WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.000 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. 00:13.000 --> 00:20.680 Tonight, Auto Light brings you the story of a woman who holds death over her husband's 00:20.680 --> 00:23.080 head when the bow breaks. 00:23.080 --> 00:26.000 Starring Miss Rosalind Russell. 00:26.000 --> 00:34.000 Say, Harlow, I just saw one of those old-fashioned electric autos. 00:34.000 --> 00:35.000 Old-fashioned? 00:35.000 --> 00:36.880 How about your car, Hap? 00:36.880 --> 00:38.360 Mine uses gasoline. 00:38.360 --> 00:42.840 Does gas crank your engine, run your radio, your lights, your heater, your cigarette lighter? 00:42.840 --> 00:43.840 Well, no. 00:43.840 --> 00:44.840 Electricity does. 00:44.840 --> 00:49.520 You bet it does, Hap, and it's all produced and stored right under the hood of your car. 00:49.520 --> 00:54.220 And that's where Auto Light comes in, Hap, because Auto Light designs and builds complete 00:54.220 --> 00:59.160 electrical systems used as original factory equipment on many leading makes of our finest 00:59.160 --> 01:00.160 cars. 01:00.160 --> 01:03.480 You mean Auto Light makes generators, coils, and distributors, eh, Harlow? 01:03.480 --> 01:08.440 They sure do, Hap, with all the units and their thousands of component parts related 01:08.440 --> 01:13.640 by Auto Light engineering design and Auto Light manufacturing skill to give the smoothest 01:13.640 --> 01:15.440 performance money can buy. 01:15.440 --> 01:18.080 Sounds like a winning combination to me, Harlow. 01:18.080 --> 01:19.680 It is, Hap, believe me. 01:19.680 --> 01:24.360 So friends, take a tip from me and specify Auto Light original factory parts when replacements 01:24.360 --> 01:27.040 are needed for your Auto Light-equipped car. 01:27.040 --> 01:31.280 You'll find it pays, because you're always right with Auto Light. 01:31.280 --> 01:37.120 And now with When the Bough Breaks and the performance of Miss Rosalind Russell, Auto 01:37.120 --> 01:53.200 Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 01:53.200 --> 01:55.520 I remember when I was little. 01:55.520 --> 01:58.920 I remember you used to swing me in the garden. 01:58.920 --> 02:05.280 And the big maple tree and the rusty squeak as I went up and down, up and down. 02:05.280 --> 02:07.960 Grandfather, don't let me fall. 02:07.960 --> 02:11.240 I want you to hold me like you used to when I was hurt. 02:11.240 --> 02:15.440 I'm afraid because I'm dying. 02:15.440 --> 02:17.440 Just the way you die, Grandfather. 02:17.440 --> 02:20.840 And why should I die? 02:20.840 --> 02:31.880 How did it all happen? 02:31.880 --> 02:32.880 This is it, baby. 02:32.880 --> 02:34.880 It looks very nice. 02:34.880 --> 02:37.000 Oh, Harry, please be careful of my coat. 02:37.000 --> 02:38.000 You're dragging it there on the ground. 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 I'm sorry. 02:39.000 --> 02:42.960 Here, you hold it while I get the key out. 02:42.960 --> 02:44.960 I'll get the suitcases later. 02:44.960 --> 02:46.440 Now wait a minute, baby. 02:46.440 --> 02:47.440 Let's do this right. 02:47.440 --> 02:50.440 Oh, Harry, put me down. 02:50.440 --> 02:51.440 People are watching. 02:51.440 --> 02:52.440 Now let them watch. 02:52.440 --> 02:53.440 We're married. 02:53.440 --> 02:54.440 This is the way it's done. 02:54.440 --> 02:58.160 Oh, you've got a lot to learn. 02:58.160 --> 02:59.600 All right now. 02:59.600 --> 03:01.200 Put me down, Harry. 03:01.200 --> 03:02.200 Please. 03:02.200 --> 03:04.000 Harry, I asked you to put me down. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.960 Baby, I'm sorry. 03:05.960 --> 03:08.200 Oh, you're sweet. 03:08.200 --> 03:09.360 I'm tired. 03:09.360 --> 03:10.440 I didn't mean to be angry. 03:10.440 --> 03:11.440 I'm tired, that's all. 03:11.440 --> 03:12.440 Yeah, sure, sure. 03:12.440 --> 03:15.760 Well, you like it? 03:15.760 --> 03:17.040 It's a very nice house, dear. 03:17.040 --> 03:18.680 I'm sure we'll be comfortable. 03:18.680 --> 03:20.880 Not bad for a short-order deal. 03:20.880 --> 03:21.880 Take a look around. 03:21.880 --> 03:24.200 Here, open this door. 03:24.200 --> 03:25.200 It's a closet. 03:25.200 --> 03:26.200 Yeah, it's not bad, eh? 03:26.200 --> 03:27.200 They're all like that. 03:27.200 --> 03:28.920 Lots of room. 03:28.920 --> 03:31.200 Living room, dining room through here, kitchen. 03:31.200 --> 03:32.760 Harry, please. 03:32.760 --> 03:34.680 Can I sit down for a minute? 03:34.680 --> 03:35.680 My head's splitting. 03:35.680 --> 03:37.920 Yeah, sure, baby, sure. 03:37.920 --> 03:38.920 On the sofa, huh? 03:38.920 --> 03:40.760 That's not bad, huh? 03:40.760 --> 03:41.760 Come on now. 03:41.760 --> 03:42.760 Off with the shoes. 03:42.760 --> 03:44.480 Come on, put your feet up. 03:44.480 --> 03:46.060 Thank you, dear. 03:46.060 --> 03:48.080 It all looks very nice. 03:48.080 --> 03:50.000 You must have spent a lot of money, though. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 Ah, money, nothing. 03:52.000 --> 03:56.000 Soon as the probate judge turns the real money loose, we'll get something that'll knock your 03:56.000 --> 03:57.120 eye out. 03:57.120 --> 03:59.960 I don't want to talk about that, Harry. 03:59.960 --> 04:02.080 I don't want to even think about it. 04:02.080 --> 04:03.080 Never again. 04:03.080 --> 04:06.080 No, of course not, baby. 04:06.080 --> 04:07.080 What's the matter with me? 04:07.080 --> 04:14.000 Of course you don't. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.240 I don't want to think about it, grandfather. 04:16.240 --> 04:18.920 But I have to talk about it to you. 04:18.920 --> 04:21.920 There'll be the lawyers to pay and the inheritance tax. 04:21.920 --> 04:24.320 I never realized how very much you were worth. 04:24.320 --> 04:26.160 But you never spoke much about money. 04:26.160 --> 04:28.720 It was always there ever since I can remember. 04:28.720 --> 04:29.720 Funny. 04:29.720 --> 04:34.800 I never thought about it until after you'd gone. 04:34.800 --> 04:36.760 Harry did, though. 04:36.760 --> 04:39.760 I lied to you about Harry. 04:39.760 --> 04:43.400 I'm sorry I didn't meet him the way I said. 04:43.400 --> 04:46.840 I picked him up, grandfather, on the beach. 04:46.840 --> 04:49.120 I went looking for a man and I found him. 04:49.120 --> 04:50.900 The men you chose for me were so weak. 04:50.900 --> 04:53.800 I wanted someone like you, like Harry. 04:53.800 --> 04:58.280 It wasn't respectable of a woman in her late thirties to do that, was it? 04:58.280 --> 05:00.880 I'm sorry. 05:00.880 --> 05:10.800 Well, honey, I guess you didn't know that I had a feel for interior decorating, did you? 05:10.800 --> 05:12.160 No, no, I didn't. 05:12.160 --> 05:14.320 Maybe when we get the dough, I can... 05:14.320 --> 05:15.520 Oh, yeah. 05:15.520 --> 05:17.160 I'm sorry, baby. 05:17.160 --> 05:20.000 I was figuring maybe I'd go in the business. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Harry, how did you know they'd let me go? 05:23.000 --> 05:27.200 How did you know all this wouldn't be wasted or... or maybe you'd be here with another 05:27.200 --> 05:28.200 girl? 05:28.200 --> 05:30.360 With another girl, mousy? 05:30.360 --> 05:31.360 Only you. 05:31.360 --> 05:33.560 Besides, they couldn't have pinned it on you. 05:33.560 --> 05:35.080 Why, I watched that jury. 05:35.080 --> 05:36.080 You're high class. 05:36.080 --> 05:37.080 They believed you. 05:37.080 --> 05:38.080 Yesterday. 05:38.080 --> 05:41.080 I didn't think I'd be married now and in a new house. 05:41.080 --> 05:42.080 I thought I... 05:42.080 --> 05:43.080 Oh, forget it. 05:43.080 --> 05:45.240 You've been acquitted and that's it from here on in with... 05:45.240 --> 05:46.240 Harry! 05:46.240 --> 05:47.720 Baby, baby, you're jumpy. 05:47.720 --> 05:48.720 Yes, I'm jumpy. 05:48.720 --> 05:49.720 Harry! 05:49.720 --> 05:50.720 Relax. 05:50.720 --> 05:53.560 Married couples have callers. 05:53.560 --> 05:54.560 Probably next door neighbors. 05:54.560 --> 05:55.560 You stay right here. 05:55.560 --> 05:56.560 I'll get rid of them. 05:56.560 --> 06:01.800 Harry Stryker, fancy meeting you here. 06:01.800 --> 06:02.800 What do you want, Corcoran? 06:02.800 --> 06:04.800 He doesn't say glad to see. 06:04.800 --> 06:06.720 He doesn't say come in and have a drink. 06:06.720 --> 06:09.200 All he says is what do you want, Corcoran? 06:09.200 --> 06:10.200 We're busy. 06:10.200 --> 06:11.200 No statements. 06:11.200 --> 06:12.200 No statements? 06:12.200 --> 06:13.520 You just got married, didn't you? 06:13.520 --> 06:15.520 You moved into a new house. 06:15.520 --> 06:17.600 Your wife beat a murder rap yesterday. 06:17.600 --> 06:18.600 No statement. 06:18.600 --> 06:19.600 Your news. 06:19.600 --> 06:20.600 Harry, make him go away. 06:20.600 --> 06:21.600 Harry, please. 06:21.600 --> 06:26.040 Mrs. Stryker, well, well, congratulations on all counts. 06:26.040 --> 06:27.520 Large murder and money. 06:27.520 --> 06:28.520 All right, Corcoran, out. 06:28.520 --> 06:29.520 Are you kidding? 06:29.520 --> 06:36.480 You and Evy are good for five or six more front pages. 06:36.480 --> 06:38.880 You're my baby's, my story of the year. 06:38.880 --> 06:41.000 I'm gonna bounce you. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.320 You can beat me to it by walking out, but fast. 06:43.320 --> 06:44.960 Why don't you leave us alone? 06:44.960 --> 06:46.120 The trial is over. 06:46.120 --> 06:47.760 The state is finished with us. 06:47.760 --> 06:48.760 Why can't you be? 06:48.760 --> 06:49.760 Finished, Evy? 06:49.760 --> 06:52.120 You're acquitted, if that's what you mean. 06:52.120 --> 06:54.880 You can never be tried again for the same murder. 06:54.880 --> 06:55.880 And please... 