WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:07.000 --> 00:18.000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Fly By Night, a suspense play starring Mr. Joseph Cotton. 00:18.000 --> 00:24.000 Well, Manning, how about signing this confession? 00:24.000 --> 00:25.000 I want my lawyer. 00:25.000 --> 00:27.000 You don't need a lawyer, not if you tell the truth. 00:27.000 --> 00:32.000 Well, my wife's cousin, Charles Borden, he's a lawyer. I want him. 00:32.000 --> 00:36.000 Look, Manning, we know you killed Garvin. All you have to do is admit it. 00:36.000 --> 00:38.000 I didn't do it. It's a frame, I told you. 00:38.000 --> 00:41.000 Just as soon as you confess, you can go to sleep. A bargain? 00:41.000 --> 00:43.000 I didn't kill Garvin. 00:43.000 --> 00:44.000 Don't be stubborn, Manning. 00:44.000 --> 00:47.000 I didn't do it. Frame. 00:47.000 --> 00:53.000 Then how come that boy Benuti saw you? He says he saw you leave Garvin's apartment at 11.30 just after the shoot. 00:53.000 --> 00:56.000 I left at 10. Benuti's alive. 00:56.000 --> 00:58.000 Why? Why should Benuti lie? 00:58.000 --> 01:00.000 Let me talk to him, Mark. We'll find out. 01:00.000 --> 01:04.000 What's to find out? You hated Garvin. You don't deny that, do you? 01:04.000 --> 01:09.000 Garvin accuses you of stealing money from the business. Throws you out. So you kill him. 01:09.000 --> 01:13.000 Cotton threw me out. Full pardon, is it? Me alone. 01:13.000 --> 01:15.000 You killed him. 01:15.000 --> 01:16.000 Sleep. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 Not until you sign this confession. 01:18.000 --> 01:21.000 Sign this confession and we won't bother you anymore. 01:21.000 --> 01:26.000 You can lie down on my bed here in my apartment and sleep till you can't look sleep in the face anymore. 01:26.000 --> 01:28.000 Come on, Manning, be smart. 01:28.000 --> 01:32.000 Wait a minute. He's asleep. 01:32.000 --> 01:37.000 Oh? Come on, Manning. 01:37.000 --> 01:39.000 Confessor, I'll keep you awake forever. 01:39.000 --> 01:41.000 All right. All right. 01:41.000 --> 01:42.000 You'll sign the confession? 01:42.000 --> 01:47.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll sign it. 01:47.000 --> 01:49.000 Sleep. 01:49.000 --> 01:56.000 Put the kill in a bed, Cougar. 01:56.000 --> 02:01.000 In just a moment, Mr. Joseph Cotton in the first act of Fly By Night. 02:01.000 --> 02:06.000 Gee, Harlow, I went to a carnival last night and that human skeleton... 02:06.000 --> 02:07.000 Thin, huh? 02:07.000 --> 02:11.000 Practically transparent. Lives on bread and drinks water only once a week. 02:11.000 --> 02:13.000 Once a week? Well, that's nothing, Hap. 02:13.000 --> 02:18.000 Auto-light staple batteries need water only three times a year in normal car use. 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 And they had a strong man who lifted a horse. 02:21.000 --> 02:29.000 One horse? Oh, listen, Hap, the auto-light staple battery can snap up a hundred horses in your car's engine without even half trying. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 But they have a big advantage. 02:31.000 --> 02:32.000 And what's that? 02:32.000 --> 02:40.000 Auto-light staple batteries have fiberglass retaining mats to help reduce flaking and shedding and thus protect the power of every positive plate. 02:40.000 --> 02:44.000 And there was a flagpole sitter at the carnival, too. He's out to break the record. 02:44.000 --> 02:51.000 Now, you'll never break the auto-light staple battery record, Hap, because you can't buy a better battery for your car. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 Now, you're sharper than a sword-swallower's supper, Harlow. 02:54.000 --> 03:01.000 Thank you, Hap. And friends, see your auto-light battery dealer and ask him for an auto-light staple battery. 03:01.000 --> 03:05.000 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 03:05.000 --> 03:08.000 And remember, you're always right with auto-light. 03:08.000 --> 03:17.000 And now with fly-by-night and the performance of Mr. Joseph Cotton, auto-light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 03:29.000 --> 03:32.000 Wake up. Wake up, Manning, wake up. 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 Come on, get up. You had your eight hours sleep. Let's go calling. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 What? What? 03:38.000 --> 03:42.000 Don't you remember? You signed a confession. Admitted you murdered Leo Garvin. 