1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,560 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:22,600 Tonight, the story of a woman who can't escape from her dreams. 3 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,840 We call it, I Saw Myself Running. 4 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:31,520 So now, starring Miss Charlotte Lawrence, here is tonight's Suspense play, I Saw Myself 5 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,520 Running. 6 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:56,120 I'll serve you the magazine section, sweetie. 7 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:57,120 Thanks. 8 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,720 You want the woman's page? 9 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,720 No thanks. 10 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:03,720 Ready? 11 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,520 Hmm? 12 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,600 I had the strangest dream last night. 13 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:09,600 It scared me. 14 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,840 Why didn't you wake me up? 15 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:12,840 Why? 16 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,200 I wouldn't have done any good. 17 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,680 The funniest thing, it was a nightmare I guess. 18 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:24,080 You know, the kind where you see yourself running away from something or somebody. 19 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,080 Too much brandy. 20 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:30,000 I want to ask you, it's very important. 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,040 What darling? 22 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,920 You notice how sometimes in a dream, everything is happening to you, then suddenly you find 23 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,280 yourself standing there watching it, watching yourself. 24 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,100 And you say, it's a dream and I don't have to be frightened because in a minute I'll 25 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:45,100 wake up. 26 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:47,320 Yeah, I guess so. 27 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:52,000 Well last night, a lot of other nights it's been different. 28 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,320 Starts the same way. 29 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,720 I'm running away. 30 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:07,120 Somebody I don't know is following me and then there are two of us, both me, running. 31 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:08,120 Coffee still hot? 32 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:09,120 Freddie. 33 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,120 Sue. 34 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,640 Honey, I don't know anything about dreams. 35 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:16,760 If you want to know what I think it means, I don't know. 36 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,080 Offhand I'd say that last brandy. 37 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:21,080 More coffee? 38 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:30,160 How do you explain a dream? 39 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,160 You don't. 40 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:32,160 You can't. 41 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:37,800 At first it frightens you, then as the morning passes it fades. 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,040 My lunchtime is forgotten. 43 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,920 Freddie and I went to bed early that night. 44 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,400 I think I was a little surprised when it began again. 45 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:53,720 I didn't realize I was asleep yet but it was there, the same as the last time. 46 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,800 A face far away. 47 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:01,280 Around it was a piece of cardboard with circles drawn on it, the face in the center and it 48 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,400 went round and round. 49 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,920 First only a dot and then it came closer. 50 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:10,880 The noise came with it and everything was spinning so much it made me dizzy. 51 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,320 But I could always see it right side up. 52 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:18,360 It was very close to me and the face was somebody's I'd never seen before. 53 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:25,600 It was a man I think and I knew that he didn't care and I wanted to cry. 54 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,520 Then it was gone. 55 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:36,800 I was alone in a big hall and I thought I'd seen the place before but I couldn't have 56 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,080 because I knew it was only a dream. 57 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,680 Even then I knew I was dreaming because I could see myself. 