WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:17.160 Suspense! 00:17.160 --> 00:23.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Mr. Dan Daly in Six Feet Under, a suspense 00:23.000 --> 00:25.480 play produced and edited by William Spear. 00:25.480 --> 00:33.760 Harlow, did you know that in the springtime a young man's fancy turns to... 00:33.760 --> 00:37.720 The world famous quality and performance of ignition engineered auto light spark plugs? 00:37.720 --> 00:38.720 Well... 00:38.720 --> 00:42.400 Auto Light, you know, is the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical 00:42.400 --> 00:43.400 equipment. 00:43.400 --> 00:47.160 And when you come right down to it, who knows more about the best spark plugs for your car 00:47.160 --> 00:52.040 than auto light ignition engineers, the men who design coils, distributors, and all the 00:52.040 --> 00:56.000 other important parts that go to make up the complete automotive electrical system. 00:56.000 --> 01:00.440 Why, it's the skill of the same auto light ignition engineers that made possible the 01:00.440 --> 01:05.480 practical development of the auto light resistor spark plug, the greatest advancement in spark 01:05.480 --> 01:07.720 plug design for automotive use in the past 20 years. 01:07.720 --> 01:09.840 Have you no sentiments about spring? 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02:24.480 --> 02:25.480 Yeah. 02:25.480 --> 02:26.480 Must be interesting. 02:26.480 --> 02:27.480 What do you do? 02:27.480 --> 02:28.480 Got a sideshow. 02:28.480 --> 02:29.480 Fill this up with it. 02:29.480 --> 02:30.480 Sure. 02:30.480 --> 02:31.480 What's your trick? 02:31.480 --> 02:32.480 Sword swallower? 02:32.480 --> 02:33.480 Now I roll over and play dead. 02:33.480 --> 02:35.480 Oh, you're the guy that's buried alive. 02:35.480 --> 02:37.480 Yeah, I saw you this afternoon at the matinee. 02:37.480 --> 02:38.480 Took the kids over. 02:38.480 --> 02:39.480 Yeah. 02:39.480 --> 02:40.480 What are you raising? 02:40.480 --> 02:41.480 A couple of undertakers? 02:41.480 --> 02:42.480 Oh, I didn't take them into your tent. 02:42.480 --> 02:44.320 Seemed kind of a morbid thing for kids. 02:44.320 --> 02:45.320 But not for you. 02:45.320 --> 02:46.320 What do you mean? 02:46.320 --> 02:47.320 Skip it. 02:47.320 --> 02:48.320 I'm not hitting this glass again. 02:48.320 --> 02:49.320 Okay. 02:49.320 --> 02:52.320 Now that people see that act of yours, the tent was crowded. 02:52.320 --> 02:54.320 I kind of thought it'd be different. 02:54.320 --> 02:55.320 How different? 02:55.320 --> 02:58.320 Well, paying a dime a head just to look down at you through that glass. 02:58.320 --> 03:00.320 It's not a bad racket you got there. 03:00.320 --> 03:03.040 Yeah, big, fat, happy racket. 03:03.040 --> 03:07.320 Not tough like standing behind a bar and breathing and eating and moving whenever you want to. 03:07.320 --> 03:10.920 Well, if you think it's a hot dig, you shove a hole and pull up a car for nobody stopping 03:10.920 --> 03:11.920 you. 03:11.920 --> 03:13.720 You want another drink, call me. 03:13.720 --> 03:14.720 Just leave the bottle. 03:14.720 --> 03:15.720 I'm still alive. 03:15.720 --> 03:16.720 I can pour my own. 03:16.720 --> 03:17.720 I can do it myself, friend. 03:17.720 --> 03:18.720 They were all the same. 03:18.720 --> 03:23.720 They paid a dime to look at you down there. 03:23.720 --> 03:30.720 But if they saw you later above the ground, they acted like you were cheating them. 03:30.720 --> 03:34.720 Like you owed it to them to stay buried or they won't get their money's worth. 03:34.720 --> 03:37.720 I used to do another act. 03:37.720 --> 03:38.720 A juggling act. 03:38.720 --> 03:42.720 An act that took me years of sweat and practice to learn. 03:42.720 --> 03:44.720 But nobody came to see that. 03:44.720 --> 03:47.720 You had to learn a dog's trick to make a living. 03:47.720 --> 03:49.720 You had to trust people. 03:49.720 --> 03:51.720 People you wondered about. 03:51.720 --> 03:52.720 Hello, Jack. 03:52.720 --> 03:53.720 Good luck. 03:53.720 --> 03:54.720 I'm looking for you. 03:54.720 --> 03:55.720 Come on, get lost, Cliff. 03:55.720 --> 03:56.720 Don't follow me around. 03:56.720 --> 03:57.720 Miriam sent me out to find you. 03:57.720 --> 03:59.720 She knows where I am ten hours a day. 03:59.720 --> 04:00.720 That's more than most wives know. 04:00.720 --> 04:01.720 Miriam was my wife. 04:01.720 --> 04:03.720 I'd spend a little time with her. 04:03.720 --> 04:05.720 You spend quite a little time with her as it is, Cliff. 04:05.720 --> 04:06.720 Quite a little time. 04:06.720 --> 04:08.720 You're talking through that bottle, Jack. 04:08.720 --> 04:09.720 Miriam and I are old friends. 04:09.720 --> 04:12.720 Yeah, I heard about it lots of times. 