WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:27.860 Suspend. 00:27.860 --> 00:33.040 The Armed Forces radio service brings you another tale starring Mr. James Stewart in 00:33.040 --> 00:34.040 the rescue. 00:34.040 --> 00:45.880 A story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 00:45.880 --> 00:48.040 Mr. Atherton's office. 00:48.040 --> 00:49.960 I'm sorry he's out at the moment. 00:49.960 --> 00:50.960 May I take a message? 00:50.960 --> 00:53.800 A routine office lie. 00:53.800 --> 00:58.760 You protect yourself that way from the world outside. 00:58.760 --> 01:01.920 My private office was soundproof, violence proof. 01:01.920 --> 01:08.040 It was removed from the world as a monk cell, and that's the way I wanted it. 01:08.040 --> 01:13.920 Mine was a respectable public relations job for a national committee with headquarters 01:13.920 --> 01:19.840 in the wardman, one of oldest and most respectable hotels in the capital. 01:19.840 --> 01:26.240 It was a March day of sudden warmth, the kind of pre-spring day you get in Washington. 01:26.240 --> 01:32.680 The air conditioning wasn't on yet, the window was open, the window was open. 01:32.680 --> 01:37.640 And it was through that window that the world of violence suddenly came to me in a way I 01:37.640 --> 01:39.720 shall never forget. 01:39.720 --> 01:41.160 I was dictating to my secretary. 01:41.160 --> 01:43.560 Shall I read back that last sentence Mr. Atherton? 01:43.560 --> 01:45.360 Yes Helen, please do. 01:45.360 --> 01:49.820 Your recent contribution couldn't have arrived at a more timely moment nor in a more timely 01:49.820 --> 01:50.820 amount. 01:50.820 --> 01:51.820 In fact... 01:51.820 --> 01:54.120 In fact, it may make the difference... 01:54.120 --> 01:58.240 Good heavens, what's that? 01:58.240 --> 01:59.240 What is it Helen? 01:59.240 --> 02:01.240 Girl, girl, she's on the ledge outside the window. 02:01.240 --> 02:02.240 What? 02:02.240 --> 02:03.240 They're trying to get her back into her room. 02:03.240 --> 02:05.240 Don't grab at her, she'll jump. 02:05.240 --> 02:07.320 Oh Mr. Atherton, how horrible. 02:07.320 --> 02:09.320 She's going to jump. 02:09.320 --> 02:14.800 Here, what are you doing out there? 02:14.800 --> 02:18.820 Don't just stand there, now go back to your room. 02:18.820 --> 02:21.600 If you jump it won't be a pretty death, you know. 02:21.600 --> 02:24.040 You'll go right through that glass marquee down there. 02:24.040 --> 02:26.640 Mr. Atherton, I feel sick. 02:26.640 --> 02:30.080 Go on now, now go back to your room. 02:30.080 --> 02:32.080 Come on now, they'll help you. 02:32.080 --> 02:39.680 No they won't, they'll kill me. 02:39.680 --> 02:44.960 It was the first thing she said, and as she said it she looked straight at me with large 02:44.960 --> 02:45.960 desperate eyes. 02:45.960 --> 02:48.560 She was a beautiful girl. 02:48.560 --> 02:54.280 I noticed that, and it seemed to make what she was about to do all the more terrible. 02:54.280 --> 02:59.240 The other windows of the hotel were open, people leaned out of them watching. 02:59.240 --> 03:04.160 Just behind her in the room catty corner to mine was a nurse and a husky looking man in 03:04.160 --> 03:06.160 a white intern's jacket. 03:06.160 --> 03:08.160 They were tense, silent. 03:08.160 --> 03:13.440 They're trying to take me away from here, and then they'll kill me. 03:13.440 --> 03:15.560 No, now, now get hold of yourself. 03:15.560 --> 03:16.560 It's just a nurse and an intern. 