WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you Mr. Frank Lovejoy in tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:17.000 --> 00:23.000 Tonight, Auto Light presents the story of a man who wanted to save his life, but he had to get into a fight to do it. 00:23.000 --> 00:30.000 And the fight was with the giant of Thermopylae, our star Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 00:34.000 --> 00:36.000 Hi Harlow, doing some gardening? 00:36.000 --> 00:38.000 Yes sir, Hap, and here's my favorite plant. 00:38.000 --> 00:40.000 Why, that's an Auto Light Stay Full Battery. 00:40.000 --> 00:44.000 Sure, the power plant for quick, dependable starts, Hap. 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 And unlike other plants, this one needs watering only three times a year in normal car use. 00:49.000 --> 00:51.000 Oh, it's a daisy, Harlow. 00:51.000 --> 00:55.000 Sure as, Hap, it's fern away the best battery blooming. 00:55.000 --> 00:56.000 And it never gets bush. 00:56.000 --> 01:04.000 Of course not. 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Walters? 02:01.000 --> 02:02.000 Right here. 02:02.000 --> 02:03.000 All right, son, let's go. 02:03.000 --> 02:04.000 Sure thing. 02:04.000 --> 02:12.000 What's happening, Constable? 02:12.000 --> 02:15.000 Happening? It's your lucky day, big fella, you're getting out. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 Yeah? 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 Yeah. 02:17.000 --> 02:21.000 And then you can go home and get yourself in trouble all over again, huh? 02:21.000 --> 02:23.000 All right, in here. 02:28.000 --> 02:29.000 Here, sign. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 For your stuff, son. You want it back, don't you? 02:32.000 --> 02:33.000 Oh, sure. 02:33.000 --> 02:34.000 There. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 Oh, the boy. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.000 Yeah. 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 Now then. 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 Yeah. 02:40.000 --> 02:50.000 Wristwatch, ring, billfold. Oh, better count your money. Dark glasses, your belt and your tie. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 Yeah, that's it, I guess. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Seems to be all here. 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 Okay, big fella, take him and get going. Through that door. 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 Nothing personal, Constable, but I'm glad to. So long. 03:01.000 --> 03:10.000 You know, if they'd needed just one more guy on the county farm to fill out that labor gang they're getting up, you'd be a mighty overworked young fella about now. 03:10.000 --> 03:11.000 Too bad I missed it, huh? 03:11.000 --> 03:21.000 As I say, this is your lucky day, kiddo. But I got a little advice for you. Don't walk into any more bars in this town and start trouble. We don't like that sort of thing. 03:21.000 --> 03:24.000 I don't like your town, Constable. What do you think of that? 03:24.000 --> 03:35.000 Well, I think you're kind of a smart alecky young fella. I think you should get out and leave it alone if that's the way you feel. And don't get fussy with me. I like the town and I'm the law. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 What kind of work do you do? 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 I'm a riveter, construction jobs. 03:39.000 --> 03:43.000 Well, that's what you ought to do instead of getting into trouble, work at your riveting. 03:43.000 --> 03:47.000 But I told you this when they brought me in here and I'm going to say it once more before I go. 03:47.000 --> 03:48.000 What's that? 03:48.000 --> 04:00.000 That bird I hit. He didn't have any reason to get huffy with me. I wasn't doing anything to him. I was just in there having a beer by myself. He got nasty, I hit him, and I wind up in jail. Doesn't seem like justice to me. 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 Did he hit you? 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 No, but he tried, Bill. 04:03.000 --> 04:09.000 Law says you assaulted him, big fella. Well, you see, you learned something here at that. Where are you from? 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 Illinois. 04:10.000 --> 04:16.000 Well, maybe you ought to go back there, son. I wouldn't stick around here if I was you. You don't seem to get along with us here. 04:16.000 --> 04:19.000 I get along okay. All I need is a fair shake. 