WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.280 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers present a story taken from the front pages of your 00:12.280 --> 00:13.280 newspaper. 00:13.280 --> 00:17.760 Tonight's production on Suspense. 00:17.760 --> 00:27.880 Tonight, Auto Light presents Black Jack to Kill, a dramatic report on a man who made 00:27.880 --> 00:33.600 his living by being an assassin, starring Mr. Victor Matur. 00:33.600 --> 00:43.880 Hey, hey, hey, Two Gun, why are you shooting those pistols off at your car? 00:43.880 --> 00:48.440 Because I'm tired of just shouting at my cars, wasting gas, and hard to start. 00:48.440 --> 00:49.440 That's why Wilcox. 00:49.440 --> 00:53.840 Well, Two Gun, why not go straight to your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer and have 00:53.840 --> 00:55.320 him check your spark plugs? 00:55.320 --> 00:57.800 You mean spark plugs could be the trouble of Wilcox? 00:57.800 --> 01:02.320 Well, they sure could, Two Gun, because spark plugs are the heart of a car's ignition system, 01:02.320 --> 01:03.680 and they've got to be right. 01:03.680 --> 01:06.360 That's where your Auto Light spark plug dealer comes in. 01:06.360 --> 01:11.120 He's the only one who has the exclusive Auto Light plug check indicator to quickly tell 01:11.120 --> 01:14.040 whether your spark plugs are right for your style of driving. 01:14.040 --> 01:15.560 He'll do that for me? 01:15.560 --> 01:21.440 He sure will, and more too, because if replacements are needed, he'll recommend ignition-engineered, 01:21.440 --> 01:26.120 standard or resistor-type Auto Light spark plugs to give you smoother performance, quick 01:26.120 --> 01:28.320 starts, and gas savings. 01:28.320 --> 01:33.240 So friends, take a tip from me and see your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer soon. 01:33.240 --> 01:38.680 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:38.680 --> 01:45.360 And now, with Black Jack to kill and the performance of Mr. Victor Mature, Auto Light hopes once 01:45.360 --> 01:54.160 again to keep you in suspense. 01:54.160 --> 01:55.160 Here he is, Mr. Moyer. 01:55.160 --> 01:58.800 That chair right in front of you, Johnny. 01:58.800 --> 01:59.800 Sure. 01:59.800 --> 02:02.720 I'm going to give you a card, Johnny. 02:02.720 --> 02:06.560 I'm going to give everybody here at the table one, all five of you. 02:06.560 --> 02:07.980 What is this, anyhow? 02:07.980 --> 02:10.480 One of us is going to kill a man, Johnny. 02:10.480 --> 02:11.480 Who? 02:11.480 --> 02:13.440 That makes a lot of difference to you, Johnny. 02:13.440 --> 02:16.200 You didn't hear me say that, did you? 02:16.200 --> 02:17.200 No. 02:17.200 --> 02:20.920 Once around the table, face up, high card. 02:20.920 --> 02:24.520 High card makes one of you employed with a job to do. 02:24.520 --> 02:27.400 You got anything to say, Raddick, before I deal? 02:27.400 --> 02:28.400 Just deal, Ann. 02:28.400 --> 02:31.680 Thank you, Mr. Raddick. 02:31.680 --> 02:32.840 So polite. 02:32.840 --> 02:34.560 That Cleo killed me. 02:34.560 --> 02:37.160 Ace is high card. 02:37.160 --> 02:40.120 Winner to kill a man. 02:40.120 --> 02:41.120 Let's go. 02:41.120 --> 02:42.120 Cut him, Cleo. 02:42.120 --> 02:43.120 Thanks. 02:43.120 --> 02:46.000 Now, stand at the door and don't let anyone in. 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 Yes, sir. 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 What's the matter? 02:48.000 --> 02:49.880 Doesn't Cleo get a card? 02:49.880 --> 02:53.640 You five, just you five, Raddick. 02:53.640 --> 02:57.000 Nine of clubs for you, Raddick. 02:57.000 --> 03:00.520 Six of diamonds for you, talker. 03:00.520 --> 03:02.880 Nine of hearts for Barney. 03:02.880 --> 03:04.880 Jack of clubs for Johnny. 03:04.880 --> 03:07.120 Goodbye, Johnny. 03:07.120 --> 03:12.360 Seven of hearts for Mackle. 03:12.360 --> 03:13.360 You Johnny. 03:13.360 --> 03:14.520 I'm a lucky fellow. 03:14.520 --> 03:18.280 I tell people that when they ask me about you, how lucky you are. 03:18.280 --> 03:21.040 Not a scratch and you've knocked over three hoodlums. 