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Suspense - "Deadline at Dawn" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: On a single New York night, taxi dancer Bricky Coleman
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: meets Quinn Williams, a troubled young man from her small hometown,
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: and the two plan to catch an early bus home. Instead,
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Quinn's theft from a former customer draws them into a
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: mounting predicament with the hours before dawn closing in. From CBS,
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  Speaker 1: this is Suspense, Deadline at Dawn, Episode 5, originally broadcast
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  Speaker 1: May 1st, 1948. Helen Walker plays Bricky, John Beale as Quinn,
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  Speaker 1: and Irving Ravitch adapted Cornel Woolrich's 1944 novel written under
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: the name William Irish. Anton M. Leder produced and directed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 3: Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour, a
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  Speaker 3: full 60 minutes of suspense. Tonight, our stars, Miss Helen
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  Speaker 3: Walker and Mr. John Beale. Our story, Deadline at Dawn
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  Speaker 3: by William Irish. A suspense play produced and directed by
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  Speaker 3: Anton M. Leder. If you've ever been alone in a
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  Speaker 3: strange big city, you know the haunting loneliness of it.
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  Speaker 3: And you know how the sight of a familiar face,
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  Speaker 3: the sound of a familiar voice, can lift your spirits high.
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  Speaker 3: Even a stranger who comes from your hometown becomes a
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  Speaker 3: long-lost friend, because he brings with him a breath of home,
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  Speaker 3: a flood of memories. That was the emotion that drew
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  Speaker 3: Bricky Coleman and Quinn Williams together. But their meeting wasn't
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  Speaker 3: the joyful, happy kind, for it was the beginning of
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  Speaker 3: longing and fear and danger. And now, with the performances
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  Speaker 3: of Helen Walker as Bricky Coleman and John Beale as
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  Speaker 3: Quinn Williams, and with William Irish's great story, Deadline at Dawn,
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  Speaker 3: we again hope to keep you in.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense!
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  Speaker 4: Until I met him, men were just pink dance tickets
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  Speaker 4: to me. They were just two and a half cents
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  Speaker 4: worth of commission on the dime. Piers of feet that
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  Speaker 4: kept crowding mine all over the map, all over the floor,
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  Speaker 4: all over the night. They were blank faces that could
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  Speaker 4: steer me any way they wanted, until their five minutes
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  Speaker 4: were up. Because I was a New York taxi dancer,
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: until I met him. A girl from a small town...
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  Speaker 4: caught and held fast in the big city, with all
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  Speaker 4: her dreams forgotten and all her hopes gone, and not
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  Speaker 4: caring anymore, not caring at all, until I met him.
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  Speaker 4: They always dimmed the lights for the last dance, just
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  Speaker 4: to make the customers feel sentimental about it all. At
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  Speaker 4: one in the morning, I was through again for the day.
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  Speaker 4: I put on my coat, go out the side door,
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  Speaker 4: Walk past the sad sacks who thought they were wolves
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  Speaker 4: and loitered on the sidewalk. And then I'd begin the
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  Speaker 4: twenty blocks to home. Home was a filthy old brownstone
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  Speaker 4: down near the river. The long smiths an old army caught.
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  Speaker 4: That was home. But at least it was a place
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  Speaker 4: where I could get out of my shoes and make
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  Speaker 4: some coffee and sleep to forget.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I'd get home about 1.30.
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  Speaker 5: You left your door open.
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  Speaker 4: So I left my door open. Did you think that
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  Speaker 4: was an invitation.
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  Speaker 5: To walk in? You better close it now.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, listen, here.
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  Speaker 2: Close it. Please.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a burglar, you won't find anything. The rats
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  Speaker 4: got here first.
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  Speaker 2: I am a burglar.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then you're not a very smart one. What are
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  Speaker 4: you looking for? Coffee grounds?
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't looking for anything.
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  Speaker 4: Then why don't you go, please? Find a nice, rich
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  Speaker 4: old lady to rob.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I need a place to stay for a while.
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  Speaker 5: I thought maybe you would let me.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 4: Stay here? Look, I don't hand out favors. You're nothing
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  Speaker 4: to me.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: It was just a hunch I had. The way you
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  Speaker 5: were looking at me. I thought I could come here
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  Speaker 5: for help.
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  Speaker 4: The way I was looking? I've never seen you before
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  Speaker 4: in my life.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you were looking straight at me. At the dance
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  Speaker 5: hall about an hour ago.
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  Speaker 4: You mean you were at the Cinderella ballroom tonight?
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  Speaker 5: Don't you remember me?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny.
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  Speaker 4: It's not funny at all. You all look the same
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  Speaker 4: to me. Namely, horrible.
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  Speaker 5: I guess it's my mistake. But I was sure. You
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  Speaker 5: seemed so.
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  Speaker 5: So nice.
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  Speaker 7: Did I?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. That's because I was thinking of home. I always
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  Speaker 4: do that on the job. Makes the night go faster.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I know what you mean.
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  Speaker 4: What'd you do, follow me?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 5: The man at the door gave me your address.
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  Speaker 2: For a dollar.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, he did, did he?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wanted to get off the streets. This time
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  Speaker 5: of night, the cops are curious. I thought I saw
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  Speaker 5: one of them following me, so I beat it down
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  Speaker 5: this hall to hide. That's when I found your door open.
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  Speaker 4: You picked a good place for hiding. Nobody ever comes
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  Speaker 4: here but the landlady. Once a month.
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  Speaker 5: Please let me stay a while.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 4: What's your name?
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  Speaker 2: Quinn Williams.
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  Speaker 4: Quinn?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Never heard that name before.
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  Speaker 5: It used to be my mother's before she got married.
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  Speaker 9: I see.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say?
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  Speaker 4: You want some coffee, Quinn?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: But get this straight. One cup of coffee and nothing more.
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  Speaker 4: No sugar goes with it. You give me one blink
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  Speaker 4: too many... Just coffee, I understand.
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  Speaker 5: A man can tell by looking at a girl whether
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  Speaker 5: she means one.
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  Speaker 2: Thing or another.
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  Speaker 4: You'd be surprised how many of them ought to have
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  Speaker 4: an optician.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: Give me a match for the oven.
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  Speaker 5: Here you are.
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  Speaker 4: I got the oven lit and reached down some cups
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  Speaker 4: and saucers and watched him. Not that I was worried.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't have closed the door if I hadn't thought
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  Speaker 4: I could handle him. It was only that he was
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  Speaker 4: so young and his face was so tight and strained.
