WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.880 Auto Light and its 98,000 dealers bring you the first lady of suspense, Miss Agnes Moorhead, 00:11.880 --> 00:21.200 in tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:21.200 --> 00:25.720 Tonight Auto Light presents the terrifying story of a double murder and the woman who 00:25.720 --> 00:32.000 became involved in this criminal activity, Weekend Special Death, our star Miss Agnes 00:32.000 --> 00:35.000 Moorhead. 00:35.000 --> 00:45.120 Hey, Stan, what's baseball's brainiest manager doing out here? 00:45.120 --> 00:47.040 Ah, it's my battery hollow. 00:47.040 --> 00:48.680 It struck out due to no water. 00:48.680 --> 00:51.640 Well, you should have an Auto Light stay full battery, Stan. 00:51.640 --> 00:56.320 That's the perfect power pitcher that needs water only three times a year in normal car 00:56.320 --> 00:57.320 use. 00:57.320 --> 00:58.880 Sounds like a real major league, a hollow. 00:58.880 --> 01:00.320 Ah, it sure is. 01:00.320 --> 01:04.840 The Auto Light stay full bats a thousand, season after season, thanks to fiberglass 01:04.840 --> 01:08.000 retaining mats around every positive plate. 01:08.000 --> 01:12.440 They reduce shedding and flaking to give the Auto Light stay full longer life, as proved 01:12.440 --> 01:16.200 by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 01:16.200 --> 01:20.480 Drop me off at the nearest Auto Light battery dealer, will you hollow? 01:20.480 --> 01:21.480 Sure, Stan. 01:21.480 --> 01:26.040 I'll fix you up with an Auto Light stay full, the battery that says right on the case, needs 01:26.040 --> 01:30.600 water only three times a year in normal car use. 01:30.600 --> 01:38.920 Remember, Stan, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:38.920 --> 01:46.320 And now, Auto Light presents transcribed Miss Agnes Moorhead in Weekend Special Death, hoping 01:46.320 --> 01:52.120 once again to keep you in suspense. 01:52.120 --> 01:58.600 Who is Franz? 01:58.600 --> 01:59.600 I am. 01:59.600 --> 02:00.600 I'm Lee Stanley. 02:00.600 --> 02:01.600 Oh. 02:01.600 --> 02:02.600 What is all this? 02:02.600 --> 02:05.040 Maybe you can help us, Mr. Stanley. 02:05.040 --> 02:06.480 The woman says she works for you. 02:06.480 --> 02:08.000 Rita, she certainly does work for me. 02:08.000 --> 02:09.920 She's worked for me for two years or more. 02:09.920 --> 02:10.920 Why are you holding her? 02:10.920 --> 02:11.920 What does she do for you? 02:11.920 --> 02:12.920 My secretary. 02:12.920 --> 02:17.200 Look, if I can't get any answers from you, I just as soon call Captain Hilliard at home. 02:17.200 --> 02:19.120 I understand you're an attorney, Mr. Stanley. 02:19.120 --> 02:20.120 I am. 02:20.120 --> 02:24.240 Right now, you might consider that she's my client and I want to see her. 02:24.240 --> 02:27.600 I'm warning you, Franz, I won't tolerate any irregularities. 02:27.600 --> 02:29.720 You're holding her and I have a right to see her. 02:29.720 --> 02:30.720 Come on. 02:30.720 --> 02:33.800 I'll be in 201 for a couple of minutes. 02:33.800 --> 02:34.800 Okay, Lieutenant. 02:34.800 --> 02:37.720 We got her down the hall here, Mr. Stanley. 02:37.720 --> 02:38.720 Booked yet? 02:38.720 --> 02:39.720 Not yet. 02:39.720 --> 02:42.240 When we picked her up and tried to get some information from her, she just gave us her 02:42.240 --> 02:44.200 name and address and asked us to call you. 02:44.200 --> 02:46.920 That's all we know, except, of course, the two guys she was with. 02:46.920 --> 02:47.920 Two men? 02:47.920 --> 02:48.920 Yep. 02:48.920 --> 02:49.920 Where are they? 02:49.920 --> 02:50.920 Are you holding them? 02:50.920 --> 02:51.920 Sort of. 02:51.920 --> 02:52.920 What do you mean? 02:52.920 --> 02:53.920 They're dead. 02:53.920 --> 02:59.960 Yeah, Mr. Stanley, your secretary killed them. 02:59.960 --> 03:00.960 In there. 03:00.960 --> 03:04.960 Go ahead, Mr. Stanley, she's waiting for you. 03:04.960 --> 03:05.960 Yeah. 03:05.960 --> 03:06.960 Yeah. 03:06.960 --> 03:07.960 Lee? 03:07.960 --> 03:10.960 Lee, is that you? 03:10.960 --> 03:11.960 Yeah. 03:11.960 --> 03:12.960 Oh, Lee. 03:12.960 --> 03:13.960 Help me. 03:13.960 --> 03:22.880 This isn't a very nice way to spend a Sunday morning, is it? 03:22.880 --> 03:23.880 No, no. 03:23.880 --> 03:24.880 Hi. 03:24.880 --> 03:25.880 Hi. 03:25.880 --> 03:26.880 We... 03:26.880 --> 03:27.880 Oh, Lee, yeah. 03:27.880 --> 03:28.880 Oh, what is it? 03:28.880 --> 03:29.880 Tell me. 03:29.880 --> 03:30.880 Lee, it was... 03:30.880 --> 03:31.880 It was one of those silly things. 