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Suspense - "Deep into Darkness (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr )" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Seven years after serving a manslaughter sentence, a newly released
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: man sees the person he believed dead walking freely through
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: the city. It is the premise of Suspense, Deep into Darkness,
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Episode 2, dated July 2nd, 1948. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stars
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: as Ken Matthews with Joseph Kearns and Lorene Tuttle. Edward
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  Speaker 1: James wrote the script and Anton M. Leder directed and produced.
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  Speaker 1: The sight of that living man brings Matthews face to
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: face with his past, and with the question of whether
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: a man may be tried twice for the same offense.
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  Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: In just a moment, Suspense, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: Now, let's stop in at Ed Jones for a moment,
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  Speaker 3: will you?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Dad.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Ed.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: How's the world's greatest ignition service station tonight?
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  Speaker 5: I have.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Billy.
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  Speaker 6: Hi.
• 1:01
  Speaker 7: I'm busy on a couple of cranky ignition jobs. Say,
• 1:04
  Speaker 7: how's the car running?
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: Never better. Take a look.
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  Speaker 8: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Glad to.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Dad, Ed's got his radio on.
• 1:09
  Speaker 9: Is it the auto light show?
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  Speaker 4: That's it, Billy.
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  Speaker 8: Suspense is my Thursday night special.
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  Speaker 3: Ignition systems, spark plugs, batteries. Ed, you've got everyone in
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  Speaker 3: town switching to auto light.
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  Speaker 7: Billy, your dad's trying to take over the auto light
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  Speaker 7: announcer's chore.
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  Speaker 8: Say, Doug Fairbanks Jr. is on Suspense tonight.
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  Speaker 2: You like him, Billy? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: He's a self-starting, smooth-running humdinger. Why, he's got the pep
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  Speaker 9: of an auto light ignition system, a set of spark plugs,
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  Speaker 9: and a stateful battery combined.
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  Speaker 10: Uh-oh, here's the show.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 11: Autolite and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you
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  Speaker 11: radio's outstanding theater of thrills. Starring tonight, Mr. Douglas Fairbanks
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  Speaker 11: in a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. Suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Today, everybody's switching to Autolite, and tonight, Autolite takes pleasure
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  Speaker 2: in presenting.
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  Speaker 11: Anton Leder's production of Deep Into Darkness, starring Douglas Fairbanks.
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  Speaker 4: This is a story about fear, and I'm an expert
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  Speaker 4: on fear. Me, Ken Matthews.
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  Speaker 6: That cheap, broken-down hotel room is as good a place
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  Speaker 6: as any to start. It was all I could afford.
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  Speaker 6: New York, the city of bright lights, and me, stretched
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  Speaker 6: out on a squeaky bed, watching a spot change shape
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  Speaker 6: on the ceiling.
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  Speaker 4: It's a kind of game to keep a man from
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  Speaker 4: going crazy.
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  Speaker 6: For seven years, I watched another spot, changed it into
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  Speaker 6: a million shapes, got to know it better than.
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  Speaker 4: I knew myself.
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  Speaker 6: That spot on the ceiling of my cell at Joliet Penitentiary.
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  Speaker 6: When it was over, when they were finally ready to
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  Speaker 6: let me go back into the world, the warden had
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  Speaker 6: something to say to me, some advice.
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  Speaker 11: Matthews, you're leaving us early because of your good behavior record. Now,
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  Speaker 11: if I were you, I'd start fresh on the outside,
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  Speaker 11: stay away from Chicago, go someplace new where they don't
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  Speaker 11: know you.
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  Speaker 4: I sort of figured on doing that, warden.
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  Speaker 11: Good. You'll find it easier.
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  Speaker 4: I'd find it easier?
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  Speaker 6: I wonder how it is when it's tough. Nobody knew
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  Speaker 6: me in New York. Nobody wanted to know me.
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  Speaker 4: And as for a job, well, did you ever wash dishes?
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  Speaker 4: I washed a million. Now, any dirty jobs nobody wants
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  Speaker 4: to do, I did them all. That's how I built
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  Speaker 4: up my fortune.
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  Speaker 6: $ 17.
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  Speaker 4: 50, United States currency.
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  Speaker 6: That's how much I was worth this one morning when
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  Speaker 6: I saw a sign out in front of a construction shop.
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  Speaker 4: Men wanted the sign set. I believed it. I looked
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  Speaker 4: up the form.
