1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:22,880 Tonight, the story of a man who insisted upon finishing the murder he never committed. 3 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,640 We call it, Study of a Murderer. 4 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:31,920 So now, starring Charlotte Lawrence and William Conrad, here is tonight's suspense play, Study 5 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,920 of a Murderer. 6 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:45,320 It's funny to be married to a man three years, find out he's kept secrets from you. 7 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,680 Not secrets like drinking or cards or women. 8 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,960 Hank was never like that. 9 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:55,000 I mean he was like two different men, really two men. 10 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,880 He kept it even a secret from himself. 11 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:01,000 That's what I'm beginning to understand. 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Because the man I knew, loved, was a wonderful, sweet husband. 13 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,960 The doctor says, he says the baby coming on its way, he won't inherit it because nobody 14 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:17,440 can inherit Hank's kind of trouble, his sickness. 15 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:22,360 And I'm not asking for sympathy, I'm just telling you that's all. 16 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,280 I never asked for help, neither did Hank. 17 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:30,280 Oh no, he did ask, in the only way he could. 18 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:43,480 He tried to ask to let me know, but it was too late. 19 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:51,480 It was last spring, it was that day he came home so upset. 20 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:56,160 Hank, is that you? 21 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,000 Hi darling. 22 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Hi. 23 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Good day at work? 24 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,640 Yeah, yeah sure. 25 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,520 Have something real good for dinner. 26 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,840 What are the headlines? 27 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,480 What do you mean? 28 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:11,840 I mean what's the headline? 29 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:12,840 In the paper. 30 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:13,840 Murder? 31 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:14,840 What? 32 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,600 The headline, didn't you ask me what the headlines were? 33 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,600 Oh yes honey, sure. 34 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:23,600 What is it, don't you feel well? 35 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,040 What should it be, what's it always? 36 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:29,120 The paper's jammed up to here with murder and killing all the time. 37 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,680 A man comes home from work and it, well work's hard enough, but a man comes home and he sees 38 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:39,520 pictures and columns on a mother and a baby, killed down near the lake. 39 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,560 A mother and a baby murdered. 40 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:52,760 It's sickening. 41 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,000 But Hank was always like that, one way or another. 42 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,720 He gets upset like that when the pressure's too heavy. 43 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,520 When it lets up he's okay again. 44 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,040 Except it didn't let up. 45 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:05,040 Not this time. 46 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,760 Because a couple of weeks later it really hit. 47 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:19,040 Well it's my last paycheck and the boom dropped. 48 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:20,040 Oh no. 49 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,160 Yeah, me and about eight other guys. 50 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,680 Oh Hank, I'm sorry. 51 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,000 You know it makes a guy think he doesn't count for much. 52 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 That's not true darling. 53 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,320 You begin to think on a job that maybe they can't get along without you, that you're pretty 54 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,720 important and the whole place would fold if you left. 55 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,360 And then poof, bye bye sonny boy. 56 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,360 Maybe they had a good reason. 