03:31.880 --> 03:32.880 Just one of the silly things. 03:32.880 --> 03:45.320 Two men are dead, really. 03:45.320 --> 03:47.960 I know, but Lee, I've heard you say it many times. 03:47.960 --> 03:50.040 You've even said it to me. 03:50.040 --> 03:53.920 If you're arrested and taken into custody, just give your name and address and ask for 03:53.920 --> 03:54.920 your lawyer. 03:54.920 --> 03:55.920 You say that to people all the time. 03:55.920 --> 03:56.920 You said it many times. 03:56.920 --> 03:57.920 I've heard you. 03:57.920 --> 03:58.920 I know. 03:58.920 --> 03:59.920 I know. 03:59.920 --> 04:00.920 You did right. 04:00.920 --> 04:01.920 Well, I asked for you. 04:01.920 --> 04:02.920 I wanted to tell you. 04:02.920 --> 04:05.920 I never thought I'd be... 04:05.920 --> 04:08.920 Lee, it was so silly. 04:08.920 --> 04:11.920 So, so very silly. 04:11.920 --> 04:17.320 Coffee was 92 cents a pound and they had a special on stake, $1.15 for T-bone, and there 04:17.320 --> 04:18.320 was some bakery goods. 04:18.320 --> 04:19.320 What? 04:19.320 --> 04:20.320 The weekend specials. 04:20.320 --> 04:25.320 Well, yesterday afternoon in the office, I was making out my list for the week. 04:25.320 --> 04:27.440 And I was getting my list ready. 04:27.440 --> 04:33.160 I was going to stop in the market on my way home. 04:33.160 --> 04:50.200 Potatoes, carrots, okra, some lettuce, radishes, celery, Elmwood, 48321. 04:50.200 --> 04:51.720 Mr. Stanny is in the office right now. 04:51.720 --> 04:52.720 Is there any message? 04:52.720 --> 04:53.720 Yes, I'll tell him. 04:53.720 --> 04:54.720 Thank you for calling. 04:54.720 --> 04:55.720 Goodbye. 04:55.720 --> 04:57.720 Hello. 04:57.720 --> 05:05.600 Oh, hello. 05:05.600 --> 05:07.600 My name is Tony LaFerro. 05:07.600 --> 05:08.960 Is Mr. Stanny in? 05:08.960 --> 05:10.920 Oh, hello, Mr. LaFerro. 05:10.920 --> 05:12.200 I've heard Mr. Stanny speak of you. 05:12.200 --> 05:15.040 I'm Miss Dorsey, Mr. Stanny's secretary. 05:15.040 --> 05:18.080 I'm sorry he isn't in right now, but he's due back any minute. 05:18.080 --> 05:20.080 Then I'd like to wait for him. 05:20.080 --> 05:21.080 Yes, of course. 05:21.080 --> 05:22.080 Take a chair over there. 05:22.080 --> 05:23.080 Sure. 05:23.080 --> 05:24.080 Thanks. 05:24.080 --> 05:28.080 I didn't know whether anybody would be here or not Saturday afternoon. 05:28.080 --> 05:32.080 I was going to call them at home if I didn't get them here. 05:32.080 --> 05:35.080 We're usually not here on Saturday afternoons. 05:35.080 --> 05:38.080 Mr. Stanny had to be in court this morning and then he had to attend a luncheon. 05:38.080 --> 05:39.080 I see. 05:39.080 --> 05:42.080 It's a beautiful day, isn't it? 05:42.080 --> 05:46.080 Yes, well, not for me. 05:46.080 --> 05:47.080 Oh? 05:47.080 --> 05:52.080 When you said you'd heard Mr. Stanny speak of me, you mean that you know about the trouble 05:52.080 --> 05:53.080 I'm in. 05:53.080 --> 05:57.080 Mr. Stanny will be able to help you, Mr. LaFerro, otherwise he wouldn't be handling the case. 05:57.080 --> 06:00.080 You just don't understand how people can be that way. 06:00.080 --> 06:02.080 I didn't take that car. 06:02.080 --> 06:03.080 It was mine. 06:03.080 --> 06:05.080 It belonged to us, me and my wife. 06:05.080 --> 06:10.080 I had a right to sell it and all she can charge me with theft, I don't know. 06:10.080 --> 06:13.080 I can't understand any of these things. 06:13.080 --> 06:15.080 Well, I'll take it. 06:15.080 --> 06:16.080 Hello, Tony. 06:16.080 --> 06:17.080 Mr. Stanny. 06:17.080 --> 06:18.080 What's up now? 06:18.080 --> 06:20.080 My wife's back in this country. 06:20.080 --> 06:22.080 She's going to throw some more charges at me. 06:22.080 --> 06:23.080 That's right. 06:23.080 --> 06:24.080 I received a letter this morning. 