WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:12.000 --> 00:20.520 Tonight, we bring you a story of a killer and the family which he held in a night of 00:20.520 --> 00:21.520 fear. 00:21.520 --> 00:24.680 We call it, Strange for a Killer. 00:24.680 --> 00:48.600 So now, starring Mr. John Danaer, here is tonight's Suspense play, Strange for a Killer. 00:48.600 --> 00:49.600 How's this, Henry? 00:49.600 --> 00:50.600 Oh, swell. 00:50.600 --> 00:55.160 Anywhere along here. 00:55.160 --> 00:57.400 Oh, thanks, Buck. 00:57.400 --> 00:59.960 So you're sure you don't want to stop in for a minute? 00:59.960 --> 01:01.680 You haven't seen the kid yet, have you? 01:01.680 --> 01:04.880 Gee, I'd like to, but I have to get home early myself tonight. 01:04.880 --> 01:08.000 The wife's got some kind of meeting and I'll have to take care of my own. 01:08.000 --> 01:09.000 Okay. 01:09.000 --> 01:10.000 See you tomorrow. 01:10.000 --> 01:11.000 Yeah. 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 Night, Hank. 01:12.000 --> 01:26.640 All right. 01:26.640 --> 01:27.640 Hold it right there. 01:27.640 --> 01:31.720 Oh, I didn't see you, officer. 01:31.720 --> 01:32.720 What's wrong? 01:32.720 --> 01:33.720 You'll have to wait a while. 01:33.720 --> 01:35.520 You can't go down that street. 01:35.520 --> 01:36.520 But that's where I live. 01:36.520 --> 01:38.520 My wife's waiting for me. 01:38.520 --> 01:39.520 You'll be a little late. 01:39.520 --> 01:40.520 Well, now, wait a minute. 01:40.520 --> 01:43.120 Look, will you keep your voice down and stay back? 01:43.120 --> 01:45.240 You'll get hurt if you don't. 01:45.240 --> 01:47.880 Oh, are you after someone? 01:47.880 --> 01:48.880 Roy Gileska. 01:48.880 --> 01:49.880 Gileska? 01:49.880 --> 01:50.880 That's right. 01:50.880 --> 01:53.080 And he's been living in this neighborhood? 01:53.080 --> 01:54.080 Where? 01:54.080 --> 01:56.360 Right across the street, down three doors. 01:56.360 --> 01:59.560 There's a cop every 10 feet from here to the river. 01:59.560 --> 02:01.200 You better go back in that drug store and wait. 02:01.200 --> 02:02.200 Call your wife if you want. 02:02.200 --> 02:04.200 Yeah, I think I'd better. 02:04.200 --> 02:05.200 Where'd you say he was? 02:05.200 --> 02:07.200 Across and down three doors. 02:07.200 --> 02:08.200 Yeah. 02:08.200 --> 02:11.920 Well, we're in the apartment house right next to her. 02:11.920 --> 02:14.720 You don't think there'll be any shooting? 02:14.720 --> 02:17.400 Just tell her to stay inside and keep her door locked. 02:17.400 --> 02:18.400 She'll be all right. 02:18.400 --> 02:19.400 Oh. 02:19.400 --> 02:20.400 Thanks. 02:20.400 --> 02:21.400 Henry. 02:21.400 --> 02:22.400 Hi, Charlie. 02:22.400 --> 02:29.400 Hey, it's that Chaliski guy there after, you know. 02:29.400 --> 02:34.520 He's been living in the boarding house right next to you. 02:34.520 --> 02:35.520 Yeah, I know. 02:35.520 --> 02:36.520 How long has it been going on? 02:36.520 --> 02:38.560 They've been here almost half hour now. 02:38.560 --> 02:39.560 Half hour? 02:39.560 --> 02:40.560 What are they waiting for? 02:40.560 --> 02:41.560 Don't ask me. 02:41.560 --> 02:43.720 I got here about 5.30 when the police were just coming in. 02:43.720 --> 02:46.040 It only took about five minutes to cover the whole block. 02:46.040 --> 02:49.080 And a party of six or seven of them went in after him. 02:49.080 --> 02:50.080 And they haven't come out? 02:50.080 --> 02:51.080 No. 02:51.080 --> 02:52.080 No, I've been watching. 02:52.080 --> 02:53.080 Why, I wonder. 02:53.080 --> 02:55.080 You haven't heard any shooting, have you? 02:55.080 --> 02:56.080 No. 02:56.080 --> 02:58.000 We ought to hear something by now. 02:58.000 --> 03:00.840 Hey, that's seem funny, doesn't it? 03:00.840 --> 03:02.640 Unless he got out of his room. 03:02.640 --> 03:04.640 Ah, he couldn't get far. 03:04.640 --> 03:05.640 Oh. 03:05.640 --> 03:07.760 Well, I want to get Jessie on the phone. 