1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,960 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Miss Agnes Moorhead. 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:19,520 In tonight's presentation of Suspense. 3 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:24,440 Tonight Auto Light presents the exciting new radio play by the originator of Suspense, 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:25,440 Mr. William Spear. 5 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:31,960 The story is called Death and Miss Turner, our star, the first lady of Suspense, Miss 6 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:32,960 Agnes Moorhead. 7 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:33,960 Hey, Harlow. 8 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:34,960 Howdy, Sheriff. 9 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:35,960 Arrest anyone lately? 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:46,200 No, but I want to check up on you because I heard you've been boasting you've got a system 11 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,200 that can't lose. 12 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,720 Why, Sheriff, of course my system can't lose. 13 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,920 It's the best there is, the Auto Light electrical system on my Auto Light equipped car. 14 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:58,440 My every unit and component part is related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing 15 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:02,120 skill to give the smoothest performance money can buy. 16 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,440 What system is that, Harlow? 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,280 The electrical system, Sheriff, including the Auto Light starting motor, distributor, 18 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:12,440 coil, generator, battery, spark plugs, and all the other parts of the complete Auto Light 19 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:17,480 electrical system installed as original equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, 20 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:18,480 trucks, and tractors. 21 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,080 You mean you're always right with the Auto Light electrical system? 22 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,080 You sure are, Sheriff. 23 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:27,360 That's why it pays to insist on Auto Light original factory parts for your Auto Light 24 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:28,640 equipped car. 25 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,720 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 26 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:39,320 And now, Auto Light presents transcribed, Diff and Miss Turner, starring Miss Agnes 27 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:52,160 Moorhead, hoping once again to keep you in suspense. 28 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,040 We went out for a walk this morning. 29 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,560 I was dead and I went out for a walk. 30 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:57,560 Miss Briggs went with me. 31 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:58,560 It was her idea. 32 00:01:58,560 --> 00:01:59,560 I wouldn't have particularly thought of it. 33 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,560 She brought the new picture in this morning. 34 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,600 She took my chair and stood on it and took off one shoe and hammered the nail in the 35 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:06,880 wall and hung the picture up. 36 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,320 She asked me if it was hanging straight and I said, I thought so. 37 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,280 And she said, well, and she took off her glasses and gave me a little inquiring expression. 38 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,800 She always does that after she's done something for me. 39 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:17,800 She wants my approval. 40 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,760 So I looked at the picture hanging there and I smiled and I said, it's lovely. 41 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:23,760 Plain black frame. 42 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:24,760 Yes, you're right. 43 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:26,680 That's just the right frame for it. 44 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,320 I beg your pardon? 45 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:29,320 The frame. 46 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:30,320 I said it's good. 47 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:31,320 The frame? 48 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:32,320 Yes. 49 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:33,320 Yes. 50 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,520 There are some other pictures downstairs we could have framed if you like. 51 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:38,840 That would be a lot of trouble, wouldn't it? 52 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:39,840 Not a bit. 53 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,800 I think I could, I could sleep some more. 54 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,640 There's a headache just hovering over me. 55 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:46,840 I don't want to wait until it gets me. 56 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,440 Of course, you'll finish your nap. 57 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,560 You know what might be nice though later on? 58 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,440 To get some air, go for a stroll in the park. 59 00:02:54,440 --> 00:03:00,120 Go out today and have lunch somewhere nice like 96 Piccadilly or Claridge's. 60 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,120 How about it? 61 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,600 I'll ring up and reserve a table. 62 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:03,600 Cool. 63 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,800 Maybe I can borrow that red coat that's hanging up in there. 64 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:07,800 Yes. 65 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:15,480 That's fine, Rachel. 66 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:21,440 I was dead, long, long dead, and I went out for a walk. 67 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:22,440 My name is Rachel. 68 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:33,640 Yes, there can't be any doubt about that now. 69 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:38,800 And then the American meets the Englishman and says, well, how are things here, old boy? 70 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,240 And the Englishman says, better than next year. 71 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:47,120 I know, it's pulling a long face, like my dad always says, if I could get a steak, I couldn't 72 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,120 afford it anyway. 73 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,120 Are you getting tired, dear, sir? 74 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:50,120 You've seen enough of London for today? 