1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,160 Suspense! 2 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:23,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Dan Daly in Six Feet Under, a suspense 3 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,480 play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:33,760 Harlow, did you know that in the springtime a young man's fancy turns to... 5 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,720 The world famous quality and performance of ignition engineered auto light spark plugs? 6 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,720 Well... 7 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,400 Auto Light, you know, is the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical 8 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:43,400 equipment. 9 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,160 And when you come right down to it, who knows more about the best spark plugs for your car 10 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:52,040 than auto light ignition engineers, the men who design coils, distributors, and all the 11 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:56,000 other important parts that go to make up the complete automotive electrical system. 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,440 Why, it's the skill of the same auto light ignition engineers that made possible the 13 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:05,480 practical development of the auto light resistor spark plug, the greatest advancement in spark 14 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,720 plug design for automotive use in the past 20 years. 15 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,840 Have you no sentiments about spring? 16 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,840 Sure, hap, spring into your car tomorrow and see your friendly auto light spark plug dealer. 17 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:19,200 Have him replace worn out spark plugs with world famous ignition engineered auto light 18 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,320 spark plugs. 19 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:25,040 Whether you choose the resistor type or the regular type, you can't buy a better spark 20 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,080 plug for your car because you're always right with auto light. 21 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:34,320 And now with six feet under and the performance of Dan Daly, auto light hopes once again to 22 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:41,880 keep you in suspense. 23 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,560 You'll never know what it's like down there. 24 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:49,160 You're six feet under 10 hours a day without food or water with that light on your face 25 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:53,320 so the Yoko's can pay their dimes and stare down at you. 26 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,560 It's like being dead, only you know what's going on. 27 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,280 The pump that feeds the air down to you seems to be keeping time with your heartbeat and 28 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:06,080 you can't help thinking that if it ever stops, the heartbeat will stop with it. 29 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,440 You get a lot of time to think down there, to think of all the things that can happen. 30 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,880 And when the show closes for the night and they dig you up, you head for the nearest 31 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,320 bar to forget all the crazy things you've been thinking. 32 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,960 Double whiskey beer chaser. 33 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,480 You with the carnival? 34 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:25,480 Yeah. 35 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:26,480 Must be interesting. 36 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:27,480 What do you do? 37 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:28,480 Got a sideshow. 38 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,480 Fill this up with it. 39 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,480 Sure. 40 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:31,480 What's your trick? 41 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:32,480 Sword swallower? 42 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,480 Now I roll over and play dead. 43 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,480 Oh, you're the guy that's buried alive. 44 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:37,480 Yeah, I saw you this afternoon at the matinee. 45 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:38,480 Took the kids over. 46 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:39,480 Yeah. 47 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:40,480 What are you raising? 48 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:41,480 A couple of undertakers? 49 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:42,480 Oh, I didn't take them into your tent. 50 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,320 Seemed kind of a morbid thing for kids. 51 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,320 But not for you. 52 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:46,320 What do you mean? 53 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:47,320 Skip it. 54 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:48,320 I'm not hitting this glass again. 55 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:49,320 Okay. 56 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,320 Now that people see that act of yours, the tent was crowded. 57 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,320 I kind of thought it'd be different. 58 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:55,320 How different? 59 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,320 Well, paying a dime a head just to look down at you through that glass. 60 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,320 It's not a bad racket you got there. 61 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,040 Yeah, big, fat, happy racket. 62 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,320 Not tough like standing behind a bar and breathing and eating and moving whenever you want to. 63 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,920 Well, if you think it's a hot dig, you shove a hole and pull up a car for nobody stopping 64 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:11,920 you. 65 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:13,720 You want another drink, call me. 66 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:14,720 Just leave the bottle. 67 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:15,720 I'm still alive. 68 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:16,720 I can pour my own. 69 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:17,720 I can do it myself, friend. 70 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:18,720 They were all the same. 71 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,720 They paid a dime to look at you down there. 72 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:30,720 But if they saw you later above the ground, they acted like you were cheating them. 73 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,720 Like you owed it to them to stay buried or they won't get their money's worth. 74 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,720 I used to do another act. 75 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:38,720 A juggling act. 76 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,720 An act that took me years of sweat and practice to learn. 