1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:19,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:26,680 Tonight, we bring you a transcribed story of a day in the life of a woman who awaits 3 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:27,680 an execution. 4 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,120 We call it, The Murderess. 5 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:45,560 So now, starring Kathy Lewis, here is tonight's Suspense play, The Murderess. 6 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:50,120 She awoke earlier that morning, earlier than she had thought she would. 7 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:56,320 Purposely, she had gone to bed later the night before, read later, then to ensure the blessed 8 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,480 passage of unconscious time, taken something to make her sleep, something to keep her from 9 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,480 the slow morning hours. 10 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:09,520 The bedside clock showed 8 a.m., but she knew it sometimes ran slow, and so she picked up 11 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:10,520 the phone. 12 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:38,520 At the tone, the time will be 8.06 and 30 seconds. 13 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:46,120 Automatically, she adjusted the clock and noted the ashtray overflowing with half-smoked 14 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:47,120 cigarette studs. 15 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:55,120 Eleven hours and 53 and a half minutes, cheat the seconds and say, eleven hours and 53 minutes, 16 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:56,120 exactly. 17 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,120 It would be finished then. 18 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:04,120 Then she thought calmly, as she had promised herself she would think today. 19 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,120 I know I can't help thinking about it. 20 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:12,920 It's silly to try and push it away, but I've got to occupy myself with every minute, every 21 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:15,920 second, then the time will pass. 22 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:20,320 There's lots of things to do, and I'm lucky. 23 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:25,320 I didn't think I'd be able to sleep at all, and I did get five hours. 24 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,320 I'm lucky. 25 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:34,320 She got out of bed, and knowing the morning paper would be lying outside her door, she 26 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:39,840 perversely delayed the moment when she would bring it in, instead going to the kitchen 27 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:44,840 and turning on the flame under the kettle. 28 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:50,320 It was at that moment of brushing teeth, washing face, that she saw, for the first time that 29 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,920 day, the face in the mirror, her own. 30 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:59,920 And she was drawn to it, leaning close over the sink, examining, searching, seeing in 31 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:06,920 an instant a bright objectivity, another face, a stranger. 32 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:08,920 Murderer. 33 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:10,920 Murderess. 34 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:12,920 You. 35 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:18,920 You, not me, but you. 36 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:22,920 Your lips are chapped. 37 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:27,920 It's always this time of year they get that way. 38 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:30,920 You're a murderess. 39 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:33,920 You killed someone. 40 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:35,920 You killed him. 41 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:37,920 I saw you. 42 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:43,920 And when the face stared back unmoved, she was afraid, and reached up to touch the face, 43 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:52,920 to feel it, and know she was herself, and not the thing in the mirror. 44 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:57,920 It was 8.30 when she sat at the kitchen table to drink her tea, and opened the morning's 45 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:58,920 newspaper. 46 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:00,920 Bailey execution tonight. 47 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,920 March 27th, Margaret Bailey, convicted slayer of her husband John Bailey, is scheduled to 48 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:07,920 die in the electric chair tonight at 8 o'clock. 49 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,920 After a lengthy trial and prudeless appeals, the attractive widow was stale according to 50 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,920 her attorney, H. Hillman Adams, maintaining her innocence. 51 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,920 No official word has been received from the governor's office, but it's felt unlikely 52 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,920 that a last minute reprieve will be forthcoming. 53 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,920 Mrs. Bailey, who shot and killed her husband four months ago, is reported to have spent 54 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:26,920 the last night in prayer. 55 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:27,920 8. 56 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,920 That's not a good thing to do. 57 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,920 I mustn't read anymore. 58 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,920 When I go out, I won't look at the headlines on the newsstands. 59 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,920 I won't listen to the news broadcasts. 60 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:41,920 Not today. 61 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,920 It's very silly to read that. 62 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,920 I wonder if I'd be praying. 63 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,920 I wonder what she feels. 64 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,920 Who is it? 65 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:01,920 Laura, ma'am. 66 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:05,920 Morning, honey. 67 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,920 Laura. 68 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,920 I forgot. 69 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:22,920 You know I forgot you were coming today. 