1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,600 Suspense! 2 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:28,200 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Danny Kay in I Never Met the Dead Man, 3 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,600 a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:39,200 Hello? 5 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,600 Wake up Mr. Wilcox, it's a brand new year. Happy New Year! 6 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:49,100 Okay. Oh, what a sleep. Hey, did she say a new year? Boy, let me at it. 7 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:53,200 At that Auto Light stay full battery I promised myself. That wonderful water 8 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,800 wagon, that thirstless, thrilling three-timer. 9 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,200 Yes sir, it needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 10 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,800 Hello again. Are you up Mr. Wilcox? 11 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,200 Am I up? I'm as up as an Auto Light stay full battery is up and away at a single 12 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,200 starter shove on a winter's morning that's as cold as Blitzen 13 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,600 and alive. Alive as an Auto Light stay full battery, built with fiberglass 14 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:15,600 retaining mats 15 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,800 to give seventy percent longer average life according to tests based on SAE 16 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,000 life cycle standards 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,000 compared to batteries without those stay full features. Mr. Wilcox, 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,200 it's time for... Oh yes, yes, suspense. 19 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,600 And now with I never met the dead man 20 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,600 and the performance of Mr. Danny Kay, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in 21 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:43,600 suspense. 22 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,000 I never even met the guy. I was just walking along humming 23 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 on an empty side street on New Year's Day. 24 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Humming 25 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Gunshots 26 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Hey there! Hey you! Stop! 27 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,000 I didn't do anything officer. Oh, nobody ever does anything. 28 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,800 Why they pay us cups of salary I don't understand. 29 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,600 You know me Mr. Callan, Joe Wickhoff. I was on my way home from the plant. 30 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,000 Running home boy? No, I wasn't. Bullets were flying around here. Somebody killed 31 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 that man in the car. 32 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,700 Sure, somebody. Are you crazy or something? I had nothing to do with it. 33 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:38,600 Ask anybody. Ask who for instance boy? 34 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,300 There wasn't anybody else on the street when I turned the corner. 35 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,400 Well how about these buildings around here? He could have been shot from one of them. 36 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:52,400 That's right, he could have. But you better stick around anyway boy. 37 00:02:52,900 --> 00:02:56,600 That's how it started. Just walking along humming. 38 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,300 All of a sudden bang, bang and a half hour later the cops have me in the yes room at headquarters. 39 00:03:01,300 --> 00:03:05,400 No rubber hose, none of that kind of stuff. Just where did I hide the gun? 40 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,900 Where did I hide the gun? Where did I hide the gun? 41 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:13,400 And I keep telling them I don't even own a gun. All the time I know they got nothing on me 42 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:19,000 that they're playing a long shot but just the same I'm scared. Murder rap, who wouldn't 43 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,400 be scared? Finally after a couple of hours they let me go. 44 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,400 Callan, the cop that nabbed me was standing on the sidewalk outside. 45 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,200 Well, well. Look Mr. Callan, I wanted to tell you I know 46 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,900 you were just doing your duty and there's no hard feelings. 47 00:03:35,900 --> 00:03:41,400 Well, that's real generous of you boy. I was only trying to be nice about it. 48 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:46,200 I'm wondering why you're trying. You're worried aren't you Wyckoff? 49 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,500 You're holding something back. You're worried. 50 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:52,200 Ah, you guys. You're lying, I can tell. 51 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,900 You know so much why don't you sound off inside headquarters? 52 00:03:54,900 --> 00:04:02,000 I'm just a neighborhood cop, a beat man. But even a beat man gets a good idea once in a while. 53 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,700 What are you holding back boy? Nothing Mr. Callan, nothing I tell you. 54 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:09,100 Bad business lying to the police. I'm not lying. 55 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:19,100 Go on homeboy, talk it over with your wife. Maybe she's got some sense. 56 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:26,300 Bella, my wife with some sense. That was funny only Callan didn't know. 57 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:31,700 Bella's like a friendly kitten. Pretty and lovable and full of fun. 58 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:37,200 Oh Bella could think was gee, her husband's name was in the evening paper. 59 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:46,200 Look Joey, right here on page 27. The only witness to the murder was Joseph R. Wyckoff. 60 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:51,500 They misspelled it. Only one F. Wouldn't you think they'd know better? 61 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:56,800 Joseph R. Wyckoff, a truck driver on his way home from work. 62 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:01,600 The victim has not yet been identified. 