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Joan Fontaine in a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 01:30.540 --> 01:36.360 You know, Sam, I used to laugh just as everyone else does when I heard someone say, I've given 01:36.360 --> 01:38.760 you the best years of my life. 01:38.760 --> 01:41.400 But it's not funny to me anymore. 01:41.400 --> 01:43.760 No because that's what I've done, Sam. 01:43.760 --> 01:50.720 I've given you the best years of my life, waiting for you to die, but you wouldn't die. 01:50.720 --> 01:55.240 For seven years you've been hanging on and I've been playing a part, playing it so well 01:55.240 --> 01:58.760 that people call us the lovebirds. 01:58.760 --> 01:59.760 Lovebirds. 01:59.760 --> 02:04.820 Now, here it is, our seventh anniversary. 02:04.820 --> 02:09.080 You wanted to show off that portrait you had painted of me to Doug and Betty Wilson and 02:09.080 --> 02:10.440 Doc Roberts and the others. 02:10.440 --> 02:12.560 You were proud, they were envious. 02:12.560 --> 02:14.160 I was sick. 02:14.160 --> 02:17.920 Yep, that's Martha all right, right down to the last eyelash. 02:17.920 --> 02:18.920 Like it, Doc? 02:18.920 --> 02:21.080 Perfect, Sam, just perfect. 02:21.080 --> 02:23.560 The perfect portrait of the perfect girl. 02:23.560 --> 02:27.560 Well, it's after midnight and I'm a nine o'clock guy. 02:27.560 --> 02:30.080 Yeah, I've got to shove off too. 02:30.080 --> 02:32.000 How's the asthma these days, Sam? 02:32.000 --> 02:35.240 Oh, seems to be getting better, Doug, but my arthritis. 02:35.240 --> 02:36.240 Don't blame you, Sam. 02:36.240 --> 02:39.000 If I had Martha to look out for me, I'd stay sick too. 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 Oh, no. 02:40.000 --> 02:41.000 Here's your coat, Doc. 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Oh, thanks, Martha. 02:42.000 --> 02:43.000 No, Doug, where did I... 02:43.000 --> 02:44.000 The hall closet, I'll get it. 02:44.000 --> 02:45.000 Oh, get mine too, darling. 02:45.000 --> 02:46.000 Coming up. 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 Oh, it was a lovely party, Martha. 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 Thank you. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.840 And let me tell you, Mrs. Lovebird, if you keep on taking the kind of care of old Sam 02:53.840 --> 02:56.600 you have been, we'll all be here for number 50. 02:56.600 --> 02:58.000 Oh, go on, Doc. 02:58.000 --> 02:59.040 I'm serious. 02:59.040 --> 03:02.480 When you two first got hitched, I wouldn't give you two years, Sam. 03:02.480 --> 03:04.040 Now I'd give even money you make... 03:04.040 --> 03:06.040 Oh, it's nothing, Doug. 03:06.040 --> 03:07.040 Here, I'll put it away. 03:07.040 --> 03:09.480 Darn, box fell off the shelf when I reached for my hat. 03:09.480 --> 03:10.480 Here, let me put it away. 03:10.480 --> 03:11.480 No, Doug, please, it's nothing, Doc. 03:11.480 --> 03:12.480 It's not. 03:12.480 --> 03:13.480 You fellas keeping secrets? 03:13.480 --> 03:14.480 What's the trouble, Doug? 03:14.480 --> 03:18.760 Oh, looky here, travel folders, a whole box full of them. 03:18.760 --> 03:24.000 Alluring Alaska, Acapulco, 30-day cruise, Sam Maritz, Capri. 03:24.000 --> 03:25.480 Say, what is this? 03:25.480 --> 03:27.240 Come on, Sam, spill it. 03:27.240 --> 03:30.440 You two lovebirds planning to migrate somewhere? 03:30.440 --> 03:31.440 News to me. 03:31.440 --> 03:32.440 They're mine, Doug. 03:32.440 --> 03:33.440 Oh. 03:33.440 --> 03:38.000 Oh, well, Martha's kind of a pack rat. 03:38.000 --> 03:40.800 Keeps all kinds of trash stowed away in strange corners. 03:40.800 --> 03:42.920 You wouldn't kid us, Sam. 03:42.920 --> 03:45.480 You're not really planning a trip. 03:45.480 --> 03:49.080 Because it's out of the question, you know. 03:49.080 --> 03:52.600 Out of the question, Doc said. 03:52.600 --> 03:54.200 It sounded so final, Sam. 03:54.200 --> 03:56.400 Out of the question. 03:56.400 --> 03:59.960 Ran through my mind over and over after they got in, I stood washing the pile of dishes 03:59.960 --> 04:00.960 in the kitchen. 04:00.960 --> 04:01.960 Out of the question. 04:01.960 --> 04:06.760 How are you coming with the dishes, angel? 