1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Suspense! 2 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Autolite and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Ronald Reagan 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:31,000 One and One's Alonesome, a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Extraordinary! Extraordinary! 5 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Autolite spark plugs, I presume, Remmingchester? 6 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:42,000 No, the Australian platypus, Wilcox. Simply extraordinary. Why you... 7 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Why, it's not half as extraordinary as wide-gap autolite resistor spark plugs. 8 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:52,000 The newest addition to the complete line of regular transport, aviation, resistor, marine, and model spark plugs. 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Ignition engineered by Autolite. 10 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 You should have been on my big Australian platypus hunt. 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Remmingchester, have you ever hunted for special money savings advantages? 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Well, you can find them in the wide-gap autolite resistor spark plugs. 13 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 You see, because of the built-in 10,000 ohm exclusive autolite resistor, 14 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 which makes a wider gap setting practical, 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:17,000 you get double life under equal conditions compared to spark plugs without the built-in resistor. 16 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Greater gas saving, too, smoother performance, and faster starts in cold weather. 17 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Evidently platypuses do not interest you. 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Oh, yes, they do, they do. But I'm fascinated with the wide-gap autolite resistor spark plug. 19 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,000 So, friends, see your friendly autolite spark plug dealer tomorrow. 20 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Have him replace worn-out spark plugs with ignition engineered autolite spark plugs. 21 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Whether you choose the resistor type or the regular type, you'll be right, 22 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 because you're always right with autolite. 23 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 And now, with one and one's a lonesome, and the performance of Ronald Reagan, 24 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 autolite hopes once again to keep you in... 25 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 suspense! 26 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 My name's George, George Bellock. 27 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Right now I'm on a trip. 28 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Not alone. No, I've got company. 29 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 She's a few days behind me, but we're getting off at the same stop. 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Her name's Marie, but don't let that tag fool you. 31 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 She's as U.S. as the American League. 32 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 I haven't seen her since yesterday, and I don't know what she's wearing. 33 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:25,000 But five will get you ten. The outfit's silk and covers her body like a cellophane wrapper. 34 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,000 I met her about two weeks ago, right after she married the guy I worked for, Henry Grover. 35 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,000 He owns a lumber yard just outside of town. 36 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 He'd been working hard and figured he was ripe for a vacation. 37 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 He hired me to manage the place while he was away. 38 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,000 I put him on a train one night, didn't hear from him for two months. 39 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,000 I was sorry to hear from him then. 40 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:50,000 I'd put a few improvements in, and the take was making me forget I ever had any money troubles. 41 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 I got a postcard saying he'd met a nice babe and married her. 42 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 I tossed off a couple of drinks in honor of the occasion and relaxed. 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,000 I figured she'd talk him into staying in the city, and I could buy the shop. 44 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 That was before I met her. I've never been so wrong. 45 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 There he is, Marie, honey. Hello there, George. 46 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Welcome home, Henry. 47 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Ah, good to see you again, boy. Well, here she is. 48 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Marie, this is George Bellic. George has been managing the office for me. 49 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Hello, manager. 50 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Hi. Here, Henry, let me help you with those bags. 51 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Oh, thanks. How's business? 52 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 I told Marie all about the place, some of the things I got in mind. 53 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Pretty good. Guess you'll be building that new house now, huh, Henry? 54 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Oh, not this year. Thinking about painting the old room, though. 55 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 I have a few ideas, too, you know. 56 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 And pretty good ones, too. 57 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 I wouldn't be surprised if the place didn't pick up and make some money. 58 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 I wouldn't be surprised. 59 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 I don't suppose you'll be staying on now Henry's back, will you, George? 60 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Oh, well, of course he'll be staying. 61 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 I don't know. I haven't thought much about it. 62 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Well, a lumberyard doesn't need three, manager. 63 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Well, for real. 64 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Doesn't need two? 65 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 When two is one, that's different. 66 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 That's right, George. One and one makes one, you know. 67 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Yeah. That's when threes are crowds. 68 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Oh, you. Come on in. 69 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Would you like some coffee? 70 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Yeah. Thanks. 71 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Thought you were with Henry. 72 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 He's over in the warehouse. 73 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Alone? 74 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Yeah. 75 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 I don't think you're glad to see us, George. 76 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Why should I be? 77 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 My name's on your check. 