WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:15.000 --> 00:22.880 Tonight, the story of a man who insisted upon finishing the murder he never committed. 00:22.880 --> 00:25.640 We call it, Study of a Murderer. 00:25.640 --> 00:31.920 So now, starring Charlotte Lawrence and William Conrad, here is tonight's suspense play, Study 00:31.920 --> 00:34.920 of a Murderer. 00:34.920 --> 00:45.320 It's funny to be married to a man three years, find out he's kept secrets from you. 00:45.320 --> 00:48.680 Not secrets like drinking or cards or women. 00:48.680 --> 00:50.960 Hank was never like that. 00:50.960 --> 00:55.000 I mean he was like two different men, really two men. 00:55.000 --> 00:56.880 He kept it even a secret from himself. 00:56.880 --> 01:01.000 That's what I'm beginning to understand. 01:01.000 --> 01:08.000 Because the man I knew, loved, was a wonderful, sweet husband. 01:08.000 --> 01:13.960 The doctor says, he says the baby coming on its way, he won't inherit it because nobody 01:13.960 --> 01:17.440 can inherit Hank's kind of trouble, his sickness. 01:17.440 --> 01:22.360 And I'm not asking for sympathy, I'm just telling you that's all. 01:22.360 --> 01:25.280 I never asked for help, neither did Hank. 01:25.280 --> 01:30.280 Oh no, he did ask, in the only way he could. 01:30.280 --> 01:43.480 He tried to ask to let me know, but it was too late. 01:43.480 --> 01:51.480 It was last spring, it was that day he came home so upset. 01:51.480 --> 01:56.160 Hank, is that you? 01:56.160 --> 01:58.000 Hi darling. 01:58.000 --> 01:59.000 Hi. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 Good day at work? 02:01.000 --> 02:03.640 Yeah, yeah sure. 02:03.640 --> 02:05.520 Have something real good for dinner. 02:05.520 --> 02:07.840 What are the headlines? 02:07.840 --> 02:10.480 What do you mean? 02:10.480 --> 02:11.840 I mean what's the headline? 02:11.840 --> 02:12.840 In the paper. 02:12.840 --> 02:13.840 Murder? 02:13.840 --> 02:14.840 What? 02:14.840 --> 02:19.600 The headline, didn't you ask me what the headlines were? 02:19.600 --> 02:22.600 Oh yes honey, sure. 02:22.600 --> 02:23.600 What is it, don't you feel well? 02:23.600 --> 02:25.040 What should it be, what's it always? 02:25.040 --> 02:29.120 The paper's jammed up to here with murder and killing all the time. 02:29.120 --> 02:33.680 A man comes home from work and it, well work's hard enough, but a man comes home and he sees 02:33.680 --> 02:39.520 pictures and columns on a mother and a baby, killed down near the lake. 02:39.520 --> 02:42.560 A mother and a baby murdered. 02:42.560 --> 02:52.760 It's sickening. 02:52.760 --> 02:56.000 But Hank was always like that, one way or another. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.720 He gets upset like that when the pressure's too heavy. 02:59.720 --> 03:01.520 When it lets up he's okay again. 03:01.520 --> 03:04.040 Except it didn't let up. 03:04.040 --> 03:05.040 Not this time. 03:05.040 --> 03:09.760 Because a couple of weeks later it really hit. 03:09.760 --> 03:19.040 Well it's my last paycheck and the boom dropped. 03:19.040 --> 03:20.040 Oh no. 03:20.040 --> 03:22.160 Yeah, me and about eight other guys. 03:22.160 --> 03:24.680 Oh Hank, I'm sorry. 03:24.680 --> 03:27.000 You know it makes a guy think he doesn't count for much. 03:27.000 --> 03:28.000 That's not true darling. 03:28.000 --> 03:31.320 You begin to think on a job that maybe they can't get along without you, that you're pretty 03:31.320 --> 03:35.720 important and the whole place would fold if you left. 03:35.720 --> 03:39.360 And then poof, bye bye sonny boy. 03:39.360 --> 03:40.360 Maybe they had a good reason. 