1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:18,520 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Mr. Dennis O'Keefe in Very Much Like a Nightmare, a suspense 3 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:23,000 play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Harlow. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Yeah? 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,560 What spectacular event heralds the approach of summer? 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,720 By getting an Auto Light Stay Full Battery, the battery that has three times as much liquid 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,320 reserve above the plates as batteries without stay full features. 9 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,600 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:41,600 Come on now, Wilcox. 11 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,240 I mean for fun, for pleasure, for excitement. 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:45,840 Well, so do I, Hap. 13 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,280 What could be more fun than driving a car that has an Auto Light Stay Full Battery to 14 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,360 give you extra starting dependability? 15 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,960 What can give you greater pleasure than the knowledge that your Auto Light Stay Full Battery 16 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,480 needs water only three times a year in normal car use? 17 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:04,240 And what excitement when you find out that SAE Life Cycle Standard Tests show that Auto 18 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:09,760 Light Stay Full Batteries give 70% longer average life than batteries without stay full 19 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:10,760 features. 20 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,880 The circus is what I had in mind, Harlow. 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,760 You should have seen the menagerie. 22 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:15,760 Every kind of animal. 23 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:16,760 Camels? 24 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,520 Naturally, wouldn't be a circus without camels. 25 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:24,480 Well, no camel can teetotal water like the Auto Light Stay Full Battery that needs water 26 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,640 only three times a year in normal car use. 27 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,200 Just remember, friends, you're always right with Auto Light. 28 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:38,040 And now with very much like a nightmare and the performance of Dennis O'Keefe, Auto Light 29 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,040 hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 30 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:51,080 It started out like nothing more than a small freakish accident. 31 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,840 The kind of thing you could tell a little sheepishly as a joke on yourself. 32 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,760 By the time it was over, it was very much like a nightmare. 33 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:03,960 A dream you wake up from drenched in cold sweat, shaking all over with the clock pointing 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:09,040 at 3 a.m. and the covers on the floor. 35 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:15,160 It was only my second day back on the job after a short bout with the flu germ and I'd 36 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,400 been up practically all night working on a job my boss old hard rock Gilman had been 37 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,880 kind enough to save, especially for me. 38 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,800 As I walked into the lobby of the Nugent building, my biggest worry was simply whether the little 39 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,960 pills my pharmacist mate, Hermione, had given me would keep me alive and jumping through 40 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,400 a rather long day. 41 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:37,440 Eddie, the hawk faced kid who ran the elevator, was just about to take it up as I came in. 42 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:38,440 Hold it, Eddie. 43 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:39,440 Oh, hi, Mr. McClane. 44 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:40,440 Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. DuPré. 45 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:41,440 Didn't see you. 46 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:42,440 Good morning. 47 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:43,440 Good morning, Mr. DuPré. 48 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:44,440 How are you? 49 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:45,440 Anybody for three? 50 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:46,440 Down to the guys seeing you around lately, Mr. DuPré. 51 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:53,440 No, I'm playing hooky. 52 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,440 Lucky you. 53 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,440 Bye, Eddie. 54 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:00,440 Have I ever let you off in the other place? 55 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:09,200 Mr. DuPré, though not precisely my type, was one of the rare plus qualities to be discovered 56 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:10,200 in the Nugent building. 57 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,600 She was one of the few girls I've seen around office buildings who actually looked as though 58 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,640 they belonged in somebody's penthouse apartment. 59 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:22,600 She usually tagged along with Farris, a cocky-looking character who also worked at Circassian Brothers 60 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,600 importers up on five. 61 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:25,600 Five? 62 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:26,600 Watch your step. 63 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:27,600 Thank you, Eddie. 64 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,600 Mr. DuPré. 65 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:29,600 Yes? 66 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:30,600 Is everything all right? 67 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:31,600 What? 68 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:32,600 Oh, yes, I think so, Eddie. 69 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,600 But maybe you'd better check with Mr. Farris. 