06:55.880 --> 07:00.040 If you said to me it might amuse your readers to know, Mr. Corcoran, that I really did murder 07:00.040 --> 07:02.720 my grandfather, they can't touch you. 07:02.720 --> 07:07.240 I'm gonna work you over, boy, so that you'll never chew a steak again. 07:07.240 --> 07:08.240 I wouldn't. 07:08.240 --> 07:09.240 Then get out. 07:09.240 --> 07:10.240 Okay. 07:10.240 --> 07:11.800 But first, I came here to tell you something. 07:11.800 --> 07:13.240 Evy, go in the next room. 07:13.240 --> 07:14.240 No, no. 07:14.240 --> 07:15.600 What do you want, Mr. Corcoran? 07:15.600 --> 07:17.720 Oh, nothing much, Mrs. Stryker. 07:17.720 --> 07:20.720 I just wanted to tell you that I'm going to do a Sunday feature on you. 07:20.720 --> 07:24.040 I'm going to call it She Has Him in the Palm of Her Hand. 07:24.040 --> 07:25.040 No, no. 07:25.040 --> 07:27.000 Forget about us, please. 07:27.000 --> 07:28.800 Harry, give him some money. 07:28.800 --> 07:29.800 Tell him to stop. 07:29.800 --> 07:31.680 You couldn't pay me enough, Evy. 07:31.680 --> 07:35.160 The story of why you hold this guy's life in your hands is too good. 07:35.160 --> 07:36.160 What do you mean by that, Crack? 07:36.160 --> 07:39.720 I knew your wife would beat the casement and I laid eyes on her, Harry. 07:39.720 --> 07:44.240 That holier-than-thou-look grandfather known by one and all to be a wretched old man, my 07:44.240 --> 07:46.680 assing as a lawyer, cinch. 07:46.680 --> 07:49.080 You've written about those things, Mr. Corcoran. 07:49.080 --> 07:50.080 Don't you think that after all the public... 07:50.080 --> 07:52.280 Wait a minute, I'm leading up to it. 07:52.280 --> 07:55.520 The autopsy showed your grandfather had a disease that would have killed him anyway 07:55.520 --> 07:57.040 in a few more months. 07:57.040 --> 07:58.040 So verdict, suicide. 07:58.040 --> 08:00.560 Well, why can't you understand that suicide? 08:00.560 --> 08:02.280 He knew he was going to die. 08:02.280 --> 08:04.080 I don't buy it. 08:04.080 --> 08:05.560 But I buy this. 08:05.560 --> 08:09.720 Harry, you were never brought to trial because they couldn't tie you into it. 08:09.720 --> 08:12.320 You had an alibi for the night the old man drank that poison. 08:12.320 --> 08:13.320 Yeah, I wasn't there. 08:13.320 --> 08:19.760 The DA knew that you're a photographer, among other things, and had access to cyanide, but 08:19.760 --> 08:21.220 he couldn't hang anything on you. 08:21.220 --> 08:22.760 So you weren't tried for murder. 08:22.760 --> 08:23.760 She was. 08:23.760 --> 08:25.960 She can't be again. 08:25.960 --> 08:26.960 Not for that one. 08:26.960 --> 08:28.800 Harry, I'm tired of this. 08:28.800 --> 08:31.080 Mr. Corcoran is trying to frighten us, that's all. 08:31.080 --> 08:32.240 Will you ask him to leave? 08:32.240 --> 08:33.240 Now hold it, baby. 08:33.240 --> 08:35.240 Go on, Corcoran, get to the point. 08:35.240 --> 08:36.240 Sure. 08:36.240 --> 08:38.040 Well, like I say, you weren't indicted. 08:38.040 --> 08:40.760 But you could be if your wife talked. 08:40.760 --> 08:41.760 Talked? 08:41.760 --> 08:44.200 But there's nothing for me to talk about. 08:44.200 --> 08:45.280 What could I say? 08:45.280 --> 08:49.960 You could say that Harry got the cyanide for you and you worked it out together to get 08:49.960 --> 08:51.560 the old man's money. 08:51.560 --> 08:54.480 Then they'd try Harry, not you, Evy, because you've been acquitted. 08:54.480 --> 08:55.480 I won't listen. 08:55.480 --> 08:56.480 I won't. 08:56.480 --> 08:57.480 Okay, okay. 08:57.480 --> 08:58.480 So long, Corcoran. 08:58.480 --> 08:59.480 Sure. 08:59.480 --> 09:00.480 Don't get sore. 09:00.480 --> 09:02.600 If you didn't do it, you haven't got a thing to worry about, Harry. 09:02.600 --> 09:06.720 But if you did, you better be nice to Mrs. Stryker, because maybe someday she'll get 09:06.720 --> 09:07.720 mad. 09:07.720 --> 09:09.480 And if she talks, it's bye-bye, Harry. 09:09.480 --> 09:10.480 So long, Corcoran. 09:10.480 --> 09:15.160 You got him in the palm of your hand, Evy. 09:15.160 --> 09:19.520 Remember, they can't touch you for it. 09:19.520 --> 09:28.880 When Harry came back from the door, I knew what he was thinking. 09:28.880 --> 09:31.160 What that horrible newspaper reporter had said. 09:31.160 --> 09:32.160 He wouldn't look at me. 09:32.160 --> 09:35.160 He just went to a table and poured a drink. 09:35.160 --> 09:38.080 I was afraid of him. 09:38.080 --> 09:42.160 I wanted him to hold me and tell me it was all right, like you used to. 09:42.160 --> 09:43.160 But he didn't. 09:43.160 --> 09:49.320 And then I wanted to run away, anywhere, get on a boat, fly, never see Harry Stryker again, 09:49.320 --> 09:50.320 run, run. 09:50.320 --> 09:54.000 Where you going, baby? 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 I need some air. 09:55.000 --> 09:56.000 I thought I'd got... 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 Now, don't be silly. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 You don't want to go out there. 