WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.160 And now, transcribed for tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, 00:13.160 --> 00:15.800 Suspense. 00:15.800 --> 00:22.320 Tonight, the story of a man who learns far too late that in horse racing or life, there 00:22.320 --> 00:25.640 is always an equation of chance and mischance. 00:25.640 --> 00:31.800 So now, starring High Aberback, here is tonight's Suspense play, The Sure Thing. 00:31.800 --> 00:33.800 Hiya Phil. 00:33.800 --> 00:37.800 What do you know, Lefty? 00:37.800 --> 00:40.800 Go on in, Marty's here. 00:40.800 --> 00:41.800 Yeah, I know. 00:41.800 --> 00:42.800 Come in, Phil. 00:42.800 --> 00:43.800 Hello Marty, how are you? 00:43.800 --> 00:44.800 Not bad. 00:44.800 --> 00:45.800 Lefty. 00:45.800 --> 00:46.800 Yeah? 00:46.800 --> 00:47.800 Go on over to Atkins Place. 00:47.800 --> 00:48.800 Yeah? 00:48.800 --> 00:57.440 He's ready to pay off. 00:57.440 --> 00:59.480 Dough will be in cash, five grand. 00:59.480 --> 01:00.480 Right. 01:00.480 --> 01:02.200 And close the door when you go out. 01:02.200 --> 01:03.200 Gotcha. 01:03.200 --> 01:05.200 Now Phil, sit down. 01:05.200 --> 01:06.760 I haven't got too much time, Marty. 01:06.760 --> 01:08.480 I just came from my dough. 01:08.480 --> 01:10.080 What's with you anyway? 01:10.080 --> 01:11.080 Don't you have any fun? 01:11.080 --> 01:13.400 I'll have my fun when it's time. 01:13.400 --> 01:15.120 Right now I got money on my mind. 01:15.120 --> 01:17.460 Yeah, you sure have. 01:17.460 --> 01:19.880 You know you clipped us for eight grand yesterday. 01:19.880 --> 01:22.520 Eight thousand forty-two dollars is the exact amount. 01:22.520 --> 01:26.120 Like always, you're here right on the dot to collect. 01:26.120 --> 01:28.000 How much time do you give your clients? 01:28.000 --> 01:31.160 About as much time as you give us. 01:31.160 --> 01:34.000 There it is. 01:34.000 --> 01:36.800 Left up nice and neat. 01:36.800 --> 01:38.580 Want to count it? 01:38.580 --> 01:40.440 This isn't your money, it's a syndicate's. 01:40.440 --> 01:41.440 They don't shortchange. 01:41.440 --> 01:44.080 You've got a lot of respect for the syndicator. 01:44.080 --> 01:46.080 It's a good operation. 01:46.080 --> 01:47.080 Drink? 01:47.080 --> 01:48.080 No. 01:48.080 --> 01:53.480 Phil, if you're interested, I've got a deal for you. 01:53.480 --> 01:54.480 Yeah? 01:54.480 --> 01:56.760 The syndicate wants to take you in. 01:56.760 --> 02:00.640 They figure a bookie who's smart enough to keep making money from them should be on their 02:00.640 --> 02:01.640 side. 02:01.640 --> 02:06.200 Well, they could be right. 02:06.200 --> 02:07.200 Can you go for it? 02:07.200 --> 02:08.200 No. 02:08.200 --> 02:09.200 Why not? 02:09.200 --> 02:11.960 Look, Marty, I've been making book independently for a long time. 02:11.960 --> 02:14.240 I've got a good clientele and I make a few bucks. 02:14.240 --> 02:15.240 I know. 02:15.240 --> 02:18.520 Okay, so I'm not just another independent bookie. 02:18.520 --> 02:19.920 I also know horses. 02:19.920 --> 02:23.960 Sure, I go by morning line and I get the word on clothes to work out now and then, but basically 02:23.960 --> 02:25.640 I know the horses. 02:25.640 --> 02:26.640 You admit that? 02:26.640 --> 02:27.640 Sure. 02:27.640 --> 02:28.640 Why not? 02:28.640 --> 02:31.640 So the syndicate has heard him because I know when to lay off a few bucks on him. 02:31.640 --> 02:32.960 But you do it every day. 02:32.960 --> 02:34.720 Yeah, yeah, it's just it. 02:34.720 --> 02:36.720 I got him in a good position. 02:36.720 --> 02:40.880 I'm not going to let them buy me off by letting me into the organization like they did you. 02:40.880 --> 02:42.200 They won't like it. 02:42.200 --> 02:45.640 Marty, when I get ready, I'm going to own a piece of the syndicate. 