1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:19,920 Tonight, the simple tale of a woman who finds herself accused of murder and yet has no remembrance 3 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,640 of either the act itself or the person she is said to have killed. 4 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:44,640 So now with Paula Winslow as Alice, here is tonight's Suspense play, Lost. 5 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,320 It happened in New York. 6 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,240 I was window shopping on Fifth Avenue. 7 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:49,240 It was noon. 8 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:54,240 The sun was warm, but a chill made me shiver. 9 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,120 I started walking again. 10 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,400 I reached 59th Street, Central Park. 11 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,840 No more stores, no more windows. 12 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,600 I wanted to walk in the park, but I didn't. 13 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,280 I couldn't decide. 14 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:08,280 Should I? 15 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:09,280 Shouldn't I? 16 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,160 Yes, no, do, don't. 17 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,760 I knew I had to go someplace. 18 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,520 I knew I had to meet somebody. 19 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:21,640 It all happened so fast, like somebody closing a door. 20 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:29,960 Suddenly, I couldn't remember who I had to meet or where or when. 21 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:34,160 I started to walk fast, as fast as I could. 22 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:39,280 I was almost running, up one block, down the next, back to Central Park. 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,280 I had to keep moving. 24 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,000 I had to run into something or somebody that would remind me. 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,000 I had to. 26 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,960 Then I saw a policeman in the middle of the street. 27 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:49,200 He was directing traffic. 28 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,200 I ran toward him. 29 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,520 Lady, you tired of living? 30 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:55,720 Oh, help me. 31 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:56,720 Please help me. 32 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:57,720 What's the matter? 33 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:58,720 I'm lost. 34 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,160 Well, this is 59th Street and Seventh Avenue. 35 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:02,160 Downtown is that way. 36 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,160 Where do you want to go? 37 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:04,600 Well, I don't know. 38 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:05,960 Come on, no left turn here. 39 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:06,960 Keep going. 40 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:07,960 What was that again, lady? 41 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,000 Well, all these cars, these buildings, those people. 42 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,240 This looks like New York. 43 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,040 Yeah, this is New York. 44 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,280 Well, how did I get here? 45 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,960 Where are you from? 46 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:21,960 I don't know. 47 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:22,960 Huh? 48 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:23,960 Well, I... 49 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:29,200 All right, now, lady, now, don't cry. 50 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:40,560 I don't even know my name. 51 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,840 He asked me a few more questions. 52 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,280 And he took me to the precinct station. 53 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,920 He left me there with a detective named Mark Neal. 54 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:51,080 Now, let's go over what we got so far, huh? 55 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:52,160 All right. 56 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,440 The name Alice is on the inside of your wedding ring. 57 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,640 It's on the lining of your coat. 58 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:58,480 It's on your dress and burned into the flap of your purse. 59 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,480 Alice. 60 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,240 Yeah, still not familiar, huh? 61 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,240 No. 62 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,920 Please, may I get up? 63 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:06,920 Yeah, sure. 64 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:08,960 Oh, where are you going? 65 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,440 Well, I just want to walk. 66 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:16,280 Back and forth in here is all right, as long as I can keep moving. 67 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,280 Lieutenant, what's going to happen to me? 68 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,960 Well, we'll try to find out who you are if you can just sit on for a few minutes. 69 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:29,480 Oh, I'll try. 70 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,680 The patrolman said you didn't seem scared with the traffic. 71 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:33,960 Well, what does that mean? 72 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,040 That you probably came from a big city. 73 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,040 Here? 74 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,040 New York? 75 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:39,880 No, you'd have some kind of a key in your purse. 76 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,800 My guess is that you're at some hotel, you left the key at the desk. 77 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,720 Oh, help me, please. 78 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,440 Your clothes are clean, they're not wrinkled. 79 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,320 It means you didn't sleep in them last night, so you haven't been missing very long. 80 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,840 But who am I? 81 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:52,840 Who do I belong to? 82 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:53,840 Oh, I'm sorry. 83 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:54,840 I've got to walk. 84 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:55,840 Okay. 85 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:56,840 Let's go get your picture taken. 86 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:57,840 Where? 