03:16.560 --> 03:18.560 There's another man in there. 03:18.560 --> 03:21.560 He says he's Dr. Broon, but he isn't. 03:21.560 --> 03:22.560 There he is, see? 03:22.560 --> 03:23.560 That isn't Dr. Broon. 03:23.560 --> 03:24.560 I'm Dr. Broon, and this girl is my patient. 03:24.560 --> 03:31.560 They're trying to get her to a hospital, and you can all help us prevent a fatal accident 03:31.560 --> 03:33.560 by leaving your windows and removing her audio. 03:33.560 --> 03:34.560 He's not Dr. Broon. 03:34.560 --> 03:35.560 Dr. Broon says I'm not sick. 03:35.560 --> 03:36.560 Oh please, please, if you'll just stand on your window sill and hold out your hand, I 03:36.560 --> 03:37.560 think I could reach it and get to your room. 03:37.560 --> 03:38.560 If you'll try that sir, I'll be there. 03:38.560 --> 03:39.560 I'll be there. 03:39.560 --> 03:40.560 I'll be there. 03:40.560 --> 03:41.560 I'll be there. 03:41.560 --> 03:42.560 I'll be there. 03:42.560 --> 03:43.560 I'll be there. 03:43.560 --> 03:44.560 I'll be there. 03:44.560 --> 03:45.560 I'll be there. 03:45.560 --> 03:50.560 If you'll try that sir, I shall hold you responsible for whatever accident occurs. 03:50.560 --> 03:52.560 Now help us persuade her to come back. 03:52.560 --> 03:53.560 No! 03:53.560 --> 03:54.560 I'll jump first. 03:54.560 --> 03:55.560 I've warned you sir. 03:55.560 --> 03:56.560 Won't you? 03:56.560 --> 03:59.560 Oh won't you just hold out your hand? 03:59.560 --> 04:02.560 Oh don't you think you could go back to your own window? 04:02.560 --> 04:03.560 It's much closer for you. 04:03.560 --> 04:08.560 If you won't help me, at least phone Dr. Broon, then you'll know. 04:08.560 --> 04:09.560 Call him. 04:09.560 --> 04:11.560 Oh please call him. 04:11.560 --> 04:13.560 Oh look, the doctor, what's he doing? 04:13.560 --> 04:15.560 Hey don't try that. 04:15.560 --> 04:16.560 You couldn't hold her if she jumped. 04:16.560 --> 04:17.560 Of course he couldn't. 04:17.560 --> 04:19.560 What a silly thing to do. 04:19.560 --> 04:23.560 Behind her, the doctor suddenly climbed out on the windowsill and reached towards her, 04:23.560 --> 04:25.560 as she'd asked me to do. 04:25.560 --> 04:31.560 With my warning, she'd moved a few feet along the ledge, away from her window. 04:31.560 --> 04:33.560 And that was my responsibility. 04:33.560 --> 04:35.560 That involved me. 04:35.560 --> 04:37.560 You'll phone Dr. Broon. 04:37.560 --> 04:38.560 You will? 04:38.560 --> 04:39.560 You will? 04:39.560 --> 04:41.560 Shall I get him for you Mr. Atherton? 04:41.560 --> 04:44.560 Wouldn't it be quicker just to phone downstairs? I'm sure they'll know. 04:46.560 --> 04:48.560 Everything we can. 04:48.560 --> 04:49.560 Pardon me. 04:49.560 --> 04:50.560 Main desk. 04:50.560 --> 04:53.560 This is Mr. Atherton. I want to find out about the girl on the fourth floor, 04:53.560 --> 04:55.560 like everyone else in the hotel. 04:55.560 --> 04:57.560 We're terribly sorry Mr. Atherton. 04:57.560 --> 04:59.560 The ambulance is waiting at the side entrance. 04:59.560 --> 05:01.560 And if you'll just bear with us, I'm sure everything will be... 05:01.560 --> 05:06.560 No, I'm not making a complaint. I just want to find out who she is, who the doctor is. 05:06.560 --> 05:08.560 Oh, of course, of course Mr. Atherton. 05:08.560 --> 05:11.560 Why, she's just a government girl. Her name is Hillary Sellers. 