WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.720 Suspense! 00:19.720 --> 00:25.760 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present William Powell in the Escape of Lacey Abbott, 00:25.760 --> 00:32.760 a suspense play produced and edited by Williams Fair. 00:34.120 --> 00:35.080 Mr. Wilcox, 00:35.080 --> 00:39.960 I am from the SPCTC. I've come here to register a strong protest. 00:39.960 --> 00:46.360 Now wait a minute, what is this SPCTC? The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Camels. 00:46.360 --> 00:50.360 You can't imagine how you've distressed the dear drama-daries. 00:50.360 --> 00:54.160 You mean because I say auto-lights stay full of batteries, need water only three times a year 00:54.160 --> 00:59.160 in normal car use? The camels feel bad because they have to have water more often? 00:59.160 --> 01:04.160 They positively wince when they hear it. You should see their poor dear faces drop. 01:04.160 --> 01:09.160 Oh, I'm sorry about that. Perhaps I could play up the fact that auto-lights stay full of batteries 01:09.160 --> 01:13.160 have fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate. 01:13.160 --> 01:18.160 Or I might even dramatize the fact that in recent tests based on SAE life cycle standards, 01:18.160 --> 01:25.160 auto-lights stay full of batteries gave 70% longer average life than batteries without stay full features. 01:25.160 --> 01:28.160 Well, anyway, one thing I definitely will say, friends, 01:28.160 --> 01:33.160 it's your pay to see your auto-light battery dealer for an auto-light stay full battery. 01:33.160 --> 01:37.160 Because you're always right with auto-light. 01:37.160 --> 01:42.160 And now, with the Escape of Lacey Abbott and the performance of William Powell, 01:42.160 --> 01:48.160 auto-light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:53.160 --> 01:56.160 Hey you. Yes, you. 01:56.160 --> 01:58.160 The position of authority. Come here. 01:58.160 --> 02:01.160 You can always tell by their voices. 02:01.160 --> 02:03.160 Sign out. Commanding. 02:03.160 --> 02:05.160 The smaller the authority, the more commanding the voice. 02:05.160 --> 02:07.160 You hear me? 02:07.160 --> 02:10.160 Yes, sir. Sign out, you said. Here? 02:10.160 --> 02:12.160 That below where you signed when you came in. 02:12.160 --> 02:14.160 Of course. 02:14.160 --> 02:17.160 A perfect forgery. 02:17.160 --> 02:18.160 I beg your pardon? 02:18.160 --> 02:21.160 Well, I mean your signature is almost an exact copy. 02:21.160 --> 02:23.160 You object? 02:23.160 --> 02:24.160 I know, sir. 02:24.160 --> 02:28.160 You think you're talking to one of your lunatics upstairs? 02:28.160 --> 02:29.160 No. 02:29.160 --> 02:34.160 Sir, always call me sir. Good day. 02:34.160 --> 02:38.160 Good day, Mr. Wesley. Sir. 02:38.160 --> 02:41.160 Outside now, on the steps. 02:41.160 --> 02:44.160 There's the street, the traffic. 02:44.160 --> 02:46.160 Walk slowly. 02:46.160 --> 02:49.160 No need to hurry. No need at all. 02:49.160 --> 02:51.160 That's right. Light a cigarette. 02:51.160 --> 02:53.160 Must be some in the pockets. Yes. 02:53.160 --> 02:56.160 What brand of the late Mr. Westland smoke? 02:56.160 --> 02:58.160 Excellent. Light it. 02:58.160 --> 03:01.160 Might have carried a lighter. 03:01.160 --> 03:05.160 No need to run. 03:05.160 --> 03:08.160 There won't be an alarm for at least 20 minutes. 03:08.160 --> 03:12.160 One look back over the shoulder, casually. 03:12.160 --> 03:19.160 It's pleasant to be on the outside looking in after two years in the Psychopathic Ward in Bellevue. 03:19.160 --> 03:21.160 Oh. 03:21.160 --> 03:23.160 Oh. 03:23.160 --> 03:25.160 Oh. 03:32.160 --> 03:33.160 Well? 03:33.160 --> 03:36.160 This is a restaurant. Are you kidding? 03:36.160 --> 03:38.160 And you're a waitress, a lovely waitress. 03:38.160 --> 03:41.160 Look, do you or don't you want something to eat? 03:41.160 --> 03:43.160 I'd much rather look at you. 03:43.160 --> 03:46.160 Look, mister, I get off at 1 a.m., but right now the boy... 03:46.160 --> 03:48.160 I'm going to take you out of all this. 03:48.160 --> 03:49.160 Oh, sure. 03:49.160 --> 03:51.160 Furs, diamonds, warm against your skin. 03:51.160 --> 03:53.160 Hey, let go of my hand. 03:53.160 --> 03:57.160 Your name is Faye, huh? Embroidered on your uniform. Faye. 03:57.160 --> 03:58.160 Faye, listen to me. 03:58.160 --> 03:59.160 Now look, Romeo. 