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S1E6: Cold Storage · If You Please, Himan Brown’s Radio Mystery Theater

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>>Welcome to "If You Please,
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Himan Brown’s Radio Mystery Theater."
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On this series, we're offering rebroadcasts
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of a select group of programs
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created by this legendary producer for CBS
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between 1974 and 1982.
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Brown re-imagined radio drama for contemporary times.
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Our new series offers some of these exciting works again.
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Before the play, Commentator John Slaveney
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shares details about the cast, the writer, and the plot.
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Your job -- listen.
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"If You Please" is produced in loving memory
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of Robert Isaacson.
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>>Hello, everyone, I'm John Slaveney,
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back with another Himan Brown classic,
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the sixth in our series.
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Here we have a gothic tale set in antebellum Maryland,
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a story involving mothers and sons,
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murder, plotting fiance, and long-hidden family secrets.
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We should mention that this play
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contains the words slave and master,
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reflecting the period in which it is set.
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In this episode were guests at the old Westerly Estate,
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where we meet Buford Montgomery, a man long under the thumb
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of his controlling mother, Sarah.
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When she suffers a seizure and is mistakenly declared dead,
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Buford exploits the opportunity
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and locks her away in a hidden room beneath the house,
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lowering a weighted coffin into her grave, instead.
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Though now free, Buford quickly becomes
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entangled with another woman he can't seem to manage,
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the scheming Nancy Lee,
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daughter of the supposedly aristocratic family
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in the adjoining estate.
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Featured as Nancy is Ruby Dee,
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perhaps best remembered for the 1958 Broadway production
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of "A Raisin in the Sun,"
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in which she starred alongside Sidney Poitier.
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Beyond that landmark role,
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Miss Dee amassed a jaw-dropping range of credits
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on stage and in film, television, and radio,
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in a career that spanned more than 70 years.
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Shortly before this episode was recorded,
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she won a Drama Desk Award for her performance
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in "Wedding Band" at the New York Shakespeare Festival.
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John Baragrey is on board as the second starring actor,
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here playing Buford, a man tormented by his mother,
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tricked by his lover, and nearing the end of his rope.
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Baragrey was a familiar fixture of early TV's
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many live anthology series,
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appearing in prestige productions including
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Kraft Theatre, Studio One, and Playhouse 90.
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In the choice role of Buford's overbearing mother
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is Bryna Raeburn.
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Raeburn was one of Himan Brown's reliable utility infielders,
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capable of playing most any role with wit and intelligence.
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In the weeks that follow,
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we'll hear more about some of the actors
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who made up the troupe of Brown's trusted regulars
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like Bob Dryden, Earl Hammond, and Evie Juster.
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Rounding out the cast of "Cold Storage"
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are Roxie Roker and Todd Davis.
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Roker, playing the family housekeeper, Hannah,
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would soon have a regular role on the CBS sitcom,
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"The Jeffersons," as Helen Willis,
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one half of TV's first married interracial couple.
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In real life, Roker was also the mother of musician Lenny Kravitz
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and grandmother of his daughter,
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actress, singer, and filmmaker Zoe Kravitz.
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Todd Davis appears as Hannah's son, William,
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a young man who is described, and again, with language
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more commonly used at the time of writing,
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as having the mind of a child.
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Nevertheless, it's William's actions that prove decisive
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before the radio curtain falls on this drama.
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Glaswegian creative dynamo Ian Martin
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contributed the script.
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Before his death in July of 1981,
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during the run of Radio Mystery Theater,
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Martin would write more than 240 episodes for the show
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and lend his voice to 200 more as a performer.
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Listen for more on Mr. Martin's busy career
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later in this series.
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This program was recorded on Tuesday, November 27th, 1973,
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and first aired on January 13th, 1974.
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Enjoy.
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>>The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents...
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[ Door opens, creaks ]
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♪♪
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Come in.
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Welcome.
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I'm E.G. Marshall.
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Welcome to the terrifying world of the imagination.
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I am a man normally filled with the milk of human kindness,
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but prepared, I'm afraid, to curdle your blood
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with a tale not of life and death,
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but rather death and life.
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I offer you one small comfort --
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it could hardly happen today.
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But in the last century,
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on the old Montgomery estate in Maryland,
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in the great dark, rambling house called Westerly,
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it was easier to be marked for death than in this one.
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>>Yes, mother.
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You look at home in your coffin.
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Sleep fast.
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It's taken many years.
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But you've made your son a very happy man.
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It's all mine, at last.
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Westerly.
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The money, the jewels.
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I'm my own man.
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How I've hated you, the way you kept me on a leash
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like some old hound dog.
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Well, now, the money's mine.
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And you'll hardly need those rings
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I've let you wear to your grave.
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I'll take them so I can buy me...
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You'd hang on to them even if -- >>[ Moaning ]
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>>Ah!
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You're alive!
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You're not dead.
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>>Help me up.
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>>I should have known you'd come back to haunt me,
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even before we got you to the grave.
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♪♪
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>>Our mystery drama, "Cold Storage,"
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was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin,
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and stars Ruby Dee and John Baragrey.
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I'll be back shortly with act one.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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Some ghouls robbing a grave,
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many years before Buford Montgomery
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found himself engaged in essentially the same activity,
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were every bit as shocked
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when the corpse whose rings they were tearing off
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suddenly sat up, alive.
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An epileptic seizure, in other times, could counterfeit death.
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The ghouls, of course, had a recourse.
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They ran away.
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Buford Montgomery has to stay and face his problem.
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[ Door opens ]
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>>Buford, will you put me down?!
