1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 2 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:20,680 Tonight, Auto Light brings you the story of a woman who holds death over her husband's 3 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,080 head when the bow breaks. 4 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:26,000 Starring Miss Rosalind Russell. 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Say, Harlow, I just saw one of those old-fashioned electric autos. 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Old-fashioned? 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,880 How about your car, Hap? 8 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:38,360 Mine uses gasoline. 9 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,840 Does gas crank your engine, run your radio, your lights, your heater, your cigarette lighter? 10 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:43,840 Well, no. 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:44,840 Electricity does. 12 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:49,520 You bet it does, Hap, and it's all produced and stored right under the hood of your car. 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:54,220 And that's where Auto Light comes in, Hap, because Auto Light designs and builds complete 14 00:00:54,220 --> 00:00:59,160 electrical systems used as original factory equipment on many leading makes of our finest 15 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:00,160 cars. 16 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,480 You mean Auto Light makes generators, coils, and distributors, eh, Harlow? 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:08,440 They sure do, Hap, with all the units and their thousands of component parts related 18 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:13,640 by Auto Light engineering design and Auto Light manufacturing skill to give the smoothest 19 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,440 performance money can buy. 20 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,080 Sounds like a winning combination to me, Harlow. 21 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,680 It is, Hap, believe me. 22 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:24,360 So friends, take a tip from me and specify Auto Light original factory parts when replacements 23 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,040 are needed for your Auto Light-equipped car. 24 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,280 You'll find it pays, because you're always right with Auto Light. 25 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:37,120 And now with When the Bough Breaks and the performance of Miss Rosalind Russell, Auto 26 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:53,200 Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 27 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,520 I remember when I was little. 28 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,920 I remember you used to swing me in the garden. 29 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:05,280 And the big maple tree and the rusty squeak as I went up and down, up and down. 30 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,960 Grandfather, don't let me fall. 31 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,240 I want you to hold me like you used to when I was hurt. 32 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,440 I'm afraid because I'm dying. 33 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,440 Just the way you die, Grandfather. 34 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,840 And why should I die? 35 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:31,880 How did it all happen? 36 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:32,880 This is it, baby. 37 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,880 It looks very nice. 38 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,000 Oh, Harry, please be careful of my coat. 39 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,000 You're dragging it there on the ground. 40 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 I'm sorry. 41 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,960 Here, you hold it while I get the key out. 42 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,960 I'll get the suitcases later. 43 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,440 Now wait a minute, baby. 44 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:47,440 Let's do this right. 45 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,440 Oh, Harry, put me down. 46 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,440 People are watching. 47 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:52,440 Now let them watch. 48 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:53,440 We're married. 49 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,440 This is the way it's done. 50 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,160 Oh, you've got a lot to learn. 51 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,600 All right now. 52 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,200 Put me down, Harry. 53 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,200 Please. 54 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,000 Harry, I asked you to put me down. 55 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,960 Baby, I'm sorry. 56 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,200 Oh, you're sweet. 57 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:09,360 I'm tired. 58 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:10,440 I didn't mean to be angry. 59 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:11,440 I'm tired, that's all. 60 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:12,440 Yeah, sure, sure. 61 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,760 Well, you like it? 62 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,040 It's a very nice house, dear. 63 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:18,680 I'm sure we'll be comfortable. 64 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,880 Not bad for a short-order deal. 65 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:21,880 Take a look around. 66 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,200 Here, open this door. 67 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:25,200 It's a closet. 68 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:26,200 Yeah, it's not bad, eh? 69 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:27,200 They're all like that. 70 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:28,920 Lots of room. 71 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:31,200 Living room, dining room through here, kitchen. 72 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,760 Harry, please. 73 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,680 Can I sit down for a minute? 74 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:35,680 My head's splitting. 75 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,920 Yeah, sure, baby, sure. 76 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:38,920 On the sofa, huh? 77 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,760 That's not bad, huh? 78 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:41,760 Come on now. 79 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:42,760 Off with the shoes. 80 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,480 Come on, put your feet up. 81 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,060 Thank you, dear. 82 00:03:46,060 --> 00:03:48,080 It all looks very nice. 83 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,000 You must have spent a lot of money, though. 