70 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,600 He may want to send out for a sandwich around 11. 71 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:42,600 Okay. 72 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,600 Seven, Mr. McClain. 73 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,600 Watch your step. 74 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:57,600 Thank you, Eddie. 75 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:04,600 The morning went slowly, even with Hermes' pills to help, but at noon I resumed a pleasant 76 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,600 custom which had been temporarily interrupted by my illness. 77 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,600 Out of having lunch with Miss Catherine Warren, a delightful young lady on whose future I 78 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,600 had very definite, if not especially dark, designs. 79 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,600 Now for the gruesome lecture. 80 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,600 What time did you go to bed last night, boss? 81 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:22,600 Who, me? 82 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:23,600 Last night? 83 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:24,600 Well... 84 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:25,600 All right, then. 85 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:26,600 It was this morning. 86 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:27,600 It was this morning, wasn't it? 87 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:28,600 Such a charming girl to be so snoopy. 88 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:33,600 Would you like to hear about a very interesting conversation I had going down on the bus this 89 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,600 morning with a young man named Herman? 90 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:38,600 Hermes? 91 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,600 How a guy like that can run a prescription shop beats me. 92 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,600 What would the doctors do if they knew he went around blabbing professional secrets? 93 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,600 It's you, not Hermes, I'm concerned about. 94 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,600 And I'd like to know what makes you think it's smart to start taking dope. 95 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:50,600 Dope? 96 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,600 Oh, that Hermes and his melodrama. 97 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:53,600 All he gave me was something to... 98 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,600 Something to keep you from getting the sleep you ought to be getting. 99 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,600 At this rate, you'll be back in bed again before you know it. 100 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,600 Ah, they're just little white pills. 101 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,600 Perfectly harmless if you don't try to swallow the whole box. 102 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:05,600 Why, Hermes says, here. 103 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,600 Well, let's take a look for yourself. 104 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:08,600 That's a... 105 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:09,600 That's a wrong box. 106 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,600 What do you mean, wrong box? 107 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:12,600 All right. 108 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,600 So, I'm a fugitive from a drug counter. 109 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:15,600 These are the... 110 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:16,600 One of the other ones. 111 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:17,600 The other ones? 112 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,600 Well, the fact is, darling, at first I was as leery about these stay-awake things as you 113 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:23,600 are. 114 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:24,600 I started worrying. 115 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,600 Suppose the stuff was slow-wiring off or suppose I developed insomnia or something like that. 116 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,600 Now, Hermes said he doubted that that would happen, but just to make sure, he fixed me 117 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,600 up with these sleeping pills. 118 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:36,600 More dope. 119 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:37,600 Oh, look, honey. 120 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,600 It's not Yeoman I'm doing this for. 121 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:40,600 You know that. 122 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:41,600 It's us. 123 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,600 I wouldn't have tried to come to work if I... 124 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,600 I know, I know, but I'm sorry. 125 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:46,600 Forget it. 126 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,600 Shall I call you tonight before I tuck myself in? 127 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:59,600 If you don't, I'll come over and toss tear gas through your window. 128 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,600 I made my way back toward the Nuget building, wedged as very appropriately near narrow dead-end 129 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:05,600 street. 130 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,600 About halfway down the block, I heard footsteps behind me and then a voice familiar enough. 131 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:10,600 McClane. 132 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,600 It was Ferris, Marie Dupree's boyfriend. 133 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:13,600 Hi, McClane. 134 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:14,600 Haven't seen you around lately. 135 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:15,600 Been out of town? 136 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,600 Oh, just had to stay in for a few days. 137 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,600 How's it with Sir Christian Brothers? 138 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:21,600 Never better, never better. 139 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:22,600 And with you? 140 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:23,600 No complaints. 