03:40.360 --> 03:41.360 Oh yeah sure sure. 03:41.360 --> 03:46.160 You say it and they say it and that's right only something inside me says that it just 03:46.160 --> 03:50.160 got kicked and I don't amount to much at all. 03:50.160 --> 03:52.720 Not much at all. 03:52.720 --> 03:54.720 Well I'm plenty see, I'm plenty. 03:54.720 --> 03:56.400 Yes darling I know you are. 03:56.400 --> 04:00.280 Yeah but then I figure I'm kind of lucky too. 04:00.280 --> 04:01.280 We both are. 04:01.280 --> 04:04.720 Luckier than the poor guy whose wife got killed with a baby. 04:04.720 --> 04:05.720 Luckier than him. 04:05.720 --> 04:07.400 Hank you can't go on getting upset by that. 04:07.400 --> 04:08.400 You can't. 04:08.400 --> 04:09.400 You can't do one another. 04:09.400 --> 04:12.520 There's been a second killing here in Lincoln Park just like the first one and the papers 04:12.520 --> 04:15.720 are full of it. 04:15.720 --> 04:18.440 Wouldn't you like your dinner? 04:18.440 --> 04:22.280 Hank will you please stop reading about those murders? 04:22.280 --> 04:25.440 Hank you're not listening. 04:25.440 --> 04:26.440 What? 04:26.440 --> 04:27.440 Oh sure I am. 04:27.440 --> 04:30.240 Why don't we go to the beach? 04:30.240 --> 04:32.760 Wouldn't it be swell or the amusement park? 04:32.760 --> 04:34.640 Remember last year we went that was fun. 04:34.640 --> 04:35.880 You winning the Cupid doll and all. 04:35.880 --> 04:37.120 It was fun wasn't it darling? 04:37.120 --> 04:38.560 It was. 04:38.560 --> 04:41.360 Can't you stop looking at that paper for a minute? 04:41.360 --> 04:43.200 I just wanted to find whether there's a news broadcast. 04:43.200 --> 04:46.560 There must be one on now. 04:46.560 --> 04:48.960 No. 04:48.960 --> 04:49.960 What? 04:49.960 --> 04:51.800 We've had enough of those murders. 04:51.800 --> 04:55.160 You have to stop thinking about them all the time every minute. 04:55.160 --> 04:56.160 That's all you think about. 04:56.160 --> 04:58.960 You've got to stop. 04:58.960 --> 05:02.040 Don't tell me what to do. 05:02.040 --> 05:03.400 Not like that. 05:03.400 --> 05:04.400 Ever. 05:04.400 --> 05:14.800 Hank I... 05:14.800 --> 05:18.920 I'm sorry darling. 05:18.920 --> 05:21.920 I said I'm sorry if I said... 05:21.920 --> 05:26.720 Unfortunately I'm... 05:26.720 --> 05:31.080 The chief of police says it's almost impossible to tell where the maniac will strike next. 05:31.080 --> 05:38.080 There have been a few clues to indicate the man was... 05:38.080 --> 05:43.120 Oh Hank. 05:43.120 --> 05:45.960 I didn't know what was happening to Hank. 05:45.960 --> 05:49.640 I guess a man gets kind of dizzy just from being alive sometimes. 05:49.640 --> 05:53.680 It's from being hit too many times by too many things. 05:53.680 --> 05:55.960 All kinds of things. 05:55.960 --> 05:59.360 Half of them I didn't understand and still don't all the way. 05:59.360 --> 06:02.320 But I should have understood. 06:02.320 --> 06:05.280 Three months later that summer night. 06:05.280 --> 06:06.280 Three months later... 06:06.280 --> 06:07.280 Look at them. 06:07.280 --> 06:08.280 Look at all these papers. 06:08.280 --> 06:11.400 All the same story of everybody running around getting no place. 06:11.400 --> 06:12.400 Hank. 06:12.400 --> 06:14.760 Must you bring all the papers home? 06:14.760 --> 06:15.760 Couldn't you read them at Walgreens? 06:15.760 --> 06:16.760 No. 06:16.760 --> 06:18.800 No I couldn't. 06:18.800 --> 06:21.920 Bums read the papers for free and I'm no bum. 06:21.920 --> 06:23.560 I got a wife and I'm no bum. 06:23.560 --> 06:25.840 What are you accusing me of then? 06:25.840 --> 06:27.240 I'm not a good husband? 06:27.240 --> 06:28.240 No Hank. 06:28.240 --> 06:31.040 No but I'm not accusing you of anything. 06:31.040 --> 06:32.040 You mustn't think that. 06:32.040 --> 06:33.240 You act like I did something wrong. 