75 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:57,760 Oh, no, no, I'm enjoying this so very much, as long as we don't walk too fast. 76 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:58,760 We're not, are we? 77 00:03:58,760 --> 00:03:59,760 Oh, no, it's lovely. 78 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:04,640 How long have you been in London, Rachel? 79 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,240 You know I can't tell you that, Miss Briggs. 80 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:08,240 Yes, of course. 81 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:14,200 You're just hoping that I just might let something sort of slip accidentally, aren't you, Miss 82 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:15,200 Briggs? 83 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:16,200 Yes, I guess so. 84 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,200 It would be nice, wouldn't it? 85 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,760 No, no, it wouldn't. 86 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,480 Don't count on it, Miss Briggs. 87 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,080 It's not going to happen. 88 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:25,080 I can't risk it. 89 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:29,680 Look, there's a fine shop where I got our new picture done this morning. 90 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,680 The black frame you like so much. 91 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,680 He's framing some more for us. 92 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,680 Let's just go in and see how he's coming along. 93 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:37,680 Is this the new shop? 94 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:38,680 Yes, it is. 95 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:39,680 Hello there, anybody in? 96 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:40,680 Who's that? 97 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:41,680 Oh, Miss Briggs, isn't it? 98 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:42,680 How are we today? 99 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,680 Fine, thank you, Mr. Putney. 100 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:51,320 My friend here and I thought we'd just look in and see how a little job of work is going. 101 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,320 I see, I see. 102 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,800 Yes, yes, that was the four oils by, who was it? 103 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,800 Ah, Turner, that's it, Turner. 104 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:00,800 Let's see. 105 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,880 Ah, no, no, I'm afraid we haven't got them yet. 106 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,880 There they are hanging up there on the line. 107 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,360 They're awfully good, aren't they, Miss Briggs? 108 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:10,360 Who did you say... 109 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,360 I've been here before. 110 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:12,360 Make a pardon? 111 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:13,360 It was the same. 112 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,360 Oh, I'm afraid not. 113 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:15,360 You see... 114 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:16,360 What do you mean? 115 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,360 I tell you... 116 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,960 Well, I only just opened my shop four days ago. 117 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,080 Well, I'm not talking about your shop necessarily, Mr. Putney, but these. 118 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:26,920 Oh, these paintings. 119 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:27,920 I don't know. 120 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,120 Miss Briggs brought them in by Turner. 121 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,120 Turner? 122 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:32,120 That's preposterous. 123 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:33,120 JM Turner? 124 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:34,800 Why, these have nothing to do with him. 125 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,680 In the first place, he was watercolor, in the second place, landscape, and in the third... 126 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,000 Not, not JM Turner. 127 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Another Turner. 128 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,000 The sign. 129 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Ah, Turner. 130 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Oh. 131 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:50,120 Interesting painter, this one, don't you think? 132 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,560 Not exactly macabre, but something shivery about it. 133 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,040 All four of them seem to have a... 134 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,440 Well, I guess you'd call it an ominous overtone. 135 00:05:58,440 --> 00:05:59,680 Really? 136 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,800 I don't feel that particularly. 137 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,680 Wouldn't you call it a little nightmarey when a painter goes to this much trouble? 138 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:12,000 All this detail, painting a man, his hands, his suit, the handkerchief in his pocket, 139 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,480 the carnation in his buttonhole, and then leaves out his face. 140 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,320 In all four paintings, no face. 141 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,320 I see a face. 142 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:23,320 Yes. 143 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,320 Of course. 144 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:31,640 Well, not complete, not to fill in features, but the qualities of this man's face are 145 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,720 all there for me, even though they're not there for you. 146 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:36,960 I should know this man if I met him. 147 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:37,960 We must be going. 148 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:38,960 He's dead, I think. 149 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:39,960 We rode back in a taxi, Miss Briggs and I. 150 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:53,680 She had a bundle which Mr. Putney said she'd ordered or something. 151 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,480 I wasn't listening to them. 152 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,040 Every time I opened my mouth to say something, I gave them an advantage. 153 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,360 Every time I went out for a walk with one of them, like today, I showed things in my 154 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,360 expression that told them what they wanted to know. 155 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,680 I'd fallen into the trap when Miss Briggs had suggested that walk this morning. 