WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.600 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Dick Hames in tonight's presentation of 00:11.600 --> 00:13.600 Suspense. 00:13.600 --> 00:24.240 Tonight, Auto Light presents the story of a man who watched a murder committed and couldn't 00:24.240 --> 00:26.360 get away to tell about it. 00:26.360 --> 00:36.800 It's called Pigeon in the Cage, our star Mr. Dick Hames. 00:36.800 --> 00:40.320 This is Harlow Wilcox, and I would like... 00:40.320 --> 00:42.400 Hey, Hap, stop horning in. 00:42.400 --> 00:46.360 But Harlow, that horn is part of my car's electrical system. 00:46.360 --> 00:50.680 And Hap, that electrical system goes to work the instant you press the starter button and 00:50.680 --> 00:53.480 continues every second your engine runs. 00:53.480 --> 00:56.920 In addition, whether your engine is running or not, it works every time you blow your 00:56.920 --> 01:01.400 horn, turn on your lights, radio, heater, or electric windshield wiper. 01:01.400 --> 01:03.640 Must be right at all times, eh, Harlow? 01:03.640 --> 01:04.640 It sure must have. 01:04.640 --> 01:08.960 So, friends, that's why it's so important to treat the electrical system of your car 01:08.960 --> 01:10.880 to a periodic checkup. 01:10.880 --> 01:15.120 Regardless of the make of car you own, make it a point to see your authorized Auto Light 01:15.120 --> 01:18.680 service station or your car dealer regularly. 01:18.680 --> 01:23.400 You can quickly locate your nearest authorized Auto Light service station in the classified 01:23.400 --> 01:27.440 section of the phone book under Automobile Electrical Service. 01:27.440 --> 01:32.000 Or call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 01:32.000 --> 01:37.720 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:37.720 --> 01:44.440 And now, Auto Light presents transcribed Pigeon in the Cage, starring Mr. Dick Hames, hoping 01:44.440 --> 01:55.040 once again to keep you in suspense. 01:55.040 --> 01:57.320 I'm Gerald Brewer and I'm 31 years old. 01:57.320 --> 02:02.000 I'm a paper hanger and I've got a wife. 02:02.000 --> 02:04.080 I got a kid on the way and I'd like to be home now. 02:04.080 --> 02:07.880 I wish I were out of here. 02:07.880 --> 02:11.440 Right under the button here it says for emergency ring, but nothing happens. 02:11.440 --> 02:14.600 I've been ringing this bell for the last hour and nothing happens. 02:14.600 --> 02:17.080 Nobody's home, I know that. 02:17.080 --> 02:20.320 But I don't know what else to do except ring this bell. 02:20.320 --> 02:24.280 I'm stuck in an elevator between the first and second floor. 02:24.280 --> 02:26.280 The overhead light went out a few minutes ago. 02:26.280 --> 02:29.160 I can hardly see. 02:29.160 --> 02:30.400 This elevator isn't very big. 02:30.400 --> 02:32.600 It'd hold three or four people. 02:32.600 --> 02:35.360 There's a lever here for floor stops. 02:35.360 --> 02:38.240 But something's gone wrong. 02:38.240 --> 02:39.240 The elevator won't move. 02:39.240 --> 02:45.440 There are two buttons here, one that rings the bell, the other for emergency stops. 02:45.440 --> 02:50.240 Overhead maybe about eight feet from the floor is a little door, maybe about six inches square. 02:50.240 --> 02:52.440 I don't know what that's for. 02:52.440 --> 02:56.200 It's a pretty old elevator in a pretty old house. 02:56.200 --> 02:59.160 I can't squeeze out of it, that's for sure. 02:59.160 --> 03:01.240 Three walls of this thing are cherry wood. 03:01.240 --> 03:04.040 In front of it is a folding iron gate. 03:04.040 --> 03:07.040 I got on it on the fourth floor where I was papering. 03:07.040 --> 03:09.440 It was five o'clock, I was putting work. 03:09.440 --> 03:12.320 Then the elevator got stuck and nobody's home. 03:12.320 --> 03:15.440 Been yelling my lungs out, ringing on the bell, calling for Mrs. Rogers who owns this 03:15.440 --> 03:20.440 house pounding on the wall, but nobody's home. 03:20.440 --> 03:22.680 Nobody's home and I'm stuck. 03:22.680 --> 03:25.640 The elevator's stuck right on the first floor above the living room. 03:25.640 --> 03:32.160 So lying down like this, I can see into it through a gap no bigger than a quarter inch. 03:32.160 --> 03:35.440 I'm worried a little about my wife because she'll worry. 03:35.440 --> 03:51.720 But there's nothing I can do but wait and relax and wait. 03:51.720 --> 03:53.720 That's what woke me. 03:53.720 --> 03:56.680 Someone was home and talking and I was going to yell out and let them know I was stuck in 03:56.680 --> 03:58.280 the elevator right above their heads. 