87 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:58,840 It's just down the hall. 88 00:03:58,840 --> 00:03:59,840 Thank you. 89 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:00,840 Well, send your picture to all the papers and the TV. 90 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:01,840 I'll be right back. 91 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:02,840 I'll be right back. 92 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:03,840 I'll be right back. 93 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:04,840 I'll be right back. 94 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:05,840 I'll be right back. 95 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:06,840 I'll be right back. 96 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:07,840 I'll be right back. 97 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:08,840 I'll be right back. 98 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:09,840 I'll be right back. 99 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:10,840 Bye. 100 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:11,840 Thank you. 101 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:12,840 Bye. 102 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:13,840 I'll be right back. 103 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:14,840 Bye. 104 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:15,840 Bye. 105 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:16,840 Talk. 106 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:17,840 Talk. 107 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:18,840 I'm sorry. 108 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:19,840 I'm sorry. 109 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:20,840 I'm sorry. 110 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:21,840 Oh, God, I'm sorry. 111 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:22,840 I don't know. 112 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:23,840 Can you please don't leave me? 113 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:24,840 I don't know. 114 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:25,840 I can't. 115 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:26,840 I can't. 116 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:27,840 I can't. 117 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:28,840 I know. 118 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:29,840 I know. 119 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:30,840 I've got to go get my picture taken. 120 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:31,840 I've got to go. 121 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:32,840 I'm sorry. 122 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:33,840 I'm sorry. 123 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:34,840 Can I please don't leave me? 124 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:35,840 I'm sorry. 125 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:36,840 I'm sorry. 126 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:37,840 I'm sorry. 127 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:38,840 Please don't leave me. 128 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:39,840 Alone. 129 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:46,880 Alone in a city of eight million people. 130 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,440 I knew three of them. 131 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:54,280 A policeman near Central Park, a detective, and the nurse who brought me here to this 132 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:55,960 ward. 133 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,960 This hospital ward. 134 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,960 Hello. 135 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:06,640 Oh, do I... do I know you? 136 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:07,640 I'm Dr. Corday. 137 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,080 Oh, then you can help me. 138 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,480 Please, I... I want to get out of here. 139 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:13,640 I don't want to stay here. 140 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:14,640 I can't. 141 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:15,640 They made a mistake. 142 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:16,640 Who did? 143 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:17,640 Well, the hospital. 144 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,520 I heard the nurse. 145 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:20,520 I know what this is. 146 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,920 The psycho ward for crazy people. 147 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,320 Look, I'm not crazy. 148 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:26,320 I'm not. 149 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:33,160 I... I just can't... I just can't remember who I am. 150 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,160 Go ahead. 151 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,560 It'll do you good. 152 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,320 You think I... I'll start remembering? 153 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,280 Maybe not, but somebody will recognize you. 154 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:44,280 You're a celebrity. 155 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:48,800 You have pictures in all the papers, and it's been on every TV station in the city. 156 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,640 And... and nobody's called? 157 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,120 Not yet. 158 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,840 Doctor, how... how long will this last? 159 00:05:57,840 --> 00:05:59,280 When will I start to remember? 160 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:03,160 Maybe a day, a week, a month. 161 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:04,360 Right now, you need some rest. 162 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:05,800 Oh, I can't sleep now. 163 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,840 Did you take that pill the nurse brought? 164 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:08,840 Yes. 165 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:09,840 You'll sleep. 166 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:16,000 And we'll talk some more after you wake up. 167 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:26,680 Have a good sleep? 168 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,800 Well, I... I must have had. 169 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:29,800 It's dark outside. 170 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:30,800 What's the matter? 171 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:31,800 Well, they... they moved me. 172 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,080 They moved me while I was sleeping. 173 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:37,080 It's all right. 174 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,080 You're on another floor of the hospital. 175 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,920 But those... those bars on the windows. 176 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:44,920 Why did you move me? 177 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,920 Why are those bars on the windows? 178 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:47,920 Well, tell me, please. 179 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:48,920 Tell me. 180 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,000 I want you to concentrate on the game now. 181 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,280 It's called word association. 182 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:54,640 I'll say a word. 183 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,800 You answer with the first word you think of. 184 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,280 Black. 185 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:00,920 White? 186 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:02,400 Texas. 187 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:03,400 Big. 188 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:04,400 Blood. 189 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:05,400 Red. 190 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:06,400 Gun. 191 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:07,400 Kill. 192 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:08,400 Bullet. 193 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:09,400 Dead. 194 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:10,400 Murder. 195 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:15,800 Well, why... why do you pick those words? 196 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:16,800 Blood and bullet. 197 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:17,800 Murder. 198 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:18,800 Please answer. 