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Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "Murder Comes at Midnight" (Old Time Radio, 1946) · The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A wounded stranger arrives at a rented country house on
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: a dark summer night where Ethel Canning is waiting for
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: her husband and her young daughter sleeps upstairs. A police
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  Speaker 1: bulletin identifies the visitor as an escaped criminal known as
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: the Gentleman Killer. From CBS, this is Inner Sanctum Mysteries,
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  Speaker 1: episode 283, Murder Comes at Midnight, originally broadcast September 9th, 1946.
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  Speaker 1: Mercedes McCambridge is the featured performer.
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  Speaker 2: Emile C.
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  Speaker 1: Tepperman wrote the script, and Hyman Brown directed and produced.
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  Speaker 1: The house, the visitor, and a radio set are all
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  Speaker 1: part of Ethel Canning's uneasy night. Now, back to the
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, creeps.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, your mystery playhouse presents Inner Sanctum.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, friends of the Inner Sanctum.
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  Speaker 3: This is your host inviting you in through the squeaking door.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, I just left a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 3: He runs an all-night billiard academy near the cemetery. As
• 1:20
  Speaker 3: after midnight, he.
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  Speaker 2: Uncovers the ghoul tables.
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  Speaker 4: But no rough stuff at his place.
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  Speaker 3: No, he settles all arguments by arbitration. Simply lifts the
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  Speaker 3: shroud and points out they haven't a leg to stand on.
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  Speaker 3: Believes the old motto that a fiend in need is
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  Speaker 3: a fiend indeed. Now, dust off the edge of your chair...
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  Speaker 3: because that's where you'll be sitting for the rest of
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  Speaker 3: this half hour... And listen to Murder Comes at Midnight.
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  Speaker 3: This is the story of how one average family, even
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  Speaker 3: as yours and mine, spent a quiet night at their
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  Speaker 3: rented country house. A night of terror. As I said,
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  Speaker 3: the Cannings were just an average family. Harry was 29
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  Speaker 3: and worked as a sound engineer for a broadcasting studio
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  Speaker 3: in the city. Ethel was 27 and had been a
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  Speaker 3: schoolteacher before.
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  Speaker 2: She was married.
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  Speaker 3: Now she was kept pretty busy between writing the great
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  Speaker 3: American novel and taking care of Judy, her seven-year-old daughter.
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  Speaker 3: This was the first year they had rented a house
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  Speaker 3: in the country for the summer, and Ethel didn't take
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  Speaker 3: much to the idea of being alone either.
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  Speaker 5: At first, I didn't know what it was that woke me.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps it was because I was expecting Harry. He phoned
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  Speaker 5: that he was working overtime. He wouldn't be home till
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  Speaker 5: after midnight. I didn't like the idea of us driving
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  Speaker 5: 60 miles from this city at that hour. Or maybe
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  Speaker 5: it was just because I wasn't used to being alone
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  Speaker 5: with Judy in the old house. I got out of bed.
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  Speaker 5: I opened the connecting door to Judy's room. She was sleeping. Quietly.
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  Speaker 5: I closed the door softly. Went across to my window.
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  Speaker 5: Something had awakened me.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 5: What? Was it a sound I heard in my sleep?
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  Speaker 2: Or....
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  Speaker 5: Or was it a premonition? I looked out the window.
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  Speaker 5: The night was dark with a thousand secrets. Harry should
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  Speaker 5: have been home by this time. My watch showed a
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  Speaker 5: few minutes after twelve. Maybe he'd had an accident. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: that's why I awakened. Some sort of telepathy. And then
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  Speaker 5: I saw the headlights. It was Harry's. He was turning
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  Speaker 5: in our road. The headlights fazed me for a moment
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  Speaker 5: as he swung into our driveway. Everything was all right then.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be right down, Harry. Breathlessly, I raced downstairs to
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  Speaker 5: let him in. I was so happy I could cry.
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  Speaker 5: It was only then I realized what tension I'd been under,
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  Speaker 5: all because of my silly fears. I unlocked the door quickly. Oh, Harry,
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  Speaker 5: I was so worried.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry to bother you so late, miss. I had an
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  Speaker 2: accident with my car. Oh, I.
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  Speaker 5: I thought you were my husband.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry to disappoint you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, I'm afraid you can't come in. My
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  Speaker 5: husband isn't home yet.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it won't be for long.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my heavens, you're hurt.
