WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:13.420 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:13.420 --> 00:20.680 Tonight, the story of the terrifying escape of a dying man. 00:20.680 --> 00:22.900 It's called Odd Man Out. 00:22.900 --> 00:31.760 So now, starring Ben Wright as Johnny, here is tonight's Suspense play, Odd Man Out. 00:31.760 --> 00:47.400 There are four of us on the raid. 00:47.400 --> 00:50.880 Murphy, Nolan, Pat outside waiting with the car, and myself. 00:50.880 --> 00:54.000 So there's no need to be frightened, Johnny. 00:54.000 --> 00:56.360 It's been all planned months ago. 00:56.360 --> 00:58.560 Slow down. 00:58.560 --> 00:59.560 Safe will be open. 00:59.560 --> 01:00.560 It always is. 01:00.560 --> 01:01.560 3.30. 01:01.560 --> 01:06.520 The wages clerk will be picking up the money. 01:06.520 --> 01:10.600 There's the office at the end of the hall. 01:10.600 --> 01:13.600 Slow down. 01:13.600 --> 01:14.600 Murphy looks frightened. 01:14.600 --> 01:19.280 I don't like the smell of this place. 01:19.280 --> 01:21.200 Here we go, boys. 01:21.200 --> 01:22.580 This is the one. 01:22.580 --> 01:24.600 This is the office. 01:24.600 --> 01:25.600 Take out the gun. 01:25.600 --> 01:26.600 You, you, you two over there. 01:26.600 --> 01:29.600 Get to the wall and turn your face towards me. 01:29.600 --> 01:34.600 Shut up and do as you're told. 01:34.600 --> 01:37.600 They're safe, Nolan. 01:37.600 --> 01:38.600 It's open, it is. 01:38.600 --> 01:39.600 What did you expect? 01:39.600 --> 01:40.600 Hurry, man. 01:40.600 --> 01:41.600 Hurry. 01:41.600 --> 01:50.640 It's all in. 01:50.640 --> 01:51.640 Come on, then. 01:51.640 --> 01:52.640 Come on, Johnny, come on. 01:52.640 --> 01:53.640 Johnny. 01:53.640 --> 01:54.640 Come on, come on. 01:54.640 --> 01:55.640 Johnny, look out behind you. 01:55.640 --> 01:56.640 He's got a gun. 01:56.640 --> 01:57.640 Run, Johnny. 01:57.640 --> 01:58.640 Stop. 01:58.640 --> 01:59.640 I'm hurt. 01:59.640 --> 02:00.640 Johnny, hurry. 02:00.640 --> 02:01.640 Hurry, get to the car. 02:01.640 --> 02:02.640 Hurry. 02:02.640 --> 02:03.640 Hurry. 02:03.640 --> 02:04.640 Hurry. 02:04.640 --> 02:05.640 Hurry. 02:05.640 --> 02:06.640 Hurry. 02:06.640 --> 02:07.640 Hurry. 02:07.640 --> 02:08.640 Hurry. 02:08.640 --> 02:09.640 Hurry. 02:09.640 --> 02:12.640 Hurry, get to the car. 02:12.640 --> 02:13.640 Hurry. 02:13.640 --> 02:14.640 I'm hurt. 02:14.640 --> 02:15.640 He is hurt. 02:15.640 --> 02:16.640 Drag him in. 02:16.640 --> 02:17.640 Come on, Johnny. 02:17.640 --> 02:18.640 Get in. 02:18.640 --> 02:19.640 Get in. 02:19.640 --> 02:20.640 Come on, Johnny. 02:20.640 --> 02:21.640 Come on, get in, boy. 02:21.640 --> 02:22.640 Come on, Johnny. 02:22.640 --> 02:23.640 Get in. 02:23.640 --> 02:24.640 Hold him on the running board. 02:24.640 --> 02:25.640 Go on, Pat. 02:25.640 --> 02:26.640 Go on. 02:26.640 --> 02:27.640 I will, I will. 02:27.640 --> 02:28.640 I can't get in. 02:28.640 --> 02:29.640 Pull onto me, boys. 02:29.640 --> 02:30.640 I'm hurt. 02:30.640 --> 02:31.640 Pull onto him. 02:31.640 --> 02:32.640 He's slipping. 02:32.640 --> 02:33.640 Oh. 02:33.640 --> 02:34.640 Oh. 02:34.640 --> 02:35.640 Oh. 02:35.640 --> 02:36.640 Oh. 02:36.640 --> 02:37.640 Oh. 02:37.640 --> 02:38.640 Oh. 02:38.640 --> 02:39.640 Oh. 02:39.640 --> 02:42.640 This is a hard bed. 02:42.640 --> 02:46.640 And I'm woken from a dream I've had. 02:46.640 --> 02:47.640 No. 02:47.640 --> 02:50.640 Something has happened to me. 02:50.640 --> 02:52.640 There was the car, and Pat, and Murphy, and Nolan, and Alan. 02:52.640 --> 02:53.640 Ah. 02:53.640 --> 02:54.640 I've got to get away. 02:54.640 --> 02:57.640 I've got to catch up with them. 02:57.640 --> 02:59.640 Wait for me, boys. 02:59.640 --> 03:00.640 Wait. 03:00.640 --> 03:01.640 And it hurts. 