WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 auto light and its ninety six thousand dealers present 00:10.640 --> 00:11.200 tonight 00:11.200 --> 00:13.400 auto light bring you to report 00:13.400 --> 00:15.080 hotbed play starring 00:15.080 --> 00:22.080 battleground 00:22.080 --> 00:29.080 go ahead and look at the waiting for you 00:29.480 --> 00:31.040 uh... 00:31.040 --> 00:32.920 if you know captain 00:32.920 --> 00:35.000 all right then i got it 00:35.000 --> 00:40.400 yeah 00:40.400 --> 00:43.840 everything here everything 00:43.840 --> 00:48.560 sorry it had to be this way then yeah 00:48.560 --> 00:51.800 but i couldn't come out of the other way to take it what you want to do with my 00:51.800 --> 00:56.800 true report 00:56.800 --> 01:00.600 and just a moment mister pat o'brien in the first act of true report 01:00.600 --> 01:05.120 well hi a half welcome back to the spirit of a little light alley harlow 01:05.120 --> 01:09.320 wilcock they no more have got to get proclaiming after my summer fiesta 01:09.320 --> 01:12.640 proclaiming that when you replace worn out by plugged in your car with new 01:12.640 --> 01:16.120 ignition engineered auto light spark plugs you'll get 01:16.120 --> 01:19.120 motor performance 01:19.120 --> 01:20.800 saving don't forget i know 01:20.800 --> 01:24.680 all-time spark plugs are ignition engineered right half ignition engineered 01:24.680 --> 01:28.560 by the same auto light engineers who designed the coil distributor and all the 01:28.560 --> 01:29.720 other important parts 01:29.720 --> 01:33.440 that go to make up the complete ignition system used on many of america's leading 01:33.440 --> 01:35.200 makes of cars and trucks 01:35.200 --> 01:38.760 that's why you can't buy better spark plugs for your car and auto light so 01:38.760 --> 01:42.440 friends have a spark plugs in your car checked before you start on that long 01:42.440 --> 01:46.520 labor day weekend drive and if replacements are needed insists on 01:46.520 --> 01:50.320 move nappy ignition engineered auto light spark plug 01:50.320 --> 01:53.200 and whether you choose the resistor type of the standard type 01:53.200 --> 01:56.800 you're always right without a life 01:56.800 --> 02:01.120 and now with true report and the performance of pat o'brien auto light 02:01.120 --> 02:08.120 hopes once again to keep you in 02:13.600 --> 02:15.800 all this very one 02:15.800 --> 02:17.880 captain walbert dot 02:17.880 --> 02:20.000 manor accident investigation division 02:20.000 --> 02:21.800 the police department 02:21.800 --> 02:22.400 from 02:22.400 --> 02:24.120 lieutenant benny j kennedy 02:24.120 --> 02:26.200 no undetailed 02:26.200 --> 02:32.080 real on stacker 02:32.080 --> 02:35.480 attached by supplementary traffic accident report completed this date 02:35.480 --> 02:39.080 disregard other file concerning saying that the decision 02:39.080 --> 02:40.080 today's ago 02:40.080 --> 02:41.960 nine a m 02:41.960 --> 02:44.640 what's your office for the day's assignment 02:44.640 --> 02:47.640 i didn't know it was going to be needed to do 02:47.640 --> 02:49.200 uh... 02:49.200 --> 02:50.040 uh... 02:50.040 --> 02:57.040 well 02:59.840 --> 03:03.000 you're on 03:03.000 --> 03:04.480 and 03:04.480 --> 03:06.640 well given up to leave them 03:06.640 --> 03:08.640 well out there 03:08.640 --> 03:10.160 they have 03:10.160 --> 03:11.120 anything new 03:11.120 --> 03:12.160 that's a good one 03:12.160 --> 03:13.360 i've been i feel 03:13.360 --> 03:15.120 like asking if anything about that 03:15.120 --> 03:17.640 so i think that all routine 03:17.640 --> 03:20.560 sometimes i think i never should have been a car yeah 03:20.560 --> 03:24.400 over hit and run artist named uh... edward franken right 03:24.400 --> 03:25.760 but what's at the bottom of that 03:25.760 --> 03:26.920 i'd good job baghdad 03:26.920 --> 03:27.960 for the lifetime of 03:27.960 --> 03:29.020 too long then 03:29.020 --> 03:30.320 would you believe i used up 03:30.320 --> 03:33.760 three hundred eighty five probable witnesses to that accident came out with 03:33.760 --> 03:36.440 just who knew what they were talking about 03:36.440 --> 03:39.120 but i'm gonna figure out a system for questioning 03:39.120 --> 03:40.200 uh... we go 03:40.200 --> 03:45.340 the gun 03:45.340 --> 03:47.640 uh... good morning man 03:47.640 --> 03:52.640 downplayed make it up 03:52.640 --> 03:57.640 uh... no calls for the next half hour but 03:57.640 --> 04:02.320 well i think i'm initial traffic accident reports twenty two 04:02.320 --> 04:05.880 twenty two traffic accidents in our city in the last twelve hours three of them 04:05.880 --> 04:08.680 fatal 04:08.680 --> 04:10.520 most of them were in accidents 04:10.520 --> 04:13.440 most of them could have been avoided if people are just realize that an 04:13.440 --> 04:17.200 improperly handled causes dangerous as a loaded gun 04:17.200 --> 04:21.400 routine for us but not routine in the lives of the citizens involved 04:21.400 --> 04:23.720 let's get that 04:23.720 --> 04:27.260 nine different people lined up an emergency hospital at night 04:27.260 --> 04:30.600 we've had to test for a look like they won't make it 04:30.600 --> 04:32.980 here's the list 04:32.980 --> 04:35.160 i hate to hand out things like this 04:35.160 --> 04:41.000 hop over there if you can get any statement from them for the 04:41.000 --> 04:42.280 or no 04:42.280 --> 04:45.960 late last night a woman went to a boulevard stop at a button to park our 04:45.960 --> 04:47.380 print calgary 04:47.380 --> 04:50.460 extensive property damage he was all right but a six-year-old daughter was 04:50.460 --> 04:51.720 injured critically 04:51.720 --> 04:54.500 the woman failed at the bride at f 04:54.500 --> 04:57.560 that's how i think i and she couldn't even walk to the police cruiser without 04:57.560 --> 04:58.920 stumbling 04:58.920 --> 05:02.260 report says under attitude abuse claimed he was under drug why do they 05:02.260 --> 05:04.080 always pull that part of the group 05:04.080 --> 05:06.720 because people are afraid to face the truth 05:06.720 --> 05:09.920 one thing i know if you know about it all doesn't smell like 05:09.920 --> 05:13.560 look into it and don't worry about it and you got it 05:13.560 --> 05:19.720 it run on center dot twelve about three thirty this morning victim unidentified 05:19.720 --> 05:23.480 anyway you've uh... enough all night with on that frankly i don't like that 05:23.480 --> 05:27.440 i think another one i know you better not get the then actually 05:27.440 --> 05:29.960 it'll be all day 05:29.960 --> 05:33.440 find a good little ran that for devil down and didn't stop the fever is a 05:33.440 --> 05:39.240 live up to it 05:39.240 --> 05:41.800 and that's the way i got the assignment 05:41.800 --> 05:45.040 that's a statement of two patrolmen with this to me 05:45.040 --> 05:46.840 and i want to work on 05:46.840 --> 05:47.860 like any other case 05:47.860 --> 05:51.280 i would be a little accident report and state to the witness 05:51.280 --> 05:53.840 and happen to be first 05:53.840 --> 05:55.160 and any 05:55.160 --> 05:56.560 police 05:56.560 --> 05:58.600 they were here while they're here again 05:58.600 --> 05:59.880 where's your uniform 05:59.880 --> 06:00.720 how do i know 06:00.720 --> 06:03.640 traffic investigator lieutenant ben kennedy 06:03.640 --> 06:09.000 need where you can 06:09.000 --> 06:12.320 field five this morning you reported a hit-and-run accident for this address 06:12.320 --> 06:15.080 and here i don't like that 06:15.080 --> 06:16.960 gone over all this stuff with them off 06:16.960 --> 06:20.480 that showed up right after i called in man there was run over died receiving 06:20.480 --> 06:22.200 hospital without regaining consciousness 06:22.200 --> 06:24.440 uh... driving a car 06:24.440 --> 06:28.120 what's the problem again 06:28.120 --> 06:30.280 i would 06:30.280 --> 06:32.360 hot 06:32.360 --> 06:36.520 i think that that that 06:36.520 --> 06:42.240 i think that i don't think that i think that 06:42.240 --> 06:43.760 that 06:43.760 --> 06:45.680 cartons off well 06:45.680 --> 06:48.680 i think that 06:48.680 --> 06:51.600 next on the top 06:51.600 --> 06:55.780 two-door the four-door on the car 06:55.780 --> 06:59.720 the office report you say it was a sedan two-door the four-door 06:59.720 --> 07:04.120 i don't know if i'm trying to tell you how to look at 07:04.120 --> 07:06.520 independent world blue green 07:06.520 --> 07:08.040 nighttime no more 07:08.040 --> 07:09.320 three-part bloodline 07:09.320 --> 07:10.920 shared black 07:10.920 --> 