WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:12.000 --> 00:21.000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you The Lady in the Red Hat, a suspense play starring Mr. 00:21.000 --> 00:22.000 Van Heflin. 00:22.000 --> 00:33.000 Well, the way the woman was killed last night proves he's right. 00:33.000 --> 00:36.000 What's the point of suppressing the articles? 00:36.000 --> 00:41.000 Is there any doubt in your mind that this new murder was committed by the Avenger? 00:41.000 --> 00:43.000 No, mine either. 00:43.000 --> 00:44.000 So what? 00:44.000 --> 00:46.000 All right, okay, Chief. 00:46.000 --> 00:48.000 Oh, hello, Mitch. 00:48.000 --> 00:49.000 Who's that, Chief Naylor? 00:49.000 --> 00:52.000 Yeah, they want us to stop those articles you're writing. 00:52.000 --> 00:54.000 Oh, what's the matter? 00:54.000 --> 00:58.000 Well, it's not so much the Avenger as the way you keep harping on those theories you've 00:58.000 --> 00:59.000 got about him. 00:59.000 --> 01:00.000 Well, I think I'm right. 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 Well, you've got every woman in the city scared to death. 01:02.000 --> 01:03.000 That's why I want you to lay off. 01:03.000 --> 01:07.000 Five women have been murdered in three months and they're all wearing red in their clothes. 01:07.000 --> 01:10.000 I say that means something and they want me to lay off. 01:10.000 --> 01:11.000 Look, this isn't me. 01:11.000 --> 01:15.000 We hired you to do a feature column in the Sunday Supplement because you've got a big 01:15.000 --> 01:16.000 following. 01:16.000 --> 01:19.000 Psychology of murder, it's a great idea but... 01:19.000 --> 01:20.000 Excuse me. 01:20.000 --> 01:21.000 Yeah. 01:21.000 --> 01:22.000 Yeah? 01:22.000 --> 01:23.000 Mr. Banning, is Mr. Mitchell in there? 01:23.000 --> 01:24.000 Yeah. 01:24.000 --> 01:25.000 Will you tell him that Housky is on the phone? 01:25.000 --> 01:26.000 He's not a surgeon. 01:26.000 --> 01:27.000 All right. 01:27.000 --> 01:28.000 All right, switch the call in here. 01:28.000 --> 01:29.000 Yes. 01:29.000 --> 01:31.000 Use this phone, Mitch. 01:31.000 --> 01:32.000 Thanks. 01:32.000 --> 01:33.000 Hello. 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 Yes, Mrs. White. 01:36.000 --> 01:38.000 Hello. 01:38.000 --> 01:40.000 Thank you. 01:40.000 --> 01:43.000 No, don't, don't worry, that's all right. 01:43.000 --> 01:47.000 Yes, I won't be home until after midnight then. 01:47.000 --> 01:48.000 Bye-bye. 01:48.000 --> 01:50.000 Anything wrong? 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 I don't know. 01:52.000 --> 01:57.000 I'll find out though, an anonymous note slipped under my door. 01:57.000 --> 02:00.000 Somebody wants me to meet the Avenger at midnight. 02:00.000 --> 02:09.000 In just a moment, Mr. Van Heflin, in the first act of The Lady in the Red Hat. 02:09.000 --> 02:12.000 Say, Harlow, you ever play football? 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03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 Well, I'll tell you why we're eating. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 Did they say anything about my stuff? 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 No, no, yours is straight reporting. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 It's theorizing the objective. 04:06.000 --> 04:08.000 Maybe I'm getting too close. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 Have you written anything on last night's murder? 04:10.000 --> 04:11.000 I'd like to read it. 04:11.000 --> 04:14.000 I'll be writing it now, but if I did, I know what I'd say. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 Have you got something new, Mitch? 04:16.000 --> 04:18.000 Something new? 04:18.000 --> 04:28.000 Maybe, I don't know yet. 04:28.000 --> 04:33.000 Meet the Avenger at 12 o'clock, and the Avenger could be anyone. 04:33.000 --> 04:42.000 Was she the one, this tall girl with long legs, smart, self-possessed, career woman with fresh-faced innocence? 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 We waited for the elevator. 04:45.000 --> 04:51.000 I watched, and she was there with me, a smile on her lips. 04:51.000 --> 05:02.000 We went to a place for dinner. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 You know, Mitch, I love this place. My favorite hangout after work. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 That's why I brought you here. 05:07.000 --> 05:11.000 I was beginning to wonder why you've been so quiet. 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 There's subdued lights and warmth, is that it? 05:14.000 --> 05:16.000 In a way. 05:16.000 --> 05:19.000 Oh? Something else, too? 05:19.000 --> 05:22.000 Mitch, what do you think about the Avenger? 