1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,880 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:20,600 Tonight, Auto Light brings you a story of a mind reader who discovers his nightclub 3 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,480 act is not a fake. 4 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:32,720 A story we call a vision of death starring Mr. Ronald Coleman. 5 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,320 Before our play begins, here is a word about Auto Light from a good friend of ours. 6 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,320 Greetings, I, Wilcox. 7 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:45,120 Why, it's that amazing, magnificent mystic and great glass globe gazer, Sabu the Swami. 8 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,240 What's on my mind? 9 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,960 You think of your best friend. 10 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:50,360 Everybody's best friend. 11 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,240 The Auto Light Stay Full, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal 12 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:55,240 car use. 13 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,000 Now the glass shows a glass even more powerful than mine. 14 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,120 Well, that's the fiberglass retaining mat protecting every positive plate in the Auto 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,080 Light Stay Full battery. 16 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:09,800 They prevent shedding and flaking and give the Stay Full longer life, as proved by tests 17 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,760 conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 18 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,920 Now I see many smiling faces. 19 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:20,680 Among the thousands of drivers who visit their masterful, merry and marvelous neighborhood 20 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,560 Auto Light battery dealers. 21 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:27,880 For an Auto Light Stay Full, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal 22 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:28,880 car use. 23 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,240 Now the crystal ball shows words of wisdom. 24 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,600 I know. 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,000 You're always right with Auto Light. 26 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,560 And now with a vision of death and the performance of Mr. Ronald Coleman, Auto Light hopes once 27 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:59,280 again to keep you in suspense. 28 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,720 If I speak too rapidly for your stenographer, you'll tell me won't you, Lieutenant? 29 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,880 No offense, but he impresses me as someone who has to sit on the floor to put his shoes 30 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:09,120 on. 31 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,280 And don't hesitate to stop me if I seem to wander away from the point. 32 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:17,040 I mean to say this is my first and I hope final appearance in a police precinct and 33 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,800 I should hate to give a sloppy performance. 34 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:25,960 We were always known, Aurora and I, for the smoothness and gem-like precision of our act. 35 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:31,760 And as for this murder rap, I suppose it's called is concerned, an acquaintance with 36 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,800 our act is the essential rabbit. 37 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,520 Awfully good act. 38 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:40,720 Smart, informal, occasionally humorous and always mystifying. 39 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:47,280 Well, the act always began with music, never with the cliché fanfare of trumpets or roll 40 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,680 of drums. 41 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,600 I would saunter out to the center of the floor and say something like, good evening, you 42 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,120 are about to witness an exhibition of mental telepathy. 43 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,320 Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Aurora, my wife. 44 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,000 They never failed to give her a hand. 45 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,000 What were they applaud? 46 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,280 The vision she presented as she came toward me. 47 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:16,800 There's never been anyone as lovely as Aurora, the most beautiful flash in the profession. 48 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:21,600 Aurora, would you care to tell the audience or shall I? 49 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,920 You tell them, Judd, while I tie the blindfold across my eyes. 50 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:29,960 Ladies and gentlemen, all mind readers employ a gimmick. 51 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,360 A gimmick is a trick, a device. 52 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,480 For example, when the mind reader, threading his way through the audience, says to the 53 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,240 mind reader sitting blindfolded on the stage, a lady has given me a small object, which 54 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,000 I now hold in my hand. 55 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 What is it? 56 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,320 And the mind reader sitting blindfolded replies, a silver coin. 57 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,760 The answer has not come through mind reading. 58 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,760 No, it has come through the gimmick, a cue or signal communicated through the very question 59 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:55,760 itself. 60 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:57,400 But we don't do that. 61 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,520 We do not. 62 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:04,040 You will notice, ladies and gentlemen, that I never speak to Aurora at all. 63 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:05,040 Are you ready, Rory? 64 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,040 Ready, Judd. 65 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:07,040 Here we go, then. 66 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:08,040 You, sir. 67 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:09,040 You have something. 68 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,040 Go ahead. 