WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.360 You are about to hear a story based on actual events. 00:05.360 --> 00:10.080 To protect the innocent, names and places have been changed. 00:10.080 --> 00:20.200 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Miss Agnes Moorhead in a story taken from 00:20.200 --> 00:21.200 life. 00:21.200 --> 00:31.240 Tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:31.240 --> 00:37.520 Tonight Auto Light presents the evil of Adelaide Winters, a story about the awful results of 00:37.520 --> 00:46.800 a woman's greed starring Miss Agnes Moorhead. 00:46.800 --> 00:51.560 Well there's Stanley Smart, the brainy boss of our bustling baseball club. 00:51.560 --> 00:53.280 What's the matter Stan, battery trouble? 00:53.280 --> 00:57.280 Yeah, Hollow, I forgot to fill my battery with water and it's dead as a cellar dwellers 00:57.280 --> 00:58.280 pen and chances. 00:58.280 --> 01:02.720 Oh, why not farm it out in favor of an Auto Light Stay Full battery, the battery that 01:02.720 --> 01:05.440 needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:05.440 --> 01:06.680 Lots on the ball, eh Hollow? 01:06.680 --> 01:10.960 Ah, sure has Stan, because the famous Auto Light Stay Full has over three times the liquid 01:10.960 --> 01:13.880 reserve of batteries without Stay Full features. 01:13.880 --> 01:17.680 And that advantage alone helps overcome one of the greatest causes of battery failure. 01:17.680 --> 01:19.720 Sounds like just what I need, Hollow. 01:19.720 --> 01:25.120 I Stan the Auto Light Stay Full is tops, independent starting power and gives longer life as proved 01:25.120 --> 01:28.280 by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 01:28.280 --> 01:30.000 Oh, lead me to it Hollow. 01:30.000 --> 01:33.680 Just call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 01:33.680 --> 01:37.440 She'll quickly and without obligation tell you the name and address of your nearest Auto 01:37.440 --> 01:41.680 Light battery dealer who handles the famous Auto Light Stay Full. 01:41.680 --> 01:45.680 The battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:45.680 --> 01:51.600 And remember from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:51.600 --> 01:57.480 And now with the evil of Adelaide winters and the performance of Miss Agnes Moorhead, 01:57.480 --> 02:05.080 Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 02:05.080 --> 02:10.760 I am grateful for any chance to tell my story to explain my position in the entire horrible 02:10.760 --> 02:12.280 affair. 02:12.280 --> 02:16.800 Since the doctors finally removed the bullet from the base of my skull, I'm able to speak. 02:16.800 --> 02:21.240 For over six years, my body has been paralyzed and I have had to remain silent. 02:21.240 --> 02:24.000 But now I can speak. 02:24.000 --> 02:25.440 You wait. 02:25.440 --> 02:36.400 You weigh all the facts about whether I did Edward Porter more harm than good. 02:36.400 --> 02:40.800 The war years had made the work of astral communicators mediums. 02:40.800 --> 02:43.760 They'd made our work important and necessary. 02:43.760 --> 02:49.000 We believe it's as necessary as life itself to believe in life after death, especially 02:49.000 --> 02:51.440 during a war when people's loved ones are dying. 02:51.440 --> 02:57.120 It's important mediums bring courage to despair. 02:57.120 --> 02:58.440 Did you get all the newspapers? 02:58.440 --> 03:01.560 Yeah, Adelaide, I got them all. 03:01.560 --> 03:03.040 Read me the list. 03:03.040 --> 03:09.040 Now, for the week of July 8th, the War Department announces the following members of the Army 03:09.040 --> 03:10.320 listed as dead. 03:10.320 --> 03:11.600 PFC Thomas... 03:11.600 --> 03:14.680 Just those missing in action, Robert, please. 03:14.680 --> 03:17.280 Oh, Adelaide, I still don't like it. 03:17.280 --> 03:19.040 It doesn't make much difference if you like it. 03:19.040 --> 03:21.800 Now, look, I taught you everything about this medium racket. 03:21.800 --> 03:27.260 Oh, yes, you taught about tin horns blowing and faces painted with phosphorescent coloring. 03:27.260 --> 03:29.720 You taught me a series of Halloween tricks. 03:29.720 --> 03:32.640 Carnival mumbo jumbo. 03:32.640 --> 03:34.000 I made it pay, Robert. 03:34.000 --> 03:35.840 I made it a science. 03:35.840 --> 03:36.840 You took them from me. 03:36.840 --> 03:37.840 I didn't need them. 03:37.840 --> 03:38.840 I have insight. 