1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:18,040 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Mr. Charles Boyer in the case of Henri Vibard, a suspense 3 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,000 play produced and edited by William Spear. 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:28,920 Oh, Mr. Wilcox, Filbert's taking me to the junior prom tonight. 5 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:29,920 Isn't that exciting? 6 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,480 I adore my tempestuous teenage neighbor. 7 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:37,000 It's almost as exciting as that exemplary exponent of extra starting dependability, 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,960 the Auto Light Stay Full Battery, the battery that needs water only three times a year in 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:41,960 normal car use. 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,720 Gee whiz, Mr. Wilcox, I want to talk about the dance. 11 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,220 So do I, Dora, the dance of delight you devotees of driving will do when you find out how much 12 00:00:49,220 --> 00:00:51,520 more you get with an Auto Light Stay Full Battery. 13 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:56,680 You see, tests show this famous battery gives 70% longer average life than batteries without 14 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:01,640 Stay Full features, and those tests were based on SAE life cycle standards. 15 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,640 Filbert's kept every dance in reserve. 16 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:04,640 Reserve? 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,120 That reminds me, Dora, the Auto Light Stay Full Battery has three times as much liquid 18 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,240 reserve as batteries without the Stay Full features. 19 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,280 That's why it needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 20 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:15,840 Mr. Wilcox, you ought to see. 21 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,240 So friends, see your neighborhood Auto Light Battery dealer tomorrow. 22 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,280 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 23 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:28,000 And now with the case of Henri Vibar and the performance of Charles Boyer, Auto Light hopes 24 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:41,320 once again to keep you in suspense. 25 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:48,520 I watched the taxi cab enter the gate and roll slowly up the driveway toward the entrance. 26 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:54,080 Gatstone Memorial Rest Home is a big, busy place, dozens of cars come and go every day, 27 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:59,080 and yet somehow this cab caught my attention and held it. 28 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,400 It seemed to fascinate me. 29 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:07,160 As it approached, yes, I got a definite feeling of menace from it. 30 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:12,640 These warnings, these premonitions, they come to me whenever I'm in danger. 31 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:13,640 Danger? 32 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:14,640 What danger? 33 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:22,800 The cab stopped just below my window and a man got out, Sergeant Jack Freeman of the 34 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,520 London Bureau of Missing Persons. 35 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:31,000 He came here often checking on new arrivals, nothing to fear from Freeman. 36 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,060 He's just a big, good-natured moron. 37 00:02:34,060 --> 00:02:38,840 But now he was assisting a woman from the cab. 38 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,280 I sighted a woman. 39 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,280 Something snapped inside my head. 40 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:48,000 The woman was Mary, my wife. 41 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:53,600 Mary, the sudden sight of her made me furious. 42 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,920 I would have enjoyed striking her dead then and there. 43 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:59,920 But how was it possible? 44 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:04,000 Mary, free, walking around like a decent woman? 45 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,480 She'd been convicted of murder, sentenced to life in prison. 46 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,600 Now, now, now, was it possible she was out on parole? 47 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:13,600 No. 48 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,600 English justice is harsh with killers. 49 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:20,840 And Mary's crime had been called blood and murder. 50 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,840 Suddenly I understood. 51 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,040 Mary was being brought here to Gladstone Rice Home to identify me. 52 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,040 Such simple people. 53 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,040 Trap and revivre. 54 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,040 It was amusing. 55 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:38,520 I might have a few unpleasant moments, but that would be all. 56 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:39,520 I would make a fool of her. 57 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,520 I'd always made a fool of her. 58 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:49,200 Mary meant by the window for some time, planning just what to say and how to act. 59 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,160 After a while, there was a knock on the door. 60 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,960 Oh, this would be Dr. Sampson, the chap who runs this place. 61 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:56,960 Nice fellow, Sampson. 62 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,920 Not too smart, but... 63 00:03:58,920 --> 00:03:59,920 Come in. 64 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:00,920 Good afternoon, Mr. Leclerc. 65 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:02,920 Oh, Dr. Sampson, come in. 66 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,720 You have a visitor, Sergeant Freeman again. 