69 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,040 Concentrate upon it like a good chap. 70 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:12,040 The gentleman holds a coin in his hand. 71 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,040 And you, madam? 72 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,040 It is a Mexican peso bearing the date 1-8-9-2. 73 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,040 I know that. 74 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,040 That's very clever of you, madam. 75 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,040 I'll be surprised if she gets this one. 76 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:18,040 The lady holds in her hand her other hand. 77 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,040 How about you, young man? 78 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:46,560 A sucker once born remains a sucker till death. 79 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,600 The audience never realized, never in all the years we worked, that although I was not 80 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:57,240 speaking to Aurora directly, my chatter nevertheless was loaded with signals and cues for her guidance. 81 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,640 By revealing the gimmick, we concealed the gimmick. 82 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,600 And that, lieutenant, is the ne plus ultra of gimmicks. 83 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,680 Yes, it was as crude as that. 84 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:09,080 But it enabled us to work 50 weeks a year here and abroad at an average of over a thousand 85 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:10,080 a week. 86 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,840 Of course, I always gave some credit for our success to our agent, Harry Arnold. 87 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:17,760 Although Rory was inclined to give him no credit at all. 88 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:19,120 Good news, Judd. 89 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,800 I've managed to book the act into the college inn in Chicago with a four-week guarantee. 90 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:24,800 Not bad, huh? 91 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:25,800 Get him. 92 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,640 He managed to book the act. 93 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,040 I suppose they never heard of us in Chicago. 94 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,640 I suppose we weren't held over there six weeks when we played the Sans Souci in 1948. 95 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,460 You think it's easy to get a four-week guarantee these days? 96 00:05:37,460 --> 00:05:38,460 Money is short. 97 00:05:38,460 --> 00:05:39,460 Money is tight. 98 00:05:39,460 --> 00:05:42,300 I've never yet heard you say money is long, money is loose. 99 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:44,800 You have to sweat for your 10 percent, don't you? 100 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,880 Yes, you do, in a pig's ear you do. 101 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,720 Agents, they're all like you. 102 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,120 Oh, there's gratitude for you. 103 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,360 There's the milk of human memory. 104 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:53,720 What were you when I first saw you? 105 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,520 Nothing, not this much. 106 00:05:55,520 --> 00:06:00,600 Playing 10 a day on the canvas in Monash, Wisconsin, and paid off in bottle tops. 107 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,520 I worked, I schemed, I sweated. 108 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:03,520 Listen to him. 109 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,200 You think he had to get out there on the floor every night. 110 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,800 You think he was the one spent 11 months, 12 hours a day memorizing the code. 111 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,760 You think it was his name in lights? 112 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:13,760 Agents. 113 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,440 All they know is how to live off a dead whale. 114 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:17,440 Scum of the earth. 115 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:18,760 Look, I'm not going to take that from you, you hear me? 116 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,000 You'll take it, baby, along with the 10 percent. 117 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,920 You'll take it and you'll chew it and you'll swallow it and you'll keep it down, too. 118 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:25,920 How do you like that? 119 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:26,920 I'm warning you, kid. 120 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:27,920 Don't push me too far. 121 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:28,920 Don't push me too far. 122 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,720 Now, children, children, on your way, Harry, and don't let it get you down. 123 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,120 I think a four-week guarantee is pretty good. 124 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,160 Oh, thanks, Judd. 125 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,160 If it wasn't for you, Judd, I'd... 126 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,440 Oh, why go into it? 127 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:49,200 I'm going for a walk. 128 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:54,320 But aside from these altercations between Rory and Harry, it was smooth sailing. 129 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:59,200 We wore the best, ate the best, drank the best, stayed at the finest hotels. 130 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:03,160 And every Saturday night after the performance, Harry would bring us our salary. 131 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,040 He'd bring it in cash. 132 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,040 Thousand, 1250, 1500. 133 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:12,040 I have the old performer's distrust of checks. 134 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,080 Been given too many with a high latex content. 135 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,800 Anyway, life couldn't have been more pleasant. 136 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:23,600 And then one evening, about five weeks ago, soon after we opened at the Grove here in 137 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:25,840 town, a frightening thing occurred. 138 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,120 We'd just begun the act and I was out in the audience. 