03:38.840 --> 03:39.840 You don't. 03:39.840 --> 03:41.080 I know about people's superstition and desperation. 03:41.080 --> 03:43.000 I can read people's weaknesses. 03:43.000 --> 03:44.240 Did you teach me those things? 03:44.240 --> 03:45.240 You? 03:45.240 --> 03:46.240 You don't know anything. 03:46.240 --> 03:47.240 Not even your own weakness. 03:47.240 --> 03:48.240 You're a terrible weakness. 03:48.240 --> 03:49.240 Adelaide, don't... 03:49.240 --> 03:50.720 You need me, Robert. 03:50.720 --> 03:52.400 I don't need you. 03:52.400 --> 03:54.680 I did once, but not now, not anymore. 03:54.680 --> 03:55.680 Go ahead. 03:55.680 --> 03:56.680 Go ahead, walk out. 03:56.680 --> 03:58.360 Walk out the front door. 03:58.360 --> 03:59.840 Please don't talk like that. 03:59.840 --> 04:02.120 Adelaide, you know I'd never leave you. 04:02.120 --> 04:03.120 Of course I do. 04:03.120 --> 04:05.760 But, look, haven't we made enough? 04:05.760 --> 04:07.520 All the people we've taken so far... 04:07.520 --> 04:09.000 Help, Robert. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.040 That's why you've never been a successful medium. 04:11.040 --> 04:13.600 We haven't taken or used anyone. 04:13.600 --> 04:14.600 We've helped them. 04:14.600 --> 04:17.600 Rich old dowagers who are on their last legs anyway. 04:17.600 --> 04:19.560 People with nothing but time and dough to waste. 04:19.560 --> 04:22.920 People who've lost their loved ones, the bereaved and despairing. 04:22.920 --> 04:24.680 We give them hope. 04:24.680 --> 04:26.320 The widows and weeping mothers. 04:26.320 --> 04:30.120 We bring them contact with their loved ones who've died on some distant battlefield. 04:30.120 --> 04:33.200 I don't know, I wish I understood you. 04:33.200 --> 04:34.680 I wish I knew what you want. 04:34.680 --> 04:37.520 I want money and happiness, and they are the same. 04:37.520 --> 04:38.840 But we've got money. 04:38.840 --> 04:41.040 Not enough. 04:41.040 --> 04:44.680 Read me the list of those missing in action, Robert, and their addresses and their phone 04:44.680 --> 04:46.680 numbers, please. 04:46.680 --> 04:52.040 PFC Timothy Aldington, 927 North King Avenue, Cutler Nine... 04:52.040 --> 04:53.040 It's not a good neighborhood. 04:53.040 --> 04:58.680 Oh, Adelaide, would it be simple to just contact the relatives of the men who were killed? 04:58.680 --> 05:00.200 Wouldn't it be easier to work them? 05:00.200 --> 05:02.040 No, I told you, no. 05:02.040 --> 05:05.840 With a man missing in action, who's to say my information about how or if he died is 05:05.840 --> 05:07.160 right or wrong? 05:07.160 --> 05:08.360 Who? 05:08.360 --> 05:11.720 Not even the War Department, not even the men who are supposed to know. 05:11.720 --> 05:12.720 Continue, Robert. 05:12.720 --> 05:13.720 All right. 05:13.720 --> 05:17.080 Staff Sergeant Abe Feynman, 826 East 32nd Street. 05:17.080 --> 05:19.320 That's a very poor district. 05:19.320 --> 05:20.320 People are poor. 05:20.320 --> 05:21.320 I see. 05:21.320 --> 05:25.840 Corporal John Porter, 1438 Williamsburg Road, Hammer 4... 05:25.840 --> 05:26.840 That one. 05:26.840 --> 05:27.840 Call that one, Robert. 05:27.840 --> 05:28.840 Use that phone. 05:28.840 --> 05:29.840 I'll listen in on this one. 05:29.840 --> 05:30.840 All right. 05:30.840 --> 05:31.840 Hello? 05:31.840 --> 05:32.840 Is this Mr. Porter? 05:32.840 --> 05:33.840 Yes. 05:33.840 --> 05:34.840 Corporal John Porter's... 05:34.840 --> 05:35.840 Father, I'm his father. 05:35.840 --> 05:36.840 What is it? 05:36.840 --> 05:37.840 This is the Ward apartment. 05:37.840 --> 05:38.840 You found him. 05:38.840 --> 05:39.840 I'd almost given up hope, but you found my son alive. 05:39.840 --> 05:40.840 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 05:40.840 --> 05:41.840 I'm sorry. 05:41.840 --> 05:42.840 I'm sorry. 05:42.840 --> 05:43.840 I'm sorry. 05:43.840 --> 05:44.840 I'm sorry. 05:44.840 --> 05:45.840 I'm sorry. 05:45.840 --> 05:46.840 I'm sorry. 05:46.840 --> 05:47.840 I'm sorry. 05:47.840 --> 05:48.840 I'm sorry. 05:48.840 --> 05:49.840 I'm sorry. 05:49.840 --> 05:50.840 I'm sorry. 05:50.840 --> 05:51.840 I'm sorry. 05:51.840 --> 05:52.840 I'm sorry. 05:52.840 --> 05:53.840 I'm sorry. 05:53.840 --> 05:54.840 I'm sorry. 05:54.840 --> 05:55.840 I'm sorry. 05:55.840 --> 05:56.840 I'm sorry. 05:56.840 --> 05:57.840 I'm sorry. 05:57.840 --> 05:58.840 I'm sorry. 