WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:19.000 Tonight, the story of a mountain road and the pursuit of a runaway car. 00:19.000 --> 00:21.000 We call it Speed Track. 00:21.000 --> 00:27.000 So now, starring Eddie Firestone, here is tonight's suspense play, Speed Track. 00:27.000 --> 00:42.000 Sometimes it takes you years to get to know a guy. 00:42.000 --> 00:47.000 Sometimes on the highway patrol you learn all about a man in ten minutes. 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 Like the night Craig Hollister checked me out on my new beat. 00:51.000 --> 00:54.000 Soft shoulder here. 00:54.000 --> 00:57.000 I didn't answer. 00:57.000 --> 00:59.000 I was too busy sweating the grade. 00:59.000 --> 01:01.000 The wheel was easy in my hands. 01:01.000 --> 01:05.000 Too easy like it always is on a slick highway. 01:05.000 --> 01:09.000 My headlights caught the rain and sleet slanting down from the pass. 01:09.000 --> 01:12.000 It was steamy inside the patrol car. 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 Hollister wiped the mist off the windshield. 01:16.000 --> 01:21.000 I thought of loosening my collar, but I didn't want to make a bad impression on Hollister. 01:21.000 --> 01:27.000 He didn't look like a police academy officer, but he didn't talk much so I couldn't tell. 01:27.000 --> 01:29.000 I knew he was a good patrolman. 01:29.000 --> 01:33.000 They told me at headquarters, good patrolmen go by the book. 01:33.000 --> 01:36.000 I decided I'd leave my collar buttoned. 01:36.000 --> 01:42.000 I wiped my hands one at a time and changed my grip on the wheel. 01:42.000 --> 01:43.000 Curve coming up. 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 I don't see why they need us on this road. 01:46.000 --> 01:48.000 Driver would be nuts to go over 30. 01:48.000 --> 01:50.000 People speed anywhere. 01:50.000 --> 01:53.000 This turn is called Milley's hairpin. It's slick in the rain. 01:53.000 --> 01:57.000 Found four kids here in a station wagon after the last storm. 01:57.000 --> 01:59.000 Over the left of them. 01:59.000 --> 02:01.000 Who is Milley? 02:01.000 --> 02:04.000 She went over the cliff in a model T five years ago. 02:04.000 --> 02:05.000 She was 60 years old. 02:05.000 --> 02:06.000 Killer? 02:06.000 --> 02:09.000 Not a scratch. Devil's Curve coming up. 02:09.000 --> 02:13.000 We've had three fatalities here this winter. 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 I don't know if I'm going to like this beat. 02:15.000 --> 02:17.000 Oh, it isn't bad. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 Once you get used to the blood. 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 You actually catch speeders on this highway? 02:22.000 --> 02:25.000 So I met my wife. She was speeding here. 02:25.000 --> 02:26.000 Pardon me. 02:26.000 --> 02:31.000 Spatcher, this is 3-1-2-2. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 Go ahead, Craig. 02:33.000 --> 02:38.000 Joe, will you call Debbie and tell her to pick me up at headquarters? 02:38.000 --> 02:41.000 Okay. You better get down here before she does. 02:41.000 --> 02:44.000 A guy like her is the safest around me. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 You old relic, she could break your arm. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Joe. 02:48.000 --> 02:49.000 Yeah? 02:49.000 --> 02:51.000 It's awful slick up here. 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 Tell her to take it easy on the gray. 02:53.000 --> 02:55.000 Roger. Out. 02:57.000 --> 03:00.000 Well, this was pretty good. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 You wanted your wife to meet you. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 You gave the dispatcher a call on the radio. 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 That was something they hadn't taught me at the academy. 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 I had a hunch it wasn't exactly standard either. 03:11.000 --> 03:15.000 Maybe working out here in the sticks would have its points. 03:15.000 --> 03:20.000 If you didn't end up at the bottom of a canyon some night chewing on a piston ring. 03:20.000 --> 03:24.000 Or if your wife didn't go nuts feeding the chipmunks. 03:24.000 --> 03:28.000 Well, I sure hope she doesn't try to break the record getting to headquarters. 03:28.000 --> 03:29.000 Not tonight. 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 Did you say you caught her speeding here? 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 That's how I met her. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 See that stretch at the bottom of the grade? 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 I remember it. 03:36.000 --> 03:39.000 If you park off the road on the ridge, you can spot the speeders coming down. 03:39.000 --> 03:42.000 I try to get them before they hit the real grade and clobber themselves. 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 That's where you met your wife, huh? 03:44.000 --> 03:45.000 Yeah. 03:45.000 --> 03:48.000 She was rowing down the hill with a car full of phonies. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 Coming back from a party Schweitzer was giving on his estate. 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 All of them. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Tried to the eyeballs. 03:54.000 --> 03:56.000 Including your wife? 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 I thought so. I wrote it up that way. 03:58.000 --> 03:59.000 Well, then what happened? 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 Well, the county judge thought otherwise. 04:02.000 --> 04:05.000 Debbie cried and her old man said he wanted to treat her just like anybody else. 04:05.000 --> 04:08.000 Even if he had just given the county a new library. 04:08.000 --> 04:12.000 So the judge decided she'd never had a drink in her life. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 Wasn't a dry eye in the courthouse. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 You married her, huh? 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 Best thing I ever did. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 I think. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 You think? 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 You're married, aren't you? 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Your wife doesn't like the mountains? 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 Whoever I am, she likes it. Why? 04:29.000 --> 04:33.000 It's kind of lonely for a woman, Debbie says. 04:33.000 --> 04:36.000 Well, here's the place I was telling you about. 04:36.000 --> 04:37.000 Pull over. 04:37.000 --> 04:38.000 Pull over? 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Yeah. 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 Well, wait here and follow her down. 04:42.000 --> 04:43.000 Why? 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 Well, she still drives this grade too fast. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 With me back of her, she'll take it easy. 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 So I pulled over, of course. 04:53.000 --> 04:56.000 Even if it was quitting time. 04:56.000 --> 05:01.000 He was the boss and if he wanted to baby his wife down the grade, it was okay with me. 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 I was tired and I could have used a cup of coffee back at headquarters. 05:05.000 --> 05:10.000 And I was trying to get my wife moved into her cabin, but the man said pull over and wait. 05:10.000 --> 05:13.000 So I pulled over and waited. 05:13.000 --> 05:18.000 I even offered him a cigarette to show there were no hard feelings. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 He shook his head. 05:20.000 --> 05:25.000 And the flare of my match I could see was squinting up the road. 05:25.000 --> 05:27.000 His face was tired. 05:27.000 --> 05:29.000 Some of the roughness was gone. 05:29.000 --> 05:32.000 This joker was worried. 05:32.000 --> 05:35.000 He caught me looking and seemed kind of ashamed. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 Should we be along in a minute? 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Sure, sure, no hurry. 05:38.000 --> 05:41.000 You can't follow her everywhere, you know. 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 In a hurry or something? 05:43.000 --> 05:44.000 No, no, it just seems... 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 Look, I'm getting a transfer. 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 Debbie and I will be out of these mountains next week. 05:48.000 --> 05:51.000 She's a good driver, but it's slick tonight. 05:51.000 --> 05:52.000 So if it's okay with you, we'll just... 05:52.000 --> 05:55.000 Sure, sure, I'm sorry. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 What's the matter? 05:57.000 --> 05:59.000 Look at those headlights up there. 05:59.000 --> 06:02.000 I twisted around in my seat. 06:02.000 --> 06:05.000 Half a mile up the grade, a pair of headlights stabbed over the cliff 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 seemed to hang there. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 Then they whipped back to the road, jerky. 06:10.000 --> 06:13.000 Like when somebody's really floorboarding the accelerator. 06:13.000 --> 06:17.000 Then there was a straight stretch where the light swayed like the guy was skidding. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 Hollister gripped my shoulder, then the light straightened out 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 and got brighter and brighter and further apart. 06:21.000 --> 06:22.000 The guy was practically flying. 06:22.000 --> 06:23.000 Holy smoke! 06:23.000 --> 06:24.000 That's not your wife, is it? 06:24.000 --> 06:27.000 No, no, she's still a little wild, but she's not crazy. 06:27.000 --> 06:30.000 Hollister was big and a little older than me. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 He didn't look like he could move very fast, 06:32.000 --> 06:35.000 but he was nothing but a blur jumping out of that car. 06:35.000 --> 06:38.000 He was around the hood and swinging a flashlight in circles 06:38.000 --> 06:40.000 before I could even turn on my red light. 06:40.000 --> 06:43.000 The crazy headlights seemed to reach out at him. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Hey! 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 You okay, Hollister? 06:49.000 --> 06:51.000 Yeah. 