58 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:48,520 There was a wide staircase going up into a dark place that was higher than any place 59 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,480 I'd ever seen. 60 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,080 I was at the foot of the stairs looking up. 61 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,120 My face was frightened. 62 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,920 I saw myself open my mouth to say something, to call upstairs into the dark. 63 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:01,920 Don't come down please, don't. 64 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:02,920 I don't want to see you. 65 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:03,920 I'm afraid. 66 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:04,920 Don't come down. 67 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,920 But I'd never heard myself before. 68 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:08,920 Not really. 69 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,840 I always thought I'd said things in dreams but not this way. 70 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:17,480 Not so that I really heard and the voice wasn't my own. 71 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,880 I found myself looking up the staircase with her and there were two of us standing next 72 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,480 to each other touching. 73 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,560 I could feel her hand. 74 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:27,560 It was warm. 75 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:28,560 Don't. 76 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:29,560 You mustn't come down. 77 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:30,560 Who is it? 78 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:31,560 I don't know Susan. 79 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,960 I never know but it's up there in the shadows. 80 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:35,960 What does it look like? 81 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:36,960 Listen. 82 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,960 I'm afraid. 83 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:44,920 It'll come down soon and I'll try to run but I won't be able to get away. 84 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:45,920 It's always the same. 85 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:46,920 This is a dream. 86 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:47,920 It's a dream. 87 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,000 I'm having a dream. 88 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 I can wake up now if I want to. 89 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,680 I'll be here alone then. 90 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,120 You always leave me here alone. 91 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:56,120 That's silly. 92 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,280 How can I leave you alone when you're me? 93 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:00,800 It's only a dream. 94 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:01,800 I can wake up now. 95 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:02,800 No. 96 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:03,800 You've got to stay this time. 97 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:04,800 Look up there. 98 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,800 It'll be coming down in a minute. 99 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,160 We'll have to run. 100 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:10,400 I won't run. 101 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:11,640 I always do. 102 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:12,640 I have to. 103 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:13,640 No. 104 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:14,640 I want to see it. 105 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:15,640 It'll kill you if you stay. 106 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:16,640 How do you know you haven't even seen it? 107 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:17,640 It'll kill me too. 108 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,640 I'm afraid. 109 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:19,640 This is a dream. 110 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:20,640 There's nothing to be afraid of. 111 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:21,640 It's coming down. 112 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:22,640 Run. 113 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:23,640 Run. 114 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:24,640 We ran. 115 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:25,640 The both of us. 116 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:34,520 And all this time and all my dreams that girl I'd seen hadn't been me at all. 117 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,880 And then the great hall and staircase wasn't there. 118 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,320 We were in a lovely garden. 119 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,520 It was very quiet except for a single bird. 120 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,600 And it sang strangely and sadly. 