03:58.280 --> 04:01.200 Killer, you're satisfied now, aren't you? 04:01.200 --> 04:02.640 That's the only way to do it. 04:02.640 --> 04:03.640 All right, all right. 04:03.640 --> 04:05.680 You're nervous, you agree to it once. 04:05.680 --> 04:08.080 Killer, I'll kill her when she gets home. 04:08.080 --> 04:09.080 You all right? 04:09.080 --> 04:10.080 You all right, Janice? 04:10.080 --> 04:13.080 When your wife's dead, I'll be all right. 04:13.080 --> 04:16.520 Hey, I'll put on some records, relax you. 04:16.520 --> 04:18.520 Help the waiting. 04:18.520 --> 04:19.520 Harry? 04:19.520 --> 04:20.520 Yeah, what? 04:20.520 --> 04:21.520 What about the gun? 04:21.520 --> 04:22.520 Oh, don't worry. 04:22.520 --> 04:23.520 Do me a favor, will you, Harry? 04:23.520 --> 04:24.520 Let me worry. 04:24.520 --> 04:25.520 Let me know. 04:25.520 --> 04:26.520 Ah, no. 04:26.520 --> 04:27.520 Oh, sure, I'm nervous. 04:27.520 --> 04:28.520 The gun's upstairs, second floor, my bedroom. 04:28.520 --> 04:29.520 Listen, I'm going to go get it. 04:29.520 --> 04:30.520 I'm going to go get it. 04:30.520 --> 04:31.520 I'm going to go get it. 04:31.520 --> 04:32.520 I'm going to go get it. 04:32.520 --> 04:33.520 I'm going to go get it. 04:33.520 --> 04:37.400 Oh, listen, Janice, you don't even have to be here when it happens. 04:37.400 --> 04:38.400 When's your wife coming home? 04:38.400 --> 04:39.400 Soon. 04:39.400 --> 04:40.400 Look, want a drink? 04:40.400 --> 04:41.400 Baby, I don't know. 04:41.400 --> 04:42.400 Come on, let's go to the kitchen. 04:42.400 --> 04:43.400 Mix it up. 04:43.400 --> 04:44.400 I don't know who the girl is. 04:44.400 --> 04:45.400 I never saw her before. 04:45.400 --> 04:56.400 What I could make out of her looking through the gap is she's a lot younger than Mr. Rogers. 04:56.400 --> 04:57.800 Oh, that was Mr. Rogers. 04:57.800 --> 05:00.360 I knew that right away without looking at him. 05:00.360 --> 05:05.720 I remembered his voice because we'd had a discussion about wallpaper pattern 1216B, Sunday strollers 05:05.720 --> 05:08.600 in the park for the library on the fourth floor. 05:08.600 --> 05:14.720 Well, if he was going to kill his wife and I just heard about it, what do you think he'd 05:14.720 --> 05:15.720 do to me? 05:15.720 --> 05:19.040 All I had to do was yell out and let him know I'd heard. 05:19.040 --> 05:21.600 Listen, I got a wife and a kid on the way. 05:21.600 --> 05:24.880 I'm a guy who figures on hanging a lot more paper before he dies. 05:24.880 --> 05:26.360 My family expects it of me. 05:26.360 --> 05:28.520 Besides, what am I supposed to do? 05:28.520 --> 05:29.520 Yell out? 05:29.520 --> 05:31.840 I'm hanging up here in the elevator and I just heard what you said. 05:31.840 --> 05:34.720 How do I know Mr. Rogers wouldn't kill me? 05:34.720 --> 05:37.200 What do I do? 05:37.200 --> 05:41.320 Just stay here and hope I can think of something. 05:41.320 --> 05:42.320 Betty? 05:42.320 --> 05:43.320 Betty Jamson? 05:43.320 --> 05:44.320 The drink, Janet. 05:44.320 --> 05:45.320 I'm fine. 05:45.320 --> 05:46.320 What should we do? 05:46.320 --> 05:47.320 What do you mean? 05:47.320 --> 05:48.320 Waiting. 05:48.320 --> 05:49.320 No, I don't mind. 05:49.320 --> 05:50.320 I feel fine. 05:50.320 --> 05:51.320 We left the party. 05:51.320 --> 05:52.320 We were dancing. 05:52.320 --> 05:53.320 I feel fine, Harris. 05:53.320 --> 05:54.320 Come on. 05:54.320 --> 05:55.320 I'm not going to wait. 05:55.320 --> 05:56.320 I'm going to wait. 05:56.320 --> 05:57.320 I'm going to wait. 05:57.320 --> 05:58.320 I'm going to wait. 05:58.320 --> 05:59.320 I'm going to wait. 05:59.320 --> 06:00.320 Come on, honey. 06:00.320 --> 06:01.320 Come on. 06:01.320 --> 06:02.320 You remember the... 06:02.320 --> 06:03.320 Hey, hey, Janice. 06:03.320 --> 06:04.320 What's the matter? 06:04.320 --> 06:05.320 Nothing. 06:05.320 --> 06:06.320 Let's not laugh, that's all. 06:06.320 --> 06:07.320 Let's not do anything to make the other one laugh. 06:07.320 --> 06:08.320 Now who's nervous? 06:08.320 --> 06:09.320 She ought to be coming home soon. 06:09.320 --> 06:10.320 Let go of me. 06:10.320 --> 06:11.320 Now look. 06:11.320 --> 06:12.320 Nothing wrong, Harry. 06:12.320 --> 06:13.320 Just right now, let go of me. 06:13.320 --> 06:14.320 Okay, okay. 06:14.320 --> 06:15.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:15.320 --> 06:16.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:16.320 --> 06:17.320 And I'll go to the other room. 06:17.320 --> 06:18.320 You're going to have to wait. 06:18.320 --> 06:19.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:19.320 --> 06:20.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:20.320 --> 06:21.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:21.320 --> 06:22.