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I'm lonely for you honey, like all day 02:33.040 --> 02:34.760 to day, like now honey. 02:34.760 --> 02:38.480 Making a little whimpering sound busting in here like you did when you got no right. 02:38.480 --> 02:42.480 I've got it right Shirley, being a husband to you like I was for so long I've got to 02:42.480 --> 02:43.480 ... 02:43.480 --> 02:48.920 Husband, husband. Eddie, gentle talking Eddie who made my life miserable and ugly because 02:48.920 --> 02:49.920 he said... 02:49.920 --> 02:54.120 You tell me honey, what am I? 02:54.120 --> 02:59.200 What you are I don't have to think about anymore, or worry about, or get ashamed about. 02:59.200 --> 03:03.160 You don't want to understand do you Shirley? You're not even trying to honey. 03:03.160 --> 03:07.800 It's over Eddie, I don't have to try anymore. We're divorced, three months now. And I'm 03:07.800 --> 03:14.800 doing great, doing fine. So who needs you Eddie? I don't care what happens to you anymore. 03:14.800 --> 03:21.480 Don't say a thing like that honey, all you've got to do is like me again, like if you stay 03:21.480 --> 03:22.480 away from me. 03:22.480 --> 03:28.440 Don't talk like that. Your throat goes hard when you talk like that, hard instead of soft 03:28.440 --> 03:29.440 the way I remember... 03:29.440 --> 03:32.440 Don't do that Cheryl. 03:32.440 --> 03:56.000 The scissor Eddie, you touch me once more I'll kill you. So help me I'll kill you. 03:56.000 --> 04:01.560 The murderer, who then got into his car and drove through the city, through drifting twilight 04:01.560 --> 04:07.560 of early autumn, through the ending of a quiet Sunday, and into a street lined with maple. 04:07.560 --> 04:11.160 At the corner, a girl waiting for a bus. 04:11.160 --> 04:14.160 Hey Eileen. 04:14.160 --> 04:17.160 Eileen, victim. 04:17.160 --> 04:27.160 Eileen, Eileen Hall. It's me, Ed, Eddie Franklin. Not you some guy trying to pick up. 04:27.160 --> 04:34.960 Ed, I'm sorry. I really did think you were some fresh kid or something. 04:34.960 --> 04:36.560 Can I drive you some place Eileen? 04:36.560 --> 04:37.560 Well... 04:37.560 --> 04:42.960 It's no trouble, honest. I was just driving around, no special place to go, no one to 04:42.960 --> 04:44.960 see. You give me a real pleasure. 04:44.960 --> 04:47.200 Well if you're sure it's no trouble. 04:47.200 --> 04:50.760 My pleasure, honest. Come on, my pleasure. Hop in, hop in. 04:50.760 --> 04:52.760 Eileen, Eileen dear, wait. 04:52.760 --> 04:53.760 Who's that? 04:53.760 --> 04:57.360 It's just Lois Anderson, a girlfriend of mine I was visiting with today. I just left her 04:57.360 --> 05:00.160 house a few minutes ago. Do you mind if I... 05:00.160 --> 05:06.560 No, no, no. Not one little bit. You go right ahead Eileen. I'll wait. 05:06.560 --> 05:07.560 What is it Lois? 05:07.560 --> 05:12.160 Something I forgot to give you dear. A little present I had for you. I wrapped it nice. 05:12.160 --> 05:13.360 You can open it when you get home. 05:13.360 --> 05:14.360 Oh thanks Lois. 05:14.360 --> 05:19.160 Don't keep your fellow waiting dear. Whoever he is. Anyone I know? 05:19.160 --> 05:20.160 I don't think so. 05:20.160 --> 05:21.160 Thanks again Lois. 05:21.160 --> 05:24.360 I was just coming out of my house and I saw the car drive up to stop and I thought... 