05:58.840 --> 05:59.840 I'm sorry. 05:59.840 --> 06:00.840 I'm sorry. 06:00.840 --> 06:01.840 proprietary authority. 06:01.840 --> 06:02.840 You're finally going to run away and surrender towing all your lives. 06:02.840 --> 06:03.840 You told me to keep silent. 06:03.840 --> 06:04.840 Can we get in touch with the program? 06:04.840 --> 06:05.840 Please let me and Juatari out before the end of the day... 06:05.840 --> 06:06.840 It's kind of strange, isn't it? 06:06.840 --> 06:07.840 Then what about a demonstration? 06:07.840 --> 06:08.840 But at the same time... 06:08.840 --> 06:09.840 Where is Edward Porter? 06:09.840 --> 06:10.840 Edward Porter? 06:10.840 --> 06:11.840 Tak out my son, and you found my son alive? 06:11.840 --> 06:13.840 Your son is dead, Mr. Porter. 06:13.840 --> 06:15.920 Mr. Porter, não-p blood Vなんだ smoothια 06:15.920 --> 06:16.920 Great. 06:16.920 --> 06:11.280 많은 06:16.280 --> 06:19.880 바� TOA 06:19.880 --> 06:20.960 For how long? 06:20.960 --> 06:21.960 Edward Porter... 06:21.960 --> 06:22.960 That was his name, Edward. 06:22.960 --> 06:24.960 The father he didn't know. 06:24.960 --> 06:29.160 And even though he was skeptical, when I telephoned him, he came to my office, 06:29.160 --> 06:31.660 skeptically, but in desperation. 06:31.660 --> 06:35.960 Don't you see? He came to my office with the hope he'd find his dead son. 06:35.960 --> 06:39.660 I usually never come to these things. 06:39.660 --> 06:42.160 You don't believe in them, Mr. Porter. 06:42.160 --> 06:45.460 I don't know. I knew once, I don't know now. 06:45.460 --> 06:48.260 Well, it's difficult to know anything for certain in moments like this. 06:48.260 --> 06:49.660 I've been a realist all my life. 06:49.660 --> 06:50.760 Yes, well, so have I. 06:50.760 --> 06:52.460 I'm a successful businessman. 06:52.460 --> 06:55.460 I've always dealt with facts. Facts and figures. 06:55.460 --> 06:57.460 Well, this is real, Mr. Porter. 06:57.460 --> 07:00.560 Maybe. I mean, I don't know. 07:00.560 --> 07:05.160 What you really mean is you hope so. You hope it's true. 07:05.160 --> 07:06.760 You hope it's real. 07:06.760 --> 07:10.260 Yes. Yes, that's it. I hope it's real. 07:10.260 --> 07:12.160 That it's not a racket. 07:12.160 --> 07:13.960 Rackets are only out for money. 07:13.960 --> 07:17.760 Well, I will want money, Mr. Porter. I must live, too. 07:17.760 --> 07:20.860 But I only want your money if I've helped you. 07:20.860 --> 07:22.260 Do you understand? 07:22.260 --> 07:26.060 Only if I've made the life of the astral world, of the life beyond this one, 07:26.060 --> 07:29.860 only if I've made it bring happiness to you. 07:29.860 --> 07:34.060 You're a good woman, Mrs. Wittes. A good woman. 07:34.060 --> 07:37.760 We shall start, Mr. Porter, with the lights on. 07:37.760 --> 07:40.460 With all things visible to you. 07:40.460 --> 07:42.460 We shall start. 07:45.060 --> 07:47.260 What could Edward Porter turn to? 07:47.260 --> 07:48.760 His friends? 07:48.760 --> 07:53.260 They all had their own problems, the same kind or different, but problems. 07:53.260 --> 07:56.560 Could he turn to his work? Didn't mean anything anymore. 07:56.560 --> 07:58.160 Or his money? 07:58.160 --> 08:04.560 He had only gathered it for his son, his only son, his only child, and that child was dead. 08:04.560 --> 08:07.160 Only I could help. 08:07.160 --> 08:11.060 And we tried for seven days to make contact with his son. 08:11.060 --> 08:19.060 Seven days devoted exclusively to Edward Porter. 08:23.060 --> 08:25.660 I hear... 08:25.660 --> 08:32.560 I... I hear the faint sounds of guns firing. 08:32.560 --> 08:35.460 Yes, it's very distant. 08:35.460 --> 08:37.460 Very distant. 08:37.460 --> 08:40.260 I can't quite... 08:40.260 --> 08:43.160 Yes, there's a face. 08:43.160 --> 08:48.860 I... I cannot... I cannot see the face. 08:48.860 --> 08:51.560 A voice. Yes, there's a voice. 08:51.560 --> 08:56.960 It was terrible the way I died. 08:56.960 --> 08:59.460 Who? Who is it? 08:59.460 --> 09:01.360 Is it John? John, is it you? 09:01.360 --> 09:03.360 A voice. 09:03.360 --> 09:05.760 You speak. 09:05.760 --> 09:07.160 We're friends. 09:07.160 --> 09:10.060 I was afraid of dying. 09:10.060 --> 09:14.860 But now, here, now it is beautiful. 09:14.860 --> 09:19.060 Dying is hard, but death is beautiful. 09:19.060 --> 09:21.660 Please, please, who? 09:21.660 --> 09:25.760 John. I am John. 09:25.760 --> 09:27.960 It is John, Father. 