1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:27,860 Suspend. 2 00:00:27,860 --> 00:00:33,040 The Armed Forces radio service brings you another tale starring Mr. James Stewart in 3 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:34,040 the rescue. 4 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:45,880 A story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 5 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,040 Mr. Atherton's office. 6 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:49,960 I'm sorry he's out at the moment. 7 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:50,960 May I take a message? 8 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,800 A routine office lie. 9 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,760 You protect yourself that way from the world outside. 10 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,920 My private office was soundproof, violence proof. 11 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:08,040 It was removed from the world as a monk cell, and that's the way I wanted it. 12 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:13,920 Mine was a respectable public relations job for a national committee with headquarters 13 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:19,840 in the wardman, one of oldest and most respectable hotels in the capital. 14 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:26,240 It was a March day of sudden warmth, the kind of pre-spring day you get in Washington. 15 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:32,680 The air conditioning wasn't on yet, the window was open, the window was open. 16 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:37,640 And it was through that window that the world of violence suddenly came to me in a way I 17 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,720 shall never forget. 18 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:41,160 I was dictating to my secretary. 19 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,560 Shall I read back that last sentence Mr. Atherton? 20 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,360 Yes Helen, please do. 21 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,820 Your recent contribution couldn't have arrived at a more timely moment nor in a more timely 22 00:01:49,820 --> 00:01:50,820 amount. 23 00:01:50,820 --> 00:01:51,820 In fact... 24 00:01:51,820 --> 00:01:54,120 In fact, it may make the difference... 25 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,240 Good heavens, what's that? 26 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,240 What is it Helen? 27 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,240 Girl, girl, she's on the ledge outside the window. 28 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,240 What? 29 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,240 They're trying to get her back into her room. 30 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,240 Don't grab at her, she'll jump. 31 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,320 Oh Mr. Atherton, how horrible. 32 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,320 She's going to jump. 33 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:14,800 Here, what are you doing out there? 34 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,820 Don't just stand there, now go back to your room. 35 00:02:18,820 --> 00:02:21,600 If you jump it won't be a pretty death, you know. 36 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,040 You'll go right through that glass marquee down there. 37 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,640 Mr. Atherton, I feel sick. 38 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:30,080 Go on now, now go back to your room. 39 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,080 Come on now, they'll help you. 40 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:39,680 No they won't, they'll kill me. 41 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:44,960 It was the first thing she said, and as she said it she looked straight at me with large 42 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:45,960 desperate eyes. 43 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,560 She was a beautiful girl. 44 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:54,280 I noticed that, and it seemed to make what she was about to do all the more terrible. 45 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:59,240 The other windows of the hotel were open, people leaned out of them watching. 46 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:04,160 Just behind her in the room catty corner to mine was a nurse and a husky looking man in 47 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,160 a white intern's jacket. 48 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,160 They were tense, silent. 49 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:13,440 They're trying to take me away from here, and then they'll kill me. 50 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,560 No, now, now get hold of yourself. 51 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:16,560 It's just a nurse and an intern. 52 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,560 There's another man in there. 53 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,560 He says he's Dr. Broon, but he isn't. 54 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:22,560 There he is, see? 55 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:23,560 That isn't Dr. Broon. 56 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:24,560 I'm Dr. Broon, and this girl is my patient. 57 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:31,560 They're trying to get her to a hospital, and you can all help us prevent a fatal accident 58 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,560 by leaving your windows and removing her audio. 59 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:34,560 He's not Dr. Broon. 60 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:35,560 Dr. Broon says I'm not sick. 61 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:36,560 Oh please, please, if you'll just stand on your window sill and hold out your hand, I 62 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:37,560 think I could reach it and get to your room. 63 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:38,560 If you'll try that sir, I'll be there. 64 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:39,560 I'll be there. 65 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:40,560 I'll be there. 66 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:41,560 I'll be there. 67 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:42,560 I'll be there. 68 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:43,560 I'll be there. 69 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:44,560 I'll be there. 70 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:45,560 I'll be there. 71 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:50,560 If you'll try that sir, I shall hold you responsible for whatever accident occurs. 