05:24.360 --> 05:28.360 It's alright, I know it. She's a friend. Good night Lois. 05:32.360 --> 05:33.360 Hmm, all set. 05:33.360 --> 05:34.360 Yeah, thanks for... 05:34.360 --> 05:35.360 I don't mention it. 05:35.360 --> 05:36.360 Where to Miss? 05:36.360 --> 05:41.360 Well, I was just waiting for the bus to go home. 05:41.360 --> 05:44.360 Oh, you have to do that to go home? 05:44.360 --> 05:49.360 No. Really, I thought I'd get to better early. 05:49.360 --> 05:51.360 I was just going to say... 05:51.360 --> 05:54.360 Well, I was just going to say if you don't really have to go home... 05:54.360 --> 05:59.360 Well, there's a driving up the road and I thought maybe we'd stop and have a sandwich before... 05:59.360 --> 06:01.360 I mean if you want to Eileen. 06:01.360 --> 06:04.360 Very sweet of you. I'd like to. 06:04.360 --> 06:20.360 Oh, my pleasure, my pleasure, Eileen. 06:20.360 --> 06:26.360 Your sandwiches, folks, and the coke. If you'll just adjust your windham. 06:26.360 --> 06:34.360 Thanks. I'll just screw this tray on tight. There you are, folks. Be happy. 06:34.360 --> 06:41.360 Well, thanks, honey. Now, let's see. This is your sandwich, Eileen, and this is mine. 06:41.360 --> 06:43.360 You want a straw for your drink? 06:43.360 --> 06:47.360 No, thanks. I like to crunch the ice. 06:47.360 --> 06:56.360 Ed? Your wife, has she... 06:56.360 --> 07:01.360 Oh, that's done and finished. Eileen, I told her off good today. 07:01.360 --> 07:05.360 I said stop bothering me. Stop hanging around. Stop calling me. 07:05.360 --> 07:10.360 Now we're divorced, I said, and if that doesn't mean anything to you, it sure does to me, I said. 07:10.360 --> 07:12.360 Why? Did you think that I... 07:12.360 --> 07:18.360 I don't know what I thought, Ed. I just wondered. A couple of times I met you, you talked about her, and I... 07:18.360 --> 07:19.360 Eileen. 07:19.360 --> 07:20.360 Yes? 07:20.360 --> 07:32.360 I'm glad I happened to see you waiting there on the corner tonight. You know, I was just driving around, and nothing to look forward to. There you were in the twilight. 07:32.360 --> 07:33.360 Oh, Ed. 07:33.360 --> 07:35.360 What's the matter? 07:35.360 --> 07:42.360 Well, nothing. Nothing to matter. The way you said that, I didn't suspect you could... 07:42.360 --> 07:46.360 Oh, well, I've got a million of them. A whole million. 07:46.360 --> 07:50.360 You're fine, Ed. I think I like being with you. 07:50.360 --> 07:55.360 Well, me too, Eileen. You know, I wanted to call on you so many times, but... 07:55.360 --> 07:56.360 What? 07:56.360 --> 08:03.360 Hey, pal. Want to move your car a little bit? So I can park in that space next to you. 08:03.360 --> 08:05.360 You hear me, pal? 08:05.360 --> 08:08.360 Oh, one of those, huh? 08:08.360 --> 08:12.360 Shut up! Shut up! 08:12.360 --> 08:15.360 Ed, all you've got to do is just pull over a little. 08:15.360 --> 08:17.360 He's got no right to. 08:17.360 --> 08:20.360 I'll show him. I'll show that loudmouth. 08:20.360 --> 08:24.360 Now what's with you, big mouth? You figure I own the world or something? 08:24.360 --> 08:29.360 Oh. Oh, I got me one of those. 08:29.360 --> 08:34.360 What are you, a miser kid? You collect parking spaces? All you've got to do is move your car a little? 08:34.360 --> 08:39.360 I'm not going to, big mouth. I got there first. Me and my girl, we don't want to move. We're not going to move. 08:39.360 --> 08:41.360 Yes, you will, kiddo. 08:41.360 --> 08:44.360 Stop it! Stop that! Stop it! You too crazy or something? 08:44.360 --> 08:46.360 Well, you heard him, Eileen. You saw him. He shoved. 