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Get Auto Light. 13 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:20,000 And now, Auto Light presents Edward G. Robinson in a tale well calculated to keep you in... 14 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Suspense! 15 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Heh, it's funny how it happened. 16 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Take a good look at me. 17 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Am I the type you'd say could harm a fly? 18 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Ask around my neighborhood or ask any of my old customers. 19 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Sam, they tell you... 20 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Sam Brown, why, he wouldn't say boo. 21 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Sam Brown a murderer? 22 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Well, besides, there must be some mistake somewhere. 23 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Sam's dead, a whole year now. 24 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 So that's what I want to explain how it all happened. 25 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 It all began that Sunday morning at home with my wife Katie. 26 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Poor Katie. 27 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,000 An April Fool. 28 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Today is April Fool, isn't it Sam? 29 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Yeah, I guess it is, Katie. Why? 30 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Why? 31 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Because we'll have to expect a lot of silly tricks today, that's why, from your so-called friends. 32 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Yeah, that's right. I guess we'll have to be on our guard, huh? 33 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 You're talking. After the way you fell for that April Fool's joke last year. 34 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Yeah, some led down all right. 35 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,000 When I learned it was all a practical joke and I hadn't won 50,000 in the Irish sweepstakes. 36 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Hey, you sure took it to heart too. 37 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Why not? Will I ever in my life even see money like that? 38 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Oh, Katie, please. 39 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Will you ever make it from your miserable milk route, will you? 40 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Oh, I'm sorry I even mentioned it. 41 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 You were going to give me so much, you were going to get places, throw a million at my feet. 42 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 A million what, empty milk bottles? 43 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Well, so I didn't get the breaks. Now what do you want me to do, Katie? 44 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Rob a bank, murder someone? Please let me alone, will you? I want to hear. 45 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Turn that off and listen to me. Murder somebody, he says. 46 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Being poor is murdering me. I'm fed up, I tell you. Look up to here. 47 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Oh, Katie, please. 48 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Don't Katie me. 49 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 What's the matter so early in the morning? 50 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Hello? 51 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Mrs. Catherine Brown? 52 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Yes. 53 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 You're the wife of Samuel E. Brown of 22 Maple Street? 54 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Yes. 55 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 I'm sorry to have to inform you that your husband has been killed, Mrs. Brown. 56 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,000 What's that? 57 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 His body was found just a few hours ago in a ditch on the Clinton Turnpike. 58 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Killed by a hit-and-run driver, Mrs. Brown. 59 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Ha, ha, ha. What is this? Somebody's idea of an April Fool gag? Now cut it out. 60 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 I'm really sorry, Mrs. Brown, but this is not an April Fool gag. 61 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 I wish it was for your sake. Please call it the County Morgue, will you? 62 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 What? 63 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000 You'll have to identify the remains. It's almost beyond recognition. 64 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 But there's a wallet, Mrs. Brown. That's all we have to go on. 65 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Okay, let me see that. 66 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Listen, you! You think a joke like this is funny? 67 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 You ought to have your head examined. Who is this? 68 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Police Sergeant Ryan, ma'am. Third Precinct. 69 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Go on, you crazy dope. 70 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Mrs. Brown, please be at the morgue as soon as you can. 71 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 That is, if you want to claim your husband's body. 72 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Hey, what was it? Some gag? 73 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Of course it was a gag. Well, you're right here. 74 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Probably that Joe Brody again with his April Fool jokes. 