77 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:44,720 But nobody came to see that. 78 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,720 You had to learn a dog's trick to make a living. 79 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,720 You had to trust people. 80 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,720 People you wondered about. 81 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:52,720 Hello, Jack. 82 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:53,720 Good luck. 83 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:54,720 I'm looking for you. 84 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:55,720 Come on, get lost, Cliff. 85 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:56,720 Don't follow me around. 86 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:57,720 Miriam sent me out to find you. 87 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,720 She knows where I am ten hours a day. 88 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:00,720 That's more than most wives know. 89 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:01,720 Miriam was my wife. 90 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:03,720 I'd spend a little time with her. 91 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:05,720 You spend quite a little time with her as it is, Cliff. 92 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:06,720 Quite a little time. 93 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,720 You're talking through that bottle, Jack. 94 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:09,720 Miriam and I are old friends. 95 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,720 Yeah, I heard about it lots of times. 96 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,720 You were a stage door Johnny when she worked on Burlesque, weren't you? 97 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,720 I used to laugh about you. 98 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:19,720 That was before you came to work for us. 99 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,720 But now I don't laugh anymore, Cliff. 100 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:22,720 Now I wonder. 101 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:23,720 You're drunk. 102 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:24,720 Am I? 103 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,720 What's a guy like you doing around a carnival, Cliff? 104 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,720 You were a big shot accountant with a good business. 105 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,720 And all of a sudden you chuck everything to learn to be a barker for a pitch like mine. 106 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,720 And it digged me out of that hole every night. 107 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:36,720 I'm not complaining. 108 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:37,720 Why should you? 109 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,720 Because I figure you gotta have a reason, Cliff. 110 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,720 I figure that maybe some night you're gonna forget the dig. 111 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,720 Oh, you're being ridiculous, Jack. 112 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:46,720 Sure. 113 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,720 Only you still haven't told me why you joined the show, Cliff. 114 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:50,720 That's my business. 115 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,720 Never mind, I'll tell you. 116 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,720 Because you're in love with Miriam and it's killing you to see her married to me. 117 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,720 All right, Jack, that's part of it. 118 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,720 Sure I love Miriam, but that isn't what's killing me. 119 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,720 A bad heart is a thing that's killing me. 120 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:03,720 What do you mean? 121 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,720 I chucked my business and joined the show because I've only got about a year to live. 122 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:09,720 Miriam is the only thing in the world I care about. 123 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,720 I want her to be near her. 124 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:13,720 That's a very touching story, pal. 125 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,720 What am I supposed to do, break down and cry? 126 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,720 Jack, I'd do anything to see Miriam happy. 127 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,720 And if it meant killing you, I could do it without batting an eye. 128 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,720 Because I've got nothing to lose. 129 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,720 I want you to know that. 130 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,720 That's good, Cliff. 131 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:30,720 Now we understand each other. 132 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:31,720 Have a drink. 133 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:32,720 I don't want one. 134 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:37,720 Oh, well, this ain't just an ordinary drink, Cliff. 135 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:38,720 This is a toast. 136 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,720 To one of us. 137 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:42,720 To the guy who buries the other one. 138 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:43,720 For good. 139 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:50,720 It was a fool thing to do. 140 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,720 A mistake. 141 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,720 Because he'd play his cards closer now. 142 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,720 If I told him to pack up and get out, he might take Miriam with him. 143 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:01,720 And I was crazy about Miriam. 144 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,720 Something was wrong between us, but I was still crazy about her. 145 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,720 I had to know, I had to wait and find out if he could take her from me. 146 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,720 And that meant I had to keep him around. 147 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,720 And every day he'd have me helpless down there in that hole like a baby. 148 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,720 I didn't want to drink anymore. 149 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:25,720 I went back to the tent and tried to sleep, but I kept having that same dream over and over again. 150 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,720 Not a picture dream, but a dream in sound. 151 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,720 The sound of that air pump that kept me alive down there. 152 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,720 It got slower and slower. 153 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,720 And then it stopped. 154 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,720 And I woke up choked, jumped out of bed. 155 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,720 Jack, Jack, is that you? 156 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:43,720 Yeah, yeah, Miriam. 