1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding, 2 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Twitter of Trolls, Suspense. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Tonight, the story of a rehearsal and a performance of murder. 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 We call it The Cellar. 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:41,000 So now, starring Mr. Eric Snowden, here is tonight's Suspense play, The Cellar. 6 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 I've got to put it away, and that's a fact. 7 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 I've thought about it for a long time, 16 years to be exact. 8 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:55,000 I've been married 20, and I think I owe it to myself to do something about it now. 9 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 It's the principle of the thing, if you follow me. 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 First of all, I don't like her voice. 11 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Jaw, jaw, jaw, horrible sound. 12 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 She goes at it morning, noon, and night. 13 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 You never heard the like. 14 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Or maybe you did. 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 It goes something like this. 16 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,000 Oscar! Oscar, how many times am I about to tell you not to put your feet on the attic? 17 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:25,000 You think all I've got to do is to spend my days cleaning off your dirty boot marks. 18 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,000 And for heaven's sake, I don't know, I'm sure, why I've got to do everything in the house. 19 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:37,000 It's bad enough the way I strump and sigh, weak in and weak out, to keep a clothe of bread in our mouths. 20 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Never an hope, I'm sure, of having somebody to help with the work. 21 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:48,000 I really don't know why you don't get a better position, always dreaming of what we're going to do. 22 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:57,000 If you'd only asked the back-bone liar, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, not you! 23 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Bloody awful, ain't it? 24 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,000 I've worked it out on paper. 25 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:11,000 There's 60 seconds in a minute and 3,600 seconds in an hour, and 86,400 seconds in 24 hours. 26 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 You listen to that for 20 years and then you go off your bleasy nut. 27 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Sooner or later it's got to stop, and that's a fact. 28 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 And there's other things. 29 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:29,000 She puts some kind of sheep oil on her hands and pours it into bed, and who gets smeared with it? 30 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Who else? 31 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Goodness knows, I try to keep myself looking halfway decent. 32 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:40,000 It's not like I can afford a manicure twice a week like Mrs. Plimpton. 33 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 I should think you'd be grateful. 34 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 That shucks about it. 35 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 You think that's not a good reason to do it in your life? 36 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 I don't mind telling you, it helps. 37 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 And she's always putting her feet on me back. 38 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Says they're cold and wants me to warm them for her. 39 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 They're cold all right. 40 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Like a blinking mackerel. 41 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Shows my back. 42 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000 And she thinks she's all stuffed about keeping accounts. 43 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Always guessing about saving. 44 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 And I get two bob-a-weeks spending money. 45 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,000 I ask you, how can a man live on that? 46 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 It's a perishing injustice. 47 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,000 So all in all, that's why I got a killer. 48 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Everything's ready and I suppose I might as well get on with it. 49 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Well, there. 50 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 That looks about right. 51 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Millie? 52 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Millie? 53 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,000 What is it, Arthur? 54 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Could you come down for a minute, love? 55 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Where are you? 56 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 In the cellar, sweetheart. 57 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 I'm busy. 58 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 That'll only take half a mile. 59 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 I've got something to show you down here. 60 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 I've got a job, it's just one business and another. 61 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 What's my business? 62 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 The film's not gonna get you covered in it. 63 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,000 You'll get a bad father, not much. 64 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 We tell you there's a lot better things to do 65 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 than to boil something down every time you want something. 66 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Keep your hair on, love, it won't be long. 67 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,000 I'm so hot in here, I'm pale all right. 68 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Sure, I don't know why I put up with it, 69 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 you messing about down here while I'm... 70 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Oscar Wiggins! 71 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 What are you doing with my cellar? 72 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Why is it all dug up like that? 73 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,000 You go on by me. 74 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Now, you put every scrap of that dirt back in the old-ish minute. 75 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,000 You hear me? 76 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,000 I never. 77 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,000 All right, love, I will. 78 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Don't worry. 79 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,000 And don't you dare come upstairs till you've cleaned off your boots. 