141 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:28,600 Say, something was said in the elevator this morning, you know, Eddie, about him picking 142 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,600 up a sandwich for you around 11. 143 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,600 I was wondering if that's just an arrangement with the people... 144 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:34,600 Sandwiches? 145 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:35,600 I don't get it, Mr. McClane. 146 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,600 Eddie's never picked up any sandwiches for me. 147 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:39,600 Somebody's kidding. 148 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:40,600 Well, here we are. 149 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:41,600 Coming up. 150 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:42,600 Oh, hi, Mr. Ferris. 151 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:43,600 Mr. McClane. 152 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:44,600 Howdy. 153 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:51,600 Eddie, what's this about some sandwich service you've got? 154 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,600 Been holding out on me? 155 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:54,600 Well, I... 156 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:59,600 Well, Eddie, I just thought I overheard you and Mr. Dupree say something about handing 157 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:00,600 out for a sandwich, so I... 158 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:01,600 Oh, no, no, that was... 159 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:02,600 No, you got us wrong. 160 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:03,600 I never said that. 161 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:08,600 I told Mr. McClane, Eddie, that it was probably some kind of kidding you and Mr. Dupree were 162 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:09,600 carrying on. 163 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,600 That goes to show you should never kid on the job. 164 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:13,600 Yes, sir. 165 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,600 That's a good motto for Eddie, huh, Mr. McClane? 166 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,600 Never kid on the job. 167 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,600 The three of us stood silently in the rising elevator. 168 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,600 It seemed to me that Ferris had pushed the sandwich topic a little farther than necessary. 169 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,600 Eddie was pretty upset. 170 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:32,600 Why would he? 171 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,600 Oh, well, hell, it wasn't any of my affair. 172 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,600 I went back into my cubbyhole and waited till 3 o'clock, the hour for which Gilman had called 173 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,600 the conference with Fisher, Barton, and Fisher, our big accounts. 174 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:48,600 And it was in this conference that the sleep I hadn't got started creeping up on me. 175 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,600 Out of a fleecy fog, I suddenly heard Gilman barking at me. 176 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:53,600 McClane! 177 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:54,600 Yes, huh? 178 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,600 Heavensake, what's the matter with you? 179 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,600 You didn't get out of bed too soon, did you? 180 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,600 Oh, no, no, I'm all right, Mr. Gilman. 181 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:03,600 Oh, good. 182 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,600 I'd appreciate your getting Mr. Fisher's brief finished up for me. 183 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,600 I hate to ask you this, but I wonder if you'd mind getting it done before you go. 184 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,600 I managed an apology and stood up. 185 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,600 My eyes burned and my neck muscles seemed to be dragging my head down as I went back to my office. 186 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,600 It had been 10, maybe 12 hours since I had taken the last couple of stay-awake pills. 187 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:31,600 If I could borrow enough energy for the next 45 minutes, I told myself I could clean up this last job 188 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,600 and the whole blessed night would be mine for sleeping. 189 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,600 This time I'd cut the dose in half, only take a single pill, so... 190 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,600 I shook one of the pills out of the little box and followed it with a glass of water. 191 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,600 Then I sat down at my desk and unclipped the sheets that Gilman had given me. 192 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,600 I don't know when it was that I noticed that the words had started running together. 193 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,600 I looked at the papers and it was like peering through water. 194 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:05,600 The bell was bonging somewhere far off in the distance and I seemed to be lying across a bed. 195 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:10,600 Slowly I forced open my eyes and blinked while reality swam into focus. 196 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,600 For a moment I really didn't know where I was and it was just silence 197 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,600 and the lost feeling of being in the wrong place. 198 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:21,600 Then suddenly I realized the bed I had seemed to be lying across was my office desk. 199 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,600 I couldn't quite get it clear. What was I doing here? 200 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,600 The outer office was nothing but darkness. 201 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,600 Stiff and cramped, I stood up, I looked at my watches. 202 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,600 2.15. 2.15? That's impossible. 203 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,600 Only a few minutes ago I looked at my watch and it was... 204 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:42,600 Oh, no. It couldn't have been a few minutes ago when Gilman was here then 205 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,600 and Miss Tyler and the others at... What can't be two in the morning? 