1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you a story of murder and greed. 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,000 A story we call Early to Death, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Say, Half, how's your team? 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Oh, just fine, Harlow, just... my what? 6 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Your car's team. Didn't you know your Auto Light equipped car carries a team around under its hood? 7 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 You got me, Harlow. 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Well, the team, Half, is the Auto Light electrical system in your car that produces and stores the electricity needed to start your car and keep it running. 9 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,000 It also supplies electricity to your lights, heater, radio, even to your cigarette lighter. 10 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,000 You mean the Auto Light electrical system in my car does all that, Harlow? 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:03,000 It sure does, Half, because all the units of the Auto Light electrical system are related like a team. 12 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:11,000 My Auto Light engineering design and Auto Light manufacturing skill to give your Auto Light equipped car the smoothest performance money can buy. 13 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 That's what I like to hear, Harlow. 14 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:23,000 So, friends, because only Auto Light original factory parts can give you the teamwork, balance, and perfect timing that was originally built into your car's Auto Light electrical system, 15 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:31,000 it'll pay you in smooth, dependable performance to insist on Auto Light original factory parts in case replacements are needed. 16 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 17 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:46,000 And now with early to death and the performances of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 18 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:55,000 What'll happen to Duke? 19 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,000 He'll get down with the plane. 20 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 That's the same as murder. 21 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 It's $300,000. I think it's worth it. 22 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Matt Evey, you want out? 23 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 No, no, I'll get the money. You call in, Ben. 24 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Right, baby. 25 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,000 N-71533, calling Veracruz Radio. Over. 26 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,000 N-71533, this is Veracruz Radio. Go ahead. 27 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Veracruz, we're over the mountains. My oil line is clogged. We're in trouble. 28 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Do not try to drive it through. Pay it out. Okay? Over. 29 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Hello? Hello? Hello? N-71533, answer me. 30 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Evey. 31 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,000 I got it, Ben. A full payroll. $300,000. 32 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,000 All right, turn around. I'll buckle a case into your parachute harness. 33 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 We wouldn't want this to burn up, would we? 34 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 You call in the Veracruz? 35 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Yeah, yeah, they got the idea. There you are. 36 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Come on, baby. You aren't scared to make the jump, are you? 37 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Scared? After all the planning we've done, let's get out of this thing. 38 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 We jumped together. I closed my eyes and counted just the way Ben had told me. 39 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 And then I pulled the ripcord. 40 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 And all at once I was floating down to earth. It was all so easy. 41 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 After a while I was standing beside Ben and he was helping me out of my parachute harness. 42 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 We both looked over at the same time. 43 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,000 So long, dude. 44 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Ben, do you think we should have strapped a chute on him in case there's... 45 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 I left the fuel lines wide open. 46 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 When they find that plane, it won't be anything last. 47 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Come on, Evie. We got things to do. 48 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 We buried the case full of money right there in the mountains. 49 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Where we'd keep until we came back to pick it up, when things were safe. 50 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 That's the way we'd planned it. 51 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Three days later we staggered into a town called Acauca. 52 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Made like the two survivors of a plane crash. 53 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:06,000 They took us to the hospital in Veracruz and we were treated for exposure. 54 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Sure, there were questions, all sorts. 55 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 From the Mexican police, insurance investigators, agents, the whole bunch. 56 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 But they were questions we could answer. 57 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 We'd been rehearsing them for a year. 58 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 When did you know the plane was having mechanical trouble, Miss Wessler? 59 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 When Mr. Tabor came back from the pilot's cabin and told me to buckle on my chutes. 60 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,000 And you, Tabor? I was sleeping. 61 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 The duke woke me up and told me the oil line was colliding with the jet. 62 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 And you did jump? Jump. 63 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Miss Wessler went first, I thought. 64 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 But the pilot's duke didn't jump. Why? 65 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,000 I have no idea. 66 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Did you have a parachute? No. 67 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 I was six weeks aboard. 68 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Were either one of you aware of the cargo? 69 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 What cargo? 70 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 The company payroll was on the plane. 71 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Mister, I'm only a co-pilot. They don't tell me those things. 72 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Did you know, Miss Webster? 73 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 No. How would I know? 74 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 The company would just send me on my vacation. 75 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 To understand I represent the bonding company, 76 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,000 we're hoping to locate the wreckage and recover some of that payload. 77 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 I must ask you first. 