03:01.640 --> 03:02.640 Oh, it hurts. 03:02.640 --> 03:03.640 Oh, it hurts. 03:03.640 --> 03:04.640 Just a little bit. 03:04.640 --> 03:07.640 Oh, it hurts. Oh, it hurts. 03:07.640 --> 03:09.640 Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, you all right? 03:09.640 --> 03:11.640 He's dead. No, no, no, he's not. 03:11.640 --> 03:13.640 We'll have to carry him. 03:13.640 --> 03:15.640 Listen to that man. There's no time. We can't leave him. 03:15.640 --> 03:18.640 Johnny, oh, look at his poor arm. 03:18.640 --> 03:20.640 Oh, we'll never make it. 03:20.640 --> 03:22.640 Pat! Back it up, Pat! Bring the car! 03:22.640 --> 03:24.640 Go on, would you leave me to go on? 03:24.640 --> 03:26.640 No, no, Johnny. There's no time. 03:26.640 --> 03:28.640 They'll all be out looking for us. We can't get away. 03:28.640 --> 03:29.640 Would you leave me? Would you put me down? 03:29.640 --> 03:31.640 Run, Nolan. Go back to headquarters with Pat. 03:31.640 --> 03:32.640 No, no. He'll be the end of you. 03:32.640 --> 03:33.640 We'll get through somehow. 03:33.640 --> 03:35.640 No, no. Why doesn't Pat back up? 03:35.640 --> 03:38.640 You do as I say. I'm done for. Will you get out of it? 03:38.640 --> 03:39.640 Oh, Johnny, no, no. 03:39.640 --> 03:41.640 And the chief! That's an order now. 03:41.640 --> 03:43.640 All right. 03:44.640 --> 03:46.640 Hold on to me, Johnny. 03:46.640 --> 03:48.640 There's a shelter across the road. 03:48.640 --> 03:50.640 You heard what I said, Murphy. 03:50.640 --> 04:03.640 And the devil with you. I'm staying. 04:03.640 --> 04:07.640 And the whistles and the bells all around. 04:07.640 --> 04:09.640 It's a dream. 04:09.640 --> 04:11.640 Because I'm crossing the road with Murphy 04:11.640 --> 04:17.640 and there's people standing, watching us. 04:17.640 --> 04:22.640 And I'm wounded. It's not a dream because of the pain. 04:22.640 --> 04:26.640 I killed a man. That's how it was. 04:26.640 --> 04:28.640 And he wounded me. 04:28.640 --> 04:31.640 Oh, it's all up with me now. 04:31.640 --> 04:34.640 The police are coming and it's all up with me. 04:34.640 --> 04:36.640 And Murphy. 04:41.640 --> 04:43.640 Here's the shelter. All right. 04:43.640 --> 04:44.640 Inside, Johnny. 04:44.640 --> 04:47.640 Hurry. 04:54.640 --> 04:56.640 It's dark in here. 04:56.640 --> 04:58.640 I'm hurt. 04:58.640 --> 05:00.640 Yes, it's dark. 05:00.640 --> 05:03.640 Let's forget it now. Rest. 05:03.640 --> 05:04.640 We got the money, didn't we? 05:04.640 --> 05:06.640 Aye, aye, aye. We got it. 05:06.640 --> 05:08.640 Nolan Pat will have it safe. 05:08.640 --> 05:11.640 Now, let's have a look at that arm. 05:11.640 --> 05:14.640 I can't feel it, but it hurts, my. 05:14.640 --> 05:16.640 I know, I know. 05:16.640 --> 05:19.640 It'll be all right. We'll have it all right. 05:19.640 --> 05:22.640 I'm finished. That's all up with me. 05:22.640 --> 05:25.640 Dennis will be next in command. You hear me? 05:25.640 --> 05:30.640 Dennis? Hello, you? 05:30.640 --> 05:33.640 Johnny. Johnny. 05:33.640 --> 05:35.640 Johnny. Wake up, man. 05:35.640 --> 05:38.640 Johnny. Johnny, boy. 05:38.640 --> 05:40.640 Johnny. Wake up, Johnny. 05:40.640 --> 05:43.640 I can hear you, Murphy, but you'll have to come closer. 05:43.640 --> 05:44.640 Johnny. 05:44.640 --> 05:48.640 Oh, I'd like to lay me down for a long sleep. 