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 Let's take him. 06:52.000 --> 06:54.000 Holy cow, I thought you'd had him. 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 Close, but no cigar. He must be plaster of the years. 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 Get his tag, the light's blinking. 06:58.000 --> 07:01.000 I just seen it was a convertible, that's all. 07:01.000 --> 07:02.000 A convertible? 07:02.000 --> 07:03.000 Yeah. 07:03.000 --> 07:04.000 Aren't you going to call a dispatcher? 07:04.000 --> 07:05.000 No. 07:05.000 --> 07:08.000 Cappy ought to be parked near halfway house. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 2429. 07:10.000 --> 07:13.000 This is 3122. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 It was a convertible, all right, 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 and I'd caught a flash of the driver and my heart had flipped. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 It was a woman driver, young, blonde, 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 with a crazy grin on her face. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 I felt sick. 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 I'd picked up the pieces after a few wrecks down in the valley. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 It's bad enough when it's a man, but a young girl... 07:29.000 --> 07:32.000 2429, this is 3122, Cappy. 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 We're in pursuit of a possible 502 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 three miles north of halfway house. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 Just about ran me down. 07:37.000 --> 07:40.000 He's weaving all over the road. Be careful. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Roger, I'll try to take him. 07:42.000 --> 07:43.000 Curve, not here. 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 Take this curve tight, buddy. 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 What did you say? 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 That driver, it's a woman. 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 A woman? 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 I think so. 07:50.000 --> 07:53.000 Okay, after this curve, you can cut loose for about 800 yards. 07:53.000 --> 07:56.000 Try to get me close enough to spot light her license. 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 Hang on, partner. 07:59.000 --> 08:00.000 You get the number? 08:00.000 --> 08:01.000 No. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 Maybe on the next stretch. 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 We don't need the number. 08:03.000 --> 08:04.000 What do you mean? 08:04.000 --> 08:05.000 I know the number. 08:05.000 --> 08:06.000 You know it? How come? 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 It's Debbie's car. 08:08.000 --> 08:09.000 You're a wife. You must be nuts. 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 It's Debbie. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 Why would she try to run you down? 08:11.000 --> 08:12.000 She doesn't know what she's doing. 08:12.000 --> 08:13.000 What do you mean? 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 She's fried, plastered, crushed. 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 What do you mean? 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 She's a woman. 08:17.000 --> 08:20.000 She doesn't know what she's doing. 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 She's going to roll that thing and that'll be all. 08:22.000 --> 08:23.000 That'll be all. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 This guy was shook. 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 Sliding through a turn, I caught a glimpse of his face in the light from the dash. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 He was staring ahead. 08:32.000 --> 08:36.000 And he had that thousand yard stare I'd seen in Korea before an attack. 08:37.000 --> 08:38.000 I shivered. 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 Well, where do we go from here? 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 I could see it coming. 08:46.000 --> 08:47.000 I could see it. 08:47.000 --> 08:48.000 Alone in that house all day. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 It's why we were going to move to the city. 08:50.000 --> 08:51.000 But now it'll be too late. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Step it up, Art. Step it up. 08:53.000 --> 08:54.000 If we had time to change... 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 I can't do any better than you. 08:56.000 --> 08:57.000 Stick with it and try. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 Try to get her before killer curve. 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 That's a heavy car she's got, Craig. 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 It's like it was glued to the road. 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 It isn't glued to the road. 09:05.000 --> 09:06.000 It'll roll just like the rest of them. 09:06.000 --> 09:07.000 It'll roll. 09:07.000 --> 09:08.000 Tappy will flag her down. 09:08.000 --> 09:09.000 How's he going to do it? 09:09.000 --> 09:10.000 She didn't stop for us. 09:10.000 --> 09:11.000 Maybe she didn't even see us. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 You want me to try to take her again? 09:14.000 --> 09:15.000 Not here, Art. Not here. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 If she speeds up anymore, she hasn't got a prayer on killer curve. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 Hang back. Don't press her. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 Benny did something that wasn't in the books. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 He reached over and cut our growler. 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 And he flicked off the red light. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 I started to turn it back on and fell his hand on my wrist. 09:30.000 --> 09:31.000 Leave it off. 09:31.000 --> 09:32.000 Maybe we're panicking her. 09:33.000 --> 09:36.000 Art, if she doesn't slow down now, she'll never make it. 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 Then she started her turn on killer's curve. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 It was easy to see she wouldn't make it. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 It's the roughest turn on the grade. 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 Washboard, no bank to it at all. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 100 foot drop to the river bed below. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 Hard enough to make on a dry day, but on a wet night. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.000 Murder. 09:52.000 --> 09:55.000 The tail lights hesitated for a second like they were making up their minds 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 whether to run into the hill or over the side. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 The car slid sideways, rear toward the river. 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 She was going over backwards. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 No, no. 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 No, baby. No, no. 10:04.000 --> 10:06.000 I took my foot off the gas. 10:07.000 --> 10:09.000 Out of the tail of my eye, I saw Hollister cover his face. 10:09.000 --> 10:12.000 And then I was fighting to stay on the road myself. 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 Suddenly the miracle happened. 10:15.000 --> 10:16.000 She'd made it. 10:17.000 --> 10:19.000 Now we had to do it. 10:23.000 --> 10:24.000 2429. 10:24.000 --> 10:25.000 This is 3122. 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 We're a mile north. 10:27.000 --> 10:28.000 Still unable to catch the 502. 10:28.000 --> 10:29.000 She's doing 75. 10:29.000 --> 10:32.000 Suggest your startup will try to box her, but be careful of it. 10:33.000 --> 10:34.000 This is 2429. 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 Did you say her? 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 Yes. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Roger. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 Okay. 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 I see her lights. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Starting up now. 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 Stay on her tail. 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 We can just stay. 10:47.000 --> 10:48.000 Just ease her between us. 10:48.000 --> 10:49.000 Just ease her between us. 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 Watch it! 10:50.000 --> 10:51.000 It's like glass out there. 10:52.000 --> 10:53.000 I'll try to take her again. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 What's your speed now, Gray? 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 73. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 We're a half a mile behind you. 10:59.000 --> 11:00.000 She's weaving. 11:01.000 --> 11:03.000 I'm up to 65. 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 Is she slowing down? 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 Is she slowing down? 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 No. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 No, she's swinging left. 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 It's a heavy car, Pappy. 11:12.000 --> 11:13.000 Be careful. 11:14.000 --> 11:15.000 Roger. 11:17.000 --> 11:18.000 She's swinging right. 11:18.000 --> 11:19.000 Pappy, let her by. 11:19.000 --> 11:20.000 Let her by! 11:28.000 --> 11:29.000 Let her by. 11:29.000 --> 11:33.000 How are you going to make an old-time patrolman let a drunk pass him on the road? 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 No, Pappy tried to fight it. 11:35.000 --> 11:37.000 He tried to ease her onto the shoulder. 11:37.000 --> 11:40.000 The block long convertible against the patrol car. 11:40.000 --> 11:43.000 It was like a good pro featherweight against an amateur heavy. 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 All skill and no punch. 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 For a second I thought he had her run off the road. 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 The convertible lurched back. 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 The two sets of tail lights got closer. 