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George, do you hear me? 03:15.120 --> 03:17.120 I'm not badly hurt, Father. 03:17.120 --> 03:18.120 Let me see. 03:19.120 --> 03:21.120 No? No, you're not. 03:21.120 --> 03:22.120 Seems... 03:22.120 --> 03:24.120 Yes, the bullet has gone through your shoulder, 03:24.120 --> 03:26.120 and the blood you've lost. 03:26.120 --> 03:28.120 Get him up. Get him from the floor. 03:28.120 --> 03:29.120 Yes. 03:30.120 --> 03:33.120 Put your arm above my neck, George. 03:33.120 --> 03:35.120 I'm not here. 03:37.120 --> 03:40.120 Now, what have you done? 03:40.120 --> 03:42.120 I've helped to blow up a train. 03:42.120 --> 03:44.120 A Nazi troop train. 03:44.120 --> 03:46.120 And in running away, you were shot. 03:46.120 --> 03:47.120 Yes. 03:47.120 --> 04:03.120 Let him alone. 04:03.120 --> 04:05.120 Arnie. 04:05.120 --> 04:07.120 Come in, Arnie. 04:09.120 --> 04:11.120 He's there. 04:11.120 --> 04:12.120 How are you, George? 04:12.120 --> 04:14.120 Weak. That's all. 04:14.120 --> 04:15.120 You are recognized, George. 04:15.120 --> 04:16.120 I'm sorry, I can't... 04:16.120 --> 04:17.120 Can you walk? 04:17.120 --> 04:19.120 Yes. Yes, I think so. 04:19.120 --> 04:22.120 Then come. Come on. I'll help you. 04:23.120 --> 04:25.120 Mrs. Helmand, Mrs. Helmand. 04:25.120 --> 04:26.120 We're taking him out of the country. 04:26.120 --> 04:28.120 First to a doctor, and then outside. 04:28.120 --> 04:29.120 The underground. 04:29.120 --> 04:31.120 The underground. 04:31.120 --> 04:33.120 When there's victory, Mother. 04:33.120 --> 04:34.120 Papa. 04:34.120 --> 04:36.120 No! Get off! 04:36.120 --> 04:37.120 Nick, last... 04:37.120 --> 04:40.120 Let them go. Let them go. 04:40.120 --> 04:46.120 There was a trail of blood. I followed it here. 04:46.120 --> 04:48.120 Ah, come. 04:48.120 --> 04:50.120 We'll go back to bed. 04:50.120 --> 04:52.120 To shiver with fright. 04:52.120 --> 04:53.120 Yes. 04:53.120 --> 04:55.120 Go to bed and stare at the dark 04:55.120 --> 04:58.120 and wait for the knock on the door in the Gestapo. 04:58.120 --> 05:01.120 Stare in the dark and think gambits. 05:01.120 --> 05:05.120 Think of clever things to say to the Gestapo, such as what? 05:05.120 --> 05:09.120 My son, a member of the underground? My son? 05:09.120 --> 05:11.120 Surely there is a mistake. 05:11.120 --> 05:14.120 Or I have no son, Lieutenant. 05:14.120 --> 05:18.120 Therefore, you cannot arrest me for something this boy has done. 05:18.120 --> 05:22.120 Will these be your thoughts too, Anna, when you go to bed? 05:22.120 --> 05:23.120 The same. 05:23.120 --> 05:26.120 For surely they will come. 05:26.120 --> 05:29.120 There will come a knock on the door, 05:29.120 --> 05:32.120 and they will drag us from our home and send us where? 05:32.120 --> 05:35.120 Perhaps to Germany and Dachauana to burn. 05:35.120 --> 05:39.120 Miklas, these are the thoughts I have. 05:39.120 --> 05:44.120 Because of our son. Anna, because of our son. 05:44.120 --> 05:45.120 Yes. 05:45.120 --> 05:49.120 Now he's been recognized. Anna said. 05:49.120 --> 05:50.120 Yes. 05:50.120 --> 05:51.120 They will come here. 05:51.120 --> 05:53.120 They will come. 05:53.120 --> 05:57.120 We can go to bed now and stare at the dark. 05:57.120 --> 06:01.120 At least now we know this will be the last time. 06:01.120 --> 06:02.120 No. 06:02.120 --> 06:03.120 What are you doing? 