08:46.360 --> 08:49.360 Stop it, you hear? 08:49.360 --> 08:53.360 Ed, let's get out of here. Let's go someplace else. 08:53.360 --> 08:55.360 You want to? You really want to? 08:55.360 --> 08:59.360 Tell him you want to, lady. All I am is hungry for a cheeseburger, so get him away from me. 08:59.360 --> 09:03.360 Let's go somewhere else, Ed. Maybe where we can dance. Someplace that... 09:03.360 --> 09:06.360 I know a place on the highway where there's a jukebox. 09:06.360 --> 09:09.360 That sounds like fun. Let's go there, Ed. 09:09.360 --> 09:25.360 Oh, my pleasure. My pleasure, Eileen. 09:25.360 --> 09:29.360 Pardon me. Sorry. Can we get through here, please? 09:29.360 --> 09:33.360 Can we get through here, please, says the man. 09:33.360 --> 09:36.360 Says the man. Says the man. Says the man. 09:36.360 --> 09:39.360 Come on, come on. Let the lady and I through here. 09:39.360 --> 09:41.360 Lady, lady. 09:41.360 --> 09:43.360 Ed, let's get out of here. Let's not... 09:43.360 --> 09:47.360 Now listen, you punk, you little punk. Let us through here. We want to sit down. 09:47.360 --> 09:48.360 Please, Ed. 09:48.360 --> 09:50.360 Hi, lady. To you I'll apologize. 09:50.360 --> 09:51.360 Ed. 09:51.360 --> 09:52.360 Now listen, you... 09:52.360 --> 09:56.360 I'm apologizing. You want to get through, I'll get you through. 09:56.360 --> 10:04.360 Get out of the way. Out of the way. Let these two good people by. Let them by. Let them by. 10:04.360 --> 10:06.360 Table you wanted, lady? 10:06.360 --> 10:07.360 Thank you. 10:07.360 --> 10:10.360 Sit down, lady. 10:10.360 --> 10:17.360 Now, mister, what about me being a punk before you sit down? That is, you tell me that. 10:17.360 --> 10:18.360 Oh, well, I... 10:18.360 --> 10:20.360 Before you sit down, let it... 10:20.360 --> 10:24.360 Oh, no. Forget it. No offense. You know, all those people and bumping and all. 10:24.360 --> 10:27.360 Sure. And you know what? 10:27.360 --> 10:28.360 Huh? 10:28.360 --> 10:30.360 Hi, I'm Bernie. 10:30.360 --> 10:31.360 Hi. 10:31.360 --> 10:34.360 Hi, lady. I'm Bernie. 10:34.360 --> 10:36.360 Eileen. And I'm Ed. 10:36.360 --> 10:40.360 Hi. Mind if I do? 10:42.360 --> 10:44.360 I knew you wouldn't. 10:44.360 --> 10:48.360 Sit down, Ed, and join along. 10:48.360 --> 10:50.360 Hi. 10:50.360 --> 10:53.360 Hello. 10:53.360 --> 10:55.360 What's the matter with you? 10:55.360 --> 10:57.360 Get him. 10:57.360 --> 10:58.360 Hey, Eileen. Eileen. 10:58.360 --> 11:01.360 What? What do you want? What are you laughing at? 11:01.360 --> 11:04.360 Both of you. 11:04.360 --> 11:07.360 A long face in this kind of place. 11:07.360 --> 11:08.360 In form. 11:08.360 --> 11:11.360 You're friendly, Eileen. Now, we've forgotten. Come on. 11:11.360 --> 11:13.360 Sure. 11:13.360 --> 11:14.360 Sure it is. 11:14.360 --> 11:15.360 Eileen. 11:15.360 --> 11:16.360 Hi. 11:16.360 --> 11:19.360 You see? You see, Eileen? 11:19.360 --> 11:22.360 Hi, Bernie. 11:22.360 --> 11:24.360 Yeah, me too. 11:24.360 --> 11:25.360 Hi, Ed. 11:25.360 --> 11:27.360 Yeah. 11:27.360 --> 11:30.360 You know what you ought to do, Ed? 11:30.360 --> 11:34.360 Hold up three fingers and yell, beer, so Eileen and me can finish out the dance. 11:34.360 --> 11:35.360 Yeah. 11:35.360 --> 11:36.360 Come on. 11:36.360 --> 11:37.360 All right. 11:37.360 --> 11:58.360 Hey, three beers. Hey, you, three beers. 