57 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:41,360 Oh yeah sure sure. 58 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:46,160 You say it and they say it and that's right only something inside me says that it just 59 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:50,160 got kicked and I don't amount to much at all. 60 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,720 Not much at all. 61 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:54,720 Well I'm plenty see, I'm plenty. 62 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:56,400 Yes darling I know you are. 63 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,280 Yeah but then I figure I'm kind of lucky too. 64 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:01,280 We both are. 65 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,720 Luckier than the poor guy whose wife got killed with a baby. 66 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:05,720 Luckier than him. 67 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,400 Hank you can't go on getting upset by that. 68 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:08,400 You can't. 69 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:09,400 You can't do one another. 70 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,520 There's been a second killing here in Lincoln Park just like the first one and the papers 71 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,720 are full of it. 72 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,440 Wouldn't you like your dinner? 73 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:22,280 Hank will you please stop reading about those murders? 74 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:25,440 Hank you're not listening. 75 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:26,440 What? 76 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,440 Oh sure I am. 77 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,240 Why don't we go to the beach? 78 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,760 Wouldn't it be swell or the amusement park? 79 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:34,640 Remember last year we went that was fun. 80 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:35,880 You winning the Cupid doll and all. 81 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:37,120 It was fun wasn't it darling? 82 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:38,560 It was. 83 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,360 Can't you stop looking at that paper for a minute? 84 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,200 I just wanted to find whether there's a news broadcast. 85 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,560 There must be one on now. 86 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,960 No. 87 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:49,960 What? 88 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:51,800 We've had enough of those murders. 89 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,160 You have to stop thinking about them all the time every minute. 90 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,160 That's all you think about. 91 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,960 You've got to stop. 92 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,040 Don't tell me what to do. 93 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:03,400 Not like that. 94 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:04,400 Ever. 95 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:14,800 Hank I... 96 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,920 I'm sorry darling. 97 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,920 I said I'm sorry if I said... 98 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:26,720 Unfortunately I'm... 99 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:31,080 The chief of police says it's almost impossible to tell where the maniac will strike next. 100 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:38,080 There have been a few clues to indicate the man was... 101 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:43,120 Oh Hank. 102 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,960 I didn't know what was happening to Hank. 103 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,640 I guess a man gets kind of dizzy just from being alive sometimes. 104 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,680 It's from being hit too many times by too many things. 105 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,960 All kinds of things. 106 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,360 Half of them I didn't understand and still don't all the way. 107 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,320 But I should have understood. 108 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,280 Three months later that summer night. 109 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:06,280 Three months later... 110 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:07,280 Look at them. 111 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:08,280 Look at all these papers. 112 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:11,400 All the same story of everybody running around getting no place. 113 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:12,400 Hank. 114 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,760 Must you bring all the papers home? 115 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:15,760 Couldn't you read them at Walgreens? 