06:03.120 --> 06:05.120 Fire! 06:11.120 --> 06:15.120 12,000 Kroner. 06:15.120 --> 06:17.120 This is all the money in the house? 06:17.120 --> 06:20.120 Yes, but the bank, we have so much more. 06:20.120 --> 06:22.120 12,000 Kroner. 06:22.120 --> 06:25.120 Suddenly I am a pauper. 06:25.120 --> 06:26.120 Anna. 06:26.120 --> 06:27.120 What is it? 06:27.120 --> 06:28.120 Your jewelry, get it. 06:28.120 --> 06:29.120 But why? 06:29.120 --> 06:31.120 All of it. Get your things together. 06:31.120 --> 06:33.120 We are going to get out of here, across the border. 06:33.120 --> 06:35.120 They will take us across the underground. 06:35.120 --> 06:37.120 They have to, they have to. 06:48.120 --> 06:51.120 Do you understand me, Anna? 06:51.120 --> 06:53.120 You are the patriots. 06:53.120 --> 06:55.120 And you are the sellers of freedom. 06:55.120 --> 06:58.120 And Mrs. Hellman and I have come to bargain and buy. 06:58.120 --> 06:59.120 I told you the borders are closed. 06:59.120 --> 07:01.120 The Nazi patrols swarmed. 07:01.120 --> 07:04.120 I don't know, Mr. Hellman. 07:04.120 --> 07:06.120 You don't know. 07:06.120 --> 07:09.120 Your underground has helped hundreds to escape. 07:09.120 --> 07:10.120 Less worthy. 07:10.120 --> 07:13.120 Yet you balk at us. Why? 07:13.120 --> 07:15.120 What do you think, Hansel? 07:15.120 --> 07:17.120 I think this, Arnie. 07:17.120 --> 07:19.120 The Gestapo has searched for us two years now. 07:19.120 --> 07:22.120 These people coming here have made it easy for them. 07:22.120 --> 07:23.120 Let's have nothing to do with them. 07:23.120 --> 07:25.120 And I think this. 07:25.120 --> 07:27.120 If you do not help us. 07:27.120 --> 07:30.120 If you do not lead us across the border into Sweden. 07:30.120 --> 07:33.120 Then I will report you to the Gestapo. 07:33.120 --> 07:36.120 I personally will tell them who you are, where you are. 07:36.120 --> 07:39.120 No, wait. Wait. 07:39.120 --> 07:41.120 No, he did not mean that, my husband. 07:41.120 --> 07:42.120 Miklas did not. 07:42.120 --> 07:43.120 You heard him. 07:43.120 --> 07:44.120 He did not mean it. 07:44.120 --> 07:47.120 He is frightened and he is desperate. 07:47.120 --> 07:49.120 And he does not know what he said. 07:49.120 --> 07:50.120 Do not beg of them, Anna. 07:50.120 --> 07:52.120 We are not their beggars. 07:52.120 --> 07:54.120 Please, Miklas. 07:54.120 --> 07:56.120 I will not beg. 07:56.120 --> 07:59.120 I will tell them of us. 07:59.120 --> 08:03.120 Thirty years we have lived in your country, Mr. Arnie, Mr. Hansen. 08:03.120 --> 08:08.120 With pride, with respect, with love for the things of your country. 08:08.120 --> 08:12.120 And because my son has spilled blood for this country. 08:12.120 --> 08:15.120 We now must flee it and begin another life. 08:15.120 --> 08:18.120 And we are not young. 08:18.120 --> 08:20.120 But we are rich. 08:20.120 --> 08:23.120 And we will pay you well for this new life. 08:23.120 --> 08:25.120 More than any of the others. 08:25.120 --> 08:26.120 We are rich. 08:26.120 --> 08:28.120 We will pay you well. 08:28.120 --> 08:32.120 We are not in this to make profit on sorrow, Mrs. Hellman. 08:32.120 --> 08:35.120 Heroes then is what you are. 08:35.120 --> 08:36.120 Listen to me. 08:36.120 --> 08:37.120 It is not good, Arnie. 