WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:17.440 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:17.440 --> 00:20.400 Tonight we bring you a story of lost and found. 00:20.400 --> 00:24.280 The found being a wallet, the lost being a life. 00:24.280 --> 00:27.280 We call it love, honor, or murder. 00:27.280 --> 00:31.800 So now, starring Miss Charlotte Lawrence with William Conrad, here is tonight's Suspense 00:31.800 --> 00:47.840 play, Love, Honor, or Murder. 00:47.840 --> 00:52.800 Seven years of wedded bliss and the only thing to show for it is this stinking place. 00:52.800 --> 00:56.040 Believe me kid, if I ever got my hands on a thousand bucks I'd get out of here so fast 00:56.040 --> 00:58.800 I could...oh hold it a minute Alice, someone came in. 00:58.800 --> 00:59.800 Is that you Harry? 00:59.800 --> 01:00.800 Yeah, it's me, I came home early. 01:00.800 --> 01:05.800 Well if you expect a fine dinner at this hour you're going to be disappointed. 01:05.800 --> 01:06.800 Oh, it's Harry, Alice. 01:06.800 --> 01:07.800 What was I saying? 01:07.800 --> 01:08.800 Oh yeah, the same old... 01:08.800 --> 01:09.800 Honey, will you cut the conversation if something's happening? 01:09.800 --> 01:10.800 What? 01:10.800 --> 01:11.800 Cut the conversation...here, give me the phone. 01:11.800 --> 01:12.800 Well if all the... 01:12.800 --> 01:13.800 Alice, Helen will call you back later, goodbye. 01:13.800 --> 01:14.800 Baby, you know what I got here? 01:14.800 --> 01:15.800 Twelve thousand dollars. 01:15.800 --> 01:16.800 Are you out of your mind Harry? 01:16.800 --> 01:17.800 Helen, I found this wallet, my god. 01:17.800 --> 01:18.800 I'm going to get it. 01:18.800 --> 01:19.800 I'm going to get it. 01:19.800 --> 01:20.800 I'm going to get it. 01:20.800 --> 01:21.800 I'm going to get it. 01:21.800 --> 01:22.800 I'm going to get it. 01:22.800 --> 01:27.560 Are you out of your mind Harry? 01:27.560 --> 01:28.560 Helen, I found this wallet in my cab just a few minutes ago. 01:28.560 --> 01:29.560 What? 01:29.560 --> 01:30.560 Here, look inside, open it up, go on. 01:30.560 --> 01:31.560 Harry, hundred dollar bills. 01:31.560 --> 01:38.560 The fifties and twenties and tens, more than twelve thousand dollars. 01:38.560 --> 01:40.560 Twelve thousand dollars? 01:40.560 --> 01:43.560 Now I was all right to come home early, huh? 01:43.560 --> 01:46.960 Well, gee, I don't know what to say. 01:46.960 --> 01:52.160 Well you just take it easy baby, don't get too excited, I got to give it back. 01:52.160 --> 01:54.920 Well yeah, look at the name inside the wallet there. 01:54.920 --> 01:55.920 But you brought... 01:55.920 --> 01:59.520 Well it belongs to a regular customer of mine, Sidney Walker, the news commentator, you know. 01:59.520 --> 02:02.520 I take him around town every afternoon, he calls up for me personally. 02:02.520 --> 02:03.520 Twelve thousand dollars? 02:03.520 --> 02:06.800 Yeah, but as far as we're concerned, it's not worth twelve cents. 02:06.800 --> 02:11.160 If they don't turn it into the company before Walker calls about it, well they can throw 02:11.160 --> 02:13.800 me in the pen for five years. 02:13.800 --> 02:16.800 And why did you bring it home? 02:16.800 --> 02:22.840 I don't know, I guess I shouldn't have a doubt. 02:22.840 --> 02:27.760 It's just that I never saw so much money before, and I wasn't very far away, and I just had 02:27.760 --> 02:28.760 to bring it home short. 02:28.760 --> 02:31.800 You had to bring it home and wave it under my nose, that's like you. 02:31.800 --> 02:33.760 That's just like you, Harry. 02:33.760 --> 02:37.040 Give me the money, Helen, before Walker's gonna remember leaving the money in my cab, 02:37.040 --> 02:38.040 he'll call up the company. 02:38.040 --> 02:40.880 Wait a second, Harry. 