78 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Your husband's name? 79 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Listen, tell me something, will you? 80 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Like what? 81 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Like how come you two got married? 82 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Love. 83 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 It hits you fast. 84 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Sometimes. 85 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Planning to be with him long? 86 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 No. 87 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000 The top heavy contest and he's outclassed. 88 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 That's nothing to me. 89 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 That's good. 90 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 How'd you happen to bring him back here? 91 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Why didn't you keep him at home? 92 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 I felt like a change. 93 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,000 He bailed you out? 94 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Yeah. Out of a dance hall. 95 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 I suppose you just stole the tickets. 96 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Not exactly. 97 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Okay. Okay. 98 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Slave to queen. How does it feel? 99 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 It's a bit creepy. 100 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Let me ask you one. 101 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 What are you going to do for a job now? 102 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Manage this lumber business? 103 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,000 No, you're not. 104 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:30,000 You don't own it. 105 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Don't believe everything you read on a piece of paper. 106 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 I own it. 107 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 And there's no room for you. 108 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 You know, your new husband's in for a kind of a surprise. 109 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 What kind of a surprise? 110 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 I mean, when he hits the warehouse. 111 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 What about it? 112 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 There's a room over in the back part. 113 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 One of the walls is holding up a row of slot machines. 114 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 And there's a table on the floor that worked made for checkers. 115 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Gambling? 116 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 That's right. 117 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Henry didn't mention that. 118 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 That's the surprise. 119 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Well, I guess I don't have to worry any about getting rid of you. 120 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Henry will take care of that. 121 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 You think so? 122 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,000 How's business in the back room? 123 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Like a girly show on Iwo Jima. 124 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Where's the money? 125 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,000 In the bank. 126 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Your bank? 127 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 My bank. 128 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,000 George, can I see you a minute? 129 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Sure, Henry. 130 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Come on in here, why don't you? 131 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 I'd rather handle this alone, honey, if you don't mind. 132 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Come on, George. 133 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Oh, you told me I could help you. 134 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Now something's come up and you're shutting me out of it. 135 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,000 It has nothing to do with that. 136 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,000 This is something new. 137 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 You may as well let her in on it. 138 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 She knows all about it anyway. 139 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 You told her? 140 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Sure. 141 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 I figured I was telling the manager. 142 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 One and one makes one, remember? 143 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 All right. 144 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 George, I left you to run a lumber yard. 145 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 I didn't want any improvement. 146 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Especially I didn't want any improvements like I just saw over there. 147 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Dice tables, slot machines, I don't know what all. 148 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 I don't see how you moved at all in two months. 149 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Two days, but you're right, it wasn't easy. 150 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,000 George, when I came back I thought we'd all work together. 151 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 There's a place for you here. 152 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 And I'll go on paying you the same salary. 153 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Wouldn't be much compared to what you've been making on the side, is that it? 154 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Business has been pretty good up till now. 155 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Well, then it's all over. 156 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,000 And this is goodbye. 157 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 I'm sorry. 158 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 No easy money for you, huh? 159 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Not when it's breaking the law. 160 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,000 You can stay on here tonight, but in the morning get those machines and dice tables together and get out. 161 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 They're not going anyplace and neither am I. 162 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 But you're breaking the law. 163 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Tomorrow morning I'm throwing out all that stuff. 164 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Where are you going to throw it? 165 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Out anywhere. 166 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 I don't know. 167 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,000 I don't care where. 168 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 If you throw it outside and leave it, somebody will see it and talk to the police. 169 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,000 If you try and have it moved out, I'll call them myself. 