WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:13.000 --> 00:26.600 Tonight, Auto Light brings you After the Movies, a suspense play starring Mr. Ray Milan. 00:26.600 --> 00:30.400 I'd been called a jury duty a couple of weeks before all this happened. 00:30.400 --> 00:33.400 It was one of those kind of sensational trials. 00:33.400 --> 00:39.200 The judge told us jurors not to go out in any public places where we might be approached or influenced. 00:39.200 --> 00:42.400 So I've been sticking pretty close to the hotel. 00:42.400 --> 00:46.800 So it was a real treat when they said we were free for a couple of days because the witness was sick. 00:46.800 --> 00:52.300 Of course, the movies is a public place, but Anne didn't think that would really count and neither did I. 00:52.300 --> 00:59.300 We went to the early show, crossed the street from the hotel and got out about half past nine. 00:59.300 --> 01:03.200 I thought she was darling. I didn't care so much for him though. 01:03.200 --> 01:05.800 I didn't think she was too hot either. 01:05.800 --> 01:07.800 Say, what's the difference really? 01:07.800 --> 01:11.200 The first movie I've seen since the trial started, how much of ice cream? 01:11.200 --> 01:13.800 We got those little cakes at home. 01:13.800 --> 01:16.000 Some ice cream might go nice with them. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.800 I don't know if I can go home. I mean this jury thing, you know. 01:18.800 --> 01:22.800 Oh, you're free for a couple of days. Isn't that what they told you? 01:22.800 --> 01:26.200 Not going to do any harm for you to sleep home tonight. 01:26.200 --> 01:29.200 I suppose not. What kind do you want? 01:29.200 --> 01:30.000 What? 01:30.000 --> 01:31.000 Ice cream. 01:31.000 --> 01:32.200 Chocolate. 01:32.200 --> 01:33.200 Come on. 01:37.600 --> 01:40.800 Well, well. Hello there. How are you this evening, folks? 01:40.800 --> 01:41.800 Yeah, fine. Just fine. 01:41.800 --> 01:43.100 What can I do for you? 01:43.100 --> 01:45.200 About a quart of ice cream, chocolate. 01:45.200 --> 01:46.200 Right. 01:46.200 --> 01:49.300 Say, how's the trial going? You're on the jury, aren't you? 01:49.300 --> 01:51.700 Yeah, but I'm not supposed to talk about it. 01:51.700 --> 01:54.100 Oh, yeah. I should know better than to ask. 01:54.100 --> 01:59.100 I bet you we have five, seven jurors a day come in here from the hotel across the street. 01:59.100 --> 02:01.500 Hey, you think you've been on this trial a long time? 02:01.500 --> 02:03.500 Some people stay on for months. 02:03.500 --> 02:07.100 Well, I'll tell you what I think about this Harmon fellow. 02:07.100 --> 02:10.100 I'm not supposed to let anybody talk to me about it either. 02:10.100 --> 02:12.900 Oh, say, that's right. I forgot about that. 02:12.900 --> 02:15.100 Well, that'll be 60 cents. 02:15.100 --> 02:18.300 Yeah, I got it, Ann. What did I do with my wallet? 02:18.300 --> 02:19.900 Oh, here. 02:19.900 --> 02:21.900 That's 60 out of one. 02:21.900 --> 02:23.900 And thank you. 02:23.900 --> 02:28.100 Well, I hope now that you know us, you'll trade here sometimes even after the trial's over. 02:28.100 --> 02:29.300 My name is Adelson. 02:29.300 --> 02:31.300 Well, I'm Mr. Benig, and this is my wife, Ann. 02:31.300 --> 02:32.900 I'm happy to know you. 02:32.900 --> 02:34.700 I hope you'll be through with the thing real soon. 02:34.700 --> 02:36.300 I hope so, too. Good night. 02:36.300 --> 02:37.300 Al. 02:37.300 --> 02:38.300 Yeah. 02:38.300 --> 02:39.300 Look what I found. 02:39.300 --> 02:40.300 What? 02:40.300 --> 02:42.100 An envelope on the floor right here. 02:42.100 --> 02:43.300 Somebody dropped something, huh? 02:43.300 --> 02:44.300 Yeah. 02:44.300 --> 02:46.300 It's open, too. 02:46.300 --> 02:50.300 I wonder if we should, you know, to find the owner. 