WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.480 Suspense! 00:18.480 --> 00:24.160 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Victor Mature in Momentum, a suspense 00:24.160 --> 00:33.560 play produced and edited by William Spear. Say, Hap. Yes Harlow. This morning I was 00:33.560 --> 00:37.800 telling a cantankerous cartoon of a car it would run better with auto light 00:37.800 --> 00:41.800 resistor spark plugs when it reared up on its differential and replied, what do 00:41.800 --> 00:46.240 you think I'm waiting for? A talking car. Well, every bright buggy knows that 00:46.240 --> 00:49.680 auto light resistor spark plugs mean a smoother idle and better engine 00:49.680 --> 00:53.520 performance on leaner gas mixtures. Why, that's common knowledge among cars. Right, 00:53.520 --> 00:57.760 you are Hap. Auto light resistor spark plugs have 200% longer electrode life 00:57.760 --> 01:01.000 and they cut down on spark plug interference with radio and television 01:01.000 --> 01:05.960 too. 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They don't 01:55.760 --> 01:59.240 know I've got a bullet in my neck. 01:59.680 --> 02:06.200 Yeah, this is some of that bad trouble my wife always telling me I'm going to get 02:06.200 --> 02:13.960 myself in. Bad trouble. All those people dying on account of it. Like a snowball 02:13.960 --> 02:23.120 when it starts rolling itself up gathering. What is it? Momentum. Well, in 02:23.120 --> 02:27.040 another 20 minutes her train will be here and I'll meet her and we'll be on our 02:27.040 --> 02:30.760 way to San Francisco and things will be different. Things will be a lot different. 02:30.760 --> 02:35.680 I never thought today was going to be like this. Since noon today it's already 02:35.680 --> 02:47.760 lasted a couple million years. A couple of million years. Dick, Dick, Dick, get up. 02:47.760 --> 02:54.880 Hmm? What's the idea? Oh, Dick, get up. It's noon. Twelve o'clock and you haven't even gotten out 02:54.880 --> 03:00.920 of bed yet. What? Twelve noon? Hey, you're gonna be late for work. I'm home on my 03:00.920 --> 03:06.320 lunch hour. I thought you'd do something like this. Sleeping all day. I was up late 03:06.320 --> 03:09.840 last night. Shooting pool. All right, all right, a guy's got to have some relaxation. 03:09.840 --> 03:16.080 Been relaxing for six months. You haven't even tried to get a job. Nuts. Nobody's out of work these 03:16.080 --> 03:19.200 days. Look, I told you it's got to be the right thing. That's all. I don't want to 03:19.200 --> 03:22.040 take the first think of job that comes along. What do you want me to go on 03:22.040 --> 03:25.880 supporting you? You didn't have to say that. Well, everybody's saying. The people 03:25.880 --> 03:31.440 downstairs, the landlord, everybody. I didn't have my little job. How could we eat? So 03:31.440 --> 03:36.240 everybody's saying you're supporting me. Is that it? Well, isn't it? I'll show them. I'll show 03:36.240 --> 03:39.800 them all. We're there with the cheap little ideas and two-bit jobs. You don't 03:39.800 --> 03:47.520 have to work like a slave to make a living. Oh, Dick. When you talk, I... Sometimes I'm afraid 03:47.520 --> 03:50.960 you're gonna get in trouble. The guy's a little down on his luck and all of a 03:50.960 --> 03:55.120 sudden little wifey's a martyr. She has to go out and work. Dick, please. That's it, 03:55.120 --> 03:59.200 isn't it? You're a martyr. No, darling. I didn't say that at all. Oh, yes you did. Yes 03:59.200 --> 04:04.640 you did. Dick, when I get home from work tonight, we're gonna have to find a place 04:04.640 --> 04:09.400 to live. Now this place isn't good enough for you. No, darling. This is our last day. 04:09.400 --> 04:14.960 We're being evicted. Hmm? Says who? The landlord stopped me this morning. We owe him 04:14.960 --> 04:20.640 three months rent. I simply haven't got it. Well, we have until tomorrow morning. 04:20.640 --> 04:24.200 Well, listen. Nobody throws Dick Payne out of his own place. I'll try to get home 04:24.200 --> 04:30.320 early. Find a hotel, maybe. Wait a minute. Don't bother. I'll get some dough. I know 04:30.320 --> 04:35.360 just where. Mr. Burroughs. Oh, Dick. You're not going to Mr. Burroughs. Why not? He owes it to me. 04:35.360 --> 04:38.840 He's making money out of my invention, isn't he? Oh, Dick, you know that when you work for Mr. Burroughs, 04:38.840 --> 04:42.440 you were paid for everything you did. Yeah, if you call a couple of bucks a week pay. 04:42.440 --> 04:46.480 Burroughs is making a lot of dough in that stinking shop just because of my invention. 