121 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,480 Why do you dream? 122 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,160 What a silly question. 123 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:54,160 Everybody dreams. 124 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,400 If you didn't dream I wouldn't have to be here. 125 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,440 I wouldn't be afraid all the time. 126 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,480 There's nothing to be afraid of. 127 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,480 It's warm. 128 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,480 So peaceful. 129 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:04,480 Look at the roses. 130 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:05,480 The caterpillars. 131 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,480 I'm afraid of caterpillars. 132 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,480 I used to be. 133 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:08,480 I'm not anymore. 134 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:09,480 I'm still afraid of them. 135 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:10,480 I remember the first time you dreamed of them. 136 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:11,480 You've been frightened when one crawled on your hand. 137 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:12,480 You were very small then. 138 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:13,480 That's the first time I had to be afraid of them. 139 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:14,480 That was a long time ago. 140 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:15,480 I don't mind them now. 141 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:16,480 I do. 142 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:17,480 I mind everything you think you've forgotten. 143 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:18,480 Look. 144 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:19,480 There's one crawling on my hand. 145 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:20,480 It's a cat. 146 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:21,480 It's a cat. 147 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:22,480 It's a cat. 148 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:23,480 It's a cat. 149 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:24,480 It's a cat. 150 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:25,480 It's a cat. 151 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:26,480 It's a cat. 152 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:27,480 It's a cat. 153 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:28,480 It's a cat. 154 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:29,480 It's a cat. 155 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:30,480 It's a cat. 156 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:38,280 You've been frightened when one crawled on your hand. 157 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:43,120 With a cat. 158 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,720 With a cat. 159 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,240 It's a cat. 160 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,200 I'm afraid of them. 161 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:53,240 That is my dream. 162 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:54,240 My dream. 163 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:55,280 With passengers, I'm a cat. 164 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:56,280 Not anymore. 165 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:57,280 No, go away. 166 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:58,280 I need to go away through this code. 167 00:06:58,280 --> 00:06:59,280 It's only a dream. 168 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:00,280 You think it's only a道m. 169 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:01,680 We live with this all the time. 170 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:02,680 Where are we going? 171 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:03,680 I don't know. 172 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:04,680 Look. 173 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:05,680 We're going to fall. 174 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:06,680 We're going to fall now. 175 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:07,680 It'll be all right. 176 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:08,680 We've got our parachutes on. 177 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:09,680 I know. 178 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,480 You have to count to three or ten and then pull the ring. 179 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:14,480 I've seen them do it in the movies. 180 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:15,480 We'll be all right. 181 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,480 We'll jump. 182 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:17,480 No, I can't. 183 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:18,480 I can't. 184 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:19,480 We've got to. 185 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:20,480 I can't. 186 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:21,480 I can't. 187 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:22,480 It's such a nice floating sensation. 