WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:12.000 --> 00:19.440 Tonight, the story of three women and their vigil of death. 00:19.440 --> 00:21.680 We call it Waiting. 00:21.680 --> 00:26.200 So now, starring Vivi Janis, Helen Cleave and Charlotte Lawrence, here is tonight's 00:26.200 --> 00:46.080 Suspense play, Waiting. 00:46.080 --> 00:48.240 You want me to put butter on them, Eileen? 00:48.240 --> 00:49.240 I don't care. 00:49.240 --> 00:50.840 I told you I don't care. 00:50.840 --> 00:52.520 I'm not hungry. 00:52.520 --> 00:53.720 I couldn't eat, not now. 00:53.720 --> 00:54.720 I don't see how you can. 00:54.720 --> 00:55.720 You've got to. 00:55.720 --> 00:59.760 It's no good going on like this. 00:59.760 --> 01:01.040 Is Harriet coming? 01:01.040 --> 01:02.040 I think so. 01:02.040 --> 01:03.040 She said she would. 01:03.040 --> 01:05.200 I hope she gets here soon. 01:05.200 --> 01:06.640 Everything will get cold. 01:06.640 --> 01:07.640 Stop it. 01:07.640 --> 01:08.640 Why don't you stop it? 01:08.640 --> 01:10.160 How can you talk as if nothing's happening? 01:10.160 --> 01:13.160 Nothing's going to happen. 01:13.160 --> 01:16.360 Oh dear. 01:16.360 --> 01:30.360 Oh, come in, Harriet. 01:30.360 --> 01:32.280 I was just wondering if you were going to be late. 01:32.280 --> 01:33.280 Does it make any difference? 01:33.280 --> 01:36.280 Oh, now, you mustn't talk like that. 01:36.280 --> 01:37.880 Life goes on. 01:37.880 --> 01:41.180 I know it's hard to see that now, but you will. 01:41.180 --> 01:42.760 Time is kind to us. 01:42.760 --> 01:44.860 Mr. Mailer is still trying to see the governor. 01:44.860 --> 01:46.440 Let me take your coat, dear. 01:46.440 --> 01:48.480 He's going to call here in a little while. 01:48.480 --> 01:50.840 We mustn't give up hope. 01:50.840 --> 01:52.800 Mrs. Martinson, could I have a drink? 01:52.800 --> 01:55.240 Well, I'm not sure. 01:55.240 --> 01:58.080 I don't really know if there is anything, you know, since I... 01:58.080 --> 01:59.080 I'm sorry. 01:59.080 --> 02:00.080 It doesn't matter. 02:00.080 --> 02:01.080 Where's Eileen? 02:01.080 --> 02:02.080 Lying down. 02:02.080 --> 02:04.720 I've got some nice dinner ready. 02:04.720 --> 02:07.480 Harriet, why don't you see if you can get Eileen to have some? 02:07.480 --> 02:09.760 It'll give her strength, poor dear. 02:09.760 --> 02:12.760 All right. 02:12.760 --> 02:17.760 I'll be right back. 02:17.760 --> 02:20.760 Hello. 02:20.760 --> 02:23.760 Harriet. 02:23.760 --> 02:28.520 Harriet, I can't stand it. 02:28.520 --> 02:29.520 I can't. 02:29.520 --> 02:30.520 I know. 02:30.520 --> 02:31.520 I know. 02:31.520 --> 02:32.520 No, you don't. 02:32.520 --> 02:33.520 You're only his sister. 02:33.520 --> 02:34.520 I love him. 02:34.520 --> 02:35.520 I'm his wife. 02:35.520 --> 02:36.520 I'm his sister, and I love him. 02:36.520 --> 02:37.520 I know. 02:37.520 --> 02:38.520 Can't they do anything? 02:38.520 --> 02:39.520 They can't. 02:39.520 --> 02:40.520 They can't. 02:40.520 --> 02:41.520 They can't. 02:41.520 --> 02:42.520 They can't. 02:42.520 --> 02:43.520 They can't. 02:43.520 --> 02:44.520 They can't. 02:44.520 --> 02:45.520 Can't they do anything? 02:45.520 --> 02:46.520 Did you see Mr. Mailer? 02:46.520 --> 02:47.520 He's trying. 02:47.520 --> 02:48.520 He's trying to see the governor. 02:48.520 --> 02:49.520 But there's no time. 02:49.520 --> 02:50.520 There's no time. 02:50.520 --> 02:51.960 There's a witness flying in from Mexico tonight. 