78 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,000 I understand. 79 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Now then, will you please tell me what in your opinion might have stopped the pilot from saving his own life when he knew the plane was doing it? 80 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 We played it as straight and as dumb as we could. 81 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 The more questions they asked, the more innocent we looked. 82 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 And a week later when they found the wreckage and combed it over, 83 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,000 they decided everything, including the payroll, had burned up in the plane. 84 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Ben kept on flying for them. 85 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 I quit after three months and went back to New Orleans. 86 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 All we had to do was wait. 87 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 The first time the guy showed up, 88 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,000 the guy in the dirty Panama suit with the three-day beard, the smile and all the teeth, 89 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 he didn't worry me one bit. 90 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,000 You don't remember me, senorita? 91 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Go away. I'm waiting for a friend. 92 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 You do not understand. I am your friend. 93 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Well, you're not the right one, so beat it. 94 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 But we meet, you and I, in a way. 95 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Well, nice to see you again. Goodbye. 96 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 At the time you impressed Rico very much. 97 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 I am Rico. 98 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Oh, the senor Teybor. 99 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Hello, Ibi. 100 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Who's this? 101 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 I don't know, Ben. 102 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Allow me. My card. 103 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 It's very true, and I print myself. 104 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Rico Sebastian, senor Teybor. 105 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 What does he want, eh? 106 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Search me. 107 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I am just explaining my admiration for the senorita. 108 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 And now for you too, senorita. 109 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 In a way we have also met before. 110 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 You remember ever seen 111 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 30-day tourists? 112 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Let us say incognito. 113 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,000 What makes you think you know us, Sebastian? 114 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,000 I said I have seen both of you before. 115 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 It was in the mountains north of Acajuca 116 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 where I often hunt with high-powered rifle. 117 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 I saw you parachute out and land safely with a box. 118 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 I witnessed the plane crash. 119 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,000 And later saw you both star through the woods 120 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 without the box. 121 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 I would need help with dig in every ravine. 122 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Official help. 123 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Unless, of course, you would help me. 124 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 And then I would know exactly what to dig. 125 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 I would hate to talk to the officials 126 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 because I know they would listen. 127 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 What do you want? 128 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,000 A small pit in some areas. 129 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Only one little quarter of a big $300,000. 130 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Well, you have my card. 131 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 We'll talk later when you feel better. 132 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Hasta luego. 133 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Ben, what do you think? 134 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,000 I don't know. 135 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Just tell him it's proof he's got us. 136 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 And we've got a third partner. 137 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Oh, Ben, I wish we hadn't waited. 138 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 I wish we'd just taken the money and got on that boat of yours. 139 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 All right, all right, take it easy. 140 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 This guy ain't gonna let me pass. 141 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Give me that card. 142 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 What are you gonna do? 143 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I'm gonna go see him. 144 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Find out just how tough he is. 145 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Ben. 146 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Be careful, Ben. 147 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,000 I'm scared. 148 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Will you stop lying? 149 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Oh, Ben, just like a fake. 150 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 We had another drink and Ben left for Rico's. 151 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,000 I went back to my apartment and waited for his phone call. 152 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 After two hours, I couldn't stand it any longer 153 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 and took a cab over there myself. 154 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,000 It was in the French Quarter, 155 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000 a dull gray place with lots of iron grill work out front. 156 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,000 A man in a black hat and French coat answered the door. 157 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Come in, come in. 158 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,000 You'd be Miss Weston. 159 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Who are you? What is it? 160 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 I'm Lieutenant Mayor, Mr. Sergeant Tremaine. 161 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 You want to tell it now? 162 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Tell what? 163 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Okay. 164 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 The landlady says you rented this place three months ago. 165 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Why, she's a liar. I never... 166 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 This is where you meet Ben Table when he comes in from trip. 167 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 What? 168 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,000 You know Ben Table. 