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>>When I'm ready.
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>>I am quite able to walk.
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>>I want to make sure you don't run.
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>>What are you talking about?
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[ Door closes, locks ]
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[ Gasps ] What are you doing? Locking me in?
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No, no, no! Keep away from me!
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>>It's alright, Mother.
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I'm not going to harm you.
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>>I heard you standing over me in that coffin.
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I want Doc...
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I need Doctor Wayne.
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>>That doddering old numbskull.
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He almost had you buried alive.
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You know, he signed your death certificate.
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>>But how could he?
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I am alive! >>Oh, yes.
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I'm quite satisfied you are no ghost.
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>>But...wha...
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What happened?
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>>Another of your epileptic seizures.
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We were all convinced this one was fatal...
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at last.
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>>Only it wasn't.
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Quite a disappointment to my beloved son.
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Well, at least I know now where we stand.
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Now, you open that door and send Hannah up to me!
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>>Not yet, Mother.
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>>Why?
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>>Because, you see,
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we don't really know just quite how we stand, do we?
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>>Buford, don't. Don't you look at me like that.
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>>How was I looking, Mama dear?
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>>You want me dead, back in that coffin!
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>>I want all the things I thought were finally mine.
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The house, the estate, the money,
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and most, oh, most of all, the freedom to be a man.
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Look at me, Mama.
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Listen to me call you that, "Mama."
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A grown man, 38 years old,
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tied to his mother's apron strings like...
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like some sniveling little boy.
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>>I never meant to keep you tied down.
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>>Oh, yes, you did.
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You even did it with the judge.
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Father's life wasn't his own, either.
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You killed him.
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>>You are mad. Keep away!
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Keep away! You want to kill me!
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>>I'm not going to kill you, Mama.
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You know I haven't got the strength of will for that.
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>>[ Scoffs ]
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Of course, you won't, son.
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But you can have anything you want
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now we've had this little talk.
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Now, now, please get Hannah like a good boy.
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>>Oh, no, Mama.
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I don't need you anymore.
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You left me everything in your will.
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>>But I'm not dead!
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>>To all the world except me, you are.
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And you're going to stay that way.
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>>If you come one step closer, I'll scream.
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>>No one will hear you.
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Not in this big, old house.
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Westerly's thick walls have no ears.
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>>What are you going to do to me?
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>>You'll see, Mother.
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[ Footsteps ]
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You'll see. [ Door opens ]
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>>[ Gasps ] You...
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You're going to...
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put me back in that coffin and...
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and...bury me alive?!
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>>Yes. >>[ Breathing heavily ]
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>>I haven't any choice now.
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>>[ Sobbing ] Please, please, please!
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>>Don't worry.
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You'll be quite comfortable.
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I'm going to bury you alive...
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but not in the coffin.
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♪♪
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[ Footsteps ]
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Hannah! >>Yes, Master Buford?
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>>I want you here, in the hall.
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>>What is it, sir?
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>>Where's William?
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>>He's in the stable, Master,
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grooming the horses for the funeral tomorrow.
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You want I should fetch him? >>Uh...
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No...not yet. Sit down.
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I want to talk to you.
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>>Yes, sir?
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>>Now, where to begin?
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Hannah, you were mighty beholden to my father, weren't you?
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>>Judge Montgomery was a fine man.
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>>Was very kind to you and your son.
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>>The judge was powerful good to me and William.
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>>And my mother?
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>>Mrs. Montgomery is a fine lady.
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It's been a privilege to have served her as housekeeper.
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>>And will you consider it a privilege
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to serve me in the same capacity?
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>>If you want me, sir.
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>>And William?
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>>Where I go, William goes.
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You know, he's just a great, big, overgrown baby.
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Has to be cared for like one.
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>>Or they'd shut him away somewheres, hmm?
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>>I wouldn't ever let them do that to my boy.
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He couldn't stand being shut in, he'd...
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Why, he'd...
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You wouldn't let them do that to him,
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would you, Master Buford?
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>>Not if I can count on you to help me.
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>>You can, sir. You can.
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>>Well...what about William?
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>>He does what I tell him.
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He's old as you are, but he has the mind of a child.
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>>I'd want to be absolutely sure of both of you.
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>>I don't understand you, Master Buford.
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>>Then, I'll make myself plainer.
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I think you must have always hated my mother.
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Why did you stay on after Father died?
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>>I stayed because I...
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Where else could I go?
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>>You're sure it wasn't because you were afraid?
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>>Afraid of what?
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>>Not "of," Hannah.
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For. >>[ Gasps ]
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>>For William.
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Right?
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Oh, don't look so terrified and trapped.
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I know it all, Hannah, I know it all.
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>>Master Buford, I...
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>>How you must really hate us all.
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Even Father, at the end.
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>>Not the judge. Never the judge!
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>>Even after what he made you sign?
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>>What would the judge ever have wanted me to sign?
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>>A confession that you saw your son, William,
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commit a murder 10 years ago.
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>>[ Gasps ]
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How did you know?
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>>It's one of the advantages
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of my dear mother's unexpected death.
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It was among the papers the lawyer turned over to me.
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>>So, she did know.
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All these years.
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[ Chuckles dryly ]
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How could Randolph have done that to me?
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>>You know why.
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You were an eyewitness.
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And you know that William wasn't alone.
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>>It was an accident. And you were only boys.
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>>Pretty old for boys, Hannah.
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We were both going on 19, and the Copley kid was only 15.
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It was only my father being a judge that saved us all.
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Any jury in horse country like this could have told
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that boy's neck wasn't broken by any fall from a horse.