04:06.760 --> 04:11.040 I could feel your hand, thin and dead white, touching my shoulder and I wanted to scream. 04:11.040 --> 04:13.440 What right did you to touch me? 04:13.440 --> 04:17.080 Why did I have to bear your half-dead hands when I was alive? 04:17.080 --> 04:18.080 What's the matter, honey? 04:18.080 --> 04:20.840 You're kind of quiet. 04:20.840 --> 04:22.600 I feel quiet, I guess. 04:22.600 --> 04:25.520 Say, where are my glasses? 04:25.520 --> 04:26.520 I don't know. 04:26.520 --> 04:30.040 Doc, I never can remember where I put the darn things. 04:30.040 --> 04:31.560 I'm blind as a bat without them. 04:31.560 --> 04:33.360 Look in the front room on the mantle. 04:33.360 --> 04:35.360 A lot of good data do. 04:35.360 --> 04:38.560 I can't find my glasses without my glasses. 04:38.560 --> 04:39.560 Take a look for me, will you? 04:39.560 --> 04:40.880 But my hands are wet, Sam. 04:40.880 --> 04:41.880 Can't you wait until morning? 04:41.880 --> 04:42.880 I've got to have them now. 04:42.880 --> 04:46.240 All right, but I can't see why you need them in bed. 04:46.240 --> 04:47.880 It's these sleeping pills. 04:47.880 --> 04:50.560 Jim was out of my kind and gave me these. 04:50.560 --> 04:53.800 Said they were just as good, but I can't read the directions. 04:53.800 --> 04:55.960 But is it that important? 04:55.960 --> 04:57.440 Of course it's important. 04:57.440 --> 05:03.480 Why, just the other day I read where a fellow in Chicago took a couple too many and bingo. 05:03.480 --> 05:10.280 Oh, I'll see if your glasses are on the mantle, Sam. 05:10.280 --> 05:14.000 I leaned back against the wall for a minute, out of the question. 05:14.000 --> 05:17.600 It was ringing in my head like a bell, out of the question. 05:17.600 --> 05:23.120 Then Sam, right then, I knew I couldn't take it any longer. 05:23.120 --> 05:29.960 I went into the living room, picked up the pair of glasses on the mantle. 05:29.960 --> 05:33.000 Seven years, seven long years of caring for you like a baby. 05:33.000 --> 05:34.800 One sickness after another. 05:34.800 --> 05:35.800 Everyone in the book. 05:35.800 --> 05:37.560 You nearly died a dozen times. 05:37.560 --> 05:39.820 And each time I saved you. 05:39.820 --> 05:41.960 That's what everyone said, even the doctor. 05:41.960 --> 05:42.960 What a joke. 05:42.960 --> 05:46.760 Here I was waiting for you to die, but you wouldn't, Sam. 05:46.760 --> 05:50.920 You wouldn't have the decency to die and leave me the money so I could get away from this 05:50.920 --> 05:54.400 little town and live like a normal human being. 05:54.400 --> 05:55.400 Find them, darling? 05:55.400 --> 05:56.400 No, no, Sam. 05:56.400 --> 05:57.400 These are my glasses. 05:57.400 --> 06:01.080 Mine ought to be in here somewhere. 06:01.080 --> 06:03.640 It's too late tonight to worry about them, darling. 06:03.640 --> 06:06.360 Here, let me see those new pills. 06:06.360 --> 06:07.360 Yeah, yeah. 06:07.360 --> 06:10.080 Take a look. 06:10.080 --> 06:11.080 These are different. 06:11.080 --> 06:14.880 Says two percent instead of five. 06:14.880 --> 06:16.240 Six pills instead of two. 06:16.240 --> 06:17.240 Really? 06:17.240 --> 06:18.960 They don't sound very good, Sam. 06:18.960 --> 06:22.160 I'll try to get some of your regular kind next time I go to Chicago. 06:22.160 --> 06:23.160 Six? 06:23.160 --> 06:24.720 That's what it says. 06:24.720 --> 06:25.720 Funny. 06:25.720 --> 06:27.040 Jim didn't say anything about it. 06:27.040 --> 06:28.040 Hadn't you? 06:28.040 --> 06:29.600 Better get ready for bed. 06:29.600 --> 06:30.600 It's nearly one. 06:30.600 --> 06:34.240 In a minute, in a minute. 06:34.240 --> 06:37.280 Martha, would you tell me something honestly? 06:37.280 --> 06:38.280 Of course. 06:38.280 --> 06:39.280 What is it? 06:39.280 --> 06:41.960 Well, that business about the travel folders. 06:41.960 --> 06:48.160 Oh, I suppose it's nothing, but well, somehow I can't get it out of my head. 06:48.160 --> 06:50.320 What about the travel folders? 06:50.320 --> 06:55.080 Martha, would you really like to go to those far off places? 06:55.080 --> 06:56.080 Just you and me? 06:56.080 --> 06:57.080 Don't be silly. 