WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Suspense! 00:17.000 --> 00:21.000 Autolite and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Ronald Reagan 00:21.000 --> 00:31.000 One and One's Alonesome, a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear. 00:31.000 --> 00:33.000 Extraordinary! Extraordinary! 00:33.000 --> 00:36.000 Autolite spark plugs, I presume, Remmingchester? 00:36.000 --> 00:42.000 No, the Australian platypus, Wilcox. Simply extraordinary. 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No, I've got company. 02:06.000 --> 02:10.000 She's a few days behind me, but we're getting off at the same stop. 02:10.000 --> 02:13.000 Her name's Marie, but don't let that tag fool you. 02:13.000 --> 02:16.000 She's as U.S. as the American League. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 I haven't seen her since yesterday, and I don't know what she's wearing. 02:19.000 --> 02:25.000 But five will get you ten. The outfit's silk and covers her body like a cellophane wrapper. 02:25.000 --> 02:30.000 I met her about two weeks ago, right after she married the guy I worked for, Henry Grover. 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 He owns a lumber yard just outside of town. 02:33.000 --> 02:36.000 He'd been working hard and figured he was ripe for a vacation. 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 He hired me to manage the place while he was away. 02:39.000 --> 02:43.000 I put him on a train one night, didn't hear from him for two months. 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 I was sorry to hear from him then. 02:45.000 --> 02:50.000 I'd put a few improvements in, and the take was making me forget I ever had any money troubles. 02:50.000 --> 02:54.000 I got a postcard saying he'd met a nice babe and married her. 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 I tossed off a couple of drinks in honor of the occasion and relaxed. 02:58.000 --> 03:02.000 I figured she'd talk him into staying in the city, and I could buy the shop. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 That was before I met her. I've never been so wrong. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 There he is, Marie, honey. Hello there, George. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Welcome home, Henry. 03:15.000 --> 03:18.000 Ah, good to see you again, boy. Well, here she is. 03:18.000 --> 03:22.000 Marie, this is George Bellic. George has been managing the office for me. 03:22.000 --> 03:23.000 Hello, manager. 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 Hi. Here, Henry, let me help you with those bags. 03:26.000 --> 03:29.000 Oh, thanks. How's business? 03:29.000 --> 03:33.000 I told Marie all about the place, some of the things I got in mind. 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 Pretty good. Guess you'll be building that new house now, huh, Henry? 03:36.000 --> 03:39.000 Oh, not this year. Thinking about painting the old room, though. 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 I have a few ideas, too, you know. 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 And pretty good ones, too. 03:43.000 --> 03:46.000 I wouldn't be surprised if the place didn't pick up and make some money. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 I wouldn't be surprised. 03:48.000 --> 03:52.000 I don't suppose you'll be staying on now Henry's back, will you, George? 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Oh, well, of course he'll be staying. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 I don't know. I haven't thought much about it. 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 Well, a lumberyard doesn't need three, manager. 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 Well, for real. 04:01.000 --> 04:02.000 Doesn't need two? 04:02.000 --> 04:04.000 When two is one, that's different. 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 That's right, George. One and one makes one, you know. 04:08.000 --> 04:11.000 Yeah. That's when threes are crowds. 04:20.000 --> 04:25.000 Oh, you. Come on in. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Would you like some coffee? 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 Yeah. Thanks. 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 Thought you were with Henry. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 He's over in the warehouse. 04:32.000 --> 04:33.000 Alone? 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 Yeah. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 I don't think you're glad to see us, George. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 Why should I be? 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 My name's on your check. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 Your husband's name? 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 Listen, tell me something, will you? 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 Like what? 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 Like how come you two got married? 04:49.000 --> 04:50.000 Love. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 It hits you fast. 04:52.000 --> 04:53.000 Sometimes. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 Planning to be with him long? 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 No. 04:57.000 --> 05:00.000 The top heavy contest and he's outclassed. 05:00.000 --> 05:01.000 That's nothing to me. 