03:42.000 --> 03:45.000 Oh. I didn't do it. I didn't kill Garvin. 03:45.000 --> 03:52.000 Come on, into the bathroom and shave. Here, Lieutenant Driscoll left this shirt for you to change into. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Wants you to look nice for the photography. 03:54.000 --> 03:57.000 I didn't do it. I left Garvin. It was ten o'clock and he was alive. 03:57.000 --> 04:03.000 Yeah, yeah, save it for the courtroom. They'll be real impressed with a signed confession. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 I'll swear you forced me. 04:04.000 --> 04:11.000 Sure. So what? You can't swear Vanuti out of existence. He saw you leave at 1130. You'll testify so. 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 He's a liar. He's part of the frame. I want to see him. 04:13.000 --> 04:16.000 Go on, shave. You'll see Vanuti in court. 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 Ah, shaving mugs, soap, brush. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 All right, all right, all right. 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 Come on, come on. How much lather do you need? 04:31.000 --> 04:32.000 Hey! 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 My eyes, my eyes! 04:46.000 --> 04:52.000 It worked. The shaving brush in Cogan's eyes and hitting him with all the strength I had left in me, it worked. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 And I got out of there, out and into the streets. 04:54.000 --> 05:06.000 They didn't have to torture me. Lieutenant Driscoll and Sergeant Cogan didn't have to beat me with a rubber hose to make me confess to a crime I never committed. 05:06.000 --> 05:10.000 All they had to do was keep me without sleep for 72 hours. 05:10.000 --> 05:15.000 After that, a man will do anything just to be allowed to shut his eyes. 05:15.000 --> 05:19.000 So I signed a confession because I just wanted to sleep. 05:19.000 --> 05:24.000 But now, now I was awake and on the streets outside Lieutenant Driscoll's apartment. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 It was 8.15 in the morning. 05:26.000 --> 05:35.000 For the next four hours I walked, trying to recall everything I'd known about Vanuti, trying to figure just one reason why he wanted to frame me. 05:35.000 --> 05:39.000 Why, why he said I left Garvin's at 11.30. 05:39.000 --> 05:43.000 But it was no use. I, I couldn't think of anything. 05:43.000 --> 05:47.000 And suddenly it occurred to me they were looking at me. The people on the street were staring. 05:47.000 --> 05:54.000 Then I remembered it was October and I had no coat. I was in shirt sleeves. I'd left my coat in Lieutenant Driscoll's apartment. 06:04.000 --> 06:05.000 Can I help you, mister? 06:05.000 --> 06:06.000 Yeah, you got a phone in here. 06:06.000 --> 06:19.000 Down that aisle to your left. 06:19.000 --> 06:32.000 Three, two, four, two, one. 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 Hello? 06:34.000 --> 06:38.000 Hello? Who is this? 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 I'm all right, Mary. Don't worry. 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 Where are you? 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 I don't know a drug store downtown. I escaped, Mary. I got away from them. 06:44.000 --> 06:47.000 You're an idiot. You'll only make it worse for yourself. 06:47.000 --> 06:52.000 Now listen, Mary. I didn't kill Garvin. I need your help. I need a coat. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 I can't help you, Mickey. 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 What? 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 You're a murderer. Even if you are my husband, I'm not going to be involved. 06:59.000 --> 07:06.000 I didn't kill him. It's all a frame, Mary. All I've got to do is find a guy named Vanuti and beat it out of him. 07:06.000 --> 07:20.000 Mary. Mary. 07:20.000 --> 07:25.000 I couldn't blame her much. The shock of finding that her husband was wanted to murder. 07:25.000 --> 07:31.000 I had to get to Vanuti to prove it was a lie. But now was no time to think about it because it was a few minutes before one o'clock. 07:31.000 --> 07:36.000 And that was good because I was near Charlie Borden's office. They went out to lunch at one o'clock. 07:36.000 --> 07:42.000 Charlie was my lawyer, my wife's cousin. And now he was the man I had to see. 07:42.000 --> 07:49.000 There was an alley next to his office building. I waited there. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 Charlie. Charlie. 07:51.000 --> 07:52.000 Over here. 07:52.000 --> 07:55.000 Jimmy. What happened to you? Where have you been these past three days? 07:55.000 --> 07:58.000 Listen, Charlie. Two cops had me in an apartment uptown. 07:58.000 --> 07:59.000 Cops? What for? 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Trying to get a confession out of me. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 What kind of confession? 08:02.000 --> 08:09.000 They say I killed Leo Garvin. They've got a witness named Vanuti. He said I left Garvin's place at 1130. But I left at 10. 08:09.000 --> 08:13.000 Well, then you've got nothing to worry about, Mickey. Mary will testify you were home a little after 10. 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 I didn't get home till after 12. 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 Huh? 08:17.000 --> 08:21.000 Well, after I left Garvin, I walked. We had an argument. I was upset. I spent a couple of hours walking. 08:21.000 --> 08:22.000 Well, then you didn't do it. 08:22.000 --> 08:26.000 No, no. Of course I didn't. They got a confession out of me anyway. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 You mean to say you signed a confession when you didn't do it? 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Well, they kept me without sleep for 72 hours. 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 They can't do that. That's illegal. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.000 Listen, Charlie, I need your help. 08:32.000 --> 08:37.000 Of course. Just go back to my office. I'll arrange to surrender you directly to the D.A. And I'm going to raise the roof about that confession. 08:37.000 --> 08:41.000 I'm not going to surrender. I've been framed, Charlie. I've got to find this Vanuti. 08:41.000 --> 08:45.000 Now listen, Mickey, you leave that to me. You can't wander around where any cop might take a shot at you. 08:45.000 --> 08:50.000 Got to find me first. Listen, I need a jacket and a coat. Can you get them for me? 08:50.000 --> 08:53.000 Sure. I'll phone Mary right away. Where'll you be? 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 Remember that movie we went to last week? 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 The Rivoli? 08:56.000 --> 09:00.000 Yeah. I'll be there. Back row. Make sure they're not following you. 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 Okay. Give me a half hour. What will you do meantime? 09:03.000 --> 09:08.000 I'll give you an hour because I'm going to Vanuti's. I'm going to make him tell me who paid him for that lie. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 Mickey, don't do it. Better leave things to me. 09:10.000 --> 09:23.000 Just get me the coat and the jacket. Vanuti is the one thing I can take care of better than you. 09:23.000 --> 09:30.000 I caught a streetcar and 20 minutes later I was walking toward the sway back two story building where Vanuti had his insurance office. 09:30.000 --> 09:39.000 Just across the street from Garvin's house. I opened the door and walked in. 09:39.000 --> 09:43.000 You want something? A drink maybe? 09:43.000 --> 09:46.000 Vanuti. Where is he? 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 Who shall I say is calling? 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 Where's Vanuti? 09:50.000 --> 09:51.000 You look like you want him real bad. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 Come on. Come on. Where is he? 09:52.000 --> 10:05.000 Take it easy. Take it easy. Slow down. You want to see Vanuti? I'll take you to Vanuti. Come on. 10:05.000 --> 10:15.000 There he is. There's Vanuti. Sure you don't want that drink? 10:15.000 --> 10:23.000 He was sitting at his desk, natty as ever, disinterested as ever. I walked over to him, stopped. 10:23.000 --> 10:32.000 There was a bullet hole in his forehead. He was dead. There was a gun lying on the floor. I picked it up, sammied it. 10:32.000 --> 10:49.000 Two bullets had been fired. And it was my gun. 10:49.000 --> 11:07.000 Autolite is bringing you Mr. Joseph Cotton in Fly By Night. 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What do you think of him? 12:39.000 --> 12:40.000 What happened? 12:40.000 --> 12:47.000 I found him dead when I came in. A couple of minutes before you did. By the way, who are you? 12:47.000 --> 12:48.000 Did you kill him? 