03:07.760 --> 03:09.760 She'll be wondering why I'm late. 03:09.760 --> 03:10.760 Yeah, sure. 03:10.760 --> 03:37.840 How is it? 03:37.840 --> 03:41.840 Huh. Funny. 03:41.840 --> 03:45.840 Hello? 03:45.840 --> 03:49.840 What's the matter, honey? I thought you weren't going to answer. 03:49.840 --> 03:53.840 I was looking after Johnny. 03:53.840 --> 03:57.840 Are you okay? Just getting hungry. 03:57.840 --> 04:01.840 Well, go ahead with this supper. I'm going to be late. 04:01.840 --> 04:05.840 Jess, I don't want to scare you, but there's going to be a little trouble next door. 04:05.840 --> 04:09.840 Now, I don't want you to leave our apartment. 04:09.840 --> 04:11.840 Yes. 04:11.840 --> 04:15.840 The police are after someone who's been hiding out in the boarding house next to us. 04:15.840 --> 04:20.840 Now, the whole block is surrounded, and I won't be able to get home until it's over, and you're not to come out. 04:20.840 --> 04:22.840 Yes. 04:22.840 --> 04:24.840 There's nothing to be afraid of, Jesse. 04:24.840 --> 04:26.840 All right. 04:26.840 --> 04:28.840 Just stay inside. Keep the door locked. 04:28.840 --> 04:31.840 There's no need for that now. Goodbye, dear. 04:31.840 --> 04:33.840 What? 04:33.840 --> 04:37.840 Jesse? Hello? Hello? 04:40.840 --> 04:42.840 Hey, Charlie. 04:42.840 --> 04:44.840 Yeah? 04:44.840 --> 04:47.840 How high is that boarding house? Is it three stories? 04:47.840 --> 04:49.840 Yeah, that's right. Just like your place. 04:49.840 --> 04:51.840 And that alley between them, how wide is it? 04:51.840 --> 04:54.840 It's pretty narrow, I guess. But there's a cop on both ends. 04:54.840 --> 04:56.840 On the roof. 04:56.840 --> 05:00.840 Charlie, could anyone make the jump across? Is it too wide for that? 05:00.840 --> 05:04.840 I don't know. Why? 05:04.840 --> 05:07.840 She didn't sound right, Charlie. 05:07.840 --> 05:09.840 Like... 05:09.840 --> 05:11.840 Yeah? 05:11.840 --> 05:14.840 Like there was someone with her, Charlie. 05:25.840 --> 05:28.840 I tell you, I spoke to her on the phone about ten minutes ago, 05:28.840 --> 05:32.840 and I'm sure there's something wrong up there, Captain. 05:32.840 --> 05:34.840 What makes you sure? 05:34.840 --> 05:36.840 Well, she was afraid of something. I know she was. 05:36.840 --> 05:38.840 Something right there in the room with her. 05:38.840 --> 05:40.840 Where do you live? In the boarding house? 05:40.840 --> 05:43.840 No, the apartment house next door on the third floor. 05:43.840 --> 05:45.840 Reeder? Yes, sir? 05:45.840 --> 05:47.840 The Ferrell's got some men going into the apartment house 05:47.840 --> 05:49.840 next to the Jalesco stop-in. Yeah. 05:49.840 --> 05:51.840 He's in there with her, isn't he? 05:51.840 --> 05:53.840 He's in with my wife. I don't know, fella. 05:53.840 --> 05:56.840 He could be anywhere now. You didn't find him in his room? 05:56.840 --> 05:58.840 No, he's not in the boarding house. I knew it. 05:58.840 --> 06:00.840 He's with Jesse and my son. Take it easy, Hayden. 06:00.840 --> 06:03.840 We got across the roof, didn't we? Our apartment is on the top floor. 06:03.840 --> 06:06.840 He could get in easy enough. Maybe. 06:06.840 --> 06:08.840 Look, let me go up there, Captain. 06:08.840 --> 06:10.840 Please, let me go up there. 06:10.840 --> 06:12.840 No, I want to be with my wife and kid. 06:12.840 --> 06:14.840 I'm sorry, Hayden. If it's true he'll use them as hostages 06:14.840 --> 06:17.840 to make us hold our fire, it's better that they're only two. 06:17.840 --> 06:20.840 What difference does it make? Look, we're not even sure he's there. 