03:21.040 --> 03:22.040 Four. 03:22.040 --> 03:24.240 I operated before I met you, Moyer. 03:24.240 --> 03:26.200 Four, my, my. 03:26.200 --> 03:27.960 Good looking boy like you. 03:27.960 --> 03:31.680 It's the talk how hired killers don't come as pretty as you. 03:31.680 --> 03:33.720 Good night, Mr. Moyer. 03:33.720 --> 03:36.840 Good night, Cleo. 03:36.840 --> 03:38.280 You like it here in Miami, Johnny? 03:38.280 --> 03:39.280 Sure I like it. 03:39.280 --> 03:40.280 Why shouldn't I like it? 03:40.280 --> 03:42.080 Oh, why shouldn't you like it? 03:42.080 --> 03:46.520 Miami, pretty palm trees, pretty ladies, pretty ponies. 03:46.520 --> 03:48.160 And no Penny Cullen. 03:48.160 --> 03:49.160 You're doing it again, Moyer. 03:49.160 --> 03:52.200 Every chance you get, you say Penny Cullen to me. 03:52.200 --> 03:53.200 Why? 03:53.200 --> 03:54.200 Because you're lucky. 03:54.200 --> 03:58.680 A big man like Penny and you say the right word to the wrong guy and Penny's gone, kicked 03:58.680 --> 04:02.680 out, deported, run out of the country and nothing happens to you. 04:02.680 --> 04:05.680 You're sure the one, Johnny. 04:05.680 --> 04:07.600 All right, I'm the one. 04:07.600 --> 04:10.480 Now what did I get the high card for? 04:10.480 --> 04:11.480 For this. 04:11.480 --> 04:14.560 Ten grand to do a job. 04:14.560 --> 04:17.480 Fifteen more when you come back and it's all over. 04:17.480 --> 04:18.920 When I come back? 04:18.920 --> 04:19.920 Where am I going? 04:19.920 --> 04:21.480 Havana, Havana in Cuba. 04:21.480 --> 04:23.480 All right, I go to Havana. 04:23.480 --> 04:24.480 I kill somebody. 04:24.480 --> 04:25.480 Who? 04:25.480 --> 04:28.200 You get a plane ticket and a name and an address. 04:28.200 --> 04:30.280 The address for a man you'll see. 04:30.280 --> 04:31.280 He'll tell you who. 04:31.280 --> 04:32.560 He wants the job done. 04:32.560 --> 04:35.440 I'm just the contractor, Johnny. 04:35.440 --> 04:38.440 Have fun, Johnny. 04:38.440 --> 04:45.520 Try not to get scratched. 04:45.520 --> 04:51.040 The lawyer said it and it let loose a squad of happy butterflies that finally landed in 04:51.040 --> 04:53.600 the wad somewhere inside me. 04:53.600 --> 04:54.600 Ten grand. 04:54.600 --> 04:59.160 Ten grand to stain a little part of Havana with a man's blood. 04:59.160 --> 05:04.840 Throw a handful of sand in his face and for that another 15 grand when I got back so I 05:04.840 --> 05:15.000 can enjoy Miami all over again. 05:15.000 --> 05:22.560 At the airport, hire a car, lean back, spread out, breathe deep and slow while you drive 05:22.560 --> 05:27.120 through dreamland and where the predo kisses the neon goodbye. 05:27.120 --> 05:33.360 A mansion with flamingos strutting in the front yard like they were on stilts and their 05:33.360 --> 05:39.400 wings a color of red I never saw before flashing against the white columns of the house. 05:39.400 --> 05:44.760 Taste it for a minute then walk into it. 05:44.760 --> 05:51.680 And a butler in knee britches tells you to wait. 05:51.680 --> 05:53.280 You are who, senor? 05:53.280 --> 05:54.280 Damon. 05:54.280 --> 05:55.280 Johnny Damon. 05:55.280 --> 05:56.280 Oh? 05:56.280 --> 05:58.680 I have been waiting for you, senor Johnny Damon. 05:58.680 --> 05:59.920 I am Deontay. 05:59.920 --> 06:01.360 We have business to discuss. 06:01.360 --> 06:03.240 You want some dead? 06:03.240 --> 06:04.720 What's to discuss? 06:04.720 --> 06:05.880 Just tell me who. 06:05.880 --> 06:08.960 In my study I think it's more appropriate for these matters. 06:08.960 --> 06:10.960 Venga, senor. 06:10.960 --> 06:11.960 Come. 06:11.960 --> 06:12.960 Aquí. 06:12.960 --> 06:13.960 Here. 06:13.960 --> 06:19.800 You are the assassin I have hired, see? 06:19.800 --> 06:22.320 I want to look at you. 06:22.320 --> 06:23.320 Assassin. 06:23.320 --> 06:27.080 I walk around you. 06:27.080 --> 06:30.360 Observe you. 06:30.360 --> 06:33.000 And this is what an assassin looks like? 06:33.000 --> 06:35.040 Look, how long do I have to wait? 06:35.040 --> 06:37.560 You have impatience and you are assassin. 06:37.560 --> 06:42.160 This is an admirable quality in a man who kills for a fee. 06:42.160 --> 06:43.160 Penny Cullen. 