WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:20.000 Tonight, Auto Light brings you a story of murder and greed. 00:20.000 --> 00:26.000 A story we call Early to Death, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. 00:26.000 --> 00:32.000 Say, Half, how's your team? 00:32.000 --> 00:35.000 Oh, just fine, Harlow, just... my what? 00:35.000 --> 00:40.000 Your car's team. Didn't you know your Auto Light equipped car carries a team around under its hood? 00:40.000 --> 00:42.000 You got me, Harlow. 00:42.000 --> 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. 00:49.000 --> 00:54.000 It also supplies electricity to your lights, heater, radio, even to your cigarette lighter. 00:54.000 --> 00:58.000 You mean the Auto Light electrical system in my car does all that, Harlow? 00:58.000 --> 01:03.000 It sure does, Half, because all the units of the Auto Light electrical system are related like a team. 01:03.000 --> 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. 01:11.000 --> 01:13.000 That's what I like to hear, Harlow. 01:13.000 --> 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, 01:23.000 --> 01:31.000 it'll pay you in smooth, dependable performance to insist on Auto Light original factory parts in case replacements are needed. 01:31.000 --> 01:35.000 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:35.000 --> 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. 01:46.000 --> 01:55.000 What'll happen to Duke? 01:55.000 --> 01:57.000 He'll get down with the plane. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 That's the same as murder. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 It's $300,000. I think it's worth it. 02:01.000 --> 02:03.000 Matt Evey, you want out? 02:03.000 --> 02:05.000 No, no, I'll get the money. You call in, Ben. 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 Right, baby. 02:07.000 --> 02:11.000 N-71533, calling Veracruz Radio. Over. 02:11.000 --> 02:15.000 N-71533, this is Veracruz Radio. Go ahead. 02:15.000 --> 02:19.000 Veracruz, we're over the mountains. My oil line is clogged. We're in trouble. 02:19.000 --> 02:23.000 Do not try to drive it through. Pay it out. Okay? Over. 02:23.000 --> 02:29.000 Hello? Hello? Hello? N-71533, answer me. 02:29.000 --> 02:31.000 Evey. 02:31.000 --> 02:35.000 I got it, Ben. A full payroll. $300,000. 02:35.000 --> 02:39.000 All right, turn around. I'll buckle a case into your parachute harness. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 We wouldn't want this to burn up, would we? 02:41.000 --> 02:43.000 You call in the Veracruz? 02:43.000 --> 02:46.000 Yeah, yeah, they got the idea. There you are. 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 Come on, baby. You aren't scared to make the jump, are you? 02:49.000 --> 02:53.000 Scared? After all the planning we've done, let's get out of this thing. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.000 We jumped together. I closed my eyes and counted just the way Ben had told me. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 And then I pulled the ripcord. 03:05.000 --> 03:09.000 And all at once I was floating down to earth. It was all so easy. 03:09.000 --> 03:13.000 After a while I was standing beside Ben and he was helping me out of my parachute harness. 03:13.000 --> 03:16.000 We both looked over at the same time. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.000 So long, dude. 03:27.000 --> 03:31.000 Ben, do you think we should have strapped a chute on him in case there's... 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 I left the fuel lines wide open. 03:33.000 --> 03:36.000 When they find that plane, it won't be anything last. 03:36.000 --> 03:39.000 Come on, Evie. We got things to do. 03:44.000 --> 03:47.000 We buried the case full of money right there in the mountains. 03:47.000 --> 03:51.000 Where we'd keep until we came back to pick it up, when things were safe. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 That's the way we'd planned it. 03:53.000 --> 03:57.000 Three days later we staggered into a town called Acauca. 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 Made like the two survivors of a plane crash. 04:00.000 --> 04:06.000 They took us to the hospital in Veracruz and we were treated for exposure. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 Sure, there were questions, all sorts. 04:11.000 --> 04:15.000 From the Mexican police, insurance investigators, agents, the whole bunch. 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 But they were questions we could answer. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 We'd been rehearsing them for a year. 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 When did you know the plane was having mechanical trouble, Miss Wessler? 04:23.000 --> 04:27.000 When Mr. Tabor came back from the pilot's cabin and told me to buckle on my chutes. 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 And you, Tabor? I was sleeping. 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 The duke woke me up and told me the oil line was colliding with the jet. 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 And you did jump? Jump. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 Miss Wessler went first, I thought. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.000 But the pilot's duke didn't jump. Why? 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 I have no idea. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 Did you have a parachute? No. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 I was six weeks aboard. 04:45.000 --> 04:48.000 Were either one of you aware of the cargo? 04:48.000 --> 04:49.000 What cargo? 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 The company payroll was on the plane. 04:52.000 --> 04:55.000 Mister, I'm only a co-pilot. They don't tell me those things. 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 Did you know, Miss Webster? 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 No. How would I know? 04:59.000 --> 05:02.000 The company would just send me on my vacation. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 To understand I represent the bonding company, 05:04.000 --> 05:07.000 we're hoping to locate the wreckage and recover some of that payload. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 I must ask you first. 05:09.000 --> 05:10.000 I understand. 05:10.000 --> 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? 05:21.000 --> 05:24.000 We played it as straight and as dumb as we could. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 The more questions they asked, the more innocent we looked. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 And a week later when they found the wreckage and combed it over, 05:30.000 --> 05:34.000 they decided everything, including the payroll, had burned up in the plane. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 Ben kept on flying for them. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 I quit after three months and went back to New Orleans. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 All we had to do was wait. 05:43.000 --> 05:46.000 The first time the guy showed up, 05:46.000 --> 05:51.000 the guy in the dirty Panama suit with the three-day beard, the smile and all the teeth, 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 he didn't worry me one bit. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 You don't remember me, senorita? 05:56.000 --> 05:59.000 Go away. I'm waiting for a friend. 05:59.000 --> 06:02.000 You do not understand. I am your friend. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Well, you're not the right one, so beat it. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 But we meet, you and I, in a way. 06:07.000 --> 06:09.000 Well, nice to see you again. Goodbye. 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 At the time you impressed Rico very much. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.000 I am Rico. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 Oh, the senor Teybor. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 Hello, Ibi. 06:19.000 --> 06:20.000 Who's this? 06:20.000 --> 06:21.000 I don't know, Ben. 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 Allow me. My card. 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 It's very true, and I print myself. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 Rico Sebastian, senor Teybor. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 What does he want, eh? 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 Search me. 06:32.000 --> 06:36.000 I am just explaining my admiration for the senorita. 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 And now for you too, senorita. 06:38.000 --> 06:42.000 In a way we have also met before. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 You remember ever seen 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 30-day tourists? 06:50.000 --> 06:54.000 Let us say incognito. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 What makes you think you know us, Sebastian? 06:56.000 --> 07:00.000 I said I have seen both of you before. 07:00.000 --> 07:03.000 It was in the mountains north of Acajuca 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 where I often hunt with high-powered rifle. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 I saw you parachute out and land safely with a box. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 I witnessed the plane crash. 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 And later saw you both star through the woods 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 without the box. 07:16.000 --> 07:20.000 I would need help with dig in every ravine. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 Official help. 07:22.000 --> 07:25.000 Unless, of course, you would help me. 07:25.000 --> 07:28.000 And then I would know exactly what to dig. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 I would hate to talk to the officials 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 because I know they would listen. 07:33.000 --> 07:35.000 What do you want? 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 A small pit in some areas. 07:38.000 --> 07:44.000 Only one little quarter of a big $300,000. 07:44.000 --> 07:47.000 Well, you have my card. 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 We'll talk later when you feel better. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 Hasta luego. 07:53.000 --> 07:54.000 Ben, what do you think? 