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He blinks once for yes and twice for no. 22 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Are you okay, Tom? Night. 23 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Okay, sure, I'm okay. I've been okay ever since I got liberated from Sagamo Prison in Tokyo 24 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:05,000 in 1945. Yeah, ever since I woke up in this Veterans Hospital four years ago, I've been 25 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 okay. I've got nothing to do but lie flat on my back and let my eyes wander over the 26 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,000 ceiling and look at Suki smiling down at me. Suki seems to smile down at me from the little 27 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:22,000 plaster square of ceiling that reminds me of the prison yard in Sagamo. He can't help 28 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:30,000 smiling and laughing because he knows I can't get at him. Suki knows I'm paralyzed. He 29 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:37,000 knows I can only blink my eyes once for yes and twice for no. You see, Suki was in charge 30 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:44,000 of the camp at Sagamo. He helped slaughter guys like Camel and Jones, Mayberry, Evans, 31 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:50,000 too many more to count. First he starved them until they couldn't crawl and then he... Well, 32 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:55,000 anyway, just before we got liberated, I fuzzed up in my mind and I couldn't remember anything. 33 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Sometime later, I woke up in a Vet's Hospital, California, USA, and I've been on my back 34 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,000 for four years staring at that little square. But once in a while, they dump me in a wheelchair 35 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,000 and push me out into the sunshine, wheel me up and down the walk like I was a baby. Only 36 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 babies can cry. 37 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Which road today, Tom? Do we get down the walk through the ground or the sidewalk down 38 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:32,000 by the flower shop? Just open your eyes wide if it's a sidewalk. Well, good. You'll see 39 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 all the flowers. Oh, here comes Janet, Willie Murdoch. You remember him? 40 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Hello, Tom. Hello, Tom. 41 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Hi, Janet. How you doing? 42 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Getting in shape for the dance tonight. Am I really? 43 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Hi, Tom. 44 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:51,000 I'll see you there. Isn't Janet a pretty girl? I'll bet you have a nice girl someplace. Come 45 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:59,000 on now, haven't you? We're almost to the flower shop, Tom. Oh, see that man in the window? 46 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Isn't that a pretty bouquet he's getting together? Well, look how tan he is. Oh, I guess he's 47 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,000 a ch- 48 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 I'm sitting in a wheelchair, paralyzed, looking at a man on a flower shop window, and the 49 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:24,000 man I'm looking at is Suki. And while I'm looking at him, something's happening to me. 50 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000 My fingers that I haven't worked for four years are grabbing the arms of the wheelchair, 51 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,000 and my legs are straining and pushing against the floor. The same legs I haven't used for 52 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 48 months, and I want to cry out, and I feel my tongue getting ready to- 53 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Tom! Tom, what's the matter with you? Come on, Tom, now, relax. Maybe you don't like 54 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:50,000 flowers. Ha ha, that's just like a man. Doesn't like flowers. Do you want to go home now, Tom? 55 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:57,000 It's Suki, a man on the flower shop window, and it's Suki. I know it is. If we can get 56 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000 closer, all I have to do is look at that scar down the side of his face. I gave him that 57 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:11,000 scar on Sagammo. Do you want to go home, Tom? Now, don't frown like that. Tom, what's the 58 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:19,000 matter? Do you want to go closer? Okay, if you want to go closer to the flower shop. 59 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:31,000 It was Suki, all right? Yeah, it was Suki. We got real close to the shop, and I got a 60 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:37,000 good look. The scar, scar on his face stood out like a half moon. He was busy with 61 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:44,000 flowers. Flowers, I couldn't imagine him working with flowers, but it was Suki. And this time 62 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I didn't clench my fingers or strain my legs. I just laid back in the chair and relaxed, 63 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:59,000 and I began to plan. I began a plan. I began a plan that I'd started the day I looked around 64 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,000 and I found myself in a Jap prison camp. A plan that almost worked the day Suki got that 65 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:10,000 scar. It didn't work that day. It's going to work now. 66 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 I'll leave you here by the door a minute, Tom. Then we'll put you to bed. 67 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:30,000 All right, Tom. Tom, how did you get moved over there? Didn't I leave you right here 68 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:38,000 by the door? Tom, did you wheel yourself over there? Oh, ho, so that's it. Somebody came 69 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:44,000 