WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:19.440 Tonight, Auto Light brings you The Wages of Sin, a suspense play starring Miss Barbara 00:19.440 --> 00:22.440 Stanwyck as Ruby Miller. 00:22.440 --> 00:28.000 You know her, Dorick? 00:28.000 --> 00:29.000 Yeah. 00:29.000 --> 00:30.000 Ruby Miller. 00:30.000 --> 00:31.000 Pretty good picture of her. 00:31.000 --> 00:32.000 You know, this is her apartment. 00:32.000 --> 00:33.000 She's had it for two months. 00:33.000 --> 00:34.000 What was he doing here? 00:34.000 --> 00:35.000 Don't know. 00:35.000 --> 00:36.000 He was dating when we got here. 00:36.000 --> 00:37.000 Shot within the hour. 00:37.000 --> 00:38.000 Hello, Captain. 00:38.000 --> 00:39.000 We've been working hard. 00:39.000 --> 00:40.000 Hello, Frank. 00:40.000 --> 00:41.000 Who is he? 00:41.000 --> 00:44.000 Driver's license says his name is David Madlock, age 42, this city. 00:44.000 --> 00:45.000 It is Madlock. 00:45.000 --> 00:48.000 Hard to recognize him with that kind of shooting. 00:48.000 --> 00:49.000 Keep going, Frank. 00:49.000 --> 00:53.000 Death's clerk, Frank DiMarco, saw Madlock come through lobby about nine o'clock, alone. 00:53.000 --> 00:54.000 He got it here a few minutes later. 00:54.000 --> 00:55.000 What was Madlock doing here? 00:55.000 --> 00:56.000 He was in the lobby. 00:56.000 --> 00:59.000 DiMarco and the day clerk say they never saw him in building before. 00:59.000 --> 01:00.000 Who reported it? 01:00.000 --> 01:01.000 Janitor. 01:01.000 --> 01:02.000 Heard the shots. 01:02.000 --> 01:03.000 Called downtown, saw nothing. 01:03.000 --> 01:04.000 Madlock's got a wife. 01:04.000 --> 01:05.000 I sent the boys out to pick her up. 01:05.000 --> 01:06.000 Okay. 01:06.000 --> 01:07.000 Doc tells me this is Ruby Miller's apartment. 01:07.000 --> 01:08.000 That's right. 01:08.000 --> 01:09.000 She rented it two months ago. 01:09.000 --> 01:10.000 Haven't located her yet. 01:10.000 --> 01:11.000 Now the tabloids are going to make this look juicy. 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 David Madlock slain in Beauty's apartment. 01:12.000 --> 01:15.000 If I know those tabloids we got in this town, that'll be tame. 01:15.000 --> 01:16.000 All right, we'll get you a new one. 01:16.000 --> 01:17.000 I'll be right back. 01:17.000 --> 01:18.000 I'll be right back. 01:18.000 --> 01:19.000 I'll be right back. 01:19.000 --> 01:20.000 I'll be right back. 01:20.000 --> 01:21.000 I'll be right back. 01:21.000 --> 01:22.000 I'll be right back. 01:22.000 --> 01:23.000 I'll be right back. 01:23.000 --> 01:26.000 I'll be right back. 01:26.000 --> 01:27.000 All right, let's find her and get her story. 01:27.000 --> 01:30.000 I want an all points bulletin out for Ruby Miller right away. 01:30.000 --> 01:34.000 She finally got herself messed up in something too big to handle. 01:34.000 --> 01:41.000 In just a moment, Miss Barbara Stanwyck in the first act of The Wages of Sin. 01:41.000 --> 01:42.820 What's going on, Marlo? 01:42.820 --> 01:48.060 Boy, it's tune up time, Half. 01:48.060 --> 01:49.060 Now for what? 01:49.060 --> 01:50.060 Your car. 01:50.060 --> 01:52.920 Get it tuned up before winter weather wages war on your engine. 01:52.920 --> 01:56.420 We'll winterize it by putting in antifreeze, change of oil and grease. 01:56.420 --> 01:58.920 And check the spark plugs too! 01:58.920 --> 02:04.420 Ah, realistic reminder, Johnny Plug Jack, because spark plugs are the very heart of your car's ignition system. 02:04.420 --> 02:06.920 You mean spark plugs need winterizing too? 02:06.920 --> 02:11.420 Why, they sure do happen. 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So folks, see your friendly auto light spark plug dealer. 02:46.920 --> 02:52.920 Whether you choose the standard type or the resistor type, you can be sure you're always right with auto light. 02:52.920 --> 03:02.920 And now with the wages of sin and the performance of Miss Barbara Stanwyck as Ruby Miller, auto light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 03:02.920 --> 03:16.420 I don't care who you are, nobody gets in. 03:16.420 --> 03:18.420 This is my apartment, pinhead. 03:18.420 --> 03:20.420 Hey, what's going on out here, Sergeant? Who's this? 03:20.420 --> 03:25.420 Who are you? Hey, what's the idea of all these cops? You're holding crime school in my apartment or something? 03:25.420 --> 03:26.420 You're Ruby Miller? 