04:46.480 --> 04:51.960 But he's not that way. I worked for him too, remember? Then you ought to know how he cheated me. 04:51.960 --> 04:56.880 Yeah, that's what he did. He cheated me. You know Mr. Burroughs isn't that kind of man. 04:56.880 --> 05:02.120 The firm isn't run that way. If you had anything coming... Go ahead, go ahead. That's right. Stick 05:02.120 --> 05:06.360 up for that shyster who robbed your own husband. I'm going over and see him today for a showdown. 05:06.360 --> 05:10.880 Oh, Dick, please don't go over there. Don't make any trouble. We know you dough, don't we? We're 05:10.880 --> 05:15.840 being evicted, aren't we? Well, I'm going to show you a little action. I'm going out and get us some dough. 05:15.840 --> 05:19.720 You know Mr. Burroughs won't listen to anything. So foolish. He'll listen to me and he'll pay too 05:19.720 --> 05:27.400 plenty. Oh, darling, no, no. What are you crying about? Look, when I get that dough, you won't have to support me anymore. 05:27.400 --> 05:36.480 Cut it out. Go on, back to work. I'll go lie here a couple of minutes and figure this out. Go on, go on. 05:43.480 --> 05:49.480 I guess I was pretty sore when I talked to her like that. But it made me mad. You know, 05:49.480 --> 05:54.440 like one of those things leads to another and the whole thing gets going like momentum. 05:54.440 --> 05:59.080 By the time I cool off, I was up in the Bronx where Burroughs has his little office and machine 05:59.080 --> 06:05.080 shoppin' back. I phoned from a drug store on 192nd Street. The girl said there'd be a lot of people 06:05.080 --> 06:10.400 there all afternoon. So I killed time with a double feature. But I was back there at 630 just after 06:10.400 --> 06:16.240 dark. And I was mad again thinking about the eviction and all. There was a light in his office, 06:16.240 --> 06:21.880 so I got around the side street and I tried to see what was going on. The blinds were down over the 06:21.880 --> 06:26.320 window, but there was enough space for me to see the part of the room. Someone was in there with 06:26.320 --> 06:32.720 me. I couldn't see who it was. They were just shaking hands. Well, good night. Don't you worry 06:32.720 --> 06:37.520 about it anymore. Good night. I waited right there by the window until whoever it was had gone. 06:37.520 --> 06:46.720 Then I walked around and up to the door. But I didn't have to knock. Oh. Good evening, Mr. Burroughs. 06:46.720 --> 06:53.280 I was just leaving you. You want to see me about something? Yeah. Yes, sir, I do. Well, 06:53.280 --> 06:59.600 all right. Come in, come in. It's chilly out tonight. Feels like snow, maybe. Sit down, 06:59.600 --> 07:07.440 sit down. Thanks. Now what? Well, I used to work here in the shop once. I quit six months ago 07:07.440 --> 07:13.120 remember me Dick Payne? Well, certainly do remember you, Payne. Married the best secretary 07:13.120 --> 07:21.520 I ever had. Yeah, Pauline, a wonderful girl. I think so. I'm sure you appreciate that. She's a 07:21.520 --> 07:28.640 very fine girl. Yeah, she's all right. How are things with you and Pauline? Good. Good. Want to 07:28.640 --> 07:34.640 come back to work, Payne? No, no, that isn't what I came to see you about. It's about that lug wrench 07:34.640 --> 07:41.440 you're still using in the shops, the one with the long side screw. Yeah, what about it? I invented 07:41.440 --> 07:47.200 it, Mr. Burroughs. Really? I thought Tim Riley worked that out. Well, Tim worked on it, but it 07:47.200 --> 07:51.680 was me who figured out how to set that thumb screw. Hasn't the thumb screw always been set that way? 07:51.680 --> 07:59.200 Not high on the wrench, no. Oh, I see. And since I figured it out while I was here and since you're 07:59.200 --> 08:07.120 using it, well, I think I ought to be paid for it. I worked on it a long time. Payne, I just don't 08:07.120 --> 08:12.560 believe this, frankly. Tim Riley's been my foreman for 12 years. I know him pretty well. He'd have 08:12.560 --> 08:16.640 been the first to tell me if he'd contributed anything to perfecting that wrench. Well, he wanted 08:16.640 --> 08:21.120 all the credit himself. No, no, no, Payne. It's not a matter of credit or money or anything else. 08:21.120 --> 08:27.200 Now, look here, Mr. Burroughs. Look here, Burroughs. I'm not going to be cheated out of anything. Oh, stop it, Payne. I'm not obligated to 08:27.200 --> 08:30.560 you in any way. Look, you're still using the wrench, aren't you? I don't want to argue with you and I don't 08:30.560 --> 08:34.240 want to be bothered with you. If it weren't for Pauline and the respect I have for her, I wouldn't even 08:34.240 --> 08:40.080 listen to you. I told her just the other... Let's leave her out of this, huh? She's my wife, unfortunately, for her. 08:41.440 --> 08:45.840 You know, Payne, I expected you to try something like this and I'm ready for you. Yeah, well, where's my dough? 