199 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:19,800 Murder. 200 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,160 This... this is the prison ward, isn't it? 201 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,720 It's just another floor of the hospital. 202 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,120 It's the prison ward, isn't it? 203 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:29,120 Yes. 204 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,240 Well, I... I've been arrested. 205 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:33,240 I've done something. 206 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:39,600 But those words, blood and gun, I... I've killed somebody. 207 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:40,600 You remember? 208 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,440 Oh, then it's true. 209 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:43,440 It's true. 210 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:44,760 Alice, I want you to look at some pictures. 211 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:45,760 Well, who did I kill? 212 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:46,760 Who was it? 213 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:47,760 Tell me. 214 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,040 See if you recognize the people in these pictures. 215 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:52,040 Try this one first. 216 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:53,560 Oh, doctor, help me. 217 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:54,560 Help me. 218 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,880 Now, look at that picture. 219 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:57,880 You know him? 220 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,600 Well, should I? 221 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:01,600 Do you? 222 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,400 Well, I... I don't know. 223 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:09,080 Is... is he the one... the man I killed? 224 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:10,080 Is he? 225 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,000 That's why you're showing me the picture, isn't it? 226 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 He's... he's dead. 227 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Dead. 228 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 And I killed him. 229 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 No, Alice. 230 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000 What? 231 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,000 She fainted. 232 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 That's all right, Mr. Parker. 233 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Nurse. 234 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:32,240 Well, let's bring back her memory. 235 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:49,280 Maybe not completely, but she may at least remember you're her husband. 236 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,880 This next one is my office, Mr. Parker. 237 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,160 All right. 238 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,200 Leave the door open so we can hear the nurse. 239 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,920 Pull up a chair. 240 00:08:58,920 --> 00:08:59,920 Yeah. 241 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:05,040 I didn't get much chance to talk to you before, Mr. Parker. 242 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,960 Do you mind if I ask you a few questions? 243 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:08,960 Fire away, Nelka. 244 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,880 I think you said you and your wife came here from San Francisco? 245 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,880 Yeah, about a month and a half ago. 246 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:16,880 What brought you here? 247 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:18,880 I'm a songwriter. 248 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,760 I can write better stuff left-handed than a junkie here today. 249 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:22,760 I see. 250 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:28,200 Now, I'm not saying there are no good writers left, but look, Irving Berlin, an old man. 251 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,040 Rodgers and Hammerstein are busy counting their money. 252 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,760 Cole Porter has been. 253 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:38,320 Tin Pan Alley is begging for a great young songwriter, and I'm their boy. 254 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:39,320 Have you written any songs? 255 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:40,320 A hundred-something. 256 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:41,320 They're all great. 257 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:42,320 What are they? 258 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:43,320 Maybe I remember some of them. 259 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,320 Well, none of them has been published yet, but that's politics. 260 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,320 That's why we come to New York, to make the connection. 261 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,440 You look a good deal younger than your wife. 262 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,680 I'm 24, she's 36. 263 00:09:55,680 --> 00:09:57,880 But don't crack that I told you. 264 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:58,880 I don't want to hurt her feelings. 265 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,120 You happen to marry someone that much older. 266 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:04,120 Want me to level with you? 267 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,640 Well, it'll help me treat your wife. 268 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:12,040 Well, Alice is no Marilyn Monroe. 269 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,440 Want me to spell it out anymore? 270 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,280 I take it she's rather wealthy. 271 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,120 We ain't living at the Hotel Bentley on my royalty checks. 272 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,600 How's the marriage going? 273 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:23,040 Sometimes okay. 274 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,040 And other times? 275 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,200 They could have sold ringside seats. 276 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:28,200 What do you fight about? 277 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,560 Always the same thing. 278 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:32,680 Alice is a nice girl. 279 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:37,920 And I like to live the way that she can afford, but let's face it, I'm 24. 280 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,320 I don't think I understand. 281 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,440 Alice, she gets crazy jealous if I say hello to another girl. 282 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,560 Is that why she shot Joyce Carla? 283 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:47,680 I guess so. 284 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:52,360 All I was trying to do was sell Carlyle some of my numbers. 285 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,440 If she gives you a song a ride, you've got a real chance. 286 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:58,040 For your wife's sake, I hope Miss Carlyle goes through. 287 00:10:58,040 --> 00:10:59,040 Huh? 288 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,520 It'll have a terrible effect on Alice if Miss Carlyle dies. 289 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:03,520 She's still alive? 290 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,480 She had another transfusion about half an hour ago. 291 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,720 Where is she? 292 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:07,720 Downstairs, second floor. 