08:37.120 --> 08:39.120 I tell you it is not good. 08:39.120 --> 08:40.120 Listen to me. 08:40.120 --> 08:47.120 This new life you want, it lies through bitter wilderness and savage hardships and swamp and cold. 08:47.120 --> 08:50.120 Be eloquent, Arnie. Be eloquent. 08:50.120 --> 08:59.120 Let the words spill slow and thoughtful from your mouth while the Gestapo searches for us, for you, comes nearer and nearer. 08:59.120 --> 09:01.120 We could try, Hansen. 09:01.120 --> 09:02.120 How? 09:02.120 --> 09:07.120 I know a way through the forest, a way unused before, where Skrykerud pond is. 09:07.120 --> 09:10.120 Maybe we could. 09:10.120 --> 09:11.120 Yes, I think we could. 09:11.120 --> 09:12.120 Good. 09:12.120 --> 09:14.120 Then it is settled. 09:14.120 --> 09:18.120 You see, Arnie, it is simply a matter of bargaining. 09:18.120 --> 09:21.120 One knows how to bargain. One lives... 09:21.120 --> 09:23.120 Get your things together. We are getting out right now. 09:23.120 --> 09:24.120 Quickly. 09:24.120 --> 09:28.120 At your command, Arnie. At your command. 09:38.120 --> 09:42.120 Wait. Wait for us. 09:42.120 --> 09:45.120 Wait here, Hansen. I will go back to them. 09:45.120 --> 09:47.120 What's the matter? 09:47.120 --> 09:51.120 I cannot go, Father. I cannot. 09:51.120 --> 09:54.120 You have to keep going, Mrs. Zuhörder. We will rest here. 09:54.120 --> 09:58.120 Listen to me. It has taken us almost seven hours to go three miles. 09:58.120 --> 10:02.120 There is still twenty miles to the Swedish border and there are Nazi patrols that will be late in the hour. 10:02.120 --> 10:05.120 You take us for animals, for beasts? 10:05.120 --> 10:08.120 We will rest here and we will eat something. 10:08.120 --> 10:12.120 Do you hear me? We will rest and we will eat. Where is the food? 10:12.120 --> 10:15.120 Hansen. 10:15.120 --> 10:18.120 Arnie, we have to keep moving. 10:18.120 --> 10:22.120 We are going to rest here, Froh. Get some of the food out of your pack. 10:22.120 --> 10:23.120 Look, Arnie. 10:23.120 --> 10:25.120 Get it. 10:26.120 --> 10:30.120 Here, take this, Mrs. Hellman. Mr. Hellman. 10:30.120 --> 10:33.120 This is food? 10:33.120 --> 10:37.120 This that one throws to pigs, the livings of the gutter. 10:37.120 --> 10:39.120 This you ask us to eat? 10:39.120 --> 10:40.120 It is all we have. Do you want it? 10:40.120 --> 10:43.120 No. No. 10:43.120 --> 10:48.120 I have much better here. Here in my flask. 10:49.120 --> 10:53.120 Get up. Get up. It is nearly light and twenty miles to go. 10:53.120 --> 10:54.120 No. 10:54.120 --> 10:56.120 The patrol will be by here soon. We are still... 10:56.120 --> 11:00.120 We live with it then, Arnie. We cannot move. 11:00.120 --> 11:03.120 You must. In this way you endanger the lives of hundreds of others. 11:03.120 --> 11:06.120 You destroy the underground. You play into Nazi hands. 11:06.120 --> 11:11.120 And if we do, I will save my life and my wife's life. 11:11.120 --> 11:14.120 For what I can tell them. 11:15.120 --> 11:18.120 All right. We rest here. 11:18.120 --> 11:21.120 We will rest here for a while. 11:21.120 --> 11:26.120 Thoughtful hero. Generous hero. 11:26.120 --> 11:29.120 Hansen, come over here. 11:29.120 --> 11:32.120 Hansen. 11:32.120 --> 11:34.120 Yes? 11:34.120 --> 11:37.120 They can destroy us and the underground. 