05:48.640 --> 05:50.640 Johnny. Tired. 05:50.640 --> 05:52.640 Tired. 05:52.640 --> 05:53.640 Now. 05:53.640 --> 05:54.640 Wake up, Johnny. Wake up. 05:54.640 --> 05:57.640 Now, there's work to be done. 05:57.640 --> 05:59.640 Work for Ireland. 05:59.640 --> 06:00.640 Fight. 06:00.640 --> 06:03.640 Johnny. Johnny, can you hear me? 06:03.640 --> 06:05.640 Oh, Johnny. 06:05.640 --> 06:07.640 I was so worried, so I was. 06:07.640 --> 06:09.640 You'll have to go without me. 06:09.640 --> 06:10.640 I won't. 06:10.640 --> 06:12.640 That pain is killing me, Murphy. 06:12.640 --> 06:13.640 I couldn't make it. 06:13.640 --> 06:15.640 You'll have the whole police out. 06:15.640 --> 06:17.640 There was killing. It's me or the organization. 06:17.640 --> 06:19.640 We'll need help, maybe, but we'll get you out. 06:19.640 --> 06:21.640 It'll be a waste. We haven't enough men. We haven't enough guns. 06:21.640 --> 06:23.640 Can you hold on, Johnny? 06:23.640 --> 06:25.640 Can you hold on if I go to Dennis and get some of the boys? 06:25.640 --> 06:26.640 Don't do it. 06:26.640 --> 06:28.640 I'll find a Dr. Johnny. I'll bring him here. 06:28.640 --> 06:30.640 No. No. 06:36.640 --> 06:37.640 Have they lurked in the shelters? 06:37.640 --> 06:39.640 No, the people said they ran off to the east. 06:39.640 --> 06:41.640 Do you trust those for witnesses? 06:41.640 --> 06:43.640 Don't be daft. Come on. 06:43.640 --> 06:45.640 Johnny, get back here behind the crate. 06:45.640 --> 06:46.640 Quick. 06:57.640 --> 06:58.640 Swatch on the torch. 06:58.640 --> 06:59.640 Right. 07:02.640 --> 07:03.640 Now, over there. 07:03.640 --> 07:05.640 They wouldn't have come in here. 07:05.640 --> 07:08.640 It's the cordon we'll be finding them when it starts to close in. 07:08.640 --> 07:10.640 Johnny Murtaugh's the one with wounded. 07:11.640 --> 07:13.640 He's the one we want. 07:13.640 --> 07:15.640 Keep your eyes peeled, man. 07:15.640 --> 07:17.640 It'll mean a promotion this night if we get him. 07:17.640 --> 07:18.640 No. 07:18.640 --> 07:20.640 Johnny, Johnny. 07:24.640 --> 07:26.640 I'm sorry, Johnny. I'm sorry. Now listen to me. 07:26.640 --> 07:28.640 Are you listening, Johnny? 07:29.640 --> 07:31.640 You keep yourself here. You'll be safe now. They've searched. 07:31.640 --> 07:33.640 Don't move. 07:33.640 --> 07:35.640 Something went wrong, Murphy. We had it planned. 07:35.640 --> 07:37.640 I know. I know, Johnny. 07:37.640 --> 07:39.640 But it doesn't matter now. Will you listen, man? 07:39.640 --> 07:41.640 The organization will have to lay low for a bit. 07:41.640 --> 07:43.640 You know, we'll pass the word things will quiet down. 07:43.640 --> 07:45.640 All right, all right, all right. 07:45.640 --> 07:47.640 But first we've got to think of you. 07:47.640 --> 07:49.640 I'm going to get out and bring help. 07:49.640 --> 07:51.640 I'll do it, Johnny. 07:51.640 --> 07:53.640 We'll get you away, Johnny, but you mustn't move from here. 07:53.640 --> 07:55.640 What happened to Pat? 07:55.640 --> 07:57.640 No, I'll be away. 07:57.640 --> 07:59.640 I told you, Johnny. I told you they were all right. 07:59.640 --> 08:02.640 What's that? 08:04.640 --> 08:06.640 Over there. Maybe someone got in the back. 08:06.640 --> 08:08.640 They dropped me gun at the mayor. 08:08.640 --> 08:10.640 Shh. 08:10.640 --> 08:12.640 It's a rat, Murphy. Get it off me, Murphy. 08:12.640 --> 08:14.640 I can't stand rats. I hate them. 08:14.640 --> 08:16.640 There's more of them. They'll come back after you're gone. 08:16.640 --> 08:18.640 No, no, no, Johnny. Now easy, man. Easy. Here. 08:18.640 --> 08:20.640 Here. 08:21.640 --> 08:23.640 You can beat them off with this stick. 