WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:19.000 --> 00:26.680 Tonight, we bring you a transcribed story of a day in the life of a woman who awaits 00:26.680 --> 00:27.680 an execution. 00:27.680 --> 00:30.120 We call it, The Murderess. 00:30.120 --> 00:45.560 So now, starring Kathy Lewis, here is tonight's Suspense play, The Murderess. 00:45.560 --> 00:50.120 She awoke earlier that morning, earlier than she had thought she would. 00:50.120 --> 00:56.320 Purposely, she had gone to bed later the night before, read later, then to ensure the blessed 00:56.320 --> 01:01.480 passage of unconscious time, taken something to make her sleep, something to keep her from 01:01.480 --> 01:03.480 the slow morning hours. 01:03.480 --> 01:09.520 The bedside clock showed 8 a.m., but she knew it sometimes ran slow, and so she picked up 01:09.520 --> 01:10.520 the phone. 01:10.520 --> 01:38.520 At the tone, the time will be 8.06 and 30 seconds. 01:38.520 --> 01:46.120 Automatically, she adjusted the clock and noted the ashtray overflowing with half-smoked 01:46.120 --> 01:47.120 cigarette studs. 01:47.120 --> 01:55.120 Eleven hours and 53 and a half minutes, cheat the seconds and say, eleven hours and 53 minutes, 01:55.120 --> 01:56.120 exactly. 01:56.120 --> 01:58.120 It would be finished then. 01:58.120 --> 02:04.120 Then she thought calmly, as she had promised herself she would think today. 02:04.120 --> 02:06.120 I know I can't help thinking about it. 02:06.120 --> 02:12.920 It's silly to try and push it away, but I've got to occupy myself with every minute, every 02:12.920 --> 02:15.920 second, then the time will pass. 02:15.920 --> 02:20.320 There's lots of things to do, and I'm lucky. 02:20.320 --> 02:25.320 I didn't think I'd be able to sleep at all, and I did get five hours. 02:25.320 --> 02:26.320 I'm lucky. 02:26.320 --> 02:34.320 She got out of bed, and knowing the morning paper would be lying outside her door, she 02:34.320 --> 02:39.840 perversely delayed the moment when she would bring it in, instead going to the kitchen 02:39.840 --> 02:44.840 and turning on the flame under the kettle. 02:44.840 --> 02:50.320 It was at that moment of brushing teeth, washing face, that she saw, for the first time that 02:50.320 --> 02:53.920 day, the face in the mirror, her own. 02:53.920 --> 02:59.920 And she was drawn to it, leaning close over the sink, examining, searching, seeing in 02:59.920 --> 03:06.920 an instant a bright objectivity, another face, a stranger. 03:06.920 --> 03:08.920 Murderer. 03:08.920 --> 03:10.920 Murderess. 03:10.920 --> 03:12.920 You. 03:12.920 --> 03:18.920 You, not me, but you. 03:18.920 --> 03:22.920 Your lips are chapped. 03:22.920 --> 03:27.920 It's always this time of year they get that way. 03:27.920 --> 03:30.920 You're a murderess. 03:30.920 --> 03:33.920 You killed someone. 03:33.920 --> 03:35.920 You killed him. 03:35.920 --> 03:37.920 I saw you. 03:37.920 --> 03:43.920 And when the face stared back unmoved, she was afraid, and reached up to touch the face, 03:43.920 --> 03:52.920 to feel it, and know she was herself, and not the thing in the mirror. 03:52.920 --> 03:57.920 It was 8.30 when she sat at the kitchen table to drink her tea, and opened the morning's 03:57.920 --> 03:58.920 newspaper. 03:58.920 --> 04:00.920 Bailey execution tonight. 