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Suspense - "A Vision of Death" (Old Time Radio, 1951) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Judd and Aurora make their living as a nightclub mind-reading
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: team relying on a carefully rehearsed system of signals.
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: But Aurora begins giving.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Answers before Judd has offered a cue and seems able
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: to foresee events. On March 8, 1951, CBS presented Suspense,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Episode 8, A Vision of Death, starring Ronald Coleman as
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Judd and Kathy Lewis as Aurora. Walter Brown Newman adapted
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Jerry Hausner's story with Elliot Lewis directing and producing. Joseph
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Kearns and Lawrence Dobkin are also heard. This Thursday night
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: broadcast was sponsored by Autolite and was remade for suspense
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: in 1953. We now take you back to the original broadcast.
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: Autolite and its 96,000 dealers present.
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: Suspense.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, Autolite brings you a story of a mind reader
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  Speaker 4: who discovers his nightclub act is not a fake.
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  Speaker 3: A story we call A Vision of Death.
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  Speaker 2: Starring Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Ronald Coleman.
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  Speaker 4: Before our play begins, here is a word about Autolite
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  Speaker 4: from a good friend of ours.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings, I, Wilcox.
• 1:24
  Speaker 5: Why, it's that amazing, magnificent mystic and great glass globe gazer,
• 1:29
  Speaker 5: Sabu the Swami. What's on my mind?
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: You think of your best friend.
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: Everybody's best friend.
• 1:36
  Speaker 5: The Autolite Stay Full, the battery that needs water only
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  Speaker 5: three times a year in normal car use.
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: Now the glass shows a glass even more powerful than mine.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's the fiberglass retaining mat protecting every positive plate
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  Speaker 5: in the Autolite Stay Full battery. They prevent shedding and
• 1:52
  Speaker 5: flaking and give the stay-full longer life, as proved by
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  Speaker 5: tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards.
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  Speaker 2: Now I see many smiling faces.
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  Speaker 5: On the thousands of drivers who visit their masterful, merry,
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  Speaker 5: and marvelous neighborhood Autolite battery dealers. For an Autolite stay-full,
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  Speaker 5: the battery that needs water only three times a year
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  Speaker 5: in normal car use.
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  Speaker 2: Now the crystal ball shows words of wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 5: You're always right with Autolite.
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  Speaker 4: And now, with a vision of death and the performance
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  Speaker 4: of Mr. Ronald Coleman, Autolite hopes once again to keep
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  Speaker 4: you in suspense.
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  Speaker 2: If I speak too rapidly for your stenographer, you'll tell me,
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  Speaker 2: won't you, Lieutenant? No offense, but he impresses me as
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  Speaker 2: someone who has to sit on the floor to put
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  Speaker 2: his shoes on. And don't hesitate to stop me if
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  Speaker 2: I seem to wander away from the point. I mean
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  Speaker 2: to say this is my first, and I hope final,
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  Speaker 2: appearance in a police precinct, and I should hate to
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  Speaker 2: give a sloppy performance. We were always known, Aurora and I,
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  Speaker 2: for the smoothness and gem-like precision of our act. And
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  Speaker 2: as for this murder... rap, I suppose it's called, is concerned,
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  Speaker 2: an acquaintance with our act is the essential rabbit. Awfully
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  Speaker 2: good act. Smart, informal. Occasionally humorous and always mystifying. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the act always began with music. Never with the cliché
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  Speaker 2: fanfare of trumpets or roll of drums. I would saunter
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  Speaker 2: out to the center of the floor and say something like,
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  Speaker 2: Good evening. You are about to witness an exhibition of
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  Speaker 2: mental telepathy. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Aurora, my wife.
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  Speaker 2: They never failed to give her a hand. What would
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  Speaker 2: they applaud? The vision she presented as she came toward me.
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  Speaker 2: There has never been anyone as lovely as Aurora. The
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  Speaker 2: most beautiful flash in the profession. Aurora, would you care
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  Speaker 2: to tell the audience or shall I?
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  Speaker 6: You tell them, Judd, while I tie the blindfold.
