1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:19,600 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Too Hot to Live, a suspense play starring Mr. Richard 3 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,600 Widmark. 4 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:28,560 Hey, you! 5 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:29,560 Freeloader. 6 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:30,560 What? 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,400 We don't sell tickets on this freight. 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:33,400 Well, it was empty. 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:34,680 I didn't think anybody'd mind. 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:36,680 We're slowing down for a crossing. 11 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,080 I don't want to find you when I come back. 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,080 Where are we? 13 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:41,880 Half mile from Marcus Junction. 14 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:42,880 Thanks. 15 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:43,880 Forget the thanks. 16 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:44,880 Just beat it. 17 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,080 Before somebody inquisitive starts asking questions. 18 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,680 Yeah, don't they always? 19 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:58,880 The train rolls by slowing and the crossing bell warns that death is here. 20 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,080 I don't recognize it though. 21 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,280 I walked toward Marcus Junction. 22 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:09,480 Toward death. 23 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,960 In just a moment, Mr. Richard Widmark, in the first act of Too Hot to Live. 24 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:16,640 Well, hap, har the hobgoblins. 25 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,560 Well, Halloween isn't here yet, Harlow. 26 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,760 Soon will be, and that means the time has come to have your car made ready for the cold 27 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:24,640 driving days ahead. 28 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,560 And your friendly auto light spark plug dealer is the man to see. 29 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:28,560 What'll he do, Harlow? 30 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,880 Why, your auto light spark plug dealer will winterize your car, put in antifreeze, change 31 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:33,880 the oil and grease. 32 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,320 And check the spark plugs too. 33 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:40,100 Thanks, Johnny Plug Check, for a worry saving reminder. 34 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:42,720 Because spark plugs are the very heart of your car's ignition system. 35 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:43,920 These are better than ever. 36 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,280 You mean spark plugs need winterizing too? 37 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:47,280 They sure do, hap. 38 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,720 And that's why it pays to have your auto light spark plug dealer replace worn out spark 39 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,600 plugs with world famous ignition engineered auto light spark plugs. 40 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,600 Auto light spark plugs, you know, are ignition engineered to operate as a perfect team with 41 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,840 your car's ignition system. 42 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:07,480 That's why you can't buy better spark plugs for your car than auto light. 43 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,520 So folks, see your friendly auto light spark plug dealer. 44 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,360 Remember, you're always right with auto light. 45 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:20,000 And now with Too Hot to Live and the performance of Mr. Richard Widmark, auto light hopes once 46 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:32,080 again to keep you in suspense. 47 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:37,920 The sun is 11 o'clock high and starting to pucker the tar road leading into Marcus Junction. 48 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,520 I'm heading in. 49 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,960 Sweats beginning to streak through the old sun tan uniform and my shoes are sucking tar 50 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,800 every time I lift them. 51 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,120 The sole of one boot busts loose and starts flapping against the road. 52 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,120 That's bad. 53 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:56,720 A drifter needs a good pair of shoes and I'm on the drift. 54 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,400 Marcus Junction, no different than a thousand others like it. 55 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,520 About a mile square of small buildings all pasted together. 56 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,960 I walk a couple of blocks without finding a shoemaker. 57 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,080 The town's almost empty this Saturday morning. 58 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,080 And then a door opens ahead of me and a big man steps out. 59 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,320 Really big both ways, big high, big wide. 60 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:23,680 He's wearing steel rimmed glasses screwed up tight above the pug nose of his round face. 61 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,880 And six full inches of hat brim circle the pink flesh like a halo. 62 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,400 All right, good morning, son. 63 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,760 My name's Benjamin, Benjamin Maxwell. 64 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,760 Oh, good morning, Mr. Maxwell. 65 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,560 Benjamin, son. 66 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,320 Call me Benjamin. 67 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,960 That's the handle that shakes this pump. 68 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:42,960 What's yours, boy? 69 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:43,960 Jeff Casey. 70 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:45,560 Jeffrey or Jefferson? 71 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:46,560 Jefferson. 72 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:47,560 Jefferson. 73 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:48,560 That's a good name. 74 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,800 Yeah, now look, don't think I'm changing the subject, but where can I get this fixed, 75 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:54,800 Benjamin? 