72 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,560 Now help us persuade her to come back. 73 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:53,560 No! 74 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:54,560 I'll jump first. 75 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:55,560 I've warned you sir. 76 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:56,560 Won't you? 77 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,560 Oh won't you just hold out your hand? 78 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,560 Oh don't you think you could go back to your own window? 79 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:03,560 It's much closer for you. 80 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:08,560 If you won't help me, at least phone Dr. Broon, then you'll know. 81 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:09,560 Call him. 82 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,560 Oh please call him. 83 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,560 Oh look, the doctor, what's he doing? 84 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,560 Hey don't try that. 85 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:16,560 You couldn't hold her if she jumped. 86 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:17,560 Of course he couldn't. 87 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,560 What a silly thing to do. 88 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,560 Behind her, the doctor suddenly climbed out on the windowsill and reached towards her, 89 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,560 as she'd asked me to do. 90 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:31,560 With my warning, she'd moved a few feet along the ledge, away from her window. 91 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,560 And that was my responsibility. 92 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,560 That involved me. 93 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,560 You'll phone Dr. Broon. 94 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:38,560 You will? 95 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:39,560 You will? 96 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,560 Shall I get him for you Mr. Atherton? 97 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,560 Wouldn't it be quicker just to phone downstairs? I'm sure they'll know. 98 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,560 Everything we can. 99 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:49,560 Pardon me. 100 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:50,560 Main desk. 101 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,560 This is Mr. Atherton. I want to find out about the girl on the fourth floor, 102 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,560 like everyone else in the hotel. 103 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,560 We're terribly sorry Mr. Atherton. 104 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,560 The ambulance is waiting at the side entrance. 105 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,560 And if you'll just bear with us, I'm sure everything will be... 106 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:06,560 No, I'm not making a complaint. I just want to find out who she is, who the doctor is. 107 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,560 Oh, of course, of course Mr. Atherton. 108 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,560 Why, she's just a government girl. Her name is Hillary Sellers. 109 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,560 And she and her mother came here last fall. 110 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,560 Her mother? Where's her mother now? 111 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:20,560 Well, it's an odd coincidence Mr. Atherton, but she committed suicide several weeks ago. 112 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,560 Oh, not here in the hotel, you understand. And I can assure you, today is the first time... 113 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,560 Never mind that. Tell me, who's in there with the girl now? 114 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,560 Why, that's her doctor and a nurse and... 115 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,560 And is his name Dr. Broon? Is that Dr. Broon? 116 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,560 Yes, yes, that's right, Dr. Broon. 117 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:35,560 Are you sure it's he? 118 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,560 Oh, certainly. You see, he came to take her to a hospital and he promised there'd be no trouble. 119 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,560 And then this had to happen, but I assure you... 120 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:47,560 I sat there for a moment, angered by the brutal indifference of the clerk. 121 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,560 And I stood up and I went to the window. 122 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:57,560 He was still there on the ledge, waiting, quiet and motionless. 123 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:59,560 Did you... did you find him? 124 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:06,560 Oh, Hillary, listen to me. Now, Dr. Broon is a psychiatrist, isn't he? 125 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:07,560 Yes. 126 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:11,560 And your mother committed suicide, didn't she? 127 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,560 Yes, yes, but... 128 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,560 But now you must face the facts. 129 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:22,560 Now, you're sick and the doctor is just trying to help you so that what happened to your mother won't happen to you. 130 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:27,560 No, no, Dr. Broon said it wouldn't. I'm not sick. 131 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,560 Oh, but you're proving you're sick by standing out there and risking your life. 132 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,560 Now, now, go back to your window. They'll help you. 133 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,560 She just stared at me for a moment and then she moved. 134 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:49,560 Slowly she inched her way backwards until she reached the window. 135 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,560 The nurse and the intern helped her inside. 136 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,560 The window was closed behind her, a curtain drawn. 137 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:01,560 In a moment, people began to leave their windows. I left mine and that was that. 138 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,560 Except that it wasn't. 139 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,560 I tried to take up the day's business again, failed. 