84 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Ah, money, nothing. 85 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Soon as the probate judge turns the real money loose, we'll get something that'll knock your 86 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,120 eye out. 87 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,960 I don't want to talk about that, Harry. 88 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:02,080 I don't want to even think about it. 89 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,080 Never again. 90 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,080 No, of course not, baby. 91 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,080 What's the matter with me? 92 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:14,000 Of course you don't. 93 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,240 I don't want to think about it, grandfather. 94 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,920 But I have to talk about it to you. 95 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,920 There'll be the lawyers to pay and the inheritance tax. 96 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,320 I never realized how very much you were worth. 97 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,160 But you never spoke much about money. 98 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,720 It was always there ever since I can remember. 99 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:29,720 Funny. 100 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,800 I never thought about it until after you'd gone. 101 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,760 Harry did, though. 102 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,760 I lied to you about Harry. 103 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,400 I'm sorry I didn't meet him the way I said. 104 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,840 I picked him up, grandfather, on the beach. 105 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:49,120 I went looking for a man and I found him. 106 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,900 The men you chose for me were so weak. 107 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:53,800 I wanted someone like you, like Harry. 108 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:58,280 It wasn't respectable of a woman in her late thirties to do that, was it? 109 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,880 I'm sorry. 110 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:10,800 Well, honey, I guess you didn't know that I had a feel for interior decorating, did you? 111 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,160 No, no, I didn't. 112 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,320 Maybe when we get the dough, I can... 113 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:15,520 Oh, yeah. 114 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:17,160 I'm sorry, baby. 115 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,000 I was figuring maybe I'd go in the business. 116 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Harry, how did you know they'd let me go? 117 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,200 How did you know all this wouldn't be wasted or... or maybe you'd be here with another 118 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:28,200 girl? 119 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,360 With another girl, mousy? 120 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:31,360 Only you. 121 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,560 Besides, they couldn't have pinned it on you. 122 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,080 Why, I watched that jury. 123 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,080 You're high class. 124 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:37,080 They believed you. 125 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:38,080 Yesterday. 126 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,080 I didn't think I'd be married now and in a new house. 127 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,080 I thought I... 128 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:43,080 Oh, forget it. 129 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,240 You've been acquitted and that's it from here on in with... 130 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,240 Harry! 131 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:47,720 Baby, baby, you're jumpy. 132 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:48,720 Yes, I'm jumpy. 133 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:49,720 Harry! 134 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:50,720 Relax. 135 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,560 Married couples have callers. 136 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:54,560 Probably next door neighbors. 137 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:55,560 You stay right here. 138 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:56,560 I'll get rid of them. 139 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:01,800 Harry Stryker, fancy meeting you here. 140 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:02,800 What do you want, Corcoran? 141 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:04,800 He doesn't say glad to see. 142 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,720 He doesn't say come in and have a drink. 143 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,200 All he says is what do you want, Corcoran? 144 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,200 We're busy. 145 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:11,200 No statements. 146 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:12,200 No statements? 147 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,520 You just got married, didn't you? 148 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:15,520 You moved into a new house. 149 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,600 Your wife beat a murder rap yesterday. 150 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:18,600 No statement. 151 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:19,600 Your news. 152 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:20,600 Harry, make him go away. 153 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:21,600 Harry, please. 154 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:26,040 Mrs. Stryker, well, well, congratulations on all counts. 155 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:27,520 Large murder and money. 156 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,520 All right, Corcoran, out. 157 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:29,520 Are you kidding? 158 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:36,480 You and Evy are good for five or six more front pages. 159 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,880 You're my baby's, my story of the year. 160 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,000 I'm gonna bounce you. 161 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,320 You can beat me to it by walking out, but fast. 162 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:44,960 Why don't you leave us alone? 163 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:46,120 The trial is over. 164 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,760 The state is finished with us. 165 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:48,760 Why can't you be? 166 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:49,760 Finished, Evy? 167 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,120 You're acquitted, if that's what you mean. 168 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,880 You can never be tried again for the same murder. 