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  Speaker 2: It's your arm.
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  Speaker 4: I hurt it in the accident. I'm afraid it's broken.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you poor man. Here, sit down. Sit down right here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's better.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 5: Your arm's so limp. Do you really think it's broken?
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell. It's kind of numb.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, dear, I feel so helpless. I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: to do. I took a first aid course during the war,
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  Speaker 5: but I don't remember a thing. Maybe I'd better call Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Schultz.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, please, don't go to the trouble.
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  Speaker 5: There's no trouble. The phone's right here.
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  Speaker 4: I said no, doctor. But it's all right.
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  Speaker 2: Put down that phone, please.
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you understand this. A gun. Put the phone down.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? I'll ask the questions from now on.
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  Speaker 4: Your name's Canning, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: How did you know?
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  Speaker 2: Name's on the door, isn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of phone is that?
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Party line?
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  Speaker 5: No, it's a private one.
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  Speaker 2: Can you dial or do you have to ask the
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  Speaker 2: operator for the number?
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  Speaker 5: No, you just dial.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Push the phone over here to this side of the table.
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  Speaker 5: Who were you going to call?
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  Speaker 4: The phone, please.
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  Speaker 5: You'd better get out of here before my husband comes home.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, how do you think he'd make out in an
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  Speaker 4: argument with this?
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: The phone. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Step back a little. That's good, good. I have to
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  Speaker 4: put this gun down while I make my call.
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  Speaker 2: It's on the mind.
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  Speaker 4: But you understand that I can pick it up faster
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  Speaker 4: than you could reach it from there, don't you?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I understand.
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  Speaker 2: I see. We'll get along all right.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, operator, get me Plaza 9970. Yeah, I'm very pleased.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is 864.
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  Speaker 4: Please, after your phone call.
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  Speaker 5: You get out before my husband comes home. He's late already.
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't turn an injured man out of your house in.
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  Speaker 2: The middle of the night. Oh, hello, Linda. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: I had a little trouble.
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  Speaker 2: I hurt my arm.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I think.
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  Speaker 2: You'd better come up here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and bring Fred and Doc Stetson along. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine.
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  Speaker 4: There won't be any trouble. I'm a guest of some
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  Speaker 4: very good friends up here. Cannings and me. Or you
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  Speaker 4: drive up Highway 26 through a cord and turn right when.
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  Speaker 2: You pass the first gas station. Just a mile from there.
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  Speaker 4: You ought to be here by six in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: There'll be a light in the downstairs window. Drive in.
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  Speaker 2: See you in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: You can't stay here all night. You've got to go.
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  Speaker 4: What's that over there? Radio?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Pretty big.
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  Speaker 5: It's a sending and receiving set. Terry built it himself.
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  Speaker 5: He's a radio engineer.
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  Speaker 2: Can you get short waves? Police calls? Yes. Turn it on.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't... Turn it on. No! Well.
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  Speaker 4: Getting brave, huh?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think you'd dare to shoot me.
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  Speaker 2: It would be murder.
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  Speaker 5: They'd send you to the chair. Now you get out
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  Speaker 5: of here. You call your friends and tell them to
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  Speaker 5: meet you someplace else. There, I've opened the door. Now
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  Speaker 5: get out!
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  Speaker 4: Worried about your husband, aren't you? Afraid of what'll happen
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  Speaker 4: to him if he comes home now, huh?
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  Speaker 5: I want you to go away. And if you don't
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  Speaker 5: go now, I'll run out and scream for help. There
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  Speaker 5: are other houses in this neighborhood and somebody will hear me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead and run.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: I won't shoot you.
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  Speaker 6: You won't?
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  Speaker 4: I don't have to.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't dare to run out and leave your kid upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: That little red-headed kid with the cute curls.
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  Speaker 2: Judy.
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  Speaker 5: How do you know I have a daughter?
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  Speaker 2: Easy.
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  Speaker 4: The doll carriage over there.
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  Speaker 5: How do you know she has red curls?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I guessed it.
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  Speaker 5: And her name, too?