03:59.160 --> 04:01.160 Listen, this will be the biggest thrill of your life. 04:01.160 --> 04:03.160 I just escaped from Bellevue. 04:03.160 --> 04:04.160 What? 04:04.160 --> 04:08.160 I'm Lacey Abbott. I've been in the Psychopathic Ward in Bellevue for two years. 04:08.160 --> 04:09.160 You don't say. 04:09.160 --> 04:12.160 Nicholas Westland, my lawyer, came to see me. 04:12.160 --> 04:15.160 And when we were alone, I strangled him to death. 04:15.160 --> 04:16.160 Let me go. 04:16.160 --> 04:21.160 Stand still. I changed clothes with him. I signed his name on my way out. It'll be in the papers. 04:21.160 --> 04:25.160 I'm laughing. And I'll back it tonight in a sanctuary mystery. 04:25.160 --> 04:31.160 I had a wife once, Kate. They say I killed her. So I must have killed her. 04:31.160 --> 04:33.160 Sure. You killed her. 04:33.160 --> 04:37.160 No, I didn't. Martin Avery killed her. 04:37.160 --> 04:41.160 Sure. Martin Avery killed her. 04:41.160 --> 04:46.160 You just sit there. Well, I get a glass of water. I'll be back. 04:46.160 --> 05:03.160 We must see Mr. Avery. Oh, yes, definitely, Mr. Avery. 05:03.160 --> 05:04.160 Anyone home? 05:04.160 --> 05:06.160 All right, all right, all right, all right. 05:06.160 --> 05:07.160 Hello, Pop. 05:07.160 --> 05:09.160 Now, what do you want? Got something you want to hawk? 05:09.160 --> 05:12.160 Don't bother me with it. Everybody's selling, nobody's buying. 05:12.160 --> 05:15.160 You got me wrong, Pop. I'm a buyer. I want to buy a 45 automatic. 05:15.160 --> 05:16.160 Got a permit? 05:16.160 --> 05:17.160 No. 05:17.160 --> 05:19.160 You from the police? 05:19.160 --> 05:20.160 No, Pop. 05:20.160 --> 05:22.160 Let's see your wallet. 05:22.160 --> 05:24.160 All right. 05:24.160 --> 05:26.160 Lawyer, huh? 05:26.160 --> 05:27.160 That's right. 05:27.160 --> 05:32.160 Okay. Fifteen dollars. 05:32.160 --> 05:43.160 Thanks, Pop. I won't forget this. And neither will a friend of mine. 05:43.160 --> 05:48.160 Park Avenue. A little late evening call on Martin Avery. 05:48.160 --> 05:53.160 There's the apartment house. First class, Mr. Avery, very first class. 05:53.160 --> 05:58.160 May I blow your brains out, Mr. Martin Avery? Thank you, sir. 05:58.160 --> 06:02.160 How do they say it in the movies? You want it in the belly or the back? 06:02.160 --> 06:07.160 Extre, extre, type a murder in Bellevue, load a thick escape, extre. 06:07.160 --> 06:08.160 Boy? 06:08.160 --> 06:09.160 Type a. 06:09.160 --> 06:10.160 Yes. Just out? 06:10.160 --> 06:11.160 Yeah. 06:11.160 --> 06:12.160 Extre. 06:12.160 --> 06:13.160 Keep the change. 06:13.160 --> 06:14.160 Thanks. 06:14.160 --> 06:17.160 Aren't you scared with a lunatic running loose? 06:17.160 --> 06:29.160 In New York? Murder in Bellevue. 06:29.160 --> 06:34.160 Door unlocked. Hmm. Not thoughtful. 06:34.160 --> 06:42.160 Lavish apartment, Mr. Martin Avery. Lush. Not like it used to be. 06:42.160 --> 06:48.160 All right. Now darling, you just go to bed. No need for you to stay up. I've got work to do. 06:48.160 --> 06:52.160 Ah, I'm going to get these toys off the floor. 06:52.160 --> 06:54.160 Darling, have a good day. 06:54.160 --> 06:56.160 So you're not alone. 06:56.160 --> 06:58.160 Bye, darling. 06:58.160 --> 07:00.160 This must be the study. Yes. 07:00.160 --> 07:02.160 I'm going to go to the toilet and get some salt. 07:02.160 --> 07:05.160 Come right in, Mr. Avery. Please do. 07:05.160 --> 07:10.160 Oh, well, I have to come out and get you. 07:10.160 --> 07:15.160 Good night. 07:15.160 --> 07:17.160 Lacey. 07:17.160 --> 07:19.160 Shut the door. Quietly. 07:19.160 --> 07:20.160 Lacey. 07:20.160 --> 07:21.160 Shut it. 07:21.160 --> 07:23.160 You're in Bellevue. 07:23.160 --> 07:26.160 But you see, I'm not. 07:26.160 --> 07:28.160 They'll find you. 07:28.160 --> 07:33.160 Look. My picture on the front page. Lousy picture. 