169 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:55,880 And please... 170 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:00,040 If you said to me it might amuse your readers to know, Mr. Corcoran, that I really did murder 171 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,720 my grandfather, they can't touch you. 172 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,240 I'm gonna work you over, boy, so that you'll never chew a steak again. 173 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,240 I wouldn't. 174 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:09,240 Then get out. 175 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:10,240 Okay. 176 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,800 But first, I came here to tell you something. 177 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:13,240 Evy, go in the next room. 178 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:14,240 No, no. 179 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:15,600 What do you want, Mr. Corcoran? 180 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,720 Oh, nothing much, Mrs. Stryker. 181 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,720 I just wanted to tell you that I'm going to do a Sunday feature on you. 182 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:24,040 I'm going to call it She Has Him in the Palm of Her Hand. 183 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,040 No, no. 184 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,000 Forget about us, please. 185 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,800 Harry, give him some money. 186 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:29,800 Tell him to stop. 187 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:31,680 You couldn't pay me enough, Evy. 188 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,160 The story of why you hold this guy's life in your hands is too good. 189 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:36,160 What do you mean by that, Crack? 190 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,720 I knew your wife would beat the casement and I laid eyes on her, Harry. 191 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:44,240 That holier-than-thou-look grandfather known by one and all to be a wretched old man, my 192 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,680 assing as a lawyer, cinch. 193 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,080 You've written about those things, Mr. Corcoran. 194 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:50,080 Don't you think that after all the public... 195 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,280 Wait a minute, I'm leading up to it. 196 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,520 The autopsy showed your grandfather had a disease that would have killed him anyway 197 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,040 in a few more months. 198 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:58,040 So verdict, suicide. 199 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,560 Well, why can't you understand that suicide? 200 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:02,280 He knew he was going to die. 201 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,080 I don't buy it. 202 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:05,560 But I buy this. 203 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:09,720 Harry, you were never brought to trial because they couldn't tie you into it. 204 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,320 You had an alibi for the night the old man drank that poison. 205 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:13,320 Yeah, I wasn't there. 206 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:19,760 The DA knew that you're a photographer, among other things, and had access to cyanide, but 207 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,220 he couldn't hang anything on you. 208 00:08:21,220 --> 00:08:22,760 So you weren't tried for murder. 209 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:23,760 She was. 210 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,960 She can't be again. 211 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:26,960 Not for that one. 212 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:28,800 Harry, I'm tired of this. 213 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,080 Mr. Corcoran is trying to frighten us, that's all. 214 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:32,240 Will you ask him to leave? 215 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:33,240 Now hold it, baby. 216 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,240 Go on, Corcoran, get to the point. 217 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:36,240 Sure. 218 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,040 Well, like I say, you weren't indicted. 219 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,760 But you could be if your wife talked. 220 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:41,760 Talked? 221 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,200 But there's nothing for me to talk about. 222 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:45,280 What could I say? 223 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,960 You could say that Harry got the cyanide for you and you worked it out together to get 224 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:51,560 the old man's money. 225 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:54,480 Then they'd try Harry, not you, Evy, because you've been acquitted. 226 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:55,480 I won't listen. 227 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:56,480 I won't. 228 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:57,480 Okay, okay. 229 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:58,480 So long, Corcoran. 230 00:08:58,480 --> 00:08:59,480 Sure. 231 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:00,480 Don't get sore. 232 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,600 If you didn't do it, you haven't got a thing to worry about, Harry. 233 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,720 But if you did, you better be nice to Mrs. Stryker, because maybe someday she'll get 234 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:07,720 mad. 235 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,480 And if she talks, it's bye-bye, Harry. 236 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:10,480 So long, Corcoran. 237 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,160 You got him in the palm of your hand, Evy. 238 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,520 Remember, they can't touch you for it. 239 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:28,880 When Harry came back from the door, I knew what he was thinking. 240 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,160 What that horrible newspaper reporter had said. 241 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:32,160 He wouldn't look at me. 242 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,160 He just went to a table and poured a drink. 