70 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:27,920 Honey, if I had a nickel for every time I forgot, my Annie used to say to me, Laura, 71 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:32,920 if you don't have your head screwed on tight, you'd forget it and leave it somewhere sure 72 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,920 as an angel. 73 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,920 I've got some coffee on. 74 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:38,920 That would be fine. 75 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,920 I never did get a decent coffee. 76 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,920 Everything was late. 77 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,920 Both was late. 78 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:46,920 One of those devil in the air mornings, I guess. 79 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,920 Queen of sugar? 80 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,920 No, ma'am. 81 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:52,920 I'm on my diet again. 82 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,920 Here. 83 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:56,920 Thank you. 84 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,920 It's a truly shame. 85 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,920 Poor woman. 86 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:02,920 Pretty thing. 87 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,920 At our ladies' meeting the other night, we were talking about it. 88 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,920 Most of us were talking about it. 89 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,920 Most of us don't think that she done it. 90 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,920 Oh, ain't it awful, Miss Marion, when you think there's a life that's going to be no 91 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,920 more in a few hours. 92 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:18,920 Laura, I just said last night in Kringle. 93 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,920 Bless her heart. 94 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:26,920 You know, Miss Marion, I guess I'm a silly, thoughtful woman, but I look at that face 95 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,920 and I say, Laura, that Mrs. Bailey, she's no murderer. 96 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:32,920 Just from her face I say that. 97 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,920 I don't think the court agrees with you, Laura. 98 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:38,920 Court? 99 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:40,920 Somebody had to pay, and they picked her. 100 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,920 Because if you ask me, with these elections coming up and everything, they had to find 101 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,920 her guilty. 102 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,920 That's silly. 103 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:50,920 Oh, ma'am, I don't think it purely is. 104 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,920 From what I read, there's lots of chances for another woman to have done it. 105 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,920 The other woman. 106 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,920 You sound just like one of those scandal magazines, Laura. 107 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,920 Laura. 108 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:08,920 Well, if you ask me right now, someone is sitting laughing to herself right this minute, 109 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,920 and she knows what she's done, and the good Lord will take care of her all right. 110 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,920 You see, you'd better start vacuuming as soon as you've finished your coffee, Laura. 111 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:18,920 I'm going to get dressed. 112 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:24,920 She knew it had been a mistake to sit down with Laura. 113 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:26,920 She'd wanted to make small talk. 114 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:32,920 The friendly, non-important things that passed the time were listening to Laura's pseudo-intellectual 115 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:38,920 philosophies which the cleaning woman so proudly expounded, and yet showing under the surface 116 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:40,920 almost profound wisdom. 117 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:46,920 She might even have talked to Laura about herself, of unhappiness, fear, relieving the 118 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,920 pressing weight without disclosing the secret. 119 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,920 But now, Laura was alien. 120 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:58,920 Laura suspected something that she knew. 121 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:08,920 It was ten o'clock, and there were ten more hours, until eight. 122 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:10,920 I'll get it, Laura. 123 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,920 Hello. 124 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,920 Hello, dear. 125 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,920 Hello, Mother. 126 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:18,920 How are you? 127 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,920 Fine. 128 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,920 Can I wake you up? 129 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:24,920 No, no, I've been up since eight. 130 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:26,920 Oh, is Laura there? 131 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:28,920 Yes. 132 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:30,920 Do you want to talk to her? 133 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:32,920 No, no, just tell her I'm expecting her on Monday. 134 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:34,920 I wasn't sure whether it would be Monday or Tuesday, but I decided Monday. 135 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:36,920 All right. 136 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:38,920 Are you all right here? 137 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:40,920 Yes, I'm fine. 138 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,920 You've got one of those headaches again. 139 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:44,920 I wish you'd go to the doctor about it. 140 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:46,920 It worried me so much. 141 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:48,920 I'm fine, Mother. 142 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:50,920 Would you like to come over for dinner tonight? 143 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:52,920 No, thanks. 144 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:54,920 Thanks, Mother. 