06:57.080 --> 06:58.080 You know what Doc Roberts said. 06:58.080 --> 06:59.960 I didn't ask you that. 06:59.960 --> 07:03.200 I asked you if you wanted to go with me. 07:03.200 --> 07:07.120 It's awfully important to me now, Martha, whether you'd want to go with me. 07:07.120 --> 07:08.120 Why worry about it? 07:08.120 --> 07:10.200 You know we can't go. 07:10.200 --> 07:12.080 That's why I need you worse than ever, Martha. 07:12.080 --> 07:17.760 That's why I guess it kind of hurts me to find you collecting travel folders like you 07:17.760 --> 07:20.040 wanted to get away from me. 07:20.040 --> 07:23.760 Well, I guess you're right. 07:23.760 --> 07:29.440 I'd better get up to bed. 07:29.440 --> 07:35.400 I watched you go up the stairs, and I put the glasses back on the mantle. 07:35.400 --> 07:38.200 Your glasses, Sam, not mine. 07:38.200 --> 07:44.080 I waited a long time downstairs listening to you shuffling around in your sandals, heard 07:44.080 --> 07:50.080 the bathroom faucet go on, and I knew you were taking your pills. 07:50.080 --> 07:52.960 Six pills instead of two. 07:52.960 --> 07:59.960 Then there was the shuffling again and quiet. 07:59.960 --> 08:10.680 The whole clock struck one, then two. 08:10.680 --> 08:12.960 Then I couldn't wait any longer. 08:12.960 --> 08:15.960 I went upstairs to your room. 08:15.960 --> 08:17.560 Sam? 08:17.560 --> 08:19.600 Sam? 08:19.600 --> 08:24.280 I turned on the light. 08:24.280 --> 08:27.400 Sam, wake up. 08:27.400 --> 08:28.400 Sam? 08:28.400 --> 08:29.400 Sam, can you hear me? 08:29.400 --> 08:30.400 Sam! 08:30.400 --> 08:31.400 It's working. 08:31.400 --> 08:32.400 It's working! 08:32.400 --> 08:48.400 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you 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10:22.560 I shouted in your ear and pinched you. 10:22.560 --> 10:23.560 You didn't move. 10:23.560 --> 10:24.560 It was wonderful. 10:24.560 --> 10:33.840 For the first time in seven years, I could laugh and mean it. 10:33.840 --> 10:36.120 I gave you plenty of time, Sam. 10:36.120 --> 10:37.120 You are gone. 10:37.120 --> 10:40.560 I couldn't feel your pulse when I called Doc Roberts at six in the morning. 10:40.560 --> 10:43.240 I waited downstairs for him to break the news to me. 10:43.240 --> 10:44.880 Easy now, Martha. 10:44.880 --> 10:46.840 Just lean back and rest. 10:46.840 --> 10:48.680 Tell me what is it, Doc? 10:48.680 --> 10:49.680 What's wrong with him? 10:49.680 --> 10:50.680 He's going to die, isn't he? 10:50.680 --> 10:51.680 He's going to leave me alone. 10:51.680 --> 10:52.680 Let down now. 10:52.680 --> 10:53.680 Just let go. 10:53.680 --> 10:54.680 That's it. 10:54.680 --> 10:55.680 He wouldn't wake up, Doc. 10:55.680 --> 10:56.680 I shook him. 10:56.680 --> 10:57.680 Yes, yes, I know. 10:57.680 --> 10:58.680 Is he dead? 10:58.680 --> 10:59.680 No, he'll live, Martha. 10:59.680 --> 11:00.680 What? 11:00.680 --> 11:01.680 Sam will be all right. 11:01.680 --> 11:02.680 He's sleeping now. 11:02.680 --> 11:03.680 Probably will till late this afternoon. 11:03.680 --> 11:04.680 But what? 11:04.680 --> 11:05.680 Martha, I think it'll be better if I say this straight out. 11:05.680 --> 11:06.680 Say what straight out? 11:06.680 --> 11:07.680 Looks to me like you're going to be a little bit more careful. 11:07.680 --> 11:08.680 I'm not going to be a little bit more careful. 11:08.680 --> 11:09.680 I'm going to be a little bit more careful. 11:09.680 --> 11:10.680 I'm going to be a little bit more careful. 11:10.680 --> 11:14.960 Say what straight out? 11:14.960 --> 11:17.200 Looks to me like Sam took an overdose of sleeping medicine. 11:17.200 --> 11:18.200 No. 11:18.200 --> 11:21.080 Well, he might have made a mistake in counting or... 11:21.080 --> 11:22.080 Suicide? 11:22.080 --> 11:23.080 Maybe. 11:23.080 --> 11:25.080 You noticed anything strange about him lately? 11:25.080 --> 11:28.080 Well, you know how he's been since his asthma started. 11:28.080 --> 11:30.440 What are you going to do, Doc? 11:30.440 --> 11:33.040 I'm supposed to make a report on these things. 11:33.040 --> 11:34.040 You can't do that. 11:34.040 --> 11:35.720 What if it got around town? 11:35.720 --> 11:36.720 What if it got back to Sam? 11:36.720 --> 11:37.720 There's no telling what he... 11:37.720 --> 11:38.720 Ah, that's true. 11:38.720 --> 11:40.200 It still might have been an accident. 