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 Oh, I think he's fantastic. 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 Look, consider the name he... 05:28.000 --> 05:32.000 Well, or she has given himself, the Avenger. 05:32.000 --> 05:35.000 He probably wants to purge the world because of its sins. 05:35.000 --> 05:38.000 What about that nonsense about the color red? 05:38.000 --> 05:44.000 It means something, perhaps a sinful color, the obsession of red as a symbol, as a tie-up. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 That makes me a marked woman, doesn't it? 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 You mean your scarf? 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 You gave it to me, remember? 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 That's right. I might be the man. 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 Yes, but why couldn't the Avenger be a woman? 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 She could. 05:58.000 --> 06:04.000 What about Kate last night? The old woman, why kill her? She wasn't pretty, she was just old. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 Rather obvious, she worked at the Follies. 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 But she was only a scrub woman. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 But she worked there, sinful, there you are. 06:10.000 --> 06:13.000 She carried a red purse, too. 06:13.000 --> 06:17.000 Listen, I want to tell you something. Something big, even the editor doesn't know it. 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 A story? 06:18.000 --> 06:21.000 These stories. Oh, can I have another drink? 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 Oh, I'm sorry. Mario? 06:24.000 --> 06:28.000 I, um... I got an anonymous note this morning. 06:28.000 --> 06:29.000 Note? That's a... 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 Yes, Mr. Mitchell? 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 Oh, uh, you want the same? 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 Yes, please. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 And you, Mr. Mitchell? 06:34.000 --> 06:35.000 No, nothing, thanks. 06:35.000 --> 06:40.000 Yes, sir. By the way, when Lieutenant Dow comes in, will you show him over here to this table, please? 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 Yes, sir. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 Bill Dow? He's on the Avenger case. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Mitchell, are you holding out on me? 06:46.000 --> 06:50.000 You were speaking of a note, anonymous. Did it, um... 06:50.000 --> 06:53.000 Did it say anything about the Avenger? 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 Yes, yes it did. 06:56.000 --> 07:03.000 If I wanted important information about the Avenger, I was to go at midnight to the community chapel on seventh. 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 It's such a lonely old building... 07:05.000 --> 07:08.000 Have you got that note with you? 07:08.000 --> 07:09.000 No, I left it at home. 07:09.000 --> 07:15.000 Oh? Did it tell you to sit in the first pew and wait? 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 You got one too. 07:17.000 --> 07:21.000 This afternoon, under my door at home, the housekeeper called. 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 The same thing. 07:22.000 --> 07:25.000 Queer, isn't it? 07:25.000 --> 07:26.000 I wonder... 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 What? 07:27.000 --> 07:32.000 Oh, this isn't an ordinary tip, Mitch. Don't you see? I've been working on the story for the standard. 07:32.000 --> 07:36.000 You've been doing your series in the magazine section, Psychology of Murder. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 Now supposing... 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 The Avenger sent those notes? 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Well... 07:41.000 --> 07:44.000 Bill Dow called me earlier. He wanted to see me. 07:44.000 --> 07:45.000 Oh? 07:45.000 --> 07:48.000 I said that I was taking you out for dinner. I told him to meet us here. 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 Why? 07:49.000 --> 07:53.000 The lieutenant claims that he received a note, like ours too. 07:53.000 --> 07:56.000 Was she the one? Or was Dow? 07:56.000 --> 08:00.000 Millions of people in the city and the person next to you a killer. 