11:58.360 --> 12:00.360 Hey, hi, hi. 12:00.360 --> 12:17.360 Hi, Ed. 12:17.360 --> 12:25.360 I'll tell you what. You unroll the window on your side, and I'll unroll the windows on mine. 12:25.360 --> 12:27.360 To let the country air in. 12:27.360 --> 12:30.360 Yeah, to let the country air in. 12:30.360 --> 12:35.360 Like we said. 12:35.360 --> 12:36.360 Eileen. 12:36.360 --> 12:37.360 Uh-huh. 12:37.360 --> 12:39.360 No, no, no. When you're finished. 12:39.360 --> 12:42.360 I'm finished. You want to talk to me. 12:42.360 --> 12:47.360 Oh, that's his right. His right can be. His right can be. That's how right it is. 12:47.360 --> 12:49.360 All right. Come here. 12:49.360 --> 12:50.360 Ed. 12:50.360 --> 12:53.360 Ed, you drunk? 12:53.360 --> 13:01.360 Oh, I would be, but I'm out with Eileen tonight, and when I lift up a glass, she pulls down my arm, pats my cheek, and says, now, Ed. 13:01.360 --> 13:02.360 And Eileen. 13:02.360 --> 13:05.360 Oh, I had a beer, Ed. 13:05.360 --> 13:07.360 Have a good time. 13:07.360 --> 13:08.360 I guess. 13:08.360 --> 13:09.360 I guess? 13:09.360 --> 13:10.360 Uh-huh. 13:10.360 --> 13:14.360 I guess she says, did you see the way she was dancing? 13:14.360 --> 13:15.360 Ed. 13:15.360 --> 13:16.360 What? 13:16.360 --> 13:17.360 I'm kind of ashamed. 13:17.360 --> 13:18.360 Of what? 13:18.360 --> 13:23.360 Of the kid, Bernie, dancing all those dances, and I've never done anything like that in my whole life. 13:23.360 --> 13:28.360 Oh, come here. Come here. Come here. 13:28.360 --> 13:29.360 Ed. 13:29.360 --> 13:32.360 Huh? What's the matter? 13:32.360 --> 13:33.360 Look. 13:33.360 --> 13:35.360 What's the matter? 13:35.360 --> 13:36.360 Nonsense. 13:36.360 --> 13:38.360 What? 13:38.360 --> 13:40.360 This. 13:40.360 --> 13:42.360 Better we go home. 13:42.360 --> 13:45.360 No, no, better we don't, baby. 13:45.360 --> 13:47.360 Baby? 13:47.360 --> 13:52.360 Me? Baby? 13:52.360 --> 13:55.360 Home, Ed. 13:55.360 --> 13:56.360 Oh, no. 13:56.360 --> 13:58.360 Well, you picked me up. 13:58.360 --> 14:01.360 You did do that, didn't you? 14:01.360 --> 14:03.360 Picked me up. 14:03.360 --> 14:05.360 I must have been. 14:05.360 --> 14:07.360 Out of your mind? 14:07.360 --> 14:08.360 Better go home. 14:08.360 --> 14:12.360 Oh, no. Now listen, I'm lonely. I'm lonely. 14:12.360 --> 14:13.360 Stay away from me. 14:13.360 --> 14:15.360 Come here, you. 14:15.360 --> 14:17.360 And all the rest of them. 14:17.360 --> 14:18.360 Ed. 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Tell your dealer, by the way, that Auto Light is proud of its long association with Chrysler and Chrysler dealers everywhere. 16:26.360 --> 16:35.360 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage the remarkable characterization of Mr. Cornell Wild in Elliot Lewis's presentation of 16:35.360 --> 16:56.360 Somebody Help Me, a story based on fact and well calculated to keep you in suspense. 16:56.360 --> 16:58.360 Eileen Hall was missing. 16:58.360 --> 17:05.360 Four days after her disappearance, two boys were walking across a field in the outskirts of town and came across a body. 17:05.360 --> 17:10.360 Identification was made by fingerprint and it was established that this was the missing girl. 17:10.360 --> 17:15.360 Her friends were questioned and it became known that three men had been interested in Eileen. 17:15.360 --> 17:18.360 The first was a corporal at a nearby boot camp. 17:18.360 --> 17:24.360 He stated he was on duty on the night of September 10th, charge of quarters, which checked with post records. 17:24.360 --> 17:30.360 Then a former shipyard worker who it was recalled had pursued Eileen without success. 