WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:14.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:14.000 --> 00:21.800 Tonight, we bring you a story of betrayal and retribution on Devil's Island. 00:21.800 --> 00:24.600 We call it The Stool Pigeon. 00:24.600 --> 00:51.000 So now, starring Mr. John Danaer, here is tonight's Suspense play, The Stool Pigeon. 00:51.000 --> 00:56.100 It was hot that afternoon, which in itself you understand should not have been surprising. 00:56.100 --> 01:00.560 On that Devil's Island, it was always hot, unless there were the rains, and then it was 01:00.560 --> 01:03.120 a different, more steaming heat. 01:03.120 --> 01:09.040 There were four of us racing cockroaches in Cano's hut, Makil, Thibaut, Cano, and myself. 01:09.040 --> 01:13.880 We were what the authorities generously called libres, that is to say, we were free to roam 01:13.880 --> 01:17.000 within the confines of the island, but never to leave it. 01:17.000 --> 01:21.840 As I say, we were racing cockroaches, and Thibaut had already won three races. 01:21.840 --> 01:26.120 His animal was a huge red beast, fully three and a half inches in length, and possessing 01:26.120 --> 01:27.980 a remarkable stamina. 01:27.980 --> 01:33.360 She was named Marie, made me think of a filly I used to bet on in Paris. 01:33.360 --> 01:34.920 It's hot. 01:34.920 --> 01:36.440 My friends, it is hot. 01:36.440 --> 01:39.160 You never get tired of saying that, do you, Thibaut? 01:39.160 --> 01:40.160 Does he? 01:40.160 --> 01:43.080 Yesterday, you said the same thing last month and last year. 01:43.080 --> 01:45.760 You owe me five francs from the last race, babe. 01:45.760 --> 01:48.520 Oh, I always lose here. 01:48.520 --> 01:51.280 Shall we have another? 01:51.280 --> 01:53.280 No, it's too hot. 01:53.280 --> 01:54.280 Oh, there. 01:54.280 --> 01:55.280 Now who says it's hot? 01:55.280 --> 01:56.280 Who? 01:56.280 --> 01:57.280 Who said it? 01:57.280 --> 01:58.280 Oh, shut up. 01:58.280 --> 02:04.040 You little maggot, I could break your shell with my nail if I felt like it. 02:04.040 --> 02:07.440 But I like you, Makil, so I allow you to speak to me, just. 02:07.440 --> 02:09.240 I heard there's a ship coming next week. 02:09.240 --> 02:10.240 Oh? 02:10.240 --> 02:11.240 Where'd you hear that? 02:11.240 --> 02:13.880 Cano hears everything and knows nothing. 02:13.880 --> 02:15.960 I heard from a guard. 02:15.960 --> 02:18.400 It's a lie because I hear everything first. 02:18.400 --> 02:22.160 Did you call me a liar? 02:22.160 --> 02:23.640 I call you a liar. 02:23.640 --> 02:24.640 Stop, stop, stop it. 02:24.640 --> 02:25.640 Put away the knife, Cano. 02:25.640 --> 02:28.640 We'll all be put in solitary if you're seen. 02:28.640 --> 02:30.640 A knife? 02:30.640 --> 02:32.160 Knife? 02:32.160 --> 02:33.600 Where did you get a knife, Cano? 02:33.600 --> 02:34.600 Never mind. 02:34.600 --> 02:36.240 Oh, but I do mind. 02:36.240 --> 02:37.960 That's interesting that you have a knife. 02:37.960 --> 02:39.680 Are you thinking of escape, perhaps? 02:39.680 --> 02:41.680 Never mind. 02:41.680 --> 02:43.440 I'd like to buy your knife, Cano. 02:43.440 --> 02:44.440 Not for sale. 02:44.440 --> 02:45.440 100 francs? 02:45.440 --> 02:46.440 I'm not selling. 02:46.440 --> 02:47.440 150? 02:47.440 --> 02:48.440 No. 02:48.440 --> 02:49.440 Well, some other time. 02:49.440 --> 02:50.960 I've got half a bottle of wine. 02:50.960 --> 02:52.280 Let's go and drink it. 02:52.280 --> 02:54.160 I don't feel like quarreling. 02:54.160 --> 03:00.720 Oh, Makil, you have a divine soul, come, my little maggot. 03:00.720 --> 03:06.840 You too, Cano, exil. 03:06.840 --> 03:14.040 Makil, he of the divine soul, had been on Devil's Island for eight years. 03:14.040 --> 03:18.500 In Marseilles, he had been, among other things, an habitual thief and arsonist. 03:18.500 --> 03:22.480 He stood five foot six and had long been befriended by Thibaut. 