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 That's good. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 How'd you happen to bring him back here? 05:05.000 --> 05:06.000 Why didn't you keep him at home? 05:06.000 --> 05:08.000 I felt like a change. 05:08.000 --> 05:09.000 He bailed you out? 05:09.000 --> 05:12.000 Yeah. Out of a dance hall. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 I suppose you just stole the tickets. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 Not exactly. 05:17.000 --> 05:19.000 Okay. Okay. 05:19.000 --> 05:21.000 Slave to queen. How does it feel? 05:21.000 --> 05:23.000 It's a bit creepy. 05:23.000 --> 05:25.000 Let me ask you one. 05:25.000 --> 05:27.000 What are you going to do for a job now? 05:27.000 --> 05:28.000 Manage this lumber business? 05:28.000 --> 05:29.000 No, you're not. 05:29.000 --> 05:30.000 You don't own it. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 Don't believe everything you read on a piece of paper. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 I own it. 05:35.000 --> 05:37.000 And there's no room for you. 05:37.000 --> 05:40.000 You know, your new husband's in for a kind of a surprise. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 What kind of a surprise? 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 I mean, when he hits the warehouse. 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 What about it? 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 There's a room over in the back part. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 One of the walls is holding up a row of slot machines. 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 And there's a table on the floor that worked made for checkers. 05:53.000 --> 05:54.000 Gambling? 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 That's right. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 Henry didn't mention that. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 That's the surprise. 05:59.000 --> 06:04.000 Well, I guess I don't have to worry any about getting rid of you. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 Henry will take care of that. 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 You think so? 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 How's business in the back room? 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Like a girly show on Iwo Jima. 06:12.000 --> 06:13.000 Where's the money? 06:13.000 --> 06:14.000 In the bank. 06:14.000 --> 06:15.000 Your bank? 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 My bank. 06:17.000 --> 06:20.000 George, can I see you a minute? 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 Sure, Henry. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Come on in here, why don't you? 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 I'd rather handle this alone, honey, if you don't mind. 06:25.000 --> 06:26.000 Come on, George. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 Oh, you told me I could help you. 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 Now something's come up and you're shutting me out of it. 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 It has nothing to do with that. 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 This is something new. 06:33.000 --> 06:35.000 You may as well let her in on it. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 She knows all about it anyway. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 You told her? 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 Sure. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 I figured I was telling the manager. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 One and one makes one, remember? 06:43.000 --> 06:47.000 All right. 06:47.000 --> 06:50.000 George, I left you to run a lumber yard. 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 I didn't want any improvement. 06:52.000 --> 06:55.000 Especially I didn't want any improvements like I just saw over there. 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 Dice tables, slot machines, I don't know what all. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 I don't see how you moved at all in two months. 07:01.000 --> 07:04.000 Two days, but you're right, it wasn't easy. 07:04.000 --> 07:08.000 George, when I came back I thought we'd all work together. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 There's a place for you here. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 And I'll go on paying you the same salary. 07:12.000 --> 07:17.000 Wouldn't be much compared to what you've been making on the side, is that it? 07:17.000 --> 07:20.000 Business has been pretty good up till now. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 Well, then it's all over. 07:22.000 --> 07:23.000 And this is goodbye. 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 I'm sorry. 07:24.000 --> 07:25.000 No easy money for you, huh? 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 Not when it's breaking the law. 07:27.000 --> 07:32.000 You can stay on here tonight, but in the morning get those machines and dice tables together and get out. 07:32.000 --> 07:35.000 They're not going anyplace and neither am I. 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 But you're breaking the law. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 Tomorrow morning I'm throwing out all that stuff. 