139 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:35,120 You will notice, ladies and gentlemen, that I never speak to Aurora at all. 140 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:36,120 Are you ready, Rory? 141 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:37,120 Ready, Judd. 142 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:38,120 Here we go then. 143 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,120 Now, you, madam. 144 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,120 The lady holds in her hand a compact. 145 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:41,120 It is platinum and bears her initials, RC. 146 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:42,120 You, sir. 147 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,120 You, sir. 148 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:44,120 The gentleman is holding an engagement ring. 149 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:45,120 In it are three small diamonds. 150 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:46,120 I... 151 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:47,120 I... 152 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,120 Miss, miss, have you... 153 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:49,120 The young lady is holding... 154 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:50,120 It's a small cameo brooch. 155 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:54,680 And it's got an 156 00:07:54,680 --> 00:08:07,960 Rory, Rory. 157 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:17,440 Maurice, Maurice, music, music. 158 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,080 I picked Rory up from the floor and hurried with her to our dressing room, almost beside 159 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:22,080 myself with anxiety. 160 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:26,480 I placed her on the couch, dampened her towel and put it on her forehead and began to chafe 161 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:27,480 her wrists. 162 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:28,480 Rory, Rory, honey, Rory. 163 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:29,480 Judd, what happened? 164 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:30,480 I was in the bar. 165 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:31,480 Do you want me to get a doctor? 166 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:32,480 No, no, no. 167 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:33,480 I don't know. 168 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:34,480 Get out. 169 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:35,480 Leave us alone. 170 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:36,480 Get out, Harry. 171 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:37,480 Get out. 172 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:38,480 Judd, Judd. 173 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:39,480 I'm here, Rory. 174 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:40,480 Are you all right? 175 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:41,480 I guess so. 176 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:42,480 I don't know what happened. 177 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:43,480 You painted away. 178 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:44,480 Try to remember what happened. 179 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:45,480 I felt funny. 180 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:46,480 I don't know what happened. 181 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:47,480 I don't know what happened. 182 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:48,480 I don't know what happened. 183 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:49,480 I don't know what happened. 184 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:50,480 I don't know what happened. 185 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:51,480 I don't know what happened. 186 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:52,480 I don't remember. 187 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,680 No, no, try, try, Rory, try. 188 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:55,680 Try to remember. 189 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:56,680 It's important. 190 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:57,680 I can't. 191 00:08:57,680 --> 00:08:58,680 Why is it important? 192 00:08:58,680 --> 00:08:59,680 Oh, you don't know? 193 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:00,680 Rory, you don't know? 194 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:13,680 You were calling out the answers before I even had a chance to give you the cue. 195 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:21,920 Do you believe in telepathy, Lieutenant? 196 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,640 I don't mean the sort of thing Rory and I usually did. 197 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,160 I mean real telepathy. 198 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,600 I never did either until that night. 199 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,080 I don't mind telling you I was badly shaken. 200 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,320 I mean, after all, I knew we'd been using a gimmick and suddenly it began to happen without 201 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,360 the gimmick. 202 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:40,360 Scared us to death. 203 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,660 We didn't know what we were getting into. 204 00:09:43,660 --> 00:09:48,520 But we went on with the act and in my mind I began to search about for the answer. 205 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:49,640 I found it, of course. 206 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:55,000 You'll find a gimmick in almost everything if you look hard enough. 207 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,880 I've got it, Rory. 208 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:01,440 We've worked together so long that you know what I'm going to say before I say it. 209 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,040 From my inflection, my pauses, even my movements. 210 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:05,040 You see? 211 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:06,880 Judd, that has to be it. 212 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:07,880 This is marvelous. 213 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,000 When Harry gets back, I'll tell him about it. 214 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,520 And if I last until tomorrow, he can ask the management for more dough. 215 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,440 Yeah, as soon as he gets back. 216 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,440 Next Thursday. 217 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:17,440 Tonight. 218 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:18,440 How much more should we ask for? 219 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:19,440 What, we... 220 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:20,440 Tonight? 221 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:21,440 What made you say tonight? 