170 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Any way you look at it, they're going to want the owner of this place for gambling. 171 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 And you're the owner. 172 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:56,000 George, you bought the stuff. 173 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 I didn't know anything about it. 174 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,000 I don't even know where you got it. 175 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 I've been away. 176 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I can prove that. 177 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 You don't scare me. 178 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 In your name I bought the stuff and in your name I ran the place. 179 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 I'm just a hired man working here. 180 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 They'll want the boss. 181 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,000 And you're the boss, just like always, Henry. 182 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Well, then you're closing down tomorrow. 183 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,000 If I can't run a decent shop, I won't run any. 184 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 All right, close down. 185 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 But if the police get a tip, they'll think all you do out here is gamble. 186 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Oh, what's got into you, son? 187 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Two months ago I gave you a job and you were glad to get it. 188 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 What's got into you anyway? 189 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,000 He found a way to make some money. 190 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Yeah, a lot of money. 191 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,000 The take is good here. 192 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,000 When I got your postcard, I thought I'd seen the last of you. 193 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 I was going to pay you for the place and let it go at that. 194 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 How about it? 195 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 What's the price? 196 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 No price. 197 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 I'm not selling it to you or anybody else. 198 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,000 How about $15,000? 199 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 In cash? 200 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Sure, cash. 201 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,000 You haven't saved that much from this place in two months. 202 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I'll get the money. 203 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Got about 8,000 now. 204 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Couple of months, I'll have the rest. 205 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 I wouldn't trust you for a three-cent stamp. 206 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Never mind, Marie, honey. 207 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Now, look, I'm not selling, George, and that's the end of it. 208 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 And we're partners. 209 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 Not in anything like this we're not. 210 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 You'll like it fine when the money starts coming in. 211 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I don't want anything to do with it. 212 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Okay, you won't have anything to do with it. 213 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 You take care of the lumber business. 214 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,000 I'll handle the rest. 215 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,000 I told you now, for the last time. 216 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Fine, listen, listen. 217 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 We don't want any trouble with the police. 218 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,000 There isn't going to be any trouble with the police. 219 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,000 The way he tells it there is. 220 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 He's got us over a barrel. 221 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 I've been clearing pretty near a thousand bucks a week. 222 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 There isn't much I wouldn't do for that kind of money. 223 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 We better think it over, honey. 224 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 We better think over what to do. 225 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Well, that's the idea. 226 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Think it over. 227 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Think it over, both of you. 228 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,000 The minute I saw her, I knew that was the way I was going to have to play it. 229 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,000 I knew I wouldn't get far with him. 230 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 But with her, it was different. 231 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 There wasn't much I wouldn't do for that kind of money. 232 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,000 There wasn't anything she wouldn't do. 233 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 I knew I'd planted the seed and I knew how it'd grow. 234 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:07,000 I knew how she'd go to work on him that night, almost as though I'd been in the room. 235 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Henry, what are you going to do about George? 236 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Oh, I don't know, honey. 237 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,000 He's a good man. 238 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,000 He must be in with bad crowd, that's all. 239 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Yeah, that's likely. 240 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,000 He's played the angles so long they're round. 241 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 I like George. 242 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 That's why I hired him. 243 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,000 If he's in with the wrong bunch, oh, that's all right. 244 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 He'll come out of it. 245 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 You're going to let him go on gambling? 246 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 I don't know what to say. 247 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 You said yourself he had to... 248 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Henry, you could take him up on it. 249 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,000 On what? 250 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,000 His proposition. 251 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:38,000 At least for a while. 252 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Oh, but I... 253 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,000 You could pretend to. 254 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Oh, no, I don't like that. 255 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Anyway, where would that get you? 256 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 It'd get you a 50-50 cut on a thousand dollars a week in the meantime. 