140 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:23,560 That... that face, that voice, the tragedy of Hillary Sellers kept intruding like a bad conscience. 141 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:28,560 And finally I gave it all up. I dismissed Helen for the rest of the day and I went down to the lobby for a pack of cigarettes. 142 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:35,560 And then I found myself heading down the hall, irresistibly drawn to the side entrance. 143 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,560 At the side entrance stood the ambulance. 144 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,560 No one was about and after a moment I hurried back into the hall. 145 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:49,560 And there, as I passed the elevator, I saw what was now the last thing in the world I wanted to see. 146 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:55,560 The doors opened. I stepped back out of the way at the right end of the hall. 147 00:07:55,560 --> 00:08:02,560 I wanted to turn my back but I didn't. We always cast a sidelong glance at horror. 148 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:10,560 And so I stood there and I watched the motionless figure on the stretcher covered by a sheet. 149 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,560 They'd given her some sort of drug. 150 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,560 The intern carried one in, Dr. Brew and the other. 151 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:24,560 The ambulance was loaded with its quiet cargo and it left. 152 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,560 And the thing was over. It was done. 153 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,560 But then I played the fool. 154 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:36,560 I did something I knew better than to do but I had to. I just, I had to do it. 155 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:39,560 I found a phone booth in the lobby and a phone book. 156 00:08:39,560 --> 00:08:47,560 Let's see now. Broom. B-R-U-N-E, Broom. 157 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:58,560 That's Kimball. K-I-2-8-9-8. 158 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:11,560 Dr. Broom's office. Is, is Dr. Broom in? Who's calling, please? 159 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:15,560 Is Dr. Broom in? Why, who is this, please? 160 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:18,560 This is Atherton. Lee, Lee Atherton. 161 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,560 Yes, Dr. Broom is in, Mr. Atherton, but he's with a patient at the moment. 162 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:25,560 He's there. He can't be. 163 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:29,560 I beg your pardon. He is and has been for half an hour. 164 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:00,560 Listen to me. This is terribly important. 165 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:04,560 I want to know if you're absolutely certain that Dr. Broom is in his office. 166 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:07,560 Did you actually see him when he came in? 167 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:11,560 Of course he's here. I was in the consulting room with him when the phone rang just now. 168 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:13,560 May I ask why? 169 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:16,560 Well then get him. I've got to talk to him now. Go on, get him. 170 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:22,560 Well, all right. Hold on. 171 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:23,560 Hello? 172 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:25,560 Dr. Broom? Yes, Dr. Broom. 173 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:28,560 This is Lee Atherton, doctor. You don't know me. 174 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:32,560 But I've got to find out if Hillary Sellers is a patient of yours. Do you know her? 175 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:34,560 What's happened to her? Where is she? 176 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:38,560 I don't know, but a man impersonating you just drove her away from the Wardman Hotel in an ambulance. 177 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:41,560 Nurse, call the district police. Get Lieutenant Rogers on the phone. 178 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:42,560 Dr. Broom? 179 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:44,560 I'll explain very quickly, Mr. Atherton. 180 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:47,560 Hillary Sellers came to see me yesterday for the first time. 181 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:51,560 Told me Kurt Raden was treating her mother. Now, Raden is an unlicensed quack. 182 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:54,560 Wait a minute, wait a minute, doctor. I thought her mother committed suicide. 183 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:57,560 Supposedly she jumped from the window in Raden's office. 184 00:10:57,560 --> 00:10:58,560 What, she didn't? 185 00:10:58,560 --> 00:10:59,560 I think she was thrown. 186 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:02,560 You mean Raden murdered her? 187 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:04,560 Yes, and I informed the police of it this morning. 188 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:05,560 But how do you know? 189 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:10,560 Hillary told me Raden was treating her mother for a heart condition with some sort of electrical apparatus. 190 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:11,560 Yes? 191 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:16,560 I checked the apparatus with the police this morning. It would be dangerous even to a person with a normal heart. 192 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:19,560 Oh, I see. But why is Raden after Hillary? 193 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:22,560 Because he thinks she knows what he's done and he's got to get rid of her. 194 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,560 He ducked out of his office this morning just before the police arrived. 195 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:27,560 But I'm sure she doesn't know about this. 196 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:30,560 No, she believes it was suicide. And she's never even met Raden. 197 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:31,560 I see. 198 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:33,560 Here's your call, doctor. 199 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:35,560 Oh, all right. Good-bye, Mr. Atherton. 200 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:36,560 Good-bye, doctor. 