17:30.360 --> 17:33.360 She found out I was married. I told her I was right off the bat. 17:33.360 --> 17:36.360 Politely, in the nice way she had, she told me to beat it. 17:36.360 --> 17:39.360 I was playing poker on the night of September 10th. 17:39.360 --> 17:40.360 Which checked. 17:40.360 --> 17:44.360 A neighbor was questioned, a young man who had had several dates with her. 17:44.360 --> 17:49.360 Maybe five or six dates. We got along, I guess, but she got tired of going out with me. 17:49.360 --> 17:51.360 I guess we ran out of things to say to each other. 17:51.360 --> 17:56.360 The last time I saw her it was pretty miserable. That was in July sometime. 17:56.360 --> 18:00.360 September 10th I was out with Barbara. We got along fine. 18:00.360 --> 18:06.360 Two on the basis of the identification, Mrs. Lois Anderson came forward, made a statement. 18:06.360 --> 18:10.360 Eileen was visiting with me. She left my house and walked to the corner to the bus stop. 18:10.360 --> 18:14.360 I ran after her to give her a little something I'd made for her. 18:14.360 --> 18:17.360 She was just about to get into an automobile that had stopped for her. 18:17.360 --> 18:25.360 Oh no, I never saw the man before. He, um, he wore glasses. That's all I can remember. 18:25.360 --> 18:35.360 Medical authorities who performed an opsy reported that Eileen had been strangled somewhere around midnight. 18:35.360 --> 18:39.360 From scraping under her nails that she had scratched her murderer. 18:39.360 --> 18:42.360 And that she had eaten a ham sandwich about an hour before her death. 18:42.360 --> 18:46.360 Therefore a check was made of every restaurant and drive-in in the area. 18:46.360 --> 18:51.360 And one car hop said, I'm pretty sure it's the same girl. She was with a man with glasses on. 18:51.360 --> 18:55.360 Got into some kind of fight with another customer. I can't remember just what it was about. 18:55.360 --> 18:56.360 I see. 18:56.360 --> 18:59.360 I remember though at first I thought it was my boyfriend driving up. 18:59.360 --> 19:02.360 Same kind of car and it was fancied up the same way. 19:02.360 --> 19:03.360 What kind of car was that? 19:03.360 --> 19:06.360 Convertible, black convertible, plaid top. 19:06.360 --> 19:10.360 Detective Tomasino had his men circulate through auto accessory stores. 19:10.360 --> 19:15.360 Asking questions about a man who wore glasses and owned a black convertible with a plaid top. 19:15.360 --> 19:19.360 They were told that the description matched that of a man named Ed Franklin. 19:19.360 --> 19:22.360 And they furnished the policeman with an address. 19:22.360 --> 19:24.360 He moved out when we got divorced. 19:24.360 --> 19:25.360 Where'd he go? 19:25.360 --> 19:26.360 I don't know. 19:26.360 --> 19:28.360 Have you heard from him recently? 19:28.360 --> 19:31.360 Oh, a couple weeks ago. Let me see. 19:31.360 --> 19:34.360 Two Sundays before last? 19:34.360 --> 19:36.360 Maybe, I don't know. 19:36.360 --> 19:38.360 Did he act nervous? 19:38.360 --> 19:40.360 He acted like he wanted to kill me. 19:40.360 --> 19:42.360 Then he was a violent man. 19:42.360 --> 19:46.360 I'm lucky. I've taken his last bruise. 19:46.360 --> 19:50.360 The former Mrs. Franklin furnished the police with a detailed description. 19:50.360 --> 19:55.360 Finally, Ed Franklin was picked up in a cheap rooming house in Seattle, Washington. 19:55.360 --> 19:58.360 Extradited to the town where the crime was committed. 