257 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,000 No, Marie, I don't want it. 258 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,000 I don't want any part of it. 259 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,000 You heard what he said. 260 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 He said he'd do anything for that kind of money. 261 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Oh, he didn't mean anything... 262 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 No. 263 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 I know what I'd do. 264 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 I'd put a bullet in his head. 265 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Oh, now, Marie, don't talk that way. 266 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,000 That isn't even funny. 267 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:06,000 What are you going to do? 268 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Let him take over your business right out from under your nose? 269 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 He's a gambler and a thief. 270 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Henry, if you called him on it, if you had it out with him and he started anything, 271 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 it'd be self-defense. 272 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Why, no jury in the world would hold you on it. 273 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 What are you talking about? 274 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,000 I'm telling you. 275 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Don't be silly. 276 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,000 I'm certainly not going to do anything like that. 277 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 All right, all right, don't. 278 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 See what happens. 279 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 I wish I knew what was going to happen. 280 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Well, I'll tell you. 281 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,000 You want to know? 282 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Oh, just let me try to think, can't you? 283 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Think? 284 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 What do you suppose he's thinking about? 285 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Well, he said... 286 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 I know what he said. 287 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Listen to me, Henry. 288 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000 It's him or you. 289 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Don't you see that? 290 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Three's a crowd. 291 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 That's what he's thinking about. 292 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Murder. 293 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Yeah, I knew pretty much what they were talking about in there. 294 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 I knew this dame pretty well. 295 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:02,000 It only needed a day of knowing her to know that a word like murder was part of her natural-born vocabulary. 296 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:07,000 To know that she could cut a guy's throat and think no more of it than clipping one of her fingernails. 297 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I didn't know just then who was going to get murdered. 298 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:17,000 I found out. 299 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Auto Light is bringing you Ronald Reagan in One and One's Alonesome. 300 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 301 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Hey, Harlow. 302 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,000 I saw lots of kangaroos in Australia, too. 303 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Why, their tails are... 304 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:57,000 You don't say why Remmingchester the kangaroo's tail is as unique in the animal world as the Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor is in the spark plug world. 305 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:05,000 It's the newest addition to the complete line of regular transport aviation, resistor, marine, and model spark plugs ignition engineered by Auto Light. 306 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Willcocks, you ought to see the starting power of those critters. 307 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Man, they've got nothing on the Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs. 308 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:24,000 They give fast starts even in cold weather, smoother performance too on leaner gas mixtures, greater gas saving, even double life under equal conditions compared to spark plugs without the built in resistor. 309 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:33,000 And it's all because of the 10,000 ohm Auto Light Resistor built right into every Auto Light Resistor spark plug to make a wider gap setting practical. 310 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 I said you should see... 311 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Your friendly Auto Light spark plug dealer tomorrow. Have him replace worn out spark plugs with ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs. 312 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Whether you choose the resistor type or the regular type, you'll be right because you're always right with Auto Light. 313 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:59,000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage our star Ronald Reagan with Kathy Lewis in One and One's Alonesome. 314 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:07,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 315 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Tonight after Henry and his new wife came home, I didn't open up the back room in the warehouse. 316 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,000 I put in the new table and counted out the profits for the week. 317 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 I took a fair share over to Grover, but he read negative all the way. 318 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,000 When he turned down that money, Marie tried on a face she must have been saving for Jack the Ripper. 319 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 She knew he wasn't going to change his mind. 320 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:32,000 She could see I was set to pocket big money on a four hour schedule in the back room, 321 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:38,000 while their take after 16 hours in the lumber yard would look like a piggy bank night before Christmas. 322 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:43,000 I said good night and left them alone to what promised to be a rotten evening for both. 323 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,000 I went over to the garage where I'd fixed myself up a little cot. 324 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:55,000 I was mixing the paint we were using on the house the next day, but I hadn't been at it more than half an hour when I had a visitor. 325 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 This is a surprise. 326 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:02,000 I broke my fingernail. 327 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Thought you might have a nail clipper. 328 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,000 See it? Isn't it pretty? 329 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Yeah. 330 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Do you have one? 331 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000 What? 332 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,000 A nail clipper. On your key chain maybe? 