06:33.240 --> 06:37.800 Not like I'm just out of work but like I was almost a murderer. 06:37.800 --> 06:43.520 Like I was that murderer they're all looking for. 06:43.520 --> 06:47.520 Oh it's hot. 06:47.520 --> 06:50.520 It's too hot in here. 06:50.520 --> 06:54.240 Would you like a cold glass of beer? 06:54.240 --> 06:55.240 Yeah. 06:55.240 --> 06:56.240 Beer. 06:56.240 --> 07:00.760 Nice tall glass of beer. 07:00.760 --> 07:01.760 Only not here. 07:01.760 --> 07:02.760 Not in this house. 07:02.760 --> 07:03.760 At Marty's on the corner. 07:03.760 --> 07:05.020 That's the place for a beer. 07:05.020 --> 07:06.280 But it costs so much more. 07:06.280 --> 07:09.880 Yeah I know darling but I just got to get out of here. 07:09.880 --> 07:11.880 I got to get with people. 07:11.880 --> 07:13.880 Oh yes darling of course. 07:13.880 --> 07:14.880 I have a few dollars. 07:14.880 --> 07:15.880 I've been saving it for celebration. 07:15.880 --> 07:16.880 Let's do it. 07:16.880 --> 07:17.880 It'll be fun. 07:17.880 --> 07:23.640 I only have three dollars and twenty eight cents. 07:23.640 --> 07:26.160 Funny to remember it exactly like that. 07:26.160 --> 07:29.920 Three dollars and twenty eight cents that I slipped into his pocket when he wasn't looking. 07:29.920 --> 07:35.160 And we had beer with the jukebox banging away and me shaking inside. 07:35.160 --> 07:37.880 Shaking. 07:37.880 --> 07:41.880 I just kept sipping my one beer and watching Hank. 07:41.880 --> 07:44.080 Maybe waiting for him to smile or to make a joke. 07:44.080 --> 07:46.200 Then I'd know everything was okay. 07:46.200 --> 07:48.480 But he never smiled. 07:48.480 --> 07:50.800 Didn't even talk. 07:50.800 --> 07:53.640 Just drank beer and glared. 07:53.640 --> 07:55.640 You know what at? 07:55.640 --> 07:58.120 He just glared at himself in the mirror. 07:58.120 --> 08:01.160 Just glared at himself until he stood up. 08:01.160 --> 08:03.160 Gonna go. 08:03.160 --> 08:05.760 All right darling. 08:05.760 --> 08:06.760 Let's go. 08:06.760 --> 08:07.760 No. 08:07.760 --> 08:08.760 Me. 08:08.760 --> 08:09.760 By myself. 08:09.760 --> 08:14.000 But Hank you're kind of tight darling. 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 Kind of. 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 Come on. 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 Come on. 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 Let me take your arm. 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 Don't pull me. 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 Please. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.000 Please Hank. 08:21.000 --> 08:22.000 I said don't pull me. 08:22.000 --> 08:23.000 Now leave me alone. 08:23.000 --> 08:24.000 I'm getting out of here. 08:24.000 --> 08:30.280 He almost ran out of the place. 08:30.280 --> 08:32.240 I knew if I followed him I'd see something terrible. 08:32.240 --> 08:33.520 But I had to know. 08:33.520 --> 08:36.800 I had to know if what I guessed was true. 08:36.800 --> 08:40.880 And then I saw him rush up to a cop on Lake Street and scream something at him. 08:40.880 --> 08:41.880 I couldn't hear. 08:41.880 --> 08:42.880 I couldn't hear at all. 08:42.880 --> 08:43.880 And a crowd was there in no time. 08:43.880 --> 08:44.880 I killed him. 08:44.880 --> 08:45.880 But I can't stand anymore. 08:45.880 --> 08:46.880 Please. 08:46.880 --> 08:47.880 Oh please let me through. 08:47.880 --> 08:48.880 I'm his wife. 08:48.880 --> 08:49.880 I can't stand anymore. 08:49.880 --> 08:50.880 I'm his wife. 08:50.880 --> 08:51.880 Please. 08:51.880 --> 08:52.880 Please let me through. 08:52.880 --> 08:53.880 I can't stand anymore. 08:53.880 --> 08:54.880 Please let me through. 