19:58.360 --> 19:59.360 Her name was what? 19:59.360 --> 20:01.360 Eileen Hall. 20:01.360 --> 20:02.360 I don't know anyone by that name. 20:02.360 --> 20:03.360 Gilchrist. 20:03.360 --> 20:06.360 Yes, sir. 20:06.360 --> 20:11.360 Mrs. Anderson. 20:11.360 --> 20:17.360 Now, Mrs. Anderson, is this the man who picked up Eileen Hall? 20:17.360 --> 20:21.360 Well, I...let me rock around here, so... 20:21.360 --> 20:24.360 You know, the way he was sitting in the car... 20:24.360 --> 20:29.360 Well, I...I don't know. I just don't know. 20:29.360 --> 20:30.360 Mr. 20:30.360 --> 20:32.360 Yeah, what do you want? 20:32.360 --> 20:34.360 She was a very nice girl. 20:34.360 --> 20:36.360 Never got into any kind of trouble. 20:36.360 --> 20:37.360 Well, hey, what is this? 20:37.360 --> 20:40.360 You recognize this man, Mrs. Anderson? 20:40.360 --> 20:45.360 No, but he might be the man. 20:45.360 --> 20:49.360 I'm not going to put him in jeopardy because I'm not sure it is he. 20:49.360 --> 20:52.360 No, I...I don't recognize him. 20:52.360 --> 20:58.360 All right, thank you. 20:58.360 --> 20:59.360 You see... 20:59.360 --> 21:00.360 See what? 21:00.360 --> 21:02.360 Well, she saw the killer and she said I'm not the one. 21:02.360 --> 21:04.360 Tell me something, Mr. Franklin. 21:04.360 --> 21:05.360 Well, any old thing. 21:05.360 --> 21:08.360 What were you doing in Seattle? 21:08.360 --> 21:09.360 Well, what's that got to do with... 21:09.360 --> 21:13.360 This is your home, Mr. Franklin. You were married here. Your job is here. 21:13.360 --> 21:15.360 Why did you go away? 21:15.360 --> 21:16.360 A wrestler. 21:16.360 --> 21:17.360 Why? 21:17.360 --> 21:19.360 Well, why does a man get wrestled? 21:19.360 --> 21:21.360 Tired of the same old thing. 21:21.360 --> 21:22.360 Well, that's right. 21:22.360 --> 21:23.360 Job, routine. 21:23.360 --> 21:24.360 Right. 21:24.360 --> 21:26.360 And the man gets lonesome. 21:26.360 --> 21:27.360 And the man gets lonesome, too. 21:27.360 --> 21:29.360 For your wife? 21:29.360 --> 21:30.360 Well, what about her? 21:30.360 --> 21:33.360 I just asked if you got lonesome for her. 21:33.360 --> 21:34.360 Divorced her. 21:34.360 --> 21:35.360 Why? 21:35.360 --> 21:36.360 Well, nothing was good enough for her. 21:36.360 --> 21:39.360 We didn't get along. We got divorced. 21:39.360 --> 21:40.360 Did you ever beat her? 21:40.360 --> 21:41.360 No. 21:41.360 --> 21:43.360 Got along fine, then. 21:43.360 --> 21:45.360 I just told you we didn't get along. 21:45.360 --> 21:46.360 What line of work are you in? 21:46.360 --> 21:48.360 I'm a salesman. Play the good. 21:48.360 --> 21:50.360 Wallets, belts, things like that? 21:50.360 --> 21:51.360 Yeah, that's right. 21:51.360 --> 21:52.360 Pretty good at it, too, huh? 21:52.360 --> 21:53.360 Sure, sure. 21:53.360 --> 21:56.360 Then how come you were practically a vagrant in Seattle? 21:56.360 --> 21:57.360 Huh? 21:57.360 --> 22:00.360 Practically a vagrant in Seattle. 22:00.360 --> 22:01.360 Well, I... 22:01.360 --> 22:04.360 Upset about something? Running away from something? 22:04.360 --> 22:05.360 No. 22:05.360 --> 22:06.360 Then what? 22:06.360 --> 22:08.360 Well, just no, that's all. 22:08.360 --> 22:11.360 Eh, get that boy, Gilchrist. 22:19.360 --> 22:22.360 Hey, uh, boy's name is Bernie, Mr. Franklin. 22:22.360 --> 22:23.360 You know him? 22:23.360 --> 22:24.360 No. 22:24.360 --> 22:26.360 What about it, Bernie? 22:26.360 --> 22:28.360 It's him. 22:28.360 --> 22:30.360 How do you know him, Bernie? 