11:37.120 --> 11:39.120 The lives of other men and women who believe with us. 11:39.120 --> 11:40.120 Yes. 11:40.120 --> 11:43.120 Destroy what their own son has fought for in the blade. 11:43.120 --> 11:44.120 Yes. 11:44.120 --> 11:45.120 Enemies then. 11:45.120 --> 11:46.120 Yes. 11:46.120 --> 11:48.120 We are at war. 11:48.120 --> 11:50.120 I have fought these things. 11:50.120 --> 11:53.120 When I carried her on my back and then him. 11:53.120 --> 11:55.120 And I wondered how long for you to think also. 11:55.120 --> 11:57.120 Now. 11:57.120 --> 11:59.120 Now. 11:59.120 --> 12:02.120 There's a rock under the snow there, Hansen. 12:02.120 --> 12:04.120 Take it from the snow. 12:04.120 --> 12:06.120 It's wonderful, me. 12:08.120 --> 12:13.120 And when we are across the border, Miklas, they will be for us. 12:17.120 --> 12:19.120 Where are you? 12:22.120 --> 12:25.120 Old man who is dead. 12:25.120 --> 12:28.120 And with you, your old woman. 12:28.120 --> 12:31.120 And I am sorry. 12:31.120 --> 12:35.120 And for them the border reached. 12:35.120 --> 12:38.120 And an end to wilderness. 12:38.120 --> 12:40.120 And freedom. 12:40.120 --> 12:43.120 Vast stillness. 12:44.120 --> 12:47.120 Understand, old man, old woman. 12:47.120 --> 12:51.120 The only stillness we can give you. 12:51.120 --> 12:55.120 Because this time is what it is. 12:56.120 --> 12:59.120 It is done, Hansen. Now quickly we go home. 13:14.120 --> 13:19.120 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Jeff Chandler in Death at Skrykerud Pond. 13:19.120 --> 13:25.120 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:35.120 --> 13:38.120 Say, Harlow, who gets that big Auto Light salute tonight? 13:38.120 --> 13:44.120 Well, Hab, tonight it's our privilege to honor distinguished truck manufacturing members of the Auto Light family. 13:44.120 --> 13:46.120 And along with them, the entire trucking industry. 13:46.120 --> 13:48.120 That covers a lot of ground, Harlow. 13:48.120 --> 13:53.120 And so do America's trucks, Hab. 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Drink with me. 15:10.120 --> 15:11.120 Yes, Helga. 15:11.120 --> 15:17.120 Victory drink, Arnie, for the end of war and again a time of peace we once knew. 15:17.120 --> 15:22.120 And you and my brothers, then Hanson, to live as you were meant to live. 15:22.120 --> 15:26.120 The bells of our village, the small bells and the great, you hear them, Arnie? 15:26.120 --> 15:27.120 Yes, I hear them. 15:27.120 --> 15:32.120 And you and my brothers, then Hanson, to live as you were meant to live. 15:32.120 --> 15:36.120 The bells of our village, the small bells and the great, you hear them, Arnie? 15:36.120 --> 15:40.120 Yes, as once long ago they rang. 15:40.120 --> 15:42.120 To you, Arnie, and to my brother. 15:42.120 --> 15:44.120 To your brother, then Hanson. 15:44.120 --> 15:53.120 Who is brave and a good man and who fought for us, for the women and the children of women, who fought and bled and blessed us again with peace. 15:53.120 --> 15:57.120 My brother and you, Arnie. 15:57.120 --> 15:58.120 There were others. 15:58.120 --> 16:03.120 My brother and you. Drink with me, Arnie. 16:03.120 --> 16:09.120 And may I also drink to you, Arnie, as Helga drinks to you, as all do in your house. 16:09.120 --> 16:13.120 You are welcome here, Kurt. Drink, dance, whatever thing your joy will be. 16:13.120 --> 16:19.120 To you, Arnie, and to your fine house and your warm friends. 