222 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:22,440 I don't know, Judd. 223 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:28,440 Oh, you were there when he told me he'd be in Palm Springs till Thursday. 224 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,280 What... what made you say tonight? 225 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:32,280 I don't know. 226 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,280 What difference does it make? 227 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:35,280 Stop picking on me. 228 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:36,280 So I made a mistake. 229 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:37,280 So what? 230 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:38,720 I don't see how you could make such a mistake, that's all. 231 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:40,720 Judd, leave me alone. 232 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,840 I've been worried half crazy about really being able to read your mind. 233 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,280 I've been under a strain. 234 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,600 So Harry's coming back Thursday and not tonight. 235 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:49,600 All right. 236 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:50,600 You satisfied? 237 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,840 He'll be here Thursday and not tonight. 238 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:53,840 You Juddson Stone, mister. 239 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:54,840 This dressing room, eh? 240 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:55,840 What is it? 241 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:56,840 A telegram. 242 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:57,840 Sign here. 243 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,840 Oh, sign for it, will you, Rory? 244 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,840 There you are, kid. 245 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,440 I'm sorry I blew up in your face, Judd. 246 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:07,440 Judd. 247 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,440 What's the matter? 248 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,440 It's... it's from Harry. 249 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:22,400 He's coming in tonight. 250 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,720 And he did too, Lieutenant. 251 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,440 Rory was so upset by it, she couldn't go on at all that evening. 252 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,720 She had no explanation for how she knew, none whatsoever. 253 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:32,720 I don't know, Judd. 254 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,360 I just don't know. 255 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:39,880 My mind seems to go blank and I seem to hear a voice whisper in my ear. 256 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,840 Harry, Arnold will be with you tonight. 257 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:43,840 That's all. 258 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:48,680 When we got to our suite at the hotel, Harry was there waiting for us. 259 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:49,680 What happened? 260 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:50,680 What happened? 261 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:51,680 You both look like ghosts. 262 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:52,920 Harry, I'll tell you some other time. 263 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:53,920 Leave us alone, will you? 264 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:54,920 All right, all right. 265 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:55,920 I'm going. 266 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,320 Just came back to wish you a happy birthday and to give you this. 267 00:11:58,320 --> 00:11:59,320 Birthday? 268 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:00,320 Oh, yeah. 269 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:01,320 Thanks. 270 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:02,320 Thanks, Harry. 271 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:03,320 Thanks. 272 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:04,320 What is it? 273 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:05,320 Well, open it, why don't you? 274 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:06,320 It's a bathrobe. 275 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,320 A red silk bathrobe with your initials. 276 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:10,320 That's right. 277 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,320 It's a... 278 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:12,320 How does she know? 279 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:13,320 How do you know? 280 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:14,320 Get out of here. 281 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:15,320 Get out of here. 282 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:16,320 Judd, make him get out of here. 283 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:17,320 Look, I won't be talked to like that. 284 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:18,320 I don't care who she is. 285 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:19,320 I won't be talked to like that. 286 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:20,320 Harry, shut up. 287 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,320 For heaven's sake, shut up and go away. 288 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:23,320 Leave us alone. 289 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:24,320 What? 290 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:25,320 Go, get out. 291 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:26,320 Get out. 292 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:27,320 You too, Judd? 293 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,680 She's got you talking against me too, huh? 294 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:31,240 All right, I'm going. 295 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:32,240 I'm going. 296 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,240 But from here on in, it's strictly business between us. 297 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:43,960 I wash my hands. 298 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:45,520 He kept his word, Lieutenant. 299 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,640 From that time on, he kept himself to himself. 300 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:53,640 And I was prepared to let it go at that, much as I liked Harry, until the night I was awakened 301 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,200 by Rory, moaning in her sleep. 302 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,200 No, no, please. 303 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,280 Rory, wake up. 304 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:01,280 You're having a bad dream. 