63 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,300 The guy that got killed, the cops don't know who he was. 64 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:07,800 No papers on the body and his face was full of bullet holes. 65 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:15,900 Terrible. The police expect to make an arrest within 24 hours. 66 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:17,500 It says so right here. 67 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:22,300 A professional job like that is going to take the cops more than 24 hours to pin down. 68 00:05:22,300 --> 00:05:24,500 I don't understand, professional? 69 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:27,400 A hired gunman steps off a train from Detroit or someplace. 70 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,100 He fires a couple of shots and takes the next train back. No clues, nothing. 71 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:32,900 Oh, well then how come the police... 72 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:36,500 Oh, let's forget it a while, will you honey? I don't feel like talking about it. 73 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:40,500 All right, Joey. Okay. 74 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:45,500 You sick or something, Joey? You're all jumpy. You didn't eat hardly any supper. 75 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:50,700 Well, I've got no appetite. Lots of times I'm like that. No, no appetite. 76 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:55,200 It's a shame. All that good spaghetti gone to waste. 77 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,600 Joey. 78 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:57,400 What? 79 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,000 We ought to celebrate your name in the paper. Let's go out dancing some way. 80 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,500 I'm tired, Bella. Bushed. 81 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:05,800 Gee, we never go out anymore. 82 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,500 Some other time, Bella. 83 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:11,400 That's what I mean. We're all jumpy. 84 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,700 I'm sorry, Bella. I shouldn't have yelled off like that. 85 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:16,400 Those cops this afternoon, they got me upset. 86 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,600 Oh, honey. I don't blame you being upset. 87 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,400 They got their nerve practically saying you killed a fella. 88 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:28,100 You can't blame the cops, Bella. They know they got their work cut out and they ain't missing any bets. 89 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:30,300 They're trying to advance themselves too. 90 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:34,500 But you never been in trouble before. You'd think that'd be enough for them. 91 00:06:34,500 --> 00:06:38,500 Well, the only thing is I... 92 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:40,300 I have been in trouble. 93 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:41,400 Huh? 94 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,900 Back in New York before I met you, I did a stretch in prison. 95 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:46,500 You? 96 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:52,000 Yeah, it was nothing very much. Robbing a grocery store. The kind of crazy things young guys do. 97 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,600 Joey. 98 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,200 You never told me. 99 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,900 Well, you spend a year with the bad boys, you certainly don't hire a sky rider to tell people about it, Bella. 100 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:02,500 But I'm your wife, Joey. 101 00:07:02,500 --> 00:07:04,500 I wanted to tell you and I would have. 102 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:06,200 Well, I'd understood. 103 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,700 Sure. Sure, Bella. 104 00:07:08,700 --> 00:07:12,100 But lots of times you talk without thinking, honey. 105 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:15,000 I was scared you might let it slip and... 106 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,100 Oh, I never would have blabbermouthed about a thing like that, Joey. 107 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:20,800 You know that. 108 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,500 Did you tell the police, Joey? 109 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:25,000 No. No. 110 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,500 They asked me did I have a record and I said no. 111 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:28,600 Oh, golly. 112 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,300 Maybe I shouldn't have lied, I don't know, but I was rattled. I'm still rattled. 113 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:33,800 Well, will they find out anyway? 114 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,500 I don't see how. 115 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:38,200 They didn't book me this afternoon, so... 116 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,500 Well, there's no fingerprints to check with. 117 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:42,200 Oh, well then. 118 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,700 Well, the Calon, the comp I told you about, he worries me. He's the one. 119 00:07:45,700 --> 00:07:49,000 He knows I got something on my mind and he keeps needling and needling. 120 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,500 So let him needle. 121 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:52,300 You know how it would look. 122 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:56,300 Guy with a record spotted near the murder and Calon that... 123 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:59,200 Mr. Calon's got plenty other things on his mind. 124 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,300 In a couple of days, he'll forget all about you. 125 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:03,400 You think so, Bella? 126 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,000 Why, sure. 127 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,500 And I'm supposed to be the dopey one around here. 128 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:09,800 Ha ha ha. 129 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,100 I got to thinking maybe Bella was right. 