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  Speaker 2: Turn on that radio.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 6: All cars must be searched, every passenger positively identified. Officers
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  Speaker 6: are warned to exercise extreme caution. Though believed to be wounded,
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  Speaker 6: he's armed and dangerous. I will repeat, Arnie Bishop, known
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  Speaker 6: as the Gentleman Killer... escaped from custody on board the
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  Speaker 6: Allegheny Limited... at 11 o'clock while being escorted to the
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  Speaker 6: death house at the state prison.
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  Speaker 2: He's thought to be heading north in the direction Send
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  Speaker 2: it off. Now you know who I am.
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  Speaker 5: Arnie Bishop. You're Arnie Bishop.
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  Speaker 2: How many rooms in this house? Eight. Fine, fine.
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  Speaker 4: My friends and I will stay here for a few days.
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  Speaker 2: This will make a fine hideout.
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  Speaker 5: What will you do when my husband comes home?
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry about him.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Suppose we go in the kitchen, then you can make
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  Speaker 4: me something to eat. Wait.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: Why did you choose this house to come to? This
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  Speaker 5: house of all of us?
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  Speaker 2: Can't you guess?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I think so. How did you know Judy's name?
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  Speaker 5: And about the color of her hair?
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  Speaker 2: Ah, you're getting warm.
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  Speaker 5: My husband, Harry. Harry told me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you know you're pretty smart.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, please, don't you have any pity at all? Tell
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  Speaker 5: me what you did to Harry.
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  Speaker 4: He's not hurt much. I just tapped him on the head.
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  Speaker 4: He picked me up on the road, gave me a lift.
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  Speaker 4: I pumped him, found out all about this house and.
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  Speaker 2: About you and Judy. Then I knocked him out and
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  Speaker 2: kept going. It was pretty tough driving with one hand,
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  Speaker 2: but I made it.
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  Speaker 5: Where's Harry now?
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  Speaker 2: In the back of the car. He can't get loose.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going out to.
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  Speaker 3: Stay where you are.
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  Speaker 5: But Harry's hurt. I can't leave him out there alone.
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  Speaker 2: About this little red-headed kid of yours. When does he sleep?
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  Speaker 4: Upstairs?
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  Speaker 2: Better stay here if you want to make sure. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: That's better.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Suppose we have something to eat.
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  Speaker 3: Now let's return to the little white shingled house on
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: the hill where Ethel Canning is entertaining her uninvited guest,
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: Arnie Bishop. You know, he's a pretty courageous guy for
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  Speaker 3: an ex-convict. But then maybe he has the courage of
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  Speaker 3: his convictions. But Arnie isn't so smart, you know, tangling
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  Speaker 3: with a red-headed gal.
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  Speaker 4: He ought to recall that old ditty.
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  Speaker 2: How's it go?
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  Speaker 3: Beware of a girl with deep red hair. A man
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: is safer in the electric chair. But who can tell
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  Speaker 3: how a tale will end up in a sanctum? Let's
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: join them in the kitchen. Excellent bacon and eggs. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure my friends will like your cooking when they come.
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: More coffee?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, please.
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  Speaker 4: Careful.
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  Speaker 5: I was only reaching for the coffee cup.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you might have ideas about grabbing this.
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  Speaker 5: There's your coffee.
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  Speaker 2: What time is it?
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  Speaker 5: Twenty after two.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. Three and a half hours to go before my
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: friends get here.
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: How will they get through the roadblock?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you'll leave it to them. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 5: That's the telephone. It's in the living room.
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  Speaker 2: You better get to it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you don't let go of that gun.
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  Speaker 3: You shouldn't have tried that.
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  Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 2: Answer that telephone first.
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  Speaker 1: Get going.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody in the habit of calling you at this hour? No.
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  Speaker 2: All right, answer it.
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  Speaker 4: But be careful what you say.
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this is Mrs. Canning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: This is for you. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Lay the receiver down on the table and
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  Speaker 2: walk away. That's far enough. Don't try anything. Hello? Linda. Linda.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get started yet?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you? What? Roadblock.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to get through. I need Doc Stetson. You've
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: got to make it, Linda.
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  Speaker 5: I can't stay awake forever.
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  Speaker 2: All right, all right. Do your best. Call me back later.
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  Speaker 5: Oh. What's the matter, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Bishop?