04:19.000 --> 04:36.000 Maybe so, maybe so, but I've hauled a lot of people in here in my day. And you know what I called you when I first saw you, when I didn't even know why you were brought in? I called you a brawler, son. I called you a gas house playboy. Always got to get yourself in fights. Now, am I right? 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 I don't look for trouble. I just like to haul my own. 04:38.000 --> 04:40.000 That's up to you, of course. 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 Hey. 04:41.000 --> 04:42.000 What is it, son? 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 Two dollars and ninety cents missing out on my bill fold. 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 Oh, I took it. 04:46.000 --> 04:47.000 Huh? 04:47.000 --> 04:53.000 For two meals you had here, breakfast and lunch. This county don't pay board for prisoners who can afford it. 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 Well, thanks. 04:55.000 --> 05:03.000 Better run along now and stay out of trouble. All my boys know you and our policy is to keep an eye on fellas like you, so watch your step. 05:03.000 --> 05:06.000 I will. I couldn't afford another day in your jail. 05:06.000 --> 05:19.000 That's pretty good, son. That's pretty good. 05:19.000 --> 05:25.000 That's about the way this whole thing began. I mean me getting out of jail after a night and morning of cooling off. 05:25.000 --> 05:29.000 I've been in jail before and I guess I deserved it, but this time I didn't. 05:29.000 --> 05:34.000 I've been watching my step for a long time now and they didn't have any call to book me in. 05:34.000 --> 05:38.000 When I walked outside that afternoon I began looking around for this guy. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 I didn't know his name or anything, but I sort of remembered what he looked like. 05:42.000 --> 05:46.000 Seemed as though it would be a good idea to hit him once more before I left town. 05:46.000 --> 05:54.000 I'd have been much better off if I'd gotten out of there on the next bus. 05:54.000 --> 05:57.000 Oh, you. You. 05:57.000 --> 05:58.000 Huh? 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 You. 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 Me? 06:00.000 --> 06:06.000 Yes. I'm sorry I don't know your name, but you're the one who was in the bar last night, aren't you? 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 I guess I was. Why? 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 Is it all right now? 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 Well, I'm out if that's what you mean. 06:12.000 --> 06:15.000 My name's Mary Jane. Mary Jane Kennedy. 06:15.000 --> 06:20.000 I knew they put you in jail and I don't think it was a bit right, but I'm glad you're out now. 06:20.000 --> 06:26.000 I was going to come in and ask about you just now, but I didn't even know who to ask for. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 Jim Walters. They call me Walt. 06:28.000 --> 06:34.000 Well, Jim, I mean Walt, that was a pretty decent thing you did last night. 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 I'm awfully sorry you got into trouble over me. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 Huh? 06:38.000 --> 06:44.000 Well, I'd like to do something. I mean, it was very nice of you and I... 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 Where are you going now? 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 No place. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 Well, come on, let's talk. 06:49.000 --> 06:58.000 Sure, why not? 06:58.000 --> 07:03.000 Now, for a couple of seconds there, I forgot all about this fellow I was looking for because this little girl was real cute. 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 So I went along with her. 07:05.000 --> 07:10.000 But I also thought maybe I'll find the guy this way. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 So this is your place, huh? 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 Yeah. Excuse me. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 Sure. 07:15.000 --> 07:16.000 Pretty nice. 07:16.000 --> 07:19.000 Oh, not so nice. Pretty awful, as a matter of fact. 07:19.000 --> 07:21.000 I'm going to move as soon as I get a chance. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 Yeah? But what's so awful? 07:24.000 --> 07:32.000 Oh, out there. 07:32.000 --> 07:35.000 That's what's wrong. The fun park. 07:35.000 --> 07:37.000 I think it looks kind of pretty myself. 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 The Ferris wheel and the roller coaster and all. It sure does. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 You don't have to live with it every day and every night. 