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  Speaker 2: Across my eyes. Ladies and gentlemen, all mind readers employ
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  Speaker 2: a gimmick. A gimmick is a trick, a device. For example,
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  Speaker 2: when the mind reader, threading his way through the audience,
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  Speaker 2: says to the mind reader sitting blindfolded on the stage,
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  Speaker 2: a lady has given me a small object which I
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  Speaker 2: now hold in my hand. What is it? And the
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  Speaker 2: mind reader sitting blindfolded replies, a silver coin. The answer
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  Speaker 2: has not come through mind reading. No, it has come
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  Speaker 2: through the gimmick. A cue or signal communicated through the
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  Speaker 2: very question itself.
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  Speaker 7: But we don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: We do not. You will notice, ladies and gentlemen, that
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  Speaker 2: I never speak to Aurora at all. Are you ready, Rory?
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  Speaker 8: Ready, Judd.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go, then. Use that. You have something? Good.
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  Speaker 2: Concentrate upon it like a good chap.
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  Speaker 6: The gentleman holds a coin.
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  Speaker 2: In his hand.
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  Speaker 9: It is a Mexican peso bearing the date 1892.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's very clever of you, madam. I'd be surprised
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  Speaker 2: if she gets this one.
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  Speaker 6: The lady holds in her hand her other hand.
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  Speaker 2: A sucker once born remains a sucker till death. The
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  Speaker 2: audience never realized, never in all the years we worked,
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  Speaker 2: that although I was not speaking to Aurora directly, my
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  Speaker 2: chatter nevertheless was loaded with signals and cues for her guidance.
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  Speaker 2: By revealing the gimmick, we concealed the gimmick, and that, Lieutenant,
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  Speaker 2: is the neat plus ultra of gimmicks. Yes, it was
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  Speaker 2: as crude as that, but it enabled us to work
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  Speaker 2: 50 weeks a year, here and abroad, at an average
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  Speaker 2: of over a thousand a week. Of course, I always
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  Speaker 2: gave some credit for our success to our agent, Harry Arnold,
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  Speaker 2: although Rory was inclined to give him no credit at all.
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  Speaker 7: Good news, Judd.
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  Speaker 4: I've managed to book the act into the college inn
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  Speaker 4: in Chicago with a four-week guarantee.
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  Speaker 7: Not bad, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Get him.
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  Speaker 6: He managed to book the act. I suppose they never
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  Speaker 6: heard of us in Chicago. I suppose we weren't held
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  Speaker 6: over there six weeks when we played the Sans Souci
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  Speaker 6: in 1948.
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  Speaker 7: You think it's easy to get a four-week guarantee these days?
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  Speaker 7: Money is short. Money is tight.
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  Speaker 6: I've never yet heard you say money is long, money
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  Speaker 6: is loose. You have to sweat for your 10%, don't you?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, you do.
• 6:32
  Speaker 6: In a pig's ear, you do.
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  Speaker 10: Agents.
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  Speaker 3: They're all like you.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, there's gratitude for you. There's the milk of human memory.
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  Speaker 7: What were you when I first saw you?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Not this much.
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  Speaker 8: Playing ten a day on the canvas in Manasher, Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 8: and paid off in bottle tops.
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  Speaker 7: I worked, I schemed, I sweated.
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  Speaker 6: Listen to him. You'd think he had to get out
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  Speaker 6: there on the floor every night. You'd think he was
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  Speaker 6: the one spent 11 months, 12 hours a day memorizing
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  Speaker 6: the code. You'd think it was his name in lights.
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  Speaker 10: Agents.
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  Speaker 6: All they know is how to live off a dead whale.
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  Speaker 6: Scum of the earth.
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  Speaker 7: Look, I'm not going to take that from you, you
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  Speaker 7: hear me?
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  Speaker 6: You'll take it, baby, along with the 10%. You'll take
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  Speaker 6: it and you'll chew it and you'll swallow it and
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  Speaker 6: you'll keep it down, too.
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  Speaker 3: How do you like that?
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  Speaker 7: I'm warning you, kid, don't push me too far.
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  Speaker 2: No, children, children, on your way, Harry, and don't let
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  Speaker 2: it get you down. I think a four-week guarantee is
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  Speaker 2: pretty good.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, thanks, Judd. If it wasn't for you, Judd, I'd... Oh,
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  Speaker 7: why go into it? I'm going for a walk.
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  Speaker 2: But aside from these altercations between Rory and Harry, it
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  Speaker 2: was smooth sailing. We wore the best, ate the best,
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  Speaker 2: drank the best, dated the finest hotels. And every Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night after the performance, Harry would bring us our salary.