03:26.420 --> 03:26.920 Yeah, that's right. 03:26.920 --> 03:27.920 Come on in. 03:27.920 --> 03:28.920 Nice of you. 03:28.920 --> 03:30.920 I was just starting out to look for you. 03:30.920 --> 03:34.920 What's going on around here, anyhow? I leave for a couple of hours and... 03:34.920 --> 03:35.420 Yeah? 03:35.420 --> 03:36.920 My rug! 03:36.920 --> 03:39.920 His name is Frank Madlock. Interested? 03:39.920 --> 03:41.920 What'd he bleed all over my rug for? 03:41.920 --> 03:43.420 Come on, sister, the captain wants to see you. 03:43.420 --> 03:49.920 Well, I want to see him. What kind of a police force do we have in this town? A lady can't go out for a drink without coming home to find... 03:49.920 --> 03:51.420 Get your hands off me! 03:51.420 --> 03:52.920 Inside! 03:52.920 --> 03:55.920 When I finish my judo course, I'm going to look you up. 03:55.920 --> 03:56.920 Hello, Ruby. 03:56.920 --> 04:03.420 Oh! I draw all the dreamy ones. I might have known it'd be you, Captain Salvador. 04:03.420 --> 04:03.920 That's all, Frank. 04:03.920 --> 04:06.420 Yeah, that's all, Frank. 04:06.420 --> 04:07.920 Tell me about yourself, Ruby. 04:07.920 --> 04:08.920 You losing your hair? 04:08.920 --> 04:14.920 It's falling out worrying about you. The last time was 47. No visible means of support. 04:14.920 --> 04:17.920 I didn't know we were going to talk about old times or I'd have cracked a bottle. 04:17.920 --> 04:21.920 We aren't going to talk about that guy lying in there in front of your fireplace. 04:21.920 --> 04:22.420 Well... 04:22.420 --> 04:24.420 They tell me his name is David Madlock. 04:24.420 --> 04:25.920 You know that's his name. What's he doing in there? 04:25.920 --> 04:28.420 How should I know? I never saw him my whole life. 04:28.420 --> 04:32.420 How long have you been seeing him? What did you fight about? 04:32.420 --> 04:36.920 Ruby, you've had four arrests and one conviction in your time. You know we always get the answers. 04:36.920 --> 04:40.920 Captain Doric Salvador, carpereau. Ha! 04:40.920 --> 04:47.920 Been in the drug store since 8.30. Fifteen people saw me drinking my malted milk while Junior in there must have been getting his brains blown out. 04:47.920 --> 04:48.920 Do they all have names? 04:48.920 --> 04:53.420 Every one of them. It was a bowling team on their way home. The Lofers. 04:53.420 --> 04:55.920 You're telling me that corpse is a man you never saw before in your life? 04:55.920 --> 05:01.420 That's exactly what I am telling you. Your crew will find that out by poking into everything and everybody in town. 05:01.420 --> 05:04.920 They'll also find my alibis good and that your guesses are bad. 05:04.920 --> 05:10.920 If Madlock or whatever his name is staggers into my apartment while I'm out and somebody bumps him off, that's not my fault. 05:10.920 --> 05:14.920 And you nor any other single headed cop is going to write it any different. 05:16.920 --> 05:19.920 All right, Ruby. Let's go downtown. 05:24.920 --> 05:29.920 Well, Doric Dream, you booked me as a material witness as expected. 05:29.920 --> 05:32.920 After all, you had to take somebody downtown. 05:32.920 --> 05:36.920 The newspapers tossed a lot of type around. My picture was in every paper, every edition. 05:36.920 --> 05:42.920 But after two days it died on the vine. I made three inches in the second section after that. 05:42.920 --> 05:45.920 Ruby Miller released for lack of evidence. 05:45.920 --> 05:52.920 The morning I got out, I'll wait while you blush. I wanted a bath more than anything else. 05:52.920 --> 05:56.920 All right, all right. Just a minute. I'm coming. 05:56.920 --> 06:01.920 Hello, Ruby. I missed you before you left the station. 06:01.920 --> 06:03.920 I'm tired of looking at cops, Captain. 06:03.920 --> 06:04.920 This will only take a minute. 06:04.920 --> 06:05.920 I'll time you myself. 06:05.920 --> 06:11.920 Thanks. I, uh, just been out talking to Marie Madlock, Dave Madlock's widow. 06:11.920 --> 06:16.920 The way things happen, she still thinks that you and her husband were real palsy on the side. 06:16.920 --> 06:18.920 She hates the memory of him now. 06:18.920 --> 06:19.920 Don't you ever give up. 06:19.920 --> 06:24.920 I don't like to see a nice woman like Mrs. Madlock running around believing something that isn't true. 06:24.920 --> 06:28.920 My boys peeked under every rock and tom before you were sprung, Ruby. 06:28.920 --> 06:30.920 They came up with two things that got you out. 06:30.920 --> 06:34.920 You were in the drug store while Madlock was being killed and you never knew the guy. 06:34.920 --> 06:35.920 I'm convinced of that. 06:35.920 --> 06:37.920 My bath water is getting cold. So am I. 06:37.920 --> 06:41.920 Look, Ruby, you moved in that apartment two months ago, paid $400 rent in advance. 