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  Speaker 4: He'd been beat by the city. Must have been like
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  Speaker 4: taking candy away from a baby. And he trusted me
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  Speaker 4: because I'd smiled at him while I was dancing. And
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  Speaker 4: he thought that smile was for him. I wished it
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  Speaker 4: was all of a sudden because he was.
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  Speaker 4: Coffee won't be long.
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  Speaker 5: That's all right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in no hurry.
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  Speaker 4: You're pretty young for a burglar, aren't you?
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't take much training.
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  Speaker 4: Where'd you come from? And how'd it happen?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I come from a little town. It's nothing much,
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  Speaker 5: but I like it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a hick myself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: My place is Glen Falls, Iowa. What's yours?
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I thought I said something wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, you said something right. It's crazy, a crazy coincidence,
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  Speaker 4: but I come from Glen Falls, too.
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  Speaker 9: Honest?
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  Speaker 5: Honest.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I know it is. What street did you live on?
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  Speaker 5: Anderson, up near Pine Street, second house down between Pine
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  Speaker 5: and Oak.
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  Speaker 8: When?
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  Speaker 4: We're neighbors. What? I live just across the street from you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how is it we never met?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I came here five years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I've been here a year. You must have come
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  Speaker 5: to New York before we moved in.
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  Speaker 4: Sure am. Wait a minute. Have you got a brother
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  Speaker 4: with a lot of freckles?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Johnny. He's just a kid, about 18.
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  Speaker 4: My sister's been writing to me about her new boyfriend,
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  Speaker 4: a boy named Williams. How perfect he is, except for
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  Speaker 4: the freckles. And, of course, they'll wear off.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: So you're the boy next door.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we'd probably have known each other very well if
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  Speaker 5: you'd stayed home.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 5: I wish you had stayed. I do, too. What's your name?
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  Speaker 4: Ruth Coleman. Everybody at home calls me Bricky. They started
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  Speaker 4: it because I.
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  Speaker 5: I know, because of your hair, huh?
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  Speaker 4: That's right. Do you ever feel that you want to
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  Speaker 4: go back?
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  Speaker 5: Every day.
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  Speaker 4: There's a bus leaves New York every morning at six.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I've inquired. I've got the fare sewed up
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  Speaker 4: in my mattress.
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  Speaker 5: Why haven't you gone?
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  Speaker 4: Because my mother thinks I'm dancing in a Broadway show.
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  Speaker 4: Because I'd be too ashamed. Because it's so hard to
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  Speaker 4: go back.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but you ought to go, Bricky. This morning at
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  Speaker 5: six o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: It's hard.
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  Speaker 5: You ought to go back.
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  Speaker 4: Hard going back alone. If someone could come with me, I.
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  Speaker 4: Would you come home too, Quinn?
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  Speaker 5: No, Bricky.
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  Speaker 4: You want to escape from the city, don't you? Just
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  Speaker 4: like me. You want to go back?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure I do.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then come with me. If it's the fare you're
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  Speaker 4: worried about, I've got enough for both of us, including
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  Speaker 4: a good dinner in Chicago. Anything for the boy next door, Quinn.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, Bricky, but it's too late. The police will be
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  Speaker 5: looking for me around 8 o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot. How long have you been a burglar?
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  Speaker 5: About three hours.
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  Speaker 4: Three hours?
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  Speaker 5: I did it tonight for the first time. So you see, Bricky,
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  Speaker 5: it's a little too late for me to go back.
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  Speaker 5: I've missed the bus by three hours.
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  Speaker 4: Coffee's ready, Quinn.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 4: Cream and sugar?
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  Speaker 5: No, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Black.
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  Speaker 4: Was it easy?
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  Speaker 2: Very easy.
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  Speaker 4: Why'd you do it?
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  Speaker 5: You'll do anything when you've gone for four days without eating.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. But it's funny.
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  Speaker 5: After I'd done it, I went straight to the best
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  Speaker 5: restaurant in town. I looked at the menu and got
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  Speaker 5: ready to order everything on it. Two helpings of everything.
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: But I couldn't eat. So I got up and walked out.
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  Speaker 5: That's when I began to think cops were trailing me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not used to being a robber.
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  Speaker 4: So you still got it all with you? $ 2, 500 in cash.
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  Speaker 5: Divided up into small rolls in all my pockets. You
• 11:25
  Speaker 5: want to see it?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: Neither do I. But it's there. I can feel it.
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  Speaker 5: Against my skin, all over my body.
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  Speaker 4: Where did you get it, Quinn?
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  Speaker 5: I was working for an electrician about four months ago.
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  Speaker 5: One day I got a call to go to a
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  Speaker 5: big house on 71st Street and put a fixture in
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  Speaker 5: the bathroom wall. I had to cut a big hole
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  Speaker 5: in the wall to do it. While I was doing that,
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  Speaker 5: I ran into a wooden box in the wall. I
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  Speaker 5: did my work just beside it.
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  Speaker 4: And that box?
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  Speaker 5: That box was the back of a safe.
• 12:02
  Speaker 9: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Put into the wall of a study in the next room.
• 12:06
  Speaker 5: The front of the safe was good heavy steel. When
• 12:09
  Speaker 5: they built it, nobody thought it could be broken into
• 12:11
  Speaker 5: from the other side through the bathroom. And nobody ever
• 12:13
  Speaker 5: would have either. till an electrician ran into it one
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  Speaker 5: day by mistake.
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: But all this happened four months ago.
• 12:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You see, I'd brought more tools with me than I
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: needed that day, and I left some of them in
• 12:26
  Speaker 5: my bag downstairs on a little table near the front door.
• 12:29
  Speaker 5: When I got back to the shop, I found a
• 12:31
  Speaker 5: key in the bag. I must have brushed it in
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: while I was putting the tools back after finishing the job.
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  Speaker 5: It turned out to be a key to the front door.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't return it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I meant to, but Right then, I forgot all
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  Speaker 5: about it. And when I did remember that I had
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: the key, I was out of work and hungry and
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: wanting money badly, so I went back there to another box.
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  Speaker 5: I opened that hole again, pulled the back of the
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  Speaker 5: safe out. I didn't bother with any of the papers
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  Speaker 5: or securities. I just took the cash. The house was empty.
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  Speaker 5: The man who lives there, a society fella by the
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  Speaker 5: name of Graves, was probably out on the town, so
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: I just walked out the front door. Seems like ten
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: years ago. It was only three hours.
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: So this Graves man will see the hole in the
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: morning when he goes in to take a shower and
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: then he'll call the police?
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: It'll be a quick trial and a short one. But
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: the sentence won't be so short.
