WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:20.560 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:20.560 --> 00:28.760 Tonight, the story of a bomb and the man who carried it to its ultimate destination. 00:28.760 --> 00:31.320 We call it Lunch Kit. 00:31.320 --> 00:52.520 So now, starring Harry Bartel, here is tonight's Suspense play, Lunch Kit. 00:52.520 --> 00:55.280 My dad was almost finished. 00:55.280 --> 00:59.640 He chipped out the last piece of glass from inside the thermos bottle. 00:59.640 --> 01:04.040 He was starting to work on the detonator when the horn began to blow. 01:04.040 --> 01:05.040 What's that? 01:05.040 --> 01:06.040 Oh, Mike. 01:06.040 --> 01:07.040 He's getting impatient. 01:07.040 --> 01:08.440 Well, tell him to stop it. 01:08.440 --> 01:09.440 It makes me nervous. 01:09.440 --> 01:12.320 Can't afford to be nervous on a job like this. 01:12.320 --> 01:13.320 All right. 01:13.320 --> 01:14.320 I'll tell him, Dad. 01:14.320 --> 01:15.320 Hey! 01:15.320 --> 01:16.320 Hey, Mike! 01:16.320 --> 01:17.320 Well, come on, Jonathan, let go! 01:17.320 --> 01:18.320 Will you lay off that horn? 01:18.320 --> 01:19.320 I told you before, my pal isn't feeling too well. 01:19.320 --> 01:20.320 Give a word to him, will you? 01:20.320 --> 01:21.320 I'm not going to let him go. 01:21.320 --> 01:22.320 I'm not going to let him go. 01:22.320 --> 01:23.320 I'm not going to let him go. 01:23.320 --> 01:24.320 I'm not going to let him go. 01:24.320 --> 01:25.320 Okay, I'm going to let him go. 01:25.320 --> 01:26.320 Are you sure you're not going to tell him that? 01:26.320 --> 01:27.320 I'm sure I'm not going to let him go. 01:27.320 --> 01:28.320 All right, my dad's going to be home by a little while. 01:28.320 --> 01:29.320 I'm sure I'm not throwing him the horn. 01:29.320 --> 01:30.320 Don't give him the horn. 01:30.320 --> 01:31.320 Well, what is it, Mike? 01:31.320 --> 01:32.320 I'm sorry. 01:32.320 --> 01:33.320 I'm sorry. 01:33.320 --> 01:34.320 How are you feeling? 01:34.320 --> 01:35.320 I'm feeling all right. 01:35.320 --> 01:36.320 How about you? 01:36.320 --> 01:37.320 Well, you never were going to be late for work. 01:37.320 --> 01:38.320 All right, I'll be down in a minute. 01:38.320 --> 01:39.320 Now take it easy. 01:39.320 --> 01:40.320 Well, hurry it up. 01:40.320 --> 01:41.320 I wouldn't want to be late, Jonathan. 01:41.320 --> 01:42.320 Okay, okay. 01:42.320 --> 01:43.320 Who is this Mike? 01:43.320 --> 01:44.320 Well, I told you about him, Dad. 01:44.320 --> 01:45.320 He is an old timer at the plant. 01:45.320 --> 01:47.320 I can't get rid of him. 01:47.320 --> 01:49.320 You sure about him? 01:49.320 --> 01:51.320 He won't cause trouble. 01:51.320 --> 01:53.320 He won't cause trouble. 01:53.320 --> 01:55.320 What does he think you're doing up here? 01:55.320 --> 01:59.320 I told him I had to stop off for a minute to see a sick friend. 01:59.320 --> 02:03.320 Well, I can't afford taking the chances in a thing like this. 02:03.320 --> 02:05.320 First mistake will be the last. 02:05.320 --> 02:09.320 He was winding the timing mechanism now. 02:09.320 --> 02:13.320 It looked like an old-fashioned pocket watch. 02:13.320 --> 02:15.320 Suddenly I hated him. 02:15.320 --> 02:19.320 I hated him because he hated so much. 02:19.320 --> 02:25.320 I hated him because he had trained me to do the work he could no longer do since his last stroke. 02:25.320 --> 02:27.320 What time is it, son? 02:27.320 --> 02:29.320 What time is it? 02:29.320 --> 02:31.320 What's the matter? You aren't getting nervous, are you? 02:31.320 --> 02:33.320 No, no. 02:33.320 --> 02:35.320 It's 829. 