07:12.400 black 07:12.400 --> 07:13.880 dark color 07:13.880 --> 07:16.440 shining 07:16.440 --> 07:18.160 uh... 07:18.160 --> 07:19.360 carter 07:19.360 --> 07:20.880 feeding 07:20.880 --> 07:23.760 that mark 07:23.760 --> 07:26.080 and it goes right by this window 07:26.080 --> 07:27.280 and i'm looking at it 07:27.280 --> 07:29.840 and i don't know where he came from 07:29.840 --> 07:34.400 big noise like black breaking in the form and lying half on the street and 07:34.400 --> 07:36.040 happened that are 07:36.040 --> 07:37.320 the car 07:37.320 --> 07:39.240 and i don't know 07:39.240 --> 07:43.280 now i call the police that your job traffic accidents have become everybody's 07:43.280 --> 07:44.360 job 07:44.360 --> 07:46.480 if you look at the driver of the car 07:46.480 --> 07:48.080 that 07:48.080 --> 07:49.880 woman and dot 07:49.880 --> 07:54.840 the officer who wanted you to say she didn't see the driver at all 07:54.840 --> 07:57.240 wasn't a call up about that 07:57.240 --> 08:00.680 and i can't wait to get later i remember that the woman 08:00.680 --> 08:02.080 the young 08:02.080 --> 08:05.760 and that kind of thing that you know 08:05.760 --> 08:09.120 but you're doing out of three in the morning with no good at all i'll give 08:09.120 --> 08:11.800 the possibility of things in this one that was the top of the car and not the 08:11.800 --> 08:12.720 person back 08:12.720 --> 08:14.440 well i don't need it 08:14.440 --> 08:15.920 try to get the license number 08:15.920 --> 08:17.660 to dr 08:17.660 --> 08:22.400 i did not do the the citizen i reported but i thought that 08:22.400 --> 08:29.400 thanks mister 08:29.320 --> 08:31.840 very first and one of the very reliable 08:31.840 --> 08:32.920 well 08:32.920 --> 08:37.720 i don't know if you're going to bring that 08:37.720 --> 08:39.280 gave me enough to start on 08:39.280 --> 08:42.240 and they both have talked to thirty people so the neighborhood and dropped 08:42.240 --> 08:49.240 by the more to look at the victim 08:49.240 --> 08:52.080 period of time 08:52.080 --> 08:56.800 unidentified 08:56.800 --> 08:57.960 the doctor 08:57.960 --> 09:00.360 one other thing both legs 09:00.360 --> 09:01.640 well-known 09:01.640 --> 09:03.000 over five years 09:03.000 --> 09:04.120 well-known 09:04.120 --> 09:05.960 well-known impact 09:05.960 --> 09:08.120 last article including the other hip 09:08.120 --> 09:09.280 with it broken 09:09.280 --> 09:11.040 dot figures wait i can't 09:11.040 --> 09:12.380 high bumpers 09:12.380 --> 09:14.720 that it may get something before nineteen thirty nine 09:14.720 --> 09:15.800 cross-strait 09:15.800 --> 09:16.240 bumpers 09:16.240 --> 09:20.080 and they want us a big truck scrambled on their street like center right all 09:20.080 --> 09:20.640 right 09:20.640 --> 09:22.560 the youthful 09:22.560 --> 09:23.720 both long-term 09:23.720 --> 09:25.800 hi ready 09:25.800 --> 09:27.360 last week of out of them 09:27.360 --> 09:29.440 with the technicians not about paint 09:29.440 --> 09:31.480 not on the body maybe on the floor 09:31.480 --> 09:35.280 technicians of got those two okay but all i need from this with this isn't 09:35.280 --> 09:36.600 we've got a lineup now 09:36.600 --> 09:38.600 that's guys still a john dole 09:38.600 --> 09:41.680 we've got a print on the wire hoping you'll be recorded somewhere but i 09:41.680 --> 09:44.880 recorded somewhere right down time 09:44.880 --> 09:46.920 change that fact along stanker 09:46.920 --> 09:49.340 aren't going to have to do it 09:49.340 --> 09:52.440 arrested him in nineteen thirty six and i was on a lot of detail 09:52.440 --> 09:53.720 small-time grifter 09:53.720 --> 09:56.280 track rolling bookmaking breaking and entering 09:56.280 --> 09:59.200 thirty previous arrest and i think i'm not you are the time i've been the 09:59.200 --> 10:06.200 fighting 10:06.200 --> 10:07.680 at least you know my victim 10:07.680 --> 10:09.960 and all my witness and 10:09.960 --> 10:11.120 they all right 10:11.120 --> 10:15.600 the broken glass and the paint found on the victim of the better story 10:15.600 --> 10:21.760 part of the hit-and-run killer the crime land they don't miss it 10:21.760 --> 10:22.800 and the 10:22.800 --> 10:23.680 the lab 10:23.680 --> 10:24.480 we got the top 10:24.480 --> 10:25.680 i don't