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Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense.

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Tonight, Auto Light brings you Love, Honor or Murder, a suspense play produced and edited by William Spear and starring Kathy and Elliot Lewis.

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Hello Alice. Yeah, this is Helen. Look kid, I'm not going to be able to go to the dance after all.

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Well, Harry works the late shift with that taxi of his, so I've got to stay home and look at the four walls again.

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I'm so fed up sometimes I feel like leaving this house and Harry and the whole works.

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Believe me, the only reason I haven't is because I need the money to do it.

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Seven years of wedded bliss. All I can show for it is this stinking place.

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If I ever get my hands on a thousand bucks I'd get out of here so fast I'd make it.

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I said if I had a thousand bucks I'd kiss off Harry so fast I'd make it.

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Hold it a minute Alice, somebody came in. Is that you Harry? Yeah, it's me. I came home early.

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Well, if you expect to find dinner at this hour you're going to be disappointed.

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It's Harry, Alice. Honey? What was I saying? Oh yeah, the same old thing.

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Honey, cut the conversation. Something's happened. What? I said cut the conversation. Here, give me that phone.

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Alice, Helen will call you later. Goodbye. Big man. Baby, you know what I got here? Twelve thousand dollars.

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Yes, in a moment Cathy and Elliot Lewis and a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

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Well, I'll spend. Wilcox, where'll you spend your summer vacation?

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On the open road, Hap, my hapless pedestrian, enjoying the remarkable performance of my auto light stay full battery.

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The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. Ah, what? Sweet stay fullment.

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Correction Wilcox, you mean sweet fullfillment. Ah, you walked into a trap, Hap.

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Milad, the auto light stay full battery brings sweet stay fullment.

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Because it has three times as much liquid reserve as batteries without stay full features.

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That's why it needs water only three times a year in normal car use.

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A man who puns like that won't live long, Wilcox. Ah, but Hap, the auto light stay full battery lives an incredibly long life.

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According to tests based on SAE life cycle standards, for example, this famous battery gave 70% longer average life than batteries without stay full features.

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I shouldn't have started all this.

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Oh, and speaking of starting, my friend, the auto light stay full battery has plenty of starting stamina and dependability.

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So friends, see your friendly auto light battery dealer tomorrow and ask for an auto light stay full battery for your car.

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And remember, you're always right with auto light.

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And now with love, honor or murder and the performances of Cathy and Elliot Lewis, auto light hopes once again to keep you in suspense.

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That's what I said, baby. $12,000.

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Are you out of your mind, Harry?

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Helen, I found this wallet in my cab just a few minutes ago.

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Wallet?

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Here, look inside. Open it up.

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Harry, $100 bills.

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I have 50s and 20s and 10s. More than $12,000.

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$12,000.

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Now is it all right to come home early?

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Why, gee, I don't know what to say.

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Take it easy, baby. Don't get too excited. I got to give it back.

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Give it back?

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Well, yeah. Look at the name inside the wallet.

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Well, for...

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Belongs to a regular custom-mined, Sidney Walker, the news commentator. I take him around town every afternoon. He calls up for me personally.

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$12,000.

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Yeah, but as far as we're concerned, it's not worth 12 cents, huh?

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If I don't turn it into the company before Walker calls about it, they can throw me in a pen for five years.

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Then why did you bring it home?

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I don't know. I guess I shouldn't have at that. It's just that I never saw so much money before. I wasn't so far away. And I just had to bring it home and show it to you.

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You had to bring it home and wave it under my nose. That's like you.

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Oh, now, Helen.

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That's just like you, Harry.

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No, give me the money, Helen. Walker's going to remember leaving the money in my candle, call up the company.

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Wait a second. How long ago did you find the money?

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Twenty minutes ago. I came straight home.

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So what's the hurry?

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What?

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Nothing. As long as you're home, why don't you wash up? I'll fix you some supper. I'll make you a good supper.

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Well, I don't know. I ought to get back.

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Go on, honey. Go on. Wash up. Go ahead.

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Give us a chance for a little while to kind of pretend the money belongs to us.

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Ah, this coffee really hits the spot. Why didn't you eat, honey?

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Hmm? I was thinking.

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About the 12,000 bucks? Well, someday we'll have it too, baby.

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We've got it right now, Harry.

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Well, yeah, for about five more minutes.

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Well, I guess I'd better report in now. It's been almost an hour. Walker will be calling the company pretty soon.