03:22.480 --> 03:27.260 Thibaut was, by his very stature, and passed the King of the Libres on the island, a huge 03:27.260 --> 03:30.360 and gross man, towering over six feet. 03:30.360 --> 03:34.400 In Paris, he left behind him a series of syndicate murders for which he'd escaped the guillotine 03:34.400 --> 03:37.880 only by underground and political pressures. 03:37.880 --> 03:42.160 In spite of his terrible reputation and physical appearance, he was not an unfair man, and 03:42.160 --> 03:44.920 on the whole, well-liked by the rest of us. 03:44.920 --> 03:48.280 Cano was slim and dark, volatile as benzene. 03:48.280 --> 03:51.200 In a fit of jealous anger, he'd slit his wife's throat. 03:51.200 --> 03:55.720 A handy man with a knife, a moody, uncertain fellow, Cano. 03:55.720 --> 03:58.560 I was there because I was caught embezzling from the bank. 03:58.560 --> 04:01.480 A stupid thing to do, more stupid to be caught. 04:01.480 --> 04:05.760 I looked forward to six more years before release. 04:05.760 --> 04:07.360 Gone. 04:07.360 --> 04:12.560 Every last mortal drop. 04:12.560 --> 04:14.140 Half a bottle doesn't go far. 04:14.140 --> 04:18.520 Not for one with a mouth of a hippopotamus. 04:18.520 --> 04:23.560 I remember a wine in Paris, Montcher. 04:23.560 --> 04:24.560 Think of Emile. 04:24.560 --> 04:28.880 He might be tasting your wine soon, away from this pest hole. 04:28.880 --> 04:31.360 How long has it been now? 04:31.360 --> 04:32.360 Nine days. 04:32.360 --> 04:33.360 No, ten. 04:33.360 --> 04:34.360 He escaped on the 14th. 04:34.360 --> 04:36.320 I give odds he never reaches Maribaux. 04:36.320 --> 04:37.320 Five to one. 04:37.320 --> 04:38.320 Why not? 04:38.320 --> 04:39.320 Why shouldn't he? 04:39.320 --> 04:40.320 Well, the sharks, Cano, the sharks. 04:40.320 --> 04:42.320 Very bad this year, I've heard. 04:42.320 --> 04:44.480 And his boat wasn't much good either. 04:44.480 --> 04:45.480 Any other reason? 04:45.480 --> 04:48.400 Well, let's wish him luck by not talking about it. 04:48.400 --> 04:49.760 I'd like to talk about it. 04:49.760 --> 04:52.080 Martille, why else shouldn't he reach Maribaux? 04:52.080 --> 04:55.840 You know how many have tried in the past five years and been caught. 04:55.840 --> 04:58.760 We all know, don't we, Thibault? 04:58.760 --> 05:02.000 One informs, someone tells that swine of a governor. 05:02.000 --> 05:03.000 Yes. 05:03.000 --> 05:04.000 We only think that. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.360 It's only a guess, nobody's sure, only a suspicion. 05:06.360 --> 05:08.280 Now, isn't that so, Exil? 05:08.280 --> 05:11.280 Someone who knows everything that's happening before anyone else. 05:11.280 --> 05:12.280 He's right. 05:12.280 --> 05:13.760 My friends, he's absolutely right. 05:13.760 --> 05:14.840 It's true. 05:14.840 --> 05:20.520 I've long suspected it myself, and it's wise that it should be brought out into the open. 05:20.520 --> 05:27.760 Someone on the island is an informer, making himself fat on the sufferings of others. 05:27.760 --> 05:29.720 I shouldn't want Emile to be caught. 05:29.720 --> 05:32.040 He was a friend, a good friend. 05:32.040 --> 05:33.840 Terrible thing if he were caught. 05:33.840 --> 05:35.800 The question is, who? 05:35.800 --> 05:38.160 Ah, who not? 05:38.160 --> 05:40.760 It could be any one of a hundred, if it's true. 05:40.760 --> 05:43.040 That pig Louis Daudin, possibly Grosjean. 05:43.040 --> 05:45.640 Oh, one could imagine anything from him. 05:45.640 --> 05:46.640 What about Grosjean? 05:46.640 --> 05:49.360 Oh, Barry, oh, Bruce, Galena, Munch. 05:49.360 --> 05:52.080 Macile, Ruxil, Thibault. 05:52.080 --> 05:54.200 Any one of us, even yourself, Cano. 05:54.200 --> 05:58.080 Oh, no, that, that, that is a dreadful thing to contemplate, Thibault. 05:58.080 --> 05:59.800 No, not, not one of us. 05:59.800 --> 06:00.800 Over here. 06:00.800 --> 06:02.560 Oh, have you seen Thibault? 