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The finger marks were gouged into the flesh.
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The rope burns were raw on his wrists.
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>>Why did you do it, Master Buford?
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>>Not I, Hannah.
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Remember?
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William was the culprit.
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>>William didn't know what he was doing.
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You egged him on! >>If I did...
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I didn't mean it to go so far.
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William didn't...
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doesn't know his own strength.
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>>What does it matter?
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It's nearly 20 years ago.
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Why do you rake up old ashes?
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>>There are certain things I have to be sure of.
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>>What?
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>>In spite of everything,
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your complete loyalty to me.
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>>I have little choice. If you have any confession...
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>>I have it.
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In your own handwriting.
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And William's scrawl, too.
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I'm going to ask you to stretch your conscience further.
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Come with me! >>No. No, Master Buford!
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Don't bring me to the coffin! I don't want to look at her!
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>>Stop babbling, woman! >>I don't want to!
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>>Stop babbling. Here, look.
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Open your eyes.
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>>Oh!
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It's empty.
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She's gone.
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What have you done with her?
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>>She's in her bedroom upstairs.
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>>But she... >>[ Laughs sinisterly ]
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>>I...
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>>I'm afraid that blind, old boggler,
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Doctor Wayne, slightly exaggerated
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my mother's untimely end.
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>>You mean, she's alive?
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>>And unfortunately, quite well.
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[ Laughs ]
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I see the news is as disappointing to you
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as it was to me.
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Oh, don't try to hide it, Hannah.
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You know you hated her quite as much as I.
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>>I won't deny it.
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The humiliation,
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the day by day degradations your mother has put me through
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all these years since your father died...
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I can never forgive her for them.
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>>I'm glad to hear it.
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>>When she was dead...
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I was glad.
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God forgive me.
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It was one of the happiest days of my life.
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>>And mine.
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That's why she's going to stay dead, Hannah.
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>>You're mad.
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You can't murder your own mother.
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>>Nothing is further from my mind.
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No.
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Dear Mama will come to no physical harm.
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You and William will see to it
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that her bodily needs are well taken care of.
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And I, as complete master of Westerly at last,
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will see to it, in turn,
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that you and William are taken care of.
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>>What are you going to do with her?
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>>First of all, Hannah,
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you're going to explain to William.
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Then, bring him here so we can nail up this coffin
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and the burial services can be completed tomorrow.
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>>Master Buford, no, you can't...
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>>Better tell William to bring a sack of meal or corn.
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Won't do to have the coffin too light.
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>>How...
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How on Earth can you hide your mother from...
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from everyone?!
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>>[ Chuckles ] On Earth.
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That's very apt.
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I'll tell you what we're going to do with her, Hannah.
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Just what we do with the roots and the preserves.
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We're going to put Mama in cold storage.
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♪♪
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[ Hammering ]
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Make sure to drive them home, William.
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>>Do seem a shame, burying a whole good sack of good feed.
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I picked up the worthiest one I could find.
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>>That's enough now. Finish up.
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>>Finished now.
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>>Got the lantern, Hannah?
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>>Yes, sir. >>Alright.
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Did you strip the bed in the spare room, Hannah?
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>>Yes, sir, I did.
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>>William...
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you go on up there and bring that bed
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and all the furniture downstairs to the old hidey hole.
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Right? >>Sure will.
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>>Where's this... this hidey hole?
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>>William could tell you as good as me.
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Or better. He's the one who found it.
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Must be, oh, 15 years ago.
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>>16, Master Buford.
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That was the year Miss Prudence dropped her first foal.
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That's when old Mr. Todhunter, the vet man,
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told me all about his daddy and your grandfather,
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and how they dug out the hidey hole
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and made it a big room
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like a station on the Underground Railroad.
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>>William, go see to the furniture.
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>>Yes'm.
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Take me a while to get the bed apart.
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>>Take your time.
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[ Door closes ]
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>>The Underground Railroad?
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You mean this was a slave station?
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To hide out escaped slaves being passed to the north?
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>>What it was.
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>>But you can't put your mother in a place like that!
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>>Why not?
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She spent her lifetime trying to turn the clock back,
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make a slave of everyone else.
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Why shouldn't it be her turn...
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for a change?
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♪♪
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>>How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
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to have a thankless child,
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as King Lear had occasion to remark.
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Still, on the record, Mama is not much of a prize, either.
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Let's leave her in cold storage
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until we return shortly with act two.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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>>In the weeks that pass,
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Mrs. Randolph Price Montgomery is finding her quarters
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somewhat less elegant than she liked,
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but at least, they are less confining than a coffin.
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Buford, her son and now heir,
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has been living as high as he promised himself,
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and cutting a swath
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as the county's most sought-after bachelor.
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[ Crickets chirping ]
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>>I declare, Buford,
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I thought I'd never be able to coax you
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away from all the other ladies.
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>>Nancy Lee,
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they may have had my arms, but my heart was with you.
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>>Well, I'd have felt a lot surer of that
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if I'd had your name a little more often in my car.
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>>I just don't want us to get talked about too much.
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>>Why ever not?
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Would you be ashamed to have your name linked with mine?
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>>Why, Nancy Lee, you know better than that.
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>>Aren't you gon' sit with me, sugar?
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>>Oh, why, sure, honey.
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>>Hold my hand.
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>>Just lies in mine like a little bird.
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>>Now, that's more like my Buford.
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Kiss me.
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>>Angel.
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>>Still the same old thrill.
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>>Gives me goosebumps all over.
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>>Oh, that's nice.
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I wouldn't want to think I'd lost the power to get you going.