07:43.000 --> 07:46.000 You did. You'd soon get over that. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 It's a horrible place. 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 Ugly and cheap and noisy. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 Just horrible. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 Oh, well, that's too bad. 07:54.000 --> 07:58.000 But I work near here. This is the only place I could get. 07:58.000 --> 08:01.000 So I have to live in the area until I can afford something better. 08:01.000 --> 08:06.000 So noisy. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 Where do you work, Mary? 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 At Allied Aircraft. I'm a secretary. 08:10.000 --> 08:13.000 That's pretty nice. 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 Say, wouldn't happen to have a little drink around here, would you? 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 Drink? 08:17.000 --> 08:20.000 Yeah, you know, bourbon maybe or a glass of beer. 08:20.000 --> 08:25.000 I wasn't thinking of anything like that, Walt. 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 Oh? What were you thinking of then? 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 Well, I just wanted to talk to you quietly for a minute. 08:31.000 --> 08:34.000 Thank you for your help last night. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Oh, that's it, huh? 08:36.000 --> 08:37.000 Yes, that's it. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 Beats me. Just beats me. 08:40.000 --> 08:43.000 Maybe this is just a crazy town. I don't know. 08:43.000 --> 08:44.000 I don't understand you. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 Look, sugar, you can play it any way you want to, 08:46.000 --> 08:49.000 but it was you who met me outside the jailhouse. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 You were waiting for me. 08:51.000 --> 08:52.000 And you brought me over here. 08:52.000 --> 08:55.000 Now, I saw you, maybe I saw you, I don't know, 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 once before in my life in that beer joint last night, maybe. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 You say you were there, I guess I might have seen you. 09:00.000 --> 09:05.000 Now, here I am at your place. I ask you for a drink, you start getting coy. 09:05.000 --> 09:09.000 Mary, you can thank me all night long, but I never did anything for you in my life. 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 You're very funny, Walt. 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 Yeah, it's a real scream, all right. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 Suppose we look up a drink around here and then, well, 09:16.000 --> 09:20.000 we sit down over there where we can look surprised at each other a little better, huh? 09:20.000 --> 09:24.000 I don't have anything to drink here. I don't want anything. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 Well, that's pretty definite. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 Walt, last night you hit Tim. 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 You hit him good and hard and you got in trouble for it. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 Why'd you hit him? 09:33.000 --> 09:34.000 Tim, that's the name of the guy? 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 Yes, Tim Bennett. Why'd you hit him? 09:36.000 --> 09:40.000 Well, because he got awful frisky with me and I don't let anybody get away with that kind of thing. 09:40.000 --> 09:44.000 If he hadn't combined, started shooting off his face, everything would have been all right. 09:44.000 --> 09:49.000 As it was, he made me hit him and then I had to spend the night in jail because he felt frisky. 09:49.000 --> 09:53.000 I don't understand this. I've made a mistake. 09:53.000 --> 09:58.000 Well, I don't understand it either. Don't look at me that way. I haven't done anything to you. 09:58.000 --> 10:01.000 Didn't you know I was with Tim Bennett last night? 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 Were you? 10:02.000 --> 10:06.000 Yes, of course I was with him and it was pretty nasty about Owen and me. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 Just when he was going to hit me, you hit him. 10:08.000 --> 10:13.000 Oh, well, that clears that much up. So I did do something for you at that. 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 But you didn't hit him on account of me, did you? 10:15.000 --> 10:17.000 Sure I did, baby. Sure I did. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Oh, no, you didn't. You hit him for some other reason. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 No, no, baby. Now let's have a drink. 10:21.000 --> 10:25.000 Oh, get out of here. I met you today because I thought you helped me last night. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 You didn't help me. You're nothing but a brawler. 10:27.000 --> 10:33.000 All right. I hit him because he walked by and said something. That doesn't mean we can't be friends. 10:33.000 --> 10:36.000 My mistake, mister. Just go and forget it. 10:36.000 --> 10:40.000 Okay. We both messed this one up, didn't we, Mary? 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 Well, can you tell me something? 10:43.000 --> 10:44.000 What? 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 Where can I find him? 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 Tim Bennett? 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 Yeah. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 Works at the fun park. He owns part of it. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 Where do I find him over there? 10:50.000 --> 10:53.000 I don't know. Maybe at the Ferris wheel. Sometimes the fun house. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 Who's all around? Why? 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 Well, I still remember I spent the night in the pokey on account of him. 10:58.000 --> 11:02.000 I figure he's kind of a big talker and needs a little working over before I leave town. 11:02.000 --> 11:05.000 Before I leave town, I think I'll look him up and smack him once again. 11:12.000 --> 11:16.000 Maybe that was the wrong thing to say, but I had it on my mind and I let it out. 11:16.000 --> 11:21.000 It's just the way I am. Get everything squared away in ship shape before I move on to the next town. 11:21.000 --> 11:24.000 You know, no loose ends, tidy things up. 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 Besides, I've always been a sucker for an amusement park. 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 Get your hot doggy here. Get your red hot hot doggy here. 11:30.000 --> 11:34.000 Get him, my man, hot. Get your hot doggy here. Hot dog. 11:34.000 --> 11:37.000 All right, get your hot doggy here. Hot dog. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 Get your red hot hot doggy here. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 Just look at her and be amazed. 11:41.000 --> 11:46.000 Now step right up and get your sick shows about to begin on the inside. 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 Tickets. Tickets. 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 How many, brother? 11:49.000 --> 11:51.000 Where do I find Tim Bennett? 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 Tim Bennett, friend. 11:53.000 --> 11:57.000 He owns part of this junkie. He works here. Where do I find him? I want to talk to him. 11:57.000 --> 11:58.000 Try the fun house, paly. 11:58.000 --> 11:59.000 Thanks. 11:59.000 --> 12:01.000 Hey, don't I know you? 12:01.000 --> 12:02.000 Why should you? 12:02.000 --> 12:06.000 Oh, because I hear you had a little trouble in a beer joint with Tim last night. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 Then I guess you know me. You say the fun house? 12:08.000 --> 12:11.000 Yeah, right across the way. And I have fun. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 Don't worry, I will. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Where do I find Tim? 12:19.000 --> 12:20.000 Tim Bennett? Yeah. 12:20.000 --> 12:21.000 Back there. 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 Inside? You mean inside? 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 That's right. 12:24.000 --> 12:25.000 When will he be out? 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 I don't know. He's working on the giant. 12:28.000 --> 12:29.000 On the what? 12:29.000 --> 12:34.000 The giant of Thermopylae. He guards the back exit. He was a Greek. 12:34.000 --> 12:35.000 Is that him back there? 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 No, you can't see him from here. 12:37.000 --> 12:38.000 What's the gimmick? 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 Well, you seem like a bright guy, so I'll tell you. 12:41.000 --> 12:46.000 See, the civilians go in through here. They walk all the way through the fun house to the back. 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 And they think that's where they're going to come out. 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 But they can't because the giant is standing there guarding the door. 12:51.000 --> 12:55.000 So they have to come back through the whole place and come out the front here. 12:55.000 --> 12:56.000 Same way they went in. 