206 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:53,600 Oh, oh, oh, oh, bright boy McClane. Hermes' pills. 207 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,600 For the second time I'd made a stupid mistake about the pills. 208 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,600 When I went into the washroom I'd taken the wrong pills with me. 209 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,600 The sleeping pills. The others were still in my top coat. 210 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,600 I laughed again but this time I knew I was wrong. 211 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,600 I laughed again but this time I didn't like the sound so much. 212 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,600 Somehow it seemed too hollow and then suddenly standing there in the middle of the floor 213 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,600 seven stories up in an empty office building, the darkness moved in on me. 214 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,600 I got that funny feeling as if the darkness wasn't all, 215 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,600 as if I had something worse to contend with like in blind man's buff when you're a kid 216 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,600 and you shrink back and hold your breath while the hand fumbles past you in the darkness. 217 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,600 Weird as it seemed all of a sudden it was like being on the island again 218 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,600 with the Japanese somewhere near you and not daring to let a match 219 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,600 and holding your breath for the darkness so thick it choked you. 220 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,600 Holding your breath because that over-loud breath might be your last. 221 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:07,600 Auto Light is bringing you Dennis O'Keefe in very much like a nightmare. 222 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:12,600 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 223 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:24,600 Hello, one of the circus men told me that elephants drink ten gallons of water a day. 224 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,600 Ten gallons a day, wow. 225 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:31,600 And an auto light stay full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 226 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:37,600 It's a super battery that has three times as much liquid reserve as batteries without stay full features. 227 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,600 Yes, but the elephant is a mighty powerful critter, Wilcock. 228 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,600 Well, talk about power. Man, the auto light stay full battery is amazing. 229 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:51,600 You see, there's a fiberglass retaining mat at every positive plate to hold the power producing material in place. 230 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,600 That gives you advantages like extra long life, extra starting dependability. 231 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,600 You know, Wilcock, the elephant lives a phenomenally long life. 232 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,600 Yes, but half think of the life span of the auto light stay full battery. 233 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:11,600 Why, according to SAE life cycle standard tests, it gives 70% longer average life than batteries without stay full features. 234 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:17,600 And the auto light stay full battery needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 235 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,600 So friends, see your friendly auto light battery dealer. 236 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,600 Remember, you're always right with auto light. 237 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:31,600 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage our star, Dennis O'Keefe in very much like a nightmare. 238 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:36,600 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 239 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,600 I felt my way out into the darkness beyond the door. 240 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,600 The hall stretched out like a cave to the stairs and the faint red glory the exit lights. 241 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:53,600 The angle of the stairs at the landing there was a window and I pressed my face against the cool of the glass. 242 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,600 I had to wake up. 243 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,600 And suddenly a light fanned out over the loading platform down below. 244 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,600 Somebody must have opened the door down there. 245 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,600 I saw a truck and three or four men dwarfed by the distance. 246 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:10,600 Light from the door was gone, but I still see the stabbing beams from a couple of flashlights. 247 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,600 It was working out this hour. Why? 248 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,600 And then I heard the whistling. 249 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,600 Eddie, Eddie, the elevator boy. 250 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,600 What are you doing here at this weird hour? 251 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,600 Two o'clock in the morning in an empty building with no passengers. 252 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,600 Lead footed, I moved down one flight and waited there on the sixth floor. 253 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,600 Straining every cell to hear the whistling again, but I didn't. 254 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:39,600 Instead I heard something from the fifth floor and I felt my way down toward it. 255 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:45,600 Sure, I'm laughing, Shelby, because I know Marie and I know that when she talks like this she's not even half what she's saying. 256 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,600 And then we've been drinking, drinking. 257 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,600 I haven't been drinking that much. 258 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,600 We feed him everything he asks for, lined up so that all he's got to do is walk in. 259 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,600 And even before the stuff is out of the plane he's ready to cheat us out of what he promised. 260 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:56,600 Marie. 261 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,600 So we get for letting ourselves get mixed up in a bunch of... 262 00:13:58,600 --> 00:13:59,600 Now wait a minute. 