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:22.320 --> 06:23.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:23.320 --> 06:24.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:24.320 --> 06:25.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:25.320 --> 06:26.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:26.320 --> 06:27.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:27.320 --> 06:28.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:28.320 --> 06:29.320 I'll go upstairs. 06:29.320 --> 06:34.400 I'll go upstairs and get the gun. 06:34.400 --> 06:36.200 Come on. 06:36.200 --> 06:40.060 Come on. 06:40.060 --> 06:41.520 That thing's stuck again. 06:41.520 --> 06:42.520 What? 06:42.520 --> 06:43.520 Oh, the elevator. 06:43.520 --> 06:47.440 The door down the basement keeps swinging it open and stops it. 06:47.440 --> 06:48.800 Darn, thing's stuck. 06:48.800 --> 06:50.880 I'm sure it's stuck. 06:50.880 --> 06:53.280 Look, right over your head. 06:53.280 --> 06:54.620 Oh, yeah? 06:54.620 --> 06:55.620 Harry. 06:55.620 --> 06:56.620 What? 06:56.620 --> 06:58.620 Suppose someone's in that elevator. 06:58.620 --> 07:00.620 Oh, you kidding? 07:00.620 --> 07:02.620 Suppose someone's in that elevator. 07:02.620 --> 07:04.620 Well, how could anyone? 07:04.620 --> 07:06.620 Well, tell me how it got stuck. 07:04.620 --> 07:06.620 How do I know how it got stuck? 07:06.620 --> 07:08.620 Someone's on that elevator and heard everything we said. 07:08.620 --> 07:10.620 Oh, look, it's happened a hundred times before. 07:10.620 --> 07:12.620 Suppose the elevator were upstairs, 07:12.620 --> 07:14.620 and I stood here and rang for it. 07:14.620 --> 07:16.620 The elevator'd start, but if the basement door swung open, 07:16.620 --> 07:18.620 the elevator'd stop, you see. 07:18.620 --> 07:20.620 All right. 07:18.620 --> 07:20.620 You satisfied? 07:20.620 --> 07:22.620 All right. 07:20.620 --> 07:22.620 Happened to my wife. 07:22.620 --> 07:24.620 She walked instead of closing the door in the basement. 07:24.620 --> 07:26.620 Happens all the time. 07:24.620 --> 07:26.620 All right, all right. 07:26.620 --> 07:28.620 Gun's in the bedroom. I'll walk upstairs and get it. 07:32.620 --> 07:34.620 Mr. Rogers went to get the gun. 07:34.620 --> 07:36.620 I could hear him go into his bedroom, 07:36.620 --> 07:38.620 where yesterday I papered with the hunters on horseback pattern. 07:38.620 --> 07:40.620 I watched the girl he called Janice. 07:40.620 --> 07:42.620 She sat on the sofa for a little while, 07:42.620 --> 07:44.620 and she got up, folded her arms, 07:44.620 --> 07:46.620 and walked around the room. 07:46.620 --> 07:48.620 She stopped in front of the elevator. 07:48.620 --> 07:50.620 Anybody in there? 07:52.620 --> 07:54.620 Anybody in there? 07:54.620 --> 07:56.620 She kept looking at the gap where the floor of the elevator 07:56.620 --> 07:58.620 was a quarter inch above the top of the door. 07:58.620 --> 08:00.620 But the light was out in the elevator, and it was black. 08:00.620 --> 08:02.620 And I hugged the far wall, and she couldn't see me. 08:02.620 --> 08:04.620 Mr. Rogers came back then. 08:04.620 --> 08:06.620 Still not satisfied, are you? 08:06.620 --> 08:08.620 What do you mean? 08:08.620 --> 08:10.620 Looking at the elevator. 08:10.620 --> 08:12.620 I'm not satisfied. 08:12.620 --> 08:14.620 I'm not satisfied. 08:14.620 --> 08:16.620 I'm not satisfied. 08:16.620 --> 08:18.620 What do you mean? 08:18.620 --> 08:20.620 Looking at the elevator. 08:20.620 --> 08:22.620 I'm satisfied. 08:22.620 --> 08:24.620 I tell you, I'm okay. 08:24.620 --> 08:26.620 Would it make you feel better if I went down to the basement 08:26.620 --> 08:28.620 and shut the door down there and start the elevator and you'd see? 08:28.620 --> 08:30.620 Forget it. 08:30.620 --> 08:32.620 Leave me alone, will you? 08:32.620 --> 08:34.620 Janice. 08:34.620 --> 08:36.620 Stop it, Harry, please. 08:36.620 --> 08:38.620 You want to forget it, Janice, do you? 08:38.620 --> 08:40.620 Go back to the party? 08:40.620 --> 08:42.620 No, no, no, no. 08:42.620 --> 08:44.620 Harry, I told you. 08:44.620 --> 08:46.620 There's someone in there. 08:46.620 --> 08:48.620 Why didn't you say so instead of all... 08:48.620 --> 08:50.620 Please go downstairs and close the... 08:50.620 --> 08:52.620 Harry. 08:52.620 --> 08:54.620 That's her. 08:54.620 --> 08:56.620 You wait. 08:56.620 --> 08:58.620 Yes. 08:58.620 --> 09:18.620 depressed music 09:18.620 --> 09:20.620 gun fire 09:20.620 --> 09:21.620 I'm sorry. 09:29.620 --> 09:31.620 Janice, Janice, we're going to have to hurry. 09:31.620 --> 09:32.620 Make it look like a robbery. 