1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,560 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:28,760 Tonight, the story of a bomb and the man who carried it to its ultimate destination. 3 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,320 We call it Lunch Kit. 4 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:52,520 So now, starring Harry Bartel, here is tonight's Suspense play, Lunch Kit. 5 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,280 My dad was almost finished. 6 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,640 He chipped out the last piece of glass from inside the thermos bottle. 7 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:04,040 He was starting to work on the detonator when the horn began to blow. 8 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:05,040 What's that? 9 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:06,040 Oh, Mike. 10 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:07,040 He's getting impatient. 11 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,440 Well, tell him to stop it. 12 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:09,440 It makes me nervous. 13 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,320 Can't afford to be nervous on a job like this. 14 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:13,320 All right. 15 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:14,320 I'll tell him, Dad. 16 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:15,320 Hey! 17 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:16,320 Hey, Mike! 18 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:17,320 Well, come on, Jonathan, let go! 19 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:18,320 Will you lay off that horn? 20 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:19,320 I told you before, my pal isn't feeling too well. 21 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:20,320 Give a word to him, will you? 22 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:21,320 I'm not going to let him go. 23 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:22,320 I'm not going to let him go. 24 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:23,320 I'm not going to let him go. 25 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:24,320 I'm not going to let him go. 26 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:25,320 Okay, I'm going to let him go. 27 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:26,320 Are you sure you're not going to tell him that? 28 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:27,320 I'm sure I'm not going to let him go. 29 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:28,320 All right, my dad's going to be home by a little while. 30 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:29,320 I'm sure I'm not throwing him the horn. 31 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:30,320 Don't give him the horn. 32 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:31,320 Well, what is it, Mike? 33 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:32,320 I'm sorry. 34 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:33,320 I'm sorry. 35 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:34,320 How are you feeling? 36 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:35,320 I'm feeling all right. 37 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:36,320 How about you? 38 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:37,320 Well, you never were going to be late for work. 39 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:38,320 All right, I'll be down in a minute. 40 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:39,320 Now take it easy. 41 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:40,320 Well, hurry it up. 42 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:41,320 I wouldn't want to be late, Jonathan. 43 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:42,320 Okay, okay. 44 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:43,320 Who is this Mike? 45 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:44,320 Well, I told you about him, Dad. 46 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:45,320 He is an old timer at the plant. 47 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:47,320 I can't get rid of him. 48 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,320 You sure about him? 49 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,320 He won't cause trouble. 50 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,320 He won't cause trouble. 51 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,320 What does he think you're doing up here? 52 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:59,320 I told him I had to stop off for a minute to see a sick friend. 53 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:03,320 Well, I can't afford taking the chances in a thing like this. 54 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,320 First mistake will be the last. 55 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,320 He was winding the timing mechanism now. 56 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:13,320 It looked like an old-fashioned pocket watch. 57 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,320 Suddenly I hated him. 58 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,320 I hated him because he hated so much. 59 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:25,320 I hated him because he had trained me to do the work he could no longer do since his last stroke. 60 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,320 What time is it, son? 61 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,320 What time is it? 62 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,320 What's the matter? You aren't getting nervous, are you? 63 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,320 No, no. 64 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,320 It's 829. 65 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,320 829. Well, that's good. That's good. 66 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,320 You go up at 630 in the morning. 67 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,320 He limped over to a steel cabinet in the corner, 68 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,320 came back to the table tenderly, cradling a metal jug in his arm. 69 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,320 Put it down with the greatest of care. 70 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:55,320 I felt myself tightening inside. My mouth went dry. 71 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,320 Unthinking, I pulled a pack of cigarettes out of my jacket and put one in my mouth. 72 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,320 I was just about to strike a match when Dad grabbed my arm, twisting my wrist until it hurt. 73 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,320 Put that match down, you idiot. 74 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:09,320 If one spark gets into this nitrile, they won't find enough of us to fill that matchbox. 75 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,320 The unlit cigarette turned to straw in my mouth. 76 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:19,320 I spit it out, stamped it to dust on the rugless floor. 77 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:25,320 He fastened the detonator into the cap of the thermos bottle. 78 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:33,320 Then filled the bottle with the thick yellowish nitric glycerin. 79 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,320 Careful, kid. 80 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:47,320 Then he carefully screwed on the cap. 81 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:57,320 Got your lunch, kid. 82 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,320 Here. 83 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:05,320 He took the thermos out of my lunchbox, carefully replaced it with a thermos full of nitrile. 