02:54.300 --> 02:55.300 Say. 02:55.300 --> 02:57.300 Money, bills. 02:57.300 --> 02:59.300 Hey, let me see. 02:59.300 --> 03:01.300 How much is there, Al? 03:01.300 --> 03:04.300 Al? 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That's what I'd do. 05:21.300 --> 05:23.300 And since it was in my store... 05:23.300 --> 05:25.300 No, no, we couldn't do that. 05:25.300 --> 05:30.300 Well, I could. It ain't stealing. You found it. And it was my store you found it in. 05:30.300 --> 05:31.300 We better turn it in. 05:31.300 --> 05:34.300 Look, if there's a reward, we'll get together on it, won't we? 05:34.300 --> 05:36.300 There's some kind of a note in it. 05:36.300 --> 05:37.300 A note? 05:37.300 --> 05:39.300 Yeah, in with the money. 05:39.300 --> 05:47.300 This is your first pass as agreed and... no signature. 05:47.300 --> 05:49.300 Doesn't make much sense to me. 05:49.300 --> 05:50.300 Me either. 05:50.300 --> 05:52.300 Hey, where you going with that money? 05:52.300 --> 05:56.300 If anybody comes looking for it, we live on 5th Street, 229. 05:56.300 --> 05:59.300 If there's a reward, we'll see you get your share, Mr. Adelson. Come on in. 05:59.300 --> 06:00.300 Don't worry, Mr. Adelson. 06:00.300 --> 06:13.300 Don't worry. Ten thousand dollars is a lot of money. 06:13.300 --> 06:15.300 I said there was nothing to worry about. 06:15.300 --> 06:18.300 But I wasn't feeling quite as breezy as I sounded. 06:18.300 --> 06:21.300 Ten thousand dollars is an awful lot of money. 06:21.300 --> 06:24.300 Ann was still trying to figure it out when we got home. 06:24.300 --> 06:27.300 One thing I'd always said about Ann, she had a good mind. 06:27.300 --> 06:30.300 Now she remembered the note and she took off from there. 06:30.300 --> 06:34.300 Al, it must mean something. It was written to somebody. 06:34.300 --> 06:35.300 It must mean something to them. 06:35.300 --> 06:38.300 After all, it's ten thousand dollars. 06:38.300 --> 06:40.300 Let's get on with the ice cream. 06:40.300 --> 06:41.300 All right. 06:41.300 --> 06:45.300 Look, Annie, if nobody claims it by tomorrow, we'll put an ad in the paper or something. 06:45.300 --> 06:47.300 It's not our worry. 06:47.300 --> 06:48.300 Yeah. 06:48.300 --> 06:49.300 Here, chocolate. 06:49.300 --> 06:51.300 We could keep it, couldn't we? 06:51.300 --> 06:54.300 I mean, the law says finders keepers. 06:54.300 --> 06:57.300 If nobody can prove it's theirs, we can keep it, can't we? 06:57.300 --> 06:58.300 Isn't there a law? 06:58.300 --> 07:02.300 Well, I guess as far as the law is concerned, we could keep it. 07:02.300 --> 07:04.300 Of course, we'd have to give part of it to Mr. Adelson. 07:04.300 --> 07:05.300 Mm-hmm. 07:05.300 --> 07:08.300 I don't know, Al. That money belongs to somebody. 07:08.300 --> 07:12.300 All right. If they claim it, all right. If they don't, well, all right. 07:12.300 --> 07:13.300 Why worry about it? 07:13.300 --> 07:16.300 Belongs to whoever that note was written to. 07:16.300 --> 07:17.300 Uh-huh. 07:17.300 --> 07:18.300 Now listen, listen. 07:18.300 --> 07:23.300 This is your first half as agreed in the E.H. business. 07:23.300 --> 07:27.300 But if they are not hung up when the time comes, 07:27.300 --> 07:31.300 don't expect to get the rest or stay healthy very long. 07:31.300 --> 07:32.300 No signature. 07:32.300 --> 07:33.300 No signature. 07:33.300 --> 07:38.300 Al, that last part about staying healthy, that's a threat. 07:38.300 --> 07:40.300 That's what it is. 07:40.300 --> 07:42.300 Threat? Well, yeah, it could be. 07:42.300 --> 07:46.300 The man who's giving the money is threatening the man who's getting it, 07:46.300 --> 07:47.300 that if he doesn't... 07:47.300 --> 07:48.300 Doesn't what? 07:48.300 --> 07:50.300 Al, don't be so dense. 07:50.300 --> 07:55.300 Help me a little. Doesn't do what they're paying him to do. 07:55.300 --> 07:57.300 It's a bribe. 