02:40.880 --> 02:44.080 How long ago did you find the money? 02:44.080 --> 02:47.440 About twenty minutes ago, I guess, I came straight home. 02:47.440 --> 02:49.120 Now what's the hurry? 02:49.120 --> 02:50.120 What? 02:50.120 --> 02:52.160 Well, as long as you're home. 02:52.160 --> 02:55.080 Why don't you wash up and I'll fix your supper. 02:55.080 --> 02:56.280 I'll make you a fine supper. 02:56.280 --> 02:58.320 Oh, I don't know, Helen, I ought to get back. 02:58.320 --> 03:00.000 Go on, honey, wash up. 03:00.000 --> 03:09.000 Well, give us a chance for a little while to kind of pretend that money belongs to us. 03:09.000 --> 03:17.960 Ah, that coffee really hits the spot. 03:17.960 --> 03:20.680 Why didn't you eat, honey? 03:20.680 --> 03:22.280 I was thinking. 03:22.280 --> 03:26.040 Yeah, well, someday we'll have it too, baby. 03:26.040 --> 03:27.600 We got it right now, Harry. 03:27.600 --> 03:29.560 Yeah, for about five more minutes. 03:29.560 --> 03:33.600 Well, I guess I'd better report in now, it's almost been an hour. 03:33.600 --> 03:36.880 Walker'll be calling the company pretty soon, I want the money to be in the safe when he 03:36.880 --> 03:37.880 does. 03:37.880 --> 03:38.880 I'll call him, Helen. 03:38.880 --> 03:44.040 How do you know Walker will call the company? 03:44.040 --> 03:47.200 We gone all through that, he'll call, because he remembers the ride with me. 03:47.200 --> 03:51.120 We went over a bumpy stretch, easy for his wallet to pop out, then he'll probably remember 03:51.120 --> 03:52.120 me. 03:52.120 --> 03:54.840 He could have lost it so many other places, he may not even think of the cab ride. 03:54.840 --> 03:57.440 If he doesn't, won't you feel like a fool? 03:57.440 --> 04:01.480 Well, that's better than cooling my heels in some jail. 04:01.480 --> 04:05.240 I know what I would do if I were you. 04:05.240 --> 04:06.760 What? 04:06.760 --> 04:11.480 I'd take the chance that Walker wouldn't remember that he wouldn't call, I'd keep the money. 04:11.480 --> 04:13.720 Well, Helen, stop that. 04:13.720 --> 04:16.840 That's what I would do, but not you. 04:16.840 --> 04:20.160 You've always been afraid to take a chance, you've always been content to be nothing. 04:20.160 --> 04:22.320 Well, I'm sorry I ever came here with the money. 04:22.320 --> 04:25.760 Now, you give it back to me, I'm going to turn it in the company. 04:25.760 --> 04:26.960 Do you love me, Harry? 04:26.960 --> 04:27.960 That's got nothing to do with it. 04:27.960 --> 04:31.160 Oh, but it has everything to do with it. 04:31.160 --> 04:40.360 If you leave this house with the money, when you come back, I'll be gone. 04:40.360 --> 04:41.680 You're talking like a sap now. 04:41.680 --> 04:42.680 I mean it. 04:42.680 --> 04:44.880 Give me the wallet, Helen. 04:44.880 --> 04:47.760 Here it is, Harry. 04:47.760 --> 04:49.600 When you come back, I'll be gone. 04:49.600 --> 04:52.360 Yeah, I'll bet you will. 04:52.360 --> 04:55.960 Well, I gotta be going now. 04:55.960 --> 04:57.760 I'll see you later, honey. 04:57.760 --> 04:58.760 I'll be home later. 04:58.760 --> 05:03.160 It doesn't matter when you come home, you won't find me here. 05:03.160 --> 05:07.640 Helen, stop talking like that, huh? 05:07.640 --> 05:09.800 So long, Helen. 05:09.800 --> 05:12.040 It's really goodbye, Harry. 05:12.040 --> 05:21.360 I mean it. 05:21.360 --> 05:24.080 You know, from the first day we were married, you've been twisting me around your little 05:24.080 --> 05:29.080 finger because you know how much I love you and how much I need you. 05:29.080 --> 05:32.080 I guess you'll never stop doing that, will you, Helen? 05:32.080 --> 05:33.080 Well? 05:33.080 --> 05:37.080 What do you want me to do? 05:37.080 --> 05:39.080 Nothing, darling. 05:39.080 --> 05:40.080 Nothing. 