263 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,600 Shut up. 264 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,600 Now I tell you something, Miss Dupree. 265 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,600 You don't know your friends, do you? 266 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,600 You start calling names and you're going to get hurt worse, much worse. 267 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:10,600 You... 268 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:11,600 You're hurting me. 269 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,600 Yeah, yeah, I hit you and that ain't all. 270 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,600 You figure you don't get enough for what you do. 271 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,600 You figure you're being cheated out of your cock, but I tell you something now. 272 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,600 You open your mouth the wrong way, I handle it myself. 273 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:22,600 No way, Joe. 274 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,600 You think we're so scared of you, we'll stand for anything, don't you? 275 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,600 Well, if I get nothing, you get nothing too. 276 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,600 Open my mouth, I'll open my mouth, all right? 277 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,600 We never should have... Get out of my way. 278 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:32,600 Where are you, Marie? 279 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,600 Marie, let me go. Let me go. Let me go. Let me go. 280 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,600 I told you to keep your mouth shut. 281 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,600 What was this nightmare I'd stumbled into? 282 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,600 If I hadn't been groggy and I looked down on the platform from seven, 283 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,600 I would have been tipped off by the flashlights. 284 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,600 Sir Kissian would never have had his workmen stumbling around in that sketchy light 285 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,600 with stuff costing a small fortune. 286 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,600 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 287 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,600 The sketchy light with stuff costing a small fortune. 288 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,600 The elevator. 289 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,600 Eddie was in on a two, handling something a little hotter now than sandwiches. 290 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,600 But after the doors opened, I noticed that the whistling stopped 291 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,600 like being cut in two by a knife. 292 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,600 The longer I stood there, the more unhealthy my position became, 293 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,600 and then I wondered about Albert, the night watchman. 294 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,600 Where was he? He had a gun, but suddenly I... 295 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,600 I wanted to get out of there more than anything in the world. Just get out. 296 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,600 My dash for the stairs to the fourth floor was like a slow motion dream. 297 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,600 Hermione's sleeping pills. 298 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,600 I plumped to the floor just out of range of the nearing light 299 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,600 as the elevator dropped toward me. 300 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,600 Suddenly there it was. 301 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,600 A nakedly lighted little room suspended in space. 302 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,600 I was staring through its fourth wall at Eddie. 303 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,600 His face looked sick and green as he hugged the corner there at the controls. 304 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,600 If nothing could make him look behind at the rear of the car 305 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,600 where a big man I hadn't seen before held something in his arms. 306 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,600 Something like an oversized doll whose legs dangled limply. 307 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,600 The panic was fighting my fogginess as I stood there trying to think. 308 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,600 Then I remembered the telephone. 309 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,600 There was a perfectly good phone in my office. 310 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,600 But that was five flights up, five long flights. 311 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,600 I think there had been a phone on one of the other floors, a base station. 312 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,600 I fought my way upward again and found it. I found it on the third. 313 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,600 I remembered not to close the door of the booth completely 314 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,600 because if I did that the little light would flash on 315 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,600 and light was the last thing I wanted. 316 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,600 I broke the phone off the hook, took a deep breath and... 317 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,600 Coins sounded louder than a fire bell on a dead of night. 318 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,600 Plumsly I dialed the operator. 319 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,600 Number please. Number please. 320 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,600 The dope. The words wouldn't come out. 321 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,600 Number please. 322 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,600 Police. I want the police. 323 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:01,600 My palms were sweaty. 324 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,600 I was listening with half an ear down the hall. 325 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,600 I thought I heard a slight scuffling sound but I couldn't be sure. 326 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:09,600 Why was it taking so long? 327 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,600 Police department. 