WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Suspense. 00:02.000 --> 00:24.640 Tonight, Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Ms. Dorothy Maguire in Last Confession, 00:24.640 --> 00:31.200 a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 00:31.200 --> 00:37.880 Friends, millions of masterful motorists have been made merry by the miraculous magic of 00:37.880 --> 00:42.600 those magnificent Marvel's Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs. 00:42.600 --> 00:47.320 They let your engine idle smoother, perform better on leaner gas mixtures, actually save 00:47.320 --> 00:48.800 you gas. 00:48.800 --> 00:55.360 They cut down on television interference too and have up to 200% longer electrode life. 00:55.360 --> 00:59.740 Backed by the research and engineering know-how of Auto Light, Auto Light Resistor spark plugs 00:59.740 --> 01:04.640 today are used as original equipment in many of America's finest cars. 01:04.640 --> 01:09.360 So friends, don't be satisfied with spark plugs supposed to be as good. 01:09.360 --> 01:12.400 Get genuine Auto Light Resistor spark plugs. 01:12.400 --> 01:15.200 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:15.200 --> 01:19.840 And here's a reminder, suspense on television may be seen in many parts of the country 01:19.840 --> 01:22.480 every Tuesday night. 01:22.480 --> 01:27.320 And now with Last Confession and with the performance of Dorothy Maguire, Auto Light 01:27.320 --> 01:31.200 hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:31.200 --> 01:37.800 Isn't that horrible, Edna? 01:37.800 --> 01:39.800 Let's see. 01:39.800 --> 01:44.040 Gee, is that the way they found him? 01:44.040 --> 01:46.120 Yeah, that's the way they found him. 01:46.120 --> 01:48.680 Oh, he was knifed. 01:48.680 --> 01:50.480 All twisted up like that. 01:50.480 --> 01:52.880 Lying there in the mud. 01:52.880 --> 01:55.320 Oh, who do you suppose is guilty? 01:55.320 --> 01:57.040 They didn't even find the knife. 01:57.040 --> 01:58.280 They'll never find out who did it. 01:58.280 --> 01:59.280 Oh, sure they will. 01:59.280 --> 02:00.280 No, they won't. 02:00.280 --> 02:03.760 Oh, Jesse, put that paper down. 02:03.760 --> 02:07.720 Every time something awful happens, you have to read all about it down to the last detail. 02:07.720 --> 02:08.720 No, I don't, Edna. 02:08.720 --> 02:09.720 Yes, you do. 02:09.720 --> 02:15.760 What can you see so fascinating in horrible things that make such a bad impression on 02:15.760 --> 02:17.320 you? 02:17.320 --> 02:20.120 Remember when we went to see Johnny Belinda in the movies? 02:20.120 --> 02:22.520 You could hardly talk for a week. 02:22.520 --> 02:24.080 That imagination of yours. 02:24.080 --> 02:25.080 Oh, look. 02:25.080 --> 02:27.760 It says here they found a lady's glove. 02:27.760 --> 02:28.760 Black. 02:28.760 --> 02:29.760 Size five. 02:29.760 --> 02:31.760 Hey, that's my size. 02:31.760 --> 02:33.920 Well, see, it could be anybody's size. 02:33.920 --> 02:36.120 Five is my size, too. 02:36.120 --> 02:37.880 Just think how many people could have done it. 02:37.880 --> 02:39.200 They'll find out. 02:39.200 --> 02:42.000 Somebody's conscience that will begin bothering them and then you'll see. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.000 A person that would do a thing like that wouldn't have a conscience. 02:45.000 --> 02:47.560 Besides, maybe he deserved it. 02:47.560 --> 02:49.000 How do you know? 02:49.000 --> 02:50.160 Everybody has a conscience. 02:50.160 --> 02:52.780 They'll get whoever it was. 02:52.780 --> 02:53.800 Don't you worry. 02:53.800 --> 02:56.440 I wonder who did it. 02:56.440 --> 03:01.040 I wonder who it could have been. 03:01.040 --> 03:05.320 It's funny how murders affect me. 03:05.320 --> 03:08.520 reading about them in the papers or listening to the radio. 03:08.520 --> 03:11.920 When someone's killed, I always feel like I did it. 03:11.920 --> 03:15.720 Still, how can one person kill another person? 03:15.720 --> 03:19.320 How can he? Human flesh and blood. 03:19.320 --> 03:23.720 And then, not to confess it, how can he stand that guilt? 03:27.320 --> 03:29.520 Could I ever kill someone? 