08:00.000 --> 08:03.000 You couldn't believe it was someone you knew. 08:03.000 --> 08:07.000 Never anyone you knew, but maybe it was. 08:07.000 --> 08:11.000 Was that then the ultimate stimulation? Had it come to that? 08:11.000 --> 08:14.000 To kill a stranger was not enough. 08:14.000 --> 08:17.000 Now seek out the danger, the extreme risk. 08:17.000 --> 08:24.000 Because here was emotion. Emotion of friendship. This was different. 08:24.000 --> 08:30.000 And who would it be? The girl on the newspaper? Or the policeman? 08:30.000 --> 08:34.000 Are you being stubborn because you're a policeman or because you're just pig-headed, lieutenant? 08:34.000 --> 08:38.000 Jeannie, you're a reporter. Too much imagination. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 I still think it's a crackpot gag. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Then why did you come here? 08:42.000 --> 08:47.000 Because Mitch and I have been working on this together. Because we're all friends. 08:47.000 --> 08:50.000 I'm not taking any chances. There have been five murders already. 08:50.000 --> 08:54.000 She makes sense though, Bill. Three of us all vitally interested in the case. 08:54.000 --> 08:58.000 It'd be very flattering to him if we turned up at that chapel at midnight. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 Well, I'll be there. I can tell you that. 09:00.000 --> 09:03.000 I don't like it. He might be after one of us. 09:03.000 --> 09:07.000 Maybe you, Jeannie. Maybe he doesn't like some of the stuff you've been doing. 09:07.000 --> 09:12.000 Maybe me. Maybe. Or me. I'm the cop who's chasing him. 09:12.000 --> 09:15.000 Yeah, I don't imagine he's particularly fond of you, Bill. 09:15.000 --> 09:18.000 Why not surround the chapel? No. 09:18.000 --> 09:23.000 Mind you, I still think it's a crank note. But if it isn't, this baby's too smart. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 If he sees anything wrong, he'll get away. 09:25.000 --> 09:29.000 I think Billy wants all the credit for a dramatic capture. 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 I'd have to share it with Mitch anyway. 09:31.000 --> 09:37.000 And me. Uh-uh. You're going home. 09:37.000 --> 09:40.000 That's what you think. I'm on that list. 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 I want to be there when something happens. 09:52.000 --> 09:57.000 We had dinner in that little bar. Somehow, none of us wanted to leave. 09:57.000 --> 10:01.000 Outside was the night, cold. 10:01.000 --> 10:05.000 Through the window and on the pavement, we could see a cover of snow. 10:05.000 --> 10:08.000 Snow, silent and clean. 10:08.000 --> 10:20.000 I thought of a knife flashing, and then the snow, soft, absorbent, no longer, white, turning red, until it spread over the entire city. 10:20.000 --> 10:24.000 The neon sign outside flashed red. 10:24.000 --> 10:28.000 Red. Red. 10:28.000 --> 10:34.000 Not our table, it was warm and candlelit. 10:36.000 --> 10:40.000 Then we were outside and the snow was falling. 10:40.000 --> 10:44.000 You know where the chapel is, Bill? 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 Yeah, it's the one on seventh around the corner from the library. 10:47.000 --> 10:51.000 It's funny, I must have passed that a hundred times. I never noticed it. 10:51.000 --> 10:55.000 Most people think it's vacant. It's not. In fact, it's open all night. 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 How do you know, Jeannie? 10:58.000 --> 11:02.000 Well, I don't know. I guess I heard about it. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 Okay, we'll walk. 11:05.000 --> 11:11.000 Hiya. I always used to like the snow. I looked forward to it. I don't like it tonight. 11:11.000 --> 11:16.000 I've never liked it. There's something smothering about this stuff. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 I was in a blizzard once. 11:18.000 --> 11:19.000 What happened? 11:19.000 --> 11:23.000 I was lost in the woods up north, nearly froze to death. 11:23.000 --> 11:27.000 Snow kept coming down, got in my mouth, my nose, my eyes. 11:27.000 --> 11:31.000 And after a while, things didn't look white anymore. 11:31.000 --> 11:35.000 They were blurred and red. 11:35.000 --> 11:41.000 Which frightens you more, fear of being lost or fear of dying? 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 I don't know. Why? 11:44.000 --> 11:46.000 Just wondered. 11:46.000 --> 11:49.000 Has anybody got the time? 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 Yeah, it's eleven o'clock. 12:02.000 --> 12:05.000 We stood outside the community chapel. 12:05.000 --> 12:11.000 It was on a side street. I remember the lamppost with its light so much brighter than usual. 