02:35.320 --> 02:37.320 829. Well, that's good. That's good. 02:37.320 --> 02:39.320 You go up at 630 in the morning. 02:39.320 --> 02:43.320 He limped over to a steel cabinet in the corner, 02:43.320 --> 02:47.320 came back to the table tenderly, cradling a metal jug in his arm. 02:47.320 --> 02:51.320 Put it down with the greatest of care. 02:51.320 --> 02:55.320 I felt myself tightening inside. My mouth went dry. 02:55.320 --> 02:59.320 Unthinking, I pulled a pack of cigarettes out of my jacket and put one in my mouth. 02:59.320 --> 03:03.320 I was just about to strike a match when Dad grabbed my arm, twisting my wrist until it hurt. 03:03.320 --> 03:05.320 Put that match down, you idiot. 03:05.320 --> 03:09.320 If one spark gets into this nitrile, they won't find enough of us to fill that matchbox. 03:09.320 --> 03:13.320 The unlit cigarette turned to straw in my mouth. 03:13.320 --> 03:19.320 I spit it out, stamped it to dust on the rugless floor. 03:19.320 --> 03:25.320 He fastened the detonator into the cap of the thermos bottle. 03:25.320 --> 03:33.320 Then filled the bottle with the thick yellowish nitric glycerin. 03:33.320 --> 03:37.320 Careful, kid. 03:37.320 --> 03:47.320 Then he carefully screwed on the cap. 03:47.320 --> 03:57.320 Got your lunch, kid. 03:57.320 --> 03:59.320 Here. 03:59.320 --> 04:05.320 He took the thermos out of my lunchbox, carefully replaced it with a thermos full of nitrile. 04:05.320 --> 04:07.320 Then he closed it, handed it to me. 04:07.320 --> 04:09.320 Here you are. Don't drop it. 04:09.320 --> 04:11.320 No, I won't. 04:11.320 --> 04:12.320 Son. 04:12.320 --> 04:13.320 Yes? 04:13.320 --> 04:15.320 Look at me. 04:15.320 --> 04:17.320 Yes, Dad. 04:17.320 --> 04:20.320 Everything will work according to plan, won't it? 04:20.320 --> 04:22.320 Yes. 04:22.320 --> 04:24.320 Make no mistakes. 04:24.320 --> 04:25.320 No, Dad. 04:25.320 --> 04:26.320 And you'll be here tomorrow morning? 04:26.320 --> 04:27.320 I'll be here. 04:27.320 --> 04:30.320 Very good. Perhaps we'll go away together. 04:30.320 --> 04:33.320 Long time since we've had fun together, Jonathan. 04:33.320 --> 04:34.320 Yes. 04:34.320 --> 04:40.320 Tomorrow we'll begin. Tomorrow we will have earned it. 04:40.320 --> 04:42.320 Yes, Dad. 04:42.320 --> 04:47.320 I'm proud of you, my boy. Proud that there's you to carry on my work. 04:47.320 --> 04:49.320 Thanks. 04:49.320 --> 05:01.320 Well, there's your friend again. Go on now before the old fool gets us into trouble. 05:01.320 --> 05:04.320 The drive to the plant was something I'd never forget. 05:04.320 --> 05:08.320 Just thinking what was in that lunch kit was enough to make me lose my mind. 05:08.320 --> 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, 05:14.320 --> 05:18.320 I stayed off the main highway. Too much traffic. 05:18.320 --> 05:21.320 I drove under 25 miles an hour all the way. 05:21.320 --> 05:23.320 Can't you go any faster? We're going to be late. 05:23.320 --> 05:25.320 And all the time the old man kept talking. 05:25.320 --> 05:28.320 You young fellows of the day, you're a strange, disturbing lot. 05:28.320 --> 05:29.320 Talk, talk, talk. 05:29.320 --> 05:33.320 You have a fever in your blood. You're restless. You don't know why. 05:33.320 --> 05:35.320 You're a strange lot. 05:35.320 --> 05:46.320 Yeah. Yeah, a strange lot. 05:46.320 --> 05:50.320 Last we came to the plant, the night shift guys were already at work. 05:50.320 --> 05:53.320 The parking lot was jammed with their cars. 05:53.320 --> 05:55.320 We were late, but I was glad of that. 05:55.320 --> 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. 