75 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 He'll get a piece of my mind, believe you me. 76 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 More firemen, however, are over-combat for... 77 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Must you listen to that radio? 78 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Katie, my one day off a week. Let me live, please. 79 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 ...a man tentatively identified as Samuel E. Brown, 80 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,000 a local milk driver employed by Dessel Berries Company. 81 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000 What? What did you say? 82 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Shut up! 83 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,000 He was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. 84 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,000 Listen. 85 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 The body was found in the ditch on the Clinton Turnpike, 86 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 mutilated almost beyond recognition. 87 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 A wallet is the sole clue as to his identity. 88 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,000 And that winds up the 930 edition of the... 89 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Well, what do you know about... Did you hear that, Katie? 90 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Yeah, I did. 91 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Well, that was me, wasn't it? Me they were talking about. 92 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 That's a hot one, isn't it? Huh? 93 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Sam, that phone call just now... 94 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Yeah? 95 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 I thought it was an April Fool joke. 96 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Must have been the police. 97 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Wonder how in the world... 98 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Huh? Now what? 99 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Let me... 100 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Hello? 101 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Katie? This is Harry, Katie. 102 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Gert and me, we just heard. 103 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 We were listening to the radio when you... 104 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 You all right, Katie? You know about it? 105 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Sure I know about it, but... 106 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 We feel awful about it, Katie. 107 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 We're coming right over. We'll take care of everything. 108 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Harry, listen, it's all... 109 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Gert will go downtown with you when you're ready. 110 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 I'll take care of all the paperwork. 111 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Excuse me for mentioning it at a time like this. 112 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 I don't have to go any... 113 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 What paperwork? 114 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 The insurance policy. I sold Sam, remember? 115 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 I told you both how someday it might be... 116 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Little did I dream. 117 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I'm so glad I talked you both into it. 118 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Ten thousand with double indemnity for accidental death. 119 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 That's twenty thousand, you know. 120 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 A final thought for your welfare from Sam. 121 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Harry, I can't... 122 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 I know, I know. I know you don't want to talk about it now. 123 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Listen, Katie, we'll be right over. Ten, fifteen minutes. 124 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Harry! 125 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 What was that all about? What do you want? 126 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,000 Katie, I'm talking to you. 127 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Wait. 128 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Sam, I'm trying to think. 129 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 It's impossible. You're right here. 130 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Sam, what do they mean? 131 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 They identified you by your wallet. 132 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 You have it, don't you? 133 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 My wallet? 134 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Your wallet! 135 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Naturally, right here in my pocket where I always... 136 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,000 What the devil? 137 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 I'm wearing the same pants. 138 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 It's not here. 139 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Wait a minute. I remember something now. 140 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Well, that maybe clears up this whole mystery. 141 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Yes, Sam? 142 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Well, last night after the poker game, coming home on the bus, 143 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 there was some character jostling against me. 144 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 We almost had a fight on the bus. 145 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Sure, now I think of it. 146 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 He must have picked my pocket. 