116 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:16,760 No. 117 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:18,800 No I couldn't. 118 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,920 Bums read the papers for free and I'm no bum. 119 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,560 I got a wife and I'm no bum. 120 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,840 What are you accusing me of then? 121 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:27,240 I'm not a good husband? 122 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:28,240 No Hank. 123 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,040 No but I'm not accusing you of anything. 124 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,040 You mustn't think that. 125 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,240 You act like I did something wrong. 126 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:37,800 Not like I'm just out of work but like I was almost a murderer. 127 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:43,520 Like I was that murderer they're all looking for. 128 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,520 Oh it's hot. 129 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,520 It's too hot in here. 130 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,240 Would you like a cold glass of beer? 131 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,240 Yeah. 132 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:56,240 Beer. 133 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:00,760 Nice tall glass of beer. 134 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:01,760 Only not here. 135 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:02,760 Not in this house. 136 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:03,760 At Marty's on the corner. 137 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:05,020 That's the place for a beer. 138 00:07:05,020 --> 00:07:06,280 But it costs so much more. 139 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:09,880 Yeah I know darling but I just got to get out of here. 140 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:11,880 I got to get with people. 141 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:13,880 Oh yes darling of course. 142 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:14,880 I have a few dollars. 143 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:15,880 I've been saving it for celebration. 144 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:16,880 Let's do it. 145 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:17,880 It'll be fun. 146 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:23,640 I only have three dollars and twenty eight cents. 147 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,160 Funny to remember it exactly like that. 148 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,920 Three dollars and twenty eight cents that I slipped into his pocket when he wasn't looking. 149 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:35,160 And we had beer with the jukebox banging away and me shaking inside. 150 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,880 Shaking. 151 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,880 I just kept sipping my one beer and watching Hank. 152 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,080 Maybe waiting for him to smile or to make a joke. 153 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,200 Then I'd know everything was okay. 154 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,480 But he never smiled. 155 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,800 Didn't even talk. 156 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,640 Just drank beer and glared. 157 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,640 You know what at? 158 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,120 He just glared at himself in the mirror. 159 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,160 Just glared at himself until he stood up. 160 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,160 Gonna go. 161 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,760 All right darling. 162 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:06,760 Let's go. 163 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:07,760 No. 164 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:08,760 Me. 165 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:09,760 By myself. 166 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:14,000 But Hank you're kind of tight darling. 167 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Kind of. 168 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Come on. 169 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Come on. 170 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Let me take your arm. 171 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Don't pull me. 172 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Please. 173 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Please Hank. 174 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,000 I said don't pull me. 175 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Now leave me alone. 176 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000 I'm getting out of here. 177 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:30,280 He almost ran out of the place. 178 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,240 I knew if I followed him I'd see something terrible. 