02:45.640 --> 02:52.280 When I get ready, I'm going to buy my way in and it's going to be with their loot. 02:52.280 --> 02:55.640 Then that's what you want me to tell them? 02:55.640 --> 02:56.640 Just that. 02:56.640 --> 02:57.640 Okay. 02:57.640 --> 03:00.480 If you change your mind, let me know. 03:00.480 --> 03:02.160 I won't change it. 03:02.160 --> 03:03.160 See you tomorrow. 03:03.160 --> 03:04.160 Same time. 03:04.160 --> 03:05.160 What for? 03:05.160 --> 03:07.840 I want to cover myself, so I'm going to lay off some more dough today. 03:07.840 --> 03:09.480 Have my payoff in cash as usual. 03:09.480 --> 03:10.480 Be seeing you. 03:10.480 --> 03:25.400 You shouldn't have taken it, Phil. 03:25.400 --> 03:26.400 Told you why I didn't. 03:26.400 --> 03:29.600 But honey, with a syndicate, you'd have steady money. 03:29.600 --> 03:30.880 Enough maybe to get a divorce. 03:30.880 --> 03:32.960 Eileen, divorce is for people who can afford it. 03:32.960 --> 03:33.960 I can't. 03:33.960 --> 03:37.480 You've been saying that ever since we got started. 03:37.480 --> 03:39.200 How much money do you want? 03:39.200 --> 03:43.320 Have to buy my way out clean, no alimony, a big hunk of cash, and it's over. 03:43.320 --> 03:46.000 How do you know Barbara will go for that? 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 Barbara's no fool. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.280 There's enough money in it, she'll go for it. 03:50.280 --> 03:52.960 And until then? 03:52.960 --> 03:56.040 Until then, we go on like we're doing. 03:56.040 --> 03:57.040 Suppose I don't want to. 03:57.040 --> 04:00.040 I can't force you to wait. 04:00.040 --> 04:04.440 I'll wait, but I won't like it. 04:04.440 --> 04:06.240 Maybe it won't be as long as you think. 04:06.240 --> 04:08.240 How do you figure? 04:08.240 --> 04:11.240 The syndicate won't quit with one offer. 04:11.240 --> 04:14.000 They want me in and they'll keep on until they get me. 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 When is that? 04:15.000 --> 04:17.880 When I can write my own ticket. 04:17.880 --> 04:22.440 Phil, don't take chances. 04:22.440 --> 04:26.080 Honey, people are more predictable than horses. 04:26.080 --> 04:28.520 I know horses. 04:28.520 --> 04:38.680 I'm sure not going to miss on people. 04:38.680 --> 04:45.200 Hi Phil. 04:45.200 --> 04:46.200 Marty ain't here right now. 04:46.200 --> 04:47.200 Where is he? 04:47.200 --> 04:49.360 I don't know, he left about two hours ago. 04:49.360 --> 04:50.680 He told me to watch the phone. 04:50.680 --> 04:51.680 When's he due back? 04:51.680 --> 04:53.720 He said he'd be back in time to pay you off. 04:53.720 --> 04:55.720 Well, I'll wait a while. 04:55.720 --> 04:58.240 Hey Phil, do me a favor. 04:58.240 --> 05:01.960 Watch the phone for me while I go for a sandwich, will you? 05:01.960 --> 05:02.960 Well Marty might not like it. 05:02.960 --> 05:03.960 Oh, he don't care. 05:03.960 --> 05:04.960 You're his buddy. 05:04.960 --> 05:05.960 Go on. 05:05.960 --> 05:08.960 You can sit in his office. 05:08.960 --> 05:09.960 Okay. 05:09.960 --> 05:13.160 Oh, if you get thirsty, it's in that cabinet. 05:13.160 --> 05:14.160 Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. 05:14.160 --> 05:16.480 If you get any action while I'm gone, just mark them down. 05:16.480 --> 05:17.480 Yeah, I'll do it. 05:17.480 --> 05:18.480 Go on, you take it, Phil. 05:18.480 --> 05:19.480 I'm leaving. 05:19.480 --> 05:20.480 Well, no, wait a minute. 05:20.480 --> 05:21.480 It might be Marty. 05:21.480 --> 05:22.480 Well, take it anyway. 