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 I know who you are. Your name's Manning. 12:51.000 --> 12:52.000 How do you know me? 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 Fell in the picture. 12:54.000 --> 12:55.000 What picture? 12:55.000 --> 12:56.000 Never mind. 12:56.000 --> 12:59.000 Well, you still haven't told me what you're doing here. 12:59.000 --> 13:10.000 Venuti's girl. My name's Irene Conway. We had a cocktail date. What kind of date did you keep with him? 13:10.000 --> 13:15.000 He swore he saw me leave Garvin's apartment at 1130 the night Garvin was killed. He lied. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 He lied about a lot of things. 13:17.000 --> 13:20.000 I came here to get the truth out of him, but someone's been here first to shut him up. 13:20.000 --> 13:25.000 He never got anything out of him. I'll prove it to you. Garvin was shot on Monday night, wasn't he? 13:25.000 --> 13:26.000 That's right. Why? 13:26.000 --> 13:35.000 Venuti couldn't have seen you leaving Garvin's place. We were together in my apartment on the other side of town, too close to two. 13:35.000 --> 13:39.000 And what made him lie? Why did he do it? Why did he frame me? 13:39.000 --> 13:40.000 I don't know. 13:40.000 --> 13:47.000 What? Tell me. Someone paid him to say he saw me leave Garvin's house that night. 13:47.000 --> 13:48.000 Maybe. 13:48.000 --> 13:49.000 Who paid him? 13:49.000 --> 13:50.000 Maybe the man. 13:50.000 --> 13:52.000 What man? 13:52.000 --> 13:57.000 On Monday, Venuti called me to meet him here at about five o'clock. There was a man with him. 13:57.000 --> 14:04.000 And when I came in, the man put him away in a hurry. Went right out without even saying goodbye. 14:04.000 --> 14:08.000 I know everybody Venuti knows. This man was a stranger. 14:08.000 --> 14:11.000 His name. Didn't Venuti mention his name? 14:11.000 --> 14:17.000 Oh, he wouldn't talk about him. I asked him what the pictures were. It got mad. But I saw one of them. 14:17.000 --> 14:18.000 Who was it? 14:18.000 --> 14:23.000 You. That's how I recognized you when you came in. 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 Can you describe this man? 14:25.000 --> 14:35.000 He was a blond man. He wasn't pretty. You're pretty. Venuti was pretty. Venuti was prettier than anybody. 14:35.000 --> 14:43.000 Listen, Irene, you've got to talk to Charles Borden, my cousin. He's a lawyer. You've got to tell him everything you told me. Will you do that for me? 14:43.000 --> 14:44.000 Venuti isn't pretty anymore. 14:44.000 --> 14:48.000 Listen, Irene, Venuti's dead. 14:48.000 --> 14:53.000 Somebody's knocking on the door, Mr. Manning. Must be the police. I call the police. 14:53.000 --> 14:59.000 Look, my cousin's name is Charles Borden. He's in the Taft building. You go right down to his office and tell him. 14:59.000 --> 15:02.000 I know. That's the police. Don't you think you'd better run? 15:02.000 --> 15:05.000 Don't you understand? You've got to do it now. Right now. 15:05.000 --> 15:09.000 No, no, I couldn't right now. I've got to talk to the police. Just a minute. 15:09.000 --> 15:12.000 Charles Borden in the Taft building. Will you do it? 15:12.000 --> 15:24.000 You'd better run, Mr. Manning. Run fast. 15:24.000 --> 15:36.000 I ran out the back way and into the streets. Now it was time to meet Charlie in the movie theater. Get the jacket and coat from him. Tell him about Irene and the man with my picture. 15:36.000 --> 15:46.000 I got settled in one of the empty seats in the back row of the movie and waited. In a little while, Charlie came in and sat down next to me. He had the extra coat and jacket with him. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 Did you find Venuti? 15:48.000 --> 15:52.000 I found him. He was dead when I found him. Shot with my pistol. 15:52.000 --> 15:57.000 Here, here, you take it. Someone's trying to get me, Charlie, and I think I have a lead on it. 15:57.000 --> 15:58.000 What kind of lead? 15:58.000 --> 16:05.000 A girl named Irene Conway, friend of Venuti's. She saw the man who paid Venuti to put the finger on me. If she doesn't come to you, you've got to find her, Charlie. 16:05.000 --> 16:06.000 Okay. 16:06.000 --> 16:12.000 Make her tell you what she knows, then follow it up. I have detectives if you have to. Eric can sign checks for me. I've got about 1,500 in my account. 