179 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:33,520 But I had to know. 180 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,800 I had to know if what I guessed was true. 181 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,880 And then I saw him rush up to a cop on Lake Street and scream something at him. 182 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:41,880 I couldn't hear. 183 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:42,880 I couldn't hear at all. 184 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:43,880 And a crowd was there in no time. 185 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:44,880 I killed him. 186 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:45,880 But I can't stand anymore. 187 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:46,880 Please. 188 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:47,880 Oh please let me through. 189 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:48,880 I'm his wife. 190 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:49,880 I can't stand anymore. 191 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:50,880 I'm his wife. 192 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:51,880 Please. 193 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:52,880 Please let me through. 194 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:53,880 I can't stand anymore. 195 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:54,880 Please let me through. 196 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:55,880 Hank. 197 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:56,880 Hank darling. 198 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:57,880 Hank. 199 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:58,880 Please he didn't do anything. 200 00:08:58,880 --> 00:08:59,880 I can't stand it anymore. 201 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:00,880 I can't stand the killing and the murder anymore. 202 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:01,880 I can't stand it anymore. 203 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,880 I can't stand it anymore. 204 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:09,820 I can't stand it anymore. 205 00:09:09,820 --> 00:09:13,480 I waited in that police station for hours. 206 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:19,020 I waited and wondered because no one told me anything except one man. 207 00:09:19,020 --> 00:09:22,020 He gave me a cigarette and talked to me. 208 00:09:23,020 --> 00:09:30,020 And then hours, oh, hours and hours later, he called me into his office. 209 00:09:31,020 --> 00:09:33,020 Sit down, Mrs. Later. 210 00:09:33,020 --> 00:09:35,020 Can I see him? 211 00:09:36,020 --> 00:09:37,020 Can I? 212 00:09:37,020 --> 00:09:38,020 In a few minutes. 213 00:09:38,020 --> 00:09:42,020 Oh, thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. 214 00:09:42,020 --> 00:09:44,020 Doctor, Doctor Broughton. 215 00:09:44,020 --> 00:09:48,020 I told you hours ago in the outside office. Did you hear me then? 216 00:09:48,020 --> 00:09:52,020 Oh, yes. Yes, I remember. 217 00:09:52,020 --> 00:09:54,020 And the rest of what I told you? 218 00:09:54,020 --> 00:10:03,020 Please let me see him. He didn't do any harm. He didn't kill anyone. He didn't kill anyone. 219 00:10:03,020 --> 00:10:06,020 We know he didn't, Mrs. Lathrop. 220 00:10:08,020 --> 00:10:15,020 What? You know? You're sure you know? 221 00:10:15,020 --> 00:10:16,020 Please listen to me. 222 00:10:16,020 --> 00:10:18,020 He didn't kill anybody. 223 00:10:18,020 --> 00:10:19,020 But he could. He might. 224 00:10:19,020 --> 00:10:23,020 How can you say that? Haven't I been through enough? Don't say that to me. 225 00:10:23,020 --> 00:10:28,020 He confessed to two murders he didn't commit. He admitted to two murders he had no part of. 226 00:10:28,020 --> 00:10:30,020 Then he didn't do wrong. Nothing wrong. 227 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:32,020 Will you permit your husband to take treatment? 228 00:10:33,020 --> 00:10:36,020 You're saying he should be put away. You're saying he's crazy. 229 00:10:36,020 --> 00:10:43,020 I'm saying he has an illness. I'm saying he's sick and he can be cured now. Maybe not later, but now he can. 230 00:10:43,020 --> 00:10:45,020 No. All he needs is love and kindness. 231 00:10:45,020 --> 00:10:51,020 Only words. They have no meaning to him right now. They might have had once, but not now. 232 00:10:51,020 --> 00:10:55,020 He should be treated. I should bring him before a board and have him undergo therapy. 233 00:10:55,020 --> 00:11:01,020 I'll fight you. I'll work day and night to get the money, but I'll fight you with lawyers to keep you from disgracing him like that. 234 00:11:01,020 --> 00:11:06,020 You won't have to. As a doctor, I say he's dangerous, but no court would uphold me. 235 00:11:06,020 --> 00:11:10,020 He hasn't committed any overt act. To all appearances, he's normal. 236 00:11:10,020 --> 00:11:12,020 He is. He is normal. 237 00:11:12,020 --> 00:11:16,020 He isn't, but we can't make him accept help. You're the only one who can do that. 238 00:11:16,020 --> 00:11:18,020 No. He can be cured now. 239 00:11:18,020 --> 00:11:22,020 No. He confesses to murders. He imagines. He's committed. 240 00:11:22,020 --> 00:11:25,020 He needs love, not psycho doctors like you. 241 00:11:25,020 --> 00:11:28,020 He might easily commit murder if he doesn't get help. 242 00:11:28,020 --> 00:11:29,020 Take me to my husband. 