02:51.960 --> 02:56.680 He says he saw a woman coming out of the building that night about the time that she was supposed 02:56.680 --> 02:58.100 to have been killed. 02:58.100 --> 03:01.240 Mr. Mailer thinks he might be able to get a stay of execution on the strength of it. 03:01.240 --> 03:02.640 It won't make any difference. 03:02.640 --> 03:04.440 It'll be like all the others. 03:04.440 --> 03:06.340 There was no proof. 03:06.340 --> 03:10.400 Just Norman and that terrible diary. 03:10.400 --> 03:13.760 Dean, do you honestly think he didn't kill her? 03:13.760 --> 03:15.800 Of course he didn't. 03:15.800 --> 03:17.960 I know he couldn't have done it. 03:17.960 --> 03:19.840 I couldn't bear thinking anything else. 03:19.840 --> 03:22.680 But you sometimes do think something else. 03:22.680 --> 03:23.680 No. 03:23.680 --> 03:26.060 No, I love him. 03:26.060 --> 03:27.060 He wrote me a letter. 03:27.060 --> 03:28.060 I got it this morning. 03:28.060 --> 03:30.280 I want to read it to you. 03:30.280 --> 03:31.280 What? 03:31.280 --> 03:34.280 What did he say? 03:34.280 --> 03:39.520 Dear little egg, just a note. 03:39.520 --> 03:43.360 I feel I can talk to you better than I can to Eileen. 03:43.360 --> 03:46.760 I know how you've stood by these past weeks. 03:46.760 --> 03:49.500 It's been the thing that's kept me going. 03:49.500 --> 03:52.920 I know that Eileen doesn't think I'm innocent. 03:52.920 --> 03:54.800 I was a fool to have kept the diary. 03:54.800 --> 04:00.000 I was a fool to have gotten involved with Sheila, but self-recrimination is no help 04:00.000 --> 04:02.320 now. 04:02.320 --> 04:06.840 It must have been a terrible shock to Eileen, but you weren't altogether blind when it came 04:06.840 --> 04:09.760 to seeing the truth of our marriage. 04:09.760 --> 04:14.320 I suppose I turned to that poor girl trying to find again what was finished between Eileen 04:14.320 --> 04:16.520 and myself. 04:16.520 --> 04:21.440 It's too late now, but I wish that things might have been different. 04:21.440 --> 04:23.480 Goodbye little egg. 04:23.480 --> 04:27.200 My last brotherly advice. 04:27.200 --> 04:31.920 Find a good man, get married, have lots of nice kids, and be happy. 04:31.920 --> 04:34.760 You're the best of sisters. 04:34.760 --> 04:41.760 All my love, Norman. 04:41.760 --> 04:44.040 He hasn't written to me. 04:44.040 --> 04:46.520 Hasn't he? 04:46.520 --> 04:49.040 He believes that I... 04:49.040 --> 04:51.040 I think he did it. 04:51.040 --> 04:52.040 Don't you? 04:52.040 --> 04:53.320 I love him. 04:53.320 --> 04:54.920 But you think he did kill her. 04:54.920 --> 04:56.000 I love him. 04:56.000 --> 04:57.760 It's not too late to send a message. 04:57.760 --> 04:58.760 Let him know. 04:58.760 --> 04:59.760 Tell him you know he's not guilty. 04:59.760 --> 05:01.160 You could do that. 05:01.160 --> 05:02.160 He was there. 05:02.160 --> 05:03.280 He was with her that night. 05:03.280 --> 05:06.320 He admitted that, but there was somebody else after he left. 05:06.320 --> 05:08.240 You're so sure. 05:08.240 --> 05:09.880 You sit there cold, not caring. 05:09.880 --> 05:10.880 You're like those lawyers. 05:10.880 --> 05:12.120 I'm waiting for him to die. 05:12.120 --> 05:14.280 I love him and he's going to die. 05:14.280 --> 05:16.480 You're waiting for an end to something and you're not feeling anything. 05:16.480 --> 05:17.480 Not really. 05:17.480 --> 05:19.320 He's your brother and so he's got to be innocent. 05:19.320 --> 05:20.320 Save the name of Landon. 