05:40.080 --> 05:54.440 You owe everything to me. 05:54.440 --> 05:59.520 Dear, this is Cab Company. 05:59.520 --> 06:02.680 This is Mr. Sidney Walker's personal secretary calling. 06:02.680 --> 06:06.400 Well, don't tell me that Cab Mr. Walker ordered hasn't got there yet. 06:06.400 --> 06:07.400 I sent it out hours ago. 06:07.400 --> 06:08.400 Oh, it got here all right. 06:08.400 --> 06:09.400 It's not that. 06:09.400 --> 06:10.400 I... 06:10.400 --> 06:13.520 We're trying to locate Mr. Walker. 06:13.520 --> 06:16.800 I just wondered if by any chance you might have heard from him. 06:16.800 --> 06:17.800 Huh? 06:17.800 --> 06:21.600 Well, no, if he got his cab all right, why should he have called us? 06:21.600 --> 06:23.480 Of course, you're right. 06:23.480 --> 06:25.200 Well, thank you very much. 06:25.200 --> 06:26.200 Well? 06:26.200 --> 06:28.800 He hasn't reported anything yet. 06:28.800 --> 06:29.800 What? 06:29.800 --> 06:31.600 That don't make sense. 06:31.600 --> 06:34.200 $12,000 bucks, a lot of money even for Walker. 06:34.200 --> 06:35.200 Give me the phone book. 06:35.200 --> 06:36.800 Who are you going to call now? 06:36.800 --> 06:38.800 Why, Mr. Walker, of course. 06:38.800 --> 06:41.600 Got to find out why he hasn't reported losing his wallet. 06:41.600 --> 06:45.640 Look, Helen, why don't you let me take the money back? 06:45.640 --> 06:47.040 Maybe you'll give us a good reward, huh? 06:47.040 --> 06:49.040 You're not going to do anything. 06:49.040 --> 06:50.600 Let's see. 06:50.600 --> 06:53.800 Oh, here we are. 06:53.800 --> 06:57.560 Helen, you're going to get us in a lot of trouble. 06:57.560 --> 06:59.560 I know what I'm doing. 06:59.560 --> 07:04.960 Helen, please, you're going to get us... 07:04.960 --> 07:08.960 Hello? 07:08.960 --> 07:13.360 Hello, I'd like to speak to Mr. Walker, please. 07:13.360 --> 07:15.360 He's not in right now. 07:15.360 --> 07:17.360 This is Mr. Walker's housekeeper. 07:17.360 --> 07:18.360 Could I take a message? 07:18.360 --> 07:20.360 No, this is a personal matter. 07:20.360 --> 07:22.360 Where could I be certain of reaching him? 07:22.360 --> 07:24.360 Nowhere, until 10 o'clock. 07:24.360 --> 07:25.360 10 o'clock? 07:25.360 --> 07:28.360 Yes, that's when he does his nightly broadcast, you know. 07:28.360 --> 07:30.360 Oh, yes, of course. 07:30.360 --> 07:32.360 And what time does he reach the station? 07:32.360 --> 07:33.360 Five minutes to 10. 07:33.360 --> 07:36.360 You're quite sure he'll be there then? 07:36.360 --> 07:38.360 My heavens, you could stake your life on it. 07:38.360 --> 07:41.360 That's been his schedule for a good many years. 07:41.360 --> 07:43.360 Who is this talking? 07:43.360 --> 07:45.360 Are you a friend of Mr. Walker? 07:45.360 --> 07:49.360 Oh, yes, my husband and I have known Sydney for a long time. 07:49.360 --> 07:55.360 Well, as long as you're a friend, I can tell you Mr. Walker has a busy evening ahead of him. 07:55.360 --> 07:56.360 Oh? 07:56.360 --> 07:58.360 He lost his wallet an hour or so ago. 07:58.360 --> 08:00.360 It contained a lot of money. 08:00.360 --> 08:02.360 That's too bad. 08:02.360 --> 08:03.360 I do hope he finds it. 08:03.360 --> 08:05.360 Oh, he'll find the wallet all right. 08:05.360 --> 08:07.360 He's out looking for it right now. 08:07.360 --> 08:10.360 Does he have any idea where he might have lost it? 08:10.360 --> 08:15.360 Oh, yes, and he's mighty disappointed it hasn't been returned. 08:15.360 --> 08:18.360 He knows who found the wallet? 08:18.360 --> 08:19.360 Not exactly. 08:19.360 --> 08:21.360 I think he knows who should have found it. 08:21.360 --> 08:23.360 He didn't say who. 08:23.360 --> 08:24.360 Oh. 08:24.360 --> 08:26.360 He's too kind and easygoing, that's what he is. 08:26.360 --> 08:28.360 I'd have called the police right away. 08:28.360 --> 08:30.360 Why hasn't he? 08:30.360 --> 08:34.360 Oh, he doesn't want to cause any embarrassment or hard feelings, you know. 08:34.360 --> 08:37.360 So first he's going to look everywhere else he's been this evening. 