1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,920 And now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present... 2 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,800 Suspense! 3 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:27,760 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Fibber McGee and Molly in... 4 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:38,160 The Six Seat Driver, a suspense play produced and directed by Anton M. Leader. 5 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:41,320 Say, Harlow, looks like Old Home Week on suspense tonight. 6 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:42,320 Old Home Week, half? 7 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:46,320 Well, I wouldn't say that, not with millions of Auto Light resistor spark plugs finding 8 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,960 new homes in every make of car in America. 9 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,560 I know, Harlow, I meant Old Home Week because... 10 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:56,400 Perhaps there just isn't going to be any old or new home for more and more narrow gap spark 11 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,240 plugs because they're being replaced in their old homes by wide gap Auto Light resistor 12 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:02,680 spark plugs. 13 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:07,160 With Auto Light resistor spark plugs, your car, my car, Fibber's car, everybody's car, 14 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:12,320 idle smoother, gives better performance with lean gas mixtures, saves gas dollars, and 15 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:16,400 cuts down spark plug interference with radio and television reception. 16 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:21,360 There's one way for every car to be spark plugged right with Auto Light resistor spark 17 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:22,360 plugs. 18 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:26,760 Only Auto Light offers car and truck owners everywhere the sensational advantages of the 19 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:31,480 resistor type spark plug. 20 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:37,480 And now, Auto Light presents Fibber McGee and Molly in a tale well calculated to keep 21 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:38,480 you in. 22 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:39,480 Suspense. 23 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:45,880 It can't happen to you. 24 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,440 You read about stuff like that in the papers. 25 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,920 Golds murdered and mutilated, drunks left dying in the gutter for the handful of change 26 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:58,120 they had in their pockets, lonesome old men tortured because some hoodlum gets the idea, 27 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,880 their misers with a pot of gold hidden under the floorboards of the shack. 28 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,840 Sure, you know it's real, but it can't happen to you. 29 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,840 Oh, you get your fair share of trouble. 30 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,640 I've been a professional man here in Los Angeles for 30 years. 31 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:15,880 I've met up with bums and grifters and petty sharpers. 32 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:17,840 They're around in any business. 33 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:23,240 But the viciousness, the real deep down dirt, that's for somebody else. 34 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,200 You do your work and go home to your family. 35 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,520 And for a real bang up evening to break the monotony, you take your wife out to a movie. 36 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,560 That's what I did that Saturday night. 37 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,560 We'd driven all the way in from the San Fernando Valley to Beverly Hills for a picture Ellie 38 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,280 especially wanted to see. 39 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,680 Wasn't that a good movie, Joe? 40 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,600 Just the kind I like. 41 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,120 Bums and dancing and girls in pretty clothes. 42 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,520 I get so tired of cops and robbers. 43 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:52,640 What's wrong with cops and robbers? 44 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:54,360 Oh, you know what I mean. 45 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:55,360 Murder movies. 46 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:00,160 Honestly, all the policemen stupid and all the crooks sneering out of the corners of 47 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:01,160 their mouths. 48 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,160 Yeah, the stuff those Hollywood boys dream up. 49 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,600 You think the streets were knee deep in blood and you couldn't hear yourself think for machine 50 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:08,600 guns. 51 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,640 Well, here we are, honey. 52 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:14,640 You get in first. 53 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:16,520 All right, Ellie. 54 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,480 Well, now just a second. 55 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,160 All right, Joe. 56 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,600 Don't forget the gas. 57 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,920 I got plenty to take us out to the Valley. 58 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:32,360 I'll fill up at bills. 59 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:41,240 Do you remember how that song goes, Joe? 60 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:42,240 What song? 61 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,880 The one the boy sang to the girl. 62 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:46,880 Oh, that one. 63 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:47,880 Let's see. 64 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,880 Oh, heck, I don't know. 65 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:57,400 Oh, well, we'll be hearing it again on the radio. 66 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:58,400 How about turning it on? 67 00:03:58,400 --> 00:03:59,400 The radio? 68 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:00,400 Yeah. 69 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:01,400 Sure. 70 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,400 Set her around 1100. 71 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,080 We ought to get some news in a few minutes. 72 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,920 I'd like to hear whether they caught that fellow. 73 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:09,720 That awful mass murder? 74 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:10,720 Uh-huh. 75 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,680 They spotted him in LA this afternoon, but he got away. 76 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:14,680 I know. 77 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:15,680 You told us at supper. 78 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:16,680 It makes you shiver. 