06:41.920 --> 06:44.920 The same day you deposited $1,000 at Freeman's National. 06:44.920 --> 06:46.920 You also bought $400 worth of clothes and trinkets. 06:46.920 --> 06:47.920 I hit a horse. 06:47.920 --> 06:49.920 Somebody gave you dough to play a part in this. Who? 06:49.920 --> 06:51.920 We've gone all through this before. 06:51.920 --> 06:55.920 Who, Ruby? A key to this apartment was found on Madlock's body. 06:55.920 --> 06:56.920 How'd you get that key? 06:56.920 --> 06:59.920 I don't know, Captain. I just don't know. 06:59.920 --> 07:01.920 I should have my luck changed. 07:02.920 --> 07:04.920 All right, Ruby, I'm leaving. 07:04.920 --> 07:06.920 Sorry you didn't have any luck, Captain. 07:06.920 --> 07:13.920 You know, whenever you get out of this, they'll take 20 times as much back from you, right down to your soul. 07:13.920 --> 07:17.920 Madlock's killing was top drawer stuff with some big people involved, 07:17.920 --> 07:21.920 people who don't care anything about you because you were just background scenery. 07:21.920 --> 07:23.920 They might want to change at any time. 07:24.920 --> 07:25.920 Aren't you scared, Ruby? 07:25.920 --> 07:28.920 Yeah. You'll never see the day. 07:28.920 --> 07:29.920 Okay. 07:31.920 --> 07:33.920 Grandissimo buiardo. 07:33.920 --> 07:35.920 What does that mean? 07:35.920 --> 07:37.920 You're a liar, Ruby. 07:37.920 --> 07:40.920 You're a liar, Ruby. 07:46.920 --> 07:49.920 Where did you get off thinking I was scared? 07:49.920 --> 07:51.920 What was there to be scared of, Art? 07:51.920 --> 07:56.920 I held three aces in the deck and that was enough, at least to make a starting bid. 07:56.920 --> 08:01.920 When I looked out my window that night and saw two men in overcoats standing across the street from the apartment, 08:01.920 --> 08:04.920 I felt extra brain. 08:04.920 --> 08:07.920 I wasn't worried one bit. 08:08.920 --> 08:09.920 Hello? 08:09.920 --> 08:10.920 Ruby Milley? 08:10.920 --> 08:11.920 Yes. 08:11.920 --> 08:12.920 What are you still doing in town? 08:12.920 --> 08:15.920 I'm waiting for a phone call, but it's not from you. 08:15.920 --> 08:18.920 You're asking for a doll. I'll be over. 08:18.920 --> 08:21.920 Well, say hello to the two cops standing in front of my apartment house. 08:21.920 --> 08:25.920 Salvador's got them on me 24 hours a day. 08:25.920 --> 08:29.920 Play it smart, doll. Get out of town while you've got legs to walk on. 08:29.920 --> 08:33.920 Listen, you thick-lipped creep, I want to talk to him, the big man, right away. 08:33.920 --> 08:35.920 And if I don't, I'll talk to the cops. 08:35.920 --> 08:38.920 I just said how you better act, doll. 08:43.920 --> 08:46.920 Sorry to disappoint you again, Dorch. 08:46.920 --> 08:48.920 Well, I wasn't scared that time either. 08:48.920 --> 08:53.920 A spook call was always standard operating procedure for those kind of people. 08:53.920 --> 08:58.920 It let me down a little, though, having them think I was so square I wasn't expecting it. 08:58.920 --> 09:02.920 When I went to bed that night, I was dreaming of a new kind of life. 09:02.920 --> 09:06.920 And it started the next day with bells. 09:07.920 --> 09:08.920 Hello? 09:08.920 --> 09:11.920 Miss Miller? My name is Victor Sheridan. 09:11.920 --> 09:13.920 I'm the attorney for the big man. 09:13.920 --> 09:16.920 And that's as close as you're going to get. Take it or leave it. 09:16.920 --> 09:20.920 My offices are in the equity building, Suite 203. 09:20.920 --> 09:23.920 I'll expect you any time today. 09:29.920 --> 09:31.920 That was the music I was waiting for, Dorch. 09:31.920 --> 09:35.920 I'll expect you any time. And I made any time an hour later. 09:35.920 --> 09:40.920 Salvador's two shadows followed me when I left my apartment and went downtown. 09:40.920 --> 09:47.920 So I wasn't worried that anybody might interrupt my conversation with Sheridan and Carter, attorneys at law. 09:47.920 --> 09:49.920 Call me Sheridan. 09:49.920 --> 09:50.920 Sure. 09:50.920 --> 09:52.920 My client asked me to speak to you. 09:52.920 --> 09:53.920 Speak up. 09:53.920 --> 09:54.920 All right. 