have it 10:25.680 --> 10:29.360 the class letters came from a headlight lamp used on port of remixed cars between 10:29.360 --> 10:31.280 thirty seven 10:31.280 --> 10:33.160 about paint 10:33.160 --> 10:35.640 also very 10:35.640 --> 10:39.920 there's a bump on a fender on a broken headlight 10:39.920 --> 10:41.680 maybe a front door 10:41.680 --> 10:45.280 and that's a lot they over twelve years old probably can travel twenty miles 10:45.280 --> 10:46.920 without breaking down 10:46.920 --> 10:49.720 so my hit and run is in town somewhere trying to get a new headlight in the 10:49.720 --> 10:51.040 fender 10:51.040 --> 10:53.480 uh... 10:53.480 --> 11:00.480 yeah 11:01.960 --> 11:05.240 you can't let you know that one of our pro-black that and this morning 11:05.240 --> 11:07.160 direction goes like this 11:07.160 --> 11:10.680 back for a little bit and here thirty seven make unknown 11:10.680 --> 11:12.080 right on headlight shattered 11:12.080 --> 11:14.760 right front bumper dented got it 11:14.760 --> 11:18.400 i want every garage auto parts junk dealer and repair shop in town contacted 11:18.400 --> 11:21.480 on that somebody's going to try and take the bumps out of a car and buy a new 11:21.480 --> 11:28.480 headlight they shouldn't be hired but 11:29.440 --> 11:32.560 before o'clock that afternoon the bulletin was out 11:32.560 --> 11:34.720 we know what kind of car 11:34.720 --> 11:37.240 eight pairs of offices out doing the legwork 11:37.240 --> 11:41.600 with luck i expect to pick up in a matter of hours 11:41.600 --> 11:44.160 uh... i got high 11:44.160 --> 11:47.160 that's up with this time no not too tough 11:47.160 --> 11:51.720 that you're home sleep or you know me got nothing else to do but be a cop 11:51.720 --> 11:54.680 any help no thanks that's my time 11:54.680 --> 11:55.920 i think it won't go 11:55.920 --> 11:56.960 charlie 11:56.960 --> 11:59.380 last year it was in the literature 11:59.380 --> 12:00.440 next year 12:00.440 --> 12:01.320 you're lucky 12:01.320 --> 12:03.240 alice are yes 12:03.240 --> 12:06.240 when you come over for dinner 12:06.240 --> 12:07.100 ike 12:07.100 --> 12:12.080 i don't know what's with me even when i have time off now i come sniffing 12:12.080 --> 12:15.360 it seems to have been 12:15.360 --> 12:17.320 uh... so long 12:17.320 --> 12:24.320 okay 12:24.960 --> 12:26.680 august twenty nine 12:26.680 --> 12:28.840 and that's it 12:28.840 --> 12:34.360 the father of course 12:34.360 --> 12:36.800 not one of the part of the 12:36.800 --> 12:40.560 but it was finally came from a phone call placed by a man named loper 12:40.560 --> 12:44.840 London auto repair shop on 12:44.840 --> 12:47.400 i don't know if it's what you're looking for a little time but it might be 12:47.400 --> 12:48.560 i don't know 12:48.560 --> 12:52.720 i got it in yesterday that he broke the land and then the defender on the road 12:52.720 --> 12:59.720 uh... the only one of that right from the real ones in a lot with j 13:02.360 --> 13:04.800 no registration 13:04.800 --> 13:06.240 the car you're looking for 13:06.240 --> 13:07.440 uh... maybe 13:07.440 --> 13:08.920 and i think that 13:08.920 --> 13:13.920 become up when it comes back 13:13.920 --> 13:16.400 hi mister loper 13:16.400 --> 13:23.400 when i look at the very end of the week atlantic 13:31.560 --> 13:36.880 and the shimmy in the right front wheel of the winfield white 13:36.880 --> 13:40.080 i bought it for charlie first year in college 13:40.080 --> 13:47.080 my own 13:50.560 --> 13:54.040 although i did bring you pat o'brien and who reports 13:54.040 --> 14:01.040 night production in radio about standing here for a thrill 14:04.840 --> 14:08.160 and tomorrow but along labor day weekend 14:08.160 --> 14:12.000 i hope that you make sure that your car is running right before starting on long 14:12.000 --> 14:12.820 trip 14:12.820 --> 14:16.640 that you will have worn out by club replaced with new ignition engineered 14:16.640 --> 14:18.440 auto life 14:18.440 --> 14:21.720 but i have carefully wanted to date tomorrow 14:21.720 --> 14:23.200 because the life you've paid 14:23.200 --> 14:25.200 maybe you're on 14:25.200 --> 14:26.200 and now 14:26.200 --> 14:27.120 all right 14:27.120 --> 14:29.940 while hollywood town stage pat o'brien 14:29.940 --> 14:31.840 in