05:11.560 --> 05:13.560 And she and her mother came here last fall. 05:13.560 --> 05:15.560 Her mother? Where's her mother now? 05:15.560 --> 05:20.560 Well, it's an odd coincidence Mr. Atherton, but she committed suicide several weeks ago. 05:20.560 --> 05:24.560 Oh, not here in the hotel, you understand. And I can assure you, today is the first time... 05:24.560 --> 05:27.560 Never mind that. Tell me, who's in there with the girl now? 05:27.560 --> 05:29.560 Why, that's her doctor and a nurse and... 05:29.560 --> 05:32.560 And is his name Dr. Broon? Is that Dr. Broon? 05:32.560 --> 05:34.560 Yes, yes, that's right, Dr. Broon. 05:34.560 --> 05:35.560 Are you sure it's he? 05:35.560 --> 05:39.560 Oh, certainly. You see, he came to take her to a hospital and he promised there'd be no trouble. 05:39.560 --> 05:42.560 And then this had to happen, but I assure you... 05:42.560 --> 05:47.560 I sat there for a moment, angered by the brutal indifference of the clerk. 05:47.560 --> 05:51.560 And I stood up and I went to the window. 05:51.560 --> 05:57.560 He was still there on the ledge, waiting, quiet and motionless. 05:57.560 --> 05:59.560 Did you... did you find him? 05:59.560 --> 06:06.560 Oh, Hillary, listen to me. Now, Dr. Broon is a psychiatrist, isn't he? 06:06.560 --> 06:07.560 Yes. 06:07.560 --> 06:11.560 And your mother committed suicide, didn't she? 06:11.560 --> 06:14.560 Yes, yes, but... 06:14.560 --> 06:17.560 But now you must face the facts. 06:17.560 --> 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. 06:22.560 --> 06:27.560 No, no, Dr. Broon said it wouldn't. I'm not sick. 06:27.560 --> 06:31.560 Oh, but you're proving you're sick by standing out there and risking your life. 06:31.560 --> 06:35.560 Now, now, go back to your window. They'll help you. 06:40.560 --> 06:44.560 She just stared at me for a moment and then she moved. 06:44.560 --> 06:49.560 Slowly she inched her way backwards until she reached the window. 06:49.560 --> 06:52.560 The nurse and the intern helped her inside. 06:52.560 --> 06:56.560 The window was closed behind her, a curtain drawn. 06:56.560 --> 07:01.560 In a moment, people began to leave their windows. I left mine and that was that. 07:07.560 --> 07:10.560 Except that it wasn't. 07:10.560 --> 07:15.560 I tried to take up the day's business again, failed. 07:15.560 --> 07:23.560 That... that face, that voice, the tragedy of Hillary Sellers kept intruding like a bad conscience. 07:23.560 --> 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. 07:28.560 --> 07:35.560 And then I found myself heading down the hall, irresistibly drawn to the side entrance. 07:35.560 --> 07:39.560 At the side entrance stood the ambulance. 07:39.560 --> 07:43.560 No one was about and after a moment I hurried back into the hall. 07:43.560 --> 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. 07:49.560 --> 07:55.560 The doors opened. I stepped back out of the way at the right end of the hall. 07:55.560 --> 08:02.560 I wanted to turn my back but I didn't. We always cast a sidelong glance at horror. 08:02.560 --> 08:10.560 And so I stood there and I watched the motionless figure on the stretcher covered by a sheet. 08:10.560 --> 08:13.560 They'd given her some sort of drug. 08:13.560 --> 08:17.560 The intern carried one in, Dr. Brew and the other. 08:17.560 --> 08:24.560 The ambulance was loaded with its quiet cargo and it left. 08:24.560 --> 08:28.560 And the thing was over. It was done. 08:28.560 --> 08:32.560 But then I played the fool. 08:32.560 --> 08:36.560 I did something I knew better than to do but I had to. I just, I had to do it. 08:36.560 --> 08:39.560 I found a phone booth in the lobby and a phone book. 08:39.560 --> 08:47.560 Let's see now. Broom. B-R-U-N-E, Broom. 