130 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:21,200 Maybe it was just another side street killer and it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans. 131 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:27,400 I might even have had a good night's sleep if we hadn't stayed up for the late news broadcast. 132 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:33,200 An obscure murder lost in the back pages of tonight's papers will be headlined on page one tomorrow morning. 133 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:38,000 The victim has been identified as Willoughby Roberts, feature reporter of the News Gazette. 134 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,800 And that newspaper has already posted a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer. 135 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:48,300 Willoughby Roberts, it was revealed tonight, had been engaged in an undercover investigation 136 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:50,900 of the county's illegal gambling palaces. 137 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:54,400 Today, President Truman made an address to... 138 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,200 My luck. 139 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:57,200 My luck. 140 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:58,100 Now, Joey. 141 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:01,400 $10,000, every cop in town will be out for that reward. 142 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:02,800 If they find out about my record, they'll... 143 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,100 Oh, Joey, don't. 144 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:05,400 Bella, what am I going to do? 145 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:14,300 There was nothing I could do but wait and pray that the cops would let me alone. 146 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:17,500 Next morning, I went to work same as usual. 147 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:22,700 All day long, I sat behind the wheel of my truck, trying to act like nothing was wrong. 148 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:26,400 Finally, I went back to the plant. 149 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:32,200 Hugo, he was the boss of us truckers. He had left word for me to see him in his office. 150 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,100 Come in. Sit down, Joe. 151 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:40,400 Now, I'm not supposed to tell you, Joe, but you're in trouble. 152 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:41,800 Bad trouble. 153 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:42,500 Yeah? 154 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:45,100 A cop in here all afternoon pumping me. 155 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:45,900 Was his name Callan? 156 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:47,600 Why, he didn't mention no name. 157 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,200 Thick neck, hard eyes. 158 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,500 All the time, looks like he's smiling at something he don't think is funny. 159 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:53,500 That's Callan, all right. 160 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:57,000 His wick off a friend of Pigeon Watts, he asks me. And I tell him... 161 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:57,900 Pigeon Watts? 162 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:01,400 The gambler, the big gambler. He owns that place outside of town. 163 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,200 The Pigeon Coop. 164 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,900 The reporter, the guy that was killed, he was working on Pigeon Watts. 165 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:10,700 The cops figure the Pigeon paid someone to do the job. 166 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:11,600 Maybe you. 167 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,100 I don't know any Pigeon Watts. 168 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:17,300 That's what I told this cop, this Callan. Joe Wickoff mixed up with gamblers. 169 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:21,200 I said, don't make me laugh. He can't even beat his wife, Gin Rummy. 170 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,400 And anybody that can't beat Bella, Gin Rummy. 171 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,500 Thanks, thanks. Thanks, you. 172 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:31,100 I slowed him down a little, Joe. 173 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:34,100 Now, now comes the bad part. 174 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:35,400 Go ahead. 175 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:40,000 This cop, he went nosing around the trucker's locker room. 176 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,700 He found a gun, Joe. 177 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:43,500 Where? 178 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:46,000 In the box for dirty towels. 179 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,400 Near where you keep your stuff. 180 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:48,400 Was it the gun that... 181 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,200 No, no, it wasn't the one he was looking for. Not the one that did the killing. 182 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,000 But it makes things look bad for you. 183 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:55,800 Now look, you go... 184 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,600 All I'm telling you is what he said, Joe. What Callan said. 185 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,300 He said at headquarters, you swore up and down you didn't own a gun. 186 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:04,800 And when he found this one in the locker room, he... 187 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,100 He said it makes things look bad for you. 188 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:09,000 Bad, Joe. 189 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,300 All the truckers use that room, but right away it's my gun. 190 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:13,500 Why didn't he ask the other guys who... 191 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:15,800 He did, he did ask, Joe. They all say no. 192 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,100 Well, so do I say no. 193 00:11:18,100 --> 00:11:20,100 Why does Callan believe the other guys and not me? 194 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:22,700 I asked him that. He said... 195 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:24,900 Oh, well... 196 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:29,300 He said the other guys didn't do a stretch in the jail house. 