eliot lewis is production of 14:31.840 --> 14:33.160 who report 14:33.160 --> 14:40.160 upheld well calculated to keep you in 14:43.200 --> 14:45.280 group 14:45.280 --> 14:48.160 five improvement 14:48.160 --> 14:36.380 directly he 14:36.380 --> 14:51.200 well 14:51.200 --> 14:54.760 like that addicts mca próximo 14:54.760 --> 15:00.480 play them work with the medics 15:00.480 --> 15:03.680 Pretty soon, you know what the car looked like and you start looking for it 15:04.320 --> 15:10.240 But what do you do when you're a cop and you find the car and you're supposed to arrest your own son and a man for it? 15:10.240 --> 15:29.840 Oh, sorry. What do you do? I drove up to the State University that afternoon to have a talk with my sister. 15:29.840 --> 15:38.560 Rick! Rick! Oh, Mr. Kennedy. Hello Rick, how are you? Uh, you seen Charlie around? 15:38.560 --> 15:44.960 No, I haven't. I went over to the room, the landlady said you were here in the recreation hall. I thought maybe Charlie was with you. 15:44.960 --> 15:48.960 Sorry. Rooming with that guy is like rooming with a ghost. I never see him. 15:48.960 --> 15:53.600 I, uh, you didn't see his salami around anywhere, did you? 15:53.600 --> 15:54.400 No, I didn't. 15:54.400 --> 15:55.920 Was he taken out of town or anything? 15:55.920 --> 15:59.840 Well, sometimes we go over to the county hospital for surgery classes. Maybe he drove over there. 15:59.840 --> 16:00.880 Did I call him there? 16:00.880 --> 16:02.160 No, not in class. 16:02.160 --> 16:03.200 Oh, well... 16:03.200 --> 16:10.400 Well, stick around Mr. Kennedy. You can probably pick him up at the hash house around dinner time. Anything wrong? 16:10.400 --> 16:18.240 No. Say, shouldn't you be studying or something instead of playing that thing? 16:18.240 --> 16:21.200 I'm majoring in the piano. Piano and law, Sergeant. 16:21.200 --> 16:22.480 Lieutenant. 16:22.480 --> 16:29.280 Lieutenant. That'd be 5100 per annum, right? Civil service. 16:29.280 --> 16:32.400 Seem to know all about it, Rick. You should be a cop. 16:32.400 --> 16:35.760 Nope. I'm like Charlie. I want something better. 16:35.760 --> 16:36.880 What? 16:36.880 --> 16:40.480 No offense, Lieutenant, but... well, I mean it's hard going to college. 16:40.480 --> 16:41.760 You didn't answer me. 16:41.760 --> 16:47.120 All right. He didn't go to college. Charlie's put in six hard years already and still a couple to go. 16:47.120 --> 16:53.360 Plenty tough. I live with him. I watch him go through it all. He's building something good here, something important. 16:53.360 --> 16:56.240 Kids sometimes get the wrong idea of how important they're going to be. 16:56.240 --> 17:00.960 They forget about right now. They run around making mistakes and getting themselves into a lot of trouble they can't handle. 17:00.960 --> 17:04.160 They take all their work and study and throw it right out the window when they get in that kind of trouble. 17:04.160 --> 17:06.160 Yeah. 17:07.440 --> 17:12.800 Well, you sort of rung out the philosophy today, haven't you, Mr. Kennedy? 17:12.800 --> 17:14.800 Tell Charlie to call me at home, please. 17:19.200 --> 17:23.040 If I'd waited for him, I don't know what I would have said or done. 17:23.040 --> 17:28.160 If it was, I'd have felt like a rookie with his first course throwing my cap in front of a punk kid. 17:28.160 --> 17:34.240 So I just got out of there and drove back to the city. Lieutenant Geiger was sitting at my desk. 17:34.240 --> 17:35.280 Oh, Ben. 17:35.280 --> 17:36.320 Oh, you want some, Geiger? 17:36.320 --> 17:37.040 Been waiting for you. 17:37.040 --> 17:37.540 What for? 17:38.720 --> 17:40.720 Have you heard of a mechanic named Loper? 17:42.720 --> 17:46.960 Oh, Ben, don't look like I caught you from the dead body at his Loper call here a while ago. 17:46.960 --> 17:50.640 I took the call for you. I said you were in to see him at his garage today. 