12:11.000 --> 12:15.000 Everything was white, but not beautiful. 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 There was a murderer here. 12:17.000 --> 12:23.000 In all of this great city, the murderer stood looking up at a church spire. 12:23.000 --> 12:26.000 And who knew it? 12:26.000 --> 12:30.000 We went up the broad steps, slowly. 12:36.000 --> 12:37.000 Funny. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 What is? 12:39.000 --> 12:45.000 If one of us were killed here. 12:52.000 --> 12:56.000 I'm going to have a look around, check any side doors. 12:56.000 --> 12:57.000 All right. 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 You stay here, huh? 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 Yeah. 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 The music's nice. 13:07.000 --> 13:11.000 There's the organist up there. 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It had been said aloud. 15:33.000 --> 15:37.000 What if one of us were a killer? 15:37.000 --> 15:43.000 Not the ever-present shabby man seen by witnesses loitering on a lonely street, 15:43.000 --> 15:45.000 but one of us? 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 If not Jean Grey, would she think it me? 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 Or Bill Dowell, a policeman? 15:50.000 --> 15:53.000 It was an odd game, a game of fear. 15:53.000 --> 15:55.000 Who'll kill Cockrobin? 15:55.000 --> 15:57.000 The Avenger. 15:57.000 --> 16:00.000 And who'll be Cockrobin? 16:00.000 --> 16:03.000 One of us? The Avenger? 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 Oh, Mitch. 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 It has to be someone. 16:07.000 --> 16:09.000 Why, I believe you're serious. 16:09.000 --> 16:12.000 I am. We've all been on this case since the first death. 16:12.000 --> 16:16.000 Perhaps one of us enjoys the publicity, the thrill of killing. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 I don't like this place. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 Better go home. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.000 Gidders, Jeannie? 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 What did you find, Bill? 16:23.000 --> 16:25.000 One side exit, that's all. 16:25.000 --> 16:27.000 We can see it from the front pew. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 What's the time? 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 About quarter past eleven. 16:31.000 --> 16:34.000 I'm cold. I wonder if we could get some coffee. 16:34.000 --> 16:37.000 I'll get it. You two stay here. How do you like yours? 16:37.000 --> 16:38.000 Oh, black, please. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 The same, Bill. Right. 16:40.000 --> 16:44.000 Take it easy, Jeannie. It's not twelve yet. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 You want to sit down? 16:46.000 --> 16:50.000 Up in the front? No, not yet. 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 All right. Here. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 Mitch. 16:58.000 --> 17:00.000 You aren't serious, are you? 17:00.000 --> 17:03.000 Yes. You've read my articles. 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 I've theorized about the Avenger. 17:05.000 --> 17:08.000 The analysis could fit any one of us. 17:08.000 --> 17:09.000 Me? 17:09.000 --> 17:10.000 Why not? 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 You're fairly strong. You could have done it. 17:12.000 --> 17:15.000 But the victims have all been women. Why should I kill a woman? 17:15.000 --> 17:17.000 You like excitement, danger. 17:17.000 --> 17:20.000 Your favorite color is red. You're a scarf, for instance. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 Don't. 17:22.000 --> 17:25.000 You're afraid to be touched? 17:25.000 --> 17:26.000 No. 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 You like men, but you don't like them to touch you. 17:28.000 --> 17:29.000 You like me, but... 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 That doesn't mean... 17:31.000 --> 17:34.000 Ah, I'm right, aren't I? 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 Now, think of the five dead women. 17:37.000 --> 17:43.000 All of them, in some way, concerned with what the Avenger considers sinful. 17:43.000 --> 17:44.000 It could be you. 17:44.000 --> 17:47.000 Or you. Or Bill. 17:47.000 --> 17:52.000 No. I've thought about him. He had a... 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 There's a lot of reason to kill. 17:54.000 --> 17:57.000 Did you know that he had a wife once he ran away with another man? 