305 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:02,280 Rory. 306 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:03,280 No. 307 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:04,280 What? 308 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:05,280 Judd? 309 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:06,280 Shhh. 310 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:07,280 Judd. 311 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:08,280 It's all right. 312 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:09,280 I'm here. 313 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:10,280 I'm here. 314 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:11,280 Oh, Judd. 315 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:12,280 What, Rory? 316 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:13,280 The voice. 317 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:14,280 Whispering again? 318 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:15,280 Yes. 319 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:16,280 Oh, Judd. 320 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:17,280 What? 321 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:23,280 He's going to kill me. 322 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:29,680 Harry Arnold is going to kill me. 323 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:45,720 And that, Lieutenant, was the beginning of the end of that. 324 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:51,840 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Ronald Coleman with Kathy Lewis in A Vision of Death, tonight's 325 00:13:51,840 --> 00:14:00,240 production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 326 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:13,400 Rory, Rory, get a grip on yourself. 327 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:14,400 He's going to kill me. 328 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:15,400 Harry is going to kill me. 329 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:16,400 Don't be ridiculous. 330 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:17,400 Stop it now. 331 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:18,400 It was just a bad dream. 332 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:19,400 Harry is going to kill me. 333 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:20,400 Will you stop that? 334 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:21,400 Will you stop that? 335 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:22,400 Will you stop saying that? 336 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:23,400 Judd, hold me. 337 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:24,400 Judd, run. 338 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:25,400 Harry is going to kill me. 339 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:26,400 Now you've had a bad dream, I tell you. 340 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:27,400 He hates me. 341 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:28,400 He hates me, Judd. 342 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,920 Judd, Harry is going to kill me. 343 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:47,880 I'm a rational man, Lieutenant. 344 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,880 I've always felt, for example, that when Hamlet says there are stranger things in heaven and 345 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,640 earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio, Horatio ought to reply, tell that 346 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:56,640 to Sweeney. 347 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,880 I knew there was no such thing as mental telepathy. 348 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,840 I knew it as well as I know I'm sitting here talking to you. 349 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,000 Up here in my head, I knew it. 350 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:10,920 And yet, the next afternoon, I found myself entering a gun shop and purchasing a revolver 351 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:16,200 and a box of bullets, determined that before Harry Arnold could so much as injure one hair 352 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,800 of Rory's head, I would kill him. 353 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,280 I should have gone directly to the police first. 354 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:24,880 You're using hindsight, Lieutenant. 355 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:26,640 I had all that out with Rory. 356 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:27,640 Please, Judd, please. 357 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,600 Go to the police and tell them about this. 358 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:31,600 Let them handle it. 359 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:32,600 Tell them what? 360 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,960 That by reading his mind, we've learned Harry intends to murder you. 361 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:36,960 They'll believe us. 362 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:37,960 They've got to believe us. 363 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,160 Oh, now, they're reasoning like a child. 364 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,680 They'll decide that it's either a publicity stunt or else they were both lunatics. 365 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,920 If I tell them about the telegram and the birthday presents... 366 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:47,920 Rory, we have no proof. 367 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,920 But we have to do something. 368 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:50,920 What? 369 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:51,920 Tell me what? 370 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:53,480 You know he intends to kill you. 371 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,000 I know he intends to kill you, but what can we do? 372 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,660 I can't simply put a bullet in his heart next time I see him. 373 00:16:00,660 --> 00:16:02,080 How could I explain it? 374 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,040 My wife had a premonition that he was going to murder her. 375 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:11,840 Do you know when he's going to do it or how he's going to do it? 376 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:12,840 No. 377 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:17,120 He hasn't decided yet. 378 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,080 Isn't there anything we can do? 379 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:21,360 Nothing. 380 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:30,040 Except wait. 381 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:33,320 I reacted to the waiting, as you might expect, Lieutenant. 382 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,480 Sleeplessness, loss of appetite, growing irritability. 