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  Speaker 4: The boy next door. The boy you wave to when
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: you come in or out of your gate. The grinning
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  Speaker 4: boy next door, friendly as a puppy.
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  Speaker 2: Go back, Bricky.
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  Speaker 5: It's where you belong. It's the only kind of life
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  Speaker 5: for you.
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  Speaker 4: Come with me, Quinn.
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  Speaker 5: I've told you I can't. They've got a long arm.
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  Speaker 5: They'll find me. And I'd rather have them find me
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  Speaker 5: here in the city.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: Have you still got the key? The key you went
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: in with?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. Why?
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: Well, if you can get back in before he comes home,
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: just in and out, long enough to put the money back,
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: They won't come all the way to Iowa for you
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: just for chopping a hole in the wall if nothing's
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: been taken.
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: Ricky, that's probably.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you want to go home at 6 o'clock this morning?
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, Ricky.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: If he's out on the town, he won't be home yet.
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  Speaker 4: At least that's what we'll pray for. We? We'll go together. Now,
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: I'll wait outside for you, and then we'll go down
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: to the terminal and buy our tickets and wait for
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: the bus. We'll wait for dawn together, Quinn.
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: You mean you'd do this for me?
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  Speaker 4: For the boy next door. Anytime. Anything. There was no
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: time to lose. Graves might be coming home any minute.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: I ripped the money out of my mattress and we
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: ran out into the cold, empty streets. Just as a
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: cab cruised by. We piled into it and told him
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: to take us to 71st Street. And to take us fast.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: Everybody's always in a hurry.
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: What's your hurry?
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: The night's young yet. Never mind the conversation, Joe.
• 15:08
  Speaker 9: Drive.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: The customer's always right.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: I just remembered.
• 15:17
  Speaker 9: What?
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: I can't pay for this cab unless I use some
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: of our capital.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: I don't care what you use, pal, just so it's money.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Don't worry about it. You'll get paid. I'll pay him.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: We don't want to use any of our capital, not
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: a single penny. It's all got to go back.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: Ricky, when we get out of this, when we get
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: back home, I'll thank you then. I'll find a way
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: to thank you.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: 71st Street.
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: Any special number?
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: No, just let us out here on the corner.
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  Speaker 4: That's 90 cents. And I can break a 50 if
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: I have to. Here's 90 cents. And here's a dime.
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  Speaker 5: Have fun.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here we are.
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  Speaker 4: Where's the house?
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: Across the street and up a little. You wait here.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Don't come any closer than this I'll be back in
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: no time Don't be frightened, Bricky.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Don't take any chances, Quinn If you see any lights
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: If it looks as if he's gotten back already Don't
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  Speaker 4: go all the way in Just drop the money inside
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: the door All right, Bricky Goodbye, then Goodbye, Quinn Hurry
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: back I waited for him there in the chilly night
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: On the dark, empty street Why? I knew better New
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: York had taught me one thing, and that was never
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: to be a sucker for a man. But then, this
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: was no man. This was the boy who lived across
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: from me on Anderson Street in Glen Falls, Iowa. The
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: boy who'd come here to do big things, to lick
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: the town. And instead, he'd been licked. Instead, he was
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: hiding in the dark, sneaking along the streets, helpless. The
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: boy next door. Then I suddenly crouched back into a doorway.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: A patrolman was coming on his tour of duty. He
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: stopped near me, not ten yards away. But his back
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: was to me, and his hand was opening a call box.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Ronson reporting in.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: 2.35 a.m.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: How's the rummy game going? And another thing, side. Quiet
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: as church.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: He finished his call, closed the box, and went on
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: down the street. Then he turned a corner and disappeared.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: And I breathed again. He'd been right, though. It was
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: quiet as a church. And that was wrong. Because Quinn
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: should have been back long ago.
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: Ricky.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: What's the matter?
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Ricky.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Tell me, Quinn. What is it? What is it? What
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: are you frightened about? What happened in there?
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: He's been killed.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: What?
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: He's dead. He's lying in there.
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: Dead.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: The man who lives there?
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mr. Graves.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Was it you, Quinn? Did you do it the first
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: time you were in there and I.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: I swear I didn't, Ricky. I only took the money.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: He wasn't even there. He must have come back since.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: I knew you didn't, Quinn. I knew even though I asked.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Go down to the terminal. Get your ticket and climb
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: on that bus and forget we ever met.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Go on, Ricky. Beat it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Before they find out.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Not without you.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: But don't you see now, it's murder they'll charge me with.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: They'll find the bathroom fixture tampered with, they'll trace it
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: to the electrician, then to me, and they'll naturally think, oh,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: don't you see, it's too late, Ricky.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: It's never too late. Don't you know that? Not until
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the last second of the last minute of the last hour.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: We'll go back in there and see if we can
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: figure it out. It's our only hope. We're fighting for
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: our lives, Quinn, for our lives, and we have until
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: six o'clock this morning to win our fight.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: All right, champ. Come on.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: And so, very slowly, we went together Into the place
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: where death was The door closed on our backs And
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: we felt our way down a long and narrow.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Hallway He's upstairs I don't want any lights on down
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: here Just hang on to my sleeve, I'll lead the
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: way All right.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: We went forward in a sort of swimming darkness That
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: was almost liquid, it was so dense I could feel
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: the muscles in his arms shivering But he was brave,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: not afraid. He was going into it, not running away
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: from it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: There's a step here.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: The stair creaked under our weight. I wondered if there
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: were anyone else in the house. Anyone still alive. Suppose
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: someone had slept through the murder... I'd be awakened any
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: moment by.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Us I'll turn to the right Okay.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: We're on the second floor now I smell the aroma
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: of leather and woodwork I smell the last lingering trace
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: of a cigar I smelled powder A harsh, deadly powder
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: And then I thought I saw I thought I smelled
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: something sweet Something very sweet Here, Bricky All right They
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: say you can't smell a recent death, but I could
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: smell a stillness and a presence in it that was
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: more than just emptiness.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Get your eyes ready. Here go the lights.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: The dead man lay in the middle of the study.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: His face was all out of focus. The lines that
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: had been laugh lines were creases now. The mouth that
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: had been either strong or weak was just a gap now,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: a place where the face was open. The eyes that
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: had been either kindly or cruel were just glossy, lifeless
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: insects now. This was the dead man, and we'd come
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: for his secret.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: This is it, Bricky.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, this is it.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Now what do we do?
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Well, shouldn't we close it? They seem to be watching us.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: No, don't touch him.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know how to anyway.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: He's still in his tuxedo. He couldn't have been home
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: very long.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: No.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Can you tell what it was done with?