11:53.000 --> 11:57.000 And then Pappy was off the road, over the shoulder, bouncing and rolling down the embankment. 11:57.000 --> 12:01.000 I eased my foot off the accelerator praying that it wasn't as bad as it looked. 12:01.000 --> 12:04.000 I wanted to use the brake, but on that highway it would have been suicide. 12:04.000 --> 12:05.000 What are you doing? 12:06.000 --> 12:07.000 Going back for Pappy. 12:07.000 --> 12:08.000 What about her? 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Call a dispatcher. They'll stop her. 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 If she doesn't go off the road first, we gotta get back. 12:12.000 --> 12:13.000 Stay on her tail. 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 You off your rocker, they'll stop her. 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 She's my wife and I don't want her killed. 12:17.000 --> 12:19.000 Stay on her tail. 12:19.000 --> 12:20.000 What about Pappy? 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 I said stay with her. I'm still running this beach. 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 But Pappy sneaks? 12:24.000 --> 12:29.000 Joe, this is 3-1-2-2, a mile south of Halfway House. 12:29.000 --> 12:32.000 That 502 just ran Pappy off the road. 12:32.000 --> 12:35.000 Send an ambulance. We're staying on her tail. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 This isn't Joe, it's Sergeant Capehart. 12:41.000 --> 12:44.000 Setting up a roadblock outside headquarters. She won't get through it. 12:44.000 --> 12:45.000 Go back and help Pappy. 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 But what kind of roadblock? 12:48.000 --> 12:49.000 The works. 12:49.000 --> 12:51.000 You aren't shooting at a woman. 12:51.000 --> 12:54.000 If she tries to run this block, we'll shoot at her. 12:54.000 --> 12:55.000 Now get back to Pappy. 12:55.000 --> 12:57.000 Sarge, Sarge, that girl... 12:58.000 --> 13:00.000 Don't worry about the girl. I'll take care of her. 13:00.000 --> 13:01.000 You get back to Pappy. 13:02.000 --> 13:03.000 It's Debbie! 13:06.000 --> 13:07.000 Yeah? 13:09.000 --> 13:12.000 I'm sorry, Hollister. She's just run my best man off the road. 13:12.000 --> 13:14.000 Said she almost hit you. 13:14.000 --> 13:16.000 Trucks and cars coming up the lower grade. 13:16.000 --> 13:17.000 She'll have one of those. 13:17.000 --> 13:21.000 If we don't stop her. So we'll stop her. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 If we have to blast her off the road. 13:34.000 --> 13:37.000 You are listening to Speed Trap. 13:37.000 --> 13:47.000 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 13:55.000 --> 13:59.000 Hardly a driver is now alive who passed on a curve at 65. 13:59.000 --> 14:04.000 Slow down driver, if you're pushing even a little bit too hard for the road conditions ahead tonight. 14:04.000 --> 14:08.000 Play it safe behind the wheel. Your life depends on it. 14:08.000 --> 14:12.000 The lives of others on or near the highways depend on it too. 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 Safety first behind the wheel. 14:14.000 --> 14:17.000 Don't make a death trap of your automobile. 14:19.000 --> 14:23.000 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Eddie Firestone with Larry Thor. 14:23.000 --> 14:26.000 Starring in tonight's production, Speed Trap. 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 14:29.000 --> 14:33.000 Suspense. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 I felt sorry for the man beside me. 14:44.000 --> 14:46.000 I knew what was happening outside headquarters. 14:46.000 --> 14:49.000 A couple of patrol cars rolling into position. 14:49.000 --> 14:52.000 Spotlights pointed up the grade. 14:52.000 --> 14:55.000 The guys drawing automatic rifles, maybe shotguns. 14:55.000 --> 14:58.000 Flares set out further down the hill. 14:58.000 --> 15:01.000 A reception committee for Craig Hollister's wife. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 Not what he'd planned when he'd asked her to meet him at headquarters. 15:04.000 --> 15:06.000 But there was nothing I could do. 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 I slowed carefully. 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 Keep going. 15:09.000 --> 15:10.000 Now look, Guy. Keep going. 15:10.000 --> 15:12.000 You heard the Sergeant, Pappy might be bleeding to death. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 He's only a quarter mile from halfway house. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 They can do as much for him as we can. 15:15.000 --> 15:16.000 You stay on her tail. 15:16.000 --> 15:17.000 I can't. The sergeant said... 15:17.000 --> 15:20.000 I'm running this and I said stay with her, you understand? 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 Craig, I can't. They'll suspend me. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 Don't make me pull my gun on you. 15:24.000 --> 15:25.000 Watch this next curve. 15:25.000 --> 15:27.000 What can we do? We can't stop them. 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 If she tries to run the barricade, they'll blow her apart. 15:29.000 --> 15:31.000 If she... Hang on. 15:35.000 --> 15:38.000 If she doesn't slow down, she won't even get to the barricade. 