201 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:46,560 And then I called the police too. Gave them all the information I had. 202 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:49,560 Beyond that, there was nothing to do but wait. 203 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:55,560 Later, as I walked through the lobby, I passed a woman seated in a chair that faced the elevator. 204 00:11:55,560 --> 00:12:00,560 She was utterly nondescript, wearing dark clothes and a black hat. 205 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:06,560 But after I entered the elevator, I gave her a second look through the glass. 206 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:09,560 There was something about that face. 207 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:16,560 This whole dreadful business was discoloring everything. 208 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:27,560 Helen had left the door open for me and I walked through the anteroom into my office. 209 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:32,560 I went over to the desk and sat down, lit a cigarette. 210 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:36,560 Hello? 211 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:37,560 Mr. Atherton? 212 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:38,560 Yeah. 213 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:39,560 This is Hunter Rogers, District Police. 214 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:44,560 I thought you'd like to know that the ambulance has been located, abandoned on a side street in Georgetown. 215 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:46,560 I'll let you know when we catch him. I'm going down there myself. 216 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:48,560 Good. Fine. Thank you very much, Lieutenant Rogers. 217 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:50,560 Good-bye. 218 00:12:56,560 --> 00:13:00,560 And then, again, I did something I didn't want to do, but I had to. 219 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:02,560 There was that woman in the lobby. 220 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:06,560 I had to take another look at that woman in the lobby. 221 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:08,560 I took the elevator down, got out. 222 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:11,560 She was still there, seated in her chair. 223 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:15,560 She was talking to a man who stood beside her. His back was to me. 224 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:20,560 As I walked by, I looked at her very carefully and suddenly I recognized her. 225 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:23,560 It was the nurse, out of uniform. 226 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:27,560 I looked at the man. Yeah, Raiden. 227 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:29,560 And in that instant, I understood everything. 228 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:32,560 Somehow, they had lost Hillary in the hotel, 229 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:37,560 carried the nurse out on the stretcher and laid a false trail to Georgetown with the ambulance. 230 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:42,560 And now they returned to find her, to kill her while they still had the chance. 231 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:44,560 For them, the safest spot in Washington was the hotel. 232 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:46,560 For Hillary, it was a death trap. 233 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:49,560 I went quickly into a phone booth, started to call the police. 234 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:54,560 And then I saw Raiden suddenly jerk his head upward toward the mezzanine above the lobby. 235 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:58,560 He said something to the woman and quickly started toward the stairs. 236 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:00,560 I left the phone booth and followed him. 237 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:02,560 I knew he'd seen only one thing, Hillary. 238 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:06,560 I darted up the stairs just in time to see him enter the door at the end of the mezzanine. 239 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:14,560 Come on in, friends. Come on in. I'm Jack Clark. What's your name? 240 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:18,560 Never mind. Look, where did the man go came in here just now? 241 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:20,560 I don't see him. Man? What man? 242 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,560 Well, just a few seconds ago. You must have seen him. And just before that, there was a girl. 243 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:29,560 Oh, a girl. Well, listen, friend, girls spell trouble. Nothing but trouble. 244 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,560 Forget it. I can't have a drink and forget it. 245 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:34,560 No, no, I don't want to drink it. Just tell me, where did he go? 246 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,560 I'll find you a drink, friend. Now you wait right here. 247 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:44,560 A drunken fool staggered off through the crowd and I looked around very carefully. 248 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:50,560 The room was jammed almost entirely with men there standing around in groups drinking, all talking at once. 249 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,560 I couldn't see Raiden anywhere, nor Hillary. 250 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:59,560 But I noticed an exit across the room and I started to make my way toward it. 251 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,560 Here you are, friend. Here's your drink. You thought I'd forgotten you, huh? 252 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:08,560 Well, not Jack Clark, see? Well, here, here, take it. 253 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,560 No, no, no. Thank you very much, but I can't. I've got to go. 254 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,560 Go? Oh, you can't go yet. The party's just started. 255 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,560 I know, I know, but I... 256 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,560 Oh, so you won't drink with me, huh? Too good for me, huh? 257 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,560 Don't start that. Now, look, you wait right here. I'll be back in a moment. 258 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:27,560 I broke away from him and pushed my way toward the exit across the room. 259 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:32,560 I was wasting precious time. Raiden might have caught up to Hillary already. 260 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,560 I got out and closed the door behind me. 261 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,560 I was in a little recess off the mezzanine. 