04:12.720 --> 04:15.720 You were a stage door Johnny when she worked on Burlesque, weren't you? 04:15.720 --> 04:17.720 I used to laugh about you. 04:17.720 --> 04:19.720 That was before you came to work for us. 04:19.720 --> 04:21.720 But now I don't laugh anymore, Cliff. 04:21.720 --> 04:22.720 Now I wonder. 04:22.720 --> 04:23.720 You're drunk. 04:23.720 --> 04:24.720 Am I? 04:24.720 --> 04:27.720 What's a guy like you doing around a carnival, Cliff? 04:27.720 --> 04:29.720 You were a big shot accountant with a good business. 04:29.720 --> 04:33.720 And all of a sudden you chuck everything to learn to be a barker for a pitch like mine. 04:33.720 --> 04:35.720 And it digged me out of that hole every night. 04:35.720 --> 04:36.720 I'm not complaining. 04:36.720 --> 04:37.720 Why should you? 04:37.720 --> 04:40.720 Because I figure you gotta have a reason, Cliff. 04:40.720 --> 04:43.720 I figure that maybe some night you're gonna forget the dig. 04:43.720 --> 04:45.720 Oh, you're being ridiculous, Jack. 04:45.720 --> 04:46.720 Sure. 04:46.720 --> 04:49.720 Only you still haven't told me why you joined the show, Cliff. 04:49.720 --> 04:50.720 That's my business. 04:50.720 --> 04:52.720 Never mind, I'll tell you. 04:52.720 --> 04:55.720 Because you're in love with Miriam and it's killing you to see her married to me. 04:55.720 --> 04:57.720 All right, Jack, that's part of it. 04:57.720 --> 05:00.720 Sure I love Miriam, but that isn't what's killing me. 05:00.720 --> 05:02.720 A bad heart is a thing that's killing me. 05:02.720 --> 05:03.720 What do you mean? 05:03.720 --> 05:07.720 I chucked my business and joined the show because I've only got about a year to live. 05:07.720 --> 05:09.720 Miriam is the only thing in the world I care about. 05:09.720 --> 05:11.720 I want her to be near her. 05:11.720 --> 05:13.720 That's a very touching story, pal. 05:13.720 --> 05:16.720 What am I supposed to do, break down and cry? 05:16.720 --> 05:20.720 Jack, I'd do anything to see Miriam happy. 05:20.720 --> 05:24.720 And if it meant killing you, I could do it without batting an eye. 05:24.720 --> 05:26.720 Because I've got nothing to lose. 05:26.720 --> 05:27.720 I want you to know that. 05:27.720 --> 05:29.720 That's good, Cliff. 05:29.720 --> 05:30.720 Now we understand each other. 05:30.720 --> 05:31.720 Have a drink. 05:31.720 --> 05:32.720 I don't want one. 05:32.720 --> 05:37.720 Oh, well, this ain't just an ordinary drink, Cliff. 05:37.720 --> 05:38.720 This is a toast. 05:38.720 --> 05:40.720 To one of us. 05:40.720 --> 05:42.720 To the guy who buries the other one. 05:42.720 --> 05:43.720 For good. 05:43.720 --> 05:50.720 It was a fool thing to do. 05:50.720 --> 05:52.720 A mistake. 05:52.720 --> 05:55.720 Because he'd play his cards closer now. 05:55.720 --> 05:59.720 If I told him to pack up and get out, he might take Miriam with him. 05:59.720 --> 06:01.720 And I was crazy about Miriam. 06:01.720 --> 06:05.720 Something was wrong between us, but I was still crazy about her. 06:05.720 --> 06:09.720 I had to know, I had to wait and find out if he could take her from me. 06:09.720 --> 06:12.720 And that meant I had to keep him around. 06:12.720 --> 06:16.720 And every day he'd have me helpless down there in that hole like a baby. 06:16.720 --> 06:19.720 I didn't want to drink anymore. 06:19.720 --> 06:25.720 I went back to the tent and tried to sleep, but I kept having that same dream over and over again. 06:25.720 --> 06:28.720 Not a picture dream, but a dream in sound. 06:28.720 --> 06:32.720 The sound of that air pump that kept me alive down there. 06:32.720 --> 06:35.720 It got slower and slower. 06:35.720 --> 06:37.720 And then it stopped. 06:37.720 --> 06:40.720 And I woke up choked, jumped out of bed. 06:40.720 --> 06:42.720 Jack, Jack, is that you? 06:42.720 --> 06:43.720 Yeah, yeah, Miriam. 06:43.720 --> 06:44.720 You go back to sleep. 06:44.720 --> 06:45.720 Is something wrong, dear? 06:45.720 --> 06:46.720 Oh, I had a dream, that's all. 06:46.720 --> 06:47.720 Go back to sleep. 06:47.720 --> 06:49.720 Oh, well, maybe if I may just... 06:49.720 --> 06:50.720 I don't want any hot milk. 06:50.720 --> 06:51.720 I'm going out for a while. 06:51.720 --> 06:52.720 Jack, I hope you're not... 06:52.720 --> 06:54.720 Where would I get it this time of night? 06:54.720 --> 06:55.720 I'm not going to drink to save the lecture. 06:55.720 --> 06:57.720 Well, you don't have to snap at me like that. 06:57.720 --> 06:58.720 That's all you've been doing lately. 06:58.720 --> 06:59.720 Have I? 06:59.720 --> 07:00.720 Well, nobody's died from it so far. 07:00.720 --> 07:02.720 I don't get you at all. 07:02.720 --> 07:03.720 Don't you? 07:03.720 --> 07:05.720 Well, maybe you're not trying hard enough. 