07:33.160 --> 07:38.160 I could go to work in a delicatessen on the east side. Live in a hole. Never leave Manhattan. Who'd find me? 07:38.160 --> 07:39.160 They'd find you. 07:39.160 --> 07:41.160 They'll find you first. 07:41.160 --> 07:49.160 I don't expect anything from you, Lacey. You're a sick man. I feel sorry for you, but I have my wife and child, my son, here in the apartment. Now, I don't wa- 07:49.160 --> 07:54.160 This gun? It's just to keep your voice down. 07:54.160 --> 07:58.160 It's a toy. It can't hurt. It kills. 07:58.160 --> 08:00.160 Pull the drapes over the window. 08:00.160 --> 08:01.160 What? 08:01.160 --> 08:03.160 Cover the windows. 08:03.160 --> 08:07.160 Ah, will there be any dawn? That's the question. 08:07.160 --> 08:17.160 If there is, you'll see it come up the way I had to see it, for two years, on thick, soft, blind walls. 08:17.160 --> 08:19.160 All right. Now, what do you want? 08:19.160 --> 08:23.160 I waited a long time for this. A long time. 08:23.160 --> 08:24.160 You were down a girl. 08:24.160 --> 08:26.160 Oh, wouldn't you like that? Wouldn't you just? 08:26.160 --> 08:29.160 All right. Now, after all, Lacey, we were friends. 08:29.160 --> 08:30.160 What? 08:30.160 --> 08:31.160 You used to see better, Martin. 08:31.160 --> 08:32.160 What? 08:32.160 --> 08:35.160 Take another look at the paper. 08:35.160 --> 08:38.160 Weston? You killed Weston? 08:38.160 --> 08:46.160 Yeah, you can always find another lawyer. He shouldn't upset you. He wasn't your lawyer. He was mine. Never liked you. Always liked me. 08:46.160 --> 08:48.160 He was trying to help you. 08:48.160 --> 08:49.160 He did. 08:49.160 --> 08:51.160 What do you want with me? 08:51.160 --> 08:52.160 Company. 08:52.160 --> 08:53.160 Company? 08:53.160 --> 09:07.160 That's what I missed most of all, Martin. Can you believe that? Company. Two years. No one to talk to. All the doctors, sure, but not really anyone. Two years, Martin. 09:07.160 --> 09:10.160 I'm sorry, Lacey. I... 09:10.160 --> 09:12.160 How is everything? 09:12.160 --> 09:14.160 Going very well. 09:14.160 --> 09:26.160 I have to admire you, Martin, standing there looking at this 45. You're not even blinking. It takes nerve to face a madman. See, in the paper, that's what they call me, a madman, with a gun in his hand. 09:26.160 --> 09:35.160 You never know what a madman will do, Martin. It takes nerve to stand there looking at me like that. No expression. Cold. 09:35.160 --> 09:49.160 They should put a drink in your hand and photograph you. Oh, yes, we could read the magazines in Bellevue. Those that wouldn't excite us with the staples removed. But Martin, you're not listening to me. You're watching the door. 09:49.160 --> 09:54.160 Relax, Martin. It's going to be a long night. 09:54.160 --> 09:57.160 Maybe you won't see the end of it. 09:57.160 --> 10:07.160 It depends. It depends on whether you say the things I want to hear, whether you do things I like. It's up to me. 10:07.160 --> 10:10.160 I waited a long time. 10:10.160 --> 10:13.160 And now, it's up to me. 10:13.160 --> 10:42.160 Auto Light is bringing you William Powell and the Escape of Lacey Abbott, tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 10:42.160 --> 10:44.160 Well, Mr. Wilcox, have you made up your mind? 10:44.160 --> 10:46.160 How about camels, you mean? You bet I have. 10:46.160 --> 10:47.160 And? 10:47.160 --> 10:56.160 You can tell your camel friends that Harlow Wilcox will never again shame them with Auto Light's staples full of batteries, the batteries that need water only three times a year in normal car use. 10:56.160 --> 10:58.160 Oh, they'll be overjoyed. 10:58.160 --> 11:08.160 You can undroup the dreary dromedaries by reporting that Wilcox will no longer imply that Auto Light's staples full of batteries are ruining Camel's go-without-water reputation. 11:08.160 --> 11:10.160 How elated they'll be. 11:10.160 --> 11:18.160 From now on, I'll merely mention that Auto Light's staples full of batteries have fiberglass retaining mats at every positive plate for longer battery life. 11:18.160 --> 11:29.160 Recent tests, in fact, based on SAE life cycle standards, show that Auto Light's staples full of batteries give 70% longer average life than batteries without staples full of features. 