WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:19.600 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Too Hot to Live, a suspense play starring Mr. Richard 00:19.600 --> 00:22.600 Widmark. 00:22.600 --> 00:28.560 Hey, you! 00:28.560 --> 00:29.560 Freeloader. 00:29.560 --> 00:30.560 What? 00:30.560 --> 00:32.400 We don't sell tickets on this freight. 00:32.400 --> 00:33.400 Well, it was empty. 00:33.400 --> 00:34.680 I didn't think anybody'd mind. 00:34.680 --> 00:36.680 We're slowing down for a crossing. 00:36.680 --> 00:39.080 I don't want to find you when I come back. 00:39.080 --> 00:40.080 Where are we? 00:40.080 --> 00:41.880 Half mile from Marcus Junction. 00:41.880 --> 00:42.880 Thanks. 00:42.880 --> 00:43.880 Forget the thanks. 00:43.880 --> 00:44.880 Just beat it. 00:44.880 --> 00:48.080 Before somebody inquisitive starts asking questions. 00:48.080 --> 00:53.680 Yeah, don't they always? 00:53.680 --> 00:58.880 The train rolls by slowing and the crossing bell warns that death is here. 00:58.880 --> 01:01.080 I don't recognize it though. 01:01.080 --> 01:04.280 I walked toward Marcus Junction. 01:04.280 --> 01:09.480 Toward death. 01:09.480 --> 01:13.960 In just a moment, Mr. Richard Widmark, in the first act of Too Hot to Live. 01:13.960 --> 01:16.640 Well, hap, har the hobgoblins. 01:16.640 --> 01:18.560 Well, Halloween isn't here yet, Harlow. 01:18.560 --> 01:22.760 Soon will be, and that means the time has come to have your car made ready for the cold 01:22.760 --> 01:24.640 driving days ahead. 01:24.640 --> 01:27.560 And your friendly auto light spark plug dealer is the man to see. 01:27.560 --> 01:28.560 What'll he do, Harlow? 01:28.560 --> 01:32.880 Why, your auto light spark plug dealer will winterize your car, put in antifreeze, change 01:32.880 --> 01:33.880 the oil and grease. 01:33.880 --> 01:36.320 And check the spark plugs too. 01:36.320 --> 01:40.100 Thanks, Johnny Plug Check, for a worry saving reminder. 01:40.100 --> 01:42.720 Because spark plugs are the very heart of your car's ignition system. 01:42.720 --> 01:43.920 These are better than ever. 01:43.920 --> 01:46.280 You mean spark plugs need winterizing too? 01:46.280 --> 01:47.280 They sure do, hap. 01:47.280 --> 01:51.720 And that's why it pays to have your auto light spark plug dealer replace worn out spark 01:51.720 --> 01:56.600 plugs with world famous ignition engineered auto light spark plugs. 01:56.600 --> 02:00.600 Auto light spark plugs, you know, are ignition engineered to operate as a perfect team with 02:00.600 --> 02:02.840 your car's ignition system. 02:02.840 --> 02:07.480 That's why you can't buy better spark plugs for your car than auto light. 02:07.480 --> 02:10.520 So folks, see your friendly auto light spark plug dealer. 02:10.520 --> 02:14.360 Remember, you're always right with auto light. 02:14.360 --> 02:20.000 And now with Too Hot to Live and the performance of Mr. Richard Widmark, auto light hopes once 02:20.000 --> 02:32.080 again to keep you in suspense. 02:32.080 --> 02:37.920 The sun is 11 o'clock high and starting to pucker the tar road leading into Marcus Junction. 02:37.920 --> 02:39.520 I'm heading in. 02:39.520 --> 02:43.960 Sweats beginning to streak through the old sun tan uniform and my shoes are sucking tar 02:43.960 --> 02:45.800 every time I lift them. 02:45.800 --> 02:50.120 The sole of one boot busts loose and starts flapping against the road. 02:50.120 --> 02:51.120 That's bad. 02:51.120 --> 02:56.720 A drifter needs a good pair of shoes and I'm on the drift. 02:56.720 --> 03:01.400 Marcus Junction, no different than a thousand others like it. 03:01.400 --> 03:05.520 About a mile square of small buildings all pasted together. 03:05.520 --> 03:07.960 I walk a couple of blocks without finding a shoemaker. 03:07.960 --> 03:11.080 The town's almost empty this Saturday morning. 03:11.080 --> 03:15.080 And then a door opens ahead of me and a big man steps out. 03:15.080 --> 03:18.320 Really big both ways, big high, big wide. 03:18.320 --> 03:23.680 He's wearing steel rimmed glasses screwed up tight above the pug nose of his round face. 03:23.680 --> 03:27.880 And six full inches of hat brim circle the pink flesh like a halo. 03:27.880 --> 03:30.400 All right, good morning, son. 03:30.400 --> 03:32.760 My name's Benjamin, Benjamin Maxwell. 03:32.760 --> 03:34.760 Oh, good morning, Mr. Maxwell. 03:34.760 --> 03:36.560 Benjamin, son. 03:36.560 --> 03:38.320 Call me Benjamin. 03:38.320 --> 03:41.960 That's the handle that shakes this pump. 03:41.960 --> 03:42.960 What's yours, boy? 03:42.960 --> 03:43.960 Jeff Casey. 