243 00:11:29,020 --> 00:11:49,020 A month, six months, a year. I don't know when, but he'll kill Mrs. Lathrop. He'll kill. 244 00:11:49,020 --> 00:12:07,020 You are listening to Study of a Murderer, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 245 00:12:07,020 --> 00:12:12,020 It's a good rule to clean up burnables. Don't let them accumulate, or they might someday catch fire. 246 00:12:12,020 --> 00:12:15,020 Fire prevention is far less costly than fire repairs. 247 00:12:15,020 --> 00:12:21,020 Don't let anything you don't need pile up around the house as a latent threat of fire. 248 00:12:21,020 --> 00:12:31,020 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Charlotte Lawrence and William Conrad, starring in tonight's production of Study of a Murderer, 249 00:12:31,020 --> 00:12:47,020 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 250 00:12:47,020 --> 00:12:54,020 I took him right home. Sleep. He needed sleep. More sleep than he could ever get. 251 00:12:54,020 --> 00:13:06,020 I sat by the bed all that time, all the time wiping his face with cold cloth and waiting, waiting and kissing him when he'd start that awful moaning. 252 00:13:06,020 --> 00:13:14,020 Love was all he needed. That's what I was so sure about then. So awful sure while he slept like he'd been hit or something. 253 00:13:14,020 --> 00:13:21,020 For 16 hours, 16 straight hours, and I knew he'd be fine. Just fine. 254 00:13:21,020 --> 00:13:28,020 He couldn't kill. Not Hank. Oh no, he'd be fine. 255 00:13:28,020 --> 00:13:36,020 I remembered from a magazine or something. I turned on the radio. I remember that music helps people who are upset kind of. 256 00:13:36,020 --> 00:13:46,020 So I turned it on real soft. 257 00:13:46,020 --> 00:14:02,020 Beth? Yes, darling. What time is it? 8.30 about. I've been sleeping long? It's 8.30 in the night. 258 00:14:02,020 --> 00:14:13,020 You know why I did it? It's not important. No, but it is. No, darling. No, it isn't. It's past. It doesn't make any difference. 259 00:14:13,020 --> 00:14:23,020 Showing off. That's what it was. Showing them up. The cops, I mean. Whatever your reason was. It was yours. It's all right, honey. 260 00:14:23,020 --> 00:14:30,020 You don't believe me. You don't believe I did it to show them up. Whatever your real... Well, it was. It was the only reason. 261 00:14:30,020 --> 00:14:38,020 Lie back, darling. Lie back and rest, Hank. 262 00:14:38,020 --> 00:14:48,020 It's a disgrace. It's a real disgrace. I'm nothing. I'm nothing. 263 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:55,020 I even... like a kid, I even feel like I could cry. 264 00:14:55,020 --> 00:15:09,020 Cry, darling. A man isn't weak if he cries. Just had too much happen to him. Like women have too much happen. 265 00:15:09,020 --> 00:15:23,020 Like anybody. Cry. You'll feel better, baby. You will. You will. 266 00:15:23,020 --> 00:15:31,020 I'm weak. No woman likes a man who's weak. No woman likes a man who can't admit he's weak sometimes. 267 00:15:31,020 --> 00:15:41,020 But you never saw me cry. I never cried before. I never cried when I was a kid, even. Never. 268 00:15:41,020 --> 00:15:49,020 I love you, darling. You have to know that. I love you. 269 00:15:49,020 --> 00:15:59,020 You wouldn't leave me, would you? Never. You don't believe what that doctor said. What doctor? The police. That doctor. 270 00:15:59,020 --> 00:16:08,020 What did he tell you? Nothing, but I got the idea. I smelled it. I figured out what he was driving at. 271 00:16:08,020 --> 00:16:18,020 But he didn't say much to me. He's a liar. But publicity. All those guys are like anything for publicity. 272 00:16:18,020 --> 00:16:26,020 I can't blame him. I did it for publicity. Really, that's why I did it. 273 00:16:26,020 --> 00:16:34,020 No, don't believe me. I don't know why I did it. I don't know why. 274 00:16:34,020 --> 00:16:43,020 Because you had too many bad things happen in a row. Because you had too much beer, too much hit you, too much all at once. 275 00:16:43,020 --> 00:16:50,020 I don't know why. I felt like somebody should be punished for all those terrible, terrible murders. 276 00:16:50,020 --> 00:16:58,020 Like somebody should. Somebody had to. Listen, we'll move from Chicago. Maybe change our name. 277 00:16:58,020 --> 00:17:05,020 But run away? Not run away. Leave. Put it all in back of us. Run away like I did something wrong? 278 00:17:05,020 --> 00:17:13,020 I told you not run away. Don't twist what I'm saying. I only said... That I should run away from here with you and let them push us away. 279 00:17:13,020 --> 00:17:19,020 Well, nobody pushes me around. No, Hank, I know that nobody does. Nobody leads me places like I was a kid. 280 00:17:19,020 --> 00:17:24,020 It was only a suggestion. Did that doctor tell you to say that to me? No, I told you the doctor didn't tell me anything. 281 00:17:24,020 --> 00:17:35,020 You're lying. You're keeping things from me. He must have told you something. He didn't, not really. He just said for me to take good care of you, that's all. 282 00:17:35,020 --> 00:18:01,020 What else did he say? What? I don't know. Nothing. Just... What else? Tell me! I don't know! 283 00:18:01,020 --> 00:18:08,020 Do you want to turn him over to me, Mrs. Lather? No, not that. Well, then, why did you come to see me? For advice. 