328 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:15,600 Hello. I'm calling from the Nugent building on 3rd Street North. 329 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,600 There's a robbery going on here. A robbery. 330 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:19,600 A girl's been killed. 331 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,600 What's that address? Who's calling? 332 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,600 My name's McClane. Bartley McClane. 333 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:25,600 I work in this building. The address is... 334 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,600 All right, mister. Hang up that phone. 335 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,600 A sudden glare of the flashlight struck across my face like a fist. 336 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,600 I shriveled and nothing inside it. 337 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,600 And I saw the man behind the gun. 338 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,600 It wasn't Joe. It wasn't any other man I'd expected. 339 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,600 It was the guy I'd almost written off as gagged and tired to death. 340 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,600 Albert! Albert, the night watchman. 341 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:48,600 Hang it up. 342 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:50,600 Albert, I was looking for you a while ago. 343 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,600 It's all right. I'm McClane. Bart McClane, remember? 344 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,600 Duman and Company up on the 7th floor. 345 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,600 Hang up that phone, Mr. McClane. 346 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:58,600 Hello, would you repeat? 347 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,600 Look, you don't understand. You don't know what's going on. 348 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,600 I know what's going on, honor. 349 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,600 Will you take that gun out of my face? 350 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,600 I tell you, there's a gang of crooks in this building. 351 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,600 You never should have been here tonight, Mr. McClane. 352 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:12,600 What? 353 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,600 Come on. We're going to see him. 354 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:16,600 Him? 355 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,600 Joe. Come on. 356 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:20,600 Walk. 357 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,600 That was a trick we'd practiced a hundred times for combat use, 358 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,600 but I never tried it before when it really counted. 359 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,600 So I came to the head of the stairs, I whirled and chopped down hard with my right hand. 360 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,600 I heard the gun go clattering, but my timing was way off. 361 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,600 My lever and life never got into the play. 362 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,600 Albert had me by the throat and two of his pitch down the steps towards the landing. 363 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,600 Locked together with a couple of residents, but it was Albert who took the brunt of the fall. 364 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,600 His heart was still beating. He was just knocked out for how long? 365 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,600 I suppose it was someone that had heard us. 366 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,600 They must have heard us. The gun fall, too. 367 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,600 The gun up at the top of the stairs. 368 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:09,600 I had to get it. I had to get that gun. 369 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,600 I had the gun in my hand. I didn't feel so naked now. 370 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,600 I headed upstairs for Gilman and company's quarters fast. 371 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,600 The door was still ajar the way I'd left it. I slipped in and closed it behind me. 372 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,600 I knew that maybe I had only a matter of a few minutes to get out of final S.O.S. 373 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,600 Albert would come to it and start talking. 374 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,600 I stumbled over to my desk and put the gun down and started to reach for the phone. 375 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,600 All right, fellas, just stay where you are. 376 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,600 When I tell you, Ferris, I knew our boy would be coming back to see us. 377 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,600 Let's go in and visit Petey. 378 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:43,600 Okay, guys, move out where we can see you. 379 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,600 Petey, Ferris, at least three of them, and everything was in their favor. 380 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,600 My hands moved even before I thought the desk door was open. 381 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,600 I slid the gun into it and moved in front of the door. 382 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,600 Okay, Mac, or whatever your name is. 383 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,600 Petey, look him over. 384 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,600 Yeah, sure, Joe. 385 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,600 Ain't you hanging around here a little late, Mac? 386 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,600 I went down the hall for a minute. I had some work to do. 387 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:15,600 I guess I fell asleep. When I woke up, I just wanted to find out what time it was. 388 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,600 Hey, mister, I think you'd pick a bad night to work late. 389 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,600 Petey, you wait in the hall and keep your eyes open. 390 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,600 In five minutes, we'll be out of this dump. 391 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,600 You stay here with this guy, Ferris. 392 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,600 You're no good to us downstairs, and I'm tired of looking at you. 393 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,600 Petey, I tell you what. 394 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,600 I think maybe we better make it easy for Ferris. 