07:05.720 --> 07:06.720 I'm going for a walk. 07:06.720 --> 07:08.720 Jack, Jack! 07:14.720 --> 07:16.720 I walked around the grounds. 07:16.720 --> 07:19.720 The moon was doing trick things with the shadows around the tents 07:19.720 --> 07:22.720 and the pitch signs along the midway. 07:22.720 --> 07:24.720 I loved it. 07:24.720 --> 07:27.720 A cheap two-bit carnival, but I loved it. 07:27.720 --> 07:32.720 When Miriam and I were first married, I used to dream about owning the work some day. 07:32.720 --> 07:35.720 Yeah, I was going to do big things. 07:35.720 --> 07:38.720 Clean up with a juggling act, then write to Becker Brothers 07:38.720 --> 07:39.720 and offer to buy them a home. 07:39.720 --> 07:42.720 The Ferris wheel that rides the whole show. 07:42.720 --> 07:44.720 I was going to own the world, 07:44.720 --> 07:48.720 but instead I wound up with six feet of it. 07:48.720 --> 07:51.720 They could dig me up out of that hole every night, 07:51.720 --> 07:58.720 but I couldn't dig my dreams up anymore. 07:58.720 --> 08:02.720 Finally, I went back to my own tent and slept until showtime. 08:02.720 --> 08:06.720 Miriam was gone when I woke up, so I walked over to our pitch. 08:06.720 --> 08:09.720 I was going to pull the flap and go in, 08:09.720 --> 08:12.720 but then I heard her talk on the cliff, so I listened. 08:12.720 --> 08:15.720 I hate it when he's like that. I can't stand it much longer. 08:15.720 --> 08:17.720 You won't have to stand it after tomorrow night. 08:17.720 --> 08:20.720 You'll be away from here. Things will be different. 08:20.720 --> 08:22.720 You sure you want to do this for me, Cliff? 08:22.720 --> 08:24.720 I want you to be happy. 08:24.720 --> 08:27.720 He suspects something. I know it. If he finds out... 08:27.720 --> 08:30.720 He won't find out. Not until tomorrow night. 08:30.720 --> 08:32.720 And when he does, it'll be too late. 08:32.720 --> 08:35.720 He won't be able to do anything about it. 08:38.720 --> 08:41.720 You love your wife and you stand outside a tent 08:41.720 --> 08:44.720 and hear her planning to murder you. 08:44.720 --> 08:47.720 It wasn't only Cliff. It was her, too. 08:47.720 --> 08:50.720 And I knew right then what I had to do. 08:50.720 --> 08:52.720 I had to kill them. 08:52.720 --> 08:55.720 I had to kill the both of them. 08:55.720 --> 08:58.720 And tonight, right away. 09:12.720 --> 09:16.720 Auto Light is bringing you Dan Daly in Six Feet Under. 09:16.720 --> 09:21.720 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 09:28.720 --> 09:31.720 Say, Hap, who knows more about law than a lawyer? 09:31.720 --> 09:33.720 You sure got me this time, Harlow. 09:33.720 --> 09:36.720 Well, then, who knows more about the best spark plug for your car 09:36.720 --> 09:38.720 than auto light ignition engineers? 09:38.720 --> 09:40.720 The men who designed the complete electrical system 09:40.720 --> 09:43.720 for many makes of America's finest cars. 09:43.720 --> 09:47.720 They engineer spark plugs just as they engineer coils, distributors, 09:47.720 --> 09:50.720 and all other ignition parts to work together as a perfect team. 09:50.720 --> 09:52.720 Go on, go on, Harlow. 09:52.720 --> 09:55.720 Well, it's the skill of the same auto light ignition engineers 09:55.720 --> 10:00.720 that made possible the practical development of the auto light resistor spark plug, 10:00.720 --> 10:05.720 the greatest advancement in spark plug design for automotive use in the past 20 years. 10:05.720 --> 10:09.720 And the newest addition to a complete line of transport, aviation, 10:09.720 --> 10:13.720 marine, and regular automotive spark plugs engineered by auto light 10:13.720 --> 10:15.720 in sizes and heat ranges for every purpose. 10:15.720 --> 10:17.720 I guess I've learned my lesson. 10:17.720 --> 10:20.720 So, friends, see your friendly auto light spark plug dealer. 10:20.720 --> 10:22.720 Have him replace worn out spark plugs 10:22.720 --> 10:25.720 with world famous ignition engineered auto light spark plugs. 10:25.720 --> 10:28.720 And whether you choose the resistor type or the regular type, 10:28.720 --> 10:31.720 you can't buy a better spark plug for your car 10:31.720 --> 10:34.720 because you're always right with auto light. 10:34.720 --> 10:38.720 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage 10:38.720 --> 10:41.720 our star Dan Daly in Six Feet Under, 10:41.720 --> 10:46.720 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 10:51.720 --> 10:53.720 Now I know. 10:53.720 --> 10:56.720 It wasn't only Cliff it was Miriam too. 10:56.720 --> 10:59.720 It was like getting hit in the stomach when you didn't expect it. 10:59.720 --> 11:01.720 You love your wife and you stand outside a tent 11:01.720 --> 11:03.720 and hear her planning to murder you. 11:03.720 --> 11:05.720 I walked around the grounds in a daze. 11:05.720 --> 11:09.720 I tried to tell myself that I was wrong, but your own ears can't lie to you. 11:09.720 --> 11:11.720 Jack! Hey, Jack! 11:11.720 --> 11:13.720 Oh, hello, Bonnie. 