03:43.960 --> 03:45.560 Jeffrey or Jefferson? 03:45.560 --> 03:46.560 Jefferson. 03:46.560 --> 03:47.560 Jefferson. 03:47.560 --> 03:48.560 That's a good name. 03:48.560 --> 03:53.800 Yeah, now look, don't think I'm changing the subject, but where can I get this fixed, 03:53.800 --> 03:54.800 Benjamin? 03:54.800 --> 03:55.800 Well, pretty socks. 03:55.800 --> 03:58.360 Yeah, they are at that. 03:58.360 --> 04:00.080 But who take care of this shoe? 04:00.080 --> 04:02.680 I'm going down to Stacey's for a coke. 04:02.680 --> 04:05.000 Shoe fixtures right next door. 04:05.000 --> 04:08.000 Come along, Jefferson. 04:08.000 --> 04:16.720 As we turn to walk, I see his left side, gun holstered high up on his hip and the gold star 04:16.720 --> 04:19.720 with the word sheriff glinting in the sunlight. 04:19.720 --> 04:21.840 Still wearing your old army clothes. 04:21.840 --> 04:24.680 I hear those duds wear like iron. 04:24.680 --> 04:28.840 You just throw them away when they start to rust. 04:28.840 --> 04:30.160 Uniforms wear forever. 04:30.160 --> 04:31.920 These have seen their last war. 04:31.920 --> 04:33.280 What were you in, boy? 04:33.280 --> 04:34.720 Air Corps, captain. 04:34.720 --> 04:37.820 Pretty uniforms, sweet pay and lots of respect. 04:37.820 --> 04:39.840 You miss it, Jefferson? 04:39.840 --> 04:40.840 Maybe I do. 04:40.840 --> 04:42.320 What are you looking for now? 04:42.320 --> 04:46.960 I'm not looking for anything, just living, more or less. 04:46.960 --> 04:50.480 Oh, man ought to find more to do with his life than that. 04:50.480 --> 04:52.400 It's all the same to me. 04:52.400 --> 04:55.760 I could die today and it wouldn't make any difference. 04:55.760 --> 05:00.160 You got a bad taste in your mouth, but you'll spit it out someday. 05:00.160 --> 05:03.920 See, how do you like this weather? 05:03.920 --> 05:08.080 If it gets any warmer, it'll be almost too hot to live. 05:08.080 --> 05:11.760 In a manner of speaking, you understand? 05:11.760 --> 05:13.480 Yeah, I understand. 05:13.480 --> 05:15.920 Here's the shoe repair. 05:15.920 --> 05:17.400 I'll be next door. 05:17.400 --> 05:21.000 Leave your shoes and waddle in on them pretty socks of yours. 05:21.000 --> 05:28.560 I'll buy you a drink, Coke or coffee. 05:28.560 --> 05:32.400 The shoemaker tells me that my shoes will take a couple of hours so I start next door 05:32.400 --> 05:34.400 to join Benjamin. 05:34.400 --> 05:39.320 I don't know, maybe I'm feeling pretty good, but I pull an old schoolboy trick of mine. 05:39.320 --> 05:43.600 I take off my socks, roll them up and throw them on the counter with my shoes. 05:43.600 --> 05:47.840 Then I walk outside to feel the cool shaded cement prickle up through the bottom of my 05:47.840 --> 05:49.880 bare feet. 05:49.880 --> 05:53.360 Through the store window next door, I see the four people in the restaurant. 05:53.360 --> 05:55.800 Benjamin waves for me to come in. 05:55.800 --> 06:00.560 Inside the entrance, a blonde waitress is arguing with a tall sliver of a man who's 06:00.560 --> 06:05.360 showing about three inches of wrist and shin bone below the edges of his clothes. 06:05.360 --> 06:11.160 The squat moon-faced grill man has his Popeyes focused intently on the argument. 06:11.160 --> 06:15.160 I go in, walk over to Benjamin and sit on the next stool. 06:15.160 --> 06:16.160 Oh, Jefferson. 06:16.160 --> 06:17.160 Hi, Benjamin. 06:17.160 --> 06:18.160 Came for that coffee. 06:18.160 --> 06:19.160 In a minute. 06:19.160 --> 06:20.160 Rachel's about finished. 06:20.160 --> 06:21.160 I had somewhere else, Pop. 06:21.160 --> 06:22.160 Let me alone now. 06:22.160 --> 06:23.160 I'm busy. 06:23.160 --> 06:24.160 And all her sins must find her out. 06:24.160 --> 06:25.160 He's a Jezebel and kin only to the devil. 06:25.160 --> 06:26.160 Yeah, I know. 06:26.160 --> 06:27.160 I'm busy. 06:27.160 --> 06:30.760 He's a Jezebel and kin only to the devil. 06:30.760 --> 06:31.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 06:31.760 --> 06:32.760 You'll find it on the menu next week. 06:32.760 --> 06:33.760 Now, find yourself a street corner. 06:33.760 --> 06:34.760 Get it out of your system. 06:34.760 --> 06:35.760 Oh, you are bad. 06:35.760 --> 06:36.760 Bad beyond all hope. 06:36.760 --> 06:37.760 See you around, Pop. 06:37.760 --> 06:38.760 I don't hope. 06:38.760 --> 06:39.760 The girl plays rough. 06:39.760 --> 06:40.760 Oh, that's just Rachel's way, Jefferson. 06:40.760 --> 06:41.760 Hey, I see you lean to bare feet. 06:41.760 --> 06:42.760 What's your friend having, Buster? 