11:40.200 --> 11:43.440 Oh, we've got to give him the benefit of the doubt. 11:43.440 --> 11:45.720 It's a touchy business though, Martha. 11:45.720 --> 11:48.240 He mustn't think that we suspect it. 11:48.240 --> 11:51.000 Doc, there's no telling what he'd do. 11:51.000 --> 11:54.800 I'll tell him he had a fever in the night. 11:54.800 --> 11:56.040 Maybe you're right. 11:56.040 --> 12:01.400 You know, the body's a pretty durable thing, even a body like Sam's, but the mind, that's 12:01.400 --> 12:03.120 something else again. 12:03.120 --> 12:14.520 I'll do all I can, Martha, but the big job is yours. 12:14.520 --> 12:17.680 For a second after he left, I thought I was going to faint. 12:17.680 --> 12:20.760 I got a drink from the sideboard. 12:20.760 --> 12:23.000 Made me feel better. 12:23.000 --> 12:25.080 Until I remembered something else. 12:25.080 --> 12:31.840 The doctor didn't suspect, but you, Sam, when you read the instructions on that box of pills... 12:31.840 --> 12:40.960 I drove all the way to Chicago that morning, Sam, and I got what I wanted. 12:40.960 --> 12:44.880 It wasn't quite noon when I returned to your room. 12:44.880 --> 12:50.600 Put the new box on the stand beside your bed and threw the other in the furnace. 12:50.600 --> 12:55.800 It was a long way to go, but you gave me plenty of time. 12:55.800 --> 13:00.400 Where have I been? 13:00.400 --> 13:01.400 Martha! 13:01.400 --> 13:03.360 Right here, Sam. 13:03.360 --> 13:05.280 Oh, I feel... 13:05.280 --> 13:06.280 I feel dopey. 13:06.280 --> 13:09.360 Doc said you had a touch of fever last night. 13:09.360 --> 13:10.360 Doc? 13:10.360 --> 13:11.360 Mm-hmm. 13:11.360 --> 13:13.200 He looked you over this morning. 13:13.200 --> 13:14.200 What time is it? 13:14.200 --> 13:15.200 Noon. 13:15.200 --> 13:16.200 Funny. 13:16.200 --> 13:18.480 I don't remember anything about it. 13:18.480 --> 13:19.760 Hmm. 13:19.760 --> 13:20.760 What's this? 13:20.760 --> 13:21.760 What? 13:21.760 --> 13:23.680 The box on the stand here. 13:23.680 --> 13:25.000 That's not the one I bought. 13:25.000 --> 13:26.880 I got rid of your new pills. 13:26.880 --> 13:31.680 Picked up some of the regular kind this morning while I was shopping. 13:31.680 --> 13:33.840 You never quit, do you? 13:33.840 --> 13:36.480 What do you mean, Sam? 13:36.480 --> 13:38.480 Spoiling me like this. 13:38.480 --> 13:43.440 First thing you know, I'll be as helpless as a baby. 13:43.440 --> 13:46.680 What's for lunch? 13:46.680 --> 13:48.680 It was that easy, Sam. 13:48.680 --> 13:50.640 You never suspected. 13:50.640 --> 13:55.000 I was afraid of Doc Roberts at first, but he didn't say a thing. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.800 And for a while there was whispers you didn't hear. 13:57.800 --> 14:01.040 They were so sure you'd tried to kill yourself, Sam. 14:01.040 --> 14:04.040 They were so afraid you tried a second time. 14:04.040 --> 14:06.880 Then I stopped being afraid. 14:06.880 --> 14:09.320 This was no time to lie back and wait. 14:09.320 --> 14:11.600 They'd given me a weapon. 14:11.600 --> 14:13.200 This was the time to do it. 14:13.200 --> 14:16.040 Well, let's see, Martha. 14:16.040 --> 14:18.600 I reckon the surest thing would be poison. 14:18.600 --> 14:19.600 Thiosianum. 14:19.600 --> 14:23.040 But isn't that sort of dangerous, Jim? 14:23.040 --> 14:24.040 Not if you're careful. 14:24.040 --> 14:26.000 How much will I need? 14:26.000 --> 14:28.040 Oh, one package ought to do it. 14:28.040 --> 14:29.960 Depends on how bad they are. 14:29.960 --> 14:30.960 The rats. 14:30.960 --> 14:31.960 Here. 14:31.960 --> 14:34.960 There you are. 14:34.960 --> 14:36.440 Hope it does the trick. 14:36.440 --> 14:37.440 Thanks, Jim. 14:37.440 --> 14:38.440 So do I. 14:38.440 --> 14:45.480 It was going to be different this time, Sam. 14:45.480 --> 14:46.920 This time I knew where I was going. 14:46.920 --> 14:49.920 That's where I'd made the mistake before, you see. 14:49.920 --> 14:52.560 I hadn't planned. 14:52.560 --> 14:54.360 A week later, I was ready. 14:54.360 --> 14:59.960 I remember you came home early that evening, and I was in the kitchen starting your dinner. 14:59.960 --> 15:00.960 Salad. 15:00.960 --> 15:03.080 Tossed lettuce and garlic. 15:03.080 --> 15:04.080 Plenty of garlic. 