79 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:17,680 Don't worry. 80 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:27,360 He won't get away with it. 81 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:33,000 We left the lights of Beverly Hills behind and turned into Coldwater Canyon. 82 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:38,080 It's as quick a way as any to get us across the Hollywood Hills to the Valley. 83 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:43,560 It's dark in the canyon, quiet, with mighty little traffic at night. 84 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,600 I cut my lights up full and we swept up the side of the ridge. 85 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,160 News program came on, but I didn't pay much attention. 86 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,480 I was talking about brush fires. 87 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:57,080 They'd already put out one near my place, though they were still patrolling it. 88 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,840 We were over the ridge and sliding down to the valley before the program got to the part 89 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:01,840 I wanted to hear. 90 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:02,840 There it is. 91 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:03,840 Pick it up higher, Ellie. 92 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:07,440 And now the latest news on the New Hampshire murderer. 93 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:12,760 Two weeks ago, Louis Matric wiped out an entire family in Greenlee, New Hampshire. 94 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,880 Today he was spotted 3,000 miles from the scene of his crime. 95 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:22,480 At 5.30 this afternoon, a patrolman saw and definitely identified Matric in downtown Los 96 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,480 Angeles. 97 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:24,480 He is here. 98 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,280 However, by darting through heavy traffic at the risk of his life, the killer was again 99 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:30,480 able to make his escape. 100 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,280 According to neighbors of the slaughtered family, Matric first appeared in Greenlee 101 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:36,120 about a year ago. 102 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:41,520 From fingerprints in the Nolan home, Louis Matric has been identified as Lloyd Matthews, 103 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:42,520 ex-convict. 104 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,960 He is wanted for questioning in the robbery and murder of a New York storekeeper a year 105 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:47,960 ago. 106 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:48,960 Oh, my. 107 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:50,440 A crime that netted the killer less than $20. 108 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:51,440 Can you imagine? 109 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:59,880 Matric, or Matthews, is 32 years old, height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 155 pounds. 110 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:04,080 He has blue eyes, light brown hair, nose slanted to the left. 111 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,520 When seen this afternoon, he was wearing a blue suit and a gray pork pie hat. 112 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:09,520 He... 113 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:10,520 Awful. 114 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:11,520 Awful. 115 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:12,520 Not pretty, no. 116 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,640 And he's somewhere around LA this minute. 117 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:15,640 Joe? 118 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:16,640 Hmm? 119 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,080 You think it's right us leaving Annie and Bud all alone while... 120 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,640 No, Ellen. 121 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,280 Annie's grown up and Bud's a smart youngster, if I do say so myself. 122 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:25,960 You can't wrap kids in cotton wool. 123 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:26,960 I know. 124 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,720 Oh, I'm silly, I guess. 125 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,360 Neighbors close all around. 126 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,200 All they'd have to do is yell. 127 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,600 But what would make a young man do a dreadful thing like that? 128 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,280 Could be a lot of things. 129 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:40,920 Maybe he's got a screw loose. 130 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:42,960 Maybe he went nuts over a girl. 131 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:44,760 Maybe he gets a kick out of killing like some... 132 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,440 You know all the answers, don't you? 133 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:47,440 Oh, Joe! 134 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:48,440 Hey, what the... 135 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:49,440 Keep going. 136 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:50,440 Go on, keep going. 137 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,440 I got a gun here and I'll use it. 138 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:53,440 Tell him you... 139 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:54,440 Ellie? 140 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,000 Against the back of my neck. 141 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,000 I can feel it. 142 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Cold. 143 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Well, are you gonna move? 144 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,600 Okay, brother, you're the boss. 145 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,680 You said it, I'm boss and remember it. 146 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:11,920 Otherwise I'll blow a hole through your wife's head. 147 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:29,120 I've had experience in these things. 148 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:34,960 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Fibber McGee and Molly in Radio's outstanding 149 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,800 Theatre of Thrills Suspense. 150 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:46,920 Harlow, I've got to run. 151 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,320 My wife Mary just called up and said someone stole our Auto Light Resistor spark plugs 152 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:51,840 right out of the engine of our car. 153 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,160 Gosh, Hap, I didn't know they were that precious. 154 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:55,160 Skip along. 155 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:56,160 So long. 156 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:57,160 Oh, that Mary. 157 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:58,160 What a girl. 158 00:07:58,160 --> 00:07:59,160 She's beautiful. 159 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,000 I said to Hap the other day, she's got everything an Auto Light Resistor spark plugs got. 160 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,880 Hap comes right back and says to me, has she got a 10,000 ohm resistor? 