04:00.920 --> 04:05.920 March 27th, Margaret Bailey, convicted slayer of her husband John Bailey, is scheduled to 04:05.920 --> 04:07.920 die in the electric chair tonight at 8 o'clock. 04:07.920 --> 04:12.920 After a lengthy trial and prudeless appeals, the attractive widow was stale according to 04:12.920 --> 04:15.920 her attorney, H. Hillman Adams, maintaining her innocence. 04:15.920 --> 04:19.920 No official word has been received from the governor's office, but it's felt unlikely 04:19.920 --> 04:21.920 that a last minute reprieve will be forthcoming. 04:21.920 --> 04:25.920 Mrs. Bailey, who shot and killed her husband four months ago, is reported to have spent 04:25.920 --> 04:26.920 the last night in prayer. 04:26.920 --> 04:27.920 8. 04:27.920 --> 04:30.920 That's not a good thing to do. 04:30.920 --> 04:34.920 I mustn't read anymore. 04:34.920 --> 04:37.920 When I go out, I won't look at the headlines on the newsstands. 04:37.920 --> 04:39.920 I won't listen to the news broadcasts. 04:39.920 --> 04:41.920 Not today. 04:41.920 --> 04:44.920 It's very silly to read that. 04:44.920 --> 04:49.920 I wonder if I'd be praying. 04:49.920 --> 04:53.920 I wonder what she feels. 04:53.920 --> 04:57.920 Who is it? 04:57.920 --> 05:01.920 Laura, ma'am. 05:01.920 --> 05:05.920 Morning, honey. 05:05.920 --> 05:08.920 Laura. 05:08.920 --> 05:12.920 I forgot. 05:12.920 --> 05:22.920 You know I forgot you were coming today. 05:22.920 --> 05:27.920 Honey, if I had a nickel for every time I forgot, my Annie used to say to me, Laura, 05:27.920 --> 05:32.920 if you don't have your head screwed on tight, you'd forget it and leave it somewhere sure 05:32.920 --> 05:34.920 as an angel. 05:34.920 --> 05:36.920 I've got some coffee on. 05:36.920 --> 05:38.920 That would be fine. 05:38.920 --> 05:40.920 I never did get a decent coffee. 05:40.920 --> 05:42.920 Everything was late. 05:42.920 --> 05:44.920 Both was late. 05:44.920 --> 05:46.920 One of those devil in the air mornings, I guess. 05:46.920 --> 05:48.920 Queen of sugar? 05:48.920 --> 05:50.920 No, ma'am. 05:50.920 --> 05:52.920 I'm on my diet again. 05:52.920 --> 05:54.920 Here. 05:54.920 --> 05:56.920 Thank you. 05:56.920 --> 05:58.920 It's a truly shame. 05:58.920 --> 06:00.920 Poor woman. 06:00.920 --> 06:02.920 Pretty thing. 06:02.920 --> 06:04.920 At our ladies' meeting the other night, we were talking about it. 06:04.920 --> 06:06.920 Most of us were talking about it. 06:06.920 --> 06:10.920 Most of us don't think that she done it. 06:10.920 --> 06:14.920 Oh, ain't it awful, Miss Marion, when you think there's a life that's going to be no 06:14.920 --> 06:16.920 more in a few hours. 06:16.920 --> 06:18.920 Laura, I just said last night in Kringle. 06:18.920 --> 06:20.920 Bless her heart. 06:20.920 --> 06:26.920 You know, Miss Marion, I guess I'm a silly, thoughtful woman, but I look at that face 06:26.920 --> 06:30.920 and I say, Laura, that Mrs. Bailey, she's no murderer. 06:30.920 --> 06:32.920 Just from her face I say that. 06:32.920 --> 06:36.920 I don't think the court agrees with you, Laura. 06:36.920 --> 06:38.920 Court? 06:38.920 --> 06:40.920 Somebody had to pay, and they picked her. 06:40.920 --> 06:44.920 Because if you ask me, with these elections coming up and everything, they had to find 06:44.920 --> 06:46.920 her guilty. 06:46.920 --> 06:48.920 That's silly. 