07:57.300 --> 08:00.300 Don't you see, Al, this money is a bribe? 08:00.300 --> 08:01.300 A bribe? 08:01.300 --> 08:04.300 Hey, that's right, Annie. It could be right. It's that. 08:04.300 --> 08:06.300 Well, now we're getting somewhere. All right, a bribe. 08:06.300 --> 08:09.300 And it has something to do with something being hung up. 08:09.300 --> 08:13.300 If they are not hung up when the time comes, it says. 08:13.300 --> 08:18.300 What could be hung up that's so important to anybody? 08:18.300 --> 08:21.300 Jury. 08:21.300 --> 08:23.300 That's it, a jury that can't reach a verdict. 08:23.300 --> 08:25.300 Al, I'll bet that's it. 08:25.300 --> 08:29.300 Somebody is trying to bribe somebody on a jury to... 08:29.300 --> 08:30.300 To what? 08:30.300 --> 08:36.300 Al, those initials, E, H, Edward Harmon, 08:36.300 --> 08:39.300 the name of the man that's on trial. 08:39.300 --> 08:41.300 The jury that you're on. 08:41.300 --> 08:43.300 Gee, I don't know, Anne. 08:43.300 --> 08:46.300 They all seem like such nice, decent people. 08:46.300 --> 08:48.300 Listen, listen. 08:48.300 --> 08:54.300 This is your first half, the $10,000, as agreed in the E, H. 08:54.300 --> 08:56.300 That is the Edward Harmon business. 08:56.300 --> 09:00.300 But if they are not hung up, it's a jury, 09:00.300 --> 09:02.300 don't expect to stay healthy. 09:02.300 --> 09:05.300 Yeah. Yeah, it does make sense, Annie. 09:05.300 --> 09:08.300 Al, we've got to call the police. 09:08.300 --> 09:09.300 Police? 09:09.300 --> 09:11.300 Well, sure, we've got to report it right away. 09:11.300 --> 09:14.300 Well, maybe I should give it to the district attorney in the morning. 09:14.300 --> 09:17.300 No, don't you see, Al, you're on that jury. 09:17.300 --> 09:20.300 Why, if we delay telling them for even an hour, 09:20.300 --> 09:22.300 they may think you've got something to hide. 09:22.300 --> 09:24.300 No, I think I'd better wait till the morning. 09:24.300 --> 09:28.300 If you don't phone them, I will right away now. 09:28.300 --> 09:30.300 Well, I hope you're right. 09:31.300 --> 09:34.300 I hope this is the right thing to do. 09:38.300 --> 09:41.300 My name is Albert H. Benig. 09:41.300 --> 09:43.300 That's right. 09:43.300 --> 09:45.300 I live at 229 Fifth Street. 09:45.300 --> 09:47.300 Yeah. 09:47.300 --> 09:48.300 I want to report something to you. 09:48.300 --> 09:51.300 There's a drug store on the corner across the street from the courthouse, 09:51.300 --> 09:53.300 and my wife and I were in there earlier this evening, 09:53.300 --> 09:55.300 and my wife found something. 09:55.300 --> 09:57.300 Yeah. 09:57.300 --> 09:59.300 Well, on the floor. 09:59.300 --> 10:01.300 It was an envelope with $10,000 in it and a note. 10:01.300 --> 10:05.300 And we think it has something to do with the Edward Harmon trial. 10:05.300 --> 10:07.300 Yeah. 10:07.300 --> 10:09.300 No, just my wife. 10:09.300 --> 10:11.300 Yeah, she's sitting right here with me. 10:11.300 --> 10:13.300 Yeah, that's what I think. 10:13.300 --> 10:15.300 You'd be doing me a great favor if you'd... 10:15.300 --> 10:17.300 Yes, we'll wait right here. 10:17.300 --> 10:19.300 We'll be expecting you. 10:19.300 --> 10:20.300 What did they say? 10:20.300 --> 10:22.300 They said they'd send somebody up just as soon as they could. 10:22.300 --> 10:24.300 Well, weren't they excited about it? 10:24.300 --> 10:25.300 Didn't they say anything? 10:25.300 --> 10:27.300 Well, Anne, I guess with people like that, 10:27.300 --> 10:29.300 these things are just sort of routine. 10:37.300 --> 10:39.300 That must be them now, Al. 10:39.300 --> 10:41.300 I'll go. 10:41.300 --> 10:43.300 I must say they took their time about it. 10:43.300 --> 10:45.300 Oh, good evening, gentlemen. Come in. 10:45.300 --> 10:47.300 Thanks. 