08:46.960 --> 08:52.800 I want you to sign this. Here. What is it? A release. Although I don't owe you anything, 08:52.800 --> 08:57.360 for Mrs. Payne's sake, I'm giving you some money today. I know you both need it. This release will be 08:57.360 --> 09:02.960 my receipt. It'll insure me against you bothering me about this again. Yeah. Go ahead, sign it. 09:02.960 --> 09:07.360 Where's the dough? Where's the dough? How much? Two hundred dollars. Well, why didn't you say so? I... 09:09.840 --> 09:17.120 Oh, no, you don't, wise guy. I want more than that. Look, if it's big enough to make me sign a release, 09:17.120 --> 09:22.320 it's big enough to bring in a lot more dough. Get out of here, Payne. Get out of here. And who's 09:22.320 --> 09:26.320 gonna make me? I'm smaller than you, Payne, but so help me. I'll throw you out myself. You're a no 09:26.320 --> 09:29.680 good... Cut that!... without Pauline could ever have seen anything. But I told you to leave her out of this, 09:29.680 --> 09:34.160 didn't I? Now get out of here before I really lose my... Give me my dough. Get out of here. Oh, no, you don't, you... 09:35.280 --> 09:37.280 You don't like that, huh? Well, try this. 09:46.080 --> 09:48.800 All right now. All right now, Mr. Burroughs. 09:48.800 --> 09:56.000 Come on, Mr. Burroughs. I didn't mean to... Mr. Burroughs! 09:59.600 --> 10:06.400 You see, it was just one of those days he said something and I said something and it all piles up like a snowball. 10:06.400 --> 10:12.000 The first thing somebody gets hurt. If he'd listened to reason and... 10:12.000 --> 10:15.200 Well, if he'd just listened to reason, he'd be alive now. 10:15.200 --> 10:20.000 When I felt his pulse, there was nothing. I opened his coat to feel his heart. 10:21.200 --> 10:27.600 And that's when a black shanty billfold fell out. It was crammed with money. My money. 10:35.200 --> 10:40.000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Victor Mature in momentum. 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Another ten minutes and I'll be safe on that train with Paulie. 12:27.000 --> 12:37.000 And all of this will be over. I'll make it. Nothing's going to stop me. Nothing. Not even this bullet. 12:40.000 --> 12:47.000 He started it all, Mr. Burroughs. And then the whole thing got going, Momentum. I didn't mean to kill him. 12:47.000 --> 12:53.000 I just went there to get my money. The money he owed me for using my invention. But nobody saw me do it. 12:53.000 --> 12:57.000 And I got out of it. 13:00.000 --> 13:06.000 All I wanted to do was get home to Paulie. But first I had to stop somewhere and get a drink. 13:06.000 --> 13:13.000 I needed it bad. I found a little place on Third Avenue, sixty something. It was empty except for the bartender. 13:13.000 --> 13:21.000 Hello. Hello. Business is kind of slow tonight, huh? Big television shows don't start until eight. 13:21.000 --> 13:29.000 Well, it'll be. I'd like some whiskey. Just whiskey. Just whiskey and whiskey it is, mister. Yeah. 13:30.000 --> 13:33.000 Chase it? No. 13:36.000 --> 13:39.000 Give me another one. Sure. 13:43.000 --> 13:49.000 Kind of dry, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Another one? No, no, no. That's enough. Thanks. 13:49.000 --> 13:54.000 That's a dollar twenty. One twenty? That's no problem. Just take it out of... 13:56.000 --> 14:00.000 Something wrong, buddy? No, no, no. I changed my mind. 14:00.000 --> 14:05.000 What about? I think I'll have another drink. Yeah. Give me another one. Only make it a double this time. 14:05.000 --> 14:09.000 Sure. Want to pay me for the other two first? I'll pay you when I'm finished. 14:09.000 --> 14:14.000 House rule. Huh? Every two drinks we always collect in this place. 14:14.000 --> 14:19.000 We don't do it that way in case anybody tries to run out on a tab, which they don't generally do, class. 14:19.000 --> 14:23.000 I don't like things like that. We don't lose much if they make it. 14:23.000 --> 14:26.000 Just a minute. You don't think that I'm trying to... Which they don't generally do. 14:26.000 --> 14:30.000 Look, I'm not trying to beach out anything. I got money. Sure you have. 14:30.000 --> 14:34.000 You know, there's some guys around this town you just can't tell about. 