09:27.960 --> 09:29.660 A voice. Thank heavens. 09:29.660 --> 09:34.660 Father, I must leave. Do not lose me. 09:34.660 --> 09:38.460 No, John, stay. Please, stay. 09:38.460 --> 09:42.560 Do not lose me. 09:42.560 --> 09:48.860 John, dear son, my son. 09:48.860 --> 09:52.560 Mrs. Winters. 09:52.560 --> 09:58.660 Oh, we've reached him, Mr. Porter. 09:58.660 --> 10:00.660 We've reached your son. 10:00.660 --> 10:12.960 Thank you, Mrs. Winters. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 10:12.960 --> 10:15.560 Some say I should have known. 10:15.560 --> 10:18.660 Some say I made him ill, that the shock... 10:18.660 --> 10:20.760 Well, that it affected him. 10:20.760 --> 10:24.660 But I say it would have happened anyway, because he had nothing to hold on to. 10:24.660 --> 10:27.560 Nothing. I gave him something. 10:27.560 --> 10:30.060 You may disagree with the astral science. 10:30.060 --> 10:31.560 You may, that you're right. 10:31.560 --> 10:35.560 But who else did Edward Porter any good when his son was killed in combat? 10:35.560 --> 10:39.860 Who else brought him any comfort for that horrible, horrible thing? 10:39.860 --> 10:43.560 I did. Only I. 10:43.560 --> 10:47.860 Maybe that's why he would sit for extra hours, waiting. 10:47.860 --> 10:51.260 Not just for a seance, for me. 10:51.260 --> 11:02.060 I had brought him happiness. 11:02.060 --> 11:02.760 Mrs. Winters. 11:02.760 --> 11:05.460 Come in, come in, Mr. Porter. 11:05.460 --> 11:09.660 Oh, I've helped so many people today. So many. 11:09.660 --> 11:12.260 But that's my dedication. Anyone who needs help. 11:12.260 --> 11:13.660 Maybe too many. 11:13.660 --> 11:17.960 Why did you say that? Why too many? How could I possibly help too many? 11:17.960 --> 11:19.860 Never mind. Let's begin. 11:19.860 --> 11:22.560 You're acting unusual today, Mr. Porter. 11:22.560 --> 11:24.160 Is something wrong? 11:24.160 --> 11:27.760 I mean, is there a new problem I can help you with? 11:27.760 --> 11:29.460 I said begin. No talk. Begin. 11:29.460 --> 11:31.860 Oh, now see here, Mr. Porter, I offer my services. 11:31.860 --> 11:33.760 I give freely of my services to help others. 11:33.760 --> 11:37.860 But after all, that doesn't give license to you or anyone else. 11:37.860 --> 11:42.360 Well, even you. I mean, considering the amount of sessions we've had. 11:42.360 --> 11:48.560 I know. But it doesn't even give you a right to talk like that. 11:48.560 --> 11:53.460 Did you hear me, Mr. Porter? Mr. Porter? 11:53.460 --> 11:56.560 I can't stand your spending so much time with others. 11:56.560 --> 11:57.660 It's my work. 11:57.660 --> 12:00.060 Mrs. Winters, I want all your time. 12:00.060 --> 12:02.460 That's quite impossible and quite expensive. 12:02.460 --> 12:05.160 I can afford it. I must be with my son more. 12:05.160 --> 12:08.260 We'd be pestered all day long by other clients, Mr. Porter. 12:08.260 --> 12:09.360 They'd keep coming. 12:09.360 --> 12:10.660 I know. I realize. 12:10.660 --> 12:14.360 And McBain, my assistant, he's always been with me. 12:14.360 --> 12:18.660 Bring him, both of you. Live in my home. It's a huge house. 12:18.660 --> 12:21.460 Since my wife died years ago. 12:21.460 --> 12:23.060 But you know all that. Since she died. 12:23.060 --> 12:23.860 Yes, I know. 12:23.860 --> 12:25.760 Now, my son. 12:25.760 --> 12:26.260 I know. 12:26.260 --> 12:28.060 I need your help. 12:28.060 --> 12:31.660 You can bring my son to me. You must. You must. 12:31.660 --> 12:36.060 Well, I would be failing mankind if I didn't. 12:36.060 --> 12:38.960 I would be failing my duty. 12:38.960 --> 12:56.060 Of course, Edward. Of course. 12:56.060 --> 12:59.060 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Agnes Moorhead 12:59.060 --> 13:01.760 with Joseph Kearns and Herb Butterfield in 13:01.760 --> 13:04.160 The Evil of Adelaide Winters. 13:04.160 --> 13:08.060 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills 13:08.060 --> 13:09.260 Suspense. 13:21.260 --> 13:23.260 Well, that's the old ball game. 13:23.260 --> 13:24.760 Congratulations, Stan. 13:24.760 --> 13:27.160 Never could have managed it without that pitcher, Harlow. 13:27.160 --> 13:28.360 You mean Ace McDougall? 13:28.360 --> 13:31.160 No, my new Auto Light staple. 13:31.160 --> 13:33.560 That's the power pitcher for perfect starts. 13:33.560 --> 13:34.460 What a battery. 