06:00.320 --> 06:02.320 Okay, Mike. Sorry if I made you late. 06:02.320 --> 06:06.320 Oh, that's all right, Jonathan. You mind if I go back with you in the morning? 06:06.320 --> 06:12.320 Okay, just be here prompt. I won't wait for you. 06:12.320 --> 06:15.320 I took the lunch kit and started for the main gate. 06:15.320 --> 06:18.320 I was standing there inspecting everybody with a flashlight. 06:18.320 --> 06:22.320 I grinned at him and snapped the lunch kit open. 06:22.320 --> 06:28.320 He waved me on. I was through the gate. 06:28.320 --> 06:32.320 I changed my clothes quickly and left the lunch kit in my locker. 06:32.320 --> 06:36.320 I figured I must look pretty bad, so before going into the plant I went to the washroom, 06:36.320 --> 06:39.320 washed my face, let cold water run down my wrists. 06:39.320 --> 06:42.320 Then I saw I'd left my wristwatch in my street clothes. 06:42.320 --> 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. 06:47.320 --> 06:50.320 Now all night long I wouldn't know what time it was. 06:50.320 --> 06:53.320 I'd have to ask, I'd have to guess. 06:53.320 --> 06:58.320 My mother wouldn't like that at all, being so careless. 06:58.320 --> 07:01.320 I began noticing a kind of ache in the pit of my stomach. 07:01.320 --> 07:03.320 I mustn't get sick tonight. 07:03.320 --> 07:05.320 I drank a lot of water and the pain left me. 07:05.320 --> 07:10.320 And then I went back into my unit. 07:10.320 --> 07:13.320 This was going to be a bad night. I was all raw nerves. 07:13.320 --> 07:18.320 My hands were all thumbs. The instrument I worked with felt like it weighed a ton. 07:18.320 --> 07:21.320 My father wouldn't like the way I was doing things. 07:21.320 --> 07:23.320 He couldn't stand it much longer. 07:23.320 --> 07:24.320 Hey, Jonathan! 07:24.320 --> 07:25.320 Huh? 07:25.320 --> 07:27.320 What are you doing? Cut your switch. 07:27.320 --> 07:29.320 What's wrong, Mr. Davis? 07:29.320 --> 07:33.320 What's wrong? Is that the way to handle that modifier? 07:33.320 --> 07:35.320 Then where's your apron? 07:35.320 --> 07:37.320 Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Davis. 07:37.320 --> 07:40.320 Oh, don't be sorry. Just do it right. 07:40.320 --> 07:42.320 Now get on the ball, Jonathan. 07:45.320 --> 07:47.320 What time was it getting to be? 07:47.320 --> 07:49.320 I couldn't concentrate, I couldn't think. 07:49.320 --> 07:52.320 All I could remember was what was in my locker. 07:52.320 --> 07:56.320 All I could remember was that thermos bottle filled to the top with nitro. 07:56.320 --> 07:59.320 All I could remember was that detonator set for 6.30. 08:01.320 --> 08:03.320 Hey, Mike, what time is it? 08:03.320 --> 08:07.320 Uh, 12.30. 08:08.320 --> 08:10.320 Mike, what's the time? 08:10.320 --> 08:12.320 Ten minutes after one. 08:14.320 --> 08:16.320 Hey, Mike, what time is it? 08:16.320 --> 08:19.320 Five minutes to two. 08:20.320 --> 08:21.320 Hey, Mike! 08:21.320 --> 08:23.320 Almost time for lunch. 08:23.320 --> 08:24.320 Lunch? 08:24.320 --> 08:27.320 Yeah, am I hungry? I swear I can eat it. 08:27.320 --> 08:29.320 Hey, what's wrong with you? 08:29.320 --> 08:30.320 Well, your wife... 08:30.320 --> 08:32.320 My stomach... 08:32.320 --> 08:36.320 Hey, man! Hey, you guys, come over here, quick! 08:48.320 --> 08:50.320 How do you feel now, son? 08:50.320 --> 08:53.320 Better. What time is it? Where am I? 08:53.320 --> 08:55.320 In the plant dispensary. 08:55.320 --> 08:57.320 You ever have a spell like that before? 