14:35.000 --> 14:39.000 What's the matter? I feel a little sick. Where's the watch? 14:39.000 --> 14:44.000 Oh, right back there, behind the cigarette machine. Want to pay me now? 14:44.000 --> 14:47.000 I'll be right back. 14:49.000 --> 14:54.000 Just my luck. The drinks were more than the change I had in my pocket. 14:54.000 --> 14:57.000 That meant I had to break one of those bills I took from Burroughs. 14:57.000 --> 15:01.000 They were all 50s and 100s. I couldn't take a chance on that bartender. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 He might think it was funny and remember and tell the police. 15:04.000 --> 15:08.000 I could panic. It was another one of those snowballing things. 15:08.000 --> 15:12.000 I had to get out of that place. In the washroom there was a window that led off to the alley. 15:12.000 --> 15:16.000 I just raised it and it was climbing up on the sill when the bartender walked in and it was carrying a gun. 15:16.000 --> 15:20.000 All right, wise guy. I thought you'd try something like this. Come on, get off of that leg. 15:20.000 --> 15:23.000 Look, I was only opening the window to get some air in here. Yeah, sure. Tell it to the cops. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 I'll pay you. Look, I'll pay you anything you want. 15:25.000 --> 15:28.000 That's a deadbeat. I spotted you the minute you walked in that joint. I can spot him a mile off. 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 Now come on, get moving. No. 15:30.000 --> 15:33.000 Let go of my arm, you crazy fool. This gun's loaded. You might get it. 15:33.000 --> 15:36.000 Let go of me. You... 15:36.000 --> 15:39.000 crazy. 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 I stood there with the gun in my hand. 15:45.000 --> 15:50.000 I didn't mean to hurt him either, but he tried to turn me over to the police for nothing. 15:50.000 --> 15:54.000 I hit him in the leg, but he was out cold. 15:54.000 --> 15:59.000 I didn't know what to do. I didn't dare leave the gun. I just didn't know what to do. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 Finally I thought I heard somebody coming in the front. 16:01.000 --> 16:04.000 I found a back door and ran until I was out of breath. 16:04.000 --> 16:10.000 I went up the stairs of my apartment house two at a time, and by the time I got inside my door, I thought my knees were going to buckle. 16:10.000 --> 16:16.000 But I had the safe feeling that a guy's own place gives him, you know, no matter how stinking it is. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Pauline was cooking supper. 16:18.000 --> 16:21.000 Dick? Oh, Dick, whoa. 16:21.000 --> 16:25.000 Liver and onions again? I heard you come in, Dick. I'm glad you're home. 16:25.000 --> 16:29.000 Liver and onions. Well, I know it isn't one of your favorites, but liver was on sale. 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 Turn it off. 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 All right, but I'm going to eat it. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 You're not. Neither one of us are. 16:35.000 --> 16:38.000 Dick, what is it now? You've been drinking. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 Two drinks and I'm drunk, huh? I didn't say that. 16:40.000 --> 16:43.000 But when you drink, it means something's happened. 16:43.000 --> 16:45.000 What is it this time? 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 I made up my mind. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 Oh, you mean you're going to take a job? 16:49.000 --> 16:50.000 Yeah, yeah. 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 Oh, God. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 Well, you haven't heard it all yet. 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 I don't need to hear it anymore. 16:55.000 --> 16:59.000 Listen, I know I haven't been a model American husband. 16:59.000 --> 17:03.000 Nobody ever voted me the guy most likely to become a millionaire, but... 17:03.000 --> 17:07.000 Honey, well, I didn't always get the breaks, you know. 17:07.000 --> 17:11.000 You need to get a certain amount of momentum to... 17:11.000 --> 17:14.000 Ah, why kill anybody? It's been my fault. 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 No, it hasn't, darling. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 You've tried in your own way. 17:19.000 --> 17:23.000 Don't keep it up. Everybody thinks I'm a sponge or a deadbeat. You told me they did. 17:23.000 --> 17:25.000 They don't know you like I do. 17:25.000 --> 17:27.000 Nobody believes in me. There's no reason why they're sure. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 I believe in you. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 Do you really? 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 Yes, darling, yes. 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 Say it again. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 I believe in you. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 How much? 17:39.000 --> 17:42.000 As much as anybody could. More. 17:42.000 --> 17:45.000 Would you believe in me in Chicago, in Milwaukee, or in San Francisco? 17:45.000 --> 17:48.000 Anywhere. Anywhere in the world. 17:48.000 --> 17:49.000 All right, then. We're going. 17:49.000 --> 17:50.000 Going where? 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 San Francisco. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 But...my dog. 17:53.000 --> 17:55.000 From now on, I'm doing the work for this family. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 How can we pick that up? 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 Look at it. 17:59.000 --> 18:01.000 Dick, how much is this you have? What you getting? 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 Never mind, never mind. Look, I got it. It belongs to me. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 Take half of it. 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 Go ahead, take it. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 All right, but I already... 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 Go down to Grand Central and buy two Pullman tickets to San Francisco on the 9 o'clock train. 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 Well, I'll have to pack. Did you rob a bank? 18:13.000 --> 18:16.000 Don't bother. Don't bother. Buy what you need downtown. It'll give you something to do. 18:16.000 --> 18:20.000 From now on, we forget this stinking place and start over from the bottom up. 18:20.000 --> 18:23.000 New clothes, new landlords, jobs, new friends and new enemies. 18:23.000 --> 18:25.000 Dick Payne will show them. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 Yeah, I'll show them all what I can do. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 Well, why do you want me to go along to the station? 18:29.000 --> 18:30.000 Why aren't you coming? 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 I got business to do first. 18:32.000 --> 18:35.000 I'm going to pay off all my debts, everybody I owe. How do you like that? 18:35.000 --> 18:37.000 Oh, it's wonderful, Dick. 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 Honestly, now, where did you get that money? 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 Skip the questions. It's my dough. I work for it. 18:41.000 --> 18:42.000 Satisfying? 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 Well... 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 Now, listen. You get reservations at Grand Central and get on the train. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 It stops at 125th Street. 18:49.000 --> 18:52.000 I'll be busy uptown, so I'll get on at 125th. You got it? 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 125th Street Station. 18:54.000 --> 18:55.000 Right. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 And when that train pulls out of that station, 18:57.000 --> 19:00.000 the guy sitting next to you is going to be me. 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 And we'll be heading for a new life, baby. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 A new life. 19:09.000 --> 19:12.000 If she knew what was really on my mind, she'd never have left. 19:12.000 --> 19:16.000 I couldn't risk hanging around 42nd Street showing up at Grand Central 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 with all its bright lights and its cops. 19:18.000 --> 19:22.000 I had to hide in some uptown dive where nobody would find me 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 and then sneak on the train to 125th Street. 19:24.000 --> 19:27.000 What if you got only about three bulbs and no cops? 19:27.000 --> 19:30.000 I stood at the window and watched across the street. 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 That's when I noticed this guy. 19:32.000 --> 19:36.000 A guy standing on the other side of the street looking up right at the apartment. 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 Big, bulky, with policeman-type shoes. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 I jumped back from the window as he started to cross the street. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 I pulled my gun out to see if it was loaded. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 I heard him. I heard him coming up the stairs. 19:48.000 --> 19:51.000 There was nothing to do but wait for him. 19:58.000 --> 19:59.000 What do you want? 19:59.000 --> 20:00.000 You're Richard Payne? 20:00.000 --> 20:01.000 No, Anderson's money. 20:01.000 --> 20:02.000 Isn't this apartment 12? 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 Yeah, it is. I moved in this morning. Payne moved out yesterday. 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 Oh, now, wait a minute. You fit the description I got. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Until I find out better, you're the man I want. 20:08.000 --> 20:09.000 Look, I tell you that... 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 We've got a little business, you and I, and I don't... 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 I reached out and I jerked him off his feet to the roof. 20:13.000 --> 20:16.000 I knew they'd find me, but I didn't think it would be this quick. 20:16.000 --> 20:17.000 He was big and I... 20:17.000 --> 20:23.000 He knew how to handle himself, but I swung the butt of my gun against the side of his head and he went limp. 20:23.000 --> 20:29.000 I held him up against the door. I didn't want to touch him, but I thought maybe I could find something in his pockets that would tell me how they knew about me. 20:29.000 --> 20:33.000 He didn't have a gun or a badge, only a piece of paper. 20:33.000 --> 20:37.000 He was a bailer from the city hall. 20:37.000 --> 20:41.000 He's come to evict us. 20:41.000 --> 20:44.000 Evict us and I'd killed him. I wasn't a killer. 20:44.000 --> 20:47.000 It was this momentum. 20:47.000 --> 20:49.000 Every body I met. 20:49.000 --> 20:52.000 Three people in three hours. 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 Hello, Mr. Payne. 20:54.000 --> 20:55.000 Out of my way. 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 What are you doing with a gun in your hand? 20:56.000 --> 20:57.000 Out of my way! 20:57.000 --> 20:58.000 You're crazy! 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 This place is a regular fuckhouse! 21:00.000 --> 21:02.000 What baby's being... 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Why, Mr. Payne, what's the matter? 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 Move that baby, Carrie. It's got to get out of my way. 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 Don't point that gun at me! 21:06.000 --> 21:07.000 Move it! 21:07.000 --> 21:08.000 Don't! 21:08.000 --> 21:09.000 I said move it! 21:09.000 --> 21:12.000 Mr. Payne's got a gun over his head! 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 I'll shoot you when you're not shot! 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 Oh, no, you don't, copper! 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 The second bullet hit me. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 It hit me somewhere in my back, up high. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 I don't know where exactly the pain was. 21:36.000 --> 21:39.000 Everything was everywhere at once, and for a moment everything stopped working. 21:39.000 --> 21:44.000 I grabbed the edge of a building and saw a long alley wavering in front of my eyes. 21:44.000 --> 21:47.000 It was a long, dark alley. There was a light at the other end. 21:47.000 --> 21:51.000 I got my breath and started towards that bright spot. 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 I knew the whole neighborhood would be after me. 21:53.000 --> 21:58.000 Besides everything else, now I'd been shooting at cops. 21:58.000 --> 22:03.000 The light at the other end turned out to be a milk truck without a driver. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 All of a sudden, nobody had to tell me what to do. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 I got in, I drove off. 22:15.000 --> 22:21.000 I left the truck somewhere on 127th Street or some place I don't know where I've blocked it to from here. 22:21.000 --> 22:26.000 The toughest thing of all was climbing the stairs to get up here to the top of the hill. 22:26.000 --> 22:29.000 Climbing the stairs to get up here to the station. 22:29.000 --> 22:36.000 Three flights of stairs a step at a time, and like my head would fall off from pain every time I took this step. 22:41.000 --> 22:42.000 Just a minute. 