197 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:32,000 Oh. 198 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 So he found out already, huh? 199 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,100 It's... 200 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:37,500 It's true, then, huh, Joe? 201 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:39,000 Yeah. 202 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,600 Yeah, it's true. 203 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:43,900 What am I gonna do, Joe? 204 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:46,500 I don't know what you mean. I don't get it. What are you gonna do? 205 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:51,900 Well, these trucks, sometimes the cargo is valuable. 206 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:55,300 What am I gonna do, Joe? 207 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:57,600 Yesterday I'm your best friend. 208 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,900 Today I'm an ex-con who might steal a monkey wrench. 209 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:03,700 Well, I got the owners to answer to, Joe. 210 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:06,500 Suppose you were me. Suppose you had a driver you liked, 211 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:08,600 but it turned out he had a wrecking. 212 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,500 What would you do? 213 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,300 Same thing you're gonna do. 214 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:15,900 There are other jobs. 215 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:20,500 Sure, sure. All kinds of jobs for an ex-con, a murder suspect. 216 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:21,700 Babysitting, maybe. 217 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:24,300 Don't do anything crazy. Please, Joe. 218 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:27,300 Well, suppose you were me. What would you do? 219 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:29,500 I'd go out and get drunk. 220 00:12:29,500 --> 00:12:32,200 But I ain't a married man. Bella will need you, Joe. 221 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,300 She's not having any picnic. 222 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:35,500 Does she know what's been going on? 223 00:12:35,500 --> 00:12:37,800 Well, the cop was heading for your apartment when he left here, 224 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,400 so I called Bella to... 225 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:41,600 Well, just to call her. 226 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,500 In case there's any evidence to hide. Was that it? 227 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:45,100 Oh, Joe. 228 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:47,900 My buddy. My trusting buddy. 229 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:49,900 Ah, don't feel that way, Joe. 230 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:52,400 Well, what way do you expect me to feel? 231 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:03,800 Who's there? Who is it? 232 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,400 It's me, hon. You all right? 233 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,300 Oh, Joey. I've been so scared, Joey. 234 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:12,200 A policeman, that Mr. Callan. He only just said that it was awful. 235 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:13,900 Oh, now take it easy, honey. Take it easy. 236 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:16,400 Everything will be all right if you'll just take it easy. 237 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,800 He kept asking me, did you know Pigeon Watts? 238 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,200 And I kept saying no, and all the time I had these things in my pocket. 239 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:22,800 Things? 240 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,800 I was afraid they'd fall out and he'd see them. 241 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:26,000 It was awful, Joey. 242 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 What things? 243 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,400 Look, these chips or whatever you call them. 244 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,100 But these are gambling chips. 245 00:13:32,100 --> 00:13:35,500 I found them in your bureau drawer just before Mr. Callan came. 246 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:37,100 They all got a pigeon marked on them, 247 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:39,400 and I figured you wouldn't want nobody to see them. 248 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:40,600 So I hid them in my pocket. 249 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,700 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I don't get this. It doesn't make sense. 250 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:46,400 On account of the bird on them, the pigeon. 251 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,900 I knew right away you must have got them at Pigeon Watts gambling house. 252 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:50,600 So I hid them. 253 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,800 I never saw them before. Never. 254 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,100 Oh, we better drop them down a sewer or a cell place where nobody will find them. 255 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:57,800 Bella, look, listen to me. 256 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,600 I never saw them before. 257 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:02,800 Oh. 258 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,600 You believe me, Bella, don't you? 259 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:05,800 Sure. 260 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,500 Sure, I believe you. 261 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:10,500 Bella, why were you looking at my bureau? 262 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:11,800 I... 263 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:12,800 Oh, don't ask me that, Joey. 264 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:14,400 Why, Bella? Why were you looking? 265 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,000 Please, Joey, don't. 266 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,200 Oh, listen, it's raining. 267 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,200 Why? 268 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,000 All right, Joey. 269 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,500 It was on account of all the crazy things that have been happening. 