08:57.320 --> 08:59.320 No, no, I never did, Doc. What time is it? 08:59.320 --> 09:01.320 You're pretty nervous, aren't you? 09:01.320 --> 09:02.320 No, I'm all right. 09:02.320 --> 09:05.320 I know your pulse was very high when they brought you in. 09:05.320 --> 09:07.320 But I'm all right now, Doc. I want to go back to my job. 09:07.320 --> 09:10.320 You want to watch? Well, I can't allow you to go back to your job. 09:10.320 --> 09:11.320 Relax. 09:11.320 --> 09:12.320 But I'm all right now. What time is it? 09:12.320 --> 09:15.320 Take it easy. It's 2.30. 09:15.320 --> 09:17.320 2.30? 09:17.320 --> 09:19.320 Then they've all gone back to work. I won't be able to go to my locker. 09:19.320 --> 09:22.320 I know what you're thinking. Your lunch. 09:22.320 --> 09:23.320 Isn't that what's on your mind? 09:23.320 --> 09:25.320 But lunch is over. I won't be able to go back to... 09:25.320 --> 09:27.320 Never mind. I'll send somebody to get your lunch. 09:27.320 --> 09:28.320 No, no! Don't do that. 09:28.320 --> 09:29.320 What? 09:29.320 --> 09:31.320 No, really, Doctor. I'm not hungry. 09:31.320 --> 09:33.320 Sure, sure, I know. 09:33.320 --> 09:36.320 But you've got to have something. You just sit there. 09:38.320 --> 09:39.320 He went into the next room. 09:39.320 --> 09:42.320 I wanted to jump up and start running, but that was no good either. 09:42.320 --> 09:45.320 Why had I made such a fuss about the lunch kit? 09:46.320 --> 09:48.320 What was he doing in there? 09:49.320 --> 09:50.320 Then he came back. 09:50.320 --> 09:52.320 He was carrying a glass of milk. 09:52.320 --> 09:55.320 Here. If you're going to miss lunch, at least drink this. 09:55.320 --> 09:56.320 Milk? 09:56.320 --> 09:58.320 Go on. Drink it down. 09:58.320 --> 09:59.320 Okay. 10:00.320 --> 10:02.320 Finish it all. 10:03.320 --> 10:04.320 That's it. 10:05.320 --> 10:06.320 Feel better? 10:06.320 --> 10:07.320 Yeah, yeah. I think I better go back to work. 10:07.320 --> 10:09.320 No, you don't want to do that. Just take it easy. 10:09.320 --> 10:10.320 No, I feel fine now, really. 10:10.320 --> 10:13.320 You couldn't go back to work even if I let you. 10:13.320 --> 10:14.320 What do you mean? 10:14.320 --> 10:18.320 You'll lie down on the cot there in the next room and take it easy. 10:18.320 --> 10:19.320 You're going to take a nice long sleep. 10:19.320 --> 10:22.320 Sleep? No! No, I've got to go back to work. 10:22.320 --> 10:23.320 No, not tonight anymore. 10:23.320 --> 10:24.320 No, I couldn't sleep. 10:24.320 --> 10:25.320 You'll sleep all right. 10:25.320 --> 10:28.320 I put a couple of grains of barbitol in that milk you drank. 10:28.320 --> 10:29.320 No! 10:29.320 --> 10:30.320 What's the matter with you? 10:30.320 --> 10:31.320 I don't want to go to sleep. I'm all right. 10:31.320 --> 10:34.320 Yes, you're all right. You're in fine shape. 10:34.320 --> 10:35.320 I don't like taking dope. 10:35.320 --> 10:36.320 It'll slow you down. 10:36.320 --> 10:38.320 You'll wake up feeling like a new man. 10:39.320 --> 10:41.320 You little fellas, you don't know how to relax. 10:41.320 --> 10:43.320 It's a wonder you live as long as you do. 10:43.320 --> 10:44.320 Now you come along with me. 10:44.320 --> 10:47.320 You just lie there and behave yourself. 10:47.320 --> 10:48.320 Go on. 10:50.320 --> 10:51.320 That's right. 10:51.320 --> 10:54.320 Now in a few minutes you'll be sleeping like a baby. 10:55.320 --> 10:56.320 You don't need the lights. 10:57.320 --> 10:58.320 Good night, young fella. 10:58.320 --> 11:25.320 Pleasant dreams. 11:25.320 --> 11:33.320 You're listening to Lunch Kit, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theatre of krills, Suspense. 