WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.200 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Ronald Coleman in tonight's presentation 00:10.200 --> 00:11.200 of... 00:11.200 --> 00:12.200 Suspense. 00:12.200 --> 00:21.520 Tonight, Auto Light brings you the story of a mind reader who discovers his nightclub 00:21.520 --> 00:25.480 act is not a fake, a vision of death. 00:25.480 --> 00:28.560 Our star, Mr. Ronald Coleman. 00:28.560 --> 00:33.960 Help, help. 00:33.960 --> 00:35.640 What's the trouble, Oscar Otto? 00:35.640 --> 00:37.640 It's my battery, Harlow. 00:37.640 --> 00:39.120 Water, please. 00:39.120 --> 00:41.440 Why, sure. 00:41.440 --> 00:44.360 But why not avoid that battery distress, Oscar? 00:44.360 --> 00:48.040 Get an Auto Light Stayful, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal 00:48.040 --> 00:49.040 car use. 00:49.040 --> 00:50.040 Is that a fact, Harlow? 00:50.040 --> 00:54.240 A fact that millions of cars and owners have proved for themselves, Oscar. 00:54.240 --> 00:57.080 And the Auto Light Stayful gives longer life, too. 00:57.080 --> 01:01.720 Fiberglass retaining mats protect every positive plate to reduce shedding and flaking and give 01:01.720 --> 01:06.960 the Auto Light Stayful longer life, as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life 01:06.960 --> 01:07.960 cycle standards. 01:07.960 --> 01:11.400 Where do I get this no-worry battery, Harlow? 01:11.400 --> 01:13.880 From your nearest Auto Light battery dealer. 01:13.880 --> 01:18.160 To quickly locate him, phone Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 01:18.160 --> 01:22.400 I'll tell you the name of your nearest Auto Light battery dealer where you can get an 01:22.400 --> 01:27.280 Auto Light Stayful, the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car 01:27.280 --> 01:28.280 use. 01:28.280 --> 01:32.560 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:32.560 --> 01:39.520 And now, Auto Light presents A Vision of Death, starring Mr. Ronald Coleman, hoping once again 01:39.520 --> 01:55.320 to keep you in suspense. 01:55.320 --> 01:59.160 If I speak too rapidly for your stenographer, you'll tell me, won't you, Lieutenant? 01:59.160 --> 02:03.720 No offense, but he impresses me as someone who has to sit on the floor to put on his 02:03.720 --> 02:04.720 shoes. 02:04.720 --> 02:07.400 And stop me if I seem to wander away from the point, won't you? 02:07.400 --> 02:11.960 I mean to say, this is my first and, I hope, final appearance in a police precinct, and 02:11.960 --> 02:14.480 I should hate to give a sloppy performance. 02:14.480 --> 02:20.720 We were always known, Aurora and I, for the smoothness and gem-like precision of our act. 02:20.720 --> 02:26.440 As far as this murder...rap, I suppose it's called, is concerned, an acquaintance with 02:26.440 --> 02:29.280 our act is the essential rabbit. 02:29.280 --> 02:30.280 Awfully good act. 02:30.280 --> 02:35.360 Smart, informal, occasionally humorous and always mystifying. 02:35.360 --> 02:41.360 Well, the act always began with music, never with the cliché fanfare of trumpets or roll 02:41.360 --> 02:42.800 of drums. 02:42.800 --> 02:48.760 I would saunter out to the center of the floor and say something like, good evening, you're 02:48.760 --> 02:52.280 about to witness an exhibition of mental telepathy. 02:52.280 --> 02:56.760 Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Aurora, my wife. 02:56.760 --> 02:59.640 Ah, they never fail to give her a hand. 02:59.640 --> 03:01.120 Oh, but they applaud. 03:01.120 --> 03:04.640 Why, the vision she presented as she came toward me. 03:04.640 --> 03:10.360 There has never been anyone as lovely as Aurora, the most beautiful flesh in the profession. 03:10.360 --> 03:16.760 Now, Aurora, would you care to tell the audience or shall I? 03:16.760 --> 03:21.000 You tell them, Judd, while I tie the blindfold across my eyes. 03:21.000 --> 03:25.480 Ladies and gentlemen, all mind-readers employ a gimmick. 03:25.480 --> 03:28.080 A gimmick is a trick, a device. 03:28.080 --> 03:32.560 For example, when the mind-reader threading his way through the audience says to the mind-reader 03:32.560 --> 03:36.920 sitting blindfolded on the stage, a lady has given me a small object which I now hold in 03:36.920 --> 03:38.560 my hand, what is it? 03:38.560 --> 03:42.240 And the mind-reader sitting blindfolded replies, a silver coin. 03:42.240 --> 03:44.800 The answer has not come through mind-reading, no. 03:44.800 --> 03:50.040 It has come through the gimmick, a cue or signal communicated through the very question 03:50.040 --> 03:51.040 itself. 