76 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:55,800 Well, pretty socks. 77 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,360 Yeah, they are at that. 78 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,080 But who take care of this shoe? 79 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,680 I'm going down to Stacey's for a coke. 80 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,000 Shoe fixtures right next door. 81 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Come along, Jefferson. 82 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:16,720 As we turn to walk, I see his left side, gun holstered high up on his hip and the gold star 83 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,720 with the word sheriff glinting in the sunlight. 84 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,840 Still wearing your old army clothes. 85 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:24,680 I hear those duds wear like iron. 86 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:28,840 You just throw them away when they start to rust. 87 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:30,160 Uniforms wear forever. 88 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,920 These have seen their last war. 89 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,280 What were you in, boy? 90 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:34,720 Air Corps, captain. 91 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,820 Pretty uniforms, sweet pay and lots of respect. 92 00:04:37,820 --> 00:04:39,840 You miss it, Jefferson? 93 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:40,840 Maybe I do. 94 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:42,320 What are you looking for now? 95 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,960 I'm not looking for anything, just living, more or less. 96 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,480 Oh, man ought to find more to do with his life than that. 97 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,400 It's all the same to me. 98 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,760 I could die today and it wouldn't make any difference. 99 00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:00,160 You got a bad taste in your mouth, but you'll spit it out someday. 100 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,920 See, how do you like this weather? 101 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,080 If it gets any warmer, it'll be almost too hot to live. 102 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,760 In a manner of speaking, you understand? 103 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,480 Yeah, I understand. 104 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,920 Here's the shoe repair. 105 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,400 I'll be next door. 106 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:21,000 Leave your shoes and waddle in on them pretty socks of yours. 107 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:28,560 I'll buy you a drink, Coke or coffee. 108 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,400 The shoemaker tells me that my shoes will take a couple of hours so I start next door 109 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,400 to join Benjamin. 110 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,320 I don't know, maybe I'm feeling pretty good, but I pull an old schoolboy trick of mine. 111 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:43,600 I take off my socks, roll them up and throw them on the counter with my shoes. 112 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,840 Then I walk outside to feel the cool shaded cement prickle up through the bottom of my 113 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:49,880 bare feet. 114 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,360 Through the store window next door, I see the four people in the restaurant. 115 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,800 Benjamin waves for me to come in. 116 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:00,560 Inside the entrance, a blonde waitress is arguing with a tall sliver of a man who's 117 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,360 showing about three inches of wrist and shin bone below the edges of his clothes. 118 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:11,160 The squat moon-faced grill man has his Popeyes focused intently on the argument. 119 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:15,160 I go in, walk over to Benjamin and sit on the next stool. 120 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:16,160 Oh, Jefferson. 121 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:17,160 Hi, Benjamin. 122 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:18,160 Came for that coffee. 123 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:19,160 In a minute. 124 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,160 Rachel's about finished. 125 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,160 I had somewhere else, Pop. 126 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:22,160 Let me alone now. 127 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:23,160 I'm busy. 128 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,160 And all her sins must find her out. 129 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:25,160 He's a Jezebel and kin only to the devil. 130 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,160 Yeah, I know. 131 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:27,160 I'm busy. 132 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,760 He's a Jezebel and kin only to the devil. 133 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:31,760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 134 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:32,760 You'll find it on the menu next week. 135 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:33,760 Now, find yourself a street corner. 136 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:34,760 Get it out of your system. 137 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:35,760 Oh, you are bad. 138 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:36,760 Bad beyond all hope. 139 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:37,760 See you around, Pop. 140 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:38,760 I don't hope. 141 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:39,760 The girl plays rough. 142 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:40,760 Oh, that's just Rachel's way, Jefferson. 143 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:41,760 Hey, I see you lean to bare feet. 144 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:42,760 What's your friend having, Buster? 145 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:43,760 Benjamin, Rachel. 146 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:44,760 May be smart to tack nicknames on people. 