06:20.840 --> 06:22.840 You haven't given us any real proof. 06:22.840 --> 06:24.840 It's the only way you can make sure. 06:24.840 --> 06:26.840 Now, look, if everything's all right, 06:26.840 --> 06:29.840 if he isn't there, I'll call the drug store and have them tell you so. 06:29.840 --> 06:31.840 If he is, I'll... 06:31.840 --> 06:33.840 Well, I'll let you know somehow. 06:33.840 --> 06:35.840 We can think of some kind of signal. 06:36.840 --> 06:38.840 You can't stop me anyway. 06:38.840 --> 06:41.840 It's my home, my wife that's in danger. 06:41.840 --> 06:43.840 I have a right to be there. 06:43.840 --> 06:46.840 I could stop you, mister. I should stop you. 06:46.840 --> 06:48.840 But you won't. 06:48.840 --> 06:53.840 I can go? 06:55.840 --> 06:57.840 All right, listen to me. 06:57.840 --> 06:59.840 You may be wrong about this... 06:59.840 --> 07:01.840 No, what do you want me to do? 07:01.840 --> 07:03.840 Go straight to your wife. 07:03.840 --> 07:06.840 Don't do any investigating on the way, no looking down the alley or around corners. 07:06.840 --> 07:08.840 Get in your apartment, lock the door behind you. 07:08.840 --> 07:10.840 He's trapped, Hayden, and he's scared now, 07:10.840 --> 07:12.840 and he'll kill you if he thinks you're on to him. 07:12.840 --> 07:13.840 I know it. 07:13.840 --> 07:15.840 If he's not in your place when you get there, 07:15.840 --> 07:17.840 call headquarters and ask for Grimes. 07:17.840 --> 07:19.840 I'll flash the message to my car. 07:19.840 --> 07:21.840 If he is there, 07:21.840 --> 07:23.840 well, there's nothing I can tell you. 07:23.840 --> 07:26.840 You'll be on your own, but don't try to signal. 07:26.840 --> 07:29.840 Now, if I don't get your call ten minutes after you go in, we'll know. 07:29.840 --> 07:31.840 Yes, sir. 07:31.840 --> 07:33.840 I can say this, Hayden. 07:33.840 --> 07:36.840 If he's there, don't try anything brave. 07:36.840 --> 07:38.840 You know what I mean? 07:38.840 --> 07:39.840 Yeah. 07:39.840 --> 07:41.840 Well, that's about all. 07:41.840 --> 07:43.840 Just be careful. We want this man, Hayden. 07:43.840 --> 07:47.840 We want him immediately, but we don't want anyone hurt getting him. 07:47.840 --> 07:49.840 You understand? 07:49.840 --> 07:51.840 I do. Thanks. 07:51.840 --> 07:54.840 Okay, Captain. Farrell's holding up his men, but he wants to know the score. 07:54.840 --> 07:56.840 Get over to my car, Reader. 07:56.840 --> 07:58.840 Have his men surround the apartment house, block every exit, 07:58.840 --> 08:01.840 put someone on the fire escape and on the first floor, but no mis... 08:01.840 --> 08:03.840 No noise. 08:03.840 --> 08:05.840 Do it quietly. 08:06.840 --> 08:08.840 Okay, Hayden. 08:08.840 --> 08:10.840 You can get going. 08:10.840 --> 08:12.840 If he's not there, get the call in right away. 08:12.840 --> 08:14.840 Yes, sir. 08:14.840 --> 08:16.840 I'll be sure. 08:36.840 --> 08:38.840 Jesse? 08:38.840 --> 08:40.840 Jesse? 08:40.840 --> 08:42.840 Jesse? 08:46.840 --> 08:48.840 Oh, honey. Honey, is everything okay? Is it? 08:48.840 --> 08:50.840 Come in, Henry. 08:50.840 --> 08:52.840 You sounded funny over the phone. I thought there was something wrong. 08:52.840 --> 08:54.840 It's okay, isn't it? 08:56.840 --> 08:58.840 Why don't you answer me, Jess? 08:58.840 --> 09:00.840 Henry. Henry. 09:00.840 --> 09:02.840 Where? 09:02.840 --> 09:04.840 Where... 09:04.840 --> 09:07.840 Where is it? 09:07.840 --> 09:09.840 Get your hands over your head. 09:09.840 --> 09:11.840 Get up against the wall. 09:11.840 --> 09:13.840 Don't make any noise or I'll kill you. 09:27.840 --> 09:30.840 You are listening to Strange for a Killer, 09:30.840 --> 09:36.840 tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 09:45.840 --> 09:47.840 The money you meant to save but never actually did 09:47.840 --> 09:49.840 will never see you through an emergency. 