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: No, I'll have to unbutton his jacket.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: There it is. Must have been a gun.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a bullet.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: It's round and frazzled. A knife would have made a slit.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Can be sure no one else was in the house
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: or they would have heard it go off.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: And the killer must have taken the gun away. There's
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: no sign of one lying around.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: So he didn't do it himself. It can't be suicide.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Now what?
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: We'd better look in his pockets. Yes.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I'll do it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: You look the things over as I hand them to you.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: All right, Quinn.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: I'll start up here in the breast pocket. That's the
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: highest pocket in anybody's suit. His handkerchief.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Look, Quinn. The bullet went through this. The way it
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: folded it Just made one little hole. But when you
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: open it up, it makes three separate holes. Like when
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: you cut papers and make them into patterns.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: The one on the left side's empty. The right-hand pocket,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: empty too.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Try inside the jacket.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Take out everything, no matter what it is.
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Cigarette case, silver, Tiffany's. Three cigarettes in it. The wallet.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Two fives and a single. Two ticket stubs from tonight's
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: show at the Belasco. See 112 and 114. So we
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: know where he was from 8.30 to 11.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Anything else?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Business cards. Stafford, Holmes, Inglesby, whoever they are. Oh, and
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: a snapshot. Girl in riding togs.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Let's see that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the same ones in the silver frame over
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: there on the desk. To Stephen with love from Barbara.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Then she didn't do it. If she had, she wouldn't
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: be there on his desk anymore. Just the silver frame, maybe,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: but not her anymore. That's common sense.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go on. I'll have to lift him
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: a little.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Left rear in the trousers.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Nothing. Right rear.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Spare handkerchief.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Left side.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Nothing.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Right side.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Match folder.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Some loose change.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Latch key. That's it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Not much help.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Do we know what we're.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Doing, Bricky?
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Quinn?
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: What?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: A man who's a cigarette smoker, and we found that
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: case in his pocket. Would he go in for cigars, too?
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Some people smoke both.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: But would he smoke two cigars alone by himself? Look, Quinn.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Two butts in this tray.
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: And the tray is between two chairs facing each other.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: One cigar in one notch of the tray. The other
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: one around on the other side from it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Two people, Quinn. Two men.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: And they were having an argument. One of them was
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: worked up about something. You see? This butt is smooth
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: at the mouth end.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: And look at this one.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Chewed to ribbons. Chewed to a fringe. That tells it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Which is which? Who was calm and who was steamed up?
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: And who was the other man with Graves? Oh, Quinn.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Here's something. What?
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: It must have fallen out of his pocket. He was
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: probably sitting on it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 11: Fine.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Another book of matches.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: That's just it. Another one. Graves had some on him,
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: so this is the other man.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: And did he leave his name on it?
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: No, but he was excited. Look how many matches he
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: used up just on that one cigar.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: The folder could have been half used up before he began.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Maybe, but take this. What does it tell you?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Tells me to chew Dawson's gum.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: Not to cover inside.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know. What are you driving at?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Now, wait.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Here, take my matches. Now, tear one off and strike it.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Blow it out.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: You see what you did?
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: No.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: You tore the match from the right-hand side, didn't you?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: That's what everybody does. They start on the outside, on
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: the right, and work their way over to the left...
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: But this folder was worked in reverse. Now, do you see?
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: The man sitting in this chair, facing Graves, was left-handed.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: We're making progress.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Are we, Quinn?
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Of course we are. We know this man was rattled
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: about something. That he whittled away 15 matches to one cigar,
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: then mangled it to ribbons between his teeth. That he
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: was probably on bad terms with Graves, and that he's left-handed.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Fine.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Only you've missed something.
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: What?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: The matches belonged to a woman.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: A woman? A woman chopped that cigar to pieces?
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Smell the folder. What do you get?
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: Sulfur, the way matches always.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Now, give that a minute to clear away. That's the
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: stronger of the two. It tops the other. Now.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Perfume, isn't it?
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: It's been carried around all day in a handbag. A
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: handbag that stinks of perfume. I noticed it in the
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: dark when we were coming in. There's been a woman
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: in this room tonight.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Well, that gives us two of them. A man and
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: a woman. And they weren't here together. There were only
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: two chairs, one for Graves and the other one for
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: each of his visitors.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Who was the last to go, the man or the woman?
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: I don't know, but we're started. Look what we've dug
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: up in half an hour.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Two unidentified people in the biggest city in the world.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're right. It's no use.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, even so, we can't give up.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: It's no use. And what's more, I'm yellow, Bricky. Let's
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: give it up.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: You're not yellow, Quinn. Or I wouldn't be up here
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: in this room with you.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: I'd better tell you this while I can, Bricky.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: What? I love you.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: It's three o'clock, Quinn, and we have till six. Three hours.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Bricky.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Save it, Quinn. Save it for the bus when we're
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: on our way home.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: All right. But I don't know what to do next,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: do you?
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: No.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: In tonight's full hour of suspense, Helen Walker and John
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Beale co-star in Deadline at Dawn by William Irish. Tonight's
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: study in suspense. In just a moment, we will return
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: with Act Two of Suspense.
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. And now, back
• 28:39
  Speaker 12: to our.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Hollywood soundstage in Act Two of Deadline at Dawn, co-starring
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Miss Helen Walker as Bricky Coleman and Mr. John Beale
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: as Quinn Williams in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Suspense.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: All the emotions of a lifetime have been crowded into
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: one night for Bricky Coleman and Quinn Williams, and dawn
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: is a fast-approaching deadline which they must meet. The bus
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: which will take them to home and safety seems remote
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: and unattainable as they stand now over the body of
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: a dead man in the quiet apartment, knowing that they
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: must find his murderer or stand incriminated for the crime themselves.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: And suddenly, a terrifying sound comes to them.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: What is it, Bricky?
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: What is it?
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: It sounds like a burglar alarm.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: Or a front doorbell, maybe. Wait a minute, there's a
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: box over there, against the wall.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: A telephone.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Follow the cord. It's in his desk. In the drawer.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: What should we do?
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: I ought to answer it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, be careful.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: You'll have the police here. They'll know it's not his voice.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: I'll talk lower. I'll pretend I'm him. Say a prayer, Bricky.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: Hello?
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: Darling, this is Barbara. I had to speak to you.
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: We've never parted angry like this before.
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: Maybe if we hadn't gone there, to that parakeet place,
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: it wouldn't have happened.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: No.
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: Who was she? The tall redhead in the light green dress?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: You told me that before. Then why'd she slip a
• 30:24
  Speaker 9: note into your hand? I saw her do it, you know.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: Did you?