147 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:45,760 I'm not sure. 148 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:46,760 I'm not sure. 149 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:47,760 I'm not sure. 150 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:48,760 I'm not sure. 151 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:49,760 I'm not sure. 152 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:50,760 I'm not sure. 153 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:51,760 I'm not sure. 154 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:52,760 I'm not sure. 155 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:53,760 I'm not sure. 156 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:54,760 I'm not sure. 157 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:59,880 May be smart to tack nicknames on people, but my folks figured me for a Benjamin, and 158 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:01,160 I'd like it that way. 159 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,160 Sure, Buster. 160 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,480 Let it be, soldier. 161 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:05,880 Black coffee, lady. 162 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,520 And don't let the uniform throw you. 163 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,800 I'm no soldier anymore. 164 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,800 The Hollywood line of her mouth twists up into a lopsided kind of inviting grin as she 165 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,800 turns to get the coffee. 166 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:23,520 I watch the dark shadows that follow the rippling lines of her uniform when she moves. 167 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,960 Rachel is quite a woman. 168 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:26,960 All woman. 169 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:27,960 Coffee. 170 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:28,960 Barefoot. 171 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:29,960 Like you, soldier. 172 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:34,440 Your friend's real pretty, Buster. 173 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:35,920 You think everybody's pretty. 174 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,800 He's a doll. 175 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,680 You be around long, soldier? 176 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,920 Long enough to get my shoes fixed, Rachel. 177 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,560 Rachel. 178 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,560 You know, that name doesn't go with you. 179 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,240 It's a name. 180 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,680 Too bad you're moving on soon. 181 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,640 New faces are scarce around here. 182 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,960 Especially one like yours. 183 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:00,480 Well, I've got some law to enforce. 184 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,600 Will I see you before you go, Jefferson? 185 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:03,920 I'll find you, Benjamin. 186 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:04,920 Do that, boy. 187 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,920 I'm afraid to face that heat out there. 188 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,680 Now, you behave yourself, Rachel. 189 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,920 Yes, well. 190 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,200 You like playing it tough? 191 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,920 Under it all beats the heart of gold. 192 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,640 Tell me what it's like in the world outside, soldier. 193 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,160 Hey, Rachel, why don't you put up some more coffee? 194 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:26,320 Tend to your bacon lover. 195 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:27,320 I got company. 196 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:28,320 Your boyfriend? 197 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,320 Lover boy, there? 198 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:30,320 No, that's Kenny. 199 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,320 He's keeping company with a hot grill. 200 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,680 You're hardening to talk about me like that, Rachel. 201 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:35,680 Not very nice. 202 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:38,720 Well, then don't bother me while I'm with my friends. 203 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,080 Hey, soldier, I'm off about now. 204 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,400 Let you and me go out to the carnival for a couple hours, huh? 205 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:46,400 Hey, you. 206 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:47,400 You let her alone. 207 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,800 Don't you go with her, you hear? 208 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:51,800 Yeah, I hear, Kenny. 209 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,960 Well, I'd like to, Rachel, but how do I go barefoot? 210 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,520 Oh, I forgot. 211 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,280 Got any other ideas? 212 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:05,280 Yeah, matter of fact, I live upstairs over this greasy spoon. 213 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,000 Let's go up and mix ourselves something cool while we wait for your shoes. 214 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 You can't do that. 215 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,000 It is nice. 216 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,680 It don't look right. 217 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:13,680 Don't it? 218 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:15,040 Come on, let's go, Rachel. 219 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:16,040 Don't you? 220 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,040 No, you can't. 221 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:18,040 I'll stop you. 222 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,520 Go hash some potatoes, lover. 223 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:22,520 My arms, soldier. 224 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:23,520 No, no, Rachel. 225 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,080 Hey, look, I'll get someone to tend here. 226 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:27,080 I'll come right up. 227 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,200 You do, and I'll barbecue you on your own grill. 228 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:36,240 We go out and my feet scruff over the shaded pavement as we pass through the doorway on 229 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:37,240 the left. 230 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:42,520 I follow her up a flight of stairs and into a small box-like apartment, living room, bedroom, 231 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,520 kitchen, and bathroom. 232 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,600 Be it ever so humble, this is home. 233 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,760 Let's kick out a wall or something. 