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  Speaker 5: Are your friends falling down on you? Shut up.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: I've got to think.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you don't have anything to.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: Worry about, Mr. Bishop. Aren't you a guest of the
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  Speaker 5: cannings in the little white-shingled house a mile off Highway
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  Speaker 5: 26 north of Accord?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you can be sarcastic, too.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I wouldn't dare be sarcastic to you, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Bishop.
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  Speaker 5: Especially when you have that gun. And with my husband
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  Speaker 5: unconscious in the car. And you threatening to harm my child.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: No, you still hold all the cards, Mr. Bishop. And
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  Speaker 5: you're such a big, strong, brave man.
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  Speaker 2: What are you trying to do, get me mad enough
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  Speaker 2: to kill me?
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  Speaker 5: Aren't you going to kill me anyway?
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  Speaker 4: What makes you think that?
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: Because you're a killer by instinct, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Bishop.
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  Speaker 5: It's easier for you to kill than to do anything else.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder why you didn't murder my husband instead of
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  Speaker 5: just knocking him out. Was it because you thought you
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: might need him?
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: Well, you're not afraid of me anymore.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not. No, I just realized. I can't afford
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  Speaker 5: to be afraid.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 5: I'm a woman fighting for her family, for Harry and Judy.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: What?
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: And I've got to use all my wits against you.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: I can't afford to be afraid.
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  Speaker 2: You've got some scheme in that crazy little brain of yours.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: Yes, Mr. Bishop, I have. I think I've found a
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: chink in your armor. You're a coward.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Me?
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: Yes, you. You're the one who's afraid now. Your friends
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  Speaker 5: aren't coming. You have a wound in your arm that
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: needs treatment, and you know you can't trust me. You
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: don't dare close your eyes, even for five minutes. And
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: you may have to stay here for several days. How
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: do you like the prospect of staying awake night and day,
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: watching me every minute of the time, afraid that you
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: might drop off to sleep at any minute?
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's how you figure it, huh?
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Maybe you'd better kill us all right now, Mr. Bishop.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: That would be easy, wouldn't it? Just three bullets. Then
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: you wouldn't have to worry about watching anyone.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: That's an excellent idea, Mrs. Canning. Yes.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: But then you'd have other worse things to worry about.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Such as?
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: This is Saturday morning. The milkman will come to collect
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: for the week's milk. The neighbors will stop by to
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: ask if I want my marketing done. And what will
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: you do? Sculpt in the cellar while they ring the doorbell?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: And then there's the police.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: What about the police?
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: They'll surely search this part of the country. They'll be
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: making inquiries at all the houses. Do you want them
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: to find the car outside? With Harry in it?
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: You figured all the angles, huh? You know, you're pretty smart, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Canning.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: I think you're even smarter than Linda.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: But you forget one thing.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: You forget that little girl upstairs. What do.
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  Speaker 5: You mean?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Come along and I'll show you. Upstairs.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: You stay away from Judy!
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Maybe you think you've got everything figured out, but I'm
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: still the boss. Gun muscle hurts, doesn't it?
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: But.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Now, shall we go upstairs?
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: That's better.
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  Speaker 4: So you think Arnie Bishop is licked, huh?
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Now, which is Judy's room?
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: What are you going to do to her?
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Which is Judy's room? Or are you going to make
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: me open all the doors to find her?
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: That one.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. All right, let's go in.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: You first, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Canning.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: I warn you, if you have to.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: You first, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Canning.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Please. Please don't wake her.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Ah, very pretty child. How peaceful she looks. And innocent.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: You know, childhood's the best time of life. It's almost
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: a pity to grow up out of it.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: You couldn't. You couldn't hurt her.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, I assure you, Mrs. Canning, I won't lay a
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: hand on her.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Not on a beautiful child like that. No.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: But I've got to protect myself.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: That's the connecting door to your room, isn't it? Yes.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: There's a key in the door. Lock it, please.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Now give me the key. Thank you. Now we'll go
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: out the way we came in.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I'll take the key out of this door, too.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: You first.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Now we'll lock this door on the outside. There we.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Are.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Everything's set. Good.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: You just want to make sure she doesn't get out?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Now, will you pull the mattress and sheets off your
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: bed and bring them out.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Here, please?
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Are you going to sleep in front of her door?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Do as I say.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I'll help you.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: I don't understand. Why do you want to sleep out here?
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm... Everything.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Just the way I want it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: The mattress against Judy's door.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: But you can't sleep on it that way, half up
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: against the door.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I didn't say I was going to sleep on it.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Well, what are you going to do?