147 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Why, Katie, it's him they must have found on the turnpike. 148 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Sure, say, let me have that phone. 149 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000 I'll call the police and straighten out this whole... 150 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 No, wait. Wait, Sam. 151 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 What for? 152 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Sam, maybe we ought to consider this thing a little. 153 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Consider what? 154 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Your ten thousand dollar life insurance policy, Sam, 155 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 with that double indemnity clause. 156 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 What are you talking about? 157 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 We have one big chance that we've been waiting for. 158 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 What are you driving at? 159 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Did anybody see you coming home last night? 160 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,000 No, I don't think so. Why? 161 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Can't you understand? 162 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 There's a body lying in the morgue. 163 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,000 The only thing they got to go by was that wallet. 164 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Say you never came home last night, Sam, or ever again. 165 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Say I went right now and identified that wallet. 166 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 The insurance company would pay me twenty thousand dollars, wouldn't they? 167 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Yes, I... I guess they would. 168 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Are you out of your mind? 169 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,000 You could disappear right now. 170 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Go to Chicago, say, without being seen. 171 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 I could write you a general delivery. After a while, after I collect, 172 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 I could join you there. 173 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,000 No one will be the wiser. 174 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 We can begin life all over, rich. 175 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,000 This could be it, Sam. 176 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 No, no, no. Money gotten this way 177 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:34,000 would never do us any good, Katie. 178 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 By that amount of money, I'll take my chance, and so will you. 179 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Katie. 180 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 You'll do it, Sam. 181 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Oh, yes, you will. 182 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Because if you let me down this time, it's the end. 183 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Katie, Katie, I... 184 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Twenty thousand dollars. 185 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:53,000 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Edward G. Robinson 186 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:59,000 in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 187 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Say, uh, Hap, will you help me out here? 188 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Why, sure. 189 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 All right, uh, pretty please. 190 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,000 I'll be right there. 191 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,000 Oh, I'll be right there. 192 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 I'll be right there. 193 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Oh, I'll be right there. 194 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I'll be right there. 195 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 I'll be right there. 196 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,000 I'll be right there. 197 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 I'll be right there. 198 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 I'll be right there. 199 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,000 I'll be right there. 200 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,000 I'll be right there. 201 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,000 All right, pretend you're on a quiz program, and I asked you this question. 202 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,000 What is it that needs water only three times a year? 203 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Let's see, it's, um... 204 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Is it a kangaroo? 205 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 No, it's not a camel nor a cactus. 206 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Well, can you give me a hint? 207 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 All right, goes on your car. 208 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 The initials are ALSFB. 209 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 ALSFB? 210 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Oh, I've heard that somewhere before. 211 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 It's dandy, it's dynamic, it delivers power, pep performance. 