234 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:52,480 The windows don't help much, but the drinks will. 235 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,120 Hey, why do you have to lean into the kitchen? 236 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,520 Why not just walk in? 237 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:58,880 Fresh varnish on the floor. 238 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:00,880 The heat don't let it dry. 239 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,440 It's a long reach for a long drink. 240 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,440 It's a long day. 241 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:11,400 Well, here you go, soldier. 242 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,080 Don't you believe in mixing anything with your liquor? 243 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,600 Wherefore, the cubes will melt. 244 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:20,600 What do we drink to, soldier? 245 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,320 The heat? 246 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,320 The heat. 247 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:30,840 Cools you off, don't it? 248 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,360 It burns its way down my stomach and explodes. 249 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:34,360 That's good, soldier. 250 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,480 My pores open and the perspiration oozes down. 251 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:37,480 Here, let's have another. 252 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,480 She's still talking, but I'm going numb. 253 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:40,480 Let's drink to my conscience. 254 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:41,480 The heat. 255 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:42,480 No food I shouldn't be drinking. 256 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:43,480 You're really... 257 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:44,480 Who cares? 258 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:45,480 You're a real piece of shit. 259 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:47,240 I'm getting foggy. 260 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:48,240 She's drifting closer. 261 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,240 I don't know who kisses who first. 262 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:56,160 Bitter tears, tears of loneliness and regret. 263 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:57,160 Let's drink to us this time. 264 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:58,160 Everything's moving around. 265 00:10:58,160 --> 00:10:59,160 Us. 266 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:00,760 Like feathers in the high wind. 267 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,320 You're a real piece of shit. 268 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:11,680 Sometimes one drifts in through the fog. 269 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:13,280 We're drinking. 270 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:14,280 How many? 271 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:15,280 I don't know. 272 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:16,280 Another drink. 273 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:17,280 Breathing, sucking down scorchy air. 274 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:18,280 Hot, damp waves of heat suffocating. 275 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,280 Wimsy, filthy. 276 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:20,280 Here's another glass. 277 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:21,280 Scorch. 278 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,280 Can smell perfume cheap like tin earrings. 279 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:25,280 Black rolling in. 280 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,280 Black velvet. 281 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:33,280 And the shimmering heat wavering like plucking a taut string. 282 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:45,040 Wavering, wavering, wavering. 283 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,800 There's a steady sound, sharp, smart little cracks. 284 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,760 I tear my eyelids apart and a flash of ceiling whirrs by. 285 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:56,120 A purple-red mass is coming toward my face and when it hits, there's a sound in the ceiling 286 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:57,120 moving the other way. 287 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,120 Laugh this off. 288 00:11:58,120 --> 00:11:59,120 Laugh now, I don't... 289 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,680 A frozen kind of pain is seeping through to my brain and I can make out a voice now. 290 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:04,680 Then laugh. 291 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:05,680 I want to hear you laugh. 292 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:08,680 I get my hand up to my face and I wipe my eyes. 293 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:09,680 Come on, wake up. 294 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:10,680 My hand comes away wet. 295 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:11,680 Can you hear me? 296 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:12,680 Sticky and red. 297 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:17,480 The ugly purple mass comes. 298 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:18,480 Wake now. 299 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:19,480 Swell. 300 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:20,480 I got something for you. 301 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:21,480 Leave me alone. 302 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,480 There, in the corner of the kitchen. 303 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,480 See how she's lying there? 304 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:24,480 Take your hands off me. 305 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:25,480 That's how I found her. 306 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:26,480 You're a real piece of shit. 307 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:27,480 I'm not a piece of shit. 308 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:28,480 I'm a piece of shit. 309 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,160 You beside her and your filthy hands still tied around her throat. 310 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,800 What's the matter with my hands? 311 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:35,800 It's sticky. 312 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:36,800 Wet. 313 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:38,280 That's varnish and blood, your blood. 314 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,160 See that knife in her hand? 315 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,600 She cut you trying to stop you. 316 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,120 You killed her. 317 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:51,160 You killed Rachel. 