08:54.880 --> 08:55.880 Hank. 08:55.880 --> 08:56.880 Hank darling. 08:56.880 --> 08:57.880 Hank. 08:57.880 --> 08:58.880 Please he didn't do anything. 08:58.880 --> 08:59.880 I can't stand it anymore. 08:59.880 --> 09:00.880 I can't stand the killing and the murder anymore. 09:00.880 --> 09:01.880 I can't stand it anymore. 09:01.880 --> 09:04.880 I can't stand it anymore. 09:04.880 --> 09:09.820 I can't stand it anymore. 09:09.820 --> 09:13.480 I waited in that police station for hours. 09:13.480 --> 09:19.020 I waited and wondered because no one told me anything except one man. 09:19.020 --> 09:22.020 He gave me a cigarette and talked to me. 09:23.020 --> 09:30.020 And then hours, oh, hours and hours later, he called me into his office. 09:31.020 --> 09:33.020 Sit down, Mrs. Later. 09:33.020 --> 09:35.020 Can I see him? 09:36.020 --> 09:37.020 Can I? 09:37.020 --> 09:38.020 In a few minutes. 09:38.020 --> 09:42.020 Oh, thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. 09:42.020 --> 09:44.020 Doctor, Doctor Broughton. 09:44.020 --> 09:48.020 I told you hours ago in the outside office. Did you hear me then? 09:48.020 --> 09:52.020 Oh, yes. Yes, I remember. 09:52.020 --> 09:54.020 And the rest of what I told you? 09:54.020 --> 10:03.020 Please let me see him. He didn't do any harm. He didn't kill anyone. He didn't kill anyone. 10:03.020 --> 10:06.020 We know he didn't, Mrs. Lathrop. 10:08.020 --> 10:15.020 What? You know? You're sure you know? 10:15.020 --> 10:16.020 Please listen to me. 10:16.020 --> 10:18.020 He didn't kill anybody. 10:18.020 --> 10:19.020 But he could. He might. 10:19.020 --> 10:23.020 How can you say that? Haven't I been through enough? Don't say that to me. 10:23.020 --> 10:28.020 He confessed to two murders he didn't commit. He admitted to two murders he had no part of. 10:28.020 --> 10:30.020 Then he didn't do wrong. Nothing wrong. 10:30.020 --> 10:32.020 Will you permit your husband to take treatment? 10:33.020 --> 10:36.020 You're saying he should be put away. You're saying he's crazy. 10:36.020 --> 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. 10:43.020 --> 10:45.020 No. All he needs is love and kindness. 10:45.020 --> 10:51.020 Only words. They have no meaning to him right now. They might have had once, but not now. 10:51.020 --> 10:55.020 He should be treated. I should bring him before a board and have him undergo therapy. 10:55.020 --> 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. 11:01.020 --> 11:06.020 You won't have to. As a doctor, I say he's dangerous, but no court would uphold me. 11:06.020 --> 11:10.020 He hasn't committed any overt act. To all appearances, he's normal. 11:10.020 --> 11:12.020 He is. He is normal. 11:12.020 --> 11:16.020 He isn't, but we can't make him accept help. You're the only one who can do that. 11:16.020 --> 11:18.020 No. He can be cured now. 11:18.020 --> 11:22.020 No. He confesses to murders. He imagines. He's committed. 11:22.020 --> 11:25.020 He needs love, not psycho doctors like you. 11:25.020 --> 11:28.020 He might easily commit murder if he doesn't get help. 11:28.020 --> 11:29.020 Take me to my husband. 11:29.020 --> 11:49.020 A month, six months, a year. I don't know when, but he'll kill Mrs. Lathrop. He'll kill. 11:49.020 --> 12:07.020 You are listening to Study of a Murderer, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:07.020 --> 12:12.020 It's a good rule to clean up burnables. Don't let them accumulate, or they might someday catch fire. 12:12.020 --> 12:15.020 Fire prevention is far less costly than fire repairs. 