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>>Why would you think that?
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>>Well, I'll tell you, Buford.
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I thought when your mother died,
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it would give us a chance to be closer than ever.
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I mean, since we could come right out and open.
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I didn't think it would start you
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chasing after every pretty girl in sight.
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>>I wouldn't take a one of them or exchange any of them for you.
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>>Now, I'm right glad to hear you say that, sugar,
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because I'm afraid...
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you're not going to be a bachelor anymore.
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>>Huh? >>[ Giggles ]
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I got something to tell you.
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You're going to have to go back to being a family man again,
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I'm afraid.
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>>What?
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W-what are you saying?
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>>That...
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That you're going to be a daddy.
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Aren't you proud?
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>>Good lord! [ Stammers ] Are you sure?
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>>>[ Laughs ] That I'm in a family way?
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Well, it's very easy for a girl to be sure of that.
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>>Well... [stammers] what are we going to do?
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>>Well, with Mama gone, there's no problem at all.
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You're just going to have to make an honest woman of me.
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My parents surely won't object.
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[ Laughing ] And you wouldn't want the Colonel
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to come after you with a gun
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knowing that my daddy is the best shot in South Carolina!
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>>Now, wait a minute, Nancy Lee!
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>>Oh, sugar, you know I'm only funnin'.
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And I know you're going to be every bit as happy as I am
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once you get used to it.
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Oh, honey, aren't you just thrilled to death?
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We're going to get married!
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♪♪
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[ Knock on door ]
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>>Come in. [ Door opens ]
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>>Excuse me, Master Buford. [ Door closes ]
22:48
>>What is it, Hannah?
22:49
>>It's about Mrs. Montgomery.
22:52
>>She isn't that yet.
22:54
>>I meant your mother, sir.
22:55
>>Oh. Well, what about her?
22:58
>>She keeps asking for you.
22:59
>>Well, tell her I'm --
23:02
Just don't tell her anything.
23:04
You haven't said anything about the wedding tomorrow?
23:06
>>No, sir, but...
23:07
>>But what?
23:09
About your mother, she...
23:12
she wants to talk to you.
23:14
And it does seem so inhumane to keep her locked up alone.
23:17
>>She sees you or William every day, doesn't she?
23:19
>>Yes.
23:20
>>Her quarters are comfortable and clean, aren't they?
23:22
>>Yes.
23:23
>>She's in perfectly good health.
23:24
>>Oh, yes. Never better.
23:26
>>More's the pity.
23:27
Well, then?
23:28
>>She's...
23:30
She's lonely.
23:32
>>So was I all those years she had me under her thumb.
23:34
And I'm not going back to that.
23:37
By tomorrow, I'm going to have my own woman --
23:39
and a beauty at that.
23:41
Mother's not going to spoil that for me.
23:43
>>Yes, sir.
23:45
I'm sorry, sir. >>Good.
23:47
Now, get out of here
23:48
and take the whiskey carafe with you and fill it up.
23:51
It's almost empty again. [ Glasses clink ]
23:52
>>Yes, sir, Master Buford, sir.
23:55
[ Footsteps depart, door opens ]
23:59
[ Door closes ] William.
24:00
>>Yes, Mama?
24:02
>>Take this carafe and fill it with Master Buford's bourbon
24:05
and bring it back to him in his study.
24:07
>>Yes'm. [ Chuckles ]
24:09
I reckon old Master Buford's getting himself liquored up
24:12
for the bachelor party.
24:14
>>[ Sniffles, chuckles ]
24:15
I reckon he's trying to build himself some...
24:18
Dutch courage.
24:20
>>What do you mean, Ma?
24:22
>>I mean...
24:23
I don't think he exactly figured on getting tied up again
24:27
when he cut his mama's apron strings.
24:29
♪♪
24:35
[ Rain pattering ]
24:39
>>Buford. >>Mm?
24:42
>>Oh, look at that. It's started into rain.
24:44
Such a pretty night, too.
24:46
>>Mm.
24:48
Let's go on up to bed, mm?
24:50
>>My husband.
24:52
All he ever seems to think of,
24:54
now he's made me his little goods and chattel.
24:56
>>Nancy Lee, all I mean was I'm tired.
25:00
>>Tired of me after two short weeks?
25:02
>>You know I didn't mean that.
25:04
>>Well, come here, then. Lay your head on Mama's breast.
25:06
>>Don't say that.
25:08
>>What happened? Don't be so sensitive.
25:09
Your Mama's dead and gone.
25:11
>>Yes.
25:13
>>Although, sometimes, I swear to goodness,
25:15
I get the feeling in this rickety old house
25:17
she's still sort of...around.
25:20
>>Huh? What makes you think that?
25:23
>>Well, don't jump so, darling, it's just a...
25:26
just a spooky feeling.
25:29
Maybe you and me should have gotten rid of Westerly
25:31
and gone back on to South Carolina
25:33
with Mom and Papa.
25:34
>>No!
25:35
We can't leave here.
25:37
>>Well, alright, sugar, don't take on so.
25:39
>>[ Stammers ] I didn't mean to jump at you.
25:41
>>Oh, of course you didn't.
25:42
You're just so kind to little old me,
25:44
and you were so generous to lend the Colonel all that money
25:47
to go back South with Mama
25:48
to build up our lovely old plantation again.
25:51
>>It must be the size of half the state,
25:53
what it's costing to restore it.
25:55
>>Well, it had gotten run down, sort of, but...
25:57
you've nothing to worry about, Buford.
25:59
You'll get the money back.
26:01
>>Of course, of course, Nancy Lee.