09:32.620 --> 09:33.620 All right, Harry. 09:33.620 --> 09:34.620 She keeps her jewels in the safe. 09:34.620 --> 09:35.620 Watch out, Janice. 09:35.620 --> 09:36.620 Don't push me. 09:36.620 --> 09:37.620 Look, it's standing in the way. 09:37.620 --> 09:38.620 It's safe behind that picture. 09:38.620 --> 09:39.620 Just tell me to move and I'll move. 09:39.620 --> 09:40.620 Don't push me anymore, Harry. 09:40.620 --> 09:41.620 All right, I'm sorry. 09:42.620 --> 09:43.620 12 to the right. 09:43.620 --> 09:44.620 18. 09:44.620 --> 09:45.620 18. 09:45.620 --> 09:46.620 Yes. 09:49.620 --> 09:50.620 Harry, the phone. 09:50.620 --> 09:51.620 I know it's the phone. 09:54.620 --> 09:55.620 Go on, answer it. 09:55.620 --> 09:56.620 What? 09:57.620 --> 09:58.620 Answer it. 09:58.620 --> 09:59.620 Say you're Mrs. Rogers. 09:59.620 --> 10:00.620 Get rid of whoever it is and hurry. 10:01.620 --> 10:02.620 Go on, say you'll call back. 10:05.620 --> 10:06.620 Hello? 10:07.620 --> 10:08.620 Yes? 10:10.620 --> 10:11.620 Yes, this is Mrs. Rogers. 10:11.620 --> 10:13.620 Who? 10:14.620 --> 10:15.620 Paper hanger? 10:16.620 --> 10:17.620 No. 10:18.620 --> 10:19.620 I'm sure of it. 10:20.620 --> 10:21.620 Yes, yes, goodbye. 10:24.620 --> 10:25.620 Harry? 10:25.620 --> 10:26.620 What is it? 10:27.620 --> 10:28.620 Was there a paper hanger here? 10:29.620 --> 10:31.620 The place is being papered. 10:32.620 --> 10:33.620 Why? 10:33.620 --> 10:35.620 That was his wife, Mrs. Brewer. 10:36.620 --> 10:37.620 He's not home. 10:37.620 --> 10:40.620 She expected him home hours ago. 10:40.620 --> 10:41.620 She knew he was here. 10:43.620 --> 10:44.620 Harry? 10:48.620 --> 10:49.620 Hey, Brewer. 10:50.620 --> 10:51.620 You in there? 10:53.620 --> 10:54.620 What about it, Brewer? 10:55.620 --> 10:56.620 You in there? 10:58.620 --> 11:00.620 Okay, Brewer, don't bother to answer. 11:02.620 --> 11:03.620 I'll find out whether you're in there. 11:03.620 --> 11:06.620 And if you are, you're dead. 11:19.620 --> 11:23.620 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Dick Hames in Fidgin' in the Cage. 11:23.620 --> 11:32.620 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, Suspense. 11:40.620 --> 11:45.620 See, Harlow, Auto Light has had a lot of experience in building electrical systems, right? 11:45.620 --> 11:46.620 Only 42 years, half. 11:47.620 --> 11:48.620 42 years? 11:48.620 --> 11:55.620 That's right, back in 1911, Auto Light developed the first two-unit, six-volt electrical system ever used as original equipment. 11:56.620 --> 12:05.620 And today, Auto Light designs and builds modern and complete electrical systems for many of our finest makes of cars, trucks, tractors, airplanes, and boats. 12:05.620 --> 12:07.620 That's a lot of electrical systems, Harlow. 12:07.620 --> 12:08.620 It sure is, half. 12:08.620 --> 12:12.620 And yet every unit is precision-built to operate as a team. 12:12.620 --> 12:21.620 That includes the generator, starting motor, distributor, coil, voltage regulator, spark plugs, battery, and all their thousands of component parts. 12:21.620 --> 12:28.620 They're all related by Auto Light engineering design and manufacturing skill to give you the finest performance money can buy. 12:28.620 --> 12:30.620 And that's a lot of performance. 12:30.620 --> 12:31.620 Right you are, half. 12:31.620 --> 12:35.620 So friends, be sure you get the best for your Auto Light-equipped car. 12:35.620 --> 12:40.620 Always insist on Auto Light original service parts when replacements are needed. 12:40.620 --> 12:45.620 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 12:45.620 --> 12:55.620 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Dick Hames, in Elliot Lewis's production of Pigeon in the Cage, 12:55.620 --> 13:14.620 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:14.620 --> 13:15.620 Well? 13:15.620 --> 13:16.620 I don't know. 13:16.620 --> 13:17.620 I'm not sure. 13:17.620 --> 13:18.620 He's in there. 13:18.620 --> 13:21.620 He's in that elevator and he knows what we did. 13:21.620 --> 13:24.620 Wait a second, will you? 13:24.620 --> 13:26.620 Hey, Brewer. 13:26.620 --> 13:29.620 You heard what I said, didn't you? 13:29.620 --> 13:32.620 If you're in there, I'll kill you. 13:32.620 --> 13:34.620 Janice, get me a chair. 13:34.620 --> 13:38.620 Maybe if I stand on it, I can see him. 13:38.620 --> 13:39.620 Brewer. 13:39.620 --> 13:45.620 Brewer, you won't be able to hide in there for very long, Brewer. 13:45.620 --> 13:46.620 Can you see him, Harry? 13:46.620 --> 13:48.620 I don't know. 13:48.620 --> 13:50.620 It's black in there and there's a slit I have to look through. 13:50.620 --> 13:51.620 Turn off that music, will you? 13:51.620 --> 13:52.620 What's the music? 