22:30.360 --> 22:34.360 I stood up to him in a duke joint once, and he fell down. 22:34.360 --> 22:36.360 Then there was a girl he was with. 22:36.360 --> 22:38.360 He watched me dance with her. 22:38.360 --> 22:39.360 Hi, Ed. 22:41.360 --> 22:42.360 Okay, Bernie. 22:42.360 --> 22:43.360 Gilchrist. 22:43.360 --> 22:44.360 Yes, sir? 22:44.360 --> 22:45.360 The two from the drive-in. 22:45.360 --> 22:47.360 This way, Bernie. 22:49.360 --> 22:51.360 Okay, you two. 22:56.360 --> 22:58.360 Ever see this man before? 22:58.360 --> 23:00.360 Yeah, that's him. Doc's driving. 23:00.360 --> 23:01.360 Almost had a fight with him. 23:01.360 --> 23:02.360 I served him. 23:02.360 --> 23:03.360 Girl with him when you saw him? 23:03.360 --> 23:06.360 According to a picture in the paper, the one who was murdered. 23:06.360 --> 23:07.360 Yes, sir. 23:07.360 --> 23:08.360 Thank you. 23:14.360 --> 23:15.360 Well? 23:15.360 --> 23:16.360 Well what? 23:16.360 --> 23:18.360 We got the middle of it, Franklin. 23:18.360 --> 23:20.360 You went to a drive-in and had a ham sandwich. 23:20.360 --> 23:22.360 You almost had a fight there. 23:22.360 --> 23:26.360 Then you went to a duke joint, and you watched Eileen Hall dance with that boy. 23:26.360 --> 23:29.360 All we need is the beginning and the end. 23:29.360 --> 23:35.360 Now look, I no more killed Eileen than... well, all right, sure, I knew Eileen, but what does that prove? 23:35.360 --> 23:38.360 Nothing, except you said a few minutes ago that you didn't know her. 23:38.360 --> 23:40.360 Well, I didn't, not really. 23:40.360 --> 23:44.360 She must have known you, else why would she get into your car? 23:44.360 --> 23:45.360 I picked her up. 23:45.360 --> 23:49.360 Maybe, but I doubt it. I don't think she's the kind of girl who gets picked up. 23:49.360 --> 23:52.360 What? Where you been? Every girl gets picked up. 23:52.360 --> 23:53.360 Oh? 23:53.360 --> 23:55.360 For sure, where you been? 23:55.360 --> 23:57.360 How did you meet your wife, Franklin? 23:57.360 --> 23:59.360 Hey, now wait a minute, mister, you... 23:59.360 --> 24:02.360 I just asked you a simple question, how did you meet your wife? 24:02.360 --> 24:03.360 Now leave her out of it! 24:03.360 --> 24:08.360 Can't do that anymore, Franklin. Can't leave anything out of it. 24:10.360 --> 24:12.360 Come in, please. 24:15.360 --> 24:17.360 Sit down, please. 24:18.360 --> 24:20.360 I was just telling... 24:20.360 --> 24:21.360 Hello, Ed. 24:21.360 --> 24:22.360 Shirley, honey. 24:22.360 --> 24:24.360 You're in a lot of trouble, aren't you? 24:24.360 --> 24:25.360 Yes. 24:25.360 --> 24:27.360 Yes, I am, honey, but don't you worry about it. 24:27.360 --> 24:29.360 I'm not gonna worry about it, Ed. 24:29.360 --> 24:31.360 I don't want you to, honey. I don't want you to worry about anything. 24:31.360 --> 24:34.360 I'm gonna get out of this, we'll start all over. 24:34.360 --> 24:35.360 Huh? 24:35.360 --> 24:37.360 Oh boy, am I glad to see you here. 24:37.360 --> 24:38.360 Ed. 24:38.360 --> 24:40.360 I can handle anything that's throwing at me now. 24:40.360 --> 24:41.360 Ed. 24:41.360 --> 24:43.360 Oh, it's true, honey, I'm not gonna deny it. 24:43.360 --> 24:48.360 I was out with this girl, we went to a drive-in, and we went to a beer place. 24:48.360 --> 24:50.360 They had music there, you know, I didn't even dance with her, honey. 24:50.360 --> 24:51.360 Ed! 24:51.360 --> 24:53.360 Take it easy. 24:53.360 --> 24:54.360 Will you listen to me? 24:54.360 --> 24:56.360 What, what, what, honey? 