243 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,080 I was afraid of him. 244 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,160 I wanted him to hold me and tell me it was all right, like you used to. 245 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:43,160 But he didn't. 246 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:49,320 And then I wanted to run away, anywhere, get on a boat, fly, never see Harry Stryker again, 247 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:50,320 run, run. 248 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,000 Where you going, baby? 249 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 I need some air. 250 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,000 I thought I'd got... 251 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Now, don't be silly. 252 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,000 You don't want to go out there. 253 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,480 Corcoran's probably still hanging around. 254 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:00,480 Harry. 255 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,480 Harry. 256 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:02,480 What? 257 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:03,480 What is it, Marcy? 258 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:04,960 Harry, it's all right, isn't it? 259 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:06,720 I mean, you don't believe what he said. 260 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:07,720 No, of course not. 261 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:08,800 He's a snooper, that's all. 262 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,680 It wasn't the money, was it, Harry? 263 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:12,160 You didn't want me just because of the money. 264 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:13,160 Now, baby... 265 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:14,160 I'm not pretty. 266 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:15,160 I'm not clever. 267 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,160 You don't love me, do you? 268 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:17,640 Why should I attract a man like you? 269 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,080 It was the money, wasn't it? 270 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,080 You're upset, baby. 271 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:21,680 Look, go lie down, will you? 272 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:22,680 It's okay. 273 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:23,680 Everything's okay. 274 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:24,680 Say it. 275 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:25,680 Say you love me. 276 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:26,680 You never have. 277 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:27,680 Please. 278 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:28,680 Harry. 279 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:29,680 Harry, look at me. 280 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:32,680 Tell me you think I'm pretty. 281 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:35,200 Harry, say nice things to me. 282 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,200 Tell me you love me. 283 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:37,200 Harry, please. 284 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,200 Keep your voice down. 285 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:39,200 Corcoran's still outside. 286 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:40,200 He's listening. 287 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:41,200 That was it then. 288 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:42,200 All the time. 289 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:43,200 That's all you cared about, the money. 290 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:44,200 It's never been me. 291 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:45,200 All I wanted was to love you and to have you and to be... 292 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,200 I'll get you to the hospital. 293 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:47,200 I'll get you to the hospital. 294 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:48,200 I'll get you to the hospital. 295 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,960 I'll get you a drink. 296 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,580 No, no, no, no. 297 00:10:52,580 --> 00:10:54,000 I wish I were dead. 298 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,620 I wish I'd told him the truth. 299 00:10:55,620 --> 00:10:57,000 I should've said I'm guilty. 300 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,000 We're both guilty. 301 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Harry and I did it. 302 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,000 We murdered him. 303 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 We murdered Grandfather. 304 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:08,560 Baby, don't ever say that again. 305 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:09,960 Not even to yourself. 306 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:15,880 Don't even think it. 307 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:21,240 When he finished what he had to say, he just looked at me. 308 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:36,600 There was death in my new husband's eyes. 309 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:41,680 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Rosalind Russell with Sheldon Leonard in When the Bough Breaks. 310 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:46,240 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 311 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,240 Oh, uh, Hap. 312 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,240 Hey, Hap. 313 00:11:50,240 --> 00:12:02,600 Hey, hey, hey, hey, Hap. 314 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:03,600 What are you doing? 315 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:09,960 Oh, I, I was just proving to myself how important the Auto Light electrical system is to my 316 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,720 Auto Light equipped car. 317 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:16,000 Well, it's the lifeline of your car, Hap, and Auto Light designs and builds complete 318 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:21,320 electrical systems, including the coil, distributor, generator, and starting motor for many leading 319 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,480 makes of our finest cars. 320 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,560 Auto Light electrical systems are built to give you the smoothest performance money can 321 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:28,560 buy. 322 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:30,760 I'm sure glad my car is Auto Light equipped. 323 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:31,760 Right, Hap. 324 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,960 So friends, because the electrical system of your car is so important to the smooth, 325 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:41,200 efficient, and economical operation of your car, it will pay you to treat your car occasionally 326 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:46,180 to a checkup at your nearest authorized Auto Light service station, whose name is listed 327 00:12:46,180 --> 00:12:50,200 in the 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00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:47,080 sweet, drifting about us. 338 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,280 We were happy, weren't we? 339 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,600 Not like the sadness that came afterwards, and the bitter taste that isn't the taste 340 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,880 of honeysuckle. 