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 Hmm, now isn't that fancy? 12:58.000 --> 12:59.000 We think it is. 12:59.000 --> 13:00.000 How big is this giant? 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 Oh, nine feet tall maybe. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 Hmm, isn't that cute? 13:04.000 --> 13:08.000 Yeah, every once in a while he don't work so good. Tim is the only one who knows how to fix him. 13:08.000 --> 13:14.000 The levers go bad and everything. Happened this morning. Tim's been back there ever since. Wait. 13:14.000 --> 13:19.000 Shh! Ah! Ha ha ha ha ha. Got her going in too. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 Oh, you're a real panic. I want to see Bennett. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 Well, you'll have to go through the house. 13:23.000 --> 13:24.000 Okay. 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 And you have to get a ticket. 13:26.000 --> 13:29.000 Oh, well I wouldn't want to miss it. Here. 13:29.000 --> 13:30.000 Sure, that way. 13:30.000 --> 13:34.000 Thank you. Oh, you can lay off the air jet when I go in. 13:34.000 --> 13:35.000 Huh? 13:35.000 --> 13:47.000 Laugh, getter. I don't like them. I mean fun houses. They give me the willies. 13:47.000 --> 13:54.000 But I had myself a nice little idea. If Bennett was in there working on that big giant, I'd find him and it'd be just him and me inside. 13:54.000 --> 14:04.000 No local cop around to toss me in the pokey. I still owed him something for the night before and I could pay him back and sort of have a little extra fun in the fun house where nobody bothers. 14:04.000 --> 14:10.000 Took me ten minutes to scram through the barrels and the room of mirrors and the slides and whatnot before I got to the giant. 14:10.000 --> 14:20.000 It was an awful one. It was nine feet tall easy. And it had this ridiculous motion. When it was standing up it blocked the door all right, but then it would laugh. 14:20.000 --> 14:24.000 Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. 14:24.000 --> 14:32.000 And as it did then it would bend forward like it was staring at something on the floor. Then after a couple of seconds it would straighten up again with all its gears clanking. 14:32.000 --> 14:42.000 By the time I got to Bennett, he'd gotten it fixed good. Seemed to be working just fine. 14:42.000 --> 14:46.000 Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. 14:46.000 --> 15:02.000 Sort of automatically I looked at the floor where the giant was looking. And all at once I didn't want to see Tim Bennett anymore because he was lying there right at my feet. 15:02.000 --> 15:10.000 And there were four holes in his shirt front. Four holes made by a knife and Tim Bennett was as dead as you can get. 15:10.000 --> 15:14.000 Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. 15:14.000 --> 15:24.000 I turned around. I wanted to get out of there and then it occurred to me that the way out was through the front. 15:24.000 --> 15:31.000 And me and my big mouth. Everybody in the world almost knew I'd been looking for Bennett so I could hit him. I had to get out, sure. 15:31.000 --> 15:35.000 Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. 15:35.000 --> 15:45.000 But I couldn't get out the front. The back was the way out. Out through the door behind the giant. 15:45.000 --> 15:53.000 But how to do that? Well, watch the pattern of the big fella. What exactly did he do? Was it impossible to get past him? 15:53.000 --> 15:57.000 Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. 15:57.000 --> 16:11.000 The laugh. And as he did it, he bent down and looked at the floor which left a little space along his left side. Room enough to get through before he straightened. 16:11.000 --> 16:16.000 While he stood there not moving, you couldn't get by. It had to be real fast. Now how fast? 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. 16:19.000 --> 16:29.000 Laugh five times. Then one, two, three, four, five. 16:29.000 --> 16:34.000 On the count of five, he straightened. A beat of five between the last laugh and when he straightened. 16:34.000 --> 16:39.000 And he came up fast and strong. Enough power to crush anything that got between him and the wall. 16:39.000 --> 16:44.000 Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. 16:44.000 --> 16:54.000 One, two, three, four, five. 16:54.000 --> 17:00.000 Now that was it. That was it. All right. Now wait for the laugh and as soon as he finishes laughing, make a run for it. 17:00.000 --> 17:04.000 Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. 