06:43.160 --> 06:44.160 What? 06:44.160 --> 06:46.520 The man I want dead. 06:46.520 --> 06:47.520 Penny Cullen. 06:47.520 --> 06:48.520 Well, well. 06:48.520 --> 06:50.320 Penny is here, huh? 06:50.320 --> 06:52.040 Since three months. 06:52.040 --> 06:55.760 The criminal your country deported to Europe has fled from there. 06:55.760 --> 06:57.560 Came here to Cuba. 06:57.560 --> 06:59.640 This killer, this gangster, this filth. 06:59.640 --> 07:02.160 You have rid yourselves of in your country. 07:02.160 --> 07:04.680 I want this also, to me. 07:04.680 --> 07:06.920 But rid me of him dead. 07:06.920 --> 07:09.480 It's going to be a pleasure. 07:09.480 --> 07:10.880 Penny bothers you, huh? 07:10.880 --> 07:14.000 I have flourishing enterprises in Cuba, senor. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.480 Your Penny Cullen wants to share in them. 07:16.480 --> 07:18.280 This he has whispered to me. 07:18.280 --> 07:20.480 He asked for an answer quickly. 07:20.480 --> 07:21.480 You are my answer. 07:21.480 --> 07:24.360 You came up with the right answer, Chico. 07:24.360 --> 07:26.240 Where do I find Penny? 07:26.240 --> 07:28.640 He has a house in the Plaza Batista. 07:28.640 --> 07:30.880 Number 23. 07:30.880 --> 07:32.420 Four days, Chico. 07:32.420 --> 07:34.040 That's how long I need. 07:34.040 --> 07:37.880 Then the weepers for Penny Cullen can start crying over his dead body. 07:37.880 --> 07:38.880 Four days? 07:38.880 --> 07:40.160 Three days to watch him. 07:40.160 --> 07:42.480 The fourth, the kill. 07:42.480 --> 07:44.080 My assassin. 07:44.080 --> 07:46.400 You know, that's something Penny taught me. 07:46.400 --> 07:51.040 If the man has a schedule that lasts for three days, he'll do the same on the fourth. 07:51.040 --> 07:52.040 I see. 07:52.040 --> 07:54.000 This is very interesting to me. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 Sure. 07:55.000 --> 07:57.320 You see, you can't be sloppy in this kind of work. 07:57.320 --> 07:58.560 Know a man's habits. 07:58.560 --> 08:01.520 Know where he's going to be at such and such a time. 08:01.520 --> 08:03.280 Know when to kill. 08:03.280 --> 08:04.920 That way you can walk away from it. 08:04.920 --> 08:09.560 I had not known assassination was such a delicate art, senor. 08:09.560 --> 08:10.560 It's a delicate art, huh? 08:10.560 --> 08:11.560 Si. 08:11.560 --> 08:13.400 A suggestion, if I may. 08:13.400 --> 08:14.400 Go right ahead. 08:14.400 --> 08:17.000 A thing I know about Senor Cullen. 08:17.000 --> 08:20.360 Each day at six, at twilight, he sits on a bench. 08:20.360 --> 08:23.720 The same bench always, and looks over the Embarcadero. 08:23.720 --> 08:24.720 The Embarcadero? 08:24.720 --> 08:26.000 The waterfront. 08:26.000 --> 08:29.240 He sits there and looks out upon the ocean. 08:29.240 --> 08:30.240 Where's the bench? 08:30.240 --> 08:34.680 There is a statue, senor, of a dying hero. 08:34.680 --> 08:36.600 Miguel Perez. 08:36.600 --> 08:38.680 To the left of the statue. 08:38.680 --> 08:39.880 Next d'ante. 08:39.880 --> 08:40.880 That's all I need. 08:40.880 --> 08:41.880 Senor. 08:41.880 --> 08:42.880 Si. 08:42.880 --> 08:46.800 When you kill senor, say him my name. 08:46.800 --> 08:49.800 Say Jose D'ante. 08:49.800 --> 08:52.240 Adios. 08:52.240 --> 08:57.920 Penny Cullen in Havana. 08:57.920 --> 09:00.760 Penny Cullen set up to be knocked over by me. 09:00.760 --> 09:03.760 A boy who could appreciate a nice thing like that. 09:03.760 --> 09:05.960 There was nothing complicated about it. 09:05.960 --> 09:07.440 Penny Cullen was a man I hated. 09:07.440 --> 09:09.600 A man I put the finger on. 09:09.600 --> 09:11.400 A man I had deported. 09:11.400 --> 09:14.080 And now I was going to get close enough to killing. 09:14.080 --> 09:22.360 And he'd never even know I was in Havana. 09:22.360 --> 09:23.360 Now to work. 09:23.360 --> 09:25.000 First an investment. 09:25.000 --> 09:27.400 Ten ninety-five for a pair of binoculars. 09:27.400 --> 09:29.320 Nothing fancy, but good enough. 09:29.320 --> 09:31.960 Magnification three and a half times. 09:31.960 --> 09:37.180 Very fine for seeing Penny Cullen sitting on a bench, watching the ocean. 