17:50.640 --> 17:53.600 Wanted to know if the car he had turned out to be the one you were looking for. 17:53.600 --> 17:54.560 No, it wasn't. 17:54.560 --> 17:58.640 Oh, that's not a good way to describe it. Maroon coupe, headlights gone, Ben. 17:58.640 --> 17:59.520 Well, there wasn't a one. 18:00.480 --> 18:02.080 But you think I know what I'm doing on this case? 18:03.280 --> 18:06.960 Sure, Ben, you know what you're doing. Can I see the file? 18:06.960 --> 18:08.720 I have made it out yet. 18:09.840 --> 18:10.340 No. 18:10.880 --> 18:13.280 Come on, give me the file. A cop might put me on this, would he? 18:13.280 --> 18:16.560 I've been with the department 14 years. Don't you think I can handle a simple hit and run case home? 18:16.560 --> 18:23.840 Sure, Ben. I know you can handle it alone. I lost one yet. 18:27.200 --> 18:30.960 I just want to help you keep that perfect record. Perfect. 18:36.160 --> 18:41.360 I took the file home with me. I didn't want Giger to see it until I was good and ready for him to see it. 18:41.360 --> 18:46.640 I couldn't believe that my son Charlie, the kid I'd caught to drive myself, 18:47.600 --> 18:50.640 I couldn't believe that he'd ever kill anyone with his car. 18:52.480 --> 18:56.000 But there was the evidence in an auto body shop on Crestville Street, and I'd 18:56.000 --> 19:00.480 been on too many cases and dragged too many hit and run criminals in to start fooling myself and all. 19:01.520 --> 19:06.400 And trying to tell Alice about it was like trying to tell her that Charlie had suddenly died. 19:07.360 --> 19:08.320 I just couldn't do it. 19:08.320 --> 19:13.760 I'm sorry. Potatoes? Ben, potatoes? 19:13.760 --> 19:15.200 Oh, yeah, thanks. 19:16.240 --> 19:21.920 Your dinner came over today. You can try to do the church bazaar. Tell me my quota is six pies. 19:22.560 --> 19:24.880 Sure, I think I'll make up some of those graham cracker pies. 19:25.440 --> 19:27.920 The ones you always start eating before they're even cool. 19:29.200 --> 19:34.880 Oh, you're not even listening to me. You can tell when you get that not listening look. 19:34.880 --> 19:36.080 Ben. What? 19:36.880 --> 19:39.920 Oh, I guess I've still got my mind on some things. 19:40.880 --> 19:44.240 You don't look well to me. You don't look at all well. 19:44.960 --> 19:46.320 Let me look at your eyes. 19:47.280 --> 19:48.320 I have bloodshot. 19:49.520 --> 19:51.520 You've got a nervous twitch at the core in your mouth. 19:52.800 --> 19:54.400 Your arthritis isn't hitting again, is it? 19:54.400 --> 19:55.360 I'm all right. 19:56.480 --> 19:58.320 I think you better have a doctor look at you. 19:59.600 --> 20:02.800 Next time Charlie comes home, I think he should give you a checkup from Toby. 20:02.800 --> 20:05.520 I think he should give you a checkup from Tota Toml. 20:08.000 --> 20:09.920 Oh, give me that kind of a look. 20:10.800 --> 20:13.440 He's as good as a doctor already. Only two years to go. 20:13.440 --> 20:15.440 I don't want Charlie checking up on my health. 20:16.480 --> 20:18.480 Oh, dear. Oh, I'm upset. 20:20.000 --> 20:23.040 Work is going badly. Another hit and run? 20:23.040 --> 20:24.080 Yeah, 12th and center. 20:24.720 --> 20:26.640 I guess you weren't on that detail anymore. 20:26.640 --> 20:27.760 I wish I'd never been on it. 20:27.760 --> 20:35.360 Oh, Dan. Why, dang dear. Once a man like you, it wouldn't be safe to walk on a city street these days. 20:36.400 --> 20:38.960 Every time you arrest a lawbreaker, you protect somebody's life. 20:38.960 --> 20:39.920 What do you know about it? 20:40.800 --> 20:43.840 Sometimes people just get panicky and forget what they're doing. 20:43.840 --> 20:44.160 Dan... 20:44.160 --> 20:46.560 Besides, the victim in this case was an opalex con, a bum. 20:47.280 --> 20:49.040 Nobody cared whether he was alive or dead. 20:49.680 --> 20:53.680 He didn't sound like you, Dan. He was a human being. 20:53.680 --> 20:56.880 Whoever struck him down should be found and punished to the limit of the law. 20:56.880 --> 21:00.480 Alice. Alice, suppose I had been driving that car. 21:01.360 --> 21:04.560 That's the most foolish thing I ever heard you say. 21:05.600 --> 21:08.560 It takes a certain kind of person to do something like that. 21:09.520 --> 21:15.280 A thoughtless, selfish person. You're not the kind. Not mine, or Charlie, nor anybody we know. 21:15.280 --> 21:16.800 Anyone's capable of doing it. 21:17.680 --> 21:22.800 Anyone capable of driving thoughtlessly, passing red lights, 21:22.800 --> 21:25.200 beating just a little, even having an accident. 21:25.920 --> 21:29.600 Any of them are bad enough. But the runaway was criminal. 