06:24.080 --> 06:28.080 I'm out on bail now, winning my trial and that other thing, and they're putting me back 06:28.080 --> 06:29.080 in. 06:29.080 --> 06:30.080 You better come in my office. 06:30.080 --> 06:34.080 I'll put up those receipts and fill a sale on the car that you asked me to find. 06:34.080 --> 06:35.080 Good. 06:35.080 --> 06:36.080 All right, if I leave now, Mr. Stanny? 06:36.080 --> 06:37.080 Go on in, Tony. 06:37.080 --> 06:38.080 I'll be in in a minute. 06:38.080 --> 06:39.080 Make yourself comfortable. 06:39.080 --> 06:40.080 Sure. 06:40.080 --> 06:43.080 Rita, any plans this afternoon? 06:43.080 --> 06:48.080 I want to get my shopping done. 06:48.080 --> 06:49.080 Why? 06:49.080 --> 06:52.080 Well, I hate to ask this, it's such a swell afternoon and all, but he's in more trouble 06:52.080 --> 06:53.080 than he knows. 06:53.080 --> 06:56.080 There are two new warrants against him for grand theft. 06:56.080 --> 06:59.080 I want some information before I've executed it, if possible. 06:59.080 --> 07:00.080 I'll need you. 07:00.080 --> 07:01.080 Oh, please. 07:01.080 --> 07:02.080 I'm sorry. 07:02.080 --> 07:04.080 These things happen now and then. 07:04.080 --> 07:06.080 Well, I'll get my book. 07:06.080 --> 07:08.080 I was going to play golf, if it helps you any. 07:08.080 --> 07:10.080 Well, it doesn't. 07:10.080 --> 07:12.080 You know something? 07:12.080 --> 07:13.080 What? 07:13.080 --> 07:16.080 That mild, sweet little man, he's so bright and gentle. 07:16.080 --> 07:18.080 How could he get into all this trouble? 07:18.080 --> 07:23.080 Because that mild, sweet little man is a liar and a thief, and they usually get into trouble. 07:23.080 --> 07:24.080 Oh, you're all... 07:24.080 --> 07:28.080 If he had a gun, he'd as soon blow your head off as look at you. 07:28.080 --> 07:31.080 Sorry I ever took him on as a client. 07:31.080 --> 07:33.080 Well, let's get started. 07:33.080 --> 07:45.080 Anthony and LaFerro was so quiet and soft, and when he looked at me with those big brown 07:45.080 --> 07:50.080 Latin eyes while I was taking notes, I knew how wrong everything had been for him. 07:50.080 --> 07:53.080 You, you as usual, were all lawyer. 07:53.080 --> 07:57.080 He'd talk and you'd tell him he was lying and make him tell it to you in another way. 07:57.080 --> 07:58.080 It was all so involved. 07:58.080 --> 08:02.080 Something about him stealing a car from his divorced wife and her being in England. 08:02.080 --> 08:03.080 Oh, I don't know. 08:03.080 --> 08:07.080 I just took notes. 08:07.080 --> 08:08.080 Six. 08:08.080 --> 08:11.080 Well, that's enough for now. 08:11.080 --> 08:12.080 Where are you staying? 08:12.080 --> 08:13.080 The motel. 08:13.080 --> 08:15.080 You go back there right now and stay there. 08:15.080 --> 08:18.080 I'll call you Monday morning after I talk to Judge Prezling. 08:18.080 --> 08:20.080 But I'm going to tell you one thing. 08:20.080 --> 08:22.080 This is going to cost you money. 08:22.080 --> 08:23.080 Oh, don't worry. 08:23.080 --> 08:24.080 I can pay. 08:24.080 --> 08:25.080 Thank you for your time. 08:25.080 --> 08:26.080 Sure. 08:26.080 --> 08:27.080 Good night. 08:27.080 --> 08:28.080 Good night. 08:28.080 --> 08:31.080 And good night, Mrs. Derson. 08:31.080 --> 08:32.080 Good night. 08:32.080 --> 08:34.080 Sorry I messed up your afternoon. 08:34.080 --> 08:36.080 It's all right. 08:36.080 --> 08:44.080 Where's my coat? 08:44.080 --> 08:45.080 There. 08:45.080 --> 08:46.080 Oh. 08:46.080 --> 08:48.080 What about these? 08:48.080 --> 08:50.080 They have to be typed up. 08:50.080 --> 08:51.080 By when? 08:51.080 --> 08:53.080 I'll need them first thing Monday when I talk to the judge. 08:53.080 --> 08:54.080 When can you do them? 08:54.080 --> 08:55.080 I'd better do them right now, Lee. 08:55.080 --> 08:56.080 Oh, you're tired. 08:56.080 --> 08:58.080 I'm busy tomorrow and I don't want to take them home. 08:58.080 --> 09:00.080 I think I'll just stay here and get them out right now. 09:00.080 --> 09:01.080 Thanks. 09:01.080 --> 09:03.080 I'd better be getting along. 09:03.080 --> 09:04.080 You as well. 09:04.080 --> 09:05.080 Just a minute. 09:05.080 --> 09:08.080 I have to go shopping before the store is closed tonight. 09:08.080 --> 09:09.080 Oh. 09:09.080 --> 09:12.080 Here's your check. 09:12.080 --> 09:13.080 Thanks. 