03:51.040 --> 03:52.040 But we don't do that. 03:52.040 --> 03:53.580 We do not. 03:53.580 --> 03:58.240 You will notice, ladies and gentlemen, that I never speak to Aurora at all. 03:58.240 --> 04:00.000 Now, are you ready, Rory? 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 Ready, Judd. 04:01.000 --> 04:02.000 Here we go then. 04:02.000 --> 04:04.360 Now, you, sir, you have something? 04:04.360 --> 04:05.360 Good. 04:05.360 --> 04:06.360 Concentrate upon it like a good chap. 04:06.360 --> 04:07.360 And you, madam... 04:07.360 --> 04:09.240 The gentleman holds a coin in his hand. 04:09.240 --> 04:12.720 It's a Mexican peso bearing the date 1-8-9-2. 04:12.720 --> 04:17.840 Oh, that's very clever of you, madam. 04:17.840 --> 04:19.600 I'll be surprised if she gets this one. 04:19.600 --> 04:20.600 Now, how about you? 04:20.600 --> 04:32.240 She holds in her hand her other hand. 04:32.240 --> 04:37.960 Yep, a sucker once born remains a sucker till death. 04:37.960 --> 04:41.840 The audience never realized, never in all the years we worked, that although I was not 04:41.840 --> 04:48.400 speaking to Aurora directly, my chatter nevertheless was loaded with signals and cues for her guidance. 04:48.400 --> 04:52.960 By revealing the gimmick, we concealed the gimmick, and that, lieutenant, is the knee 04:52.960 --> 04:54.920 plus ultra of gimmicks. 04:54.920 --> 05:00.400 Yes, it was as crude as that, but it enabled us to work 50 weeks a year here and abroad 05:00.400 --> 05:02.960 at an average of over a thousand a week. 05:02.960 --> 05:08.680 Of course, I always gave some credit for our success to our agent, Harry Arnold, although 05:08.680 --> 05:12.040 Rory was inclined to give him no credit at all. 05:12.040 --> 05:15.200 Good knows, Judd, I've managed to book the act into the college inn in Chicago with a 05:15.200 --> 05:16.200 four-week guarantee. 05:16.200 --> 05:17.680 That's not bad, huh? 05:17.680 --> 05:18.680 Not him. 05:18.680 --> 05:20.120 He managed to book the act. 05:20.120 --> 05:22.360 I suppose they never heard of us in Chicago. 05:22.360 --> 05:26.040 I suppose we weren't held over there six weeks when we played the Saint-Souci in 1948. 05:26.040 --> 05:28.880 Well, you think it's easy to get a four-week guarantee these days? 05:28.880 --> 05:29.880 Money is short. 05:29.880 --> 05:30.880 Money is tight. 05:30.880 --> 05:34.080 I have never yet heard you say money is long, money is loose. 05:34.080 --> 05:36.640 You have to sweat for your 10%, don't you? 05:36.640 --> 05:37.640 Yes, you do. 05:37.640 --> 05:39.280 In a pig's ear, you do. 05:39.280 --> 05:41.480 Agents, they're all alike. 05:41.480 --> 05:42.560 There's gratitude for you. 05:42.560 --> 05:44.820 There's the milk of human memory. 05:44.820 --> 05:46.160 What were you when I first saw you? 05:46.160 --> 05:49.940 Playing not this much, playing 10 a day on the canvas in Monash, Wisconsin, and paid 05:49.940 --> 05:50.940 off in bottle tops. 05:50.940 --> 05:52.940 I worked, I schemed, I sweated. 05:52.940 --> 05:54.880 Agents, all of them. 05:54.880 --> 05:57.440 All they know is how to live off a dead whale, scum of the earth. 05:57.440 --> 05:58.920 I'm not going to take that from you, you hear me? 05:58.920 --> 06:00.920 You take it, baby, along with the 10%. 06:00.920 --> 06:03.920 You'll take it, you'll chew it, you'll swallow it, and you'll keep it down. 06:03.920 --> 06:04.920 How do you like that? 06:04.920 --> 06:06.440 I'm warning you, kid, don't push me too far. 06:06.440 --> 06:07.440 Don't push me. 06:07.440 --> 06:10.640 Children, children, now on your way, Harry, and don't let it get you down. 06:10.640 --> 06:12.960 I think a four-week guarantee is pretty good. 06:12.960 --> 06:13.960 Thanks, Judd. 06:13.960 --> 06:16.360 If it wasn't for you, I'd... 06:16.360 --> 06:17.360 Why go into it? 06:17.360 --> 06:28.520 I'm going for a walk. 06:28.520 --> 06:33.120 But aside from these altercations between Rory and Harry, it was smooth sailing. 06:33.120 --> 06:38.160 We wore the best, ate the best, drank the best, stayed at the finest hotels. 06:38.160 --> 06:41.560 And every Saturday night after the performance, Harry would bring us our salary. 06:41.560 --> 06:45.920 He'd bring it in cash, 1,000, 1,250, 1,500. 06:45.920 --> 06:48.880 I've the old performer's distrust of checks. 06:48.880 --> 06:51.600 Been given too many with the high latex content. 06:51.600 --> 06:54.720 Anyway, life couldn't have been more classy. 06:54.720 --> 07:01.160 And then one evening, about five weeks ago, soon after we opened up the Grove here in 07:01.160 --> 07:04.360 town, a frightening thing occurred. 07:04.360 --> 07:08.200 We'd just begun the act, and I was out in the audience. 