161 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,280 Does she save me gas and money, Harlow? 162 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,280 And then right away he says, tell me this, does Mary improve radio and television reception? 163 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,160 Well, by Cornelius, I couldn't stand it any longer. 164 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:16,600 What's Mary got to do with that? 165 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:17,600 I cried. 166 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,480 Nothing, shouts the triumphant Hap. 167 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:24,560 Right, I shout back, but by Cornelius, those sleek, slim, trim, smart, swift, starting 168 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,300 Auto Light Resistor spark plugs have. 169 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:31,900 When it comes to plugs, even mine, there's no plug as good as a set of Auto Light Resistor 170 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:33,300 spark plugs. 171 00:08:33,300 --> 00:08:37,400 And those wonderful wonders are made by the Auto Light Company, the marvelous makers of 172 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:42,880 spark plugs, batteries, complete ignition systems, and over 400 automotive, aviation, 173 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,480 and marine parts. 174 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:52,860 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Fibber McGee and Molly in Backseat 175 00:08:52,860 --> 00:09:02,440 Driver, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 176 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,280 I drove that car like we were skirting the rim of the Grand Canyon with nothing between 177 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,160 us on the bottom but a mile of country air. 178 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:13,560 This was it, the thing that happens to other people, to the ones that end up on slabs in 179 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:19,280 the morgue, but not to me, not to Ellie. 180 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,760 First car we'd seen since we left traffic swooped down behind us. 181 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,600 We'd passed, but not before the headlights caught our passenger clean in my rearview 182 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:27,600 mirror. 183 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,480 He was hunched forward sitting on the edge of the back seat so he could keep the gun 184 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,160 rammed into the nap of Ellie's neck. 185 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,960 He had light brown hair, pale eyes, and a nose that slanted. 186 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,200 His mouth twitched, jittery. 187 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,600 As the car went by, his eyes caught mine in the mirror and flickered. 188 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,040 Keep your eyes on the road. 189 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,280 Sure, sure. 190 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:47,280 Lose your hat? 191 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,280 Bright boy. 192 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,880 Like I said, you know all the answers. 193 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:52,400 No, I didn't lose it. 194 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:53,960 I stuffed it down a drain. 195 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:55,280 Still wearing the blue suit, though. 196 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,320 I figured it changed pretty quick now. 197 00:09:58,320 --> 00:09:59,360 Think yours will fit me? 198 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,400 You can have the suit and the car. 199 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:02,400 Ellen, Ellen. 200 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,640 Joe, it's Matric. 201 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:07,160 The mistress is bright, too. 202 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,360 He crawled in here while we were in the movie. 203 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,520 Joe, you should have had the car door fixed. 204 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:12,520 You know better. 205 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:13,520 Honey, I meant to. 206 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:14,520 I was going to tend to that tomorrow. 207 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:15,520 Shut up. 208 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:19,560 I'd see if you can both be bright enough to keep your trap shut. 209 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:20,560 Turn left on Ventura. 210 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:22,040 Take the slow lane. 211 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:23,040 And don't try playing no tricks. 212 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,800 I've been in this burg before. 213 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,120 OK by me. 214 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,160 That's real fight of you. 215 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,600 Straight out the open country, Mac. 216 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,160 Then I'll take the mistress up on that offer of the suit and car. 217 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:36,840 What happens to us? 218 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:38,360 Why you just walk home. 219 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:39,840 What else? 220 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:46,520 Play it safe and you ain't got a thing to worry about. 221 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:47,520 That was a laugh. 222 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,520 That was nothing to worry about. 223 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:50,520 That'd kill you. 224 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:55,240 Once we got out into open country, we'd have a chance of walking away from the car. 225 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,440 All a murderer can hope for is time. 226 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:03,840 He doesn't leave witnesses around to get the law on his tail one second sooner than necessary. 227 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:09,760 All I could do was stall and pray and make what feeble gestures I could at Lady Luck. 228 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:14,560 That thing that came into my mind was so risky it brought my hair up on end. 229 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:19,320 But there was a chance, provided that trigger finger didn't start jerking. 230 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:27,560 In the bright lights of the boulevard, I didn't think he'd notice, but a traffic officer would. 231 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:32,920 I turned into Ventura and took the far lane, obedient as a whip pup. 232 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:37,640 Must have made two or three miles before I heard what I was hoping for. 233 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:38,640 What's that? 234 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:39,640 Huh? 235 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:40,640 Oh, the siren? 236 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:43,440 Why, an ambulance, I guess. 