80 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 I will not have that mess all over me clean kitchen floor. 81 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 All right, Uncle Off-Drop, 82 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 I just wanted to get an idea of the size. 83 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 It looks all right. 84 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 What are you talking about? 85 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Right for what? 86 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 For you, dear. 87 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Nummy, you've been drinking. 88 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,000 You've been drinking, that's what. 89 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Not a drop. 90 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 I'm at Sea Totem and you know that milk. 91 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 No milk, though. 92 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 The time has come, as the wall has said to the carpenter, 93 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,000 your time. 94 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:30,000 You pick up that spide this instant and fill in every bit of that oil. 95 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 And no argument, you hear? 96 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 All right, old cop. 97 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,000 When you're done, you'll march yourself up there to wash your hands of vape, 98 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 because supper will be on in ten minutes and I will not have it spoiled. 99 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 No, I've got something I've got to say to you. 100 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Eh? 101 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:52,000 I'm fed up with your jaw, fed to the teeth, and that's a fact. 102 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 How dare you! 103 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Who do you think you're talking to? 104 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,000 I'm fed up with your greasy hands and I'm fed up with your clammy feet. 105 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 But most of all, Mill, I'm fed up with you. 106 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Oscar? 107 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 So I'm going to do you in. 108 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Oscar, don't you look at me like that. 109 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Don't you touch me or I'll have the law on you. 110 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,000 I don't give a frid for you and I don't give a frid for the laws. 111 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 I work it all out. 112 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,000 And if you think you can get up them stairs before I bash your head in, 113 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,000 you're very much mistaken. 114 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Oh, he's going to murder me! 115 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Oh, he's going to murder me! 116 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Help! Help me! Murder me! 117 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Oh, you've got an horrible voice. 118 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Help! Help! 119 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 My old mum always used to say, 120 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Oscar, if ever you do anything in this world, do it right. 121 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:06,000 I remembered her words as I covered up the mortal remains of my ever loving ex, Millie Wittgen. 122 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 I deterred a corker. 123 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000 One good whack on the S, so there wasn't much of a mess, if you follow my meaning, 124 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,000 took me about 15 minutes to cover her up nice and neat like. 125 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 And then I went upstairs. 126 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 You don't mind telling her? 127 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Give me a bit of a turn when I open the front door. 128 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 I hadn't had time to wash up yet, but I wasn't too worried. 129 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Not until I saw her standing outside. 130 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 It was a cop, gauntly by name. 131 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,000 He's got the beat on my square. 132 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 Evening, Mr. Wittgen. 133 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Evening, Mr. Gauntly. 134 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Sorry to have to trouble you, but I had a complaint. 135 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Sorry to hear that, Mr. Gauntly. 136 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Complaint states that an audible vowel was emanating from your house. 137 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,000 A vowel? 138 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Screams more like. 139 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Screams? Who's? 140 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,000 That's the nature of the inquiry, Mr. Wittgen. 141 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I'd be obliged if you could shed some light. 142 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Happy to, if I knew how I could help. 143 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 The, uh, missus at home? 144 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 No, she ran off to the picture palace. 145 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,000 You know, these women and their ruddy pictures. 146 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 What time did she go? 147 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 I don't know. About an hour ago. 148 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,000 No one else here? 149 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Not a living soul, except myself. 150 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Hmm. 151 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 You been doing any screaming, Mr. Wittgen? 152 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Not bloody likely. What do you take me for? 153 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 All in the nature of the inquiry, Mr. Wittgen. No offense, I hope. 154 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,000 None took, Mr. Gauntly. 155 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Oh, no. 156 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Clean as hour, I have me duty to perform. 157 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 I hope you'll allow me to have a look about the primitives, Mr. Wittgen. 158 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Seems to me a man's got his right, but I always hold to aid in the law. 159 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 If you're looking his aid in, help yourself, Mr. Gauntly. 160 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Your mind's telling me what you're looking for. 161 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Two neighbors swear they heard the sounds coming from here. 162 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Maybe it was on the radio. 