05:22.480 --> 05:23.480 If it is, I'll wait here a minute. 05:23.480 --> 05:24.480 Okay. 05:24.480 --> 05:25.480 Hello? 05:25.480 --> 05:29.760 There's a fix in the 8th today. 05:29.760 --> 05:32.760 Somebody told me you're an honest bookie, so I'm calling. 05:32.760 --> 05:34.760 You want to hear about it? 05:34.760 --> 05:36.960 Hold the line a minute. 05:36.960 --> 05:37.960 Go on, I'll have to... 05:37.960 --> 05:38.960 It isn't anything important. 05:38.960 --> 05:39.960 Okay, see you. 05:39.960 --> 05:40.960 Yeah. 05:40.960 --> 05:45.520 Now, what were you saying? 05:45.520 --> 05:47.520 This is Marty, ain't it? 05:47.520 --> 05:49.840 Yeah, where are you calling from? 05:49.840 --> 05:51.880 Downstairs, in the lobby. 05:51.880 --> 05:55.360 Okay, look, there's a flight of stairs to the left of the phone, but there was one flight 05:55.360 --> 05:57.440 up turn right, first door. 05:57.440 --> 06:07.200 Be there in 15 seconds? 06:07.200 --> 06:10.320 Right. 06:10.320 --> 06:15.920 Come in. 06:15.920 --> 06:20.280 You, Marty? 06:20.280 --> 06:24.720 What's in your mind? 06:24.720 --> 06:28.000 Like I said on the phone, there's a fix going in the 8th. 06:28.000 --> 06:29.000 What track? 06:29.000 --> 06:30.000 Right here in town. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.520 Where'd you hear about it? 06:32.520 --> 06:34.280 I'm a stable boy. 06:34.280 --> 06:36.400 That don't mean a thing. 06:36.400 --> 06:38.480 You overhear of a jock named Ferris? 06:38.480 --> 06:39.480 Yeah. 06:39.480 --> 06:41.680 He ain't doing so good since his fall at Hialeah. 06:41.680 --> 06:42.680 So? 06:42.680 --> 06:46.440 So the jocks in the 8th are going to see to it that Ferris wins today. 06:46.440 --> 06:47.720 You heard this, huh? 06:47.720 --> 06:49.320 With my own ears. 06:49.320 --> 06:53.080 I was sleeping one of the empty stalls last night and I hear these two jocks making up 06:53.080 --> 06:54.080 the deal. 06:54.080 --> 06:56.840 Yeah, well, what are the jocks getting out of it? 06:56.840 --> 06:57.840 Nothing. 06:57.840 --> 06:58.840 Nothing. 06:58.840 --> 07:01.280 They're doing it just to make Ferris a couple of bucks. 07:01.280 --> 07:04.720 They ain't even betting on the race themselves. 07:04.720 --> 07:06.080 Who's Ferris on today? 07:06.080 --> 07:07.080 Happy Wandra. 07:07.080 --> 07:11.400 And he's in at 1.06 and at 8 to 1 on the morning line. 07:11.400 --> 07:14.560 Well, how come you came to see me about this? 07:14.560 --> 07:22.320 Well, I figure if I give a guy like you a tip, he'll maybe slip me a couple of C-notes, 07:22.320 --> 07:23.320 you know. 07:23.320 --> 07:26.240 And then bet them for me on the race. 07:26.240 --> 07:27.240 Yeah. 07:27.240 --> 07:31.160 Well, why didn't you just bet it and keep quiet? 07:31.160 --> 07:33.900 Because I wanted some real dough on the race. 07:33.900 --> 07:38.760 So I ask around for the number of a good, honest bookie and I get you. 07:38.760 --> 07:40.440 Oh, yeah, yeah. 07:40.440 --> 07:41.560 This is a legitimate fix. 07:41.560 --> 07:44.920 If it wasn't, I wouldn't take my pay and win tickets. 07:44.920 --> 07:47.920 I don't know. 07:47.920 --> 07:51.960 Marty, I got a clincher for you. 07:51.960 --> 07:52.960 What's that? 07:52.960 --> 07:56.320 I know that the favorite's gonna be scratched an hour before the race. 07:56.320 --> 07:57.320 You do? 07:57.320 --> 07:58.320 Yeah. 07:58.320 --> 08:01.360 Connors is gonna be too sick to ride him and they won't let anybody else ride him, so he'll 08:01.360 --> 08:02.360 be scratched. 08:02.360 --> 08:04.560 I'll tell you what. 08:04.560 --> 08:08.120 If they scratch the favorite, I'll buy the rest of your story. 08:08.120 --> 08:09.960 How will I know you're buying? 