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  Speaker 2: He'd bring it in cash. A thousand, twelve-fifty, fifteen-hundred. I
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  Speaker 2: have the old performer's distrust of checks. Been given too
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: many with a high latex content. Anyway, life couldn't have
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: been more placid. And then one evening, about five weeks ago,
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: soon after we opened at the grove here in town,
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  Speaker 2: a frightening thing occurred. We'd just begun the act, and
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  Speaker 2: I was out in the audience. You'll notice, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: that I never speak to Aurora at all. Are you ready, Rory?
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  Speaker 6: Ready, John.
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  Speaker 2: There we go, then. Now, you, madam.
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  Speaker 6: The lady holds in her hand a compact.
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  Speaker 9: It is platinum and bears her initials RC.
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  Speaker 2: You, sir. You, sir.
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  Speaker 7: The gentleman is.
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  Speaker 10: Holding an engagement ring. In it are three small diamonds. I.
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  Speaker 5: I.
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  Speaker 2: Miss, miss, have you... The young lady.
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  Speaker 10: The young lady is holding.
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  Speaker 6: It's a small cameo brooch kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Rory!
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  Speaker 2: Rory! Maurice! Maurice! Music! Music! I picked Rory up from
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  Speaker 2: the floor and hurried with her to our dressing room,
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  Speaker 2: almost beside myself with anxiety. I placed her on the couch,
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  Speaker 2: dampened a towel and put it on her forehead and
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  Speaker 2: began to chafe her wrists. Rory! Rory, honey! Rory! John,
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  Speaker 2: what happened?
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  Speaker 7: I was in the bar. Do you want me to
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  Speaker 7: get a doctor?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no. I don't know. Get out. Leave us alone.
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  Speaker 2: Get out, Harry. Get out.
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  Speaker 10: Judd.
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  Speaker 2: Judd? I'm here, Rory. Are you all right?
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  Speaker 10: I guess so.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 2: You painted away. Try to remember what happened.
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  Speaker 10: I felt funny.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember. No, no, try, try, Rory, try. Try
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  Speaker 2: to remember. It's important. I can't.
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  Speaker 6: Why is it important?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you don't know? Rory, you don't know? out the
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  Speaker 2: answers before I even had a chance to give you
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  Speaker 2: the cue Do you believe in telepathy, Lieutenant? I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean the sort of thing Rory and I usually did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean real telepathy. I never did either until that night.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind telling you I was badly shaken. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: after all, I knew we'd been using a gimmick and
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  Speaker 2: suddenly it began to happen without the gimmick. Scared us
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  Speaker 2: to death. We didn't know what we were getting into.
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  Speaker 2: But we went on with the act and in my
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  Speaker 2: mind I began to search about for the answer. I
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  Speaker 2: found it, of course. You'll find a gimmick in almost
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  Speaker 2: everything if you look hard enough. I've got it, Florey.
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  Speaker 2: We've worked together so long that you know what I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to say before I say it. From my inflection,
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  Speaker 2: my pauses, even my movements. You see?
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  Speaker 10: Judd, that has to be it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is marvelous. When Harry gets back, I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: him about it.
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  Speaker 6: And if I last until tomorrow, he can ask the
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  Speaker 6: management for more dough.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as soon as he gets back. Next Thursday.
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  Speaker 10: Tonight.
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  Speaker 6: How much more should we ask for?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we... Tonight? What made you say tonight?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, Judd.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you were there when he told me he'd be
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: in Palm Springs till Thursday. What made you say tonight?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. What difference does it make? Stop picking
• 11:21
  Speaker 6: on me. So I made a mistake.
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  Speaker 4: So what?
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  Speaker 2: I don't see how you could make such a mistake,
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  Speaker 2: that's all.
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  Speaker 6: Judd, leave me alone. I've been worried half crazy about
• 11:28
  Speaker 6: really being able to read your mind. I've been under
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  Speaker 6: a strain. So Harry's coming back Thursday and not tonight.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 10: You satisfied?
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  Speaker 6: He'll be here Thursday and not tonight.
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  Speaker 7: You Judson Stone, mister?
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  Speaker 3: This dressing room, eh?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 7: A telegram. Sign here?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sign for it, will you, Rory?