09:13.080 --> 09:14.080 I'm flat broke. 09:14.080 --> 09:15.080 See you Monday. 09:15.080 --> 09:16.080 Night, boss. 09:16.080 --> 09:17.080 Night. 09:17.080 --> 09:28.080 You as well to stay with him. 09:28.080 --> 09:31.080 Well, it took me until 8.30 to type up the notes. 09:31.080 --> 09:33.080 And after that I drove straight to Jack's Market. 09:33.080 --> 09:35.080 It's about two blocks from my apartment. 09:35.080 --> 09:38.080 I wanted to cash my check, get the groceries and go home. 09:38.080 --> 09:42.080 My idea was to have a little something to eat and get to bed early. 09:42.080 --> 09:56.080 Well, it didn't work out that way. 09:56.080 --> 09:57.080 Wait. 09:57.080 --> 09:58.080 Hey. 09:58.080 --> 09:59.080 Wait, please. 09:59.080 --> 10:00.080 Huh? 10:00.080 --> 10:02.080 Oh, thank you. 10:02.080 --> 10:03.080 You aren't closed, are you? 10:03.080 --> 10:04.080 I'm afraid we are, miss. 10:04.080 --> 10:05.080 It's five after nine now. 10:05.080 --> 10:06.080 Oh, there's still some people in there. 10:06.080 --> 10:07.080 I can see them. 10:07.080 --> 10:08.080 They got here before nine. 10:08.080 --> 10:09.080 Well, what time is it now? 10:09.080 --> 10:10.080 Five after. 10:10.080 --> 10:11.080 Oh, I haven't got a thing in the house to eat. 10:11.080 --> 10:12.080 I'm sorry. 10:12.080 --> 10:13.080 I'm not supposed to let any more customers in after nine. 10:13.080 --> 10:14.080 That's why they put me here. 10:14.080 --> 10:15.080 Oh, dear. 10:15.080 --> 10:16.080 There's just nothing in the house at all for dinner. 10:16.080 --> 10:17.080 Sorry. 10:17.080 --> 10:18.080 We're open from 10 to 6 tomorrow. 10:18.080 --> 10:19.080 Could you come back then? 10:19.080 --> 10:20.080 Yes, of course. 10:20.080 --> 10:21.080 But what about now? 10:21.080 --> 10:22.080 Tonight? 10:22.080 --> 10:23.080 What do you want? 10:23.080 --> 10:24.080 Well, I could get by with a little steak. 10:24.080 --> 10:25.080 Well, just something. 10:25.080 --> 10:26.080 I'm sorry. 10:26.080 --> 10:27.080 I'm sorry. 10:27.080 --> 10:32.080 I'm sorry. 10:32.080 --> 10:33.080 I'm sorry. 10:33.080 --> 10:34.080 Oh, thank you. 10:34.080 --> 10:35.080 But don't say anything to anybody. 10:35.080 --> 10:36.080 It'll be my neck. 10:36.080 --> 10:37.080 Just pretend you got here before nine. 10:37.080 --> 10:38.080 Gotcha. 10:38.080 --> 10:39.080 Go that way. 10:39.080 --> 10:48.080 As long as I did get in and I decided I'd do all of my shopping, wouldn't hurt a thing. 10:48.080 --> 10:57.080 I was just a little late. 10:57.080 --> 11:00.080 You know how it is in a store. 11:00.080 --> 11:02.280 You wheel back and forth looking for what you want. 11:02.280 --> 11:03.280 At least I do. 11:03.280 --> 11:06.120 And that's what I did there. 11:06.120 --> 11:10.040 I was way in the back of the store and I didn't notice it when they turned off the overhead 11:10.040 --> 11:11.040 fans. 11:11.040 --> 11:14.080 And I didn't notice that there wasn't anybody front. 11:14.080 --> 11:16.080 They cash registered. 11:16.080 --> 11:21.080 I did notice it when all the lights suddenly went out. 11:21.080 --> 11:22.080 Hey. 11:22.080 --> 11:23.080 Hey. 11:23.080 --> 11:24.080 I'm still in here. 11:24.080 --> 11:25.080 Hey. 11:25.080 --> 11:26.080 Hey. 11:26.080 --> 11:27.080 Wait a minute. 11:27.080 --> 11:28.080 Wait a minute, you. 11:28.080 --> 11:29.080 Mister. 11:29.080 --> 11:30.080 Hey. 11:30.080 --> 11:31.080 Hey. 11:31.080 --> 11:32.080 Oh, I'll be darned. 11:32.080 --> 11:33.080 I'm locked in. 11:33.080 --> 11:53.440 This was a Jack's Market. 11:53.440 --> 11:54.440 You know how they are. 11:54.440 --> 11:58.320 Always built in from the street so that you can park on any side. 11:58.320 --> 12:01.400 That's fine when you want to park, but when you're locked inside at night, you want to 12:01.400 --> 12:03.440 get somebody's attention so you can get out. 12:03.440 --> 12:04.840 It isn't so fine at all. 12:04.840 --> 12:13.040 As a matter of fact, it's terrible. 12:13.040 --> 12:16.880 After a few minutes, I went to the hardware counter and got a flashlight and waved it 12:16.880 --> 12:17.880 for a half an hour. 12:17.880 --> 12:22.040 And when nobody saw it or paid any attention to it, I got worried. 