08:09.960 --> 08:13.560 Five minutes before post time, I'll hand you $200 worth of win tickets. 08:13.560 --> 08:14.560 Okay. 08:14.560 --> 08:16.360 Okay, it's a deal, Marty. 08:16.360 --> 08:19.440 Hey, see you at the track in front of the paddock. 08:19.440 --> 08:20.440 I'll be there. 08:20.440 --> 08:21.440 Don't worry. 08:21.440 --> 08:23.440 I'll be there. 08:23.440 --> 08:24.440 Hello. 08:24.440 --> 08:25.440 Chuck? 08:25.440 --> 08:26.440 Did you find out about... 08:26.440 --> 08:27.440 He is, huh? 08:27.440 --> 08:28.440 How sick? 08:28.440 --> 08:31.440 Aren't they gonna get another rider? 08:31.440 --> 08:32.440 Uh-huh. 08:32.440 --> 08:33.440 Uh-huh. 08:33.440 --> 08:36.440 You sure now? 08:36.440 --> 08:38.440 Definitely scratched. 08:38.440 --> 08:39.440 Right. 08:39.440 --> 08:40.440 Thanks. 08:40.440 --> 08:41.440 Bye. 08:41.440 --> 08:52.440 Let's see. 08:52.440 --> 08:57.440 Okay. 08:57.440 --> 09:05.440 Curly, Phil Branham. 09:05.440 --> 09:07.440 25G on Happy Wanderer in the 8th. 09:07.440 --> 09:10.440 Yeah, the win. 09:10.440 --> 09:11.440 Long distance. 09:11.440 --> 09:20.440 I want to place a call to Chicago. 09:20.440 --> 09:23.440 The number is Michigan 52694. 09:23.440 --> 09:28.440 Yeah, yeah, I'll wait. 09:28.440 --> 09:39.440 If you hadn't stopped to talk with that character, we might have been in trouble. 09:39.440 --> 09:44.440 I had to give him some win tickets, 200 bucks worth. 09:44.440 --> 09:45.440 200 bucks? 09:45.440 --> 09:46.440 What for? 09:46.440 --> 09:47.440 Some information I needed. 09:47.440 --> 09:48.440 Who was it? 09:48.440 --> 09:49.440 Stable Boy named Les. 09:49.440 --> 09:50.440 Big deal. 09:50.440 --> 09:53.440 So the only race we see is the last one. 09:53.440 --> 09:54.440 Come on, Eileen. 09:54.440 --> 09:55.440 This race I gotta see. 09:55.440 --> 09:56.440 How did it go? 09:56.440 --> 09:57.440 We'll never get through in time. 09:57.440 --> 09:58.440 Well, at least I gotta see the finish. 09:58.440 --> 09:59.440 Come on. 09:59.440 --> 10:00.440 Excuse me, please. 10:00.440 --> 10:01.440 I'm sorry. 10:01.440 --> 10:02.440 Hang on to my hand, Eileen. 10:02.440 --> 10:03.440 Will you? 10:03.440 --> 10:04.440 Yeah. 10:04.440 --> 10:05.440 Phil, Phil, I can't get through. 10:05.440 --> 10:06.440 You have to. 10:06.440 --> 10:07.440 I've gotta see the end of this race. 10:07.440 --> 10:08.440 I'm sorry. 10:08.440 --> 10:09.440 Why is the eighth race so important? 10:09.440 --> 10:10.440 What? 10:10.440 --> 10:11.440 Because I have a quarter of a million going on a sure thing. 10:11.440 --> 10:12.440 That's why. 10:12.440 --> 10:13.440 Excuse me. 10:13.440 --> 10:14.440 Excuse me. 10:14.440 --> 10:15.440 Come on, Eileen. 10:15.440 --> 10:16.440 A quarter of a... 10:16.440 --> 10:17.440 Phil, where'd you get that kind of money? 10:17.440 --> 10:18.440 Never mind. 10:18.440 --> 10:19.440 This is a sure thing. 10:19.440 --> 10:20.440 Now the syndicate has to pay off and make me a partner. 10:20.440 --> 10:21.440 Hold on, kid. 10:21.440 --> 10:22.440 We're almost there. 10:22.440 --> 10:23.440 Sorry, mister. 10:23.440 --> 10:24.440 Eileen, come on. 10:24.440 --> 10:25.440 Come on. 10:25.440 --> 10:26.440 Oh, it's over. 10:26.440 --> 10:27.440 It's over and I didn't see it. 10:27.440 --> 10:28.440 Hey, who won? 10:28.440 --> 10:29.440 Hey, mister, who won the race? 10:29.440 --> 10:30.440 Who won? 10:30.440 --> 10:31.440 Doc Stranger by a mile. 10:31.440 --> 10:32.440 I didn't see it. 10:32.440 --> 10:33.440 I didn't see it. 10:33.440 --> 10:34.440 I didn't see it. 10:34.440 --> 10:35.440 I didn't see it. 10:35.440 --> 10:38.440 Who won? 10:38.440 --> 10:39.440 Hey, mister, who won the race? 10:39.440 --> 10:40.440 Who won? 10:40.440 --> 10:41.440 Doc Stranger by a length and I had two bucks right on the nose. 10:41.440 --> 10:42.440 Hey, Louie. 