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  Speaker 6: There you are, kid. I'm sorry I blew up in
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  Speaker 6: your face, Judd. Judd, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: It's from Harry. He's coming in tonight. And he did, too, Lieutenant.
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  Speaker 2: Rory was so upset by it, she couldn't go on
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  Speaker 2: at all that evening. She had no explanation for how
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  Speaker 2: she knew, none whatsoever.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, Judd, I just don't know. My mind
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  Speaker 6: seems to go blank, and I seem to hear a
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  Speaker 6: voice whisper in my ear, Harry Arnold will be with
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  Speaker 6: you tonight, that's all.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: When we got to our suite at the hotel, Harry
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  Speaker 2: was there, waiting for us.
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  Speaker 7: What happened? What happened? You both look like ghosts.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Harry, I'll tell you some other time. Leave us alone,
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: will you? All right, all right, I'm going.
• 12:42
  Speaker 7: Just came back to wish you a happy birthday and
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  Speaker 7: to give you this.
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  Speaker 2: Birthday? Oh, yeah, thanks. Thanks, Harry, thanks. What is it?
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  Speaker 7: Well, open it, why don't you?
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  Speaker 10: It's a bathrobe. A red silk bathrobe with your initials.
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  Speaker 7: That's right, it's a... How does she know it? How
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  Speaker 7: do you know?
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  Speaker 10: Get out of here.
• 13:00
  Speaker 9: Get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Judd, make him get out of here.
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  Speaker 7: Look, I won't be talked to like that. I don't
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  Speaker 7: care who she is.
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  Speaker 3: I won't be talked to like that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Harry, shut up.
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  Speaker 2: For heaven's sake, shut up and go away. Leave us alone.
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  Speaker 7: What?
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: Go.
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  Speaker 6: Get out.
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: Get out.
• 13:11
  Speaker 7: You too, Judd? She's got you talking against me too, huh?
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  Speaker 7: All right, I'm going.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going.
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  Speaker 7: But from here on in, it's strictly business between us.
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  Speaker 7: I wash my hands.
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: He kept his word, Lieutenant. From that time on, he
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: kept himself to himself. And I was prepared to let
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: it go at that, much as I liked Harry, until
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  Speaker 2: the night I was awakened by Rory moaning in her sleep.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 6: No, please.
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  Speaker 2: Rory, Rory, wake up. You're having a bad dream. Rory.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 2: John.
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  Speaker 3: Shh.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right. I'm here. I'm here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, John.
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  Speaker 2: What, Rory?
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  Speaker 3: Voice.
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  Speaker 2: Whispering again?
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, John.
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  Speaker 10: What? He's going to kill me.
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: Harry Arnold is going to kill me.
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: And that, Lieutenant, was the beginning of the end of that.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: Autolite is bringing you Mr.
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: Ronald Coleman with Kathy Lewis in A Vision of Death.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Rory, Rory, get a grip on yourself. He's going to
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: kill me.
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  Speaker 9: Harry is going to kill me.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Don't be ridiculous. Stop it now. It was just a
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: bad dream.
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: Harry is going to kill me.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Will you stop that? Will you stop saying that?
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: John, hold me.
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  Speaker 10: Run.
• 15:13
  Speaker 6: Harry is going to kill me.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've had a bad dream, I tell you.
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  Speaker 9: He hates me.
• 15:19
  Speaker 10: He hates me, John.
• 15:21
  Speaker 9: John, Harry is going to kill me.
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: Harry!
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I'm a rational man, Lieutenant. I've always felt, for example,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: that when Hamlet says there are stranger things in heaven
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio,
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Horatio ought to reply, tell that to Sweeney. I knew
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: there was no such thing as mental telepathy. I knew
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: it as well as I know I'm sitting here talking
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: to you. Up here in my head, I knew it.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: And yet, the next afternoon, I found myself entering a
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: gun shop and purchasing a revolver and a box of bullets.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: determined that before Harry Arnold could so much as injure
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: one hair of Rory's head, I would kill him. I
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: should have gone directly to the police first. You're using hindsight, Lieutenant.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I had all that out with Rory.
• 16:13
  Speaker 10: Please, Judge, please.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Go to the police and tell them about this. Let
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: them handle it.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Tell them what? By reading his mind, we've learned Harry
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: intends to murder you.