15:04.080 --> 15:05.080 Getting dinner, Martha? 15:05.080 --> 15:06.080 It's almost done. 15:06.080 --> 15:07.080 Have it ready in a minute. 15:07.080 --> 15:08.080 Mmm. 15:08.080 --> 15:09.080 That roast smells good. 15:09.080 --> 15:10.080 Better go and wash so things won't get cold. 15:10.080 --> 15:11.080 What's that you're mixing there? 15:11.080 --> 15:12.080 Dressing for the salad. 15:12.080 --> 15:13.080 Oh, dressing. 15:13.080 --> 15:14.080 You sure? 15:14.080 --> 15:15.080 What do you mean? 15:15.080 --> 15:16.080 I'm just making sure I don't get cold. 15:16.080 --> 15:17.080 I'm not going to get cold. 15:17.080 --> 15:18.080 I'm not going to get cold. 15:18.080 --> 15:19.080 I'm not going to get cold. 15:19.080 --> 15:20.080 I'm not going to get cold. 15:20.080 --> 15:21.080 I'm not going to get cold. 15:21.080 --> 15:22.080 I'm not going to get cold. 15:22.080 --> 15:23.080 Why not? 15:23.080 --> 15:25.160 It wouldn't be a love potion for me. 15:25.160 --> 15:26.520 Would it, Martha? 15:26.520 --> 15:30.280 Or maybe just maybe a death potion. 15:30.280 --> 15:34.320 Oh dear, you've cracked the salad bowl. 15:34.320 --> 15:35.320 What's the matter, Martha? 15:35.320 --> 15:38.120 Afraid you'll fail this time too? 15:38.120 --> 15:40.160 Oh, Sam, you're talking nonsense. 15:40.160 --> 15:41.480 I don't know what you're talking about. 15:41.480 --> 15:44.760 You should, Martha. 15:44.760 --> 15:51.440 Jim tells me they haven't had my kind of sleeping pills at the drug store for a long time. 15:51.440 --> 15:53.200 How far did you have to go to get them? 15:53.200 --> 15:54.200 You're sick, Sam. 15:54.200 --> 15:56.840 You're building things up in your mind. 15:56.840 --> 16:00.320 I wish I were. 16:00.320 --> 16:04.520 You see, I made a mistake this morning, Martha. 16:04.520 --> 16:06.880 I decided to wear my white shirt, the one 16:06.880 --> 16:08.040 with the French cuffs. 16:08.040 --> 16:08.880 Shirt? 16:08.880 --> 16:12.560 You can't wear a shirt like that without cufflinks. 16:12.560 --> 16:15.440 I guess you forgot that, Martha, didn't you? 16:15.440 --> 16:19.520 That I kept my cufflinks in your jewelry box. 16:19.520 --> 16:21.080 Yes. 16:21.080 --> 16:23.880 Yes, Martha, I found it. 16:23.880 --> 16:25.200 I found the poison. 16:25.200 --> 16:27.040 Oh, well, that's what's worrying you. 16:27.040 --> 16:29.160 It's for the rats, Emma. 16:29.160 --> 16:31.880 I bought it for the rats. 16:31.880 --> 16:33.240 Rats. 16:33.240 --> 16:34.920 Should have bought some rats, too, 16:34.920 --> 16:37.360 because there aren't any around here. 16:37.360 --> 16:39.400 There's a certificate from an extermination company 16:39.400 --> 16:42.680 in the file that says so. 16:42.680 --> 16:45.480 That's a nice looking salad, Martha. 16:45.480 --> 16:47.240 Here, taste it. 16:47.240 --> 16:48.040 Don't be a fool. 16:48.040 --> 16:50.240 You're the fool. 16:50.240 --> 16:56.520 You bought the poison for some rats that don't exist. 16:56.520 --> 16:58.360 I ran out of the kitchen upstairs to my room. 16:58.360 --> 17:00.080 I was scared, Sam, and lost. 17:00.080 --> 17:01.800 I grabbed my coat and hat without thinking 17:01.800 --> 17:04.760 and started down the stairs. 17:04.760 --> 17:05.840 Better not go, Martha. 17:05.840 --> 17:07.000 Leave me alone. 17:07.000 --> 17:08.640 Do you want to hang? 17:08.640 --> 17:10.040 Hang? 17:10.040 --> 17:11.680 That's right, Martha. 17:11.680 --> 17:13.000 Don't be ridiculous. 17:13.000 --> 17:14.560 There's got to be a murder first. 17:14.560 --> 17:16.120 There will be. 17:16.120 --> 17:20.200 The minute you leave this house, remember, my dear wife, 17:20.200 --> 17:22.160 I have the poison. 17:22.160 --> 17:23.280 So? 17:23.280 --> 17:24.280 OK. 17:24.280 --> 17:25.680 Go on. 17:25.680 --> 17:27.240 Go on and leave, Martha. 17:27.240 --> 17:31.200 But just remember, when you walk out that door, 17:31.200 --> 17:34.400 I'll take enough of that poison to make them hunt you down 17:34.400 --> 17:37.120 from one end of the earth to the other. 17:37.120 --> 17:43.360 I'll take enough of it to make them hang you 20 times. 17:43.360 --> 17:45.240 If someone had put a gun in my hand, 17:45.240 --> 17:47.280 I'd have killed you right there. 