06:48.920 --> 06:50.920 Oh, ma'am, I don't think it purely is. 06:50.920 --> 06:54.920 From what I read, there's lots of chances for another woman to have done it. 06:54.920 --> 06:56.920 The other woman. 06:56.920 --> 06:58.920 You sound just like one of those scandal magazines, Laura. 06:58.920 --> 07:02.920 Laura. 07:02.920 --> 07:08.920 Well, if you ask me right now, someone is sitting laughing to herself right this minute, 07:08.920 --> 07:12.920 and she knows what she's done, and the good Lord will take care of her all right. 07:12.920 --> 07:16.920 You see, you'd better start vacuuming as soon as you've finished your coffee, Laura. 07:16.920 --> 07:18.920 I'm going to get dressed. 07:18.920 --> 07:24.920 She knew it had been a mistake to sit down with Laura. 07:24.920 --> 07:26.920 She'd wanted to make small talk. 07:26.920 --> 07:32.920 The friendly, non-important things that passed the time were listening to Laura's pseudo-intellectual 07:32.920 --> 07:38.920 philosophies which the cleaning woman so proudly expounded, and yet showing under the surface 07:38.920 --> 07:40.920 almost profound wisdom. 07:40.920 --> 07:46.920 She might even have talked to Laura about herself, of unhappiness, fear, relieving the 07:46.920 --> 07:50.920 pressing weight without disclosing the secret. 07:50.920 --> 07:52.920 But now, Laura was alien. 07:52.920 --> 07:58.920 Laura suspected something that she knew. 07:58.920 --> 08:08.920 It was ten o'clock, and there were ten more hours, until eight. 08:08.920 --> 08:10.920 I'll get it, Laura. 08:10.920 --> 08:12.920 Hello. 08:12.920 --> 08:14.920 Hello, dear. 08:14.920 --> 08:16.920 Hello, Mother. 08:16.920 --> 08:18.920 How are you? 08:18.920 --> 08:20.920 Fine. 08:20.920 --> 08:22.920 Can I wake you up? 08:22.920 --> 08:24.920 No, no, I've been up since eight. 08:24.920 --> 08:26.920 Oh, is Laura there? 08:26.920 --> 08:28.920 Yes. 08:28.920 --> 08:30.920 Do you want to talk to her? 08:30.920 --> 08:32.920 No, no, just tell her I'm expecting her on Monday. 08:32.920 --> 08:34.920 I wasn't sure whether it would be Monday or Tuesday, but I decided Monday. 08:34.920 --> 08:36.920 All right. 08:36.920 --> 08:38.920 Are you all right here? 08:38.920 --> 08:40.920 Yes, I'm fine. 08:40.920 --> 08:42.920 You've got one of those headaches again. 08:42.920 --> 08:44.920 I wish you'd go to the doctor about it. 08:44.920 --> 08:46.920 It worried me so much. 08:46.920 --> 08:48.920 I'm fine, Mother. 08:48.920 --> 08:50.920 Would you like to come over for dinner tonight? 08:50.920 --> 08:52.920 No, thanks. 08:52.920 --> 08:54.920 Thanks, Mother. 08:54.920 --> 08:56.920 I've got a date. 08:56.920 --> 08:58.920 Oh? 08:58.920 --> 09:02.920 It's nobody you know, Mother. 09:02.920 --> 09:04.920 Well, that's all right, dear. 09:04.920 --> 09:06.920 I thought you might like to watch TV. 09:06.920 --> 09:08.920 There's a very good show at eight o'clock. 09:08.920 --> 09:10.920 Jackie, maybe you could bring a date for dinner. 09:10.920 --> 09:12.920 I'm sorry, Mother. 09:12.920 --> 09:14.920 And we could watch the show at eight, and then you could go on to wherever you're going. 09:14.920 --> 09:16.920 I told you, Mother, I can't. 09:16.920 --> 09:18.920 Look, I've got to go now. 09:18.920 --> 09:20.920 I'll talk to you soon. 09:20.920 --> 09:22.920 Tomorrow. 09:22.920 --> 09:24.920 All right, dear. 09:24.920 --> 09:26.920 Goodbye. 