07:39.000 --> 07:40.000 Where are you going to throw it? 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 Out anywhere. 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 I don't know. 07:42.000 --> 07:43.000 I don't care where. 07:43.000 --> 07:46.000 If you throw it outside and leave it, somebody will see it and talk to the police. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 If you try and have it moved out, I'll call them myself. 07:49.000 --> 07:53.000 Any way you look at it, they're going to want the owner of this place for gambling. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 And you're the owner. 07:55.000 --> 07:56.000 George, you bought the stuff. 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 I didn't know anything about it. 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 I don't even know where you got it. 07:59.000 --> 08:00.000 I've been away. 08:00.000 --> 08:01.000 I can prove that. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 You don't scare me. 08:03.000 --> 08:06.000 In your name I bought the stuff and in your name I ran the place. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 I'm just a hired man working here. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 They'll want the boss. 08:10.000 --> 08:13.000 And you're the boss, just like always, Henry. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 Well, then you're closing down tomorrow. 08:15.000 --> 08:18.000 If I can't run a decent shop, I won't run any. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 All right, close down. 08:20.000 --> 08:24.000 But if the police get a tip, they'll think all you do out here is gamble. 08:24.000 --> 08:26.000 Oh, what's got into you, son? 08:26.000 --> 08:29.000 Two months ago I gave you a job and you were glad to get it. 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 What's got into you anyway? 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 He found a way to make some money. 08:33.000 --> 08:35.000 Yeah, a lot of money. 08:35.000 --> 08:36.000 The take is good here. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 When I got your postcard, I thought I'd seen the last of you. 08:39.000 --> 08:42.000 I was going to pay you for the place and let it go at that. 08:42.000 --> 08:43.000 How about it? 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 What's the price? 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 No price. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 I'm not selling it to you or anybody else. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 How about $15,000? 08:49.000 --> 08:50.000 In cash? 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 Sure, cash. 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 You haven't saved that much from this place in two months. 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 I'll get the money. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 Got about 8,000 now. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 Couple of months, I'll have the rest. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 I wouldn't trust you for a three-cent stamp. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 Never mind, Marie, honey. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 Now, look, I'm not selling, George, and that's the end of it. 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 And we're partners. 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 Not in anything like this we're not. 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 You'll like it fine when the money starts coming in. 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 I don't want anything to do with it. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 Okay, you won't have anything to do with it. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 You take care of the lumber business. 09:14.000 --> 09:15.000 I'll handle the rest. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 I told you now, for the last time. 09:17.000 --> 09:18.000 Fine, listen, listen. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 We don't want any trouble with the police. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 There isn't going to be any trouble with the police. 09:22.000 --> 09:23.000 The way he tells it there is. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 He's got us over a barrel. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 I've been clearing pretty near a thousand bucks a week. 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 There isn't much I wouldn't do for that kind of money. 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 We better think it over, honey. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 We better think over what to do. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 Well, that's the idea. 09:37.000 --> 09:38.000 Think it over. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 Think it over, both of you. 09:46.000 --> 09:49.000 The minute I saw her, I knew that was the way I was going to have to play it. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 I knew I wouldn't get far with him. 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 But with her, it was different. 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 There wasn't much I wouldn't do for that kind of money. 09:56.000 --> 09:59.000 There wasn't anything she wouldn't do. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 I knew I'd planted the seed and I knew how it'd grow. 10:02.000 --> 10:07.000 I knew how she'd go to work on him that night, almost as though I'd been in the room. 10:07.000 --> 10:10.000 Henry, what are you going to do about George? 10:10.000 --> 10:12.000 Oh, I don't know, honey. 10:12.000 --> 10:13.000 He's a good man. 10:13.000 --> 10:16.000 He must be in with bad crowd, that's all. 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 Yeah, that's likely. 10:17.000 --> 10:20.000 He's played the angles so long they're round. 10:20.000 --> 10:21.000 I like George. 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 That's why I hired him. 10:22.000 --> 10:25.000 If he's in with the wrong bunch, oh, that's all right. 10:25.000 --> 10:26.000 He'll come out of it. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 You're going to let him go on gambling? 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 I don't know what to say. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 You said yourself he had to... 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 Henry, you could take him up on it. 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 On what? 10:36.000 --> 10:37.000 His proposition. 10:37.000 --> 10:38.000 At least for a while. 10:38.000 --> 10:39.000 Oh, but I... 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 You could pretend to. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 Oh, no, I don't like that. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Anyway, where would that get you? 10:44.000 --> 10:48.000 It'd get you a 50-50 cut on a thousand dollars a week in the meantime. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 No, Marie, I don't want it. 10:50.000 --> 10:51.000 I don't want any part of it. 10:51.000 --> 10:52.000 You heard what he said. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 He said he'd do anything for that kind of money. 10:54.000 --> 10:55.000 Oh, he didn't mean anything... 10:55.000 --> 10:57.000 No. 10:57.000 --> 11:00.000 I know what I'd do. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 I'd put a bullet in his head. 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Oh, now, Marie, don't talk that way. 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 That isn't even funny. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 What are you going to do? 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 Let him take over your business right out from under your nose? 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 He's a gambler and a thief. 11:11.000 --> 11:15.000 Henry, if you called him on it, if you had it out with him and he started anything, 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 it'd be self-defense. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 Why, no jury in the world would hold you on it. 11:19.000 --> 11:20.000 What are you talking about? 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 I'm telling you. 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 Don't be silly. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 I'm certainly not going to do anything like that. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 All right, all right, don't. 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 See what happens. 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 I wish I knew what was going to happen. 11:30.000 --> 11:31.000 Well, I'll tell you. 11:31.000 --> 11:32.000 You want to know? 11:32.000 --> 11:33.000 Oh, just let me try to think, can't you? 11:33.000 --> 11:34.000 Think? 11:34.000 --> 11:35.000 What do you suppose he's thinking about? 11:35.000 --> 11:36.000 Well, he said... 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 I know what he said. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 Listen to me, Henry. 11:40.000 --> 11:41.000 It's him or you. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 Don't you see that? 11:43.000 --> 11:44.000 Three's a crowd. 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 That's what he's thinking about. 11:46.000 --> 11:47.000 Murder. 11:47.000 --> 11:54.000 Yeah, I knew pretty much what they were talking about in there. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 I knew this dame pretty well. 11:56.000 --> 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. 12:02.000 --> 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. 12:07.000 --> 12:10.000 I didn't know just then who was going to get murdered. 12:10.000 --> 12:17.000 I found out. 12:17.000 --> 12:23.000 Auto Light is bringing you Ronald Reagan in One and One's Alonesome. 12:23.000 --> 12:41.000 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 Hey, Harlow. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 I saw lots of kangaroos in Australia, too. 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 Why, their tails are... 12:48.000 --> 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. 12:57.000 --> 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. 13:05.000 --> 13:10.000 Willcocks, you ought to see the starting power of those critters. 13:10.000 --> 13:13.000 Man, they've got nothing on the Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor spark plugs. 13:13.000 --> 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. 13:24.000 --> 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. 