145 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,920 I've got a date. 146 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,920 Oh? 147 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,920 It's nobody you know, Mother. 148 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:04,920 Well, that's all right, dear. 149 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,920 I thought you might like to watch TV. 150 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,920 There's a very good show at eight o'clock. 151 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:10,920 Jackie, maybe you could bring a date for dinner. 152 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:12,920 I'm sorry, Mother. 153 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,920 And we could watch the show at eight, and then you could go on to wherever you're going. 154 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,920 I told you, Mother, I can't. 155 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,920 Look, I've got to go now. 156 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,920 I'll talk to you soon. 157 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,920 Tomorrow. 158 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:24,920 All right, dear. 159 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:26,920 Goodbye. 160 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:28,920 Mrs. Barington, can you help me? 161 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:30,920 I want to move the cabinet, ma'am. 162 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:32,920 It hasn't been cleaned behind there since Noah. 163 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:34,920 Oh, all right. 164 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:36,920 You just take the corner, honey. 165 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:38,920 Don't strain yourself. 166 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,920 Just kind of lean. 167 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:42,920 I'll do the pushing. 168 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:44,920 Now. 169 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,920 Just a whiff of more. 170 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:48,920 There. 171 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:50,920 Oh, my, my, honey. 172 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:52,920 If you've been missing any bills and things, that's where they are. 173 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,920 Oh, whee. 174 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:56,920 I declare. 175 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:58,920 I'll take them, Laura. 176 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:00,920 Well, here you are. 177 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:02,920 Oh, what a nice-looking gentleman. 178 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:04,920 Give it to me. 179 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:06,920 I'm going to take it. 180 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:08,920 I'm going to take it. 181 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:10,920 I'm going to take it. 182 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,920 I'm going to take it. 183 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:14,920 Give it to me. 184 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:16,920 It's a picture of him. 185 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,920 I thought I'd lost it. 186 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:20,920 I thought it was lost. 187 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:22,920 She saw it. 188 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:24,920 His picture was in the papers. 189 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,920 She'll remember. 190 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,920 She'll think about it. 191 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:30,920 And she'll remember. 192 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,920 It's a picture of a cousin of mine. 193 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,920 I never liked him. 194 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:36,920 He was a black sheep. 195 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:38,920 You know what I mean. 196 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,920 I'm going to take it. 197 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:42,920 You know what I mean. 198 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:44,920 It caused a lot of trouble, Laura. 199 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,920 I'd almost forgotten all about him. 200 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,920 I'm sorry I was rude. 201 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,920 It just brought back very unpleasant memories. 202 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:54,920 Oh, why, sure. 203 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,920 That's all right. 204 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:58,920 I understand. 205 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:00,920 I had an uncle like that once. 206 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:02,920 All he looked at was hell. 207 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:04,920 But he didn't know. 208 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:06,920 That cousin of yours sure reminds me of somebody. 209 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:08,920 Somebody I've seen and I know. 210 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:10,920 Now, who could that be? 211 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,920 Hello. 212 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,920 This is Marvin Miller. 213 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:44,920 We'll return to our program in a moment. 214 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,920 But first, here's something to think about. 215 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,920 The United States of America is young among the nations of the world. 216 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,920 But it has proven the value of its way of life. 217 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,920 Perhaps the most important words in our national heritage are the first three words of the Constitution. 218 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:00,920 We, the people. 219 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:02,920 The people are in power. 220 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,920 Not an individual or a party or a group of individuals. 221 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:08,920 But the people as a whole. 222 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:12,920 The communists have corrupted this word people. 223 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,920 Just as they have made the words peace and freedom and liberty seem meaningless. 