06:02.560 --> 06:04.000 Oh, here you are. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.720 Daudin, ah, we were speaking of you a minute ago. 06:06.720 --> 06:07.720 What's the matter? 06:07.720 --> 06:08.720 It's Emile. 06:08.720 --> 06:11.720 What about Emile? 06:11.720 --> 06:12.720 He's been caught. 06:12.720 --> 06:15.800 They were waiting for him in a patrol boat off Maribaux. 06:15.800 --> 06:16.800 They took him. 06:16.800 --> 06:17.800 Oh, sacre. 06:17.800 --> 06:23.120 Now the question is, how did they know he was going to Maribaux? 06:23.120 --> 06:25.040 I wonder. 06:25.040 --> 06:34.440 How did they know? 06:34.440 --> 06:38.440 Two days later, Emile was back on the island in solitary. 06:38.440 --> 06:40.840 We heard that he was in bad shape. 06:40.840 --> 06:44.200 Thibault managed to smuggle in some cigarettes through a friendly guard, and that was the 06:44.200 --> 06:45.880 best he could do. 06:45.880 --> 06:48.360 Things were very bad, worse than usual. 06:48.360 --> 06:52.280 The governor, Monsieur Planche, was angry, and restrictions even for librais became more 06:52.280 --> 06:53.280 intolerable. 06:53.280 --> 06:57.480 He seemed determined to make us all pay for Emile's attempted escape. 06:57.480 --> 06:59.240 There was a lot of grumbling. 06:59.240 --> 07:01.040 Even Thibault felt a pinch. 07:01.040 --> 07:02.400 Then Emile died. 07:02.400 --> 07:05.920 We heard from the beating he received when he was captured. 07:05.920 --> 07:07.720 Thibault was very quiet. 07:07.720 --> 07:10.920 For a week after, too quiet. 07:10.920 --> 07:14.400 Then one day he said, I'm fed up. 07:14.400 --> 07:16.760 Why don't you take a petition to the governor? 07:16.760 --> 07:17.760 Now, there's no joke. 07:17.760 --> 07:18.760 I repeat, I'm fed up. 07:18.760 --> 07:20.760 Something must be done. 07:20.760 --> 07:22.560 Escape, Thibault? 07:22.560 --> 07:25.120 That or... or what? 07:25.120 --> 07:26.120 Yes, what? 07:26.120 --> 07:27.120 We stand. 07:27.120 --> 07:30.280 We stand for better conditions. 07:30.280 --> 07:31.280 No more oppressions. 07:31.280 --> 07:37.720 We're prisoners, but there's still rights, human rights, to stand against tyranny and 07:37.720 --> 07:38.720 inhumanity. 07:38.720 --> 07:39.720 Bravo. 07:39.720 --> 07:44.200 You've just been elected to the Chamber of Deputies. 07:44.200 --> 07:46.240 I'm losing patience with you, Gano. 07:46.240 --> 07:47.680 Don't be a fool. 07:47.680 --> 07:49.480 We have no rights, even animals. 07:49.480 --> 07:51.080 The governor's dog has more rights than we. 07:51.080 --> 07:53.040 You know why, shall I tell you why? 07:53.040 --> 07:54.520 Because the governor's dog is clever. 07:54.520 --> 07:56.400 We are not clever. 07:56.400 --> 07:59.240 The governor's dog sits up fritily and begs for a morsel. 07:59.240 --> 08:05.640 He has no other dogs to contend with, no competition, while we, we fight and snarl among ourselves 08:05.640 --> 08:07.160 with the garbage in the streets. 08:07.160 --> 08:08.160 It's true. 08:08.160 --> 08:09.160 It's true what he says. 08:09.160 --> 08:10.160 What does he say? 08:10.160 --> 08:11.160 What do you mean, Thibault? 08:11.160 --> 08:13.680 We no longer fought among ourselves, but banded together. 08:13.680 --> 08:16.080 Unit of strength, a solid front. 08:16.080 --> 08:19.800 We could force the governor, the authorities in France, to better our conditions. 08:19.800 --> 08:20.800 And what do we do? 08:20.800 --> 08:22.400 Present a petition as cano putit? 08:22.400 --> 08:25.960 No, perhaps not, perhaps not. 08:25.960 --> 08:28.000 Something more forceful, eh? 08:28.000 --> 08:29.600 No good would come of it. 08:29.600 --> 08:32.720 If there is to be action, I'd rather try and escape. 08:32.720 --> 08:34.200 How far would you get, Oegsie? 08:34.200 --> 08:35.720 Are you forgetting the informer? 