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 I said you should see... 13:35.000 --> 13:43.000 Your friendly Auto Light spark plug dealer tomorrow. 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Isn't it pretty? 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 Yeah. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 Do you have one? 15:11.000 --> 15:12.000 What? 15:12.000 --> 15:15.000 A nail clipper. On your key chain maybe? 15:15.000 --> 15:20.000 Sure, here. Wait, let me do it for you. 15:20.000 --> 15:24.000 Long and pointed. Like a pussycat. 15:24.000 --> 15:28.000 They can scratch too. Like them? 15:28.000 --> 15:32.000 Sure. There you are. What'll I do with the victim? 15:32.000 --> 15:35.000 Keep it for a souvenir. 15:35.000 --> 15:38.000 You mind my coming to see you? 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 Not if your husband doesn't. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 He doesn't? No, I'm here. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 He will if he thinks real hard. 15:44.000 --> 15:47.000 I don't care. I wanted to see you. 15:47.000 --> 15:48.000 Need more light? 15:48.000 --> 15:52.000 No, no, this is fine. 15:52.000 --> 15:54.000 Henry's not strong, you know. 15:54.000 --> 15:57.000 Well, he wasn't wearing a lion's skin when you married him. 15:57.000 --> 15:59.000 It all happened so fast, I wanted to get out of that dance hall. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 Oh yeah, the dance hall. 16:01.000 --> 16:04.000 Well, that's the price of love. 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 Or have you changed your mind? 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 Yeah, I changed my mind. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 That's easy to do when it's all over. 16:10.000 --> 16:11.000 Is it all over? 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 You married him. 16:13.000 --> 16:16.000 He's not strong. Maybe something will happen to him. 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 Not likely. Nothing ever has. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 I did. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 Don't you like me? 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 Huh? 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 I like you. 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 I like it here. I don't want to leave. 16:28.000 --> 16:31.000 I don't want to go anywhere. 16:31.000 --> 16:35.000 I don't want my head turning into a home for your husband's bullets. 16:35.000 --> 16:38.000 This the paint you're using tomorrow? 16:38.000 --> 16:42.000 Yeah, your healthy husband and I. 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 Using ladders? 16:43.000 --> 16:47.000 No, we'll swing a couple of platforms on pulleys with ropes. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 Why, want to learn to paint? 16:49.000 --> 16:54.000 No, thanks. I'm worried about Henry up on one of those things. 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 He's not as strong as you are. 16:57.000 --> 16:59.000 Yeah, I know. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 If he happened to fall off, he might be hurt. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 If he fell on the cement drive, it might break his neck. 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 That's right. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 Do the ropes ever break? 17:08.000 --> 17:12.000 Not often enough to make the odds good for betting. 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 Could you make them break? 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 Huh? 17:16.000 --> 17:19.000 Could you fix the ropes so they'd break when he got to the top? 17:19.000 --> 17:22.000 Not on your life. I'm happy with my little racket. 17:22.000 --> 17:24.000 I'm not taking any chances killing anybody. 17:24.000 --> 17:27.000 Then he'll kill you. Take your choice. 17:27.000 --> 17:30.000 How long do you think you'll watch that money going into your pocket? 17:30.000 --> 17:32.000 How long do you think you'll take that gambling? 17:32.000 --> 17:33.000 Keep talking. 17:33.000 --> 17:36.000 It'll be accidental, no murder at all. 17:36.000 --> 17:40.000 When he's dead, I get the warehouse and the house. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 You get me. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 What's in it for you? 17:44.000 --> 17:45.000 You are? 17:45.000 --> 17:47.000 As simple as that. 17:47.000 --> 17:51.000 And I'll take a cut on those backroom profits. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 Go on. 17:53.000 --> 17:55.000 Henry's been talking about painting the house. 17:55.000 --> 17:58.000 I got the idea when he told me about a fellow doing the same thing 17:58.000 --> 18:00.000 who fell and was killed. 18:00.000 --> 18:03.000 If anything like that ever happened to him, he said I wouldn't have to worry. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 Everything was taken care of. 18:05.000 --> 18:06.000 Why do you cut me in? 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 I told you. 18:08.000 --> 18:10.000 Because I like you. 18:10.000 --> 18:13.000 And because you couldn't cut me out. 18:13.000 --> 18:15.000 Can you fix the rope so it'll break when you want it to? 18:15.000 --> 18:16.000 No. 18:16.000 --> 18:19.000 But I could fix it so it would break. 