in here and gave you a push. One day you'll be pushing that chair around like mad, Tom. 70 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Just you wait. Just you wait. All right, now we'll get ready for bed. 71 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:58,000 You ready for me? Just about. Would you bring Dr. Benson here? Okay. 72 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,000 I can't imagine who just walked in here and gave you a shove. Wouldn't it be funny if 73 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:10,000 you did it yourself? Didn't know it. You sent for me, Miss Rhodes. He must have used his 74 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:18,000 hands. He wheeled himself across the room. How are you tonight, Tom? I think that sunshine 75 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:24,000 is doing you some good. Tom, did you move yourself across the room? And if you did, blink 76 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:31,000 your eyes once. And if you didn't, blink them twice. No, you didn't do it, huh? That's 77 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 all. Thank you, Tom. 78 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,000 I got myself in a jam already. It's funny how I grabbed those wheels instinctively. 79 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:47,000 I guess I gave myself a shove. And now I'm in bed and I'm looking up at that little 80 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:53,000 square. And the hospital's quiet except for Murdoch, who you can always hear mumbling 81 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:00,000 someplace far off. So then I'm turning over on my face in bed, moving muscles I haven't 82 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:08,000 moved for four long years. And in a moment I was sitting up. I was trying to light my 83 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:15,000 own cigarette. But then I got so exhausted I decided to wait till the next night. And 84 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,000 it was the same thing over again. Night after night I practiced at being alive. Ten days 85 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 later I got out of bed and I stood up. And two weeks later I was so strong that I walked 86 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:28,000 around the room ten times. I never felt better in my life. That night I nearly got caught. 87 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:34,000 I was sitting in my chair smoking a cigarette. I scrambled in the bed. 88 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Asleep, Tom? You've been having visitors, Tom. The air's full of smoke. Tom, are you 89 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:54,000 asleep? Oh, that's a close one. Nothing ever came of it, though, but I was more careful 90 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:02,000 after that. A week went by. Every day brought me closer and closer to Suki. And Suki closer 91 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:08,000 and closer to some of his own medicine right back in his face. And then something happened 92 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,000 that spoiled everything. Tom, we've got good news for you this morning. Look how wide his 93 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,000 eyes are. You better not keep him waiting. Tom, you're getting out of here. We're moving 94 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:23,000 you to within twenty miles of your old hometown. You're going to Colville Hospital. Better 95 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:31,000 tell him when. Yes. Tomorrow morning. He doesn't seem to like it. Tom, what's the matter? 96 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Suki was laughing now. He stood on that little square in the ceiling and he laughed on at 97 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:47,000 me because he knew I was going away and I'd never get him. So they were shipping me out 98 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:53,000 on Sunday. Yeah, tomorrow was Sunday. 99 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:07,000 And then I had a plan. I had a desperate plan. It might work and it might not. But if it 100 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,000 did, it would bring Suki right into my room. You see, the plan wouldn't work except today 101 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:18,000 was Saturday. Today was Saturday. And right the day before they were shipping me to Colville, 102 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:23,000 three thousand miles away. Today, yeah, today was Saturday and on Saturday. This is your 103 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,000 last spin around the grounds, Tom. And here comes Jackie. I'll bet you forgot this was 104 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Saturday and Jackie's out of school. And he's going to play Mr. Wheelchair Conductor. Hello, 105 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Jackie. Ready to take over? Sure thing, Miss Rhodes. I'll get him lots of sun and keep him 106 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,000 up full time. Then when you're through, you can help Janet with Murdoch. Yes, Miss Rhodes. 107 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 I'll see you later. You be careful. You bet. 108 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:56,000 All right, kid, you can stop. What? Did you say something? I said stop right here. Gosh, 109 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,000 I didn't know you could talk, mister. Well, sure I'll stop right here, but maybe I'd better 110 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:06,000 get in order. Stay right here and shut up. Listen to me. You and I are going to have a 111 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:11,000 little secret. Are you with me? What kind of a secret? You just don't say anything about 112 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,000 what you see or hear until tomorrow. Now, what are you going to do? Are you going to help 113 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:21,000 a soldier or are you going to spill everything? Why, I'll help, of course. All right, now. 114 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Now keep pushing me until we get down to that tavern and then push me in that little alcove 115 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000 there. Come on, come on, come on. What are we waiting for? Hurry up. Yeah, mister. Yeah, 116 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,000 but I shouldn't be doing this, should I? That's the best thing you ever did. 117 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Now, now go into that tavern and get me three dollars worth of quarters. Here's three bucks. 