09:49.840 --> 09:52.840 Start immediately to put regular sums aside 09:52.840 --> 09:54.840 through your bank's bond-a-month plan 09:54.840 --> 09:56.840 or through weekly payroll savings deductions. 09:56.840 --> 09:59.840 United States savings bonds are safe to invest in 09:59.840 --> 10:02.840 because they're as sure as Uncle Sam. 10:02.840 --> 10:05.840 And when you need them, you've got them. 10:05.840 --> 10:08.840 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage 10:08.840 --> 10:12.840 Mr. John Dana starring in tonight's production 10:12.840 --> 10:14.840 Strange for a Killer, 10:14.840 --> 10:30.840 a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 10:33.840 --> 10:36.840 I know what you're thinking, but don't you try it, mister. 10:36.840 --> 10:38.840 This is a.45. 10:38.840 --> 10:40.840 I'm not afraid of your gun. 10:40.840 --> 10:42.840 That's because you've never been hit. 10:42.840 --> 10:44.840 You're bigotting me and I know what you're thinking, 10:44.840 --> 10:47.840 but don't you try it. I'm warning you. 10:47.840 --> 10:49.840 You won't ever know what it means to wish you could die 10:49.840 --> 10:51.840 till you get a slug in your stomach. 10:51.840 --> 10:52.840 Henry... 10:51.840 --> 10:53.840 No, it's all right. 10:53.840 --> 10:55.840 I know what you mean. 10:55.840 --> 10:56.840 I didn't mean it. 10:56.840 --> 10:59.840 It won't do any good, you know. 10:59.840 --> 11:02.840 No matter what happens to us, no matter how long you stay here, 11:02.840 --> 11:03.840 they'll get you. 11:03.840 --> 11:05.840 Listen, it guys, just like me, 11:05.840 --> 11:07.840 those blue suits don't make them Superman. 11:07.840 --> 11:09.840 They make mistakes like everyone else. 11:09.840 --> 11:11.840 They've already made a big one. 11:11.840 --> 11:13.840 How? 11:13.840 --> 11:15.840 They shouldn't have sent you. 11:15.840 --> 11:18.840 My wife didn't sound right when I spoke to her over the phone. 11:18.840 --> 11:19.840 I came up to find out why. 11:19.840 --> 11:22.840 Yeah, she gave it away. 11:22.840 --> 11:24.840 She's sorry about that. 11:24.840 --> 11:25.840 Jesse... 11:25.840 --> 11:27.840 It's all right, Henry. Please, it's all right. 11:27.840 --> 11:29.840 Did he hurt you, Jess? 11:29.840 --> 11:30.840 Never mind that. 11:30.840 --> 11:31.840 She just got out of the hospital. 11:31.840 --> 11:33.840 Would you like to see her go back? 11:34.840 --> 11:36.840 I hope they kill you. 11:37.840 --> 11:39.840 They might. 11:39.840 --> 11:41.840 I thought about it. 11:41.840 --> 11:44.840 I guess maybe you better start thinking about it too, 11:44.840 --> 11:47.840 because it's gonna happen the next time you make a crack like that. 11:47.840 --> 11:48.840 Henry, don't, don't. 11:48.840 --> 11:50.840 I'm gonna ask you a couple of questions, 11:50.840 --> 11:53.840 and you're gonna give me the right answers, the right answers, mister. 11:53.840 --> 11:55.840 The first time you get hurt bad. 11:55.840 --> 11:57.840 What do you want to know? 11:58.840 --> 12:00.840 Where were you when you made that phone call? 12:00.840 --> 12:03.840 Drugstore, across the street. 12:03.840 --> 12:05.840 And your wife don't sound right. 12:05.840 --> 12:07.840 Do you think maybe something is wrong? 12:07.840 --> 12:08.840 Yes. 12:08.840 --> 12:11.840 You want to get up here, you want to find out why. 12:11.840 --> 12:13.840 Yes. 12:14.840 --> 12:16.840 What takes you so long? 12:16.840 --> 12:17.840 What? 12:17.840 --> 12:20.840 We don't hear you coming up the stairs till almost 15 minutes after she hangs up. 12:20.840 --> 12:22.840 What are you doing all that time, huh? 12:22.840 --> 12:25.840 Oh, no, no, no. 12:25.840 --> 12:29.840 At first I wasn't sure she did sound like there was something wrong. 