333 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Sure, here. Wait, let me do it for you. 334 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Long and pointed. Like a pussycat. 335 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,000 They can scratch too. Like them? 336 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Sure. There you are. What'll I do with the victim? 337 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Keep it for a souvenir. 338 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,000 You mind my coming to see you? 339 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Not if your husband doesn't. 340 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 He doesn't? No, I'm here. 341 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 He will if he thinks real hard. 342 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,000 I don't care. I wanted to see you. 343 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Need more light? 344 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,000 No, no, this is fine. 345 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Henry's not strong, you know. 346 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Well, he wasn't wearing a lion's skin when you married him. 347 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 It all happened so fast, I wanted to get out of that dance hall. 348 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Oh yeah, the dance hall. 349 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Well, that's the price of love. 350 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Or have you changed your mind? 351 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Yeah, I changed my mind. 352 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 That's easy to do when it's all over. 353 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Is it all over? 354 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 You married him. 355 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 He's not strong. Maybe something will happen to him. 356 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Not likely. Nothing ever has. 357 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 I did. 358 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Don't you like me? 359 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Huh? 360 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 I like you. 361 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 I like it here. I don't want to leave. 362 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,000 I don't want to go anywhere. 363 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,000 I don't want my head turning into a home for your husband's bullets. 364 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,000 This the paint you're using tomorrow? 365 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Yeah, your healthy husband and I. 366 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Using ladders? 367 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:47,000 No, we'll swing a couple of platforms on pulleys with ropes. 368 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Why, want to learn to paint? 369 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:54,000 No, thanks. I'm worried about Henry up on one of those things. 370 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 He's not as strong as you are. 371 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Yeah, I know. 372 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 If he happened to fall off, he might be hurt. 373 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 If he fell on the cement drive, it might break his neck. 374 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 That's right. 375 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Do the ropes ever break? 376 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Not often enough to make the odds good for betting. 377 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Could you make them break? 378 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Huh? 379 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Could you fix the ropes so they'd break when he got to the top? 380 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Not on your life. I'm happy with my little racket. 381 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 I'm not taking any chances killing anybody. 382 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Then he'll kill you. Take your choice. 383 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,000 How long do you think you'll watch that money going into your pocket? 384 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,000 How long do you think you'll take that gambling? 385 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Keep talking. 386 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,000 It'll be accidental, no murder at all. 387 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,000 When he's dead, I get the warehouse and the house. 388 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 You get me. 389 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,000 What's in it for you? 390 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,000 You are? 391 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 As simple as that. 392 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,000 And I'll take a cut on those backroom profits. 393 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Go on. 394 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Henry's been talking about painting the house. 395 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,000 I got the idea when he told me about a fellow doing the same thing 396 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 who fell and was killed. 397 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000 If anything like that ever happened to him, he said I wouldn't have to worry. 398 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Everything was taken care of. 399 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Why do you cut me in? 400 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 I told you. 401 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Because I like you. 402 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 And because you couldn't cut me out. 403 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Can you fix the rope so it'll break when you want it to? 404 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:16,000 No. 405 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 But I could fix it so it would break. 406 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000 There'd have to be somebody else here, a witness, to see it was an accident. 407 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,000 I already thought of that. 408 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Son of his. Jim Brandon. 409 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000 You figured every angle, haven't you? 410 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 You'll get your chance. 411 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Okay. The rope will break. 412 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Get it fixed up tonight? 413 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Okay. 414 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Where'll you leave it? 415 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 There'll be two platforms. One for me, one for him. 416 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 I'll take them both over to the house tonight before I go to bed. 417 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Put the one for Henry by the office. 418 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Put yours by the house. 419 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Yeah. 420 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,000 I don't want you to be around tomorrow when Henry and Brandon set them up. 421 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 That way nobody can say that you had anything to do with it. 422 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Don't worry. We won't have any trouble. 