12:22.040 --> 12:26.480 I was more worried when I got in the phone booth and found out I didn't have anything 12:26.480 --> 12:28.520 but a check. 12:28.520 --> 12:32.960 And I couldn't open any of the cash registers or the door to the little office in the back. 12:32.960 --> 12:37.600 I want you to know things got a little worse about two in the morning after I'd settled 12:37.600 --> 12:43.320 for a pint of milk and a piece of cheese and stretched out with a sack of flour for a pillow. 12:43.320 --> 12:45.760 Something, something woke me up. 12:45.760 --> 12:48.760 Something near the side entrance. 12:48.760 --> 12:58.760 Why is it there? 12:58.760 --> 13:05.760 Okay, I'm grounded. 13:05.760 --> 13:09.760 Let's go. 13:09.760 --> 13:12.760 Come on. 13:12.760 --> 13:15.760 No, wait here until I get set up. 13:15.760 --> 13:18.760 Keep an eye on him. 13:18.760 --> 13:19.760 Here, take this. 13:19.760 --> 13:20.760 Show him the face. 13:20.760 --> 13:21.760 Yes. 13:21.760 --> 13:29.760 One of them, the bigger one, went to the little office carrying a load of tools with him. 13:29.760 --> 13:33.960 He didn't worry any, but the other one, the one in the fight overalls and the hat worried 13:33.960 --> 13:34.960 me a lot. 13:34.960 --> 13:37.760 He didn't see me, but I saw him. 13:37.760 --> 13:42.760 Your client, Lee, the liar and the thief would as soon blow your head off and look at you. 13:42.760 --> 14:00.760 His name was LeFarro and this time he had a gun in his hand. 14:00.760 --> 14:07.200 Auto Light is bringing you Miss Agnes Moorhead in Weekend Special Death, tonight's presentation 14:07.200 --> 14:21.120 in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:21.120 --> 14:23.840 Well Harlow, I signed up an Auto Light Staple battery. 14:23.840 --> 14:28.380 Ah, smart move Stan, you got yourself a real pennant winner with that great battery that 14:28.380 --> 14:31.500 needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 14:31.500 --> 14:36.760 And they tell me that Auto Light Staple has a life that's longer than an umpire's face, 14:36.760 --> 14:37.760 ha ha. 14:37.760 --> 14:42.440 Yes sir, Stan, fiberglass retaining mats protect every positive plate to reduce shedding and 14:42.440 --> 14:47.760 flaking and give the Auto Light Staple longer life as proved by tests conducted according 14:47.760 --> 14:49.760 to accepted life cycle standards. 14:49.760 --> 14:53.320 The Auto Light Staple really makes a hit with me, Harlow. 14:53.320 --> 14:58.680 And with everybody who wants a battery with pep, power and peak performance every time. 14:58.680 --> 15:03.280 Friends, visit your Auto Light battery dealer, he services all makes of batteries and if 15:03.280 --> 15:08.640 you need a new battery, he has the Auto Light Staple, the battery that needs water only 15:08.640 --> 15:11.840 three times a year in normal car use. 15:11.840 --> 15:17.480 Remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 15:17.480 --> 15:23.200 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Agnes Moorhead in Elliot 15:23.200 --> 15:31.200 Lewis's production of Weekend Special Death, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:31.200 --> 15:52.960 When I was in high school, I went with a boy named Rudy. 15:52.960 --> 15:56.400 After school he worked at a filling station with a pay telephone booth in it. 15:56.400 --> 16:00.400 And when Rudy wanted to call me, and nickels were very scarce in those days, he had a way 16:00.400 --> 16:02.560 of making a call without any money. 16:02.560 --> 16:08.520 I remembered Rudy, bless his heart, married five children, and I certainly had a call 16:08.520 --> 16:09.520 to make. 16:09.520 --> 16:13.960 Well, two men were drilling holes in a safe, one of them had a gun, and I was locked in 16:13.960 --> 16:17.920 a supermarket with them, and I wanted to tell somebody. 16:17.920 --> 16:25.120 Well, I took off my shoes and got myself up to the telephone booth. 16:25.120 --> 16:29.840 I left the door open so the light wouldn't go on, and then I went to work the way Rudy 16:29.840 --> 16:30.840 showed me. 16:30.840 --> 16:33.200 And I must have done something right. 16:33.200 --> 16:35.560 Good old Rudy. 16:35.560 --> 16:36.560 Hello? 16:36.560 --> 16:37.560 Hello? 