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Hello. 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 Hello, hello. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 Somebody playing a joke, Jeff? 02:56.000 --> 02:57.000 I guess so. 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 Karen? 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 Don't start anything, Janie, huh? 03:00.000 --> 03:01.000 Was it Karen? 03:01.000 --> 03:04.000 Janie, baby. Janie. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 What? 03:05.000 --> 03:06.000 Listen. 03:06.000 --> 03:07.000 Sure. 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 Sure, sweetie. What do you want me to listen to? 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 It's not my fault you've got your hip in a cast. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 It's not your fault I've got my hip in a cast, dear. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Oh, cut it out, will you? 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 I'm clumsy. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 I go along on vacations to the beach and fall off a surfboard 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 and break my hip and my husband meets another... 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 Are you going to answer the phone? 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 Uh-uh. No. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 Bring the phone over to me, Jeff. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 Let me answer it. 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 Sure. 03:41.000 --> 03:42.000 Here. 03:43.000 --> 03:44.000 Hello? 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 What's the matter? 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 You tell me. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 I asked you a question. What's the... 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 Here, you take the phone. 03:52.000 --> 03:53.000 Hello? 03:55.000 --> 03:56.000 Who is this? 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 Hello? 03:57.000 --> 04:01.000 Help me. Help me, Jeff. 04:01.000 --> 04:02.000 Yes, this is... 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 Jeff. 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 This is Jeff. 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 Who would... Hello? Hello? Hello? 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 Whoever it was hung up, Janie. 04:12.000 --> 04:13.000 Who was it, Jeff? 04:13.000 --> 04:14.000 I don't know. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 Was it Karen? 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 Now, why don't you cut that out? 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 It was a girl. Was it Karen? 04:20.000 --> 04:23.000 Karen sounded like she needed help. 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 Loaded, probably. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 What does she look like? You never told me. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 Very tanned, very tall. 04:30.000 --> 04:31.000 And very beautiful. 04:31.000 --> 04:32.000 She really is. 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 Calling here after midnight. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Doesn't she know you're married? Didn't you tell her? 04:36.000 --> 04:37.000 I told her. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 You better go see if she's all right. 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 Now, listen, Karen... 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 You'd better go see. 04:43.000 --> 05:11.000 Yeah. 05:11.000 --> 05:14.000 The drive was eight miles from Zuma Beach. 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 Nearly two in the morning and a full moon and a few clouds 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 and phosphorescence riding the lip of the surf. 05:21.000 --> 05:23.000 No one was home at Karen Lawrence's house. 05:23.000 --> 05:25.000 Her white convertible wasn't there either. 05:26.000 --> 05:27.000 I went home. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 Janie was sleeping, so I waited till morning to tell her. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 Then I went out on the beach and started to work on the surfboards with Lou, 05:33.000 --> 05:36.000 a friend of mine who'd taken the place next door. 05:37.000 --> 05:38.000 You know how I'd raise this, Dent? 05:38.000 --> 05:39.000 How? 05:39.000 --> 05:41.000 Put a beer bottle cap on it, then set a hot iron on the cap. 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 That'll pop right up. 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 Yeah, I might try it when... 05:45.000 --> 05:46.000 Hi. 05:46.000 --> 05:47.000 Hello there. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Hello. 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 I'm Phyllis George. Which one of you is Jeff? 05:50.000 --> 05:51.000 Not Lou, huh? 05:51.000 --> 05:52.000 Jeff. 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 It's always Jeff. 05:54.000 --> 05:55.000 Me. 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 What did you do with Karen? 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 What are you talking about? 