17:47.280 --> 17:49.160 But all I could do was swallow the screen that 17:49.160 --> 17:53.120 rose up in my throat and fight the weakness in my knees. 17:53.120 --> 17:54.840 And yet, Sam, I think with it all, 17:54.840 --> 17:58.760 I think with all the terror and sick defeat inside me, 17:58.760 --> 18:00.600 I still wanted to laugh. 18:00.600 --> 18:03.520 Remember, this was the house of the lovebirds. 18:03.520 --> 18:05.920 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 18:09.440 --> 18:12.520 That night, I lay in bed, twisting and turning, 18:12.520 --> 18:14.600 waiting for you to go to sleep. 18:14.600 --> 18:16.800 I was in a prison, Sam. 18:16.800 --> 18:19.320 And only one thing would free me. 18:19.320 --> 18:20.560 I had to destroy the evidence. 18:20.560 --> 18:21.760 I had to find that poison. 18:21.760 --> 18:24.160 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 18:27.480 --> 18:32.400 At 1 o'clock, I walked across to your door, opened it quietly. 18:32.400 --> 18:34.600 Listened. 18:34.600 --> 18:36.640 You were asleep. 18:36.640 --> 18:40.000 Your clothes were draped over a chair next to the bed. 18:40.000 --> 18:42.560 I went through them first, into the closet 18:42.560 --> 18:44.800 and your other things, and then the dresser. 18:44.800 --> 18:46.640 Had to be somewhere. 18:46.640 --> 18:48.760 I tried to put myself in your place. 18:48.760 --> 18:51.080 Where would I have hidden it? 18:51.080 --> 18:52.640 Your snoring seemed to grow louder, 18:52.640 --> 18:54.640 pounding in my eardrums. 18:54.640 --> 18:56.240 I think it was then that I felt the paper 18:56.240 --> 18:58.000 weight on the nightstand. 18:58.000 --> 19:00.400 And for a moment, I thought if I stopped that snoring, 19:00.400 --> 19:02.400 everything would be all right. 19:02.400 --> 19:05.080 I held it above your head, ready to smash and smash 19:05.080 --> 19:06.800 again and again. 19:06.800 --> 19:08.960 Why don't you strike, dear? 19:08.960 --> 19:10.600 No. 19:10.600 --> 19:13.480 You know better than to kill me, don't you? 19:13.480 --> 19:15.600 That'd be silly, Martha. 19:15.600 --> 19:16.880 Stupid, too. 19:16.880 --> 19:18.200 Where did you put that poison? 19:18.200 --> 19:20.360 In a good, safe place. 19:20.360 --> 19:22.160 You're wasting your time, you know. 19:22.160 --> 19:24.400 You'll never find it. 19:24.400 --> 19:28.520 I have planned to use it myself in my own good time. 19:28.520 --> 19:29.720 What do you mean? 19:29.720 --> 19:33.640 You'll find it one of these days when the mood strikes me. 19:33.640 --> 19:34.360 Sam! 19:34.360 --> 19:35.720 Why not? 19:35.720 --> 19:38.000 Remember you bought the poison, and they'll figure 19:38.000 --> 19:39.960 you got caught in your own trap. 19:39.960 --> 19:42.720 Maybe got hold of a cup of coffee or a cheese sandwich 19:42.720 --> 19:46.840 or something you'd fixed for me by mistake. 19:46.840 --> 19:49.240 Better get back to bed now. 19:49.240 --> 19:51.560 Get some rest. 19:51.560 --> 19:54.120 You've got a trying head a day ahead of you. 19:54.120 --> 20:02.440 There was no sleep for me after that, Sam. 20:02.440 --> 20:06.880 Just white-hot nightmares, endless hours of darkness, 20:06.880 --> 20:10.160 and day after day of torture of a cat and mouse game 20:10.160 --> 20:12.800 with each of us watching each other. 20:12.800 --> 20:13.800 I didn't eat. 20:13.800 --> 20:16.080 I couldn't let you poison my food. 20:16.080 --> 20:20.520 It was closing in on me, Sam, something I couldn't stand. 20:20.520 --> 20:21.480 I had a headache. 20:21.480 --> 20:24.200 My stomach was sick from hunger. 20:24.200 --> 20:25.360 I'll give it to you, Sam. 20:25.360 --> 20:26.520 You know your business. 20:26.520 --> 20:28.720 You know how to torture. 20:28.720 --> 20:32.840 And then one day, I got dizzy and nearly fainted. 20:32.840 --> 20:35.440 I had to eat something. 20:35.440 --> 20:38.040 I went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. 20:38.040 --> 20:39.760 The milk hadn't been opened. 20:39.760 --> 20:41.360 I poured a glass and drank it. 20:44.400 --> 20:47.120 Tasted so good. 20:47.120 --> 20:50.520 Then I remembered some poisons are tasteless. 20:50.520 --> 20:54.720 I was crazy to drink milk, of all things. 20:54.720 --> 20:58.520 I poured it down the sink, feeling spasms and cramps 20:58.520 --> 21:00.240 in my stomach. 