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: And then you couldn't wait to see me to my
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: door and get me off your hands. What happened, Steve?
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: Did this woman come by to see you afterward? Is
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: that why you wanted to get rid of me?
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: No, Barbara.
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: Steve, you sound so far away. Is it the telephone?
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Or is it you?
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: Poor connection.
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: You sound so cagey. As if someone were there now.
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: Can't you talk louder?
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I.
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: What's going on there? This is Stephen, isn't it?
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: It's just catching on.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I'm sunk.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Take your hand away from the mouthpiece and turn it
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: my way. Sugar, come on. I'm getting tired of waiting.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: How much longer are you going to stand there talking?
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Steven. Forgive me. I didn't know.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: You can hang up now.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: I feel like a heel.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Well, stop it. We don't have time.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: The parakeet. That's a nightclub, isn't it?
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, on 54th Street. A woman slipped him a note, Quinn.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Our woman. Could be.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Do you think he tore it up?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Maybe not.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Maybe he wanted to have a good look at it
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: when he got home, alone.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Let's look again.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: I went through those pockets pretty carefully. I'm sure it's
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: not there.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: We might have missed something. Quinn, turn him over again.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: All right. Nothing. Nothing at all.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: Shall we go through the desk?
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: What?
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Run your eyes over him again.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: I don't see a thing.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: He's very well dressed. And yet, isn't that a hole
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: in the heel of his sock? There, just showing over
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: the shoe?
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: That's funny.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Take his shoe off, Quinn. Okay.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: The note.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Of course. He didn't want Barbara to see it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: So he hid it here until he could be alone.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: And he never was alone.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: Just a scrawl.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Go on. Mr.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: Graves, I'd like to speak to you in private after
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: you've taken the young lady home. And I don't mean
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: some other time. I mean tonight. I wouldn't want to
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: be disappointed. That's all.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: It isn't signed.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: A woman of the matches.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Sounds like a shakedown.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: You mean blackmail?
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: That's right. He'd have to pay attention to a note
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: like this.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Then we're going nightclubbing, my boy. We'll visit the parakeet.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: It'll be closing by now.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: She must have been seen there. A tall redhead in
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: a light green dress. We'll check with the people who
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: work there. They'll still be around. Waiters, checkroom girl, washroom attendant.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: We'll find her.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, we will, Bricky.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: I'll trace her if I have to go over the
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: hairbrushes in the dressing room one by one for stray
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: red hairs.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: Let me kill the lights. I'll be right with you.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Hey, don't forget the switch. The one over the sink
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: in the bathroom.
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: I won't.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Come on, Quinn. Time's running out.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: In a minute.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Is anything wrong?
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Look what I found.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Why, it's a check.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Made out to Stephen Graves for $ 12, 000. Signed by Arthur Holmes.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: And look how it's stamped.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Returned.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: No funds.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Where'd you find it?
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: In the dry bottom of the tub.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: How did it ever get there?
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Just one way.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: When I came here tonight, the first time, I did it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: How?
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Well, don't you see, when I pulled the cash box
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: out and opened it, the check must have slipped out
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: into the tub without my noticing it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: And then this fellow Holmes came, our jittery cigar smoker,
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: maybe to ask Graves not to prosecute on a bad check,
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: to stall for time. Graves went to find the check,
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: and he couldn't, because it was on the other side
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: of the wall in his bathtub, and Holmes thought he
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: was trying to put something.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Over on him. And you think Combs shot him? Killed
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: him for $ 12, 000?
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: It's been done before.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: And what about our redhead?
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Bricky, it's the man.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: It's gotta be.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I think it's the woman. We'll have to split up.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: No, let's do it together. The way we started. It's
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: too late.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: We can't follow them one at a time. Our deadline's
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: at dawn, Quinn, and we've got less than three hours.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: That bus to Glen Falls.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: The last bus. Remember that. It's the last bus for you.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: And for me, too.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: Then we'll be saying goodbye, Bricky?
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: Yes, Quinn.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Goodbye till dawn. We went down into the empty streets
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: without talking to each other again. And I went one
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: way and Quinn went the other. In ten minutes, we
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: were blocks apart. Maybe miles. but it seemed to me
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: that I was still at his side, still with him,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: as he finally found an all-night drugstore and went back
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: into a booth. I knew he'd dial all the Arthur
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Holmeses in the book and talk to a lot of angry,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: sleepy people, and then he'd find the right one, the
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Arthur Holmes we wanted. What would Quinn do then? What
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: would he say? What would happen?
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Hello?
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Is this Mr. Arthur Holmes?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Who is this? Well, Mr.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Holmes, you don't know me.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Who is this that wants to speak to Mr. Holmes?
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: The name isn't known to you, Mr.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Holmes, but... What makes you think this is Mr. Holmes?
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: And are you aware that it's almost four o'clock in
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: the morning? What do you want?
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: I have a check here that belongs to Mr. Holmes.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Will you let me talk to him?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: You're speaking to him.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: It's made out to Stephen Graves, and I have it
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: right here in my hand. mind it i found it
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: on the seat of a taxi it must have slipped
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: out of someone's wallet who.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Was with you when you found it.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: No one just me by myself.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Whom did you show it to afterwards.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: No one who's with you now no one i swear
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: and you.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Called because you thought i.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Might want it back that's right i'm sorry your time
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: is up deposit another nickel please shall i hang up
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: mr holmes.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Tell me, what's your name?
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: Quinn Williams.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Tell me something about yourself. What do you do? Are
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: you a married man?
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: No, I'm single. I live by myself.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Not even a roommate? Nobody.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Strictly lone wolf.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: I'd like to see that check, Quinn. Maybe I can
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: do something for you.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Fair enough.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: There's a little bar called Owen's down on 51st. Do
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: you know it?
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: I know where it is.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: It'll take me about 15 minutes to get dressed and
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: get down there. Is 15 minutes good for you?
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Just fine, Mr.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Holmes.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I'll see you there.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: You're a cagey boy, Mr.
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: Holmes.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: But you swallowed.
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: When?
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Over here in the booth.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Good evening, Mr.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Holmes. Good evening. Sit down, won't you? Yeah, I will.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: You're right on time. Sure.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: So are you.
• 37:55
  Speaker 13: As a drink for you. I had water ahead, so
• 37:58
  Speaker 13: I'd be allowed to stay in here. It's past closing time.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Thanks. What's the matter, son? Nothing.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: It'd just be funny, that's all. Funny and kind of
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: corny if you'd slipped a little something into this.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Take mine, then. I haven't put it to my mouth yet.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: I think I will.