16:37.560 --> 16:38.560 Is there anybody there? 16:38.560 --> 16:39.560 Hello? 16:39.560 --> 16:40.560 Oh, please. 16:40.560 --> 16:41.560 Hello? 16:41.560 --> 16:42.560 This is the Special Operator. 16:42.560 --> 16:43.560 Oh. 16:43.560 --> 16:44.560 Oh, hello? 16:44.560 --> 16:45.560 This is the Special Operator. 16:45.560 --> 16:46.560 Hello? 16:46.560 --> 16:47.560 This is the Special Operator. 16:47.560 --> 16:48.560 Are you having difficulty? 16:48.560 --> 16:49.560 Oh, I certainly am. 16:49.560 --> 16:50.560 You'll have to speak louder. 16:50.560 --> 16:51.560 I can't hear you clearly. 16:51.560 --> 16:52.560 I'm in a hurry. 16:52.560 --> 16:53.560 I'm in a hurry. 16:53.560 --> 16:54.560 I'm in a hurry. 16:54.560 --> 16:55.560 I'm in a hurry. 16:55.560 --> 16:56.560 I'm in a hurry. 16:56.560 --> 16:57.560 I'm in a hurry. 16:57.560 --> 16:58.560 I'm in a hurry. 16:58.560 --> 16:59.560 I'm in a hurry. 16:59.560 --> 17:00.560 I'm in a hurry. 17:00.560 --> 17:01.560 I'm in a hurry. 17:01.560 --> 17:02.560 I'm in a hurry. 17:02.560 --> 17:03.560 I'm in a hurry. 17:03.560 --> 17:04.560 Yes, I am. 17:04.560 --> 17:05.560 Yes, I am. 17:05.560 --> 17:06.560 I'm in trouble. 17:06.560 --> 17:07.560 I'm locked in. 17:07.560 --> 17:08.560 I'm sorry, miss, I can't hear you. 17:08.560 --> 17:09.560 I can't talk any louder. 17:09.560 --> 17:10.560 What is it, miss? 17:10.560 --> 17:11.560 I'm in trouble. 17:11.560 --> 17:12.560 I'm locked in a supermarket. 17:12.560 --> 17:13.560 Too many are trying to open a safe. 17:13.560 --> 17:14.560 Well, this connection's very bad. 17:14.560 --> 17:15.560 What number are you calling from? 17:15.560 --> 17:16.560 It doesn't make any difference. 17:16.560 --> 17:17.560 I'll have to know your number before I tell you. 17:17.560 --> 17:18.640 Well, it's Evergreen 50972. 17:18.640 --> 17:21.500 What number are you calling from? 17:21.500 --> 17:24.500 It's Evergreen 50972. 17:24.500 --> 17:25.860 Now, listen to me. 17:25.860 --> 17:27.880 I want you to get the police over here, right? 17:27.880 --> 17:30.600 Miss you hang up I'll call you right back see if I can make a proper 17:44.840 --> 17:48.760 There's a phone up in that part of the store, yeah, let's take a look 17:48.760 --> 17:53.760 Oh, stop like that 18:06.880 --> 18:09.400 You've heard a phone off the hook it wasn't this one look 18:09.400 --> 18:15.760 I guess I'm getting old or something any other phones this place just this one the one the office you told me that 18:15.760 --> 18:18.760 Besides how would a phone get off the hook by itself? I don't know how would it? 18:19.760 --> 18:21.760 You may be getting old at that 18:21.760 --> 18:25.760 I'm not too old to take you in on a job so you can get some money to get yourself out of a jam 18:25.760 --> 18:27.760 Oh, you old guy's giving me a pain 18:31.760 --> 18:36.760 I was behind the post toasty display I think they were about 10 feet from me 18:37.760 --> 18:40.760 As long as I just saw them and they didn't see me I was happy 18:40.760 --> 18:44.760 I was willing to let them rob the safe I was willing to stay in the store all night 18:44.760 --> 18:47.760 I was willing to do anything as long as I didn't get hurt 18:52.760 --> 18:54.760 What are you gonna do 18:54.760 --> 18:57.760 What a minute ago you that was a minute ago. This is now 18:57.760 --> 19:05.760 Well, look, you just go and stop ringing who calls a pay-boo this time of night wrong number. You know that now tell whoever it is 19:09.760 --> 19:11.760 Hello 19:11.760 --> 19:16.760 Special operative. Yeah, this is evergreen 509 70 19:18.760 --> 19:19.760 No 19:19.760 --> 19:26.760 No, no, I'm sorry. No one get positive call from here in the last five hours. I'm the night watchman 19:27.760 --> 19:28.760 Yeah 19:28.760 --> 19:29.760 Thank you 19:32.760 --> 19:33.760 Shred 19:33.760 --> 19:34.760 Yeah 19:35.760 --> 19:36.760 Somebody in here 19:37.760 --> 19:39.760 Trying to use that phone in minutes though 19:39.760 --> 19:40.760 Hello 19:40.760 --> 19:41.760 Hey 19:41.760 --> 19:42.760 Hey 19:42.760 --> 19:43.760 Yeah 19:44.760 --> 19:50.760 All right, come out wherever you're hiding hey you crazy suppose she's got a gun she did she be used to come out come on come out 19:52.760 --> 19:53.760 Okay 