09:58.000 --> 09:59.480 Corcoran's probably still hanging around. 09:59.480 --> 10:00.480 Harry. 10:00.480 --> 10:01.480 Harry. 10:01.480 --> 10:02.480 What? 10:02.480 --> 10:03.480 What is it, Marcy? 10:03.480 --> 10:04.960 Harry, it's all right, isn't it? 10:04.960 --> 10:06.720 I mean, you don't believe what he said. 10:06.720 --> 10:07.720 No, of course not. 10:07.720 --> 10:08.800 He's a snooper, that's all. 10:08.800 --> 10:10.680 It wasn't the money, was it, Harry? 10:10.680 --> 10:12.160 You didn't want me just because of the money. 10:12.160 --> 10:13.160 Now, baby... 10:13.160 --> 10:14.160 I'm not pretty. 10:14.160 --> 10:15.160 I'm not clever. 10:15.160 --> 10:16.160 You don't love me, do you? 10:16.160 --> 10:17.640 Why should I attract a man like you? 10:17.640 --> 10:19.080 It was the money, wasn't it? 10:19.080 --> 10:20.080 You're upset, baby. 10:20.080 --> 10:21.680 Look, go lie down, will you? 10:21.680 --> 10:22.680 It's okay. 10:22.680 --> 10:23.680 Everything's okay. 10:23.680 --> 10:24.680 Say it. 10:24.680 --> 10:25.680 Say you love me. 10:25.680 --> 10:26.680 You never have. 10:26.680 --> 10:27.680 Please. 10:27.680 --> 10:28.680 Harry. 10:28.680 --> 10:29.680 Harry, look at me. 10:29.680 --> 10:32.680 Tell me you think I'm pretty. 10:32.680 --> 10:35.200 Harry, say nice things to me. 10:35.200 --> 10:36.200 Tell me you love me. 10:36.200 --> 10:37.200 Harry, please. 10:37.200 --> 10:38.200 Keep your voice down. 10:38.200 --> 10:39.200 Corcoran's still outside. 10:39.200 --> 10:40.200 He's listening. 10:40.200 --> 10:41.200 That was it then. 10:41.200 --> 10:42.200 All the time. 10:42.200 --> 10:43.200 That's all you cared about, the money. 10:43.200 --> 10:44.200 It's never been me. 10:44.200 --> 10:45.200 All I wanted was to love you and to have you and to be... 10:45.200 --> 10:46.200 I'll get you to the hospital. 10:46.200 --> 10:47.200 I'll get you to the hospital. 10:47.200 --> 10:48.200 I'll get you to the hospital. 10:48.200 --> 10:49.960 I'll get you a drink. 10:49.960 --> 10:52.580 No, no, no, no. 10:52.580 --> 10:54.000 I wish I were dead. 10:54.000 --> 10:55.620 I wish I'd told him the truth. 10:55.620 --> 10:57.000 I should've said I'm guilty. 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 We're both guilty. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 Harry and I did it. 10:59.000 --> 11:00.000 We murdered him. 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 We murdered Grandfather. 11:03.000 --> 11:08.560 Baby, don't ever say that again. 11:08.560 --> 11:09.960 Not even to yourself. 11:09.960 --> 11:15.880 Don't even think it. 11:15.880 --> 11:21.240 When he finished what he had to say, he just looked at me. 11:21.240 --> 11:36.600 There was death in my new husband's eyes. 11:36.600 --> 11:41.680 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Rosalind Russell with Sheldon Leonard in When the Bough Breaks. 11:41.680 --> 11:46.240 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 11:46.240 --> 11:48.240 Oh, uh, Hap. 11:48.240 --> 11:50.240 Hey, Hap. 11:50.240 --> 12:02.600 Hey, hey, hey, hey, Hap. 12:02.600 --> 12:03.600 What are you doing? 12:03.600 --> 12:09.960 Oh, I, I was just proving to myself how important the Auto Light electrical system is to my 12:09.960 --> 12:11.720 Auto Light equipped car. 12:11.720 --> 12:16.000 Well, it's the lifeline of your car, Hap, and Auto Light designs and builds complete 12:16.000 --> 12:21.320 electrical systems, including the coil, distributor, generator, and starting motor for many leading 12:21.320 --> 12:23.480 makes of our finest cars. 12:23.480 --> 12:27.560 Auto Light electrical systems are built to give you the smoothest performance money can 12:27.560 --> 12:28.560 buy. 12:28.560 --> 12:30.760 I'm sure glad my car is Auto Light equipped. 12:30.760 --> 12:31.760 Right, Hap. 12:31.760 --> 12:35.960 So friends, because the electrical system of your car is so important to the smooth, 12:35.960 --> 12:41.200 efficient, and economical operation of your car, it will pay you to treat your car occasionally 12:41.200 --> 12:46.180 to a checkup at your nearest authorized Auto Light service station, whose name is listed 12:46.180 --> 12:50.200 in the classified section of your telephone book, or at the dealer who sells your make 12:50.200 --> 12:51.200 of car. 12:51.200 --> 12:56.280 In either place, or at the garage or repair shop displaying the Auto Light original factory 12:56.280 --> 13:01.520 parts sign, you can be sure of getting Auto Light original factory parts in case your 13:01.520 --> 13:04.360 Auto Light equipped car needs replacements. 13:04.360 --> 13:08.680 You'll find it pays because you're always right with Auto Light. 13:08.680 --> 13:13.800 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Rosalind Russell in Elliot 13:13.800 --> 13:23.040 Lewis's production of When the Bough Breaks, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:23.040 --> 13:39.200 I remember the scent of our garden. 