08:47.560 --> 08:58.560 That's Kimball. K-I-2-8-9-8. 08:58.560 --> 09:11.560 Dr. Broom's office. Is, is Dr. Broom in? Who's calling, please? 09:11.560 --> 09:15.560 Is Dr. Broom in? Why, who is this, please? 09:15.560 --> 09:18.560 This is Atherton. Lee, Lee Atherton. 09:18.560 --> 09:22.560 Yes, Dr. Broom is in, Mr. Atherton, but he's with a patient at the moment. 09:22.560 --> 09:25.560 He's there. He can't be. 09:25.560 --> 09:29.560 I beg your pardon. He is and has been for half an hour. 09:56.560 --> 10:00.560 Listen to me. This is terribly important. 10:00.560 --> 10:04.560 I want to know if you're absolutely certain that Dr. Broom is in his office. 10:04.560 --> 10:07.560 Did you actually see him when he came in? 10:07.560 --> 10:11.560 Of course he's here. I was in the consulting room with him when the phone rang just now. 10:11.560 --> 10:13.560 May I ask why? 10:13.560 --> 10:16.560 Well then get him. I've got to talk to him now. Go on, get him. 10:16.560 --> 10:22.560 Well, all right. Hold on. 10:22.560 --> 10:23.560 Hello? 10:23.560 --> 10:25.560 Dr. Broom? Yes, Dr. Broom. 10:25.560 --> 10:28.560 This is Lee Atherton, doctor. You don't know me. 10:28.560 --> 10:32.560 But I've got to find out if Hillary Sellers is a patient of yours. Do you know her? 10:32.560 --> 10:34.560 What's happened to her? Where is she? 10:34.560 --> 10:38.560 I don't know, but a man impersonating you just drove her away from the Wardman Hotel in an ambulance. 10:38.560 --> 10:41.560 Nurse, call the district police. Get Lieutenant Rogers on the phone. 10:41.560 --> 10:42.560 Dr. Broom? 10:42.560 --> 10:44.560 I'll explain very quickly, Mr. Atherton. 10:44.560 --> 10:47.560 Hillary Sellers came to see me yesterday for the first time. 10:47.560 --> 10:51.560 Told me Kurt Raden was treating her mother. Now, Raden is an unlicensed quack. 10:51.560 --> 10:54.560 Wait a minute, wait a minute, doctor. I thought her mother committed suicide. 10:54.560 --> 10:57.560 Supposedly she jumped from the window in Raden's office. 10:57.560 --> 10:58.560 What, she didn't? 10:58.560 --> 10:59.560 I think she was thrown. 10:59.560 --> 11:02.560 You mean Raden murdered her? 11:02.560 --> 11:04.560 Yes, and I informed the police of it this morning. 11:04.560 --> 11:05.560 But how do you know? 11:05.560 --> 11:10.560 Hillary told me Raden was treating her mother for a heart condition with some sort of electrical apparatus. 11:10.560 --> 11:11.560 Yes? 11:11.560 --> 11:16.560 I checked the apparatus with the police this morning. It would be dangerous even to a person with a normal heart. 11:16.560 --> 11:19.560 Oh, I see. But why is Raden after Hillary? 11:19.560 --> 11:22.560 Because he thinks she knows what he's done and he's got to get rid of her. 11:22.560 --> 11:25.560 He ducked out of his office this morning just before the police arrived. 11:25.560 --> 11:27.560 But I'm sure she doesn't know about this. 11:27.560 --> 11:30.560 No, she believes it was suicide. And she's never even met Raden. 11:30.560 --> 11:31.560 I see. 11:31.560 --> 11:33.560 Here's your call, doctor. 11:33.560 --> 11:35.560 Oh, all right. Good-bye, Mr. Atherton. 11:35.560 --> 11:36.560 Good-bye, doctor. 