395 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,600 Oh, no, look, Joe, I mean... 396 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,600 What are you talking about? What are you talking about? 397 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:46,600 I mean, suppose we take this guy's time, make a nice handcuff for him. 398 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:56,600 Then these two businessmen can sit down and talk business until we're ready to go. 399 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,600 In a few seconds, not only were my wrists locked together, 400 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:03,600 but I was sitting in the chair facing the door while Ferris slumped in the seat I wanted to have. 401 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,600 The chair at the desk, inches away from the gun in the drawer. 402 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,600 Ferris didn't look at me at all. Silence ticked behind ages. 403 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,600 I shifted a little in my seat, testing Ferris, seeing if he'd notice. 404 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,600 I got no reaction. It's that queer look on his face. 405 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,600 The elevator would be bringing bad news in a matter of heartbeats. 406 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,600 Hey, hey, who's that? 407 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:26,600 Huh? What? 408 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,600 The phone, the telephone. 409 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,600 Oh, the phone. Well, it's my wife, I guess. 410 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,600 You see, I told her I'd be working late. 411 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,600 She's probably calling to say that she's on her way down to pick me up. 412 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,600 Why is she coming down here? 413 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,600 Look, you don't want nobody else butting in down here. 414 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,600 I don't want her down here any more than you do, but... 415 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,600 With the phone ringing and ringing like that, 416 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,600 she'll just figure I've dozed off and come on down. 417 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,600 Yeah, but Joe might... 418 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,600 Hey, Ferris, don't you think you should cry a better answer? 419 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,600 Come over here, mister. 420 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,600 Talk to her. Tell her, uh... 421 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:01,600 Hello? 422 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,600 Tell her she don't have to pick you up. 423 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,600 Hello, Bart? 424 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,600 Hello, darling. I figured it was time you were calling. 425 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,600 Oh, it is you, Bart, darling. I've been worried out of my mind. 426 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,600 It's three o'clock in the morning. Hermy and I have tried to... 427 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,600 Oh, yes, dear, yes. I've just about wound up the work for the Warren people. 428 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,600 I figured you were just having a little trouble putting Junior to bed. 429 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,600 Listen, tell her not to come down. 430 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,600 What is it? What are you talking about? Who is Junior? 431 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,600 And the Warren people. 432 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,600 Yes, darling. Put the car back in the garage. 433 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,600 Hermy is here. He's gonna drive me home. 434 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,600 Hermy? Bart, Hermy's here with me, don't you... 435 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,600 Bart, is something wrong? 436 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,600 You'll be right, dear. Absolutely. 437 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:42,600 Oh, Bart, Bart. 438 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,600 All right, don't talk all night. 439 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:45,600 Goodbye, darling. 440 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:46,600 Bart! 441 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,600 Who is this Hermy? 442 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,600 He's a friend of mine. 443 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,600 Sometimes we both work late and he drives me home. 444 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,600 I had to tell her something, she'd believe. 445 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,600 I didn't want her calling back. 446 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,600 Yeah, well, we'll fix that. 447 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,600 So he pointed me back to my chair and took the receiver off the hook. 448 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,600 All the time, we might have been pictures on the wall 449 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,600 that Ferris took in us. 450 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,600 Then he went back out in the hall and when Ferris did speak, 451 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,600 it was all I could do to keep from jumping out of my skin. 452 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,600 And his face. 453 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,600 I suddenly remembered when and where I'd seen her look 454 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,600 like the one on Ferris' face. 455 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,600 Funny thing. 456 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,600 All this time I never knew you were married. 457 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,600 Oh, yes, yes, I married three years ago. 458 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,600 Marie and me, we... 459 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,600 That's what we had in mind all the time. 460 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,600 We figured we could make it work. 461 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,600 We were gonna get married. 462 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,600 But you know how it is sometimes, 463 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,600 you run up all you make on clothes and cars. 464 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,600 Bill said no rough stuff. 