11:13.720 --> 11:15.720 I've been screaming my head off at you. 11:15.720 --> 11:16.720 You hypnotized or something? 11:16.720 --> 11:17.720 Sorry, Bonnie, I was thinking. 11:17.720 --> 11:19.720 Oh, call for Cliff on the phone in the office wagon. 11:19.720 --> 11:21.720 You want to take it for him? 11:21.720 --> 11:23.720 All right. 11:26.720 --> 11:27.720 Hello? 11:27.720 --> 11:29.720 This is Morton at Trans Country Airlines. 11:29.720 --> 11:31.720 I have your reservations confirmed. 11:31.720 --> 11:32.720 Oh, oh, good. 11:32.720 --> 11:35.720 Two seats on the midnight plane to Chicago tomorrow night. 11:35.720 --> 11:36.720 Thanks a lot. 11:36.720 --> 11:39.720 I know you said you'd come in to pick up the tickets this afternoon, 11:39.720 --> 11:41.720 but I wanted to call and let you know it was confirmed. 11:41.720 --> 11:44.720 I'm glad you did. You'll never know how glad. 11:44.720 --> 11:46.720 It's just part of our service there. 11:46.720 --> 11:47.720 I'll hold the tickets for you. 11:47.720 --> 11:50.720 Now, are you going to enough trouble? You can cancel the tickets. 11:50.720 --> 11:51.720 But I thought you... 11:51.720 --> 11:53.720 I'm changing somebody's mind. 11:53.720 --> 12:02.720 Nobody's going to Chicago tomorrow night. Nobody. 12:02.720 --> 12:06.720 When you see something coming and you know it's too late to stop it, you get calm. 12:06.720 --> 12:09.720 You'll watch it like it was happening to somebody else. 12:09.720 --> 12:13.720 I had to kill them. I had to kill the both of them. 12:13.720 --> 12:16.720 Tonight after the show. After they brought me up. 12:16.720 --> 12:19.720 I'd have ten hours down there to think of a way. 12:19.720 --> 12:23.720 I went into the tent and watched Cliff getting the whole ready for me. 12:23.720 --> 12:24.720 I wanted to laugh. 12:24.720 --> 12:26.720 Is this all right now? 12:26.720 --> 12:28.720 Yeah, that's deep enough. 12:28.720 --> 12:32.720 Cliff, I want that speaking tube hooked up today. 12:32.720 --> 12:34.720 What's the matter? Getting lonesome down there? 12:34.720 --> 12:36.720 I thought you didn't like to talk to the customers. 12:36.720 --> 12:37.720 Today I feel sociable. 12:37.720 --> 12:40.720 I had a glimpse into the bright and cheery future. Hook it up. 12:40.720 --> 12:41.720 You're the boss. 12:41.720 --> 12:42.720 Where's Miriam? 12:42.720 --> 12:44.720 Getting a new roll of tickets from the wagon. 12:44.720 --> 12:46.720 When there's a crowd out there on the Midway, Cliff, 12:46.720 --> 12:50.720 Calliope going on the merry-go-round and all, can she hear my buzzer? 12:50.720 --> 12:51.720 Why wouldn't she? 12:51.720 --> 12:53.720 It's hooked up right from the box to the ticket cage. 12:53.720 --> 12:56.720 But you never use it, so what difference does it make? 12:56.720 --> 12:58.720 It could make a big difference if nobody was in the tent 12:58.720 --> 13:01.720 and the air shut off on me. A big difference. 13:01.720 --> 13:02.720 Let's check it. 13:02.720 --> 13:04.720 All right, there's a button in the box. Press it. 13:04.720 --> 13:07.720 The counter's just outside the flap. We can hear it from here. 13:08.720 --> 13:09.720 Are you pressing it? 13:09.720 --> 13:11.720 You see me, don't you, Cliff? 13:11.720 --> 13:13.720 I don't hear anything out there. 13:13.720 --> 13:14.720 Neither do I. 13:14.720 --> 13:17.720 There must be a loose wire or something. 13:17.720 --> 13:20.720 No, Cliff, it's the batteries. 13:20.720 --> 13:23.720 Because I checked while you were digging and the batteries are gone. 13:24.720 --> 13:26.720 Oh, that's right. I forgot. 13:26.720 --> 13:29.720 When we were moving from the last town, my flashlight went dead. 13:29.720 --> 13:31.720 I borrowed the buzzer battery. 13:31.720 --> 13:32.720 But you forgot to put them back. 13:32.720 --> 13:35.720 Oh, I'm sorry, Jack. It slipped my mind. 13:35.720 --> 13:37.720 You never use a buzzer, so I didn't think of it. 13:37.720 --> 13:39.720 You thought of it when we needed the batteries. 13:39.720 --> 13:41.720 Jack, I tell you it was a mistake. That's all. 13:41.720 --> 13:44.720 Look, the midway's opening up. There's no time to start an argument. 13:44.720 --> 13:48.720 Yeah. Yeah, there'll be time for that later tonight. 13:48.720 --> 13:49.720 We can talk it over tonight, Cliff. 13:49.720 --> 13:50.720 That suits me. 13:50.720 --> 13:53.720 Come on. Let's lower the box. 13:57.720 --> 13:58.720 I'll go get a new set of batteries. 13:58.720 --> 14:00.720 You might as well climb down, slide into the box. 14:00.720 --> 14:02.720 I'll cover you when I get back. 14:02.720 --> 14:07.720 I lit a cigarette. My hands were wet and shaking. 