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 I drove out to see her. We were going shopping today. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 She's not home. 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 The inside of her house is a wreck. 06:03.000 --> 06:04.000 Why ask me? 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 She told me yesterday she was going to load up her surfboard 06:06.000 --> 06:09.000 and try to trap you into some moonlight surfing. 06:09.000 --> 06:10.000 How did she make out? 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 She made out good. 06:12.000 --> 06:13.000 Yeah, we went surfing. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 Where's Karen, Sonny? 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 All right, baby. I'm going to the cops. 06:31.000 --> 06:34.000 We finished resurfacing the boards after that. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 Not much talk. 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 I kept looking down the road for the cops that girl promised. 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 No cops. 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 After a while, I said to Lou, 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 see you, and went back to Janie. 06:43.000 --> 06:46.000 Carried her out to the strand of white beach we bought for the summer. 06:46.000 --> 06:51.000 Oiled her back and her shoulders and her arms and then her face. 06:51.000 --> 06:54.000 Then lay down and set the ball of sun spinning. 06:54.000 --> 06:56.000 And that's how a day got done. 07:01.000 --> 07:03.000 Around 10 that night, the moon was low, 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 but gaining altitude fast. 07:07.000 --> 07:08.000 Jeff? 07:08.000 --> 07:09.000 Yeah, honey? 07:09.000 --> 07:12.000 It's a beautiful night out there. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 Very beautiful. 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 Uh-huh. 07:16.000 --> 07:19.000 No sense you sitting around listening to the radio. 07:19.000 --> 07:23.000 Why don't you take the board, go surfing in the moonlight? 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 No, no, Janie, I... 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 Listen to me, sweetie. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 If I could, I'd go with you. 07:28.000 --> 07:31.000 There's nothing right now I want more to do. 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 So you go, huh, sweetie? 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 Don't let me ruin all of it for you. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 Janie, I don't mind... 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 You go, take the board and go, because I asked you to. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 Because I want you to. 07:51.000 --> 07:52.000 I went. 07:52.000 --> 07:55.000 And the waves were coming in gentle and fast 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 and the moon crested from about 150 yards offshore. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 I paddled the board out easy and slow 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 to where the moon was shaping them. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 It's where I saw her. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 Karen. 08:09.000 --> 08:12.000 Her hair floating and woven in a web of kelp. 08:12.000 --> 08:14.000 And her face moon-white. 08:14.000 --> 08:17.000 And her lips and splotches of color on her throat 08:17.000 --> 08:19.000 where the bruises were. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 Karen in the wet shroud of a silk dress. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Dead Karen. 08:24.000 --> 08:29.000 In the sodden jacket I'd lent her the night before. 08:32.000 --> 08:35.000 When I got back to the house, Janie was asleep. 08:35.000 --> 08:36.000 I didn't wake her. 08:36.000 --> 08:40.000 I got into some clothes, went out to the car. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 Hey, wait a minute. 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 Is that you, Jeff? 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 Yeah, it's me, Lou. 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 Lou, come out here a minute, will you? 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 Sure. 08:55.000 --> 08:56.000 I couldn't sleep. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 I was reading. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 I heard the car and I thought maybe I... 08:58.000 --> 09:01.000 Something I want to tell you about last night, Lou. 09:01.000 --> 09:02.000 Something you don't know. 09:02.000 --> 09:05.000 All I know about last night is that you and Karen went surfing 09:05.000 --> 09:06.000 by moonlight this morning. 09:06.000 --> 09:09.000 A girl named Phyllis rode up and you all copped in your face 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 because no more beautiful Karen. 09:11.000 --> 09:12.000 After that, I lose you. 09:12.000 --> 09:13.000 Just listen to me, huh? 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 Well, I'm listening, Jeff. 