21:31.920 --> 21:35.760 I hope you get over it, Dan. I hope you get him quick, too. 21:37.040 --> 21:42.480 Because as long as that kind of person is free to drive a car, he's free to kill someone else. 21:46.640 --> 21:49.200 I couldn't sleep that night thinking about the case, Chief. 21:49.200 --> 21:53.600 Thinking about the case, Chief. Charlie had a full, useful life in Farnham. 21:54.400 --> 21:59.200 If a doctor could save hundreds of lives and pay back the one worthless life he took hundreds of times over. 22:00.560 --> 22:02.800 Justifications? Maybe. 22:03.840 --> 22:05.920 But by midnight, I decided what I had to do. 22:06.640 --> 22:09.280 I stayed up all night and worked on my report. 22:09.280 --> 22:11.360 And I brought it down to your office the next morning. 22:13.520 --> 22:14.480 Is everything, Dan? 22:14.480 --> 22:17.360 Yeah. Incomplete. 22:19.120 --> 22:19.920 No finish, huh? 22:20.480 --> 22:21.840 Finish as far as I'm concerned. 22:24.000 --> 22:25.280 Bird is Geiger out there. 22:25.280 --> 22:26.080 Just walked in. 22:26.080 --> 22:27.200 Well, I want him right now. 22:28.880 --> 22:34.080 Dan, it's sometimes better if you talk it over with a guy. 22:34.080 --> 22:36.080 Maybe. Oh, come in, Geiger. 22:36.960 --> 22:39.840 It's about that hit-and-run, the tanker case Kennedy's handling. 22:39.840 --> 22:41.280 I know all about that case, Captain. 22:41.280 --> 22:42.560 Then you know more than I do. 22:42.560 --> 22:43.600 Kennedy's bogged down. 22:43.600 --> 22:44.560 I'm not bogged down. 22:45.360 --> 22:46.720 This case has never been out. 22:47.440 --> 22:48.560 I only had one witness. 22:49.440 --> 22:52.080 All she could tell me was the car hit tanker. 22:53.120 --> 22:54.560 All the lab reports were guesses. 22:54.560 --> 22:56.000 We had paint and glass. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.480 Paint and glass that could belong to 10,000 cars in this area. 22:58.480 --> 23:00.720 What about this garage man, Loper? 23:00.720 --> 23:01.360 Did that car... 23:01.360 --> 23:02.960 He was just looking for free publicity. 23:02.960 --> 23:05.280 He had a car and figured he'd get some mention in the papers. 23:05.280 --> 23:07.760 Well, if that wasn't the car, Ben, just keep looking. 23:07.760 --> 23:09.680 Maybe a thousand cars later you'll find the right... 23:09.680 --> 23:10.640 I'm set up with it. 23:10.640 --> 23:13.920 Well, Ben, we all get that way once in a while. 23:14.960 --> 23:16.960 I suppose we take you off the case. 23:16.960 --> 23:18.080 You're the captain. 23:18.080 --> 23:20.080 And Geiger, I'm giving it to you. 23:20.080 --> 23:22.320 Here, you can take Ben's report and work from it. 23:24.480 --> 23:26.480 Ben, that's just what I was waiting for you to do. 23:27.440 --> 23:28.800 Turn the whole thing over to Geiger. 23:29.600 --> 23:31.920 It doesn't make any difference who you turn it over to. 23:32.640 --> 23:36.560 The phony clues I'd planted in it the night before it'd take 10 years to run down. 23:37.600 --> 23:38.960 And then I remembered Danker. 23:38.960 --> 23:39.920 Criminal? 23:39.920 --> 23:40.720 Yes. 23:40.720 --> 23:43.120 But run down and left to die on the street. 23:44.400 --> 23:45.920 And I remembered my own. 23:46.960 --> 23:49.200 Captain, that report... 23:49.200 --> 23:50.240 Oh, excuse me, Ben. 23:51.120 --> 23:52.000 Yeah, Sergeant? 23:52.000 --> 23:53.360 Someone to see you, Captain Geiger. 23:53.360 --> 23:54.240 Oh, who? 23:54.240 --> 23:56.000 Charles Kennedy, Lieutenant Kennedy's son. 23:56.000 --> 23:56.720 Send him in. 23:56.720 --> 23:58.000 No, tell him no. 23:58.000 --> 23:59.520 Ben, what's the matter with you? 23:59.520 --> 24:00.560 What goes on? 24:00.560 --> 24:02.800 Oh, Dad, I'm here. 24:02.800 --> 24:03.840 Come in, Charlie. 24:05.040 --> 24:06.080 What can I do for you? 24:06.960 --> 24:08.240 It's about a hit and run. 24:08.240 --> 24:09.280 It's about a hit and run case. 24:09.280 --> 24:10.800 Charlie, I've got to, Dad. 24:12.080 --> 24:14.400 Captain, it's that Danker case. 24:14.960 --> 24:17.360 I'd have come in sooner if I hadn't been up at the county hospital. 24:17.360 --> 24:19.200 What do you know about the Danker case, Charlie? 24:20.000 --> 24:21.120 It was my car that hit him. 24:22.720 --> 24:24.000 Did you know this, Ben? 24:24.720 --> 24:26.720 I found it out yesterday for me at the garage. 