11:29.160 --> 11:34.160 So get an Auto Light's staples full of battery, friends, at your Auto Light battery dealer. 11:34.160 --> 11:37.160 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 11:37.160 --> 11:51.160 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage our star, William Powell, with John McIntyre in the escape of Lacey Abbott, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 11:56.160 --> 11:57.160 Look at him. 11:57.160 --> 12:04.160 Look at Martin Avery, standing alone in the study of his better homes and gardens apartment. 12:04.160 --> 12:08.160 Alone, with only me to keep you company. 12:08.160 --> 12:12.160 Yes, everything must be going exceptionally well for you. 12:12.160 --> 12:19.160 But I notice as I move about the study turning off the lamps that there's a trace of perspiration on your forehead. 12:19.160 --> 12:25.160 Does it affect you, just a little, being alone with a madman and a gun at night? 12:25.160 --> 12:29.160 What's taking place behind the steady eyes, Martin? 12:29.160 --> 12:31.160 Are you thinking? 12:31.160 --> 12:33.160 That would be fatal. 12:33.160 --> 12:36.160 That was my mistake, thinking too much. 12:36.160 --> 12:38.160 Watch me, Martin, that's right. 12:38.160 --> 12:41.160 I want you to keep watching me. 12:41.160 --> 12:44.160 But then you can't help but think about it. 12:44.160 --> 12:46.160 Think about what? 12:46.160 --> 12:48.160 Whatever comes into your mind as you watch me. 12:48.160 --> 12:50.160 The police will be here for you, Lacey. 12:50.160 --> 12:53.160 But why should the police want me? 12:53.160 --> 12:54.160 You killed a man. 12:54.160 --> 12:57.160 Yes, but you killed a woman. 12:57.160 --> 13:00.160 Now listen, Lacey, I can help you. 13:00.160 --> 13:06.160 I'll get you some of my clothes, I can call a cab, get you to a small hotel somewhere where they won't recognize you. 13:06.160 --> 13:09.160 Don't talk like that, everybody talks to me like that. 13:09.160 --> 13:11.160 You just come along with me, we know best. 13:11.160 --> 13:19.160 Lacey, it's just a matter of time. 13:19.160 --> 13:21.160 Answer it, go on. 13:21.160 --> 13:26.160 But watch what you say, and hold it out here so I can hear it too. 13:26.160 --> 13:28.160 Hello? 13:28.160 --> 13:30.160 Mr. Martin Avery? 13:30.160 --> 13:32.160 Yes, speaking. 13:32.160 --> 13:34.160 I'm Mrs. Nicholas Westland. 13:34.160 --> 13:36.160 I don't know if you've heard. 13:36.160 --> 13:38.160 Lacey Abbott escaped. 13:38.160 --> 13:39.160 My husband... 13:39.160 --> 13:41.160 Yes, I saw the papers. 13:41.160 --> 13:42.160 I'm sorry. 13:42.160 --> 13:45.160 Well, I didn't know, I thought I'd better warn you. 13:45.160 --> 13:49.160 Nicholas told me how much the man hated you. 13:49.160 --> 13:51.160 Thank you for calling, Mrs. Westland. 13:51.160 --> 13:54.160 I hope I'm... 13:54.160 --> 13:55.160 Good night. 13:55.160 --> 13:56.160 Good night, Mrs. Westland. 13:56.160 --> 13:58.160 Are you all right? 13:58.160 --> 14:00.160 Yes, I'm all right. 14:00.160 --> 14:03.160 Good night. 14:03.160 --> 14:05.160 You can hang up, Martin. 14:05.160 --> 14:07.160 Murderer. 14:07.160 --> 14:09.160 Please, Martin. 14:09.160 --> 14:12.160 You know, I'm not responsible for what I do. 14:12.160 --> 14:14.160 You're as responsible as anyone. 14:14.160 --> 14:17.160 You knew what you did when you killed Westland. 14:17.160 --> 14:19.160 Now you're going to say I'm not crazy? 14:19.160 --> 14:20.160 You know what I mean. 14:20.160 --> 14:22.160 I'm either responsible or I'm not. 14:22.160 --> 14:25.160 If I'm responsible then I'm a murderer. 14:25.160 --> 14:31.160 If not, then Nicholas Westland's death was an unfortunate accident. 14:31.160 --> 14:36.160 But that was all taken care of in court two years ago. 14:36.160 --> 14:38.160 Remember? 14:38.160 --> 14:39.160 You testified against me. 14:39.160 --> 14:40.160 I told the truth. 14:40.160 --> 14:41.160 Did you? 14:41.160 --> 14:42.160 Yes. 14:42.160 --> 14:44.160 I was the only one that knew you were lying, Martin. 