84 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,320 Then he closed it, handed it to me. 85 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,320 Here you are. Don't drop it. 86 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,320 No, I won't. 87 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:12,320 Son. 88 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:13,320 Yes? 89 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,320 Look at me. 90 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:17,320 Yes, Dad. 91 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,320 Everything will work according to plan, won't it? 92 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,320 Yes. 93 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,320 Make no mistakes. 94 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:25,320 No, Dad. 95 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:26,320 And you'll be here tomorrow morning? 96 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:27,320 I'll be here. 97 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,320 Very good. Perhaps we'll go away together. 98 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,320 Long time since we've had fun together, Jonathan. 99 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:34,320 Yes. 100 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:40,320 Tomorrow we'll begin. Tomorrow we will have earned it. 101 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,320 Yes, Dad. 102 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:47,320 I'm proud of you, my boy. Proud that there's you to carry on my work. 103 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:49,320 Thanks. 104 00:04:49,320 --> 00:05:01,320 Well, there's your friend again. Go on now before the old fool gets us into trouble. 105 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,320 The drive to the plant was something I'd never forget. 106 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,320 Just thinking what was in that lunch kit was enough to make me lose my mind. 107 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:14,320 If I ran into something, if a tire blew, if a speck of dust got into my eye and I ran off the road, 108 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:18,320 I stayed off the main highway. Too much traffic. 109 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,320 I drove under 25 miles an hour all the way. 110 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,320 Can't you go any faster? We're going to be late. 111 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,320 And all the time the old man kept talking. 112 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,320 You young fellows of the day, you're a strange, disturbing lot. 113 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:29,320 Talk, talk, talk. 114 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,320 You have a fever in your blood. You're restless. You don't know why. 115 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,320 You're a strange lot. 116 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:46,320 Yeah. Yeah, a strange lot. 117 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,320 Last we came to the plant, the night shift guys were already at work. 118 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,320 The parking lot was jammed with their cars. 119 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,320 We were late, but I was glad of that. 120 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:00,320 Now I'd be able to park near the entrance and later on I'd be able to get out in a hurry. 121 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,320 Okay, Mike. Sorry if I made you late. 122 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:06,320 Oh, that's all right, Jonathan. You mind if I go back with you in the morning? 123 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:12,320 Okay, just be here prompt. I won't wait for you. 124 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,320 I took the lunch kit and started for the main gate. 125 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,320 I was standing there inspecting everybody with a flashlight. 126 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,320 I grinned at him and snapped the lunch kit open. 127 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:28,320 He waved me on. I was through the gate. 128 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,320 I changed my clothes quickly and left the lunch kit in my locker. 129 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,320 I figured I must look pretty bad, so before going into the plant I went to the washroom, 130 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,320 washed my face, let cold water run down my wrists. 131 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,320 Then I saw I'd left my wristwatch in my street clothes. 132 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:47,320 This bothered me because it was against the rules to go back into the locker room until after the shift was over. 133 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,320 Now all night long I wouldn't know what time it was. 134 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,320 I'd have to ask, I'd have to guess. 135 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:58,320 My mother wouldn't like that at all, being so careless. 136 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,320 I began noticing a kind of ache in the pit of my stomach. 137 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,320 I mustn't get sick tonight. 138 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,320 I drank a lot of water and the pain left me. 139 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:10,320 And then I went back into my unit. 140 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,320 This was going to be a bad night. I was all raw nerves. 141 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:18,320 My hands were all thumbs. The instrument I worked with felt like it weighed a ton. 142 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,320 My father wouldn't like the way I was doing things. 143 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,320 He couldn't stand it much longer. 144 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:24,320 Hey, Jonathan! 145 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,320 Huh? 146 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,320 What are you doing? Cut your switch. 147 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,320 What's wrong, Mr. Davis? 148 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,320 What's wrong? Is that the way to handle that modifier? 149 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,320 Then where's your apron? 150 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,320 Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Davis. 151 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,320 Oh, don't be sorry. Just do it right. 152 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,320 Now get on the ball, Jonathan. 153 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,320 What time was it getting to be? 154 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,320 I couldn't concentrate, I couldn't think. 155 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,320 All I could remember was what was in my locker. 156 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,320 All I could remember was that thermos bottle filled to the top with nitro. 157 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,320 All I could remember was that detonator set for 6.30. 158 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,320 Hey, Mike, what time is it? 159 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,320 Uh, 12.30. 