157 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:44,720 You go back to sleep. 158 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:45,720 Is something wrong, dear? 159 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:46,720 Oh, I had a dream, that's all. 160 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:47,720 Go back to sleep. 161 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:49,720 Oh, well, maybe if I may just... 162 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:50,720 I don't want any hot milk. 163 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:51,720 I'm going out for a while. 164 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:52,720 Jack, I hope you're not... 165 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,720 Where would I get it this time of night? 166 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:55,720 I'm not going to drink to save the lecture. 167 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:57,720 Well, you don't have to snap at me like that. 168 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:58,720 That's all you've been doing lately. 169 00:06:58,720 --> 00:06:59,720 Have I? 170 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:00,720 Well, nobody's died from it so far. 171 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,720 I don't get you at all. 172 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:03,720 Don't you? 173 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,720 Well, maybe you're not trying hard enough. 174 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:06,720 I'm going for a walk. 175 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:08,720 Jack, Jack! 176 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,720 I walked around the grounds. 177 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,720 The moon was doing trick things with the shadows around the tents 178 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,720 and the pitch signs along the midway. 179 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,720 I loved it. 180 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,720 A cheap two-bit carnival, but I loved it. 181 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:32,720 When Miriam and I were first married, I used to dream about owning the work some day. 182 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,720 Yeah, I was going to do big things. 183 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,720 Clean up with a juggling act, then write to Becker Brothers 184 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:39,720 and offer to buy them a home. 185 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,720 The Ferris wheel that rides the whole show. 186 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,720 I was going to own the world, 187 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,720 but instead I wound up with six feet of it. 188 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,720 They could dig me up out of that hole every night, 189 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:58,720 but I couldn't dig my dreams up anymore. 190 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,720 Finally, I went back to my own tent and slept until showtime. 191 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,720 Miriam was gone when I woke up, so I walked over to our pitch. 192 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,720 I was going to pull the flap and go in, 193 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,720 but then I heard her talk on the cliff, so I listened. 194 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,720 I hate it when he's like that. I can't stand it much longer. 195 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,720 You won't have to stand it after tomorrow night. 196 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,720 You'll be away from here. Things will be different. 197 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,720 You sure you want to do this for me, Cliff? 198 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:24,720 I want you to be happy. 199 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,720 He suspects something. I know it. If he finds out... 200 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,720 He won't find out. Not until tomorrow night. 201 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:32,720 And when he does, it'll be too late. 202 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,720 He won't be able to do anything about it. 203 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,720 You love your wife and you stand outside a tent 204 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,720 and hear her planning to murder you. 205 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,720 It wasn't only Cliff. It was her, too. 206 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,720 And I knew right then what I had to do. 207 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,720 I had to kill them. 208 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,720 I had to kill the both of them. 209 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,720 And tonight, right away. 210 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,720 Auto Light is bringing you Dan Daly in Six Feet Under. 211 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:21,720 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 212 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,720 Say, Hap, who knows more about law than a lawyer? 213 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,720 You sure got me this time, Harlow. 214 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,720 Well, then, who knows more about the best spark plug for your car 215 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,720 than auto light ignition engineers? 216 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:40,720 The men who designed the complete electrical system 217 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,720 for many makes of America's finest cars. 218 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,720 They engineer spark plugs just as they engineer coils, distributors, 219 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,720 and all other ignition parts to work together as a perfect team. 220 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:52,720 Go on, go on, Harlow. 221 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,720 Well, it's the skill of the same auto light ignition engineers 222 00:09:55,720 --> 00:10:00,720 that made possible the practical development of the auto light resistor spark plug, 223 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:05,720 the greatest advancement in spark plug design for automotive use in the past 20 years. 224 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,720 And the newest addition to a complete line of transport, aviation, 225 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,720 marine, and regular automotive spark plugs engineered by auto light 226 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,720 in sizes and heat ranges for every purpose. 227 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:17,720 I guess I've learned my lesson. 228 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,720 So, friends, see your friendly auto light spark plug dealer. 229 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,720 Have him replace worn out spark plugs 230 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,720 with world famous ignition engineered auto light spark plugs. 231 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,720 And whether you choose the resistor type or the regular type, 232 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,720 you can't buy a better spark plug for your car 233 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,720 because you're always right with auto light. 