03:29.520 --> 03:31.320 You wouldn't think so. 03:31.320 --> 03:33.520 You wouldn't think I'd be the sort of... 03:33.520 --> 03:37.920 Well, then, nobody is ever the sort of person to be a killer 03:37.920 --> 03:40.320 until he's killed someone. 03:40.320 --> 03:42.120 I don't know. 03:42.120 --> 03:45.120 Every time something like this murder comes up, 03:45.120 --> 03:47.720 I keep thinking maybe... 03:47.720 --> 03:49.520 Maybe I did it. 03:49.520 --> 03:53.120 Maybe when I was asleep or something, I got up and did it. 03:54.920 --> 03:56.120 Edna. 03:56.120 --> 03:57.320 Hmm? 03:57.320 --> 03:59.120 What day was he killed? 04:00.320 --> 04:01.320 What day? 04:01.320 --> 04:02.520 Yeah, what day? 04:02.520 --> 04:03.720 Tuesday. 04:03.720 --> 04:06.120 I think it was. It says here, someplace. 04:06.120 --> 04:07.520 Wait a second. 04:07.520 --> 04:10.320 Oh, during the woods, four miles from the city limits. 04:10.320 --> 04:12.120 No, no, it isn't. 04:12.120 --> 04:13.320 Yeah, yeah, here it is. 04:13.320 --> 04:17.120 Police believe Howard was killed sometime between 5 and 7 p.m. 04:17.120 --> 04:19.120 on Tuesday, July 12th. 04:19.120 --> 04:21.520 Tuesday, July 12th. 04:21.520 --> 04:23.120 How can they estimate that closely? 04:23.120 --> 04:25.520 Oh, they can, all right. 04:25.520 --> 04:26.720 Oh, is that his picture? 04:26.720 --> 04:28.920 Yeah, here. Here, you take it. 04:28.920 --> 04:32.320 Thomas L. Howard of Los Angeles, who was found dead, 04:32.320 --> 04:35.120 in Woodland Grove here last... 04:35.120 --> 04:37.520 No, tonight. 04:37.520 --> 04:39.320 Poor Tommy. 04:39.320 --> 04:41.520 Tommy, did you know him? 04:41.520 --> 04:43.520 I went out with him once. 04:43.520 --> 04:45.320 Hey, did you turn off the heat? 04:45.320 --> 04:46.120 Huh? 04:46.120 --> 04:47.520 Did you turn off the heat, Jesse? 04:47.520 --> 04:48.920 The house seems awfully warm. 04:48.920 --> 04:50.120 Yeah. 04:50.120 --> 04:52.320 Oh, no, no, I didn't turn the heat off. 04:52.320 --> 04:54.120 It's roasting in here. 04:54.120 --> 04:55.720 Imagine turning on the heat anyway 04:55.720 --> 04:57.320 during the summer months in Los Angeles. 04:57.320 --> 04:58.920 Well, it was chilly in here this morning. 04:58.920 --> 04:59.920 Hey, Edna. 04:59.920 --> 05:01.120 I can hear you. Keep talking. 05:01.120 --> 05:02.520 Look at him. 05:02.520 --> 05:03.520 At who? 05:03.520 --> 05:06.120 At this picture of Howard, the man who was killed. 05:06.120 --> 05:07.320 What about him? 05:07.320 --> 05:08.920 Let's see. 05:08.920 --> 05:11.120 Yeah, so what? What about him? 05:11.120 --> 05:12.720 He's just like him. 05:12.720 --> 05:13.520 Who? 05:13.520 --> 05:15.520 Remember Henry Hackers, the boy I used to go with, 05:15.520 --> 05:16.920 the one on Morella Avenue, 05:16.920 --> 05:19.120 the dark-haired one with the funny kind of eyes? 05:19.120 --> 05:19.920 You mean the one who... 05:19.920 --> 05:20.720 Yeah? 05:20.720 --> 05:22.120 Oh, sure. 05:22.120 --> 05:23.720 But Tommy didn't look anything like Henry. 05:23.720 --> 05:25.520 You're crazy. Look at that hairline, 05:25.520 --> 05:26.520 and the cleft and the chin. 05:26.520 --> 05:27.920 Oh, for Pete's sake. 05:27.920 --> 05:30.120 Well, now, don't tell me you don't see any resemblance. 05:30.120 --> 05:31.520 It's just like Henry Hackers. 05:31.520 --> 05:34.320 Well, a little, maybe, but... 05:34.320 --> 05:36.920 Gee whiz, Jesse. 05:36.920 --> 05:39.320 You've got the darnedest imagination. 05:43.320 --> 05:45.720 Henry Hackers. 05:45.720 --> 05:48.320 He sure wasn't what you'd call good-looking. 05:48.320 --> 05:49.920 Had a cute smile, though. 05:49.920 --> 05:51.520 And sort of funny little way 05:51.520 --> 05:53.520 he'd brush his hair out of his eyes. 05:53.520 --> 05:54.720 And then he'd walk with one shoulder 05:54.720 --> 05:57.320 just a little higher than the other. 05:57.320 --> 05:59.320 Henry Hackers. 05:59.320 --> 06:01.320 You're such a nice boy. 06:01.320 --> 06:05.520 Although, I never thought he'd want to get serious. 06:05.520 --> 06:09.520 A man can make you feel so guilty if you don't love him. 06:09.520 --> 06:11.920 Just because he loves you, he thinks, 06:11.920 --> 06:16.120 oh, and that awful thing he said the last time. 06:16.120 --> 06:17.920 When was that? 06:17.920 --> 06:20.320 When was that? 06:20.320 --> 06:21.520 But, Jesse, I... 06:21.520 --> 06:23.920 I can't help it. It's just the way I feel about you. 06:23.920 --> 06:25.320 But at least let me call you. 06:25.320 --> 06:26.320 You might change your mind. 06:26.320 --> 06:28.120 I won't change my mind, Henry. 