09:37.180 --> 09:40.920 That evening, get to the waterfront sometime before six. 09:40.920 --> 09:44.800 Find a spot that overlooks a bench to the left of a statue of a dying man. 09:44.800 --> 09:45.800 And wait. 09:45.800 --> 09:50.520 A quarter of six, a vendor pedals by the bench on a bike. 09:50.520 --> 09:53.040 He's selling ice cream. 09:53.040 --> 09:54.640 And wait. 09:54.640 --> 09:57.440 And far away a bell tolls six o'clock. 09:57.440 --> 09:58.800 And in the middle of it a man. 09:58.800 --> 10:01.800 A man who walks over to the bench. 10:01.800 --> 10:03.160 Sits on it. 10:03.160 --> 10:05.680 A man named Penny Cullen. 10:05.680 --> 10:07.320 And Penny looks pretty good. 10:07.320 --> 10:09.480 A little heavier, but just a little bit. 10:09.480 --> 10:12.080 Yeah, Penny looks pretty good. 10:12.080 --> 10:13.480 He's carrying something with him. 10:13.480 --> 10:14.720 A paper bag. 10:14.720 --> 10:21.000 At five minutes after six he opens the bag and throws breadcrumbs to the pigeons. 10:21.000 --> 10:25.040 Penny Cullen throwing breadcrumbs to the pigeons. 10:25.040 --> 10:28.360 At twelve minutes after six a cop walks past the bench. 10:28.360 --> 10:30.080 Touches his cap to Cullen. 10:30.080 --> 10:31.680 Cullen nods back. 10:31.680 --> 10:33.360 The cop goes away. 10:33.360 --> 10:34.960 Penny sits. 10:34.960 --> 10:36.840 Many after another vendor. 10:36.840 --> 10:39.760 An old woman, she's selling flowers. 10:39.760 --> 10:40.760 Penny buys one. 10:40.760 --> 10:42.960 The old woman puts it in his lapel. 10:42.960 --> 10:43.960 Goes away. 10:43.960 --> 10:52.180 A quarter to seven, Penny goes away. 10:52.180 --> 10:54.880 Next day, practically the same. 10:54.880 --> 10:57.640 Five forty-five, ice cream vendor. 10:57.640 --> 11:00.000 Six, Penny Cullen. 11:00.000 --> 11:02.800 Five after, pigeon feeding time. 11:02.800 --> 11:05.000 At six twelve the cop. 11:05.000 --> 11:07.880 Six twenty, flower in the button hole. 11:07.880 --> 11:16.440 Six forty-five, Penny gets up and walks away. 11:16.440 --> 11:19.680 The next day, the same. 11:19.680 --> 11:22.440 Next day, the fourth day. 11:22.440 --> 11:23.440 Day for killing. 11:23.440 --> 11:26.440 Mr. Cuba Libre, senor. 11:26.440 --> 11:27.440 Thanks. 11:27.440 --> 11:28.440 Put it on the table. 11:28.440 --> 11:29.440 Yes, senor. 11:29.440 --> 11:31.840 Will there be anything else? 11:31.840 --> 11:32.840 Take a buck from the bundle. 11:32.840 --> 11:33.840 Oh, a kid. 11:33.840 --> 11:34.840 Si, senor. 11:34.840 --> 11:37.840 I'm liable to nap. 11:37.840 --> 11:40.840 Have the desk call me at five. 11:40.840 --> 11:46.160 Si, senor. 11:46.160 --> 11:49.160 Four hours away from killing time. 11:49.160 --> 11:54.760 Time enough to have your drink, then lie down in that soft bed and relax. 11:54.760 --> 11:55.760 Think about it. 11:55.760 --> 11:59.080 And he didn't even know I was here. 11:59.080 --> 12:01.080 Penny Cullen, pigeon feeder. 12:01.080 --> 12:06.480 Tomorrow the pigeons would have to find a new boy. 12:06.480 --> 12:11.080 Between six twenty and six forty-five I was going to walk up in back of him and let him 12:11.080 --> 12:12.080 have it. 12:12.080 --> 12:17.080 And he wouldn't even know where it came from. 12:17.080 --> 12:20.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 12:20.080 --> 12:21.080 Johnny. 12:21.080 --> 12:24.080 Do whatever you are doing, Johnny. 12:24.080 --> 12:32.080 I'm not going to be at the bench today. 12:32.080 --> 12:33.080 Penny? 12:33.080 --> 12:34.080 Yeah. 12:34.080 --> 12:35.080 Penny Cullen, boy. 12:35.080 --> 12:36.080 Welcome to Havana. 12:36.080 --> 12:45.080 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Victor Matur in black and white. 12:45.080 --> 12:55.640 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Victor Matur in Black Jack to Kill. 12:55.640 --> 13:04.080 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Souse Friends. 13:04.080 --> 13:15.440 Say, Wilcox, you said Auto Light spark plugs are ignition engineered? 