09:26.920 --> 09:28.920 Mrs. Barington, can you help me? 09:28.920 --> 09:30.920 I want to move the cabinet, ma'am. 09:30.920 --> 09:32.920 It hasn't been cleaned behind there since Noah. 09:32.920 --> 09:34.920 Oh, all right. 09:34.920 --> 09:36.920 You just take the corner, honey. 09:36.920 --> 09:38.920 Don't strain yourself. 09:38.920 --> 09:40.920 Just kind of lean. 09:40.920 --> 09:42.920 I'll do the pushing. 09:42.920 --> 09:44.920 Now. 09:44.920 --> 09:46.920 Just a whiff of more. 09:46.920 --> 09:48.920 There. 09:48.920 --> 09:50.920 Oh, my, my, honey. 09:50.920 --> 09:52.920 If you've been missing any bills and things, that's where they are. 09:52.920 --> 09:54.920 Oh, whee. 09:54.920 --> 09:56.920 I declare. 09:56.920 --> 09:58.920 I'll take them, Laura. 09:58.920 --> 10:00.920 Well, here you are. 10:00.920 --> 10:02.920 Oh, what a nice-looking gentleman. 10:02.920 --> 10:04.920 Give it to me. 10:04.920 --> 10:06.920 I'm going to take it. 10:06.920 --> 10:08.920 I'm going to take it. 10:08.920 --> 10:10.920 I'm going to take it. 10:10.920 --> 10:12.920 I'm going to take it. 10:12.920 --> 10:14.920 Give it to me. 10:14.920 --> 10:16.920 It's a picture of him. 10:16.920 --> 10:18.920 I thought I'd lost it. 10:18.920 --> 10:20.920 I thought it was lost. 10:20.920 --> 10:22.920 She saw it. 10:22.920 --> 10:24.920 His picture was in the papers. 10:24.920 --> 10:26.920 She'll remember. 10:26.920 --> 10:28.920 She'll think about it. 10:28.920 --> 10:30.920 And she'll remember. 10:30.920 --> 10:32.920 It's a picture of a cousin of mine. 10:32.920 --> 10:34.920 I never liked him. 10:34.920 --> 10:36.920 He was a black sheep. 10:36.920 --> 10:38.920 You know what I mean. 10:38.920 --> 10:40.920 I'm going to take it. 10:40.920 --> 10:42.920 You know what I mean. 10:42.920 --> 10:44.920 It caused a lot of trouble, Laura. 10:44.920 --> 10:46.920 I'd almost forgotten all about him. 10:46.920 --> 10:48.920 I'm sorry I was rude. 10:48.920 --> 10:52.920 It just brought back very unpleasant memories. 10:52.920 --> 10:54.920 Oh, why, sure. 10:54.920 --> 10:56.920 That's all right. 10:56.920 --> 10:58.920 I understand. 10:58.920 --> 11:00.920 I had an uncle like that once. 11:00.920 --> 11:02.920 All he looked at was hell. 11:02.920 --> 11:04.920 But he didn't know. 11:04.920 --> 11:06.920 That cousin of yours sure reminds me of somebody. 11:06.920 --> 11:08.920 Somebody I've seen and I know. 11:08.920 --> 11:10.920 Now, who could that be? 11:38.920 --> 11:40.920 Hello. 11:40.920 --> 11:42.920 This is Marvin Miller. 11:42.920 --> 11:44.920 We'll return to our program in a moment. 11:44.920 --> 11:46.920 But first, here's something to think about. 11:46.920 --> 11:50.920 The United States of America is young among the nations of the world. 11:50.920 --> 11:54.920 But it has proven the value of its way of life. 11:54.920 --> 11:58.920 Perhaps the most important words in our national heritage are the first three words of the Constitution. 11:58.920 --> 12:00.920 We, the people. 12:00.920 --> 12:02.920 The people are in power. 12:02.920 --> 12:06.920 Not an individual or a party or a group of individuals. 12:06.920 --> 12:08.920 But the people as a whole. 12:08.920 --> 12:12.920 The communists have corrupted this word people. 12:12.920 --> 12:16.920 Just as they have made the words peace and freedom and liberty seem meaningless. 