11:42.560 --> 11:46.560 And then I called the police too. Gave them all the information I had. 11:46.560 --> 11:49.560 Beyond that, there was nothing to do but wait. 11:49.560 --> 11:55.560 Later, as I walked through the lobby, I passed a woman seated in a chair that faced the elevator. 11:55.560 --> 12:00.560 She was utterly nondescript, wearing dark clothes and a black hat. 12:00.560 --> 12:06.560 But after I entered the elevator, I gave her a second look through the glass. 12:06.560 --> 12:09.560 There was something about that face. 12:09.560 --> 12:16.560 This whole dreadful business was discoloring everything. 12:23.560 --> 12:27.560 Helen had left the door open for me and I walked through the anteroom into my office. 12:27.560 --> 12:32.560 I went over to the desk and sat down, lit a cigarette. 12:35.560 --> 12:36.560 Hello? 12:36.560 --> 12:37.560 Mr. Atherton? 12:37.560 --> 12:38.560 Yeah. 12:38.560 --> 12:39.560 This is Hunter Rogers, District Police. 12:39.560 --> 12:44.560 I thought you'd like to know that the ambulance has been located, abandoned on a side street in Georgetown. 12:44.560 --> 12:46.560 I'll let you know when we catch him. I'm going down there myself. 12:46.560 --> 12:48.560 Good. Fine. Thank you very much, Lieutenant Rogers. 12:48.560 --> 12:50.560 Good-bye. 12:56.560 --> 13:00.560 And then, again, I did something I didn't want to do, but I had to. 13:00.560 --> 13:02.560 There was that woman in the lobby. 13:02.560 --> 13:06.560 I had to take another look at that woman in the lobby. 13:06.560 --> 13:08.560 I took the elevator down, got out. 13:08.560 --> 13:11.560 She was still there, seated in her chair. 13:11.560 --> 13:15.560 She was talking to a man who stood beside her. His back was to me. 13:15.560 --> 13:20.560 As I walked by, I looked at her very carefully and suddenly I recognized her. 13:20.560 --> 13:23.560 It was the nurse, out of uniform. 13:23.560 --> 13:27.560 I looked at the man. Yeah, Raiden. 13:27.560 --> 13:29.560 And in that instant, I understood everything. 13:29.560 --> 13:32.560 Somehow, they had lost Hillary in the hotel, 13:32.560 --> 13:37.560 carried the nurse out on the stretcher and laid a false trail to Georgetown with the ambulance. 13:37.560 --> 13:42.560 And now they returned to find her, to kill her while they still had the chance. 13:42.560 --> 13:44.560 For them, the safest spot in Washington was the hotel. 13:44.560 --> 13:46.560 For Hillary, it was a death trap. 13:46.560 --> 13:49.560 I went quickly into a phone booth, started to call the police. 13:49.560 --> 13:54.560 And then I saw Raiden suddenly jerk his head upward toward the mezzanine above the lobby. 13:54.560 --> 13:58.560 He said something to the woman and quickly started toward the stairs. 13:58.560 --> 14:00.560 I left the phone booth and followed him. 14:00.560 --> 14:02.560 I knew he'd seen only one thing, Hillary. 14:02.560 --> 14:06.560 I darted up the stairs just in time to see him enter the door at the end of the mezzanine. 14:09.560 --> 14:14.560 Come on in, friends. Come on in. I'm Jack Clark. What's your name? 14:14.560 --> 14:18.560 Never mind. Look, where did the man go came in here just now? 14:18.560 --> 14:20.560 I don't see him. Man? What man? 14:20.560 --> 14:24.560 Well, just a few seconds ago. You must have seen him. And just before that, there was a girl. 14:24.560 --> 14:29.560 Oh, a girl. Well, listen, friend, girls spell trouble. Nothing but trouble. 