67 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,720 He'd like another chat with you in my office. 68 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:10,720 Oh, Freeman, the bloodhound. 69 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,520 Tell me truly, Doctor, does he ever find any of the people he looks for? 70 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,080 Oh, indeed he does. 71 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:17,080 Hundreds of them every year. 72 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,600 Well, he has failed utterly in my case. 73 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,080 With you, Monsieur, he has a good excuse. 74 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,440 Most victims of amnesia have people searching for them. 75 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,000 Friends or relations who can identify them. 76 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,920 I'm beginning to think you'll just have to recover your own memory. 77 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:40,720 To recover my memory, I wish I could forget. 78 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:46,640 A few minutes later, I was sitting across the desk from Sergeant Freeman. 79 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,960 I had the upper hand, of course, because I knew what was coming. 80 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:57,920 As usual, he was humble, apologetic, and yet, for the first time since I'd known him, 81 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,080 I got a definite feeling that he was deliberately trying to trap me. 82 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:04,720 That's me in some trifling mistake. 83 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,760 Yes, I have an instinct that warns me. 84 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,080 Just a few more questions, Monsieur Leclerc. 85 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,720 Well, as many as you like, Sergeant. 86 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:13,720 You're looking very well. 87 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:15,440 Oh, thank you, sir. 88 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,800 Now think hard, sir. 89 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,800 Does the name Vibar mean anything to you? 90 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:20,800 Or Vibar? 91 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:21,800 Vibar? 92 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:22,800 Vibar. 93 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,480 No, no, I can't say it does. 94 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,760 How about Falmouth? 95 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,520 Ever spend a summer at Falmouth down in Cornwall? 96 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:34,520 Never heard of the place, Sergeant. 97 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:35,520 Very well. 98 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:41,560 How about the name Willard, an American, retired sea captain, sickly old fellow in a wheelchair. 99 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,720 Oh, tell me more about him, Sergeant. 100 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:48,360 Well, sir, unless we're wrong again, you married his daughter. 101 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,840 Oh, a wife and a father-in-law. 102 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:53,920 You're very generous, Sergeant. 103 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,480 Did you bring them along? 104 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:56,480 Captain Willard was an invalid. 105 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:57,480 He committed suicide. 106 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,640 He felt he stood in the way of his daughter's happiness. 107 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:05,720 Left a bit of money, though, about 10,000 pounds. 108 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,840 I could hardly keep from laughing at Freeman. 109 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:14,520 He went on telling how Mary and her father came to England on a visit, how I met her 110 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,880 at Falmouth, how her father objected to our romance. 111 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:25,040 Freeman had most of the facts straight, except that Captain Willard did not commit suicide. 112 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,920 No, I arranged that little matter. 113 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:30,880 It was quite easy. 114 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,600 He suffered from a bad heart condition, took strenthening for it. 115 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,480 So I managed to contrive an overdose for him. 116 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,160 I put it in his pot of tea. 117 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,800 It was a bitter tea, I imagine, but then he liked it strong. 118 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:48,360 When Mary and I returned from the beach, he was dead. 119 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:53,120 But he didn't leave 10,000 pounds, more like 5,000. 120 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,280 Then went on with his stories. 121 00:06:55,280 --> 00:07:00,280 Unless I'm completely wrong, you and Mary Willard were married, settled up Captain Willard's 122 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:04,600 estate, which is practically all cash, then went up to London to live. 123 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,480 Now, Monsieur Leclerc, does none of that strike a familiar note? 124 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,680 Well, you seem to think it should. 125 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,680 Why, Sergeant Freeman? 126 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,240 Because you've been identified from those pictures we took of you when you first came 127 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:19,240 here. 128 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,240 Really? 129 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:21,240 Who? 130 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:22,240 Oh, the woman, of course. 131 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:23,720 She says you are her husband. 132 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,520 Well, she probably discovered that I have money and... 133 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:27,520 How? 134 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:28,520 How could she possibly know that? 135 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,520 Well, you could have told her, Sergeant Freeman. 