11:43.320 --> 11:47.320 A lawyer with a sixth sense for criminology is CBS radio's Perry Mason. 11:47.320 --> 11:52.320 Perry follows up his latest case every weekday on most of these same stations. 11:52.320 --> 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. 12:02.320 --> 12:08.320 Listen for Perry Mason and to all the fine daytime programs where America listens most. 12:09.320 --> 12:17.320 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Harry Bartel, starring in tonight's production, Lunch Kit. 12:17.320 --> 12:22.320 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:33.320 --> 12:34.320 Sleeping powder. 12:35.320 --> 12:37.320 He put sleeping powder in the milk. 12:38.320 --> 12:41.320 Like an idiot I drank it all down, every bit of it. 12:41.320 --> 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. 12:51.320 --> 12:55.320 I had to get up, to get out. 12:59.320 --> 13:00.320 Couldn't stay there. 13:02.320 --> 13:03.320 Couldn't sleep through. 13:04.320 --> 13:05.320 Had to do something. 13:06.320 --> 13:07.320 Something. 13:07.320 --> 13:10.320 My eyes were getting heavy. 13:11.320 --> 13:12.320 So heavy. 13:13.320 --> 13:14.320 Couldn't keep them open. 13:16.320 --> 13:18.320 A pint of pure nitro. 13:19.320 --> 13:23.320 All the chemicals and inflammable stockpiles here, the place would go up like an a... 13:24.320 --> 13:25.320 Had to get out. 13:28.320 --> 13:30.320 Couldn't keep my eyes open. 13:32.320 --> 13:33.320 So easy. 13:34.320 --> 13:35.320 They were... 13:35.320 --> 13:38.320 They would be so easy to let my eyes close. 13:39.320 --> 13:41.320 To go to sleep. 13:42.320 --> 13:45.320 No, no I couldn't go to sleep. 13:46.320 --> 13:47.320 I couldn't, I couldn't. 13:50.320 --> 13:51.320 Crawled off the cot. 13:52.320 --> 13:53.320 Window in the room. 13:54.320 --> 13:56.320 Had to get through the window. 13:58.320 --> 14:00.320 Couldn't go through the doctor's office. 14:01.320 --> 14:02.320 Get out through the window. 14:02.320 --> 14:04.320 I started over. 14:05.320 --> 14:06.320 And then I had to stop. 14:07.320 --> 14:08.320 Had to sit down. 14:09.320 --> 14:10.320 So tired. 14:12.320 --> 14:14.320 So tired. 14:15.320 --> 14:17.320 So good to sit there. 14:17.320 --> 14:42.320 So good to close my eyes. 14:43.320 --> 14:44.320 Ryan! 14:44.320 --> 14:46.320 Ryan! 14:47.320 --> 14:48.320 The whistle. 14:49.320 --> 14:50.320 The whistle. 14:50.320 --> 14:51.320 Time to go home, six o'clock. 14:52.320 --> 14:53.320 I slept right through. 14:53.320 --> 14:54.320 And then the whistle woke me up. 14:54.320 --> 14:55.320 It woke me up. 14:56.320 --> 14:58.320 Oh, I'm lucky. 14:59.320 --> 15:00.320 I'm lucky, six o'clock. 15:01.320 --> 15:02.320 Lunch kit goes off at six thirty. 15:03.320 --> 15:04.320 This time no mistake. 15:07.320 --> 15:08.320 Getting out of the dispenser was easy. 15:09.320 --> 15:10.320 There was a shed right below the window. 15:10.320 --> 15:12.320 I dropped to the roof. 15:13.320 --> 15:14.320 And then to the ground. 15:15.320 --> 15:16.320 Didn't feel any too good. 15:17.320 --> 15:18.320 Still groggy from the barbatoil. 15:19.320 --> 15:21.320 But there was no time to think about that now. 15:22.320 --> 15:23.320 When I got back to the locker room, 15:23.320 --> 15:25.320 the boys were climbing out of their work clothes, 15:25.320 --> 15:26.320 getting ready for the shower room. 15:27.320 --> 15:28.320 Well, hiya, Jonathan. 15:28.320 --> 15:29.320 You okay now? 15:29.320 --> 15:30.320 Yeah, I feel fine. 15:31.320 --> 15:33.320 Better stop drinking that turpentine, Jonathan. 