10:47.300 --> 10:49.300 You're Mr. Penning, Albert H. Penning? 10:49.300 --> 10:51.300 That's right. This is my wife. 10:51.300 --> 10:53.300 How do you do? 10:53.300 --> 10:55.300 I sort of expected to see someone in uniform. 10:55.300 --> 10:57.300 I should have known, I suppose. 10:57.300 --> 10:59.300 Uniform? 10:59.300 --> 11:01.300 Yes, you gentlemen are from the police, aren't you? 11:01.300 --> 11:03.300 No, no, we're not. 11:03.300 --> 11:05.300 Oh. 11:05.300 --> 11:07.300 You expecting the police, lady? 11:07.300 --> 11:09.300 Better not take too much time, Johnny. 11:09.300 --> 11:11.300 I think you people got something that belongs to us. 11:11.300 --> 11:13.300 Something you found in the drug store in the corner. 11:13.300 --> 11:15.300 Oh. 11:15.300 --> 11:17.300 We lost it there. 11:17.300 --> 11:19.300 The drug has told us you had it. 11:19.300 --> 11:21.300 Well, we did find something, yes. 11:21.300 --> 11:23.300 Ten grand and five hundred in a white envelope. 11:23.300 --> 11:25.300 Well, I guess it's theirs all right, Anne. 11:25.300 --> 11:27.300 Yes, but... 11:27.300 --> 11:29.300 But what? 11:29.300 --> 11:31.300 Well, I'm sure it's yours, but... 11:31.300 --> 11:33.300 there was something else, too. 11:33.300 --> 11:35.300 We better just give it to them, Anne. 11:35.300 --> 11:37.300 The note. I always said that was foolish. 11:37.300 --> 11:39.300 There was a note? 11:39.300 --> 11:41.300 Yes. 11:41.300 --> 11:43.300 You read it? 11:43.300 --> 11:45.300 We glanced through it, of course. 11:45.300 --> 11:47.300 We thought it might tell us who the money belonged to. 11:47.300 --> 11:49.300 And it did, didn't it? 11:49.300 --> 11:51.300 No, oh, no. 11:51.300 --> 11:53.300 Come on, lady. Now, wait a minute. 11:53.300 --> 11:55.300 This is a gun, man. 11:55.300 --> 11:57.300 The note told you that the dough was to buy off somebody 11:57.300 --> 11:59.300 on the jury of the Harmon Trial, didn't it? 11:59.300 --> 12:01.300 You talk too much, Johnny. Come on, let's get out of here. 12:01.300 --> 12:03.300 What's the difference with your head? 12:03.300 --> 12:05.300 All right, what about it, Mrs. Penning? 12:05.300 --> 12:07.300 How did you know it was in the note? 12:07.300 --> 12:09.300 We got to know these things. 12:09.300 --> 12:11.300 We work for Mr. Harmon. 12:11.300 --> 12:13.300 We know you're on the jury, too, Mr. Penning. 12:13.300 --> 12:15.300 Al. 12:15.300 --> 12:17.300 Where are you from, Mrs. Penning? 12:17.300 --> 12:19.300 I mean, where do your folks live? 12:19.300 --> 12:21.300 What part of the country? 12:21.300 --> 12:23.300 Why, Washington. 12:23.300 --> 12:25.300 Boca and Washington. 12:25.300 --> 12:27.300 All right. 12:27.300 --> 12:29.300 Mr. Penning, you go on down that trial, Amar, 12:29.300 --> 12:31.300 just know nothing had happened. 12:31.300 --> 12:33.300 Anybody ask you about your wife, 12:33.300 --> 12:35.300 you tell them she's gone on a little visit 12:35.300 --> 12:37.300 to her folks in Spokane. 12:37.300 --> 12:39.300 Visit to my folks? 12:39.300 --> 12:41.300 The case will go to the jury on Friday. 12:41.300 --> 12:43.300 If everything goes like it should, your wife will be back here, 12:43.300 --> 12:45.300 safe and sound, first thing Monday morning. 12:45.300 --> 12:47.300 Oh, good Lord. 12:47.300 --> 12:49.300 But you can't do a thing like this. 12:49.300 --> 12:51.300 You can't. 12:51.300 --> 12:53.300 You're reasonable, Mrs. Penning. We got to. 12:53.300 --> 12:55.300 You people know too much about this thing. 12:55.300 --> 12:57.300 Well, we wouldn't say anything, I promise. 12:57.300 --> 12:59.300 I swear it. 12:59.300 --> 13:01.300 If we take a chance like that, 13:01.300 --> 13:03.300 Armin is up for murder. 13:03.300 --> 13:05.300 Better get your things together, 13:05.300 --> 13:07.300 Mrs. Penning. 