188 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,480 I know ideally we were so high. 189 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:24,480 I've got to count to ten and then we'll be all right. 190 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:25,480 I can't. 191 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:26,480 I can't. 192 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:27,480 I can't. 193 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:28,480 I can't. 194 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,480 I can't. 195 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:30,480 I can't. 196 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:31,480 We will. 197 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:32,480 We will. 198 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:33,500 Count to ten and then pull the ring. 199 00:07:33,500 --> 00:07:34,500 One. 200 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:35,500 Two. 201 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:36,500 Three. 202 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:37,500 Four. 203 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:38,500 Five. 204 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:39,500 Zero. 205 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:40,500 Six. 206 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:41,500 Seven. 207 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:42,500 Eight. 208 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:43,500 Nine. 209 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:44,500 Ten. 210 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:45,500 I can't find it. 211 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:46,500 I can't find it! 212 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:47,500 It won't work. 213 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:48,500 I'm going to die. 214 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:49,500 I'm falling! 215 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:50,500 I'm going to die! 216 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:52,540 I'll tell you how to find it. 217 00:07:52,540 --> 00:07:55,540 It's got nothing to do with us. 218 00:07:55,540 --> 00:07:56,540 No! 219 00:08:01,820 --> 00:08:03,740 Honey, wake up. 220 00:08:04,380 --> 00:08:06,460 Susan, wake up. You're dreaming. 221 00:08:06,940 --> 00:08:07,940 Susan. 222 00:08:10,940 --> 00:08:11,940 Oh, Freddy. 223 00:08:13,620 --> 00:08:16,260 It's all right. You're okay now. 224 00:08:17,060 --> 00:08:18,060 It was a nightmare. 225 00:08:18,940 --> 00:08:20,140 I was falling. 226 00:08:20,140 --> 00:08:24,140 I fell out of an airplane. 227 00:08:25,540 --> 00:08:26,540 I was going to die. 228 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:27,540 It's all right. 229 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:29,740 You're right here. 230 00:08:30,740 --> 00:08:33,740 Everything's fine and it's nearly four o'clock. 231 00:08:35,340 --> 00:08:36,340 Come on. 232 00:08:36,740 --> 00:08:37,740 You climb in with me. 233 00:08:39,340 --> 00:08:40,340 Freddy. 234 00:08:41,140 --> 00:08:42,940 I don't want to dream anymore. 235 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:45,940 I'm afraid. 236 00:08:45,940 --> 00:08:50,940 It was like last night, the other nights. 237 00:08:50,940 --> 00:08:51,940 But worse. 238 00:08:51,940 --> 00:08:52,940 Now listen, Soze. 239 00:08:52,940 --> 00:08:53,940 Look at me. 240 00:08:54,940 --> 00:08:55,940 Do I sound the same? 241 00:08:56,940 --> 00:08:57,940 Do I sound the same? 242 00:08:57,940 --> 00:08:58,940 Honey, you're the same. 243 00:08:58,940 --> 00:08:59,940 But there's two of us. 244 00:09:00,940 --> 00:09:05,940 When I go to sleep, when I dream, there's another woman there. 245 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:08,940 That's who I've been seeing all these years. 246 00:09:09,940 --> 00:09:11,940 It's someone else. She's there all the time. 247 00:09:11,940 --> 00:09:13,940 Freddy, I don't want to dream anymore. 248 00:09:15,940 --> 00:09:16,940 Something's going to happen. 249 00:09:17,940 --> 00:09:18,940 I'm afraid. 250 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:36,940 You are listening to I Saw Myself Running. 251 00:09:36,940 --> 00:09:42,940 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 252 00:09:52,940 --> 00:10:01,940 There are more people in hospitals with mental illness than with polio, cancer, heart disease, TB, and all other diseases put together. 253 00:10:01,940 --> 00:10:05,940 Let's stop the spread of mental illness right now. 254 00:10:05,940 --> 00:10:12,940 Help your mental health association in its fight for better hospitals, more clinics, and more research. 255 00:10:12,940 --> 00:10:15,940 Give today to your mental health fund. 256 00:10:17,940 --> 00:10:25,940 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Charlotte Lawrence, starring in tonight's production of I Saw Myself Running, 257 00:10:25,940 --> 00:10:31,940 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 258 00:10:43,940 --> 00:10:47,940 Freddy took me to the doctor. I tried to tell him about the dreams. 