16:19.120 --> 16:27.120 But I look about and I do not see a certain warm friend, soldier friend, underground friend. 16:27.120 --> 16:28.120 Who? 16:28.120 --> 16:32.120 The friend of the sabotage train of many years ago. 16:32.120 --> 16:36.120 The friend, George Hellman. 16:36.120 --> 16:38.120 Where is he, Arnie? 16:38.120 --> 16:40.120 I don't know. 16:40.120 --> 16:45.120 And a lost son brings to mind the father and the mother. 16:45.120 --> 16:51.120 The old people and their money, jewels they had, it is said, and many kroner. 16:51.120 --> 16:56.120 And now the old people are lost and there is wonder of them. 16:56.120 --> 17:02.120 And you have fine things in your house. 17:02.120 --> 17:05.120 The kroner, Arnie. 17:05.120 --> 17:07.120 The kroner and jewels of the Hellmans. 17:07.120 --> 17:08.120 Where, Arnie? 17:08.120 --> 17:16.120 That you bought with them, the lamp, and that, the silver. 17:16.120 --> 17:20.120 And now I must teach you another thing. 17:20.120 --> 17:31.120 Not to lay your murderous hands upon me. 17:31.120 --> 17:34.120 Enough, Arnie. 17:34.120 --> 17:37.120 Enough. 17:37.120 --> 17:39.120 Get out. 17:39.120 --> 17:55.120 Get out. 17:55.120 --> 17:56.120 Sven. 17:56.120 --> 17:58.120 Yes? 17:58.120 --> 18:01.120 The old days. 18:01.120 --> 18:03.120 Dead. 18:03.120 --> 18:07.120 The old days of war, shouts and sobbing. 18:07.120 --> 18:08.120 Dead. 18:08.120 --> 18:10.120 Many years now. 18:10.120 --> 18:15.120 Of underground and explosion, bright as sunburst. 18:15.120 --> 18:18.120 Child crying alone in a snow field. 18:18.120 --> 18:20.120 Wandering alone in a snow field. 18:20.120 --> 18:21.120 They are dead. 18:21.120 --> 18:23.120 You hear me, Arnie? 18:23.120 --> 18:24.120 The old days are dead. 18:24.120 --> 18:26.120 Forgotten. 18:26.120 --> 18:27.120 Helga. 18:27.120 --> 18:28.120 Quickly. 18:28.120 --> 18:30.120 I have brought you extra clothing and food. 18:30.120 --> 18:31.120 Why, Helga? 18:31.120 --> 18:32.120 Why do you... 18:32.120 --> 18:36.120 The body of Miklas Hellman and of Anna, the old woman, his wife. 18:36.120 --> 18:39.120 The villager found them at Skraka-Ru pond. 18:39.120 --> 18:40.120 He's gone to the police. 18:40.120 --> 18:42.120 You bring clothes and food for us? 18:42.120 --> 18:43.120 Why? 18:43.120 --> 18:48.120 Warrants have been issued for the arrest of their murderers. 18:48.120 --> 18:49.120 It's not murder. 18:49.120 --> 18:51.120 It is what they have named it. 18:51.120 --> 18:55.120 They too have forgotten the old days, the days of war. 18:55.120 --> 18:56.120 They call it murder. 18:56.120 --> 18:57.120 I've told you. 18:57.120 --> 18:58.120 I'll tell them. 18:58.120 --> 18:59.120 Run, hide. 18:59.120 --> 19:00.120 No. 19:00.120 --> 19:01.120 Take my brother with you and go. 19:01.120 --> 19:02.120 I'll tell them what happened. 19:02.120 --> 19:03.120 I'll convince them. 19:03.120 --> 19:04.120 You'll not convince them. 19:04.120 --> 19:07.120 These are other days and they have forgotten how it was. 19:07.120 --> 19:08.120 Sven and I did what had to be done. 19:08.120 --> 19:10.120 There was no shame in it. 19:10.120 --> 19:12.120 Then tell Sven to go, my brother. 