15:34.320 --> 15:36.320 Boy, you sure had me worried, Jonathan. 15:36.320 --> 15:37.320 Well, I'm all right now. 15:38.320 --> 15:39.320 Do I still get the ride? 15:39.320 --> 15:42.320 Uh, oh, yeah, yeah. 15:42.320 --> 15:43.320 All right, I'll see you later. 15:43.320 --> 15:44.320 Then I'm going to take a shower. 15:46.320 --> 15:48.320 I changed into my street clothes and nothing flat, 15:48.320 --> 15:50.320 not caring particularly how I looked. 15:51.320 --> 15:52.320 I was kind of worried the doctor would look in on me 15:52.320 --> 15:53.320 and find me gone. 15:54.320 --> 15:55.320 When I was ready to go, 15:55.320 --> 15:56.320 all the other fellows were in the shower room. 15:57.320 --> 15:58.320 That was the break I wanted. 15:59.320 --> 16:01.320 I took the lunch kit out of my locker and slid it underneath. 16:02.320 --> 16:03.320 And then I looked at my wristwatch. 16:04.320 --> 16:05.320 Four minutes after six. 16:06.320 --> 16:07.320 I had twenty-five minutes to get away. 16:07.320 --> 16:08.320 I was working out fine. 16:13.320 --> 16:14.320 I walked past the front offices. 16:14.320 --> 16:15.320 There's no one else around yet. 16:16.320 --> 16:17.320 Couldn't walk too fast, though. 16:17.320 --> 16:19.320 Not too fast, not too slow. 16:20.320 --> 16:21.320 Act natural. 16:21.320 --> 16:23.320 Not too fast, not too slow. 16:24.320 --> 16:25.320 Oh, Jonathan. 16:25.320 --> 16:26.320 Huh? 16:27.320 --> 16:29.320 How are you feeling now, Jonathan, huh? 16:29.320 --> 16:30.320 I'm all right, Mr. Davis. 16:30.320 --> 16:32.320 Ah, well, anyhow, I want to talk to you. 16:33.320 --> 16:34.320 Come into the office, huh? 16:35.320 --> 16:36.320 Now? 16:36.320 --> 16:39.320 Sure, now. 16:39.320 --> 16:41.320 Well, I'm in a kind of a hurry, Mr. Davis. 16:41.320 --> 16:42.320 Oh, go on. 16:42.320 --> 16:45.320 At six o'clock in the morning, nobody's in a hurry. 16:45.320 --> 16:46.320 Come in, come in. 16:46.320 --> 16:47.320 All right, but just for a minute. 16:47.320 --> 16:48.320 Yeah, sure. 16:49.320 --> 16:50.320 Close the door, will you? 16:53.320 --> 16:54.320 Sit down, huh? 16:57.320 --> 17:00.320 Oh, boy, not like sitting down relaxing after a long shift. 17:03.320 --> 17:04.320 Chair can use a little... 17:04.320 --> 17:05.320 Look, Mr. Davis, I really can't stay long. 17:05.320 --> 17:06.320 I'm supposed to meet someone. 17:06.320 --> 17:08.320 What, at six in the morning? 17:09.320 --> 17:11.320 Hey, you still look pale, Jonathan. 17:11.320 --> 17:13.320 You sure you feel all right? 17:13.320 --> 17:14.320 Yes, yes. 17:14.320 --> 17:16.320 Mr. Davis, if it's about the mistake I made tonight, I'll tell her... 17:16.320 --> 17:18.320 No, no, no, it's not that so much. 17:18.320 --> 17:20.320 It's just that I'm a little worried about you. 17:20.320 --> 17:21.320 There's nothing to worry about, Mr. Davis. 17:21.320 --> 17:23.320 It's just that sometimes I get a little nervous. 17:23.320 --> 17:24.320 A little nervous? 17:24.320 --> 17:25.320 Well, look at you now. 17:25.320 --> 17:26.320 You're squirming on that. 17:26.320 --> 17:27.320 You're a bundle of nerves. 17:28.320 --> 17:30.320 Now, is something bothering you, Jonathan? 17:30.320 --> 17:32.320 I mean, something really bothering you. 17:32.320 --> 17:33.320 Nothing's bothering me. 17:33.320 --> 17:35.320 Yeah. 17:35.320 --> 17:39.320 Well, just to make sure, I'm going to call the dispensary. 17:39.320 --> 17:41.320 I've got a hunch you're not telling me everything. 17:41.320 --> 17:43.320 I tell you, I'm all right. 17:43.320 --> 17:45.320 Give me the dispensary, please. 