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I want the money to be in the safe when he does.

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Uh, you giving me the wallet, Helen?

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How do you know Walker will call the company?

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We've been through all of that. He'll call because he'll remember the ride with me. We went over a bumpy stretch.

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Easy for his wallet to pop out then. He'll probably remember that.

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He could have lost it in so many other places. He may not even think of the cab ride. And if he doesn't, won't you feel like a fool?

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Well, it's better than cooling my heels in some jail.

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I know what I'd do if I were you.

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What?

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I'd take the chance that Walker wouldn't remember, that he wouldn't call. I'd keep the money.

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Well, Helen, stop that.

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That's what I'd do. But not you. You've always been afraid to take a chance. You'll always be content to be nothing.

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I'm sorry I ever came here with the money. Now give it back to me. I'm turning it into the company.

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You love me, Harry.

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Well, that's got nothing to do with it.

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No, it has everything to do with it. If you leave this house with the money, when you come back, I'll be gone.

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Now you're talking like a sad...

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I mean it.

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Come on, give me your wallet.

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Here it is, Harry. When you come back, I'll be gone.

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Yeah, I'll bet you will.

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Well, I gotta be gone. I'll see you later, honey.

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I'll be home later.

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Doesn't matter when you come home. You won't find me here.

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Fine. You stop talking like that. So long, Helen.

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It's really goodbye, Harry. I mean it.

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You. You.

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You. The first day we were married, you've been twisting me around your little finger.

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Only because you know how much I love you. How much I need you.

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I guess you'll never stop doing that, will you, Helen?

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Well?

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What do you want me to do?

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Nothing. Nothing. Leave everything to me.

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Fearless Cab Company.

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This is Mr. Sidney Walker's personal secretary calling.

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Don't tell me that Cab Mr. Walker order hasn't got there yet. I sent it out hours ago.

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Oh, oh, it got here all right. It's not that.

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We're trying to locate Mr. Walker and I just wondered if by any chance you might have heard from him.

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What? Oh, no. If he got his cab all right, why should he have called us?

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Of course you're right. Well, thank you very much.

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Well?

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He hasn't reported anything yet.

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That don't make sense. 12,000 bucks is a lot of money even for Walker.

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Give me the phone book.

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If we're gonna call now.

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Mr. Walker, of course. We gotta find out why he hasn't reported losing his wallet.

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Huh?

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Oh, look. Why don't you let me bring the money back? Maybe...

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Hey, maybe he'll give me a good reward. He might even give me a...

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You're not gonna do anything.

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You're gonna get us in trouble, Helen.

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I know what I'm doing.

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Hello?

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I'd like to speak to Mr. Walker, please.

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Well, he's not in right now. This is Mr. Walker's housekeeper. Could I take a message?

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No, no. This is a personal matter. Where could I be certain of reaching him?

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Nowhere until ten o'clock.

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Ten o'clock?

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Yes. That's when he does his nightly broadcast, you know.

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Oh, yes, of course. And what time does he reach the station?

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Five minutes after.

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Ah. You're quite sure he'll be there then.

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Oh, my heavens. You could stake your life on it.

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That's been his schedule for a good many years. Who's this talking? Are you a friend of Mr. Walker's?

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Oh, yes, yes. My husband and I have known Sydney for a long time.

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Well, as long as you're a friend, I can tell you. Mr. Walker has a busy evening ahead of him.

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Oh?

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He lost his wallet an hour or so ago. It contained a lot of money. Enough for a payment on a house he's wanted.

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That's too bad. I do hope he finds it.

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Oh, he'll find the wallet all right. He's out looking for it right now.

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Do you have any idea where he might have lost it?

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Oh, yes, he certainly has, and he's mighty disappointed it hasn't been returned.

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He knows who found the wallet?

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Not exactly. The way he told it to me, he knows who should have found it.

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But that is, he didn't tell me the rascal's name.

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I see.

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He's too kind and easygoing. That's what he is.

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He's always been that way.

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I'd have called the police right away.

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Why hasn't he?

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Oh, he doesn't want to cause any embarrassment or hard feelings, you know.

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So first he's going to look everywhere else he's been this evening.

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And if it still doesn't turn up?

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Well, he says that this fellow he suspects hasn't come by the apartment to return the money by the time he gets home.

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Then he'll report it all right.

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Oh, but my precious, here I am, gabbing away a mile a minute. I'm sure all this doesn't interest you.