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  Speaker 8: Bill, what's that compressor? Come on, Jim, keep it moving.
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  Speaker 1: Ahem.
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  Speaker 2: Looking for something, bud?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. You have a sign out there. Are you hiring men?
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  Speaker 1: Could be.
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  Speaker 8: What do you do?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, just about anything. I can keep books, handle your time.
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  Speaker 6: I used to be an accountant.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah?
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  Speaker 6: But if that's not what you're looking for, well, I
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  Speaker 6: can swing a shovel, too. I just want a job.
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  Speaker 8: I like that attitude.
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  Speaker 4: Got your discharge certificate with you? Discharge?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, honorable discharge. Always like to give a break to
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  Speaker 8: ex-service guys.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I wasn't in the service. Oh, all right. No, no,
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  Speaker 4: I sat out the war. I was in jail. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: it's tough.
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  Speaker 2: It got a little mixed up in your account, huh?
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  Speaker 4: No, it was manslaughter. I killed a man. What about
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  Speaker 4: the job? I really need it.
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  Speaker 8: Look, buddy, I don't want you to think this is
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  Speaker 8: my idea, but.
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  Speaker 4: But you can't use me. No, I can't. You see... Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I see. Start fresh, he said.
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  Speaker 2: I got an order.
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  Speaker 4: See, you know how that is.
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  Speaker 2: A boss's figure.
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  Speaker 8: There's a lot of vets looking for jobs.
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  Speaker 2: I got to give them the first crack at things.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if I was to... It's all right. It isn't
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  Speaker 4: your fault.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe some other war. Somehow that was the last straw.
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  Speaker 6: I started to hate. I hated everything and everyone. And
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  Speaker 6: then I thought of my fortune, my $ 17. 50. And suddenly
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  Speaker 6: I knew there was something I wanted to buy.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want to use the gun for, mister?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I just want to have it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we're supposed to put something down there. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: along with your name and everything.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, put down target practice. That's good enough, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: I guess so.
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  Speaker 4: What's the name? Put down Smith. Smith.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's like that, huh? Look, mister, I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to get into any trouble. I run a respectable place
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  Speaker 5: of business here.
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  Speaker 4: You want to sell the gun, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, sure, but.
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  Speaker 4: You want the $ 14, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 5: So it's Smith. And you're going to do some target practice.
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  Speaker 5: Give me the 14 bucks and get lost, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Thanks. Thanks a lot. Funny thing, I still don't know
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  Speaker 4: why I wanted that gun. I swear I don't. Kill myself,
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  Speaker 4: rob a bank or a filling station? I haven't any idea.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose I just thought that having it would make
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  Speaker 4: me feel better.
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  Speaker 6: Only it didn't. It hung in my pocket heavy as lead.
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  Speaker 4: Cold, dead, just like its owners. I turned into a
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  Speaker 4: side street.
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  Speaker 6: 52nd, 51st.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't sure. I stopped to light a cigarette.
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  Speaker 6: And the car pulled up to the curb. It was
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  Speaker 6: a big car with a chauffeur. A black car, smooth
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  Speaker 6: and shiny. And I looked at the man getting out.
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  Speaker 6: Just one look, and wheels started spinning around in my head.
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  Speaker 4: I got dizzy.
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  Speaker 6: The sidewalk twisted and bounced around like it was having
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  Speaker 6: a convulsion. When he spoke, the shock of hearing his
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  Speaker 6: voice straightened it all out, made it cold and clear
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  Speaker 6: as hard crystal.
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  Speaker 4: Just a few words to that chauffeur. Wait for me, Davis.
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  Speaker 4: I won't be long.
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  Speaker 6: He turned and walked past me, right by me into
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  Speaker 6: the bank.
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  Speaker 4: But he couldn't walk. He couldn't do anything. That was
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  Speaker 4: Lee Burke.
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  Speaker 6: I was staring at. Lee Burke, the man I'd killed
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  Speaker 6: seven years ago.
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  Speaker 11: For suspense, Autolite is bringing you Mr. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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  Speaker 11: in Deep into Darkness, Autolite's presentation of radio's outstanding theater
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  Speaker 11: of thrills, Suspense.
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  Speaker 7: Sure looks like young Doug's got it, eh, Billy?
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  Speaker 8: Boy, I'll say he has. What a chip he's got
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  Speaker 8: in his shoulder.
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  Speaker 3: Billy, stop chipping and chirping like your mother. Oh, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, Ann, that ignition system of mine.