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It had all happened 15:43.300 --> 15:45.300 so suddenly in less than an hour, the whole 15:45.300 --> 15:47.300 thing. And picking up the money on the 15:47.300 --> 15:49.300 floor at the drugstore and then figuring out 15:49.300 --> 15:51.300 from the note that it was a bribe to someone on the jury 15:51.300 --> 15:53.300 of the Harmon trial, the jury 15:53.300 --> 15:55.300 I was on. And those 15:55.300 --> 15:57.300 gangsters arriving and claiming the money and 15:57.300 --> 15:59.300 taking Anne as the hostage for my verdict. 15:59.300 --> 16:01.300 The police hadn't 16:01.300 --> 16:03.300 arrived. I left home, sneaked 16:03.300 --> 16:05.300 out the back way, took the side streets and went 16:05.300 --> 16:07.300 to the office of the chief of detectives. 16:09.300 --> 16:11.300 So you came down here. What are we sitting here for? 16:11.300 --> 16:13.300 Why don't we do something? We gotta know 16:13.300 --> 16:15.300 what we're doing before we start doing it. 16:15.300 --> 16:17.300 Anyway, from what you told me, I don't think she'll be 16:17.300 --> 16:19.300 in any real danger. No real danger. 16:19.300 --> 16:21.300 She's been kidnapped by gangsters. 16:21.300 --> 16:23.300 But why? That's what 16:23.300 --> 16:25.300 doesn't make sense to me yet. I told 16:25.300 --> 16:27.300 you, the money was some kind of a bribe. They thought 16:27.300 --> 16:29.300 we knew about it. But you didn't. 16:29.300 --> 16:31.300 How could we? Anne just picked up the money off the floor 16:31.300 --> 16:33.300 and... They said that they'd have her back 16:33.300 --> 16:35.300 by Monday? That's what they said. You can 16:35.300 --> 16:37.300 believe them if you want, but she's my wife. Okay. 16:37.300 --> 16:39.300 Okay. 16:39.300 --> 16:41.300 What do these two cookies look like? 16:41.300 --> 16:43.300 I don't know. Average size, dark, I think. 16:43.300 --> 16:45.300 I don't remember what they look like. 16:45.300 --> 16:47.300 Did you catch their name? I didn't ask them. 16:47.300 --> 16:49.300 You're not going to be 16:49.300 --> 16:51.300 much help for a while, are you? Okay, 16:51.300 --> 16:53.300 it's all right. By the way, 16:53.300 --> 16:55.300 my name's Dan. 16:55.300 --> 16:57.300 Mine's Al. You'll probably be seeing quite a lot 16:57.300 --> 16:59.300 of me in the next day or two, so we might as well 16:59.300 --> 17:01.300 get acquainted. And 17:01.300 --> 17:03.300 Al... Yeah. 17:03.300 --> 17:05.300 Take it easy. 17:05.300 --> 17:13.300 We'll find your wife. 17:13.300 --> 17:15.300 His being friendly like that 17:15.300 --> 17:17.300 made me feel a lot better. But we still 17:17.300 --> 17:19.300 weren't doing anything. 17:19.300 --> 17:21.300 First, he got out a lot of pictures, and I had to go 17:21.300 --> 17:23.300 through all those. But of course, I couldn't recognize 17:23.300 --> 17:25.300 anybody, and then he started making 17:25.300 --> 17:27.300 phone calls. That didn't make much sense 17:27.300 --> 17:29.300 to me either, except that he figured 17:29.300 --> 17:31.300 they might have just stolen a car, and he was trying to 17:31.300 --> 17:33.300 check on it. Finally, he called 17:33.300 --> 17:35.300 a police car and we drove back toward the courthouse. 17:35.300 --> 17:37.300 It was 12 o'clock, 17:37.300 --> 17:39.300 but Mr. Adelson hadn't left the store. 17:39.300 --> 17:41.300 He was anxious enough to talk, but it didn't 17:41.300 --> 17:43.300 look as though he was going to get us anyplace. 17:43.300 --> 17:45.300 I tell you, Lieutenant, it was right there 17:45.300 --> 17:47.300 on the floor. Right there! 