08:35.720 --> 08:37.240 We don't know. 08:37.240 --> 08:38.720 We don't know there's an informer. 08:38.720 --> 08:41.160 We suspect, but we suspect everything. 08:41.160 --> 08:43.240 There's nothing else to do. 08:43.240 --> 08:44.560 Suppose it's the natives who informed. 08:44.560 --> 08:45.560 They have before. 08:45.560 --> 08:47.560 Suppose the governor is just too smart for us. 08:47.560 --> 08:49.040 How many choices do we have anyway? 08:49.040 --> 08:50.600 Brazil, they turn us back. 08:50.600 --> 08:52.320 Dutch Guiana, Emile tried it. 08:52.320 --> 08:53.320 They're always watching. 08:53.320 --> 08:57.320 The West Indies, Venezuela in an open boat. 08:57.320 --> 08:58.680 Not much chance there. 08:58.680 --> 09:00.360 Or do you want the jungle? 09:00.360 --> 09:04.000 An informer doesn't lessen our chances too much, it seems to me. 09:04.000 --> 09:05.400 But it does lessen them. 09:05.400 --> 09:11.440 I have been thinking, thinking hard, my friends. 09:11.440 --> 09:12.920 We're agreed on one thing. 09:12.920 --> 09:13.920 Conditions could not be worse, eh? 09:13.920 --> 09:14.920 You agree? 09:14.920 --> 09:17.840 If we could escape, we would do so and take our chances. 09:17.840 --> 09:18.840 If, if. 09:18.840 --> 09:21.760 Therefore, there are two choices, it seems. 09:21.760 --> 09:24.640 Better conditions on the island or escape. 09:24.640 --> 09:26.280 And both impossible, I would say. 09:26.280 --> 09:27.720 Ah, you're a pessimist, Oegsie. 09:27.720 --> 09:28.720 That's why you'll never be a success. 09:28.720 --> 09:29.720 He's right, Oegsie. 09:29.720 --> 09:30.720 You'll never be a success. 09:30.720 --> 09:31.720 Go on, Thibaut. 09:31.720 --> 09:34.800 I think that we may accept both choices, one dependent on the other. 09:34.800 --> 09:35.880 What do you mean? 09:35.880 --> 09:38.880 If we had better conditions, we might be able to escape. 09:38.880 --> 09:40.280 Can't you ever talk in a straight line? 09:40.280 --> 09:42.920 Now, which of us has the greatest opportunity to see the governor? 09:42.920 --> 09:44.280 Well, you have. 09:44.280 --> 09:45.400 You have, Thibaut. 09:45.400 --> 09:46.400 You do his garden work. 09:46.400 --> 09:47.400 Exactly. 09:47.400 --> 09:48.400 Come on, come on. 09:48.400 --> 09:49.400 Patience, my friend. 09:49.400 --> 09:51.400 Monsieur Planche strolls in his garden. 09:51.400 --> 09:52.400 Thibaut, he says. 09:52.400 --> 09:53.400 Thibaut. 09:53.400 --> 09:56.960 The roses are not looking very well today. 09:56.960 --> 09:59.760 He stands next to me and he says this. 09:59.760 --> 10:04.640 And for the indignity this petty official heaps on my head and for what he allowed done to 10:04.640 --> 10:10.120 Emile, I could stretch out my hands and strangle him in five seconds. 10:10.120 --> 10:11.120 You understand? 10:11.120 --> 10:12.720 In five seconds. 10:12.720 --> 10:16.400 But if I chose, I would not strangle. 10:16.400 --> 10:18.960 I would hold him, hold him as a hostage. 10:18.960 --> 10:19.960 A hostage? 10:19.960 --> 10:21.760 And you follow me. 10:21.760 --> 10:24.680 Now, let's suppose that a revolt were begun, eh? 10:24.680 --> 10:25.680 The guards overthrew. 10:25.680 --> 10:26.680 Oh, la la la. 10:26.680 --> 10:27.680 It's a thought nobody's ever tried. 10:27.680 --> 10:31.480 But the guards would shoot us down. 10:31.480 --> 10:33.720 They would have to shoot the governor if they tried. 10:33.720 --> 10:36.740 And if we succeed in what you say, then what? 10:36.740 --> 10:37.740 What happens? 10:37.740 --> 10:38.740 What do we do? 10:38.740 --> 10:39.740 What? 10:39.740 --> 10:41.700 That remains in my head. 10:41.700 --> 10:42.700 You must trust me there. 10:42.700 --> 10:43.700 I trust no one. 10:43.700 --> 10:44.700 Exile. 10:44.700 --> 10:47.200 Well, if there were a chance, I'd be with you. 10:47.200 --> 10:49.760 I don't look forward to six more years of this. 10:49.760 --> 10:50.760 Ah, my key. 10:50.760 --> 10:54.160 If I'm at your side, my friend, as always, as always. 