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 No. 17:59.000 --> 18:02.000 Perhaps he doesn't like women very much now. 18:02.000 --> 18:05.000 And it wouldn't be difficult for him to kill and get away with it. 18:05.000 --> 18:08.000 Easier than for most people, because he's a policeman. 18:08.000 --> 18:11.000 And you? 18:11.000 --> 18:15.000 Perhaps I'm in love, in love with a girl that I can never have. 18:15.000 --> 18:18.000 Because of that, I hate all women. 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 Funny, I never thought of you as in love. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 Why not? 18:22.000 --> 18:24.000 Because you're so... 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 So... 18:26.000 --> 18:27.000 I don't know. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 No. You don't know. 18:35.000 --> 18:37.000 We sat alone with the music. 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 It was everywhere in the chapel. 18:39.000 --> 18:42.000 Solemn, accusing. 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 The thoughts had been spoken. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 Fear was creating suspicion. 18:46.000 --> 18:49.000 And the girl with the red scarf tied about her head, 18:49.000 --> 18:52.000 sitting with folded hands beside me, 18:52.000 --> 18:56.000 looked in front of her and her eyes were on the front pew. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 Sorry I was so long. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 Anything happen? 19:01.000 --> 19:02.000 No. 19:02.000 --> 19:03.000 Oh, Jeannie. 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 Oh, thanks. 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 Seems wrong drinking coffee in a chapel. 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 Sinful, Jeannie. 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 Oh, stop it. That's not what I meant. 19:10.000 --> 19:11.000 To Mitch. 19:11.000 --> 19:12.000 Thanks. 19:12.000 --> 19:15.000 Uh, what's the time, Bill? 19:15.000 --> 19:16.000 Eleven thirty. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 Is that all? 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 I see our friend at the organ's still there. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 Yeah. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 Funny hour to practice. 19:24.000 --> 19:25.000 Mitch. 19:25.000 --> 19:26.000 Hmm? 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 I heard what you said to Jeannie before. 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 I mean, about one of us being the Avenger. 19:31.000 --> 19:32.000 Were you kidding? 19:32.000 --> 19:33.000 No. 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 It's crazy. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 Why? It's got to be somebody. 19:37.000 --> 19:38.000 Why not one of us? 19:38.000 --> 19:39.000 Oh, he's got brilliant reasons. 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 Ask him, we all fit. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 Not a joke anymore, Mitch. 19:43.000 --> 19:44.000 I know. 19:44.000 --> 19:46.000 The trouble with you, Bill, is that you think you have to look 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 for some poor devil frothing at the mouth 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 with his hands covered with blood. 19:50.000 --> 19:53.000 Must a murder always look like a comic book conception of a murder? 19:53.000 --> 19:55.000 Cut it out. 19:55.000 --> 19:56.000 You're not funny. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 I'm not trying to be. 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 I think it more than probable that one of us could be the Avenger. 20:01.000 --> 20:04.000 We're normal, moderately attractive people, 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 but one of us thinks differently. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 Which one? 20:08.000 --> 20:09.000 Hmm. 20:09.000 --> 20:10.000 Ha, ha, ha. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 Ha. 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 You're a nut. 20:12.000 --> 20:18.000 Maybe. 20:18.000 --> 20:20.000 We drank our coffee. 20:20.000 --> 20:23.000 There was an animal awareness now, 20:23.000 --> 20:27.000 each of us watching the other, cautious, wondering. 20:27.000 --> 20:30.000 We spoke of Christmas, sailing, next year's Dodgers. 20:30.000 --> 20:36.000 We spoke of everything but the Avenger and of 12 o'clock. 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 Hey. 20:37.000 --> 20:38.000 What? 20:38.000 --> 20:40.000 When did the organists leave? 