14:07.720 --> 14:10.720 Suppose he didn't wait until tomorrow night. 14:10.720 --> 14:12.720 Suppose this was it. 14:12.720 --> 14:15.720 I couldn't tip my hand by refusing to get down, 14:15.720 --> 14:19.720 but I had to make sure I'd come up again, just this once. 14:19.720 --> 14:22.720 He'd be gone a couple of minutes, long enough. 14:22.720 --> 14:24.720 I ducked out of the tent and across the midway 14:24.720 --> 14:26.720 to the pitch of Ol' Anna, the fortunate one. 14:26.720 --> 14:28.720 I was going to get up, but I couldn't. 14:28.720 --> 14:30.720 I was going to get up, but I couldn't. 14:30.720 --> 14:32.720 I was going to get up, but I couldn't. 14:32.720 --> 14:34.720 Why are you so jumpy about, Annie? 14:34.720 --> 14:36.720 You act like you've been seeing ghosts. 14:36.720 --> 14:38.720 I was communing with other world. 14:38.720 --> 14:39.720 Say that for the suckers. 14:39.720 --> 14:41.720 I want you to do something for me. 14:41.720 --> 14:43.720 I want you to promise and I don't want you to forget. 14:43.720 --> 14:44.720 Is it evil thing? 14:44.720 --> 14:46.720 No, no, Anna, it isn't evil. 14:46.720 --> 14:47.720 When we shut down at night, 14:47.720 --> 14:49.720 I want you to come over to the tent, that's all. 14:49.720 --> 14:52.720 I want you to hang around there until Cliff digs me up, understand? 14:52.720 --> 14:54.720 Beware of lower world, Jack. 14:54.720 --> 14:55.720 Evil things lurk there. 14:55.720 --> 14:56.720 Promise me, Anna. 14:56.720 --> 14:57.720 I promise. 14:57.720 --> 14:59.720 But let me read you fortune in the cards. 14:59.720 --> 15:00.720 It only takes a minute. 15:00.720 --> 15:04.720 There's no time, besides you read them for me in the train the other night. 15:04.720 --> 15:06.720 Was there something there you didn't tell me? 15:06.720 --> 15:08.720 Are you trying to frighten me with a sucker pitch? 15:08.720 --> 15:09.720 There was evil. 15:09.720 --> 15:10.720 The death cards were around you. 15:10.720 --> 15:11.720 They were all around you. 15:11.720 --> 15:12.720 Shut up, you old fool. 15:12.720 --> 15:14.720 Just come over to the tent tonight. 15:14.720 --> 15:15.720 That's all I want from you. 15:15.720 --> 15:16.720 That's all. 15:22.720 --> 15:24.720 I had to grab a hold of myself. 15:24.720 --> 15:27.720 A crazy old woman with a deck of greasy cards. 15:27.720 --> 15:31.720 I've been with tent shows too long to let a thing like that get me. 15:31.720 --> 15:36.720 I went back to the tent, got down into the hole and slid into the box. 15:36.720 --> 15:40.720 Cliff lowered the narrow view shaft that the customers looked through. 15:40.720 --> 15:43.720 I fastened it to the hole just above my face. 15:43.720 --> 15:47.720 Then he started to shovel the dirt in on top of me. 15:47.720 --> 15:49.720 I could hear it hitting the box. 15:49.720 --> 15:57.720 There isn't another sound like it in the whole world. 15:57.720 --> 15:59.720 Then it was all done. 15:59.720 --> 16:04.720 Cliff looked down at me through the glass and the smile on his face made me cold. 16:04.720 --> 16:08.720 Then he was gone and I was alone with the sound of the air pump. 16:08.720 --> 16:12.720 In a few minutes the customers started to come in and it wasn't so bad. 16:12.720 --> 16:15.720 If anything went wrong they'd be able to hear me through the speaking tool. 16:15.720 --> 16:17.720 Just as I could hear them. 16:17.720 --> 16:19.720 Come on mother, come on look at him. 16:19.720 --> 16:22.720 Oh you look it, give me the creeping whizzle, whizzle. 16:22.720 --> 16:25.720 Well you're the one who wanted to come in, come on it can't hurt you. 16:25.720 --> 16:28.720 Look you can talk to him right through this here hoop nanny. 16:28.720 --> 16:31.720 Well, can you hear me down there? 16:31.720 --> 16:33.720 Yeah I can hear you. 16:33.720 --> 16:36.720 Is it, well, are you all right? 16:36.720 --> 16:38.720 Yeah, yeah I'm all right. 16:38.720 --> 16:41.720 See, just like I told you there's nothing to it. 16:41.720 --> 16:43.720 That's all we see for our money? 16:43.720 --> 16:45.720 Sure, the whole darn thing's a jib. 16:45.720 --> 16:47.720 Well so long down there. 16:47.720 --> 16:49.720 We'll all join you some day, sooner or later. 16:49.720 --> 16:51.720 Oh, oh, sad what a day this day. 16:51.720 --> 16:54.720 I think they'd give you a little more for your money though. 16:58.720 --> 17:00.720 That's the way it was. 17:00.720 --> 17:05.720 Hour after hour, face after face until all the faces blurred and ran together. 17:05.720 --> 17:10.720 Their voices came down with the same questions and the same disappointed wisecracks. 17:10.720 --> 17:13.720 But they kept paying and they kept coming. 17:13.720 --> 17:17.720 It was getting on the late afternoon because the crowd was beginning to thin out. 17:17.720 --> 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. 