09:54.920 --> 09:56.920 My client has been disturbed by your attitude. 09:56.920 --> 09:57.920 Good for him. 09:57.920 --> 10:00.920 He wonders why you haven't fulfilled your part of the bargain. 10:00.920 --> 10:02.920 After all, you've been well paid. 10:02.920 --> 10:03.920 You call that money? 10:03.920 --> 10:07.920 A man I never saw before in my life came to me a couple of months ago and made the deal. 10:07.920 --> 10:10.920 $1,500. Two months rent on a nice apartment. 10:10.920 --> 10:13.920 And on a certain night I was to blow town. Never come back. 10:13.920 --> 10:14.920 You should have done it. 10:14.920 --> 10:17.920 I saw a setup a mile off. How dumb do you think I am? 10:17.920 --> 10:19.920 That is not the question, Miss Miller. 10:19.920 --> 10:21.920 How dumb do you think we are? 10:21.920 --> 10:27.920 Dumb enough to know he needed a place to do a killing and someone with a rep like mine to throw the cops off. 10:27.920 --> 10:31.920 I know who he is, where he is, how he did it, and why he did it. 10:31.920 --> 10:34.920 Tell the client I want a payoff to keep quiet. 10:34.920 --> 10:36.920 Lots of payoff. 10:36.920 --> 10:42.920 Or I can tell a whole lot of cops something that will keep them absolutely spellbound. 10:42.920 --> 10:43.920 I see. 10:43.920 --> 10:44.920 Well? 10:44.920 --> 10:47.920 Will this be enough to start with, Miss Miller? 10:47.920 --> 10:49.920 A thousand dollars? 10:49.920 --> 10:54.920 Look, Sonny, this is the major leagues I want ten to start with. 10:54.920 --> 10:55.920 I haven't had much money in the office. 10:55.920 --> 10:58.920 You can get it. There's a bank downstairs. 10:58.920 --> 11:01.920 You're playing a very dangerous game, Miss Miller. 11:01.920 --> 11:04.920 I've got built-in police protection at all times. 11:04.920 --> 11:07.920 All you have to worry about is coming through. 11:07.920 --> 11:10.920 That protection may not last forever. 11:10.920 --> 11:12.920 Let me worry about that. 11:12.920 --> 11:20.920 Miss Miller, it's not up to me to decide the outcome of this affair, but somewhere, someplace, sometime, you'll be alone on a dark street. 11:20.920 --> 11:22.920 And I wouldn't want to say what might happen to you. 11:22.920 --> 11:25.920 Well, don't you worry, Buster. 11:25.920 --> 11:30.920 I'm going to be burning money to keep all those dark streets bright. 11:30.920 --> 11:32.920 Now call the bank. 11:43.920 --> 11:47.920 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Barbara Stanwyck in The Wages of Sin. 11:47.920 --> 11:52.920 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:00.920 --> 12:05.920 Check the spark plugs, too. 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Cooper whose taste ran to women. 14:26.920 --> 14:31.920 Ruby, I've known girls from Bombay to Hunter. 14:31.920 --> 14:34.920 Well, don't tell me about them. I hear Kinsey's in town. 14:34.920 --> 14:38.920 No, no, what I was going to say was that you're the most exciting of them all. 14:38.920 --> 14:40.920 Oh, Coupe, squash head. 14:40.920 --> 14:44.920 I don't come from Bombay or Hunter, so I don't have to follow the rules. 14:44.920 --> 14:45.920 Go get yourself some new material. 14:45.920 --> 14:47.920 No, no, I mean it. 14:47.920 --> 14:50.920 If I were conning you, I'd do it in another place, not here. 14:50.920 --> 14:53.920 Oh, cut it off. I came here for laughs. 14:53.920 --> 14:57.920 Say, who are those two people over by the window? 14:57.920 --> 14:59.920 Don't you know, really? 14:59.920 --> 15:03.920 Look, stupid. Didn't you ever read anything but Noel Coward? 15:03.920 --> 15:05.920 If I knew who they were, I wouldn't have asked. 15:05.920 --> 15:08.920 Well, come on, I'll introduce you. 15:08.920 --> 15:11.920 The distinguished looking man lives on an inheritance, 15:11.920 --> 15:15.920 and the distinguished looking woman lives on, well, memories, I guess. 15:15.920 --> 15:17.920 Hello, Coupe. Nice to see you. 15:17.920 --> 15:18.920 Hello, Clint and Ray. 15:18.920 --> 15:21.920 May I present Miss Ruby Miller, Mr. Clinton Fisher. 15:21.920 --> 15:22.920 How do you do, Mr. Fisher? 15:22.920 --> 15:24.920 And Mrs. David Madlock. 15:24.920 --> 15:27.920 Talk about your drama. 15:27.920 --> 15:32.920 That moment could have run 36 straight weeks at the Barrymore Theater. 