08:37.360 --> 08:39.360 And if it still doesn't turn up? 08:39.360 --> 08:45.360 Well, he says that this fella he suspects hasn't come by the apartment to return the money by the time he gets home. 08:45.360 --> 08:47.360 Then he'll report it all right. 08:47.360 --> 08:53.360 If we want to reach Sydney before he gets home, you say he will arrive at the radio station just before ten. 08:53.360 --> 08:55.360 At five minutes to ten. 08:55.360 --> 08:56.360 On the dot. 08:56.360 --> 08:57.360 Then we'll contact him there. 08:57.360 --> 09:00.360 Thank you. 09:00.360 --> 09:01.360 That was his housekeeper. 09:01.360 --> 09:04.360 By what she said, he knows he left the wallet in your cab. 09:04.360 --> 09:05.360 See, I told you. 09:05.360 --> 09:07.360 But he hasn't reported it yet. 09:07.360 --> 09:10.360 Mr. Walker is a very fair man. 09:10.360 --> 09:13.360 Then I'll have time to take it back down to the company. 09:13.360 --> 09:17.360 We've got to decide what we can do to keep Walker from reporting his loss. 09:17.360 --> 09:18.360 There's nothing we can do, Helen. 09:18.360 --> 09:20.360 You just said he knows that he left the money in my cab. 09:20.360 --> 09:21.360 That's right. 09:21.360 --> 09:26.360 Then what's there to decide? 09:26.360 --> 09:28.360 What are you smiling about? 09:28.360 --> 09:29.360 Oh, was I smiling? 09:29.360 --> 09:30.360 I was thinking of something. 09:30.360 --> 09:32.360 Of what? 09:32.360 --> 09:37.360 You know, there's really only one way in all the world to keep Walker from telling about that wallet. 09:37.360 --> 09:38.360 What are you talking about? 09:38.360 --> 09:45.360 The only way to keep Walker from telling would be to kill him. 09:45.360 --> 09:48.360 Look, Helen, we've got to decide what we're going to do now. 09:48.360 --> 09:50.360 Let's stop the jokes. 09:50.360 --> 09:54.360 Do I look like I'm joking? 09:54.360 --> 09:56.360 No. 09:56.360 --> 09:57.360 No, you don't. 09:57.360 --> 10:01.360 There's that gun in the dresser drawer. 10:01.360 --> 10:02.360 Helen, what are you talking about? 10:02.360 --> 10:03.360 You've got to kill him. 10:03.360 --> 10:04.360 It's simpler, isn't it? 10:04.360 --> 10:05.360 How can I, Helen? 10:05.360 --> 10:06.360 He's never done me any harm. 10:06.360 --> 10:09.360 If he lives, you'll call the police and tell them you've stolen his money. 10:09.360 --> 10:10.360 That's why I've got to return the money. 10:10.360 --> 10:12.360 And if you do that, you'll lose your wife. 10:12.360 --> 10:13.360 But, Helen... 10:13.360 --> 10:15.360 Look how simple it is. 10:15.360 --> 10:20.360 At five minutes to ten, you can be absolutely certain that he will be going in the broadcasting studio. 10:20.360 --> 10:25.360 You were waiting outside for him, and there are so many quiet places you could take him with a gun. 10:25.360 --> 10:26.360 But, Helen, listen to me. 10:26.360 --> 10:28.360 Even if I... 10:28.360 --> 10:31.360 Even if I wanted to kill him, I couldn't. 10:31.360 --> 10:32.360 I haven't got the nerve. 10:32.360 --> 10:34.360 Oh, but you have. 10:34.360 --> 10:41.360 Every man, even a man like you, can kill once. 10:41.360 --> 10:44.360 If he's got to kill to get rid of the thing that'll destroy him. 10:44.360 --> 10:46.360 No, Helen. 10:46.360 --> 10:48.360 I can't do it. 10:48.360 --> 10:49.360 You can, Harry. 10:49.360 --> 10:50.360 You can do it for me. 10:50.360 --> 10:52.360 Look, why don't you just let me take the money back? 10:52.360 --> 10:54.360 It'd be so much better that way, Helen. 