136 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:31,520 Innocently, of course. 137 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:32,520 It's no secret. 138 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:38,200 Oh, I don't mind, but it makes me a perfect target for designing women. 139 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,200 One moment, Monsieur Leclerc. 140 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,640 Let's talk about your money for a while. 141 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,280 Doesn't it strike you as strange that a man could walk into this rest home, as you did 142 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,160 three years ago, carrying $200,000 in American money? 143 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,280 Why, of course, it's strange. 144 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:54,280 Suppose. 145 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:55,640 Suppose you had committed a crime. 146 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,560 Wouldn't it have been a perfect way to elude the police? 147 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,920 Yes, but if I were a criminal, you would have my fingerprints. 148 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:04,680 You said so yourself three years ago. 149 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:05,680 Remember? 150 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:07,400 You came here carrying nothing but money. 151 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,320 No extra clothing, no papers, nothing by which you could be identified. 152 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,800 Now, Sergeant, what sort of crime are we discussing? 153 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:14,800 Murder? 154 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,000 It would have to be murder. 155 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,600 You detectives. 156 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:20,600 And who did I kill? 157 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,040 Well, to be honest about it, we don't know. 158 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,160 Oh, just anyone. 159 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,720 To be this woman's husband, I must have murdered somebody. 160 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,440 Well, that makes her very attractive, I'm sure. 161 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,540 Tell me, did she help me with a job? 162 00:08:32,540 --> 00:08:35,360 She was tried for the murder, convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of her life in 163 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,360 prison. 164 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:40,120 Would you care to hear about it? 165 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,800 Not particularly, but it's part of your job, and we've rather taken over Dr. Sampson's 166 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:45,800 office. 167 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,440 Oh, that's quite all right. 168 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,720 I find this very interesting. 169 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:57,840 Well, it's not interesting to me, because Freeman had the story all wrong. 170 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:02,760 Just knew Mary's side of it, and there was so much she didn't know. 171 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:09,200 We buried the old man, got married, collected the old man's insurance, and went up to London 172 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:10,200 to live. 173 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:14,320 It was very nice for a few months, but the money didn't last long. 174 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,320 Very soon I was broke. 175 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:22,040 Nasty feeling, being broke, makes me nervous, uncertain of myself. 176 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:27,960 Fortunately, just as things were getting really bad, I met an American friend, a chap I had 177 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,960 met in New York a few years before, named Nate Blackburn. 178 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:36,920 He had a lot of American bonds, hot bonds, he called them, but he didn't know how to 179 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:37,920 dispose of them. 180 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:42,960 It was a simple matter for me, with my connections on the continent. 181 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,600 Blackburn stipulated one thing, he wanted to be paid in American dollars. 182 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:53,560 That delayed matters for a few days, and finally, when I received the money, I decided not to 183 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:55,240 share it with Blackburn. 184 00:09:55,240 --> 00:10:00,320 So, instead of keeping my appointment with him, I went to my hotel, sent Mary out on 185 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:05,120 a fool's errand, and packed my grapes for a quick disappearance. 186 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,720 I'm very clever at quick disappearances. 187 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:13,200 I was all packed, ready to leave, when there was a knock on the door. 188 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:14,200 That startled me. 189 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:19,880 Did Blackburn didn't know where I was living, and Mary couldn't get home for an hour. 190 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,880 Who could it be? 191 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:23,880 Again the knock. 192 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,600 My nerves steady down. 193 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,120 They never fail me in a tight spot. 194 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:30,920 Hello, what is it? 195 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,920 Sergeant Randall, Scotland Yard. 196 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,960 Well, what do you want? 197 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,360 Some information, that's all, sir. 198 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,920 Did you attend the palladium last night with a man named Nate Blackburn? 199 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:44,400 Well, yes, yes, I did. 200 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:45,600 What about it? 201 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,960 We're trying to find Mr. Blackburn. 