26:02
>>[ Gasps ] >>What is it?
26:03
>>Oh, this old porch.
26:05
It's starting to leak like a sieve.
26:07
>>I'll have William look at it in the morning.
26:09
>>That big old lame-brain?
26:10
Buford, if we're going to stay here at Westerly,
26:12
I want some changes made.
26:14
I'd like to do some rebuilding --
26:15
>>We can discuss that in the morning.
26:17
>>And I want some new servants.
26:19
I don't want that silly old William and Hannah around.
26:21
They've got to go. >>No!
26:22
>>But Buford --
26:24
>>Whatever happens, William and Hannah stay!
26:26
And we stay.
26:27
That's final.
26:29
>>My Buford, you are so masterful when you get mad,
26:32
I could just swoon.
26:34
Come on, let's go on up to bed
26:37
and I'll show you just how wonderful it is to be married.
26:41
♪♪
26:46
>>I came out with your mother's tray, Master Buford,
26:48
and she nearly caught me.
26:50
>>What the Sam Hill was Nancy Lee doing in the cellar?
26:52
>>I don't know.
26:54
>>She didn't see anything?
26:55
>>I'm sure not.
26:57
>>Does she suspect anything? >>I don't think I--
26:58
>>Damn that woman.
27:00
[ Footsteps approach ]
27:02
>>That's her now.
27:03
>>Get out, Hannah. I'll handle this.
27:04
>>Yes, sir.
27:06
[ Footsteps depart ]
27:07
[ Door opens ] >>Nancy Lee.
27:10
What the devil were you doing down in the cellar?
27:12
>>No need to take on so. I was...
27:14
I was just making up my mind where to put the wine cellar.
27:18
>>What wine cellar?
27:20
>>The one we're going to build in the back there.
27:22
>>What for?
27:23
>>Well, I intend to start entertaining
27:25
having guests to stay.
27:26
Well, bring this house alive! >>No.
27:28
No wine cellar and no guests.
27:30
And you stay out of that downstairs.
27:32
>>Don't you order me around.
27:33
I'll do what I want in my own house.
27:35
♪♪
27:39
>>What did you mean by locking me
27:40
out of our bedroom last night?
27:42
>>I don't allow anyone who can't behave
27:43
like a gentleman in my room.
27:45
>>If you think just by withholding your favors from me,
27:47
you can get your own way... >>You listen to me, Buford.
27:50
One way or another, I always get my own way.
27:53
And don't you forget it.
27:54
♪♪
27:59
>>Master Buford, Master Buford,
28:01
you can't sleep here on the floor, sir.
28:02
>>Wha...
28:04
[ Mumbling ] Oh. Yes...
28:05
Got to, Hannah.
28:07
My own wife won't let me in the bedroom.
28:11
>>Come on, sir, you've been drinking.
28:13
I've made you up a bed in one of the guest rooms.
28:16
>>[ Mumbling ] Wanna sleep own bedroom...
28:18
not guest room.
28:19
[ Chuckles ]
28:21
Ironic, isn't it, Hannah?
28:24
Don't have much luck with the ladies, huh?
28:29
Out of the frying pan, into the fire!
28:33
She-- she's got to go.
28:35
Except can't...
28:37
because of baby...
28:38
Got the child to think of.
28:40
Can't figure that one out.
28:42
♪♪
28:48
>>William, is my horse ready?
28:50
>>Morning, Nancy Lee.
28:53
My, ain't you the prettiest thing?
28:55
>>I asked about my horse.
28:57
>>Oh, yes, Miss Nancy.
28:59
I combed and curried and shined that old horse.
29:02
>>Would you bring him around to the front?
29:03
>>Yes'm, Miss Nancy.
29:05
>>And the name is Mrs. Montgomery.
29:08
>>Yes...Mrs. Montgomery.
29:11
>>Oh, get out of my sight.
29:13
When you bring him around, let me know.
29:14
I'll be in the parlor.
29:15
[ Footsteps depart, door opens ]
29:18
Buford! >>Here.
29:20
>>Hannah said you want to see me.
29:22
>>I want to talk to you.
29:23
>>I'm afraid I don't have time, I'm going riding.
29:25
>>That's what I want to talk to you about.
29:27
Do you think it's wise? >>What?
29:30
>>All this riding, in your condition.
29:32
>>In my condition? [ Gasps ]
29:34
Ohh! [ Giggles ]
29:37
I'd near forgotten.
29:38
>>Forgotten?
29:40
How could you forget the baby you're carrying?
29:43
>>I'm sure I wouldn't if I were...
29:45
only I'm not.
29:47
I never had one.
29:49
>>What?!
29:50
>>Oh, Buford, don't splutter so.
29:52
If you'd half a brain in your head,
29:54
you'd have realized that long ago.
29:56
>>It...it was all a trick to get me to marry you.
29:59
>>At the time, you seemed such a catch
30:02
and the competition was a little heavy,
30:03
so I thought I'd just make sure of you,
30:06
and it worked.
30:08
I'm really sorry
30:09
to have disappointed you about the child,
30:10
but -- >>[ Laughs ]
30:13
Disappointed?
30:15
You don't know how relieved I am!
30:17
Now, there's no problem.
30:18
>>What do you mean, "no problem"?
30:20
>>To end this marriage, to get a divorce.
30:23
>>You think that's no problem? >>It shouldn't be.
30:26
I'm prepared to make a reasonable settlement.
30:28
>>And just what would you consider
30:29
reasonable, Mr. Montgomery?
30:31
>>We can waive the money I loaned your father
30:33
and call it a day.