10:54.360 --> 10:55.360 What time is it? 10:54.360 --> 10:55.360 What? 10:55.360 --> 10:56.360 What time is it? 10:56.360 --> 10:57.360 Oh. 10:57.360 --> 10:59.360 Ten minutes after nine. 10:59.360 --> 11:02.360 You couldn't take the money back now, even if I let you? 11:02.360 --> 11:03.360 Why couldn't I? 11:03.360 --> 11:06.360 What time should you have reported in with your cab? 11:06.360 --> 11:08.360 Half past eight. 11:08.360 --> 11:10.360 What difference does that... 11:11.360 --> 11:12.360 Oh. 11:13.360 --> 11:14.360 Oh, so that's it. 11:14.360 --> 11:15.360 See what I mean? 11:15.360 --> 11:19.360 If Walker reports his loss now, you're in trouble no matter what you do. 11:19.360 --> 11:22.360 They'll know you were thinking of keeping the money. 11:22.360 --> 11:24.360 And in their eyes, that's almost as bad as really keeping it. 11:24.360 --> 11:25.360 Helen, but... 11:24.360 --> 11:26.360 You know the rules of the company. 11:26.360 --> 11:29.360 You're supposed to inspect your cab after every fare. 11:29.360 --> 11:32.360 If they don't arrest you, they'll fire you and blackball you 11:32.360 --> 11:34.360 so you'd never get another job. 11:35.360 --> 11:37.360 That's why you kept me here, huh? 11:37.360 --> 11:40.360 Made supper for me, stalled around. 11:40.360 --> 11:42.360 You figured that one out, too, didn't you, Helen? 11:42.360 --> 11:45.360 Walker will get to the station at five to ten. 11:45.360 --> 11:47.360 You've got 45 minutes. 11:47.360 --> 11:49.360 Start out and act as if you were on a regular run. 11:49.360 --> 11:50.360 That'll be your alibi later. 11:50.360 --> 11:53.360 Stop at all the usual places, talk to the boys. 11:53.360 --> 11:55.360 Act as if it were just another night. 11:56.360 --> 11:58.360 What about my schedule? 11:58.360 --> 12:00.360 I was supposed to be in at eight thirty. 12:00.360 --> 12:04.360 Well, you can always tell them business was so good you couldn't come in. 12:04.360 --> 12:10.360 Shall I get the gun, Harry? 12:10.360 --> 12:12.360 Yes. 12:12.360 --> 12:22.360 You are listening to Love, Honor or Murder, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 12:22.360 --> 12:36.360 Tomorrow night there's action and excitement when on most of these same CBS radio stations, the FBI in Peace and War unravels another thrilling case involving crime and racketeers. 12:36.360 --> 12:39.360 Stand by for thrills tomorrow evening on CBS. 12:39.360 --> 12:52.360 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage Miss Charlotte Lawrence starring in tonight's production Love, Honor or Murder, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:52.360 --> 13:09.360 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage Miss Charlotte Lawrence starring in tonight's production Love, Honor or Murder, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:22.360 --> 13:28.360 Harry, is it you? 13:28.360 --> 13:29.360 Huh? 13:29.360 --> 13:31.360 Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it was my husband. 13:31.360 --> 13:33.360 What do you want? 13:33.360 --> 13:35.360 Oh, you must be Mrs. Black Harry's wife, huh? 13:35.360 --> 13:36.360 Yes, what do you want? 13:36.360 --> 13:39.360 Say, have I talked to you on the phone before? 13:39.360 --> 13:40.360 Why? 13:40.360 --> 13:42.360 Your voice sounds kind of familiar. 13:42.360 --> 13:44.360 You may have, who is it? 13:44.360 --> 13:46.360 This is Dave Harris over at Peerless Cab Company. 13:46.360 --> 13:48.360 Peerless Cab Company? 13:48.360 --> 13:51.360 Yeah, see, have you seen Harry in the last couple hours? 13:51.360 --> 13:53.360 Why, no, he's out working. 13:53.360 --> 13:58.360 Well, he should have been through with his shift at 8.30, it's 25 to 10 already, it's not like Harry. 13:58.360 --> 14:00.360 Is something wrong? 