12:30.840 --> 12:32.840 It was only after I hung up and got to thinking about it 12:32.840 --> 12:36.840 that I started to worry, and then I made up my mind to come up. 12:36.840 --> 12:37.840 But that was later. 12:37.840 --> 12:40.840 You don't stop to talk it over with the cops? 12:40.840 --> 12:42.840 Why should I? 12:42.840 --> 12:44.840 How could I know it was you in here? 12:44.840 --> 12:47.840 Cops all over the block looking for me, searching every building, 12:47.840 --> 12:50.840 streets probably closed off, and your wife sounds scared over the phone, 12:50.840 --> 12:52.840 but you won't say why. 12:52.840 --> 12:54.840 Sounds like someone's with her, she don't say who. 12:54.840 --> 12:56.840 But you don't think it might be me? 12:57.840 --> 12:59.840 Well, yes. 12:59.840 --> 13:01.840 Maybe I began to... 13:01.840 --> 13:03.840 Yeah, but you don't say nothing to the cops, though. 13:03.840 --> 13:04.840 No. 13:04.840 --> 13:07.840 Just come up all by yourself. 13:07.840 --> 13:08.840 Yes. 13:09.840 --> 13:10.840 You sure of that? 13:10.840 --> 13:12.840 Yes, I... 13:13.840 --> 13:14.840 Okay... 13:14.840 --> 13:17.840 No! Oh, please! 13:17.840 --> 13:19.840 Please don't! Leave him alone! 13:19.840 --> 13:22.840 Oh, Henry! Henry! 13:22.840 --> 13:24.840 It's all right. 13:26.840 --> 13:27.840 I'm all right, Jesse. 13:27.840 --> 13:30.840 All right. What's the big plan with you and the cops? 13:30.840 --> 13:32.840 I don't know. 13:32.840 --> 13:34.840 I don't know about their plan. 13:34.840 --> 13:37.840 I don't know what they're going to do. 13:37.840 --> 13:39.840 But they know you're in here. 13:39.840 --> 13:40.840 Don't stop, mister. 13:40.840 --> 13:44.840 I did go to the police when I thought it was you here with my wife. 13:44.840 --> 13:46.840 I don't think they believed me at first, 13:46.840 --> 13:50.840 but I talked the captain into letting me come anyway. 13:50.840 --> 13:54.840 If you weren't here, I was supposed to call him right away. 13:54.840 --> 13:55.840 And if I was? 13:55.840 --> 13:57.840 Nothing. 13:57.840 --> 14:00.840 Just wait, and if they didn't hear in ten minutes, 14:00.840 --> 14:02.840 it meant... 14:02.840 --> 14:04.840 It meant I couldn't call. 14:04.840 --> 14:06.840 You were in this room. 14:08.840 --> 14:10.840 You old lady. 14:10.840 --> 14:11.840 Go get the kid. 14:11.840 --> 14:12.840 No. 14:12.840 --> 14:13.840 Why do you want him? 14:13.840 --> 14:16.840 We'll do anything you say. You don't need to touch our kid. 14:16.840 --> 14:18.840 You look okay. 14:18.840 --> 14:20.840 You don't want to hurt the kid. 14:20.840 --> 14:21.840 Get him, lady. 14:21.840 --> 14:22.840 Henry! 14:22.840 --> 14:24.840 It's all right. I'm sure of it. 14:26.840 --> 14:28.840 You haven't got much time, Gileska. 14:28.840 --> 14:30.840 You know it. 14:30.840 --> 14:33.840 Killing our baby is something you wouldn't do. 14:33.840 --> 14:35.840 You can bring him in, Jessie. 14:35.840 --> 14:37.840 If you say so. 14:37.840 --> 14:40.840 You're so sure this is the end of the line for me? 14:40.840 --> 14:42.840 And those cops down there, they're so sure. 14:42.840 --> 14:44.840 Well, I'm telling you, I got lots of time, 14:44.840 --> 14:46.840 and you're going to help me take it. 14:46.840 --> 14:47.840 Yeah. 14:47.840 --> 14:49.840 I'll back up to the wall and peel off that jacket. 14:49.840 --> 14:50.840 What? 14:50.840 --> 14:53.840 Come on, take off the jacket. It's all on the floor. 14:53.840 --> 14:55.840 Sure. 14:55.840 --> 14:58.840 Why not? 14:59.840 --> 15:01.840 What are you going to do? 15:02.840 --> 15:04.840 I'm not going to do anything. 15:04.840 --> 15:07.840 You're going to take it for a while. 15:07.840 --> 15:08.840 What do you mean? 15:08.840 --> 15:10.840 You don't see it, huh? 15:10.840 --> 15:12.840 I'm kind of surprised. 