13:39.200 --> 13:43.800 I remember when we used to swing me in the evening before supper and the honeysuckle, 13:43.800 --> 13:47.080 sweet, drifting about us. 13:47.080 --> 13:49.280 We were happy, weren't we? 13:49.280 --> 13:53.600 Not like the sadness that came afterwards, and the bitter taste that isn't the taste 13:53.600 --> 13:55.880 of honeysuckle. 13:55.880 --> 13:57.400 Why am I dying, Grandfather? 13:57.400 --> 13:59.520 Where are you? 13:59.520 --> 14:05.520 Hold my hand that I shan't be afraid of the dark, afraid of Harry standing there so close, 14:05.520 --> 14:08.280 this dark, angry face looking down at me. 14:08.280 --> 14:09.960 You've got to get a hold of yourself, Evie. 14:09.960 --> 14:10.960 Do you hear me? 14:10.960 --> 14:11.960 Yes, yes, all right. 14:11.960 --> 14:12.960 This is no good. 14:12.960 --> 14:14.160 Don't you see what Corcoran wants? 14:14.160 --> 14:17.960 If he can get us at each other's throats, he'll have us and his lousy story. 14:17.960 --> 14:19.520 But I wouldn't do anything to hurt you. 14:19.520 --> 14:20.520 How can you think such a thing? 14:20.520 --> 14:22.680 You've got to get straightened out the way you are now. 14:22.680 --> 14:24.880 You'll spill over the first time anyone puts pressure on you. 14:24.880 --> 14:25.880 I won't, Harry, honestly. 14:25.880 --> 14:26.880 I'll never say a word. 14:26.880 --> 14:27.880 I won't. 14:27.880 --> 14:28.880 I just want to be happy with you. 14:28.880 --> 14:29.880 I want you to love me. 14:29.880 --> 14:30.880 Sure, baby, sure. 14:30.880 --> 14:34.680 But you've got to understand, like Corcoran says, it's my neck now, not yours. 14:34.680 --> 14:35.680 We've got to be careful. 14:35.680 --> 14:42.960 Harry, maybe if I went away somewhere, alone, maybe I could rest and forget the trial and 14:42.960 --> 14:44.440 go somewhere and rest. 14:44.440 --> 14:45.440 I'll come back. 14:45.440 --> 14:46.920 You wouldn't have to worry about me saying anything. 14:46.920 --> 14:47.920 Now, stop it. 14:47.920 --> 14:48.920 You'll be all right when I come back. 14:48.920 --> 14:49.920 You'll let me go, won't you, Harry? 14:49.920 --> 14:50.920 You wouldn't do anything to stop me. 14:50.920 --> 14:51.920 Harry! 14:51.920 --> 14:52.920 Shut up! 14:52.920 --> 14:53.920 Harry! 14:53.920 --> 14:54.920 Cut it out! 14:54.920 --> 15:01.120 Oh, honey, I didn't want to do that. 15:01.120 --> 15:02.280 You've got to believe me. 15:02.280 --> 15:03.280 I didn't... 15:03.280 --> 15:08.400 When you see what you like, I've got to watch you, take care of you. 15:08.400 --> 15:10.200 You hit me. 15:10.200 --> 15:11.680 Nobody ever hit me. 15:11.680 --> 15:12.680 Ever. 15:12.680 --> 15:13.680 It's all right. 15:13.680 --> 15:14.680 It's all right, Mousy. 15:14.680 --> 15:15.680 Don't touch me. 15:15.680 --> 15:16.680 Don't! 15:16.680 --> 15:19.920 You're afraid of me, and it's just because of that corker and guile. 15:19.920 --> 15:22.600 Look, you mustn't be afraid of me. 15:22.600 --> 15:24.120 We're in the clear, don't you see? 15:24.120 --> 15:25.680 It's all downhill now. 15:25.680 --> 15:28.800 Your grandfather was already dying, only we didn't know it. 15:28.800 --> 15:32.240 So when we did what we did, then luck was with us. 15:32.240 --> 15:33.240 So we're in the clear. 15:33.240 --> 15:34.880 They couldn't prove anything against you then. 15:34.880 --> 15:36.320 They can't now. 15:36.320 --> 15:38.800 I've always been afraid of you. 15:38.800 --> 15:40.360 I've always done what you wanted me to do. 15:40.360 --> 15:45.240 Part of it was because I loved you, but most of it because I'm afraid. 15:45.240 --> 15:48.400 You never let anything get in your way. 15:48.400 --> 15:50.320 Grandfather was in your way. 15:50.320 --> 15:51.320 Now maybe it's me. 15:51.320 --> 15:53.520 Are you saying that this was all my idea? 15:53.520 --> 15:56.800 Are you saying that you never asked me to help you get rid of the old man? 15:56.800 --> 15:58.120 Oh, I don't know what I'm saying. 15:58.120 --> 15:59.120 I'm tired. 15:59.120 --> 16:00.120 Yeah, that's it. 16:00.120 --> 16:01.120 You're tired. 16:01.120 --> 16:04.080 When you make me a drink, I'll get the bags out of the car. 16:04.080 --> 16:06.120 You've got to start getting domestic, Mousy. 16:06.120 --> 16:14.240 You're an old married woman now. 16:14.240 --> 16:17.560 He went out to get the suitcases, but left the front door open. 16:17.560 --> 16:20.680 It was too cold to leave the door open. 16:20.680 --> 16:25.720 He wanted it that way so that he could see me or hear me if I picked up the telephone. 16:25.720 --> 16:30.680 You mustn't laugh when I tell you that in the middle of the living room standing there, 16:30.680 --> 16:33.200 I felt the same way I did when you punished me. 16:33.200 --> 16:38.520 When you used to put me in the hall closet and make me stand in the dark with the door 16:38.520 --> 16:39.520 closed. 