13:34.460 --> 13:37.260 Oh, you visited your Auto Light battery dealer, eh, Stan? 13:37.260 --> 13:41.660 Yes, sir. And I found his name by calling Western Union and asking for operator 25. 13:41.660 --> 13:47.460 Well, you're set now because the Auto Light staple needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 13:47.460 --> 13:53.160 And what's more, it gives longer life as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 13:53.160 --> 13:55.160 It can't beat that winning compilation. 13:55.160 --> 13:56.160 No, sir, Harlow. 13:56.160 --> 14:00.360 Right you are. So friends, see your nearest Auto Light battery dealer soon. 14:00.360 --> 14:05.460 To quickly learn his address, call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 14:05.460 --> 14:10.060 Without obligation, she will tell you where you can buy an Auto Light staple. 14:10.060 --> 14:15.260 The battery that proves you're always right with Auto Light. 14:15.260 --> 14:22.560 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Miss Agnes Moorhead in Elliot Lewis's production of 14:22.560 --> 14:28.760 The Evil of Adelaide Winters, a dramatic report well calculated to keep you in 14:28.760 --> 14:45.860 suspense. 14:45.860 --> 14:50.960 Why should I think there was anything wrong in moving into Edward Porter's huge home? 14:50.960 --> 14:53.760 It was a beautiful new home for his son. 14:53.760 --> 14:58.260 But now his son was dead in the war and I was bringing his son to him. 14:58.260 --> 15:07.860 Making Edward Porter think the life his son had gone to was really a better life, a fuller life, a happier life. 15:07.860 --> 15:10.860 Maybe that should have been my warning. 15:10.860 --> 15:13.260 Maybe I should have known. 15:13.260 --> 15:15.260 But the money was so wonderful. 15:15.260 --> 15:17.960 The house was so beautiful. 15:17.960 --> 15:22.760 The money in house for a dead man's voice once a day. 15:22.760 --> 15:26.460 Only Robert McBain warned against it. 15:26.460 --> 15:28.960 I just picked up the mail. There's a letter for you. 15:28.960 --> 15:31.660 Me? A letter for me here? 15:31.660 --> 15:32.960 War Department. 15:32.960 --> 15:35.260 You opened it. You opened my mail. 15:35.260 --> 15:38.360 It's addressed to Porter, but it's for you. 15:38.360 --> 15:40.360 What was it? What did it say? 15:40.360 --> 15:43.060 Yeah, read it yourself. 15:43.060 --> 15:46.360 Seems the government doesn't like mediums posing as the War Department. 15:46.360 --> 15:47.960 Who could have told them about me? 15:47.960 --> 15:49.160 Well, they don't mention any names. 15:49.160 --> 15:52.260 But they say mediums have been contacting the parents of war casualties. 15:52.260 --> 15:53.860 I've done that. They must be me. 15:53.860 --> 15:56.160 Well, what difference does it make? We've taken Porter for enough. 15:56.160 --> 15:57.160 You shut up. 15:57.160 --> 15:59.860 I'm warning you, Adelaide. I can see it. You can't. 15:59.860 --> 16:02.760 I can see his eyes when you walk past him. 16:02.760 --> 16:04.260 It's time to lay off, to get out. 16:04.260 --> 16:07.960 Oh, no. Oh, no, Robert. 16:07.960 --> 16:09.960 You would like that. 16:09.960 --> 16:13.160 You'd like me to run to leave all this. 16:13.160 --> 16:15.360 Well, I won't. 16:15.360 --> 16:18.560 Because I'm going to marry Edward Porter. 16:18.560 --> 16:20.260 Mar... 16:20.260 --> 16:23.160 Oh, you can't. You wouldn't. 16:23.160 --> 16:25.360 Oh, Adelaide, I've worked for you. I've loved you. 16:25.360 --> 16:27.360 I've hung around because I loved you. 16:27.360 --> 16:29.660 And you can still hang around, Robert. 16:29.660 --> 16:32.360 No. No, not now. Not now. I won't. 16:32.360 --> 16:35.360 Getting brave again, Robert? 16:35.360 --> 16:39.860 This is a comfortable life, just being a dead man's voice. 16:39.860 --> 16:42.860 Going to throw it over for love? 16:42.860 --> 16:44.560 I'm not marrying for love. 16:44.560 --> 16:47.960 Why should you throw all this away for love? 16:47.960 --> 16:49.060 Did he ask you to marry him? 16:49.060 --> 16:51.860 Speak up, Robert. I can't hear you. 16:51.860 --> 16:54.260 I said, did he ask you to marry him? 16:54.260 --> 16:56.360 No, but he will. 16:56.360 --> 16:58.860 Oh, you're awfully sure of yourself about everything? 16:58.860 --> 17:00.860 Of course he'll ask me. 17:00.860 --> 17:03.660 Because he must hold on to me. 17:03.660 --> 17:08.760 I'm the only person who can bring his son to him every day, like a clock. 