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  Speaker 7: Scora Bullseye, she's completely on the beam. My jobs usually are,
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  Speaker 7: especially when they're auto-light.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Money can't buy better ignition equipment for your car.
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  Speaker 2: Auto-light parts are made by the world's largest independent manufacturers
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  Speaker 2: of automobile electrical equipment. and Autolite service stations are equipped
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  Speaker 2: with highly trained men and specialized machines to give your
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  Speaker 2: car the best in automobile service.
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  Speaker 9: That Autolite ignition system sounds intelligent enough to take an
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  Speaker 9: IQ test.
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  Speaker 11: Eh, Ed?
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  Speaker 2: Stop pulling Ed's leg, Billy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm used to it, Hap.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 7: Autolite makes original equipment for many of the finest cars
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  Speaker 7: in America. Ignition systems, batteries, spark plugs, generators, lots more.
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  Speaker 7: So it's Only natural that Autolite ignition is... Well, it's
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  Speaker 7: a perfectly timed team with smooth on-the-dot performance.
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  Speaker 2: So when your car's electrical system needs attention, drive into
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  Speaker 2: your nearest Autolite service station or the dealer who sells
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  Speaker 2: your make of car and ask for original factory parts.
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  Speaker 7: Autolite?
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  Speaker 4: Autolite service stations are listed in your classified.
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  Speaker 6: Telephone directory under Automotive Electrical Service.
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  Speaker 11: And now, Autolite brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Ken in Deep Into Darkness. A
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  Speaker 11: tale well calculated to keep you in.
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  Speaker 7: Suspense.
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  Speaker 11: Suspense.
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  Speaker 6: In those few moments of watching a man walk across
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  Speaker 6: a sidewalk into a bank, I lived.
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  Speaker 4: It all over again. The way it happened when I
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  Speaker 4: killed him seven years ago back in Chicago. There wasn't
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  Speaker 4: anything about it I couldn't remember.
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  Speaker 10: Ken, darling.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 10: Do you love me, Ken?
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  Speaker 4: Do I love you? Oh, no, not at all.
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  Speaker 6: I just sit in that goofy nightclub night after night
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  Speaker 6: because the food's so good.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Ken, you're sweet.
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  Speaker 4: Lila, why don't you forget that place? Give it up.
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  Speaker 4: Where's it going to get a girl like you, dancing
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  Speaker 4: in a cheap honky-tonk?
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  Speaker 10: You have something better to offer, darling?
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  Speaker 4: I've offered it a half a dozen times. Marry me.
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  Speaker 4: I got a good job. It'll get better.
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  Speaker 10: Hand me my drink, will you?
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 8: Here.
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  Speaker 4: What do you say?
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  Speaker 10: I've told you, Ken, over and over again, I'm not
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  Speaker 10: getting married. Not to you, anyway. You're a sweet guy, sure,
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  Speaker 10: and I'm very fond of you, but little Lila isn't
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  Speaker 10: burying herself in any house with a bunch of squalling kids.
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  Speaker 4: That's for suckers. I don't think you mean that at all.
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you just watch, darling.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to wind up with a diamond so big
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  Speaker 10: it'll take a two-ton truck to deliver it to me.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to have so many mink coats, I'll use
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  Speaker 10: them for pajamas.
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  Speaker 8: That's the way to talk, sis. You tell him.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, Lee.
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  Speaker 8: You're beginning to sound like you're getting good sense. What
• 10:58
  Speaker 8: are you doing up here with this bookkeeper, anyway?
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  Speaker 4: And a good evening to you, too, Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind.
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  Speaker 8: I thought I said I didn't want you wasting your
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  Speaker 8: time with him.
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  Speaker 4: He's all right.
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  Speaker 8: Get out of here, Matthews.
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, wait a minute. If Lila wants me to go.
• 11:10
  Speaker 8: Oh, not satisfied with my suggestions, huh? Well, I have
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  Speaker 8: a good mind to.
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  Speaker 10: Lee, stop it. Put that gun away. Every time you
• 11:17
  Speaker 10: have a few drinks, you start waving that gun around.
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: Really, Lee, you better put it down. Stop acting like
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: a kid. Acting like a kid, huh? I'll show you
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  Speaker 4: who's acting like a kid. I'll... Give me that gun. Lee!
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Give it to me.
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: I'll break your arm.
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  Speaker 8: No, let go of my.