05:20.320 --> 05:21.320 That's all it means to you. 05:21.320 --> 05:22.320 That's not true. 05:22.320 --> 05:24.360 Yes it is. 05:24.360 --> 05:27.860 You've always laughed at us, mother and me. 05:27.860 --> 05:29.720 You and Norman, always laughing. 05:29.720 --> 05:31.640 Little secrets. 05:31.640 --> 05:37.040 I love him and he always held something away from me that he gave you. 05:37.040 --> 05:38.880 I hated him for that. 05:38.880 --> 05:41.680 Then you can't be very unhappy that he's going to die tonight. 05:41.680 --> 05:44.960 Don't you dare say that. 05:44.960 --> 05:47.920 Why shouldn't I hate as well? 05:47.920 --> 05:49.560 He's never let me in. 05:49.560 --> 05:52.840 Never let me belong. 05:52.840 --> 05:55.640 Even waiting now. 05:55.640 --> 06:00.500 Waiting for him to go to the check. 06:00.500 --> 06:01.520 You keep it to yourselves. 06:01.520 --> 06:02.520 I can't even share that. 06:02.520 --> 06:03.520 I'm sorry. 06:03.520 --> 06:07.400 I suppose we just don't feel things the same way. 06:07.400 --> 06:10.400 Maybe I can't cry anymore. 06:10.400 --> 06:11.400 What's the time? 06:11.400 --> 06:12.400 Seven. 06:12.400 --> 06:13.400 Seven. 06:13.400 --> 06:14.400 Four hours. 06:14.400 --> 06:15.400 Eileen, Harriet, come along. 06:15.400 --> 06:16.400 Dinner's getting cold. 06:16.400 --> 06:17.400 I'm not hungry, Mrs. Martinson. 06:17.400 --> 06:18.400 I told you before, mother. 06:18.400 --> 06:31.220 It's nice, nice that you two have each other for comfort. 06:31.220 --> 06:35.040 We must all be strong, pray together and hope together. 06:35.040 --> 06:38.400 I'd like to get some coffee. 06:38.400 --> 06:39.400 You stay here with Eileen. 06:39.400 --> 06:44.400 I'll get it. 06:44.400 --> 06:47.640 Mother. 06:47.640 --> 07:00.520 Oh, yes dear, I'm sorry. 07:00.520 --> 07:02.480 What's the time? 07:02.480 --> 07:03.480 Nearly eight. 07:03.480 --> 07:04.480 I'll get it. 07:04.480 --> 07:07.480 Must be Mr. Mailer. 07:07.480 --> 07:08.480 Hello? 07:08.480 --> 07:11.480 Yes, Mr. Mailer. 07:11.480 --> 07:12.480 Yes. 07:12.480 --> 07:13.480 Oh. 07:13.480 --> 07:14.480 Yes, all right. 07:14.480 --> 07:15.480 Thank you. 07:15.480 --> 07:16.480 Yes, I will. 07:16.480 --> 07:17.480 The governor has refused to see him. 07:17.480 --> 07:18.480 I'm sorry. 07:18.480 --> 07:19.480 I'm sorry. 07:19.480 --> 07:20.480 I'm sorry. 07:20.480 --> 07:21.480 I'm sorry. 07:21.480 --> 07:22.480 I'm sorry. 07:22.480 --> 07:23.480 I'm sorry. 07:23.480 --> 07:24.480 I'm sorry. 07:24.480 --> 07:25.480 I'm sorry. 07:25.480 --> 07:26.480 I'm sorry. 07:26.480 --> 07:27.480 I'm sorry. 07:27.480 --> 07:28.480 I'm sorry. 07:28.480 --> 07:29.480 I'm sorry. 07:29.480 --> 07:30.480 I'm sorry. 07:30.480 --> 07:31.480 I'm sorry. 07:31.480 --> 07:32.760 He's going to drive to the mansion and try again. 07:32.760 --> 07:33.760 He's leaving. 07:33.760 --> 07:34.760 God's will. 07:34.760 --> 07:35.760 God's will. 07:35.760 --> 07:37.560 He's leaving as soon as the witness arrives. 07:37.560 --> 07:38.560 A witness? 07:38.560 --> 07:39.560 Who? 07:39.560 --> 07:41.960 A man says he saw someone come out of the apartment that night. 07:41.960 --> 07:43.600 He says it was a woman. 07:43.600 --> 07:44.600 She was running. 07:44.600 --> 07:45.600 He saw the woman? 07:45.600 --> 07:47.520 It was dark, but he thinks he could identify her. 07:47.520 --> 07:48.520 He's not sure. 07:48.520 --> 07:52.200 Mr. Mailer brought in a half a dozen witnesses who swore they saw somebody near the apartment. 07:52.200 --> 07:53.520 It didn't help. 07:53.520 --> 07:55.560 The jury didn't believe it. 07:55.560 --> 07:56.560 I think it's unfair. 