14:29.560 --> 14:31.560 Forget it. I can't have a drink and forget it. 14:31.560 --> 14:34.560 No, no, I don't want to drink it. Just tell me, where did he go? 14:34.560 --> 14:38.560 I'll find you a drink, friend. Now you wait right here. 14:39.560 --> 14:44.560 A drunken fool staggered off through the crowd and I looked around very carefully. 14:44.560 --> 14:50.560 The room was jammed almost entirely with men there standing around in groups drinking, all talking at once. 14:50.560 --> 14:53.560 I couldn't see Raiden anywhere, nor Hillary. 14:53.560 --> 14:59.560 But I noticed an exit across the room and I started to make my way toward it. 15:00.560 --> 15:04.560 Here you are, friend. Here's your drink. You thought I'd forgotten you, huh? 15:04.560 --> 15:08.560 Well, not Jack Clark, see? Well, here, here, take it. 15:08.560 --> 15:11.560 No, no, no. Thank you very much, but I can't. I've got to go. 15:11.560 --> 15:14.560 Go? Oh, you can't go yet. The party's just started. 15:14.560 --> 15:16.560 I know, I know, but I... 15:16.560 --> 15:20.560 Oh, so you won't drink with me, huh? Too good for me, huh? 15:20.560 --> 15:23.560 Don't start that. Now, look, you wait right here. I'll be back in a moment. 15:23.560 --> 15:27.560 I broke away from him and pushed my way toward the exit across the room. 15:27.560 --> 15:32.560 I was wasting precious time. Raiden might have caught up to Hillary already. 15:33.560 --> 15:36.560 I got out and closed the door behind me. 15:36.560 --> 15:39.560 I was in a little recess off the mezzanine. 15:39.560 --> 15:42.560 Just across from him there was another door. 15:42.560 --> 15:45.560 Well, the only thing I could do was try it. 15:45.560 --> 15:50.560 And think not that I, the pale man with the child with dreams... 15:50.560 --> 15:56.560 Inside, I discovered about 20 women and a sprinkling of small boys 15:56.560 --> 16:00.560 seated in neat little rows facing the opposite end of the room. 16:00.560 --> 16:05.560 There on the platform stood an extremely tall, emaciated young man 16:05.560 --> 16:10.560 with straight yellow hair and his head thrown back, eyes closed. 16:10.560 --> 16:13.560 The audience was listening to him intently. 16:13.560 --> 16:18.560 I looked around. I didn't see Raiden. 16:18.560 --> 16:22.560 A woman was seated near the door alone. I tiptoed over to her. 16:22.560 --> 16:24.560 Really? 16:24.560 --> 16:27.560 Excuse me, madam, but did you see a man? 16:27.560 --> 16:30.560 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but this is a matter of life and death. 16:30.560 --> 16:33.560 I must know if you saw a man come in here a few minutes ago. 16:33.560 --> 16:34.560 Really? 16:34.560 --> 16:36.560 Please, please, I must know. 16:36.560 --> 16:39.560 All right, if you must know, I certainly did. 16:39.560 --> 16:42.560 And I'm going to complain to the management about all you people bursting in here. 16:42.560 --> 16:44.560 Where is he? Where'd he go? 16:44.560 --> 16:48.560 He walked right down the aisle and out through the door behind Mr. Quilliam. 16:48.560 --> 16:50.560 And don't you dare do the same thing. Mr. Quilliam won't... 16:50.560 --> 16:52.560 I didn't wait to hear anymore. 16:52.560 --> 16:56.560 I went down the aisle, around the platform to the door at the rear, 16:56.560 --> 17:02.560 but apparently Mr. Quilliam was unaware of my presence. 17:02.560 --> 17:06.560 I went out quickly, breathing a sigh of relief. 17:06.560 --> 17:10.560 But as I closed the door behind me, I felt far from relieved. 17:10.560 --> 17:16.560 It was a storeroom, piled high with tables, chairs, sad bits of old holiday decorations. 