341 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:57,400 Why am I dying, Grandfather? 342 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,520 Where are you? 343 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:05,520 Hold my hand that I shan't be afraid of the dark, afraid of Harry standing there so close, 344 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,280 this dark, angry face looking down at me. 345 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:09,960 You've got to get a hold of yourself, Evie. 346 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:10,960 Do you hear me? 347 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:11,960 Yes, yes, all right. 348 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:12,960 This is no good. 349 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:14,160 Don't you see what Corcoran wants? 350 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,960 If he can get us at each other's throats, he'll have us and his lousy story. 351 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,520 But I wouldn't do anything to hurt you. 352 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:20,520 How can you think such a thing? 353 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,680 You've got to get straightened out the way you are now. 354 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,880 You'll spill over the first time anyone puts pressure on you. 355 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:25,880 I won't, Harry, honestly. 356 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:26,880 I'll never say a word. 357 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:27,880 I won't. 358 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:28,880 I just want to be happy with you. 359 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:29,880 I want you to love me. 360 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:30,880 Sure, baby, sure. 361 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,680 But you've got to understand, like Corcoran says, it's my neck now, not yours. 362 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:35,680 We've got to be careful. 363 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:42,960 Harry, maybe if I went away somewhere, alone, maybe I could rest and forget the trial and 364 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:44,440 go somewhere and rest. 365 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:45,440 I'll come back. 366 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:46,920 You wouldn't have to worry about me saying anything. 367 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:47,920 Now, stop it. 368 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:48,920 You'll be all right when I come back. 369 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:49,920 You'll let me go, won't you, Harry? 370 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:50,920 You wouldn't do anything to stop me. 371 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:51,920 Harry! 372 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:52,920 Shut up! 373 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:53,920 Harry! 374 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:54,920 Cut it out! 375 00:14:54,920 --> 00:15:01,120 Oh, honey, I didn't want to do that. 376 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,280 You've got to believe me. 377 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:03,280 I didn't... 378 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:08,400 When you see what you like, I've got to watch you, take care of you. 379 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,200 You hit me. 380 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:11,680 Nobody ever hit me. 381 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:12,680 Ever. 382 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:13,680 It's all right. 383 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:14,680 It's all right, Mousy. 384 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:15,680 Don't touch me. 385 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:16,680 Don't! 386 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,920 You're afraid of me, and it's just because of that corker and guile. 387 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,600 Look, you mustn't be afraid of me. 388 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,120 We're in the clear, don't you see? 389 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:25,680 It's all downhill now. 390 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,800 Your grandfather was already dying, only we didn't know it. 391 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,240 So when we did what we did, then luck was with us. 392 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:33,240 So we're in the clear. 393 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:34,880 They couldn't prove anything against you then. 394 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:36,320 They can't now. 395 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,800 I've always been afraid of you. 396 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,360 I've always done what you wanted me to do. 397 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:45,240 Part of it was because I loved you, but most of it because I'm afraid. 398 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,400 You never let anything get in your way. 399 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,320 Grandfather was in your way. 400 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:51,320 Now maybe it's me. 401 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,520 Are you saying that this was all my idea? 402 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,800 Are you saying that you never asked me to help you get rid of the old man? 403 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,120 Oh, I don't know what I'm saying. 404 00:15:58,120 --> 00:15:59,120 I'm tired. 405 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:00,120 Yeah, that's it. 406 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,120 You're tired. 407 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,080 When you make me a drink, I'll get the bags out of the car. 408 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,120 You've got to start getting domestic, Mousy. 409 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:14,240 You're an old married woman now. 410 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,560 He went out to get the suitcases, but left the front door open. 411 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,680 It was too cold to leave the door open. 412 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:25,720 He wanted it that way so that he could see me or hear me if I picked up the telephone. 413 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:30,680 You mustn't laugh when I tell you that in the middle of the living room standing there, 414 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,200 I felt the same way I did when you punished me. 415 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:38,520 When you used to put me in the hall closet and make me stand in the dark with the door 416 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:39,520 closed. 