17:47.300 --> 17:49.300 Yeah, but when you talked to these two men... 17:49.300 --> 17:51.300 Oh, yes. Well, I talked to them. The one, 17:51.300 --> 17:53.300 that is, and he said he'd lost an envelope 17:53.300 --> 17:55.300 he thought in my store. And I said, 17:55.300 --> 17:57.300 yes, we'd found it, and Mr. Benwick had it. 17:57.300 --> 17:59.300 So you talked to them. What did they look like? 17:59.300 --> 18:01.300 Well, now, how can I know what they looked like when they 18:01.300 --> 18:03.300 called me on the telephone? 18:03.300 --> 18:05.300 Okay. 18:05.300 --> 18:07.300 I guess that's all, Mr. Adelson. 18:07.300 --> 18:09.300 I'm sorry, Lieutenant. I wish I could help you. 18:09.300 --> 18:11.300 That's perfectly all right. If there's anything else... 18:11.300 --> 18:13.300 We'll call you. Hey, Mr. Benwick! 18:13.300 --> 18:15.300 Yeah? Did you tell him about the note? 18:15.300 --> 18:17.300 Note? Yeah, the note that was in with the money. 18:17.300 --> 18:19.300 So there was a note. 18:19.300 --> 18:21.300 Sure! In with the money! 18:21.300 --> 18:23.300 Wasn't it, Mr. Benwick? 18:23.300 --> 18:25.300 What about it, Al? 18:25.300 --> 18:27.300 Well, I'm sorry. 18:27.300 --> 18:31.300 I guess I forgot. 18:35.300 --> 18:37.300 We drove back to Fifth Street 18:37.300 --> 18:39.300 and parked in front of our apartment. 18:39.300 --> 18:41.300 Dan didn't say a word until we got 18:41.300 --> 18:43.300 into the elevator. Then he spoke to the elevator boy, 18:43.300 --> 18:45.300 not to me. 18:45.300 --> 18:47.300 You take Mrs. Benwick 18:47.300 --> 18:49.300 and a couple of men down tonight 18:49.300 --> 18:51.300 about 10.30. Yeah, that's right. 18:51.300 --> 18:53.300 Police? 18:53.300 --> 18:55.300 Mm-hmm. What did they look like? 18:55.300 --> 18:57.300 I couldn't really tell you. 18:57.300 --> 18:59.300 They had their hats pulled down, sort of. 18:59.300 --> 19:01.300 One was tall and the other was short. 19:01.300 --> 19:03.300 That's about all I noticed. 19:03.300 --> 19:05.300 Oh, wait a minute. 19:05.300 --> 19:07.300 Yeah? 19:07.300 --> 19:09.300 The tall one had kind of a limp. 19:09.300 --> 19:11.300 He had a cane. A limp, huh? 19:11.300 --> 19:13.300 You hear any names? 19:13.300 --> 19:15.300 Yeah, now that you speak of it, 19:15.300 --> 19:17.300 the short one called the tall one Johnny. 19:17.300 --> 19:19.300 Funny, I didn't think of it. 19:19.300 --> 19:21.300 The tall one and the short one and the tall one's name 19:21.300 --> 19:23.300 was Johnny and he had a limp. 19:23.300 --> 19:25.300 I bet that breaks the case wide open, huh? 19:25.300 --> 19:27.300 Yeah, yeah, I'll see that you get a citation. 19:33.300 --> 19:35.300 We got off at my floor and I opened up the apartment 19:35.300 --> 19:37.300 and we went in. 19:37.300 --> 19:39.300 He still didn't say anything. 19:39.300 --> 19:41.300 He prowled around the apartment, poking into bureaus 19:41.300 --> 19:43.300 and closets for not saying a word. 19:43.300 --> 19:45.300 Then he came out in the living room 19:45.300 --> 19:47.300 and sat down in the big armchair and looked straight at me. 19:47.300 --> 19:49.300 All right, Al. 19:49.300 --> 19:51.300 What about the note? 19:51.300 --> 19:53.300 I'm sorry, Dan, I didn't think it was important. 19:53.300 --> 19:55.300 You're not sore, are you? 19:55.300 --> 19:57.300 Me? What have I got to be sore about? 19:57.300 --> 19:59.300 Sure what? Yeah, I'm sorry. 19:59.300 --> 20:01.300 And what about the note? 20:01.300 --> 20:03.300 All it said was something like, this is the first half as we agreed 20:03.300 --> 20:05.300 and no signature. 20:05.300 --> 20:07.300 Have you got it? No. 20:07.300 --> 20:09.300 It took it when they took the money. 20:09.300 --> 20:11.300 And you couldn't remember that one was a tall guy 20:11.300 --> 20:13.300 and the other was a short guy and that the tall guy's name was Johnny? 20:13.300 --> 20:15.300 But I was all upset. I didn't even know if I heard his name. 20:15.300 --> 20:17.300 Are you trying to protect her, Al? 20:17.300 --> 20:19.300 No, no, I've told you everything I can. 20:19.300 --> 20:21.300 Okay, forget it. 20:23.300 --> 20:25.300 Let's see. 20:25.300 --> 20:27.300 A bribe. 