118 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,000 I'm going to use this phone. And don't get any funny ideas about calling the hospital. 119 00:11:48,000 --> 00:12:01,000 You're working with me, aren't you, kid? I guess so. All right, now. I'm going to watch 120 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 you through the glass of this phone booth. Stay right out there where I can see you. Get 121 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:11,000 me? Yes, sir. All right. All right, here goes. You shouldn't get up. Hey, don't try to get 122 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:18,000 up of your wheelchair. Already out. All right, now stand right there. Stand where I can see 123 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:35,000 you. Long distance one. One. One. Long distance. I want to talk to Bill Mason at Mason's Real 124 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Estate Office in San Bernardino. What is your name, please? My name's Tom Warner. That will 125 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:48,000 be a dollar and a quarter for three minutes. Dollar. Please deposit a dollar and a quarter 126 00:12:48,000 --> 00:13:00,000 for three minutes. Dollar and a quarter. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. One. Here is your 127 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:08,000 party. Hello, Bill. Hello. Who's this? Tom. Tom Warner. Oh, you're kidding. Who is this? 128 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,000 It's Tom. It's Tom, you dope. Why? What's the matter? What's the matter? I just can't 129 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,000 get it through my thick head. That's all. Last time I heard about you. I know. I know. 130 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,000 I know. But it's all over now. I'm alive. Now, Bill, listen to me. Now listen close. That's 131 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:30,000 an awful close, Bill. Bill, Suki's alive. Suki? Yeah, yeah, Suki. He's working a flower shop 132 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,000 in the hospital here. Are you crazy? Now, no, I've seen him. I've watched him. I've noticed 133 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:39,000 all his gestures. Yeah, he's got the scar I gave him right on the side of his face. Hey, 134 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,000 are you listening? Yeah, yeah, yeah, go on. Now, I want you to get a hold of Curly, and 135 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 tonight the three of us will blast him right out of the face of the earth. Tom, are you 136 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 okay? What's the matter with you? I found Suki. He's here right in the United States 137 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 where we can get at him. Well, if you're sure it's Suki, why don't you call the cops or 138 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,000 the FBI? Because I know what'll happen to him then. He'll end up in American jail and 139 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,000 he'll have a nice soft bed to sleep in. He'll get three good hot meals a day and he'll get 140 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,000 all the comforts of home. Look what he gave to us. What in your life, Bill? Now, look, 141 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 if you start driving right now, you can be here by nine o'clock. Tom, the war's over. 142 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 I forgot all that stuff a long time ago. I want you to forget it too. Sure, sure, and 143 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 you can forget it all if you want to. I know why you're forgetting it is because you're 144 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000 a chicken, that's why. 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I'll be all right. Maybe I need a little air. Gee, you look 170 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:54,000 as white as a sheet. I don't say anything about this, kid. Just keep your mouth 171 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,000 shut until tomorrow, will you? Tomorrow morning I'll be going away. You promise 172 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:12,000 me that? Well, okay. Okay, now take me home, huh? Yes, sir. 173 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:17,000 I was back in my room, flattened out like a pancake, and the bed in the room kept 174 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,000 spinning around when I stayed still. Pretty soon I got a sort of a second wind. 175 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:27,000 I decided to try to get up out of bed, and I found I could get up okay. I was 176 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,000 awful weak. I'd just about given up my plan when I happened to look out the 177 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:38,000 window. The day watchman was changing places with the night patrolman, and the 178 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:45,000 item that caught my eye was a big fat revolver bulging at the man's side. Maybe 179 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:50,000 my plan would work after all. I didn't need to be Bill Mason and Curly and 180 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:57,000 anybody else. All I needed was my two hands, a little luck. Let's see. I'd have to make another phone 181 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,000 call. Well, there's a phone on this floor right in front of Murdoch's door. 182 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Hospital flower shop. Hello, this is Dr. Benson. 183 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Oh, yes, doctor. Would you send a bouquet of flowers, that is, I mean roses. 