13:15.440 --> 13:20.080 I sure did, Two-Gun, because they're designed by the same Auto Light engineers who designed 13:20.080 --> 13:25.240 the coil, distributor, and all the other important parts of the complete ignition systems used 13:25.240 --> 13:30.080 as original factory equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. 13:30.080 --> 13:35.080 You mean Auto Light spark plugs are tops in quality and performance, eh, Wilcox? 13:35.080 --> 13:40.480 Exactly, Two-Gun, and that's why so many millions of wise motorists replace worn out spark plugs 13:40.480 --> 13:45.080 with Auto Light standard or resistor type spark plugs for smoother performance, quick 13:45.080 --> 13:47.240 starts, and gas savings. 13:47.240 --> 13:52.480 You just can't buy better spark plugs than world famous ignition engineered Auto Light 13:52.480 --> 13:53.480 spark plugs. 13:53.480 --> 13:56.960 I'm going to see my Auto Light spark plug dealer right now. 13:56.960 --> 14:01.080 Just to quickly learn the location of your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer, just 14:01.080 --> 14:05.480 call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 14:05.480 --> 14:09.680 She'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer who is 14:09.680 --> 14:13.820 equipped to give you the best spark plug service in town. 14:13.820 --> 14:19.040 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 14:19.040 --> 14:25.240 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, Mr. Victor Matur in Elliot Lewis's 14:25.240 --> 14:42.880 production of Black Jack to Kill, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 14:42.880 --> 14:45.120 So now it was different. 14:45.120 --> 14:48.960 Penny Cullen knew I was in Havana and he knew why. 14:48.960 --> 14:52.320 But only a little different, only a little tougher. 14:52.320 --> 14:56.360 A matter now of killing a man who knew he was going to be killed. 14:56.360 --> 14:57.840 Look at it this way. 14:57.840 --> 15:01.840 It was a job and it was going to get done. 15:01.840 --> 15:05.720 Only now it was more even up, more interesting. 15:05.720 --> 15:12.060 Penny Cullen and me, two good boys each holding a good hand and the winner that was going 15:12.060 --> 15:13.060 to be me. 15:13.060 --> 15:21.640 Yes, I was the good boy who was going to stay alive. 15:21.640 --> 15:24.040 New plans. 15:24.040 --> 15:26.000 Penny knew where I was. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.440 So get out of this hotel and find another one. 15:28.440 --> 15:34.720 Pack, carry your own suitcase, walk down five flights of stairs, leave through the service 15:34.720 --> 15:39.200 entrance, down an alley, down a side street. 15:39.200 --> 15:42.200 Keep walking, keep alive. 15:42.200 --> 15:45.880 Que quiere, senor? 15:45.880 --> 15:47.240 What? 15:47.240 --> 15:51.560 I ask you what you want. 15:51.560 --> 15:52.560 Rum. 15:52.560 --> 15:53.560 Rum. 15:53.560 --> 16:01.200 Hey boy, tender. 16:01.200 --> 16:02.200 Another room? 16:02.200 --> 16:03.200 No. 16:03.200 --> 16:04.920 Que quiere, senor? 16:04.920 --> 16:07.800 That sign outside says you have rooms upstairs. 16:07.800 --> 16:08.800 Si. 16:08.800 --> 16:09.960 Do you wish a room? 16:09.960 --> 16:11.600 Yeah, for four days. 16:11.600 --> 16:13.160 It can be arranged? 16:13.160 --> 16:15.360 I want something else arranged. 16:15.360 --> 16:16.760 Que? 16:16.760 --> 16:18.400 Look what I got, chico. 16:18.400 --> 16:19.400 See it, money? 16:19.400 --> 16:20.400 Who? 16:20.400 --> 16:21.400 American dollar. 16:21.400 --> 16:22.600 I want to see it, senor. 16:22.600 --> 16:24.680 I want a boat for a boat trip. 16:24.680 --> 16:25.680 Cuando? 16:25.680 --> 16:26.680 When? 16:26.680 --> 16:28.340 In four days. 16:28.340 --> 16:29.340 Look at it again, chico. 16:29.340 --> 16:30.340 Money. 16:30.340 --> 16:31.600 Mucho, mucho, mucho money. 16:31.600 --> 16:32.720 For a boat? 16:32.720 --> 16:34.640 You said it, chico. 16:34.640 --> 16:35.640 Conmigo. 16:35.640 --> 16:36.640 With me. 16:36.640 --> 16:37.640 Mario. 16:37.640 --> 16:38.640 Si? 16:38.640 --> 16:42.840 This man has taken a room. 16:42.840 --> 16:45.560 He also wants to arrange for a boat. 16:45.560 --> 16:46.880 I want a boat in four days. 16:46.880 --> 16:48.840 I need something to take me over to Key West. 16:48.840 --> 16:52.360 Quite to me, senor, there are fine steamships, airplanes. 