06:42.760 --> 06:43.760 Benjamin, Rachel. 06:43.760 --> 06:44.760 May be smart to tack nicknames on people. 06:44.760 --> 06:45.760 I'm not sure. 06:45.760 --> 06:46.760 I'm not sure. 06:46.760 --> 06:47.760 I'm not sure. 06:47.760 --> 06:48.760 I'm not sure. 06:48.760 --> 06:49.760 I'm not sure. 06:49.760 --> 06:50.760 I'm not sure. 06:50.760 --> 06:51.760 I'm not sure. 06:51.760 --> 06:52.760 I'm not sure. 06:52.760 --> 06:53.760 I'm not sure. 06:53.760 --> 06:54.760 I'm not sure. 06:54.760 --> 06:59.880 May be smart to tack nicknames on people, but my folks figured me for a Benjamin, and 06:59.880 --> 07:01.160 I'd like it that way. 07:01.160 --> 07:02.160 Sure, Buster. 07:02.160 --> 07:04.480 Let it be, soldier. 07:04.480 --> 07:05.880 Black coffee, lady. 07:05.880 --> 07:07.520 And don't let the uniform throw you. 07:07.520 --> 07:10.800 I'm no soldier anymore. 07:10.800 --> 07:15.800 The Hollywood line of her mouth twists up into a lopsided kind of inviting grin as she 07:15.800 --> 07:17.800 turns to get the coffee. 07:17.800 --> 07:23.520 I watch the dark shadows that follow the rippling lines of her uniform when she moves. 07:23.520 --> 07:25.960 Rachel is quite a woman. 07:25.960 --> 07:26.960 All woman. 07:26.960 --> 07:27.960 Coffee. 07:27.960 --> 07:28.960 Barefoot. 07:28.960 --> 07:29.960 Like you, soldier. 07:29.960 --> 07:34.440 Your friend's real pretty, Buster. 07:34.440 --> 07:35.920 You think everybody's pretty. 07:35.920 --> 07:37.800 He's a doll. 07:37.800 --> 07:39.680 You be around long, soldier? 07:39.680 --> 07:42.920 Long enough to get my shoes fixed, Rachel. 07:42.920 --> 07:45.560 Rachel. 07:45.560 --> 07:47.560 You know, that name doesn't go with you. 07:47.560 --> 07:49.240 It's a name. 07:49.240 --> 07:50.680 Too bad you're moving on soon. 07:50.680 --> 07:53.640 New faces are scarce around here. 07:53.640 --> 07:55.960 Especially one like yours. 07:55.960 --> 08:00.480 Well, I've got some law to enforce. 08:00.480 --> 08:02.600 Will I see you before you go, Jefferson? 08:02.600 --> 08:03.920 I'll find you, Benjamin. 08:03.920 --> 08:04.920 Do that, boy. 08:04.920 --> 08:07.920 I'm afraid to face that heat out there. 08:07.920 --> 08:10.680 Now, you behave yourself, Rachel. 08:10.680 --> 08:12.920 Yes, well. 08:12.920 --> 08:15.200 You like playing it tough? 08:15.200 --> 08:18.920 Under it all beats the heart of gold. 08:18.920 --> 08:21.640 Tell me what it's like in the world outside, soldier. 08:21.640 --> 08:25.160 Hey, Rachel, why don't you put up some more coffee? 08:25.160 --> 08:26.320 Tend to your bacon lover. 08:26.320 --> 08:27.320 I got company. 08:27.320 --> 08:28.320 Your boyfriend? 08:28.320 --> 08:29.320 Lover boy, there? 08:29.320 --> 08:30.320 No, that's Kenny. 08:30.320 --> 08:32.320 He's keeping company with a hot grill. 08:32.320 --> 08:34.680 You're hardening to talk about me like that, Rachel. 08:34.680 --> 08:35.680 Not very nice. 08:35.680 --> 08:38.720 Well, then don't bother me while I'm with my friends. 08:38.720 --> 08:43.080 Hey, soldier, I'm off about now. 08:43.080 --> 08:45.400 Let you and me go out to the carnival for a couple hours, huh? 08:45.400 --> 08:46.400 Hey, you. 08:46.400 --> 08:47.400 You let her alone. 08:47.400 --> 08:49.800 Don't you go with her, you hear? 08:49.800 --> 08:51.800 Yeah, I hear, Kenny. 08:51.800 --> 08:55.960 Well, I'd like to, Rachel, but how do I go barefoot? 08:55.960 --> 08:58.520 Oh, I forgot. 08:58.520 --> 09:00.280 Got any other ideas? 09:00.280 --> 09:05.280 Yeah, matter of fact, I live upstairs over this greasy spoon. 09:05.280 --> 09:09.000 Let's go up and mix ourselves something cool while we wait for your shoes. 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 You can't do that. 09:10.000 --> 09:11.000 It is nice. 09:11.000 --> 09:12.680 It don't look right. 09:12.680 --> 09:13.680 Don't it? 09:13.680 --> 09:15.040 Come on, let's go, Rachel. 09:15.040 --> 09:16.040 Don't you? 09:16.040 --> 09:17.040 No, you can't. 09:17.040 --> 09:18.040 I'll stop you. 09:18.040 --> 09:21.520 Go hash some potatoes, lover. 09:21.520 --> 09:22.520 My arms, soldier. 09:22.520 --> 09:23.520 No, no, Rachel. 09:23.520 --> 09:26.080 Hey, look, I'll get someone to tend here. 09:26.080 --> 09:27.080 I'll come right up. 09:27.080 --> 09:31.200 You do, and I'll barbecue you on your own grill. 09:31.200 --> 09:36.240 We go out and my feet scruff over the shaded pavement as we pass through the doorway on 09:36.240 --> 09:37.240 the left. 09:37.240 --> 09:42.520 I follow her up a flight of stairs and into a small box-like apartment, living room, bedroom, 09:42.520 --> 09:44.520 kitchen, and bathroom. 