20:27.300 --> 20:29.300 That means that somebody wants something 20:29.300 --> 20:31.300 or is on the spot. 20:31.300 --> 20:33.300 The fix will be on by Monday, they say. 20:35.300 --> 20:37.300 Now, who is there in this town that employs gunsels 20:37.300 --> 20:39.300 that would have a deal with that much dough set for next Monday? 20:39.300 --> 20:41.300 Oh, there could be a million deals like that. 20:41.300 --> 20:43.300 Quiet. Let me think a minute, will you? 20:45.300 --> 20:47.300 Johnny, a cane 20:47.300 --> 20:49.300 and a short guy. 20:51.300 --> 20:53.300 It's on the tip of my tongue. 20:53.300 --> 20:55.300 It wasn't so long ago, either. 20:55.300 --> 20:57.300 Sure. 20:57.300 --> 20:59.300 Sure. Why didn't I think of it? 20:59.300 --> 21:01.300 Think of what? Bill Quinlan, the defense lawyer 21:01.300 --> 21:03.300 in the Harmon case. Those are his boys. 21:03.300 --> 21:05.300 Had him up a dozen times. He always comes and gets them off. 21:05.300 --> 21:07.300 The Harmon trial? Yeah, this Harmon is up on a murder rap. 21:07.300 --> 21:09.300 A bank robber, a guard was killed. 21:09.300 --> 21:11.300 His lawyer is Bill Quinlan. 21:11.300 --> 21:13.300 Quinlan's bribe moored juries and I got hairs on my head. 21:13.300 --> 21:15.300 If you could ever prove it. 21:15.300 --> 21:17.300 Get a couple of hung juries and they let you off the hook. 21:17.300 --> 21:19.300 He's pulled it plenty of times. 21:19.300 --> 21:21.300 Well, isn't that a little far-fetched? 21:21.300 --> 21:23.300 It's like I say, Al, it's all we've got. 21:23.300 --> 21:25.300 I'll have the boys check the jury list anyway. 21:25.300 --> 21:27.300 Where's your phone? In there. Dan? 21:27.300 --> 21:29.300 Yeah? 21:29.300 --> 21:31.300 Dan, uh, I'm on the jury. 21:33.300 --> 21:35.300 You're what? Well, don't you see? 21:35.300 --> 21:37.300 If I opened my mouth, they'd kill her. They told me so. 21:37.300 --> 21:39.300 So that's it. I didn't dare tell you, Dan. 21:39.300 --> 21:41.300 I hoped you'd find her without... Why, you long-legged, 21:41.300 --> 21:43.300 thick-headed idiot. Don't you think I've been in this business 21:43.300 --> 21:45.300 long enough to know it a little better than you do? 21:45.300 --> 21:47.300 Don't you think I know how to give people protection when I have to? 21:47.300 --> 21:49.300 Do you think we go around trying to get people killed? 21:55.300 --> 21:57.300 Do you know any more that you haven't told me? 21:57.300 --> 21:59.300 No. 21:59.300 --> 22:01.300 Do you know who the juror is they're trying to bribe? 22:01.300 --> 22:03.300 Nope. Yeah, okay. 22:05.300 --> 22:07.300 At least now we know where to start looking. 22:07.300 --> 22:09.300 Dan. Yeah? 22:09.300 --> 22:11.300 You're not sore at me, are you? Me? No. 22:11.300 --> 22:13.300 What have I got to be sore about? 22:23.300 --> 22:25.300 We knew where to start looking, but it wasn't as easy as that. 22:25.300 --> 22:27.300 I was still on the jury, of course, 22:27.300 --> 22:29.300 and they didn't dare make a move against Harman 22:29.300 --> 22:31.300 because of Ann. 22:31.300 --> 22:33.300 The case went to the jury Friday, and there was still 22:33.300 --> 22:35.300 no word of her. 22:35.300 --> 22:37.300 And, of course, I had to vote not guilty. They understood that. 22:37.300 --> 22:39.300 But as it turned out, the vote was 8-4, 22:39.300 --> 22:41.300 so it didn't really matter. 22:41.300 --> 22:43.300 With the hung jury, Harman was scheduled 22:43.300 --> 22:45.300 for a new trial anyway. 22:45.300 --> 22:47.300 By now it was Monday, the day Ann was supposed 22:47.300 --> 22:49.300 to return, but there was no word. 22:49.300 --> 22:51.300 What if they'd found out the police 22:51.300 --> 22:53.300 knew I was on the jury? 22:53.300 --> 22:55.300 It was nearly midnight when Dan came 22:55.300 --> 22:57.300 to the apartment. 