184 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:42,000 A lot of big roses, up to a 411. See, one of the patients is leaving, and we'd like 185 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 to make him feel good. It's kind of a surprise just before he goes to sleep and 186 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:50,000 the ward's quiet. You see, about nine o'clock this evening. Okey-dokey. You want 187 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,000 some fern to go with it? Yeah, yeah, I think that'd be nice. Just a minute, who 188 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:00,000 delivers at that hour? Have you got someone? Oh, I deliver myself, just before I close 189 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:08,000 up. Okey-dokey. Fine. Fine, thank you. 190 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,000 I just got the phone back on the hook on Dr. Benson and two nurses came walking along. 191 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Like a shot I dropped to the floor of the phone booth and I tried to double up like 192 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:20,000 an accordion. My heart beat so loudly I was afraid they'd hear it, but drowning out 193 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:26,000 in my heart was Murdoch saying something. Hey, Tom's on the phone. Don't be silly, 194 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Patty. Yeah? I'll go back to the system. Yeah. I held my breath, but they kept on 195 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:42,000 walking down the hall and they turned into the solarium. I got up, I got the door 196 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:47,000 open, I almost fell across the hall into my room. I laid back in the bed casping 197 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:57,000 in, waiting for my pulse to get back to normal. It was eight o'clock, getting dark 198 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:05,000 outside. The only sound was the clock ticking in the hall. I was getting all the 199 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:12,000 breaks. A summer shower had just come up, light wind blowing. I got down the hall 200 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,000 all right and through the solarium to the fire escape. It was easy going down, 201 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:22,000 hugging the shadows. Pretty soon I was at the bottom. I spotted the patrolman 202 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,000 sitting under the little eaves at the tool shed. He was trying to keep out of the 203 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:33,000 rain. My hand closed around the broken brick that had fallen off the building. I 204 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,000 crept up in the back of him. I got the brick ready to smash him on the head when 205 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:46,000 I suddenly realized he was asleep. I took a step real close and then I had his 206 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,000 revolver and I was pointing it right into his eyes which were still blinking off 207 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:58,000 some sleep and he muttered and then he started to yell. One little whisper and 208 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 this goes off right in your face. Now get up and get into that tool shed. Open the 209 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:08,000 door and crawl in. Come on quick. All right now take this adhesive tape and tie 210 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,000 your feet together. Come on hurry up. Tie it. Hurry. What are you trying to do 211 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:19,000 fella? Shut up. Do as I say. I made him tie his feet together with adhesive tape 212 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,000 and lie flat in his face while I wound long strips of tape around his wrist. I 213 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 tied his wrist together and then I hog tied his wrist to his feet and pulled 214 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,000 them up tight behind him. When I turned him over on his side and I crammed two 215 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:36,000 handkerchiefs into his mouth. Put long strips of tape around those. The rain was 216 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:42,000 coming down in buckets as it made my way back to the fire escape. I made the first 217 00:21:42,000 --> 00:22:01,000 two flights and then three and finally hit four and I slid on my face out cold. I 218 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 don't know how long I lay there on those iron bars of a fire escape. It was too 219 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:11,000 long for my plans. Now there was nobody in the hall so I ran for it. Still 220 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:16,000 nobody in the hall. Still nobody. Nobody in my room. I slid open the door and I 221 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:21,000 started for bed. Bed met me halfway and I lay there soaking wet with a gun 222 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:30,000 sticking out of my pocket. I spun the cylinder. I saw six 45 caliber bullets. 223 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:38,000 15 minutes went by. Then it was nine o'clock. The ward was very quiet. You could 224 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:45,000 have heard a pin drop. Nothing sounded until I heard the sound of the elevator 225 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:51,000 and it's stopping on four. Someone had got out of the elevator and was patting 226 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:57,000 down the hall and it was the same little shuffle I'd heard every day for three 227 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:04,000 years in a bug infested hell hole called a prison camp. Yeah, the same footsteps, 228 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,000 the footsteps I used to turn my brain to water and sent my heart right down to my 229 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:13,000 shoes. The footsteps that meant someone was going to get it and I wanted to yell 230 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000 and scream, come on Suki, it's different now, come on Suki, I'm waiting for you. 231 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:24,000 I couldn't breathe very good. Every breath I took drowned out Suki's feet. So I 232 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:30,000 just, I just, I just took a little short press and I waited and I had to grab the 233 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,000 revolver with both hands to keep it steady. 