• 16:22
  Speaker 10: They'll believe us.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: They've got to believe us.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: They're reasoning like a child. They'll decide that it's either
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: a publicity stunt or else we're both lunatics.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: What if I tell them about the telegram and the
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: birthday presents?
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  Speaker 2: Rory, we have no proof.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: But we have to do something.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: What? Tell me what. You know he intends to kill you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: I know he intends to kill you. But what can
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: we do? I can't simply put a bullet in his
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: heart next time I see him. How could I explain it?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: My wife had a premonition that he was going to
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: murder her. Do you know when he's going to do it?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Or how he's going to do it? No.
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: He hasn't decided yet.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Isn't there anything we can do?
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Nothing.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Except wait. I reacted to the waiting, as you might expect, Lieutenant. Sleeplessness,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: loss of appetite, growing irritability. I flared up at everyone. Waiters, chambermaids,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: elevator boys, the manager of the club. The manager of
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: the club, yes. He finally said to me... Stone, what
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: the devil's gotten into you?
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I'd really like to know.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: None of your business.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: I'm only trying to be nice.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, shut up and let me alone. Yeah, sure, I'll
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: let you alone.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: I'd let you alone right now if your contract didn't
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: have another week to run.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: But after that, I'll let you strictly alone. You'll never
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: work this club again. Maniac.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I began to drink quite heavily. Quite noticeably. I was
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: going crazy, just from the waiting. And then... And then
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: the waiting came to an end. It was around three
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: in the morning. I was sitting up in bed, in
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: the dark, smoking. When Rory opened her eyes and said... Judd?
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: Yes? Yes?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: The voice.
• 18:16
  Speaker 10: Yes. He's going to kill me here. Right here in
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: this room.
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: Rory.
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: Saturday. This Saturday at midnight. I'm charged.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Rory, Rory, sweetheart. He's going to shoot me.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: He has a gun.
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: And he's going to shoot me.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: He's going to get you downstairs in the manager's.
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: Office at the club.
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: The wine is there.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: He's going to come up here. Rory, Rory, listen to me.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I want you to listen to me. You're mistaken, do
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: you understand? You've been having another bad dream, and that's
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: all there.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: Is to it. No, no, Jack, I swear it.
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: He just thought of it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: Just this minute, he's standing at a bar, standing there
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: all by himself, He's drinking. He's just this minute decided.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: You're making it up.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: No.
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: It's the bar over at the Tuscany Hotel.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I see it so clear. You're wrong. You're wrong.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I'll prove you're wrong.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Dad? Give me the bar at the Tuscany, will you?
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Over on Sunset. One moment, please. You'll see, Rory, he's
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: not there at all. You'll see. It's just a dream.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Just a bad dream. Tuscany Cocktail Lounge. Hello. Is Harry
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Arnold there at the bar? Harry Arnold? No, I'm sorry.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: He's not.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: He's not, huh? You're sure of that? Oh, sure, I'm sure.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: He was here all evening. Left about a minute ago.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: I said goodnight to him myself. He want me to call.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a dream.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: John!
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, Rory.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Don't worry. Trust me. Trust me. When Harry comes tomorrow night,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: you won't be here at all. But I will. Look, Lieutenant.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: My hands. See? Just the memory of how I felt
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: at that moment when my hands began to tremble again. Amazing,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: isn't it? Well, that was last Thursday night, or rather
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Friday morning, and towards daybreak, Rory subbed herself to sleep.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: But I was restless... I got dressed and went downstairs
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: and got into my car. A long drive has always
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: relaxed me, but when I got behind the wheel, I
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: don't know what it was, possibly the fresh air, but
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: all at once I felt as though I couldn't keep
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: my eyes open for another moment. I simply had to
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: have sleep. So I crawled into the back seat, curled
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: myself up in one corner, pulled the rug over me
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: and went out like a light.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: Hello, Satin Skin.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Hello, Harry. I was awakened around noon by the sound
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: of voices.
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: He may see us. Look, business life.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Where is he? I don't know.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Since he hasn't got the car, he must be out walking.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Don't you have some papers or something I could be
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: examining just to make it look.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Good in case.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: A pocketful, here.
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: Hi.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: He fall for it last night? Just like he fell for.
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: All the rest of it. Red bathrobe, the plants in
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: the audience. He even phoned the bar just after you left.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Timed it beautifully.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: Oh, sadness skin, sadness skin. I can hardly keep away
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: from you.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: After tomorrow night, we'll have all the time in the
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: world for each other, Harry.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: You bought the whole story, huh? Midnight tomorrow, your place?