08:23.640 --> 08:25.640 Now do you hear me, Johnny? 08:25.640 --> 08:27.640 You stay where you are. I'm going now. 08:27.640 --> 08:29.640 Stay where you are. 08:31.640 --> 08:33.640 You'll be all right in no time at all. 08:45.640 --> 08:47.640 What am I doing here in this place? 08:49.640 --> 08:51.640 What... 08:51.640 --> 08:53.640 What is happening to me? 08:53.640 --> 08:57.640 I've never had such a nightmare before. 08:59.640 --> 09:01.640 I've got to get out of this. 09:01.640 --> 09:24.640 Oh, it's dark. 09:31.640 --> 09:51.640 Oh, I am finished now. 09:51.640 --> 09:53.640 That thing is killing me. 09:53.640 --> 09:55.640 I'm finished. 09:55.640 --> 09:57.640 Johnny boy. 09:57.640 --> 09:59.640 Johnny motor. 09:59.640 --> 10:01.640 It's me. It's Shel. 10:01.640 --> 10:03.640 Are you hurt bad? 10:03.640 --> 10:05.640 Why don't you answer me? 10:05.640 --> 10:07.640 I've always been your friend, Johnny. 10:07.640 --> 10:09.640 Remember? Shel? 10:09.640 --> 10:11.640 Get out. 10:11.640 --> 10:13.640 Leave me be. 10:13.640 --> 10:15.640 Man, the police is looking for you so they are. 10:15.640 --> 10:17.640 There's killing tonight. 10:17.640 --> 10:19.640 How did you get through the patrols? 10:19.640 --> 10:21.640 He's got to get out of my pub. 10:21.640 --> 10:23.640 Oh, can't you see the look of him, Mr. Fancy? 10:23.640 --> 10:25.640 The police will be here. 10:25.640 --> 10:27.640 They're everywhere tonight. 10:27.640 --> 10:29.640 What has Johnny motor found in here? 10:29.640 --> 10:31.640 It ruined me. 10:31.640 --> 10:33.640 So he wandered and he did. 10:33.640 --> 10:35.640 You can't help that. 10:35.640 --> 10:37.640 Think of it, Mr. Fancy. 10:37.640 --> 10:39.640 He's a prize creature. 10:39.640 --> 10:41.640 Worth thousands. 10:41.640 --> 10:43.640 You'd sell him? 10:43.640 --> 10:45.640 Shel, he's wounded. 10:45.640 --> 10:47.640 The organization would get you for it so they would. 10:47.640 --> 10:49.640 They might and they might not. 10:49.640 --> 10:51.640 Who's to know? 10:51.640 --> 10:53.640 You're a foul little rat. 10:53.640 --> 10:55.640 Am I not? 10:55.640 --> 10:57.640 Which one of us will go to the police? 10:57.640 --> 10:59.640 Will it be you, Mr. Fancy? 10:59.640 --> 11:01.640 Or will it be me? 11:21.640 --> 11:23.640 You are listening to Odd Man Out. 11:23.640 --> 11:29.640 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 11:38.640 --> 11:41.640 Tomorrow night, hear Casey, crime photographer, 11:41.640 --> 11:44.640 at work on his latest exciting case on CBS Radio. 11:44.640 --> 11:47.640 Casey's resolution to treat his girl Friday, Anne Williams, 11:47.640 --> 11:49.640 to a gay New Year's Eve comes a cropper, 11:49.640 --> 11:52.640 when a note from a copper, a dead man's message, 11:52.640 --> 11:54.640 throws a big wrench into the works. 11:54.640 --> 11:57.640 It's Casey's last and most exciting for 54. 11:57.640 --> 12:00.640 Casey rings out the old with gunshots on crime photographer. 12:00.640 --> 12:03.640 Tomorrow night on most of these stations. 12:03.640 --> 12:07.640 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Ben Wright, 12:07.640 --> 12:11.640 starring in tonight's production of Odd Man Out. 12:11.640 --> 12:14.640 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 12:14.640 --> 12:22.640 Suspense. 12:28.640 --> 12:30.640 There is noise. 12:30.640 --> 12:33.640 And there is voices. 12:33.640 --> 12:38.640 The pain hurts my eyes and my body. 12:38.640 --> 12:43.640 I heard some talk. It was talk of police. 