234 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:43,000 And Suki was getting closer and so I released the safety catch and I tried to 235 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:51,000 keep my wobbly hands steady. He was almost here now. The knob was turning in 236 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 the door. 237 00:23:53,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Suki, Suki, this is for Camel and this is for Jones and this is for Mayberry and Evans 238 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 and Murphy. 239 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:28,000 I killed Suki. Yes, yes you killed Suki Tom. He's dead and he'll never bother you 240 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:34,000 again. You killed him. Yes I did. I killed Suki. Now give me the gun Tom. 241 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:40,000 That's it. Yes you killed Suki in your mind. He's dead in your mind. You can 242 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,000 forget him now Tom. Yeah, yeah I think I better sit down. Miss Rhodes shove that 243 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,000 wheelchair out of the room. You can sit in a chair Tom but not in a wheelchair. 244 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,000 You're through with that for good. What? Jimmy, are you all right? Yes doctor. 245 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:58,000 No powder burns? No I'm fine doctor. Good, good. Now Tom, Tom I want you to meet 246 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Jimmy Cato who works in our flower shop here and who was lieutenant Cato of the 247 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,000 armed forces in Italy not so long ago. Yeah I killed Suki. I killed him. Yes, yes 248 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,000 in your mind you killed Suki Tom and you're okay now. The man you thought was 249 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Suki was Jimmy Cato. He was born and raised here in this community and he has 250 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:18,000 almost as many medals as you have. Now I want you to shake hands with him. I'm 251 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,000 paralyzed. All I can do is blink my eyes. No, no, no you are not Tom. You are going 252 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:29,000 to shake hands with Jimmy and thank him. Oh Cato, I'm sorry. Oh nothing to be 253 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,000 sorry about. When Dr. Benson told me about your reaction the day you saw me I 254 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,000 was glad to help out. You see Tom we're pretty thorough here. When you thought 255 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000 you saw Suki Miss Rhodes made a notation that you flexed muscles you hadn't 256 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:48,000 commanded for nearly four years and so we went from there. You must have thick 257 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,000 skin Cato. I'm pretty good shot. No, no, no the patrolmen on the grounds here Tom 258 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:59,000 always carry blanks, no bullets. You're going home tomorrow Tom. Well on the way 259 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:06,000 to complete recovery and in your mind there's a big X mark canceling out a 260 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:12,000 nightmare of four years duration and written in huge letters is a beautiful 261 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:34,000 beautiful sign Tom and it says to you once and for all mission completed. 262 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Suspense presented by Auto Light tonight star James Stewart. Oh Mr. Wilcox, Mr. 263 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Wilcox. Well Gracie Allen what are you doing here? Well I came to ask you and 264 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Jimmy Stewart if you can fix it with Auto Light for my husband Sugar Throat 265 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Burns to sing on Suspense. Our sponsor will hear it and realize how great George 266 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,000 is and then he let him sing on our show Wednesday night. Well look Gracie 267 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Suspense is all booked up for next week Mickey Rooney will be on. Well how about 268 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,000 the week after that Mr. Stewart? No they're booked up for that week too. Lana 269 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Turner will be here that week. As a matter of fact they're booked up for the 270 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:14,000 next four thousand weeks. Oh four thousand weeks would be about. That's 271 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,000 eighty years. Oh how about the week after that? Well I've got to leave Gracie. Tell 272 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:25,000 George that he has all my condolences. Oh really? I'm surprised they fit him. You 273 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,000 know you're so tall. Gracie would you mind if I get in just one teensy weensy 274 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,000 word about Auto Light Resistor spark plugs? Teensy weensy? Oh you can do better 275 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:38,000 than that. If George were here I bet he could sing about your spark plugs. I'll 276 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,000 bet he could at that. Everyone is singing the praises of Auto Light Resistor 277 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,000 spark plugs and that goes for the 400 other products made by Auto Light for 278 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,000 cars, trucks, planes and boats in 28 plants coast to coast. Those are nice lyrics. 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