19:12.120 --> 19:13.120 Tell him. 19:13.120 --> 19:14.120 Sven. 19:14.120 --> 19:19.120 What you say, Arnie, that I will do as in the old days. 19:19.120 --> 19:20.120 Go, Sven. 19:20.120 --> 19:21.120 Go. 19:21.120 --> 19:24.120 What Arnie said, there was no shame in it. 19:24.120 --> 19:26.120 It was a thing of war, of need. 19:26.120 --> 19:29.120 Then we stay. 19:29.120 --> 19:40.120 Let them come. 19:40.120 --> 19:43.120 Arnie Leuken, how do you plead? 19:43.120 --> 19:48.120 I confess freely to having caused the death of Mr. and Mrs. Helman. 19:48.120 --> 19:54.120 However, to the charge of murder, I plead not guilty. 19:54.120 --> 19:57.120 And Sven Hansen, how do you plead? 19:57.120 --> 19:59.120 I was with Arnie Leuken. 19:59.120 --> 20:01.120 The Helmans died because of me. 20:01.120 --> 20:09.120 Yet I did not commit murder. 20:09.120 --> 20:11.120 There was nothing else we could do. 20:11.120 --> 20:12.120 So we did it. 20:12.120 --> 20:15.120 Why couldn't you let them try to reach the border themselves? 20:15.120 --> 20:16.120 They would never have made it. 20:16.120 --> 20:17.120 Oh, come now, Mr. Hansen. 20:17.120 --> 20:19.120 Men have crossed Greenland on foot. 20:19.120 --> 20:20.120 Those old people. 20:20.120 --> 20:22.120 Consider what you have said. 20:22.120 --> 20:24.120 Those old people. 20:24.120 --> 20:27.120 Yet you killed them. Something obscene. 20:27.120 --> 20:28.120 Not so. 20:28.120 --> 20:30.120 There is nothing else we could do. 20:30.120 --> 20:32.120 Nor could they have crossed another hundred yards on foot. 20:32.120 --> 20:34.120 That, of course, is your opinion. 20:34.120 --> 20:39.120 I suggest, Mr. Hansen, that you had other motives that made it necessary to kill. 20:39.120 --> 20:49.120 I suggest that these motives correspond with that which is most base. 20:49.120 --> 20:53.120 Because the war is over, because the mass killing is done. 20:53.120 --> 20:56.120 And the death of two solitary people is important. 20:56.120 --> 20:59.120 It's forgotten now that the Helmans were our enemy. 20:59.120 --> 21:02.120 Enemy? How? 21:02.120 --> 21:04.120 They would have betrayed us. 21:04.120 --> 21:06.120 It would have meant the end of the whole underground. 21:06.120 --> 21:09.120 Which, of course, is conjecture. 21:09.120 --> 21:12.120 Mr. Leuken. Arnie Leuken. 21:12.120 --> 21:13.120 Tell me a thing. 21:13.120 --> 21:15.120 It concerns motive, Mr. Leuken. 21:15.120 --> 21:16.120 I told you. 21:16.120 --> 21:18.120 It concerns motive, Mr. Leuken. 21:18.120 --> 21:23.120 Both you and Mr. Hansen have repeatedly stated that your only motive was to silence the Helmans. 21:23.120 --> 21:24.120 Is that correct? 21:24.120 --> 21:25.120 Yes. 21:25.120 --> 21:26.120 Truly? 21:26.120 --> 21:27.120 Yes. 21:27.120 --> 21:28.120 Not to rob them? 21:28.120 --> 21:29.120 No. 21:29.120 --> 21:31.120 Not to rob this unfortunate couple of the money they had brought with them? 21:31.120 --> 21:32.120 No. 21:32.120 --> 21:33.120 Nor their jewels? 21:33.120 --> 21:36.120 Nor their jewels, Mr. Leuken? 21:36.120 --> 21:38.120 Mr. Leuken? 21:38.120 --> 21:42.120 Forgotten. Forgotten. Forgotten. 21:42.120 --> 21:44.120 What? 21:44.120 --> 21:53.120 Days of wrath. Days of how long ago, Mr. Prosecutor, when death leaned close to every man and beckoned. 