17:25.720 --> 17:27.720 At 6.30 the crowd would drift back again. 17:27.720 --> 17:30.720 The big crowd with the men home from work. 17:30.720 --> 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. 17:39.720 --> 17:42.720 I was glad to see the crowd go for a while. 17:42.720 --> 17:45.720 It gave me the next hour alone to think and plan things out. 17:45.720 --> 17:47.720 Then it hit me. 17:47.720 --> 17:50.720 The next hour alone. 17:50.720 --> 17:53.720 I'd forgotten that part of it. 17:53.720 --> 17:55.720 I looked up. 17:55.720 --> 17:57.720 There were no faces in the viewing glass. 17:57.720 --> 18:02.720 I fell around with my hand and I found the buzzer button and the ticket keys. 18:02.720 --> 18:05.720 I pressed it again and again but Miriam didn't come. 18:05.720 --> 18:06.720 Sure. 18:06.720 --> 18:08.720 This was it. 18:08.720 --> 18:11.720 They were up there now getting ready to do whatever they were going to do. 18:11.720 --> 18:13.720 Then they'd walk away over to the commissary tent. 18:13.720 --> 18:15.720 They'd eat and laugh. 18:15.720 --> 18:16.720 Nobody'd suspect them. 18:16.720 --> 18:18.720 It'd be an accident. 18:18.720 --> 18:20.720 I tried to think of something else. 18:20.720 --> 18:23.720 They wouldn't have the nerve to be through with it. 18:23.720 --> 18:25.720 And then I knew I was wrong. 18:25.720 --> 18:28.720 Because all of a sudden there was complete silence. 18:28.720 --> 18:33.720 Somebody had cut off the air pump. 18:33.720 --> 18:37.720 I twisted and turned and I pushed against the lid of the box like a madman. 18:37.720 --> 18:41.720 But it didn't budge. There was more than a ton of earth on top of me. 18:41.720 --> 18:44.720 The pressure on my chest increased and I couldn't breathe. 18:44.720 --> 18:48.720 Flashes of red and blue color were whirling around in my head. 18:48.720 --> 18:50.720 I looked up gasping for air. 18:50.720 --> 18:52.720 And there was a face staring down at me. 18:52.720 --> 18:54.720 A child's face. 18:54.720 --> 18:56.720 See my baby turtle, mister? 18:56.720 --> 18:58.720 What are you doing down there, mister? 18:58.720 --> 18:59.720 Kid. 18:59.720 --> 19:00.720 Kid, get somebody quick. 19:00.720 --> 19:03.720 Go outside and get some help. I'm smothering. 19:03.720 --> 19:05.720 Don't just stare at me. Call somebody. 19:05.720 --> 19:08.720 You hear me? Stop looking at me. 19:08.720 --> 19:10.720 Get somebody. 19:12.720 --> 19:15.720 He kept staring at me, his eyes wide and frightened. 19:15.720 --> 19:17.720 He moved his mouth once. 19:17.720 --> 19:19.720 But he was frozen with fear. 19:19.720 --> 19:21.720 And all of a sudden his face was gone. 19:21.720 --> 19:23.720 He was gone. 19:23.720 --> 19:29.720 I made one last hopeless try at the lid and then suddenly I didn't care anymore. 19:29.720 --> 19:31.720 I relaxed. 19:31.720 --> 19:34.720 All the colors in the world exploded in my head. 19:34.720 --> 19:36.720 Then they all ran together. 19:36.720 --> 19:38.720 There was a roaring sound. 19:38.720 --> 19:40.720 Everything went black. 19:47.720 --> 19:49.720 I came out of it slowly. 19:49.720 --> 19:51.720 The pump was going again. 19:51.720 --> 19:55.720 The beat of it keeping time with a throbbing in my head. 19:55.720 --> 19:57.720 And they were digging for me. 19:57.720 --> 20:00.720 I could hear the sounds of the shovels in the earth. 20:00.720 --> 20:04.720 And then finally against the wooden top of the box. 20:06.720 --> 20:08.720 There we are. Give me your hand. 20:08.720 --> 20:10.720 Are you all right, Jack? 20:10.720 --> 20:12.720 Yeah, I'm okay. 20:12.720 --> 20:14.720 Come on, pull it up there. 20:14.720 --> 20:16.720 It's all right. 20:16.720 --> 20:18.720 Jack, come over to my tent and sit down. 20:18.720 --> 20:20.720 There is evil here. 20:20.720 --> 20:22.720 I don't want to sit down. Where's Miriam? Where's Cliff? 20:22.720 --> 20:24.720 Somebody went for them to the commissary. 20:24.720 --> 20:26.720 They will be here soon. 20:26.720 --> 20:28.720 But it wouldn't have been soon enough. 20:28.720 --> 20:30.720 He's been sneaking in the shows. 20:30.720 --> 20:32.720 He saw the air pump motor out and turned it off. 20:32.720 --> 20:34.720 You think that's the way it happened? 20:34.720 --> 20:36.720 What's the matter here? 20:36.720 --> 20:38.720 Jack, what are you on top for? 20:38.720 --> 20:40.720 Take a guess, Miriam. 20:40.720 --> 20:42.720 There was an accident. Some kid shot off the motor to the air pump. 20:42.720 --> 20:44.720 See, Miriam, that's all it was. 20:44.720 --> 20:46.720 Just an accident. Nobody to blame. 20:46.720 --> 20:48.720 Jack, I should have been here. 20:48.720 --> 20:50.720 Yeah, maybe you should have. You could have kept that kid out of the tent. 20:50.720 --> 20:52.720 It would have worked out better. Where's Cliff? 