12:43.640 --> 12:48.640 And I heard them that close to me, or they might have been in the same room. 12:48.640 --> 12:50.640 But I couldn't see. 12:50.640 --> 12:52.640 With the pain. 12:52.640 --> 12:55.640 It won't be me who'll see the police lift him tonight. 12:55.640 --> 12:57.640 Oh, then, Mr. Fancy. 12:57.640 --> 12:59.640 Nor you, nor you. 12:59.640 --> 13:02.640 I want no trouble, but I'll not turn him in. 13:02.640 --> 13:04.640 The police is out with Tommy guns and all. 13:04.640 --> 13:05.640 It's a big sweep. 13:05.640 --> 13:07.640 Sooner or later, they'll get him. 13:07.640 --> 13:10.640 But I won't do it, nor you. 13:10.640 --> 13:13.640 Stay with him, and I'll get whiskey. 13:13.640 --> 13:16.640 Oh, for goodness sake. 13:16.640 --> 13:19.640 What's to become of you, Johnny boy? 13:19.640 --> 13:23.640 You're not long for the joys of life, I'm thinking. 13:23.640 --> 13:26.640 And alive, you're worth me fortune. 13:26.640 --> 13:29.640 Shell? Shell? 13:29.640 --> 13:30.640 Hi, Johnny. 13:30.640 --> 13:33.640 Johnny, I'm your friend. It's your friend Shell. 13:33.640 --> 13:37.640 What can I do for you, poor man? 13:37.640 --> 13:42.640 I was supposed to stay where I was. 13:42.640 --> 13:45.640 They're coming back for me. 13:45.640 --> 13:46.640 Murphy's brand. 13:46.640 --> 13:50.640 Donis, Pye, Nolan, Seamus. 13:50.640 --> 13:52.640 I was to be where Murphy left me. 13:52.640 --> 13:54.640 Heaven preserve us, the whole organization. 13:54.640 --> 13:56.640 Altogether, it'll be worth it. 13:56.640 --> 13:58.640 Where, Johnny? Where were you to be? 13:58.640 --> 14:00.640 Where's the place, man? 14:00.640 --> 14:02.640 I got to get back. 14:02.640 --> 14:04.640 They'll be looking. 14:04.640 --> 14:07.640 It's rough, dear help us, you're in a desperate state. 14:07.640 --> 14:09.640 You can't walk the streets, you can't. 14:09.640 --> 14:11.640 Listen to me, Johnny, listen. 14:11.640 --> 14:13.640 I'll take you. You need someone. 14:13.640 --> 14:15.640 You couldn't move in the city alone. 14:15.640 --> 14:17.640 I'll take you. I'm telling you straight. 14:17.640 --> 14:18.640 Do you hear me, Johnny? 14:18.640 --> 14:20.640 Come on, Johnny, let me help you. 14:20.640 --> 14:22.640 God's a-getting hot. 14:22.640 --> 14:24.640 Yes, I'll take you. 14:24.640 --> 14:26.640 That's it. Rest on me, Johnny. 14:26.640 --> 14:27.640 We'll find him. 14:27.640 --> 14:29.640 Oh, Mr. Fancy. 14:29.640 --> 14:31.640 Careful, Johnny. We'll go the back way out. 14:31.640 --> 14:33.640 Where do you want to shell? 14:33.640 --> 14:35.640 Sure, I'm helping is all. 14:35.640 --> 14:37.640 He has to meet his friends to save him. 14:37.640 --> 14:40.640 We're going out the back. Put your head out, Mr. Fancy. 14:40.640 --> 14:42.640 Seat the coasters clear and get a pint. 14:42.640 --> 14:44.640 He'll need it. 14:49.640 --> 14:51.640 Why am I cold again? 14:51.640 --> 14:53.640 The wind. 14:53.640 --> 14:56.640 I don't want to walk anymore. 14:58.640 --> 15:00.640 Shell. 15:00.640 --> 15:02.640 Shell. 15:02.640 --> 15:04.640 Shell it is, but no one trusts shell. 15:04.640 --> 15:06.640 What am I doing with shell? Where has it taken me? 15:08.640 --> 15:10.640 You turn me in, you dirty... 15:10.640 --> 15:12.640 No, Johnny, no. 15:12.640 --> 15:14.640 I want to help, not shell. 15:14.640 --> 15:16.640 Oh, dear, help us. 15:16.640 --> 15:18.640 Here. 15:18.640 --> 15:20.640 Now, get a hold of this. 15:20.640 --> 15:22.640 Take a good pull. It'll give you strength. 15:22.640 --> 15:24.640 That's enough. 