13:52.620 --> 13:57.620 Turn it off. 13:57.620 --> 13:58.620 Harry. 13:58.620 --> 13:59.620 What? 13:59.620 --> 14:02.620 Listen, Harry, we're getting panicky, both of us. 14:02.620 --> 14:03.620 Maybe I'm wrong, maybe you're wrong. 14:03.620 --> 14:06.620 Maybe the paper hanger just stopped at the corner bar and got loaded and never got home. 14:06.620 --> 14:07.620 Maybe... 14:07.620 --> 14:08.620 We've got to find out. 14:08.620 --> 14:09.620 We've got to... 14:09.620 --> 14:11.620 We've got to get out of here, Janice. 14:11.620 --> 14:12.620 Get back to the party. 14:12.620 --> 14:15.620 I'll walk down to the basement, close the elevator door and bring it down. 14:15.620 --> 14:16.620 All right. 14:16.620 --> 14:17.620 You wait here. 14:17.620 --> 14:18.620 Harry. 14:18.620 --> 14:19.620 Come on, pour yourself a drink, Janice. 14:19.620 --> 14:20.620 You look terrible. 14:20.620 --> 14:21.620 Why don't you just wait to hear what I have to say? 14:21.620 --> 14:22.620 Take the gun with you in case he's there. 14:22.620 --> 14:23.620 Go on, go on. 14:23.620 --> 14:24.620 Okay, okay. 14:24.620 --> 14:25.620 Sometimes... 14:25.620 --> 14:38.620 Sometimes, well, when I was going to say it was my wife's fault for calling, for being 14:38.620 --> 14:41.620 worried, for being such a good wife. 14:41.620 --> 14:45.620 If she hadn't called Mr. Rogers, that girl would have gone away. 14:45.620 --> 14:52.620 Isn't it a shame the way we always blame somebody else when we're in trouble? 14:52.620 --> 14:55.620 One thing I was sure of, Mr. Rogers had a gun in his hand, and the other thing I was sure 14:55.620 --> 14:57.620 of, he wasn't kidding. 14:57.620 --> 14:58.620 Positive he wasn't kidding. 14:58.620 --> 15:02.620 A man who's just killed his wife in the garage isn't a kidding type. 15:02.620 --> 15:05.620 And here's what he was about to do. 15:05.620 --> 15:09.620 Close the basement elevator gate, push the button and bring the elevator down. 15:09.620 --> 15:13.620 And he was going to open the door, see me and shoot me. 15:13.620 --> 15:17.620 I'm a man with a family, like I said, and I got a going business, paper hanging. 15:17.620 --> 15:21.620 There are a lot of things I enjoy in life, so I don't want to die. 15:21.620 --> 15:24.620 You know what my life depended on in that instant? 15:24.620 --> 15:27.620 The button marked emergency stop. 15:27.620 --> 15:32.620 Mr. Rogers closes the gate and tries to bring the elevator down to the basement. 15:32.620 --> 15:36.620 And me inside the elevator, I keep my finger on the emergency stop button. 15:36.620 --> 15:38.620 And nothing happens. 15:38.620 --> 15:43.620 The elevator doesn't move, I mean. 15:46.620 --> 15:47.620 Janice? 15:47.620 --> 15:48.620 What's the matter? 15:48.620 --> 15:49.620 You doing anything up there? 15:49.620 --> 15:50.620 What? What do you mean? 15:50.620 --> 15:51.620 Well, pressing a button or anything. 15:51.620 --> 15:53.620 I'm not doing anything, Harry. 15:53.620 --> 15:55.620 There's something wrong. 15:55.620 --> 15:56.620 What? 15:56.620 --> 15:57.620 Oh, the motor, I don't know. 15:57.620 --> 16:00.620 Just in case, I'm going to leave this door open. 16:00.620 --> 16:12.620 Yeah, I'm coming up. 16:12.620 --> 16:14.620 Mister? 16:14.620 --> 16:17.620 Mister, if you're in there. 16:17.620 --> 16:20.620 Mister? 16:20.620 --> 16:24.620 If you're in there, in that elevator, and you know what's happened, 16:24.620 --> 16:29.620 and if there's some way the three of us can get together so that nobody has to get hurt anymore. 16:29.620 --> 16:30.620 Listen, all right, we killed his wife. 16:30.620 --> 16:31.620 You don't know what she was. 16:31.620 --> 16:33.620 You don't know what she was. 16:33.620 --> 16:34.620 Janice? 16:34.620 --> 16:36.620 Janice, what do you do? 16:36.620 --> 16:38.620 Maybe we can reason with him if he's in there. 16:38.620 --> 16:43.620 Maybe all we have to do is explain why it happened and maybe tell him we're not so bad. 16:43.620 --> 16:45.620 Look, look, you know what, Janice, there's no one in there. 16:45.620 --> 16:46.620 There is, there is. 16:46.620 --> 16:47.620 I know it, Harry. 16:47.620 --> 16:49.620 All right, I'll find out for sure. 16:49.620 --> 16:51.620 Come on, we'll go upstairs up to the second floor. 16:51.620 --> 16:52.620 I got a way to make sure. 16:52.620 --> 16:53.620 How? 16:53.620 --> 16:55.620 I'll climb down into the elevator from the second floor. 16:55.620 --> 16:57.620 There's a little trap door on top. 16:57.620 --> 16:59.620 I'll open it, strike a match, I'll find out. 16:59.620 --> 17:00.620 Come on. 17:17.620 --> 17:18.620 You got matches, Harry? 17:18.620 --> 17:19.620 I'll use my lighter. 