14:44.160 --> 14:47.160 You know I told the truth. 14:47.160 --> 14:57.160 Where are your wife and your boy sleeping, Martin? 14:57.160 --> 15:00.160 Oh, you're interested now. 15:00.160 --> 15:04.160 For the first time, there's something behind those cool eyes that I can see. 15:04.160 --> 15:06.160 Get out. 15:06.160 --> 15:07.160 What time is it? 15:07.160 --> 15:08.160 Eleven? 15:08.160 --> 15:10.160 Eleven o'clock. 15:10.160 --> 15:12.160 Six hours until dawn. 15:12.160 --> 15:16.160 We should find out quite a lot before then. 15:16.160 --> 15:23.160 Quite a lot. 15:23.160 --> 15:25.160 Should I answer it? 15:25.160 --> 15:27.160 Answer it. 15:27.160 --> 15:29.160 Hold the receiver up, that's right. 15:29.160 --> 15:31.160 Just like before so that I can hear. 15:31.160 --> 15:32.160 Go ahead. 15:32.160 --> 15:33.160 Hello? 15:33.160 --> 15:34.160 Martin Avery? 15:34.160 --> 15:35.160 Yes. 15:35.160 --> 15:37.160 This is Lieutenant Creekmore Police. 15:37.160 --> 15:39.160 What is it, Lieutenant? 15:39.160 --> 15:41.160 Is everything all right up there? 15:41.160 --> 15:44.160 Yes, everything is all right. 15:44.160 --> 15:45.160 You're sure? 15:45.160 --> 15:46.160 Yes. 15:46.160 --> 15:49.160 Have you heard that Lacey Abbott escaped from Bellevue tonight? 15:49.160 --> 15:51.160 I saw it in the late paper. 15:51.160 --> 15:53.160 Oh, and you know about Nicholas Westland? 15:53.160 --> 15:55.160 It was a tragedy. 15:55.160 --> 15:58.160 We thought Abbott was getting better, but, well... 15:58.160 --> 15:59.160 Too bad. 15:59.160 --> 16:03.160 The reason I called you, you know how Lacey Abbott feels about you. 16:03.160 --> 16:05.160 He may try to get you. 16:05.160 --> 16:06.160 You think so? 16:06.160 --> 16:09.160 Well, he might try, but you don't have to worry, Mr. Avery. 16:09.160 --> 16:13.160 I have four of my best men covering the front and rear entrances to your apartment house. 16:13.160 --> 16:16.160 If he shows, we'll get him. 16:16.160 --> 16:17.160 Good night. 16:17.160 --> 16:22.160 Solicitus, we're fortunate in having such a solicitor as police force. 16:22.160 --> 16:25.160 Now, listen, Lacey, I've played your game. 16:25.160 --> 16:27.160 Now, let me get you out of here. 16:27.160 --> 16:29.160 You go down to the second floor landing. 16:29.160 --> 16:32.160 I'll call the men up from downstairs, tell them you're up here, 16:32.160 --> 16:34.160 and that'll give you a chance to get out. 16:34.160 --> 16:36.160 You didn't answer me, Martin. 16:36.160 --> 16:39.160 Where are your wife and son sleeping? 16:39.160 --> 16:40.160 In the back bedroom? 16:40.160 --> 16:43.160 Through that door and straight back down the hall. 16:43.160 --> 16:44.160 The nursery? 16:44.160 --> 16:45.160 Quiet, you. 16:45.160 --> 16:46.160 The nursery! 16:46.160 --> 16:48.160 Just off the bedroom. 16:48.160 --> 16:50.160 How old is your boy? 16:50.160 --> 16:53.160 He's a year and six months. 16:53.160 --> 16:57.160 I remember, somebody told me that you were married while at the trial. 16:57.160 --> 16:58.160 My trial was in progress. 16:58.160 --> 16:59.160 Yes. 16:59.160 --> 17:02.160 One year for the trial, two years in the psychopathic... 17:02.160 --> 17:05.160 I wish there was something I could do for you. 17:05.160 --> 17:06.160 Oh, there is. 17:06.160 --> 17:07.160 What? 17:07.160 --> 17:10.160 Just tell me, why did you kill my wife? 17:13.160 --> 17:15.160 You can see the sweat now. 17:15.160 --> 17:18.160 Yes, in a minute he'll be pulling a handkerchief from his pocket 17:18.160 --> 17:19.160 and wiping at it. 17:19.160 --> 17:22.160 It's taken a lot to shake you, Martin. 17:22.160 --> 17:25.160 You've had it all your own way so long, the money, the good life, 17:25.160 --> 17:26.160 the good married life. 17:26.160 --> 17:27.160 Tell me! 17:27.160 --> 17:28.160 You'll wake him! 17:28.160 --> 17:29.160 Quiet! 17:29.160 --> 17:32.160 Let me tell you a little story, a bedtime story. 17:32.160 --> 17:33.160 Listen to me, Lacey. 17:33.160 --> 17:36.160 Once upon a time there were two men who went into business together. 