423 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,000 We better not. 424 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,000 I'm risking a lot for you. 425 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 I won't forget it, baby. 426 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Don't. 427 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,000 This is what the movies call love. 428 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,000 You like it? 429 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 I'm getting to like it. 430 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 It's easy learning. 431 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 I hope I won't have to forget. 432 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,000 I'll worry about that. 433 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Let's talk some more. 434 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000 You got more to say? 435 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Mm-hmm. 436 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Lots more. 437 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Mm. 438 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,000 Things are gonna be different around here after tomorrow. 439 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Yeah. That's right. 440 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Just you and me. 441 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,000 And the backroom gold mine. 442 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Think we'll make you happy? 443 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000 I'm willing to take a chance. 444 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I better be getting back to the house. 445 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,000 Sure. It's Grover's last night. 446 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Good night, Georgie. 447 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Don't disappoint me. 448 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Is that hard? 449 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 I had gloves with me when I came in here. 450 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 You did. Here they are. 451 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Oh. 452 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Well? 453 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000 I think I'll keep them. 454 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,000 What's the idea? 455 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I want a souvenir. 456 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 I'm not going anywhere. 457 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Maybe I'll tuck them under my pillow. 458 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 This is what the movies call love. 459 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000 After she left, I sat there thinking. 460 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Those gloves didn't help me clear my head of me. 461 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,000 They smelled like the powder room in the Club Paris. 462 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 I liked the way she handled Grover. 463 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Sure, the kid was bright. 464 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 The plan looked sure fire. 465 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,000 With a payoff in fancy living written especially for happy homes. 466 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,000 I strung together a couple of ropes and a pulley on two wooden boards 467 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 and called it a platform. 468 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 The next one took more time. 469 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,000 I spent a few minutes burning the rope where it had rest on the pulley 470 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 when the platform was up near the top. 471 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 I pulled it apart a little with my fingers, 472 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,000 made sure it wouldn't hold much weight for long. 473 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000 I fixed it just the way I wanted it. 474 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 And I slipped it through the pulley, anchored it on the boards, 475 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,000 and had myself another platform, different from the first. 476 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 But looking just the same. 477 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000 I put the good one by the house and the other next to the shop. 478 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 By the time I was through, it was nearly daylight, 479 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 and I lay down in the cot. 480 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 The next thing I knew, she was shaking me. 481 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Come on, come on, wake up, come on. 482 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,000 They're ready to start. 483 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Him and his pal are out there now waiting for you. 484 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Oh, oh yeah. 485 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Where are they? 486 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Out in the yard. 487 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 The platforms? 488 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Yeah, they've already got them set up. 489 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Okay. 490 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,000 It won't be long now, baby. 491 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Are you nervous? 492 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Sure. 493 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 Like a sack of laundry. 494 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Don't let me fool you. 495 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I'm scared when the time comes it won't work. 496 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Forget it. 497 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 That rope won't hold a hundred pounds, five minutes. 498 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,000 And anything that hits that concrete will be dead before you catch your breath. 499 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,000 How did you fix the rope? 500 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 I burned it. 501 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Nobody will notice it. 502 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,000 I pulled it apart a little. 503 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Just enough to hold it together while he's getting to the top. 504 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 We'll let Brandon pull you both up. 505 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Nobody has to pull us both up. 506 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,000 We can lift our own. 507 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 There's a rope from the pulley that'll hoist her lower. 508 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Okay. 509 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,000 Come on. 510 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 A few minutes, and you'll be the new owner around here. 511 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,000 And I'll be talking about Mary and my boss. 512 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Yeah. 513 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 That's right, Julie. 