270 00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:29,100 Like about you having been in jail. 271 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:32,300 And then Hugo, your best friend, 272 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:36,400 he found it so funny over the phone when he said they found a gun in your locker. 273 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,100 Near my locker. 274 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:40,100 Not in, near. 275 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:41,500 Near, then. 276 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:44,600 I was scared Mr. Callum might find something else when he got here. 277 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,200 So I searched all through the apartment. 278 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,600 And you found these chips from Pigeon Watts' joint? 279 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:49,900 Yeah. 280 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:52,100 Oh, Joe. 281 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,400 You think I'm mixed up in this murder, don't you, Bella? 282 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,200 No, Joey, no. 283 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,600 It's just that I don't know what to think. 284 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:00,800 What does that mean? 285 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:06,500 Oh, I guess I'm kind of dumb, like you're always kidding me. 286 00:15:06,500 --> 00:15:10,100 And all these crazy things happening. 287 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:12,500 I don't know what to think. 288 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:16,400 First Callum, then you go and now you. 289 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,800 You're sore, Joey. 290 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,700 I can tell just by looking at you. 291 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:23,200 You're sore clean through. 292 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,400 Yeah, I'm... 293 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,600 No, no, Bella. 294 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,300 Maybe it's better you're honest, then I know where I stand. 295 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:31,300 But... 296 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:32,300 Maybe it's good I'm sore. 297 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:33,800 Maybe now I'll get off the dime. 298 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,300 Off the dime, Joey? 299 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:37,300 Bella, I want you to listen to me now. 300 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:38,700 Did you go out today, Bella? 301 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:41,000 Did you go out at all for shopping or anything? 302 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,300 Well, it was just a few minutes at noon. 303 00:15:43,300 --> 00:15:46,600 I went in to talk with Mrs. Minnelli and 4G, just gabbing. 304 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:47,800 Well, try to remember now. 305 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,000 Did you leave the door open, the apartment door? 306 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,100 Yeah, I think so. 307 00:15:52,100 --> 00:15:56,900 Then somebody could have sneaked in here and planted these gambling chips while you were gone. 308 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:58,300 I guess so. 309 00:15:58,300 --> 00:15:59,900 Sure. 310 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:01,500 But who'd do a thing like that? 311 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:03,500 Somebody who wants the $10,000 reward. 312 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:06,000 Somebody who wants it bad enough to frame an innocent guy. 313 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Joey. 314 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,500 I'm a natural. 315 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:10,300 I'm an ex-con. 316 00:16:10,300 --> 00:16:12,700 I happened to be right there when the shots were fired. 317 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:13,300 I would be the... 318 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:14,800 But, Joey, who? 319 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:15,700 Who's framing you? 320 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:17,400 I don't know who. 321 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:21,100 But whoever it is, he got these chips from Pigeon Watts' joint. 322 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:22,100 Where are you going, Joey? 323 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:24,500 To have a talk with Mr. Pigeon Watts. 324 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:26,700 Maybe I can get some information out of Mr. Pigeon Watts. 325 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:28,300 Just a minute, Joey. 326 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:30,300 I'm going with you. 327 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,300 I thought I was so smart. 328 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:38,300 If I only hadn't gone on with it. 329 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:42,400 If I'd only just stayed there and let the cops arrest me, convict me, burn me, anything, 330 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,400 just so it wouldn't have ended up like it did. 331 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:50,400 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Danny Kay in I Never Met the Dead Man. 332 00:16:50,400 --> 00:17:16,400 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 333 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:17,400 Hello? 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360 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,400 It looked more like a warehouse, an old, dirty warehouse. 361 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:48,400 Yeah. 362 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,400 One of Watts' bouncers finally opened out. 363 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,400 He told me to beat it. 364 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,400 On account of all the stuff in the papers, they were only letting in regulars, people 365 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:56,400 they were sure of. 366 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,400 He said Pigeon Watts wasn't seeing anybody, and he began to get mean mad when I wouldn't 367 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:00,400 go away. 368 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,400 I saw the flicker of brass knuckles coming at me, but I didn't duck. 369 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,400 I had to talk to Watts, even if it meant getting my lumps first. 