237 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:44,440 We hear a lot of them here. 238 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:45,440 That ain't no ambulance. 239 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:46,440 It's a motorcycle cop. 240 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,240 Joe, it's young Mike Kennedy. 241 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,560 He patrols this stretch. 242 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:50,560 What are you up to? 243 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:51,560 What are you trying to pull? 244 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:52,560 Nothing. 245 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:53,560 The kid's a friend of mine. 246 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:54,560 Think you can get me easier? 247 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:55,560 Well, I warned you. 248 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:56,560 I ain't going alone. 249 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:57,560 You ask for it. 250 00:11:57,560 --> 00:11:58,560 Listen, listen, will you? 251 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:00,200 The kid lives near us, practically grew up under our feet. 252 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,600 All he wants is to pass the time of day or maybe send a message to our Annie. 253 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:04,600 Yeah? 254 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:05,600 Yeah. 255 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:06,600 You start popping now and we'll all be dead. 256 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,440 Keep your shirt on and I'll get rid of him. 257 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:10,440 Okay. 258 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,440 But it better be good. 259 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:19,880 I pulled to the curb and Mike came up alongside. 260 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:24,480 He sat balancing the bike between his knees and the grin on his face was a mile wide. 261 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:25,480 It had worked. 262 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,080 At least we were still alive and Mike wasn't two feet away. 263 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,320 But where did we go from here? 264 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,920 I had to think, but my brain was wet wool. 265 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,520 My tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth. 266 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,120 Well, what do you know if it isn't Uncle Joe? 267 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,120 Something funny, kid? 268 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,040 After all the times you've read as the riot act about observing the letter of the law. 269 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,080 Oh brother, wait till I tell Annie. 270 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,840 Mike Kennedy, what's the matter with you? 271 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,400 I didn't notice anything wrong. 272 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:53,880 Hi Aunt Ellie. 273 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:55,040 Nothing much of the matter. 274 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,800 Just Uncle Joe here proceeding sedately out the Boulevard with his headlights up full. 275 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:00,800 Headlights? 276 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,200 My golly, that's right. 277 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:03,680 I must have forgotten to dim them. 278 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:05,760 You oughtn't to forget those things, Joe. 279 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,560 Someday a big bad cop might come along and haul you off to the state. 280 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:11,880 Hey, is that Annie back there? 281 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:12,880 No, no it isn't. 282 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,480 It's our new neighbor, Mike. 283 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:16,480 Mr. Anderson. 284 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:17,480 Oh, that right. 285 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,480 Glad to meet you, sir. 286 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:20,480 Hello. 287 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,200 I didn't know there were any vacancies out our way. 288 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,720 Well, there weren't until recently. 289 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,880 Mr. Anderson has taken over the Charles place. 290 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:31,000 The Charles place? 291 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,280 Are you kidding? 292 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:33,280 No. 293 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,240 Looks like things got too much for old man Charles at last. 294 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,200 He's clearing out for good. 295 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,200 Kind of sudden, wasn't it? 296 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:42,200 I guess so. 297 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,000 Well, that's too bad. 298 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,600 For old man Charles, I mean. 299 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,400 Mighty nice for Mr. Anderson, though. 300 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,040 Good places are hard to find these days. 301 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,640 All right, Uncle Joe, I'll let you off this time. 302 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:53,640 Give my love to Annie. 303 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:54,640 Mike! 304 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:55,640 Watch it! 305 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:56,640 Yes, sir? 306 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:57,640 Uh, nothing. 307 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,480 Just come see us soon, boy. 308 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:01,480 Always glad to have you. 309 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:02,480 Thanks. 310 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:03,480 I'll be around my next night off. 311 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:04,480 I got a date with Annie. 312 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:05,480 So long. 313 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:14,200 That was that. 314 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,120 Mike turned his bike and headed back down the boulevard. 315 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:18,760 The chance had come and gone. 316 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:23,120 But it felt to me like half my mind went off with the boy yelling at him. 317 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:28,680 Must have been half a minute before I could pull myself together and ease back into traffic. 318 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:29,680 Nobody said anything. 319 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:33,200 I didn't dare to, and neither did Ellie. 320 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,160 I couldn't see her, but I could feel her holding herself stiff as a ramrod, scared even to 321 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:38,160 turn her head. 322 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:42,360 When two people have lived together as long as we have, each one knows what the other 323 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,120 one is thinking. 