514 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 A few minutes, things will be swell. 515 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,000 Which one of them picked up the rope by the shop? 516 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Brandon, his pal. 517 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Then it's on the right side of the drive. 518 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000 That's the bad one. 519 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Are you sure? 520 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Sure. 521 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,000 That's the one for Henry. 522 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,000 I wonder how long it takes to fall three stories. 523 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Three, maybe four seconds? 524 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 I don't know. 525 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 When the rope breaks, you count it. 526 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000 I'll be busy trying to look surprised. 527 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:31,000 I want Brandon to go into town telling everybody about the accident we had out here. 528 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Don't overdo it. 529 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,000 You're no actor. 530 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000 I'll keep my eyes on you, baby. 531 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 That's a good idea. 532 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,000 Matter of fact, I'm going to make a habit of... 533 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Hiya, George. 534 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,000 You bring the paint? 535 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Yeah, Henry, right here. 536 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Oh, you know Jim Brandon, don't you? 537 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Yeah, we met. 538 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Hiya, George. 539 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Hello, Mr. Clover. 540 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Hello. 541 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Well, might as well get going. 542 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000 With all this waiting around, I've kind of lost the mood for painting. 543 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,000 It's like gambling, Henry. 544 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Once you begin, you feel like you never belong anywhere else. 545 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Yeah, George, I've got a couple of things I want to talk to you about. 546 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Not now, Henry. 547 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 You've been talking about nobody being ready to paint. 548 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Now we're all ready, so let's paint. 549 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 All right, all right. 550 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 But when we're finished, George, come over to the house. 551 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000 I want to talk with you. 552 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Sure, Henry. 553 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Maybe I was a little hasty last night. 554 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Right after we get through, I'll be waiting for you. 555 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000 George must think he's a pretty fast painter. 556 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,000 We're going to be all finished in the house before you get down over the platform, Henry. 557 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Well, we'll see about that. 558 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 I've done my share of painting, too. 559 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 You'll have to jump some to beat me, George. 560 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,000 I guess you're right. 561 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 You two going to stand there all day? 562 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,000 That's right, Mrs. Clover. 563 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Neither of them can paint well enough to make this old place look any better. 564 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 Oh, I don't know. 565 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,000 I was telling Henry this morning, this time he bought a new house for his pretty new wife. 566 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Oh, thank you, Mr. Brandon. 567 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,000 But as long as we have this house and the paint's right here, 568 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 we may as well go ahead and paint, don't you think? 569 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Oh, sure, sure. 570 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Oh, you're right, honey. 571 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Well, come on, George, let's get going. 572 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,000 Can I help you, Henry? 573 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,000 No, thanks. 574 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 We can pull ourselves up, can't we, George? 575 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Yeah, that's right. 576 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Come on, let's stand over here out of the way, Mr. Brandon. 577 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000 I want to watch this. 578 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Sure thing. 579 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 You ever seen house painting before? 580 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Oh, yeah, yeah. 581 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 Never anything quite like this. 582 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000 Yeah? Well, they're pretty good at it. 583 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000 Hey, this is kind of a rickety contraption. 584 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Is it going to hold? 585 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Oh, sure, sure. 586 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,000 What's the matter, George? 587 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000 You having trouble? 588 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Oh, just watching. 589 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Well, now you've seen how it's done. 590 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 You come on up in the sky. 591 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Be right with you, Henry. 592 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Hey, Brandon, when I get to the top, 593 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,000 will you tie this rope to the bucket of paint and pass it up? 594 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Right, Henry. 595 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 All right. 596 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Keep pulling, George. 597 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 He's beating you up there. 598 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,000 Hey, easy does it, George. 599 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 That's no elevator. 600 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Don't worry about me. 601 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,000 You got your own problems. 602 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,000 OK, Jim, pass up the paint. 603 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 You ready to do, George? 