370 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:19,400 All right? 371 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,400 Still feel like a hard guy? 372 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:22,400 No. 373 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,400 No, sir, I'm not a hard guy. 374 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,400 I just wanted to see Mr. Watts a few minutes. 375 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,400 You're seeing him. 376 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,400 My name is Wyckoff, Mr. Watts. 377 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:35,400 Wyckoff. 378 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,400 You're the one that saw the reporter get it? 379 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,400 Yes, sir. 380 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,400 Just a second. 381 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,400 Nobody bother me a while. 382 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,400 All right, hard guy, what's on your mind? 383 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,400 Well, it's like this, Mr. Watts. 384 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,400 And I told him the whole story. 385 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,400 Everything that had happened, and he just sat there and looked at me. 386 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,400 No expression at all, just sat there and looked at me. 387 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,400 It was like talking to a chair or something. 388 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,400 Even when I showed him the gambling chips Bella found in my bureau drawer, 389 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,400 it didn't seem to mean anything to him. 390 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,400 Two-bit chips for the piker trade. 391 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,400 Anybody could have walked out of here with a handful. 392 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,400 Sorry, I can't help you. 393 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:16,400 I gotta have help. 394 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,400 The cop I told you about, he really thinks I killed that reporter. 395 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:20,400 I don't blame him. 396 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,400 It's a good frame, nothing obvious about it. 397 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,400 Just little things pointing to you. 398 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,400 Good frame, all right, a very good frame. 399 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,400 But I didn't do it, honest I didn't. 400 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,400 I know you didn't, but there's nothing I can do to help. 401 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:32,400 Sorry. 402 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,400 What makes you so sure I didn't kill the guy? 403 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,400 Nothing I can do. 404 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,400 I just asked why you're so sure I didn't kill him. 405 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,400 Because I know who did. 406 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,400 Because I paid an out of town torpedo 1500 rockers for the job. 407 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,400 Well, well then. 408 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,400 You expect to tell that to the police? 409 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,400 You've gone to Mr. Watts, I could get the chair for this. 410 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,400 So could I, you or me. 411 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,400 Then you won't do nothing? 412 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,400 No, it's a tough break for you, like I said. 413 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,400 I'm sorry, but that's the way the ball bounces. 414 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,400 If you think I'm going to take this lying down, you're crazy. 415 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,400 Maybe you're not so tough as you think. 416 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:05,400 I've got a couple... 417 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,400 Our friend's getting hard again, outside with him, Roy. 418 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,400 I'm not going anywhere. 419 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:10,400 You heard the man, outside. 420 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:11,400 No. 421 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,400 Hey look, I don't get no pleasure slapping people around. 422 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,400 Outside before... 423 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,400 Hey, a raid. 424 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:18,400 Yeah. 425 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,400 Should open up. 426 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,400 Let them pound their way in this time. 427 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,400 Maybe you'll talk for the cops, Mr. Pigeon Watts. 428 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,400 What'll I do with this monkey pigeon? 429 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,400 Why a raid? I mean why right now, this minute? 430 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,400 Who cares why? They're here and that's a... 431 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,400 I'll tell you why, Wyckoff. 432 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,400 If so, you and I get pulled in together. 433 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,400 You got a car outside? 434 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:35,400 I'm staying right here. 435 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,400 Cops ain't brainless, Wyckoff. 436 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,400 They're pretty sure I ponied up for that killing. 437 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,400 The only place they went wrong, they figured I paid you for the job. 438 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,400 They'd have paced us both before this if they could have found any connection between us. 439 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:47,400 So what? 440 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,400 So this. If they nab us together in this raid, it takes care of the connection. 