17:20.620 --> 17:21.620 My lighter. 17:21.620 --> 17:24.620 I got the trap door open. 17:24.620 --> 17:25.620 Can you see him? 17:25.620 --> 17:26.620 No, wait, I'll... 17:28.620 --> 17:30.620 No, I'm going to have to... 17:31.620 --> 17:32.620 Harry! 17:32.620 --> 17:33.620 Harry, what is it? 17:33.620 --> 17:34.620 What's the matter? 17:34.620 --> 17:35.620 Harry! 17:35.620 --> 17:36.620 Harry! 17:38.620 --> 17:39.620 He's in there, Janice, he's in there. 17:39.620 --> 17:40.620 He grabbed my arm. 17:40.620 --> 17:41.620 I reached him with the light. 17:41.620 --> 17:42.620 He's in there. 17:42.620 --> 17:43.620 Kill him, kill him, kill him. 17:43.620 --> 17:44.620 You've got to kill him. 17:44.620 --> 17:45.620 Just leave me alone. 17:45.620 --> 17:46.620 Get away from me. 17:46.620 --> 17:47.620 Leave me alone, will you? 17:47.620 --> 17:48.620 He knows we've got to. 17:48.620 --> 17:49.620 Get away from me! 17:49.620 --> 17:50.620 Harry! 17:50.620 --> 17:51.620 Harry! 17:51.620 --> 17:52.620 Harry! 17:52.620 --> 17:55.620 All right, all right, all right now. 17:55.620 --> 17:56.620 Janice, Janice! 17:58.620 --> 17:59.620 I'll try to. 17:59.620 --> 18:00.620 It's all right now. 18:00.620 --> 18:03.620 It's all right that he's in there. 18:04.620 --> 18:05.620 What do you mean? 18:05.620 --> 18:07.620 We killed my wife. 18:07.620 --> 18:08.620 We were going to take her jewelry. 18:08.620 --> 18:11.620 It'd make it look like robbery and murder. 18:11.620 --> 18:13.620 It'd make it look like she surprised a thief. 18:13.620 --> 18:15.620 She was coming home when the thief was leaving. 18:15.620 --> 18:17.620 Don't you see? 18:17.620 --> 18:19.620 I'll bring my wife up here, up here to the bedroom. 18:19.620 --> 18:22.620 Then I'll throw the jewels in the elevator, empty the gun, throw it in. 18:22.620 --> 18:25.620 And he'll be the thief, the murderer trapped in the elevator. 18:25.620 --> 18:27.620 Hey, how do you like that, Brewer? 18:27.620 --> 18:28.620 You'll be the murderer. 18:28.620 --> 18:29.620 How do you like that? 18:29.620 --> 18:31.620 Just do it, Harry. 18:31.620 --> 18:33.620 Yeah, it's going to be all right, Janice. 18:33.620 --> 18:34.620 Just do it. 18:42.620 --> 18:43.620 Mister? 18:43.620 --> 18:46.620 Mister? 18:46.620 --> 18:49.620 We know you're in there, mister. 18:49.620 --> 18:52.620 Just a couple of feet below. 18:52.620 --> 18:53.620 Listen, mister. 18:53.620 --> 18:55.620 What do you want? 19:01.620 --> 19:03.620 Hello, Mr. Paperhanger Brewer. 19:03.620 --> 19:04.620 If you think... 19:04.620 --> 19:05.620 What? 19:05.620 --> 19:07.620 If you think you can get away with this... 19:07.620 --> 19:08.620 I tried to reason with you. 19:08.620 --> 19:10.620 All I wanted you to do was go away. 19:10.620 --> 19:12.620 I talked to your wife. 19:12.620 --> 19:14.620 She was worried, wasn't she? 19:14.620 --> 19:17.620 If you'd listened to me, you could have been home now. 19:17.620 --> 19:19.620 How could I listen to you? 19:19.620 --> 19:20.620 What you did? 19:20.620 --> 19:23.620 I tried to explain it to you and you wouldn't listen. 19:23.620 --> 19:25.620 Mr. Rogers was a married man. 19:25.620 --> 19:28.620 You carried on with him and what you did. 19:28.620 --> 19:30.620 You know what? 19:30.620 --> 19:31.620 What? 19:31.620 --> 19:33.620 He shot his wife. 19:33.620 --> 19:35.620 But you're as much a murderer. 19:35.620 --> 19:37.620 I know. 19:37.620 --> 19:39.620 How can you expect me to listen to you? 19:39.620 --> 19:40.620 I don't want anybody else to get hurt. 19:40.620 --> 19:41.620 Yeah, yeah, I know. 19:41.620 --> 19:42.620 Honest. 19:42.620 --> 19:45.620 The way you said, kill him, kill him, meaning me. 19:45.620 --> 19:46.620 What about that? 19:46.620 --> 19:48.620 Because you had to act so smart. 19:48.620 --> 19:51.620 Because you didn't answer when I talked to you. 19:51.620 --> 19:53.620 I saw you. 19:53.620 --> 19:54.620 What do you mean? 19:54.620 --> 19:56.620 When you were downstairs in the living room. 19:56.620 --> 20:00.620 I was lying down on the floor in here and I saw you. 20:00.620 --> 20:04.620 I can't understand how anybody who looks like you can do what you did. 20:04.620 --> 20:07.620 What does your wife look like? 20:07.620 --> 20:09.620 Why? 20:09.620 --> 20:11.620 What do you look like? 20:11.620 --> 20:13.620 See, you don't even know. 20:13.620 --> 20:15.620 You don't care what a man looks like. 20:15.620 --> 20:17.620 You're going to do what you're going to do. 20:17.620 --> 20:19.620 Yes, I am. 20:19.620 --> 20:21.620 Mr. 20:21.620 --> 20:23.620 Mr. 20:23.620 --> 20:25.620 Mr. 20:25.620 --> 20:27.620 Mr. 20:27.620 --> 20:31.620 Mr. Paperhanger, I'm talking to you. 20:31.620 --> 20:44.620 I'm talking to you, talking to you. 20:44.620 --> 20:47.620 Give me a hand, Janice. 