318 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,600 He doesn't make any kind of sense. 319 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:58,120 The bathroom door's open and I staggered toward it, stepping on broken glass, pain stinging, 320 00:12:58,120 --> 00:12:59,760 remembering bare feet. 321 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,680 The open shower waiting for me. 322 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:05,720 I turn the handle of the cold water and I half throw myself into the shock of the stream. 323 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,720 I'm coming alive. 324 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:09,720 Reaction's sick. 325 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,200 Fright. 326 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:12,200 He said I killed him. 327 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:13,200 Hey, Saris. 328 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:14,200 Benjamin. 329 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:15,200 Hey, Benjamin, come up here. 330 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,200 I got a dirty killer for you. 331 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:17,200 That lousy friend of yours killed Rachel. 332 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:18,200 Come and get him. 333 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:19,200 Kenny's shot. 334 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:30,880 He's shouting out the window in the other room to Benjamin. 335 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:31,880 I gotta get away. 336 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:32,880 I gotta think. 337 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:33,880 What happened? 338 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:34,880 What? 339 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:39,080 I get through the bathroom window out into the glare of the sun. 340 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,840 My feet hit the scalding tar of the marquee. 341 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,960 I scramble across it, drop to the street, a narrow alley, and I'm running down it toward 342 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:48,040 the fence that blocks off the far end. 343 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,000 A garbage can near the fence and a woman putting something into it. 344 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 I jump, reaching for the fence. 345 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Hey, what do you think you're doing? 346 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Let me go. 347 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Let go. 348 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Pick up that garbage, you crazy... 349 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Let go. 350 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,000 I didn't do it. 351 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,000 What do you mean? 352 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I saw you kick it over. 353 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 I'm not gonna clean up that mess. 354 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 I didn't kill her. 355 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Take your hands off me. 356 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Why would I kill Rachel? 357 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Why would you kill... 358 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,000 All right, Jefferson. 359 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Come along and tell me why you killed Rachel. 360 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:29,240 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Richard Widmark in Too Hot to Live, tonight's production in 361 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:41,960 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspend. 362 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,400 Hey, Hap, did you hear about the wise witch? 363 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:45,640 What about her, Harlow? 364 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,760 She brought her broom in for a tune up. 365 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:51,720 The Auto Light spark plug dealer tightened the straws, tightened the handles... 366 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,760 And checked the spark plugs too. 367 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,980 He would have if that broom had had them, Johnny Plug Check. 368 00:14:57,980 --> 00:15:02,880 Spark plugs are the heart of a car's ignition system, one of the keys to efficient engine 369 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:03,880 operation. 370 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,320 And did the witch understand, Harlow? 371 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:10,280 Why sure, Hap, being a sage sorceress, she knew all about ignition engineered Auto Light 372 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:15,040 spark plugs, the spark plugs that are world famous for quality and dependability. 373 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,840 Why she even knew that Auto Light spark plugs are used as original factory equipment on 374 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,720 many leading makes of America's finest cars and trucks. 375 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,520 Did she know it pays to have spark plugs winterized too? 376 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:30,600 She sure did, Hap, and she knew the place to go was to her friendly Auto Light spark plug 377 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:31,600 dealer. 378 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,800 Because he can put in antifreeze, change grease and oil... 379 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,280 And check the spark plugs too. 380 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:42,040 Yes, folks, see your friendly Auto Light spark plug dealer and have worn out spark plugs 381 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,640 replaced with ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs. 382 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:50,120 And whether you choose the resistor type or the standard type, you can be sure you can't 383 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:56,120 buy better spark plugs for your car because you're always right with Auto Light. 384 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:01,040 And now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Richard Woodmark, in Elliot 385 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:17,840 Lewis's production of Too Hot to Live, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 386 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,320 Benjamin is leading me out into the sweltering street again. 387 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:26,960 The sun burns into my flesh, accusing as if to cause the murder to flow out of my open 388 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:27,960 pores. 