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Bottoms up.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: Bottoms up. My car's around the corner.
• 38:32
  Speaker 13: Would you rather talk about it there?
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would. I think we ought to be alone.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: That's easy, son. We can be alone.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: That's enough driving.
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: Pull up.
• 38:55
  Speaker 13: I just thought we'd coast a bit. We can't sit
• 38:58
  Speaker 13: talking at the curb at this hour. We'll have a
• 38:59
  Speaker 13: cop down on us sticking his nose into the car.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: What's wrong with that?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Do you?
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: I was asking you.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: However, if you want to pull up....
• 39:18
  Speaker 13: The East River. A mighty mysterious place at this time
• 39:22
  Speaker 13: of day. You're pretty close to the edge, aren't you?
• 39:25
  Speaker 13: The wheels are blocked. You're not nervous, are you?
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: No, I'm not.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Now, about that check.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: I didn't find that check in a cab, Mr.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Holmes.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: I found it in Stephen Graves' house, where he's lying
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: right now on the floor, dead.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Stephen dead?
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: And your cigar is still in the room with him,
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: chewed to a pulp. A Corona, like the one you're
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: smoking right now. You should have taken it with you, Mr. Holmes,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: after you'd killed him. You seem to know a good
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: deal about this.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: A little.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Just enough to know who the killer is.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I feel a little sorry for you.
• 40:10
  Speaker 13: I didn't know you were as young as you are.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Over the phone. What have I.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: What have I got to do with it?
• 40:20
  Speaker 13: You're having a lot of trouble with your eyes, aren't you?
• 40:23
  Speaker 13: Lights on the dashboard have got rings around them, haven't they?
• 40:25
  Speaker 13: Like big soap bubbles.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
• 40:30
  Speaker 13: Say, you talk too much. You've talked yourself into the grave.
• 40:36
  Speaker 13: I would have believed you about finding that check in
• 40:38
  Speaker 13: a taxi. You would have gone to sleep in the car,
• 40:41
  Speaker 13: and when you woke up, you wouldn't have the check
• 40:43
  Speaker 13: on you anymore. But you'd have had a $ 10 bill
• 40:46
  Speaker 13: in your pocket, too. sugarcoat the experience. Head weighs too much,
• 40:51
  Speaker 13: doesn't it? Too heavy for your neck.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: My head.
• 40:55
  Speaker 13: You should have stuck to your own drink, son. You
• 40:58
  Speaker 13: were suspicious, but not suspicious enough. You took the wrong glass.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Me? I'm a chess player. You know what chess is?
• 41:08
  Speaker 13: It's figuring out your opponent's move before he makes it.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: That's a funny thing. The way my head's Like a
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: solid rock.
• 41:21
  Speaker 13: You're going to sleep here in the car. Then you're
• 41:25
  Speaker 13: going into the river without a mark on you. But
• 41:28
  Speaker 13: I'll take the check before I dump you. It's probably
• 41:30
  Speaker 13: in your shoe. It's about where your type of youngster
• 41:34
  Speaker 13: would think was a clever hiding place for it.
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: Just clear my head. And then kick. Kick.
• 41:44
  Speaker 13: Trying to kick out the glass, son? You haven't the
• 41:49
  Speaker 13: strength of a kick left in you. No, it's all over.
• 41:55
  Speaker 13: That's water in front of us. That even black line
• 41:59
  Speaker 13: you see. Right over the hubcap. You can't even move,
• 42:05
  Speaker 13: can you? That's right. Make a lazy pass with your
• 42:09
  Speaker 13: hand like you're brushing away flies. That's about all you're
• 42:13
  Speaker 13: able to do.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: In a minute... You won't even be able to do that.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: There go your eyes. Down, down, down.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: You won't get away with this, mister. Ricky knows. There
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: are two of us. Not just one.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: One.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: And so I walked away from Quinn, and I was
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: alone again. I'd met him only a few hours before,
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: and with him I'd met my past and my home
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: and everything I loved and wanted. And now I was
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: alone again. Somewhere in this sleeping city, Quinn was after
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: his man, and I was after my woman, my redhead,
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: my long-stemmed American beauty. the nightclub parakeet was dead. Dead,
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: but not quite cold. Just in the process of giving
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: up the ghost. Every other minute, a solitary figure would
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: come out and walk away. Someone who earned a living inside.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: This was the five o'clock in the afternoon of the
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: nightclub workers, whose clock goes in the opposite direction to
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: that of the rest of the world. And what did
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: I have to go on? A redhead blackmailer who had
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: quickly scribbled a note to a man. And that kind
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: of woman doesn't ordinarily carry around pencil and paper in
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: her purse. She sends messages with her eyes and her hips.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: If she wants a pencil, she's got to borrow.
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: It from the help.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Excuse me. Huh? What's the matter? You work here, don't you?
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: I'm in the checkroom till something better turns up.
• 44:10
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Well, I wondered, did my friend in a light green dress,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: a redhead, did she borrow a pencil from you tonight?
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: It works the other way around, honey. The men take
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: out their pencils and give me names and addresses and
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: telephone numbers. I got a fistful. But didn't a woman...
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: It's no.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: Dice, honey.
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: I don't even see any women in my stall.
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: Oh.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Another long day.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: My feet swell up all the time.
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: You want to try Epsom salts? Water as hot as
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: you can stand.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: Excuse me.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: Well, my name's Jerry. But don't let the name stand
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: in your way.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: I'm looking for my friend, a redhead in a light
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: green dress. Did she borrow a pencil from you tonight?
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: Not at my end of the bar. How about it, Frank? Sure,
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: Joan Bassett. About midnight.
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: She's always borrowing something and forgetting to give it back.
• 44:58
  Speaker 10: How that girl forgets.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: That's the way Joanie is. Do you... Do you know
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: where I can find her?
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: Well, try to Concord.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: That was the last address.
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: But she's probably moved by now. Thanks, fellas.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Can't I do anything for you?
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: Another time, Jerry.
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: Okay, that's a promise. Another time.
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: What can I do for you?
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: Be friendly, Pop. Say hello. You know... That's better.
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: What do you want, a room?
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: We're full up.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: What room's my girlfriend got? I want to run up
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: and tell her something. You know, Joanie.
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: Joan Bassett?
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Joan Bassett. Only we don't have to be so formal.
• 45:42
  Speaker 10: She's in 409, sugar. Hey, wait a minute.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: I'll try it.
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, skip that. She don't have to put on no
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: ears with me. Who's she kidding? I know she's two
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: weeks behind no rent.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: If you know that well, go on up.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: What do you want?
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: You.