20:47.620 --> 20:49.620 Hey, Janice, what's the matter? 20:49.620 --> 20:51.620 Nothing. 20:51.620 --> 20:53.620 It's almost over. 20:53.620 --> 20:58.620 Just put her right down here. 20:58.620 --> 20:59.620 I got the jewels. 20:59.620 --> 21:01.620 Here, hold them a minute. 21:01.620 --> 21:02.620 No. 21:02.620 --> 21:04.620 No, just put them down someplace. 21:04.620 --> 21:06.620 All right, all right. 21:06.620 --> 21:09.620 Take the rest of the bullets out of this gun, that's all. 21:09.620 --> 21:12.620 Yeah, wait a minute. 21:12.620 --> 21:16.620 Stop acting like a baby. 21:16.620 --> 21:18.620 What did you have to do that for? 21:18.620 --> 21:20.620 Now, there are no more bullets in the gun. 21:20.620 --> 21:22.620 Bullets in the wall. 21:22.620 --> 21:24.620 You make this place look like a mess. 21:24.620 --> 21:28.620 Makes you put up a fight. 21:28.620 --> 21:30.620 There. 21:30.620 --> 21:33.620 You okay, Janice? 21:33.620 --> 21:35.620 Now, what do you have to do? 21:35.620 --> 21:38.620 Just climb down there again on top of the elevator, that's all. 21:38.620 --> 21:42.620 I told you it would all be over in a minute. 21:42.620 --> 21:43.620 Hey. 21:43.620 --> 21:46.620 Hey, you, Brewer. 21:46.620 --> 21:48.620 Not talking, huh? 21:48.620 --> 21:50.620 Well, I don't mind. 21:50.620 --> 21:51.620 I'm going to give you something, Brewer. 21:51.620 --> 21:54.620 Here, jewelry, bracelet and a necklace. 21:54.620 --> 21:56.620 Worth a lot of money, Brewer. 21:56.620 --> 21:58.620 And here's a gun, too. 21:58.620 --> 21:59.620 Empty. 21:59.620 --> 22:03.620 Because it's the one you killed my wife with. 22:03.620 --> 22:05.620 Goodbye, Brewer. 22:14.620 --> 22:17.620 So now look what's happened to me. 22:17.620 --> 22:20.620 I was papering a house and I got caught in an elevator. 22:20.620 --> 22:22.620 Now they're going to blame me for a murder. 22:22.620 --> 22:25.620 Mr. Rogers and that girl. 22:25.620 --> 22:28.620 And here I am stuck in an elevator and there's nothing I can do about it. 22:28.620 --> 22:31.620 They're on the first floor now and he's helping her with her coat. 22:31.620 --> 22:33.620 She still looks shaky. 22:33.620 --> 22:37.620 I can lie down on the floor and look out through that gap and I can see them. 22:37.620 --> 22:42.620 And hey, they're starting to leave. 22:42.620 --> 22:45.620 Hey, Mr. Rogers. 22:45.620 --> 22:48.620 You're not going to get away with it, Mr. Rogers. 22:48.620 --> 22:50.620 Before you go, you'd better think about something. 22:50.620 --> 22:52.620 What about the fingerprints? 22:52.620 --> 22:57.620 What about the fingerprints on the gun, Mr. Rogers? 22:57.620 --> 22:59.620 I guess you did, huh? 22:59.620 --> 23:02.620 Guess you forgot to wipe them off. 23:02.620 --> 23:05.620 Else you'd have walked out of here instead of... 23:06.620 --> 23:09.620 Hello, Mr. Rogers. 23:09.620 --> 23:14.620 I'm lying down on the floor of the elevator and I'm looking out of the gap and I can see you. 23:14.620 --> 23:17.620 Hello, Miss. 23:17.620 --> 23:20.620 I'm in here and you're out there. 23:20.620 --> 23:23.620 But you're the one who's trapped now. 23:23.620 --> 23:26.620 What is it you want, Mr. Rogers? 23:26.620 --> 23:28.620 Mr. Brewer... 23:28.620 --> 23:30.620 Harry, he's right, isn't he? 23:30.620 --> 23:32.620 Your fingerprints are on the gun. 23:32.620 --> 23:36.620 Mr. Brewer, I guess we'd better make some arrangements, shouldn't we? 23:36.620 --> 23:40.620 Janice, go down to the basement and shut the elevator door. 23:40.620 --> 23:43.620 Then Mr. Brewer will be able to bring the elevator down. 23:43.620 --> 23:46.620 Go ahead, Janice. Go on, hurry. 23:46.620 --> 23:48.620 How does it feel? 23:48.620 --> 23:53.620 The first thing I want to tell you is that you can keep the jewels... 23:53.620 --> 23:55.620 How does it feel to be trapped? 23:55.620 --> 23:57.620 Oh, really? Now we'll talk this over. 23:57.620 --> 23:59.620 It feels terrible, doesn't it? 23:59.620 --> 24:00.620 When you come out of the elevator... 24:00.620 --> 24:03.620 I don't think so. 24:03.620 --> 24:06.620 I don't know whether I'm going to come out or not. 24:06.620 --> 24:08.620 Not now. 24:10.620 --> 24:11.620 It's closed, Harry. 24:11.620 --> 24:12.620 Well, come on up. 24:12.620 --> 24:17.620 All I have to do is keep my finger on this emergency stop button and you can't move this elevator an inch. 24:17.620 --> 24:19.620 Now, let's be reasonable. 24:19.620 --> 24:21.620 You killed your wife, Mr. Rogers. 