07:56.560 --> 07:58.560 Please, please, don't talk about it. 07:58.560 --> 07:59.560 Why not? 07:59.560 --> 08:01.240 Am I the only one? 08:01.240 --> 08:03.840 Am I the only one who thinks Norman didn't kill her? 08:03.840 --> 08:04.840 Am I? 08:04.840 --> 08:10.600 Blind knot yourself with love to the faults which lie within man. 08:10.600 --> 08:12.960 I've tried not to interfere. 08:12.960 --> 08:17.920 I've seen what Norman's done to my daughter during the past two years and I've said nothing. 08:17.920 --> 08:19.960 It's not for me to judge his acts. 08:19.960 --> 08:21.560 That has been done. 08:21.560 --> 08:23.720 And a far higher judge will be waiting. 08:23.720 --> 08:24.720 I won't listen to you. 08:24.720 --> 08:25.720 I won't. 08:25.720 --> 08:30.200 I can't afford the loyalty that age has already squandered. 08:30.200 --> 08:31.200 Must you quote? 08:31.200 --> 08:35.160 Are you afraid of saying something original, something that'll show what you really are? 08:35.160 --> 08:36.160 That's enough. 08:36.160 --> 08:38.160 He's my husband. 08:38.160 --> 08:39.800 I don't care whether he killed that woman or not. 08:39.800 --> 08:41.360 I want him to live. 08:41.360 --> 08:42.360 I love him. 08:42.360 --> 09:06.280 He can't die. 09:06.280 --> 09:21.000 That was the second movement of the Symphony No. 6 in F major by Beethoven, played by the 09:21.000 --> 09:25.280 Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Brno Walter. 09:25.280 --> 09:28.680 Brought to you on Evening Music Program. 09:28.680 --> 09:30.840 The time is now nine o'clock. 09:30.840 --> 09:33.440 Here's a five minute summary of the news. 09:33.440 --> 09:37.120 Tonight, prison officials said tonight that nothing new was developed in the bid for stay 09:37.120 --> 09:41.400 of execution by Norman Landon, convicted slayer of Sheila Warner. 09:41.400 --> 09:46.840 Landon is scheduled to die at 11 o'clock tonight, approximately two hours from now. 09:46.840 --> 09:50.000 The governor turned down lawyers' latest plea. 09:50.000 --> 09:53.600 According to William Mailer, attorney for the condemned man, a new witness has been 09:53.600 --> 09:56.320 found who can shed further light on the case. 09:56.320 --> 10:04.840 However, the governor does not feel the evidence is sufficient to... 10:04.840 --> 10:06.800 I don't know where it went wrong with us. 10:06.800 --> 10:07.880 You tried, Eileen. 10:07.880 --> 10:10.240 Your mother knows you tried. 10:10.240 --> 10:12.800 Maybe I didn't understand. 10:12.800 --> 10:15.440 Maybe I was wrong, like he said in the letter. 10:15.440 --> 10:17.200 But what did I do? 10:17.200 --> 10:18.600 I wanted to make him happy. 10:18.600 --> 10:19.840 He'd never let me be close to him. 10:19.840 --> 10:21.480 I could never share anything. 10:21.480 --> 10:23.180 It's true, true as I sit here. 10:23.180 --> 10:24.180 You did your best. 10:24.180 --> 10:26.560 You have nothing to be ashamed of. 10:26.560 --> 10:28.560 Hasn't she? 10:28.560 --> 10:29.560 Haven't you, Eileen? 10:29.560 --> 10:30.560 No. 10:30.560 --> 10:31.560 No, nothing. 10:31.560 --> 10:35.560 He's ruined all our lives, what he did. 10:35.560 --> 10:38.560 But it's not right. 10:38.560 --> 10:39.560 I shouldn't care. 10:39.560 --> 10:42.840 Why do I have to feel the way I do about him? 10:42.840 --> 10:43.840 He didn't love me. 10:43.840 --> 10:44.840 It was that other woman. 10:44.840 --> 10:46.960 If he loved her so much, why did he kill her? 10:46.960 --> 10:49.520 Because it was dirty, nasty. 