17:36.160 --> 17:39.160 The business prospered and things looked pretty good. 17:39.160 --> 17:42.160 Each partner had 50% of the stock in the company. 17:42.160 --> 17:44.160 And then along came a big bad man at the corporation 17:44.160 --> 17:46.160 that wanted to buy them out. 17:46.160 --> 17:49.160 One partner wants to sell, the other partner no. 17:49.160 --> 17:52.160 The partner that said no had a wife. 17:52.160 --> 17:53.160 Let's call her Kate. 17:53.160 --> 17:57.160 And it seems his stock was negotiable in Kate's name as well as his own. 17:57.160 --> 17:58.160 Shut up! 17:58.160 --> 18:01.160 The partner that wants to sell, that's you, 18:01.160 --> 18:03.160 pulled a fast one while I'm out of town. 18:03.160 --> 18:05.160 And you've got Kate to sign away everything. 18:05.160 --> 18:07.160 But before I got back she saw what you were doing. 18:07.160 --> 18:10.160 And right there, right there was where she disappeared. 18:10.160 --> 18:11.160 No, now listen to me, Lacey. 18:11.160 --> 18:14.160 And I wonder who it was that saw to it. 18:14.160 --> 18:16.160 I wonder who it was that killed her. 18:16.160 --> 18:18.160 You're still out of your mind. 18:18.160 --> 18:19.160 That's just a fantasy. 18:19.160 --> 18:21.160 Just a fantasy, yeah? 18:21.160 --> 18:24.160 I suppose it's just a fantasy that at the inquest, 18:24.160 --> 18:27.160 a few well-chosen words from you started them looking at me, 18:27.160 --> 18:30.160 wondering about me, wondering why I was away. 18:30.160 --> 18:32.160 Or what I'd done with the body, Lacey. 18:32.160 --> 18:35.160 A fantasy that had almost killed me to lose her. 18:35.160 --> 18:37.160 Yes, I was out of my mind then. 18:37.160 --> 18:41.160 And again, your few well-chosen words. 18:41.160 --> 18:44.160 I've noticed he hadn't been himself lately. 18:44.160 --> 18:46.160 But I just thought it was overworked. 18:46.160 --> 18:47.160 You've got to listen to how I... 18:47.160 --> 18:48.160 Thanks, partner. I do thank you. 18:48.160 --> 18:50.160 And I stand ready to repay you, Martin. 18:50.160 --> 18:51.160 Where's her body? 18:51.160 --> 18:52.160 I don't know. 18:52.160 --> 18:53.160 Martin? 18:53.160 --> 18:54.160 It was never proven she was dead. 18:54.160 --> 18:55.160 I say it was taken for granted. 18:55.160 --> 18:57.160 I did everything I could for you. 18:57.160 --> 18:58.160 Now why don't you... 18:58.160 --> 19:01.160 Four hours until dawn. 19:01.160 --> 19:04.160 But I can see it now, Martin. 19:04.160 --> 19:07.160 If you try hard enough, you can see it too. 19:07.160 --> 19:08.160 On the wall. 19:08.160 --> 19:10.160 Give me the gun. 19:10.160 --> 19:13.160 Advanced psychology, huh? 19:13.160 --> 19:14.160 You must have been studying. 19:14.160 --> 19:15.160 Give me the gun. 19:15.160 --> 19:17.160 Response to the command, isn't that the way it goes? 19:17.160 --> 19:20.160 Response to the command sometimes works the impossible. 19:20.160 --> 19:23.160 The surgical sometimes obey your command against his better judgment. 19:23.160 --> 19:24.160 Give it to me! 19:24.160 --> 19:25.160 Now, Martin! 19:25.160 --> 19:26.160 Give it to me! 19:26.160 --> 19:27.160 You can do better than that. 19:27.160 --> 19:28.160 Hey! 19:28.160 --> 19:29.160 More! More noise! 19:29.160 --> 19:32.160 Someone might come in to see! 19:32.160 --> 19:34.160 That's better. 19:34.160 --> 19:35.160 You know, I could have killed you. 19:35.160 --> 19:37.160 Why didn't you? 19:44.160 --> 19:45.160 Brave man, Martin Avery. 19:45.160 --> 19:47.160 You can't take that away from him. 19:47.160 --> 19:51.160 That's why it takes thought. 19:51.160 --> 19:53.160 Watch me, Martin. 19:53.160 --> 19:56.160 I'm walking to the door. 19:56.160 --> 19:57.160 That's right. 19:57.160 --> 19:58.160 Don't miss a move. 19:58.160 --> 20:01.160 See, I'm locking the door. 20:01.160 --> 20:03.160 So there'll be no sudden intrusion. 20:03.160 --> 20:09.160 What would you do if I walked over to that door, unlocked it, walked out? 20:09.160 --> 20:13.160 First I'd shoot you in the shoulder, or the leg. 20:13.160 --> 20:15.160 And then maybe the other shoulder. 