163 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 It's not on. 164 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,000 It saved me making the report, Mr. Wittgen. 165 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Pretty obliging of you, I'm sure. 166 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Phil, I don't think there's a need to bother you anymore. 167 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:10,000 I'll just, uh... 168 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Hello. 169 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Cut yourself? 170 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Huh? How? 171 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Oh, that now. 172 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Cutting up a bit of beef for grub. 173 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Thought I'd give the missus a nice surprise when she gets home. 174 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,000 I was in the kitchen when you knocked. 175 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Sorry to have disturbed you, Mr. Wittgen, all right. 176 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Makes the bloke feel safer knowing there's law nearby. 177 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Nice to have you face up, Wittgen. 178 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Good evening. 179 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Evening, Mr. Gauntly. 180 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Lummy. 181 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,000 That was a close one, all right, but I handled it nicely. 182 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 The worst of it was over. 183 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Copper had dinged and gone, and I'd have at least 24 hours to clear out. 184 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Maybe longer. 185 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,000 At 8 o'clock, like I'd planned it, Maggie Jones turned up. 186 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Oh, what a bit of story she had. 187 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Lovely. 188 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,000 I'd met her a couple of months before, and I hadn't told her what I had in mind. 189 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 But I knew she wouldn't care when she heard. 190 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:14,000 After all, it was all done for her, mostly. 191 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Oh, Oscar, I didn't love you. 192 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Heavenly ain't it. 193 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,000 When she was coming home. 194 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,000 Oh, I do feel something awful carrying on this way. 195 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Maggie, love, sit down. 196 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,000 I've something to say to you. 197 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Maggie, will you run off with me? 198 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Run away? With you? 199 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 But how can I? 200 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,000 You're a married man, and what would my mom and dad think? 201 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Maggie, love, all I have is yours. 202 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,000 You don't have to worry about a blinking thing. 203 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Everything is taken care of. 204 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Taken care of for now. 205 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 What's your wife going to say? 206 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,000 She ain't going to say nothing. 207 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Maggie, for love of you, I've done her in. 208 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 You've done her in? 209 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,000 That's right. 210 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Where is she? 211 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,000 What did you do with her? 212 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:16,000 You're just about sitting over her now. 213 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 She's buried in the cellar. 214 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Oh boy, how horrible. 215 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 You did it for me, Oscar. 216 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 For you, sweetheart. 217 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Oh, how you must love me. 218 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Never a truer word. 219 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Now, listen here, Duck, it's all arranged. 220 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 In the morning, I'm taking the savings out, 221 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 and you and me are buzzing off. 222 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,000 There's a boat sailing for South America 223 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,000 to the Argentine at eight o'clock tomorrow night. 224 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,000 We'll be on it. 225 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Oh, I don't know what my mom and dad will say. 226 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Don't tell them. 227 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Write to them. 228 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 From the Argentine. 229 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Oh, Oscar, you make it so hard for a girl to say no. 230 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Give us a kiss of no more argy-bargy. 231 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 How many years is that? 232 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Oh, Oscar. 233 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 You up in the kitchen. 234 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 She won't be a sec. 235 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:13,000 All right, all right, Mark, you're not coming. 236 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Good evening, Oscar. 237 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Oh, it's you. 238 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Where's me daughter? 239 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Out, out. 240 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Won't be out for a bit. 241 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Then I'll wait. 242 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Oh, close the door, Oscar. 243 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,000 There's a drop down me back. 244 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,000 It was that audible old cow, Mrs. Quill. 245 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Poor old Millie's mother. 246 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,000 And when she says she's going to wait, she means it. 247 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Last time it took two weeks to get rid of her. 248 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Now, what was I going to do about her? 249 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:58,000 You are listening to The Cellar, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 250 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,000 You might ask me to sit down, Oscar, wouldn't you? 251 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Oh, oh yes, sit down, mother dear. 252 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Still daydreaming, I think. 