09:44.520 --> 09:47.600 Be it ever so humble, this is home. 09:47.600 --> 09:49.760 Let's kick out a wall or something. 09:49.760 --> 09:52.480 The windows don't help much, but the drinks will. 09:52.480 --> 09:56.120 Hey, why do you have to lean into the kitchen? 09:56.120 --> 09:57.520 Why not just walk in? 09:57.520 --> 09:58.880 Fresh varnish on the floor. 09:58.880 --> 10:00.880 The heat don't let it dry. 10:00.880 --> 10:04.440 It's a long reach for a long drink. 10:04.440 --> 10:06.440 It's a long day. 10:06.440 --> 10:11.400 Well, here you go, soldier. 10:11.400 --> 10:14.080 Don't you believe in mixing anything with your liquor? 10:14.080 --> 10:17.600 Wherefore, the cubes will melt. 10:17.600 --> 10:20.600 What do we drink to, soldier? 10:20.600 --> 10:22.320 The heat? 10:22.320 --> 10:25.320 The heat. 10:25.320 --> 10:30.840 Cools you off, don't it? 10:30.840 --> 10:33.360 It burns its way down my stomach and explodes. 10:33.360 --> 10:34.360 That's good, soldier. 10:34.360 --> 10:36.480 My pores open and the perspiration oozes down. 10:36.480 --> 10:37.480 Here, let's have another. 10:37.480 --> 10:39.480 She's still talking, but I'm going numb. 10:39.480 --> 10:40.480 Let's drink to my conscience. 10:40.480 --> 10:41.480 The heat. 10:41.480 --> 10:42.480 No food I shouldn't be drinking. 10:42.480 --> 10:43.480 You're really... 10:43.480 --> 10:44.480 Who cares? 10:44.480 --> 10:45.480 You're a real piece of shit. 10:45.480 --> 10:47.240 I'm getting foggy. 10:47.240 --> 10:48.240 She's drifting closer. 10:48.240 --> 10:51.240 I don't know who kisses who first. 10:51.240 --> 10:56.160 Bitter tears, tears of loneliness and regret. 10:56.160 --> 10:57.160 Let's drink to us this time. 10:57.160 --> 10:58.160 Everything's moving around. 10:58.160 --> 10:59.160 Us. 10:59.160 --> 11:00.760 Like feathers in the high wind. 11:00.760 --> 11:02.320 You're a real piece of shit. 11:02.320 --> 11:11.680 Sometimes one drifts in through the fog. 11:11.680 --> 11:13.280 We're drinking. 11:13.280 --> 11:14.280 How many? 11:14.280 --> 11:15.280 I don't know. 11:15.280 --> 11:16.280 Another drink. 11:16.280 --> 11:17.280 Breathing, sucking down scorchy air. 11:17.280 --> 11:18.280 Hot, damp waves of heat suffocating. 11:18.280 --> 11:19.280 Wimsy, filthy. 11:19.280 --> 11:20.280 Here's another glass. 11:20.280 --> 11:21.280 Scorch. 11:21.280 --> 11:24.280 Can smell perfume cheap like tin earrings. 11:24.280 --> 11:25.280 Black rolling in. 11:25.280 --> 11:28.280 Black velvet. 11:28.280 --> 11:33.280 And the shimmering heat wavering like plucking a taut string. 11:33.280 --> 11:45.040 Wavering, wavering, wavering. 11:45.040 --> 11:47.800 There's a steady sound, sharp, smart little cracks. 11:47.800 --> 11:50.760 I tear my eyelids apart and a flash of ceiling whirrs by. 11:50.760 --> 11:56.120 A purple-red mass is coming toward my face and when it hits, there's a sound in the ceiling 11:56.120 --> 11:57.120 moving the other way. 11:57.120 --> 11:58.120 Laugh this off. 11:58.120 --> 11:59.120 Laugh now, I don't... 11:59.120 --> 12:03.680 A frozen kind of pain is seeping through to my brain and I can make out a voice now. 12:03.680 --> 12:04.680 Then laugh. 12:04.680 --> 12:05.680 I want to hear you laugh. 12:05.680 --> 12:08.680 I get my hand up to my face and I wipe my eyes. 12:08.680 --> 12:09.680 Come on, wake up. 12:09.680 --> 12:10.680 My hand comes away wet. 12:10.680 --> 12:11.680 Can you hear me? 12:11.680 --> 12:12.680 Sticky and red. 12:12.680 --> 12:17.480 The ugly purple mass comes. 12:17.480 --> 12:18.480 Wake now. 12:18.480 --> 12:19.480 Swell. 12:19.480 --> 12:20.480 I got something for you. 12:20.480 --> 12:21.480 Leave me alone. 12:21.480 --> 12:22.480 There, in the corner of the kitchen. 12:22.480 --> 12:23.480 See how she's lying there? 12:23.480 --> 12:24.480 Take your hands off me. 12:24.480 --> 12:25.480 That's how I found her. 12:25.480 --> 12:26.480 You're a real piece of shit. 12:26.480 --> 12:27.480 I'm not a piece of shit. 12:27.480 --> 12:28.480 I'm a piece of shit. 12:28.480 --> 12:32.160 You beside her and your filthy hands still tied around her throat. 12:32.160 --> 12:34.800 What's the matter with my hands? 12:34.800 --> 12:35.800 It's sticky. 12:35.800 --> 12:36.800 Wet. 12:36.800 --> 12:38.280 That's varnish and blood, your blood. 12:38.280 --> 12:40.160 See that knife in her hand? 12:40.160 --> 12:42.600 She cut you trying to stop you. 12:42.600 --> 12:44.120 You killed her. 12:44.120 --> 12:51.160 You killed Rachel. 12:51.160 --> 12:53.600 He doesn't make any kind of sense. 