17:08.760 --> 17:11.360 Like a stopwatch. 17:11.360 --> 17:13.060 Like a pistol shot. 17:13.060 --> 17:15.360 Something's wrong with him. I'm warning you. 17:15.360 --> 17:27.960 Yes, I can bring his son to him like a stopwatch, Robert. 17:27.960 --> 17:32.760 Even now, I say no one, no one could have foreseen the events. 17:32.760 --> 17:34.060 I'm sure of that. 17:34.060 --> 17:38.360 As sure as I am that no one would have acted any differently than I did. 17:38.360 --> 17:44.460 As little by little I became the most important thing, the only thing in Edward Porter's life. 17:44.460 --> 17:48.160 The only thing beside a voice he worshipped. 17:48.160 --> 17:50.360 Yes, worshipped. 17:50.360 --> 17:52.560 Could any woman refuse such adoration? 17:52.560 --> 17:55.260 Such love? 17:55.260 --> 17:57.360 John sounded happy, Adelaide. 17:57.360 --> 17:59.560 What? What, Edward? 17:59.560 --> 18:01.460 I said he sounded happy. 18:01.460 --> 18:02.960 Happier than I've ever heard him. 18:02.960 --> 18:06.660 Yes, they are happy in that other world. 18:06.660 --> 18:09.160 How wonderful to feel happy again. 18:09.160 --> 18:10.960 To feel hopeful. 18:10.960 --> 18:13.760 To share your life with someone, yes. 18:13.760 --> 18:15.860 To share it with you. 18:15.860 --> 18:17.860 Edward. 18:17.860 --> 18:21.160 John didn't say much today. 18:21.160 --> 18:22.960 That isn't like him. 18:22.960 --> 18:25.560 He's always talkative. 18:25.560 --> 18:29.760 I wonder if I've been saying the right things to him, Adelaide. 18:29.760 --> 18:34.860 You speak of him as if he's like us. 18:34.860 --> 18:35.960 Isn't he? 18:35.960 --> 18:38.260 Well, of course we're all one spirit. 18:38.260 --> 18:39.760 Of course he's like us. 18:39.760 --> 18:43.060 But we have a life on this world to live before the other one. 18:43.060 --> 18:44.660 We have so much to live for. 18:44.660 --> 18:47.760 Can it compare to the other world beyond the grave? 18:47.760 --> 18:51.160 Why, no, but we must wait our time. 18:51.160 --> 18:53.360 We cannot ignore this life. 18:53.360 --> 18:54.860 We are in it. 18:54.860 --> 18:57.460 We must live as best we can. 18:57.460 --> 19:01.360 I don't know if I ever could without John. 19:01.360 --> 19:03.360 This was built for my son. 19:03.360 --> 19:05.160 But you haven't lost him. 19:05.160 --> 19:07.160 Through me you regained John. 19:07.160 --> 19:09.460 That's why all this is yours, Adelaide. 19:09.460 --> 19:11.760 Well, I'm only a kind of employee. 19:11.760 --> 19:12.960 Don't say that, John. 19:12.960 --> 19:14.060 I'm paid a salary. 19:14.060 --> 19:15.160 You're not an employee. 19:15.160 --> 19:16.160 Well, am I more? 19:16.160 --> 19:18.560 Like a member of the family. 19:18.560 --> 19:21.760 Like, but not actually. 19:21.760 --> 19:24.360 There's a great difference between like and actually. 19:24.360 --> 19:27.060 You're the family, you and John and I. 19:27.060 --> 19:29.860 You and I. 19:29.860 --> 19:32.560 John is a spirit now. 19:32.560 --> 19:35.960 You and John and I, one family, one unit again. 19:35.960 --> 19:37.560 I'm not your wife. 19:37.560 --> 19:39.160 You speak like I'm your wife. 19:39.160 --> 19:40.760 I'm not, Edward. 19:40.760 --> 19:42.060 Not at all. 19:42.060 --> 19:44.260 You will be my wife. 19:44.260 --> 19:47.860 My dear, my wonderful wife. 19:47.860 --> 19:49.860 Edward. 19:49.860 --> 19:53.260 Kind, sweet Edward. 19:53.260 --> 19:57.660 My husband, Edward. 19:57.660 --> 20:02.760 I said something odd here, now, with us. 20:02.760 --> 20:04.760 No, Edward, no, darling. 20:04.760 --> 20:08.860 Like we were with John for the first time. 20:08.860 --> 20:10.260 As if we were with John. 20:10.260 --> 20:11.060 No, Edward. 20:11.060 --> 20:12.060 It's not that. 20:12.060 --> 20:15.960 Like he wanted us to share our happiness with him. 20:15.960 --> 20:19.160 Like he wanted us to be with him. 20:19.160 --> 20:28.660 I was terrified. 20:28.660 --> 20:32.260 I'd never seen it before, a reaction like his. 20:32.260 --> 20:36.260 Well, once, a woman, she just disappeared one day. 20:36.260 --> 20:38.660 She'd lost her husband and two children in an automobile accident 20:38.660 --> 20:41.760 and I calmed her down in seances, talking to her dead family, 20:41.760 --> 20:42.860 making them seem real. 20:42.860 --> 20:46.660 Then one day she just disappeared and left a note. 20:46.660 --> 20:49.860 She said she was going to join them. 20:49.860 --> 20:51.260 He's sick. 20:51.260 --> 20:52.260 He's dangerous, Adelaide. 