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Oh, it does. Of course it does.

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Now, if we want to reach Sydney before he gets home, you say he will arrive at the radio station just before ten.

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At five minutes to ten, on the dot.

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Well, then we'll contact him there. Thank you.

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Harry.

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Yeah?

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That was his housekeeper. About what she said, he knows he left the wallet in your cab.

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See, I told you.

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Yeah, but he hasn't reported it yet. Mr. Walker is a very fair man.

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Well, I'll have time to bring it down to the company.

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Harry, how many times do I have to tell you we're not going to bring it down to the company?

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Now, come on, we've got to decide what we can do between now and midnight to keep Walker from reporting his loss.

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There's nothing we can do. You just said he knows he left the money in my cab.

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That's right.

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Well, then what is there to decide? What are you smiling about?

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Was I smiling? I was thinking of something.

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Of what?

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You know, there is really only one way in all the world to keep Walker from telling about that wallet.

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What are you talking about? The only way to keep Walker from telling would be to kill him.

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Now, now, look, we've got to decide what we're going to do, so let's stop the jokes.

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Do I look like I'm joking?

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No. No, you don't.

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Is that gun in the dresser drawer? Never been used? They could never trace anything to you.

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Oh, Helen, what are you talking about?

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You've got to kill him. It's simple arithmetic.

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But how can I? He's never done me any harm.

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If he lives, he'll call the police and tell them you've stolen his money.

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Well, that's the way I've got to return the money.

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If you do that, you'll lose your wife.

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No, but Helen, look...

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Listen to me. Look how simple it is.

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At five minutes to ten, you can be absolutely certain that he'll be entering the broadcasting studio.

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If you were waiting outside for him, there are so many quiet places you could take him with a gun.

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Yeah, but Helen, listen to me. Even if I wanted to kill him, I couldn't. I have no nerve.

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Oh, yes, you have.

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What?

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You see, Harry, there are some men who can kill a hundred times.

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It doesn't bother their appetite. They still get a good night's sleep.

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Yeah, but not...

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No, I know. No, not you. Not you, Harry.

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But every man, even a weakling like you, can kill once.

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He's got to kill to get rid of the thing that'll destroy him.

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Oh, Helen, please, I can't.

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You can. Harry, you can do it for me.

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Why don't you let me just bring the money back? It'd be so much better that way.

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Harry, what time is it?

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What?

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What time is it?

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It's ten after nine.

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You couldn't bring the money back now, even if I let you.

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But why?

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What time should you have reported in with your cab?

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I have passed date. What difference...

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Oh.

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So that's it.

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See what I mean?

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If Walker reports his loss now, you're in trouble no matter what you do.

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They'll know you were thinking of keeping the money.

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In their eyes, that's almost as bad as really keeping it.

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Yeah, but I...

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You know the rules of that company.

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You're supposed to inspect your cab after every fare.

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If they don't arrest you, they'll fire you.

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They'll blackball you. You'll never get another job.

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That's why you kept me here.

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I made supper for them. It's all around.

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You figured that one out too, didn't you, Helen?

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Yes, I figured that one out too.

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Walker will get to the station at five to ten. You've got 45 minutes.

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Start out in actors if you're on a regular run. That'll be your alibi later.

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Just stop at all the usual places and talk to the boys.

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And actors will be just another night.

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What about my schedule? I was supposed to be in at eight thirty.

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You can always tell them that business was so good you couldn't come in.

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Shall I get the gun, Harry?

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Yes.

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Auto Light is bringing you Kathy and Elliot Lewis in Love, Honor or Murder.

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Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

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Say, Wilcox, if you drive across the Arizona desert, take special note of the barrow cactus.

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It's a desert phenomenon. Holes water like a well.

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I was afraid it would.

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The little cactus lives a mighty long life too.

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Now pardon me, half, but SAE life cycle standard tests show that the Auto Light's day full battery gives 70 percent longer average life than batteries without day full features.

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Oh, there's no use talking.

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You're so right, half. The thing to do is see your friendly Auto Light battery dealer tomorrow.

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Ask for an Auto Light's day full battery, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use.

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And remember, you're always right with Auto Light.

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And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage our stars, Kathy and Elliot Lewis.

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In love, honor or murder, a tale well calculated to keep you in...

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...sus-pen-t!

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Harry? Is it you?

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Beg pardon?