20:15.160 --> 20:17.160 I don't want you dead. 20:17.160 --> 20:19.160 Not right away. 20:19.160 --> 20:21.160 I'd never find out what I want to know. 20:21.160 --> 20:23.160 They say, can't you understand what you're doing? 20:23.160 --> 20:24.160 I never harmed you. 20:24.160 --> 20:25.160 I swear it. 20:25.160 --> 20:27.160 I swear it. 20:27.160 --> 20:29.160 Martin, can you hear me? 20:29.160 --> 20:31.160 You better answer. 20:31.160 --> 20:32.160 Yes, I can hear you. 20:32.160 --> 20:33.160 Watch what you say. 20:33.160 --> 20:34.160 I can shoot right through that door. 20:34.160 --> 20:36.160 Are you all right? 20:36.160 --> 20:38.160 Martin? 20:38.160 --> 20:39.160 Yes. 20:39.160 --> 20:42.160 Please, honey, I'm finishing something important. 20:42.160 --> 20:44.160 Come to bed. 20:44.160 --> 20:46.160 In a little while. 20:46.160 --> 20:48.160 Why did you lock the door? 20:48.160 --> 20:50.160 Why? 20:50.160 --> 20:51.160 Why, I don't remember. 20:51.160 --> 20:53.160 I just did. 20:53.160 --> 20:54.160 Are you feeling all right, darling? 20:54.160 --> 20:56.160 Yes. 20:56.160 --> 20:58.160 Please, I'll be finished soon. 20:58.160 --> 21:00.160 Is there someone in there with you? 21:00.160 --> 21:02.160 Martin? 21:02.160 --> 21:04.160 No. 21:04.160 --> 21:06.160 I thought I had... 21:06.160 --> 21:07.160 I was... 21:07.160 --> 21:08.160 Go back to bed. 21:08.160 --> 21:09.160 Open the door, Martin. 21:09.160 --> 21:11.160 I want to see that you're all right. 21:11.160 --> 21:12.160 Open it, no. 21:12.160 --> 21:13.160 I'll stand right behind the door. 21:13.160 --> 21:14.160 Get rid of her. 21:14.160 --> 21:16.160 Martin! 21:22.160 --> 21:23.160 Is anything wrong? 21:23.160 --> 21:25.160 No, darling. 21:25.160 --> 21:27.160 Please, go back to bed like a good girl. 21:27.160 --> 21:29.160 I'll be alone. 21:29.160 --> 21:32.160 Well, all right. 21:32.160 --> 21:33.160 Better talk. 21:33.160 --> 21:35.160 It's 3 o'clock. 21:38.160 --> 21:40.160 Sit at the desk, Martin. 21:40.160 --> 21:43.160 Let me see the light on your face. 21:43.160 --> 21:45.160 Are you happy with her? 21:45.160 --> 21:48.160 Yes, I see you are. 21:48.160 --> 21:50.160 How is she like Kate? 21:50.160 --> 21:52.160 Is she like Kate at all? 21:52.160 --> 21:55.160 No, but she's your wife and she's Kate to you. 21:55.160 --> 21:57.160 Does the light trouble your eyes? 21:57.160 --> 21:59.160 It glares? 21:59.160 --> 22:01.160 Just a little light. 22:01.160 --> 22:04.160 But it glares white in the dark as you stare at it. 22:04.160 --> 22:07.160 Beyond that pool of light, everything is black, Martin. 22:07.160 --> 22:09.160 Black as it is in me. 22:09.160 --> 22:11.160 Black. 22:11.160 --> 22:13.160 Stare into the black. 22:13.160 --> 22:16.160 Now what do you see? 22:16.160 --> 22:19.160 What do you see? 22:19.160 --> 22:22.160 I see her too. 22:22.160 --> 22:23.160 Everywhere I look. 22:23.160 --> 22:25.160 Everywhere. 22:25.160 --> 22:30.160 The worldly hope men set their hearts upon turns ashes. 22:30.160 --> 22:33.160 Lord, it prospers. 22:33.160 --> 22:36.160 From an on like snow upon the desert's dusty face, 22:36.160 --> 22:40.160 lighting a little hour or two is gone. 22:40.160 --> 22:43.160 Homer Ty-am, Martin. 22:43.160 --> 22:44.160 Ah, she's beautiful, Martin. 22:44.160 --> 22:47.160 Your wife, beautiful. 22:47.160 --> 22:49.160 Believe the wise to talk. 22:49.160 --> 22:53.160 One thing is certain, that life flies. 22:53.160 --> 22:58.160 One thing is certain, and the rest is lies. 22:58.160 --> 23:03.160 The flower that once has blown forever dies. 23:03.160 --> 23:05.160 Dies. 23:05.160 --> 23:07.160 Dies! 23:07.160 --> 23:12.160 You wouldn't do that. 23:12.160 --> 23:13.160 You couldn't. 23:13.160 --> 23:14.160 I could, Martin. I could. 23:14.160 --> 23:16.160 No, she had nothing to do. 23:16.160 --> 23:18.160 Money, I'll give you money. 23:18.160 --> 23:20.160 Enough so you can find your way out. 23:20.160 --> 23:22.160 They can't do anything to you if you have money. 23:22.160 --> 23:24.160 That's not what I want to hear. 23:24.160 --> 23:25.160 Where is Kate's body? 23:25.160 --> 23:26.160 I don't know. 23:26.160 --> 23:27.160 Tell me! 23:27.160 --> 23:29.160 I can't! 23:29.160 --> 23:31.160 Through the door and down the hall. 23:31.160 --> 23:32.160 No, just off the bedroom. 