14:00.360 --> 14:06.360 I don't know, one of Harry's regular customers, Sidney Walker, called a few minutes ago from a restaurant on one of that broadcasts of his. 14:06.360 --> 14:07.360 Yes? 14:07.360 --> 14:10.360 He thinks he left a wallet in Harry's cab. 14:10.360 --> 14:13.360 I said he thinks he left a wallet. 14:13.360 --> 14:14.360 I heard you. 14:14.360 --> 14:21.360 Well, it was $12,000 in the wallet, Mrs. Blake, and according to Walker, he looked everywhere else, he might have lost it and it hasn't turned up. 14:21.360 --> 14:26.360 He just wants me to contact Harry as soon as possible and tell him to look in the back of his cab. 14:26.360 --> 14:30.360 If Harry should call, I'll tell him to get in touch with you right away. 14:30.360 --> 14:32.360 What did you say before? 14:32.360 --> 14:33.360 Huh? 14:33.360 --> 14:37.360 Walker called and told all this before he started for the station? 14:37.360 --> 14:40.360 What are you talking about, Mrs. Blake? 14:40.360 --> 14:49.360 Nothing, nothing! 14:49.360 --> 14:55.360 Walker called before he reached the station and Harry will be waiting at the station to kill him. 14:55.360 --> 14:59.360 But now, now Walker's already told them that maybe Harry took the wallet. 14:59.360 --> 15:01.360 Everything will point to Harry. 15:01.360 --> 15:05.360 They'll arrest him ten minutes after he's killed Walker and Harry will tell them everything. 15:05.360 --> 15:09.360 He's weak, he'll try to blame me, he'll tell them I made him do it. 15:09.360 --> 15:11.360 I've got to call him back. 15:11.360 --> 15:14.360 I've got to stop him before he kills Walker. 15:14.360 --> 15:16.360 Twenty-five to ten. 15:16.360 --> 15:18.360 Twenty minutes to reach him. 15:18.360 --> 15:20.360 I've got to reach him. 15:20.360 --> 15:24.360 I told Harry to make all the regular stops so everyone would remember him. 15:24.360 --> 15:27.360 He'll stop for gas at the taxi garage. 15:27.360 --> 15:32.360 I've reached him there before. 15:32.360 --> 15:33.360 Seven. 15:33.360 --> 15:35.360 Oh. 15:35.360 --> 15:37.360 Nine. 15:37.360 --> 15:46.360 Nine. 15:46.360 --> 15:47.360 Feel this garage, right? 15:47.360 --> 15:48.360 This is Mrs. Blake calling. 15:48.360 --> 15:50.360 Harry Blake's wife. 15:50.360 --> 15:51.360 Oh yeah, Mrs. Blake. 15:51.360 --> 15:53.360 Has Harry been there yet? 15:53.360 --> 15:55.360 To get his gas, I mean. 15:55.360 --> 15:57.360 Nope, he hasn't been here all night. 15:57.360 --> 15:59.360 Say, what's he been up to? 15:59.360 --> 16:00.360 What do you mean? 16:00.360 --> 16:03.360 I just got a call from the main office to hold him here when he does show up. 16:03.360 --> 16:06.360 Look, Harry always told me you were his friend. 16:06.360 --> 16:07.360 He's in trouble. 16:07.360 --> 16:08.360 Terrible trouble. 16:08.360 --> 16:12.360 I haven't time to explain, but if I don't reach him right away, I don't know what'll happen. 16:12.360 --> 16:14.360 Well, I don't know what I could do, Mrs. Blake. 16:14.360 --> 16:20.360 You can tell me the names and telephone numbers of some of the places cabbies like Harry stop at while they're on their runs. 16:20.360 --> 16:23.360 Well, the boys stop at Gus's coffee shop on 670 McCall. 16:23.360 --> 16:24.360 What's their number? 16:24.360 --> 16:27.360 Randolph 67098. 16:27.360 --> 16:29.360 Randolph 67098. 16:29.360 --> 16:31.360 All right, where else? 16:31.360 --> 16:35.360 Maybe if he had a few minutes to spare he'd go into Frank's Tavern on Washington Boulevard. 16:35.360 --> 16:36.360 I don't know the number now. 16:36.360 --> 16:37.360 I'll look it up. 16:37.360 --> 16:38.360 Where else? 16:38.360 --> 16:42.360 Oh, of course he might go up to Union headquarters to shoot a rag with the boys. 16:42.360 --> 16:44.360 Union headquarters? 16:44.360 --> 16:45.360 Where else? 16:45.360 --> 16:48.360 There's lots of places he might stop off at. 16:48.360 --> 16:50.360 Gotta reach him by 10 o'clock, huh? 16:50.360 --> 16:51.360 That doesn't leave you much time. 16:51.360 --> 16:54.360 No, it doesn't leave me much time. 16:54.360 --> 17:05.360 I'll start calling. 