12:53.600 --> 12:58.120 The bathroom door's open and I staggered toward it, stepping on broken glass, pain stinging, 12:58.120 --> 12:59.760 remembering bare feet. 12:59.760 --> 13:01.680 The open shower waiting for me. 13:01.680 --> 13:05.720 I turn the handle of the cold water and I half throw myself into the shock of the stream. 13:05.720 --> 13:07.720 I'm coming alive. 13:07.720 --> 13:09.720 Reaction's sick. 13:09.720 --> 13:11.200 Fright. 13:11.200 --> 13:12.200 He said I killed him. 13:12.200 --> 13:13.200 Hey, Saris. 13:13.200 --> 13:14.200 Benjamin. 13:14.200 --> 13:15.200 Hey, Benjamin, come up here. 13:15.200 --> 13:16.200 I got a dirty killer for you. 13:16.200 --> 13:17.200 That lousy friend of yours killed Rachel. 13:17.200 --> 13:18.200 Come and get him. 13:18.200 --> 13:19.200 Kenny's shot. 13:19.200 --> 13:30.880 He's shouting out the window in the other room to Benjamin. 13:30.880 --> 13:31.880 I gotta get away. 13:31.880 --> 13:32.880 I gotta think. 13:32.880 --> 13:33.880 What happened? 13:33.880 --> 13:34.880 What? 13:34.880 --> 13:39.080 I get through the bathroom window out into the glare of the sun. 13:39.080 --> 13:41.840 My feet hit the scalding tar of the marquee. 13:41.840 --> 13:45.960 I scramble across it, drop to the street, a narrow alley, and I'm running down it toward 13:45.960 --> 13:48.040 the fence that blocks off the far end. 13:48.040 --> 13:51.000 A garbage can near the fence and a woman putting something into it. 13:51.000 --> 13:52.000 I jump, reaching for the fence. 13:52.000 --> 13:53.000 Hey, what do you think you're doing? 13:53.000 --> 13:54.000 Let me go. 13:54.000 --> 13:55.000 Let go. 13:55.000 --> 13:56.000 Pick up that garbage, you crazy... 13:56.000 --> 13:57.000 Let go. 13:57.000 --> 13:58.000 I didn't do it. 13:58.000 --> 13:59.000 What do you mean? 13:59.000 --> 14:00.000 I saw you kick it over. 14:00.000 --> 14:01.000 I'm not gonna clean up that mess. 14:01.000 --> 14:02.000 I didn't kill her. 14:02.000 --> 14:03.000 Take your hands off me. 14:03.000 --> 14:04.000 Why would I kill Rachel? 14:04.000 --> 14:05.000 Why would you kill... 14:05.000 --> 14:06.000 All right, Jefferson. 14:06.000 --> 14:07.000 Come along and tell me why you killed Rachel. 14:07.000 --> 14:29.240 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Richard Widmark in Too Hot to Live, tonight's production in 14:29.240 --> 14:41.960 Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspend. 14:41.960 --> 14:44.400 Hey, Hap, did you hear about the wise witch? 14:44.400 --> 14:45.640 What about her, Harlow? 14:45.640 --> 14:47.760 She brought her broom in for a tune up. 14:47.760 --> 14:51.720 The Auto Light spark plug dealer tightened the straws, tightened the handles... 14:51.720 --> 14:54.760 And checked the spark plugs too. 14:54.760 --> 14:57.980 He would have if that broom had had them, Johnny Plug Check. 14:57.980 --> 15:02.880 Spark plugs are the heart of a car's ignition system, one of the keys to efficient engine 15:02.880 --> 15:03.880 operation. 15:03.880 --> 15:05.320 And did the witch understand, Harlow? 15:05.320 --> 15:10.280 Why sure, Hap, being a sage sorceress, she knew all about ignition engineered Auto Light 15:10.280 --> 15:15.040 spark plugs, the spark plugs that are world famous for quality and dependability. 15:15.040 --> 15:19.840 Why she even knew that Auto Light spark plugs are used as original factory equipment on 15:19.840 --> 15:22.720 many leading makes of America's finest cars and trucks. 15:22.720 --> 15:25.520 Did she know it pays to have spark plugs winterized too? 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16:36.760 --> 16:38.640 I didn't kill her, Benjamin. 16:38.640 --> 16:41.200 I don't remember, but I know I didn't kill her. 16:41.200 --> 16:42.200 You don't sound sure, Jefferson. 16:42.200 --> 16:43.200 Don't you know? 16:43.200 --> 16:44.200 Well, we were drinking. 16:44.200 --> 16:45.200 I blacked out. 16:45.200 --> 16:46.200 Drunk unconscious. 16:46.200 --> 16:48.200 You could still move around. 16:48.200 --> 16:51.280 You could do what was done in that apartment. 16:51.280 --> 16:52.960 But I couldn't. 16:52.960 --> 16:55.080 Why would I want to do that? 16:55.080 --> 16:57.080 Maybe you played too rough. 16:57.080 --> 17:00.720 Maybe she tried to stop you, cut you with a knife. 17:00.720 --> 17:01.720 Why did you run away? 17:01.720 --> 17:04.720 I was scared. 17:04.720 --> 17:06.800 Kenny said my hands were around her throat. 17:06.800 --> 17:12.260 Well, I have to lock you up, and then I'll go back and have a good look around. 