16:52.360 --> 16:54.120 I can't wait for schedules. 16:54.120 --> 16:57.800 I want something that'll get me out of here when I'm ready to move. 16:57.800 --> 16:58.800 What about it? 16:58.800 --> 17:00.360 In four days. 17:00.360 --> 17:02.880 Well, what about it? 17:02.880 --> 17:04.920 In four days, senor. 17:04.920 --> 17:07.600 On the fourth day from today, we'll be ready for you. 17:07.600 --> 17:14.480 Whenever you want it. 17:14.480 --> 17:16.520 So it started all over again. 17:16.520 --> 17:18.640 The killing of Penny Cullen. 17:18.640 --> 17:21.040 This time it had to be played another way. 17:21.040 --> 17:24.360 Before I set him up, I had to think of myself. 17:24.360 --> 17:25.760 About a getaway. 17:25.760 --> 17:28.160 No commercial transportation. 17:28.160 --> 17:32.200 After I killed Penny, who knows how many of his people would be asking around for me 17:32.200 --> 17:34.560 at airports and at steamship docks. 17:34.560 --> 17:36.680 A private boat. 17:36.680 --> 17:38.440 All my own. 17:38.440 --> 17:40.160 The way to do it. 17:40.160 --> 17:42.640 The way to assassinate. 17:42.640 --> 17:45.680 Number 23 Plaza, Batista. 17:45.680 --> 17:48.480 That was the address Deontay had given me. 17:48.480 --> 17:50.280 That's where Penny was. 17:50.280 --> 17:52.240 I already had the jump on him. 17:52.240 --> 17:54.960 I knew exactly where he'd be. 17:54.960 --> 17:57.320 So started all over again. 17:57.320 --> 17:59.440 Find a spot nearby. 17:59.440 --> 18:00.920 Park your car. 18:00.920 --> 18:02.320 Get out. 18:02.320 --> 18:03.320 Hide. 18:03.320 --> 18:04.640 Watch. 18:04.640 --> 18:06.960 And it went like this. 18:06.960 --> 18:11.640 At a few minutes past midnight, a sedan drove up at number 23. 18:11.640 --> 18:13.960 Two men got out of the front. 18:13.960 --> 18:16.560 Looked up and down the street. 18:16.560 --> 18:19.600 Then one of them opened the door for another man. 18:19.600 --> 18:20.600 Penny. 18:20.600 --> 18:23.360 Penny and a blonde. 18:23.360 --> 18:25.720 The two of them walk up the steps. 18:25.720 --> 18:27.640 Go into the house. 18:27.640 --> 18:29.360 The lights go on. 18:29.360 --> 18:32.880 And so there's some music from inside. 18:32.880 --> 18:34.640 And the two men out front. 18:34.640 --> 18:36.000 They stay there. 18:36.000 --> 18:37.000 Talk a little while. 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 Tell a joke. 18:39.000 --> 18:40.960 But they stay there. 18:40.960 --> 18:43.440 That way for two hours. 18:43.440 --> 18:45.480 Then one of them looks at the other. 18:45.480 --> 18:47.120 Shrugs. 18:47.120 --> 18:49.280 They walk over to the sedan. 18:49.280 --> 18:50.280 Get in. 18:50.280 --> 18:54.400 And in a little while, they're dozing. 18:54.400 --> 18:58.760 And there are silhouettes of Penny and the blonde behind the windows. 18:58.760 --> 19:06.840 That's all you need to know. 19:06.840 --> 19:12.360 That night, the next, and the night after that, the same thing. 19:12.360 --> 19:16.240 Penny, Cullen, and the blonde, and the music, and the two men who got tired after a couple 19:16.240 --> 19:19.560 of hours and went to sleep. 19:19.560 --> 19:22.040 Then it was the fourth night. 19:22.040 --> 19:35.480 The time for killing had come around again. 19:35.480 --> 19:37.880 Penny and the blonde. 19:37.880 --> 19:41.440 So wait. 19:41.440 --> 19:43.440 And the two men. 19:43.440 --> 19:44.440 So wait. 19:44.440 --> 19:46.440 An hour. 19:46.440 --> 19:47.960 Wait. 19:47.960 --> 19:49.800 Two. 19:49.800 --> 19:51.480 Wait. 19:51.480 --> 19:55.480 And then the two men dozing. 19:55.480 --> 19:57.480 Let them sleep. 19:57.480 --> 20:03.880 The time for killing. 20:03.880 --> 20:11.560 Assassination. 20:11.560 --> 20:13.680 A delicate art. 20:13.680 --> 20:18.680 And it was done. 20:18.680 --> 20:21.680 Senor. 20:21.680 --> 20:27.680 Let's go, bartender. 20:27.680 --> 20:33.520 Let's tell your boss I'm ready for that boat. 20:33.520 --> 20:35.720 Your business here in Havana is completed? 