224 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:24,920 Ask the citizen in one of the communist people's republics just how much he has to say about how his government is run. 225 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,920 With us, the word means exactly what it says. 226 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,920 It means everybody, no exceptions. 227 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,920 And as citizens, we recognize our two responsibilities. 228 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,920 First, to know what our rights are. 229 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,920 And second, to defend those rights. 230 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:48,920 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Kathy Lewis. 231 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:50,920 Starring in tonight's production, The Murderous. 232 00:12:50,920 --> 00:13:08,920 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 233 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,920 It was new. 234 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:18,920 She had listened to the sounds of Laura vacuuming, kitchen harmonies, clinking of china, ring of silver. 235 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:26,920 She bathed and dressed automatically, slowly, always listening, waiting for a pause in Laura's clean ritual. 236 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:30,920 A pause that might indicate that she had remembered. 237 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:34,920 Remembered whose face it was in the photograph. 238 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:42,920 If she does remember and she comes to me, what will I say? Do. 239 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:58,920 And fastening the pearl necklace, hands momentarily frozen behind her neck, the sounds in the kitchen had stopped. 240 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,920 The clasp of the necklace was secured. 241 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:07,920 But all of the plans so carefully made to ease the passage of this terrible day were gone. 242 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,920 She knew she could never recapture them. 243 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,920 She thought. 244 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,920 But after tonight, it will be better. 245 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:20,920 And tomorrow and next week and next month, better. 246 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,920 It's only the waiting for tonight. That's all. 247 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:27,920 What about Laura? 248 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:29,920 The photograph. 249 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,920 Supposing she did remember him from newspaper pictures. 250 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:44,920 Supposing she knows and doesn't say anything to me, waits until I go out, then calls the police. 251 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,920 Be careful now, honey. It's slick over there. 252 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:54,920 Laura, I'm going out for a while. Get my hair washed. If anyone calls, tell them I'll be home by two or two thirty. 253 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:55,920 Yes, ma'am. 254 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,920 There's some cold cuts if you want some for lunch. 255 00:14:58,920 --> 00:14:59,920 Oh, I'll be fine. 256 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,920 Just a cup of soup, that's all. 257 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:15,920 She put on her hat and coat and left the apartment, closing the door with unnecessary force. 258 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,920 At the elevator door, she stopped and waited for a few moments. 259 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,920 It's silly. She doesn't know anything, suspect anything. 260 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,920 Besides, she didn't have a chance to look at the picture for more than a second or two. 261 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,920 We believe her. 262 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:32,920 Lots of people resemble other people. 263 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:40,920 Unless, unless the police do suspect somebody else and they know it wasn't his wife. 264 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:47,920 But if the newspaper stories were just a trick trying to make me think that she was going to die tonight, knowing she's innocent. 265 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:54,920 Yes, I know. Yes. 266 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,920 Yes. Yes. 267 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,920 Well, I saw with my own eyes. 268 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:02,920 Yes. 269 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,920 Well, I'm just telling you what I know. 270 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:07,920 That's right. 271 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,920 Laura. 272 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,920 Mrs. Marion, I didn't hear you. 273 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,920 Who are you talking to, Laura? 274 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,920 My sister, my sister Mary. 275 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,920 No, baby, it's Mrs. Marion. I'll talk to you later. 276 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:23,920 Yes. 277 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:25,920 Goodbye. 278 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,920 Oh, you sure did scare the lights out of me, honey. 279 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:30,920 I'm sorry. 280 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,920 I forgot something. 281 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:41,920 And with the lie fresh on her lips, she went into the bedroom, sat on the bed, suddenly feeling pale and cold. 282 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:49,920 It was 12.15 on the bedroom clock. 283 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,920 She had called the hairdresser and canceled the appointment. 284 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,920 She knew that she couldn't leave the apartment, not at least until after Laura had gone. 285 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,920 And that wouldn't be until 4.30. 286 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:02,920 Laura had been calling the police. 287 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,920 She was convinced of that. 288 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,920 But I don't think they believed her. 289 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,920 Still, they might begin to wonder. They might investigate. 290 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:21,920 She was lying on the bed, arms folded behind her head, aware that her shoes were still on, sharp heels, endangering the lacy counterpane. 291 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,920 Not caring. 