15:24.640 --> 15:26.640 You've had enough. 15:26.640 --> 15:28.640 Now, come on. Now, close to the walls, man. 15:28.640 --> 15:30.640 Keep out of the light. 15:30.640 --> 15:32.640 Where are we going? 15:32.640 --> 15:34.640 Sure, and you were going to tell me as soon as you could remember. 15:37.640 --> 15:39.640 Murphy's coming back. 15:39.640 --> 15:41.640 That's right. 15:41.640 --> 15:43.640 Dennis and the rest... 15:43.640 --> 15:45.640 Where? Where will they be? 15:45.640 --> 15:47.640 The shelter. 15:47.640 --> 15:49.640 The air raid shelter. 15:49.640 --> 15:51.640 Back there. Oh, we're going the wrong way. 15:51.640 --> 15:53.640 Come on, Johnny, boy, we'll go back. 15:53.640 --> 16:01.640 Shell off, yeah. 16:05.640 --> 16:07.640 Johnny, Johnny, come on. We can't rest here in the middle of the street. 16:07.640 --> 16:09.640 There's police all about. They'll see you sure, Johnny. 16:09.640 --> 16:11.640 I got a gun. 16:11.640 --> 16:13.640 What happened to my gun? 16:13.640 --> 16:15.640 Johnny, oh, there's people coming. 16:15.640 --> 16:17.640 Now, we're done for. You hear me, Johnny? 16:17.640 --> 16:19.640 I didn't give you up. You hear me? 16:19.640 --> 16:21.640 I tried. 16:21.640 --> 16:23.640 Murphy, Murphy, it's Michelle. 16:23.640 --> 16:25.640 I was trying to save the poor man, taking him to the shelter. 16:25.640 --> 16:27.640 He'd wandered in his delirium he had. 16:27.640 --> 16:29.640 Johnny, Johnny, it's Agnes. 16:29.640 --> 16:31.640 You'll be all right now. Dennis is bringing the car around. 16:31.640 --> 16:33.640 We have found him. Listen, they're all around. 16:33.640 --> 16:35.640 We haven't a chance. 16:35.640 --> 16:37.640 Agnes, down the alley. Take him along. We'll hold him off. 16:37.640 --> 16:39.640 Yes. Put your arm over my shoulder, Johnny. 16:39.640 --> 16:41.640 Dear, help us. 16:41.640 --> 16:43.640 It's the police. All there in the street. 16:43.640 --> 16:45.640 Hurry, hurry. Take them down the alley. 16:45.640 --> 16:47.640 Quickly, Johnny, quickly. 16:47.640 --> 16:49.640 Hurry, we'll all be killed. We'll take him to my place. 16:49.640 --> 16:51.640 Where is he? Not too far. 16:51.640 --> 16:53.640 No, no, Agnes. I've got a gun. 16:53.640 --> 16:55.640 They won't lift us. 16:57.640 --> 16:59.640 Oh, he's killing me. 16:59.640 --> 17:01.640 No, don't go on back. Would you give me the gun, Agnes? 17:01.640 --> 17:03.640 He wouldn't do any good. There's too many of them. 17:07.640 --> 17:09.640 There has been killing. 17:09.640 --> 17:11.640 I killed a man. 17:11.640 --> 17:13.640 A man killed me. 17:13.640 --> 17:15.640 And I'm alone now. 17:15.640 --> 17:19.640 And I'm alone now. And it's a bitter wilderness. 17:19.640 --> 17:21.640 Why am I running? 17:21.640 --> 17:23.640 Oh, it's cold, sweetie. 17:23.640 --> 17:25.640 But why am I running? 17:25.640 --> 17:27.640 I will not run. 17:27.640 --> 17:29.640 I will not! 17:29.640 --> 17:31.640 Shh, Johnny. 17:31.640 --> 17:33.640 You can't keep him quiet if he wakes him up in the tenement. 17:33.640 --> 17:35.640 We're done for, for sure. 17:35.640 --> 17:37.640 We're almost there, Johnny. 17:37.640 --> 17:39.640 Then we'll get a doctor. 17:39.640 --> 17:41.640 You must be quiet when we go upstairs to Shell's. 17:41.640 --> 17:43.640 I am quiet. I haven't said a word. What happened to the boys? 17:43.640 --> 17:45.640 Oh, it's all right. 17:45.640 --> 17:47.640 Make any noise. 17:47.640 --> 17:49.640 The old woman downstairs will give us away in a second if she knows. 17:55.640 --> 17:57.640 Where's Nolan, Murphy? 