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 What? 20:42.000 --> 20:43.000 I don't know. 20:43.000 --> 20:44.000 The lights. 20:44.000 --> 20:45.000 There's only one up there. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 We must have turned the others out. 20:47.000 --> 20:50.000 It'd be hard to see anybody coming in from the front pew. 20:50.000 --> 20:51.000 Well? 20:51.000 --> 20:54.000 Well, I'm going to take a look, see if he's still around. 20:54.000 --> 20:55.000 No. 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 Why, you're not afraid to be alone with me, are you? 20:58.000 --> 20:59.000 Don't be an idiot. 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 If anyone comes in, stay in the shadows. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 It's nearly 12. 21:03.000 --> 21:05.000 Might as well get in your places. 21:05.000 --> 21:09.000 I'll be right back. 21:09.000 --> 21:13.000 I guess... I guess we'd better... 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 The front pew? 21:15.000 --> 21:20.000 Yes, those were the instructions. 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Quiet without the music. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 Too quiet. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 It was nice. 21:25.000 --> 21:26.000 There were so many shadows. 21:26.000 --> 21:28.000 Shadows in a chapel? 21:28.000 --> 21:31.000 Well, that shouldn't be frightening. 21:31.000 --> 21:33.000 Will Bill be able to see us when he comes back? 21:33.000 --> 21:38.000 I think so. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 Do you think it's him? 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 Do you? 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 What's the time? 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 It's about three minutes to. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 How would he find the lights? 21:48.000 --> 21:50.000 I don't mind it. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 Strange. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 What? 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 When I was very young, I was in a place like this. 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 Very much like this. 21:59.000 --> 22:00.000 Oh? 22:00.000 --> 22:06.000 I was taken every week, and every week there was a woman who sat across the aisle. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 She was beautiful. 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 I was in love with her. 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 Nobody ever talked to her. 22:12.000 --> 22:16.000 My mother hated her, but not my father. 22:16.000 --> 22:18.000 Do you know what I found out? 22:18.000 --> 22:19.000 No. 22:19.000 --> 22:22.000 It was after my father left us. 22:22.000 --> 22:25.000 He had been in love with that woman all that time. 22:25.000 --> 22:27.000 They ran away together. 22:27.000 --> 22:29.000 How terrible. 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 Yeah. 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 Yeah, I thought so at the time. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 What tiny things one remembers. 22:36.000 --> 22:39.000 She always wore a red hat. 22:39.000 --> 22:42.000 She was beautiful. 22:42.000 --> 22:45.000 But she must have been very wicked. 22:45.000 --> 22:48.000 A red hat? 22:48.000 --> 22:54.000 Where I lived, they used to say that it was the shock of his leaving that killed my mother. 22:54.000 --> 22:57.000 Poor Janie. 22:57.000 --> 22:58.000 Give me your hand, Janie. 22:58.000 --> 22:59.000 No, no. 22:59.000 --> 23:00.000 Here, cold. 23:00.000 --> 23:01.000 Don't. Please don't. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 You're like her. You look like her. 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 You even wear red. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 Because that's your favorite color. 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 Mitch. Mitch. 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 I'm in love with you. 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 And it's so wrong. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 I've been in love with you ever since I met you. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 But it's wrong. You're bad. 23:17.000 --> 23:19.000 You're like her. 23:19.000 --> 23:20.000 Don't scream. Don't. 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 Mitch. Mitch. It's all right. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 I understand. 