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 Well, like you said, I went surfing with her. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 After that, she needled me into taking her to that joint 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 down the highway for a beer. 09:20.000 --> 09:21.000 It's been done. 09:21.000 --> 09:24.000 A beautiful girl sometimes merits a beer. 09:25.000 --> 09:27.000 Ah, Journey doesn't know about it, huh? 09:27.000 --> 09:29.000 That's what you're trying to say? 09:29.000 --> 09:30.000 Something else. 09:30.000 --> 09:31.000 All right, something else. 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 It was while we were in the joint. 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 She... 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 Well, you know Karen. 09:36.000 --> 09:37.000 You'd know what she... 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 Yeah, if only you'd better deny it. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 Is that what you did, Jeff? 09:41.000 --> 09:42.000 I had to walk out on her. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 She followed me out. 09:43.000 --> 09:44.000 I told her off. 09:44.000 --> 09:47.000 Put her in her car and told her off for the rest of time. 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 Marriage, I said to her. 09:48.000 --> 09:49.000 Happily married. 09:49.000 --> 09:50.000 And a couple of other things I said. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 She cried and then she drove off. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 I walked the beach for a long time. 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 Jeff. 09:55.000 --> 09:56.000 It's the last I saw her, Lou. 09:56.000 --> 09:57.000 I swear it. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 I swear it. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 What's eating on you, kid? 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 A little while ago, I found her 10:03.000 --> 10:05.000 floating in a kelp bed. 10:06.000 --> 10:07.000 Dead. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 I think murdered. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 Where were you going just now, Jeff? 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 To the police. 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 Jeff. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Yeah? 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 Police is where grief is. 10:21.000 --> 10:22.000 What? 10:22.000 --> 10:24.000 You told Karen off, you said, and never saw her again. 10:24.000 --> 10:27.000 You swore it when I didn't even know what you were talking about. 10:27.000 --> 10:28.000 Don't you believe me? 10:28.000 --> 10:29.000 Don't! 10:29.000 --> 10:30.000 Police is where grief is. 10:30.000 --> 10:35.000 Police and Karen murdered can burst wide open what you got with Janie. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 You forgot a thing, Jeff. 10:38.000 --> 10:39.000 What? 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 You didn't walk a lonesome beach last night. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 You left Karen, you came to my house. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 We sanded the surfboards. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 Isn't that what you forgot? 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 Lou, from me to you, an alibi. 10:48.000 --> 10:52.000 An alibi maybe you don't need, but from me to you. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Because of what you and Janie mean to me. 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 Because of what he said, because it was a big grief. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 Because it might kill what it was Janie and I had together. 11:06.000 --> 11:10.000 The summer and beach and sky and sea and the love I had for her. 11:10.000 --> 11:13.000 I waited till Lou had gone back into his house. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 And I swam out to where Karen was. 11:16.000 --> 11:19.000 I took off her the jacket I'd lent her the night before. 11:19.000 --> 11:23.000 I swam back to shore and found a littered strand of beach and burned the jacket. 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 And buried the scorched rags. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 And I went home and slept. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 And it was Janie who woke me. 11:29.000 --> 11:33.000 Jeff, Jeff, there's a fellow outside. 11:33.000 --> 11:34.000 Who? 11:34.000 --> 11:36.000 A fellow outside. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 Wants to talk to you. 11:38.000 --> 11:39.000 Who? 11:39.000 --> 11:40.000 A Mr. Anders. 11:40.000 --> 11:41.000 A policeman. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 Look Janie, no matter what. 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 That phone call last night. 11:45.000 --> 11:48.000 From Karen? That phone call? 11:48.000 --> 11:51.000 No matter what. Don't say anything about it. Nothing. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 A fellow's waiting at the door for you Jeff. 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 No matter what do you hear? No matter... 