293 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:09,560 Look, I'd better get down and see how she is. 294 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:10,560 She's still unconscious. 295 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:12,560 I've been getting word from the detectives. 296 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:13,640 Detectives? 297 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,800 They're waiting around in case she regains consciousness. 298 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,920 Oh, Dr. Corday. 299 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:18,920 Yes, nurse. 300 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:20,520 Mrs. Parker is asking for you. 301 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,720 Oh, thank you. 302 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:23,720 Run along, Mr. Parker. 303 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:24,720 Yeah, sure. 304 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:25,720 Yeah. 305 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,840 Won't you remember me? 306 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:33,280 You'll know when you walk in that door. 307 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,440 Alice. 308 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:42,960 You... you called me Alice. 309 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,720 Honey, I'm Vance. 310 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:46,720 Vance? 311 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,200 Your husband, baby. 312 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,200 We came here from San Francisco. 313 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:52,200 Don't you remember? 314 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:53,200 Oh, come on, honey. 315 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:54,200 Let me hold you. 316 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:55,200 Don't. 317 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:56,200 Please, don't. 318 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:57,200 Alice, it's me. 319 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:58,200 It's Vance. 320 00:11:58,200 --> 00:11:59,200 Please, let me go. 321 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:00,200 Hello, doctor. 322 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,200 Hello, Mrs. Parker. 323 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:02,200 Lieutenant. 324 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,200 Hello, Mr. Neal. 325 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:04,200 Lieutenant Neal. 326 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:05,200 Mr. Parker. 327 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:10,200 Will you... are you one of the detectives downstairs? 328 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:11,200 Yes. 329 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:18,680 And, uh, now I've got some bad news. 330 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:20,680 Look, how is Miss Carlisle? 331 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:21,680 Dead. 332 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:42,480 So we're holding her wife for murder. 333 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:48,680 You are listening to Lost, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 334 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:49,680 Suspense. 335 00:12:49,680 --> 00:13:00,880 Tomorrow night, Casey, CBS radio's crime photographer, totes his lens into plenty of 336 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,160 danger as he investigates a miracle cure. 337 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,840 Don't miss Life for Sale, the story on crime photographer tomorrow night over most of these 338 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,400 same stations. 339 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:15,920 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Paula Winslow as Alice in tonight's production 340 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:16,920 of Lost. 341 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:33,360 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 342 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,240 They asked me more questions. 343 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,400 I couldn't answer any of them. 344 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,160 Dead or alive, I didn't remember Joyce Carlisle. 345 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,160 I didn't even remember myself. 346 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:51,080 Alice Parker, San Francisco. 347 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,000 Alice Parker, San... 348 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,360 Honey, you quitting? 349 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:01,040 Oh, it's no good, Vance. 350 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,680 That's the first time you call me by my right name. 351 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:05,400 Oh, why can't I remember? 352 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:06,400 Why can't I remember? 353 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,280 Honey, honey, you heard the head shrinker. 354 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:10,480 Relax, forget it. 355 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:11,480 But how can I? 356 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:13,120 What can they do to you? 357 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,560 They found your handkerchief in Joyce Carlisle's apartment. 358 00:14:15,560 --> 00:14:16,560 That's all they got. 359 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:18,640 They don't even have the gun you used or witnesses. 360 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:20,240 Well, I don't care about that. 361 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,840 Besides, honey, they can't hang you for a murder you can't even remember. 362 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,320 Vance, can't you understand? 363 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:26,320 What? 364 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:27,320 What ain't I have to? 365 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,360 Whether they convict me isn't important. 366 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:30,840 It's not. 367 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:37,920 Look, even if they let me walk out now, I've got to live every day knowing I killed somebody. 368 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,120 Oh, don't you see? 369 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,120 Don't you understand at all? 370 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:43,120 Honey, sure. 371 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:52,120 Look, I'll get a lawyer tomorrow and you'll be out of here real quick. 372 00:14:52,120 --> 00:15:01,680 Just a minute. 373 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,360 Good morning, Mr. Parker. 374 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:07,360 Oh, hi, Lieutenant. 375 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:08,920 What are you doing here? 376 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,280 I'd like to look around your suite if I can. 377 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:12,280 Oh, sure. 378 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:13,280 Sure. 379 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:14,280 Thank you. 380 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,960 Come on in the bedroom while I grab a tie, huh? 381 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:19,280 Just these two rooms, please. 382 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:20,280 Yeah, that's it. 383 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,480 If you tell me what you're looking for, maybe I can stay. 384 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,920 Is this your wife's dressing? 385 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,480 You were prowling for anything in particular? 