06:28.120 --> 06:29.520 But you can't do it, Jesse. 06:29.520 --> 06:30.920 We had something, you and me. 06:30.920 --> 06:33.120 We made such a swell couple. 06:33.120 --> 06:34.520 I had wonderful plans for it, Jesse. 06:34.520 --> 06:35.920 Well, Henry, I can't help it. 06:35.920 --> 06:38.720 But the way I feel is just the way I feel. 06:38.720 --> 06:40.920 It's been getting too serious lately. 06:40.920 --> 06:42.320 You know what I mean? 06:42.320 --> 06:44.720 And when a slight flirtation grows out of hand, 06:44.720 --> 06:46.520 things can happen that'll only make people 06:46.520 --> 06:48.920 awfully unhappy when things don't work out. 06:48.920 --> 06:51.520 Slight flirtation? 06:51.520 --> 06:54.120 Well, I'm sorry. I'm very sorry. 06:54.120 --> 06:57.120 But I thought it was a little more than a slight flirtation. 06:57.120 --> 06:58.720 The nights I laid awake thinking about it. 06:58.720 --> 07:00.120 Oh, don't get so... 07:00.120 --> 07:02.120 Well, I want you to know this, Jesse. 07:02.120 --> 07:03.720 I just want you to know it and remember it 07:03.720 --> 07:05.320 as long as you live. 07:05.320 --> 07:08.320 You've done something to me that's beyond repair. 07:08.320 --> 07:09.720 And if something should happen to me, 07:09.720 --> 07:11.920 and believe me, it very well might, 07:11.920 --> 07:14.320 I just want you to know you're responsible. 07:14.320 --> 07:16.120 Henry! 07:16.120 --> 07:17.520 What a horrible thing to say. 07:17.520 --> 07:18.520 It's like... 07:18.520 --> 07:20.720 It's like a curse. 07:20.720 --> 07:29.720 Now, if you want, I'll drive you home. 07:29.720 --> 07:31.120 Responsible. 07:31.120 --> 07:33.520 Telling me I'd be responsible. 07:33.520 --> 07:35.120 Ah, poor Henry. 07:35.120 --> 07:36.920 I should have talked to him again after that. 07:36.920 --> 07:38.720 He kept calling. 07:38.720 --> 07:41.520 But I felt so guilty. 07:41.520 --> 07:43.720 Wouldn't it be funny if instead of this Tommy fellow here, 07:43.720 --> 07:46.720 it was Henry that got killed? 07:46.720 --> 07:50.920 Between 5 and 7 o'clock on Tuesday, July 12th. 07:50.920 --> 07:52.720 Tuesday, July 12th. 07:52.720 --> 07:54.320 Let's see. 07:54.320 --> 07:55.720 Tuesday, July 12th. 07:55.720 --> 07:58.120 I came from work at 4, 07:58.120 --> 08:00.920 and I told Ed and I was going out and I wouldn't be back. 08:00.920 --> 08:03.720 Now, where was I going? 08:03.720 --> 08:05.320 Gosh! 08:05.320 --> 08:06.120 My memory. 08:06.120 --> 08:07.320 Where was I going? 08:07.320 --> 08:09.520 What's the matter with me? 08:09.520 --> 08:13.520 Where was I between 5 and 7 on Tuesday, July 12th? 08:13.520 --> 08:14.520 Of course, that wasn't so long ago. 08:14.520 --> 08:16.120 I should remember that. 08:16.120 --> 08:18.320 I remember later that night. 08:18.320 --> 08:22.720 I remember at 11, I was in bed because Wednesday, 08:22.720 --> 08:26.520 I had to be down to work an hour early to get out those new invoice forms. 08:26.520 --> 08:32.320 Hey, you know, if they hauled me down to the police station right now 08:32.320 --> 08:35.720 and began asking me where were you on Tuesday, July 12th, 08:35.720 --> 08:44.720 between 5 and 7 p.m., I wouldn't have a thing to say. 08:44.720 --> 08:46.120 Edna? 08:46.120 --> 08:47.520 Have you read a little after yet? 08:47.520 --> 08:49.920 Edna, listen, put down that paper. 08:49.920 --> 08:50.720 Yeah? 08:50.720 --> 08:52.920 Look, now don't laugh, will you? 08:52.920 --> 08:53.320 At what? 08:53.320 --> 08:54.520 At what I'm going to say. 08:54.520 --> 08:55.920 What I'm going to ask you. 08:55.920 --> 08:57.720 Go ahead, I won't laugh. 08:57.720 --> 08:59.920 Do you remember where you were on Tuesday, July 12th, 08:59.920 --> 09:01.920 between 5 and 7 p.m.? 09:01.920 --> 09:02.320 Why? 09:02.320 --> 09:03.720 Do you remember? 09:03.720 --> 09:05.720 Well, let's see. 09:05.720 --> 09:07.320 Sure, July 12th. 09:07.320 --> 09:10.920 Sure, I went shopping over at Rockins and then I ate dinner 09:10.920 --> 09:13.320 and then met Carl Maffaletti and we went to a movie. 