156 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:10,680 I'd been weak. 157 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,120 I should never have gone. 158 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:18,280 I want to be dead, and I won't be brought back from it. 159 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,480 Oh, how did that fit you? 160 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,480 Yes. 161 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,480 What have you got there? 162 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:26,480 This? 163 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,480 Some stuff I ordered the other day for Mr. Putney. 164 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:30,640 Oh, what is it? 165 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:31,640 You laugh. 166 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:32,640 No, no. 167 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,680 Well, I know it's foolish, but as my dad says, think hard. 168 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:37,680 Never do a royal flush. 169 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:39,400 I must say, I don't know what that means. 170 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,400 Quite a knock-card player. 171 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:46,680 Anyway, it's something I've always wanted to have a private dabble at. 172 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,920 They say it relaxes the nerves. 173 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,080 And who knows? 174 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,360 I'm younger than Grandma Moses. 175 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,360 Paints. 176 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,520 You bought a box of paints. 177 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:56,520 And brushes. 178 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,560 This one, if you please, costs two guineas. 179 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,040 It's for the fine detail work, he says. 180 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:04,040 Sable. 181 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:05,040 Huh? 182 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,040 It's a sable brush. 183 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:10,760 And these things, you mix your colors on them. 184 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:11,760 Colors. 185 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,320 And then there's, whatever, this is fixative. 186 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:21,320 And well, anyway, I've gone and got a perfect smasher of a real professional kit. 187 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,280 Now, someone will teach me to draw a straight line. 188 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:29,240 You didn't buy this box of paints for yourself, did you, Miss Blake? 189 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:30,440 Well, whatever. 190 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,440 You bought them for me. 191 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,760 That was it, wasn't it? 192 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,960 I was a painter. 193 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,640 That's what you're waiting for me to find out. 194 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:48,200 R. Turner, the painter who does portraits of a man without a face. 195 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:49,200 It's Rachel Turner. 196 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:50,200 Is that it? 197 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:51,200 I don't remember it, but is that it? 198 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,720 Am I Rachel Turner? 199 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:55,720 I've... 200 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:56,720 Wait here. 201 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:08,080 I'm going to get Dr. Greig. 202 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,700 I looked at the door a moment after she'd gone. 203 00:09:10,700 --> 00:09:14,440 Then a square of white became the only thing in the room. 204 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,660 I picked up a canvas board. 205 00:09:16,660 --> 00:09:19,080 I drew a chair forward and popped the canvas against it. 206 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,120 I was doing my best not to sink. 207 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:25,720 Not to govern my actions, simply to allow whatever might happen. 208 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,360 My hand was tearing away the cellophane wrapper from the charcoal. 209 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,800 I leaned over the square of white prop there on the chair, and like plunging a dagger into 210 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:39,080 a white body, I invaded the whiteness of the canvas with a bold and perfectly symmetrical 211 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:44,080 oval in black, done with one stroke. 212 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:45,080 Charcoal fell from my hand. 213 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:50,560 Now the oil was spreading onto the palette, save a brush stabbing into the colors, blending 214 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:53,560 them to make a perfect flesh tone. 215 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:54,560 Why? 216 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:55,560 For what sake? 217 00:09:55,560 --> 00:10:07,400 For the roaring in my ears like the sound of a train rushing through the night. 218 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,440 Rachel? 219 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,160 Well, we meet at last. 220 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:18,280 That is to say we meet as people meet in a drawing room, a cocktail party perhaps, where 221 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,400 the hostess hasn't had the time to introduce us all around. 222 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,280 We find each other elbow to elbow at the punch bowl. 223 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:30,320 At this moment, you who smile to me as I hand you your glass, and I say, my name is Grice. 224 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:32,640 I'm Rachel Turner. 225 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:33,640 I'm a painter. 226 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:34,640 Oh? 227 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,640 The subject on which I'm dreadfully ill-informed. 228 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:39,000 I'm a psychologist myself. 229 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,800 Sir Bartley Grice, of Her Majesty's College of Medicine. 230 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:43,800 Evans? 231 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,200 Not only a painter, but a positive encyclopedist. 232 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,240 How could you know that? 233 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:49,240 Have we met before? 