160 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,320 Mike, what's the time? 161 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:12,320 Ten minutes after one. 162 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,320 Hey, Mike, what time is it? 163 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,320 Five minutes to two. 164 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:21,320 Hey, Mike! 165 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,320 Almost time for lunch. 166 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:24,320 Lunch? 167 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,320 Yeah, am I hungry? I swear I can eat it. 168 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,320 Hey, what's wrong with you? 169 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:30,320 Well, your wife... 170 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,320 My stomach... 171 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,320 Hey, man! Hey, you guys, come over here, quick! 172 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,320 How do you feel now, son? 173 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,320 Better. What time is it? Where am I? 174 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,320 In the plant dispensary. 175 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,320 You ever have a spell like that before? 176 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,320 No, no, I never did, Doc. What time is it? 177 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,320 You're pretty nervous, aren't you? 178 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,320 No, I'm all right. 179 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,320 I know your pulse was very high when they brought you in. 180 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,320 But I'm all right now, Doc. I want to go back to my job. 181 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,320 You want to watch? Well, I can't allow you to go back to your job. 182 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:11,320 Relax. 183 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:12,320 But I'm all right now. What time is it? 184 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,320 Take it easy. It's 2.30. 185 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,320 2.30? 186 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,320 Then they've all gone back to work. I won't be able to go to my locker. 187 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,320 I know what you're thinking. Your lunch. 188 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:23,320 Isn't that what's on your mind? 189 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,320 But lunch is over. I won't be able to go back to... 190 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,320 Never mind. I'll send somebody to get your lunch. 191 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:28,320 No, no! Don't do that. 192 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:29,320 What? 193 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,320 No, really, Doctor. I'm not hungry. 194 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,320 Sure, sure, I know. 195 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,320 But you've got to have something. You just sit there. 196 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:39,320 He went into the next room. 197 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,320 I wanted to jump up and start running, but that was no good either. 198 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,320 Why had I made such a fuss about the lunch kit? 199 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,320 What was he doing in there? 200 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:50,320 Then he came back. 201 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,320 He was carrying a glass of milk. 202 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,320 Here. If you're going to miss lunch, at least drink this. 203 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:56,320 Milk? 204 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,320 Go on. Drink it down. 205 00:09:58,320 --> 00:09:59,320 Okay. 206 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,320 Finish it all. 207 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:04,320 That's it. 208 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:06,320 Feel better? 209 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:07,320 Yeah, yeah. I think I better go back to work. 210 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,320 No, you don't want to do that. Just take it easy. 211 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:10,320 No, I feel fine now, really. 212 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,320 You couldn't go back to work even if I let you. 213 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:14,320 What do you mean? 214 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:18,320 You'll lie down on the cot there in the next room and take it easy. 215 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:19,320 You're going to take a nice long sleep. 216 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,320 Sleep? No! No, I've got to go back to work. 217 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:23,320 No, not tonight anymore. 218 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:24,320 No, I couldn't sleep. 219 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:25,320 You'll sleep all right. 220 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,320 I put a couple of grains of barbitol in that milk you drank. 221 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:29,320 No! 222 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:30,320 What's the matter with you? 223 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:31,320 I don't want to go to sleep. I'm all right. 224 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,320 Yes, you're all right. You're in fine shape. 225 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:35,320 I don't like taking dope. 226 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:36,320 It'll slow you down. 227 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,320 You'll wake up feeling like a new man. 228 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,320 You little fellas, you don't know how to relax. 229 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:43,320 It's a wonder you live as long as you do. 230 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:44,320 Now you come along with me. 231 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,320 You just lie there and behave yourself. 232 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:48,320 Go on. 233 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:51,320 That's right. 234 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,320 Now in a few minutes you'll be sleeping like a baby. 235 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:56,320 You don't need the lights. 236 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:58,320 Good night, young fella. 237 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:25,320 Pleasant dreams. 238 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:33,320 You're listening to Lunch Kit, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theatre of krills, Suspense. 239 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,320 A lawyer with a sixth sense for criminology is CBS radio's Perry Mason. 240 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:52,320 Perry follows up his latest case every weekday on most of these same stations. 241 00:11:52,320 --> 00:12:02,320 You'll enjoy Perry Mason, one of the most colorful, most exciting of CBS radio's great daytime dramatic programs, Monday through Friday at the Star's address. 