20:52.260 --> 20:53.860 You're trying to intimidate me. 20:53.860 --> 20:55.260 He doesn't know what's real or not. 20:55.260 --> 20:56.260 You're jealous again. 20:56.260 --> 20:58.360 I'm trying to tell you how dangerous it is. 20:58.360 --> 21:00.260 How dangerous, Robert? 21:00.260 --> 21:01.960 I don't know exactly. 21:01.960 --> 21:03.360 Will he turn me over to the police? 21:03.360 --> 21:05.060 There's more, something more. 21:05.060 --> 21:06.260 Will he demand his money back? 21:06.260 --> 21:07.260 The money's paid me. 21:07.260 --> 21:08.560 Oh, I don't know. 21:08.560 --> 21:10.660 The money means nothing to him. 21:10.660 --> 21:12.360 He's losing his reason, his... 21:12.360 --> 21:13.360 What? 21:13.360 --> 21:14.360 What? 21:14.360 --> 21:15.360 How? 21:15.360 --> 21:17.560 Don't generalize, be specific. 21:17.560 --> 21:19.760 If you're as smart as you say you are, you ought to run. 21:19.760 --> 21:22.460 Not until I have all of this. 21:22.460 --> 21:24.460 You can walk out that front door. 21:24.460 --> 21:25.460 Now, with me. 21:25.460 --> 21:27.160 I have to stay and get what I worked for. 21:27.160 --> 21:28.260 It's mine. 21:28.260 --> 21:29.260 You're scared. 21:29.260 --> 21:30.260 I won't leave. 21:30.260 --> 21:32.660 Not for anything, not until I'm married to him. 21:32.660 --> 21:33.660 You're really frightened. 21:33.660 --> 21:34.660 You're just putting on an act. 21:34.660 --> 21:36.160 Nothing can make me leave. 21:36.160 --> 21:37.160 Nothing. 21:37.160 --> 21:38.160 Nothing, nothing. 21:38.160 --> 21:39.160 You know I'm right. 21:39.160 --> 21:40.660 Please, please, Adelaide, you know... 21:40.660 --> 21:41.660 You're a coward. 21:41.660 --> 21:42.660 You're a coward. 21:42.660 --> 21:43.660 Adelaide, you're a coward. 21:43.660 --> 21:44.660 Coward. 21:44.660 --> 21:50.360 I should have listened to Robert's warning. 21:50.360 --> 21:51.360 I should have. 21:51.360 --> 21:54.860 But how could I take the advice of a man I didn't respect? 21:54.860 --> 21:55.860 How? 21:55.860 --> 22:00.060 I couldn't even accept Robert's advice when Edward Porter canceled the seances for one 22:00.060 --> 22:01.060 entire day. 22:01.060 --> 22:05.060 Even though he was with me every minute of those 24 hours. 22:05.060 --> 22:09.060 Even when he sat in a chair in my room while I slept. 22:09.060 --> 22:13.060 Not speaking, just watching. 22:13.060 --> 22:15.060 Always watching. 22:15.060 --> 22:18.460 Even then I couldn't admit Robert was right. 22:18.460 --> 22:19.560 I had to be right. 22:19.560 --> 22:21.860 I had always been right. 22:21.860 --> 22:24.760 Even though I barely slept, I was afraid to sleep. 22:24.760 --> 22:26.660 So terribly afraid. 22:26.660 --> 22:31.060 Even then I couldn't admit Robert was right. 22:31.060 --> 22:35.060 That Edward Porter was past my control. 22:35.060 --> 22:37.060 Adelaide. 22:37.060 --> 22:39.060 Adelaide. 22:39.060 --> 22:42.060 I'm not asleep, Edward. 22:42.060 --> 22:44.060 I thought you were. 22:44.060 --> 22:46.060 I've been watching you for hours. 22:46.060 --> 22:48.560 And I've been watching you too, Edward. 22:48.560 --> 22:50.060 I couldn't sleep. 22:50.060 --> 22:52.060 So very strange. 22:52.060 --> 22:53.060 Have I? 22:53.060 --> 22:54.060 Like you didn't trust me. 22:54.060 --> 22:57.060 Oh, but I do, I do, my dear. 22:57.060 --> 22:59.060 My dear Adelaide. 22:59.060 --> 23:03.060 I trust you more than I've ever trusted any human being I've known. 23:03.060 --> 23:05.060 Well, what's wrong? 23:05.060 --> 23:07.060 What's bothering you? 23:07.060 --> 23:10.060 How much does this mean to you? 23:10.060 --> 23:11.060 Our marriage? 23:11.060 --> 23:12.060 This house. 23:12.060 --> 23:13.060 Nothing without you, Edward. 23:13.060 --> 23:14.060 And my money? 23:14.060 --> 23:16.060 Only something to share with you. 23:16.060 --> 23:17.060 Nothing more? 23:17.060 --> 23:18.060 Nothing. 23:18.060 --> 23:19.060 You're my life. 23:19.060 --> 23:21.060 And you're mine. 23:21.060 --> 23:22.060 You and John. 23:22.060 --> 23:23.060 Both of you. 23:23.060 --> 23:24.060 Why do you keep saying that? 23:24.060 --> 23:25.060 What? 23:25.060 --> 23:26.060 About John. 23:26.060 --> 23:28.060 John is dead, Edward. 23:28.060 --> 23:30.060 He's waiting, but he's not with us. 23:30.060 --> 23:32.060 Not really. 