17:57.640 --> 17:59.640 Johnny, darling, no. You must be quiet. 17:59.640 --> 18:01.640 I can't walk anymore. I want to rest. 18:01.640 --> 18:03.640 Oh, my. He'll have the whole place. 18:03.640 --> 18:05.640 A few more steps, you can do it. 18:05.640 --> 18:07.640 Sure you can, Johnny. 18:07.640 --> 18:09.640 I'll open the door. 18:09.640 --> 18:11.640 Agnes. 18:11.640 --> 18:13.640 In a minute. In a minute. 18:13.640 --> 18:15.640 We pulled it off. We got away with it. 18:15.640 --> 18:17.640 I know. 18:17.640 --> 18:19.640 Inside with him, for dear sake, quickly. 18:21.640 --> 18:23.640 There's a bed, Johnny. 18:23.640 --> 18:25.640 Now you can rest. 18:29.640 --> 18:31.640 His arm. His poor arm. 18:31.640 --> 18:33.640 It's the blood that's gone out of him. 18:33.640 --> 18:35.640 That's what it is. 18:35.640 --> 18:37.640 He shouldn't be alive. 18:37.640 --> 18:39.640 Maybe this will stop the blood. 18:39.640 --> 18:41.640 Turn over. Help me, Shell. 18:43.640 --> 18:45.640 There. Can you get a doctor, Shell? 18:45.640 --> 18:47.640 I don't know. 18:47.640 --> 18:49.640 I don't know what I've done this night. 18:49.640 --> 18:51.640 I should have turned him in. I'd be rich. 18:51.640 --> 18:53.640 I'll probably lose him in life. 18:53.640 --> 18:55.640 I'll see what I can do. 18:55.640 --> 18:57.640 Keep him quiet. Don't let him make a sound. 18:57.640 --> 18:59.640 He couldn't be here. 18:59.640 --> 19:01.640 He's an informer. 19:01.640 --> 19:03.640 The organization will have to take care of him one of these days. 19:03.640 --> 19:05.640 The city's too dangerous. 19:05.640 --> 19:07.640 Agni. 19:09.640 --> 19:11.640 We'll go to the country. 19:11.640 --> 19:13.640 And then, when it's quiet, 19:13.640 --> 19:15.640 we'll start again. 19:15.640 --> 19:17.640 Yes, Johnny, yes. 19:17.640 --> 19:19.640 But you mustn't try to talk now. 19:19.640 --> 19:21.640 You mustn't. 19:21.640 --> 19:23.640 Why... 19:23.640 --> 19:25.640 Why did you come to look for me? 19:25.640 --> 19:27.640 You should have stayed at headquarters. 19:27.640 --> 19:29.640 I wanted to. 19:29.640 --> 19:31.640 I'll let you do it, Dennis. No, I would not. 19:31.640 --> 19:33.640 I had to. 19:33.640 --> 19:35.640 I feel better. 19:35.640 --> 19:37.640 Good. Now lie quietly. 19:37.640 --> 19:39.640 I feel better. 19:39.640 --> 19:41.640 It's night, isn't it? 19:41.640 --> 19:43.640 Yes. We're safe here. 19:43.640 --> 19:45.640 Where is it? Shell's place. 19:45.640 --> 19:47.640 No, no. 19:47.640 --> 19:49.640 You must be mad. He'll inform. 19:49.640 --> 19:51.640 No, he's gone to find a doctor. 19:51.640 --> 19:53.640 To find a police? No, he helped me bring you here. 19:53.640 --> 19:55.640 You can't trust him. It's all right. 19:55.640 --> 19:57.640 It is. Lie back now. 19:59.640 --> 20:01.640 I'm sorry. 20:01.640 --> 20:03.640 Don't talk. 20:03.640 --> 20:05.640 No, I... 20:05.640 --> 20:07.640 I'm sorry because I was afraid. 20:07.640 --> 20:09.640 I've been afraid tonight. 20:09.640 --> 20:11.640 No. 20:11.640 --> 20:13.640 Oh. I not know. 20:13.640 --> 20:15.640 You've never been afraid of anything. 20:15.640 --> 20:17.640 From the first day I saw you, 20:17.640 --> 20:19.640 even before that, 20:19.640 --> 20:21.640 when I heard about you, 20:21.640 --> 20:23.640 I knew you were not afraid. 20:23.640 --> 20:25.640 Will you... 20:25.640 --> 20:31.640 give me a kiss? 20:31.640 --> 20:33.640 I... 20:33.640 --> 20:35.640 I love you. 20:35.640 --> 20:39.640 I never had time for that. 20:39.640 --> 20:41.640 The organization... 