386 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:29,480 No, no. 387 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,560 I just want to see if there's any sign your wife planned this. 388 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:37,440 It makes a difference if it was premeditated. 389 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,600 You ever see your wife with a gun? 390 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:40,960 Oh, skied rifle? 391 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,680 No, snub nosed,.22 caliber pistol, pearl handle. 392 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,880 You told me you didn't have any murder weapon. 393 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:49,880 We found it this morning. 394 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:50,880 Where? 395 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,320 Near the 59th Street entrance to the park. 396 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,360 Close to where Alice talked to that cop? 397 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,180 Yeah, two blocks. 398 00:15:57,180 --> 00:15:58,360 Any fingerprints on the gun? 399 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,360 No, but it's the right gun. 400 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:02,360 Anything at the night table, then? 401 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:03,360 Yeah, phone books. 402 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,360 Come on, you ready for the other room? 403 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,360 Yeah, I guess so. 404 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,760 2750 a day for these two rooms. 405 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,160 Think of the softer touch and Crosby's agent. 406 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:16,760 Do you have the key to this desk? 407 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:17,760 Oh, yeah. 408 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,760 Yeah, right here. 409 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:20,760 It's a little... 410 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:21,760 Thank you. 411 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:22,760 How about that? 412 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,280 2750 a copy. 413 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,120 You think they throw in anything on the cuff? 414 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,120 You want to watch TV? 415 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:29,400 You drop two bits in that slot. 416 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,360 Cost me a buck yesterday to watch a disc jockey. 417 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:38,280 And speaking of dough, I know this ain't any time to add. 418 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,800 Here, here are your keys. 419 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:46,600 Look, you think they'll tie up Alice's loot while she's getting her marbles counted? 420 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:47,600 I don't know. 421 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,640 It'll ground me real good if they do. 422 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:53,240 You know, today was payday and if she ain't around, I'll sign my check. 423 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,240 I'll remind her when I get to the hospital. 424 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:56,240 Oh, thanks, thanks a lot. 425 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,800 And you tell her I'll be over later with the lawyer? 426 00:16:58,800 --> 00:16:59,800 You better check first. 427 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:00,800 Why? 428 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:01,800 She may be out. 429 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,800 I'm taking her to Joyce Carlisle's apartment. 430 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,640 Oh, come on. 431 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:07,640 What do you guys want? 432 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,720 They got a murder to solve. 433 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,280 But you got it, Sal. 434 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,040 So even if Alice did kill us, Canary, she was off a rocker. 435 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:16,600 There's nothing you can do to her. 436 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,880 Why are you taking her to Joyce's place? 437 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,360 Ain't she had a bad enough time? 438 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:26,040 You're welcome to come along. 439 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:33,280 Good morning, Alice. 440 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:37,560 Oh, hello, John. 441 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:38,560 Hello, Doctor. 442 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:39,960 Feel stronger today? 443 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,880 Well, I think so. 444 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:44,960 How much is two and two? 445 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:46,280 What? 446 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,840 How much is two and two? 447 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,240 Four. 448 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:52,240 How do you know? 449 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,240 Well, I learned it. 450 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:56,240 When? 451 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:01,360 When I was a little girl. 452 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:05,680 I had a special blue dress and... 453 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:07,400 Go on. 454 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:15,000 And they used to tease me and call me Alice Blue Gown. 455 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,800 Doctor, it's coming back. 456 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,440 I'm beginning to remember. 457 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,960 I live in San Francisco. 458 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:29,520 My name is Alice Lee Parker. 459 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:30,520 Where are you? 460 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:34,000 In New York with my husband. 461 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 His name is Vance. 462 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,880 How did you come here? 463 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,120 On a train. 464 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,480 We got here last week. 465 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:43,480 Last week? 466 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:44,480 On Friday. 467 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,480 It's our second honeymoon. 468 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:52,360 Vance took me out Saturday night to the Golden Angel. 469 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,240 We danced together, every dance. 470 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:56,840 He never looked at another girl. 471 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:57,840 The Golden Angel? 472 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:58,840 The nightclub. 473 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,160 Oh, it was wonderful. 474 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,640 You remember a girl who sang at the club? 475 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:03,640 Yes. 476 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:04,640 Yes, a pretty girl. 477 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:05,640 We liked her. 478 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:06,640 Her name was... 479 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:07,640 Joyce? 480 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:08,640 Yes. 481 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:09,640 Joyce. 482 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:10,640 Joyce. 483 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:11,640 Carla. 