19:53.760 --> 19:55.760 Take that aisle out. This is right 20:01.760 --> 20:03.760 There was one advantage I 20:03.760 --> 20:07.760 Knew they could have used a flashlight and nobody on the street would have seen it, but they didn't know that 20:07.760 --> 20:11.760 So it all went on in the dark the chase. I mean I 20:11.760 --> 20:15.760 Called a walk. I slithered they they crept 20:16.760 --> 20:21.760 There was one point when I was near the soup counter and they were off in the vegetable market. I thought I was 20:29.760 --> 20:31.760 Bring it back to the office 20:31.760 --> 20:33.760 Come on you 20:33.760 --> 20:35.760 I take it easy. Take it 20:35.760 --> 20:37.760 Easy. Oh, that's tough. That's real tough 20:38.760 --> 20:39.760 Come on shut up 20:39.760 --> 20:41.760 All right, get the door 20:44.760 --> 20:45.760 Hi 20:47.760 --> 20:49.760 This Dorsey isn't it? 20:49.760 --> 20:50.760 Oh, you know her? 20:50.760 --> 20:51.760 Yeah 20:52.760 --> 20:54.760 That works for my lawyer 20:54.760 --> 20:55.760 Oh, I swear 20:56.760 --> 20:58.760 How'd you get in here? 20:59.760 --> 21:01.760 Well, come on can't you talk? 21:01.760 --> 21:07.760 I was locked in my mistake when they closed this door. I was locked in you said that I didn't have any change 21:07.760 --> 21:13.760 I couldn't call anyone. No, no, I didn't want to be here. I don't care if you rob this door 21:13.760 --> 21:19.760 I don't care what you do. I don't tell anybody. Yes. Yes. Let me go. I won't but you did make one call 21:19.760 --> 21:23.760 I'm locked in a supermarket. There are two men here. That's about the way it went with the operator in it 21:23.760 --> 21:30.760 Kind of nice in a certain line. I said that to myself this afternoon 21:30.760 --> 21:31.760 Oh 21:31.760 --> 21:33.760 Kind of nice 21:34.760 --> 21:36.760 Stanley says I lie all the time doesn't he? 21:36.760 --> 21:38.760 I've never discussed you with Mr. Stanley 21:38.760 --> 21:40.760 What are we gonna do? Huh? 21:40.760 --> 21:42.760 I said what are we gonna do? 21:42.760 --> 21:45.760 We're gonna finish the job. I need some money 21:45.760 --> 21:50.760 What about her? She's seen both of us. She can pick us out of a show up mug file 21:50.760 --> 21:54.760 I got two losses already and so you. I know. What are we gonna do? 21:54.760 --> 21:59.760 Relax. She isn't gonna say anything or pick out our pictures 21:59.760 --> 22:04.760 Huh? No. We'll kill her, Fred 22:10.760 --> 22:16.760 He wasn't lying then, Lee. Not one bit. I knew that. I knew it the minute he looked at me 22:16.760 --> 22:22.760 He told me to sit down on the floor facing the wall. I did expecting a bullet in my back any minute 22:22.760 --> 22:26.760 Instead I had to sit like that while they went to work on the safe again 22:27.760 --> 22:29.760 Come on. Hurry it up. Hurry it up. Will you? 22:29.760 --> 22:32.760 Going as fast as I can 22:33.760 --> 22:36.760 Don't open one of these things in 15 seconds, you know 22:36.760 --> 22:38.760 Doing my best 22:38.760 --> 22:40.760 Ow, lousy 22:40.760 --> 22:42.760 You pushed it too hard. That's why it broke 22:42.760 --> 22:44.760 Well, you're pushing me too hard 22:44.760 --> 22:46.760 Get it open. We haven't got all night 22:46.760 --> 22:48.760 Just a second 22:48.760 --> 22:53.760 You, uh, ever seen a safe crack before? 22:54.760 --> 22:55.760 Hey, you 22:55.760 --> 22:58.760 No. No, I haven't 22:58.760 --> 23:01.760 Pretty interesting, huh? How we doing? 23:01.760 --> 23:06.760 Close. Just a little bit. Here now 23:06.760 --> 23:11.760 Yeah, okay. Okay. I'll try it 23:11.760 --> 23:16.760 Okay. No, not yet 23:16.760 --> 23:18.760 It should be 23:18.760 --> 23:20.760 Well, I tell you 23:20.760 --> 23:24.760 All right, let's get loaded up and get out 23:24.760 --> 23:30.760 All right. Miss Dorsey, that's a very interesting project. Cracking a safe 23:30.760 --> 23:31.760 I'm sure it is 23:31.760 --> 23:33.760 Oh, knock it off 23:33.760 --> 23:36.760 How much you make a week? 23:36.760 --> 23:38.760 60 dollars 23:38.760 --> 23:40.760 60 a week, huh? 23:40.760 --> 23:45.760 Tell me, you know how much I'm making this week for two hours work, do you? 23:45.760 --> 23:46.760 No 23:46.760 --> 23:48.760 I'm making 23:48.760 --> 23:51.760 Well, I haven't got time to count it now 23:51.760 --> 23:52.760 Okay, that's it 23:52.760 --> 23:54.760 All right, let's go 23:54.760 --> 23:56.760 All right, baby 23:56.760 --> 23:57.760 Where to? 23:57.760 --> 23:58.760 That way 23:58.760 --> 23:59.760 Up there? 