441 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,400 You're right, hot guy. Now will you get out of here? 442 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,400 But how'd the cops know I'd be here? 443 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,400 Whoever's framing you planted those chips so you'd come here. 444 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,400 He even knew when you'd come and he tipped off the police a $10,000 phone call. 445 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,400 Yeah. Yeah. 446 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,400 Now beat it. Open the window, Roy. 447 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,400 You're all right, Watts. 448 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,400 You can think pretty fast. You just told me the answer. 449 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,400 I think I can find the guy now. 450 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,400 That's fine. Go on, kid. Out the window. 451 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:16,400 It's two stories down. 452 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,400 All right, it's two stories down. 453 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:19,400 I can make it. 454 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,400 So long, hot guy. 455 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,400 Oh! Oh, my leg! 456 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,400 Oh, my back! My leg! 457 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,400 I'll make it. 458 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,400 I gotta make it. I gotta know. 459 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,400 I gotta know who's the guy. 460 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,400 Nobody's following, Joey. 461 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,400 You can slow down now. 462 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,400 What happened in there? 463 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,400 Your leg hurt, Joey? 464 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,400 You're looking so funny. 465 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,400 Who's the guy, Bella? 466 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,400 These roads are wet, Joey. Not so fast. 467 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,400 Who's the guy? 468 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,400 What guy? What are you talking about? 469 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,400 The guy, Bella. The guy you're framing me with. 470 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,400 You crazy or something, Joey? 471 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:06,400 Slow down. 472 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,400 Not until you tell me the name of the guy. 473 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,400 I don't know what you're talking about, even. 474 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,400 I'm talking about you getting rid of your husband 475 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,400 and collecting $10,000 at the same time. 476 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,400 You weren't smart enough to figure it out yourself, Bella. 477 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,400 Somebody had to tell you what to say, how to act. 478 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:21,400 Who was it? 479 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,400 Joey, please, you'll kill us both. 480 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,400 Those gambling chips. 481 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,400 You planted them in my bureau yourself. 482 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:28,400 No, no, no. 483 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,400 Then while I was in the gambling joint, 484 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,400 you slipped away and telephoned the guy, 485 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:33,400 and he tipped off the cops. 486 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:34,400 Oh, honest, Joey. 487 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,400 There ain't no way out of it, Bella. 488 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,400 You're the only one knew I was with Pidgeon Watts. 489 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,400 Oh, you gotta believe me, Joey. 490 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,400 Who's the guy you phoned, Bella? 491 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,400 Watch out, Joey! 492 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,400 Who's the guy, Bella? 493 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,400 All right, Joey. 494 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,400 I'll tell you. 495 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,400 Only slow down. 496 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,400 It was Hugo, Joey. 497 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,400 Sure. 498 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,400 The gun in the locker room, sure. 499 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,400 It had to be Hugo. 500 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,400 Oh, it wasn't like you think, Joey. 501 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,400 It was just when you were away on a job, 502 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,400 Hugo'd take me out dancing once in a while. 503 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,400 And who gave me those out of town halls? 504 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,400 Hugo. 505 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,400 My good friend Hugo. 506 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,400 When I blabbed to him about you having been in jail, 507 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,400 he got this idea telling Officer Callan, 508 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,400 I didn't think what it would mean, Joey. 509 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,400 I just didn't think. 510 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,400 And then when it started, 511 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,400 there didn't seem any way to stop it. 512 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,400 You know I love you, Joey. 513 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,400 Crazy kid. 514 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,400 Can't we start all over, Joey? 515 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,400 Like it never happened? 516 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,400 Crazy, crazy kid. 517 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,400 Please, Joey. 518 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,400 Please. 