17:12.260 --> 17:14.280 Maybe I'll find something. 17:14.280 --> 17:15.280 And if you don't? 17:15.280 --> 17:16.280 Rachel's dead, Jefferson. 17:16.280 --> 17:20.520 Wasn't premeditated, but that don't excuse it. 17:20.520 --> 17:23.440 She's still dead. 17:23.440 --> 17:27.920 They'll try to hang me. 17:27.920 --> 17:32.960 Why can't I remember what happened, what led to this? 17:32.960 --> 17:37.160 The sweat's rolling down Benjamin's forehead, collecting along the top of his glasses, sliding 17:37.160 --> 17:38.160 into his eyes. 17:38.160 --> 17:40.160 They smart and snap shut. 17:40.160 --> 17:43.200 He has to stop, try to rub the sting away. 17:43.200 --> 17:46.920 I slap out his glasses, knocking them off his face and grab for his gun. 17:46.920 --> 17:50.480 His arm comes down fast, hard, chopping at my hand, numbing the arm to the shoulder, 17:50.480 --> 17:52.440 and the gun falls to the road. 17:52.440 --> 17:57.280 I run, hobbling up and down, lopsided, trying to get away from Benjamin and from the burning 17:57.280 --> 17:58.640 and torn feet under me. 17:58.640 --> 17:59.640 Come back. 17:59.640 --> 18:00.640 You can't get far. 18:00.640 --> 18:05.640 I'll get you anyway. 18:05.640 --> 18:10.120 I'm running again down the burning streets, out to the end of town toward the railroad. 18:10.120 --> 18:17.000 I run till my legs slide away from under me, and then I crawl, dragging a body that has 18:17.000 --> 18:23.360 no feeling, a dead weight that robs my arms of their strength. 18:23.360 --> 18:29.680 Then finally, finally steel rails glisten ahead as I lay sprawled out, my heart and 18:29.680 --> 18:34.000 lungs going crazy in my body. 18:34.000 --> 18:46.880 Something starts down in my chest, spreads up to my throat, spilling out of my mouth. 18:46.880 --> 18:56.360 I've had enough! 18:56.360 --> 19:02.160 An hour has passed, and the sun is moving away toward the west. 19:02.160 --> 19:05.200 No trains have passed, but it's all right. 19:05.200 --> 19:08.200 I know what I have to do now. 19:08.200 --> 19:15.960 Find Kenny, in one way or another, forcing to tell the truth, for he must be lying. 19:15.960 --> 19:19.120 I lick my handkerchief and I wipe the dried blood off my hands and feet. 19:19.120 --> 19:23.640 I comb my hair, I throw away the army shirt and move back to town. 19:23.640 --> 19:28.520 Stepping gently, I make my way up the back streets to the restaurant, pulling my pants 19:28.520 --> 19:33.560 down low to cover as much of my bare feet as possible as I step inside. 19:33.560 --> 19:35.840 There's a stranger behind the counter. 19:35.840 --> 19:36.840 Well howdy. 19:36.840 --> 19:37.840 Hi. 19:37.840 --> 19:40.280 Say, where is everybody in this town? 19:40.280 --> 19:42.440 Almost out at the carnival. 19:42.440 --> 19:44.040 Some are looking for a killer roaming around. 19:44.040 --> 19:45.760 Yeah, I heard about him. 19:45.760 --> 19:47.920 Heard he was picked up a couple of miles off. 19:47.920 --> 19:48.920 Good deal. 19:48.920 --> 19:50.280 You know, Rachel worked here. 19:50.280 --> 19:51.280 Yeah, I know. 19:51.280 --> 19:52.280 Say, where's Kenny? 19:52.280 --> 19:55.160 Oh, he's out at the Clovis place. 19:55.160 --> 19:58.800 He wanted to be the one to tell Rachel's folks about, you know. 19:58.800 --> 20:00.080 Sure, sure. 20:00.080 --> 20:04.560 Well, I guess I ought to go out there and pick him up. 20:04.560 --> 20:06.360 I don't know the place too well. 20:06.360 --> 20:07.360 How do I get there? 20:07.360 --> 20:08.360 Just follow this road down. 20:08.360 --> 20:11.640 About a half a mile out of town, you'll find a dirt cutoff. 20:11.640 --> 20:12.640 Can't miss the mailbox. 20:12.640 --> 20:13.640 Thanks. 20:13.640 --> 20:16.760 Say, if you miss him, who'll I say was asking? 20:16.760 --> 20:18.680 Just tell him his cousin Jim was here. 20:18.680 --> 20:20.320 Well, pleased to have met... 20:20.320 --> 20:22.320 Hey, you ain't wearing shoes. 20:22.320 --> 20:23.320 You, you're the one. 20:23.320 --> 20:24.320 You're the killer. 20:24.320 --> 20:30.040 Run, run, run again. 20:30.040 --> 20:33.840 Another alley, blistering pavement, cement ripping in the jagged rocks again. 20:33.840 --> 20:35.320 Time's running out, too. 20:35.320 --> 20:36.320 Running out. 20:36.320 --> 20:37.320 Benjamin will know where I'm going. 20:37.320 --> 20:42.320 Out to the main highway, pants pulled low, thumb up in the air. 20:42.320 --> 20:44.360 Here comes my ride. 20:44.360 --> 20:45.360 He's got to stop. 20:45.360 --> 20:46.360 He's got to. 20:46.360 --> 20:47.360 Stop, please. 