10:54.160 --> 10:56.160 That leaves you, Cano. 10:56.160 --> 10:58.160 All right. 10:58.160 --> 10:59.160 Excellent. 10:59.160 --> 11:04.000 Then we must start to make our plans carefully, very carefully. 11:04.000 --> 11:08.000 Cano, stand by the door and warn us if anyone approaches. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.840 We don't want the informer to overhear us. 11:10.840 --> 11:11.840 Do we? 11:11.840 --> 11:12.840 We're going to have to wait until we get there. 11:12.840 --> 11:33.680 You are listening to The Stool Pigeon, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater 11:33.680 --> 11:40.440 of thrills, Suspense. 11:40.440 --> 11:48.880 If you're interested in spreading the truth about America to others, CBS radio suggests 11:48.880 --> 11:54.640 you contact Letters Abroad, 695 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York. 11:54.640 --> 11:58.880 Letters Abroad, once you've given them a few facts about yourself, job interests, hobbies, 11:58.880 --> 12:03.600 age, will furnish you with the name of a correspondent who lives overseas. 12:03.600 --> 12:09.080 Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Letters Abroad at 695 Park Avenue, New York 12:09.080 --> 12:11.760 17, New York. 12:11.760 --> 12:18.640 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. John Danaer, starring in tonight's production, 12:18.640 --> 12:39.880 The Stool Pigeon, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 12:39.880 --> 12:42.080 We made our plans in Thiebaud's hut. 12:42.080 --> 12:43.640 Up to a point, they were simple. 12:43.640 --> 12:46.960 Thiebaud, on the next day, was to await the governor's presence. 12:46.960 --> 12:50.320 If he appeared, Thiebaud would grab him and take him to the greenhouse. 12:50.320 --> 12:53.240 We three, Canot, MacKeele, and I, would be in the vicinity. 12:53.240 --> 12:57.020 I had to stand guard over Monsieur Plonge with Thiebaud, MacKeele and Canot to spread 12:57.020 --> 12:59.760 word among the other libraies at the moment had come. 12:59.760 --> 13:03.660 If on the other hand, the governor did not put in an appearance, we would wait for our 13:03.660 --> 13:06.120 chance on the next day or the next. 13:06.120 --> 13:09.360 As it happened, it wasn't until the fifth day that the thing happened. 13:09.360 --> 13:10.360 It was well timed. 13:10.360 --> 13:15.160 The island was stifling, the prisoners restless, smarting under the still harsh restrictions 13:15.160 --> 13:18.280 which had followed Emile's escape and arrest. 13:18.280 --> 13:22.600 We were like a time bomb, ready to explode, and the explosion came. 13:22.600 --> 13:24.640 We joined Thiebaud in the greenhouse. 13:24.640 --> 13:27.560 He held the struggling governor in his massive arms. 13:27.560 --> 13:28.560 Let me go! 13:28.560 --> 13:29.560 All right, MacKeele, Canot. 13:29.560 --> 13:30.560 Let me go! 13:30.560 --> 13:31.560 Get the others quietly, but hurry. 13:31.560 --> 13:33.560 Tell them to gather at the governor's house. 13:33.560 --> 13:34.560 Let me go! 13:34.560 --> 13:35.560 You fools! 13:35.560 --> 13:36.560 You'll suffer for this! 13:36.560 --> 13:37.920 Do not speak of suffering, Monsieur Plonge. 13:37.920 --> 13:39.960 It is dangerous talk for you. 13:39.960 --> 13:40.960 Go on, go on, Canot. 13:40.960 --> 13:44.200 MacKeele, and remember, the guards mustn't suspect you everything quietly. 13:44.200 --> 13:46.000 Yes, Thiebaud, come on. 13:46.000 --> 13:52.520 If you continue to struggle, Monsieur Plonge, I shall be forced to break open your head. 13:52.520 --> 13:53.960 What can you gain by this, Thiebaud? 13:53.960 --> 13:55.840 It will mean a life sentence, you know it. 13:55.840 --> 13:57.360 And for you, possibly a death sentence. 13:57.360 --> 13:59.320 Do you know that, Governor? 13:59.320 --> 14:00.320 What are you going to do? 14:00.320 --> 14:01.920 Hold you as a hostage. 