18:19.000 --> 18:22.000 There'd have to be somebody else here, a witness, to see it was an accident. 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 I already thought of that. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Son of his. Jim Brandon. 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 You figured every angle, haven't you? 18:28.000 --> 18:30.000 You'll get your chance. 18:30.000 --> 18:33.000 Okay. The rope will break. 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 Get it fixed up tonight? 18:35.000 --> 18:36.000 Okay. 18:36.000 --> 18:37.000 Where'll you leave it? 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 There'll be two platforms. One for me, one for him. 18:39.000 --> 18:42.000 I'll take them both over to the house tonight before I go to bed. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 Put the one for Henry by the office. 18:44.000 --> 18:45.000 Put yours by the house. 18:45.000 --> 18:46.000 Yeah. 18:46.000 --> 18:49.000 I don't want you to be around tomorrow when Henry and Brandon set them up. 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 That way nobody can say that you had anything to do with it. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 Don't worry. We won't have any trouble. 18:53.000 --> 18:56.000 We better not. 18:56.000 --> 18:59.000 I'm risking a lot for you. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 I won't forget it, baby. 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 Don't. 19:03.000 --> 19:07.000 This is what the movies call love. 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 You like it? 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 I'm getting to like it. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 It's easy learning. 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 I hope I won't have to forget. 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 I'll worry about that. 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 Let's talk some more. 19:19.000 --> 19:20.000 You got more to say? 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 Mm-hmm. 19:22.000 --> 19:25.000 Lots more. 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 Mm. 19:28.000 --> 19:32.000 Things are gonna be different around here after tomorrow. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 Yeah. That's right. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Just you and me. 19:38.000 --> 19:41.000 And the backroom gold mine. 19:41.000 --> 19:42.000 Think we'll make you happy? 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 I'm willing to take a chance. 19:45.000 --> 19:49.000 I better be getting back to the house. 19:49.000 --> 19:52.000 Sure. It's Grover's last night. 19:52.000 --> 19:55.000 Good night, Georgie. 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 Don't disappoint me. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 Is that hard? 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 I had gloves with me when I came in here. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 You did. Here they are. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 Oh. 20:05.000 --> 20:06.000 Well? 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 I think I'll keep them. 20:08.000 --> 20:09.000 What's the idea? 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 I want a souvenir. 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 I'm not going anywhere. 20:12.000 --> 20:14.000 Maybe I'll tuck them under my pillow. 20:14.000 --> 20:17.000 This is what the movies call love. 20:22.000 --> 20:24.000 After she left, I sat there thinking. 20:24.000 --> 20:26.000 Those gloves didn't help me clear my head of me. 20:26.000 --> 20:29.000 They smelled like the powder room in the Club Paris. 20:29.000 --> 20:32.000 I liked the way she handled Grover. 20:32.000 --> 20:33.000 Sure, the kid was bright. 20:33.000 --> 20:35.000 The plan looked sure fire. 20:35.000 --> 20:39.000 With a payoff in fancy living written especially for happy homes. 20:39.000 --> 20:42.000 I strung together a couple of ropes and a pulley on two wooden boards 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 and called it a platform. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 The next one took more time. 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 I spent a few minutes burning the rope where it had rest on the pulley 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 when the platform was up near the top. 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 I pulled it apart a little with my fingers, 20:53.000 --> 20:56.000 made sure it wouldn't hold much weight for long. 20:56.000 --> 20:58.000 I fixed it just the way I wanted it. 20:58.000 --> 21:00.000 And I slipped it through the pulley, anchored it on the boards, 21:00.000 --> 21:03.000 and had myself another platform, different from the first. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 But looking just the same. 21:05.000 --> 21:09.000 I put the good one by the house and the other next to the shop. 21:09.000 --> 21:11.000 By the time I was through, it was nearly daylight, 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 and I lay down in the cot. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 The next thing I knew, she was shaking me. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Come on, come on, wake up, come on. 21:17.000 --> 21:19.000 They're ready to start. 