22:57.300 --> 22:59.300 He looked as though he hadn't slept for three days. 22:59.300 --> 23:01.300 I hadn't either. He told me to come along with him. 23:01.300 --> 23:03.300 He didn't say much until we were 23:03.300 --> 23:09.300 way down on Avenue C in the Lower East Side. 23:09.300 --> 23:11.300 Don't let her get out, fella, but I think we're gonna come out all right. 23:11.300 --> 23:13.300 When did you find out? 23:13.300 --> 23:15.300 About an hour ago. We trailed Harman. 23:15.300 --> 23:17.300 That's why he got bailed. 23:17.300 --> 23:19.300 Dan, don't kid me. Are you sure that she's... 23:19.300 --> 23:21.300 Sure as we can be. We know where they are. 23:21.300 --> 23:23.300 She'll be there. 23:23.300 --> 23:25.300 Now, that's the place, third house down. 23:25.300 --> 23:27.300 Ellis, you and Wilson, 23:27.300 --> 23:29.300 stay out the back. Farley, Edwards, 23:29.300 --> 23:31.300 take the front. I'm going in. 23:31.300 --> 23:33.300 All right, get going. Dan! 23:33.300 --> 23:35.300 Yeah? I want to go with you. 23:35.300 --> 23:37.300 You stay in the car. I'm going with you. 23:37.300 --> 23:39.300 Okay, come on. 23:39.300 --> 23:41.300 Now, let's go. 23:45.300 --> 23:47.300 There's a light in the front. 23:47.300 --> 23:49.300 They may give us a little reception now. 23:49.300 --> 23:51.300 They wouldn't do anything to her, 23:51.300 --> 23:53.300 would they, Dan? I'll try the door. 23:55.300 --> 23:57.300 It's locked. Can we bust it open? 23:57.300 --> 24:01.300 I got a skeleton. 24:03.300 --> 24:05.300 All right, close it behind you 24:05.300 --> 24:07.300 so the street light won't show us up. 24:07.300 --> 24:09.300 Okay. 24:11.300 --> 24:13.300 They're coming. 24:13.300 --> 24:15.300 Now, those are my boys. 24:17.300 --> 24:19.300 Let's try in here. 24:21.300 --> 24:23.300 I don't think anybody's around. 24:23.300 --> 24:27.300 Come on. 24:29.300 --> 24:31.300 Maybe they took us someplace else. 24:31.300 --> 24:33.300 Quiet. 24:45.300 --> 24:47.300 No, Al. You better stay out. 24:47.300 --> 24:49.300 Why? What is it? 24:49.300 --> 24:51.300 What is it? 24:51.300 --> 24:53.300 It's her, Al. Your wife. 24:53.300 --> 24:55.300 She's dead. 25:07.300 --> 25:09.300 She was dead. 25:09.300 --> 25:11.300 And the next day there was the funeral. 25:11.300 --> 25:13.300 A lot of friends came around 25:13.300 --> 25:15.300 and shook hands and looked at me sad. 25:15.300 --> 25:17.300 And I stood by 25:17.300 --> 25:21.300 where she was lying with all the flowers around her. 25:21.300 --> 25:23.300 This wasn't the way it was supposed to work out. 25:23.300 --> 25:25.300 Dan came too. 25:25.300 --> 25:27.300 For a long time he stood there 25:27.300 --> 25:29.300 looking at her 25:29.300 --> 25:31.300 and my friends 25:31.300 --> 25:33.300 and me. 25:37.300 --> 25:39.300 You called them, didn't you? 25:39.300 --> 25:41.300 I called them? Yeah. 25:41.300 --> 25:43.300 You called them and she thought 25:43.300 --> 25:45.300 you were calling the police. 25:45.300 --> 25:47.300 That's why the police never showed up. 25:47.300 --> 25:49.300 I called them. 25:49.300 --> 25:51.300 She was so insistent I had to call somebody. 25:51.300 --> 25:53.300 I didn't think they'd take her away. 25:53.300 --> 25:55.300 I thought they'd just take the money 25:55.300 --> 25:57.300 and leave, forget the whole thing. 25:57.300 --> 25:59.300 But they took her too. 25:59.300 --> 26:01.300 What about the money? 26:01.300 --> 26:03.300 The money they paid me 26:03.300 --> 26:05.300 for the trial? 26:05.300 --> 26:07.300 The money for the trial, $10,000. 26:07.300 --> 26:09.300 I told you. 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