14:01.920 --> 14:04.680 We demand our rights as men. 14:04.680 --> 14:06.120 You understand? 14:06.120 --> 14:07.120 As men. 14:07.120 --> 14:08.120 You have no civil rights. 14:08.120 --> 14:09.120 Human rights! 14:09.120 --> 14:11.300 My friend Emile died. 14:11.300 --> 14:14.520 He took his chance in escaping, but he wasn't shot, he was beaten to death. 14:14.520 --> 14:15.520 An accident. 14:15.520 --> 14:16.520 He resisted. 14:16.520 --> 14:17.520 Things must change. 14:17.520 --> 14:18.520 I can change nothing. 14:18.520 --> 14:19.640 The regulations are set in Paris. 14:19.640 --> 14:20.760 I simply carry them out. 14:20.760 --> 14:22.440 You overdo your authority. 14:22.440 --> 14:24.520 You must apply for better conditions for the men. 14:24.520 --> 14:25.520 I can do nothing. 14:25.520 --> 14:26.520 We shall see. 14:26.520 --> 14:27.520 Stay quietly now. 14:27.520 --> 14:36.640 We'll wait until the others come back. 14:36.640 --> 14:37.640 We waited. 14:37.640 --> 14:42.280 It seemed a long time and the silence was more terrible than the heat in that place. 14:42.280 --> 14:46.520 The Governor's hobby was raising orchids and the greenhouse was full of them. 14:46.520 --> 14:48.800 I've always hated the things. 14:48.800 --> 14:55.280 Then suddenly it was too quiet, as it might be on a summer's day, a moment before a thunderstorm. 14:55.280 --> 14:56.440 What the devil's keeping them? 14:56.440 --> 14:57.720 I don't know. 14:57.720 --> 14:59.280 Maybe the guards know what's happened. 14:59.280 --> 15:00.280 Maybe they've been caught. 15:00.280 --> 15:01.280 Ben, listen. 15:01.280 --> 15:02.280 They're shooting them. 15:02.280 --> 15:03.280 Thiebaud, they're shooting them. 15:03.280 --> 15:04.280 Shut up! 15:04.280 --> 15:05.280 Someone get me a lighter. 15:05.280 --> 15:06.280 Where's my key? 15:06.280 --> 15:07.280 Coming. 15:07.280 --> 15:08.280 Coming. 15:08.280 --> 15:09.280 What happened? 15:09.280 --> 15:10.280 We got word to about a dozen. 15:10.280 --> 15:11.960 And word must have gotten to the guards about him. 15:11.960 --> 15:12.960 I told you. 15:12.960 --> 15:13.960 Now before it's too late, release me. 15:13.960 --> 15:15.640 It'll be better for you if you do. 15:15.640 --> 15:16.640 What happened to the others? 15:16.640 --> 15:18.200 Last I saw they were coming his way. 15:18.200 --> 15:19.200 Oh, Thiebaud! 15:19.200 --> 15:20.200 Thiebaud, it's horrible. 15:20.200 --> 15:21.200 I saw four of them. 15:21.200 --> 15:22.200 Four! 15:22.200 --> 15:23.200 All right, come on. 15:23.200 --> 15:24.200 Where? 15:24.200 --> 15:25.200 To his office. 15:25.200 --> 15:27.960 Monsieur Blanche, we are taking you to your office. 15:27.960 --> 15:30.560 If any guards try to stop us, you know what happens. 15:30.560 --> 15:32.240 You can do nothing, Thiebaud. 15:32.240 --> 15:33.240 Give yourself up now. 15:33.240 --> 15:34.240 All of you. 15:34.240 --> 15:35.240 Walk. 15:35.240 --> 15:36.240 Slowly. 15:36.240 --> 15:37.240 You in there! 15:37.240 --> 15:38.240 Come on with your hands up! 15:38.240 --> 15:39.240 The guards, Thiebaud. 15:39.240 --> 15:40.240 Tell them, Governor. 15:40.240 --> 15:41.240 Tell them that we're coming out. 15:41.240 --> 15:42.240 With you. 15:42.240 --> 15:43.240 Now tell them. 15:43.240 --> 15:44.240 This is the Governor speaking. 15:44.240 --> 15:45.240 These men are holding me. 15:45.240 --> 15:46.240 They're coming out. 15:46.240 --> 15:47.240 Tell them not to shoot. 15:47.240 --> 15:48.240 Don't shoot! 15:48.240 --> 15:49.240 Now, calmly, nicely, we walk out. 15:49.240 --> 15:50.240 Stay very close to them, my friends. 15:50.240 --> 15:51.240 That way you'll be safe. 15:51.240 --> 16:14.920 As bees clustered around the honeypot, we sidled along the path, past the guards who 16:14.920 --> 16:17.000 stood no more than 20 feet from us. 16:17.000 --> 16:21.440 It must have been a ridiculous sight, but the honeypot was the Governor and our protection 16:21.440 --> 16:22.440 from bullets. 