169 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 While it says he's a professional pilot, 170 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 you went and crashed with him a few months ago. 171 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Show us, Sergeant. 172 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Ben! 173 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,000 You put those bullet holes in it? 174 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,000 Oh, Ben! 175 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 He wasn't shot here. Who helped you move him? 176 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,000 No, no, it's a trick. 177 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Rico planned this. He planned this. 178 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Rico? Who's Rico? 179 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Rico's the... 180 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 The man that helped you move the body here? 181 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Who is he? 182 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:35,000 I won't say anything. 183 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,000 I won't say a word until I see a lawyer. 184 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 And I didn't say a word. 185 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Ben was dead. 186 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,000 There was nothing I could do about that. 187 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Of course Rico had killed him. 188 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Had been planning to kill him all the time. 189 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 I was sitting in my cell the next day when I had a visitor. 190 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Hey! Good morning, senorita. 191 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,000 You? 192 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Si. You're in trouble. 193 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Rico's here to help. 194 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 You did not think I would leave town when my friend is in trouble. 195 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 You killed Ben last night. 196 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 I only meant to kill him slightly. 197 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 George! 198 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Quiet, please. You haven't a thought. 199 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 I'm going to turn you in so fast. 200 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Quiet. Now think. 201 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Ben Table is dead. 202 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 It's unfortunate, but I have to kill him. 203 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 And your position is very pervasive. 204 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 The police are highly suspicious of you. 205 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,000 They are talking of a falling out among thieves. 206 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Recalling the plane incident and the payroll which might not have burned. 207 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:44,000 And you help things along by renting a place under my name and taking Ben there after you kill him. 208 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Si. It was just a small threat. 209 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Now I have a big one. 210 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000 An alibi for you. 211 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 What alibi? 212 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000 I have many friends who will testify you spent money on Ben. 213 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 I will testify you spent last evening with me. 214 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Until I get out, you get nothing. 215 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 There is going to be a Körner's inquest this morning. 216 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 They cannot indict if we come to terms. 217 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 How much? 218 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,000 One quarter of three hundred thousand for the trouble. 219 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000 One quarter for the alibi. 220 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Half. 221 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:34,000 I can see by your eyes that this is agreeable. 222 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:45,000 It is the opinion of this court that Benjamin James Taber met death as a result of bullet wounds inflicted by a person or persons unknown. 223 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:55,000 This court is convinced that the suspect, Yvie Webster, will be released on suspicion of murder charges. 224 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,000 The testimony of the witness is a conviction enough to be... 225 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Oh, miss, miss. You are free now, huh? 226 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,000 You are angry. I have caused you so much trouble. 227 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 You are a murderer. 228 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 You murdered before I? The pilot? 229 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Miss, we are partners now. Let us not talk of such things. 230 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Let us rather make plans to settle off our little account. 231 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Yeah, I was just thinking about that. 232 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:35,000 Oh, we are going to get along fine, you and I. Fine. 233 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Rico played his cards pretty well. 234 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,000 But there were some things he hadn't planned on. 235 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 I'd kill, then he'd kill. 236 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,000 The way I looked at it, it was my turn again. 237 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Auto Light is bringing you Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Early to Death. 238 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Tonight's production in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 239 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Say, Hap, how important is the electricity to the running of your car? 240 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Oh, it's you. When I step on the starter, I use electricity. 241 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,000 When I'm on my radio, I use my lights, electric windshield wipers and heaters. 242 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:42,000 When I light a cigarette, hey, Hap, I guess electricity is as important as gases. 243 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:48,000 Right, you are, Hap, and all the electricity used is produced and stored right under the hood of your car. 244 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:55,000 And Auto Light designs and builds complete electrical systems used as original factory equipment on many of our finest cars. 245 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:00,000 You mean Auto Light makes the starting motor, distributor, generator and all the other electrical units? 246 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:06,000 That's it, Hap. In an Auto Light equipped car, all the electrical units and all their thousands of component parts 247 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:13,000 are related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give the smoothest performance money in the world. 