22:42.000 --> 22:46.000 Oh, alo. You sick, Mr. Loo? 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 Where did the pullman stop? 22:48.000 --> 22:53.000 The pullman always stop up front by the second light. 22:53.000 --> 22:56.000 What time does the Chicago train come in? 22:56.000 --> 22:59.000 Oh, they just arrive. Leave Grand Central at 11.50 o'clock. 22:59.000 --> 23:03.000 Arriving here at 12 midnight under the hot. 23:03.000 --> 23:07.000 Eight years I sweep up the platform, always on time. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 You gonna catch? 23:09.000 --> 23:10.000 Yeah. 23:10.000 --> 23:11.000 Where's your bags? 23:11.000 --> 23:14.000 My wife got on at Grand Central with the luggage. 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 I'm meeting her. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 We're going places, boy. 23:18.000 --> 23:22.000 That's nice. Where you going? Chicago? Kansas City? 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 As far as it'll take me west. 23:24.000 --> 23:27.000 Oh, San Francisco. That's a nice town. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 When you get there, what are you going to do? 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 I got a job there. 23:31.000 --> 23:35.000 That's good. Maybe someday I take a train to San Francisco. 23:35.000 --> 23:40.000 Now I got a job here. Sweep, sweep. 23:40.000 --> 23:43.000 Listen, she just come out of the tunnel. It's on time. 23:43.000 --> 23:44.000 Good. 23:44.000 --> 23:45.000 That's pretty, huh? 23:45.000 --> 23:50.000 Except when a train comes at night, when I work, it's always quiet up here. 23:50.000 --> 23:54.000 I used to brush the dirt off of the side, down the shit-goes, 23:54.000 --> 23:59.000 45 feet down to the street where the dots belong. 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 Mr. 24:00.000 --> 24:01.000 Huh? 24:01.000 --> 24:04.000 Please move the foot so I sweep where you stand. 24:04.000 --> 24:05.000 Sure, sure. 24:05.000 --> 24:08.000 Thanks a lot. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 Hey, what's this? 24:10.000 --> 24:11.000 Huh? 24:11.000 --> 24:15.000 You know it's gonna bleed. There's a fresh blood drip on the platform. 24:15.000 --> 24:16.000 Blood? 24:16.000 --> 24:17.000 Hey, what's your name? 24:17.000 --> 24:18.000 None of your business. 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 More blood. I don't like this. 24:20.000 --> 24:23.000 Now I know why you don't tell me your name. You're a shame. 24:23.000 --> 24:26.000 Maybe you're the same fellow who shoot the policemen tonight. 24:26.000 --> 24:27.000 All right, turn around. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 Turn around, I said. 24:29.000 --> 24:30.000 What are you gonna do? 24:30.000 --> 24:33.000 Don't you worry. What do you think? 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 Please, no! 24:35.000 --> 24:37.000 Oh, God! 24:47.000 --> 24:48.000 Good! 24:48.000 --> 24:50.000 The Broadway Limited. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 Help me up the steps, please. 24:52.000 --> 24:53.000 Thank you. 24:53.000 --> 24:54.000 Thanks. 24:54.000 --> 24:55.000 There you go. 24:58.000 --> 24:59.000 Oh. 24:59.000 --> 25:03.000 What's the matter with that fellow? He looks so funny. 25:03.000 --> 25:07.000 Dick, here I am. You were going right past me. 25:07.000 --> 25:12.000 Pauline, the lights were flickering. I couldn't see. 25:12.000 --> 25:14.000 What's wrong? 25:14.000 --> 25:20.000 I'm just tired terribly. I kept my word and met you, but I'm so tired. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 Dick, you're hurt. 25:22.000 --> 25:29.000 Take care of me, Pauline. Don't let them get to me. Don't let them... 25:29.000 --> 25:33.000 Who? What is it, dearest? Who are they? 25:33.000 --> 25:37.000 Hold me. Hold me, Pauline. 25:37.000 --> 25:41.000 Oh, darling! What did you do? 25:41.000 --> 25:49.000 It wasn't my fault. I went to get the money from Burroughs. The money he owed me, I killed him. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 Oh, no! 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 And everything got wrong. 25:53.000 --> 25:54.000 Oh, no, no! 25:54.000 --> 25:58.000 Everything. All those people. But I had to get that money. I had to get that money for us. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.000 Oh, Dick, no, no, no! 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 Yeah, I do. 26:02.000 --> 26:09.000 What? I got off work early and went to see Mr. Burroughs. 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