212 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000 It's an Auto Light stay full battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 213 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,600 use? Don't tell me, let me think it's... I can't give you any more hints, except to 214 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,500 say it's an Auto Light Stay Full Battery with that extra liquid reserve. That's it, 215 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:55,460 it's an Auto Light Stay Full Battery. Right, with Auto Light, the gentleman wins a 216 00:08:55,460 --> 00:08:59,420 hand-embroidered Auto Light Stay Full Battery carrying case and the right to 217 00:08:59,420 --> 00:09:02,360 drive into the nearest Auto Light service station and buy an Auto Light 218 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:09,780 Stay Full Battery. Remember, be battery right, switch to Auto Light. And now, Auto 219 00:09:09,780 --> 00:09:15,000 Light brings back to a Hollywood soundstage Edward G. Robinson as Sam in 220 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:23,520 You Can't Die Twice, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 221 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:34,800 Katie always could make me jump through a hoop. Besides, I might as well admit 222 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:39,960 that I'm human. Show me the human can spit of that kind of money. Anyway, I snuck 223 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,800 out of town that very day, got to Chicago, got me a crummy room under the name of 224 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:49,560 Lionel Hendrix. Weeks went by and nothing happened, no news at all from Katie and 225 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:55,720 I got really frightened. Something gone wrong. I wrote her, got an answer, general 226 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,040 delivery. 227 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:04,280 Dear Mr. Hendrix, in answer to your inquiry everything is proceeding smoothly. 228 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,280 I'm advised that the delay on the transaction is because of its unusual 229 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:13,040 nature. No more letters, please. Thank you for your interest, sincerely. 230 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:23,880 More weeks passed, another month, two, three, without a word from her. Now the 231 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:28,440 police found out were they on my trail and then I began to get suspicious of 232 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:35,720 Katie. What was she up to? I had a phone. Hello? This is me. Are you out of your mind? 233 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:43,480 Oh, it's you, Clara. Well, I had to talk to you. Why haven't you written? What are you up to? 234 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:51,120 Haven't you got it yet? Not yet. For when? In a little while, Clara. Just have a little more patience. 235 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:56,520 Oh, cut out that Clara stuff. I'll be seeing you soon, dear. But Katie, it's awful lonesome for me. 236 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:02,400 You love me, Katie? Of course I do. Well, I get to wondering. It's six months now. This is 237 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:07,400 crazy. I'm a wreck. I'm scared. I can't stand this life. I've never been away 238 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:15,600 from home. I'm a family man, Katie. Who is that? What? That voice. You're imagining. I heard a man's voice. 239 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:20,600 He's right there in the room with you. Now don't deny it. I'll explain everything when I see you, Clara. 240 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,600 I see. So you're too timing me, huh? Well, that explains everything. I'll fix you. I'm coming home right now. 241 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:33,600 If you do, you'll go to jail for about ten years. Think it over. Goodbye, Clara. 242 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:45,600 There you see? What could I do? Anyway, that's when I started the drink. What else was there? 243 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:51,600 There I was all mixed up and alone. I used to get good and drunk and wish someone would at least say... 244 00:11:51,600 --> 00:12:04,600 Hello. I said hello. You all alone? What's that? You really tied one on, haven't you? Stranger in town? 245 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:11,600 Stranger everywhere. How do you know? You're lonely, huh? Well, don't cry about that. 246 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:18,600 No, I'm not crying. You want company? Sure. You're kind of cute. Luther? Yeah, Cleo? 247 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:25,600 Right high on the gentleman here. Coming up. Your name is Cleo, huh? Yeah, I know. Cleo Carter. What's your name? 248 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:35,600 Sam. Sam? Oh, Sam. Sam what? Oh, I mean Lionel. My name is Lionel Hendrix. That's my name. Lionel Hendrix. 249 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:45,600 What happened to Sam? Oh, he's dead. Dead? Yeah, dead. Poor lonesome ghost. Nobody cared. Are you married? 250 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:53,600 Uh-huh. Where you from, Lionel? You're not on the lam or something, are you? Copshy? 251 00:12:53,600 --> 00:13:05,600 Nobody cared. Not even his widow. Sam's widow. Name is Cady. Catherine, you know. Cady don't even care. Too timing him. 252 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:14,600 Oh, never mind. Change the subject. What do you do, Cleo? Ah, this and that. What do you do, Lionel? 253 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:26,600 Hmm? That and this. Where you from, Cleo? Here and there. And you? Hmm, there and here. 254 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:36,600 We make a great team, don't we, Sam? Yeah, we sure do. Here you are, Cleo. Why, hi. Thanks, Luther. 255 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:47,600 How about a trip up the Nile, Cleo? Character. Luther's a comic, Sam. No, no, my name isn't Sam. Lionel is my name. Lionel Hendrix. 