417 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:44,840 I must have been a very naughty little girl sometimes. 418 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:51,800 Is that why I killed you, Grandfather? 419 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:52,800 That night I had a dream. 420 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,600 It was a funny dream. 421 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,920 There was an enormous alarm clock in the middle of a field. 422 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:02,680 The sun was shining and you and I were dancing in time to the ticking of the clock. 423 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:08,360 Then, then Harry came along and he tried to dance too, but he was clumsy and tripped and 424 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:09,360 fell down. 425 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:13,040 He waved his arms and his mouth went open and shut, but we couldn't hear him because 426 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,040 of the ticking. 427 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:26,520 Oh, we laughed so hard. 428 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:27,520 What's so funny? 429 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:28,520 Harry, nothing. 430 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:29,520 No, nothing. 431 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:30,520 It was just a dream. 432 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:31,520 Yeah, well, tell me about it. 433 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:32,520 Well, I can't. 434 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:33,520 I don't remember. 435 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:34,520 It was just funny. 436 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:35,520 You didn't sound like you were asleep. 437 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:36,520 Well, I was. 438 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:37,520 Really, I was. 439 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:40,440 Maybe you figured out a way to tip off, calking about me. 440 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:41,440 Maybe that's what was funny. 441 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:42,440 No, no, Harry, it was a dream. 442 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:43,960 You haven't been kidding me. 443 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:45,520 Why do you think I've watched you every minute? 444 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:46,520 I know what's on your mind. 445 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:47,520 Oh, you're wrong. 446 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:48,520 I thought we were happy. 447 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:52,520 With what you're holding over my head, with what you can do to me, are you kidding? 448 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,320 Now, listen, I haven't slept since the trial and you know why? 449 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,960 It's because I'm afraid of you. 450 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,400 Every time we go to the store, every time we go out anywhere, I'm waiting for you to 451 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:03,400 run. 452 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:04,400 Call the cops. 453 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:05,400 I wouldn't. 454 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,400 You know I wouldn't. 455 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:07,400 I never even thought of it. 456 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,040 Well, you thought of it plenty then, didn't you? 457 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:11,040 Didn't you? 458 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:12,040 Yes, no, no. 459 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:13,040 Oh, Harry. 460 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,120 Now you're laughing because you figure you can get rid of me. 461 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:16,120 No, no, no. 462 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:17,120 No, no, you're right. 463 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:18,120 Don't kid yourself. 464 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:19,120 I figured out the whole thing. 465 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:20,800 I got us in the clear. 466 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,200 Now you want to mess it up. 467 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,440 What are you going to do to me? 468 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:25,440 You're going to... 469 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:26,440 Oh, no, no, no. 470 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:27,440 It depends, baby. 471 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,920 It depends on whether you can keep your mouth shut. 472 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:32,240 Why did we do it? 473 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:33,240 Why did we kill him? 474 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:34,240 You wanted the money. 475 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:35,240 No, no, you don't understand. 476 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,280 I wanted to get away from him and I wanted you. 477 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:39,920 But I'm not away. 478 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,160 All right, Marcy, all right. 479 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,360 But we did it and now we've got to follow it through. 480 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:46,240 You didn't want me without the money. 481 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:47,520 You didn't want me at all. 482 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:48,520 Just the money. 483 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:49,520 You don't love me. 484 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:50,520 It happens I do. 485 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,640 That's something you can't understand. 486 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:59,400 I've tried to make you believe me and something like this comes up and I'm afraid of you. 487 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,400 I keep remembering that if you want to, you can send me to the chair. 488 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:03,680 Harry, I wouldn't. 489 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,180 I could never hurt you. 490 00:19:05,180 --> 00:19:06,180 Don't worry. 491 00:19:06,180 --> 00:19:07,180 You won't. 492 00:19:07,180 --> 00:19:10,000 I'm going to watch and see that you don't. 493 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:17,480 Now you better get back to sleep. 494 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,280 The next day he didn't talk to me at all. 495 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:21,760 He didn't say a word. 496 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,360 We just sat around the house and I felt ugly. 497 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:30,240 I prayed I'd suddenly be beautiful because then he'd trust me and he'd know that I wouldn't 498 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:31,240 hurt him. 499 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,960 It was after lunch that he went into the kitchen. 