15:32.920 --> 15:35.920 As you know, Captain, it was my first performance 15:35.920 --> 15:40.920 at trying to carry on idle chit-chat with the widow of a man found dead in my apartment. 15:40.920 --> 15:45.920 Must have been her first, too, because she excused herself and walked quickly away. 15:45.920 --> 15:50.920 The guy who staged the scene, Cooper the Coward, also took a powder. 15:50.920 --> 15:54.920 By natural selection, I guess we're left alone, Miss Miller. 15:54.920 --> 15:57.920 What's she complaining about? I wasn't found dead in his apartment. 15:57.920 --> 16:01.920 Well, you couldn't exactly expect her to carry on tea-time conversation with you. 16:01.920 --> 16:03.920 Look, is she a friend of yours? 16:03.920 --> 16:04.920 I know her. 16:04.920 --> 16:07.920 Well, tell her the next husband she gets, keep him home. 16:07.920 --> 16:12.920 That means keeping him happy, if she isn't too chilled to find time. 16:12.920 --> 16:14.920 Now, if you'll excuse me, Mr. Fisher, I'll go have a drink. 16:14.920 --> 16:16.920 Allow me to join you, Miss Miller. 16:16.920 --> 16:17.920 Why? 16:17.920 --> 16:19.920 Frankly, I like you. 16:23.920 --> 16:29.920 If anybody tells you men over 50 don't have charm, put salt in their coffee. 16:29.920 --> 16:32.920 Clint Fisher was as charming as they made them. 16:32.920 --> 16:38.920 And the thought came to me that this was my chance to move from the phony money to the real stuff. 16:38.920 --> 16:42.920 And he was said to have more connections than the plumbing at the Waldorf. 16:42.920 --> 16:47.920 I intended someday to use them. And my chance came sooner than I thought. 16:47.920 --> 16:48.920 Yes, ma'am. 16:48.920 --> 16:51.920 Captain Doric Salvador wants to see me. 16:51.920 --> 16:53.920 You mean Lieutenant Salvador. He got a bust too. 16:53.920 --> 16:54.920 Good, he was too arrogant. 16:54.920 --> 16:56.920 Third door on the left, lady. 16:56.920 --> 17:02.920 Don't look so mad, Sergeant. Maybe if you work hard, you'll be busted too someday. 17:02.920 --> 17:04.920 Hello, Lieutenant. 17:04.920 --> 17:06.920 Yeah. 17:06.920 --> 17:07.920 Sit down. 17:07.920 --> 17:09.920 What did you do, kick the mayor's mother? 17:09.920 --> 17:14.920 No, the commissioner got a little mad because I didn't bring anybody in for David Madlock. 17:14.920 --> 17:17.920 What did you call me down here for, awake? 17:17.920 --> 17:19.920 The commissioner's dropping the case. 17:19.920 --> 17:20.920 What do you mean? 17:20.920 --> 17:24.920 He called us off. Madlock will be under him in the file. I'll be on another case. 17:24.920 --> 17:25.920 Yeah, but that means that I... 17:25.920 --> 17:28.920 Uh-huh. Starting tomorrow, where you go, you go alone. 17:28.920 --> 17:30.920 What is this, you're pulling off my protection? 17:30.920 --> 17:33.920 Ruby, we had those men on you to see if anybody made a move toward you, not for protection. 17:33.920 --> 17:34.920 I got a right to protection. 17:34.920 --> 17:37.920 You forfeited every right you had when you threw in them with the wrong people. 17:37.920 --> 17:41.920 In my opinion, Ruby, you sold your soul for a fur muff and a filet mignon. 17:41.920 --> 17:43.920 Don't talk to me like that, you lousy failure. 17:43.920 --> 17:47.920 Shut up! I played your game long enough, this is the end. 17:47.920 --> 17:50.920 You don't even know what I'm talking about. You'll never know. 17:50.920 --> 17:55.920 All dames like you got is your sex. You wouldn't know a good piece of music if you heard it. 17:55.920 --> 17:58.920 You've never read anything longer than a menu in your life. 17:58.920 --> 18:01.920 You couldn't tell me two intelligent things about the history of the people you came from 18:01.920 --> 18:04.920 or the name of the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence. 18:04.920 --> 18:10.920 All you got is a 75-word vocabulary and 112 pounds of flesh 18:10.920 --> 18:13.920 that could have been put to better use in unhandling. 18:13.920 --> 18:17.920 You listen to me, flathead. Where do you get off telling me how worthless I am? 18:17.920 --> 18:20.920 Just because I went out and made myself a few bucks the hard way? 18:20.920 --> 18:22.920 Well, I took nerve and I've got it. 18:22.920 --> 18:26.920 It didn't take any to sit behind that desk and get demoted from captain to lieutenant. 