12:07.000 --> 12:10.000 You want to see me? You Jeff Marlow? 12:10.000 --> 12:11.000 That's right. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 A swimmer found a girl out in the kelp this morning. 12:13.000 --> 12:16.000 A girl we all know around here. Karen Lawrence. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 What's that got to do with me? 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 She was murdered Mr. Marlow, strangled. 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 Somebody killed her and put her out on the tide. 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 Let's go inside and talk about it. 12:25.000 --> 12:30.000 The Guilty Always Run 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Terrone Power 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 with Kathy Lewis and William Conrad 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 in The Guilty Always Run. 12:45.000 --> 12:48.000 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding 12:48.000 --> 12:55.000 theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 Hey Marty, what's the rush? 13:06.000 --> 13:08.000 Oh hiya Harlow, I can't stop now. 13:08.000 --> 13:11.000 I'm coming from a preview of the new 54 Kaiser 13:11.000 --> 13:13.000 and I've got to get over to the paper and write the story. 13:13.000 --> 13:16.000 Hey they call it the new car with the big change, don't they? 13:16.000 --> 13:20.000 Right, there's a big change in styling, front, back and inside. 13:20.000 --> 13:23.000 And there's more room and comfort than ever before. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 Man, the new Kaiser is luxurious. 13:25.000 --> 13:27.000 How about the new Kaiser's power? 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14:34.000 --> 14:35.000 I don't know. 14:35.000 --> 14:36.000 Jeff? 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 Oh it's nothing Janey. 14:38.000 --> 14:41.000 This gentleman just wants to know if I know Karen Lawrence. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 Why does the gentleman want to know that Jeff? 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 Well... 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 Why do you want to know that? 14:45.000 --> 14:46.000 She's dead. 14:46.000 --> 14:48.000 That's not the question I asked you. 14:48.000 --> 14:49.000 She was murdered. 14:49.000 --> 14:50.000 That's still not the question. 14:50.000 --> 14:53.000 Asking around about her, your husband's name gets mentioned 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 more than anybody else's. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 I see. 14:56.000 --> 14:59.000 She was murdered alright in case you've got any doubt about it. 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 Strangled. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 Bruce marks here and here. 15:04.000 --> 15:06.000 Two thumbs you know. 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 Wearing all her clothes. 15:08.000 --> 15:12.000 Good swimmer I understand so we've got a tab at murder. 15:12.000 --> 15:15.000 And I've got to ask Mr. Marlow if you killed her. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 No sir, I did not. 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 But you know her. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 Yes sir. 15:19.000 --> 15:22.000 Now look, you don't have to yes sir and no sir me. 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 Okay. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 You were with her last night. 15:25.000 --> 15:27.000 We got that from Phyllis George, a friend of hers. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 Well look, this is what happened. 15:30.000 --> 15:33.000 One day Karen comes up from Malibu with a board 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 pretty helpless about getting from her car to the surf. 15:35.000 --> 15:36.000 When was this? 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Ten days ago. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 Eleven. 15:40.000 --> 15:42.000 Eleven. 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 The afternoon of the morning I broke my hip. 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 I can pick it all up till yesterday Marlow. 15:48.000 --> 15:50.000 Talk has it she liked you. 15:50.000 --> 15:52.000 Did Talk have it I tried to ignore her? 15:52.000 --> 15:53.000 Yes it did. 15:53.000 --> 15:55.000 Did Talk have it that right off I told her I was married? 15:55.000 --> 15:57.000 Yes, yes it did. 15:57.000 --> 16:00.000 I also checked next door your friend Lou Foster. 16:00.000 --> 16:03.000 He says he was with you around the time the girl was probably killed. 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 Then what are you coming around here for? 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 What about the bar? 16:07.000 --> 16:11.000 Bar on the coast highway near Topanga Canyon Marlow. 16:11.000 --> 16:12.000 Bar keeps said to be here. 16:12.000 --> 16:13.000 Okay, okay. 16:13.000 --> 16:16.000 Like a fool I took her down there for a beer night before last. 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 Night before last is when she was killed. 