24:26.720 --> 24:30.080 It was my car that did it, but somebody else was driving it. 24:30.080 --> 24:32.160 You... you weren't driving it? 24:32.160 --> 24:32.640 No. 24:32.640 --> 24:33.280 Huh? 24:33.280 --> 24:35.200 Suppose you tell us who was driving it, Charlie. 24:36.560 --> 24:37.600 My roommate. 24:37.600 --> 24:38.240 Ricks Blake. 24:39.200 --> 24:41.680 I loaned him the car a couple of days ago. 24:41.680 --> 24:45.840 When he didn't come back with it, I found out he left it in a repair shop in town. 24:47.280 --> 24:51.120 Well, I went down to take a look at it, and my dad's a cop, and I... 24:51.760 --> 24:53.120 I guess I picked up a few things. 24:54.480 --> 24:55.040 I, um... 24:55.680 --> 24:56.720 I got him on outside. 24:56.720 --> 24:58.240 I dragged him down here myself. 24:59.600 --> 25:00.960 All right, Geiger. 25:00.960 --> 25:02.160 It's your case. 25:02.160 --> 25:03.200 Take over and book him. 25:04.240 --> 25:05.520 Thanks for coming in, Charlie. 25:05.520 --> 25:06.720 Ben, what are you going to do? 25:07.760 --> 25:08.880 I guess, Captain, I... 25:09.520 --> 25:11.920 I guess I better go and make out my report. 25:15.920 --> 25:16.960 So here it is, Captain. 25:17.520 --> 25:18.560 My true report. 25:19.440 --> 25:21.120 And my resignation. 25:22.400 --> 25:24.000 I just want to ask you one question. 25:24.000 --> 25:34.480 I just want to ask you one question. If it had been your kid, could you have done any differently? 25:46.720 --> 25:49.680 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 25:49.680 --> 25:51.520 Tonight's star, Pat O'Brien. 25:51.520 --> 25:55.760 Friends, Auto Light has again opened Suspense's new season with a story that shows how 25:55.760 --> 25:58.880 unnecessarily tragic bad driving can be. 25:58.880 --> 26:00.160 Pat O'Brien performance. 26:02.320 --> 26:04.800 Harlow, you know how much I wanted to play Sergeant Kennedy. 26:05.440 --> 26:10.400 I sure liked the role, but I also wanted to do my part to help prevent highway accidents 26:10.400 --> 26:11.520 this Labor Day weekend. 26:12.800 --> 26:16.560 Driving accidents are horrible to the man, woman, a child, engineer killed, 26:16.560 --> 26:18.560 and they're doubly horrible to their family. 26:18.560 --> 26:22.960 That also always changed each one of his greatest right in the world, the right to live. 26:24.160 --> 26:27.920 Now tonight, on behalf of Ned Dearborn, President of the National Safety Council, 26:27.920 --> 26:32.320 it is my special privilege to present the National Safety Council's Public Interest Award 26:32.320 --> 26:37.600 to Mr. Royce G. Martin, Chairman of the Board and President of the Electric Auto Light Company. 26:38.400 --> 26:43.200 Auto Light, sponsor of Suspense, has won this Distinguished Service to Safety Award 26:43.200 --> 26:44.960 for the second straight year. 26:45.520 --> 26:46.880 Thank you, Mr. O'Brien. 26:46.880 --> 26:57.200 Safety is as much our business as manufacturing, automotive, aviation, and marine products in our 26:57.200 --> 26:59.200 plants throughout the world. 27:00.000 --> 27:08.160 Auto Light has always assisted all efforts of the great automotive industry to make America 27:09.040 --> 27:11.040 a safe driving nation. 27:11.040 --> 27:19.280 Tonight, on Suspense, Auto Light repeats a message that can never be repeated enough. 27:20.480 --> 27:22.160 Drive carefully. 27:22.800 --> 27:25.760 The life you save may be your own. 27:26.640 --> 27:33.120 So let's all be interested this Labor Day weekend in two driving lives, 27:34.160 --> 27:36.000 our own and the other fellow's. 27:36.000 --> 27:41.120 A lot of lives will be saved if we are. 27:42.000 --> 27:43.200 Thank you, Mr. Martin. 27:43.200 --> 27:47.760 Next week, at the same time, Auto Light will bring you Miss Ida Lupino in the tip, 27:47.760 --> 27:50.400 a tale well calculated to keep you in... 27:50.400 --> 27:52.400 Suspense! 27:53.280 --> 27:57.040 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian 27:57.040 --> 27:58.960 Morawec and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 27:58.960 --> 28:00.640 Parts of this program were transcribed. 28:00.640 --> 28:07.360 To report is an original play written for Suspense by E. 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