18:26.920 --> 18:30.920 You picked your way of life yourself and because everybody isn't like you, you can't stomach them. 18:30.920 --> 18:35.920 Your kind doesn't send your sons to college so they'll know a good piece of music when they hear it. 18:35.920 --> 18:37.920 You send them to learn how to make money. 18:37.920 --> 18:42.920 And you don't dress your daughters in the best clothes you can buy because they know who wrote the Constitution. 18:42.920 --> 18:44.920 You do it so they'll marry into money. 18:44.920 --> 18:49.920 You're cheaper on your level than I am on mine because you lie about what you really want and I don't. 18:49.920 --> 18:52.920 I'm honest. I say what I want right out and I get it. 18:54.920 --> 18:55.920 Are you through? 18:55.920 --> 18:59.920 No. Why did the commissioner call off the case? 18:59.920 --> 19:00.920 It was costing too much. 19:00.920 --> 19:04.920 I can smell a fix 20 miles off. You're going to set me up for a kill. 19:04.920 --> 19:08.920 I'm not setting you up for anything. They called me off the case. That's all I know. 19:08.920 --> 19:11.920 Yeah? Well, if the commissioner's been fixed, he can be unfixed. 19:11.920 --> 19:13.920 I know some pretty big people now. 19:13.920 --> 19:14.920 I hope they can help you. 19:14.920 --> 19:17.920 They will. They will. Don't worry. I'll have my protection back. 19:17.920 --> 19:20.920 And while I'm at it, I think I'll have you busted down to sergeant. 19:25.920 --> 19:28.920 And I couldn't wait to do it to you. 19:28.920 --> 19:32.920 Clint Fisher was my boy. By then I had him wrapped around my little finger. 19:32.920 --> 19:36.920 He knew the skeleton in everybody's closet and I was going to make him rattle a few. 19:36.920 --> 19:44.920 I pulled out all the stops and he had my hero printed all over him when he said he'd see what he could do. 19:44.920 --> 19:49.920 You cops who thought you had a corner on everything fracture me. 19:49.920 --> 19:53.920 I slipped on a negligee and cracked a bottle of champagne. 19:53.920 --> 19:58.920 While I waited for my team to go into action. 19:58.920 --> 19:59.920 Hello? 19:59.920 --> 20:00.920 Clint Fisher, Ruby. 20:00.920 --> 20:04.920 Oh, Clint, darling. Oh, it's so nice to hear your voice. 20:04.920 --> 20:07.920 It's nice to hear yours, Ruby. Are you all right? 20:07.920 --> 20:09.920 Oh, yes, of course. Don't worry about me. 20:09.920 --> 20:10.920 Well, Ruby... 20:10.920 --> 20:12.920 Everything's going to be fixed, Clint? 20:12.920 --> 20:15.920 Not exactly. That's why I called you. 20:15.920 --> 20:20.920 I've tried everybody in town and I hate to say this, but there's nothing I can do for you. 20:20.920 --> 20:22.920 Absolutely nothing. 20:22.920 --> 20:24.920 Clint, you don't mean that. 20:24.920 --> 20:27.920 I'm afraid, honey, you're on your own. 20:33.920 --> 20:35.920 Don't tell me about men. 20:35.920 --> 20:41.920 I know more ways they can be cheap and lying, two-faced and vicious than you can count in a year. 20:41.920 --> 20:44.920 But Clint Fisher wasn't the only man in the world who could fix things. 20:44.920 --> 20:48.920 So I tried the rest of them up and down the social register and through the moneymen and tycoons 20:48.920 --> 20:51.920 and every one of them chickened out, every one of them. 20:51.920 --> 20:55.920 No, Ruby. Sorry, Ruby. Try someone else, Ruby. That's all I got. 20:55.920 --> 20:58.920 Don't tell me about men. 20:58.920 --> 21:01.920 Then I began to get scared. 21:01.920 --> 21:05.920 Scared right down through the little veins. 21:05.920 --> 21:10.920 I locked the door in polar shades and told the desk to let no one visit me. 21:10.920 --> 21:14.920 And I sat there all night. I didn't bear sleep. 21:14.920 --> 21:18.920 And half the next day, I was scared. 21:18.920 --> 21:23.920 But then I remembered, I still had an ace to play. 21:25.920 --> 21:26.920 Sheridan. 21:26.920 --> 21:27.920 Yes, yes, Ruby. 21:27.920 --> 21:29.920 What's the matter with you? 21:29.920 --> 21:30.920 Nothing. 21:30.920 --> 21:33.920 I came to make a deal. A deal, do you hear me? 21:33.920 --> 21:34.920 Too late. 21:34.920 --> 21:38.920 I won't spill. I'll never say a word, not a single word to anyone. I'll even get out of town. 21:38.920 --> 21:39.920 I... 21:39.920 --> 21:41.920 What are you laughing about? 21:41.920 --> 21:43.920 You, trying to make a deal. 21:43.920 --> 21:47.920 I got the greatest deal in the world, the greatest. You never heard anything like this. Listen. 