15:12.840 --> 15:15.840 Well, I don't see any way out for you. That's what you mean. 15:15.840 --> 15:16.840 They know you're here. 15:16.840 --> 15:18.840 Yeah, yeah, they know I'm here. 15:18.840 --> 15:20.840 You made sure of that, didn't you? 15:20.840 --> 15:22.840 So they're covering every way out. 15:22.840 --> 15:23.840 Doors, windows, alleys. 15:23.840 --> 15:26.840 What do you suppose would happen if I tried one of them? 15:26.840 --> 15:28.840 I think they'd kill you. 15:28.840 --> 15:30.840 Yeah, yeah. 15:30.840 --> 15:32.840 I start out that window, and every cop down there 15:32.840 --> 15:35.840 comes to make sure I don't finish the trip. 15:35.840 --> 15:37.840 Maybe a couple come running up here. 15:37.840 --> 15:39.840 That leaves lots of cops down on the bottom of the fire escape 15:39.840 --> 15:41.840 and a couple of cops up here in the room. 15:41.840 --> 15:43.840 But not many anywhere else, huh? 15:43.840 --> 15:45.840 In the alley or in the streets or down near the river? 15:45.840 --> 15:49.840 They'll all be watching the guy in the fire escape, won't they? 15:49.840 --> 15:52.840 And the guy in the fire escape, 15:52.840 --> 15:54.840 he don't need to be me, does he? 15:54.840 --> 15:56.840 No, he won't work. 15:56.840 --> 15:58.840 You're crazy to think that'll work. 15:58.840 --> 16:01.840 I gotta take that chance now. 16:01.840 --> 16:03.840 You're going out on a window, mister, 16:03.840 --> 16:05.840 and you're gonna take your time doing it. 16:05.840 --> 16:07.840 They've seen me. They know what I look like. 16:07.840 --> 16:09.840 They saw a guy in a leather jacket right close up. 16:09.840 --> 16:11.840 Now you're a guy in a white shirt, 16:11.840 --> 16:13.840 three stories over the street, coming down a fire escape. 16:13.840 --> 16:16.840 That makes you a different guy. 16:16.840 --> 16:19.840 That makes you Roy Gileska. 16:19.840 --> 16:23.840 Ha-ha. A little guy, huh? Bring him in. 16:23.840 --> 16:26.840 He's asleep. You won't... 16:26.840 --> 16:28.840 He's asleep. 16:28.840 --> 16:29.840 What's his name? 16:29.840 --> 16:30.840 Johnny. 16:30.840 --> 16:32.840 Johnny? 16:32.840 --> 16:35.840 That's a nice original name. 16:35.840 --> 16:38.840 He's a cute little kid, too. 16:38.840 --> 16:44.840 I don't guess you're gonna put up any arguments, huh, mister? 16:44.840 --> 16:46.840 No. 16:46.840 --> 16:47.840 No arguments. 16:47.840 --> 16:50.840 Yeah. I'll be right here with the wife and the kid 16:50.840 --> 16:52.840 until I see our little scheme is working, 16:52.840 --> 16:54.840 so don't you try no tricks on the way down. 16:54.840 --> 16:55.840 No. 16:55.840 --> 16:57.840 What does he mean? Henry, what's gonna happen? 16:57.840 --> 16:59.840 You can read about it in the papers, lady. 16:59.840 --> 17:00.840 Now go turn out the light. 17:00.840 --> 17:01.840 The light? 17:01.840 --> 17:02.840 Turn it off. 17:02.840 --> 17:04.840 But don't you try nothing. Neither one of you. 17:04.840 --> 17:05.840 You got your kid in here now, 17:05.840 --> 17:08.840 and there's no telling who'd get hit if I had to shoot wild. 17:08.840 --> 17:09.840 Turn it out, Jesse. 17:09.840 --> 17:10.840 Henry, I... 17:10.840 --> 17:12.840 Come on. 17:12.840 --> 17:16.840 Now you. The window. 17:16.840 --> 17:17.840 Okay. 17:17.840 --> 17:19.840 They're all waiting. 17:19.840 --> 17:20.840 Get going. 17:20.840 --> 17:21.840 You can't let him go out there. 17:21.840 --> 17:25.840 Jesse, it's all right. 17:25.840 --> 17:29.840 Hold on to Johnny and wait for me. 17:29.840 --> 17:30.840 It'll be all right. 17:30.840 --> 17:31.840 Henry. 17:37.840 --> 17:39.840 I stepped out onto the street 17:39.840 --> 17:41.840 and saw a man standing there. 