16:39.520 --> 16:44.840 I must have been a very naughty little girl sometimes. 16:44.840 --> 16:51.800 Is that why I killed you, Grandfather? 16:51.800 --> 16:52.800 That night I had a dream. 16:52.800 --> 16:54.600 It was a funny dream. 16:54.600 --> 16:57.920 There was an enormous alarm clock in the middle of a field. 16:57.920 --> 17:02.680 The sun was shining and you and I were dancing in time to the ticking of the clock. 17:02.680 --> 17:08.360 Then, then Harry came along and he tried to dance too, but he was clumsy and tripped and 17:08.360 --> 17:09.360 fell down. 17:09.360 --> 17:13.040 He waved his arms and his mouth went open and shut, but we couldn't hear him because 17:13.040 --> 17:16.040 of the ticking. 17:16.040 --> 17:26.520 Oh, we laughed so hard. 17:26.520 --> 17:27.520 What's so funny? 17:27.520 --> 17:28.520 Harry, nothing. 17:28.520 --> 17:29.520 No, nothing. 17:29.520 --> 17:30.520 It was just a dream. 17:30.520 --> 17:31.520 Yeah, well, tell me about it. 17:31.520 --> 17:32.520 Well, I can't. 17:32.520 --> 17:33.520 I don't remember. 17:33.520 --> 17:34.520 It was just funny. 17:34.520 --> 17:35.520 You didn't sound like you were asleep. 17:35.520 --> 17:36.520 Well, I was. 17:36.520 --> 17:37.520 Really, I was. 17:37.520 --> 17:40.440 Maybe you figured out a way to tip off, calking about me. 17:40.440 --> 17:41.440 Maybe that's what was funny. 17:41.440 --> 17:42.440 No, no, Harry, it was a dream. 17:42.440 --> 17:43.960 You haven't been kidding me. 17:43.960 --> 17:45.520 Why do you think I've watched you every minute? 17:45.520 --> 17:46.520 I know what's on your mind. 17:46.520 --> 17:47.520 Oh, you're wrong. 17:47.520 --> 17:48.520 I thought we were happy. 17:48.520 --> 17:52.520 With what you're holding over my head, with what you can do to me, are you kidding? 17:52.520 --> 17:56.320 Now, listen, I haven't slept since the trial and you know why? 17:56.320 --> 17:58.960 It's because I'm afraid of you. 17:58.960 --> 18:02.400 Every time we go to the store, every time we go out anywhere, I'm waiting for you to 18:02.400 --> 18:03.400 run. 18:03.400 --> 18:04.400 Call the cops. 18:04.400 --> 18:05.400 I wouldn't. 18:05.400 --> 18:06.400 You know I wouldn't. 18:06.400 --> 18:07.400 I never even thought of it. 18:07.400 --> 18:10.040 Well, you thought of it plenty then, didn't you? 18:10.040 --> 18:11.040 Didn't you? 18:11.040 --> 18:12.040 Yes, no, no. 18:12.040 --> 18:13.040 Oh, Harry. 18:13.040 --> 18:15.120 Now you're laughing because you figure you can get rid of me. 18:15.120 --> 18:16.120 No, no, no. 18:16.120 --> 18:17.120 No, no, you're right. 18:17.120 --> 18:18.120 Don't kid yourself. 18:18.120 --> 18:19.120 I figured out the whole thing. 18:19.120 --> 18:20.800 I got us in the clear. 18:20.800 --> 18:22.200 Now you want to mess it up. 18:22.200 --> 18:24.440 What are you going to do to me? 18:24.440 --> 18:25.440 You're going to... 18:25.440 --> 18:26.440 Oh, no, no, no. 18:26.440 --> 18:27.440 It depends, baby. 18:27.440 --> 18:30.920 It depends on whether you can keep your mouth shut. 18:30.920 --> 18:32.240 Why did we do it? 18:32.240 --> 18:33.240 Why did we kill him? 18:33.240 --> 18:34.240 You wanted the money. 18:34.240 --> 18:35.240 No, no, you don't understand. 18:35.240 --> 18:38.280 I wanted to get away from him and I wanted you. 18:38.280 --> 18:39.920 But I'm not away. 18:39.920 --> 18:42.160 All right, Marcy, all right. 18:42.160 --> 18:44.360 But we did it and now we've got to follow it through. 18:44.360 --> 18:46.240 You didn't want me without the money. 18:46.240 --> 18:47.520 You didn't want me at all. 18:47.520 --> 18:48.520 Just the money. 18:48.520 --> 18:49.520 You don't love me. 18:49.520 --> 18:50.520 It happens I do. 18:50.520 --> 18:53.640 That's something you can't understand. 18:53.640 --> 18:59.400 I've tried to make you believe me and something like this comes up and I'm afraid of you. 18:59.400 --> 19:02.400 I keep remembering that if you want to, you can send me to the chair. 19:02.400 --> 19:03.680 Harry, I wouldn't. 19:03.680 --> 19:05.180 I could never hurt you. 19:05.180 --> 19:06.180 Don't worry. 19:06.180 --> 19:07.180 You won't. 19:07.180 --> 19:10.000 I'm going to watch and see that you don't. 19:10.000 --> 19:17.480 Now you better get back to sleep. 19:17.480 --> 19:20.280 The next day he didn't talk to me at all. 19:20.280 --> 19:21.760 He didn't say a word. 19:21.760 --> 19:25.360 We just sat around the house and I felt ugly. 19:25.360 --> 19:30.240 I prayed I'd suddenly be beautiful because then he'd trust me and he'd know that I wouldn't 19:30.240 --> 19:31.240 hurt him. 19:31.240 --> 19:33.960 It was after lunch that he went into the kitchen. 19:33.960 --> 19:36.760 I wanted to watch him now just as he was watching me. 19:36.760 --> 19:38.240 I couldn't bear to have him out of my sight. 