256 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:55,600 Excuse me. Lionel Luther, not Sam. I remember. Hiya, Cleo. When did you get back? I got up here to visit. Nice to have met you. 257 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:01,600 Oh, no, no. Where you going? I'm going to see a friend. No, no, no. Don't leave me alone, will you? You like my company? 258 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:09,600 Oh, very much. Very, very, very much. How much is that? Yeah, I said we would. Well, it's this way with me, Lionel. 259 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:17,600 I'll be very frank. First of all, you're a married man. No, no, no, not me. Not Sam's married. Not Lionel. That's Sam Brown. 260 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:28,600 Well, good fellow. All of a sudden dead. Kill dead. You know, always left a wallet. There's a few cents in it. 261 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:37,600 Now he has $20,000. Success story. $20,000? Mm-hmm. He was worth more dead than alive. 262 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:42,600 Lionel, let go of my hand. Look, I'm glad to see your friend over there. Yeah, but why? 263 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:47,600 Percentage, Lionel. He always shows me a good time. Spends money like it was water. He's rich, Sam. 264 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:55,600 Oh, he's rich. Well, I'm richer. Now, don't leave me alone, Cleo. I got $20,000, I tell you. Not you, Sam. 265 00:14:55,600 --> 00:15:01,600 Well, what's his is mine. I can lay my hands on it any time I want. You wouldn't kid me, would you, Mr.? 266 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:09,600 Oh, I haven't said a word. Not a word. Oh, I think I'm gonna be sick. 267 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:26,600 I think you better come rest at my apartment, Lionel. I really do. We can talk there. I like your talk. It jingles. 268 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:35,600 Oh! What? You awake, Angel? Huh? Where am I? Little Cleo's, don't you remember? Just running the vacuum. 269 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:43,600 All those butts you tumbled on the floor. Cleo? Cleo Carter. Took pity on you, let you sleep off a hangover on the couch here. 270 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:52,600 Cleo, are you forgotten? I remember. Guess what you need's a little drink, huh? Yeah. 271 00:15:52,600 --> 00:16:00,600 Well, it's on you. Oh! Oh! You know why I'm laughing? I'm surprised at myself. Why? 272 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:08,600 Because I like you. I don't know when I ever felt this way before so fast. Hmm? You said you felt the same way about me. 273 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:16,600 Did you mean it or was it that bottle talking? I must have meant it, Cleo. All right, then. 274 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:24,600 How does it feel to be dead, Sam Brown? What? How do you suppose Katie's taking it? No, no, I didn't tell you. 275 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:30,600 That's all right. It's all right. You told me everything, but it's safe with me. To me, Sam Brown is dead. 276 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:35,600 Oh. Could I please have that drink? Oh, sure. Okay. 277 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:43,600 The insurance money really comes to $20,000, doesn't it? Or were you exaggerating? No, I mean, yes, it's $20,000. 278 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:48,600 Why are they taking so long to pay off? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Ten months is a very long time. 279 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,600 Maybe they've already paid and Katie's holding out on you. Oh, no, no, no. Katie wouldn't do a thing like that. 280 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,600 Why not? Look what she's already done for the money. Well, not Katie. She wouldn't. 281 00:16:55,600 --> 00:17:00,600 She may have met another man. She likes more than you. Oh, no, stop it. Stop it. Well, Katie isn't like that. 282 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:07,600 Look, you. Did you mean what you told me about you and me or didn't you? Will you repeat it sober? Right now? 283 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:13,600 What? Repeat what? That you never felt about her and all your married life the way you feel about me. 284 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:20,600 That you're going to leave her for me after you get the money. Say it again, Sam, or walk right out of my life. 285 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:25,600 Oh, Cleo. I mean it. Well, I can't say that about Katie. I just can't. Get out. 286 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,600 That's the way you feel. I'll go. Go ahead. 287 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:37,600 When you leave, you might think about whether or not you can trust me now that I know all about it. What? 288 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,600 I could call the police, you know. Oh, Cleo. 289 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:49,600 I never did know how to handle women. That was always my big trouble. 290 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:56,600 She could have called the cops, couldn't she? So I made up with her. Anyway, I had someone to talk to now. 291 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,600 Maybe something would happen. Indeed. Oh, she was smart, that Cleo. 292 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:08,600 You know, Sam, it'll be good to have ten thousand dollars all at once. Yeah, sure. Well, know what would be twice as good? 293 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:15,600 Twenty thousand. Wish for the moon, why don't you? My share's only ten. Your share's as much as you can get. 294 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,600 You can get it all. Oh, Katie would never give it to me. Not all of it. 295 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,600 The way I figure it, Sam's this. She'll come here to Chicago when she finally collects. 