12:16.920 --> 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. 12:24.920 --> 12:28.920 With us, the word means exactly what it says. 12:28.920 --> 12:30.920 It means everybody, no exceptions. 12:30.920 --> 12:34.920 And as citizens, we recognize our two responsibilities. 12:34.920 --> 12:38.920 First, to know what our rights are. 12:38.920 --> 12:42.920 And second, to defend those rights. 12:42.920 --> 12:48.920 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Kathy Lewis. 12:48.920 --> 12:50.920 Starring in tonight's production, The Murderous. 12:50.920 --> 13:08.920 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 13:08.920 --> 13:10.920 It was new. 13:10.920 --> 13:18.920 She had listened to the sounds of Laura vacuuming, kitchen harmonies, clinking of china, ring of silver. 13:18.920 --> 13:26.920 She bathed and dressed automatically, slowly, always listening, waiting for a pause in Laura's clean ritual. 13:26.920 --> 13:30.920 A pause that might indicate that she had remembered. 13:30.920 --> 13:34.920 Remembered whose face it was in the photograph. 13:34.920 --> 13:42.920 If she does remember and she comes to me, what will I say? Do. 13:42.920 --> 13:58.920 And fastening the pearl necklace, hands momentarily frozen behind her neck, the sounds in the kitchen had stopped. 13:58.920 --> 14:01.920 The clasp of the necklace was secured. 14:01.920 --> 14:07.920 But all of the plans so carefully made to ease the passage of this terrible day were gone. 14:07.920 --> 14:10.920 She knew she could never recapture them. 14:10.920 --> 14:12.920 She thought. 14:12.920 --> 14:15.920 But after tonight, it will be better. 14:15.920 --> 14:20.920 And tomorrow and next week and next month, better. 14:20.920 --> 14:25.920 It's only the waiting for tonight. That's all. 14:25.920 --> 14:27.920 What about Laura? 14:27.920 --> 14:29.920 The photograph. 14:29.920 --> 14:33.920 Supposing she did remember him from newspaper pictures. 14:33.920 --> 14:44.920 Supposing she knows and doesn't say anything to me, waits until I go out, then calls the police. 14:44.920 --> 14:47.920 Be careful now, honey. It's slick over there. 14:47.920 --> 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. 14:54.920 --> 14:55.920 Yes, ma'am. 14:55.920 --> 14:58.920 There's some cold cuts if you want some for lunch. 14:58.920 --> 14:59.920 Oh, I'll be fine. 14:59.920 --> 15:03.920 Just a cup of soup, that's all. 15:03.920 --> 15:15.920 She put on her hat and coat and left the apartment, closing the door with unnecessary force. 15:15.920 --> 15:19.920 At the elevator door, she stopped and waited for a few moments. 15:19.920 --> 15:23.920 It's silly. She doesn't know anything, suspect anything. 15:23.920 --> 15:27.920 Besides, she didn't have a chance to look at the picture for more than a second or two. 15:27.920 --> 15:29.920 We believe her. 15:29.920 --> 15:32.920 Lots of people resemble other people. 15:32.920 --> 15:40.920 Unless, unless the police do suspect somebody else and they know it wasn't his wife. 15:40.920 --> 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. 15:47.920 --> 15:54.920 Yes, I know. Yes. 15:54.920 --> 15:56.920 Yes. Yes. 15:56.920 --> 16:00.920 Well, I saw with my own eyes. 16:00.920 --> 16:02.920 Yes. 16:02.920 --> 16:06.920 Well, I'm just telling you what I know. 16:06.920 --> 16:07.920 That's right. 16:07.920 --> 16:10.920 Laura. 