20:52.720 --> 20:54.720 Around, I don't know. 20:54.720 --> 20:56.720 You could have been killed down there. 20:56.720 --> 20:58.720 I could have been, but I wasn't. 20:58.720 --> 21:00.720 Don't worry about it, baby. 21:00.720 --> 21:02.720 It won't happen again. 21:02.720 --> 21:04.720 It won't happen to me again. 21:08.720 --> 21:10.720 It was my game now. 21:10.720 --> 21:12.720 I was up walking and breathing. 21:12.720 --> 21:14.720 It was my game. 21:14.720 --> 21:16.720 I played the tender husband. 21:16.720 --> 21:18.720 I wasn't going to show him my cards now. 21:18.720 --> 21:20.720 That came later. 21:20.720 --> 21:22.720 When she calmed down, I kissed her. 21:22.720 --> 21:24.720 Then I went looking for my last answer. 21:24.720 --> 21:26.720 Then I went looking for my last answer. 21:26.720 --> 21:28.720 The kid who had turned off the motor. 21:30.720 --> 21:32.720 There were kids all over the place, 21:32.720 --> 21:34.720 all looking the same the way kids do. 21:34.720 --> 21:36.720 But I'd remember his face. 21:36.720 --> 21:38.720 You're bound to remember a face when it might have been the last one you'd ever see. 21:38.720 --> 21:40.720 Then I spotted him going into the house of fun. 21:40.720 --> 21:42.720 I nodded to the ticket taker and went in after him. 21:42.720 --> 21:44.720 I caught him in the room with the tilled floors and grabbed him. 21:44.720 --> 21:46.720 I caught him in the room with the tilled floors and grabbed him. 21:46.720 --> 21:48.720 Ow! Mister! 21:48.720 --> 21:50.720 Let me go! 21:50.720 --> 21:52.720 Take it easy, kid. You won't get hurt. 21:52.720 --> 21:54.720 Why'd you turn that motor off? 21:54.720 --> 21:56.720 I was just fooling with it and it stopped, that's all. 21:56.720 --> 21:58.720 I didn't know what it was. 21:58.720 --> 22:00.720 Who told you to turn it off? 22:00.720 --> 22:02.720 Nobody! Let me go! 22:02.720 --> 22:04.720 Stop kicking! Tell me the truth or I'll... 22:04.720 --> 22:06.720 And I'll give you a buck. 22:06.720 --> 22:08.720 I am telling the truth. 22:08.720 --> 22:10.720 Tell me! Tell me who told you! 22:10.720 --> 22:12.720 Stop biting me and tell me! 22:18.720 --> 22:20.720 I'll tell my pop. He'll fix you. 22:20.720 --> 22:22.720 Let me go! 22:22.720 --> 22:24.720 I'll let you go when you answer me. 22:24.720 --> 22:26.720 What do you want me to say, mister? 22:26.720 --> 22:28.720 A man told you to turn that motor off, didn't he? 22:28.720 --> 22:30.720 No! No! 22:30.720 --> 22:32.720 Let me get him! 22:32.720 --> 22:34.720 All right, kid. All right. 22:34.720 --> 22:36.720 Here's your dollar. 22:36.720 --> 22:38.720 I don't want no dollar! I want to go home! 22:42.720 --> 22:44.720 I went into town and drank until the show closed down. 22:44.720 --> 22:46.720 Until I was sure they'd all be asleep. 22:46.720 --> 22:48.720 Until I was sure they'd all be asleep. 22:48.720 --> 22:52.720 Then I went to the first aid wagon and nosed around until I found what I wanted. 22:52.720 --> 22:54.720 A can of ether. 22:54.720 --> 22:56.720 Cliff was bigger than I. Much bigger. 22:56.720 --> 22:58.720 And I had to be sure. 22:58.720 --> 23:02.720 I soaked a handkerchief in the stuff and then I left myself in the cliff tent. 23:02.720 --> 23:04.720 He was lying there. 23:04.720 --> 23:06.720 Quietly. 23:06.720 --> 23:08.720 He was sleeping. He wasn't making a sound. 23:08.720 --> 23:12.720 I crept over to him and pushed the handkerchief over his mouth and nose. 23:12.720 --> 23:14.720 I held it there. 23:14.720 --> 23:16.720 Held his face right into it. 23:16.720 --> 23:18.720 He didn't even murmur. 23:18.720 --> 23:22.720 And when I let go after a while his head dropped back. 23:22.720 --> 23:24.720 He was out. 23:24.720 --> 23:26.720 I picked him up and carried him to the pitch tent. 23:26.720 --> 23:28.720 I put him down in a box. 23:28.720 --> 23:30.720 And then I shoveled a dirt in on top of him. 23:36.720 --> 23:38.720 I left the air pump running. 23:38.720 --> 23:40.720 I wanted Miriam to see him down there. 23:40.720 --> 23:42.720 Him instead of me. 23:42.720 --> 23:44.720 Then I could stop it waiting up for me when I was back together. 23:44.720 --> 23:46.720 Well, it's about time you got back. 23:46.720 --> 23:48.720 I've been worried sick about you. 23:48.720 --> 23:50.720 Worried about me, baby? 23:50.720 --> 23:52.720 That's silly. I can take care of myself. 23:52.720 --> 23:54.720 That accident this afternoon. 23:54.720 --> 23:56.720 I'm still shaky. 23:56.720 --> 23:58.720 Yeah, I can see why you would be. 23:58.720 --> 24:00.720 Jack, there's been something wrong with us. 24:00.720 --> 24:02.720 Maybe it's my fault. I want to straighten it out. 24:02.720 --> 24:04.720 Everything will be straightened out all right. 