292 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:29,920 Hearing the sounds of Laura's humming and an occasional groan as she stooped to her work. 293 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,920 Even if they did come, they'd never find the picture. 294 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,920 They couldn't prove anything. I'd deny it. 295 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,920 But what would I have to deny? 296 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,920 I mustn't do that. 297 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,920 Then they would suspect. 298 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,920 I wish I could sleep. 299 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:52,920 This isn't the way it was supposed to be today. 300 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:58,920 I think I'll make some coffee. 301 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:00,920 Hello? 302 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:02,920 Alice? 303 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:03,920 No. 304 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,920 What number do you want? 305 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,920 Batting 35769. 306 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,920 You have the right number, but there's no one living here by that name. 307 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,920 I'm sorry. 308 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,920 You all right, honey? 309 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:18,920 Yes. 310 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,920 Well, you want me to make you a bite of something to eat? 311 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,920 I'm just going to make some coffee. 312 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:25,920 Well, maybe you'd feel more chipper if you... 313 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:31,920 You want me to answer? 314 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,920 I will. 315 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:35,920 Hello? 316 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:37,920 Alice? 317 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:42,920 Oh, I'm sorry. I guess it's still the wrong number. 318 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,920 Honey, you're real pale. 319 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:47,920 Why don't you take off your shoes and take a lie down? 320 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,920 Somebody trying to frighten me. That's the second time he called. 321 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,920 Now, you take yourself a nap. That'll fix you. 322 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:55,920 No, I don't want to. 323 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:57,920 Oh, but honey, you're all wrought up. 324 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:59,920 You got something troubling you, Miss Marion? 325 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:00,920 You want to tell me? 326 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:02,920 Why do you say that? 327 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:04,920 There's nothing wrong with me. 328 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,920 Was it seeing that cousin of yours, the one in the picture? 329 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:09,920 Now, you can tell Laura. 330 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,920 It was an old gentleman friend, not your cousin, wasn't it? 331 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,920 And seeing him upset you, didn't he? 332 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,920 I could tell. 333 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,920 Oh, well, I'll make you a cup of coffee. 334 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,920 Now, you lay down for a spell, and when I come back, you can talk it all out, honey. 335 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,920 Make you feel better. 336 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:29,920 You'd better get back to your work, Laura. 337 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:31,920 I'm going out now. 338 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,920 Honey, I'm worried about you. I wish you wouldn't go. 339 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:42,920 She didn't turn around, didn't answer the maid, pausing only for an instant to take up her pocketbook and coat. 340 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:44,920 Then she left the house. 341 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:54,920 For an hour, she walked in the city, aimless, not thinking, not seeing. 342 00:19:54,920 --> 00:20:00,920 And it wasn't until she noticed a cruising patrol car that things drew back into focus. 343 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,920 Perhaps they're looking for me. 344 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,920 They found out. 345 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:07,920 They know. 346 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:11,920 I should have done something. 347 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,920 What? 348 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:15,920 Killed her? 349 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,920 Killed Laura? 350 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:20,920 Oh, I should... 351 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:25,920 Oh, like crazy, crazy, thinking things like that. 352 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,920 It's three o'clock. 353 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:30,920 Three. 354 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,920 Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. 355 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,920 Five hours. I'll go to a movie. 356 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,920 They wouldn't find me in there. They wouldn't think of looking there. 357 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,920 It'll pass the time. 358 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,920 She went into the first movie theater she saw, not looking at the marquee. 359 00:20:51,920 --> 00:21:06,920 Made her admission, almost ran inside, then sank into the worn shiny seat and leaned back in semi-darkness and watched the flickering light on the screen before her, without seeing or caring about its content. 360 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,920 It was five o'clock when the second feature began playing. 361 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:21,920 For ten minutes she watched, now seeing and hearing because the fantasy had momentarily taken her out of herself. 362 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,920 Not seven, you jerk, eight. Look, I got 34 apples, right? 363 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:25,920 Right. 364 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:26,920 You take 30 from me, right? 365 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:27,920 Right. 