12:15.020 --> 12:21.020 Don't let anything you don't need pile up around the house as a latent threat of fire. 12:21.020 --> 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, 12:31.020 --> 12:47.020 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:47.020 --> 12:54.020 I took him right home. Sleep. He needed sleep. More sleep than he could ever get. 12:54.020 --> 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. 13:06.020 --> 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. 13:14.020 --> 13:21.020 For 16 hours, 16 straight hours, and I knew he'd be fine. Just fine. 13:21.020 --> 13:28.020 He couldn't kill. Not Hank. Oh no, he'd be fine. 13:28.020 --> 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. 13:36.020 --> 13:46.020 So I turned it on real soft. 13:46.020 --> 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. 14:02.020 --> 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. 14:13.020 --> 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. 14:23.020 --> 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. 14:30.020 --> 14:38.020 Lie back, darling. Lie back and rest, Hank. 14:38.020 --> 14:48.020 It's a disgrace. It's a real disgrace. I'm nothing. I'm nothing. 14:48.020 --> 14:55.020 I even... like a kid, I even feel like I could cry. 14:55.020 --> 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. 15:09.020 --> 15:23.020 Like anybody. Cry. You'll feel better, baby. You will. You will. 15:23.020 --> 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. 15:31.020 --> 15:41.020 But you never saw me cry. I never cried before. I never cried when I was a kid, even. Never. 15:41.020 --> 15:49.020 I love you, darling. You have to know that. I love you. 15:49.020 --> 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. 15:59.020 --> 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. 16:08.020 --> 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. 16:18.020 --> 16:26.020 I can't blame him. I did it for publicity. Really, that's why I did it. 16:26.020 --> 16:34.020 No, don't believe me. I don't know why I did it. I don't know why. 16:34.020 --> 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. 16:43.020 --> 16:50.020 I don't know why. I felt like somebody should be punished for all those terrible, terrible murders. 16:50.020 --> 16:58.020 Like somebody should. Somebody had to. Listen, we'll move from Chicago. Maybe change our name. 16:58.020 --> 17:05.020 But run away? Not run away. Leave. Put it all in back of us. Run away like I did something wrong? 17:05.020 --> 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. 17:13.020 --> 17:19.020 Well, nobody pushes me around. No, Hank, I know that nobody does. Nobody leads me places like I was a kid. 17:19.020 --> 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. 17:24.020 --> 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. 17:35.020 --> 18:01.020 What else did he say? What? I don't know. Nothing. Just... What else? Tell me! I don't know! 18:01.020 --> 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. 18:08.020 --> 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. 18:14.020 --> 18:19.020 He'll never agree. Not now. Not by himself. He will. He has to. Logic doesn't reach him very well. 18:19.020 --> 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. 18:26.020 --> 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? 18:37.020 --> 18:42.020 It might have the wrong effect right now. Oh, no. It'll make him stronger, make him more sure of himself. 18:42.020 --> 18:47.020 It makes some men stronger. It can make others weaker, less sure, less certain. 18:47.020 --> 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? 18:52.020 --> 18:57.020 Tell me honestly, Mrs. Lathrop, do you feel he's getting better or worse? 18:57.020 --> 19:02.020 It's not fair. Will you talk to him about getting treatment? I'm not promising anything. 