07:08.200 --> 07:12.360 You'll notice, ladies and gentlemen, that I never speak to Aurora at all. 07:12.360 --> 07:14.160 Now, are you ready, Rory? 07:14.160 --> 07:15.160 Ready, Judd. 07:15.160 --> 07:16.160 Here we go then. 07:16.160 --> 07:17.160 Now, you, madam. 07:17.160 --> 07:21.320 The lady holds in her hand a compact. 07:21.320 --> 07:23.920 It is platinum. 07:23.920 --> 07:26.040 It bears her initials, R-C. 07:26.040 --> 07:31.640 You, sir, have you... 07:31.640 --> 07:36.640 The gentleman is holding an engagement ring. 07:36.640 --> 07:39.680 In it are three small diamonds. 07:39.680 --> 07:40.680 I... 07:40.680 --> 07:43.680 Miss, what would you... 07:43.680 --> 07:46.680 The young lady... 07:46.680 --> 07:50.720 The young lady is holding... 07:50.720 --> 07:53.680 It's a small cameo brooch. 07:53.680 --> 07:55.680 Rory. 07:55.680 --> 07:57.680 Rory. 07:57.680 --> 08:01.800 Maurice, music. 08:01.800 --> 08:06.000 I picked Rory up from the floor and hurried to our dressing room. 08:06.000 --> 08:07.960 Almost beside myself with anxiety. 08:07.960 --> 08:11.680 I placed her on the couch, dampened a towel and put it on her forehead and began to chafe 08:11.680 --> 08:12.680 her wrists. 08:12.680 --> 08:13.680 Rory. 08:13.680 --> 08:14.680 Rory, honey. 08:14.680 --> 08:15.680 Rory. 08:15.680 --> 08:16.680 Judd. 08:16.680 --> 08:17.680 Judd. 08:17.680 --> 08:18.680 I'm here, Rory. 08:18.680 --> 08:19.680 Are you all right? 08:19.680 --> 08:20.680 I guess so. 08:20.680 --> 08:21.680 I don't know what happened. 08:21.680 --> 08:23.880 Well, you fainted away. 08:23.880 --> 08:26.880 Try to remember what happened. 08:26.880 --> 08:27.880 I felt funny. 08:27.880 --> 08:28.880 I don't remember. 08:28.880 --> 08:29.880 Try, Rory. 08:29.880 --> 08:30.880 Try. 08:30.880 --> 08:31.880 Try to remember. 08:31.880 --> 08:32.880 It's important. 08:32.880 --> 08:33.880 I can't. 08:33.880 --> 08:37.080 I can't. 08:37.080 --> 08:38.080 Why is it important? 08:38.080 --> 08:39.680 You don't know? 08:39.680 --> 08:42.120 Rory, you don't know. 08:42.120 --> 08:57.200 You were calling out the answers before I even had a chance to give you the cues. 08:57.200 --> 08:59.720 Do you believe in telepathy, Lieutenant? 08:59.720 --> 09:02.040 I don't mean the sort of thing Rory and I usually did. 09:02.040 --> 09:04.800 I mean real telepathy. 09:04.800 --> 09:07.360 I never did either until that night. 09:07.360 --> 09:10.000 I don't mind telling you I was badly shaken. 09:10.000 --> 09:14.800 I mean, after all, I knew we'd been using a gimmick and suddenly it began to happen without 09:14.800 --> 09:15.800 the gimmick. 09:15.800 --> 09:16.800 Scared us to death. 09:16.800 --> 09:21.680 We didn't know what we were getting into, but we went on with the act. 09:21.680 --> 09:25.960 And in my mind, I began to search about for the answer. 09:25.960 --> 09:27.280 I found it, of course. 09:27.280 --> 09:29.920 You'll find a gimmick in almost everything. 09:29.920 --> 09:33.900 If you look hard enough, I've got it, Rory. 09:33.900 --> 09:38.200 We work together so long that you know what I'm about to say before I say it. 09:38.200 --> 09:40.360 From my inflection, my pauses, even my movements. 09:40.360 --> 09:41.360 You see? 09:41.360 --> 09:42.360 Oh, Judd, that has to be it. 09:42.360 --> 09:43.920 Oh, this is marvelous. 09:43.920 --> 09:45.740 When Harry gets back, I'll tell him about it. 09:45.740 --> 09:48.320 And if I last till tomorrow, he can ask the management for more dough. 09:48.320 --> 09:49.720 Soon as he gets back. 09:49.720 --> 09:50.720 Next Thursday. 09:50.720 --> 09:51.720 Tonight. 09:51.720 --> 09:54.200 How much more should we ask for? 09:54.200 --> 09:55.900 Tonight? 09:55.900 --> 09:56.900 What made you say tonight? 09:56.900 --> 09:57.900 I don't know. 09:57.900 --> 10:02.240 Well, you were there when he told me he'd be in Palm Springs till Thursday. 10:02.240 --> 10:03.240 What made you say tonight? 10:03.240 --> 10:04.240 I don't know. 10:04.240 --> 10:06.080 What difference does it make? 10:06.080 --> 10:07.080 Stop picking on me. 10:07.080 --> 10:09.080 So I made a mistake, so what? 10:09.080 --> 10:11.640 I don't see how you can make such a mistake, that's all. 10:11.640 --> 10:12.640 Oh, Judd, leave me alone. 10:12.640 --> 10:15.960 I've been worried half crazy about really being able to read your mind. 10:15.960 --> 10:17.960 I've been under a strain. 10:17.960 --> 10:19.720 So Harry's coming back Thursday and not tonight. 10:19.720 --> 10:21.080 All right, are you satisfied? 10:21.080 --> 10:23.560 He'll be here Thursday, not tonight. 10:23.560 --> 10:25.600 Your justice stone, mister. 