17:41.840 --> 17:43.840 I thought he was a man. 17:43.840 --> 17:47.840 I stepped out onto the iron platform. 17:47.840 --> 17:49.840 Below on the street, 17:49.840 --> 17:52.840 I could feel every eye on me. 17:52.840 --> 17:54.840 Hold up, Jalaska! 17:54.840 --> 17:56.840 We see you! 17:56.840 --> 17:58.840 Don't take another step! 17:58.840 --> 18:00.840 And then I knew there was a part of the plan 18:00.840 --> 18:01.840 he hadn't told me. 18:01.840 --> 18:03.840 I jumped back against the wall, 18:03.840 --> 18:04.840 but it was already too late. 18:04.840 --> 18:05.840 From the window behind me, 18:05.840 --> 18:07.840 Jalaska fired down into the police. 18:07.840 --> 18:08.840 Their guns flew up automatically, 18:08.840 --> 18:10.840 and everyone was aimed at me. 18:10.840 --> 18:15.840 There's pain. 18:15.840 --> 18:16.840 Pain. 18:16.840 --> 18:18.840 People everywhere. 18:18.840 --> 18:21.840 There are waves of pain. 18:21.840 --> 18:22.840 Voices. 18:22.840 --> 18:25.840 Voices I knew. 18:25.840 --> 18:26.840 Don't touch him. 18:26.840 --> 18:27.840 Don't touch him. 18:27.840 --> 18:28.840 Let him alone. 18:28.840 --> 18:29.840 He's losing blood. 18:29.840 --> 18:30.840 I've got to get a doctor. 18:30.840 --> 18:31.840 You'll get a doctor, lady. 18:31.840 --> 18:32.840 Why don't you go? 18:32.840 --> 18:33.840 What are you waiting for? 18:33.840 --> 18:35.840 Haven't you done enough? 18:35.840 --> 18:36.840 He's been shot. 18:36.840 --> 18:37.840 He's hurt. 18:37.840 --> 18:38.840 And you just stand there. 18:38.840 --> 18:40.840 I thought you wanted to get out. 18:40.840 --> 18:41.840 Well, get out! Get out! 18:41.840 --> 18:42.840 Get out. 18:42.840 --> 18:44.840 Henry, Henry, it'll be all right. 18:44.840 --> 18:45.840 Don't try to move, darling. 18:45.840 --> 18:46.840 You'll be all right. 18:46.840 --> 18:47.840 Is he gone? 18:47.840 --> 18:48.840 Please. 18:48.840 --> 18:51.840 No, mister, no, he ain't gone. 18:51.840 --> 18:52.840 A little scheme. 18:52.840 --> 18:56.840 It don't look like it's going to work. 18:56.840 --> 18:57.840 It should have. 18:57.840 --> 18:59.840 No reason it shouldn't. 18:59.840 --> 19:01.840 But they're moving up on the stairs right now. 19:01.840 --> 19:02.840 Don't move, Henry. 19:02.840 --> 19:03.840 We'll get a doctor. 19:03.840 --> 19:05.840 It'll all be over in a minute. 19:05.840 --> 19:08.840 Yeah, you're glad, huh? 19:08.840 --> 19:09.840 No. 19:09.840 --> 19:11.840 No, I'm not glad. 19:11.840 --> 19:13.840 It's ugly, all of this. 19:13.840 --> 19:15.840 I feel sorry for you. 19:15.840 --> 19:18.840 Don't, lady. 19:18.840 --> 19:21.840 I've been running for a long time. 19:21.840 --> 19:25.840 I think it's going to feel good to stop. 19:25.840 --> 19:27.840 It's a funny thing when they're after you, 19:27.840 --> 19:29.840 when you're running away. 19:29.840 --> 19:31.840 You look the same, you act the same as you always did, 19:31.840 --> 19:33.840 but it's different on the inside. 19:33.840 --> 19:36.840 You're tight and twisted. 19:36.840 --> 19:39.840 No matter what you're doing, you can't relax. 19:39.840 --> 19:43.840 You can't get a good deep breath. 19:43.840 --> 19:46.840 Yeah, I think I'm glad. 19:46.840 --> 19:48.840 Gillesca? 19:48.840 --> 19:49.840 Roy Gillesca? 19:49.840 --> 19:53.840 Those guys are going to do a lot of brag in the morrow. 19:53.840 --> 19:55.840 We know you're in there. 19:55.840 --> 19:59.840 Come out with your hands up, or we're coming after you. 19:59.840 --> 20:03.840 So, they finally get me. 20:03.840 --> 20:04.840 You killed a man? 20:04.840 --> 20:06.840 Yeah. 20:06.840 --> 20:09.840 Yeah, one day you're just a guy, 20:09.840 --> 20:12.840 and something happens, and you're a killer. 20:12.840 --> 20:14.840 Won't you go now, please? 