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  Speaker 4: It went off. I was only trying to take it
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  Speaker 4: away from him.
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  Speaker 10: You killed him. Ken, you killed my brother.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't mean it, I tell you. You saw what happened.
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  Speaker 4: I was only trying to get the gun.
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  Speaker 10: Get out, Ken. The police will find you.
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  Speaker 12: Get out of here.
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  Speaker 10: Hurry, I tell you.
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  Speaker 8: Get out!
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  Speaker 6: I got out all right in a hurry. It was
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: pouring that night, and I ran down the street with
• 12:02
  Speaker 6: a rain slapping me in the face. I ran up
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  Speaker 6: a back alley into the darkness, and then I stopped.
• 12:08
  Speaker 6: I didn't want to run, not for the rest of
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: my life. I went to the nearest police station, turned
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  Speaker 6: myself in. They took me back to the Berks, and
• 12:17
  Speaker 6: we found Lila sitting in a chair, glassy-eyed, just staring
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  Speaker 6: down at.
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  Speaker 4: Her brother, Lee.
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  Speaker 6: He was right where I'd left him, sprawled on the floor,
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  Speaker 6: face down. Lee Burke was dead, and they gave me
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: ten years for killing him. Only now he wasn't dead.
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: He couldn't be. I'd just seen him walk into a bank.
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  Speaker 4: A nice car you got.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Must be an important man to have a car like that, eh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's a big guy. Lots of money, I suppose, eh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's crawling with it.
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  Speaker 11: Does that make you happy?
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  Speaker 4: His name doesn't happen to be Burke, does it? No, Wilson.
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  Speaker 8: Keith Wilson.
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  Speaker 11: He also happens to be a stockbroker.
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  Speaker 4: Anything else you want to know? Keith Wilson. Yeah, now
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  Speaker 4: beat it. The boss is coming.
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  Speaker 2: The boss?
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  Speaker 4: Now, isn't that something?
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  Speaker 12: All right, Davis.
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  Speaker 8: I'll go straight to the office now.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: In a hurry, Lee?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, there must be some mistake.
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  Speaker 4: My name isn't Lee. Oh, pardon me. It was Lee.
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  Speaker 4: There wasn't any doubt about it. And he knew me, too.
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  Speaker 4: I could see it in his eyes and the way
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  Speaker 4: his face went white.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't understand it. I couldn't figure out why or how,
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  Speaker 6: but Lee Burke was alive. The rest of the fortune
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  Speaker 6: went for a taxi ride, but it was worth it
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  Speaker 6: to me. And I guess if I hadn't had enough
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: money to follow Lee's car wherever it went, I'd have
• 13:53
  Speaker 6: forced the cab driver with that gun I'd bought.
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  Speaker 4: But it wasn't necessary. We went out to Long Island.
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  Speaker 4: Way out.
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  Speaker 6: And then the car swung into a place with a
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: big half-circle drive. Lee Burke, now Mr. Keith Wilson, was
• 14:06
  Speaker 6: doing very well for himself. And so was Lila. What's
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: the matter, Lila?
• 14:13
  Speaker 8: Ken.
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  Speaker 4: Is it like seeing a ghost?
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  Speaker 10: Ken. Ken, it's really you.
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  Speaker 4: I saw a ghost just now, too, only he was
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: very much alive.
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  Speaker 10: So that's what he was so excited about. Lee... Yes,
• 14:25
  Speaker 10: he came in, rushed upstairs. Told me to call the airport,
• 14:28
  Speaker 10: get him a plane from Miami.
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  Speaker 4: Did you?
• 14:30
  Speaker 10: Not yet.
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  Speaker 4: That won't do any good.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Ken.
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  Speaker 10: Ken, what do you want? Why did you come here?
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to be sure, Lila. Absolutely sure.
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  Speaker 10: What are you going to do?
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: I'd like to kill him. I ought to kill you both.
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  Speaker 10: No, Ken. Don't talk like that. It wasn't me. I
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  Speaker 10: didn't plan it.
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  Speaker 4: But it was a plan, wasn't it, Lila? Wasn't it?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You want to tell me about it, or do I
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  Speaker 4: have to choke it out of him?
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  Speaker 10: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 4: What's the difference? You didn't kill Lee.
• 15:02
  Speaker 10: You didn't kill anybody.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: Huh? It was a frame-up. Then how could I have
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: seen him like that? Lee was on the floor, dead.