383 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:39,040 I flared up at everyone. 384 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:43,160 The waiters, chambermaids, elevator boys, the manager of the club. 385 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:44,480 The manager of the club, yes. 386 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:45,840 He finally said to me... 387 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,600 Stone, what the devil's gotten into you? 388 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:48,600 I'd really like to know. 389 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:49,600 None of your business. 390 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:50,600 I'm only trying to be nice. 391 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,600 Oh, shut up and let me alone. 392 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,360 Yeah, sure, I'll let you alone. 393 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,440 I'd let you alone right now if your contract didn't have another week to run. 394 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,520 But after that, I'll let you strictly alone. 395 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,880 You'll never work this club again. 396 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:02,880 Maniac. 397 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:09,840 I began to drink quite heavily, quite noticeably. 398 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,600 I was going crazy just from the waiting. 399 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,920 And then, and then the waiting came to an end. 400 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,560 It was around three in the morning. 401 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:24,520 I was sitting up in bed, in the dark, smoking, when Rory opened her eyes and said... 402 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:25,520 Judd? 403 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:26,520 Yes? 404 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:27,520 The voice. 405 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:28,520 Yes? 406 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:29,520 He's, he's going to kill me. 407 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,840 Here, right here, in this room. 408 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:34,840 Rory. 409 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:35,840 Saturday. 410 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:36,840 This Saturday at midnight. 411 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:37,840 Judd? 412 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:38,840 Rory, Rory, sweetheart. 413 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:39,840 He's going to shoot me. 414 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:40,840 He has a gun. 415 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:41,840 And he's going to shoot me. 416 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:46,840 He's going to get you downstairs in the manager's office at the club. 417 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,840 I don't know how he's going to get you down there. 418 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,840 I don't know how he's going to get you down there. 419 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,840 I don't know how he's going to get you down there. 420 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,840 He's going to get you down there in the manager's office at the club. 421 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:00,840 And why is he there? 422 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,840 He's going to come up here. 423 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,840 Rory, Rory, listen to me. 424 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,600 I want you to listen to me. 425 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,840 You're mistaken, do you understand? 426 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,840 You've been having another bad dream and that's all there is to it. 427 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,840 No, no, Judd, I swear it. 428 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,840 He just thought of it. 429 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:17,840 Just this minute. 430 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:22,840 He was standing at a bar, standing there all by himself, drinking. 431 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,840 And he just this minute decided. 432 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:27,840 You're making it up. 433 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,840 Judd, no. 434 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:35,840 It's the bar over at the Tuscany Hotel. 435 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:37,840 I see it so clear. 436 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:38,840 You're wrong. You're wrong. 437 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,840 I'll prove you wrong. 438 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:41,840 Judd. 439 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,840 Give me the bar at the Tuscany, will you? 440 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:44,840 Over on Sunset. 441 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,840 One moment, please. 442 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:48,840 You'll see, Rory, he's not there at all. 443 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:49,840 You'll see, it's just a dream. 444 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:51,840 Just a bad dream. 445 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,840 Tuscany Cocktail Lounge. 446 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,840 Hello, is Harry Arnold there at the bar? 447 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,840 Harry Arnold? No, I'm sorry, he's not. 448 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,840 He's not, huh? You sure of that? 449 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,840 Sure, I'm sure. He was here all evening, left about a minute ago. 450 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:06,840 I said good night to him myself. 451 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:08,840 He wanted me to call. 452 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,840 It wasn't a dream. 453 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,840 Judd. 454 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:15,840 No, no, Rory, don't worry. 455 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:16,840 Trust me, trust me. 456 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,840 When Harry comes tomorrow night, you won't be here at all. 457 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,840 But I will. 458 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,840 Look, Lieutenant, my hands. 459 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:33,840 See? 460 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:38,840 Just the memory of how I felt at that moment when my hands began to tremble again. 