324 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,160 I went back to driving and praying. 325 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:51,400 That and cutting my eyes up to the mirror, just in case there might be a white motorcycle 326 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:52,400 eye following us. 327 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,040 There wasn't, of course. 328 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,760 Back in the back, I knew he was watching too. 329 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,440 Those flickering eyes darting like lightning between us and the rear window. 330 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,680 He was too busy checking to talk. 331 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,200 Not that that helped much. 332 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:10,120 Rage and fear were pouring out of him so thick you could have grabbed a hunk of the atmosphere 333 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,200 in your hand. 334 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:19,120 It was queer to drive along like that on the crowded highway, traffic streaming both ways, 335 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:23,680 lights from drugstores and cocktail joints and eating houses blazing to the sky. 336 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,200 And to know if I lifted a finger for help, I'd sign our death warrants. 337 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,400 It had to be luck, all luck. 338 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,840 There was still a chance I'd get it. 339 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:36,680 The way I figured it, we'd started out with just about enough gas to get us back to Bill's 340 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:37,880 station. 341 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,960 When we hit that, the meter ought to show empty. 342 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,400 Gas gauge was hidden from me by the rim of the steering wheel, but I was pretty sure 343 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:45,400 I was right. 344 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:50,920 I waited until I saw the red and green lights above Bill's pumps a block and a half away. 345 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,920 And very slow and easy, I slumped over for a peek at the gauge. 346 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,160 I leaned just too far. 347 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:57,160 Shut up. 348 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:58,160 Sure. 349 00:15:58,160 --> 00:15:59,160 What now? 350 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:00,160 What were you looking at? 351 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:01,840 I was just easing the crick out of my neck. 352 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:02,840 Yes, you was. 353 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,600 You was looking at the dash. 354 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:05,600 You... 355 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,400 Oh, so that's it. 356 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:09,400 Fresh out of gas. 357 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:10,400 Look, I just remembered... 358 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:11,400 Don't give me that. 359 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:12,400 You knew it all along. 360 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,240 From now on, you keep your hands on the wheel, Mac, but leave me to the driving. 361 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,480 Turn into that filling station. 362 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,280 Get high test gas and fill her up. 363 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:22,280 Hi, Joe. 364 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:23,280 Hi, Bill. 365 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:24,280 Evening, Ellie. 366 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:25,280 Hello, Bill. 367 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:26,280 Oh, evening, sir. 368 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,280 Up to the top? 369 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,280 Yeah, Ethel. 370 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:31,280 Ethel it is. 371 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:36,280 Here you have been to the pictures, huh? 372 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:37,280 Uh-huh. 373 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,280 You people know everybody in the whole valley. 374 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,080 We've lived here 30 years. 375 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,520 From back when this was just farmland, of course we know lots of people. 376 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:47,520 I don't like it. 377 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:48,520 Get the gas and get out. 378 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:49,520 Say, I was up to Miranda's for supper. 379 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:50,520 Is that right? 380 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:51,520 Oh, boy, her chili gets better every time. 381 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:52,520 Don't you have any? 382 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:57,520 But it does. 383 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,520 She's saving some for you. 384 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,520 Said you'd be around after the show. 385 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,520 Oh, my, I saw Miranda this afternoon and told her we'd be by for sure, Joe. 386 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,520 That'll be 350 on the nose. 387 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,520 Three and 50. 388 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:12,520 Thanks, Bill. 389 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:13,520 Same to you. 390 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:18,520 What was all that about? 391 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:19,520 Nothing much. 392 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:20,520 Come on, come on. 393 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:21,520 I got to ask you everything twice. 394 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,520 Miranda runs a drive-in up the road a ways. 395 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,520 On show nights, we usually drop in for a carton of chili to take home. 396 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:30,520 I just hope she won't call home when we don't show up and get Annie all worried. 397 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:32,520 Wait a minute. 398 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:33,520 Drive-in, you said? 399 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:34,520 Yeah. 400 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:35,520 And this Miranda could start checking on you? 401 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:36,520 I didn't mean it like that. 402 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:37,520 It's just... 403 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,520 She could call your Annie and between the two of them, they'd have the cops on the lookout 404 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:40,520 for you before midnight. 405 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:41,520 You're crazy. 