17:05.360 --> 17:07.360 What can I do now? 17:07.360 --> 17:09.360 I've tried everywhere. 17:09.360 --> 17:12.360 I've got to stop him, but how? 17:12.360 --> 17:14.360 15 minutes to 10. 17:14.360 --> 17:16.360 10 minutes. 17:16.360 --> 17:18.360 Only 10 minutes. 17:18.360 --> 17:20.360 But let me think. 17:20.360 --> 17:22.360 Radio station's on 6th and Main. 17:22.360 --> 17:23.360 It's two miles away. 17:23.360 --> 17:26.360 Maybe I could get to Harry before Walker reaches there. 17:26.360 --> 17:28.360 I've got to try. 17:28.360 --> 17:30.360 I've got to try. 17:30.360 --> 17:44.360 I've got to stop him. 17:44.360 --> 17:48.360 Driver, when I got into your cab you told me you could get me to the radio station in 10 minutes. 17:48.360 --> 17:49.360 I don't give you no guarantees, lady. 17:49.360 --> 17:50.360 I'm doing the best I can. 17:50.360 --> 17:52.360 But I've got to get there before 5 of 10. 17:52.360 --> 17:53.360 You told me you could make it. 17:53.360 --> 17:56.360 It don't do no good to holler in my ear, lady. 17:56.360 --> 17:58.360 There must be some better way to make time. 17:58.360 --> 18:01.360 Can't you take side streets or something? 18:01.360 --> 18:02.360 Oh, again you're stopping. 18:02.360 --> 18:03.360 It's the traffic, lady. 18:03.360 --> 18:04.360 But you told me... 18:04.360 --> 18:08.360 I know what I told you, but I didn't think about so much traffic. 18:08.360 --> 18:09.360 Please hurry. 18:09.360 --> 18:10.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 18:10.360 --> 18:16.360 Look, I'll pay you anything if you can get me there in time. 18:16.360 --> 18:17.360 Oh, now what's wrong? 18:17.360 --> 18:18.360 The traffic is lousing us up. 18:18.360 --> 18:20.360 What time is it now? 18:20.360 --> 18:21.360 Oh, about 10 minutes to 10. 18:21.360 --> 18:22.360 Don't tell me about. 18:22.360 --> 18:23.360 I want the exact time. 18:23.360 --> 18:24.360 Exact time. 18:24.360 --> 18:27.360 Seven minutes to 10. 18:27.360 --> 18:28.360 Seven minutes to 10. 18:28.360 --> 18:30.360 How much farther is it to the station? 18:30.360 --> 18:32.360 Well, I can tell you this. 18:32.360 --> 18:34.360 We're not going to make it in two minutes. 18:34.360 --> 18:37.360 Then there's no need to make it at all. 18:37.360 --> 18:39.360 Take me home. 18:39.360 --> 18:51.360 Just a minute or two before 10. 18:51.360 --> 18:54.360 They'll be coming home soon. 18:54.360 --> 18:57.360 They'll trace the killing to him fast enough. 18:57.360 --> 19:00.360 They'll come here and take us both away. 19:00.360 --> 19:03.360 And the money, too. 19:03.360 --> 19:06.360 The money, too. 19:06.360 --> 19:07.360 Wait. 19:07.360 --> 19:09.360 Why? 19:09.360 --> 19:11.360 Why should they come here? 19:11.360 --> 19:13.360 Why should they get the money? 19:13.360 --> 19:15.360 Why do I have to take the blame for what Harry did? 19:15.360 --> 19:17.360 I didn't commit the murder. 19:17.360 --> 19:20.360 If that money had to get away, they wouldn't look for me too hard. 19:20.360 --> 19:38.360 I'm not going to suffer for what Harry did. 19:38.360 --> 19:41.360 Police department. Sergeant Graham speaking. 19:41.360 --> 19:42.360 I want to report a murder. 19:42.360 --> 19:43.360 What's that? 19:43.360 --> 19:46.360 You're too late to stop the murder, but you can still catch the killer. 19:46.360 --> 19:47.360 Wait a second. 19:47.360 --> 19:48.360 His name is Harry Blake. 19:48.360 --> 19:50.360 He drives a taxi cab. 19:50.360 --> 19:52.360 The taxi number is 365. 19:52.360 --> 19:56.360 You should find him somewhere around the radio station on Sixth Avenue. 19:56.360 --> 19:57.360 Who did he kill? 19:57.360 --> 20:02.360 He killed... 