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: Every word of it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: Just do what you have to do.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Remember to come to the dressing room before the 8
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: o'clock show and tell him you've set up a meeting
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: with Stamper, the manager, in his office at 12.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: I want them to shake hands and be friends again,
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: I'll tell him.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: And don't forget, when you come to the door at midnight,
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: keep talking to.
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: The elevator boy.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Don't let him go, whatever you do.
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: You'll want him to testify to his self-defense.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: Don't worry, I won't forget a thing. You'll handle all
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: the rest of it? Yeah, yeah.
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: Just leave it to me.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: No, I mean about his gun. That's pretty important, you know.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Don't worry.
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: It will misfire.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: It'd be difficult for me to tell you what I
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: felt as they walked away, Lieutenant. One part of me
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: felt the way a man ought to feel, I suppose,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: when he learns that the woman he loves is not
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: only unfaithful, but plotting his death as well. But another
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: part of me felt only relief. Relief at learning there
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: was a gimmick in this, too. They'd been fairly clever
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: for amateurs. Harry had a good excuse for carrying a gun.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: To protect the cash he brought me each Saturday. My
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: own behavior in recent weeks would lend weight to what
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: he would probably offer in his defense. But I must
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: have been crazy. For no reason at all, I'd pointed
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: a revolver at him and threatened his life. But he
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: had a shoot in self-defense. The presence of the elevator boy.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: That could mean only that Harry would shoot just as
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: soon as I opened the door. I'd be found dead
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: with a revolver in my hand and a heartbroken agent
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: at my side. Tableau. Then I found myself hoping, as
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I never hoped before, that they'd come to their senses
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: before Saturday. That they'd realize what a vicious, inhuman thing
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: it was they were planning. But just before the 8
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: o'clock show that night, there was a knock at the
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: door of our dressing room. Come in.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: Judd, I've been talking to Stamper, the manager. He's sorry
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: there's bad blood between you wants to square it. I
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: told him you'd be in his office at 12 to
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: talk things over.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: All right with you?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: We don't want it so that we never work here again,
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: do we? I mean, there's no reason we should.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: No reason at all.
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: Button my dress, Judd.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: See you later, Judd.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, later.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: We did the show and then went up to our suite.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I helped Rory pack a small overnight bag. I loaded
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the revolver and then there was nothing to do but wait.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: The minutes passed. Nine o'clock, ten, ten-thirty, and I waited.
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: Judd.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: I don't want you to go.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: It's best that you do.
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: It doesn't seem right to leave you here alone.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Things might not go as I planned. I might not
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: be able to stop him. And if I fail to
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: stop him... No, no, it's best that you go. Just
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: wait at the motel until you hear from me. What
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: time is it?
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: Almost eleven. Two minutes of eleven.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I'm out of cigarettes.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: This is Mr. Stone in 1101. Please send up a
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: carton of players, will you?
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: Right away, Mr.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Stone. I want you to go now, Rory.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: Judd, let me call the police, please.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: It will be useless. We've gone into it, and it'll
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: be useless.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Then come with me. He won't find anybody here.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Then he'd choose another place, another time. Here's your valise.
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: You have your gun?
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: In my pocket.
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: You won't take any chances. I don't know what I'd
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: do if you were hurt or anything.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I won't take any chances. Let me help you on
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: with your coat.
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: Judd, I love you so.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, I know. And I love you, Rory. I really do,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: you know. Ready?
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: Yes. Eleven o'clock. He'll be here in an hour.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Go now, Rory. Kiss me goodbye. Judge. The cigarettes. Get them,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: will you, darling, while I find change? Harry! Rory!
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Rory!
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Rory! I shall always remember the look on Harry's face, Lieutenant,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: as she sank to the floor. They'd concocted a bad
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: dream between them and it had come true. I'll bet
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: he still doesn't know how it happened. And if you
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: pass his cell, Lieutenant, you might tell him. Whisper the
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: word gimmick into his ear. That's what I said, gimmick.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I gimmicked the clock while Rory was dressing. Set it
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: back a full hour. It was 11 to her, but
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: 12 to him. I adore gimmicks. Don't you?
• 26:40
  Speaker 10: Oh!
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• 28:27
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