202 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:48,960 Do you have his address? 203 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,720 No, no, look here, I'm trying to catch a train. 204 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:55,240 I know very little about Nate Blackburn, except that he is a thoroughly respectable businessman. 205 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:56,880 You've been misled, Mr. Vybar. 206 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,120 Nate Blackburn's a bad one. 207 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,080 Tell me, did he talk to you about bonds? 208 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:03,120 Bonds? 209 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:04,120 What sort of bonds? 210 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,080 Stolen bonds, Mr. Vybar. 211 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,960 They're part of an American post office robbery during which two policemen were killed. 212 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,000 Only today we traced the bonds to Nate Blackburn. 213 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,000 But he seems to have disappeared. 214 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,000 No, no, this is too silly. 215 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Please, clear out. 216 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000 See me some other day. 217 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,960 Oh, too bad, sir, I can't. 218 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:20,640 We must get Nate Blackburn's address. 219 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,440 Suppose I say I don't know it. 220 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,200 I can't accept that, Mr. Vybar. 221 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,040 Perhaps you better come along with me to the yard. 222 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:29,520 If you can convince Captain Nichols... 223 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,640 No, no, one moment, please. 224 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,240 Blackburn did give me his address. 225 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:38,040 Well, if I remember it and give it to you, will you go away and stop bothering me? 226 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,640 Mr. Vybar, I ask you a simple question. 227 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,360 All I want is an honest answer. 228 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,880 All right, I'll give it to you. 229 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:48,240 Blackburn lives at the Afton Hotel, Suite 618. 230 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,880 You dirty, rotten, scurvy rat. 231 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:52,640 No, no, no, no, I mean it. 232 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:53,880 He's probably there right now. 233 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:54,880 Here, I'll get him on the telephone. 234 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:55,880 Never mind the phone. 235 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,440 Of course he's there. 236 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:00,400 Waiting for you to show up with our money. 237 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:01,400 Where is it? 238 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:02,800 I can't remember your English accent. 239 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,800 Come up with that, Owen, quick. 240 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:06,200 Well, I don't have it. 241 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:07,200 I put the money in the mail. 242 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:08,800 I've been tailing you all day. 243 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,560 I saw you sell the stuff an hour ago. 244 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:14,160 Come on, Vybar, I want the money. 245 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:15,840 That gun doesn't frighten me. 246 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:17,120 You wouldn't dare kill me. 247 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,480 No, but I can put a couple of slugs in your legs. 248 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:20,480 How about that? 249 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:21,480 Want to be a cripple the rest of your life? 250 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,480 No, no, no, wait. 251 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,480 Wait. 252 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:29,120 I intended to deliver the money to Nate personally, but since he doesn't trust me... 253 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:30,120 Now, please. 254 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:31,480 Put that gun away. 255 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:32,480 There, that's better. 256 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,480 I have an aversion to fire. 257 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:35,480 Where's the money? 258 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,480 There, in that grave on the table. 259 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:38,480 Huh? 260 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:39,480 The small one. 261 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:40,480 Oh. 262 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,480 Huh. 263 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:42,480 Good. 264 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:43,480 Old bills. 265 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:44,480 Not in sequence. 266 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:45,480 Can't see any marks. 267 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:46,480 Drop that money. 268 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:47,480 Huh? 269 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:48,480 Hey, what's that thing, a gun? 270 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:49,480 Put that money on the table. 271 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:50,480 Let's see that gadget. 272 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:51,480 Stand still, don't move. 273 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:52,480 Don't tell me it shoots real bullets. 274 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:53,480 Pops, stay where you are. 275 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:54,480 Stay away from me. 276 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:55,480 Give me that thing. 277 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:56,480 Give me that thing. 278 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:57,480 Give me that thing. 