10:25.600 --> 10:26.600 This dresser room, eh? 10:26.600 --> 10:27.600 Yeah, what is it? 10:27.600 --> 10:28.600 I've got a sign here. 10:28.600 --> 10:31.600 Sign for it, will you, Rory? 10:31.600 --> 10:35.600 There you are, kid. 10:35.600 --> 10:39.600 Judd, I'm sorry I blew up in your face. 10:39.600 --> 10:43.600 Judd, what's the matter? 10:43.600 --> 10:45.920 It's from Harry. 10:45.920 --> 10:56.400 He's coming in tonight. 10:56.400 --> 10:58.640 And he did, too, Lieutenant. 10:58.640 --> 11:02.080 Rory was so upset by it, she couldn't go on at all that evening. 11:02.080 --> 11:04.520 She had no explanation for how she knew, none whatsoever. 11:04.520 --> 11:07.160 I don't know, Judd, I just don't know. 11:07.160 --> 11:08.200 My mind seemed to go blank. 11:08.200 --> 11:13.320 I seemed to hear a voice whisper in my ear, Harry Arnold will be with you tonight. 11:13.320 --> 11:14.320 That's all. 11:14.320 --> 11:18.880 When we got back to our suite at the hotel, Harry was there waiting for us. 11:18.880 --> 11:19.880 Oh, what happened? 11:19.880 --> 11:20.880 Oh, what happened? 11:20.880 --> 11:22.360 You both look like ghosts. 11:22.360 --> 11:24.520 Harry, I'll tell you some other time. 11:24.520 --> 11:25.520 Leave us alone, will you? 11:25.520 --> 11:26.520 All right, I'm going. 11:26.520 --> 11:29.520 I just came to wish you a happy birthday and to give you this. 11:29.520 --> 11:30.520 Birthday? 11:30.520 --> 11:31.520 Oh, thanks, Harry. 11:31.520 --> 11:32.520 Thanks. 11:32.520 --> 11:33.520 What is it? 11:33.520 --> 11:34.520 Well, open it, why don't you? 11:34.520 --> 11:40.880 It's a bathrobe, a red silk bathrobe with your initials. 11:40.880 --> 11:41.880 That's right, it's a red... 11:41.880 --> 11:42.880 How does she know? 11:42.880 --> 11:43.880 How do you know? 11:43.880 --> 11:44.880 Get out of here! 11:44.880 --> 11:45.880 Get out of here! 11:45.880 --> 11:50.320 Judd, make him get out of here! 11:50.320 --> 11:51.480 I won't be talked to like that. 11:51.480 --> 11:52.480 I don't care who she is. 11:52.480 --> 11:53.480 I won't be talked to like that. 11:53.480 --> 11:54.480 Harry, shut up. 11:54.480 --> 11:55.760 For the sake of the police, shut up and go away. 11:55.760 --> 11:56.760 Leave us alone. 11:56.760 --> 11:57.760 Go, get out. 11:57.760 --> 11:58.760 Get out! 11:58.760 --> 11:59.760 You too, Judd? 11:59.760 --> 12:01.280 She's got you talking against me too? 12:01.280 --> 12:03.280 All right, I'm going. 12:03.280 --> 12:05.880 I'm going, but from here on, idiot, strictly business between us. 12:05.880 --> 12:08.880 I wash my hands. 12:08.880 --> 12:17.480 He kept his word, Lieutenant. 12:17.480 --> 12:20.480 From that time on, he kept himself to himself. 12:20.480 --> 12:25.720 And I was prepared to let it go at that, much as I liked Harry, until the night I was awakened 12:25.720 --> 12:28.480 by Rory, moaning in her sleep. 12:28.480 --> 12:32.280 No, no, please, no, don't. 12:32.280 --> 12:34.320 Rory, Rory, wake up. 12:34.320 --> 12:37.320 You're having a bad dream, Rory. 12:37.320 --> 12:40.320 No, no. 12:40.320 --> 12:42.320 Judd, Judd. 12:42.320 --> 12:46.240 It's all right, I'm here, I'm here. 12:46.240 --> 12:47.240 Oh, Judd. 12:47.240 --> 12:49.360 What, Rory? 12:49.360 --> 12:51.640 The voice. 12:51.640 --> 12:53.200 Whispering again? 12:53.200 --> 12:54.200 Yes. 12:54.200 --> 12:55.760 Oh, Judd. 12:55.760 --> 12:56.760 What? 12:56.760 --> 13:00.280 He's going to kill me. 13:00.280 --> 13:07.720 Harry Arnold is going to kill me. 13:07.720 --> 13:23.360 And that, Lieutenant, was the beginning of the end of that. 13:23.360 --> 13:29.280 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Ronald Coleman in A Vision of Death, tonight's presentation 13:29.280 --> 13:38.080 in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:38.080 --> 13:46.240 Hey, Harlow, here's a riddle. 13:46.240 --> 13:47.720 Shoot, Oscar Otto. 13:47.720 --> 13:50.320 I got it, and I have it. 13:50.320 --> 13:55.620 You've got an Auto Light's day full battery, and now you have a power-packed paragon that 13:55.620 --> 14:00.120 gives quick dependable starts and needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 14:00.120 --> 14:03.000 You said a stay full, Harlow. 14:03.000 --> 14:06.480 Just what every driver should say when he needs a battery, Oscar. 14:06.480 --> 14:11.120 An Auto Light stay full with the fiberglass retaining mats protecting every positive plate 14:11.120 --> 14:16.400 to reduce shedding and flaking, and give that brawny battery longer life as proved by tests 14:16.400 --> 14:19.540 conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 14:19.540 --> 14:24.280 So friends, choose the battery that states right on the case, needs water only three 14:24.280 --> 14:27.000 times a year in normal car use. 14:27.000 --> 14:31.080 To learn quickly where to get an Auto Light stay full battery, just phone Western Union 14:31.080 --> 14:33.440 by number and ask for operator 25. 