234 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,320 We've not met at all this way. 235 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:57,080 We don't meet, you and I, Sir Bartley, until some months in this year, 1952, when you were 236 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,080 my doctor. 237 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,640 And I am a patient who has lost her memory. 238 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,160 How much do you know now, Miss Turner? 239 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,720 You're going to be sorry. 240 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:13,000 More than that, you'll be the object all the murderous hatred my tortured soul is capable 241 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,880 of if you persist in bringing me back. 242 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:17,240 I shall risk that. 243 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:18,240 Many people hate me. 244 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,680 I save many others from being hated. 245 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:25,520 You were, you painted this just now in those fifteen minutes while Miss Briggs and I were 246 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:26,520 talking? 247 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:27,520 Yes. 248 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:28,520 It's remarkable. 249 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:29,520 It's amazing to me. 250 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:30,520 It's wonderful. 251 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,760 This man's face, why him? 252 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,880 I mean, for what reason this particular countenance? 253 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,840 Is he real from life? 254 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:40,840 Yes. 255 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,840 What's his name then? 256 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,840 Who is he? 257 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,840 I don't know. 258 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,120 I, I saw him only once. 259 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:55,480 Well then, why do you feel compelled to bring back this face to show to yourself again now? 260 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:56,480 Why? 261 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:20,920 It's the face of the man I murdered. 262 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:25,520 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Agnes Moorhead in Death and Miss Turner. 263 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:33,120 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, suspense. 264 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:44,320 Say, Harlow, does my car have an auto light electrical system? 265 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:45,520 It sure does, Sheriff. 266 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:49,960 For yours is one of the many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors equipped 267 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,600 with an auto light electrical system. 268 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:56,560 And auto light is the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 269 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:59,080 What kind of chores does this system do, Harlow? 270 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,760 Well Sheriff, it goes to work at the flick of the ignition switch and performs every 271 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,720 second your engine runs. 272 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,680 It works too every time you turn on your radio, sound your horn, use your electric windshield 273 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:09,680 wiper or heater. 274 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:15,120 That's why it will pay you to treat the electrical system of your car to a periodic checkup at 275 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,960 your car dealers or authorized auto light service station. 276 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,040 You can find the location of your nearest authorized auto light service station in the 277 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:28,440 classified section of the telephone directory under automobile electrical service. 278 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:32,720 Or call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 279 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:38,200 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. 280 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:43,760 And now, auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Miss Agnes Moorhead in Elliot 281 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:57,640 Lewis's production of Death and Miss Turner, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 282 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:02,000 You murdered this man whose face you've painted here? 283 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,560 Yes, yes I... 284 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:07,480 How did you murder him? 285 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:08,480 I don't know. 286 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,440 You have no recall of having actually done it. 287 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,680 Were you unable to tell yourself where it happened or when? 288 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:20,360 No, no I only, I'm sure that I killed him. 289 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,480 Miss Turner, we're going to give you something to make you sleep. 290 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,080 Now if you'll just roll up your sleeve Miss Briggs please. 291 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,480 Please, just a minute dear. 292 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,840 Yes, for a period of time now. 293 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,200 We shall need to help you sleep. 294 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:36,880 I hope it'll be a brief one. 295 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,080 You've wanted to sleep a great deal of recent months, haven't you? 296 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,360 Yes, because you were afraid of reality, of your thoughts while awake. 297 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:47,560 Well, you were always dozing off, taking a nap, staying in bed till half the day was 298 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:48,560 gone. 299 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:49,560 Now... 300 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:51,560 Now I know I'm a murderer. 301 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:56,960 So I've earned the right to be drugged into forgetting it for a few hours. 302 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:58,360 I was already dead. 303 00:14:58,360 --> 00:14:59,360 I'd forgotten. 304 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:00,360 Why couldn't I have been allowed to die? 305 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,360 Why not have hung before while it didn't matter? 