15:38.000 --> 15:39.000 Turn off your lights. 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 Turn off my lights? 15:41.000 --> 15:42.000 That's right. Turn off your lights. 15:42.000 --> 15:44.000 When she doesn't see us, she slows down a little. 15:44.000 --> 15:45.000 How am I gonna see? 15:45.000 --> 15:47.000 Use her lights. 15:47.000 --> 15:49.000 Her lights. 15:49.000 --> 15:52.000 Fine. Great. 15:52.000 --> 15:55.000 But what if there was something coming up the grade? 15:55.000 --> 15:58.000 I wondered if Hollister had gone nuts. 15:58.000 --> 15:59.000 I shot a look at him. 15:59.000 --> 16:02.000 He was peering ahead and he seemed to have got a hold of himself. 16:02.000 --> 16:05.000 I didn't really think he'd pull a gun on me, but... 16:05.000 --> 16:08.000 Suddenly I knew I'd go along with whatever he was trying to do. 16:08.000 --> 16:11.000 Even if it cost me my badge. 16:11.000 --> 16:14.000 I flicked off the lights. 16:14.000 --> 16:15.000 It seemed to help. 16:15.000 --> 16:18.000 The car ahead lost some of its crazy fear. 16:18.000 --> 16:21.000 You're gaining. 16:21.000 --> 16:22.000 Slow. 16:22.000 --> 16:24.000 Slow and easy. 16:24.000 --> 16:26.000 Watch it. 16:26.000 --> 16:29.000 Okay, use this stretch here. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 Gaining all right, but what good is it? 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 She makes this turn, she's still only got a mile to the barricade. 16:38.000 --> 16:40.000 Is that a car coming? 16:40.000 --> 16:42.000 Looks like a truck. 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 Get over. Get over! 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 Shoot. 16:48.000 --> 16:53.000 Watch it, get your lights on. 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 Now, catch her. 16:57.000 --> 17:00.000 Every time I put on another mile an hour, we start to slide. 17:00.000 --> 17:04.000 If I have to get closer, I'll never do it from here. 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 Closer, the man said. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 I was already pushing 80. 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 My arms and eyes ached from the strain. 17:10.000 --> 17:14.000 The range was still too far unless he was aiming for a lucky hit. 17:14.000 --> 17:15.000 Or an unlucky. 17:15.000 --> 17:19.000 You've got to catch her by that stretch in front of headquarters. 17:20.000 --> 17:21.000 Well, that made sense. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 It was the only level shoulder in the grade. 17:23.000 --> 17:26.000 If he was going to shoot out a tire, it would have to be there. 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 But that was where the barricade was. 17:28.000 --> 17:31.000 Now we just have to get her this side of it. 17:31.000 --> 17:35.000 Hollister rolled down the window and I felt a spray of rain on my face. 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 Suddenly I spotted the barricade's spotlights. 17:37.000 --> 17:38.000 She's slowing, Annie? 17:38.000 --> 17:40.000 Putting on speed. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 I can't wait any longer. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 The range was just too great. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 It had to be her left rear tire. 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 If she went off the other way, she'd be killed. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 And if the ricochet got her, she'd be killed anyway. 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 But she was just too far away. 17:52.000 --> 17:56.000 Suddenly, not really wanting to, I jammed down the accelerator. 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 At least I could give him a last chance. 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 The rear end swayed and lurched. 18:01.000 --> 18:04.000 My hands were sweaty with fear. 18:06.000 --> 18:07.000 And that did it. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 The heavy car began to turn. 18:09.000 --> 18:12.000 Hesitated and headed for the shoulder. 18:12.000 --> 18:16.000 It leaped when it hit the dirt, half turned and went over. 18:24.000 --> 18:27.000 I skidded all the way through the roadblock. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 It took me so long to get stopped and turn around 18:30.000 --> 18:34.000 that the guys from the barricade beat us back to the crash. 18:34.000 --> 18:37.000 But it was just as well because without them, 18:37.000 --> 18:40.000 I'd never been able to keep Hollister from the ruin convertible. 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 Let me go! Let me go! 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 Hollister, wait till we get her out. 18:44.000 --> 18:45.000 Doc will be here in a minute. 18:45.000 --> 18:46.000 I killed her. I killed her. 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 We don't know yet. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 There's the ambulance. 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 She's down there, Doc. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Hey, how's Pappy? 