14:33.440 --> 14:38.200 I'll tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light battery dealer, the expert on all 14:38.200 --> 14:39.320 makes of batteries. 14:39.320 --> 14:44.400 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 14:44.400 --> 14:50.360 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Ronald Coleman in Elliot Lewis's 14:50.360 --> 15:00.040 production of A Vision of Death, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:00.040 --> 15:10.000 Rory, Rory, get a grip on yourself. 15:10.000 --> 15:11.000 He's gonna kill me. 15:11.000 --> 15:12.000 Harry's gonna kill me. 15:12.000 --> 15:13.000 Harry, don't be ridiculous. 15:13.000 --> 15:14.000 Stop it now. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 It was just a bad dream. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 He's gonna kill me. 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 Will you stop that? 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 Will you stop saying that? 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 Oh, Judd, hold me. 15:19.000 --> 15:20.640 I'm frightened. 15:20.640 --> 15:21.640 Harry's gonna kill me. 15:21.640 --> 15:24.640 You've had a bad dream, I tell you. 15:24.640 --> 15:25.640 He hates me. 15:25.640 --> 15:26.640 He hates me. 15:26.640 --> 15:37.440 Oh, Judd, he's gonna kill me. 15:37.440 --> 15:39.720 I'm a rational man, Lieutenant. 15:39.720 --> 15:44.340 I've always felt, for example, that when Hamlet says, there is stranger things in heaven 15:44.340 --> 15:48.560 and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio, Horatio, what a reply. 15:48.560 --> 15:50.040 Well, that's a Sweeney. 15:50.040 --> 15:52.800 I knew there was no such thing as mental telepathy. 15:52.800 --> 15:56.120 I knew it as well as I know I'm sitting here talking to you. 15:56.120 --> 15:58.200 Up here in my head, I knew it. 15:58.200 --> 16:02.960 And yet, the next afternoon, I found myself entering a gun shop and purchasing a revolver 16:02.960 --> 16:07.760 and a box of bullets, determined that before Harry Arnold could sew much as injure one 16:07.760 --> 16:11.720 hair of Rory's head, I would kill him. 16:11.720 --> 16:15.600 I should have gone directly to the police first. 16:15.600 --> 16:17.280 You're using hindsight, Lieutenant. 16:17.280 --> 16:19.000 I had all that out with Rory. 16:19.000 --> 16:21.120 Please, Judd, please, go to the police. 16:21.120 --> 16:22.120 Tell them about this. 16:22.120 --> 16:23.120 Let them handle it. 16:23.120 --> 16:24.120 Well, tell them what? 16:24.120 --> 16:26.880 That by reading his mind, we've learned Harry intends to murder you? 16:26.880 --> 16:27.880 They'll believe us. 16:27.880 --> 16:28.880 They've got to believe us. 16:28.880 --> 16:30.320 You're reasoning like a child. 16:30.320 --> 16:33.520 They'll decide that it's either a publicity stunt or else it were both lunatics. 16:33.520 --> 16:35.800 What if I tell them about the telegram and the birthday present? 16:35.800 --> 16:37.320 Rory, we have no proof. 16:37.320 --> 16:38.600 We have to do something. 16:38.600 --> 16:39.600 What? 16:39.600 --> 16:40.600 Tell me what. 16:40.600 --> 16:41.600 You know he intends to kill you. 16:41.600 --> 16:43.120 I know he intends to kill you. 16:43.120 --> 16:44.120 But what can we do? 16:44.120 --> 16:48.400 Do you know when he's going to do it or how he's going to do it? 16:48.400 --> 16:49.400 No. 16:49.400 --> 16:52.760 He hasn't decided yet. 16:52.760 --> 16:57.000 Judd, isn't there anything we can do? 16:57.000 --> 16:58.680 Nothing. 16:58.680 --> 17:10.880 Except wait. 17:10.880 --> 17:14.160 I reacted to the waiting as you might expect, Lieutenant. 17:14.160 --> 17:16.720 Sleeplessness, loss of appetite, growing irritability. 17:16.720 --> 17:18.520 I flared up at everyone. 17:18.520 --> 17:22.680 Waiters, chambermaids, elevator boys, the manager of the club. 17:22.680 --> 17:24.960 The manager of the club. 17:24.960 --> 17:26.400 He finally said to me... 17:26.400 --> 17:28.040 Stun what the devil's gotten into you. 17:28.040 --> 17:29.040 I'd really like to know. 17:29.040 --> 17:30.040 None of your business. 17:30.040 --> 17:31.400 Well, look, I'm only trying to be nice. 17:31.400 --> 17:33.160 Oh, shut up and leave me alone. 17:33.160 --> 17:35.240 Sure, I'll let you alone. 