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Mrs.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Canning, we'll see if you can figure out how to
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: beat this angle. What would happen if I were.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: To put a match to this mattress and bedding? Oh, no!
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: This whole floor would be in flames in five minutes.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Both doors locked. Judy wouldn't have.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Much of a chance. Oh, no!
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Me.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, no. Don't think Arnie Bishop is licked, Mrs.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Canning.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: You're right about one thing, Mrs.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Canning.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: I am in a corner. With this bum arm, I've
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: got no chance of running if the police come. So
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: if they do, and if I'm cornered, I'll set a
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: match to this mattress and.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Fight him off till the whole house is just a
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: bunch of rubble with.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Judy in it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: You understand me thoroughly, Mrs.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Canning, huh? Yes.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: So it's up to you to see that the police
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: don't come. You're going to lie for me, Mrs. Canning,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: and you're going to cheat for me, and.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: You're going to kill for me if necessary. Because... I
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: always have a match ready. Now, do you still feel
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: like trying any tricks?
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I'll do whatever you say.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: More like it.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Now, the first thing you're to do, go downstairs and
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: run that car into the garage.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Get it out of the way.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: But don't touch your husband. Don't even look in the
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: back of the car. I'll be watching, understand?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yes. Glad we understand each other at last.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I'll be standing right here in the driveway, so don't
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: try any tricks.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I won't.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Remember, I'm watching you. Harry.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Harry, dear, can you hear me?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Harry? Harry?
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Oh, he's still unconscious. There's blood on his head.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm coming.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: You did take a look at him, didn't you? No, no.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: No.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: All right, come inside.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Beautiful night, isn't it?
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: It'll be morning soon.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: What time is it?
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Almost six. The milkman should be here soon. Oh?
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Well, here's where you start lying for me. After you, madam. Now.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I'm going to sit right here in this chair with
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: my hand in my pocket.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And in my hand's the gun.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Understand?
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: That's the milkman. You tell him I'm your cousin just
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: visiting here for a few days.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: He'll wonder why you're up so early.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Let him wonder. Go on. Answer it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Miss Canning.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: I'm the new milkman on the route.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Hope I didn't wake you up.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: Come in, please.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: That's two bottles of milk you wanted this morning and
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: a bottle of cream.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Yes, you can put them on the table.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, this is my cousin. He's visiting us for a
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: few days.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, how are you?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: You have my bill?
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got it right here in my pocket. Here. Hey,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: is that.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: That's right, Bishop.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: It's a gun.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: Sit still and take your hand out of your pocket
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: very carefully.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay. You win. You win.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: But how come a milkman with a gun? I, uh...
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: I borrowed this coat from the regular milkman. I'm Sergeant Wright,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: State Police.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: What?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: State Police?
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: How did you know I was here?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Mrs.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Canning told us.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: She? Well, how? I didn't let her out of my sight.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: She broadcast it to us.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Broadcast?
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Over this set, Mr.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Bishop.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Remember the speech I made you? You didn't know what
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: had come over me. I was really talking to the
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: state police over the shortwave. Don't you remember I told
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: you that this was a sending and receiving set that
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: my husband built it? And when I turned off the
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: shortwave signals, I turned the switch to sending. And then
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: I hoped, I just hoped my message would get through.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I didn't think you were smart enough.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: And I thought I had you scared stiff.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: You looked like the kind who would scare easy. Oh,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I am, Mr.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Bishop, I am. But I warned you. This was a
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: time when I couldn't afford to be scared.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Which.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Which.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: All goes to prove.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: that a determined man can always get what he goes after.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: You remember Bishop tried to get free board and lodging
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: for Methel Canning. He finally got it all right, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: not exactly where he wanted it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: You know, as a matter.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Of fact, Bishop was the type of man who should
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: never have gone in for murder. Oh, too many risks.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: He should have specialized in arson. That's always a sure-fire undertaking.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Hmm?
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: That was your host, Raymond Edward Johnson, closing the door
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: on Inner Sanctum, tonight's performance in the Mystery Playhouse.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: It's late, Chris, so good night.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Sleep tight.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: That brings Inner Sanctum Mysteries and Murder Comes at Midnight
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: to a close. Good night, and thank you for listening.