21:19.000 --> 21:21.000 Him and his pal are out there now waiting for you. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 Oh, oh yeah. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 Where are they? 21:25.000 --> 21:26.000 Out in the yard. 21:26.000 --> 21:27.000 The platforms? 21:27.000 --> 21:28.000 Yeah, they've already got them set up. 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 Okay. 21:29.000 --> 21:30.000 It won't be long now, baby. 21:30.000 --> 21:31.000 Are you nervous? 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 Sure. 21:33.000 --> 21:34.000 Like a sack of laundry. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 Don't let me fool you. 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 I'm scared when the time comes it won't work. 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 Forget it. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 That rope won't hold a hundred pounds, five minutes. 21:40.000 --> 21:44.000 And anything that hits that concrete will be dead before you catch your breath. 21:44.000 --> 21:45.000 How did you fix the rope? 21:45.000 --> 21:46.000 I burned it. 21:46.000 --> 21:47.000 Nobody will notice it. 21:47.000 --> 21:48.000 I pulled it apart a little. 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 Just enough to hold it together while he's getting to the top. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 We'll let Brandon pull you both up. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 Nobody has to pull us both up. 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 We can lift our own. 21:54.000 --> 21:56.000 There's a rope from the pulley that'll hoist her lower. 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 Okay. 21:57.000 --> 21:58.000 Come on. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 A few minutes, and you'll be the new owner around here. 22:00.000 --> 22:03.000 And I'll be talking about Mary and my boss. 22:03.000 --> 22:04.000 Yeah. 22:04.000 --> 22:06.000 That's right, Julie. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 A few minutes, things will be swell. 22:08.000 --> 22:11.000 Which one of them picked up the rope by the shop? 22:11.000 --> 22:12.000 Brandon, his pal. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 Then it's on the right side of the drive. 22:14.000 --> 22:15.000 That's the bad one. 22:15.000 --> 22:16.000 Are you sure? 22:16.000 --> 22:17.000 Sure. 22:17.000 --> 22:18.000 That's the one for Henry. 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 I wonder how long it takes to fall three stories. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 Three, maybe four seconds? 22:22.000 --> 22:23.000 I don't know. 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 When the rope breaks, you count it. 22:25.000 --> 22:27.000 I'll be busy trying to look surprised. 22:27.000 --> 22:31.000 I want Brandon to go into town telling everybody about the accident we had out here. 22:31.000 --> 22:32.000 Don't overdo it. 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 You're no actor. 22:33.000 --> 22:35.000 I'll keep my eyes on you, baby. 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 That's a good idea. 22:37.000 --> 22:40.000 Matter of fact, I'm going to make a habit of... 22:40.000 --> 22:41.000 Hiya, George. 22:41.000 --> 22:42.000 You bring the paint? 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 Yeah, Henry, right here. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 Oh, you know Jim Brandon, don't you? 22:46.000 --> 22:47.000 Yeah, we met. 22:47.000 --> 22:48.000 Hiya, George. 22:48.000 --> 22:49.000 Hello, Mr. Clover. 22:49.000 --> 22:50.000 Hello. 22:50.000 --> 22:51.000 Well, might as well get going. 22:51.000 --> 22:54.000 With all this waiting around, I've kind of lost the mood for painting. 22:54.000 --> 22:55.000 It's like gambling, Henry. 22:55.000 --> 22:58.000 Once you begin, you feel like you never belong anywhere else. 22:58.000 --> 23:02.000 Yeah, George, I've got a couple of things I want to talk to you about. 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 Not now, Henry. 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 You've been talking about nobody being ready to paint. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 Now we're all ready, so let's paint. 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 All right, all right. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 But when we're finished, George, come over to the house. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 I want to talk with you. 23:12.000 --> 23:13.000 Sure, Henry. 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 Maybe I was a little hasty last night. 23:15.000 --> 23:18.000 Right after we get through, I'll be waiting for you. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 George must think he's a pretty fast painter. 23:20.000 --> 23:24.000 We're going to be all finished in the house before you get down over the platform, Henry. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 Well, we'll see about that. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 I've done my share of painting, too. 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 You'll have to jump some to beat me, George. 23:30.000 --> 23:31.000 I guess you're right. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 You two going to stand there all day? 23:33.000 --> 23:34.000 That's right, Mrs. Clover. 