16:10.920 --> 16:12.920 Mrs. Marion, I didn't hear you. 16:12.920 --> 16:15.920 Who are you talking to, Laura? 16:15.920 --> 16:18.920 My sister, my sister Mary. 16:18.920 --> 16:22.920 No, baby, it's Mrs. Marion. I'll talk to you later. 16:22.920 --> 16:23.920 Yes. 16:23.920 --> 16:25.920 Goodbye. 16:25.920 --> 16:28.920 Oh, you sure did scare the lights out of me, honey. 16:28.920 --> 16:30.920 I'm sorry. 16:30.920 --> 16:32.920 I forgot something. 16:32.920 --> 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. 16:41.920 --> 16:49.920 It was 12.15 on the bedroom clock. 16:49.920 --> 16:52.920 She had called the hairdresser and canceled the appointment. 16:52.920 --> 16:57.920 She knew that she couldn't leave the apartment, not at least until after Laura had gone. 16:57.920 --> 17:00.920 And that wouldn't be until 4.30. 17:00.920 --> 17:02.920 Laura had been calling the police. 17:02.920 --> 17:04.920 She was convinced of that. 17:04.920 --> 17:07.920 But I don't think they believed her. 17:07.920 --> 17:11.920 Still, they might begin to wonder. They might investigate. 17:11.920 --> 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. 17:21.920 --> 17:23.920 Not caring. 17:23.920 --> 17:29.920 Hearing the sounds of Laura's humming and an occasional groan as she stooped to her work. 17:29.920 --> 17:32.920 Even if they did come, they'd never find the picture. 17:32.920 --> 17:35.920 They couldn't prove anything. I'd deny it. 17:35.920 --> 17:38.920 But what would I have to deny? 17:38.920 --> 17:40.920 I mustn't do that. 17:40.920 --> 17:43.920 Then they would suspect. 17:43.920 --> 17:47.920 I wish I could sleep. 17:47.920 --> 17:52.920 This isn't the way it was supposed to be today. 17:52.920 --> 17:58.920 I think I'll make some coffee. 17:58.920 --> 18:00.920 Hello? 18:00.920 --> 18:02.920 Alice? 18:02.920 --> 18:03.920 No. 18:03.920 --> 18:05.920 What number do you want? 18:05.920 --> 18:08.920 Batting 35769. 18:08.920 --> 18:12.920 You have the right number, but there's no one living here by that name. 18:12.920 --> 18:15.920 I'm sorry. 18:15.920 --> 18:17.920 You all right, honey? 18:17.920 --> 18:18.920 Yes. 18:18.920 --> 18:21.920 Well, you want me to make you a bite of something to eat? 18:21.920 --> 18:23.920 I'm just going to make some coffee. 18:23.920 --> 18:25.920 Well, maybe you'd feel more chipper if you... 18:25.920 --> 18:31.920 You want me to answer? 18:31.920 --> 18:34.920 I will. 18:34.920 --> 18:35.920 Hello? 18:35.920 --> 18:37.920 Alice? 18:37.920 --> 18:42.920 Oh, I'm sorry. I guess it's still the wrong number. 18:42.920 --> 18:45.920 Honey, you're real pale. 18:45.920 --> 18:47.920 Why don't you take off your shoes and take a lie down? 18:47.920 --> 18:50.920 Somebody trying to frighten me. That's the second time he called. 18:50.920 --> 18:53.920 Now, you take yourself a nap. That'll fix you. 18:53.920 --> 18:55.920 No, I don't want to. 18:55.920 --> 18:57.920 Oh, but honey, you're all wrought up. 18:57.920 --> 18:59.920 You got something troubling you, Miss Marion? 18:59.920 --> 19:00.920 You want to tell me? 19:00.920 --> 19:02.920 Why do you say that? 19:02.920 --> 19:04.920 There's nothing wrong with me. 19:04.920 --> 19:07.920 Was it seeing that cousin of yours, the one in the picture? 19:07.920 --> 19:09.920 Now, you can tell Laura. 