262 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,560 Just across from him there was another door. 263 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,560 Well, the only thing I could do was try it. 264 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:50,560 And think not that I, the pale man with the child with dreams... 265 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:56,560 Inside, I discovered about 20 women and a sprinkling of small boys 266 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:00,560 seated in neat little rows facing the opposite end of the room. 267 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:05,560 There on the platform stood an extremely tall, emaciated young man 268 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:10,560 with straight yellow hair and his head thrown back, eyes closed. 269 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,560 The audience was listening to him intently. 270 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:18,560 I looked around. I didn't see Raiden. 271 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,560 A woman was seated near the door alone. I tiptoed over to her. 272 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:24,560 Really? 273 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,560 Excuse me, madam, but did you see a man? 274 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,560 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but this is a matter of life and death. 275 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,560 I must know if you saw a man come in here a few minutes ago. 276 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:34,560 Really? 277 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,560 Please, please, I must know. 278 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,560 All right, if you must know, I certainly did. 279 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,560 And I'm going to complain to the management about all you people bursting in here. 280 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,560 Where is he? Where'd he go? 281 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,560 He walked right down the aisle and out through the door behind Mr. Quilliam. 282 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,560 And don't you dare do the same thing. Mr. Quilliam won't... 283 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:52,560 I didn't wait to hear anymore. 284 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:56,560 I went down the aisle, around the platform to the door at the rear, 285 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:02,560 but apparently Mr. Quilliam was unaware of my presence. 286 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:06,560 I went out quickly, breathing a sigh of relief. 287 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:10,560 But as I closed the door behind me, I felt far from relieved. 288 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:16,560 It was a storeroom, piled high with tables, chairs, sad bits of old holiday decorations. 289 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:24,560 I sputtered another door and as I ran toward it, I wondered if Hillary was gone through too. 290 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:29,560 To my surprise, it was on the second floor dining room. 291 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:34,560 It was deserted now, except for a string quartet practicing on the stage. 292 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,560 I started toward them and then I stopped. 293 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:42,560 And there, standing in rapt attention to the music, was Hillary, 294 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,560 safe and alive, listening as though hypnotized. 295 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,560 She stood there, her lovely face softened by the music, 296 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,560 and all at once she turned and looked at me. 297 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:54,560 No! 298 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,560 Hillary. Hillary. 299 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,560 Now it's all right. I want to help you. 300 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:03,560 No! No! 301 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:04,560 But you mustn't run away again. 302 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,560 I got away from them, all three of them, and I can get away from you. 303 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,560 Hillary, I'm trying to help you. 304 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:10,560 I won't go back to them. 305 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:10,560 Please. 306 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:11,560 They'll kill me. 307 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,560 Hillary, listen to me. You were right. 308 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,560 That was not Dr. Broom. 309 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,560 I've talked to the real Dr. Broom and he says you're perfectly sane. You have nothing to fear. 310 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:21,560 Please, we are rehearsing. 311 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:26,560 I don't believe you. When I was out there, you told me I was not sane and you made me go back. 312 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,560 They want to kill me. 313 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:29,560 Please. 314 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,560 As she said it, the door near the stage slowly opened and through it came the raid. 315 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:38,560 I grabbed Hillary by the arm and I dragged her through the sliding doors in the main entrance. 316 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,560 I glanced down the hall toward the elevator, but it was too far. 317 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:43,560 Raid would be halfway across the dining room by now. 318 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:52,560 So we took the stairs and we ran down, down, further down, all the way to the basement. 319 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,560 There we could find a way out of the hotel. 320 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,560 At the bottom of the stairs, however, Hillary stopped. 321 00:18:58,560 --> 00:18:59,560 Where are you taking me? 322 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,560 Away. Away from him. 323 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,560 Away? From who? 324 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,560 But you saw him in the dining room. That's your kidnapper. 325 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,560 I don't believe you. I don't believe you. 326 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,560 Hillary, you must believe me. Quickly, he's coming. 