253 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,000 Not much improvement in you since the last time I was here. 254 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Oh, Millie and me, we was going out when she came to visit. 255 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 256 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 I'm sorry. 257 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 I'm sorry. 258 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,000 I'm sorry. 259 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,000 I'm sorry. 260 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 I'm sorry. 261 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 I'm sorry. 262 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,000 I'm sorry. 263 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 I'm sorry. 264 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,000 We was going out when she came back. 265 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 Why don't you drop in over the weekend? 266 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 She'd love to see you. 267 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 You can stay for a bit if you'd like. 268 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 I've traveled across all from London to visit me daughter. 269 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 I've no intention of going home tonight. 270 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 You can go out if you want to, Oscar. 271 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Millie will stay here and talk to her mother. 272 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Oh. 273 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,000 I haven't had me supper yet. 274 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 I brought a nice bit of smoked daddocks. 275 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 I'll go in and put it on. 276 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000 No, I mean you sit here comfortable like. 277 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,000 I'll do it. 278 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 You? 279 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Don't make me laugh. 280 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 You think I want me attic ruined? 281 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,000 I said, mother dear, I'll cook your ruddy attic for you. 282 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Take it or leave it. 283 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,000 How dare you? 284 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,000 How dare you address me in that fashion? 285 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Go boil your head. 286 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Oh, you naughty little worm. 287 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Just wait till Millie hears about this. 288 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,000 You wait. 289 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Matter of fact, this is my house, 290 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,000 and I didn't hear no invitation for you to come in tonight. 291 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 You've been drinking. 292 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Once and for all, I have not been drinking. 293 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,000 Now buzz off. 294 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 I will not leave this house until me daughter comes in that door. 295 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,000 I'm going to give you ten seconds, mother dear, to op it. 296 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Then I'm going to land you one you won't forget. 297 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 One, two. 298 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 You dare to hit an old woman. 299 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Three, four. 300 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 You'll lay an end on me. 301 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Five, six. 302 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,000 You must be insane. 303 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Seven, eight. 304 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Oh, my Millie is. 305 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Nine, ten. 306 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Oh. 307 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Ah. 308 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Ah. 309 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Now that's something I've wanted to do for a long time. 310 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 All clear, Aggie, love. 311 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Oh, I was, I was that frightened. 312 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Don't you worry, you're pretty yet. 313 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Everything's bright as rain. 314 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Now you'll have to be off. 315 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Wouldn't it be good to have anybody else snooping around and find you here? 316 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Not a word to anyone, see? 317 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,000 You'll meet me at the marble art station at four o'clock tomorrow, see? 318 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,000 But what about me clothes, Oscar? 319 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Mama'll ask where I'm going. 320 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Leave it to me. 321 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 I'll buy you all the clothes you want. 322 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 That's one thing I've got to say for poor old Millie. 323 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 She wasn't a very nuttish in woman, but she was a saving one. 324 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 She was wanted to go abroad. 325 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Oh, but ain't it awful? 326 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,000 A nation means going with a married man and a murderer. 327 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,000 You're all going to marry me, aren't you, Oscar? 328 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Marry you? 329 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 What a question. 330 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,000 I've got memorials same as the next bloke. 331 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Of course I'm going to marry you. 332 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Oh, Oscar, I know it's wicked, but I can't wait till tomorrow. 333 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,000 You dream about it, love, and before you know it, it'll be tomorrow. 334 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Now go on. 335 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 You'd better leave by the back door. 336 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 The next morning at ten, I was in the bank. 337 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,000 I had my slip made out to withdraw my savings, 338 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,000 and a nice little drop it was too, 800 quid. 339 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:00,000 I was waiting for the money when a tallish bloke comes out to me from behind a gate, 340 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,000 all smiles and treacle he was. 341 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Mr. Widgerton? 