16:22.440 --> 16:24.400 Then we were in his office. 16:24.400 --> 16:27.960 There were no others to join us, and the door closed. 16:27.960 --> 16:29.540 It was a strange thing. 16:29.540 --> 16:34.920 We none of us thought beyond the moment, and for that moment we were superior beings, prisoners 16:34.920 --> 16:37.360 no longer because we were now the captors. 16:37.360 --> 16:41.840 But when I glanced into the courtyard and saw the ring of guards looking up, rifles 16:41.840 --> 16:47.560 cradled in their arms, it was then another moment, and one this time of fear. 16:47.560 --> 16:48.560 What now? 16:48.560 --> 16:50.560 First the siren must stop. 16:50.560 --> 16:51.560 It offends my ears. 16:51.560 --> 16:52.560 Governor, give the order. 16:52.560 --> 16:53.560 This is the Governor. 16:53.560 --> 16:54.560 Turn off the siren. 16:54.560 --> 16:55.560 Good. 16:55.560 --> 16:56.560 You're cooperative. 16:56.560 --> 16:57.560 It's better that way. 16:57.560 --> 16:58.560 I repeat, what now? 16:58.560 --> 17:07.020 Now I think we go to the 17:07.020 --> 17:13.280 next part of my plan. 17:13.280 --> 17:16.840 Markeel, little maggot, stay by the window and observe. 17:16.840 --> 17:19.840 Report if there is an attempt by the guards to move into the building. 17:19.840 --> 17:20.840 Yes, sir. 17:20.840 --> 17:21.840 What do you think you can accomplish? 17:21.840 --> 17:22.840 Escape? 17:22.840 --> 17:23.840 Impossible? 17:23.840 --> 17:24.840 You know that. 17:24.840 --> 17:25.840 It's been done. 17:25.840 --> 17:27.720 When there's been no informer, it's been done. 17:27.720 --> 17:29.000 I don't know what you're talking about. 17:29.000 --> 17:30.760 First things first. 17:30.760 --> 17:32.880 Now we come to the matter of conditions here. 17:32.880 --> 17:33.880 I have told you that the- 17:33.880 --> 17:38.200 Oh, what you've told me, and I say to you it is within your power to ease the suffering 17:38.200 --> 17:39.280 of the men. 17:39.280 --> 17:42.520 Give them better food, better medical care. 17:42.520 --> 17:45.520 Your concern for your fellow man touches me, Thibaut. 17:45.520 --> 17:48.160 Did you have as much conscience over those you murdered? 17:48.160 --> 17:49.760 That is an entirely different matter. 17:49.760 --> 17:50.760 Enough of this, Thibaut. 17:50.760 --> 17:51.760 What happens to us? 17:51.760 --> 17:53.800 My dear Canoux, it is happening to us now. 17:53.800 --> 17:54.800 You'll see. 17:54.800 --> 17:55.800 Trust me. 17:55.800 --> 17:56.800 The devil with that talk. 17:56.800 --> 17:57.800 When do we get out of here? 17:57.800 --> 17:58.800 All in good time. 17:58.800 --> 18:04.080 Therefore, Governor, you will assign your pledge to do these things of which I have 18:04.080 --> 18:05.080 spoken. 18:05.080 --> 18:06.080 If I don't? 18:06.080 --> 18:07.080 I'll kill you. 18:07.080 --> 18:08.080 Slowly. 18:08.080 --> 18:09.080 I can. 18:09.080 --> 18:10.080 I've had practice. 18:10.080 --> 18:15.720 Let us suppose that I agree to this. 18:15.720 --> 18:16.720 What then? 18:16.720 --> 18:17.720 Then you don't die. 18:17.720 --> 18:19.720 Now, the second point. 18:19.720 --> 18:20.920 We have a chance to escape. 18:20.920 --> 18:21.920 No. 18:21.920 --> 18:22.920 A fair chance. 18:22.920 --> 18:26.120 Not the chance that Borémeil had, but then he had no chance at all, did he? 18:26.120 --> 18:27.240 There will be no escape. 18:27.240 --> 18:31.080 In order to escape, there must be secrecy. 18:31.080 --> 18:34.920 And there can be no secrecy when you know beforehand of the plan. 18:34.920 --> 18:36.400 You will not have a chance to escape. 18:36.400 --> 18:39.680 If you let me go, I warn you, I will deal with you all. 18:39.680 --> 18:40.680 There will be no escape. 18:40.680 --> 18:44.720 My dear Governor, I said nothing about when we attempt to make this escape. 18:44.720 --> 18:46.520 What are you talking about? 