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: I want to talk to you.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 46:14
  Speaker 11: Well, just stand out there a minute and tell me
• 46:16
  Speaker 11: what about.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: We got a friend in common, you and I.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: It's possible.
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: Go on.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: This friend's name is Stephen Graves. Um, suppose you come
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: in a minute. I'll hear what's on your mind.
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: I thought that might do it. Do you have to
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: lock the door? Yeah, I think I do. Whatever you
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: think best.
• 46:39
  Speaker 11: Begin with your name. You can put me down as
• 46:42
  Speaker 11: Carolyn Miller. All right, Carolyn Miller. Now about Stephen Graves.
• 46:47
  Speaker 11: What makes you think I know him?
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: Stop being polite. You know him. Did he mention me
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: to you?
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: No.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: He wasn't doing any mentioning of anybody. He wasn't doing anything.
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: You been over to see him lately? Very lately. I
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: just came from there now. How did you find him?
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: I found him dead.
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: I see.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, that tap in the kitchen is loose again. Excuse
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: me a minute while I tighten it. I'd known we
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: weren't alone the moment I came into that room. And
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: I knew that faucet in the kitchen was a signal
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: for a quick conference. It was my chance. Maybe I
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: had a minute, maybe only 30 seconds. There was only
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: time for one thing, the open handbag on the dresser.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: Nothing there.
• 47:36
  Speaker 9: Lipstick.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: Powder, usual junk, and then an unpaid hotel bill for $ 17. 89
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: from this place, the Concord. No good, worthless, and my
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: time was up, yet something screamed at me to hold
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: on to it, to slip it inside my stocking high
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: up and to get back into my chair. Well, that's done. Now,
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: where were we? With Stephen Graves. Oh, yeah.
• 48:03
  Speaker 11: Did you go up there alone or did you have
• 48:06
  Speaker 11: somebody with you?
• 48:07
  Speaker 8: Alone.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Alone.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: I don't take my grandmother with me when I'm visiting.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: I see. Somebody stop you at the door and tell you?
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: Is that how you found out? Cops and people hanging around?
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: Lots of excitement? No one knows it. I found him alone.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: I had a key to the house that he'd given me.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: I went up and there he was.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Dead.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: What'd you do?
• 48:25
  Speaker 11: Holler bloody murder and bring everyone down on the place?
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: I got out of there fast and quiet. I don't
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: want to be mixed up in it. Smart girl. And
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: all this happened just a little while ago, huh? Yeah.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Nobody knows yet but you?
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Me?
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: And you? Did you come here alone? All alone. Everything
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: I do, I do alone. I guess I've hit the jackpot. Yeah,
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: you sure have, baby. You've hit it hard. Make it tight, Griff,
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: so she can't make any noise.
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: It's tight.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Don't worry about that.
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: Well, Miss Carolyn Miller, you're in trouble now.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: You tell her.
• 49:00
  Speaker 11: So Stephen Graves is dead and you felt a little
• 49:02
  Speaker 11: nosy about it, huh? You wanted the details. All right,
• 49:05
  Speaker 11: you can have them. You seem to have known him
• 49:08
  Speaker 11: pretty well. Maybe he told you, did he? Did he
• 49:10
  Speaker 11: tell you about his kid brother who married a tavern
• 49:12
  Speaker 11: hostess back in Boston? Did he tell you what that
• 49:15
  Speaker 11: did to the fine old family name when this girl
• 49:17
  Speaker 11: began asking for money?
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: When she came to New York and began... asking Stephen
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: for money?
• 49:22
  Speaker 11: Did he tell you that he paid and paid and
• 49:24
  Speaker 11: finally decided to stop paying so this girl and her
• 49:26
  Speaker 11: friend had to pay him a little visit tonight to
• 49:29
  Speaker 11: try to persuade him?
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: Did he tell you that?
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: Did he tell you what happened when he couldn't be persuaded?
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: No.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: No, he didn't tell you that. Because he wasn't talking
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: by then. By then he was dead.
• 49:44
  Speaker 7: That's enough. You want to spend the night at it?
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: All right. Well, what's the play now?
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: Don't you figure we ought to.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: No, not here in the room. That's begging for it.
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: You don't understand. I don't mean chop-chop, that kind of stuff.
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: I mean, we're four flights up. That ought to be enough.
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: The three of us get to drinking up here. She
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: goes over to the window to try to open it
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: for a little air. It jams, so she's got to
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: push it.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: There's always a follow-up. It's a little messy.
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: Let me take care of this.
• 50:09
  Speaker 11: Yeah, like you took care of the other. When I
• 50:11
  Speaker 11: told you just to throw a scare into him so
• 50:12
  Speaker 11: he'd come across. Well, some scare you threw at him, Griff.
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I scared him right out of his skin, right out.
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: Of his heart.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: I don't want you to be so impulsive this time.
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: Well, then let's blow. We'll stuff her in the closet.
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: Backs up against a dead wall so she'll never be heard.
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: It'll be days before they get around to busting the
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: door down.
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll be far away by then.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, far away.
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, I can pack in ten minutes.
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'll give you a hand.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I'm missing that hotel bill. It must
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: have fallen somewhere on the floor.
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: Oh, don't worry about that. He can make up a
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: new one for you down at the desk.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, sure.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: Well, shall we get her out of the way first?
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Hang Carolyn Miller in the closet.
• 50:50
  Speaker 9: Oh, see, Daisy.
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: Make her comfortable, Griff.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: We want to be extra nice to her because there's
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: a little fresh air in there.
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: There'll only be a minute. Griff!
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: Put her down.
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  Speaker 10: What do you mean?
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: Put her down, quick! I ought to have my head examined.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: You mean you slipped on something?
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, forgot. We both clean forgot. What was it tipped
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: her off to me? She didn't pull my name and
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: address out of a hat.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: Get that gag off her. You try to scream and
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: I'll dent you. I won't scream.
• 51:19
  Speaker 9: Now talk.
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: How'd you know I knew him? How'd you know where
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: to find me?
• 51:23
  Speaker 11: I'm going to let you have it and I'm going
• 51:25
  Speaker 11: to keep letting you have it until you answer.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: You dropped your hotel bill over there. I found it
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: lying in the room with him.
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: I ought to slap you down to the soles of
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: your feet.
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: You left your calling card.
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: That's what you did.
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: No, she's lying. I swear I saw it in my
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: handbag after I got back.
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: Did you take it out to show him? Answer me,
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: did you? Sure.
• 51:44
  Speaker 11: While you were waiting downstairs, it was part of the
• 51:46
  Speaker 11: build-up to show him how bad I needed money, but
• 51:48
  Speaker 11: I know I put it back again.