19:38.240 --> 19:43.160 He supposedly went out the back door around the front and crept up quietly behind me. 19:43.160 --> 19:47.640 I got up, stood behind the dining room door looking through the crack. 19:47.640 --> 19:52.160 He was taking down a vial from the closet where he kept his photographic things. 19:52.160 --> 19:55.860 I couldn't see a label but I knew what it was. 19:55.860 --> 20:00.160 He put the vial in his jacket pocket and closed the closet. 20:00.160 --> 20:08.600 I was going to be murdered with cyanide the way you were, Grandfather. 20:08.600 --> 20:10.040 You stay here and keep quiet. 20:10.040 --> 20:11.040 I'll answer the door. 20:11.040 --> 20:14.040 I don't want to hear a sound out of you. 20:14.040 --> 20:17.360 Good afternoon, sir. 20:17.360 --> 20:21.120 I'm your daily times delivery boy and I've come to welcome you into our community. 20:21.120 --> 20:22.120 Yes, sure. 20:22.120 --> 20:23.120 Okay. 20:23.120 --> 20:24.120 Some other time. 20:24.120 --> 20:26.120 As a service to you so that you may keep abreast of world events. 20:26.120 --> 20:27.440 Your newspaper, the Daily Times... 20:27.440 --> 20:29.120 Now look, buddy, we don't need a paper. 20:29.120 --> 20:30.120 We'll peddle them somewhere else. 20:30.120 --> 20:31.120 Please call someone. 20:31.120 --> 20:32.120 Tell the police that I... 20:32.120 --> 20:33.120 Sorry, kid, we're not interested. 20:33.120 --> 20:34.120 Shut up! 20:34.120 --> 20:35.120 Shut up! 20:35.120 --> 20:37.120 Now get back in the living room. 20:37.120 --> 20:40.880 I should have known that all you crazy... 20:40.880 --> 20:43.200 I ought to kill you for trying that. 20:43.200 --> 20:48.360 I ought to kill you. 20:48.360 --> 20:51.360 Kill. 20:51.360 --> 20:54.880 Kill me. 20:54.880 --> 20:58.160 That's what he was going to do. 20:58.160 --> 21:01.800 I had to get away or use the phone, call the police. 21:01.800 --> 21:02.800 I needed your grandfather. 21:02.800 --> 21:05.880 I needed you to help me. 21:05.880 --> 21:09.760 He walked slowly back into the living room and took off his jacket. 21:09.760 --> 21:12.560 I thought how funny it was. 21:12.560 --> 21:15.160 Just like a man before a fight. 21:15.160 --> 21:17.520 Perhaps he thought I'd fight with him to save my life. 21:17.520 --> 21:22.120 What is it like to die, grandfather? 21:22.120 --> 21:25.960 I used to ask you that when I was little, when dad died. 21:25.960 --> 21:27.560 It's hot in here. 21:27.560 --> 21:28.560 I'm going to have a drink. 21:28.560 --> 21:31.400 I fixed the phone so you can forget that. 21:31.400 --> 21:33.720 I'll only be in the kitchen so I can hear you. 21:33.720 --> 21:37.960 Don't try anything. 21:37.960 --> 21:41.360 Now he was going to use it, the cyanide. 21:41.360 --> 21:43.360 He hadn't taken it out of his jacket pocket. 21:43.360 --> 21:44.360 It was still there. 21:44.360 --> 21:45.360 I knew it was. 21:45.360 --> 21:49.400 I heard him open the refrigerator and get out some ice. 21:49.400 --> 21:51.400 I didn't even have to get up. 21:51.400 --> 21:54.480 I could reach his jacket from where I sat. 21:54.480 --> 21:56.880 I was very careful. 21:56.880 --> 21:59.080 Used my handkerchief to get the vial out. 21:59.080 --> 22:02.040 I'd learned about fingerprints during the trial. 22:02.040 --> 22:05.520 I knew just how much to put in a drink so that it wouldn't taste. 22:05.520 --> 22:07.600 Harry had taught me that. 22:07.600 --> 22:14.600 I was reaching for the cork in the whiskey bottle when I heard him coming back. 22:14.600 --> 22:20.420 I forgot the ice. 22:20.420 --> 22:21.420 He hadn't seen me. 22:21.420 --> 22:22.420 He hadn't. 22:22.420 --> 22:29.080 I took the cork out of the whiskey bottle and emptied the vial of cyanide into it. 22:29.080 --> 22:31.080 That was all. 22:31.080 --> 22:37.120 It was done. 22:37.120 --> 22:41.080 I was sitting in my chair when Harry came back with the ice. 22:41.080 --> 22:45.720 What's the matter with you? 22:45.720 --> 22:46.720 Nothing. 22:46.720 --> 22:47.720 You're sick? 22:47.720 --> 22:48.720 No, no, no. 22:48.720 --> 22:49.720 I'm all right. 22:49.720 --> 22:50.720 Well, you don't look all right. 22:50.720 --> 22:54.680 You'd better have a drink. 22:54.680 --> 22:55.680 I don't want any. 22:55.680 --> 22:56.680 No, you'd better. 22:56.680 --> 22:59.680 We've got to talk. 22:59.680 --> 23:05.680 Here you are. 23:05.680 --> 23:06.680 This will fix you up. 23:06.680 --> 23:07.680 Drink it straight. 23:07.680 --> 23:08.680 Here. 23:08.680 --> 23:09.680 No, no, Harry. 23:09.680 --> 23:10.680 I don't want it. 23:10.680 --> 23:13.680 I can't stand the taste of it, please. 23:13.680 --> 23:14.920 No, there you go again. 23:14.920 --> 23:15.920 You're getting hysterical. 23:15.920 --> 23:16.920 Now, come on. 23:16.920 --> 23:17.920 This will settle you down. 23:17.920 --> 23:18.920 No, no, I won't. 23:18.920 --> 23:19.920 I won't. 23:19.920 --> 23:20.920 I'm not going to drink it. 23:20.920 --> 23:21.920 I'm going to have two of me. 23:21.920 --> 23:22.920 It'll make me sick. 23:22.920 --> 23:23.920 Please, Harry, don't make me. 23:23.920 --> 23:24.920 Here. 23:24.920 --> 23:25.920 You know I never drink. 