20:14.840 --> 20:16.840 Sure, sure I'll go. 20:16.840 --> 20:18.840 Why not? 20:18.840 --> 20:22.840 Don't make much difference now. 20:22.840 --> 20:25.840 Buddy, listen to me. 20:25.840 --> 20:28.840 You know what I mean, don't you? 20:28.840 --> 20:30.840 You're just a guy. 20:30.840 --> 20:33.840 Yeah. 20:33.840 --> 20:36.840 Put your gun down. 20:36.840 --> 20:38.840 Maybe they'll give you a chance. 20:38.840 --> 20:40.840 What chance? I've been waiting for a chance all my life. 20:40.840 --> 20:42.840 Give her the gun. 20:42.840 --> 20:44.840 It'll be better. 20:44.840 --> 20:46.840 Look, forget it, will you? Get out of the way, lady. 20:46.840 --> 20:47.840 I'm going out. 20:47.840 --> 20:48.840 You wouldn't try. 20:48.840 --> 20:50.840 Oh, why don't you let me have your gun? 20:50.840 --> 20:52.840 Get back, get way back. 20:52.840 --> 20:53.840 Jesse? 20:53.840 --> 20:54.840 It's all right, Henry, it's all right. 20:54.840 --> 20:55.840 That's it. 20:55.840 --> 20:57.840 Stay there. 20:57.840 --> 20:59.840 I'm... 20:59.840 --> 21:02.840 You'll stay just like that. 21:07.840 --> 21:09.840 Oh, Henry. 21:09.840 --> 21:11.840 Okay, son, hold it right there. 21:11.840 --> 21:13.840 Don't come any farther. 21:13.840 --> 21:15.840 There are six guns on you, Jaliska. 21:15.840 --> 21:17.840 You haven't got a chance. 21:17.840 --> 21:28.840 Now drop that thing and come down with your hands over your head. 21:28.840 --> 21:30.840 Jesse. 21:30.840 --> 21:31.840 Yes? 21:31.840 --> 21:35.840 Why didn't it work? 21:35.840 --> 21:37.840 They shot at me. 21:37.840 --> 21:42.840 And then there was at least a half minute when he could have got out that door. 21:42.840 --> 21:44.840 Why didn't he? 21:44.840 --> 21:45.840 What made him wait? 21:45.840 --> 21:47.840 Oh, don't talk, darling, it's all over now. 21:47.840 --> 21:49.840 No, no, no, what happened? Tell me. 21:49.840 --> 21:53.840 When the police fired, he started for the door. 21:53.840 --> 21:55.840 But he came back, Henry. 21:55.840 --> 21:58.840 He went out into the fire escape and lifted you in the room. 21:58.840 --> 22:03.840 Then he started for the door again, but it was too late. 22:03.840 --> 22:04.840 Is he all right? 22:04.840 --> 22:05.840 I don't know, I think so. 22:05.840 --> 22:07.840 Will you get a doctor, please? 22:07.840 --> 22:09.840 The one's on his way. 22:09.840 --> 22:11.840 All right, take it easy, mister, you're going to be okay. 22:11.840 --> 22:12.840 Just lie easy. 22:12.840 --> 22:14.840 Yeah. 22:14.840 --> 22:18.840 Sure. 22:18.840 --> 22:19.840 It's funny. 22:19.840 --> 22:21.840 Huh? 22:21.840 --> 22:26.840 No, it's not funny. 22:26.840 --> 22:29.840 Strange. 22:29.840 --> 22:55.840 Strange for a killer. 22:55.840 --> 23:03.840 Suspense, in which Mr. John Dana starred in tonight's presentation of Strange for a Killer. 23:03.840 --> 23:23.840 Next week, tune in again for radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 23:23.840 --> 23:28.840 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 23:28.840 --> 23:31.840 Tonight's script was written by Robert Essam. 23:31.840 --> 23:35.840 The music was composed by René Guéregao and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 23:35.840 --> 23:43.840 Featured in the cast were Tony Barrett, Eve McVeigh, Jack Crouchon, Leonard Weinrib, Charles Seale, and Tom McKee. 23:43.840 --> 23:49.840 Tomorrow night on CBS Radio, hear the scientific touch on the FBI in Peace and War. 23:49.840 --> 23:53.840 A new wrinkle in criminology and an exciting wrinkle in countermeasures. 23:53.840 --> 23:59.840 Remember on most of these stations every Wednesday night, the FBI in Peace and War. 23:59.840 --> 24:09.840 Stay tuned now for Douglas Edwards with the news, followed by Disc Derby. 24:09.840 --> 24:24.840 Thursday night, The Whistler brings mystery on the CBS Radio Network.