284 00:18:08,020 --> 00:18:14,020 You've done what you could. Why don't you make him submit to care, Mrs. Lather? There's still time. Only if he wants to. 285 00:18:14,020 --> 00:18:19,020 He'll never agree. Not now. Not by himself. He will. He has to. Logic doesn't reach him very well. 286 00:18:19,020 --> 00:18:26,020 This is something more than logic, more than doctors or anything else. He'll want to get cured when he knows he's going to be a father. 287 00:18:26,020 --> 00:18:37,020 Well, doctor, don't you figure it that way, too, doctor? Don't tell him. Not tell him? Not tell him we're going to have a child, something we both wanted so much? 288 00:18:37,020 --> 00:18:42,020 It might have the wrong effect right now. Oh, no. It'll make him stronger, make him more sure of himself. 289 00:18:42,020 --> 00:18:47,020 It makes some men stronger. It can make others weaker, less sure, less certain. 290 00:18:47,020 --> 00:18:52,020 Is that all the advice you can give me? Not to tell him, not to tell my husband he's going to be a father? 291 00:18:52,020 --> 00:18:57,020 Tell me honestly, Mrs. Lathrop, do you feel he's getting better or worse? 292 00:18:57,020 --> 00:19:02,020 It's not fair. Will you talk to him about getting treatment? I'm not promising anything. 293 00:19:02,020 --> 00:19:06,020 Will you mention the baby? I said no promises. If he slaps you again, will you call me? Goodbye. 294 00:19:06,020 --> 00:19:11,020 It may be your life and his, and your child's, Mrs. Latherup. 295 00:19:11,020 --> 00:19:22,020 When I came home, he didn't even look up. He just kept staring at his hands. 296 00:19:22,020 --> 00:19:28,020 I decided maybe I'd let him talk first, so I sat in a chair near the window. 297 00:19:28,020 --> 00:19:33,020 Wasn't much to see with the buildings all close in, but the air smelled good. 298 00:19:33,020 --> 00:19:42,020 I waited until I almost wanted to scream, and for no reason he got up and went into the kitchen and washed his hands. 299 00:19:42,020 --> 00:19:47,020 Then he came back. A way out, I gotta figure a way out. 300 00:19:47,020 --> 00:19:51,020 Listen honey, listen, everything's going to work out fine. 301 00:19:51,020 --> 00:19:58,020 No, I'll figure it out. It's a man's job to figure it out. I don't need any help. It's a man's job to figure it out. 302 00:19:58,020 --> 00:20:10,020 Hank, Hank, I was wondering, wondering if maybe we don't need some other help. 303 00:20:10,020 --> 00:20:13,020 What kind of help? I mean like... 304 00:20:13,020 --> 00:20:21,020 What kind? What kind? What kind? 305 00:20:21,020 --> 00:20:25,020 Stop, stop talking like that. Like what? Like I'm addled? Like that? 306 00:20:25,020 --> 00:20:30,020 No. Yes. Hank, there are places that help when it gets too tough to figure things out. 307 00:20:30,020 --> 00:20:33,020 No help. I don't need any help. Well, it wouldn't hurt. 308 00:20:33,020 --> 00:20:36,020 It's dirty. Hank, please try to understand, Hank. I'm... 309 00:20:36,020 --> 00:20:39,020 A dirty science. It isn't, it isn't. 310 00:20:39,020 --> 00:20:46,020 In a magazine. I was reading in a magazine, and it's a dirty, filthy science. It's not even a science. 311 00:20:46,020 --> 00:20:48,020 Well, they lied. It is a science. 312 00:20:48,020 --> 00:20:52,020 No? Well, what do you know? What do you know about anything? You can't even keep a house. 313 00:20:52,020 --> 00:20:55,020 What's wrong with it, Hank? What would you like me to do? Just tell me. 314 00:20:55,020 --> 00:20:58,020 It's dirty. Like everything else is dirty. 315 00:20:58,020 --> 00:21:00,020 I'll clean it every day, and I'll wash it up. 316 00:21:00,020 --> 00:21:04,020 Nothing will get it clean. Never clean again. 317 00:21:04,020 --> 00:21:08,020 Oh, Hank, don't talk like that. You scare me, Hank. Please don't talk like that. 318 00:21:08,020 --> 00:21:13,020 We're both dirty. We were all born dirty. We'll never get clean. 319 00:21:13,020 --> 00:21:16,020 Listen to me. Listen. You have to come with me. 320 00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:18,020 Why? Because you ask, why for you? 321 00:21:18,020 --> 00:21:22,020 For our baby, Hank. For the baby. 322 00:21:26,020 --> 00:21:28,020 Baby? 323 00:21:31,020 --> 00:21:33,020 Baby! 324 00:21:33,020 --> 00:21:35,020 Oh, Hank! 325 00:21:35,020 --> 00:21:39,020 No, no, come on. Come on here. 326 00:21:39,020 --> 00:21:45,020 Listen to me. You lied to me. You lied to me. You cheated and lied to me. 327 00:21:45,020 --> 00:21:48,020 You lied to me! 328 00:21:48,020 --> 00:21:50,020 It was the first thing I saw. 329 00:21:50,020 --> 00:21:53,020 This silly china cubie doll on my dresser. 330 00:21:53,020 --> 00:22:16,020 I picked it up, and then I hit him. Hit him. Hit him. Again. Again. Again. 331 00:22:16,020 --> 00:22:22,020 Maybe he'll get over it. Maybe his sickness hadn't gone on too long. 332 00:22:22,020 --> 00:22:29,020 Maybe a thousand and million maybes and ifs and prayers. 333 00:22:29,020 --> 00:22:37,020 Dr. Broughton, he said it would be all right. He said the baby would be all right. 334 00:22:37,020 --> 00:22:53,020 It will be. It must be. 335 00:23:07,020 --> 00:23:11,020 Suspense. 336 00:23:11,020 --> 00:23:18,020 In which Charlotte Lawrence and William Conrad starred in Study of a Murderer by Arthur Ross. 337 00:23:18,020 --> 00:23:25,020 Next week, the story of fear in surgery. We call it The Operation. 338 00:23:25,020 --> 00:23:40,020 That's next week on Suspense. 339 00:23:40,020 --> 00:23:43,020 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 340 00:23:43,020 --> 00:23:47,020 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 341 00:23:47,020 --> 00:23:54,020 Featured in the cast were Herb Butterfield and Larry Thor. 342 00:23:54,020 --> 00:24:21,020 America listens most to the CBS Radio Network.