10:42.440 --> 10:43.440 Louie, I had him. 10:43.440 --> 10:44.440 I had him. 10:44.440 --> 10:45.440 I lost, Eileen. 10:45.440 --> 10:46.440 I lost. 10:46.440 --> 10:49.440 What are you gonna do here? 10:49.440 --> 10:50.440 I don't know. 10:50.440 --> 10:51.440 I don't know. 10:51.440 --> 10:52.440 Take a cab home. 10:52.440 --> 10:53.440 I'm going to the office. 10:53.440 --> 10:54.880 I got some calls to make. 10:54.880 --> 10:56.120 Can't you drop me off? 10:56.120 --> 10:57.120 I gotta think. 10:57.120 --> 10:58.880 I don't want to be bothered right now. 10:58.880 --> 10:59.880 Go on, Eileen. 10:59.880 --> 11:00.880 Beat it. 11:00.880 --> 11:05.880 Hello, Charlie. 11:05.880 --> 11:08.880 Phil Brannon. 11:08.880 --> 11:12.640 I gotta talk to you. 11:12.640 --> 11:13.640 I'm in a jam. 11:13.640 --> 11:16.880 I need some dough and I need it fast. 11:16.880 --> 11:17.880 Over 200,000. 11:17.880 --> 11:21.640 You'll get it back? 11:21.640 --> 11:25.040 What did he say? 11:25.040 --> 11:26.880 Word gets around fast, doesn't it? 11:26.880 --> 11:29.480 Well, look, Charlie, I just gotta have the dough. 11:29.480 --> 11:31.080 Yeah, by tomorrow morning. 11:31.080 --> 11:32.080 Please, Charlie. 11:32.080 --> 11:33.080 Please. 11:33.080 --> 11:34.080 Okay. 11:34.080 --> 11:35.080 Okay. 11:35.080 --> 11:39.080 It'll be my turn someday when it is out. 11:39.080 --> 11:40.080 Charlie. 11:40.080 --> 11:41.080 Charlie. 11:41.080 --> 11:42.080 Come in. 11:42.080 --> 11:43.080 Mr. Brannon? 11:43.080 --> 11:44.080 Yeah. 11:44.080 --> 11:45.080 Come on in. 11:45.080 --> 11:48.080 Mr. Brannon, my name is Sternbilt. 11:48.080 --> 11:49.080 Yeah? 11:49.080 --> 11:56.140 I represent the 11:56.140 --> 12:00.320 big people who are interested. 12:00.320 --> 12:01.320 Oh. 12:01.320 --> 12:06.280 They tell me your place with their syndicate bets in excess of 200,000. 12:06.280 --> 12:07.280 You lost. 12:07.280 --> 12:08.280 You here to collect? 12:08.280 --> 12:10.280 Oh, I didn't expect you to have it now. 12:10.280 --> 12:15.280 My instructions are that the money must be paid by nine o'clock tomorrow morning. 12:15.280 --> 12:16.280 Well, now, look, I... 12:16.280 --> 12:21.280 And if it's not paid, you might end up awful dead. 12:21.280 --> 12:45.280 You are listening to The Sure Thing, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater 12:45.280 --> 12:47.280 of thrills, Suspense. 12:47.280 --> 13:02.280 Today in America, we worship where we please, when we please, and how we please. 13:02.280 --> 13:07.080 Let us all thank God for this freedom of religion, each in his own way, each at his own temple 13:07.080 --> 13:08.440 of worship. 13:08.440 --> 13:13.440 Let us exercise freely, regularly, the freedom for which men fought and died, taking our 13:13.440 --> 13:17.080 families to church or synagogue every week. 13:17.080 --> 13:22.160 And now, we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Hi, Aberback, starring in tonight's production 13:22.160 --> 13:31.640 of The Sure Thing, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:31.640 --> 13:48.600 Come on, come on, come on. 13:48.600 --> 13:50.600 Bill. 13:50.600 --> 13:53.600 Let me in. 13:53.600 --> 13:54.600 I gotta talk to you. 13:54.600 --> 13:55.600 What about? 13:55.600 --> 13:56.600 I'm in trouble. 13:56.600 --> 13:57.600 I know. 13:57.600 --> 14:00.120 Look, honey, I wanna stay in your place for about a week. 14:00.120 --> 14:01.120 They'll never look for me here. 14:01.120 --> 14:02.120 I gotta stay somewhere. 14:02.120 --> 14:04.120 Until I find some money, I just gotta... 