20:41.640 --> 20:43.640 I love you. 20:43.640 --> 20:45.640 The organization has had you. 20:45.640 --> 20:47.640 Let them leave you to me now. 20:47.640 --> 20:49.640 No. No, no, no. 20:49.640 --> 20:51.640 You're a woman. You wouldn't understand. 20:51.640 --> 20:53.640 It's my life. 20:53.640 --> 20:55.640 If they're coming, they must have recognized me on the street 20:55.640 --> 20:57.640 or someone informed. 20:57.640 --> 20:59.640 I ran, but they're moving down the street. 20:59.640 --> 21:01.640 We get out the back way then. No, no, no. 21:01.640 --> 21:03.640 It's a cordon. You can't. Not with him that way. 21:03.640 --> 21:05.640 He's the one that's informed. He's the one. 21:05.640 --> 21:07.640 No, Johnny. No, I swear it. 21:07.640 --> 21:09.640 No. Run while you can, Shell. 21:09.640 --> 21:11.640 No, but you'll be... Go on. 21:11.640 --> 21:13.640 Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Johnny. Sure I did my best. 21:13.640 --> 21:15.640 Agnes, will you come with the gun? Shoot him. 21:15.640 --> 21:17.640 He's the one. Informer! Informer! 21:17.640 --> 21:19.640 No, it's all right. 21:19.640 --> 21:21.640 You let him go. 21:21.640 --> 21:23.640 Yes. 21:23.640 --> 21:25.640 And you hold the gun. 21:25.640 --> 21:27.640 Your hand. 21:27.640 --> 21:29.640 We'll shoot him. 21:29.640 --> 21:31.640 Lie quiet. 21:31.640 --> 21:33.640 It will be all right. 21:33.640 --> 21:35.640 They won't take us. They won't. 21:35.640 --> 21:37.640 I love you, Johnny. 21:37.640 --> 21:39.640 I love you. 21:41.640 --> 21:43.640 Then this is how it might have been. 21:45.640 --> 21:47.640 Agnes. 21:47.640 --> 21:49.640 The scent of her. 21:49.640 --> 21:51.640 Her mouth. 21:51.640 --> 21:53.640 Soft. 21:53.640 --> 21:55.640 Soft. 21:57.640 --> 21:59.640 What about the fight? 21:59.640 --> 22:01.640 And what about the fight? 22:01.640 --> 22:03.640 They can't beat us and they won't. 22:03.640 --> 22:05.640 They won't. 22:05.640 --> 22:07.640 Open the door! Police! 22:07.640 --> 22:09.640 Why don't you give me the gun? Give me the gun. 22:09.640 --> 22:11.640 No. No. 22:11.640 --> 22:13.640 I'm the chief. Now will you give me the gun? 22:13.640 --> 22:15.640 Johnny, no. Give it to me! 22:15.640 --> 22:17.640 Agnes! 22:17.640 --> 22:19.640 I... 22:19.640 --> 22:21.640 Agnes. 22:21.640 --> 22:49.640 I'm very nervous. I love you. 22:51.640 --> 22:53.640 Suspense. 22:53.640 --> 22:55.640 In which Ben Wright starred as Johnny 22:55.640 --> 22:57.640 in F.L. Green's Odd Man Out. 22:57.640 --> 22:59.640 Next week, the story of the terror and death 22:59.640 --> 23:01.640 aboard a seagoing tug in the North Atlantic. 23:01.640 --> 23:03.640 That's next week on... 23:03.640 --> 23:05.640 Suspense. 23:05.640 --> 23:07.640 Suspense is produced and directed by 23:07.640 --> 23:09.640 John F.L. Green. 23:09.640 --> 23:11.640 He's a great actor. 23:11.640 --> 23:13.640 He's a great actor. 23:13.640 --> 23:15.640 He's a great actor. 23:15.640 --> 23:17.640 He's a great actor. 23:17.640 --> 23:19.640 He's a great actor. 23:19.640 --> 23:21.640 Suspense is produced and directed by 23:21.640 --> 23:23.640 Anthony Ellis, who wrote tonight's adaptation. 23:23.640 --> 23:25.640 The music was composed by 23:25.640 --> 23:27.640 Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:27.640 --> 23:29.640 Featured in the cast were 23:29.640 --> 23:31.640 Betty Harford, Joseph Kearns, 23:31.640 --> 23:33.640 Charles Davis, Richard Peele, Dick Ryan, 23:33.640 --> 23:35.640 Tom McKee, and 23:35.640 --> 23:37.640 Ray Lawrence. 23:39.640 --> 23:41.640 America listens most to 23:41.640 --> 23:49.640 the CBS Radio Network.