your cruelty was deliberate. 24:39.000 --> 24:41.000 At first I thought you'd been unfaithful 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 to another man who was his father, 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 but the blood proves he's not yours either. 24:45.000 --> 24:47.000 You adopted him. I stole him, 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 and I'm not going to lose him now. 24:49.000 --> 24:51.000 We're all ready, Dr. Morrison. Thank you. 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 Wait here, Sheila. Paul, I warned you. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 Mrs. Morrison, don't! 24:59.000 --> 25:01.000 He fell like a sack of dry leaves, 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 and liquid the color of dark grapes 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 seeped through and spread slowly 25:05.000 --> 25:08.000 across the front of his surgeon's jacket. 25:08.000 --> 25:11.000 Then people came and dragged me away. 25:13.000 --> 25:16.000 I've seen no one since except those who guard me 25:16.000 --> 25:18.000 and my lawyer, Mr. Ballew, who came to tell me 25:18.000 --> 25:22.000 that Paul was dead and that Jamie would live. 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 The operation was performed successfully 25:24.000 --> 25:26.000 by Dr. MacDonald. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 Then Mr. Ballew began to talk about how to 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 defend me against the charge of murder. 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 Why not tell him the truth? 25:32.000 --> 25:35.000 Let me tell you the truth, Mrs. Morrison. 25:35.000 --> 25:37.000 After you shot Dr. Morrison, 25:37.000 --> 25:39.000 he could have lived. 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 He had to choose between his life and Jamie's. 25:41.000 --> 25:43.000 What could he do for Jamie? 25:43.000 --> 25:45.000 The bullet had lodged in Jamie's brain. 25:45.000 --> 25:47.000 It would take hours to find a brain specialist 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 as good as Dr. Morrison. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 But he didn't operate. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 He ordered them to take him to the operating room. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 Then for an hour and a half, he stood at Dr. MacDonald's 25:55.000 --> 25:58.000 elbow directing every move of his scalpel. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 When the operation was over, 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 Dr. Morrison was dying. 26:02.000 --> 26:07.000 But Jamie would live. 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 And so, in my defense, 26:12.000 --> 26:15.000 Mr. Ballew intends to plead insanity. 26:15.000 --> 26:18.000 But I wasn't insane then. 26:18.000 --> 26:20.000 Nor am I now. I know that. 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 I'm nearly a selfish woman. 26:22.000 --> 26:26.000 Everything I did, I did for myself, not for Jamie. 26:26.000 --> 26:28.000 I can see that now. 26:28.000 --> 26:33.000 But Paul gave his life for his son. 26:33.000 --> 26:36.000 And no matter what happens to him now, 26:36.000 --> 26:38.000 Jamie had a father. 26:38.000 --> 26:41.000 Thank you, Madeline Carroll, for a splendid performance. 26:41.000 --> 26:44.000 Miss Carroll will return in just a moment. 26:46.000 --> 26:49.000 Hello, Tom. Yeah, I knew it was you. 26:49.000 --> 26:50.000 What? 26:50.000 --> 26:53.000 He just called to say thanks for taking care of Jamie. 26:53.000 --> 26:55.000 He's a good man. 26:55.000 --> 26:57.000 He's a good man. 26:57.000 --> 26:59.000 He's a good man. 26:59.000 --> 27:01.000 He's a good man. 27:01.000 --> 27:03.000 He's a good man. 27:03.000 --> 27:05.000 He's a good man. 27:05.000 --> 27:08.000 Listen to that. 27:08.000 --> 27:10.000 You haven't proven your own defeat yet. 27:10.000 --> 27:13.000 Did I do well in that? 27:13.000 --> 27:15.000 Now, John, do it. 27:15.000 --> 27:16.000 Um... 27:16.000 --> 27:18.000 you $400,000. 27:18.000 --> 27:21.000 Is that all that you have to say? 27:21.000 --> 27:23.000 Kesho, it's over. 27:23.000 --> 27:26.000 And good luck. 27:28.000 --> 27:31.000 First three seconds, Tom would have won. 27:31.000 --> 27:33.000 상황 27:33.000 --> 27:35.000 And keep in mind, wherever you go, 27:35.000 --> 27:38.000 Auto-Lite means spark plugs, 27:38.000 --> 27:40.000 Ignition engineered spark plugs, 27:40.000 --> 27:42.000 Auto-Lite means batteries, 27:42.000 --> 27:44.000 Stay full batteries, 27:44.000 --> 27:47.000 Auto-Lite means ignition system, 27:47.000 --> 27:49.000 The lifeline of your car. 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 And now here again is Miss Madeleine Carroll. 27:58.000 --> 28:02.000 It's been a great pleasure to appear with this fine cast on Suspense. 28:02.000 --> 28:04.000 It's a program I've always enjoyed hearing, 28:04.000 --> 28:07.000 and I'm looking forward to next week's story, 28:07.000 --> 28:10.000 in which that rising young star, Burt Lancaster, appears. 28:10.000 --> 28:13.000 It's another gripping study in... 28:13.000 --> 28:15.000 Suspense. 28:18.000 --> 28:22.000 Madeleine Carroll appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox, 28:22.000 --> 28:24.000 whose current production is The Luck of the Irish, 28:24.000 --> 28:27.000 starring Anne Baxter and her own power. 28:27.000 --> 28:30.000 Tonight's Suspense play was written by Pamela Wilcox, 28:30.000 --> 28:34.000 with music composed by Lucian Marlech and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 28:34.000 --> 28:38.000 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. 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