461 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,840 Amazing, isn't it? 462 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,840 Well, that was last Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, 463 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,840 and towards daybreak, Rory subbed herself to sleep. 464 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,840 But I was restless. 465 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,840 I got dressed and went downstairs and got into my car. 466 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:56,840 A long drive has always relaxed me, 467 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,840 but when I got behind the wheel, I don't know what it was, possibly the fresh air. 468 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,840 But all at once I felt as though I couldn't keep my eyes open for another moment. 469 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,840 I simply had to have sleep. 470 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,840 So I crawled into the back seat, 471 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,840 curled myself up in one corner, 472 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,840 pulled the rug over me and went out like a light. 473 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,840 Hello, Satin Skin. 474 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:17,840 Hello, Harry. 475 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,840 I was awakened around noon by the sound of voices. 476 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:22,840 Don't smile at me, you idiot. You may cease. 477 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:23,840 Look businesslike. 478 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:24,840 Where is he? 479 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:25,840 I don't know. 480 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,840 Since he hasn't got the car, he must be out walking. 481 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,840 Don't you have some papers or something I could be examining just to make it look good in case... 482 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:31,840 A pocketful here. 483 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:32,840 All right. 484 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:33,840 Did he fall for it last night? 485 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,840 Just like he fell for all the rest of it. 486 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,840 Red bathrobe, the plants in the audience. 487 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,840 He even phoned the bar just after you left. 488 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:41,840 I timed it beautifully. 489 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,840 Oh, Satin Skin, Satin Skin, I can hardly keep away from you. 490 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,840 After tomorrow night, we'll have all the time in the world for each other, Harry. 491 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,840 You bought the whole story, huh? Midnight, tomorrow, your place? 492 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,840 Every word of it. Just do what you have to do. 493 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:54,840 Remember to come to the dressing room before the eight o'clock show 494 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,840 and tell him you've set up a meeting with Stamper, the manager in his office at 12. 495 00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,840 I want them to shake hands and be friends again. I'll tell him. 496 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:01,840 And don't forget, when you come to the door at midnight, 497 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,840 keep talking to the elevator boy. Don't let him go, whatever you do. 498 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:06,840 You'll want him to testify with self-defense. 499 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,840 Don't worry. I won't forget a thing. 500 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:09,840 You'll handle all the rest of it? 501 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:10,840 Yeah, yeah. Just leave it to me. 502 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,840 No, I mean about his gun. That's pretty important, you know. 503 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,840 Don't worry. It will misfire. 504 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,840 It'd be difficult for me to tell you what I felt as they walked away, lieutenant. 505 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,840 One part of me felt the way a man ought to feel, I suppose, 506 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,840 when he learns that the woman he loves is not only unfaithful, 507 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,840 but plotting his death as well. 508 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,840 But another part of me felt only relief. 509 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,840 Relief at learning there was a gimmick in this, too. 510 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,840 They've been fairly clever for amateurs. 511 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,840 Harry had a good excuse for carrying a gun 512 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,840 to protect the cash he brought me each Saturday. 513 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,840 My own behavior in recent weeks would lend weight 514 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,840 to what he would probably offer in his defense, 515 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,840 but I must have been crazy. 516 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,840 For no reason at all, I'd pointed a revolver at him and threatened his life 517 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,840 that he had a shoot in self-defense. 518 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,840 The presence of the elevator boy, 519 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,840 that could mean only that Harry would shoot just as soon as I opened the door. 520 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,840 I'd be found dead with a revolver in my hand 521 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,840 and a heartbroken agent at my side. 522 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,840 Tableau. 523 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:23,840 Then I found myself hoping, as I never hoped before, 524 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,840 that they'd come to their senses before Saturday, 525 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,840 that they'd realize what a vicious, inhuman thing it was they were planning. 526 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,840 But just before the eight o'clock show that night, 527 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,840 there was a knock at the door of our dressing room. 528 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,840 Come in. 529 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,840 Judd, I've been talking to Stamford, the manager. 