23:24.000 --> 23:27.000 I'm sorry that music stopped. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 We've got to have music. 23:29.000 --> 23:32.000 There was always the organ playing at home. 23:32.000 --> 23:34.000 Come along, Janie. 23:34.000 --> 23:35.000 Where are we going? 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 Upstairs to the organ loft. 23:37.000 --> 23:42.000 Now don't, don't, don't scream. Please. 23:42.000 --> 23:45.000 Mitch. Janie. 23:45.000 --> 23:46.000 Don't say anything. 23:46.000 --> 23:47.000 Don't. 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 I won't. I won't, Mitch. 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 You're not well. I'm glad you told me. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 I love you too. 23:53.000 --> 23:56.000 You must believe me. I love you. 23:56.000 --> 24:04.000 Mitch. Please. 24:04.000 --> 24:07.000 She was a clever devil. 24:07.000 --> 24:10.000 Trying to win me over with talk of love. 24:10.000 --> 24:13.000 I wasn't going to take any chances with her. 24:13.000 --> 24:17.000 We went up the narrow steps to where the organ was. 24:17.000 --> 24:19.000 I closed the door behind us. 24:19.000 --> 24:22.000 I didn't need my knife. 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 I could smash her with my hands. 24:24.000 --> 24:27.000 Smash her. Pound the evil flat. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 Stamp it out on the floor. 24:29.000 --> 24:32.000 The other five were bad. They'd sin, but she, 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 she was like that woman at home. 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 The woman in the red hat. 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 I knew what had to be done with her. 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 I'd known that from the day that I'd met her. 24:41.000 --> 24:46.000 Tall with long legs, fresh face, masking wickedness. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 Mitch. Janie. Where are you? 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 Please. Please. 24:49.000 --> 24:51.000 Stay down there, Bill. Don't, don't come up. 24:51.000 --> 24:53.000 I've got her. You stay there. 24:53.000 --> 24:56.000 I found her out. I've known all the time. 24:56.000 --> 24:58.000 She's got to die. You know that, Bill. 24:58.000 --> 25:01.000 I'm coming up, Mitch. It's okay. 25:01.000 --> 25:02.000 We'll take her in together. 25:02.000 --> 25:04.000 That's why I sent those notes, Bill. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 I, I had to trap her. You understand? 25:06.000 --> 25:08.000 Sure. Sure. 25:08.000 --> 25:10.000 I'm, I'm right, aren't I? 25:10.000 --> 25:11.000 You're dead right, Mitch. 25:11.000 --> 25:14.000 I'll open the door. We'll take her in together. 25:14.000 --> 25:16.000 No, stay, stay out there, Bill. 25:16.000 --> 25:17.000 I don't need your help. I can do it. 25:17.000 --> 25:20.000 Mitch, Mitch, you're sick. But it's all right. 25:20.000 --> 25:22.000 I'll make you better because I love you. 25:22.000 --> 25:24.000 How do you turn this thing on? 25:24.000 --> 25:25.000 Must be a switch. 25:25.000 --> 25:28.000 No, no, don't, don't, don't go near that door, Janie. 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 Mitch, open the door. 25:30.000 --> 25:31.000 Here's one. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 Mitch. 25:33.000 --> 25:34.000 Open it. 25:34.000 --> 25:35.000 A minute. 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 Don't worry. She won't hurt me. Not anymore. 25:38.000 --> 25:39.000 Mitch, please. 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 Whatever I've done to you, I'm sorry. 25:41.000 --> 25:43.000 You're the woman. 25:43.000 --> 25:46.000 You're always the woman in red, but not anymore. 25:46.000 --> 25:49.000 I'll be all right now. 25:49.000 --> 25:52.000 Play. There has to be music. 25:52.000 --> 25:55.000 There was music at home at my mother's funeral. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 Play. 25:57.000 --> 25:58.000 I can't. 25:58.000 --> 25:59.000 Play it. 25:59.000 --> 26:00.000 I don't know how to. 26:00.000 --> 26:01.000 Play. Play. 26:06.000 --> 26:09.000 Louder. Louder, louder. 26:09.000 --> 26:10.000 Louder. 26:10.000 --> 26:11.000 Mitch. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 Drop that knife. Drop it. 26:15.000 --> 26:17.000 Bill. 26:17.000 --> 26:18.000 Bill. 26:22.000 --> 26:24.000 Turn it off. Turn it off. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 The music, stop it. 26:26.000 --> 26:29.000 Stop it. 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