259 00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:52,940 When I finished, he examined me, tested my heart and blood pressure. Then he said, 260 00:10:52,940 --> 00:10:55,940 Susan, you're tired. That's what's the matter with you. 261 00:10:55,940 --> 00:10:59,940 But I haven't been doing anything to be tired. Really, I haven't. 262 00:10:59,940 --> 00:11:06,940 You're overwrought. Well, it's not serious. You're in good shape. But what you need is to get away for a few days. 263 00:11:06,940 --> 00:11:12,940 I feel all right. Just that dream, the girl, the one who looks like me. 264 00:11:12,940 --> 00:11:17,940 I want you to forget about that dream. It's only because you're tired that you have the dream in the first place. 265 00:11:17,940 --> 00:11:22,940 Now, I'm going to give you a sedative to take just before going to bed. 266 00:11:22,940 --> 00:11:25,940 A few nights good sleep and you'll be fit as a fiddle. 267 00:11:25,940 --> 00:11:29,940 I don't want to dream anymore. That's all. 268 00:11:32,940 --> 00:11:36,940 Patted me on the arm, smiling. Freddy smiled. 269 00:11:36,940 --> 00:11:39,940 I took the little box of sedative pills home with me. 270 00:11:39,940 --> 00:11:43,940 I couldn't tell them. I couldn't make them understand. 271 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:47,940 That night I decided that I wouldn't sleep. I'd stay awake. 272 00:11:47,940 --> 00:11:50,940 And if I was awake, I couldn't dream. 273 00:11:50,940 --> 00:11:53,940 At seven o'clock when Freddy got up, I pretended to still be asleep. 274 00:11:53,940 --> 00:11:58,940 I heard him making coffee. Then he came back in, kissed me, left for the office. 275 00:11:58,940 --> 00:12:01,940 Somehow I stayed awake the whole day. 276 00:12:01,940 --> 00:12:04,940 I tried to buy something at the drugstore to stop me from sleeping. 277 00:12:04,940 --> 00:12:07,940 They wouldn't give it to me without a prescription. 278 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:14,940 And then at five o'clock Freddy called to say he had to entertain some out of town people that night. 279 00:12:14,940 --> 00:12:19,940 After that I had to lie down on the living room couch because I felt sick. 280 00:12:22,940 --> 00:12:27,940 I won't. I won't. 281 00:12:27,940 --> 00:12:31,940 I'm not going to go to sleep. 282 00:12:31,940 --> 00:12:36,940 Oh, I've got to lie down for a while. 283 00:12:36,940 --> 00:12:40,940 In a minute I'll feel all right. 284 00:12:40,940 --> 00:12:44,940 And I can get up. 285 00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:47,940 In a minute. 286 00:12:47,940 --> 00:13:01,940 In a minute. 287 00:13:01,940 --> 00:13:05,940 There's that big hall again. On the staircase. 288 00:13:05,940 --> 00:13:09,940 I can see her looking up into the dark. 289 00:13:09,940 --> 00:13:11,940 You didn't come last night. 290 00:13:11,940 --> 00:13:12,940 I know. 291 00:13:12,940 --> 00:13:14,940 I was waiting here. 292 00:13:14,940 --> 00:13:17,940 It didn't come down though. The thing up there. 293 00:13:17,940 --> 00:13:19,940 You couldn't have been here. 294 00:13:19,940 --> 00:13:21,940 I was waiting for you. 295 00:13:21,940 --> 00:13:23,940 I was waiting for you. 296 00:13:23,940 --> 00:13:25,940 I was waiting for you. 297 00:13:25,940 --> 00:13:27,940 I was waiting for you. 298 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:29,940 I was waiting for you. 299 00:13:29,940 --> 00:13:31,940 There's the thing up there. 300 00:13:31,940 --> 00:13:34,940 You couldn't have been here. You're only me in a dream. 301 00:13:34,940 --> 00:13:36,940 When I don't dream you're not here. 302 00:13:36,940 --> 00:13:39,940 I'm always here. I have to see the things happen. 303 00:13:39,940 --> 00:13:42,940 Things don't really happen in dreams. It's imagination. 304 00:13:42,940 --> 00:13:44,940 Oh, no. It isn't. 305 00:13:44,940 --> 00:13:47,940 Look up there in the dark. It's up there. 306 00:13:47,940 --> 00:13:48,940 Waiting. 307 00:13:48,940 --> 00:13:50,940 Soon it'll start to come down. 308 00:13:50,940 --> 00:13:51,940 How do you know? 309 00:13:51,940 --> 00:13:52,940 It does. And we'll have to run. 310 00:13:52,940 --> 00:13:54,940 But if we run we can't see it. 311 00:13:54,940 --> 00:13:57,940 Perhaps if we didn't run and we saw it, we wouldn't be afraid anymore. 312 00:13:57,940 --> 00:13:59,780 It's going to come down. I know it is. 313 00:13:59,780 --> 00:14:01,280 We won't run. We'll wait for it. 314 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,880 I can't. I'm afraid. 315 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,580 You're me. I'm not afraid now. You can't be. 316 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:09,120 Look. 317 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,920 The darkness at the top of the stairs seemed to move, take shape. 318 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,520 And I saw, heard her screaming. 319 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,720 Ah! Ah! 320 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,240 Slowly, painfully, she turned away from the stairs and tried to run. 321 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,280 Her legs moved, but she stayed in the same place. 322 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,000 Then the darkness started to come toward us. 323 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,600 It swirled down the stairs and there was a figure in it and a face. 324 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,280 But the mouth and the face wasn't a mouth at all. 325 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:36,780 It had no form. 326 00:14:36,780 --> 00:14:40,200 And the face changed and grew bigger, came closer. 327 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,940 Around it an awful blackness. 328 00:14:42,940 --> 00:14:45,440 And I saw myself running. 329 00:14:51,540 --> 00:14:54,240 We were standing in a narrow stone passageway. 