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 To Talk it out, to tell her to stay away. 16:20.000 --> 16:22.000 Look, maybe to you it sounds- 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 Don't get yourself excited Marlow. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 That's just what I do. 16:26.000 --> 16:28.000 Dane was chasing me, didn't want her to. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 Take her to some quiet place and talk to her. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 Adult over a beer. 16:35.000 --> 16:38.000 Well, I hope your hip gets better Mrs. Marlow. 16:38.000 --> 16:39.000 Thanks. 16:39.000 --> 16:42.000 And thank you for your courtesy, both of you. 16:42.000 --> 16:43.000 Sure. 16:49.000 --> 16:50.000 Jeff. 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 Yeah. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 You didn't tell me you took her for a drink. 16:53.000 --> 16:54.000 Just for a beer. 16:54.000 --> 16:55.000 Oh. 16:55.000 --> 16:56.000 Now look Janie. 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 You want me to tell her not to love you anymore Jeff? 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 What's been going on anyhow? 17:03.000 --> 17:04.000 Hello. 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 Mr. Marlow? 17:05.000 --> 17:06.000 That's right. 17:06.000 --> 17:07.000 Who's this? 17:07.000 --> 17:08.000 Norm. 17:08.000 --> 17:09.000 Norm? 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 Yeah, Norm Sloan Mr. Marlow. 17:11.000 --> 17:14.000 I got the Topanga Innery on the coast highway. 17:14.000 --> 17:15.000 You've been in here. 17:15.000 --> 17:19.000 Back night before last you were in here with Karen Lawrence. 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 I understand from the police that Karen- 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 What do you want? 17:23.000 --> 17:30.000 I can't talk to you over the phone Mr. Marlow, but I wish you'd stop in here anytime in the next half hour or so. 17:30.000 --> 17:34.000 If I were in your shoes I would Mr. Marlow. 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 Bye. 17:40.000 --> 17:41.000 Who was it? 17:41.000 --> 17:42.000 Nobody. 17:42.000 --> 17:43.000 Who was it Jeff? 17:43.000 --> 17:44.000 Nobody. 17:44.000 --> 18:00.000 I'm going out. 18:00.000 --> 18:04.000 You don't want to hear my troubles Mr. Marlow, so I'll just tell you this. 18:04.000 --> 18:09.000 I didn't tell that policeman about the arguments you and that girl had in here. 18:09.000 --> 18:13.000 Since you were the only ones in here, then I'm the only one who knows about it. 18:13.000 --> 18:16.000 And what happened out front when you left. 18:16.000 --> 18:19.000 How she was carrying on and crying. 18:19.000 --> 18:26.000 And from what Mr. Anders at Policeman said, she must have been murdered a couple hours after you left here with her. 18:26.000 --> 18:30.000 Now look, I don't know what you told the police. 18:30.000 --> 18:35.000 But you came down when I called Mr. Marlow, so what am I to figure? 18:35.000 --> 18:45.000 As long as you're here Mr. Marlow, I'd like to know what it feels like to go out to Santa Anita with a thousand dollars and not care if I win or lose. 18:45.000 --> 18:49.000 With a thousand dollars Mr. Marlow. 18:49.000 --> 18:59.000 Today Mr. Marlow. 18:59.000 --> 19:04.000 A thousand? For what Jeff? For what I need? To buy off a murder charge? 19:04.000 --> 19:08.000 Are you crazy kid? You got it Lou. You're gonna give it to me? 19:08.000 --> 19:13.000 You're crazy? How deep into it can you get? A thousand now? A thousand a week maybe for the rest of your life and then you... 19:13.000 --> 19:17.000 You're not gonna do it, huh? You're not gonna give it to me. 19:17.000 --> 19:24.000 Who you buying from Jeff? Sloan. Runs the beer joint on the highway. He saw me and Karen outside his... 19:24.000 --> 19:28.000 A thousand? He must have seen a lot. 19:28.000 --> 19:32.000 You'll get it back Lou. Every nickel. 19:32.000 --> 19:35.000 All right Jeff. Drive me to my bank. 19:35.000 --> 19:37.000 And Jeff... Thanks. Thanks. 19:37.000 --> 19:43.000 That's not what I meant. This is what I meant. This will do it Jeff. It's as far as I can go. 19:43.000 --> 19:49.000 So luck and a long life kid. 19:49.000 --> 19:56.000 We just stared at each other for a while and I had to lift his hand from his side to shake it. No more talk. 19:56.000 --> 20:03.000 I drove him to his bank. Lou got the money. He gave it to me. I drove him to his house and then went to Sloan's joint. 20:03.000 --> 20:31.000 Bought a bottle of beer. Drank half of it. Paid him a thousand dollars for it. Sloan laughed from deep in his stomach. 20:34.000 --> 20:43.000 Hello? Hi honey. Who is this? I'm sorry there's no one here. Honey baby it's Jeff. 20:43.000 --> 20:51.000 No. No there's no one here by that... Jeff listen. The police are here. They... What are you... 20:51.000 --> 20:59.000 That you Marlow? This is Anders Marlow. Sheriff's office. Now listen. Sloan, that beer joint fella. 20:59.000 --> 21:03.000 He called the office a little while ago and said you offered him a hundred dollars to keep his mouth shut. 21:03.000 --> 21:08.000 A hundred? Now you come in Marlow because when you did that you practically signed a confession. 