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Oh, I'm sorry. I thought it was my husband. What do you want?

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Oh, you must be Mrs. Blake, Harry's wife, huh?

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Yeah, what do you want?

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Say, have I talked to you on the phone before?

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Why?

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Your voice sounds kind of familiar.

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You may have. Who is this?

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This is Dave Harris over at Peerless Cab Company.

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Peerless Cab Company?

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Yeah. Say, have you seen Harry in the last couple hours?

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No, he's out working.

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Well, he should have been through with his shift at 8.30.

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It's 25 to 10 already. That's not like Harry.

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25 to 10. Is something wrong?

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Well, I don't know. One of Harry's regular customers, Sydney Walker, called up a few minutes ago from a restaurant on the way to that broadcast he is.

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Yeah?

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He thinks he left a wallet in Harry's cab.

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I said he thinks he left a...

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I heard you.

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Well, there was $12,000 in the wallet, Mrs. Blake.

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Walker says he looked everywhere else so that he might have lost it and it hasn't turned up.

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He just wants me to contact Harry as soon as possible and tell him to look in the back of his cab.

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Well, if Harry should call, I'll tell him to get in touch with you right away. I should...

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What did you say before?

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Huh?

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Walker called and told all this before he started for the station?

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What are you talking about, Mrs. Blake?

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Nothing. Nothing.

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Walker called before he reached the station. Harry will be waiting at the station to kill him.

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But now Walker's already told him that maybe Harry took the wallet.

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Everything will point to Harry. They'll arrest him ten minutes after he's killed Walker.

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Harry will tell him everything. He's weak.

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He'll try to blame me. He'll tell him I made him do it.

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I gotta call him back. I gotta stop him before he kills Walker.

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Twenty-five to ten.

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Twenty minutes to reach him. I've got to reach him.

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Twenty minutes to reach Harry. Twenty minutes to call him back.

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I told Harry to make all the regular stops. Everybody will remember him.

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I'll let me think.

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He'll stop for gas at the taxi garage.

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Yeah, yeah, I reached him there before. His number's written down someplace.

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Where's that little book?

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I'm shaking so I can't...

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Here. Here it is.

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Here, 265-52.

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Here, 265-52.

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Five.

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Five.

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Fearless garage. Max speaking.

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This... this is Mrs. Blake calling. Harry Blake's wife?

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Yeah, Miss Blake.

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Has Harry been there yet? To get his gas, I mean.

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Oh, he hasn't been here all night.

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Say, what's he been up to?

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What do you mean?

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I just got a call from the main office to hold him here when he does show up.

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Look, Mac, Harry always told me you were his friend.

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Well, sure.

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Well, he's in trouble, terrible trouble. I haven't got the time to explain.

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If I don't reach him right away, I don't know what'll happen.

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Well, I don't know what I can do, Miss Blake.

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Well, you can tell me the names and the telephone numbers of some of the places that cabbies like Harry stop off at...

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Well, he...

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...while they're on the runs?

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Well, sometimes the boys stop at Gus's coffee shop on Sixth Avenue for coffee.

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What's their number?

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Uh, wait a minute. It's, uh...

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It's State 8-5-7-0.

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Yeah, State 8-8-5-7-0. All right, all right. Where else?

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Oh, maybe if he had a few minutes to spare, he'd go into Frank's Tavern on Washington Boulevard.

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I don't know the phone number there.

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I'll look it up, I'll look it up. Where else?

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Of course, he might go up to Union headquarters to chew the rank with the boys.

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Union headquarters. Yeah, where else?

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Look, there's lots of places he might stop off at.

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You gotta reach him by ten o'clock, huh? Well, that doesn't leave you much time.

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No, it doesn't leave me much time.

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I'm trying to locate Harry Blake. Has he been there tonight?

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He hasn't.

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Well, if he does show up, will you tell him to call his wife? Tell him it's very important.

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You're sure Harry isn't in?

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Could you just kind of look around again? It...

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All right, if you're sure. But listen, if he does drop in, tell him to call home right away.

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Harry Blake. Yeah, the cab driver. He was in your place just a few minutes ago.

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Can you call him back? Please, it's terribly important. I know you're awful busy and everything.

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Hello? Hello? Hello?

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Hello?

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What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? I gotta stop him.

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How? Fifteen minutes to ten. Ten minutes. Only ten minutes. I gotta think. I gotta think.

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Radio station's on Sixth and Main. That's two miles away.