19:09.920 --> 19:12.920 It was an old gentleman friend, not your cousin, wasn't it? 19:12.920 --> 19:14.920 And seeing him upset you, didn't he? 19:14.920 --> 19:16.920 I could tell. 19:16.920 --> 19:19.920 Oh, well, I'll make you a cup of coffee. 19:19.920 --> 19:23.920 Now, you lay down for a spell, and when I come back, you can talk it all out, honey. 19:23.920 --> 19:25.920 Make you feel better. 19:25.920 --> 19:29.920 You'd better get back to your work, Laura. 19:29.920 --> 19:31.920 I'm going out now. 19:31.920 --> 19:35.920 Honey, I'm worried about you. I wish you wouldn't go. 19:35.920 --> 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. 19:42.920 --> 19:44.920 Then she left the house. 19:48.920 --> 19:54.920 For an hour, she walked in the city, aimless, not thinking, not seeing. 19:54.920 --> 20:00.920 And it wasn't until she noticed a cruising patrol car that things drew back into focus. 20:00.920 --> 20:03.920 Perhaps they're looking for me. 20:03.920 --> 20:05.920 They found out. 20:05.920 --> 20:07.920 They know. 20:07.920 --> 20:11.920 I should have done something. 20:11.920 --> 20:13.920 What? 20:13.920 --> 20:15.920 Killed her? 20:15.920 --> 20:18.920 Killed Laura? 20:18.920 --> 20:20.920 Oh, I should... 20:20.920 --> 20:25.920 Oh, like crazy, crazy, thinking things like that. 20:25.920 --> 20:28.920 It's three o'clock. 20:28.920 --> 20:30.920 Three. 20:30.920 --> 20:34.920 Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. 20:34.920 --> 20:37.920 Five hours. I'll go to a movie. 20:37.920 --> 20:41.920 They wouldn't find me in there. They wouldn't think of looking there. 20:41.920 --> 20:43.920 It'll pass the time. 20:46.920 --> 20:51.920 She went into the first movie theater she saw, not looking at the marquee. 20:51.920 --> 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. 21:10.920 --> 21:14.920 It was five o'clock when the second feature began playing. 21:14.920 --> 21:21.920 For ten minutes she watched, now seeing and hearing because the fantasy had momentarily taken her out of herself. 21:21.920 --> 21:24.920 Not seven, you jerk, eight. Look, I got 34 apples, right? 21:24.920 --> 21:25.920 Right. 21:25.920 --> 21:26.920 You take 30 from me, right? 21:26.920 --> 21:27.920 Right. 21:27.920 --> 21:28.920 But you're a good guy. 21:28.920 --> 21:30.920 Max, he says I'm a good guy. 21:30.920 --> 21:32.920 You give me back three. Yeah, I get seven now. 21:32.920 --> 21:34.920 You got eight. Four and four is eight. 21:34.920 --> 21:36.920 Oh, you ain't got no brains. It's arithmetic. Seven. 21:36.920 --> 21:43.920 Eight. Seven. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. 21:43.920 --> 21:45.920 Eight? Eight? Eight? Eight? Eight. Eight. Eight. Eight. Eight. 21:45.920 --> 21:47.920 Eight. Eight. Eight. Eight. Eight. 21:47.920 --> 21:48.920 He said, eight. 21:48.920 --> 21:49.920 You heard him. 21:49.920 --> 21:50.920 I heard him. 21:50.920 --> 21:52.920 Eight it is. 21:52.920 --> 21:55.920 Is he dead? Did you kill him? 21:55.920 --> 21:58.920 You think I want to go to the chair? 22:00.920 --> 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. 22:11.920 --> 22:23.920 I killed him. He was bad. He should have been killed. 22:23.920 --> 22:31.920 But they wouldn't understand. I wish it was tomorrow. Tomorrow. 22:31.920 --> 22:36.920 I wish I was asleep. That I wouldn't wake up. 22:36.920 --> 22:44.920 No. Then I'd be dead. She'll be dead at eight o'clock. 