17:16.560 --> 17:24.560 I sputtered another door and as I ran toward it, I wondered if Hillary was gone through too. 17:24.560 --> 17:29.560 To my surprise, it was on the second floor dining room. 17:29.560 --> 17:34.560 It was deserted now, except for a string quartet practicing on the stage. 17:34.560 --> 17:37.560 I started toward them and then I stopped. 17:37.560 --> 17:42.560 And there, standing in rapt attention to the music, was Hillary, 17:42.560 --> 17:46.560 safe and alive, listening as though hypnotized. 17:46.560 --> 17:51.560 She stood there, her lovely face softened by the music, 17:51.560 --> 17:53.560 and all at once she turned and looked at me. 17:53.560 --> 17:54.560 No! 17:54.560 --> 17:58.560 Hillary. Hillary. 17:58.560 --> 18:02.560 Now it's all right. I want to help you. 18:02.560 --> 18:03.560 No! No! 18:03.560 --> 18:04.560 But you mustn't run away again. 18:04.560 --> 18:07.560 I got away from them, all three of them, and I can get away from you. 18:07.560 --> 18:09.560 Hillary, I'm trying to help you. 18:09.560 --> 18:10.560 I won't go back to them. 18:10.560 --> 18:10.560 Please. 18:10.560 --> 18:11.560 They'll kill me. 18:11.560 --> 18:14.560 Hillary, listen to me. You were right. 18:14.560 --> 18:16.560 That was not Dr. Broom. 18:16.560 --> 18:20.560 I've talked to the real Dr. Broom and he says you're perfectly sane. You have nothing to fear. 18:20.560 --> 18:21.560 Please, we are rehearsing. 18:21.560 --> 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. 18:26.560 --> 18:28.560 They want to kill me. 18:28.560 --> 18:29.560 Please. 18:29.560 --> 18:33.560 As she said it, the door near the stage slowly opened and through it came the raid. 18:33.560 --> 18:38.560 I grabbed Hillary by the arm and I dragged her through the sliding doors in the main entrance. 18:38.560 --> 18:41.560 I glanced down the hall toward the elevator, but it was too far. 18:41.560 --> 18:43.560 Raid would be halfway across the dining room by now. 18:43.560 --> 18:52.560 So we took the stairs and we ran down, down, further down, all the way to the basement. 18:52.560 --> 18:55.560 There we could find a way out of the hotel. 18:55.560 --> 18:58.560 At the bottom of the stairs, however, Hillary stopped. 18:58.560 --> 18:59.560 Where are you taking me? 18:59.560 --> 19:01.560 Away. Away from him. 19:01.560 --> 19:03.560 Away? From who? 19:03.560 --> 19:07.560 But you saw him in the dining room. That's your kidnapper. 19:07.560 --> 19:10.560 I don't believe you. I don't believe you. 19:10.560 --> 19:13.560 Hillary, you must believe me. Quickly, he's coming. 19:15.560 --> 19:18.560 There was no time now to get out to the streets. 19:18.560 --> 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. 19:24.560 --> 19:33.560 In a moment, Raiden's feet appeared and then his hand with a gun in it. 19:33.560 --> 19:37.560 I closed the door quickly and fumbled at the lock and it worked. 19:37.560 --> 19:42.560 In the back room, someone was operating what sounded like a pressing machine, 19:42.560 --> 19:47.560 but there was another door and I pulled Hillary after me. 19:47.560 --> 19:50.560 We were in the laundry. 19:50.560 --> 19:59.560 It was deserted and in its windowless, unlighted dusk, I could see the huge white shapes of the washing vats. 19:59.560 --> 20:02.560 I pushed Hillary behind one of them. 20:02.560 --> 20:10.560 And then behind the door, leaning in the corner, was a short, smooth tube of four and I grabbed it. 20:10.560 --> 20:20.560 And then I stood there and waited. 