248 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 That's really easy. 249 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Yeah, Hap. 250 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Right, Hap. That's why it's just good business to treat your car's electrical system to a checkup now and then. 251 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:27,000 By your nearest authorized Auto Light service station, or by the dealer who sells your make of car. 252 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:33,000 In either case, or at the garage or repair shop, where you see the Auto Light original factory parts signed, 253 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:38,000 you can be sure of getting Auto Light original factory parts. 254 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Auto Light, Auto Light. 255 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Now, Auto Light brings back more Hollywood sound today. 256 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Jesse Arnaz and Lucille Ball. 257 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,000 In Elliot Lewis's production of Early to Death. 258 00:14:50,000 --> 00:15:05,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 259 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Rico made me give him all my money. 260 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:14,000 He bought himself some shoes, shaving equipment, tobacco, a couple of sets of dungarees and some shirts. 261 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,000 I thought that maybe when he got cleaned up he wouldn't look half bad. 262 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,000 But all it did was make the meanness in him a lot easier to see. 263 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 You keep staring at me. Why? 264 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Because I'm going to keep my eye on you night and day, buster. 265 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:37,000 I don't know how you ever got the feeling that I couldn't be trusted. 266 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Didn't I get you out of jail? 267 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Yeah, but something tells me I've been a lot safer left in. 268 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Well, when you have that money in your hand, you will feel much better. 269 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,000 You and your friend Ben bought a boat. 270 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 How did you know we had a boat? 271 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Because I have seen it. You have kept it in the harbor of Biloxi, Mississippi. 272 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 It has the name Intrigue. 273 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Very funny, huh? 274 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Yeah, it's a scream. 275 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:17,000 We took the train down to Biloxi, and in two days he had the Intrigue ready to move. 276 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,000 The boat was a 40-foot auxiliary sloop, and I knew nothing about it. 277 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:31,000 But as usual, Rico knew everything. He pulled out for beer cruise. 278 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 And then I knew what I had to do. 279 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,000 When we hit port, I was going to take off and feed him to that money. 280 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 I knew I could get to it before he could. 281 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Then I'd go right through the other side of the mountains, and he'd never find me again. 282 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,000 It was night when we pulled in the beer cruise. 283 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000 We tied up, and he decided we'd bunk in until morning. 284 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,000 I waited until I thought he was asleep, and I walked quietly over to him, 285 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 and hit him with a piece of 2x4. 286 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,000 He never moved. 287 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Four hours later, I hired a car and drove to Akayuka. 288 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,000 It was early morning when I got to the only hotel, a small beat-up plaster building. 289 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,000 When I asked for a room, I got a shock. 290 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Sí, señorita Webster. We have been expecting you. 291 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,000 A room is ready. 292 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Expecting me? You were expecting me? 293 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Sí, señorita. Come this way, please. 294 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000 He moved down the corridor, and I followed. 295 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:36,000 We reached a door, he swung it open, bowed, and walked away. 296 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:41,000 I couldn't believe it, but I knew what I was going to find even before I saw it. 297 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Did you like the room? 298 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Rico, I... 299 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,000 You don't know what to say, huh? 300 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,000 No. 301 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 Well, I do. 302 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Rico! 303 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Then next time you try something like that, I'll take care of you quick. 304 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 You might have killed me. 305 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,000 It could all have been so easy, but you had to make it hard. 306 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 You're going to take all the money. That's what you want. 307 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,000 You're a bad judge of character. 308 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:16,000 You think I am the kind of man who might kill you once you show me exactly where the payroll is buried. 309 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Did you ever think I might kill you for not showing me? 310 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000 I made up my mind right then. 311 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 I was going to kill Rico long before he saw that money. 312 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:36,000 Later that day, while he was out arranging for horses, I went looking for a weapon of some kind. 313 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:41,000 I'm sorry, senorita. Nowhere in Acauca is there a small gun such as you describe. 314 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Perhaps you try Veracruz. 315 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000 I haven't got time. I want it now, and I'll pay anything. 316 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 What good is money when there is no gun? 317 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Don't you have a black market here or something? 318 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 What do you want a gun? 319 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 For protection. 320 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Oh, that's all? 321 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Just a moment, senorita. 322 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Here. Here is the greatest legal protection in the whole world. 323 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 Eight inches long, sharp as a razor. 