389 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:34,040 And Benjamin walks beside me again, not holding me, just talking, asking questions which I 390 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:35,040 can't answer. 391 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:36,760 Why'd you do it, son? 392 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:38,640 I didn't kill her, Benjamin. 393 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,200 I don't remember, but I know I didn't kill her. 394 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,200 You don't sound sure, Jefferson. 395 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,200 Don't you know? 396 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:44,200 Well, we were drinking. 397 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:45,200 I blacked out. 398 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:46,200 Drunk unconscious. 399 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,200 You could still move around. 400 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,280 You could do what was done in that apartment. 401 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:52,960 But I couldn't. 402 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,080 Why would I want to do that? 403 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,080 Maybe you played too rough. 404 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,720 Maybe she tried to stop you, cut you with a knife. 405 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:01,720 Why did you run away? 406 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,720 I was scared. 407 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,800 Kenny said my hands were around her throat. 408 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:12,260 Well, I have to lock you up, and then I'll go back and have a good look around. 409 00:17:12,260 --> 00:17:14,280 Maybe I'll find something. 410 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:15,280 And if you don't? 411 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:16,280 Rachel's dead, Jefferson. 412 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:20,520 Wasn't premeditated, but that don't excuse it. 413 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,440 She's still dead. 414 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,920 They'll try to hang me. 415 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,960 Why can't I remember what happened, what led to this? 416 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:37,160 The sweat's rolling down Benjamin's forehead, collecting along the top of his glasses, sliding 417 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:38,160 into his eyes. 418 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,160 They smart and snap shut. 419 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,200 He has to stop, try to rub the sting away. 420 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,920 I slap out his glasses, knocking them off his face and grab for his gun. 421 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,480 His arm comes down fast, hard, chopping at my hand, numbing the arm to the shoulder, 422 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,440 and the gun falls to the road. 423 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:57,280 I run, hobbling up and down, lopsided, trying to get away from Benjamin and from the burning 424 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:58,640 and torn feet under me. 425 00:17:58,640 --> 00:17:59,640 Come back. 426 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:00,640 You can't get far. 427 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:05,640 I'll get you anyway. 428 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:10,120 I'm running again down the burning streets, out to the end of town toward the railroad. 429 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:17,000 I run till my legs slide away from under me, and then I crawl, dragging a body that has 430 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:23,360 no feeling, a dead weight that robs my arms of their strength. 431 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:29,680 Then finally, finally steel rails glisten ahead as I lay sprawled out, my heart and 432 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,000 lungs going crazy in my body. 433 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:46,880 Something starts down in my chest, spreads up to my throat, spilling out of my mouth. 434 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:56,360 I've had enough! 435 00:18:56,360 --> 00:19:02,160 An hour has passed, and the sun is moving away toward the west. 436 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,200 No trains have passed, but it's all right. 437 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,200 I know what I have to do now. 438 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:15,960 Find Kenny, in one way or another, forcing to tell the truth, for he must be lying. 439 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,120 I lick my handkerchief and I wipe the dried blood off my hands and feet. 440 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:23,640 I comb my hair, I throw away the army shirt and move back to town. 441 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:28,520 Stepping gently, I make my way up the back streets to the restaurant, pulling my pants 442 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:33,560 down low to cover as much of my bare feet as possible as I step inside. 443 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,840 There's a stranger behind the counter. 444 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:36,840 Well howdy. 445 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:37,840 Hi. 446 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,280 Say, where is everybody in this town? 447 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,440 Almost out at the carnival. 448 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,040 Some are looking for a killer roaming around. 449 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:45,760 Yeah, I heard about him. 450 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,920 Heard he was picked up a couple of miles off. 451 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:48,920 Good deal. 452 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,280 You know, Rachel worked here. 453 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:51,280 Yeah, I know. 454 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:52,280 Say, where's Kenny? 455 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,160 Oh, he's out at the Clovis place. 456 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,800 He wanted to be the one to tell Rachel's folks about, you know. 457 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,080 Sure, sure. 458 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,560 Well, I guess I ought to go out there and pick him up. 459 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,360 I don't know the place too well. 460 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:07,360 How do I get there? 461 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:08,360 Just follow this road down. 462 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:11,640 About a half a mile out of town, you'll find a dirt cutoff. 