17:35.240 --> 17:38.520 I'd let you alone right now if your contract didn't have another week to run. 17:38.520 --> 17:41.400 But after that, I'll let you strictly alone. 17:41.400 --> 17:44.240 You'll never work this club again. 17:44.240 --> 17:50.040 You maniac. 17:50.040 --> 17:53.440 I began to drink quite heavily, quite noticeably. 17:53.440 --> 17:56.600 I was going crazy just from the waiting. 17:56.600 --> 17:58.360 And then the waiting came to an end. 17:58.360 --> 18:01.000 It was around three in the morning. 18:01.000 --> 18:07.280 I was sitting up in bed in the dark, smoking, when Rory opened her eyes and said... 18:07.280 --> 18:09.640 Yes? 18:09.640 --> 18:10.640 The voice. 18:10.640 --> 18:11.640 Yes. 18:11.640 --> 18:16.920 He... he's going to kill me here. 18:16.920 --> 18:19.240 Right here in this room. 18:19.240 --> 18:20.800 Rory. 18:20.800 --> 18:22.440 Saturday. 18:22.440 --> 18:25.440 The Saturday. 18:25.440 --> 18:26.440 At midnight. 18:26.440 --> 18:27.440 Oh, child. 18:27.440 --> 18:28.440 Oh, Rory. 18:28.440 --> 18:29.440 Rory, sweetheart. 18:29.440 --> 18:30.440 He's gonna shoot me. 18:30.440 --> 18:31.440 He has a gun. 18:31.440 --> 18:32.440 He's gonna shoot me. 18:32.440 --> 18:33.440 He... he's gonna... 18:33.440 --> 18:38.320 He's gonna get you downstairs in the manager's office at the club. 18:38.320 --> 18:40.480 And while you're there, he's gonna come up here. 18:40.480 --> 18:41.480 No, no, no, Rory. 18:41.480 --> 18:42.480 Rory, listen to me. 18:42.480 --> 18:43.480 I want you to listen to me. 18:43.480 --> 18:45.360 You're mistaken, do you understand? 18:45.360 --> 18:48.120 You've been having another bad dream, and that's all there is to it. 18:48.120 --> 18:50.560 No, Judd, I swear it. 18:50.560 --> 18:52.000 He just thought of it. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 Just this minute. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.240 He's standing at a bar. 18:56.240 --> 18:58.840 Standing there all by himself, drinking. 18:58.840 --> 19:01.720 And he's just this minute decided. 19:01.720 --> 19:02.880 You're... 19:02.880 --> 19:03.880 You're making it up. 19:03.880 --> 19:04.880 Judd, no. 19:04.880 --> 19:05.880 It's... 19:05.880 --> 19:11.240 It's the bar over at the Tuscany Hotel. 19:11.240 --> 19:12.240 I see it so clear. 19:12.240 --> 19:13.240 Oh, you're wrong. 19:13.240 --> 19:14.240 You're wrong. 19:14.240 --> 19:15.240 I'll prove you're wrong. 19:15.240 --> 19:16.240 Desk. 19:16.240 --> 19:22.160 Get me the bar at the Tuscany, will you? 19:22.160 --> 19:23.160 Over on Sunset. 19:23.160 --> 19:24.160 One moment, please. 19:24.160 --> 19:25.160 You'll see, Rory. 19:25.160 --> 19:26.800 He's not there at all. 19:26.800 --> 19:27.800 You'll see. 19:27.800 --> 19:28.800 It's just a dream. 19:28.800 --> 19:29.800 Just a bad dream. 19:29.800 --> 19:33.120 Tuscany Cocktail Lounge. 19:33.120 --> 19:34.120 Hello. 19:34.120 --> 19:36.600 Is Harry Arnold there at the bar? 19:36.600 --> 19:37.600 Harry Arnold? 19:37.600 --> 19:38.600 No, I'm sorry. 19:38.600 --> 19:39.600 He's not. 19:39.600 --> 19:40.600 He's not? 19:40.600 --> 19:41.600 You sure of that? 19:41.600 --> 19:42.600 Sure, I'm sure. 19:42.600 --> 19:43.600 He was here all evening, left about a minute ago. 19:43.600 --> 19:44.600 I said good night to him myself. 19:44.600 --> 19:45.600 Want me to have... 19:45.600 --> 19:46.600 Look. 19:46.600 --> 19:47.600 Look, Lieutenant, my hands. 19:47.600 --> 19:48.600 It's just the memory of how I was. 19:48.600 --> 19:49.600 I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see it. 19:49.600 --> 19:50.600 I'm sure you are. 19:50.600 --> 19:51.600 I'm sure you are. 19:51.600 --> 19:52.600 I'm sure you are. 19:52.600 --> 19:53.600 I'm sure you are. 19:53.600 --> 19:54.600 I'm sure you are. 19:54.600 --> 19:55.600 I'm sure you are. 19:55.600 --> 19:56.600 I'm sure you are. 19:56.600 --> 19:57.600 I'm sure you are. 19:57.600 --> 19:58.600 I'm sure you are. 19:58.600 --> 19:59.600 I'm sure you are. 19:59.600 --> 20:00.600 Is there anything strange going on in your head? 20:00.600 --> 20:01.600 I was having a great time looking into. 20:01.600 --> 20:02.600 I started thinking. 20:02.600 --> 20:03.600 I'm wondering what life in pieces was. 20:03.600 --> 20:04.600 I don't know, that's a little bit... 20:04.600 --> 20:05.600 I'm good at life top a little bit. 20:05.600 --> 20:07.240 Yeah, I'm doing things by the book. 20:07.240 --> 20:08.240 I've got the range. 20:08.240 --> 20:09.240 There are plans. 20:09.240 --> 20:10.240 And young people. 20:10.240 --> 20:11.240 A long day before it hits, I'd said, hey, I've got another relationship. 