09:13.320 --> 09:14.920 Gee, that's funny. 09:14.920 --> 09:15.320 What? 09:15.320 --> 09:17.320 Well, you remember so easy. 09:17.320 --> 09:19.520 Oh, well, I know it was Tuesday because Tuesday was the day 09:19.520 --> 09:20.920 they had the sale at Rockins. 09:20.920 --> 09:22.720 That's why I went shopping that day. 09:22.720 --> 09:24.720 I can't remember at all. 09:24.720 --> 09:25.320 What do you mean? 09:25.320 --> 09:27.920 Do you remember what I did between 5 and 7? 09:27.920 --> 09:29.220 I was gone all day, honey. 09:29.220 --> 09:29.920 I just explained that. 09:29.920 --> 09:32.920 Well, it's funny, but I can't remember a thing during those two hours. 09:32.920 --> 09:33.320 Well... 09:33.320 --> 09:34.520 Well, I must have done something. 09:34.520 --> 09:37.920 I just didn't die between 5 and 7 on Tuesday, July 12th. 09:37.920 --> 09:39.120 Oh, forget it, Jesse. 09:39.120 --> 09:41.420 I'm going out on the fire escape and take the sun. 09:41.420 --> 09:43.120 If the phone rings, get it, will you? 09:43.120 --> 09:44.520 Sure. 09:46.220 --> 09:48.820 I haven't talked to him for such a long time. 09:48.820 --> 09:50.520 I'm going to call him. 09:54.320 --> 09:57.220 It's the least I can do after all the times he called me and 09:57.220 --> 09:59.320 I didn't even answer the phone. 10:00.320 --> 10:01.420 Hello? 10:01.420 --> 10:02.420 Mrs. Hackers? 10:02.420 --> 10:04.220 Yes, who is this? 10:04.220 --> 10:06.720 This is Jesse Larkin, Mrs. Hackers. 10:06.720 --> 10:07.320 Yes. 10:07.320 --> 10:08.920 Is Henry there? 10:08.920 --> 10:09.420 Henry? 10:09.420 --> 10:10.920 Yes, is he there? 10:10.920 --> 10:14.120 If this is your idea of a joke, Jesse, it's in terribly bad taste. 10:14.120 --> 10:14.720 A joke? 10:14.720 --> 10:15.420 I'm not joking. 10:15.420 --> 10:16.420 I'd like to talk to him. 10:16.420 --> 10:19.520 I know how you feel about the way I treated him, Mrs. Hackers, but really... 10:19.520 --> 10:21.220 I don't know what's the matter with you, Jesse. 10:21.220 --> 10:23.420 I don't know whether you're crazy or what. 10:23.420 --> 10:26.120 You know that Henry is dead. 10:26.120 --> 10:27.020 Dead? 10:32.920 --> 10:35.420 Henry Hackers, dead. 10:35.420 --> 10:37.620 How could I forget a thing like that? 10:37.620 --> 10:39.720 It's simple forgetting your coat in a restaurant or 10:39.720 --> 10:45.020 your purse in a movie, but forgetting the boy you used to date. 10:45.020 --> 10:47.920 The boy you refused to marry just a few days ago. 10:47.920 --> 10:49.820 Forgetting he's dead. 10:49.820 --> 10:52.020 What just doesn't happen? 10:52.020 --> 10:54.220 Henry dead. 10:54.220 --> 10:56.020 How? 10:56.020 --> 10:58.320 I'm responsible, just like he said. 10:58.320 --> 10:59.620 Like a curse. 10:59.620 --> 11:02.420 Just like I took a knife out of the kitchen drawer and deliberately 11:02.420 --> 11:04.420 plunged it into his heart. 11:04.420 --> 11:05.820 Yeah. 11:05.820 --> 11:07.420 But could I? 11:07.420 --> 11:09.320 Could I murder? 11:09.320 --> 11:11.220 Actually murder? 11:11.220 --> 11:12.720 With a knife? 11:12.720 --> 11:13.620 Kill? 11:16.820 --> 11:17.920 Black glove. 11:17.920 --> 11:18.620 Size five. 11:18.620 --> 11:20.820 Was found at the scene of the crime. 11:24.220 --> 11:25.320 Only one. 11:25.320 --> 11:27.120 Just one black glove in the drawer. 11:27.120 --> 11:28.420 Oh, Jesse. 11:28.420 --> 11:30.320 Oh. 11:30.320 --> 11:31.920 What'd I wear on Tuesday? 11:31.920 --> 11:34.720 Oh, there'd be tears in the dress from the twigs. 11:34.720 --> 11:35.820 And mud, baby. 11:35.820 --> 11:40.720 From when I dragged them. 11:40.720 --> 11:42.520 No. 11:42.520 --> 11:45.720 Oh, everything's all right. 11:45.720 --> 11:47.620 Oh. 11:47.620 --> 11:49.820 My blue dress. 11:49.820 --> 11:53.120 The seam on the sleeve and the hem and the mud on the skirt. 11:53.120 --> 11:54.120 I did it. 11:54.120 --> 11:55.420 There lies poor Henry. 11:55.420 --> 11:57.720 Henry face down in the mud in the woods. 11:57.720 --> 11:58.720 And I did it. 11:58.720 --> 11:59.520 I did it. 11:59.520 --> 12:00.620 I did it. 12:00.620 --> 12:18.520 I did it. 12:18.520 --> 12:22.520 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Dorothy McGuire in Last Confession, 12:22.520 --> 12:36.320 the night's production in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:36.320 --> 12:37.320 Hi, Harlow. 