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 He broke a leg. 18:58.000 --> 18:59.000 Not the car that ran him off the road? 18:59.000 --> 19:07.000 Yeah, that's it. 19:07.000 --> 19:10.000 It seemed like an hour, but it was only a couple of minutes 19:10.000 --> 19:13.000 before the Docs scrambled out of the ditch. 19:13.000 --> 19:16.000 A patrolman and an ambulance driver set a litter by the ambulance. 19:16.000 --> 19:19.000 Two other guys had Craig in their patrol car trying to calm him down. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 I walked over to the ambulance. 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 The girl was hurt. 19:22.000 --> 19:25.000 Hurt bad, but she was alive. 19:25.000 --> 19:26.000 Sergeant walked up. 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 Is she alive? 19:28.000 --> 19:29.000 Yeah. 19:29.000 --> 19:31.000 Tell Hollister. 19:31.000 --> 19:33.000 Okay to let him see her, Sarge? 19:33.000 --> 19:39.000 Yeah, yeah, I guess so. 19:39.000 --> 19:43.000 I started back to the patrol car and stepped back to let a convertible 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 onto the shoulder. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 A girl got out, a pretty girl. 19:48.000 --> 19:52.000 And I thought of the kid by the ambulance who would never be pretty again. 19:52.000 --> 19:54.000 Then I felt the sergeant's hand in my arm. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 He was staring at her. 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 This is Hollister. 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 Yes, Sergeant, what happened? 20:00.000 --> 20:01.000 Where's Craig? 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 What's the matter with you? 20:03.000 --> 20:07.000 We thought, he thought... 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Oh, look. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 That poor thing. 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 She's just a kid. 20:12.000 --> 20:16.000 Hey, Pete, bring Hollister over here. 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 I guess you figured she was old enough to get fried at the gills 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 and try to make that grade on a rainy night. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.000 Your husband saved her life. 20:23.000 --> 20:24.000 How? 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 He and Art here almost broke their necks catching her. 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 I had a blast hitting her pieces. 20:29.000 --> 20:30.000 Where is Craig? Is he all right? 20:30.000 --> 20:31.000 Debbie. 20:31.000 --> 20:32.000 Craig, darling, what is it? 20:32.000 --> 20:34.000 It wasn't you. 20:34.000 --> 20:35.000 Better skip it, Craig. 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 No, no. 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 Now, you ought to know, Debbie. 20:39.000 --> 20:42.000 I want you to know I thought the girl was you. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 Me? 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 Well, why me? 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 Oh. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 Oh, I see. 20:51.000 --> 20:55.000 And it could have been, couldn't it? 20:55.000 --> 20:57.000 Long time ago, maybe. 20:57.000 --> 21:00.000 Long time ago. 21:06.000 --> 21:10.000 Well, his arm was around her when they walked away, 21:10.000 --> 21:15.000 but Debbie Hollister had a kind of thoughtful look in her eye. 21:15.000 --> 21:19.000 You kind of wonder at a time like that what two people are thinking. 21:19.000 --> 21:22.000 I turn back to the sergeant. 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 You okay? 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 Oh, sure. Yeah, I... 21:25.000 --> 21:28.000 Well, say, sergeant. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Hmm? 21:30.000 --> 21:34.000 About us not going back for Pappy, I was driving, you know. 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 Yeah, I know. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 Well... 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 Forget it. 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 Learn anything tonight? 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 Yeah. 21:41.000 --> 22:03.000 I learned something. 22:03.000 --> 22:06.000 Suspense. 22:06.000 --> 22:12.000 In which Eddie Firestone with Larry Thorst starred in tonight's presentation of Speed Trap. 22:12.000 --> 22:18.000 Next week, Suspense will bring you the story of a man who knows that he will be caught for a crime that he has not yet committed. 22:18.000 --> 22:21.000 We call it Sight Unseen. 22:21.000 --> 22:42.000 That's next week on Suspense. 22:42.000 --> 22:45.000 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 22:45.000 --> 22:48.000 Tonight's script was written by Mr. Hank Searles. 22:48.000 --> 22:52.000 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 22:52.000 --> 23:01.000 Featured in the cast were Lillian Byeth, Tom McKee, Ted Bliss, and Jack Prussian. 23:01.000 --> 23:02.000 Listen while you work. 23:02.000 --> 23:28.000 Enjoy Perry Mason every Monday through Friday in the daytime on the CBS Radio Network.