296 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,600 Well, she can't afford to have you suddenly turn up alive back there, so she'll come here. 297 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:33,600 When she does, we'll take it all, you and me. Oh, no. No, she'll never give me all of it. I know, Katie. 298 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:45,600 I said we'd take it. Use your head, Sammy, use your head. There's ways. Huh? Oh, oh no, Cleo, no. 299 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:54,600 Well, perhaps not. But get used to the idea, just the same. Like breaking in a pair of shoes. Know what I mean? 300 00:18:54,600 --> 00:19:04,600 That's the way she worked on me over and over again. Then she began to get impatient until one day, 301 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:09,600 a year or less a day from the time I left home. What is all of this? A practical joke? 302 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,600 Tomorrow's April 1st. You waiting to tell me, April Fool? I'm calling your bluff, Sam. 303 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:25,600 Come on down to a phone booth right now and call that wife of yours. Let me hear with my own ears. 304 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:39,600 Hello? What do I say? Answer her. Hello, Mrs. Brown. This is me. I've got it. I'm holding it in my hand now. 305 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,600 I'm leaving for Chicago this afternoon. I'll be there at midnight. Get me a room with the Stevens. 306 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:52,600 You'll meet her at the station information booth. Tell her. Huh? I'll meet you at the station information booth, Katie. 307 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:58,600 But why? You're renting a cabin out in the country. You're taking her on a second honeymoon. Cleo. Tell her. 308 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:20,600 Hello? Hello? Katie, I'm renting a cabin out in the country for us. We're going on a second honeymoon. 309 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,600 Oh, Cleo, I can't go through with it. Please change your mind. I'll give you just 15 minutes. 310 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:29,600 I'll be hiding in the back of the car and if you're not out there with her and the money in 15 minutes, I'll have every cop in Chicago looking for you. 311 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:38,600 I mean it, Sam. Lionel! Lionel! Darling! Thank you, Mr. Gaten. Darling! Darling! 312 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:50,600 Lionel. Oh, Sam. My darling Sam. I'm so happy. Hello, Katie. Don't cry. 313 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:59,600 You're crying too. Oh, no. We're together again. And we're rich. We're rich. Yeah. 314 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:09,600 Aren't you excited? Wasn't it worth waiting for? And no one suspects. I can't believe it. We have money and we're together. 315 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:16,600 Here. Let me take your bag. Yeah. It hasn't been out of my hand the whole trip. It's all in here. In hundred dollar bills. 316 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:26,600 No wonder it's so heavy. Come on. Let's go quick. We're really going on a second honeymoon. Oh, Sam. I could die for joy. 317 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:45,600 Well, it certainly is way out in the country, Sam. Say that for it. So quiet. Yeah, I know. 318 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:53,600 You're acting funny, Sam. I couldn't help it that it took so long. They said they had to investigate and everything. 319 00:21:53,600 --> 00:22:03,600 It was no picnic. Let me tell you. Oh, the devil is at light. Oh. What is... Is this the cabin you rented for our second honeymoon? 320 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:14,600 This shack? Sam, what is it? You couldn't have brought me here for a honeymoon. Why did you bring me here? 321 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:26,600 Answer me, Sam. I'm leaving you, Katie. What? I'm leaving you. This is the end of our life together. But why? Why? 322 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:34,600 Open the bag and get out the money. Now you take half and I take half and we each go our way. Please, quick, quick, quick. How can you do that? 323 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:40,600 I want my half now. What? You mean you want it all, Sam. Now you said you'd let me handle it alone, Cleo. You promise not interfere. You promise. 324 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:53,600 So that's it. Another woman. Take the money out of the bag. Sam, let's go. Oh, Sam. Oh, Katie. Oh, could you do this to me? I love you, Sam. 325 00:22:53,600 --> 00:23:01,600 I loved you. I wanted only your good. Believe me. Oh, Katie. Katie, don't cry. I can't stand seeing you cry. It hurts me. 326 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:12,600 Sam. Get the money, Sam. All of it. Katie, I have to do this. Not one cent. Now give it to me, Katie. Cleo, can't you keep half? 327 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:20,600 Half? I'm keeping it all. And you know what else I'll do? I'll send the police a letter. Oh, no. And tell them everything. No, no, you wouldn't. 328 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:26,600 Wouldn't I? Oh, wouldn't I, though? No, no. K-K-Kate, you don't mean that. Just try me. Go ahead. No, please, Katie. 329 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:34,600 You might as well put down that wrench because I'm not scared of you. Not that much. I'll send them a letter with a whole story and your description and hers and everything. 330 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:40,600 You won't. You won't. You won't. Because it's all your fault. All your fault. All your fault. 331 00:23:40,600 --> 00:24:02,600 Katie was dead. I don't remember much of the ride back to Cleo's place with the police with the money on my lap. I was numb. Exhausted. 