234 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,720 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 235 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,720 our star Dan Daly in Six Feet Under, 236 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:46,720 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 237 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,720 Now I know. 238 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,720 It wasn't only Cliff it was Miriam too. 239 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,720 It was like getting hit in the stomach when you didn't expect it. 240 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,720 You love your wife and you stand outside a tent 241 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,720 and hear her planning to murder you. 242 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,720 I walked around the grounds in a daze. 243 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,720 I tried to tell myself that I was wrong, but your own ears can't lie to you. 244 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:11,720 Jack! Hey, Jack! 245 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:13,720 Oh, hello, Bonnie. 246 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,720 I've been screaming my head off at you. 247 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:16,720 You hypnotized or something? 248 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:17,720 Sorry, Bonnie, I was thinking. 249 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:19,720 Oh, call for Cliff on the phone in the office wagon. 250 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,720 You want to take it for him? 251 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,720 All right. 252 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:27,720 Hello? 253 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,720 This is Morton at Trans Country Airlines. 254 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,720 I have your reservations confirmed. 255 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:32,720 Oh, oh, good. 256 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,720 Two seats on the midnight plane to Chicago tomorrow night. 257 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:36,720 Thanks a lot. 258 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,720 I know you said you'd come in to pick up the tickets this afternoon, 259 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,720 but I wanted to call and let you know it was confirmed. 260 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,720 I'm glad you did. You'll never know how glad. 261 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,720 It's just part of our service there. 262 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:47,720 I'll hold the tickets for you. 263 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,720 Now, are you going to enough trouble? You can cancel the tickets. 264 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:51,720 But I thought you... 265 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:53,720 I'm changing somebody's mind. 266 00:11:53,720 --> 00:12:02,720 Nobody's going to Chicago tomorrow night. Nobody. 267 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,720 When you see something coming and you know it's too late to stop it, you get calm. 268 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,720 You'll watch it like it was happening to somebody else. 269 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,720 I had to kill them. I had to kill the both of them. 270 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,720 Tonight after the show. After they brought me up. 271 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,720 I'd have ten hours down there to think of a way. 272 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,720 I went into the tent and watched Cliff getting the whole ready for me. 273 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:24,720 I wanted to laugh. 274 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:26,720 Is this all right now? 275 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,720 Yeah, that's deep enough. 276 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,720 Cliff, I want that speaking tube hooked up today. 277 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:34,720 What's the matter? Getting lonesome down there? 278 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,720 I thought you didn't like to talk to the customers. 279 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:37,720 Today I feel sociable. 280 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,720 I had a glimpse into the bright and cheery future. Hook it up. 281 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:41,720 You're the boss. 282 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:42,720 Where's Miriam? 283 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:44,720 Getting a new roll of tickets from the wagon. 284 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,720 When there's a crowd out there on the Midway, Cliff, 285 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,720 Calliope going on the merry-go-round and all, can she hear my buzzer? 286 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:51,720 Why wouldn't she? 287 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,720 It's hooked up right from the box to the ticket cage. 288 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,720 But you never use it, so what difference does it make? 289 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:58,720 It could make a big difference if nobody was in the tent 290 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,720 and the air shut off on me. A big difference. 291 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:02,720 Let's check it. 292 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:04,720 All right, there's a button in the box. Press it. 293 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,720 The counter's just outside the flap. We can hear it from here. 294 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:09,720 Are you pressing it? 295 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,720 You see me, don't you, Cliff? 296 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,720 I don't hear anything out there. 297 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:14,720 Neither do I. 298 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,720 There must be a loose wire or something. 299 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,720 No, Cliff, it's the batteries. 300 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,720 Because I checked while you were digging and the batteries are gone. 301 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:26,720 Oh, that's right. I forgot. 302 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,720 When we were moving from the last town, my flashlight went dead. 303 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,720 I borrowed the buzzer battery. 304 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:32,720 But you forgot to put them back. 305 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,720 Oh, I'm sorry, Jack. It slipped my mind. 306 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,720 You never use a buzzer, so I didn't think of it. 307 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,720 You thought of it when we needed the batteries. 308 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,720 Jack, I tell you it was a mistake. That's all. 309 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,720 Look, the midway's opening up. There's no time to start an argument. 310 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,720 Yeah. Yeah, there'll be time for that later tonight. 311 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:49,720 We can talk it over tonight, Cliff. 