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 Don't worry about the money. I'll take care of it. 16:14.000 --> 16:18.000 I need some cash now. I used what I had on phones and street cars. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 I put $25 in the jacket. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 Thanks, Charlie. 16:21.000 --> 16:24.000 I hope it fits you. It's my jacket. Mary wouldn't give me one of yours. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 I'll keep in touch with you by phone. 16:26.000 --> 16:30.000 Okay. I'm going. You stay for another ten minutes or so. 16:30.000 --> 16:31.000 Right, right. Thanks again. 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 Good luck, Mickey. 16:40.000 --> 16:50.000 Charlie walked out, leaving the coat and jacket on the seat. I waited ten minutes, then picked up the clothes and started to leave when a woman sitting three seats away carefully closed a bag of popcorn, 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 leaned over and grabbed me by the arm. 16:52.000 --> 16:53.000 What do you think you're doing? 16:53.000 --> 16:54.000 Pardon me, please. 16:54.000 --> 16:58.000 Stop that man. He's stealing the gentleman's coat. He's a thief. 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 Wait a minute, you. What do you think you're going? 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 Now, now, let go of me. Let go. I want to... 17:02.000 --> 17:07.000 Don't let him go, Asher. That's him. That coat and jacket he's carrying don't belong to him. He's trying to sneak out with me. 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 Oh, what are you talking about? These are my things. 17:09.000 --> 17:18.000 Oh, no, they're not. I saw you come in. You didn't have them then. That other man sat beside you and when he went to the men's lounge, you grabbed his clothes. I saw you. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 No, you're mistaken. These are my things. 17:20.000 --> 17:21.000 Are you sure they don't belong to him, madam? 17:21.000 --> 17:27.000 What have I got eyes in my head for? I was sitting only three seats away. Of course I'm sure. 17:27.000 --> 17:33.000 Go to the men's lounge and find that other gentleman and you'll see whether I'm mistaken. I saw you follow, please. 17:33.000 --> 17:35.000 Let's go to the office and get this straightened up. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 I don't have time. These are my clothes and I'm going to... 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 I remember you came in your shirt sleeves. Come on. 17:39.000 --> 17:41.000 All right, all right. Take me to the manager right now. 17:41.000 --> 17:42.000 Yes, madam. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 You want me to come too? I saw him. 17:44.000 --> 17:48.000 Yes, madam. And please don't talk too loud. You're disturbing the patrons. 17:48.000 --> 17:49.000 No. 17:56.000 --> 17:57.000 Yes? 17:57.000 --> 17:58.000 What is it? 17:58.000 --> 18:04.000 Mr. Schreyer, this woman claims that this man is trying to walk out with a coat and jacket belonging to another patron. She says he's in the lounge. 18:04.000 --> 18:07.000 Who is that soul? Go get the gentleman in the lounge. 18:07.000 --> 18:08.000 Yes, sir. 18:08.000 --> 18:11.000 This is all a mistake. Coat's mine, so's the jacket. 18:11.000 --> 18:14.000 It is not. You came in without a coat or a jacket. 18:14.000 --> 18:21.000 I don't deny that. The man who brought them was my cousin. I'd left them in his office. You won't find him in the lounge. He's gone back to his office. 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 You say this coat and jacket are yours? 18:23.000 --> 18:24.000 Yes. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Can you identify them by the contents of the pocket? 18:26.000 --> 18:29.000 There should be $25 in the jacket. 18:29.000 --> 18:30.000 In which pocket? 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 I don't remember one of them. 18:32.000 --> 18:39.000 Well, we'll soon see. Nothing in this pocket. Oh, here's something. Bills. 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 Man, I told you. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 Five, ten, fifteen, twenty-five. 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 He could have put the money there. That's no proof the coat's fake. 18:45.000 --> 18:48.000 I told you it was my jacket. Now may I have it, please? 18:48.000 --> 18:54.000 Just a moment. There's a letter here in the inside pocket. I presume it's yours. 