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 I don't know. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 Just tell him it's proof he's got us. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 And we've got a third partner. 07:59.000 --> 08:01.000 Oh, Ben, I wish we hadn't waited. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 I wish we'd just taken the money and got on that boat of yours. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 All right, all right, take it easy. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 This guy ain't gonna let me pass. 08:07.000 --> 08:08.000 Give me that card. 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 What are you gonna do? 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 I'm gonna go see him. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 Find out just how tough he is. 08:12.000 --> 08:13.000 Ben. 08:13.000 --> 08:14.000 Be careful, Ben. 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 I'm scared. 08:15.000 --> 08:17.000 Will you stop lying? 08:17.000 --> 08:19.000 Oh, Ben, just like a fake. 08:23.000 --> 08:26.000 We had another drink and Ben left for Rico's. 08:26.000 --> 08:29.000 I went back to my apartment and waited for his phone call. 08:29.000 --> 08:32.000 After two hours, I couldn't stand it any longer 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 and took a cab over there myself. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 It was in the French Quarter, 08:40.000 --> 08:44.000 a dull gray place with lots of iron grill work out front. 08:44.000 --> 08:48.000 A man in a black hat and French coat answered the door. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 Come in, come in. 08:50.000 --> 08:51.000 You'd be Miss Weston. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Who are you? What is it? 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 I'm Lieutenant Mayor, Mr. Sergeant Tremaine. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 You want to tell it now? 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 Tell what? 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 Okay. 09:02.000 --> 09:04.000 The landlady says you rented this place three months ago. 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 Why, she's a liar. I never... 09:06.000 --> 09:09.000 This is where you meet Ben Table when he comes in from trip. 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 What? 09:10.000 --> 09:11.000 You know Ben Table. 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 While it says he's a professional pilot, 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 you went and crashed with him a few months ago. 09:16.000 --> 09:17.000 Show us, Sergeant. 09:19.000 --> 09:20.000 Ben! 09:20.000 --> 09:21.000 You put those bullet holes in it? 09:21.000 --> 09:22.000 Oh, Ben! 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 He wasn't shot here. Who helped you move him? 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 No, no, it's a trick. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 Rico planned this. He planned this. 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 Rico? Who's Rico? 09:29.000 --> 09:30.000 Rico's the... 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 The man that helped you move the body here? 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 Who is he? 09:34.000 --> 09:35.000 I won't say anything. 09:35.000 --> 09:39.000 I won't say a word until I see a lawyer. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 And I didn't say a word. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 Ben was dead. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 There was nothing I could do about that. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Of course Rico had killed him. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 Had been planning to kill him all the time. 09:57.000 --> 10:00.000 I was sitting in my cell the next day when I had a visitor. 10:00.000 --> 10:03.000 Hey! Good morning, senorita. 10:03.000 --> 10:04.000 You? 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 Si. You're in trouble. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Rico's here to help. 10:08.000 --> 10:11.000 You did not think I would leave town when my friend is in trouble. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 You killed Ben last night. 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 I only meant to kill him slightly. 10:15.000 --> 10:17.000 George! 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Quiet, please. You haven't a thought. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 I'm going to turn you in so fast. 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 Quiet. Now think. 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 Ben Table is dead. 10:24.000 --> 10:26.000 It's unfortunate, but I have to kill him. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 And your position is very pervasive. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 The police are highly suspicious of you. 10:30.000 --> 10:33.000 They are talking of a falling out among thieves. 10:33.000 --> 10:38.000 Recalling the plane incident and the payroll which might not have burned. 