406 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:42,520 Like a fox. 407 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,520 I ain't kept ahead of the buttons all this time by taking chances. 408 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,520 We'll just pick up that chili, Mac. 409 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:51,520 You want to go to Miranda's? 410 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:52,520 Why not? 411 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,520 Leave Annie get her beauty sleep. 412 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,520 I can cover a lot of ground before tomorrow morning. 413 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,520 I ain't eaten so good lately, I could use the food too. 414 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:06,520 And with you and the Mrs. DeFront for me, what's to worry about? 415 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,520 He was right about that. 416 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:15,520 I went back to driving and praying. 417 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,520 Miranda's place is one of those goldfish bowls. 418 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:23,520 Mostly glass with light pouring out across the space mark for outside service. 419 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:29,520 She saw us pulling up, grabbed a quart carton off the back shelf and hustled to the door. 420 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,520 Here you are, Ellie. 421 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,520 I was just saying to Betsy, you better fix up that chili, Betsy. 422 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:39,520 It's about time Ellie and Joe was showing up, figuring the distance from Beverly Hills. 423 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:40,520 Thank you, Miranda. 424 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:42,520 Who's that in the back seat? 425 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,520 I don't seem to recollect your face, young man. 426 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,520 Though anybody will tell you, I never forget a face. 427 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,520 This is Mr. Anderson, Miranda. 428 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,520 He just came out here from the east. 429 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:53,520 Oh, is that a fact. 430 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,520 Say Joe, you plan on going straight up Ventura home? 431 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:58,520 Sure, why? 432 00:18:58,520 --> 00:18:59,520 Don't you do it. 433 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,520 Go the back way, even if it does take longer. 434 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,520 Of course the brush fire between here and your place is out. 435 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,520 But there are still 50, 60 men patrolling it. 436 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:09,520 What's that? 437 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,520 Oh, but that ain't nothing to what's going on further out the valley. 438 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:17,520 That new fire's clean out of control, licking up hundreds of acres. 439 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,520 They've been sending truckloads of firefighters past here all evening. 440 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:23,520 And the road's blocked for miles, they tell me. 441 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:24,520 The road's blocked? 442 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:25,520 For miles, they tell me. 443 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,520 And all them poor ranchers losing their homes. 444 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,520 Being from the east, you wouldn't understand. 445 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,520 But brush fires is awful things once they get out of... 446 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:35,520 Thanks. 447 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,520 Start moving. 448 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:38,520 We'll take the back way to your house. 449 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:39,520 To our house? 450 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:40,520 What's they? 451 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,520 Oh, you staying with Ellie and Joe? 452 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,520 Yeah, until the road's... 453 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,520 Until I can get into my own place. 454 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,520 What are we waiting for? 455 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:49,520 Night, Miranda. 456 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:50,520 Well, goodbye. 457 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,520 Be sure you come see me, Mr. Anderson. 458 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,520 I'll be looking for you. 459 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,520 So there it was. 460 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,520 We weren't going to the country. 461 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,520 We weren't going to be left to rot at the foot of a cliff or buried deep in brush. 462 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,520 No, we were going home. 463 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,520 Home to the kids. 464 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,520 Taking a murderer with us. 465 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,520 I still couldn't see Ellie, but I could feel her tensing up. 466 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,520 Tight as a pulled drawstring. 467 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,520 Mr. Matric, you... 468 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,520 You didn't mean what you said, did you? 469 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,520 About coming home with us? 470 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,520 You know a better place I can hide out till the road's open? 471 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,520 But it wouldn't be safe. 472 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,520 We've got neighbors close all around. 473 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:32,520 If somebody sees you... 474 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:33,520 Nobody'll see me. 475 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:34,520 Nobody better. 476 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,520 Joe, couldn't we get around the fire? 477 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,520 Yeah, that'd be better. We could try. 478 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,520 There are other roads through the valley. 479 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,520 Listen, Matric, we'll nose around and find a way through somehow. 480 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:44,520 Cut it out! 481 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,520 You heard the old biddy. Hundreds of acres burning. 482 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:48,520 Firefighters, cops. 483 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,520 Get off the highway. We're going home. 484 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:51,520 No, no, I won't have it. 485 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:52,520 Joe, you stop the car right here. 486 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:53,520 Shut up. 487 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,520 You heard me, Joe. I won't have him in my house, not with Annie and Bob. 488 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,520 I said shut up! 489 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:58,520 For Lord's sake, Ellie. 