20:20.560 --> 20:23.560 Yes, yes, I'm coming. 20:26.560 --> 20:28.560 I'm sorry, sir, I didn't know it was locked. 20:28.560 --> 20:29.560 Where is she? 20:29.560 --> 20:30.560 There's nobody here. What do you mean? 20:30.560 --> 20:32.560 Don't lie to me. I saw them. 20:32.560 --> 20:56.560 But sir, I'm all alone here. 20:56.560 --> 20:58.560 I smashed his gun arm into my club. 20:58.560 --> 21:03.560 He turned toward me, momentarily confused. I raised my club again and I brought it down. 21:03.560 --> 21:06.560 I glanced off his temple and he slumped heavily to the floor. 21:06.560 --> 21:09.560 He lay there, quite still. 21:09.560 --> 21:13.560 A tailor appeared in the doorway, dazed. 21:13.560 --> 21:18.560 The police. I'm going to call the police. 21:18.560 --> 21:22.560 Suddenly, Hillary reached up and picked Raiden's gun up. 21:22.560 --> 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. 21:27.560 --> 21:30.560 Who are you? Who are you? 21:30.560 --> 21:32.560 Hillary, Hillary, it's over. 21:32.560 --> 21:35.560 He, there, that's Kurt Raiden. 21:35.560 --> 21:36.560 He murdered your mother. 21:36.560 --> 21:38.560 She didn't commit suicide. 21:38.560 --> 21:41.560 And you're sane, don't you understand? You're sane. 21:41.560 --> 21:43.560 You, you're not real. 21:43.560 --> 21:45.560 You came out of my mind. 21:45.560 --> 21:46.560 Hillary, stop it. 21:46.560 --> 21:50.560 This afternoon in the window, you were my own mind telling me the truth. 21:50.560 --> 21:53.560 That I am insane, like my mother. 21:53.560 --> 21:57.560 Now you're my own mind telling me what I want to hear. That I'm safe. 21:57.560 --> 21:59.560 No, Hillary, no. I'm real. 21:59.560 --> 22:01.560 And you're safe. Now listen to me. 22:01.560 --> 22:03.560 But I know the truth now. 22:03.560 --> 22:06.560 I'm insane like my mother, but I won't stay here. I'll die. I can do it. 22:06.560 --> 22:09.560 Now. I can kill myself. 22:09.560 --> 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. 22:16.560 --> 22:21.560 I stood there, looking at my hand, which was bleeding. 22:21.560 --> 22:25.560 And then I looked at her. 22:25.560 --> 22:32.560 And I saw to my astonishment that her face had relaxed. 22:32.560 --> 22:35.560 And she moved towards me. 22:35.560 --> 22:40.560 Slowly, closer and closer. 22:40.560 --> 22:45.560 And she reached out her hand to touch the blood on my hand. 22:45.560 --> 22:48.560 Blood? 22:48.560 --> 22:50.560 You're bleeding. 22:50.560 --> 22:53.560 You are real. 22:53.560 --> 22:54.560 You are real. 22:54.560 --> 22:56.560 Yes. 22:56.560 --> 22:59.560 Yes, Hillary, I'm real. 22:59.560 --> 23:01.560 And it is true about your mother. 23:01.560 --> 23:03.560 She didn't kill herself. 23:03.560 --> 23:05.560 And you're safe. 23:05.560 --> 23:08.560 Yes. 23:08.560 --> 23:10.560 Yes, safe. 23:10.560 --> 23:15.560 And I can believe what you tell me? 23:15.560 --> 23:18.560 Yes, Hillary, you can believe me. 23:18.560 --> 23:24.560 You can believe everything I tell you and everything I'll ever tell you. 23:24.560 --> 23:49.560 What's your name? 23:54.560 --> 24:21.560 This is the United States Armed Forces Radio 3. 24:21.560 --> 24:25.560 This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 24:51.560 --> 24:58.560 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service. 25:21.560 --> 25:37.560 The United States Armed Forces Radio Service.