12:37.320 --> 12:38.720 All set for fall driving? 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I've got to know. 14:17.720 --> 14:18.720 Gosh. 14:19.220 --> 14:22.220 I wonder why I picked a place like this. All these bushes. 14:22.720 --> 14:27.020 Hmm, might be snakes and all sorts of dangerous things. 14:27.020 --> 14:28.120 Stand where you are. 14:29.020 --> 14:29.520 What? 14:29.520 --> 14:30.920 Okay, you don't move. 14:31.420 --> 14:33.420 Just stay right where you are. 14:34.920 --> 14:36.220 Lieutenant Fleming. 14:37.220 --> 14:38.120 Oh. 14:38.820 --> 14:40.120 Hello, Lieutenant. 14:40.120 --> 14:41.120 What are you doing here? 14:41.120 --> 14:44.020 Oh, just, just curious really. 14:44.020 --> 14:45.820 You know, I read about it in the papers. 14:45.820 --> 14:46.520 What's your name? 14:46.520 --> 14:47.620 I'm just curious, that's all. 14:47.620 --> 14:48.720 What's your name? 14:49.420 --> 14:50.120 Jesse. 14:50.620 --> 14:51.620 Jesse Larkin. 14:52.620 --> 14:53.720 Okay, Jesse. 14:54.020 --> 14:54.720 Run along. 14:55.220 --> 14:57.420 You ought to know better than to hang around a place like this, 14:57.420 --> 14:58.620 especially so late at night. 14:58.620 --> 15:00.520 Well, it was the glove size. 15:00.520 --> 15:01.420 The black glove. 15:01.420 --> 15:04.020 I, I, I know a girl that wears that size. 15:04.020 --> 15:04.920 You think so? 15:05.420 --> 15:06.120 Yeah. 15:07.320 --> 15:08.820 Have you found the murder weapon yet? 15:09.320 --> 15:10.020 Not yet. 15:10.820 --> 15:12.720 That's pretty essential to find, isn't it? 15:12.720 --> 15:14.420 I mean to prove somebody's guilt. 15:14.420 --> 15:15.020 Yeah. 15:15.720 --> 15:17.920 Sometimes they save us all the trouble, though. 15:18.520 --> 15:19.720 Come in and confess. 15:20.520 --> 15:21.120 Oh. 15:22.020 --> 15:23.920 Say, it's terrible, isn't it? 15:24.520 --> 15:26.120 A nice young man like that. 15:26.120 --> 15:26.620 Yeah. 15:27.220 --> 15:28.520 Well, there you are. 15:29.820 --> 15:31.520 You still don't know who did it. 15:31.520 --> 15:34.520 No, we've got it pretty well narrowed down to one of his girlfriends. 15:34.620 --> 15:35.220 Oh. 15:35.520 --> 15:36.820 Hey, you run along now. 15:36.820 --> 15:40.220 I wouldn't worry too much about the Tommy Howard killing if I were you, Jesse. 15:40.320 --> 15:41.320 Howard killing? 15:41.320 --> 15:42.320 Oh. 15:42.820 --> 15:44.020 No, I won't. 15:47.820 --> 15:48.620 Howard. 15:49.320 --> 15:50.620 He called him Howard. 15:50.620 --> 15:51.520 Why? 15:52.120 --> 15:54.020 Why would that lieutenant call him Howard? 15:54.620 --> 15:58.820 I've got to buy a paper and found out if they know that it really was Henry Hackers. 15:59.320 --> 16:01.120 But then Mrs. Hackers told me and... 16:03.520 --> 16:04.620 I'm so mixed up. 16:04.620 --> 16:06.820 I'm, I'm forgetting so many things. 16:07.420 --> 16:09.020 Henry's last name was Hackers. 16:09.020 --> 16:10.020 Henry Hack... 16:10.020 --> 16:11.020 No. 16:11.720 --> 16:13.320 Henry Howard. 16:13.820 --> 16:14.820 Henry... 16:15.520 --> 16:16.520 Howard. 16:17.020 --> 16:18.020 Yes, that was it. 16:18.020 --> 16:20.020 I remember when Edna showed me the paper. 16:20.020 --> 16:21.020 That's what it said. 16:21.020 --> 16:22.020 Henry Howard. 16:23.020 --> 16:25.520 His girlfriends, the officer said. 16:26.020 --> 16:28.020 Henry didn't go out with very many girls. 16:28.020 --> 16:30.020 Let's see, there was Fran Gilbert. 16:30.520 --> 16:32.520 I know he took her out a couple of times. 16:33.020 --> 16:35.020 And Barbara. 16:35.020 --> 16:36.520 Barbara, what was her name? 16:37.020 --> 16:38.020 Oh, I've got to see them. 16:38.020 --> 16:40.020 I've got to see whether they've got alibis. 16:40.520 --> 16:43.020 If none of them did it, then it must have been me. 16:43.520 --> 16:45.020 Well, I've got to be clever about it. 16:45.020 --> 16:47.020 Not let them know what I'm after. 16:47.020 --> 16:49.020 I'll say, real casual. 