21:53.120 --> 21:57.120 When death was a Nazi, when to trick the brown-shirted men with a club was a... 21:57.120 --> 22:01.120 You are quite right, sir. It was long ago. Now it is done with. 22:01.120 --> 22:06.120 Now the return to dignity. Which is why you are here. 22:06.120 --> 22:10.120 Prosecutor respectfully requests the court to grant recess until tomorrow. 22:10.120 --> 22:14.120 Court will adjourn until tomorrow. 22:18.120 --> 22:20.120 And struck them down in cold blood. 22:20.120 --> 22:24.120 Then did you or did you not go through their belongings and search for the money? 22:24.120 --> 22:26.120 Over a hundred thousand kroner. 22:26.120 --> 22:27.120 No. 22:27.120 --> 22:28.120 You did not go through their belongings? 22:28.120 --> 22:32.120 We... we searched them for... for papers. 22:32.120 --> 22:36.120 We wanted to destroy their papers so they could not be identified if they were found. 22:36.120 --> 22:38.120 And you found the money? 22:38.120 --> 22:39.120 And we found the money. 22:39.120 --> 22:44.120 And not being murderers, not being killers with malicious motives, rather gentle people, 22:44.120 --> 22:50.120 layers to rest of old folk who by some misadventure of age happen not to be able to walk 20 miles, 22:50.120 --> 22:53.120 therefore you did not take the money. 22:53.120 --> 22:55.120 What do you want me to say? What? What? 22:55.120 --> 22:56.120 That you did not take the money. 22:56.120 --> 22:58.120 We took the money. 22:58.120 --> 22:59.120 Oh? 22:59.120 --> 23:01.120 We took the money. 23:01.120 --> 23:05.120 There was not a lot of it. Only... only 12,000 kroner. Listen. 23:05.120 --> 23:06.120 The real motive then. 23:06.120 --> 23:07.120 Listen to me. 23:07.120 --> 23:10.120 Silence them, take their money, throw them into the lake. 23:10.120 --> 23:11.120 That is not true. 23:11.120 --> 23:14.120 Well then forgive me. Which part of it is not true? 23:14.120 --> 23:18.120 That you did not take their money? That you did not throw them in the lake? 23:18.120 --> 23:19.120 That you did not kill them? 23:19.120 --> 23:20.120 Listen. 23:20.120 --> 23:22.120 Kill them. 23:23.120 --> 23:25.120 There will be silence in my courtroom. 23:25.120 --> 23:26.120 Kill them. 23:26.120 --> 23:27.120 Who is it who speaks? 23:27.120 --> 23:31.120 Olsen. Canute Olsen and well you know me. 23:31.120 --> 23:36.120 And since it is you respected citizen, there is no need to tell you that as a spectator... 23:36.120 --> 23:41.120 No longer spectator sir. Man with compulsion to speak certain facts. 23:41.120 --> 23:44.120 I request permission to address the court. 23:44.120 --> 23:46.120 Very well. 23:47.120 --> 23:49.120 Kill them I say. 23:49.120 --> 23:54.120 These two men killed the Hellmans, took their lives from them. No doubt of it. 23:54.120 --> 23:55.120 Mr. Olsen is here. 23:55.120 --> 23:58.120 Mr. Olsen. Mark what you said sir. Mr. 23:58.120 --> 24:00.120 The Q to it all. 24:00.120 --> 24:03.120 And what was my fanciful name when there was war here? 24:03.120 --> 24:08.120 Myself I can hardly remember. Avenger was it or Snowhawk? 24:08.120 --> 24:12.120 I cannot remember all of them. Code names that changed each week. 24:12.120 --> 24:17.120 Head of the underground myself with childish names to help fight a war. 24:17.120 --> 24:18.120 To shield me so to live in the... 24:18.120 --> 24:20.120 All of those here remember that you were... 24:20.120 --> 24:26.120 Heroic? Did you want to say that? A soldier, fighter for liberty? 