10:49.520 --> 10:50.800 Because of the liquor and immorality. 10:50.800 --> 10:52.200 It always ends that way. 10:52.200 --> 10:54.680 How do you know about morality? 10:54.680 --> 10:56.880 Everything's dirty and nasty to you. 10:56.880 --> 10:58.880 You tried to make Eileen feel that way, too. 10:58.880 --> 11:01.120 You think I don't know what happened to their marriage. 11:01.120 --> 11:02.120 I do. 11:02.120 --> 11:03.120 Get out. 11:03.120 --> 11:04.120 Get out of this house. 11:04.120 --> 11:05.440 You've shown your true color. 11:05.440 --> 11:06.440 You're no better than he was. 11:06.440 --> 11:07.440 Get out. 11:07.440 --> 11:08.440 I'll go. 11:08.440 --> 11:09.440 I wouldn't... 11:09.440 --> 11:10.440 Well? 11:10.440 --> 11:11.440 Hello? 11:11.440 --> 11:22.440 Yes? 11:22.440 --> 11:26.920 Yes, I'll wait. 11:26.920 --> 11:27.920 Who is it? 11:27.920 --> 11:28.920 Mr. Mailer. 11:28.920 --> 11:29.920 He's coming to the phone. 11:29.920 --> 11:30.920 Let me talk to him. 11:30.920 --> 11:31.920 No, I want to. 11:31.920 --> 11:34.660 Hello, Mr. Mailer? 11:34.660 --> 11:35.660 This is Mrs. Landon. 11:35.660 --> 11:36.660 Yes. 11:36.660 --> 11:37.660 Oh. 11:37.660 --> 11:42.200 I see. 11:42.200 --> 11:50.200 Yes, thank you. 11:50.200 --> 11:52.800 Thank you very much. 11:52.800 --> 11:53.800 What did he say? 11:53.800 --> 11:54.800 What? 11:54.800 --> 11:57.940 Mr. Mailer's not going to see the governor. 11:57.940 --> 12:00.960 He doesn't have to. 12:00.960 --> 12:18.840 The Americans just confessed that he killed the woman. 12:18.840 --> 12:26.240 You are listening to Waiting, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, 12:26.240 --> 12:37.840 The Suspense. 12:37.840 --> 12:43.640 Isn't it wonderful the way some people always seem to have the money for extras, car, vacation, 12:43.640 --> 12:49.920 weekends away, fur coats, higher education, folks who seem to be in the same circumstances 12:49.920 --> 12:51.460 as yourselves. 12:51.460 --> 12:56.440 It may be wonderful, but it's nothing you can't have through planned automatic savings, 12:56.440 --> 12:59.560 the United States Savings Bond way. 12:59.560 --> 13:04.640 Through the payroll savings plan or the bond a month plan at your bank, buy United States 13:04.640 --> 13:08.040 savings bonds regularly. 13:08.040 --> 13:13.920 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Vivi Janis, Helen Klebe, and Charlotte Lawrence, 13:13.920 --> 13:35.120 starring in tonight's production of Waiting, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:35.120 --> 13:36.120 I'll be going. 13:36.120 --> 13:37.120 No, I don't want you to go. 13:37.120 --> 13:39.440 You let her be in this house after the way she's talked to your mother. 13:39.440 --> 13:41.720 Oh, none of us know what we're saying. 13:41.720 --> 13:42.720 It doesn't matter anyway. 13:42.720 --> 13:47.120 Well, I would have thought an apology were in order. 13:47.120 --> 13:49.840 I wish I had a drink. 13:49.840 --> 13:50.840 Something in the cabinet. 13:50.840 --> 13:52.640 I'll get you one, Harriet. 13:52.640 --> 13:53.640 I want one too. 13:53.640 --> 14:00.240 Make it strong. 14:00.240 --> 14:02.760 So he did it after all. 14:02.760 --> 14:03.760 What did you say? 14:03.760 --> 14:04.760 Nothing. 14:04.760 --> 14:05.760 Yes, you did. 14:05.760 --> 14:07.880 You said he did it, didn't you? 14:07.880 --> 14:09.440 He confessed. 14:09.440 --> 14:11.200 For his soul's sake, he confessed. 