21:47.920 --> 21:50.920 I don't even know who the client is. 21:50.920 --> 21:53.920 I don't know. I never knew, never. 21:53.920 --> 21:55.920 All I know is some creep I never saw before. 21:55.920 --> 21:58.920 Gave me a couple of thousand bucks to use the apartment for a killing. 21:58.920 --> 22:03.920 I don't even know his name. He came and he was gone. That's all I know. Believe me. 22:03.920 --> 22:05.920 Sheridan! 22:07.920 --> 22:09.920 Shot me. Shot me in the stomach. 22:09.920 --> 22:10.920 Who? 22:10.920 --> 22:14.920 The client. He killed Madlock because he wanted Mrs. Madlock. 22:14.920 --> 22:17.920 She found out last night. Committed suicide. 22:17.920 --> 22:20.920 He went crazy, thought I told her. 22:20.920 --> 22:24.920 But after shooting, I said it was you. 22:24.920 --> 22:28.920 And you don't even know him? 22:28.920 --> 22:32.920 Who is the client, Sheridan? He'll kill me. I've got to tell the police. 22:32.920 --> 22:34.920 Tell me who is he. 22:34.920 --> 22:37.920 Oh, don't die, don't die. Tell me. 22:37.920 --> 22:40.920 I ran out of that office as fast as I could make it. 22:40.920 --> 22:42.920 I didn't know where to go, what to do. 22:42.920 --> 22:45.920 I couldn't end up like Sheridan. I couldn't, I couldn't. 22:45.920 --> 22:47.920 Then I decided to go to my apartment. 22:47.920 --> 22:49.920 Get my money and try to get out of town. 22:49.920 --> 22:51.920 I ran up the stairs, locked the door. 22:51.920 --> 22:54.920 I stood there trying to pull myself together. 22:54.920 --> 22:55.920 And I got an idea. 22:55.920 --> 22:56.920 Salvatore. 22:56.920 --> 22:59.920 Captain, listen to me. Listen carefully. 22:59.920 --> 23:00.920 Who is it? 23:00.920 --> 23:02.920 Ruby, Ruby Miller. Now listen to me. 23:02.920 --> 23:04.920 The client's after me. 23:04.920 --> 23:07.920 I know he is. 23:07.920 --> 23:08.920 The client? 23:08.920 --> 23:10.920 The man who killed David Matlock. 23:10.920 --> 23:11.920 It's just the way you said. 23:11.920 --> 23:13.920 I take everything back I ever said to you. 23:13.920 --> 23:15.920 I'm sorry, really, truly sorry. 23:15.920 --> 23:16.920 I suppose you want protection. 23:16.920 --> 23:17.920 Oh yes, yes, please send somebody. 23:17.920 --> 23:19.920 Come yourself, take care of me. 23:19.920 --> 23:21.920 I'm in my apartment and I'm afraid to leave it. 23:21.920 --> 23:24.920 Ruby, you're a great girl for deals. 23:24.920 --> 23:26.920 We had two men following you and three men following Sheridan. 23:26.920 --> 23:28.920 We didn't find out a thing. 23:28.920 --> 23:30.920 Tell me who this client is. We'll go out and pick him up. 23:30.920 --> 23:32.920 Oh, that's just it. I don't know. 23:32.920 --> 23:35.920 I don't know. I really don't. It was all a bump. 23:35.920 --> 23:38.920 They thought I knew, but I didn't. I don't know a thing. 23:38.920 --> 23:40.920 I played it for what I could get and it worked. 23:40.920 --> 23:42.920 Now you don't expect me to believe that. 23:42.920 --> 23:43.920 You've got to believe it. You've got to. 23:43.920 --> 23:45.920 I don't know who he is or where he's coming from, 23:45.920 --> 23:48.920 but I know I'll be killed. 23:48.920 --> 23:49.920 You're lying, Ruby. 23:49.920 --> 23:50.920 When you're ready, tell me the truth. 23:50.920 --> 23:52.920 I'll give you what you want. Goodbye. 23:52.920 --> 24:02.920 Don't hang up. Don't please. I'll be killed. 24:02.920 --> 24:05.920 I tried to get you back, but they said you'd left the office. 24:05.920 --> 24:07.920 I wanted to tell you about Dick Sheridan's death. 24:07.920 --> 24:09.920 That would have been proof. 24:09.920 --> 24:12.920 That's why I'm writing you this letter. You'll have to believe it. 24:12.920 --> 24:14.920 I'm packed and I'm leaving town 24:14.920 --> 24:16.920 and I don't ever want to come back. 24:16.920 --> 24:19.920 I'm nailing it from the airport. 24:19.920 --> 24:21.920 So long, Dork. 24:21.920 --> 24:32.920 I hope you have better luck finding the client than I did. 24:32.920 --> 24:33.920 Hello? 24:33.920 --> 24:34.920 Are you all right? This is Salvadori. 24:34.920 --> 24:35.920 Oh, yes. 24:35.920 --> 24:36.920 We just found Dick Sheridan. 24:36.920 --> 24:37.920 I'm sorry, Ruby. 24:37.920 --> 24:40.920 Sometimes my personal opinion of people gets in the way of my badge. 24:40.920 --> 24:41.920 We'll be over there in a couple of minutes. 