18:54.000 --> 18:55.000 Sure, it's mine. 18:55.000 --> 18:58.000 And the name on it? If it's your letter, it should have your name on it. 18:58.000 --> 19:02.000 Oh, of course. The name is Charles Borden. 19:02.000 --> 19:07.000 Yes, it's addressed in care of Charles Borden, but not to Charles Borden. 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 Oh, yeah. I'd forgotten. 19:08.000 --> 19:11.000 It's addressed to Manning. Mrs. Michael Manning. 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 Yes, Mrs. Manning is my cousin. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 And what is your address? 19:16.000 --> 19:19.000 5437 Booth Street, Forest Hills. 19:19.000 --> 19:23.000 That's the address all right, madam. I'm afraid you've made a mistake. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 This man can identify the clothing. 19:25.000 --> 19:27.000 This man's a thief. 19:27.000 --> 19:30.000 I don't think he is, madam. My apologies, sir. 19:30.000 --> 19:38.000 It's quite all right. 19:38.000 --> 19:43.000 I walked out of the theater, lost myself in the crowd and didn't stop until I was 10 blocks away. 19:43.000 --> 19:46.000 Then I slipped into a lunch room and had my first meal of the day. 19:46.000 --> 19:50.000 While I was eating, I took the letter out of the pocket of Charles' jacket. 19:50.000 --> 19:53.000 Why hadn't he turned this letter over to my wife? 19:53.000 --> 19:57.000 What was in it he didn't want Mary to see. 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 I opened and read it. 20:00.000 --> 20:07.000 Leeds, Fulbright and Benning, Attorneys at Law, 1312 Q Street, Sacramento, California, 12 August, 1950. 20:07.000 --> 20:16.000 Dear Mrs. Manning, this is to inform you that you have been named sole beneficiary under the last will and testament of your late uncle, Benjamin Williams. 20:16.000 --> 20:25.000 We request that you or your attorney appear in the probate proceedings by means of the enclosed waiver of citation, so that we may make distribution. 20:25.000 --> 20:31.000 In our opinion, after taxes, your inheritance will be upwards of $200,000. 20:31.000 --> 20:36.000 Silly yours, Judy Spenning. 20:36.000 --> 20:42.000 $200,000? I was stunned at first. 20:42.000 --> 20:47.000 Then it suddenly occurred to me, Charlie hadn't said a word about it. 20:47.000 --> 20:50.000 Charlie hadn't even shown the letter to Mary. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 Then I took another look at the date. 20:52.000 --> 20:57.000 August 12th, over a month ago. 20:57.000 --> 21:00.000 Then it came into focus. 21:00.000 --> 21:05.000 Cousin Charlie was playing the hand alone. He didn't want Mary to have any of that money. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 Charlie was the one who had framed me. 21:07.000 --> 21:09.000 Get me out of the way, then Mary. 21:09.000 --> 21:13.000 Then Charlie would be the sole survivor of our late uncle. 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 Charlie had stolen my gun. 21:15.000 --> 21:20.000 Then I'd helped him. I'd put my fingerprints on the gun at Venuti's and then given it to Charlie. 21:20.000 --> 21:26.000 Charlie was the man with the pictures who paid Venuti to put me on the spot. 21:26.000 --> 21:37.000 I paid my check and grabbed the cab outside. At 8.30 I was running up the steps of Charlie's house. 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 Mickey. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 I want to talk to you, Charlie. 21:40.000 --> 21:41.000 Did anyone see you come here? 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 I didn't bother to look. I want to talk to you. 21:43.000 --> 21:44.000 All right, Mickey. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 You had me fooled, Charlie. Framed me and fooled me. 21:46.000 --> 21:47.000 What are you talking about? 21:47.000 --> 21:50.000 You knew Mary had inherited $200,000. 21:50.000 --> 21:51.000 You knew it. 21:51.000 --> 21:54.000 Never told Mary about it. Killed Garvin to get rid of me. 21:54.000 --> 21:58.000 Killed Venuti because you were afraid I'd beat the truth out of him. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 When were you planning to kill Mary? 22:00.000 --> 22:02.000 Oh, you're going crazy, Mickey. Now look, listen to me. 22:02.000 --> 22:04.000 Now I'm going to beat a confession out of you, Cousin. 22:04.000 --> 22:08.000 I swear to you, I don't know what you're talking about. 