21:08.000 --> 21:15.000 Marlow you understand what's happening to you don't you? You understand what's going to happen to you? 21:20.000 --> 21:26.000 I let the receiver hang and let him talk into nothing and I ran. Off the coast highway down the beach. 21:26.000 --> 21:34.000 A couple of miles. Farther to Santa Monica Pier. Farther to Ocean Park. Me. Wanted for murder. 21:34.000 --> 21:39.000 Because Karen. Dead Karen wanted a part of my life and I wouldn't give it to her. 21:39.000 --> 21:45.000 Because her girlfriend stuck her face into mine and yelled cop. Girlfriend Phyllis George. 21:45.000 --> 21:53.000 I found her address in the Venice phone book. I went there. Rooming house overlooking one of the phony canals they have. 21:53.000 --> 21:59.000 Second floor rear. Phyllis. Scared. Staring. Holding it in. 21:59.000 --> 22:03.000 You just get out you hear. Just keep away from me. You gotta help me understand. 22:03.000 --> 22:08.000 Things you know about Karen. Fellas she knew. One fella maybe who wanted her dead. 22:08.000 --> 22:12.000 You. You did it. Nobody wanted her dead. No. Me. I didn't. 22:12.000 --> 22:17.000 You. You did it. Nobody wanted her dead. Help me. Help me. What was it you had with Karen? 22:17.000 --> 22:22.000 It makes you choke her and kill her and throw her out into the ocean like she was. I didn't. I didn't kill her. 22:22.000 --> 22:27.000 You get out of here huh. Because you scare me. Because you scare. Just listen huh. 22:27.000 --> 22:32.000 Anything you know about her that I can take to the cops. Keep away. Keep away. 22:32.000 --> 22:42.000 Killer. Killer. Killer. Shut up. Shut up. Like Karen huh. That's how you choke. 22:44.000 --> 22:51.000 That's what you did to her killer. That. Like you wanted to do to me just now. No. No. I. 22:51.000 --> 23:15.000 Don't. Don't do. Hello. 23:15.000 --> 23:24.000 Lou. This is Jeff. Where are you kid. Listen. How's Janie. I didn't call her because the lines probably tapped or something. 23:24.000 --> 23:30.000 How's Janie Lou. She's OK. Where are you. I want you to meet me Lou. Tell me how things are going. 23:30.000 --> 23:39.000 How. I gotta talk to somebody. Sure. Where are you. Phone booth outside a drive in laundry in Venice. Rose and Third Avenue. 23:39.000 --> 23:52.000 I'll pick you up there kid. Right away Lou. Right away. 23:52.000 --> 24:03.000 How you feeling kid. Scared Lou. How did I get into this Lou. What happened. Why am I running away. 24:03.000 --> 24:13.000 Jeff. Let's not. Let's not what. Let's not kid. Huh. Because I'm in this too. That alibi I gave you. 24:13.000 --> 24:22.000 What do you mean. Let's not kid Lou. The way you pounced on the alibi paying blackmail. Is that any way for an innocent. You're saying what Lou. 24:22.000 --> 24:29.000 Come on. You really think I killed her don't you. Listen Jeff. Janie and I were talking. Janie thinks I killed her. 24:29.000 --> 24:41.000 Yeah. Yeah she does Jeff. You ask and I told you. OK. OK. What are we stopping for. This is where you're getting out. 24:41.000 --> 24:54.000 What are you talking about. Hey what is this. Open the door Marlow. That's a boy. Now come on out. 24:54.000 --> 25:04.000 That's it. You can slide out too Mr. Foster. Sure. Sure. Lou. That's right. I told Mr. Anders I'd bring you here kid. 25:04.000 --> 25:11.000 Look I didn't kill her. I did a lot of things wrong but I didn't. Just don't whimper Jeff. Huh. The old nerve kid. 25:11.000 --> 25:18.000 Like sliding in on a big one. Like the thrill things kid huh. Like you and Karen. It wasn't like that. How was it kid huh. 25:18.000 --> 25:24.000 What was the formula. Flex the muscle and be polite. Brown eyes looking up at you and here take my coat. You must be cold. 25:24.000 --> 25:30.000 Let's have a beer and back to the beach. Back to the beach. And after all of it she was only kidding all the time. 25:30.000 --> 25:37.000 What did you strangle her for. The coat Lou. How did you know about it. The coat. My coat I put on her. 25:37.000 --> 25:45.000 Sure. The one she was drawing in. There was no coat. I went back there after she'd been murdered. Took the coat from her and burned it. 25:45.000 --> 25:50.000 The same crazy reason I did everything wrong. How do you know about the coat Lou. 25:50.000 --> 25:58.000 Now look. Nobody knew about that coat but me. And whoever killed her. Then why did you come running to me for an alibi. 25:58.000 --> 26:06.000 I didn't Lou. You suggested I ought to have one. You would be my alibi. That way you'd have one too. 26:06.000 --> 26:14.000 What about it Foster. What can he say. Those phone calls. Call and hang up. 26:14.000 --> 26:22.000 Until Janie got on the line. Then let Janie listen to her in pain and calling out my name. Start suspicion right at home base. 26:22.000 --> 26:28.000 You really built it didn't you. We better go. 26:28.000 --> 26:48.000 Hey don't shoot that Foster. Stop. Hey. Hey don't. 26:48.000 --> 27:01.000 Lou didn't die. He'll stand trial. Summer's fading and vacation's long over. But sometimes. Sometimes on weekends Janie drives me out to Point Doom. 27:01.000 --> 27:30.000 We sit there and we watch the sunset ride in on the long slow curve of surf. And we don't talk. 27:30.000 --> 27:37.000 Suspense. Presented by Auto Light. Tonight's star Mr. Terrone Power. 27:37.000 --> 27:44.000 This is Harlow Wilcox again. 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