312 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:50,720 That suits me. 313 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,720 Come on. Let's lower the box. 314 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:58,720 I'll go get a new set of batteries. 315 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:00,720 You might as well climb down, slide into the box. 316 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:02,720 I'll cover you when I get back. 317 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:07,720 I lit a cigarette. My hands were wet and shaking. 318 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,720 Suppose he didn't wait until tomorrow night. 319 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,720 Suppose this was it. 320 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,720 I couldn't tip my hand by refusing to get down, 321 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,720 but I had to make sure I'd come up again, just this once. 322 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,720 He'd be gone a couple of minutes, long enough. 323 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,720 I ducked out of the tent and across the midway 324 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,720 to the pitch of Ol' Anna, the fortunate one. 325 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,720 I was going to get up, but I couldn't. 326 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,720 I was going to get up, but I couldn't. 327 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,720 I was going to get up, but I couldn't. 328 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:34,720 Why are you so jumpy about, Annie? 329 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:36,720 You act like you've been seeing ghosts. 330 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,720 I was communing with other world. 331 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:39,720 Say that for the suckers. 332 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,720 I want you to do something for me. 333 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,720 I want you to promise and I don't want you to forget. 334 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:44,720 Is it evil thing? 335 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,720 No, no, Anna, it isn't evil. 336 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:47,720 When we shut down at night, 337 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,720 I want you to come over to the tent, that's all. 338 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,720 I want you to hang around there until Cliff digs me up, understand? 339 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,720 Beware of lower world, Jack. 340 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:55,720 Evil things lurk there. 341 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:56,720 Promise me, Anna. 342 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:57,720 I promise. 343 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,720 But let me read you fortune in the cards. 344 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:00,720 It only takes a minute. 345 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,720 There's no time, besides you read them for me in the train the other night. 346 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,720 Was there something there you didn't tell me? 347 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,720 Are you trying to frighten me with a sucker pitch? 348 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:09,720 There was evil. 349 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:10,720 The death cards were around you. 350 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:11,720 They were all around you. 351 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:12,720 Shut up, you old fool. 352 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:14,720 Just come over to the tent tonight. 353 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:15,720 That's all I want from you. 354 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:16,720 That's all. 355 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,720 I had to grab a hold of myself. 356 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,720 A crazy old woman with a deck of greasy cards. 357 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,720 I've been with tent shows too long to let a thing like that get me. 358 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,720 I went back to the tent, got down into the hole and slid into the box. 359 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,720 Cliff lowered the narrow view shaft that the customers looked through. 360 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,720 I fastened it to the hole just above my face. 361 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,720 Then he started to shovel the dirt in on top of me. 362 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:49,720 I could hear it hitting the box. 363 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:57,720 There isn't another sound like it in the whole world. 364 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,720 Then it was all done. 365 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:04,720 Cliff looked down at me through the glass and the smile on his face made me cold. 366 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,720 Then he was gone and I was alone with the sound of the air pump. 367 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,720 In a few minutes the customers started to come in and it wasn't so bad. 368 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,720 If anything went wrong they'd be able to hear me through the speaking tool. 369 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,720 Just as I could hear them. 370 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,720 Come on mother, come on look at him. 371 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,720 Oh you look it, give me the creeping whizzle, whizzle. 372 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,720 Well you're the one who wanted to come in, come on it can't hurt you. 373 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,720 Look you can talk to him right through this here hoop nanny. 374 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,720 Well, can you hear me down there? 375 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,720 Yeah I can hear you. 376 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,720 Is it, well, are you all right? 377 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,720 Yeah, yeah I'm all right. 378 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,720 See, just like I told you there's nothing to it. 379 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:43,720 That's all we see for our money? 380 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:45,720 Sure, the whole darn thing's a jib. 381 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,720 Well so long down there. 382 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,720 We'll all join you some day, sooner or later. 383 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,720 Oh, oh, sad what a day this day. 384 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,720 I think they'd give you a little more for your money though. 385 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:00,720 That's the way it was. 386 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:05,720 Hour after hour, face after face until all the faces blurred and ran together. 387 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:10,720 Their voices came down with the same questions and the same disappointed wisecracks. 388 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,720 But they kept paying and they kept coming. 