24:41.920 --> 24:44.920 Oh, thank you. Thank you. 24:44.920 --> 24:47.920 Oh. Oh. 24:47.920 --> 24:49.920 Who? 24:49.920 --> 24:51.920 Who is it? 24:51.920 --> 24:52.920 Clint Fisher. Let me in. 24:52.920 --> 24:55.920 Oh. Oh, Clint. 24:55.920 --> 24:57.920 Oh, Clint, I'm so glad you came. 24:57.920 --> 25:00.920 Nobody cared. Nobody would do anything. 25:00.920 --> 25:02.920 Now, Ruby, you'll be all right. 25:02.920 --> 25:06.920 Somebody's after me. Clint, they'll get me. They will. They... 25:06.920 --> 25:09.920 Clint, what... 25:09.920 --> 25:11.920 What's that gun for? 25:11.920 --> 25:12.920 For you, baby. 25:12.920 --> 25:16.920 Oh, Clint, don't. Don't do anything. 25:16.920 --> 25:17.920 I'll scream. 25:17.920 --> 25:20.920 That won't help. You can't outrun a bullet. 25:20.920 --> 25:21.920 You've had a free ride on me. 25:21.920 --> 25:25.920 I was perfectly willing to give you money when it meant something to avoid trouble. 25:25.920 --> 25:27.920 But now you're going to pay it all back. 25:27.920 --> 25:29.920 I'll do anything. Anything in the world. 25:29.920 --> 25:32.920 Don't close your eyes because it's going to hurt. 25:32.920 --> 25:34.920 They'll get you, Clint. The police will get you. 25:34.920 --> 25:36.920 I know, but I'll get it quick. You'll get it the hard way. 25:36.920 --> 25:38.920 Oh, Clint, please. Don't. 25:38.920 --> 25:42.920 Oh. 25:42.920 --> 25:47.920 Hold... hold me. Hold me up. 25:47.920 --> 25:49.920 How does it feel, Ruby? 25:49.920 --> 25:52.920 That's what you get for telling Mary Medlock I killed her husband. 25:52.920 --> 25:54.920 Mary was the one thing I wanted. 25:54.920 --> 25:57.920 I killed together, made it as sordid as possible. 25:57.920 --> 26:00.920 Girl's apartment and all so she'd forget even his memory. 26:00.920 --> 26:04.920 And after all the dough I paid, you had to tell her. 26:04.920 --> 26:09.920 I... I didn't tell her. 26:09.920 --> 26:13.920 I didn't even know who... 26:18.920 --> 26:19.920 All right, you stand where you are. 26:19.920 --> 26:20.920 With your hands in the air. 26:20.920 --> 26:22.920 Come and get me. 26:29.920 --> 26:31.920 Hey, will you look at that? 26:31.920 --> 26:35.920 They're lying on the same spot where Medlock was killed. 26:35.920 --> 26:39.920 Yeah, the wages of sin. 26:55.920 --> 26:58.920 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 26:58.920 --> 27:01.920 Tonight's star, Miss Barbara Stanwyck. 27:01.920 --> 27:04.920 The north wind doth blow and we shall have snow 27:04.920 --> 27:06.920 and then what will old Wilcox do? 27:06.920 --> 27:10.920 He'll sit in his car and drive near and far in winter-long comfort. 27:10.920 --> 27:11.920 Will you? 27:11.920 --> 27:13.920 Well, you will if you have your car tuned up and winterized 27:13.920 --> 27:16.920 by your neighborhood Auto Light spark plug dealer. 27:16.920 --> 27:19.920 And remember, Auto Light makes more than 400 products 27:19.920 --> 27:22.920 for cars, trucks, planes, and boats in 28 plants coast to coast. 27:22.920 --> 27:26.920 These include complete electrical systems used as original equipment 27:26.920 --> 27:28.920 on many of America's finest cars. 27:28.920 --> 27:32.920 Generators, coils, distributors, voltage regulators, wire and cable, 27:32.920 --> 27:34.920 starting motors, and electric windshield wipers. 27:34.920 --> 27:38.920 All engineered to work together perfectly as part of the Auto Light team. 27:38.920 --> 27:41.920 All engineered to give you unexcelled Auto Light service. 27:41.920 --> 27:44.920 Don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 27:44.920 --> 27:47.920 Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts 27:47.920 --> 27:51.920 at your neighborhood service station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 27:51.920 --> 27:54.920 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 27:54.920 --> 27:59.920 Next week on Suspense, Mr. Richard Widmark, a star of Too Hot to Live. 27:59.920 --> 28:02.920 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars as Herbert Marshall 28:02.920 --> 28:07.920 and William Holden appearing in tales well calculated to keep you in... 28:07.920 --> 28:09.920 Suspense! 28:11.920 --> 28:13.920 Tonight's Suspense play was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis 28:13.920 --> 28:17.920 with music composed by Lucian Moraweck and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:17.920 --> 28:21.920 The Wages of Sin was written for Suspense by E. 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