330 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,180 It was cold and damp. 331 00:14:56,180 --> 00:14:59,180 And the other girl who wasn't me was holding a gun. 332 00:14:59,180 --> 00:15:00,880 We both were. 333 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,980 And we looked behind us because around the corner, out of sight, 334 00:15:04,980 --> 00:15:06,740 it was following. 335 00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:08,900 I heard the telephone ringing. 336 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:12,340 And I couldn't understand how there could be a telephone in that place. 337 00:15:12,340 --> 00:15:15,180 I'm tired. I can't run anymore. 338 00:15:15,180 --> 00:15:17,840 We'll rest for a minute. 339 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,800 It sounds like my telephone. 340 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,140 How can it be? 341 00:15:21,140 --> 00:15:23,000 Because this is only a dream. 342 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,640 If I wake up, I'll answer it. 343 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:30,800 It's on the table at the end of the couch. 344 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,480 I can wake up and answer it. 345 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,340 No, you can't. I won't let you. 346 00:15:35,340 --> 00:15:37,000 I'm not going to stay here alone. 347 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,380 I've got to wake up. 348 00:15:39,380 --> 00:15:40,480 You can't now. 349 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,300 We've got to run again. It'll catch us. 350 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:43,000 No. 351 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,300 Hurry. 352 00:15:47,940 --> 00:15:50,340 I felt the cold horror behind us. 353 00:15:50,340 --> 00:15:54,340 And I ran, following the twisting passageway. 354 00:15:54,340 --> 00:15:57,980 And I knew that the telephone had been my last chance, 355 00:15:57,980 --> 00:16:00,880 my last chance to wake up. 356 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:02,780 And I hadn't. 357 00:16:02,780 --> 00:16:04,540 I couldn't. 358 00:16:04,540 --> 00:16:06,540 There's a light ahead. 359 00:16:06,540 --> 00:16:10,200 It won't dare to follow us into the light. 360 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:11,480 Are you tired? 361 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:12,600 Are you? 362 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,480 No. 363 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,280 It's funny how we seem to almost float. 364 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,000 I'm not tired at all. 365 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,880 I don't think we need the guns now. 366 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,140 I'm going to throw mine away. 367 00:16:26,140 --> 00:16:27,740 I'm not. 368 00:16:27,740 --> 00:16:29,640 I'm afraid of guns. 369 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:30,980 I used to be. 370 00:16:30,980 --> 00:16:32,340 I'm not anymore. 371 00:16:32,340 --> 00:16:34,340 Wait a minute. 372 00:16:34,340 --> 00:16:35,980 Those two men. 373 00:16:35,980 --> 00:16:38,300 You see, in the entrance? 374 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:39,480 Yes. 375 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,580 I wonder why they're there. 376 00:16:41,580 --> 00:16:43,600 Maybe they'll try to stop us getting out. 377 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:44,840 It'll be all right. 378 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:46,540 Come on. 379 00:16:46,540 --> 00:16:48,300 It's Freddy. 380 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:49,780 Freddy and Dr. Peters. 381 00:16:49,780 --> 00:16:51,200 I know. 382 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:52,780 Freddy? 383 00:16:52,780 --> 00:16:54,240 Freddy? 384 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,200 It's me, Susan. 385 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:57,500 Stay where you are, Susan. 386 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:00,100 Don't come any closer. 387 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:02,140 But it's following us. 388 00:17:02,140 --> 00:17:03,240 We've got to get out. 389 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:04,640 We'll have to go back. 390 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:05,380 No. 391 00:17:05,380 --> 00:17:07,000 Go back, Susan. 392 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,540 Go back into the passage. 393 00:17:08,540 --> 00:17:09,780 Oh, no. 394 00:17:09,780 --> 00:17:10,380 No. 395 00:17:10,380 --> 00:17:12,340 You can't come out anymore, Susan. 396 00:17:12,340 --> 00:17:13,600 Oh, but I must. 397 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,180 Let me talk to them, Susan. 398 00:17:15,180 --> 00:17:16,640 You let me talk to them. 399 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:17,800 I'll take care of it. 400 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:23,340 You'll see. 401 00:17:23,340 --> 00:17:26,140 I saw her walk slowly to the entrance, 402 00:17:26,140 --> 00:17:29,240 to where it was light and there was sunshine. 403 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,740 And the three of them talked very quietly. 