17:45.320 --> 17:47.320 Jonathan, Jonathan. 17:47.320 --> 17:49.320 Hey, come back here. 17:51.320 --> 17:53.320 He wasn't chasing me. 17:53.320 --> 17:54.320 I looked at my watch. 17:54.320 --> 17:55.320 614. 17:55.320 --> 17:57.320 Still plenty of time to get away. 17:57.320 --> 18:00.320 I left the main building and started across the yard to the gate. 18:00.320 --> 18:01.320 It was still dark. 18:01.320 --> 18:03.320 I was one of the first out. 18:04.320 --> 18:06.320 Hey, hey, you. 18:07.320 --> 18:09.320 Hey, slow down. 18:09.320 --> 18:11.320 Slow down. 18:11.320 --> 18:12.320 How hard have I got to chase you? 18:12.320 --> 18:14.320 What do you want? 18:14.320 --> 18:16.320 You know as well as I do what I want. 18:16.320 --> 18:18.320 You forgot something. 18:18.320 --> 18:19.320 What? 18:19.320 --> 18:20.320 What did I forget? 18:20.320 --> 18:22.320 You forgot to punch the time clock. 18:22.320 --> 18:23.320 I'll do it tomorrow. 18:23.320 --> 18:24.320 Tomorrow? 18:24.320 --> 18:27.320 You're not leaving this plant until you punch out, mister. 18:27.320 --> 18:28.320 All right, all right. 18:28.320 --> 18:31.320 I'll go back and punch out. 18:31.320 --> 18:33.320 Hey, where's the fire? 18:33.320 --> 18:36.320 You want to work that energy out during your shift, young fella. 18:36.320 --> 18:38.320 I went back into the main building. 18:38.320 --> 18:42.320 There were at least 20 others waiting in line before the clock. 18:45.320 --> 18:47.320 Hey, look, I got to get to town early. 18:47.320 --> 18:49.320 How about let me punch out now, will you? 18:49.320 --> 18:50.320 End of the line, bud. 18:50.320 --> 18:52.320 No, it'll just take a second. 18:52.320 --> 18:54.320 End of the line. 18:54.320 --> 18:58.320 Okay, okay. 19:01.320 --> 19:02.320 Oh, hi there, Jonathan. 19:02.320 --> 19:03.320 Oh, hello. 19:03.320 --> 19:05.320 Say, I think Mike's looking for you. 19:05.320 --> 19:07.320 Yeah. 19:08.320 --> 19:10.320 You know, the old guy's sort of adopted you, ain't he? 19:10.320 --> 19:12.320 Yeah. 19:15.320 --> 19:17.320 Sure long line tonight, huh? 19:17.320 --> 19:19.320 Uh-huh. 19:19.320 --> 19:20.320 Say, how you feeling now? 19:20.320 --> 19:22.320 Oh, okay. 19:22.320 --> 19:25.320 Say, is my watch right? I have 621. 19:25.320 --> 19:27.320 Let me look. 19:27.320 --> 19:31.320 Yeah, yeah, 620 I got. 19:31.320 --> 19:33.320 You sure figure it out to the minute. 19:33.320 --> 19:52.320 Right to the minute. 19:52.320 --> 19:54.320 Oh, come on. 19:54.320 --> 19:57.320 Please. 19:57.320 --> 19:58.320 It was 627. 19:58.320 --> 20:00.320 I had three minutes. 20:00.320 --> 20:01.320 Three minutes. I couldn't waste any time. 20:01.320 --> 20:03.320 I was fighting for my life. 20:03.320 --> 20:05.320 I started backing out quick. 20:05.320 --> 20:07.320 I had to get up here in a hurry. 20:07.320 --> 20:12.320 Three minutes less than that now. 20:12.320 --> 20:14.320 Hey, look out, you. My headlights. 20:14.320 --> 20:16.320 Hey, what's the matter with you? 20:16.320 --> 20:18.320 Now, come on out and see what you did to my headlights. 20:18.320 --> 20:19.320 I'm sorry, I'll pay for them. 20:19.320 --> 20:20.320 Oh, that ain't the idea. 20:20.320 --> 20:22.320 Why don't you watch where you're going? 20:22.320 --> 20:23.320 All right, look, here's my driver's license. 20:23.320 --> 20:25.320 I work in Unit 5. 20:25.320 --> 20:26.320 I'll see you tonight. We'll work something out. 20:26.320 --> 20:27.320 The name's Jonathan Peters. 20:27.320 --> 20:29.320 Not so fast, not so fast. 20:29.320 --> 20:31.320 I gotta write this down. 20:31.320 --> 20:32.320 You got a pencil? 