16:49.520 --> 16:51.020 By the way, Fran. 16:51.020 --> 16:55.020 What were you doing between 5 and 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12th? 16:59.020 --> 17:01.020 Well, it's been a nice chat, honey. 17:01.020 --> 17:05.020 I still don't know who you are or what you're doing here, but it's been real nice. 17:05.020 --> 17:09.020 Well, I told you, I heard you were an actress and I've always wanted to be one. 17:09.020 --> 17:11.020 Oh, come on, leave us on up. 17:12.020 --> 17:14.020 You hear about Henry, what's his name? 17:14.520 --> 17:15.520 Henry. 17:16.020 --> 17:17.020 Yes. 17:17.020 --> 17:18.020 Something about his estate? 17:19.020 --> 17:24.020 Well, he left me nothing but the memory of two miserable evenings over some warm beer. 17:24.020 --> 17:25.020 No, nothing like that. 17:25.020 --> 17:31.020 I was just sort of wondering what you were doing between 5 and 7 on Tuesday, July 12th. 17:31.020 --> 17:33.020 Between what and what on when? 17:33.020 --> 17:36.020 5 and 7 on Tuesday, July 12th. 17:36.020 --> 17:37.020 Wait a minute. 17:38.020 --> 17:40.020 Are you a cop gal or something? 17:40.020 --> 17:42.020 That was the time the paper said that Howard was killed. 17:42.020 --> 17:43.020 Howard? 17:44.020 --> 17:47.020 Look, blue eyes talking in circles makes me dizzy. 17:47.020 --> 17:50.020 You're either crazy or a cop or a digger with an angle. 17:50.020 --> 17:53.020 Whichever it is, I'm surprisingly uninterested. Scoot. 17:53.020 --> 17:54.020 Well, all right. 17:54.020 --> 17:56.020 If you're sure you know what you were doing. 17:56.020 --> 18:01.020 Just to ease your mind, my lady, I was swabbing decks on the USS New Mexico with a vacuum cleaner 18:01.020 --> 18:04.020 and the Navy will back me up. Satisfied? 18:04.020 --> 18:07.020 Well, thank you. Goodbye. 18:08.020 --> 18:09.020 It was nice meeting you. 18:09.020 --> 18:11.020 Oh, no. 18:13.020 --> 18:16.020 She's got an alibi. She didn't do it. She couldn't have. 18:16.020 --> 18:18.020 She didn't even remember Henry's last name. 18:25.020 --> 18:27.020 I don't quite understand, Miss Larkin. 18:27.020 --> 18:30.020 I'm from the Los Angeles Police Department. 18:30.020 --> 18:32.020 Los Angeles Police Department, Miss Keely. 18:32.020 --> 18:33.020 What do you want? 18:33.020 --> 18:35.020 I'm a policewoman, you understand? 18:35.020 --> 18:36.020 Yes. 18:36.020 --> 18:37.020 I'm interested in a Henry... 18:37.020 --> 18:39.020 Hackers? Yes. 18:39.020 --> 18:43.020 Yes. You knew he was found four miles from the city limits in the woods? 18:43.020 --> 18:47.020 Henry? Henry Hackers is dead, but... 18:47.020 --> 18:50.020 Were you talking about the Howard case? 18:50.020 --> 18:52.020 I don't know a thing about that. 18:52.020 --> 18:57.020 Where were you and what were you doing between the hours of five and seven on Tuesday, July 12th? 18:57.020 --> 19:01.020 I don't see any reason for answering any of your questions. 19:01.020 --> 19:02.020 Do you have a warrant? 19:02.020 --> 19:05.020 Well, I thought it best to make this an informal visit. 19:05.020 --> 19:08.020 I thought perhaps I wouldn't need to go into any legalities. 19:08.020 --> 19:11.020 We can make this very simple without a lot of complications. 19:11.020 --> 19:15.020 Now, what were you doing between five and seven on July 12th? 19:15.020 --> 19:18.020 I think you'd better talk to my lawyer, Miss Larkin. 19:18.020 --> 19:22.020 I'm answering no questions without his permission. Good day. 19:22.020 --> 19:24.020 Very well. Goodbye. 19:24.020 --> 19:26.020 I'll be seeing you again. 19:26.020 --> 19:27.020 Goodbye. 19:27.020 --> 19:31.020 Just remember, we have your name on file. 19:37.020 --> 19:40.020 All of them have alibis. I knew they would, really. 19:40.020 --> 19:44.020 And that leaves only me. I must have done it. 19:44.020 --> 19:48.020 Henry was right. I am responsible for his death. 19:48.020 --> 19:52.020 I deserve what I'll get. I'll deserve it when they sentence me. 19:52.020 --> 19:56.020 And the judge and no one to stand by me. 19:56.020 --> 19:58.020 No one in the world but Edna. 19:58.020 --> 20:01.020 Edna, I'll tell her everything. 20:01.020 --> 20:04.020 She'll understand how it is. 20:10.020 --> 20:14.020 Jesse, say, where have you been? Where did you go? 20:14.020 --> 20:15.020 I've been so worried. 20:15.020 --> 20:17.020 I'll tell you. I'll tell you everything. 