465 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,600 Marie just got excited. 466 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,600 He didn't have to. 467 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,600 He didn't have to. 468 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,600 He didn't have to. 469 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,600 All right, Ferris, here they come. Let's roll. 470 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,600 Ferris, Ferris, listen to me. 471 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,600 The desk drawer in front of you, there's a gun in there. 472 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:07,600 A gun. 473 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:08,600 A gun? 474 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,600 Joe's coming back. 475 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,600 There's not much time, Ferris. Right in front of you. 476 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,600 In a desk drawer. Open it. 477 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,600 Get the gun. 478 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:21,600 Joe, he's the boy who went out to find what time it was. 479 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,600 Smart boy. Can't keep his nose out of people's business. 480 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,600 Well, we're gonna fix all that up. 481 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:28,600 Oh, look, Joe... 482 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,600 Shut up. 483 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,600 We found the watchman, white guy. 484 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,600 But one little thing we didn't find. 485 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,600 You don't find the gun you took off of him. 486 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,600 Now, you're gonna tell me where that gun is. 487 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,600 I got something figured out for that little gun. 488 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,600 Okay, where is it? 489 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,600 Come on. 490 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,600 Ask me why don't you, Joe. 491 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,600 Is this what you're looking for? 492 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:52,600 Help! 493 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,600 Wait a minute! 494 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,600 The first shot, Ferris buckled, sweeping the lamp off the desk. 495 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,600 I went to the outer office. 496 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,600 Petey was in my path, but he was through stopping anybody. 497 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,600 When I got to the window there at the first landing, 498 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,600 I didn't waste motion this time in the lock, 499 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,600 especially with my hands done up the way they were. 500 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:14,600 I kicked twice. 501 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,600 Pain was out of the window, and then I was out. 502 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,600 Fire escape was rickety, but it had a railing, 503 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,600 and the cold, wonderful night air was smacking me in the face. 504 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,600 Then... 505 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,600 Just as I realized that the throbbing in my left arm 506 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,600 meant that not all the stray lead had missed me, 507 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,600 I heard the music that I had been waiting for. 508 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:36,600 Bless her. 509 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,600 Bless my Catherine. 510 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,600 Well, I'm not in the Nugent building anymore, 511 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,600 and here at Predison Miles, 512 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,600 I managed to exercise such talents and training as I have 513 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,600 without putting too great a strain on my blood pressure. 514 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,600 A situation which not only pleases Mrs. McClain, 515 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:09,600 a girl named Catherine, 516 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,600 but also meets with the unreserved approval of her husband. 517 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,600 Aside from an aversion to little white pills 518 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,600 and a tendency to sneak frequent looks at his watch 519 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,600 long about closing time each day, 520 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,600 said husband is reputed to have only the normal number of faults. 521 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,600 His greatest strong point remains his memory, 522 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,600 which is convenient equipment for anniversaries. 523 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,600 It will also ever be cherished for reminding him 524 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,600 that the look on the face of a fellow named Ferris 525 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,600 was a carbon copy of the expression he had last seen 526 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,600 the day one of the men in his outfit disobeyed orders 527 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,600 and wiped out half a dozen belligerent nymphenies. 528 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,600 Ferris got only two, 529 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,600 while a man who was protesting what had happened to his brother 530 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,600 got twice that many. 531 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,600 But it is possible that he died just as happy. 532 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,600 Personally, I... 533 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,600 Oh, good Lord. Look what time it is. 534 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,600 Where's my briefcase? 535 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,600 Go on down. 536 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:26,600 Hold it, Johnny. 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