17:04.000 --> 17:09.000 Now. 17:09.000 --> 17:15.000 He straightened up before I got a chance to move and now he wasn't laughing. He was just looking down at me, his glass eyes staring. 17:15.000 --> 17:18.000 Then it seemed as though his wooden face moved a little. 17:18.000 --> 17:25.000 You didn't think I was going to let you out of here, did you? 17:25.000 --> 17:43.000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Frank Lovejoy in The Giant of Thermopylae. 17:43.000 --> 17:58.000 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 May time's the time, eh, Harlow? 18:01.000 --> 18:09.000 The time to get an Auto Light Stay Full Battery. 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Hearing that thing talk and seeing it stop moving when I tried to get out of there was something I sure hadn't counted on. 19:28.000 --> 19:32.000 I got it in my head all of a sudden that the thing could talk and that it could think. 19:32.000 --> 19:38.000 And if I tried to sneak by or rush it, one of those big arms would come down against me and smash me against the wall. 19:38.000 --> 19:44.000 I couldn't stay in there with that dead guy and I couldn't go out the front way, so I had to give it a try. 19:44.000 --> 19:49.000 Ha ha ha ha ha ha. 19:54.000 --> 19:58.000 I said I won't let you go. 19:58.000 --> 20:12.000 Ha ha ha ha ha. 20:12.000 --> 20:19.000 So there I was sitting on the floor next to Tim Bennett, who was dead, just kind of looking up at this big ugly giant. 20:19.000 --> 20:25.000 And he wasn't laughing now, not a bit. He was just hoping I'd keep rushing him until he battered me to death. 20:25.000 --> 20:33.000 Because he wasn't laughing, somebody from out front had come back to find out what was wrong with him and they'd find me in the body of this guy I'd been threatening all day. 20:33.000 --> 20:40.000 After a while, it seemed there were two of me. The one sitting on the floor sort of whimpering and crying and looking at the giant. 20:40.000 --> 20:48.000 The other one sitting there and saying things to himself. Things about giants and fun houses made of wood and metal and rags and a couple of gears. 20:48.000 --> 20:58.000 Well, that one didn't whimper. He said nothing like this big thing can talk, really. No giant they got standing up in the rear end of a fun house to scare the suckers can think. 20:58.000 --> 21:07.000 And those big arms are only levers and those eyes are only light bulbs and that laugh is only a record. And the talk? I decided to find out about that. 21:07.000 --> 21:11.000 Ha ha ha ha ha. 21:11.000 --> 21:19.000 Go ahead, laugh, you big pile of junk, I'll show you. I'll show you this hunk of frame. 21:19.000 --> 21:25.000 Ha ha ha ha ha. 21:25.000 --> 21:30.000 Ha ha ha ha ha. 21:30.000 --> 21:35.000 I'll get you, I'll get you, you big. 21:35.000 --> 21:40.000 Ha ha ha ha ha. 21:40.000 --> 21:46.000 Now take a good look at this. Four feet of iron as tough as those arms of yours. Let's see how you like this. 21:46.000 --> 21:50.000 Ha ha ha ha ha. 21:50.000 --> 21:54.000 That's it, bend and see how you like this. 21:54.000 --> 21:57.000 How do you like it? How do you like it? 21:57.000 --> 22:01.000 Ha ha ha ha ha. 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 How do you like it? 22:03.000 --> 22:07.000 Not so good, huh? Not so good. You want some more? 22:07.000 --> 22:11.000 Ha ha ha ha. 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 Ha ha ha ha. 22:13.000 --> 22:24.000 I was right about the laugh anyway. It was a record and now it was broken. 22:24.000 --> 22:31.000 And then suddenly for no reason at all the arms started to move up and down again but without any noise and kind of helplessly. 22:31.000 --> 22:38.000 I didn't waste any more time. I saw my chance to scoot and I did. I sprung open the door behind the thing and I got outside. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 Hey, what is this? Huh? 22:40.000 --> 22:45.000 Hey, what have you been doing? You busted up the giant? You crazy or something? 22:45.000 --> 22:48.000 Hey look buddy, where's Tim? He's in there with... 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 Hey, what's the matter with you? 22:50.000 --> 22:54.000 Your giant. He's trying to turn his head. Huh? 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 See, he's trying to turn his head. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 You... you busted him. 22:58.000 --> 23:01.000 I sure did. I busted him good. I did. He's bleeding. Look. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 Holy smoke. 