22:08.000 --> 22:18.000 Confess, Charlie. I confessed once. Confess. Confess. 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 You didn't confess, Charlie. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 Well, I'll get someone who'll make you do it. 22:24.000 --> 22:29.000 Someone who's an expert at it. 22:29.000 --> 22:33.000 Driscoll. Driscoll. Driscoll. West-Aidian. 22:33.000 --> 22:41.000 Oh, yes. 22:41.000 --> 22:47.000 Hello? 22:47.000 --> 22:48.000 Driscoll. 22:48.000 --> 22:49.000 Yeah? 22:49.000 --> 22:50.000 Mickey Manning. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 Where are you killing? 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 Charlie Borden's apartment. 22:54.000 --> 23:13.000 I've got your murderer for you. 23:13.000 --> 23:15.000 Come in, Lieutenant. Come in. 23:15.000 --> 23:19.000 Thanks, Manning. I brought somebody. Your wife. 23:19.000 --> 23:24.000 Hello, Mickey. Mr. Driscoll called me and said you found Garvin's killer. 23:24.000 --> 23:25.000 Have you really, Mickey? 23:25.000 --> 23:30.000 Yes. The nudist, too. I told you it was a frame, Mary. 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 Who's the killer, Manning? 23:32.000 --> 23:33.000 Cousin Charlie. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 Now why should Charlie kill them, Mickey? 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 Because he wanted all that money for himself, don't you see? 23:37.000 --> 23:40.000 Because he wanted that $200,000 for himself. Is that right? 23:40.000 --> 23:45.000 Yes, that... Wait a minute. How did you know about that $200,000, Mary? 23:45.000 --> 23:48.000 I knew it from the day I got the letter from the lawyers. 23:48.000 --> 23:53.000 And I said to myself, now there's no sense in sharing all that money when there's a way to get it all to myself. 23:53.000 --> 23:56.000 So... So you framed me, Mary. 23:56.000 --> 24:02.000 So I framed you. Driscoll and I framed you. Driscoll killed Garvin, killed Vanuti. Now... 24:02.000 --> 24:06.000 Driscoll, what's your salary for killing off duty? 24:06.000 --> 24:15.000 Always off duty killing. Hogan and I don't have badges. People like Mary here pay us the play act at being caught. 24:15.000 --> 24:16.000 That confession I made to you is worthless. 24:16.000 --> 24:21.000 No, not at all, Mickey. I have it in my purse. It's a confession a husband made to his wife. 24:21.000 --> 24:28.000 Well, tell me something, wife. How did you plant that letter from the lawyers so I'd find it in Charlie's jacket? 24:28.000 --> 24:34.000 Well, Charlie called me and told me you needed a jacket. I came to Charlie and persuaded him to take one of his own. 24:34.000 --> 24:37.000 Then I slipped the letter in the pocket so you'd find it. 24:37.000 --> 24:42.000 Had two people killed for that money just to get rid of me. Why didn't you just kill me and leave the others alone? 24:42.000 --> 24:51.000 I like it this way, Mickey. I like testifying at your trial. I like being all broken up because they'll hang you for murder. Driscoll? 24:51.000 --> 25:05.000 Yeah. Let's go say hello to Cousin Charlie. Hello, Cousin Charlie. Cousin Charlie doesn't answer. My, my. You really beat him up, Manning. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 Charlie did. 25:07.000 --> 25:15.000 Cousin Charlie is still alive. He'll be able to talk soon. And if he talks, Mary will be in trouble. 25:15.000 --> 25:17.000 Hold this gun on your husband, Mary. 25:17.000 --> 25:19.000 All right. 25:19.000 --> 25:26.000 Close your eyes if you can't stand this, Manning. I'm going to start on Cousin Charlie where you left off. 25:26.000 --> 25:31.000 Leave Charlie alone. Leave him alone. I'll kill you, Driscoll. I'll kill you. 25:31.000 --> 25:36.000 Mary. Mary. Get him off me. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 Driscoll. 25:38.000 --> 25:45.000 Drop it. Drop it or I'll break every bone. Drop it, Mary. 25:45.000 --> 25:49.000 Mickey. Oh, Mickey. Now Mickey. 25:49.000 --> 25:53.000 Mary, go over to that phone. Go over to the phone. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 All right, Mickey. 25:55.000 --> 26:01.000 Call the police. Tell them you're calling for me. Then tell them I know who killed my partner, Garvin. 26:01.000 --> 26:10.000 All right, Mickey. 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 Police department. 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