279 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:58,480 Give me that thing. 280 00:12:58,480 --> 00:12:59,480 Give me that thing. 281 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:00,480 Give me that thing. 282 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:01,480 Stop, I said. 283 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:02,480 I'll shoot. 284 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:03,480 Come on, hand it over. 285 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:04,480 No, no. 286 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:05,480 You jerk. 287 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:06,480 You silly jerk. 288 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:24,280 He fell dead right at my feet. 289 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,320 Auto Light is bringing you Charles Boyer in the case of Henri Vibard. 290 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:34,760 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 291 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:41,160 Hey, Dora, what's the matter? 292 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:42,160 You look blue. 293 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:43,160 Filbert just called. 294 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,880 His car wouldn't start because the battery's dry and now he can't go to the dance. 295 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:49,400 Dry your eyes, my pretty neighbor. 296 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:50,960 I'll lend Filbert my car. 297 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,960 Oh, gee, thanks, Mr. Wilcox. 298 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:53,960 You're wonderful. 299 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,640 Oh, not half as wonderful as the auto light stay full battery. 300 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,800 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 301 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:01,720 If Filbert knew that, he wouldn't be stuck. 302 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,720 Oh, now, don't be hard on poor Filbert. 303 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,920 He just hasn't heard that the auto light stay full battery has a fiberglass retaining mat 304 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:12,160 protecting every positive plate to keep the power producing material in place for longer 305 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:13,160 battery life. 306 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:18,080 Why, in recent tests based on SAE life cycle standards, auto light stay full batteries 307 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:22,640 gave 70% longer average life than batteries without stay full features. 308 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:23,920 I can hardly wait to get started. 309 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,880 Well, you don't have to wait to get started with an auto light stay full battery. 310 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:32,680 It's a demon for starting stamina and needs water only three times a year in normal car 311 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:33,680 use. 312 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:35,200 I'll tell Filbert to remember. 313 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,240 You're always right with auto light. 314 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:44,120 And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage our star, Charles Boyer in the 315 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:49,400 case of Henri Vibar, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 316 00:14:49,400 --> 00:15:00,600 It's a terrible thing to kill a man like that, to see him go limp and pitch forward on his 317 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:01,600 pace. 318 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:03,640 Just the memory of it made me sick. 319 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:12,320 I must have betrayed my feelings because Sergeant Freeman stopped whatever he was saying. 320 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:13,320 Anything wrong, sir? 321 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,920 Oh, pardon me, Sergeant Freeman. 322 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,120 My mind strayed for a moment from what you were saying. 323 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:20,840 But you look ill, Monsieur. 324 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:21,840 What? 325 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:22,840 Are you sure you feel all right? 326 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,760 I'm quite all right, Dr. Sampson. 327 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,040 Sergeant Freeman, please continue with your story. 328 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:29,400 I found it quite interesting. 329 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,000 Oh, thank you, sir. 330 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:36,280 Well, when Madame Vibar returned, her husband had a fantastic story to tell her. 331 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:43,240 Only a woman in love could have believed that. 332 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:44,240 Fantastic tale. 333 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,400 There you have an example of Sergeant Freeman's intelligence. 334 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:48,400 Fantastic. 335 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:49,400 It was a masterpiece. 336 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:58,400 I think I told you how my mind works best in a crisis. 337 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:04,560 Well, it worked now like a well-hauled machine. 338 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,560 Had nothing to fear from the police. 339 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:12,240 I could explain this dead man as a, well, a thief or a burglar. 340 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,120 But what about Nate Blackburn? 341 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,840 After this, he never stopped looking for me. 342 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:19,440 Nate is a killer. 343 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,480 Human life means nothing to him. 344 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,320 No, no, I'd have to disappear. 345 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,320 Make it absolutely convincing. 346 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,360 Well, I could do just that. 347 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,160 No one, not even my adoring wife, would ever hear of me again. 