306 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:04,360 But for what? 307 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:10,000 Well for a murder you can't describe, of a man whose death in circumstances pointing to 308 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,760 violence we have no record. 309 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,080 Why no one on earth has come forward to accuse you of any crime. 310 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:16,080 How did you find me? 311 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:17,080 What was I doing? 312 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,080 Where was I when you found me? 313 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,680 You must remember what happened yourself. 314 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,600 Live through that horror again. 315 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,640 Only then will you know what is true. 316 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:32,120 In the meantime I shall help you in every way I can. 317 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:33,120 Hate me if you like. 318 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:34,120 It's better than hating yourself. 319 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:43,280 Good night, Miss Turner. 320 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:44,280 So many years to remember. 321 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,280 A life brought back to be my own. 322 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,320 The figures and landscapes and people which belonged to me when nothing had been mine 323 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:52,320 the day before. 324 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:58,000 It was all there up until my birthday. 325 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,080 What happened on the 16th of April? 326 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:05,960 I remember the night before, it was the last thing I remembered until the waking here in 327 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,520 the hospital on the first day of May. 328 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:16,000 I was standing in the lobby of the hotel just having got off that rickety elevator and my 329 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 bag was packed. 330 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:22,280 It was there at my feet and the porter came around from behind his booth and handed me 331 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:23,280 an envelope. 332 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:24,280 After that nothing. 333 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:31,280 Black. 334 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:35,480 White. 335 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:36,480 Piano. 336 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:37,480 Tune. 337 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:38,480 Train. 338 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:39,480 Teach. 339 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:40,480 Barista. 340 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:41,480 Lawyer. 341 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:42,480 Pallet. 342 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:43,480 Paint. 343 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:44,480 Porter. 344 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:45,480 Ticket. 345 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:46,480 Train. 346 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:47,480 Snow white. 347 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:48,480 I beg your pardon. 348 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:49,480 I beg your pardon. 349 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:50,480 I beg your pardon. 350 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:51,480 I beg your pardon. 351 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:52,480 I beg your pardon. 352 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:53,480 I beg your pardon. 353 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:54,480 I beg your pardon. 354 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:55,480 Snow white. 355 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,480 She has that long train at the boys' cabin. 356 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,480 Oh yes, yes, quite right. 357 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:00,480 Blood. 358 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:01,480 Bread. 359 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:02,480 Train. 360 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:03,480 A thought. 361 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:09,960 Miss Turner, have you noticed anything about your response to this word? 362 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:10,960 Which word? 363 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:11,960 The word train. 364 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:12,960 Oh. 365 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,080 I've put it to you three times and each time you for some reason avoided connoting what 366 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,600 one should expect to be the most commonplace definition. 367 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:23,760 You haven't answered with smoke or wheels or what a station or underground. 368 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:28,720 Have you any idea why you should be unwilling to recognize the word train as a high-speed 369 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,160 conveyance traveling on wheels on rails? 370 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,600 I don't have any idea. 371 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:35,600 Book. 372 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:36,600 Dealer. 373 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:37,600 Yorkshire. 374 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:38,600 Train. 375 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:39,600 Train. 376 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:40,600 Wreck. 377 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:41,600 Thank you, Miss Turner. 378 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:48,960 I think that will do us for the day. 379 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:53,520 Miss Briggs took me back to my room. 380 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:54,520 I was in a fever. 381 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:55,520 I could hardly walk straight. 382 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,520 She kept dabbing at my forehead with her handkerchief, but it didn't do any good. 383 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:03,600 I could see her lips moving, probably asking me if I was all right and could she help me, 384 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,600 but I couldn't hear her. 385 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:10,000 There was another horrifying, terrible sound filling my ears. 386 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,760 I held my hands over them, trying to shut it out, but it only grew louder. 387 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,120 In my room, Miss Briggs tried to push me toward the bed. 388 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:19,800 I could see her lips screaming, you must lie down, but I pressed her out of the way and 389 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,320 lunged for the canvas board. 