14:11.200 --> 14:12.200 I don't believe it. 14:12.200 --> 14:13.200 I don't want to believe it. 14:13.200 --> 14:14.200 He didn't kill her. 14:14.200 --> 14:15.960 He was always drinking. 14:15.960 --> 14:18.200 He taught Eileen to drink and no good comes of it. 14:18.200 --> 14:20.800 It's a false strength she's taking for herself. 14:20.800 --> 14:22.800 Where does your strength come from? 14:22.800 --> 14:25.600 A knowledge of right and wrong. 14:25.600 --> 14:28.920 You laugh at that, waiting till you're my age. 14:28.920 --> 14:32.040 I think I'll never know your kind of right and wrong. 14:32.040 --> 14:33.920 You just wait. 14:33.920 --> 14:38.600 I pray, go down on my knees, that there were no children to see this night. 14:38.600 --> 14:41.800 Eileen, you all right? 14:41.800 --> 14:42.800 Eileen. 14:42.800 --> 14:45.080 I dropped it. 14:45.080 --> 14:48.640 No, don't pick up the pieces like that. 14:48.640 --> 14:49.640 You'll cut yourself. 14:49.640 --> 14:52.640 I'll do it. 14:52.640 --> 14:55.640 I'm afraid. 14:55.640 --> 14:58.640 I'm afraid. 14:58.640 --> 15:02.480 I'm afraid. 15:02.480 --> 15:03.480 What's the time? 15:03.480 --> 15:04.480 Nearly 10. 15:04.480 --> 15:08.120 It's the waiting that's the worst. 15:08.120 --> 15:10.840 It'd be better if it were finished. 15:10.840 --> 15:12.440 You can't wait till he's dead. 15:12.440 --> 15:13.920 Is that what you mean? 15:13.920 --> 15:16.920 Is that why you're afraid? 15:16.920 --> 15:19.040 Shut up! 15:19.040 --> 15:20.640 Did that make you feel better? 15:20.640 --> 15:21.640 I'm sorry. 15:21.640 --> 15:22.640 I'm sorry. 15:22.640 --> 15:24.400 You have to take it out on somebody. 15:24.400 --> 15:25.960 It's easier then, isn't it? 15:25.960 --> 15:27.720 It always was. 15:27.720 --> 15:30.640 If you can get angry enough, you don't have to think about things. 15:30.640 --> 15:32.860 Like now, that's why you slapped me. 15:32.860 --> 15:35.200 You want him to be guilty. 15:35.200 --> 15:37.160 It's better for you now he's confessed, isn't it? 15:37.160 --> 15:38.160 He did kill her. 15:38.160 --> 15:39.160 He did. 15:39.160 --> 15:40.160 No. 15:40.160 --> 15:44.680 If he confessed to make things easier for you and for me, then maybe we wouldn't have 15:44.680 --> 15:47.560 to spend the rest of our lives wondering. 15:47.560 --> 15:50.400 Not that you're wondering. 15:50.400 --> 15:52.360 You know, don't you? 15:52.360 --> 15:55.360 What do you mean? 15:55.360 --> 15:58.040 You know what I mean. 15:58.040 --> 15:59.040 Go on inside. 15:59.040 --> 16:00.040 I'll make the drinks. 16:00.040 --> 16:25.520 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. 16:25.520 --> 16:29.120 But it shall not come nigh thee. 16:29.120 --> 16:34.760 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. 16:34.760 --> 16:37.200 They'll find out who really did it. 16:37.200 --> 16:39.480 No matter what happens to Norman, they'll find out who did it. 16:39.480 --> 16:40.680 They already know. 16:40.680 --> 16:42.280 Do they? 16:42.280 --> 16:44.680 In half an hour, a man's going to be murdered. 16:44.680 --> 16:46.520 An eye for an eye. 16:46.520 --> 16:51.160 At 11 o'clock, we just sit here, and it'll be like New Year's Eve. 16:51.160 --> 16:54.680 We ought to have the radio on so we know the exact time. 16:54.680 --> 16:59.440 But it takes a little while for him to be pronounced dead, completely dead. 16:59.440 --> 17:00.440 What is it? 17:00.440 --> 17:01.440 A minute? 