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  Speaker 10: No, that wasn't Lee. He found the man, Kenneth, a stumble-bum,
• 15:16
  Speaker 10: a drunk, and the man looked just like him. Close
• 15:19
  Speaker 10: enough for what Lee had figured out. was the crookedest
• 15:22
  Speaker 10: scheme you ever heard took out insurance with every company
• 15:25
  Speaker 10: in town half a million dollars with me as beneficiary
• 15:29
  Speaker 10: was going to kill this drifter and disappear let me
• 15:31
  Speaker 10: collect the money it was as simple as that at
• 15:34
  Speaker 10: first keep talking I told him it wouldn't work Ken
• 15:36
  Speaker 10: that they'd never pay off not that much not till
• 15:39
  Speaker 10: I checked fingerprints teeth everything but he had that figure
• 15:41
  Speaker 10: too they wouldn't check a thing if a fall guy
• 15:44
  Speaker 10: pleaded guilty to a.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Murder charge so that's how it was you were the fall.
• 15:47
  Speaker 10: Guy I let you take me home that night remember
• 15:51
  Speaker 10: I remember Lee had his gun loaded with blanks. It
• 15:54
  Speaker 10: was an act, the whole thing. Then when you ran,
• 15:56
  Speaker 10: he finished the job. He had the drunk in the
• 15:59
  Speaker 10: bedroom dressed in his clothes. He brought him into the
• 16:02
  Speaker 10: living room. Killed him right in front of me. That's
• 16:07
  Speaker 10: who you saw when you got back.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: Good Lord.
• 16:11
  Speaker 10: That's why... Why I hate my brother, why I don't
• 16:14
  Speaker 10: care what happens to him.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Lila. That's going to make it easier.
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: Lila!
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: Lila, did you call the airline?
• 16:21
  Speaker 10: No, Lee, not yet.
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: But I told you not to waste any time. You
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: don't know what this means.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: She knows what it means, Lee. We all do. What
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: do you want?
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Why'd you follow me here? Hey, look, I think you
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: better get out of here. I'd stay away from that telephone, Lee.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: I'd stand still if.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: I were you.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: You'd better do as he says, Lee.
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: He's got a gun.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Ken, listen to me. You can't do this.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Not now. You don't want any more trouble.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: Why, if the police found out.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: The police?
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: If you told them I was going to kill you,
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: it wouldn't make sense, Lee. Because I've already done that.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Remember? Oh, Ken, look, I can.
• 16:54
  Speaker 8: Explain the whole thing.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: It was a mistake. I'm glad you know that now.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I've made a lot of money, Ken. I've been very lucky.
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: I'll split with you. You look like you could use
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: some money.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, I could.
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: Sure, that's good.
• 17:07
  Speaker 12: Only forget the gun, huh? And stop acting like you
• 17:10
  Speaker 12: want to kill me. You wouldn't gain anything that way.
• 17:13
  Speaker 12: Come on, Lila, fix some drinks or something, huh? We'll
• 17:17
  Speaker 12: talk this over friendly-like. Ken, you know Lila was always.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Crazy about you. I was always crazy about her.
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: Oh, Ken, I.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: But let's talk about something else right now, Lee. Let's
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: talk about America. You know, this is a wonderful country,
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: the way the laws are set up to protect a man.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: Ever hear of double jeopardy, Lee? Brings up a rather
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: interesting fact. That you can't try a man twice for
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: the same crime. Seven years I spent paying for killing you.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Seven years at Joliet and you weren't even dead. That
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: means I've paid for something I haven't done yet. I
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: still have the right, Lee, to kill you once more.
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: Now, Ken, stop it. You're talking crazy. There must be
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: something you want.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: I only want to kill you, Lee, because you deserve
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: to be killed. We both know that, don't we? Only
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: I don't think I'll kill you now, not right away.
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, be reasonable, is that it, Ken?
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Be reasonable, I say.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: I'm going to stay right with you, 24 hours a day,
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: right up to the time you deal.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I know exactly when and how I'm going to kill you.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: And you won't know. You'll never know, Lee, until it happens.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: You'll just wait.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Just sit and wait and wait. I never left the
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Burks mansion. Never let them leave. Ellis would leave from
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: the time he got up until he went to bed.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: I stayed with him every waking hour, and I never
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: stopped twisting his life like a piece of putty, putting
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: fear in his mind until... Well, until there didn't seem
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: to be anything else left there at all. Just a trembling,
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: driving fear in everything he did, everything he said.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Lila, Lila, can't we do something? Get to somebody.