390 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,720 My hands and arms were numb as though they were floating out of my control, except that 391 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:26,720 they ached agonizingly. 392 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:31,720 There were flashes before my eyes, pounding waves that threw my head back and forth as 393 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,720 though I were being battered in some apocalyptic storm. 394 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:41,720 Came a sightful shrieking, torn from the throat of a damned stolen torment, and I fell forward 395 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,720 on the ground and something fell with me. 396 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:58,720 And I saw the picture I'd painted, and the voice that was shrieking was my own. 397 00:18:58,720 --> 00:18:59,720 I can't, I can't. 398 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:00,720 Lie down. 399 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:01,720 Yes, lie down. 400 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:02,720 Lie down. 401 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,720 This is it, isn't it? 402 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:06,720 Oh, yes. 403 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,720 All right, roll up that sleeve. 404 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,720 Yes, now Rachel. 405 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,720 Who did that picture? 406 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:14,720 Delirious, like a mad woman. 407 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:15,720 Yes, yes, yes, quiet. 408 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:16,720 Now Miss Turner. 409 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:17,720 Are you kidding me? 410 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:18,720 You're like me, Miss Diamond. 411 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:19,720 You sting me. 412 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:20,720 No, the mixture's a little bit different this time, Miss Turner, but it will stop hurting 413 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:21,720 in just a moment. 414 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:32,720 There, all ready. 415 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:42,720 Oh, yes, it won't be long. 416 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,720 This picture you've just done. 417 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:45,720 Is it good? 418 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,600 I think it's extraordinarily good. 419 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,720 Are you sleeping? 420 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:52,720 Sleeping, but awake. 421 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,720 Asleep, but not asleep. 422 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:01,720 Can you describe this picture to me as though I hadn't seen it? 423 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:11,720 A man sitting in a railway compartment looking out of the window of a train, opposite him 424 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,720 with her back to us is a woman. 425 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:19,720 It's as though we were the woman whose attention is on this man. 426 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,720 As though we were this woman? 427 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:22,720 Yes. 428 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,720 Don't you mean that you are this woman, Miss Turner? 429 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,720 Yes, yes, I am. 430 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,720 What day is it now? 431 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:34,720 My birthday. 432 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,720 April 16th, past April. 433 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,720 Yes, yes, as David said today. 434 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:45,720 I'm aboard the Flying Scotsman Express. 435 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:50,720 I'm on my way to Edinburgh to paint the moors. 436 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,720 I'm in the first class compartment. 437 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,720 Alone, I'm relaxed and happy. 438 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:01,720 I feel the urge to paint something right here as the train goes speeding along. 439 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,720 And what do you paint? 440 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:11,720 A man, that is the embodiment of a man, his posture, his clothes. 441 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:16,720 But for some reason, I can't paint his face. 442 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:22,720 I know his face, but I find it impossible to transfer it to the canvas. 443 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:28,720 I make four separate versions of him, but each time my brush remains poisonly there, 444 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:39,720 refusing to invade the oval of white where the face should be. 445 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:47,720 At Manchester, I get out to stretch my legs, walking up and down the station platform. 446 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:54,720 And when I resume my compartment, I find that I have a fellow traveler sharing it with me. 447 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,720 He's turned away as I enter. 448 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,720 He's occupied with closing the window as it has begun to rain outside. 449 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:06,720 As I seat myself opposite him, he turns to face me directly. 450 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,720 He's a man. 451 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:17,720 It's his face which is missing from the portraits that lie on the chair beside me. 452 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,720 How do you do? 453 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:21,720 How do you do? 454 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:22,720 I, I... 455 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,720 How do you do? 456 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,720 Pardon. Do you feel not well? 457 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:35,720 Forgive me for staring at you. I didn't... I mean looking at you in this way. 458 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,720 It is all right. Fine. 459 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,720 I'm a painter, you see. 460 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,720 A painter? Yes, good. Can I see? 461 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:50,720 Well, this is the impossible part. Here, you see these pictures? 462 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:56,720 Hmm? Ah, yes. Very interesting. 