20:35.720 --> 20:36.720 Four days and it's all done. 20:36.720 --> 20:37.720 Let's go. 20:37.720 --> 20:38.720 Mario, he is here. 20:38.720 --> 20:46.560 He says his business is completed in Havana and he wants a boat today. 20:46.560 --> 20:47.960 Look bartender, what did you tell him? 20:47.960 --> 20:50.480 He has a big hurry for the boat, Mario. 20:50.480 --> 20:51.960 Is everything ready? 20:51.960 --> 20:52.960 I ask you something. 20:52.960 --> 20:53.960 What did you tell him? 20:53.960 --> 20:55.960 Take your hands off me, senor. 20:55.960 --> 20:56.960 Mario knows what you want. 20:56.960 --> 20:59.880 Talk to him. 20:59.880 --> 21:01.960 What about it, Mario? 21:01.960 --> 21:04.000 You got the boat for me. 21:04.000 --> 21:05.600 He said you have a lot of money. 21:05.600 --> 21:06.600 Show me. 21:06.600 --> 21:07.600 Sure. 21:07.600 --> 21:08.600 You hear it? 21:08.600 --> 21:09.600 Whispers to you. 21:09.600 --> 21:12.480 Foolish, senor. 21:12.480 --> 21:15.800 So much money to wave it at such a stranger as me. 21:15.800 --> 21:18.200 You know what else I got? 21:18.200 --> 21:19.920 A gun. 21:19.920 --> 21:20.920 Right under the gabardine. 21:20.920 --> 21:23.280 You have money, you have a gun. 21:23.280 --> 21:27.160 It takes now only the boat to Key West to make you happy, see? 21:27.160 --> 21:28.160 Yeah. 21:28.160 --> 21:30.040 Two thousand dollars. 21:30.040 --> 21:31.320 Two thousand, huh? 21:31.320 --> 21:32.320 For you. 21:32.320 --> 21:33.760 Just for you. 21:33.760 --> 21:35.680 All right. 21:35.680 --> 21:37.600 When you put me on the boat. 21:37.600 --> 21:38.600 Bueno. 21:38.600 --> 21:41.600 El hombre está aquí. 21:41.600 --> 21:50.600 Como dijo usted, un americano con pelo hueso. 21:50.600 --> 21:52.600 Él tiene mucho dinero. 21:52.600 --> 21:54.600 Who are you talking to? 21:54.600 --> 21:57.520 Look when you talk to an American so I can understand what you're saying. 21:57.520 --> 21:59.120 An American, Mario. 21:59.120 --> 22:02.640 My friend speaks only Spanish. 22:02.640 --> 22:04.560 You do not believe me? 22:04.560 --> 22:05.840 You talk to him, senor. 22:05.840 --> 22:09.960 You tell him what you need. 22:09.960 --> 22:10.960 Talk to him. 22:10.960 --> 22:11.960 Está reglado? 22:11.960 --> 22:12.960 Muy bien. 22:12.960 --> 22:13.960 Se le diré. 22:13.960 --> 22:19.280 Sit down, senor. 22:19.280 --> 22:20.400 Make yourself at home. 22:20.400 --> 22:22.040 What did your friend say? 22:22.040 --> 22:23.040 One hour. 22:23.040 --> 22:24.440 He will call when he's ready. 22:24.440 --> 22:27.000 I told you it had to be ready when I wanted it. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.920 Try someplace else, senor. 22:28.920 --> 22:30.800 You sure your friend's got the boat? 22:30.800 --> 22:31.800 One hour. 22:31.800 --> 22:32.800 I already said it. 22:32.800 --> 22:33.800 Sit down. 22:33.800 --> 22:36.000 You play cards, senor? 22:36.000 --> 22:40.360 Look, call him back and tell him I haven't got an hour. 22:40.360 --> 22:42.960 Everybody has an hour, senor. 22:42.960 --> 22:45.960 Except the dying. 22:45.960 --> 22:47.960 Dealer cards. 22:47.960 --> 22:48.960 Poker? 22:48.960 --> 22:54.960 Deal. 22:54.960 --> 22:56.600 Except the dying. 22:56.600 --> 22:59.040 And that didn't include me. 22:59.040 --> 23:00.760 Penny Cullen dead. 23:00.760 --> 23:04.280 Johnny Damon healthy and wealthy. 23:04.280 --> 23:06.200 But how long does an hour take? 23:06.200 --> 23:07.560 How many poker hands? 23:07.560 --> 23:10.440 And how many times did the door open like that? 23:10.440 --> 23:12.520 And a man standing in the doorway looking at you. 23:12.520 --> 23:14.120 Just standing and looking. 23:14.120 --> 23:15.120 Then goes away. 23:15.120 --> 23:16.120 A man. 23:16.120 --> 23:17.120 And a woman. 23:17.120 --> 23:18.120 And another man. 23:18.120 --> 23:22.720 And Mario across the table, not looking at his cards, looking at you and laughing like 23:22.720 --> 23:23.720 that. 23:23.720 --> 23:24.720 And... 23:24.720 --> 23:34.640 It was not about you, senor. 23:34.640 --> 23:35.960 It was of another matter. 23:35.960 --> 23:36.960 Things like that. 23:36.960 --> 23:39.800 The people who stood in open doorways staring. 