530 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,840 He's sorry there's bad blood between you. He wants to square it. 531 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,840 I told him you'd be in his office at 12 to talk things over. 532 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,840 All right with you? Yeah. 533 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,840 We don't want it so we never work here again, do we? 534 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,840 I mean, there's no reason we should. No reason at all. 535 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,840 Button my dress, Judd. See you later, Judd. 536 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,840 Yeah, later. 537 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,840 Well, we did the show and then went up to our suites. 538 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,840 I helped Rory pack a small overnight bag. 539 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:11,840 I loaded the revolver and then there was nothing to do but wait. 540 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,840 The minutes passed. 541 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,840 Nine o'clock, ten, ten-thirty, and I waited. 542 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,840 Judd. Yes? 543 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,840 I don't want you to go. 544 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,840 It's best that you do. 545 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,840 It doesn't seem right to leave you here alone. 546 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,840 Things might not go as I planned. 547 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,840 I might not be able to stop him. 548 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:32,840 And if I fail to stop him... 549 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,840 Oh, no, it's best that you go. 550 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,840 Just wait at the motel until you hear from me. 551 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,840 What time is it? 552 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,840 Almost 11. Two minutes of 11. 553 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,840 I'm out of cigarettes. 554 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,840 Desk. 555 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,840 This is Mr. Stone in 1101. 556 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,840 Please send up a carton of players, will you? 557 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,840 Right away, Mr. Stone. 558 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,840 I want you to go now, Rory. 559 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,840 Judd, let me call the police, please. 560 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,840 It would be useless. 561 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,840 We've gone into it and it'll be useless. 562 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,840 Then come with me. 563 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,840 He won't find anybody here. 564 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,840 Then he'll choose another place, another time. 565 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,840 Here's your valise. 566 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,840 You have your gun? 567 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,840 In my pocket. 568 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,840 You won't take any chances. 569 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,840 I don't know what I'd do if you were hurt or anything. 570 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,840 I won't take any chances. 571 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,840 Let me help you on with your coat. 572 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,840 Judd, I love you so. 573 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,840 Yes, I know. 574 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,840 And I love you, Rory. 575 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,840 I really do, you know. 576 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:34,840 Ready? 577 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,840 Yes. 578 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,840 Eleven o'clock. 579 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,840 He'll be here in an hour. 580 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,840 Go now, Rory. 581 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,840 Kiss me goodbye. 582 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:47,840 Judd. 583 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:50,840 The cigarettes. 584 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:56,840 Get them, will you, darling, while I find change? 585 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,840 Harry. 586 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,840 Rory. 587 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,840 Rory. 588 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,840 Rory! 589 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,840 I shall always remember the look on Harry's face, Lieutenant, as she sank to the floor. 590 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,840 They'd concocted a bad dream between them and it had come true. 591 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,840 I'll bet he still doesn't know how it happened. 592 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,840 And if you pass his cell, Lieutenant, you might tell him. 593 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,840 Whisper the word gimmick into his ear. 594 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,840 That's what I said, gimmick. 595 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,840 I'll tell him. 596 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,840 I'll tell him. 597 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,840 I'll tell him. 598 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,840 I'll tell him. 599 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,840 I'll tell him. 600 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,840 That's what I said, gimmick. 601 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,840 I gimmicked the clock while Rory was dressing. 602 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,840 I set it back a full hour. 603 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,840 It was eleven to her, but twelve to him. 604 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,840 I adore gimmicks. 605 00:25:52,840 --> 00:26:08,840 Don't you? 606 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,840 Suspense. 607 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,840 Presented by Auto Light. 608 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,840 Tonight's star, Mr. Ronald Coleman. 609 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:30,840 My occult powers do reveal that every driver's automobile has a life both long and bright when it has parts by Auto Light. 610 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,840 Well, that's fortune telling. 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