348 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:43,200 I would dissolve into thin air and take $200,000 with me. 349 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,520 The sight of the dead man sickened me. 350 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:51,160 So I dragged him into the bedroom and closed the door. 351 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:56,640 Then I sat down and planned out every detail of the wonderful scheme. 352 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:02,280 Of course, I wiped my fingerprints from the little gun I had used and left it on the table 353 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,080 where my wife would be sure to handle it. 354 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:09,640 Funny thing, Nate and I had talked about fingerprints. 355 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,760 He had bragged that none of his men had ever been fingerprinted. 356 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:14,240 Neither had I. 357 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,480 Maybe that's what gave me the inspiration. 358 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:20,600 By the time Mary came home, I had every detail of my plan. 359 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:21,600 Hello, dear. 360 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:23,600 Your man didn't show up, maybe. 361 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,120 Henry, what's the matter? 362 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:28,120 Mary, I'm in trouble. 363 00:17:28,120 --> 00:17:29,120 Trouble, dear? 364 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:30,120 What? 365 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:31,120 I... 366 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:32,120 I killed a man. 367 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:34,120 Henry, don't fool about such things. 368 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:36,120 I'm not fooling, Mary. 369 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:37,120 Look, here. 370 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:38,120 No, don't go in. 371 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:39,120 Henry, who is it? 372 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:40,120 How did it happen? 373 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:41,120 Good girl. 374 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:42,120 I was afraid you'd be here. 375 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:43,120 I was afraid you'd be here. 376 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:48,120 Never mind me. 377 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:49,120 What about you? 378 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:50,120 Well, I'm in for it, I guess. 379 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:51,120 No, it couldn't have been your fault. 380 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:52,120 You wouldn't hurt anyone, please, Henry. 381 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:53,120 How did it happen? 382 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:54,120 Well, this man in there, he gave me some bonds. 383 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:55,120 Asked me to sell them for him. 384 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:56,120 I lost them. 385 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:57,120 Don't ask me how. 386 00:17:57,120 --> 00:17:58,120 Some thief must have picked my pocket. 387 00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:59,120 Anyway, this man came up here today and demanded the bonds or the money from them. 388 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:00,120 Darling. 389 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:01,120 I tried to explain, to reason with him, but he wouldn't listen. 390 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:02,120 He got rattled. 391 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:03,120 He was in a hurry. 392 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:04,120 He was in a hurry. 393 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:05,120 He was in a hurry. 394 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:06,120 He was in a hurry. 395 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:07,120 He was in a hurry. 396 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:08,120 He was in a hurry. 397 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:09,120 He was in a hurry. 398 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:10,120 He was in a hurry. 399 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,980 I tried to explain, to reason with him, but he wouldn't listen. 400 00:18:12,980 --> 00:18:14,080 He got rattled. 401 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,340 And I, well, I managed to get that little gun of yours. 402 00:18:17,340 --> 00:18:19,120 We struggled for it. 403 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:21,640 It went off and... 404 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:22,640 No. 405 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:23,640 But it was self-defense. 406 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,880 Oh, what English jury would believe that? 407 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,200 The man did give me the bonds for witnesses. 408 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,980 Who would believe I didn't sell them and keep the money and then kill that man to keep 409 00:18:31,980 --> 00:18:32,980 him from talking? 410 00:18:32,980 --> 00:18:34,140 We've got to be practical, Mary. 411 00:18:34,140 --> 00:18:35,880 Did you call the police? 412 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:36,880 No. 413 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:37,880 No. 414 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:38,880 I waited for you. 415 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:39,880 Why, Henry? 416 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:45,500 Because there is a possible way out if you'll stand by me. 417 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:46,960 Stand by you? 418 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,460 What? I'll do anything you say. 419 00:18:49,460 --> 00:18:52,800 Mary, it will take nerve if you weaken. 420 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,340 Henry, you're my husband. I love you. 421 00:18:56,340 --> 00:18:59,140 Tell me what to do, and I'll do it. 422 00:18:59,140 --> 00:19:08,680 If all life's problems were as simple as women, 423 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,680 I told her my plan. 424 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,060 The dead man looked like me in a general way. 425 00:19:14,060 --> 00:19:16,940 My size, black hair, eyeglasses. 