484 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,640 Oh, but no. 485 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:18,840 No, that's the name of the girl I... 486 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:19,840 You remember? 487 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,440 No, I remember her name from last night. 488 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:24,440 Last night? 489 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,440 When the detective came in. 490 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,480 He said she died. 491 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,040 You remember shooting her? 492 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:31,040 Oh, no. 493 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:32,040 No, I... 494 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,040 Oh, I thought I was all better. 495 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:37,040 Oh, Vance. 496 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,040 Oh, darling. 497 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:39,040 Oh, darling. 498 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:40,040 Easy, honey, easy. 499 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,040 She's almost completely recovered. 500 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:44,040 Doctor. 501 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:45,040 Oh, good morning, Lieutenant. 502 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:46,040 I didn't see you. 503 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,040 Doctor, can you step out into the corridor for a minute? 504 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:50,040 Sure. 505 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,040 Pardon us. 506 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,040 What is it? 507 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,040 Does she remember the shooting? 508 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:58,040 Not yet. 509 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:02,040 There's still a gap, a kind of twilight zone of about a month. 510 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:06,040 Is there any danger in her visiting Joyce Carlisle's apartment? 511 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,040 On the contrary. 512 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,040 It might snap her out of it entirely. 513 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,040 Good. 514 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:11,040 Good. 515 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,040 I'll take her over there right now. 516 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:28,040 Well, it's a pretty classy layout she had here, huh? 517 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,040 Mrs. Parker, does the place look familiar? 518 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,040 No, no, it doesn't. 519 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:38,040 The next room is the den here. 520 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,040 This is where it happened. 521 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,040 Do you remember it now, honey? 522 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,040 No. 523 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,040 Miss Carlisle was sitting on that couch when she was shot. 524 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,040 Oh, excuse me, that might be from me. 525 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,040 Nella. 526 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,040 Oh, Vance, but why? 527 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,040 Why? 528 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,040 Why what? 529 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,040 Well, why did I... 530 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,040 Why should I want to kill her? 531 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,040 Oh, you thought that she was cutting your time. 532 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:03,040 With you? 533 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,040 Oh, natch, I kept telling you that, honey, but you wouldn't listen. 534 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:07,040 All right, thanks. 535 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,040 How could I do it? 536 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,040 Well, finally adds up. 537 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:16,040 You know, I first got suspicious when the murder gun showed up without fingerprints. 538 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:17,040 Why? 539 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:21,040 Because you weren't wearing gloves when you lost your memory and you had none in your purse. 540 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,040 It looked like the gun was planted for us to find. 541 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,040 Planted where it would look bad for you, Mrs. Parker. 542 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,040 That phone call was from your hotel. 543 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,040 Well, what have they got to do with this? 544 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,040 Well, there's a tape in that coin box on your TV set. 545 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,040 It records the time the coin drops in and the channel being watched. 546 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,040 Come on, come on, let's get with it. 547 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:44,040 You were watching channel two yesterday at 315 when your wife's picture was telecast. 548 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,040 Anything wrong with it? 549 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,040 It was a real good setup. 550 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:52,040 Your wife in the hospital with amnesia so she can't remember whether she did it or not. 551 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,040 You plant her handkerchief here where the police will find it. 552 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,040 Vance. 553 00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:01,040 Your telephone charge slip shows that you called her here at 345 yesterday. 554 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,040 Had to be you because your wife was in the hospital at that time. 555 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,040 Now look, look, Joyce Carlisle was going to sing some of my songs. 556 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,040 Why would I knock her off? 557 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,040 We found out about that too from her piano player. 558 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:16,040 You told Joyce Carlisle you were going to divorce your wife and marry her. 559 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,040 That she was demanding action. 560 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:45,040 So come on son, you can think up another story on the way to headquarters. 561 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:50,040 Suspense, in which Paula Winslow starred as Alice. 562 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:55,040 Next week, the ironic story of an actor who played his first part perhaps too well, 563 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:59,040 leaving himself unable to better his performance. 564 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,040 We call it rave notice. 565 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:07,040 That's next week on Suspense. 566 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:22,040 Suspense is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald with music composed by Lucian Morawick 567 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,040 and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 568 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:28,040 Lost was specially written for Suspense by Jerry D. Lewis. 569 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:36,040 Featured in the cast were Bill Conrad, John Danaer, Tony Barrett and Herb Vigran. 570 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:42,040 You enjoy City Hospital every Saturday in the daytime on the CBS Radio Network.