242 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:08,320 Listen for Perry Mason and to all the fine daytime programs where America listens most. 243 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:17,320 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Harry Bartel, starring in tonight's production, Lunch Kit. 244 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:22,320 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 245 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:34,320 Sleeping powder. 246 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,320 He put sleeping powder in the milk. 247 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,320 Like an idiot I drank it all down, every bit of it. 248 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:50,320 And then I started to get drowsy, with a time bomb in my Lunch Kit set to go off in just a few hours, I started getting drowsy. 249 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,320 I had to get up, to get out. 250 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:00,320 Couldn't stay there. 251 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:03,320 Couldn't sleep through. 252 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:05,320 Had to do something. 253 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:07,320 Something. 254 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,320 My eyes were getting heavy. 255 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:12,320 So heavy. 256 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:14,320 Couldn't keep them open. 257 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,320 A pint of pure nitro. 258 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,320 All the chemicals and inflammable stockpiles here, the place would go up like an a... 259 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:25,320 Had to get out. 260 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:30,320 Couldn't keep my eyes open. 261 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:33,320 So easy. 262 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:35,320 They were... 263 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,320 They would be so easy to let my eyes close. 264 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,320 To go to sleep. 265 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,320 No, no I couldn't go to sleep. 266 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,320 I couldn't, I couldn't. 267 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:51,320 Crawled off the cot. 268 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:53,320 Window in the room. 269 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,320 Had to get through the window. 270 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,320 Couldn't go through the doctor's office. 271 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:02,320 Get out through the window. 272 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,320 I started over. 273 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:06,320 And then I had to stop. 274 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:08,320 Had to sit down. 275 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:10,320 So tired. 276 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,320 So tired. 277 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,320 So good to sit there. 278 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:42,320 So good to close my eyes. 279 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,320 Ryan! 280 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,320 Ryan! 281 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:48,320 The whistle. 282 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:50,320 The whistle. 283 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,320 Time to go home, six o'clock. 284 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:53,320 I slept right through. 285 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:54,320 And then the whistle woke me up. 286 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:55,320 It woke me up. 287 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,320 Oh, I'm lucky. 288 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:00,320 I'm lucky, six o'clock. 289 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:02,320 Lunch kit goes off at six thirty. 290 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:04,320 This time no mistake. 291 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:08,320 Getting out of the dispenser was easy. 292 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:10,320 There was a shed right below the window. 293 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,320 I dropped to the roof. 294 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:14,320 And then to the ground. 295 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:16,320 Didn't feel any too good. 296 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:18,320 Still groggy from the barbatoil. 297 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,320 But there was no time to think about that now. 298 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:23,320 When I got back to the locker room, 299 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:25,320 the boys were climbing out of their work clothes, 300 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:26,320 getting ready for the shower room. 301 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:28,320 Well, hiya, Jonathan. 302 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:29,320 You okay now? 303 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:30,320 Yeah, I feel fine. 304 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,320 Better stop drinking that turpentine, Jonathan. 305 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,320 Boy, you sure had me worried, Jonathan. 306 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:37,320 Well, I'm all right now. 307 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:39,320 Do I still get the ride? 308 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,320 Uh, oh, yeah, yeah. 309 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:43,320 All right, I'll see you later. 310 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:44,320 Then I'm going to take a shower. 311 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,320 I changed into my street clothes and nothing flat, 312 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,320 not caring particularly how I looked. 313 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:52,320 I was kind of worried the doctor would look in on me 314 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:53,320 and find me gone. 315 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:55,320 When I was ready to go, 316 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,320 all the other fellows were in the shower room. 317 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,320 That was the break I wanted. 318 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,320 I took the lunch kit out of my locker and slid it underneath. 319 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:03,320 And then I looked at my wristwatch. 320 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:05,320 Four minutes after six. 321 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:07,320 I had twenty-five minutes to get away. 322 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:08,320 I was working out fine. 323 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:14,320 I walked past the front offices. 324 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:15,320 There's no one else around yet. 325 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:17,320 Couldn't walk too fast, though. 326 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,320 Not too fast, not too slow. 327 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:21,320 Act natural. 328 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,320 Not too fast, not too slow. 329 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:25,320 Oh, Jonathan. 