23:59.760 --> 24:01.760 As good a place as any 24:01.760 --> 24:02.760 What a noise 24:02.760 --> 24:05.760 I'll jam this in one of the flower sacks. It'll kill it 24:05.760 --> 24:10.760 All right, get the license. Let's get out of here 24:17.760 --> 24:20.760 I was surprised how anxious I was to live 24:20.760 --> 24:23.760 Even with those two men on the same planet with me 24:23.760 --> 24:28.760 My eyes were pretty used to the dark for the time we were out in the aisle passing the ginger ale display 24:28.760 --> 24:31.760 Never break a plate glass window 24:31.760 --> 24:32.760 Well, I did 24:32.760 --> 24:33.760 Leave that bottle 24:33.760 --> 24:35.760 Oh, you're lucky 24:36.760 --> 24:39.760 Oh, you crazy fool, you hit me 24:39.760 --> 24:41.760 Fred, Fred 24:41.760 --> 24:44.760 Where are you? Where are you? 24:45.760 --> 24:48.760 I'm gonna get you, baby, I'm gonna get you good 24:48.760 --> 24:49.760 Fred 24:49.760 --> 24:52.760 Are you scared? Scared, are you? 24:55.760 --> 24:57.760 Running won't do you any good 24:57.760 --> 25:00.760 I'll get you sooner or later before you get out of here 25:00.760 --> 25:02.760 Sooner or later 25:02.760 --> 25:07.760 I've been falling over things all night long 25:07.760 --> 25:11.760 This time it was the other one, the dead one 25:11.760 --> 25:13.760 Sooner or later, baby 25:13.760 --> 25:33.760 I didn't see it in the dark on the floor, but I felt it, his gun 25:36.760 --> 25:38.760 That enough for you, Lieutenant? 25:38.760 --> 25:40.760 Yeah, that's plenty 25:40.760 --> 25:42.760 Can I go home now? 25:42.760 --> 25:43.760 I don't know 25:43.760 --> 25:48.760 What do you mean you don't know? You don't want to hold around these charges that homicide was justifiable? 25:48.760 --> 25:49.760 Well, that isn't what worries me 25:49.760 --> 25:52.760 What does? What have I done now? 25:52.760 --> 25:55.760 Rudy, what was his last name? 25:55.760 --> 25:59.760 He may still be walking around making free phone calls, maybe I want to talk to him 25:59.760 --> 26:01.760 You're my lawyer, what do I say to him? 26:01.760 --> 26:04.760 Nothing, baby, you said enough 26:04.760 --> 26:06.760 Come on, I'll take you home 26:06.760 --> 26:28.760 Good night 26:28.760 --> 26:30.760 Suspense 26:30.760 --> 26:35.760 Presented by Auto Light, tonight's star, Miss Agnes Moorehead 26:35.760 --> 26:42.760 This is Harlow Wilcox for Auto Light, the world's largest independent manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment 26:42.760 --> 26:52.760 In 28 plants from coast to coast, the men and women of Auto Light build over 400 products for cars, trucks, tractors, planes, boats and industry 26:52.760 --> 27:01.760 Auto Light contributes its manufacturing experience and skills to the fields of transportation, electronics, agriculture, die casting and plastics 27:01.760 --> 27:07.760 The Auto Light name is famous all over the world for products of unsurpassed quality and performance 27:07.760 --> 27:11.760 In service, too, Auto Light facilities are worldwide 27:11.760 --> 27:15.760 Wherever you travel, you'll find trained experts prepared to serve you 27:15.760 --> 27:20.760 So, for superior products, always look for the name Auto Light 27:20.760 --> 27:33.760 Because from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light 27:33.760 --> 27:41.760 Next week, the true story of an escape to freedom in which it has been necessary to change the names of all the principal participants 27:41.760 --> 27:45.760 In order that their survivors, still imprisoned, may live 27:45.760 --> 27:52.760 It's called Listen Young Lovers, our stars Mona Freeman and Robert Wagner 27:52.760 --> 27:57.760 That's next week on Suspense 27:57.760 --> 28:03.760 Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis 28:03.760 --> 28:07.760 With music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin 28:07.760 --> 28:12.760 Weekend Special Death was written for suspense by E. 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