332 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:13,600 I collapsed on the floor of the apartment, fell asleep, cradling that of a lease. And it was past noon. I woke up. The lease was still in my arms, but it was open. 333 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:33,600 The money was gone. And so was Cleo. She wasn't there. She was gone. I was alone. Cleo! 334 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:46,600 Luther, have you seen Cleo today? So she left you, huh? You better have a drink. Look as though you could stand it. 335 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:57,600 That's right. Well, you can't blame Cleo. Not after what you done last night. Huh? Huh? Last night? I know all about it. 336 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:08,600 What do you mean? You know what I mean, Sam. How can you live with yourself? I didn't do anything. Don't give me that. I know everything because I was there. 337 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:14,600 No, no. You think no one was watching you, huh? But Sam, I saw the whole thing from start to finish. You couldn't have. 338 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:27,600 I can't, will you? If I done that, I couldn't live with myself for the rest of my life. It'll torture you, see? No, stop it. You won't eat and you won't sleep because the memory of it will always haunt you. No, stop it. Stop it. 339 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:47,600 It'll haunt you and haunt you until the day you die, unless you confess right here and now. Confess! Alright, stop! I did it. I killed my wife. 340 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:58,600 That's about all, Lieutenant. It was strange how it all happened. Strange how it started. And strange as still how Luther here knew. 341 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,600 Yeah. How did you know, Luther? 342 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,600 Oh, I didn't, Lieutenant. 343 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:03,600 What's that? 344 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:13,600 Oh, not a thing. What did I say to him? How can you live with yourself after last night? So what? Everyone done something last night they was ashamed of. 345 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:28,600 Oh, every night and a week. How was I to think this here guy commit a murder? You see, Captain, all I was up to was a... Well, what's the date today? You get it now? I was just making what an April Fool joke. 346 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:39,600 April Fool joke. April Fool. 347 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:57,600 Oh, Luther, you killed me. 348 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,600 Thank you, Edward G. Robinson, for our great suspense show. 349 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:01,600 Your name, Wilcox? 350 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:02,600 Yes, Mr. Robinson. 351 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,600 You're the fella that keeps talking about auto lights, stay full, batteries? 352 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,600 Yes, Mr. Robinson. 353 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,600 Well, I want one of those batteries in my car, see. 354 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,600 Yes, Mr. Robinson. 355 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,600 Can't you say anything with yes, Mr. Robinson? 356 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:24,600 Yes, Mr. Robinson, I can say this. Stay full batteries are made by Auto Light Men, who make over 400 products for cars, trucks, airplanes and boats in 28 auto light plants from coast to coast. 357 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:39,600 Yes, sir, and Auto Light also makes complete electrical systems for many makes of America's finest cars, batteries, spark plugs, generators, starting motors, coils, distributors, all ignition engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly, because they're a perfect team. 358 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:50,600 So folks, don't accept electrical parts that are supposed to be as good. Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts at your neighborhood service station, car dealer, garage or repair shop. 359 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:59,600 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 360 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,600 And now here again is Mr. Edward G Robinson. 361 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:08,600 Once again, it has been a real pleasure to join Tony Leader and his suspense cast and crew. 362 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,600 I hope they'll invite me back many more times. And that's no April fooling. 363 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:23,600 I know too that all of you are going to be as anxious as I am to hear next week's show when radio's outstanding theater of thrills will present Ronald Coleman in the noose of coincidence. 364 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:29,600 Another gripping study in suspense. 365 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:40,600 Edward G Robinson will soon be seen starring in the 20th Century Fox production, The House of Strangers. Tonight's suspense play was written by Joseph Ruskell and prepared for suspense by Walter Newman. 366 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:47,600 Music was composed by Lucien Morrowek and conducted by Lud Gluskin. The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Leader. 367 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:53,600 In the coming weeks, suspense will present such stars as Edmund Gwynn, Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney and many others. 368 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:59,600 Next Thursday same time, hear Ronald Coleman in the noose of coincidence. 369 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:08,600 You can buy Auto Light stay full batteries, Auto Light resistor spark plugs, Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. Switch to Auto Light. Good night. 370 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,600 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.