14:04.120 --> 14:05.120 No, Phil. 14:05.120 --> 14:06.120 No? 14:06.120 --> 14:07.120 No, not here. 14:07.120 --> 14:08.120 What are you talking about? 14:08.120 --> 14:12.600 I said there's no room for you here. 14:12.600 --> 14:13.600 What are you talking about? 14:13.600 --> 14:16.680 Bill, the syndicate says you're on the list. 14:16.680 --> 14:18.280 I lived a long time without you. 14:18.280 --> 14:20.600 I can live a lot longer. 14:20.600 --> 14:21.600 You can't stay. 14:21.600 --> 14:22.600 But last night... 14:22.600 --> 14:24.840 That was last night. 14:24.840 --> 14:26.840 Last night, you had something to offer. 14:26.840 --> 14:28.840 Now you got nothing. 14:28.840 --> 14:30.340 Nothing. 14:30.340 --> 14:32.760 Last night you were Phil Bronin. 14:32.760 --> 14:36.360 Tomorrow morning you're just another dead man. 14:36.360 --> 14:37.800 I got no use for dead men. 14:37.800 --> 15:05.360 Phil, what do you want? 15:05.360 --> 15:06.840 I gotta talk to you, Marty. 15:06.840 --> 15:07.840 I'm pretty busy. 15:07.840 --> 15:08.840 Party, you know. 15:08.840 --> 15:09.840 Please, please, Marty. 15:09.840 --> 15:11.840 Just a few minutes, huh? 15:11.840 --> 15:14.840 Okay, come on in. 15:14.840 --> 15:21.840 Come on into the den. 15:21.840 --> 15:25.760 Okay. 15:25.760 --> 15:26.760 Start talking, Phil. 15:26.760 --> 15:29.760 Marty, I'm in a jam. 15:29.760 --> 15:30.760 I know. 15:30.760 --> 15:31.760 But I couldn't help it. 15:31.760 --> 15:33.760 It was a wild chance. 15:33.760 --> 15:35.200 No, it wasn't wild. 15:35.200 --> 15:36.720 It was a shoe and I couldn't lose. 15:36.720 --> 15:37.720 But you did. 15:37.720 --> 15:38.720 Yes. 15:38.720 --> 15:40.680 Now look, you gotta talk to the guys in the syndicate. 15:40.680 --> 15:41.680 Give me time. 15:41.680 --> 15:42.680 I need a little time. 15:42.680 --> 15:43.680 I'll pay them off. 15:43.680 --> 15:46.400 I'll be right back where I was if they just give me a little time, huh? 15:46.400 --> 15:48.760 They know that. 15:48.760 --> 15:49.760 They do? 15:49.760 --> 15:50.760 Sure, kid. 15:50.760 --> 15:54.440 But they don't want you back where you were. 15:54.440 --> 15:55.440 What? 15:55.440 --> 15:57.840 They want you out of their hair. 15:57.840 --> 16:00.000 Marty, what are you talking about? 16:00.000 --> 16:02.360 So they worked out the stable boy bit. 16:02.360 --> 16:03.360 Bit? 16:03.360 --> 16:04.360 The stable boy bit? 16:04.360 --> 16:08.720 Who do you think sent Lester up to my office with a story about the hungry jockey? 16:08.720 --> 16:09.720 You? 16:09.720 --> 16:10.720 The syndicate. 16:10.720 --> 16:12.920 Now, you won't bother them anymore. 16:12.920 --> 16:14.920 You're going to be dead. 16:14.920 --> 16:16.920 Though it wasn't my idea. 16:16.920 --> 16:17.920 I only followed orders. 16:17.920 --> 16:20.720 Well, if the syndicate did all that, why do they have to kill me? 16:20.720 --> 16:22.560 Isn't it enough that they broke me? 16:22.560 --> 16:25.280 It's a little more complex than that. 16:25.280 --> 16:30.240 You see, the syndicate isn't going to pay off certain well-chosen bets. 16:30.240 --> 16:35.080 On you is an excuse for being short of money, and those certain parties that aren't being 16:35.080 --> 16:38.400 paid off are going to take it out on you. 16:38.400 --> 16:43.320 You see, Phil, the syndicate wants you out of the way. 16:43.320 --> 16:47.000 Now somebody else can do the dirty work for them. 16:47.000 --> 16:48.000 You got to help me, Marty. 16:48.000 --> 16:49.360 Help me get out of town. 16:49.360 --> 16:50.360 I can't. 16:50.360 --> 16:54.880 You're being tailed right now, and you will be until nine o'clock in the morning. 16:54.880 --> 16:58.320 They know you haven't got the dough. 