463 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:12,640 Can't miss the mailbox. 464 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:13,640 Thanks. 465 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,760 Say, if you miss him, who'll I say was asking? 466 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,680 Just tell him his cousin Jim was here. 467 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,320 Well, pleased to have met... 468 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,320 Hey, you ain't wearing shoes. 469 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:23,320 You, you're the one. 470 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:24,320 You're the killer. 471 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:30,040 Run, run, run again. 472 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,840 Another alley, blistering pavement, cement ripping in the jagged rocks again. 473 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,320 Time's running out, too. 474 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:36,320 Running out. 475 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:37,320 Benjamin will know where I'm going. 476 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:42,320 Out to the main highway, pants pulled low, thumb up in the air. 477 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,360 Here comes my ride. 478 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:45,360 He's got to stop. 479 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:46,360 He's got to. 480 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:47,360 Stop, please. 481 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:48,360 Applin, son. 482 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:49,360 Oh, thanks. 483 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:54,360 Thanks, mister, thanks a lot. 484 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:59,360 You're welcome, but I'm not going far. 485 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:01,680 Well, I'm just going out to the Clovis farm. 486 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,320 I know the place. 487 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:05,680 Why are you going there now? 488 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:06,840 I'm a cousin at Kenny's. 489 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,400 I'm going to meet him out there. 490 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:10,680 I don't please you. 491 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,720 I'm visiting from back east. 492 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,560 You're not wearing shoes. 493 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,760 Yeah, that's a silly thing, isn't it? 494 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,640 I lost my shoes while wading barefoot in a stream. 495 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,060 Didn't help my feet any. 496 00:21:24,060 --> 00:21:25,720 What stream is that, fella? 497 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,600 Well, you know the one. 498 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,720 I don't know the name of it. 499 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,520 It's out there in the woods. 500 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,920 Oh, yeah. 501 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,040 I think I know the one. 502 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,040 This is the dirt road you want. 503 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:40,560 House is over the rise. 504 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:41,560 Thanks again. 505 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:46,440 I'll see you. 506 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,200 I limp up the rising dirt path. 507 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,240 At the top, I turn for a look at my ride. 508 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,160 He's swinging around toward town. 509 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,440 Benjamin will get to me soon. 510 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,400 An old two-story farmhouse rises out of the cleared fields 511 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:01,360 around me. 512 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:03,600 A big gray barn stands off near the house, 513 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,680 and two old cars are sitting empty behind it. 514 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,480 Kenny's got to come to one of them. 515 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,880 I wait. 516 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,360 Time, still running out and away from me. 517 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:18,760 Little shimmering waves of heat rise off 518 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,320 the tin hoods of the cars. 519 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,960 Here he comes, now or never. 520 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:26,960 Hey! 521 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:27,960 Help! 522 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:28,960 Quiet! 523 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,120 Quiet or I'll break your back. 524 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,520 I want the truth, Kenny. 525 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,520 The truth, and I have to kill you for it. 526 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:35,960 I didn't kill Rachel. 527 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:36,840 You did! 528 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:37,920 I didn't! 529 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,240 I didn't! 530 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:40,120 You killed her. 531 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:41,120 You were crazy jealous. 532 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:41,920 No! 533 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:42,600 Yes! 534 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:43,720 You came to check up. 535 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,600 You found us drunk, and you got wild. 536 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:46,440 You killed her. 537 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:47,480 I didn't. 538 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:48,160 I can prove it. 539 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,680 How can you prove it? 540 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,120 That wasn't three minutes from the time 541 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:53,800 I left the restaurant and the time I called Benjamin. 542 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,520 Not enough time to get up there, kill her, 543 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,880 and bring you around. 544 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:57,520 Three minutes. 545 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,280 I can prove it. 546 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,520 That's all the time. 547 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:01,520 You did it. 548 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,520 You have cut hands from a knife. 