327 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,560 There was no time now to get out to the streets. 328 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:24,560 I pushed her through the nearest door and closed it, but for a tiny crack through which I could see the stairs. 329 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:33,560 In a moment, Raiden's feet appeared and then his hand with a gun in it. 330 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,560 I closed the door quickly and fumbled at the lock and it worked. 331 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:42,560 In the back room, someone was operating what sounded like a pressing machine, 332 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:47,560 but there was another door and I pulled Hillary after me. 333 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,560 We were in the laundry. 334 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:59,560 It was deserted and in its windowless, unlighted dusk, I could see the huge white shapes of the washing vats. 335 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,560 I pushed Hillary behind one of them. 336 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:10,560 And then behind the door, leaning in the corner, was a short, smooth tube of four and I grabbed it. 337 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:20,560 And then I stood there and waited. 338 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,560 Yes, yes, I'm coming. 339 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,560 I'm sorry, sir, I didn't know it was locked. 340 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:29,560 Where is she? 341 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:30,560 There's nobody here. What do you mean? 342 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,560 Don't lie to me. I saw them. 343 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:56,560 But sir, I'm all alone here. 344 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:58,560 I smashed his gun arm into my club. 345 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,560 He turned toward me, momentarily confused. I raised my club again and I brought it down. 346 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,560 I glanced off his temple and he slumped heavily to the floor. 347 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,560 He lay there, quite still. 348 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,560 A tailor appeared in the doorway, dazed. 349 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:18,560 The police. I'm going to call the police. 350 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,560 Suddenly, Hillary reached up and picked Raiden's gun up. 351 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:27,560 Before I could make a move, she sprang to her feet and stood there, facing me, holding the gun directly at my stomach. 352 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,560 Who are you? Who are you? 353 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,560 Hillary, Hillary, it's over. 354 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,560 He, there, that's Kurt Raiden. 355 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:36,560 He murdered your mother. 356 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,560 She didn't commit suicide. 357 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,560 And you're sane, don't you understand? You're sane. 358 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,560 You, you're not real. 359 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,560 You came out of my mind. 360 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:46,560 Hillary, stop it. 361 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,560 This afternoon in the window, you were my own mind telling me the truth. 362 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,560 That I am insane, like my mother. 363 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,560 Now you're my own mind telling me what I want to hear. That I'm safe. 364 00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,560 No, Hillary, no. I'm real. 365 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,560 And you're safe. Now listen to me. 366 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,560 But I know the truth now. 367 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,560 I'm insane like my mother, but I won't stay here. I'll die. I can do it. 368 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,560 Now. I can kill myself. 369 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:16,560 I hit the gun the instant she pulled the trigger and the bullet tore a groove across the fleshy part of my hand, buried itself in the wall. 370 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:21,560 I stood there, looking at my hand, which was bleeding. 371 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,560 And then I looked at her. 372 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:32,560 And I saw to my astonishment that her face had relaxed. 373 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,560 And she moved towards me. 374 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:40,560 Slowly, closer and closer. 375 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:45,560 And she reached out her hand to touch the blood on my hand. 376 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,560 Blood? 377 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,560 You're bleeding. 378 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,560 You are real. 379 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:54,560 You are real. 380 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,560 Yes. 381 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,560 Yes, Hillary, I'm real. 382 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,560 And it is true about your mother. 383 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,560 She didn't kill herself. 384 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,560 And you're safe. 385 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,560 Yes. 386 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,560 Yes, safe. 387 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:15,560 And I can believe what you tell me? 388 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,560 Yes, Hillary, you can believe me. 389 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:24,560 You can believe everything I tell you and everything I'll ever tell you. 390 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:49,560 What's your name? 391 00:23:54,560 --> 00:24:21,560 This is the United States Armed Forces Radio 3. 392 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,560 This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 393 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:58,560 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 394 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:37,560 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service.