24:21.620 --> 24:24.620 How do I know what else you got down there you might kill me with? 24:24.620 --> 24:27.620 Do you think I'd... 24:27.620 --> 24:30.620 Now, you know what a silly question that is, don't you? 24:30.620 --> 24:34.620 Look, I got this gun of yours and it's proof you killed her. 24:34.620 --> 24:37.620 No amount of arguing you can think of can change that. 24:37.620 --> 24:39.620 Money. Do you want money? 24:39.620 --> 24:41.620 I don't think money's important right now. 24:41.620 --> 24:42.620 Well, why is he... 24:42.620 --> 24:44.620 He won't come out. 24:44.620 --> 24:45.620 What? 24:45.620 --> 24:48.620 No, sir. I'm not coming out. 24:48.620 --> 24:50.620 I got you two where I want you and I'm not moving. 24:50.620 --> 24:53.620 Janice, tell him how rich I am. Tell him what I can do for him. 24:53.620 --> 24:54.620 Harry. 24:54.620 --> 24:55.620 Come on, tell him, tell him. 24:55.620 --> 24:56.620 Harry. 24:56.620 --> 24:57.620 All the things I can do for him. 24:57.620 --> 24:58.620 Harry, Harry, Harry. 24:58.620 --> 24:59.620 Now, shut it out. 24:59.620 --> 25:02.620 All the things you can do. Look at what you can do. 25:02.620 --> 25:04.620 All the things you can do. Look at what you can do. 25:04.620 --> 25:05.620 Stop it. Stop it. 25:05.620 --> 25:06.620 Shut up. 25:06.620 --> 25:07.620 Shut up. 25:07.620 --> 25:08.620 Shut up. 25:08.620 --> 25:09.620 Janice, shut up. 25:09.620 --> 25:10.620 Janice. 25:10.620 --> 25:13.620 Janice. 25:13.620 --> 25:15.620 Janice. 25:15.620 --> 25:19.620 Janice, dear, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit you. 25:19.620 --> 25:21.620 You're all right, aren't you? 25:24.620 --> 25:26.620 Dad. 25:26.620 --> 25:29.620 Oh, are you dead, Janice? 25:29.620 --> 25:31.620 Dead, Janice. 25:31.620 --> 25:32.620 Dead, Janice. 25:32.620 --> 25:33.620 Dead, Janice. 25:33.620 --> 25:34.620 Dead, dead. 25:34.620 --> 25:36.620 No, no, no. 25:36.620 --> 25:38.620 No, no. 25:38.620 --> 25:40.620 No. 26:01.620 --> 26:02.620 Hello, Norma. 26:02.620 --> 26:04.620 Jerry, dear. 26:04.620 --> 26:06.620 No, no, everything's fine. 26:06.620 --> 26:07.620 Yeah. 26:07.620 --> 26:09.620 Just a little while. 26:09.620 --> 26:11.620 No, really, everything's fine. 26:11.620 --> 26:14.620 I'll tell you about it when I get home. 26:15.620 --> 26:18.620 Well, I got stuck in an elevator zone. 26:18.620 --> 26:21.620 I said I got stuck in an elevator. 26:21.620 --> 26:43.620 No, really. 26:43.620 --> 26:45.620 Suspense. 26:45.620 --> 26:46.620 Presented by Auto Light. 26:46.620 --> 26:49.620 Tonight's star, Mr. Dick Hames. 26:49.620 --> 26:52.620 This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for Auto Light, 26:52.620 --> 26:56.620 world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. 26:56.620 --> 27:00.620 Auto Light is proud to serve the greatest names in the industry. 27:00.620 --> 27:03.620 They are members of the Auto Light family, 27:03.620 --> 27:07.620 as well as other 98,000 Auto Light distributors and dealers in the United States 27:07.620 --> 27:10.620 and thousands more in Canada and throughout the world. 27:10.620 --> 27:17.620 Our family also includes the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to coast 27:17.620 --> 27:20.620 and Auto Light plants in many foreign countries, 27:20.620 --> 27:26.620 as well as the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 27:26.620 --> 27:30.620 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research 27:30.620 --> 27:34.620 and precision built to the highest standards of quality and performance. 27:34.620 --> 27:39.620 So remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 27:39.620 --> 27:52.620 Next week, a terrifying tale about a man who was able to foresee the future 27:52.620 --> 27:55.620 and found in it his own violent death. 27:55.620 --> 27:58.620 It's called Vision of Death. 27:58.620 --> 28:01.620 Our star, Mr. Ronald Coleman. 28:01.620 --> 28:07.620 That's next week on Suspense. 28:07.620 --> 28:11.620 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis, 28:11.620 --> 28:15.620 with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. 28:15.620 --> 28:20.620 Pigeon in the Cage was written for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. 28:20.620 --> 28:26.620 In tonight's play, Charlotte Lawrence was Janice and Joseph Kearns was Harry. 28:26.620 --> 28:32.620 And remember next week, Mr. Ronald Coleman in Vision of Death. 28:32.620 --> 28:38.620 You can buy Auto Light electrical parts, Auto Light stay-full batteries, 28:38.620 --> 28:43.620 and Auto Light resistor or standard type spark plugs at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 28:43.620 --> 28:48.620 Switch to Auto Light. 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