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: Oh, Lee, what can I do?
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: You could have said something to the servants. You had
• 19:05
  Speaker 12: a chance before he sent them away.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I didn't.
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: It all happened too fast. Got rid of them as
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: easily as he cut the telephone wires.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Well, we've got to do something. Get in touch with somebody.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: With Madeline, maybe.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes?
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: What will your blue-blood fiancé think of you now, when
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: you suddenly stop calling two days before your wedding, and
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: then don't show up?
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: The wedding. Oh, Lila, don't you see?
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: If anything should happen to the wedding now, I'd be ruined.
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: He can't get away with this.
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: He'll let down sometime.
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: He's got to sleep.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: So do we. Lila's right, Lee.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, Ken, you were there by the door.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: You heard.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: About your wedding? Yes, Lee. I got back just in
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: time tonight. Can I pour you a Manhattan? No, no, no,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: I don't want anything. You're a funeral.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: No, don't, don't say that. You're falling apart much faster
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: than I thought, Lee. It wasn't taking long at all.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Lee couldn't sit still for a minute. Couldn't take his
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: eyes off me. Of course, little things like this didn't
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: exactly help.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Who is it?
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Ken? Yes, Lee. It's Ken. Got the gun? I have
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: the gun, Lee. This? This is the time, huh? No, Lee, no.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Here.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Drink this. What is it? Milk. Warm milk.
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: Ah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Put you to sleep.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: For good, you mean?
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Just until morning. You see, I wouldn't think of killing
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: a man on his wedding day.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: What?
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Don't tell me you've forgotten your wedding to the blue-blooded
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Miss DeHaven. You've come a long way, Lee, marrying into
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: the social register.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't, Kim.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Come on, drink up. You'll need your strength for the wedding.
• 20:58
  Speaker 12: No.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: No, that's all off. I haven't even called her, Kim.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Lila has. I made her call.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: She made some very pretty excuses for you, and the
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: wedding will go on... As scheduled.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: What are you going to do?
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: Nothing.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Only behave yourself tomorrow. Do as you're told. And you
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: might live through the ceremony.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Will thou, Keith, take this woman to thy wedded wife...
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: to live together after God's ordinance in the holy state
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: of matrimony... Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor and
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: keep her in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: keep thee unto her so long as ye both shall live?
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Say no. Can.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Say no, or I'll kill you right here in front
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: of them all.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Say it, Lee.
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: Mr.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Wilson, the answer, please.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: No. No, I can't. I can't.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: Wilson, please, the answer.
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: This must be the answer.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: There was only one thing wrong with that little wedding scene.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: I had fun, sure, but... In the excitement, I'm afraid
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: I relaxed a little. I wasn't sure how much it mattered.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: That depended on Lila. When I was sure Lee was
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: asleep that night, I met.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Her in the living room. Got right to the point.
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: Something on your mind, Ken?
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Mousy. Who's Mousy?
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: Ken, you look so tired, so thin.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Tell me, Lila. Tell me about Mousy.
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: What do you know about him?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Lee's been talking about him in his sleep. Talking about
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Mousy and you, Lila.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: And me.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: You'd better tell me.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: All about it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: Ken, you're hurting my arm. I don't know anything about Mousy.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Maybe he was there at the wedding. Maybe you saw him.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Maybe you gave him the message. Did you, Lila?
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: Ken, stop it. You know I promised I wouldn't do
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: anything like that. Don't you trust me?
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Trust you? Should I, Lila? Do you really think I should?
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: But you know how I feel about you. Surely you
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: don't think... Oh, Ken. Ken, darling.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Get away from me. Ken! So that's it.
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: It was all just a gag to keep the little
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: girl in line.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: How did you expect me to feel after all this happened?
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: That's right. I was naive, wasn't I?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: Okay. Well, I won't be naive anymore. You can bet
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: on that.
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: Lila.
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: Good night. Ken, darling.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: When I cooled off, I realized I'd gone too far.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: She wouldn't be on my side anymore, unless I could
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: talk to her again and make it all seem like
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: a mistake, a joke maybe. Yeah, that'd be the thing.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: But when I went to find her, she wasn't around.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I didn't see her again until next morning. Every morning
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I went out to the gate for the paper, but
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: this time I waited for Lila to get up and
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: come down so I could talk to her before Lee
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: came in, try to fix things.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: And standing there in the hallway, I fixed things all right.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Fixed them good. Lila.