330 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:26,320 Huh? 331 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,320 How are you feeling now, Jonathan, huh? 332 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:30,320 I'm all right, Mr. Davis. 333 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,320 Ah, well, anyhow, I want to talk to you. 334 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:34,320 Come into the office, huh? 335 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:36,320 Now? 336 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,320 Sure, now. 337 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,320 Well, I'm in a kind of a hurry, Mr. Davis. 338 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:42,320 Oh, go on. 339 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,320 At six o'clock in the morning, nobody's in a hurry. 340 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:46,320 Come in, come in. 341 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:47,320 All right, but just for a minute. 342 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:48,320 Yeah, sure. 343 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:50,320 Close the door, will you? 344 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:54,320 Sit down, huh? 345 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,320 Oh, boy, not like sitting down relaxing after a long shift. 346 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:04,320 Chair can use a little... 347 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:05,320 Look, Mr. Davis, I really can't stay long. 348 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:06,320 I'm supposed to meet someone. 349 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,320 What, at six in the morning? 350 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,320 Hey, you still look pale, Jonathan. 351 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,320 You sure you feel all right? 352 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:14,320 Yes, yes. 353 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,320 Mr. Davis, if it's about the mistake I made tonight, I'll tell her... 354 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:18,320 No, no, no, it's not that so much. 355 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:20,320 It's just that I'm a little worried about you. 356 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:21,320 There's nothing to worry about, Mr. Davis. 357 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,320 It's just that sometimes I get a little nervous. 358 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:24,320 A little nervous? 359 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:25,320 Well, look at you now. 360 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:26,320 You're squirming on that. 361 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:27,320 You're a bundle of nerves. 362 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:30,320 Now, is something bothering you, Jonathan? 363 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,320 I mean, something really bothering you. 364 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:33,320 Nothing's bothering me. 365 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,320 Yeah. 366 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:39,320 Well, just to make sure, I'm going to call the dispensary. 367 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,320 I've got a hunch you're not telling me everything. 368 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,320 I tell you, I'm all right. 369 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,320 Give me the dispensary, please. 370 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,320 Jonathan, Jonathan. 371 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,320 Hey, come back here. 372 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,320 He wasn't chasing me. 373 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:54,320 I looked at my watch. 374 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:55,320 614. 375 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,320 Still plenty of time to get away. 376 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,320 I left the main building and started across the yard to the gate. 377 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:01,320 It was still dark. 378 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,320 I was one of the first out. 379 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,320 Hey, hey, you. 380 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,320 Hey, slow down. 381 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,320 Slow down. 382 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:12,320 How hard have I got to chase you? 383 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,320 What do you want? 384 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,320 You know as well as I do what I want. 385 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,320 You forgot something. 386 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:19,320 What? 387 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:20,320 What did I forget? 388 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,320 You forgot to punch the time clock. 389 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:23,320 I'll do it tomorrow. 390 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:24,320 Tomorrow? 391 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,320 You're not leaving this plant until you punch out, mister. 392 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:28,320 All right, all right. 393 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,320 I'll go back and punch out. 394 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,320 Hey, where's the fire? 395 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,320 You want to work that energy out during your shift, young fella. 396 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,320 I went back into the main building. 397 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,320 There were at least 20 others waiting in line before the clock. 398 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:47,320 Hey, look, I got to get to town early. 399 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:49,320 How about let me punch out now, will you? 400 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:50,320 End of the line, bud. 401 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,320 No, it'll just take a second. 402 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,320 End of the line. 403 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:58,320 Okay, okay. 404 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:02,320 Oh, hi there, Jonathan. 405 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:03,320 Oh, hello. 406 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,320 Say, I think Mike's looking for you. 407 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,320 Yeah. 408 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,320 You know, the old guy's sort of adopted you, ain't he? 409 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,320 Yeah. 410 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,320 Sure long line tonight, huh? 411 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,320 Uh-huh. 412 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:20,320 Say, how you feeling now? 413 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,320 Oh, okay. 414 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,320 Say, is my watch right? I have 621. 415 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,320 Let me look. 416 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,320 Yeah, yeah, 620 I got. 417 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,320 You sure figure it out to the minute. 418 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:52,320 Right to the minute. 