10:38.000 --> 10:44.000 And you help things along by renting a place under my name and taking Ben there after you kill him. 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 Si. It was just a small threat. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 Now I have a big one. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 An alibi for you. 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 What alibi? 10:53.000 --> 10:57.000 I have many friends who will testify you spent money on Ben. 10:57.000 --> 11:00.000 I will testify you spent last evening with me. 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 Until I get out, you get nothing. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 There is going to be a Körner's inquest this morning. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 They cannot indict if we come to terms. 11:09.000 --> 11:11.000 How much? 11:11.000 --> 11:14.000 One quarter of three hundred thousand for the trouble. 11:14.000 --> 11:17.000 One quarter for the alibi. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 Half. 11:19.000 --> 11:34.000 I can see by your eyes that this is agreeable. 11:34.000 --> 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. 11:45.000 --> 11:55.000 This court is convinced that the suspect, Yvie Webster, will be released on suspicion of murder charges. 11:55.000 --> 11:59.000 The testimony of the witness is a conviction enough to be... 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 Oh, miss, miss. You are free now, huh? 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 You are angry. I have caused you so much trouble. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 You are a murderer. 12:16.000 --> 12:19.000 You murdered before I? The pilot? 12:19.000 --> 12:24.000 Miss, we are partners now. Let us not talk of such things. 12:24.000 --> 12:27.000 Let us rather make plans to settle off our little account. 12:27.000 --> 12:30.000 Yeah, I was just thinking about that. 12:30.000 --> 12:35.000 Oh, we are going to get along fine, you and I. Fine. 12:40.000 --> 12:43.000 Rico played his cards pretty well. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 But there were some things he hadn't planned on. 12:46.000 --> 12:49.000 I'd kill, then he'd kill. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 The way I looked at it, it was my turn again. 13:04.000 --> 13:10.000 Auto Light is bringing you Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Early to Death. 13:10.000 --> 13:16.000 Tonight's production in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:24.000 --> 13:29.000 Say, Hap, how important is the electricity to the running of your car? 13:29.000 --> 13:33.000 Oh, it's you. When I step on the starter, I use electricity. 13:33.000 --> 13:37.000 When I'm on my radio, I use my lights, electric windshield wipers and heaters. 13:37.000 --> 13:42.000 When I light a cigarette, hey, Hap, I guess electricity is as important as gases. 13:42.000 --> 13:48.000 Right, you are, Hap, and all the electricity used is produced and stored right under the hood of your car. 13:48.000 --> 13:55.000 And Auto Light designs and builds complete electrical systems used as original factory equipment on many of our finest cars. 13:55.000 --> 14:00.000 You mean Auto Light makes the starting motor, distributor, generator and all the other electrical units? 14:00.000 --> 14:06.000 That's it, Hap. In an Auto Light equipped car, all the electrical units and all their thousands of component parts 14:06.000 --> 14:13.000 are related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give the smoothest performance money in the world. 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 That's really easy. 14:15.000 --> 14:16.000 Yeah, Hap. 14:16.000 --> 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. 14:21.000 --> 14:27.000 By your nearest authorized Auto Light service station, or by the dealer who sells your make of car. 14:27.000 --> 14:33.000 In either case, or at the garage or repair shop, where you see the Auto Light original factory parts signed, 14:33.000 --> 14:38.000 you can be sure of getting Auto Light original factory parts. 14:38.000 --> 14:40.000 Auto Light, Auto Light. 14:40.000 --> 14:44.000 Now, Auto Light brings back more Hollywood sound today. 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 Jesse Arnaz and Lucille Ball. 14:46.000 --> 14:50.000 In Elliot Lewis's production of Early to Death. 14:50.000 --> 15:05.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:05.000 --> 15:08.000 Rico made me give him all my money. 15:08.000 --> 15:14.000 He bought himself some shoes, shaving equipment, tobacco, a couple of sets of dungarees and some shirts. 15:14.000 --> 15:18.000 I thought that maybe when he got cleaned up he wouldn't look half bad. 15:18.000 --> 15:22.000 But all it did was make the meanness in him a lot easier to see. 15:22.000 --> 15:26.000 You keep staring at me. Why? 15:26.000 --> 15:30.000 Because I'm going to keep my eye on you night and day, buster. 15:30.000 --> 15:37.000 I don't know how you ever got the feeling that I couldn't be trusted. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 Didn't I get you out of jail? 15:39.000 --> 15:42.000 Yeah, but something tells me I've been a lot safer left in. 15:42.000 --> 15:47.000 Well, when you have that money in your hand, you will feel much better. 