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I want you to know that, well, that I'm sorry
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: about last night.
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: It's all right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: No, it isn't, no.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: I didn't mean what I said at all. I guess
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: I'd built up so much hate that, well, I was upset.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: I was blind to how you feel about me, how
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: I really feel about you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: Ken, you're asking me to be naive again.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Yes, I guess I am. I like you that way.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I looked for you last night to tell you. You
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: weren't around. Where'd you go? I.
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: Ken, I.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: It's all right. I don't care where you went. Anyway,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: now you know how I really feel.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: Ken, you.
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: you don't know what you're saying.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do, Lila. I've been thinking. That's the way
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: it ought to be.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: We've been a couple of lost souls, but maybe by
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: forgetting the past, trying to find some peace of mind.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Ken! Think about it, will you, Lila?
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: I went out then, out the door and down the driveway,
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: left her standing there, staring after me.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Suddenly, as I was almost to the gate, I heard
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: it coming, running fast.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: Ken!
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: No, Ken, come back!
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: And I saw it, a car that had been parked
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: down the road. It was moving now, gathering speed, coming
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: right past the gate.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: Ken!
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: Ken, look out!
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: And then she was there. She threw herself right in
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: front of me. I heard the shouts.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: I felt her thrown heavily against me, and then her
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: body went limp in my arms.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: I held her close for a second and then I
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: lowered her to the ground. I walked back up the drive, alone.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Lee was out in front of the house, sitting on
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: a bench in front of a big tree. He'd heard
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: the shots, I'm sure, but he was just sitting there,
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: probably waiting for Lila to come back and say that
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: But Mousy had taken care of me.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: He turned and looked up as I walked toward him. Lila? Oh, no.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: His eyes seemed to look right through me somehow. He
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: was that full of fear, I guess. His fingers gripped
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: the tree in back of him, dug deep into the bark.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: He was waiting for me to kill him.
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Lila's dead, Lee. Your gunman got her instead of me. Lila?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Lila?
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry because there was something I didn't have time
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: to tell her.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I never intended to kill you, Lee.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: I was just showing you how seven years looked crowded
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: into a few days.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Seven years? Yeah, that's right. I guess you know now.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: I guess you know why and what you did.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Lee.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Lee, this is Ken. I'm talking to you. Ken. Ken. I...
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know any Ken. And he didn't.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: He didn't even know himself. The way his eyes looked,
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: I don't think he ever will again. They weren't Lee
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Burke's eyes anymore. They belonged to someone else.
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: Funny.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: The man who tried to be somebody else had finally
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: made it. And it was not good to look upon.
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: Him.
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: Thank you, Douglas Fairbanks, for an outstanding performance on... Suspense.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Talk about performance, Dad.
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: Autolight ignition is good, but what about Doug Fairbanks?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: He's really got it, Billy.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Well, let's get going.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Your mother.
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: Mom will be as full of suspense as your autolight
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: ignition system is full of pep, purr, power, and pistol
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: point performance.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: That boy knows his autolight peas, and he doesn't miss
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: any cues.
• 28:22
  Speaker 11: Eh, Hap?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, an autolight is your cue to real motoring enjoyment.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: So remember, wherever you go.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Autolight means spark plug.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Ignition engineered spark plug.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Autolight means batteries. Stay full batteries. Autolight means ignition system.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: The lifeline of your car.
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: And now here again is Mr.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Douglas Fairbanks. I've enjoyed this appearance on Suspense very much.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: And I've noted with great interest as a Suspense fan
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: that Agnes Moorhead will return to the soundstage next week,
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: the scene of her splendid performances of the past. As
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: one of the many who applauded her portrayal in the
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: suspense classic Sorry, Wrong Number, I'll be listening with anticipation
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: next week for Agnes Moorhead in The Yellow Wallpaper, a
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: powerful study in.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Suspense!
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: Suspense!
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Douglas Fairbanks may soon be seen in his own production,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: The O'Flynn. Tonight's suspense play was written by Edward James,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Gluskin.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: The entire production was under the direction of Anton M.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: Leder.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Miss Agnes Moorhead
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: in The Yellow Wallpaper.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: This is the Autolite Suspense Show signing off.
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: Good night.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Switch to Autolite.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: We close with suspense deep into darkness. Thank you for
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: keeping company with Classic Radio this evening.