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Maybe I could get to Harry before Walker reaches there. I've got to try. I've got to try. I've got to stop him.

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Driver. Huh? When I got in your cab, you told me you could get me to the radio station in ten minutes.

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I didn't give you no guarantees, lady. I'm doing the best I can.

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But I've got to get there before five or ten. You told me you could make.

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It don't do no good to holler in my ear, lady.

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There must be some way to make better time. Can't you take side streets or something?

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Again, you're stuck. It's the traffic, lady. But you told me.

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I know what I told you, but I didn't figure out so much traffic.

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Please hurry. Yeah, yeah. I'll pay you anything if you get me there.

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Oh, dang. Always hurry. Oh.

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Now what's wrong? I told you, lady, the traffic is lousing us up.

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What time is it now? About ten minutes to ten.

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Don't tell me about. I want the exact time. Exact time? Seven minutes to ten.

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Seven minutes to ten? How much farther is it to the station?

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Well, I can tell you this. We're not going to make it in two minutes.

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And there's no need to make it at all.

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Take me home.

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Just a minute or two before ten.

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He'll be coming home soon.

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Wanting to hide under the bed, whimpering like a dog.

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He'll chase the killing to him fast enough. They'll come here. They'll take us both away.

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And the money, too.

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Money? The money, too.

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Wait a minute. Why should they come here? Why should they get the money?

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Why do I have to take the blame for what he did?

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Why do I have to take the blame for what he did?

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I didn't commit the murder.

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If I had money, I could get away.

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They would look for me too hard.

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Yeah. Yeah, why should I take the blame for what Harry did?

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Police Department, Sergeant Graham speaking.

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I want to report a murder.

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What's that?

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You're too late to stop the murder, but you can still catch the killer.

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Wait a second. Now, just who is this killer?

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His name is Harry Blake. He drives a taxicab.

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He's a cop.

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He's a cop.

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His name is Harry Blake. He drives a taxicab.

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Taxi number is 365.

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You should find him somewhere around the radio station.

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Just who did he kill?

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He...he killed...Harry?

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Good evening, Helen.

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Go on, finish your conversation.

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How did you get back here so soon?

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Good cabbie can make time when you ask him.

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You killed him?

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Just after ten o'clock. Turn on the radio and find out.

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Oh, you're talking on the phone.

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I'll turn the radio on for you.

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Harry, the police will come here and look for you. They'll catch you, Harry.

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Did anybody see you do it? Did they try to...

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This is a brilliant analysis of foreign affairs, Mr. Sidney Walker.

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Sidney Walker.

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Tonight I'm going to bring you a report on a recent interview I had with one of the most prominent industrialists in the nation.

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I told you his name.

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Oh, I saw what I wanted to hear.

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You didn't kill him at all.

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I should have known.

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I should have known I actually thought you went through with it.

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You didn't have the nerve.

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No. I didn't kill him.

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But I did have the nerve.

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What?

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Yeah. You gave me the nerve.

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That pep talk before I left, it was very true, you know.

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What are you talking about?

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You remember? Even a weakling like me can kill once if he's got a kill to get rid of the one thing that'll destroy him.

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Those were your very words.

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Then why didn't you kill Walker?

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Because I got the thinking about what you said and how right you were.

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And the more I thought about it, the more I realized.

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Realized what?

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That I was headed in the wrong direction.

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What do you mean by that?

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Put that gun away, Harry.

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In order to rid myself of the one thing in the world that can destroy me, I had to come back here to you, Alan.

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Hello? Hello, what happened there? Hello?

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Hello. This is the police department, isn't it? I heard her speaking to you as I was opening the door.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, it's the police department. What's going on there? What were those shots?

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Wasn't my wife reporting a murder?

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Yeah, she was. She gave us all the information except she didn't tell us who was going to be killed.

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Well, you see, officer, until this very moment, she really didn't know.

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Suspense presented by Auto Light. Tonight stars Cathy and Elliot Lewis.

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Thanks, Hap, and the same to you. See you August 31st when Suspense will return to the CBS Airways, same time, same stations.

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Remember Thursday, August 31st, Suspense returns to the air with the first of a series of stories that is, as we say,

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a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense.

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Tonight's Suspense play was produced and edited by William Spear, directed by Norman MacDonald.

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Music for Suspense was composed by Lucian Morawec and conducted by Lynn Murray tonight.

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