30:35
>>[ Laughs ]
30:36
The money you loaned my father?
30:39
That wasn't a loan!
30:40
That was a little payoff for a nice background
30:43
of southern gentility to trap me a man.
30:46
The Colonel and his wife
30:47
are just as phony as I am, dear heart,
30:49
and they are long gone.
30:50
I'm where I want to be, with a name I like,
30:53
and I'm not giving it up for anyone.
30:55
You are never going to get rid of little Nancy Lee.
30:58
No how, no way at all.
31:01
Now, if you'll excuse me, dear husband, I...
31:05
Why, Hannah. Hello.
31:08
Did you get a nice earful?
31:09
>>The door was open, Mrs. Montgomery,
31:11
and William asked me to come in here
31:13
and tell you that he's waiting outside with your horse.
31:15
>>He could have told me himself!
31:17
>>And I hope that damn beast throws her and breaks her neck.
31:22
Alright, Hannah, what are you waiting for?
31:25
>>It's your mother, sir. She's in a state.
31:27
She insists on seeing you. >>No.
31:30
I've had enough of Montgomery women for one day.
31:32
Tell her I...
31:35
No. Forget that, Hannah.
31:38
I've changed my mind.
31:40
I think I will pay Mama a visit.
31:42
I have a little surprise for her.
31:44
♪♪
31:50
>>But you can't be so cruel, Buford,
31:53
keeping me here, locked up like a...
31:55
like an animal, you...
31:57
You've got to let me go.
31:59
>>You know I can't do that, mother.
32:01
I've explained again and again
32:02
why you can't suddenly turn up alive.
32:04
>>Oh, but I can't stand it anymore!
32:07
It's like being buried alive!
32:09
Oh! Oh, Buford, it's so...
32:12
so lonely.
32:14
>>I know that, Mama.
32:16
And I know it just plain isn't fair.
32:19
So, I've thought of a solution.
32:21
>>Oh.
32:22
What, dear?
32:24
>>How would you like to have a nice permanent companion?
32:28
♪♪
32:32
>>Did I make an unguarded statement
32:34
that Buford was no match for the ladies?
32:37
Perhaps, in one sense, that's true,
32:40
but in another...
32:43
Well, it seems that Nancy Lee is going to have cause
32:46
to regret her match with Buford.
32:49
We'll find that out shortly when we return with act three.
32:55
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♪♪
33:33
♪♪
33:39
>>Now, it's one thing to get away
33:41
with disposing of someone
33:42
already legally certified as dead
33:45
and supposedly suitably interred.
33:48
Nancy Lee is another problem.
33:51
She can't have a convenient epileptic seizure.
33:55
Can Buford get away with it?
33:58
>>Nancy Lee,
33:59
I've been thinking about us.
34:01
>>Don't waste your time.
34:03
Nothing's going to change. I've got nobody but you,
34:05
and nowheres in the whole wide world to go.
34:07
I'm a permanent fixture, Buford.
34:09
>>Oh, I know that, honey.
34:11
And I was wrong to think anything else.
34:13
Don't you know I really want you here, with all my heart?
34:17
>>On my terms.
34:18
Don't you try to fancy talk me.
34:20
>>Won't you... please let me tell you
34:22
what I was thinking about?
34:24
>>If you make it short. >>And sweet.
34:27
What I was going to suggest, just to clear the air, sort of,
34:31
and give us both a chance to get a new perspective...
34:33
was a trip.
34:35
>>I don't want to go anywheres with you.
34:37
>>Oh, I-I didn't mean together.
34:39
I meant just you alone, sugar.
34:41
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia.
34:45
You could buy yourself a whole new wardrobe.
34:47
Like -- like it was the trousseau you never really had.
34:50
>>Oh, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia.
34:53
>>Even Paris, France, if you want.
34:55
>>Paris, France! Oh, Buford! Do you mean it?
34:58
>>Anything's worth trying just to work things out for us.
35:02
And to prove I mean it,
35:03
you just go tell all your friends and everyone around
35:05
that you're on your way. >>Ohh!
35:07
Won't I make them squirm with envy!
35:10
Washington, Philadelphia, Paris, France!
35:13
>>Then, you'll go?
35:14
>>What woman would pass up the chance?
35:16
Well, I'll ride everywhere this week and let everyone know.
35:18
Just one thing, Buford, you ought to understand.
35:21
>>Well, what's that, sugar? >>This doesn't change anything.
35:23
I'm still going to spend the rest of my life
35:25
right here in this house.
35:27
>>Oh, I know that, Nancy Lee.
35:29
I know that for sure.
35:32
♪♪
35:39
>>Master Buford, you just can't get away with it.
35:41
>>Now, you hush up, Hannah. I'm going to.
35:44
>>But what will other people say?
35:45
>>There's nothing for them to say.
35:47
Nancy Lee went off on a little trip and she never came back.
35:50
>>Master Buford, you're flying in the face of God.
35:53
>>Hannah, to the devil with it.
35:55
Now, you do as I say, hear?
35:57
>>Yes, sir.
35:58
>>Now, you and William have already got
35:59
the extra bed set up downstairs,
36:02
and the chest of drawers, and so on?
36:04
>>Yes, sir. >>Fine.
36:06
Then, get busy
36:07
and take all Ms. Montgomery's clothes downstairs.
36:09
Shouldn't take you too long.
36:11
Most of her wardrobe is already packed.
36:14
>>What am I going to tell your mother?
36:16
Ever since we moved the extra furniture in,
36:17
she's been like to drive me out of my mind asking questions.
36:21
>>You haven't told her who to expect?