404 00:17:32,740 --> 00:17:35,140 I couldn't hear what they were saying, 405 00:17:35,140 --> 00:17:37,740 but I knew it was about me. 406 00:17:37,740 --> 00:17:41,640 And ever so faintly, I heard the sound of the thing 407 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:46,840 that was waiting somewhere in the blackness of the passage. 408 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,940 She was pointing at me, and Freddy was laughing. 409 00:17:50,940 --> 00:17:55,440 And it made me angry, so angry that I forgot to be afraid. 410 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,040 I ran over to them, and as I did so, 411 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:58,780 they blocked the entrance, linking 412 00:17:58,780 --> 00:18:00,100 their arms to keep me back. 413 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:01,840 She's told us all about you, Susan. 414 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,040 It's taken us a long time to find you out. 415 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:05,600 Oh, stop it. 416 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,400 There's no such person. 417 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,140 She's me. 418 00:18:09,140 --> 00:18:10,780 She's Susan. 419 00:18:10,780 --> 00:18:14,640 This is only a dream, and I can wake up whenever I want. 420 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:15,440 Stop it. 421 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,340 Stop it. 422 00:18:17,340 --> 00:18:18,540 It's true. 423 00:18:18,540 --> 00:18:19,540 Ask her. 424 00:18:19,540 --> 00:18:20,640 She'll tell you. 425 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,400 My dear Susan, how can we ask her 426 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,040 if you say she doesn't exist? 427 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,140 You're tired over rocks. 428 00:18:28,140 --> 00:18:29,400 Oh, I'm not. 429 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:31,100 You mustn't say that. 430 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:32,940 It isn't true. 431 00:18:32,940 --> 00:18:35,840 Please let me out. 432 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:37,500 I'm cold. 433 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:38,740 I'm afraid. 434 00:18:38,740 --> 00:18:41,200 You kept her down here all your life. 435 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:42,900 Now because you're afraid and cold, 436 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:44,500 you expect us to let you out and make 437 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:45,940 her go back inside. 438 00:18:45,940 --> 00:18:47,900 Freddie, it's me. 439 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:49,900 I'm your wife, Freddie. 440 00:18:49,900 --> 00:18:51,740 I've always been fair. 441 00:18:51,740 --> 00:18:53,200 I want to be fair this time. 442 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:54,300 We have to be fair. 443 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:56,100 Sue, what do you think? 444 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:57,040 Should we let her out? 445 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:57,840 No. 446 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,900 She'll only wake up and leave me there. 447 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:01,400 I want to wake up this time. 448 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:02,300 Let her stay. 449 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:03,700 Oh, you. 450 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:05,440 You're all crazy. 451 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,040 She's not Susan. 452 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,300 I am. 453 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:09,640 She's nobody. 454 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,140 She's in a dream. 455 00:19:11,140 --> 00:19:13,500 Stop it, please. 456 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:14,440 We have to be fair. 457 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,000 We really do. 458 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,200 If you only weren't so tired, so overwrought. 459 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,540 I suggest we take a vote. 460 00:19:20,540 --> 00:19:22,700 Yes, that's eminently fair, a vote. 461 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:23,900 I think so, too. 462 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:25,240 Yay or nay? 463 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:26,640 We let her out, yay. 464 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,900 We don't let her out, nay. 465 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:29,540 Sue? 466 00:19:29,540 --> 00:19:30,240 Nay. 467 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:31,000 Doctor? 468 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:31,900 Nay. 469 00:19:31,900 --> 00:19:35,140 And I cast my vote, nay. 470 00:19:35,140 --> 00:19:37,440 The vote has been taken and duly recorded. 471 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,300 You can't make me stay here. 472 00:19:40,300 --> 00:19:41,540 I won't. 473 00:19:41,540 --> 00:19:42,840 I won't. 474 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,340 I think that you'd better talk to her. 475 00:19:44,340 --> 00:19:45,060 You're a woman. 476 00:19:45,060 --> 00:19:46,300 It's better that way. 477 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:48,440 Doctor and I will wait for you outside. 478 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:49,040 All right. 