519 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,400 I won't never see Hugo no more. 520 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,400 Oh, Joey, please forgive me. 521 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,400 I forgive you, crazy kid. 522 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,400 Oh, Joey. 523 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,400 Oh, my God! 524 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,400 Oh, my God! 525 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,400 So Bella's dead. 526 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,400 Killed in an accident, the newspaper said. 527 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,400 But maybe it wasn't really an accident. 528 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,400 But what you may call him here at the hospital, 529 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,400 a psychiatrist, he says lots of automobile accidents happen 530 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,400 and the drivers want them without knowing they want them. 531 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,400 Down underneath they want them, that isn't. 532 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,400 And they get careless. 533 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,400 He says that any... 534 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,400 Yeah? 535 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,400 It's me, boy. 536 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,400 Officer Callan. 537 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,400 Oh, you. 538 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,400 The nurse said I could only stay a minute. 539 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,400 I'm sorry, Joe. 540 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,400 I'm sorry what happened. 541 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,400 Not your fault. 542 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,400 I wanted you to know, we got the guy that killed the reporter. 543 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,400 Professional gunman. 544 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,400 He's still singing down at headquarters. 545 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,400 Pigeon Watts won't like the tune. 546 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,400 Good. Yes, well. 547 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,400 And Joe, that guy, that Hugo, 548 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,400 he won't be getting any more bright ideas for a while. 549 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,400 I talked to some people at the plant and, well, 550 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,400 Hugo's job is waiting for you when you get out of here. 551 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,400 That's well, Callan. 552 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,400 Thanks a lot. 553 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,400 About, you know, your wife. 554 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,400 The only thing to do is try to forget everything that happened. 555 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,400 Sure. 556 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,400 Be seeing you soon, boy. 557 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,400 And, well, I'm sorry. 558 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,400 Try to forget it, he says. 559 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,400 Forget. 560 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,400 Forget it. 561 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,400 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 562 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,400 Tonight's star, Danny Kay. 563 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,400 Hello? 564 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,400 Mr. Wilcox, did you make your New Year's resolution? 565 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,400 I promised myself the pleasure of another year of telling about Auto Light stay full batteries. 566 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,400 The batteries that need water only three times a year in normal car use. 567 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,400 Auto Light stay full batteries are just one of more than 400 products made by Auto Light 568 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,400 for cars, trucks, planes and boats in 28 plants coast to coast. 569 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:46,400 These include complete electrical systems used as original equipment in many makes of America's finest cars. 570 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:51,400 Batteries, spark plugs, generators, coils, distributors, starting motors, and bullseye sealed beam headlights. 571 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:56,400 All engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly because they're a perfect team. 572 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,400 So don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 573 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:05,400 Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts at your neighborhood service station, car dealer, garage or repair shop. 574 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,400 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 575 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,400 Next Thursday for Suspense, Robert Taylor will be our star. 576 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,400 The play is called Four Hours to Kill and it is, as we say, 577 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,400 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 578 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:28,400 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear and directed by Norman MacDonald. 579 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,400 Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Morrowak and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 580 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,400 I Never Met the Dead Man is an original radio play by William Bruckner. 581 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:40,400 Danny Kay can currently be seen in the Warner Brothers Technicolor production, The Inspector General. 582 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,400 You can buy Auto Light stay full batteries, Auto Light resistor or regular spark plugs, 583 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,400 Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 584 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,400 Switch to Auto Light. 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