17:01.440 --> 17:02.440 A minute and a half? 17:02.440 --> 17:04.640 Do we drink a toast at 11 or one minute past? 17:04.640 --> 17:05.640 You should be put away. 17:05.640 --> 17:06.640 Talk like that. 17:06.640 --> 17:07.640 You're out of your mind. 17:07.640 --> 17:09.920 Somebody else will be sitting, waiting. 17:09.920 --> 17:10.920 There isn't anybody else. 17:10.920 --> 17:12.480 Why don't you be quiet? 17:12.480 --> 17:13.480 He did it. 17:13.480 --> 17:16.080 I wanted to believe he didn't, but I know he said he did. 17:16.080 --> 17:17.080 I'll go. 17:17.080 --> 17:22.080 Telegram from Mrs. Norman Landon. 17:22.080 --> 17:24.080 Thank you. 17:24.080 --> 17:42.760 It's for you, Ani. 17:42.760 --> 17:43.760 You did this. 17:43.760 --> 17:44.760 What is it, dear? 17:44.760 --> 17:45.760 Who is it from? 17:45.760 --> 17:47.760 She did it. 17:47.760 --> 17:48.760 Congratulations. 17:48.760 --> 17:51.800 That's all it says. 17:51.800 --> 17:52.800 It's from you, isn't it? 17:52.800 --> 17:53.800 Don't be stupid. 17:53.800 --> 17:54.800 I didn't say that. 17:54.800 --> 17:55.800 I didn't send it. 17:55.800 --> 17:56.800 Who did? 17:56.800 --> 17:57.800 You're a wicked girl if you sent that. 17:57.800 --> 17:58.800 A horrible wicked girl. 17:58.800 --> 17:59.800 Mother was right. 17:59.800 --> 18:00.800 You shouldn't be here. 18:00.800 --> 18:01.800 I want you to go. 18:01.800 --> 18:02.800 No, I'm staying. 18:02.800 --> 18:03.800 I'm going to wait until 11. 18:03.800 --> 18:04.800 You're getting out. 18:04.800 --> 18:05.800 I've told you I'm not leaving. 18:05.800 --> 18:06.800 Call the police, Eileen. 18:06.800 --> 18:07.800 Call the police. 18:07.800 --> 18:08.800 They'll take care of her. 18:08.800 --> 18:09.800 What are you smiling at? 18:09.800 --> 18:10.800 What? 18:10.800 --> 18:11.800 Don't take any notice of her. 18:11.800 --> 18:12.800 Why are you smiling like that? 18:12.800 --> 18:13.800 I just think it's funny. 18:13.800 --> 18:14.800 Calling the police to put me out. 18:14.800 --> 18:15.800 She's gone crazy. 18:15.800 --> 18:16.800 Stay away from her, Eileen. 18:16.800 --> 18:18.800 Why are you being like this, Harriet? 18:18.800 --> 18:19.800 It's not my fault. 18:19.800 --> 18:20.800 I can't help it. 18:20.800 --> 18:23.800 I want to hear you say you believe he's innocent. 18:23.800 --> 18:24.800 I'm waiting for that. 18:24.800 --> 18:25.800 Operator, get me the police. 18:25.800 --> 18:28.800 Harriet, will you go now? 18:28.800 --> 18:29.800 No. 18:29.800 --> 18:30.800 Mother, hang up. 18:30.800 --> 18:31.800 How do you know such thing? 18:31.800 --> 18:34.800 I said hang up. 18:34.800 --> 18:36.800 You hurt my hand. 18:36.800 --> 18:38.800 I'm sorry. 18:38.800 --> 18:40.800 It's bad enough as it is. 18:40.800 --> 18:42.800 We don't need any more business with the police. 18:42.800 --> 18:44.800 You hurt me. 18:44.800 --> 18:46.800 I'm going to my room. 18:46.800 --> 18:51.800 When you've thought it over, you may come and apologize. 18:51.800 --> 18:53.800 She's old. 18:53.800 --> 18:55.800 Things aren't the same to her anymore. 18:55.800 --> 18:57.800 Were they ever? 18:57.800 --> 19:00.800 You think I'm to blame for everything, don't you? 19:00.800 --> 19:02.800 Most of it, yes. 19:02.800 --> 19:07.800 Do you know what it's like living with a man you love? 19:07.800 --> 19:13.800 Love so much it makes you weak and nothing. 19:13.800 --> 19:18.800 Realize that when you say things you don't mean them. 19:18.800 --> 19:20.800 But you want to hurt. 19:20.800 --> 19:23.800 Do anything to get him to notice. 19:23.800 --> 19:26.800 Make him angry, anything. 19:26.800 --> 19:32.800 But make him feel something. 