23:03.000 --> 23:07.000 I showed him. I showed him. Go ahead. Laugh. Laugh at me now. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 Ha ha ha ha. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 Can't you laugh? 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 Ha ha ha ha. 23:22.000 --> 23:27.000 The scream did it. That and the blood all over the giant. 23:27.000 --> 23:31.000 I wanted to run but my legs wouldn't have taken me anywhere if you'd given me a million dollars. 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 So? 23:33.000 --> 23:39.000 I wind up here, the same old place. A jailhouse. Only this time I'm not in a cell. 23:39.000 --> 23:45.000 I'm in a little room and the doctor keeps feeling my forehead and asking me how I feel and giving me shots. I tell him I feel fine. 23:45.000 --> 23:50.000 Like to talk to somebody. And he looks worried and he walks away. 23:50.000 --> 23:54.000 I've been wondering about him. Maybe he doesn't feel so good himself. 23:54.000 --> 24:01.000 The giant did talk. And he did bleed. And he did scream. I know he did. I know he did. 24:01.000 --> 24:07.000 Walters. Walters. Walters. 24:07.000 --> 24:08.000 Hmm? 24:08.000 --> 24:12.000 Ah, you lie still, big fella. You got quite a fever. 24:12.000 --> 24:13.000 Yeah, yeah. 24:13.000 --> 24:20.000 Oh yeah, quite a fever. Now I better talk to you before you go back to sleep again. May help your sleep. 24:20.000 --> 24:21.000 Hmm? 24:21.000 --> 24:26.000 Quite a thing out there in the fun house. You didn't stay out of trouble at that, did you? 24:26.000 --> 24:28.000 No, no. 24:28.000 --> 24:33.000 If you're trying to say no you didn't, I get the idea so save your breath. 24:33.000 --> 24:43.000 First off, I talked to that girl named Mary Jane Kennedy. Very nice girl. She told me how you were out looking for Tim Bennett. 24:43.000 --> 24:45.000 Sheriff, I know I was looking for him but... 24:45.000 --> 24:52.000 Just can't stay out of trouble, can you? Got to always be hitting somebody, making sure you're a top man. 24:52.000 --> 24:58.000 Well, you're a top man this time, all right. Someday I'm going to ask you how it feels to tangle with a giant. 24:58.000 --> 25:01.000 But I'm not going to ask you right now, no. 25:01.000 --> 25:08.000 But I also talked to one of the barkers over there. One you asked about Tim. And a couple other people. 25:08.000 --> 25:10.000 What about Bennett? 25:10.000 --> 25:15.000 Now don't try to ace me, son. You know Tim's all through talking. He was stabbed four times. 25:15.000 --> 25:23.000 Well, I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I was looking for him, sure. I was going to beat him up a little but I didn't knife him. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 He was that way when I found him. Honest he was. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 And how about the giant? 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 I had to fight with him. 25:30.000 --> 25:34.000 Yeah, I guess you did. And the guy inside him. 25:34.000 --> 25:35.000 Huh? 25:35.000 --> 25:38.000 The guy who was inside the giant, working him. 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 There was a man inside the giant? 25:40.000 --> 25:47.000 There sure was. But you kind of killed him, big fella. You wrecked all the gears and he got caught in them. 25:47.000 --> 25:49.000 You know who we were? 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 No. No. 25:51.000 --> 25:58.000 He was someone just like you. Who didn't like Tim Bennett. Name of Owen Brady. He wanted to marry that girl. 25:58.000 --> 26:07.000 Tim was doing everything he could to louse it. So Owen stabbed Tim. And when you showed up, he hidden the giant. 26:07.000 --> 26:14.000 He thought it'd be a dandy idea to tag you for the job. He had no way of knowing you were on his side. He'd never seen you, you know. 26:14.000 --> 26:16.000 Then he did talk. 26:16.000 --> 26:25.000 Oh, yeah. He talked and he bled and screamed. And he died in there. You weren't hearing things or seeing things, son. It happened. 26:25.000 --> 26:29.000 Now, now maybe you can sleep a little better, huh? 26:29.000 --> 26:42.000 I sleep, but not much better. I know what it was all about now, but I still think of it and wonder about it. 26:42.000 --> 26:44.000 And I hear it every now and then. 26:44.000 --> 26:55.000 But I feel better. I haven't fought with anybody for a long time now. Never will again. 26:55.000 --> 27:01.000 But my last fight, that was a pip. I whipped the giant of Thermopylae. 27:25.000 --> 27:34.000 Suspense. Presented by Autolite. 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