463 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,720 I mean, not to know who it is, his face. 464 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:07,720 Oh, but I do know. I didn't feel I could do the face before, but now I can. 465 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,720 Oh, sure. Why? 466 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,720 Because it's your face. 467 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,720 My face? 468 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,720 What for, my face? 469 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,720 Yes, yes I know it's clear, but... 470 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,720 I mean, you are going to put my face in there? 471 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,720 Yes. 472 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:34,720 Well, all right. All right. Go ahead. 473 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,720 You mean, now? 474 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,720 Sure. 475 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:44,720 What do I do? I mean, am I all right to sit here like this? 476 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:51,720 Yes, yes. Just that way, please. If you tilt your head just a little more. 477 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,720 This is all right? Yes. 478 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,720 You're in the shadow, though. If there was only a little more light. 479 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,720 Good arc. I have it. Would it be too much trouble if we changed places? 480 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,720 There's good light here where I'm sitting. 481 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,720 Pardon? If we change places, I'll sit over there and you... 482 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:15,720 Oh, uh, change places. Sure. 483 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:21,720 I sit down where he is in, and he places himself exactly where I've been sitting a moment before. 484 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,720 For a moment he looks at me, smiling. 485 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:30,720 And then, it's happening. There was a grinding, cracking sound. 486 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,720 Most of the steam of the door is still smiling to pie. 487 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:39,720 And then an inferno of splintering wooden glass and rending steel came screaming at him. 488 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:44,720 And the car sent into his place and got him blanking his head. 489 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,720 I killed him. He stayed in places with me. 490 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,720 It was I who was meant to die. It was my life. My life. 491 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,720 I killed him. I killed him. 492 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,720 He killed my dad. 493 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:05,720 I killed him. I killed him. 494 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,720 I... 495 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:13,720 I... 496 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,720 No. You didn't kill him. You know that now. 497 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:31,720 You remember. You come back from the edge of reason. 498 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:37,720 I'm going home. Sailing at midnight. It'll be midwinter. 499 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,720 The snow on that Connecticut bridge. 500 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,720 Those leafless elves in their rolling, purple shadows. 501 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,720 They gave me a farewell tea this afternoon and I even had a cocktail. 502 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,720 The hostess was much too busy to introduce us all around, 503 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,720 but a very nice gentleman came up to me and introduced himself. 504 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,720 My name is Grice. I'm a psychologist. 505 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:03,720 I am Rachel Turner. I'm a painter. 506 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:24,720 Music 507 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:30,720 Suspense. Presented by Auto Light. Tonight's star, Miss Agnes Moorhead. 508 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,720 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, 509 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,720 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 510 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,720 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 511 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,720 They are members of the Auto Light family, 512 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,720 as well as are the 98,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United States 513 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,720 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 514 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:58,720 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast 515 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,720 and Auto Light plants in many foreign countries, 516 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:06,720 as well as the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 517 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,720 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research 518 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,720 and precision built to the highest standards of quality and performance. 519 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:20,720 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 520 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:26,720 Music 521 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:31,720 Next week, a story based on fact and taken from your morning newspaper. 522 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,720 The exciting report of one man's efforts to prevent a national tragedy. 523 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:41,720 The story is called, Man Alive. Our star will be Mr. Paul Douglas. 524 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:50,720 That's next week on Suspense. 525 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,720 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis 526 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,720 with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Ludd Luskin. 527 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,720 Death and Miss Turner was written for Suspense by William Spear. 528 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,720 In tonight's story, Jeanette Nolan was heard as Miss Briggs, 529 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,720 Joseph Kearns as Dr. Grice, Paul Fries as the man on the train, 530 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,720 and Charles Davis as the shopkeeper. 531 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:20,720 Magnus Moorhead may currently be seen touring in Don Juan in Hell by George Bernard Shaw. 532 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:27,720 You can buy Auto Light electrical parts, Auto Light staple batteries, 533 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,720 and Auto Light resistor, all standard type spark plugs, at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 534 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,720 Switch to Auto Light. 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