500 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,760 I wanted to watch him now just as he was watching me. 501 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,240 I couldn't bear to have him out of my sight. 502 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:43,160 He supposedly went out the back door around the front and crept up quietly behind me. 503 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:47,640 I got up, stood behind the dining room door looking through the crack. 504 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:52,160 He was taking down a vial from the closet where he kept his photographic things. 505 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,860 I couldn't see a label but I knew what it was. 506 00:19:55,860 --> 00:20:00,160 He put the vial in his jacket pocket and closed the closet. 507 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:08,600 I was going to be murdered with cyanide the way you were, Grandfather. 508 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,040 You stay here and keep quiet. 509 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:11,040 I'll answer the door. 510 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,040 I don't want to hear a sound out of you. 511 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,360 Good afternoon, sir. 512 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:21,120 I'm your daily times delivery boy and I've come to welcome you into our community. 513 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:22,120 Yes, sure. 514 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:23,120 Okay. 515 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:24,120 Some other time. 516 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:26,120 As a service to you so that you may keep abreast of world events. 517 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:27,440 Your newspaper, the Daily Times... 518 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,120 Now look, buddy, we don't need a paper. 519 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:30,120 We'll peddle them somewhere else. 520 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:31,120 Please call someone. 521 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,120 Tell the police that I... 522 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:33,120 Sorry, kid, we're not interested. 523 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:34,120 Shut up! 524 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:35,120 Shut up! 525 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,120 Now get back in the living room. 526 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:40,880 I should have known that all you crazy... 527 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,200 I ought to kill you for trying that. 528 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:48,360 I ought to kill you. 529 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:51,360 Kill. 530 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:54,880 Kill me. 531 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,160 That's what he was going to do. 532 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,800 I had to get away or use the phone, call the police. 533 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:02,800 I needed your grandfather. 534 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,880 I needed you to help me. 535 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,760 He walked slowly back into the living room and took off his jacket. 536 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,560 I thought how funny it was. 537 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,160 Just like a man before a fight. 538 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,520 Perhaps he thought I'd fight with him to save my life. 539 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:22,120 What is it like to die, grandfather? 540 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:25,960 I used to ask you that when I was little, when dad died. 541 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:27,560 It's hot in here. 542 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:28,560 I'm going to have a drink. 543 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,400 I fixed the phone so you can forget that. 544 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,720 I'll only be in the kitchen so I can hear you. 545 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,960 Don't try anything. 546 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,360 Now he was going to use it, the cyanide. 547 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:43,360 He hadn't taken it out of his jacket pocket. 548 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:44,360 It was still there. 549 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:45,360 I knew it was. 550 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:49,400 I heard him open the refrigerator and get out some ice. 551 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,400 I didn't even have to get up. 552 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,480 I could reach his jacket from where I sat. 553 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,880 I was very careful. 554 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,080 Used my handkerchief to get the vial out. 555 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,040 I'd learned about fingerprints during the trial. 556 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,520 I knew just how much to put in a drink so that it wouldn't taste. 557 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,600 Harry had taught me that. 558 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:14,600 I was reaching for the cork in the whiskey bottle when I heard him coming back. 559 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:20,420 I forgot the ice. 560 00:22:20,420 --> 00:22:21,420 He hadn't seen me. 561 00:22:21,420 --> 00:22:22,420 He hadn't. 562 00:22:22,420 --> 00:22:29,080 I took the cork out of the whiskey bottle and emptied the vial of cyanide into it. 563 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,080 That was all. 564 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:37,120 It was done. 565 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:41,080 I was sitting in my chair when Harry came back with the ice. 566 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:45,720 What's the matter with you? 567 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:46,720 Nothing. 568 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:47,720 You're sick? 569 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:48,720 No, no, no. 570 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:49,720 I'm all right. 571 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:50,720 Well, you don't look all right. 572 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,680 You'd better have a drink. 573 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:55,680 I don't want any. 574 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:56,680 No, you'd better. 575 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,680 We've got to talk. 576 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:05,680 Here you are. 577 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:06,680 This will fix you up. 578 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:07,680 Drink it straight. 579 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:08,680 Here. 580 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:09,680 No, no, Harry. 