389 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,720 It was getting on the late afternoon because the crowd was beginning to thin out. 390 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:25,720 Everybody would be headed home for dinner by 5.30 and the gang working on the midway would knock off and go to the commissary tent to chow. 391 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,720 At 6.30 the crowd would drift back again. 392 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,720 The big crowd with the men home from work. 393 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:39,720 And by the time they were gone old Anna the fortune teller, my insurance policy, would be standing by and Cliff would have to dig me out whether he wanted to or not. 394 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,720 I was glad to see the crowd go for a while. 395 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,720 It gave me the next hour alone to think and plan things out. 396 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:47,720 Then it hit me. 397 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,720 The next hour alone. 398 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,720 I'd forgotten that part of it. 399 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,720 I looked up. 400 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,720 There were no faces in the viewing glass. 401 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:02,720 I fell around with my hand and I found the buzzer button and the ticket keys. 402 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,720 I pressed it again and again but Miriam didn't come. 403 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:06,720 Sure. 404 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:08,720 This was it. 405 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,720 They were up there now getting ready to do whatever they were going to do. 406 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,720 Then they'd walk away over to the commissary tent. 407 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:15,720 They'd eat and laugh. 408 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:16,720 Nobody'd suspect them. 409 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,720 It'd be an accident. 410 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:20,720 I tried to think of something else. 411 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,720 They wouldn't have the nerve to be through with it. 412 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,720 And then I knew I was wrong. 413 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,720 Because all of a sudden there was complete silence. 414 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:33,720 Somebody had cut off the air pump. 415 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,720 I twisted and turned and I pushed against the lid of the box like a madman. 416 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,720 But it didn't budge. There was more than a ton of earth on top of me. 417 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,720 The pressure on my chest increased and I couldn't breathe. 418 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,720 Flashes of red and blue color were whirling around in my head. 419 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,720 I looked up gasping for air. 420 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,720 And there was a face staring down at me. 421 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,720 A child's face. 422 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,720 See my baby turtle, mister? 423 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,720 What are you doing down there, mister? 424 00:18:58,720 --> 00:18:59,720 Kid. 425 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:00,720 Kid, get somebody quick. 426 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,720 Go outside and get some help. I'm smothering. 427 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,720 Don't just stare at me. Call somebody. 428 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,720 You hear me? Stop looking at me. 429 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:10,720 Get somebody. 430 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,720 He kept staring at me, his eyes wide and frightened. 431 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,720 He moved his mouth once. 432 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,720 But he was frozen with fear. 433 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,720 And all of a sudden his face was gone. 434 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,720 He was gone. 435 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:29,720 I made one last hopeless try at the lid and then suddenly I didn't care anymore. 436 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,720 I relaxed. 437 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,720 All the colors in the world exploded in my head. 438 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,720 Then they all ran together. 439 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,720 There was a roaring sound. 440 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,720 Everything went black. 441 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,720 I came out of it slowly. 442 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,720 The pump was going again. 443 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,720 The beat of it keeping time with a throbbing in my head. 444 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,720 And they were digging for me. 445 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,720 I could hear the sounds of the shovels in the earth. 446 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,720 And then finally against the wooden top of the box. 447 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,720 There we are. Give me your hand. 448 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,720 Are you all right, Jack? 449 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,720 Yeah, I'm okay. 450 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,720 Come on, pull it up there. 451 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:16,720 It's all right. 452 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,720 Jack, come over to my tent and sit down. 453 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,720 There is evil here. 454 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,720 I don't want to sit down. Where's Miriam? Where's Cliff? 455 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,720 Somebody went for them to the commissary. 456 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,720 They will be here soon. 457 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,720 But it wouldn't have been soon enough. 458 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:30,720 He's been sneaking in the shows. 459 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:32,720 He saw the air pump motor out and turned it off. 460 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,720 You think that's the way it happened? 461 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,720 What's the matter here? 462 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:38,720 Jack, what are you on top for? 463 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,720 Take a guess, Miriam. 464 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,720 There was an accident. Some kid shot off the motor to the air pump. 465 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,720 See, Miriam, that's all it was. 466 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,720 Just an accident. Nobody to blame. 