342 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Yes, sir, I? 343 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,000 How do you do? 344 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 I'm Mr. Four-Paw, the manager. 345 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,000 I understand that you wish to withdraw your savings. 346 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,000 That's right. 347 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 I trust you found no fault with our service? 348 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 No, just what's mine. 349 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,000 That's all? 350 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Of course, of course, naturally. 351 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,000 The eyeing past of the reason you're withdrawing the fund, 352 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 is there apt to be a reason? 353 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 No, no, no, not at all. 354 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,000 But since you've been such a faithful depositor for so many years. 355 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Oh, well, the truth is, Mr. Four-Paw, me and the missus thought we'd take a bit of an ology. 356 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,000 You know, the Riviera, a little sunshine and polyvoo. 357 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Oh, yes, I see. 358 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,000 Then of course, sir, you want to leave a sum here with us? 359 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,000 No, I want it all. 360 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,000 But my dear sir, you can't spend it abroad. 361 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Who says I can't? 362 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 The government, sir, the government. 363 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,000 A maximum of 50 pounds need be taken out of the country. 364 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Yes, what are you giving me? 365 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 But surely you know that it's common knowledge. 366 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:04,000 No, to me it ain't. It's my money. I can do as I please with it. 367 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Here in England, yes, but you can't take it out of court. 368 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,000 It's a ruddy injustice. 369 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,000 That's what it is. 370 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 I charge, I give the point, sir. I'm conservative. 371 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,000 That's your odd luck. 372 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Now you and over my money, see, what I do with it is my business. 373 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Opt to it. 374 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Just as you please, Mr. Widgeon. 375 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Ah, Mr. Easton, I oversteeped you. I'd like to hear... 376 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,000 I've done it. They've done it. 377 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 What in blazes am I going to do now? 378 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 I shelved the 800 quid in her pocket and went home. 379 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000 And that's what I should never have done. 380 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Because when I got there, the old cow was standing in front of the door 381 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,000 and the copper gorm we was with her. 382 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 There he is, Constable. There he is. 383 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Ask him what he's done with my little daughter. Ask him. 384 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000 Ask more and you meddling old hag. 385 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Now then, now then. No language at your place, Mr. Widgeon. 386 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000 There's a lady's upset because she has knocked on the door 387 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,000 and there's no answer for moving in. 388 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Well, what's that to her? 389 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 She's worried about Mrs. Widgeon. 390 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,000 It's me own flesh and blood I'm worrying about. 391 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000 I've got a right. 392 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,000 She ain't home. That's all. 393 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Then where is she? 394 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 She went out shopping. 395 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000 He's lying. 396 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,000 She went home last night and he put me out by force. 397 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Threatened to do me a mischief. 398 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,000 He's done something to her. You mock my words. 399 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,000 How would you like a fat blip? 400 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Now then, now then. 401 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Look here, I ain't got time to stand here arguing. 402 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Constable, you go in that house and see what's what. 403 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,000 He wouldn't let me in the kitchen last night. 404 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Outside I'd see the blood and gore where he's access a business. 405 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000 You go in there. 406 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Mr. Widgeon wouldn't do a thing like that, ma'am. 407 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,000 Now, why don't you go to the corner house 408 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,000 and have a nice cup of tea. 409 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 And by the time you're finished, 410 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000 your daughter will be home just like Mr. Widgeon's is. 411 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,000 That's right. 412 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,000 I ain't moving from here till I see her alive with me own eyes. 413 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Yeah, it's all one with me, but you ain't sitting foot inside. 414 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,000 I'm not having you break up my happy home. 415 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 He's afraid. He's afraid to let me in. 416 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,000 He knows what I'll find. He knows. 417 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Oh, look at him standing there. 