366 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:28,920 But you're a good guy. 367 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:30,920 Max, he says I'm a good guy. 368 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,920 You give me back three. Yeah, I get seven now. 369 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:34,920 You got eight. Four and four is eight. 370 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,920 Oh, you ain't got no brains. It's arithmetic. Seven. 371 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:43,920 Eight. Seven. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. 372 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:45,920 Eight? Eight? Eight? Eight? Eight. Eight. Eight. Eight. Eight. 373 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,920 Eight. Eight. Eight. Eight. Eight. 374 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:48,920 He said, eight. 375 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:49,920 You heard him. 376 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:50,920 I heard him. 377 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:52,920 Eight it is. 378 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,920 Is he dead? Did you kill him? 379 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,920 You think I want to go to the chair? 380 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:11,920 She went out and didn't notice the side glances that she had ran down the street, her sobs catching in her throat, tears streaking her cheeks. 381 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:23,920 I killed him. He was bad. He should have been killed. 382 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:31,920 But they wouldn't understand. I wish it was tomorrow. Tomorrow. 383 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,920 I wish I was asleep. That I wouldn't wake up. 384 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:44,920 No. Then I'd be dead. She'll be dead at eight o'clock. 385 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,920 She'll be... 386 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,920 Oh, excuse me. 387 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,920 I'm sorry. I'm sorry, officer. 388 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:52,920 You all right, ma'am? 389 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,920 Yes. Yes, I'm all right. 390 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,920 You sick? 391 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,920 Why? I don't look sick, do I? I'm fine. 392 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,920 You don't want to go wandering out on the street like that. You could get hurt. 393 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,920 Yes, I'm sorry. I'm late. Excuse me. 394 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,920 Sure. 395 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:26,920 The patrolman looked after her, puzzled, caught the eye of a bystander, shrugged, exchanged an understanding grin and continued his beat. 396 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:36,920 It was six o'clock when she turned into a quiet cocktail lounge on a side street, needing the drink now to forget to blot out the last two hours of waiting. 397 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,920 She couldn't go home. She knew they'd be waiting for her there. 398 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:46,920 Not be seen again on the street until it was dark, until after eight o'clock. 399 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:57,920 And she sat in the shadowed booth, drinking slowly, then faster and faster, hoping for the dulling of sensibilities. 400 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,920 I'm not drunk. And I want to be. 401 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,920 Well, alone. Alone? 402 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,920 Alone? Yes. 403 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,920 Can I, uh, buy you a drink? 404 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:12,920 A drink? 405 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,920 Oh, it's kind of lonesome sitting here, isn't it? 406 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:21,920 Oh, waitress. 407 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:30,920 She drank with him, and he was faceless, nobody. She didn't even care that he sat close to her in the booth, urging her... 408 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,920 How about another drink, honey? 409 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:40,920 Slyly, insinuating. He said things that she didn't hear. It passed the time. 410 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,920 What's the time? 411 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:43,920 Oh, it's early. 412 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,920 No, no, no. What time is it? 413 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,920 You got a date? Break it. 414 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,920 I think I'm drunk now. 415 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,920 That's okay. Who is it? We're having fun, are we? 416 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,920 What's the time? 417 00:24:55,920 --> 00:25:01,920 Well, it's, uh, it's seven. What do you care? Hey, how would you like to go now? 418 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,920 What are you giving me? 419 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,920 I killed somebody, and I've got to go. 420 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,920 You're not feeling any pain, honey. Come on, let's have one for the road. 421 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,920 Goodbye. 422 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:24,920 Outside, it was dusk. She stood swaying for a moment, and the sidewalk tipped under her. She walked slowly, carefully. 423 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:33,920 In an hour, she'll be dead. In an hour. 424 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:42,920 I wonder how long it takes to die. I think I know how she must feel now. 425 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:52,920 Except she won't have to feel anymore. And I'll have to go on like this. Like today. Every day. 426 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,920 She stopped on the corner. 427 00:25:54,920 --> 00:26:07,920 Arrow, beep beep. Arrow, beep beep. Bailey Giller dies tonight. Beep beep. 428 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,920 Paper lady? 429 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:19,920 No. I don't think so. Is, is there a police station anywhere near here? 430 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,920 Five blocks down, on your right. 431 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,920 Thank you. 432 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:32,920 It was quarter past seven when she went into the police station and said to the sergeant. 433 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:37,920 I want to give myself up. 434 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:52,920 I killed John Bailey.