20:02.360 --> 20:04.360 Hello, Helen. 20:04.360 --> 20:06.360 Go on. 20:06.360 --> 20:10.360 Finish your conversation. 20:10.360 --> 20:14.360 Did you get back here so soon? 20:14.360 --> 20:18.360 A good cabbie can make time when he has to. 20:18.360 --> 20:20.360 You killed him, huh? 20:20.360 --> 20:24.360 It's just after 10 o'clock. Turn on the radio and find out. 20:24.360 --> 20:26.360 No, but you're talking on the phone. 20:26.360 --> 20:29.360 I'll turn the radio on for you. 20:29.360 --> 20:31.360 The police will come here and look for you. 20:31.360 --> 20:33.360 They'll catch you, Harry. 20:33.360 --> 20:35.360 Did anyone see you do it? 20:35.360 --> 20:36.360 Did they try to... 20:36.360 --> 20:38.360 Mr. Sidney Walker. 20:38.360 --> 20:41.360 Ladies and gentlemen, this is Sidney Walker. 20:41.360 --> 20:44.360 Tonight I'm going to bring you a report on a recent interview I had 20:44.360 --> 20:47.360 with one of the most prominent industrialists in America. 20:47.360 --> 20:48.360 That's all I want to hear. 20:48.360 --> 20:51.360 Turn it off. 20:51.360 --> 20:57.360 So you didn't kill him after all. 20:57.360 --> 20:59.360 I should have known. 20:59.360 --> 21:02.360 I should have known. 21:02.360 --> 21:06.360 I actually thought you went through with it. 21:06.360 --> 21:10.360 But you didn't have the nerve. 21:10.360 --> 21:13.360 No, I didn't kill him. 21:13.360 --> 21:16.360 But I did have the nerve, Helen. 21:16.360 --> 21:18.360 You gave me the nerve. 21:18.360 --> 21:21.360 That pep talk before I left, it was very true, you know. 21:21.360 --> 21:22.360 What are you talking about? 21:22.360 --> 21:24.360 You remember? 21:24.360 --> 21:27.360 Even someone like me can kill once. 21:27.360 --> 21:31.360 If he's got a kill to get rid of the one that'll destroy him. 21:31.360 --> 21:33.360 Now those were your very words, Helen. 21:33.360 --> 21:35.360 Now why did you kill Walker? 21:35.360 --> 21:38.360 Because I got to thinking about what you said and how right you were. 21:38.360 --> 21:41.360 The more I thought about it, the more I realized it. 21:41.360 --> 21:44.360 Realized what? 21:44.360 --> 21:48.360 That I was headed in the wrong direction. 21:48.360 --> 21:52.360 What do you mean by that? 21:52.360 --> 21:54.360 Put that gun away, Harry. 21:54.360 --> 21:59.360 In order to rid myself of the one thing in the world that can destroy me, 21:59.360 --> 22:03.360 I had to come back here to you. 22:03.360 --> 22:08.360 Helen. 22:11.360 --> 22:14.360 Hello? Hello? Hello? 22:14.360 --> 22:17.360 Hello. This is the police department, isn't it? 22:17.360 --> 22:19.360 I heard her talking to you. 22:19.360 --> 22:21.360 Yeah, sure, it's the police department. 22:21.360 --> 22:24.360 What's going on there? What were those shots? 22:24.360 --> 22:27.360 Wasn't my wife reporting a murder? 22:27.360 --> 22:30.360 Yeah, but she didn't tell us who was killed. 22:30.360 --> 22:38.360 Well, you see, officer, until this very moment, she really didn't know. 22:38.360 --> 22:45.360 Suspense, in which Miss Charlotte Lawrence with William Conrad 22:45.360 --> 22:50.360 starred in tonight's presentation of Love, Honor, or Murder. 22:50.360 --> 22:55.360 Next week, the story of betrayal and retribution on Devil's Island. 22:55.360 --> 23:08.360 We call it The Stool Pigeon. 23:26.360 --> 23:30.360 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 23:30.360 --> 23:32.360 Tonight's script was written by Larry Marcus. 23:32.360 --> 23:37.360 The music was composed by René Garagin and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:37.360 --> 23:45.360 Featured in the cast were Barney Phillips, Helen Klebe, Charles Seale, Jack Prusian, and William Justine. 23:45.360 --> 23:55.360 Listen while you work. 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