324 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 I don't know anything about a knife. 325 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 What is that you don't know? 326 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Just... when the throat is cut, that is if you want to cut a throat. 327 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:27,000 I strapped the knife to my leg under my Levi's and went to the hotel to wait for Rico. 328 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,000 He came back late in the afternoon with horses and supplies. 329 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:38,000 A group of peons watched us go, and I knew they thought we were both crazy heading into those hot brown hills. 330 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,000 We went about 12 miles the first day and made camp. 331 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 I was so nervous I couldn't eat or sleep. 332 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,000 I was afraid to take my eyes off Rico. 333 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 We made a fire and put our bedrolls on opposite sides, 334 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,000 and I lay there half the night watching the flames slowly die out. 335 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Rico's eyes were shut. 336 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,000 He was breathing regularly. 337 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000 I took the knife out and walked over to him. 338 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,000 His head was back and his throat was completely uncovered. 339 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,000 I started the knife downward. 340 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,000 That is far enough with the knife. 341 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Let go of me! 342 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 This isn't one murder enough. 343 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Drop it! 344 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,000 All right, you'll break my wrist. 345 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Why do you keep doing these things all the time? 346 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,000 I have told you what a nice guy I am and you do not believe me. 347 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 I have to sleep with one eye open. 348 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 You... you... 349 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,000 No, no, no tears. 350 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,000 You're only doing what you think is best. 351 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:43,000 But I'd better be careful of you, huh? 352 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 He was laughing at me and there was nothing I could do. 353 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 For the next three days and nights I didn't sleep a minute. 354 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 We rode deeper and deeper into the hills. 355 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,000 I never felt so alone and helpless in my life. 356 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000 I didn't speak to him and he didn't speak to me. 357 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,000 We just kept on hour after hour. 358 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Finally we began to get near the ridge where Ben and I had buried the payroll. 359 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 I was trembling with excitement. 360 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,000 But Rico was too calm. 361 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Whoa, whoa, whoa there. 362 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Where are you going? 363 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Huh? 364 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Wherever you go, Senorita. 365 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Show me the place you were standing when Ben and I parachuted out of the plane. 366 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Well, it was over there, on the ridge. 367 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 What ridge? 368 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 That one. 369 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 There. 370 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 You didn't see us that day. 371 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 You've never been in this country before. 372 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Oh, no. Why do you say this? 373 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 Because that's where we ber... 374 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 Where on the ridge, Senorita? 375 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Lead me to it. 376 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Pronto. 377 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 Pronto. 378 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000 And he had me again. 379 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000 It was a trick. 380 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,000 The whole thing and Ben and I had fallen for it. 381 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:12,000 He pulled out the gun and I rode in front of him, leading him to the spot. 382 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,000 When we got there he made me go to work digging. 383 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 The case was there, the money was damp but good. 384 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Rico took a bundle of bills in his hand and looked at them long and thoughtfully. 385 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,000 And he turned towards me with a gun in his hand. 386 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Now... 387 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 Rico, please. 388 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,000 You know what I'm going to do? 389 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Rico, you can have all the money but don't shoot me. Please, Rico. 390 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Shoot you, Evie? 391 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Again you have misjudged me. 392 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 I am breaking off on the gun. 393 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 I am throwing away the bullets. 394 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,000 And I'm throwing the gun away in another direction. 395 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Oh, Rico. 396 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Rico, I should have believed you. 397 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,000 I said all I wanted was half and that's all I'm going to take. 398 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Now don't worry. 399 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 I'm not going to kill you. 400 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 It was like being born again. 401 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000 I tasted food for the first time in days. 402 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,000 I even talked to Rico like I talk to any human being. 403 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:24,000 We put the money in the saddlebags and started through the mountains toward Mexico City. 404 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Rico said people might recognize the serial numbers on the bills and we had to be careful how we unloaded it. 405 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:35,000 We sold the horses in the first village and took a plane to Mexico City. 406 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 I stayed at the hotel while Rico went out to do the bargaining. 