16:58.320 --> 17:03.720 The syndicate will make plenty of trouble for whoever gives it to you. 17:03.720 --> 17:08.880 You better go now. 17:08.880 --> 17:09.880 One thing. 17:09.880 --> 17:10.880 Yeah? 17:10.880 --> 17:13.760 Is Lester really a stable boy? 17:13.760 --> 17:14.760 No. 17:14.760 --> 17:17.760 Matter of fact, he's a tout. 17:17.760 --> 17:23.840 If you happen to be looking for him, you could find him at the morning workouts. 17:23.840 --> 17:25.880 Name's Lester Callum. 17:25.880 --> 17:28.880 Goodbye, Phil. 17:28.880 --> 17:33.880 Who's there? 17:33.880 --> 17:48.640 It's me, Phil. 17:48.640 --> 17:49.640 What time is it? 17:49.640 --> 17:50.640 Two. 17:50.640 --> 17:53.680 What are you doing home? 17:53.680 --> 17:55.720 I'm in trouble, Barbara. 17:55.720 --> 17:56.720 I know. 17:56.720 --> 17:58.800 What do you know? 17:58.800 --> 18:02.560 All about how big shot Phil Brannon fell on his face trying to pull a fast one. 18:02.560 --> 18:03.560 How'd you find out? 18:03.560 --> 18:08.880 I've already had my visit from the boys who are going to make you dead tomorrow morning. 18:08.880 --> 18:10.160 They told me to do right. 18:10.160 --> 18:12.760 They'd make it a double ceremony. 18:12.760 --> 18:13.760 What's right? 18:13.760 --> 18:17.160 That you say goodbye now, walk out the door. 18:17.160 --> 18:19.400 I'm making a hit all around today. 18:19.400 --> 18:20.400 What do you expect? 18:20.400 --> 18:21.400 I'm still your husband. 18:21.400 --> 18:22.400 What do you want me to do? 18:22.400 --> 18:23.400 Save your life so you can live it with Eileen? 18:23.400 --> 18:25.520 You'd give more help to a stranger than you're offering me. 18:25.520 --> 18:28.320 I wish you were a stranger. 18:28.320 --> 18:31.280 Stranger couldn't hurt me the way you have. 18:31.280 --> 18:35.520 I wouldn't hate a stranger the way I hate you. 18:35.520 --> 18:38.000 That all you're going to say? 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 Just about. 18:39.000 --> 18:40.000 Now get out. 18:40.000 --> 19:02.240 Lefty. 19:02.240 --> 19:03.240 Who's that? 19:03.240 --> 19:04.240 Me, Phil Brannon. 19:04.240 --> 19:05.240 Try to move it. 19:05.240 --> 19:06.240 I'll break your arm. 19:06.240 --> 19:07.240 Where do you keep your gun? 19:07.240 --> 19:10.240 I don't have... 19:10.240 --> 19:11.240 You do? 19:11.240 --> 19:13.760 Look, I haven't got time to fool around. 19:13.760 --> 19:14.760 Where is it? 19:14.760 --> 19:17.760 It's in the bedroom. 19:17.760 --> 19:18.760 Left hand drawer. 19:18.760 --> 19:19.760 The dresser. 19:19.760 --> 19:20.760 Okay, let's go. 19:20.760 --> 19:21.760 Come on. 19:21.760 --> 19:23.760 You're taking a big chance, Phil. 19:23.760 --> 19:25.040 The guys are tailing you. 19:25.040 --> 19:26.040 No, not right now. 19:26.040 --> 19:27.040 I lost him. 19:27.040 --> 19:28.040 Here. 19:28.040 --> 19:29.040 This is it here. 19:29.040 --> 19:30.040 You're through, Phil. 19:30.040 --> 19:31.320 They're going to get you. 19:31.320 --> 19:33.680 I know, but I'm going to get somebody before they get me. 19:33.680 --> 19:34.680 Lester? 19:34.680 --> 19:35.680 Yeah, that's right. 19:35.680 --> 19:37.480 I hear he hangs out at the track, right? 19:37.480 --> 19:38.480 Yeah. 19:38.480 --> 19:40.000 It'll be another hour before it's light. 19:40.000 --> 19:41.400 I'm going to stay here till then. 19:41.400 --> 19:42.400 Here? 19:42.400 --> 19:43.560 I'm going to tie you up when I leave, Lefty. 19:43.560 --> 19:45.840 I can't take any chances on your tipping, Lester. 