418 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 The stain of his horrible deed still in his wicked eyes. 419 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:29,000 Mr. Widgeon, I hate to ask you, but to oblige, 420 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,000 will you let this lady come in and satisfy yourself? 421 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 You've seen for yourself, Mr. Gormley. 422 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,000 You've seen last night. 423 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,000 You're the law. If you can't be satisfied, who can? 424 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,000 I ask you. 425 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Ah, get him. 426 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,000 He's got few hypnotized like he had my poor Millie. 427 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Talk a wink of law for Billy Wood, but not me. 428 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 I want you in, I am. 429 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Mr. Widgeon, to oblige, they'll have a look at that. 430 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Oh, blimey, what I have to put up with from this old gas bag. 431 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,000 All right, all right, but it's the last time. 432 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Don't say I didn't warn you. 433 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,000 She went through the house like a ruddy bloodhound, 434 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000 and there wasn't nothing. 435 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Not an air, not a place. 436 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Mr. Gormley followed her with me, 437 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,000 and I could see it was a very aggravating position for him. 438 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Mr. Gormley likes to keep the peace, 439 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:32,000 but by the time we got to the cellar, he was clear out of patience. 440 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000 Well, satisfied? 441 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,000 Are you satisfied? 442 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000 You want to look in the cold, then? 443 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Go on, get your hands nice and dirty. 444 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Sorry to have troubled you, Mr. Widgeon, not mentioning. 445 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,000 As for you, Mrs. Quill, 446 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:53,000 I don't want to see your nasty face around here until I give the word. 447 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:56,000 You stay out of Millie's and my way, see? 448 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,000 And if you don't, I'll have you put in charge. 449 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,000 That's my right, ain't they, Mr. Gormley? 450 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:07,000 In the manner of speaking, disturbing the peace, Mr. Widgeon. 451 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Right, and she's disturbing my peace. 452 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Now I'll thank you to leave my house. 453 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Of course, when you come right down to it, I suppose they're right. 454 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,000 In a way, I am a dreamer. 455 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Always have been. 456 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:36,000 To tell the truth, I ain't got no 800 pound, not even 80. 457 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 And I ain't no Eggy Jones. 458 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,000 But I wish there was. 459 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:47,000 There's only Millie's mother and Millie, 460 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:56,000 and them greasy hands and cold feet and jaw, jaw, jaw. 461 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:01,000 And if I hang from what I'm trying to do, it'll be worth it. 462 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 There. 463 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 That looks about right. 464 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,000 Millie? Millie? 465 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 What is it, doctor? 466 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Could you come down for a minute, love? 467 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Where are you? 468 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 In the cellar, sweetheart. 469 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Why are you sitting? 470 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 It'll only take half a month. 471 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,000 I've got something to show you down here. 472 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Doctor, one thing is another. 473 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,000 What's my scene to the bone? 474 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Time to get yourself burned. 475 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,000 You give a brass file, ain't I? 476 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:37,000 You think I ever got better? You said you'd been burned up and down every time you want something. 477 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Keep your air on, love. It won't be long. 478 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000 You said be a little consideration. I'm very worn out. 479 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 I'm sure I don't know why I put up with it. 480 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Oh, God, Richard. 481 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 What are you doing with my cellar? 482 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 Why is it all dug up like that? 483 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 You're born barmy. 484 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Now you put every scrap of dirt back in the old list minute. 485 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 You hear me? 486 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Oh, I never. 487 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,000 I just wanted to get an idea of the size. 488 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 It looks about right. 489 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,000 What are you talking about? Right for what? 490 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:33,000 For you, dear. 491 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:46,000 Next week, the story of a handcuffed man and the woman who holds the key to his freedom. 492 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,000 We call it, Give Me Liberty. 493 00:24:50,000 --> 00:25:09,000 That's next week on Suspense. 494 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis, who wrote tonight's play. 495 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,000 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 496 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Featured in the cast were Jeanette Nolan, John Boehner, Betty Harford, Paula Winslow, and Ramsey Hill. 497 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Suspense is presented by the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 498 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:19,060 I will be engaged in the investigation and can't open the case 499 00:26:19,060 --> 00:26:43,860 This is the American Voices Network, Europe.