419 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,320 Oh, come on. 420 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,320 Please. 421 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:58,320 It was 627. 422 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,320 I had three minutes. 423 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:01,320 Three minutes. I couldn't waste any time. 424 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,320 I was fighting for my life. 425 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,320 I started backing out quick. 426 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,320 I had to get up here in a hurry. 427 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:12,320 Three minutes less than that now. 428 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,320 Hey, look out, you. My headlights. 429 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,320 Hey, what's the matter with you? 430 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,320 Now, come on out and see what you did to my headlights. 431 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:19,320 I'm sorry, I'll pay for them. 432 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:20,320 Oh, that ain't the idea. 433 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,320 Why don't you watch where you're going? 434 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:23,320 All right, look, here's my driver's license. 435 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,320 I work in Unit 5. 436 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:26,320 I'll see you tonight. We'll work something out. 437 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:27,320 The name's Jonathan Peters. 438 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,320 Not so fast, not so fast. 439 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,320 I gotta write this down. 440 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:32,320 You got a pencil? 441 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,320 Here. Here's my pen. 442 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,320 We'll start writing. 443 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,320 All right, now, say it's Jonathan Peters. 444 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:40,320 Jonathan Peters. 445 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:44,320 Jonathan Peters. 446 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:45,320 Unit 5. 447 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:46,320 Yes, yes, that's right. 448 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:51,320 Unit 5. Yeah. 449 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:52,320 Okay, here's your pen. 450 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:53,320 I'll see you tonight. 451 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:54,320 I'm working two minutes. 452 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:55,320 We've got to hurry. 453 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:56,320 We've got to hurry. 454 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:00,320 Hurry. Hurry. 455 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:01,320 Hurry. 456 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,320 Jonathan, wait for me. 457 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:04,320 Wait. 458 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,320 Wait, Jonathan. 459 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,320 He's got to wait. 460 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:09,320 Now, now, why'd he do that? 461 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:14,320 These young fellas, I don't know what the end will be. 462 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,320 You know, that kid sure is wacky. 463 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,320 In a hurry, always in a hurry. 464 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,320 What? What's the matter with him? 465 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,320 No sense of responsibility. 466 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,320 Last night, he drives like a turtle. 467 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,320 This morning, he races out of here like a demon, 468 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,320 leaves me standing. 469 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:28,320 Too bad. 470 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:29,320 Maybe somebody else will give you a ride home. 471 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:30,320 Oh, I can get a bus, 472 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,320 but this will teach me to do a guy a favor. 473 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,320 What do you mean? 474 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,320 Well, that Jonathan, 475 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:35,320 I didn't want to keep him waiting, 476 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:36,320 so I come out here looking for him, 477 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:37,320 and he's not in the car, 478 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,320 so I go back in the planter looking to miss him there, 479 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:40,320 and when I get back, he's driving off. 480 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:41,320 Yeah, so what's the favor you do? 481 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,320 Well, he was so darn particular about it, 482 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,320 then he goes off and leaves it under his locker, 483 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,320 but I found it and put it in his car for him. 484 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:48,320 What? 485 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:49,320 His lunch kit. 486 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,320 I put it in his car. 487 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:53,320 What's that? 488 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,320 Oh, that's funny. 489 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:55,320 That sounds like thunder. 490 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:56,320 Thunder? 491 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:57,320 Look at that sky. 492 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:58,320 Yeah, beautiful. 493 00:21:58,320 --> 00:21:59,320 No, it couldn't have been thunder. 494 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:21,320 It's going to be a real nice day. 495 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,320 Suspense. 496 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,320 In which Harry Bartell starred in tonight's presentation of Lunch Kit. 497 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,320 Next week, Suspense will bring you the story of a mountain road 498 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,320 and the pursuit of a runaway car. 499 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,320 We call it Speed Trap. 500 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:53,320 Be sure to listen to Speed Trap next week on Suspense. 501 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,320 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 502 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,320 Tonight's script was written by Lawrence Marcus. 503 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,320 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 504 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:05,320 Featured in the cast were Carly Bear, Lawrence Dobkin, Victor Rotman, 505 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:13,320 Jerry Hausner, Barney Phillips, Joe Duvall, Joe Cranston, and Tom Hanley. 506 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:40,320 Join the FBI in peace and war Wednesday nights on the CBS Radio Network.