22:44.920 --> 22:46.920 She'll be... 22:46.920 --> 22:48.920 Oh, excuse me. 22:48.920 --> 22:51.920 I'm sorry. I'm sorry, officer. 22:51.920 --> 22:52.920 You all right, ma'am? 22:52.920 --> 22:55.920 Yes. Yes, I'm all right. 22:55.920 --> 22:57.920 You sick? 22:57.920 --> 23:01.920 Why? I don't look sick, do I? I'm fine. 23:01.920 --> 23:05.920 You don't want to go wandering out on the street like that. You could get hurt. 23:05.920 --> 23:09.920 Yes, I'm sorry. I'm late. Excuse me. 23:09.920 --> 23:11.920 Sure. 23:11.920 --> 23:26.920 The patrolman looked after her, puzzled, caught the eye of a bystander, shrugged, exchanged an understanding grin and continued his beat. 23:26.920 --> 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. 23:36.920 --> 23:40.920 She couldn't go home. She knew they'd be waiting for her there. 23:40.920 --> 23:46.920 Not be seen again on the street until it was dark, until after eight o'clock. 23:46.920 --> 23:57.920 And she sat in the shadowed booth, drinking slowly, then faster and faster, hoping for the dulling of sensibilities. 23:57.920 --> 24:01.920 I'm not drunk. And I want to be. 24:01.920 --> 24:05.920 Well, alone. Alone? 24:05.920 --> 24:08.920 Alone? Yes. 24:08.920 --> 24:11.920 Can I, uh, buy you a drink? 24:11.920 --> 24:12.920 A drink? 24:12.920 --> 24:16.920 Oh, it's kind of lonesome sitting here, isn't it? 24:16.920 --> 24:21.920 Oh, waitress. 24:21.920 --> 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... 24:30.920 --> 24:32.920 How about another drink, honey? 24:32.920 --> 24:40.920 Slyly, insinuating. He said things that she didn't hear. It passed the time. 24:40.920 --> 24:42.920 What's the time? 24:42.920 --> 24:43.920 Oh, it's early. 24:43.920 --> 24:45.920 No, no, no. What time is it? 24:45.920 --> 24:48.920 You got a date? Break it. 24:48.920 --> 24:50.920 I think I'm drunk now. 24:50.920 --> 24:53.920 That's okay. Who is it? We're having fun, are we? 24:53.920 --> 24:55.920 What's the time? 24:55.920 --> 25:01.920 Well, it's, uh, it's seven. What do you care? Hey, how would you like to go now? 25:01.920 --> 25:04.920 What are you giving me? 25:04.920 --> 25:08.920 I killed somebody, and I've got to go. 25:08.920 --> 25:12.920 You're not feeling any pain, honey. Come on, let's have one for the road. 25:12.920 --> 25:14.920 Goodbye. 25:14.920 --> 25:24.920 Outside, it was dusk. She stood swaying for a moment, and the sidewalk tipped under her. She walked slowly, carefully. 25:24.920 --> 25:33.920 In an hour, she'll be dead. In an hour. 25:33.920 --> 25:42.920 I wonder how long it takes to die. I think I know how she must feel now. 25:42.920 --> 25:52.920 Except she won't have to feel anymore. And I'll have to go on like this. Like today. Every day. 25:52.920 --> 25:54.920 She stopped on the corner. 25:54.920 --> 26:07.920 Arrow, beep beep. Arrow, beep beep. Bailey Giller dies tonight. Beep beep. 26:07.920 --> 26:09.920 Paper lady? 26:09.920 --> 26:19.920 No. I don't think so. Is, is there a police station anywhere near here? 26:19.920 --> 26:21.920 Five blocks down, on your right. 26:21.920 --> 26:25.920 Thank you. 26:25.920 --> 26:32.920 It was quarter past seven when she went into the police station and said to the sergeant. 26:32.920 --> 26:37.920 I want to give myself up. 26:37.920 --> 26:52.920 I killed John Bailey.