604 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Hey, I think the rope was slipping on the pulley. 605 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 I don't feel anything. 606 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000 I don't see anything wrong with the pulley. 607 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000 It's breaking with the pulley! 608 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Like I told you, I'm on a trip. 609 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 But it's no honeymoon. 610 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,000 A couple of hours ago, 611 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,000 170 pounds of Henry Grover hit the cement driveway. 612 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Then I got the surprise of my life. 613 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 It lasted just two seconds before I hit two. 614 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 I thought I was as safe as a glass of water. 615 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:34,000 But I was just another fall guy because both platforms gave way. 616 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 I'd never thought of that angle. 617 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Two partners make more dough than three. 618 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000 But one owner without a partner makes the most. 619 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000 No, I didn't think of that. 620 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000 But I had thought of a couple of others just in case. 621 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 The fingernail, for instance. 622 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 They gave me maybe half a day to live. 623 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 So I told it to them, the cops, 624 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 almost the way it happened. 625 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 And when I got through, 626 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,000 I didn't even have to hint at those other couple of angles. 627 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,000 They found it out all by themselves. 628 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 And then they brought in Marie. 629 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Oh, George, George. 630 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,000 Doctor, is he... will he... 631 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Give it, baby. They know all about it. 632 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Know all about what? 633 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,000 My name is Williams, Lieutenant Homicide. 634 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,000 Homicide? 635 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 These are your gloves, Mrs. Grover? 636 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Yes, they're mine. 637 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,000 We found them in sort of a funny place. 638 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,000 In the tool shed where all those painting platforms were fixed up. 639 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,000 I don't see how that... 640 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Did you know those ropes were burned and frayed? 641 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Somebody pulled them apart and burned them. 642 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 George did it. It was all his idea. 643 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,000 Sure funny guy wanted to bump himself off. 644 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Let me see your hands. 645 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 Nice hands. 646 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Nice nails. 647 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,000 One of them's broke off, huh? 648 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 What of it? 649 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,000 We found it. 650 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,000 In the rope where somebody pulled it apart. 651 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 We want you for murder. 652 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,000 The Doctor says he'll be right behind me. 653 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Yeah, like I said, I'm going on a little trip any minute now, the Doc says. 654 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,000 But she'll be right behind me. 655 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000 Suspense, presented by the Doctor. 656 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Suspense, presented by Auto Light. 657 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Tonight's star, Ronald Reagan, with Kathy Lewis. 658 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:45,000 Say, Harrow, it seems to make no difference whether I'm talking about kangaroos or platypuses. 659 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 It always reminds you of Auto Light. 660 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Well, that's as natural as you're a naturalist, Reming Chester, 661 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:57,000 because Auto Light makes more than 400 products for cars, trucks, planes, and boats in 28 plants coast to coast. 662 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:03,000 These include complete electrical systems used as original equipment on many makes of America's finest cars. 663 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Spark plugs, batteries, generators, coils, distributors, starting motors, bullseye, sealed beam headlights. 664 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:14,000 All engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly, because they're a perfect team. 665 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,000 So don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 666 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Ask for and insist on Auto Light, original factory parts at your neighborhood service station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 667 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 668 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:32,000 ["Suspense Theme"] 669 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,000 Next Thursday for Suspense, our star will be Joseph Cotton. 670 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,000 The play is called Blood Sacrifice, and it is, as we say, 671 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:45,000 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 672 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear and directed by Norman MacDonald. 673 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,000 Music for Suspense is composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 674 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000 One-in-one's Alonesome was written for radio by Nelson Sykes. 675 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Ronald Reagan may currently be seen in the Warner Brothers production, The Hasty Heart. 676 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,000 In the coming weeks, you will hear such stars as Cary Grant, Dan Daly, and Arthur Godfrey. 677 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:13,000 Don't forget, next Thursday same time, Auto Light will present Suspense starring Joseph Cotton. 678 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,000 ["Suspense Theme"] 679 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,000 You can buy Auto Light resistor or regular spark plugs, Auto Light safe-full batteries, 680 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 681 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,000 Switch to Auto Light. 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