36:22
>>You said not to. >>That's quite right, Hannah.
36:25
We have to preserve the proprieties.
36:27
I think it's my place to introduce my mother to my bride.
36:31
♪♪
36:36
>>Oh, Ms. Montgomery? >>What is it, Hannah?
36:39
>>Master Buford asked me to have you go right downstairs
36:41
as soon as you got back from riding.
36:42
>>But I want a bath and change.
36:44
>>He said right away, the moment you got here.
36:46
>>Why?
36:48
>>He said he had a little...surprise for you.
36:50
>>Oh, very well.
36:52
[ Footsteps, door opens ]
36:54
Buford? >>Nancy Lee?
36:55
>>Yes. What do you want me for?
36:57
>>Come on down. I'll show you.
36:59
>>Oh, for goodness sake!
37:01
Hold that lantern a little higher, I can't see.
37:04
>>How's that? >>Better.
37:07
>>Right over here by the back wall.
37:09
>>Hannah said you had a surprise.
37:11
Why, Buford!
37:13
You're going to do it.
37:16
>>Do what?
37:17
>>Put in my wine cellar while I'm gone!
37:21
>>Something like that.
37:22
>>Of course, we'll have to build regular bins
37:25
instead of these old, rickety shelves.
37:27
You know what I thought
37:28
when I was looking about down here before?
37:29
>>Oh, what was that?
37:31
>>If we tore down these shelves...
37:33
Well, what I mean is,
37:35
I was sort of stepping off the house upstairs,
37:37
and it's some longer than this cellar.
37:40
>>Is it? >>Yes.
37:41
I walked off the cellar, too.
37:43
You suppose there might be any room behind there
37:46
we could sort of scoop out to make it bigger?
37:49
>>Now, why don't you and me just try and find out?
37:53
>>Why don't we?
37:54
Of course, I reckon we'll need help.
37:56
>>Oh, I don't think so. It might be quite easy.
37:59
Like, um...
38:01
Like this, for example. [ Scraping ]
38:03
>>[ Gasps ]
38:05
It's a secret door!
38:09
And a room!
38:11
There's someone in there.
38:13
>>A room you're going to be sharing for a long time.
38:16
>>No. No.
38:18
No, I won't go in there. >>Oh, yes, you will.
38:19
>>I-I'll scream!
38:21
>>You'll do as you're told.
38:22
Ow! You bit my hand!
38:24
>>You -- you can't -- >>Get in there!
38:25
>>You can't keep me in here!
38:27
I'll scratch your eyes out! I'll --
38:29
>>Oh, no, you won't.
38:30
You'll keep your mouth shut for once and do as you're told.
38:33
>>Oh, no, I won't!
38:35
You wouldn't dare shoot me.
38:36
>>Don't tempt me.
38:37
>>Buford, put that pistol down.
38:40
>>[ Gasps ]
38:41
No!
38:43
It can't be.
38:46
Who are you?
38:47
>>Don't you remember the first Mrs. Montgomery?
38:50
>>But...she...
38:53
Your mother!
38:54
Your mother's dead!
38:56
>>A popular misconception.
38:58
Let's just keep this private, shall we?
39:01
[ Scraping ]
39:03
>>You...
39:05
You're really Judge Montgomery's wife?
39:09
>>Certainly.
39:11
Buford, what is this slut doing here?
39:14
>>Now, Mama, that's not nice.
39:16
>>Isn't this that Nancy Lee person
39:19
I warned you to stay away from? >>Yes, sir.
39:22
Maybe about the one time you were right, Mama.
39:24
>>Well, get her out of here. I don't want her!
39:27
And I demand you release me, too.
39:30
>>You know I can't do that.
39:32
The best I can do is provide you with Nancy Lee.
39:34
>>You're not going to lock me up
39:36
with this horrid old woman!
39:37
>>Now, that's no way to talk to your mother in law.
39:41
>>Her...her what?
39:43
>>Oh, I'm sorry, Mama.
39:45
In all the excitement, I forgot to tell you.
39:48
Nancy Lee's my bride.
39:50
We got married. >>Oh!
39:52
>>That makes you both Mrs. Montgomerys.
39:55
That's how come I thought it would work out real nice
39:57
to have you roommates.
39:59
Sort of...keep it all in the family.
40:02
♪♪
40:08
[ Door opens ]
40:10
>>[ Panting ]
40:11
Ma! Ma!
40:13
>>Sakes alive, William.
40:15
You startled me so I almost burnt my hand on the stove.
40:17
>>Ma, what are we going to do?
40:20
>>What is it, son?
40:21
Here. Here, sit down.
40:24
You're shaking all over.
40:25
>>You know that big old stone
40:27
you wanted down in the preserves cellar
40:29
to make a table of?
40:31
For making cornmeal and such? >>Yes.
40:34
>>Well, a while ago, I took it, to bring it on down for you.
40:39
>>You lifted that heavy stone by yourself?
40:41
>>It's what happened when I was down there.
40:43
>>What?
40:45
>>Well...
40:46
I-I didn't have no light,
40:49
and I didn't hear Master Buford come on down there.
40:52
But all of a sudden, I see him light a lantern,
40:56
and as far as I can see anything,
40:59
Mrs. Montgomery come on down there to join him.
41:02
>>I know, I sent her down there.
41:05
>>You?
41:07
You knew what he was going to do to her?
41:09
>>Son...
41:10
You gotta understand.
41:11
I can't help myself.
41:14
>>You knew he was going to throw her in that...
41:17
hidey hole with old Mrs. Montgomery?
41:20
>>I knew.
41:21
>>[ Crying ] But she's so pretty!