15:47.000 --> 15:50.000 You and your friend Ben bought a boat. 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 How did you know we had a boat? 15:52.000 --> 15:57.000 Because I have seen it. You have kept it in the harbor of Biloxi, Mississippi. 15:57.000 --> 16:01.000 It has the name Intrigue. 16:01.000 --> 16:04.000 Very funny, huh? 16:04.000 --> 16:11.000 Yeah, it's a scream. 16:11.000 --> 16:17.000 We took the train down to Biloxi, and in two days he had the Intrigue ready to move. 16:17.000 --> 16:21.000 The boat was a 40-foot auxiliary sloop, and I knew nothing about it. 16:21.000 --> 16:31.000 But as usual, Rico knew everything. He pulled out for beer cruise. 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 And then I knew what I had to do. 16:33.000 --> 16:37.000 When we hit port, I was going to take off and feed him to that money. 16:37.000 --> 16:40.000 I knew I could get to it before he could. 16:40.000 --> 16:45.000 Then I'd go right through the other side of the mountains, and he'd never find me again. 16:45.000 --> 16:48.000 It was night when we pulled in the beer cruise. 16:48.000 --> 16:52.000 We tied up, and he decided we'd bunk in until morning. 16:52.000 --> 16:57.000 I waited until I thought he was asleep, and I walked quietly over to him, 16:57.000 --> 17:01.000 and hit him with a piece of 2x4. 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 He never moved. 17:03.000 --> 17:07.000 Four hours later, I hired a car and drove to Akayuka. 17:07.000 --> 17:12.000 It was early morning when I got to the only hotel, a small beat-up plaster building. 17:12.000 --> 17:15.000 When I asked for a room, I got a shock. 17:15.000 --> 17:17.000 Sí, señorita Webster. We have been expecting you. 17:17.000 --> 17:18.000 A room is ready. 17:18.000 --> 17:21.000 Expecting me? You were expecting me? 17:21.000 --> 17:24.000 Sí, señorita. Come this way, please. 17:28.000 --> 17:31.000 He moved down the corridor, and I followed. 17:31.000 --> 17:36.000 We reached a door, he swung it open, bowed, and walked away. 17:36.000 --> 17:41.000 I couldn't believe it, but I knew what I was going to find even before I saw it. 17:41.000 --> 17:43.000 Did you like the room? 17:43.000 --> 17:45.000 Rico, I... 17:45.000 --> 17:47.000 You don't know what to say, huh? 17:47.000 --> 17:48.000 No. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 Well, I do. 17:51.000 --> 17:52.000 Rico! 17:52.000 --> 17:56.000 Then next time you try something like that, I'll take care of you quick. 17:56.000 --> 17:59.000 You might have killed me. 17:59.000 --> 18:03.000 It could all have been so easy, but you had to make it hard. 18:03.000 --> 18:06.000 You're going to take all the money. That's what you want. 18:06.000 --> 18:09.000 You're a bad judge of character. 18:09.000 --> 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. 18:16.000 --> 18:21.000 Did you ever think I might kill you for not showing me? 18:26.000 --> 18:28.000 I made up my mind right then. 18:28.000 --> 18:31.000 I was going to kill Rico long before he saw that money. 18:31.000 --> 18:36.000 Later that day, while he was out arranging for horses, I went looking for a weapon of some kind. 18:36.000 --> 18:41.000 I'm sorry, senorita. Nowhere in Acauca is there a small gun such as you describe. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 Perhaps you try Veracruz. 18:43.000 --> 18:46.000 I haven't got time. I want it now, and I'll pay anything. 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 What good is money when there is no gun? 18:48.000 --> 18:51.000 Don't you have a black market here or something? 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 What do you want a gun? 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 For protection. 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 Oh, that's all? 18:57.000 --> 19:01.000 Just a moment, senorita. 19:01.000 --> 19:05.000 Here. Here is the greatest legal protection in the whole world. 19:05.000 --> 19:08.000 Eight inches long, sharp as a razor. 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 I don't know anything about a knife. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 What is that you don't know? 19:12.000 --> 19:17.000 Just... when the throat is cut, that is if you want to cut a throat. 19:17.000 --> 19:27.000 I strapped the knife to my leg under my Levi's and went to the hotel to wait for Rico. 19:27.000 --> 19:31.000 He came back late in the afternoon with horses and supplies. 19:31.000 --> 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. 19:38.000 --> 19:42.000 We went about 12 miles the first day and made camp. 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 I was so nervous I couldn't eat or sleep. 19:44.000 --> 19:47.000 I was afraid to take my eyes off Rico. 19:47.000 --> 19:50.000 We made a fire and put our bedrolls on opposite sides, 19:50.000 --> 19:54.000 and I lay there half the night watching the flames slowly die out. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 Rico's eyes were shut. 19:56.000 --> 19:59.000 He was breathing regularly. 19:59.000 --> 20:02.000 I took the knife out and walked over to him. 20:02.000 --> 20:06.000 His head was back and his throat was completely uncovered. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 I started the knife downward. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 That is far enough with the knife. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 Let go of me! 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 This isn't one murder enough. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 Drop it! 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 All right, you'll break my wrist. 20:18.000 --> 20:22.000 Why do you keep doing these things all the time? 20:22.000 --> 20:26.000 I have told you what a nice guy I am and you do not believe me. 20:26.000 --> 20:28.000 I have to sleep with one eye open. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 You... you... 20:30.000 --> 20:34.000 No, no, no tears. 20:34.000 --> 20:38.000 You're only doing what you think is best. 20:38.000 --> 20:43.000 But I'd better be careful of you, huh? 20:49.000 --> 20:52.000 He was laughing at me and there was nothing I could do. 20:52.000 --> 20:55.000 For the next three days and nights I didn't sleep a minute. 20:55.000 --> 20:58.000 We rode deeper and deeper into the hills. 20:58.000 --> 21:01.000 I never felt so alone and helpless in my life. 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 I didn't speak to him and he didn't speak to me. 21:04.000 --> 21:07.000 We just kept on hour after hour. 21:07.000 --> 21:12.000 Finally we began to get near the ridge where Ben and I had buried the payroll. 21:12.000 --> 21:15.000 I was trembling with excitement. 21:15.000 --> 21:18.000 But Rico was too calm. 21:18.000 --> 21:21.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa there. 21:21.000 --> 21:23.000 Where are you going? 21:23.000 --> 21:24.000 Huh? 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 Wherever you go, Senorita. 21:26.000 --> 21:31.000 Show me the place you were standing when Ben and I parachuted out of the plane. 21:31.000 --> 21:35.000 Well, it was over there, on the ridge. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 What ridge? 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 That one. 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 There. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 You didn't see us that day. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 You've never been in this country before. 21:42.000 --> 21:45.000 Oh, no. Why do you say this? 21:45.000 --> 21:48.000 Because that's where we ber... 21:48.000 --> 21:51.000 Where on the ridge, Senorita? 21:51.000 --> 21:52.000 Lead me to it. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 Pronto. 21:53.000 --> 21:55.000 Pronto. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 And he had me again. 22:03.000 --> 22:04.000 It was a trick. 22:04.000 --> 22:07.000 The whole thing and Ben and I had fallen for it. 22:07.000 --> 22:12.000 He pulled out the gun and I rode in front of him, leading him to the spot. 22:12.000 --> 22:16.000 When we got there he made me go to work digging. 22:16.000 --> 22:19.000 The case was there, the money was damp but good. 22:19.000 --> 22:24.000 Rico took a bundle of bills in his hand and looked at them long and thoughtfully. 22:24.000 --> 22:29.000 And he turned towards me with a gun in his hand. 22:29.000 --> 22:30.000 Now... 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 Rico, please. 22:31.000 --> 22:33.000 You know what I'm going to do? 22:33.000 --> 22:36.000 Rico, you can have all the money but don't shoot me. Please, Rico. 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 Shoot you, Evie? 22:38.000 --> 22:42.000 Again you have misjudged me. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 I am breaking off on the gun. 22:44.000 --> 22:47.000 I am throwing away the bullets. 22:47.000 --> 22:51.000 And I'm throwing the gun away in another direction. 22:51.000 --> 22:54.000 Oh, Rico. 22:54.000 --> 22:57.000 Rico, I should have believed you. 22:57.000 --> 23:00.000 I said all I wanted was half and that's all I'm going to take. 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 Now don't worry. 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 I'm not going to kill you. 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 It was like being born again. 23:12.000 --> 23:15.000 I tasted food for the first time in days. 23:15.000 --> 23:19.000 I even talked to Rico like I talk to any human being. 23:19.000 --> 23:24.000 We put the money in the saddlebags and started through the mountains toward Mexico City. 23:24.000 --> 23:30.000 Rico said people might recognize the serial numbers on the bills and we had to be careful how we unloaded it. 23:30.000 --> 23:35.000 We sold the horses in the first village and took a plane to Mexico City. 23:35.000 --> 23:38.000 I stayed at the hotel while Rico went out to do the bargaining. 23:38.000 --> 23:41.000 He said it would take two or three days. 23:41.000 --> 23:45.000 We bought some new clothes and the first night we went dinner dancing. 23:45.000 --> 23:49.000 And I suddenly got an idea. 23:49.000 --> 23:53.000 You are looking at me in a different way, Evie. 23:53.000 --> 23:55.000 That's true, Rico. 23:55.000 --> 23:57.000 I know you now. 23:57.000 --> 24:02.000 But you're really like me. The more I know you, the better I like you. 24:02.000 --> 24:06.000 Ben Tabor likes you too. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 But poor Ben is dead. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 Why the laugh? 24:10.000 --> 24:11.000 I'm not for you, Evie. 24:11.000 --> 24:15.000 How do you know? You haven't really seen my best side yet. 24:15.000 --> 24:19.000 I am just a war prat. Soldier of fortune. 24:19.000 --> 24:23.000 So who am I? Do you think I came out of a girls' school yesterday? 24:23.000 --> 24:26.000 No, but we're from different worlds. 24:26.000 --> 24:32.000 Rico, see if this brings the worlds any closer. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 Well... 24:34.000 --> 24:36.000 You like me, don't you? 24:36.000 --> 24:39.000 Yes. The kiss was nice. 24:39.000 --> 24:42.000 But I have a feeling about this thing. 24:42.000 --> 24:44.000 What feeling? 24:44.000 --> 24:48.000 That you're only trying to get my half of the money back. 24:48.000 --> 24:50.860 The 24:54.000 --> 24:58.000 Buying a gun was a lot easier in Mexico City than in Acauca. 24:58.000 --> 25:03.000 They had them all sizes and shapes, depending on the kind of a victim you had in mind. 25:03.000 --> 25:05.000 I paid the top price. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.000 We kept the money in the hotel room. 25:07.000 --> 25:14.000 On the second day, Rico, while he was out making deals, I made my plan. 25:14.000 --> 25:18.000 I was going to kill him when he came back and slip out of the hotel at night. 25:18.000 --> 25:21.000 I'd be in Europe before anybody found out who I really was. 25:21.000 --> 25:23.000 I sat waiting for him. 25:25.000 --> 25:27.000 I see you have been waiting, Evie. 25:27.000 --> 25:29.000 Yes, I thought we might talk. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 I have something to tell you. 25:31.000 --> 25:34.000 Something that will affect your whole life. 25:34.000 --> 25:36.000 I'll bet you have. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 Well, the deal's off. See? 25:38.000 --> 25:39.000 Evie. 25:39.000 --> 25:42.000 All the weeks and hours that you kept me on the end of a gun. 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 Now it's your turn. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 Evie. Evie. 25:48.000 --> 25:50.000 How does it feel, Rico? 25:50.000 --> 25:52.000 Think of me spending all that money. 25:52.000 --> 25:54.000 Evie, get me a doctor. 25:54.000 --> 25:55.000 Get your own doctor. 25:55.000 --> 25:57.000 Evie, you're a very stupid woman. 25:57.000 --> 26:02.000 I was almost a very stupid woman because I was going to kill you. 26:02.000 --> 26:06.000 Now I'm just going to leave you here with a bullet in your shoulder. 26:06.000 --> 26:10.000 And after I'm gone, you won't say a word because you're in no position to. 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 I know all about you. 26:13.000 --> 26:16.000 You won't even get out of this hotel. 26:16.000 --> 26:19.000 You see, even now you're being watched. 26:19.000 --> 26:21.000 What are you talking about? 26:21.000 --> 26:24.000 You don't know all about me, Evie. 26:24.000 --> 26:26.000 I am a Mexican police officer. 26:35.000 --> 26:37.000 As it turned out, he was. 26:37.000 --> 26:43.000 He had killed Ben Tabor in self-defense, and that's why the American police had let me go. 26:43.000 --> 26:47.000 He had led me right to Mexico City where he had jurisdiction. 26:47.000 --> 26:50.000 And he wasn't unloading the money on the black market. 26:50.000 --> 26:53.000 He was verifying serial numbers. 26:53.000 --> 26:56.000 I should have killed him then, but I didn't. 26:56.000 --> 26:58.000 Rico was right. 26:58.000 --> 27:25.000 One murder was enough. 27:25.000 --> 27:29.000 The Spence, presented by Auto Light. 27:29.000 --> 27:33.000 Tonight's stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. 27:33.000 --> 27:38.000 Friends, this is Harlow Wilcox again to remind you that Auto Light, 27:38.000 --> 27:42.000 the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment, 27:42.000 --> 27:47.000 makes over 400 fine products in 28 plants from coast to coast. 27:47.000 --> 27:52.000 These include generators, starting motors, distributors, ignition coils, 27:52.000 --> 27:56.000 and all the other units that make up the complete Auto Light electrical system 27:56.000 --> 28:02.000 used as original factory equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. 28:02.000 --> 28:06.000 Auto Light makes a complete line of batteries for automotive use, 28:06.000 --> 28:09.000 and a complete line of ignition engineered Auto Light spark plugs, 28:09.000 --> 28:17.000 all backed by the constant Auto Light research and precision built to the exacting standards of Auto Light engineers. 28:17.000 --> 28:28.000 So remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 28:28.000 --> 28:34.000 Next week on Suspense, our star will be Mr. James Stewart in The Rescue. 28:34.000 --> 28:41.000 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars as Ann Baxter, Rosalind Russell, and Charles Boyer. 28:41.000 --> 28:53.000 All on Suspense. 28:53.000 --> 29:00.000 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 29:00.000 --> 29:05.000 Early to Death was written for Suspense by E. 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