21:00.240 --> 21:01.320 I could feel them, Sam. 21:01.320 --> 21:02.920 They were real. 21:02.920 --> 21:05.880 Don't care for milk, Martha. 21:05.880 --> 21:08.160 You're not being sensible at all. 21:08.160 --> 21:11.800 Milk is nature's perfect food, says so on the bottle. 21:11.800 --> 21:13.960 Oh, let me alone. 21:13.960 --> 21:16.680 Let's see here. 21:16.680 --> 21:18.320 Pretty good selection. 21:18.320 --> 21:19.680 How about some cheese? 21:19.680 --> 21:21.160 Cheese is awfully good. 21:21.160 --> 21:23.720 And the roast beef is fresh cut. 21:23.720 --> 21:25.440 Doug brought it in from the country today. 21:25.440 --> 21:27.360 How long are you going on with this, Sam? 21:27.360 --> 21:29.560 Why? 21:29.560 --> 21:32.520 I can't stand it much longer. 21:32.520 --> 21:35.840 Afraid to die, Martha? 21:35.840 --> 21:39.000 Well, just relax. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 You're dying right now. 21:41.000 --> 21:42.360 Milk. 21:42.360 --> 21:43.360 You poisoned the milk. 21:43.360 --> 21:44.880 No. 21:44.880 --> 21:46.760 No, I didn't mean that. 21:46.760 --> 21:50.200 It's just that, well, Martha, you're not 21:50.200 --> 21:52.520 as beautiful as you were. 21:52.520 --> 21:55.320 I was just looking at that portrait over the mantle. 21:55.320 --> 21:59.360 Did you know you were getting circles under your eyes? 21:59.360 --> 22:03.400 And your figure isn't at all what it was. 22:03.400 --> 22:07.720 I'm not sure even an invalid would want you now. 22:07.720 --> 22:11.560 I guess I lost track of time for a while after that. 22:11.560 --> 22:13.960 The days slid by, the nights too. 22:13.960 --> 22:16.480 I was hungry all the time. 22:16.480 --> 22:18.760 At first, I found some canned goods. 22:18.760 --> 22:21.680 But then you caught on, and you punched holes 22:21.680 --> 22:23.480 in the rest of the cans. 22:23.480 --> 22:26.800 And then I didn't dare touch them after that. 22:26.800 --> 22:28.800 I couldn't go on, Sam. 22:28.800 --> 22:30.120 I knew I couldn't last out. 22:30.120 --> 22:36.080 I was at the end of my rope that night when Betty and Doug stopped by. 22:36.080 --> 22:40.240 I can never forget that night, Sam, because as we sat there 22:40.240 --> 22:44.000 in the living room with that terrible, smiling portrait of me 22:44.000 --> 22:49.240 staring down at us, Betty said something, something that made 22:49.240 --> 22:53.200 me realize I wasn't trapped, that there was a way out, 22:53.200 --> 22:55.640 after all, an easy way. 22:55.640 --> 22:56.760 Let me get you a drink, Doug. 22:56.760 --> 22:58.280 Sure, Samble. 22:58.280 --> 22:59.680 Easy on the soda. 22:59.680 --> 23:01.400 Me too, but easy on the liquor. 23:01.400 --> 23:04.680 Jack, how about you, Martha? 23:04.680 --> 23:05.600 You look a little tired. 23:05.600 --> 23:06.440 Might pick you up. 23:06.440 --> 23:08.680 I was about to say you look tired, Martha. 23:08.680 --> 23:10.280 Oh, it's nothing, Doug. 23:10.280 --> 23:10.960 I know. 23:10.960 --> 23:14.560 The old slave driver here is probably working you too hard, Martha. 23:14.560 --> 23:15.760 You need a vacation. 23:15.760 --> 23:16.400 Yeah. 23:16.400 --> 23:19.160 How about driving down to Florida with us next week, huh? 23:19.160 --> 23:19.680 Florida? 23:19.680 --> 23:20.200 Oh, well. 23:20.200 --> 23:21.800 We can't make it, Doug. 23:21.800 --> 23:24.360 The doc wants to keep an eye on me. 23:24.360 --> 23:25.800 I don't know. 23:25.800 --> 23:28.760 Heaven knows I like my home as well as the next one. 23:28.760 --> 23:31.240 But if I had to stick as close to it as Martha does, 23:31.240 --> 23:33.680 I'd probably go right out of my mind. 23:33.680 --> 23:34.480 Ho, ho. 23:38.920 --> 23:40.920 I sat very still. 23:40.920 --> 23:43.920 It was all I could do to keep a smile frozen on my face 23:43.920 --> 23:45.560 like a mask. 23:45.560 --> 23:48.840 That moment, Sam, I felt like a prisoner 23:48.840 --> 23:51.280 who'd just been handed the key. 23:51.280 --> 23:55.120 It was a marvelous feeling, surging up inside me like fire. 23:55.120 --> 24:01.000 Well, of course, if they thought I was crazy, they'd take me away. 24:01.000 --> 24:05.480 And no matter what you did, you couldn't touch me. 24:05.480 --> 24:09.000 I looked around the room, saw the poker by the fireplace 24:09.000 --> 24:10.800 under the portrait. 