23:25.920 --> 23:26.920 Harry, I don't want it. 23:26.920 --> 23:27.920 It won't kill you. 23:27.920 --> 23:28.920 Would you rather have me slap you around? 23:28.920 --> 23:29.920 Now, cut it out. 23:29.920 --> 23:30.920 Drink it. 23:30.920 --> 23:31.920 Come on. 23:31.920 --> 23:32.920 Harry, Harry, no. 23:32.920 --> 23:33.920 Harry. 23:33.920 --> 23:44.160 There was a terrible burning grandfather. 23:44.160 --> 23:46.920 I tried to fight, but I couldn't. 23:46.920 --> 23:53.840 And I saw Harry fade away further and further until he was miles above me leaning down and 23:53.840 --> 23:56.080 calling to me. 23:56.080 --> 23:59.800 I could see his face, so frightened. 23:59.800 --> 24:12.280 Then there was nothing. 24:12.280 --> 24:18.000 It was very quiet, except for the swing. 24:18.000 --> 24:21.520 Quiet, quiet. 24:21.520 --> 24:24.840 You won't let me fall, will you? 24:24.840 --> 24:30.840 I can't see you, but you're there. 24:30.840 --> 24:34.360 Hold my hand, grandfather. 24:34.360 --> 24:52.120 I don't want to be alone. 24:52.120 --> 24:53.120 She's gone. 24:53.120 --> 24:56.000 I'm surprised you held on so long. 24:56.000 --> 24:57.600 Cyanide cases are usually fast. 24:57.600 --> 24:58.600 Cyanide? 24:58.600 --> 24:59.600 Hey, wait a minute. 24:59.600 --> 25:00.600 No telling. 25:00.600 --> 25:01.600 Okay, come on, Stracker. 25:01.600 --> 25:02.600 We're going downtown. 25:02.600 --> 25:03.600 Well, what are you talking about cyanide? 25:03.600 --> 25:04.600 What do you mean? 25:04.600 --> 25:05.600 I never... 25:05.600 --> 25:06.600 Didn't you know? 25:06.600 --> 25:10.200 There was an empty bottle in your jacket pocket, your prints all over it. 25:10.200 --> 25:11.960 On the glass she drank from, too. 25:11.960 --> 25:13.320 Well, yeah, sure they are. 25:13.320 --> 25:16.400 She was having hysterics, so I made her drink from it. 25:16.400 --> 25:17.960 Cyanide never cured hysterics, Harry. 25:17.960 --> 25:19.240 Oh, look, I didn't do it. 25:19.240 --> 25:20.320 Listen, I didn't kill her. 25:20.320 --> 25:23.520 Like you didn't have anything to do with her grandfather's murder, I know. 25:23.520 --> 25:25.400 What was the matter? 25:25.400 --> 25:26.400 She threatened to talk? 25:26.400 --> 25:27.800 I didn't do it, I tell you. 25:27.800 --> 25:28.800 I didn't. 25:28.800 --> 25:30.400 Okay, so you didn't do it. 25:30.400 --> 25:31.400 Come on. 25:31.400 --> 25:34.800 Don't you understand, I put that cyanide in my pocket because I was afraid that she'd 25:34.800 --> 25:35.800 use it on me. 25:35.800 --> 25:38.400 I wasn't going to kill her. 25:38.400 --> 25:40.680 I was just trying to quiet her down. 25:40.680 --> 25:44.560 Brother, when you quiet them down, they stay quiet. 25:44.560 --> 25:45.560 Let's go. 25:45.560 --> 26:01.560 Suspense. 26:01.560 --> 26:17.680 Presented by Auto Light. 26:17.680 --> 26:20.960 Tonight's star, Miss Rosalind Russell. 26:20.960 --> 26:26.560 Friends, this is Harlow Wilcox again to remind you that Auto Light is the world's largest 26:26.560 --> 26:30.840 independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 26:30.840 --> 26:36.760 In 28 plants from coast to coast, Auto Light makes over 400 products for cars, trucks, 26:36.760 --> 26:42.760 planes, boats, and tractors, including Auto Light Original Factory Parts, sold by authorized 26:42.760 --> 26:47.680 Auto Light service stations, car dealers, garages, or repair shops. 26:47.680 --> 26:53.160 Only Auto Light Original Factory Parts can assure you of the balance and perfect timing 26:53.160 --> 26:57.440 that were originally built into your car's Auto Light electrical system right on the 26:57.440 --> 26:59.080 assembly line. 26:59.080 --> 27:04.600 So when replacements are needed, be sure to specify Auto Light Original Factory Parts 27:04.600 --> 27:20.120 because you're always right with Auto Light. 27:20.120 --> 27:28.760 Next week on Suspense, our stars will be Phil Harris and Alice Fay in Death on My Hands. 27:28.760 --> 27:34.000 And in weeks to come, you will hear such famous stars as Charles Boyer, Jeff Chandler, and 27:34.000 --> 27:35.520 Dick Powell. 27:35.520 --> 27:52.120 All on Suspense. 27:52.120 --> 27:56.240 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowack 27:56.240 --> 27:58.880 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 27:58.880 --> 28:04.320 When the Bough Breaks was written for Suspense by Anthony Ellis from a story by Sheldon Leonard, 28:04.320 --> 28:06.520 who was heard as Harry. 28:06.520 --> 28:19.040 Others in tonight's cast were Joseph Kearns, Barney Phillips, and Jeffrey Silver. 28:19.040 --> 28:25.480 And remember, next week on Suspense, Phil Harris and Alice Fay in a tale we call Death 28:25.480 --> 28:54.960 on My Hands. 28:54.960 --> 29:19.120 Next week on Suspense.