20:32.320 --> 20:34.320 Here. Here's my pen. 20:34.320 --> 20:36.320 We'll start writing. 20:36.320 --> 20:39.320 All right, now, say it's Jonathan Peters. 20:39.320 --> 20:40.320 Jonathan Peters. 20:40.320 --> 20:44.320 Jonathan Peters. 20:44.320 --> 20:45.320 Unit 5. 20:45.320 --> 20:46.320 Yes, yes, that's right. 20:46.320 --> 20:51.320 Unit 5. Yeah. 20:51.320 --> 20:52.320 Okay, here's your pen. 20:52.320 --> 20:53.320 I'll see you tonight. 20:53.320 --> 20:54.320 I'm working two minutes. 20:54.320 --> 20:55.320 We've got to hurry. 20:55.320 --> 20:56.320 We've got to hurry. 20:56.320 --> 21:00.320 Hurry. Hurry. 21:00.320 --> 21:01.320 Hurry. 21:01.320 --> 21:03.320 Jonathan, wait for me. 21:03.320 --> 21:04.320 Wait. 21:04.320 --> 21:07.320 Wait, Jonathan. 21:07.320 --> 21:08.320 He's got to wait. 21:08.320 --> 21:09.320 Now, now, why'd he do that? 21:09.320 --> 21:14.320 These young fellas, I don't know what the end will be. 21:14.320 --> 21:16.320 You know, that kid sure is wacky. 21:16.320 --> 21:18.320 In a hurry, always in a hurry. 21:18.320 --> 21:19.320 What? What's the matter with him? 21:19.320 --> 21:21.320 No sense of responsibility. 21:21.320 --> 21:23.320 Last night, he drives like a turtle. 21:23.320 --> 21:25.320 This morning, he races out of here like a demon, 21:25.320 --> 21:27.320 leaves me standing. 21:27.320 --> 21:28.320 Too bad. 21:28.320 --> 21:29.320 Maybe somebody else will give you a ride home. 21:29.320 --> 21:30.320 Oh, I can get a bus, 21:30.320 --> 21:32.320 but this will teach me to do a guy a favor. 21:32.320 --> 21:33.320 What do you mean? 21:33.320 --> 21:34.320 Well, that Jonathan, 21:34.320 --> 21:35.320 I didn't want to keep him waiting, 21:35.320 --> 21:36.320 so I come out here looking for him, 21:36.320 --> 21:37.320 and he's not in the car, 21:37.320 --> 21:39.320 so I go back in the planter looking to miss him there, 21:39.320 --> 21:40.320 and when I get back, he's driving off. 21:40.320 --> 21:41.320 Yeah, so what's the favor you do? 21:41.320 --> 21:43.320 Well, he was so darn particular about it, 21:43.320 --> 21:45.320 then he goes off and leaves it under his locker, 21:45.320 --> 21:47.320 but I found it and put it in his car for him. 21:47.320 --> 21:48.320 What? 21:48.320 --> 21:49.320 His lunch kit. 21:49.320 --> 21:52.320 I put it in his car. 21:52.320 --> 21:53.320 What's that? 21:53.320 --> 21:54.320 Oh, that's funny. 21:54.320 --> 21:55.320 That sounds like thunder. 21:55.320 --> 21:56.320 Thunder? 21:56.320 --> 21:57.320 Look at that sky. 21:57.320 --> 21:58.320 Yeah, beautiful. 21:58.320 --> 21:59.320 No, it couldn't have been thunder. 21:59.320 --> 22:21.320 It's going to be a real nice day. 22:21.320 --> 22:22.320 Suspense. 22:22.320 --> 22:26.320 In which Harry Bartell starred in tonight's presentation of Lunch Kit. 22:26.320 --> 22:29.320 Next week, Suspense will bring you the story of a mountain road 22:29.320 --> 22:31.320 and the pursuit of a runaway car. 22:31.320 --> 22:33.320 We call it Speed Trap. 22:33.320 --> 22:53.320 Be sure to listen to Speed Trap next week on Suspense. 22:53.320 --> 22:55.320 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 22:55.320 --> 22:57.320 Tonight's script was written by Lawrence Marcus. 22:57.320 --> 23:01.320 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:01.320 --> 23:05.320 Featured in the cast were Carly Bear, Lawrence Dobkin, Victor Rotman, 23:05.320 --> 23:13.320 Jerry Hausner, Barney Phillips, Joe Duvall, Joe Cranston, and Tom Hanley. 23:13.320 --> 23:40.320 Join the FBI in peace and war Wednesday nights on the CBS Radio Network.