479 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,440 Don't be afraid. 480 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,740 You don't have to be afraid now. 481 00:19:55,740 --> 00:19:58,940 That comes later when you have to go back into the passage, 482 00:19:58,940 --> 00:20:00,700 when I wake up. 483 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:03,400 You can't wake up. 484 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,700 Never. 485 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:07,800 You're not alive. 486 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,040 I want to tell you something. 487 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,100 I'm not going to be like you. 488 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:14,900 I'll never dream ever again. 489 00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:17,400 You're going to stay here alone, just the way you 490 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,260 made me do it all your life. 491 00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:20,400 You can run. 492 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,540 You can run and never be able to escape. 493 00:20:22,540 --> 00:20:26,340 But I shan't come here to be with you. 494 00:20:26,340 --> 00:20:28,240 It's waiting for you. 495 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:28,940 Can you hear it? 496 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:33,840 No. 497 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,940 Please. 498 00:20:35,940 --> 00:20:38,240 Don't make me. 499 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,100 Please. 500 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:42,260 It'll get me. 501 00:20:42,260 --> 00:20:43,000 Please. 502 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,640 It won't get you if you keep running, 503 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:45,840 but you mustn't ever stop. 504 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,840 I'm afraid. 505 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,840 It's dark. 506 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,340 I'm afraid. 507 00:20:51,340 --> 00:20:53,340 Please. 508 00:20:53,340 --> 00:20:54,840 Don't make me go back. 509 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:56,340 I'm Susan. 510 00:20:56,340 --> 00:20:58,340 I'm back to wake up. 511 00:20:58,340 --> 00:20:59,340 Please. 512 00:20:59,340 --> 00:21:00,840 I'm afraid. 513 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,340 It's so dark. 514 00:21:02,340 --> 00:21:03,840 So dark. 515 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,840 I've got to run. 516 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,340 Run. 517 00:21:07,340 --> 00:21:08,840 Run. 518 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,340 Run. 519 00:21:10,340 --> 00:21:11,340 Run. 520 00:21:11,340 --> 00:21:34,840 I think I'll wake up now. 521 00:21:41,340 --> 00:21:42,840 Susan. 522 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,340 Susan. 523 00:21:44,340 --> 00:21:45,340 Oh, darling. 524 00:21:45,340 --> 00:21:46,840 Are you all right? 525 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:47,840 Susan. 526 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,340 Oh. 527 00:21:49,340 --> 00:21:51,840 I called you, but there was no answer. 528 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,840 I was worried. 529 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:54,840 You all right? 530 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:55,840 Feeling better? 531 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,840 Oh. 532 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,840 You look better. 533 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:00,840 Say, you know what? 534 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,340 I've arranged to take five days off from the office. 535 00:22:03,340 --> 00:22:04,840 We'll go to the mountains. 536 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,340 That's what the doctor ordered. 537 00:22:06,340 --> 00:22:06,840 How about it? 538 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,340 Oh, it sounds wonderful, Freddie. 539 00:22:08,340 --> 00:22:11,840 I figure if we... 540 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:12,840 Suze. 541 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,840 Yes, darling? 542 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,840 Your... 543 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,340 Your voice... 544 00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:21,840 Sounds funny. 545 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,340 My voice? 546 00:22:23,340 --> 00:22:24,840 Well, it's me. 547 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,840 It's the only voice I've got. 548 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,840 It doesn't sound like you. 549 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:30,840 Are you sure you're... 550 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,340 Silly. 551 00:22:32,340 --> 00:22:35,840 How can it be me and not sound like me? 552 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,840 Silly. 553 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,340 Will you give me a kiss? 554 00:22:40,340 --> 00:22:43,340 Suze. 555 00:22:43,340 --> 00:22:45,340 What's the matter with your voice? 556 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,340 Suspense. 557 00:23:05,340 --> 00:23:09,340 In which Mitch Charlotte Lawrence starred in tonight's presentation of...