24:04.720 --> 24:06.720 Real soon. 24:06.720 --> 24:08.720 Come on. Let's go for a little walk. 24:08.720 --> 24:10.720 But it's after midnight. 24:10.720 --> 24:12.720 I know, but I got a surprise for you. 24:12.720 --> 24:14.720 Something I want you to see. 24:14.720 --> 24:16.720 What is it? 24:16.720 --> 24:18.720 Over at the pitch tent. Come on. 24:22.720 --> 24:24.720 She came. 24:24.720 --> 24:26.720 I had to hand it to her. 24:26.720 --> 24:28.720 She was playing the act of the hilt. 24:28.720 --> 24:30.720 Just like nothing was wrong. 24:30.720 --> 24:32.720 I took her arm and held it tight. 24:32.720 --> 24:34.720 Good and tight. 24:34.720 --> 24:36.720 So she couldn't turn and run. 24:36.720 --> 24:38.720 And we went into the pitch tent. 24:38.720 --> 24:40.720 Well, what's the surprise? 24:40.720 --> 24:42.720 It's dark in here. 24:42.720 --> 24:44.720 There's enough light down in the box. 24:44.720 --> 24:46.720 Go ahead. Take a look. 24:46.720 --> 24:48.720 The hole. 24:48.720 --> 24:50.720 It's filled in. 24:50.720 --> 24:52.720 The show has a new star. 24:52.720 --> 24:54.720 For a one night stand. 24:54.720 --> 24:56.720 Go ahead. Look. 24:56.720 --> 24:58.720 Jack, what... 24:58.720 --> 25:00.720 No! 25:00.720 --> 25:02.720 Yeah, baby. 25:02.720 --> 25:04.720 How do you like it now? 25:04.720 --> 25:06.720 That's the way I was today when that motor cut off. 25:06.720 --> 25:08.720 Get him out! 25:08.720 --> 25:10.720 I hope you'll be able to fix it this time. 25:10.720 --> 25:12.720 Don't you pray. 25:12.720 --> 25:14.720 Sure. I just ripped these wires out and he gets what I almost got. 25:14.720 --> 25:16.720 What are you killing him for? Why? 25:16.720 --> 25:18.720 I knew what you were up to. 25:18.720 --> 25:20.720 You'll never take that midnight play tomorrow. 25:20.720 --> 25:22.720 You'll never run away with him now. 25:22.720 --> 25:24.720 I wasn't running away with him. The tickets were for us. 25:24.720 --> 25:26.720 You hear me? For you and me. 25:26.720 --> 25:28.720 Well, there you forgot to tell me about it, baby. 25:28.720 --> 25:30.720 I couldn't. Cliff was lending us the money to buy the show. 25:30.720 --> 25:32.720 He said he'd be mine and he'd out some day. 25:32.720 --> 25:34.720 I wanted to do it for you because I loved you. 25:34.720 --> 25:36.720 Because I hated what's been happening to you down there. 25:36.720 --> 25:38.720 Why didn't you help me? 25:38.720 --> 25:40.720 Because he loved me, that's why. 25:40.720 --> 25:42.720 And he knew you were all I care about. 25:42.720 --> 25:44.720 He sent the money for the show to Becker Brothers yesterday 25:44.720 --> 25:46.720 and we were supposed to fly off tomorrow night to sign the papers in Chicago. 25:46.720 --> 25:48.720 You're lying. 25:48.720 --> 25:50.720 You're lying. You're lying to get a toll on me. 25:50.720 --> 25:52.720 Would you believe me? Would you believe anybody? 25:52.720 --> 25:54.720 Do something! Do something! 25:54.720 --> 25:56.720 The shovels. The shovels, Miriam. Where are they? 25:56.720 --> 25:58.720 Quick. Quick. Help me. 25:58.720 --> 26:00.720 Miriam, dig. Dig. 26:00.720 --> 26:08.720 Dig. Dig. 26:08.720 --> 26:14.720 And that's it, Sheriff. 26:14.720 --> 26:16.720 You'll never know what it's like down there. 26:16.720 --> 26:18.720 You have nothing to do but thinking. 26:18.720 --> 26:20.720 Well, you get to thinking crazy things. 26:20.720 --> 26:22.720 That's why it happened. 26:22.720 --> 26:24.720 When we got to him, he was dead. 26:24.720 --> 26:26.720 I see. 26:26.720 --> 26:28.720 If you want to have that, then you have to. 26:28.720 --> 26:32.720 If you want to have that typed up as a confession, I'll sign it. 26:32.720 --> 26:34.720 There's much good that'd do. 26:34.720 --> 26:36.720 That deputy that came in a while ago 26:36.720 --> 26:38.720 gave me a copy of the coroner's report 26:38.720 --> 26:40.720 cause of death, coronary thrombosis. 26:40.720 --> 26:42.720 His heart, no strangulation. 26:42.720 --> 26:44.720 He was already dead when you stopped that air pump. 26:44.720 --> 26:46.720 He was dead even before that, before you gave him ether. 26:46.720 --> 26:50.720 You mean Jack didn't kill him? 26:50.720 --> 26:52.720 Not according to the coroner. Death from natural causes. 26:52.720 --> 26:56.720 Then you're not going to charge me with murder? 26:56.720 --> 26:58.720 You can't murder a dead man, mister. 26:58.720 --> 27:02.720 Just like you can't lock a man up for being a fool. 27:02.720 --> 27:04.720 Oh, Jack. Jack. 27:04.720 --> 27:06.720 It's all right, baby. 27:06.720 --> 27:08.720 You hurt him. 27:08.720 --> 27:27.720 You hurt him. They can't do anything to me for being a fool. 27:27.720 --> 27:29.720 Suspense. 27:29.720 --> 27:33.720 Presented by Auto Light. 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