19:02.020 --> 19:06.020 Will you mention the baby? I said no promises. If he slaps you again, will you call me? Goodbye. 19:06.020 --> 19:11.020 It may be your life and his, and your child's, Mrs. Latherup. 19:11.020 --> 19:22.020 When I came home, he didn't even look up. He just kept staring at his hands. 19:22.020 --> 19:28.020 I decided maybe I'd let him talk first, so I sat in a chair near the window. 19:28.020 --> 19:33.020 Wasn't much to see with the buildings all close in, but the air smelled good. 19:33.020 --> 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. 19:42.020 --> 19:47.020 Then he came back. A way out, I gotta figure a way out. 19:47.020 --> 19:51.020 Listen honey, listen, everything's going to work out fine. 19:51.020 --> 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. 19:58.020 --> 20:10.020 Hank, Hank, I was wondering, wondering if maybe we don't need some other help. 20:10.020 --> 20:13.020 What kind of help? I mean like... 20:13.020 --> 20:21.020 What kind? What kind? What kind? 20:21.020 --> 20:25.020 Stop, stop talking like that. Like what? Like I'm addled? Like that? 20:25.020 --> 20:30.020 No. Yes. Hank, there are places that help when it gets too tough to figure things out. 20:30.020 --> 20:33.020 No help. I don't need any help. Well, it wouldn't hurt. 20:33.020 --> 20:36.020 It's dirty. Hank, please try to understand, Hank. I'm... 20:36.020 --> 20:39.020 A dirty science. It isn't, it isn't. 20:39.020 --> 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. 20:46.020 --> 20:48.020 Well, they lied. It is a science. 20:48.020 --> 20:52.020 No? Well, what do you know? What do you know about anything? You can't even keep a house. 20:52.020 --> 20:55.020 What's wrong with it, Hank? What would you like me to do? Just tell me. 20:55.020 --> 20:58.020 It's dirty. Like everything else is dirty. 20:58.020 --> 21:00.020 I'll clean it every day, and I'll wash it up. 21:00.020 --> 21:04.020 Nothing will get it clean. Never clean again. 21:04.020 --> 21:08.020 Oh, Hank, don't talk like that. You scare me, Hank. Please don't talk like that. 21:08.020 --> 21:13.020 We're both dirty. We were all born dirty. We'll never get clean. 21:13.020 --> 21:16.020 Listen to me. Listen. You have to come with me. 21:16.020 --> 21:18.020 Why? Because you ask, why for you? 21:18.020 --> 21:22.020 For our baby, Hank. For the baby. 21:26.020 --> 21:28.020 Baby? 21:31.020 --> 21:33.020 Baby! 21:33.020 --> 21:35.020 Oh, Hank! 21:35.020 --> 21:39.020 No, no, come on. Come on here. 21:39.020 --> 21:45.020 Listen to me. You lied to me. You lied to me. You cheated and lied to me. 21:45.020 --> 21:48.020 You lied to me! 21:48.020 --> 21:50.020 It was the first thing I saw. 21:50.020 --> 21:53.020 This silly china cubie doll on my dresser. 21:53.020 --> 22:16.020 I picked it up, and then I hit him. Hit him. Hit him. Again. Again. Again. 22:16.020 --> 22:22.020 Maybe he'll get over it. Maybe his sickness hadn't gone on too long. 22:22.020 --> 22:29.020 Maybe a thousand and million maybes and ifs and prayers. 22:29.020 --> 22:37.020 Dr. Broughton, he said it would be all right. He said the baby would be all right. 22:37.020 --> 22:53.020 It will be. It must be. 23:07.020 --> 23:11.020 Suspense. 23:11.020 --> 23:18.020 In which Charlotte Lawrence and William Conrad starred in Study of a Murderer by Arthur Ross. 23:18.020 --> 23:25.020 Next week, the story of fear in surgery. We call it The Operation. 23:25.020 --> 23:40.020 That's next week on Suspense. 23:40.020 --> 23:43.020 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 23:43.020 --> 23:47.020 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:47.020 --> 23:54.020 Featured in the cast were Herb Butterfield and Larry Thor. 23:54.020 --> 24:21.020 America listens most to the CBS Radio Network.