426 00:19:16,940 --> 00:19:21,360 And after he dropped 20 floors to the street, he wouldn't have any features. 427 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:25,200 Mary would simply hurry downstairs, perhaps a bit hysterical, 428 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,740 which would be difficult in the circumstances, 429 00:19:27,740 --> 00:19:32,780 identify my broken body, and allow herself to be consoled. 430 00:19:32,780 --> 00:19:36,740 Could be suicide or an accident, whichever suited her. 431 00:19:36,740 --> 00:19:38,740 Unless she forgot. 432 00:19:38,740 --> 00:19:41,540 She forgot about the bullet in the man's body. 433 00:19:41,540 --> 00:19:46,380 Yes, the bullet that would convict her of killing her own husband. 434 00:19:46,380 --> 00:19:55,380 My plan was a great inspiration, but it had one terrifying angle. 435 00:19:55,380 --> 00:20:02,760 To make identification complete, I had to change clothes with the dead man. 436 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:08,780 That was a fearful ordeal, a nightmare, but it had to be done. 437 00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:12,780 It was almost too much for me, but I think I told you, 438 00:20:12,780 --> 00:20:16,240 I'm equal to anything if I put my mind to it. 439 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:22,280 But I'll take to my grave the horrible memory of dragging that body 440 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,660 to the bedroom window and pushing it through. 441 00:20:25,660 --> 00:20:34,660 I walked down the back stairs, 20 flights of them. 442 00:20:34,660 --> 00:20:37,660 I saw the crowd in the street around the body. 443 00:20:37,660 --> 00:20:39,660 I took a bus, the first one I saw. 444 00:20:39,660 --> 00:20:45,680 I changed to another and another, destroying everything that might identify me, 445 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,680 but keeping a little bag filled with money. 446 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,680 It's quite a coincidence, Mr. Leclerc. 447 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:53,680 What? What? I didn't get that. 448 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,680 I say it's quite a coincidence that you came to this rest home 449 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,680 the day following the murder of Henri Vibard. 450 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,700 Well, very well. Make the most of it. 451 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:03,700 Dr. Sampson, do you consider that coincidence? 452 00:21:03,700 --> 00:21:05,700 I had to come here sometime. 453 00:21:05,700 --> 00:21:09,700 Yes, Sergeant Freeman, since he's here, you had to come sometime. 454 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:11,700 Well, apparently you've brought this woman with you. 455 00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:14,700 Bring her in. Let's get through with this farce. 456 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:17,700 Thank you, thank you. Perhaps that would be best. 457 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:24,720 Madame Vibard, will you come in, please? 458 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:30,720 A big moment, and I wasn't even excited. 459 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:31,720 I'm like that. 460 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:36,720 Little things may bother me, but big things, really important things, 461 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,720 and my nerves are like steel. 462 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,740 Mary walked into the room. 463 00:21:43,740 --> 00:21:46,740 I looked at her without a flicker of an eye. 464 00:21:46,740 --> 00:21:53,740 She was a changed girl now, so different from the girl I married. 465 00:21:53,740 --> 00:21:56,740 Prison does that, I suppose. 466 00:21:56,740 --> 00:21:59,740 She was looking at me. 467 00:21:59,740 --> 00:22:03,760 Our eyes met and held. 468 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:08,760 For a moment, there seemed a shadow of doubt in her face. 469 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,760 Then she took a step toward me. 470 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:12,760 Hello, Henry. 471 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:13,760 No, no, young woman, please. 472 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,760 Don't try to involve me in your troubles. 473 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,760 A friend of mine. 474 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,760 Henry, it won't do. You can't get away with it. 475 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,760 Now, Dr. Sampson, this woman is either crooked or crazy. 476 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,760 Let's take this calmly. 477 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,780 Madame Vibard, you're positive this man is your husband? 478 00:22:25,780 --> 00:22:28,780 Oh, yes. This is Henry Vibard. 479 00:22:28,780 --> 00:22:29,780 He pronounces it Henri. 480 00:22:29,780 --> 00:22:32,780 Never mind the pronunciation. Is he the man? 481 00:22:32,780 --> 00:22:33,780 Yes, sir. 482 00:22:33,780 --> 00:22:35,780 He's changed a little. 483 00:22:35,780 --> 00:22:37,780 It's only three years. 484 00:22:37,780 --> 00:22:39,780 He looks older. 485 00:22:39,780 --> 00:22:41,780 His hair has turned gray, and he isn't wearing his glasses, 486 00:22:41,780 --> 00:22:42,780 but he's the same age. 487 00:22:42,780 --> 00:22:43,780 Glasses? 488 00:22:43,780 --> 00:22:47,800 One moment, please. I never wore glasses in my life. 489 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,800 My vision is perfect. 490 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,800 Monsieur Leclerc, that is your name. 491 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,800 Suppose you try to read this newspaper without glasses. 492 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:58,800 Oh, no, no. 493 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,800 Look, I'm in no mood to give demonstrations just to plead. 494 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,800 There, you see? He doesn't dare. 495 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:05,800 Make him try. He can't read a word. 496 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,800 I tell you not a word. 497 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,820 Monsieur Leclerc, it might be expedient. 498 00:23:12,820 --> 00:23:15,820 It would certainly settle the issue once and for all. 499 00:23:15,820 --> 00:23:19,820 Oh, very well, Doctor, since you suggest it. 500 00:23:19,820 --> 00:23:21,820 Give me the paper. 501 00:23:24,820 --> 00:23:28,840 I pretended to be nervous just to give them a thrill. 502 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,840 Then I opened the paper to the want ads. 503 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,840 Dread them all glibly. 