20:47.360 --> 20:48.360 Applin, son. 20:48.360 --> 20:49.360 Oh, thanks. 20:49.360 --> 20:54.360 Thanks, mister, thanks a lot. 20:54.360 --> 20:59.360 You're welcome, but I'm not going far. 20:59.360 --> 21:01.680 Well, I'm just going out to the Clovis farm. 21:01.680 --> 21:04.320 I know the place. 21:04.320 --> 21:05.680 Why are you going there now? 21:05.680 --> 21:06.840 I'm a cousin at Kenny's. 21:06.840 --> 21:09.400 I'm going to meet him out there. 21:09.400 --> 21:10.680 I don't please you. 21:10.680 --> 21:12.720 I'm visiting from back east. 21:12.720 --> 21:15.560 You're not wearing shoes. 21:15.560 --> 21:18.760 Yeah, that's a silly thing, isn't it? 21:18.760 --> 21:22.640 I lost my shoes while wading barefoot in a stream. 21:22.640 --> 21:24.060 Didn't help my feet any. 21:24.060 --> 21:25.720 What stream is that, fella? 21:25.720 --> 21:27.600 Well, you know the one. 21:27.600 --> 21:29.720 I don't know the name of it. 21:29.720 --> 21:31.520 It's out there in the woods. 21:31.520 --> 21:33.920 Oh, yeah. 21:33.920 --> 21:37.040 I think I know the one. 21:37.040 --> 21:39.040 This is the dirt road you want. 21:39.040 --> 21:40.560 House is over the rise. 21:40.560 --> 21:41.560 Thanks again. 21:41.560 --> 21:46.440 I'll see you. 21:46.440 --> 21:49.200 I limp up the rising dirt path. 21:49.200 --> 21:51.240 At the top, I turn for a look at my ride. 21:51.240 --> 21:54.160 He's swinging around toward town. 21:54.160 --> 21:57.440 Benjamin will get to me soon. 21:57.440 --> 22:00.400 An old two-story farmhouse rises out of the cleared fields 22:00.400 --> 22:01.360 around me. 22:01.360 --> 22:03.600 A big gray barn stands off near the house, 22:03.600 --> 22:06.680 and two old cars are sitting empty behind it. 22:06.680 --> 22:09.480 Kenny's got to come to one of them. 22:09.480 --> 22:11.880 I wait. 22:11.880 --> 22:16.360 Time, still running out and away from me. 22:16.360 --> 22:18.760 Little shimmering waves of heat rise off 22:18.760 --> 22:22.320 the tin hoods of the cars. 22:22.320 --> 22:25.960 Here he comes, now or never. 22:25.960 --> 22:26.960 Hey! 22:26.960 --> 22:27.960 Help! 22:27.960 --> 22:28.960 Quiet! 22:28.960 --> 22:31.120 Quiet or I'll break your back. 22:31.120 --> 22:32.520 I want the truth, Kenny. 22:32.520 --> 22:34.520 The truth, and I have to kill you for it. 22:34.520 --> 22:35.960 I didn't kill Rachel. 22:35.960 --> 22:36.840 You did! 22:36.840 --> 22:37.920 I didn't! 22:37.920 --> 22:39.240 I didn't! 22:39.240 --> 22:40.120 You killed her. 22:40.120 --> 22:41.120 You were crazy jealous. 22:41.120 --> 22:41.920 No! 22:41.920 --> 22:42.600 Yes! 22:42.600 --> 22:43.720 You came to check up. 22:43.720 --> 22:45.600 You found us drunk, and you got wild. 22:45.600 --> 22:46.440 You killed her. 22:46.440 --> 22:47.480 I didn't. 22:47.480 --> 22:48.160 I can prove it. 22:48.160 --> 22:49.680 How can you prove it? 22:49.680 --> 22:51.120 That wasn't three minutes from the time 22:51.120 --> 22:53.800 I left the restaurant and the time I called Benjamin. 22:53.800 --> 22:55.520 Not enough time to get up there, kill her, 22:55.520 --> 22:56.880 and bring you around. 22:56.880 --> 22:57.520 Three minutes. 22:57.520 --> 22:59.280 I can prove it. 22:59.280 --> 23:00.520 That's all the time. 23:00.520 --> 23:01.520 You did it. 23:01.520 --> 23:03.520 You have cut hands from a knife. 23:03.520 --> 23:06.400 Those hands were still around her throat when I came in. 23:06.400 --> 23:07.840 You killed Rachel. 23:13.080 --> 23:14.840 And there it is. 23:14.840 --> 23:16.520 He isn't lying about the three minutes. 23:16.520 --> 23:19.960 That gloating smirk in his face tells me that. 23:19.960 --> 23:21.680 I had killed her. 23:21.680 --> 23:24.440 The horror of this afternoon had been for nothing. 23:24.440 --> 23:27.400 I tried to save my life, and instead, I proved myself guilty. 23:27.400 --> 23:30.720 Tied the rope, finally, and for all time, around my neck. 23:30.720 --> 23:31.760 Shoot him! 23:31.760 --> 23:32.600 Don't you stand there. 23:32.600 --> 23:32.920 Shoot! 23:32.920 --> 23:34.440 He's the man who killed your daughter! 23:38.760 --> 23:41.640 He stands there watching, the gaunt sliver 23:41.640 --> 23:44.280 of a man with shins and freshly scarred wrists 23:44.280 --> 23:46.800 exposed below the edges of his clothing. 23:46.800 --> 23:49.520 A double-barreled shotgun is cradled in his arms, 23:49.520 --> 23:52.840 but he just looks at me, a wild fire striking out 23:52.840 --> 23:54.440 of the black pupils of his eyes. 23:54.440 --> 23:54.920 Shoot him! 23:54.920 --> 23:55.880 He killed your daughter! 