23:32.160 --> 23:34.160 Not the boy. 23:34.160 --> 23:35.160 You can't, Lacey. 23:35.160 --> 23:36.160 Tell me! 23:36.160 --> 23:37.160 I can't. 23:37.160 --> 23:39.160 Lacey! 23:39.160 --> 23:41.160 Don't come on me in. 23:41.160 --> 23:42.160 Come back. 23:42.160 --> 23:43.160 Come back. 23:43.160 --> 23:44.160 You can't, Lacey. 23:44.160 --> 23:46.160 Hey! 23:46.160 --> 23:47.160 Hey! 23:47.160 --> 23:52.160 I'll lock the door and make me mad! 23:52.160 --> 23:55.160 Don't go by here anymore. 23:55.160 --> 23:56.160 I'll kill! 23:56.160 --> 23:59.160 I'll kill! 23:59.160 --> 24:01.160 I'll kill. 24:01.160 --> 24:07.160 Oh, for God's sake. 24:07.160 --> 24:09.160 I'll kill. 24:09.160 --> 24:11.160 ["The Star Spangled Banner"] 24:29.160 --> 24:31.160 Nicholas Westland speaking. 24:32.160 --> 24:33.160 Yes, yes. 24:34.160 --> 24:35.160 I know, Commissioner. 24:35.160 --> 24:38.160 And I'm glad you had the faith to play along with us. 24:39.160 --> 24:40.160 I know, yes. 24:41.160 --> 24:42.160 It was pretty extreme. 24:43.160 --> 24:44.160 Here, I'll let you talk to Lieutenant Creekmore. 24:45.160 --> 24:46.160 Oh, thank you. 24:46.160 --> 24:47.160 Hello, Commissioner. 24:48.160 --> 24:49.160 Avery's wife and child? 24:49.160 --> 24:50.160 Oh, they're okay. 24:51.160 --> 24:54.160 I got a little scared when Abbott fired those two shots in the ceiling. 24:55.160 --> 24:56.160 Yeah, I know. 24:57.160 --> 24:58.160 But that's what got the confession out of Avery. 24:59.160 --> 25:00.160 I know he shouldn't have brought the gun. 25:01.160 --> 25:02.160 We didn't bargain on that. 25:03.160 --> 25:04.160 Oh, yeah, we got it. 25:04.160 --> 25:05.160 It's all on tape. 25:06.160 --> 25:07.160 Listen, all right, play it back, boys. 25:08.160 --> 25:09.160 I'm just playing the good part. 25:11.160 --> 25:12.160 It doesn't matter now. 25:13.160 --> 25:14.160 Nothing matters now. 25:16.160 --> 25:17.160 You were wrong, Gracie. 25:18.160 --> 25:19.160 It was Kate that came to me. 25:21.160 --> 25:22.160 She wanted to leave you. 25:24.160 --> 25:25.160 She thought she wanted me. 25:27.160 --> 25:29.160 It was her idea to sign the stock over to me. 25:30.160 --> 25:31.160 Everything. 25:31.160 --> 25:34.160 I killed it early on, but she found out about Ann. 25:36.160 --> 25:37.160 Ann. 25:39.160 --> 25:40.160 It doesn't matter now. 25:41.160 --> 25:42.160 I tried to talk to Kate. 25:43.160 --> 25:44.160 It was an argument. 25:44.160 --> 25:45.160 We had a fight. 25:46.160 --> 25:48.160 I didn't mean to, but it was an accident. 25:49.160 --> 25:50.160 I killed her. 25:51.160 --> 25:53.160 I fixed it so they'd suspect you. 25:54.160 --> 25:55.160 It wasn't hard. 25:55.160 --> 25:56.160 It was better than I thought. 25:56.160 --> 26:00.160 You seemed to be out of your mind. 26:01.160 --> 26:02.160 Where did you put her body? 26:03.160 --> 26:04.160 I've kept it. 26:05.160 --> 26:06.160 All right, boys, that's enough. 26:07.160 --> 26:08.160 Did you get that? 26:09.160 --> 26:10.160 Yeah. 26:11.160 --> 26:13.160 Well, we'd never have cracked Martin Avery any other way. 26:14.160 --> 26:16.160 They wanted to release Lacey Abbott six months ago. 26:17.160 --> 26:18.160 Why, they said he was as sane as I am. 26:19.160 --> 26:21.160 But I'm glad we waited until he had this worked out in his head. 26:22.160 --> 26:24.160 Actually, I'm glad we waited until he had this worked out in his head. 26:24.160 --> 26:25.160 You'll have my full report tomorrow. 26:26.160 --> 26:28.160 Good night, and thanks, Commissioner, for letting us try it. 26:30.160 --> 26:32.160 Well, what's the matter, Mr. Abbott? 26:33.160 --> 26:35.160 You should be feeling pretty good about all this. 26:36.160 --> 26:37.160 Your plan worked out great. 26:38.160 --> 26:39.160 Well, you're clear. 26:40.160 --> 26:42.160 What difference does that make? 26:44.160 --> 26:47.160 He said Kate came to him. 26:47.160 --> 26:53.160 Kate came to him. 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