407 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 He said it would take two or three days. 408 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,000 We bought some new clothes and the first night we went dinner dancing. 409 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,000 And I suddenly got an idea. 410 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,000 You are looking at me in a different way, Evie. 411 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 That's true, Rico. 412 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 I know you now. 413 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:02,000 But you're really like me. The more I know you, the better I like you. 414 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Ben Tabor likes you too. 415 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000 But poor Ben is dead. 416 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Why the laugh? 417 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,000 I'm not for you, Evie. 418 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,000 How do you know? You haven't really seen my best side yet. 419 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,000 I am just a war prat. Soldier of fortune. 420 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,000 So who am I? Do you think I came out of a girls' school yesterday? 421 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,000 No, but we're from different worlds. 422 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Rico, see if this brings the worlds any closer. 423 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Well... 424 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 You like me, don't you? 425 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Yes. The kiss was nice. 426 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000 But I have a feeling about this thing. 427 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 What feeling? 428 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,000 That you're only trying to get my half of the money back. 429 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,860 The 430 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Buying a gun was a lot easier in Mexico City than in Acauca. 431 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:03,000 They had them all sizes and shapes, depending on the kind of a victim you had in mind. 432 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 I paid the top price. 433 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 We kept the money in the hotel room. 434 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:14,000 On the second day, Rico, while he was out making deals, I made my plan. 435 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,000 I was going to kill him when he came back and slip out of the hotel at night. 436 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 I'd be in Europe before anybody found out who I really was. 437 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 I sat waiting for him. 438 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000 I see you have been waiting, Evie. 439 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Yes, I thought we might talk. 440 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,000 I have something to tell you. 441 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Something that will affect your whole life. 442 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 I'll bet you have. 443 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Well, the deal's off. See? 444 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,000 Evie. 445 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,000 All the weeks and hours that you kept me on the end of a gun. 446 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Now it's your turn. 447 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Evie. Evie. 448 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 How does it feel, Rico? 449 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Think of me spending all that money. 450 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 Evie, get me a doctor. 451 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Get your own doctor. 452 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Evie, you're a very stupid woman. 453 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:02,000 I was almost a very stupid woman because I was going to kill you. 454 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Now I'm just going to leave you here with a bullet in your shoulder. 455 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,000 And after I'm gone, you won't say a word because you're in no position to. 456 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 I know all about you. 457 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000 You won't even get out of this hotel. 458 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,000 You see, even now you're being watched. 459 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,000 What are you talking about? 460 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,000 You don't know all about me, Evie. 461 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 I am a Mexican police officer. 462 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 As it turned out, he was. 463 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:43,000 He had killed Ben Tabor in self-defense, and that's why the American police had let me go. 464 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,000 He had led me right to Mexico City where he had jurisdiction. 465 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,000 And he wasn't unloading the money on the black market. 466 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,000 He was verifying serial numbers. 467 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,000 I should have killed him then, but I didn't. 468 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Rico was right. 469 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:25,000 One murder was enough. 470 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,000 The Spence, presented by Auto Light. 471 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Tonight's stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. 472 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Friends, this is Harlow Wilcox again to remind you that Auto Light, 473 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:42,000 the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment, 474 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:47,000 makes over 400 fine products in 28 plants from coast to coast. 475 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:52,000 These include generators, starting motors, distributors, ignition coils, 476 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,000 and all the other units that make up the complete Auto Light electrical system 477 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:02,000 used as original factory equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. 478 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,000 Auto Light makes a complete line of batteries for automotive use, 479 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000 and a complete line of ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, 480 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:17,000 all backed by the constant Auto Light research and precision built to the exacting standards of Auto Light engineers. 481 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:28,000 So remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 482 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Mr. James Stewart in The Rescue. 483 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:41,000 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars as Ann Baxter, Rosalind Russell, and Charles Boyer. 484 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:53,000 All on Suspense. 485 00:28:53,000 --> 00:29:00,000 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 486 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:05,000 Early to Death was written for Suspense by E. 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