467 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,720 Jack, I should have been here. 468 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,720 Yeah, maybe you should have. You could have kept that kid out of the tent. 469 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,720 It would have worked out better. Where's Cliff? 470 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,720 Around, I don't know. 471 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,720 You could have been killed down there. 472 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,720 I could have been, but I wasn't. 473 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,720 Don't worry about it, baby. 474 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,720 It won't happen again. 475 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,720 It won't happen to me again. 476 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,720 It was my game now. 477 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:12,720 I was up walking and breathing. 478 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,720 It was my game. 479 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,720 I played the tender husband. 480 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:18,720 I wasn't going to show him my cards now. 481 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,720 That came later. 482 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,720 When she calmed down, I kissed her. 483 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,720 Then I went looking for my last answer. 484 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,720 Then I went looking for my last answer. 485 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,720 The kid who had turned off the motor. 486 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,720 There were kids all over the place, 487 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,720 all looking the same the way kids do. 488 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,720 But I'd remember his face. 489 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,720 You're bound to remember a face when it might have been the last one you'd ever see. 490 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,720 Then I spotted him going into the house of fun. 491 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,720 I nodded to the ticket taker and went in after him. 492 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,720 I caught him in the room with the tilled floors and grabbed him. 493 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,720 I caught him in the room with the tilled floors and grabbed him. 494 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,720 Ow! Mister! 495 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,720 Let me go! 496 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,720 Take it easy, kid. You won't get hurt. 497 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,720 Why'd you turn that motor off? 498 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,720 I was just fooling with it and it stopped, that's all. 499 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,720 I didn't know what it was. 500 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,720 Who told you to turn it off? 501 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,720 Nobody! Let me go! 502 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:04,720 Stop kicking! Tell me the truth or I'll... 503 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,720 And I'll give you a buck. 504 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,720 I am telling the truth. 505 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,720 Tell me! Tell me who told you! 506 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,720 Stop biting me and tell me! 507 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,720 I'll tell my pop. He'll fix you. 508 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,720 Let me go! 509 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,720 I'll let you go when you answer me. 510 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,720 What do you want me to say, mister? 511 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,720 A man told you to turn that motor off, didn't he? 512 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,720 No! No! 513 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,720 Let me get him! 514 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,720 All right, kid. All right. 515 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,720 Here's your dollar. 516 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,720 I don't want no dollar! I want to go home! 517 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,720 I went into town and drank until the show closed down. 518 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,720 Until I was sure they'd all be asleep. 519 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,720 Until I was sure they'd all be asleep. 520 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,720 Then I went to the first aid wagon and nosed around until I found what I wanted. 521 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,720 A can of ether. 522 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,720 Cliff was bigger than I. Much bigger. 523 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,720 And I had to be sure. 524 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,720 I soaked a handkerchief in the stuff and then I left myself in the cliff tent. 525 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,720 He was lying there. 526 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,720 Quietly. 527 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,720 He was sleeping. He wasn't making a sound. 528 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,720 I crept over to him and pushed the handkerchief over his mouth and nose. 529 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,720 I held it there. 530 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,720 Held his face right into it. 531 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,720 He didn't even murmur. 532 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,720 And when I let go after a while his head dropped back. 533 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,720 He was out. 534 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,720 I picked him up and carried him to the pitch tent. 535 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,720 I put him down in a box. 536 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,720 And then I shoveled a dirt in on top of him. 537 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,720 I left the air pump running. 538 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,720 I wanted Miriam to see him down there. 539 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,720 Him instead of me. 540 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,720 Then I could stop it waiting up for me when I was back together. 541 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,720 Well, it's about time you got back. 542 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,720 I've been worried sick about you. 543 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,720 Worried about me, baby? 544 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,720 That's silly. I can take care of myself. 545 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,720 That accident this afternoon. 546 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,720 I'm still shaky. 547 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,720 Yeah, I can see why you would be. 548 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,720 Jack, there's been something wrong with us. 549 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,720 Maybe it's my fault. I want to straighten it out. 550 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,720 Everything will be straightened out all right. 