20:11.240 --> 20:12.240 I've got a couple of days. 20:12.240 --> 20:13.240 I've got a couple of days before it hits, I said, you've got to be going. 20:13.240 --> 20:14.240 So he had a straight drift with Mr..... 20:14.240 --> 20:15.240 Pardon me, it's Heppford's..... 20:15.240 --> 20:16.240 He didn't just say, hey, I went to Wowwuk findings and had a head with it. 20:16.240 --> 20:18.240 I got into my car. 20:18.240 --> 20:20.880 The long drive has always relaxed me. 20:20.880 --> 20:22.920 But when I got behind the wheel, 20:22.920 --> 20:25.080 oh, I don't know what it was, possibly the fresh air, 20:25.080 --> 20:28.120 but all at once I felt as though I couldn't keep my eyes 20:28.120 --> 20:29.720 open for another moment. 20:29.720 --> 20:31.520 Simply had to have some sleep. 20:31.520 --> 20:35.400 So I crawled into the back seat, curled myself up 20:35.400 --> 20:37.520 in one corner, pulled the rug over me 20:37.520 --> 20:39.240 and went out like a light. 20:39.240 --> 20:43.320 I was awakened around noon by the sound of voices. 20:43.320 --> 20:44.640 Don't smile at me, you idiot. 20:44.640 --> 20:46.720 He may see us, look businesslike. 20:46.720 --> 20:47.720 Where is he? 20:47.720 --> 20:48.520 I don't know. 20:48.520 --> 20:50.760 Since he hasn't got the car, he must be out walking. 20:50.760 --> 20:52.640 Did he fall for it last night? 20:52.640 --> 20:54.960 Just like he fell for all the rest of it. 20:54.960 --> 20:58.960 The red bathrobe, the stooges you planted in the audience. 20:58.960 --> 21:01.480 He even phoned the bar just after you left. 21:01.480 --> 21:03.520 Oh, I timed it beautifully. 21:03.520 --> 21:04.920 Satin skin, satin skin. 21:04.920 --> 21:06.040 I can hardly keep away from you. 21:06.040 --> 21:08.320 After tomorrow night, we'll have all the time in the world 21:08.320 --> 21:10.000 for each other, Harry. 21:10.000 --> 21:11.360 You about the whole story, that it's 21:11.360 --> 21:13.760 going to happen at midnight tomorrow, your place? 21:13.760 --> 21:15.400 Every word. 21:15.400 --> 21:17.360 Just do what you have to do now. 21:17.360 --> 21:19.080 Remember to come to the dressing room 21:19.080 --> 21:21.280 before the 8 o'clock show. 21:21.280 --> 21:23.720 Tell them you've set up a meeting with Stamper, the manager, 21:23.720 --> 21:25.760 and Stamper's office at 12. 21:25.760 --> 21:28.040 I want them to shake hands and be friends again, I'll tell them. 21:28.040 --> 21:31.440 Yes, and don't forget, when you come to our door at midnight, 21:31.440 --> 21:32.760 keep talking to the elevator boy. 21:32.760 --> 21:34.520 Don't let him go, whatever you do. 21:34.520 --> 21:36.320 You want him to testify for self-defense. 21:36.320 --> 21:38.440 Don't worry, I won't forget a thing. 21:38.440 --> 21:40.240 You'll handle all the rest of it? 21:40.240 --> 21:41.720 Just leave it to me. 21:41.720 --> 21:45.320 I mean, about his gun, that's pretty important, you know. 21:45.320 --> 21:46.640 Don't worry. 21:46.640 --> 21:47.400 It'll misfire. 21:56.920 --> 21:59.000 It would be difficult for me to tell you what I felt 21:59.000 --> 22:01.280 as they walked away, Lieutenant. 22:01.280 --> 22:04.200 One part of me felt the way a man ought to feel, I suppose, 22:04.200 --> 22:07.840 when he learns that the woman he loves is not only unfaithful, 22:07.840 --> 22:10.040 but plotting his death as well. 22:10.040 --> 22:14.160 But another part of me felt only relief, relief at learning 22:14.160 --> 22:17.080 there was a gimmick in this tool. 22:17.080 --> 22:20.240 They'd been fairly clever for amateurs. 22:20.240 --> 22:22.440 Harry had a good excuse for carrying a gun 22:22.440 --> 22:25.440 to protect the cash he brought me each Saturday. 22:25.440 --> 22:27.440 My own behavior in recent weeks would lend weight 22:27.440 --> 22:29.360 to what he would probably offer in his defense, 22:29.360 --> 22:31.760 that I must have been crazy, that for no reason at all 22:31.760 --> 22:34.040 I'd opened the door, pointed a revolver at him, 22:34.040 --> 22:38.200 and threatened his life that he had to shoot in self-defense. 22:38.200 --> 22:40.600 The presence of the elevator boy, 22:40.600 --> 22:42.680 that could mean only that Harry would shoot 22:42.680 --> 22:44.760 just as soon as I opened the door. 22:44.760 --> 22:47.120 I'd be found dead with a revolver in my hand 22:47.120 --> 22:49.720 and a heartbroken agent at my side. 22:49.720 --> 22:50.560 Tableau. 22:52.200 --> 22:54.880 I found myself hoping, as I never hoped before, 22:54.880 --> 22:58.320 that they'd come to their senses before Saturday, 22:58.320 --> 23:01.080 that they'd realize what a vicious, inhuman thing 23:01.080 --> 23:03.040 it was they were planning. 