24:10.800 --> 24:13.680 I remember how your eyes followed me as I got up 24:13.680 --> 24:17.720 and walked to the fireplace, picked up the poker. 24:17.720 --> 24:20.680 I gave you one last smile. 24:20.680 --> 24:22.400 And then I turned to the painting, 24:22.400 --> 24:26.680 and I raised the poker high. 24:26.680 --> 24:27.680 Martha, what are you doing? 24:27.680 --> 24:28.680 I hate this painting. 24:28.680 --> 24:29.680 I hate this. 24:29.680 --> 24:30.680 Oh! 24:30.680 --> 24:31.680 Ah! 24:31.680 --> 24:32.680 Get her, Sam. 24:32.680 --> 24:33.680 Martha, put down that poker. 24:33.680 --> 24:34.680 I got her. 24:34.680 --> 24:35.680 Give it to me, Martha. 24:35.680 --> 24:36.680 Give me that poker. 24:36.680 --> 24:37.680 He's gone. 24:37.680 --> 24:38.680 Let me go. 24:38.680 --> 24:39.680 Ow, she bit me. 24:39.680 --> 24:40.680 Give me your hand, Doug. 24:40.680 --> 24:41.680 I got her. 24:41.680 --> 24:42.680 I got her now. 24:42.680 --> 24:43.680 Sam. 24:43.680 --> 24:44.680 Good Lord. 24:44.680 --> 24:45.680 She's here. 24:45.680 --> 24:46.680 She's here. 24:46.680 --> 25:01.800 I like it here at the home, Sam. 25:01.800 --> 25:03.280 It's quiet. 25:03.280 --> 25:05.840 And I get a lot of rest. 25:05.840 --> 25:07.560 I'm getting my weight back. 25:07.560 --> 25:12.760 But most of all, it's nice to feel safe. 25:12.760 --> 25:13.760 How long is it now? 25:13.760 --> 25:16.080 Three months, four. 25:16.080 --> 25:17.680 Pretending I'm insane? 25:17.680 --> 25:21.880 Anyway, I'll take my time. 25:21.880 --> 25:24.720 Think it through very carefully. 25:24.720 --> 25:28.320 And then when I'm ready to drop the act, 25:28.320 --> 25:30.560 show them I'm qualified to leave, 25:30.560 --> 25:36.200 then I think you know what I'm going to do, don't you, Sam? 25:36.200 --> 25:39.000 I'm going to kill you. 25:39.000 --> 25:41.880 That'll give you something to think about during the long nights alone 25:41.880 --> 25:45.960 in the lovebird house on Pinewood Drive. 25:45.960 --> 25:47.920 I'm going to kill you. 25:47.920 --> 25:48.920 Kill you. 25:48.920 --> 25:49.920 Kill you. 25:49.920 --> 25:50.920 Here, here. 25:50.920 --> 25:51.920 Cool down. 25:51.920 --> 25:52.920 I got her. 25:52.920 --> 25:53.920 OK. 25:53.920 --> 25:54.920 Ease her down on the cot. 25:54.920 --> 25:55.920 Shall I get the jacket? 25:55.920 --> 25:56.920 No, she'll be all right. 25:56.920 --> 25:57.920 Gets like that once in a while. 25:57.920 --> 25:58.920 Too bad. 25:58.920 --> 25:59.920 Nice looking woman. 25:59.920 --> 26:00.920 Goes off like that every once in a while. 26:00.920 --> 26:01.920 Sure makes enough noise. 26:01.920 --> 26:02.920 Gets a little wild sometimes. 26:02.920 --> 26:03.920 Used to be a guy come to see her. 26:03.920 --> 26:04.920 Little fella. 26:04.920 --> 26:05.920 I can remember him. 26:05.920 --> 26:06.920 He was a little boy. 26:06.920 --> 26:07.920 He was a little boy. 26:07.920 --> 26:08.920 He was a little boy. 26:08.920 --> 26:09.920 He was a little boy. 26:09.920 --> 26:10.920 He was a little boy. 26:10.920 --> 26:11.920 He was a little boy. 26:11.920 --> 26:12.920 He was a little boy. 26:12.920 --> 26:13.920 He was a little boy. 26:13.920 --> 26:14.920 He was a little boy. 26:14.920 --> 26:15.920 He was a little boy. 26:15.920 --> 26:19.640 I can remember he used to get down on his knees there beside her and say something like, 26:19.640 --> 26:22.920 Martha, I didn't have it on us, darling. 26:22.920 --> 26:24.600 Yeah, that's it. 26:24.600 --> 26:30.600 Then he'd say, I threw it away as soon as I found it in your jewelry box. 26:30.600 --> 26:34.320 He'd say it over and over like he thought he didn't bring her out of it. 26:34.320 --> 26:38.360 Then he'd just stand there and cry like his heart was broken. 26:38.360 --> 26:40.280 Sure must have loved her an awful lot. 26:40.280 --> 26:43.540 But he was like the rest of them. 26:43.540 --> 26:45.960 After a while he stopped coming. 26:45.960 --> 27:03.680 I don't suppose he's been back now for 10 or 11 years. 27:03.680 --> 27:06.840 Thank you, Joan Fontaine, for a splendid performance. 27:06.840 --> 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