551 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,720 Real soon. 552 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,720 Come on. Let's go for a little walk. 553 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,720 But it's after midnight. 554 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,720 I know, but I got a surprise for you. 555 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,720 Something I want you to see. 556 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,720 What is it? 557 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,720 Over at the pitch tent. Come on. 558 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,720 She came. 559 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,720 I had to hand it to her. 560 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,720 She was playing the act of the hilt. 561 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,720 Just like nothing was wrong. 562 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,720 I took her arm and held it tight. 563 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,720 Good and tight. 564 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,720 So she couldn't turn and run. 565 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,720 And we went into the pitch tent. 566 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,720 Well, what's the surprise? 567 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,720 It's dark in here. 568 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,720 There's enough light down in the box. 569 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,720 Go ahead. Take a look. 570 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,720 The hole. 571 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,720 It's filled in. 572 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,720 The show has a new star. 573 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,720 For a one night stand. 574 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,720 Go ahead. Look. 575 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,720 Jack, what... 576 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,720 No! 577 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,720 Yeah, baby. 578 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,720 How do you like it now? 579 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,720 That's the way I was today when that motor cut off. 580 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,720 Get him out! 581 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,720 I hope you'll be able to fix it this time. 582 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,720 Don't you pray. 583 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,720 Sure. I just ripped these wires out and he gets what I almost got. 584 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:16,720 What are you killing him for? Why? 585 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,720 I knew what you were up to. 586 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,720 You'll never take that midnight play tomorrow. 587 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,720 You'll never run away with him now. 588 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,720 I wasn't running away with him. The tickets were for us. 589 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,720 You hear me? For you and me. 590 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,720 Well, there you forgot to tell me about it, baby. 591 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,720 I couldn't. Cliff was lending us the money to buy the show. 592 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,720 He said he'd be mine and he'd out some day. 593 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,720 I wanted to do it for you because I loved you. 594 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,720 Because I hated what's been happening to you down there. 595 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,720 Why didn't you help me? 596 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,720 Because he loved me, that's why. 597 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,720 And he knew you were all I care about. 598 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,720 He sent the money for the show to Becker Brothers yesterday 599 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,720 and we were supposed to fly off tomorrow night to sign the papers in Chicago. 600 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,720 You're lying. 601 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,720 You're lying. You're lying to get a toll on me. 602 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,720 Would you believe me? Would you believe anybody? 603 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,720 Do something! Do something! 604 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,720 The shovels. The shovels, Miriam. Where are they? 605 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,720 Quick. Quick. Help me. 606 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,720 Miriam, dig. Dig. 607 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:08,720 Dig. Dig. 608 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:14,720 And that's it, Sheriff. 609 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,720 You'll never know what it's like down there. 610 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,720 You have nothing to do but thinking. 611 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,720 Well, you get to thinking crazy things. 612 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,720 That's why it happened. 613 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,720 When we got to him, he was dead. 614 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,720 I see. 615 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,720 If you want to have that, then you have to. 616 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,720 If you want to have that typed up as a confession, I'll sign it. 617 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,720 There's much good that'd do. 618 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,720 That deputy that came in a while ago 619 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,720 gave me a copy of the coroner's report 620 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,720 cause of death, coronary thrombosis. 621 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,720 His heart, no strangulation. 622 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,720 He was already dead when you stopped that air pump. 623 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,720 He was dead even before that, before you gave him ether. 624 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,720 You mean Jack didn't kill him? 625 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,720 Not according to the coroner. Death from natural causes. 626 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,720 Then you're not going to charge me with murder? 627 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,720 You can't murder a dead man, mister. 628 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,720 Just like you can't lock a man up for being a fool. 629 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,720 Oh, Jack. Jack. 630 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,720 It's all right, baby. 631 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,720 You hurt him. 632 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:27,720 You hurt him. They can't do anything to me for being a fool. 633 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,720 Suspense. 634 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,720 Presented by Auto Light. 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