20:17.020 --> 20:20.020 I've got to trust you, Edna. You're the only one in the world I can trust. 20:20.020 --> 20:24.020 Well? Well, you know the murder in the papers. 20:24.020 --> 20:25.020 Yeah, what about it? 20:25.020 --> 20:27.020 It was me. 20:28.020 --> 20:31.020 What? Yes, it was me. 20:31.020 --> 20:32.020 You're out of your head. 20:32.020 --> 20:34.020 No, I wish I was, Edna. Honest, I wish I was. 20:34.020 --> 20:36.020 You ought to see a doctor, kid. Honest, I mean it. 20:36.020 --> 20:38.020 No, we were out there together in a car. 20:38.020 --> 20:41.020 I remember it so clearly. And he started getting fresh. 20:41.020 --> 20:43.020 But I mean fresh. And I slapped him. 20:43.020 --> 20:46.020 Well, I had this knife with me. I don't remember where I got it. 20:46.020 --> 20:48.020 But I had it in my purse. And I stabbed him. 20:48.020 --> 20:50.020 And I stabbed him. And I stabbed him. 20:50.020 --> 20:53.020 And then I realized what I'd done. And I was terribly sorry, Edna. 20:53.020 --> 20:55.020 Oh, I was awfully sorry. But I had to get rid of him. 20:55.020 --> 20:58.020 So I dragged the body to the woods, inside, away from the highway. 20:58.020 --> 21:00.020 And I left him there. And I took the knife. 21:00.020 --> 21:02.020 But I forgot one of my gloves. 21:02.020 --> 21:07.020 Jesse. Jesse, we've been roommates for three years, honey. 21:07.020 --> 21:09.020 I would have sworn you couldn't have dreamed of anything like this. 21:09.020 --> 21:11.020 Do you honestly believe it? 21:11.020 --> 21:13.020 I always had a violent temper. You know that, Edna. 21:13.020 --> 21:14.020 Not to kill. 21:14.020 --> 21:16.020 Well, I did. And now the only thing is I can't find the knife. 21:16.020 --> 21:18.020 Where would I have put it, Edna? 21:18.020 --> 21:20.020 Look, Jesse. Jesse, you stay here. 21:20.020 --> 21:22.020 Will you promise to stay here until I come back? 21:22.020 --> 21:24.020 I can't, Edna. I've got to confess. 21:24.020 --> 21:26.020 I couldn't live with a thing like that on my conscience. 21:26.020 --> 21:28.020 Promise me. Please, Jesse, promise. 21:28.020 --> 21:31.020 You're not to leave the house. 21:31.020 --> 21:34.020 Well, all right. 21:35.020 --> 21:37.020 If you say so. 21:37.020 --> 21:40.020 See what kind of a person I am? 21:40.020 --> 21:43.020 I couldn't even keep a simple promise to my best friend. 21:43.020 --> 21:45.020 I had to go. 21:45.020 --> 21:50.020 Maybe after I confess, this terrible headache will go away. 21:52.020 --> 21:56.020 There it is. The police station. 21:56.020 --> 22:01.020 Well, I certainly will deserve what I get. 22:01.020 --> 22:07.020 I hope they give me the maximum penalty prescribed by law. 22:15.020 --> 22:18.020 Yes? Oh, hello. 22:18.020 --> 22:20.020 Are you in charge here? 22:20.020 --> 22:23.020 Almost. What can I do for you? 22:23.020 --> 22:26.020 I'd like to confess to the Howard murder, who was the victim. 22:26.020 --> 22:28.020 I'm sorry. 22:28.020 --> 22:32.020 I'd like to confess to the Howard murder. Who do I see? 22:48.020 --> 22:51.020 Hello, Jesse. May I talk to you? 22:51.020 --> 22:54.020 Certainly, Lieutenant. Sit down. 22:54.020 --> 22:56.020 Thank you. 22:56.020 --> 22:59.020 Jesse, I... 22:59.020 --> 23:02.020 Well, your case is solved, isn't it? 23:02.020 --> 23:04.020 Yes. 23:04.020 --> 23:06.020 You don't seem to feel too good about it. 23:06.020 --> 23:09.020 I don't. I don't, Jesse. 23:09.020 --> 23:11.020 Did you find the knife? 23:11.020 --> 23:13.020 Yes. 23:13.020 --> 23:17.020 Jesse, we have a couple of visitors for you. 23:17.020 --> 23:21.020 I think after you've seen them, you'll feel much better. 23:21.020 --> 23:23.020 That's what our doctor thinks. 23:23.020 --> 23:25.020 Visitors who? 23:25.020 --> 23:28.020 Mrs. Hackers, will you come in, please? 23:28.020 --> 23:30.020 Mrs. Hackers. 23:30.020 --> 23:32.020 Oh, don't hate me too much, Mrs. Hackers. 23:32.020 --> 23:34.020 You're going to be released, Jesse. 23:34.020 --> 23:38.020 The police can take no action on your case, and not at the present time. 23:38.020 --> 23:42.020 Mrs. Hackers here read about your confessions in the papers. 23:42.020 --> 23:44.020 She called us and told us you couldn't have killed Howard. 