19:45.840 --> 19:46.840 Who, me? 19:46.840 --> 19:48.880 I hate that guy. 19:48.880 --> 19:50.400 I don't like what he did to you. 19:50.400 --> 19:53.200 Now look, Phil, you've always been good to me. 19:53.200 --> 19:55.000 I'm on your side, only... 19:55.000 --> 19:56.000 Only what? 19:56.000 --> 20:00.480 Phil, look, Marty might not like you hiding out here. 20:00.480 --> 20:02.160 The syndicate guys might do something to me. 20:02.160 --> 20:03.560 Why don't you leave, huh? 20:03.560 --> 20:04.800 You got the gun? 20:04.800 --> 20:05.920 Come on, Phil. 20:05.920 --> 20:08.320 Don't get me in a jam. 20:08.320 --> 20:09.600 I'm your buddy, huh? 20:09.600 --> 20:10.600 Sure. 20:10.600 --> 20:12.600 Well, I'm going to treat you like a buddy. 20:12.600 --> 20:14.960 I don't want to see you getting bad with a syndicate either. 20:14.960 --> 20:15.960 Thanks, Phil. 20:15.960 --> 20:16.960 I... 20:16.960 --> 20:17.960 No. 20:17.960 --> 20:18.960 No, Phil, no. 20:18.960 --> 20:19.960 No, no, no. 20:19.960 --> 20:20.960 Stay here if you want. 20:20.960 --> 20:21.960 I don't care. 20:21.960 --> 20:22.960 Only don't... 20:22.960 --> 20:23.960 Don't, don't. 20:23.960 --> 20:24.960 Please, Phil. 20:24.960 --> 20:36.600 Don't. 20:36.600 --> 20:41.240 Lester? 20:41.240 --> 20:49.640 Yeah, what is it? 20:49.640 --> 20:53.200 Don't turn around or I'll blow a hole in your back big enough to put my fist into. 20:53.200 --> 20:54.200 Pramon? 20:54.200 --> 20:55.200 Yeah. 20:55.200 --> 20:57.480 Now, walk over toward the paddock. 20:57.480 --> 20:58.480 Why? 20:58.480 --> 21:00.040 Because I want to talk to you. 21:00.040 --> 21:01.040 I got nothing to say. 21:01.040 --> 21:02.040 I didn't think you would. 21:02.040 --> 21:03.320 I don't want to talk to you, Brandon. 21:03.320 --> 21:06.320 That's too bad because you're going to. 21:06.320 --> 21:07.320 Okay. 21:07.320 --> 21:15.360 Then let's go over to the paddock. 21:15.360 --> 21:20.240 Okay. 21:20.240 --> 21:24.400 If you want to die in the infield, I can take care of that too. 21:24.400 --> 21:30.400 Hey, mister, don't cross the track. 21:30.400 --> 21:31.400 Hey! 21:31.400 --> 21:34.400 Hey, mister, get off the track! 21:34.400 --> 21:35.400 Look out! 21:35.400 --> 21:36.400 What'd you... 21:36.400 --> 21:37.400 No! 21:37.400 --> 21:38.400 No! 21:38.400 --> 21:59.800 What'd you clock him at? 21:59.800 --> 22:00.800 48.3. 22:00.800 --> 22:01.800 Me too. 22:01.800 --> 22:02.800 How about that? 22:02.800 --> 22:03.800 Yeah. 22:03.800 --> 22:04.800 Some coffee? 22:04.800 --> 22:05.800 Yeah, sure. 22:05.800 --> 22:10.400 See, you hear about the joker that got killed this morning? 22:10.400 --> 22:12.000 Yeah, how about that? 22:12.000 --> 22:14.040 Run across the track while the nags are working out. 22:14.040 --> 22:15.400 They say he was a bookie. 22:15.400 --> 22:16.400 Well, that figures. 22:16.400 --> 22:37.440 Never did know a bookie knew anything about horses. 22:37.440 --> 22:42.480 Suspense. 22:42.480 --> 22:46.360 In which high over back starred as Phil. 22:46.360 --> 22:50.040 Next week, the story of an actress who's still in her dressing room after the theater is 22:50.040 --> 22:54.360 emptied spends the most terrifying moments of her life. 22:54.360 --> 22:57.560 All as the result of a most innocent note to an admirer. 22:57.560 --> 23:00.680 We call it blind date. 23:00.680 --> 23:16.120 That's next week on Suspense. 23:16.120 --> 23:21.600 Suspense is produced and transcribed by Norman MacDonald with music composed by Lucian Morawick 23:21.600 --> 23:24.080 and conducted by Lut Bluskin. 23:24.080 --> 23:28.560 The sure thing was specially written for Suspense by Ross Murray. 23:28.560 --> 23:32.920 Featured in the cast were Clayton Post, Julie Bennett, Jerry Hausner, Peter Leeds, Charlotte 23:32.920 --> 23:38.520 Lawrence, Lou Krugman, Jan Arvand, and William Euler. 23:38.520 --> 23:57.640 Harry Como sings for you Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights on the CBS Radio Network.