23:39.800 --> 23:42.520 A phone call that was not about you. 23:42.520 --> 23:44.880 Things that only eat up half an hour. 23:44.880 --> 23:45.880 Things and Mario. 23:45.880 --> 23:46.880 What's funny? 23:46.880 --> 23:49.880 What are you laughing at? 23:49.880 --> 23:50.880 At you, senor. 23:50.880 --> 23:53.320 You're such a bad poker player. 23:53.320 --> 23:54.320 Sure. 23:54.320 --> 23:55.880 Maybe you're not getting a boat. 23:55.880 --> 23:58.080 Maybe your friend's not getting me a boat either. 23:58.080 --> 23:59.760 How come it takes an hour to get a boat? 23:59.760 --> 24:01.480 You had four days. 24:01.480 --> 24:03.760 How come it takes another hour, Mario? 24:03.760 --> 24:04.760 Hello, Johnny. 24:04.760 --> 24:05.760 I said hello. 24:05.760 --> 24:06.760 Hi, Penny. 24:06.760 --> 24:11.760 Yeah, you better get on your feet, Johnny. 24:11.760 --> 24:14.560 Get out of here, Mario. 24:14.560 --> 24:16.760 I couldn't have missed you, Penny. 24:16.760 --> 24:17.760 Not you, boy. 24:17.760 --> 24:18.960 You never miss. 24:18.960 --> 24:20.360 You killed a man. 24:20.360 --> 24:21.360 Uh-huh. 24:21.360 --> 24:22.360 Yeah. 24:22.360 --> 24:24.160 Man I was saving up to be killed. 24:24.160 --> 24:25.800 And a bilt like me. 24:25.800 --> 24:27.680 You're a tricky boy, Penny. 24:27.680 --> 24:28.680 But not you. 24:28.680 --> 24:29.680 That thing I taught you. 24:29.680 --> 24:31.360 A man has a schedule for three days. 24:31.360 --> 24:32.800 He'll do the same on the fourth. 24:32.800 --> 24:33.800 Oh, Johnny. 24:33.800 --> 24:36.480 You should have known I was figuring right with you. 24:36.480 --> 24:38.160 Yeah, I should have done that. 24:38.160 --> 24:39.840 Do you like Havana? 24:39.840 --> 24:41.880 It was all right. 24:41.880 --> 24:43.320 I'm still in favor of Miami. 24:43.320 --> 24:46.120 It's not even worth an opinion anymore, Johnny. 24:46.120 --> 24:47.120 Oh? 24:47.120 --> 24:48.120 Yeah. 24:48.120 --> 24:49.120 Moir wrote me and said you're being replaced. 24:49.120 --> 24:51.360 He's got a kid named Cleo he likes. 24:51.360 --> 24:52.360 Moir wrote you? 24:52.360 --> 24:53.360 Moir? 24:53.360 --> 24:54.360 Uh-huh. 24:54.360 --> 24:55.360 You're kidding, Penny. 24:55.360 --> 24:58.040 Moir was contracted for what I was supposed to do to you. 24:58.040 --> 24:59.200 Oh, Johnny. 24:59.200 --> 25:00.920 You really lost touch. 25:00.920 --> 25:01.920 Mm-hmm. 25:01.920 --> 25:02.920 Not Johnny. 25:02.920 --> 25:03.920 Johnny. 25:03.920 --> 25:06.880 He didn't hire you to kill me. 25:06.880 --> 25:09.640 I hired him to send you to me. 25:09.640 --> 25:10.640 Tricky. 25:10.640 --> 25:11.640 I thought so. 25:11.640 --> 25:14.680 What'd you expect, boy, getting me heaved out of the States and all? 25:14.680 --> 25:16.200 Yeah, I thought that was very patriotic. 25:16.200 --> 25:17.200 It was. 25:17.200 --> 25:18.200 It was. 25:18.200 --> 25:19.200 I'm going to tell you something, Penny. 25:19.200 --> 25:20.200 Uh-huh. 25:20.200 --> 25:21.200 I'm going back to Miami. 25:21.200 --> 25:23.600 First, John's going to drop when he sees me. 25:23.600 --> 25:27.460 Then he's going to pay me the 15 grand he owes me for killing you. 25:27.460 --> 25:28.460 Then he's going to run. 25:28.460 --> 25:29.460 Say hey, Johnny. 25:29.460 --> 25:31.200 You're not getting back to Miami. 25:31.200 --> 25:33.000 Oh, you think you can... 25:33.000 --> 25:34.000 Oh! 25:34.000 --> 25:35.000 Kill me. 25:35.000 --> 25:36.000 You die hard, Johnny. 25:36.000 --> 25:37.000 Yeah! 25:37.000 --> 25:38.000 Go ahead! 25:38.000 --> 25:39.000 Go ahead! 25:39.000 --> 25:40.000 Oh! 25:40.000 --> 25:41.000 You think you can kill me? 25:41.000 --> 25:42.000 You think you can kill me? 25:42.000 --> 25:43.000 Oh! 25:43.000 --> 25:44.000 Oh! 25:44.000 --> 25:45.000 Oh, oh, oh! 25:45.000 --> 25:46.000 Oh, oh! 25:46.000 --> 25:47.000 Oh, oh, oh! 25:47.000 --> 25:48.000 Oh, oh, oh! 25:48.000 --> 25:49.000 Oh, oh, oh! 25:49.000 --> 25:50.000 Oh, oh, oh! 25:50.000 --> 25:51.000 Oh, oh, oh! 25:51.000 --> 25:52.000 Oh, oh, oh! 25:52.000 --> 25:53.760 You think you can kill me? 25:53.760 --> 25:55.760 No! 26:23.760 --> 26:32.760 Suspense! 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