19:32.800 --> 19:36.800 I never could. 19:36.800 --> 19:42.800 You think I don't know why he started going with that woman? 19:42.800 --> 19:45.800 I understand. 19:45.800 --> 19:48.800 I don't want to, but I do. 19:48.800 --> 19:51.800 It's the lack in me. 19:51.800 --> 19:54.800 Just the way he said in the diary. 19:54.800 --> 19:56.800 It's ten to eleven. 19:56.800 --> 19:59.800 I hated her so much. 19:59.800 --> 20:02.800 I thought of killing him, but he wouldn't have cared. 20:02.800 --> 20:04.800 You'll be even with them both now. 20:04.800 --> 20:07.800 You can't understand how I love him. 20:07.800 --> 20:09.800 There'll never be anybody else. 20:09.800 --> 20:11.800 There's somebody else, all right. 20:11.800 --> 20:12.800 No! 20:12.800 --> 20:14.800 We're a lot alike. 20:14.800 --> 20:16.800 The whole others have over us. 20:16.800 --> 20:19.800 Norman and I, you and your mother. 20:19.800 --> 20:22.800 It's not good to be that close, not for anybody. 20:22.800 --> 20:25.800 Norman and I had each other. 20:25.800 --> 20:31.800 Maybe if it hadn't been for you, Mother, we might have... 20:31.800 --> 20:32.800 You didn't? 20:32.800 --> 20:34.800 You had a chance and you didn't. 20:34.800 --> 20:38.800 I thought you'd tell the truth when you got the telegram. 20:38.800 --> 20:41.800 You said it. 20:41.800 --> 20:43.800 It was you. 20:43.800 --> 20:45.800 I hoped it would make you tell the truth. 20:45.800 --> 20:50.800 Charlene, Harriet, it's nearly eleven. 20:50.800 --> 20:52.800 We must all pray together. 20:52.800 --> 20:54.800 You pray, Mrs. Martinson. 20:54.800 --> 20:56.800 I'll watch you. 20:56.800 --> 21:00.800 Hello? 21:00.800 --> 21:04.800 Yes, Mr. Mailer. 21:04.800 --> 21:09.800 Oh, yes, I will. 21:09.800 --> 21:14.800 Thank you. 21:14.800 --> 21:17.800 The witness arrived and identified the woman from the picture. 21:17.800 --> 21:19.800 Identified? 21:19.800 --> 21:24.800 The governor granted a stay of execution five minutes ago. 21:24.800 --> 21:28.800 He won't come back to me. 21:28.800 --> 21:32.800 Would have been better if he died. 21:32.800 --> 21:34.800 Now I'll have no one. 21:34.800 --> 21:37.800 You knew, didn't you, Eileen? 21:37.800 --> 21:40.800 Yes. 21:40.800 --> 21:44.800 I didn't think anyone saw me come out. 21:44.800 --> 21:46.800 I followed him, Eileen. I did it for you. 21:46.800 --> 21:50.800 I had to. It was so wicked. 21:50.800 --> 21:52.800 Right after he left her, I went in. 21:52.800 --> 21:55.800 I tried to talk to her. 21:55.800 --> 21:58.800 I did it for you, dear. 21:58.800 --> 22:01.800 They won't electrocute me, will they? 22:01.800 --> 22:07.800 I know it's against the commandment to kill, but I had to. 22:07.800 --> 22:33.800 I think I'll be able to stand everything but the waiting. 22:33.800 --> 22:37.800 Suspense, in which Vivi Janis, Helen Klebe and Charlotte Lawrence 22:37.800 --> 22:40.800 were starred in Waiting. 22:40.800 --> 22:45.800 Next week, the story of a little girl and the terror in a vacant lot. 22:45.800 --> 22:50.800 It's called The Screaming Woman and is written by a master of fear and suspense, 22:50.800 --> 22:52.800 Mr. Ray Bradbury. 22:52.800 --> 23:04.800 That's next week on Suspense. 23:04.800 --> 23:09.800 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, who wrote tonight's play. 23:09.800 --> 23:13.800 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:13.800 --> 23:20.800 Featured in the cast were Tom Hanley and Larry Thorne. 23:20.800 --> 23:43.800 Crime Photographer clicks against criminals Fridays on the CBS Radio Network.