18:46.520 --> 18:47.520 Escape now, now, Thibaut. 18:47.520 --> 18:48.520 Yes, of course, now. 18:48.520 --> 18:50.520 Each to his own desire for me. 18:50.520 --> 18:55.800 It may be now or sometime later, but the opportunity, if it comes, must at least allow a reasonable 18:55.800 --> 18:58.120 margin of success. 18:58.120 --> 18:59.920 That is up to you, Monsieur Blanche. 18:59.920 --> 19:01.680 What do you mean? 19:01.680 --> 19:04.920 Here now, the third point. 19:04.920 --> 19:08.600 I wish to know the name of your informer. 19:08.600 --> 19:14.000 The one who has for what must be at least five years supplied you with information concerning 19:14.000 --> 19:17.840 every thought and deed of the prisoners. 19:17.840 --> 19:19.040 There is no informer. 19:19.040 --> 19:20.480 You are lying, Governor. 19:20.480 --> 19:22.000 No, I have no need. 19:22.000 --> 19:25.000 You have a great need if you wish to go on living. 19:25.000 --> 19:26.600 What are you up to, Thibaut? 19:26.600 --> 19:29.640 Don't interrupt His Excellency Canot. 19:29.640 --> 19:32.360 He is about to tell us something. 19:32.360 --> 19:34.960 If I tell you, will you give yourselves up? 19:34.960 --> 19:38.240 I cannot speak for the others, for myself. 19:38.240 --> 19:39.240 Yes. 19:39.240 --> 19:40.240 You pig. 19:40.240 --> 19:41.240 You sell us out? 19:41.240 --> 19:43.360 No, no, no, no, no, my dear Canot. 19:43.360 --> 19:46.560 You're free to do as you will. 19:46.560 --> 19:50.800 Who is the informer, Monsieur Blanche? 19:50.800 --> 19:53.000 I'm getting impatient. 19:53.000 --> 19:54.480 Who? 19:54.480 --> 19:56.440 Him. 19:56.440 --> 19:58.440 Ah. 19:58.440 --> 20:06.680 That is what I wanted to know. 20:06.680 --> 20:08.200 Then I ask you one favor, Governor. 20:08.200 --> 20:09.840 Do not be hard on these two. 20:09.840 --> 20:13.280 All this was done to gain what you've just told me, nothing more. 20:13.280 --> 20:14.280 I don't understand you. 20:14.280 --> 20:15.880 My friend, Emile. 20:15.880 --> 20:17.800 I have other friends. 20:17.800 --> 20:23.100 I should not want to see them go as he went. 20:23.100 --> 20:25.200 You had better escape now, Maquil. 20:25.200 --> 20:27.280 No, no, Thibaut. 20:27.280 --> 20:28.280 It's not true. 20:28.280 --> 20:29.280 He's lying to you. 20:29.280 --> 20:30.280 Run, Maquil, run. 20:30.280 --> 20:33.280 Or I'll throw you out with the wind. 20:33.280 --> 20:34.280 On my honor, Thibaut. 20:34.280 --> 20:35.280 I'm your friend. 20:35.280 --> 20:36.280 You know me. 20:36.280 --> 20:37.280 I know you. 20:37.280 --> 20:38.280 Run. 20:38.280 --> 20:40.280 Exile Canot, you don't believe it, do you? 20:40.280 --> 20:42.280 Run, little maggot, outside. 20:42.280 --> 20:43.280 Quickly. 20:43.280 --> 20:44.280 No, Thibaut, no. 20:44.280 --> 20:46.280 Hope that the guard shoots you. 20:46.280 --> 20:47.280 Please, please. 20:47.280 --> 20:48.280 Run. 20:48.280 --> 20:51.400 I would have cut his throat. 20:51.400 --> 20:54.160 That is murder, my friend, you wouldn't want that. 20:54.160 --> 21:12.000 I hope that your guards will shoot first and inquire later, Monsieur Blanc. 21:12.000 --> 21:13.000 We all went to solitary. 21:13.000 --> 21:16.680 It was expected, but somehow things were different, a little better on the island. 21:16.680 --> 21:18.660 How do you explain it? 21:18.660 --> 21:20.200 Perhaps the governor was ashamed. 21:20.200 --> 21:23.040 Perhaps he admired something about Thibaut that none of us understood. 21:23.040 --> 21:24.680 How does one know these things? 21:24.680 --> 21:27.600 There's not much else to tell. 21:27.600 --> 21:31.800 A year after we were released from solitary, Thibaut tried to escape. 21:31.800 --> 21:34.580 And this time it wasn't a prison informer who turned him in. 21:34.580 --> 21:37.560 It was the native from whom he bought the boat. 21:37.560 --> 21:51.960 How do you explain these things? 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