41:24
And he hurt her, Ma!
41:25
Master Buford hurt her.
41:28
He took that little girl that's like a...
41:31
like a little chickadee bird,
41:34
and he's going to shut her up in there.
41:35
>>Don't think about it now, son.
41:37
>>I gotta think on it.
41:40
I couldn't be shut up, Ma.
41:42
I couldn't be shut up nowheres.
41:44
>>I know that, son.
41:46
>>I'd just take my own throat with my hands,
41:50
like I done with...
41:51
with someone a long time ago.
41:54
>>Don't, William! Don't do that to yourself!
41:58
>>No.
42:00
Not me.
42:03
To Master Buford.
42:05
To Master Buford,
42:07
unless he lets her go.
42:11
That's who I got to. >>No, William.
42:13
No, listen to me.
42:14
Let me explain.
42:16
>>Let me go, Ma. Let go!
42:18
>>William! You've got to understand that I--
42:21
[ Objects clatter ]
42:23
>>Ma?
42:24
Ma, are you alright?!
42:27
I hope I-I didn't hurt you.
42:31
Ma?
42:35
No...
42:37
You alright.
42:40
Just...sleeping.
42:45
I'll wake you, Ma.
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I'll wake you just as soon as I set that...
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poor little bird free.
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♪♪
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>>I spent my life trying to get free of you, Mama.
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And I did.
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Then, I got myself trapped again.
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Now, I've got to get free of Nancy Lee, too.
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Goodbye. You'll never see me again.
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>>You can't leave me here with this old woman!
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>>I can't be shut up anymore!
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>>You've been drinking again! >>You look drunk.
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>>I feel drunk!
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Drunk with relief.
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Hannah and William are all you'll ever see from now on.
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As far as I care, you can both rot.
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>>[ Gasps ] Oh!
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>>What's that funny smell?
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My head.
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I need a drink.
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[ Footsteps approach ] Who's that?
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>>It's me, Master Buford.
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I'm sorry for...
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for what I got to do.
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>>[ Exclaims, chokes ]
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>>Master Buford.
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Master Buford!
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>>[ Choking, body thuds ]
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>>I didn't mean to do nothing, Master!
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I didn't mean to do nothing.
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It was just...
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a bird has to fly free.
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You can't keep it locked up.
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[ Door opens ] >>William?
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William! Are you down there?
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>>I'm here, Ma! >>What are you doing?
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What's happened?
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Where's Master Buford?
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>>I'm glad you woke up, Ma.
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S-something's happened to Master Buford.
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>>Oh my God!
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Move aside! Let me see!
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>>I didn't mean him no harm.
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It was just Ms. Nancy.
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I didn't want to hurt him, Ma.
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>>[ Gasps ] >>Ma?
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>>He's dead.
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Oh, William.
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William, you killed him!
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>>I never even touched him, Ma.
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>>How would you know?
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Poor, twisted mind.
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How would you know?
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Heaven help me.
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What are we going to do now?
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I've got to think.
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♪♪
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[ Door opens ]
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>>Well, I'm all packed
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and William is taking my things down to the carriage now.
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What about you, mother? >>[ Chuckles ]
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I suppose you have to call me that.
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>>We might as well get used to it.
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Just as you'll have to try to sound a little fonder
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when you talk to your daughter, Nancy Lee.
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>>Very well, Nancy Lee.
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And I not only am all packed,
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but my trunks have already been taken to the railroad station.
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>>All ready for our new life.
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>>Yes. >>Oh, come on now.
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This was all worked out before the funeral.
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>>And you've had a lovely time of it, haven't you?
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Playing the bereaved widow,
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being wined and dined and said farewell.
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While I had to stay hidden at home.
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>>Well, you could scarcely come popping out of the grave
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without creating a legal snarl.
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>>I know, I know, it's better this way.
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I hope we can smuggle me out successfully.
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>>At night, in Hannah's cape.
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There'll be no question.
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>>Nothing left to be done? >>I don't think so.
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Hannah and William will stay with the house
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until the estate is sold.
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And the lawyer will forward us the money wherever we settle.
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>>[ Chuckles dryly ] "Wherever we settle."
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You and I...
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Not much of a life to look forward to.
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>>It's the best your son left us.
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>>Your husband!
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>>Buford. >>Buford.
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I wonder about his death.
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>>Why?
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The doctor certified it as a heart attack.
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You don't think William... >>Oh, no.
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William is so simple-minded that if he says he never touched him,
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he never did.
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No, it was something else.
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>>What? >>Uh...
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Now, that was the same doctor
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who wrote out my death certificate.
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You don't suppose Buford, by any chance, could have had...
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Epilepsy?
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It's a disease that does run in the family, you know.
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♪♪
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>>If Sarah Montgomery should have been right,
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then poor Buford went to far more than his just reward.
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After all, the coffin was already in the ground
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for over a week.
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But that's really too horrible a prospect to dwell on...
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isn't it?
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I'll return shortly.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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Before I go, I really do owe you an apology
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for that quite dreadful picture of poor Buford Montgomery
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awaking to far more confined quarters
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than he condemned his mother to.
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But as a storyteller, you have to agree --
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The irony is perfect.
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And then, of course, also,
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I did promise to curdle your blood.
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Our cast included John Baragrey, Ruby Dee, Bryna Raeburn,
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Roxie Roker, and Tod Davis.
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The entire production was under the direction of Himan Brown.
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This is, E.G. Marshall inviting you to return
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to our Mystery Theater
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for another adventure in the macabre.
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Until next time... pleasant dreams?
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♪♪
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