23:03.040 --> 23:05.720 But just before the eight o'clock show that night, 23:05.720 --> 23:08.320 there was a knock at the door of our dressing room. 23:08.320 --> 23:09.160 Come in. 23:10.640 --> 23:12.600 Judd, I've been talking to Stamford, the manager. 23:12.600 --> 23:14.520 He's sorry there's bad blood between you 23:14.520 --> 23:15.800 and wants to square it. 23:15.800 --> 23:18.600 I told him you'd be in his office at 12 to talk things over. 23:18.600 --> 23:19.440 All right with you? 23:19.440 --> 23:20.280 Yeah. 23:20.280 --> 23:22.280 We don't want it so we'll never work here again, do we? 23:22.280 --> 23:24.200 I mean, there's no reason we should. 23:24.200 --> 23:25.360 No reason at all. 23:25.360 --> 23:26.880 Button my dress, Judd. 23:26.880 --> 23:28.440 See you later, Judd. 23:28.440 --> 23:29.400 Yeah, later. 23:29.400 --> 23:32.400 We did the show and then went up to our suite. 23:32.400 --> 23:35.520 I convinced Rory that I should meet Harry alone 23:35.520 --> 23:38.320 and then I helped her pack a small overnight bag. 23:38.320 --> 23:39.600 I loaded the revolver 23:39.600 --> 23:42.200 and then there was nothing to do but wait. 23:42.200 --> 23:43.600 The minutes passed. 23:43.600 --> 23:47.600 Nine o'clock, 10, 10.30, and I waited. 23:48.600 --> 23:49.440 Judd. 23:49.840 --> 23:51.000 Yes? 23:51.000 --> 23:53.600 It doesn't seem right to leave you here alone. 23:53.600 --> 23:54.440 Harry might not want to. 23:54.440 --> 23:55.280 No, no, no, no, no. 23:55.280 --> 23:56.120 I'm sorry. 23:56.120 --> 23:56.960 I'm sorry. 23:56.960 --> 23:57.800 I'm sorry. 23:57.800 --> 23:59.480 I'm sorry to leave you here alone. 23:59.480 --> 24:00.320 Harry might... 24:00.320 --> 24:01.480 No, no, you go. 24:01.480 --> 24:03.600 Things might not turn out as I planned. 24:03.600 --> 24:05.120 I might not be able to stop him. 24:05.120 --> 24:09.760 If I fail to stop him, no, no, it's best that you go. 24:09.760 --> 24:12.720 Just wait at the motel until you hear from me. 24:12.720 --> 24:14.480 What time is it? 24:14.480 --> 24:16.040 Almost 11. 24:16.040 --> 24:17.880 Two minutes of 11. 24:17.880 --> 24:20.640 I, I'm out of cigarettes. 24:22.720 --> 24:23.680 Desk. 24:23.680 --> 24:26.240 This is Mr. Stone in 1101. 24:26.240 --> 24:27.880 I'll be in the carton of players, will you? 24:27.880 --> 24:29.040 Right away, Mr. Stone. 24:29.040 --> 24:32.480 I want you to go now, Rory. 24:32.480 --> 24:34.760 Judd, let me call the police, please. 24:34.760 --> 24:35.600 It would be useless. 24:35.600 --> 24:37.720 We've gone into it and it would be useless. 24:37.720 --> 24:39.240 Well then come with me. 24:39.240 --> 24:40.840 He won't find anybody here. 24:40.840 --> 24:43.320 Then he'd choose another place, another time. 24:43.320 --> 24:44.680 Here's your valise. 24:44.680 --> 24:46.000 You have your gun? 24:46.000 --> 24:47.360 In my pocket. 24:47.360 --> 24:49.920 You, you won't take any chances. 24:49.920 --> 24:51.440 I don't know what I'd do if you were hurt. 24:51.440 --> 24:53.400 I won't take any chances. 24:53.400 --> 24:55.720 Let me help you on with your coat. 24:55.720 --> 24:57.520 Judd, I love you so. 24:57.520 --> 24:59.640 Yeah, I know. 24:59.640 --> 25:01.360 And I love you, Rory. 25:01.360 --> 25:03.920 I really do, you know. 25:03.920 --> 25:05.400 You ready? 25:05.400 --> 25:06.240 Yes. 25:06.240 --> 25:07.240 11 o'clock. 25:12.280 --> 25:13.720 He'll be here in an hour. 25:13.720 --> 25:15.640 Yeah, yeah, go now, Rory. 25:15.640 --> 25:17.080 Kiss me goodbye. 25:17.080 --> 25:17.920 Judd. 25:20.800 --> 25:22.320 Oh, the cigarettes. 25:22.320 --> 25:23.440 Get them, will you, darling? 25:23.440 --> 25:25.880 I'll find change. 25:29.880 --> 25:30.720 Harry. 25:32.640 --> 25:33.560 Rory. 25:35.640 --> 25:36.480 Rory. 25:37.640 --> 25:38.480 Rory! 25:38.480 --> 25:40.320 Rory! 25:40.320 --> 25:41.160 Rory! 25:51.760 --> 25:54.080 I shall always remember the look on Harry's face, 25:54.080 --> 25:56.760 Lieutenant, as she sank to the floor. 25:56.760 --> 25:58.680 They'd concocted a bad dream between them 25:58.680 --> 26:00.680 and it had come true. 26:00.680 --> 26:03.440 I'll bet he still doesn't know how it happened. 26:03.440 --> 26:05.520 If you pass his cell, you might tell him, 26:05.520 --> 26:08.080 just whisper the word gimmick into his ear. 26:08.080 --> 26:10.440 Yeah, that's what I said, gimmick. 26:10.440 --> 26:13.480 I gimmicked the clock while Rory was dressing, 26:13.480 --> 26:15.280 set it back a full hour. 26:15.280 --> 26:18.440 It was 11 to her, but 12 to him. 26:18.440 --> 26:46.640 I adore gimmicks, don't you? 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