24:56.360 --> 24:57.360 Ed. 24:57.360 --> 24:59.360 Sure, honey, what do you want? 24:59.360 --> 25:02.360 I don't care what happens to you. 25:02.360 --> 25:05.360 Listen to her, listen to her. 25:05.360 --> 25:10.360 For what you've done, they can put you in the electric chair and they can flip the switch. 25:10.360 --> 25:13.360 You don't care, do you? You really don't. 25:13.360 --> 25:19.360 Shirley, please, please, please, I am in trouble now, and I'm frightened, and you remember, you remember how... 25:19.360 --> 25:25.360 I want, when it started, you and me, remember how we said we'd beat each other, Shirley! 25:28.360 --> 25:31.360 Who needs her? Who needs her? 25:31.360 --> 25:35.360 I can get girls anytime I want. 25:35.360 --> 25:38.360 Pick a night, pick a time, come on, honey, come on, hop in, honey. 25:38.360 --> 25:39.360 Eileen? 25:39.360 --> 25:40.360 Eileen? 25:41.360 --> 25:42.360 Franklin. 25:42.360 --> 25:43.360 What, what do you want? 25:43.360 --> 25:47.360 You were the man Lois Anderson saw, weren't you? The woman Eileen was visiting. 25:47.360 --> 25:48.360 Yeah. 25:48.360 --> 25:50.360 And the man who had the fight in the drive-in. 25:50.360 --> 25:51.360 Now listen, that guy's... 25:51.360 --> 25:53.360 The man who had the fight in the drive-in. 25:53.360 --> 25:54.360 Okay. 25:54.360 --> 25:58.360 And took her to the juke joint, and it was just like that boy Bernie said. 25:58.360 --> 26:00.360 Okay, okay. 26:00.360 --> 26:02.360 Why did you kill Eileen Hall? 26:02.360 --> 26:03.360 Why? 26:03.360 --> 26:04.360 Why? 26:04.360 --> 26:09.360 Well, I'm just like any other guy, I'm a good guy. 26:09.360 --> 26:15.360 But lonely sometimes, but I'm just like any other guy, not any different. Why did I kill her? 26:15.360 --> 26:22.360 She was close to me, she wanted to go away, and I got lonesome, so I held on to her forever. 26:22.360 --> 26:23.360 You understand? 26:23.360 --> 26:24.360 Yeah. 26:24.360 --> 26:31.360 For the rest of her life. Listen, listen, that's what a fellow wants from a girl. I'm no different, no different at all. 26:39.360 --> 26:42.360 Ed Franklin was executed for the murder of Eileen Hall. 26:42.360 --> 26:50.360 It is interesting to note that the clue, the final, irrevocable clue that trapped him was his only act of kindness to his victim. 26:50.360 --> 27:18.360 The sandwich he fed her before he put his hands about her throat and strangled her. 27:18.360 --> 27:24.360 Suspense. Presented by Autolight. Tonight's star, Mr. Cornell Weill. 27:24.360 --> 27:33.360 This is Harlow Wilcox again. 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The true report of a man who had everything going for him, but since all his dealings were illegal, it became necessary to move around more frequently than was usual. 28:36.360 --> 28:45.360 It's called Grand Theft, our star Mr. David Niven. That's next week on Suspense. 28:45.360 --> 28:53.360 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian Morawuk and conducted by Lut Bluskin. 28:53.360 --> 29:00.360 Somebody Help Me was written for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and based on research by Edward D. Raiden. 29:00.360 --> 29:07.360 In tonight's story, Kathy Lewis was heard as Eileen, Mary Jane Croft as Shirley, and Joseph Kearns as Tomasino. 29:07.360 --> 29:13.360 Featured on the cast were Paula Winslow, Charlotte Lawrence, Larry Thor, Hiavra Vak, Sam Edwards, and Charles Calvert. 29:13.360 --> 29:30.360 This is the CBS Radio Network.