490 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,520 It doesn't matter about us, but the kids. I won't let him... 491 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:01,520 One word out of you! 492 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:02,520 Joe, stop! 493 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:03,520 Ellen, hush! 494 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:04,520 Oh, Joe! 495 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:05,520 Don't say another thing. 496 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:10,520 I'm sorry, honey. Matric's the boss. 497 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,520 We've got to do like he says. 498 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,520 That's telling her. 499 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:19,520 Sure, do like I say and everything will be rosy. 500 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,520 You've got no call to worry about the kids. I like kids. 501 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,520 As long as nobody gives me the brush off. 502 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,520 We'll wake them up soon as we get home. 503 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,520 And you and this Annie can fix up a chilly supper for us. 504 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,520 We'll have us a picnic. 505 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:39,520 And then, as soon as the fire's out, we'll all take a trip to the country. 506 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:42,520 Another picnic, huh? 507 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:52,520 You keep going. 508 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,520 As long as you're breathing, you keep going. 509 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,520 Even when it looks like there's no way out, you hang on by your toenails. 510 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,520 We poked up and down those black valley streets that twist and turn 511 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,520 and sometimes wind up in dead ends. 512 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,520 Ellie stopped crying after a while. 513 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,520 She slumped down with her head rolling on the seat back, 514 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:17,520 limp as a rag doll with the stuffing leaked out. 515 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,520 It took a long time, but it had to come to an end. 516 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,520 I saw the bulk of the house looming up. 517 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:28,520 There was light sneaking around the edges of the blinds up in Annie's room. 518 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,520 She wasn't asleep after all. 519 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,520 She'd be sitting up in bed, maybe plastering red stuff on her fingers 520 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,520 and dreaming about the date with Mike. 521 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,520 The budget room was dark. 522 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:45,520 He'd be wrapped in covers like in a cocoon and dreaming. 523 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:56,520 Whatever boy's dream, I couldn't remember. 524 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:01,520 I pulled up to the concrete walk I'd poured with my own hands 525 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,520 before there was any Annie or Bud. 526 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,520 I cut the lights. 527 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,520 In a second or two, my eyes got used to the dark. 528 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,520 I could make out the high heads Ellie planted around the place 529 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,520 and the roof rising up beyond it. 530 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:25,520 Out, missus. Face the house. 531 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:44,520 Now you, Mac, slide out the same side. Stand beside her. 532 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,520 Walk to the door. Slow and no funny business. 533 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:55,520 I'm right behind you. 534 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:56,520 Look out, Joe! 535 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,520 What now? No! I'll kill you! 536 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,520 Hold him, boys. 537 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,520 It's okay, Mike. Got him. 538 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,520 You all right, Uncle Joe? Aunt Ellie? 539 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,520 Ellie. Ellie, honey. You all right? 540 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,520 All right, indeed. Smack flat on my face on a concrete walk 541 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,520 and you falling on me. 542 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,520 Nothing wrong with her. 543 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:16,520 That's my girl. 544 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,520 Well, don't just stand there. Help me up. 545 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:19,520 Here you are. 546 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,520 Oh, I've got to get in the house before the kids come busting out here. 547 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,520 I won't have them mixed up in this. 548 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,520 Well, how's he doing, boys? 549 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,520 Got him through the gun hand on the right shoulder. See? 550 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:34,520 A lucky shot, copper. If you weren't lucky, you'd all be cold meat now. 551 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,520 Maybe. Matric, isn't it, Uncle Joe? 552 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,520 That's him. Miranda scribed him to you, eh? 553 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:40,520 The old girl didn't miss a trick. 554 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,520 She even knew you were taking the back way home. 555 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,520 You left a clear trail, Uncle Joe. Slick work. 556 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,520 I had to get him out of the car before the fireworks started. 557 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,520 Ellie didn't stand a chance. 558 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,520 She helped, though. Ellie catches on quick. 559 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:54,520 How bad? 560 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,520 A mean guy like Matric. 561 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,520 Make him think you don't want to do something and he'll break his neck doing it. 562 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,520 I let on. I was trying to run out of gas. 563 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,520 That got us to bills. 564 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,520 Then we both made out there was no sense going to Miranda's, 565 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,520 so we got bullied into going to Miranda's. 566 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,520 It was a thousand to one. 567 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,520 She'd run off at the mouth about the brush fires and scare him into hiding out. 568 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,520 After that, all Ellie had to do was turn on the hysterics. 