549 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,400 Those hands were still around her throat when I came in. 550 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,840 You killed Rachel. 551 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,840 And there it is. 552 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,520 He isn't lying about the three minutes. 553 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,960 That gloating smirk in his face tells me that. 554 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,680 I had killed her. 555 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,440 The horror of this afternoon had been for nothing. 556 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,400 I tried to save my life, and instead, I proved myself guilty. 557 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,720 Tied the rope, finally, and for all time, around my neck. 558 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:31,760 Shoot him! 559 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:32,600 Don't you stand there. 560 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:32,920 Shoot! 561 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,440 He's the man who killed your daughter! 562 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,640 He stands there watching, the gaunt sliver 563 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,280 of a man with shins and freshly scarred wrists 564 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,800 exposed below the edges of his clothing. 565 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,520 A double-barreled shotgun is cradled in his arms, 566 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,840 but he just looks at me, a wild fire striking out 567 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,440 of the black pupils of his eyes. 568 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:54,920 Shoot him! 569 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:55,880 He killed your daughter! 570 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,920 He killed Rachel! 571 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,520 So you're her father. 572 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,240 I thought it was just another nickname. 573 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,800 She was no daughter of mine. 574 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:07,040 She was born to me, and I named her Rachel from the Bible. 575 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,920 But she was the daughter of Satan. 576 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,080 I'm sorry, Mr. Clover. 577 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,200 Go on, shoot him! 578 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,640 Because of him, Rachel's dead. 579 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:18,120 She ran away from me, but within me, the voice was strong. 580 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:21,680 I followed her, begging to the place where she lived. 581 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:22,400 I'm sorry. 582 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:23,400 I was drunk, crazy. 583 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:29,360 In that apartment, the stench of drink like an evil cloud, 584 00:24:29,360 --> 00:24:33,400 you lying there, drunk with the devil's fever. 585 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,720 You were there, shut up, you crazy old fool. 586 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:41,120 And it came to me, like a voice from on high, 587 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:42,760 I knew what I must do. 588 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,360 You killed her. 589 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,000 It wasn't me, it was you. 590 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:46,840 Now you did it. 591 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,040 Why couldn't you give your master? 592 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,160 And you knew he did it, Kenny. 593 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,160 You tried to make me believe that I'd been the one. 594 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:51,880 Why? 595 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,160 You, you and tramps like you, always keeping her from me, 596 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:57,440 coming along every time. 597 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:58,760 I couldn't know this, Kenny. 598 00:24:58,760 --> 00:24:59,480 You didn't care. 599 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,280 You laughed at me. 600 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,400 You made Rachel laugh at me. 601 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,760 I passed the old man when I went up. 602 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,560 I knew as soon as I walked into the room. 603 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:07,760 You tried to blame it on me. 604 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:08,960 Why not? 605 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,040 Wasn't a crazy old go-to killer. 606 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,640 Now you killed her, and you'll die for it. 607 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:14,760 Give me that gun, old man. 608 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:15,880 No, Kenny, not now. 609 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,000 Come on, turn around, soldier. 610 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,600 No, turn around and see it when it happens. 611 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,560 Put up your gun, Kenneth. 612 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:22,800 No. 613 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:23,280 No. 614 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 Get up, Jefferson. 615 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:44,800 We'll go home now. 616 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,000 The sun is moving down low in the skies, 617 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,680 and a cool light breeze has come up from somewhere. 618 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,680 I'm leaning back on the front seat beside Benjamin, 619 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,840 breathing deeply, evenly, feeling the goodness of just 620 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,200 living seep through. 621 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,120 In the back seat, old man Clovis sits, staring ahead, 622 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:07,840 not even aware of the blanket-wrapped body of Kenny 623 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,040 lying on the floor at his feet. 624 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,560 If you hadn't been so eager to run, 625 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,880 I could have saved your feet a lot of wear. 626 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,960 I knew you weren't a murderer, son. 627 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:17,960 You knew? 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