581 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:10,680 I don't want it. 582 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,680 I can't stand the taste of it, please. 583 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:14,920 No, there you go again. 584 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:15,920 You're getting hysterical. 585 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:16,920 Now, come on. 586 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:17,920 This will settle you down. 587 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:18,920 No, no, I won't. 588 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:19,920 I won't. 589 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:20,920 I'm not going to drink it. 590 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:21,920 I'm going to have two of me. 591 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:22,920 It'll make me sick. 592 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:23,920 Please, Harry, don't make me. 593 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:24,920 Here. 594 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:25,920 You know I never drink. 595 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:26,920 Harry, I don't want it. 596 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:27,920 It won't kill you. 597 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:28,920 Would you rather have me slap you around? 598 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:29,920 Now, cut it out. 599 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:30,920 Drink it. 600 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:31,920 Come on. 601 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:32,920 Harry, Harry, no. 602 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:33,920 Harry. 603 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:44,160 There was a terrible burning grandfather. 604 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,920 I tried to fight, but I couldn't. 605 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:53,840 And I saw Harry fade away further and further until he was miles above me leaning down and 606 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,080 calling to me. 607 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,800 I could see his face, so frightened. 608 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:12,280 Then there was nothing. 609 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:18,000 It was very quiet, except for the swing. 610 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,520 Quiet, quiet. 611 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,840 You won't let me fall, will you? 612 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:30,840 I can't see you, but you're there. 613 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,360 Hold my hand, grandfather. 614 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:52,120 I don't want to be alone. 615 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:53,120 She's gone. 616 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:56,000 I'm surprised you held on so long. 617 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,600 Cyanide cases are usually fast. 618 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:58,600 Cyanide? 619 00:24:58,600 --> 00:24:59,600 Hey, wait a minute. 620 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,600 No telling. 621 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:01,600 Okay, come on, Stracker. 622 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:02,600 We're going downtown. 623 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:03,600 Well, what are you talking about cyanide? 624 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:04,600 What do you mean? 625 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:05,600 I never... 626 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:06,600 Didn't you know? 627 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,200 There was an empty bottle in your jacket pocket, your prints all over it. 628 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:11,960 On the glass she drank from, too. 629 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,320 Well, yeah, sure they are. 630 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,400 She was having hysterics, so I made her drink from it. 631 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:17,960 Cyanide never cured hysterics, Harry. 632 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:19,240 Oh, look, I didn't do it. 633 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,320 Listen, I didn't kill her. 634 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,520 Like you didn't have anything to do with her grandfather's murder, I know. 635 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,400 What was the matter? 636 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,400 She threatened to talk? 637 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:27,800 I didn't do it, I tell you. 638 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:28,800 I didn't. 639 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,400 Okay, so you didn't do it. 640 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:31,400 Come on. 641 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,800 Don't you understand, I put that cyanide in my pocket because I was afraid that she'd 642 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:35,800 use it on me. 643 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,400 I wasn't going to kill her. 644 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,680 I was just trying to quiet her down. 645 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,560 Brother, when you quiet them down, they stay quiet. 646 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:45,560 Let's go. 647 00:25:45,560 --> 00:26:01,560 Suspense. 648 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:17,680 Presented by Auto Light. 649 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,960 Tonight's star, Miss Rosalind Russell. 650 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00:27:20,120 because you're always right with Auto Light. 660 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:28,760 Next week on Suspense, our stars will be Phil Harris and Alice Fay in Death on My Hands. 661 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:34,000 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars as Charles Boyer, Jeff Chandler, and 662 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,520 Dick Powell. 663 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:52,120 All on Suspense. 664 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:56,240 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowack 665 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,880 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 666 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:04,320 When the Bough Breaks was written for Suspense by Anthony Ellis from a story by Sheldon Leonard, 667 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,520 who was heard as Harry. 668 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:19,040 Others in tonight's cast were Joseph Kearns, Barney Phillips, and Jeffrey Silver. 669 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:25,480 And remember, next week on Suspense, Phil Harris and Alice Fay in a tale we call Death 670 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:54,960 on My Hands. 671 00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:19,120 Next week on Suspense.