569 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,520 He was dead set on coming here. 570 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,520 Bright boy, like I said. 571 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,520 Bright enough. You did all right, too, Mike. 572 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,520 I was watching the rearview mirror all the time you were tailing us, 573 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,520 but you never showed. 574 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,520 You knew I was there, though. 575 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,520 When one officer starts double-talking another officer, he wants to know why. 576 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,520 Officer? Double-talk? 577 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,520 You never said a thing to him except that I'd bought some place out here. 578 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,520 Yeah, the Charles place. 579 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,520 Poor old man Charles. 580 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,520 In a tough spot and moving out for good. 581 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:52,520 What's wrong with that? 582 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:57,520 Matric, didn't anybody ever tell you it wasn't smart to take up with strangers? 583 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,520 Maybe I'd better introduce myself. 584 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,520 The name's Charles. 585 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,520 Joe Charles. 586 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,520 Detective. Homicide. 587 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,520 Tonight I was off duty and was just taking my wife to a movie. 588 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:32,520 MUSIC 589 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,520 Thank you, Fibber McGee and Molly, for a splendid performance. 590 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:36,520 Why, thank you. 591 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,520 Thanks very much, bud. 592 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,520 We're not used to doing a show with a gun stuck in our backs. 593 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:41,520 No. 594 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,520 We're used to doing them with Jack Benny breathing down our necks. 595 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,520 And vice versa. 596 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,520 But that guy over there, he looks familiar. 597 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,520 Why, dearie, that's Mr. Wilcock. 598 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,520 Old Waxey himself, the guy that sells Johnson's wax on our Tuesday show. 599 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,520 Not Waxey on Thursdays, dearie. Sparky. 600 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,520 Sparky, eh? Well, what do you know? 601 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:02,520 Hey, Junior! 602 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:03,520 Hello, Fibber. Hello, Molly. 603 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:04,520 Hello, Mr. Wilcock. 604 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,520 Say, you two were terrific tonight. 605 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,520 Tell me, did you drive over from Westville Vista? 606 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,520 Uh-oh. Molly, I'm afraid to answer that. 607 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,520 Because if you did, I hope your car had auto light resistor spark plugs. 608 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:16,520 See what I mean? 609 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:21,520 And listen, pal, if I were you, I'd stop and see an auto light service man on the way home. 610 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:22,520 That old bull's of yours. 611 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,520 Listen, Waxey, I mean, Sparky, you don't have to tell me where to stop. 612 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:27,520 I stopped on the way over. 613 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,520 Why, those masterful miracles of manufacturing magnificence... 614 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,520 Oh, now, McGee, McGee, that's Mr. Wilcock's story. 615 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:34,520 Let him tell it. 616 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:39,520 Well, what Fibber means is that auto light parts are original factory parts. 617 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,520 Auto light parts and service and your car go together like McGee and Molly, 618 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,520 Happ and Harlow, Amos and Andy. 619 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,520 So when you replace worn out parts, visit your auto light service station 620 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:55,520 or the dealer who sells your make of car and ask for original factory parts and service. 621 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,520 Leading cars use them all. Auto light makes them all. 622 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:03,520 Be right. Get auto light parts and service. 623 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,520 Just a minute, Fibber and Molly. Don't go away. 624 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,520 Oh, that's right. You want us to say that word? 625 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:16,520 If you please. 626 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,520 Oh, yes. Well, go ahead, McGee. 627 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,520 No, you say it, Molly. 628 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:20,520 Well, why don't we both say it then? 629 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:26,520 Okay. Well, I know you're going to want to hear radio's outstanding theater of thrills next week 630 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,520 because Charles Lawton is going to be on the program. 631 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,520 Yes. And in a famous story by John Collier called Demortius. 632 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,520 And it's another gripping study in... 633 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,520 Suspense. 634 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,520 Tonight's suspense play was by Sally Thorson with music composed by Lucian Morrowek 635 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,520 and conducted by Ludd Bluskin. 636 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,520 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Lieder. 637 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:55,520 In the coming weeks, suspense will present such stars as James Mason, Jane Wyman and many others. 638 00:28:55,520 --> 00:29:01,520 Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 639 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,520 And next Thursday same time, hear Charles Lawton in Demortius. 640 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:15,520 You'll find auto light service stations listed in your classified telephone directory 641 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:20,520 under automotive electrical equipment. You're right with auto light. 642 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:25,520 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.