23:34.000 --> 23:37.000 Neither of them can paint well enough to make this old place look any better. 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 Oh, I don't know. 23:39.000 --> 23:43.000 I was telling Henry this morning, this time he bought a new house for his pretty new wife. 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 Oh, thank you, Mr. Brandon. 23:45.000 --> 23:48.000 But as long as we have this house and the paint's right here, 23:48.000 --> 23:51.000 we may as well go ahead and paint, don't you think? 23:51.000 --> 23:52.000 Oh, sure, sure. 23:52.000 --> 23:53.000 Oh, you're right, honey. 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 Well, come on, George, let's get going. 23:55.000 --> 23:56.000 Can I help you, Henry? 23:56.000 --> 23:57.000 No, thanks. 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 We can pull ourselves up, can't we, George? 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 Yeah, that's right. 24:00.000 --> 24:03.000 Come on, let's stand over here out of the way, Mr. Brandon. 24:03.000 --> 24:04.000 I want to watch this. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 Sure thing. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 You ever seen house painting before? 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 Oh, yeah, yeah. 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 Never anything quite like this. 24:12.000 --> 24:14.000 Yeah? Well, they're pretty good at it. 24:14.000 --> 24:17.000 Hey, this is kind of a rickety contraption. 24:17.000 --> 24:18.000 Is it going to hold? 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 Oh, sure, sure. 24:20.000 --> 24:21.000 What's the matter, George? 24:21.000 --> 24:22.000 You having trouble? 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 Oh, just watching. 24:24.000 --> 24:26.000 Well, now you've seen how it's done. 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 You come on up in the sky. 24:28.000 --> 24:30.000 Be right with you, Henry. 24:30.000 --> 24:32.000 Hey, Brandon, when I get to the top, 24:32.000 --> 24:35.000 will you tie this rope to the bucket of paint and pass it up? 24:35.000 --> 24:36.000 Right, Henry. 24:36.000 --> 24:37.000 All right. 24:37.000 --> 24:38.000 Keep pulling, George. 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 He's beating you up there. 24:40.000 --> 24:41.000 Hey, easy does it, George. 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 That's no elevator. 24:43.000 --> 24:44.000 Don't worry about me. 24:44.000 --> 24:46.000 You got your own problems. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 OK, Jim, pass up the paint. 24:48.000 --> 24:50.000 You ready to do, George? 24:50.000 --> 24:53.000 Hey, I think the rope was slipping on the pulley. 24:53.000 --> 24:55.000 I don't feel anything. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 I don't see anything wrong with the pulley. 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 It's breaking with the pulley! 25:11.000 --> 25:13.000 Like I told you, I'm on a trip. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 But it's no honeymoon. 25:15.000 --> 25:16.000 A couple of hours ago, 25:16.000 --> 25:20.000 170 pounds of Henry Grover hit the cement driveway. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 Then I got the surprise of my life. 25:22.000 --> 25:26.000 It lasted just two seconds before I hit two. 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 I thought I was as safe as a glass of water. 25:29.000 --> 25:34.000 But I was just another fall guy because both platforms gave way. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 I'd never thought of that angle. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 Two partners make more dough than three. 25:38.000 --> 25:42.000 But one owner without a partner makes the most. 25:42.000 --> 25:45.000 No, I didn't think of that. 25:45.000 --> 25:48.000 But I had thought of a couple of others just in case. 25:48.000 --> 25:51.000 The fingernail, for instance. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 They gave me maybe half a day to live. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 So I told it to them, the cops, 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 almost the way it happened. 25:57.000 --> 25:59.000 And when I got through, 25:59.000 --> 26:02.000 I didn't even have to hint at those other couple of angles. 26:02.000 --> 26:05.000 They found it out all by themselves. 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 And then they brought in Marie. 26:07.000 --> 26:10.000 Oh, George, George. 26:10.000 --> 26:13.000 Doctor, is he... will he... 26:13.000 --> 26:16.000 Give it, baby. They know all about it. 26:16.000 --> 26:18.000 Know all about what? 26:18.000 --> 26:21.000 My name is Williams, Lieutenant Homicide. 26:21.000 --> 26:23.000 Homicide? 26:23.000 --> 26:25.000 These are your gloves, Mrs. Grover? 26:25.000 --> 26:27.000 Yes, they're mine. 26:27.000 --> 26:29.000 We found them in sort of a funny place. 26:29.000 --> 26:33.000 In the tool shed where all those painting platforms were fixed up. 26:33.000 --> 26:34.000 I don't see how that... 26:34.000 --> 26:37.000 Did you know those ropes were burned and frayed? 26:37.000 --> 26:39.000 Somebody pulled them apart and burned them. 26:39.000 --> 26:42.000 George did it. 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