23:44.020 --> 23:46.020 Oh, Jesse, my poor child. 23:46.020 --> 23:48.020 Why did you call him, Mrs. Hackers? 23:48.020 --> 23:52.020 When you knew I deserved it, when you knew I killed him, your only son. 23:52.020 --> 23:54.020 Tell him the truth, Mrs. Hackers. 23:54.020 --> 23:56.020 You didn't kill Henry, Jesse. 23:56.020 --> 23:58.020 Between 5 and 7 on July 12th... 23:58.020 --> 24:00.020 Jesse, don't you remember where you were? 24:00.020 --> 24:02.020 I was... I was... 24:02.020 --> 24:05.020 No, I can't think. I can't remember. 24:05.020 --> 24:07.020 Now think, Jesse. Try to remember. 24:07.020 --> 24:09.020 Between 5 and 7 on July 12th. 24:09.020 --> 24:12.020 If you remember, everything will be straightened out in your mind. 24:12.020 --> 24:13.020 I can't. 24:13.020 --> 24:15.020 The flowers, dear. You were crying. 24:15.020 --> 24:17.020 You cried when I put down the flowers. 24:17.020 --> 24:19.020 The flowers. 24:19.020 --> 24:21.020 You cried, Jesse. Don't you remember? 24:21.020 --> 24:23.020 The flowers. The funeral. 24:23.020 --> 24:26.020 I... I cried when you put the flowers down. 24:26.020 --> 24:28.020 That's right, dear. 24:28.020 --> 24:32.020 The doctor says maybe you felt guilty inside or something because he was dead. 24:32.020 --> 24:34.020 But you're going to be all right. 24:34.020 --> 24:36.020 Yes, Jesse. 24:36.020 --> 24:38.020 Apparently you just blotted those two hours out of your mind. 24:38.020 --> 24:41.020 Doctors sometimes it happens that way, some of us. 24:41.020 --> 24:45.020 Your mind just blots out a thing that's too painful to remember. 24:45.020 --> 24:47.020 Yes, but then... I dressed in the gloves. 24:47.020 --> 24:50.020 Oh, no, I must have somehow. I must have. 24:50.020 --> 24:52.020 Just a minute, Jesse. Please. 24:52.020 --> 24:54.020 All right. Come in, please. 24:54.020 --> 24:56.020 Oh, hello, Jesse. 24:56.020 --> 24:58.020 Edna, I'm so glad you came. 24:58.020 --> 25:00.020 Jesse, you promised me you wouldn't leave the house. 25:00.020 --> 25:02.020 Edna, I couldn't have done it. I couldn't have. 25:02.020 --> 25:06.020 Mrs. Hacker said I was with her at Henry's funeral between 5 and 7 on July 12th. 25:06.020 --> 25:10.020 The only thing I can't figure out is my missing glove and my blue dress. 25:10.020 --> 25:14.020 Jesse, I didn't want to tell you because I was afraid to, but... 25:14.020 --> 25:18.020 That day on July 12th, I borrowed your blue dress and your gloves. 25:18.020 --> 25:19.020 You borrowed them? 25:19.020 --> 25:20.020 I had a date. 25:20.020 --> 25:24.020 I knew you'd be wearing your black dress to the funeral, so I... 25:24.020 --> 25:29.020 Oh, Jesse, I kept quiet when it looked as though nobody else was going to be blamed for it, but... 25:29.020 --> 25:31.020 Edna, I don't believe it. 25:31.020 --> 25:32.020 It's true, Jesse. 25:32.020 --> 25:36.020 If it hadn't been for you, I'd never have told anybody. 25:36.020 --> 25:40.020 I didn't know that all these days you've been convincing yourself that you... 25:40.020 --> 25:41.020 Edna, Edna. 25:41.020 --> 25:47.020 When I went out, when I told you not to leave the house, I went and got the knife. 25:47.020 --> 25:51.020 I buried it in a vacant lot. 25:51.020 --> 25:54.020 And I brought it to the police. 25:54.020 --> 25:57.020 Poor Edna. 25:57.020 --> 25:58.020 All that guilt. 25:58.020 --> 26:02.020 But I want you to know, Jesse, that Tom Howard was no good. 26:02.020 --> 26:05.020 And if anybody ever deserved... 26:07.020 --> 26:09.020 Can I please go now? 26:09.020 --> 26:11.020 Yes. 26:11.020 --> 26:14.020 How do you feel now, Jesse? 26:14.020 --> 26:15.020 What? 26:15.020 --> 26:18.020 How do you feel? 26:18.020 --> 26:19.020 Poor Edna. 26:19.020 --> 26:22.020 She was your roommate, wasn't she, Jesse? 26:22.020 --> 26:25.020 Not just a roommate, Mrs. Hackers. 26:25.020 --> 26:27.020 She was my best friend. 26:27.020 --> 26:28.020 Come on, dear. 26:28.020 --> 26:30.020 I'll take you home. 26:30.020 --> 26:31.020 Mrs. Hackers. 26:31.020 --> 26:32.020 Yes, dear? 26:32.020 --> 26:35.020 How did Henry die? 26:35.020 --> 26:36.020 Of pneumonia. 26:36.020 --> 26:38.020 He died very badly. 26:38.020 --> 26:42.020 Of pneumonia. 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