24:27.120 --> 24:30.120 No less than these two men who killed. 24:30.120 --> 24:34.120 Heroes, soldiers, fighters for liberty. 24:34.120 --> 24:40.120 Killed because they were under orders to kill those who brought liberty into jeopardy. 24:40.120 --> 24:44.120 And I gave those orders. 24:44.120 --> 24:58.120 This is what I needed to say. 25:07.120 --> 25:10.120 The prisoners will face the jury. 25:10.120 --> 25:13.120 Foreman, has your jury reached the verdict? 25:13.120 --> 25:15.120 Yes sir we have. 25:15.120 --> 25:19.120 On the charge of murder of Mr. and Mrs. Miklas Hellman. 25:19.120 --> 25:26.120 We find the defendants Arnie Leuken and Sven Hansen not guilty. 25:33.120 --> 25:36.120 It is customary sir. 25:36.120 --> 25:43.120 That the accused upon his acquittal offer thanks to the foreman of the jury which tried him. 25:43.120 --> 25:46.120 So I wish to do this thing. 25:46.120 --> 25:49.120 From my heart I thank you. 25:49.120 --> 25:53.120 And this too I must say. 25:53.120 --> 25:56.120 What happened at Skrykerud pond. 25:56.120 --> 26:01.120 What was done there was done on the face of a bleeding world. 26:01.120 --> 26:03.120 A world at war. 26:03.120 --> 26:10.120 I was caught up in it and Sven and those two old people and you and all of us. 26:10.120 --> 26:13.120 Now it is done. 26:13.120 --> 26:15.120 A trial was held here today. 26:15.120 --> 26:19.120 Proof that humanity is with us again. 26:19.120 --> 26:23.120 I will go home now and make prayer. 26:23.120 --> 26:27.120 Let no one ever be called upon to do what I did. 26:27.120 --> 26:33.120 Let the world live in peace. 26:58.120 --> 27:04.120 Suspense presented by Auto Light tonight's star Mr. Jeff Chandler. 27:04.120 --> 27:07.120 This is Harlow Wilcox again. 27:07.120 --> 27:19.120 Don't forget you may help your favorite church, hospital, March of Dimes, United Defense Fund or any other local or national charity to share in the $100,000 Auto Light family charity drawing. 27:19.120 --> 27:27.120 If you're one of 25 persons selected you will name any recognized charity you wish for a big share of this huge sum. 27:27.120 --> 27:30.120 There's nothing to buy, write or solve. 27:30.120 --> 27:34.120 So if you're 18 years or over visit any of the following dealer showrooms. 27:34.120 --> 27:41.120 De Soto, Hudson, Plymouth, Studebaker, Dodge, Willis, Nash, Packard, Kaiser or Chrysler. 27:41.120 --> 27:43.120 Fill out a registration form and have the dealer sign it. 27:43.120 --> 27:50.120 That's all, but your favorite charity may have you to thank for a big part of $100,000. 27:50.120 --> 27:57.120 Those dealers are De Soto, Hudson, Plymouth, Studebaker, Dodge, Willis, Nash, Packard, Kaiser or Chrysler. 27:57.120 --> 28:01.120 Help your favorite charity sign up tomorrow. 28:08.120 --> 28:11.120 Next week we will dramatize an astounding experience. 28:11.120 --> 28:14.120 A man and a machine flung at a barrier of sound. 28:14.120 --> 28:17.120 It's called The Outer Limit. 28:17.120 --> 28:19.120 Our star Mr. William Holden. 28:19.120 --> 28:23.120 That's next week on Suspense. 28:25.120 --> 28:30.120 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morrowick. 28:32.120 --> 28:37.120 Death at Strangerood Fond was adapted for Suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin 28:37.120 --> 28:41.120 with James P. 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