23:55.880 --> 23:56.920 He killed Rachel! 23:56.920 --> 23:58.520 So you're her father. 23:58.520 --> 24:00.240 I thought it was just another nickname. 24:00.240 --> 24:02.800 She was no daughter of mine. 24:02.800 --> 24:07.040 She was born to me, and I named her Rachel from the Bible. 24:07.040 --> 24:08.920 But she was the daughter of Satan. 24:08.920 --> 24:10.080 I'm sorry, Mr. Clover. 24:10.080 --> 24:11.200 Go on, shoot him! 24:11.200 --> 24:12.640 Because of him, Rachel's dead. 24:12.640 --> 24:18.120 She ran away from me, but within me, the voice was strong. 24:18.120 --> 24:21.680 I followed her, begging to the place where she lived. 24:21.680 --> 24:22.400 I'm sorry. 24:22.400 --> 24:23.400 I was drunk, crazy. 24:23.400 --> 24:29.360 In that apartment, the stench of drink like an evil cloud, 24:29.360 --> 24:33.400 you lying there, drunk with the devil's fever. 24:33.400 --> 24:35.720 You were there, shut up, you crazy old fool. 24:35.720 --> 24:41.120 And it came to me, like a voice from on high, 24:41.120 --> 24:42.760 I knew what I must do. 24:42.760 --> 24:44.360 You killed her. 24:44.360 --> 24:46.000 It wasn't me, it was you. 24:46.000 --> 24:46.840 Now you did it. 24:46.840 --> 24:48.040 Why couldn't you give your master? 24:48.040 --> 24:49.160 And you knew he did it, Kenny. 24:49.160 --> 24:51.160 You tried to make me believe that I'd been the one. 24:51.160 --> 24:51.880 Why? 24:51.880 --> 24:56.160 You, you and tramps like you, always keeping her from me, 24:56.160 --> 24:57.440 coming along every time. 24:57.440 --> 24:58.760 I couldn't know this, Kenny. 24:58.760 --> 24:59.480 You didn't care. 24:59.480 --> 25:00.280 You laughed at me. 25:00.280 --> 25:02.400 You made Rachel laugh at me. 25:02.400 --> 25:04.760 I passed the old man when I went up. 25:04.760 --> 25:06.560 I knew as soon as I walked into the room. 25:06.560 --> 25:07.760 You tried to blame it on me. 25:07.760 --> 25:08.960 Why not? 25:08.960 --> 25:11.040 Wasn't a crazy old go-to killer. 25:11.040 --> 25:13.640 Now you killed her, and you'll die for it. 25:13.640 --> 25:14.760 Give me that gun, old man. 25:14.760 --> 25:15.880 No, Kenny, not now. 25:15.880 --> 25:17.000 Come on, turn around, soldier. 25:17.000 --> 25:19.600 No, turn around and see it when it happens. 25:19.600 --> 25:21.560 Put up your gun, Kenneth. 25:21.560 --> 25:22.800 No. 25:22.800 --> 25:23.280 No. 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 Get up, Jefferson. 25:32.000 --> 25:44.800 We'll go home now. 25:44.800 --> 25:48.000 The sun is moving down low in the skies, 25:48.000 --> 25:51.680 and a cool light breeze has come up from somewhere. 25:51.680 --> 25:54.680 I'm leaning back on the front seat beside Benjamin, 25:54.680 --> 25:58.840 breathing deeply, evenly, feeling the goodness of just 25:58.840 --> 26:01.200 living seep through. 26:01.200 --> 26:05.120 In the back seat, old man Clovis sits, staring ahead, 26:05.120 --> 26:07.840 not even aware of the blanket-wrapped body of Kenny 26:07.840 --> 26:10.040 lying on the floor at his feet. 26:10.040 --> 26:11.560 If you hadn't been so eager to run, 26:11.560 --> 26:14.880 I could have saved your feet a lot of wear. 26:14.880 --> 26:16.960 I knew you weren't a murderer, son. 26:16.960 --> 26:17.960 You knew? 26:17.960 --> 26:20.000 I went back to the apartment. 26:20.000 --> 26:24.080 Old stories there in the varnish on the kitchen floor. 26:24.080 --> 26:26.680 No bare feet around the body, but lots 26:26.680 --> 26:28.800 of hobnailed boot prints. 26:28.800 --> 26:31.560 You cut your hand on broken glass in the living room, 26:31.560 --> 26:33.840 and it bled. 26:33.840 --> 26:36.600 And I was running. 26:36.600 --> 26:39.480 You can stop running now, son. 26:39.480 --> 26:41.960 Stay here in town with us, huh? 26:41.960 --> 26:43.880 There's lots for you to do. 26:43.880 --> 26:45.920 Thanks. 26:45.920 --> 26:48.760 It's been quite a day, Benjamin. 26:48.760 --> 26:51.320 Sure has been a scorcher. 26:51.320 --> 26:54.400 Glad to see the sun going down. 26:54.400 --> 26:57.640 On a day like this, it's almost too hot to live. 26:57.640 --> 27:00.200 No, don't say that, Benjamin. 27:00.200 --> 27:01.560 It never gets that hot. 27:01.560 --> 27:04.560 ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 27:22.840 --> 27:25.840 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 27:25.840 --> 27:29.080 Tonight's star, Mr. Richard Widmark. 27:29.080 --> 27:31.320 Hey, Hap, did you hear about the ghost 27:31.320 --> 27:32.960 who got stiff on Halloween? 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