23:32.060 --> 23:35.060 What does John mean to you? 23:35.060 --> 23:36.060 A son. 23:36.060 --> 23:38.060 Your son and mine. 23:38.060 --> 23:40.060 You love him as I love him. 23:40.060 --> 23:42.060 I told you that. 23:42.060 --> 23:43.060 Edward. 23:43.060 --> 23:44.060 Why do we have to wait? 23:44.060 --> 23:46.060 Edward, I don't understand. 23:46.060 --> 23:48.060 Why must we keep him waiting? 23:48.060 --> 23:51.060 You can't be serious. 23:51.060 --> 23:54.060 You said this world, this material world, meant nothing without me. 23:54.060 --> 23:55.060 No, Edward. 23:55.060 --> 23:57.060 No, this is our world. 23:57.060 --> 23:59.060 This is the one we live in. 23:59.060 --> 24:01.060 What is there to wait for? 24:01.060 --> 24:03.060 This is a place of evil and sin and corruption. 24:03.060 --> 24:04.060 You said so. 24:04.060 --> 24:05.060 You've shown me that. 24:05.060 --> 24:06.060 Edward. 24:06.060 --> 24:07.060 Edward, that gun. 24:07.060 --> 24:08.060 Put it away. 24:08.060 --> 24:11.060 You've shown me the beautiful world that lies beyond the grave. 24:11.060 --> 24:13.060 It was exaggerated. 24:13.060 --> 24:16.060 I mean, under strain and upset, things get distorted. 24:16.060 --> 24:17.060 We see what we want to. 24:17.060 --> 24:18.060 Don't you understand? 24:18.060 --> 24:19.060 It's not perfect beyond. 24:19.060 --> 24:20.060 It isn't. 24:20.060 --> 24:21.060 Don't say that. 24:21.060 --> 24:22.060 You taught me faith. 24:22.060 --> 24:23.060 Don't lose faith now. 24:23.060 --> 24:25.060 Don't be afraid of leaving this world. 24:25.060 --> 24:27.060 It's the only world, the only one. 24:27.060 --> 24:29.060 There is no astral world beyond. 24:29.060 --> 24:30.060 None. 24:30.060 --> 24:31.060 It was a lie. 24:31.060 --> 24:33.060 I only wanted money and position. 24:33.060 --> 24:36.060 Believe me, only money and position, and the rest was a lie. 24:36.060 --> 24:38.060 John's voice, a lie? 24:38.060 --> 24:40.060 John's voice, my own son's voice? 24:40.060 --> 24:42.060 I know his voice in a crowd in eternity. 24:42.060 --> 24:43.060 I know his voice. 24:43.060 --> 24:44.060 I'll show you. 24:44.060 --> 24:45.060 I'll show you it was a lie. 24:45.060 --> 24:47.060 Robert McBain, he's in his room. 24:47.060 --> 24:48.060 Come on. 24:48.060 --> 24:49.060 Come to his room, Edward. 24:49.060 --> 24:50.060 Come back here, Adelaide. 24:50.060 --> 24:51.060 It's a lie. 24:51.060 --> 24:52.060 It's a lie, Robert. 24:52.060 --> 24:53.060 He'll tell you. 24:53.060 --> 24:55.060 There's no life beyond. 24:55.060 --> 24:56.060 You'll tell... 24:56.060 --> 24:57.060 Robert, tell him that... 24:57.060 --> 24:58.060 You'll tell... 24:58.060 --> 24:59.060 Robert! 24:59.060 --> 25:00.060 Robert, where are you? 25:00.060 --> 25:01.060 Oh, no! 25:01.060 --> 25:02.060 Oh, no! 25:02.060 --> 25:03.060 The coward, the coward he left! 25:03.060 --> 25:04.060 It was a lie! 25:04.060 --> 25:05.060 It was a lie! 25:05.060 --> 25:06.060 There's no life beyond. 25:06.060 --> 25:07.060 There's no life beyond. 25:07.060 --> 25:08.060 Don't be afraid. 25:08.060 --> 25:09.060 Stop, Edward! 25:09.060 --> 25:10.060 Stop! 25:10.060 --> 25:11.060 Stop! 25:11.060 --> 25:12.060 Stop! 25:12.060 --> 25:13.060 You're insane! 25:13.060 --> 25:39.660 John? 25:39.660 --> 25:48.660 These years it's been just lying here, not able to talk, to tell my side of it. 25:48.660 --> 25:51.660 But now it's out. 25:51.660 --> 25:54.660 Now you know. 25:54.660 --> 25:56.780 You judge. 25:56.780 --> 26:15.780 You judge whether I did harm. 26:15.780 --> 26:30.780 You judge whether I did harm. 26:30.780 --> 26:35.780 You judge whether I did harm. 26:35.780 --> 26:46.780 You judge whether I did harm. 26:46.780 --> 26:55.780 You judge whether I did harm. 26:55.780 --> 27:06.780 You judge whether I did harm. 27:06.780 --> 27:29.780 You judge whether I did harm. 27:29.780 --> 27:40.780 You judge whether I did harm. 27:40.780 --> 27:54.780 You judge whether I did harm. 27:54.780 --> 28:03.780 You judge whether I did harm. 28:03.780 --> 28:13.780 You judge whether I did harm. 28:13.780 --> 28:25.780 You judge whether I did harm. 28:25.780 --> 28:38.780 You judge whether I did harm. 28:38.780 --> 28:45.780 You judge whether I did harm. 28:45.780 --> 28:53.780 You judge whether I did harm. 28:53.780 --> 29:08.780 You judge whether I did harm. 29:08.780 --> 29:23.780 You judge whether I did harm. 29:38.780 --> 29:53.780 You judge whether I did harm.