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: You think you know.
• 51:50
  Speaker 9: Well, I.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm almost positive. It fell out. It was for $ 17. 89.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: It had past you stamped on it in purple ink.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: It even had your room number on it.
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: And what did you do with it?
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Did you bring it with you? I left it where
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: it was. I was afraid to touch anything.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: We'll have to go back and get it.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: All right, we will.
• 52:16
  Speaker 11: We'll take her with us. Fix it to look like
• 52:18
  Speaker 11: she did it to him. What you want to do
• 52:20
  Speaker 11: in the first place, Griff, why don't you do it
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: over there? Give him a double header to figure out.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's the only way. Rub out this detour by
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: finishing her off where she started from.
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: All right. Come on, Carolyn Miller.
• 52:35
  Speaker 10: We're going for a little ride.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: And so I went back into Stephen Graves' house for
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: the second time that night. They pushed me ahead of
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: them in the darkness, whispering to each other not to
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: use any lights yet, just as Quinn and I had
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: done a few hours before. Or was it a few
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: years before? Then we were in the study And the
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: lights were snapped on And the dead man was still
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: on the floor And nobody stepped forward to say Bricky,
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: is that you? No He wasn't there Quinn wasn't there
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: Waiting to help me To save me.
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  Speaker 7: Let's do what we have to do and get out
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: fast No, not yet Something else first.
• 53:35
  Speaker 9: Well, you.
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: Where is it? Where's that hotel bill? Where'd you say
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: you saw it? Over there by him is where I said.
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: And you believed me. Then you didn't. You lied.
• 53:51
  Speaker 6: I lied.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Where is it?
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: Where have you got it?
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: That's your little problem.
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: Let me have that gun.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: I'll do it.
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: Here it is, Griff.
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: Get away from him.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Move over.
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: Stand still, Carolyn Miller. I want to come real close.
• 54:11
  Speaker 7: I want them to worry about whether it's suicide.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, Griff. I'll stand still.
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: Good girl, Carolyn. Good girl.
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: It didn't hurt. It didn't hurt at all. And I
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: opened my eyes to find out why. Griff stood in
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: the middle of the room, his face contorted, an arm
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: squeezing hard around his neck. And behind his face was
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: another face, a face I knew, Quinn's face, the boy
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: next door, fighting for me, fighting to save me. Then
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: Quinn went down, all lopsided, and Quinn was on top,
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: punching at him again and again, and Joan was racing
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: across the room with an andy and raising her hand.
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: I never played football as a little girl, but on
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: this night I decided it was time to try.
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: The End.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Ricky. Ricky, darling. Quinn.
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: Are you all right?
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: Somebody's ringing church bells in my head.
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: Oh, you knocked yourself out with that flying tackle. Quinn.
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: Quinn, what happened?
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: Are they.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're both asleep, Ricky. As sound as can be.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: I see you've wrapped them up nicely.
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I had to tear up a few good sheets
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: to do it, but I don't think Mr. Graves would
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: have minded.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: I'd given up, Quinn. I thought I'd beat you back here,
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: and I'd given up.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, Bricky.
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: I saw them coming in with you outside on the street.
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: I was watching from one of the front windows. And
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: something about the way you were walking between them, sort
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: of stiff, told me they had a gun on you.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: So I backed up into the bathroom and laid low.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: They're the ones, Quinn. They did it.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: And we can go now. It's a quarter to six.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: We can catch that bus for home.
• 56:15
  Speaker 5: There's one more thing to be done, Ricky. It'll only
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: take a minute. And then you and I aren't going
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: to have any more to worry about. Is this the police?
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: I want to report a murder.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, Quinn.
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: Stephen Graves, in his home on East 71st Street. There
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: are two people tied up in the same room with
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: the body, and they're the killers... You'll find a special
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: delivery letter in the desk from Graves' younger brother, and
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: that'll tell you the reason for the killing.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: What?
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: No, this isn't any rib. I wish it was.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Me?
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: Just a guy who happened to be passing by.
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: We can take their car. He left his keys in it.
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: Come on, Quinn, hurry.
• 57:00
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: We'll make it, don't you worry, Bricky I'm not worried.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: I know we will What happened to you tonight? Did
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: you find Holmes?
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah And?
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: And he tried to kill me When? It was your
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: name that saved me, Bricky I called out your name
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: I told him you were in on this with me
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: And he changed his mind in a.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: Hurry Then we saved each other That's right What about
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: the check? How did it figure?
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: Well, Holmes was caught short when he wrote that check
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: And Graves got sore when the bank returned it. They
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: talked it over tonight, and it ended up with Graves
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: giving him another day to raise the money. The reason
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: Holmes was so jittery was that the check seemed to
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: have disappeared. He didn't know what Graves might be pulling.
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: And of course, Graves wasn't pulling anything with that check
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: lying in the bottom.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: Of his bathtub.
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: You told Holmes how it got there?
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: And look what I've got.
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: Two hundred dollar.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Quinn!
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: No, I didn't steal it. After he decided he wouldn't
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: kill me, Holmes and I got very chummy. He said
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: we'd both made a mistake in the same night. Me
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: breaking into a safe and him with his bad check.
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: He'd slipped me a pill earlier in the evening, and
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: now he was walking me around to sober me up.
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: That's when he gave me the money. A nest egg
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: for me, he said. I could send it back to
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: him a little at a time later on.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: We'll send it back, Quinn.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: We, Bricky?
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: We're in this together. aren't we?
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: Yes, Bricky, we are.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, look, Quinn, we made it. We're in time. The
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: bus is still there.
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: Come on, Bricky. Let's go on home.
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Helen Walker and John Beale, for your truly
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: wonderful performances as Bricky and Quinn. And to Lillian Byer,
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Rye Billsbury, Edith Tackner, Buddy Gray, and Bill Johnstone, thanks
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: for your splendid support. With this performance, suspense leaves the
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: air for a short vacation period. We will return on
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, starting Thursday,
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: July 8th. with an outstanding series of gripping suspense stories
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: featuring the acting of your favorite stars of the screen.
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: Watch for the new suspense series starting Thursday, July 8th.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: Miss Helen Walker may soon be seen in My Dear Secretary,
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: and Mr. John Beale will soon be seen in Paramount's Abigail,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: Dear Heart.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 12: Deadline at Dawn by William Irish was adapted for radio
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 12: by Irving Ravitch and was produced and directed by Anton M.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Leder.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 12: Lud Gluskin is our musical director and conductor. Lucian Marowak
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 12: composes the original scores. Be sure to watch for the
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