504 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:35,840 The small print. 505 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,840 Glasses? I've got eyes like a hawk. 506 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,840 Mary didn't know that because the summer I met her, 507 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,860 I was avoiding the police, and part of my disguise included glasses 508 00:23:46,860 --> 00:23:49,860 and touching up my prematurely gray hair. 509 00:23:49,860 --> 00:23:51,860 I never told Mary. 510 00:23:51,860 --> 00:23:53,860 I didn't know how far I could trust her. 511 00:23:53,860 --> 00:23:56,860 When I finished reading the paper, 512 00:23:56,860 --> 00:23:58,860 Mary just stared at me, 513 00:23:58,860 --> 00:24:02,860 unable to believe the evidence of her own eyes. 514 00:24:02,860 --> 00:24:05,860 Silence for a moment, then... 515 00:24:05,860 --> 00:24:07,860 I'm sorry, sir. 516 00:24:07,860 --> 00:24:11,860 Perhaps these young women can think up some other difficult trick. 517 00:24:11,860 --> 00:24:12,860 She'd like me to perform. 518 00:24:12,860 --> 00:24:14,860 Trick? It was a trick. He can't read. 519 00:24:14,860 --> 00:24:16,860 Madame Rivard, we've had quite enough. 520 00:24:16,860 --> 00:24:18,860 No, this is my husband. He's fooled you. 521 00:24:18,860 --> 00:24:20,860 That's all that paper. It's a trick. 522 00:24:20,860 --> 00:24:23,860 Of course, a trick. I did it with mirrors. 523 00:24:23,860 --> 00:24:25,860 Young woman, you're not clever. 524 00:24:25,860 --> 00:24:28,860 You've got plenty of nerve, all right, but you're not clever. 525 00:24:28,860 --> 00:24:31,860 Why didn't you say I have a mole on my right shoulder, 526 00:24:31,860 --> 00:24:33,860 a small scar on my hip, and very flat feet? 527 00:24:33,860 --> 00:24:35,860 Almost anyone could have told you these things. 528 00:24:35,860 --> 00:24:37,860 I use the swimming pool every day. 529 00:24:37,860 --> 00:24:41,860 Now, Sergeant Freeman, I can't applaud you apart in this. 530 00:24:41,860 --> 00:24:44,860 For three years, I've done my best to help you, 531 00:24:44,860 --> 00:24:47,860 because I thought you were trying to help me regain my memory 532 00:24:47,860 --> 00:24:50,860 and take my right foot place in society. 533 00:24:50,860 --> 00:24:53,860 But I must tell you, sir, I no longer feel that way. 534 00:24:53,860 --> 00:24:56,860 Not after you try to connect me with this jailbird. 535 00:24:56,860 --> 00:25:01,860 Jailbird. That's right, Henry. 536 00:25:01,860 --> 00:25:03,860 I'm a jailbird, and I deserve to be. 537 00:25:03,860 --> 00:25:05,860 I helped you, and that was wrong. 538 00:25:05,860 --> 00:25:07,860 But don't think you're safe. 539 00:25:07,860 --> 00:25:10,860 I'll rot and die in prison, but you won't know about it. 540 00:25:10,860 --> 00:25:13,860 You'll be dead. For heaven's sake, take this woman away. 541 00:25:13,860 --> 00:25:15,860 Yes, Sergeant. Come along, Madam Lebar. 542 00:25:15,860 --> 00:25:17,860 No! Let me tell him something. 543 00:25:17,860 --> 00:25:20,860 Have you forgotten Nate Blackburn? Henry, well, he hasn't forgotten you. 544 00:25:20,860 --> 00:25:23,860 Blackburn. Blackburn came to me in prison, 545 00:25:23,860 --> 00:25:25,860 and I told him the whole thing. 546 00:25:25,860 --> 00:25:27,860 By tomorrow, he'll know right where to find you. 547 00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:29,860 He knows. Now. 548 00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:31,860 Where is he? 549 00:25:31,860 --> 00:25:36,860 There, in the doorway, stood Nate Blackburn. 550 00:25:36,860 --> 00:25:39,860 A gun in his hand. He was smiling. 551 00:25:39,860 --> 00:25:42,860 Dr. Sampson and Freeman started forward, 552 00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:45,860 but he waved them back with a gun. 553 00:25:45,860 --> 00:25:48,860 No one spoke as he walked across the room 554 00:25:48,860 --> 00:25:51,860 and stopped in front of me. 555 00:25:51,860 --> 00:25:52,860 Hello, Frenchy. 556 00:25:52,860 --> 00:25:55,860 Well, you had some mistake. 557 00:25:55,860 --> 00:25:57,860 Yeah, but you made it, Frenchy. 558 00:25:57,860 --> 00:26:00,860 I had a hunch you'd get together with your wife sooner or later. 559 00:26:00,860 --> 00:26:02,860 I spent a lot of time and money keeping an eye on her. 560 00:26:02,860 --> 00:26:04,860 Okay, my man, put away that gun. 561 00:26:04,860 --> 00:26:05,860 That sort of thing doesn't go in this country. 562 00:26:05,860 --> 00:26:06,860 You're right, Copper, I know. 563 00:26:06,860 --> 00:26:08,860 Only this is a special occasion. 564 00:26:08,860 --> 00:26:09,860 You won't get a mile away. 565 00:26:09,860 --> 00:26:10,860 I know that too. 566 00:26:10,860 --> 00:26:12,860 Blackburn, I'll give you the money. 567 00:26:12,860 --> 00:26:14,860 What money? 568 00:26:14,860 --> 00:26:15,860 Well, that bring back Jack Randall. 569 00:26:15,860 --> 00:26:17,860 Well, let's put this girl back in circulation. 570 00:26:17,860 --> 00:26:20,860 Listen to me. I can explain if you let me. 571 00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:22,860 It wasn't like you think at all. 572 00:26:22,860 --> 00:26:25,860 Nate, we used to be pals. Remember? 573 00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:28,860 New York, San Francisco, Paris. 574 00:26:28,860 --> 00:26:30,860 We were lots of fun. 575 00:26:30,860 --> 00:26:32,860 I bailed you out in Rio. 576 00:26:32,860 --> 00:26:33,860 I'll make good, Nate. 577 00:26:33,860 --> 00:26:35,860 I swear it will. Only... 578 00:26:35,860 --> 00:26:38,860 No, don't. Don't. 579 00:26:38,860 --> 00:26:40,860 I can square it. 580 00:26:44,860 --> 00:26:49,860 So, I lasted after all. 581 00:26:50,860 --> 00:26:54,860 You didn't think I'm good, did you, Doctor? 582 00:26:54,860 --> 00:26:56,860 You don't know me? 583 00:26:56,860 --> 00:27:03,860 Anytime I really try, I can... 584 00:27:03,860 --> 00:27:06,860 I can... 585 00:27:06,860 --> 00:27:09,860 Dr. Sampson, can he sign this confession? 586 00:27:09,860 --> 00:27:12,860 I doubt it, Sergeant. He's too badly off. 587 00:27:12,860 --> 00:27:14,860 Yes. Yes, I... 588 00:27:14,860 --> 00:27:16,860 I... 589 00:27:16,860 --> 00:27:18,860 I can... 590 00:27:18,860 --> 00:27:20,860 S... 591 00:27:22,860 --> 00:27:24,860 I didn't think he could. 592 00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:26,860 Is he gone? 593 00:27:26,860 --> 00:27:28,860 That's all. 594 00:27:28,860 --> 00:27:30,860 Strange fellow. 595 00:27:30,860 --> 00:27:33,860 Not at all the criminal type. 596 00:27:33,860 --> 00:27:36,860 What is the criminal type, Doctor? 597 00:27:36,860 --> 00:27:38,860 I've never found it. 598 00:27:38,860 --> 00:27:40,860 He's gone. 599 00:27:54,860 --> 00:27:57,860 Suspense. Presented by Auto Light. 600 00:27:57,860 --> 00:28:00,860 Tonight's star, Mr. Charles Boyer. 601 00:28:01,860 --> 00:28:05,860 Mr. Wilcox, why do you always say you're always right with Auto Light? 602 00:28:05,860 --> 00:28:11,860 It's true. 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